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Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: Ten o'clock at h Town. Good morning, and welcome today

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number two The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Spring Training

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Style from West Palm Beach, Florida. Where we are going

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to bring you. We brought you a lot of pictures yesterday.

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We're going to the outfield a lot today. Let's go.

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We're also gonna go on the infield for a little

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bit as well as Christian Walker will be among our guests.

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Joey lo Berffido will be among our guests. Zach Cole

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be among our guests. Cam Smith, you and I talked

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to you this morning. We'll have that interview for you

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as well. So we got a very busy Tuesday edition

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of The Matt Thomas Show. Ross here from Astro spring Training.

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It's a star studded edition of the show, and we're

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also gonna have guests. Matt could have said it better

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MYSELFA man sports rv uh. We have somebody in our

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media brethren who has lost his mind. His name is

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Brian mctaggard. Are you gonna call him out the first segment? Okay,

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excuse me, mayan a record? What is he wigging out about? Matt,

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go ahead, he's wigging out because our Cougar's lost to

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Iowa State yesterday. Uh, we had a seventeen to four

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run by Iowa State late that didn't ask, so Cougar's

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make him as do. Most teams go into scoring droughts.

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That's exactly what happened last night. A key offensive rebound

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in the last few seconds helped the Iowas State cause too,

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there was a kicked ball that was called that was

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a handball. Yes, it touched a hand while the player

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was kicking. So confused the referees college referees we've talked

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about on the show not good. Yeah, I mean the

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three guys that were on the crew last night were

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like the best of the best of the best. Oh really,

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Oh yeah, Well everybody misses calls, Matt, nobody's perfect as

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much as they try. And oh, by the way, a

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three point deficit and a two and a half points

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spread on the game if you had a gitting interest

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in it, if you did. Yeah, So, needless to say,

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first of all, East Coast time sucks. That bad boy

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tipped off at nine o'clock. I fell in and out

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of sleep because I got we got to be peel

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the curtain back. Here we are summertime sucks. Eastern time

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first of all sucks. Secondly, we're outside here, yes, uh

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really just basically adjacent to the concourse of the Cacti Ballpark,

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and we do have a tent over us, but it's

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still warm. So if you, as anybody would do, you're outside,

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if you're gardening, if you're walking, yes, if you're playing golf.

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When the day ends, you get back to your room

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and you fall asleep. I took a NAPISDS. We got

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home to the hotel yesterday. Your son's apped. We went

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out and had dinner last night, had a big heavy meal.

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We were we're sleepy too there. So I did wake

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up in time to watch the last five minutes and

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Franklin didn't see much scoring. And uh look this the

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Cougars have a murderer's role lineup games Iowa State last night,

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Arizona this Saturday. By the way, tickets are now up

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to over four hundred dollars per ticket for that good Yeah,

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I mean it's a great venue to go to. I'm

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sure the place will be completely packed, but if you're

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looking to go get tickets, it's going to cost you

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a pretty penny on that, and then the following Monday

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they get on a play and go back to play

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in Kansas against the Jayhawks. So a really interesting way

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for them to close out their Big twelve campaign. That's awesome.

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I mean a number three team on the road at

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the number six hosting the number four team, and then

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at the number eighteen. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, So yeah,

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I'm disappointed. Of course I'm mad, but I have little

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faith and officials, especially college basketball referees. Just be ready

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for just be ready and healthy for the turn pitch,

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your free throws, well, yeah, make a basket late in games,

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grab an offensive rebound, the little intangibles, and do not

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allow a kicked ball whatever the case would be, or

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handball that should have been. Not call anything but just

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regular course of play, help you determine a possession change.

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It was ultimately beneficial to the Cyclones. It was a

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fun game, Matt, until it wasn't. I'm sorry wishing that

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the Cougar is the best tournament. Yeah, but mctager is

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just beside himself today. He's Cougar's fan. Uh number I

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want to say one, No, I don't want you to

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get mad at me, no, no, no, because as far as

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argue on Twitter, he's Cougar Fans number no, Cougar's fan

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number one. Yeah. He yeah, he's way more emotional than

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I am about it. He was talking, he was talking

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to Joe's spot about it. Yeah. So so he's talking

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to everybody the clubhouse guys. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The guy's watering the lawns out here the ballpark, he says.

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He says, man, the kinks, some flumings or something else.

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I said, Jack and you and I ell m and

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he goes, I don't have enough money for that. Hey,

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get the I heard from a trusted source. The program's

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broke or poor. I'm sorry, poor, I believe was the word.

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Did you see who sent Venmo money to Calvin Samson?

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couldn't remember one centim a dollar. That's good. Kelvin's doing okay, yeah,

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cal on Friday show at one thirty. Yeah, so no,

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we'll do non four stories a little earlier. Well, by

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the way, for to be Friday for the stories because

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we're in the state this week. So very much looking

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forward to that that's right. Yeah, Well, Jonathan's back with

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this as our producer, so we've got live guests, we've

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got some woody rip our take coming up, a lot

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of astrocentric stuff. But just worthy of a mentioned that

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the cougar fell yesterday, and yeah, it's it's just hard

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to And maybe if I was if I had not

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fallen asleep and I was just watching the whole thing,

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I would have been more passionated to it. But like,

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I got up at the right time, and unfortunately it

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was the wrong time. I was dozing off. The last

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thing I remember hearing was nine oh run by Iowa State,

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and then I put in my earbuds and uh and

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put on some music to go to sleep. Am I storing,

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by the way, I don't know, because you're not okay good? Yeah,

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well I got my I got my seatpap machine, so

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I don't normally store with that, and I'm not going

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to find out because I put my earbuds in. You

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have your like a normally I would say, a light snorer. Yeah,

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so I was prepared. Only time I ever really lovely

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have colds or stuff congested, it effects her breathing, so

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that would be the case. So you're better than say

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a Schmish Smorty or my brother start to call two

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people out by name, Jeez, Schmish Morty. By the way,

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I'm gonna send my legs and look at these bad boys.

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Oh my god, you can see them. By the way,

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if you want to look at our instagram with the

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interview with uh well, the media scrum as it were

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with Joe Spot, you showed my legs. No, I wasn't

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try I was zooming in on them. But I believe

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that if you catch the Instagram Sports Talk seven ninety,

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I believe you can. You can see them there. It's

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not the featured item. It's not like Kevin Durant's what

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is less white than al bino? Your translution? You mean

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more white or less? You want to be bone? I

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need to get darker. I I mean I am white

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like the song wider shade of gray? Is that what

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they call it? Yeah, darker shade of gray. I'm just

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the I'm so disenchanted with my legs. You're going for

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an eggshell. I don't know what it is, but it's

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so sad. I'm just gonna leave my legs out here

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like this and see how they go four straight out.

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I'm a lifting all No, you're gonna burn. That's fine,

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I can live, no, I know, because then I'm gonna

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have to hear you complain about your legs burning all day,

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all right, among other things. All right, So what else

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going on? We got? Oh? As far as news the day,

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nothing really here at the astros esac Pretis is still

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an Astra of Ross and if you knew that or not,

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but he's still I'm in the clubhouse walking around. Yeah uh,

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it's it's awkward. I'm sorry. I know that astro fans

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don't want to hear that, but these are this, this

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is the life they lived. Yeah uh, And I think

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there's the The big part of this to me is

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a human element. Because I was on with the A

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team with Adam Wexler and Adam Klanton yesterday. I'll be

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joining them again today at four o'clock. Okay, And Adam

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Wexler asked like, hey, like it. It seems like this

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is workable as far as a position, especially if you

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put jord On Alvarez and left and then you use

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the DH elsewhere like this, This is workable. You have

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six you have four infil positions, a left field in

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a DH that's six positions for six guys. But the

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problem is when you get the human element wrench into this,

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when you get the the you uh ord on Alvarez,

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it's Joe a spot his preference that he not be

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in the field as much as possible. Right, That's where

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you have a log jam. So is this a log

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jam self created by the Houston Astros. Perhaps you could

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argue that, but you also have the the guys who

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want to be out there. We're gonna talk to Christian Walker.

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I can guarantee you he's gonna say he wants to

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be out there every single day at first base. He

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told it to us last year. He's not gonna be

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out there every single day, but he's gonna be out

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there if it works out the plan and he hits.

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I'm not talking about three twenty five with an ops

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eleven hundred. I'm talking about just normal first base Christian

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Walker numbers. If he hits and stays healthy, he plays

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one hundred and fifty games. Yeah, it just does. They

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want to be out there, and we'll have Cam Smith

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on later on the show. He said the same thing.

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He wants to be out there every day. You don't

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make it through high school, college, all the minor leagues

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to get to the major leagues because you don't care

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about baseball, because you don't care to be out there

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every single day. You have a huge competitive fire to

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make it to the elite of the lead level of baseball.

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These guys want to be out there. And so that's

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the thing, is that for everybody that says, well, there's

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one hundred, here's a letter at sixty two games, he

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can route to it, it doesn't work that way. They

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I want telling you. We're telling you this not because

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we necessarily disagree with you. Yeah, but we actually have

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the ability to talk to the people in the clubhouse.

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So I'm telling you, friends, it's not because you don't

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have some elementary knowledge of it. But being a fan

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and being us in media are different than what is

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in that clubhouse. And that clubhouse is twenty six amazing

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egos that have done something to get to this level

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of professional baseball. They want to play. They don't want

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to share time. Yeah. As much as I'm an analytics

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guy and I love numbers and all that stuff, I

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understand also we're dealing with human beings, and these human

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beings aren't on a spreadsheet. They have thoughts and feelings

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and competitive fires. They want to be out They have egos,

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and they all want to be better than the guy

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next to them, and themselves and they and the other

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teams and everyone. They're all competitive and they all want

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to be out there. And again, somebody in the infield,

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hopefully I'm wrong about this, but somebody the infield is

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gonna get hurt this year. And if they move Paritis,

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there will be five million phone calls saying this is

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what you don't deal that. You don't deal with a

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baseball club that way. You don't construct a roster to

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put people in lay away in case something goes down.

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You just don't do that. It'd be interesting. We're gonna

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get in some fights with people about this, I guarantee

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you I'd rather not. And then I'm gonna wind up

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dropping my headphones and leaving the studio for a couple

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of minutes and do that. If you're on post game,

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you have to get the margat reader machine back out. Uh, well,

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do just that, bad boy. Margreting machine was out only

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because the astros are losing five days a week was

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three break down one hundred lost seasons, right, and there

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was a one to twelve of the mix too, right,

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so I think one of them was maybe even yeah,

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one thirteen, one eleven in there. God not good? All right,

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astros chatter to get too. Yes, we're gonna come back

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and do a Texans bit here real quick. Really. Todd McShay, ok,

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former ESPN employee, is trying to throw out the trade

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wins for CJ. Stroud. It appears ridiculous, But what do

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you should know. Well I'm I'm doing the astro stuff

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right now. That just shows you the talent on the

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level that I bring. I can handle multiple beats at

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one time. Yes, uh, because we were talking all different

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sports and Dana Brown was impressed with us, Yes he was.

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And I'll be doing the rocket stuff coming up on

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Thursday from Charlotte. So all right, seven two one two

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five seven ninety if you want to join us. Seven

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at least hear what see. I have not heard the

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TOMICCSHA audio. I know it's in our system, so oh great.

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I'll be curious to hear what he says and whether

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that's him just going on a podcast and saying something

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out of his ass or he's got some deep meaning

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to it. We'll do that next at ten thirteen on

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Sports Talk seven ninety. All Right, welcome back here to

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross with the Ross Viril,

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Matt Thomas as well and Jonathan Allen back at the station.

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We had a little bit of a technical difficulties are

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about that some snafu sometimes when you hit the road.

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should be good to go here. So what we're gonna

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do is we are. We did have a conversation earlier today,

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myself and Matt Thomas with Astro's right fielder perspective possible

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center fielder Cam Smith to talk about with him, So

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let's go ahead and get to that while we make

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sure our connection is good and stable here at West Palm.

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So Cam Smith from earlier today talking about his off

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season and the whirlwind year he had last year. I

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want it, okay, just a second, Jonathan, and he'll have

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it for us. It was a good conversation with cam

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Smith and we'll have later on in the show. Christian Walker,

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Zach Cole, fan favorite Joey Loperfedo. I think our ratings

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are going to explode through the roof unlike they have

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ever before, as when we get Joey Liperfita later on

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the show. So that should be good, some good stuff

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and we'll throw to cam Smith in just a second

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here whenever Jonathan is ready for that. So it is

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kind of a lot. We were talking about all these

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outfielders and the options that the Astros are going to

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be able to have here, and it's something that hopefully

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we'll I don't want to say fix itself, but if

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you have an enough options, then hopefully something's going to

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work out. So that's what it feels like, Zach Cole.

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Cam Smith does have the pedigree, and that's the good thing.

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He is a first round pick. He did hit the

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ground running with the Astros in that first month. Then

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unfortunately things kind of caught up with him. Felt like

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by the end of the year, he just was physically

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not there and not prepared for the Riggers of one

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hundred and sixty two game season. Not any fault of

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his own. I like saying he was out there and

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just I don't know, bowling and eating chili fries every

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time he was out on the road. But it's something.

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What did you say he was eating chili fries? Said

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he wasn't eating chili friz Oh. I was like, man,

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that's right. He just felt like the season war on

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Cam Smith. And that's because he had never played more

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than what like forty baseball games in a season. You

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go straight from Florida State and then you're in one

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hundred and sixty two game season. That happens all the time.

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We see that in the NBA, matt To where you

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have the college players who play thirty f five forty

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games max, and then you play you're playing twice a week,

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to where you're in the NBA in an eighty two

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game season and you're playing up to four times a week.

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It wears on you. It takes a little time to

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get ready. And that's my big hope with camp Smith

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is that he able to get some rest and recuperation,

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get that body ready for the Riggers of one hundred

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and sixty two game season, and then he can thrive

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for the Astros. Yeah, I would just send the email

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to the interview with Camps. Will be getting thats in

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just a couple of recreds here. But boy, I thought

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one of the most interesting quotes of the offseason was

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that there was nothing guaranteed for him that came from Dana,

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and I don't know think that was too I don't

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think no I was gonna say, I don't think you

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needed that. It was just that we're not gonna just

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settle for what was, unfortunately for him, a down second

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half of the year. I like that. Don't don't hand

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him the spot. I mean, it's his for the taking,

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but you don't have to hand it to him. If

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you have other options, you can figure things out, and

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it's not like you're going to be necessarily exactly where

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you want to be, as we mentioned, I mean, with

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with a Zach Cole, with a Joey Lo Braffito, with

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possibly Cabin Bigio, with a Jake Myers. You have options,

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but you don't have a bunch of dudes with who

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were gold Glove Slash All Star plays. No, there's nobody

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that's slugging enough or a big enough average. Uh and

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to say that I deserve, I mean, really, the most

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solidified spot is Jake Myers. The fan club agrees, and

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we'll hear from him on the show tomorrow, so looking

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forward to that. He was very excited. I told him

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anytime he hits a home runner makes a big catch,

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I get a bunch of tweets. Yeah, and you're selling

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more t shirts. Yes, you should. You should actually be

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like a shirt that says Myers Slash Villary al for tour. Actually,

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we're actually planning a cruise, Matt really, Jake Myers fan

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Club cruise. Yes, everybody gets a wig with a long

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flow of curly hair, and everyone gets a helmet that

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pops off as soon as you put it on. Oh,

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we didn't ask about that. I should have. Actually we've

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done that before with them. But he knows, he knows

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everybody sees him picking up his helmet off the ground.

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Maybe it's a good luck charm for him. Maybe it's

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like a super Maybe it's like a superstition or something

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like that. Having email issues here this is okay. Well,

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the Wi fi out here has been immaculate. I want

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to swear so bad, I really do. Well. Our connection's good. Okay,

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Well we can talk for a minute, but it's yeah,

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the message email is still being sent. We're having issues

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here out here. Yeah, you can scream during the break, Jonathan,

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how are things back over there?

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Speaker 3: You know I'm on that side right, No, No, the

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things all right?

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Speaker 2: It shows being said. So that's good. We're we at

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least got it sent to a thousand miles away. Wonderful.

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All right, what else we got going on? Okay, so

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we mentioned the outfield Christian Walker coming up and again

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down eleven to twelve pounds. Is that like get rid

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of fating foods or is that? I don't know, have

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to ask him. Hopefully he didn't get like a tapeworm

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or something. I mean, whatever it takes. Sometimes you gotta

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lose that weight. No, I don't think that's good weight.

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Do you want to lose muscle mass? I got sick

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a couple of weeks ago. I had a little bit

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of h as the kids would say, a virus. Okay,

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and I think I lost five saying that five pounds

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and eight hours that's interesting. That's not great, not the

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way you want to do it. And I guess that's

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mostly water weight. Man. I hope you got your electrolytes out.

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I did get it. Okay, now speak of electro lights.

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He's going to electrify this guy. What we talking about?

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A radio professional? Here? Here, here is our visit this

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morning with camp Smith. Okay, Cam, a blur of last year,

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vivid details all the way through. How do you reflect

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on twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, drink come true? A really good time. Honestly, I've

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got a great group of guys with me. It made

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my first year a lot easier having guys that can

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rely on everybody in this in this clubhouse, from catchers, pitchers,

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position players, coaches, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I would say probably the best thing that happened for

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you not only was the great march making the opening

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day roster, but your transition to right field was as

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difficult as you thought it would be or do it?

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Was it a case of you know what you can

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brocken yourself. You put the hard worker in it and

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it paid off. Yeah, I would say it mix the

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both for sure. Obviously I was working every day with

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with Clarkey and h J.

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Speaker 4: B our Our outfield coach every day on just the

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small things that what it takes to be a right fielder.

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But also it wasn't easy. It wasn't easy. I had

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a little adjustment period. I said, when I first got

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out there, the hitter was blurry to me. I couldn't

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My eyes weren't adjusted to seeing that far.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are contacts you can no, I don't

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need contact.

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Speaker 4: It was like, I'm so used to being at third

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base whereas right yeah, yeah, so so being all the

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way out there in right field, I was like, Wow,

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I had to get my eyes.

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Speaker 2: Used to it. Was there a particular park or a

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situation that you made going, oh, I'm gonna have a

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toime more difficult times see a ball.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Uh, Sacramento exactly was terrible, only because there's only

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one deck, so so at other parks there's three to

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four so the ball, the ball is a nice there's

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a nice contrast behind the ball when it goes in

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the air. But at Sacramento is just blue.

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Speaker 2: Sky, and that's miserable for you. For a guy like yourself,

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you're just kind of learning and do. Yeah, it was

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definitely an adjustment. It was definitely an adjustment.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say miserable, but you definitely have to try

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to focus on it more than you usually have to

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when there's four three deck three to four decks.

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Speaker 2: But you're on the verge of getting at Google Loove eventually, right, Yeah? Absolutely,

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is that the goal? Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, There's no reason why I can't do it.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about your plate work. I know the second

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half of the year is not what you wanted. Did

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you look at any video and say, I'm doing something

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in the second half of the year that maybe I

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should have done in the like I was doing in

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the first half year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would just say more just staying consistent with

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my approach instead of trying trying new things every day.

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I think just sticking with one thing that works for

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me and I know that works for me is going

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to be key.

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Speaker 2: What was it like for you mentally, especially with I

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mean it had to be your head spinning. I mean

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it was such a whirlwind to go from as so

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quick as you did from the Florida States and now

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and then major leagues and be as successful as you were.

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If you stepped away from that, what is it like

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now that you kind of reflect back on that and

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kind of step away from then and got the off season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad I got thrown in the fire. I

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don't think there's any other way to, you know, learn

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on the go than being thrown in the fire. I

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think if you have time to think about it, like

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I just, I don't know. I think it's better to

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just be on spot and reactive than you know, having

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a big build up. You know, when things build up,

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you start to think more. But I'm glad I just

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got that opportunity to make the opening day roster and

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and just go and figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Your off season was different because you went from Florida

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State to playing in the big leagues to being by

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the way of being traded to your now an astro

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and you know where you're supposed to be. What did

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you do and how did you step away from the

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game and then get back into it as you got

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ready for spring trading here now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, spending more time with family. Honestly, I didn't see

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them too much throughout the season, just because we're all

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across the country. So I did have some more family time,

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I could say this offseason, and then once it got

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time to ramp him back up. It was just at

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the facility every day, honestly, getting ready for this moment

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right here.

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Speaker 2: What are some of the things you've been working on,

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because I mean baseball of course, is you can add

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ten things or take away ten things from your swing

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or your approach. What is it like for you the

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process of like whittling down what's going to work for

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you or things to try to improve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would just say simplifying everything, keeping it simple.

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As cliche as it sounds, it's true, It's true. I

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think the best hitters are able to play so long

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00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:37,880
because they keep it simple, and they all have similarities

472
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,960
in their swing. There's always absolute of hitting, So keeping

473
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,279
it simple is the main thing for me.

474
00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 2: From high end college baseball to the limited time you

475
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,039
were in the minor leagues. The biggest difference in a

476
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,279
major league pitcher as compared to what you saw maybe

477
00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:52,279
in the previous twelve calendar runs.

478
00:22:52,519 --> 00:23:00,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, the caliber of pitching is obviously outstandingly better. Been

479
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,200
raising the stuff they have, the pitch, the pitch arsenal,

480
00:23:05,839 --> 00:23:08,400
the the IQ of the pitchers is a lot is

481
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,640
a lot higher than you know a college pitcher.

482
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 2: I could say for sure, they they.

483
00:23:13,279 --> 00:23:15,839
Speaker 4: Know the game, they know they know how hitters react,

484
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,920
they know how to you know, get to their weak

485
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,039
spots and stick to it.

486
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 2: Lastly, do you want to be a guy as you

487
00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:25,359
ramp up with this? And then everybody's got different plans?

488
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,200
The veterans don't play as much younger guys like yourself.

489
00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:29,680
I mean, do you do you want to be in

490
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,119
a line every day? How How does a perfect spring

491
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,200
training schedule for you layout over the next month or so? Yeah?

492
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 4: If I could play every day, I would. I think

493
00:23:38,599 --> 00:23:41,559
Joe has a program though, where he has guys playing

494
00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:42,559
one day on one day off.

495
00:23:42,599 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 2: But if I had a choice, I'd play every day.

496
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 4: I think it's very important to see this caliber of

497
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,759
pitching early on to get in the rhythm of things,

498
00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:51,880
you know, getting your first at bats under your under

499
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,720
your belt for the season and getting that nice momentum

500
00:23:54,759 --> 00:23:56,640
into the twenty twenty six season.

501
00:23:56,799 --> 00:23:59,599
Speaker 2: And Zach's got an opportunity to take that left field spot.

502
00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:02,640
He had a cup of coffee. Any advice for him

503
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,359
as you went through this just a year ago.

504
00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:08,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, the way he carries himself is my advice

505
00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:09,960
to him, Like, keep doing the same thing he's he's

506
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,640
a professional. He can see the way he walks, the

507
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,839
way he goes about his business, his prep work, his

508
00:24:14,839 --> 00:24:17,880
his recovery. It's it's all, it's all right. I've seen it.

509
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,279
I've seen how these guys do it, and I see

510
00:24:20,279 --> 00:24:20,960
a resemblance.

511
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:21,559
Speaker 5: All right.

512
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,759
Speaker 2: Very lastly, Jake Myers covers a lot of space. Is

513
00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:27,720
he calling you off too much to tell the truth?

514
00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:31,720
And we won't tell him first? And really I would

515
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,759
say yes, and I want, I want, I want every

516
00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:35,240
ball that's out there of the year.

517
00:24:35,279 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 4: I want everyone, But I got to give it to

518
00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:38,319
the center fielder for sure.

519
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 2: That's because he's trying to work on his he's starting

520
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,240
to work on his percentages. Thanks for the time, appreciate,

521
00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:47,319
thank you. All right, That again is Cam Smith. Great

522
00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:52,599
outlook on like a life had an awesome March, But

523
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,079
March is something else. It's April. It's a regular season games,

524
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,559
it's a grind, it's playing six days a week, it's

525
00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:01,519
having lemon off time. I mean, think about all the

526
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,400
number of high level major league games he played as

527
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,440
compared to what he did in the previous twelve months.

528
00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:09,240
It's a pretty incredible transition. That's why so if you

529
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,279
guys can do it, he is. Yeah, he's gonna be

530
00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:14,920
one of the gross stocks to see if he can.

531
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,960
You're hoping to because right now value is not super high,

532
00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:21,279
right to where it was even last year in the

533
00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:23,720
spring training like that. So you're hoping if you're buying

534
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,839
some cam Smith, you're hoping for a big twenty twenty six.

535
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,680
It can happen, and I'm hoping. I'm hoping it does well.

536
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,839
It needs to because if you know, and Zach will

537
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,039
join us here later on on the show today, he's

538
00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:37,799
got to improving some numbers. That September wasn't a fluke.

539
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,119
And if the team has not made any acquisitions or

540
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,640
maneuvering to add I mean, look, you did add little Prafito,

541
00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:46,519
you did add Cavin Bigio. I don't know if those

542
00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:48,559
guys are going to press for starting time. I don't

543
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,759
definitely don't think Bigio will be, but maybe a little

544
00:25:50,759 --> 00:25:54,559
Pafito will have an opportunity to do so. I there

545
00:25:54,599 --> 00:25:59,119
needs to be competition because nobody has enough skins on

546
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,880
a wall to say this is my spot, with the

547
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,160
really exception of Jake Myers, but hell, Jake Myers was

548
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,559
being talked about intrigue speculations as of about three months ago.

549
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,759
So nobody should be thinking about long term real estate

550
00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:11,279
until they can prove it at the major league level

551
00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:13,920
for a long period of time less they're super confident. Yeah,

552
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,960
all right, it is uh ten forty two here on

553
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a sports Talk seven ninety It is a Matt Thomas

554
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show with Ross seven one three two one two five

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569
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571
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572
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you false hope. Let me tell you what's gonna happen.

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577
00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:38,160
Who is this that?

578
00:27:38,599 --> 00:27:38,759
Speaker 1: Oh?

579
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 2: Zach Cole? That's our September hero. And he brought us

580
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,119
smart water too. That was nice of you. It was

581
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,799
very nice of him. Actually, I'm not taking a sip

582
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:47,880
of his drink. Are you kidding me? No chance, man,

583
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,279
break you in half. That's right. Zach Cole hit with

584
00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:54,200
the weight room this offseason, Fellas, how are we doing? Hey?

585
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,759
How are you doing? More importantly, i'd headset's kind of cool. Ross.

586
00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:01,160
I'm Matt, Matt. Yeah, we're gonna be best friends this year. Hope,

587
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,920
you're gonna hit thirty bombs. Okay, you want that left

588
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,240
field spot, I'm assuming correct.

589
00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:08,279
Speaker 6: I will take whatever they need me for me. I'll

590
00:28:08,279 --> 00:28:11,599
play any position and whatever whatever I can do it

591
00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:12,079
to help them win.

592
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,799
Speaker 2: So what are you doing again? It's been limited workouts,

593
00:28:14,839 --> 00:28:16,119
but I'm sure you've been here a couple days at

594
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,200
least left field, centerfield. What have you been working on

595
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:19,799
all three?

596
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 6: They told me early they wanted me to work in

597
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,400
at all three spots to get as much work in

598
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,359
as I could, and so I've been taking reps at

599
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,319
all three, just trying to make myself versatile.

600
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 2: You got the call up late. Take us through that

601
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,079
moment in time when you it was either a phone call,

602
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,880
a text visit with your manager. What was that like?

603
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,720
And then take us through the next twenty four hours

604
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,920
of you're trying to get yourself into an Astro uniform.

605
00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:48,799
Speaker 6: That was an exciting time. I remember it was right

606
00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:51,640
after a doubleheader game. I had actually just sp we

607
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,680
were in Round Rock when I was in Triple A.

608
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had been there for.

609
00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 6: I think it was just fifteen games and we had

610
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,519
just played a double header on a Wednesday. Just saw

611
00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:03,839
my agent and he's like, oh, I'll see after the

612
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,359
season's over, you know, getting prepared because I was supposed

613
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,279
to go to the Arizona Fall League. That's where they

614
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:09,640
had lined me up. They had told me I was

615
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,759
going there already when I was in Double A, so

616
00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:14,920
I was like, yeah, I'll probably see you there and

617
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,079
I was like, who knows, maybe in Houston and I

618
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,559
crossed my fingers and it was a funny joke. And

619
00:29:20,599 --> 00:29:23,119
then I walked right in and thirty minutes later got

620
00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:24,640
the call and I had to call my agent back

621
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,880
and I was like, Hey, you might want to change

622
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,440
your flight because I'm going to Atlanta. It was a

623
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,279
really cool moment. But I met with my manager, Mickey

624
00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:36,319
Story Yeah in Triple A. Great guy he called. He

625
00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:38,599
he brought me in there and sat me down and

626
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,880
it was a it was cool. He asked me what

627
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,720
day I wanted off that week because I had just

628
00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:45,160
played a doubleheader, and I was like, well, what's our

629
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,920
schedule for the rest of the week. How about Friday?

630
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,720
And he goes, no, it says you're playing in Atlanta

631
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,200
on Friday. And I was like what And I was like,

632
00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:53,920
oh my. I was like, this has got to.

633
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,799
Speaker 2: Be a joke. But it was a It was a

634
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,279
dream cone true. Man. I held in the tears until

635
00:29:58,319 --> 00:30:01,519
I called Mom and Dad. My god, how emotional is that?

636
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 6: I mean, it was it was such a win for them.

637
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:06,599
I told them that we did it. It wasn't just

638
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,240
a me thing. I know, I was the one getting

639
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,319
to wear the jersey, but I mean, you can't do

640
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:12,559
it without Mom and Dad. I got so blessed. They're

641
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,000
such a blessing to me that they helped me through

642
00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:17,240
every stage of my career. And you know, my dad

643
00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:19,160
was the one who gave me the passion to love

644
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:19,519
the game.

645
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: And did you play You played travel ball when you

646
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,000
were a kid, right of course, Well, then of course

647
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,279
they helped you out. Yeah, I have a travel daughter volleyball,

648
00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:30,400
so yeah, if she makes it to big international, the

649
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,559
credit exactly half three quarters.

650
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,039
Speaker 6: I gave the I gave the home run. I gave

651
00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:38,200
the first hit home run ball to Dad, And uh,

652
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,079
it was a no brainer. It was the easiest thing

653
00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:44,359
I've ever done because it belongs to him. He's the one.

654
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,839
He's the one that got me there. Mom and Dad

655
00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:48,559
are the ones that got me there, and I love.

656
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 2: Them so much. If they're listening right now, I love him,

657
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,119
Mom and Dad. Let me there they listening to They

658
00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:57,039
live in Missouri. They're not listening. It's okay, though, here's

659
00:30:57,039 --> 00:30:58,720
the recording. Maybe you can find Yeah, you can find

660
00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:03,000
it on any major podcast, I Radio Spot Cool. We're

661
00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:07,480
somewhat famous, so that's what I've heard. No, you got

662
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,319
a chance about the ego, I guess no, you got

663
00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:11,519
a chance to be major famous. Uh so you did

664
00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:14,359
not go to Arizona Fall League? Correct? Why was that

665
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,160
the decision made?

666
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,839
Speaker 6: Because I got called up? So they were they were

667
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,400
obviously with the intention at the time, you know what,

668
00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:26,440
I make the forty man roster coming up that off season,

669
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,079
and uh the play at the Fall League would determine that.

670
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,039
But since I made it to the big leagues and

671
00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:37,599
played the last two weeks there, they felt that I

672
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,880
didn't really need to go and do that anymore. So

673
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,839
I got a I got the whole off season, if

674
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,200
you will.

675
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: But you mean you, honestly you You got a lot

676
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,440
of people impressed with you because we didn't know much

677
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,720
about Johnestly and then you came in and had a

678
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,000
great September. When you look back at it, was it

679
00:31:56,279 --> 00:31:58,799
just you were hit the ball really well at that

680
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,640
time that nothing no matter who you were gonna go against,

681
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,640
you were gonna hit the ball hard. Or was it

682
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,000
a case that you just you could try to slow

683
00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:08,359
it down because you just talked about the emotions of

684
00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:10,680
playing a doubleheader game and then trying to get family

685
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,559
and friends to Atlanta and do and that kind of

686
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:16,240
thing that had to been like a constant, like a

687
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:18,960
stopwatch about how fast you're going to get from point

688
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:19,559
A to point B.

689
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 6: Absolutely, and I think about I think back on that

690
00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:25,599
time now too, with just all the emotions running high,

691
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,160
and you know, we're here and we're there, and new

692
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,720
experiences all at the same time, meeting new people and

693
00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:33,400
just trying to stay grounded. I take a look at,

694
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,440
you know, the things that came in grounded. Obviously, my

695
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,160
faith was number one. You know, God brought me to

696
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,000
the dance, so I'm gonna I'm gonna go home with him.

697
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,680
I'm gonna make sure I stay true to him. And

698
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,279
then obviously just relying on my close family and friends.

699
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:47,160
We have so many great guys in our clubhouse that

700
00:32:47,319 --> 00:32:49,960
helped me through that, you know, stressful time as a rookie,

701
00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:52,880
especially you know, thrown right into a playoff race as

702
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,640
well to some big games and situations. So to stay grounded,

703
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,160
to just try to be myself and not do too much.

704
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,519
You know, I don't need to come in and be

705
00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:04,200
a superhero every game, because some games you just got

706
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,519
to do one small thing to help the team win,

707
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,480
if that's a walk or moving a base runner or

708
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:11,839
a bunt or making a play on defense. You don't

709
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,440
always have to be the guy that steps up and

710
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:15,960
hits the big home run or gets the walk off hits.

711
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,799
So having guys like in our clubhouse like that that

712
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,599
have been there, done that, with all the experience and accolades,

713
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,799
it's such a it's such a comforting feeling for a

714
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,440
rookie like myself, for such a young guy. But a

715
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,519
lot of times I really was just piecing it together,

716
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,119
just relying on what I knew that, you know, the

717
00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:34,160
god given ability I had, what I had worked on,

718
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:36,920
what got me here. Just stick to those things, because

719
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,640
you know, if they bring me up, they liked the

720
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,519
player that I was in Double A and Triple A, right,

721
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:44,480
that's the guy they want in the league. So I

722
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,640
don't need to try to do anything different. I can

723
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,000
rely on what got me to this level. That's that's

724
00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:54,440
Unfortunately he knew who that is.

725
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,599
Speaker 2: I don't know they get hear it, but I have

726
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,559
no idea why they were playing that. But it's terrible

727
00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:02,240
timing we're testing it with distracting distraction games.

728
00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:04,799
Speaker 6: But yeah, that it was really just piecing it together,

729
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,480
just trusting my abilities, and you know, just just remembering

730
00:34:07,559 --> 00:34:09,480
this is the cool I've dreamed of this my whole life.

731
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,119
But it is baseball. Baseball is the same game. Doesn't

732
00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:15,320
matter you know, what jersey you're wearing or where you're.

733
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:16,519
Speaker 2: Playing it at. It's the same game.

734
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 6: They got to throw the white ball over the white plates.

735
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,039
So just trying to remember that and just trusting it.

736
00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:23,840
It's the same game. Just do what I've always done.

737
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 2: Go compete. It's interesting to me the timing of you

738
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,199
got the short time you were so successful and then

739
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,559
boom the season stops didn't make the playoffs unfortunately, to

740
00:34:32,559 --> 00:34:35,280
where you didn't get to kind of in a way,

741
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,280
see how the story would have ended if you got

742
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,960
to keep working. So what's that like for you hitting

743
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,840
the off season knowing how successful you were, but also

744
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,480
trying to keep keep that going, knowing that there's gonna

745
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,159
be tape on you, there's gonna be certain ways you're

746
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,280
you're pitching, and kind of trying to figure that all

747
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,320
out during this offseason.

748
00:34:50,599 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 6: Absolutely, and you know that's what it's like every off season,

749
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,519
we want to we want to try and capitalize on

750
00:34:56,519 --> 00:34:59,360
on those things that we learned from the season. You know,

751
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,880
I was there for short time, but it was an

752
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,079
excellent opportunity to get to go up there, you know,

753
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,119
just just tip my feet in a little bit, just

754
00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:07,719
trying to see like, Okay, this is what the big

755
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,199
leagues are like, yep, this is what is expected of me.

756
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,679
This is what it's gonna be like, this is what

757
00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:13,840
I'm gonna have to compete at the level. So we

758
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,480
take a look at the things that I did well,

759
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,559
We celebrate those early. We're thankful for a great season,

760
00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:21,559
very blessed, you know, God, you know, helped me so much,

761
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,960
gave me so much. And then it's time to get

762
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,559
to work, right. We take a look at those things

763
00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:28,119
where you know I'm exposable, they'll stay loose, some things

764
00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:30,599
where I have weaknesses, and we try to correct as

765
00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:32,320
many of those as we can. You know, Let's say,

766
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,639
you know, if there's four four easy ways that I

767
00:35:34,679 --> 00:35:36,960
can get exposed at the big league level, let's try

768
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,880
to knock off two of those this offseason and make

769
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,559
myself a more complete hitter. A'm more competitive at bad

770
00:35:42,559 --> 00:35:44,239
because that at the end of the day, that's all

771
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,159
I'm trying to do is just be a more competitive

772
00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:47,800
out every time I step at the box.

773
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: So I call with us here on the Matt Thomas

774
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,880
Show with Ross from West Palm Beach, everybody's fastball, Triple AD,

775
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,519
Major League, but it's ninety five gonna go. I when

776
00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:58,280
I talk to guys like yourself that are fresh to

777
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,239
the big leagues, it feels like to me, the off

778
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,880
speed stuff is the stuff that separates they're really good

779
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,320
Triple A guys and the guys that do at the

780
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,920
highest level agreed.

781
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 6: You know, obviously the stuff we're seeing, especially the way

782
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,199
the game is developed, you know, over the last twenty years,

783
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:12,880
it's it's the best it's ever been.

784
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,559
Speaker 2: There's no doubt.

785
00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 6: I talk to guys like Bagwell who will say the

786
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,039
same thing. You know, even guys like Korea who are saying,

787
00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:21,400
like the league has changed since I came up versus

788
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,039
right now, it's the toughest it's ever been. You know,

789
00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:27,199
Guys are throwing harder, stuff is moving more, and it's difficult.

790
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:30,599
There's there's no other way to say it. But for me,

791
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,800
the biggest thing that I noticed in The difference from

792
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,039
the between the miners and the majors was just the

793
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:38,760
way the pitchers and the catchers think the game. When

794
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,360
you're on offense, you know, it's all chess, you know,

795
00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:44,159
the way they set you up, the way they you know,

796
00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:47,320
target your weaknesses, the pitches that they throw, it's all

797
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,400
a plan that they have set up beforehand, and you

798
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,280
have to try to make you know your counter move.

799
00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:54,360
You know, like, all right, if they're they're gonna keep

800
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,400
throwing this pitch over and over again until I can

801
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,159
hit it. As soon as I prove I can hit

802
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,920
that pitch or lay off of it, here the next challenge,

803
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,320
you know, maybe it's off speed away until I prove it,

804
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,000
and then it's heaters in and then they're gonna keep

805
00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:07,920
trying to find ways, and then it's just you know,

806
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,719
he evolves, you evolve, he changes, you change. So it's

807
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,400
just this constant chess match. And you know, a lot

808
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,239
of the times in the minor leagues, it's just you know,

809
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,239
guys are like, here's my stuff, this is what I'm

810
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,880
good at. I'm gonna go right at you. But in

811
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,719
the league that they know what you can do, there's

812
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,360
no secrets. So they're gonna try to exposure weaknesses for sure.

813
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,119
Speaker 2: So you hit the home run on the very first

814
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:31,039
at bat, very first pitch, too correct something like that. Oh,

815
00:37:31,079 --> 00:37:33,239
come on, you know he knows what was the pitch

816
00:37:33,519 --> 00:37:34,960
it was. I think it was a cutter.

817
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,199
Speaker 6: It was a cutter, and I was just really really

818
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,559
hoping I didn't swing and miss and.

819
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 2: Your hooks bros were watching it live as they were.

820
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,000
How many text messages did you have when you look

821
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:44,960
at your phone after the game?

822
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 6: Too many? Really, too many to read. I had to

823
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:50,199
I couldn't. I was and I was too I couldn't.

824
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 2: Come up with response and copy and pasted it. Yeah,

825
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:53,239
it was.

826
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 6: It was a live love you bro, keep it nice

827
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,320
and simple. But they were great, man. Getting to see

828
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,719
that video and a lot of the guys are here

829
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,280
right now. I'm getting to talk to them. I got

830
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,239
to see them as everyone's getting back in this week.

831
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,639
And they're making more money than they are, right, I mean,

832
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:09,199
it's truth.

833
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,679
Speaker 2: It's still a little bit. They're not making you like

834
00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:14,599
buy dinners and stuff, are they You're not making great money? No? No, no,

835
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:15,639
they don't do it.

836
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 6: No, I'm just uh, I'm just I'm just happy to

837
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,480
see him and uh, just to be able to like

838
00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:23,519
you said that that experience, you know, getting to see

839
00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:26,960
that video was was unbelievable. Like those guys they truly,

840
00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:29,239
they truly cared about me. And to see their raw

841
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,119
reaction after a moment like that, it was it made

842
00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:33,920
me emotional. It did because I care about each and

843
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,880
every one of those guys, and you grind with them

844
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,800
and the miners. It's tough, man, and you go through

845
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:38,599
the stuff.

846
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: Get up for what you run. Crawford boxes presents challenges

847
00:38:42,159 --> 00:38:45,320
that left center field that it darts back. That's also

848
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:48,840
a tricky spot. You can I'm assuming you can practice

849
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,360
that into your blue in the face, but you need

850
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,360
to be in a live competition for that to become

851
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,440
a part of your I got this part of my

852
00:38:54,519 --> 00:38:56,039
defensive game, right, I.

853
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,199
Speaker 6: Would say, so, yeah, there's nothing better than than doing

854
00:38:59,199 --> 00:39:02,679
the thing. So we, like I said, we practice on it.

855
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,199
The fields we actually have back here are replicas of

856
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,400
Dyke and part men wise to help us actually get

857
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,159
accustomed to that. But obviously, yeah, if if left field

858
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,679
is is what they need from me, then I'll get

859
00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:17,119
as many reps I can there and get more comfortable

860
00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:19,559
with it for sure, But like I said, all three

861
00:39:19,639 --> 00:39:21,639
for me is what they told me. So I'm just

862
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,360
working wherever they need me and trying to be as

863
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,119
versa of all as again.

864
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 2: All right, well, I mean you got the challenge in

865
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,800
front of you. Now, what is it being like here

866
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,280
in camp? It's obviously a new experience for you being

867
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,079
somebody who is expected to try and win a spot.

868
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,360
How is that dealing with that? Mentally? For me?

869
00:39:40,599 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 6: I love it because for me, at the end of

870
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,760
the day, you know, this is just a game, you know,

871
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,440
and we can go out here and there's always going

872
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,159
to be competition.

873
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:48,519
Speaker 2: It's the name of this game, right.

874
00:39:48,559 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 6: It's all performance and unfortunately is a killer be killed

875
00:39:53,079 --> 00:39:56,159
type world. And for me, you just can't focus on that.

876
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,960
You know, we have great guys in here, and obviously

877
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,039
we all know what we're doing. Everybody's trying to go

878
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:03,000
out there and win their spot, go out there and

879
00:40:03,039 --> 00:40:05,480
help the team win as much as they can, and

880
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,000
we just focus on those things. We just focus on

881
00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:09,960
going out there and being competitive and trying to keep

882
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,719
guys up because at the end of the day, a

883
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,559
lot of these guys that you're competing with are gonna

884
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:16,239
be your teammates, So we don't wanna we don't want

885
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,400
to create, you know, divides, you know, if you know

886
00:40:18,519 --> 00:40:20,519
guys are going for the same position. And for me

887
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,559
just being able to come out here and enjoy playing

888
00:40:23,639 --> 00:40:25,559
and show what I've been working off in the off season,

889
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:27,960
it's just it's just so much fun.

890
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 2: I love being out here. I love competing with the guys.

891
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,599
Speaker 6: I love coming out here, learning from the veterans, and

892
00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:36,079
just excited to become a better baseball player.

893
00:40:36,679 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 2: You are well beyond your years. It comes of interviewing skills.

894
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,119
You get a ten out of ten. We're gonna have

895
00:40:41,119 --> 00:40:43,079
you on like every other day. So every time you

896
00:40:43,159 --> 00:40:44,639
got a home run, you're gonna be on the show

897
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:47,000
with us. Hopefully it's at least thirty times this year.

898
00:40:47,039 --> 00:40:48,920
Oh my god, at least you have good speed. How's

899
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,760
your speed? You very fast? I can run? Are you,

900
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,480
Jake Myers? I can run? He's very very humble, Oh

901
00:40:56,559 --> 00:41:01,280
my god, humility as well. Wow, I'm I'm not raised Jake.

902
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,559
He's pretty quick, but uh, he hit the cap straining

903
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:06,840
last year, right. Let him take it easy. If you

904
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,400
run down there and tell him to turn that off.

905
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:10,880
It was a huge favor. We can't run away for

906
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,239
a couple of minutes, Zach. It was really nice to

907
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,039
visit with you face to face. We will be talking

908
00:41:16,039 --> 00:41:17,159
to you a couple of times in the course of

909
00:41:17,159 --> 00:41:19,280
the year, maybe in the clubhouse as well. We wish

910
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,440
you nothing but the very best, and you have been

911
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,280
given a great opportunity and I hope you make the

912
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,480
most of the Congratulations.

913
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,199
Speaker 6: Thank you guys so much for having me on the show.

914
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,480
You guys are you guys are awesome guys. Oh you

915
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,199
don't know us that well? Oh no, we're big nice

916
00:41:31,199 --> 00:41:32,840
now I can. I can tell right away. You guys

917
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,559
are good dudes. Thank you so much for having me

918
00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:37,199
and all the people out there listening. Uh, Gostress will

919
00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:38,960
see you guys, Mom too, Mom and Dad will send

920
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:39,920
a little podcast to him.

921
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 2: Dad, I love you all right, Zach Cole joining us

922
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,360
here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We took

923
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,280
a quick time out back with the second hour The

924
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,119
Matt Thomas Show with Ross from West Palm Beach.

925
00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 1: Here on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

926
00:41:56,199 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 2: Here we go with the second hour of The Matt

927
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:04,480
Thomas Show with Ross. If you're not a Zach Cole fan, now, Uh,

928
00:42:04,639 --> 00:42:09,159
you got something wrong with you. He's actually too nice.

929
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:14,960
He's awesome. Love his perspective, love his mindset, Oh my god,

930
00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:21,880
and just is he's he's too nice for us. Speak

931
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,039
for yourself, Matt, all right, that's fine. I'm a nice

932
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:28,880
human being sometimes really to the general population except your partner.

933
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,840
But that's fine. What all right? Eleven? Oh? What is it?

934
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,440
What time is it? I even know what time it is.

935
00:42:34,079 --> 00:42:36,000
We're super late. Oh yeah, we're late. That's fine. It

936
00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:40,239
was worth it, kidding, that was absolutely worth it. Yeah.

937
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:44,039
We got Christian Walker and Joey Littleraffido still coming up

938
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:46,440
between now and the fathers of the show, and that

939
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:49,079
Cole awesome was an interview. Tomorrow we're gonna have, for

940
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,440
sure Dana Brown, and for sure we'll have Jake Meyer's

941
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:53,880
visit here too, So that's for sure, and the rest

942
00:42:53,880 --> 00:43:00,400
of we will work on as the afternoon progresses. Uh, he's

943
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,760
happy to be here. It's interesting that they're going to

944
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,039
give him a sample size in all three outfield positions. Yeah, that,

945
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,440
you know, look to get into a trade conversation with

946
00:43:10,519 --> 00:43:12,679
him would be moot because we don't. He has no

947
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,639
intelligence on that whatsoever, but it'll be interesting to see

948
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,320
if some move gets made whatever that precipitates him not

949
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,599
necessarily being the everyday left fielder. I'm not I'm not

950
00:43:25,639 --> 00:43:29,199
assuming the Jakes on the trade block, but if you've

951
00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:31,039
been on there once, there's no reason why you can't

952
00:43:31,079 --> 00:43:33,679
be brought up again. Well, the the and he'll be

953
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,840
pipeline about Zach. Cole says plus speed and plus plus

954
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,199
on Oh, I love that, which I mean, who's the

955
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:45,119
last really devastating arm you had out there and in

956
00:43:45,159 --> 00:43:49,599
the outfield? Well, Kyle Tucker has good Kyle Tucker was good, great,

957
00:43:50,519 --> 00:43:53,639
Josh Reddick had a great arm, and right, yeah, Josh Reddick,

958
00:43:54,679 --> 00:43:59,000
Josh was good. Uh in terms of plus Spring Spring

959
00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:01,719
was a decent arm. Pretty good arm for sure. I'm

960
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,440
gonna go with Josh Reddick. Great arm. Okay, I'm sure

961
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,119
Josh is listening to us right now, would it would

962
00:44:06,119 --> 00:44:10,159
greatly appreciate the kind words. So yeah, that's uh, the

963
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:12,960
first little sample of Zach. Did Zach join us? I'm

964
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,840
sure late last year, I don't remember. I honestly can't recall.

965
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,320
I think so, yeah, but that was that was great

966
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,119
stuff with him, and you know he's he's got every opportunity.

967
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:22,920
He's gonna play all over the place. Very humble, sa

968
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,400
I can run a little bit. I do love And

969
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,159
it's it's the always the one on one interview question

970
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,039
when you have a guy that's young that gets the

971
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:34,920
call up, what was the story behind it? Because look, okay,

972
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:36,559
you have to hit a fastball. We know that we

973
00:44:36,599 --> 00:44:37,800
have to had a change, but that's part of Many

974
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,599
league baseball. But the story behind getting to a ballpark

975
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:46,320
and getting your family and calling mom and dad, I

976
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,599
just I think it's, uh, it's it's stuff that you

977
00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:51,360
don't normally get when you read a story about a

978
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,559
particular player. So I was glad to have him on there.

979
00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:55,559
All right, if you'd like to join us today, and

980
00:44:55,639 --> 00:44:57,800
you may do so at seven one, three, two, one two, five,

981
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,559
seven nine zero old all of our regular as as

982
00:45:01,599 --> 00:45:03,679
WEX would call them, signature segments. We're gonna push back

983
00:45:03,679 --> 00:45:05,639
the later in the week. We're gonna skip cup feelings

984
00:45:05,639 --> 00:45:07,559
this week. Oh man, we are doing shut your bomb

985
00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:10,119
mess up. We're gonna do it on Thursday from Charlotte

986
00:45:10,119 --> 00:45:12,000
and stuff. Okay, that's one of those things that just

987
00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:14,719
we just that's a half hour event we need to

988
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,880
just do. So we'll do that Thursday when I'm in

989
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,079
Charlotte and you're back in Houston, so we can check

990
00:45:19,079 --> 00:45:21,719
gut feelings. How do we do on that by the weeks?

991
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,360
I don't know. Okay, I'm sure I had a good

992
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,280
couple of weeks in a row, so it might have

993
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,320
been a bad week. I will say the All Star

994
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,079
ratings have come in. They were very, very good. Now,

995
00:45:33,079 --> 00:45:35,599
obviously they had a huge lead in from the Olympics.

996
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,239
They're counting the Telemoondo numbers and the streaming numbers now

997
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,760
and the and people are some like throwing a parade,

998
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,719
but I would, I would, And so just in the

999
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,559
way that this wasn't one of the best Super Bowls

1000
00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:48,960
of all time, but it was one of the highest

1001
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:52,679
rates right right, doesn't mean that it was just that

1002
00:45:52,679 --> 00:45:54,960
that compelling. Well, the reality is this, when when these

1003
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,119
TV networks want to brag about anything, it's always for

1004
00:45:58,159 --> 00:46:02,079
the positive. We both had the Rocket sweeping the Clippers. Oh,

1005
00:46:02,119 --> 00:46:05,159
oh close, we both have hater starting the season on

1006
00:46:05,199 --> 00:46:08,639
the IL. That's gonna be a hit. Oh he's throwing today.

1007
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,440
Wish you mentioned that? Oh I wrote this down last Tuesday,

1008
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,239
barring and this is before you May's comments. I said,

1009
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,199
barring injury, Read Shepherd will not be a full time

1010
00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:18,960
starter at any point the rest of the season. Yeah,

1011
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,440
if you didn't got catch, said Lean was asked when

1012
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,199
you're gonna insert read Chepper in the lineup. His answer

1013
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,760
was not anytime soon, probably not ever. Jonathan Allen had

1014
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,599
the uh Cougar's on a seven game winning streak. Jonathan,

1015
00:46:31,639 --> 00:46:34,199
you should apologize for that right now. Oh well, I

1016
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,320
gotta apologize because I lost last night. You're a hill.

1017
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,800
How about the blind referees calling a kickball? Yeah, I'm

1018
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,079
sick of Big twelve sending the best referees who are

1019
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:49,440
also blind at the same time. Uh, And I said,

1020
00:46:49,519 --> 00:46:54,559
Rockets still will finish top three. We'll see. It's a

1021
00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:58,679
meat left from that bone. We're getting there, and I'll

1022
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,559
start Thursday in Charlotte, arrested, refreshed, ready to go. That's

1023
00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:05,440
exactly right, all right? Seven one three two one two

1024
00:47:05,519 --> 00:47:07,719
five seven ninety. If you want to join our conversation

1025
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:12,719
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero

1026
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:15,159
on Twitter, it's at Sports MT and at Sports Every

1027
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,800
one of the things that was talked about today. Uh

1028
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,039
when the with the media scrum with Joe Spotta was

1029
00:47:20,079 --> 00:47:22,480
abs and we'll discuss a little bit about that when

1030
00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:26,360
we return over. We forgot to wish everybody a happy

1031
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,920
fat Tuesday today. I have a fat Tuday, Maddie. We're

1032
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,239
going to body grow. We're gonna go get some seafood.

1033
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,559
The nights on seafood. That's on Key Kick gus On

1034
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,920
John Lie. They don't have that in West Boone Beach.

1035
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,239
I'm Jumbala Palm No, well they don't know how to live, Matthew.

1036
00:47:42,679 --> 00:47:47,519
We uh, we actually threw out a topic. Why not

1037
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:51,360
We thought about going to the bed Robster oh nails

1038
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,760
a little further and then Palm City, I don't know,

1039
00:47:53,920 --> 00:48:00,760
but Tender Bay don't lie biscuits Okay, yeah, they get

1040
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,280
the new CEO. He's been moving and shaking. They started

1041
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,119
all those commercials and he stopped in those shrimp, which

1042
00:48:05,119 --> 00:48:07,320
apparently was they were losing a bunch of money, were

1043
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,280
taking a bath on the Yeah it was coming and

1044
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:13,159
saying I'll have seventy five shrimp scampy please. Now they

1045
00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:15,079
were of a size of a nickel, so I kind

1046
00:48:15,079 --> 00:48:19,039
of get that. Yeah, shrimp Uh, it is the Matt

1047
00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:21,079
Thomas j ol Ross. We've got more guests coming up

1048
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:23,800
along the way between now and two o'clock this afternoon.

1049
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,639
Seven one, three, two five seven nine zero. If you

1050
00:48:26,679 --> 00:48:28,519
want to get in, we'll hold our gut feeling. We're

1051
00:48:28,519 --> 00:48:30,159
gonna skip a week on the gut feelings. Okay, Well

1052
00:48:30,199 --> 00:48:35,039
we'll refresh those up next year show. So ABS was

1053
00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:37,480
talked about today. Nothing new on that was just you know,

1054
00:48:37,519 --> 00:48:40,480
a topic of conversation. Uh. They are going to work

1055
00:48:40,519 --> 00:48:43,719
on it here to have the guys get ready for

1056
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,000
it so they're further and they'll obviously do a lot

1057
00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:49,440
of testing during the spring training games because they're gonna

1058
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,519
be allowed to. And you'll keep I think you'll keep

1059
00:48:51,519 --> 00:48:53,199
your two as long as you keep I think you

1060
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,800
keep them as long as you keep winning. Yeah, which

1061
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,360
is how I think they should do talent challenges in

1062
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,440
the in the NBA. But they never ask my opinion

1063
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,719
about it. They owned and they also like to keep

1064
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,000
everybody out of there on a certain amount of time.

1065
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,920
You don't want to be there all hours of the night, idea, Yeah,

1066
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,880
because challenges don't. I mean, this ABS system should take

1067
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,119
fifteen seconds twenty seconds of pop. Yeah, if that should

1068
00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:18,159
be very nice, very streamlined, yep. And it has been

1069
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,000
basically discussed. Batters can do it, catchers can do it,

1070
00:49:23,039 --> 00:49:25,920
Pictures can do it. But at least from the Astros perspective,

1071
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,400
the batters can do it and the catchers can do it,

1072
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,719
they have to ask the pictures to probably refrain from that.

1073
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,039
Although there is a competitive spirit these guys have, and

1074
00:49:35,159 --> 00:49:37,440
sometimes they think something is so egregious that they'll be like,

1075
00:49:37,519 --> 00:49:40,119
let's go try. I'm gonna say we're gonna see very few,

1076
00:49:40,159 --> 00:49:43,800
if any picture challenges because even they know we had

1077
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,599
Spencer Raghedy yesterday, He's like, I think everything is straight yep.

1078
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:52,559
So also, I mean Spencer Arraghetty is more I guess

1079
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:55,239
gonna be transparent than maybe some other pictures. But I

1080
00:49:55,280 --> 00:50:00,320
think it's a smart idea. And Joe Spotta mentioned that

1081
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,599
they're gonna be keeping tabs, They're gonna they're gonna have

1082
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:04,840
a little they're gonna be going they're gonna catch everybody's

1083
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,719
hit rates when they want to challenge stuff. So they're

1084
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,360
gonna see who's good, who's not, who's gonna get priority.

1085
00:50:11,039 --> 00:50:14,840
It's gonna be very interesting to figure out how how

1086
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,000
this is gonna play out, Which catchers and which batters

1087
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000
are gonna be good at it. He said he's been

1088
00:50:20,039 --> 00:50:22,679
picking Saesar Salazar's brain because he was good at it

1089
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,079
as well, and trying to figure this out. And even

1090
00:50:26,119 --> 00:50:29,639
even gamesmanship from catchers who where they try to frame

1091
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:33,679
Matthew to trick the umpires right, maybe now they'll frame

1092
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,840
late or move to try to trick batters as well

1093
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,400
into getting bad challenges. Can I give you a scenario.

1094
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:43,519
A pitcher that has four balls in a row or

1095
00:50:43,599 --> 00:50:47,719
five out of six is aggravated, frustrated, loses his not

1096
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:51,360
necessarily loses cool, but his startled a little bit by

1097
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,000
the fact that he's not throwing strikes, and he throws

1098
00:50:53,039 --> 00:50:55,639
one across the plane, doesn't get a call. You're gonna

1099
00:50:55,679 --> 00:50:59,360
see some pictures doing this, and probably at the angst

1100
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,800
and anger of the managers, because again, if most teams

1101
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,840
tell their pictures don't do it, that means even though

1102
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:06,920
you may be in the heat of the ball, you

1103
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:08,519
may want to, you know, tip your cap and say, yeah,

1104
00:51:08,519 --> 00:51:10,360
I want this thing looked at. Yeah. I'm not gonna

1105
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,559
say that's not gonna happen, but I feel like it's

1106
00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:17,239
going to be fairly rare, just because of the instructions

1107
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,000
of at least here in organ I don't know what

1108
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,960
they're doing in Pirates camp. I haven't heard the word

1109
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:26,320
out of Dodgers camp, but Houston Astros camp. Yeah, sounds

1110
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,480
like without saying it like pictures he shit, you bum masses. Though,

1111
00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:32,679
I'm excited about it. I am very, very very excited

1112
00:51:32,679 --> 00:51:34,239
about it. At least it's a step in the right

1113
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,760
direction instead of getting twenty six thousand wrong calls. Right,

1114
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,440
we can do two. It's great. Well, I mean two

1115
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:44,760
per game or maybe more. We'll see come come to

1116
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,760
come to the dark side sports, the dark side. I

1117
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,280
mean I said it's a step in the right direction.

1118
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,760
I think it's this is as far as going to go.

1119
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,880
But I've been wrong things. Yeah, Well, the the problem

1120
00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,559
you run into is saying forever. Forever's a long time. Yeah. Now,

1121
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,039
if the college football Playoff goes to twenty four teams

1122
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:06,679
in twenty seventy three and I'm out here, yeah, that's

1123
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,280
not gonna do much. You said, yeah, it's not a parent.

1124
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,639
I have no idea who the hell's playing past sixteen. Ever,

1125
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,280
I mean that that's where you can run into a

1126
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,559
little bit of trouble. Yeah, and maybe video will be

1127
00:52:18,639 --> 00:52:21,840
so refined, but I think you're going to run into

1128
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,320
just as much. We need the human aspect of it,

1129
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,559
and that comes from the players as much as it

1130
00:52:27,559 --> 00:52:30,440
does a lot of players. But I think it's especially

1131
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,280
the guys. I think because we've been talking about this

1132
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,239
for several years and we've been coming here for spring

1133
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,239
training for several years. I think the players that we

1134
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,599
talked to when we used to have the older the bragman,

1135
00:52:40,639 --> 00:52:43,000
the l two vas, those type of veteran guys, they

1136
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,440
were more against it because that's what they were used to.

1137
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,440
The more we talk to the younger guys, the pitchers

1138
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,079
who have been through it, the minor leagues who have

1139
00:52:50,079 --> 00:52:52,920
been through it, they experienced it and they know it's

1140
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,960
not a it's not an unknown for them, and they

1141
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,760
are definitely players who are more apt to agree with

1142
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,800
that there needs to be something done. So I think

1143
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,119
as the years go along and you get a player

1144
00:53:03,199 --> 00:53:05,840
populous that has all lived through this, I think people

1145
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,639
are gonna get more used to it. And then at

1146
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:10,199
some point, especially when you have say you've used your

1147
00:53:10,199 --> 00:53:12,519
two challenges and the bases that are loaded with the

1148
00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:14,000
game on the line in the ninth enning and a

1149
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,159
bad call insides the game. It's very rare, but it happens.

1150
00:53:17,519 --> 00:53:19,519
It's where you're going to say, we know what, we

1151
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:21,320
have it installed to get every call right, let's just

1152
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,559
do it. So you're gonna need a generational change in

1153
00:53:23,559 --> 00:53:25,519
the players. You're probably gonna need a generational change in

1154
00:53:25,559 --> 00:53:27,639
the umpire too, because the umpire union is gonna be

1155
00:53:27,639 --> 00:53:29,039
none too pleased about this for a while. And you

1156
00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:30,960
still got a lot of guys in there fifties and

1157
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,719
sixties that are umpiring baseball games. Yeah, so yeah, I

1158
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:38,440
mean so Honestly, this was a pretty big step for

1159
00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:41,599
a union that has been against this larger part in

1160
00:53:41,639 --> 00:53:44,960
the umpire union. So now you're maybe twenty years of this,

1161
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,840
who knows, but it is at least as they move

1162
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,800
in the right direction. I've always been a proponent of

1163
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,880
insert replay. I frankly want more of it. I really

1164
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,880
was happy many years ago when we were able to

1165
00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:00,800
pass interfere challenge calls, and that was an un mitigated

1166
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,679
disaster and I can't believe how bad it turned out.

1167
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,599
And I don't want the NFL to give up on

1168
00:54:05,639 --> 00:54:09,079
that because pass interfariance calls, especially because their spot foul

1169
00:54:09,119 --> 00:54:12,599
penalties are such a game changer. They are. Yeah, this

1170
00:54:12,679 --> 00:54:15,760
is more of it's a more of a there's less

1171
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,880
gray area when it comes to balls and strikes. And

1172
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,400
there was an interesting, interesting grass grass that I saw.

1173
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,480
I'm actually gonna go ahead retweet them right now at

1174
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,760
sports RV on my Twitter, but I want I actually

1175
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,440
wanted to show you the software, but we're on right now,

1176
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,000
so it's fine. They've had heat maps for balls and

1177
00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:32,599
strikes for years and years, so you look at the

1178
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,159
eventually as the years go along that the umpires have

1179
00:54:35,199 --> 00:54:37,559
gotten really good. They've gotten a lot better at calling

1180
00:54:37,599 --> 00:54:41,480
the actual true strike zone. So they're getting closer and

1181
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,519
closer to the true strike shown. And that's these umpires

1182
00:54:43,559 --> 00:54:45,000
who are at the Union. They're the best in the

1183
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,719
world at calling balls and strikes. They don't want to

1184
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,880
give up that skill in order to just hand it

1185
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,239
over to machines because that's what separates them from say

1186
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,679
triple A or double A. Correct umpires get a bunch

1187
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,840
of twenty four year olds out there. Yeah, so, and

1188
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,800
that's a way to bust up a union if they

1189
00:55:00,199 --> 00:55:01,920
like Baseball wanted to do that, like, yeah, we can

1190
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,119
get anybody. Matt Thomas can go out there and call

1191
00:55:04,159 --> 00:55:06,519
out and safe at home and have the back of

1192
00:55:06,559 --> 00:55:10,320
a review in his back pocket. You'd love to get

1193
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,079
you out of there, Maddie. You know what I told

1194
00:55:13,119 --> 00:55:15,559
you this. For many years, my greatest regret in life

1195
00:55:15,599 --> 00:55:19,320
was not taking away skipping a year in college or

1196
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,559
just delaying it a year and going to umpiring school. Well,

1197
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:25,880
I still and I have very few ragrats in my life,

1198
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,320
but that's one of them. Well, the begs the question, Matt,

1199
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:33,320
are you ready to be a union scab? No? Well,

1200
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:34,800
you fulfill your dreams.

1201
00:55:36,119 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 7: You know.

1202
00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 2: It's funny. My wife has developed a friendship. Remember the

1203
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,719
Indians manager. It was back in the Indians Mike Hargrove

1204
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,159
was a Baltimore Oral's manager too, and not really okay,

1205
00:55:46,159 --> 00:55:48,360
he was a manager in the nineties and early two thousands.

1206
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:52,400
He was managing the Cleveland Indians in a playoff series

1207
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,280
against the Red Sox, and it showed up in my timeline.

1208
00:55:56,639 --> 00:55:59,000
He got tossed from a playoff game three pitches in.

1209
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,719
So I sent the photo. I sent the tweet to

1210
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,239
my wife to send it to her friend, I said,

1211
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:08,199
this is mcg grover's guy toss, and that was no

1212
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,519
boxes around the umpiring, there was no challenges they were

1213
00:56:11,639 --> 00:56:13,440
and Dwight Good was pitching for the Indians. It shows

1214
00:56:13,519 --> 00:56:16,079
how how long that he was still active in the game.

1215
00:56:16,679 --> 00:56:20,920
And it was terrible. And so it's gotten better. It's

1216
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,920
gotten I would say, forgetting about the box, forgetting about

1217
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,599
the abs and the thing of it is umpire scorecard.

1218
00:56:29,039 --> 00:56:31,480
Twitter account was not around in nineteen ninety two, No,

1219
00:56:31,519 --> 00:56:35,519
it was. It's around in twenty twenty five. You want

1220
00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:38,280
it to be one hundred percent. You love ninety seven,

1221
00:56:38,639 --> 00:56:41,440
but most guys following that ninety one percent category. And

1222
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,400
think about this, if you do something really well, ninety

1223
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,239
one times out of one hundred, you're considered excellent at

1224
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,159
your job. That's you just started. But if you're missing

1225
00:56:49,199 --> 00:56:51,280
twenty calls a game, we're getting two. I don't know

1226
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:52,719
on average, what is it one hundred and eighty two

1227
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,199
hundred pitches or something like that. Right, that's it's a lot.

1228
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,960
It's sixteen. You're changing the complexion of sixteen at backs. Now,

1229
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,480
the question is are you changed sixteen at bats because

1230
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:03,159
it's strike one that was called or how many of

1231
00:57:03,159 --> 00:57:05,280
those were strike through the ended of the bat or

1232
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,559
extended of that? I believe last year there was twelve

1233
00:57:07,679 --> 00:57:12,119
hundred player twelve hundred something strikeouts where the bat should

1234
00:57:12,119 --> 00:57:14,280
have continued or perhaps a walk it should have been

1235
00:57:14,519 --> 00:57:17,400
that to me, that on your side of the argument,

1236
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,960
that's way too many. Yeah, I love it. Twenty eight

1237
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:21,760
it's a Matt Thomas shield Ross. If you'd like to

1238
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,119
be a part of our show today, we've not taken

1239
00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:24,559
anybody to call, and if you'd like to call and

1240
00:57:24,559 --> 00:57:26,639
say hello, let's go see how you're doing. Available. We

1241
00:57:26,679 --> 00:57:28,440
got a busy guest list, but we're available. Yeah. We

1242
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,400
had a nice visit with Zach Cole earlier. You heard

1243
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,760
a little bit from Cam Smith. We will stay with

1244
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,039
the outfield of Joey Libraffito and we'll go to the

1245
00:57:35,079 --> 00:57:39,760
infield with Brandon with Brandon Walker. Brandon Walker man, that's right, right,

1246
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,480
Christian Christian. Who's Brandon Walker and Brandon Brandon? I get

1247
00:57:43,519 --> 00:57:47,239
all these guys mixed UK Christian Walker down eleven pounds.

1248
00:57:47,239 --> 00:57:49,239
I've really gotta figure out how we did the diet thing,

1249
00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:51,760
whether he just ate less or he worked it off

1250
00:57:52,239 --> 00:57:54,480
calorie count, maybe got a steps up during that time.

1251
00:57:55,159 --> 00:57:56,840
I don't know. We'll figure it out. We'll find out.

1252
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,840
That's what you reason, were running around taking care of

1253
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:02,119
his baby. That's true. Matt and Ross with you here

1254
00:58:02,159 --> 00:58:06,639
from West Palm Beach Astros spring training, and just to

1255
00:58:06,719 --> 00:58:09,119
let you know if those that don't know, I presume

1256
00:58:09,119 --> 00:58:11,719
most people know that the Astros share the same complex

1257
00:58:11,719 --> 00:58:14,920
as the Nationals. Now, the Astros are left of the stadium.

1258
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:17,519
The Nationals are right at the stadium their practice field.

1259
00:58:17,519 --> 00:58:22,320
Say that, I'm assuming the comparable facilities they're having, like

1260
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,960
a it's not an intersquad game. There's nobody out there defensing.

1261
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,360
They're just having live batting practice. And we're gonna get

1262
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,519
a home run here sent this way. You know this right,

1263
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,079
we are a good thirty feet past the fence. It

1264
00:58:35,119 --> 00:58:38,320
could happen. It's about if you hear screaming and rustling,

1265
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,760
that's me. One of us is taking a baseball out

1266
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,679
of the dome. So yeah, they are. We are out

1267
00:58:44,079 --> 00:58:44,840
at the field.

1268
00:58:45,239 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: Now.

1269
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,119
Speaker 2: The guy throwing for the Nationals. Is that a fifty?

1270
00:58:48,239 --> 00:58:49,920
Is that what that is? Yeah? Is that a real?

1271
00:58:50,079 --> 00:58:51,679
Is that a Is that a real person? Or is

1272
00:58:51,719 --> 00:58:54,639
that like a I think he's a human being, med Ai.

1273
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:56,159
You know what I mean, Like you see like a

1274
00:58:56,679 --> 00:58:58,920
hitting like a throwing coach or something, you know, something

1275
00:59:00,039 --> 00:59:03,719
hot arm pickoff man, he threw a pickoff. Yeah. Oh

1276
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,000
that's a real dude. We gotta look at the lefty. Yeah.

1277
00:59:07,639 --> 00:59:10,039
So I wonder if they're working on uh some kind

1278
00:59:10,039 --> 00:59:13,360
of abs thing too. Right now, Nationals number This is

1279
00:59:13,519 --> 00:59:16,360
great live radio. Stay with us here. Well, I'm worried

1280
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:22,159
about you getting hit. It's a PJ Poohlan. Okay, that's

1281
00:59:22,199 --> 00:59:27,039
my dog, PJ Poohlan on a five Tuesday Many. I

1282
00:59:27,039 --> 00:59:29,760
think he's having a shrimple at his condo after the

1283
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,559
event from Marion, Massachusetts. I don't. Oh no, it's a

1284
00:59:32,679 --> 00:59:37,599
crab boils lobster lobster. That's funny. Oh, University of Connecticut,

1285
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,880
go Huskies. Yeah, he probably knows George Springer or at

1286
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,719
least familiar with him.

1287
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:43,199
Speaker 6: Oh.

1288
00:59:43,199 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 2: He made his major league debut at twenty eight. So

1289
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:51,760
he's just a guy. I you are, yes, you right?

1290
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:55,000
Plus at one fourteen, Hey fifty, you're just a guy.

1291
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:57,559
There'd be no way that was one four or five.

1292
00:59:57,599 --> 01:00:00,960
Whip hoof pg pol I got some things to work,

1293
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:02,960
is it? P o U l A N is I

1294
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,320
P O U l I N Pulling. I keep saying

1295
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,079
Poland because I'm just being like, you're trying to be

1296
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,400
You're trying to make your cage the guys in Massachusetts.

1297
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:15,440
You're trying to catch his name j Pulling. What was

1298
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,840
that for? I don't know. He's telling you're selling Jeff

1299
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:23,199
Passing there a little bit there. Okay, So uh, not

1300
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,960
that this is going to necessarily resonate with people up there.

1301
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:29,079
I'm scared. Oh, he's there's one coming our way. You're

1302
01:00:29,119 --> 01:00:31,199
not that far off. I'm gonna what are we about?

1303
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,800
Three fifty by down the line? No, it's got to

1304
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,039
be further than that. What is thirty six in the

1305
01:00:37,079 --> 01:00:40,280
right field line? Okay, so we're three seventy five? We're safe,

1306
01:00:40,719 --> 01:00:42,800
I thinkfully, I think we are.

1307
01:00:43,679 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 8: Uh.

1308
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,599
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this or not, Rossy,

1309
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:52,000
but uh, Tony Clark is the players, the MLB Players

1310
01:00:52,039 --> 01:00:59,320
Association executive leader. Well, he resigned today out of nowhere,

1311
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,079
well suddenly, well I don't know nowhere, but I don't

1312
01:01:02,119 --> 01:01:07,159
think it's out of nowhere. It was suddenly. So Tony

1313
01:01:07,199 --> 01:01:09,599
Clark announced his resignation. This is the time of year

1314
01:01:09,599 --> 01:01:11,960
where Tony Clark goes to all the different Major League

1315
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:16,480
teams and gives them a labor update. Yes, and uh,

1316
01:01:16,599 --> 01:01:18,679
he was supposed to hold his first meeting with players

1317
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:24,840
to Cleveland Cleveland. Yes, he said, ain't nobody got time

1318
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,400
for that. I resigned. So the first thought was, uh, oh,

1319
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,760
he's really afraid he doesn't want his name attached to

1320
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:35,360
this impending lockout slash strike. That is not the case.

1321
01:01:36,119 --> 01:01:41,800
Apparently there's some improprieties with MLB union funds that he's

1322
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,880
attaching his name to. Unfortunately, there is an Eastern District

1323
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:52,320
of New York investigating alleged financial improprieties at the union. Okay,

1324
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,280
so you're saying, well, what do you do. My guess

1325
01:01:54,320 --> 01:02:01,039
is he either spent money on lavish vacations, yeah, big meals,

1326
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,639
strip clubs. I don't think he was taking money directly

1327
01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:08,360
from the union funds and putting him into his bank account,

1328
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:12,800
but I'm sure there were some interesting expense reports turned

1329
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:14,679
in with that. That's that's that's kind of fair to say.

1330
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,920
Right Eastern District of New York is investigating in the

1331
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,280
finances and other dealings of the MLBPA, including questions about

1332
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:25,400
one team Partners, a multi billion dollar group licensing company

1333
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,039
part owned by the union. Huh, and players weigh a

1334
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:35,039
youth baseball initiative. So that sounds heavy in the weeds

1335
01:02:35,079 --> 01:02:37,920
for our audience and for us frankly, But here's the

1336
01:02:38,039 --> 01:02:41,800
here's the part B of this. So when you party

1337
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,719
the MLBPA co owns, it's being investigated for impropriety. So

1338
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:49,039
apparently the leader in the clubhouse not to use a

1339
01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:51,719
baseball or a golf term. I like that. He is

1340
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,880
a guy by the name of Bruce Meyer. He was

1341
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,559
Clark's right hand man. Oh, he has been the lead

1342
01:02:58,639 --> 01:03:03,679
negotiator for the union since twenty eighteen. At the bare minimum,

1343
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,840
he will be the interim successor. And the thought is

1344
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,519
that he is going to be the full time replacement,

1345
01:03:09,519 --> 01:03:13,000
because again, you are six months, well eight months away

1346
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:16,000
from potentially being locked out. You're supposed to He's supposed

1347
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:21,000
to be meeting with teams today. He resigned. So I'm

1348
01:03:21,039 --> 01:03:24,599
reading Bob Knightingale story which, oh, you gotta take it

1349
01:03:24,679 --> 01:03:28,840
or leave it on this one. Meyer, who was promoted

1350
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,760
to the union's deputy executive director in twenty twenty two.

1351
01:03:32,559 --> 01:03:36,639
According to Bob Nightingale, is public enemy number one for

1352
01:03:36,639 --> 01:03:44,159
Commissioner Rob Manford and his executive stat oh, okay, owners meeting,

1353
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:50,039
MLB the union, the union, the ownership find him. Let's

1354
01:03:50,039 --> 01:03:52,519
see by the way, o' clark likes him because he

1355
01:03:52,639 --> 01:03:55,480
was a reasonable guy in a former fifteen year All

1356
01:03:55,519 --> 01:03:57,920
star first baseman, and they have a lot of respect.

1357
01:03:58,079 --> 01:04:02,920
But Meyer, according to this report from Bob Nightingale, says

1358
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:06,920
that he is tenacious. Okay, I can appreciate tenaciousness if

1359
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:11,519
you're a negotiator, hard knows labor lawyer okay who MLB

1360
01:04:11,719 --> 01:04:18,400
labor officials despise. They call him unreasonable during their last negotiations,

1361
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:24,880
frequently clashing, accusing him of being bad for baseball, and

1362
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:29,320
his one club executive told Bob Nightingale, this is going

1363
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:34,840
to be a blood bath. Oh boy, I love this

1364
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,519
all right. I'll enjoy all the baseball you can. Folks.

1365
01:04:41,239 --> 01:04:44,159
Word around baseball was that Clark was going to make

1366
01:04:44,199 --> 01:04:49,400
the rounds and tell all the teams that a salary

1367
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:55,719
cap is ridiculous for baseball, non negotiable, non negotiable, and

1368
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:58,960
that a Dodger payroll of four hundred million dollars is

1369
01:04:59,119 --> 01:05:04,719
good for this sport because that would infuse. Even if

1370
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,280
you don't go to the Dodgers, you would presume the

1371
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:08,519
guys who teams would want to spend along the same

1372
01:05:08,559 --> 01:05:12,960
lines with gods, which is reality. That's five teams, that's

1373
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,239
not twenty, that's not ten, it's not twenty. We've seen

1374
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:21,159
there's at least three different economic ecosystems in baseball. It's

1375
01:05:21,159 --> 01:05:23,760
the super halves, it's the kind of halves, and then

1376
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,199
it's the have nuns. Man, there are most of them

1377
01:05:26,239 --> 01:05:29,159
not having and some are kind of between. Yeah. The

1378
01:05:29,199 --> 01:05:31,599
message apparently that the union was trying to spread to

1379
01:05:31,639 --> 01:05:33,920
the teams and they will ultimately do this is that

1380
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,559
it's the owners, not the players, who will be responsible

1381
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:39,960
for shutting the game down with a lockout. This message

1382
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,280
was supposed to start today in Cleveland's at their spring

1383
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,760
training facility. It has been postponed because of the quote

1384
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:50,320
unquote leadership change. Wow, this is gonna get ugly. We're

1385
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,679
not starting on time next year, are we We're not

1386
01:05:52,719 --> 01:05:57,159
coming here. That hurts for you to say that out loud.

1387
01:05:57,519 --> 01:05:59,880
We can come here and hang out, not really when't

1388
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:03,239
that know? The building will be closed. We can go

1389
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:05,639
to the problem is the hotel rooms are gonna be

1390
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:10,280
that's true. Okay, we know what I might do. I

1391
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,719
might take a real vacation next year. Oh I don't

1392
01:06:12,719 --> 01:06:16,320
believe that. I want you to because if because the

1393
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,159
All Star break coincides with us coming down here, turn

1394
01:06:19,199 --> 01:06:22,039
your phone off, get the vacation. Let's do it. You're

1395
01:06:22,039 --> 01:06:24,199
gonna try to text me a bunch of stuff and

1396
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,039
see if I do you ever hear from me? Really? No,

1397
01:06:27,119 --> 01:06:29,800
you don't ever text. And when I text you it

1398
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,079
takes weeks on end to get us. Weeks feels like

1399
01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:37,239
a slight exaggeration. Slight. Okay, I'm gonna text you tomorrow whatever.

1400
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:39,039
We'll be separating, so we're gonna be we're flying on

1401
01:06:39,039 --> 01:06:41,920
different planes coming back. We're gonna shot the airport together. Yeah,

1402
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,880
but you're leaving earlier than I do, going to Charlotte. No,

1403
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:46,119
I'm saying, what are you gonna do for those that

1404
01:06:46,199 --> 01:06:49,639
You're gonna be like four extra hours? Yeah, I'm probably

1405
01:06:49,679 --> 01:06:52,360
going to your cafe. Uh, well, I thought about having

1406
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,159
you dropped me off with. They have the Fonsa's leather

1407
01:06:54,199 --> 01:06:55,599
jacket there you can check it out. Yeah, but they

1408
01:06:55,599 --> 01:06:58,239
have a casino too, But that's we're gonna drop you

1409
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,280
off with the casino. I don't know. Well if is

1410
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,599
it from the airport twenty minutes? I don't know if

1411
01:07:03,599 --> 01:07:04,760
we have time for all that. We don't know. We

1412
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,960
don't talk, but the thought take the car and take

1413
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,719
him back. I can't take the carcass off. No, because

1414
01:07:10,719 --> 01:07:13,360
of the car. If something happens and I'm driving it,

1415
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,360
there's an accident, we're in troub because it's under your name.

1416
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:19,440
Oh okay, we can't. We can't afford to pay you. No,

1417
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,920
no one, I'll give you my license. Oh you have

1418
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:25,599
to travel. Get moving on. This is a terrible, terrible conversation.

1419
01:07:25,679 --> 01:07:27,440
No one cares about it. I love it. I know

1420
01:07:27,559 --> 01:07:32,880
you love it. I'm still ahead. Joey christ Walkers. We'll

1421
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,800
get back to sports, are we that? Dude? What's there

1422
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:38,159
doing the news? That new? But you know what we

1423
01:07:38,199 --> 01:07:41,119
got interrupted yesterday? What if Joey Cooks shows up all

1424
01:07:41,199 --> 01:07:43,679
right now? Is it joe Cooks? I thought it was

1425
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,000
Joey Cooks. I'll let you ask him. Okay, I will

1426
01:07:46,039 --> 01:07:49,760
ask him, because Joe Cooks is what baseball references seven

1427
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,840
one three, two one two five seven. Honey, I'm gonna

1428
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,199
throw this out to the audience, Are you all ready

1429
01:07:55,239 --> 01:07:56,639
for this? Are you ready for us not to be

1430
01:07:56,679 --> 01:08:01,400
here next February? Because may it sounds like to me

1431
01:08:02,639 --> 01:08:06,280
the owners are not leaving the negotiating table without a

1432
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:09,239
salary cap because you know what they're doing. They're gonna

1433
01:08:09,239 --> 01:08:12,039
they're gonna try to police themselves. The Dodgers and the

1434
01:08:12,119 --> 01:08:14,440
Mets want to say, we can't spend an work because

1435
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:19,760
the rule don't allow us to. Yeah, and you're gonna

1436
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:23,000
require a floor, yep, but that floor is probably gonna

1437
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,960
be a minimal because honestly, the Marlin unless you share

1438
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,560
television dollars, and I don't see the Dodgers sharing the

1439
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,600
television dollars, the Reds and the Marlins. I just don't.

1440
01:08:35,319 --> 01:08:38,239
They're not gonna want to. They have to figure something out.

1441
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:42,039
I'd be I don't know. There just feels like there's

1442
01:08:42,079 --> 01:08:44,840
a million eight different angles. Again, absolutely, and we haven't

1443
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:46,960
even seen a single legal brief on it or any

1444
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,000
kind of memo on this. There's a million things we're

1445
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,399
not thinking of. Yeah, because the first thing I thought

1446
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,079
when I read the story last week about it was

1447
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,000
the owners do want it because the Dodgers and the

1448
01:08:58,039 --> 01:09:00,600
Mets are tired tired of out spending everybody, let me

1449
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,439
say some cash. They want to say some cash, put

1450
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:04,479
a cap. I can't spend any more. Oh sorry, guys.

1451
01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:08,119
It's like when you say your wife handles the economics. Okay,

1452
01:09:08,159 --> 01:09:09,560
I can't do that, guys. I can't go on to

1453
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:11,399
approach with you to can't go to golf because the

1454
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,680
wife or you're on the salary cap. Yeah, we're on

1455
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:16,039
tight money. I like that. Can't get the whole pass,

1456
01:09:16,039 --> 01:09:18,800
You're capped out there you go. Eleven forty six, it's

1457
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:20,880
Madden Ross from West Palm Beach. If you like to

1458
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,319
join a seven one three two one two five seven honey?

1459
01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:26,640
Has that? Is that thought crossed your mind? Baseball fans

1460
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:28,000
with a lot of baseball fans, let's say, of course,

1461
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:31,399
seven five seven honey. Will you enjoyed this season more?

1462
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,520
Because we are in impending trouble for twenty twenty seven,

1463
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,560
it's Madden Ross and West Palm Here on seven ninety

1464
01:09:38,239 --> 01:09:41,279
eleven fifty two, Madden Ross from West Palm Beach. A

1465
01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:43,319
couple more gances to join us live. From the course

1466
01:09:43,359 --> 01:09:45,319
of program, we missed our exact whole conversation.

1467
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:46,119
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

1468
01:09:46,119 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 2: Impressed with the nice young man, good head on his shoulders. Yeah,

1469
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:56,119
zero complaints about that young guy, strong fast, got a

1470
01:09:56,359 --> 01:09:59,800
plane all out three outfield positions. Yeah, he was a

1471
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:01,600
late bloomer coming out of high school. Maybe he's a

1472
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:03,399
late bloomer getting in the major leagues. And his mom

1473
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:05,159
and dad are listening to us in Missouri right now.

1474
01:10:05,279 --> 01:10:11,640
Love it seven seven one. Even though we are here

1475
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:13,680
in West Palm, we always like talk to our great listeners.

1476
01:10:14,119 --> 01:10:17,159
And we'll start with James and Conroll on seven Honty. James,

1477
01:10:17,159 --> 01:10:18,760
thank you for waiting, and good morning to you.

1478
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,239
Speaker 9: Good morning, and yes I'm anxious for the baseball season

1479
01:10:24,279 --> 01:10:27,560
to start. We'll see what happens. But I'm a big

1480
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:31,199
Astro fan. But that's how why I called. I called

1481
01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:34,920
to talk about the Cougar's basketball game last night against

1482
01:10:35,199 --> 01:10:39,479
Iowa State. A couple of things, Uh, A few things.

1483
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:41,960
Number one, we're up by ten with four minutes to go.

1484
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,800
I don't know why we couldn't slow the game down.

1485
01:10:47,359 --> 01:10:53,039
Number two is I had a flashback from last year

1486
01:10:53,119 --> 01:10:57,680
against the Gators when we lost the championship. They did

1487
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:02,279
the same thing last night. Is they crashed with two

1488
01:11:02,319 --> 01:11:07,319
minutes to go, and so they went down, they lost

1489
01:11:07,399 --> 01:11:10,520
the ball, they didn't get a shot off the time

1490
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:14,960
clock ran out. I don't know what's going on something

1491
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:18,439
with the Cougars in the last two minutes of the game. Okay.

1492
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,479
And the third thing is, I don't know why we're

1493
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,600
not picking on people who can't shoot a free throw.

1494
01:11:25,079 --> 01:11:28,399
They have some free throw shooters that are in the

1495
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:33,399
sixty percent tile for making them. Why aren't we fouling

1496
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:37,359
them and sending them to the line. So I'll hang

1497
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:40,119
up and listen to you. But those are my comments.

1498
01:11:40,239 --> 01:11:42,840
Thank you for taking my call.

1499
01:11:44,239 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 2: This team is not as good defensively as it has

1500
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:52,960
been in years past. That's one thing. Number two, slowing down.

1501
01:11:53,239 --> 01:11:55,760
It's a thirty second shot lock. You can't go on,

1502
01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:01,039
you can't go into four corners. You've h has never

1503
01:12:01,079 --> 01:12:02,920
been a run up and down the court. Let's get

1504
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:05,399
to ninety points as fast as possible. No, So I

1505
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,079
can't speak to that. And by the way, they do

1506
01:12:07,119 --> 01:12:08,600
have the thoroughbreads to do that. If you want to

1507
01:12:09,119 --> 01:12:11,760
see Nat can do it. Uzan's been there for a

1508
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:16,159
long time, Manuel Sharp has been there. Flemings is you know,

1509
01:12:16,319 --> 01:12:18,479
is probably the most talented freshman or one of the

1510
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:22,399
top two in the entire country. And free throw shooting,

1511
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:23,880
they did shoot it, send it go out of the

1512
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,039
free throw line? Who missed a free throw late? And

1513
01:12:26,119 --> 01:12:30,520
I always take out the offensive rebound. You know, you

1514
01:12:31,079 --> 01:12:34,000
can't hunt and peck for bad free throw shooters because

1515
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,000
sometimes the other team doesn't put those bad free throw

1516
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,079
shooters on the floor. And secondly, you want to spending

1517
01:12:40,119 --> 01:12:42,279
all your time chasing down bad free throw shooters. You

1518
01:12:42,279 --> 01:12:44,239
were in a one possession game. Why would you do that? Yeah,

1519
01:12:44,239 --> 01:12:46,600
you're not playing a hack a shack. Yeah, two minutes left. No,

1520
01:12:47,399 --> 01:12:51,199
So it was about It wasn't a great It wasn't

1521
01:12:51,199 --> 01:12:52,399
a you know, I'm not gonna say it was a

1522
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,600
bad loss. It was disappointing. You want to go to

1523
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,000
Hilton Coliseum three points on the road at Iowa State.

1524
01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:59,000
I mean there was a top ten basketball team gang,

1525
01:12:59,399 --> 01:13:03,119
you know. Now, do you want to question the foul descrepancy.

1526
01:13:03,199 --> 01:13:05,119
I think it ended up being twenty one to fourteen

1527
01:13:05,159 --> 01:13:07,439
in favor of the number of fouls being called by Houston,

1528
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:09,159
But it was like ten to two for a while,

1529
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,079
but Houston always fouled. I look, I don't watch Jojo

1530
01:13:12,159 --> 01:13:14,199
Tuckler is a foul machine. I love him, but he

1531
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,880
fouls a lot of people with the caveat that. I'm

1532
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:19,439
not breaking down a bunch of you of Hed Cougar's team,

1533
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:22,399
but they're their physical defensive team absolutely, so guys can

1534
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:28,359
get into foul trouble. I'm sorry, I just yeah, it's

1535
01:13:28,399 --> 01:13:30,600
aggravating that you couldn't win the game because it was

1536
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:32,600
it was a one possession game. You did have a

1537
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:35,359
large lead late in the contest. The team got into

1538
01:13:35,359 --> 01:13:40,560
an offensive run and they had all me his rotation

1539
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,720
as eight players. It's not like you you were going

1540
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:45,439
deep to your bench and moving guys around and putting

1541
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,399
them in uncomfortable spots. I mean, all are all thirty

1542
01:13:47,399 --> 01:13:54,600
plus minute guys. Nice road test and help you in March. Well,

1543
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,520
I mean, now, what would have done is it probably

1544
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,560
would and we were listening to Joel Narnie coming into

1545
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:02,760
the state here today. It might have put the bracketologists

1546
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:06,520
put at the Coupars on a one line. But you

1547
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:09,520
know again, I want to I'm looking for some of

1548
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:11,319
the parts. Anybody that thought they were gonna go three

1549
01:14:11,319 --> 01:14:14,279
and oher with Iowa State, all right, peeling the curtain

1550
01:14:14,279 --> 01:14:18,279
back for sixty seconds here Okay, there is a food

1551
01:14:18,319 --> 01:14:21,159
truck that's assembled here on the concourse at the stadium

1552
01:14:21,199 --> 01:14:26,720
we're at. Yes, the name of this is Donut Envy.

1553
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 10: Yes.

1554
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:33,520
Speaker 2: What it serves is hot donuts and fresh lemonade. Okay,

1555
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:38,560
does that not sound fantastic right now? Sounds good, Matt.

1556
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,079
Now these two people, it's a husband and wife that

1557
01:14:41,239 --> 01:14:43,199
own this thing, because they're back in this trailer, this

1558
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:47,560
trailer thing back up. Okay, would it be too rude

1559
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:50,279
to ask them to make us a batch? Yes, they're

1560
01:14:50,279 --> 01:14:53,920
trying to get out of here, Matt. I don't know.

1561
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:57,119
The wife's directing traffic, the guy's driving. They're not going

1562
01:14:57,199 --> 01:14:59,439
to PLoP down and make you a donut. Clothes mouths

1563
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:03,800
don't get fit, Thank you, Jonathan very much. They're trying

1564
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,399
to get home, trying to get out of you. Should

1565
01:15:06,399 --> 01:15:08,039
I ask him, go ahead, ask him for a donut?

1566
01:15:09,239 --> 01:15:14,479
Excuse me, sir, I don't make it anywhere Saturday. I'm

1567
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:19,319
leaving tomorrow. I told him not to ask. Gosh, these

1568
01:15:19,319 --> 01:15:22,199
people are so Oh they're being nice, but they're being nice,

1569
01:15:22,239 --> 01:15:24,760
but they're like, this guy's being ridiculous tomorrow. What is

1570
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:28,680
wrong with this guy? Oh? God, they're shaking their heads.

1571
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,159
They're giving courtesy laughs, but they really want to They're

1572
01:15:32,199 --> 01:15:34,359
not gonna be here on Thursday. They're giving courtesy laughs,

1573
01:15:34,359 --> 01:15:35,920
but they want to spin at Matt's feet. Oh they're

1574
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:38,399
calling me in a whole big time. Can you believe

1575
01:15:38,399 --> 01:15:44,000
that guy? No, the trailer is all hitched up, the

1576
01:15:44,079 --> 01:15:49,279
doors are closed. They're trying to leave the stadium. Doesn't

1577
01:15:49,279 --> 01:15:51,800
mean they can't stop and open up the friar. No,

1578
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:53,920
they're not gonna stop and fry you up a batch

1579
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:55,520
of donuts. What do they say, Jonathan? What do the

1580
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:59,880
kids say, Jonathan? Closed? Look? What happened? What happened to this?

1581
01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:05,520
Open mouth is hungry too? We canna stop and get

1582
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:07,680
some donuts to wake Oh my god, Yeah, we can

1583
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:11,960
get some donuts. I got a muffin for you, chocolate.

1584
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,600
I don't want your muffin all right? Twelve oh one

1585
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,800
News pull it from the Breakfast News at noon is next.

1586
01:16:19,279 --> 01:16:26,239
Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross twelve.

1587
01:16:26,119 --> 01:16:28,159
Speaker 2: Five at inch Town Hour. Remember three of The Matt

1588
01:16:28,199 --> 01:16:31,319
Thomas Show with Ross is underway. We get you to

1589
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:35,359
the midday when we give you the top news headlines today,

1590
01:16:35,399 --> 01:16:39,720
we present to you Ross prepared formulated.

1591
01:16:41,359 --> 01:16:41,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1592
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,079
Speaker 2: I mean we're here spring training at West Palm Beach Matts.

1593
01:16:44,119 --> 01:16:46,079
We can give you the quick top ashos headlines and

1594
01:16:46,079 --> 01:16:50,680
they will go national. Joe Sponda speaking to the media

1595
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,319
early today, a lot of time spent talking about the

1596
01:16:53,359 --> 01:16:58,239
ABS system as he's going to discourage pictures from making

1597
01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:00,359
the call because they are further away. We had Spencer

1598
01:17:00,399 --> 01:17:03,319
Arraghetty on yesterday. He talked about how he's not a

1599
01:17:03,359 --> 01:17:05,960
good judge. He thinks everything's a strike because he's biased.

1600
01:17:06,319 --> 01:17:09,119
So pitcher's not likely going to be used in an

1601
01:17:09,159 --> 01:17:12,880
ABS situation, and a lot of discussion about that is

1602
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:14,960
it continue to try to figure out who's good and

1603
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,479
who's not, which they will work on here during spring training.

1604
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:20,640
Who to be trusted, who not to be trusted. Who's

1605
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,279
gonna be the number one most trusted astro in terms

1606
01:17:23,279 --> 01:17:24,920
of judging the strikes on in years past, I would

1607
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:26,479
have said Alex Bregman, there wouldn't have been down in

1608
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:28,880
my mind we're talking about hitting wise. Uh, I'm going

1609
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:35,840
to go with what Jordon Jordon's good. Jeremy Payne, he's

1610
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:38,359
a paratis, but he's never gonna play. You don't know,

1611
01:17:38,399 --> 01:17:41,119
I don't say that. Now, I'm kidding. It's now somebody's

1612
01:17:41,119 --> 01:17:43,960
gonna go to Twitter Sports. However, he says, Parie's not

1613
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:48,800
gonna play. That's that's terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Paradis works pitches,

1614
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:51,359
He works the count very well. Uh, Paradis is the

1615
01:17:51,359 --> 01:17:55,399
best eye he just does. So we will go with him. Okay,

1616
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:58,159
well else there, but we'll stick with the baseball news

1617
01:17:58,199 --> 01:18:00,359
of the day. It is the top sports news headline.

1618
01:18:00,359 --> 01:18:08,199
I would say overall, a sudden resignation from MLB Players

1619
01:18:08,239 --> 01:18:13,920
Association Executive Director Tony Clark. As we mentioned earlier today,

1620
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:16,159
Matt normally around this time of year he goes to

1621
01:18:16,279 --> 01:18:20,760
various camps around the country, talks and meets with union

1622
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:25,079
representatives and talks about the players Association and things coming

1623
01:18:25,119 --> 01:18:26,560
up in the next year, which we know there is

1624
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:31,840
a looming possible lockout slash strike. Well, he has resigned today,

1625
01:18:32,319 --> 01:18:37,319
leaving the union without its leader less than a year

1626
01:18:37,359 --> 01:18:41,319
before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement. According to

1627
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:47,199
Jeff Passen and Don Van Natta Junior of ESPN, the

1628
01:18:47,239 --> 01:18:50,920
Eastern District of New York's ongoing investigations into the financing

1629
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:54,359
and other dealings of the MLBPA is at fault. Here.

1630
01:18:55,239 --> 01:18:58,079
There is a company that the MLBPA is part owner

1631
01:18:58,119 --> 01:19:00,720
in called One Team Partners, and also Players Way that

1632
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:05,520
are being investigated by the Eastern District Attorney of New

1633
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:13,239
York in terms of improprieties done financially. So this seems

1634
01:19:13,239 --> 01:19:15,600
like an admission of guilt, right Tony Clark just resigning

1635
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:16,880
out of nowhere. He was supposed to be with the

1636
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,479
Cleveland Guardians. And what they do is this time of

1637
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:21,840
year they go to every camp just kind of lay

1638
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:25,439
of the land. Normally it's a nice kumbaya. How's everybody feeling?

1639
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:28,760
Here's what we're working for. My guess is that whoever

1640
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:30,680
takes over ultimately is going to be answering a lot

1641
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,439
of questions about is this our last Spring training for

1642
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:37,239
a while. And I guarantee you again if you're reading,

1643
01:19:37,279 --> 01:19:40,039
if you read the story from ESPN, they're going to

1644
01:19:40,119 --> 01:19:41,960
make the owners look like the bad guys. And that's

1645
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,199
what typical union leadership does. If we're having a greed disagreement,

1646
01:19:45,239 --> 01:19:47,359
it's certainly not our fault. We're gonna say. The owners

1647
01:19:47,359 --> 01:19:49,920
are gonna say the players are greedy and the players

1648
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,239
are gonna say the owners are greedy. That's how union

1649
01:19:52,319 --> 01:19:55,199
versus ownership works. I wonder if we're gonna get any

1650
01:19:55,279 --> 01:19:59,439
arbitration changes. And the truth is they're both greedy. Oh yeah,

1651
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,880
and there's new television deals into play. The sport is

1652
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:04,840
in good economic shape. It's not as good as say

1653
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:08,399
football is, but nothing as good as a football. So yeah,

1654
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:12,840
we are in a world where the Los Angeles Dodgers

1655
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:16,159
are being crucified and they're like, you know what, we

1656
01:20:16,239 --> 01:20:19,359
have the money, but put a cap on ourselves so

1657
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,520
other teams can can we can go to our to

1658
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:24,119
the players and say, hey, we'd love to sign you,

1659
01:20:24,159 --> 01:20:25,680
but we have a hard cap. Bach So the baseball

1660
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:27,479
gave us a cap. What can we do about it?

1661
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:29,600
But say, we don't enough money for you. Meanwhile, they

1662
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:31,760
can just outspend anybody at this point, and then you

1663
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:33,239
get the Martins, you get the Reds, and you get

1664
01:20:33,279 --> 01:20:35,600
the Guardians that are spending at the bare bones levels.

1665
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:37,520
All right, keeping it moving on the news at noon,

1666
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:40,439
let's go to the NFL. Man. According to Adam Schefter,

1667
01:20:41,359 --> 01:20:46,239
the Seattle Seahawks are unlikely to use either a franchise

1668
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:51,159
or transition tag on running back Kenneth Walker, the third

1669
01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:56,159
also known as the reigning Super Bowl MVP. Of course

1670
01:20:56,199 --> 01:20:59,119
it becomes relevant here in Houston, where they need some

1671
01:20:59,159 --> 01:21:03,000
help in the run game. Don't even start. Why not not,

1672
01:21:03,279 --> 01:21:06,800
that's not what Nicky c does. Oh well, he traded

1673
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:10,319
from Joe Mixon. This would be a trade, This would

1674
01:21:10,319 --> 01:21:11,520
be a straight out. I know, this would be free.

1675
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:13,640
But he traded and paid Joe Mixon. Joe Mixon wasn't

1676
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:15,640
making a lot of money. We went and spent on

1677
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:19,800
a running back there. I will, as I was teasing

1678
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:21,760
our morning show Cole Thompson about it, I will not

1679
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,359
even entertain the thought. Okay, you will not even entertain

1680
01:21:24,399 --> 01:21:26,119
the thought, because you're gonna get into ding war Ross

1681
01:21:26,279 --> 01:21:28,760
will Nick Cassario entertained the thought. Maybe I feel like,

1682
01:21:29,119 --> 01:21:32,000
even though he did is the reigning Super Bowl MVP.

1683
01:21:32,319 --> 01:21:35,359
He split carries with Zak Charbonnay throut the season. Charbonnay

1684
01:21:35,399 --> 01:21:37,039
of course, got hurt during the playoffs and not allowed

1685
01:21:37,079 --> 01:21:42,000
Kenneth Walker to tall as Walker because let's than twenty eight.

1686
01:21:42,079 --> 01:21:46,359
I think he's around twenty seven, twenty he's twenty five. Okay, well,

1687
01:21:46,439 --> 01:21:49,119
then that's really gonna put it out of the normal. No,

1688
01:21:49,199 --> 01:21:51,079
you let me tell you about Nicky S's gotta figure

1689
01:21:51,119 --> 01:21:53,399
out he's got to go get an RB one, but

1690
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:55,439
he ain't gole pay RB one prices. Doesn't that tell you?

1691
01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:55,560
Speaker 4: That?

1692
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:58,600
Speaker 2: Isn't that funny though, where the running back market is?

1693
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,479
Because if he was so right, the Seattle Seahawks would

1694
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,239
be paying. We're talking about the reigning Super Bowl MVP

1695
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,520
one hundred yards in the game becoming a free agent.

1696
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:10,479
We would not have been saying that twenty years ago,

1697
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:15,359
maybe thirty years ago. No chance. Yeah, the Cowboys that

1698
01:22:15,359 --> 01:22:17,439
were not gonna let ms Smith go until he had

1699
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:19,640
had gone way past his prime, which he did, and

1700
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:21,199
then I think he had a thousand yards season with

1701
01:22:21,239 --> 01:22:24,479
Yers on it. But anyways, Uh, there you go. Uh

1702
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:26,479
with the NFL news and a little bit more. This

1703
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:29,600
is less news but an article put together with Matt

1704
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:33,359
Bowen where he listed the top fifty NFL free agents

1705
01:22:33,359 --> 01:22:35,479
and projected landing spots for all of them. Oh, this

1706
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:37,960
is interesting. I should say best team of fits. You

1707
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:39,399
want to say his frap for the all of them?

1708
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,479
We can talk about it after the break. I love

1709
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,399
the Segway, my friend. That's what we call you. The

1710
01:22:44,399 --> 01:22:47,760
Segway King anything else or news? Really, we need to

1711
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,319
pass on nothing piping on? All right, it's February, all right,

1712
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:54,119
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

1713
01:22:54,159 --> 01:22:56,359
one three two one two five seventies. You're telling me

1714
01:22:57,119 --> 01:23:00,880
there is an NFL top fifty free agent list out there? Yes?

1715
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:04,560
And are you going to tell me the Texans are

1716
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,359
on the radar for some of these guys? Yes, oh

1717
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:11,159
you are. That's why you want to listen. Next, it

1718
01:23:11,199 --> 01:23:13,079
is a Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three

1719
01:23:13,199 --> 01:23:16,279
two one two five is seven ninety seven one three

1720
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:20,600
two one two five seven ninety twelve eighteen. We've got

1721
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,520
more guests coming up between now and two o'clock today.

1722
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:25,800
We'll also catch up again with Cam Smithfielder you missed

1723
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:28,159
it earlier in the day, if you'd like to join

1724
01:23:28,239 --> 01:23:30,159
us to talk all things Houston sports, whether it be

1725
01:23:30,159 --> 01:23:32,359
about the Astros, whether it be about the lockout, whether

1726
01:23:32,399 --> 01:23:35,239
it be about the Rockets starting up their second half

1727
01:23:35,239 --> 01:23:37,119
of the year, although we're well past that point. That'll

1728
01:23:37,159 --> 01:23:40,560
be coming up on Thursday against Charlotte College Basketball. Cougar's

1729
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:45,000
lost last night to Iowa State. I'm sad, I'm not devastated.

1730
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:50,319
You should be sad, but not devastated. That's good. Nice test.

1731
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:52,520
Now if they go for three, I'll be wigging out

1732
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:54,199
a little bit. I can get losses out of the way. Well,

1733
01:23:54,199 --> 01:23:55,800
what if they're all by three point? You lost by

1734
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:57,760
three points? Not they went up there and got shell

1735
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:01,159
or you got destroyed. These are amazing conference games against

1736
01:24:01,199 --> 01:24:05,600
the super elite. Yes, and they We were listening again

1737
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:08,600
really quickly to Joe Lenardie. Now he's not the end all,

1738
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:10,760
but he has been the bracketologists long with anybody else,

1739
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:14,399
ask more than any He says, as many as five

1740
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:19,560
teams in the Big twelve could be top three seeds

1741
01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:21,880
in the four different regions. So five of the twelve

1742
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:27,000
three and up, Wow, could be from one conference that

1743
01:24:27,039 --> 01:24:29,880
hasn't probably probably been surpassed since the heydays of the

1744
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:32,319
ACC and probably the Big East when you think about

1745
01:24:32,319 --> 01:24:33,840
it now. They asked he had a bunch of teams too,

1746
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,399
But yeah they did last year. Let's see, our good

1747
01:24:36,399 --> 01:24:38,760
friends at Ken Palm have Arizona the number three team,

1748
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:44,359
Houston four, I always say seven, Kansas fifteen. So a

1749
01:24:44,399 --> 01:24:46,399
lot of great competition, and if you want to go

1750
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:48,520
to that Arizona game on Saturday. Don't ask me for tickets.

1751
01:24:48,520 --> 01:24:52,479
I don't have any. And the secondary market quite robust.

1752
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,319
And also Jake Myers won't shut up about Nebraska basketball.

1753
01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:59,279
He's got to be happy. Yeah, is it true they've

1754
01:24:59,279 --> 01:25:03,680
never wanted to tournament game? I know, I'm supposed to

1755
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:06,800
know a lot of things. I don't know Nebraska basketball history.

1756
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:10,279
They I thought I heard that, overheard that. I'll check

1757
01:25:10,319 --> 01:25:15,199
to you. The Braska cornutter's men basketball. Yeah, they've never won.

1758
01:25:15,359 --> 01:25:19,079
They've appeared in the tournament eight times. They have never

1759
01:25:19,119 --> 01:25:24,600
won a game ever. Ever, you see other schools have

1760
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:28,159
it worse? See that? Yeah, it could be worse. All right.

1761
01:25:28,279 --> 01:25:32,399
You have a list of the top fifty free agents. Yes,

1762
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:37,439
please attach Texans players to this survey. Well, I mean

1763
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:41,239
that Texans players. I'm sorry, it was Texans land spots. Okay,

1764
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:49,359
you have right now. Braden Smith, the offensive tackle to

1765
01:25:49,399 --> 01:25:51,880
New York Giants. This is from Matt Bowen of ESPN.

1766
01:25:52,119 --> 01:25:55,279
We like him listed as a perfect fit. He's talking

1767
01:25:55,319 --> 01:25:57,960
about best team fit for the free agents, okay, to

1768
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:01,319
where they could be with the Houston Texas. So of

1769
01:26:01,359 --> 01:26:04,479
course he's talking about elevating the offensive line with CJ. Stroud.

1770
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:07,199
We know Trent Brown is going to be a free agent.

1771
01:26:07,399 --> 01:26:09,159
Some people think the Texans are going to be able

1772
01:26:09,199 --> 01:26:11,680
to re sign Trent Brown. You know why not sure why?

1773
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,319
Short contract, short contract, and we'll see how much money

1774
01:26:15,359 --> 01:26:17,680
he's going to command on the open market. But Braydon Smith,

1775
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:21,079
the offensive tackle for the New York Giants, could be

1776
01:26:21,119 --> 01:26:25,039
a fit, okay for your Houston Texans. Braydon Smith, Yes,

1777
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:27,800
offensive tackle, one of the He is the number ten

1778
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:31,439
overall free agent. The number seven overall free agent is

1779
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:33,279
not listed to the Houston Texas, but it's somebody whose

1780
01:26:33,359 --> 01:26:35,239
name has been mentioned a lot with the Houston Texans.

1781
01:26:35,239 --> 01:26:38,079
That would be Breece Hall. Matt Bowen lists the best

1782
01:26:38,199 --> 01:26:41,720
fit as the New York Jets, but the Texans possibly

1783
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:43,720
being a team who could be in on that market.

1784
01:26:44,319 --> 01:26:45,640
You don't seem to think that there's going to be

1785
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:51,560
a sort of free agent Oh will they Will they

1786
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,479
lob one to Breeze Hall for sure? Yeah, come on

1787
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:58,960
in site down, Joey, Oh the man himself, he's back.

1788
01:27:00,239 --> 01:27:02,680
All right, we will continue this NFL. Who's your NFL team?

1789
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:05,520
By the way, Joe the Eagles, big Eagles fan. Okay,

1790
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:08,039
like how big? Like would you party hard when they

1791
01:27:08,039 --> 01:27:09,520
won the Super Bowl? Cook a couple of years ago?

1792
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,439
Oh yeah, I did you go up a light pole.

1793
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:15,039
Speaker 8: I've sent emails to them about like guys, I've watched

1794
01:27:15,079 --> 01:27:19,239
in the combine and you know, a minute a minute.

1795
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 2: I did not expect that kind of answer from you. Yeah,

1796
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:23,439
oh yeah, I love it. I love it.

1797
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 8: So they respond back to you, No, but they've taken

1798
01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:28,840
the year they took DeVante Smith and Landon Dickerson.

1799
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 2: I mean those are my two player so was my

1800
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,720
round one and two stack? Howie Roseman's ripping you off

1801
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:38,439
your picks. How he's one of the best, if not

1802
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:40,840
the best, GM in the league. Uh.

1803
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 8: The way he manages the cap is is special year

1804
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:46,720
in and year out, and he'll he'll keep as long

1805
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:48,560
as he's there, they'll be competitive.

1806
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:51,279
Speaker 2: How much credit do you receive we're a talking baseball

1807
01:27:52,119 --> 01:27:53,760
for getting Saquon Barkley away from.

1808
01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:57,039
Speaker 8: The Giants me personally, Yes, they're you. How big of

1809
01:27:57,039 --> 01:27:59,000
a responsibility? He wasn't really on my radar?

1810
01:27:59,359 --> 01:28:04,239
Speaker 2: Uh? So you know none? Yeah? None, none. Okay, let

1811
01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:06,119
me tell you some about else. It'd be better if

1812
01:28:06,119 --> 01:28:08,840
you lied to us, all right, It was all me,

1813
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:13,119
I personally regret. Now we're gonna clip that, We're gonna

1814
01:28:13,119 --> 01:28:15,600
put it on all our social media. Yeah, this this

1815
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,319
kind of works. It went viral just write five seconds ago.

1816
01:28:18,359 --> 01:28:20,439
I mean you watch him run and man, it's special.

1817
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:22,720
Thanks down here a little bit, a little bit, the

1818
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:25,920
whole team down here for him is my fantasy thousand yards.

1819
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:27,880
I mean yeah, it's down here for my fantasy team.

1820
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:30,720
All right, thanks, all right, Hey, welcome back to Houston

1821
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:33,640
or West Palm Beach. Thank you. Where were you when

1822
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:36,319
you got the phone call? Uh? My girlfriend and I

1823
01:28:36,399 --> 01:28:37,640
were were getting ready for bed.

1824
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,159
Speaker 8: I just brushed my teeth and I had a miscall

1825
01:28:40,199 --> 01:28:44,359
and a text from Toronto's GM that said, hey, give

1826
01:28:44,399 --> 01:28:45,720
me a call when you when you see this, And

1827
01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:48,000
I said, oh, I think we got traded somewhere.

1828
01:28:48,159 --> 01:28:50,119
Speaker 2: Is that what the first thing he thought was trade? Uh?

1829
01:28:50,239 --> 01:28:52,920
Yeah absolutely. It was like ten thirty at night. Yeah,

1830
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:57,560
he's not calling to say how is dinner? Yeah, that's crazy.

1831
01:28:57,680 --> 01:28:59,800
So when you got the phone call, did you have

1832
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:03,239
any and it was Houston or any any rumors, any

1833
01:29:03,279 --> 01:29:04,600
anything at all? At this point?

1834
01:29:05,199 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 8: I mean you always you know, we've crowded outfield over there.

1835
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:10,399
Speaker 2: A lot of really good players.

1836
01:29:11,119 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 8: I thought if something was going to happen this year,

1837
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:14,960
it would probably happen, you know, around the winter meetings

1838
01:29:15,039 --> 01:29:17,880
or in the winner in the off season. And that

1839
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:20,479
didn't happen, So I mean, it's always a possibility. I

1840
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:23,680
wasn't expected at ten thirty that night, but I put

1841
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:26,119
it on speakerphone and he said, hey, we you know,

1842
01:29:26,159 --> 01:29:28,279
we made a trade with And I was kind of waiting,

1843
01:29:28,359 --> 01:29:29,279
like where, where where?

1844
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 2: And he said with Houston.

1845
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:33,279
Speaker 8: And I just looked at my girlfriend Faith and I

1846
01:29:33,319 --> 01:29:35,399
was just like, oh my gosh, what was her reaction?

1847
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:39,039
She was shocked obviously the trade, she's surprising, but just

1848
01:29:39,079 --> 01:29:40,960
the fact that it was back here, obviously, and you know,

1849
01:29:41,039 --> 01:29:44,079
such a familiar place that I had already came from.

1850
01:29:44,399 --> 01:29:46,760
I think that was like the big shock factor for us.

1851
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:47,479
So we were excited.

1852
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:50,640
Speaker 2: And where do you live in the off season? Philadelphia? Okay?

1853
01:29:52,079 --> 01:29:55,560
So okay, so you get that. And do you know

1854
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:59,119
that people in this town lost their mind when you

1855
01:29:59,199 --> 01:30:01,159
got traded a little bit?

1856
01:30:01,199 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 8: I mean I I definitely wasn't expecting that move. When

1857
01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:09,840
it happened, I felt like, I mean, like this was

1858
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:11,800
this organization was all I ever knew, you know, through

1859
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:16,279
the miners, sure, through the major leagues, and I feel

1860
01:30:16,319 --> 01:30:19,359
like your rookie year is you know a little bit

1861
01:30:19,359 --> 01:30:22,239
of a whirlwind of you know, getting acclimated to major

1862
01:30:22,319 --> 01:30:25,720
leagues and there's just so much going on that, you know,

1863
01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:29,039
an added trade into that and some added change of

1864
01:30:29,079 --> 01:30:31,239
you know, where you're living and what country you're in

1865
01:30:31,319 --> 01:30:35,239
and all that. Yes, it was a lot, and so

1866
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:37,680
I don't know I wasn't as keyed into maybe how

1867
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:40,279
much the fans were upset when I got traded, as

1868
01:30:40,319 --> 01:30:42,760
I was trying to reacclimate more to you know, Toronto

1869
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:43,560
and my new home.

1870
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:45,640
Speaker 2: Well, I just let you know, there's more Tim Horton's

1871
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,119
popping up in Houston all over the place because you

1872
01:30:48,119 --> 01:30:50,079
can't go five feet with us sinking Tim Horton. You

1873
01:30:50,079 --> 01:30:51,920
don't have to worry about the exchange rate anymore, either

1874
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:55,279
has much. Yeah, well the dollar is stronger. Let me

1875
01:30:55,319 --> 01:30:57,920
tell you it's great. I go there once year and

1876
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,399
it's amazing. Yeah. You buy like a Starbucks coffee and

1877
01:31:00,399 --> 01:31:01,880
you're like, wow, I only got charged, you know, a

1878
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:04,079
dollars seventy five. Like I get two donuts and a

1879
01:31:04,199 --> 01:31:07,119
large coffee and a Tim Hortons. Okay, and it's like

1880
01:31:07,279 --> 01:31:09,760
three hours and nine cents. It's not bad, not bad

1881
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:13,199
at all. Well, welcome back. So Bina gets on the

1882
01:31:13,239 --> 01:31:15,399
phone with you, Joe, I'm assuming at some point does

1883
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:17,119
as well. What would they tell you? What was the

1884
01:31:17,159 --> 01:31:19,319
message for them when the move was made?

1885
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:24,159
Speaker 8: They were just excited. They both you know, emphasized how

1886
01:31:24,199 --> 01:31:26,560
hard it was when that trade happened and how excited

1887
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:30,319
they were to have you back. You know, I mean

1888
01:31:30,359 --> 01:31:34,079
this organization is prides itself on winning and is going

1889
01:31:34,159 --> 01:31:37,159
to continue to do that. So from a player, I mean,

1890
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:40,960
you're in a first class organization that you know, you

1891
01:31:41,039 --> 01:31:44,119
once knew as your home, and you know, people are

1892
01:31:44,119 --> 01:31:47,359
motivated there to win and to go acquire players that

1893
01:31:47,399 --> 01:31:48,079
they think can do that.

1894
01:31:48,239 --> 01:31:50,319
Speaker 2: So I think to be to be back.

1895
01:31:50,119 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 8: In the mix here and to be playing in the

1896
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:55,000
outfield all three spots, they just both were, you know,

1897
01:31:55,119 --> 01:31:56,960
really excited and expressed that over the phone.

1898
01:31:57,199 --> 01:31:59,560
Speaker 2: What's that been like you? As I mean, you're obviously

1899
01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:02,479
been very very exposed to the this is a business

1900
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,079
side of baseball. Somebody wants you want to go out there,

1901
01:32:05,119 --> 01:32:06,199
you want to do your best, You want to be

1902
01:32:06,239 --> 01:32:08,359
out there on the field, But then there's that aspect

1903
01:32:08,399 --> 01:32:08,600
of it.

1904
01:32:09,319 --> 01:32:11,199
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, And I definitely think, you know, now this

1905
01:32:11,359 --> 01:32:13,640
being the second time that I got traded, I think,

1906
01:32:15,039 --> 01:32:18,439
you know, I wasn't as emotional like outwardly as I

1907
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:20,840
was just thankful to, you know, have gotten the chance

1908
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:23,000
to play in Toronto and also be thankful and grateful

1909
01:32:23,039 --> 01:32:25,039
to come back to a place that treated me so

1910
01:32:25,119 --> 01:32:27,239
well citywise and fan base wise when I was here

1911
01:32:27,279 --> 01:32:30,239
in Houston. So yeah, I mean, if you're gonna get

1912
01:32:30,239 --> 01:32:32,560
traded multiple times, if it's only between two teams, and

1913
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:35,520
it's funny, the transitions only get smoother and smoother.

1914
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:38,520
Speaker 2: So a little bittersweet your season up there, I mean,

1915
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:40,680
obviously in the middle of Penechase, I know you probably

1916
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,520
didn't play as much as you probably wanted to, But

1917
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:44,640
just the being around the aura of a team that

1918
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:47,199
was ascending up the American League.

1919
01:32:47,399 --> 01:32:48,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of fun. I could

1920
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:53,039
see why people talked about postseason runs like that when

1921
01:32:53,039 --> 01:32:54,960
I was coming up in the miners here in Houston,

1922
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:57,359
and talked about how special they were and how much

1923
01:32:57,439 --> 01:32:59,720
they brought the team together and how you could build

1924
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:03,159
off that momentum the following season, so I'd always heard

1925
01:33:03,159 --> 01:33:05,399
about them, and the chance to be be in the

1926
01:33:05,399 --> 01:33:08,520
mix for one was awesome and uh, you know, lifelong

1927
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:10,399
memories and a big part of the reason why I

1928
01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:12,720
wanted to play this game as a little kid. So

1929
01:33:13,079 --> 01:33:14,960
I think the chance to be here and have that

1930
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,319
experience in Houston is you know, it's everything I've ever wanted.

1931
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:18,920
Speaker 2: So when things settled down a little bit and you

1932
01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:20,600
said you're coming to westboll because you weren't done even

1933
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:23,399
originally for a few days, right, Yeah, what was that

1934
01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:25,720
drive like? Were you like, Okay, I'm going back to

1935
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:29,399
a familiar place. They need me for a reason, and

1936
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:32,840
let's face it, outfield depth could use some depth and

1937
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:34,520
you're in a spot where you can grab one of

1938
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:36,199
those spots. Yeah, it was.

1939
01:33:36,199 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 8: Have you guys ever had a long drive and you're

1940
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:39,119
just like, you know what, I might as well make

1941
01:33:39,159 --> 01:33:41,000
some phone calls and you catch up with a handful

1942
01:33:41,039 --> 01:33:41,399
of people.

1943
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:42,159
Speaker 2: So who you call?

1944
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:44,640
Speaker 8: Well, we were just getting a ton of calls and

1945
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:49,199
people just excited about the trade and my yeah, everybody.

1946
01:33:49,239 --> 01:33:51,119
We we just talked to so many people and you know,

1947
01:33:51,319 --> 01:33:55,079
guys I'd played with here just to till we got

1948
01:33:55,079 --> 01:33:57,760
the more we drove, the more excited we got about it,

1949
01:33:57,800 --> 01:33:59,399
and you know, the more it seemed like a really

1950
01:33:59,399 --> 01:34:00,279
good opportunity to do.

1951
01:34:00,399 --> 01:34:00,479
Speaker 2: So.

1952
01:34:02,199 --> 01:34:03,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, and then I showed up and I was like, wow,

1953
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:05,760
I feel like we picked up right where we left off.

1954
01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:08,560
I was joking that I studied abroad and I'm back. Yeah,

1955
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:10,840
so you're back home. What is that like for you,

1956
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:12,079
especially as you're just.

1957
01:34:12,039 --> 01:34:13,119
Speaker 2: Trying to improve and get better?

1958
01:34:13,399 --> 01:34:13,600
Speaker 4: Are you?

1959
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:15,479
Speaker 2: What are things you're working on, things you're trying to

1960
01:34:15,479 --> 01:34:18,840
do to be at your best come spring training. Yeah.

1961
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:21,079
Speaker 8: I think offensively, you know, build on some of the

1962
01:34:21,119 --> 01:34:24,880
swing stuff that I was doing last year. And you know,

1963
01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:28,039
I've always kind of made little tweaks and adjustments along

1964
01:34:28,039 --> 01:34:29,960
the way. I think you're always working as hitters to

1965
01:34:30,199 --> 01:34:34,279
just continue to refine things. But I'm excited. I think defensively,

1966
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:38,960
the astros here really keyed in on some little tweaks

1967
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:41,000
the you know, kind of the setup in the outfield

1968
01:34:41,039 --> 01:34:43,520
and you know, your first step, your primer step to

1969
01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:46,760
be able to really boost your reaction time. So I

1970
01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:48,840
know Jason Bell, he was funny enough, and I said

1971
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,039
this to him today. He was hands on with me

1972
01:34:51,239 --> 01:34:53,560
and my draft class and twenty twenty one in the

1973
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:56,119
summer when we all came down here, yeah, on field

1974
01:34:56,159 --> 01:34:57,439
one over there, and.

1975
01:34:57,359 --> 01:34:58,279
Speaker 2: We were there today working.

1976
01:34:58,359 --> 01:35:00,560
Speaker 8: I was like, Jay Bell, this is exactly where we

1977
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:02,880
were as soon as I got drafted, you know, years

1978
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:06,520
and years ago. So excited to kind of improve that

1979
01:35:06,880 --> 01:35:08,479
defense stuff in the outfield.

1980
01:35:08,399 --> 01:35:12,039
Speaker 2: Without getting in particulars, because some things are should be kept.

1981
01:35:12,119 --> 01:35:14,359
But are there some things the Astros did? You're like

1982
01:35:14,399 --> 01:35:16,199
when you got to Toronto and like, man, I kind

1983
01:35:16,199 --> 01:35:17,479
of like the way we used to do it, and

1984
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:19,680
then there are something to do something you learn maybe

1985
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:21,880
in Toronto that said, you know what, I like how

1986
01:35:21,880 --> 01:35:25,079
they strategize things. I mean, no two teams in baseball

1987
01:35:25,119 --> 01:35:27,640
run their camps the same, run their workouts, run their

1988
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:30,720
days off. Was it interesting to you to see how

1989
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:33,119
a different perspective for at least a little while. I

1990
01:35:33,119 --> 01:35:33,399
think so.

1991
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:35,279
Speaker 8: I think every organization is going to do things a

1992
01:35:35,279 --> 01:35:37,159
little bit differently. I think at the end of the

1993
01:35:37,239 --> 01:35:39,880
day of the game is still the game. But I

1994
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:42,680
definitely think that you know, there's a reason that these

1995
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,720
two teams have had success in the past and it

1996
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:49,399
will continue to have success. I think both organizations do

1997
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:51,600
things the right way I think both are you know,

1998
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:55,000
first class organizations that fill the rooms and fill the

1999
01:35:55,039 --> 01:35:57,920
staff rooms and the player rooms in the clubhouses.

2000
01:35:57,319 --> 01:35:58,359
Speaker 2: With great people.

2001
01:35:58,520 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 8: Yeah, and when you do that and you work hard,

2002
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,760
good things typically happen. So you put the right players

2003
01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:06,199
in the room, you put the right staff around them,

2004
01:36:06,439 --> 01:36:10,680
you know, top to bottom nutritionists, trainers, everything you know,

2005
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:12,119
you tend to get, tend to get good things. A

2006
01:36:12,159 --> 01:36:14,439
couple more minutes here with Joey lit Perfido. How's George

2007
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,720
Springer doing these days? He's awesome. He getting to play

2008
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:19,359
with George. He was, you know, one of the first

2009
01:36:19,359 --> 01:36:23,000
faces I met in that clubhouse. It's been awesome to

2010
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:24,760
play with him and get to know him. I've talked

2011
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:27,279
to him. He was one of my first calls when

2012
01:36:27,319 --> 01:36:30,760
I got the news. But yeah, I mean he I

2013
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:32,680
feel like he took me under his wing from you know,

2014
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:33,720
the first day I got there.

2015
01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:36,600
Speaker 2: And I'll be friends with George for life. He's He's

2016
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,199
the man. George had to bounce back season. There was

2017
01:36:39,199 --> 01:36:42,319
a lot of talk about coach Popkins up there and

2018
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:45,760
Popkins is that correct uh in in Toronto? As far

2019
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:48,079
as swing speed and stuff like that, and what has

2020
01:36:48,079 --> 01:36:50,840
it been like for you. I guess working with those

2021
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:53,319
guys being here in Houston, things change and then you

2022
01:36:53,319 --> 01:36:55,159
come back and there's also new hitting coaches. Just I

2023
01:36:55,159 --> 01:36:56,840
guess if you can get for a little insight to

2024
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:59,640
what kind of things working on or how different or

2025
01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:02,279
how so some more philosophies are especially organizational.

2026
01:37:03,199 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, you know, when I got to Toronto,

2027
01:37:07,039 --> 01:37:08,760
some of the adjustments that I made and made through

2028
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:11,520
last year were really just in my setup and trying

2029
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:13,920
to put myself in a spot that was comfortable in

2030
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:17,000
the box, in my setup and that you know, really

2031
01:37:17,039 --> 01:37:19,039
just allowed me to be athletic in the batter's box.

2032
01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:21,159
I think when I was in Houston my rookie year,

2033
01:37:21,199 --> 01:37:23,600
I was kind of fighting myself almost to get into

2034
01:37:23,640 --> 01:37:25,199
these positions that I thought would help me.

2035
01:37:25,399 --> 01:37:27,640
Speaker 2: And I think while I was in Toronto, I learned that.

2036
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:29,119
Speaker 8: You know, I don't really need to fight my body

2037
01:37:29,199 --> 01:37:31,279
or fight the way that it moves to be able

2038
01:37:31,319 --> 01:37:34,239
to get in good spots to hit. So that's kind

2039
01:37:34,239 --> 01:37:35,920
of been what I've voiced since I got back here,

2040
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:37,800
and you know what we're going to continue to build on.

2041
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:40,479
But if you look at like a picture of my

2042
01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:43,520
setup in the batter's box my rookie year in Houston

2043
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:45,479
versus what it was, you know, the second half of

2044
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:47,960
last year in Toronto. Yep, I think the second half

2045
01:37:48,039 --> 01:37:50,800
last year just looks like more relaxed. I'm a little

2046
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:54,079
bit more upright and just a little bit more balanced.

2047
01:37:54,159 --> 01:37:55,439
So just building on that.

2048
01:37:55,640 --> 01:37:58,199
Speaker 2: Will you missed the constant runs through the customers department

2049
01:37:58,239 --> 01:37:58,720
of the airport.

2050
01:37:59,279 --> 01:38:02,119
Speaker 8: They made it easy, no, I mean, uh, it was

2051
01:38:02,119 --> 01:38:04,279
really just you know, an extra ten to fifteen minutes.

2052
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:07,960
But no, I mean I didn't mind it too bad.

2053
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:09,600
I enjoyed playing up there. It was close to home.

2054
01:38:11,319 --> 01:38:15,680
I definitely mix miss Topo Chico's really, Yeah, shouldn't get

2055
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:18,000
those up there? Well, they're just not as popular. I mean,

2056
01:38:18,039 --> 01:38:19,960
like if you're getting gas, they're not like the glass

2057
01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:21,159
bottles not in the gas station.

2058
01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:23,720
Speaker 2: How's that place called pizza Pizza? We we always see the

2059
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:24,640
ads behind your own.

2060
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 8: I've never had it, really, but I'm gonna get some

2061
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:29,279
Shipley Donuts as soon as I get back.

2062
01:38:29,359 --> 01:38:30,399
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.

2063
01:38:30,479 --> 01:38:32,279
Speaker 8: They don't even sponsor me, but I love it. Don't

2064
01:38:32,279 --> 01:38:34,119
sponsor just give a free plug?

2065
01:38:34,199 --> 01:38:34,520
Speaker 6: Not yet?

2066
01:38:35,399 --> 01:38:37,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, some original glaze.

2067
01:38:37,479 --> 01:38:39,800
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm trying to think what I got some of

2068
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:41,920
my favorite coffee shops in Houston, so.

2069
01:38:42,279 --> 01:38:45,319
Speaker 2: I can't go wrong with an apple fretter. Who was

2070
01:38:45,359 --> 01:38:48,439
the first astro to call you? The first astro other

2071
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:52,279
than our general manager manager? Uh.

2072
01:38:52,920 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 8: I think Jake Myers might have been one of the

2073
01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:59,640
first few texts. Jake texted me. I'm trying to think

2074
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:01,359
who was Hunter Brown?

2075
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:03,159
Speaker 2: And it wasn't about haircare tips.

2076
01:39:03,159 --> 01:39:05,520
Speaker 8: It was just no, I wasn't really supposed to tell

2077
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:09,560
people Thursday night, but I texted Hunter Brown the song

2078
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:12,560
Choosing Texas by Ella Langley, just like a screenshot of it,

2079
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:13,800
like just like a hint.

2080
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 2: And he didn't he was asleep and woke up the

2081
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:19,199
next word. But yeahs like do you want to mean

2082
01:39:19,239 --> 01:39:21,920
somewhere for a concert or something? Happy to be back

2083
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:23,840
and good to talk to you guys. Okay, well, thank

2084
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:27,520
you very much coming by again. I don't I think

2085
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:28,960
it took us two weeks for people to get over

2086
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:30,800
the saturate as you're getting traded because you had such

2087
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:34,880
a remarkable start as an astroid fan favorite, So nilas,

2088
01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:36,760
I'm gonna be safe in saying an opening day, you'll

2089
01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:38,680
be probably getting one of the top five ovasions because

2090
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:40,399
people didn't mission. So I'm excited.

2091
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Speaker 8: It feels good and it definitely makes my family feel

2092
01:39:42,640 --> 01:39:44,640
good to, you know, get that excitement and feel it

2093
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:45,479
around the fan base.

2094
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 2: For sorry, are you a Sixers fan.

2095
01:39:48,279 --> 01:39:50,359
Speaker 8: I'm more of a duke bath when it comes to basketball.

2096
01:39:50,359 --> 01:39:52,399
I don't follow the NBA is tight. I'm look more

2097
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:53,159
duke basketball.

2098
01:39:53,399 --> 01:39:56,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cameron Booser has been fantastic.

2099
01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:58,359
Speaker 8: Yeah, I want him to get it done this year.

2100
01:39:58,359 --> 01:40:00,960
I think Houston's got a pretty good team. It'd be

2101
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:03,640
fun if they had a rematch in in the tournament

2102
01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:04,079
at some point.

2103
01:40:04,199 --> 01:40:07,039
Speaker 2: I don't think so Houston should have went probably seven, eight, nine,

2104
01:40:07,039 --> 01:40:10,319
ten points, somewhere in that range. I will let you guys, Yeah,

2105
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:13,920
we'll let it go there. Get in there. Joey, Thanks,

2106
01:40:14,319 --> 01:40:16,880
thank you, congratulations. We appreciate Joey Little Prafido back with

2107
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:19,479
us in Houston with the Astros here on Sports Talk

2108
01:40:19,520 --> 01:40:24,479
seven ninety. Thanks again to Joey Little Perfido for stopping

2109
01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:26,960
by it for a few minutes. You know, it's funny.

2110
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:33,560
Everybody has the cult hero. Every team has one. Every

2111
01:40:33,640 --> 01:40:38,319
team UH has to get rid of one, and it

2112
01:40:38,399 --> 01:40:42,479
causes great angst. Neils will say that I mean, if

2113
01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:44,640
you went back and looked at the timeline ross of

2114
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:48,560
Joey little Praffito got traded for you Sake Kakuchi, it

2115
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:52,399
was this organization is ruined for the rest of their lives.

2116
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:57,199
This is a mid level picture with Kakuchi is giving

2117
01:40:57,279 --> 01:41:00,319
up a lot of home runs. You'll bringing him to

2118
01:41:00,359 --> 01:41:02,159
dink In Park where he's gonna give a bunch of

2119
01:41:02,159 --> 01:41:05,319
home runs up. And frankly, you se Kakuci, that was

2120
01:41:05,319 --> 01:41:08,079
a good trade. He absolutely was needed when the team

2121
01:41:08,199 --> 01:41:12,800
was in need of starting pitching, and he absolutely performed expectations. Now,

2122
01:41:13,520 --> 01:41:15,520
my guess is they didn't think he was going to

2123
01:41:15,560 --> 01:41:16,960
sign a long term He went and got a big

2124
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:19,439
sweet deal with the Angels and he's now their opening

2125
01:41:19,520 --> 01:41:22,119
day starter apparently for the Angels, which is weird to say,

2126
01:41:22,159 --> 01:41:24,840
but you know what, good for him. Wishing him the best, Yeah,

2127
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,159
that's fine, except when he plays the Astros. Yeah, all

2128
01:41:27,199 --> 01:41:29,479
because the area of eleven when he plays the Astros,

2129
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:32,520
it is twelve thirty nine. Here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

2130
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:34,079
If you want to chime in and say hello, if

2131
01:41:34,079 --> 01:41:35,680
you think you want to get two seven one three

2132
01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:39,880
two one two five seven nine zero seven one three two, one, two, five, seven,

2133
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:42,000
and we'll get some more baseball chatter, but real quickly,

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01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:43,479
it's from the run through the rest of that list again,

2135
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:46,319
anybody else that the textan should keep on the radar

2136
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:49,199
that according to this Matt Bowen list we were talking

2137
01:41:49,239 --> 01:41:51,720
about Breese Hall, right, did and see Kenneth Walker on

2138
01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:53,479
this list? And I don't know if they when they

2139
01:41:53,479 --> 01:41:54,960
made it, they were soon they were presuming he was

2140
01:41:54,960 --> 01:41:57,439
going to stay in Seattley tag or something like that, right,

2141
01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:04,279
But I think maybe maybe not the headliners of the

2142
01:42:04,359 --> 01:42:08,439
running back class, but the other guys could be some

2143
01:42:08,439 --> 01:42:11,840
some that the Houston Texans might be keeping an eye on.

2144
01:42:12,159 --> 01:42:13,840
I mean, it feels like to me, and you tell me,

2145
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:15,439
I'm going off only history alone.

2146
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:15,720
Speaker 7: In this.

2147
01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:21,760
Speaker 2: Casario will sign his guys that he drafted, he loves

2148
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:24,800
and wants to be featured a long term deals that's

2149
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:27,159
in his DNA. The rest of it is signing guys

2150
01:42:27,159 --> 01:42:29,199
on a one and two year contracts, maybe a little

2151
01:42:29,279 --> 01:42:30,760
longer in the tooth, maybe have been around a few

2152
01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:34,520
more places, but the joke makes him trade worked for

2153
01:42:34,520 --> 01:42:38,159
a while. It certainly did so. Actually, Ken Walker is

2154
01:42:38,199 --> 01:42:40,399
on this list, He's not listened as a tie with

2155
01:42:40,399 --> 01:42:44,159
the Texans, but he's listed as the eighteenth best free agent.

2156
01:42:44,239 --> 01:42:47,239
Travis eighteen is a running back Javonte Williams, who had

2157
01:42:47,239 --> 01:42:50,520
a good bounce back season with the Dallas Cowboys, also

2158
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:54,479
a free agent. Now here's the thing that we don't

2159
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:56,960
that you and I have just a friend of the show, rico'dowell.

2160
01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:02,159
He loves the show. Here's the thing. I'm thinking you

2161
01:43:02,199 --> 01:43:05,039
and I believe that Woody Marx is not a three

2162
01:43:05,039 --> 01:43:10,760
down back, correct. We don't know if the Texans believe that. Correct?

2163
01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:15,560
And could the Texans go we can't fix everything, So

2164
01:43:15,800 --> 01:43:20,840
let's give this running back who we'd like the best

2165
01:43:20,880 --> 01:43:23,520
possible holes to run in, and maybe Woody Marx takes

2166
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:27,880
that progression. I don't think that's it. And again, no

2167
01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:30,600
one in the Texans organization has alluded to whether they

2168
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,399
think he's amazing or he's just a guy on a roster.

2169
01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:34,960
They would never admit that because they liked what he

2170
01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:39,279
did as a rookie. But we've said this before. You

2171
01:43:39,319 --> 01:43:42,920
can't fix everything in one offseason. It's impossible to get

2172
01:43:43,119 --> 01:43:46,920
an RB one, another receiver, one or two offensive lineman,

2173
01:43:47,279 --> 01:43:50,279
maybe some additional depth in the secondary that seems like

2174
01:43:50,319 --> 01:43:51,560
a lot of work to get fixed in a very

2175
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:53,800
short period of time. There's a couple interesting things on

2176
01:43:54,159 --> 01:43:56,479
Woody Marks. One thing that I will say I am

2177
01:43:56,560 --> 01:44:00,319
very guilty of is seeing a player not have good

2178
01:44:00,359 --> 01:44:02,960
season and then writing them off. I think if you

2179
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:05,399
looked at Nico Collins rookie year, you'd be like, ah,

2180
01:44:05,439 --> 01:44:07,359
he's just a guy, and then Nico Collins became one

2181
01:44:07,359 --> 01:44:09,399
of the best wide receivers and football running back is

2182
01:44:09,399 --> 01:44:12,199
a little bit different, but there can be growth, there

2183
01:44:12,239 --> 01:44:15,800
can be improvement from year to year. Another thing is

2184
01:44:16,239 --> 01:44:19,840
that also we can sometimes be overlooked, is that who

2185
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:22,279
knows what Woody Marx was dealing with throughout the season.

2186
01:44:22,319 --> 01:44:24,399
He went to the blue medical tent like every week, right,

2187
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:28,079
he was always dealing with concussions and shoulder and knee

2188
01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:31,520
and ankle. So maybe I could you could maybe sell

2189
01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:33,520
me that textans say, hey, we get a fully healthy

2190
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:36,319
Woody Marks next year, with a year of action under

2191
01:44:36,359 --> 01:44:38,119
his belt, he's going to be better than he was

2192
01:44:38,159 --> 01:44:41,119
as a rookie. Now see, I am an NFL and

2193
01:44:41,199 --> 01:44:45,319
Texans insider. I'm not an NFL analyst. Okay, there's a difference.

2194
01:44:45,359 --> 01:44:50,960
An evaluator but my untrained eyes tell me he's just

2195
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:53,680
a guy. If you look at yeah, well you're the

2196
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:57,039
advanced tats tell you that too. There's a lot of force,

2197
01:44:57,119 --> 01:45:02,199
miss tackles per attempt, yards after contact per attempt. There's

2198
01:45:02,239 --> 01:45:04,760
a ton of running back metrics out there, and what

2199
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:07,560
he marks is bottom third or worse than just about

2200
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:09,680
all of them. But that could also tie into what

2201
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:12,199
I'm talking about as far as the injuries and the

2202
01:45:12,279 --> 01:45:14,279
lack of being one hundred percent healthy. Now, of course

2203
01:45:14,960 --> 01:45:16,720
running backs by the end of every season aren't one

2204
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:19,239
hundred percent healthy, but were there some nagging injuries that

2205
01:45:19,279 --> 01:45:22,039
he was dealing with bumps and bruises along the way

2206
01:45:22,239 --> 01:45:24,600
that he can be better next year with a full

2207
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:28,199
off season of getting stronger and getting better and having

2208
01:45:28,199 --> 01:45:30,520
a better handle on Nick Kayley's offense. It feels like

2209
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:34,199
to me, when you talk about running backs, I'm not predicted.

2210
01:45:34,279 --> 01:45:38,880
It's easier to project greater greatness, if that makes any

2211
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:40,640
sense to you. Like when Damian Pierce had a rookie

2212
01:45:40,680 --> 01:45:44,520
breakout season, right you kept saying, man, this guy is

2213
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:46,800
going to take it to the next level as compared

2214
01:45:46,800 --> 01:45:49,720
to Woody Marx who had a nice campaign, but there

2215
01:45:49,800 --> 01:45:53,680
was nothing that I saw in him that made me think, man,

2216
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:57,000
you give him an all star, an all pro left

2217
01:45:57,000 --> 01:45:59,680
guard opens up bigger holes and this guy is going

2218
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:03,760
to be bursting ten eleven twelve yards a run. That

2219
01:46:03,880 --> 01:46:06,920
to me was never something I saw on Woody and

2220
01:46:07,039 --> 01:46:09,800
hopefully in the Texans, if they don't spend big money

2221
01:46:09,800 --> 01:46:12,039
on free agency on running backs, they've got to be

2222
01:46:12,079 --> 01:46:14,520
thinking that because I don't think you can trust Nick

2223
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:18,600
Chubb anybody else behind him. What is it, h goomble Wale?

2224
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:19,159
Is that right?

2225
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:20,680
Speaker 1: Yeah?

2226
01:46:20,720 --> 01:46:25,640
Speaker 2: I guess, Jordan. I mean, I just come on. And

2227
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:27,720
that's a hard thing, is that if you are in

2228
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:31,039
need of an RB one, you can't go on the

2229
01:46:31,119 --> 01:46:33,600
cheap on that unless you make a savvy move, in

2230
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:36,520
which the Texans did that Joe Mixon for a draft

2231
01:46:36,560 --> 01:46:39,600
pick change was very savvy. And it's gonna be up

2232
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:41,159
to Nick to find if he's going to go that

2233
01:46:41,279 --> 01:46:43,600
route again and not try to overpay in the free

2234
01:46:43,600 --> 01:46:45,920
agency market. He's gonna have to find he's got to

2235
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:49,079
do a similar type move. I'll give you the a

2236
01:46:49,239 --> 01:46:51,840
different case, but kind of what we're talking about here.

2237
01:46:51,880 --> 01:46:54,720
You're a good friend, Ashton Genty. He finished with nine

2238
01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:57,239
hundred and seventy five yards by the way, twenty five

2239
01:46:57,279 --> 01:47:00,560
short of one thousand. But his yards per carry terrible.

2240
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:02,760
So if you're just a box score watcher, you're like,

2241
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:05,720
Ashton Genty wasn't very good, But there are those metrics

2242
01:47:05,800 --> 01:47:08,880
talking about yards after a contact. He was basically with

2243
01:47:08,920 --> 01:47:11,479
that horrible offensive line. He was getting hit average like

2244
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:14,279
two yards behind the line. So his forcemiths, tackles and

2245
01:47:14,319 --> 01:47:16,880
all those things would give a person hope to say, hey,

2246
01:47:16,880 --> 01:47:17,800
maybe this can work out.

2247
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:18,039
Speaker 11: Yeah.

2248
01:47:18,079 --> 01:47:20,199
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, even though I teased about the Genty thing,

2249
01:47:20,239 --> 01:47:22,800
I mean he's obviously going. I think there is an uptick.

2250
01:47:22,840 --> 01:47:25,199
He was a first round pick, yes, for a reason,

2251
01:47:25,279 --> 01:47:28,119
because the NFL scouts, and it wasn't just the Raiders

2252
01:47:28,159 --> 01:47:29,680
had chosen him. There were other teams that would have

2253
01:47:29,720 --> 01:47:32,039
taken Asher Genty in the first round. Wood Marx was

2254
01:47:32,079 --> 01:47:34,000
never considered a first or second round running bro. You

2255
01:47:34,039 --> 01:47:36,680
can look at those peripherals as they call him, and say, hey,

2256
01:47:37,199 --> 01:47:40,439
the Genty does these things. He makes people miss, he

2257
01:47:40,479 --> 01:47:43,920
breaks tackles, he gets yards after contact. Woody Marx doesn't

2258
01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:48,520
do those things. So that's why we should keep an

2259
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:52,399
ear on the Breshall conversations. Because Breeshall is a many

2260
01:47:52,520 --> 01:47:55,720
ready made running back. My guess is he's probably not

2261
01:47:55,800 --> 01:47:57,720
looking for a super long term dealer for that matter,

2262
01:47:57,720 --> 01:48:00,840
would be offered by other teams. But if you're Breese Hall,

2263
01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:05,000
you're probably going for the cash ground knowing and I

2264
01:48:05,039 --> 01:48:07,600
would think running back more than any other position today

2265
01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:10,319
in sports, Ross has to go for the biggest dollars

2266
01:48:10,359 --> 01:48:12,600
because the shelf life of being an RB one is

2267
01:48:12,640 --> 01:48:13,279
so limited.

2268
01:48:13,319 --> 01:48:13,479
Speaker 5: Now.

2269
01:48:13,760 --> 01:48:16,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, but everybody knows that said raining Super Bowl MVP

2270
01:48:16,479 --> 01:48:18,399
is been getting let go and they're not even thinking

2271
01:48:18,439 --> 01:48:20,560
about it. Yeah, that is weird, all right. It is

2272
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:22,680
twelve forty six, It's Madden Ross. We are with you

2273
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:24,840
today until two pm. If you want to join us,

2274
01:48:24,880 --> 01:48:27,600
you may do so at seven one three two one

2275
01:48:27,640 --> 01:48:31,560
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

2276
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:34,880
five seven nine zero added. Ross with you from West

2277
01:48:34,920 --> 01:48:36,640
Paul Beach, where I still expect to be joined by

2278
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:39,000
Christian Walker in the next hour of the show. We'll

2279
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:41,960
also hear from the astros Cam Smith. We talked with

2280
01:48:42,039 --> 01:48:43,800
him earlier this morning. We'll let you hear a little

2281
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,399
bit of that as well. James with us on seven

2282
01:48:46,479 --> 01:48:48,319
ninety at twelve fifty three, James, what do you have?

2283
01:48:50,079 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 3: Thank you Matt for setting my call.

2284
01:48:52,199 --> 01:48:53,920
Speaker 2: Sure you have an awesome.

2285
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:57,199
Speaker 3: Sill, you have awesome show. Uh.

2286
01:48:57,319 --> 01:48:58,800
Speaker 2: This is not directed to.

2287
01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:01,159
Speaker 3: You, Uh, none of the This is the right to

2288
01:49:01,279 --> 01:49:06,680
to the uh majority owner of the Astros, Jim Crank.

2289
01:49:08,840 --> 01:49:17,319
You cannot let your third baseman superstar walk and the

2290
01:49:17,359 --> 01:49:19,840
expect to make the playoffs. You cannot.

2291
01:49:20,199 --> 01:49:20,840
Speaker 2: You cannot.

2292
01:49:21,039 --> 01:49:30,279
Speaker 3: You cannot expect your right fielder superstar, trade him and

2293
01:49:30,399 --> 01:49:32,399
expect to make the playoffs.

2294
01:49:33,039 --> 01:49:34,600
Speaker 2: Who's that? Who's the right? Who's the right?

2295
01:49:36,279 --> 01:49:36,520
Speaker 6: Oh?

2296
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:37,960
Speaker 2: James, Hold on, James.

2297
01:49:37,720 --> 01:49:38,680
Speaker 3: I'm talking about Tucker.

2298
01:49:38,800 --> 01:49:41,800
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, James, they were. They were one game out

2299
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:46,199
of the playoffs. I mean the last year.

2300
01:49:47,039 --> 01:49:48,159
Speaker 3: I understand that.

2301
01:49:48,319 --> 01:49:49,199
Speaker 2: I understand that.

2302
01:49:49,239 --> 01:49:52,159
Speaker 3: Man, I understand that. We we understand that.

2303
01:49:52,239 --> 01:49:53,239
Speaker 2: It don't matter.

2304
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:57,720
Speaker 3: You can't put up one game, Okay, I don't care

2305
01:49:57,760 --> 01:50:03,159
if they had Carlos Correa, Gary Cole, it wasn't gonna meet.

2306
01:50:03,560 --> 01:50:08,319
You can't take you cannot take your third baseman superstar.

2307
01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:13,760
You can't take your right field a superstar. Both gold Glovers,

2308
01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:19,520
both high in the top five in their position, and

2309
01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:24,720
expect you to make postseason. Let me tell you this hit,

2310
01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:30,039
mister crane, you will not with your fists being tight,

2311
01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:35,640
you will not your your your organization will not make

2312
01:50:35,840 --> 01:50:41,880
a playoffs. Remember the owners get the owners get one

2313
01:50:43,159 --> 01:50:50,239
of the game past postseason. When he when he realized

2314
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:57,199
he's not getting no more postseason revenue, maybe he'll loosen up,

2315
01:50:57,640 --> 01:51:00,000
but it be too late because I thought he had

2316
01:51:00,159 --> 01:51:05,960
a gauntlet on the league as far as he had

2317
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:08,640
the best playoffs and he let them walk.

2318
01:51:09,079 --> 01:51:12,439
Speaker 2: And guess what he did. Listen to me, James, James,

2319
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:16,479
guess what he did. His team went to the playoffs

2320
01:51:16,760 --> 01:51:19,520
year after year after year and they were never top

2321
01:51:19,560 --> 01:51:21,680
five and salary during any part of that time. Isn't

2322
01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:25,359
that crazy? So why do you why do you naturally

2323
01:51:25,399 --> 01:51:28,119
assume that because you spend money on somebody that's going

2324
01:51:28,159 --> 01:51:30,600
to guarantee success. The New York Match would like to

2325
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:36,039
argue with you about that. Okay, stand the way of that.

2326
01:51:36,920 --> 01:51:39,119
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this here. Let me ask you

2327
01:51:39,119 --> 01:51:45,239
this here. Other teams paid millions to be better than

2328
01:51:45,239 --> 01:51:45,920
the Astros?

2329
01:51:46,079 --> 01:51:49,920
Speaker 2: Is that wrong? Right? They are either tenth or eleventh

2330
01:51:50,039 --> 01:51:51,199
in depending on what.

2331
01:51:51,159 --> 01:51:57,079
Speaker 3: Other teams paid millions to be better than the Astros.

2332
01:51:57,560 --> 01:52:00,199
So what I'm saying, is the Astro.

2333
01:52:00,239 --> 01:52:04,359
Speaker 2: But paying players does not guarantee success. You must pay

2334
01:52:04,399 --> 01:52:08,199
the right players. That's what you're saying. Okay, you basically,

2335
01:52:08,279 --> 01:52:10,880
if someone's listening to you right now, James, someone's listening

2336
01:52:10,880 --> 01:52:13,000
to you, James. They're saying, well, if James is telling me,

2337
01:52:13,039 --> 01:52:15,439
if the Astro has been more than anybody else, then

2338
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:17,640
they're gonna win more games. And that is that is

2339
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:20,239
not an if then statement. There's not an accurate if

2340
01:52:20,279 --> 01:52:21,760
then statement. It's just not.

2341
01:52:23,439 --> 01:52:31,479
Speaker 3: Well. The Astros with Tucker Brigman Correll, Uh, those guys

2342
01:52:32,680 --> 01:52:35,520
guaranteed the Astros gonna be in the postseason. Every year

2343
01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:40,920
we're praying for the merrit were praying for World Series trophy?

2344
01:52:41,960 --> 01:52:45,199
What what is we praying for If we ain't praying

2345
01:52:45,239 --> 01:52:49,279
for the World Series troper, what are.

2346
01:52:49,239 --> 01:52:51,960
Speaker 2: We praying for? We're playing to make the playoffs and

2347
01:52:51,960 --> 01:52:54,960
the Astros are considered to be a playoff contender yet

2348
01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:56,560
again this year, even with.

2349
01:52:57,960 --> 01:53:01,640
Speaker 3: Team we guarantee World Series trophy.

2350
01:53:02,199 --> 01:53:05,560
Speaker 2: Will we got news for you. Five years ago, they

2351
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:08,239
weren't guaranteed to make the World Series. What why are you?

2352
01:53:08,359 --> 01:53:11,239
Why are you assuming that just because those guys were there,

2353
01:53:11,640 --> 01:53:14,920
they lost an American League to Championship series to the

2354
01:53:14,960 --> 01:53:17,640
Texas Rangers. They lost an American League Championship Series to

2355
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:19,520
the Boston Red Sox. What are you talking to? This

2356
01:53:19,560 --> 01:53:22,159
is the Astros made World Series runs, of course and

2357
01:53:22,239 --> 01:53:24,359
been win there, but they didn't go every single year.

2358
01:53:24,359 --> 01:53:25,960
Why do you Why are you assuming.

2359
01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:30,199
Speaker 3: That no to Ashrols, knowing that period, Ashs the greatest team,

2360
01:53:30,600 --> 01:53:34,800
the greatest baseball team in the history of Major League Baseball.

2361
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:39,760
Speaker 2: If I don't okay Moking bes.

2362
01:53:39,439 --> 01:53:43,000
Speaker 3: In, Moking bed is nobody in the in the stand,

2363
01:53:43,359 --> 01:53:46,520
nobody in the stadium. Mook and Bets couldn't have never

2364
01:53:46,680 --> 01:53:50,520
talked that ball. Don't want that whole day two Bay

2365
01:53:50,640 --> 01:53:55,439
hit that that was. That was blatant. I don't know

2366
01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:59,199
why major League Baseball let that stand.

2367
01:54:00,359 --> 01:54:04,960
Speaker 2: No ways, Joe West hates the Astros. James are gonna

2368
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:07,920
let you rumber Man because that I'm exhausted. Thank you, James.

2369
01:54:08,079 --> 01:54:11,000
Always a pleasure to hear from you. I don't normally no,

2370
01:54:11,079 --> 01:54:13,000
of course it is James loves a show.

2371
01:54:14,399 --> 01:54:20,159
Speaker 1: Is the mac Thomas Show with Ross.

2372
01:54:22,239 --> 01:54:25,279
Speaker 2: He's Matten Ross with a final hour. Here from West

2373
01:54:25,279 --> 01:54:27,279
Palm Beach. We are making a little bit of a

2374
01:54:27,399 --> 01:54:31,319
pivot here on the show. Christian Walker, we has asked

2375
01:54:31,359 --> 01:54:35,159
to push his appearance to tomorrow with and so we

2376
01:54:35,199 --> 01:54:39,319
will play an emergency meeting of the Jake Myers fan club.

2377
01:54:40,079 --> 01:54:43,560
Didn't feel like an emergency. Can we can we build

2378
01:54:43,560 --> 01:54:45,279
some drama as long as he's still on the team.

2379
01:54:45,319 --> 01:54:48,560
I guess it's not an emergency. That's true, So, uh,

2380
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:51,479
the h It'll be a short meeting. It's only four minutes,

2381
01:54:51,680 --> 01:54:55,680
so it'll work. Is brief. It was a brief, but

2382
01:54:55,760 --> 01:54:57,800
it got to the point. So we'll hear from Jake

2383
01:54:57,840 --> 01:55:00,279
Myers this half hour, and then in the next half

2384
01:55:00,359 --> 01:55:01,960
hour towards the end of the show, we'll hear from

2385
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:03,720
Cam Smith. So that's what we got going here for

2386
01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:06,680
the hours, and then we'll move Christian to tomorrow. We

2387
01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:11,039
will also have Danni Brown tomorrow and we don't know

2388
01:55:11,079 --> 01:55:15,079
what else canna be after that, so surprises. Great astros talk, yeah,

2389
01:55:15,119 --> 01:55:17,880
great Houston Sports Talk, Yeah, the best in town. That's

2390
01:55:17,880 --> 01:55:20,600
what we're here for. Here's weekdays at ten o'clock until

2391
01:55:20,600 --> 01:55:23,800
two on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two,

2392
01:55:23,920 --> 01:55:25,960
one two five seven ninety is how you reach the

2393
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:27,880
show if you want to get in. That's seven one

2394
01:55:28,000 --> 01:55:30,720
three two, one two five seven NINTI. Let's go to

2395
01:55:30,840 --> 01:55:33,479
Michael to open up the show at one oh five. Michael,

2396
01:55:33,479 --> 01:55:35,119
good afternoon. What's on your mind?

2397
01:55:36,199 --> 01:55:37,800
Speaker 5: Hey guys, that's awesome. You guys are out there in

2398
01:55:37,840 --> 01:55:38,520
West Palm Beach.

2399
01:55:38,640 --> 01:55:39,079
Speaker 3: Very cool.

2400
01:55:40,079 --> 01:55:40,399
Speaker 2: Thank you.

2401
01:55:40,439 --> 01:55:43,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just wanted to call in. I was one

2402
01:55:43,279 --> 01:55:46,000
of the few guys that was right on CJ. Shroud.

2403
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:49,960
I had called in after the first season, his rookie season,

2404
01:55:50,520 --> 01:55:53,479
and I was like, yeah, it's a new offense, new coach.

2405
01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:56,000
You know, he's gonna get figured out. And I said

2406
01:55:56,000 --> 01:55:58,279
he was gonna call he's gonna go for double interceptions.

2407
01:55:58,319 --> 01:55:58,680
Speaker 2: He did.

2408
01:55:59,159 --> 01:56:01,640
Speaker 5: And then I called in a in after at the

2409
01:56:01,720 --> 01:56:04,640
beginning before this season, and I said that, yeah, this

2410
01:56:04,760 --> 01:56:07,439
is just who he is. Yeah, I think the fans

2411
01:56:07,439 --> 01:56:09,399
are going to realize that this is who you're getting

2412
01:56:09,479 --> 01:56:12,279
c J. Stroud, And yeah, I do think the team

2413
01:56:12,319 --> 01:56:14,680
should move on from him. I didn't see those trade

2414
01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:17,640
rumors that Fitzpatrick floated. I thought that was not a

2415
01:56:17,640 --> 01:56:20,079
bad idea. I think I could win with a much

2416
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:21,840
cheaper quarterback.

2417
01:56:21,920 --> 01:56:25,520
Speaker 2: Tom mcsha who's Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

2418
01:56:26,239 --> 01:56:28,079
Speaker 5: I thought it was Ryan Fitzpatrick says.

2419
01:56:28,079 --> 01:56:29,720
Speaker 2: He said something about it. It could have been out

2420
01:56:29,760 --> 01:56:31,800
there for sure. But the latest one to see this

2421
01:56:31,960 --> 01:56:35,560
is uh yeah, Todd McShay. Well, I mean, I don't

2422
01:56:35,560 --> 01:56:38,319
remember your call, and Michael, thank you for listening. Will

2423
01:56:38,319 --> 01:56:40,000
if you got an as he's called in to brag,

2424
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:41,880
I remember him a little bit. Oh, Michael, are you

2425
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:43,840
a bragger in general? Are? Yeah?

2426
01:56:43,880 --> 01:56:46,840
Speaker 5: It was a gut feeling, man, I got to correct,

2427
01:56:46,840 --> 01:56:47,680
That's what I was calling.

2428
01:56:48,159 --> 01:56:49,880
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. When you called a

2429
01:56:49,880 --> 01:56:52,279
couple of years ago and you said what you said,

2430
01:56:52,279 --> 01:56:54,079
did we go you're high in the night or we

2431
01:56:54,119 --> 01:56:56,159
think we think it was some were there some validity

2432
01:56:56,159 --> 01:56:57,079
to it? Oh?

2433
01:56:57,199 --> 01:56:58,920
Speaker 5: You guys kind of laughed at me. You are like,

2434
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:01,640
oh no, back then, y'all are still seeking to tune.

2435
01:57:02,319 --> 01:57:04,680
He was top five, you know, it was Joe Barrow,

2436
01:57:04,840 --> 01:57:06,039
Josh Allen and who else.

2437
01:57:06,079 --> 01:57:06,239
Speaker 7: You know.

2438
01:57:06,279 --> 01:57:09,000
Speaker 5: He was top five in the AFC. And I was like, man,

2439
01:57:09,079 --> 01:57:12,880
he's got Nico Collins, you know, a new a new

2440
01:57:12,920 --> 01:57:15,680
offensive coordinator. There's no film on this guy. That's all

2441
01:57:15,720 --> 01:57:18,880
I said. But you know I did, I did eat

2442
01:57:18,920 --> 01:57:20,600
my words though. I said, you guys are gonna win

2443
01:57:20,640 --> 01:57:22,840
a lot of games this year, and y'all, y'all killed it.

2444
01:57:23,199 --> 01:57:24,600
So that's why I do think if you'll had like

2445
01:57:24,640 --> 01:57:26,920
a little bit better quarterback, you'll be right there for sure.

2446
01:57:27,119 --> 01:57:29,880
Speaker 2: Who's now. The other thing was, go ahead, before you

2447
01:57:29,960 --> 01:57:31,319
go any further, who is your team? By the way,

2448
01:57:31,319 --> 01:57:32,039
I'm curious.

2449
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:34,199
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm a big Cowboys fan.

2450
01:57:34,520 --> 01:57:36,920
Speaker 2: That's what I remember. Yeah, I remember you.

2451
01:57:37,119 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm a big fan.

2452
01:57:41,439 --> 01:57:44,600
Speaker 2: So let's putspective. Let's put it all that. We're gonna

2453
01:57:44,600 --> 01:57:49,279
give you time, don't worry. So let's say you're listening

2454
01:57:49,359 --> 01:57:51,880
to this show right now, and you're and okay, and

2455
01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:57,279
you hear somebody call in and say, told y'all C J.

2456
01:57:57,479 --> 01:57:59,159
Stroud won and all that in the back of Gee

2457
01:57:59,199 --> 01:58:03,439
Ups told you y'all And the interviewer meaning me and

2458
01:58:03,479 --> 01:58:06,239
you Ross went to him and said, who is y'all?

2459
01:58:07,439 --> 01:58:09,439
And you said, well, I'm a Cowboys fan. How do

2460
01:58:09,479 --> 01:58:11,279
you think the city of Houston feels about you right

2461
01:58:11,359 --> 01:58:12,800
this exact moment, Michael.

2462
01:58:14,159 --> 01:58:16,640
Speaker 5: Hey, they probably don't like it too much. Probably not,

2463
01:58:17,479 --> 01:58:19,800
But you know, I think Dak Prescott's not the problem

2464
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:22,279
with our team, you know, I think it's our ownership.

2465
01:58:22,319 --> 01:58:24,039
Probably that's probably most likely.

2466
01:58:23,880 --> 01:58:27,399
Speaker 2: It defense, I would say, maybe not putting together a

2467
01:58:27,399 --> 01:58:29,920
professional defense for I don't know, four or five years.

2468
01:58:30,399 --> 01:58:32,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's a defense. We're all we're all heavy,

2469
01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,159
heavy payroll on the offensive side. But we can make

2470
01:58:35,199 --> 01:58:37,079
some move then. I'm looking forward to this offseason. I

2471
01:58:37,079 --> 01:58:39,920
think we're gonna we got we got a new defensive coordinator.

2472
01:58:39,960 --> 01:58:42,399
We brought him, some new coaches. I think a couple

2473
01:58:42,439 --> 01:58:44,479
of the free agents from Philly are going to follow.

2474
01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:46,960
That said, that's been the rumors right now, so we

2475
01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:49,479
can get like two of those guys pick up those

2476
01:58:49,479 --> 01:58:51,319
two picks that we have in the first round. But

2477
01:58:51,399 --> 01:58:53,640
we could be back. But again, I'm not that guy.

2478
01:58:53,640 --> 01:58:55,000
I'm not gonna be like, hey, this is our year.

2479
01:58:55,039 --> 01:58:57,119
I'm definitely not that guy. I'm very real. You know

2480
01:58:57,159 --> 01:59:00,439
we are until Jerry Jones, you know, he's gone, We're

2481
01:59:00,439 --> 01:59:03,239
probably going to be floating in this purgatory for a while.

2482
01:59:04,279 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 2: I got you, all right, do you have a baseball

2483
01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:06,520
thought before I let you go?

2484
01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:08,119
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2485
01:59:08,199 --> 01:59:08,560
Speaker 6: I did.

2486
01:59:08,840 --> 01:59:11,199
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I think it's obviously you know

2487
01:59:11,239 --> 01:59:14,359
why we're keeping Ezoc. I think you know, you look

2488
01:59:14,399 --> 01:59:16,920
at last year, you know dubond he was that plug

2489
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:19,520
and play. And I think a big complaint we had was, hey,

2490
01:59:19,520 --> 01:59:21,720
this guy's playing too much. You know, his bat is

2491
01:59:21,760 --> 01:59:23,760
not there to be playing like every day like that.

2492
01:59:24,399 --> 01:59:26,880
So I think, you know, you know, Ezoc for at least,

2493
01:59:27,159 --> 01:59:29,600
you know, before the trade deadline, maybe he's going to

2494
01:59:29,640 --> 01:59:32,319
be that plug and play. But you know, what is

2495
01:59:32,359 --> 01:59:37,359
the likelihood that you know, A'ltuve, Walker, Corey, maybe even Pina,

2496
01:59:37,399 --> 01:59:39,720
you know, stay healthy the whole year. So if a

2497
01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:41,680
guy goes down, you know you do have a guy

2498
01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:43,680
that can plug and play. You know, maybe he doesn't

2499
01:59:43,680 --> 01:59:45,720
play short, but you can, you know, move cray over.

2500
01:59:46,359 --> 01:59:48,840
But you know you have a guy. And but he

2501
01:59:48,840 --> 01:59:51,600
could also be a big bargaining chip to a seller

2502
01:59:52,079 --> 01:59:54,399
at the trade deadline. So I think that's why we're

2503
01:59:54,439 --> 01:59:54,960
keeping him.

2504
01:59:54,840 --> 01:59:59,000
Speaker 2: Too, I think. And thank you for the phone call, Michael.

2505
01:59:59,079 --> 02:00:01,960
I'm going to tell you I feel someone educated in

2506
02:00:02,000 --> 02:00:05,039
telling you this. They don't want to wait to the

2507
02:00:05,039 --> 02:00:07,479
trade deadline. They're keeping him right now because they're not

2508
02:00:07,560 --> 02:00:09,239
finding the right deal. They don't want to load it

2509
02:00:09,319 --> 02:00:10,960
for what they don't think it's fair value. If they

2510
02:00:10,960 --> 02:00:12,880
felt like they were getting fair value from someone that

2511
02:00:12,920 --> 02:00:16,359
he would be gone. The team that were negotiating with

2512
02:00:16,399 --> 02:00:19,239
the heaviest, the Red Sox went in another direction and

2513
02:00:19,239 --> 02:00:22,279
made a trade for a third basement. So that's why

2514
02:00:22,319 --> 02:00:26,000
he's here. If in all likelihood, if they could have

2515
02:00:26,159 --> 02:00:29,840
it perfectly, the logjam would be clear by now. Yeah,

2516
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:33,520
by not. I don't think Dana's putting his cell phone

2517
02:00:33,520 --> 02:00:36,119
down and saying, hey, get back to me July first.

2518
02:00:36,520 --> 02:00:39,560
I think if he could leave camp with a deal,

2519
02:00:39,600 --> 02:00:42,640
then he would do it. So while there is no

2520
02:00:42,800 --> 02:00:45,920
firm deadline except that July thirty first or August first

2521
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:50,199
trade deadline, I think it's a very very fluid situation.

2522
02:00:51,119 --> 02:00:54,479
So I would say safely, if you're an Estock Parties fan,

2523
02:00:54,479 --> 02:00:56,399
I would not buy an estoc Party's jersey at any

2524
02:00:56,399 --> 02:01:00,119
point this year. Oh can I still cancel that? Did

2525
02:01:00,119 --> 02:01:03,039
you get an authentic one or like a replica? Really

2526
02:01:03,800 --> 02:01:08,239
dance a lot? Yeah? And and Michael, we love you

2527
02:01:08,279 --> 02:01:09,960
and you always feel free to call. But I remember

2528
02:01:10,039 --> 02:01:11,640
is the phone call was going along, I'm like, I

2529
02:01:11,640 --> 02:01:14,279
think this guy's a cowboy fan. Yeah, course, And it

2530
02:01:14,399 --> 02:01:16,760
sounded like because here's what you don't want. And look,

2531
02:01:16,760 --> 02:01:19,439
I'm not a Texans fan. Ross is, yes, but I

2532
02:01:19,560 --> 02:01:22,039
sure as hell don't want to hear about what my

2533
02:01:22,199 --> 02:01:24,000
what's wrong with my team? When your team is a

2534
02:01:24,000 --> 02:01:27,520
bunch of douce nozzles too, well, that doesn't Frankly, the

2535
02:01:27,560 --> 02:01:29,520
Texans are a better football team than the Cowboys. Are

2536
02:01:29,560 --> 02:01:35,760
they just are? Yes, they are right. Dak Prescott will

2537
02:01:35,800 --> 02:01:37,800
not have fun against the Texan defense next year when

2538
02:01:37,800 --> 02:01:43,079
they play each other at Energy stadiums. Well, they have

2539
02:01:43,159 --> 02:01:45,239
to get there. Well, Dak Prescott is a better quarterback

2540
02:01:45,279 --> 02:01:47,760
than CJ. Stroud right now though that is in and

2541
02:01:47,840 --> 02:01:50,520
even close. Dak is an elite quarterback. I'm sorry, he

2542
02:01:50,640 --> 02:01:54,199
just is this Uh. CJ's troud stocks it's ever been

2543
02:01:54,239 --> 02:01:57,880
since maybe literally his first game of his career, because

2544
02:01:57,920 --> 02:01:59,760
after that things started looking a little bit better than

2545
02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:02,720
he the world on fire. Ye last two years ago happened,

2546
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:05,560
and then last year and then the absolute disaster that

2547
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:08,079
was the playoffs. This is as low as his stock

2548
02:02:08,119 --> 02:02:10,960
has been, so I'm hoping it rebounds, and if it does,

2549
02:02:11,039 --> 02:02:13,279
I want to hear from Michael as battle red Ross.

2550
02:02:13,439 --> 02:02:16,359
I want to hear from Michael when CJ. Stroud has

2551
02:02:16,399 --> 02:02:19,800
this bounce back, you are the battle red So Michael,

2552
02:02:20,079 --> 02:02:21,800
we want to hear from you once more than every

2553
02:02:21,880 --> 02:02:28,439
other year. Please please please bounce back CJ. You know

2554
02:02:28,439 --> 02:02:30,199
if he doesn't, you know what's gonna happen. They're gonn

2555
02:02:30,319 --> 02:02:34,119
to trust somebody. Yep. They're gonna be lost for years. Yep,

2556
02:02:35,600 --> 02:02:38,199
you're gonna waste the prime. You're gonna waste Will Anderson

2557
02:02:38,199 --> 02:02:39,720
and to Neil Hunter, Dni Hunter's gonna have to be

2558
02:02:39,720 --> 02:02:41,680
gone at some point, that's Correctamarin Last is gonna have

2559
02:02:41,680 --> 02:02:43,880
to get paid. Correct, Seeing might want he got paid,

2560
02:02:43,880 --> 02:02:45,680
but a couple of years he's gonna want more money. Well,

2561
02:02:45,720 --> 02:02:48,800
you're gonna be be renegotiating camp Bullock. Is I mean

2562
02:02:49,039 --> 02:02:50,560
he is gonna be a guy who can talk about

2563
02:02:50,560 --> 02:02:52,920
getting paid. Jalen Petrie did get paid. You're not keeping

2564
02:02:52,960 --> 02:02:56,359
toe of toe and you're not keeping al Shire. There's

2565
02:02:56,399 --> 02:02:59,560
guys leaving, there's guys leaving. This is the next this

2566
02:02:59,720 --> 02:03:05,560
next year must win year. Well, it is for Nick

2567
02:03:05,600 --> 02:03:09,920
Asio AFC championship or he'll be looking for work. Some

2568
02:03:10,000 --> 02:03:13,199
say it is so the Texas Insider for a reason.

2569
02:03:13,239 --> 02:03:18,079
You are you need a new stadium, You want Torol

2570
02:03:18,159 --> 02:03:22,520
Town full of restaurants. You need some hope. Okay, and

2571
02:03:22,560 --> 02:03:25,359
another AFC divisional loss ain't gonna bring the hope when

2572
02:03:25,359 --> 02:03:30,159
you're trying to open up a Reinnigans or a Booby

2573
02:03:30,279 --> 02:03:34,359
News Days. I'm assuming there was the kind of chains

2574
02:03:34,359 --> 02:03:36,560
out there, right or do you go with the mes

2575
02:03:36,640 --> 02:03:39,279
Caake macquarie, It's uh, it could be one of those.

2576
02:03:40,239 --> 02:03:45,399
There could be a mar movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's

2577
02:03:45,399 --> 02:03:47,439
gonna be like sugar Land Town Center. That place is popping.

2578
02:03:47,880 --> 02:03:54,039
Oh yeah yeah, way Woodlands Market Street here and there.

2579
02:03:54,159 --> 02:03:57,159
Market Street is pretty good, Thomas Thomas. Women love the

2580
02:03:57,199 --> 02:04:00,600
Market Street. I'm sure they do a lot. Did jewelry

2581
02:04:00,640 --> 02:04:02,600
store over there? Oh yeah? How does the how does

2582
02:04:02,640 --> 02:04:05,039
the Thomas credit card feel about Market Street? So here's

2583
02:04:05,039 --> 02:04:07,399
the biggest cameraal fast and then we're gonna hear from

2584
02:04:07,439 --> 02:04:14,600
Jake Myers. Uh so there is a place Kendra Scott. Yes,

2585
02:04:15,159 --> 02:04:19,399
that allows you to get a discount in your birthday month. Okay,

2586
02:04:19,520 --> 02:04:21,960
and if you tag your husband along you get the

2587
02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:26,439
discount too. So every June Kim says, hey, let's go

2588
02:04:26,479 --> 02:04:28,520
up dinner in the Woodlands. Is her birthday in June

2589
02:04:28,560 --> 02:04:30,399
as well? Mine? I know yours is, but I was

2590
02:04:30,399 --> 02:04:32,800
gonna say her soon HER's in October? Okay, So you'll

2591
02:04:32,840 --> 02:04:37,239
go June and October, em bare minimum, Colley's in November,

2592
02:04:37,840 --> 02:04:41,520
Cameron's in June, Peyton's January. So the Thomas boys have

2593
02:04:41,600 --> 02:04:44,159
to go to the Woodlands at least a half three

2594
02:04:44,239 --> 02:04:46,439
or four times a year, and we have to slither

2595
02:04:46,520 --> 02:04:50,079
into Kendra Scott. We have no interest in being in there. Yeah,

2596
02:04:50,239 --> 02:04:53,279
because our IDs get our get the wives and the

2597
02:04:53,359 --> 02:04:56,600
daughter's discounts. It's a scam, sounds like it. I don't

2598
02:04:56,600 --> 02:04:59,760
bring them to Rick's Roaring Roods and get forty percent

2599
02:04:59,800 --> 02:05:06,199
off of gear. Yeah, or bally Rouse or Rix Cabaret.

2600
02:05:06,960 --> 02:05:10,000
For what. You can't get a discount of Ricks Cabaret.

2601
02:05:10,840 --> 02:05:13,000
You can't. You can't give him a coupon. You get

2602
02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:16,920
a birthday dance. So you're saying, if I show my

2603
02:05:17,039 --> 02:05:19,960
daughter's ID, I get enough free dance. Oh your wife,

2604
02:05:20,119 --> 02:05:24,720
Oh I won't you explain that to her? I will, Honey,

2605
02:05:24,920 --> 02:05:26,800
if you come with me, I get a free dance.

2606
02:05:26,840 --> 02:05:30,560
It's a family trip. No, it's a husband it's date nights. Beautiful,

2607
02:05:31,319 --> 02:05:34,119
all right. A meeting of the president's and the vice

2608
02:05:34,159 --> 02:05:35,640
am I the vice president of the fan club. I

2609
02:05:35,680 --> 02:05:37,880
just remember, I don't know are you a member? I

2610
02:05:37,920 --> 02:05:41,600
think sometimes it felt provisional a few times. I don't know.

2611
02:05:41,640 --> 02:05:44,560
We'll hear from Jake Myers next. Our time is one fifteen.

2612
02:05:44,560 --> 02:05:46,359
It's a Matt Thomas old Ross here from West Palm

2613
02:05:46,399 --> 02:05:48,880
Beach on seven ninety the annual meeting of the Jake

2614
02:05:48,920 --> 02:05:51,680
Myers Fan Club. This is like the stock session where

2615
02:05:51,720 --> 02:05:54,239
all the Stike stakeholders come into play. Here and we've

2616
02:05:54,239 --> 02:05:57,039
got ROSSI President. I'm Matt, Jake. How are you. This

2617
02:05:57,039 --> 02:06:00,600
has been an interesting time because the Hots League wasn't

2618
02:06:01,359 --> 02:06:03,159
really hot, but it was simmering for a while, right,

2619
02:06:03,239 --> 02:06:03,600
mm hmm.

2620
02:06:03,880 --> 02:06:08,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I'm doing well. Yeah, I'm excited to be

2621
02:06:08,880 --> 02:06:10,239
back and excited to be talking.

2622
02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:12,279
Speaker 2: To you guys. Yeah. Did you spend a lot of

2623
02:06:12,279 --> 02:06:14,760
time hearing your name search on Twitter? I mean, I

2624
02:06:14,840 --> 02:06:18,000
know guys are not supposed to do that, but everybody's human, right, Yeah,

2625
02:06:18,039 --> 02:06:20,960
everybody is human. It was more so the people around

2626
02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:24,439
me that were kind of talking to me about it. Yeah,

2627
02:06:24,600 --> 02:06:24,960
it was.

2628
02:06:25,039 --> 02:06:27,319
Speaker 7: It was a crazy time, but I'm really excited to

2629
02:06:27,359 --> 02:06:29,479
be back and be a part of this awesome team.

2630
02:06:29,520 --> 02:06:32,279
Speaker 2: Did you have any sort of sincere conversations with the

2631
02:06:32,319 --> 02:06:35,079
team about what was happening and what you should believe

2632
02:06:35,119 --> 02:06:38,439
in what you shouldn't believe. Uh No, but it's business.

2633
02:06:39,079 --> 02:06:41,600
Speaker 7: I mean, they're they're trying to do what what they

2634
02:06:41,640 --> 02:06:45,279
feel to make the best team they can and it

2635
02:06:45,279 --> 02:06:47,960
has a lot more to do than with me as

2636
02:06:47,960 --> 02:06:50,640
a person, And so I don't take it personally. It's

2637
02:06:50,720 --> 02:06:52,479
it's about business and making the team better.

2638
02:06:53,279 --> 02:06:54,319
Speaker 2: But I'm really.

2639
02:06:54,279 --> 02:06:58,359
Speaker 7: Glad that, you know, they they chose to bring me

2640
02:06:58,520 --> 02:07:00,960
back and uh that I can be a part of

2641
02:07:01,079 --> 02:07:03,680
you know, the astrosk because you know, I really enjoy

2642
02:07:03,760 --> 02:07:04,119
being here.

2643
02:07:04,319 --> 02:07:06,680
Speaker 2: And people always talk about when your name comes up

2644
02:07:06,720 --> 02:07:08,960
in trades, that means, yes, you might be going away,

2645
02:07:08,960 --> 02:07:10,840
but that also means if you have some value. Is

2646
02:07:10,840 --> 02:07:12,359
that a way you kind of try to look at

2647
02:07:12,399 --> 02:07:14,800
it as like, hey, that means if my name's coming up,

2648
02:07:14,840 --> 02:07:17,119
then I'm doing something right. That means other teams are

2649
02:07:17,159 --> 02:07:21,760
valuing what I bring to up the tape. Absolutely. Absolutely, Yeah,

2650
02:07:21,760 --> 02:07:23,800
I think that's a huge part of it. It does.

2651
02:07:23,920 --> 02:07:27,880
Speaker 7: It does give you that, you know, sense of value.

2652
02:07:28,319 --> 02:07:32,279
It is very interesting though, because as a player, you

2653
02:07:32,399 --> 02:07:35,159
do you know, you know, the grass is not always greener.

2654
02:07:35,199 --> 02:07:38,760
I try to tell myself that, you know, I really

2655
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:41,880
enjoy being here. I know a lot of people here.

2656
02:07:42,319 --> 02:07:44,720
I've learned a lot of things from the coaches, and

2657
02:07:44,760 --> 02:07:47,319
so I just really appreciate that, and I really appreciate

2658
02:07:47,359 --> 02:07:47,760
being here.

2659
02:07:48,119 --> 02:07:50,039
Speaker 2: Your lockermate here is going to have an opportunity to

2660
02:07:50,119 --> 02:07:51,920
win that left field spot. What advice have you given

2661
02:07:52,000 --> 02:07:52,520
him so far?

2662
02:07:53,920 --> 02:07:57,720
Speaker 7: I just try to I just try to to slow

2663
02:07:57,800 --> 02:07:59,960
him down a little bit, because I know I've been

2664
02:08:00,039 --> 02:08:04,239
and his situation before, and so I just try to

2665
02:08:04,239 --> 02:08:06,359
slow him down and make sure he's.

2666
02:08:06,199 --> 02:08:09,119
Speaker 2: Having fun because he works.

2667
02:08:09,159 --> 02:08:11,680
Speaker 7: He's a work you know, he's he's a dude who works,

2668
02:08:11,720 --> 02:08:14,079
and so it'll be fun for me to see, you know,

2669
02:08:14,520 --> 02:08:15,399
through spring training.

2670
02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:16,840
Speaker 2: You know, I only got to play with him.

2671
02:08:16,680 --> 02:08:18,359
Speaker 7: For a little bit, so it'd be fun for me

2672
02:08:18,399 --> 02:08:20,840
to see and you know, kind of be with around

2673
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:22,159
him through spring training.

2674
02:08:22,359 --> 02:08:24,560
Speaker 2: You know, Septembers are crazy, and you've been through yourself.

2675
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:26,640
Guys will come up. You know, Zach had an opportunity,

2676
02:08:26,720 --> 02:08:30,039
made the most of it. But there's a transition from

2677
02:08:30,079 --> 02:08:32,479
being great for one month and being consistently good for

2678
02:08:32,520 --> 02:08:34,439
six months. And so I guess that's the thing you

2679
02:08:34,479 --> 02:08:35,960
had to learn and he has to do as well.

2680
02:08:36,159 --> 02:08:40,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, that's gonna be the tough thing for him

2681
02:08:40,600 --> 02:08:44,159
going into this year. The pictures, you know, all pictures know,

2682
02:08:44,279 --> 02:08:46,640
and the league adjusts to kind of what you do,

2683
02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:49,600
and so you know, hopefully he's he's kind of put

2684
02:08:49,640 --> 02:08:52,000
in work to be ready for for that adjustment.

2685
02:08:52,399 --> 02:08:54,000
Speaker 2: By the other side of the outfield, I mean, Cam

2686
02:08:54,079 --> 02:08:57,119
had a great march and I think he probably got

2687
02:08:57,159 --> 02:08:58,680
a little bit of that freshman I just of being

2688
02:08:58,720 --> 02:09:00,960
in a major league. So what what is his message?

2689
02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:02,239
What do you think he needs to do coming in

2690
02:09:02,279 --> 02:09:04,239
here to at that right field spot.

2691
02:09:04,840 --> 02:09:08,319
Speaker 7: Yeah, just keep being Cam, keep growing, keep learning, which

2692
02:09:08,399 --> 02:09:08,840
he does.

2693
02:09:08,960 --> 02:09:10,680
Speaker 2: He did last year.

2694
02:09:10,680 --> 02:09:15,000
Speaker 7: He learned, He learned a ton and uh was I

2695
02:09:15,039 --> 02:09:17,520
mean did a great job all around. I don't care

2696
02:09:17,560 --> 02:09:19,520
what the numbers say he did. He had an awesome

2697
02:09:19,600 --> 02:09:23,319
year to me, and he's going to show that this year.

2698
02:09:23,439 --> 02:09:25,399
He's going to show that growth this year and I'm

2699
02:09:25,439 --> 02:09:26,159
really excited to.

2700
02:09:26,439 --> 02:09:28,800
Speaker 2: See him be a part of it. President. The numbers

2701
02:09:28,800 --> 02:09:31,119
are up one, so we know that their sky right

2702
02:09:33,119 --> 02:09:35,239
through the roof, especially with that breakout last year. You

2703
02:09:35,279 --> 02:09:38,159
got to keep that up, keep that defensive numbers, right Yeah, yeah,

2704
02:09:38,239 --> 02:09:40,520
need at the play too. Come on, give the man

2705
02:09:40,600 --> 02:09:42,079
some credit. How do you keep that going.

2706
02:09:42,560 --> 02:09:45,680
Speaker 7: Uh, just keep being disciplined, keep keep putting together really

2707
02:09:45,680 --> 02:09:50,319
good abs every day, every game. And you know, I

2708
02:09:50,319 --> 02:09:52,800
think where I grew was getting on base for the

2709
02:09:52,840 --> 02:09:55,359
other guys, and you know that that's how I feel

2710
02:09:55,680 --> 02:09:58,039
I can be really good and the contact was up

2711
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:01,159
this year. Maybe show a little oath and the slugging,

2712
02:10:01,319 --> 02:10:03,920
that'd be awesome. But uh, I kind of learned who

2713
02:10:03,920 --> 02:10:05,880
I was and how I can help the team.

2714
02:10:06,079 --> 02:10:08,159
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for the time. In the February

2715
02:10:08,159 --> 02:10:09,720
meeting of the Jake Myers Fan Club has come to

2716
02:10:09,720 --> 02:10:17,479
a conclusion. I appreciate you guys. The man himself, Jake Myers,

2717
02:10:18,039 --> 02:10:22,199
he loves us. He loves you. I told him after

2718
02:10:22,239 --> 02:10:23,680
the interview, is like, hey man, anytime you get a

2719
02:10:23,680 --> 02:10:25,000
home run, you make a big catch, I get a

2720
02:10:25,000 --> 02:10:27,720
million tweets. He's like, oh man, that's awesome. So he's

2721
02:10:27,720 --> 02:10:29,640
gonna keep up the good work for me. You actually,

2722
02:10:29,680 --> 02:10:30,760
you know what you should do. You should get some

2723
02:10:30,760 --> 02:10:33,359
seats behind home centerfield, I guess, and not like the

2724
02:10:33,359 --> 02:10:36,039
Paris area back there. Okay, hey, those are standing room.

2725
02:10:36,039 --> 02:10:38,880
Those are cheap. Yeah, can get out there. I'm not

2726
02:10:38,920 --> 02:10:41,359
talking like but the pump in the club, like the

2727
02:10:41,399 --> 02:10:44,560
Butdweizer center field area. Those are standing room too. You

2728
02:10:44,600 --> 02:10:46,239
got to get there early for that. But you gottat food.

2729
02:10:46,239 --> 02:10:49,159
You gotta like a big bar tap. I think I'm no,

2730
02:10:49,199 --> 02:10:51,079
I'm not gonna I'm gonna be spending any booze. Man.

2731
02:10:52,279 --> 02:10:52,399
Speaker 3: Uh.

2732
02:10:52,600 --> 02:10:54,960
Speaker 2: I was seriously thinking about putting together a wave Buster's night,

2733
02:10:55,119 --> 02:10:57,199
But it feels like the wave has calmed down a

2734
02:10:57,199 --> 02:10:59,600
little bit. Okay, so the wave buster should do it

2735
02:10:59,720 --> 02:11:01,840
the way the best or movement is working beautifully. If

2736
02:11:01,840 --> 02:11:03,680
you build it, they will come. Well, it's a slow

2737
02:11:03,720 --> 02:11:06,279
stead he climb towards ending of the wave. We don't

2738
02:11:06,279 --> 02:11:08,800
see it in the NBA. We don't see it in hockey.

2739
02:11:09,479 --> 02:11:11,840
We don't see it in college football, don't sit in pros.

2740
02:11:12,479 --> 02:11:18,039
It's just the jort wearing morons in baseball. Yeah, it

2741
02:11:18,119 --> 02:11:20,960
is way more prevalent, way more not saying other sports

2742
02:11:20,960 --> 02:11:23,399
don't do a little bit of it, but it's happens.

2743
02:11:23,560 --> 02:11:25,000
It's all over the place, and we're seeing it at

2744
02:11:25,039 --> 02:11:28,079
every stadium now, I mean even the hallow grounds of

2745
02:11:28,119 --> 02:11:31,479
Fenway Park and which is the upper deck and the

2746
02:11:31,479 --> 02:11:34,479
Monster and it still does it. Yeah, they did it

2747
02:11:34,520 --> 02:11:35,880
a couple of years ago when I went to the

2748
02:11:35,960 --> 02:11:39,239
Manchester City versus Group America and do but you've partaken that.

2749
02:11:39,520 --> 02:11:43,479
I don't remember. I had a couple of soccer makes

2750
02:11:43,520 --> 02:11:45,600
sense because it's generally speaking a pretty boring sport. You're

2751
02:11:45,600 --> 02:11:48,880
gonna do something to keep it time, keep awake, you

2752
02:11:48,880 --> 02:11:51,079
say so. I know it's the only time I've ever

2753
02:11:51,079 --> 02:11:54,479
saw get done. I know, all right, we want to

2754
02:11:54,479 --> 02:11:57,439
hear from Cam Smith. I would love to. Cam's good guy.

2755
02:11:57,520 --> 02:12:00,199
He is. He knows he's got an opportunity to at

2756
02:12:00,279 --> 02:12:02,239
right field spot. But I also think he's not naive

2757
02:12:02,279 --> 02:12:04,880
to realize that there are people coming maybe for his job,

2758
02:12:05,640 --> 02:12:07,720
especially when Zach Coley hat on so arder today. That

2759
02:12:07,760 --> 02:12:10,079
was a good visit. That call was great. If that

2760
02:12:10,199 --> 02:12:12,640
Cole and Jake Myers and Cam Smith can all be great,

2761
02:12:13,359 --> 02:12:15,680
we would have all three of a great astros outfield

2762
02:12:15,680 --> 02:12:19,159
and one well. It would solidify this show seven eight

2763
02:12:19,279 --> 02:12:23,159
nine in the lineup for sure. And we you know

2764
02:12:23,199 --> 02:12:27,239
we have not done a projected Storry lineup yet one

2765
02:12:27,239 --> 02:12:29,199
important guy left off the list, one of their best

2766
02:12:29,199 --> 02:12:31,439
three hitters on the team. Oh you know, we'll do.

2767
02:12:31,560 --> 02:12:35,199
Let's WAITTI that if that deal happens either that week. Wait, wait,

2768
02:12:35,199 --> 02:12:37,800
half way till open well literally opening day, maybe like

2769
02:12:37,800 --> 02:12:40,359
the day before opening day. We can do a rolling projection.

2770
02:12:40,640 --> 02:12:42,840
That's true. It's like mock draft one point oh. That's

2771
02:12:42,880 --> 02:12:45,680
nothing like mock draft three point oh. Yeah. By the way,

2772
02:12:45,680 --> 02:12:48,279
I have a mock draft up of the Texan selection. Yes,

2773
02:12:48,479 --> 02:12:50,039
my first round pick is available. If you want to

2774
02:12:50,039 --> 02:12:52,079
look at my Twitter account at sports Empty, it is

2775
02:12:52,119 --> 02:12:55,119
there for you to choose and look at. I will

2776
02:12:55,119 --> 02:12:58,640
be constantly updating that, uh stock that draft as soon

2777
02:12:58,680 --> 02:13:00,920
as I value. I'm busying baseball. Mom, he got you.

2778
02:13:01,479 --> 02:13:04,239
It's very You're very You're in. You're covering the Rockets.

2779
02:13:04,279 --> 02:13:06,920
We're out here at spring training. Yes, breaking down draft

2780
02:13:06,920 --> 02:13:08,560
tape is tough too, man. I am now giving you

2781
02:13:08,600 --> 02:13:10,920
inside information on a variety of things and gave you

2782
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:15,680
the the uh the Joe mix and stuff, and uh yeah,

2783
02:13:15,800 --> 02:13:18,159
I continued to uh, Ohbil, you should I just knock

2784
02:13:18,159 --> 02:13:20,319
out this coffee and Danish thing right now. I go

2785
02:13:20,399 --> 02:13:22,359
for coffee after the show you're talking about. I owe

2786
02:13:22,359 --> 02:13:26,119
you a coffee in a Danish I think I might nap.

2787
02:13:26,199 --> 02:13:28,720
I don't want coffee, all right, that's fair seven one

2788
02:13:28,840 --> 02:13:32,279
three two one. I want to almond croissant. I'm sure they

2789
02:13:32,319 --> 02:13:34,680
have almond croissants here too. I thought I thought Jonathan

2790
02:13:34,720 --> 02:13:39,359
was supposed to go, Um, yeah, he can go. I'm

2791
02:13:39,359 --> 02:13:43,119
just milking it. Well, can do it today, but I

2792
02:13:43,159 --> 02:13:44,960
do want to get a nap after the nap now,

2793
02:13:45,000 --> 02:13:46,720
but then I'm gonna be up all night. Doesn't do

2794
02:13:46,800 --> 02:13:49,880
tomorrow morning? No, nope, can't we get a pack? Yeah,

2795
02:13:49,880 --> 02:13:52,079
you're right, we'll do in Houston. We'll figure it out.

2796
02:13:52,119 --> 02:13:54,039
Cam Smith is after I tell you about the Shell

2797
02:13:54,159 --> 02:13:57,079
Federal Credit Union. We were talking about that app field.

2798
02:13:57,880 --> 02:14:00,359
We had Zach Cole with us earlier today, the Joey

2799
02:14:00,399 --> 02:14:02,319
Little Prafedo on and we'll finish it with the visit

2800
02:14:02,439 --> 02:14:04,319
we had earlier today. If you got ketchup, now is

2801
02:14:04,319 --> 02:14:07,319
a good time to hear from Cam Smith as he

2802
02:14:07,439 --> 02:14:11,439
reflects on season number two in the Big leagues. Okay, Cam,

2803
02:14:12,000 --> 02:14:15,239
a blur of last year, vivid details all the way through.

2804
02:14:15,279 --> 02:14:17,399
How do you reflect on twenty twenty five?

2805
02:14:18,039 --> 02:14:22,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, dream come true? A really good time. Honestly, I've

2806
02:14:22,319 --> 02:14:24,600
got a great group of guys with me. It made

2807
02:14:25,399 --> 02:14:27,520
my first year a lot easier having guys that can

2808
02:14:27,560 --> 02:14:30,840
rely on. Everybody in this in this clubhouse, from catchers, pitchers,

2809
02:14:30,840 --> 02:14:34,439
position players, coaches, everybody.

2810
02:14:34,600 --> 02:14:36,840
Speaker 2: I would say probably the best thing that happened for you.

2811
02:14:36,920 --> 02:14:39,279
Not only was the great march making the opening day roster,

2812
02:14:39,359 --> 02:14:41,840
but your transition to rank field was as difficult as

2813
02:14:41,880 --> 02:14:43,720
you thought it would be. Or it was it a

2814
02:14:43,760 --> 02:14:45,960
case of you don't what you can brocken yourself. You

2815
02:14:45,960 --> 02:14:47,439
put the hard worker in it and it paid off.

2816
02:14:48,119 --> 02:14:49,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say it makes the both for sure.

2817
02:14:50,399 --> 02:14:54,000
Obviously I was working every day with Clarkey and jab

2818
02:14:54,159 --> 02:14:58,159
our outfield coach every day, and just the small things

2819
02:14:58,239 --> 02:15:01,039
that what it takes to be a right fielder. But

2820
02:15:01,119 --> 02:15:04,399
also it wasn't easy. It wasn't easy. I had a

2821
02:15:04,439 --> 02:15:08,119
little adjustment period. I said, when I first got out there,

2822
02:15:07,840 --> 02:15:10,159
the hitter was blurry to me. I couldn't My eyes

2823
02:15:10,199 --> 02:15:11,760
weren't adjusted to seeing that far.

2824
02:15:12,359 --> 02:15:14,359
Speaker 2: You know, there are contacts you can no, no, I

2825
02:15:14,359 --> 02:15:15,039
don't need contact.

2826
02:15:15,079 --> 02:15:16,600
Speaker 4: It was like, I'm so used to them, so used

2827
02:15:16,600 --> 02:15:19,279
to being at third base, whereas right yeah yeah, So

2828
02:15:19,279 --> 02:15:20,920
so being all the way out there in right field,

2829
02:15:20,920 --> 02:15:22,319
I was like, wow, I had to get my eyes.

2830
02:15:22,199 --> 02:15:25,079
Speaker 2: Used to it. Was there a particular park or a

2831
02:15:25,880 --> 02:15:28,600
situation that you made good. Oh, I'm gonna have a

2832
02:15:28,640 --> 02:15:31,479
ton more difficult time seeing the ball.

2833
02:15:33,720 --> 02:15:38,680
Speaker 4: Yes, Uh, Sacramento was terrible only because only because there's

2834
02:15:38,680 --> 02:15:41,960
only one deck. So so at other parks there's three

2835
02:15:42,000 --> 02:15:44,920
to four. So the ball, the ball is a nice

2836
02:15:45,079 --> 02:15:47,600
there's a nice contrast behind the ball when it goes

2837
02:15:47,680 --> 02:15:50,359
in the air. But a Sacramento is just a blue

2838
02:15:50,359 --> 02:15:52,159
sky and.

2839
02:15:52,079 --> 02:15:53,880
Speaker 2: That's miserable for you. For a guy like yourself, you

2840
02:15:53,960 --> 02:15:54,560
just kind of learning.

2841
02:15:54,920 --> 02:15:58,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was definitely an adjustment. It was definitely an adjustment.

2842
02:15:58,199 --> 02:16:00,439
I wouldn't say miserable, but you definitely they have to

2843
02:16:01,319 --> 02:16:03,399
try to focus on it more than you usually have to.

2844
02:16:03,439 --> 02:16:05,760
When there's four three deck, three to four decks.

2845
02:16:05,520 --> 02:16:08,760
Speaker 2: Put you're on the verge getting at goal glove eventually, right, Yeah, absolutely,

2846
02:16:08,920 --> 02:16:10,159
is that the goal? Absolutely?

2847
02:16:10,439 --> 02:16:12,239
Speaker 4: Absolutely, there's no reason why I can't do it.

2848
02:16:12,439 --> 02:16:13,960
Speaker 2: Tell me about your plate work. I know the second

2849
02:16:13,960 --> 02:16:16,479
half of the year is not what you wanted. Did

2850
02:16:16,520 --> 02:16:18,880
you look at any video and say, I'm doing something

2851
02:16:18,880 --> 02:16:20,199
in the second half of the year that maybe I

2852
02:16:20,199 --> 02:16:22,640
should have done in the like I was doing in

2853
02:16:22,640 --> 02:16:23,399
the first half year.

2854
02:16:24,079 --> 02:16:26,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would just say more just staying consistent with

2855
02:16:26,239 --> 02:16:29,000
my approach instead of trying trying new things every day.

2856
02:16:29,159 --> 02:16:31,000
I think just sticking with one thing that works for

2857
02:16:31,039 --> 02:16:32,639
me and I know that works for me, is is

2858
02:16:32,680 --> 02:16:34,799
gonna be key?

2859
02:16:35,799 --> 02:16:37,959
Speaker 2: What was it like for you mentally, especially with I

2860
02:16:37,959 --> 02:16:39,520
mean it had to be your head spinning. I mean

2861
02:16:39,520 --> 02:16:41,479
it was such a whirlwind to go from as so

2862
02:16:41,600 --> 02:16:43,600
quick as you did, from the Florida States and now

2863
02:16:43,719 --> 02:16:46,319
and then major leagues and being as successful as you were.

2864
02:16:46,840 --> 02:16:48,200
If you step away from that, what is it like

2865
02:16:48,200 --> 02:16:50,760
now that you kind of reflect back on that and

2866
02:16:50,920 --> 02:16:52,719
kind of step away from then and got the off season.

2867
02:16:52,879 --> 02:16:55,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad I got thrown in the fire. I

2868
02:16:55,040 --> 02:16:57,680
don't think there's any other way to, you know, learn

2869
02:16:57,680 --> 02:16:59,479
on the go than being thrown in the fire. I

2870
02:16:59,520 --> 02:17:03,319
think if you time to think about it, like I just,

2871
02:17:04,280 --> 02:17:05,719
I don't know, I think it's better to just be

2872
02:17:06,680 --> 02:17:09,719
on spot and reactive than you know, having a big

2873
02:17:09,760 --> 02:17:11,840
build up. You know, when things build up, you start

2874
02:17:11,879 --> 02:17:14,000
to think more. But I'm glad I just got that

2875
02:17:14,040 --> 02:17:16,559
opportunity to make the opening day roster and just go

2876
02:17:16,639 --> 02:17:18,079
and figure it out.

2877
02:17:18,280 --> 02:17:20,360
Speaker 2: Your off season was different because you went from Florissa

2878
02:17:20,479 --> 02:17:22,680
to playing in the big leagues to being by the

2879
02:17:22,719 --> 02:17:25,079
way of being traded to your now an astro and

2880
02:17:25,120 --> 02:17:27,399
you know where you're supposed to be. What did you

2881
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:30,520
do and how did you step away from the game

2882
02:17:30,600 --> 02:17:32,120
and then get back into it as you got ready

2883
02:17:32,120 --> 02:17:33,200
for spring training here now?

2884
02:17:33,440 --> 02:17:36,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, spending more time with family. Honestly, I didn't see

2885
02:17:36,719 --> 02:17:39,360
them too much throughout the season, just because we're all

2886
02:17:39,399 --> 02:17:42,879
across the country. So I did have some more family time,

2887
02:17:42,920 --> 02:17:44,719
I could say, this offseason, and then once it got

2888
02:17:44,719 --> 02:17:47,719
time to ramp him back up, it was just at

2889
02:17:47,760 --> 02:17:50,239
the facility every day, honestly, getting ready for this moment

2890
02:17:50,319 --> 02:17:50,639
right here.

2891
02:17:50,879 --> 02:17:52,239
Speaker 2: What are some of the things you've been working on,

2892
02:17:52,280 --> 02:17:55,680
because I mean baseball, of course, is you can add

2893
02:17:55,719 --> 02:17:57,879
ten things or take away ten things from your swing

2894
02:17:57,959 --> 02:17:59,959
or your approach. What is it like for you to process,

2895
02:18:00,079 --> 02:18:01,719
like whittling down what's going to work for you or

2896
02:18:01,760 --> 02:18:02,799
things to try to improve.

2897
02:18:03,159 --> 02:18:06,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would just say simplifying everything, keeping it simple.

2898
02:18:06,440 --> 02:18:08,840
As cliche as it sounds, it's true, It's true. I

2899
02:18:08,840 --> 02:18:11,079
think the best hitters are able to play so long

2900
02:18:11,120 --> 02:18:14,159
because they keep it simple and they all have similarities

2901
02:18:14,159 --> 02:18:17,239
in their swing. There's always absolute of hitting, So keeping

2902
02:18:17,280 --> 02:18:18,559
it simple is the main thing for me.

2903
02:18:19,079 --> 02:18:22,120
Speaker 2: From high end college baseball to the limited time you

2904
02:18:22,159 --> 02:18:24,280
were in the minor leagues. The biggest difference in a

2905
02:18:24,399 --> 02:18:26,559
major league picture as compared to what you saw maybe

2906
02:18:27,040 --> 02:18:28,520
in the previous twelve calendar runs.

2907
02:18:28,760 --> 02:18:35,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the caliber of pitching is obviously outstandingly better

2908
02:18:36,120 --> 02:18:38,559
spin rates, and that the stuff they have the pitch,

2909
02:18:38,680 --> 02:18:43,479
the pitch arsenal is the The IQ of the pitchers

2910
02:18:43,559 --> 02:18:46,079
is a lot is a lot higher than you know,

2911
02:18:46,120 --> 02:18:49,639
a college pitcher. I could say for sure. They know

2912
02:18:49,719 --> 02:18:52,280
the game, they know they know how hitters react, they

2913
02:18:52,280 --> 02:18:54,520
know how to, you know, get to their weak spots

2914
02:18:54,520 --> 02:18:55,280
and stick to it.

2915
02:18:55,920 --> 02:18:58,719
Speaker 2: Lastly, do you want to be a guy as you

2916
02:18:58,840 --> 02:19:01,680
ramp up with this? And everybody's got different plans? The

2917
02:19:01,760 --> 02:19:04,479
veterans don't play as much young for guys like yourself,

2918
02:19:04,559 --> 02:19:05,959
I mean, do you do you want to be in

2919
02:19:05,959 --> 02:19:08,680
the line every day? How does a perfect spring training

2920
02:19:08,719 --> 02:19:12,440
schedule for you layout over the next month or so? Yeah?

2921
02:19:12,479 --> 02:19:14,760
Speaker 4: If I could play every day, I would. I think

2922
02:19:14,879 --> 02:19:17,840
Joe has a program though, where he has guys playing

2923
02:19:17,840 --> 02:19:18,840
one day on one day off.

2924
02:19:18,879 --> 02:19:20,639
Speaker 2: But if I had a choice, I'd play every day.

2925
02:19:21,239 --> 02:19:23,360
Speaker 4: I think it's very important to see this caliber of

2926
02:19:23,399 --> 02:19:26,040
pitching early on to get in the rhythm of things,

2927
02:19:26,079 --> 02:19:28,479
you know, getting your first at bats under your belt

2928
02:19:28,479 --> 02:19:31,479
for the season and getting that nice momentum into the

2929
02:19:31,520 --> 02:19:32,360
twenty twenty.

2930
02:19:32,079 --> 02:19:34,760
Speaker 2: Six season, and Zach's got an opportunity to take that

2931
02:19:34,840 --> 02:19:38,079
left field spot. He had a cup of coffee. Any

2932
02:19:38,120 --> 02:19:40,120
advice for him as you went through this just a

2933
02:19:40,200 --> 02:19:40,559
year ago.

2934
02:19:41,079 --> 02:19:44,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, Honestly, the way he carries himself is my advice

2935
02:19:44,319 --> 02:19:46,719
to him, Like, keep doing the same thing. He's a professional.

2936
02:19:46,799 --> 02:19:48,319
He can see the way he walks, the way he

2937
02:19:48,799 --> 02:19:52,760
goes about his business, his prep work, his recovery. It's

2938
02:19:52,799 --> 02:19:54,680
all it's all right. I've seen it. I've seen how

2939
02:19:54,680 --> 02:19:57,200
these guys do it, and I see a resemblance.

2940
02:19:57,520 --> 02:19:57,799
Speaker 11: All right.

2941
02:19:57,959 --> 02:20:02,000
Speaker 2: Very lastly, Jake Myers covers a lot of space. Is

2942
02:20:02,040 --> 02:20:04,000
he calling you off too much to tell the truth?

2943
02:20:04,000 --> 02:20:08,440
Speaker 4: And we won't tell him first? And really I would say, yes,

2944
02:20:08,840 --> 02:20:11,040
I want, I want, I want every ball that's out

2945
02:20:11,079 --> 02:20:13,079
there in the year. I want everyone, But I got

2946
02:20:13,120 --> 02:20:14,600
to give it to the center fielder for sure.

2947
02:20:15,120 --> 02:20:17,440
Speaker 2: That's because he's trying to work on his he's trying

2948
02:20:17,440 --> 02:20:19,680
to work on his Thanks for the time, appreciate, thank

2949
02:20:19,680 --> 02:20:23,760
you that again, Cam Smith in the clubhouse earlier today.

2950
02:20:23,799 --> 02:20:26,399
And here's the thing, and it's nice. These are still

2951
02:20:26,440 --> 02:20:28,959
a very young infield. They're all nice guys. They are

2952
02:20:28,959 --> 02:20:31,879
all very polite, they're happy to see us. It'll take

2953
02:20:31,959 --> 02:20:33,399
us to link the time for them to listen to

2954
02:20:33,399 --> 02:20:35,440
our show and listen to callers call and they'll eventually

2955
02:20:35,479 --> 02:20:38,440
hate us. That's most players too, Iop Skinning. We actually

2956
02:20:38,479 --> 02:20:42,120
got a good relationship. We're actually very lucky. Yes, the

2957
02:20:42,159 --> 02:20:46,920
Astros have had generally speaking, and I'm talking about that.

2958
02:20:46,959 --> 02:20:49,639
This is my second go around covering the team, and

2959
02:20:49,680 --> 02:20:51,639
this has been since twenty ten, so we're talking about

2960
02:20:51,639 --> 02:20:55,319
now seventh. This is seventeenth year. I can put on

2961
02:20:55,319 --> 02:20:57,600
one hand the name of a number of bad dudes

2962
02:20:57,639 --> 02:21:03,559
in the Astros clubhouse. Some not amazing, but most have

2963
02:21:03,680 --> 02:21:09,840
been at least professional to really super likable. We're very

2964
02:21:09,920 --> 02:21:12,479
lucky here and we're also I mean, I think it

2965
02:21:12,479 --> 02:21:14,040
does help to come out here. And you know, we've

2966
02:21:14,040 --> 02:21:16,000
had we've talked to we've talked to Cam Smith last year,

2967
02:21:16,000 --> 02:21:22,559
We've had couple of years. You yeah, we're not looking

2968
02:21:22,559 --> 02:21:24,520
at it. You know, crush people and go viral and

2969
02:21:24,639 --> 02:21:26,840
do a bunch of crazy hot takes, that's not that's

2970
02:21:26,879 --> 02:21:29,000
not how baseball doesn't lend itself to that. I mean

2971
02:21:29,079 --> 02:21:33,559
basketball does credit. That's what I'm saying. Well, I'm probably

2972
02:21:33,559 --> 02:21:36,200
more than you, but me than you. But that's another

2973
02:21:36,280 --> 02:21:39,920
you know there. Uh but yeah, I mean in the

2974
02:21:39,959 --> 02:21:44,559
history of the team, a couple I'll give you my

2975
02:21:44,639 --> 02:21:48,000
list in no particular order. This is no particular order.

2976
02:21:48,520 --> 02:21:54,680
Jeff Can't was an a hole. Yes, Greg Swindell Young

2977
02:21:54,719 --> 02:21:58,239
Matt Thomas did not like him. Really one more legend.

2978
02:21:59,360 --> 02:22:03,840
If he's a leg that's good. Uh. I didn't like

2979
02:22:03,959 --> 02:22:07,479
Julio Lugo and he eventually got his comeuppins, and that

2980
02:22:07,600 --> 02:22:14,239
was not good. I wasn't the biggest mark Portugal fan. Again,

2981
02:22:14,280 --> 02:22:18,840
this is so is so far long ago. Pete Harness

2982
02:22:19,000 --> 02:22:23,280
was difficult because he was so East coast. Uh. Brett

2983
02:22:23,280 --> 02:22:29,040
Myers hands down number one biggest jerk of all the

2984
02:22:29,120 --> 02:22:32,600
years I've ever cut the Astros, followed by Jeff Kent.

2985
02:22:32,760 --> 02:22:35,239
Those two really separate themselves from everybody else. Jef Kent

2986
02:22:35,399 --> 02:22:38,680
was before my time. Brett Myers, I can't attest I

2987
02:22:38,719 --> 02:22:41,239
saw some things. Can you mention your story in a

2988
02:22:41,239 --> 02:22:43,399
PG version? I don't know. I mean, it's fine. It's

2989
02:22:43,399 --> 02:22:45,879
not a big deal. I've told it on air before. Okay,

2990
02:22:45,879 --> 02:22:48,479
Well then quickly, yeah, we we used to hand out

2991
02:22:48,600 --> 02:22:52,040
gift certificates for from uh a certain Brazilian steakhouse. Correct

2992
02:22:52,040 --> 02:22:53,760
player of the game. Yeah, he was the player of

2993
02:22:53,760 --> 02:22:56,319
the game on a road trip and I went to

2994
02:22:56,360 --> 02:23:01,040
go give him the certificate along with Dylan Gwynn and

2995
02:23:01,239 --> 02:23:05,079
but no, no, he said, what the bleep do I

2996
02:23:05,120 --> 02:23:07,280
want this for? Threw on the ground and then he

2997
02:23:07,319 --> 02:23:09,840
didn't I told this story wrong recently. He didn't stomp,

2998
02:23:09,879 --> 02:23:13,479
and he kicked it, kicked it away. It's like, we're

2999
02:23:13,479 --> 02:23:15,479
just trying to give you this player of the Game certificate,

3000
02:23:15,680 --> 02:23:18,200
but he asked nothing in return. He won it on

3001
02:23:18,239 --> 02:23:20,440
the on the road trip and they had lost that night,

3002
02:23:20,479 --> 02:23:21,959
so I guess he was madday lost, even though he

3003
02:23:21,959 --> 02:23:27,040
didn't pitch. Yeah, yeah, just a miserable.

3004
02:23:28,040 --> 02:23:28,079
Speaker 7: That.

3005
02:23:28,159 --> 02:23:30,000
Speaker 2: I will leave it at that. And like I said,

3006
02:23:30,479 --> 02:23:34,079
you know you were. You know, not everybody's gonna be awesome, right,

3007
02:23:34,600 --> 02:23:39,520
But I think some people love Brett Myers. Yeah, one

3008
02:23:39,559 --> 02:23:43,840
person does. I won't mention his name. Uh, you know,

3009
02:23:43,879 --> 02:23:45,440
we did yesterday on the show, and I don't know

3010
02:23:45,440 --> 02:23:46,879
think we can do it for two straight days because

3011
02:23:46,879 --> 02:23:49,559
it's kind of out of our with this is tomorrow.

3012
02:23:49,600 --> 02:23:50,920
We got we're loading up with the interviews in the

3013
02:23:51,000 --> 02:23:52,319
last hour, so we won't do it today. But you know,

3014
02:23:52,360 --> 02:23:55,879
we took last segment calls yesterday and show he did.

3015
02:23:55,920 --> 02:23:58,120
Do you want to do it again? I'd like to

3016
02:23:58,120 --> 02:23:59,440
see if we can do it todays in a row.

3017
02:23:59,559 --> 02:24:01,040
We're not gonna to do it for three because we're

3018
02:24:01,040 --> 02:24:03,280
gonna we're gonna bank some interviews for the last hour

3019
02:24:03,280 --> 02:24:05,399
of the show. But if you are listening to us

3020
02:24:05,440 --> 02:24:07,000
right now, I just want to call in about anything

3021
02:24:07,040 --> 02:24:08,760
we don't We usually play Believe It or Not? The

3022
02:24:08,840 --> 02:24:11,000
prize horrors already locked and loaded to call the show

3023
02:24:11,399 --> 02:24:13,639
normally yet, but we don't have we're not playing today,

3024
02:24:14,520 --> 02:24:16,799
So if you'd like to call in with anything, we're

3025
02:24:16,840 --> 02:24:21,520
looking for the last segment shout out, what do you

3026
02:24:21,559 --> 02:24:23,680
want to get into? Do you want to be excited

3027
02:24:23,719 --> 02:24:26,159
as hell about the Astros season coming up? Are you

3028
02:24:26,360 --> 02:24:28,719
anxious to see what the Texans may do in free agency?

3029
02:24:29,079 --> 02:24:31,159
Are you ready for the rocket second half of the year.

3030
02:24:32,159 --> 02:24:36,120
It's a last segment shout out with you. I promise

3031
02:24:36,200 --> 02:24:38,000
we'll go back to Believe it or not on Thursday,

3032
02:24:39,559 --> 02:24:43,079
because that is America's fastener on sports game show, is it?

3033
02:24:43,079 --> 02:24:46,520
It is been growing for sixteen straight years. We got

3034
02:24:46,600 --> 02:24:51,799
our last segment shout outs, I love this and uh,

3035
02:24:51,879 --> 02:24:54,159
let's talk to the people here. Let's start with Trey

3036
02:24:54,159 --> 02:24:56,440
in seven hoey, Trey, what do you got today? Anything?

3037
02:24:56,440 --> 02:24:56,799
You want?

3038
02:24:58,479 --> 02:25:02,719
Speaker 10: A good show today? Guys. You really enjoyed Zach Cole's interview.

3039
02:25:02,719 --> 02:25:04,079
He seemed to have a pretty good.

3040
02:25:04,000 --> 02:25:07,040
Speaker 2: Dude he was. I was very happy with that.

3041
02:25:08,920 --> 02:25:14,799
Speaker 10: Yeah, all around. Cam Smith too. So James called in

3042
02:25:14,879 --> 02:25:20,239
earlier raising hell about the Astro's payroll. Earlier a month

3043
02:25:20,319 --> 02:25:22,120
or so ago, there was a report out about the

3044
02:25:22,159 --> 02:25:26,479
Dodgers revenue. Depending on what report you look at, it's

3045
02:25:26,520 --> 02:25:30,239
anywhere between eight hundred and fifty into a billion a year,

3046
02:25:31,040 --> 02:25:34,559
and I started looking at it and surprised me to

3047
02:25:34,639 --> 02:25:39,120
learn that the Astros are right at the top in

3048
02:25:39,239 --> 02:25:44,079
terms of the percentage of their payroll to their overall revenue.

3049
02:25:45,040 --> 02:25:48,879
And you look at their profit estimates and they were

3050
02:25:49,040 --> 02:25:50,479
marginally in the black.

3051
02:25:51,559 --> 02:25:53,680
Speaker 3: So, you know, kind of had a.

3052
02:25:53,600 --> 02:25:57,760
Speaker 10: Different perspective about the way Crane is managing the ball club.

3053
02:25:57,799 --> 02:26:01,920
Obviously it's the business, but you know, it's kind of

3054
02:26:02,319 --> 02:26:05,799
I don't know, but maybe they term it that kind

3055
02:26:05,799 --> 02:26:08,840
of makes you proud with respective the way that Houston

3056
02:26:08,959 --> 02:26:11,520
is managing next overall ball love an you compare it

3057
02:26:11,559 --> 02:26:14,280
to the Mets, for example, Yeah, they're deep in the

3058
02:26:14,360 --> 02:26:19,280
red every year, and it led me to wonder not

3059
02:26:19,719 --> 02:26:23,879
maybe you guys know, you know, the Astros recently sold

3060
02:26:23,959 --> 02:26:28,959
three of their four minor league affiliates, and you know

3061
02:26:29,079 --> 02:26:32,520
that's not a lot of money involved, but are the

3062
02:26:32,520 --> 02:26:37,280
Astros still on the hook or minor league salaries or

3063
02:26:37,319 --> 02:26:39,200
does the new owner take all that'll.

3064
02:26:39,840 --> 02:26:42,280
Speaker 2: No, those are professional contracts that are signed by the

3065
02:26:42,319 --> 02:26:44,760
parent team when we're talking, and thank you for the

3066
02:26:44,799 --> 02:26:48,079
phone call trade. Those are organizations. Those minor league organizations

3067
02:26:48,079 --> 02:26:51,440
were bought by a conglomerate that wants to buy and

3068
02:26:51,479 --> 02:26:55,520
wants to own and has owns multiple minor league baseball teams.

3069
02:26:56,399 --> 02:26:59,000
They own the stadium, they own the leases, they own

3070
02:26:59,079 --> 02:27:03,280
the marketing, the concessions, the tickets that they do, all

3071
02:27:03,319 --> 02:27:07,120
of the stuff. But the the parent clubs supply the players.

3072
02:27:08,479 --> 02:27:10,840
So that's the difference is that these are still players

3073
02:27:10,879 --> 02:27:14,319
in the Astros organization that have minor league affiliates, and

3074
02:27:14,360 --> 02:27:17,840
the reason for those this this conglomerate bought these teams

3075
02:27:17,879 --> 02:27:20,600
is that if you own ten or eleven minor league teams,

3076
02:27:20,600 --> 02:27:23,879
you can you know, sadly consolidate your staff. Yes, you

3077
02:27:23,920 --> 02:27:26,159
can have three people do the job of eleven. It's

3078
02:27:26,399 --> 02:27:29,479
to eleven people do the job of eleven. Wider scope

3079
02:27:29,479 --> 02:27:31,319
of sales. And if you are going to go to

3080
02:27:31,559 --> 02:27:38,000
say Rubway, that's a bad one Subway, thank you, and say, hey,

3081
02:27:38,040 --> 02:27:39,920
do you want to be in eleven small to mid

3082
02:27:40,040 --> 02:27:43,319
sized markets with advertising, I'll put signing in in eleven

3083
02:27:43,399 --> 02:27:45,799
different pollparks as compared to the aster a single minor

3084
02:27:45,879 --> 02:27:47,639
league team trying to sell that marketing to a bit

3085
02:27:47,639 --> 02:27:52,000
to a company. It's just consolidation, that's all it is. Yes,

3086
02:27:52,479 --> 02:27:56,520
but there's nothing to be read into. Is Jim in

3087
02:27:56,559 --> 02:28:00,319
trouble or is is he looking I can't image age.

3088
02:28:00,360 --> 02:28:05,159
The money that is being given to this group is considerable. Yeah,

3089
02:28:05,200 --> 02:28:08,639
the the group is offering over market price for all

3090
02:28:08,639 --> 02:28:11,440
these teams to try to buy them up, and oh quite,

3091
02:28:11,479 --> 02:28:14,239
Frank limnopolize what's going on in the minor leagues and

3092
02:28:14,239 --> 02:28:17,520
do exactly what you said. Fewer staff and more sales

3093
02:28:17,559 --> 02:28:20,319
and more revenue and Honestly, if I was doing it

3094
02:28:20,360 --> 02:28:22,280
that way, I would do the exact same thing these

3095
02:28:22,319 --> 02:28:24,600
minor league teams. While you do have young people working

3096
02:28:24,639 --> 02:28:28,719
for minimal dollars. Do you need a director of marketing

3097
02:28:28,719 --> 02:28:31,520
for the Fayeteville Woodpeckers. You don't, but that that director

3098
02:28:31,520 --> 02:28:34,879
of marketing handles the Woodpeckers, and it handles the Charlotte

3099
02:28:34,920 --> 02:28:40,559
Knights and the Durham Bulls. It it keeps people working. Well, yeah,

3100
02:28:40,600 --> 02:28:44,200
well it eliminates jobs in some respects because some people,

3101
02:28:44,200 --> 02:28:47,239
some teams don't even have it at all. Yeah. So yeah,

3102
02:28:47,520 --> 02:28:49,399
but it's it's all. The end of the end game

3103
02:28:49,440 --> 02:28:52,959
is consolidation. Yeah, eliminate jobs, pay out, fewer people, make

3104
02:28:53,000 --> 02:28:57,600
more profits. Let's go. Well, that's their that's their business.

3105
02:28:57,600 --> 02:29:00,000
I mean, but it's happening. It's happening at our company.

3106
02:29:00,680 --> 02:29:02,920
Is there a lot of places? I'm Mac, You're on

3107
02:29:03,000 --> 02:29:04,920
seven ninety. Good afternoon to you, Mac.

3108
02:29:06,440 --> 02:29:07,799
Speaker 5: Good afternoon to you, gentlemen.

3109
02:29:08,920 --> 02:29:13,959
Speaker 11: Hey, So C. J. Stroud has a pretty live arm, right.

3110
02:29:14,799 --> 02:29:17,040
Speaker 2: I would think so fine?

3111
02:29:17,799 --> 02:29:22,799
Speaker 11: So is it good enough that? And I don't know

3112
02:29:22,920 --> 02:29:25,840
enough about football to answer my own question, but is

3113
02:29:25,840 --> 02:29:28,639
it good enough that maybe his mechanic. He never had

3114
02:29:28,680 --> 02:29:31,840
to get good mechanics because he was just relying on

3115
02:29:31,920 --> 02:29:32,559
pure talent.

3116
02:29:33,879 --> 02:29:35,959
Speaker 2: I think he's got pretty good mechanics and throwing motion

3117
02:29:36,079 --> 02:29:38,399
and all a quick release and all that stuff.

3118
02:29:39,680 --> 02:29:45,600
Speaker 11: Okay, all right, cool, How do we get baseball ticket

3119
02:29:45,600 --> 02:29:47,879
prices down so I can go see more games?

3120
02:29:49,479 --> 02:29:54,559
Speaker 2: Uh, you're going to have to probably watch the dynamic pricing. Honestly,

3121
02:29:54,719 --> 02:29:56,639
it's going to be easier for you to go back

3122
02:29:56,680 --> 02:29:58,840
to a game on a Wednesday against the A's and

3123
02:29:58,879 --> 02:30:00,360
it would be to go on a Friday against the

3124
02:30:00,360 --> 02:30:03,040
Red Sox. I mean, truth be told, if if you're

3125
02:30:03,079 --> 02:30:06,159
budgeting for dollars, not all games are created equals, So

3126
02:30:06,159 --> 02:30:07,840
you're gonna have to find value in the games and

3127
02:30:07,879 --> 02:30:10,520
the opponents. I know that's maybe that's what you don't

3128
02:30:10,520 --> 02:30:12,959
want to hear, but that's the reality of it.

3129
02:30:13,280 --> 02:30:18,040
Speaker 11: Ten For I usually hit the the Wednesday your Thursday

3130
02:30:18,159 --> 02:30:19,680
day games as much as you can.

3131
02:30:20,120 --> 02:30:21,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the way I would go. Thank you for

3132
02:30:21,680 --> 02:30:24,319
the phone call. That's what you do it. We'll get

3133
02:30:24,319 --> 02:30:27,319
a time machine. Well you can also you know, if

3134
02:30:27,360 --> 02:30:29,120
you buy a mini plan, maybe that helps out a

3135
02:30:29,159 --> 02:30:32,000
little bit where it stabilizes the cost a little bit

3136
02:30:32,040 --> 02:30:36,520
as compared to bulk. Yeah, it's like a bundle if

3137
02:30:36,559 --> 02:30:39,159
you will. All right, we're at a time. We got

3138
02:30:39,159 --> 02:30:42,719
to get to the A Team next. Yes, let's say goodbye.

3139
02:30:42,760 --> 02:30:47,520
We've got four hours tomorrow. Here Christian Walker, Dana Brown

3140
02:30:47,559 --> 02:30:51,719
among others. It's the team next on seventh nine,