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and here's seven nineties Astros insider Michael
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on a Saturday morning here on Sports
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to get too later as well,
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which is not much, but I'm
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of here. But the Houston Astros
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of our talking when we are in
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platforms Instagram, Facebook threads. Are
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I don't even know if we're doing
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in a while. I think the
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little bit as I'm pulling the app
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stuff up there. I put on
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weird and you know, not as
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We're not here on the air.
But they win last night seven to

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five over the Angels to kick off
the three game series. And I know

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that you guys were really pumped up
about it because a lot of you joined

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me last night on the tenth inning, showed about twelve fifteen in the morning

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that b zero of you where to
go, you slackers? Tonight back in

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action, eight oh seven, first
pitch from ber Valdez making his first start

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post All Star Break against Red Debtmer's
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so far this season, now six
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They are of course going to look
for the series win against them on the

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Sea's but last night doing it.
It was a weird baseball game, a

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lot of hits for both sides.
JP France wasn't very good for the Astros

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overall, excuse me, did not
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Same could be said for the other
side of Tani didn't get help from

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his defense last night, but he
leaves the game with the assume it's the

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blister that was the issue there for
him once again. But Astro's side of

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things, France four runs came across
in his outing, did not get as

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deep as he has been, and
I think it was another night where it's

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a reminder that as we near the
trade deadline, a starting pitcher is a

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priority for the Astros. We've heard
Dana Brown say as much as of late.

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We're going to dive more into the
trade stuff here in the next segment

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of the show, and we're gonna
put something to bed that needs to be

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put to bed. In terms of
the discussion that people are having, that's

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not realistic. What is realistic is
what this ball club has in front of

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them right now. Is they sit
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me in the American League West,
two games behind the Rangers. And by

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the way, thank you Cleveland Guardians. Last night I want to dumpster for

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having to rely on the city of
Cleveland for anything. Is a tough existence,

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Like you just want to kick things
when you do that. Last night,

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I'm sitting there doing the on deck
show at what was it We run

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from seven thirty to eight oh five, and it's the fourth inning. As

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I'm doing the on deck show,
Cleveland's up for nothing. They're putting it

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on John Gray. They have a
fourth spot. I think in the fourth

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inning or the third inning, and
it's like, okay, looking good,

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they went they went ahead and allowed
them the Rangers to score twelve unanswered runs

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the rest of the ball game,
and most of them at the end of

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the game. And the Rangers end
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don't get to one game back as
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if, those damn Guardians would have
taken care of their business. And they're

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in the fight for it too,
because they are in that al centro that

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is an absolute abomination of baseball.
And they are five hundred and they're the

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division leader, just ahead of the
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think about this, the ten games
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games out of a division lead five
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of negative eighty five. Astros.
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back, they are a wild card
team. At the moment. You want

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to see them track down the Rangers
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first round of the wildcard round off. You don't want to play in the

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wildcard round. And you look ahead
and I said this yesterday, and it's

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gonna be something I'm gonna repeat here
over the next few days because this is

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a vital period of time for the
Astros. You look at the schedule right

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now, the way that it's going, and they want to get back to

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the top of the aost. This
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out of the break of course,
getting the body reset everything that's great.

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Hopefully fromber tonight looks like fromber he
gets his being, you know, irritated

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about not pitching in the All Star
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like the decision. Clearly it is
what it is. But hopefully he looks

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like Fromber than tomorrow is a vital
game six ten tomorrow night. By the

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way, Sunday Night Baseball, I'll
have you for on deck, contempting for

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that one on a Sunday evening,
but that one is Christian Javier and last

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night, again, as I mentioned, JP, France, not exceptional,

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doesn't get deep. And that's the
danger of what you're doing, relying on

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so many young arms that don't have
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that and things start to go awry
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Because all these young guys are going
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in trouble, especially when you go
and look at the schedule that is ahead

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for the Astros. Again, this
stretch here, this road trip out of

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the break, is one that they
have to absolutely crush. They started off

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properly last night with the victory.
Two more they're in Los Angeles or in

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Anaheim against the Angels, day off
on Monday, two games quickly in Colorado

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against the Rockies, who are bad. They did beat the Yankees last night,

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but they're bad. And then you're
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Thursday through Sunday, another series against
a team that you have not lost to

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this season. Not saying that you're
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four games. They've played better baseball
overall since the Astros last played them,

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but you should at minimum minimum take
three out of four in that one.

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But you're still hoping, honestly to
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And that's why it's important to do
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you turn right back around after that
Oakland series and you play three against the

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Rangers. The last three against them
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The Astros will then get a day
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in town for three one of the
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the American League this season overall.
And then those Cleveland Guardians, who even

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if they're just at five hundred right
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They had been really bad early.
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They will be pesky to do that, and then they turn right back

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around. And I'm not gonna go
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just a real emphasis on why it's
so important to get these wins and really

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eat in this next week of this
road trip. After that Cleveland series is

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back to the road and they play
four New York against the Yankees. Yankees

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aren't very good this year. They're
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had for all these years. They've
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Casey thinking that that's going to ignite
their offense, like it's gonna change a

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lot. You're not gonna change the
same lineup you've been rolling out there for

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years. There's a reason why they
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to be because they keep rolling out
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result. But they have four in
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and then they have three in Baltimore
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Angels again, which will be a
nice easy one you would expect, before

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heading back on the road to play
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for three. Then you look at
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Seattle at home, four against Boston, three in Detroit, and then three

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more against Boston. But this stretch
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Oakland through the tenth of August.
So you're talking about a period we're gonna

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play a total of six nine,
thirteen set or sixteen games against really really

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tough teams and teams that are fighting
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And that's why it's so vital.
Now, look the Astros, and I

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know that. I look at it, and that's the easy thing. I

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oh my god, how are you
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It's not going to be easy necessarily, But the Astros are also gonna

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be going into those games. They're
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That's what they do. They've always
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record this year now against teams that
are five hundred better. It's not been

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what they wanted to be. It's
twenty and twenty eight. So again I'm

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putting the emphasis on this period of
time to get those back. Now.

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The good news, hopefully if you
missed that news yesterday you're don Alvarez had

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his reap assignment delayed. They say
that he's ill. The inconsistencies of the

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messaging from the astros continue to be
a real issue that I do not understand.

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You get them telling you that he's
ill and he's not gonna do anything.

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Then Dusty Baker gets up there and
it's like he's clueless. Is nobody

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telling him anything? I don't know, but he didn't have an answer,

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and then he makes like I don't
know when he's gonn come back or when

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he's gonna start his rehab assignment.
How do you not have an idea that

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leads to the worry for people,
that leads to the panic, and again

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the mistrust for the way that the
situations with injuries are spoke about. But

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it sounds like, again I'm not
gonna go over the top end of the

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world. Something's wrong. You're gonna
hope that it truly is an illness and

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Jordan gets his rehab assignment going here
shortly hopefully today for sugar Land. Jose

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Er Katy last night throws two innings
for the Sugarland Space Cowboys. Gave up

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a one run or two runs,
but they were unearned thanks to his defense

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screwing up behind him. But good
start to get him back on the mountain.

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Everything from the report is that everything
was good. He's gonna make three

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more rehab starts, so it's gonna
be a minute before they get him.

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You want to get Jordan back on
the field, hopefully again today because that

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way you can. I would imagine
the per world scenario is to have him

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play next weekend in Oakland. It's
a great landing spot for him, a

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ballpark that he always hits very well
in against a team that he typically just

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absolutely launches against. Come back in, get some good major league at bats

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against them before you have to play
Texas and you have the bopper back in

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the lineup that you have been missing. Jose Al Tube continues to progress.

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He's hitting soft toss and everything,
so we're probably still a few weeks away

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from him getting into baseball game action. You know, I know that Michael

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Brantley was mentioned as hitting off the
TI or whatever. I'm not too interested

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in hearing about Michael Brantley updates.
To be perfectly honest with you, when

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we see him play baseball again,
if that's ever again, that's when I'll

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believe that he can play baseball again. So I'm just personally not interested in.

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But they have reinforcements coming clearly in
some of these spots that they need

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them, and then they can go
to that trade deadline, and it is

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seventeen days away now. August first
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where Dana Brown has to go out
there and the obvious obvious need for this

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team more than any other spot.
They could still use a bat. I

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still think that they could. They
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the worst thing in the world to
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is where do you slot the bat
into. Somewhere in the outfield to me

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is the spot to do it if
you're doing it. But they absolutely have

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to have a starting pitcher. And
this morning we will go through some of

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the names that I like some of
the names that you think will probably be

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out there as the picture becomes a
little bit clearer in the majors in terms

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of who's going to sell, who's
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what the market might look like for
a team that does not necessarily have the

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kind of ammunition that you would like
to have in terms of trades to make,

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to make those trades on this trade
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here. Seven one three two one
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You want to talk about your strokes, you want to talk about that trade

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deadline that is coming up. Who
you want to see the Astros possibly go

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chase at the trade deadline. Your
comments are welcome throughout the show this morning,

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of course again on Twitter at MC
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me as well. But we will
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talked about. It's not realistic people. It's time to end the thought of

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it even being in your mind.
We'll do that next here on Space City

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Saturday. This is Space City Saturday
on Stort's Talk seven nineties. Pick at

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it because I don't have a crystal
ball. I would like to have a

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million million dollars though, so when
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here on Space City Saturday, Michael
Connor back here with you, and I

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say that I don't have a crystal
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For exactly how the trade deadline is
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I can make my best guesses like
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if you want to get in here
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Space City Saturday, eight is seven
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start things off. Some other things
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here at twelve. Astro's back in
action tonight eight o seven. First Pitch

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Ross has you for the on Deck
show tonight starting at seven o'clock. I'll

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be back with you for the Astros
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where they hopefully we'd be looking to
finish off a sweep. I'm gonna

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go ahead and say it. They're
gonna be working to a finish off of

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sweep tomorrow night at a three game
series against a Angels team that, by

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the way, is definitely going down
the tank. And that's where we get

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to here. They are about two
as they've been without Mike Trout. They

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played really good baseball there for a
minute where they beat a bunch of bad

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teams, and I know that that's
you know, it sounds like you're knocking

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them, and it's not a knock. You still have to go out there

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and beat bad baseball teams. Any
team in the sport has to do that.

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Then the Angels went through a stretch
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got to about ten games or around
ten games over five hundred. I don't

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remember the exact number. I'll pull
it up here in a second, but

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it looked like, hey, you
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They're gonna be. They're gonna be
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down the stretch. Trout gets hurt, they start playing better teams. Right

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before the break, they play bad
baseball, and they are back really where

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you expect them to be, a
below five hundred team, a team that's

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not going to have a chance to
make the posts. Excuse me, The

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postseason this year, as I just
for some reason can't. I can't seem

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to clear my throat today, So
I'm sorry if that happens a couple of

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times. It just it just keeps
getting me for whatever reason. The Angels,

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though, falling back to where they
were Otani pitches last night. He's

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not been as great throwing the baseball
over the last month. Now, I

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know that he has the best batting
average against in all of Major League Baseball

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below two hundred for the opposing hitters
this season, which is incredible. He's

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got He's a guy that throws up
to ninety something miles an hour. You

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saw the difference the last thing he's
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And you know when it's a problem
is when he's just throwing nothing but

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fastballs and he's hitable. I mean, every every big league pitcher that even

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throws one hundred miles an hour is
hitable for a major league hitter at one

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hundred miles an hour because they're also
used to seeing it. The question,

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of course, has been Angels,
do what's smart and trade best player in

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baseball. And I don't know if
there's an argument necessarily that there is a

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better player in the entire sport.
He hits, he can, He's gonna

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win. He could win the MVP
as a hitter. He can win the

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Cy Young as a pitcher every single
year. That's how good, that's how

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freakish this guy is, and every
single team in the league would want him.

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That being Shoheo Tani. I will
say, I keep seeing it on

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Twitter, I hear it places,
and people keep going, oh, when

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the Astros go get Shohio Tani.
They why don't they go off or something

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for Shohio Tani. Why can't they? You know, they should go get

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Shohio Tani. I know that we
have a lot of time and space to

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fill, and we'd love to do
hypotheticals and dream scenarios and whatnot, But

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it is a complete waste of energy
saying the name Shoheio Tani to the Astros.

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First of all, they don't have
any of the prospects that it would

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take to get him. Even if
he is a rental, he is going

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to cost more than any rental in
the history of the sport. Think about

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when the Astros traded for Randy Johnson
back in the day for a couple of

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months of Randy Johnson, who was
elite as a pitcher when he came over.

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They gave up a ton to get
him back there. Now, I

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know it was the nineties, but
you just go look at rental cost throughout

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the years, and when you get
these guys at this level, and there's

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been nobody before that's available at this
level, the Angels are going to get

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somebody's top prospect and I would be
shocked if they don't one The Astros like

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Drew Gilbert. They don't want to
trade him. I get that. I

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know that he struggled since he's been
a double A, but there is still

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a high belief in the player that
he is going to be their future center

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fielder. And I get it,
and I'm fine with it. But they

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don't even have the ability to go
to the table and offer the Angels what

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they'd want. I just I'm a
person that prefers to live in reality with

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a lot of situations. It would
be awesome, of course, if the

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Astros could have the ability to go
get a player of his quality that can

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do two things that would really honestly
be perfect for them because they need a

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left handed bat and they need a
picture he would fit two things in one

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play. If this was the Astros
back in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen,

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where they had the prospect capital and
they had Jeff Luno pulling the trigger,

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they'd be in the mix. They
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don't know necessarily how Dana Brown is
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I get the sense based off the
way that he talks is that he's going

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to value the hell out of his
farm system and developing of players, which

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they should. I saw a graphic
I think yesterday on Twitter that's in the

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last ten years of all the players
that teams have drafted, the percentage of

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them that have made it to the
major leagues. The Astros, of course

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lead Baseball in that percentage. Twenty
three percent of their draft picks since in

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the last ten years have reached the
major league level, the best number of

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any franchise in baseball. And that's
why they've been this damn good. They've

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developed better than anybody else. They
drafted with Luno's crew for a long period

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of time, better than anybody else. And now it's onto the Dana Brown

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era and his people to figure it
out and to get this farm system back

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where it needs to be. So
I just don't see a scenario where they

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are playing themselves to the level of
going crazy again. I understand wanting to

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have this pie in the sky thought
process that you're going to go out and

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get this amazing, freakish talent and
you want that for your team. It

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also goes to how the team has
performed this year and what the team looks

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like. If you got him,
does that make you a World Series contender?

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I mean it helps the baseball team
is gonna be in the postseason,

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of course, yes, but it
still doesn't fix the issues of everybody else

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pitching behind him, and he's not
pitched all that well Right now, the

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conversation should have ended at the Astros
don't have what it takes. It's never

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going to happen. We have to
not do this. I don't know why,

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again people even flirt with the idea
of it. I would imagine if

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he's getting dealt between now and the
first of August, he's going to land

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with a team that he's going to
try to keep him in the off season,

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and if that team doesn't, that's
on them. He's going to be

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a Dodger next year. I we
just had to live in that reality.

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It is what it is, not
in an American league anymore than it bug

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the Astros all that much. That's
fine with me. But we'll get into

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the realistic names for the Astros,
because I'm sorry about that. For some

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reason had an alarm on for ten
thirty this morning or twenty seven. I

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don't know why. But the realistic
possibilities for the Astros, we'll get in

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some of those. We'll also take
your phone calls against seven one, three,

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two and two five seven. I
do want to grab one real quick

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before with the brake. Let's get
to John. Hey, John, Hey

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see man, I hope you get
that drain nage out of you. Man.

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That sucks. What's going on?
I feel fine, I feel fine,

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but like I just you know,
like some days you just wake up

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you feel like you've just gotten crap
in your throat. Just one of those

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days. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I'm one hundred percent behind

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you, man. That's that's that, going in from AC to AC,

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from this acetown heat into juditional buildings
and back out again and back into your

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car with AC and messing you up. But real quick. I'll run through

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these questions pretty quickly. And I've
been seeing it, I guess a couple

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more times this year than not since
when uh dude, catchers need to throw

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the first base to complete strikeout,
I seem like I don't remember that being

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a thing, like only only when
it's only when it is only when it

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is dropped, if it's a drop
ball that hits the ground and the runner

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to Oh, okay, that's okay. That's my first question. Second question,

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are we sour on daily all?
Like? I feel like his name

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was brought up a lot. Uh
In was side with Jeremy Pinion when they

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were both like hide and triple A
and both might get caught up. Now

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I feel like they've soured on him
and we keep bringing up people like Hensley

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and Bliss Madrids or whatever that guy's
name is. Like, it's just really

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weird where he's falling in the pecking
order. Can you give me some insight

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as to you know, where they
are with him, because I feel like

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he's like the number eight guy,
but they just don't want to bring him

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up. And then my last two
aren't I haven't heard for us Whittley in

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a long time. Is he on
the eyel or something, because I feel,

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yeah, he's heard again. Should
he heard his shoulder about a month

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ago? They're thinking he'll be back
by like September. Okay, okay.

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And then my last one is is
uh Brantley? Have we heard any any

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updates on him since all of the
talk of of two BA and our big

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guy coming back up the break?
Where is he and his progress? But

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I'd really like to hear your answer
on that on that daily on thing too,

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And yeah, thank you, Hey, I appreciate, and I appreciate.

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I feel great. I don't I
just have one of those again,

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one those days where I'm gonna have
to clear my throat and I'm sorry when

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I have to do it with a
microphone on because I don't have the button

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to hit it off. But first
off, Michael Brantley. The latest on

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him, as Dusty Baker said yesterday, is that m Brantley is hitting off

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of a t and this is the
second time we've heard this. Now he's

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weeks away from playing a rehab assignment. If he's playing again, I personally

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I'm done hearing updates on Michael Brantley. I'm not gonna believe that he's gonna

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play major League baseball again until I
see him play major League baseball. And

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I'm gonna put my hand up and
I'm gonna bet right now for me that

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he doesn't play again. That's just
me. I hope I'm wrong. I

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really do. The Astros could use
getting a left handed bat into this lineup

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to give them a little bit more
balance that they've missed, and you know,

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and get a better performer maybe in
there occasionally for them with some of

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the roster spots you mentioned. You're
talking about pedro Leone there, of course,

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the prospect they signed out a Cuba
a few years ago. He's now

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twenty five years old. He is
in his second full year now with the

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Sugarland Space Cowboys. And look,
unfortunately, and this is the world of

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prospects and signing these guys. He
got good money. I think it's like

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four million dollars in the Astros signed
him. Highly touted, big time tools

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guy, speed, pop, good
arm, plays all over the place in

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the outfield, can play in the
infield as well. Not a big guy.

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I think he's like five eight,
five nine in that range, but

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has all the tools. Dusty Baker
raved about him ahead of or during spring

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training last year. This year he
didn't get to get into camp and play

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because he was hurt. But last
season he was not good overall. I

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know that you go look at like
the ops number seven ninety six for during

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his time with Sugarland last year,
but he only hit two twenty eight hit

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seventeen home runs, did get on
base at a good clip, walks seventy

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one times last year. This year
not getting on base nearly as much,

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sly hitting two forty five, twelve
home runs, forty three runs, bat

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at in seven seventy three ops with
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They bring him up because he could
play first base. I'm gonna be completely

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honest with you. They're wasting their
time with him being on this roster.

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That guy stinks. There's a reason
why he's not been in the big leagues,

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and you saw it in last night, like wasting at bats on him

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and then putting him high in the
batting order. I know that you wanted

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a lefty and needed a lefty.
I would have rather seen them bring back

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jj Metjevic to the big league roster
than put blind Madriss up there. I

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don't think that his stay is going
to be very long with this Astro's ball

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club. But I mean, look, unfortunately for page on lyone well,

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and you know, he could be
a possible name that's thrown into a trade,

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but just because you know your teams
are gonna want bodies and whatnot,

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I don't think that he has a
lot of value anymore as a prospect at

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twenty five years old, and he's
been in the minor leagues now for two

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fulls is is two full seasons plus
part of another where he did get to

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Sugarland in twenty twenty one for seventeen
games. But look at it, he's

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played two hundred and sixty two games
at the minor league level and he's a

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two thirty one hitter. I mean, it's just not very good. It's

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just the reality of it. He's
not performed. I don't know if you're

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ever going to see him get that
I mean, i'd like to see him

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get that chance. I mean,
is could he do what great kessengers doing,

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sit on the bench and play occasionally
and probably give you a better at

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bat. I don't know. I
just I don't know if we're gonna ever

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see him get here, and more
than anything, it's because he's not performed

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at the APLA level to get himself
a chance, give himself a chance at

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the big league level. Seven one
three two one two five seven nineties our

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fun number to join us here on
Space City a Saturday. You want to

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get in here and discuss your Houston
Astros. Will continue some of that discussion

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next because I do have a name
in mind for me that I would love

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to see the Astros make a run
at. We'll see if they have the

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ability to do that and if they're
willing to go down this road, I'll

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give that to you next here on
Space City Saturday. Space City Saturday continues

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Sports Talk seven nineties. Scott that
willis you captain Cities Saturday. Right here

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on Sports Talk seven counterback here with
you. You can join us at seven

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one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety we're talking about your Stros. You are back in action again to

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night here on seven ninety you will
hear the on Deck show starting at seven

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o'clock with Ross via Reality ten Thinning
Show afterwards as well, and of course

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the first pitch eight o seven A
night from Bervaldez against read Debt versus.

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The Astros look to secure the series
victory tonight, and they need Fromber of

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course, to go out there and
be Fromber to do it. After a

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night where they had to use a
lot of bullpen last night. Even if

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they have the day off on Monday, you'd still like to not overuse your

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bullpen in this first weekend. But
we've been talking about the trade deadline there.

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Got it out of my system because
I'm just it's not a realistic possibility

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show that Tony's not going to be
an Astro. I just I think that

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it's a waste of time to do
it, and it's time to look at

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realistic names for the Astros across across
everything else. But the Astros last night

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get the victory. They've got seventeen
days to go out and find whatever it

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is that they're looking for in the
trade market. It's going to be it's

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going to be interesting to see how
far they can go. And I bring

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this up because I am sitting here
trying to I think, like everybody else,

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looks through realistic names that are going
to be available for the Astros and

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you have to you almost do this
on a daily basis. Now at this

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point, determine who is going to
buy and who is who going to sell,

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and we can just run through them
real quick. In the AL East,

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you know the teams that are going
to buy our Tampa, Baltimore,

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Toronto, New York, and Boston
very well, both could sell or could

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could buy, I should say,
but they're both eight and a half games

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out of the division, but they're
both only two games out of a wild

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card last place. They're tied right
now, both at forty nine and forty

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three. That division is absolutely stacked, so there's no sellers in that division.

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Maybe maybe Boston sell something. I
don't know. The AL Central Minnesota's

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not selling necessarily, you wouldn't think
unless somebody blows them away in an offer

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for maybe Sonny Gray that way and
recoup something before losing him. I guess

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Cleveland has sounded like they're going to
sell things off. One of the guys

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that's been mentioned a lot in the
trade market from their team has been Shane

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Bieber, whose you know, numbers
hadn't been as good this year in terms

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of velocity and strikeouts and everything,
but he, by the way, is

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having an MRI on his forearm,
so you hear forearm with a picture that

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always makes you think elbow. He
might not be a player that is going

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to be available here at the trade
deadline anymore. For the Cleveland Guardians,

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who by the way, again screwed
up last night and lost to the Rangers,

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that they're leading them for nothing.
So again in that division, two

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teams for sure that are probably gonna
be in buymode you think, and not

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in huge bimode Minnesota and Cleveland.
How far do you want to go with

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those teams. They're not winning the
World Series either one either one of them.

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The teams that are selling in that
al Central or Detroit, the Chicago

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White Sox and the Kansas City Royals
Al West Astro's Rangers for sure buying.

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I'd imagine that Seattle's gonna buy as
well. Even if they sit at forty

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five and forty five and they're completely
underwhelming, Angels are going to end up

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selling. They're now two games under. Then the Oakland A's of course are

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selling, but they have nothing to
sell. In the NL East Braves buyers

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big buyers if they need it,
which they really don't need it. The

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Marlins should be buyers. But to
a Marlin's level, of course, Philadelphia

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probably buys. They're only a game
and a half out of the wild Card.

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The Mets are heading towards selling.
There's no reason for them to hold

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on. They're not very good.
I'll tell you about something that happened with

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them in the next segment there.
Yeah, in the next segment of the

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show here for the top of the
hour. The Nationals will sell as well

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in the Central Cincinnati. Milwaukee probably
holds and buys because they're tied for the

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division lead with Cincinnati. The Cubs
in all likelihoods selling because they're seven out

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of the division, seven and a
half games back of the wild Card.

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Pittsburgh's now going to pivot after being
a team that's surprised early. They're going

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to sell the older players. They're
not going to sell any of their young

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core. They're trying to win next
year. Saint Louis has a lot of

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guys and they're open for business.
The question is do they trade their big

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big boys, that being Goldschmidt or
Aeronauta. Then the NL West you have

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Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Giants, all
for sure buyers, and then the Padres

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and the Rockies Padres, it'd probably
be smart to sell. And I'll get

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more into that here in a second, than the Rockies for sure sellers,

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but they don't have a lot that
are going through it. So I mean,

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just to me right now, as
I look at the teams that I

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that I, in my view say
are going to sell, its Colorado San

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Diegos, they give you two Saint
Louis for three, Pittsburgh for four,

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the Mets and the Nationals for five
and six, Oakland and the Angels for

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six, seven and eight, Kansas
City, Chicago, Detroit. So that

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puts you at eleven and that's it. Eleven of the thirty teams in the

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league for sure sellers. That is
a very limited pool of teams that are

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going to sell. And then when
you just go again look at the teams,

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Detroit doesn't have a lot that you'd
want necessarily. The White Sox have

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guys that everybody's gonna be gunning for. Kansas City virtually has nothing that anybody's

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gonna be interested in. Same can
be said for Oakland. The Angels have

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some middle tier role player type of
pieces outside of Otani that people will be

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interested in. The Mets have big
names, but not big time performers that

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they'll move. The Nationals really don't
have a lot. That's all that intriguing

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Pittsburgh. Everything that they're going to
sell, as I mentioned, are older

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players that I don't think make a
huge difference for a team like the Astros.

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The Cardinals have names, but they
don't have names necessarily in a spot

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that the Astros might be targeting outside
of one. And then you go to

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the NL West again, San Diego
is extremely intriguing. If they do decide

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to sell, which I think they're
going to do, why wouldn't you?

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And then Colorado doesn't necessarily have anything
that makes you go, oh my god,

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I gotta go make a trade with
Colorado. So to those names,

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and really I'm looking at San Diego
and Saint Louis, two names off those

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teams that I think the Astros should
go chase. And I'll give those to

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you and we'll continue the discussion with
you at seven one three, two,

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one two five seven ninety next here
on Space City Saturday. It's Space City

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Saturday on Sports Talk seven ninety here. You can't take a slow ride now

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for the Astros Space City Saturday.
As they near the trade deadline. It's

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amazing, like we've been sitting here
talking about this for a while. Michael

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connorback here with you, by the
way, on Space City Saturday, you

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can get in here seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one

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three two on two five seven oney. But it feels like we have been

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talking about trade deadline, this trade
deadline, that it's been a slow market.

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Of course, it typically is teams
wait until the deadline to really address

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their needs. Teams aren't going to
sell early on unless you blow them away

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with an offer. We've already seen
the Rangers do that with the Kansas City

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00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.239
Royals to pick up a Raldus Chapman
to add to their bullpen, which was

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a good get for the Rangers for
a guy's rebounded this year's pitched really well.

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I don't last time I checked,
I don't think he's given up any

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runs since he's joined the Rangers,
unfortunately, and you're hoping that he hangs

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some sliders at some point, especially
when the Astros face him. But so

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far as a Ranger for innings,
no runs, just one hit, five

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strikeouts, no walks, So he's
been good so far for Texas. They're

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probably liking that trade to this point
of the season when they've gotten him.

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But the Astros, like so many
teams, going to be looking for help,

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and specifically in the starting rotation.
And I went through the teams that

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you think are gonna sell, what
teams are gonna buy, You go and

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you look at the teams that will
definitely need and we'll be in the market

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for starting pitching. It's basically everybody. You look again, the NL West

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will start their Dodgers and Diamondbacks or
two teams that you think will do that.

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Cincinnati will definitely be in for starting
pitching. Miami will be a team

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00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:01.000
it's in for starting pitching, Philadelia
probably as well. The Rangers will be

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for sure. You think the Minnesota
Twins would be Tampa, I don't know

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about them, but everybody else in
the division could be gunning for starting pitching.

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So with the market not having a
ton of names that are going to

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be available to you, their question
is who is really gettable. The White

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Sox have one guy that's for sure
going to be moved in Lucas Giolito.

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There's been a lot of stuff about
Dylan Cease. We'll see if they move

541
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off of him, but he does
have two and a half years of control

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left. It's probably not likely in
my mind that they trade him in the

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middle of the season. They probably
trade him in the offseason, but you

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know, look, maybe they will
that you blow them away. You could.

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They do have other names in their
rotation, whether it's Lancelin, you

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know, he's a possibility for teams. Mike Clevenger's there. I don't think

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he'd be a possibility here. But
that's a team that has multiple starters that

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will probably be moved in that rotation, and a team that everybody's gonna be

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calling. The teams that I brought
up ahead of the break, the Chicago

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or the San Diego Padres and the
Saint Louis Cardinals have names that again,

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people are going to be gunning for. I like one name more than I

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like the other. Here they're both
left handed pitchers. But the Padres stink.

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I think we can all agree on
that. For a team that has

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spent as much money as they have, they have been one of the biggest

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disappointments in the sport. Those two
teams, them and the Mets, who

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have spent as much money as they
have. Now, of course, the

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Padres did go to the NLCS last
year. We see this so often with

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teams that do so well the year
before they come back and they're just flat

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the next year. The Astros,
to an extent, had been flat this

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year, but not to this level. They're never going to play to that

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level. But you just go up
and down that Padres team for a roster

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in a lineup that has Xander Bogarts. They just paid the money, a

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bunch of money to Manny Machado who
they just extended for a ton of money,

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wants Odo who they just traded four
last year, Fernando Tatis Junior.

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They should be awesome, and they're
below five hundred and they've been that way

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throughout the majority of the season.
They don't. It's not like they have

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a bad rotation either. I mean
they have a very capable rotation for mu

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Darvish, who's not having a gray
year, to Joe Musgrove, the former

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astro has been very good since he's
been there. And then the other name

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that I'm gonna mention here that I
like, if you're going to go out

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there and push is Blake Snell,
former Cy Young winner, having a great

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season overall for the San Diego Padres, but the record is only six and

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seven because the team's not very good. But he has a two eighty five

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r and eighteen starts this year,
one hundred thirty two strikeouts and ninety eight

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innings. And he's a true rental. He is a get him for two

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months and this guy's gone. Somebody's
gonna pay him a ton of money this

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offseason. Maybe the Seattle Mariners.
He is a Washington I think he's a

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Seattle native. I wouldn't be shocked
if the Mariners are in on him,

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come this winner when the time is
right, to go out there and do

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that. But the that's the name
of all the names that I think are

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gonna be talked about. And look, there's no guarantee that the pod or

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yeah, that the Padres go out
there and decide, hey, they're gonna

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trade everything. I mean, look, they could very well say we're gonna

584
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go in on this thing. We've
spent all this money, we don't want

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to go and trade something else,
and he's not available. But I think

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given that he is a rental that's
a free agent after this season. He's

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making just ten million dollars this year, so it's not like he'd be picking

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up a player that's making or I
shouldn't say that he's making sixteen points,

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00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:52.039
six and caps this year the way
that they was structured. But again,

590
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:54.599
most of that's already done. You're
not gonna have to pay him a ton.

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00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.519
His deal was five years, fifty
million when he signed it with the

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Tampa Bay Rays. He's done well
against the Astros in the past. He's

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00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:05.639
been really, really good for a
very long time. As I mentioned,

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he won the cy Young back in
twenty eighteen beat Justin Verlander. Out this

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00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:14.679
year has not received cy Young votes
since first or that year after that was

596
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.800
not great for him. But since
then, outside of his first year in

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San Diego last year, he's pretty
solid when he did pitch. That's always

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been his limitation is he's never been
a guy that stays consistent, consistently healthy.

599
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.480
We all know how that goes with
Lance mcclors. But he's been healthy

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this season. He's pitched well.
One concerning number is that he leads to

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the majors and walks this year forty
nine of them so far. But again,

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all the strikeouts in the ninety eight
innings. If I'm the Astros,

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and I feel that I am going
to go and give up some of my

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00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:51.519
top prospects. I think that that's
the name that I would go and target

605
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first. The other one is Jordan
Montgomery, who's gonna have a lot of

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suitors from the Saint Louis Cardinals.
He's pitched very well this year six and

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seven three twenty three R but he's
just a ninety six strikeout guy in one

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hundred three inning, so he's not
the strikeout guy that Blake Snell is.

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Either one of them would be great
additions to this ball club. Can give

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you innings, can really eat it
up and keep teams down. But I'm

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just gonna keep putting that one out
there for me. In a perfect world

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scenario, and I don't know that
they would necessarily have enough. I think

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that they would because the player is
a true rental and he's not the top

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of the market necessarily for everybody else. But if Blake Snell is available,

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that is the player that I would
be hopeful if I were all of you,

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that the Astros can go out there
and try and pick up. I

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think he'd make a big difference.
Slotting him behind from Bervaldez of course,

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all this kind of hinges on Christian
Javier getting it together in this second half

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of the season, But you pick
up an arm and allow you to go

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to the six man more getting guys
more rest than you're already giving them.

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But if you could get to a
post season series where you had from ber

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Valdez, Blake Snell, Christian Javier
won two three, and then Jose Rakeaty

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probably your fourth, you're gonna go
into a postseason series again where you're gonna

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feel like you can win the first
three games of each of those series with

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those guys out there on the mount. If again, Javier is pitching like

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Christian Javier and not this just jankety
version that he's been for the last however

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many weeks it's been. Is it
likely they can get Blake Snow No,

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of course not. It's like the
Otani thing. It's gonna be difficult given

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their prospect amount of prospects that they
do have. But in my belief is

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that if you internally, as the
Astros, Dana Brown and that crew and

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Jim Crane, they say, hey, we know it's not been the perfect

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season. The offense has been insanely
inconsistent, but we still think that this

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team is good enough to go and
win it again for a second straight year

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and a third time in the last
seven or whatever. We can go a

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little bit further in this trade to
get this player than we expected to.

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I think Blake Snell is a guy
that is worthy of it. And then

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you add on top of it,
he has pitched in the postseason, he

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has pitched in the World Series,
and he's done pretty well when he's pitched.

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I know that his numbers last year
in the postseason weren't unbelievable overall.

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But before that that you mean we
saw We all witnessed it, that twenty

641
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twenty run. He pitched against the
Astros in the ALCS. He pitched really

642
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well in the World Series against the
Dodgers, got twelve games in the postseason,

643
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ten career starts, three thirty three
r shoot for the moon. I

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guess that's my strategy here. I
don't really see a reason why the Astros

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shouldn't at this point. Seven one
three, two, one two five seven

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ninety is the number to join us
here on the Space City Saturday, one

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hour to go. We'll kick off
our number two of the show with one

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of the funniest things you're going to
hear uh this weekend, and it comes

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from the City of Los Angeles.
That is next Charan, Sports Talk seven

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ninety to the State City Home pay
City, Grated, Grated, Grated,

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Welcome to another Space City. Saturday
on Sports Talk seven ninety Michael Cutter's live

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in local h Town breakdown on the
world that matters to you, Houston four

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World, All these great Houston fans
here, We love you all, So

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finish up on that to do list. Luda for cooler, because you can't

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drink and talk sports all day if
you don't start now. This is Space

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City Saturday, and here are seven
nineties as drows insider Michael Kunner. Second

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and final hour of Space City Saturday
here on Sports Talk seven ninety on Michael

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Connor here with you. You can
join me at seven one three, two

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one two five, seven ninety.
We're talking You're Houston Astros. We're gonna

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get into some NFL stuff here before
the end of this hour, trade deadline

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continuing to creep closer. I have
a very very funny story out of the

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City of Los Angeles, and it
is Astro's related that I'm gonna give to

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you here in a second, But
the Astros back in action tonight. They

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are in the Los Angeles area over
in Anaheim. They will play the Angels

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tonight in game two of the three
game series, which you're here here on

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seven ninety with an eight o seven
first pitch on deck. Show starts at

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seven o'clock rossoby real. HAIs you
for that. I'll be back on the

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covers tomorrow, say look to wrap
up the series, hopefully with a sweet

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tomorrow night, six o'clock first bare, six ten first pitch Tomorrow night for

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Sunday Night Baseball Astros and Angels.
Sorry to the rest of the country that's

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getting subjected to having to watch the
Angels tomorrow, that just sounds terrible.

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Real quick, before I get to
this story from Los Angeles, I do

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want to get to those of you
that are on hold. We'll talk to

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dos Ecks next. What's up?
Dos Ekeys, Michael, Good morning works

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since I call on the show,
but taking m any of the Saturdays and

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00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:22.719
listen Dana Brown. I just have
you know this is my own take.

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My own guests got feeling. I
don't think Dana Brown is gonna trade for

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any hitters. I think that you
mentioned a couple of times. Is gonna

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go after pitching the two names that
you mentioned a few minutes ago, the

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excellent either one would be great addition
to the staff. But let me tell

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let me throw you a couple of
names that do play for the Angels that

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are up fillers, and see if
it makes sense. None, none of

683
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those two guys are lefty hitters.
But one of them can play a real

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good right field. He's got one
of the strongest arms in the league.

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And you saw him last night Hunter
Remfro, Hunter Remfro complete the corner.

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Maybe Tucker can move to the center. And and the other one is the

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one that win yard last night,
Taylor Award. I don't know if you

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00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:12.559
have a lot of history on him. Can he also play the infant Taylor

689
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Award? And I don't know what
kind of context they have. And just

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throwing a couple of those names and
would let you take And also if you

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00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:27.280
had any other auditions from pitching that
you can throw and maybe relievers have any

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00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:31.800
idea on those, I'm Michael,
yeah, they could. You know,

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they could be in the mix for
one of those. You know, those

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two guys that you mentioned, I
know that it would be nice to get

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a bat. I just don't know
necessarily that they're going to be looking for

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right handed hitters Renfroze. I mean, first off, he had a total

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00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:49.199
blunder last night in the game on
that sacrifice bun. He's a swinging miss

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00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:52.960
home run hitter, but has the
pop. I just don't think that the

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00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.760
Astros are ever gonna push Kyle Tucker
to play in center field, so like

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that realistically probably isn't much of an
option to me. Taylor Wards, the

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guy that's played the outfield. I
know that in the past placed third base

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as well. You know, they're
okay players. You know it'd be nice

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00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:12.639
to have big league depth in certain
spots. They've been missing a little bit

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00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.400
of that. And you know they
probably wouldn't cost you much either of those

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players. So maybe there are a
possibility for the Astros to get into the

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deadline. I just don't see them
being necessarily likely. But the Angels will

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probably move on from from those guys
for sure before the trade deadline gets here,

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00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:35.599
because there's really no reason for them
to hold on to them based on

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the way that this team is playing
overall, and you expect them to continue

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to play moving forward when they start
to get rid of pieces. So we'll

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see in terms of relievers, we'll
get to some of those names in just

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a bit. But I do think
I don't think that they're gonna trade a

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lot. I don't think that they're
necessarily going to add a bat. I

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know that that was something that they
talked about a lot real quick. By

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00:50:54.079 --> 00:50:58.719
the way, news little news nugget
on the Astros from Shannon the Rome,

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who covers the Astros for The Athletic. The Astros this morning have signed their

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00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:07.079
first round pick from this year's draft, Bryce Matthews has agreed to a deal

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with the Astros, so he will
be heading out to the Gulf Coast League.

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The Astros, by the way,
have signed ten others from their draft

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class that they have announced they take
twenty players in that draft, but the

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Astros have just sent that out.
They signed first round pick Bryce Matthews,

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and eleven total draft picks have now
been signed by the ball club. That

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includes Bryce Matthews, as I mentioned
there, in the first round, third

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round pick, Jake Bloss, sixth
round pick Evan Ethan Peco, seventh round

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pick Joey Dixon, eighth round pick
Ryan Johnson, ninth round pick, Jaron

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00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:52.599
Williams, tenth round pick, Austin
Demming, Naiomar o'choa he signs in the

727
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:59.679
eleventh round, thirteenth round pick,
James Hicks fourteenth round Jackson at Nizou Kolby

728
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:05.159
Lane for the seventeenth round pick,
and then the non drafted two non drafted

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free agents signed as well. So
the Astros again have made some signings,

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including their first round pick twenty eighth
overall, that being Bryce Matthews who has

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00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:19.800
signed with the Houston Astros. That
is a done deal. He can get

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into the farm system and get going
on his big league career. You always

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00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:27.599
love to hear those deals getting done
quickly so these guys can go play in

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00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:34.639
baseball before this season does come to
an end. But the trade deadline continuing

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00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:39.440
to creep closer. Will continue to
get into all that with what is going

736
00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:45.119
on with this ball club here over
the next few weeks as they look to

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00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:50.840
again bolster a team that's playing better
baseball. And at the end of the

738
00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:57.840
deadline was you know, not very
good or the end of the first half

739
00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:02.000
was not very good of course,
because of the way that they the way

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that they played overall in s Seattle
series. But you're hopeful that they'll they'll

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00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:12.800
get that back together, and they
started that last night with a win.

742
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:17.400
I did want to bring to you
now something that I find hilarious. Now,

743
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:22.800
look, two seventeen is something that
is always going to be a special

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00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:28.039
place in my heart. I know
a special place in most of you listening's

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00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:31.079
heart. It was an incredible,
incredible season for an astro team that was

746
00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:36.599
insanely talented, went out there and
took care of their business on a nightly

747
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:39.079
basis, kicked people's asses, and
they were just a very, very fun

748
00:53:39.239 --> 00:53:44.920
team to watch. The postseason run
put us through the ringer. Whether it

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00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.559
was the Boston Series, even if
it ended a game early, still had

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00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:52.840
plenty of stress to it. The
Yankee Series was a total nightmare to get

751
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:58.400
through, and then the series against
the Dodgers was the same way as they've

752
00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:02.239
defeated them in seven games to win
the World Series. But the Dodgers recently,

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00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:08.039
I have made an addition to their
major league roster now. Jake Murisnick

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00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:13.000
started the year with the Chicago White
Sox, was let go. Was recently

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00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:17.480
with the Detroit Tigers. Was let
go the Dodgers signed him to a major

756
00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.920
league contract. He is the first
player that played for the twenty seventeen Astros

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00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:29.400
that has ended up with the Los
Angeles Dodgers. There's a story in the

758
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:37.840
Los Angeles Times today that is quite
hilarious and it is Jake Mrisnick involved.

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00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:44.519
And the headline here is why Dodgers
are embracing Jake Morisnick despite his involvement in

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00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:47.679
Astros scandal. It's gonna run through
some of the paragraphs of this year for

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00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:52.000
you and then I'm going to comment
on him. There are some members of

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00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:53.639
the two and this is, by
the way, is written by Jack Harris,

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00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:58.280
who is a staff writer for the
Los Angeles Times. There are some

764
00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:01.920
members of the twenty seventeen Houston Astros
who would vehemently be unwanted by the Dodgers

765
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:06.960
clubhouse. Jake Murrisnick is apparently not
one of them. A thirty two year

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00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:12.559
old journeyman outfielder who had his best
season while playing for the astros infamous science

767
00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:16.199
stealing team, Murisnick was welcomed into
the Dodgers clubhouse with open arms Friday after

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00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:20.960
signing with a team this week.
His backstory was well known as one of

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00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:25.159
the mainstays from that Houston squad still
in the majors the Dodgers. The Dodgers

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00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:30.639
feelings about that scandal, about the
scandal, which culminated in the Astro's defeat

771
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:34.719
of the team in the twenty seventeen
World Series, remained largely unchanged, even

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00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:38.360
if their anger is faded with time. Yet, Murisneck's arrival was endorsed by

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00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:43.480
Austin Barnes, Murisnek's high school teammate, Chris Taylor, who briefly played travel

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00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:47.039
ball with him growing up, and
even Clayton k Kershaw, who has vacation

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00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:52.000
with him in the off season.
I do, like Jake Kershaw said,

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I think he's had to deal with
it for a long time. I think

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00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:59.239
he has some remorse for it as
well, which is probably all you can

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00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:02.440
ask for at this point. He's
a good guy. He'll help our clubhouse

779
00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:07.079
for sure, As the veteran pitcher
noted, at least it's not one of

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00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:14.199
those other guys. Indeed, other
members of the Astros team would have found

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00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:19.880
a different reception with the Dodgers,
whose three remaining members of the twenty seventeen

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00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:25.559
World Series are Kershaw, Barnes,
and Taylor. Last offseason, the team

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00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:31.320
didn't seriously pursue shortstop Carlos Corea,
in part because of the concerns about how

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00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:37.440
he received by the clubhouse and fan
base. Mursnick, however, is seen

785
00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:40.159
differently. He was more of a
part time player on that Astro's team,

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00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:45.280
a bottom of the order bat who, despite setting career highs and home runs

787
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:50.719
and on base ops, was valued
more for his defense in center field.

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00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:54.599
He really was. He wasn't really
leading the ship over there, Barnes said.

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Murrisnick didn't play in the World Series
against the Dodgers in that World Series

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either, missing, of course,
the entire postseason with a hand injury.

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00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:06.159
I don't get as mad at him
because he wasn't in the lineup, said

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00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:09.719
Kershaw, whose six runs start in
Game five has long been speculated as being

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00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:15.719
impact by the astros trash can banging
system. Selfishly, he didn't really affect

794
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:21.079
me. Marisnick's reputation extends beyond his
time in Houston as well, and it

795
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:23.320
goes into his high school career and
blah blah blah blah blah. There's a

796
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:29.719
bunch of junk in the rest of
it. Because once again, the Astros

797
00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:36.320
sign stealing thing is something that these
idiots out in Los Angeles cannot stop talking

798
00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:39.119
about. Now. Look, I
know that it's the first player that again

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has signed with the Dodgers and maybe
the only player ever that played on the

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00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:47.480
twenty seventeen Astros that signed with the
Los Angeles Dodgers. But there is so

801
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:54.599
much of this article that is absolutely
hilarious. They are all such fake,

802
00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:59.280
tough guys when it comes to we're
gonna be mad if we get another one

803
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:00.880
of these guys in the clubhouse and
it's gonna be a problem. No,

804
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:06.360
you're not. Shut the hell up, you bums. It is sad this

805
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:12.000
existence that these people out in California
live in. A first off. From

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00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:15.280
the writer's perspective, all of this
is insanely lazy. It's click bait crap,

807
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:22.960
which, look, you won I
clicked it. But this whole oh

808
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.960
Kershall's five runouting in game five?
How many times do you have to go

809
00:58:28.119 --> 00:58:31.440
over it? It was investigated.
You can go back and listen and watch

810
00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:37.320
the broadcasts on television like you did
in the regular season. There wasn't trash

811
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:40.039
can banging that you can hear on
the broadcast in the world series. They

812
00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:45.719
weren't using it. It didn't work, and even if they were, they

813
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:52.440
were better than you. They beat
you. Get over it. Your organization,

814
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:54.760
for as great as it's been,
has been a giant flop because all

815
00:58:54.800 --> 00:59:00.199
you consistently do is choke in the
postseason and not win World Series. The

816
00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:04.360
Astros continue to go to more than
you and win more than you. You're

817
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:08.840
a sad organization, a sad fan
base, a sad writing core that you

818
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.840
have there in Los Angeles with these
idiots that keep writing this over and over

819
00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:23.119
and over again. Move on,
you got beat. You can sit here

820
00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:28.960
and play this fake. We would
be so outraged if somebody else came into

821
00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:32.239
this clubhouse, if Carlo's corea had
walked into that Dodgers clubhouse, it all

822
00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:35.239
would have been fake, fake,
fake, fake, fake, and they

823
00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:38.159
would have greeted him with opening arms. But to be sitting here still all

824
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:43.559
these years later and talking about it
and blaming it and acting like it was

825
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:46.679
a thing that decided the World Series
is so idiotic. I mean, just

826
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:52.159
go look at these games. Go
look at this. The Astro didn't even

827
00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:57.079
get to the World Series based off
of their damn hitting that year. Go

828
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:00.480
look at their ALCS. They couldn't
hit the baseball. They hit below two

829
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:05.400
hundred as a team in the ALCS
just to get to that series where they

830
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:09.599
beat the Dodgers in seven, George
Springer went torched earth. The Astros also

831
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:15.960
won two games in that series in
Dodger Stadium on the road, where they

832
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:20.599
couldn't use the trash can system that
they'd been using during the regular season,

833
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:24.800
but they hit two thirty in that
series. The Astros won that series because

834
01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:29.079
the Astro's pitching more than anything else. And now look, there were crazy

835
01:00:29.119 --> 01:00:32.960
offensive games, of course, but
the Astros pitching held the Dodgers to a

836
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.840
two oh five batting average. They
won games by a final of seven,

837
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:43.360
six, five, three, thirteen
twelve was the wild one in five one.

838
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:49.760
All these silly, dumb excuses in
constant having to say something about it.

839
01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:54.519
It is a sad, sad existence
for those people. I cannot believe

840
01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:58.800
that we still have to sit here
and read these things and hear these things

841
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.679
all these years later. And let
me show you my shocked face. That's

842
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:06.400
somebody from the twenty seventeen asters,
even if it wasn't a main guy you

843
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:09.039
mentioned in the article as well,
if there was a guy that benefited from

844
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:15.039
the banging system, Jake Morrisdick was
one of them, more than anybody else.

845
01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:16.679
And I know it was the regular
season, but he hit sixteen home

846
01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:22.119
runs that year in a limited period
of time and was awesome, blatantly clear

847
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:25.159
that the system helped him, probably
about as much as anybody. He and

848
01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:30.400
Marmon Gonzalez massive benefactors of it.
But again, we live in this world

849
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:34.719
where facts or can be alternate alternative
facts. I just don't get it.

850
01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.920
They didn't use in the postseason.
It didn't work, they gave it up.

851
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:39.519
They said this ain't working, weren't
done. I'm just tired of the

852
01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:45.880
lazy man. That's it. I'm
tired of all the lazy talk, the

853
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:50.239
excuse making. He got beat own
it, live with it, expecting them

854
01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:52.559
to apologize for the rest of their
life. As silarly, then why aren't

855
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.559
you banging on the doors of the
steroid users for years and asking them to

856
01:01:55.639 --> 01:01:59.719
apologize for all the stuff they did
for years and years and years. You're

857
01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:04.199
not because you're outrageous fake. Everything
about it is fake. And all those

858
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:08.480
people out in Los Angeles and all
the Dodgers, you constantly sound dumb,

859
01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:14.840
especially when we know the sport was
littered in it. There's been enough that

860
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.360
has also linked the Dodgers to doing
things that were very similar. There's been

861
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.280
enough stories out there, There's been
enough rumblings from other players across the league

862
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:27.559
throughout the years that tell us you
were doing it too. Dumbs. That's

863
01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:30.880
what they are out there in California. Seven one three, two one two

864
01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:32.960
five seven nineties are number you want
to react to that you want to get

865
01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:37.559
back in on the Astro's discussion.
Plenty to get to between now and noon.

866
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:45.320
We're with you here on Space City
Saturday, Space City Saturday on scorn

867
01:02:45.360 --> 01:03:01.039
Stalk seven nineties. It is Space
City Saturday here on Sports Song seven.

868
01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:05.119
I need mic counter back here with
you. You can join me, said

869
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:08.159
one three sorry, he's two one
two five seven. I he had to

870
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.960
take a sip of my water.
I had to run out of here,

871
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.880
out of the room in the commercial
break, and one of my dogs decided

872
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:16.440
that they didn't want to go ahead
and go crazy and try to play with

873
01:03:16.519 --> 01:03:19.039
me. As I'm walking out of
the door. I don't know what it

874
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.079
is like. So when I'm doing
the show sometimes, I mean typically we're

875
01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:25.599
here. We're always here at the
house when we do the show because I'm

876
01:03:25.639 --> 01:03:30.760
gonna do Astros or something later.
But the dogs just they when they think

877
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:32.920
you're when you stopped talking for two
seconds, they think that you're you're done

878
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.159
with the show, and it's like, no, I'm not double with the

879
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:37.960
show. I still got Houston sports
to talk about. But you can join

880
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:39.280
us against said one, three,
two and two five seveniney. By the

881
01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:44.800
way, the Astros, if you
missed it again, they signed their first

882
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:49.079
round draft pick, Bryce Matthews,
the Taska Set, a kid who went

883
01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:53.119
to Nebraska shortstop. He was signed
today. The slot value was two point

884
01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:59.400
eight eight million. He signed below
slot at two point four seven million,

885
01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:01.920
but it's a great payday for him
to go ahead and get that. The

886
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:05.840
Astros also signing their third round pick. They signed a total of eleven guys

887
01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:11.360
today, which is nice. Bryce
Matthews will be able to get out to

888
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:14.159
Minimate Park soon and do the whole
what they do with their draft picks,

889
01:04:14.239 --> 01:04:17.239
take batting practice, that whole thing
here when the team gets back into town.

890
01:04:17.280 --> 01:04:19.760
Then he will head out like all
the other rookies, to the Rookie

891
01:04:19.840 --> 01:04:26.519
League the Gulf Coast League down there
in Florida to the Complex Leagues, basically

892
01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:30.440
get himself going and for a few
games and then probably head out to La

893
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:35.159
Fayetteville to join the Woodpeckers. I
guess yeah, the Woodpeckers in that one

894
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.639
in that league, and the Astros
hopefully will have another top prospect that people

895
01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:43.920
will be watching here for the next
few years before he is able to make

896
01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.480
his way to the big league level
and be an impact player. He's got

897
01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:48.719
a lot of things that you look
at and you say, oh, that's

898
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:53.199
a guy that that can absolutely play
with his team moving forward. I did

899
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:58.039
want to do something here in the
next segment when talk some NFL stuff and

900
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:01.400
it's nothing really too hot and terms
of what's going on because the training camps

901
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:03.719
will get kicked off here in a
couple of weeks. Texans will be back

902
01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:08.760
out there. We'll get plenty into
them as training camp gets rolling, of

903
01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:13.639
course across the station, but here
on this here on this show as well.

904
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:20.360
But the Astros last night with the
win over the Los Angeles Angels.

905
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:24.760
One of the guys that contributed to
it and has contributed of course to a

906
01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:29.159
lot of their victories this year,
and a World Series title last year and

907
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:32.679
has really developed into one of the
better players across Major League Baseball has been

908
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:38.360
Kyle Tucker. And I know that
this is something that you know, we've

909
01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:41.320
said a lot, and I've said
it a lot, and I'm just going

910
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:45.840
to continue to say it because i
think we continue to get a real example

911
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:48.480
of it on a nightly basis from
Kyle Tucker. He is, I mean,

912
01:05:48.599 --> 01:05:53.199
he's an exceptional player. He does
everything that you want out of a

913
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:57.400
player. He hits for power,
He's hitting for average this season once again

914
01:05:57.559 --> 01:06:00.519
for the second time in the last
three years. He looks like he's gonna

915
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:03.920
hit probably over two ninety this season. He's getting on base at a record

916
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:09.280
high clip this year. Three seventy
one is ops is back, getting closer

917
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:13.119
to the eight fifty number now as
his slugging number is ticked up with the

918
01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:15.920
power going back up. But he's
hit thirty home runs each the last two

919
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:18.360
seasons. Probably gonna be a little
tough to get there this year at thirteen,

920
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:21.559
so he'll probably end up in the
in the mid twenties, which is

921
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:26.039
completely acceptable. He's gonna be right
there at the top in terms of runs

922
01:06:26.159 --> 01:06:29.480
driven in for this team. But
as I mentioned, two straight years now

923
01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.800
as an All Star, he'll receive
MVP vote. You'd imagine again this season

924
01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:34.840
it'll be down there in the fifteen
to twenty range like he's been before.

925
01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:39.199
Probably not gonna win the Gold Glove
this year like he did last year.

926
01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:43.119
His defensive metrics were down early in
the season. I think a lot of

927
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:45.239
that gets back to the fact that
the player wasn't happy with how the off

928
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:49.400
season was handled in terms of his
arbitration process. Probably hearing the things I

929
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:54.400
think it bugged him clearly, and
you get around enough people you hear that

930
01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:59.000
too, is that it lingered a
little bit. He did not enjoy that

931
01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:01.800
necessarily. And I think that the
player truly did want to get a real

932
01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:06.280
offer from the Astros. That was
something that he would think about signing,

933
01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:10.639
and I just don't think he got
that. They did have discussions, but

934
01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:14.519
it never got anywhere to where they
could realistic could get anything done. And

935
01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:17.519
he, like everybody else, saw
the market last offseason, what was being

936
01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:20.960
thrown around, the kind of contracts, the years, the money, and

937
01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:26.079
probably wanted that and he should because
when Kyle Tucker gets to the market two

938
01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:30.199
more seasons with the Astros after this
one, before he becomes a free agent,

939
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:31.559
which you look for the Astros.
It's a great thing. I mean,

940
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:34.519
you couldn't ask for anything better to
have this guy for a couple more

941
01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:41.360
seasons after this one, and there's
really not the urgency necessarily that you would

942
01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:45.599
have at this moment, but you
know the more that I watched him every

943
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:48.159
single night and knowing the importance.
And again this is coming off of talking

944
01:07:48.199 --> 01:07:53.000
about the draft there where the Astros
take a lot of college guys and they

945
01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:55.920
take a lot of outfield bats,
and they take or they take a lot

946
01:07:55.960 --> 01:07:58.480
of infield beats, they take a
lot of depth that they're hoping to build

947
01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:00.760
up in this farm system is just
not I've been very good now for some

948
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:05.199
time. As we've talked about,
Drew Gilbert is the top rated prospect in

949
01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:08.880
this system, a guy that they
expect to be there everyday center fielder.

950
01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:11.920
And this is what the Astros have
done throughout the years, is when one

951
01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:15.599
guy leaves, they have another guy
come in and plays immediately, and it's

952
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:19.439
great almost immediately. You can't keep
doing that though, and expecting it to

953
01:08:19.560 --> 01:08:24.039
continue to work. It is a
very dangerous game. We're seeing the difference

954
01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:29.159
as we're into year two, and
I know that he won the ALCS MVP

955
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:31.439
last year. In the World Series
MVP, there's a stark difference between Carlos

956
01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:38.000
Correa and Jeremy Paenia. I mean, look, Carlos Karea is an elite

957
01:08:38.079 --> 01:08:41.439
hitter in this league when he's going
right. Jeremy Paenia is not that,

958
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:44.359
and he's not ever going to be. He's a guy that has good power

959
01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:47.399
and can get hot, and we
saw him get hot. But there's a

960
01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:50.079
lot to his game that I don't
think is going to change. He's gonna

961
01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:55.960
be a league average hitter in terms
of ops for the most part. He's

962
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:01.479
gonna do a lot of things you
know that you don't like at the plate,

963
01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:04.039
strike out too much, chase a
lot of breaking balls, and I

964
01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:06.439
just don't think that a lot of
that is going to change for me.

965
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:11.600
I'm hopeful that it does. He's
still young enough and he works so damn

966
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:16.159
hard that you think that this player
can advance and become more disciplined and chase

967
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:20.439
less outside of the zone and get
better at certain in certain areas and whatnot.

968
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:25.920
So we'll see exactly if he's able
to do that. But there's a

969
01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:30.640
stark difference again between Carlos Correa and
Jeremy Pagnia as the overall quality of hitter

970
01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:38.279
in the middle of the lineup type
of bat that Correa was, Painia can

971
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:41.840
be more productive. I think when
he is hitting in a two hole where

972
01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:44.920
he's protected by Jordan Alvarez and has
Jose al Tuva in front him, that's

973
01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:46.319
going to help him get more pitches
to where numbers will go up. But

974
01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:49.720
I just don't know if he's going
to be a two whole hitter forever.

975
01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:53.680
And I'm saying all this too.
And Carlos care has not been good this

976
01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:57.800
year for the Twins at all.
As part of the story of why the

977
01:09:57.840 --> 01:10:00.640
Twins haven't been very consistent this year. He's been deal with a lot of

978
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:05.520
banged up stuff, plan or fasciitis
and whatnot. But again, I just

979
01:10:05.640 --> 01:10:11.159
think you're seeing the major difference there. And again Drew Gilbert, everybody has

980
01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:14.279
a high expectation for him, but
there's no guarantee that that player comes the

981
01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:16.640
big league level and goes out there
and crushes it. There's just not He's

982
01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:20.239
not playing well at the Double A
level this year. My belief is that

983
01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:26.560
there's probably more to the elbow issue
than they're letting on letting on with that,

984
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:29.359
and it's bothering him a lot,
and then there's the struggles of it

985
01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:33.119
when you go through it as a
hitter and whatnot. So he's gonna have

986
01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:36.079
to go back to Double A next
year, probably to start the season,

987
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:39.560
because I don't see him getting out
of Double A this year at this point

988
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:44.560
and start the year there and really
play well before you can have a realistic

989
01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:47.880
thought that he's going to be a
big leagueer next year. But I just

990
01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:54.000
can't keep watching Kyle Tucker on a
nightly basis and everything he does, his

991
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:59.399
quality and everything about him in terms
of the example he sets for teammates and

992
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:03.000
being young and being one of the
best players in baseball against right he's and

993
01:11:03.239 --> 01:11:06.760
lefties as a left handed hitter.
It is so hard to find guys that

994
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:12.279
are this talented and this consistent,
and I think every day that goes by

995
01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:15.640
not having him signed to a long
term extension is a mistake. You have

996
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:20.960
to secure your window at times,
and they've let so much talent throughout the

997
01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:24.159
year's walk and I know that you
can go through and look at it each,

998
01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:26.920
each individual guy and say, hey, well, I mean this worked

999
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:28.960
out here, this worked out there. This guy's not as good here,

1000
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:32.239
this guy's not as good there.
And I get it, but they have

1001
01:11:32.319 --> 01:11:39.680
again reached a point where there's not
a lot coming. You're hopeful that this

1002
01:11:39.880 --> 01:11:43.640
draft has guys that will graduate through
it quickly, can get up here,

1003
01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:47.119
can play and do all that.
But I will say, of all the

1004
01:11:47.239 --> 01:11:51.159
things in this air of Astro's baseball
that are lacking, or of the few

1005
01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:56.560
things that are lacking, some of
it is the consistency of keeping the stars.

1006
01:11:57.359 --> 01:12:01.760
And it's not always about keeping star
players. I get it, but

1007
01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:06.039
you're never going to convince me if
you signed Kyle Tucker this offseason ahead of

1008
01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:11.359
his age twenty seven season and he
wants it the kind of money to where

1009
01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:13.520
you have to do a ten year
deal, that he's gonna be got awful

1010
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:18.000
by the age of thirty seven.
Again, you sign a thirty six year

1011
01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:23.279
old third first baseman this past year
to a three year contract that pays nearly

1012
01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:27.399
twenty million a year, you are
not that concerned about paying guys deep into

1013
01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:30.680
their thirties. I don't care what
you say. This guy's not going to

1014
01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:32.560
fall off the face of the earth
and stop hitting anytime soon. He will

1015
01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:38.920
be productive for more than half of
that contract at the bare minimum. I

1016
01:12:39.119 --> 01:12:44.039
really really hope they can do some
self evaluation and some contemplating and say we

1017
01:12:44.239 --> 01:12:48.279
can't keep doing the same thing we've
always done and expect it to continue to

1018
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:51.920
go well. Sometimes you have to
get out of your comfort zone. That's

1019
01:12:51.960 --> 01:12:55.720
part of the reason why they got
to this place in the first and got

1020
01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:57.960
to this spot in the first place. They got outside the comfort zone in

1021
01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:00.880
a certain areas and did certain things
that they probably didn't want to do and

1022
01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:04.720
to help them get other players and
get to this spot where they've won multiple

1023
01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:09.800
World Series titles. To keep that
window open, you have to keep a

1024
01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:13.520
certain amount of that core intact you
have yours on for the long term.

1025
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:18.520
You're gonna have to figure out the
situations between Bregman and Al two Bay after

1026
01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:24.000
next season. Al two Bay is
going to be here. I don't think

1027
01:13:24.039 --> 01:13:26.760
it's a guarantee that Bregman will.
And that's part of the caveat here.

1028
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:30.399
If you're gonna be walking away from
Alex Bregman after next season, you can't

1029
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:36.279
also lose Kyle Tucker, it's time
to come to your senses. And I'm

1030
01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:41.600
speaking specifically to Jim Crane and to
everybody else in my mind. In my

1031
01:13:41.680 --> 01:13:46.640
opinion only, I'm spending your money. It's time to just get it done

1032
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:53.479
and recognize that this is a cornerstone
type of player for your franchise for years

1033
01:13:53.520 --> 01:13:57.399
to come. The Astros have had
these kind of guys before. They've had

1034
01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:00.319
Bertman forever, They've had Bagwell forever. I've had Bizio forever. They had

1035
01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:03.840
these guys well into their thirties.
I know that after thirties a scary,

1036
01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:08.640
scary thing, but most players don't
just forget how to play baseball at the

1037
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:15.279
age of thirty. It's okay to
buck your trend. And I'm saying do

1038
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:20.399
it this winner. Go out and
sign the player to the extension that he

1039
01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:25.439
is always going to get when he
hits the free agent market. From somebody,

1040
01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:29.800
you'd rather be with you seven one
three two one two five seven nineties

1041
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:32.840
our phone number to join us here
on a Space City Saturday, some football,

1042
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.279
some discussion about the football show that's
been out. Have you seen it?

1043
01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:40.760
I want to go through some of
that next here on Sports Talk seven

1044
01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:54.920
ninety. We now return to Space
City Saturday, Sports Talk seven ninety Space

1045
01:14:55.479 --> 01:15:00.399
City Saturday, right here on Sports
Talking seven niney. Michael Connor back here

1046
01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:03.840
with you. I've been talking a
lot about your Houston Astros this morning,

1047
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:08.960
which again you will hear back in
action tonight here on seven ninety with an

1048
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:13.720
eight oh seven first pitch seven o'clock
on Deck show. Ross vie Real has

1049
01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:16.119
you for that tenth to inning show
afterwards, and again I will be back

1050
01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:21.760
with you tomorrow for the on Deck
and tenth Inning show. We'll get to

1051
01:15:21.880 --> 01:15:26.880
that NFL stuff actually in the next
segment of the New Quarterback Show. I

1052
01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:29.560
wanted to go through some of that
here before we ended the show. But

1053
01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:34.760
something that happened at last night in
baseball that I wanted to mention real quick.

1054
01:15:35.840 --> 01:15:39.960
Justin Verlander pitched again for the New
York Mets last night to kick off

1055
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:44.000
their second half of the season,
and he was booed as he walked off

1056
01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.960
the field and following the top half
of the fifth inning. He pitched just

1057
01:15:47.079 --> 01:15:53.079
five innings last night, only gave
up three runs on two hits, struck

1058
01:15:53.159 --> 01:16:00.399
out six, but walked six as
the Mets lost again. The look the

1059
01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:03.479
grass and now now that the Astros
were never going to go to that level,

1060
01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:06.760
the grass is not always greener.
The Astros are smart not to go

1061
01:16:06.840 --> 01:16:11.720
to that level with him. He
has not been very good this season.

1062
01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:14.920
As I talked a lot of the
trade deadline options, there's been some talk

1063
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:18.880
that the Mets are likely to go
ahead and try and shop him and Max

1064
01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:23.399
Scherzer and try to get out of
having those two guys. Now they're gonna

1065
01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:26.039
have to pay down a lot of
that money. But I mean, look,

1066
01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:29.239
this is a guy that had an
unbelievable season last year, won the

1067
01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:31.840
Cy Young as he came back from
Tommy John. But again, Father Time

1068
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:36.920
is always undefeated to an extent,
and he is not horrible, but he

1069
01:16:38.079 --> 01:16:44.600
has not been good enough and probably
not enjoying his experience there in New York

1070
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:47.840
and is probably longing for his days
of being back with the Houston Astros that

1071
01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:51.479
they're winning a World Series here just
last season. Let's go to John next

1072
01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:55.239
on the phone lines here on Space
City Saturday. What's going on? John?

1073
01:16:56.239 --> 01:16:59.560
Yeah, Man, I'd be a
bad for Justin Man. You know,

1074
01:16:59.720 --> 01:17:02.760
he he kind of got caught in
that spiderwab that others starting pitcher that

1075
01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:06.359
a they signed, I could get
that sports or something like that. That's

1076
01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:11.680
pitching hard. And he got busted
with cell phone, his club and everything.

1077
01:17:11.800 --> 01:17:14.680
You know, Justin Justin when he
was over here. You know,

1078
01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:17.039
he had a few floppy games with
us too, you know, but the

1079
01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:21.239
situation over there with the Mets,
all the pressure there under you know,

1080
01:17:21.520 --> 01:17:27.319
Justin he's gonna get He's really getting
it right now because he's caught up in

1081
01:17:27.399 --> 01:17:30.159
all that thing. And as you
say, you know, Justin, you

1082
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:32.760
know he's up in age and Crane. I thought Crane did the right thing

1083
01:17:33.239 --> 01:17:35.720
too, you know, we just
you know, he could have paid him.

1084
01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:39.319
I do believe that Crane can pay
anybody if you want to, and

1085
01:17:39.399 --> 01:17:42.199
he can give him a ten year
contract, but that's just not the way

1086
01:17:42.279 --> 01:17:45.960
he operate. And you know,
I don't. I'm fine with it because

1087
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:47.399
you know, I'm kind of like, man, whatever he's playing is and

1088
01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:50.760
seemed to be working just fine for
me. But look what I wanted to

1089
01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:55.319
say, Michael, I definitely agree
with you because one thing I do know

1090
01:17:56.159 --> 01:17:59.600
listening to you, you know more
about baseball than some people that call it

1091
01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:03.439
it. May we got it.
I know, bron our general manager.

1092
01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:06.000
I know we've looked in plus started. We gotta get a started. We

1093
01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:12.319
got to stop this leading because alto
France pitch okay and Blanco doing okay and

1094
01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:15.199
be like the youse guy has been, gonna be be handed if we get

1095
01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.760
to the playoffs and guys and you
guys can knock them out the park man,

1096
01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:21.920
we got. We need it to
start. I don't I don't necessarily

1097
01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:27.159
think we need a hitter in the
trade deadline. I think the guys we

1098
01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:30.760
have is kenny enough and nigh.
But man, we need a starting I

1099
01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:36.640
agree with you on that one,
Bail Yeah, John, always great to

1100
01:18:36.760 --> 01:18:41.560
hear from you. You know I'm
right there with you. They they absolutely

1101
01:18:42.439 --> 01:18:45.399
need to get a starting pitcher for
this team. And it's been a great

1102
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:50.199
story of the season as how many
of these young guys that you didn't necessarily

1103
01:18:50.319 --> 01:18:54.800
expect to come up here and pitch
to this level have done this and kept

1104
01:18:54.840 --> 01:18:59.000
the Astros in a spot where they
can go out and win baseball games consistently

1105
01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:03.840
like they have overall with one of
the most inconsistent offenses that we've seen out

1106
01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:10.680
of this franchise in some years.
But I think unfortunately throughout the one hundred

1107
01:19:10.680 --> 01:19:14.159
and sixty two game marathon, and
this is why they're going to be looking

1108
01:19:14.239 --> 01:19:16.600
to get a starting pitcher. You
can't count on this, you just can't.

1109
01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:20.359
These guys are gonna hit walls and
pitched this much before and after a

1110
01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:25.760
period of time as well, where
the league makes adjustments to you, I

1111
01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:29.439
think you're gonna see numbers come back
down and see performances deep and we've seen

1112
01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:31.439
that at times from some of these
you see last night from Brandon Black and

1113
01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:33.640
not Brandon Black, I'm sorry.
I had him on the mind for some

1114
01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:38.079
reason from JP France and I thought
one of the interesting nuggets last night,

1115
01:19:38.279 --> 01:19:42.119
and maybe it's just a command thing. He just at times was not willing

1116
01:19:42.159 --> 01:19:45.520
to throw us fastball and that's a
problem. It's part of the reason why

1117
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:47.239
he struggled last night. Now,
look again, his defense behind him did

1118
01:19:47.279 --> 01:19:50.399
not help him in that ball game
last night. But I think banking on

1119
01:19:50.479 --> 01:19:55.840
these kind of performances out of these
guys consistently moving forward and hoping that you

1120
01:19:55.960 --> 01:19:59.119
get that into the postseason, I
don't think it's a smart strategy. I

1121
01:19:59.239 --> 01:20:01.239
mean, look, you're gonna get
Josea Kety back, which is massive.

1122
01:20:01.319 --> 01:20:04.399
You hope that he stays healthy the
rest of this season. But what this

1123
01:20:04.479 --> 01:20:08.079
team needs more than anything else is
of course, from here to continue to

1124
01:20:08.079 --> 01:20:11.560
be the ace that he's been,
Christian Javier, to refine his form,

1125
01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:15.079
get another starter and have her key, and then you don't have to rely

1126
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:18.439
on those guys. Once you get
into the dance and you'll feel like you

1127
01:20:18.479 --> 01:20:20.800
can win any of those ball games
and those guys out there on the mount.

1128
01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:25.760
Let's go to Martin up next.
What's up Martin? Hey, I

1129
01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:28.960
man, man, I like your
music that you play that. I noticed

1130
01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:30.920
you've been playing a lot of class
at Rotten, like Cream and bog Hat.

1131
01:20:31.399 --> 01:20:35.079
I think you play That's not me. That is Adam back in the

1132
01:20:35.159 --> 01:20:39.119
studio, and he is. Yes, I enjoy his music selections as well.

1133
01:20:39.159 --> 01:20:42.680
Those are all good songs. Hey
man, I just called about to

1134
01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:45.199
Astro's draft. I was just just
wondering. I'm too lazy to turn on

1135
01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:48.520
my computer and check. I could
do that, but I was wondering,

1136
01:20:48.600 --> 01:20:51.920
out of all the sunny just today
or any of them high school kids,

1137
01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:58.319
that's it. I'm done, thank
you, Martin. Of the picks that

1138
01:20:58.359 --> 01:21:00.479
they had, and they didn't take
a lot of high schoo guys. But

1139
01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:04.560
yes, they were able to sign
the eleventh round pick at a Galena Park

1140
01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:10.279
High school, the local kid,
Naiomara choa junior, he signs, and

1141
01:21:10.399 --> 01:21:14.600
then the rest of them from these
signings today are all college players. I

1142
01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:17.000
mean, like I said, most
of their players college players. They're looking

1143
01:21:17.039 --> 01:21:20.239
to restock that system. I think
with you know guys, they are a

1144
01:21:20.279 --> 01:21:24.880
little bit They took the fifth round
pick is where and then you see again

1145
01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.319
they today the Astros were able to
get Bryce Matthews for a little bit under

1146
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:31.439
slot. A lot of these guys
that they've signed today signed for a little

1147
01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:35.399
bit under slot compared to um Win
and good guy. This will make you

1148
01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:41.880
sick. I'm sitting here looking at
this list of players they signed. Speaking

1149
01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:45.479
of the guy, the kid from
Galena Park, local kid, congratulations to

1150
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:47.000
him. You always like to see
the local guys get drafted by a local

1151
01:21:47.039 --> 01:21:53.119
team. He's seventeen years old.
He was born in two thousand and five.

1152
01:21:54.359 --> 01:21:59.199
He was a literal infant when the
Astros were playing in the World Series

1153
01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:02.800
for the first time. I was
a fifteen year old kid when the Astros

1154
01:22:02.880 --> 01:22:09.000
were playing in their first World Series
and I was busting up trash cans and

1155
01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:14.359
Albert Poolholes hitting a home runoff Brad
Lidge and then the White Sox shutting them

1156
01:22:14.359 --> 01:22:17.439
down. I was going outside of
hitting a baseball bat into a wood beam.

1157
01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:23.319
His kid was an infant. He
has no idea what that team was

1158
01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:28.039
at all. And look at all
the just real quick the day, the

1159
01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:30.560
years of birth for all the guys
they signed today, two thousand and two

1160
01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:34.000
O one, O two O two, two thousand and two thousand and nine,

1161
01:22:34.239 --> 01:22:36.479
one of them from ninety nine,
and they's twenty three years old.

1162
01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:42.199
That's he's old. O five O
one O two O two two O one.

1163
01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:45.880
Oh man, where's time going?
I mean, I know I'm not

1164
01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:49.960
that old. I'm thirty two,
but I'm old. Listen to that.

1165
01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:55.920
We're all old, everybody, one
of them but one. And the one

1166
01:22:56.039 --> 01:22:59.680
kid that was signed that was that
was born in ninety nine was in December

1167
01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:04.720
of an nine. Jesus Man.
Absolutely crazy. But yeah, only one

1168
01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:08.279
of the to your question, Martin, only one of those guys they signed

1169
01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:12.079
today. They didn't take a lot
of high school players. Was a high

1170
01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:15.359
school players set one three two on
two five seven nineties our phone umber to

1171
01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:17.600
join us. Final segment of the
show. Next, I want to discuss

1172
01:23:17.680 --> 01:23:20.560
the new Netflix show, The NFL
Show. If you've not seen that yet,

1173
01:23:20.600 --> 01:23:28.560
We'll get to that next year on
Space City Saturday. Space City Saturday

1174
01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:43.720
continues find Sports Talk seven ninety Now
Adams just hid me Too close to Home

1175
01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:46.279
with this one, one of my
favorite songs ever, you know, on

1176
01:23:46.359 --> 01:23:49.439
Space City Saturday. It was actually
all my playlists, all my playlists were

1177
01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:54.600
working out. I listened to it
this morning twice. Actually, um,

1178
01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:57.079
sometimes you just you hear a song, you gotta hear it twice, and

1179
01:23:57.119 --> 01:23:59.239
that was one of those ones I
had to had to hear this morning.

1180
01:23:59.439 --> 01:24:01.560
Jimmy Hendry, Hey, Joe,
great one. It's been a fun show

1181
01:24:01.640 --> 01:24:04.039
this morning. Thank oh, thank
you to all of you that have hung

1182
01:24:04.079 --> 01:24:09.399
out with us and called and listened
and everything. Again. The Astros back

1183
01:24:09.439 --> 01:24:11.800
in action tonight. I'm not going
to be back for that one tonight,

1184
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:15.199
Ross will have you. I got
some afternoon plans with my wife, so

1185
01:24:15.399 --> 01:24:17.920
we're going to get out and do
those. But I'll be watching tonight.

1186
01:24:18.039 --> 01:24:23.039
I'll be back into the Astros covers
tomorrow night with the on Deck show for

1187
01:24:23.279 --> 01:24:27.159
the Sunday night baseball game. I'll
be on starting at five o'clock tomorrow night,

1188
01:24:27.199 --> 01:24:29.840
so join me for that is the
Astros will hopefully be looking for a

1189
01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:33.079
sweep of the three game series against
the Angels. Tonight, Frober Valdez against

1190
01:24:33.159 --> 01:24:38.479
re Debtmer's again eight oh seven,
first pitch, seven o'clock on deck here

1191
01:24:38.520 --> 01:24:41.319
on Sports Talk seven nine. If
you missed the news again, the Astros

1192
01:24:41.319 --> 01:24:45.000
announced that they as signed eleven of
their draft picks today, including first round

1193
01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:48.920
pick Bryce Matthews. So those guys
will get to get their professional careers going

1194
01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:58.199
officially here very soon, which is
always a great thing for these guys and

1195
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:00.600
for the club to get that going
and get some big league time here before

1196
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:05.239
the end of this season, and
then of course a full spring training ahead

1197
01:25:05.319 --> 01:25:10.600
and then next year at whatever level
that they will be at to start probably

1198
01:25:11.039 --> 01:25:14.000
high a ball for some of them, low a ball for others, and

1199
01:25:14.199 --> 01:25:19.199
of course hopefully going through the system
very very quickly. I wanted to mention

1200
01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:23.760
it and before the end of the
show if you've not watched it yet,

1201
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:29.600
I think it's worthy of watching.
Netflix of course, has gotten further and

1202
01:25:29.720 --> 01:25:34.880
further into the sports game, and
you know, speaking of like sports shows,

1203
01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:39.920
they are a big fascination. Hard
Knocks this season has been announced the

1204
01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:43.520
New York Jets will be on that. Aaron Rodgers was absolutely thrilled about that.

1205
01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:45.359
Um, I think it's going to
be interesting this year to see it.

1206
01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:49.399
I know that Aaron Rodgers is a
little bit of a He's a little

1207
01:25:49.399 --> 01:25:54.119
bit of a diva and a guy
that likes the attention. Even if he

1208
01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:58.319
acts like he doesn't like the attention. He won thousand percent loves people talking

1209
01:25:58.319 --> 01:26:00.680
about him and being a guy that's
on the front and front of the camera.

1210
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:04.600
So I mean, like, I
actually I haven't watched a ton of

1211
01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:10.680
Hard Knocks throughout the years since really
since the Texans were on it back in

1212
01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:13.560
Good Lord. I don't remember what
year that was now it's been a while,

1213
01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:16.119
but that one was. I thought
it was a pretty good one that

1214
01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:20.760
year, you know, because Bill
O'Brien was a total d bag and a

1215
01:26:20.840 --> 01:26:26.600
total a hole, and it made
it intriguing. The Texans were on it

1216
01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:30.560
back Good Lord, two thousand and
fifties. Has been ten years. That's

1217
01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:33.239
crazy, two thousand and fifteen when
the Texans were on it. But Jets

1218
01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:36.960
will be on it this year.
I watched a little bit of the Lions

1219
01:26:38.079 --> 01:26:41.800
last year. I thought it was
Dan Campbell's great Um. I didn't watch,

1220
01:26:42.159 --> 01:26:45.399
really honestly, any of the Cowboys
the year before, or the Rams

1221
01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:46.920
and Chargers the year before that,
or the Raiders the year before that.

1222
01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:50.399
And I didn't watch the Browns in
twenty eighteen, or the Buccaneers in twenty

1223
01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:55.399
seventeen, or the Rams in twenty
sixteen, so like seriously had been since

1224
01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:58.600
the Texans. I'll tune in for
some of them for some of the Jets

1225
01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:01.520
episodes this year, but the Netflix
shows out it's called The Quarterback. And

1226
01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:05.640
of course the fascination from all these
comes with and I've been one of these

1227
01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:10.439
people that is Finally my wife and
I've gotten into it. We've watched all

1228
01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:13.680
the episodes now we're caught up.
It really started with that F one show

1229
01:27:14.159 --> 01:27:19.079
Drive to Survive, which I think
is so well done. It's just a

1230
01:27:19.359 --> 01:27:24.560
great I think, look into the
personalities and all that stuff, and honestly

1231
01:27:24.600 --> 01:27:29.720
it's it's made me become a guy
that's I'm not sitting down and like actively

1232
01:27:29.800 --> 01:27:32.439
watching. And again it's a tough
sport to like watch, I think,

1233
01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:38.479
and to really get excited about because
it's being dominated by one guy that being

1234
01:27:38.560 --> 01:27:43.279
Max for stapping. But I find
myself intrigued by the sport of F one.

1235
01:27:43.399 --> 01:27:45.960
I watched the qualifying is great.
That's really where the race it's.

1236
01:27:46.199 --> 01:27:49.680
It's sad, and they're trying to
change things and make it more competitive to

1237
01:27:49.800 --> 01:27:55.800
where it won't be like that.
But like the race is so determined by

1238
01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:00.079
how you finishing qualifying, and I'll
watch the qualifyings when they come up on

1239
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:02.760
TV. So I've been I've enjoyed
the hell out of it. And it's

1240
01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:08.479
really because of that show, watching
all five seasons that we've watched, that's

1241
01:28:08.600 --> 01:28:11.680
made me intrigued by F one and
I watch I mean, in a minute,

1242
01:28:11.680 --> 01:28:15.359
I watch F one now. Um, same can be said for the

1243
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:17.800
tennis one. By the way,
Wimbledon was one earlier today. I actually

1244
01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:23.199
watched almost every second of that as
I was working out and then I got

1245
01:28:23.239 --> 01:28:27.319
back to the house. Of the
women's final today, I don't know how

1246
01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:30.159
to say her name. She's from
Czechoslovakia. She won, she beat the

1247
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:33.359
girl from Tunisia. Um, I
got my wife's gonna kill me. I

1248
01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:35.800
can't remember name off the top of
my head. We watched Wimbledon, well,

1249
01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:41.640
she and I just went to Wimbledon
back before our wedding in April.

1250
01:28:41.680 --> 01:28:45.720
We were in London before we went
to Italy, and um we went over

1251
01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:48.199
and did the tour of Wimbledon,
which I would I would recommend to anybody

1252
01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:51.880
that is considering going over there.
Actually, our very own who does the

1253
01:28:53.479 --> 01:28:57.399
does our runs the astros games for
us here on the station. Josh C,

1254
01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:00.720
who runs pre impost for us as
well. He's does the god.

1255
01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:02.600
He does the Lord's work when it
comes to our astro's coverag chair on the

1256
01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:05.079
station. He was just there and
I told him about it. If you

1257
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:09.000
ever go to Wimbledon and you're there
when Wimbledon's going on, we found out

1258
01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:13.560
on this tour, go late in
the afternoon, like it has to be

1259
01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:16.640
before the finals obviously and before the
semifinals, but go late in the afternoon

1260
01:29:17.079 --> 01:29:20.800
and people that are there all day, they you turn your tickets back and

1261
01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:24.840
then you get some money back,
and then Wimbledon resells the tickets at a

1262
01:29:25.199 --> 01:29:28.399
very discounted rate, like more than
half off, and you can get in

1263
01:29:28.560 --> 01:29:30.199
for nothing. Our buddy Josh C
was just there the other day. He

1264
01:29:30.239 --> 01:29:33.319
went to the damn quarterfinals. He
sent me a picture of it. He

1265
01:29:33.439 --> 01:29:36.239
was like, man, your your
tip was great. He paid like twenty

1266
01:29:36.319 --> 01:29:40.960
five pounds to get in, which
is I don't know what the dollars converted

1267
01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:43.800
to right now. It's obviously gonna
be more than twenty five dollars, but

1268
01:29:44.840 --> 01:29:51.119
it's it was really really cool to
see. Um So that that show.

1269
01:29:51.359 --> 01:29:56.439
I've liked that. I have liked
that show, the Breakpoint one, the

1270
01:29:56.600 --> 01:30:00.479
Golf one, the PGA Tour one
was fantastic as well. Full Swing.

1271
01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:02.399
They're in the next season's gonna be
really really spicy with that one. What's

1272
01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:08.159
been going on the world of golf. But I've watched I'm into episode seven

1273
01:30:08.239 --> 01:30:12.840
of eight of The Quarterback and it's
they followed Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins,

1274
01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:15.479
and Marcus Mariota. I will say, of all the sports shows that they've

1275
01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:19.000
done on Netflix, I think this
one is by far the worst. Because

1276
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:24.000
it is an NFL Films production.
It's a little buttoned up in some areas

1277
01:30:24.039 --> 01:30:30.000
to meum they they include the media
portions or like you know, you'll they'll

1278
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:32.239
they'll show something they have like a
media highlight where they're talking about this.

1279
01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:36.560
They're clearly like not what was actually
on TV or on the radio or whatever.

1280
01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:41.520
It's it's just completely made up and
it's blatant, blatant when you hear

1281
01:30:41.560 --> 01:30:45.000
it, Like you can tell it
was not something that was like recorded live.

1282
01:30:45.079 --> 01:30:46.800
They had those people go back and
do it for the purpose of this

1283
01:30:46.920 --> 01:30:51.000
TV show, But I think it
was it was a cool look at what

1284
01:30:51.159 --> 01:30:56.119
some of these guys go through.
Overall. Patrick Mahomes is just a monster,

1285
01:30:56.319 --> 01:31:00.359
and he's so damn good um,
and you get to see kind of

1286
01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:02.600
the curtain peeled back, and that
makes you long for what the Texans can

1287
01:31:02.680 --> 01:31:09.239
do hopefully moving forward, and you
know with Demiko Ryans and you hope it's

1288
01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:12.760
a lot like that. I think
that the coolest peeling back the curtain for

1289
01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:15.279
the Patrick Mahomes things. You find
out that, I mean, how awesome

1290
01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:19.760
it clearly is to play for Andy
Reid and how open he is to letting

1291
01:31:19.800 --> 01:31:24.840
his players. I mean, Patrick
Mahomes gets to come to him and design

1292
01:31:24.920 --> 01:31:28.159
plays and call plays and like do
all these things, and like that's why

1293
01:31:28.199 --> 01:31:30.119
they're so damn successful. And that
guy also on top of it, takes

1294
01:31:30.199 --> 01:31:34.079
it so damn seriously from the standpoint
all the work that goes in and he's

1295
01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:36.479
smarter than everybody else. That's part
of the reason. And he can make

1296
01:31:36.520 --> 01:31:40.920
all those throws, those crazy throws, everything, But he's truly smarter than

1297
01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:44.039
everybody else at that position. That's
part of the reason why he's so damn

1298
01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:46.920
good. The Kirk Cousins stuff was
I think, you know, everybody's got

1299
01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:51.000
this perception of Kirk Cousins that he's
this stat padding guy that just puts him

1300
01:31:51.079 --> 01:31:54.960
up, and you know, he
definitely isn't mean he has. He has

1301
01:31:55.039 --> 01:31:58.640
put up incredible stats for a long
long time in the NFL. But I

1302
01:31:58.720 --> 01:32:01.640
think he came off on the show
way more likable and more you know,

1303
01:32:01.920 --> 01:32:06.399
personable, and you see the hard
work that that guy puts into to his

1304
01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:12.319
craft and how seriously he takes it
like he is he's putting everything he can

1305
01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:15.640
into it. So I really enjoyed
watching those two. The Mariota stuff,

1306
01:32:15.359 --> 01:32:18.239
he's kind of a dud to watch. No offense to him. Um,

1307
01:32:18.680 --> 01:32:21.079
you know, it was his comeback
and then he that you go through the

1308
01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:28.319
whole him being benched there in Atlanta
as well, So I would still watch

1309
01:32:28.399 --> 01:32:34.199
it again. I think that some
of it isn't necessarily feel real all the

1310
01:32:34.319 --> 01:32:41.039
time, but the perspective in the
access that the quarterbacks gave im. We'll

1311
01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:44.359
see who they follow in the next
you know, this next season coming up.

1312
01:32:44.359 --> 01:32:45.239
I wonder if they'll announced it or
if they have. I haven't seen

1313
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:48.520
if they've announced it or anything.
But they picked three pretty good ones,

1314
01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:51.239
Patrick mahonmes being one of them.
It's always nice to see a Red Raider

1315
01:32:51.359 --> 01:32:55.800
too. Even they even part of
the show they featured him going back to

1316
01:32:55.880 --> 01:32:59.760
Lubbock and getting put into the to
the Ring of Honor there in Lubbock,

1317
01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:04.000
which was very cool to watch that
and see that as as somebody that's spent

1318
01:33:04.760 --> 01:33:09.560
some time they're in Lubbick and of
course still roots on for the old Red

1319
01:33:09.640 --> 01:33:12.560
Raiders to this day. I want
them to have a good season, which

1320
01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:15.960
was, by the way, Big
Twelve Media Days where this past week the

1321
01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:20.720
Cougs were introduced officially in the as
a member of the Big Twelve. But

1322
01:33:20.960 --> 01:33:25.239
I'm thinking this year. I know
that the Longhorns has been PI picked to

1323
01:33:25.279 --> 01:33:29.399
finish twelve out of fourteen. It's
probably going to be a bit of a

1324
01:33:29.479 --> 01:33:30.760
tough season in their first year,
and but I'm hopeful that it's not.

1325
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:34.840
I hope I'm not like Ross Ross. If you listen to Matt and Ross,

1326
01:33:34.920 --> 01:33:39.000
he wants the Cougs to genuinely lose
all the time, just because he

1327
01:33:39.199 --> 01:33:41.720
likes to need all a Matt.
But I think he genuinely wants the Cougars

1328
01:33:41.720 --> 01:33:44.880
to lose. I don't. We
are also your home of the Coops.

1329
01:33:44.880 --> 01:33:47.199
You can hear them over on nine
at fifty KPRC when they're back in action.

1330
01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:51.920
Longhorns will be here on seven ninety
most of the time, as well

1331
01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:57.319
as some LSU football, But busy, busy times ahead as football gets back

1332
01:33:57.359 --> 01:34:00.159
into our world before you know it. Basketball will be here as well with

1333
01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:04.279
the Rockets as they are wrapping up
the summer league. But again, thank

1334
01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:09.640
you to every single one of you
that joined us today here on Space City

1335
01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:14.439
Saturday. Don't go anywhere on terms
of your radio dials. Later today again,

1336
01:34:14.479 --> 01:34:18.920
Astro's back in action a seven o'clock
on Deck show with Ross. Talk

1337
01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:23.439
to you guys tomorrow right here on
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