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Speaker 1: Eleven O three Sports Talk seven ninety your astros win

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one nothing over the Phillies. We're going to spend ten

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quality minutes with the man we joints is every Wednesday

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here on the show space City Home Networks. Brian bogus

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Sevic Brian one nothing. We've seen quite a few of

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those over the course of the year. How many times

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have we seen and how many times are we not

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shaking our heads over the fact that Jake Myers batting

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clean up for the local nine last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was a little unexpected. Showing up

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at the ballpark and looking at the lineup. I think

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it's just kind of speaks to where the organization, where

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the coaches are at with you know, some of the

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guys who struggled early, right Christian Walker, Yaner, those guys,

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they've been waiting for them to turn it around. You know,

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we're going to be here in a couple of days

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and it's gonna be the halfway point. You know, at

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some point your leash has run out, and when you're

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right out the lineup every day, you've just got to

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take the guys that are swinging the bat the best,

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and I know you know your four or five hitters

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prototypically aren't going to be Jake Myers and Cam Smith,

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but they're both swinging the bat well, and you got

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to get guys behind Penya Parades Altuve who are going

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to potentially drive and run. It didn't happen yesterday, but

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you know it's not it's not a terrible idea.

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Speaker 3: It is interesting how the game worked out yesterday, Ranger Suarez.

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I mean, the era is about a one this month

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Fromberg gives you quality starts.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if today's baseball fan wants a hundred

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of those kind of one nothing games, But I was

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in tune with it because I, first of all, appreciate

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what both guys did, and secondly, I wanted to see

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who was gonna flinch first, and of all people, Cooper

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Hummel was the man to be the hero for the

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local nine last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you you know, if you're if you're

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a true baseball fan, you really appreciate games like that

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because you know everything you have to do everything well

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in a tight game like that. It was obvious from

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you know, the first couple of innings that was going

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to be a low scoring game. So all of a sudden.

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You know, you've got to play good defense. You know

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you've got to run the bases well, you can't make

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a mistake pitch, you know, over the middle of the play.

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scoring position. And that's fun baseball to watch, in my opinion,

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when both teams have to be on it. When you're

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a lot of times watching a ten to nine game,

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it can be a little bit sloppy and it just

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all gets kind of washed away with all the runs

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that are being scored. I enjoy a game like that,

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but yeah, Major League Baseball doesn't want to do that

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every night.

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Speaker 1: No, how did Farmer do it yesterday? Where he was

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kind of a voiding disaster? They Philly's got on the

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base pass a lot through some a few hard knocks

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some of the walks, and that's something. What nine nine

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walks for Farmer over the last couple of games, But

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every single opportunity presented itself and he came through and

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didn't let anybody cross the paystation for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first of all, you know, he had really good

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stuff yesterday. His command wasn't as sharp as we've seen

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at times, but just the pure stuff to move in

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on the fastball. You know, the break on the curveball

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was all really good. And when you have that good

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of stuff, you know you can just keep going to

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the well and eventually be successful. But I think what

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was really important yesterday was he kept a really level head.

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of the first three innings. There were a couple of

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errors mixed in, so like there's a lot of traffic

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on the bases, and sometimes, you know, as a pitcher,

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you can get into those situations and you think, Okay,

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the strikeout here. I've got to you know, put a

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little bit more on this fastball and hump up a

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little bit. He just kept us cool and kept making pitches.

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ground balls, you're gonna get double plays, you're gonna get

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yourself out of the inning. And I thought he did

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a really nice job navigating some tough situations by keeping

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his head and not trying to do more and not

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Speaker 3: Brian bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

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and the big series with the Phillies and then the

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Cubs coming to town as well. Players and coaches and

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everyone will always say publicly, yeah, we want to win

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every game and we take them all the same. But

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how much truth is that as you as a former player,

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like when when it's the Phillies and Cubs coming in town,

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they're a little extra juice.

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Speaker 2: I think so, but I think it probably it comes

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more externally. You know, you get there and there's a

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little bit of a buzz in the stadium, it's crowded,

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the fans show up earlier. You know, there's more stimulation

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from that standpoint. You know, guys know that they have

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to be on top of their game. You're playing a

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good team, you're playing a first place team. You're going

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to see a ton of really good pitching. So guys

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can feel that. But it's not like it's okay, now

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we're going to try harder. Now we're going to you know,

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really focus on our scouting reports and you know, dot

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eyes and cross teas. That stuff is happening regardless, and

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I just think there's a little bit extra juice just

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because of the buzz that's in the stadium. But now

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you know, it's it really sounds cliche to say it's

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one of one sixty two, but it really is, And

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especially this time of the year where you've got a

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bunch of games behind you, so you're kind of in

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the the the drag of the season. But at the

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same time, you know you're so far from the end

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where you're not really scoreboard watching or anything. So so, yeah,

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in the clubhouse, it's just one one of one's sixty two.

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of extra juice when you know that the fans are

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Speaker 3: Both Bryce Harper and jord On Alvarez missing from the series,

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and we were talking about in the last hour Brian

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about we've talked a lot about pitching injuries, but position

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player injuries. I think it feels like are up. I

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don't know if you agree with that, but we were

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just kind of thinking, is it guys just pushing their

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bodies to the limit or are we just kind of

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noticing the injuries? And it's always been like.

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Speaker 2: That, probably a little bit of both. You know, we

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hear a lot more of the day to day stuff

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regarding you know, the twenty nine teams that aren't in

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our city, so we can feel that a little bit more.

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over the last ten years, You're really pushing the envelope.

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push themselves harder, and you know, as you push yourself

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towards that edge a little bit, every once in a

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while it goes a little bit too far and you

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get bang up and you know, you get injured. I

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players and guys feel a little bit of something and

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you immediately say, okay, we're not going to push it.

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for for ten days and get ahead of it because

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the season that you know, and with with the length

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of the season plus the expanded playoffs, and there's there's

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just more of a path to getting into the playoffs,

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and the goal is really to be healthy in that

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full strength at the end. So I think teams have

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also figured out that, you know, weighing the option of

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pushing a guy during the middle of the season versus

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laying back and having him healthy at the end. It's

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Speaker 1: That boogie with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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The Astros have been very fortunate over their history to

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have great eighth and ninth inning guys. This bring you

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hater combo sub to e er a winning games, very

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very rare poor performances. I mean, Bullpen in itself has

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been a hero all year long, but these guys have

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been an outstanding one two combination that I think that

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the Astros obviously said we think we can spend some

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serious money on Josh and to be well worth it.

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Last year good, this year phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you try really hard not to take

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it for granted, but it feels pretty automatic, right. It

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feels like once you get to those two guys that

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you're going to get two zero's and the game's going

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to be over. And you know, the kind of stuff

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that they have, the power stuff, overwhelming fastballs, overwhelming sliders.

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on days when they don't have their best stuff, they're

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still going to win most of the time because it's

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just that good. I mean, you miss a spot with

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ninety nine, it's still ninety nine and really difficult to hit.

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tandems at the back of the bullpen that are as

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good as those guys are have been as good. But

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that there's anybody that's been definitively better than those two.

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Speaker 1: Everyone it says, all right, what do you do with

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the deadline? Do you stand pat if it ain't broke,

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don't fix it At the second best record in the

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American League. You got some guys coming back, And then

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there's always this conversation about the Astros need another left

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handed bat. Now, clearly, if Jordon comes back, whatever it is,

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and he picks up where not necessarily left off pre injury,

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but the normal Jordon we're in let me ask you this,

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as we speak to you today, even with Jordon still

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on the injury list, how desperate do you believe the

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Astros are if they are at all for need of

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a left handed bat in their everyday lineup.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't call it desperate, but I would say it

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would definitely be useful even with your you know, assume

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Jordon comes back and he's healthy, and he's Jordon, and

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he's producing like crazy, and you've got that big lefty

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bat right in the middle of the lineup. I think

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you still need another one. You know, a lot of

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very right handed lineup against the power right handed pitcher,

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particularly right handed pitchers with good sinkers, and it's really

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difficult to score runs. You know, you need that balance,

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not just because you get the platoon advantage of going

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to the other side, but oftentimes just having the lefties

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in the lineup to make the pitcher throw to different locations,

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make them use different pitches, make them go to their

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change ups more. You know, getting them off of their

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spot a little bit can create mistakes. You don't want

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to run out of lineup there, even with yourd on

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in it where there's eight other right handed hitters, where

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a pitcher can just go sinker down and sinker down

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and in slider, I got you, and just do the

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same thing over you're not. You know, you have to

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make them go all over the strike zone because that

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creates opportunities for them to screw up that creates opportunities

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for them to be off with something and then you

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get the advantage. So yeah, even if it's not an

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everyday type of bad, even if it's a guy who

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Speaker 3: Talking about the bats the Astros do have, we're also

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talking about batted ball luck and how it's been pretty

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good for Pinion Myers, but it's been pretty bad for

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guys like Altuve, Walker, Yanar Diaz as well. Can you

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just you as a player and then now you as

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make an adjustment. Everybody's looking to, you know, change something

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to try to try to get better. And you know,

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way that you're supposed to do it and it's just

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change just for change's sake. You know, eventually things will

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turn in my favor. So yeah, you want to be aware,

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aware of that. But at the same time, you know

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you don't need those numbers to know whether or not

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you're executing your fads. You know, if you're swinging at

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good pitches, you know, if you're making quality contact. You know, yeah,

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the numbers might reinforce it one way or the other,

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but you really have a good feel for where your

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swing is at regardless of what that number says.

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Speaker 1: Brian great self is always thank you very much for

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the time. We'll talk again next week. And what is

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your TV schedule the next handful of days.

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Speaker 2: I'm on the rest of the series and I am

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off for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you're not gonna be there for the

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Kyle Tucker Ryan Presley tribute Friday night.

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Speaker 2: I will not. I'll have to I'll have to catch

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a replay.

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Speaker 3: Not as nearly a dedicated as we thought you were.

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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Speaker 3: Let the man enjoy a weekend, you know what. You

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take the family off for a nice dinner, and they

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deserve it all the time you spend away out or.

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Speaker 2: I'll be sitting at swimming so all weekend. I see

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you know what you're dad in the year.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Boggy for the time. As always, we'll see Brian

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Bogus Civic