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Speaker 1: Eleven o three Sports Talk seven Audien, It's time for

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us to spend ten quality minutes with our friend buying

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Bogus Sevic working the last couple of games for Space

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City home networking joints us here every Wednesday on the

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radio program So Brian, when you hear the stats about

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that ball would only have left one ballpark, does that go?

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Does that irritate you? Does that make it go? Well,

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that's what dyke in park is or are you completely

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indifferent to hearing things like that?

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Speaker 2: You get pretty numb to it when it's your home park, right.

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You know, when you go into different stadiums as a

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visitor and the quirks of a stadium kind of play

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themselves out, it'll drive you crazy a little bit. But

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when you see it on a day and day out

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basis and you kind of get a feel that you

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know every you know, sometimes you get burned on it

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and sometimes it helps you out. You just kind of

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get numb to it and it is what it is.

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You know, it stinks when a game gets decided on

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something like that, but you know it could have just

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as easily been a ball that went in the Astrospace Brian, it.

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Speaker 1: Was a rare off night for Hunter Brown. I mean,

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everything was hit hard. It felt like the guardians were

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seeing the ball very, very well, and that always comes

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up with the well is he tipping pitches? You have

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been out of the game for a while, but you

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were obviously in the game for much of your adult

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life and childhood life. When do you, as an analyst

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see that there's something peculiar going on? And was it

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different than if you were watching and playing the game

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itself in terms of, Oh, I see something going on

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that helps me figure out what this guy is throwing.

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Speaker 2: So here's here's what I look at. Like, it's always

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on your radar, right, especially when you're throwing the ball

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as well as Hunter has been, and then all of

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a sudden, guys are on everything. But I think you know,

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the first thing you have to look at is what

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what are the pitches that they were hitting? You know,

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where were those pitches located. That pitch that Jose Ramirez hit,

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that was a change that that got yanked right down

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the middle. The pitch that Rokio hit for the home run,

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the ninth hole hitter, it was a cutter that landed

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right in the middle of the zone. So I think,

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you know, first and foremost, you got to look at

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quality of pitch, and that will tell you a lot. Now,

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if you're just dotting up your pitches, and if you're

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throwing nasty thinkers that guys are staying on and if

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you know you're you know, bats are beating you to

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the top of the zone on well located, foreseen fastballs

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that guys don't usually hit, then you might look a

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little bit deeper and say, oh, man, am I tipping something?

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Do they have something on me? I think it's just

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one of those nights where you know, there wasn't really

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a consistent amount of well located pitches, especially with the

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off speed stuff, and you know you chuck it up

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more to that, then I'm doing something that's given it away.

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Speaker 1: Staying with pitching for a second, what did you think

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of Kate Smith intentionally balking to get Dubon off a

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second base last night?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Interesting, I understand the logic of it. If you

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think somebody is able to pull something out of your glove,

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then you know you don't want to risk that being relayed.

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At the same time, I mean he threw a wild

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pitch that following inning out. Know that I'd be too,

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you know, quick to put guys on third base when

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I'm you know, spraying ninety eight and bouncing sliders in there.

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But you know what, I would have to imagine that's

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something that they discussed before the series and before the game,

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certainly of the certain guys that we think might be

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able to pick stuff up, or or maybe he thinks

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that people have been picking it up on them in

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the past. So it's it's it's a different strategy, but

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you know, you know, whatever makes the pitcher feel comfortable,

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Speaker 3: And on both of those things, the tipping and the

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kind of picking trying to pick up grips, what exactly

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are are you looking for? What's some some examples you

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can think of in your career that you saw. I mean,

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we've seen people talking about the way the glove is

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held or certain cadences, or if you could just give

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us like specific examples and then also kind of explain

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the looking for the grip thing as well.

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Speaker 2: Right, So, it used to be when you were at

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second base, you used to be able to pick up

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signs and see if you could decode the signs. That

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doesn't exist anymore with the pitchcomp So really what you're

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doing is is you're focusing on the glove and the

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set position the pitcher, and first first thing you're looking

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for is do they do something different on say fastball

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versus off speed. Is the glove turned a little bit differently,

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that you could pick up that maybe the hitter can't see.

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a pitcher's glove is open to you right, they don't

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have it closed tightly to their chest. You can sometimes

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pick up the hand positioning on the ball and specifically

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a change up where they'll throw three fingers on there,

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or if a guy throws a split finger, or if

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they have a distinct curveball grip where maybe they spike

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their finger or something. You can pick those things up

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in the glove as they set the grip, and if

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you can get it early enough, you can then relay

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that to the hitter. So you know, a lot of

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times you'll see pictures as they come set. They'll be

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turned around looking at the runner, seeing if the runner's

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peeking in. They'll be trying to really close their glove

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off and keep it tight to the body. But there's

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a lot of guys who are really good at peeking

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in there, and they might not be every pitchure that

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they get, but there might be one particular pitch that

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every once in a while will give away, and you know,

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sometimes that's all it takes.

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Speaker 3: Brian bogos Sevik with us here on Sports Talk seven

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ninety three hits yesterday for Cam Smith. We've been kind

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of talking about his progression throughout the season with you.

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So what have you been seeing from him lately as

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he just continues to get better and better, well.

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Speaker 2: A real understanding of what his strengths are, a real

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understanding of what he needs to do to continue to progress.

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We've talked about the adjustments that he's made, but you know,

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one of the things that is the most difficult thing

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to get better at is how quickly you can adjust,

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how quickly on the fly you can make adjustments to

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what either pitchers are trying to do to you or

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what he did wrong the day before and try to,

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you know, take an OH for four and not turn

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it into an OH for ten. And you know what

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he did yesterday was making an adjustment day to day,

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which sometimes it takes hitters, you know, a week to

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make an adjustment. He got owned it in with sinkers

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in the first game against Cleveland, and a lot of

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times a young hitter, you start to feel that fastball

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in on your hands. What are you gonna do. You're

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gonna try to get quicker. You're gonna try to get

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the head out. Okay, I need to pull that ball.

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You need to get around on it. But he immediately

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went back to what do I do well, and that's

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stay inside the baseball, hit it the other way. His

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first at bat, he got that fastball in, but he

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really kept his hands in tight, got the barrel inside

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of it, shoots the line drive to right field. Then

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he does the same thing with the breaking ball, shoots

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it to right field. And you know, how quickly you

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can get back to your baseline of what makes me good,

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minimizes the downs of the ups and downs of the season.

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that is the key to being consistent over you know,

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a six hundred plate appearance season is how often can

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I be either good or great and not be in

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a slump?

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Speaker 1: From your eyes to what you've seen the last couple

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of days, and that's obviously the Guardian's putting up a

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lot of runs. The lineup card has been an interesting

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one to see the very least, especially back half of it.

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A lot of it's because of paternity, a lot of

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it's because of Jake's ailments and pain. You still, if

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I was his surmise for have you summarized the last

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two games, was it, you know what, you're coming off

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a huge series winning in Los Angeles, natural letdown. Is

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it that maybe the back third of the lineup is

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kind of acting as advertised? Or is it a case

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where maybe you've got some guys that are just trying

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to crawl to the All Star break to get some

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time off. What do you think it is? It could

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be a combination of things, or could all be none

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of those things.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, what I think it is is it's baseball. You know,

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one day you can be a world beater, and the

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next day a team on a ten game losing streak

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can come in and beat you. And you know, every

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team throughout the course of the season is going to

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have to find through some injuries, They're going to have to,

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you know, dip into the depth of the organization and

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you know, fortunately the Astors have gotten themselves to a

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spot to where they don't have to force the issue,

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they don't have to try to rush guys back. They

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can be cautious with Jake Myers and you know, if

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it's calf is feeling tight, give them a couple of days.

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gotten production out of there. You know, Taylor Tremel has

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had a couple of big games. You know, not everybody's

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killing the ball down there, but that is rarely the case.

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I think it's just, you know, it's it's just the

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natural course of the season that things can turn very quickly.

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And you know, you look at the game yesterday. The

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Guardians put up ten runs on Hunter Brown and Josh Hader.

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You know, if those two guys are going to get beat,

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you know the Askers are probably going to get beat.

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And that's just the way it was yesterday, and you

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move on. I don't think that you can you can

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really point to the lineup as being an issue for

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any of these last couple of games. It's just the

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way it is. And you know, sometimes you take your

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lumps and move on.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bolgy, final game of the series and Texas comes in,

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are could you be thinking? Should you be thinking? Look,

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you know, Seattle's not going away, cal Rawley's having a

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great season, Mariners have good pitching, never going to be

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killing it with the bats. So can you put away

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a team in late July if you were to take

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two out of three or do you not even think

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about it as you get ready for the All Star break?

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Speaker 2: No, it's too early to say, you know, putting a

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team away. But you can put a lot of pressure

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on them. You can force them to kind of play

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out the rest of the season in a way that

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a team doesn't want to, which is, you know, pedal

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to the medal for the last essentially two and a

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half three months of the season. That is a long

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time to be full go. And the Astros were in

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that situation last year where they got behind it and

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you know, from basically mid May on and it takes

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a lot out of a team and it's not easy

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to do. So, so no, you can't put them away

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and say, Okay, these guys are going to be out

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of it, especially a team that has the quality of

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pitching that they have, where they can just rip off

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a bunch of really good starts every day, but you

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can really force them into a spot to where they're

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having to go out there and execute and be good

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day in and day out, which is difficult to do.

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Speaker 3: And the All Star break coming up, and it's just

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four days off, Brian, what do you think about that?

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Do you think that's enough as far as your complications

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with getting pictures in and out of rhythm and stuff

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like that, or do you think it should be a

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little bit longer?

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Speaker 2: No, four days is Honestly, four days feels like a lot.

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When you're used to playing every day and maybe having

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one day here or there, four days off is a lot.

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And honestly, by the time you get back and you

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have that, you know, I think it's an optional workout day.

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Now it's it's needed. You know, you need a day

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to get back into it. So now four days, four

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days is plenty, thank.

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Speaker 1: You very much. And we're gonna give you next week off.

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What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't know nothing. That's my typical All

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Star break plan is I do nothing.

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Speaker 1: Well, then we're calling you next Wednesday. Then if you

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know nothing, the new we're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna call you. We'll talk about talk about the home

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run derby.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and how many astro pitchers get to pitch in

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the game. Next Tuesday night, we'll have a game, well

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you know we'll do. We're gonna ask you to break

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down the All Star Game like no one's ever broken

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down an All Star game in the history. So we're

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calling you next Wednesday. You're not off the hook, then.

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Speaker 2: I'll have to do something that I don't often do.

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Speaker 1: Just watch deal, just watch the ratings and you can

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you can go to MLB dot com and watch it

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on speed. Thank your friend who's always we'll see the

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ballpark tonight. Thank you for the time you got. Brian Bogasivik.

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We just put him on assignment.