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Speaker 1: Yeah, lunch timers, this is the Matt Thomas Show, a

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Speaker 2: One in h Town.

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Speaker 3: What's happening lunch timers, and good morning everyone to a

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Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross from

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West Palm Beach, Florida. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 4: The one, and Alvarez belts it day to I failed. Yes,

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that death by unbelievable man, you're not on the rest.

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Alot of three run Homer and the Astros stun the

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murders and Gary one in the.

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Speaker 5: Division series and field chase him slightlyttle pull and the

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first pitch by Ober and I'll two be.

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Speaker 2: Rips it Dave till I've failed.

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Speaker 3: That ball is hocking. If it stays fair, it's gone

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and it.

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Speaker 2: Is a Hourrah, I'm laid off Homer.

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Speaker 6: For Jose al two man what nothing Astros one pitch

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and at the bottom of the first.

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Speaker 3: Has twenty four accent. His postseason career now for al

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Tuo by second most all time behind Manny Ramirez is

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twenty nine. What a way to start. Aye is still

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in the box. He's ready, ready to hit a mistake,

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perhaps Maldonado's on second, Altu Bay on First, here's the

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three one swinging a.

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Speaker 2: Drive to left field. It's a rainbow.

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Speaker 3: Deep ditty, Diddy Diddy ever, Jeremy Paedo with a free run.

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Speaker 5: Jacket anywhere tide a high moonshot down the line.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the sounds of summer in the spring or winter technically, yeah,

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it's really weird. They call it spring training. It's still

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the wintertime. I was in DC yesterday. It's thirty degrees.

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It's the wintertime. Another spring about now. It feels nice

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out here. I will say this. It's beautiful West Palm.

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It's seventy seven degrees right now. It is windy. There

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is rain coming. There are clouds up over us, and

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we're probably gonna get knocked off the air and a

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slight chance of extricution. But other than that, we're gonna

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be ready to bring you three days of coverage. I

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think we're gonna be great. We're gonna be fine. You're

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closer to the elements than I am, so I'm gonna

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be okay. Now, I wore shorts today, ladies and gentlemen,

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because I have. I want you to go to those

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of you that are at home right now. Uh huh,

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get your refrigerator. Open your refrigerator door. Look for the milk.

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Poor glass out. That's how the color of my legs are.

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That's naturally not that far off, which is a little disturbing.

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So I wore shorts today to get these bad boys

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a little tan to them. Yes, and it's not going

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to happen. You'll be fine. The subtill come out tomorrow,

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I think. But the shorts are for today. I don't

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know what to tell you, Matt. All right, things don't

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always go according to plan. Clearly. Nice sunglasses by the way,

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thank you. It's like you're what you got them from

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the Felm and Louise collection. Uh okay, remember wondering that.

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That means they wore they were sunglasses and a hair

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bum or something. Then we wore. Then you were that

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when we were on our trip to like Charles did, Yes,

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I did. It was a class sunglasses. Yes, when we

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made our videos. Yeah, those were really good. Next to

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our good folks whatever whoever they were, they were there,

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they're gone.

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Speaker 7: All right.

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Speaker 3: We are with you today until two o'clock Central time.

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If we give you the wrong time, we're in the

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Eastern time zones. We apologize for that. But we will

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try to do our best to say in central time zone.

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You can already hear the wind on our head on

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our microphones. So again, if we perish. It has been

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an absolute joy working with you and absolutely enjoy to

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have all the city he used to listen to us

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for the last fifteen years. As usual, folks, Matt as

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being very dramatic. It's supposed to be We're supposed to

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rain for a little bit at noon. We'll be fine, okay,

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but the lightning you're not concerned with? No, all right,

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that's fine, not even you're in concerned. I ain't concerned.

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I'm not. It's not like I'm going out there with

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a metal pol We're at golfing. Yeah, but we got

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metal equipment all around it. All right, let's get to

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the radio show. Yes, let's do that. Danna Brown's going

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to join us in about ten eleven twenty, so fifteen

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minutes from now, yes, take ten to twenty years old.

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to zap you every time you get the time zone wrong. Yeah,

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I will get that. So ten twenty this morning went

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in about fifteen minute twelve visit with Dana Brown. I

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did the same thing when I told Brian Limata teas

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it ahead, I said, eleven twenty oh see, yeah, guiltiest charged.

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Also on the radio show today the new Astro First Basement,

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Christian Walker is gonna make an appearance. Plus today you'll

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hear from a Joe Aspata. We're gonna hear from Joe

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each of the next three days as he visits with

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the media. Here a varie about a variety of things.

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And today is the first day of full squad of workouts. Now,

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fifteen twenty years ago, when I first started covering spring training,

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that was a big deal because guys really did get

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the first walk on. And most the guys have been

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here the last handful of days, so it's nothing. It's

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officially the first day they have to be here, which

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everybody obviously is, but guys come in a lot sooner.

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the pitchers and catchers are supposed to report. Yeah, back

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in the day, the guys were lazier. They were coming

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back from their their jobs at the ducks or the

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rail yard or whatever then and now in twenty t

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twenty five, they're year round working on their bodies getting

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here early and ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Uh so, uh yeah, that's what got going on that.

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We've got a lot of other things going. I missed

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you yesterday. Uh what interesting day in sports, interesting day

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in life. Uh. We're just gonna put this out here

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right now with obviously what happened yesterday in Toronto. You

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and I had significant flight delays yesterday. Yes, we had

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zero problems with it. No, take your time. They were

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like something, we gotta go reset something on the equipment.

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I said, no, that's cool, go ahead, do whatever you

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gotta do. I'm gonna sit right here. Just get me

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there safe. Yeah, and as far as I was concerned,

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I was in DC yesterday and they're adjusting flight patterns

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because of what happened at Nashville a few weeks ago.

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I got here, happy, safe and sound. Oh good, got

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with you. You didn't store too bad last night. We're

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a good world. I didn't snore it all. You did

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a little diday. Really, that's okay, was it? I'm not

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just like one of the team. That's fine. I had

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headphones in Oh see, you really I'm usually traveling with Gordy,

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so I bring Oh god, Gordy is like a fog

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horn ising logs is he okay? I got you as

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the as the kids say, all right, we are with

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you today until two o'clock. We will take your phone

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calls as well. Not a lot of this is kind

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of a dead week when it comes to the main

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hot piping topics. But I do want to visit a

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couple of things that happened over the weekend. I know

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you said you barely mentioned the All Star weekend. It's funny.

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I was wearing some rocket stuff and a lot of

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people are like, so, what do you think about the

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All Star Game? I said, I didn't watch any of

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it a because I'm you know, I say no to

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the All Star games. But but I was busy with her.

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But the resounding notion that I saw on the social

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media streets was that the NHL's Four Nations event has

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significantly outpaced in terms of interest and intrigue. What the

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NBA All Star Game was just on Sunday night. Yeah,

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I'm curious to see what the head. No, they weren't

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head to head, but with no would be interesting. Yeah,

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everybody look everybody loves to complain about the NBA and

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the All Star Game was a disaster. They tried a

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new format. At least they did something. Players still didn't

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seem to care. So it's like, if the players don't care,

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why should we. And Draymond Green made no issues about

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destroying his league and talking about how bad it was.

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And then you know, I don't even know I've talked

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about Lebron and not him calling it. He wasn't going

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to play like hours before the game started, which I

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thought was very disingenuous of him. His ankle has been

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an issue for about three years now he said fifteen

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years or something whatever, But I mean and the injury

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report it always shows up is he's always questionable going

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in and then winds up playing. And for that I

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give him mass kudos for. But for him to not

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either tell the league no or the league said we

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know this to tell anybody, it left an opportunity for

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somebody to play that All Start game, which is a

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big thing for some players not to be able to play.

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Off thought, oh, I'm sorry somebody didn't get their participation

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trophy All Star selection. When Lebron is a beat you

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know that and I know that he's just the greatest

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all time player, but he doesn't handle his business properly.

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Sometimes I don't know when he was hurt, Maybe he

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won't come. He even hurt for us. Hey man, I'm

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forty Matts. Sometimes you wake up and that thatt Ekle's

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not feeling good. Dude, I'm fifty something and I don't

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feel good ever. Yeah, but I said, get here and

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do the radio show. Maybe he was trying to stretch

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it out and it didn't work out. I'm always questionable

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before tip time. He's also got the most All Star

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appearances of anyone ever. He knew a week ago he

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wasn't gonna play in this and why did he do it?

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What's because the league. I think the league was like,

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we have to have Lebron out there. So he he said, hey, guys,

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I don't want to play, and then the league said, no,

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we need you out there. I'm not saying it's for sure,

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but certain of the run possibilities, which is bad for

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the league. I'm trying to cause I know everybody's crushing Lebron.

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what he has to gain from doing this late. No,

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the fact is the reason why there's no there's no

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issue with me him missing the game or because again

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it's meaningless, but there was somebody that wanted to play

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in it that didn't get to play because there wasn't deserving. No,

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it's not necessarily true. Yeah, if you're didn't get the

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name of the All Star Game, if you're only an

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injury replacement, you're not deserving the six years your participation trophy.

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I'm sorry, whoever you are All Star X. There's plenty

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of guys that deserve the Star Game. There's only a

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certain lemit of people on the roster. And if Lebron's

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got a spot because the fans voted him in, so

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be it. So if you didn't make your Participation Trophy

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All Star appearance because Lebron James about out late, I'm sorry,

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Nick right, you are such a Lebron lover. Oh you

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just raised your brow at me, didn't you. Come on? Now,

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you can call me anything. You can call me a scumbag, Oh,

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you're a bad brother, sister co host. You can say

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I don't deserve to be in this business, and I

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don't and I have no business being on the air.

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Do not call me so terrible. You know what, one

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of those lunches, one of those lunches you owe me.

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You don't know I owe anymore. We can knock it

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out today if you want to. You call me the

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worst human being on earth, just don't call me nick. Right,

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all right? We are astro eccentric though. We're here for

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the next three days. And when we get to that,

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there's a little bit of NFL news, including a franchise

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player probably going to stay with his football team, not

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because he wants in a long term deal, but a franchiseige.

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Will get to that. I don't know if you brought

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up SNL's fifty year anniversary. By the way, Channel two,

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what are you doing the end you cut off twenty

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five minutes of the show or apparently whatever it was.

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I was in DC saw all of it because all

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the NBC affiliates were told, we're staying, We're going way over.

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NBC didn't get past the memo, Longeam didn't forward the

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email properly to people. Well, they had to get to

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the six murders and then the five whatever else sub

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stories around now Channel two and normally shut your bomb

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ass up. We'll get more on that tomormorrow. Yeah, we

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I feel like we can make some good spring training ones.

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I think we should. But the number one storyline, ladies

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Sean doo. Yeah, a lot of Sean Duban reporting about

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up here. No, it's Al two bay and left field.

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I mean everyone's talking about it, everyone, every player that

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gets interviewed, every person in the clubhouse, left field, left

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field at two of a I've seen today that he's

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working with the outfielders, which makes sense. If he's trying

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to get it a go out there, he's gonna be

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with the outfielder, right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean this is what spring training is about.

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It's about trying to get as much time in as

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possible because this is the time that you do it.

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Speaker 8: You do.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can simulate all you want to when

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you're offseason workouts, but you're in a major league baseball

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field with major league construction. You've got fellow outfielders out there,

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let's give it a go. Yeah, this is what I

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feel like you and I would have done if when

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Craig Bagel made the move and catch the second base

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way back in the day. Yeah, I think he's gonna

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be fine with flyballs and these little workouts that they

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do and stuff like that. What I'm worried about is,

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you know, when there's a screamer coming one hundred and

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ten miles an hour out to left field, him playing

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those types of ball, it's the live action stuff. So yeah,

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him getting some workouts, that's cool. Somebody's out there just

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knocking him some fly balls and he's getting some workouts,

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and it's it's not like they're going for full bore

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out there. So once he's out there, maybe when spring

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training games start coming up here in a few days,

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that that's what I'll really be able to be able

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to get a look at the hose al two van left.

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All right, let's talk to Dana Brown. He'll join us

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next here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We

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are coming to you from West Palm Beach, Florida for

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Speaker 5: Go back to Matt Thomas and Ross viareal one on

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Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 3: Oh fools, l to Lewis, all right, the voice you

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just heard there is a Dana Brown. He's checking his text.

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The busy man says at Scott Boris call me. No, no,

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don't call don't can't waste your time.

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Speaker 2: We're done with that Brown.

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Speaker 3: Ask for a general manager where there's all the bad

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time show with Ross Daniel. Thanks first of all for

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joining us. Secondly, you've used this crutch clutch phrase and

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crutch phrase. We all have them internal discussions. Please let

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us into one day of those, because I mean, you

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had so many internal discussions. Is that like a checklist,

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like you walk in with you got your lieutenants?

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Speaker 8: Is that what that is of?

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Speaker 3: Hey, here's what you all saw. Here's happening at camp

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what's an internal discussion. I want to hear about that.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, internal discussions are basically, Look, we show up here

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every day and you know, we're always thinking of ways

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to get the team better, and so we're still having conversations,

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you know, about players and what we could do to

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make this club even better than it is. Right now,

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we feel really good about the club. We feel like,

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you know, we could win this division again and get

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deep into the postseason. We feel like we got a

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good group of position players, a good group of starters

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and leavers, and so, you know, we have these discussions

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every every day.

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Speaker 7: We talk.

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Speaker 9: You know, it's amazing that I you know, I'll walk

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in saying, hey, what you guys got today? What's going on?

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And you talk to any other clubs what's going on?

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So that's that's part of what we do, internal discussions.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember a whole lot of maneuvering this time

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of year. Am I wrong about this? I mean, I

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know guys can sign some deals. I think Justin Turner

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just signed the day, But in terms of just real

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hot action, is there a lot right now?

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Speaker 7: I think it is.

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Speaker 9: I think what's gonna happen is guys get into camp

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and you start seeing your players a little bit. Some

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of the guys have been here for a little bit longer,

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and you start to get that look at them and

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you say, oh, man, maybe we can upgrade here, or

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you know, maybe we have enough in this area. And

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so you know, those are part of those discussions that

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you have and you know, before you know it, you

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may make a move. So we're always trying to find

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some angle where we can improve this club. But I

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think you have to be relentless because if you're not,

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that's that day something to slip by you.

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Speaker 3: What do you think about I mean, of course bregnant

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signing and it going on for a long long time,

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and it happening in the last couple years of Jordan Montgomery,

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Blake Snell and some guys getting signed early some late.

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Speaker 10: Is that it just can you tell me?

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Speaker 3: Is that something that's recent? Has it always been like that?

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But it feels like things have dragged on a little

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bit more and it's just as a whole and a

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picture free agency in your opinion, what do you think

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about the state of the way things go these days,

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especially with the way that Bregman dragging on the way.

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Speaker 9: They did Yeah, I just think it's it's it's depends

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on the type of year, like how many big boys

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do you have on the market?

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 9: I think it's one of those things where sometimes you

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have so many good players on the market, and you know,

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guys are you know, waiting on deals and trying to

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do deals and trying to get creative, and you know,

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so a lot of things are happening all at one time.

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There's a lot of clubs that you have to have

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conversations with, and so it seems complicated sometimes. But you know,

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I think at the end of the day, guys, you know,

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target who they want, they go after them hard, and

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if they don't get them, they go to the next guy.

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Speaker 3: But how in the world, as a general manager, whether

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it's you or anybody else in the big leagues, you

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hold a spot out for a guy that may or

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may not come that you mean, Dama, let's be brutally

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honest here. We love pregnant very much, but your life

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had to move on. You had to go fix this

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infield right away here, whether he was coming back or not.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: The one thing I learned when I was in Atlanta

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working under alex and Topolis, he used to move really

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quickly in the offseason, and he would you know, get

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his targets, line him up, and you know, once you

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you know, shoot at this one if it didn't work,

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and go to the next one. And so I think

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what I was trying to do is, you know, hey,

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we want Gregman to come back, but you know, we

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have to think what if we don't sign him, if

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something goes wrong. And so we didn't wait around. You know,

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we made the trade right away. You know, we you know,

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wanted to put Perettis at third and you know, we

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got Walker for first base, and you know, because we

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were losing two bats that hit one through five, so

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we wanted to add two bats back, and we wanted

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to remain competitive.

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Speaker 7: And so you can't sit around and wait. You have

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to be active, you know.

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Speaker 9: And as you know, the owner, Jim Crane says, look,

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our windows always open. So we're always looking to win,

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We're always looking to make deals, We're always looking to

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get better.

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Speaker 3: One of the early deals was the Kyle Tucker trade

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to Chicago. And look, Cam Smith apparently, I mean everyone's

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like this guy's built a granite. Can't wait to see him.

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I want to see him in some spring training games.

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On the other side of it, what made them want

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to get this done because in a year from now

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he's not committed to Chicago. I mean, why you have

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to battle the I want him now as compared to

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I don't want to give a lot of prospects up

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so week lose him in an ear. What's it like

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on there in and what was it like dealing with

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a squad that knew that you were sending him there,

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knowing that he's going to be a free agent in

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one season.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I mean, since some teams, you know, they get to

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the point where they're like really trying to get back

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to the postseason, and I think they were motivated by

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trying to get back to the postseason, and they knew that,

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you know, Tucker was, you know, a really good player,

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and so that they would use a guy like that

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in the middle of their lineup. Good defender, he could

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steal bases, so you know, he's one of the better

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position players in baseball, and so I think that was

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the appeal. You know, you're getting one of the better

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positions and one of the better position players in baseball,

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and you're trying to get back to the postseason, and

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you know that kind of motivated them to do what

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they did. And then we felt like, look, if we're

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going to trade Tucker, we got to get something really

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good bat, you know, and we felt, you know, like

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getting those three guys were like really big. You know,

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you got two guys that you can put on your

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major league team right away. You got another guy and

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it's not that far away, and so you know, we

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felt like we got impact back.

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Speaker 3: Astro general manager Dana Brown is here on Sports Talk

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seven ninety and well, at the end of the thing

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that we're all been talking about, everybody's talking about, of course,

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hose Al Tuova and the left field discussion. How how

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did this come about? And how does he fit as

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a piece of the puzzle, because of course we know

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Chaz Jake maybe do ball on some Zach Dezenzo, maybe

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Jacob Melton down the down the line as well. How

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does Altuve fit in this left field puzzle?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so it seems to be picking up steam.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's all Houston's talk about it due respect,

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it's nobody. I mean, there's a lot of things funny

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about your squad. Everybody asking us to ask you about

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Jose alt.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know, we'll give it to him. So, look,

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I think Altuve is having a ball out there in

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left field. First of all, he's excited about it. He's

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out there like a little kid. It's unbelievable. He's always smiling.

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And you know, we wanted to create some versatility and

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if you could use him, you know, in left field,

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you know, that's going to create some versatility and we

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think that could be big. And you know, we needed

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a bat in our outfield, so that helps us with

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a bat in our outfield. But uh, you know, he's

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he's done a great job. He's really taking well to it.

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And as long as he's having fun, you know what,

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you know, we we don't have to commit to it today,

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but as long as he's having fun and getting better,

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and we feel like, look, he's got a chance to

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be a really good defender, why not. You know, he's

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he's doing a good job. I just went out earlier

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and watched him take some fly balls and man, he

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was getting good jumps and you know, getting the balls

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in the gap and coming in. If he wins the

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Gold Glove, I mean, our staff, we're gonna look back expert,

472
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you know, I'll take a strong average defender at this point.

473
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If he becomes that that that's that that's outstanding in

474
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our outfloat. So he's for sure taking to it very well.

475
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Speaker 3: And what about Jordan, how does he fit in the

476
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left field pitcher?

477
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we'll give him some some time, but no,

478
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ultimately he's our d H. You know, we want him

479
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to worry about hitting and driving it runs and so

480
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we will give him some run in the outfield.

481
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Speaker 7: Joe's made that clear.

482
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Speaker 9: But this all up to Joe and how how many

483
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times he wants to put him out there. But yeh,

484
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he's he's really our d H. And so but he

485
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we'll get some run. And I'm sure Joe's probably talked

486
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to him about it and said, look, we're going to

487
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try to protect you because we want you to play

488
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as many games as possible.

489
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Speaker 7: And the way you could do it at issue just DH.

490
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Speaker 3: So is there a metric for that, because there are

491
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some guys, remember Michael Brantley, he despised being a DH.

492
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He wanted to be in the action. Other guys, I'll

493
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go back to David Ortiz, I mean inventing himself by

494
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getting off of first base. So do you guys look

495
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at numbers of how he batted, how he performed the

496
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day after day before he played in left field.

497
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Speaker 9: No, I just think it's one of those things where

498
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you know he's gonna hit. Whether he's a you know,

499
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a left fielder or a DH you know Alvarez will hit.

500
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So I don't think that really had much to do

501
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with it. I just think if he's in the dugout

502
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thinking about hitting all the time, he can really lock

503
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into what he wants to do, whether he wants to,

504
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,000
you know, figure out what the picture is strong to him, study,

505
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,519
you know, what his patterns are, or whatever the case

506
00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:00,400
may be. Anytime that he could spend on him is

507
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,680
a good thing, and we want to see big results

508
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,640
from him because when he goes, the team goes.

509
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Speaker 3: It feels like the twenty six man roster's just about set.

510
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,559
But if it isn't somewhere, where would that be? Would

511
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it be a decision on a utility infield or an

512
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extra arm in the bullpen? In terms of that, where

513
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do you see as you look for the next month

514
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when you watch these games, where is it?

515
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Speaker 7: Well, I could go.

516
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Speaker 3: Here, I could go here in this particular position.

517
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you know obviously the bullpen, you know,

518
00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:30,759
with making a move for Presley, you know, trading Presley

519
00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:34,000
opened up a spot there, right, so we we definitely

520
00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:37,039
have some room to talk about you know, what our

521
00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:39,440
what is our pin gonna look like? And then you know,

522
00:23:39,599 --> 00:23:42,680
outfield wise, you know, how are we going to be platune?

523
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,599
Is McCormick you know, going to really you know, get

524
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back to this twenty twenty three year. So I think

525
00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:53,680
those two you know, spots like you know outfield and

526
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,200
also relief pitching is where the room you know, we

527
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have to make our decisions.

528
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Speaker 3: For Leachuer and I'll get Ross get one more question

529
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,400
one from me. Our audience loves this team and is

530
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,440
with every intricate move, and they'll always bring up the

531
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minor leaguers Melton Matthews and then we'll get to cam Smith.

532
00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:16,359
How much do you think that's gonna be a conversation

533
00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:18,839
piece internally about when they're.

534
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 7: Going to be ready.

535
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,559
Speaker 3: Look, nobody knows you have to take it. Even if

536
00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:24,960
they're crushing into triple AIRBA, you still to guess how

537
00:24:25,039 --> 00:24:27,480
much will you intently watching those three guys, especially in

538
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:28,920
the first couple months of the year. If some of

539
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,000
those major leaguers are not performing up to your.

540
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,599
Speaker 7: Expectations, Yeah, I'm locked in on them.

541
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Speaker 9: You know, regardless if the major leaguers are doing well,

542
00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:37,400
and if they're not doing well, I'm still locked in

543
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,440
on those guys. Those guys have a chance to help us.

544
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,119
I really feel confident that they could turn the corner

545
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,240
pretty quickly, and so I'm used to, you know, moving

546
00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:51,079
players fast. You know, I mean, I told these guys

547
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,680
when I got the job, I sat down and I

548
00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:55,319
talked to a lot of the minor league players. I

549
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,440
think it's important that you always have good young players

550
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,400
coming into major leagues. Think it reminds the older players that, hey,

551
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,240
we got good young players in the minor leagues, and

552
00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:06,759
it reminds the younger players that if I do well,

553
00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:09,039
I'm gonna get moved up. And I think you want

554
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:13,480
that energy throughout your entire organization and until I'm a

555
00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:15,960
firm believer. So I think if these guys are if

556
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,519
they go down there and they're doing well, we will

557
00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:20,359
talk about moving them. You know, I don't know how

558
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,640
fast or I can't put a timeline on it, but

559
00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:25,559
we're not afraid to move them to the big leagues

560
00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:26,480
if they're doing very.

561
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,319
Speaker 3: Well starting pitching question real quick, what was it like

562
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,720
seeing Hayden Wesnsky from Afar now getting him in the

563
00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:36,880
house and working with him, and then as far as

564
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,440
the depth Luis Garcia and Buenz Papolis.

565
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so wesn Netsky, he's fired up, of course, because

566
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,160
he's back home in Houston, right and so he's he's

567
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,400
locked in. You know, I've had multiple conversations with him,

568
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:52,839
and I think his stuff is gonna play very well.

569
00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:56,960
I think our pitching guys are really good, and so

570
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,160
you know, they're gonna get him, you know, to his

571
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,640
next step in life and in this game.

572
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Speaker 7: And so I think they could.

573
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Speaker 9: You know, our guys have a way of finding out

574
00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:10,039
what you need to do to make you, you know better,

575
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,960
And I think, you know, he's been a sponge and

576
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,319
you know, hopefully we can we could help him to

577
00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:18,799
make those adjustments, you know, Garcia, I think Garcia, you know,

578
00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:22,799
we'll know more as he continues to throw here. But

579
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I anticipate him turning the corner, you know, somewhere in

580
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,680
the early part of this year, and so once he

581
00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:32,039
starts throwing here, we probably have more of a firm

582
00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:35,599
you know, deadline or or target date or whatever you

583
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,880
want to call it, and he could be he's gonna

584
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,759
be some help that we were going to need in

585
00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:43,599
that rotation. So we really feel like we got ten

586
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,319
guys total in depth in rotation, and so we will

587
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,119
feel like we're in good shape. You know, last year

588
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,559
we had that period where we lost the like five

589
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,519
starters at one point they were all out, and so

590
00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:57,680
we feel really good about that. And the mccolors, you know,

591
00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:00,559
he's been thrown off the mound and he's been peyton

592
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,200
and you know the PfP drills.

593
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Speaker 3: And so.

594
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Speaker 7: You know that's a good thing.

595
00:27:05,759 --> 00:27:08,559
Speaker 9: And so once once he starts to throw even harder,

596
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,440
we'll get a pretty much target date or you know,

597
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,799
a timeline on him as well. And so I feel

598
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,400
like both guys should be pitching at some point this season,

599
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:19,759
hopefully sooner rather than later.

600
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 3: Dana, thank you very much for the time. We really

601
00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:25,880
appreciate it. And again, we'll take sausage, peppers, bun, whatever

602
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,119
sounds good. Yeah, any of whatever they're cooking, we'll take

603
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,160
us a plate. Yeah exactly.

604
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, I could actually smell that.

605
00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:35,759
Speaker 3: It sounds good. That's pretty clue. Frankly better than the

606
00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:36,519
questions we've asked you.

607
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,039
Speaker 7: Yeah, constantly smelling that.

608
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 3: Thanks then, we really appreci appreciate it.

609
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Speaker 7: Thank you.

610
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 3: Dana Brown, Astros and our manager with us on The

611
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,319
Matt Thomas Show with Ross More here from West Palm Beach.

612
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At a moment on Sports Talk seven.

613
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Speaker 2: Ninety This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross On four.

614
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Speaker 3: Our man's softy up in Seattle a kJ RS bit

615
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,160
stealing me, he tweeted out, what was your favorite Justin

616
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,480
Turner as a Mariner moment? Come on, now, can't be

617
00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:15,000
doing that? Do you start that? What was your favorite blank? Blank?

618
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,240
It's a blank moment? Absolutely, I feel I don't know.

619
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I feel like that's been a it's been around for

620
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,640
years now. I don't think so. I think people realize it.

621
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,319
I don't. I feel like you're you're taking credit for it,

622
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,920
just like Crush City when they First of all, I

623
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,799
never knew that was happening. Second of all, I had

624
00:28:28,839 --> 00:28:32,039
a chance to copyright it, and I didn't. Bross, I've

625
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:34,039
made a lot of mistakes in my broadcast career. You

626
00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:35,960
didn't confront you were talking to Channel this morning. You

627
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,839
didn't confront him about the name of his podcast, that's tomorrow.

628
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,039
Want to do that. It's it's it's it's embarrassing, but can't.

629
00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:44,000
It's not mine. I didn't writ copyright it.

630
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:45,759
Speaker 7: You'll be fine.

631
00:28:45,799 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell the story for the last time at

632
00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:49,799
least this week. Reid Ryan, who was the president the

633
00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:52,119
Astros the time, calls me up one day and this

634
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,559
is you know this happened because I told you. As

635
00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:56,480
soon as I go, he says, Matt, it's gonna let

636
00:28:56,559 --> 00:28:58,599
you know we've taken the crush City and we're gonna

637
00:28:58,599 --> 00:28:59,880
put it in a bunch of T shirts at a

638
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:05,559
rat And I'm like, oh, you are because I just

639
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,839
want to give you a heads up, not like hey

640
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,880
we're sorry, or hey we're gonna give you something, or

641
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,799
hey yeah, I didn't take a rick role. I didn't

642
00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:16,079
take anything. At that point, I'm like, are you really

643
00:29:16,119 --> 00:29:18,559
good at that? I said? I said I did that

644
00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:21,599
because I didn't want to be a bad partner. We're

645
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,079
partners with Danster and he's like, man, I appreciate that,

646
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,799
but we're putting it up. Rady like, oh thanks, that's

647
00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:33,440
a shame. And then Space City uses it, people on

648
00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:37,440
T shirts use it I know and Chandler's Chandler Room's podcast,

649
00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:41,839
Channel Room's podcast got it. So if any of you

650
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,759
are using crushing anything in your life wearing a T shirt,

651
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,279
just know that you're my bitch for the rest of

652
00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:50,920
your life. I'm gonna get nothing out of it. Hey,

653
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,480
I appreciate you, Matt. That counts Now.

654
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,079
Speaker 7: I'm depressed.

655
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,559
Speaker 3: I could have I couldn't let you have this show,

656
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,480
and I could have been able to reap the benefit.

657
00:29:58,519 --> 00:29:59,839
I mean, I want you know what. I'm depressed now.

658
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,960
How much money when I made off of that? None?

659
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,039
Probably very little, very Little've probably been very little. All Right,

660
00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:07,759
it is Matt and Rossa. We are here. It's ten

661
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,240
forty we This whole Eastern time zone thing is a

662
00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,400
weird bit. You did great, You're doing great. Dana Brown, Yeah,

663
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,400
was great. And if you missed any of that, uh,

664
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,519
where were you when we listening to backup linebacker talk

665
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:22,160
of the Texans? Come on, now, let's go. We talked

666
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,720
about the relevant things. We're going to replay it later

667
00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:25,279
in the one o'clock hour. If you missed any part

668
00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:27,680
of that conversation, so he said, al Twova's having a

669
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,000
ball out there in left field. Well, it's like a

670
00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:32,680
kid out there. What's he supposed to do? I heard

671
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,599
your comments, I heard the clips you guys play yesterday.

672
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:36,519
He's sitting double. He wants to sit more doubles, triples

673
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:38,599
and home runs. You don't care what that's good? Yeah,

674
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,880
And the reality is, as he was saying this, it's

675
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,599
it's minute May Park. It's not a really, it's a

676
00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:49,440
challenge if you've never been out there before, because it's

677
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,119
got some nooks and crannies to it. It's got some

678
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,680
weird bounces. But for a guy that has been playing

679
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,240
baseball since he was five years old, he'll figure it out.

680
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,839
Is it going to be something as electrifying as what

681
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,680
you've seen in previous left yields? No, but again, you're

682
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,680
not replacing them. Jordon never will never win a Gold Glove.

683
00:31:05,599 --> 00:31:10,440
This is two things, preserving Jordan as a DH and

684
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:12,799
number two, realizing that at the end of the day,

685
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,559
the metrics say that jose Al tube And this is

686
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,640
painful for me to say because I know he's my

687
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,079
great he's my favorite making Yeah, he's a and you've

688
00:31:21,119 --> 00:31:22,839
been pointing out the metrics to it. I didn't realize

689
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,039
what just a truly horrific. I was shocked too when

690
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:27,279
I saw it because when you look, it's in those

691
00:31:27,319 --> 00:31:29,279
so these things you zone and range and all that

692
00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:32,720
type of stuff. And yeah, if his fielding percentage is high,

693
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,359
it doesn't make a lot of errors, right, But that

694
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,680
doesn't mean that there are other second basemen who are younger, rangier, taller.

695
00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:41,240
Six two makes a difference. It just does, just does,

696
00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:43,680
and they're getting to more balls than than jose Al

697
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,440
Tuo Bay does. And unfortunately you also have the elimination

698
00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:49,160
of the shift, so it's more difficult to put him

699
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,640
in the right place at the right time. It feels

700
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,279
like if you have somebody who with the the the

701
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,559
reality of it is as well. He turned thirty five

702
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,680
on May six. He's he and if the numbers are

703
00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:03,759
there and you can't hide him like you used to

704
00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:06,799
be able to with the shift, you gotta figure out

705
00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:09,000
where to where to transition him. As you mentioned the

706
00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:12,039
Jordon factor, as Dana Brown mentioned, you need a left

707
00:32:12,079 --> 00:32:14,920
field bat, call it josel two Vaga's a left field bat.

708
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,759
You also have Bryce Matthews and Cam Smith on the

709
00:32:18,799 --> 00:32:20,680
cusp of coming up, whether it be later this year

710
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:22,839
or even next year. That means he's gonna have to

711
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,759
transition at some point, perhaps if they want to keep

712
00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:28,799
the infield intact with those other guys being Christian Walker

713
00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:31,720
and Esk Paratas and Jeremy Pina. So if you need

714
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:34,559
to get that ball rolling at some point and he's

715
00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:37,839
getting older and you need left field help it as

716
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,920
far as production from left field, you roll that all together.

717
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,640
It kind of makes sense. So who is the second

718
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,240
basement of the Astros? In two years full time one

719
00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:50,240
and forty games, he sucked Paradis with Cam Smith at

720
00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:53,440
left and the third I mean, I don't know or

721
00:32:53,559 --> 00:32:57,359
maris not. Mari'so, Dubond and Dubon's utility guy. I'm gonna

722
00:32:57,359 --> 00:32:59,160
tell you this, Dubon's gonna play a lot of second base.

723
00:32:59,319 --> 00:32:59,759
Speaker 10: He just is.

724
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: And I think that. Look, when Jose broke his hand

725
00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:06,559
was two years ago the Astro did and skip a beat.

726
00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:08,960
Matter of fact, that one of the all time legendary

727
00:33:09,039 --> 00:33:11,720
Tenhenning calls was should the Astros trade al two bay

728
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,880
so to give Dubon and more off or less let

729
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,880
me forget? And that happened. It literally happened. And frankly,

730
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,559
if Dubon plays five day or six days a week.

731
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,160
There's no power, but it's you know, a lot of

732
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,079
the second They're not a lot of power hitting second base.

733
00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:29,000
When you could live with a seven to twenty five

734
00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:32,279
OPS guy playing second base, Yes, as long as the

735
00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:34,200
L two V is gonna give you eight hundred. Again,

736
00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:36,200
there may be pressure for al Tuo Bay to perform

737
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,000
as the most LA fielders do, which are guys that

738
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:40,799
like to hit the ball in high OPS high slugging number. Yes,

739
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,480
Al two Bays OPS took a dip last year was

740
00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:45,559
a seven to ninety, which is still really good. Yeah,

741
00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:49,319
still better than say Alex Bregman, but it's it's down

742
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,279
from where he has been early in his career. It

743
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:55,759
was his worst full season, not counting twenty twenty ops

744
00:33:55,839 --> 00:33:57,839
since twenty thirteen. All Right, we are with you from

745
00:33:57,839 --> 00:33:59,759
West Palm Beach, with you today until two o'clock the

746
00:33:59,799 --> 00:34:02,039
same afternoon. It's seven one three two one two five

747
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748
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We're gonna open the phone lines up if you want

749
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to join us. The next segment is yours. Top of

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the next hour, eleven o'clock. We're gonna let you hear what.

751
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Some of the opening comments were from a manager, Joe

752
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A spot it. It's today is officially the first day

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of full workout. Seven one three two one two five seventy.

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Come on, if you want to talk some Astros baseball. Look,

755
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we need to talk some Astros baseball. Rockets don't play

756
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until Friday. Texans are vacationing. We got U of HS

757
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:34,719
playing Arizona State tonight, huge big game. Oh but how

758
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,679
about the Saturday game against Arizona? Tell me sports already.

759
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,880
Who the hell beats Arizona and Kansas in the same year,

760
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,320
Our Cougars do. That's right, That's why I want to

761
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tell the truth. One of my uh one of my points.

762
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Oh you know what, See, let's see if I can

763
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get it right. Okay, you're gonna give you all four. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Matt Thomas and rossby a real two guys, extremely passionate

782
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about Houston sports.

783
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Speaker 2: You can tell them to go get a room.

784
00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 3: We've shared a hotel room, but they already have, and

785
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,000
then I've shared a band.

786
00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:56,039
Speaker 2: Thanks for the visual pillow in between, there's.

787
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Speaker 5: No pillow between you and more lunchtime Houston sports talk

788
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and sports talks.

789
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Speaker 3: And just to let you know, Ross and I are

790
00:36:06,159 --> 00:36:08,079
sharing a room here in West Paul Beach and we

791
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:10,000
were at a Nisent hotel. This time it's compared to

792
00:36:10,039 --> 00:36:12,039
what we were two years ago. We were there for

793
00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:15,159
massive murder scenes on the premises and in our hotel,

794
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,039
there was not that much police. There were exagger there

795
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were there were do not cross yellow strips across our door.

796
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Only one guy had the crack shivers. It was fine.

797
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We had blood on our bathtub permanently stayed. It could

798
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have been feces. We're not sure. We're good. We're in

799
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a nice spot now. By the way, my milky white

800
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legs are now being fully exposed. The sun has come out. Wena.

801
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You know what, should we do it before and after?

802
00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 10: Oh?

803
00:36:41,079 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 7: Hell no?

804
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,159
Speaker 3: Oh hell no? Why not? All right? Because I'm so

805
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,760
embarrassed by these things. Granted it's in winter time, so

806
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,400
it's not like I'm it's literally winter. We're in February. Yeah,

807
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,760
I'm gonna. I'm gonna. Let's talk to some people in Houston, Texas. Okay,

808
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,559
we got a couple of people on hold if you'd

809
00:36:57,559 --> 00:36:59,320
like to get in. Seven one three two one two

810
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,239
five seven. Matt is literally suntanning his legs right now, folks,

811
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,199
I'll they burn to a crisp Look at this?

812
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:05,639
Speaker 8: Do that?

813
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 3: I mean, we don't know, we don't need a melanoma

814
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,719
situation that's tried Dwayne and al Paso has been holding

815
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,119
what's up, Dwayne? Going gentle?

816
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:18,559
Speaker 11: Anyway, my first comment I wanted to make was about

817
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,920
our Two Bay Major League Baseball players. They're saying that

818
00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:27,599
it's easier, it's easier to convert an infielder to the outfield,

819
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,679
which it makes it a lot better for that player

820
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,079
because he sees the ball better, he throws the ball

821
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,840
good because everything is done on the infield. He knows

822
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,559
all that, and it makes that player a better player. Now,

823
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:44,079
the second thing I wanted to say was that Dana Brown.

824
00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:47,079
I'm digging it that that man is back in the

825
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,639
major leagues with the Astros because he's the hell of

826
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,559
a general manager man, and that's my compliment to him.

827
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,199
But the third thing I wanted to talk about was

828
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,039
the player in the NBA who stated that the NBA

829
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,360
is boring. How in the world can you have a

830
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,840
game which you want to call boring when you've got

831
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,719
players that are You've got at least seventy players in

832
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:17,159
the NBA that are making over a million dollars a year,

833
00:38:17,519 --> 00:38:20,800
and then you've got sellouts by the tons in the NBA,

834
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,400
and then you've got a lot of games in the

835
00:38:23,599 --> 00:38:27,079
NBA that are going on now that are really exciting,

836
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,280
and they're doing a good job in the NBA. And

837
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,119
that's all I wanted to say, gentlemen, God bless and peace.

838
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 5: Be with me.

839
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 7: Thank you Dwane.

840
00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 3: Let's tackle all those points, honestly, ross the thing that

841
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,880
I am anxious to see. It's not whether or not

842
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:45,960
he can catch a fly ball. He's been doing that

843
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,719
all of his life, okay. I am more anxious to

844
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:55,119
see how he handles the ball off the wall anyway,

845
00:38:55,199 --> 00:38:57,320
whether it's been in a parker somewhere else. Yes, And

846
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,079
how many times runners at third on sack flies we'll

847
00:39:01,079 --> 00:39:03,400
try to run on his arm. That to me is

848
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,159
the storyline. It's not about how much feel he can cover,

849
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,079
because look, when you got if you're gonna have Jake

850
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,880
Myers playing primarily center field, he's gonna cover a lot

851
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,559
of ground in most center fielders don't grab. So I'm

852
00:39:13,599 --> 00:39:16,119
not worried about that. I want to know who's gonna

853
00:39:16,159 --> 00:39:18,079
run on his arm, and that what's in that arm

854
00:39:18,159 --> 00:39:18,440
right now?

855
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:19,559
Speaker 7: Yep?

856
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 3: I would definitely say that's gonna be the big question

857
00:39:23,639 --> 00:39:25,679
that not only the strength of the arm, the accuracy

858
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,599
of the arm, like we talk about Jordon being out there.

859
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:29,679
Jordon can go like throw it like ninety five miles

860
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,679
an hour, but where's it going right? So it's both

861
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,400
of those things. It's the accuracy, it's the arm strength,

862
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,800
cut all half man, it's situational right, as you said

863
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,480
communicating with Jake Myers. The good news is, as you said,

864
00:39:41,559 --> 00:39:43,840
not only does Jake Myers try to he does cover

865
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:45,920
a lot of ground. He calls for everything. If you

866
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,400
Jake's like, I got it, I gotta get it, Like

867
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,199
people are literally sitting under the ball and Jake's trying

868
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:52,800
to take it from him left field, stop pole, I

869
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,440
got it. I'm not exactly Yeah, so I think he

870
00:39:55,599 --> 00:39:58,039
knows like his I have a conspiracy theory that he

871
00:39:58,159 --> 00:40:00,440
knows his range metrics are why how he stays in

872
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,639
the field. So he tries to get everything. And that's good.

873
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:03,679
That's good for Rosel too.

874
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 6: Well.

875
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 3: The reality is this his arm is also below average

876
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,159
as well. Yes, you took your best arm in right

877
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,760
field and he moved to the Chicago Cubs can Chaz

878
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,000
And again this number one thing for those of you

879
00:40:16,119 --> 00:40:19,440
that are relatively new to baseball and you want you

880
00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:21,239
want your right fielder to have the best arm, because

881
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,119
you do not want runners taking first that they're on

882
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:25,440
a base hit. And if you don't have a respectful

883
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,679
arm and right field, that's going to be done all

884
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,320
the time on base hits to right field. Yes, as

885
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,960
far as then is concerned, I mean, you know, he

886
00:40:34,039 --> 00:40:35,559
said a good job. I you know, there have been

887
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:37,000
a lot of things I think that have been frankly

888
00:40:37,039 --> 00:40:39,519
out of his control. He did have to put together

889
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:41,719
a deal for Kyle Tucker, and I meant when I

890
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,000
brought this up to him, it was a sign of

891
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,719
respect that ross. This camp Smith kid is supposed to

892
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,400
be pretty damn good and the Cubs gave up him

893
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,280
to get Kyle Tucker. Who you know, Kyle Tucker. My

894
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,159
guess is he's gonna love Chicago, and my guess is

895
00:40:57,199 --> 00:40:59,400
they're gonna have lots of conversations about him staying there

896
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,440
and paying him all of money. But there's no guarantee,

897
00:41:02,519 --> 00:41:05,599
especially if the Cubs don't want to offer a seven

898
00:41:05,679 --> 00:41:07,119
or eight year deal that Kyle Tucker may get in

899
00:41:07,159 --> 00:41:12,239
the offseason. Yeah, so it's good that they made the move,

900
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,440
but you do have outfield questions, and I brought up

901
00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:18,079
I was bringing up the the stat cast arm strength

902
00:41:18,159 --> 00:41:21,719
percentiles for you, Matt, do you want to hear this?

903
00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:31,199
Probably not Chas McCormick percentile fifty first percentile, so basically average,

904
00:41:32,119 --> 00:41:36,719
Jake Myers percentile forty eight. But the good news is

905
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,039
Kyle Tucker's percentile was only fifty two. So you're going

906
00:41:41,079 --> 00:41:43,920
from fifty second percentile and rightfield arms strength to fifty one,

907
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,719
so basically all three of them at this point unless

908
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,880
something changes, opposing teams are gonna run over. You know, hey,

909
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,559
you know how a space any home network they put

910
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:55,840
on the green light. Let you got three green lights

911
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,679
out there? Yeah, probably is what you're gonna have. All right,

912
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,800
the callers on hold standby will get to you. We

913
00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:02,360
got a spot to get to his comments today, we'll

914
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,440
get to more phone calls. Tell the Truth recap. You're

915
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:05,920
gonna do to tell the truth threecat, because I want

916
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,920
to see how I would do with yours. Okay, So

917
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,639
we've got a lot going on. We've got to Christian

918
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Walker's going to join us on the radio program today

919
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with the News at noon. If you missed, Dane Brown

920
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will be playing liter in the one o'clock hour. We've

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got a lot of things going on today here as

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it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming to

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you from spring training in West Palm Beach here on

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Speaker 2: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

955
00:44:10,119 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 3: All right, It's eleven o two on Sports Talk seven ninety.

956
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,960
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We come

957
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,360
to you from West Palm Beach, Florida, where the Astros

958
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,360
are going under day one of full squad workouts. If

959
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,400
you'd like to join our conversation, whether it be about

960
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,920
the Astros, whether it be about uh, the I don't

961
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,360
know if the All Star Game is gonna resonate. I

962
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:29,880
was gonna say, there's nothing else going on?

963
00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 10: Was it?

964
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:34,039
Speaker 3: Did I miss what I missed? Yesterday? We talked ninety

965
00:44:34,119 --> 00:44:36,239
percent of the time about jose L two V playing

966
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,800
left field. Yep, whose idea was it? How that this

967
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,679
year some people were very angry a little bit about

968
00:44:43,679 --> 00:44:47,599
the All Star Game. I mean, it's just unfixable at

969
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:51,599
this point right there, unless barring the winning team each

970
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:54,199
getting like ten million dollars. I just don't I just

971
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,599
don't foresee a scenario maybe USA versus the world. But

972
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:00,360
I don't even know what the breakdown is the of

973
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,639
the rosters. Man, I don't know how much how many

974
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are foreign born players versus Americans we're All Stars. I'd

975
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,199
have to go and look at that. But it just

976
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,360
seems like an unfixable product at this point, which the

977
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,639
Pro Bowl basically said it's unfixable, let's go to dodgeball.

978
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,119
So I don't know what the solution would be for

979
00:45:18,199 --> 00:45:26,039
the NBA. I don't know the problem is Adam Sober.

980
00:45:26,199 --> 00:45:30,880
I don't I think he wants He's saying the right things,

981
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:35,559
but I don't think he particularly cares. He just signed

982
00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:39,880
a multi gazillion dollar television deal ross his players are

983
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:45,679
making outrageous amounts of money. Their worldwide reach on social

984
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,679
media and international television is through the roof. Do you

985
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,840
think there's a part of him and we're gonna get

986
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,079
to back to the astros a second, or do you

987
00:45:55,159 --> 00:45:57,159
think part of it is a commissioner? And this could

988
00:45:57,159 --> 00:46:00,760
be for all the different sports just says America just

989
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,920
gonna bitch to bitch and that no matter what I do,

990
00:46:05,159 --> 00:46:09,119
it's not good enough. We got rid of the layup

991
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:12,199
drill that was last year. We did the International versus

992
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,480
Team USA, and people didn't like that. People didn't like

993
00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:16,559
the East versus West. Now we did this first to

994
00:46:16,639 --> 00:46:19,880
forty without a scoreboard, without a timer, and on maybe

995
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,679
we just don't like it and we're just gonna tell

996
00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:24,199
you how much we don't like it, but yet they're

997
00:46:24,199 --> 00:46:24,679
still going.

998
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:25,039
Speaker 7: To watch it.

999
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 3: I think there is a part of that. And I

1000
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:33,000
also think, for whatever reason, Matt, I don't know why necessarily,

1001
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,119
but it feels like the discourse around NBA, more so

1002
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:41,079
than other sports, is the first reaction to everything is

1003
00:46:41,159 --> 00:46:45,599
to be negative. This guy sucks, Jason Tatum sucks, Shay Gildges,

1004
00:46:45,679 --> 00:46:50,239
Alexander's trash Jayalen brunsons he's a foul hunting merchant, James

1005
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,519
Hardens the worst, Steph Curry can't play defense. It just

1006
00:46:53,599 --> 00:46:57,960
feels like, for whatever reason, NBA it's about the negativity

1007
00:46:58,079 --> 00:47:02,239
more than maybe the other sports for example. This ties

1008
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,280
into actually the the to tell the truth stuff like

1009
00:47:05,519 --> 00:47:08,119
you got these guys on T and T. What other

1010
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:12,559
show do you turn it on on NFL Sunday on

1011
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,199
Fox or whatever else? And the guys are just talking

1012
00:47:15,199 --> 00:47:17,480
about how the players are trash and not every not

1013
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:19,679
very good and aren't like back in your day, and

1014
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,280
the product's not good because Chuck and Shaq and Kenny

1015
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:24,840
they do that every single Well. I know that you

1016
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,440
get mad at me when I brought this up. This

1017
00:47:26,639 --> 00:47:29,159
this was a conversation piece who was at McIntyre on

1018
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,800
the Colin Coward schowm and so I know you don't

1019
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,079
like him. I don't have an opinion of him, but

1020
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,920
he was He said that exact thing a month ago,

1021
00:47:38,199 --> 00:47:43,280
and I agreed with him. Yeah, they bash the NBA,

1022
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:48,800
And again I don't need Shaq and Chuck and Kenny

1023
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,119
to be mouthpieces for the NBA. There's plenty of that

1024
00:47:51,159 --> 00:47:55,000
already out there, but they hate everything. And then they

1025
00:47:55,079 --> 00:47:59,400
bring Draymond Green on oh Man and he annihilated the

1026
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,079
All Star He said one that he was asked one

1027
00:48:02,119 --> 00:48:07,800
to Tenny said zero. I mean, and so you have

1028
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,679
to strike a balance. Yes, you want him to be honest, Yeah,

1029
00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:15,559
but you also don't want toxicity. You want honest, like

1030
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:17,280
they could have done this better, They could have done

1031
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,400
that better, just like generally calling things trash when your

1032
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,239
own analysts don't even know who's on the team and

1033
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,199
who's playing on that given night, I don't know. That's

1034
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,159
why again, you should strictly use it for entertainment purposes,

1035
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,400
because when they're funny, they make me howl. They're that funny. Yes,

1036
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,039
all right, let's hear from a spot and then we're

1037
00:48:35,039 --> 00:48:36,920
gonna to tell the truth from yesterday and we'll see

1038
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,320
how I do on this Joe a spot. I met

1039
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,559
with the media. He does every day here at the ballpark,

1040
00:48:41,559 --> 00:48:43,039
and we'll play some of that for you the next

1041
00:48:43,079 --> 00:48:45,880
three days while we're here. Today is the first full

1042
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,320
squad workout, and he met with the entire roster that

1043
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,440
was here in camp and brought up a couple of things,

1044
00:48:52,519 --> 00:48:55,199
including some of the goals for this year. Questions about

1045
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,719
Jose ol Tibe were brought up about what Christian Walker's

1046
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,599
responsibility were and obviously what else do you expect from

1047
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,000
uh Isaka Perettives who is now in camp at least

1048
00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:08,559
for now as a third baseman. Here is a manager

1049
00:49:08,639 --> 00:49:10,159
Joe A spotted from earlier today.

1050
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 10: You know, a lot of you know, our start twenty twenty.

1051
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 8: You know, there was a lot of injuries, things that

1052
00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:18,719
we can't control, but there's some other areas that we

1053
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,800
can control. How we play, how we go about our

1054
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,480
you know, our offense. Uh there's things that we can

1055
00:49:24,599 --> 00:49:27,840
we can address, and I want to make sure that

1056
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,119
they hear that from me, and we're going to start

1057
00:49:30,159 --> 00:49:33,840
working on that's from day one from today. So I'm

1058
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,320
excited about about about about the season. You know, we

1059
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,760
we talked in there about leadership, right and you know

1060
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,800
I I, you know, I immediately go to him. That's

1061
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,280
that's what leaders do, right. They they think of they

1062
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:52,880
put team first, They think about you know, the group,

1063
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,840
and and that's what's all about. You know, he could

1064
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,599
easily say, hey, Joe second base. Probably not good idea,

1065
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,400
but he's open to it. And that's all we wanted

1066
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:07,760
to just consider, Uh, the opportunity to play left, create

1067
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,199
some opportunity for all the players, the first utility on

1068
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:10,679
our team.

1069
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 10: There's all the clubs who are doing the same stuff,

1070
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:18,159
and host He's like, let's roll with it, and it's

1071
00:50:18,199 --> 00:50:19,079
a privilege for me.

1072
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,039
Speaker 8: You could be around Motel two for the last eight

1073
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:23,960
for the last eight season and hopefully we get to

1074
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:25,920
work together for years.

1075
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 12: There's one veteran gone and now.

1076
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,039
Speaker 3: Let you know one in if you asked Christian to

1077
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,960
do those some of those responsibilities, or is that a

1078
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,800
new guy in a block you're trying to get something better.

1079
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think Christian is getting a feel

1080
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,760
for the Lamb. I will have more conversation with Christians

1081
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,840
in the in the coming days. But when it comes

1082
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,559
to leadership, you don't ask to lead. You expect those

1083
00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:50,800
guys to step up and lead.

1084
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 10: And he did that in Arizona.

1085
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 8: And once he gets his feet settled here, I'm sure

1086
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,880
he's gonna he's gonna find his way.

1087
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,280
Speaker 12: He's gonna find his was.

1088
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 3: Albaret said yesterday. Thinks he's got another gear offensively, like

1089
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,400
the best is yet to come? How do how does

1090
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:05,840
he get there?

1091
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 8: What is Hecause he had a really good year off

1092
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,039
So he told me the same thing, and I'm like, dude,

1093
00:51:10,159 --> 00:51:14,199
you know that's how that's how good he is, Like

1094
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,760
all are off. You know, we did some good things

1095
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,360
the second half offensively, but there's there's ways for us

1096
00:51:20,639 --> 00:51:23,519
we can improve, and you know, we highlighted those things

1097
00:51:23,559 --> 00:51:26,079
and we're going to concentrate on those things and we're

1098
00:51:26,079 --> 00:51:27,519
going to improve in those areas.

1099
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 3: But he wants more.

1100
00:51:30,159 --> 00:51:33,559
Speaker 10: He thinks that, you know, I think he's he can

1101
00:51:33,679 --> 00:51:34,599
drive the ball more.

1102
00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:36,559
Speaker 8: He said at times where he's you know, there were

1103
00:51:36,599 --> 00:51:39,480
some singles, zubbles, not really slugging the way he's capable of.

1104
00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:43,559
So he identifies some areas and his swing and in

1105
00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:47,400
his mechanics that he can maintain that swing throughout the

1106
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,360
whole entire season. So when the big boy says that

1107
00:51:50,519 --> 00:51:51,639
you get excited.

1108
00:51:51,639 --> 00:51:55,679
Speaker 13: Communication in the infield because you've got so many new

1109
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,679
pieces in there, potentially, how long could that take? Or

1110
00:51:59,039 --> 00:52:00,800
I mean is it something that will just be an

1111
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,000
ongoing process? And Christian talked to us a little bit

1112
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,079
about yesterday. He needs to get a feel for everybody.

1113
00:52:05,159 --> 00:52:07,039
But being a former infielder, does it take time?

1114
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 8: Yes, he does, and and it takes repetitions, you know,

1115
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,360
a lot of coaching. You know, I need to put

1116
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,360
those guys in games right away just to get a

1117
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,039
feel from one another. There's space in between one or another,

1118
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,000
the capabilities.

1119
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 10: Of one another.

1120
00:52:21,039 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 8: Christianity is you guys are going to witness probably the

1121
00:52:23,559 --> 00:52:25,679
best first baseman in the in the game the last.

1122
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:28,079
Speaker 10: Three or four years. So there's a lot of there's

1123
00:52:28,119 --> 00:52:29,559
a lot of area that he covers.

1124
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 8: So he's got to get you know, the guy too,

1125
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,800
he's right, how much how much space that person covers?

1126
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,039
Speaker 10: So same thing with Jeremy up the middle.

1127
00:52:39,119 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 8: So there's there's some things Paradis joining the organization, Jeremy

1128
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:45,920
getting to know Okay, what side, you know what what

1129
00:52:46,119 --> 00:52:49,079
areas of the field? Paradis will need me to help

1130
00:52:49,159 --> 00:52:51,039
him with and all that kind of stuff. So yeah,

1131
00:52:51,079 --> 00:52:53,480
we got some work to do and and you guys

1132
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,199
will see it, will see me kind of changing things around.

1133
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,000
So we get some familiarity from the from the very beginning.

1134
00:52:59,199 --> 00:52:59,840
What is it is?

1135
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,639
Speaker 10: You know, we have him as an average defender at

1136
00:53:04,679 --> 00:53:05,039
our base.

1137
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 8: You know, very reliable hands, uh strong, armed, accurate. You know,

1138
00:53:13,119 --> 00:53:16,000
I think that we identified areas that we can help

1139
00:53:16,079 --> 00:53:18,920
him with and he's been very receptive to those areas that.

1140
00:53:19,039 --> 00:53:21,079
Speaker 10: We could we could help him improve on.

1141
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 3: What you so we you know we're talking about he's

1142
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,000
ranged move.

1143
00:53:25,119 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 10: You know how he moves potentially.

1144
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,559
Speaker 8: You know, look, you know where the area of the

1145
00:53:29,679 --> 00:53:31,519
field that he could play or maybe a little bit

1146
00:53:31,559 --> 00:53:34,639
off up the up the line covered more more than

1147
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:38,199
five to six hole. Little things like that, but you know,

1148
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,280
when he gets to the ball, he's going to catch

1149
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:40,559
the ball.

1150
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:41,599
Speaker 10: He's always done.

1151
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 7: All right.

1152
00:53:43,639 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 3: So it was interesting how Joe put it an average defender,

1153
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:49,679
But then you talk about all the things he can

1154
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:56,360
do glass half fault clearly well got some work to

1155
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:00,559
do at third base. You're going from how long going

1156
00:54:00,639 --> 00:54:06,159
to gold glove to average fantastic. By the way, the

1157
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,880
rack faeld Dever stuff in Boston yesterday, Holy smokes, here's ston.

1158
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,960
We are so lucky to have jose l TV. He

1159
00:54:13,039 --> 00:54:16,360
didn't care put him at catcher. Yeah, he's ready. Devor's like,

1160
00:54:16,559 --> 00:54:19,800
I'm not d h. I'm saying at third The general

1161
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,079
manager that was here said I was gonna be that. Well,

1162
00:54:22,119 --> 00:54:23,920
they got a new general manager and Alex corus A

1163
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:25,440
shuts youbam, mass up, you'll do what I tell you

1164
00:54:25,519 --> 00:54:28,360
to do. Can I get an early gut feeling on

1165
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,239
that we've got gut feelings in the bottom of the hour?

1166
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,840
Shul wait away. But I might forget though, you know

1167
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,760
how we forget. Oh, we forget a lot of things.

1168
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,400
I know we always tease the head that we're gonna

1169
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,039
do something else, like to tell the truth. We swore

1170
00:54:38,079 --> 00:54:40,159
to God coming back with the tell the True music.

1171
00:54:40,159 --> 00:54:41,400
Because I want to see if I get this right

1172
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,800
from y'all's yesterday's program. Did everybody else get it right?

1173
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,440
To Dick car it alth of them got it wrong?

1174
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 8: What?

1175
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 3: Oh that's a hint, though I feel like, don't say it.

1176
00:54:48,519 --> 00:54:51,280
Don't say it? Seven one three two one two five

1177
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,440
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

1178
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,360
NINTI uh believe it or not? Is coming up next? No,

1179
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:58,920
it's not. We're not even doing the whole week. I

1180
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,360
was looking, Oh, I was looking at this guy script. Well,

1181
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,159
you know you take one day, one day off, put

1182
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,119
all these days off, Matt. Now you're on the Johnny

1183
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:07,800
Carson schedule in twenty twenty five. I worked a full

1184
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,039
week last week. I did five days in studio two

1185
00:55:12,599 --> 00:55:16,639
five long ass drives you poor baby. You should feel sorry,

1186
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,400
but he made nobody put a gun to your head

1187
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,119
to make you move it. Well maybe actually somebody, Are

1188
00:55:20,119 --> 00:55:20,639
you kidding me?

1189
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:21,559
Speaker 10: Do you know?

1190
00:55:21,679 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 3: Missus Thomas, I had zero your mind? Thank you? Seven

1191
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,360
one three two one two five seven on they gut

1192
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:29,800
feelings the bottom of the hour, we'll do to tell

1193
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,480
the truth recap. Next, we got Christian Walker still ahead

1194
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,960
of us the news at noon and a replay of

1195
00:55:35,079 --> 00:55:38,119
the Dana Brown conversation. All straight ahead after I tell

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Speaker 2: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four.

1217
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 3: All right, this is expression you guys did this yesterday,

1218
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:03,719
so I'm gonna see how I would do againsure you

1219
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:05,519
had four takes? Right, Yes, I did, and how many

1220
00:57:05,519 --> 00:57:08,400
of myselfs believe one? Okay, here we go. We have

1221
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,000
got feelings, got the bottom of the arm. By the way,

1222
00:57:10,039 --> 00:57:11,760
if you've got anything sports piction which you want to

1223
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,119
get in, let us know at seven one, three, two,

1224
00:57:14,199 --> 00:57:16,840
one two, five seven ninety Now a quick Express edition

1225
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,519
up to Tell the Truth. To Tell the Truth Express

1226
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,559
Take number one, the All Star Game for the NBA

1227
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:29,039
is a disaster. Big money incentives are needed for the

1228
00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:31,880
players to get interested. There's no other way to save it.

1229
00:57:32,239 --> 00:57:35,639
The NBA needs to institute get a sponsor, whoever it

1230
00:57:35,719 --> 00:57:38,119
may be. Okay, big money. I'm not going to stop

1231
00:57:38,199 --> 00:57:40,360
right there. That's it. Go ahead, continue on number two.

1232
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:45,239
Alex Bregman's number two, Well, I don't think it should

1233
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,840
be retired. Same thing with Billy Wagner. He's been great

1234
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:51,840
going nine years for INSU. We appreciate him. But you

1235
00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:55,760
you also believe that number three, the U of H

1236
00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,039
Cougars have proven enough. And I especially said that. I

1237
00:58:00,079 --> 00:58:03,480
would only say this since you weren't there. Yeah, they're

1238
00:58:03,519 --> 00:58:07,360
winning the National Championship. Oh, they're too good. They've won

1239
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,760
all these games on the road. They beat Kansas on

1240
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,840
the road, they neat Arizona on the road. They finally

1241
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,840
got something they haven't had, that is the consistent three

1242
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,440
point shooting. Calvin Sampson's time is now. The Cougars are

1243
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,480
winning the NCAA. I believe all three of the things

1244
00:58:21,559 --> 00:58:25,400
you said. Number four. The NBA needs to move on

1245
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:31,119
from Chuck Shaq and Kenny. They're too negative. They bring

1246
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:35,440
down the NBA a start, the fish rots from the head,

1247
00:58:35,559 --> 00:58:38,599
the toxicity with the NBA discourses too much. Chuck is

1248
00:58:38,639 --> 00:58:41,000
in his sixties, Shaq is in his fifties. He can

1249
00:58:41,039 --> 00:58:43,519
go do pitch man stuff. The NBA needs to move

1250
00:58:43,599 --> 00:58:46,199
on from Chumpionship. Okay, I believe you believe all four

1251
00:58:46,239 --> 00:58:51,880
of those things. Dude, you only literally believe one of them. Correct. Well,

1252
00:58:52,199 --> 00:58:54,840
they just signed. They just signed charge Shack to a

1253
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,599
new deal. I'm not saying what deal they're on. The

1254
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,360
need to you would never saything that nice about you

1255
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:06,760
of Ah Solomon Chuck that the one you do believe

1256
00:59:07,079 --> 00:59:10,280
would have to be. It was the very first one

1257
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,199
big money incentives needed for I want to say, that's

1258
00:59:13,239 --> 00:59:19,199
when you believe Alex Regs's number two is getting retired.

1259
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,079
While the Cougars are one of the favorites, I think

1260
00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:26,159
Auburn is the favorite. Big money is not even gonna

1261
00:59:26,159 --> 00:59:28,559
save the All Star Game. It's beyond repair. NBA has

1262
00:59:28,559 --> 00:59:31,840
got to move on from Oh damn, I got it wrong. Well,

1263
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,400
so that makes all three. Actually, I believe Lilima picked

1264
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:40,639
two and uh Connor picked three. Mm man, I got

1265
00:59:40,679 --> 00:59:42,840
you guys good. It just means my takes are bad, No,

1266
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:44,679
because I believe there's a certain part of me the

1267
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,199
believes you believe all four of those things. You could

1268
00:59:47,199 --> 00:59:49,039
see the U of H one of that, I mean absolutely,

1269
00:59:49,159 --> 00:59:50,960
I could all see the Ubas losing in the second round.

1270
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,119
I mean, it's a crap shit. The dancyboy ternament, it's

1271
00:59:53,119 --> 00:59:55,119
a crapshit. I still think Auburn and Duke are really good.

1272
00:59:55,159 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 7: I think.

1273
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,639
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's one, two, three to me, Auburn, Duke, Houston,

1274
00:59:57,719 --> 00:59:59,519
whatever you want to put in. I think it's a

1275
00:59:59,559 --> 01:00:01,480
three headed monster. I think one of those three teams.

1276
01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:03,079
If you give me those three, I'll take those three

1277
01:00:03,119 --> 01:00:06,760
over the field. What's up? I can't take that. I

1278
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:08,719
will I will not take the field, I know, because

1279
01:00:08,719 --> 01:00:11,400
it's a crap shoot. Yeah yeah, yeah, all right. Uh

1280
01:00:11,519 --> 01:00:13,599
so you got me nice work. That's a good job.

1281
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:15,599
Because really, if you had to reverse it and said

1282
01:00:15,599 --> 01:00:17,679
it's hard only one, I don't believe you know. I

1283
01:00:17,679 --> 01:00:19,840
always make fun of you your takes. It's hard making

1284
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,039
I know it's it's actually a lot harder than I,

1285
01:00:22,239 --> 01:00:24,599
than you, than people think. And then then I myself think,

1286
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,559
thank you, so you will not crush me next Monday

1287
01:00:26,559 --> 01:00:28,719
when I do it's I mean, come on, it's part

1288
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,719
of this part. It's the bit it feels it all right?

1289
01:00:31,079 --> 01:00:33,480
Uh seven one three two one two five is seven

1290
01:00:33,559 --> 01:00:36,840
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine

1291
01:00:37,159 --> 01:00:39,440
zero if you want to join us on the show, Connor,

1292
01:00:39,599 --> 01:00:41,840
I mean, uh, like Ross, we've been any calls. I

1293
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:43,159
don't have the call screen in front of me here,

1294
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:44,800
so they don't have anyth this point all right, now,

1295
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,159
we don't have any right now, want to get in,

1296
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:49,920
which means people can come in and join us wide

1297
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,280
open phones, Yeah they can. Uh seven one three two

1298
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:56,119
one two five seven ninetie. What else I'm gonna get

1299
01:00:56,119 --> 01:00:58,719
to before we get to the gut feelings I mentioned?

1300
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:04,239
Oh the Dever situation she was embarrassing. Yes, Uh, they're

1301
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:08,920
gonna work that out. There's there's singling talented. I'm sorry, Raphael,

1302
01:01:09,519 --> 01:01:13,920
he's a gold glover and you're below average. Shut your

1303
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,119
bomb ass up, say it for tomorrow. But you're right,

1304
01:01:16,559 --> 01:01:22,639
you're right, you're right. Okay. What else a I gonna

1305
01:01:22,639 --> 01:01:25,760
go to? Uh, there's something else? Spring training I thought

1306
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:30,599
was interesting to me. Oh flat Guerrero Junior, not the

1307
01:01:30,639 --> 01:01:37,800
senior one, because he's long retired. Vlack Guerrero Junior basically said, Toronto,

1308
01:01:38,199 --> 01:01:43,280
step up your game or I'm gonzo. The deadline, I guess,

1309
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,960
is either today or is coming gone already Monday night deadline.

1310
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,960
It is tuesday. It is Tuesday. Yeah, so it's coming gone.

1311
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,039
He's basically saying, be I just I ain't gonna talk

1312
01:01:55,039 --> 01:01:58,000
to you anymore. Talk to you in free agency. There's

1313
01:01:58,039 --> 01:02:00,440
one reason this upsets me. Well, there's should be another

1314
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:02,280
reason too, because the number one team that is already

1315
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,480
being favorite for him going there is the Boston Red Sox.

1316
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:10,039
The number one reason is the Kyle Tucker market.

1317
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:10,639
Speaker 10: Ah.

1318
01:02:14,559 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 3: By the way, I will tell you that Ross is

1319
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,159
getting got some terrible advice on the Alex Bregman deal.

1320
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,360
He went to Rander Rome or Randler Boem to get

1321
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,559
his bet on and I'm one that see yeah and

1322
01:02:25,599 --> 01:02:28,159
then and then so Randler today says, well you should

1323
01:02:28,159 --> 01:02:31,760
have gone to av It's been well over. Thanks thanks Randler.

1324
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,559
We were never going to make that bet. So, yes,

1325
01:02:33,679 --> 01:02:36,920
I'm completely deflecting. I'm taking zero blame for this. My

1326
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:41,519
literal MLB insider that broke the news on the deal. Yeah, yeah,

1327
01:02:41,559 --> 01:02:44,400
you steered me in the wrong direction, and I may

1328
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,960
have strayed my own way wrong on the our bet

1329
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:48,519
for the Kyle Tucker. You are going to be eating

1330
01:02:48,519 --> 01:02:50,159
a lot of meals off of me. Well, the reality

1331
01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:52,480
is that fast casual lunch today? When can I knock

1332
01:02:52,519 --> 01:02:54,119
that out? Because we're no ticking out here. We'll suit

1333
01:02:54,199 --> 01:02:58,039
here tomorrow after the show today. Okay, fast casual like

1334
01:02:58,119 --> 01:03:01,000
a my mise, we wore a we were gonna go.

1335
01:03:01,119 --> 01:03:03,360
We're gonna go to Mendy's and get a double stack. Right,

1336
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,800
that's fast food. That's not fast casual. That's that's fine.

1337
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,039
I'm just I just want something to beat. Okay. I

1338
01:03:09,159 --> 01:03:10,960
told you this two weeks ago, and you now it's

1339
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,000
about two months ago, and you argue with me, and look,

1340
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:16,280
there's always room for interpretation. I really do believe the

1341
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,960
super mega deals are gone. I really do. And all

1342
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:21,320
it takes is one off season for me to be

1343
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,199
wrong about this, and I'm accepting of that. But well,

1344
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,199
wan So got a MEGAO deal next for you get

1345
01:03:25,239 --> 01:03:27,360
a big deal, Yes, Snell got a big deal. Not

1346
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:29,079
a mega deal though, But I mean, are we are

1347
01:03:29,119 --> 01:03:31,880
we gonna limit that to five players a year? That's

1348
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,400
a lot that adds up. I mean, okay, so how

1349
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:39,079
many were snow only five years? But two million, that's

1350
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,519
that's a lot of money. It's a lot of Moneys

1351
01:03:42,639 --> 01:03:43,199
the Dodgers.

1352
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 7: Uh so.

1353
01:03:46,119 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Kyle Tucker's got to have an incredible season

1354
01:03:50,239 --> 01:03:52,719
because or he or he's gonna be the Alex Brigman

1355
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:55,840
to what Wan Soto was for a national for the

1356
01:03:55,880 --> 01:04:01,880
net for the Mets. Yeah, I think people, Yeah, Vladito

1357
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:08,679
would be the bigger get I guess. Yeah, Tucker's at

1358
01:04:08,719 --> 01:04:12,199
the more premium position. That'll be interesting. It would be

1359
01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:15,079
an interesting offseason. But if the deadline's gone, and deadline's gone,

1360
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,199
he said, quote they have their numbers, I have my numbers,

1361
01:04:19,679 --> 01:04:24,920
Carrero says, and we are nowhere close. Dude's a freaking

1362
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,360
four time All Star. We've talked about this. Oh, that's

1363
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,760
a good question. One of the most feared American League hitters,

1364
01:04:33,559 --> 01:04:37,719
but also a junior and a senior like Fla Guerrero

1365
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:42,360
seniors in the Hall of Fame. A junior and a

1366
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:47,599
senior both being that good in major American sports. Oh,

1367
01:04:47,679 --> 01:04:48,519
you mean equally good.

1368
01:04:49,239 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1369
01:04:50,199 --> 01:04:52,719
Speaker 3: Oh, Archie Manning and Peyton and Eli. No, but Archie

1370
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,280
wasn't as good as No, that's right, Archie was. Archie

1371
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:56,599
was just a guy. I mean, he was good, but

1372
01:04:56,639 --> 01:04:58,679
he was just And part of it was because he

1373
01:04:58,719 --> 01:05:01,079
played on some wolful Say teams for much of his career,

1374
01:05:01,119 --> 01:05:02,400
and then he went the Orders and was a wolfl

1375
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,039
there too. Lad has finished second in the MVP and

1376
01:05:05,159 --> 01:05:07,320
sixth in the MVP and a four time All Star.

1377
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:10,360
He's on a Hall of Fame track and his dad

1378
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:13,159
is literally in the Hall of Fame. I'm gonna give

1379
01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:17,159
you a comp but these are not Hall of Fame players. Oh,

1380
01:05:17,239 --> 01:05:20,360
I got one for you, Lebron James and Barney James. Nope,

1381
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:23,480
that was not of the ones. I don't know what

1382
01:05:23,639 --> 01:05:27,239
Bob Boone's numbers were, but Aaron and Brett were good

1383
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,800
Major League baseball players. Bob Boone was a good Major

1384
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,880
League Baseball players, though, but they weren't Hall of famers.

1385
01:05:32,159 --> 01:05:34,280
So you're looking. You're asking me for a father's son

1386
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:41,360
Hall of Fame duo, yeah, or even very I mean

1387
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:45,039
King Griffey Senior was good, I think, I mean I don't.

1388
01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:47,440
I mean in the NBA, you got Tim Hardaway Junior

1389
01:05:47,519 --> 01:05:50,280
and Tim Hardaway Senior Senior was better. Than junior, although

1390
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,159
Junior has been able to make the Hall of Fame.

1391
01:05:52,199 --> 01:05:54,239
They put everyone in these days, but they're they're not

1392
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:56,920
gonna be in that situation. Gary Payton a senior in

1393
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,480
the second and that's not gonna work. Dell Curry, Steph Curry,

1394
01:05:59,519 --> 01:06:01,800
but Dell's that great staff was way better than Dell

1395
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:03,679
was just a guy that moved around a bunch of places.

1396
01:06:05,119 --> 01:06:07,079
Who is as good of a dad as he was

1397
01:06:07,199 --> 01:06:09,679
a son and son as good as sad. Tweets at

1398
01:06:09,719 --> 01:06:12,039
sports RV and at sports say that's right, do that,

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That's fine?

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Speaker 7: All right?

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01:06:13,159 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 3: Eleven twenty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety, time for

1402
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,320
us to ask for you to give us your gut feelings.

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01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:21,199
Seven one three two one two five seven Hunty, you

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01:06:21,239 --> 01:06:23,519
want to make a prediction about how jose L Twovay

1405
01:06:23,559 --> 01:06:25,199
is going to do in left field, I'll take that.

1406
01:06:25,679 --> 01:06:27,519
Would you like to make a prediction about how or

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01:06:27,599 --> 01:06:30,039
Alex Bregman's gonna play this year for the Boston Red Sox.

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01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:32,480
We'll do that. Well. The astro stamp pat in the

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01:06:32,599 --> 01:06:36,679
outfield is currently put together. Will Jordan Alvarez play more

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01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:38,920
than say, thirty five or forty games in left field.

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01:06:39,199 --> 01:06:40,639
If you want to make a prediction about the All

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01:06:40,679 --> 01:06:42,960
Star Games, if you want to make a prediction about anything,

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01:06:43,039 --> 01:06:45,880
it's now your opportunity. It's seven one three two one

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01:06:46,039 --> 01:06:48,800
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:50,800
five seven Anti Your gut feelings are next here on

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01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:52,519
Sports Talk Sevenatti.

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01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:58,559
Speaker 5: The Manta Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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01:07:00,119 --> 01:07:01,079
Speaker 3: Set up and.

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01:07:04,199 --> 01:07:06,119
Speaker 14: Tommy, Yo, they got a good dealer.

1420
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:10,039
Speaker 2: This is their gut feeling. On the Matt Thomas Show.

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01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 3: By the way, a couple of folks, Wayne sent us

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01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:16,599
a note, Craig to the same thing, maybe the closest

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01:07:16,639 --> 01:07:22,079
thing to an awesome dad and son Bobby Bounds, Bonds

1424
01:07:22,119 --> 01:07:24,400
and Barry Bonds. That's about as close as I have

1425
01:07:24,519 --> 01:07:28,079
so far. Somebody's given me an example of Yeah, three

1426
01:07:28,159 --> 01:07:30,800
time All Star, three time Gold Glover for Bobby Bond.

1427
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:34,519
That's pretty good. Yeah, that's really good. In the Hall

1428
01:07:34,559 --> 01:07:38,480
of Fame. No, but but Glad Junior's done in the

1429
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:43,400
Hall of Fame either, haul good, all very good. Yeah, Yeah,

1430
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,679
let's go with that, okay. Seven one three two one

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01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,480
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:53,559
five seven nine zero Rossie, let's shor recap how we

1433
01:07:53,599 --> 01:07:56,159
did last week on the Gut Feelings. Uh yeah, I'm

1434
01:07:56,199 --> 01:07:59,159
having my WiFi sputtering, so can you install for ten seconds?

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01:07:59,159 --> 01:08:00,599
I would like to stall by telling you that you

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01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:02,960
may call this radio show at seven one three two

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01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,599
one two five seven on. All lines are available, which

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01:08:05,639 --> 01:08:08,119
means either you don't love us or you're just afraid

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01:08:08,159 --> 01:08:09,920
to talk to us, and we're as friendly as it's right.

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01:08:10,239 --> 01:08:11,920
All right, we're back on line. We're seven one three

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01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:13,760
two one two five seven on. If you have any

1442
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:16,319
sports predictions you'd like to make, okay, and we had

1443
01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:19,560
some non sports predictions I'd forgotten about in here as well.

1444
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:22,600
You said, Matt Thomas, we're gonna have to wait a

1445
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,159
whole year for this. Next year's Super Bowl winner will

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01:08:25,199 --> 01:08:29,119
be a first time Super Bowl champion as a franchise,

1447
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:32,359
which put which puts the Texans in that mix. Man,

1448
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:34,239
you got the Texans winning at all Man, that's great,

1449
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:39,039
you're right, you're right. Oh my gosh, you said Red

1450
01:08:39,119 --> 01:08:44,840
Sox signed Alex Bregman. Nailed it. That's fine. I mean, look,

1451
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:46,760
it was the fifth team you chosen. Yeah, I mean

1452
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,479
I had got a feeling on one of them. I

1453
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,720
should have just gone field them and claim credit for that.

1454
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,760
But yeah, you're right, yep, you Red Sox. That's still

1455
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,319
that's a hit, Matty. I think I appreciate that he

1456
01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:58,239
still could have gone well, he probably was never gonna

1457
01:08:58,279 --> 01:08:59,880
go anywhere else, and then the Red Sox up there

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01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:01,640
on offer in the eleventh hour and he signed there.

1459
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,560
That's okay. Then we also made a get feeling about

1460
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:08,079
the JFK documents release. Have they been released yet? No,

1461
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,159
you'd have to ask you, would you say that's true.

1462
01:09:11,199 --> 01:09:14,960
He's the first person to ask. You said Cuba and

1463
01:09:15,399 --> 01:09:21,520
or Fidel Castro, we're gonna be involved. And you also

1464
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:26,039
said next year's Super Bowl halftime will involve a country act. Yep,

1465
01:09:27,079 --> 01:09:28,680
I'm going a matter of fact, I'm gonna arrow that

1466
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:31,359
down even a little bit more. Jelly Roll will be

1467
01:09:31,399 --> 01:09:37,199
the halftime act. Jelly Roll, jelly Roll. Okay, sure you

1468
01:09:37,239 --> 01:09:39,560
want to write that, I'm gonna write that down. Jelly

1469
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:43,840
Roll does and then sign my I think I'm gonna

1470
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,880
give Dan Matthews credit for that because Dan texted it

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01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:47,960
to us, So it'll be a slight assist to that

1472
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:52,920
assist to Dan. Also, is that thunder Rolling it's under

1473
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:58,640
does roll does strike. That's not good. Uh and okay

1474
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:02,239
that's where we are now. I had forgotten i'd done this,

1475
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,920
I said. Stefan Diggs signs back with the Texans. Still

1476
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,079
some time left on that? Would you see? Who's dating now?

1477
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 10: No?

1478
01:10:10,359 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 3: Cardi B? Who's dating Cardi B? Alex pregnant?

1479
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:14,199
Speaker 7: Stefan Diggs.

1480
01:10:14,239 --> 01:10:18,239
Speaker 3: Oh, steph oh Stefan Diggs apparently No, that'd been going

1481
01:10:18,279 --> 01:10:18,800
on for a while.

1482
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:19,119
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1483
01:10:19,199 --> 01:10:21,359
Speaker 3: They they had an affair while she was pregnant. I

1484
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:24,399
believe that, which that you don't if you don't believe

1485
01:10:24,399 --> 01:10:28,000
internet or no? Do we lose our music? Were we

1486
01:10:28,039 --> 01:10:31,560
still in the air? Okay, I don't hear anything here.

1487
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:33,239
It is a little low. I can turn it up

1488
01:10:33,279 --> 01:10:35,159
for you. I did it for myself as well. How

1489
01:10:35,239 --> 01:10:36,159
is that is? They can hear better?

1490
01:10:36,239 --> 01:10:36,319
Speaker 10: Now?

1491
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 15: Oh?

1492
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:37,359
Speaker 7: There it is?

1493
01:10:37,399 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 3: Okay, I got you. Yeah, I still hear Oh, okay, sorry.

1494
01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:43,399
Speaker 7: You're I.

1495
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 3: I'm having difficulty reacting to this Stefan Diggs news.

1496
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:48,399
Speaker 10: You gave me?

1497
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 3: Well, why do I know that you don't? I'm gonna

1498
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:53,720
stick with him. Maybe I have Cardi B muted. I

1499
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:55,279
have a lot of words muted on my Twitter to

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be true, be told uh, Rockets win both games against

1501
01:10:59,039 --> 01:11:04,199
the Suns and Golden State. Oh, they lost to Golden State,

1502
01:11:04,239 --> 01:11:07,239
but they did beat Phoenix and yeah, that Golden Seid game.

1503
01:11:09,159 --> 01:11:09,399
Speaker 7: Yuck.

1504
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 3: I finally resigned myself to this last week. So this

1505
01:11:12,039 --> 01:11:14,199
is a hit for me as well. Alex Bregman signs

1506
01:11:14,239 --> 01:11:17,399
a short term deal with opt outs. I just felt

1507
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:19,399
like that was the way that it was trending. Yep, yep.

1508
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:22,920
And my JFK documents prediction is that the mafia is

1509
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:28,239
heavily involved in the assassination of one John Fitzgerald.

1510
01:11:28,279 --> 01:11:28,560
Speaker 7: Can it?

1511
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 3: The mafia don't speak, I know, but maybe they have.

1512
01:11:32,399 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 10: They have.

1513
01:11:35,039 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 3: Circumstantial evidence to where they couldn't take them to trial.

1514
01:11:39,399 --> 01:11:42,720
They had enough evidence, but not enough to convict. That's

1515
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:45,319
what I'm going with with the mafia's involvement in the

1516
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:49,800
JFK trial. Connor McGovern went on record saying the Rockets

1517
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:52,359
win the next two as well. He was wrong. He

1518
01:11:52,399 --> 01:11:56,279
also said Bregman does not sign, So that's a note

1519
01:11:56,359 --> 01:11:59,600
for two for one, Connor mcgoverning. And you got to

1520
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:02,000
tell the true wrong yesterday too, huh. And then Dan

1521
01:12:02,079 --> 01:12:03,920
Matthews did he text in or call in with post

1522
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,199
malone or Jelly roll as the next year a half times,

1523
01:12:06,199 --> 01:12:08,079
so he's gonna piggyback off of him. I think post

1524
01:12:08,159 --> 01:12:10,439
Malone's a good one. I think that'll happen. He's got

1525
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,159
very wide appeal. He's doing Nirvana. So it's the Weekend

1526
01:12:13,239 --> 01:12:15,159
strong enough to do a halftime. This Weekend has already

1527
01:12:15,159 --> 01:12:17,479
done it. Oh they have Okay, they're not gonna Como.

1528
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,359
That's one guy. Oh whatever, that's fine. His name is

1529
01:12:20,359 --> 01:12:25,159
able Tests Foyer tesa all right, great singer. I'm a

1530
01:12:25,199 --> 01:12:28,199
big I'm a fan of the Weekend. Uh My first

1531
01:12:28,239 --> 01:12:31,439
gut feeling, Lads and gentlemen, has nothing to do with sports, Okay.

1532
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:36,640
Lorne Michaels will finish out this year as the executive producer,

1533
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,880
will do one more year. He will retire after the

1534
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:45,239
two thousand and twenty six season of Saturday Night Live.

1535
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:47,600
He's in his eighties. It's about time to hang him

1536
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:49,199
up belong, so it would make sense for him to

1537
01:12:49,239 --> 01:12:51,560
do it now, But I think he wants another farewell

1538
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:53,560
season to kind of say goodbye. So I think it

1539
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:56,439
all about Lauren. I mean, you got the fifty years special.

1540
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,000
Now next year will be the Laurene Farewell Special. Right

1541
01:12:59,079 --> 01:13:01,079
these specials get right, Yes they do.

1542
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:01,640
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1543
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 3: By the way, I've not watched all of it. I

1544
01:13:04,079 --> 01:13:09,000
do watch some of it, Okay, I put together the

1545
01:13:09,079 --> 01:13:12,960
top five list of my fans. Debbie Downer is. I

1546
01:13:13,119 --> 01:13:15,000
watched Debbie down I was under the late the airport.

1547
01:13:15,039 --> 01:13:16,560
I watched Debbie Downer Disney World.

1548
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:18,600
Speaker 1: It.

1549
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:22,079
Speaker 3: I was crying, absolutely crying at the airport. I'm not

1550
01:13:22,159 --> 01:13:24,479
going my flight was late, but because it was still

1551
01:13:25,159 --> 01:13:27,560
so funny, I went and found out some stories about it.

1552
01:13:28,359 --> 01:13:32,720
Horatio Sands was crying so hard he had to use

1553
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:34,800
the pancakes that were part of the scene to mop

1554
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:36,840
up the tears because he was laughing so hard. Okay,

1555
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:39,720
so yeah, season and a half left for Laura Michaels

1556
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,960
before he recalls it a career. Okay, okay, that's my

1557
01:13:43,039 --> 01:13:47,119
first one. Okay, uh unit sports take for me. Don't

1558
01:13:47,119 --> 01:13:47,640
you sure?

1559
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 11: Why?

1560
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 14: Now?

1561
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:51,039
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. Cougars win by ten to night against

1562
01:13:51,039 --> 01:13:54,880
Arizona State in Tempe, Arizona. Arizona State just a mid

1563
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,760
level Cougar's by ten by ten, ten, one zero ten

1564
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:01,399
or mole. Go look at that line. See how close

1565
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:03,079
you are? I beg I believe it's notine and a

1566
01:14:03,119 --> 01:14:07,359
half something like that. Oh, go, come on, that's a cover.

1567
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:09,479
I'll see it's eleven and a half. Actually, oh h,

1568
01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:12,399
I'll stay with ten ten or more? U of h

1569
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:16,000
ten or more? Come on, do twelve one bucket? All right,

1570
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:20,640
it's great. Twelve. Yeah, you give the points. Uh, covers

1571
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:21,720
eleven and a half? How about that?

1572
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:22,239
Speaker 7: You like that?

1573
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 3: I love it? All right, Get off that fence, baby,

1574
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,760
let's go. What else you got? Uh, I'm gonna go with.

1575
01:14:30,119 --> 01:14:32,920
We don't normally make Red Sox opening day predictions here

1576
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:40,279
on the but the Red Sox opening day third basement

1577
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:46,359
will be Alex Bregman. Oh does Rothfield ever Devers know

1578
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,880
this yet? Yeah? Maybe I should soft pedal that and

1579
01:14:50,039 --> 01:14:52,039
just say by the end of the year, Alex Bregman

1580
01:14:52,079 --> 01:14:54,199
will get most time at third base. But they have

1581
01:14:54,279 --> 01:14:56,199
to talk him off this. The dude's the gold glover.

1582
01:14:56,399 --> 01:14:58,479
They just sign him to a big deal. Apparently the

1583
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:01,039
promises made to Rafael Devers were by the previous regime,

1584
01:15:01,359 --> 01:15:03,640
so they don't have to uphold those. Right, Alex kor

1585
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:05,560
Is gonna get this guy in there. They're gonna talk,

1586
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:08,439
they're gonna chat. He's gonna have this hard conversation, Alex

1587
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:11,399
Bregman buy the is going to be the everyday first

1588
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:14,119
base third baseman for the Red Sox. Okay, so you're

1589
01:15:14,119 --> 01:15:16,479
saying more time than not, Yes, it's gonna be Bregman

1590
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:20,199
over Devers. Okay, that sounds fine. Yes. By the way,

1591
01:15:20,239 --> 01:15:22,720
do you think Alex Bregman had this conversation about it

1592
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,119
and they're like, whatever Dever says to this going just

1593
01:15:25,159 --> 01:15:26,720
shake your head and go, Yeah, you'll play wherever, but

1594
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:28,840
you're gonna be our third basement. Yeah, I think so.

1595
01:15:29,079 --> 01:15:31,039
You know, it goes back to my point of last week.

1596
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:34,279
You don't remove a third gold glover and put him

1597
01:15:34,319 --> 01:15:34,800
somewhere else.

1598
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:35,399
Speaker 7: You just don't.

1599
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 3: You don't, and you also don't payhim forty million dollars

1600
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:41,000
a year to play second. Now, second and third close,

1601
01:15:41,079 --> 01:15:43,199
but third is more premium defensive position. It just is

1602
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:45,039
all right, would you like I want you to put

1603
01:15:45,039 --> 01:15:48,119
one for the future. Alex Bregman is not opting out

1604
01:15:48,119 --> 01:15:50,079
over for next year, especially if like Roa goes to

1605
01:15:50,159 --> 01:15:55,720
the Red Sox. He could Red Sox. Don't worry, Alexpregman

1606
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,760
is yours in twenty twenty six. For Alex Bregman does

1607
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:02,399
not opt out correct, So I'm going with that would

1608
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:06,920
mean injury to me or or comp numbers. I mean,

1609
01:16:07,119 --> 01:16:09,000
he's not a forty million dollars player right now. No,

1610
01:16:09,239 --> 01:16:10,640
except the Red Sox made of one.

1611
01:16:12,359 --> 01:16:12,560
Speaker 8: Man.

1612
01:16:13,199 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm staying with it. No, he could be right.

1613
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:17,079
He's with the Red Sox in twenty twenty second. I

1614
01:16:17,119 --> 01:16:19,119
could see it. Condy, what do you got real quick?

1615
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 15: I'll say the Rockets win their next two Oh, I

1616
01:16:27,039 --> 01:16:31,199
like it Friday and Saturday, Yes, yeah. And then I'll say,

1617
01:16:31,399 --> 01:16:33,600
as much as I kind of want Team Canada when

1618
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:36,600
I think Tosa will win the Four Nations tournament final

1619
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:37,199
on Thursday.

1620
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:39,039
Speaker 3: By the way, we need to talk about that when

1621
01:16:39,039 --> 01:16:44,399
we come back. That was highly, highly impressive. Whatever they

1622
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,199
did to publicize that, whether it was the three fights

1623
01:16:47,239 --> 01:16:49,399
in nine seconds or the fact that people that those

1624
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:53,840
players gave a damn. I was in a Washington sports

1625
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:58,760
bar Saturday night. Everybody in DC was watching that. No

1626
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,640
one gave two blanks about the skills challenge or the

1627
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:05,920
slam dunk competition. Everybody in that bar was mesmerized by

1628
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:07,399
the name. What do they call it? The Nations comes

1629
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:10,359
up with They're calling it Four Nations Face Off? Four

1630
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:13,920
nations face off. Whoever decided that genius move on your part.

1631
01:17:14,119 --> 01:17:16,239
All right, more gut feelings coming up next. Seven one

1632
01:17:16,279 --> 01:17:19,119
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

1633
01:17:19,239 --> 01:17:21,239
two one two five seven NINETI this is the Matt

1634
01:17:21,279 --> 01:17:23,119
Thomas Shevil Ross. We're coming to you from West Palm

1635
01:17:23,199 --> 01:17:26,359
Beach and you are listening to Astrospring training coverage here

1636
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:27,319
on Sports.

1637
01:17:27,039 --> 01:17:33,359
Speaker 5: Talk sevn nintimagine Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1638
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:36,279
Speaker 7: Final.

1639
01:17:36,399 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 14: Let's finally drop this puck, get the action going, and I.

1640
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 3: Could chuck brothers around the ice clinking Jack, I.

1641
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:47,159
Speaker 2: Could, you're gonna crack the tree away?

1642
01:17:48,119 --> 01:17:48,479
Speaker 3: Thank you?

1643
01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:49,119
Speaker 7: Good check?

1644
01:17:50,199 --> 01:17:52,640
Speaker 2: Brandon Hagel, Wait uncle he.

1645
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:58,119
Speaker 3: So Connor, you're you're our hockey analyst?

1646
01:17:58,239 --> 01:18:00,560
Speaker 7: Real quick? Did they would?

1647
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 3: Obviously? They said as soon got the ice, we're gonna

1648
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,119
try to kick each other's ass. I mean that that

1649
01:18:05,319 --> 01:18:07,560
had to have been a pregame get together in the

1650
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:08,840
locker room. Who are we gonna go after?

1651
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:09,119
Speaker 7: Right?

1652
01:18:09,239 --> 01:18:12,079
Speaker 3: Three three fights in nine seconds? Not even a regular

1653
01:18:12,199 --> 01:18:13,159
NHL game does that.

1654
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:17,399
Speaker 15: Yeah, there's two brothers on the USA team, Matthew and

1655
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:20,319
Brady Kachuk, And yeah they were to the first two

1656
01:18:20,359 --> 01:18:22,640
to fight. So I think they were just pretty amped

1657
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,760
up to play for Team USA, didn't They call.

1658
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,600
Speaker 3: Each other meadhead? And when they were kids and stuff.

1659
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:30,239
That's what their that's what their dad said.

1660
01:18:30,279 --> 01:18:33,079
Speaker 15: Their dad was a Keith Kichuk, who is a NHL

1661
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:35,199
not a Hall of Famer, but a really good, really

1662
01:18:35,239 --> 01:18:36,920
good player back in his day. And he said like, oh,

1663
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,640
you can't really control those two like Tasmanian devils out there.

1664
01:18:40,399 --> 01:18:40,960
Speaker 6: Huh huh.

1665
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:44,199
Speaker 3: Wow, Kochuck sounds like a hockey game. Yeah, it sounds

1666
01:18:44,399 --> 01:18:47,520
way hockey ish. I mean, Kachuck is not a somebody

1667
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:51,319
that's like a gymnast. Yeah, he Kachuk's got some tooth loose.

1668
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,000
Teeth loose, yeah, and brain cells that have been just

1669
01:18:54,079 --> 01:18:57,600
destroyed by the way. Uh. Some more people coming in

1670
01:18:57,680 --> 01:19:00,840
with a couple of more father son duos. You have

1671
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:03,039
to help me out with us. On Florida, Floyd Mayweather

1672
01:19:03,159 --> 01:19:05,920
Senior and Floyd Woman Floyd Mayweather Junior. One of the

1673
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:08,079
greatest of all time. Floyd made with a senior, not really,

1674
01:19:08,319 --> 01:19:12,119
Roger Mayweather was better. He was the uncle. The Uncle

1675
01:19:12,199 --> 01:19:14,479
Roger Mayweather also known as the Black Mamba. He had

1676
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:17,560
that nickname before Kobe Bryant. Okay uh, he was a

1677
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:20,119
multi time champion. Floyd made with his senior was kind

1678
01:19:20,159 --> 01:19:22,840
of a decent fighter, but not anywhere the level of

1679
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,199
Floyd Weather Weather. John Easy comes in with one. I

1680
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,319
like it. We don't retally follow auto racing, but Mario

1681
01:19:28,359 --> 01:19:31,800
and Michael and Dreddi were fan both fantastic. I yeah,

1682
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,159
just trust me, and they called me. They call me

1683
01:19:34,159 --> 01:19:36,239
the official motorhead of the Atoms. That's true.

1684
01:19:36,359 --> 01:19:37,560
Speaker 7: You are all right.

1685
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety. It

1686
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:42,840
is getting a little windier, which means we get showers

1687
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:44,479
coming the area, which means we're gonna run for cover.

1688
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:47,159
Can't wait James and Alvin on seven ninety James, thank

1689
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:48,439
you for waiting in. Good morning to you.

1690
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 16: Good morning man, Thank you for accepting my call.

1691
01:19:52,159 --> 01:19:54,560
Speaker 3: You guys, you guys are pretty pretty good.

1692
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:58,279
Speaker 17: Y'all got some of the most knowledgeable listeners in sports

1693
01:19:58,439 --> 01:19:59,159
radio land.

1694
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,239
Speaker 3: Hold on, oh, James, James, James, James, James, you just

1695
01:20:02,319 --> 01:20:05,079
called us pretty good. We've been on the air fifteen years.

1696
01:20:05,159 --> 01:20:06,680
We're more than pretty good. We're damn good.

1697
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 18: James, to take a job at your matt because last

1698
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:14,199
week you had you had a sound bite that had

1699
01:20:14,359 --> 01:20:15,960
crickets sounding in Scott.

1700
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:20,159
Speaker 17: Borris camp saying, what's what's the deal with Alex Breddan?

1701
01:20:20,319 --> 01:20:22,159
Speaker 10: No news is he is?

1702
01:20:22,239 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 16: He tooking Alex Brickman down.

1703
01:20:24,399 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 18: That a fact that nobody wanted. Scott Borris had a

1704
01:20:28,119 --> 01:20:31,319
forty million dollars one hundred and twenty million dollar.

1705
01:20:31,239 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 16: Three year contract in Alex Brickman back hock.

1706
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 18: I know everybody was looking at one another like what

1707
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,039
the heck just went down? And let me say this

1708
01:20:41,199 --> 01:20:47,079
here putows to Alex Bridman forbidding on himself. Between Hakeuen

1709
01:20:47,159 --> 01:20:52,640
olajah Wan and Alex Brickman, them the only two professional

1710
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,239
athletes that ever brought championships to this city.

1711
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:59,560
Speaker 16: And Alex Bridman deserved every penny he gets and he

1712
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:05,399
will succeed his two hundred million dollar contract.

1713
01:21:05,319 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 17: Before six years is Overwhere man, listen, you guys are awesome.

1714
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:14,560
And I think if you go back, I think it

1715
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:18,680
was last last Tuesday, last you've had this soundbody with

1716
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:22,760
the cricket sounding they was they was crying in the background,

1717
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,640
and you say, where is where is Alex.

1718
01:21:25,399 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 16: Bridman and Scott Borris, Well, I'll tell you where it was.

1719
01:21:30,359 --> 01:21:34,199
He had one hundred and twenty million dollar contract for

1720
01:21:34,359 --> 01:21:39,239
three years. Jim Crane all be shaming itself. Thank you guys,

1721
01:21:40,039 --> 01:21:42,920
myself see your letter, James. He's not ashamed of himself

1722
01:21:43,079 --> 01:21:46,720
and Jim Crane, you should be a sh shame, shame, shame,

1723
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:47,600
Jim Crane.

1724
01:21:48,159 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 3: Mister Crane on you clown. He could have gone far

1725
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:57,560
over the tax, but he didn't want you. Nope, that's right,

1726
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:04,359
and the next best deal was the six and one

1727
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,439
for the Detroit Tigers, which was that twenty six million

1728
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:15,000
a year, twenty and a half short term, big big

1729
01:22:15,199 --> 01:22:19,680
money early. Now, remember, he can opt out, and just

1730
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:22,079
because you opt out doesn't mean you're going to get

1731
01:22:22,239 --> 01:22:24,920
forty million dollars the next two years after that. But

1732
01:22:25,039 --> 01:22:27,760
my guess is Ross, if he was to opt out,

1733
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,319
is because the streets are whispering, we'll give you that

1734
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:32,600
big deal you were looking for. Yeah, if he's opting out,

1735
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:36,199
he's gonna get. I mean, look, as we discussed to

1736
01:22:36,319 --> 01:22:41,640
match the Astros deal, he needs to get basically over

1737
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,640
the last three years, thirty six million dollars. That's if

1738
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:46,680
he opts in and stays in there, right, So if

1739
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:49,039
he opts out after one year, let's do this. It'll

1740
01:22:49,079 --> 01:22:54,279
be five years one sixteen. What is that twenty three,

1741
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:55,279
twenty three and a half.

1742
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:55,640
Speaker 7: Yep.

1743
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 3: So if he can get more than five years one sixteen,

1744
01:22:57,840 --> 01:22:59,920
that's already bigger than the asses we talked about all

1745
01:23:00,119 --> 01:23:02,439
last week when the deal came down. H it was

1746
01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:04,199
not about the length of the contract. That was the

1747
01:23:04,239 --> 01:23:08,399
big uh thing that uh Bregman was aspiring for. It

1748
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:11,119
was the average annual value. And that's what Bandler Bolt

1749
01:23:11,199 --> 01:23:12,359
was trying to come in. And so you should have

1750
01:23:12,359 --> 01:23:13,920
got with that, like, yeah, you need too late. You

1751
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,359
lost to match the Tigers deal. If he plays this

1752
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:18,960
year and opts out, he will have to get five

1753
01:23:19,159 --> 01:23:22,560
years one thirty basically, which is twenty six a year,

1754
01:23:23,199 --> 01:23:25,600
which is what he's turned down to begin with. So right, yeah,

1755
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:30,079
that's why I feel very confident that he's going to

1756
01:23:30,119 --> 01:23:32,359
take at least eighty million dollars with him. In fact,

1757
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:33,640
I mean, I don't want to go out and say

1758
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:34,680
he's gonna be the whole three years.

1759
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 7: I don't.

1760
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 3: I don't know that, but I think he's going to

1761
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:44,199
enjoy ross eighty MILLI for two years was way more

1762
01:23:44,279 --> 01:23:46,520
on average than anybody else is willing to pay. He's

1763
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,760
gonna he needs to sit back and enjoy that for

1764
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:50,640
the while. I'm not go through this again unless again

1765
01:23:51,279 --> 01:23:54,399
he bombs hits thirty five forty home runs ops of

1766
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:58,640
him on nine hundred. He's in a good spot. He needs,

1767
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:00,960
he needs kind of a bounce back in some ways.

1768
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:04,279
He did hit the twenty six bombs. Average was very stable,

1769
01:24:04,359 --> 01:24:06,880
but that walk rate took a huge dip and I

1770
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,800
haven't really dived into it because I saw something like

1771
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,600
mid season that he was getting screwed by strike three

1772
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:16,680
calls more than average, But that doesn't necessarily probably shore

1773
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:19,880
up for his walk rate going from thirteen percent to

1774
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,520
seven percent. No, no, no, I think there were more

1775
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,920
head scratching moments because Franklin. The reputation of Alex Pragmant

1776
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:27,840
and I is that he's got a very good eye.

1777
01:24:28,119 --> 01:24:29,720
I saw that a lot with when I was covering

1778
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:32,479
Joe Meyer with the Twins back ten fifteen years ago.

1779
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:36,439
Ross is that once you develop a reputation for being

1780
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:41,479
a good pitch selector in terms of being able to

1781
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:43,319
have a good eye at the plate, you get benefit

1782
01:24:43,359 --> 01:24:45,520
of Thatt Moore and maybe I don't maybe Bragmant last

1783
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:46,880
year didn't get the benefit of the depth that he

1784
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:49,319
maybe have gotten in previous years. Yeah, his walk rate

1785
01:24:49,399 --> 01:24:51,680
was as bad. It went all the way back to

1786
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:53,560
where he went he was at rookie. Yeah, so I

1787
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:55,640
expect that to if the walk rate bounce is back

1788
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:58,199
on base bounces back. He can still hit twenty five

1789
01:24:58,279 --> 01:25:02,560
bombs play ste he handed to plus plus third base,

1790
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:04,159
which he's a gold glove raining gold glover.

1791
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:04,600
Speaker 7: Yep.

1792
01:25:05,319 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 3: Somebody could give him five one fifty maybe and then

1793
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,319
that'll add up to what six one ninety. It's pretty good.

1794
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,760
That's so he's looking for. It just took a little

1795
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:15,920
longer to get to what he wanted. But his average

1796
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:19,039
annual value is over thirty million dollars a year, So

1797
01:25:19,159 --> 01:25:21,039
we'll see. We'll see. All right, let's get to the

1798
01:25:21,119 --> 01:25:22,560
news at noon. We'll do that next year. On the

1799
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,359
Matt Thomas Show with Ross, we are coming to you

1800
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:28,039
from West Palm Beach, Florida. There are guys manicuring the infield.

1801
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:30,640
Do you want to get on the thing and go

1802
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:33,680
for a ride with that? Dude? Why not? I'm just saying,

1803
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:35,960
do you want to? I don't think there's a seat

1804
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,079
for you, Matt. We could always find a spot you're

1805
01:25:38,079 --> 01:25:40,279
gonna have to ride shotgun? Do you think he is,

1806
01:25:40,399 --> 01:25:43,039
like I am the luckiest man on earth, Like I'm

1807
01:25:43,079 --> 01:25:45,800
making eleven dollars an hour manicuring a spook. He's probably

1808
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,039
listening to his favorite album. And it's just kind of

1809
01:25:48,079 --> 01:25:52,039
busy work manicuring an infield. I don't know. Do people

1810
01:25:52,079 --> 01:25:55,439
get really into that He's going to the same spot

1811
01:25:55,560 --> 01:26:00,880
between third and short over and I'm mesmerized this, dude. Yeah,

1812
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:03,239
you are the News at noon. To stap out of it,

1813
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:05,760
The News at Noon is next. It's eleven fifty seven

1814
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:06,800
on Sports Talk seven.

1815
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:14,279
Speaker 1: All right, lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve

1816
01:26:14,319 --> 01:26:14,760
o two.

1817
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 3: At H Town. What's happening to lunch timers? Welcome to

1818
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,319
our number three of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1819
01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:22,319
We come to you from West Palm Beach, Florida, home

1820
01:26:22,359 --> 01:26:25,840
of Astro Spring Training twenty twenty five. And just reminder again,

1821
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:27,239
if you're coming out here in the next month or

1822
01:26:27,279 --> 01:26:33,880
so bringing credit card, that ain't West Palm Living Baby,

1823
01:26:34,039 --> 01:26:41,039
it is Orlando. Can simmy reasonable? West Palm not reasonable? Yeah,

1824
01:26:42,039 --> 01:26:44,399
we're doing all right. We're balling on a budget. We're

1825
01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:45,920
balling on a budget. We're gonna go get us a

1826
01:26:46,239 --> 01:26:51,239
riggy rag at. Yes, we negotiated at Bendy's. We spent

1827
01:26:51,319 --> 01:26:54,159
the entire break negotiating our Bendy's order. Yeah, we did

1828
01:26:56,119 --> 01:26:58,239
because we hit the station. And this is not talking

1829
01:26:58,279 --> 01:26:59,800
out of school. But we have a certain budget we

1830
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:02,800
can go over, so we're gonna eat cheaply. Yeah, we'd

1831
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:05,159
rather go to Dortan's, but we're gonna go to Bendy's. Yeah,

1832
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,520
we rather have some steak. We're gonna have some steak

1833
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:14,239
fut time. Now people are like, shut up, bad shut

1834
01:27:14,319 --> 01:27:17,079
up Ross seven one three two one two five seven. Hoy,

1835
01:27:17,119 --> 01:27:19,279
Christian Walker's gonna join us sometime in the next hour

1836
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:21,960
or so. Here's your new first baseman. Right now, we

1837
01:27:22,039 --> 01:27:27,199
present to you the News at noon, and we go

1838
01:27:27,359 --> 01:27:29,560
to the remote desk of the News at noon. We've

1839
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,640
brought it here to By the way, this week, on Friday,

1840
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:33,560
we get to do Florida Stories. We are in the

1841
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:35,920
state of Florida this so the rule is if you're

1842
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,119
in the state this week, you get to do the

1843
01:27:37,159 --> 01:27:39,680
Florida stories. But you're not gonna be in Florida on Friday.

1844
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 11: Are you? No?

1845
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:41,239
Speaker 3: Are you okay?

1846
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 10: But no.

1847
01:27:42,399 --> 01:27:44,279
Speaker 3: The rule is I want to do Florida story because

1848
01:27:44,279 --> 01:27:46,319
you always talk trash about Florida stories and I think

1849
01:27:46,319 --> 01:27:49,560
they're amazing. I love Florida. The rule is, if I'm

1850
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:51,479
in or you're in the state of Florida, we do

1851
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:53,720
Florida Stories. So if we're in this week, so Friday

1852
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:54,640
will be Florida Stories.

1853
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 7: Love it.

1854
01:27:55,279 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 3: Right now, we present to you the news at noon. Yes, Matthew,

1855
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,359
we are here at West Palm Beach, first day of

1856
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:03,039
full team workouts. We'll be bringing you coverage for the

1857
01:28:03,119 --> 01:28:05,880
next three days. Joe A. Spotta will be speaking each

1858
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:08,199
of those days. Hopefully we'll be able to join us

1859
01:28:08,199 --> 01:28:10,319
in the next couple of days as well. We did

1860
01:28:10,399 --> 01:28:12,680
have Dana Brown earlier on. We'll replace some of that.

1861
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:14,920
You can also find it at Sports Talk seven ninety

1862
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:18,000
dot com. But here is some of Joe Spotta matt

1863
01:28:18,319 --> 01:28:22,159
talking about the big topic of a spring training Jose

1864
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:26,600
Altuve and left field, Joe Aspata saying, that's how Jose

1865
01:28:26,720 --> 01:28:29,920
Altuve showing some leadership that he's willing to play anywhere

1866
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:30,560
on the field.

1867
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 8: You know, we we talked in there about leadership, right

1868
01:28:34,079 --> 01:28:38,000
and you know, I I you know, I immediately go

1869
01:28:38,159 --> 01:28:41,359
to him. That's that's what leaders do, right They they

1870
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:44,279
think of they put teams first, and they think about,

1871
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:47,359
you know, the group, and.

1872
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 10: That's what it's all about.

1873
01:28:50,199 --> 01:28:50,319
Speaker 14: You know.

1874
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:53,680
Speaker 8: He could easily say, hey, Joe second bay is probably

1875
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:54,840
not a good idea, and.

1876
01:28:55,399 --> 01:28:57,359
Speaker 10: But he's open to him. And that's all we wanted

1877
01:28:57,399 --> 01:28:58,239
to just consider.

1878
01:28:59,199 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 8: Uh, the opportunity to play left, create some opportunity for

1879
01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:04,640
the players, the first utility and our team.

1880
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:06,680
Speaker 10: This all the clubs who are dreaming the same stuff.

1881
01:29:07,119 --> 01:29:12,239
And Josey's like, let's roll with it. And it's a

1882
01:29:12,319 --> 01:29:13,039
privilege for me.

1883
01:29:13,399 --> 01:29:16,239
Speaker 8: You could be around Moseel two for the last for

1884
01:29:16,279 --> 01:29:19,039
the last eight season and hopefully we get to work

1885
01:29:19,119 --> 01:29:20,239
together four years ago.

1886
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:25,319
Speaker 3: Al two by showing leadership also working out with the

1887
01:29:25,439 --> 01:29:30,359
outfielders today, Matt, you're a famous Uh can't wait, might

1888
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:35,760
as well. Nothing against it. Let's go. I'm not expecting

1889
01:29:36,319 --> 01:29:39,640
anything super special. I'm expecting him to patrol it like

1890
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:42,199
most players have gone to the outfield after spending their

1891
01:29:42,319 --> 01:29:45,760
entire lives playing in the infield. As we kind of

1892
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:50,079
talked about this yesterday, Matt, everybody in baseball, for the

1893
01:29:50,119 --> 01:29:53,119
most part, makes an error, misplays the ball, miss is

1894
01:29:53,159 --> 01:29:56,640
a throw. But he's just gonna be under that extra microscope.

1895
01:29:56,960 --> 01:30:00,720
We've seen Jordon or Dubon or whoever misplayed and left.

1896
01:30:01,159 --> 01:30:03,800
It's just part of the game. So it'll be interesting

1897
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:06,319
to see the very first time he does that. What

1898
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:08,640
the reaction from others is gonna be. I'm not again.

1899
01:30:09,079 --> 01:30:11,680
To me, it's not about him fielding, because he's caught

1900
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,279
fly balls plenty in his life. It's about the ball

1901
01:30:14,359 --> 01:30:17,159
coming off the wall, runner rounding third, Can you make

1902
01:30:17,199 --> 01:30:19,439
the play? Can you get a guy out of the plate.

1903
01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:23,760
All right, Matt, let's keep it with baseball. Some news

1904
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:28,039
around the league. We mentioned this earlier, Vladimir Guerrero Junior

1905
01:30:28,199 --> 01:30:32,399
and the Blue Jays failing to reach an extension, Glad

1906
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:37,520
Junior saying, quote they have their numbers, I have my numbers.

1907
01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:42,000
By general manager Ross Atkins saying that Jays offers were

1908
01:30:42,079 --> 01:30:46,119
quote very very aggressive. I'm confident that we exhausted the communication,

1909
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:52,159
the ideas, the thoughts, and communicated every dollar. His deadline

1910
01:30:52,199 --> 01:30:55,800
that he set was nine pm on Monday. That has passed.

1911
01:30:56,079 --> 01:30:59,399
He's gonna hit the market along with Kyle Tucker, maybe

1912
01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:03,800
Ali Bregman as those among the headliners of the next

1913
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:06,920
year's free agent class. So that means Kyle Tucker is

1914
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:10,199
moving down a spot, right, and that's why Bregman's gonna

1915
01:31:10,239 --> 01:31:12,560
keep fort for debate. I was probably putting vlad Junior

1916
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:16,399
ahead ahead of Kyle Tucker. Okay, but we mentioned this.

1917
01:31:16,439 --> 01:31:18,479
How old is blad Junior? He came up pretty young,

1918
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:20,520
didn't he. Yeah, he's been around a long time. This

1919
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:24,039
is his Is this his first twenty five? Oh? Oh yeah, yeah,

1920
01:31:24,119 --> 01:31:26,600
he's He's a six year free agent. Yeah, party one.

1921
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:32,119
Vlaska will get paid. Probably hits in a very friendly

1922
01:31:32,199 --> 01:31:34,640
ballpark too. Unless he's hurt, he's gonna get He's gonna

1923
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:40,239
crush last year thirty home runs, one hundred RBIs three

1924
01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:44,079
hundred three, twenty three average, and any ops of nine.

1925
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:48,840
So should be a pretty darn big free agent hitting

1926
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:53,760
the market next year elsewhere I'm at, Actually, go ahead

1927
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:56,840
and keep it with baseball. Did you see Buster Only's

1928
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:03,399
top ten first basement in baseball this, Matt? Yeah, I

1929
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:05,039
believe Christian Walker's third.

1930
01:32:05,079 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 7: Am I right?

1931
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:07,239
Speaker 2: He is sixth Oh?

1932
01:32:07,319 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 3: I was off by three. Freddie Freeman, Bryce Harper, Vlager Junior,

1933
01:32:10,920 --> 01:32:15,239
Matt Olson, Pete Alonzo. Christian Walker placed sixth for your

1934
01:32:15,279 --> 01:32:19,199
Houston Astros. The three time gold glover supposed to join

1935
01:32:19,239 --> 01:32:21,760
the show later on today. Yeah, hit me here, cant

1936
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:24,239
us down. I don't fairly a very media friendly so

1937
01:32:24,319 --> 01:32:27,079
we'd love that. Yeah, absolutely love that should be. We're

1938
01:32:27,119 --> 01:32:29,960
looking forward to hearing from Christian Walker later on in

1939
01:32:30,079 --> 01:32:32,880
the show. Here as we broadcast from West Palm. Let's

1940
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,920
go to some basketball news, Matt, did you know that

1941
01:32:36,079 --> 01:32:39,640
Kyrie Irving was born in Australia. Did he make this

1942
01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:44,479
up himself or is just without this has been verified? Well,

1943
01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,359
whatever the earth is flat around he was born in Australia.

1944
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:50,439
He says he wants to represent Australia in the twenty

1945
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:54,520
twenty eight Olympics, telling reporters there in the process of

1946
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:58,039
getting his nation out in that essonality or whatever you

1947
01:32:58,199 --> 01:33:03,199
call it, FEBA rating or FOEBA configuration, I don't know,

1948
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:08,800
but he might represent Australia as he represented the United

1949
01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:13,039
States in the twenty sixteen Rio Dejiannaro Games and won

1950
01:33:13,119 --> 01:33:15,760
a gold medal there. He did not make either of

1951
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:19,119
the past two USA Olympic rosters, so he might be

1952
01:33:19,359 --> 01:33:23,119
going to the Great down under and joining the Aussie

1953
01:33:23,199 --> 01:33:24,800
So he's trying to find a cheap way to get

1954
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:27,279
a trip to the Olympics. After all, Kyrie irving to

1955
01:33:27,359 --> 01:33:30,359
jack Landale, is there a better pick and roll? There's

1956
01:33:30,359 --> 01:33:36,000
a lot of Aussie's in the NBA. Jackson Jack McVay

1957
01:33:36,039 --> 01:33:38,680
as a New Zealander. Josh yet is he Australian? He

1958
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:42,600
is Australian. Yeah, okay, I think Australians have a great accent.

1959
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:46,039
I can't do. Enn Simmons, Patty Mills, Yeah, that's not

1960
01:33:46,079 --> 01:33:48,239
a bat, Joe Ingles. They got a squad, bad squad

1961
01:33:48,239 --> 01:33:50,720
at all. If he's tyble, if you will, like Jack

1962
01:33:50,840 --> 01:33:52,439
landal has already told me. He says, you go to Australia,

1963
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:53,920
I'll set you up in all the places you drop

1964
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:56,199
my name, that you'll be a freaking god. That's okay, yeah,

1965
01:33:56,279 --> 01:33:58,159
but do we believe him? Not really, No, he doesn't

1966
01:33:58,159 --> 01:34:01,520
even know my name. He calls me mate, So that's like, see,

1967
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:06,800
you've been called worse by you. That's fine, all right, man.

1968
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:08,520
Well let's keep it with basketball. Well, let's go to

1969
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:14,359
the college ranks. Huge Big twelve showed out the University

1970
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:18,720
of Houston Cougar's taking on the under five hundred Arizona

1971
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:22,840
State Sun Devils. James Harden is rolling over in his graves.

1972
01:34:22,920 --> 01:34:27,039
Arizona State just three and eleven in Big Twelve play,

1973
01:34:27,119 --> 01:34:28,520
and if you didn't hear it earlier, I got the

1974
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,880
Cougars covering eleven and a half. Cougar's favored by eleven

1975
01:34:32,079 --> 01:34:35,800
and a half in that one. Man, how crazy is

1976
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:37,399
it that the Cougar has joined the Big Twelve and

1977
01:34:37,479 --> 01:34:41,279
then the Premier Basketball Conference becomes the SEC map. By

1978
01:34:41,279 --> 01:34:45,279
the way, I think the Lenardi bracket has eight Big

1979
01:34:45,359 --> 01:34:48,399
twelve teams going to the tournament. Wow. I think the

1980
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:53,239
SEC's got twelve. I think twelve. My goodness, I believe

1981
01:34:53,239 --> 01:34:54,359
the long Warns are among that group.

1982
01:34:54,399 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 7: By the way.

1983
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:56,720
Speaker 3: By the way, NXT win that big win over the

1984
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:59,600
welth Kentucky was missing some good players, but that's okay,

1985
01:35:00,359 --> 01:35:02,640
and it took down game. A win is a win.

1986
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:04,640
Quad one win is a quad one win, folks.

1987
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:05,039
Speaker 7: That's right.

1988
01:35:05,319 --> 01:35:07,840
Speaker 3: That's in the last couple of weeks wins over ranked Miszoo,

1989
01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:10,840
ranked A and M and ranked Kentucky. If you guys

1990
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,359
are in all at home and Ronnie tearing something new

1991
01:35:13,399 --> 01:35:20,880
deal out of this stop, please stop ovey On that note,

1992
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:23,159
let's see what else to get for the News at noon.

1993
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,239
I think that's all I got. It's ally was needed

1994
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:30,600
unless you want the to hear about the Cubs getting

1995
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:33,359
a one year deal with Justin Turner. And I would

1996
01:35:33,399 --> 01:35:36,119
ask you what was your favorite Jessin Turner moment as

1997
01:35:36,119 --> 01:35:38,279
a ceiling No, that's a bit steal softy. I got you.

1998
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:40,479
I know where you are, all right, That, my friends,

1999
01:35:40,520 --> 01:35:42,399
is the News at noon at twelve twelve here on

2000
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:44,319
Sports Talk seven. If you want to jump in on

2001
01:35:44,399 --> 01:35:47,199
the conversation, you may do so at seven one three

2002
01:35:47,279 --> 01:35:50,920
two one two five seven nine zero seven one three

2003
01:35:51,399 --> 01:35:54,439
two one two five seven Hinton. So I'm gonna ask

2004
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:56,840
all of us to put our crystal ball uh in

2005
01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:00,239
front of us here? Are we gonna be deliberate reading

2006
01:36:00,279 --> 01:36:04,279
about be moved for Altobita left field a little bit

2007
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:10,039
a lot or on the daily thing about that for

2008
01:36:10,119 --> 01:36:11,920
a me? Okay, and we'll discuss it when we come back.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If

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you want to chime in seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety, I got a question for you,

2012
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and I always ask you this question. Well, Actually it's

2013
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:24,199
a different question, but it's the same thing. How you feeling,

2014
01:36:24,880 --> 01:36:26,960
how's your DAT to day? How's your workouts? How's your

2015
01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:30,479
New Year's resolutions? Dude, it's middle of February. I haven't

2016
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:32,359
been feeling motivated. Said, you're gonna hit the gym. I

2017
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:35,199
don't know why you haven't been feeling like yourself. Diet's

2018
01:36:35,199 --> 01:36:37,479
been the same, workout regimens in the same or non existent.

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Speaker 5: The Mount Thomas Show with Ross continue so on Sports

2033
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Talk seven ninety.

2034
01:37:30,199 --> 01:37:34,439
Speaker 3: Timmy is twelve seventeen The Mot Thomas Show with Ross.

2035
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:36,520
Christian Walker is in a photo shoot right now, so

2036
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:39,000
as soon as he's done with that, he will come

2037
01:37:39,039 --> 01:37:41,439
and say hello to us. Wonderful looking forward to that.

2038
01:37:41,479 --> 01:37:43,279
If you miss start in le Bron Conversation that's also

2039
01:37:43,319 --> 01:37:45,880
on the one o'clock Cowen, I did miss it. We

2040
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:47,920
will check it out that well. I know you checked out,

2041
01:37:48,079 --> 01:37:51,039
you were you were literally here, all right, So I've

2042
01:37:51,079 --> 01:37:53,000
got my crystal ball in front of me. Here, Okay,

2043
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:55,920
here's how I think the outfield is going to go.

2044
01:38:00,319 --> 01:38:03,960
Jose will be fine. I'm not saying it's gonna be

2045
01:38:04,279 --> 01:38:07,880
a while he reinvented himself. I'm gonna say he looks

2046
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:12,000
like a second baseman career infielder playing the outfield. He'll

2047
01:38:12,359 --> 01:38:16,399
he'll make the regular catches. He will not go out

2048
01:38:16,439 --> 01:38:18,560
of his way to make the catch that wasn't supposed

2049
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:20,720
to be made. I don't think he's gonna have a

2050
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:23,560
terrific rate of return on throwing guys out, scoring on

2051
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:25,520
side flies or anything like that. I also think he's

2052
01:38:25,520 --> 01:38:26,800
not gonna be asked to do a whole lot of

2053
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:28,479
that because I think my guess is he'll probably be

2054
01:38:28,520 --> 01:38:31,439
playing some of the shorter porches in baseball, which are

2055
01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:33,920
quite a few as you go around the National American League.

2056
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:40,520
To me, the biggest bone of contention for astro fans

2057
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:43,920
and probably for the organization will be can the outfield

2058
01:38:44,079 --> 01:38:53,760
collectively that's Jake, Chazz, Jose, Descenzo Jordan in it? Can

2059
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:57,760
they hit enough? I think we're going to spend ross

2060
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:01,680
a lot of time debating what they're going to do

2061
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:04,600
with six through nine in the lineup. That's just my

2062
01:39:05,119 --> 01:39:08,680
early season field of it, and that I think we'll

2063
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:10,800
spend more time than on that than we will worrying

2064
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,199
about who's playing the left field today? Is this gonna

2065
01:39:13,199 --> 01:39:16,840
be a daily well, well, we run to the ballpark

2066
01:39:16,920 --> 01:39:18,960
and go, oh, is it now two Bay and left today?

2067
01:39:19,239 --> 01:39:21,079
Is it Albarez in left today? Is it Dubon and

2068
01:39:21,159 --> 01:39:24,600
left today? Is it descends the one left today? I mean,

2069
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:28,079
it could be a it's gonna be a conversation piece,

2070
01:39:28,159 --> 01:39:31,479
but I think what will drive the show and drive

2071
01:39:31,560 --> 01:39:35,439
astro fans is why don't we have anything in terms

2072
01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:38,279
of massive pop out in the outfield, and hopefully that

2073
01:39:38,479 --> 01:39:40,319
isn't the case. But I think if we were to say,

2074
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:43,960
based off of educated guests, based off of history, I

2075
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:47,000
think that's what we're thinking about. Because they're hoping Chazz

2076
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:49,079
comes back to what he was a couple of years ago.

2077
01:39:49,079 --> 01:39:51,039
I'm gonna hopefully catch up with Chas tomorrow and Jake

2078
01:39:51,119 --> 01:39:53,840
as well. We know who Jake is offensively, we know

2079
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:55,840
he's defensively. I don't think there's gonna be a massive

2080
01:39:55,840 --> 01:39:57,520
amount of change in his game unless he all of

2081
01:39:57,560 --> 01:39:59,760
a sudden figures out what he was looking at the

2082
01:40:00,039 --> 01:40:01,479
the month of May to say, oh, that's what I

2083
01:40:01,520 --> 01:40:02,840
did and I didn't do that rest of the month

2084
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:05,479
of the year. That's to me, will be what they

2085
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:07,720
do offensively much more than what their do work is

2086
01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:11,520
going to be defensively. Yeah, I think that's what we're

2087
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:13,720
worried about. And then you know, Dana Brown kind of

2088
01:40:13,760 --> 01:40:15,239
hinted at when we had them on, like, hey, if

2089
01:40:15,279 --> 01:40:18,960
you want to answer we need some left field production

2090
01:40:19,039 --> 01:40:21,439
at the plate. Then jose L TV provides that. But

2091
01:40:21,520 --> 01:40:23,319
then of course where does the trade off come and

2092
01:40:23,399 --> 01:40:27,479
what you're gonna get elsewhere? So that's gonna be the storyline,

2093
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:30,640
especially if the pitching can stay healthy and in line

2094
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:32,279
the way that we want it to, and we think

2095
01:40:32,319 --> 01:40:38,840
it will. If all of what Brown Blanco arraghetti are

2096
01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:40,720
what they were last year, what they were at their

2097
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:43,439
peaks of last year, then you add in Fromberg and

2098
01:40:43,520 --> 01:40:46,840
then I just got a gut feeling that wasn't Nesky

2099
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:49,840
is going to be very, very good because, as Dana

2100
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:53,479
Brown also said, they bring pictures here and they work

2101
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:57,640
wonders with them. And if you think we're giving you

2102
01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:02,319
the company line, now the evidence is Verlinder reinvented himself

2103
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:04,800
even though he was late in his career. Remember when

2104
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:07,279
he was trashing the Mets organization for how bad their

2105
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:09,920
analytics were because of how good they were with the Astros.

2106
01:41:10,439 --> 01:41:13,359
And if there's no better example, it's what you say

2107
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:17,920
Kakuchi was. You say Kakuchi was a home run machine,

2108
01:41:18,079 --> 01:41:21,359
not hitting them, tossing pitches that were hit by other

2109
01:41:21,479 --> 01:41:24,680
players out of the ballpark. They went nine and wanted

2110
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:26,159
to start something like that. Yeah, and now I give

2111
01:41:26,239 --> 01:41:27,560
up the home run the very first game. He ned

2112
01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:29,000
to give up a few home runs because that's what

2113
01:41:29,079 --> 01:41:34,680
flyball pitchers do. But generally speaking, you had zero worries.

2114
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:37,119
A matter of fact, there were people clamoring, when's U say,

2115
01:41:37,159 --> 01:41:38,840
going to pitch in a playoff? In a playoff game, Well,

2116
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,960
the seriesly went two games. So whatever the elixir is

2117
01:41:43,039 --> 01:41:47,239
they use in the Astros pitching room, video room, whatever

2118
01:41:47,319 --> 01:41:51,000
the instructions are, there's a lot of evidence in the

2119
01:41:51,079 --> 01:41:53,199
last five years, and even before that when we had

2120
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:57,479
what's his name, uh, the old The old guy hadn't

2121
01:41:57,520 --> 01:42:01,880
gonna be rude, but uh oh, I'm French Strom. There's

2122
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:06,199
something in the DNA and the Astros pitching Academy that

2123
01:42:06,319 --> 01:42:08,560
seems to work and help people out. Charlie Marten Reine

2124
01:42:08,560 --> 01:42:11,199
been in himself here. It's yeah, it's the it is

2125
01:42:11,319 --> 01:42:13,560
the pitching coaches, but it's also the numbers guys and

2126
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,760
tinkering with repertoires and adding this pitch or throwing more

2127
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:18,800
of this pitch or whatever it is. Well, so yeah,

2128
01:42:19,279 --> 01:42:22,159
I would say the question mark is going to be

2129
01:42:22,399 --> 01:42:25,439
production and a lot from the outfield. But that is

2130
01:42:25,520 --> 01:42:27,880
the thing. As you mentioned Jake Myers and then't gonna

2131
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:29,760
go out there and hit three hundred and twenty five bombs.

2132
01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:33,000
He's not gonna happen. So, yeah, you kind of he's

2133
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:34,520
not enough of a sample, says, we kind of know

2134
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:36,760
who he now, can he have a hotspurt? Yeah, but

2135
01:42:36,880 --> 01:42:39,720
there was also you know, June and July, the second

2136
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:41,439
half numbers were not even close to what they were

2137
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:44,119
in the first half. Yeah, the numbers he had that

2138
01:42:44,319 --> 01:42:47,199
hot May where he was opsing like nine hundred numbers

2139
01:42:47,239 --> 01:42:49,199
tumbled so hard. He had a worse year than he

2140
01:42:49,239 --> 01:42:51,000
had the year before. That was how that was with

2141
01:42:51,199 --> 01:42:53,079
that really hot may. You take on that hot May.

2142
01:42:53,520 --> 01:42:55,439
You don't want to look at Jake Myers's numbers, Well,

2143
01:42:55,479 --> 01:42:57,199
they wouldn't have They would not have been major league

2144
01:42:57,359 --> 01:42:58,199
caliber numbers.

2145
01:42:58,239 --> 01:42:58,520
Speaker 7: Correct.

2146
01:42:58,560 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 3: What he does is he he is a ninth place

2147
01:43:00,960 --> 01:43:04,399
hitter that is brought on for his defense. Now again,

2148
01:43:04,520 --> 01:43:06,800
nine hitters you need in the world of baseball today

2149
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:08,880
in twenty twenty five, You need something out of your nine.

2150
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:10,560
You need something out of your top nine. You just do.

2151
01:43:11,439 --> 01:43:14,239
But you can kind of live with it. If one

2152
01:43:14,319 --> 01:43:17,000
through eight are projecting to have the type of power.

2153
01:43:17,079 --> 01:43:20,039
The problem is Duba was playing almost every single day.

2154
01:43:20,119 --> 01:43:22,800
You didn't get any pop from there. Myers was playing

2155
01:43:22,800 --> 01:43:25,279
every day, so you had, you know, two nine of

2156
01:43:25,319 --> 01:43:27,039
your lineup that they got on base, that was cool,

2157
01:43:27,079 --> 01:43:28,640
but one of them wasn't getting on base and one

2158
01:43:28,680 --> 01:43:30,560
the other one was it was nothing more than a

2159
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:34,279
singles hitter. Yeah. Oh, that's what you're wondering about. And

2160
01:43:34,319 --> 01:43:35,920
that's why I think a lot of the onus is

2161
01:43:36,199 --> 01:43:40,399
on Chaz to get back to where he was a

2162
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:42,640
couple of years ago, or at least close to it.

2163
01:43:43,359 --> 01:43:45,359
He's probably somewhere in between, right, He's not as bad

2164
01:43:45,399 --> 01:43:47,119
as he was last year. Maybe he's not as good

2165
01:43:47,159 --> 01:43:48,640
as when he had twenty two home runs and a

2166
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:52,159
very smaller, much smaller sample size and everybody was talking

2167
01:43:52,199 --> 01:43:54,359
about playing him every day, and Dusty Baker and the

2168
01:43:54,399 --> 01:43:56,520
whole bread pudd or banana pudding thing and all that

2169
01:43:56,600 --> 01:43:59,479
stuff was going on. So he's probably somewhere in between.

2170
01:44:00,079 --> 01:44:03,720
That still means to me, you need some production and

2171
01:44:04,199 --> 01:44:07,439
you could carry the day. And Das we hadn't really

2172
01:44:08,039 --> 01:44:10,479
we've we've hardly mentioned his name all the last season.

2173
01:44:11,359 --> 01:44:13,520
He's gonna have to continue to produce because we talked

2174
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:15,640
abou him last year because he was taking he was

2175
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:19,800
going from the part time starter, uh to playing every

2176
01:44:19,840 --> 01:44:21,800
single day. All we got to do is get him

2177
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:24,000
out there six days a week, and you did that

2178
01:44:27,319 --> 01:44:30,960
to batting wise, it was obviously an upgrade. I mean, yeah,

2179
01:44:31,479 --> 01:44:33,479
anything over Martinelle Donal was going to be an upgrade.

2180
01:44:34,239 --> 01:44:36,600
The defensive work. I still and this is an early

2181
01:44:36,640 --> 01:44:38,800
guy feeling we had on the show years ago, which

2182
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:43,199
maybe will change because of Christian Walker's stance. But I

2183
01:44:43,239 --> 01:44:46,800
always thought maybe this will still happen. I think is

2184
01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:49,479
going to end his major league career or maybe three

2185
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:51,439
or years now. If Christian Walker's deal has done it,

2186
01:44:51,479 --> 01:44:53,720
He's gonna be a first baseman. I don't think the

2187
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:55,560
catcher that got out of Sam Houston, say, I forgot

2188
01:44:55,600 --> 01:45:00,319
the guy's name, but they the advanced right up on

2189
01:45:00,399 --> 01:45:05,079
this kid is unbelievable. Yeah, but for for for twenty

2190
01:45:05,119 --> 01:45:07,279
twenty five sake though, that's another question mark to me,

2191
01:45:07,600 --> 01:45:10,960
because where would you stick your Dias when you want

2192
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:12,279
him in the lineup, but you also want to get

2193
01:45:12,319 --> 01:45:14,640
Victor Karattini in there. You want some production you maybe

2194
01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:16,720
you know, get him off his legs. You'd stick him

2195
01:45:16,760 --> 01:45:19,479
at DH. They want your on more dhing more. They

2196
01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:21,479
went out two a probably the DH sum this year

2197
01:45:21,479 --> 01:45:23,640
as well. So how do you stick you know that

2198
01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:26,079
was kind of that relief spot for Joe's spot out

2199
01:45:26,119 --> 01:45:27,640
to say, you know what, I'm gonna throw you in

2200
01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:29,239
the DH spot. Let's get your on on the left.

2201
01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:31,079
They don't want to do that as much. They would

2202
01:45:31,079 --> 01:45:33,520
also say occasionally it was only a handful of times,

2203
01:45:33,800 --> 01:45:34,479
we'll put you on here.

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01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:34,760
Speaker 7: First.

2205
01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:37,039
Speaker 3: Well, Christian Walker supposed to be uh walking that down

2206
01:45:37,039 --> 01:45:38,920
to Christian Walker. And again I don't know him. We're

2207
01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:40,920
about to meet him in a few minutes. He's playing

2208
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:43,600
six days a week. You're paying him to play thirty

2209
01:45:43,640 --> 01:45:45,239
four years old. You might want to get him off

2210
01:45:45,319 --> 01:45:47,920
his feet every now and then. We're with, eh, yeah,

2211
01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:50,439
there's there's a lot of guys out their feet days.

2212
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:53,039
And that's the challenge I think for every manje league manager.

2213
01:45:53,039 --> 01:45:54,520
We're going to write that down. We need to ask

2214
01:45:54,640 --> 01:45:56,800
Joe Spot about that. I actually might I have that,

2215
01:45:57,000 --> 01:45:59,159
you know a matter of fact, I'm going I'm gonna

2216
01:45:59,239 --> 01:46:03,159
let you ask that question. Okay, it's get off that

2217
01:46:03,279 --> 01:46:07,039
guy's feet day. How do you balance that? Okay, because

2218
01:46:07,039 --> 01:46:09,079
that's a lot of if honestly, it's a lot of work.

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01:46:10,239 --> 01:46:13,239
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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01:46:13,279 --> 01:46:16,199
one three two one two five seven Onty. I hope

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01:46:16,199 --> 01:46:18,600
you guys are enjoying the Astros conversation because we are

2222
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:21,600
certainly getting ready for another season. We'll get back to

2223
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:24,560
the other things in sports, including, uh, the NBA letter

2224
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:27,359
on this week. Uh, we have a little bit of

2225
01:46:27,479 --> 01:46:29,960
NFL tidbits to get to real quick before we get

2226
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:32,439
to the break. Did did y'all enjoy that? Did you

2227
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:34,720
watch Saturn out live? The fifty year thing? Did watch

2228
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:36,960
a second of it? Because you just don't don't care.

2229
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:39,560
If you don't care, you don't care. I mean, I

2230
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:41,560
kind of forgot. I saw a couple of clips on

2231
01:46:41,880 --> 01:46:43,680
I I didn't see it live because I was at

2232
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:46,760
the Black Jeopardy on on Twitter. I saw a couple

2233
01:46:46,880 --> 01:46:49,159
other ones on Twitter. Yeah, I thought they were funny,

2234
01:46:49,199 --> 01:46:53,079
like Eddie Murphy and Will Ferrell doing the scared straight

2235
01:46:53,119 --> 01:46:55,920
thing and yelling at people. I thought I thought Eddie

2236
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:58,039
Murphy was the star of the show. Eddie Murphy doing

2237
01:46:59,159 --> 01:47:03,199
Tracy Morgan Black Jeopardy was hysterical. Yeah, I saw Carle laughed.

2238
01:47:03,359 --> 01:47:06,079
I just did watch the show. Yeah, it's crazy. It's

2239
01:47:06,119 --> 01:47:09,479
fifty years and to me, it still gives you one

2240
01:47:09,560 --> 01:47:11,319
or two segments a week. I'll tell you know why.

2241
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:14,199
That's that's where social media followed that account. Yeah, that's true.

2242
01:47:14,279 --> 01:47:16,119
I mean I feel like if there's something really funny,

2243
01:47:16,119 --> 01:47:18,520
I catch it on Twitter. Yeah, like the George Washington

2244
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:21,079
when they've been doing I thought those are pretty funny. Yeah,

2245
01:47:21,079 --> 01:47:24,359
and uh, Kate McKinnon is that whatever that woman is.

2246
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:27,479
She's in the prison and she's talking about aliens and stuff.

2247
01:47:27,479 --> 01:47:29,039
And then her mom came on there for the first time.

2248
01:47:29,079 --> 01:47:30,560
Her mom was Meryl Streeps. She had never been on

2249
01:47:30,600 --> 01:47:32,600
a Saturday Night Live before. Oh, I didn't catch up.

2250
01:47:32,640 --> 01:47:34,520
And then Paul McCartney was fantastic?

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01:47:35,079 --> 01:47:35,199
Speaker 6: Was he?

2252
01:47:35,279 --> 01:47:37,199
Speaker 3: Except Houston? You didn't get to see it? Sorry about that?

2253
01:47:38,359 --> 01:47:39,520
Was he fantastic? Did he sing?

2254
01:47:39,920 --> 01:47:41,920
Speaker 7: Yeah? Okay, yeah?

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01:47:41,960 --> 01:47:42,960
Speaker 3: Are you sure he was fantastic?

2256
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:43,199
Speaker 7: Magic?

2257
01:47:43,319 --> 01:47:45,560
Speaker 3: He was, No, he was amazing. People. That brought the

2258
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,800
house down. So did Adam Sandler saying too about the cast.

2259
01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:51,039
It was really really I saw that, all right? Phones

2260
01:47:51,119 --> 01:47:53,680
next seven one three, two, one two five seven Hunty,

2261
01:47:53,840 --> 01:47:56,000
By the way, the man manicuring the fields now worked

2262
01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:59,119
this way towards first base man. He's just having a

2263
01:47:59,199 --> 01:48:01,119
ball out there. Do you think he's jamming or do

2264
01:48:01,199 --> 01:48:02,960
you think he's like, can I get I need to

2265
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:04,560
hang over time more minutes.

2266
01:48:04,680 --> 01:48:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

2267
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:06,399
Speaker 3: You think it's like like when're you're at work and

2268
01:48:06,439 --> 01:48:07,960
you got like an office job, and you're like, all right,

2269
01:48:08,039 --> 01:48:10,159
I really only have like two hours of real work.

2270
01:48:10,159 --> 01:48:11,520
I gotta stretch this into five hours.

2271
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:11,800
Speaker 7: Yeah.

2272
01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 3: So you get on your computer and you get on

2273
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:15,920
your Facebook like you're typing. You're really just damned going

2274
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:18,920
in circles? Yeah, is the the eighth revolution of him?

2275
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:21,319
Going in circles? Really that much better than adding that

2276
01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:23,439
much like he could stop right now, but he is.

2277
01:48:23,680 --> 01:48:25,720
He is in the same spot over and over and

2278
01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:28,960
over again, actually moving towards second base seven one three

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01:48:29,039 --> 01:48:31,279
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

2280
01:48:31,319 --> 01:48:33,399
one two five seven with Ross on Matt we are

2281
01:48:33,520 --> 01:48:36,000
in West Palm Beach for Astro spring training here on

2282
01:48:36,119 --> 01:48:39,239
Sports Talk seven ninety more Matt Thomas.

2283
01:48:39,039 --> 01:48:43,840
Speaker 2: Show with Ross Now, but Sports Talk seven ninety.

2284
01:48:49,359 --> 01:48:54,279
Speaker 3: Matt Ross with you from West Palm Beach, where we

2285
01:48:54,399 --> 01:48:56,920
once again will tell you that are off the air

2286
01:48:57,079 --> 01:48:59,680
comments are significantly better than whenever whatever we provide you

2287
01:48:59,800 --> 01:49:02,640
on air, And someday we'll tell you we're doing off

2288
01:49:02,680 --> 01:49:07,439
the air some day some day name probably when we retire,

2289
01:49:07,920 --> 01:49:09,239
Like if we ever have a party like from my

2290
01:49:09,359 --> 01:49:11,319
retirement or your retirement, Ross will tell people what we

2291
01:49:11,439 --> 01:49:16,399
really talking about. Real brutal honesty. Oh yeah, that was yeah,

2292
01:49:17,319 --> 01:49:20,000
gloves come off for the like the final show ever?

2293
01:49:21,359 --> 01:49:25,079
Oh that may be seven one three, two, one two

2294
01:49:25,319 --> 01:49:27,760
five seven niney. Let's go to Jay on The Matt

2295
01:49:27,840 --> 01:49:29,720
Thomas Show with Ross. Jay, thank you for holding what's

2296
01:49:29,760 --> 01:49:30,159
on your mind?

2297
01:49:32,159 --> 01:49:35,319
Speaker 14: Uh, Jake, if he doesn't have a good spring, that

2298
01:49:35,439 --> 01:49:37,520
means you'll you'll stay in the minor leaves or they

2299
01:49:37,720 --> 01:49:38,239
just cut him.

2300
01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:44,439
Speaker 3: Jake Myers is gonna be your starting center fielder in likelihood? Yep?

2301
01:49:45,720 --> 01:49:48,840
Speaker 14: Oh no, what about John Singletons? Did they cut him

2302
01:49:48,920 --> 01:49:49,680
or they going to give him?

2303
01:49:50,159 --> 01:49:51,720
Speaker 3: He's I saw him today as the matter if fought

2304
01:49:51,760 --> 01:49:52,279
him at center?

2305
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:56,079
Speaker 14: No, no, no, he's gonna he's supposed to be backing

2306
01:49:56,159 --> 01:49:56,880
up first base.

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01:49:57,800 --> 01:49:58,479
Speaker 6: That is correct?

2308
01:49:58,520 --> 01:49:59,560
Speaker 10: Eight or one of them?

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01:50:00,800 --> 01:50:01,079
Speaker 7: Okay?

2310
01:50:01,159 --> 01:50:03,039
Speaker 14: And then and then I heard you say you're gonna

2311
01:50:03,039 --> 01:50:04,680
put two V in left field.

2312
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:07,640
Speaker 3: I'm not doing the Astros are gonna put him out there.

2313
01:50:07,840 --> 01:50:10,000
He's working out now field right now or today?

2314
01:50:10,079 --> 01:50:10,520
Speaker 7: He did.

2315
01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:16,960
Speaker 14: Besides playing here? Oh, I've been out working so besides him.

2316
01:50:16,960 --> 01:50:19,079
I'm playing here at the park.

2317
01:50:20,239 --> 01:50:22,399
Speaker 10: How's he gonna jump up the still home loans?

2318
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:25,399
Speaker 3: He's not. That's not gonna be a part of the

2319
01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:28,439
reference exactly the way. No one in the history of

2320
01:50:28,479 --> 01:50:31,680
the world, Jay, no one in the history of Minute

2321
01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:33,640
May Parks ever robbed a home run off the Crawford

2322
01:50:33,640 --> 01:50:35,760
boxes and it's never happened.

2323
01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:38,439
Speaker 14: But but I think what they jumped up in there

2324
01:50:38,479 --> 01:50:40,279
and grabbed him off the wall.

2325
01:50:41,039 --> 01:50:43,439
Speaker 3: Hey, legally, could he climb up that scoreboard and get

2326
01:50:43,479 --> 01:50:47,800
up there like Spider Man? Yeah, you're why not? Why

2327
01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:48,439
why can't he?

2328
01:50:48,560 --> 01:50:48,720
Speaker 7: Jay?

2329
01:50:49,159 --> 01:50:52,119
Speaker 3: He can climb up there, he can kick, and he's

2330
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:56,039
rob out there. Wait, man, how many How can do

2331
01:50:56,079 --> 01:50:58,640
you see you're not climbing walls and left field? I

2332
01:50:58,680 --> 01:50:59,640
didn't remember seeing him do it.

2333
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:03,560
Speaker 14: Ever, you're is too bus He's not getting worried about

2334
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:08,359
not getting hurt. That's why they playing in outfield. You

2335
01:51:08,399 --> 01:51:10,880
don't need to playing an outfield. You know what, Give

2336
01:51:10,920 --> 01:51:14,439
and take the Astros, they probably gonna fire a spotted

2337
01:51:14,760 --> 01:51:19,439
before the All Star break. What Yeah, that's my take.

2338
01:51:20,760 --> 01:51:24,760
They're gonna have a horrible no pitch, no pitch hot take.

2339
01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:28,319
Speaker 3: Canna stay here or whatever your name is Jay run

2340
01:51:28,399 --> 01:51:29,800
through the rotation for us? And who do you like?

2341
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:31,319
And who do you like it among the guys in

2342
01:51:31,359 --> 01:51:31,840
the rotation?

2343
01:51:31,960 --> 01:51:34,159
Speaker 2: Go ahead rotation?

2344
01:51:35,239 --> 01:51:39,920
Speaker 14: Yeah about this, he's probably gonna get hurt. You got Blanco,

2345
01:51:40,960 --> 01:51:43,840
you might get away with him, and then you got

2346
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:44,560
Aric Getty.

2347
01:51:45,279 --> 01:51:48,239
Speaker 3: Yeah uh, and then you got uh.

2348
01:51:48,800 --> 01:51:50,680
Speaker 14: Who's the other four guy you ain't got?

2349
01:51:51,720 --> 01:51:52,600
Speaker 3: How about Hunter Brown?

2350
01:51:54,840 --> 01:51:56,520
Speaker 14: Hunter Brown might be your only hope.

2351
01:51:56,800 --> 01:51:57,359
Speaker 3: Haunter Brown.

2352
01:51:57,399 --> 01:52:00,399
Speaker 14: I forgot about him. But one guy I ain't gonna

2353
01:52:00,439 --> 01:52:02,079
win you a hundred games?

2354
01:52:02,159 --> 01:52:04,640
Speaker 3: So well, they only have one good picture. Why are

2355
01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:06,720
you firing Joe spot over it? Why is Joe Spotta

2356
01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:07,680
getting the hook so quick?

2357
01:52:09,399 --> 01:52:09,560
Speaker 8: Oh?

2358
01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:14,720
Speaker 14: Because that's They're not gonna have a good season. Trust me,

2359
01:52:14,760 --> 01:52:16,760
they're not gonna. I won't call you back right before

2360
01:52:16,800 --> 01:52:18,520
the All Star breaking, say.

2361
01:52:18,439 --> 01:52:19,199
Speaker 3: Matt cannot wait.

2362
01:52:19,359 --> 01:52:21,039
Speaker 14: Tell you so back in February.

2363
01:52:21,199 --> 01:52:24,039
Speaker 3: I tell your soul callers, Jay gout, zero problem with

2364
01:52:24,079 --> 01:52:25,920
you calling us back. But remember if Jay, if they're

2365
01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:28,680
doing okay, you have to call and apologize and apologize.

2366
01:52:29,359 --> 01:52:31,880
Speaker 14: Yeah, you crue, that's right, you cruel.

2367
01:52:31,960 --> 01:52:34,039
Speaker 3: Right, That's what I'm talking about. Thank you, ship the

2368
01:52:34,079 --> 01:52:37,880
phone call, all right, see you later, I feel like

2369
01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:39,600
we were giving him news that he had not heard.

2370
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:41,960
And and and look, I look, I know people have

2371
01:52:42,039 --> 01:52:45,439
to work, but up out of a coma. This jose

2372
01:52:45,600 --> 01:52:47,279
L Tuba thing has been talked about for about what's

2373
01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:49,640
four weeks now, has it not? I think Lester Holt

2374
01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:53,800
was talking about it, Lester holds, Wait, what's that guy's

2375
01:52:53,880 --> 01:52:57,239
name on NBC News. I think he was leading the

2376
01:52:57,359 --> 01:53:01,840
NBC News. That's a Rando pull. Lester Holt was talking

2377
01:53:01,840 --> 01:53:06,640
about it. Yeah, okay, I respected the game. I believe

2378
01:53:06,760 --> 01:53:09,199
it was Bill Maher's topic a on This Week with

2379
01:53:09,359 --> 01:53:11,359
a Real Time with Bill Maher. I think actually he

2380
01:53:11,439 --> 01:53:13,680
was a Donald Trump executive order that hose Al two

2381
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:15,920
bay play left field. Hold up, we're getting word than

2382
01:53:15,960 --> 01:53:18,720
Anderson Cooper had Josel Twoby on the show a month ago.

2383
01:53:21,079 --> 01:53:24,000
Hold up. Barbara Walters before she passed, had him on

2384
01:53:24,279 --> 01:53:28,319
twenty twenty. The ghost of Walter Cronkite his way in. Oh,

2385
01:53:28,720 --> 01:53:30,520
he's got al two bay left. Excuse me, what did

2386
01:53:30,560 --> 01:53:32,800
you say, mister Morrow Edward R. Murrew, what did you say?

2387
01:53:33,359 --> 01:53:36,439
You got l two men coming on? Okay, good, well,

2388
01:53:36,640 --> 01:53:39,520
look it's possible. The win totals eighty six and a

2389
01:53:39,560 --> 01:53:41,680
half math. Okay, I want you a realist. As soon

2390
01:53:41,720 --> 01:53:43,399
as you told me that this morning, what was my

2391
01:53:43,520 --> 01:53:48,079
first first h and what else? That astros overreaction was

2392
01:53:48,119 --> 01:53:51,960
going to be in full play this year. Perhaps not,

2393
01:53:52,119 --> 01:53:54,319
Perhaps they go eighty six and seventy six the city.

2394
01:53:54,359 --> 01:53:56,399
They can't have a top five pitching staff, and this

2395
01:53:56,560 --> 01:54:02,279
city's gonna lose its mind. Yourn's gonna be good. You're

2396
01:54:02,319 --> 01:54:05,239
not gonna have a slow starting. Bregmant here, Now, that's

2397
01:54:05,359 --> 01:54:08,159
not nice. By the way, by the way, we got

2398
01:54:08,279 --> 01:54:09,960
an I got an email from a listener. Forgot who

2399
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:12,039
it was from, but the listener bring up a good point.

2400
01:54:12,039 --> 01:54:13,960
I apologize for those of you did email me. They didn't.

2401
01:54:14,319 --> 01:54:17,560
We're gonna do bregmant updates really every couple of weeks.

2402
01:54:18,079 --> 01:54:23,199
Men updates. We gotta change on the Matt Toms Show,

2403
01:54:24,079 --> 01:54:25,279
brag Man update.

2404
01:54:27,800 --> 01:54:29,199
Speaker 5: Is he no?

2405
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:29,720
Speaker 11: No?

2406
01:54:33,359 --> 01:54:34,039
Speaker 3: Is he wicked?

2407
01:54:34,159 --> 01:54:34,640
Speaker 10: Good? Or no?

2408
01:54:37,159 --> 01:54:38,880
Speaker 3: Did Devers let him play third?

2409
01:54:39,079 --> 01:54:39,279
Speaker 8: Or no?

2410
01:54:42,760 --> 01:54:44,640
Speaker 3: You gotta bring in Wicked at some point, all right,

2411
01:54:44,640 --> 01:54:47,279
you gonna go wicked and awesome, Wicked and awesome, wock

2412
01:54:47,319 --> 01:54:50,880
it awesome, wicked? Is he wicked awesome? Or no? That's

2413
01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:52,640
not bad? All right, let's try. Well, we got we

2414
01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:54,920
got a ton of work about it. What does he

2415
01:54:54,960 --> 01:54:59,960
call it? Not a thunderstorm? Brainstorm or something coming our way?

2416
01:55:00,199 --> 01:55:01,880
Clouds are looking pretty ominous, but I think we're gonna

2417
01:55:01,880 --> 01:55:03,199
be fine. Yeah, it canna be fine at least till

2418
01:55:03,199 --> 01:55:06,079
three o'clock. Then it's gonna tail Jonas Easy on seven

2419
01:55:06,199 --> 01:55:09,680
ninety at twelve thirty eight, Easy, thank you for holding.

2420
01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:10,520
Good afternoon to you.

2421
01:55:11,760 --> 01:55:13,640
Speaker 6: Bob, and welcome back, Matt. We had a good time

2422
01:55:13,720 --> 01:55:15,319
listening to Russ and Gordon yesterday.

2423
01:55:15,720 --> 01:55:17,079
Speaker 3: I'm glad they are good people.

2424
01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:20,800
Speaker 6: Well, I just wanted to kind of spice up the

2425
01:55:20,920 --> 01:55:23,560
thing because Debbie Downer was on record before I was

2426
01:55:23,680 --> 01:55:26,840
right now, and I mean the rotation is set and

2427
01:55:26,960 --> 01:55:30,039
it's fine. I mean, you guys guys coming off Tommy John.

2428
01:55:30,479 --> 01:55:33,479
That will help. So we have a sart plus of pitching, gentlemen,

2429
01:55:33,560 --> 01:55:35,199
And I wonder to know if you guys can give

2430
01:55:35,239 --> 01:55:39,920
me the timeline of when Garcia and as Latina coming back,

2431
01:55:39,920 --> 01:55:40,800
and I'll hang up and listen.

2432
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:44,439
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Garcia, who I think he said

2433
01:55:44,479 --> 01:55:46,760
a color so it didn't sound like you said, could

2434
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:47,079
you say?

2435
01:55:47,359 --> 01:55:47,600
Speaker 10: Easy?

2436
01:55:47,800 --> 01:55:48,399
Speaker 3: Was the second guy?

2437
01:55:49,680 --> 01:55:51,960
Speaker 2: Garcia or what's.

2438
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:55,800
Speaker 3: His name, Okay, Hivier, Christian Hovey, Christian Hovier. I think

2439
01:55:55,840 --> 01:55:58,520
Hobvier has done about the entire shit. I would say probably,

2440
01:55:58,560 --> 01:56:00,279
if I had to guess, he's not. I don't think

2441
01:56:00,319 --> 01:56:04,159
Cabier or France pitching too here. He looks good, of

2442
01:56:04,239 --> 01:56:07,439
course he does. I don't know if he's too, Yes,

2443
01:56:07,520 --> 01:56:12,239
he does. I would say Louis Garcia, he's not. We

2444
01:56:12,359 --> 01:56:14,359
haven't heard about him throwing off of a mound recently.

2445
01:56:14,720 --> 01:56:18,159
I think McCullers would be first before Garcia. To me,

2446
01:56:19,199 --> 01:56:21,279
I think I think in the world today, even though

2447
01:56:21,319 --> 01:56:24,119
the Tommy John surgery is revolutionized players, I think you're

2448
01:56:24,119 --> 01:56:27,279
looking at two years. If you get anything from Luis

2449
01:56:27,359 --> 01:56:30,800
Garcia before twenty six, I'd be considered a win. I

2450
01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:33,279
don't know. I mean, I'm just doing something against the wall. Yeah,

2451
01:56:33,399 --> 01:56:35,239
I don't know either. What kind of how bad was

2452
01:56:35,319 --> 01:56:38,479
the setback he had in September because they were trying

2453
01:56:38,479 --> 01:56:40,560
to get him up there. Yes, yeah, we were talking

2454
01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:43,039
about WHOA that seems fast and you know, it seems

2455
01:56:43,079 --> 01:56:45,359
to me that's kind of been the issue Lancing Colors

2456
01:56:45,399 --> 01:56:48,199
Junior talked about. It seems like that's what happened withis

2457
01:56:48,319 --> 01:56:52,039
Luis Garcia. Is these guys trying to rush back. Lasta

2458
01:56:52,079 --> 01:56:54,399
Colors Junior talked about it being a fifteen to seventeen

2459
01:56:54,439 --> 01:56:57,560
month injury. They told him so when they when he

2460
01:56:57,680 --> 01:56:59,720
hit fifteen months, he started to ramp up and he

2461
01:56:59,840 --> 01:57:02,439
was ready. So he had a setback. So hopefully he

2462
01:57:02,520 --> 01:57:04,880
can be back. And oh, by the way, you can

2463
01:57:04,960 --> 01:57:06,399
do And I'm not saying that you're doing this, but

2464
01:57:07,279 --> 01:57:11,680
everybody puts timelines on injuries. Yeah, and it's just doesn't

2465
01:57:11,760 --> 01:57:14,960
make any sense because everybody's different, damn it. You get

2466
01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:18,319
the he's got the astros gearing the photo shoot looking good. Man.

2467
01:57:18,560 --> 01:57:21,800
It's a clean ass uniform right there. Yeah, Christian Walker's

2468
01:57:21,840 --> 01:57:24,479
with us on the show. Yes, we're blown by this breakup.

2469
01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:27,159
By the way, uh Ross, I'm mad. By the way,

2470
01:57:27,279 --> 01:57:30,279
nice to see you. How are you all right? Christians

2471
01:57:30,319 --> 01:57:34,000
Walker is the newest Houston astro wearing the Monday through

2472
01:57:34,039 --> 01:57:36,359
Friday whites Man. That's a clean looking look right there.

2473
01:57:36,399 --> 01:57:37,760
Speaker 10: Good, Yeah, it feels good.

2474
01:57:37,840 --> 01:57:39,439
Speaker 3: By the way, what the hell are y all wearing

2475
01:57:39,439 --> 01:57:41,760
in Arizona last few years? You have want some terrible

2476
01:57:41,800 --> 01:57:43,640
ass uniform? Yea, the Colors got weird there for a

2477
01:57:43,640 --> 01:57:45,960
little colors everything got weird. I mean, what was that

2478
01:57:46,079 --> 01:57:46,439
all about?

2479
01:57:46,479 --> 01:57:46,520
Speaker 11: It?

2480
01:57:46,520 --> 01:57:48,119
Speaker 3: I could you couldn't figure out what you were wearing.

2481
01:57:48,199 --> 01:57:51,319
Speaker 12: Yeah, those uh, those city connects. The Serpientes are lover hate.

2482
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:52,720
It's a it's a tough one.

2483
01:57:52,920 --> 01:57:55,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, like six different I mean the Diamondbacks changing your uniform.

2484
01:57:55,319 --> 01:57:57,319
You must have worn fifteen uniforms while you were there.

2485
01:57:57,399 --> 01:57:59,159
Speaker 12: Yeah, it makes it tough. I like, I like having

2486
01:57:59,199 --> 01:58:01,920
some custom gear season and you never know what colors are,

2487
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:03,840
what color schemes to order during the offseason.

2488
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:05,520
Speaker 3: Butright got to get a couple of things knocked out.

2489
01:58:05,560 --> 01:58:08,399
Our program director is an SEC fan. He wants to

2490
01:58:08,720 --> 01:58:10,840
honor you with your great days at South Carolina. Give

2491
01:58:10,920 --> 01:58:13,239
us your great moment as a South Carolina baseball player.

2492
01:58:13,359 --> 01:58:13,520
Speaker 7: Yeah.

2493
01:58:13,640 --> 01:58:16,479
Speaker 12: So at the soon without a doubt, the I mean,

2494
01:58:16,560 --> 01:58:20,319
easy answer. The National Championships perfect twenty ten, twenty eleven.

2495
01:58:20,359 --> 01:58:24,159
We were back to back National champions there. We got

2496
01:58:24,199 --> 01:58:26,479
to close out Rosenblatt and then open up that new

2497
01:58:26,520 --> 01:58:28,920
stadium with with Natty, so kind of a fun thing there.

2498
01:58:29,079 --> 01:58:30,640
Speaker 3: All right, Now, we're gotta be honest, and there's a

2499
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:33,920
side of it. You won the National League pen In

2500
01:58:33,920 --> 01:58:38,159
a couple of years ago. We hate the Rangers. You

2501
01:58:38,239 --> 01:58:41,000
as Americans, let as America, let us down. You know that, right?

2502
01:58:41,760 --> 01:58:43,920
Do you see their parade if you would have won it?

2503
01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:45,880
You did a nice pray. I've been to Phoenix many time.

2504
01:58:45,880 --> 01:58:47,960
I'm the Rockets and aserswio that all the time. Great city.

2505
01:58:49,039 --> 01:58:52,039
They were at a freaking Walmart grocery store. One of

2506
01:58:52,079 --> 01:58:55,600
the champion sad parade in Arlington. So next praye you

2507
01:58:55,680 --> 01:58:58,399
need you always want to hear right, make sure it's

2508
01:58:58,439 --> 01:59:02,399
here for sure. Yeah, take us through this for agent process.

2509
01:59:02,439 --> 01:59:04,039
You had been in Arizona for ninety percent of your

2510
01:59:04,079 --> 01:59:06,239
major league career, so a thought or two about what

2511
01:59:06,359 --> 01:59:08,600
that was like. Did you enjoy the experience? Did you

2512
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:10,840
were you intimate in conversations with your agent on the

2513
01:59:10,920 --> 01:59:12,640
daily or did you just say hey, get back to

2514
01:59:12,720 --> 01:59:14,720
me when you wanted to hear something you liked. Yeah,

2515
01:59:14,720 --> 01:59:15,399
a little bit of both.

2516
01:59:16,479 --> 01:59:21,920
Speaker 12: There's definitely quiet periods and crazy periods of the off season. Fortunately,

2517
01:59:22,039 --> 01:59:23,560
we had a little bit of leverage coming in, so

2518
01:59:24,359 --> 01:59:27,840
I wasn't too worried about, you know, if if somebody

2519
01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,520
was gonna call, it was just a matter of finding

2520
01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:31,520
the right fit. And a place that that I wanted

2521
01:59:31,520 --> 01:59:33,239
to play there. There's not a lot of chances and

2522
01:59:33,319 --> 01:59:36,000
opportunities in the business side of things these days to

2523
01:59:36,039 --> 01:59:37,840
get to pick where you play. Yeah, try to pick

2524
01:59:37,840 --> 01:59:40,880
a place where you want to play. So so were

2525
01:59:40,960 --> 01:59:43,880
we wanted to use that to our advantage. And you know,

2526
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:46,479
Arizona was great, but but it was pretty far from

2527
01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:49,239
home for us. We live in South Carolina, so so

2528
01:59:49,359 --> 01:59:51,359
going into the off season, my wife and I had

2529
01:59:51,399 --> 01:59:53,720
Houston circleed. It was a city that we were excited

2530
01:59:53,760 --> 01:59:56,319
to be a part of and just super pumped when

2531
01:59:56,399 --> 01:59:57,600
when the front office reached out.

2532
01:59:58,720 --> 02:00:01,159
Speaker 3: And what's it been like for you getting here, getting

2533
02:00:01,159 --> 02:00:04,479
acclimated obviously first full team workout here today, but from

2534
02:00:04,520 --> 02:00:06,640
the outside looking in and now kind of being here

2535
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:08,279
for a little bit, getting to know the guys that

2536
02:00:08,439 --> 02:00:11,159
the the Astros. It's the club clubhouse.

2537
02:00:11,239 --> 02:00:13,680
Speaker 12: He'll feel for you. Yeah, it's great. It's a you

2538
02:00:13,760 --> 02:00:17,159
can tell winning is is at the forefront. But in

2539
02:00:17,239 --> 02:00:19,039
the same sense, you know, at this time of the year,

2540
02:00:19,119 --> 02:00:21,119
it's just getting back into the swing of things, and

2541
02:00:21,199 --> 02:00:23,319
it's it's a pretty lighthearted attitude.

2542
02:00:23,359 --> 02:00:23,640
Speaker 3: I think.

2543
02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:25,840
Speaker 12: You know, you see guys working hard and getting their

2544
02:00:25,880 --> 02:00:28,640
reps in but also you know, joking around and having fun.

2545
02:00:28,680 --> 02:00:31,000
It's it's a it's a good time of year. We're

2546
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:33,600
all we're all got the itch after a long offseason

2547
02:00:33,680 --> 02:00:35,680
and uh, you know, being being back in the good

2548
02:00:35,680 --> 02:00:38,119
weather and playing playing baseball again is what we want.

2549
02:00:38,239 --> 02:00:41,119
Speaker 3: Did Judy Ricon about the astros An organization when you

2550
02:00:41,159 --> 02:00:43,039
knew they were on the shortlist? For yourself?

2551
02:00:43,479 --> 02:00:45,680
Speaker 12: A little bit, A little bit other than the obvious things,

2552
02:00:46,560 --> 02:00:48,760
you know, It's it's cool, you know, meeting a guy

2553
02:00:48,840 --> 02:00:53,319
like Bagwell, getting to have some conversations with him, how

2554
02:00:53,439 --> 02:00:56,720
much pride he has for this organization. And you know,

2555
02:00:56,800 --> 02:00:59,039
he said something today he's been wearing this this uniform

2556
02:00:59,119 --> 02:01:02,119
since nineteen ninety uh so so here and hearing little

2557
02:01:02,159 --> 02:01:05,239
things like that really remind you of the culture and uh,

2558
02:01:05,319 --> 02:01:06,479
you know, the the winning tradition.

2559
02:01:07,319 --> 02:01:10,399
Speaker 3: Three straight gold gloves for yourself? First of where are they?

2560
02:01:10,479 --> 02:01:12,000
I mean, do you have them in your at the house?

2561
02:01:12,079 --> 02:01:14,000
Or where where can I find the gold glove of yours? Yeah,

2562
02:01:14,039 --> 02:01:14,760
they're they're in the house.

2563
02:01:14,760 --> 02:01:19,079
Speaker 12: I have a little workout room upstairs with some some gears,

2564
02:01:19,119 --> 02:01:21,840
some bats that I've had signed by guys, and some teammates,

2565
02:01:21,920 --> 02:01:23,920
and and they're in there, you know, on the on

2566
02:01:24,039 --> 02:01:25,399
the the trophy rack, if you will.

2567
02:01:25,640 --> 02:01:27,880
Speaker 3: Who is your first baseman idol growing up?

2568
02:01:28,960 --> 02:01:33,520
Speaker 12: That's a good question. So I didn't actually start playing

2569
02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:39,119
first base until college. Growing up, high school, middle school,

2570
02:01:39,119 --> 02:01:41,000
I was. I was an infielder, but mostly third base.

2571
02:01:41,720 --> 02:01:42,880
Loved watching Scott Roland.

2572
02:01:42,960 --> 02:01:43,800
Speaker 3: He was he was my guy.

2573
02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:45,520
Speaker 12: I got a chance. I was a Phillies fan growing up,

2574
02:01:45,600 --> 02:01:47,800
so he he came through Philly and and you know,

2575
02:01:47,880 --> 02:01:50,359
watching him was was a lot of fun. And then

2576
02:01:50,479 --> 02:01:52,840
and then Ryan Howard, you know that that first year

2577
02:01:52,880 --> 02:01:55,640
he had that rookie year, broke onto the scene. That

2578
02:01:55,800 --> 02:01:57,159
was that was a lot of fun to watch too.

2579
02:01:57,199 --> 02:01:57,359
Speaker 8: I was.

2580
02:01:57,399 --> 02:01:58,920
Speaker 3: I was in high school for that when we were

2581
02:01:58,960 --> 02:02:01,680
growing up, probably you as well. A lot of the

2582
02:02:01,960 --> 02:02:05,960
first basemen were biggy guys. Just find a place for him.

2583
02:02:06,239 --> 02:02:08,520
First of all, I grew up watching Jeff Bagwell, so

2584
02:02:08,840 --> 02:02:12,000
I knew there was intricacies to it. Yuligiel, before a

2585
02:02:12,039 --> 02:02:15,000
couple of years before your same situation. The art of

2586
02:02:15,039 --> 02:02:18,399
playing first base, thankfully, I think, is no longer just

2587
02:02:18,520 --> 02:02:21,159
put the fact out there. It's a skill. Holding runners

2588
02:02:21,199 --> 02:02:24,319
on fielding your position well tell me the biggest adjustment

2589
02:02:24,359 --> 02:02:25,800
for you going from the left side of the to

2590
02:02:25,880 --> 02:02:28,079
the right side of the infield and being able to say, yeah,

2591
02:02:28,359 --> 02:02:30,239
I want to own this part of the field absolutely.

2592
02:02:30,520 --> 02:02:33,399
Speaker 12: I think what helped me was was playing on the

2593
02:02:33,439 --> 02:02:35,199
other side of the infield at one point and knowing

2594
02:02:35,279 --> 02:02:37,960
what it's like to feel like you have to make

2595
02:02:38,000 --> 02:02:39,600
a perfect throw, feel like you got to hit somebody

2596
02:02:39,600 --> 02:02:41,359
in the chest over there for them to make the play.

2597
02:02:41,439 --> 02:02:44,039
And you know, I pride myself on not being that guy.

2598
02:02:44,159 --> 02:02:46,199
I want to be somebody that, you know, my shortstop

2599
02:02:46,199 --> 02:02:47,720
can lay out in the hole and come up and

2600
02:02:47,760 --> 02:02:49,600
throw from his knees and know that if he gets

2601
02:02:49,640 --> 02:02:51,960
it close, we're gonna make the out. That that always

2602
02:02:51,960 --> 02:02:53,640
helped me as an infielder, know when I had somebody

2603
02:02:53,680 --> 02:02:55,720
over there, So you know, that's something that's important to

2604
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:56,680
me playing first base.

2605
02:02:56,760 --> 02:02:56,880
Speaker 6: Now.

2606
02:02:57,239 --> 02:02:59,720
Speaker 3: Christian Walker, newest Houston astro with us here on the

2607
02:02:59,800 --> 02:03:03,239
Rate your program. Uh, very excited that you came here

2608
02:03:03,239 --> 02:03:05,760
because we were all anxious about what's gonna happen with

2609
02:03:05,800 --> 02:03:09,000
Alex and figuring out with Kyle and whatnot. When you

2610
02:03:09,159 --> 02:03:12,039
finally signed on the dotted line, tell me what it

2611
02:03:12,159 --> 02:03:14,640
was like get trying to find your teammates, know what

2612
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,479
was going to be there, and honestly, this infield is

2613
02:03:17,520 --> 02:03:20,279
gonna be completely different. How long do you think it's

2614
02:03:20,319 --> 02:03:22,239
gonna take? And is there gonna be a magic day

2615
02:03:22,279 --> 02:03:24,239
that you're go all right, we as a collective group

2616
02:03:24,319 --> 02:03:26,159
know what we're doing in here. Now, that's hard to

2617
02:03:26,199 --> 02:03:27,000
pick a data. I think.

2618
02:03:27,079 --> 02:03:29,159
Speaker 12: I think Tony Perry's cheek is going to do a

2619
02:03:29,199 --> 02:03:31,319
great job of making sure we get quality reps out

2620
02:03:31,319 --> 02:03:35,279
there together. I think practicing fast is important. Yeah, you know,

2621
02:03:35,359 --> 02:03:38,560
feeling out, feeling out each other's range and and you know,

2622
02:03:39,239 --> 02:03:42,000
like something little like knowing that you know Juban is

2623
02:03:42,039 --> 02:03:45,199
such a great arm Uh but but trying to figure

2624
02:03:45,199 --> 02:03:45,800
out his arm action?

2625
02:03:45,880 --> 02:03:47,159
Speaker 3: Does he does he cut it? Does he does he?

2626
02:03:47,279 --> 02:03:48,159
Does he throw it clean?

2627
02:03:48,279 --> 02:03:48,399
Speaker 8: You know?

2628
02:03:48,560 --> 02:03:48,720
Speaker 10: Is it?

2629
02:03:49,079 --> 02:03:51,520
Speaker 12: Is it a true ball? Does it have armside? You

2630
02:03:51,600 --> 02:03:54,359
know everybody has the has their tendencies. So so it's uh,

2631
02:03:54,560 --> 02:03:56,079
it's fun to get to know, you know, some new,

2632
02:03:56,319 --> 02:03:58,479
really really good infielders. How long can that take to

2633
02:03:58,840 --> 02:04:01,000
get used to in that climate this time of year,

2634
02:04:01,000 --> 02:04:04,880
it happens pretty quick. It's it's never really a struggle,

2635
02:04:05,000 --> 02:04:07,520
It's just you know before we know it. Here we're

2636
02:04:07,520 --> 02:04:10,359
gonna have hundreds of ground balls together, and you know,

2637
02:04:10,520 --> 02:04:12,720
hundreds of double plays that we've turned on the backfield.

2638
02:04:12,880 --> 02:04:15,520
So it happens quick, i'd say, here, and you know,

2639
02:04:15,560 --> 02:04:17,479
about a week or so, we all start feeling pretty

2640
02:04:17,479 --> 02:04:18,199
comfortable with each other.

2641
02:04:18,359 --> 02:04:20,920
Speaker 3: You have a lot left in your career. But once

2642
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:23,439
the clock turns thirty and beyond, did you have to

2643
02:04:23,520 --> 02:04:26,960
as getting ready for this season, getting maybe a little

2644
02:04:27,039 --> 02:04:28,840
sooner as compared to maybe when you're in your twenties

2645
02:04:29,439 --> 02:04:32,119
coming up in the game. I mean, yes, I know.

2646
02:04:32,279 --> 02:04:34,439
Speaker 12: I think there's there's a side of it where the

2647
02:04:34,560 --> 02:04:37,119
more time you spend around the game, the more you

2648
02:04:37,279 --> 02:04:39,159
know yourself and you know your routine and you know

2649
02:04:40,319 --> 02:04:42,560
what you need to be ready for a season. Sprint trainings,

2650
02:04:43,239 --> 02:04:45,520
it can be. It can be a long amount of

2651
02:04:45,560 --> 02:04:46,840
time and it can be short.

2652
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:47,239
Speaker 3: It's a right.

2653
02:04:47,279 --> 02:04:49,880
Speaker 12: It's like some years you feel like you just you're

2654
02:04:49,920 --> 02:04:51,760
not clicking, you're not clicking, and then all the opening

2655
02:04:51,800 --> 02:04:54,479
day comes and it's it's it's it's lightning. And then

2656
02:04:54,560 --> 02:04:56,960
other years it's like by ten at bats in you

2657
02:04:57,000 --> 02:04:58,359
feel like you're in a good spot and you could

2658
02:04:58,359 --> 02:05:01,239
go Opening day the next day. So it's you know,

2659
02:05:01,359 --> 02:05:04,279
the the the age or anything like that. That's that's

2660
02:05:04,520 --> 02:05:06,760
that's nothing that's on my radar. My body feels good.

2661
02:05:07,880 --> 02:05:09,520
I spend a decent amount of time in the weight room.

2662
02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:11,840
It's something that I pride myself on. It's it's helped

2663
02:05:11,920 --> 02:05:14,119
me stay on the field uh for a while. So,

2664
02:05:15,279 --> 02:05:17,479
you know, feeling strong, feeling feeling ready to go and

2665
02:05:17,680 --> 02:05:19,960
and looking to looking forward to playing a lot of games.

2666
02:05:20,159 --> 02:05:22,520
Speaker 3: Your overall thoughts about playing it at what Dyke and

2667
02:05:22,600 --> 02:05:24,600
Park now you've been there obviously a few times over

2668
02:05:24,680 --> 02:05:25,039
your career.

2669
02:05:25,640 --> 02:05:30,039
Speaker 12: Uh, yeah, yeah, I'm very excited. I like the dome feel.

2670
02:05:30,039 --> 02:05:32,159
I think that's cool. I think I think the consistency,

2671
02:05:32,640 --> 02:05:35,399
uh in the environment, knowing you know, the the weather

2672
02:05:35,479 --> 02:05:37,439
in Houston and the rain I'm sure, I'm sure it

2673
02:05:37,479 --> 02:05:39,239
can comes in quick, and the humidity and all that.

2674
02:05:39,399 --> 02:05:42,000
So knowing if there's a home game we're playing, I

2675
02:05:42,279 --> 02:05:45,840
think that that mental Uh, just just knowing what to expect,

2676
02:05:45,840 --> 02:05:48,319
getting into a routine. You know, there's there's nothing like

2677
02:05:48,399 --> 02:05:50,239
waking up on a on a gloomy day and trying

2678
02:05:50,279 --> 02:05:51,680
to figure out if there's going to be a delay

2679
02:05:51,840 --> 02:05:53,760
or if you're hitting VP on the field and this

2680
02:05:53,880 --> 02:05:56,000
and that, so so I'm looking forward to that. And

2681
02:05:56,079 --> 02:05:58,560
then you know, the fans. It's something that's always stuck

2682
02:05:58,560 --> 02:06:00,680
out to me coming in as a visiting team. Uh

2683
02:06:00,880 --> 02:06:02,079
is playing in front of the fan base.

2684
02:06:02,640 --> 02:06:04,760
Speaker 3: What was your conversation has been like so far with

2685
02:06:04,840 --> 02:06:08,199
Joe's spotted because I mean, as you know, first base

2686
02:06:08,399 --> 02:06:10,720
was in flux for the last couple of years. Now,

2687
02:06:10,920 --> 02:06:12,399
did you like give you a big hug, say, I'm

2688
02:06:12,399 --> 02:06:14,479
happy to put you at first base every day. Any

2689
02:06:14,560 --> 02:06:19,479
conversations also about h and can you play left field? Yeah,

2690
02:06:19,560 --> 02:06:21,399
we're trying to figure out left field. Everybody their mothers

2691
02:06:21,399 --> 02:06:22,279
wants to play left field.

2692
02:06:22,279 --> 02:06:24,760
Speaker 12: Of Carolan and I actually coming up with a few

2693
02:06:24,800 --> 02:06:26,359
different teams. There was a lot of really good first

2694
02:06:26,359 --> 02:06:27,119
basement in front of me.

2695
02:06:27,199 --> 02:06:29,479
Speaker 3: So I have played left field. Oh that's there, we

2696
02:06:29,560 --> 02:06:30,720
got fox headline.

2697
02:06:30,920 --> 02:06:31,319
Speaker 14: Here we go.

2698
02:06:32,520 --> 02:06:35,079
Speaker 12: Hopefully we just started a controversy to see it because

2699
02:06:35,079 --> 02:06:38,159
it's not it's not pretty out there. No, I mean,

2700
02:06:38,279 --> 02:06:40,199
I mean, d ah and cool, like if that's something

2701
02:06:40,239 --> 02:06:43,000
where you know, it's a way to maybe take a

2702
02:06:43,079 --> 02:06:44,960
day and and and get the legs back under me.

2703
02:06:45,079 --> 02:06:46,920
But but honestly, I like to be out in the field.

2704
02:06:46,960 --> 02:06:48,960
I think it helps me stay in the routine offensively

2705
02:06:49,079 --> 02:06:52,520
and you know, stay moving, and it's it's something that

2706
02:06:52,600 --> 02:06:53,680
I've I've just grown up doing.

2707
02:06:53,720 --> 02:06:54,199
Speaker 3: I enjoy.

2708
02:06:54,279 --> 02:06:56,840
Speaker 12: I enjoy being out in the field, for sure, But

2709
02:06:57,039 --> 02:07:00,439
but yeah, I think I think there's something too coming

2710
02:07:00,479 --> 02:07:03,239
in and feeling valued. You know that that makes you

2711
02:07:03,319 --> 02:07:05,439
excited to play and makes you excited to prove everybody,

2712
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:09,399
everybody right, you know that the standards are real, the

2713
02:07:09,479 --> 02:07:12,239
expectations are real, and it's it's something that that you

2714
02:07:12,359 --> 02:07:14,159
crave as as a big leaguer. You want do you

2715
02:07:14,199 --> 02:07:15,720
want somebody to put pressure on you and and and

2716
02:07:15,840 --> 02:07:16,159
you have to.

2717
02:07:16,119 --> 02:07:19,000
Speaker 3: Go out and prove it. So you're a South Carolina native.

2718
02:07:20,039 --> 02:07:21,920
Speaker 12: No, no, no, I grew up grew up just outside

2719
02:07:21,920 --> 02:07:22,239
of Philly.

2720
02:07:22,359 --> 02:07:23,640
Speaker 3: Oh, I was gonna say, because I was like, you

2721
02:07:23,680 --> 02:07:26,039
have no accent whatsoever. You do have a Philly accent,

2722
02:07:26,119 --> 02:07:27,880
of a South Carolina accent and none of that.

2723
02:07:28,039 --> 02:07:31,319
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, they've they've both kind of disappeared. I I

2724
02:07:31,399 --> 02:07:33,520
went to school there obviously, and and just fell in

2725
02:07:33,600 --> 02:07:35,880
love with the area and never left. But grew up

2726
02:07:36,239 --> 02:07:37,399
just outside of Philly.

2727
02:07:37,319 --> 02:07:40,159
Speaker 3: Same city as Mike Piazza and Gino Arima. Do your research,

2728
02:07:40,239 --> 02:07:42,119
Matt come on, yeah, Tommy Lasorda. By the way, we

2729
02:07:42,159 --> 02:07:44,159
know we know your We know your dog's names too.

2730
02:07:44,479 --> 02:07:45,000
That's true.

2731
02:07:45,039 --> 02:07:48,840
Speaker 12: What was it, Dottie and uh Jack Jackson, Milly Milli

2732
02:07:49,199 --> 02:07:52,199
we had, we had there's a cat. Yeah, she's she's

2733
02:07:52,279 --> 02:07:55,279
a she belongs to the neighborhood, really, the neighborhood cat.

2734
02:07:55,359 --> 02:07:57,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's just So what part of South Carolin do

2735
02:07:57,680 --> 02:07:58,760
you in Columbia itself or.

2736
02:07:58,840 --> 02:08:00,720
Speaker 12: We do just north of Colombia. We're like, we're like

2737
02:08:00,800 --> 02:08:01,840
fifteen minutes from campus.

2738
02:08:01,960 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 3: So can you walk around town incognito? Or do you

2739
02:08:05,039 --> 02:08:06,399
do people stipe at the grocery store.

2740
02:08:06,880 --> 02:08:09,560
Speaker 12: They they recognize me for sure. But it's it's it's

2741
02:08:09,560 --> 02:08:12,279
more from the Gamecock days than from pro ball. The

2742
02:08:12,640 --> 02:08:15,239
Braves are the team there, so so everybody knows knows

2743
02:08:15,279 --> 02:08:16,680
the game Cocks more than more than that.

2744
02:08:16,840 --> 02:08:18,359
Speaker 3: Do they realize how many home runs you've hit in

2745
02:08:18,399 --> 02:08:19,439
the last five years? Yeah?

2746
02:08:19,680 --> 02:08:22,600
Speaker 12: Yeah, Arizona, Arizona was cool. It's a crazy thing getting recognized.

2747
02:08:22,640 --> 02:08:25,199
It's it's humbling and all that. But but back home

2748
02:08:25,239 --> 02:08:27,239
in South Carolina, it's it's mostly from the from the

2749
02:08:27,359 --> 02:08:28,319
national championships.

2750
02:08:28,479 --> 02:08:33,119
Speaker 3: Okay, I've never been to South Carolina. Apparently quite an experience.

2751
02:08:33,159 --> 02:08:35,800
I mean for football basketball, the women's team never loses.

2752
02:08:35,840 --> 02:08:39,399
I mean, I don't know that's all about. Yeah, jeez,

2753
02:08:39,920 --> 02:08:42,880
they did. They did any s SEC smack talk in

2754
02:08:42,960 --> 02:08:43,800
the clubhouse at this.

2755
02:08:43,880 --> 02:08:45,159
Speaker 12: Point, not yet, not yet.

2756
02:08:45,199 --> 02:08:45,560
Speaker 3: I'm sure.

2757
02:08:45,640 --> 02:08:48,239
Speaker 12: I'm sure it'll start once, especially when football season starts

2758
02:08:48,319 --> 02:08:50,319
back up. But but nothing, nothing so far.

2759
02:08:50,680 --> 02:08:53,119
Speaker 3: Well, we're very happy to have you here. Such a

2760
02:08:53,319 --> 02:08:55,399
nice surprise when you came here. I mean, I mean,

2761
02:08:55,760 --> 02:08:58,760
we're anxious. This is kind of new to us. We've

2762
02:08:58,880 --> 02:09:01,800
known Briggs, we've known, uh, you're regularly. A couple of

2763
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:04,840
years ago we had JB and Kyle Tucker. This is uh,

2764
02:09:05,239 --> 02:09:07,479
you're actually coming. Not at a bad time because I

2765
02:09:07,560 --> 02:09:09,600
think they're all your teammates trying to figure out what

2766
02:09:09,680 --> 02:09:10,800
the ViBe's going to be right now.

2767
02:09:11,000 --> 02:09:13,920
Speaker 12: Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's a fun time. It's it's uh,

2768
02:09:14,520 --> 02:09:16,359
you know, if guys, guys come and go, it's it's

2769
02:09:16,399 --> 02:09:19,680
part of the business side of things. Unfortunately, you know,

2770
02:09:19,760 --> 02:09:22,039
you never want to lose guys, especially people who you

2771
02:09:22,079 --> 02:09:23,840
know were staples in the lineup and and a part

2772
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:26,159
of a lot of successful years. But I think there's

2773
02:09:26,199 --> 02:09:28,960
a there's a cool opportunity about that of of being

2774
02:09:29,039 --> 02:09:32,760
able to keep the success going with a different group

2775
02:09:32,760 --> 02:09:36,640
of guys, different responsibilities, different roles, And so far the

2776
02:09:36,800 --> 02:09:38,079
clubhouse has been great.

2777
02:09:38,000 --> 02:09:40,920
Speaker 3: And uh, I'm looking forward to you know, continuing to Mesh,

2778
02:09:41,079 --> 02:09:43,000
he alluded to the DH for let you run. Do

2779
02:09:43,079 --> 02:09:44,560
you like the DH once in a while to get

2780
02:09:44,560 --> 02:09:46,159
off your feet a little bit? Or is that you

2781
02:09:46,319 --> 02:09:48,119
just I need to be if I'm in the lineup,

2782
02:09:48,159 --> 02:09:49,159
I need to be at first base.

2783
02:09:49,279 --> 02:09:51,560
Speaker 12: So I mean, I would much rather be at first base,

2784
02:09:51,640 --> 02:09:54,880
but I would rather be in the lineup than not

2785
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:57,439
at a full day off. Yeah, period, So you know,

2786
02:09:57,520 --> 02:09:59,439
if that's a way to get some at bats and

2787
02:09:59,720 --> 02:10:02,720
help team on days where you know, maybe we're trying

2788
02:10:02,720 --> 02:10:05,239
to rest up the legs or something like that, for sure,

2789
02:10:05,399 --> 02:10:08,039
very very interested in something like that. But but if

2790
02:10:08,079 --> 02:10:09,760
it was my call, I'd be at first every day.

2791
02:10:10,239 --> 02:10:12,000
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming by again. It's our

2792
02:10:12,039 --> 02:10:13,640
pleasure to have you in town. You're gonna love the

2793
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:16,920
city of Houston. Diehard Baseball Group, great Stadium, not one

2794
02:10:17,000 --> 02:10:19,039
hundred and fifty five degrees and Feenix like it is

2795
02:10:19,079 --> 02:10:21,079
every day, but he meant it. He's gonna suck. I'm

2796
02:10:21,079 --> 02:10:22,520
just gonna be honest with you. Yeah, not great.

2797
02:10:22,560 --> 02:10:23,800
Speaker 12: Yeah, well we just to it a little bit on

2798
02:10:23,840 --> 02:10:24,680
this shost I'm sure.

2799
02:10:24,760 --> 02:10:27,199
Speaker 3: I'm sure it'll be it's a yeah. And we don't

2800
02:10:27,199 --> 02:10:29,279
have the dry we just have like just pure heating.

2801
02:10:29,319 --> 02:10:31,399
You're conditioning on the five minute walk to the park,

2802
02:10:31,399 --> 02:10:33,800
you'd be fine. Yeah, yeah, from the garage. I appreciate

2803
02:10:33,840 --> 02:10:35,479
you guys having all right. Christian Walker, by the way,

2804
02:10:35,479 --> 02:10:36,600
you get a commedia career ahead of you.

2805
02:10:36,640 --> 02:10:36,760
Speaker 14: Two.

2806
02:10:36,760 --> 02:10:39,960
Speaker 3: We're a little scared. We're gonna take our jobs, all right.

2807
02:10:40,039 --> 02:10:41,760
Christian Walker with us here on The Matt Thomas Show

2808
02:10:41,800 --> 02:10:43,239
with Ross. More coming up in a moment. Here on

2809
02:10:43,319 --> 02:10:44,640
Sports Talk seven ninety.

2810
02:10:46,720 --> 02:10:50,720
Speaker 2: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

2811
02:10:51,079 --> 02:10:53,479
Speaker 3: Final hour, The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Thanks again

2812
02:10:53,520 --> 02:10:56,880
to Christian Walker for joining us. You get a picture

2813
02:10:56,920 --> 02:10:58,840
of Christian and Ross talking because I had to take

2814
02:10:58,880 --> 02:11:01,640
the picture. But way, my phone's doing a lot better

2815
02:11:01,720 --> 02:11:03,800
and happy with me now. I'm proud of you.

2816
02:11:03,920 --> 02:11:04,079
Speaker 7: Matt.

2817
02:11:04,279 --> 02:11:06,079
Speaker 3: Make somebody to get my phone. I got the new

2818
02:11:06,119 --> 02:11:09,479
phone so here you know, I always it's called constructive criticism.

2819
02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:11,760
Nobody's called beat me over the head with it. No,

2820
02:11:12,079 --> 02:11:14,319
nobody wants to see your smudged ass photos. So I'm

2821
02:11:14,319 --> 02:11:17,079
trying to help you out. Get the quality up. Let's go, baby.

2822
02:11:17,399 --> 02:11:21,199
I like Christian a lot, very nice and just Rake,

2823
02:11:21,640 --> 02:11:24,239
just just swing really hard. You're gonna get a bunch

2824
02:11:24,279 --> 02:11:25,840
of home runs out of the ballpark. Sounds like he

2825
02:11:25,880 --> 02:11:28,720
wants to be at first base every single name as

2826
02:11:28,880 --> 02:11:31,239
I'm gonna play it me at first base. Called a

2827
02:11:31,319 --> 02:11:36,399
day so we'll see, we'll see. Yeah, we are here

2828
02:11:36,399 --> 02:11:38,920
at West Paul Beach. We had to Danner Brown early

2829
02:11:39,039 --> 02:11:40,600
early in the show today. If you missed that, it's

2830
02:11:40,640 --> 02:11:44,560
coming up at about ten minutes from now. As oh

2831
02:11:44,680 --> 02:11:47,680
your water just I can't control the way. I know,

2832
02:11:47,840 --> 02:11:49,960
I know, I know we're staying me for that. I'm

2833
02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:53,279
not I'm not all right. I'm disappointed. I know I've

2834
02:11:53,279 --> 02:11:56,600
disappointed you a lot. We are here in West Fault Beach, Florida,

2835
02:11:56,640 --> 02:12:00,680
getting ready, getting ready. Tomorrow's show is already locked and loaded.

2836
02:12:00,720 --> 02:12:02,079
Are you ready for the we're gonna do on the

2837
02:12:02,119 --> 02:12:04,439
show tomorrow. No, I'm gonna tell you right now, we

2838
02:12:04,520 --> 02:12:09,840
got going. We got uh oh number one we got

2839
02:12:11,520 --> 02:12:14,159
our Wistsky is going to join the show. Word Yeah,

2840
02:12:15,159 --> 02:12:18,319
we got uh. Spencer Arraghetty going to join the show.

2841
02:12:19,439 --> 02:12:24,279
Spencer Arragetty, he's good. He's good. Cam Smith. The few

2842
02:12:24,399 --> 02:12:26,560
guys are gonna take our jobs. Raic Getty's very good.

2843
02:12:26,880 --> 02:12:29,159
Cam Smith who is going to bench press me.

2844
02:12:29,239 --> 02:12:29,760
Speaker 7: During the show.

2845
02:12:30,079 --> 02:12:32,079
Speaker 3: We're gonna stage in arm wrestling match between you. No,

2846
02:12:32,159 --> 02:12:33,920
there's no chance matter if we didn't get a photo.

2847
02:12:34,199 --> 02:12:36,560
Pretty fun, actually, that's what I'm saying. It's funny, funny, funny,

2848
02:12:36,560 --> 02:12:39,680
funny stuff. And then Matt, maybe Joe a spot it,

2849
02:12:39,720 --> 02:12:41,319
maybe joining us live. Don't know that for sure, but

2850
02:12:41,399 --> 02:12:42,920
we will hear from Joe tomorrow is part of the

2851
02:12:43,159 --> 02:12:45,960
media scrum. And then Wednesday. Don't know yet, but I

2852
02:12:45,960 --> 02:12:48,000
can tell you already we're gonna hopefully hear from two

2853
02:12:48,039 --> 02:12:51,680
of the outfielders. Uh and uh, we're gonna talk to

2854
02:12:51,760 --> 02:12:53,960
Hunter Brown on Wednesdays or on Thursday. Excuse I think

2855
02:12:53,960 --> 02:12:56,840
we're Dayhead'm about to yesterday off love it spring training, Matt.

2856
02:12:56,920 --> 02:12:59,479
It's in the air, baby. This wind is what is

2857
02:12:59,560 --> 02:13:02,880
going on. It's it's blustery, as they say, yeah, the

2858
02:13:02,960 --> 02:13:06,199
kids will say blustering so that is what we're doing

2859
02:13:06,239 --> 02:13:08,359
here and we look forward to bringing you more spring

2860
02:13:08,399 --> 02:13:10,760
training coverage again. The Astros start their spring training games

2861
02:13:10,840 --> 02:13:15,119
this Saturday. Okay. Now, in years past there have been

2862
02:13:15,199 --> 02:13:18,279
nights days we've been off the air completely because of

2863
02:13:18,399 --> 02:13:21,119
the game starting at noon. Yes, but since we start

2864
02:13:21,159 --> 02:13:23,479
at ten o'clock, now you get a snack size actually

2865
02:13:23,640 --> 02:13:26,239
better than snack side. It's almost like a light lunch

2866
02:13:26,319 --> 02:13:29,399
version of the back tops. So on days where we

2867
02:13:29,520 --> 02:13:32,159
have Gay Day games, we'll be on ten to eleven fifty, yes,

2868
02:13:32,359 --> 02:13:34,199
and then we'll say goodbye after that, and then those

2869
02:13:34,279 --> 02:13:38,359
dead beats Adam and Adam will be on late. Yeah,

2870
02:13:38,520 --> 02:13:40,399
they're not gonna work much in March. No, that's fine,

2871
02:13:40,479 --> 02:13:42,199
that's the reality. No, Actually, some of those games go

2872
02:13:42,279 --> 02:13:44,439
pretty quick. No, but too. But they also have four

2873
02:13:44,439 --> 02:13:48,439
to fifty first pitches too here too, So there, I mean,

2874
02:13:49,159 --> 02:13:51,239
bunch of slackers. Yeah, I don't know where you paying them,

2875
02:13:51,279 --> 02:13:53,079
but it's gonna be entirely too much. Plus the day

2876
02:13:53,079 --> 02:13:55,840
games coming up to oh, well we're getting half days,

2877
02:13:55,880 --> 02:13:58,960
so I am at that's no complaints. Headlines of the

2878
02:13:59,039 --> 02:14:02,560
day L two A out with the outfielders today, No

2879
02:14:02,680 --> 02:14:05,239
surprise on that didn't see any videos of him dropping

2880
02:14:05,279 --> 02:14:08,079
a fly ball or throwing his down going on, I'm

2881
02:14:08,159 --> 02:14:15,239
not doing this and flipping off the coaches. Let me

2882
02:14:15,279 --> 02:14:17,680
tell you all of us, I should tell of us.

2883
02:14:17,840 --> 02:14:21,640
A lot of us, either as dads or we ourselves,

2884
02:14:21,680 --> 02:14:24,600
were little leggers. When we didn't make the play, we

2885
02:14:24,680 --> 02:14:27,119
would take our glove and slam it down on the

2886
02:14:27,159 --> 02:14:30,960
ground to do that. I'll tell you a concern that

2887
02:14:31,199 --> 02:14:33,960
popped up in my head now within the last five minutes,

2888
02:14:34,079 --> 02:14:37,520
in the last before Christian Walker. Okay, tell me if

2889
02:14:37,560 --> 02:14:39,279
this is concerned, all right, I'm gonna close my eyes.

2890
02:14:40,479 --> 02:14:45,880
What is jose L two V's biggest failing as a player?

2891
02:14:46,760 --> 02:14:50,960
Base running? What does he do when he makes base

2892
02:14:51,039 --> 02:14:56,800
running errors? He's too aggressive? Yeah, it's never halfway and

2893
02:14:56,840 --> 02:14:59,520
then goes back. He's always he always goes with that

2894
02:14:59,600 --> 02:15:03,119
extra Yeah, and it's a blessing and a curse. Sometimes

2895
02:15:03,159 --> 02:15:05,199
he can, you know, steal third when he's not supposed

2896
02:15:05,199 --> 02:15:07,439
to do. Sometimes he gets thrown. He looks like a fool.

2897
02:15:08,039 --> 02:15:10,239
Also when now two ways going through it at the plate?

2898
02:15:10,720 --> 02:15:13,840
What's going on? Sometimes he swings at everything a little

2899
02:15:13,880 --> 02:15:18,199
too aggressive? Is he going to be too aggressive? Sometimes

2900
02:15:18,520 --> 02:15:20,920
in left field or is that not going to be

2901
02:15:20,960 --> 02:15:26,840
an issue? Just I was thinking to myself, Okay, then

2902
02:15:26,840 --> 02:15:30,479
I'm gonna give you the my approach to this answer,

2903
02:15:30,560 --> 02:15:33,239
because he's my He's the greatest aster of all time.

2904
02:15:34,920 --> 02:15:38,079
If you're aggressive, if you're aggressive in one thing, you're

2905
02:15:38,079 --> 02:15:42,279
aggressive in everything. So that's what I'm part hold on.

2906
02:15:43,880 --> 02:15:46,119
What has made him the greatest aster of all time

2907
02:15:47,199 --> 02:15:50,840
is the things we're talking about. Yes, the aggression can

2908
02:15:50,920 --> 02:15:52,960
be very good. And when he jumps on a first

2909
02:15:53,760 --> 02:15:56,319
first pitch and he's aggressive and it goes over the

2910
02:15:56,439 --> 02:15:59,159
Crawford boxes, we love it. So I don't think you can.

2911
02:15:59,319 --> 02:16:02,239
You can pick and choose your aggressiveness. So do will

2912
02:16:02,279 --> 02:16:06,119
there be some throws that will like Look, Jose running

2913
02:16:06,119 --> 02:16:09,039
the basis makes you shake your head about once a week,

2914
02:16:09,920 --> 02:16:11,600
But he's been doing that for the last twelve or

2915
02:16:11,680 --> 02:16:15,199
thirteen years, and look where he's developed, ended up as

2916
02:16:15,239 --> 02:16:18,520
the greatest after the ball tame after Jeff begwell, well

2917
02:16:18,600 --> 02:16:20,560
he'll get there. He better get there in the first bout.

2918
02:16:20,560 --> 02:16:21,920
I don't want to. I don't want to. If he

2919
02:16:22,000 --> 02:16:24,079
gets the seventy four point eight percent, I will chase

2920
02:16:24,159 --> 02:16:26,560
down every chip broke it, He'll make it. He's gonna

2921
02:16:26,560 --> 02:16:29,520
get in. Dan Shaughnessy said he's not voting for him, loocus,

2922
02:16:29,600 --> 02:16:32,319
Danz a douche and he's got bad perm. That's a

2923
02:16:32,360 --> 02:16:36,319
different issue at a different time. I'll not letting Dan

2924
02:16:36,440 --> 02:16:38,920
Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe tell me who who should

2925
02:16:38,959 --> 02:16:41,799
be and it should not be in there's there's gonna

2926
02:16:41,799 --> 02:16:44,520
be enough sane people. Even the passes of the world

2927
02:16:45,079 --> 02:16:47,559
and the John Haymans and the busterlies are gonna say,

2928
02:16:47,920 --> 02:16:49,959
we can't be that stupid. I think as the years

2929
02:16:50,000 --> 02:16:52,239
go along, you get defurther distance away from it. The

2930
02:16:52,319 --> 02:16:55,079
twenty twenty two championship as well. And oh, by the way,

2931
02:16:55,200 --> 02:16:59,120
he's been excellent in those years following that scandal. And

2932
02:16:59,159 --> 02:17:01,360
as long as he says healthy and the data says

2933
02:17:01,399 --> 02:17:05,200
he's productive, he's gonna have a puncher's chance at three thousand,

2934
02:17:05,920 --> 02:17:08,559
not saying is gonna get to it eight hundred hits.

2935
02:17:08,600 --> 02:17:13,040
I think, okay, that he's five seasons, he's thirty thirty

2936
02:17:13,079 --> 02:17:20,319
five this year, Okay, gumptive season. It's gonna be close.

2937
02:17:21,159 --> 02:17:23,040
Can I tell you how badly I want him to

2938
02:17:23,079 --> 02:17:26,719
get it, because at that point it's irrefutable. He's gonna

2939
02:17:26,719 --> 02:17:29,600
get in. Yeah, we got wiggle room.

2940
02:17:30,120 --> 02:17:30,760
Speaker 10: You know what you do that.

2941
02:17:32,319 --> 02:17:35,040
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that for the for the stats, eight

2942
02:17:35,159 --> 02:17:38,120
or nine time All Star, there's not a major leaguer

2943
02:17:38,200 --> 02:17:39,920
with three thousand hits. It's not in the major league,

2944
02:17:39,959 --> 02:17:43,319
in the in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Rafael pal Marrow,

2945
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:49,040
there's one Barry Bonds, there's two. Any other cheaters did

2946
02:17:49,040 --> 02:17:51,959
they ride get to three thousand? I don't think so.

2947
02:17:52,079 --> 02:17:55,600
But he not embroiled in a steroids Okay, still put

2948
02:17:55,600 --> 02:17:58,719
it this way. Let me rephrase not in balld anybody

2949
02:17:58,719 --> 02:18:03,120
that's hit three in steroids, it's got fame. Same thing

2950
02:18:03,159 --> 02:18:05,040
about three hundred wins too, which I don't know if

2951
02:18:05,079 --> 02:18:06,760
it's driving me berliner, But that's.

2952
02:18:06,639 --> 02:18:07,200
Speaker 7: Not gonna happen.

2953
02:18:07,239 --> 02:18:09,479
Speaker 3: He ain't getting there. Sorry, No, we appreciate you here

2954
02:18:09,520 --> 02:18:12,040
and he won the prize. Pooholes will be in, Mabey

2955
02:18:12,120 --> 02:18:15,959
will be in a Rod not in and Paul Marrow.

2956
02:18:16,239 --> 02:18:17,920
So Barry Mall has never got the three thousand hits.

2957
02:18:18,000 --> 02:18:18,159
Speaker 2: Huh.

2958
02:18:19,159 --> 02:18:19,600
Speaker 7: You know why?

2959
02:18:20,159 --> 02:18:21,959
Speaker 3: There's how many times when you walk and in the

2960
02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:25,440
last five years of his career, it's crazy. His on

2961
02:18:25,559 --> 02:18:27,600
base was like five seventy one of those years or

2962
02:18:27,639 --> 02:18:32,000
something ridiculous. God, by the way, did you see him

2963
02:18:32,079 --> 02:18:34,920
coaching this one of the celebrity games in San Francisco

2964
02:18:35,000 --> 02:18:35,600
over the weekend?

2965
02:18:36,280 --> 02:18:36,319
Speaker 8: No?

2966
02:18:36,479 --> 02:18:36,840
Speaker 3: I didn't.

2967
02:18:37,000 --> 02:18:38,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah he was.

2968
02:18:38,639 --> 02:18:40,799
Speaker 3: There was somebody else that was I don't want to

2969
02:18:40,799 --> 02:18:43,239
say it was. It was somebody else that was a

2970
02:18:44,719 --> 02:18:52,840
uh Bay Area legend too short stop? Okay, help me out, Barry, No,

2971
02:18:53,079 --> 02:18:56,319
help me out. Somebody that watched and this maybe asking

2972
02:18:56,399 --> 02:19:00,399
for it. Did somebody watch the celebrity event on this weekend?

2973
02:19:01,000 --> 02:19:03,079
It was Barry Bonds on one side, and there was

2974
02:19:03,159 --> 02:19:04,600
somebody I don't want to I don't think it was

2975
02:19:04,680 --> 02:19:08,879
Ronnie Lott. It might have been a forty niner. And

2976
02:19:10,200 --> 02:19:12,760
look up celebrity coaches and see if Jerry Rice was

2977
02:19:12,840 --> 02:19:16,399
Jerry Rice. That's who it was, Jerry Rice. Jerry Rice.

2978
02:19:17,079 --> 02:19:20,680
And you had Barry Bonds coaching the celebrity game. Wow.

2979
02:19:23,200 --> 02:19:24,440
And I watched the minute and a half of that.

2980
02:19:24,600 --> 02:19:26,680
The greatest baseball player of all time and the greatest

2981
02:19:26,680 --> 02:19:30,520
football player of all time. It's pretty great. Jerry Rice

2982
02:19:30,639 --> 02:19:33,200
greatest football player. You're really gonna narrow down to one person?

2983
02:19:34,000 --> 02:19:36,120
I don't think you can come at me, Bro, and

2984
02:19:36,200 --> 02:19:37,719
you don't want If you're gonna do that, his name

2985
02:19:37,799 --> 02:19:39,760
is Tom Brady. Bro, Jerry Rice.

2986
02:19:39,799 --> 02:19:39,920
Speaker 7: Bro.

2987
02:19:40,600 --> 02:19:51,959
Speaker 3: No, Tom Brady better than Jerry Rice. Nope, disagree. We're

2988
02:19:52,000 --> 02:19:56,159
gonna have this fight in West Palm Beach. No, it's fine, Okay.

2989
02:19:56,159 --> 02:19:57,879
If you're gonna got Tom Brady too, you know I

2990
02:19:58,040 --> 02:20:00,920
do that, then I'm gonna go Jim Brown. Oh and

2991
02:20:01,079 --> 02:20:01,879
Barry Sanders.

2992
02:20:01,959 --> 02:20:02,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, we go.

2993
02:20:02,520 --> 02:20:03,520
Speaker 3: Let's get some nuance.

2994
02:20:03,680 --> 02:20:03,719
Speaker 8: Go.

2995
02:20:04,280 --> 02:20:06,920
Speaker 3: Guess what quarterback didn't even really have to do anything

2996
02:20:07,000 --> 02:20:09,399
to the line, Tom Brady. You can't play wide receiver

2997
02:20:09,479 --> 02:20:12,079
at forty four because you Tom Brady's just sitting there

2998
02:20:12,159 --> 02:20:15,079
not doing anything. Physical defensive player of all time, Lawrence

2999
02:20:15,079 --> 02:20:18,200
Tayler about Okay, let's go. Yeah. I like these arguments.

3000
02:20:19,239 --> 02:20:21,319
I don't want to argument any of this. That's okay,

3001
02:20:22,079 --> 02:20:24,360
don't hurt yourself. Well, I'm just saying, it's just it's

3002
02:20:24,520 --> 02:20:28,239
it's too many positions, too many, jerr. There's no right answer.

3003
02:20:28,559 --> 02:20:30,280
But if you want to go shortlest Jerry Rice, that's

3004
02:20:30,360 --> 02:20:32,200
right there. You know I'll put if you're building an all,

3005
02:20:32,280 --> 02:20:35,719
if you're building all twenty two, Jerry, If it's not

3006
02:20:35,799 --> 02:20:38,680
about the most the most valuable position is quarterback, Okay,

3007
02:20:38,719 --> 02:20:41,319
but the best at one my my, my eleven man

3008
02:20:41,479 --> 02:20:44,879
offensive team, Tom Brady is throwing the ball to Jerry

3009
02:20:45,000 --> 02:20:49,719
Rice and his hand of the ball to uh, Jim

3010
02:20:49,799 --> 02:20:54,399
Brown and Barry Sanders, over Walter Payton and over Emmitt Smith.

3011
02:20:54,719 --> 02:20:57,719
To me, he's the only one at his position that's inarguable.

3012
02:20:57,879 --> 02:21:00,879
You can well, tom Brady's pretty inarguable. But at there

3013
02:21:00,920 --> 02:21:03,159
are times people people before this last Super Bowl were

3014
02:21:03,239 --> 02:21:07,559
arguing Pat Mahomes, not Peyton Manning. Back in the day,

3015
02:21:07,639 --> 02:21:11,399
Joe and me, when I took Joe Montana off my

3016
02:21:11,559 --> 02:21:13,200
list as the greatest quarterback of all time because the

3017
02:21:13,239 --> 02:21:16,520
all you did was win and make great plays, I

3018
02:21:16,639 --> 02:21:19,319
replaced him with Tom Brady. Man I could do that.

3019
02:21:19,399 --> 02:21:23,479
I felt about doing that. Yeah, all right, Uh one

3020
02:21:23,559 --> 02:21:25,719
eleven is our time back to the baseball conversation. Next,

3021
02:21:25,719 --> 02:21:27,879
we had Dana Brown in the ten o'clock hour. You're saying, Matt,

3022
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:29,799
you guys are on at ten o'clock, Yes, Ross explaining

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the audience we're on every day at ten two Sports

3024
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Talk seven ninety the new time slot, Live it, love it,

3025
02:21:35,440 --> 02:21:38,520
believe in it. All right, Dana Brown visited with us next.

3026
02:21:38,600 --> 02:21:41,799
We'll carry most of that conversation straight ahead. Matt and Ross.

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We are with you today from West Palm loaded guestless

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tomorrow working on Wednesday or Thursday as well. We want

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you guys to be a part of the radio program.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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Speaker 5: More Man Thomas Show with Ross now on Sports Talk seven.

3050
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Speaker 3: Ninety timy is one eighteen. It is about Thomas Show.

3051
02:23:03,680 --> 02:23:05,920
We take it till Thomas Show with Ross. I forget

3052
02:23:05,959 --> 02:23:07,879
that we're here till two o'clock every day time, come

3053
02:23:07,920 --> 02:23:09,840
on until come on Now, I'm getting I've been pretty

3054
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good about its. Matter of fact, I have our new

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volleyball court in the backyard Relata venue. We have some

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new banners going up with Carly's new school, and I

3057
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have a new banner made for the Matt Thomas Show

3058
02:23:21,040 --> 02:23:23,200
with Ross. Really yes, all right, I want to show

3059
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owe you zero. Okay, gonna give you a couple of shekels. No,

3060
02:23:27,120 --> 02:23:28,760
I want you when we put up that one, she

3061
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goes man, he really did. So your name is in

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the bows in my backyard. Wow, that's weird. That's great,

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it's a little weird. Just don't make the dog's pee

3064
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on it.

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Speaker 7: Be fine.

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Speaker 3: They're pin on the old one twelve to three year

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and aches. All right, as promise, let's get you some

3068
02:23:47,559 --> 02:23:51,360
of the conversation most of the conversation with Dana Brown,

3069
02:23:51,440 --> 02:23:53,239
the Astros gentle manager. Now, one of the things you

3070
02:23:53,319 --> 02:23:56,000
kept hearing over and over again during the whole Alex

3071
02:23:56,120 --> 02:24:00,920
Pregnant conversation was these internal discussions, meaning, I e. Do

3072
02:24:00,959 --> 02:24:03,600
you An'll want Bregford? Sure you want to get extra money? No,

3073
02:24:04,200 --> 02:24:06,280
that was the internal conversation. So I did ask Dana

3074
02:24:07,719 --> 02:24:10,280
a little bit of a lighthearted manner, I think exactly.

3075
02:24:10,360 --> 02:24:13,520
These internal discussions are every day when he gets the ballpark,

3076
02:24:13,559 --> 02:24:16,520
talking with his baseball operation staff about what's ahead for

3077
02:24:16,600 --> 02:24:17,719
twenty twenty five.

3078
02:24:18,399 --> 02:24:21,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, internal discussions are basically, Look, we show up here

3079
02:24:21,559 --> 02:24:23,840
every day and you know, we're always thinking of ways

3080
02:24:23,879 --> 02:24:27,559
to get the team better, and so we're still having conversations,

3081
02:24:27,760 --> 02:24:31,239
you know, about players and what we could do to

3082
02:24:31,280 --> 02:24:32,879
make this club even better than it is.

3083
02:24:33,000 --> 02:24:34,840
Speaker 7: Right now. We feel really good about the club.

3084
02:24:34,879 --> 02:24:37,200
Speaker 9: We feel like, you know, we can win this division

3085
02:24:37,239 --> 02:24:40,319
again and get deep into the postseason. We feel like

3086
02:24:40,399 --> 02:24:42,840
we got a good group of position players, a good

3087
02:24:42,879 --> 02:24:46,600
group of starters and leievers, and so you know, we

3088
02:24:46,760 --> 02:24:49,799
have these discussions every every day, we talk. You know,

3089
02:24:49,959 --> 02:24:53,040
it's amazing that I you know, I walk in first time,

3090
02:24:53,040 --> 02:24:55,159
I say, hey, what you guys got today? What's going on?

3091
02:24:55,479 --> 02:24:58,280
And you talk to any other clubs what's going on?

3092
02:24:58,559 --> 02:25:01,120
So that's that's part of what we do, internal discussions.

3093
02:25:02,159 --> 02:25:05,120
Speaker 3: I don't remember a whole lot of maneuvering this time

3094
02:25:05,159 --> 02:25:06,760
of year. Am I wrong about this? I mean, I

3095
02:25:06,879 --> 02:25:09,280
know guys can sign some deals. I think Justin Turner

3096
02:25:09,399 --> 02:25:12,799
just signed the day. But in terms of just real

3097
02:25:13,120 --> 02:25:14,040
hot action, is there.

3098
02:25:14,000 --> 02:25:15,680
Speaker 7: A lot right now? I think it is.

3099
02:25:15,840 --> 02:25:18,040
Speaker 9: I think what's gonna happen is guys get into camp

3100
02:25:18,120 --> 02:25:20,399
and you start seeing your players a little bit. Some

3101
02:25:20,479 --> 02:25:22,479
of the guys have been here for a little bit longer,

3102
02:25:23,120 --> 02:25:25,000
and you start to get that look at them and

3103
02:25:25,040 --> 02:25:27,200
you say, oh man, maybe we can upgrade here, or

3104
02:25:27,399 --> 02:25:29,719
you know, maybe we have enough in this area. And

3105
02:25:29,920 --> 02:25:32,600
so you know, those are part of those discussions that

3106
02:25:32,719 --> 02:25:34,600
you have and you know, before you know it, you

3107
02:25:34,680 --> 02:25:39,639
may make a move. So we're always trying to find

3108
02:25:39,760 --> 02:25:42,000
some angle where we can improve this cloud. But I

3109
02:25:42,079 --> 02:25:44,959
think you have to be relentless because if you're not,

3110
02:25:45,760 --> 02:25:47,360
that's that day something to slip by.

3111
02:25:47,959 --> 02:25:50,319
Speaker 3: What do you think about I mean, of course Bregnant

3112
02:25:50,360 --> 02:25:53,120
signing and it going on for a long time and

3113
02:25:53,680 --> 02:25:55,920
it happening in the last couple of years of Jordan Montgomery,

3114
02:25:55,959 --> 02:25:58,840
Blake Snell and some guys getting signed early some late.

3115
02:25:59,120 --> 02:26:01,479
Speaker 10: Is that it just can you tell me?

3116
02:26:01,600 --> 02:26:03,639
Speaker 3: Is that something that's recent? Has it always been like that?

3117
02:26:03,760 --> 02:26:06,200
But it feels like things have dragged on a little

3118
02:26:06,200 --> 02:26:08,639
bit more and it's just as a whole and a

3119
02:26:08,719 --> 02:26:11,760
picture free agency. In your opinion, what do you think

3120
02:26:11,760 --> 02:26:14,159
about the state of the way things go these days,

3121
02:26:14,280 --> 02:26:17,680
especially with the way that Bregman dragging on the way

3122
02:26:17,719 --> 02:26:18,040
that they did.

3123
02:26:18,280 --> 02:26:21,559
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just think it's it's depends on the type

3124
02:26:21,559 --> 02:26:23,399
of year, like how many big boys do you have

3125
02:26:23,559 --> 02:26:26,399
on the market, you know. I think it's one of

3126
02:26:26,440 --> 02:26:29,120
those things where sometimes you have so many good players

3127
02:26:29,159 --> 02:26:31,959
on the market, and you know, guys are you know,

3128
02:26:32,079 --> 02:26:34,840
waiting on deals and trying to do deals and trying

3129
02:26:34,879 --> 02:26:37,600
to get creative, and you know, so a lot of

3130
02:26:37,680 --> 02:26:39,840
things are happening all at one time. There's a lot

3131
02:26:39,920 --> 02:26:42,879
of clubs that you have to have conversations with, and

3132
02:26:43,079 --> 02:26:46,719
so it seems complicated sometimes. But you know, I think

3133
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:50,239
at the end of the day, guys you know, target

3134
02:26:50,319 --> 02:26:52,719
who they want, they go after them hard, and if

3135
02:26:52,760 --> 02:26:54,399
they don't get them, they go to the next guy.

3136
02:26:54,680 --> 02:26:56,840
Speaker 3: But how in the world as a general manager, whether

3137
02:26:56,879 --> 02:27:00,159
it's you or anybody else in the big leagues, the

3138
02:27:00,200 --> 02:27:01,680
spot out for a guy that may or may not

3139
02:27:01,840 --> 02:27:04,600
come that you mean, Tama, Let's be prutally honest here.

3140
02:27:04,680 --> 02:27:06,719
We love pregnant very much, but your life had to

3141
02:27:06,760 --> 02:27:08,559
move on. You had to go fix this infield right

3142
02:27:08,559 --> 02:27:10,239
away here, whether he was coming back or no.

3143
02:27:10,799 --> 02:27:11,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, the one thing I.

3144
02:27:11,680 --> 02:27:15,000
Speaker 9: Learned when I was in Atlanta working under Alex and Toppoless.

3145
02:27:15,040 --> 02:27:17,319
He used to move really quickly in the off season

3146
02:27:17,399 --> 02:27:20,239
and he would, you know, get his targets, line him up,

3147
02:27:20,799 --> 02:27:23,879
and you know, once you you know, shoot at this one.

3148
02:27:23,920 --> 02:27:25,959
If it didn't work, go to the next one. And

3149
02:27:26,159 --> 02:27:29,440
so I think what I was trying to do is,

3150
02:27:29,840 --> 02:27:32,799
you know, hey, we want Gregman to come back, but

3151
02:27:33,200 --> 02:27:35,399
you know, we have to think what if we don't

3152
02:27:35,479 --> 02:27:38,840
sign him, if something goes wrong, And so we didn't

3153
02:27:38,840 --> 02:27:41,280
wait around. You know, we made the trade right away.

3154
02:27:41,600 --> 02:27:44,200
You know, we you know, wanted to put Perettis at

3155
02:27:44,239 --> 02:27:48,079
third and you know, we got Walker for first base,

3156
02:27:48,280 --> 02:27:50,879
and you know, because we were losing two bats that

3157
02:27:51,079 --> 02:27:53,239
hit one through five, so we wanted to add two

3158
02:27:53,319 --> 02:27:56,000
bats back, and we wanted to remain competitive. And so

3159
02:27:56,159 --> 02:27:58,479
you can't sit around and wait. You have to be active,

3160
02:27:59,159 --> 02:28:02,079
you know. And as you know, the owner, Jimm Crane says, look,

3161
02:28:02,200 --> 02:28:04,319
our windows always open. So we're always looking to win,

3162
02:28:04,399 --> 02:28:06,120
We're always looking to make deals, We're always looking to

3163
02:28:06,159 --> 02:28:06,479
get better.

3164
02:28:06,680 --> 02:28:08,760
Speaker 3: One of the early deals was the Kyle Tucker trade

3165
02:28:08,799 --> 02:28:12,120
to Chicago. And look, Cam Smith apparently, I mean, everyone's like,

3166
02:28:12,159 --> 02:28:14,040
this guy's built the granite, can't wait to see him.

3167
02:28:14,040 --> 02:28:15,879
I want to see him in some spring training games.

3168
02:28:17,159 --> 02:28:19,799
On the other side of it, what made them want

3169
02:28:19,879 --> 02:28:22,280
to get this done because in a year from now

3170
02:28:22,520 --> 02:28:25,959
he's not committed to Chicago. I mean, why you have

3171
02:28:26,079 --> 02:28:28,840
to battle the I want him now as compared to

3172
02:28:28,840 --> 02:28:30,200
I don't want to give a lot of prospects up,

3173
02:28:30,200 --> 02:28:31,840
so weeak lose him in the era. What's it like

3174
02:28:31,959 --> 02:28:33,399
I'm there in and what was it like dealing with

3175
02:28:33,479 --> 02:28:35,600
a squad that knew that you were sending him there,

3176
02:28:35,920 --> 02:28:37,280
knowing that he's going to be a free agent in

3177
02:28:37,319 --> 02:28:37,799
one season.

3178
02:28:38,159 --> 02:28:41,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean since some teams, you know, they get

3179
02:28:41,639 --> 02:28:43,399
to the point where they're like really trying to get

3180
02:28:43,440 --> 02:28:46,440
back to the postseason. And I think they were motivated

3181
02:28:46,520 --> 02:28:48,319
by trying to get back to the postseason, and they

3182
02:28:48,399 --> 02:28:51,319
knew that, you know, Tucker was, you know, a really

3183
02:28:51,600 --> 02:28:54,319
good player, and so that they would use a guy

3184
02:28:54,440 --> 02:28:55,280
like that in the middle.

3185
02:28:55,079 --> 02:28:55,760
Speaker 7: Of their lineup.

3186
02:28:56,239 --> 02:28:58,840
Speaker 9: Good defender, he could steal bases, so you know, he's

3187
02:28:58,840 --> 02:29:03,000
wanted a better position players in baseball, and so I

3188
02:29:03,079 --> 02:29:05,920
think that was the appeal. You know, you're getting one

3189
02:29:05,920 --> 02:29:08,479
of the better positions and one of the better position

3190
02:29:08,600 --> 02:29:10,920
players in baseball, and you're trying to get back to

3191
02:29:11,000 --> 02:29:14,040
the postseason, and you know, that kind of motivated them

3192
02:29:14,079 --> 02:29:16,639
to do what they did. And then we felt like, look,

3193
02:29:16,959 --> 02:29:18,479
if we're going to trade Tucker, we got to get

3194
02:29:18,520 --> 02:29:22,079
something really good back, you know. And we felt, you know,

3195
02:29:22,319 --> 02:29:25,319
like getting those three guys were like really big. You know,

3196
02:29:25,399 --> 02:29:26,840
you got two guys that you can put on your

3197
02:29:26,840 --> 02:29:28,559
major league team right away. You got another guy and

3198
02:29:28,559 --> 02:29:31,920
that's not that far away, and so you know, we

3199
02:29:31,959 --> 02:29:33,239
felt like we got impact back.

3200
02:29:34,200 --> 02:29:36,559
Speaker 3: Astro general manager Dana Brown is here on Sports Talk

3201
02:29:36,639 --> 02:29:38,840
seven ninety and well, at the end of the thing

3202
02:29:38,920 --> 02:29:41,079
that we're all been talking about everybody's talking about, of course,

3203
02:29:41,120 --> 02:29:44,920
hose al Tuv and the left field discussion. How how

3204
02:29:45,000 --> 02:29:48,239
did this come about? And how does he fit as

3205
02:29:48,239 --> 02:29:49,840
a piece of the puzzle, because of course we know

3206
02:29:50,040 --> 02:29:54,559
Chaz Jake, maybe Dubon some Zach Dezenzo, maybe Jacob Melton

3207
02:29:54,680 --> 02:29:57,840
down the down the line as well. How does al

3208
02:29:57,920 --> 02:29:59,879
Tuve fit in this left field puzzle?

3209
02:30:00,120 --> 02:30:01,879
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it seems to be picking up steam.

3210
02:30:02,079 --> 02:30:06,639
Speaker 3: You know, it's all Houston's talking about it. Respect it's nobody.

3211
02:30:06,680 --> 02:30:08,360
I mean, there's a lot of things funny about your squad.

3212
02:30:08,840 --> 02:30:11,239
Everybody asking us to ask you about jose Lt.

3213
02:30:11,559 --> 02:30:13,159
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know, we'll give it to him.

3214
02:30:13,239 --> 02:30:16,680
Speaker 9: So look, I think al Tuve is having a ball

3215
02:30:16,799 --> 02:30:19,000
out there in left field. First of all, he's excited

3216
02:30:19,040 --> 02:30:21,520
about it. He's out there like a little kid. It's unbelievable.

3217
02:30:21,559 --> 02:30:24,600
He's always smiling. And you know, we wanted to create

3218
02:30:24,760 --> 02:30:28,680
some versatility and if you could use him, you know,

3219
02:30:28,840 --> 02:30:30,760
in left field, you know that's going to create some

3220
02:30:30,920 --> 02:30:34,079
versatility and we think that could be big. And you know,

3221
02:30:34,239 --> 02:30:36,280
we needed a bat in our outfield, so that helps

3222
02:30:36,319 --> 02:30:37,479
us with a bat in our outfield.

3223
02:30:37,520 --> 02:30:41,000
Speaker 7: But uh, you know, he's he's done a great job.

3224
02:30:41,079 --> 02:30:42,440
He's really taking well to it.

3225
02:30:43,120 --> 02:30:45,319
Speaker 9: And as long as he's having fun, you know what,

3226
02:30:46,200 --> 02:30:48,680
you know, we we don't have to commit to it today,

3227
02:30:48,799 --> 02:30:50,559
but as long as he's having fun and getting better

3228
02:30:50,639 --> 02:30:52,600
and we feel like, look, he's got a chance to

3229
02:30:52,639 --> 02:30:55,920
be a really good defender, why not. You know, he's

3230
02:30:56,399 --> 02:30:58,719
he's doing a good job. I just went out earlier

3231
02:30:58,799 --> 02:31:01,639
and watched him take some fly balls and man, he

3232
02:31:01,799 --> 02:31:04,399
was getting good jumps and you know, getting the balls

3233
02:31:04,399 --> 02:31:09,280
in the gap and coming in. If he wins the goal, loove,

3234
02:31:09,479 --> 02:31:11,760
I mean, our staff they're gonna look like experts.

3235
02:31:12,520 --> 02:31:12,680
Speaker 8: You know.

3236
02:31:14,079 --> 02:31:18,559
Speaker 9: I'll take a strong average defender at this point. If

3237
02:31:18,600 --> 02:31:21,440
he becomes that, that, that's that that's outstanding in our outfit.

3238
02:31:21,719 --> 02:31:26,520
So he's for sure taken to it very well.

3239
02:31:26,719 --> 02:31:28,559
Speaker 3: And what about Jordan, how does he fit in the

3240
02:31:28,600 --> 02:31:29,239
left field pitcher?

3241
02:31:29,399 --> 02:31:32,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we'll give him some some time, but no,

3242
02:31:33,079 --> 02:31:35,479
ultimately he's our d h. You know, we want him

3243
02:31:35,520 --> 02:31:38,079
to worry about hitting and driving him runs, and so

3244
02:31:38,239 --> 02:31:39,120
we will give him.

3245
02:31:39,000 --> 02:31:41,280
Speaker 7: Some run in the outfield. Joe's made that clear.

3246
02:31:42,319 --> 02:31:44,799
Speaker 9: It just all up to Joe and how how many

3247
02:31:45,000 --> 02:31:47,959
times he wants to put him out there. But yeah,

3248
02:31:48,600 --> 02:31:51,079
he's he's really our d H and so, but he

3249
02:31:51,159 --> 02:31:54,399
will get some run and I'm sure Joe's probably talked

3250
02:31:54,399 --> 02:31:55,879
to him about it and said, look, we're going to

3251
02:31:55,920 --> 02:31:57,600
try to protect you because we want you to play

3252
02:31:58,120 --> 02:32:01,319
as many games as possible. And the way you could

3253
02:32:01,319 --> 02:32:02,760
do at issue just DH it.

3254
02:32:02,920 --> 02:32:05,079
Speaker 3: So is there a metric for that because there are

3255
02:32:05,159 --> 02:32:08,879
some guys, remember Michael Brantley, he despised being a DH.

3256
02:32:09,200 --> 02:32:11,639
He wanted to be in the action. Other guys, I'll

3257
02:32:11,719 --> 02:32:14,680
go back to David Ortiz, I mean inventing himself by

3258
02:32:14,719 --> 02:32:16,959
getting off of first base. So do you guys look

3259
02:32:17,000 --> 02:32:19,479
at numbers of how he batted, how he performed the

3260
02:32:19,520 --> 02:32:21,360
day after day before he played in left field?

3261
02:32:21,920 --> 02:32:24,000
Speaker 9: No, I just think, guy, it's one of those things

3262
02:32:24,120 --> 02:32:27,840
where you know he's gonna hit whether he's a you know,

3263
02:32:28,040 --> 02:32:29,280
left fielder or a DH.

3264
02:32:29,520 --> 02:32:32,639
Speaker 7: You know, Alvarez well hit. So I don't think that

3265
02:32:32,799 --> 02:32:33,920
really had much to do with it.

3266
02:32:34,479 --> 02:32:38,399
Speaker 9: I just think if he's in the dugout thinking about

3267
02:32:38,479 --> 02:32:40,879
hitting all the time, he can really lock into what

3268
02:32:40,959 --> 02:32:43,360
he wants to do, whether he wants to, you know,

3269
02:32:44,040 --> 02:32:46,239
figure out what the picture is strong to him, study,

3270
02:32:46,440 --> 02:32:48,760
you know, what his patterns are or whatever the case

3271
02:32:48,840 --> 02:32:51,399
may be. Any time that he could spend on hitting

3272
02:32:51,600 --> 02:32:53,399
is a good thing, and we want to see big

3273
02:32:53,520 --> 02:32:55,879
results from him because when he goes, the team goes.

3274
02:32:56,159 --> 02:32:59,079
Speaker 3: It feels like the twenty six man roster's just about set.

3275
02:32:59,120 --> 02:33:01,799
But if it isn't unware, where would that be? Would

3276
02:33:01,840 --> 02:33:05,680
it be decision on a utility infield or an extra

3277
02:33:05,879 --> 02:33:08,079
arm in the bullpen? In terms of that, where do

3278
02:33:08,159 --> 02:33:10,360
you see as you look for the next month when

3279
02:33:10,399 --> 02:33:12,799
you watch these games, where is it Well, I can

3280
02:33:12,879 --> 02:33:14,600
go here, I can go here in this particular position.

3281
02:33:14,719 --> 02:33:17,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you know, obviously the bullpen, you know,

3282
02:33:17,520 --> 02:33:21,959
with making a move for Presley, you know, trading Presley

3283
02:33:22,040 --> 02:33:25,200
opened up a spot there, right, so we we definitely

3284
02:33:25,280 --> 02:33:28,239
have some room to talk about you know what our

3285
02:33:28,319 --> 02:33:30,680
what is our pen gonna look like? And then you know,

3286
02:33:30,840 --> 02:33:33,879
outfield wise, you know, how are we going to be platune?

3287
02:33:34,639 --> 02:33:38,040
Is McCormick you know, gonna really you know, get back

3288
02:33:38,040 --> 02:33:42,000
to this twenty twenty three year. So I think those two,

3289
02:33:42,559 --> 02:33:47,200
you know, spots like you know outfield and also relief

3290
02:33:47,559 --> 02:33:51,239
pitching is where the room you know, we have to make.

3291
02:33:51,159 --> 02:33:53,920
Speaker 3: Our decisions for latue and all, get went Ross, get

3292
02:33:54,000 --> 02:33:57,040
one more question one for me. Our audience loves this

3293
02:33:57,159 --> 02:34:00,319
team and is with every intricate move, and they'll always

3294
02:34:00,319 --> 02:34:03,799
bring up the minor leaguers Melton Matthews and then we'll

3295
02:34:03,840 --> 02:34:06,680
get to Cam Smith. How much do you think that's

3296
02:34:06,680 --> 02:34:10,079
gonna be a conversation piece internally about when they're going

3297
02:34:10,159 --> 02:34:12,239
to be ready? Look, nobody knows you have to take it.

3298
02:34:12,479 --> 02:34:15,239
Even if they're crushing into triple AAA, you still to

3299
02:34:15,319 --> 02:34:18,200
guess how much will you intently watching those three guys,

3300
02:34:18,319 --> 02:34:19,959
especially in the first couple months of the year, if

3301
02:34:20,000 --> 02:34:21,959
some of those major leaguers are not performing up to

3302
02:34:22,040 --> 02:34:22,680
your expectations.

3303
02:34:22,760 --> 02:34:24,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm locked in on them, you know, regardless if

3304
02:34:24,840 --> 02:34:27,360
the major leaguers are doing well, and if they're not

3305
02:34:27,440 --> 02:34:30,200
doing well, I'm still locked in on those guys. Those

3306
02:34:30,280 --> 02:34:32,280
guys have a chance to help us. I really feel

3307
02:34:32,360 --> 02:34:35,840
confident that they could turn the corner pretty quickly, and

3308
02:34:36,040 --> 02:34:40,559
so I'm used to, you know, moving players fast, you know.

3309
02:34:40,680 --> 02:34:43,200
I mean, I told these guys when I got the job,

3310
02:34:44,120 --> 02:34:45,399
I sat down and I talked.

3311
02:34:45,200 --> 02:34:46,440
Speaker 7: To a lot of the minor league players.

3312
02:34:46,520 --> 02:34:49,280
Speaker 9: I think it's important that you always have good young

3313
02:34:49,319 --> 02:34:52,319
players coming into major leagues. I think it reminds the

3314
02:34:52,559 --> 02:34:54,760
older players that, hey, we got good young players in

3315
02:34:54,799 --> 02:34:56,959
the minor leagues. And it reminds the younger players that

3316
02:34:57,360 --> 02:34:59,360
if I do well, I'm gonna get moved up. And

3317
02:34:59,440 --> 02:35:03,079
I think you want that energy throughout your entire organization

3318
02:35:04,079 --> 02:35:06,120
and until I'm a firm believer, So I think if

3319
02:35:06,159 --> 02:35:08,120
these guys are if they go down there and they're

3320
02:35:08,159 --> 02:35:10,920
doing well, we will talk about moving them. You know,

3321
02:35:11,000 --> 02:35:12,799
I don't know how fast or I can't put a

3322
02:35:12,840 --> 02:35:15,319
timeline on it, but we're not afraid to move them

3323
02:35:16,120 --> 02:35:17,840
to the big leagues if they're doing very well.

3324
02:35:18,879 --> 02:35:22,479
Speaker 3: Starting pitching question real quick, what was it like seeing

3325
02:35:22,559 --> 02:35:25,239
Hayden Wesnski from AFAR now getting him in the house

3326
02:35:25,319 --> 02:35:28,239
and working with him, and then as far as the

3327
02:35:28,319 --> 02:35:30,680
depth Luis Garcia and Puance Papolis.

3328
02:35:30,959 --> 02:35:34,280
Speaker 9: Yeah, so Wesnski he's fired up, of course, because he's

3329
02:35:34,280 --> 02:35:37,120
back at home in Houston right and so he's he's

3330
02:35:37,200 --> 02:35:40,360
locked in. You know, I've had multiple conversations with him,

3331
02:35:41,559 --> 02:35:43,799
and I think his stuff is going to play very well.

3332
02:35:44,760 --> 02:35:48,399
Speaker 7: I think our pitching guys are really good, and so you.

3333
02:35:48,440 --> 02:35:51,559
Speaker 9: Know they're gonna get him, you know, to his next

3334
02:35:51,639 --> 02:35:54,639
step in life and in this game, and so I

3335
02:35:54,760 --> 02:35:56,760
think they could. You know, our guys have a way

3336
02:35:57,360 --> 02:35:59,680
of finding out what you need to do to make you,

3337
02:36:00,360 --> 02:36:03,200
you know, better, and I think, you know, he's been

3338
02:36:03,280 --> 02:36:05,840
a sponge and you know, hopefully we could we could

3339
02:36:05,840 --> 02:36:08,639
help him to make those adjustments, you know, Garcia. I

3340
02:36:08,719 --> 02:36:12,000
think Garcia, you know, we'll know more as he continues

3341
02:36:12,040 --> 02:36:16,319
to throw here. But I anticipate him turning the corner,

3342
02:36:16,799 --> 02:36:18,840
you know, somewhere in the early part of this year.

3343
02:36:18,959 --> 02:36:22,159
And so once he starts throwing here, we probably have

3344
02:36:22,280 --> 02:36:25,840
more of a firm you know, deadline or or target

3345
02:36:25,959 --> 02:36:28,680
date or whatever you want to call it. And he

3346
02:36:28,959 --> 02:36:30,840
could be he's gonna be some help that we were

3347
02:36:30,840 --> 02:36:33,879
going to need in that rotation. So we really feel

3348
02:36:33,920 --> 02:36:37,000
like we got ten guys total in depth in rotation,

3349
02:36:37,280 --> 02:36:39,399
and so we feel like we're in good shape.

3350
02:36:39,440 --> 02:36:40,479
Speaker 7: You know, last year we had that.

3351
02:36:41,959 --> 02:36:44,280
Speaker 9: Period where we lost the like five starters at one

3352
02:36:44,319 --> 02:36:46,639
point they were all out, and so we feel really

3353
02:36:46,680 --> 02:36:47,159
good about that.

3354
02:36:47,280 --> 02:36:48,600
Speaker 7: And the MC colors, you.

3355
02:36:48,639 --> 02:36:50,600
Speaker 9: Know, he's been thrown off the mound and he's been

3356
02:36:50,760 --> 02:36:55,639
participating in you know, the PfP drills and so you

3357
02:36:55,719 --> 02:36:58,159
know that's a good thing, and so once once he

3358
02:36:58,280 --> 02:37:01,079
starts to throw even harder, we'll get a pretty much

3359
02:37:01,479 --> 02:37:02,520
target date.

3360
02:37:02,559 --> 02:37:05,120
Speaker 7: Or you know, a timeline on him as well.

3361
02:37:05,200 --> 02:37:08,239
Speaker 9: And so I feel like both guys should be pitching

3362
02:37:08,280 --> 02:37:10,719
at some point this season, hopefully sooner rather than later.

3363
02:37:11,559 --> 02:37:14,280
Speaker 3: And that again, Dana Brown from earlier today will have

3364
02:37:14,559 --> 02:37:18,079
more throughout the next couple of days as we broadcast

3365
02:37:18,159 --> 02:37:21,399
a full four hours here Wednesday and Thursday from West

3366
02:37:21,440 --> 02:37:28,159
Palm Beach. Some mind boggling economic news that we just received,

3367
02:37:28,520 --> 02:37:34,239
not like breaking news, but it's just still well a

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sports team is worth these days, all thanks to a

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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, Lunch Timers, It's a Matt Thomas Show show with

3390
02:38:48,840 --> 02:38:51,079
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

3391
02:38:54,840 --> 02:38:57,000
Speaker 3: Thank you again to Danviad. Brown will be joining joined

3392
02:38:57,040 --> 02:38:59,799
us earlier today and we've got more coverage coming to

3393
02:38:59,840 --> 02:39:02,559
you starting tomorrow. I hear at ten o'clock on Sports

3394
02:39:02,600 --> 02:39:05,520
Talk seventy from West Balm Beach. Shout out Christian Walker,

3395
02:39:05,680 --> 02:39:07,719
even though that was rood of you to offer him

3396
02:39:07,760 --> 02:39:11,000
your co host job. It's good. If you missed the

3397
02:39:11,079 --> 02:39:15,920
Christian Walker interview, where were you were you cousin in discussing?

3398
02:39:16,040 --> 02:39:18,879
Is that what you were doing? Oh no, we'll cousin discussing.

3399
02:39:21,239 --> 02:39:25,639
Are you all right? No, I'm starving, God, you'll be fine,

3400
02:39:26,040 --> 02:39:28,360
all right, real quick, we're gonna go get the Bendy's

3401
02:39:28,440 --> 02:39:30,360
right after this. We're going to Bendy's after to get

3402
02:39:30,399 --> 02:39:34,120
a rebel rack and uh and a Megi Man, a

3403
02:39:34,200 --> 02:39:36,760
Meggie mound or whatever. We gotta make sure we don't

3404
02:39:36,799 --> 02:39:39,600
say anything. I know I'm starting to. So we got

3405
02:39:39,719 --> 02:39:42,680
we got the greatest tweet ever from a listener yesterday

3406
02:39:42,879 --> 02:39:47,360
or maybe it was Saturday, about how it's insanely stupid

3407
02:39:47,440 --> 02:39:49,440
what we do, which is really what the show is

3408
02:39:49,520 --> 02:39:52,879
and s stupid. But people at their and their house,

3409
02:39:53,239 --> 02:39:56,319
at their workplace with their buddies are having to change

3410
02:39:56,479 --> 02:39:58,479
names to protect the innocent. Now we do it because

3411
02:39:58,520 --> 02:40:01,200
we don't give away free plugs on the show. Correct.

3412
02:40:01,520 --> 02:40:04,079
We were listening to Sean Salisbury Show with Brian Lehman

3413
02:40:04,120 --> 02:40:07,479
today coming in here. Yeah, they were free plugging everybody

3414
02:40:07,639 --> 02:40:11,040
like a mouda. Some might say, yeah, we don't free

3415
02:40:11,120 --> 02:40:13,120
plug you. All right, you spend money with this show,

3416
02:40:13,120 --> 02:40:15,479
You're gonna get great value. Absolutely, spend money you get

3417
02:40:15,520 --> 02:40:23,680
Buffcus speaking the money something called at boardroom. It must

3418
02:40:23,719 --> 02:40:25,399
be a business. Is it a business angle? Let's say

3419
02:40:25,399 --> 02:40:29,680
what bro, Yeah, it's an aggregate of business sports, business stuff. Okay.

3420
02:40:32,200 --> 02:40:35,840
The most valuable teams and NBA in twenty twenty five

3421
02:40:35,920 --> 02:40:40,159
the Houston Rockets coming in at number five. Wow, five

3422
02:40:40,319 --> 02:40:44,000
point seven billion dollars. So Houston Rockets are worth. The

3423
02:40:44,079 --> 02:40:46,319
Bulls are five point eight, the Lakers are seven, the

3424
02:40:46,440 --> 02:40:48,680
next or seven point five. The Golden State Warriors are

3425
02:40:48,760 --> 02:40:50,959
nine point four. I don't care about the four in front.

3426
02:40:50,959 --> 02:40:52,920
I'm caring about the Rockets because that's my team. And

3427
02:40:53,159 --> 02:40:55,559
maybe I can use this towards maybe a small increase

3428
02:40:55,600 --> 02:40:59,079
in salary next year. Ah, good luck. I that is

3429
02:40:59,239 --> 02:41:02,280
interesting though. Oh but here's I'm finish real quick.

3430
02:41:02,920 --> 02:41:03,120
Speaker 14: Yeah.

3431
02:41:03,159 --> 02:41:05,760
Speaker 3: So they were valued in two this year five point

3432
02:41:05,840 --> 02:41:09,079
seven billion dollars. Tim and for Tita bought the team

3433
02:41:09,120 --> 02:41:15,399
in twenty seventeen for two point two billion dollars. In

3434
02:41:15,760 --> 02:41:19,159
eight years, not even eight years, seven and a half years,

3435
02:41:20,360 --> 02:41:22,719
the value of his franchise has gone from two point

3436
02:41:22,799 --> 02:41:28,319
two billion to five point seven billion dollars, basically two

3437
02:41:28,360 --> 02:41:31,479
and a half times your money in seven eight years

3438
02:41:32,319 --> 02:41:34,840
that's pretty incredible. I don't know if there's an Is

3439
02:41:34,840 --> 02:41:37,120
there a greater rate of return in anything in the

3440
02:41:37,200 --> 02:41:40,399
world than owning a professional sports team. So you're telling me,

3441
02:41:40,799 --> 02:41:44,600
I'm telling you nobody likes the NBA. The products watered down,

3442
02:41:44,840 --> 02:41:48,280
the it's unwatchable. The All Star Break is a disaster.

3443
02:41:48,719 --> 02:41:52,680
CORECT star players aren't playing in games, right. I don't

3444
02:41:52,680 --> 02:41:55,040
watch the NBA anymore. What is the All Star Game?

3445
02:41:55,079 --> 02:41:55,879
Speaker 7: What is the NBA?

3446
02:41:56,079 --> 02:41:58,360
Speaker 3: It's a bunch of guys shooting threes and dunking the ball.

3447
02:41:59,319 --> 02:42:02,520
Tilman is nearly triple his money in eight years. All right, Now,

3448
02:42:03,319 --> 02:42:05,520
let's talk about where they think the money is coming from.

3449
02:42:06,000 --> 02:42:10,000
First and foremost, the international version portion of this is

3450
02:42:10,239 --> 02:42:13,840
very very strong people outside of the United States. Frankly,

3451
02:42:14,559 --> 02:42:16,079
I don't know if it's Mexico, but they love THEMBA

3452
02:42:16,159 --> 02:42:18,280
in Canada, they really do. It's not hockey number one there.

3453
02:42:18,280 --> 02:42:20,520
But basketball is really, really good. I think it's more

3454
02:42:20,639 --> 02:42:23,680
popular than the CFL. I didn't know that. Yeah, basketball

3455
02:42:23,799 --> 02:42:27,440
is huge, like British Columbia and whatnot. They can't get

3456
02:42:27,520 --> 02:42:29,120
enough of the NBA. They still want to catch their

3457
02:42:29,159 --> 02:42:32,479
Memphis Grizzies, though, though they were once Vanka. Uh so

3458
02:42:32,559 --> 02:42:35,799
the international pool money. That's why the NFL is going

3459
02:42:35,840 --> 02:42:38,120
to go more international because they just know the NBA

3460
02:42:38,200 --> 02:42:41,639
has been able to capitalize on it, so why can't they? Yes, okay,

3461
02:42:41,760 --> 02:42:44,120
that's number one. The number five point seven billion is

3462
02:42:44,239 --> 02:42:48,600
that's NFL franchise money. What did the Commanders go for

3463
02:42:48,719 --> 02:42:51,719
six billion or something like that? So another part of

3464
02:42:51,760 --> 02:42:55,239
the reason why it is so popular and the value

3465
02:42:55,239 --> 02:42:58,000
of these franchise are going up is because the new

3466
02:42:58,120 --> 02:43:01,879
media rights deal. I want to read, I want to

3467
02:43:01,920 --> 02:43:04,799
read this and I can't fathom this. I'm gonna read

3468
02:43:04,840 --> 02:43:05,280
it as is.

3469
02:43:05,559 --> 02:43:05,840
Speaker 6: Okay.

3470
02:43:06,040 --> 02:43:10,559
Speaker 3: With a new seventy six seven six billion media rightes

3471
02:43:10,600 --> 02:43:12,639
deals set to kick in next season, the legal scene

3472
02:43:12,719 --> 02:43:16,559
every annual payout payment payout excuse me, of six point

3473
02:43:16,680 --> 02:43:19,319
nine billion, nearly one hundred and sixty percent more than

3474
02:43:19,360 --> 02:43:21,760
its current agreement. So every team in the NBA is

3475
02:43:21,840 --> 02:43:28,719
going to split per year six point nine billion dollars.

3476
02:43:28,840 --> 02:43:35,680
I cannot fathom that ross. Are we sure those This

3477
02:43:35,760 --> 02:43:39,319
is all according to CNBC, which they don't make mistakes. Well,

3478
02:43:39,399 --> 02:43:41,760
they probably made some, Oh, but we're gonna trust them

3479
02:43:42,760 --> 02:43:44,840
because we have no other choice. So the next ten

3480
02:43:45,000 --> 02:43:49,879
year media deals where it's seventy six billion dollars in

3481
02:43:49,959 --> 02:43:52,159
which every team is gonna get six point nine or

3482
02:43:52,159 --> 02:43:56,079
the league's gonna split six point nine per season. I'm

3483
02:43:56,159 --> 02:43:59,600
blown away by that. So for what every we want

3484
02:43:59,639 --> 02:44:04,719
to complete about the NBA, nobody likes it, nobody cares.

3485
02:44:04,959 --> 02:44:07,760
It's woke, and there's some issues there. I do believe

3486
02:44:07,799 --> 02:44:09,840
there's way too much politics in my sports, but that's

3487
02:44:09,840 --> 02:44:13,280
a different issue for a different time. The reality is

3488
02:44:14,319 --> 02:44:17,120
Adam Silver can walk on water to those thirty NBA

3489
02:44:17,200 --> 02:44:19,680
owners because look at the money they have brought in

3490
02:44:19,799 --> 02:44:24,520
and look at the increased value obscene amount of money

3491
02:44:25,000 --> 02:44:27,079
that these NBA franchise in work now. It takes two

3492
02:44:27,079 --> 02:44:29,120
to tango if you want to. If the Rockets wanted

3493
02:44:29,159 --> 02:44:30,920
to sell tomorrow, I don't believe that Fertidas will ever

3494
02:44:30,959 --> 02:44:32,559
sell because they want to keep it in the family.

3495
02:44:33,280 --> 02:44:35,040
Could you get five point seven four I don't know,

3496
02:44:35,319 --> 02:44:37,959
but c NBC says, at least right now, it's worth

3497
02:44:38,040 --> 02:44:42,879
almost six billion dollars. This is insane to me. The

3498
02:44:43,000 --> 02:44:45,959
Texans now, the Commander's sold for six point zero five

3499
02:44:46,319 --> 02:44:49,079
billion dollars, okay, and that's a franchise been around for

3500
02:44:49,239 --> 02:44:55,959
what seventy years? Yes, and they are listed as number

3501
02:44:56,000 --> 02:45:01,200
ten on the Forbes list. One point four billion that

3502
02:45:01,319 --> 02:45:06,360
the Warriors are worth is worth more than every NFL team,

3503
02:45:06,559 --> 02:45:11,719
every NFL team except the Cowboys. How is this possible?

3504
02:45:12,719 --> 02:45:15,559
Is there any party that thinks that the economists that

3505
02:45:15,559 --> 02:45:18,680
are putting this together are highly inflating the numbers? Possible?

3506
02:45:18,719 --> 02:45:20,680
But it's also I guess it just must be that

3507
02:45:20,959 --> 02:45:24,520
that international appeal. Because the NFL is mostly an American sport,

3508
02:45:25,840 --> 02:45:29,200
right their international television dollars are not even there. But

3509
02:45:29,280 --> 02:45:32,360
the NBA is huge overseas. We're talking about China, we're

3510
02:45:32,399 --> 02:45:35,040
talking about Israel, we're talking about Turkey, we're talking about

3511
02:45:35,079 --> 02:45:38,639
Great Britain, we're talking about Australia, We're talking about everywhere

3512
02:45:38,719 --> 02:45:42,200
in the world. The NBA, because basketball is much more

3513
02:45:42,200 --> 02:45:44,319
of a global sport than American football. Is it just

3514
02:45:44,440 --> 02:45:49,280
is that global impact must just add that many more

3515
02:45:49,360 --> 02:45:53,719
dollars to their valuations. Because if you put the Rockets

3516
02:45:53,760 --> 02:45:56,079
right now at five point seven billion, they'd be more.

3517
02:45:56,440 --> 02:46:02,000
They'd be thirteenth in the NFL, ahead of the Packers, Ronco, Seahawks, Buccaneers, Steelers.

3518
02:46:02,399 --> 02:46:05,520
Let me ask you this If this is what an

3519
02:46:05,639 --> 02:46:09,159
NBA franchise is worth, what about these these uh scott

3520
02:46:09,440 --> 02:46:12,239
these uh soccer teams you like to follow, apparently the

3521
02:46:12,440 --> 02:46:15,479
oh oh Real Madrid like the big Game. They're they're

3522
02:46:15,520 --> 02:46:17,639
around They're less than the Cowboys, I think, but they're

3523
02:46:17,680 --> 02:46:20,239
close around seven eight billion dollars I can find it.

3524
02:46:21,959 --> 02:46:22,280
Speaker 7: I think.

3525
02:46:22,479 --> 02:46:25,200
Speaker 3: I think Manchester United just is selling for like five

3526
02:46:25,280 --> 02:46:27,840
six billion dollars. That's one of the big heritage so

3527
02:46:27,959 --> 02:46:29,520
on our teams in our short term that we have

3528
02:46:29,559 --> 02:46:31,959
a lot of time in his left segment. What are

3529
02:46:32,040 --> 02:46:34,600
we as you and I are basketball fans. I don't

3530
02:46:34,680 --> 02:46:37,600
care about the dollars and cents of it. I just don't, Okay,

3531
02:46:39,440 --> 02:46:43,840
But Commissioner Silver does. Why does he have to improve

3532
02:46:43,959 --> 02:46:47,399
on something when he is bringing when everybody is coming

3533
02:46:47,440 --> 02:46:50,879
to the table offering more money for what the NBA provides.

3534
02:46:52,520 --> 02:46:54,600
When when is it going to level out? And the

3535
02:46:54,680 --> 02:46:57,479
answer is it's not gonna level out. We've been hearing

3536
02:46:57,520 --> 02:47:01,040
about dying television ratings. We've been hearing about UH politics

3537
02:47:01,079 --> 02:47:04,479
and sports. We've been hearing about time game management and

3538
02:47:04,520 --> 02:47:07,600
taking load time off load management. We're talking about three

3539
02:47:08,360 --> 02:47:11,600
three point line. We're talking about all sorts of stuff

3540
02:47:13,200 --> 02:47:20,879
in its recession proof. It's economically crushing. Yeah, baseball can't

3541
02:47:20,959 --> 02:47:25,360
use these numbers. No football use them because they just

3542
02:47:25,520 --> 02:47:29,079
but they're only confined to what the United States can

3543
02:47:29,120 --> 02:47:30,840
offer in terms of money. As far as soccer, the

3544
02:47:30,920 --> 02:47:33,760
most valuable team is Real Madrid at six point six

3545
02:47:33,920 --> 02:47:37,040
billion dollars. I'm curious about that. Maybe that'll make as

3546
02:47:37,120 --> 02:47:38,879
much as Rice fees. I know that their tickets are

3547
02:47:38,959 --> 02:47:43,399
generally cheaper than they are here in America. Corporate driven.

3548
02:47:43,479 --> 02:47:45,959
This is corporate driven, all right. Pack to wrap things

3549
02:47:46,040 --> 02:47:47,479
up here from West Palm Beach in a matter of

3550
02:47:47,520 --> 02:47:50,319
moment seven one, three, two two five seven UNTI are

3551
02:47:50,360 --> 02:47:54,600
you blown away that the Golden State Warriors, a San

3552
02:47:54,639 --> 02:48:01,280
Francisco basketball team that fifteen years ago ROSSI wasn't but god, yeah,

3553
02:48:01,520 --> 02:48:06,079
I mean a feudal, feudal team, is now worth over

3554
02:48:06,239 --> 02:48:09,440
nine billion dollars. You know it's worth also nine billion dollars.

3555
02:48:09,520 --> 02:48:12,000
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Speaker 5: Good Mornings, Trippers, shower with the Matt Thomas Show, wash

3570
02:48:52,840 --> 02:48:54,760
off the glitter and daddy issues.

3571
02:49:00,920 --> 02:49:03,319
Speaker 3: We're not leaving yet, are we? Yeah, No, we can't.

3572
02:49:03,319 --> 02:49:04,680
We gotta say we got two and a half minutes

3573
02:49:04,719 --> 02:49:07,399
to hang out with you folks. No we we We

3574
02:49:07,479 --> 02:49:09,559
had to, he said, He said, we're out of fifty seven.

3575
02:49:09,559 --> 02:49:12,719
It's fifty four. Oh okay, maybe by the way, we're

3576
02:49:12,760 --> 02:49:14,840
busy box. It didn't. Are we in the middle of Kansas?

3577
02:49:14,920 --> 02:49:18,399
What the hell's going on with this winds? Uh? Gale force?

3578
02:49:18,440 --> 02:49:19,239
I believe they call it?

3579
02:49:19,360 --> 02:49:19,399
Speaker 6: That?

3580
02:49:19,719 --> 02:49:22,639
Speaker 3: Is that what the kids call it? Gale force? All right. Uh,

3581
02:49:22,920 --> 02:49:26,120
thanks to Christian Walker, Thanks to who else we want

3582
02:49:26,159 --> 02:49:29,680
to thank? Oh, thank Dana Brown, Well, thank the listeners

3583
02:49:29,719 --> 02:49:32,120
that called the show today. Yes, we had got tomorrow.

3584
02:49:32,159 --> 02:49:34,159
We gotta shut your ball mass up. We had got

3585
02:49:34,840 --> 02:49:36,680
wet good feelings today. We got to shut your mass

3586
02:49:36,760 --> 02:49:39,079
up tomorrow. Uh huh, I got a few things you

3587
02:49:39,200 --> 02:49:41,040
do real quick on this and we get well, we

3588
02:49:41,120 --> 02:49:44,440
have two minutes when there's a crowded airport in flights

3589
02:49:44,479 --> 02:49:47,840
of delay, meaning not just your flight, every flight. Seats

3590
02:49:47,840 --> 02:49:51,040
are a premium. Don't be taking up extra seats to

3591
02:49:51,079 --> 02:49:53,040
put your bags and your briefcase. You can have a

3592
02:49:53,079 --> 02:49:55,079
little separation with a person. Just suck it up and

3593
02:49:55,159 --> 02:49:57,600
let us sit next to you. Oh you're talking about

3594
02:49:57,639 --> 02:50:02,239
the uh the separation there waiting here the terminal. There

3595
02:50:02,280 --> 02:50:04,120
are sixty seats for a reason. They're not They're not

3596
02:50:04,440 --> 02:50:06,680
sixty seats for us to be used by thirty people.

3597
02:50:08,280 --> 02:50:08,680
I get it.

3598
02:50:10,159 --> 02:50:10,440
Speaker 11: I know.

3599
02:50:10,600 --> 02:50:11,360
Speaker 8: I know.

3600
02:50:11,440 --> 02:50:13,799
Speaker 3: People were afraid about the VID, and people afraid about

3601
02:50:13,879 --> 02:50:16,200
germs and stuff. We were We weren't scared about the

3602
02:50:16,319 --> 02:50:19,520
VID and Germans twenty years ago. Yeah he should have been.

3603
02:50:19,559 --> 02:50:23,719
We didn't. We didn't become more uh, bacteria filled then

3604
02:50:23,840 --> 02:50:25,040
now that we did twenty years ago.

3605
02:50:25,200 --> 02:50:25,520
Speaker 10: It might be.

3606
02:50:26,000 --> 02:50:29,079
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I mean I was walking around.

3607
02:50:29,159 --> 02:50:32,079
I was I was trying to be respectful, but I like,

3608
02:50:32,239 --> 02:50:34,600
nine flights and we're all we're in the same gate area,

3609
02:50:34,639 --> 02:50:38,200
by the way, schmided stop putting seven flights at one

3610
02:50:38,319 --> 02:50:41,319
gate by the way too much. When you fly Schmider Express,

3611
02:50:43,360 --> 02:50:45,079
that's what they do. They take the smaller jets and

3612
02:50:45,120 --> 02:50:46,399
they say, oh well, let's put it a cram one

3613
02:50:46,440 --> 02:50:48,520
hundred and seventy five people into one area. There was

3614
02:50:48,600 --> 02:50:51,680
a guy literally getting on our plane and he was

3615
02:50:52,040 --> 02:50:55,000
and he scanned his boarding pass and the lady's like,

3616
02:50:55,040 --> 02:50:56,479
what are you doing. He's like, well, this isn't the

3617
02:50:56,479 --> 02:51:02,639
flight to Dallas. Did it go through No, it's yeah, yeah, yeah,

3618
02:51:02,639 --> 02:51:05,079
you don't want that. He's like, oh, this isn't to Dallas.

3619
02:51:05,239 --> 02:51:09,239
Like dude, look, dude, they're signed everywhere everywhere. Hey, nobody

3620
02:51:09,319 --> 02:51:11,079
got time for you. Can't be a dufe like that,

3621
02:51:11,280 --> 02:51:11,559
can you?

3622
02:51:11,920 --> 02:51:12,680
Speaker 10: He did? He was.

3623
02:51:13,319 --> 02:51:14,920
Speaker 3: I gave a loud chuck. I made sure he could

3624
02:51:14,959 --> 02:51:15,159
hear me.

3625
02:51:15,200 --> 02:51:15,639
Speaker 7: I gave him.

3626
02:51:17,000 --> 02:51:19,239
Speaker 3: I gave him one of those that was that's passive

3627
02:51:19,239 --> 02:51:21,120
aggressive chuckle. What do you want me to punch him

3628
02:51:21,120 --> 02:51:22,639
in the face. Why as you say, dumb ass, go

3629
02:51:22,719 --> 02:51:27,000
to your gate. Up next, Clinton, WEX are gonna entertain

3630
02:51:27,040 --> 02:51:28,479
the hell out of you for the next four hours.

3631
02:51:28,559 --> 02:51:31,799
We're gonna seek refuge and this gale force wins. It's

3632
02:51:32,200 --> 02:51:36,120
by next Talk to tomorrow at ten from West Palm

3633
02:51:36,159 --> 02:51:36,799
on seven ninety