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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: We are happy to have and we've had him on

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a yearly basis the last couple of years Astro's reliever,

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Proud mcneicse cowboy and only you can't say McNeese stay

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they get mad at you and apparently, uh, Brian King.

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Is there any chance I go to Darryl's next week

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and we find a Brian King sandwich pole boy with

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your name all over it and your specialty.

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Speaker 3: We can do it.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you look at me. Yeah, I can

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hear your star now in the major leagues.

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Speaker 2: You're one of the best, you know, like top five

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in appearances you have, you have your own sandwich naming

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after yourself.

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Speaker 1: By now.

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Speaker 3: I'll have to go a visit and see if I

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can get on the menu.

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Speaker 2: All right, So Ross and I are going to Lake

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Charles next week for a couple of days a.

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Speaker 1: Little R and R.

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Speaker 2: What's the number one trouble spot not illegally, but legally

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besides the casino as we could do in Lake Charles

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V before. We really want to get down and dirty

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with the folks of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: The local spot.

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Speaker 3: The local spot, I mean, definitely OB's cal Boys coolers.

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There's a couple of little bars down there. They got

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hit with a hurricane, a couple of hurricanes in twenty twenty,

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so I'm sure it looks a lot different now. But

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you know those are the spout to be to go

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to back in college.

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Speaker 1: Old bastards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but.

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Speaker 1: To check that out right, Ross, we're going to old bastards. Oh,

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the old bastards.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna drop your name and see me get at

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least one free beverage job. You know what I'm saying,

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he said. Brian King says, hey, congratulations on another successful

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start to the season for yourself. Let me ask you

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is that I've been asking a lot of the guys

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as the last handful of days this seventeen games and

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seventeen appearances, And I asked your manager about this when

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he was with us at the last hour. It almost

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feels like right now, if you get the nick call

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to go warm up, you're gonna pitch because you just

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can't waste those nights getting hot in the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: Is that fair to say?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean it just depends on the situation, right.

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You know, we've had a couple a couple of times

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warming up this week that we haven't gone in and

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you just you never know. It's it's a tough situation

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being in the bullpen, and it all kind of depends

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on what the team needs that.

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Speaker 2: Day, and right now this bullpen has been used a lot.

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How are you kind of navigating through the waters?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Are you one of those guys that always wakes up

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in morning going I need this day or do you

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feel like you you need advanced notices to when you're

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gonna get out there? I mean, do you have that

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kind of leverage at this point in your young major

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league career.

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Speaker 3: I mean, whenever they call you, you've got to be ready

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to go. That's that's how the business works. That's how

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the team goes. And you know, everybody down there, whether

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we've pitched a day or two, I mean, it's you

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gotta be ready to go. And that's kind of the

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beauty of it is you know, if you have a

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bad one, you're back in there. If you have a

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good one, you're back in there.

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Speaker 2: It seems like you've been established as the seventh inning

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role with a brain, you're taking over eighth and hater

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at ninth. Was that ever discussed formally or is it

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did did Joe or anybody talk to you about that?

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Speaker 1: Or is it something that just kind of happened.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean of the year they told me like, hey,

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you've got an opportunity to pitch and leverage situations, and

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you know, I'm grateful to get to do that. But

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like I said, you know, it doesn't matter when when

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the name gets called, I'll be ready to go.

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Speaker 1: What was that like for you to kind of hear

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that is?

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Speaker 2: For you know, you've been throws through so much in

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your career and multiple organizations, Tommy John surgery.

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Speaker 1: Was it like, did it make you nervous, happy, all

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of above? What was that like?

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Speaker 2: What are those conversations like for you?

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Speaker 3: No? I love it. I love pitching when the game's

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on the line and in those high pressure moments. I

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think that's when everything is elevated a little bit. And

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you know, obviously everybody wants to pitch when you're winning.

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So I'm just glad, glad I get to do it.

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Speaker 2: Brian King with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

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Ashtros Reliever. Uh, can you explain the difference for us

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lay people? You throw a sweeper well of course, for

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years it been called a slider.

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Speaker 1: To you is do you call it a sweeper? And

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what exactly is the difference.

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Speaker 3: I kind of go back and forth. I always call

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it a slider just because that's how I think of it.

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I mean it, technically it is a sweeper. I think

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typically most people think of the slider is a little

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more depth and a sweeper is more lateral movement. But

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you know, they're kind of the same thing.

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Speaker 1: To me, as long as you get it with, you

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don't care what it's.

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Speaker 3: Called, right exactly exactly?

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Brian, get four lefties in

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a bullpen. There are some major league teams and the

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Astros are being one of them. If you were a

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history fan of all of this organization that sometimes didn't

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carry any is a little bizarre seeing somebody South Pauls

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in one group like that.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we always kind of joke about it. I

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think somebody looked it up and we've got ten percent

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of the lefties in the league and our bullpen.

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Speaker 1: You guys forming a gang? Like what are y'all doing here?

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Speaker 2: Y'all like like trying to group up against the righties

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or what?

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Speaker 3: No, not necessarily, we definitely joke around a little bit more.

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I think that's kind of how lefties are. Uh, you

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gotta roll with the punches and have fun to do.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's got to claim a corner at the table, though, right,

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so you don't bump elbows?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the weird part for me is

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I do everything right handed.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you right right handed?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You golf right handed?

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Speaker 3: Yes, you throw?

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Speaker 1: What do you bat when you bat left or right handed?

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Speaker 3: I mean I was bad at batting my whole life,

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but I was always bat righty. I tried batting left

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to you a couple of times, and it wasn't bad.

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It was tougher for me to recognize pitches as a lefty,

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but I mean I only got a couple.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna tell you this right now, Brian,

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and I'm fifty two years old. So you and I

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are like blood brothers. I'm your older brother because I'm

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the exact same dad.

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Speaker 1: Shut up.

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Speaker 2: I throw everything I throw left handed. Everything else in

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my life is right handed. So let's go to the

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last comparison between the two of us. What do you

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top out on your fastball?

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Speaker 3: Probably ninety four, maybe ninety five on a good day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mine's thirty seven. So other than that, we're pretty

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much the same person. We're the same person. So how

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did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Brian? That's just how you've always been.

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Speaker 3: Have no idea. Yeah, I don't think. My parents never

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really thought much of it. And for whatever reason, I

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started throwing lefty and it's probably one of the best

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things that's ever happened.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. You I don't know if

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you've got a girl right now, but the girls loved it.

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You are able to use left and right hand. I'm

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just telling you right now. Jeez, you're gonna be diverse.

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Were you talking about for square dance? No, I'm talking

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about for baseball and athleticis okay?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: God, get your mind out of the gutter. You brought

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it up, all right? What else we got going on?

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Let's see? You got the Astros, got the get the

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trip to Arlington? Have You've got to Arlington? But if

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you've been there before? Right at the new ballpark?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I went last year for a series.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's basically just your your home bar park

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is a rip off, right, I mean, let's go and

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put some words on the on the on the boltin board.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just newer.

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Speaker 2: That's it. All the charma minute of Dike and Park

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up in Arlington. I like, I like you. You kept

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it nice and simple. Hey, Brian's great to have you

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with us. Congratulations in the Great Star. Keep that at

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arand or two and and, Like I said, if you do.

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When Ross and I go up, we're going to we're

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going to, like Charles little bit serious. Next week, we're

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gonna get us a darrel So sandwich named after you.

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We're gonna take a picture of it and send.

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Speaker 1: It to you.

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Speaker 3: God, I would love that. Let me know how that

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works out.

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Speaker 2: So what would be I might kick us out? What

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would be on the sandwich? Let's just run through with

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the list.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the Darryl Special. For me, it was always what

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i'd get, But I probably do something similar like that.

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I know they have like a spicy Mayo they had

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on I definitely have that.

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Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, thank god, you're not anti Mayo. There's some

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punks around here that are anti Mayo.

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. You go, you go Tabasco or the Louisiana

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style hot sauce.

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Speaker 3: I mean usually I used Tobasco.

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Speaker 1: It's a classic. It's good. Do you ever sneak in

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the casinos when you're under age?

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Speaker 2: Or is that something we shouldn't even talk about?

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Speaker 1: They scan your ID?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I did. I definitely went for

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my twenty first birthday. I got won like seventy bucks.

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I was pretty happy about that. But you know, I'm

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not a big gambler to be honest.

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Speaker 2: Is there like an athletic department rule, like you guys

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can't go anywhere near the casinos?

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Speaker 3: No? Not at all?

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Speaker 1: Oh all right, well at McNee good recruiting tool. Okay,

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college credit for going the casinos and mows, don't you have?

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Can you go to dealer school and then get some.

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Speaker 2: College credit, a little real life experience. Hey, Brian, thank

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you for the time, best of luck to this weekend.

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We look forward talking with you down the road. Thanks again.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very sey Later that's Brian King joining us

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here left handed extraordinaire prior to McNeese University,