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

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Speaker 1: My name is Chandler Roam, along with Tyler Stafford and

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Speaker 1: Josh Reddick, where we will discuss the Astros scoring five

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Speaker 1: runs in three games, which ordinarily would be detrimental. Instead,

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Speaker 1: they swept one of the best teams in the National League,

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Speaker 1: showcasing some unbelievable pitching across twenty seven innings in three

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Speaker 1: games against a very very formidable, very very highly paid

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Speaker 1: Phillies lineup that did not have Bryce Harper but did

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Speaker 1: have everyone else available to it, and Hunter Brown and

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Speaker 1: fromber Valdez pitched like the aces that they are. Colton

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Speaker 1: start before four before four left handed relievers followed him.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in Astro's history, they used five

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Speaker 1: left handed pitchers in one game shut out the Phillies. Josh,

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Speaker 1: I know it's a one series in June, but that

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Speaker 1: seemed like one hell of a statement from an Astros'

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Speaker 1: pitching staff that just continues to get better as this

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Speaker 1: season progresses.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think regardless of what time of year we're

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Speaker 2: talking about, that was fantastic the witness fantastic to watch,

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Speaker 2: and what a great sign for this team to be like,

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Speaker 2: oh wait, we going to the playoffs and have those

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Speaker 2: two front runners given us our first two games and

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Speaker 2: can lock it down for seven innings, which is something

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Speaker 2: we kind of already knew at this point. But to

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Speaker 2: do it against one of the better teams and all

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Speaker 2: of baseball, I mean, we're talking magic from what we

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Speaker 2: saw this weekend, and definitely, definitely it's something we should

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Speaker 2: all be excited about.

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Speaker 1: Tyler, Are you excited?

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, that's that's a pretty good series to

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Speaker 3: I mean we talked coming into this home stand that

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Speaker 3: if they could split and go three and three, that'd

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Speaker 3: be pretty good against two of the better teams in

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Speaker 3: the National League. Well they've already done that, so now

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Speaker 3: you just got to win this series. You've got a

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Speaker 3: great home stand. Yeah, I mean, anytime you get Colton

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Speaker 3: Gordon outdueling Zach Wheeler and shutting down you know a

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Speaker 3: very good team. Like there's so many names in that

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Speaker 3: Phillies lineup. I mean again, this kind of falls under

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Speaker 3: the like Mike Trout, Aaron Judge level for Kyle Schwarber,

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Speaker 3: where I know that he is a good baseball player,

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Speaker 3: but I have never seen him be that good of

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Speaker 3: a baseball player because every time the Astros play him,

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Speaker 3: he just looks silly. And it's the same with like,

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Speaker 3: like I said, you know, Aaron Judge, Mike Trout, they

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Speaker 3: both are hitting like two hundred in their career against

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Speaker 3: the Astros. I feel like Kyle Schwarber is very similar,

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Speaker 3: where the Astros have just they've they've figured out these

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Speaker 3: guys and it doesn't matter who they're throwing. You know,

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Speaker 3: it was nice to see some lefty representation out there,

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Speaker 3: uh and get that shut out. But but yeah, really

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Speaker 3: really encouraging series.

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Speaker 1: Devs is that guy for me that you know the Astras.

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Speaker 1: I know Raphael Devers is an incredible hit or incredible player,

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Speaker 1: but every time the Asher is playing, they just throw

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Speaker 1: him four seams up and he can't he can't hit them.

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Speaker 1: He's that guy that every writer, like Tyler was saying,

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Speaker 1: everybody has that one guy that you know is good

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Speaker 1: and you watch them play and you leave the series like,

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Speaker 1: how is this guy that good? Because he never does anything?

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Speaker 1: And Devors is that guy for me. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown real quick. I feel like you can never

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Speaker 1: talk enough about him. Yesterday should have been a not

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Speaker 1: a disadvantage matchup, but it should have been a tougher

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Speaker 1: matchup for Hunter Brown. Yesterday. The Phillies hit velocity better

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Speaker 1: than any lineup in the sport. They entered yesterday with

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Speaker 1: the highest batting average in baseball against four seam fastballs.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown entered yesterday allowing a one oh five batting

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Speaker 1: average against his four seam fastball. So it was good

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Speaker 1: on good yesterday. Hunter Brown through twenty eight four seam fastball.

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Speaker 1: So the Phillies lineup yesterday, they did not put one

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Speaker 1: of them in play. They whipped three times, they fouled

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Speaker 1: called strikes. He was up to ninety eight. He has

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Speaker 1: a one seven to four ERA, which is the fourth

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Speaker 1: lowest ERA in franchise history after sixteen starts the first

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Speaker 1: history are Roger Clemens, Nolan Ryan, and Justin Berlander. That's

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Speaker 1: pretty good company for Hunter Brown, and I kind of

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Speaker 1: begs the question he should start the All Star Game

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Speaker 1: right like we're all in agreement here that he is

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game start, correct, I think so.

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously Terrek Scoogle has just as much of

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Speaker 3: a track record and has been incredible this year, but

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Speaker 3: I mean, goodness, I don't know what else Hunter Brown

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Speaker 3: has to do. Like I joked on on and Twitter

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Speaker 3: but I can't remember that happening. You know, it just

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Speaker 3: feels like every start is seven shutout innings and you're

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Speaker 3: always like, I mean, he could throw the eighth if

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Speaker 3: they really needed him to. That that felt the same

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Speaker 3: in this game. You know, if it were a playoff game,

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Speaker 3: you're like, I don't know, maybe maybe they'd bring him

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Speaker 3: it is truly remarkable watching him pitch, and like you said,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter who he's facing. His stuff just gets

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Speaker 3: be an All Star starter to.

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Speaker 2: Me, Yeah, it really doesn't. When you talk about go

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Speaker 2: back to like the team versus fastballs and Hunter Brown

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Speaker 2: being the best fastball floor that they have in the business.

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Speaker 2: So that makes fun in itself, and it shows that

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Speaker 2: you know, on pretty much any given day, better pitching

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Speaker 2: is going to be the better hitting factor. As much

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Speaker 2: as I don't care to admit that, it is a

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Speaker 2: game of failure, you know, but you know success comes

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Speaker 2: they're usually going to come out on top. But I

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Speaker 2: mean this, this guy you got to remember too, starting

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Speaker 2: the All Star game, and it doesn't go into the

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Speaker 2: player and factor into any kind of voting, which it

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Speaker 2: should is like you know, Scoobo's had his his lineup

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Speaker 2: do fantastic things, whereas like Hunter Brown has been kind

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Speaker 2: of blown back by some no decisions and then some

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Speaker 2: fantastic starts. He's done it without the likes of the

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Speaker 2: heart of his lineup. You know, this team has been

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Speaker 2: that comes from this lineup isn't there. So I think

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Speaker 2: it shouldn't because pain you should be starting as well

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Speaker 2: as well as you know, Jake Myers should be higher

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Speaker 2: than Trout, but we're going off a fan voting, which

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Speaker 2: I think is the dumbest thing that Major League Baseball

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Speaker 2: it is what it is. You move on. But at

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Speaker 2: the same time, it's very frustrating because guys with numbers

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's clean up pitter, Jake Myers to you and

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Speaker 4: My apologies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it was a surprise yesterday necessarily

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Speaker 1: that the voting, the final round of voting came out

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Speaker 1: and the Ashers will not have a position player start

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Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. Jeremy Panna, obviously is if

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Speaker 1: you go by statistics, it is either him or Jacob

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Speaker 1: Wilson who Jacob Wilson is the a shortstop that advanced

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Speaker 1: still has the second highest b WAR in baseball behind

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. He is, without a shadow of a doubt

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Speaker 1: a top three player in the American League. If you

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Speaker 1: are going solely by statistics, Jeremy Payne should be starting

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game, but he will get on the

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Speaker 1: on the team, which in the end is in Josh,

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Speaker 1: you could disagree with me if you think differently. He's

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Speaker 1: going to get on the team, and he's going to

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Speaker 1: be able to put on his resume that he is

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Speaker 1: an All Star, which is which is really all that

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Speaker 1: end of the day. He would I'm sure he would

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Speaker 1: love to stand out there in the first inning, first

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Speaker 1: going to be an All Star, which at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day is really all that matters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know it doesn't. It isn't like a

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Speaker 2: starter versus the All Star then you know, what do

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Speaker 2: you call him? Reserve? Doesn't change anything on your resume

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Speaker 2: or your contract talks. Not like you're gonna go and there, Well,

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Speaker 2: I got an All Star Game start against this guy,

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Speaker 2: so that should get me five more million dollars. So

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Speaker 2: you're right, it doesn't matter. And you know, I've never

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Speaker 2: been to that. I never got to that point in

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Speaker 2: to have it, just to bring that All Star Game

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Speaker 2: Jersey home, hang it up and put it there and

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Speaker 2: just go to look at it. I got one of

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Speaker 2: them at least, you know, and just be one hundred

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Speaker 1: You who else who? Obviously Hunter Brown is going to

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Speaker 1: be there. Jeremy Payne, a hater should hater should definitely

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Speaker 1: Like you always see a backlog of pitchers that aren't

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Speaker 2: Five guys at least like five guys.

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Speaker 1: Right, That's why I think fromber Valdez, if fronber Valdez

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Speaker 1: doesn't get in initially, he will probably be named as

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Speaker 1: by he's not a closer, and they're you know, when

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Speaker 1: you're adding reliever, it's really hard for a middle reliever

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Speaker 1: to make an All Star team, like really really hard.

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Speaker 1: You saw it. I mean the Ashers, Joshuaen you played.

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Speaker 1: Kristavinski made it once. Will Harris made it once, like

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Speaker 1: it has been done. The Ashers have done it, but

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Speaker 1: it's really hard for middle relievers and even set up

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Speaker 1: think it'll be paynya Hater, Valdez, and Brown, but certainly

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Speaker 1: Myers has Myers has made a case Estoc Paratus has

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Speaker 1: As we teased, the Chicago Cubs are coming to dike

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Speaker 2: You just dropped right there, Tyler. Yeah, it's always fun.

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Speaker 1: They played careless whisp before you didn't they when you walk.

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Speaker 2: we've got two outs, now we can score, you know, haha,

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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden you run up three, three

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Speaker 2: runs and a matter of four hitters with two outs.

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Speaker 2: So it's definitely noticed, I can guarantee you that. But

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Speaker 2: I mean as to why and how, there's no way

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Speaker 2: baseball's done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean their their record in one run games

439
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Speaker 3: is outrageous this year too, So you know, it's just

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Speaker 3: one of those that sometimes.

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Speaker 2: You have a year where one extrating game, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: Six and one.

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Speaker 3: I think they they've won what eight of their last

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Speaker 3: one run games or something like that. I mean they

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Speaker 3: you got a chandler.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they, I mean they are in one they are

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Speaker 1: seventeen and seven and one run games this year. For reference,

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Speaker 1: they went eight they won eighteen one run games all

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Speaker 1: of last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not really like we said, it's it's

452
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Speaker 3: not like a changed strategy or anything like it. That's

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Speaker 3: just kind of random and it happens to be on

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Speaker 3: the Astros way right now, and and you'll take it.

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Speaker 3: But uh yeah, the two out thing is is certainly interesting.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, you know, there's something to be said

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Speaker 3: about the team feels like they're able to do it,

458
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Speaker 3: and they're not in their heads when they get up

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Speaker 3: with two outs. It's just Okay, we've done it before,

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Speaker 3: we'll do it again. And you can kind of build on.

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Speaker 1: That one thing that I think could help. And this

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Speaker 1: is a lot easier said than done. One thing that

463
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Speaker 1: this club has and you guys watch this, you know,

464
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Speaker 1: like they are not great in the first inning. This

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Speaker 1: is they've scored the fewest first inning runs of any

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Speaker 1: team in baseball. But one thing that's kind of beyond that,

467
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Speaker 1: only the Rockies have a lower OPS as a team

468
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Speaker 1: when they see a starter for the first time, so

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Speaker 1: that's not the first time seeing a starter, period, it's

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Speaker 1: seeing the start of the first time in a came

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Speaker 1: so like the first time through a lineup against the

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Speaker 1: starting pitcher. Only the Rockies have a lower OPS and

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Speaker 1: the Astros this season, now that ratchets up, the Astros

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Speaker 1: are much better. The second and third time through. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I do wonder Josh, if maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: get getting to some starters a little bit earlier. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying score ten runs every first inning, but getting

478
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Speaker 1: your pitching a lead a little bit earlier than maybe

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Speaker 1: the fifth of the sixth inning. That can really it

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Speaker 1: may not be quantifiable, but I think for vibes, and

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Speaker 1: I think just for to kind of let the dugout

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Speaker 1: breathe a little bit, let the pitching staff breathe a

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Speaker 1: little bit and not feel like every pitch from pitch

484
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Speaker 1: one in a game is life or death, is like

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Speaker 1: the result hangs in the balance of every pitch. I

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Speaker 1: think that could be beneficial as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt. I mean not only for your

488
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Speaker 2: pitching staff, for your lineup, I mean for your coaching staff.

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Speaker 2: Your manager can kind of sit back and relax a

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Speaker 2: little bit and give the boys kind of some breathing room.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's something they definitely need to

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Speaker 2: figure out and address. And you know, who knows, they

493
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Speaker 2: might just be like, you know, what, this is working

494
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Speaker 2: for us. We'll just do it what we've been doing it.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you're right, especially the next

496
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Speaker 2: two games, you're going to have Lance out there more

497
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Speaker 2: than likely coming back and not going to be in

498
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Speaker 2: a very long leash. You know, tonight they're not going

499
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Speaker 2: to have a very long leash, So it'd be nice

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Speaker 2: to give them a little bit longer. Lease give these

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Speaker 2: guys up to ninety plus pitches to where they can

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Speaker 2: have a four run lead in that case something happens,

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Speaker 2: then they don't have to panic and get their big

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Speaker 2: guys up. So it's something that they definitely need to

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Speaker 2: figure out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Cubs. The Cubs come in with a three

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Speaker 1: eighty five teamyra which is smack dab in the middle

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Speaker 1: of baseball. So again, this is not a This is

509
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Speaker 1: not a bad pitching staff by any stretch of the imagination,

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Speaker 1: but it is not the Phillies. It is not what

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Speaker 1: you just saw with the three starters that the Phillies

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Speaker 1: ran out there. So this is a this I would

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Speaker 1: I will be more interested this this weekend to watch

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Speaker 1: the lineup because I think by now we have we

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Speaker 1: can confidently say that this this pitching staff is elite,

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Speaker 1: like the Ashers have an elite pitching staff barring injuries,

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Speaker 1: barring just a complete one eighty of an implosion across

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Speaker 1: the next eighty one games. This has always been and

519
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Speaker 1: was always going to be a run prevention team, and

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Speaker 1: they are preventing runs at an elite level. Only the

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Speaker 1: Rangers are allowing fewer runs per game than the Ashers. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Ashers do have the fourth lowest ERA in baseball,

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Speaker 1: but only the Rangers are allowing more total runs per game.

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Speaker 1: So this has been a run prevention machine that has

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Speaker 1: a great defense behind it, that has obviously a pitching

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Speaker 1: staff that is doing some incredible things. But they've got

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Speaker 1: to get contributions from the lineup, and I think it

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Speaker 1: has crystallized. If we didn't know before, I think these

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks of crystallized that the Ashers have

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Speaker 1: got to prioritize getting some getting a bat at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: I know your on Alvarez is going to come back

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Speaker 1: and he will be a welcome edition. But I think, guys,

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Speaker 1: even when we were watching Alvarez in this lineup, it

534
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Speaker 1: felt a bat short, and I think they address that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, looking at the Cubs lineup, you see

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Speaker 3: a very stark difference in you know, their their lineup

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Speaker 3: in the Astros lineup. So the Cubs have one player

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Speaker 3: in their starting lineup with an opium plus below one hundred.

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Speaker 3: They have five guys above one thirty five. The Ashers

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Speaker 3: have one that's Jeremy pania uh, and they have four

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Speaker 3: guys in their lineup with a sub one hundred ops plus. So,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the the Cubs just are relentless. Every guy

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Speaker 3: on that team is an above average hitter. And so you're,

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Speaker 3: you know, like we said, you're you're not able to

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Speaker 3: just focus on one guy and avoid him and try

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Speaker 3: to avoid damage that way. You got to get everybody

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Speaker 3: out the whole time. And yeah, that's gonna put some

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Speaker 3: strain on your pitchers. So it's gonna be a really

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Speaker 3: good test for the entire pitching staff.

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Speaker 1: Josh, what kind of profile bat does this team need

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Speaker 1: at the deadline.

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Speaker 2: Well, we got to have a lefty. Lefty is obvious.

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Speaker 1: I think, get in the cage.

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Speaker 2: Then, have you not seen my Instagram?

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Speaker 1: I have? Yes, you're getting ready. You're getting ready.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting ready. Not for that, but that'll be announced

557
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Speaker 2: sooner enough. See I think, gosh, you know, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to take Cam Smith out of right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this kid is just getting better and better,

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Speaker 2: I would I would never.

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Speaker 3: I would never.

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Speaker 2: If I would, I would say that in Tyler, that's

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Speaker 2: the question, do you prioritize like a left fielder. I mean,

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Speaker 2: because you're bouncing so many guys around there. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they definitely need some power. They definitely need some power.

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Speaker 2: I mean left the power is where I think it matters,

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Speaker 2: and wherever. I mean, there's there's just so many positions.

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Speaker 2: You can't really just take them away. You can't just

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Speaker 2: take short third, second, whoever's there that day. You know,

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Speaker 2: it seems like if you get your left handed outfielder,

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Speaker 2: you put out two b back at second, and you know,

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Speaker 2: do you stuffer that defensive strategy for left left handed

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Speaker 2: hitting power outfielder.

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Speaker 1: They need they need power. Yeah, they need power in

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Speaker 1: any way they can get it because they're they're slugging

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Speaker 1: like that's one thing this team is not doing. They're

577
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Speaker 1: not hitting the ball out of the ballpark. They don't

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Speaker 1: have a ton of thumb. Obviously, Jordan Alvarez will help

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Speaker 1: that when he gets back. But they are more athletic

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Speaker 1: than they have been, which is allowing kind of this

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Speaker 1: offense to be a little more dynamic. Like they're taking

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Speaker 1: more extra bases. They're going first to third more, they're

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Speaker 1: going second to home more. They've got more just overall athleticism,

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Speaker 1: and they're more aggressive on the bases, which is allowing

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Speaker 1: this to work for now. But I mean, Josh, you've

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Speaker 1: seen it like in the playoffs. Hitting the ball out

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Speaker 1: of the ballpark is what wins, like homers and pitching

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Speaker 1: when in the playoffs, and obviously this team will have pitching.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the homers are going to come from.

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Speaker 1: At So according to Fangrafts, the Astros entered this series

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Speaker 1: against the Phillies with seven percent odds to win the

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Speaker 1: World Series. They exited after the sweep, their odds are

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Speaker 1: up to seven point nine percent, so almost a percentage

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Speaker 1: point increase over three games. Again, it's June twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of foolish to start thinking this far ahead,

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Speaker 1: but I do wonder like this. The Phillies are one

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Speaker 1: of the best teams the National League has to offer.

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Speaker 3: We have we we all.

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Speaker 1: Understand that the National League is a better league than

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Speaker 1: the American League this year, just top to bottom. It

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Speaker 1: is deeper, there's more talent, they just have better teams

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Speaker 1: in the National League. The Astros just handled one of

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Speaker 1: the best teams in the National League can offer, albeit in

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Speaker 1: a way that maybe a little unsustainable. Like we said,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure the Astros are going to live off

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Speaker 1: allowing one run in twenty seven innings. Did the weekend

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Speaker 1: change kind of your overall thoughts of this team's ceiling

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Speaker 1: and what the Astros can accomplish this season.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they've just been this team the whole year.

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Speaker 3: You know, It's not like it's just been this one

637
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Speaker 3: series where the pitching showed up and they were able

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Speaker 3: to eke out that series like they're they've been doing

639
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Speaker 3: it and sorry, and to do it against, like you said,

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Speaker 3: one of the best teams in the NL. There's no

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Speaker 3: reason to expect them not to be able to do

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Speaker 3: that in a short playoff series. So I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: what we always say, is you just got to get

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Speaker 3: into the playoffs and then anything can happen. I Mean,

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Speaker 3: they started the year at three point eight percent to

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Speaker 3: win the World Series. They're up to eight percent now.

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Speaker 3: I mean even you know, the best possible, like the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers right now are r a twenty four percent, So

649
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 3: like even the best team possible is not going to

650
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 3: be drastically higher uh than that, and so you just

651
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: got to get in. And the way that the Ashers

652
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 3: have found success this year with just not allowing runs

653
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 3: is a is a good strategy in October. So I mean, yeah,

654
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 3: I mean, I that was very very encouraging to see just.

655
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: Get in, Just get in, because as we've seen, it's

656
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: about getting in and getting hot. Whoever's hot at the

657
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: right time is going to win, regardless of who's in

658
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: the playoffs, you know, and we've seen you know, we've

659
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 2: seen this lineup hit good pitching too. I mean we

660
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: I covered with us. I think it was a Seattle

661
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: series where they got to it. George Kirby.

662
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, the first.

663
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: Time ever in like eight starts put up like seven

664
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 2: against him and put up really good numbers against the

665
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: starting staff. So it's there. You just got to get

666
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: in and get hot, you know. And we've seen it

667
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 2: on both sides of that of that coin, so it's

668
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter, just get there.

669
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

670
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: And I think you know, Tyler and I were talking

671
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: about on the last pod, Josh, you know, about the

672
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: we were talking about whether it's going to become the

673
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: norm for the Ashers to trade guys maybe in their

674
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,239
Speaker 1: last going, in their last year, if they're not going

675
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: to pay them. We were talking about that, and we

676
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: started talking about, like, did the Ashers believe they were

677
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: a legitimate World Series contender before this season? And my

678
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: counter was always that they thought they could win the division.

679
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: Dana Brown came out and said that that they had

680
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: models that said they could win the division without one

681
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: of Kyle Tucker or from Er Valdez. If you think

682
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: you can win the Division, you automatically think you're a

683
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: World Series contender, because once you get in, it is

684
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: such a it is such a crapshoot. And I remember

685
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: talking to people, I mean, do you remember how close

686
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two Astros were to losing that Alds

687
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: against the Mariners, Like it took r and Alvarez being Superman,

688
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: and it took Jeremy having a big swing in the

689
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: eighteenth inning in Seattle to win series. There were people

690
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: in the within the Astros that pretty firmly said that

691
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: Seattle was the team out of anyone that they were

692
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: most scared of going into that that they were going

693
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: into that playoff run and it just shows like that

694
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: was a Seattle team that you know, lost the division

695
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 1: by a bunch of games, snuck into a third wild

696
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: card and put the biggest scare into what was the

697
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: best team in baseball that year. It does not the

698
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: regular season matters. You have to, you know, form a foundation,

699
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: you have to form an identity, you have to format

700
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna play. But like once you wipe the slate

701
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: cleaning the playoffs, it's really just about getting hot and

702
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: who's hot, who's pitching well, and the astros Josh, you know,

703
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: if you can run out from er Veldez and Hunter

704
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: Brown twice in a five game series, maybe four times

705
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: in a seven game series, they're gonna have an advantage

706
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: over basically anyone they play, presuming those guys stay healthy.

707
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, can you imagine I like facing the

708
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 2: freaking twelve Detroit Tigers all over again, Max Schu's are

709
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 2: and JV four out of five games and seven days,

710
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 2: and those days can get scary for a lineup to

711
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: come and come into the work office and have to

712
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 2: focus on that day. Kidding, you got Hunter Brown fromer

713
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: Valdez going for you, and gosh forbid, you know, you

714
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 2: get Hunters. Just you get both of those guys seven innings.

715
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: That's you know, four games of your best starters Brianon

716
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 2: braw and Josh Hater that can win you a very

717
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 2: easily two to nothing, two to one, one to win

718
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 2: nothing ball game.

719
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's like Garrett Cole and Justin Verlander. Uh,

720
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of like twenty nineteen when you guys came

721
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: to the ballpark, you know, two out of every five days,

722
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: just kind of knowing like, man, it's we're gonna win today.

723
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. We had Exact Green. He was our number three.

724
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: He was pretty good too. So yeah, it was it

725
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 2: was more or less five out of five because it

726
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 2: didn't matter. If you know, Bugs Bunny was pitching to,

727
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 2: you know, the New York Yankees on an episode. It

728
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 2: was it was our lineup. We were going to score

729
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 2: ten if they were going to get up nine.

730
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 3: I think Bugs Bunny is scheduled start on Tuesday for

731
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 3: the Astros at this point. That's that's who they're running

732
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 3: out everything, and.

733
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: He probably go four and two. He probably goes four

734
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: for and give up two and then hand it over

735
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: for a w It's.

736
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 3: Just there's so many guys on this team, they're like

737
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 3: Cooper Humble won a game this week, Like what are

738
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 3: we doing? Like this Astrois team, there's something in the

739
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: water where they just they're getting it done. Uh, And

740
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 3: it's it's encouraging for sure.

741
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: Josh, I'm often asked like explain this. I'm gonna I'm

742
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: gonna get someone that was in the clubhouse to explain it.

743
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: Culture is a word that gets thrown around a lot,

744
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: and it's it's almost impossible to define, Like what is

745
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: it about? Because Joe said Joe spot Us said something

746
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: after the game yesterday when when he was when he

747
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: was asked a question basically like what Tyler just said,

748
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: like how do you guys keep doing this with all

749
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: these random names that no one's ever heard of? And

750
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: Joe said something. He said, when you walk in that clubhouse,

751
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: it's canagous And he never said what the it was,

752
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: And I mean it's referring to the culture, and it's

753
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: just kind of referring to the understanding. But like, as

754
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: someone that has lived it, Josh, like, what what is

755
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: it about walking into that clubhouse and into that culture

756
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: that allows this to happen?

757
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: Well, it's the understanding of winning you know this, this

758
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 2: team is, this organization has gotten so used to winning

759
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: over the last you know, ten years, that it becomes contagious.

760
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 2: You walk in there and it's just different. You have,

761
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 2: you know, with guys like a two day walker around

762
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 2: there who have been there through it all. Everybody just

763
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 2: knows what to expect. They come in there and you know,

764
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: they get it. They understand that. You know, it doesn't

765
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. We're just here to win. Nothing else matters.

766
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 3: Can I just tell you, as a as a person

767
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 3: who has watched the Astros my entire life, how jarring

768
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 3: it is to hear people talk about the Astros just

769
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 3: have a winning culture like that that changed in the

770
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 3: last ten years. Prior to twenty fifteen, it is not

771
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 3: a sentence that you would ever have said about the Astros.

772
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 3: And really, I mean, until you know the twenty seventeen

773
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 3: World Series, it's like, well they're good, but you know,

774
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 3: it's never never gonna happen. And now for the last

775
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 3: eight years, it's just why wouldn't you expect the Astros

776
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: to be World Series contenders? Which is just I mean,

777
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 3: it goes to show again like the continuity of having

778
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 3: Altuve there throughout all of this, Like that's the only

779
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 3: person you can really point to and say, well, he's

780
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: been there the whole time. There's got to be something.

781
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 2: How dare you not mention Javier Brockamane, How dare you

782
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: come on?

783
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 3: I got a sign ball here somewhere from eighty five.

784
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 2: And you know that. It's it's rare around baseball too,

785
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 2: for those that don't understand how rare A good culture

786
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: to winning app you know, atmosphere is like, you know,

787
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: I've been in a I was in an Arizona Diamondbacks

788
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 2: clubhouse for almost three months and it was my worst

789
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 2: experience in baseball. So this is this is twenty twenty one.

790
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 2: You know when they went on like we went on

791
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: like a twenty one game losing streak or something, and

792
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: you know it just nobody cared. Nobody cared about winning.

793
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's a complete I've been in, you know,

794
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 2: probably the best clubhouse in baseball history, and that one

795
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: probably has to be up there with one of the worst.

796
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: So it is rare to have this kind of you know,

797
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 2: feeling in a ballpark.

798
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 3: But it can change really quickly because that team was

799
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 3: awful and then what two years later the worst.

800
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: So yeah, it can, I mean, but it's not really.

801
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 2: That's not really a winning culture. That's just you know,

802
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: a team and that season needs to be looked at

803
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 2: because there are two teams who have not been very

804
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 2: good since weren't very good before. But I'm just saying, so, yeah,

805
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: they're not a winning coachure they're downe I mean, look

806
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: at them. They're right back in to where they're at

807
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 2: in third place in the division, and that's dominated by

808
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: two way better teams than they are. So I wouldn't

809
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: even call it a winning culture there.

810
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 3: That's That's what I'm saying. Is so remarkable about the

811
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: Astros is that it wasn't these blips. I mean, there's

812
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 3: the whole infrastructure of the twenty seventeen twenty nineteen, just

813
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 3: like Gauntlet teams are not here anymore, but the ghosts

814
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 3: of it are right like it still feels like, oh,

815
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,439
Speaker 3: this is the team that you just have to look

816
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 3: out for. Again, absolutely no disrespect, but Jake Myers is

817
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 3: hitting cleanup for this team and they have the second

818
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 3: best record in the American League. Like there there's something

819
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 3: that they are doing that, you know, whether whether it's

820
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 3: a placebo effect or not. But the team plays like

821
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 3: a team that expects to be in the World Series

822
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 3: every year, and there's something to be said about showing

823
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 3: up to the ballpark every day with that expectation in mind.

824
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: There's also a lot of cool things to look at

825
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 2: when you're walking into that club. There's a lot of banns.

826
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 2: There's a lot of you know, winning banners over the

827
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 2: last couple of seasons. You know when you look at

828
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: you know, two World Series banners hanging right there when

829
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: you first walk in tailor season every day, So it

830
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 2: is it's a cool hallway to walk into and I

831
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 2: mean it's it's it's got the history part of things

832
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 2: makes it fun as well.

833
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 3: Did you know about Astro's legend Yogi Berra until you

834
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 3: saw it in one of the team photos before playing there?

835
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: I did not.

836
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: There you go, that's the winning culture.

837
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 2: There's always there's always.

838
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: Something something Mauricio Dubon told me after the game yesterday

839
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: because I've had to do this like ten times since

840
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: I've started covering this team, where I just have to

841
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: write a story. It's like, how are you guys doing this?

842
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: Like how does this keep happening? How does this? And

843
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: I asked them at the clubhouse, like, how do you

844
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: guys keep this kind of turnkey operation going with as

845
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: names change and faces change and things like that. Dubon said,

846
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: I'll read the quote verbati and he said, we don't

847
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: have many rules. If you perform, if you're ready to

848
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: go at seven pm, okay, good, get between the line.

849
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: We try to make everybody feel comfortable. And I think

850
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: that's something that can't go overstated because like, as we've

851
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: talked about, like there have been so many different people

852
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: that have come in, like people from other organizations, people

853
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: you know, they've claimed off the waiver wire one day

854
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: that they've never met before. And I think it's just

855
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: such a welcoming environment and it's something where there's not

856
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: there's not clicks, there's not all the Latino guys are

857
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: hanging out with all like in one corner, all the

858
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: white guys are hanging out in the other corner. Like

859
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: it's very much like and again, this is the only

860
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: team I've ever covered, so I don't know if it's

861
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: like that. And Josh, you can maybe be a little

862
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: bit more one more perspective, but I don't think it's

863
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: like that everywhere where everyone genuinely seems to like each other,

864
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: and that's not always the case.

865
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and usually it's it's it's not by like race

866
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: or ethnicity, and it's usually by position. Usually I've seen

867
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,720
Speaker 2: it where you know, relief pictures are with relief picture

868
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: starters hang out with starters. They kind of mesh too.

869
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: But then like, obviously your outfielders are with these guys.

870
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 2: But this is kind of you know, the group you're

871
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: all the time when you go to spring training, who

872
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 2: are you with? You're with your group all morning. Who

873
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 2: you go to the cage with? You're going with your

874
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 2: group to the cage, and once you get there, you're

875
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 2: doing all your work. So it's it's kind of normal

876
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 2: for that stuff to happen. And then when BP happens,

877
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 2: that's when people kind of fluctuate. And that's what makes

878
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 2: it so great because you know, even in the clubhouses

879
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 2: i've been, you know a few of them in Oakland

880
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 2: were like we were kind of separated, but you know,

881
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: we still found ways to win, but we weren't as

882
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: close as some teams like we were in the Houston

883
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 2: clubhouse either. So but yeah, it is it's cool because

884
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: when I played, it was all about giving everybody else

885
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: a hard time, Like it was always about picking on

886
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 2: somebody else, finding something to just kind of get them

887
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 2: flustered and rilled up while them doing it right back

888
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: to you. So that's what Camp kept it fun for

889
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 2: us and made it you know, kept it fresh. But

890
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 2: like you said, when seven, when seven o'clock rolls around,

891
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 2: the lights come on, it's all about winning and everything.

892
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: Everything from then on doesn't matter.

893
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 3: There you go, they need to bully more, Josh said.

894
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 2: Very much. Keep on your toes, have a good time.

895
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 2: It's fun.

896
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 3: Did you ever call short to his face?

897
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, I mean, I'm pretty sure I've called

898
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 2: him that to his face. I mean, Springer probably reiterated

899
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 2: it every day and then people piggy bagged off of

900
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 2: it because George could do whatever he wanted. Yeah, nobody

901
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 2: was off target, justin Verlander wasn't off limits unless it

902
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 2: was a start day. That was pretty much the only

903
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 2: rule of it. Just don't mess with a starter on

904
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: a start day and you're and you're pretty much good

905
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 2: and he other than that your fair game. I'll yell

906
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 2: at you from one side of the field if I

907
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: want to.

908
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 3: Does Verlander have custom tight pants like, are those like

909
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:37,919
Speaker 3: special ordered for him?

910
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 2: I think those have gotten tighter over the course of

911
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 2: his career.

912
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 3: Those are like stock pants.

913
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 2: I don't remember those being that tight in his time

914
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: as an astro.

915
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 3: Oh, trust me.

916
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 2: I wasn't looking in that vicinity either.

917
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 3: You were behind him. What are you talking about? You

918
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 3: have the best view?

919
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 2: I'm no, Crey, I probably have the best one.

920
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 3: That's true, No, I was.

921
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 2: I was focusing on a hitter. I Will isn't distracted

922
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 2: by silly silly things.

923
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 3: Well, we need you to investigate that. I need to

924
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,439
Speaker 3: know if he's special ordering pants.

925
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 2: So it's Verlander. I don't even have to find out

926
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 2: he's Verlander. He's a special.

927
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Justin Verlander and Kate Upton who just welcome

928
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: their son last week, Bellamy Brooks Verlander. How many wins

929
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: do you think Bellamy Verlander is going to have in

930
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: the big leagues? That is going to be one incredibly

931
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 1: gifted young man.

932
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 3: I mean, if he can get one, they'll have the

933
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 3: like father son duo record, right. I mean, nobody's topping

934
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 3: what Verlander is doing in the modern era. So all

935
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 3: he needs is one. So we can add that to

936
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 3: the trivia box.

937
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: That is a that is some charmed jeans.

938
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 2: That doesn't even need any just give in the.

939
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 3: Game charm jeans his pants? Am I right?

940
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: This? Custom orders tight pants Red. What are you wearing

941
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: on the pregame show today?

942
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 2: I have yet to pick my outfit for this series.

943
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 2: Probably need to start doing that, but I got time.

944
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 2: I don't have to. I don't have to leave it

945
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 2: for about another four hours.

946
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 3: So, Josh, I saw F one and Imax last night,

947
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 3: and how was it? It ruled? I think you could

948
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 3: tell you there's nothing. I was thinking as I was

949
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 3: watching this, I was like, could a five or six

950
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 3: year old see this? I think I think your son

951
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 3: would would be into it. I mean it was if.

952
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 2: He wouldn't move, he would not get out of the chair.

953
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 2: I guarantee you that.

954
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 3: Go see it in Imax. Obviously there's the show biz

955
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 3: uh you know down in Baytown. I saw it at

956
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 3: the amc out and.

957
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 2: Lakes.

958
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, yeah, I forget you're rich.

959
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 2: So if you would have let me finish, usually go

960
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 2: get some sushi. It's showgun right there. Then hit the moment.

961
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like that's not proving my point. You get

962
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 3: some pre movie sushi. Get out of here. Popcorn was

963
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 3: my dinner yesterday. I had to pick between eating that

964
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 3: or or eating dinner. But you should go see it.

965
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 3: I'll go see it again. It was awesome, Josh.

966
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: I hope you. I hope you pick something nice to.

967
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 3: Where you left. He's mad, He's like, how dare you

968
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 3: talk about racing in front of me?

969
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: He's very mad. Oh there he is. Now he's back and.

970
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: He's got the other little walked in tacking in.

971
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: Well, that's our I guess that's our Q to wrap up,

972
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: so you can go pick out your outfit and take

973
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: care of your children before you have to go to

974
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: the to the ballpark to do orange. I can promise

975
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: you that it will not be orange. Orange is not

976
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: your color. No Cubs astros this weekend at dike In Park.

977
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: You can watch Josh Reddick on the pre and post

978
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: games shows on Space City Home Network as all as

979
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,640
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980
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981
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982
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983
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984
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985
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986
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988
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Speaker 1: to discuss whatever happens between the Astros and Kyle Tucker's

989
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs this weekend. Thanks as always for listening and

990
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Speaker 3: Bye,