Speaker 1: Astro six to four losers yesterday to the Marlins in Miami.
Speaker 1: Off today, Yankees coming up tomorrow to start a three
Speaker 1: game weekend series. There are only two games up now
Speaker 1: on the Mariners in the West, so the Astro is
Speaker 1: trying to hold on to this lead. Chris Gordy again,
Speaker 1: Carbock Brewing joins us every single week. Curtsey of Carbock
Speaker 1: Brewing in the studio with us, and you know, Cam
Speaker 1: Smith was somebody else we talked about a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: And a couple of good hard hit balls yesterday, some
Speaker 1: hits in the Miami series. But overall, though, Gordy, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you get to that situation, was the bases
Speaker 1: loaded in the eighth inning yesterday, was there a part
Speaker 1: of you that was kind of like, Joe, go to
Speaker 1: the bench here, like this is not going to end well.
Speaker 2: No, because he had he had made good contact. He
Speaker 2: had that one that I thought was going to get out.
Speaker 2: But you know, then it was like, Okay, it's not
Speaker 2: going to get out, but this is clearly gonna be
Speaker 2: a double and the freaking center fielder runs it down,
Speaker 2: makes an incredible play. So just baseball, Sometimes those things happened.
Speaker 2: If he was. If he looked absolutely clueless up there
Speaker 2: at the play, then yeah, i'd say sit him down
Speaker 2: for a couple of days. But he had some heart
Speaker 2: ht contact. It's just you got to keep fighting through it, man,
Speaker 2: It's just it's the growing pains of being a rookie
Speaker 2: up here. And I'll tell you man, I mean, so
Speaker 2: the first day, I'm at Fenway and we're waiting for
Speaker 2: the Astro's clubhouse to open, and we're standing outside. Chaz
Speaker 2: Or Korwick is hanging out, We're talking with him, and
Speaker 2: out comes a group of the guys, the young guys, Colton,
Speaker 2: Gordon and I think it was Jason, Alexander, a few
Speaker 2: of them. They were going out to sign the Monster.
Speaker 2: The Monster, you know, all the rookies always do well.
Speaker 2: They this whole group of them. They go and they
Speaker 2: walk off. Well a few minutes later, Cam Smith comes
Speaker 2: out of the clubhouse and Channel i think it was
Speaker 2: Channel of Room goes, hey, you're not going to sign
Speaker 2: the Monster. He goes, oh, no, they are they going
Speaker 2: to do that. No, we have a we have a
Speaker 2: team meeting in ten minutes. I can't be late for that.
Speaker 2: And it's just you see that that honest. You know,
Speaker 2: he's like a kid and and you love it. You
Speaker 2: love that from him because he really is like, oh no,
Speaker 2: I can't be late for that meeting, Like coach is
Speaker 2: going to be madly you know. It's like that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. So you just there's a little naivety naivity
Speaker 2: to it. But it makes you just realize how young
Speaker 2: he is and just he's still growing. I think he's
Speaker 2: going to be awesome. He's just got to battle through.
Speaker 3: This, okay, and that and in answering what Dan had asked,
Speaker 3: you let me push that even forward more and battle
Speaker 3: through it as a way. I'm I'm a big believer,
Speaker 3: and I understand at times you got to send a
Speaker 3: guy down or get him other work. But I'm a
Speaker 3: big believer. I've seen enough to know that he can
Speaker 3: handle the good and the bad. I'm and I told
Speaker 3: Dan's I'm under the belief and under the if I'm
Speaker 3: managing him or the general manager, which I'm not, I'm
Speaker 3: making him play through this. Now. You may sit him
Speaker 3: down for a game, depending on matchups and stuff, and
Speaker 3: I don't think you have to make him. I think
Speaker 3: he will embrace it. But I think we've gotten to
Speaker 3: the point now that the best thing that may will
Speaker 3: that may end up happening to him in his career
Speaker 3: because he's mentally tough enough to handle it. I think
Speaker 3: is going through this at some point in your career.
Speaker 3: You're going through it all the time. I see it
Speaker 3: with young quarterbacks. Some are overwhelmed, but some like you
Speaker 3: get kicked in the teeth. We've talked about Aikman, We've
Speaker 3: talked about guys and they respond, I gotta find out.
Speaker 3: And my answer I think is gonna. It's gonna come
Speaker 3: out on the side of wise move.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You may not hit him in the top of the order.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna lead him off until he gets going.
Speaker 3: He's still above two fifteen. He's still got gold glove
Speaker 3: potential right field for a guy who's new at the position, Gordy,
Speaker 3: don't you let him fight through it and just you
Speaker 3: may have to substitute at times for him, but he's
Speaker 3: not going down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it gets really bad, I'd say, to the
Speaker 2: point where he's losing confidence, it's in an for thirty
Speaker 2: slump where he's got you know, fifteen strikeouts and it's
Speaker 2: just it's really bad, then you go, all right, we
Speaker 2: got to say.
Speaker 3: It, and I can say, do you want to go
Speaker 3: down and get some bats there and get it back
Speaker 3: and almost to the point where you're not I'm not
Speaker 3: player empowerment where you're deciding as a rookie. But I
Speaker 3: do think that you got to find out about that,
Speaker 3: and you knew there was going to be you know,
Speaker 3: peaks and valleys throughout the season.
Speaker 2: Right, Sure, it's every every rookie has these moments. It's
Speaker 2: just you know, he wowed us so much. She was
Speaker 2: so red hot in spring training and that's what helped
Speaker 2: him earn the earn the spot. And then even first
Speaker 2: month or two of the season he comes out, You're like, Wow,
Speaker 2: this kid's not playing like a rookie.
Speaker 3: Kid's probably why we're more critical because he made it
Speaker 3: look too.
Speaker 2: Good and now he's and now he's playing like a rookie. Well,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with him? Well, this is just it's the
Speaker 2: ebbs and flows. So yeah, like I said, barring an
Speaker 2: epic collapse where this thing starts to crater, uh, I know,
Speaker 2: he's only got a couple hits so far in the
Speaker 2: month of of of August, but yeah, I think he's
Speaker 2: just gonna he's gonna battle through this. They'll picking and choose. Hey,
Speaker 2: here's a day to give him off or whatever, and
Speaker 2: you got some You've got some options, and particularly when
Speaker 2: Jake Myers gets back, because you've got Hayesu Sanchez, he's
Speaker 2: gonna play every day, Taylor Trammel, they're playing a ton
Speaker 2: I mean, so Chaz is getting his reps. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a good problem to have when when Jake
Speaker 2: does get back. But yeah, it just uh again, I
Speaker 2: think I think the world of Camsmith. I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna be awesome. He's just going through a rough patch.
Speaker 1: And that's a conversation we had a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Gordy was, let's just say Jordan's back, Myers is back, Well,
Speaker 1: then that means a couple of guys need to go
Speaker 1: off the roster. I mean we're looking at a you know,
Speaker 1: chance here where when Dana and them have to make
Speaker 1: that decision that a couple of good players might be
Speaker 1: dfa'd and have to go play somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean I think it's going to come
Speaker 2: down to do you know, do you like what you've
Speaker 2: seen out of Tremel or do you stick with Chaz
Speaker 2: who's been here a while, you know, like it's I
Speaker 2: think he'd come down to one of those tough decisions.
Speaker 2: By the way, I had a great conversation with Chas
Speaker 2: McCormick who told me how Nerve racking trade the deadline
Speaker 2: day was. He said, it's been like that the last
Speaker 2: couple of years for him, where he's just he doesn't
Speaker 2: know what's happening. He's like, he's like, I didn't talk
Speaker 2: to my agent, so I don't know. He goes, I see,
Speaker 2: we've traded for Creay, We've traded for Sanchez. He goes, crap,
Speaker 2: I'm going to either Minnesota or Miami. And he's like,
Speaker 2: then find out, no, you weren't traded.
Speaker 3: So it is.
Speaker 2: It's it's tough for these ballplayers that, you know, where
Speaker 2: you're kind of on that line of you're not an
Speaker 2: everyday player. You could be moved at any given moment.
Speaker 2: But chatting with him, I said, I said, would you
Speaker 2: rather be an everyday starter on a bad team or
Speaker 2: be a platoon guy on a team like this? He goes, dude,
Speaker 2: I want another ring. He goes, I don't give a
Speaker 2: damn how much a player. He goes, I want another ring.
Speaker 3: So you're saying Cam Newton wouldn't fit well with that question, right.
Speaker 2: No, Chad is a good dude man, He's easy to
Speaker 2: root for. He's been around a while. But again, like
Speaker 2: that's gonna be one that's gonna come, like you mentioned it,
Speaker 2: when the numbers crunch. I mean, the easy one is
Speaker 2: if they need to cut ties with Taylor Troumelli, he
Speaker 2: cut ties with him, but he's been okay for you.
Speaker 2: If he gets a couple more hits and he gets hot,
Speaker 2: they might say, all right, well maybe we let Chas go.
Speaker 3: There's always that emotional side that says McCormick's been through
Speaker 3: some times with us, So I get that. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: obviously they still think highly enough of him that he
Speaker 3: didn't get traded, which is a good thing. And I
Speaker 3: like his attitude of wanting to win. All right, Gordy,
Speaker 3: I say to you, Lance mccollors, give me your overall
Speaker 3: thoughts right now.
Speaker 2: I like Dana's pretty I mean, it sounds like he's
Speaker 2: getting closer to going to make a rehap start and
Speaker 2: all that. But yeah, I like he didn't really answer
Speaker 2: your question right yesterday about is he gonna move to
Speaker 2: the bullpen? But I think that's kind of I think
Speaker 2: the writing, I think the writings on the wall there,
Speaker 2: particularly if let's hope Araghetty settles in his next outing
Speaker 2: and is much better. Javier is literally he's days away
Speaker 2: from coming back. So when those guys get back here
Speaker 2: and if they settle into their grooves with Hunter, with Fromber,
Speaker 2: you know, Cole Gordon's been okay. Like I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the the the writings on the wall there
Speaker 2: that Lance there's not a spot for you here, So
Speaker 2: you know, maybe they do something like they did yesterday
Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, maybe he's like a piggyback
Speaker 2: guy comes in out of the bullpen and pitches three
Speaker 2: four innings whatever. But I don't know, man, I'm I'm optimistic.
Speaker 2: I hope he's gonna be okay. They're they're saying it
Speaker 2: was just the blister, and you don't trying to read
Speaker 2: between the lines. Was it something else? Was that this
Speaker 2: wasn't that sounds like it was just the blister. So
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 3: Do you think we're gonna be seeing that a lot?
Speaker 1: I mean, we got what we got out of Araghetty yesterday,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what we get next week out of
Speaker 1: Javi Air. But when you do get Frank back, you
Speaker 1: do get Garcia back. That there is a little bit
Speaker 1: of Hey, you guys get us three four, those guys
Speaker 1: will get us two and then we get it to the.
Speaker 3: Front of times you may only need to get one.
Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have. I mean, keep this
Speaker 2: in mind, though, guys. There's a lot of seasons still
Speaker 2: left to go. There's a lot of innings to being
Speaker 2: to be eaten up. They may choose a time to go.
Speaker 2: You know, Hunter Brown, we're gonna skip a start for
Speaker 2: you from her. We're gonna skip a start just to
Speaker 2: keep them healthy and and uh, you know usage not as.
Speaker 3: It's standing that legal help them make that decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean that would be great too. So
Speaker 2: that's the tough part here is you're starting to get
Speaker 2: into a tight division race where games mean a lot,
Speaker 2: but health is the most important thing you gotta be.
Speaker 2: You want I don't care if you're a wildcard team.
Speaker 2: If you told me right now they're gonna be a
Speaker 2: wildcard team, but you're gonna be one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 3: I'll take it.
Speaker 2: I'll take that. So that's that's the balance here, is
Speaker 2: you want to hang on to home field and and
Speaker 2: and being you know, win the Al West and all that.
Speaker 2: But you also want to be careful because you don't
Speaker 2: want to go in as I don't know the two seed.
Speaker 2: But Hunter Brown's out, you know, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, Gordy, you know this, and so do you. Dan.
Speaker 3: A healthy team that is a wild card got me
Speaker 3: a legitimate chance. A healthy especially with pitching that you
Speaker 3: can go into somebody else's ballpark and whoop their ass.
Speaker 3: Pitching will shut up every home crowd, right. But the
Speaker 3: other side is so true, Gordy, oh man, you're you're
Speaker 3: not healthy, but you won the division. Your your grounds
Speaker 3: for elimination pretty quick, especially if it's a couple of
Speaker 3: key players. Yeah, getting them. I can't wait to see
Speaker 3: what the picture looks like, Gordy when they are healthy,
Speaker 3: if they get to full strength this year.
Speaker 2: And it's look, they may not get to one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: but this thing could. Like I said, if if Arragetty
Speaker 2: and Javier Settle can get back and settle into their groove,
Speaker 2: and when you get you're on and Jake Myer's back,
Speaker 2: just give me those four and you're playing. You're playing
Speaker 2: with a loaded deck. I mean, not as good as
Speaker 2: any team.
Speaker 3: Dan, you think about what Gordy just said, and think
Speaker 3: about what we're all saying, and kudos to him that
Speaker 3: we are pining for Jake Myers's bat back in the MINU.
Speaker 3: Who knew now, I honestly, and I mean and most importantly,
Speaker 3: and he's hitting seventy five points higher than you expected him.
Speaker 3: He just is. I remember when Steve Sparks came on,
Speaker 3: he said, listen, if he hits one ninety but plays
Speaker 3: gold glove citterfield, which he does, I'm in. That's he's
Speaker 3: hitting one hundred points here.
Speaker 2: The other thing to watch with Correa is is he's
Speaker 2: been great so far in my opinion, even even some
Speaker 2: some outs are hard hit.
Speaker 3: He said, smoking it.
Speaker 2: They priming. Taggart said this when I was up at Fenway.
Speaker 2: He said, get him back with Cintron and the guy
Speaker 2: and the hitting coaches here. That's an underrated storyline. Like
Speaker 2: maybe in Minnesota they weren't the best at at telling him.
Speaker 2: Now he's back with the guys were he was his best.
Speaker 2: He's back with those voices. Who knows, maybe he starts
Speaker 2: getting red hot here as an astro again. And and
Speaker 2: that's another great thing he.
Speaker 1: Lips to God's ears man, hopefully, Gordy. Every week you're
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Speaker 1: know that you're probably pining for a Crawford Boker two
Speaker 1: and a good weekend for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sick of those New England Ales and all
Speaker 2: that other crap they have that they're in Boston. They
Speaker 2: could really use some Crawls.
Speaker 1: What's what's that beer that they used to they Sam Adams,
Speaker 1: Paul Revere and not actually Sam Adams.
Speaker 2: The Blueberry Ale. It was like, come on, man, I need
Speaker 2: I need a Crawford Bok. But it's good to be
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Speaker 2: It's not oppressively hot yet, it's hot, but it's gonna
Speaker 2: be nice. But out there in the the beer garden
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Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
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