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Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. That's one one

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mad eh, Now, I don't know what it is. It's

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definitely two. Hit it. That's two. Your decision, Jonathan, Do

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you know what it is?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Not at all? Okay, Two's good? All right, Matt? Can

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I take three guesses? Sure? And as long as I'm

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tell me if I'm run on this first one? Sure?

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What Astros are changing hitting coaches? That's correct? Yes, well

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with one hitting coach. Ooh, the Astros are parting ways

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with hitting coach Alex Centron, sources tell the Athletics, says

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Chandler Rome. More changes are expected on Houston's coaching staff.

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So everyone who's complained about Alex Centrone, your long national

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nightmare is over. The offense will be number one in

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baseball next year. Isn't that a good thing? Hit for Matt? Yes,

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I I think I said I would we both I

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think we both said yeah. Yeah. It felt like it

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was trending in that direction. Dana Brown had said publicly

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that they would like a change in their approach, and

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we'll see what happens from here. But Alex Centrone, who

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has been here since in Houston since two thousand and

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nineteen signed a three year contract after the twenty twenty

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two season contract was done. And I don't see anything

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about Troy Snicker and whether or not, but I believe

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his contract was up as well. So I don't see

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anything about Troy Snicker in this article from Chandler Room

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of the Athletic. But first on the scene, Alex Centron

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no longer the major league hitting coach for your Houston ash.

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Now you have said this, and it was wise in

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your part to say this. You had said, Hey, there

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have been a lot of players in that clubhouse that

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said they are team alex Centron. And my retort back

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to you was, it doesn't really matter that the player's

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endorsement only carries so much weight, and that would be

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this will be yet another example of why why players

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may say one thing but front offices, coaching stabs and

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ownerships say other things. Yeah, and it seemed like the

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writing was much more on the wall when I mean,

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Dana Brown was speaking publicly talking about issues with the

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team approach, and I think Joe Spotty said the same

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thing too, And that's that's when it felt like certainly

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there was there was going to be a change made. Well,

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I'll put it this way. If you were in a

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situation where you were wigging out about whether or not

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the manager or the general manager or both were going

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to come back, it wasn't just going to be let's

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bring everybody back and let's run it back. There was

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no There was going to have to be some sort

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of job guys. Yeah, and yeah, hitting coaches. Man, this

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is awfully cliches, but it sounds like it's they're hired

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to be fired. Yeah, I would say, I mean, yeah,

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it happened. The Rangers fired their hitting coaches. You had

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some other hitting coaches changed recently. I think the Yankees changed.

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They had a new guy this year. Maybe within the

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last two years. It happens. Yeah, I would be consistent.

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The players have to perform at the major league level

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no matter who the hitting coach is. Yeah. The reality is,

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I don't expect this team to all of a sudden

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be a top ferocious, top five team offensively unless again

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the free agency. Look, Kevin Durant is gonna make the

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Rockets offense a better offense than it was a year

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ago because Kevin Durant's a better player. Yes, well, we

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just respect the Dylan Brooks but Kevin Durantz a player

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player than Dylan Brooks is. I'll be interested to see

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what happens. It'll be funny if if your runs back

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and pain is healthy, and Escock Paratus is back and

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the offense is really good, and then everybody's be like, so,

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you told you so, it's all about the hitting coaches. Well, yeah,

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a lot of those guys are missing time last and

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guess what. Alex Indron's gonna be really mad because he's like, man,

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I didn't get a full roster exactly, and it's it's

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a tough situation for him. But the offense, of course,

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wasn't up to par, certainly not with runners in scoring

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position and the guys who like to be aggressive up there,

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the jose Al Tuoves, the the Diaz's of the world,

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and not working counts. Especially after Escock Paradis went down,

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it was a problem. Yep, yeah, this is zero surprise.

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Now the snicker get to keep his job, well they

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you know, I don't know how many of the thirty

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teams have tandem hitting coaches. I don't know either. I

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think I looked because we did hitting coach, believe it

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or not. The other Yeah, we did I'll have to go.

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I'll have to go look it up. I think I

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went to basically every Oh, that's right, there was this

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one page. Sweet Yeah, most places have a hitting coach

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list Centron as the hitting coach and Troy Snicker as

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the assistant. I would say they're kind of co hitting coaches,

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all right, what's like most everybody's got at least two

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three people named. Yeah, I mean the roster's too big

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to have just one guy focusing on that, so that

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doesn't surprise. All right, So astro fans, uh, you got

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your wish? Yes, Now many of you didn't even know

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who Alex Centron was, so this will be kind of

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a little bit of an exercise and get to know

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your former hitting coach. Well, IM, don't believe or on

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Alex Centron or something that's you know, that wouldn't be

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very polite, No, it wouldn't. Although we do dead people

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all the time. Somebody said, I hear they're replacing him

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with a bunting coordinator. We gotta move runners, guys. I

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feel very confident telling you that we're not going to

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see a forty percent jumping bunts next year. Although you

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know the fans would like. The Trot's been doing a

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fair amount of bunning in this series. That's not gonna

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because but part of the reason why is the Trot's

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offense not very good. The Trot's offense for two months

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has been garbage. I don't know how they put up

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eight runs at a day. It's stunning because they don't.

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They don't. They don't have much sock in their lineup. Yeah,

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was it was it? Then they put up nine or something,

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and it was supposed to be the most, the most

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in a playoff game for them since like nineteen sixty eight.

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Oh yeah, sixty eight Tigers did win the World Series,

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by the way they did. Yes, look at you. Yeah

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called double day Thomas over here. You better than call

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me Abner. What's the rest of we got? We have

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the News at Noon theme. We're gonna go with us

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the rest. This is kind of the news at new

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there it is. This is big news. I'll be interested

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to see how jose al tuove if if he gets

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a new offensive philosophy, start taking a bunch of pitches,

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and again, Josel Tuba, Carlos Correa, you can pick probably

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a handful of other players are like man, we are

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Team Cintron at the major league level, it does not matter.

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Somebody had to be a fall guy, and Alex s

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Ron is the first casualty of that said list. You

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only had four guys. Well, let's put Cam Smith in there.

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He got four hundred ninety three played appearances. He's your

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top five played appearances guy. Al Tuove disappointment, Walker disappointment,

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then Cam Smith overall was a disappointment. I mean he

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just was. I know, he wore down and all that

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type of stuff. But you ops six seventy one ops

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plus eighty seven. That's a disappointment. So for of your

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top five plate appearance guys were disappointments. But also, of

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course Gesak Praatis was great, he was hurt. Jord On

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was great, he was hurt. Carlos Kara was great and

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he come to late in the season. I got one

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for you, all right, So if we're ready to make changes,

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we going to get a Chandler Rooms breaking news sounder

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in the next couple of days, maybe a week or

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so about the medical staff being completely over? I would

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imagine that's what I kind of thought it might be. Yeah,

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it says. In fact, Chandler's Stories says the Astros are

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parting ways with hitting coach Alex Centron and more changes

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are expected on Houston's coaching staff. Yes, I said that,

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wonder I just want to repeat things. Appreciate when you

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have co anchors just sometimes like the yeah, they reiterate, yeah,

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emphasize if you will. All right, what else you got? Oh,

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we're still doing the news inon Sure, I thought that

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was the news INONU elsewhere on the news at noon?

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Yankees lose? Actually, can we play that? O the heres

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a Vladimir Guerrero Junior noted Yankees' hater. I mean he

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hates the Yankees. You could tell after the game. Yeah,

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go ahead and play this, Jonathan, if you have.

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Speaker 2: It, Yankee, let's go.

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Speaker 1: He really enjoyed himself, isn't he? Yeah, he was. That

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was Vlattie Junior and of course a big puppy. Yeah,

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big puppy. I love him. You know that was Lad

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Guerrero Junior who started it. He's the first one to

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say it. And David, is he really upset because maybe

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he didn't get the top of money he made wanted

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from them, from the Yankees. I don't think so. He

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just seemed to hate the Yankees. There's like quotes floating

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around and talking about him never wanting to play for

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New York. He's pimping these home runs big time that

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he's been hitting the Yankees. Did you see the one

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where he was scoring? I think was he sworn from

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second or from third? He like full Pete Rose dove

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into home plate. He hates the Yankees, and he actually

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ran backwards on one of the home runs to do that.

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But I'm just saying he did cartwheels. Yeah, he he

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shipped his way from third base to home pulled out

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his pants like Randy Moss. Oh that is so on that.

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It was a disgusting act by Randy Moss. I think

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Joe Bucks like, why didn't I say that? Yeah, I

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think from from maybe from his vantage point, he thought

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he actually took the drop, which would have been disgusting.

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Nobody want to see some barrass out there. No, not

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in Green Bay, all right, and Rossie, we've got the

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rockets last night knocking off the Kevin Durant is a

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Houston Rocket. Folks, how much of that game did you catch?

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Missed his first three buckets but then did not miss

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after that, seven to ten from the field, twenty points

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for Kevin Durant, one for two for three. You also had,

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uh Men Thompson with a great game. He had nineteen points,

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six assists, seven rebounds, filling up the score sheet like

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we're gonna expect him to do. By the way, Joe

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possibility too, for sure. Yeah, if you're keeping your job

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to try to go a new contract, and the people

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wasn't like Andy Tony Pettis, Gary Pettis. Yeah, we need

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some solidity, uh at third base, some solid just now,

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of course there are times where I'm sure Gary Pettis

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there was people blowing through his stop signs, but it

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felt like it happened more last year than it did

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the previous third or four right, Like they didn't. They're like, Carlos,

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you ran through that sign at third base. We have

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a third base coach. Yeah, Jeremy Peney is like, what's

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his name? I've ever met the guy? Yeah, it was

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That's my alias is year on the road for the Rockets.

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Tony Pettis cheek and that is the news at noon. Yeah,

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the coaches are gone, all right, okay, offense is saved

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seven one three two one two five seven. Body, you've

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been wanting it, you've been asking for it, you've been

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calling us, you've been bludgeting Ross over at the h

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on his Twitter account Twitter right now? Are you good?

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Y'all gonna go for our sports?

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I was like, you know what, change got my name?

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Oh yeah, I said, they're the greatest ever. Come on

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now you get you get your chance, come in here

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and go, you know, what we were right, you were wrong,

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which again we never we never argued with you all.

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I will stay consistent