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Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten o'clock at

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h Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition

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of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Day number three,

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our final get together here from West Palm Beach, Florida

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for Astros twenty twenty six spring training coverage. Today on

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the show, you will hear live visits with Astros General

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manager Dana Brown. Christian Walker is gonna come by as well.

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I had a chance this morning to catch up with

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Jeremy Paniel. You'll hear that coming up in the first

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hour of the show as well, and some of our

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best stuff in the final hour of the show, as

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we continue to bring you hope to be a very

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successful twenty twenty six Houston Astros baseball season. That is

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one that was a quagmire twenty minutes ago. Now a delightful,

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sunshiny day in West Palm. This is the epitome of

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Florida weather. Rain, yes, hard for about ten fifteen minutes,

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and then you don't see a cloud in the Scoular's clouds,

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but it's definitely starting right up here. Beautiful and breezy

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it is right now. Yeah, Yeah, we had to get

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our the media scrum with Joe Spotta under the canopy,

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right right under the tent. It feels like you want

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to get like a George Benson song on Don't You

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It is? Yeah, nice, a nice r and b soulful

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George Benson song basically one of the one of the

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pioneers of yacht rock, George Benson type. There he takes

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the royalty checks that he does no rock artists. Oh,

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he loves being on the hot rock channel. I know

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that he's not a yacht rock her. Is he still

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alive George Benson? I will say, don't look, we do

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believe or not? Next time, well we use George Benson

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is a believer too late. Okay, I'm too curious. Okay. Uh, yes,

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he's alive, eighty two years young. Okay, so he's still

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got time left of go on a tour if necessary. Right,

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we are here again from West Palm Beach, where, honestly,

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not a whole lot going on. Today was VIDI was

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a photo day with the guys put their uniforms on.

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Take the photos that you'll see in publicity promotional ads,

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the game programs, the you know, the life, the wall

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size thing against Dyke and Park, the kind of stuff

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gets shown up that way, so they haven't done a

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whole lot. They've had to alter their practice schedule a

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little bit today because of the weather, which obviously is

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just cleared up beautifully. So maybe they will be good

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getting back on the fields as they thought they were

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going to. But a lot of stuff was gonna be

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in the cages and all getting ready for Saturday's opener

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spring training against the Washington Nationals, which is here at

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Cacti Park. Again, for those that don't know, the Astros

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literally share a complex with the Nationals. The Nationals are

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their practice facilities are on the first base side. We

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are on the third base side where the Astros are,

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and so they'll play each other, I don't know, eleven

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twelve times. It feels like during spring training it's it's

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the shalk pick. It's easy travels schedule. It's a seven

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game set between the Astros and the Washington national They

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don't play for you like a super booter. They do that.

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They should actually play for the palm beach. Yeah, like

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a palm trophy. Yeah, oh yeah, I like that. It's good.

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It's a good idea. You know what a good idea? Man, man,

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let those marketing people know you should, all right, So

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we will again have the live astro guest coming up.

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As far as headlines are concerned, there wasn't a whole

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lot going on in sports yesterday, and the NBA is

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still on their All Star break, so we have to

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get to back to baseball. And something that kind of

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dropped late in our before the show started early moments

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was unfortunately to Yesterday was supposed to be the day

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that Tony Clark, the Major League Baseball Players Association chief,

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the union chief, was supposed to start his rounds around

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Major League Baseball. He goes to every ballpark in spring

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training all thirty I mean, he's got to be done

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in thirty days, essentially to kind of get the lay

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of the land of the labor situation. Well, yesterday was

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supposed to be the Cleveland Guardians Day and they canceled it,

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coming to find out that he was expected Tony Clark

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was expected to resign. Then a report comes out from

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Jeff Passing a little bit later after that saying, well,

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there are some improprieties with some investments that the players

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that there was maybe some the books were being cooked

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a little bit, yes, they're being investigated. And then a

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little bit later after that, ROSSI, we come to find

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out that Tony Clark now only may be cooking some books,

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but he's cooking his sister in law. Come on, man,

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you know to say it like that, how would you

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let me say it? Then they're not cooking, matt Oh,

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they're doing some eating up some Marri Naden making a rue.

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All right, that's enough, I'm sorry. Yes, union chief Tony

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Clark in an inappropriate relationship with his sister in law

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who is also a union employee. Okay, So that that

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added additional layers to it, making it a much more

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salacious story, and the first thing out of people's minds,

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at least on the social media streets and certainly those

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that were talking about it was okay, that's terrible. But

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was it his wife's sister or was it his bro's wife?

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And come to find out it was the sister's wife. Oh,

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the the wife's sister. I should say, I'm gonna pregnant.

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Pause this Oh great, man, it feels like we need

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some soap opera music for this. Yeah, Jonathan, give us

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naughtiest theme. It is the theme song to the Young

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and the Restless if you can find naughtiest theme. When

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you find it, just start playing it, because well, well

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we'll wait here in just a second. It's a very

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popular soap opera song. Yes, instantly recognizable. Yeah, I mean

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even if you don't watch Young and the Wrestlers great

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Henry Mancini. Yeah, but yes, and once performed on the

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Mike Douglas Show by David hasself. He actually put word

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to the so I don't believe you do you go

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look it up on YouTube. My son actually found it, okay,

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because he thinks not he seems is a banger really

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like I mean, not like in banging form. Well, Tony

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Clark thinks it's a bank er. Two. Okay, here we go,

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Here we go. He found a good job. So not

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that there was a right thing to do on this.

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This feels all wrong, but the prevailing thought was if

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he was going to have an issue. Oh god, this

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sounds even terrible to say. Go ahead. The lesser of

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two horrible evils is that. Okay, that's right, if you

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are the lesser of two horrible evils. Was that it

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was his wife's sister as compared to his bro's wife

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because huh, that's blood, right, I guess that's what I'm saying. Yeah,

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I think there's I think there was a lesser of

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two horrific access, and he chose the lesser of the two. Well,

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I don't know if he had a choice. I mean,

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I don't know. Did he try to make a pass

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at his brother's wife, I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't even know if his brother's married. His brother

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apparently played basketball at University of Washington. Go Huskies. I

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don't care if they go or not. So not only

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was he working on some shady financial deals with some

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other companies that, yes, allegedly allegedly, he allegedly was having

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a relationship with his wife's sister and thus the young

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and apparently, in Johnny Clark's case, very restless. These are

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the days of our lb PA live. As I said

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that wrong show, it's close enough. Let me ask you

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this question. Why are we running into so many league

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players so siation deals with but unsavory leaders. The nfl

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PA guy to get let go because he was spending

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money on strip clubs. Remember that, I did, I do

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: What is up with that? Why do these players, I

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mean players, excuse me, it's the players associations.

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Speaker 3: If you were thinking of that too. I saw that

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on Twitter. I chuckled, Why why.

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Speaker 1: Can't we not behave ourselves with our findings, with our

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team's finances and trying to get away with things?

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Speaker 3: This is because they're they have this high power position. Well,

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you eventually get caught.

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Speaker 1: You just do. I mean, I would say in general,

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there's corruption. Oh, put it this way, I guarante power.

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My guess is there are other unions in America that

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have had shady financial deals. Yeah, this is not foreign

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to just NFL and the Major League Baseball players. So

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you're bringing up Jimmy Hoffa. Is that what you're going

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I'm just saying that that And again, I don't know

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if BU a W has these issues, But my guess

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is you been far If I typed into Google search

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union leader resigns in disgrace, how many hits am I

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gonna get caught a few related? Politician designs and resigns

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in disgrace, president designs and risk grade coach. Yeah, I

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mean it's it's it's a lot of places. This certainly

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feels like an old timer. It's your wife's sister and

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an employee of the union, and you're getting investigated. And

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how is it Thanksgiving dinner going to go this year?

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About family functions? That's yeah. I don't think the sisters

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are going to be Christmasing together or vacationing. I you

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know what, that's Easter Sunday passed. There is a sadness

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to it. I mean, those obviously those sisters. I don't

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think the sister would say again, everybody's different, but I would.

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I would imagine the sister would not say, let by

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guns be buy guns like except your apology. I mean,

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my guess is probably not not gonna unless the marriage

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she will forgive, but she will never forget. Oh god, no.

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So there is a dissolution, dissolution of a sisterhood. That's

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that's that's Matt's tragic number one marriage and a marriage.

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Apparently he's gonna find himself in some legal and moral

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ethical questions underway for sure. Wow, the day he's supposed

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to meet with the Cleveland Guardians. So when Tony Clark's

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name was brought up yesterday on the show. I thought,

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a whole lot of time because I don't think the

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average person really knows what Tony Clark does or necessarily

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particularly cares he is a union chief. We're gonna obviously

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find out more about the union chief whenever it comes out.

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But this was not the headline I was expecting. Twenty

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four hours. If we first brought hes up, it got

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it got even more salacious. I mean, it was pretty

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major that he was on the day he was supposed

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to meet with the team because of an investigation that

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was that was beadnep as it is. Yeah, this is

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not even icing on the cake. What is like a

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second cake? Well, apparently Tony Clark had his cake. Here

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Speaker 3: I saw your gears turning. That wasn't as bad as

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I thought you were gonna go. Well, what did you

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Speaker 1: I saw folks, I saw Matt look up, so I

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saw that the hamster wheel turning like he's gonna say

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something he should, But that wasn't bad. The key, the

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key to the show is pregnant pauses. Occasionally you don't

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say something that's gonna get you in trouble. Oh goodness,

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all right, Well there's your first segment the show that yes,

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we're gonna hear from a Jeremy Paine to the bottom

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of the hour love it talk about his impending marriage.

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Good for him, Yes, and WBC a little bit. It's

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breaking hearts all over Houston. And I did ask him

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towards the end of the conversation, what you want to

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listen to? You know, Look, you and I have talked

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about it, you more me more so than you. I'm

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aunt to WBC. Jeremy is fired up for WBC. So

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we'll let you have a chance to here straight from

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the guy who's gonna be part of the WBC seven

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two five seven nine zero. Apparently, former Houston Chronicle beat

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writer John McLain is basically saying, if CJ. Straw gets traded,

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he will run naked through a major intersection in Houston.

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I will not be there, Uh intersection. I don't want

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to be within. I don't know one hundred and fifty

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miles of it, Okay, I can I don't know why

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John wants feels like the need to get naked for

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any reason. I mean, obviously showering would be one of

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the reasons, but not to go in public with it.

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So yeah, let me just give you all a little

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little behind the scenes. Don't do anything that would uber

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embarrass yourself. I've been guilty of these things before, and

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I've learned my lesson. That's why I make food bets. Okay,

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instead of painting your head. Correct, that was a good time.

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Once you do that, people will never get that out

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five seven ninety Matten Ross with you from West Palm Beach.

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ninety I thought it was there, it is, matter of fact.

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Can we where're driving back to the airport to tak

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Now listen to yat Rock No, because I could pump

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it into my channel. You listen, You listened to the

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same four hundred yacht rock songs your entire life. That's correct.

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So for one hour you can step out. You know,

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I'm gonna I'm actually gonna pick something. What we want

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to put on? A good kid Mad City from Kendrick Lamar. No,

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I don't want to that sucks. It sucks. Yeah, it

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literally was named one of the top five albums of

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all time by whom by Apple Music. I don't trust

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Apple Music. Matt Music says it sucks. Okay, well it's

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it's in the it's in the top of albums of

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all time. I think on the role you're saying, let's

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sounds Beach Boys, followed by Kendrick Lamar. Yeah what he

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won a Pulitzer Prize. Matthew twenty seven time Grammy winner.

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You know what, there's a lot of Academy war movies

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out there that sucked too. I don't I don't care.

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I don't need I don't need awards.

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Speaker 4: How about it?

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Speaker 1: If I like it, it's what I okay? How much

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have you listened? Many hours?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? None?

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Speaker 1: I hear it on rocket planes all the time. And

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do you see how you're being closed minded here? All right,

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You're gonna put on for five minutes and I'm gonna

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say it sucks and I don't like it. You're gonna

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get mad at me. That's how it works. I'm not

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gonna get mad. Yeah you will, Yeah you will not

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anymore than normal. All right, it is about Thomas show

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with Ross. We are here in West Palm Beach. You'll

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hear from Jeremy Paine at bottom of the hour. It

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right now, we're gonna go. I don't know have we

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ever talked on Ebenezer before on the show? No, okay,

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I'm before we get to he wants to talk about

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the astros. Uh is this? Are you really, Ebeneezer?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: How old are you? Ebenezer?

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Speaker 3: Forty five?

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for calling the show. Secondly,

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I'm assuming you don't run into a bunch of other

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Ebenezers when you're hanging out with friends and family. Correct.

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Speaker 6: No, but I'm the only one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Ebeneezer, fire away, my friend? What do you got today?

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Speaker 5: I got a question? Is Cavin Biggio?

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Speaker 1: Is that just wishful thinking or do they see something

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in him that he hasn't displayed already. Honestly, Ebenezer, I

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think it's just a camp body. It would be my guess.

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You know, where is he going to start out?

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Speaker 7: Is he going to start out triple or where is.

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Speaker 4: He going to start out.

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Speaker 1: They have not said it yet. He would have to

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have an incredible spring to make the team. And apparently

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from what he said a couple of days ago when

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he first arrived, he's two weeks away from playing games.

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So I don't know if he's just behind schedule with

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all variety of minor ailments, But this to me was

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a let's try to catch light a bottle. He plays

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multiple positions, he has some major league experience. It just

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has been not the kind of career that I think

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has been able to, you know, stay with a team

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for a long period of time. So yeah, I think

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it's a camp body. And if somebody gets hurt, depth

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doesn't hurt. It doesn't make any kind of money. Plus

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the Bisuo name certainly doesn't hurt either. Right, all right,

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thank you, thank you. Ebenezer. Ebenezer. That was not a

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name that crossed my mind when I was thinking about

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naming my boys. And he didn't know in the top

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five it was on a finalist. Yeah, okay, I don't

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I don't think it was. I mean, I only know

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if one Ebenezer, well two Scrooge and Ecubon. Oh that's true.

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And now we have a through we've a listener, So

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thank you, Ebenezer. You're always welcome to call the show.

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Forty five years old too.

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Speaker 4: All right, there you go.

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Speaker 1: So mom and dad were thinking something outside the box

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back in what is forty five years ago?

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty one? Yeah, okay, you can be retort, Ebbs,

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I like that. Okay, what about just easy like it's

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an easy e kind of may he rest? Yeah, Eric

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Wright got you? All right? Uh yeah, I don't know.

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I don't know much about him except that he's just

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been just a guy's a major leaguer and that's and

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I don't mean to be We're not trying to be disrespectful.

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Its just that the name carries o clop because the

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last name we brought up his name. First of all,

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we felt old because of how old he is. But

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also that'll tell you how much of a sought out

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after sought after. He's not some young, up and coming prospect, right.

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But Kevin Bigio has been around a long time. He's

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also taken the Astros deep though at one point he's

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going to be thirty one in April. Yeah, that is

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so crazy. I know, you know, I when I was

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first calling NBA games to be able to say that

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I called Kenyon Martin's senior when he was a college

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shoot at Cincinnati, and then I'm calling his son's game

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in the NBA. That made me feel old. Watching Tim

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Hardaway Junior and Tim Hardaway Senior play this. You're not

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at the same time, but watching them both play, yes,

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makes you feel old. And then Cavin Biggio, who I

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remember winning, helping to win a state championship in the

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private schools for at Saint Thomas when when dad was

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coaching there, makes you feel old. Lebron James is on

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the team with his son. It's ridiculous. Yeah, but that's

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that's that's nepotism. Okay, he's still on a team with

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his son. That's true. Son is of NBA age. His

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son is twelve. That would be odd if they draft

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him when he was twelve. Well, there were some kids

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that recruited out of the fifth grade. Apparently he's of

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NBA age and they used like the fifty fifth pick. Yeah, yeah,

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all right, We're gonna let you hear from Jeremy Panya next.

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He is going to be a husband. Soon he'll get

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to a thought or two about the Astros season, the

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differences in the clubhouse and WBC. That's all straight ahead. Oh,

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we're actually early. I thought it was ten twenty nine.

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Has a mistake on that. You're right, we're still hear

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from a minute. Well, I can'd see the screen very okay,

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it's fine. What nothing?

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Speaker 4: What else?

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Speaker 1: You guys just laughing at you saying it's fine. That's

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a figure catch. It is one of my everybody uses it,

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Oh everybody does, yeah, it is what? Yeah, it is fine.

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What else going on? Headline? As why there was nothing

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in sports going on? It was college basketball, but that's

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nuver Gonne. Well, I mean, well, you want to spoil

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the news at noon is in ninety minutes away. But

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I would say the top that supports news items would

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be item would be Patrick Mahomes restructuring his big deal.

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And it was a huge deal back then, but there

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have been deals that have been trump since then. Yes,

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fifty four million of his salary is restructured into signing bonus,

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so his cap number is now reduced to thirty five

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million basically, so that's probably not even a news item,

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except for it's just moving around the count. Look, it's

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the average person's like, Okay, what does this do for me?

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Does this mean he's going to play longer? Does it

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mean that opens now? Obviously what production means. Deducing that

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means there's probably gonna be some cap room of the

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the Chiefs currently have now. So but that's all I

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can take out of it. We'll get to mke cronin later. Oh,

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we gotta talk about mc cronin. We'll play that probably

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in about twenty minutes from now. Mc cronan, for those

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who don't know, it's a coach at UCLA basketball team.

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He's a jerk, always been a jerk, no matter wherey's coach,

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He's been a jerk, And you can be a jerk,

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Rossie when you win, When you get your ass kicked

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and you're still a jerk, you're going to feel the

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wrath of the social media streets. Yes, that feel about

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right on that. Yeah, absolutely so we'll let you hear

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a little bit from that as well as Again, he's

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just a'm a sweet fella. So when a guy gets

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ultimately fire, which he will be, there'll be very few

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tears shed in at Paul Pavilion. What happened to UCLA basketball?

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What happened to UCLA period? Football teams sucked. They're in

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one of the most beautiful cities in the world. They've

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got a glorious campus, excellent academics, and it used to

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be basically in the West Coast, it was UCLA and

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USC fighting for everything, and then everything and then everybody

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else got third and fourth. Well, Oregon said, I'll take

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some of that money. I'll get some of those athletes.

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Washington started to get involved. The Arizona School's got going

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on a little bit too. So yeah, but uh yeah,

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UCLA basketball is not what it used to be for sure,

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all right, as promised Jeremy Pina Up next seven one

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three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety Welcome back to Matt.

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Speaker 8: Thomas Show with Ross Here on a sports Talk seven

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ninety Matt Thomas and ross Villerea with you until two o'clock,

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broadcasting live from West Palm Beach, Florida and Astros spring training.

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Speaker 1: We got some great interviews coming up for you later

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on the show. We should have Ashros general manager Jada Brown.

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Christian Walker unfortunately had something pop up yesterday couldn't make it.

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He should be joining us later today and also earlier today.

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Matt Thomas caught up with Jeremy Paana so some great

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stuff with JP three, talking a number of different things,

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including the WBC the upcoming season for the Ash Shows,

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but started off talking about a personal announcement from one

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Jeremy Pania. First of all, congratulations in the engagement. It's

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going to event put off season for you. What made

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you decide to ultimately this was the time to do it.

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Speaker 9: I mean it's something I've been wanting to do for

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a long time. Yeah, and you know, I was in season,

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she was in season. I feel like the off season

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was only the only appropriate time. I didn't want to

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do it when she was still playing, you know, I

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wanted her to focus on her season and then once

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her season was over is green light?

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Speaker 1: So who's handling all the marriage plans? Is that going

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to be after the season? Are you guys going to

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try to talk it out during the year.

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Speaker 10: I will talk it out during the year. We'll definitely

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plan it during the year.

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Speaker 9: And we're kind of both going back and forth both

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given inpust but she's doing Muscle Clark.

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Speaker 1: I've been married a long time to let her do

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all the repular things. Whoever man it have worked out

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for you this camp. I mean, you're now one of

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the older guys and the team. Is that kind of

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crazy to think.

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Speaker 9: It doesn't feel like that, you know, I still feel

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like like I'm that young kid, you know, with you

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coming into my first spring training. You know, I have

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all the energy in the world, I have all the

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ambitions in the world, and you know, we have a

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great team, and I'm excited to be around these guys.

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And I still I get excited to be around some

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of the guys, you know, learn from that and pick

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their brain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it had to have been I think it

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was shrill for everybody, especially you guys. It's October.

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Speaker 5: You're not playing games. I mean, did debts How long

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did that take?

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Speaker 1: The sink in and was there a level of frustration disappointment?

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And I got to come back on the field as

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soon as possible.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like our goal is always to

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get into the postseason and make a run in the postseason.

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You know, we didn't achieved that last year, which was

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tough for us as a whole as an organization.

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Speaker 10: But at the same time.

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Speaker 9: You know, it's it's time to turn the page, you know,

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rober than spring training and you know we have a

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new season upon us, and it's time to bounce back.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's time to get back into the playoffs

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and make a run.

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Speaker 1: How was it? It looked like to me watching you

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guys that your relationship with Carlos at their base or

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was amazing.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it took no time for you guys to

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transition together right right.

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Speaker 9: You know, Carlos has been great to me since the

471
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first day I got to the organization, you know, spring

472
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training twenty nineteen, and I got to hang out with

473
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the team quite a bit.

474
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Speaker 1: You know, Joe A.

475
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Speaker 9: Spota kind of took it upon himself to get me

476
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playing time with the mob games in spring training. So

477
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I would come from the minor league side and hang

478
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out with the big leaguers, and you know.

479
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Speaker 10: It was pretty cool, Pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Does that happen a lot? I mean, that's a pretty

481
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special situation for you to be able to be with

482
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those guys so early in your career.

483
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Speaker 9: I mean, guys usually get the opportunity to come up

484
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and play back up some games, but I feel like

485
00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:54,880
Joe was make me back up almost every single game.

486
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,799
You know, I feel like I was barely in minor

487
00:24:56,839 --> 00:24:58,799
league spring training, and I feel like I was over

488
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and I didn't play much. You know, I would come

489
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000
into the eighth inning, get one, not back. I was

490
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coming to ninth in just play defense. But just being

491
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around those guys, man, it was special because you get

492
00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:10,920
to pick their brains, you know how the big leaders think,

493
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you know, and.

494
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Speaker 10: It's exciting for me.

495
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Speaker 1: So do you look back at that and go, Man,

496
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:16,799
I made some mistakes when I was younger, or I

497
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,079
just kind of just soaked everything in.

498
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Speaker 9: I mean I try to soak everything in. Yeah, you know,

499
00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:24,839
if you look back at the team we had twenty nineteen,

500
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,519
like it was unbelievable.

501
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Speaker 1: You know.

502
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Speaker 9: I had guys like Michael brand Lee around me. You know,

503
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I had guys like Josel Tuve around me.

504
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Speaker 10: It was it was special, special for sure.

505
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Speaker 1: Do you find younger guys coming to you asking those

506
00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:37,960
same kind of questions that you were asking four or

507
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:38,559
five years ago.

508
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Speaker 10: I feel like they asked better questions than I did.

509
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Speaker 1: I was just quiet.

510
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Speaker 9: I feel like these guys are very confident. You know,

511
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,279
they know what their game is. You know, they love

512
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,440
picking people's brains. But I was more shy, you know,

513
00:25:51,519 --> 00:25:54,480
I was kind of just they're looking trying to learn

514
00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:55,039
by scene.

515
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Speaker 3: You know.

516
00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 10: I was never want to just approach someone and.

517
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Speaker 9: Ask them a question, you know, But if they open

518
00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:04,559
that door for me, then I felt the confidence, you know.

519
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Speaker 10: Keep talking about it.

520
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,599
Speaker 1: Got more questions here with Jeremy Pineau, Jose's back at

521
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,839
second base primarily, and look, I think what he did

522
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,759
last year in volunteering himself in the left field, everybody's

523
00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:16,440
going to do that, and maybe ten years down the

524
00:26:16,519 --> 00:26:17,720
road they may ask you to go to third base

525
00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:20,240
something like that. What is that like watching a guy

526
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,359
like that go to a new position for the good

527
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,880
of the team. But you know, in his heart hearts,

528
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,119
he wants to be a second base.

529
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 9: I mean, it says a lot about the type of

530
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,039
person he is and the type of player he is.

531
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You know, he's a player that's always going to do

532
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,079
what's you know, best for the team. He wants to

533
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,720
see the team do good. You know, he wants to

534
00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:40,359
see the team win. You know, he's been here through

535
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,359
the ups and the downs of this team. You know,

536
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,759
from when he first got to the big leagues to

537
00:26:44,839 --> 00:26:48,680
winning the world multiple World Series, you know, so I

538
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,200
feel like Altuva is very.

539
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,839
Speaker 10: Is very inclined to help in this team win two.

540
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,039
Speaker 9: Is a player that you know, he tries to make

541
00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:05,359
everyone better and if that meant last year, trying to

542
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,480
move to left field and makes the team better than

543
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,000
you know. He's a guy who just put in the

544
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,160
lineup and he's gonna find a way to help the team.

545
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: What do you want to get accomplished here? I know

546
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,960
that Joe mentioned a few weeks ago that maybe some

547
00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:18,519
of the older guys won't have to play as much

548
00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:20,160
as spring training. Have you kind of mapped up a

549
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,079
schedule what you'd like to see done for yourself in

550
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:22,880
terms of playing time.

551
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,079
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm gonna have to play quite a bit.

552
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 9: I'll be playing pretty early spring training because of the

553
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,519
World Baseball Classes, so you know, I'm preparing a little

554
00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:33,720
earlier than.

555
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: I usually do.

556
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,079
Speaker 9: But yeah, I'll be playing right away and join my

557
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,200
Dominican Republic team and go from there.

558
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 5: How amped for you for that? Because here's the thing

559
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,440
we argue about this on my Radiaro show about the

560
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:46,039
importance of it.

561
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,839
Speaker 1: I can't be in your skin because some man of

562
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,960
your guys like yourself in other countries have said, this

563
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,519
is such an important event. So to wrap this up,

564
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,240
what makes this WBC, even though it's every three years,

565
00:27:56,319 --> 00:27:58,240
so important for guys like yourself, I'm.

566
00:27:58,079 --> 00:28:00,599
Speaker 9: A special It's special. I feel like you grow up

567
00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:02,759
admiring these guys that represent our country.

568
00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 11: You know.

569
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 9: You admire the arbrapool Holes, you know, the Miguel Tahadas,

570
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000
you know, and they never had a problem with putting

571
00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:11,720
on that uniform and represent our country, you know. And

572
00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:16,359
you know what they did in two thousand and thirteen,

573
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,799
I believe when we want the w B money, Yeah,

574
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,559
two thoy thirteen, when we were in the WBC, the

575
00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,079
whole country, it was like a big celebration, you know.

576
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,880
And I remember I was in I was in high school,

577
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,519
and that's memory, vivid moment for me, you know, core memory.

578
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,200
You know, Robinson Cano, like, I admired all those guys,

579
00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:40,960
you know, and they brought the trophy home and it

580
00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,319
was special for us, and I hope to you know,

581
00:28:43,559 --> 00:28:46,440
kind of give the country that same glory. You know,

582
00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:48,920
we have a great team to do it, and they

583
00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:57,759
were going to go enjoy ourselves and compete, appreciate, Thank you, we.

584
00:28:57,799 --> 00:29:00,519
Speaker 1: Can't live in their shoes. They all live in ours.

585
00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:04,559
We don't live in There's the competitive juices for national

586
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,400
bragging rights and pride is immense. I can't find anybody,

587
00:29:09,359 --> 00:29:12,160
even with among Team USA players that just aren't completely

588
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,119
amped about this thing. I'm just scared to death. I

589
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,200
think it's abnormal for a spring training to be interrupted

590
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,720
by such high level games. There isn't a good time

591
00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:21,079
for it.

592
00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:24,319
Speaker 4: But I I don't like it.

593
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: But we do a segment on Thursday's called I just

594
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,519
don't get it. Yeah, I get it, I get it. Yeah.

595
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,200
I mean it's it's not our decision to make. We

596
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,519
come from the lens of Astros fans, and we also

597
00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:41,359
come from we've been burned before, to where jose Al

598
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,680
Tuve unfortunately had a situation where he broke his hand,

599
00:29:44,839 --> 00:29:47,119
and it could happen in spring chaining, could happen anywhere,

600
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,079
but it happened in the WBC. So because of that,

601
00:29:50,599 --> 00:29:55,359
we're scared about our Astro players getting hurt. But they

602
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,039
are human beings with their own thoughts and feelings and

603
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,000
wants and desires to play for it, to represent their country,

604
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,000
which I totally get, and so they Jeremy Panne wants

605
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,160
to do that apparently. You know, Korey and al Tuve

606
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:09,000
wanted to do it as well, but they ran into

607
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,720
some insurance issues and and all that stuff. And Jeremy

608
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,359
Payne is going to play for the Dominican Republic. I

609
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,960
wish him the best and I wish him health. Yeah,

610
00:30:19,039 --> 00:30:20,720
that's the last thing you want is for a guy

611
00:30:20,799 --> 00:30:22,480
that's going to be giving it is all diving for

612
00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,440
a ground ball to hurt, a strain of rim muscle

613
00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:30,759
or anything like that. Just come back healthy, That's all

614
00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:32,839
I gotta say. I just think in fandom for what

615
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,640
first we can you know how people sometimes get mad

616
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,559
when a certain player goes out after a big loss, Like, yeah,

617
00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:42,799
they're human beings. They're gonna go like like you've talked

618
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,960
about as well, Matt, like these guys don't wear things

619
00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:48,839
the way the fans do at all, And when they're

620
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,960
not wearing an Astro's jersey, it's just it's hard to

621
00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:55,400
maybe wrap our heads around about them playing for Dominican

622
00:30:55,839 --> 00:30:58,240
Republican having the desire to do that because we're just

623
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,160
seeing it from a different lens. Well, I'll say this,

624
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:02,519
and to the argument that has brought up all the

625
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,960
time about well, this injury could happen in a spring

626
00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:10,960
training game. That indeed is accurate, But there's something less

627
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,319
i mean, flippant, more reassuring to say, well, at least

628
00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:19,400
he was in our camp. At least it happened while

629
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,279
he was wearing our gear, as compared to going to

630
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,160
somewhere where that was just truly optional. And I think

631
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,519
that's what the mentality should be, is that, you know what,

632
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,200
if jose L Twoba pulls a hamstring while running the

633
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,799
bases in a spring training game, You're upset about that, clearly,

634
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,359
but at least he's doing it because he's getting himself

635
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,880
ready for an astro season. These WBC have way more

636
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,799
elements of here and now in championship and playing hard

637
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,880
when you're gonna burst, use that kind of energy. Ross

638
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,079
you want the energy to be used for playing for

639
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,079
your home team, not necessarily for the country in which

640
00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:01,160
you are from or you're representing. Then that's what the

641
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:06,799
Olympics are for doing that. It's just these guys love it,

642
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,720
and I'm still trying to comprehend it. They love it

643
00:32:09,759 --> 00:32:11,079
as much as it does. It's hard for me to

644
00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:13,799
love something every three years, but then the Olympics has

645
00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:16,599
loved every four years, so it's newer and it's different.

646
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,680
I mean, the first WBC was what in two thousand

647
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,720
and five or two thousand and six or whatever, and

648
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,240
the Olympics have been around for one hundred years. That's

649
00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:25,519
more ingrained into us. But it's ingrained into him. He

650
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:27,759
talked about it how he had this core he said

651
00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:30,599
it called it a core memory of Albert Poohols and

652
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,279
Robin Robinson Cano and the boys bringing the trophy home

653
00:32:33,319 --> 00:32:37,839
to the Dominican Republic. They like it. So what what

654
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,359
can we do except just say, go have a good time,

655
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:42,720
play your best, and most important to come back healthy

656
00:32:42,799 --> 00:32:46,039
and stay safe and stay safe. But they're gonna love it,

657
00:32:47,039 --> 00:32:49,240
they they and they'll be games in Houston that you

658
00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:52,000
will see a fire and belting in those teams playing

659
00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:55,279
in March that you would never see at any point

660
00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:57,559
because they are playing it like it's a game seven.

661
00:32:57,759 --> 00:33:00,200
I'm gonna try to tune in more because it's like

662
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,799
it's pretty intense and a lot of the fans get

663
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:05,039
into it and stuff too. I will say this, while

664
00:33:05,079 --> 00:33:07,920
I have not watched much of the Winter Olympics, just

665
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,039
because it just doesn't resonate with me. Yeah, I have

666
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,400
watched a lot of WBC. Not like I I will

667
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,839
make an appointments any but if there's nothing else on,

668
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,880
I'll put it on just see how it goes. Yeah,

669
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,079
Mi was it Mike Trout versus Shoho Tani. That was

670
00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:25,400
good theater last time. There is something in theater to it.

671
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,799
I just don't know. And maybe the answer is, you

672
00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:30,640
know what, Matt suck it up once every three years.

673
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,440
There's just never a good time for you don't want

674
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,359
to do it during the All Star Brenk. You certainly

675
00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:35,400
don't want to do at the end of the season

676
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,400
when the guys are either in the postseason or they're

677
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,279
just plumb tuckered out. Let's get to back on the phones.

678
00:33:40,319 --> 00:33:42,279
We'll talk to Stan. We'll talk to you at seven

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If you feel like it's a great day to be

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695
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697
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for somebody behind you?

698
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Speaker 2: I have?

699
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Speaker 1: I have McDonald's. Really that's nice. I don't that I'm

700
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against it. I mean I would do, I just I've

701
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never done it yet. So again, if you think the

702
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person in front of you might buy you a coffee,

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708
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:18,840
about the WBC and the injuries. If I remember correctly,

709
00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:22,599
all the not every pitcher that pitched for the Astros

710
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,760
in the last one ended up injured and on the

711
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,440
DL during the season, because I think it's Luis Garcia

712
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,199
or Katie and Farmber all had arm problems that year.

713
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,719
I'm more concerned about that because they get ramped up

714
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:41,239
and they're throwing harder than they normally would be at

715
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,880
this time of year. You know, I'll tu be that's

716
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,679
a freak deal. Position players, that is. But the starting

717
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,679
pitching and pitching is where it seems to have impacted

718
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,440
the Astros more than anywhere else.

719
00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: Fromber started thirty one games in twenty twenty three, finished

720
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,199
ninth in the Say Young voting. I don't think he

721
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,880
was really much effected by the WBC. No, I don't believe,

722
00:36:09,199 --> 00:36:11,239
and again not that we can paint with a broad

723
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,280
brush on this, John, Stay excuse me. There is no

724
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,320
correlation to guys playing hard in the WBC and having

725
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,880
a struggle. It's a maximum seven games, or at least

726
00:36:20,119 --> 00:36:21,440
if I'm going off, I don't know if they changed

727
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,880
the format in twenty twenty three. You play four group

728
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,280
games and then you go to the knockout rounds where

729
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,119
you can play quarterfinals, Simmis Simmy's Champions, so that would

730
00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:34,559
be three games. If you make the finals, you're playing

731
00:36:34,599 --> 00:36:36,000
a maximum of seven games.

732
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 7: They just seemed like it seemed like there were some

733
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,119
arm injuries that year for the Astros. I don't remember correctly,

734
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,360
but I know how Tuvay was out. It seemed like

735
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,800
there was a couple other guys that either struggled after

736
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,840
that or they had arm injuries it and it seemed

737
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,960
to affect the Astros a little bit more than normal

738
00:36:56,599 --> 00:36:58,480
for the first couple of months into the season.

739
00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:02,559
Speaker 1: That just maybe I may be wrong, so uh or

740
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,760
or Katie played for WBC. Uh, But that doesn't that

741
00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:11,079
that that injury did not happen as soon as this

742
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,760
early this season. I I don't. I don't have a correlation,

743
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,400
and stand if there is one, I will be happy

744
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,360
to look that up down the road or maybe something

745
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,880
correct us on it and I will give you might

746
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,119
have gotten hurt. I think Luis Garcia got hurt as well.

747
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:27,840
Fromber was fine from also seeming all seemingly always fine. Yeah.

748
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,960
How many innings? How many innings that did Josey her

749
00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:34,079
Katy throw in the WBC? I don't know, Yeah, I

750
00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:36,039
just I do think stand it's just one of those

751
00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:38,280
situations that maybe you saw somebody that got hurt and

752
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,400
you maybe that was a one off, but I there

753
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:45,320
has been no Frank trend among any baseball players. It

754
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,000
says WBC competition uh exhibit adds to a possibility of

755
00:37:50,039 --> 00:37:51,079
getting hurt early in the year.

756
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I know. Well I think that one is

757
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,840
the year that Diaz got hurt as well for the Mets,

758
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:57,480
the closer.

759
00:37:58,039 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: So you'll remember this too. This WBC will be done

760
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,360
and they'll go back to their respective teams in another

761
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:04,639
week and a half, two weeks of playing.

762
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 7: So oh yeah this season, Yeah, I know, just with

763
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:13,719
the with the way everybody is coddeling their pitchers nowadays,

764
00:38:14,079 --> 00:38:16,079
it's kind of interesting for them to let them go,

765
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,760
you know, do this when they won't let them, you know,

766
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,800
pitch a certain number annis but they'll let them go

767
00:38:21,679 --> 00:38:23,639
do this. So it's it's interesting.

768
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:28,559
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty Thankstan Okay, the pitcher that pitched the

769
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,000
most of the WBC innings wise and twenty twenty three

770
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:32,920
was sho Heyo Tony. He pitched nine and two thirds

771
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:38,480
innings over seven games. That's not even very much, honestly,

772
00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:40,519
that's that's what you would now. The only difference is

773
00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:43,719
you could pitch nine and two thirds over seven innings

774
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,239
in a spring training game and you're working yourself back

775
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,679
into playing when you put the nine and two thirds

776
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,119
innings into seven WBC games In theory, I don't know

777
00:38:51,159 --> 00:38:52,920
how many games you play I pitched. I mean, I'm

778
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,760
sure he didn't do seven. No, no, But I mean

779
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,559
those are going to be more stressful performances. You are,

780
00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:01,159
you are doing something to your arm and asking your

781
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,960
arm to do things that normally would not be doing

782
00:39:03,159 --> 00:39:07,519
that time of year. But Shoh has had injury issues

783
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,679
for quite a bit of his career, even in non

784
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:16,679
WBC years. He's had Tommy John twice. Right, Yeah, look,

785
00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:20,119
I'm gonna I'm not gonna change my stanans on this.

786
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,400
I'd rather see my astros not involved in it. You

787
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:31,079
know what, After realizing it's only seven games, Okay, it's

788
00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:34,320
not ideal, but clearly we're up to me. But clearly

789
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,840
the insurance is either too high or they're not going

790
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,760
to pay it, Meaning if those guys get hurt, they'd

791
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,679
be in a difficult spot to get their money as

792
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:48,280
a major leaguer. So they're not gonna take that risk either. Well, yeah,

793
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,079
I mean insurance is always gonna screw you, but I

794
00:39:51,159 --> 00:39:53,840
mean overcharge you. They could Carlos Corey could say, well,

795
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,840
I forget the insurance, I'll take my chance, and nobody

796
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,199
would the don't want to do that. Why would he

797
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,960
do that? That's what I'm saying. The WBC is important,

798
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,719
but not that important, right, You don't want to cost yourself? Yeah,

799
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,920
it's the The risk of ruin is too.

800
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 4: High, all right?

801
00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: Seven one three five, seven ninety. We're here in West

802
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,119
Palm Beach where it is ridiculously breezy right now. It

803
00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:16,760
feels good.

804
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 3: I like it.

805
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: It's not nearly as toasty as it was breeze yesterday.

806
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,119
Got a little son of them on the legs yesterday.

807
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:25,199
Not much. Still pasty white as all get out. That's good.

808
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,079
I'm glad you didn't go lobster style. They are the

809
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:28,639
They do call me to paisty gangster.

810
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:29,159
Speaker 11: Uh huh.

811
00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Christian Walker coming up in the next hour.

812
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,960
I believe, as he was supposed to be done at

813
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,400
the cages at uh, he's gonna hit in the cages

814
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,880
at noon our time and then come over and say

815
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,480
hi to us. Wonderful, We'll get Dana Brown and we'll

816
00:40:41,519 --> 00:40:43,639
have our final hour of the show because we got

817
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,119
to buck out early to go to the airport. Yes,

818
00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:47,800
we're gonna play some of our best stuff over the

819
00:40:48,199 --> 00:40:50,719
handful of days'n be great stuff, so be ready for that.

820
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,159
So lots of spring training coverage between now and two o'clock.

821
00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:56,559
It is Matt in Ross with the word four Big

822
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,719
City Wings and we have a wing story to get

823
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,920
to today on the show, and yes we do. Did

824
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:01,559
you see it yet?

825
00:41:02,639 --> 00:41:02,679
Speaker 2: No?

826
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 10: Okay?

827
00:41:03,559 --> 00:41:06,159
Speaker 1: What it was like a national story? It is a

828
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,440
national everything. Okay, I mean with the chicken wings of course,

829
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,039
But why would you want to worry about a national

830
00:41:11,159 --> 00:41:13,719
chain that serves crappy wings. We can get a Houston

831
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,360
base for wing Joint that's gonna de serve delicious wings

832
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,840
to you. And that's Big City Wings with fourteen Houston

833
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:27,280
area locations. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Well,

834
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,079
continue with the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here from

835
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,000
West Palm Beach. Our time is eleven zero two. We

836
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,679
have a couple of live guests coming up with us

837
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,079
in the next couple of hours. By the way, all

838
00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:40,079
of our favorite things I like to do during the week,

839
00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:42,159
the gut feelings and the shut your ball masses up.

840
00:41:42,159 --> 00:41:44,760
We're gonna put We're gonna push back, shut your ball

841
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,599
mass up till tomorrow in the show as I will

842
00:41:48,599 --> 00:41:50,079
be coming to you from Charlotte. You'll be back in

843
00:41:50,119 --> 00:41:54,000
the warm, cozy confine at the Houston Studios. Yes, I

844
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:56,000
can't wait. And then Friday will be with you from

845
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,840
New York City. So three cities in three days. That's beautiful, Matt.

846
00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:06,679
That's why they call you America's travel person. You want

847
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,920
to say, whoor now, I was gonna say, demon, I

848
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,440
need a gambling it's been a while getting the itch.

849
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,000
You'll be all right, that thing that that that thing's

850
00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:19,599
going well for you, Okay, doing really well? Okay you

851
00:42:19,679 --> 00:42:22,480
mean the itch or just gambling the gambling? Okay, yeah,

852
00:42:22,559 --> 00:42:24,960
Well you're staying away from the craps table, right, Oh yeah,

853
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:28,320
that's good. Probably, yeah, keeping you away from the craps

854
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,320
table especially, oh whatever, you I did not play with

855
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,679
you for multiple years and used tore off crabs at

856
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,800
least twice since I've not played with you, So if

857
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,239
you're blaming me, you need to look internally Matthew, that's fair,

858
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,159
all right, real quick before we get to the phones,

859
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,480
and we were just adstant a commercial for the great

860
00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:48,599
folks at Big City Wings. There is a ruling that

861
00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:52,079
I've been sent no less than a hundred times. Really, uh,

862
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:56,719
concern I'm going to guess that's the concerns boneless. It

863
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:02,480
does consider concern boneless. Okay, So let me make sure

864
00:43:02,639 --> 00:43:04,000
I want to get the story right here. By the way,

865
00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:05,480
let's give out the numbers again if you want to

866
00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:08,119
join us. Seven one three two one two five seven

867
00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:10,320
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven eight.

868
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,079
Now Ross and I have our Have we argued about

869
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:14,960
this much. I don't say it's wings. I say you

870
00:43:15,039 --> 00:43:17,440
can call it whatever you want. I don't call it.

871
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,599
I don't make the menu, okay. I don't sit there

872
00:43:20,639 --> 00:43:24,679
and say, hey, big City Wings, which says boneless on

873
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,559
their menu, it says boneless wings, Hey, whatever wing joint

874
00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:31,679
you can think of. I don't write boneless. I order

875
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,679
boneless depending on the situation, of course, because it is,

876
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,320
in my opinion, a higher quality cut of chicken. It's

877
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,039
easier to eat, and it's delicious, and it's more consistent

878
00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:47,440
and Chrispy Fried and I've never had a weird dark

879
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,079
vein and bone with a bunch of weird stuff in

880
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,199
my boneless I love the bone. I've never had a

881
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:57,960
boneless wing with a feather on it.

882
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,559
Speaker 3: Okay, now I've had bone in it with feathers on

883
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:03,519
it on accident and other weird stuff going on the feather.

884
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:06,480
Stop you're if you want a munch on chicken elbows,

885
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:07,920
that's great, you can do that.

886
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hate you. I like to eat them too.

887
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,079
I like the crispy skin, but I like to go

888
00:44:12,199 --> 00:44:15,559
boneless when you know, seven times out of ten. So

889
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,199
we're not arguing about that. We're arguing about the fact

890
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,199
there was. Here's where the legal system needs to just

891
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,920
to kind of check themselves a little bit on this.

892
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,519
A judge in my Internet is going down here. So

893
00:44:26,599 --> 00:44:27,519
this is not working out here.

894
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 4: It is.

895
00:44:30,039 --> 00:44:34,039
Speaker 1: Apparently Ruffalo Raw Rings, which is a very below midplace.

896
00:44:34,119 --> 00:44:38,440
Oh oh, the service is terrible. The food sucks, it's heavy,

897
00:44:38,559 --> 00:44:42,760
it's very expensive. But Ruffo Raw Rings can keep calling

898
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,320
its menu item boneless wings after a lawsuit that claimed

899
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,679
the name amounted to false advertising was dismissed. It was

900
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:56,280
a ten page ruling apparently page by some judge in Illinois,

901
00:44:56,679 --> 00:44:59,840
allowing the chain to continue it calling its menu boneless Wing.

902
00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:03,880
After a Chicago man followed, they lost it, accusing a

903
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,760
restaurant of false advertising, saying the boneless wings were overpriced

904
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,880
because they're essentially chicken nuggets. Now, there has been only

905
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,360
one person in America that calls him executive chicken Nuggets.

906
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,199
I think it's a great name, and I'm gonna I

907
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,719
feel like I should trade you, honestly need to. Now

908
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,800
that is a I think it's a great name. It's

909
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,280
way better than whatever that other stuff you're trying to trademark.

910
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,039
Trademark crush sitting just took it for a decade. Vote

911
00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:36,119
for you is terrible name that was not And so

912
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,719
I mean, the Executive Chicken Nuggets is an actual good

913
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,800
idea Tharp in the report and his judge, STARp said

914
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:47,679
the following Hamlin, that's I guess the dude did not

915
00:45:48,119 --> 00:45:52,159
quote drum up enough factual allegations to state a claim

916
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,840
the way he's standing to bring the claim because he

917
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,400
plausibly alleged economic injury. He does not plausibly allege that

918
00:45:58,519 --> 00:46:02,840
reasonable customers are by a ruffalo raw rings use of

919
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,679
the term boneless wings. There is not a single human

920
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,800
being yeah that believes there is such a thing as

921
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,559
a boneless wing. If you're eating a boneless wing, you

922
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,599
know you're eating a chicken nugget. You just plus you're

923
00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:23,000
like seven. Yeah, No one goes to it. And look,

924
00:46:23,079 --> 00:46:26,039
but our friends at uh big Cities do the boneless

925
00:46:26,039 --> 00:46:29,679
two everybody, I mean they do. They're delicious, all white meat,

926
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,800
hand breaded sauce and toss the way you love it

927
00:46:32,559 --> 00:46:35,039
and fried crispy. Yeah, they're excellent. And I like him too.

928
00:46:35,519 --> 00:46:38,000
Ross and I have gone many a time to have

929
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,679
a boneless day because sometimes Ross is tired of taking

930
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,480
the bone eat it. Yeah, you like bones.

931
00:46:45,639 --> 00:46:48,199
Speaker 3: Matt loves the bone in, all right, Matt can't get

932
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,159
enough of the bone in. He loves bone in, and

933
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:52,840
he says, give me some more bone in.

934
00:46:53,119 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm like bone in wings. Yeah, you like getting boned. No,

935
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,679
I'm not getting bone. I'm eating the bone. You like

936
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,880
the chicken, you like it bone And that's fine. I'm

937
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,159
not here to judge. Here's more of the report from

938
00:47:05,199 --> 00:47:05,639
the judge.

939
00:47:06,559 --> 00:47:09,199
Speaker 3: Boneless wings are not a niche product for which a

940
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,280
consumer would need to do extensive research to figure out

941
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:12,760
the truth.

942
00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:17,159
Speaker 1: This judge is like, you wasted my time. I'm gonna

943
00:47:17,159 --> 00:47:18,679
give you ten pages about this.

944
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,519
Speaker 3: Boneless wings is a common term that has been existed

945
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:23,800
for over two decades.

946
00:47:26,119 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: This judge annihilates him. I like it said. He did

947
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,719
not drum up enough factual allegations to state acclaim.

948
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,679
Speaker 3: This guy Tharpe says, a reasonable customer would not think

949
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:40,719
the foods chained boneless.

950
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: Wings were truly to bone. Chicken wings reconstituted into some

951
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:53,320
sort of frankin wing is how he's describing it. Oh

952
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,079
my god, So there is no deception coming from any

953
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,800
chicken joint, even as mid as ruffalo raw rings is. Oh,

954
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,000
this is a good one too. A boneless wings on

955
00:48:04,039 --> 00:48:05,880
the menu would not leave the restaurant was warranting the

956
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,159
absence of bones in the items, and believe the items

957
00:48:08,199 --> 00:48:10,079
were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating

958
00:48:10,159 --> 00:48:13,360
chicken fingers would know that he had not been eating

959
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:18,239
severed fingers. For instance, Does this eliminate the fish sticks

960
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:25,719
complaint coming up? No, they're not fish fingers or fish wings.

961
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:30,679
You can get fish fingers, fish fins, steak fingers also

962
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,000
not the fingers of a cow.

963
00:48:33,039 --> 00:48:33,559
Speaker 4: That's right.

964
00:48:33,679 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: You're not eating cow fingers. You're basically taking a chicken

965
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,199
fried steak and cutting it into slices. It's a little

966
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,840
bit of a different argument, though. I mean, if you

967
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:47,000
just want to be super mega literal, I understand the lawsuits.

968
00:48:47,039 --> 00:48:51,519
What I want to know is this dude sues the change,

969
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,440
the judge has to hear this, and then the judge

970
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,199
has to put together a ten page essay on it. Yeah,

971
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,639
how about get your mom ass out in my courtroom

972
00:48:59,639 --> 00:49:00,599
and pay legal fee?

973
00:49:00,679 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 3: Are you saying we're too much of a litigious society? Man,

974
00:49:03,079 --> 00:49:06,760
I'm saying that that judge probably has bigger fish to fry,

975
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,559
see or chicken to fry?

976
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 1: Yeah? What about that one? I think we're done with

977
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,119
our puns for the day. Probably not, You're right, but

978
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,679
come on, why would that dude do it?

979
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 2: You?

980
00:49:21,519 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: You chicken boneless wings was not just invented three years ago,

981
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,280
it is, I guess the judge the last couple decades.

982
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,599
I don't remember from way back in the day. No,

983
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,519
But I mean, like I don't remember Faiedas as a kid.

984
00:49:37,559 --> 00:49:39,239
I grew up here and I didn't I don't remember

985
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,639
for heat is until about nineteen eighty five. Yeah, well

986
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:46,000
they call what did people call fahiitas in nineteen seventy

987
00:49:46,079 --> 00:49:49,400
nine they called them fajitas. I think what were they

988
00:49:49,519 --> 00:49:52,440
invented around then? What they call like like a skirt

989
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,239
steak and somebody chopped him up in stead let's call

990
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,559
him fia absolutely, I mean it was just a look

991
00:49:56,639 --> 00:49:59,920
it's it's a lesser cut of steak that has got

992
00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:04,880
commercialized and is now well over priced. And essentially here's

993
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,880
the bit. They cook the steak on the grill. It

994
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,599
comes off the grill, okay, yeah, but they take the pan,

995
00:50:10,199 --> 00:50:12,199
not the pan, the grill. They bring to your table.

996
00:50:12,599 --> 00:50:14,280
They pour some water and make it steem so it

997
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,599
comes across the oh hot, the heat has just served

998
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:20,039
for you. Now, performative. They've have been sitting there ten minutes. Yeah,

999
00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:24,840
it's all. It's all in a marketing scam. But yo,

1000
00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:27,719
I don't normally order fietas unless I got a gift card.

1001
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,440
I do like I do like the carnassata. I just

1002
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,440
like to make it one as a strip steak itself,

1003
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,079
and I can like I can sizzle it myself. It

1004
00:50:37,199 --> 00:50:39,480
used to be cheaper at the store. Same thing with uh.

1005
00:50:39,639 --> 00:50:42,000
I mean lobsters used to be. They give it them prisoners.

1006
00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:45,679
It was prison food. Don't get me started on how

1007
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,760
much brisk it is nowadays. I know all the the

1008
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,679
barbecuers out there are not in their head. It's two

1009
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,400
super fatty muscles of a cow slapped together that you

1010
00:50:56,519 --> 00:50:58,719
need to cook. You need to at least cook for

1011
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,320
twelve hours to make it edible. And that's the reason

1012
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,880
why it's just okay to me. No, you just describe

1013
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:09,119
what do you just describe perfectly? Why it's year ago? No,

1014
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,599
but when it's done correctly, it's delicious, it's amazing. But

1015
00:51:12,679 --> 00:51:14,559
I'm not gonna wait twelve hours for our single meal

1016
00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:16,719
because you're not ey. Because it takes you twelve hours

1017
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,239
to make it. That's why it's cheap, not because it

1018
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,719
doesn't taste good when it comes out. Yeah, that's good.

1019
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,880
I mean, it's fine. Whatever. Yeah, you know you're a

1020
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,880
you're a brisket hater and you don't want to get

1021
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,280
you the worst mister you know what you can mean,

1022
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,280
Mister Florida, be whore, you miss I'm team Ribs. That's fine, okay,

1023
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,480
go to Memphis, all right, we don't need you in Texas.

1024
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,239
I like Texas ribs. I like Texas. Meach in Kansas City.

1025
00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:43,639
All right, you're in Texas. You eat brisket, all right? Yeah, okay,

1026
00:51:44,519 --> 00:51:53,280
we know you love sausage. All right. Uh Mick Cronin

1027
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,559
is the coach at the University of California, Los Angeles. Yes,

1028
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,800
he's not a nice dude. We'll give you an example

1029
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,960
that next it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1030
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,920
We are expecting live astro man this compared to dead

1031
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,920
astro guests, live astro guests coming up in the next

1032
00:52:09,119 --> 00:52:13,480
uh hour or so seven one three two, seven ninety

1033
00:52:13,519 --> 00:52:15,320
If you want to chime in on our conversation as

1034
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:20,039
media as has been, all right, we're going to Aggie

1035
00:52:20,119 --> 00:52:22,039
Lamb for a minute. You're okay with that? Sports Harvey

1036
00:52:22,199 --> 00:52:24,320
go on to the Dixie Chicken or what you know

1037
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,400
who The first radio show ever done on the Dixie

1038
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:34,840
Chicken was no me? Is that true? Was it? So

1039
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,679
you went like John David Crowe, No, it was. I

1040
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,960
want to say that I do the show with Darren

1041
00:52:40,079 --> 00:52:42,360
Jones or Jim kozmar I forgut which one it was?

1042
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,559
But it was in the nineties. Uh, first ever morning

1043
00:52:45,679 --> 00:52:49,559
radio show ever in that tobar a special guest Dante

1044
00:52:49,639 --> 00:52:53,480
hall uh No. I think it was like the assistant

1045
00:52:53,519 --> 00:52:56,639
ad for parking or something. Okay, that sounds huge, get

1046
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,679
sounds great. Try to get Arci to come over and

1047
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:04,000
do it. Busy coach, it's fine. One is an aggiland

1048
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,639
gigab one? What's going on?

1049
00:53:08,039 --> 00:53:08,199
Speaker 12: Hey?

1050
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 6: So I listened to the radio when I get to work,

1051
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:15,039
and the little kid on the show before you guys,

1052
00:53:15,519 --> 00:53:17,239
he makes me mad, so I turn him down.

1053
00:53:18,199 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 4: And now I listen to y'all.

1054
00:53:20,039 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 6: I'm trying to find a good vet so my wife

1055
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:28,639
doesn't get mad at me for betting money. And now

1056
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:33,559
all I hear is chicken nuggets. Bones are no bones?

1057
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,800
You guys getting bones or not getting bones?

1058
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:38,039
Speaker 7: What's up with that?

1059
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:38,679
Speaker 1: I need?

1060
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,599
Speaker 6: Give me an underdog to bet tonight?

1061
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 7: Thank oh?

1062
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 4: You want?

1063
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 3: What do you want to?

1064
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: Why do you want an underdog tonight? There's no basketball?

1065
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,119
What are you looking for college basketball?

1066
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 6: Because I'm I'm down like one fifty.

1067
00:53:53,639 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: You're down one hundred and fifty dollars or fifty k?

1068
00:53:58,400 --> 00:53:58,639
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1069
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 6: And I need to buy some you want cards?

1070
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: What one? Did you take some gummies?

1071
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 2: Too?

1072
00:54:06,679 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: One? Are you hanging out revelly too long.

1073
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 6: Revelle man, I will what's the name beaver would stick revee?

1074
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,440
I war my Texas hat around here or my fam

1075
00:54:20,519 --> 00:54:21,599
Houston had around here?

1076
00:54:23,039 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: What does that get you? Where are you?

1077
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,679
Speaker 6: I works for Texas A and M from Brian.

1078
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 1: But where are you now? I'm at work and you're not.

1079
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,360
Let me tell you something. You are not wearing Texas

1080
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,679
gear at work. There's zero chance of that's you're lying

1081
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:39,000
to us.

1082
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll send you all a picture.

1083
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: No, you don't have to. I don't want see girl

1084
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,719
an send me a picture. There's no way give me

1085
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:52,960
what that's right you should want? Let me tell you

1086
00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:55,079
you work for you? Do you work for the school

1087
00:54:55,119 --> 00:54:56,599
or do you just work for our company and Brian?

1088
00:54:58,119 --> 00:54:58,159
Speaker 2: No?

1089
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,519
Speaker 6: No, no, I work for Texas A and M your life.

1090
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no chance you're were into Texas at zero

1091
00:55:03,519 --> 00:55:06,280
chance you're out, You're fired? No chance.

1092
00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:08,519
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm a marine veteran.

1093
00:55:08,639 --> 00:55:10,039
Speaker 10: I can do what I want around here.

1094
00:55:10,079 --> 00:55:12,039
Speaker 1: Yeah you dann Well can't thank you for your service,

1095
00:55:12,079 --> 00:55:14,719
my man, thank you for the phone call. He needs

1096
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,119
a bet. You probably also needs to name they sleep

1097
00:55:18,159 --> 00:55:21,599
that off one? You know one? Well Ross, why don't

1098
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:25,000
you give a college put basketball selection. You are a

1099
00:55:25,119 --> 00:55:27,960
college you know what? I'll go with Creighton pluses fifteen

1100
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,599
and a half. With they plan you con creating plus

1101
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:36,280
fifteen and a half? Sure, why not? The game is

1102
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,559
where is it? Omaha? Oh no, no, no, no, stay

1103
00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:42,559
away from that one. You know one I have you

1104
00:55:42,639 --> 00:55:45,000
go ahead and make something up. Actually no, this is

1105
00:55:45,039 --> 00:55:48,599
actually the formula. Folks. We've talked about this, Matt Matt's

1106
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,639
random bets hitting r. Yes, listen to me one, very carefully.

1107
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:55,400
Listen to Matt.

1108
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:55,559
Speaker 4: Now.

1109
00:55:55,599 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: I cannot bet and give you NBA selections, because as

1110
00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,440
an NBA employee can.

1111
00:55:59,360 --> 00:55:59,599
Speaker 11: I do that?

1112
00:55:59,639 --> 00:56:03,639
Speaker 1: But I can give you a college basketball selection. Okay,

1113
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:16,679
let's go after deep consideration. I'm going to go with

1114
00:56:19,079 --> 00:56:23,519
Oh my god, come on, hold on, drama building. Okay,

1115
00:56:23,679 --> 00:56:27,480
I guess the drama is building, Ladies and gentlemen. Yes,

1116
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,639
the MT on a recorded line lock of the Week

1117
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,880
Kansas giving the six and a half at Oklahoma State.

1118
00:56:40,079 --> 00:56:42,639
He said he wanted an underdog. Oh, hold on, that

1119
00:56:42,679 --> 00:56:44,360
doesn't do me any good. He want an underdog?

1120
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 3: You want Kansas given the six and a half. I

1121
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:47,920
want Kansas given the six and a half. But he

1122
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,360
wants an underdog. He wants another dog. I'll give it

1123
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:50,880
another dog.

1124
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's your dog of the week. I'll give a

1125
00:56:53,519 --> 00:56:55,639
dog of the week. I'm gonna go with uh. Okay,

1126
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,880
is it that dog of the week on a recorded line?

1127
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:02,880
USC plus the nine and a half against Illinois? Oh

1128
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:07,159
my go Okay, there it is on a recorded line.

1129
00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:10,159
I'm writing this down. Seriously, everybody write this down. I

1130
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,800
gave you two picks, Okay, I gave you.

1131
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:17,159
Speaker 3: Tonight Kansas minus six and a half at Oak State.

1132
00:57:17,559 --> 00:57:19,840
That's my favorite lock of the week in the the

1133
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:23,280
dog favor of the week. Yeah, is USC plus.

1134
00:57:23,199 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: Nine and a half against I'll swear to 'all we'll

1135
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,400
be in Vegas and that'll be like I got the

1136
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:28,960
Pirates in the first five innings. I'm like, who's throwing?

1137
00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:29,440
I don't know.

1138
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:30,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, I.

1139
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:33,119
Speaker 1: Have been in it.

1140
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:33,599
Speaker 4: Hits.

1141
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: It does hit, it hits, So I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1142
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,400
all right, man, it's a Rando lock of the week.

1143
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,119
What I will not be betting on is UCLA basketball.

1144
00:57:43,559 --> 00:57:47,360
So Mick Cronin went to what took his UCLA Bruins

1145
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,199
to Michigan State yesterday? Yes, and they got beat like

1146
00:57:50,239 --> 00:57:54,599
a drum. That's unfortunate. One of UCLA's top players and

1147
00:57:54,639 --> 00:57:56,079
I don't know his name. It doesn't really matter for

1148
00:57:56,119 --> 00:57:58,840
the sake of they are got a flag or foul. No, no, no,

1149
00:57:59,079 --> 00:58:02,159
nothing to do with that. Oh. One of UCLA's star

1150
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:07,440
players is a former Michigan State Spartan. Oh. Okay, the

1151
00:58:07,559 --> 00:58:11,559
student section at Michigan State was calling out the guy's name, saying,

1152
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:14,760
we're kicking your ass. You're playing at UCLA. You're Steven Jamerson.

1153
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:19,880
The second Okay, don't really matter, point being, you had

1154
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,840
an ex spot in now playing for the Bruins, and

1155
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,440
the Spartan fan base was yelling at this kid during

1156
00:58:26,519 --> 00:58:31,559
the game. Reporter covering the game between UCLA and Michigan

1157
00:58:31,639 --> 00:58:36,760
State asked Nick Cronin about the student section at Michigan State,

1158
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:38,960
and here's how it went. What was your thoughts in

1159
00:58:39,039 --> 00:58:41,119
the student section channing Hooker's name.

1160
00:58:41,159 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 10: I could give a rats ass about the other team

1161
00:58:43,599 --> 00:58:44,280
student section.

1162
00:58:44,719 --> 00:58:47,199
Speaker 1: I just got a overall the way that I would

1163
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:52,159
like to give you a kudos for your worst question

1164
00:58:52,199 --> 00:58:54,480
I've ever been asked. R.

1165
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 4: Did you like this should take it the preparation?

1166
00:58:58,119 --> 00:58:59,599
Speaker 1: Do you really think I'd care about the other.

1167
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:04,039
Speaker 13: I don't care about they. You are here, you are

1168
00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:07,559
come on, dude, no reason yess you were. Everybody's standing

1169
00:59:07,639 --> 00:59:10,320
here listening to you. Everybody this is on camera, they

1170
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:10,800
can hear you.

1171
00:59:11,519 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: I answered the question. I could give a rats ask.

1172
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,679
Speaker 13: About the other team student section if I coached Ucla.

1173
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,719
I don't care about Michigan State students.

1174
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 3: Who cares?

1175
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:24,039
Speaker 4: All?

1176
00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: Right, ROSSI, that's the first time you heard is I

1177
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,199
wanted you to hear it organically. Thank you. What are

1178
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,440
things going through your mind as you heard that interchange

1179
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:35,199
between reporter and UCLA basketball coach mccronin. I think the

1180
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,280
first part, I mean it's it was pretty normal the

1181
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,159
first to cutting off, like I don't care about the

1182
00:59:40,199 --> 00:59:42,199
other team student section. You're talking about a guy who

1183
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,320
just got his ass kicked by Michigan State. That first

1184
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,159
of all, I wouldn't call that over the line. But

1185
00:59:47,239 --> 00:59:50,480
that's rude for sure, to cutting off a reporter and

1186
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,480
saying I don't give a rats ask what you're asking

1187
00:59:52,519 --> 00:59:54,760
about in the first place. It's very rude. But where

1188
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:56,760
it really got out of not out of hand. He

1189
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,280
also said it was the worst question to ever be asked.

1190
00:59:59,519 --> 01:00:02,480
It's the he's he's obviously very pissy and very angry,

1191
01:00:02,639 --> 01:00:04,480
calling it the worst question it's ever been asked, which

1192
01:00:04,519 --> 01:00:07,599
I one doubt that's the worst or stupidest question he's

1193
01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:10,599
ever been asked. Right, So then then push it further,

1194
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,480
and then the accusing the guy didn't raise his voice.

1195
01:00:14,159 --> 01:00:17,000
Now he's not yelling at him. He's speaking a little

1196
01:00:17,039 --> 01:00:19,039
bit louder, like, Okay, I was gonna ask it or whatever.

1197
01:00:19,119 --> 01:00:21,480
The guy starts to say, and then he's and then

1198
01:00:21,519 --> 01:00:24,079
he that's the thing that I don't like. And that's

1199
01:00:24,119 --> 01:00:27,039
what people do far too often. Where you came after

1200
01:00:27,119 --> 01:00:29,519
this guy, you said you don't give a rats ask

1201
01:00:29,559 --> 01:00:33,480
about his question, and then you say that he is

1202
01:00:33,559 --> 01:00:36,039
the worst question ever asked. And then you go to

1203
01:00:36,159 --> 01:00:39,400
the victim card. Uh, you're raising your advoice. Hit me.

1204
01:00:40,159 --> 01:00:43,599
Everybody can hear. You're yelling at me, You gun and

1205
01:00:43,719 --> 01:00:47,000
shield and immediately flip into the victim. That's where I

1206
01:00:47,159 --> 01:00:49,440
have a bigger problem with what mc cronin just did

1207
01:00:49,559 --> 01:00:53,320
right there. That is weak sauce. That is terrible, and

1208
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,679
that is something that happens way too much in life,

1209
01:00:57,079 --> 01:01:00,679
in politics, with these coaches and these players, to where

1210
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,199
you come after a guy and you say you don't

1211
01:01:03,239 --> 01:01:05,519
give a rats ask about what he's talking about, and

1212
01:01:05,599 --> 01:01:08,639
then he does his got a little bit louder. But

1213
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,320
he wasn't yelling at you. He wasn't calling you an

1214
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,519
idiot like you just were to him. And then you

1215
01:01:13,639 --> 01:01:22,800
play the victim card. That's ridiculous, Agree, Mick Cronin. If

1216
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,840
you didn't give a rats ass about it, you would

1217
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,320
have said the one thing and then moved on. That

1218
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,199
would have accentuated what you said originally. But instead you

1219
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:34,039
came back at him. You wanted to make sure you

1220
01:01:34,639 --> 01:01:38,360
wanted to embarrass the guy. Now, look, I don't know

1221
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,400
what the kind of reaction he was supposed to give,

1222
01:01:42,239 --> 01:01:44,199
but it was a little bit of the storyline of

1223
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,920
the kids of Michigan State yelling at the former Michigan

1224
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,880
State spartan. It's an ascid answered, It wasn't the dumbest question.

1225
01:01:51,599 --> 01:01:54,480
It's not going to lead a sports cast. He wasn't

1226
01:01:54,519 --> 01:01:58,320
trying to bait him. He was simply saying, was that time.

1227
01:01:58,559 --> 01:02:01,000
My presumption was was that was that tough on the

1228
01:02:01,079 --> 01:02:03,079
kid to have to hear his name being talked about

1229
01:02:03,119 --> 01:02:04,840
by the school in which in which he was once

1230
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,440
a student of and played basketball exactly. You don't even

1231
01:02:07,519 --> 01:02:09,760
let the guy finish his question. You cut him off. Okay,

1232
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,360
that happens. You call it. I mean, then you're really

1233
01:02:12,679 --> 01:02:15,760
pushing it. Call in the stupidest question you ever heard. Like,

1234
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:17,440
you know, Matt, if you and I are talking and

1235
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,360
you disagree with something I'm saying or I'm disagree, like

1236
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,360
we're just gonna we're gonna go, We're gonna keep talking.

1237
01:02:21,559 --> 01:02:23,559
I'm gonna say, well, how could you say that about me? Now?

1238
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,280
Or now you're raising your voice like, oh, everybody's scared.

1239
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,320
Everybody can hear you? Like, no, you he put his

1240
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,039
dukes up. What Mick Conan did was he put his

1241
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,159
dukes up and he threw a punch. Okay, and when

1242
01:02:35,199 --> 01:02:37,559
he's about to get countered, then he went and cowered

1243
01:02:37,599 --> 01:02:39,360
in the corner and went to the year raising your

1244
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,360
voice at me. Card, No, sir, if you gon start something,

1245
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:46,199
stand on that business and be ready to argue, don't

1246
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:49,039
do that and then play victim. That was weak sauce.

1247
01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:51,719
So so when when Mick Cronan said, that's the worst

1248
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:53,599
question ever been asked, and he goes, I'll take that,

1249
01:02:53,679 --> 01:02:55,239
and I'm sure you will take I mean, it was

1250
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,000
just yeah, it was combative.

1251
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 14: If you want to start something, let's go, Mick, don't

1252
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,719
say in the corner you five.

1253
01:03:01,559 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: One thing, but I won't kick you right now, let's go,

1254
01:03:06,039 --> 01:03:08,519
let's go throw him. Don't start something and throw it.

1255
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:10,800
You know what that is. That's like you're in class,

1256
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:12,639
somebody throws something at the back of you, and then

1257
01:03:12,679 --> 01:03:14,760
then and then they're they cower away when you're like,

1258
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,159
all right, who did that? Let's go, let's go, let's go.

1259
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,000
You want to argue, let's argue. How about you want

1260
01:03:21,039 --> 01:03:22,800
to discuss you how your team got your asking by

1261
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,559
thirty points? Is that what you rather discuss? You're raising

1262
01:03:25,599 --> 01:03:28,719
your voice in me? Everyone can hear you raising your voice.

1263
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:34,039
Come on, man, that's hilarious. I didn't know that happened. Yeah,

1264
01:03:34,239 --> 01:03:36,679
it wone hurts you. What do you mean? Yeah, we

1265
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,039
did hear it. He wasn't raising his voice, he elevated it,

1266
01:03:39,079 --> 01:03:41,559
but it was we know what they're raising a voice? Yeah,

1267
01:03:42,639 --> 01:03:51,039
I raised my voice. Yeah, that's hilarious. Oh, Mick, May

1268
01:03:51,079 --> 01:03:54,079
you enjoy your future career at Albany State coaching your

1269
01:03:54,079 --> 01:03:55,840
next spot because you ain't long for UCLA.

1270
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:57,119
Speaker 4: All right?

1271
01:03:57,199 --> 01:03:59,519
Speaker 1: Eleven twenty nine on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross

1272
01:03:59,519 --> 01:04:02,199
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

1273
01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:10,639
one three two one two five seven nine zero rosson like, no,

1274
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:14,639
go ahead, this is funny. You said wow. And when

1275
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:17,280
when someone says wow to you, especially the person within

1276
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,960
one footage, you turn and you go and then you

1277
01:04:20,039 --> 01:04:22,159
put your hand up like it's nothing. I can tell you.

1278
01:04:22,719 --> 01:04:25,239
So this, I am very much a person. This happens

1279
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,079
to me with everyone now with the only you mad,

1280
01:04:27,159 --> 01:04:29,760
it's anybody that I are alive. I can I have

1281
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:33,480
like you know, I don't Tourett's obviously a serious uh

1282
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,679
mental affliction. I'm not talking about like, but I sometimes

1283
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,760
just say things out loud without thinking and realizing that

1284
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:43,239
I'm talking out loud. I got you, so yes, right

1285
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,400
before we came on, I said wow, uh but we

1286
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,719
can talk about it. Jalen Brunson is eligible to sign

1287
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,519
a five year, four hundred and eighteen million dollar extension.

1288
01:04:51,599 --> 01:04:56,000
That's what made me say wow. So yeah, that's it's nothing,

1289
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,639
so get it so off. So yes, this always happens

1290
01:04:59,679 --> 01:05:01,559
to me. To where we're sitting together, I'm like, oh

1291
01:05:01,599 --> 01:05:04,719
my gosh, or wow or or I laughed to myself

1292
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,159
and he's MAT's like, what what is it? And I

1293
01:05:06,239 --> 01:05:08,920
was like, oh, it's nothing. So but you're not the

1294
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,679
only person, doesn't okay if you walk around and oh damn,

1295
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:14,800
like I think, okay, oh, it's fine. I was just

1296
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:19,400
thinking I forgot to turn the coffee maker off exactly. Okay.

1297
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:23,119
Speaker 3: It's generally something innocuous that I don't want to even

1298
01:05:23,239 --> 01:05:26,639
spend time talking to you about, Like, for example, the

1299
01:05:26,719 --> 01:05:30,000
fact that Jalen Bruntson is ineligible for a fort It's

1300
01:05:30,079 --> 01:05:30,599
twenty million.

1301
01:05:30,679 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: That's not going to move the needle here on show. Okay,

1302
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,639
sounds fine, So I understand we're like, oh, what happens everybody? Okay,

1303
01:05:36,679 --> 01:05:38,480
did somebody get hurt at camp? Is there some uh

1304
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,920
eas hip prayers get traded? No, just Jalen Brunson's extension.

1305
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:43,719
That's no, that's more on me.

1306
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 3: Man.

1307
01:05:44,039 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, that's okay, that's okay, But I mean you,

1308
01:05:46,199 --> 01:05:47,960
it was the raw of emotion at coming out of

1309
01:05:48,079 --> 01:05:50,960
seeing an NBA player making eighty million dollars a year.

1310
01:05:52,159 --> 01:05:54,360
So I don't know enough of the deets on this,

1311
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,039
but Mark Cuban basically the last couple of days said

1312
01:05:58,079 --> 01:06:01,440
it's okay to tank that Why is the NBA getting

1313
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,639
all mad the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Patris for

1314
01:06:03,719 --> 01:06:08,559
tanking when the way that the NBA structures its roster,

1315
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:14,119
if you lose a star player or you want the

1316
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:17,119
only way you really get better is by getting younger players.

1317
01:06:17,159 --> 01:06:19,559
So what's the point of being thirty and fifty when

1318
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:21,800
you can improve your draft chances if you're fifteen and

1319
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:28,519
sixty seven. Yeah, they are playing the game the way

1320
01:06:28,599 --> 01:06:30,800
the rules are set. The rules are set by, especially

1321
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,760
if you are Utah, if you are Sacramento, if you

1322
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,079
are one of those teams that isn't going to be

1323
01:06:36,599 --> 01:06:39,599
a major free agent destination or to where you can

1324
01:06:39,639 --> 01:06:43,760
even afford to overpay well into the luxury tax. You

1325
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,199
got to get a top pick, and you're going with

1326
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:47,920
this draft and you're going with this lottery. So you

1327
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,400
got to accumulate as many ping pop balls as you can.

1328
01:06:50,639 --> 01:06:52,639
And if you have a high priced player that gets

1329
01:06:52,719 --> 01:06:56,440
hurt or under a performs, you're stuck. You can't get

1330
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:58,480
out of it because you can't move that player. It's

1331
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:02,599
impossible to guarantees. Yeah, you can't. You can't NFL, you

1332
01:07:02,679 --> 01:07:06,039
can't rid them. You can't release them prior to their contract. Yeah,

1333
01:07:06,119 --> 01:07:08,480
you can't eat dead cat money. That's what you were

1334
01:07:08,559 --> 01:07:14,679
so to choose. There are some things about the economics

1335
01:07:14,719 --> 01:07:17,199
of sports that I really embrace and get into. That

1336
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,719
to me, that they dug their own grave on that

1337
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:22,440
that's never and I don't get it when when a

1338
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:24,639
team is tanking. When you talk about the Utah Jazz

1339
01:07:24,679 --> 01:07:27,280
sitting everybody out, I get it. It's supposed to be

1340
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:30,440
a stacked especially top of the draft this year, they're

1341
01:07:30,519 --> 01:07:35,400
talking about five legitimate NBA stars in which one of

1342
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:37,199
them will be in Houston, Texas or is right now

1343
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:41,280
Kingston Flemings bu way, Uh, we're gonna have a Dana.

1344
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:44,920
Kevin Sampson joined our show on Friday A one thirty

1345
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,519
looking forward to that. So yeah, uh, if you got

1346
01:07:48,599 --> 01:07:52,519
five guys that are I mean that that means any

1347
01:07:52,599 --> 01:07:58,079
one of the five could be stars, legitimate franchise changing stars,

1348
01:07:58,119 --> 01:08:01,239
and you get them on the cheap world speaking, Yes,

1349
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,440
you're not paying for heavy forty fifty. Just like it's

1350
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,719
just like quarterbacks. NFL teams have to thrive. If you've

1351
01:08:07,719 --> 01:08:09,599
got a star quarterback and he's on a rookie deal,

1352
01:08:10,039 --> 01:08:11,960
you need to thrive if you've got a young player

1353
01:08:12,039 --> 01:08:16,319
who is making off of his rookie contract. Absolutely, and

1354
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:23,399
especially especially in the NBA, one franchise player can I mean,

1355
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,960
what's what's the value of the San Antonio Spurs been

1356
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:30,199
the last few years now that they have Victor Winbinyama?

1357
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,560
I don't even know. I'll put it this way, if

1358
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:36,840
the Rockets were to lose Kevin Durant for injury or

1359
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:40,880
his career was to suddenly take a downturn, the money

1360
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:45,479
that is being spent on him hampers the roster construction

1361
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:48,000
because you've got so much money spent on one player. Now,

1362
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:51,159
you can still win. You can still hopefully get something

1363
01:08:51,199 --> 01:08:52,880
in the draft, or hope that the guys you have

1364
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,359
paid for that are still on their rookie deals, like

1365
01:08:55,399 --> 01:08:58,439
a Men Thompson. You know, maybe you don't break the

1366
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,119
bank on Tari Easan. Maybe you know you're happy that

1367
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,800
Jabari Smith is relatively cheap. Auburn's making really good money,

1368
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,560
but it's not bringing But if you have one or

1369
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,680
two megas, one gets hurt, one doesn't perform to that,

1370
01:09:13,199 --> 01:09:15,520
it cbs. It cripples your franchise and the only way

1371
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:19,439
you get out of that is by tanking, having a

1372
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,520
high draft pick and hoping catching and lightning in a bottle. Yeah,

1373
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:25,000
and it's not only making you better, it's changing the

1374
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,880
How much more valuable are the Detroit Pistons now since

1375
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:30,680
they got Kate Cunningham. Now you have to build around

1376
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:32,000
and they have to be good and you have to

1377
01:09:32,079 --> 01:09:34,960
hit on the pick. But uh, we talked about the

1378
01:09:35,359 --> 01:09:40,520
Rockets could if you went by worst records, the Rockets

1379
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,439
should have Kate Cunningham and Palla ben Carro. It'd be

1380
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:45,000
a different complexion of the team.

1381
01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:45,399
Speaker 4: Right.

1382
01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:47,600
Speaker 1: You have to get these ping pong balls and then

1383
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,439
you or Victor Women Yama, they were they for worst

1384
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,960
in Victor Women Nam. I can't remember there, maybe second

1385
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:58,439
worst or something like that. So I mean, yeah, this

1386
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,119
is the way to change your franchise, and especially in basketball,

1387
01:10:01,399 --> 01:10:05,600
one impact player can change everything and then you go

1388
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,600
from there. I was listening as you were to the

1389
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,399
A team on our iHeartRadio app after the Ball after

1390
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,039
the show a couple of days ago, and the question

1391
01:10:13,199 --> 01:10:15,880
was brought up, why doesn't the NFL have this issue

1392
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:21,520
like the other two sports do well, mainly basketball. The

1393
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,560
worst team in the NFL gets a number one pick.

1394
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:26,800
But we never worry about teams tanking. I think we

1395
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:28,960
do talk about it a little bit when guys down

1396
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:30,399
to the level of the NBA. I mean, we were

1397
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,039
talking about when the Jets and there were what was

1398
01:10:32,079 --> 01:10:36,439
that the name of that terrible quarterback Cooper something around

1399
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:38,439
what was that jet there? They were trotting out there.

1400
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:41,600
It was terrible because they were trying to lose, and

1401
01:10:42,159 --> 01:10:45,399
you're there calling it. When the Giants, Giants are playing

1402
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:48,119
late against the Raiders, I think there were some talk

1403
01:10:48,159 --> 01:10:52,239
about them tanking. I think it has been discussed.

1404
01:10:52,239 --> 01:10:54,560
Speaker 3: Remember how about this when the when the Texans and

1405
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:56,680
Lovey Smith went and beat the Colts and everybody was

1406
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:57,359
upset about that.

1407
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 1: But the problem was the Texans didn't fall the rules.

1408
01:11:01,239 --> 01:11:04,479
They got their dreamboat quarterback seege is drown. Yeah, I

1409
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:09,439
think maybe, I especially the players. You can't can you

1410
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:13,840
not sit everybody? I guess you can sit some The

1411
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:16,520
players are out there are gonna try. I'm not exactly

1412
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:18,880
sure what the difference is, except for for sure that

1413
01:11:19,159 --> 01:11:21,159
one of the big differences is eighty two games is

1414
01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:25,720
way different than seventeen. Because I don't know the Jazz

1415
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:27,640
are taking right now. I feel like you don't have

1416
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:32,239
guys sit benching everybody week eight in the UNFL, well

1417
01:11:32,359 --> 01:11:34,680
you can bench players in the NFL. I just I

1418
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:36,600
have I don't know what it is. I can't put

1419
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:38,319
my finger on it, but I think there is a

1420
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,159
tangible difference in the intensity of a team that is

1421
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,439
two and thirteen when I watch in the NFL. Then

1422
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:47,760
when I see a basketball team who's twenty and fifty seven,

1423
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:49,159
I just see it.

1424
01:11:51,239 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 7: I just do.

1425
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because guys are fighting for

1426
01:11:54,039 --> 01:11:57,880
spots next year or non guaranteed contracts, or they're trying

1427
01:11:57,920 --> 01:11:59,960
to play for playing time the fire. Everybody always plays hard.

1428
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,760
But even if you're tanking in basketball, I mean, Christian

1429
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:06,279
Wood was playing hard, Kevin port June was playing hard.

1430
01:12:07,239 --> 01:12:10,000
It's just got very good. Yeah, but you made a

1431
01:12:10,079 --> 01:12:14,039
conscious decision to not assemble a team that you knew

1432
01:12:14,039 --> 01:12:15,560
could win on the day in and day out basis.

1433
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:19,920
And if teams are have injured players that have forced

1434
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:21,479
you to go deeper to your depth chart and know

1435
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,319
that you can't win, then you know those guys are

1436
01:12:24,319 --> 01:12:29,199
gonna play hard. But Brady Cook, that's who they're going with.

1437
01:12:29,359 --> 01:12:32,760
Who was the Jets quarterback that was especially justin Field

1438
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:34,640
or Trod Taylor. And then they were going they were

1439
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:37,880
going with Brady Cook, who was the BYU quarterback having

1440
01:12:38,199 --> 01:12:40,520
relations with ol Of Wilson, Zach Wills with all his

1441
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:45,800
mom's friends. I don't know if that's the correct characterization.

1442
01:12:46,119 --> 01:12:47,640
I think it was one hundred percent accurate.

1443
01:12:48,079 --> 01:12:50,079
Speaker 3: I think it was alleged that it was one of

1444
01:12:50,159 --> 01:12:55,720
his mother's friends. One can you know more about this

1445
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:56,279
than I do?

1446
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 14: It?

1447
01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:57,359
Speaker 4: Apparently?

1448
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,560
Speaker 1: So what is your question about him? The question was

1449
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:06,159
whatever happened to him? He was backing up in Where

1450
01:13:06,279 --> 01:13:08,239
is Zach was? Where was he backing up somewhere in

1451
01:13:08,279 --> 01:13:13,319
the West Coast? I feel like, was it? Oh, never mind, No,

1452
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:15,960
he's he wasn't with the Dolphins before last year? Oh

1453
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,399
he was with the Dolphins last year, Zach Wilson was.

1454
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:25,159
That's right, Okay, sure, why not? Behind Quinn you weres? Yeah,

1455
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:29,239
be careful, Quinn you Weres buddies, Longhorn legend, long horned legend,

1456
01:13:29,279 --> 01:13:31,479
All right? Eleven forty four is the time it is

1457
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:33,760
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three, two,

1458
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:39,399
one two five seven ninety seven Analysts for Turner, NBC,

1459
01:13:40,119 --> 01:13:43,079
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1460
01:13:43,119 --> 01:13:46,239
you to go far down the road, far down the road.

1461
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:48,479
He wants to club another on hundred and fifty home runs.

1462
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,880
Fre He calls at a career how many you got

1463
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:51,439
all together?

1464
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 11: Now?

1465
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, to be honest with you, Ye, okay,

1466
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,199
how about this. You look it up and okay, try

1467
01:13:57,279 --> 01:13:59,079
to guess I got.

1468
01:13:59,159 --> 01:14:01,560
Speaker 3: One fifty over the course of last year during the

1469
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:02,199
first half.

1470
01:14:03,159 --> 01:14:04,399
Speaker 1: This is a terrible guessing game.

1471
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:14,279
Speaker 3: Now, I'd say one seventy one, one seventy four. I'm

1472
01:14:14,319 --> 01:14:15,359
glad I guess close though.

1473
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,560
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, I didn't guess. It'd be weird if

1474
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:19,520
you say four and fifty or something. Then you gotta

1475
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,359
get to two hundred this year. That's it. That's that's

1476
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,800
he's that's low hanging through right there. Right, that's first half,

1477
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:27,880
first half stuff. Baby, Come on, now, let's hope. So okay,

1478
01:14:28,119 --> 01:14:29,920
uh so I asked you in the clubhouse how you

1479
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:32,000
lost the weight, and grown ass men usually don't do that,

1480
01:14:32,359 --> 01:14:35,000
but we just did. So you did you make it

1481
01:14:35,039 --> 01:14:37,159
a concerted effort to say I'm caring too much weight,

1482
01:14:37,199 --> 01:14:39,560
I want to drop ten pounds or how did you decide,

1483
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:41,840
you know what, I'll go a little leaner this offseason.

1484
01:14:42,039 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean a little bit of both. Step one,

1485
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:47,640
I was having a baby. We had a baby last summer,

1486
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:49,039
so first off season.

1487
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: With you were losing baby weight. She was probably dad strength.

1488
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:52,119
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1489
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 3: Well apparently men hold on weight too, because there's some

1490
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:58,680
hormone rest your body's prepping for sleepless nights or something.

1491
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:00,760
Really I heard some Yeah, I was like, oh, that's

1492
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:01,479
my excuse, so.

1493
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:04,159
Speaker 4: I go with that.

1494
01:15:04,279 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1495
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:04,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1496
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:10,880
Speaker 3: But wanted to embrace parenting and not I feel like

1497
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,880
so many people survive and you know, obviously the baby's

1498
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:15,439
behavior has so much to do with that, more than

1499
01:15:16,079 --> 01:15:19,279
you know we think. But just just wanted to really

1500
01:15:19,359 --> 01:15:21,840
make sure I had a grip on my discipline. Wanted

1501
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,159
to make sure I was eating right, sleeping right, hydrating,

1502
01:15:24,239 --> 01:15:28,760
training to benefit obviously myself, but to be in a

1503
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,439
good spot to be a dad and to be a husband,

1504
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,560
and you know, parenting is a is a fun thing.

1505
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:36,439
So that was at the forefront of my brain and

1506
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:39,439
wasn't necessarily to like lose weight or I thought I

1507
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:43,479
was playing too heavy last year, but you know, me

1508
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:46,640
playing it too fifteen to twenty I think is a

1509
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,039
is a much cleaner spot than you know, maybe mid

1510
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:50,359
two twenties or something.

1511
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:52,359
Speaker 1: Have you noticed it so far running into some of

1512
01:15:52,399 --> 01:15:53,680
the drills out there at this point.

1513
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think my fault works a little cleaner.

1514
01:15:56,359 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 1: Hard to tell.

1515
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:58,399
Speaker 3: It's it's you know, when you spend time with it,

1516
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:01,439
it's you don't see the big changes, is my But yeah,

1517
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:03,319
I think I think long term too, maybe a little

1518
01:16:03,359 --> 01:16:05,720
less weight on the legs and helping recovery and all that.

1519
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: All right, Christian, you were first and second half numbers

1520
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,720
were significantly different. Tell me about the first half. Tell

1521
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,159
me about the oblique and how much that puts you

1522
01:16:14,239 --> 01:16:15,680
behind the eight ball in terms of getting off to

1523
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:19,560
a good astral career start. Yeah, I think, you know.

1524
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 3: As much as I don't want to admit it or

1525
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,680
using it as excuse, I think it's it's very much

1526
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:24,760
a thing. These at bats during spring training are important,

1527
01:16:26,199 --> 01:16:30,359
having these, you know, low stress environments to explore some

1528
01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:33,199
timing things and feel a different direction and play with

1529
01:16:33,239 --> 01:16:36,359
your approach with the plate. You know, I felt competitive

1530
01:16:36,399 --> 01:16:39,760
when I came back, but I think there's there's the

1531
01:16:40,119 --> 01:16:42,159
being able to compete side of things, and then there's

1532
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:44,840
trusting your body and proven that you have the reps

1533
01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:47,119
and you've build up the volume. So I think, you know,

1534
01:16:47,239 --> 01:16:50,039
looking back objectively, maybe I was caught in between. I

1535
01:16:50,119 --> 01:16:52,560
felt like I was in a spot to help the

1536
01:16:52,600 --> 01:17:01,800
team win, but maybe not just quite as you know, competitives.

1537
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:03,479
I wanted to be right like I it was. It

1538
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,600
was an embarrassing first half. I'm not sitting here trying

1539
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:07,640
to like justify it or make excuses or anything like that,

1540
01:17:08,399 --> 01:17:11,119
but it is also part of the game. By far,

1541
01:17:11,199 --> 01:17:14,159
the start the slowest start I've had to a year,

1542
01:17:15,199 --> 01:17:19,279
but you know, to be honest, I'm proud of myself

1543
01:17:19,399 --> 01:17:22,199
for still putting up some some okay numbers and the

1544
01:17:22,279 --> 01:17:25,840
slow came back around. The average climbed a little bit late,

1545
01:17:26,159 --> 01:17:28,720
and and I've seen a lot of guys start with

1546
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:31,680
a really slow first half like that and you know,

1547
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:33,680
give up and pull the shoot. And I wanted to

1548
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:35,880
finish strong and I did that. I proved to myself

1549
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,800
that I could bounce back even with a really tough start.

1550
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:42,119
So you know, overall, I'm proud of of you know,

1551
01:17:42,199 --> 01:17:43,000
how owt finished.

1552
01:17:43,359 --> 01:17:46,319
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you learn something about either either

1553
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,479
both physically and mentally, with those struggles that you went to,

1554
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:51,760
would you learn about yourself? I think.

1555
01:17:54,279 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 3: There's always time, you know. I think it's okay to

1556
01:18:00,039 --> 01:18:01,960
have some stretches that are slow, that the baseball season

1557
01:18:02,079 --> 01:18:06,199
is so long. You have a really good month, like

1558
01:18:06,279 --> 01:18:07,920
it's like, no matter what you do, you're going to

1559
01:18:08,039 --> 01:18:10,880
have a really great month, and you're gonna have a

1560
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:14,119
really bad mouth, right, and then those those handful in between,

1561
01:18:14,199 --> 01:18:16,479
it's like are you on the two eighty side of

1562
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:18,239
things or are you on the two twenty side of things?

1563
01:18:18,279 --> 01:18:21,800
So I think just being really you know, realistic, I

1564
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:24,560
think giving myself some grace. I'm hard on myself naturally.

1565
01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:29,720
I take this thing really seriously. So I think look

1566
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:31,399
at myself in the mirror and saying it it's okay,

1567
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:33,720
Like you're you're working as hard as you can, You're

1568
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:34,520
preparing the right way.

1569
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:36,760
Speaker 1: It's the game's tough. Yeah, Was that something that you

1570
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:37,720
do that more in season?

1571
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 14: Or more?

1572
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:41,399
Speaker 1: Maybe more as you look back. I think I was.

1573
01:18:41,399 --> 01:18:44,840
Speaker 3: Forced to in season, Yeah, because I felt great about

1574
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:49,640
how I was preparing and I felt ready to compete.

1575
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:51,880
I felt prepared to play and help the team. It

1576
01:18:52,039 --> 01:18:54,720
just it wasn't showing up on the field as consistent

1577
01:18:55,079 --> 01:18:58,479
as I wanted it to. So you ask yourself, like, Okay,

1578
01:18:58,520 --> 01:18:59,760
what can I do different? Like, I'm not gonna sit

1579
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,000
here feel bad for myself? So how do I get

1580
01:19:02,039 --> 01:19:03,600
out of it? How do I make it better? What

1581
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:07,000
should I be doing differently? And when I prepare the

1582
01:19:07,079 --> 01:19:08,239
right way and I train the right way and I

1583
01:19:08,279 --> 01:19:12,840
feel like I'm living right, there's there's not much else

1584
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:16,560
to do but whether the storm, trust the work, trust yourself,

1585
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,119
know that you know how, I got another three hundred

1586
01:19:19,199 --> 01:19:20,319
bats on the table. I can do a lot of

1587
01:19:20,399 --> 01:19:21,439
damage in that amount of time.

1588
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:23,199
Speaker 1: You came into camps that I want to play one

1589
01:19:23,279 --> 01:19:25,199
hundred and fifty games. That's what you normally have done

1590
01:19:25,199 --> 01:19:27,239
for most of your career. You've won the gold Gloves.

1591
01:19:27,279 --> 01:19:31,239
There's you get an outstanding resume, But you know, look,

1592
01:19:31,319 --> 01:19:33,960
Twitter streets may not be accurate, but the reality is

1593
01:19:34,159 --> 01:19:36,199
names get brought up. Yours was brought up a little

1594
01:19:36,199 --> 01:19:38,079
bit here and there. Do you take that with a

1595
01:19:38,119 --> 01:19:40,880
grain of salt? Do you go all right, I gotta

1596
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:42,479
change things a little bit, or do you go, you

1597
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:44,560
know what, Unless my agent here's something, or I talked

1598
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:46,079
to Dana, I'm not gonna worry about any of that

1599
01:19:46,119 --> 01:19:46,840
outside noise.

1600
01:19:47,159 --> 01:19:50,079
Speaker 3: I'm in that in the ladder there, I'm a less.

1601
01:19:50,199 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: I applaud you for that, because he and I are

1602
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:55,880
we have terrible self esteem issues. Congratulations for that.

1603
01:19:56,039 --> 01:19:59,319
Speaker 3: Now I've done my fair share of armchair GM and

1604
01:19:59,399 --> 01:20:02,039
to your share. But sure, yeah, honestly, it just it

1605
01:20:02,159 --> 01:20:05,640
it gets exhausting for me. It's it's there's so many scenarios,

1606
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:07,920
there's so many possible outcomes, and none of it is

1607
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,800
in my control. Like, yeah, if I would have come

1608
01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:11,840
out last year and hit three hundred with forty, like

1609
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,960
probably wouldn't be talked about getting traded, right, So that

1610
01:20:14,079 --> 01:20:17,159
side of things isn't my control. But the business side

1611
01:20:17,159 --> 01:20:20,079
of game is of the game is very real. So

1612
01:20:20,279 --> 01:20:23,640
for me, I actually I deleted all social media off

1613
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:27,159
my phone for a while, like jealous. Yeah, not avoiding things,

1614
01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:31,199
but it's it's just a smoother day to day if

1615
01:20:31,279 --> 01:20:33,199
if I'm not aware of all that stuff, if I

1616
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:37,279
trust Dana, the line of communication between me and Joe

1617
01:20:37,359 --> 01:20:39,560
and me and Dana is is pretty solid. I think

1618
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,239
if something had some traction, you know, I'd expect that

1619
01:20:42,279 --> 01:20:44,680
somebody would reach out, And I understand it's not personal.

1620
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:45,520
Speaker 1: It is what it is.

1621
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,720
Speaker 3: But never never heard anything serious. So I just kept

1622
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:49,479
on with my business.

1623
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: Your off season is in South Carolina, that's not the

1624
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:53,960
epicenter of media in the world. So can you can?

1625
01:20:54,319 --> 01:20:57,119
Can you really decompress from everything finking about what looking

1626
01:20:57,159 --> 01:20:59,239
at your But just what is it like for the

1627
01:20:59,319 --> 01:21:01,479
news cycle? I mean, do you watch the World Series?

1628
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,279
You're not? I don't know if you're running to a

1629
01:21:03,319 --> 01:21:06,600
Columbia Sports barn eight or nine playoff baseball games around

1630
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:09,159
you know what I mean? You're heard at SEC territory there.

1631
01:21:09,239 --> 01:21:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very much a Gamecock football season when I

1632
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:14,880
get home in the fall, for sure. But I love

1633
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,279
high stake sports, you know. Obviously the tide of baseball

1634
01:21:17,359 --> 01:21:20,640
was there. I enjoy watching the postseason. I think it's

1635
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,279
something that we've grown to appreciate. I got a taste

1636
01:21:23,319 --> 01:21:25,479
of the World Series in twenty three. It was a

1637
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:26,800
big part of why I came to Houston.

1638
01:21:28,319 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: I think.

1639
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:33,800
Speaker 3: It's fun. It's why the Olympics are fun. I don't

1640
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:35,600
know the rules of the half of these events and sports,

1641
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,039
but I'm into it. I'm like, I'm hanging on every moment.

1642
01:21:38,079 --> 01:21:40,680
It's you know, when you're playing with something on the line,

1643
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:42,680
it's just fun to watch. And I think as a

1644
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:45,359
professional athlete, I just I really respect something about that.

1645
01:21:46,159 --> 01:21:50,039
Speaker 1: All Right, So you've lost the weight. Two stolen bases

1646
01:21:50,119 --> 01:21:53,640
last year, eleven career high. What are we thinking for

1647
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:54,439
twenty twenty six?

1648
01:21:56,079 --> 01:21:59,039
Speaker 3: I'd like to sniff double digits again. But I think

1649
01:21:59,079 --> 01:22:01,600
what's important about last year is Paradis had zero and

1650
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:03,720
I had two. So I just got to remember that

1651
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:06,399
as long as I steal the greatest, then he can't.

1652
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:07,640
He can't talk crap.

1653
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:12,239
Speaker 1: So who was the slowest player on the team, not

1654
01:22:15,039 --> 01:22:17,119
counting catchers because they don't they get a free pass.

1655
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:20,640
That's catchers, man.

1656
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:21,560
Speaker 5: It might be Paradis.

1657
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:24,319
Speaker 3: I'd like to think I'm faster than I look, but

1658
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:26,479
maybe we need a race.

1659
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: You know, well, we can probably look fine. The feet

1660
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,840
per second, yeah, the max. At least we had a

1661
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:35,640
big mattress guy. He'll find it, don't worry. But no,

1662
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:37,840
this just keep you trotting, hit it over the fence

1663
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:39,800
and then you can try like Ron uld doubles. We

1664
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:43,720
love too. We had zero issues with that Jose before

1665
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:45,439
let you run. Jose looks like he's gonna be back

1666
01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:49,199
at second base. Uh, he's not gonna say it, so

1667
01:22:49,359 --> 01:22:51,000
we're gonna interpret it as you know, he did what

1668
01:22:51,159 --> 01:22:52,560
was best, what he thought was best with the team.

1669
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:54,800
But I think naturally you know this too. Guys want

1670
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,239
to be in their natural possession of positions. What will

1671
01:22:57,279 --> 01:22:59,680
be like to have consistency within that infield, at least

1672
01:22:59,680 --> 01:23:00,520
for twenty twenty five.

1673
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:03,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's important that consistency. I think just as

1674
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:07,439
a player, I've tinkered with learning in a new position.

1675
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:08,880
I played a little bit of left field in the

1676
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:11,520
miners coming up, and I think it's like one of

1677
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,640
two things that either really frees the guy up and

1678
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,640
they think like, well, there's no pressure because I'm not

1679
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:18,920
supposed to play this position and it can really help.

1680
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:22,239
I think the other camp is like, oh no, I'm

1681
01:23:22,279 --> 01:23:23,640
learning a new position. I don't want to be the

1682
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,520
reason why, you know, we lose a game where I

1683
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:27,239
give up runs for my pitcher or something like that.

1684
01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:30,119
So you know, I've seen I've seen both things. I

1685
01:23:30,119 --> 01:23:34,079
think Jose did a great great job of flowing into

1686
01:23:34,079 --> 01:23:35,479
a new position in the big leagues, like the guy

1687
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,159
has done something at an elite level for so long,

1688
01:23:38,199 --> 01:23:40,479
and then you ask him to do something new. His

1689
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,760
mentality never changed, his energy never changed. He was embracing

1690
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:45,479
left field for us, and he helped us win a

1691
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:47,479
lot of games. That's that's another huge bat to have

1692
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,520
in the lineup. And if he's willing to do something

1693
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:51,399
like that, that's you know, as far as like a

1694
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,479
team captain and a leader, that's I mean, that's everything

1695
01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:54,039
you're asking for.

1696
01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:57,359
Speaker 1: Anything else, my man, think I think I'm pretty good.

1697
01:23:57,399 --> 01:23:59,840
I mean, well, we're rooting for a lot of ago.

1698
01:24:00,119 --> 01:24:03,000
I know, I know it's a little awkward with all

1699
01:24:03,039 --> 01:24:05,840
the talk here and there. I just you guys, get

1700
01:24:06,079 --> 01:24:09,640
you were so close. Do you think about one game

1701
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,119
or do you think it's such a macro sport in

1702
01:24:12,159 --> 01:24:14,640
which you play you can't go to one game? Go man,

1703
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:16,279
if we would have just turned that double player, or

1704
01:24:16,279 --> 01:24:17,800
if I would have just got that key here, or

1705
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:19,399
we would have scored that last run of the ninth

1706
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:20,720
and do you do you think about that kind of

1707
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,880
because it was such a close, uh separation between you

1708
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:24,399
and Detroit.

1709
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:27,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's easy. You could probably pick out

1710
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:30,560
some spots. To be honest, I think when I look

1711
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:32,880
around the clubhouse at the team we had last year,

1712
01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:38,119
I feel like it shouldn't have come down to one game.

1713
01:24:38,159 --> 01:24:41,239
We should have been a handful of games out in

1714
01:24:41,279 --> 01:24:43,479
front of the division, right like we we had plenty

1715
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:46,039
of talent, plenty of opportunities to win the division last year.

1716
01:24:46,279 --> 01:24:48,960
Not taking any credit away from Seattle and these other teams,

1717
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:50,520
they did, they did a great job, right, They.

1718
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:53,319
Speaker 1: Did what they needed to do. They're cocky, though, Yeah,

1719
01:24:53,319 --> 01:24:55,920
it's I mean, it's good. You know you should be.

1720
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:58,239
Speaker 3: You won the division like good? Yeah, you know it's

1721
01:24:58,319 --> 01:25:00,079
it's we had a target on our backs. We have

1722
01:25:00,159 --> 01:25:02,680
the target on our backs where we're we have a reputation.

1723
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:05,119
I want other teams to come in and try to

1724
01:25:05,199 --> 01:25:07,479
try to knock us off the pedestal. But you know,

1725
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,680
to answer your question, no, I don't think it's fair

1726
01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:14,079
to anybody or ourselves to try to pick one spot.

1727
01:25:15,079 --> 01:25:17,520
The season's long for a reason. You got nine guys

1728
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,000
on the field for a reason. It's it's very much

1729
01:25:20,039 --> 01:25:21,479
a team sport and we're playing the long game.

1730
01:25:22,279 --> 01:25:25,199
Speaker 1: Lastly, playing in West Sacramento, is that like playing in

1731
01:25:25,279 --> 01:25:28,600
Triple A, like PCL, Like I can swing with one

1732
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:30,319
hand and hit the ball four and fifty feet. That

1733
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:32,039
place looks like that he and I could hit a

1734
01:25:32,079 --> 01:25:33,720
home run in that ballpark. I love it.

1735
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome. I wish we obviously played twice as

1736
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:39,399
many games there. No, it's it's uh, I mean it's

1737
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:42,520
it's a hitter friendly park for sure. I don't know

1738
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:45,159
what it is other than that, like it's good Win.

1739
01:25:45,319 --> 01:25:45,600
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1740
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:47,239
Speaker 3: If I don't know, like know where the altitude is.

1741
01:25:47,279 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: If you're really grown, you should switch on the other

1742
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:50,640
side of the player. Run scam.

1743
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:51,720
Speaker 3: I'm trying to make them count.

1744
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: I gotta get ready. I love it. Chris to thank

1745
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:56,199
you very much for the time. We wish you know

1746
01:25:56,279 --> 01:25:59,560
about the very best graduations on the baby enjoy that beat. Juice,

1747
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:03,880
Eve had Juice, Rosey, Get you going and night I

1748
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:06,119
know where, Get me going. We'll be on vessel dilation.

1749
01:26:06,239 --> 01:26:08,000
We'll not be doing it in the show much longer.

1750
01:26:08,359 --> 01:26:10,800
Christian Walker here to start the final hour of the

1751
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:12,640
of the Mad Todmas Live program. We're gonna be with

1752
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:14,880
you tillwo o'clock today here on Sports Talk seven. Ettie,

1753
01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:19,720
thanks us, Thanks, He's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1754
01:26:22,960 --> 01:26:25,600
Matt and Ross with you here, final hour or live.

1755
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:27,000
We're gonna go the best of our stuff. In the

1756
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:29,119
one o'clock you'll hear from Joe was Spotty, you'll hear

1757
01:26:29,119 --> 01:26:31,840
from Jeremy Paniel, here from Spencer Arraghetty, and you'll hear

1758
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:33,720
from Hunter Brown all in the final hour of the show.

1759
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:36,279
Right now, we are joined live by the general manager

1760
01:26:36,319 --> 01:26:39,640
of York Houston Astros. It is Dana Brown. Dana, thank

1761
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:43,720
you for the time. I don't know how many other

1762
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:46,640
general managers get talked about in the other twenty nine cities,

1763
01:26:47,039 --> 01:26:49,039
but my man, you have carried a lot of conversation

1764
01:26:49,159 --> 01:26:51,000
for the Houston sports show known as Matt and Ross,

1765
01:26:51,119 --> 01:26:52,119
so we thank you for that.

1766
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:53,039
Speaker 4: I love it.

1767
01:26:53,279 --> 01:26:55,560
Speaker 15: I love it, guys. I'm excited to be here. Let's

1768
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:59,279
talk some baseball, all right. So I could bury it

1769
01:26:59,359 --> 01:27:00,840
towards the end, or I can put it right in

1770
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:02,920
the beginning. I'm gonna go right at the start because

1771
01:27:02,920 --> 01:27:06,000
there's other things I want to get to. Used to

1772
01:27:06,079 --> 01:27:08,880
hit that hard, so you're right. I've usually signed a

1773
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:11,760
soft play, but forget not this time around. I've got

1774
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:12,960
a segment of a population.

1775
01:27:13,239 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 1: Okay, Dana, you've got an extra great hitter who doesn't

1776
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:20,880
have a spot. Why would you get rid of them

1777
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,159
because the nature of the beast of a six month

1778
01:27:23,239 --> 01:27:28,079
baseball season says, somebody's gonna get hurt. Then I got

1779
01:27:28,159 --> 01:27:30,439
a segment population and says, how do you keep a

1780
01:27:30,479 --> 01:27:33,479
guy like that not in a position. So I don't

1781
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:35,399
know what's going through your mind. You've not let me

1782
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:37,760
look at your text message, your phone calls. You're probably

1783
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:42,920
not going to but state of the still crowded infield

1784
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:44,279
at this point as you see it today here in

1785
01:27:44,319 --> 01:27:44,880
spring training.

1786
01:27:45,359 --> 01:27:46,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is what I would say.

1787
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 15: It's always good to have depth, and it's always good

1788
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:53,239
to have power, you know, with that part part of

1789
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:55,159
part of that being depth, you know, part of that

1790
01:27:55,279 --> 01:27:56,359
being depth is your power.

1791
01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:57,600
Speaker 4: So look, we.

1792
01:27:59,239 --> 01:28:02,600
Speaker 15: We we know we have extra infielders. We think that

1793
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,800
it's gonna be very competitive. You know, if we get

1794
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,800
an opportunity, uh, you know, when we can make a move,

1795
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:12,000
we'll talk about it. But right now as it stands,

1796
01:28:13,119 --> 01:28:15,479
we welcome the depth. You never know when you're gonna

1797
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,720
hit up an injury. We think that we can get

1798
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:22,159
these guys a lot of playing time there are you know,

1799
01:28:22,239 --> 01:28:24,479
we got some older guys on our roster that we

1800
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:26,399
have to you know, kind of give a breather too,

1801
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:30,520
and I'm just not excited about trying to give away

1802
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:34,920
a really good hitter. And so, look, if there's something

1803
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:38,079
that's a match, you know, maybe we'll consider it. But

1804
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:41,279
other than that, we'll just roll with the depth.

1805
01:28:42,359 --> 01:28:45,279
Speaker 1: You have that you've got a lot of young outfielders.

1806
01:28:45,359 --> 01:28:47,920
I mean, I'm we played GM on the radio all

1807
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:49,439
the time. I would think that if there's a deal

1808
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:51,800
involving somebody in the outfit that could obviously be a

1809
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:53,720
guy you've always been talking about a left handed bat,

1810
01:28:54,279 --> 01:28:56,159
that may perk your interests up a little bit. But

1811
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:58,520
let's get to the outfield a little bit. Zach, call

1812
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,640
out great September ham in a great March. I've said

1813
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:03,199
this before, I've heard it from a lot of baseball

1814
01:29:03,239 --> 01:29:05,439
people that I trust. You don't trust March. You don't

1815
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,960
trust some temper a whole lot. So tell me about

1816
01:29:08,039 --> 01:29:11,199
what you think and what is expected of those corner outfitters,

1817
01:29:11,279 --> 01:29:14,840
in particular, knowing that you don't have a lot of

1818
01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:17,439
people behind them fighting for it. But maybe that's situation

1819
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:19,000
that could obviously change.

1820
01:29:19,279 --> 01:29:21,079
Speaker 15: So look, let's talk about the left hand bat first,

1821
01:29:21,079 --> 01:29:23,920
since you brought it up so it would be nice

1822
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,640
to get a left hand bat. We would be excited

1823
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:30,039
about right If we get that opportunity, I think we

1824
01:29:30,119 --> 01:29:33,239
would probably move on it because I've been talking about

1825
01:29:33,239 --> 01:29:35,199
a left hand bat for a long time forever. It's

1826
01:29:35,319 --> 01:29:37,760
just it's that hard to acquire a left hand bat.

1827
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:40,560
They're not growing on trees and no one's trying to

1828
01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:42,479
give up a good left hand bat. It's just very

1829
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:45,640
difficult to do and you probably have to give up

1830
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:47,359
something to get a left hand bat.

1831
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:50,880
Speaker 4: So is there a chance that we can get a

1832
01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:52,760
left hand bat. Sure, there's a chance.

1833
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:56,039
Speaker 15: That's why we're having conversations now as it relates to

1834
01:29:56,119 --> 01:29:59,920
the left the the young outfielders. I would say, look,

1835
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:01,760
we're gonna give them a good look in the spring

1836
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:03,720
and see what it looks like. We have some things

1837
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:07,039
in our thought process that we feel like those two

1838
01:30:07,079 --> 01:30:10,399
guys have to make adjustments Cole and Smith, and so

1839
01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:14,600
we're gonna give him a close watch and see who

1840
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:17,239
makes the adjustment from last year that we think that

1841
01:30:17,319 --> 01:30:21,720
they needed to make. And so if they make these adjustments,

1842
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:24,560
they could be part of the club. If not, you know, uh,

1843
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:26,920
it's not too bad to have a guy starting triple

1844
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:30,840
A and build his way back up. So both talented

1845
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:34,279
enough to certainly make this team, and I would be

1846
01:30:34,359 --> 01:30:37,000
excited if that happens. That means they're lighting the ball up,

1847
01:30:37,239 --> 01:30:40,640
So you know, we we welcome that, but you know,

1848
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:42,159
at the end of the day, we want to see

1849
01:30:42,239 --> 01:30:45,399
them make adjustments that you know that's fitting for the

1850
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:48,560
major league level, and you know that they're going to be,

1851
01:30:48,840 --> 01:30:50,880
you know, pretty good offensive contributors.

1852
01:30:52,119 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 3: And you mentioned both Smith and Cole, and of course

1853
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:56,920
as a general manager, you know things don't always go

1854
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:57,800
to according to plan.

1855
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:00,640
Speaker 1: But the plan would be for camp Smith to find

1856
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:02,560
what he did earlier in the season and continue, and

1857
01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:04,520
then the plan would be for Zach Hole into the

1858
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:07,520
season to keep that going. How do you just talk

1859
01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:10,199
about both of those guys, how do you get them

1860
01:31:10,239 --> 01:31:10,560
to do that?

1861
01:31:11,279 --> 01:31:14,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, we got two new hitting coaches.

1862
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:16,199
Speaker 15: We kind of got a new voice down in the

1863
01:31:16,239 --> 01:31:20,319
clubhouse one of the guys a veteran, and Rodriguez we

1864
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:22,680
really feel like he's gonna make a big impact with

1865
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:25,920
these young hitters. He's got a rollerdex of working with

1866
01:31:26,399 --> 01:31:29,319
a lot of good major league hitters, and so we

1867
01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:32,279
feel like he can make the necessary impact and we'll

1868
01:31:32,319 --> 01:31:35,079
really be leaning on him a lot for getting these

1869
01:31:35,159 --> 01:31:39,840
guys over the hump. They both have teachable spirits, they're

1870
01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:42,800
both really good athletes, and they both want.

1871
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 4: To get better. So we think it's a perfect match.

1872
01:31:46,199 --> 01:31:48,199
Speaker 15: Now we got to see them execute it, and so

1873
01:31:49,159 --> 01:31:53,039
there's a good chance we see, you know, exciting young

1874
01:31:53,119 --> 01:31:57,520
players this spring that both could make the team, and

1875
01:31:57,800 --> 01:31:59,439
we'll be all thrilled if that happens.

1876
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:02,520
Speaker 1: Even Georgia surplus in the infield right now as we speak.

1877
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:04,840
I think you're we were teasing this Jill a couple

1878
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:07,199
of days ago. Uh, if people want to go see

1879
01:32:07,319 --> 01:32:09,279
some future major league arms, you don't hear the commercials

1880
01:32:09,319 --> 01:32:11,199
about that. With the Space Cowboys, you're going to have

1881
01:32:12,199 --> 01:32:15,520
at least three or four that you would probably make

1882
01:32:16,199 --> 01:32:18,079
ninety percent of major league rosters, not front end, but

1883
01:32:18,199 --> 01:32:20,600
certainly back in. You've got ten guys here at least

1884
01:32:21,079 --> 01:32:23,960
that I could see being a starter for the Houston

1885
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:25,239
Astros in twenty twenty six.

1886
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:25,720
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1887
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:28,399
Speaker 15: Pitching, pitching, Pitching is what Jim Crane and I talked

1888
01:32:28,399 --> 01:32:31,000
about a lot this offseason, and you know, we wanted

1889
01:32:31,039 --> 01:32:33,039
to stock up right and we wanted to be able

1890
01:32:33,079 --> 01:32:35,359
to get through you know, this one hundred and sixty

1891
01:32:35,399 --> 01:32:37,760
two win a lot of ball games, get back dead

1892
01:32:37,840 --> 01:32:40,239
to the postseason, and so that's why we did what

1893
01:32:40,359 --> 01:32:42,600
we did. You know, we added four starters and two

1894
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:46,119
relievers and so uh and we're fired up about all

1895
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:48,680
all six of them. And so all all of these

1896
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:51,640
guys throw pretty hard, they have really good stuff, they

1897
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:54,920
have some deception, and so you know, when it comes

1898
01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:57,199
to the starting pitching, we feel like it's on right

1899
01:32:57,359 --> 01:32:59,520
and so uh and that's going to be led by

1900
01:32:59,520 --> 01:32:59,920
a hundred.

1901
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 4: You know, got him at the top.

1902
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:04,239
Speaker 15: You know, you got Hobby here coming back with some

1903
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:06,640
experience and we're looking for him to take that jump.

1904
01:33:07,199 --> 01:33:09,920
And then you know, we got some guys that we

1905
01:33:10,039 --> 01:33:12,000
added that we feel really good about.

1906
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:17,600
Speaker 1: EMI. When did that conversation come into play? Obviously, you'

1907
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,479
the dr has been something that's been important for this

1908
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:21,840
organization for the long period of time. We've been fans

1909
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:23,680
of this we were kids. There hasn't been a pacific

1910
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,399
rim connection to this. So when it was first brought up,

1911
01:33:27,039 --> 01:33:29,079
what did you think? And then how did you then

1912
01:33:29,239 --> 01:33:33,159
implement scouting getting people involved in your department to say,

1913
01:33:33,239 --> 01:33:35,039
is this really a guy worth putting some money in

1914
01:33:35,119 --> 01:33:35,680
his piggy bank.

1915
01:33:36,039 --> 01:33:36,239
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1916
01:33:36,359 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 15: So the big thing is, you know, Jim Crane had

1917
01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:42,359
the vision of you know, getting more active in the

1918
01:33:42,399 --> 01:33:46,640
Pacific Pacific RIM. You know, we partnered with you know, Dyking, right,

1919
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:49,680
and so we were thrilled about getting over there.

1920
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 1: You know.

1921
01:33:50,159 --> 01:33:53,960
Speaker 15: We sent you know, our special assignment scout to John Watson,

1922
01:33:54,079 --> 01:33:57,560
We sent over Charles Cook, who's assistant GM. You know,

1923
01:33:57,640 --> 01:33:59,439
we've had a few of our area guys over there

1924
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:03,159
see EMI. And so you know, when reports came back

1925
01:34:03,199 --> 01:34:04,960
that this guy is pretty good, we looked at the

1926
01:34:05,039 --> 01:34:07,760
data and the information, you know, you guys saw how

1927
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:11,920
the makeup is. He's a competitor and you know, so

1928
01:34:12,039 --> 01:34:14,079
he checked off all three of those boxes, you know,

1929
01:34:14,239 --> 01:34:17,920
makeup data and you know, scouting eye, and so you know,

1930
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,039
we were thrilled to jump in there. We started talking

1931
01:34:21,079 --> 01:34:23,600
to bors, you know, early in the off season, and

1932
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:26,199
then things heated up, you know, right there at the

1933
01:34:26,239 --> 01:34:28,600
deadline when we when we got it done, like on

1934
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:32,239
New Year's Day. So we're fired up about him. He's

1935
01:34:32,279 --> 01:34:35,520
fired up about being here, and so we're looking for

1936
01:34:35,680 --> 01:34:36,640
some big things out of him.

1937
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:40,159
Speaker 1: Astros manager Dana A. General manager Dana Brown with us

1938
01:34:40,199 --> 01:34:42,920
here on a Sports Talk seven ninety speaking of the pitching, pitching,

1939
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:45,680
more pitching, What was it like for you going through

1940
01:34:46,159 --> 01:34:50,279
the team building of knowing all the injuries last year,

1941
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:53,479
hoping that that's an aberration and not necessarily the new normal,

1942
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:57,319
but not wanting to overreact, but also being prepared for

1943
01:34:57,560 --> 01:35:00,439
the possibility of more rastion of pitching injuries.

1944
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1945
01:35:01,079 --> 01:35:04,840
Speaker 15: Look, the pitching injuries last year were excruciating. I mean

1946
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:07,640
it was really really tough to watch. The injuries in

1947
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:12,439
general were excruciating, excruciating, and so you know, we wanted

1948
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:16,520
to be more prepared with depth, and so you know

1949
01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:18,560
when we look at this and we you know, we

1950
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:21,000
felt one game short, and we know that we had

1951
01:35:21,159 --> 01:35:23,039
a ton of injuries. You guys have heard me say

1952
01:35:23,159 --> 01:35:25,279
multiple times that at one point we had our one

1953
01:35:25,399 --> 01:35:29,399
two and three hitter out. No other team experienced that

1954
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:32,159
in the course of the season last year, and then

1955
01:35:32,239 --> 01:35:34,920
you experienced that along with some starters getting hurt, and

1956
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:37,640
you come up one game short. So you know, it's

1957
01:35:37,680 --> 01:35:40,000
not an excuse, it's just the reality that, you know,

1958
01:35:40,159 --> 01:35:44,359
the injuries pretty much cost us the postseason, and so

1959
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:47,119
we wanted to make sure that look let's stock up

1960
01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:50,520
and you know, let's be prepared that if anything goes down,

1961
01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:53,800
we have the coverage right and so, uh, you know,

1962
01:35:53,920 --> 01:35:54,600
that's where we are.

1963
01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:57,239
Speaker 4: We're locked in. The pitching is a big part of it.

1964
01:35:57,399 --> 01:35:59,680
Speaker 15: If you pitch, you were in every game and then

1965
01:36:00,079 --> 01:36:02,840
it's a matter of you know, getting a big hit here,

1966
01:36:02,960 --> 01:36:05,039
a big hit there, and make a nice.

1967
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:08,600
Speaker 4: Play on defense and and you're you're you're victorious.

1968
01:36:08,680 --> 01:36:11,600
Speaker 15: So you know, that's kind of like what our thought

1969
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:14,560
process was, and we wanted to we wanted to stock

1970
01:36:14,680 --> 01:36:15,640
up for.

1971
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:18,359
Speaker 1: Let your run. You mentioned Scott Boris. Have you invited

1972
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:20,479
him down for dinner this spring training at this point?

1973
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:22,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe Scott old me a nice bottle of wine.

1974
01:36:23,079 --> 01:36:25,079
You know, I'll tell him that too.

1975
01:36:25,720 --> 01:36:29,239
Speaker 15: Uh. Now we've we've had we had dinner when we

1976
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:35,000
did the my signing at Jim's place at Potente. Very

1977
01:36:35,039 --> 01:36:37,279
good dinner, very good wine. And you know, so we

1978
01:36:37,399 --> 01:36:39,680
got a chance to fellowship a little bit and talk about,

1979
01:36:40,119 --> 01:36:41,920
you know, even some future things that we may be

1980
01:36:42,039 --> 01:36:45,760
doing with Boris. But you know, ultimately, you know, we

1981
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:47,720
got a bunch of guys that are going to be

1982
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:50,560
a big part of the winning season this year. We're excited,

1983
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:53,159
we're fired up. Boris happens to have a few of

1984
01:36:53,239 --> 01:36:57,359
our candidates. So uh so we're we're we're locked in

1985
01:36:57,439 --> 01:36:59,359
and we're fired up. The guys are fired up. The

1986
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:04,359
the in around the spring, around the cages, and you know,

1987
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:08,159
just having conversations is it's off the hook right now.

1988
01:37:08,319 --> 01:37:10,520
So we hope these guys keep that type of energy.

1989
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:14,159
They're locked in and we're ready to go the.

1990
01:37:14,239 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: Crystal ball for Dana Brown need two years when we've

1991
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:19,960
got a new labor agreement, whatever that may be. I

1992
01:37:20,039 --> 01:37:24,840
said two hopefully it's one. Hopefully maybe two. Who's is

1993
01:37:24,880 --> 01:37:25,279
it gonna have?

1994
01:37:25,359 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 3: You have to redefine how your budgets look. Are you

1995
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:30,720
going to redefine how contracts look?

1996
01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:33,680
Speaker 1: Well? Will it be as big of adjustments for the

1997
01:37:34,359 --> 01:37:35,720
teams or for the players?

1998
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:37,039
Speaker 4: Do you think at the end of the day, Yeah,

1999
01:37:37,079 --> 01:37:39,520
I have no idea. It's you know, we talk about

2000
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:40,800
it and it's tough to speculate.

2001
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:43,199
Speaker 15: We have no idea. We'll cross that bridge when we

2002
01:37:43,319 --> 01:37:46,319
get there. The one thing that I'm quite sure about is,

2003
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:51,119
you know, Jim Crane is definitely dedicated to putting winning

2004
01:37:51,199 --> 01:37:53,760
product on the field. We're going to be involved in

2005
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:57,399
whatever it takes to get players signed, and so we're

2006
01:37:57,560 --> 01:38:00,319
you know, we're hoping for the best, and you know

2007
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:03,159
we're locked in about that as well. So, uh, but

2008
01:38:03,319 --> 01:38:06,119
we have no earthly idea how this is going to

2009
01:38:06,159 --> 01:38:06,520
play out.

2010
01:38:07,039 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 1: It's like it's almost even to take a new math

2011
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:10,600
class or something like that, because there could be Saturday camps,

2012
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:12,399
there could be all sorts of things there. Dana, thank

2013
01:38:12,439 --> 01:38:14,399
you for the time. We really appreciate it. We'll see

2014
01:38:14,399 --> 01:38:15,680
you back in Houston. Wish you know they've been the

2015
01:38:15,760 --> 01:38:18,000
very best this entire season and look forward to hearing

2016
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:19,560
from you often on this radio station.

2017
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:22,760
Speaker 4: Thanks absolutely, Thanks Matt, Thanks Ross that associate you guys.

2018
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:25,319
Speaker 1: Dana Brown joining us here from West Palm Beach. Matt

2019
01:38:25,319 --> 01:38:28,479
and Ross continue here from our coverage of Astros spring

2020
01:38:28,520 --> 01:38:32,960
training In the moment on Sports Talk seven ninety We

2021
01:38:33,159 --> 01:38:37,079
get the news and nude Rossie at twelve twenty four,

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Why sports Harpy? Yes, Matthew, there's a lot of really big,

2043
01:39:36,039 --> 01:39:40,319
heavy hitting news going on in Okay. Fine, if you

2044
01:39:40,399 --> 01:39:45,920
want to Tony Clark, it's it's headline a headline. You

2045
01:39:46,199 --> 01:39:50,720
just love drama, man, I do love drama. Fine. Tony Clark, Yes,

2046
01:39:51,640 --> 01:39:55,319
was dismissed or sorry resigned yesterday as he directed he

2047
01:39:55,399 --> 01:39:59,359
was dismissed all right by some Major League Baseball Players Association.

2048
01:40:00,119 --> 01:40:02,039
The first thing we heard about was there was an

2049
01:40:02,079 --> 01:40:08,119
Eastern District of New York investigation about possibly, or I'm sorry,

2050
01:40:08,159 --> 01:40:11,640
an inquiry into what is going on with a couple

2051
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:16,640
of corporations that are partnered with the players Association. And then, yes, Matthew.

2052
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:22,159
The latest would be Tony Clark and a relationship with

2053
01:40:22,399 --> 01:40:27,600
his sister in law. Apparently while they were romancing each other,

2054
01:40:27,640 --> 01:40:30,000
they were the song we are Families in the background.

2055
01:40:30,119 --> 01:40:33,520
Speaker 3: That's mat Come on, they're not listening to Sister Sledge

2056
01:40:33,520 --> 01:40:38,199
at the time. Okay, no, you're right, I got all

2057
01:40:38,279 --> 01:40:39,079
my sisters with me.

2058
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:47,479
Speaker 1: Put another song sisters doing it for them? So they

2059
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:49,279
are a song like that too. I think there is

2060
01:40:49,479 --> 01:40:53,359
a family matters theme either. Oh that's true. There's a

2061
01:40:53,439 --> 01:40:56,079
song about sisters. I swear to god there is. We

2062
01:40:56,119 --> 01:41:03,359
wouldn't play. Clark resigned after the internal investigation revealed an

2063
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:07,159
inappropriate relationship with his sister in law, who was also,

2064
01:41:07,239 --> 01:41:09,640
by the way, hired by the union in at twenty

2065
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:13,840
twenty three. So we've got some kind of nepotism yep,

2066
01:41:14,039 --> 01:41:16,560
and some kind of well, I guess it's not incests

2067
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:21,279
because they're not related, but no in law cested, no,

2068
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:27,279
and an investigation by the district attorneys in the Eastern District,

2069
01:41:27,319 --> 01:41:29,960
New York. So things going really well for Tony Clark

2070
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:34,239
right now. Yeah, he's yeah, he's they're checking his finances

2071
01:41:34,279 --> 01:41:39,079
and they're checking his hotel stays. Yes, all right, Matt.

2072
01:41:39,159 --> 01:41:41,840
This actually relates to something we were talking about earlier today,

2073
01:41:43,039 --> 01:41:48,199
Canada's Sidney Crosby leaving the Olympic quarterfinal with an injury.

2074
01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:52,159
Of course, not playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins, he got

2075
01:41:52,319 --> 01:41:58,560
hurt with Canada as he suffered a second period lower

2076
01:41:58,640 --> 01:42:01,319
body injury and was ruled out in the game against Chechia.

2077
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:04,079
Canada did advance in the semifinals with a four to

2078
01:42:04,199 --> 01:42:07,760
three victory in overtime, but Crosby's right leg appeared to

2079
01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,479
buckle when he was bracing for contact on a big

2080
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:16,000
hit from Chechia defenseman Rodko Gudas minutes into the second

2081
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:22,520
The Olympics are a little bit of a god. I

2082
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:24,479
don't want to sign hip for critical or two side

2083
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:24,720
on this.

2084
01:42:26,079 --> 01:42:26,359
Speaker 4: I don't know.

2085
01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:28,439
Speaker 1: The Olympics have been around for hundreds of years. The

2086
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:33,279
World Baseball Classics fifteen years. I think I can. But

2087
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:35,800
also too, the Olympics are in the middle of the season,

2088
01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:38,880
when the athletes have already been fine tuned and doing

2089
01:42:39,199 --> 01:42:41,319
They've already playing a handful of lots of games. So

2090
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:45,800
you're asking WBC players to amp it up when they

2091
01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:48,039
have been in camp about two weeks. I think there's

2092
01:42:48,079 --> 01:42:50,960
a difference. Okay. Plus, the heritage and the Olympics and

2093
01:42:51,039 --> 01:42:54,279
the legacy of the Olympics is significantly stronger than the WBC.

2094
01:42:54,720 --> 01:42:56,439
By the way, did you know do you know how

2095
01:42:56,520 --> 01:42:59,359
old Sid the kid is? Thirty seven? Thirty eight? That

2096
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:01,920
was pretty close. I remember when he was a young feno.

2097
01:43:02,159 --> 01:43:09,239
What happened? He still plays the Penguins, yes, okay, uh yeah,

2098
01:43:09,439 --> 01:43:12,920
Sentner and captain the Pittsburgh Penguins. Okay, he is not

2099
01:43:13,159 --> 01:43:16,399
the Sidy kid anymore? No, all right. Elsewhere in the

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news at noon, Matt, the Kansas City Chiefs have reworked

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01:43:19,800 --> 01:43:24,640
Pat Mahomes's deal to create cap space, converted fifty four

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01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:26,760
point four to five million of his salary for the

2103
01:43:26,840 --> 01:43:30,600
next year into signing bonus and lowering his cap number

2104
01:43:31,159 --> 01:43:36,479
to thirty four point six five million dollars. As this

2105
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:40,319
move will create forty three point sixty five million dollars

2106
01:43:40,399 --> 01:43:45,199
in cap space for the Kansas City Chiefs fifty seven

2107
01:43:45,279 --> 01:43:50,199
million over the cap were the Chiefs heading to the offseason,

2108
01:43:50,279 --> 01:43:53,520
so some cap relief and Pat Mahomes converting some big

2109
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:56,520
money into a signing bonus as he has been reworked.

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01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:00,359
What does this mean for Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift?

2111
01:44:00,479 --> 01:44:05,239
We don't know yet. Yeah, I was thinking that Travis

2112
01:44:05,279 --> 01:44:07,479
would leave the field with down on one legg But

2113
01:44:08,159 --> 01:44:10,039
he's got things to worry about in his life. He's

2114
01:44:10,079 --> 01:44:12,239
got a marriage to get to, a big wedding to plan.

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01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:15,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, not far from corner under on five years of

2116
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:24,039
that marriage? Five years five, I'll go the over seven

2117
01:44:24,079 --> 01:44:24,600
and a half.

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01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:33,319
Speaker 1: Oh seven under. I think you're right, all right, mate.

2119
01:44:33,399 --> 01:44:36,079
Mike Evans plans to return for a final eighteenth. How

2120
01:44:36,199 --> 01:44:40,199
intensive it two radio jamokes like you and me? Hey,

2121
01:44:40,239 --> 01:44:43,239
I know, jimoke, Okay, going on a radio show and

2122
01:44:43,359 --> 01:44:45,920
guessing how long someone's gonna stay married? Hey, I did

2123
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:49,279
that for a radio jamokes. We know how'd that go

2124
01:44:49,479 --> 01:44:52,760
turn out? They hit the over. I've been very transparent

2125
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:57,920
about that for them. What else you got, Mike Evans

2126
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:00,560
is going to be returning for a thirteenth NF season,

2127
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:03,680
but his destination has yet to be determined.

2128
01:45:03,800 --> 01:45:08,279
Speaker 16: Well, he's Texans cusiness guessing you won't do Galveston ball

2129
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:13,439
Zone Mike Evans and the Texas A and m Aggie

2130
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:15,159
Mike Evans.

2131
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:19,239
Speaker 1: Could he be Matt a Houston Texan one year deal?

2132
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:21,760
Go bring him here, that's fine, I don't care. I

2133
01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:25,319
just hate it when everybody gets released. How does he

2134
01:45:25,359 --> 01:45:29,239
fit the Texas plans? You know what I mean. If

2135
01:45:29,279 --> 01:45:31,880
there's a team that would take a one or two

2136
01:45:31,960 --> 01:45:33,600
year fix on a guy, I'd be the Texans. That's

2137
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:36,600
how nickked Sarah does his contracts. But we're gonna stop

2138
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:40,840
doing that. So I mean, will he listen? Of course?

2139
01:45:41,319 --> 01:45:43,560
But do I expect the Mike Evans it was a

2140
01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:45,640
star for the Buccaneers to come do the same things

2141
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:47,840
he did in Houston. Not likely, Just like Christian Kirk

2142
01:45:47,960 --> 01:45:50,199
was just a body for the most part coming out

2143
01:45:50,199 --> 01:45:52,560
of playing his days in Jacksonville. All right, Well, you

2144
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:57,039
want some lighthearted and happy NFL news, Robert Woods signing

2145
01:45:57,119 --> 01:46:01,039
a one year excuse me, one day contract act to

2146
01:46:02,199 --> 01:46:07,640
retire as a Los Angeles Ram. Yes, he didn't want

2147
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:09,960
to do it in Houston. He didn't play anywhere last year,

2148
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:14,000
by the way, in an NFL game. Now signing a

2149
01:46:14,119 --> 01:46:17,439
one year contract, two years in Houston, and it was

2150
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:22,319
five years in Los Angeles, four years with the Buffalo Bills.

2151
01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:27,079
But a ram for life now Robert Woods Texans legend.

2152
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:30,840
But it is a strong term. He had six hundred

2153
01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:33,520
and twenty nine yards in two seasons. My point exactly,

2154
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:36,720
and that is the news at noon. Anything you want

2155
01:46:36,760 --> 01:46:38,359
to take away from what Dana Brown had to say,

2156
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:41,680
I have won. Oh, I'm curious to hear it. It's

2157
01:46:41,760 --> 01:46:44,199
not super big when we come back, but it just

2158
01:46:44,319 --> 01:46:48,319
further pushes my agenda that I think that is the

2159
01:46:48,399 --> 01:46:50,800
theme of this year's camp interesting, even though they're not

2160
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:55,079
going to obviously say a public like second one, three, two, seven,

2161
01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:57,760
Ross with You, final hour of the show will be

2162
01:46:57,840 --> 01:47:02,960
featuring our best stuff. Joe was awesome. I'm rooting for

2163
01:47:03,079 --> 01:47:05,520
Joe Hart. I want him to be around. I like him.

2164
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,039
I think the players like him. Yes, the results are

2165
01:47:08,079 --> 01:47:09,119
in a business of course.

2166
01:47:09,800 --> 01:47:09,920
Speaker 2: Uh.

2167
01:47:10,319 --> 01:47:15,600
Speaker 1: He needs a clean slate with healthy players. Technic health

2168
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:17,680
will be a lot of the reason why this team

2169
01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:19,680
will be successful this year, as in the case of

2170
01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:22,199
the most baseball. I think love will keep the Astros together. Matt,

2171
01:47:22,239 --> 01:47:25,159
all right, you'll also hear in the hour from Hunter

2172
01:47:25,239 --> 01:47:27,800
Brown the staff ace the opening day started. We'll talk

2173
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:30,600
with him. Let's go. We had Jeremys hear and you

2174
01:47:30,680 --> 01:47:33,359
say that Astros a Hunter Brown. It's good with Jeremy.

2175
01:47:33,399 --> 01:47:35,479
Panel will be a conversation I had this morning with him,

2176
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:38,720
So we'll play that for you. And then Spencer Arraghetty,

2177
01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:41,560
we can get him in that rotation every fifth day.

2178
01:47:42,239 --> 01:47:44,439
He's a good talker too. It was a good conversation,

2179
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:46,760
so we didn't get feeling. But I'm I'm gonna lock

2180
01:47:46,840 --> 01:47:50,039
it in. Spencer Araghedty's in the rotation, and I don't

2181
01:47:50,039 --> 01:47:52,039
want to predict in our era or anything like that,

2182
01:47:52,199 --> 01:47:55,159
but barring injury, he's in the rotation six man or

2183
01:47:55,199 --> 01:47:57,399
otherwise for the for the year. All right, what's up?

2184
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:01,399
So I scared back to the conversation. We went right

2185
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:04,239
to Dana right for the or the not the jugular.

2186
01:48:04,319 --> 01:48:10,000
But this the theme of too many infielders. The phone

2187
01:48:10,079 --> 01:48:15,880
is going to be turned on the phone. He's not

2188
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:19,720
gonna get ridiculous request, He's gonna get Hey, we see

2189
01:48:19,800 --> 01:48:25,439
value uh in paritis, But what do you want? And

2190
01:48:25,600 --> 01:48:27,600
I think that's that's the tug of war that you're

2191
01:48:27,640 --> 01:48:31,359
currently going through right now. It's no secret the Astros

2192
01:48:31,359 --> 01:48:33,640
would like to make a move. It's no secret the

2193
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:40,560
Astros have, at least on paper, a very undetermined, unsettled outfield.

2194
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:41,960
I will say this, if there's a I think it's

2195
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:44,760
something I came away from. It feels like to me, again,

2196
01:48:45,199 --> 01:48:49,520
Cam and Cole and Zach don't have guaranteed spots. That's

2197
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:52,920
been crazy. No, he even Dana said making the team,

2198
01:48:53,439 --> 01:48:55,840
so that would make a lot of sense. You in

2199
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:57,880
what you just said is what kind of takes away

2200
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,279
some of the leverage from Dana Brown, and he's trying

2201
01:49:00,279 --> 01:49:03,079
to win that back by making people wait, yeh, the

2202
01:49:03,159 --> 01:49:05,680
leverages goes away when you when you when teams think

2203
01:49:05,720 --> 01:49:08,479
you're desperate to make a move and think you're desperate

2204
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:11,199
to to to figure out something with this infield long jam,

2205
01:49:11,359 --> 01:49:13,039
they're gonna try to pray on that. And that's that's

2206
01:49:13,119 --> 01:49:14,800
fine for them to do that. And I think it's

2207
01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:16,479
a good idea for Dana Brown to wait for a

2208
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:19,119
possible right offer if it is going That's why it

2209
01:49:19,239 --> 01:49:21,479
was silly, frankly for me to say, oh, by the

2210
01:49:21,640 --> 01:49:23,560
time the team breaks camp, but by the time the

2211
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:27,119
team gets this opening day workouts, he's got to make

2212
01:49:27,239 --> 01:49:31,199
the move that goes I think without saying. But he

2213
01:49:31,359 --> 01:49:33,600
doesn't have to make the move just to make the

2214
01:49:33,680 --> 01:49:40,880
move at a certain particular time. Yeah. Uh, it's it's

2215
01:49:40,960 --> 01:49:43,199
interesting to see how we've been talking about it for

2216
01:49:43,319 --> 01:49:46,439
months and months and months and it just keeps on

2217
01:49:47,039 --> 01:49:49,800
becoming a storyline that Dana doesn't want to you know,

2218
01:49:49,880 --> 01:49:51,640
we have Christian Walker on he doesn't want to be

2219
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:53,520
talking about Nobody wants to be everybody wants us to

2220
01:49:53,560 --> 01:49:55,199
be resolved, and it just keeps right. And the reason

2221
01:49:55,279 --> 01:49:59,560
for it is, you got to remember they these are

2222
01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:02,600
professational athletes we mentioned this a few days ago, that

2223
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:04,640
have been playing ball since they were seven years old,

2224
01:50:04,720 --> 01:50:08,039
six years old. They have been at the best of

2225
01:50:08,159 --> 01:50:10,960
their position or in their sport for a long period

2226
01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:12,600
of time. They have made it to the major leagues.

2227
01:50:12,600 --> 01:50:14,880
They have been highly compensated. And when you get to

2228
01:50:14,880 --> 01:50:16,359
the big leagues and you make a lot of money

2229
01:50:16,359 --> 01:50:17,800
and you want to continue to make a lot of money.

2230
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:19,319
The only way you make a lot of money and

2231
01:50:19,399 --> 01:50:21,319
do successful things. Is you actually have to be in

2232
01:50:21,359 --> 01:50:24,000
the lineup card. Yes, and if you're having to take

2233
01:50:24,039 --> 01:50:26,359
an extra day off a week because you've got one

2234
01:50:26,399 --> 01:50:29,640
too many arms or one too many bats, then it

2235
01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:31,760
becomes a little bit of a tricky situations. That's why

2236
01:50:32,319 --> 01:50:34,960
I mean Lance mcculor is moving into the baseball side.

2237
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:36,800
Lance didn't want to go to the bullpen. He knows

2238
01:50:37,239 --> 01:50:40,079
that his future if you will to stay in baseball

2239
01:50:40,159 --> 01:50:43,600
beyond the end of this contract, is I can be

2240
01:50:43,640 --> 01:50:46,119
a journeyman middal reliever making three four million dollars a year.

2241
01:50:46,119 --> 01:50:47,039
Speaker 4: I want to be a starting pitcher.

2242
01:50:47,039 --> 01:50:48,159
Speaker 1: I want to be a double digit guy.

2243
01:50:48,279 --> 01:50:48,479
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2244
01:50:49,640 --> 01:50:52,760
Speaker 1: They have their egos in sports, and you could never

2245
01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:57,359
forget about that team is very important. But right behind

2246
01:50:57,439 --> 01:50:59,840
it is eye. It's built in though. I mean it's

2247
01:51:00,760 --> 01:51:03,800
we talk about certain people who rise to the level

2248
01:51:03,920 --> 01:51:07,479
of uh, you know, politicians or what you're talking about,

2249
01:51:07,479 --> 01:51:09,720
Tony Clark, Like, you have to have a certain something

2250
01:51:10,119 --> 01:51:13,039
and to be an athlete that is of the millions

2251
01:51:13,079 --> 01:51:16,000
of baseball players in this country and in this world,

2252
01:51:16,399 --> 01:51:18,399
to be the elite of the elite of the elite, Yeah,

2253
01:51:18,439 --> 01:51:21,359
you absolutely have to have this great belief in yourself

2254
01:51:21,439 --> 01:51:24,840
these great abilities and all these different things that come

2255
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:28,159
with that, and be like us, Matt, you're gonna there's

2256
01:51:28,199 --> 01:51:30,039
three of you that host has showing them in a day.

2257
01:51:30,319 --> 01:51:32,199
We're gonna give one even extra day off a week. Oh,

2258
01:51:32,279 --> 01:51:33,720
if you want to be on radio, you gotta have

2259
01:51:33,760 --> 01:51:36,560
an ego. I mean yeah, I mean I look, I've

2260
01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:39,800
given you a good ego. You you were just like,

2261
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:41,560
I'm happy to be here. Now you can't act that well.

2262
01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:46,960
You gotta like you the boss. Uh yeah, I got

2263
01:51:47,039 --> 01:51:48,439
a bit of an ego. We all do.

2264
01:51:48,640 --> 01:51:49,159
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

2265
01:51:49,239 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: If you don't have an ego, you and surviving anything.

2266
01:51:51,479 --> 01:51:53,079
And that's the thing that sales. You don't want to

2267
01:51:53,319 --> 01:51:56,479
share accounts. You want them to be your accounts. That's yes,

2268
01:51:57,119 --> 01:52:02,199
it's doggy dog world. It's just stockpiling and putting an

2269
01:52:02,199 --> 01:52:06,079
awesome player and lay away. I mean it sounds awesome.

2270
01:52:07,399 --> 01:52:11,840
But if the astros had six starting pictures that were

2271
01:52:11,880 --> 01:52:17,000
all legit starting pictures that had no issues about why

2272
01:52:17,079 --> 01:52:19,079
they should be a starter, you did the same exact

2273
01:52:19,119 --> 01:52:21,720
thing going on here. Because somebody would be pushing the bullepen.

2274
01:52:22,119 --> 01:52:23,760
I guess they would do it, but they wouldn't want

2275
01:52:23,760 --> 01:52:26,079
to do it. I guess at this point pretty a

2276
01:52:26,119 --> 01:52:27,960
big guy that would not want to be a rotation,

2277
01:52:28,239 --> 01:52:31,520
a utility guy or moving around. If Christian Walker struggles

2278
01:52:31,520 --> 01:52:32,920
in that month of March, he doesn't want to be

2279
01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:35,600
that guy. Nobody everybody wants their positions when they jump

2280
01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:37,119
on a plane and go to camp. They want to

2281
01:52:37,359 --> 01:52:40,760
know exactly what they are, and then you deal with

2282
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,079
the surplus. The question is how long is it gonna

2283
01:52:43,079 --> 01:52:47,319
before I start rolling or guys going I don't like

2284
01:52:47,439 --> 01:52:50,439
this joke could easily get irritated by this as well,

2285
01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:52,359
because he's gonna have to consistently be a therapist for

2286
01:52:52,399 --> 01:52:56,960
these guys. I think, especially Christian Walker could get into

2287
01:52:56,960 --> 01:52:58,439
the crosshairs cause you talk about, you know, as soon

2288
01:52:58,479 --> 01:53:00,399
as somebody's in if they if they make it trade

2289
01:53:00,880 --> 01:53:02,880
as soon as somebody's injured, Why did you guys do this?

2290
01:53:03,279 --> 01:53:06,279
If they don't make a trade. What if Christian Walker

2291
01:53:06,439 --> 01:53:08,079
wants to start the season grade it was a slow

2292
01:53:08,159 --> 01:53:10,000
start last year. He doesn't have the oblique thing, so

2293
01:53:10,079 --> 01:53:12,319
I'm hoping he hits the ground running. But what if

2294
01:53:12,359 --> 01:53:15,840
he starts off like two for sixteen something, Why is

2295
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,600
Christian Walker out there? It's just there's a number of

2296
01:53:18,680 --> 01:53:21,560
ways this can go haywire, and it'll be interesting to

2297
01:53:21,640 --> 01:53:24,039
see what we're even talking about come up in the

2298
01:53:24,119 --> 01:53:27,399
day opening day to where we're having a completely different

2299
01:53:27,399 --> 01:53:30,479
conversation about the infield and possibly completely different conversation about

2300
01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:32,640
the outfield as well. Yep, all right, if you want

2301
01:53:32,640 --> 01:53:34,680
to join us seven one three two one two five

2302
01:53:34,800 --> 01:53:37,399
seven nine zero seven one three two one two five

2303
01:53:37,520 --> 01:53:39,159
seven hoey, We'll get back to more of our normal

2304
01:53:39,199 --> 01:53:42,119
shows starting tomorrow. I'll be in Charlotte with the Rockets,

2305
01:53:42,159 --> 01:53:45,439
Rossy back in Houston, uh and so we will also

2306
01:53:45,520 --> 01:53:47,720
we will do our shut your bomb ass up tomorrow.

2307
01:53:47,960 --> 01:53:50,199
Don't all exact time on that because we're worring to

2308
01:53:50,399 --> 01:53:53,079
book a couple of things. But you're coming off to

2309
01:53:53,119 --> 01:54:00,159
the Palm Beach Airport lady. I don't blame her if

2310
01:54:00,520 --> 01:54:03,439
if it's a show on Monday. We found the crankiest

2311
01:54:03,479 --> 01:54:07,039
person alive and that's West Palm Beach Airport police girl.

2312
01:54:08,720 --> 01:54:11,560
She pick up traffic. She and she wanted to zero

2313
01:54:11,680 --> 01:54:13,560
part of you sitting there waiting for your loved ones.

2314
01:54:14,039 --> 01:54:16,199
Well I got one for you. It was a really

2315
01:54:16,279 --> 01:54:18,960
quick on. Anybody got time for that? Will you go

2316
01:54:19,159 --> 01:54:23,239
pick up somebody at the airport. Save the hugs for

2317
01:54:23,680 --> 01:54:27,560
when you get out of the airport, when you get home. Oh,

2318
01:54:28,720 --> 01:54:30,560
I'm sorry. You have to be disciplined to do that.

2319
01:54:32,159 --> 01:54:34,520
I'm gonna tell you that I don't normally do that.

2320
01:54:36,119 --> 01:54:36,720
Speaker 4: But that's good.

2321
01:54:37,920 --> 01:54:40,520
Speaker 1: No, I'm saying I normally hug. Oh no oh no

2322
01:54:40,680 --> 01:54:42,479
no no no no, no, no, no no no. That

2323
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:43,960
police woman would have had you.

2324
01:54:44,199 --> 01:54:47,560
Speaker 3: Now, it's not like you're making out if you're if

2325
01:54:47,600 --> 01:54:51,000
you're a grandfather, yes, you're picking up your daughter, okay,

2326
01:54:51,239 --> 01:54:53,720
and they're three kids, yes, and your son in law.

2327
01:54:53,920 --> 01:54:56,359
Speaker 1: Huh, that's five hugs. Okay. Now, I'm not saying that

2328
01:54:57,239 --> 01:55:00,479
so hard. So you're saying I'm gonna hug, I'm talking

2329
01:55:00,520 --> 01:55:02,319
about what I'm not talking about what I do. I'm

2330
01:55:02,359 --> 01:55:05,199
not a grandfather at four kids. But there are grandfathers

2331
01:55:05,239 --> 01:55:07,279
here and them single and I don't have children. There

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01:55:07,279 --> 01:55:09,680
are grandfather picked up by one person, and I hugged them.

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The rule is you can kiss and hug one person,

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01:55:11,439 --> 01:55:13,640
but it's gotta be quick if it's time. Okay, don't

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01:55:13,680 --> 01:55:17,039
stick your tongue down her throat. Well, a little church tongue.

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01:55:19,560 --> 01:55:21,640
I think I'm right about this. You could be right.

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01:55:21,680 --> 01:55:23,319
I'm just telling you what I'm gonna do. I'm just

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01:55:23,359 --> 01:55:26,000
saying a family of five, either you hug about it,

2339
01:55:26,479 --> 01:55:28,319
I'm not picking up. If I'm picking up a family

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01:55:28,319 --> 01:55:30,199
of five, something has gone extremely right. If you picked

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01:55:30,239 --> 01:55:32,800
up your sister and their kids. Uh yeah, I probably

2342
01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:35,399
wouldn't hug all of them. No, which if you only

2343
01:55:35,439 --> 01:55:37,239
if you only hugged one, well, I'll probably stay in

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01:55:37,279 --> 01:55:39,319
the car and let them load up. Wait, you won't

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01:55:39,319 --> 01:55:41,079
get out of the car for husbands there if it's

2346
01:55:41,119 --> 01:55:44,039
just her, she's married. Oh, husband can handle it. Always

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01:55:44,039 --> 01:55:47,239
got back issues. I'll get out and help. Nice of you.

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01:55:48,039 --> 01:55:52,760
Twelve forty Yeah, would hug them suck and thus delay traffic.

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01:55:53,159 --> 01:55:55,600
Oh five, you know what you are. You're the airport hugger.

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01:55:55,680 --> 01:55:57,920
Speaker 3: I'm not picking them up and swooping them around the

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01:55:58,279 --> 01:56:01,199
whole concourse airport hugger.

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01:56:01,600 --> 01:56:03,720
Speaker 1: Let me I can. Let's see, it's probably four to

2353
01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:07,920
five seconds maximum per hug. That's thirty seconds. And you

2354
01:56:07,960 --> 01:56:10,279
think an airport cops going like that, she's gonna crush

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01:56:10,520 --> 01:56:14,239
She could shut her mom ass up. I'm hugging my family. Sorry.

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Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven

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01:56:18,319 --> 01:56:19,800
one three two one two.

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01:56:20,079 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 3: I think I brought up serve of hornets and I

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01:56:22,039 --> 01:56:24,960
said this one, this is great seven one three two

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one two five seven nine zero.

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Speaker 1: Does the Matt Thomas Show with Ross with welcome back

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01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:37,199
to pull for It's okay, welcome back to the mat

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01:56:37,319 --> 01:56:41,000
topa show with Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety

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01:56:42,039 --> 01:56:43,640
What are you putting a Twitter pull up about matth

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01:56:43,720 --> 01:56:49,159
Here's the question, because yesterday or on Sunday when you

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01:56:49,239 --> 01:56:52,479
pick me up, there was a grandfather that was hugging

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01:56:52,600 --> 01:56:54,840
the wife, the three kids and the woman and the

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01:56:55,039 --> 01:56:57,760
and our agitated airport employee was like, hurry it up.

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01:56:58,800 --> 01:57:02,239
My question said, then, crowded airport pickup area, you are

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01:57:02,279 --> 01:57:04,039
the one picking up a love one our friend. Do

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01:57:04,159 --> 01:57:06,720
you hug yes, quickie, no gotta go.

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01:57:10,520 --> 01:57:10,560
Speaker 2: It.

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01:57:10,760 --> 01:57:12,479
Speaker 1: I mean if I'm helping them with their luggage, So

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01:57:12,560 --> 01:57:15,079
most of the time you stay in the car, I

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01:57:15,119 --> 01:57:17,079
would say most of the time, I would say most

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01:57:17,119 --> 01:57:19,319
of the time. When when when my wife or my

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01:57:19,439 --> 01:57:21,399
kids pick me up, they stay in the car as well. Yes,

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01:57:22,800 --> 01:57:24,199
if you have to get out to help with a

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01:57:24,279 --> 01:57:28,560
bunch of luggage or something, then yeah, you get a

2380
01:57:28,800 --> 01:57:31,840
get a kiss. My get a little squeeze, been out

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01:57:31,880 --> 01:57:34,920
a full makeout session. Basically, hey, you hug with one hand,

2382
01:57:34,960 --> 01:57:43,239
squeeze with the other. What are you squeezing cushion? Okay,

2383
01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:48,920
hugging a squeeze? But you never heard of that hugging

2384
01:57:48,960 --> 01:57:57,000
a squeeze. Let's talk to uh Roger on seven out

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01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:57,720
of Hello Roger.

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01:57:59,039 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, sometimes you have to categorize these hugs, especially airport

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01:58:03,600 --> 01:58:07,319
huggs that are very very uh should we say, at

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01:58:07,359 --> 01:58:10,600
a premium. So if you're if you gotta love what's

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01:58:10,640 --> 01:58:14,239
coming from across seas, and he's military, and and and

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01:58:14,359 --> 01:58:16,960
he just came overseas after a long after a long tour,

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01:58:17,039 --> 01:58:22,239
then yes, hugglers are applicable. Then uh uh. A family

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01:58:22,319 --> 01:58:25,039
member who maybe was just kind of a surgery, was

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01:58:25,159 --> 01:58:28,000
very sick. I haven't seen him in will hug applicable?

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01:58:28,399 --> 01:58:30,319
But if not, you gotta keep it moving like you

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01:58:30,479 --> 01:58:32,800
like you're at a like like like you got teammates

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01:58:32,840 --> 01:58:34,880
at an All Star game. You're fist bumped it. That's

2397
01:58:34,920 --> 01:58:37,439
when the fishbuff was created. You gotta frist bump.

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01:58:37,479 --> 01:58:38,039
Speaker 16: Put it in there.

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01:58:38,079 --> 01:58:40,279
Speaker 12: We'll talk about it later. Put put the luggage in

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01:58:40,319 --> 01:58:43,319
the back. Let's roll maybe all right, you gotta update

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01:58:43,399 --> 01:58:45,880
your two categories. Man, you gotta update that stuff.

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01:58:45,960 --> 01:58:50,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if iver fist bumped my wife, Roger,

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01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:53,520
you know, let me Frederick. Are you married, Roger?

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01:58:54,680 --> 01:58:56,239
Speaker 12: If I am married, when's.

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01:58:56,000 --> 01:58:57,920
Speaker 1: The last time you fist bumped your wife.

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01:58:59,239 --> 01:58:59,800
Speaker 7: Right after that?

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01:59:00,039 --> 01:59:01,159
Speaker 12: Well, after marathone?

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01:59:01,399 --> 01:59:01,800
Speaker 16: Maybe no?

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01:59:02,159 --> 01:59:07,039
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, I knew that was coming. Excuse me, Jess,

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01:59:08,399 --> 01:59:15,880
that was the words that was terrible. Oh, dear Adam Splaine,

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01:59:16,239 --> 01:59:18,960
Uh says no, because then you have to help with bags.

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01:59:19,800 --> 01:59:23,399
What he's avoiding helping with bags? How many bags are

2413
01:59:23,439 --> 01:59:25,960
we talking about? Yeah, you're talking about a two week

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01:59:26,079 --> 01:59:29,680
vacation from Japan, Ryan says, Airport pickup are will be

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01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:32,039
far less crowded of learning. How about the cell phone lines?

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01:59:32,119 --> 01:59:34,239
Exactly what it feels like a weekend in Dallas? I mean,

2417
01:59:34,319 --> 01:59:37,079
Rogers makes a good point weekend in Dallas rather than like,

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01:59:37,159 --> 01:59:40,479
I don't know, three weeks in Japan or something that's

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01:59:40,479 --> 01:59:43,600
a little bit different. That is true. So somebody should say, hey,

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01:59:43,640 --> 01:59:46,079
I've not seen my spouse in this many days. Yeah,

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01:59:46,159 --> 01:59:51,279
you hold up a sign. Okay, it's been two weeks,

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01:59:51,279 --> 01:59:53,880
swear shirt, it's been three weeks. All right, so far

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01:59:54,039 --> 01:59:57,600
back off. Eighteen votes are in yes quick now eight percent?

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01:59:57,880 --> 02:00:01,920
Oh I think you're or what you're you're on the

2425
02:00:02,159 --> 02:00:05,119
don't hug, No, I'm on the It depends on the situation.

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02:00:05,279 --> 02:00:09,880
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, Uh, it's gotta be but it's if you're

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02:00:09,880 --> 02:00:11,199
gonna do the you're gonna hug.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be fast, I mean super fast, because you

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02:00:14,880 --> 02:00:18,960
don't want I'm telling you intercounting. Airport has mean guys too.

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02:00:19,239 --> 02:00:22,159
They don't mint women. They just mean cops. Period. Yes,

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02:00:22,359 --> 02:00:25,359
the meanest cops in Houston are airport cops. They're pretty

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02:00:25,439 --> 02:00:27,760
chill at hobby. Well that's because you live in the

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02:00:27,800 --> 02:00:30,760
hobby world. I love hobby, all right. Hobby is my jam.

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02:00:30,840 --> 02:00:33,600
It's closer, faster, smaller.

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02:00:34,560 --> 02:00:35,000
Speaker 4: It's great.

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here on seven ninety is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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It is the final hour The Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety from West Palm

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Beach and Astro Spring Training twenty twenty six. Astros will

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get underway with games coming up this Saturday against the Nationals,

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and this hour we're gonna let you hear from some

2463
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of our best to interviews while we down here the

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last standful of days. And we'll start things off this

2465
02:02:02,680 --> 02:02:05,880
hour with a visit with manager Joe A. Spot I.

2466
02:02:05,920 --> 02:02:07,399
We talked with him a couple of days ago, and

2467
02:02:07,520 --> 02:02:11,199
obviously the number one topic of conversation is the congested infield.

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02:02:11,680 --> 02:02:15,560
But first things first, something's going to be very special

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with this Astro team in terms of depth in their

2470
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pitching staff. In fact, we tease Joe about how good

2471
02:02:20,960 --> 02:02:23,640
the Sugarland roster would be when it comes to guys

2472
02:02:23,720 --> 02:02:26,520
not making the major league team and eventually heading down

2473
02:02:26,560 --> 02:02:28,920
to Triple A to start this season. But it's good depth,

2474
02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:31,560
says Joe, among other things in our visit with the

2475
02:02:31,640 --> 02:02:35,079
manager of the Astros. Yeah, and that's the whole idea

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02:02:35,159 --> 02:02:35,520
behind it.

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02:02:36,600 --> 02:02:39,119
Speaker 14: Create a create a line of defense is something happens

2478
02:02:39,159 --> 02:02:40,000
on the major league level.

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02:02:40,039 --> 02:02:41,800
Speaker 1: These guys can come up and perform.

2480
02:02:42,640 --> 02:02:44,439
Speaker 14: We added a ton of you picture, even the guys

2481
02:02:44,520 --> 02:02:48,119
from NI they're good arms some of the major league service,

2482
02:02:48,520 --> 02:02:50,159
and that was the whole idea behind it.

2483
02:02:50,319 --> 02:02:52,000
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you've got to set a date

2484
02:02:52,039 --> 02:02:53,479
in your mind? You know, publicly say it, but in

2485
02:02:53,560 --> 02:02:56,199
your mind, I want to have my rotation set by

2486
02:02:56,239 --> 02:02:57,960
a certain time. Yeah, you do.

2487
02:02:58,760 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 14: I think for the last week of spring training you

2488
02:03:03,920 --> 02:03:06,520
do have a pretty good idea of how your rotation

2489
02:03:07,520 --> 02:03:09,640
is going to look like, and you start lining them

2490
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:14,159
up so you know who you're going to how you're

2491
02:03:14,159 --> 02:03:16,680
gonna you know, line them up not only for that

2492
02:03:16,720 --> 02:03:18,720
first series, but against the Red Sox, right, and then

2493
02:03:18,760 --> 02:03:21,000
there's an off day, and then we do have a

2494
02:03:21,039 --> 02:03:23,239
stretch of games, so we're gonna be facing the Mariners,

2495
02:03:23,279 --> 02:03:25,399
so we want to make sure that we line up

2496
02:03:25,439 --> 02:03:27,960
certain pitchers to face certain some of those teams. I

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02:03:28,039 --> 02:03:32,039
think the biggest question is going to be more the

2498
02:03:32,159 --> 02:03:34,720
middle of a bullpend some of the long guys, some

2499
02:03:34,840 --> 02:03:38,079
of those that's where we're going to be spending most

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02:03:38,119 --> 02:03:38,640
of our time.

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02:03:39,279 --> 02:03:41,479
Speaker 1: So if you don't use your starters a lot during

2502
02:03:41,560 --> 02:03:43,680
spring training because you they don't need to be burning up, right,

2503
02:03:44,359 --> 02:03:45,960
how do you do how do you get those middle

2504
02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:48,159
guys in when everyone needs to get anything? But but

2505
02:03:48,439 --> 02:03:51,439
there's plenty, there's plenty of innings, you know, even the starters,

2506
02:03:51,520 --> 02:03:53,840
you you know, you at some point you get him

2507
02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:56,560
throwing sixty eighty pitches, and but there's plenty of stuff

2508
02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:59,359
that we do in the backfield. Yeah, you know, we

2509
02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:00,319
do want to get.

2510
02:04:00,279 --> 02:04:04,159
Speaker 14: Him facing guys on the on the main field, but

2511
02:04:04,399 --> 02:04:08,159
we could create some some live vps and and try

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02:04:08,239 --> 02:04:09,680
to get them built up that way.

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02:04:10,479 --> 02:04:11,880
Speaker 1: But you know, you have to be creative.

2514
02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:14,520
Speaker 14: You just don't have enough innings here sometimes to answer

2515
02:04:14,560 --> 02:04:15,600
some of those all those questions.

2516
02:04:15,840 --> 02:04:18,439
Speaker 1: Sticking with the pitching, Christian Javier is an interesting one

2517
02:04:18,479 --> 02:04:21,319
to me. How what do you see from him where

2518
02:04:21,359 --> 02:04:23,319
he is now, and how do you get him back

2519
02:04:23,399 --> 02:04:26,119
to the guy that we know that can can be

2520
02:04:26,239 --> 02:04:27,680
somebody that can go out there and throw a bunch

2521
02:04:27,680 --> 02:04:29,119
of no hit innings if we've seen from him.

2522
02:04:29,199 --> 02:04:34,279
Speaker 14: You know, historically pitchers who come back from Tommy John,

2523
02:04:34,399 --> 02:04:37,800
they usually come back and happens what happens to have here.

2524
02:04:38,720 --> 02:04:40,960
Towards the end, you start seeing you know, his stuff

2525
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:43,680
trying to come around, and he has some decent outings.

2526
02:04:43,720 --> 02:04:46,680
But then once they have a full off season of

2527
02:04:47,119 --> 02:04:51,119
you know, full strength live BPS, he was in the

2528
02:04:51,239 --> 02:04:55,359
dr throwing bullpens up to forty pitches. Now you see

2529
02:04:55,399 --> 02:04:58,640
some health. Now you can start you know, planning ahead

2530
02:04:58,760 --> 02:05:02,399
and and you start seen a good version of him again.

2531
02:05:02,399 --> 02:05:04,760
He's gonna be big for us. He's gonna be really

2532
02:05:04,800 --> 02:05:08,159
big for us. We get that Christian heavier, which I

2533
02:05:08,239 --> 02:05:10,439
know is in there, that twenty twenty two Christian heavier.

2534
02:05:10,520 --> 02:05:13,000
Speaker 1: Watch out. We had Spencer Getty about twenty minutes ago.

2535
02:05:13,159 --> 02:05:15,119
What what Spencer get It's gonna show up? Do you

2536
02:05:15,159 --> 02:05:17,159
think you hope? I should say yeah?

2537
02:05:17,319 --> 02:05:20,680
Speaker 14: And again, you know, I think Spencer last year, after

2538
02:05:20,800 --> 02:05:23,800
that injury and the post there in the middle.

2539
02:05:24,199 --> 02:05:26,319
Speaker 1: Just kind of you know, you know, makes up.

2540
02:05:26,359 --> 02:05:29,119
Speaker 14: He's messed up his rhythm and and and it sucked

2541
02:05:29,159 --> 02:05:32,520
because we had high expectations for him. We really like

2542
02:05:32,640 --> 02:05:35,439
this stuff. And once he gets going, he's he could

2543
02:05:35,479 --> 02:05:38,399
be pretty dominant. But I expect him to come in

2544
02:05:38,560 --> 02:05:40,680
and and and and be good. His stuff is so

2545
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:42,960
good he could create swing and missus.

2546
02:05:44,159 --> 02:05:44,800
Speaker 1: Looking for guys.

2547
02:05:44,840 --> 02:05:46,640
Speaker 14: If we take us deep into the game, man, that's

2548
02:05:46,640 --> 02:05:48,159
gonna be that's gonna be key for us.

2549
02:05:48,880 --> 02:05:51,319
Speaker 1: We have discussed about the six man rotation because you've

2550
02:05:51,319 --> 02:05:53,279
got plenty of arms in the schedules trying he would

2551
02:05:53,279 --> 02:05:57,560
dictate that, right, is is it harder to give those

2552
02:05:57,600 --> 02:05:59,840
guys an extra day when they're feeling good and feeling

2553
02:05:59,880 --> 02:06:01,520
like that can go over there because it throws the

2554
02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:04,560
rhythm off or is it harder because you have to

2555
02:06:04,680 --> 02:06:06,760
know you've got one less mineral believer if a guy

2556
02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:07,520
is a tough day.

2557
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:10,119
Speaker 14: Yeah, so yeah, let's tackle that one first. Anytime you

2558
02:06:10,199 --> 02:06:12,680
have a six man rotation, that is one less guy

2559
02:06:12,840 --> 02:06:15,520
in the pen, So any hiccup from your starters. Now

2560
02:06:15,560 --> 02:06:19,479
you start, you know, asking some of your high leverage

2561
02:06:19,520 --> 02:06:21,960
relievers to start throwing in down games and stuff like that.

2562
02:06:22,079 --> 02:06:26,279
So you're trying to avoid those those those things. But

2563
02:06:27,319 --> 02:06:30,279
you do your six man rotations for at the end,

2564
02:06:30,680 --> 02:06:33,399
you know, June July and you start getting into August.

2565
02:06:33,479 --> 02:06:36,880
You want those arms to be fresh, so you are

2566
02:06:37,000 --> 02:06:40,119
proactive in the front end. Try to be smart about

2567
02:06:40,159 --> 02:06:43,039
it and be patient about it because you know, in

2568
02:06:43,199 --> 02:06:47,479
August September comes around, you're unleashing them and you asking

2569
02:06:47,960 --> 02:06:50,920
them to throw getting to the one oh five, one

2570
02:06:51,119 --> 02:06:53,000
ten right like we did a few times to Hunter

2571
02:06:53,119 --> 02:06:53,520
last year.

2572
02:06:53,960 --> 02:06:55,039
Speaker 1: So it's tricky.

2573
02:06:55,039 --> 02:06:57,159
Speaker 14: You just got to be patient and and and that's

2574
02:06:57,239 --> 02:07:00,239
why bringing all these arms is important so we can

2575
02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:02,840
so we feel good about our about our death.

2576
02:07:03,239 --> 02:07:06,119
Speaker 3: Astros manager Joe spottles here on Sports Talk seven ninety

2577
02:07:06,119 --> 02:07:08,039
I'm not gonna ask you who's playing were But just

2578
02:07:08,119 --> 02:07:11,319
at a general humans standpoint, you know, you as a manager,

2579
02:07:11,439 --> 02:07:13,880
you have many different roles. You have to be psychologists,

2580
02:07:13,920 --> 02:07:15,920
you have to build relationships, you have to talk to

2581
02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:18,479
all these guys. What is that challenge like for you

2582
02:07:19,479 --> 02:07:22,359
trying to just because everybody wants to play every day,

2583
02:07:22,359 --> 02:07:25,960
which is a great thing and it's great and so competitive, yes, yes,

2584
02:07:26,560 --> 02:07:28,960
but and then try to figure out a way to

2585
02:07:29,079 --> 02:07:31,520
kind of figure this thing out with the personal, with

2586
02:07:31,600 --> 02:07:32,600
the human element of it.

2587
02:07:32,760 --> 02:07:36,479
Speaker 1: Man, I tell you the toughest part of my job.

2588
02:07:36,960 --> 02:07:41,039
Speaker 14: Right, we have a super competitive group of players who

2589
02:07:41,079 --> 02:07:43,960
want to play every day. And if there were not

2590
02:07:44,119 --> 02:07:46,439
like that, then I'll be scratching my head, like what

2591
02:07:46,560 --> 02:07:47,800
the heck, what's wrong with this guys?

2592
02:07:47,840 --> 02:07:47,960
Speaker 4: Right?

2593
02:07:48,279 --> 02:07:49,640
Speaker 1: But they're not like that. They all want to play

2594
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:51,760
every day. They'll every day players, right.

2595
02:07:53,079 --> 02:07:58,039
Speaker 14: And I've learned that even working on some great managers,

2596
02:07:58,079 --> 02:08:00,560
sometimes you're gonna have tough conversation with players and they're

2597
02:08:00,600 --> 02:08:04,760
not going to like what you say, right, And there's

2598
02:08:04,760 --> 02:08:07,880
a level of respect there that ultimately I'm like that

2599
02:08:08,039 --> 02:08:10,319
decisions and I understand that they're not gonna like it,

2600
02:08:11,119 --> 02:08:13,279
but we have to do what's best for the team.

2601
02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:16,079
So if if they all understand that we're doing this

2602
02:08:16,199 --> 02:08:20,039
what's best for the team, our players knowing that, listen,

2603
02:08:20,159 --> 02:08:21,960
I am doing it for what's best for the players.

2604
02:08:21,960 --> 02:08:25,359
It's not personally just best for for the team. And

2605
02:08:26,640 --> 02:08:31,960
it's it's tricky, it's difficult, especially when you when you

2606
02:08:32,039 --> 02:08:33,840
have a ton of dudes. I just want to go

2607
02:08:33,960 --> 02:08:35,960
out there and and and and and ball and play

2608
02:08:36,039 --> 02:08:39,319
good and and the good players. All Stars, Silver Sluggers,

2609
02:08:39,399 --> 02:08:42,560
Gold Glovers, Hall of Famers, Hall of Fame, Hall of Famers.

2610
02:08:42,600 --> 02:08:45,720
Speaker 1: There you go, shooting Hall of Famers. Yes, exactly, you

2611
02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:49,479
know we got them all. Uh So, Zach Cole is

2612
02:08:49,520 --> 02:08:51,279
going to have every opportunity to win that left field

2613
02:08:51,279 --> 02:08:56,000
spot for you. You got Jenkins, center, camp, corner outfield

2614
02:08:56,039 --> 02:08:59,039
spots supposed to be power hitting. How long do the

2615
02:08:59,119 --> 02:09:02,560
least of those guys have You know what they're going

2616
02:09:02,720 --> 02:09:06,600
to I'm going to play him from from the get go. Here.

2617
02:09:07,159 --> 02:09:10,880
Speaker 14: They're going to get a ton of our bats, and

2618
02:09:11,079 --> 02:09:13,399
we we're looking for some of those guys to step up.

2619
02:09:14,680 --> 02:09:16,760
Really will like some of those guys to take over

2620
02:09:16,920 --> 02:09:21,119
that every day role. And we know that camp it's

2621
02:09:21,399 --> 02:09:24,560
really close doing that. Last year he got to a

2622
02:09:24,640 --> 02:09:27,880
good start, second half of the season did not God's good,

2623
02:09:27,920 --> 02:09:30,680
but we know he figures some stuff out. You know,

2624
02:09:30,800 --> 02:09:33,920
he's definitely in in in in that, in that that

2625
02:09:34,039 --> 02:09:37,159
competition there with you mentioned Sac. We just got low

2626
02:09:37,199 --> 02:09:42,199
Berfido with Jake, excellent center fielder. So it's going to

2627
02:09:42,239 --> 02:09:44,560
be interesting because I just don't think right now as

2628
02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:48,439
we speak today that I don't really know exactly how

2629
02:09:48,520 --> 02:09:52,760
that's gonna shake out. I'm hopeful that everything that we

2630
02:09:52,920 --> 02:09:56,760
are planning turns out that way. But these are young

2631
02:09:56,800 --> 02:09:58,800
players and we need to be patients and they'll they'll

2632
02:09:58,880 --> 02:10:00,159
they'll let us know there.

2633
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:01,760
Speaker 1: He's just thinking. I've mentioned in my audience for years,

2634
02:10:01,840 --> 02:10:04,520
covering all these spring trainings, I don't trust numbers in March,

2635
02:10:04,960 --> 02:10:07,479
and I don't trust numbers in September. You've got one

2636
02:10:07,600 --> 02:10:09,520
kid who had killed it in March last year, who

2637
02:10:09,640 --> 02:10:11,239
look at head Upton downs as you would admit, but

2638
02:10:11,319 --> 02:10:13,680
defense with the great and then Zach was great in September.

2639
02:10:13,760 --> 02:10:16,239
So the brighter lights are in April. They count the

2640
02:10:16,279 --> 02:10:17,000
same amount of time.

2641
02:10:17,039 --> 02:10:18,880
Speaker 14: You know what, and what I like about what you

2642
02:10:19,039 --> 02:10:21,920
just said that that we do have a sample size

2643
02:10:22,000 --> 02:10:27,439
of what March looked like, so we know that March won't.

2644
02:10:28,319 --> 02:10:33,079
We have enough seeing on players that Okay, March, this

2645
02:10:33,199 --> 02:10:35,920
player could be a really good March player. Yep, right,

2646
02:10:36,680 --> 02:10:39,520
we saw this get in September. But we also saw

2647
02:10:39,640 --> 02:10:42,680
he did it in a pretty high leverage spot. So

2648
02:10:43,159 --> 02:10:44,800
he has some really good at bats, some big home

2649
02:10:44,880 --> 02:10:47,680
runs in big moments. So that stuff matters when you

2650
02:10:47,760 --> 02:10:52,560
are evaluating players. So we learn a lot about from

2651
02:10:52,600 --> 02:10:56,119
both of those players. So now I'm moving forward. We'll see,

2652
02:10:56,239 --> 02:10:57,319
we'll see where this takes us.

2653
02:10:57,399 --> 02:10:59,079
Speaker 1: You got one, I got one? Okay, sure, why not,

2654
02:10:59,239 --> 02:11:02,079
like you gotta feel good. But defensively, certainly out it's

2655
02:11:02,199 --> 02:11:04,880
almost whoever you pick, and not out of a hat,

2656
02:11:04,920 --> 02:11:06,439
of course, but whoever you picked to put out there.

2657
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:08,600
The outfield defense is going to be improved.

2658
02:11:08,960 --> 02:11:12,880
Speaker 14: Yes, athleticism, guys can go and and and you know,

2659
02:11:14,039 --> 02:11:19,560
take care of Boston the gap whoever's not starting. You know,

2660
02:11:20,119 --> 02:11:22,920
for example, if you're done and starting left, I got enough.

2661
02:11:23,000 --> 02:11:26,479
I can replace defense and you feel really good about

2662
02:11:27,439 --> 02:11:31,840
about any of that stuff. But yeah, that's been our

2663
02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:34,159
goal this off season, trying to stay more athletic and

2664
02:11:34,359 --> 02:11:36,079
and we've been able to add a few guys that

2665
02:11:37,279 --> 02:11:37,920
helping us do that.

2666
02:11:38,800 --> 02:11:44,079
Speaker 1: Here comes the question, here a question you're moving around,

2667
02:11:45,840 --> 02:11:47,479
Tell me as much as you're wanting to tell the

2668
02:11:47,520 --> 02:11:49,760
city Houston. We have hundreds of people listening right now.

2669
02:11:49,920 --> 02:11:53,960
I wish it was, but it's a holiday. Yeah, walks in,

2670
02:11:54,039 --> 02:11:55,399
You hug him out and say, hey, how is your

2671
02:11:55,439 --> 02:11:57,920
off season? I'm sure you've talked him before. Then is

2672
02:11:58,000 --> 02:12:01,520
he going, Okay, I'm here. What do you want me

2673
02:12:01,600 --> 02:12:03,479
to do? I mean, give us as much as you can.

2674
02:12:03,600 --> 02:12:06,359
Speaker 14: Okay, he did not ask what you want me to do.

2675
02:12:06,520 --> 02:12:09,119
He already knew going in here what we wanted him

2676
02:12:09,199 --> 02:12:09,399
to do.

2677
02:12:11,159 --> 02:12:11,760
Speaker 1: But he's real.

2678
02:12:11,920 --> 02:12:17,399
Speaker 14: You know, once you get here and now anybody start

2679
02:12:17,479 --> 02:12:20,079
moving in first second, some third.

2680
02:12:21,119 --> 02:12:21,399
Speaker 2: I have.

2681
02:12:23,359 --> 02:12:26,239
Speaker 14: Full confidence that he could play all three. There's he

2682
02:12:26,359 --> 02:12:29,840
can do it right. We love the bat. But the

2683
02:12:29,960 --> 02:12:32,319
question is always how are we're going to make all

2684
02:12:32,359 --> 02:12:35,600
these work? And that's where I come in and we

2685
02:12:35,720 --> 02:12:38,960
have the conversation. You know this will play out. Let's

2686
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:42,319
let's just give it time and see where it takes us.

2687
02:12:43,960 --> 02:12:46,760
And you know, it's just not easy for players too.

2688
02:12:47,760 --> 02:12:52,000
They want to know right now and it and I

2689
02:12:52,159 --> 02:12:53,720
and I and I get it but you know, and

2690
02:12:54,760 --> 02:12:59,039
it's they're all really good players. And that's where it's

2691
02:12:59,239 --> 02:13:02,000
a good problem. It's the greatest utility player in the

2692
02:13:02,039 --> 02:13:05,279
baseball today. You've got the greatest pinch hitter available for

2693
02:13:05,359 --> 02:13:07,279
you today. But you know another thing, I don't want

2694
02:13:07,319 --> 02:13:10,399
to look at him as a utility player because you know,

2695
02:13:10,920 --> 02:13:13,199
you know, but this is the thing about about when

2696
02:13:13,239 --> 02:13:15,600
you think about an utility player, you think defense first.

2697
02:13:15,720 --> 02:13:18,920
Speaker 1: This guy is one of the best hitters I know.

2698
02:13:19,359 --> 02:13:22,840
Speaker 14: So you know, this is what's the reason why we're

2699
02:13:22,880 --> 02:13:24,600
all like, okay, but you know, but you know, I

2700
02:13:25,079 --> 02:13:28,000
know our fans ask you these questions so all the time,

2701
02:13:28,119 --> 02:13:31,840
and it's fair fair enough, it's fair enough, and I

2702
02:13:31,960 --> 02:13:34,439
get I get asked the same questions. Uh, and I'm

2703
02:13:34,479 --> 02:13:36,279
going to continue to answer the same question. Let's just

2704
02:13:36,880 --> 02:13:39,520
give it time and and we played this out and

2705
02:13:40,640 --> 02:13:43,680
that is my my biggest job, and just make sure

2706
02:13:43,720 --> 02:13:46,439
that those guys stay focused on the mission.

2707
02:13:46,479 --> 02:13:49,000
Speaker 1: It may not happen here in spring training, but ultimately

2708
02:13:49,079 --> 02:13:51,199
I think the Astros will make a move to decongest

2709
02:13:51,359 --> 02:13:53,600
this infield. We hear from a guy who will be

2710
02:13:53,640 --> 02:13:55,880
the opening day starter for the Astros. It's Hunter Brown.

2711
02:13:55,920 --> 02:13:58,560
He'll join us next here on Sports Talk seven eighty.

2712
02:14:00,039 --> 02:14:02,439
Tell Me Show what Ross continues here on Sports Talk

2713
02:14:02,600 --> 02:14:04,680
seven ninety. We had the pleasure a couple of days

2714
02:14:04,720 --> 02:14:07,760
ago to visit with the staff ace of the Astros

2715
02:14:07,800 --> 02:14:10,880
pitching staff. Of course, it's Hunter Brown and Hunter and I,

2716
02:14:11,079 --> 02:14:13,399
along with Ross, sat down and visited about variety of things,

2717
02:14:13,439 --> 02:14:16,600
including finding out from him when he found out he

2718
02:14:16,640 --> 02:14:18,840
would be the opening day picture for the Astros at

2719
02:14:18,960 --> 02:14:21,199
Dyke and Park. So I flew in on.

2720
02:14:22,720 --> 02:14:23,560
Speaker 11: I think it was Monday.

2721
02:14:23,600 --> 02:14:25,479
Speaker 1: You thought you were in trouble, right, Yeah, that was

2722
02:14:25,520 --> 02:14:30,039
a joke that I guess, uh a little better, DFA.

2723
02:14:31,199 --> 02:14:32,159
Got to work on your stand up?

2724
02:14:32,439 --> 02:14:35,000
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I know, right, and just you know, usually

2725
02:14:35,000 --> 02:14:38,640
when you're in the building for I think about thirty seconds.

2726
02:14:39,840 --> 02:14:43,319
Speaker 11: And then uh, Josie, yeah, come see me. I was

2727
02:14:43,399 --> 02:14:45,279
just like, oh man, you know, it's like it's like

2728
02:14:45,359 --> 02:14:47,239
when you're in school. What did I do already?

2729
02:14:47,359 --> 02:14:51,640
Speaker 1: Kind of I'm kiddings. H Okay, let's be brutally honest.

2730
02:14:51,800 --> 02:14:53,960
You knew what the conversation was about, right, come on,

2731
02:14:54,119 --> 02:14:54,520
don't lie.

2732
02:14:54,640 --> 02:14:57,199
Speaker 2: No, I actually I didn't expect that, oh okay, like

2733
02:14:57,439 --> 02:15:01,520
camp had started, I didn't really know, it could have

2734
02:15:01,600 --> 02:15:02,079
been anything.

2735
02:15:02,359 --> 02:15:03,600
Speaker 11: You know, Joe could have just been.

2736
02:15:03,560 --> 02:15:07,000
Speaker 1: Like, hey, what's up, Yeah, for something like that, who knows,

2737
02:15:07,239 --> 02:15:07,439
you know.

2738
02:15:07,680 --> 02:15:10,399
Speaker 11: So but now then he broke the news.

2739
02:15:10,399 --> 02:15:13,279
Speaker 2: I was obviously really excited, and you know, just got

2740
02:15:13,359 --> 02:15:15,439
to get through get through the next couple of weeks

2741
02:15:15,479 --> 02:15:17,039
here and in Roland opening day.

2742
02:15:17,159 --> 02:15:20,319
Speaker 1: So is there literally a Hunter Brown calendar that's I'm

2743
02:15:20,359 --> 02:15:22,319
doing this this day? I mean, even if you didn't

2744
02:15:22,319 --> 02:15:25,520
know your opening day, do you have a specific calendar

2745
02:15:25,520 --> 02:15:27,199
about what you're doing every single day leading up to

2746
02:15:27,239 --> 02:15:27,800
that opening day?

2747
02:15:28,359 --> 02:15:29,800
Speaker 2: For the most part, you kind of just know what

2748
02:15:30,039 --> 02:15:33,279
what games you're projected to pitch in. Yep, you know

2749
02:15:33,359 --> 02:15:36,319
what your lives and bullpens look like. Usually get that

2750
02:15:36,399 --> 02:15:40,319
when you when you get to camp. So yeah, I

2751
02:15:40,399 --> 02:15:42,079
mean every year they kind of have it. You know,

2752
02:15:42,199 --> 02:15:44,880
maybe TBD here or there, but for the most part,

2753
02:15:45,000 --> 02:15:48,000
you know, and then especially as a starter, it's like, okay, well,

2754
02:15:48,039 --> 02:15:51,800
if I'm thrown alive here or in a game, more

2755
02:15:51,840 --> 02:15:54,239
than likely five or six days from now doing it again.

2756
02:15:54,560 --> 02:15:58,279
Speaker 1: So did you give from Bernie Detroit Eats locations to go?

2757
02:15:58,720 --> 02:15:58,760
Speaker 2: No.

2758
02:15:58,920 --> 02:16:00,680
Speaker 1: I just told him if he if he needed any

2759
02:16:00,760 --> 02:16:02,640
to let me know just a could hook him up.

2760
02:16:02,800 --> 02:16:05,239
Speaker 2: That's right, And that's right. I told him, Uh, he's

2761
02:16:05,279 --> 02:16:07,119
got that. And then obviously all the other guys on

2762
02:16:07,159 --> 02:16:08,760
the team, but I said, hey, I got a I

2763
02:16:08,880 --> 02:16:10,359
know a lot of people over there. If you need anything,

2764
02:16:10,439 --> 02:16:10,760
let me know.

2765
02:16:11,479 --> 02:16:13,319
Speaker 1: Now, you're a Detroit guy like myself. You went to

2766
02:16:13,359 --> 02:16:15,960
Wayne State. My mom went there, so shout out to Wayne. Wow,

2767
02:16:16,000 --> 02:16:18,079
that's right. How about that. Have you gone to the

2768
02:16:18,159 --> 02:16:19,680
Spie hot dog store in Detroit?

2769
02:16:20,000 --> 02:16:20,039
Speaker 7: No?

2770
02:16:20,279 --> 02:16:20,720
Speaker 4: I have not.

2771
02:16:21,000 --> 02:16:24,479
Speaker 1: Downtown Detroit, there are two hot dog places. They share

2772
02:16:24,479 --> 02:16:26,079
a same wall, their families and they've got in a

2773
02:16:26,119 --> 02:16:27,079
fight like fifty years ago.

2774
02:16:27,199 --> 02:16:29,840
Speaker 2: You're talking about Lafayette and yeah American, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

2775
02:16:29,920 --> 02:16:30,359
I've been there.

2776
02:16:30,399 --> 02:16:32,000
Speaker 1: I'm a Lafayette guy. Are you really?

2777
02:16:32,079 --> 02:16:32,239
Speaker 7: Yeah?

2778
02:16:32,319 --> 02:16:33,639
Speaker 1: You gotta pick? Is it like you have to pick

2779
02:16:33,639 --> 02:16:36,040
a side type of thing. Yeah, you're kind of committed.

2780
02:16:36,639 --> 02:16:36,799
Speaker 11: You know.

2781
02:16:36,879 --> 02:16:39,239
Speaker 2: When I was younger, my dad and uncle they just

2782
02:16:39,319 --> 02:16:42,000
always did Lafiette. I think Americans probably a little bit.

2783
02:16:44,440 --> 02:16:45,040
Speaker 1: A little bit.

2784
02:16:44,959 --> 02:16:48,280
Speaker 2: Better aesthetic, if you will. But you know, Lafayette is

2785
02:16:48,639 --> 02:16:49,719
where I go.

2786
02:16:50,120 --> 02:16:52,639
Speaker 1: All right, So what's the number one to eat for

2787
02:16:52,719 --> 02:16:56,479
you in Houston, Texas? Houston, I've been doing Blue Door

2788
02:16:56,559 --> 02:16:59,639
a lot. I like that place. Nice qualm yep.

2789
02:17:00,079 --> 02:17:01,120
Speaker 11: Uh, they're great over there.

2790
02:17:01,120 --> 02:17:03,239
Speaker 2: They're treating well and think it's you can't you can't

2791
02:17:03,239 --> 02:17:04,399
really miss with anything there.

2792
02:17:04,920 --> 02:17:05,280
Speaker 1: I like.

2793
02:17:05,520 --> 02:17:09,799
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean ironically, I like gold to Tony's Detroit South.

2794
02:17:10,200 --> 02:17:11,399
Speaker 11: That's good, it's a good spot.

2795
02:17:11,440 --> 02:17:14,840
Speaker 1: I love go Jets. You have jet yet, Yeah, it's

2796
02:17:14,879 --> 02:17:16,920
more of a change. I'm just throwing it out.

2797
02:17:18,760 --> 02:17:20,120
Speaker 11: And then I'm trying to think of what else?

2798
02:17:21,520 --> 02:17:23,920
Speaker 1: Last thing and very Detroit, yes, and then we're done

2799
02:17:23,920 --> 02:17:25,079
with this. Do you like Werners?

2800
02:17:25,760 --> 02:17:26,000
Speaker 11: Yeah?

2801
02:17:26,959 --> 02:17:28,040
Speaker 14: What is it?

2802
02:17:28,159 --> 02:17:31,000
Speaker 1: Ginger soda? It's disgusting. It's my mother grew up on it,

2803
02:17:31,079 --> 02:17:33,920
so give it a shot. It's whiskey. And if it's bad,

2804
02:17:34,040 --> 02:17:36,239
that's right. All right, back to baseball we're having. We

2805
02:17:36,319 --> 02:17:38,440
got around for like nine minutes. I gotta been focusing

2806
02:17:38,440 --> 02:17:40,639
on food for the first three of it. It's good stuff.

2807
02:17:41,239 --> 02:17:43,760
You've got a lot of bros now in your Are

2808
02:17:43,799 --> 02:17:45,840
you getting to introduced yourself? And you guys been I

2809
02:17:45,879 --> 02:17:48,799
mean if we get name tags, name tags, a lot

2810
02:17:48,840 --> 02:17:52,520
of new arms is uh, it's new, it's exciting, it

2811
02:17:52,680 --> 02:17:55,639
feels depth wise, hunter, I bet not the thing bad

2812
02:17:55,760 --> 02:17:57,319
last year was bad, but it feels like there is

2813
02:17:57,440 --> 02:17:59,879
gonna be some greater competition, especially at the back end.

2814
02:18:00,559 --> 02:18:01,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we've got a lot of

2815
02:18:01,879 --> 02:18:05,040
guys that are, you know, coming in ready to compete

2816
02:18:05,079 --> 02:18:07,799
for a job. I think, you know, every year in

2817
02:18:08,079 --> 02:18:10,000
including myself. You know, this year is a little different

2818
02:18:10,040 --> 02:18:11,680
with being name that, but I think every year you

2819
02:18:11,799 --> 02:18:14,360
come in trying to try to protect protect your job

2820
02:18:14,479 --> 02:18:18,000
or get a new one. So I think, like you,

2821
02:18:18,200 --> 02:18:20,399
like you mentioned, there's a there's a ton of new faces,

2822
02:18:20,440 --> 02:18:22,879
and then there's a lot of guys who maybe you know,

2823
02:18:23,959 --> 02:18:25,920
maybe didn't have the year that they wanted last year,

2824
02:18:26,159 --> 02:18:29,200
or you know, can build on doing some really good things.

2825
02:18:30,200 --> 02:18:31,879
You know, I saw a blue ball Throat throw a

2826
02:18:31,920 --> 02:18:33,639
bullpen or throw a lobby p today.

2827
02:18:34,760 --> 02:18:36,360
Speaker 1: You know, he had a great end of the year.

2828
02:18:37,319 --> 02:18:41,360
Speaker 2: Alexander had an awesome, awesome ten twelve starts for us.

2829
02:18:41,479 --> 02:18:43,559
So you know, the door's open for a lot of

2830
02:18:43,600 --> 02:18:46,520
guys to come in and and and make a you know,

2831
02:18:46,639 --> 02:18:47,159
earn a job.

2832
02:18:48,280 --> 02:18:51,000
Speaker 1: What is that like for you now to be named

2833
02:18:51,360 --> 02:18:53,360
the opening day guy and you know we've had you

2834
02:18:53,440 --> 02:18:55,159
on for the last couple of years here to where

2835
02:18:55,280 --> 02:18:56,680
you were the you were the young pup, you were

2836
02:18:56,719 --> 02:18:58,639
the sponge choking up everything from everyone else. Have you

2837
02:18:58,719 --> 02:19:00,079
seen it's a little bit of a change in the

2838
02:19:00,120 --> 02:19:01,360
guard to that or what what is that like for

2839
02:19:01,440 --> 02:19:03,639
you just as being one of those guys in the clubhouse.

2840
02:19:03,959 --> 02:19:05,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think guys asked me, you know

2841
02:19:05,719 --> 02:19:07,840
already We've only been in camp for a week, but

2842
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:11,079
guys definitely asked me a few more things that you know.

2843
02:19:11,159 --> 02:19:14,440
Maybe I'm like like, oh, I remember, yeah, now I

2844
02:19:14,520 --> 02:19:17,600
remember asking that question now. But I think I think

2845
02:19:17,639 --> 02:19:20,000
that's how our clubhouse is. You know, it's pretty It

2846
02:19:20,120 --> 02:19:22,799
starts with you know, with hell toove right anybody. He's

2847
02:19:23,600 --> 02:19:26,079
he's so great and open about anything, and it's kind

2848
02:19:26,079 --> 02:19:28,600
of the transparency of that throughout the clubhouse. It's uh,

2849
02:19:29,040 --> 02:19:31,079
you know, open door policy, which just about everybody, so

2850
02:19:32,360 --> 02:19:34,239
you know, from the coaching staff down to the players.

2851
02:19:34,280 --> 02:19:38,159
So you know, you're opening those questions and guys, guys,

2852
02:19:38,280 --> 02:19:39,520
let am you know fire away.

2853
02:19:40,200 --> 02:19:42,079
Speaker 1: You've had a chance not of playing all the different ballparks.

2854
02:19:42,120 --> 02:19:44,040
I want to ask you about West Sacramento. It was

2855
02:19:44,280 --> 02:19:48,159
tough to watch games there. Uh that ball They should

2856
02:19:48,200 --> 02:19:50,120
do something because I felt like every game I watched

2857
02:19:50,120 --> 02:19:51,639
between you and the Ages was like eleventh to ten

2858
02:19:51,719 --> 02:19:52,520
or something crazy like that.

2859
02:19:53,280 --> 02:19:57,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, I mean, just just call a spade

2860
02:19:57,319 --> 02:19:59,200
a spade here. It's not a great park. You know,

2861
02:19:59,360 --> 02:20:01,600
you play and league parks and it's the big League,

2862
02:20:01,639 --> 02:20:03,239
so you should be playing in a big League park.

2863
02:20:03,280 --> 02:20:05,639
That's kind of where I stand on it. I'm happy

2864
02:20:05,719 --> 02:20:07,600
Tampa's going back to the trop this year.

2865
02:20:08,680 --> 02:20:09,799
Speaker 1: That had been weird too, Huh.

2866
02:20:09,879 --> 02:20:11,879
Speaker 2: That was yeah, that was I mean I think I

2867
02:20:11,920 --> 02:20:15,280
gave up a home run at fifty degrees that, you know,

2868
02:20:15,399 --> 02:20:17,520
off the bed. I thought that'll do. They would catch

2869
02:20:17,520 --> 02:20:22,200
it at second and went over the fence. But yeah,

2870
02:20:22,360 --> 02:20:23,879
it's just something we got to deal with until they

2871
02:20:23,879 --> 02:20:27,040
get over to Vegas, if they do. But yeah, it's

2872
02:20:27,079 --> 02:20:29,840
definitely not It's not when you circle on the calendar.

2873
02:20:30,040 --> 02:20:31,079
They can't wait to go there.

2874
02:20:31,399 --> 02:20:33,120
Speaker 1: Try to change anything. I mean, what can you do,

2875
02:20:33,479 --> 02:20:35,159
Like you don't want to get it in your head

2876
02:20:35,200 --> 02:20:38,040
too much? Lecture maybe, Yeah, No, I think it's more

2877
02:20:38,239 --> 02:20:42,719
just like it's more of I'm trying to think of

2878
02:20:42,840 --> 02:20:45,760
like the best way to pay. Yeah, we're on for

2879
02:20:45,799 --> 02:20:47,680
another hour and a half and we're roasting, you know.

2880
02:20:47,760 --> 02:20:50,559
Speaker 11: When you go when you go to when you go

2881
02:20:50,680 --> 02:20:52,360
to Fenway, go to Yankee.

2882
02:20:52,120 --> 02:20:54,840
Speaker 2: Stadium, when you're pitching a dike In Park, you know,

2883
02:20:55,399 --> 02:20:57,879
there's that innate like all right, this is you're.

2884
02:20:57,760 --> 02:20:58,159
Speaker 1: Ready to go.

2885
02:20:58,280 --> 02:20:59,239
Speaker 11: Whereas there it was like.

2886
02:21:01,399 --> 02:21:03,680
Speaker 1: There was just no no vibe.

2887
02:21:03,719 --> 02:21:05,639
Speaker 2: And it like for us at that point this season

2888
02:21:05,680 --> 02:21:07,959
when I pitched there at the end of the year,

2889
02:21:07,959 --> 02:21:10,000
I was like, all right, this is kind of the

2890
02:21:10,040 --> 02:21:12,000
biggest series of the year for us at this point,

2891
02:21:12,159 --> 02:21:14,000
and you know, you kind of got to bring your

2892
02:21:14,040 --> 02:21:16,319
own juice and and you don't need that from from

2893
02:21:16,360 --> 02:21:20,600
outside factors, but you know, the stage sets itself, right,

2894
02:21:20,760 --> 02:21:23,239
So I think I think that was something that you know,

2895
02:21:23,319 --> 02:21:26,479
I thought about going into it and was like, all right,

2896
02:21:26,479 --> 02:21:28,440
I need to kind of turn up the energy a

2897
02:21:28,520 --> 02:21:30,239
notch before that.

2898
02:21:30,520 --> 02:21:33,399
Speaker 1: So you're one game away from making the playoffs last year,

2899
02:21:33,680 --> 02:21:36,319
Seattle obviously got to you guys late to win the division.

2900
02:21:36,639 --> 02:21:39,319
Tell me I'm wrong if you can't. It feels like.

2901
02:21:39,360 --> 02:21:42,399
Speaker 3: There's gonna be some extra sizzle if there already wasn't

2902
02:21:42,799 --> 02:21:44,959
when the Astros and Mariners even playing April coming up

2903
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:45,319
this year.

2904
02:21:46,159 --> 02:21:48,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think all in all, in division

2905
02:21:48,479 --> 02:21:53,159
games kind of bring that. But yeah, I mean it's

2906
02:21:53,280 --> 02:21:56,399
fair to say that we are not happy that they

2907
02:21:56,440 --> 02:21:58,239
won the division last year and we want it back.

2908
02:21:58,319 --> 02:22:02,559
So had some had some good series obviously, like you said,

2909
02:22:02,600 --> 02:22:04,680
you know, I mean, even though they swept us, it

2910
02:22:04,760 --> 02:22:06,920
was it was for the most part, a good series.

2911
02:22:07,760 --> 02:22:10,239
We just just didn't go our way, you know, didn't

2912
02:22:10,239 --> 02:22:12,239
come out on top of the games that we needed to.

2913
02:22:12,479 --> 02:22:16,319
Speaker 11: So they ended up win the division. And yeah, and

2914
02:22:16,440 --> 02:22:17,479
like I said, we want to back.

2915
02:22:17,600 --> 02:22:19,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, do you spend a lot of time in

2916
02:22:19,399 --> 02:22:21,799
that minute you collected by yourself but collectively saying hey,

2917
02:22:21,799 --> 02:22:24,479
if we'd have gotten that series or that game. The

2918
02:22:24,600 --> 02:22:27,399
margin of error is so thin even if you play

2919
02:22:27,440 --> 02:22:28,079
one hundred.

2920
02:22:27,840 --> 02:22:30,520
Speaker 2: And sixty two games, No, because you can look back

2921
02:22:30,600 --> 02:22:34,639
at you know, maybe whatever miscellaneous game in April and

2922
02:22:34,719 --> 02:22:36,399
if you would have won that one, right, you know,

2923
02:22:36,559 --> 02:22:37,760
so it's hard to pinpoint it.

2924
02:22:37,840 --> 02:22:38,959
Speaker 1: But you know, in the moment that.

2925
02:22:41,280 --> 02:22:42,600
Speaker 11: It's hard to it's it's hard.

2926
02:22:42,479 --> 02:22:44,799
Speaker 2: To not say that too at the same time of like, okay,

2927
02:22:44,840 --> 02:22:46,840
well this is the one at that moment that we

2928
02:22:46,920 --> 02:22:49,520
had the chance to and it just didn't go our way.

2929
02:22:51,159 --> 02:22:53,719
But but you know, how many, how many games throughout

2930
02:22:53,760 --> 02:22:55,959
the year. Do you do you win that you maybe

2931
02:22:56,120 --> 02:22:58,280
on paper shouldn't have won. You know that you come

2932
02:22:58,360 --> 02:23:01,799
back and went out exactly so, and you play one

2933
02:23:01,879 --> 02:23:02,840
hundred and sixty two of them?

2934
02:23:03,360 --> 02:23:06,239
Speaker 3: Hunor Brown with us here on Sports Talk seven Idy,

2935
02:23:06,280 --> 02:23:09,200
What about you you personally, obviously opening Day Starter had

2936
02:23:09,200 --> 02:23:10,319
a great season last year?

2937
02:23:11,680 --> 02:23:14,239
Speaker 1: What do you want to do more? Are There's certain

2938
02:23:14,280 --> 02:23:16,440
things you're trying to refine, like how how do you

2939
02:23:16,760 --> 02:23:19,200
get better? Because we know you're a great competitor, You're

2940
02:23:19,239 --> 02:23:21,440
always looking for an extra edge and doing whatever. What

2941
02:23:21,600 --> 02:23:23,840
was the off season like for you to where you

2942
02:23:23,959 --> 02:23:25,600
don't want to get complacent, which I know you're not

2943
02:23:25,719 --> 02:23:27,920
going to, but you also don't want to push yourself

2944
02:23:27,959 --> 02:23:30,799
too far. Just this your mindset, I suppose. Yeah, my

2945
02:23:30,840 --> 02:23:31,879
mindset was more so.

2946
02:23:32,719 --> 02:23:35,280
Speaker 2: And I've tried to take this pat together the last

2947
02:23:35,360 --> 02:23:38,840
couple of years of stacking them together. I don't think

2948
02:23:40,280 --> 02:23:43,200
it's really hard to make an overhaul in three months,

2949
02:23:43,319 --> 02:23:45,920
especially when you know I threw a bunch of innings

2950
02:23:46,000 --> 02:23:49,000
last year excuse me, the last uh, you know, the

2951
02:23:49,079 --> 02:23:53,239
last three years I had career highs. So it's something

2952
02:23:53,280 --> 02:23:57,120
necessarily that you can't you can't overdo the the amount,

2953
02:23:57,239 --> 02:24:00,159
the workload, so you try to stack them up over Okay,

2954
02:24:00,200 --> 02:24:01,959
maybe this is my two year plan, this is my

2955
02:24:02,479 --> 02:24:04,959
plan for this season going forward. You know, how is

2956
02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:07,440
this off season gonna help me for next off season

2957
02:24:07,479 --> 02:24:08,319
and into the next one.

2958
02:24:08,440 --> 02:24:09,799
Speaker 11: You know, you want to pitch for a long time.

2959
02:24:09,920 --> 02:24:11,959
Speaker 2: You want to play for a long time, So this

2960
02:24:12,280 --> 02:24:15,559
this offseason was kind of just stacking those together with

2961
02:24:15,639 --> 02:24:18,760
the with a couple of years prior. And then as

2962
02:24:18,840 --> 02:24:21,600
for the baseball stuff, you know, just trying to perfect

2963
02:24:21,639 --> 02:24:23,120
what I what I do, and then you know, you

2964
02:24:23,159 --> 02:24:25,319
can take it on a scale of like, Okay, I

2965
02:24:25,360 --> 02:24:29,000
probably walked too many lefties, probably fell behind more guys

2966
02:24:29,040 --> 02:24:32,479
than I than I wanted to. I always have room

2967
02:24:32,559 --> 02:24:36,520
to improve my slider, you know, my sliders cutters, sliderish.

2968
02:24:36,639 --> 02:24:40,360
So you know, would love the two plane the two

2969
02:24:40,440 --> 02:24:42,399
plane break on it. You know, I've been chasing that

2970
02:24:43,159 --> 02:24:47,159
well really since I got into pro ball, so you know,

2971
02:24:47,239 --> 02:24:48,799
and then you just try to refine those things and

2972
02:24:48,840 --> 02:24:50,319
then be able to apply them in the season.

2973
02:24:50,719 --> 02:24:53,639
Speaker 1: Last question, the easiest way to calm you down if

2974
02:24:53,680 --> 02:24:55,879
you've missed a pitch or you're in a run, you've

2975
02:24:55,920 --> 02:24:58,159
given up two or three in a row, somebody coming

2976
02:24:58,239 --> 02:25:00,239
up to the to the mountain talking to you, the

2977
02:25:00,360 --> 02:25:02,399
catcher doing it, or stepping off the river and just

2978
02:25:02,479 --> 02:25:04,479
walk around and kind of giving yourself a second. What's

2979
02:25:04,479 --> 02:25:05,920
the easiest way to settle you down?

2980
02:25:06,479 --> 02:25:08,840
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's it's internal for me.

2981
02:25:10,159 --> 02:25:10,920
You guys might see me.

2982
02:25:12,120 --> 02:25:12,280
Speaker 2: You know.

2983
02:25:12,360 --> 02:25:14,479
Speaker 11: I think most pitchers I can speak for, if you

2984
02:25:14,639 --> 02:25:15,440
if you throw two.

2985
02:25:15,399 --> 02:25:17,280
Speaker 2: Balls, or you give up a home or something that

2986
02:25:17,440 --> 02:25:19,840
the first thing guys want to do is is grab

2987
02:25:19,920 --> 02:25:23,440
the rosin bag or you know, take a couple extra

2988
02:25:23,520 --> 02:25:26,040
steps behind the mound, you know, kind of recenter yourself.

2989
02:25:26,120 --> 02:25:27,879
I think is is kind of the easiest way to

2990
02:25:27,920 --> 02:25:31,639
go about it, especially because you know when things are

2991
02:25:31,680 --> 02:25:33,920
going wrong, that's that's the number one thing you want

2992
02:25:33,959 --> 02:25:35,760
to do is slow it down. Okay, get back to

2993
02:25:35,799 --> 02:25:38,120
what I need to do, get ahead of guys, execute pitches,

2994
02:25:38,200 --> 02:25:42,799
things like that. You know, when Josh comes out, you know,

2995
02:25:42,920 --> 02:25:45,920
for the most part, it's talking about what to do next,

2996
02:25:47,120 --> 02:25:49,479
whereas you know, maybe a catcher comes out, they got

2997
02:25:49,520 --> 02:25:51,879
a little bit more of Hey, I think you've been

2998
02:25:51,959 --> 02:25:52,319
doing this.

2999
02:25:52,840 --> 02:25:52,959
Speaker 5: You know.

3000
02:25:53,120 --> 02:25:55,799
Speaker 2: Josh does do say that, but he's more about the

3001
02:25:55,879 --> 02:25:58,639
next hitter that's coming up. Whereas you know a catcher

3002
02:25:58,879 --> 02:26:03,000
or even you know, in years past it's it's Breggie.

3003
02:26:03,079 --> 02:26:05,040
Now we got Carlos comes into the meetings and stuff

3004
02:26:05,079 --> 02:26:06,879
like that, and they can say, hey, Okay, need a

3005
02:26:06,879 --> 02:26:08,760
big ground ball here. However it is that you're going

3006
02:26:08,799 --> 02:26:10,840
to do that, and then that's where Josh can kind

3007
02:26:10,840 --> 02:26:13,680
of say, hey, so and so it's a bunch of

3008
02:26:13,719 --> 02:26:14,639
groundballs on this pitch.

3009
02:26:14,719 --> 02:26:18,719
Speaker 11: Maybe maybe we lean into that to have that, But yeah,

3010
02:26:18,719 --> 02:26:20,000
I would say, I would say all those.

3011
02:26:20,079 --> 02:26:22,639
Speaker 1: Hopefully Hunter will not need many moments to decompress over

3012
02:26:22,680 --> 02:26:25,239
the course of the twenty twenty sixth season. More of

3013
02:26:25,280 --> 02:26:27,319
our covered cheer from spring training in West Palm Beach

3014
02:26:27,399 --> 02:26:29,680
continues in a moment as you listen the Sports Talk

3015
02:26:29,760 --> 02:26:33,040
seven nineties. The About Thomas Show with Boss continues here

3016
02:26:33,120 --> 02:26:35,719
on Sports Talk seven nights Earlier this morning, had a

3017
02:26:35,799 --> 02:26:39,040
chance to visit with Jeremy Painey in the clubhouse, first

3018
02:26:39,040 --> 02:26:41,600
of all, to congratulate him about his upcoming marriage.

3019
02:26:43,000 --> 02:26:44,399
Speaker 9: I mean, it's something I've been wanting to do for

3020
02:26:44,440 --> 02:26:46,719
a long time. Yeah, and you know, I was in season,

3021
02:26:46,840 --> 02:26:48,639
she was in season. I feel like the off season

3022
02:26:48,760 --> 02:26:50,920
was only the only appropriate time. Yeah, I didn't want

3023
02:26:50,959 --> 02:26:52,239
to do it when she was still playing, you know,

3024
02:26:52,319 --> 02:26:55,280
I wanted her to focus on her season and then

3025
02:26:56,159 --> 02:26:58,239
once our season was over is green light?

3026
02:26:58,600 --> 02:27:01,440
Speaker 5: So who's handling all the Marrior are plans? Is that

3027
02:27:01,600 --> 02:27:03,399
going to be after the season? Are you guys going

3028
02:27:03,479 --> 02:27:04,719
to try to talk it out during the year.

3029
02:27:05,120 --> 02:27:06,840
Speaker 9: I will talk it out during the year. We'll definitely

3030
02:27:06,879 --> 02:27:09,959
plan it during the year. And uh, now we're kind

3031
02:27:09,959 --> 02:27:12,719
of both going back and forth, both given in posts.

3032
02:27:12,719 --> 02:27:14,559
But she's doing most of the work.

3033
02:27:14,639 --> 02:27:16,079
Speaker 5: I haven't married a long time to let her do

3034
02:27:16,120 --> 02:27:17,760
all the regular things whever Man had.

3035
02:27:17,840 --> 02:27:20,760
Speaker 1: Worked out for you this camp. I mean, you're now

3036
02:27:21,200 --> 02:27:22,719
one of the older guys on the team. Is that

3037
02:27:22,879 --> 02:27:23,680
kind of crazy to think?

3038
02:27:23,719 --> 02:27:26,600
Speaker 9: You It doesn't feel like that, you know, I still

3039
02:27:26,680 --> 02:27:32,120
feel like like I'm that young kid with you know,

3040
02:27:32,280 --> 02:27:34,120
coming into my first been training. You know, I have

3041
02:27:34,239 --> 02:27:36,079
all the energy in the world, I have all the

3042
02:27:36,159 --> 02:27:38,600
ambitions in the world, and you know, we have a

3043
02:27:38,680 --> 02:27:41,079
great team, and I'm excited to be around these guys.

3044
02:27:41,799 --> 02:27:45,319
And I still I get excited to be around some

3045
02:27:45,440 --> 02:27:46,959
of the guys, you know, learn from that and pick

3046
02:27:47,040 --> 02:27:47,399
their brain.

3047
02:27:47,600 --> 02:27:48,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.

3048
02:27:50,440 --> 02:27:51,440
Speaker 5: It had to have been.

3049
02:27:51,639 --> 02:27:53,680
Speaker 1: I think it was thrill for everybody, especially you guys.

3050
02:27:53,920 --> 02:27:55,399
It's Octobra, You're not playing games.

3051
02:27:55,479 --> 02:27:57,840
Speaker 5: I mean, the debts. How long did that take?

3052
02:27:57,879 --> 02:28:00,719
Speaker 1: The stink in and was there a level of frustration,

3053
02:28:00,959 --> 02:28:03,200
disappointment and I gotta get back on the field as

3054
02:28:03,200 --> 02:28:03,879
sad as possible.

3055
02:28:04,879 --> 02:28:06,360
Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like our goal is always to

3056
02:28:06,440 --> 02:28:09,319
get into the postseason and make a run in the postseason.

3057
02:28:09,559 --> 02:28:12,360
You know, we didn't achieve that last year, which was

3058
02:28:12,479 --> 02:28:16,959
tough for us as a whole, as an organization. But

3059
02:28:17,079 --> 02:28:19,239
at the same time, you know, it's time to turn

3060
02:28:19,280 --> 02:28:22,360
the page, you know, Robert spring training and you know

3061
02:28:22,479 --> 02:28:25,680
we have a new season upon us, and it's time

3062
02:28:25,760 --> 02:28:29,360
to bounce back. You know, it's time to get back

3063
02:28:29,360 --> 02:28:30,639
into the playoffs and make a run.

3064
02:28:31,079 --> 02:28:33,920
Speaker 1: How was it it looked like to me watching you

3065
02:28:33,959 --> 02:28:36,600
guys that your relationship with Carlos at their base or

3066
02:28:36,799 --> 02:28:37,360
was amazing.

3067
02:28:37,399 --> 02:28:38,840
Speaker 5: I mean, it took no time for you guys to

3068
02:28:38,879 --> 02:28:40,360
transition together, right right.

3069
02:28:40,639 --> 02:28:43,559
Speaker 9: You know, Carlos has been great to me since the

3070
02:28:43,600 --> 02:28:45,879
first day I got to the organization, you know, spring

3071
02:28:45,959 --> 02:28:46,959
training twenty nineteen.

3072
02:28:47,600 --> 02:28:49,200
Speaker 10: You know, I got to hang out with the team.

3073
02:28:49,079 --> 02:28:51,959
Speaker 9: Quite a bit, you know, Joe Spoda kind of took

3074
02:28:52,000 --> 02:28:54,319
it upon himself to get me playing time with the.

3075
02:28:55,879 --> 02:28:57,440
Speaker 10: Mob games in spring training.

3076
02:28:57,559 --> 02:28:59,360
Speaker 9: So I would come from the minor league side and

3077
02:28:59,399 --> 02:29:01,680
hang out with the big leaguers, and you know, it

3078
02:29:01,799 --> 02:29:02,399
was pretty cool.

3079
02:29:02,559 --> 02:29:03,040
Speaker 10: Pretty cool.

3080
02:29:03,120 --> 02:29:04,879
Speaker 1: Does that happen a lot. I mean, that's a pretty

3081
02:29:04,879 --> 02:29:06,719
special situation for you to be able to be with

3082
02:29:06,799 --> 02:29:08,079
those guys so early in your career.

3083
02:29:08,159 --> 02:29:10,559
Speaker 9: I mean, guys usually get the opportunity to come up

3084
02:29:10,799 --> 02:29:13,520
and play back up some games, but I feel like

3085
02:29:13,639 --> 02:29:17,000
Joe was make me back up almost every single game.

3086
02:29:17,360 --> 02:29:17,520
Speaker 1: You know.

3087
02:29:17,600 --> 02:29:19,399
Speaker 9: I feel like I was barely in minor league spring

3088
02:29:19,479 --> 02:29:21,239
training and I feel like I was over and I

3089
02:29:21,239 --> 02:29:23,360
didn't play much. You know, I would come into the

3090
02:29:23,440 --> 02:29:25,360
eighth inning, get one, not back. I would come in

3091
02:29:25,360 --> 02:29:28,079
to ninth in just play defense. But just being around

3092
02:29:28,120 --> 02:29:30,440
those guys, man, it was special because you get to

3093
02:29:30,600 --> 02:29:33,040
pick their brains, you know, how the big leaders think,

3094
02:29:33,399 --> 02:29:33,879
you know, and.

3095
02:29:34,559 --> 02:29:35,399
Speaker 10: It's exciting for me.

3096
02:29:35,639 --> 02:29:37,159
Speaker 1: So do you look back at that and go, man,

3097
02:29:37,239 --> 02:29:38,879
I made some mistakes when I was younger, or I

3098
02:29:39,040 --> 02:29:40,200
just kind of just soaked everything in.

3099
02:29:41,879 --> 02:29:43,360
Speaker 10: I mean I try to soak everything in.

3100
02:29:43,639 --> 02:29:45,719
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, if you look back at the team

3101
02:29:45,760 --> 02:29:48,639
we had twenty nineteen, Like it was unbelievable.

3102
02:29:48,920 --> 02:29:49,079
Speaker 1: You know.

3103
02:29:49,120 --> 02:29:51,399
Speaker 9: I had guys like Michael brand Lee around me. You know,

3104
02:29:51,479 --> 02:29:54,680
I had guys like Josel Tuve around me. It was

3105
02:29:54,920 --> 02:29:56,440
it was special, special for sure.

3106
02:29:56,559 --> 02:29:58,399
Speaker 1: Do you find younger guys coming to you asking those

3107
02:29:58,440 --> 02:30:00,079
same kind of questions that you were asking for or

3108
02:30:00,120 --> 02:30:00,680
five years ago.

3109
02:30:01,639 --> 02:30:03,639
Speaker 10: I feel like they asked better questions than I did.

3110
02:30:03,719 --> 02:30:04,360
Speaker 1: I was just fie.

3111
02:30:05,799 --> 02:30:08,280
Speaker 9: I feel like these guys are very confident, you know,

3112
02:30:08,440 --> 02:30:11,399
they know what their game is. You know, they love

3113
02:30:11,440 --> 02:30:13,559
picking people's brains. But I was more shy, you know,

3114
02:30:13,639 --> 02:30:16,600
I was kind of just they're looking trying to learn

3115
02:30:16,680 --> 02:30:17,120
by scene.

3116
02:30:17,559 --> 02:30:17,760
Speaker 7: You know.

3117
02:30:17,920 --> 02:30:21,479
Speaker 9: I was never want to just approach someone and ask

3118
02:30:21,559 --> 02:30:23,959
him a question, you know, but if they open that

3119
02:30:24,079 --> 02:30:26,680
door for me, then I felt the confidence, you know,

3120
02:30:26,840 --> 02:30:27,520
keep talking.

3121
02:30:27,319 --> 02:30:30,479
Speaker 1: About it, got more questions here with Jeremy Penia, Jose's

3122
02:30:30,479 --> 02:30:33,600
back at second base primarily, and look, I think what

3123
02:30:33,719 --> 02:30:35,840
he did last year in volunteering himself in the left field,

3124
02:30:36,360 --> 02:30:38,520
Everybody's going to do that, and maybe ten years down

3125
02:30:38,520 --> 02:30:39,639
the road they may ask you to go to third

3126
02:30:39,680 --> 02:30:42,120
base something like that. What is that like watching a

3127
02:30:42,200 --> 02:30:45,280
guy like that go to a new position for the

3128
02:30:45,360 --> 02:30:46,959
good of the team, but you know, in his heart

3129
02:30:47,040 --> 02:30:47,440
he wants to be.

3130
02:30:47,399 --> 02:30:49,399
Speaker 9: A second base I mean, it says a lot about

3131
02:30:49,440 --> 02:30:51,600
the type of person he is and the type of

3132
02:30:51,639 --> 02:30:54,879
player he is. You know, he's a player that's always

3133
02:30:54,879 --> 02:30:57,399
going to do what's you know, best for the team.

3134
02:30:57,719 --> 02:30:59,319
He wants to see the team do good. You know,

3135
02:30:59,399 --> 02:31:01,719
he wants to see the team win. You know, he's

3136
02:31:01,760 --> 02:31:04,200
been here through the ups and the downs off this team,

3137
02:31:04,319 --> 02:31:06,479
you know, from when he first got to the big

3138
02:31:06,559 --> 02:31:10,000
leagues to winning the worlds, multiple World Series, you know,

3139
02:31:10,200 --> 02:31:19,719
so I feel like Altuva is very is very inclined

3140
02:31:19,760 --> 02:31:22,719
to help in this team win and is a player

3141
02:31:22,840 --> 02:31:24,920
that you know, he tries to make everyone better and

3142
02:31:25,040 --> 02:31:28,000
if that meant last year trying to move to left

3143
02:31:28,040 --> 02:31:31,239
field and makes the team better than you know, he's

3144
02:31:31,239 --> 02:31:32,680
a guy who's just put in the lineup and he's

3145
02:31:32,719 --> 02:31:34,280
gonna find a way to help the team.

3146
02:31:34,479 --> 02:31:36,239
Speaker 1: What do you want to get accomplished or I know

3147
02:31:36,360 --> 02:31:39,079
that Joe mentioned a few weeks ago that maybe some

3148
02:31:39,159 --> 02:31:40,639
of the older guys won't have to play as much

3149
02:31:40,639 --> 02:31:42,280
as spring training. Have you kind of mapped up a

3150
02:31:42,280 --> 02:31:44,200
schedule what you'd like to see done for yourself. In

3151
02:31:44,280 --> 02:31:47,079
terms of playing time, I mean, I'm gonna have to

3152
02:31:47,159 --> 02:31:48,200
play quite a bit.

3153
02:31:48,280 --> 02:31:51,000
Speaker 9: I'll be playing pretty early spring training because of the

3154
02:31:51,040 --> 02:31:54,639
World Baseball Classic, so you know, I'm preparing a little

3155
02:31:55,159 --> 02:31:56,360
earlier that I usually do.

3156
02:31:57,799 --> 02:32:01,879
Speaker 10: But yeah, I'll be playing right away. Joined my Dominican

3157
02:32:01,920 --> 02:32:03,319
Republic team and go from there.

3158
02:32:03,559 --> 02:32:05,520
Speaker 1: How amped for you for that, Because here's the thing

3159
02:32:05,760 --> 02:32:07,559
we argue about this on my radio show, about the

3160
02:32:07,600 --> 02:32:10,680
importance of it. I can't be in your skin because

3161
02:32:10,719 --> 02:32:12,600
some man of your guys like yourself and other countries

3162
02:32:12,680 --> 02:32:15,000
have said this is such an important event. So to

3163
02:32:15,000 --> 02:32:17,760
wrap this up, what makes this WBC, even though it's

3164
02:32:17,760 --> 02:32:20,360
every three years, so important for guys like yourself, I'm.

3165
02:32:20,200 --> 02:32:22,719
Speaker 9: A special It's special. I feel like you grow up

3166
02:32:22,879 --> 02:32:24,879
admiring these guys that represent our country.

3167
02:32:24,959 --> 02:32:25,120
Speaker 11: You know.

3168
02:32:25,200 --> 02:32:29,280
Speaker 9: You admire the Arbapoutholes, you know, the Miguel Tahadas, you know,

3169
02:32:29,360 --> 02:32:31,360
and they never had a problem with putting on that

3170
02:32:31,520 --> 02:32:35,079
uniform and represent our country, you know. And you know

3171
02:32:35,200 --> 02:32:38,920
what they did in two thousand and thirteen, I believe

3172
02:32:38,959 --> 02:32:44,200
when we won the WBS money. Yeah, two thy thirteen,

3173
02:32:44,319 --> 02:32:46,520
when we won the WBC, the whole country it was

3174
02:32:46,600 --> 02:32:50,040
like a big celebration, you know, And I remember I

3175
02:32:50,200 --> 02:32:54,360
was in I was in high school, and that's a

3176
02:32:55,000 --> 02:32:57,639
memory of vivid moment for me, you know, Coret memory,

3177
02:32:57,840 --> 02:33:00,319
you know, Robinson Cano, Like I admired all those guys,

3178
02:33:00,399 --> 02:33:03,079
you know, and they brought the trophy home and it

3179
02:33:03,200 --> 02:33:05,479
was special for us, and I hope to, you know,

3180
02:33:05,680 --> 02:33:08,559
kind of give the country that same glory. You know,

3181
02:33:08,680 --> 02:33:11,319
we have a great team to do it, and we're

3182
02:33:11,319 --> 02:33:12,639
going to go enjoy ourselves and compete.

3183
02:33:12,760 --> 02:33:14,319
Speaker 1: See, even though I may not be the biggest fan

3184
02:33:14,360 --> 02:33:16,559
of the WBC, you can clearly hear in the conversation

3185
02:33:16,680 --> 02:33:18,760
the Germany and I had that he much appreciates the

3186
02:33:18,879 --> 02:33:22,559
time he gets to represent his team in the upcoming WBC.

3187
02:33:23,040 --> 02:33:25,000
More here from West Palm Beach In a moment, As

3188
02:33:25,040 --> 02:33:27,840
you listen to Sports Talk seven ninety the final segment

3189
02:33:27,920 --> 02:33:30,680
here of our coverage from spring twenty twenty twenty six,

3190
02:33:30,799 --> 02:33:32,319
we'll focus on a visit we had a couple of

3191
02:33:32,399 --> 02:33:35,680
days ago with Spincer Arraghetti. Obviously a terrible set of

3192
02:33:35,719 --> 02:33:38,040
injuries last year that precruited him from having much of

3193
02:33:38,120 --> 02:33:41,200
a twenty twenty five season, so we obviously had to

3194
02:33:41,200 --> 02:33:42,520
ask him when we visited with him a couple of

3195
02:33:42,559 --> 02:33:46,159
days ago. How was the off season, How was the rehabilitation? No,

3196
02:33:46,319 --> 02:33:48,120
it was good. My off season was good.

3197
02:33:48,479 --> 02:33:52,079
Speaker 17: I took more rest, so I got three opinions when

3198
02:33:52,120 --> 02:33:54,280
I had the elbow thing pop up, just to make

3199
02:33:54,360 --> 02:33:57,079
sure that you know, everybody was on the same page,

3200
02:33:57,079 --> 02:33:59,520
and it was. It was Meister's kremchak. It was our

3201
02:33:59,559 --> 02:34:02,719
our team doctor at home, and everybody's recommendation was just

3202
02:34:02,760 --> 02:34:04,559
give it a break it let it scar up a

3203
02:34:04,600 --> 02:34:06,879
little bit. There was some inflammation, just like a little

3204
02:34:06,920 --> 02:34:10,159
bit of like no tears anywhere, but like a little

3205
02:34:10,200 --> 02:34:12,479
spacing that shouldn't really be there, you know. It just

3206
02:34:12,520 --> 02:34:14,559
seemed like there was some some wear and tear happening

3207
02:34:14,639 --> 02:34:15,959
from the way that I was throwing the ball that

3208
02:34:16,040 --> 02:34:18,239
wasn't supposed to So shut it down.

3209
02:34:18,360 --> 02:34:19,200
Speaker 1: Start at square one.

3210
02:34:19,280 --> 02:34:22,360
Speaker 17: Eight weeks later, played catch for eight weeks low intensity,

3211
02:34:23,079 --> 02:34:25,200
then the next eight weeks after that, ramped it up,

3212
02:34:25,239 --> 02:34:26,760
and that was the whole off season right there.

3213
02:34:26,840 --> 02:34:28,680
Speaker 1: So for me it felt normal.

3214
02:34:28,760 --> 02:34:30,680
Speaker 17: I don't really try to throw hard when it's not

3215
02:34:30,840 --> 02:34:34,200
time to, but I also never take eight weeks down from.

3216
02:34:34,120 --> 02:34:35,680
Speaker 1: Throwing in the past.

3217
02:34:35,760 --> 02:34:38,639
Speaker 17: I'll give myself three to five days and then you know,

3218
02:34:39,000 --> 02:34:40,680
just light toss three times a week.

3219
02:34:40,760 --> 02:34:41,840
Speaker 1: So that was the hardest part for me.

3220
02:34:41,920 --> 02:34:43,360
Speaker 17: It was just showing up to the gym every day

3221
02:34:43,399 --> 02:34:44,959
knowing I can't play catch and I just got to

3222
02:34:44,959 --> 02:34:45,879
do my rehab stuff.

3223
02:34:45,959 --> 02:34:47,639
Speaker 1: But it was the best thing for me.

3224
02:34:47,840 --> 02:34:50,799
Speaker 17: Shoulders feel healthy, almost feel really healthy, so that's really

3225
02:34:50,879 --> 02:34:53,520
what I care about at this point. And things are

3226
02:34:53,520 --> 02:34:55,639
starting to feel really smooth on the mound again, which

3227
02:34:55,719 --> 02:34:58,319
is what I'm used to, and I feel like I'm

3228
02:34:58,360 --> 02:35:00,840
writing stride. I got alive tomorrow for the first time

3229
02:35:01,360 --> 02:35:03,559
or actually second live this offseason. I threw on a

3230
02:35:03,680 --> 02:35:06,120
dike in before we came down here, and I'll throw

3231
02:35:06,200 --> 02:35:09,479
one tomorrow, another twenty pitch live, so it's just kind

3232
02:35:09,479 --> 02:35:11,120
of slowly building back into it. I think I'll have

3233
02:35:11,520 --> 02:35:14,399
live bullpen live Bullpen game, so I won't throw the

3234
02:35:14,399 --> 02:35:15,959
first week of games, but I'll be right back in

3235
02:35:16,040 --> 02:35:17,639
there in the second week of games, and I'm really

3236
02:35:17,680 --> 02:35:18,280
excited for it.

3237
02:35:18,760 --> 02:35:20,639
Speaker 1: Got a lot of competition. Men. We want you back

3238
02:35:20,639 --> 02:35:22,079
to where you were a couple of years ago, but

3239
02:35:22,440 --> 02:35:24,360
there are guys chasing after you right now, and that's

3240
02:35:24,639 --> 02:35:27,360
healthy and cool, but you still want to be a

3241
02:35:27,399 --> 02:35:29,280
part of that opening six five rotation.

3242
02:35:30,159 --> 02:35:31,760
Speaker 17: I love competition, though, I mean, I feel like that's

3243
02:35:31,760 --> 02:35:33,280
been my whole career and my whole life up to

3244
02:35:33,319 --> 02:35:36,360
this point. Is proving that I'm one of those guys

3245
02:35:36,399 --> 02:35:38,600
that should be taking the ball when when we're starting games,

3246
02:35:38,639 --> 02:35:40,440
and that is exactly what I'm here to do. This

3247
02:35:40,879 --> 02:35:43,520
spring training has proved that nothing's changed. I prove that

3248
02:35:43,520 --> 02:35:45,920
I'm the same guy that I was in Really the

3249
02:35:45,959 --> 02:35:47,680
second half of twenty four is what I'm the most

3250
02:35:47,680 --> 02:35:49,959
proud of in the big leagues, and that's exactly what

3251
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:52,360
I'm chasing is just be that guy again.

3252
02:35:52,879 --> 02:35:54,319
Speaker 1: How do you get back to that guy? What is

3253
02:35:54,360 --> 02:35:56,479
that like? It feels like it's kind of very unique

3254
02:35:56,520 --> 02:35:58,000
journey for you. As you said, you're in the second

3255
02:35:58,040 --> 02:35:59,879
half of the twenty four then of course what happened

3256
02:36:00,079 --> 02:36:02,479
last year. Where are you right now as opposed to

3257
02:36:02,520 --> 02:36:05,760
where you were around that time, both mentally and physically.

3258
02:36:07,200 --> 02:36:09,799
That's a tough question to answer. I mean, obviously, over

3259
02:36:09,879 --> 02:36:10,879
the course of the season you.

3260
02:36:13,639 --> 02:36:16,280
Speaker 17: Gain some and lose some certain places, and during the

3261
02:36:16,319 --> 02:36:19,239
off season you're trying to sharpen everything. So right now

3262
02:36:19,280 --> 02:36:21,120
I feel like everything is sharp I feel like my

3263
02:36:21,239 --> 02:36:24,200
velocity is very normal, definitely a little bit higher than

3264
02:36:24,239 --> 02:36:26,680
it was last year coming into spring training, so I'm.

3265
02:36:26,399 --> 02:36:27,120
Speaker 1: Excited by that.

3266
02:36:27,959 --> 02:36:30,360
Speaker 17: I was not excited about how hard I was throwing

3267
02:36:30,399 --> 02:36:32,479
when I did come back from injury last year. But again,

3268
02:36:32,520 --> 02:36:34,639
it's tough to shut down for eight weeks during the

3269
02:36:34,760 --> 02:36:36,959
year and then get back up to where you were

3270
02:36:37,040 --> 02:36:41,079
before that. So the thumb thing was again my chocolate

3271
02:36:41,159 --> 02:36:44,239
to bad luck, but it was tough to overcome that

3272
02:36:44,399 --> 02:36:45,879
and the fact that I was able to get back

3273
02:36:45,959 --> 02:36:48,200
quickly and pitch for the team again with something I

3274
02:36:48,319 --> 02:36:50,200
was really proud of. Granted, now I look back at

3275
02:36:50,200 --> 02:36:52,520
it and I realized I wasn't fully prepared to be

3276
02:36:52,639 --> 02:36:55,559
doing that, neither mentally or physically. So this off season,

3277
02:36:55,559 --> 02:36:58,159
I feel like I did a lot of, you know,

3278
02:36:58,799 --> 02:37:01,280
more things than I would normal in an off season

3279
02:37:01,360 --> 02:37:02,760
to make sure that my body was going to be

3280
02:37:02,840 --> 02:37:04,959
ready and going to be fully prepared, and I think

3281
02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:06,959
it's been good for me. I got a much more

3282
02:37:07,040 --> 02:37:10,239
regimented arm care program this year and in the past,

3283
02:37:10,440 --> 02:37:13,399
like before I got called up, like I it's it's

3284
02:37:13,559 --> 02:37:15,239
it sounds crazy to admit this on air, but I

3285
02:37:15,360 --> 02:37:17,879
wasn't doing arm care like I was never one of

3286
02:37:17,920 --> 02:37:20,200
the guys doing fore arm exercises.

3287
02:37:20,120 --> 02:37:21,200
Speaker 1: This part of the conversation.

3288
02:37:21,479 --> 02:37:23,680
Speaker 17: No, honestly don't because it's it's part of the growth.

3289
02:37:23,799 --> 02:37:26,120
Like I'm proud of it now, like I've got the

3290
02:37:26,280 --> 02:37:29,079
I've got the wherewithal to know, like I can't pitch

3291
02:37:29,200 --> 02:37:31,079
thirty times in a season in the big leagues if

3292
02:37:31,120 --> 02:37:33,319
I don't do this stuff. So it's really it's really

3293
02:37:33,360 --> 02:37:37,000
good for me. I have a fantastic team of people

3294
02:37:37,040 --> 02:37:40,000
at DST in Houston that helped me find exactly what

3295
02:37:40,120 --> 02:37:41,600
it was I needed to do day in and day

3296
02:37:41,639 --> 02:37:43,200
out to feel good and to be ready to take

3297
02:37:43,239 --> 02:37:46,319
the ball. So yeah, I'm just excited to get down

3298
02:37:46,360 --> 02:37:46,920
here and compete.

3299
02:37:47,120 --> 02:37:49,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've talked about growth and one of the things

3300
02:37:49,200 --> 02:37:51,079
we've had you now on just about every year the

3301
02:37:51,159 --> 02:37:52,920
last couple of years, and we talked about.

3302
02:37:52,719 --> 02:37:56,479
Speaker 1: Being more into numbers and spin rates. And then after

3303
02:37:56,639 --> 02:37:59,879
your first lengthy year and twenty four kind of backing

3304
02:38:00,079 --> 02:38:01,959
off that a little bit, where what's your relationship with

3305
02:38:02,120 --> 02:38:05,239
with the kind of the finding the harmony between using

3306
02:38:05,280 --> 02:38:07,159
both the numbers and just the feel.

3307
02:38:07,319 --> 02:38:11,680
Speaker 17: So I think during rehab and during the post rehab throwing,

3308
02:38:11,719 --> 02:38:13,840
it was really important for me to like dive back

3309
02:38:13,840 --> 02:38:16,239
into the technology again and make sure that the release

3310
02:38:16,319 --> 02:38:18,920
window was the same as it was and the extension

3311
02:38:19,040 --> 02:38:21,159
and the shape on all the pitches like that was

3312
02:38:21,319 --> 02:38:23,120
that was good for me to like check off those

3313
02:38:23,239 --> 02:38:27,360
things post rehab or post shutdown, I guess. And now

3314
02:38:27,440 --> 02:38:30,280
that I'm back competing again, I'm trying to kind of

3315
02:38:30,319 --> 02:38:33,000
ignore the computer programs a little bit, you know. Obviously,

3316
02:38:33,120 --> 02:38:36,399
I'm I'm taking what our analytics team says and trying

3317
02:38:36,440 --> 02:38:39,040
to apply it to what I like to do. And

3318
02:38:39,159 --> 02:38:41,159
I think that that's the happy balance is is I

3319
02:38:41,239 --> 02:38:42,760
got to go out there and play my game and

3320
02:38:42,799 --> 02:38:44,879
pitch my game, but I also need to listen to

3321
02:38:44,920 --> 02:38:47,360
the guys that know a little bit more about the hitters,

3322
02:38:47,799 --> 02:38:50,159
and they get paid to sit there and do research

3323
02:38:50,200 --> 02:38:53,200
about the hitters. So anytime any I don't know if

3324
02:38:53,200 --> 02:38:55,079
you guys are familiar with Holden, but he's the guy

3325
02:38:55,159 --> 02:38:56,680
that we work with on the pitching side for the

3326
02:38:56,760 --> 02:38:59,639
most part in the analytics team, And anytime I have

3327
02:38:59,680 --> 02:39:01,680
a question about like, hey, like is this pitch better?

3328
02:39:01,799 --> 02:39:03,479
Is this pitch better to this hitter? Like, I'll go

3329
02:39:03,559 --> 02:39:06,280
to him because I can't just watch the video and

3330
02:39:06,360 --> 02:39:07,559
know that. I mean, I can go in there and

3331
02:39:07,600 --> 02:39:09,680
I can look at all his numbers and stuff, But

3332
02:39:09,799 --> 02:39:13,159
we have so many things that go into what our

3333
02:39:13,239 --> 02:39:15,479
game plan is that I got to give and take,

3334
02:39:15,600 --> 02:39:18,840
you know, Like, if I feel strongly convicted about something,

3335
02:39:18,879 --> 02:39:20,399
that's what I'm going to do in the big moment.

3336
02:39:21,040 --> 02:39:23,840
But when there's there's opportunity for me to like learn

3337
02:39:23,959 --> 02:39:26,120
something about this hitter or that hitter, I need to

3338
02:39:26,159 --> 02:39:27,639
take the chance to do that too. So I think

3339
02:39:27,680 --> 02:39:29,479
it's just I'm somewhere right in the middle now, just

3340
02:39:29,639 --> 02:39:31,159
kind of the same as the last time we talked

3341
02:39:31,159 --> 02:39:31,440
about it.

3342
02:39:31,719 --> 02:39:33,719
Speaker 1: Spencer Getty with us here on the Matt Thomas Show

3343
02:39:33,760 --> 02:39:36,799
with Ross from West Palm Beach. Has the skip told

3344
02:39:36,840 --> 02:39:39,559
you guys don't even bother challenging on abs?

3345
02:39:39,719 --> 02:39:42,120
Speaker 17: Or is he what has been an efficial mess goes

3346
02:39:42,200 --> 02:39:44,639
without saying, dude, I think everything's a strike. That's the

3347
02:39:44,680 --> 02:39:47,360
real problem is my my eyes move a lot, and

3348
02:39:47,520 --> 02:39:49,959
the ball stays in the same spot. So I don't

3349
02:39:49,959 --> 02:39:52,360
think I could ever possibly tell you with one hundred

3350
02:39:52,399 --> 02:39:55,079
percent certainty, like on borderline pitches whether it was in

3351
02:39:55,239 --> 02:39:58,719
or out. So in my head I will never once

3352
02:39:59,000 --> 02:40:02,000
put the hand on my hand, you know, I'll leave

3353
02:40:02,040 --> 02:40:04,319
that to the catchers because they're really really good at

3354
02:40:04,399 --> 02:40:06,879
knowing the strike zone, and obviously the hitters are as well.

3355
02:40:07,000 --> 02:40:09,360
So I really think that's what it's more for us,

3356
02:40:09,600 --> 02:40:12,719
is for the guys that are confident, and whether it

3357
02:40:12,840 --> 02:40:14,840
was over the plate or not, I think up and

3358
02:40:14,959 --> 02:40:18,079
down is gonna be it's gonna be a learning curve

3359
02:40:18,239 --> 02:40:21,600
like the I don't know if you guys have watched

3360
02:40:21,600 --> 02:40:23,680
Triple A games in the last few years with the ABS,

3361
02:40:23,799 --> 02:40:26,799
but it gets a little inconsistent at times, just a

3362
02:40:26,840 --> 02:40:28,440
little bit, I mean, and I think that some of

3363
02:40:28,520 --> 02:40:31,559
that was intentional, like tinkering to try to find the

3364
02:40:31,760 --> 02:40:34,280
strike zone. But it now seems like they've got a

3365
02:40:34,360 --> 02:40:37,479
pretty good algorithm where it's like relative to your stance, height,

3366
02:40:37,600 --> 02:40:38,479
relative to your load.

3367
02:40:39,520 --> 02:40:41,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, I think it's in a good spot.

3368
02:40:41,079 --> 02:40:42,600
Speaker 17: I think it's probably I don't think they would put

3369
02:40:42,600 --> 02:40:43,959
it in the big leagues if it wasn't ready for

3370
02:40:44,079 --> 02:40:44,600
us to use it.

3371
02:40:44,760 --> 02:40:51,239
Speaker 1: So I think you're glad. Yeah, No, I am really

3372
02:40:51,280 --> 02:40:51,879
glad about that.