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Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross one o'clock straight

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up here on Sports Talk seven and ninety.

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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome into our number.

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Speaker 1: Four of the Astros Street Fest Spectacular. It is The

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Matt Thomas Show with Ross, without Matt Thomas, with Adam Wesler,

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with Adam Planton and.

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Speaker 3: Now with Brian McTaggart. I'm not trying to aid you, attacker,

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but what do you do?

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Speaker 2: You know what number opening day this is for you?

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Speaker 3: Uh, twenty something, twenty three, ok.

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Speaker 2: Four, So that's pretty good. You kind of know your stuff,

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I hope.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see, all right, So a number of different

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directions to go. We'll go ahead and start with the

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somewhat news of the day. Jeremy Pinyon not in the lineup.

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You tweeted out with that that the Astros are expected

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to sort of bring him along slowly. How do you

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expect that to play out? We know that he got

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some live action in Sugarland today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think within like a week he's probably gonna

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be in the lineup every day.

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Speaker 3: It was either have him.

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Speaker 4: Start three or four games here the first week or

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not have him at all available, you know, through the

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first you know, seven eight games, however, long when the

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ile stint would end, so they just decided he was

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close enough to we'll carry him, and hey, they have

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an extra infielder, so why.

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Speaker 5: Not they have an extra infielder. Another long running off

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season storyline Carl's Korea like shortstop today. Obviously, did you

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feel like he was able to do all the things

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as a leader when he arrived here last year versus

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the things we kind of expect him to now do

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being here through the offseason, all through spring training, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 4: I mean they had a massive void in leadership. I

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think after some guys left like Maldonado and Bregman. I mean,

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al Tuovey is really not interested in being that type

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of leader. I mean, obviously he did his leading was

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on the field, but they needed that voice to come back,

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and he stepped in right away, and he got them

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to change some things in the spring about how they

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go about their workouts to try to keep the guys fresher.

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He had, you know, he talked with some of the

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players about nutrition, watching what they eat. He eats really clean,

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really healthy, and he wants the other guys to do

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the same. So back at shortstop, but he looked really

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good at third base two in the spring, so it's

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a good thing for the Astros to be able to

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put him.

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Speaker 6: A short I feel like this is overly simplistic, but

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I don't care because I went through last season like

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you did. If the Astros are healthy, isn't that good

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enough for like X amount of wins?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think people I see the Astros as a

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middle of the pack people ranking the middle of the

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pack or lower. I mean last year they had a

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devastating amount of injuries and missed the playoffs by one game.

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I mean, if Jordan Alvarez is healthy the entire season,

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I think they win the division. They still led the

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division for more than ninety days last year despite their injuries,

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So that's the number one thing. I think this roster

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is a playoff roster if they can stay healthy. They

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need Jordan on to play one hundred and thirty hundred

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and forty games.

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Speaker 2: They need pay you to be on the.

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Speaker 4: Field every day, and they need they need guys like

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Cam Smith and Zach Cole to the young guys to

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take a step forward a little bit, and Joey Loperfito

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as well.

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Speaker 2: And if that health is there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, two of the big offseason storylines were Jake

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Myers possibly getting traded and then of course the infield

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logjam in trades there. What I mean, where do we

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stand on that? Is that just everything that's completely cooled

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or off the table or just on hold?

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Speaker 2: What's the situation do you? Yeah? I think everything's on

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hold for now.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think the teams have their roster set

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and maybe as we get closer to the trade deadline.

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I think the issue with peretis, I mean, they tried

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to trade him, but the Astros had sut such a specific.

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Speaker 2: Need that they wanted back.

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Speaker 3: They wanted a left hand hitting outfielder.

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Speaker 4: And now you needed to match with another team that

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needed a third baseman, a right handed hitting third baseman.

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There just was never a match there. And Myers too,

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I mean, I think they dashers. Asking price on Myers

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is pretty high as it should be so, and they're

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content to go with what they have. It'll be interesting

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once they're back healthy, opinions back. How they work pretis in.

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Joe Spotta says he's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna play pretty much every day.

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Speaker 4: They can play him at all the infield spots except

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shortstop ND eight, so there's gonna be a bats for him.

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Speaker 5: What do you think about the outlook for some of

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their younger guys? Two of them are in the corners today,

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Joey low Brafido getting the start field returns to the

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Astros left handed bat and obviously Cam Smith, he was

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the opening day right field or a year ago he

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is again. Hey, do you feel like he won the

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job in spring training? And what do you think the

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outlook is for those two young players this season?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think Cam won the job.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we all know what Dana Brown said in

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November that he's gonna have to come to camp and

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prove himself, and he did that. He made some changes

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with this swing, trying to keep things simpler.

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Speaker 3: Looked like he was pulling the ball more. It looked

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a lot more comfortable.

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Speaker 4: He just seems a lot more comfortable in his own skin,

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which is natural as second year. So I think he

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definitely came in and won that job. Low Brafido looks

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like a different hitter than he was the first time here.

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I mean he's not striking out as much, He's hitting

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the ball hard. It'll be interesting to see if he

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can keep this left field job, or if he struggles,

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if they'll start doing a platoon with Christ Matthews or

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Zach Cole comes back up. But they had to get

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younger and more athletic in the outfield, and they certainly

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did that with Cam Smith and Lowperfeedo. And his question comes, now,

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are they gonna hit enough to stay in this lineup?

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Cam Smith hitting six tonight, so they're showing a lot

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of confidence on him.

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Speaker 6: I'm talking to Brian McTaggart of MLB dot Com. I

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think it's probably the surest sign of confidence in a

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guy that nobody's even talking about.

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Speaker 2: Hunter Brown.

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Speaker 3: He's going today, He's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be a cy.

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Speaker 6: Young Award candidate right there near the top, because of

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course he is right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think it was the second third start of the

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spring in Florida. It was probably March tenth or eleventh.

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He pitched like four innings. No one could touch him,

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and I was like, man, you look like you're ready

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to go, and he's like I am. It was just

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a matter now of just getting the reps the rest

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of the spring. He looked really, really good. Their starting

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pitching looked really good in spring, and you can get

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fooled by that. I mean a lot of the guys

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are facing or double A guys or guys who aren't going.

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Speaker 3: To play in the big leagues. But Mike Burrows looks.

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Speaker 2: Like a dude.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's the guy that will compete and works fast.

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Emi has some crazy stuff. I'm anxious to see what

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he can do later in this series. But they went

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out to try to beef up the depth of their

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starting pitching and they didn't look look at his in

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Triple A. Now you got Arriic Gatty, Colton, Gordon, Jason

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Alexander who won like nine starts in a row from him,

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even a guy like JP Franz. So if there's injuries

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their position now with some guys who have some a

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little bit of a track record to move into the rotation.

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Speaker 5: You've been basically a West Palm Beach resident for better

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than a month for the past several years. This year

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was a season at spring training off of no playoffs.

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Last year was the spring training off of not winning

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in the playoffs, and then all the ones before that

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were off of having great postseasons. Is there any vibe

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difference that you felt maybe this year with this group,

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not so much the players.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think Spata has talked about how he.

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Speaker 4: Didn't sit well with them for the playoffs last year,

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not to be in the playoffs, and you know, I

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think bringing back a guy like Korea who was in

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an organization that didn't win and started tearing down, He's like,

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I want no part of this, I want to win.

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And somehow he's back. And I think he's bringing that

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mentality as well. And you have guys that have been

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here and all they've known is when he mccullor's Altuve

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and they want to get back there. And I think

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that's that's gonna be something. With Carlos at the head

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of it. I think that's gonna help drive this team

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a little bit. They're not used to not playing in October.

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Speaker 6: Since you brought his name up, you're the guy that

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kind of shine a little bit more light on that

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story with Carlos Korea.

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Speaker 3: Just talk about how that.

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Speaker 6: Story got told to you, how that came to light,

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because as you wrote the article, he had already told

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that story, but you're the one that kind of put

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it out there and a lot of people are like, WHOA,

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I didn't know that happened.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd heard over the Winner that he did a

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a sermon if you will at a retirement home, which

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I was like wow, and also that he talked to

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this sermon that he almost drowned, and so I kept

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it like I need to ask Carlos about this, and

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I was the next thing we know over it spring training,

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next thing when we're halfway through spring training, and so

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finally I asked Carlos, I mean, did you give this sermon?

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And he's like, yeah, would love I'd love to talk

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to you about it. He's like sure, you know. It

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took a little while, and then one day I'm in

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the clubhouse, He's like, let's talk. So he brings me

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over sit down in the clubhouse, which you're not supposed

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to do, but if Carlos Korea tells you to sit down,

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to sit down, and so, uh, you know, I started

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asking him about the sermon and the way he's sort

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of found religion, and then I asked him if there

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was a point to where something happened, and he went

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into detail about this incredible story in the water that

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he told at the retirement home a few months earlier,

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and just an incredible story and it ended up being

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sort of a life changing event from him where you know,

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he he thought he might be done, and you know,

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he said a little prayer and now he's he's he

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wants to give more sermons. He's gotten really involved in

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his church, and you know, good for him. It was

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it was a pretty scary deal and a thing that

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changed his life off the field.

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Speaker 2: Did he bless the elbows of the Astros pitch?

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Speaker 3: Because I don't know if it is that kind of power?

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Speaker 2: Okay, well I guess and it may take ded. It'll

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Speaker 1: But speaking of Carlos Cray and this season out looking,

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I also want to talk about Josel two Bay. We're

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kind of just setting in forgetting those guys in the

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lineup every day, but these are also guys that are

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into the thirties. Carlos has had some injury history, how

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two Bay has been declining for a couple of years.

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But two guys with a heart and soul. Obviously of

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this Astros renaissance, what do you think this is the

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realistic season outlook as for those.

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Speaker 4: Two Yeah, I mean I think it's gonna be interesting

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because they've you know, revamp their hitting, two new hitting coaches,

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actually three new hitting coaches, and we hear good things

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in the spring. Again, you don't know how it's going

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to translate it at three o'clock today, but we'll see.

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But I think all two Bay being back at second

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base and second base only is probably going to give

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Speaker 2: Peace of mind. You know.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he was too wild about playing left field,

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but he did it because he was a team guy.

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But you're right, he's a guy who's declined now for

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several years. He's going to be thirty six, Candy find

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a little bit of an extra gear. I know that

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he's super motivated, not only to win. He wants to

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get to three thousand hits, of course, and he's gonna

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have to start stacking up one hundred and.

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Speaker 2: Fifty hit seasons here.

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Speaker 4: So if he can do that, I think they'll be

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in good shape Koreas as he took more swings this

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offseason than he ever has in his life, and again

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really enjoyed working with the new hitting coaches, So you know,

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I think he's gonna be rejuvenated being back here for

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a full season. But man, you never know until they

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get out there and start playing.

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Speaker 5: What are your thoughts without definite knowledge of both of

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their lefties that start the year on the il ben.

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It's Susan's situation and where Josh Hater is at.

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Speaker 4: Susan sounds like it's gonna be like a six week thing.

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I mean, I don't think he's gonna be close at all.

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But Hater is throwing a bullpen tomorrow and Dana Brown

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said today he's going to face hitters in mid April.

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So we're like two threeks, three or three weeks away

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from him maybe pitching live VP. Then you start that

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whole progression, simulate a game, go to sugar Land. So

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I think we're looking at probably early May. And if

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that is that's fine. I mean you want Josh Hater

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for later in the season. They didn't have him last

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year and that was a big blown out having him.

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Speaker 2: So if he comes back in early May.

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Speaker 3: And can pitch the final five months, I think he'll

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take that.

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Speaker 1: At this point, we'll wrap up with obligatory crystal ball time.

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Brian al Wes and Astros specifically, it feels like wide

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range of outcomes.

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Speaker 4: But how do you see this planning? Yeah, everyone's picking

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the Mariners. I mean for good reason. Their rotation is great.

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They have they have some really good players. But I

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go back to last Astro stay healthy. Last year they

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win the division, and I think if they stay healthy

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that they can win this division. I like their offense,

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a healthy Astros offense, better than the Mariners. But I

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think it's gonna between those two teams. Don't pan out

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with the age, they're not going to win the division.

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Speaker 2: That team could hit and that.

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Speaker 4: Team is going to be a team you're gonna have

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to worry about a little bit, And they beat up

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on the Astros a little bit last year, So it's

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it's gonna be a fun division.

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Speaker 2: But I think Astros and Mariner is going to be

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right there at the end.

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Speaker 1: MLB dot COM's Brian mctagger going to be our weekly

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