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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into an emergency episode of Crush City Territory. Chandler Room.

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Speaker 2: This is Tyler, Stafford and Tyler. It just seems like

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Speaker 2: we're always doing these our first I think three of

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Speaker 2: our first four pods were emergency pods. And now the

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Speaker 2: night before Astros have their first workout for pitchers and

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Speaker 2: catchers in spring training. What we thought was going to happen,

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Speaker 2: what felt inevitable for a while, is finally official. Alex

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Speaker 2: Bregman will not be a member of the Houston Astros.

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Speaker 2: He agreed this evening to a three year, one and

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Speaker 2: twenty million dollar deal with the Boston Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: That's a forty million.

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Speaker 2: Dollars average annual value in all three seasons. It contains

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Speaker 2: opt outs after each year, so Bregman could parlay this

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Speaker 2: coming season into another attempt at the free agent market

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Speaker 2: next year, or he can stick with a forty million

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Speaker 2: dollar or AAV Tyler. From the reporting I've done, from

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Speaker 2: what we know, Bregman had longer offers on the table,

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Speaker 2: but choosing the shorter term higher AAV deal in Boston,

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Speaker 2: a huge market, a legacy franchise.

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Speaker 1: Surprise at all?

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Speaker 3: Were you reading off a script from somewhere that was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: I felt I felt like I was watching, you know,

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Speaker 3: like I travel a lot for work, and so in

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Speaker 3: the hotel rooms, I watch a lot of Sports Center,

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Speaker 3: which is not a normal part of my life. But

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Speaker 3: when I'm on the road, it's like, oh yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: Tuesday night, baby, Scott van Pelt is going to be

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Speaker 3: live on ESPN. I just felt like I was watching

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Speaker 3: Sham's call in to break the lucratrip. For people that don't,

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Speaker 3: I mean, this happened like forty five minutes ago, and

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Speaker 3: Chandler just had like a three page monologue that was beautiful,

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Speaker 3: well done. Well it helped ask me I wasn't paying attention.

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Speaker 2: It helps that I've had half of this pre written

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Speaker 2: since November.

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Speaker 3: So you just kind of were you were you reading

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Speaker 3: off of a chart that was amazing?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? What you know?

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Speaker 2: You said you weren't paying attention. I really wasn't either.

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Speaker 2: Was kind of a having a chill night and was

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Speaker 2: kind of roused awake with one text and off it went.

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Speaker 2: You weren't paying attention, but once you did pay attention

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Speaker 2: or your initial reaction to bregmant of Boston.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean we've.

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Speaker 3: We talked, we joked about it that I had a

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Speaker 3: dream about this last year that he would be playing

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Speaker 3: for the Red Sox. So I do think that means something.

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Speaker 3: So I'll let you guys know all my other dreams.

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Speaker 3: But you know it, we knew this was coming, right, Like,

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Speaker 3: I think even for me as early as I don't know,

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Speaker 3: probably the All Star break last year, I started coming

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Speaker 3: to Grips with Okay, this is this is probably it

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Speaker 3: for Bragman. I don't really see a return here. And

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Speaker 3: you know, there's been a few times where it's like, oh,

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Speaker 3: you know, we the Astros offered the biggest you know,

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Speaker 3: deal in franchise history, and then this whole saga of

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Speaker 3: you know, he's been waiting to sign somewhere, so that

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Speaker 3: keeps being quotes every day. Whatever, it felt inevitable, right,

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Speaker 3: And so it's gonna be tough to watch an Astro's

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Speaker 3: team without Alex Bregman. He makes baseball really fun and entertaining,

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Speaker 3: and he's also really really good, and it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: weird to see him in another uniform for sure. I

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Speaker 3: think for me probably I think this will be the

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Speaker 3: like weirdest of all of them. For me, even though

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Speaker 3: you know, Correa is you know, just as a point,

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Speaker 3: you know whatever. I don't know why, but to me,

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Speaker 3: I guess he was extended, so he's spent more years here.

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Speaker 3: But this, this definitely feels the biggest to me.

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Speaker 2: Before we get retrospective and remember his biggest moments and

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Speaker 2: remember what he meant to the city, what he meant

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Speaker 2: to this run, what he meant to this golden era,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about how this played out the last three months,

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Speaker 2: because I think fans were really had some wild opinions

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Speaker 2: during this saga. I think, like you said, once his

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Speaker 2: interest was real. Don't misunderstand me. The interest was very real.

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Speaker 2: Like they did re engage. There were talks, but I

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Speaker 2: would have been happy to do it, but it would

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Speaker 2: to believe, you know, it sounds like from reporting that's

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Speaker 2: that's been done, that the Tigers had actually the lengthiest

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Speaker 2: and most lucrative offer out there.

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Speaker 1: So all of the thoughts of you know, all.

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Speaker 2: The hand ringing about why hasn't he taken six for

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Speaker 2: one fifty six yet he doesn't have any better offers,

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Speaker 2: well he did. He had a better offer there, and

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Speaker 2: then Tyler, you know, looking at this, I think it

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Speaker 2: came down to a couple of things. I think he

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Speaker 2: thrived it. When you look at choosing Boston over Detroit,

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Speaker 2: Detroit is as lined up to contend in a very

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Speaker 2: winnable division as any team in baseball have a great

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Speaker 2: farm system. You saw the young core that they have

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Speaker 2: beating the Astros last year. But Bregman gets to go

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Speaker 2: into one of, if not the most difficult divisions in

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Speaker 2: of that franchise. I think that's Rafael Devers with a

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Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty million dollar deal of his own.

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Speaker 1: But he's gonna go in there, and he's.

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Speaker 2: Automatically kind of the guy around which that clubhouse may function.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it makes so much sense for the Red

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Speaker 3: that is quite a leap, and.

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Speaker 1: It should be it should be noted that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we'll probably figure all this out in the

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Speaker 2: coming days. But Alex Cora was pretty adamant the Winter

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Speaker 2: Meetings at Rafael Devers was the Red Sox third basement,

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Speaker 2: and he was talking about Alex Bregman as if he

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Speaker 2: would play second base. I believe, unprompted, he called Alex

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Speaker 2: Bregman a goal old glove caliber second.

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Speaker 1: Basement at the Winter Meetings.

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Speaker 2: So there's a chance that Bregman goes to Boston and

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Speaker 2: play second base.

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Speaker 1: Now they could.

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Speaker 2: They could have discussions with Devers in the coming days.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they made Raffi Devers aware that this was happening.

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Speaker 2: see him third. But there's a chance Alex Bregman plays

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Speaker 2: second for the Red Sox win if he goes to

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Speaker 2: the Tigers. He is a plug and play third basement

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Speaker 2: of the life of that contract.

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Speaker 3: They're not giving him forty million dollars a year to

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Speaker 3: play second base. There's no way that he's playing second

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Speaker 3: base there. But that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I that makes no sense. And you mentioned

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Speaker 3: too the market, and I think that makes a ton

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Speaker 3: of sense for Bregman. Bregman strikes me as you know,

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Speaker 3: kind of like a Tony Romo style. Got you know

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Speaker 3: that's gonna I mean, he could he could be in

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Speaker 3: an even added bonus for him to just be in

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Speaker 3: to become a very famous player, even more so than

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Speaker 2: He I mean, he is perfect for a market like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: national spotlight. If that's that's got to be kind of

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Speaker 2: and he's apt and fit to hand that perfectly. I

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Speaker 3: Tyler, real quick, Chandler, because I hear that a lot

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Speaker 3: it's population just for people out there, paint a picture

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Speaker 3: of like how many Astros beat writers there are, and

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a it's a it's a far bigger contingent.

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Speaker 2: It's you're looking at at home games, you're looking at

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Speaker 2: he gets off to a slow start in May, another

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Speaker 2: just because in Houston it is one of these places where,

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Speaker 2: very loudly. It comes from maybe a few places, like

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Speaker 2: so with that comes expectations and I have never I've

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Speaker 2: think that really showed throughout his astro's career, Tyler, as

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Speaker 2: we start to think back to some of his exploits

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Speaker 2: as an astro, is there is there one moment or

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Speaker 2: one you'll remember about him?

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Speaker 3: I mean so many, right, I mean again, this happened

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Speaker 3: and then I texted a few friends as well, like

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Speaker 3: three or four people all sent back the same thing.

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Speaker 3: That was the first thing I wrote down, which is

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Speaker 3: the gift of Bregman with very lander slapping the bench

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Speaker 3: and then Bragman just yelling like that, I don't know

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Speaker 3: why that's.

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Speaker 1: All that's coincidentally, park, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's funny. I didn't even make that connection, but

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the first one that comes to my head.

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Speaker 3: That's silly. The play that I think I'll remember forever

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Speaker 2: You know, I think I think of Bregnant, you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he is just the definition of a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's huge, and I was digging through my good

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's worth You think that's worth forty

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Speaker 2: that low is because when he was a senior in

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Speaker 2: high school, he broke his He broke his hand and

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Speaker 2: he couldn't play hit his senior year, so his draft

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Speaker 2: stock plummeted that that is the reason he went to LSU.

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Speaker 2: If he doesn't break his hand in high school, he

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Speaker 2: is probably a top round pick that signs for a

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Speaker 2: ton of money and never sees college. Got to LSU,

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Speaker 2: And then what number did he wear at LSU his

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Speaker 2: first year? He wore number thirty because he got picked

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Speaker 2: in the signifying where he got picked in the draft

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Speaker 2: as kind of a slight He got picked in the

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Speaker 2: thirtieth round, I believe, so he put the thirtieth round

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Speaker 2: on to kind of motivate him. And that's just who

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Speaker 2: he is, man like. He wore two with the Astros

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Speaker 2: in part because he did go second overall in the

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Speaker 2: draft behind Ansby Swanson. But Derek Jeter's also one of

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Speaker 2: his favorite players growing up, was his mom's favorite player

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Speaker 2: growing up, So there's a little bit of familiarity at

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Speaker 2: least with the Red Sox and Bregman. And obviously he's

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Speaker 2: gonna go back to Alex Korra, who is his bench

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Speaker 2: coach when he came up. And then in twenty seventeen

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Speaker 2: World Series season Tyler to end it. I don't really

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Speaker 2: feel like I have to ask this, but these free

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Speaker 2: agencies can always go so weird with fan bases.

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Speaker 1: They can be.

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Speaker 2: Left with an odd taste in their mouth, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: Is it too early to gauge kind of how Astro's

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Speaker 2: fans are going to feel about Alex Bregman or do

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Speaker 2: we need to give that a couple of days to

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Speaker 2: set in. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I feel like they've been a little more contentious in

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Speaker 3: the last week or two, just because this thing is

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Speaker 3: drug out for so long. But yeah, I think by

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Speaker 3: May or June, it'll, you know, it'll have worn off

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Speaker 3: enough that you're not upset. But I mean, I anytime

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Speaker 3: I see Springer or Korea or you know whoever, I'm

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Speaker 3: happy for them, you know, Like I think that's that's

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Speaker 3: how fans are gonna feel about Bregmant two that.

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Speaker 1: I mean.

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Speaker 3: The only difference is it never felt like Springer or

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Speaker 3: Korea even got real offers from the Astros. So I

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Speaker 3: think there's some like feeling from Astros fans where it's

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Speaker 3: like you had the choice to get you know, before

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Speaker 3: it was like we sent you away, you know, we

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Speaker 3: didn't want you, right, that was the feeling of the

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Speaker 3: fan base. But this one I think will probably have

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Speaker 3: a little bit more vitriol for a little bit. But

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna root for him wherever it's fun

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Speaker 3: to see him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think by the time August eleventh throlls around, I

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Speaker 2: think feelings will be mended. And when the Red Sox

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Speaker 2: come to dike In Park on August eleventh, I think

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Speaker 2: it'll be a pretty raucous ovation for Alex Bregman. You know,

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Speaker 2: when the video tribute shown when he comes out, that'll

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Speaker 2: be a that'll be an emotional one, I think for

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Speaker 2: a lot of fans.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe not one.

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Speaker 2: We've seen, maybe since Korea came back, and that one

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Speaker 2: was still I believe with limited attend I could be wrong,

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Speaker 2: but I think it was in limited attendance.

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Speaker 1: It was in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: One, and you know, we were still easing fans back

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Speaker 2: in from COVID. So this one could be unlike any

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Speaker 2: we've seen, unlike any return we've seen. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I think another thing too is fans have looked at

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Speaker 2: how much Jose Altuve wanted him back too, and that

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Speaker 2: added another layer to this that Altuve's never really been

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Speaker 2: insistent about anything. He's never really demanded this, this front office,

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Speaker 2: this ownership group to do anything, and he all but

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Speaker 2: demanded they resign Alex Bregman. And I think that got

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Speaker 2: a lot of fans and thinking, oh, well, if Altuve

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Speaker 2: wants it, it's going to get done. And now I'm

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Speaker 2: curious to know, how do you think jose al Tuve

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Speaker 2: feels right now? Man?

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Speaker 3: I seeing that video of him at fan Fest talking

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Speaker 3: about wanting Bragman back and his gray hairs popping out

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Speaker 3: of his hat, I was like, oh, you get this

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Speaker 3: man his friend back?

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Speaker 1: What are we doing?

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Speaker 3: Uh? I mean, it's a business. Everybody knows that. It's

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Speaker 3: not like Altuve. He's going to show up to camp

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Speaker 3: and you know, show that he's upset right Like he's

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Speaker 3: gonna say I wish Bragman the best. You know, I

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Speaker 3: loved playing with him. All of that and that stuff

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Speaker 3: is true. Obviously the whole team is going to miss

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Speaker 3: having him there. But you know Altove will be fine.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, he's he's not feeling great tonight, I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: And again, Joseel Tube did say it fan Fest like

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Speaker 2: he had lost hope too. So he I feel like

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Speaker 2: in his heart of hearts like al Twove had to,

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Speaker 2: he had to have prepared himself for this day as well.

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Speaker 2: Now move moving forward, the Astros have a third basement

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Speaker 2: Esak Paratus. They have Christian Walker at first base. Who

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Speaker 2: knows where Jose al Tuva will play, because what started

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Speaker 2: out is just kind of the this throw it against

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Speaker 2: the wall sea if it sticks thing of move him

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Speaker 2: to left field so we can accommodate Bregman. That looks

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Speaker 2: like it's going to be maybe more of a realistic

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Speaker 2: possibility no matter what, even with this non Bregmann roster.

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Speaker 2: But that's all stuff that we will talk about as

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Speaker 2: spring training gets underway, which it will in about twelve hours.

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Speaker 1: So I need to get to sleep, Tyler.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you waking up and and knocking this out

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Speaker 2: on a on a pretty big night.

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Speaker 3: I'm awake. Don't don't make me seem that old. I

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Speaker 3: was awake, were you, Yeah, I was on I was

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Speaker 3: on my nightly walk. I saw the led Zeppelin documentary yesterday,

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Speaker 3: which ruled, and I was listening to led Zeppelin two

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Speaker 3: on my walk and someone sent me a picture a

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Speaker 3: screenshot of your Twitter account and that's how I found

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Speaker 3: out who won. That's what I was going to ask you,

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Speaker 3: who who won the reporting war?

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Speaker 1: I did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels nice to say so.

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Speaker 1: No one's still listening to this, UH.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate those that are rate and review us on

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Speaker 2: Apple UH, subscribe on YouTube, and we will be back,

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Speaker 2: hopefully in a more normal work environment, a more normal

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Speaker 2: work hour, and we will talk about the post Alex

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Speaker 2: Bregman Astros.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Bye,