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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome in another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm channel the room, joined by Tyler Stafford. And if

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Speaker 1: you are searching for the latest insight as to what's

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Speaker 1: going on with the Astros offseason, if you are itching

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Speaker 1: to know which teams they are close to deals with,

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Speaker 1: if you're itching to know who among their trade candidate

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Speaker 1: board they have narrowed down, you came to the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: Because I have no idea what's going on. There is

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Speaker 1: very little movement right now going on. I can't say this.

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Speaker 1: They're trying. They are, They are talking to other teams.

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Speaker 1: It's not a situation where they're just sitting back and waiting.

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Speaker 1: I texted a member of the I texted a member

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Speaker 1: of the organization today, Tyler, and I said, can you

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Speaker 1: guys do something? I'm bored. I did not get a reply,

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Speaker 1: So who knows. Maybe they're maybe they're working hard to

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Speaker 1: working too hard to reply to me, but still very quiet,

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Speaker 1: still in waiting mode. Nothing has changed since the last

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Speaker 1: time we talked to you guys. Their priorities remain starting pitching,

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Speaker 1: it's probably going to be via a trade, and they're

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Speaker 1: going to shut down the offices. I think on the

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Speaker 1: twentieth or the twenty first, So if stuff doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: within the next two or three days, you may be

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Speaker 1: waiting until after the new year before the Astros add

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Speaker 1: another member of their team. That's got to be a

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Speaker 1: thrilling news, right, Tyler.

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Speaker 2: See y'all next week. Brand Now, Now, that's about it.

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Speaker 2: That's all we got. I also like the video. If

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Speaker 2: you're here, click chick on the button. Thank you, it's helpful. Uh, look,

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Speaker 2: I in my job. I am also in circle back season,

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Speaker 2: so I appreciate that baseball operates on a similar calendar

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Speaker 2: where look, once you can see Christmas around the corner,

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Speaker 2: we're not getting stuff done. Email me, email me later.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing that you have right now that is so

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Speaker 2: urgent that I need to pick up the phone. You

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Speaker 2: will still have your number three starter that I can

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Speaker 2: trade you to mid tier prospects for after Christmas and

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Speaker 2: it'll be a great Boxing Day present. But right now

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Speaker 2: we're in gift buying season. We've got to make sure

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Speaker 2: that we've remembered for all all of the other husbands

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Speaker 2: out there. You do have to fill your wife's stocking.

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Speaker 2: She's not going to do that one for you. She'll

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Speaker 2: fill the kids probably, but you do need to go

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Speaker 2: find something. So this is your one week reminder everyone

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Speaker 2: to go get some little trinkets to put in there.

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Speaker 2: Pro tip bath bombs always a hit. Can't go wrong

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Speaker 2: with a bath bomb. Stick that in there, some gum candy, whatever,

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Speaker 2: but make sure you get something out there. That's about

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Speaker 2: all the advice I have.

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Speaker 1: Astros wise, you're bearing the lead because we still do

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Speaker 2: Tyler, Yeah, I assume that if you're if you're going there,

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Speaker 2: you're buying so much that it wouldn't fit in a stocking.

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Speaker 2: That's why I didn't say that initially. We see the

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Speaker 2: orders when they come in, which is fun. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: we see them and we appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Shout out Sherry Sherry.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna shout out She's she's the best.

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Speaker 2: We like her, she has been.

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Speaker 1: Sherry's been a long time following listener like she. I

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Speaker 1: communicate with her pretty regular. She communicates with me some.

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Speaker 1: I try to reciprocate on social media a good bit.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Sharry, appreciate Jason Moss, appreciate Debbie Chang as well.

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Speaker 1: you can get me to say your name within the

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Speaker 1: first five minutes of this podcast. So a lot of things,

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Speaker 2: Those are the only astros transactions that we have currently.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's about the same amount of money that

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Speaker 1: they're willing to spend as well. Mike Tyler said, if

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Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, please like the video if you're

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Speaker 1: also if you're watching on YouTube, we have some we

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Speaker 1: have some fun news. Jeremy, who works at Foul Territory,

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Speaker 1: who is one of our bosses, graciously made a three

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Speaker 1: minute video to teach me how to go live on

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Speaker 1: these things. So once I watched that, and once I

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Speaker 1: feel confident enough that I'm not going to embarrass myself,

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Speaker 1: uh pushing all the buttons. We will be able to

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Speaker 1: new year, within the next you know, two weeks. I

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Speaker 2: So you wanna, you want to come over Christmas morning,

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Speaker 2: We'll do a live show with the kids here. It'll

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna pass on that. I'm sure. I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: That seems like a family. That seems like a time

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Speaker 1: for family. It doesn't any time. You won't need to intrude.

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Speaker 2: Are we not family? In podcasting? Brother in cast.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's get to you. Let's let's get to a

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Speaker 1: year first. Okay, we're past a year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we started in like November last year, way past it.

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Speaker 1: Year and a half.

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Speaker 2: And for everyone, I feel like most people know this,

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Speaker 2: but weirdly, Chandler and I have known each other much

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Speaker 2: longer than that. We were both sports editors at our

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Speaker 2: which is really nice. So that's how I met Chandler.

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Speaker 2: We were like twenty and I'm like, hey, what's LSU

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Johnny Manziel was on. I think because

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Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel coincided with both of our colleague tenors, I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. I'm good on that. Kyler Murray baseball, Yay,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned a baseball player on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: Las veg Sacramento, A's legend, Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: Something tells me he still made the right decision. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I have I told you so. My brother in law,

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Speaker 2: you're so good that we don't feel comfortable playing with you.

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Speaker 2: It's not fun for any of us. And that's how

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Speaker 2: I feel about ping pong. You know, Marty Supreme, don't

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Speaker 1: Have you seen that yet?

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Speaker 2: Was a good comes out next week, bake movie fan.

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Speaker 2: I do have tickets tonight to see the new Avatar

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Speaker 1: Is Avatar the one with the Blue people?

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Speaker 2: It is the one with the Blue people. It rules.

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Speaker 2: I will I will take no slander for loving Avatar.

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful. I'm X three D. It's it's great. It's

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tyler, we have successfully wasted success. Nothing to

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Speaker 1: talk about. Hey.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at the comments from our our last

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Speaker 2: says our Hanway Eagles Wise, who I already missed so

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Speaker 2: much as a fan who chanted your name from the stands.

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Speaker 1: Mean we can try. He seemed he seemed very much

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Speaker 1: very easy to UH, very easy to get on. So

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Speaker 2: Okay, I do have some things that I've seen on

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Speaker 2: the internet. Now seems like a great time to ask

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Speaker 2: you about. Did you see Chas McCormick's farewell.

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Speaker 1: I did. I'll put it. I'll put the text up

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Speaker 1: it up on the on the text of Chazz's farewell

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Speaker 1: I'll put the text up from his Instagram post. The

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Speaker 1: for the Astros, and Chazz said, Houston, you took a

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Speaker 1: chance on a kid nine years ago, and it changed

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Speaker 1: my life as a person and as a player. Fast

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Speaker 1: forward to four Division titles, two American League Penance, and

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Speaker 1: one World Series title. I have nothing but love and

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Speaker 1: admiration of the organization, my teammates, and the great fans

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Speaker 1: interesting because, like I saw this post, and ninety nine

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Speaker 2: Do you think that his name is pronounced Chase and

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing is like it, Chaz ties in well

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Chas's value was more tied to the bat

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Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, I absolutely understand the interest for

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Speaker 2: So Jake Myers is a free agent after two more seasons, right,

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Speaker 2: So there's another gentlemen on the Astros who will also

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Speaker 1: Well, the first thing they should do they should congratulate

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Speaker 1: Did you see that post? Did you see the announcement?

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Speaker 2: I saw the ring.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, nice job. That thing's worth more money than

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Speaker 1: of the past and from or even Tucker, Like it

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00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: never seemed realistic, Like it was just like, oh, they'll

434
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: they'll make a they'll give it the old college try,

435
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,959
Speaker 1: they'll make a performative offer just to say they did it,

436
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: and then we'll never hear about it again. I don't

437
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: think people really realize, like how close the Astros were

438
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: to extending Jeremy Panya last last season before he switched

439
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: he switched representation to Scott Bors. They were very, very close.

440
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 1: It was it was, you know, they had exchange numbers.

441
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: They had they had gotten way down the road. And

442
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: this is coming from multiple people that have knowledge of

443
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: what transpired. They got pretty far down the load. So

444
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: that inherently means that Jeremy Paanya is open to listening,

445
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 1: how much, how much we talk and do you know,

446
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't I've heard a couple of numbers. I don't

447
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: want to say the numbers out loud because I haven't

448
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: confirmed them outright. And upwards of nine sure, upwards of

449
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 1: a certain amount. Now it gets different when you're negotiating

450
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: with Scott Boris as opposed to pretty much any other

451
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: agent agencies, and look, most agencies and agents are they're

452
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 1: aligned and that they want the maximum value for their client.

453
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: To get Jeremy Pania to stay in Houston, and to

454
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: do it with Scott Boris as his agent, the Ashers

455
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 1: are going to have to make this sort of offer

456
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: that they have never made really anyone. Like, I don't

457
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: know what the biggest offer at least I can remember

458
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: that that a Jim Crane led front office ownership organization

459
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: has made to a player was when Carlos Correa was

460
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 1: a free agent. I think I think, if I remember right,

461
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: they gave him six for two they offered him like

462
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: six for two hundred or six for two ten, something

463
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: around that in that neighborhood. Other than that, like, they

464
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: don't really make these offers that blow you out of

465
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: the water. They're not in the they're not in the

466
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 1: business of blowing people out of the water. If they

467
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: want to keep Jeremy Panna around, they're going to have

468
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: to do that. They're going to have to, well, Ay,

469
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: Jeremy Payne is going to have to express to Scott

470
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: Boris that he wants to stay here forever. Because that's

471
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: how the Lance mccullors deal got done. That's how the

472
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: Jose Al Twova deal got done. Those were two guys

473
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: that said pretty forthright, I don't want to play anywhere else,

474
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 1: Scott get it done here, and that's what happened. It

475
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: got done. So this whole narrative that Scott Boris never

476
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: does pre orb or pre free agency is just not

477
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: true because he works for the client at the end

478
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: of the day, and if the client tells him I

479
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: don't want to go anywhere else, I don't want to

480
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: do free agency, that's not for me, They'll get it done.

481
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: Scott's not going to take a cheap deal though, he's

482
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 1: not going to take a hometown discount by any stretch.

483
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: So really it's up to Jeremy Panya and I don't

484
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: have the exact quote in front of me, so I

485
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: don't want to speak out a turn. But he was

486
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: asked when all this was kind of bubbling up last

487
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: year and after he had switched representation, someone asked him

488
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: like whether it was his stated goal to stay here

489
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 1: for a while, And while he didn't just come out

490
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: and say yes, he did say, and I'm paraphrasing here,

491
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: this is not a direct quote, he said something to

492
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: the effect of playing for one team, my whole career

493
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 1: is something that I've thought about, and it's something that

494
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: intrigues me, and it's something that I've seen other people do.

495
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: So all this to say that, like, there's a path here,

496
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: there is a path to get getting it done here

497
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: that maybe didn't exist with Bregman or Korea. I say,

498
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: with Korea, who went on the Team run radio station

499
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: and said you wanted to be an astro for life.

500
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: So but we've got at least evidence now that they

501
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: have talked to Jeremy Pania, that there have been numbers

502
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: that have exchanged hands and that they were close to

503
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: getting this done. Now Switching representation is a different story,

504
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: and it's it changes the calculus of how it goes on.

505
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: But Tyler, I think this I think doing and the

506
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: reason you do it this Winner is like you said,

507
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: he's a free agent after next after next season, he's

508
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: a free agent. The ressident has been set already by

509
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: trading Kyle Tucker. That if this organization feels like it

510
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: cannot retain a homegrown superstar and it feels like it

511
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: needs to supplement its farm system, which I think it

512
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: still will need to do next Winner, you can be

513
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: looking at Jeremy Paine, you know, following in the footsteps

514
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: of Kyle Tucker and the Astros making a trade that

515
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like.

516
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, has any player ever not said that they want

517
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 2: to play for one team their their whole life when

518
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 2: they're on their their first team, Like, yeah, that's of

519
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: course you say that, and you're currently employed by that team.

520
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think that that means anything. And

521
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: I also don't think it's something that you have to

522
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 2: hold against somebody, Like what else are you going to say? Like, yeah,

523
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: if somebody ask you, do you want to stay with

524
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 2: the Astros forever? Like yeah, of course you have to

525
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 2: say that, I do. I I don't know if you

526
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,719
Speaker 2: can pass this along to Scott Boards. I've started thinking

527
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 2: of his jokes for the free agency, and I think

528
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to really focus around some joke about

529
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 2: a hollow Painia. So something about how you know he's

530
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: he's spicy, he's gonna heat up your lineup, and you

531
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: don't want your lineup to have that whole at shortstop,

532
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: that's a hollow Pania. I don't know, something something I

533
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 2: think that would do well at the winter meetings.

534
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: That is something I can very much envision him.

535
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 2: Saying, Okay, get that, get that a lot. I'm telling you,

536
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: let me be on this writing staff. I could crush it. Look,

537
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 2: I think this is not good podcasting, but I think

538
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter this year. Like you, you play this year.

539
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 2: You you hope that he has a phenomenal year.

540
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't.

541
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: I don't see any scenario where the Astros extend him.

542
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: I just you know, I don't. I don't think that's

543
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 2: gonna happen. The only way that possibly could happen is

544
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: Paenia is older than some players are. You know, he's

545
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 2: not Korea. He's not hitting free agency at like twenty six.

546
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: Right, He's a college he's a college drafting.

547
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be twenty nine pushing thirty when he

548
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 2: hits free agency. And so you know, even at that point,

549
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: you're gonna get a seven year deal or something along

550
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: those lines, if you get some great deal somewhere. But

551
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 2: even then, honestly, like you know, he's not even playing

552
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 2: shortstop at thirty seven. So you know, I could see

553
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: a scenario where if the Astros look at their team

554
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: and say, all right, al Tuvey is gonna be gone

555
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: in five years you've got yourn until Like I could

556
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: see them try to extend him for that, but at

557
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 2: that point, like Scott Boris isn't gonna go for that

558
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: because you'd rather have the longer contract and more guaranteed money.

559
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: But I mean, to me, that's the only way that

560
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 2: it would even make sense to broach an extension talk.

561
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope that he stays. He's very good.

562
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: I enjoy watching him play for the Astros, and the

563
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 2: Astros are a better team with him. But I mean,

564
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: I would be shocked to see any sort of extension,

565
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: not even a Scott Boris related thing, Like I'm shocked

566
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: to see any extension that the Astros give out like

567
00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: that just doesn't happen.

568
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: I disagree with you on the this winter doesn't matter,

569
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: like I think, if they need to get like if

570
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, it's going to happen this winter

571
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: because the conversation that well, a next winter there may

572
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: be a work stoppage for half of it. And literally

573
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: Dana Brown or whomever is the general manager, which that's

574
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: another part of this that we'll get to in a

575
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: little bit, whomever is running the Astros is going to

576
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: literally be forbidden from contacting players, so that could encompass

577
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: a good bit of the winter next year as a

578
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: work stoppage. And also next year that's when you get

579
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: the and it's not a lie like your six months

580
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: or your eight months from free agency, Like why would

581
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: you sign a massive deal? Why would you sign an

582
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: extension when you're eight months away from twenty nine other

583
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: teams bidding on you, And those teams including the Dodgers,

584
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: the Yankees, the Jays, whoever is spending big money at

585
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: that point, like you will have more suitors that can

586
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: give you more money, like you, the demand will be higher.

587
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: So like that's what you run into next winner. That's

588
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: why I think this winner, it's if it's going to

589
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: get done, it needs to get done this winter, because

590
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: you eliminate that, you eliminate the oh, you're so close

591
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: to free agents. Even though he is, he's still pretty close.

592
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: I mean he's only a year and a half, two

593
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: years away. But I think getting it done now would

594
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: be prudent. The problem is and another problem, like I

595
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: just tried to bring up a little bit like Dana

596
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: Brown's in the last year of his contract, and there

597
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: has been no no effusive praise from Jim Crane, no

598
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: encouragement that he is the guy going forward now. To

599
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: be fair, Jim Crane hasn't spoken to the media since

600
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: opening day, so we haven't had the opportunity to ask him.

601
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: But the fact that Dana Brown is working as a

602
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: lame duck, as is Joe Espada, the actions kind of

603
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: speak louder than whatever words Jim Crane would say. So

604
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: I guess in that vain tyler like do you let

605
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: a guy that do you let someone like Dana Brown,

606
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: who you don't know if he's going to run your

607
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,719
Speaker 1: baseball operations for the for the far long term? Like

608
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: do you let him try to negotiate and give out

609
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: what could be one of the biggest deals in franchise history,

610
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: because that's what it would take to keep Jeremy Pinnya,

611
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: Like you're going to need to go beyond five or

612
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: six years and go beyond one hundred and fifty million dollars,

613
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: which is the most years or money Jim Crane's ever

614
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: given a player, be it an extension or a free

615
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: agent deal.

616
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I get the sense that that's not that

617
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: wouldn't be Dana Brown's job, regardless of what his contract

618
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: is like, I don't think Jim Crane is tasking Dana

619
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: Brown with negotiating of one hundred hundreds of millions of

620
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: dollars extension. I think that's straight from Jim Crane. So

621
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 2: I don't even think it matters too much who the

622
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: GM is. I think that's if Jim Crane wants to

623
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: keep him on his team, he'll just ask godbores, how

624
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 2: much does it cost, and then he'll decide, Okay, I

625
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 2: want to do that, or I'm not, Like, I don't

626
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 2: think he's like digging into spreadsheets and you know, negotiating.

627
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he's looking at those things, but I

628
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: think at the end of the day, that's a Jim

629
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: Crane decision and it would just be negotiated in that way.

630
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: To me, Jim cran seems to operate more of all right,

631
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 2: you're the general manager for just filling out the team,

632
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: finding these holes or whatever. But if Jim Crane wants

633
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 2: a guy, he's just gonna go get him and pay whatever.

634
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: It's his team. He's just like, oh, yeah, I want

635
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 2: this guy on my team. I'm gonna go hire him.

636
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: In the same way that you know, like in the

637
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: same way you would at a corporate office, Like you've

638
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 2: got your managers that are kind of doing the day

639
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: to day work, but if you see something that you

640
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 2: want for your business, you just go and do it

641
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 2: if you're this CEO. So I'm not sure that the

642
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: expiring contract has anything to do with the negotiations, but

643
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 2: I could see it being an issue of just like

644
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 2: if I'm Dana, I'm like, I'm not even gonna bother

645
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 2: putting this to get like I've I'm not, that's not

646
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 2: for me to do, you know, Like, I'm sure they

647
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: have an idea of what it would cost. I'm sure

648
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: Scott Boards has just set a crazy number. And then

649
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 2: it's a matter of do I want to put the

650
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 2: time and effort in to figure out what the actual

651
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 2: number is going to be and what the astros are

652
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 2: willing to do, or do I want to focus on

653
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 2: other things? And I think it's probably more the latter.

654
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Dana's Dana's foremost goal obviously has to

655
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: be to get the twenty twenty six team in the

656
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: position where they are prepared to make the sort of

657
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: run that would let Jim Crane or force Jim Crane

658
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: to give him another contract.

659
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, they also tend to do these, Like I mean,

660
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 4: like Jordon's was in the middle of the season, you know,

661
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 4: Like I to me, that is the vibe of like

662
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 4: Jim Crane is watching someone on his TV, you know,

663
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 4: and he's like that guy rules, I need I need

664
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 4: to make sure he stays on my team, and he just.

665
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: Calls up and says, like, what does Jordon want? Okay?

666
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 2: Cool that that seems like a good price, you know.

667
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 2: So it may just take a you know, do they

668
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 2: play the Yankees this year? Maybe maybe Pana just has

669
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 2: like six home runs in a series against the Yankees

670
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 2: and then gets an extension.

671
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: I think where Dana's contract will get to be. An

672
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,760
Speaker 1: interesting talking point is, like you kind of mentioned earlier,

673
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: if we get to July. If we get to July

674
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: fifteenth and the deadline is the thirty first and the

675
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: Astros are five to eight games under five hundred and

676
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: have fifteen percent odds of making the playoffs, do you

677
00:36:55,280 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: let someone that you don't you aren't sure is the

678
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: unquestioned leader of your baseball operations department going forward? Do

679
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: you let them run that trade deadline? Because that could

680
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: be one of like if you decide to sell. If

681
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: that situation that I just had said arises and you

682
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: get to July fifteenth and you are in a decision,

683
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: You're at a part where like numbers probably tell you

684
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: to sell, and you're gonna have you could make a

685
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: pretty big decision of like, if we're not going to

686
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: extend Jeremy Panya get a lot more, we get a

687
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: lot more for him if he has that extra half

688
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: a year of control and possibly a playoff run for

689
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: whatever team we send him to. Do you let the

690
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: GM do? Do you let the lame duck GM run

691
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: that deadline? Like? I think that's the more fascinating question

692
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: with with Dana Brown's contract.

693
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yes, of course, Like you've already hired

694
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: him to do this job. You know. Again, Like if

695
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of it from Jim Crane's perspective as the

696
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: owner of the Astros, it's like, you are currently my

697
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 2: general manager. My team needs to sell. Your job is

698
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 2: to go do that. It doesn't matter what your contract

699
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 2: looks like six months from now, because again, like.

700
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: But do you want to but do you want a

701
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: guy that do you want a guy that you have

702
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: not committed to for twenty twenty seven, impacting what could

703
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: be the twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight and twenty

704
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: twenty nine astros.

705
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need somebody to do it. He's already here.

706
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do instead, like fire somebody and

707
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: get somebody a day later to run the trade deadline?

708
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: Like you wouldn't get anybody you would.

709
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 2: But that's my point is that's what I'm saying is

710
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 2: Jim Crane's gonna do it anyway, so you might as

711
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: well have a guy that's already doing the job and

712
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: then you can say yes or no to any of

713
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: these trades. But like, yeah, of course he's gonna have

714
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 2: him run that at you know, like especially for GM

715
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: because I to me, and I have absolutely no authority

716
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: to speak on this, but to me, Jim Crane's relationships

717
00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: with general manager's post Luno is more of like, well,

718
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 2: this is my team, and I've hired you to do

719
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: this job, and I'm telling you to do it. And

720
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: if I tell you to do a different way, start

721
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: doing that or I'll find somebody else. Because I think

722
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 2: I think he sees the general managers is a lot

723
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 2: more interchangeable than you know players on the field or

724
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 2: even even managers, which is much more based on the

725
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 2: outcomes of the games.

726
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: I will say this, you said in the post Luno era,

727
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: there's only been two There only been two GMS in

728
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: the post Luno era. I can say this on authority.

729
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: Jim's relationship with Dana Brown is a lot better than

730
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: Jim's relationship was with James Click. Those two, just James

731
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: Click and Crane had philosophical differences of just kind of

732
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: how they went about business, of how they went about

733
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: doing things. They were just philosophically just not on the

734
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: same page. It was philosophical different. For instance, I think

735
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: Dana is more aligned. I think Dana and Jim are

736
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: more aligned in that aspect of like they think about

737
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: things the same way. They're a little more Dana's a

738
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: little more aggressive, Dane is a little more bold, He's

739
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 1: a little more convicted. They get along a lot better.

740
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like he's going

741
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: into this year as a lame duck, so obviously it

742
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: hasn't gone well enough to warrant any sort of extension

743
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: longer than that. One other thing, speaking of Jeremy Panya,

744
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: he played in the WBC a few years ago. I know,

745
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that have very have very

746
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: interesting opinions about the WBC. My opinion is that they

747
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: should all.

748
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: Play the rules. Is upset about this.

749
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: Like the people that watched Joseelle two vagas hit in

750
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: the film. Yeah, but Luis Garcia throwing ninety seven on

751
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: March fifteenth or whatever, you were just.

752
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 2: As likely to get her in a spring training game

753
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 2: as you are a WBC game, or running to home

754
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 2: in a game in the middle of September and you

755
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: step on home plate. Funny, Like, there's nothing about the

756
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic that is inherently more dangerous than doing

757
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 2: anything else. And at the end of the day, these

758
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 2: are humans that are playing a sport and if they

759
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 2: get a chance to be in a spectacle of the

760
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 2: sport for their home country, do it. It's awesome. Like

761
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 2: they're not like made of glass, you know, like injuries happen,

762
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: but that's what's gonna happen. Like you want these guys

763
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: to enjoy playing baseball and to compete.

764
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: Do it.

765
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: It's fun.

766
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: Now, with that being said, I think this will be

767
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: music to these other people's ears. I do not think

768
00:41:54,840 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: you will see as high of a participation number at

769
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: the astros as you did in the last WBC. Carls

770
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 1: Beltron said at the Winter Meetings that Carlos Korea will

771
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: play for Team Puerto Rico. He's gonna play third base.

772
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: Jiner Diaz, I believe will play for the Dominican Republic.

773
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: I think that's out there. I think there was one other.

774
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: Jose Al Tuve is in a weird kind of they

775
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: are claiming, or at least Joe Aspota is claiming that

776
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: Josel Tuve has not made a decision yet. If you

777
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: talk to bench coach Omar Lopez, who is the manager

778
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: of Team Venezuela, Altuve wants to play. It's a situation

779
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: where he had that procedure on his foot, and there's

780
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: some medical hurdles, some clearance hurdles that the WBC makes

781
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: all these guys go through so that they can play,

782
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: and I think it's a whole thing of Altuve hasn't

783
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: technically been cleared yet to be put on their roster

784
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: to play. So listening to Omar at the Winter Meetings,

785
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: it sounds like if Jose Al Tuove is cleared and

786
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: if he's ready to go, he's gonna play for Team Venezuela.

787
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: Omar already said he's gonna hit him third and playing

788
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: at second base. He's already got in his head the

789
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: lineup of what he wants. But I would not expect

790
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: much beyond that. Team USA's pitching staff has basically been

791
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:19,760
Speaker 1: revealed already. It's it's acts. It does not include Hunter Brown,

792
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: who I know that Team USA had interest in. That

793
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 1: doesn't make again. Maybe they could announce tomorrow that Hunters

794
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: agreed to be on the team, but they've got a

795
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: lot of starters, and I don't know that they have

796
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: room left, so you know they had I knew Christian

797
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: Xavier pitched for the Dominic in a couple of years

798
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: at the last WBC. I don't think that's gonna happen.

799
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't think Brian A. Brady is going to pitch

800
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: for the d R. I think you're going to see

801
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: fewer guys participate that You're gonna see fewer players participate.

802
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: Hater, Is he gonna play?

803
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: I doubt it. Well, David Bednar is gonna David Bednar

804
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: committed to the David Bednar committed to Team USA, so

805
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: technically he could be their closer. I doubt Hater, with

806
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: the with how the shoulder thing happened, he's in like

807
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: I doubt it, but he did. Did he play in

808
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: the last WBC? I think he did. But to your

809
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: point though, like the fact that dyke In Park is

810
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: hosting the first round and then some quarterfinals. Jim Crane's

811
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: a big fan of the WBC. He's he likes it

812
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: a lot. They did not get the WBC for no reason,

813
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: like I know. Obviously it's going to get them some revenue.

814
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 1: It's gonna get them some money.

815
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 2: Have Venezuela correct, No.

816
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: They have Mexico there. The pool is Mexico, the US,

817
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: Great Britain, I think Italy, and there's another team I forgot.

818
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: But then they got to keep parades. They can't trade

819
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 2: him until after well I don't know hamshromp.

820
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: I think they let him play with his hamstrimper. But

821
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: they also so they're going to host the pool, play

822
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: with the pool, and then they're to host a quarterfinal too.

823
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: So there's a chance like the DR or Puerto Rico

824
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: or one of those teams advances to the quarterfinal, it's

825
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: going to be a dyke In Park if the d

826
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: R or if Puerto Rico gets into one of those

827
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,479
Speaker 1: quarter finals of dyke In Parky, that place is going

828
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: to be a madhouse.

829
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: Just the Mexico game is gonna be.

830
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: The Mexico games are gonna be great too. But like

831
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: if the d R or Puerto Rico come to dyke

832
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: In Park to play in the WBC, that place is

833
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: going to be lit.

834
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: And I believe a roled As Chapman is on the

835
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: Great Britain team.

836
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, that's not gonna cube is not

837
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I will like again, this is not a

838
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: plug for I guess it is a plug for the day.

839
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: It is plug. It's gonna be awesome if you are

840
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: on the fence about it, or if you are someone

841
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: that is kind of unsure of like why this matters

842
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: so much? Like try to get a ticket to go

843
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: to a WBC game in Houston, Like it is unlike

844
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: anything you will ever go to or experience in a

845
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: base It's unli any baseball game you will ever experience.

846
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: It is incredible. I highly recommend if you can get

847
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: your hands on tickets, even for the pool play, even

848
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: for like a US game or when Team Mexico plays

849
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: in the pool, get one of those and then if

850
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: you can get your hands on a quarterfinal ticket, especially

851
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: if the DR or Puerto Rico is involved. It is

852
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: a sight to see and would highly recommend. I don't

853
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: know that it's going to change your viewpoint if you're

854
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 1: anti WBC. We're all, we can all have whatever viewpoints

855
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: we want. But I just think I think it would

856
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: really really open some people's eyes to go just be

857
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: in the stadium for those to happen. It is a spectacle.

858
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: Have you been to one, Tyler?

859
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm going to pretend to need a credential

860
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 2: for the WBC this year, and so we'll do a

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Speaker 2: live podcast. Now that you know how to do it,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure, well I need it from one of those games.

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Speaker 1: I need to watch the video though, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I really know how to do it. But once

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Speaker 1: I do that, we will find a way to go

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Speaker 1: live and make this a more interactive pod. At times,

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Speaker 1: you guys can ask us questions. That'll be fun. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: the next time we record, something will have happened, or

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Speaker 1: hopefully I will have watched this video and know how

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Speaker 1: to go live, and we can go live and you

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Speaker 1: can ask me questions and you can ask us questions

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Speaker 1: about why nothing has happened, and we can give you

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Speaker 1: the same answers that we just gave you.

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Speaker 2: About Avatar and SpongeBob. So everybody get excited.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Until then, you can follow me on

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Speaker 1: x at Chandler Underscore Room. You can follow Tyler at

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Speaker 1: Tyler C. Stafford. Please rate and review us on Apple.

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Speaker 1: Please like the video on YouTube. If you watched on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: like and subscribe to the YouTube channels so you can

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Speaker 1: get notified anytime we post new pods. We'll have another one,

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Speaker 1: I believe on Sunday working on a guest. If that's unsuccessful,

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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna cram on this video and try to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to go live and we'll do a

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Speaker 1: live show. We will let you guys know way in

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Speaker 1: advance before we go live, just so you guys can

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Speaker 1: either get in the queue, get chats, get some questions ready, whatever,

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Speaker 1: But we'll let you know in advance before we go

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Speaker 1: live when we begin that endeavor. But until then, thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening and we will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 5: When I was an astro, Spota took me into the

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Speaker 5: dugout to see SoC Paradis.

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Speaker 2: Bye.