Speaker 1: Matt Thomas show with Ross.
Speaker 2: We are happy to have and we've had him on
a yearly basis the last couple of years Astro's reliever,
Proud mcneicse cowboy and only you can't say McNeese stay
they get mad at you and apparently, uh, Brian King.
Is there any chance I go to Darryl's next week
and we find a Brian King sandwich pole boy with
your name all over it and your specialty.
Speaker 3: We can do it.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you look at me. Yeah, I can
hear your star now in the major leagues.
Speaker 2: You're one of the best, you know, like top five
in appearances you have, you have your own sandwich naming
after yourself.
Speaker 1: By now.
Speaker 3: I'll have to go a visit and see if I
can get on the menu.
Speaker 2: All right, So Ross and I are going to Lake
Charles next week for a couple of days a.
Speaker 1: Little R and R.
Speaker 2: What's the number one trouble spot not illegally, but legally
besides the casino as we could do in Lake Charles
V before. We really want to get down and dirty
with the folks of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Speaker 1: The local spot.
Speaker 3: The local spot, I mean, definitely OB's cal Boys coolers.
There's a couple of little bars down there. They got
hit with a hurricane, a couple of hurricanes in twenty twenty,
so I'm sure it looks a lot different now. But
you know those are the spout to be to go
to back in college.
Speaker 1: Old bastards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 1: To check that out right, Ross, we're going to old bastards. Oh,
the old bastards.
Speaker 2: We're gonna drop your name and see me get at
least one free beverage job. You know what I'm saying,
he said. Brian King says, hey, congratulations on another successful
start to the season for yourself. Let me ask you
is that I've been asking a lot of the guys
as the last handful of days this seventeen games and
seventeen appearances, And I asked your manager about this when
he was with us at the last hour. It almost
feels like right now, if you get the nick call
to go warm up, you're gonna pitch because you just
can't waste those nights getting hot in the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean it just depends on the situation, right.
You know, we've had a couple a couple of times
warming up this week that we haven't gone in and
you just you never know. It's it's a tough situation
being in the bullpen, and it all kind of depends
on what the team needs that.
Speaker 2: Day, and right now this bullpen has been used a lot.
How are you kind of navigating through the waters?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Are you one of those guys that always wakes up
in morning going I need this day or do you
feel like you you need advanced notices to when you're
gonna get out there? I mean, do you have that
kind of leverage at this point in your young major
league career.
Speaker 3: I mean, whenever they call you, you've got to be ready
to go. That's that's how the business works. That's how
the team goes. And you know, everybody down there, whether
we've pitched a day or two, I mean, it's you
gotta be ready to go. And that's kind of the
beauty of it is you know, if you have a
bad one, you're back in there. If you have a
good one, you're back in there.
Speaker 2: It seems like you've been established as the seventh inning
role with a brain, you're taking over eighth and hater
at ninth. Was that ever discussed formally or is it
did did Joe or anybody talk to you about that?
Speaker 1: Or is it something that just kind of happened.
Speaker 3: No, I mean of the year they told me like, hey,
you've got an opportunity to pitch and leverage situations, and
you know, I'm grateful to get to do that. But
like I said, you know, it doesn't matter when when
the name gets called, I'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: What was that like for you to kind of hear
that is?
Speaker 2: For you know, you've been throws through so much in
your career and multiple organizations, Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 1: Was it like, did it make you nervous, happy, all
of above? What was that like?
Speaker 2: What are those conversations like for you?
Speaker 3: No? I love it. I love pitching when the game's
on the line and in those high pressure moments. I
think that's when everything is elevated a little bit. And
you know, obviously everybody wants to pitch when you're winning.
So I'm just glad, glad I get to do it.
Speaker 2: Brian King with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Ashtros Reliever. Uh, can you explain the difference for us
lay people? You throw a sweeper well of course, for
years it been called a slider.
Speaker 1: To you is do you call it a sweeper? And
what exactly is the difference.
Speaker 3: I kind of go back and forth. I always call
it a slider just because that's how I think of it.
I mean it, technically it is a sweeper. I think
typically most people think of the slider is a little
more depth and a sweeper is more lateral movement. But
you know, they're kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1: To me, as long as you get it with, you
don't care what it's.
Speaker 3: Called, right exactly exactly?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Brian, get four lefties in
a bullpen. There are some major league teams and the
Astros are being one of them. If you were a
history fan of all of this organization that sometimes didn't
carry any is a little bizarre seeing somebody South Pauls
in one group like that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we always kind of joke about it. I
think somebody looked it up and we've got ten percent
of the lefties in the league and our bullpen.
Speaker 1: You guys forming a gang? Like what are y'all doing here?
Speaker 2: Y'all like like trying to group up against the righties
or what?
Speaker 3: No, not necessarily, we definitely joke around a little bit more.
I think that's kind of how lefties are. Uh, you
gotta roll with the punches and have fun to do.
Speaker 2: Everybody's got to claim a corner at the table, though, right,
so you don't bump elbows?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the weird part for me is
I do everything right handed.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you right right handed?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You golf right handed?
Speaker 3: Yes, you throw?
Speaker 1: What do you bat when you bat left or right handed?
Speaker 3: I mean I was bad at batting my whole life,
but I was always bat righty. I tried batting left
to you a couple of times, and it wasn't bad.
It was tougher for me to recognize pitches as a lefty,
but I mean I only got a couple.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna tell you this right now, Brian,
and I'm fifty two years old. So you and I
are like blood brothers. I'm your older brother because I'm
the exact same dad.
Speaker 1: Shut up.
Speaker 2: I throw everything I throw left handed. Everything else in
my life is right handed. So let's go to the
last comparison between the two of us. What do you
top out on your fastball?
Speaker 3: Probably ninety four, maybe ninety five on a good day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine's thirty seven. So other than that, we're pretty
much the same person. We're the same person. So how
did that happen?
Speaker 1: Brian? That's just how you've always been.
Speaker 3: Have no idea. Yeah, I don't think. My parents never
really thought much of it. And for whatever reason, I
started throwing lefty and it's probably one of the best
things that's ever happened.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. You I don't know if
you've got a girl right now, but the girls loved it.
You are able to use left and right hand. I'm
just telling you right now. Jeez, you're gonna be diverse.
Were you talking about for square dance? No, I'm talking
about for baseball and athleticis okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: God, get your mind out of the gutter. You brought
it up, all right? What else we got going on?
Let's see? You got the Astros, got the get the
trip to Arlington? Have You've got to Arlington? But if
you've been there before? Right at the new ballpark?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went last year for a series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's basically just your your home bar park
is a rip off, right, I mean, let's go and
put some words on the on the on the boltin board.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just newer.
Speaker 2: That's it. All the charma minute of Dike and Park
up in Arlington. I like, I like you. You kept
it nice and simple. Hey, Brian's great to have you
with us. Congratulations in the Great Star. Keep that at
arand or two and and, Like I said, if you do.
When Ross and I go up, we're going to we're
going to, like Charles little bit serious. Next week, we're
gonna get us a darrel So sandwich named after you.
We're gonna take a picture of it and send.
Speaker 1: It to you.
Speaker 3: God, I would love that. Let me know how that
works out.
Speaker 2: So what would be I might kick us out? What
would be on the sandwich? Let's just run through with
the list.
Speaker 3: Oh, the Darryl Special. For me, it was always what
i'd get, But I probably do something similar like that.
I know they have like a spicy Mayo they had
on I definitely have that.
Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, thank god, you're not anti Mayo. There's some
punks around here that are anti Mayo.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. You go, you go Tabasco or the Louisiana
style hot sauce.
Speaker 3: I mean usually I used Tobasco.
Speaker 1: It's a classic. It's good. Do you ever sneak in
the casinos when you're under age?
Speaker 2: Or is that something we shouldn't even talk about?
Speaker 1: They scan your ID?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I did. I definitely went for
my twenty first birthday. I got won like seventy bucks.
I was pretty happy about that. But you know, I'm
not a big gambler to be honest.
Speaker 2: Is there like an athletic department rule, like you guys
can't go anywhere near the casinos?
Speaker 3: No? Not at all?
Speaker 1: Oh all right, well at McNee good recruiting tool. Okay,
college credit for going the casinos and mows, don't you have?
Can you go to dealer school and then get some.
Speaker 2: College credit, a little real life experience. Hey, Brian, thank
you for the time, best of luck to this weekend.
We look forward talking with you down the road. Thanks again.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you very sey Later that's Brian King joining us
here left handed extraordinaire prior to McNeese University,