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Speaker 1: Eleven oh one on Sports Talk seven IY. Let's spend

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ten caullity minutes with our regular Wednesday guest. He is

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Astro's analyst on Space City Home Networking. We are very

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happy at having with us every Wednesday at eleven o'clock

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Brian Bogasvic on the show and Brian, as you know

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in television, getting in and out of the stadium in

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a relatively decent hours spectacular two hours in less than

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two ten last night to watch a great Pitchers matchup

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and a dramatic and very happy ending for folks that

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are rooting for the local nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I like wins. I especially like wins that are under

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two and a half hours. So last night was about

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as good as it gets for us.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let me tell you we've kind of brought up

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this narrative this year, good Fromber versus bad Fromber? Last

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night was great Fromber. What did you see maybe that

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we have not seen even some of his better performances

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earlier in the year.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, he had all three of his

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pitches working fastball, change up, in the curveball, and there

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have been you know, more than a handful of starts

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where he hasn't had every everything, and it's taking them

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a couple of innings to feel out what is working

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and what is not working and then adjust accordingly. He

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had everything going from the jump yesterday, and for him

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that means.

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Speaker 2: Everything is down.

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Speaker 3: If you look at like a spray chart of his

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pitches from yesterday, everything was the bottom third of the

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zone and below. And with the guy who has such

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big movement on his sinker, if he can start it

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at the knees and drop it below, he's going to

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get a ton of curve balls. If he can convince

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hitters that he's going to be at that bottom of

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the zone and they're going to have to deal with

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that pitch and they're going to have to swing at

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that pitch, he can then go to the curve ball

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and get them chasing pitches below the zone for a

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lot of.

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Speaker 2: Swing and miss.

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Speaker 3: You know, when the change up is coming out of

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the same slot as the fastball and they're having a

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you know, rush out there trying to get to ninety

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five ninety six, it's going to be even more weak

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contact round balls. And when when you're seeing everything on

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the ground from Promber and then couple that with a

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bunch of swings and misses on the curveball, he's going

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to be almost impossible.

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Speaker 2: Be Brian.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't he have more nights like this? I mean, look,

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not every pitcher, for every start's going to be able

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to give you eight innings or gonna be you know,

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let me nights where getting knocked around a little bit.

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But by the type of pitches he throws, with the

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fluidity in his motion, shouldn't he be a guy even

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as long as he's been the major leagues that should

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be around that eighty five ninety ninety five pitch count

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to go deep into games? Isn't that what Fromer was

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kind of built for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at the type of pitcher he is.

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You know, even though he can get swings and misses

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at a high rate, especially with his curveball, he is

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at his core a pitch to contact action type of pitcher,

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and that typically lends itself to guys going deep in games.

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And you know, sort of the rules of engagement have

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changed over the last twenty years of how deep you're

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willing to let guys go. But if there is a

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profile for the type of pitcher that you can just

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put out there and push a little bit further or

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be willing to throw on short rest if need be.

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He is that guy because everything he does is predicated

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on movement and movement even if you get, you know,

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a little bit tired, even if your pitch count is

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up near one hundred, even if you're you know, you've

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been throwing every fifth day or every fourth day, whatever

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Speaker 2: Be, that doesn't change.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it'll even get better with a little bit of fatigue.

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So yes, he is a guy where if you're gonna

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look at anybody in that rotation and say who can

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who can get pushed a little bit, it's definitely him.

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Speaker 4: Brian bogasvic well us here on Sports Talk seven to

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ninety estoc paratus with the walk off and pulled into

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the Crawford boxes. Just overall what you've been seeing from

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him as a hitter, and for a guy for him

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who is such heavy pull, what exactly how does he

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end up like that? Especially with opposing pictures, Know that

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he's going to try to pull everything and he's still

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able to do it.

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Speaker 3: For him, it's by design, and it's by design in

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how he approaches his a bat. Sometimes you hear about

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guys who are heavy heavy poll hitters, and you think

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they must just be cheating, they must just be guessing.

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Swinging early, they're going to be susceptible to chasing. You know,

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you've seen a million of those guys come along and

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it typically doesn't go well. I've been really impressed with

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him watching him on a day in a day out

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basis of how he executes, you know, his plan of

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being a poll hitter, and it's all about knowing what

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pitches he can handle, knowing what pitches he can do that,

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which do that with. And he's really stubborn in his

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that bats. He's not going to go and give in

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and swing at, you know, a sinker down in a

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way early in the count and roll over it. He's

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looking for breaking balls up. He's looking for fastballs on

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the inner third that he can turn on and he'll

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make the adjustment lately at that and deal with it

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with a tough pitch, you know, with two strikes if

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need be. But he's really has a good idea of

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what pitches he can handle, and he's very stubborn in

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waiting out those pitches. That's why he walks. He walks

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a lot, not because you know, he's just trying to

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get on BASI because he's passive. He walks a lot

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because he doesn't give in in hunting his pitches.

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Speaker 4: And on Jake Myers, this is a running bit here,

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Brian on the show that I'm the president of the

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Jake Myers fan Club. We're having a good May, but

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we also had a good May last year. What are

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you seeing from him now? Does it feel different or

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somewhat the same from the May that he had last

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year where we're almost waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Speaker 2: No, I think it feels different.

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Speaker 3: I think it feels different in that it's more consistent.

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We've seen him get hot at times before, but it

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was very very much an all or nothing type of

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hot streak.

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Speaker 2: You know, he'd get.

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Speaker 3: Four or five games in a row where everything was

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falling in and you could just see that he was

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riding this hot wave and then it would eventually come

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back to baseline. But right now, it's just a lot

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of good at bats. It's a lot of hard contact.

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he got a base hit in every game, but there

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were probably two or three balls that he hit hard

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every game and they didn't all fall in, so there's

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a lot more volume of quality. And he also feels

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like he's gotten comfortable with his approach and he's obviously

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being more aggressive early in at bats. He doesn't want

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to get to two strikes where pitchers can really try

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to expand the zone on him. And once you get

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comfortable with how you want to approach and at that,

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it really settles you. It really gives you a good

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gauge as a hitter of when was I successful in

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executing my plan and when was I not? And it

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gives you something to fall back on when you're trying

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to evaluate am I doing what I need to do

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or not, you know, other than just did I get

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a hit? Did I not get a hit? And it

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seems like he's very comfortable and very settled in how

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he wants to approaches at bats, which has resulted in

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a lot more consistency.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to see somebody not named Jeremy Pana

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in the Ladov spot for the foreseeable future for the

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local nine? And are you surprised that's gone as well

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as it has? Are you surprised that the Jose went

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to him and said, let's make a change just your

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general thoughts about what now he's been able to do

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kind of finding the most comfortable spot in line up

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for him in probably a couple of years now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's his spot, and I

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think it's a really good fit. You know, all the

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things that he can do, from handling his at back

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to you know, how dynamic he is on the basis

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to just you know, being sort of an energy type

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of guy at the top of the order. It's a

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really good fit. And you know, am I surprised that

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Jose went to him and said, hey, let's make this change. No,

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because that's what Jose Altuve is. You know, as great

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a player as he is, he's an even better teammate.

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So no, I'm not surprised by the whole situation. And

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you know, you have to be able to make quick adjustments.

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Being in the leadoff spot, you're going to get a

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ton of that backs, you're going to have. You know

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that you're going to be the guy getting that fifth

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or sixth played appearance at the end of the game,

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So you cannot be susceptible to making the same.

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Speaker 2: Out over and over again.

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Speaker 3: And he's made a lot of quick adjustments this year.

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So it's been a really good fit up there.

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Speaker 2: Boggy.

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Speaker 1: We do a segment on Tuesdays called Gut Feelings, were

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we just make kind of like predictions. I want to

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get a gut feeling from you on how is right

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field ultimately going to be settled this year? Is it

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a mixture of Descenzo and Smith? Do you think one

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of the two guys takes over? What are your thoughts

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about both of the guys and how Joe is kind

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of trying to figure out which hot got to keep

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an line up every single day.

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Speaker 2: I think as is right now.

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Speaker 3: I think it stays as a mixture.

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Speaker 2: Of playing time.

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Speaker 3: You know, both guys bring things to the table that

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are valuable. Zack Zendos had a ton of quality at bats.

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Camp Smith continues to improve, but it's also turning into

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not just you know, a solid outfielder, but a very

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very good defensive outfielder. I think the only thing that

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can throw a wrench in that is if they ever

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they eventually make a move to get a left handed

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piece in the outfield. You know, it's a very right

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handed team and that seems like it's the one place

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that they could add a left handed bat. And then

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you're going to have to make a decision on the

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one of those two guys, probably, But as is, I

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think they're doing a nice job finding favorable matchups. I

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think either one of those guys at this point, if

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you throw them out there every day, every day, it

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might be a little bit too much, but you know,

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exposing them to favorable matchups has been working so far.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, you are not that far removed from being a

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player in Major League Baseball, and obviously a lot of

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the conversation the last twenty four hours in the sport

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has been about Pete Rose being added to the eligible

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list now for the Hall of Fame, forgetting about and

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if you want to add your two cents on Pete,

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we'd love to hear from you, but also your thoughts

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about the players and what they are told and those

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meetings before the start of the season, about the absolute

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no knows, whether it's performance dancing, drugs, whether it's gambling.

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How often do the players association, the manager, the coaches,

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do they get it into your ear? You guys have

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to know there's a certain set of rules that will

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ultimately get you in some trouble.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it's very clear what the rules are.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there are meetings every year in spring training.

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Any clubhouse do you walk into, whether it be a

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home or visiting clubhouse, has rules posted, you know, somewhere

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right near the entrance where everybody can see and read

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on a daily basis. There's no excuse for not knowing

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the rules. And I know it's a little bit different

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now with how more prevalent sports betting.

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Speaker 2: Is and how easy it is.

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Speaker 3: You know, you basically have a bookie in your hand

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at all times. But the excuse of not knowing is

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not there because it's made very clear, you know. That

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being said, my opinion on the Hall of Fame I

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like very simple. I like black and white where I

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think the best players should be in. And if you're eligible,

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I think you vote accordingly. But obviously, you know, writers

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will vote how they want to write, how they want

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to vote, and we've seen that play out with the

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whole performance enhancing era of some of the voting, you know,

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not making sense where certain guys get votes and certain

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guys don't. But you know, if I understand the band

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and the lifetime ban, and that played its way out,

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and you know, Pete Rose he's served his time, and

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for the rest of his life he was not eligible,

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and now that's over, and now that he is eligible

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and can be voted in.

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Speaker 2: I have no problem with it.

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Speaker 3: If that's the case, Okay, we'll.

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Speaker 1: Live at that, bog You're looking forward to seeing you

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on TV tonight and we'll talk again next week. Thanks

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for the visitors always, all right, I'll feel it all right,

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Sprian Bogusvik with us here on Sports Talk seven only

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every Wednesday at eleven o'clock.