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Speaker 3: Houston beats Kansas in Big twelve Conference play. Talking about
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Speaker 2: What's up, bandy, hey?
Speaker 4: Before we get to the ass. Here's we're talking about
Speaker 4: Bob Gibson. The other day.
Speaker 1: There's a quote I.
Speaker 4: Found for him. He said, I hated all the All
Speaker 4: Star games. I hated having to talk to guys that
Speaker 4: I spent the rest of the season trying to kick
Speaker 4: their ass.
Speaker 2: They were the enemy to me.
Speaker 4: And then I've found another quote about hate ahead and
Speaker 4: telling uh, some rookies in the age is how to
Speaker 4: approach Bob Gibson.
Speaker 2: He said, don't look at him, don't.
Speaker 4: Look at him, don't dig in, do none of that,
Speaker 4: because they'll knock you down. I missed those days. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: And you know, Sehn thinking about that attitude and then
Speaker 4: thinking about the attitude that Bruce Matthews shared about every practice,
Speaker 4: every preseason, regular game he played as if if he
Speaker 4: didn't play well, he could lose his job. I missed
Speaker 4: that in professional sports, that kind of attitude, and not
Speaker 4: many people have that kind of attitude.
Speaker 5: They make more than the cod They all make more
Speaker 5: than the coach that cut they can cut them.
Speaker 2: That's why. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the player empowerments at an all time high. Everybody
Speaker 5: else goes, the player goes last.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the golden days of professional sports are long ago,
Speaker 4: real quick. If the astro had to start today, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is my lineup two Ayon left Cam Smith and
Speaker 4: right field out res d H Walker, first base, DS
Speaker 4: Catching Paradas, third base, Penius shortstop Dubon centerfield.
Speaker 5: I like that. I mean, you know what, you don't
Speaker 5: have to tell me that one twice. I'm all in
Speaker 5: without two Vay Dubon and Cam Smith. I got no
Speaker 5: issue there. And then Jake Myers and Chas mccormacker are
Speaker 5: your fill ins. Yeah, now unless Chads McCormick can prove
Speaker 5: that he's going to get back to hitting the ball
Speaker 5: to right center field and pushing the ball the other
Speaker 5: way and regained two years ago.
Speaker 2: I put it this way.
Speaker 5: I say this this way, I always say, and you'll
Speaker 5: let you also finish, Andy, whether it's football or anything.
Speaker 5: When people talk to me about quarterback or a receivers,
Speaker 5: he ready to plays a rookie, soa well, let me
Speaker 5: ask you this also, I'll stick to quarterback. Is the quarterback? Hey,
Speaker 5: turn your put your mute on for a second. There, Andy,
Speaker 5: you got, we can hear all that noise.
Speaker 2: Thank you. There you go, Just mute until it's time
Speaker 2: for you to talk. There you go.
Speaker 5: Is that when they say, well, why would you play
Speaker 5: the rookie? And if I said, well, is the veteran
Speaker 5: playing like a rookie? Play the rookie. If the rookie's
Speaker 5: doing the same thing, making the same mistakes and also
Speaker 5: doing the same thing that veterans do, guess what guess
Speaker 5: what play the rookie play the same thing here? If
Speaker 5: let's just say cam Smith beats him out? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 5: who you play? You play cam Smith?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: That's Spring Tainting's not just there for everybody's uh fun
Speaker 5: and games. Spring trains there to get better and compete.
Speaker 5: Didn't we hear that they were going to compete? People
Speaker 5: were gonna give guys a chance. Some guys are just
Speaker 5: built different. I know the routine is go single A,
Speaker 5: double A, triple A and let's go play.
Speaker 2: Right. Sometimes that double A guy is just better?
Speaker 5: Is this better? He's just different? And if you're built different,
Speaker 5: let me build you on the major league roster. And
Speaker 5: I don't know it is early, but the point is
Speaker 5: if you're just talking about on paper the thought process
Speaker 5: for optics, Andy, and I know Andy, well, we appreciate
Speaker 5: your insight too, brother. I love that lineup. Uh, that
Speaker 5: lineup's better than the one you that they're proposed going with.
Speaker 5: I don't have a problem with the hitting order. Cam
Speaker 5: Smith in the two hole, that kind of pop you
Speaker 5: can actually you could probably flip cam Smith and Jordan
Speaker 5: as well, and Christian Walker sitting in the four hole
Speaker 5: gives me I'm good there, yeah, and on yer, and
Speaker 5: so I'm with I think Andy's lineup is pretty We're
Speaker 5: not going to get that lineup, yeah, but that's that's listen.
Speaker 5: I'd rather grow and learn with somebody who's gonna I
Speaker 5: think some days got superstar written all over him, then
Speaker 5: hoping that it works out the other way. Now. And
Speaker 5: you know what, we both like Chazz, give me Chaz
Speaker 5: from two years ago, and I got a solid player
Speaker 5: in the outfield, and we've said that, but I think
Speaker 5: Cam Smith's gonna make it miserable to keep him.
Speaker 2: Out of the lineup, so we off the big league
Speaker 2: club for that matter.
Speaker 3: We always talk about how we judge players and what
Speaker 3: we judged not judge, judged them on. Well, Cam Smith,
Speaker 3: this is so far what we can judge him on.
Speaker 3: He's hitting five seventy one a triple, two home runs,
Speaker 3: six RBIs, four walks, one strikeout. He's had seven at bats,
Speaker 3: he's got an on base percentage of seven hundred and
Speaker 3: an OPS of two thousand and four to fourteen. Twenty
Speaker 3: four to fourteen is his OPS. Again, it's just spring training.
Speaker 3: Judge base exactly all we're judging on and so far
Speaker 3: in these what seven or eight at bats. He has
Speaker 3: looked really good. So if he's got seven at bats,
Speaker 3: he's got four walks, so that's eleven plate appearances, maybe
Speaker 3: twelve plate appearances.
Speaker 2: He's only struck out once, and he showed the power.
Speaker 3: He missed a Grand Slam yesterday by like literally a foot,
Speaker 3: and he cleared the bases.
Speaker 2: Why are we afraid to let him play through this? Why?
Speaker 3: I know that you and I would play. I would.
Speaker 3: I would, man, it'd be I need a wow factor movement,
Speaker 3: it would. It would be really hard for me to
Speaker 3: keep him off the opening day roster. I know he's
Speaker 3: not going to be because that whole clock thing. They
Speaker 3: don't want to start the service.
Speaker 2: Time all that.
Speaker 5: Right, that's that's a problem. That is a problem, and
Speaker 5: quite frankly, it's unfair to the player.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I agree it's gonna be really hard for him to
Speaker 3: make this opening day roster, but I don't think he'll
Speaker 3: be far off. Dude, he and they say he's gonna
Speaker 3: start in double A. He's already been assigned to double A.
Speaker 3: Like when when they got him. If he goes in
Speaker 3: there and rakes for three weeks, move him.
Speaker 2: Dude, i't even start him in double A. I'd start
Speaker 2: him straight up in triple A. Yeah. I always say,
Speaker 2: Adam to that, let me feel, let me feel against
Speaker 2: the good guys first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, well they they they, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you saw yesterday, they already reassigned Jacob Melton.
Speaker 2: He's back in triple A.
Speaker 3: He's not making the open day roster, but camp Smith
Speaker 3: hasn't been reassigned yet, so obviously they like seeing what
Speaker 3: he's doing so far. Early in spring training, we're about
Speaker 3: what halfway through, no.
Speaker 2: Little bit more. It'll be the like this time next week,
Speaker 2: we'll be halfway through.
Speaker 3: They're going to give him as many abasts as possible
Speaker 3: in spring training. And I again, I don't think he
Speaker 3: starts up at the big I would love to see
Speaker 3: it because I'm like you, why not? But then you
Speaker 3: got to think about the the admin side of things,
Speaker 3: if you will, the clock, the service time, all of that,
Speaker 3: making the forty man, then having to move somebody off
Speaker 3: of it, so forth and so on. He's going to
Speaker 3: start in I don't see how he starts in double A.
Speaker 2: I really don't. I know. When did it ever have that?
Speaker 2: You're one of my best twenty six? Yeah? Here you go, Yeah,
Speaker 2: here's your spot. I just don't. I don't understand, but
Speaker 2: you mean I understand, but it bugs me. I guess.
Speaker 3: But imagine this a scenario where the Houston Astros traded
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker, a full, a for real five tool player,
Speaker 3: which is very rare in today's game. They traded him
Speaker 3: because they weren't going to be able for him, and
Speaker 3: they got Cam Smith who blossoms into like a Jordon
Speaker 3: type hitter.
Speaker 5: Well, he's got more raw power, not that Jordon I'm
Speaker 5: talking about, right, and Tuk Tucker.
Speaker 2: He does just pure raw power.
Speaker 5: Yeah, imagine that, Well I have, and I can't wait
Speaker 5: to see it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard for him make field.
Speaker 5: See for me, I think the pressures on the guys
Speaker 5: that are veterans here, not on the young guy. I
Speaker 5: think he's just going out and raking and do what
Speaker 5: he does playing baseball. Those guys got to be feeling.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Live.
Speaker 5: I I stubbed my toe two times. That dude's playing
Speaker 5: starting in left to right or he won't be left.
Speaker 5: They move out two bay back to second, starting the
Speaker 5: right field right, and we don't have a try. Frankly,
Speaker 5: we don't have a legitimate right fielder right now, No,
Speaker 5: because in truth, Chas McCormick's a left and a left fielder. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and Kaspatch in centerfield. We there're no right field arm
Speaker 5: on those three, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Depending on who plays second base, whether it's Dubon Brendan Rodgers,
Speaker 3: if he does well, depending on those let's just let's
Speaker 3: just talk about those two. Let's just say that they're struggling.
Speaker 3: June July, early August. Camp Smith's is in Triple A
Speaker 3: and he's playing well. I wouldn't be surprised if they
Speaker 3: bring him up. He's playing third base, Estoc Breatus is
Speaker 3: over at second base.
Speaker 5: Well, it also wouldn't be bothered if he kept Dubon
Speaker 5: as the If that happens and he's your still your
Speaker 5: Swiss Army and you had the Zenzo and left field
Speaker 5: and Camp forget about this now, give me that corner
Speaker 5: out feels pretty good. Yeah, if you're looking at young
Speaker 5: studs that and go to Baltimore Orioles route right, and
Speaker 5: then you're you're in, dude, you're looking to Letter, just
Speaker 5: get to Rake and.
Speaker 3: And then if and if if you're the Houston Astros.
Speaker 3: You know I heard the KBO is looking for outfielders,
Speaker 3: so Jake Myers might be available.
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, while you're down on Jake.
Speaker 3: Because he he's a two twenty hinter, I don't care
Speaker 3: if you got to.
Speaker 5: Your third derogatory, is it?
Speaker 3: That's exactly what you saw the wheel st to two twenty hitters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is