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Speaker 3: They traded uh Khalil Davis over the defensive tackle Khalil
Speaker 3: Davis over to the San Francisco forty nine ers, but
Speaker 3: no additions to the offensive line or wide receiving room.
Speaker 3: They take on the Lions this coming Sunday. First college
Speaker 3: football playoff poll was released yesterday. Got some interesting teams
Speaker 3: that are on that top twenty five. Army coming in
Speaker 3: at eight to er, but just at number twenty five.
Speaker 3: Obviously Oregon the number one team in the nation. Let's
Speaker 3: talk Astros baseball Dana Brown spoke to the media yesterday Tripley.
Speaker 3: I know you've got a lot of things going on
Speaker 3: over there with you know, your duties during the day,
Speaker 3: but can we get the one where he talks. He
Speaker 3: talks about the good conversations he's had with Scott Boris.
Speaker 3: Scott Boris obviously the agent of alexburg This is Dana Brown,
Speaker 3: good going.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we've had a lot of a lot of
Speaker 4: discussions with Scott book, multiple conversations, so we hope that
Speaker 4: they've been and we're hoping, you know, we're hoping that
Speaker 4: some good things happening.
Speaker 2: You feel different. I think we really returned.
Speaker 3: I think we have a really good chance, meaning bringing
Speaker 3: Alex Bregman back. They've had some conversation with a lot
Speaker 3: of conversations with Scott Boris. You know, I you asked
Speaker 3: me the question, Sean, when we talk about fifty one
Speaker 3: nine percent if Alex Bregman comes back. I think one
Speaker 3: thing that is interesting about this whole process over the
Speaker 3: last couple of months is we haven't heard a damn thing.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard anything.
Speaker 3: No no no insider, no beat writer, nobody has said
Speaker 3: anything about how many years he wants the money he wants.
Speaker 3: Nothing has come out a little different. When George Springer
Speaker 3: became a free agent, we heard rumors, we heard different
Speaker 3: amounts of money. When Corls Karele, we heard three hundred
Speaker 3: million right off the bat, right, Garrett Cole, when he
Speaker 3: was getting ready to leave the Astros, we knew he
Speaker 3: was going to sign a massive contract, and we knew
Speaker 3: that he wanted to go to the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Alex Bregnan, we haven't a thing.
Speaker 1: So the question begs the It begs the question of
Speaker 1: is it wise not to put out there what you
Speaker 1: want because he put out there and it's not a
Speaker 1: high number and the team doesn't match it. Aren't you
Speaker 1: as a fan base? You're thinking, why'd you let him go?
Speaker 1: If it's too low or if he if he puts
Speaker 1: it out there and he wants too much? Like, okay,
Speaker 1: what did when when Correa left? What did most of
Speaker 1: the fan base say that's way too much? I mean
Speaker 1: when he wanted thirty million for ten years, we knew
Speaker 1: what he wanted. He didn't get it. So in the end,
Speaker 1: it looked in the way pain you played, it looked
Speaker 1: as if the Astros won that gig. Right, So is
Speaker 1: it a wise negotiating move. I'm big on not a
Speaker 1: not negotiating in the media, right. I think it's a
Speaker 1: wise move and I think he's crafting the right way
Speaker 1: because then you don't and I'm not saying he's worried
Speaker 1: about pissing people off, but this is still his home base,
Speaker 1: this is his team. If he leaves, then you leave
Speaker 1: it for out there. Well, regardless, somebody's going to report
Speaker 1: how much was offered at some point, right at something.
Speaker 2: But at least at least you're not.
Speaker 1: It's almost when you do that, you put yourself in
Speaker 1: because most of the fans can't most of us can't
Speaker 1: understand that kind of money, right, And when you do that,
Speaker 1: the dude who's making seventy five grand a year or
Speaker 1: fifty grand a year or forty grand a year and
Speaker 1: feeding families and has to go to work every day
Speaker 1: can't quite understand how you can turn down twenty five
Speaker 1: million a year.
Speaker 2: So you just kind of let them think about it, right.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a I don't know if brilliant
Speaker 1: is the right word, but smart way to go about it.
Speaker 1: And in truth, I do believe that they're in play.
Speaker 1: This is I mean, Alex Bregman feels like this is
Speaker 1: this is his place, man. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: this is his place to be. So with that in
Speaker 1: with that in play, I don't know about hometown discounts.
Speaker 1: And if there is one, what hometown discount to me?
Speaker 1: For Alex Bregman is taking taking you know what, a
Speaker 1: million dollars less than somebody else offers you a year,
Speaker 1: and that's but that's fair. But when it gets to
Speaker 1: three or four million extra year, if it got to
Speaker 1: that for five or six years, you can't expect him
Speaker 1: to take a hometown discount.
Speaker 2: Regardless, if we sit back and say, how can you
Speaker 2: turn all that money?
Speaker 1: What's what's one hundred and eighty versu one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five million? And to that's a lot of money
Speaker 1: to anybody. It's a lot of how much money you make.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a wise move. So I asked
Speaker 1: you the question and seven one, three, two and two
Speaker 1: five seven ninety, I asked you the question about fifty
Speaker 1: one the over under said, at fifty one the percentage
Speaker 1: of chances that he's coming back here, and you took
Speaker 1: the over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it took the over sixty one over.
Speaker 3: I feel like a couple of months ago. Excuse me, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what changed? A couple of months ago? I thought there
Speaker 3: was no way in hell he was coming back. I
Speaker 3: thought for sure that he would depart from here and
Speaker 3: go towards Boston Corbzona Cubs.
Speaker 2: San Francisco Giants type of thing.
Speaker 1: They got money out, Yeah, play play it that way
Speaker 1: right where you can least listen to.
Speaker 2: The big boppers. Yeah, I would, I would think. So
Speaker 2: it's one of those teams.
Speaker 3: And then I think my mindset has shifted over the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks just because one and for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: I think the fact that we haven't heard anything, we
Speaker 3: haven't heard how much money he wants, I think that's
Speaker 3: a good thing.
Speaker 2: So I think that.
Speaker 3: I think that the Chapman contract also comes into play.
Speaker 3: I think he's getting what twenty five and a half
Speaker 3: million dollars for Chapman.
Speaker 2: Good base.
Speaker 3: The reason why, the sole reason why Ox Bregman hasn't
Speaker 3: won multiple goal gloves is because of Matt Chapman. That
Speaker 3: dude has won multiple gold gloves when him and Alex
Speaker 3: Bregman are in the running every single season.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: So I think that helps with keeping the cost down.
Speaker 3: I also think and that's for the astros sake and
Speaker 3: then equalizer those Scott Boris, you know that. Yeah, But
Speaker 3: also I think Scott Boris, he's a Josel tuove is a.
Speaker 1: Scott Boris guy. And remember it's the player's decision, not
Speaker 1: the agent. The agent is supposed to advise and you
Speaker 1: make the decision. But Scott had a rougher off season
Speaker 1: last season than so maybe this is a.
Speaker 3: Makeup call, is exactly, So that goes hold all your
Speaker 3: guys out, so that goes into play for me as well.
Speaker 3: You look at the deals that Scott Boris made last year.
Speaker 3: Every single guy had an opt out after one year,
Speaker 3: and a lot of his guys didn't get signed until
Speaker 3: spring training. Joran Montgomery fired Scott Boris. Think about that.
Speaker 3: He fired Scott Boris. So with that being said, in
Speaker 3: my mind, Scott Boris has to go to the table
Speaker 3: with Dana Brown and with the Astros.
Speaker 2: With legitimate hopes and staying exactly.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you though, and I also think you know,
Speaker 3: we we can say that, you know, Jim Crane, it's
Speaker 3: not going to be the be all end all if
Speaker 3: jose Al Tuve is continuing to endorse pregnant, but I
Speaker 3: think that plays a big part in it. Not a
Speaker 3: big part, I'm sorry it it plays a significant role
Speaker 3: in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But that can't be the final single player. Can't be
Speaker 1: the final decision. No, if you're the Astros or Alex Bragman,
Speaker 1: but they just can't.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 3: We don't hear very much from Josel two vains.
Speaker 2: He's been so adamant.
Speaker 1: Well he's he's watched a couple of his dogs, Yeah
Speaker 1: to leave and it's like again, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that that's part of it. And of course a guy
Speaker 1: who is on the team and does his thing and speaks.
Speaker 1: He doesn't speak often but a loud but when he does,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that Jim Crane listened.
Speaker 2: But it's not surprising that he wants Bregman here.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't With that, I'll say this, if Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: would have had a MVP offensive season, had a gold gloves,
Speaker 1: he would not be here gone. I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: but the blessing of him having an average season offensive
Speaker 1: production where you know, a lot more pop ups than
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing, you know, the power was it
Speaker 1: isn't you know what's he a twenty two to twenty
Speaker 1: five home run guy. I think he's got more than that.
Speaker 1: I mean that's short left field. I mean he can
Speaker 1: pound that if he goes. But you know, hitting two
Speaker 1: ninety five and driving in one hundred run being an
Speaker 1: MVP offensive candidate, if he'd have been that guy this year.
Speaker 2: Priced out. Yeah, the only.
Speaker 1: Advantage of him having what we would consider and I'm
Speaker 1: sure for him as hard as he works, that he
Speaker 1: didn't get because he didn't walk as much this year.
Speaker 1: All those things that didn't make Alex Bregman who you
Speaker 1: want to keep and been a staple for this team
Speaker 1: at third base is he does everything fairly well some phenomenon,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have the normal offensive production he'd expect
Speaker 1: from him.
Speaker 2: Well during the season. It sucked at.
Speaker 1: Times for like the slow start and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: At the end of the season. If this scene you
Speaker 1: didn't win a World Series, all that the blessing is
Speaker 1: that may be the very very reason you get to
Speaker 1: keep him because had he have played like an MVP offensively,
Speaker 1: Alex Dana Brown couldn't sit in that chair rightfully with
Speaker 1: their with the way they go about payroll and contracts
Speaker 1: and say because then he'd getting thirty one to thirty
Speaker 1: two million dollars a year and be in that Devers,
Speaker 1: that group of guys Manny Machado, and you'd say, have
Speaker 1: at it, man, And he may still who knows. It
Speaker 1: only takes one to love you outside of the one
Speaker 1: who's got you. But the season that he didn't have,
Speaker 1: that we that you wanted. If he'd had the same
Speaker 1: season Korea had in his free agency Alex Bregman, the
Speaker 1: chances of signing him would You wouldn't have taken the over,
Speaker 1: You'd have taken the under by thirty percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd have said eighty twenty against right seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two five seven ninety. Let us know, uh,
Speaker 3: fifty one percent or forty nine percent which way you're
Speaker 3: leaning uh when it comes to the Astros potentially bringing
Speaker 3: Alex Bregman back. Call in, let us know your your
Speaker 3: thoughts on that. You lean in fifty one, you lean
Speaker 3: in forty nine seven one three two point two five
Speaker 3: seven ninety. We want to hear you, uh, and your
Speaker 3: thoughts on the free agency with Alex Bregman. That's going
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