Astros Split Series Between Angels, NCAA's Final Four Set, Rockets Beat Pelicans 134-102, Ari Alexander Joins 790!

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This is the Morning Drive with dadd and Cole.
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Three two, and that's Lofton in the shallow center racing
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in a dell dived k get it. It goes past
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up and it's rolling toward the warning track. Smith scores,
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Alvarez Scores east O Paradis said the second Astros.
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Lead at eight to six oh one.
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How two May drives this one toward the left center
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field gap and that's down per a hit onto the
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warning track. Ald scores Our two May trade places with
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them at second nine to six Astros to two strike
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three call Crosa with a fastball to the outside quarter
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and fat is the ballgame are harder split for the
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Houston Astros in their season opening four game series with
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the Angels, victorious today nine to seven. Astros lose the
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first two, win the last two.
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Much better finish. I think we can agree on that.
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With that, we say away, we go, good morning. It
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is the Morning Drive with Danny Coles Sports Talks seven
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to ninety game you go in for the week.
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None of us after the first two game of the season,
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so glad. None of us all said, Hey, season's over,
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can't wait to go? Oh in one sixty two Dan.
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I mean, like it would have been crazy to see
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how social media reacted to a loss on a Friday night.
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Well, you heard what Ryan Spilboorg said to us on Friday,
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where he said, you know, you lose that first game
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out the gate, there's kind of a little bit of
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a feeling even though you know better, but there's kind
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of a little bit of a feeling of man, are
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we even gonna win a game?
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And then you go oh into and you're really like,
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oh god, we might as well pack it on in
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until next October.
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See you guys in twenty twenty seven.
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Well, I just I think that what the unsettling feeling
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was is that starting pitching all week long was not great.
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Like not a single guy was really somebody could look
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to and say.
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Oh, Rout was legit, Hotter was awesome.
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Is he just lumped before the end of the fifth
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I mean, And that's that's part of it. I mean,
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that's why I think it's all encompassing, because I mean
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Mike Burrows. Now here's the thing though, too. If you
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looked at Mike Burrow's stat line, this is the age old.
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The stats don't completely tell the story. Oh I thought
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he was fine. I didn't think he was great. I
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didn't think he was terrible. I thought he was fine.
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He got soft contacted to death, That's what it was.
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Wait, like three of the singos that he gave up
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were bloopers.
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So I did this on Friday when I did Astros
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tenth inning. Is that one of the best tools that
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you can look at in terms of, you know, figuring out, hey,
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you know, was the guy really tattooed? Let's go to
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baseball savant. Ninety five miles an hour or more is
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a hard hit baseball. There were sixteen of them in
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the entire game. And that's not all on Mike Burrows,
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but sixteen of them in the entire game. Eleven of
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them were Astros. Seven of the Astros hard hit balls.
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Of those eleven were outs Like Jordan Alvarez when he
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had runners on the ground out the second he hit
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that at like one hundred and thirteen miles an hour, right,
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he tattooed it absolutely just so. The average exit velocity
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and Chandler Rome had pointed this out against Mike Burrow
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was like eighty four point one.
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No, Like I look back at the game against Christian
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Haavier and the two different performances, like Javier went a
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little bit less. But I thought, Javier, you throw in
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the walks, and again he had four walks, he had
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two hit batters, so led to the opportunity for them
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to score six runs. I thought his control was worse.
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I thought his velocity was worse. I thought all the
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things that we're gonna put you in a nerve racking
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situation were definitely worse than anything Burrows did. Just Burrows
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gave up five runs, and he was legit throughout all
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of spring training. And again it's one of those things
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where he got taken with a grain of salt of
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we appreciate what you do in spring training, but remind yourself,
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half the guys that you're going up against they're playing
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the Triple A. Half the guys are going up against
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they're not in the active roster. Oh and the other thing,
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dan a lineup is going through two or three times
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with you on the mound. They're gonna be able to
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pick up some stuff along the way. But you know,
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there was a giant difference in that standpoint when I
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was very fearful.
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Love is okay.
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Well, if starting pitching sucks offense is gotta do the job.
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First two games, two runs, one coming on a bad
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error by Logan O Hoppy, who, by the way, do
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to thank you for giving us four runs over the
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weekend you single handedly might have given the Astros at
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least one win.
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And then the solo shop from your don Alvarez.
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You go one of fourteen to begin the series with
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runners in scoring position heading into Saturday night, and like,
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that's the moment where I'm saying, okay, with the offense
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trash and the pitching is not doing.
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Well and you're lying heavily on your bullpen.
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Yeah, I understand why as Twitter is losing its freaking
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mind going into game number three and saying, oh, in one,
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sixty two is on the table.
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I don't come out of it really overly fearful of
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the pitching. I think that that will figure itself out,
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and I mean it sounds like it kind of already
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is starting to, because there were reports after the game
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that Christian Row is packing his bags. And it's not
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to say that Christian Row was a problem, but yeah.
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I had three straight strikes yesterday and gotten out. I mean,
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I appreciate that.
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But the issue is with your starters not being able
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to go deeper into games right now, Well, it's creating
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a little bit of a strain on the bullpen and
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Christian unfortunately for now, is the odd man out to
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go down to Triple A.
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So Peter Lambert or Spencer Getty. I think that it.
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Will probably be either of like those guys, or I
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mean maybe even two while you don't have Bennett Sussas at.
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Tom Cosgrove or somebody like that, I mean like Govia,
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Jp Fransson's calm back up.
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I mean he's a possibility too. He's somebody that can
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give you. I mean, either of those guys can give
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you a lot of well, I mean Gordon probably. I
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think that they're going to save him for bringing him
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up a little bit later, which, by the way too,
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I mean you forget that Jason Alexander is now down
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there because he wasn't able to crack the opening day
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roster car shield the company. I saw that yesterday. Jason
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Alexander is one of their spokespeople, is he really? And
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you could see that it was Cacti Park where they
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filmed the commercial.
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Okay, well, if he's making enough money, bring him on
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up to the big leagues. If you got a guy
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on a commercial. You're you can be a triple A pitcher.
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You've got to be a major league pitcher.
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Well, I mean maybe he could be the six man
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after you know this week which the Astros are gonna
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bring the Red Sox into town. I thought about this morning,
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and you know I'm an idiot for not thinking about
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it last night. I'm gonna try to get Ari Alexander
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on with us. Our good buddy used to be with
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KPRC two. Now he's doing local TV up there in
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Boston to be able to preview the Red Sox series.
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See, that's what I want to know too.
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Like, I think it's gonna be a two parter for
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the ass because A are you coming down?
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And b you know, can you come on and talk
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some Red Sox with us?
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So you get Boston here for these next three couple
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of night games and then a Wednesday getaway day game
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before the Astros head out to the West Coast ten.
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Game road trip where it futures matchups against the Athletics,
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the Mariners, and the Rockies before you return on home
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for a series with the Rockies. But right now you're
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kind of rolling into this series now looking at a
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two to two season, you're back at five hundred. You're
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basically wiping the first week clean. Offense looks good. I'm
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listening again. I don't think anybody's coming out of You're
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saying that the Astros are going to be able to
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beat the breaks off of everybody consistently and get in
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one or two innings seven straight. But moving off of
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going from zero to fourteen, I mean one in fourteen
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to seven to twelve to thirty six with ryers and
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scoring position the last two days, Christian Walker's looking awesome
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at the plate.
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East sk Parretes. Who the hell wanted to right away?
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East sc Parentes, because that was dumb take from anybody
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out there right now, Joey Lo Perfido looking the part
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out leftfield. You're not in love with what the offense
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is doing, because if you don't want to see just
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you having one absolute machete driven, just brutal beat down
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of an inning. I touched it the you know, with
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the offense. But you'll take what you can after what
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you had the first two games. And that's why you're
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sitting in too and two because you're starting pitching couldn't
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get you out of trouble.
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And getting this done without the virtue of the long
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ball either where you scored a small wall where you
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scored twenty runs. Well, and it's funny you say small
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ball because Christian Vasquez lays down a bunt and Chandler
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Rome couldn't help himself.
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He said, there's your bunt.
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Did he do a bafflip again? When he hit the
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two run RBI in the second end, he'd do a
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baffo it?
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Vasquez? Yeah, I didn't see.
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Did you got to see his bath flop like when
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he was thirteen Puerto Rico? Well, I mean I think
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that that's probably you know.
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It was because it was the comeback. But still I
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was the emotions. I was laughing my asshof.
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This is a guy that's doing a single barely through
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the infield and that bad is flying nine feet in
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the air like he just walked it off and won
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it with a five hundred yards blast.
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five hundred yard blast. I got start saying yard when
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I mean feet. That's like my was just you got
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you got football.
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That is one thing that I constantly keep on doing
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and I catch myself midway through like if that was
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five hundred yards, that's like seventeen hundred feet.
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That would be I don't know, three three tape measure
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home runs right there, son home run derby tape measure
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home runs where somebody will actually hit one five hundred
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that'd be like.
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What fifteen hundred feet sixteen hundred feet.
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Although have you noticed ever since steroids went out of
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the game that we haven't seen a lot of five
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hundred foot home runs?
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John Carlos Stanton, who is juicing and nobody's just telling
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us about it.
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Well, I mean some people are just physical freak. He
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still juicing out in Philadelphia because he sucks right now.
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Right Well, they lost to his former team two three
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this weekend and he was a big reason.
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Why they lost, an easy fly ball to right field
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and the sun gets in his face, goes, I.
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Want to have about these guys.
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Well, and if there's a place that you don't want
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to play well right out the gate, Philadelphia is probably
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not one of those places that you want to do that.
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But that's this problem.
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As the Astros, it do figure it out on Saturday
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and Sunday.
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And that was the thing too, is I mean I
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even joined in on it. A little bit.
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I'll be honest here, I was kind of like the
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mom and step brothers, you know, some of the meaner
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parents started to join in, and I couldn't help myself,
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so I jumped into is that I was doing the
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same thing with Astros Twitter where I mean it was
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in the early going of that game, where you have
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a couple of run scoring opportunities and you can't come through,
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and it's just finally to the point where you're just.
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Like, are you guys going to continue to do this?
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Like you know the changes you make over the off season,
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and I mean, soon enough, you got to stop being
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the reason why you're losing games. And click, quickly they
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turned it on his ear and they said, okay, we
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won't be the reason. As a matter of fact, will
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be the reason we win this game. And it was
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nice to see we score eleven in that one and
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you score nine yesterday.
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I'm not worried about the starting pitching, which right now
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has a seven to eighty four era, according to Brian
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McTaggart of MLB dot Com. Again, I do think that
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there are some concerns you have. You can look at
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the way that pitches were Totsy Emi looked legit in
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his first two innings of work. What gives up a
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walk to Zach Neetto comes on in yesterday? Three pitches later,
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Mike truck Get gets out on an easy, easy strike
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that we could see, but then he challenges it with
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the ABS system hits the outside corner. Five strikeouts on
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the day. So I mean again, there was there was promise,
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the potential. There just was one thing led to another.
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You got into a two hot situation. A walk leads
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to a single, a single leads to a basis loaded,
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bases loaded clearing double by ho Hey, so Layer, now
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it's a four to three game. Joe seen enough, he's
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gottae out, get him out of the bullpen. I'm not
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worry And again, it's nice to see the offense be
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able to do what we really needed to see after
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going basically hitless and scoreless for two straight games outside
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of long ball and an easy thrown down to third.
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But I still think that you're gonna need to rely
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heavily on your pitching. Credit the bullpen for bailing you
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out of trouble. Credit to guys like aj Blueball, looking,
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wheeling and dealing Brian and Pray you. We gotta have
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a conversation about that. What's going on there, Brian King
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hate to be that guy, but I'll say it right
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now at six to eleven in the morning, that is
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who I want in the closing role at least at
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this point, so long as we're not gonna see Josh Hater.
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So there's a lot of things I think the Asters
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can take away saying we got clean up. But you're
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sitting at five hundred after going on and too, there's
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a lot of things that you like about this team.
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There was a lot of positive traction from players that
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you want to see more growth with.
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In spring training.
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That is, at least I think, a step in the
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right direction to begin twenty twenty six after starting off
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a year to where everyone thought sky is falling, doom
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and gloom. It's a terrible time to be a Houstonian.
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Life is nothing great?
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All right?
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Now we go line the Texans in their offense to
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finally get the act together.
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Well, the Astros do find some offense. That's nice to see.
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You mentioned, Brian A Bray you that's gonna be a
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name that comes up in our next conversation because concerns
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about the Astros pitching a couple of reasons why those
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concerns should be easily put to bed. Share those with
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you as we're just getting going. You want to join
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in seon one three two one two five seven ninety
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against seOne three two one two five seven ninety.
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Also, the final four is set.
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It's gonna be Michigan, Arizona, Illinois and Yukon and Indianapolis.
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Well, no, good, God, Duke is who is the part
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of that? Yukon.
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Good on them. They were there to clean up on
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the mistakes. Dan Hurley is the villain we need in
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college basketball. I freaking love it.
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It is pretty awesome. So you got that Rockets.
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I mean you've been looking for them to put together
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a performance like they did, and they did it last night.
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Won thirty four one oh two over the Pelicans in
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New Orleans and Gary Woodland winner at the Texas Children's
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Houston Open, and awesome post round interview that before we
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get out of here today.
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Definitely going to share that with you.
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But the Astros pitching concerns, let's get into that next
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right here. As we're just getting rolling on a Monday,
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It's the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk
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seven to.
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Ninety, Dan Matthews, Cole Thompson.
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This is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole.
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And so it's Kayden was is the brother of Cameron.
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Yeah, Cayden is the guy that tried to throw it
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off the court, which, in fairness, here's the thing, going
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back and looking at the replay, he gets it over
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those guys an easy bucket.
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Then yeah, game's over.
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So it's a bang bang play. But still just get fouled. Well,
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it's not only get foul. It's not only just get fouled.
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Then we're gonna get to the astros pitching. But it's
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not only just get fouled. It's ten seconds. You're not
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gonna get a ten second backcourt violation there, And if
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you do, it's gonna be zero point two seconds left
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on the clock. They will have no time left to go.
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It would be a heave down to from half court.
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Here's the thing where you know people are saying, you know,
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Caden Boozer, he blew it. You know the players blew
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it on the floor. No, John Shire blew it.
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Oh John Shire sucked last night.
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You have a timeout. You have a timeout.
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The most important thing right there is to get the
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ball in and you would like to ideally get it
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to your guy that's gonna be able to knock down
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both free throws. But still most importantly, get the ball
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in bounds. That's the most important thing right there. You
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call a timeout, you rerack it, you get the ball
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in bounds. You have a code word for foul when
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they inbound if we're up by three, so then they
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can't shoot the three to be able to tie it up.
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I do have the biggest asking, the biggest question of
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the day, ladies and gentleman, at seven ninety what qualifies
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as a safe lead for Duke in a must win game, well,
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pushing back to back years where they're up by fifteen
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plus and yet find a way to get knocked out.
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And I even said that too, Uh, Eli.
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That's a safely thirty thirty one.
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The most nervous the most nervous man in America yes
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day during that game with John Shire, because I mean, look,
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I'm not saying he's got the reputation just yet, but
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a reputation's got to start somewhere.
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And if this means Franklin a college basketball I mean
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maybe maybe.
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I mean, who's uh, who's a guy that's got a
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reputation for losing big games. Ryan Day college football. Could
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he could he be known as the Ryan Day of
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college basketball.
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Well, he's got to be able to get a national
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championship first four KI.
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Well, but Day eventually got that. Before that he didn't.
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So I mean that's what remember Day had been thought
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of as being a guy that has Jim Harbaugh said,
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born on third base. So I mean some people might
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say the same thing about John Sire. It's a dumb narrative,
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but I get it. I do Shire again, Well, here's
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what we're not gonna do and be prisoners at the moment,
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guys that getting fired. Guys, what I'm saying the fact
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that I saw one.
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Dude, I'm gonna call him out because it's so blatantly
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dumb saying that. The hottest stake of all hot takes
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is I think that Hubert Davis has done a better
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job at UNC the John Shire has done.
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A duke And I'm like, he's lost two games in
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three years.
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Guys, come on, like six games in three years, Like
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what the hell are we doing?
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Man?
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Like this is where like the unsustainable crap of toxic
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culture kind of comes on up for these big sports programs,
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why nobody wants the job like Kaylen de Boor in Alabama.
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Kaylen Boor has been to the playoff in an SEC
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title game in two years and get for some Bama fans,
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they're saying he should be on the hot seat going
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into year three. It's like, what would do you want
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from me to be able to go replace the greatest
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coach ever exist in college hoops?
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Well, I mean, like I said, I'm not saying that
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he's on the hot seat by any means, but I'm
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just saying that reputations can be there. I mean, if
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I'm not mistaken, I think Roy Williams had the same
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reputation for the longest time when he was at Kansas.
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Yeah, he also had a great dance so well.
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He absolutely did, and then once he went to UNC
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those those reputations, those those charges were beat.
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So what you're saying is John Shire needs to watch
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his bill self retires and then going out to Lawrence
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and dude job.
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Maybe so maybe so he is fine, He's fine. Here's
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here's something else I thought about too, is that let's
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just say that Danny Hurley is able to win these
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next two games.
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He's not going anywhere unless the next call.
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I mean, I if North Carolina called, I think he
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would have a tough time.
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He's not going to North Carolina like I I will
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throw how much you want this morning at six twenty
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three on the table.
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Well, I mean, it's just because if he wins another
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national title at Yukon, I think at that point, I don't.
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I don't even think that the fan base would. I mean,
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as a matter of fact, I know the fan base
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would not have it against him. I think that you
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would also have just the thought of, well, what else
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can you would necessarily accomplish there? I mean, does he
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want to become John Wooden? Basically?
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How much? Well, I mean because I.
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Will, I will throw all of the money that I
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have currently in my bank account on the fact that
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Danny Hurley is either going to stay at Yukon until
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he cuts down his final net and calls it a career,
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or the Knicks fine that come calling and say all right,
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it's sounds to come an m machine that like like
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that's it from money.
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Money is not the only thing.
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It's also I mean, what if North Carolina tells them, oh,
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by the way, this is your program you will hear
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nothing from us other than hey, how can we help
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your program?
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I just think that why chase, Why change a good
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thing when you know right now you're going into a
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situation that has a lot of instability, especially at the
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athletic department head because of public cutting hams out the door,
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the mad house of a goose Chase. It was for
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the Bill Belichick hire because of there were people who
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were saying, please, for the love of God, do not
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hire a tired tread seventy plus year old coach when
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we just fired a tired tread seventy plus year old coach.
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And you don't want to deal with having to go
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toe against a guy like John Shire on the regular
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basis where you're killing it in the Big East. I
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just see, right now this has a scenario of you
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got a great thing going on, You're never going to
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be replaced at Yukon. You're basically not ready to surpass
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Jim Calhoun as one of the greatest coaches in the
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program history. And what you've been able to buildun a
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dime back. I'd like to be retired some day.
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Like okay, like he's gonna be second.
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Like the only thing I could say is that he's
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second behind Geno in Yukon K one.
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Of the best postgame press conferences ever when the guy
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was trying to ask him about his contract. Not a
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dime back, like to be a tie it some day.
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Here's that, Jim, get some facts and come back.
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And see me.
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I love this speaking of you know last night and
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the Mullins three by Yukon to be able to move
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on patio or he goes by at pH clap on Twitter.
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We all saw it and it's got photos accompanying it.
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Mullins from the I ninety five corridor. In the ensuing celebration,
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my buddy was jumping in elation and completely tore his achilles.
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Just got back from the er three twenty nine, twenty
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six goes down into history books.
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Was it all worth it? You bet your ass it was?
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And that is why Dan Hurley is not leaving you
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Yukon anytime soon.
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That's what march madness does for us, I guess. So anyway, yeah,
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Yukon one of the four teams.
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It's gonna be.
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I mean, like I said, it's gonna be a fun
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final four. I mean, and even as I said on Twitter,
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all four of these teams have a claim. All four
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of these teams have a reason to believe that they
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can win. Ucon's playing good basketball, They've got the history,
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They've still got guys that have been on those national
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championship teams. They could be able to put together two
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really good games. Illinois, what we saw here in Houston
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and that length that they've got and how disciplined they
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are on both sides of the floor.
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I mean, the fighting Eastern Europeans.
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Yeah, I mean, Illinois absolutely could Arizona. I mean, at least,
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you know, if you're going to put a favorite amongst
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the four, Arizona. But I mean, you could really make
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the argument that that game against Michigan is going to
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be the national championship right there, because that's the unfortunate
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truth of it is, the two best teams that are
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in this are going to have one of those teams
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watching Monday night with the rest of us.
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See. I think that Michigan's the best team of the tournament,
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and I said that they're very beginning of things. I
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had them playing Houston in the Final four and Houston
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cutting down the bets, but still they showed it again,
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eat the breaks off a Tennasse sat Rick Barnes bro
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I mean, like you got one more shot or I
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call it quits, Like how much more heartbreaking.
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You deal with? Man?
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You make it out of the first weekend every single year,
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you get the massive upset on a Thursday or Friday night,
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and then comes Sunday and you're absolutely beating the brakes
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off of like that was a bad game.
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I almost feel like with Rick Barnes that I'm like
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the spider in the movie theater of a scary movie
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on family Guy. Don't go in there, he's behind the door.
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That's what it seems like with Rick Barnes at Tennessee.
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I mean, and he was even the same thing when
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he was at Texas. So you know, other than the
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one season that they broke through was at three where
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they broke through a TJ. Ford and got to the
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Final four and lost to Melo Anthony and Syracuse that year.
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But I mean, that is the Rick Barnes career.
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Because it is as good as you felt. After they
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beat Iowa State, I immediately saw, you know, okay that
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they're gonna take that, They're gonna take on Michigan, and
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I was just like, man, Rick Barnes is like, I
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can't catch a break. We're gonna run into yet another
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buzz saw. And oh, they ran into a buzz saw.
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All right, let's take a break and then when we
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come back fins.
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That's exact, exactly true. We can do both of those things,
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So we will do that. You want to get in
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someone three two one two five seven ninety, and it's
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someone three two one two five seven ninety concerning to some,
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but we are here to calm those concerns. When it
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comes to the astro's arms. We'll do that right here.
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As we continue on a Monday, it is the Morning
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Drive with Dan and Cole. Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Reel takes, real reaction, real.
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Houston Sports Talk seven ninety guarantee human.
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I'll say, if anything, it's because of the dad and
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then the brother you're throwing them.
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I mean, but the dad, though, I mean not for
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the rest of the country. Maybe up in like the
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Tri State area that was the case.
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Where he's from and that's where he's coaching.
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But I mean for the nation, it was Bobby Hurley
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just because of where he played at. Like, let's just
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say Bobby Hurley played it.
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I don't know.
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Seaton Hall or you and c would just be in
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his backyard.
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Well, I mean, but I mean, I'm just saying that,
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like if he had played any of those other schools,
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but the fact that he played at Duke, and let's
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be honest here, it seems like any white guy that
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comes out of Duke gets gets crushed. JJ Reddick, Christian Latner. Yeah,
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but Layner was a d bag.
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That's the diffin.
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Well, I mean, that's the thing he leaned into it.
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I mean, but but I mean JJ Reddick the same deal.
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Who's roster spot? Did he take on the Dream Team?
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Uh?
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Laatener? Yeah? Was it Isaiah Thomas?
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No?
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I thought that was later on. I had the qualification.
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I thought that was way before here.
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I thought that it was a dream team that Isaiah
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Thomas was left off. I thought that was the whole
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thing that was part of the last days here. Okay,
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maybe it was. I thought he was loved at the
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other Olympic team. By the way, Morning Drive Dana Coles play,
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That's correct, He's Dan. I'm Colke is triple on the
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ones and two. Yeah, so you get the Astros win
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in Yesterday nine to seven. They split that series with
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the Angels Red Sox in town at next that series
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gets going at today. You also have the Rockets winning
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last night one th four, one oh two. They split
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their four game road trip, got three straight coming up
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at home, two more on the road, and then three
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more at home to be able to close out the
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regular season. So the playoff push is on and Gary
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Woodland winner at the Texas Children's Houston Open. Astro's pitching
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so far, and we'll get you in here in a
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second chasing. But Astro's pitching. So, as we mentioned, the
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starting pitching was ho hom over these last four days.
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I mean not ho hum.
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That's a bad way of putting it. It was the worst
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in Major League Baseball. It was. It was. It was
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a little rough where they're starting pitching. Era?
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Is that they're starting pitching or is it the pitching
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staff as a whole is a seven eight four ERA six.
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Seven six four eras these pitching staff were just the
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starters right.
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Now, Okay, all right, so things a little bit rough
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out the gates. I mean, Hunter Brown he was good ish,
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I guess for his first starts.
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Fine, he was fine.
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I mean, if you you didn't want to get him
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over one hundred pitches. You want him to stay within
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ninety plus. I mean under ninety you didn't have any
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run support. He gave up one extra base hit, and
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everything else was just basically him doing hunder brown stuff.
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He had one hundred and two in that game.
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On hundred and two, that's right. But they didn't want
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to go over one hundred and ten, right, I mean,
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you don't want to stretch him too far out. But then, uh,
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Friday night, as I mentioned with Mike Burrows, it was
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soft contact of death. The only hard hit balls were
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the Josh Low three run homer and then also the
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Mike Trout homer, which, by the way, I mean, that's
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the thing.
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Are we ready to say that Mike Trout is back?
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I said it after he hit the one that was
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four hundred feet on Thursday's back.
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Let's stand on that.
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Yeah.
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I mean it's one of those that of all the
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storylines that we could have in baseball this year, too,
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I can I can almost guarantee you that we're going
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to have, you know, us having MLB Network on and
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here as we get closer to the trade deadline, and
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there's gonna be questions, will the Angels finally move off
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of Mike Trout.
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If he's playing the way that he did this past series,
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you have to catch in.
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I think that you do, because I do think that
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there's a team out there that would give up the
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farm for him and and also be able to help
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you out with that contract.
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Imagine if Mike Trout is eighty percent of this the
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rest of his career, so like what we witnessed over
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the past four games, he's eighty percent after three more years,
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some team is going to be dumb enough to make
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that move, and they're right to make that move.
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It's Mike freakin' Trout, all right.
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So a couple of different guys to focus on too,
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with the pitching staff this weekend and the struggles star
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First with the guy that went yesterday. It was his
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major league debut, tatsu y E Mai, and it was
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a little all over the place. I mean literally all
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over the place because a lot of walks in there
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still saw some of the good stuff. But then it
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was his third inning that got to him and Joe A.
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Spotta talking about that after the game yesterday. Of the
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up and down performance of Tatsumai.
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I didn't see any nervousness you know, the fastball he
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was getting to fastball over. He saw speed pitches, the slider,
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and and you know he split which is not consistent
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in his zone. And you know, we'll, I'm sure that we'll,
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we'll go to work and we correct those.
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And then after the game too, Christian Vasquez, which you
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want to know why Christian Vasquez is on the roster
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when he says things like he said after the game,
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that's why, like he was diagnosing him in real time.
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He said that he noticed that it looked like his
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arm slot was dropping and that there's some things that
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they're going to work through before he takes them mound
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the next time, saying that he thinks that the next
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time TATSI mine will be a lot better.
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I mean, go look at what some of the pitches
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were in that third ending. The zach Netlwaukee is two
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way outside the zone that Nolan Shanuel walk, There's four
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all like every single ball is beyond outside the zone.
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So you gotta give a lot of credit for a
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Christia Vaskis being able to stay in the plate. The
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Jorge Solaar doubles, I think where you lost all control
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of the situation, because if you just get out of
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the inning, and again you would one out. At the time,
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you probably feel a lot better about your opportunity to
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We'll see what happened in the fourth, and maybe it
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would have been a done day for him, but you
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know you're ending up getting through and even if you
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give up one run, it's still four to one. You
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build a lead, you feel confident where you are in
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terms of the rest of your offense, the way that
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they're swinging the bat right now, you get out of
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trouble and you worry about the rest of the situation later.
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It was where the placement was of the pitch.
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It was where the placement was the ball, the way
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ricocheted off of the left field corner to be able
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to rattle around and go ahead and clear the bases,
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And at that point it just felt like, okay, it
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was a lost car. As you get the next one
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where it's a ground out to Joann Mancatta, Joe Adell
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singles and at that point Joe spot it realizes he
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may have the confidence of he may have the confidence
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of a tiger ready to go ahead and pounce.
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Different tiger today, and we're talking about that one.
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But still you got a guy who is very much
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built in the system of I know how to play
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at my highest level. I lost my control today. Let's
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just go ahead and hit reset until next time we
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see him.
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Yeah, and this is one of those two where you've
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got to believe that. I mean, as the season goes along,
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they might let him work his way out of that
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a little bit more, but this early on, I don't
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think they're trying to kill confidence, and that's why they
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decided to go ahead and make the move off of him.
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Let's continue though, because Brian to Bray, you another guy
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that it wasn't just giving up the three run Homer
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on Saturday night when you finally got him his first
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act of the year. You bring him back out there yesterday.
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And control is a little bit of an issue. But
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also the velo is a little bit of an issue
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for a Bray. You and Joe A Spotta talking about
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that as well.
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We didn't notice that, you know, and and we're going
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to I want to talk to him a little bit.
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Just to make sure that you know always.
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There, you know, the back to back, not really, but
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but just more the it's just more want to see
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the conviction, right, I want to see him attack. You know,
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you're one of the best relievers in the game. You know,
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I want those those guys on the other.
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Side there that don't want to see you on the mountain.
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I want to see that bulldog mentality and it's in there.
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And you know, today was one of those days that
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both turned the page and we we we get him going,
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we get we'll get a broad rolling.
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He's rolling. But at the same time, you have a
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twenty seven era right now. Sorry, I'm not trusting.
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Him well and at the moments with a Brady's velocity
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being down is I don't know what he's been throughout
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most of his career, but the.
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Beginning of the season has always been an issue for
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a brad You I mean, like, I'm not saying that
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I'm ready to believe the Astros don't need him on
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the roster by the time next season rolls around.
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If he's a free agent, let him go.
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But you are looking at a guy who every single
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year it takes about twelve games for him to get
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caught to speed and back to that one thirty eight
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ra with a fastball at hovers around ninety five ninety six.
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And I mean his average velocity I believe was around
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ninety three miles an hour this weekend, so that might
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be what it is. He's just not built up yet,
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But I mean it is something that was a little
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bit of a concern for him early on in his
734
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career was the control. And that was something that I mean,
735
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it wasn't only the Astros pitching staff, but also I
736
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:46.000
mean even myself where I mean, you saw his stuff
737
00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:48.359
early on when he first came up with the Astros,
738
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:50.400
and you're like, if this guy could find the zone,
739
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:52.640
he could be one of the best relievers in baseball.
740
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:54.279
Then he found the zone and he became one of
741
00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:56.319
the best relievers in baseball. I heard a call with
742
00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.359
Chris Gordy on the Astros Tenthting Show yesterday right before
743
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:01.680
I was about to hop on into a Rockets launchpad,
744
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:03.880
and a guy asked, why didn't the Astros do a
745
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:06.680
better job of finding a backup closer. Well, first of all,
746
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:09.960
that doesn't exist. If you're good enough to close, chances
747
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.359
are you've got one of the jobs in Major League Baseball.
748
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:14.480
Second of all, he has been one of the best
749
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:16.920
relievers in baseball, so I e you do have a
750
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:17.720
backup closer.
751
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:18.640
He's your guy.
752
00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:22.079
I mean Ryan Presley was a guy that was very
753
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.160
much in the same position career wise as Brian A.
754
00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:27.039
Bray you for much of his career. Then he comes
755
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.559
to Houston and he becomes so consistent that once you
756
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.119
needed to have somebody in that role. After you moved
757
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.000
off of Roberto Ozuna, you slid in Ryan Presley, and
758
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.519
Presley became one of the best closers in baseball. So
759
00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:41.559
it's a job that is a lot like running back
760
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:43.920
in the NFL that you want to be able to
761
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:47.279
capitalize on that guy as long as possible. I mean,
762
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.519
the Astros have done what normally they tell you not
763
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:51.960
to do with closers, and that's paid them a lot
764
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:52.480
of money.
765
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:53.920
Then let's be honest here.
766
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.079
I mean Josh Hader missing the end of last season,
767
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:57.920
He's already out for the beginning part of this season.
768
00:31:58.359 --> 00:31:59.920
Soon enough, you need to start getting him back on
769
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:02.039
amount and he needs to be able to contribute it again.
770
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:03.039
What did you think of Brian King?
771
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:05.279
Brian King, I thought was fantastic.
772
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.480
I thought Steven Okert was fantastic for you this weekend
773
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:09.240
great like that, like.
774
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:10.799
That, like that's also the thing that we got to
775
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:13.799
take away from spring training, when we go oversaturated of
776
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:17.000
hot takes of elite picture great guy at the dish.
777
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:18.519
He's gonna kill it when he gets the major.
778
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:21.119
We also need to temper our expectations when it comes
779
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:22.559
to dude suck as well.
780
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:25.480
And I'll tell you another guy that was incredibly good
781
00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:26.960
for you. I mean, I know he gave up the
782
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:30.039
home run the Mike Trout on Thursday, but I am
783
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.519
a massive, massive aj blue.
784
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.119
Ball I leverage dude. I'll tell you that right now.
785
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:37.400
I mean he's he's making the argument to be able
786
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.480
to be considered for those roles right now.
787
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:41.440
Consider him in the seventh and eighth inning. I would
788
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.400
I want him in a starting role. But I'll tell
789
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.839
you what if he becomes your next Hope, becomes your
790
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.200
next Brian to bray you this time next year, I'm
791
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:49.759
all for it.
792
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:51.079
Dude, his lights out.
793
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.880
And then Munios gives up the two run homer to
794
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zach Netto. But I mean, overall, I thought was fine
795
00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.759
enough for you yesterday. So I mean relievers you're seeing
796
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:03.319
in one of the other things too that Joe Spota
797
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:05.200
had alluded to of. You know, you're trying to fit
798
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.640
guys in the roles right now, trying to figure out,
799
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.599
you know, who's going where. I mean, the moral of
800
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:13.519
the story is the starting pitching being shaky for you.
801
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.039
I mean, I would say three out of the four
802
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:18.720
guys were relatively shaky for you. And again I even
803
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:20.680
think that you've got to put some you know, some
804
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:23.759
context to these starts. I mean, am I first one
805
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:24.279
out the gate?
806
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:24.759
All right?
807
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:27.599
You know, gonna make some adjustments, still figuring out how
808
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:29.839
to pitch over here? He'll be fine. I mean the
809
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:32.079
stuff showed you that that he looks like he's gonna
810
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:35.440
be fine. With Javier, it was an up and down performance,
811
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.480
but I mean again, Javier is in the middle part
812
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:42.200
of your rotation, and I mean with Mike Burrows too
813
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.640
as well. As I mentioned a couple of hard hit
814
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.880
balls off him, but for the most part he was
815
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:49.799
hurt by soft contact. I mean, that's that's what I
816
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.440
took from his start. It wasn't like, and I saw
817
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:55.359
somebody through that on Twitter of you know, Dana's top
818
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:59.440
acquisition over the offseason just getting batted around, And it
819
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.559
was just like, wasn't getting batted around? Why don't you
820
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:03.799
actually watch the game instead of watching it on game
821
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:04.960
day on your phone.
822
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:06.960
They see eight hits. That's all they care about.
823
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:09.159
That's exactly what it was. That's one hundred percent what
824
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:12.559
it was. Where it's like, no, actually watch and see.
825
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:14.119
Okay, you know what. You know what it reminds me
826
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.159
of about tell you it's like whenever Blake Bortle is
827
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:18.119
at the end of a game, would end up stat
828
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:19.920
padding his numbers to go ahead and win you a
829
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:23.119
fancy game like Blake Bortles is legit and fancy. It's like, yeah,
830
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.639
because they're down by thirty and they can only throw
831
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:28.840
the football, so naturally he's gonna have three and twenty
832
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.280
two passing yards and three touchdowns because it's the only
833
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:32.719
way they're gonna be able to at least make this
834
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:33.840
a sustainable game.
835
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:36.119
I've said it and I'll continue to say it. Well,
836
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:38.000
three eighty four, he must be a top ten quarterback.
837
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:38.960
Are at the boat.
838
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.400
There are people who just cannot stand Dana Brown and
839
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.119
Joe Aspota because they're not aj Hinch and they're not
840
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:50.519
Jeff Louno. That's what it is, and that's it. I mean,
841
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.079
if it's Dusty and James click too right now, well,
842
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:56.320
I mean, same deal. Absolutely and especially Dusty, where you know,
843
00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:58.400
at least we don't have Dusty as our manager anymore.
844
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:02.239
Oh you mean the guy that took to the Alcs
845
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:04.079
every single year and one year O World Series.
846
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.280
Yeah, such a bad guy to have around again. But
847
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:08.760
like that's the way that people react.
848
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:10.480
And now they're saying the well, now what they're doing
849
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:12.840
is they're saying the exact same things that they said
850
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.599
about Dusty with Joe. And then when Dusty finally won
851
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:18.480
the championship and he finally was able to get his
852
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:21.519
Commissioner's Trophy, everyone says, now I miss Dusty because Dusty
853
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:23.679
made the right calls. Dusty would be able to put
854
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:26.719
people in this situation. Dusty would do this. And it's
855
00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:30.519
not a Dusty and an AJ and a Joe and
856
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.960
a Dana and it's a Luna thing and a James click.
857
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.840
It's a we haven't won a championship, we have n't
858
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:39.679
been to the playoffs with you at a consistent rate.
859
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:41.440
Time for you to get your act together and make
860
00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.239
us back to where we are at the championship level,
861
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:44.480
because we have expectations here.
862
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:48.400
All right. It's a good day for Jose, for Alex
863
00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.679
and also for Richard.
864
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.519
All three of those coming your way as we close
865
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.079
out six o'clock, Gower, don't forget eight o'clock this morning
866
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:56.639
Steve Sparks for his weekly visit. Looked forward to catching
867
00:35:56.679 --> 00:35:58.840
up with him, and we also look forward to catching
868
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:00.760
up with you on the phone lines. Someone three two
869
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:03.199
one two five seven ninety against Someone three two one
870
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:05.760
two five seven ninety. It's the Morning Drive with Dan
871
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:07.360
and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
872
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.000
Back to Danny Cole as the Morning Drive cruise is off.
873
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.880
You gotta believe personally that's killing Grant Hill, because he
874
00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:24.119
is one of the killing Grant Duke Greats. Two years
875
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:26.480
in a row, a Duke Great has been on the
876
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:31.519
row on the call for his alma mater, blowing it because,
877
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:33.239
I mean, you can say what you want about the
878
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:35.320
you know, the game against You of h last year,
879
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.119
they blew it. I mean they were up by fourteen
880
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:40.920
And how about Iron Eagle even bringing that up during
881
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:43.159
the broadcast too. He goes, you know, they had a
882
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.519
fourteen point lead with about six minutes to go against
883
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:47.039
University of Houston last year.
884
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:50.159
I'm serious when I say, what is the actual number?
885
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:51.760
You can feel confident of a lead. If you are
886
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:52.920
a Duke Blue Devils fan.
887
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:55.639
Those are questions because in somebody else did the win
888
00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:58.880
probability thing? Of the last four losses that Duke has had,
889
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:00.880
it was like ninety eight point yeah, I think like
890
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.159
the worst one was like ninety seven point two, So
891
00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:04.960
I mean they were overwhelming favorites.
892
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.679
See what the number was the final two minutes, right.
893
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:09.480
It was probably like ninety nine point eight.
894
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:12.159
I think it was ninety nine point six. Boy, I
895
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.760
mean you had a point four percent shout of winning it. Somehow,
896
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.440
some way, Mullings makes the play of the entire March.
897
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:19.559
And by the way, that is what march is supposed
898
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:21.440
to be about. Why when it played at its peak,
899
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:23.800
it is the greatest sport in all Atlantic.
900
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:24.239
Yeah.
901
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:26.960
Six, So you get two ones, you get a number
902
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.360
two seed and a three seed moving on to Illinos
903
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:33.360
or Indiana for the final four. It's gonna be Arizona
904
00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.280
and Michigan as the two number ones taking on each other,
905
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:39.440
and then a number two Yukon and number three Illinois,
906
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.039
who of course wins the regional here in Houston.
907
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:44.000
Why do I like Illinois more than the one seeds?
908
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:44.360
Right now?
909
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:47.320
It's I mean from what we saw here. I mean,
910
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:49.679
they just they're a team that seemingly can do at all,
911
00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:51.880
and they've got all the size and length that you
912
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:54.079
can ask for. So I mean it's gonna be a
913
00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:56.880
fun one all right, real quick here, Oh by the way,
914
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:59.920
to the Astros do split. Their series with the angel
915
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:03.119
went in yesterday nine to seven, and the Rockets two
916
00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:06.199
straight wins, taken out the Pelicans last night, one thirty four,
917
00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:06.679
one oh two.
918
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.320
Real quick, good day. Let's go ahead and hit it.
919
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:12.400
All right back on this day in nineteen ninety two,
920
00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:17.480
an unidentified man backed his car into Oakland A's Star
921
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:21.440
jose Canseco's two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars Lamborghini.
922
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:23.440
Is this what he beat the crap out of him? Outterwards?
923
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:24.719
He probably did.
924
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:27.000
I gotta believe the roid rage probably filled that he
925
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:28.639
just overflowed in him.
926
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.519
No, I wasn't there a story where somebody hit dinged
927
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:32.760
jose Con Saco's hard.
928
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:34.159
He took the bat and he beat the crap.
929
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:34.360
Out of him.
930
00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:35.280
They got rested.
931
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:38.599
Jasey am I mismixing that up with somebody They go
932
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:41.440
lamb Lamborghini.
933
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:46.360
Let's see jose Can cerc Conseco turned an accurate into
934
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:47.159
a Lamborghini.
935
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:48.199
No, that's not it.
936
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.800
It doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Josek and Seko
937
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:53.920
roid rage got the best of him one day. Well
938
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:54.800
say me not that day.
939
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:56.679
I mean I was gonna say, if there's probably one
940
00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:58.360
guy that you don't want it back into their car,
941
00:38:58.480 --> 00:38:59.639
that would probably be one of them.
942
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.199
When he was in the throes of the needle in
943
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:03.000
the rage.
944
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.400
Would you say Ham or Clements, I would probably say
945
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.880
con Sako, Sick and Siko. Yeah, because I mean he
946
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.039
is a guy that actually did swing a weapon on
947
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:14.519
a on a daily basis.
948
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.199
Well, it wasn't only that he was rooted on off.
949
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:17.800
He already was a juice head in a hot head
950
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:19.960
to begin with his career. So it's like you add
951
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:24.199
all that together in one small, confined space, you're gonna
952
00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:26.119
see the control almond eventually explode.
953
00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:30.039
Mguire man all right, nineteen ninety on this date in
954
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:33.400
nineteen eighty eight, born on this date, Richard Sherman. Happy
955
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:37.119
thirty eighth birthday to one of the better corners. Would
956
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.039
you say that Richard Sherman was the guy that got
957
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:41.719
the big guy corner started because for the longest time,
958
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:45.639
corners were what five nine, five ten, five eleven, and
959
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.599
Richard Sherman was I think kind of the guy that
960
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:49.639
broke the mold on that where they're like, wait a minute,
961
00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:51.320
you can play guys that are north of six feet
962
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:51.760
at corner.
963
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.199
I mean, he made it clear that you don't ever
964
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.119
put a sorry ass receiver like Crabtree on him.
965
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:55.559
Yeah.
966
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:58.480
Yeah, don't you ever say anything to me. That was
967
00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:01.280
the best postgame interview ever. And then Aaron Ernie is
968
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:02.559
that your favorite?
969
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:02.840
Yeah?
970
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:06.239
And then Ernie Andrews was like, who are you talking about? Gretry.
971
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.360
My favorite still to this day is the Bart's car
972
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.519
Scott can't wait good. That to me is because of Quego,
973
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:16.239
my guy. So he knows for a fact he is
974
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:18.719
going to get eviscerated in the next round.
975
00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:21.239
It's like, can't wait to die next week.
976
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.440
Then the joke was on everyone else or actually, no,
977
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that's not the case because that was when he was
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with the Jets. The Jets, Okay, yeah, so they did
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get a Vestita, absolutely, Molly want the next game?
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00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:32.559
Yeah, who they play?
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00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.519
And okay, so it was either New England or Indianapolis.
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00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.039
Indianapolis was the year before the the two thousand and
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00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:42.519
nine season, they went to Indy and lost and then
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born on the state nineteen ninety four former astro Alex
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Bregman in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Now he's a Chicago cub. So anyway, a really quick
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00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:52.239
good day for you.
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All right, let's get back into the astros discussion here
989
00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:57.440
to start seven o'clock hour again. Coming up at eight,
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00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:01.280
it's gonna be Steve Sparks joining us or his weekly visit.
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00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:05.079
But is this astro even through four games already on
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00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.159
borrowed time, I believe, so we'll discuss right here as
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we continue. It is the Morning Drive with Dan and
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Cole Sportstock seven ninety Steelers.
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Kd E Houston, ktv E HD two Houston.
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As a Rockets.
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Sports Talk seven ninety your home for your home teams
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and iHeartRadio stations guaranteed you.
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Mean, this is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole.
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Rockets winning at yesterday in New Orleans taking out the
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Pelicans one thirty four, one oh two. Gary Woodland your
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00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.320
winner at the Texas Children's Houston Open, and the final
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00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.519
four is set. You're gonna have Arizona and Michigan taking
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on each other on one side, and also Yukon and
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Illinois on the other, And that's coming your way Saturday
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night in Indianapolis. Someone three, two, one, two, five seven
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ninety is the number to get in. And again, as
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I've mentioned, it's only four games into the Astros season,
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00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:17.599
but I mean, especially when you don't really have a
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00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:21.000
ton to be able to latch onto d got it, well,
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00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:23.199
at least doom and gloom. I think for one guy
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00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.320
in particular, did you see Yaner Diaz's first at.
1013
00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:29.280
Bat of that game? Yesterday's are of opening. He did
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00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.480
not play yesterday, so it would have been on Saturday. Yeah, Saturday,
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00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:34.920
his very first at bat that he has in the game.
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00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.599
He strikes out, which I mean a lot of Astro
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00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.039
struck out this weekend. That's not the storyline there.
1018
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:44.079
The storyline here is three pitches out of the zone,
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00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:48.320
all three pitches offered at and swung over by Yaner Diaz.
1020
00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:51.760
And it just got me thinking because these were things that,
1021
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.239
I mean, probably Yiner's season that you had last year
1022
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:58.440
was part and parcel to why Alex Sintron and Bryan
1023
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.840
Snicker are no longer here. And you canpletely overhauled. Your
1024
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:03.599
hitting staff is guys like him need to get going.
1025
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:05.079
You need to be able to see more out of
1026
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:07.000
him to be able to justify put them in the
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00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:11.000
every day starting lineup. Well, I mean, at least here
1028
00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:14.199
in the early going with Diaz twelve at bats, He's
1029
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:16.800
got two hits this season, both of them for RBIs though,
1030
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:19.559
so I mean, you've got that going for you, but
1031
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.480
it's got me wondering is Yiner on borrowed time?
1032
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.960
I think that he's been on borrow time just from
1033
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:28.920
a lucrative contract extension standpoint, because I do think that
1034
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.760
they believe Walker Yanick is going to be part of
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00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:31.159
the future.
1036
00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:34.599
And that's where I believe that apologies that the borrowed
1037
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:38.440
time is already here, because Walker Yannick, I think, in
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00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:40.639
all intents and purposes, is going to be ready to
1039
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:43.719
go next season. That I mean, he's going to enter
1040
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:45.639
into spring training with an opportunity to make this.
1041
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:48.719
Time, I would say, you hope he enters spring training
1042
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:50.440
with not an opportunity to make this team, but an
1043
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:52.519
opportunity to supplant Yiner as.
1044
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.280
The full time starting catching And that's and that's why
1045
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:57.719
intuition That's why I'm wondering if this season is massive
1046
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.280
for Yiner Diaz in that regard because he has a
1047
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:02.119
great season, well, then maybe he can be a little
1048
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:04.239
bit more patient. I mean maybe even two.
1049
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:07.039
He's good enough that you have teams that are willing
1050
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.119
to throw in a little bit more on a trade
1051
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:11.440
package and you can be able to get good players
1052
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:14.199
in return and maybe even help out the farm system
1053
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:15.679
a little bit, and then you're ready to turn the
1054
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:17.000
keys over to Walkery Onick.
1055
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:17.880
But I mean.
1056
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:21.960
It's not only that he has to stop swinging at junk.
1057
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.679
The The moral of the story is when it comes
1058
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:27.800
to your Diaz is he has to be a factor
1059
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.440
at the plate. He must be in order to be
1060
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:35.800
part of this everyday lineup, because if he's not, you
1061
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.000
don't have him starting because he's a good defensive catcher.
1062
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:41.840
If that were the case, then Christian Vosquez would be
1063
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:43.840
starting almost every single game, because when it comes to
1064
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:46.039
that and being able to handle a pitching staff, I
1065
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:47.719
trust him a hell of a lot more than I
1066
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:50.880
trust Jan Diaz. The Diaz is in there because he's
1067
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:52.960
supposed to hit, and if he doesn't hit, I don't
1068
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:53.679
have use for him.
1069
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:55.639
Think of it from the other perspective, because I can
1070
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:58.360
look at it from the standpoint of Cam Smith. Campabus
1071
00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:00.280
has a point seven to seven er I mean a
1072
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:03.639
batting average. He has three seventeen ops. He also is
1073
00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:06.119
struggling at the plate with the swings. He has missated
1074
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:10.320
a lot of easy off speed pitches. But he's good defensively.
1075
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:12.519
And so right now until there is a reason where
1076
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:14.920
you feel confident that low Braffito can move on over
1077
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.800
to right field permanently, Zach Cole has been killing it
1078
00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:19.599
in the miners to where you can't keep him down
1079
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:22.559
there anymore. Can Smith whether or not he is a
1080
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.559
liability at the plate, which to this point four games
1081
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.239
into the season, I will repeat so that way nobody
1082
00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:30.639
clips this and says, oh, Coles already given up four
1083
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:34.360
games into the season. Can Smith has been arguably your
1084
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:36.960
second worst hitter behind Yiner, But he offers too much
1085
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:37.719
value defensively.
1086
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:39.079
Yaner doesn't.
1087
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:42.000
So if Yanner doesn't offer elite play behind the dish,
1088
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.719
and he offers you very little at the plate, he
1089
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:46.599
is a guy that you're looking at and saying, are
1090
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:49.039
you on borrow time? Now it's four games into the
1091
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:51.199
season and he does have two hits, both of whitch
1092
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:55.119
came for RBIs, so take that with a win. But
1093
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:57.360
there is a reason to believe as of right now,
1094
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.400
the way he is going about his plate appearances, the
1095
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.840
way he is his timing is off entirely, and his
1096
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.559
plate discipline is just atrocious right now. I mean, go
1097
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.800
back to those opening day his first strikeout. Every single
1098
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:13.199
pitch he swung out outside the zone, not even close.
1099
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.079
I mean we're talking about one that was in the
1100
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.800
dirt and he's like, nope, all right, and inside on
1101
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:19.960
the pitch. So it's like, you add all that together,
1102
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.320
it's showing you that there is definitely a liability with him.
1103
00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:24.360
Offensively, you already know it.
1104
00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:28.079
Defensively, Do you think you can pick up in the
1105
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:30.159
next three weeks to where you have a conversation of
1106
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:33.719
Christian Vasquez is here to catch a Tatsuya Emi, He's
1107
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:36.480
also catched for probably a guy like Christian Hoveer and
1108
00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:37.800
Mike Burross is to be safe.
1109
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:39.840
Well, I mean that's the part of it too, is
1110
00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:42.719
that if you don't start to get a corner turn
1111
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:44.840
with her Diaz at the plate, then you're going to
1112
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:46.920
be seeing a lot more Christian Vasquez. I'm not saying
1113
00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:49.679
that he becomes your everyday starting catcher, but I'm just saying,
1114
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:52.000
I mean, and that's the thing that you got into
1115
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:56.480
last year with Victor Karattini. Eventually it was where Karatini
1116
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:59.559
was very much. It was a platoon at catcher for
1117
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:03.079
the most part. Is because you got where you were like,
1118
00:47:03.239 --> 00:47:05.320
I need more offense, and this guy has given me
1119
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:07.559
a more offense than the other guy. At least I
1120
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:09.039
know I'm going to get a good at bat out
1121
00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:10.559
of this guy, and he's not going to stretch the
1122
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:12.400
zone and he's not going to swing at pitches out
1123
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.519
of it and make it easier for the pitcher, because
1124
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:17.920
I mean, that's I think the most disappointing part of
1125
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:20.880
at least these first few games for JANR. Diaz is
1126
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:23.400
he played the first three and all three of them
1127
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:25.440
it looked like he's making the same mistakes at the
1128
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:28.199
plate that he was making last year, and that I
1129
00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:30.960
think is a huge reason why you made the hitting
1130
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:31.719
coach changes.
1131
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:32.159
Now.
1132
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:34.880
I will say this Friday before the game on the field,
1133
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.719
standing with Steve Sparks and the guy that joined us,
1134
00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:40.000
and of course was on the TV side, Ryan Spilborgs
1135
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.400
and we're watching batting practice and Sparky was even noting
1136
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.800
about Victor Rodriguez standing right there at the batting cage
1137
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:47.920
and giving them pointers every single time he came out
1138
00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:50.679
of it. So the work is going in that is
1139
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:52.960
playing his day. You can see that they are working
1140
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:56.320
with him, and it's now just a well yiner. I mean,
1141
00:47:56.480 --> 00:47:58.920
soon enough you got to realize, Hey, I can offer
1142
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.119
it that one. Hey shouldn't offer it that one.
1143
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:02.599
He's just got to get better when it comes to
1144
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:04.440
a swing approach. He's got to get better on holding
1145
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:06.320
off of stuff. I mean, that's really what this comes
1146
00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:08.400
down to. Because you are who you are defensively as
1147
00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:11.079
a catcher. You can still fix some things offensively, they'll
1148
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:12.800
get you in the starting lineup. But right now, I
1149
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:15.320
mean you're having the argument about who are you putting
1150
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:17.519
in the nine hole? Do you want your worst hitter in.
1151
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:17.920
The nine hole?
1152
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:20.039
Because like that's always a fun conversation I think people
1153
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:21.880
have is we throw him in the nine because we
1154
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:23.239
know it could be an easy out. We don't have
1155
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:26.000
to put him in crunch time situations. I think you
1156
00:48:26.039 --> 00:48:27.519
put him in the eight because what happens if you
1157
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:29.440
get your nine hole hitter on base, you get back
1158
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:30.679
to the top of the lineup, and it gets you
1159
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:33.639
into more of a position to score. Well, that's where
1160
00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:34.079
he is right now.
1161
00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:34.960
He's either eight or nine.
1162
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:37.199
And then that's the other part of all of this
1163
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.079
is Jake Myers, where he gets a couple of hits
1164
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:43.960
on Saturday Night, including huge RBI hits. I believe he
1165
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:46.480
had three runs knocked in in that game, so he
1166
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:48.639
had two of them, so I know he had a
1167
00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:51.119
double in that game too. That was nice to see.
1168
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:55.239
But I mean even he is another guy that you know,
1169
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:56.920
kind of like you were talking about with Cam Smith.
1170
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.039
You know what you get defensively out of him, but
1171
00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:00.920
you need a little bit more are at the plate
1172
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:03.440
out of him. And I mean he was able to
1173
00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:03.760
give you that.
1174
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:05.519
No, that was nice to see.
1175
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.519
But then I mean Friday night you start Bryce Matthews
1176
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:10.719
out there, and then yesterday you go with Joey li
1177
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:11.800
Berfito out in the center.
1178
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:13.480
Low Braffito.
1179
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:17.599
Low Braffito is probably going to be much like the
1180
00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:20.679
how we initially inclined youord on Alvarez conversation.
1181
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.079
I would say less than twenty games out in center field.
1182
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.480
This year, which, by the way, I mean two games
1183
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.960
in we've seen Jordon Alvarez two games out in left field.
1184
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:31.679
What did I tell you this past weekend, Dan, that
1185
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:32.960
bullying works.
1186
00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:34.400
That he's going to play a lot more left field. No,
1187
00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:36.679
I said, the bullying works. Bullying does work.
1188
00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:39.039
I've been bullying Dana Brown into making sure that yourd
1189
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:41.679
On Alvarez is playing in left field. Guess what, He's
1190
00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:44.239
playing in left field two times in the last four games.
1191
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.119
I'll take that well or place.
1192
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:48.360
And also too, I mean you've had a little bit
1193
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:50.400
of a runway to work with here of a couple
1194
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:52.840
of games that you didn't play Jeremy pania As they're
1195
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:56.440
trying to work him back in, and you've been able
1196
00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:57.199
to be.
1197
00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:59.639
Able to work with I think that happens, by the way, I.
1198
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:02.119
Think for probably about the end of this week and
1199
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:03.760
then after that that's when you're gonna have to start
1200
00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:07.519
getting creative with who's out that day and where is
1201
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.519
Esach Perettis, Because I mean you saw it all throughout
1202
00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:13.159
the weekend. Perettis is a guy that is going to
1203
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:15.760
be an everyday guy. It's just where is he playing
1204
00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:18.159
and how are you going to use him?
1205
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:20.840
He did not look bad at second base yesterday, I
1206
00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.440
thought he looked great. He did not look tor I thought,
1207
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:24.400
I thought he was fine.
1208
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:28.360
You had jose Al Tuve dhing for you yesterday, you
1209
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.000
had Peretis over there at second and then as I mentioned,
1210
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:34.480
Jordan Avarez out there in left field for you defensively.
1211
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:36.599
It can work. I mean, guys, I hate to be
1212
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:37.400
the bearer of bad news.
1213
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:39.840
It can work. Like I know that you don't want
1214
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:41.639
to hear it, or some of you do want to
1215
00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:43.960
hear it. Give us the best five starting guys at
1216
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the top of the lineup. It can work if you
1217
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:47.679
throw them on in there. And then you can throw
1218
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:49.280
on Christian Walker at the six spot and I'll tell
1219
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:51.719
you what him at the six or even at the seven.
1220
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:52.679
Yeah.
1221
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:55.280
Like what you've seen so far to this point, so far,
1222
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:58.280
so good, And the ASTRO is hoping that that will
1223
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:02.920
continue as again and they take two out of four
1224
00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:05.360
in this one, so they split that series.
1225
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:06.599
You like to see that.
1226
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.679
But I mean, again getting back to the yiner part
1227
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:09.920
of this.
1228
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:14.440
Too, I mean, it's it's also a situation where I mean,
1229
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:17.840
I was talking with somebody on Friday and they were
1230
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:20.280
talking about the way that the team has tried to
1231
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.039
encourage him to be able to help out a little
1232
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:25.360
bit more of show a little bit more emotion for
1233
00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:27.639
your guys, I mean, be a little bit more demonstrative
1234
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:28.239
out there.
1235
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:30.840
And I think that I mean, again, you know, a
1236
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:31.719
huge reason why you.
1237
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:35.199
Kept Christian Vasquez and not you know, saysar Salazar, is
1238
00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:37.559
how he's able to command a pitching staff. I mean,
1239
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:39.719
you know, just hearing some of the things that I
1240
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:41.960
heard not only from him but also other guys after
1241
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.760
the game yesterday that I was like, oh, he's Martin Maldonado,
1242
00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:48.880
Like that's that's what he is. And I mean, eventually
1243
00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.039
you decide to go with Martin Maldonado for those very reasons.
1244
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.280
You knew that you were taking a step back offensively,
1245
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.719
but it was for the run prevention part of it.
1246
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.320
And that's what it sounds like that Christian vaska As offers.
1247
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:04.480
So again, if it's pretty much a wash up the plate,
1248
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:06.639
you're gonna see a lot more Christian baskets.
1249
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:08.320
Time out, time out. That that's not the reason that
1250
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:09.239
kept says ourselves.
1251
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:11.199
I mean they kept Christian vskus up for saves oars
1252
00:52:11.239 --> 00:52:12.920
helves are and that's part of it, for sure. But
1253
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:14.440
the reason why is because one dude can hit and
1254
00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:16.559
the other one can't. Well, I mean, at least you
1255
00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:18.840
Rby's yesterday, So I gotta say, well, I mean, and
1256
00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:22.199
that's the thing is you appreciate him being able to
1257
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.239
do that. But that's something that is also a reason
1258
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:26.920
why he was here so late in spring training is
1259
00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.360
because he hasn't been hitting the last couple of years.
1260
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:32.599
Well he also okay, fair, but let me ask you,
1261
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:33.719
you look at it straight up.
1262
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.360
Stat line splits everything that comes to their Christian Vasquez says,
1263
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:39.679
ourselves are as a backup had as a backup catcher
1264
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:41.760
with the possibility of having to get a couple of
1265
00:52:41.880 --> 00:52:42.559
crucial runs.
1266
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:45.280
I mean, I think they ended up making the right
1267
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:47.239
move going with Christian Vasque.
1268
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:49.599
So one guy can hit, one guy can't both command
1269
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:51.239
the strike some with pictures. I'm taking the guy who
1270
00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:53.000
can hit ten times at one guy's better.
1271
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:55.400
Well, I'll give you that one. He's more wrong around it,
1272
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.119
he is. I mean, like it's not a it's not
1273
00:52:57.199 --> 00:52:57.519
a shot.
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00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:00.239
It says ourselves are But remember he spent what three
1275
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:02.039
months last season up in the majors.
1276
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:05.679
He played four times, three times and once was a
1277
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:09.880
PA I mean was a pinch hit appearance first talis Ar.
1278
00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:11.039
Yeah, like he barely played.
1279
00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:12.599
He just was on the roster last season.
1280
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:14.320
Well yeah, I mean he and I mean you did
1281
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.119
pretty much go three catchers at one point, but you
1282
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:17.559
went to.
1283
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:19.880
No, you carried three catchers and you played too, and
1284
00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:21.920
says ars salves Are just was on the roster.
1285
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:26.000
And then he got crossed up with by Fromber Valdez
1286
00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:27.960
and the rest is history. We had one hell of
1287
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:30.119
a start in his debut with the Tigers. Yeah, good
1288
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:30.440
for him.
1289
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:31.400
I enjoy it.
1290
00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:33.960
You can't admit, dude, you can at least admit it
1291
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:36.800
is interesting to see how this pitching staff looked this
1292
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:39.400
past week and then just in the back of your mind, go,
1293
00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:41.119
what if Frober was still part?
1294
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:43.400
Not one moment I am and I'm okay with that,
1295
00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:44.639
not not one moment.
1296
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:46.599
A okay was saying that, you know what if Fromber
1297
00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:48.599
would be make this pitching staff leghit all right?
1298
00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:52.119
So these were flying around plenty. Now it's our turn
1299
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:52.960
to be able to jump in.
1300
00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:57.599
Let's overreact one of each from the weekend that we
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will discuss right here as we continue it is the
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is the number to get in Overreaction Monday. Well, that's
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usually a staple around sports radio, and today Cole doing
1356
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things a little bit differently in this edition of Let's Overreact.
1357
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:38.519
You're gonna pick one overreaction so far through the first
1358
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:40.440
four games of the regular season that you think is
1359
00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:42.760
going to hit by the time that we get to September,
1360
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.719
and one that you refuse to buy any belief into
1361
00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:47.960
simply because it was four games into the season.
1362
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:49.760
Which one do you want to start with? Let's go
1363
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:52.559
with the one that you're buying first.
1364
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:58.599
I am fully convinced the version of Christian Walker that
1365
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:00.840
fans expected to see in twenty twenty five is now
1366
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:05.320
showing up twenty twenty six through four games, three to
1367
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:10.079
zera batting average, four hits, three doubles, four thirty eight
1368
00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:15.039
OHPB five to thirty eight, slugging over at the twelve
1369
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:20.039
hundred ops the other thing, three walks, one strikeout, still
1370
00:57:20.079 --> 00:57:23.159
plays a good glove. This is the version of Christian
1371
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:25.519
Walker that I think is going to last about the season.
1372
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:25.920
Again.
1373
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:27.920
You can talk about the power, you can talk about
1374
00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:29.920
the torque, but he lost twenty five pounds. He's been
1375
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:32.320
working on a swing rate. He's been putting balls in gaps.
1376
00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:34.559
One of the things that Dana Brown said throughout all
1377
00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:36.599
spring training was that they want to see him get
1378
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:39.119
better with driving the ball in the opposite direction. Two
1379
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:42.199
of his doubles came in apo hits. And he still
1380
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:44.239
has a good glove. And you're now not putting him
1381
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:46.159
in the cleanup spot. You're putting him in the five,
1382
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:49.320
the sixth, the seven hole lot. Lets pressure on him.
1383
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:51.280
The thing that made him a stub when he was
1384
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:53.440
in Arizona was the ability to get extra base hits
1385
00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:55.360
and have a lot of doubles. So far he has
1386
00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:58.239
three doubles. Like I'll take the twenty five home runs
1387
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:00.239
and call out a win. If you get give me
1388
00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:02.280
thirty five to forty doubles, that is where you're going
1389
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:04.079
to get the best version of Christian Walker. I think
1390
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.079
the one that we've seen so far is the one
1391
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:07.480
that we're going to get throughout the year. I'll go
1392
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:10.000
so far to say, do not be shocked if you
1393
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:12.119
see him pushing for All Star ballot votes well.
1394
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:14.239
And I think a couple of things that you mentioned
1395
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:17.000
there is last year we had Eric Kratz on with us,
1396
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:19.079
who of course we had on on Opening Day from
1397
00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:21.920
a Foul Territory TV. And when we had him on,
1398
00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:24.920
he had mentioned about going the opposite way, that when
1399
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:27.920
Christian Walker is hitting with power to right center field,
1400
00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:30.559
that's when he's at his best. He saw that a
1401
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:33.519
bunch this weekend. And I think that more than anything
1402
00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:36.599
with Walker, it's the strikeouts that if you can cut
1403
00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:40.280
down on the strikeouts just a little bit, then you're fine.
1404
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:43.280
And the Astros this weekend too, with me, just the
1405
00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:45.199
tale of the first two games as opposed to the
1406
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:48.599
second two games. Right now, currently through four games, middle
1407
00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:51.000
of the road as a team hitting. That's where I
1408
00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:53.599
said that if they are middle of the road across
1409
00:58:53.639 --> 00:58:55.920
the board hitting. Then this is a playoff team. And
1410
00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:58.000
you heard what Ryan Spilborg said over the weekend too.
1411
00:58:58.000 --> 00:58:59.800
You get one hundred and fifty games of your on
1412
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:01.920
Alvarez and you think even less than that, but you
1413
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:04.239
get a good amount of your on Alvarez. This is
1414
00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:05.039
a playoff team.
1415
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:06.239
So there's that.
1416
00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:08.039
I was with you on on that and now, I
1417
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:09.599
mean those were some of the talking points that I
1418
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:11.719
was gonna have. So we're both there, but I had
1419
00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:16.039
a backup for good reason. AJ blue Ball is legit.
1420
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:19.760
AJ blue Ball is a guy that will, as the
1421
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.519
season goes along, become a high leverage guy for you.
1422
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:26.320
Alan Joseph Blueby is about ready to become a superstar
1423
00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:27.400
for the assay.
1424
00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:31.119
Had had tip to Keith Artists formerly known as Oho
1425
00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:33.679
Texto for that one. So you got to love those
1426
00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:35.920
guys that have Joseph as a middle name. Joseph's my
1427
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:36.480
middle name.
1428
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:38.559
So there you go. We tolerate you people.
1429
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:41.679
Well, no, no, no, no, we're fantastic. One time on
1430
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:44.360
a date, you know, when it was one of those
1431
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:45.679
getting to know each other.
1432
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:49.079
And conversation over a cup of coffee got you no, no, no,
1433
00:59:49.360 --> 00:59:50.960
it was good. I mean, we'd already this is you know,
1434
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:52.800
dating apps, so you already had like most of that
1435
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:53.360
out of the way.
1436
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:55.320
So it was a good one. It worked out and
1437
00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:58.480
we actually went together for a while. But anyway, she
1438
00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:00.760
had asked me what my middle name was, and I said,
1439
01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:04.559
it's God's or it's Jesus' dad, and she goes, my
1440
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:05.239
name is God.
1441
01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:05.719
Yeah.
1442
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:07.920
I was like, I was like, yes, my parents' name
1443
01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:12.280
made my little knows his on Earth father. His on
1444
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:13.719
Earth father was Joseph.
1445
01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:16.039
I mean if you said, if you said God, dang
1446
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:17.960
Matthews would be really funny because it's really close to
1447
01:00:18.039 --> 01:00:18.480
another one.
1448
01:00:18.719 --> 01:00:22.760
Yeah, But I mean, anyway, you know, blue Ball was
1449
01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:26.920
awesome this weekend, and I think that you get performances
1450
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:29.400
like this, He's going to work his way out of
1451
01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:32.639
being that bridge guy, that that long relief guy that
1452
01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:35.480
for the longest time was also somebody that would eat
1453
01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:37.119
it for you. I mean, we saw that out of
1454
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:39.679
Ryan Gusto last year, seen it in the past two
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01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:43.239
when film Aton was here. You get the performances, and
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01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:46.119
especially to with the fastball that he's able to throw.
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01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:48.639
That's a guy that's soon enough. Joe Aspod is going
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01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:50.760
to say let's go with him in the seventh. This
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01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:51.400
could be fun.
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01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:53.760
I think what's funny is that we're talking a lot
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01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:56.000
about aj Blue Bam maybe taking the spot of Christian
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01:00:56.039 --> 01:00:57.719
Hobby or if there was to be a conversation in
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01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:01.239
the rotation, I lean actions the other way. I want
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01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:03.320
him in the seventh or eighth en and getting you out.
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01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:03.519
Of a jam.
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01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:05.599
And you've been looking for another high leverage guy and
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01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:06.960
I think that he's going to be a guy that's
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01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:08.840
a high leverage guy for you. Do you want the
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01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:11.800
one that I'm selling? I will let you sell first
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01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:15.000
because I bought first. Okay, So I initially was going
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01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:17.760
to say, Brian A bray you for the Velo drop.
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01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:20.440
But it's also point that you brought up and I
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01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:22.760
agree with because we've seen this out of a bray
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01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.639
You in the past where he has had some ineffectiveness
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01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:28.000
early on the season. Remember the Astros had to lead
1476
01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:29.880
a couple of years ago against the Yankees, comes in,
1477
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:33.320
gets touched up, and then eventually A Brady became one
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01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:35.519
of your better pitchers for you. I thought that this
1479
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:38.760
could be something that is a cautionary tale for him
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01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:42.360
of the over usage. But the last three years have
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01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:44.960
been the most that he's been used all throughout his career,
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01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:48.199
and last year of the three was his lowest usage
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01:01:48.440 --> 01:01:51.519
of those three years. Seventy two innings in twenty twenty three,
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01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:55.239
seventy eight and a third in twenty twenty four, and
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01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:57.440
then seventy one last season. So I don't think it's
1486
01:01:57.480 --> 01:01:59.760
a usage thing. I think it's just a build up
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01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:03.320
thing for him right now and eventually two. I mean again,
1488
01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:07.559
the whole backup closer thing, which is on its merit
1489
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:10.400
just a ridiculous conversation to have. You're not going to
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01:02:10.440 --> 01:02:12.639
be asking him to do that in about three weeks.
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01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:15.000
In about three weeks, you're going to have Josh Hater
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01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:17.639
back and you'll have him back in his customary role.
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01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:19.719
So you're selling the fact that he looked like dogwater,
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01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:22.000
because yes, I think that, Brian A Bray, you will
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01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:23.960
eventually be one of your better relievers, My.
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01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:28.840
Biggest sell astro starting pitching will be fine. It's gonna
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01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:30.400
be fine. Stop overreacting.
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01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:31.000
I get it.
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01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:33.599
Hunter Brown only went four and two thirds and Hobveyer
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01:02:33.639 --> 01:02:36.039
and Burrows got lit up, and he mightn't look the
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01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:37.840
part in his debut of what you want to see
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01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:41.639
seven sixty four EIDs the Hyatts currently in Major League Baseball.
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01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:44.599
I can chop up two of them for two different instances.
1504
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:46.599
When it comes to Burrows, it was his first start
1505
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:48.800
in Astro's uniform, and.
1506
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:50.039
Again we've brought it up.
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01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:52.199
The blue singles hurt him as much as it was
1508
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:55.679
the off speed pitch that let Joshua Low rip a
1509
01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:58.800
three run homer to right field like just being in
1510
01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:01.760
timely hits really and ultimately it cost him some runs.
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01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:03.480
But he still had six strikeouts on the.
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01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:05.679
Day and he went further than anybody else in your bullpen,
1513
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:06.880
so I mean in your rotation.
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01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:08.360
So take down as a win.
1515
01:03:08.519 --> 01:03:11.639
Emi again, another guy who you saw the velocity and
1516
01:03:11.719 --> 01:03:14.559
you saw that change up in the sweeper really coming
1517
01:03:14.599 --> 01:03:17.400
to play big strikeout against Mike Troy to begin his tenure,
1518
01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:20.000
just got out of a rhythm a little bit too early.
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01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:22.239
I think the one thing I do worry about with
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01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:25.639
everyone in the starting pitching because Javier showed this, Burrows
1521
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.280
showed this, Emi showed this. The leadoff batter is getting
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01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:32.239
on base far too often. But outside of that, Hunter
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01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:34.920
Brown still gave you nine strikeouts. He didn't give a run.
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01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:37.559
You are going to see I think more quality play
1525
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:40.480
from both the Mai and from Burrows. I think what
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01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:42.280
you're gonna get at some point is what you saw
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01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:44.239
in the spring training and what you saw on Saturday
1528
01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:47.760
and Sunday or Friday and Sunday. Combine that together. That
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01:03:47.880 --> 01:03:49.639
is what you can expect throughout the regular season. I
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01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.239
think that you'll probably have about a three thirty five
1531
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.199
three thirty six era as a team. Both will still
1532
01:03:55.239 --> 01:03:57.400
hover anywhere between about three eight four to three four
1533
01:03:57.480 --> 01:04:00.639
four in the era stature. They'll get more strikeout walk down,
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01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:04.159
the cut down their walks, they'll lower the expectations of
1535
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:05.440
getting people on base well.
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01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:08.920
And it's also, I mean, until proven wrong otherwise, I'm
1537
01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:11.840
gonna trust Josh Miller in this pitching staff because I mean,
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01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.920
you've seen a staff with Josh Miller that have been
1539
01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:18.519
able to make adjustments in real time, and even if
1540
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:21.519
they don't make it that time, then the following that
1541
01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:22.719
they come out, then.
1542
01:04:22.639 --> 01:04:23.559
They're able to do that.
1543
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:26.800
Are you looking at Jesus Sanchez hitting a deep center
1544
01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:27.880
field home run yesterday?
1545
01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:29.519
O cares you got your lile lit Brafido. He did
1546
01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:32.159
just the exact He did just as good this past weekend.
1547
01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:35.760
That's fine, that's what you need. Just and then for
1548
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:40.159
everybody to be like, you idiot, Dana can't believe it's
1549
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:43.519
gonna happen again. One hundred percent. It is, one hundred percent.
1550
01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:46.559
It is when you same people were probably the ones
1551
01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:48.400
who are saying this guy's a bum, get them the
1552
01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:49.039
hell out of here.
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01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:52.360
And then Dana hergi and did it. And now, I mean,
1554
01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:54.320
we'll see what he becomes in Toronto.
1555
01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:56.679
But it just as soon as I saw that, I
1556
01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:59.159
was just like, I need to look up how Jesu
1557
01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:01.039
Sanchez is doing, and then I never got to it,
1558
01:05:01.079 --> 01:05:02.320
and then I just saw he hit the home run
1559
01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:04.199
right there, so I was like, that's fun.
1560
01:05:04.360 --> 01:05:07.559
I just can't buy into Mike Burrows being as quote
1561
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:10.280
unquote bad as he was in his debut, like I'm
1562
01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:13.280
and it's selfishly me because I said that he was
1563
01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:15.280
gonna be the elite Ace and that he's gonna become
1564
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.440
the next face of the frame. Like again, I oversold
1565
01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:19.239
him a little bit too much. I will admit to
1566
01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:21.559
my mistakes, but you know what, I'm doubling down and
1567
01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:23.440
I'm still saying he's gonna be potentially an All Star
1568
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:25.400
this year. He's gonna kill it. He's gonna kick ass.
1569
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:27.800
He may not be your number two this season. He
1570
01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:29.480
may end up being your number three, he may up
1571
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:31.440
being your number four. Does it really matter if he
1572
01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:32.599
gets a lot of outs and he puts you in
1573
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:33.559
a better position to score.
1574
01:05:33.639 --> 01:05:35.159
By the way, he's gonna have a hell of a
1575
01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:37.800
matchup for his second time out there on the mound.
1576
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:40.639
No pressure. You're going up against Garrett Crochet and we're
1577
01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:41.360
gonna be there for that one.
1578
01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:43.119
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun looking forward
1579
01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:45.159
to it Wednesday afternoon for that one. But you've got
1580
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:48.920
Lance McCullers junior going tonight, Hunter Brown making his return
1581
01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:49.960
to the mound tomorrow.
1582
01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:52.079
And then, as I mentioned that.
1583
01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:56.599
You're gonna have Mike Burrows going on Wednesday before you
1584
01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:59.800
head out on the road for ten games. All right, Todd,
1585
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:02.199
So am I a little up and down yesterday? But
1586
01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:05.559
good thing he's got this guy in his corner. Share
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01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:07.360
that with you next as we continue, it is the
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01:06:07.400 --> 01:06:10.239
Morning Drive with Dan and Cole here on a Monday
1589
01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:11.440
Sports Talk seven ninety.
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01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:17.280
We don't run on algorithms, We run on al tube.
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01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:24.360
Durant and Strout Sorce Talk seven ninety guaranteed human.
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01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:29.119
Seven three two one two five seven ninety is the
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01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:32.320
number to get in. As I mentioned yesterday, not the
1594
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:36.079
greatest debut for tatsu am I. Two and two thirds innings,
1595
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:39.760
gives up four earned runs, he walks for, strikes out four,
1596
01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:42.599
gives up three hits in that that all spells out
1597
01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:45.280
to a thirteen point five to zho Era to start
1598
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:47.599
up the season, all right, So a little unsettling for
1599
01:06:47.679 --> 01:06:49.880
that because you would have absolutely loved to have seen
1600
01:06:49.960 --> 01:06:52.199
him come out, not walk a couple of guys to
1601
01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:56.000
get the game started, and then getting himself into a
1602
01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:59.159
little bit of trouble in the third inning, which eventually
1603
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.719
that is what knocked him out of the game, because well,
1604
01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:04.719
you give up those runs and then you gotta go.
1605
01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:05.960
The bullpen after that.
1606
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:11.079
But again, I mean with some of the effectiveness on
1607
01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:14.400
the mound, you know, being in question and not being
1608
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:17.599
able to spot up certain pitches, that is something that
1609
01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:20.440
at least here with again only one start to be
1610
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:22.559
able to work off of kind of concerns you a
1611
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:25.559
little bit. But let me ease those concerns a little bit.
1612
01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:29.119
Jabier Gonzalez, who does a great job covering the team
1613
01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:34.239
as he's a Cuban American reporter here in the States
1614
01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:39.719
covering the Astros for Pelota Cubana USA and caught up
1615
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:43.440
with Christian Hobby or Christian Vasquez after the game, and
1616
01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.519
Vasquez had this to say, as this is translated over
1617
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:49.639
from Spanish, the hardest part, which was his debut, is
1618
01:07:49.719 --> 01:07:52.239
already behind us. I think we're going to adjust it
1619
01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:55.920
very well. In his second outing, Vasquez saying that he
1620
01:07:56.039 --> 01:07:58.920
might was dropping his arm too much and that's why
1621
01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:03.079
the pitches were falling outside. So the fact that you've
1622
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:06.679
got a guy like Christian Vasquez on staff really helps
1623
01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:08.840
you out. But the fact that he's also noticing this
1624
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:12.199
in the game and he's doing it the right way too,
1625
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:15.440
because it's always told to you, and this is no
1626
01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:18.319
matter what you do in life. Micromanagement never works. Ever,
1627
01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:21.279
Don't micromanage during the game. Don't get in their head
1628
01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:24.920
during the game. Hey try this, work on this, any
1629
01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:27.199
of those different types of things. And even that the
1630
01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:29.680
work on part of it might be a little bit
1631
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.079
too much. It's one of those get out of your head,
1632
01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:34.840
we'll worry about it later. And that's what Christian Vasquez
1633
01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:37.159
is using right here. So now you've got to believe
1634
01:08:37.239 --> 01:08:39.239
here as the week goes along in a mi which,
1635
01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:41.199
by the way, did you hear what they said that
1636
01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:43.800
he threw a side session the day before I was there.
1637
01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:46.000
I was there because I had to get audio for
1638
01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:49.560
Astro's pregame, and when I walked up, he was just
1639
01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:51.479
getting done doing a side session. But that's what he
1640
01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:54.000
did when he was in Japan, right, And so one
1641
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:55.920
of the things that he has been very added about
1642
01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:58.720
with the Astros since arriving is he's thankful that the
1643
01:08:58.800 --> 01:09:01.239
team is allowing him to go through the same persistent
1644
01:09:01.399 --> 01:09:03.920
rotation and daily duties that he did when he was
1645
01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:06.680
in the MPB League to get more acclimated major League Baseball,
1646
01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:09.720
because you never see that like you're You're never gonna
1647
01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:12.319
randomly walk on up on a Saturday and Hunter Brown
1648
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:14.720
gets the Sunday mattinee and see him throwing forty pitches in.
1649
01:09:14.760 --> 01:09:17.960
The bullpen, because usually the American way to do it,
1650
01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:20.840
at least the way that Sunday Major League Baseball is obviously,
1651
01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:24.479
you rest today, you rest tomorrow, and then I think
1652
01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:27.279
the third day is when you get a side session
1653
01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:29.840
in to be able to keep your arm fresh and
1654
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:32.800
then do some flat ground work, any of the other things,
1655
01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:34.800
and then it's your turn in the rotation again. But
1656
01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:36.520
the fact that he did that, heard that, and I
1657
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:39.239
was just like, wow, all right, that's different because I
1658
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:41.079
would think and it's not only that he got a
1659
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:42.880
side session. Then they said that he would ramping it
1660
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:45.439
up in the bullpen. I'm wondering if it's even Josh
1661
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:49.319
Miller being like, hey, buddy, you do realize you're pitching tomorrow, right,
1662
01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:50.880
Let's save some of these for tomorrow.
1663
01:09:52.199 --> 01:09:54.399
If it works for him, then by all means, you
1664
01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:56.359
continue to do it. The one thing that I am
1665
01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:59.960
frustrated with, and honestly, again, I'll live with the mind
1666
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:01.800
his performance. I'll live with the fact that he got
1667
01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:04.880
four strikeouts and that there was a lot of positive traction.
1668
01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:06.039
Good overall.
1669
01:10:06.119 --> 01:10:08.720
I think pitch count, and I mean a pitch delivery,
1670
01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:11.520
changing up some personnel switches, from going from a fastball
1671
01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:12.359
to an off speed pach.
1672
01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:12.960
I like that.
1673
01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:16.119
I will say, you got to get your pitch count down.
1674
01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:18.359
I mean we're talking about through two innings of work,
1675
01:10:18.359 --> 01:10:20.399
he was almost at sixty plus pitches. Well, I mean,
1676
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:23.079
and that's the thing is season I get it, But still,
1677
01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:24.560
it was a thing that I had a problem with,
1678
01:10:24.760 --> 01:10:27.520
and if I'm not mistaken too, he might did talk
1679
01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:30.960
about it after the game, where he did say he
1680
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:33.399
didn't expect it, but that he did have some nerves.
1681
01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:35.880
So I mean kind of working through that a little bit. So,
1682
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:37.640
I mean, even for a guy that seems like he's
1683
01:10:37.720 --> 01:10:40.880
unflappable to be able to be going out there and
1684
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:43.039
maybe then it's one of those where the mind gets
1685
01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:44.840
in the way there for a second and says, hey,
1686
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:46.800
you know you're in the major leagues now, I hope
1687
01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:48.119
you don't mess it up. I mean, you know a
1688
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:50.520
lot of people are counting on you. Then maybe that
1689
01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:52.840
got to him a little bit. He's human, after all,
1690
01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:53.520
we all are.
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01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:56.479
It's one start again, I'm not going to overreact to
1692
01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:58.600
his first ever major league start. What I am going
1693
01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:00.239
to say is that, and this is the thing for
1694
01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:02.760
all the pitchers right now. You don't want to be
1695
01:11:02.880 --> 01:11:05.760
going into the third or fourth inning and saying, Okay,
1696
01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:08.479
we're already at seventy pitches. Because part of the reason
1697
01:11:08.479 --> 01:11:10.479
why Hunter Brown was gone was because of it was
1698
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:13.319
great to see him get nine strikeouts, it was frustrating
1699
01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:14.239
that you at one hundred.
1700
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:15.479
And two pitches before the end of the fifth. It
1701
01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:17.920
just it becomes concerning when it becomes a pattern. And
1702
01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:20.560
it's not because you don't have you don't have much
1703
01:11:20.600 --> 01:11:22.479
to go off of. But I would be a lot
1704
01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:25.720
more concerned if I mean the walks. Those are things
1705
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:27.920
that as you go through a season, you find a
1706
01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:30.800
consistent release point, you're able to find the zone, all
1707
01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:33.720
of those things, those can be alleviated. I would be
1708
01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:36.319
more concerned right now if it was a bunch of
1709
01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:38.520
hard hit contact. It's the same deal of what we
1710
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:40.560
talked about earlier with Mike Burrows of why I'm not
1711
01:11:40.680 --> 01:11:43.439
overly concerned, and the same deal for the Astros on
1712
01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:45.520
the other end, where again, you had all those hard
1713
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:47.159
hit balls the other night, and most of the ones
1714
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:50.119
that you hit went right at fielders. Eventually those hit
1715
01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:52.720
the ground. The soft contact, you might get a hit
1716
01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:54.880
because of it one time, but then the beauty of
1717
01:11:54.920 --> 01:11:57.159
baseball is more often than not that's going to be
1718
01:11:57.199 --> 01:11:57.520
an out.
1719
01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:01.159
So what was your favorite Mamber the words surprise of
1720
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:03.319
the weekend for the Astros.
1721
01:12:03.399 --> 01:12:05.520
Surprise of the weekend in terms of starters or just
1722
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:08.479
in general in general. Oh, the surprise of the weekend
1723
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:12.039
was just how this lineup was able to lengthen itself out.
1724
01:12:12.520 --> 01:12:14.960
And I mean, and you were able to put together
1725
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:18.039
huge innings without the home run. That was nice to see.
1726
01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:21.439
How was two His plate appearances were awesome. They really
1727
01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:24.279
have walked in sixteen plane appearances. He did not draw
1728
01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:26.119
his fifth walk until his ninety second play.
1729
01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:28.479
And I saw Chandler roam through that out there. I mean,
1730
01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:30.039
I'm reading a verbatim from New Chandler.
1731
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:33.039
So yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go exactly. Channeler roam
1732
01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:36.079
with the Athletic. We celebrate his entire catalog. You used
1733
01:12:36.119 --> 01:12:38.600
to raising tire catalog. I say, he's a good reporter. Well,
1734
01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:40.600
I mean he's He's Michael Bolton to me. You know,
1735
01:12:40.880 --> 01:12:42.880
at least what Michael Bolton was for the Bobs on
1736
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:43.479
office Space.
1737
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:44.720
Oh not that.
1738
01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:46.680
Oh wait, you're talking about that. We're talk about to
1739
01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:47.680
say Michael Polton, right.
1740
01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:50.920
Well they asked him. You know, so your name's Michael Bolton.
1741
01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:52.880
You're related to the pop singer.
1742
01:12:53.359 --> 01:12:55.520
I just remember him Captain Jack Sparrow, which by the way,
1743
01:12:55.600 --> 01:13:00.239
is a banger and it is for sure. But back
1744
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:02.199
to your point about Chandler Roman the Athleticas no.
1745
01:13:02.319 --> 01:13:04.760
I mean, but I mean but that those were nice
1746
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:07.520
things to see. I mean with the starting pitching, we've
1747
01:13:07.560 --> 01:13:11.279
seen this before too. I mean, you know the same
1748
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:14.479
if you are overreacting to the starting pitchers this weekend,
1749
01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:17.600
all right, are you overreacting to what Paul Skans did
1750
01:13:17.640 --> 01:13:18.600
in his very first game?
1751
01:13:18.760 --> 01:13:18.880
Yes?
1752
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:20.199
Percent, he sucked.
1753
01:13:21.520 --> 01:13:23.560
So you think he's going to be terrible for this season?
1754
01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:25.439
He's gonna be one of the most overrated pitchers in
1755
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:26.800
the history of Major League Baseball.
1756
01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:29.199
Big dumber is only taking a big deuce every single
1757
01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:30.960
time it takes the play Paul Skins at the same time,
1758
01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:33.840
maybe maybe dab of your teammate next time and call
1759
01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:34.199
her fun.
1760
01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:34.880
Yeah, there you go.
1761
01:13:35.039 --> 01:13:39.520
By the way, excuse me, cal Rawley's starting off the
1762
01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:43.159
season at one point for seven with seven strikeouts.
1763
01:13:43.239 --> 01:13:45.680
Yeah, he was like over fourteen with eleven strikeouts at
1764
01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:47.760
one point at least the majors in strikeouts so far
1765
01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.359
since not dapping up Rainier Rose Arena in Dykin, I mean, like,
1766
01:13:51.439 --> 01:13:54.760
let's just call it as No, I'm not overreacting. I'm
1767
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.000
not of reacting to Paul Skins like I'm not overreacting
1768
01:13:57.079 --> 01:13:59.399
to Mike Burrows like I'm not over reacting to TATSI
1769
01:13:59.680 --> 01:14:01.880
my somebody's tweeted out this past week, and I'm blake
1770
01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:03.039
on who it is off the top of my head.
1771
01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:06.119
But they said for Burrows, the expectation was so high
1772
01:14:06.199 --> 01:14:08.279
that if he didn't look like Paul Skin's two point zero,
1773
01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:09.399
it was going to be a disappointment.
1774
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:13.399
I mean, let's be real, he outlasted Paul Skins.
1775
01:14:13.479 --> 01:14:15.399
So guess what, maybe if Paul Skins looked more like
1776
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:18.079
Mike Burrows, we'd have a better game plan for Pittsburgh.
1777
01:14:18.920 --> 01:14:19.279
There you go.
1778
01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:22.479
So, I mean, all in all, again, it's not just
1779
01:14:22.560 --> 01:14:24.840
a Tatsi am I thing. I think it's the starting
1780
01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:28.039
rotation as a whole, not overly concerned with the way
1781
01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:30.039
that they looked. And you're going to get a chance
1782
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:31.560
to be able to see these guys go through for
1783
01:14:31.640 --> 01:14:33.880
a second time, even starting as early as tomorrow was
1784
01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:34.399
Da Brown.
1785
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:36.680
I will say, give me all the way up until
1786
01:14:36.680 --> 01:14:39.079
the end of April, and if we're still seeing starters
1787
01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:41.680
go four and two thirds, five and a third something
1788
01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:44.319
like that, and nobody's getting out of you know, ending
1789
01:14:44.319 --> 01:14:46.800
any jams, and you're relying so heavily on your bullpen
1790
01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:47.680
and bellue out of trouble.
1791
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:49.760
I'll start to get nervous. I'm not after a series. Yeah,
1792
01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:52.600
that's not sustainable. This series it's fine. And even the
1793
01:14:52.680 --> 01:14:55.960
Astros already sounds like with Christian Roa packing up his
1794
01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:58.479
bags yesterday, trying to bring in a fresh arm to
1795
01:14:58.520 --> 01:15:01.159
help out that bullpen. All right, So we'll continue the
1796
01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:05.079
Astros conversation again coming up here in fifteen minutes when
1797
01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:08.359
Steve Sparks joins us for his weekly visit. But in
1798
01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:10.279
case you missed it over the weekend, there was some
1799
01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:14.159
news when regarding one of the most high profile names
1800
01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:16.279
in this city. You share it with you next if
1801
01:15:16.359 --> 01:15:18.520
indeed you did miss it, as we'll talk about it
1802
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:20.039
right here. It is the Morning Drive with Dan and
1803
01:15:20.119 --> 01:15:23.199
Cole Sports Talk seven to ninety. After the show though,
1804
01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:25.279
I mean, it's a Monday routine for me that I
1805
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:28.159
look forward to every single week. That's going to see
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01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:31.960
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1809
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Something is feeling off right now, the energy levels taking
1810
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it's not just aging, you might have low TI. And
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They are on Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
1843
01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:17.600
It's a tale of two different leagues right now. You've
1844
01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:19.800
got the teams like the Rockets, who are trying to
1845
01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:24.159
trying to compete for playoff positioning. But then you also
1846
01:17:24.199 --> 01:17:27.000
have other teams who are just like, yeah, you know,
1847
01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:28.479
we're gonna go ahead and just take the rest of
1848
01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:30.560
this one off. We'll talk to you guys next October
1849
01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:33.279
when the season gets going. We'll give it a shot again.
1850
01:17:33.520 --> 01:17:37.359
But the Rockets luckily in the first group and that
1851
01:17:37.560 --> 01:17:40.520
second group, and you also have Gary Woodland winning at
1852
01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:42.640
the Texas Children's Houston Open.
1853
01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:44.520
Five seconds or last, where'd you think of last night's
1854
01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:47.319
game between the Pelicans and the Rockets.
1855
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:49.600
I thought it was one of the best Rockets performances
1856
01:17:49.680 --> 01:17:51.960
they had all season, and Alprin Shingoon. You get that
1857
01:17:52.039 --> 01:17:54.520
at Aufron Shanoon, and I know that you're not gonna
1858
01:17:54.520 --> 01:17:57.319
get a historical performance like you did last night, but
1859
01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:00.880
if you get him contributing like he on the offensive
1860
01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:03.479
end and even the defensive end, two three steals out
1861
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.279
of him and three blocks, so those are nice to
1862
01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:06.720
see too.
1863
01:18:07.079 --> 01:18:09.359
That was a fourteen second thing. I'll think you might
1864
01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:12.840
keep mine short, sweet to the point, good to see peak.
1865
01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:15.680
I'll be back, all right, was the game last right
1866
01:18:15.720 --> 01:18:18.119
to the point you understood the assignment and I didn't.
1867
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:20.520
And that is the only conversation we're going to have
1868
01:18:20.520 --> 01:18:21.960
about last night's blocking.
1869
01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:23.840
All right, Kelvin Sampson is going to return.
1870
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:27.439
Is Joseph Torte with the story over the weekend from
1871
01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:32.680
the Houston Chronicle. I thought that at least the conversations
1872
01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:35.079
were going to start to be had, and that it
1873
01:18:35.239 --> 01:18:37.319
was one of those where it's like, if you're opening
1874
01:18:37.439 --> 01:18:39.920
the door to it, then maybe we get the press
1875
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:42.600
conference here in the middle of this week that he's
1876
01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:45.039
stepping down and that Kellen is going to take over.
1877
01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:49.000
But he said to the Chronicle by phone on Saturday.
1878
01:18:49.479 --> 01:18:51.840
My heat is still hot. I still burn for this.
1879
01:18:52.319 --> 01:18:54.439
I want another run at it. I want to chase
1880
01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:54.960
it again.
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01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:57.159
As long as he wants to coach. He's earned the
1882
01:18:57.239 --> 01:18:58.600
right to stay as long as possible.
1883
01:18:58.800 --> 01:18:59.880
Like that's where we are.
1884
01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:01.840
I think of the Calvin Samson era, like I do
1885
01:19:02.199 --> 01:19:04.119
believe that you are going to start to have these
1886
01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:07.319
conversations after every year, and it's warranted, not just because
1887
01:19:07.359 --> 01:19:09.239
of age, but also because of how much longer do
1888
01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:12.720
you want to do this? But what Calvin was able
1889
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:14.920
to build at the University of Houston and bring it
1890
01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:18.279
to a level of not only respected basketball culture, but
1891
01:19:18.479 --> 01:19:21.199
revered basketball culture. For the way that you go about
1892
01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:24.359
developing players, the way you go about roster retention, the
1893
01:19:24.439 --> 01:19:28.159
way you go about consistency, building physicality, treating practice like
1894
01:19:28.239 --> 01:19:30.760
it is a game day atmosphere, little things like that.
1895
01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:34.600
And now it's led to sold out Arena's Effortida Center.
1896
01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:37.960
It's top ten finishes every single campaign, it's top three
1897
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:41.560
seeds in the tournament, it's guaranteed weekend number two visits.
1898
01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:43.680
You've earned the right to be able to say what
1899
01:19:43.880 --> 01:19:45.159
I want to call it a career. I want to
1900
01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:45.680
call it a career.
1901
01:19:46.159 --> 01:19:49.439
Well, and this all comes on the heels of Thursday,
1902
01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:52.319
when Samson was asked about his future, saying that I
1903
01:19:52.399 --> 01:19:55.000
still likes it, but we all have our time. I
1904
01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:58.359
think coaches have to understand when their time is. We
1905
01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:00.840
all know this young man's game. I still like it,
1906
01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:04.800
but we're going to all step away eventually. I haven't
1907
01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:07.279
really thought about that to the point where I can
1908
01:20:07.359 --> 01:20:11.079
share anything, but I'm not going to get into anybody's
1909
01:20:11.119 --> 01:20:14.640
way though. If I'm in somebody's way or if I'm
1910
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:17.239
overstaying my welcome, I'll be the first one to leave.
1911
01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:19.119
I think the thing that you take away from this
1912
01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:22.279
is that he understands that time is running out with
1913
01:20:22.399 --> 01:20:25.279
his tenure here. But as long as I have the fire,
1914
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:29.359
the gutsto and more specifically the ability to still win
1915
01:20:29.560 --> 01:20:32.159
with recruiting and transporportal metrics, iint lead intimes.
1916
01:20:32.239 --> 01:20:33.720
Well, it's also too, I mean, I think that he
1917
01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:36.359
realizes the importance of getting this out there, because I
1918
01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:39.239
mean I saw it also when Michigan State lost to
1919
01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:42.399
Yukon over the weekend that tom Izzo was asked a
1920
01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:43.159
similar question.
1921
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:44.840
It has to be asked for these guys. I mean
1922
01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:45.680
they're in their seventies.
1923
01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:47.760
And that's the thing is, I mean you get to
1924
01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:49.840
a point where it's year in and year out, and
1925
01:20:50.199 --> 01:20:52.239
I mean, you know, when we were going to set
1926
01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:53.840
this up to talk about it, I started to think
1927
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about it. Nick Saban ran into this at the end
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two he absolutely did where it was every single year, Hey, coach,
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you're going to keep coaching. Well, yeah, I'm gonna keep coaching.
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Why wouldn't I keep coaching? And then it was his
1931
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retirement was a surprise. I mean I remember exactly where
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we were. We were over at the post to Hotel Adam,
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and Adam at the time had Eli Drinkoitz on. Then
1934
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when they brought up the news to drink Woods, Drinkwitz
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was like he was on the SEC teleconference with us
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this morning. He was being himself of pushing back on
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rules and saying how is this going to be enforced?
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And I mean doing the exact thing, and then heard
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of what was said on the call and said I'm done.
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Yeah, and then that's that's pretty much it. I think
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that it was right there where he was on the doorstep,
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and then that was what pushed him through. But for Samson,
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I think that when he stops getting the reaction to
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his culture that he is and it becomes where some
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of the guys that you thought you were bringing in
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that were going to be about the things that you
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want them to be about in your program are motivated
1948
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by other things, name image and likeness, that's when he's
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01:21:52.479 --> 01:21:54.800
going to step away. But he's been pretty fortunate, even
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in this new era of college sports, to avoid having
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that in his building.
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I'll go step further and say, as long as he's
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able to continue to win the portal, which by the way,
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portal opens up at the end of the month, I'm
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not mistake or the the end of this month or
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the beginning of next month, you're going to feel pretty
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content about where you are as a program because if
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as long as you're bringing in the right pieces. The
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thing that I think is very slept on when it
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comes to the development of Calvin Sampson is not only
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does he retain players, the players that he brings in
1962
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and the portal instantaneously hit. So I mean like that's
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something that I think that you throw out there and
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say is another win for you. And he's been able
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to do a good job, I think navigating through these
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treacherous and also unknown territories of what is nil to
1967
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where he's going to still land premiere players that end
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up panting on out.
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The question is how much longer is that going to be?
1970
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Is going to be a net positive in his back pocket,
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because there will come a day to where a player says, listen,
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I want to come to you, I want to learn
1973
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from you, but I got at school like Arizona State.
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Pay me an extra five hundred thousand dollars.
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Can you match it?
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Nope? And I'm going to Arizona State. Works up.
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I'm sure in some he's already started to run into
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that just a little bit. All right, So let's get
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back into the Astros conversation. Because it's a Monday eight
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o'clock that means Steve Sparks from the Astros radio network
1981
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he hops on with us, will react to the first
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four games of the season with Sparky. Right here, it
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is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk
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seven ninety.
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Kbm E Houston atv HD two Houston, the Astros, the Rockets,
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Rockets as befall your home for your home teams. This
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is Sports Talk seven ninety and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human.
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This is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole.
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Rockets win in last night one thirty four one O
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two over the Pelicans in New Orleans. And you also
1991
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have the final four set Michigan and Arizona as well
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as Yukon and Illinois. It's time for us to cueue
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up his music because when we bring this man out
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of the bullpen every single Monday. And he even told
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us last week when he had Alan Trammell on the
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mound waiting for him to take the ball, our good
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buddy Steve Sparks joined us. Here was that who your
1998
01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:18.039
manager was in Detroit? I gotta believe you were there, Trammel, right,
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I was with Trammell just a little bit.
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Phil Garner of course, and Bob Brindley with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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There you go.
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So I mean here and William Hung it's got to
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take you back right there before you started throwing knucklers
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past people.
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So we do it all for you.
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Sparky.
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Hey, let's start with a part of the game that
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you know really well, because I mean you did it
2009
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for a long time.
2010
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That's pitching. Starting pitching overly concerned about what we saw
2011
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in the first four games.
2012
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I'm not with the starters, no, I feel like they'll
2013
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get it going.
2014
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You look back to Milwaukee last year, they got off
2015
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to a brutal start and they ended up having a
2016
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great pitching staff and the best record in baseball all
2017
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that stuff.
2018
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So it's early starts for a season. I will say,
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coming into the season.
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I was concerned about strike throwing by some of the
2021
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bullpen members, and that came to fruition this weekend.
2022
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So we'll keep an eye on that. They've got a
2023
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million guys that they can.
2024
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Settle back and forth and find the right group to
2025
01:25:18.399 --> 01:25:22.239
go out there and attack hitters. But right now, I mean,
2026
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I think the Astros were pretty fortunate with how many
2027
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:28.359
walks they had in that series to come away with
2028
01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:28.880
a split.
2029
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But you'll take it.
2030
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I mean, you want to be able to absorb some
2031
01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:37.520
bad stretches later in the season, and right now, not
2032
01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:40.279
getting off to a bad start is what it's all about.
2033
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It's being able to absorb the eventual lose eight out
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of ten that everybody goes through later on.
2035
01:25:46.640 --> 01:25:50.920
Looking at both newcomers Mike Burrows and TUTSI my neither
2036
01:25:51.039 --> 01:25:54.359
one qualified for the win. Both gave up multiple runs. Now,
2037
01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:58.039
Burrows didn't go six innings, But with you looking at
2038
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it from a pitcher standpoint, first game, the season, new environment,
2039
01:26:02.399 --> 01:26:05.520
just overall jitters of getting a coom into your surroundings
2040
01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:07.600
or something you got to be concerned about. Because the
2041
01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:09.000
one thing I did not is with all starters this
2042
01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:11.439
past week, Steve, is that a lot of the lead
2043
01:26:11.520 --> 01:26:12.560
up batters got on base.
2044
01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:16.479
Yep, you know that's usually. I said that during the
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broadcast too.
2046
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Is this Every time the starting pitcher typically goes out
2047
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of the dugoup for every inning, pitching coach will usually
2048
01:26:24.319 --> 01:26:27.119
say get that leadoff man, you know, or first pitch
2049
01:26:27.159 --> 01:26:30.439
strikes or something like that. And I think that became
2050
01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:33.239
problematic at one point, I think ten out of twelve
2051
01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:36.239
innings if the lead off batter got on between games.
2052
01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:37.239
Two and three or something like that.
2053
01:26:37.479 --> 01:26:42.279
So just just being ready, you know, sometimes it's concentration,
2054
01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:46.439
it's finishing up your warm up pitches with some intent.
2055
01:26:46.800 --> 01:26:48.760
We used to see from er Valdez do that a lot.
2056
01:26:48.960 --> 01:26:52.039
Just lob the ball in there and then go three
2057
01:26:52.119 --> 01:26:54.119
and oho on the first batter every inning. And I'm
2058
01:26:54.199 --> 01:26:56.960
just thinking man, somebody's got to address this man. You
2059
01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:59.600
gotta your last two or three warm up pitches, need
2060
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:03.239
to have a little bit of intent on him to
2061
01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:06.000
get ready for the inning. It's a build up to
2062
01:27:06.039 --> 01:27:08.600
get your body. There's been a build up to concentrate
2063
01:27:08.640 --> 01:27:10.520
and get ready to get ahead of the first hitter.
2064
01:27:11.279 --> 01:27:12.920
So it set the tone every inning.
2065
01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:15.000
You want to set a tone like I'm coming at you,
2066
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get ready to swing the bat. And I don't think
2067
01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:20.920
the Astros did a very good job of that this weekend,
2068
01:27:21.359 --> 01:27:24.560
and that's that's something they'll clean up. You know, they've
2069
01:27:24.600 --> 01:27:28.239
always done a good job of pitching well and leverage counts,
2070
01:27:28.359 --> 01:27:30.039
and that's those counts where they can get ahead of
2071
01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:31.000
head of the count.
2072
01:27:31.640 --> 01:27:36.039
And I think most of the time, Cole, it's concentration.
2073
01:27:36.279 --> 01:27:38.840
Against Steve Sparks joins us every single Monday during the
2074
01:27:38.920 --> 01:27:41.159
season right here on the Morning Drive with Dan and
2075
01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:43.920
Cole Sports Talk seven ninety one. More on the pitching side,
2076
01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:45.760
Sparky Brian a Bray you a little bit of a
2077
01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:46.600
rocky starts.
2078
01:27:47.039 --> 01:27:48.840
Well, what do you do you see out of him?
2079
01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:52.840
And is there necessarily anything from those performances that got
2080
01:27:52.920 --> 01:27:53.760
you a little concerned?
2081
01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:56.760
Well, the velocity was a yellow flag.
2082
01:27:56.920 --> 01:27:58.560
So it was the first time he had gone back
2083
01:27:58.600 --> 01:28:03.399
to back games and through over twenty pitches the day previously,
2084
01:28:03.520 --> 01:28:09.880
So we'll see how that shakes out. You've always remember
2085
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:11.880
managers in the past.
2086
01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:14.239
I've got to remind a brand new to throw hard.
2087
01:28:14.840 --> 01:28:15.560
Every once in a while.
2088
01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:17.279
He just goes out there and just kind of touch
2089
01:28:17.359 --> 01:28:20.720
and feel and trying to ease his way into the adding.
2090
01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:23.359
So sometimes you just got to say, all right, first battle,
2091
01:28:23.439 --> 01:28:24.439
let's go, let's air it out.
2092
01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:28.199
So it's a long season and he's pitched a lot
2093
01:28:28.279 --> 01:28:31.760
of innings, so I can't blame him if he's trying
2094
01:28:31.800 --> 01:28:33.760
to conserve a little bit of energy. If that's the
2095
01:28:34.079 --> 01:28:37.039
that's the deal. But you've seen ninety three miles per
2096
01:28:37.079 --> 01:28:39.159
hour with the brayew on the mound. That's not typical.
2097
01:28:39.279 --> 01:28:40.720
So yellow flag for me.
2098
01:28:41.039 --> 01:28:43.399
He's twenty five pounds lighter and he has three doubles
2099
01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:46.920
through four gains of action. Christian Walker, I understand that
2100
01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:49.359
there was a lot of people who said twenty million
2101
01:28:49.399 --> 01:28:51.760
dollars down the drain of an angle salary. So far,
2102
01:28:52.439 --> 01:28:54.239
he looks like the most complete hitter on your roster.
2103
01:28:54.479 --> 01:28:56.600
What have you noticed about his approach to the plate
2104
01:28:56.680 --> 01:28:58.520
and things that he's definitely changed on up through the
2105
01:28:58.560 --> 01:28:59.279
first four games.
2106
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:02.159
Well, Dana told us on ash Line.
2107
01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:05.119
You know, and it's very dangerous and attempting to try
2108
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:06.960
to pull the baseball at Dyke and Park if you're
2109
01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:09.600
a right handed hitter. And I've heard other managers say
2110
01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:13.800
this over and over is when their hitters come into
2111
01:29:13.960 --> 01:29:16.279
Dyke and Park, you want to make sure that they
2112
01:29:16.319 --> 01:29:18.520
don't fall in love with it because it develops bad
2113
01:29:18.560 --> 01:29:20.960
habits trying to pull the ball all the time. So
2114
01:29:21.399 --> 01:29:23.199
to see him drive the ball the other way, I
2115
01:29:23.279 --> 01:29:25.840
think is a great sign. You just watched the batting practice.
2116
01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:28.359
Right now, I think all the right handers are doing
2117
01:29:28.399 --> 01:29:30.680
a good job of concentrating on going the other way,
2118
01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:33.880
and that sets yourself up, I think mostly for success.
2119
01:29:34.079 --> 01:29:36.800
You know you'll react to pitch his inside the breaking ball,
2120
01:29:37.680 --> 01:29:41.199
but right now, just staying inside is going to be imperative,
2121
01:29:41.319 --> 01:29:44.399
I think, because I wouldn't be surprised if jor Don
2122
01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:48.840
Alvarez continues to get walk at a very high clip,
2123
01:29:49.039 --> 01:29:51.720
so paradis Christian Walker, those guys are going to need
2124
01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:53.920
to pick up the slack and make it hurt like
2125
01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:56.319
Paradas did yesterday a big two run single after an
2126
01:29:56.319 --> 01:29:57.119
additional walk.
2127
01:29:57.560 --> 01:30:00.560
I think that's going to happen a lot again.
2128
01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:04.000
Steve Sparks join us here for his weekly visit what
2129
01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:06.640
to Flip the Switch for this offense on Saturday and
2130
01:30:06.920 --> 01:30:08.119
carried over into yesterday.
2131
01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:13.000
I think of approach, and I think the second game
2132
01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:15.319
of the season, the Astros didn't get much for their
2133
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:18.159
much bang for their buck, but they were hitting the
2134
01:30:18.239 --> 01:30:22.760
ball hard. So I think, you know, just having a
2135
01:30:22.920 --> 01:30:27.840
veteran team realizing okay, that that was an anomenaly just
2136
01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:31.279
because all you can do is hit the ball hard.
2137
01:30:31.439 --> 01:30:34.199
You know, sometimes it goes right at them. Sometimes the
2138
01:30:34.319 --> 01:30:37.840
runners in scoring position lies to you. But just continue
2139
01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:39.560
to have a really good approach, and they've got a
2140
01:30:39.600 --> 01:30:44.199
lot of guys that can remind themselves, hey, stay with it.
2141
01:30:44.760 --> 01:30:46.720
You're doing the right thing. Just keep doing what you're
2142
01:30:46.760 --> 01:30:49.960
doing and things will come to fruition. When's the last
2143
01:30:50.000 --> 01:30:52.920
time that the Astros scored twenty runs in a row
2144
01:30:53.000 --> 01:30:56.399
without a homer? You know, that's that was refreshing for
2145
01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:59.119
me as like, especially at Dyke and Park. I bet
2146
01:30:59.319 --> 01:31:02.479
I bet that didn't happened all last year. Twenty runs
2147
01:31:02.520 --> 01:31:05.600
in a row without a homer. That's that's pretty good.
2148
01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:07.479
That means your approach is pretty solid.
2149
01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:11.239
You're looking at one Alan Joseph Blueba coming on in
2150
01:31:11.359 --> 01:31:14.119
as not only one of the more better relievers, but
2151
01:31:14.840 --> 01:31:16.520
Dan and I were acts up a conversation earlier, and
2152
01:31:16.600 --> 01:31:19.399
from your mindset of a pitcher standpoint, especially looking at
2153
01:31:19.439 --> 01:31:22.680
it from Joe set, I view him right now as
2154
01:31:22.840 --> 01:31:25.399
probably your best leverage reliever. You want him in those
2155
01:31:25.479 --> 01:31:28.159
high intestine moments because he is living up to the challenge.
2156
01:31:28.199 --> 01:31:29.439
But he can still be a starter.
2157
01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:32.520
It can still be that long reliever sparky if he
2158
01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:34.560
continues to do what he did over the last two games.
2159
01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:35.960
I get the home run to Mike Trump, but Mike
2160
01:31:35.960 --> 01:31:38.239
Trump may just be back for all we know. Outside
2161
01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:40.520
of that, you look at what he's done, the more
2162
01:31:40.560 --> 01:31:43.119
that you're getting inclined to seeing how consistent he is
2163
01:31:43.199 --> 01:31:45.239
on the mountain, would you consider him more so as
2164
01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:47.640
that seventh eighth inning guy and try to figure out
2165
01:31:47.640 --> 01:31:49.079
what you want to do with that long reliever role
2166
01:31:49.159 --> 01:31:51.479
Because I'll tell you what I want sixty nine on
2167
01:31:51.520 --> 01:31:52.800
the mountain when I need a nice moment.
2168
01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:56.159
Yeah, you know, I'm with you.
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He reminds me of Christofinsky when he kind of burst
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01:31:58.840 --> 01:32:01.239
onto the scene. And and he can do a little
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01:32:01.279 --> 01:32:02.720
bit of everything. He could get you out of it,
2172
01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:07.239
out of an inning. He can pitch against the pocket
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01:32:07.479 --> 01:32:10.640
and the other team's lineup because he has so many weapons.
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01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:14.039
You know, Will Harris did that a lot. You know,
2175
01:32:14.119 --> 01:32:16.000
he can get right, he's in, left, he's out because
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01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:18.479
of the curve and the changeup. So I think blue
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01:32:18.520 --> 01:32:20.359
Ball can do a lot of those things too. It's
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01:32:20.399 --> 01:32:23.640
still early, I think to probably push him too far
2179
01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:27.439
back there into the fire, I think right now, but
2180
01:32:27.920 --> 01:32:29.279
it's certainly trending that way.
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01:32:29.439 --> 01:32:31.079
And he's got a lot of talent, and he's got
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01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:32.079
a lot of confidence too.
2183
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:35.119
You can tell, like he goes right at guys and
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01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:38.319
he's confident it pitches inside, and you don't see many
2185
01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:41.760
relievers do that either. So I'm excited about him too.
2186
01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:44.880
I don't blame you for thinking, you know, let's push
2187
01:32:44.920 --> 01:32:46.479
him back there right now, but I would just cool
2188
01:32:46.520 --> 01:32:48.840
it for a little bit right now. I think, especially
2189
01:32:48.920 --> 01:32:51.279
early in the season, when the starters aren't going really deep,
2190
01:32:51.359 --> 01:32:54.600
it's really nice to have somebody like him coming there
2191
01:32:54.640 --> 01:32:57.079
every three or four days, and and give you multiple
2192
01:32:57.159 --> 01:32:59.680
innings and keep your team in the game and pitch
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01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.960
really well, not just the quantity and the quality too.
2194
01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:07.079
So I think the league is getting ready to see
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01:33:07.119 --> 01:33:09.840
a guy that's going to be a real weapon for
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01:33:10.479 --> 01:33:11.119
Joe Aspata.
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01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:15.520
Matt Kalahara, by way of Baseball Reference, has the answer
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01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:18.479
to your question, Sparky about the twenty or more runs
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01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:20.640
in a two game span without a homer. You got
2200
01:33:20.760 --> 01:33:22.760
to go all the way back to August second and
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01:33:22.920 --> 01:33:26.239
third of twenty ten, the last time. It's also the
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01:33:26.359 --> 01:33:29.479
eighth instance in franchise history the Astros have done this.
2203
01:33:29.600 --> 01:33:32.600
So a little bit of history over the weekend. Last
2204
01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:35.840
one for me on this weekend, and it is the
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01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:38.880
outfield play. I mean both at the plate but also
2206
01:33:39.239 --> 01:33:41.079
out there in the outfield. What do you think we
2207
01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:44.640
saw the really the group. It wasn't just three straight
2208
01:33:44.720 --> 01:33:46.880
guys over four days that ran out there. We saw
2209
01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:48.159
a lot of different combinations.
2210
01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:53.239
Yeah, you know, cam Smith didn't get much for the
2211
01:33:53.279 --> 01:33:54.800
way he swung the bat, and I thought he got
2212
01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:57.640
pitched really tough. The pitcher for the Angels Game one
2213
01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:02.239
was absolutely dirt out. If your paying attention to Jose.
2214
01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:02.640
Sorry on.
2215
01:34:05.079 --> 01:34:07.159
Yeah, so just take that with a great assault. But
2216
01:34:07.199 --> 01:34:09.000
I thought Cam had some good at bats, got off
2217
01:34:09.039 --> 01:34:12.520
some really good swings. Low Prafito man left on left matchups,
2218
01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:16.039
whatever it is, two strike approach, all of it.
2219
01:34:16.560 --> 01:34:17.479
He looks really good.
2220
01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:20.399
Just to carry over from leading the team and hits
2221
01:34:20.600 --> 01:34:23.039
in spring training. But I thought he had a great
2222
01:34:23.119 --> 01:34:26.279
series and he continues to do everything you want. I mean,
2223
01:34:26.319 --> 01:34:30.159
he's running the bases, the hustle double yesterday, hitting with
2224
01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:32.600
two strikes all that. I think Low Perfido had a great,
2225
01:34:33.199 --> 01:34:36.600
great weekend. So they've got a lot of options out there,
2226
01:34:36.680 --> 01:34:38.720
and they got some guys with some speed that's kind
2227
01:34:38.720 --> 01:34:40.600
of exciting down at the bottom of the lineup where
2228
01:34:40.640 --> 01:34:43.079
you can mix and match and low Perfito gives you
2229
01:34:43.159 --> 01:34:45.000
balance with another left handed hitter.
2230
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:47.520
All that stuff looks pretty good.
2231
01:34:47.600 --> 01:34:50.880
So you know, before the season, I think if you
2232
01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:53.039
would look for, you know, a week spot with the
2233
01:34:53.159 --> 01:34:55.760
Astros team, I think a lot of people are pointing
2234
01:34:55.840 --> 01:34:57.159
toward the outfield.
2235
01:34:57.199 --> 01:34:58.680
But so far, so good.
2236
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:01.680
They look, they look, they look really talented. Myers is
2237
01:35:01.720 --> 01:35:03.920
going to go get him gap the gap and I
2238
01:35:04.119 --> 01:35:04.319
like it.
2239
01:35:05.399 --> 01:35:07.079
Boston comes to town to night Sparky.
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01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:10.439
What Cans considered a winning day on the mound in
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01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:13.119
Lance mccullor Junior's debut of twenty twenty six.
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01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:18.000
Well, I thought he was better than good all spring long.
2243
01:35:18.159 --> 01:35:20.720
I think he looks like a different picture from last year.
2244
01:35:21.119 --> 01:35:23.960
We haven't really talked much about this, but the mechanics
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01:35:24.039 --> 01:35:26.199
has allowed him to increase his velocity.
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01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:30.720
A lot of it stemmed from his rehab. For the
2247
01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:31.600
last couple of years.
2248
01:35:31.640 --> 01:35:33.560
He got into a bad habit of landing on a
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01:35:33.800 --> 01:35:37.720
very soft, bent front leg. And now he's got it
2250
01:35:38.560 --> 01:35:41.520
where he locks that front leg and just right away,
2251
01:35:41.560 --> 01:35:44.399
as soon as he started locking that front leg on
2252
01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:47.680
the mound this year, velocity started.
2253
01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:49.079
You know, he's pitching against something.
2254
01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:52.560
He's bracing against that front leg, and now his velocity's
2255
01:35:52.600 --> 01:35:56.039
creeping back up. He's getting over that leg, getting better
2256
01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:59.760
shape on his curveball. I thought every sign points to
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01:35:59.840 --> 01:36:02.479
him him, you know, if he can stay healthy, uh,
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01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:05.800
pitching much more like he did a few years ago
2259
01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:06.319
than what he.
2260
01:36:06.319 --> 01:36:07.000
Did last year.
2261
01:36:07.079 --> 01:36:11.000
So he looks aggressive, he looks confident, and I think
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01:36:11.039 --> 01:36:12.960
he wants to compete in the strike zone, and I
2263
01:36:13.000 --> 01:36:13.960
think that's a great time.
2264
01:36:14.600 --> 01:36:17.520
You hear him as part of Astros Radio every single
2265
01:36:17.600 --> 01:36:20.720
game with Robert Ford on the call. He is Steve
2266
01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:23.199
Sparks and he joins us every single Monday, and Sparky,
2267
01:36:23.279 --> 01:36:25.600
next time we talk with you, guys will have already
2268
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:28.800
had one road series under your belt. So who knows,
2269
01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:31.239
maybe as the season goes along, we're gonna employ you
2270
01:36:31.359 --> 01:36:33.600
as kind of being like an Anthony Bourdin or even
2271
01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:37.119
Guy Fieri of the road eats out there.
2272
01:36:37.359 --> 01:36:39.279
I mean, you know, maybe maybe that's maybe that's something
2273
01:36:39.319 --> 01:36:40.560
we can work in here this season.
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01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:42.079
All right.
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01:36:42.159 --> 01:36:44.640
Man, Hey, the Astros didn't win back to back games
2276
01:36:44.760 --> 01:36:48.399
last year until their third home series, so this is
2277
01:36:48.520 --> 01:36:49.640
this is a better start.
2278
01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:53.279
Very much, very much a split. You know, I guess
2279
01:36:53.319 --> 01:36:56.680
it was well what Steely Dan or was it? Was
2280
01:36:56.760 --> 01:36:57.560
it Moody Blues?
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01:36:57.560 --> 01:36:58.560
Who was it? Two out of three?
2282
01:36:58.600 --> 01:36:58.680
Eight?
2283
01:36:58.840 --> 01:36:59.000
Bad?
2284
01:36:59.199 --> 01:37:00.640
Well in this case, you got two out of two
2285
01:37:00.680 --> 01:37:03.960
out of meat Oh that was meat loaf. All right,
2286
01:37:04.079 --> 01:37:06.520
there you go, there you go. I knew I knew
2287
01:37:06.520 --> 01:37:08.279
that you would know that when Sparky, so you picked
2288
01:37:08.319 --> 01:37:10.439
me up on it. Good on you, all right, Steve
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01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:12.520
Sparks Again, Sparky, you're the best man. We'll talk to
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01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:15.199
you next Monday. Hi, Sparky, all right, thanks for having
2291
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:15.479
me there.
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01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:15.680
You go.
2293
01:37:15.840 --> 01:37:19.439
Steve Sparks again joining us here on the show. One
2294
01:37:19.479 --> 01:37:21.359
thing that he had to say though about the pitching,
2295
01:37:21.359 --> 01:37:23.399
I do want to carry over to the next side,
2296
01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:25.560
So let's do that. You want to jump in you
2297
01:37:25.640 --> 01:37:28.039
can set one three two one two five seven ninety.
2298
01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:28.159
You can.
2299
01:37:28.199 --> 01:37:30.399
It's sad one three two one two five seven nineties.
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01:37:30.439 --> 01:37:32.199
We continue to roll along here on a Monday. It
2301
01:37:32.319 --> 01:37:34.760
is the Morning Try with Dan and Cole. Sports Talks
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01:37:34.760 --> 01:37:35.560
seven ninety.
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01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:40.079
Football, basketball, baseball, and spitball.
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01:37:41.640 --> 01:37:43.760
I don't know. I'm just throwing stuff against the walls.
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01:37:44.119 --> 01:37:48.359
Load up your straws with more Houston sports.
2306
01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:52.359
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross this morning at ten
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01:37:52.680 --> 01:37:54.359
on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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01:37:56.760 --> 01:38:01.760
Back to the Morning Drive, here's Danes and Cole Thompson.
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01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:05.279
I went there years ago because I went with my
2310
01:38:05.359 --> 01:38:08.319
brother when Texas played Arizona State and the Holiday Bowl.
2311
01:38:08.520 --> 01:38:10.079
So we were there and we hung out in the
2312
01:38:10.079 --> 01:38:13.840
gas lamp district and then we're outside of the stadium,
2313
01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:16.479
got a picture with the Tony Gwinn statue, but didn't
2314
01:38:16.520 --> 01:38:18.239
have a chance to go into the stadium.
2315
01:38:18.560 --> 01:38:20.279
The game that pea no, no, no, no.
2316
01:38:20.359 --> 01:38:23.119
The game was at the old Claal cop that's thought.
2317
01:38:24.239 --> 01:38:26.000
It's just we were in the area, so I was like, Hey,
2318
01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:27.800
I want to go see the baseball stadium. So then
2319
01:38:27.880 --> 01:38:29.600
we went out there and there's like an area that
2320
01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:33.560
you can see into it. But you know, obviously wasn't
2321
01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:35.439
there for a game. It was in the middle of December.
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01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:37.680
I think California sucks all the way around, except for
2323
01:38:37.720 --> 01:38:40.279
San Diego. San Diego is the exception to the role
2324
01:38:40.960 --> 01:38:44.319
San Diego San Diego. I would say that probably California.
2325
01:38:44.640 --> 01:38:49.000
If you are like Newport Beach and below down to
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01:38:49.079 --> 01:38:50.960
San Diego, those are the areas you want to be
2327
01:38:51.039 --> 01:38:54.359
in everywhere else avoid because it's a bunch of weirdos.
2328
01:38:54.399 --> 01:38:54.680
All right.
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01:38:54.720 --> 01:38:57.319
If my buddy Chris Lopez is listening, I do like
2330
01:38:57.399 --> 01:38:58.920
the outside skirts of San Francisco.
2331
01:38:59.000 --> 01:39:01.119
That's I will say that, right, So there you go.
2332
01:39:01.239 --> 01:39:04.439
That's that's your California lessons for today. But the Astros
2333
01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:07.239
able to split their series with the Angels over the weekend.
2334
01:39:07.359 --> 01:39:10.399
Nine seven winners at yesterday Red Sox in town. That's
2335
01:39:10.439 --> 01:39:13.640
gonna get going tonight. You also have the Rockets off
2336
01:39:13.680 --> 01:39:16.920
tonight after we're winning a last night in New Orleans
2337
01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:20.000
over the Pelicans one thirty four, one oh two, and
2338
01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:23.079
the final four is set. You're gonna get Michigan and
2339
01:39:23.319 --> 01:39:27.239
Arizona on one side, in Yukon and Illinois on the other.
2340
01:39:27.760 --> 01:39:31.960
Winners of those moved to Championship Monday this coming up
2341
01:39:32.239 --> 01:39:33.399
night next week.
2342
01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:36.279
Speaking of which, William Brady was never gonna be an
2343
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:38.159
astro and good reason that he is staying with the
2344
01:39:38.199 --> 01:39:41.399
Boston Red Sox. If you are John Henry, and dude
2345
01:39:41.560 --> 01:39:43.560
is awesome. Do you see the home running out of yesterday?
2346
01:39:44.239 --> 01:39:44.399
Oh?
2347
01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:48.399
If that left him? It's the one caveat that I
2348
01:39:48.560 --> 01:39:51.039
have about the entire James Click era. I get it.
2349
01:39:51.159 --> 01:39:55.039
Christian Mascaz helped to win a World Series title. I
2350
01:39:55.079 --> 01:39:57.800
didn't want to see him go. And apparently somebody tweeted
2351
01:39:57.840 --> 01:39:59.640
out and so I want to give Craig here because
2352
01:39:59.640 --> 01:40:01.920
I did not know this. Apparently there was a conversation
2353
01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:04.039
at one point being had for a Josey or Keaty
2354
01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:07.720
to the Cubs for Wilson Contreres as a catcher. So
2355
01:40:07.800 --> 01:40:09.960
Contrerez would have been the backup that year. You would
2356
01:40:10.000 --> 01:40:11.680
have kept willyor bra you and the miners. You would
2357
01:40:11.680 --> 01:40:14.520
have never traded for Christian Basquez and every single time
2358
01:40:14.600 --> 01:40:16.439
he swings and he hits a three hundred and seventy
2359
01:40:16.520 --> 01:40:18.680
foot long blossoms like, yep, all right, I wish it
2360
01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:19.000
was here.
2361
01:40:19.600 --> 01:40:20.680
Yeah, that would have been nice.
2362
01:40:20.960 --> 01:40:24.239
But instead you're gonna be facing him as opposed to
2363
01:40:24.600 --> 01:40:27.119
him being in your lineup. But one thing that Sparky
2364
01:40:27.159 --> 01:40:29.600
did bring up, and I do think that it is,
2365
01:40:30.239 --> 01:40:32.920
you know, a valid conversation to have, and that is
2366
01:40:33.039 --> 01:40:36.640
concerns about you know, strikes out of the bullpen. Because
2367
01:40:37.039 --> 01:40:38.920
it was one of those things having a conversation with
2368
01:40:39.039 --> 01:40:43.520
somebody on it was Thursday, actually it was opening day,
2369
01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:45.079
and it was talking about some of the guys that
2370
01:40:45.199 --> 01:40:47.920
made the team that you know, where are they gonna
2371
01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:49.560
fit in certain roles And one of the guys that
2372
01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:52.199
was brought up was Christian Roa and the response the
2373
01:40:52.239 --> 01:40:55.399
guy had was, well, he's gonna throw strikes, I mean.
2374
01:40:55.560 --> 01:40:58.319
And that's that's now twice that I've heard this about
2375
01:40:58.600 --> 01:41:01.880
this Astro's bullpen of you know, wondering outside of your
2376
01:41:01.960 --> 01:41:04.119
high leverage guys that you have, because you know what
2377
01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:06.880
you have with Brian and Brian King, you know what
2378
01:41:07.000 --> 01:41:09.439
you hope you have with Brian to bray, you just
2379
01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:12.199
a couple of early you know, outings that have not
2380
01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:14.520
necessarily gone so well, and we've seen that in the past.
2381
01:41:15.159 --> 01:41:17.279
But I mean another thing is too is I mean,
2382
01:41:17.359 --> 01:41:19.479
I don't know if like maybe he's thinking that if
2383
01:41:19.520 --> 01:41:21.640
I back off here a little bit, I can control
2384
01:41:21.640 --> 01:41:23.560
it a little bit better, so then I can be
2385
01:41:23.640 --> 01:41:26.680
in the zone. And that's kind of sprouting for other issues.
2386
01:41:26.720 --> 01:41:28.520
I mean, I thought that was interesting that Sparky said
2387
01:41:28.560 --> 01:41:30.960
that that the team has even like tried to bring
2388
01:41:31.039 --> 01:41:32.000
that up with them before.
2389
01:41:32.359 --> 01:41:34.880
Dude, just let it rip, just throw I right now.
2390
01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:36.840
I am more so concerned about the Runners getting on
2391
01:41:36.880 --> 01:41:39.680
basically off ennings. I thought that was a very telling
2392
01:41:39.880 --> 01:41:42.640
sign of what could be an issue throughout the season. Again,
2393
01:41:42.760 --> 01:41:45.479
and this is where you get frustrated because of it's
2394
01:41:45.520 --> 01:41:47.560
not one guy, like because we still haven't seen Lance,
2395
01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:49.199
but Callers make his debut to night, So what if
2396
01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:53.359
it's now a fourth guy, Hunter Brown, Wheeling Delan looking
2397
01:41:53.439 --> 01:41:55.560
like the a superstar guy that we got to sign
2398
01:41:55.640 --> 01:41:59.720
long term. Absolutely part everyone else runner on base, whether
2399
01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:01.239
it be a walk, whether it be a single, A
2400
01:42:01.279 --> 01:42:03.560
lot of walks also early on. And then if you
2401
01:42:03.640 --> 01:42:07.520
throw Lance mccollors in, well, now you're automatically working with
2402
01:42:07.640 --> 01:42:09.960
the odds sacked against your favorite because of think of it, now,
2403
01:42:10.000 --> 01:42:11.760
instead of going through three a batters, you gotta go
2404
01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:14.399
through four, which means at at least six more pitches,
2405
01:42:14.560 --> 01:42:17.000
which is then going to take into their longevity of
2406
01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:19.840
the game to where you want to see them go six.
2407
01:42:19.920 --> 01:42:21.439
You want to see them go maybe even six and
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01:42:21.520 --> 01:42:24.079
two thirds. They can't go past the fourth or the
2409
01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:26.199
fifth because of you're already up to eighty nine pitches,
2410
01:42:26.479 --> 01:42:28.800
because they're working counts and they're giving up a leadoff
2411
01:42:28.840 --> 01:42:30.720
walk or they're working a three to two pitch count
2412
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:33.720
and then it's a blop single. That was the one
2413
01:42:33.760 --> 01:42:35.439
concerning part for me when it came to everything that
2414
01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:38.479
Sparky brought up, that it's it's a narrative that they
2415
01:42:38.640 --> 01:42:40.199
have to be able to break a thin pretty quickly
2416
01:42:40.319 --> 01:42:41.840
or else This is going to become a common theme.
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01:42:42.119 --> 01:42:44.319
Well, and it's also too, I mean with the mccullors,
2418
01:42:44.439 --> 01:42:47.359
it has been an issue before of command being an
2419
01:42:47.439 --> 01:42:50.039
issue where you get the walks. I mean, that was
2420
01:42:50.119 --> 01:42:53.479
what was a little unsettling yesterday with the walks, which
2421
01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:55.920
I mean, and it's not only just him, I mean
2422
01:42:55.960 --> 01:42:57.920
it was Astro's pitchers as a whole this weekend.
2423
01:42:58.119 --> 01:42:58.640
That's what I'm saying.
2424
01:42:58.760 --> 01:43:01.880
Somebody watching Jack Gibbons given guys free passes to get
2425
01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:05.079
on base in Major League Baseball much more than any
2426
01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:08.600
other level. You walk guys, that is going to usually
2427
01:43:08.800 --> 01:43:11.039
be bad news for you, and especially you walk a
2428
01:43:11.119 --> 01:43:13.960
guy to start off the inning, then that's going to
2429
01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:16.159
be bad for you too. And we saw that play
2430
01:43:16.199 --> 01:43:18.880
out time and time again with the Astros this weekend,
2431
01:43:19.000 --> 01:43:21.079
and at least a couple of those times you were
2432
01:43:21.119 --> 01:43:23.319
able to withstand it because your offense was so good.
2433
01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:25.800
It's also one of those things that I don't want
2434
01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:27.800
to be counting on my offense to score eleven and
2435
01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:29.960
nine runs in games to be able to win them.
2436
01:43:30.319 --> 01:43:32.439
I think that you do want your pitching staff to
2437
01:43:32.520 --> 01:43:34.960
be what they think this staff can be, and that
2438
01:43:35.199 --> 01:43:37.880
is where your offense gives you four runs, you feel
2439
01:43:37.920 --> 01:43:39.560
good about being able to win that game.
2440
01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:40.479
In thirty six innings.
2441
01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:42.359
This past week, we saw fifty one walks at Dyke
2442
01:43:42.399 --> 01:43:47.039
and Park just by Astros pitchers, No by both combined. Okay,
2443
01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:49.760
Astros had twenty three walks this past week, and that's
2444
01:43:49.760 --> 01:43:50.720
the second most in baseball.
2445
01:43:50.760 --> 01:43:51.640
Do you know who number one is?
2446
01:43:52.640 --> 01:43:54.840
The Angels are number one, twenty one, all right, So
2447
01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:57.720
I mean in terms of, you know, just overall command
2448
01:43:57.760 --> 01:44:00.520
of pitches this weekend, the Astros and Angels, they weren't
2449
01:44:00.560 --> 01:44:01.720
necessarily up to the task.
2450
01:44:01.840 --> 01:44:03.840
Brewers and Mariners are right behind them at twenty two
2451
01:44:03.840 --> 01:44:05.760
and twenty one, and then there's a massive drop off
2452
01:44:05.800 --> 01:44:07.079
afterwards with Detroit at sixty.
2453
01:44:07.119 --> 01:44:09.319
See, and that's where you know, the small sample size
2454
01:44:09.359 --> 01:44:12.479
because the Mariners, it's not like that's going to be
2455
01:44:12.560 --> 01:44:15.000
a thing for them with especially with that pitching staff.
2456
01:44:15.039 --> 01:44:16.800
Thanks these can it just be a problem for them,
2457
01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:18.720
I'd be fine with it.
2458
01:44:18.840 --> 01:44:21.279
Cal Rawlely, you can continue to have for sevens with
2459
01:44:21.359 --> 01:44:24.960
seven straight strikeouts and your pitching staff can be underwhelming
2460
01:44:25.079 --> 01:44:26.560
that and nothing would please me more.
2461
01:44:27.039 --> 01:44:27.600
I'm sorry.
2462
01:44:27.680 --> 01:44:29.680
Like that was the one to where like I really
2463
01:44:29.760 --> 01:44:33.039
could not stomach baseball conversations this offseason about how another
2464
01:44:33.239 --> 01:44:34.680
MVP season was coming.
2465
01:44:34.479 --> 01:44:36.479
For Big Dumber, Like, You'll be fine.
2466
01:44:36.560 --> 01:44:38.760
I think I'll get back to being a regular average
2467
01:44:38.920 --> 01:44:41.520
maybe slightly above average of the plate catcher. But like
2468
01:44:41.600 --> 01:44:44.159
this whole MVP conversation, like everyone's saying he's going to
2469
01:44:44.199 --> 01:44:47.359
be the legit face of major League Baseball in the
2470
01:44:47.359 --> 01:44:49.680
American League, Gus out of Aaron Johnson, I'm like, come on, like,
2471
01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:52.039
are we really going to play this nonchalant game again?
2472
01:44:52.439 --> 01:44:54.880
We're really gonna do this for a four straight year
2473
01:44:55.279 --> 01:44:58.439
where somebody who's really good for a quick cup of
2474
01:44:58.479 --> 01:45:01.760
coffee ends up coming back to being a dominant for Like,
2475
01:45:01.840 --> 01:45:02.800
what were we doing, guys?
2476
01:45:03.720 --> 01:45:04.960
What are we doing?
2477
01:45:05.319 --> 01:45:05.520
Well?
2478
01:45:05.760 --> 01:45:09.279
At least in the early going, the Astros are splitting games,
2479
01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:12.079
and a huge reason why they split those games well,
2480
01:45:12.239 --> 01:45:16.399
the hitters stepped up breaking down exactly what worked in
2481
01:45:16.680 --> 01:45:18.520
at least in the first couple of games, what didn't.
2482
01:45:18.880 --> 01:45:20.840
We'll do that right here as we continue. It is
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The final four is set.
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You're gonna have Arizona and Michigan and also Illinois and
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this weekend.
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So got all that to look forward to.
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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety is
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01:47:32.760 --> 01:47:35.920
the number to get in the Astros hitters. At least
2534
01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:38.880
it was a tale of a couple of games, because well,
2535
01:47:39.159 --> 01:47:41.760
Thursday not great. You got three hits. One guy in
2536
01:47:41.880 --> 01:47:45.359
particular got two of them, and that's all you got.
2537
01:47:45.479 --> 01:47:48.039
And then Friday a little bit better. You at least
2538
01:47:48.079 --> 01:47:50.239
hit the ball hard. It's just a lot of times
2539
01:47:50.279 --> 01:47:52.239
you hit it right at people and you only had
2540
01:47:52.279 --> 01:47:53.760
two runs to be able to show for it. But
2541
01:47:53.880 --> 01:47:58.880
then you saw it just absolutely break out on Saturday
2542
01:47:58.960 --> 01:48:01.279
night where they score eleven runs. Of course, eight of
2543
01:48:01.359 --> 01:48:04.039
those coming in one inning. That's nice to see. And
2544
01:48:04.439 --> 01:48:07.640
you also had nine yesterday that's also nice to see.
2545
01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:10.600
And as we mentioned, it is only the eighth time
2546
01:48:10.680 --> 01:48:13.199
that the Astros have ever done this in franchise history.
2547
01:48:13.239 --> 01:48:15.680
Were the last time that they scored twenty or more
2548
01:48:15.800 --> 01:48:19.079
runs in a two game stretch was back in twenty ten,
2549
01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:23.680
and without the home run, Yes, thank you, as they
2550
01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:25.760
were able to do that. So they did that this
2551
01:48:25.840 --> 01:48:28.000
weekend where they did not hit a single home run.
2552
01:48:28.279 --> 01:48:30.840
We only have one home run through four games so far.
2553
01:48:31.039 --> 01:48:34.720
Jordan Alvaroz, they should be two. I said they should
2554
01:48:34.760 --> 01:48:36.640
have two. I'm sorry, and they should both.
2555
01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:40.520
And Robert at one point got me.
2556
01:48:40.680 --> 01:48:42.920
I thought that the East sac prerides one that ricocheted
2557
01:48:42.920 --> 01:48:44.800
off the wall on Saturday, I thought that was a
2558
01:48:44.840 --> 01:48:45.359
home run too.
2559
01:48:45.960 --> 01:48:47.159
So the ass I thought was going to be at
2560
01:48:47.239 --> 01:48:48.760
least the way it was coming off the bat right,
2561
01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:51.199
and I mean it ends up going for two run double.
2562
01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:53.640
So the Astros at least in the first couple of games,
2563
01:48:53.720 --> 01:48:56.439
they were eleven for sixty five in the first two
2564
01:48:56.560 --> 01:49:01.039
games with a one sixty nine average, And on this
2565
01:49:01.199 --> 01:49:04.079
season they are batting at two thirty three, which is
2566
01:49:04.159 --> 01:49:07.159
fourteenth in the majors. So I mean it kind of
2567
01:49:07.239 --> 01:49:10.119
goes right in line with what we've talked about all
2568
01:49:10.199 --> 01:49:13.520
throughout the build up this season, coal and that is
2569
01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:16.680
you get middle of the road hitting, and again fourteenth,
2570
01:49:16.840 --> 01:49:19.399
that's middle of the road. That's legit, right there in
2571
01:49:19.520 --> 01:49:22.359
the middle, because you got thirty teams in baseball, so
2572
01:49:22.600 --> 01:49:25.279
if you're fourteenth, you're right there at about the halfway point.
2573
01:49:25.800 --> 01:49:30.479
If the Astros can even get that and slightly better.
2574
01:49:30.760 --> 01:49:33.199
Because I do have confidence in this pitching staff. I
2575
01:49:33.239 --> 01:49:36.520
have confidence in the coaches that are putting these pitchers
2576
01:49:36.600 --> 01:49:39.199
in position. I have confidence with guys like Christian Vasquez
2577
01:49:39.199 --> 01:49:40.560
in there that can be able to work with these
2578
01:49:40.600 --> 01:49:43.039
guys and be able to fine tune some game plans.
2579
01:49:43.079 --> 01:49:45.079
And I do think that you will see starting pitchers
2580
01:49:45.119 --> 01:49:47.479
that are able to go deeper into games as the
2581
01:49:47.560 --> 01:49:48.359
season goes along.
2582
01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:50.039
I'm not concerned about any of those things.
2583
01:49:50.560 --> 01:49:53.119
But this is something that you look at the last
2584
01:49:53.159 --> 01:49:55.840
couple of days where the Astros runners in scoring positions
2585
01:49:55.920 --> 01:49:58.720
had been an issue. Well the last couple of days,
2586
01:49:59.079 --> 01:50:01.239
this is a team that went to all for thirty six. Yes,
2587
01:50:01.439 --> 01:50:04.520
batted three thirty three with runners in scoring position. I'm
2588
01:50:04.560 --> 01:50:06.760
not expecting them to continue to hit three thirty three
2589
01:50:06.840 --> 01:50:09.880
with runners in scoring position, but if again you can
2590
01:50:09.960 --> 01:50:12.680
kind of get somewhere in the middle there of what
2591
01:50:12.800 --> 01:50:15.720
I've talked about with the overall batting average and also
2592
01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:19.000
with runners in scoring position, that's again an improvement that
2593
01:50:19.119 --> 01:50:21.520
you could see from this team that you weren't seeing
2594
01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:21.960
last year.
2595
01:50:22.079 --> 01:50:24.039
Rank in the top fifteen in every single category called
2596
01:50:24.079 --> 01:50:26.399
out a win, I mean, like, that's it you get.
2597
01:50:26.479 --> 01:50:28.640
You're in top fifteen and slugging. Okay, let me hear me.
2598
01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:33.039
You're eleventh and slugging your twelfth, and extra base hits
2599
01:50:33.279 --> 01:50:39.840
your fourteenth, and home runs your fifteenth. In OPS you're sixteenth.
2600
01:50:39.960 --> 01:50:43.159
Just for fun. In OPB. Your walk grade is about
2601
01:50:43.199 --> 01:50:43.720
middle of the pack.
2602
01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:46.720
Lets go like seventeen, but you have probably the most
2603
01:50:46.760 --> 01:50:49.439
doubles in Major League Baseball and your top ten RBI.
2604
01:50:50.039 --> 01:50:53.079
I mean, if your top that combined all together would
2605
01:50:53.079 --> 01:50:55.760
be about a top fifteen maybe top thirteen offense, you
2606
01:50:55.880 --> 01:50:58.000
do that, you have a shot to get ninety wins well,
2607
01:50:58.079 --> 01:50:59.720
as long as the pitching can can get back to what.
2608
01:50:59.720 --> 01:51:02.640
Weeks And that's I think a huge part of all
2609
01:51:02.680 --> 01:51:04.279
of this. But it's also I mean, I think the
2610
01:51:04.319 --> 01:51:07.520
biggest thing of all is health. Because having Jordon Alvarez,
2611
01:51:07.560 --> 01:51:09.840
we saw it at least a couple of times. I'm
2612
01:51:09.840 --> 01:51:12.399
trying to remember if it happened another time where Kurt
2613
01:51:12.479 --> 01:51:14.600
Suzuki said, yeah, I'm not even gonna deal with them,
2614
01:51:14.600 --> 01:51:17.199
We're gonna put him on base. That's respect. There's not
2615
01:51:17.239 --> 01:51:18.600
a lot of guys in this game that get that
2616
01:51:18.720 --> 01:51:21.760
type of respect. Chilley Otani's maybe one of them. I'm
2617
01:51:21.800 --> 01:51:24.600
trying to think who else of major leaguers that you
2618
01:51:24.680 --> 01:51:26.279
look at and they come up in a spot and
2619
01:51:26.359 --> 01:51:28.520
you're like, Yep, we're not even gonna mess with this
2620
01:51:28.600 --> 01:51:30.359
guy because we know what he can do to us.
2621
01:51:30.800 --> 01:51:33.199
Aaron Judge probably one you would throw out there. I
2622
01:51:33.319 --> 01:51:36.079
get it right now. It's not the it's not the postseason,
2623
01:51:36.319 --> 01:51:38.920
different conversation. I get these struggles, but still he'd probably
2624
01:51:38.960 --> 01:51:41.760
get it. I think maybe fer Nano, Tatis, Junior, ronicun
2625
01:51:41.760 --> 01:51:43.680
and junior, depending on the situation. We get it too,
2626
01:51:44.319 --> 01:51:47.319
I mean consistently's in like that top three. No, I
2627
01:51:47.359 --> 01:51:49.079
mean he is, and I mean we've seen it over
2628
01:51:49.119 --> 01:51:51.319
the last few years. And that's again getting back to
2629
01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:54.880
the health because I mean, you know, just with Jordan
2630
01:51:55.039 --> 01:51:57.319
being able to do what he did this weekend, and
2631
01:51:57.640 --> 01:51:59.760
he also noticed where they hit him, they bat him second.
2632
01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:01.880
I know for a lot of Astros fans out there,
2633
01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:06.439
it's a conversation that you're not really too keen on having.
2634
01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:09.079
But Eastak perettis also too.
2635
01:52:09.239 --> 01:52:11.319
Talking in the clubhouse after the game again, hobby er
2636
01:52:11.359 --> 01:52:17.119
Gonzalez PoTA Cubana USA sharing this that perettis acknowledging that
2637
01:52:17.680 --> 01:52:20.800
he's never, throughout the course of his career, had the
2638
01:52:20.920 --> 01:52:23.960
responsibility of protecting a hitter like Ordon Alvarez said. He
2639
01:52:24.000 --> 01:52:26.319
didn't have it in Detroit, didn't have it in Tampa,
2640
01:52:26.560 --> 01:52:29.079
didn't have it with the Cubs either. You get here
2641
01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:31.279
and now you bat him behind him and you know
2642
01:52:31.399 --> 01:52:34.560
that you're going to see better pitches, especially if you
2643
01:52:34.680 --> 01:52:37.760
put Jordan Alvarez on base in front of you, you
2644
01:52:37.920 --> 01:52:41.159
know that in Detroit. Trying to think he would have
2645
01:52:41.159 --> 01:52:44.079
had that for it in Detroit at that point of
2646
01:52:44.159 --> 01:52:47.319
his career. I don't that his career. Yeah, at that
2647
01:52:47.399 --> 01:52:49.560
point of his career, you were not getting the same
2648
01:52:49.680 --> 01:52:51.600
production of Miguel Carrera as he did earlier.
2649
01:52:51.840 --> 01:52:53.479
He was probably about like seventh or eighth at that
2650
01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:56.279
part of his career early on in his tenure.
2651
01:52:56.119 --> 01:52:58.399
So right, I mean, and probably even one of those
2652
01:52:58.439 --> 01:53:00.960
guys that was more of a platoon guy other than
2653
01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:03.399
being an everyday guy, which is what he has been
2654
01:53:03.520 --> 01:53:06.079
so far. Because all four games he Zack Peretis was
2655
01:53:06.119 --> 01:53:08.399
in the lineup all four games, just at different spots.
2656
01:53:08.479 --> 01:53:10.119
When do you think he will have his first off day,
2657
01:53:10.119 --> 01:53:12.000
because I do think it will come in this series.
2658
01:53:12.520 --> 01:53:15.000
I think that maybe it's it's in this series, or
2659
01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:16.880
it's definitely going to be through that stretch that you
2660
01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:20.960
have where you go to Sacramento and then you go
2661
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:23.800
to Colorado the off day on that Thursday before you
2662
01:53:23.920 --> 01:53:29.800
fire up a rare Friday to Monday four game series
2663
01:53:30.000 --> 01:53:31.840
against the Seattle Mariners.
2664
01:53:32.039 --> 01:53:34.199
I think he'll take a day off in the Seattle
2665
01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:36.079
series and won this series. I want him in the
2666
01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:39.560
lineup in Colorado. If you're going to be in that mecity,
2667
01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:40.960
I want my dudes.
2668
01:53:41.000 --> 01:53:42.039
You can hit well.
2669
01:53:42.119 --> 01:53:44.840
And this is also to an upcoming you know, stretch
2670
01:53:44.880 --> 01:53:48.880
for the Astros where you get bookended Thursday off days,
2671
01:53:49.319 --> 01:53:52.840
but then after the second off day, you are going
2672
01:53:53.479 --> 01:53:57.399
with four against Seattle, three against the Rockies, three against
2673
01:53:57.680 --> 01:54:00.840
the Cardinals back at home, and then a three game
2674
01:54:00.960 --> 01:54:04.119
series against the Guardians before you get another Thursday off
2675
01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:07.319
day before returning home to close out the month against
2676
01:54:07.399 --> 01:54:08.159
the Yankees.
2677
01:54:08.359 --> 01:54:12.039
So after that second off day, that would be next
2678
01:54:12.159 --> 01:54:15.560
Thursday before you take on Seattle, right, yep, Okay, by
2679
01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:18.119
that Thursday, there will be another picture in the rotation.
2680
01:54:17.880 --> 01:54:18.840
To go to the six man squad.
2681
01:54:18.880 --> 01:54:19.479
It's my prediction.
2682
01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:22.279
So that's when they are getting back up. There is
2683
01:54:22.399 --> 01:54:27.279
Arraghetty or even you know, anybody else down there. Colton, Gordon, Jason, Alexander.
2684
01:54:27.439 --> 01:54:30.439
I okay, take Gordon out, put Alexander in.
2685
01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:31.119
I think that's fair.
2686
01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:35.479
So at least you can have some options to think about, which, again,
2687
01:54:35.920 --> 01:54:38.039
like I said, it seems like with this pitching staff
2688
01:54:38.039 --> 01:54:40.079
you've got options, not necessarily something you've.
2689
01:54:39.960 --> 01:54:40.560
Had in the past.
2690
01:54:41.000 --> 01:54:42.800
All right, so let's take a break a little bit
2691
01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:46.000
from the Astros conversation, which again we will get back
2692
01:54:46.039 --> 01:54:48.800
into it in the nine o'clock hour again nine thirty Alriight,
2693
01:54:48.840 --> 01:54:52.640
Alexander gonna preview the Red Sox series with us again.
2694
01:54:52.720 --> 01:54:55.880
He's now with seven News in Boston. But then also
2695
01:54:55.960 --> 01:54:58.279
get in some other Astros news and notes. But with
2696
01:54:58.399 --> 01:55:01.760
the final four, it just as I was asking one
2697
01:55:01.880 --> 01:55:05.720
question in particular, what the hell were you doing? Think
2698
01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.079
you know what we're talking about. We'll discuss that next week.
2699
01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:09.880
Continue It is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole
2700
01:55:09.920 --> 01:55:11.319
Sports Talk seven to ninety.
2701
01:55:13.359 --> 01:55:18.119
H town. The Morning Drive continues now. Now here's Dan
2702
01:55:18.279 --> 01:55:19.079
and Cole.
2703
01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:25.199
And the Rockets off tonight after winning last night in
2704
01:55:25.319 --> 01:55:25.840
New Orleans.
2705
01:55:25.920 --> 01:55:29.039
One thirty four one oh two over the Pelicans.
2706
01:55:29.439 --> 01:55:32.079
Seven one three two, one two five seven ninety is
2707
01:55:32.159 --> 01:55:33.560
the number to get in. We talked about this a
2708
01:55:33.600 --> 01:55:36.520
little bit earlier, but I mean, I just I can't,
2709
01:55:37.119 --> 01:55:41.680
I can't get enough. Where Again, the situation is, you've
2710
01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:45.560
got Duke up by one and Yukon goes to the
2711
01:55:45.640 --> 01:55:48.720
free throw line, which Duke did the right thing on
2712
01:55:49.000 --> 01:55:50.279
that offensive possession.
2713
01:55:51.159 --> 01:55:52.880
You foul yeah, because you want to still be up
2714
01:55:52.880 --> 01:55:53.199
by one.
2715
01:55:53.479 --> 01:55:56.880
You you're up by three, and you've got a team
2716
01:55:57.119 --> 01:55:58.920
with a chance to be able to tie you, which
2717
01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:03.319
I believe Yukon spared their last time out on that one.
2718
01:56:03.680 --> 01:56:06.119
They might have had one more, but still take the
2719
01:56:06.199 --> 01:56:09.239
time out come out of it. And then the imbound
2720
01:56:09.399 --> 01:56:11.560
that they they're you know, they're trying to be able
2721
01:56:11.640 --> 01:56:14.800
to tie it up, obviously, but if your duke right
2722
01:56:14.840 --> 01:56:17.319
there you foul, you send them the free throw lines
2723
01:56:17.600 --> 01:56:21.159
with no chances other than an intentional miss to be
2724
01:56:21.239 --> 01:56:24.039
able to try to set you up for a game
2725
01:56:24.159 --> 01:56:27.239
tying three. So you did the right thing there, free
2726
01:56:27.279 --> 01:56:31.800
throw shooter goes. I believe it was dimmery for for Yukon.
2727
01:56:32.600 --> 01:56:35.520
Miss is the first one makes the second okay, fine,
2728
01:56:36.239 --> 01:56:39.359
but then it's right there with you know, it's always
2729
01:56:39.399 --> 01:56:41.560
easy to go back and second guests after the fact.
2730
01:56:42.000 --> 01:56:44.520
If you're John Shire, take the time out, man, because
2731
01:56:44.520 --> 01:56:46.800
the most important thing right there for you to do
2732
01:56:47.479 --> 01:56:52.199
inbound the basketball. You're up by two with ten seconds
2733
01:56:52.279 --> 01:56:55.760
left to go, so you already cannot get a backcourt violation.
2734
01:56:56.159 --> 01:56:59.039
That's not going to happen. So I mean take the
2735
01:56:59.119 --> 01:56:59.840
time out where you.
2736
01:56:59.840 --> 01:57:03.640
May make sure everybody is on board right there, because
2737
01:57:03.760 --> 01:57:05.800
you don't get extra points for keeping your time out here.
2738
01:57:05.960 --> 01:57:08.199
Don't take the time out, even take the foul. I
2739
01:57:08.239 --> 01:57:09.880
mean like if you're if you're expected to be in
2740
01:57:09.920 --> 01:57:13.680
the NBA. And by the way, Cayden and what's the
2741
01:57:13.760 --> 01:57:14.520
other one, I'm blaking on.
2742
01:57:14.560 --> 01:57:15.920
His name, Cam Boozer, And.
2743
01:57:17.760 --> 01:57:20.880
They come from an NBA family, like they know what
2744
01:57:21.000 --> 01:57:23.920
the rules are in this standpoint, Just get fout, Like
2745
01:57:24.039 --> 01:57:26.239
it's ten seconds left, the game's locked up.
2746
01:57:26.279 --> 01:57:28.960
He missed the first free throw, so therefore he has
2747
01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:30.000
to get the ball back.
2748
01:57:30.199 --> 01:57:32.680
And if you get fouled, you're up by four, which
2749
01:57:32.760 --> 01:57:35.760
knocks it out of the play. Just get fouled and
2750
01:57:35.920 --> 01:57:38.560
you win and you're onto Indianapolis. Go a step further.
2751
01:57:38.880 --> 01:57:40.319
And I'm a fight back when it comes to Kaden
2752
01:57:40.359 --> 01:57:42.520
Boozer thing like, yeah, he did the right thing. When
2753
01:57:42.520 --> 01:57:45.039
you're saying trying to get the ball, go higher, Like
2754
01:57:45.159 --> 01:57:47.520
go go higher, go further, because here's the best part.
2755
01:57:48.159 --> 01:57:51.600
Ball lands in court at the other side out of bounds.
2756
01:57:52.000 --> 01:57:54.720
That balls hanging in the air for what two three seconds?
2757
01:57:55.079 --> 01:57:57.119
So that's still taking three seconds off the clock, which
2758
01:57:57.199 --> 01:58:01.079
means you're gonna have two seconds left for Yukon to
2759
01:58:01.359 --> 01:58:04.000
run the court and just do what you were able
2760
01:58:04.039 --> 01:58:07.000
to shut them down from doing beforehand, like so many
2761
01:58:07.079 --> 01:58:09.760
other things that could have gone into this position. And
2762
01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:13.239
like if you love crapping on a team like Duke
2763
01:58:13.359 --> 01:58:17.159
because of they are just the overall pessimistic, I mean,
2764
01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:20.479
the overall optimistic dreams of college basketball who suck at
2765
01:58:20.520 --> 01:58:22.800
everything because of you love seeing the you know, the
2766
01:58:22.920 --> 01:58:25.159
underdog stories of the teams that are the blue bloods win.
2767
01:58:25.720 --> 01:58:27.359
Duke now gets to be a part of history for
2768
01:58:27.439 --> 01:58:32.199
all the wrong reasons because of number one seeds one point,
2769
01:58:32.319 --> 01:58:35.800
leading in the tournament by fifteen or more, we're one
2770
01:58:35.880 --> 01:58:38.239
hundred and thirty four, and oh going into Jay's game
2771
01:58:38.399 --> 01:58:39.279
now it's one thirty four.
2772
01:58:39.399 --> 01:58:42.159
Well, and I just thought about this as you were talking,
2773
01:58:42.520 --> 01:58:46.920
because they even had a inbound pass that was intercepted
2774
01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:49.399
by u of H in that game right as part
2775
01:58:49.399 --> 01:58:51.800
of the u of H come back, because remember it
2776
01:58:52.199 --> 01:58:54.760
was I want to say, Duke was up by three
2777
01:58:55.159 --> 01:58:58.439
at that point imbound and then you get it out
2778
01:58:58.479 --> 01:59:01.520
to Wilson. He took a three, missed it, but Tugler
2779
01:59:01.680 --> 01:59:04.359
was there in the right spot and able to jam
2780
01:59:04.479 --> 01:59:07.800
at home to put Duke only up by one at
2781
01:59:07.840 --> 01:59:08.359
that point.
2782
01:59:08.239 --> 01:59:10.880
But like, how are you not in that situation either
2783
01:59:11.000 --> 01:59:13.640
calling a time out after the first time, if you're
2784
01:59:13.720 --> 01:59:16.520
John Schier watching as Cam Boozer sitting in the back
2785
01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:18.920
trying to get a ball off, trying to make sure
2786
01:59:19.079 --> 01:59:20.880
and if you're in if you're Canaan Boozer, how are
2787
01:59:20.920 --> 01:59:22.640
you not just trying to get across the court because
2788
01:59:22.640 --> 01:59:23.880
either one of the things is gonna happen.
2789
01:59:24.199 --> 01:59:26.479
You're either gonna get fouled, which then is gonna.
2790
01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:28.560
Put you with the free throw line, you're still gonna
2791
01:59:28.560 --> 01:59:31.560
be up by one, or if you get across, John
2792
01:59:31.600 --> 01:59:33.039
shi gets to call the time out at.
2793
01:59:33.000 --> 01:59:34.520
That point and help you reset.
2794
01:59:34.680 --> 01:59:37.359
Well, it's just a myriad of errors that happened, and
2795
01:59:37.439 --> 01:59:39.239
it happened throughout the entire second half.
2796
01:59:39.319 --> 01:59:41.239
I mean, like that's why Duke, I mean, Duke loss.
2797
01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:43.560
Like we're gonna focus in on one of the greatest
2798
01:59:43.640 --> 01:59:46.800
plays of the March of the March Tournament in decades.
2799
01:59:46.840 --> 01:59:49.760
It's not of all time, but we got to remind ourselves.
2800
01:59:50.159 --> 01:59:52.399
Duke was up by double digits with nine minutes left.
2801
01:59:52.479 --> 01:59:54.960
Duke was in control of the game, and they slowly
2802
01:59:55.439 --> 01:59:58.880
started to dissipate and slow on down and make countless
2803
01:59:59.039 --> 02:00:01.680
errors that all out second chance opportunities for you kind
2804
02:00:01.720 --> 02:00:04.000
of get back in and Dan early squad took it
2805
02:00:04.039 --> 02:00:05.840
and they ran with it, and they are appreciated because
2806
02:00:05.880 --> 02:00:08.359
of their mental errors did not hurt them in the
2807
02:00:08.399 --> 02:00:10.159
second half the way they hurt Duke Well.
2808
02:00:10.239 --> 02:00:12.520
I mean, and it's also too, I mean, as some
2809
02:00:12.640 --> 02:00:14.520
of you have probably seen the footage by now that
2810
02:00:14.600 --> 02:00:17.079
I guess CBS or I'm trying to remember if that
2811
02:00:17.159 --> 02:00:19.840
game was on TBS, but whoever, whoever was on it
2812
02:00:20.000 --> 02:00:23.359
for March Madness. I mean, you know the Crew Iron Eagle,
2813
02:00:23.439 --> 02:00:27.079
Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, and that was even one of
2814
02:00:27.119 --> 02:00:28.920
the points too that Hill backs us up on it.
2815
02:00:29.199 --> 02:00:31.199
You don't even have to get that ball across. It's
2816
02:00:31.239 --> 02:00:34.399
ten seconds. Okay, fine, you get a ten second violation.
2817
02:00:34.560 --> 02:00:35.439
They go to the monitor.
2818
02:00:35.760 --> 02:00:39.800
Hey, we've got four tenths of a second left to go. Okay, Well,
2819
02:00:39.880 --> 02:00:41.319
I mean you're gonna be able to really get off
2820
02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:42.840
a shot at that point. I don't think so.
2821
02:00:43.760 --> 02:00:43.800
So.
2822
02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:45.079
I mean it's.
2823
02:00:45.600 --> 02:00:48.399
It's one of those where I mean, that's that's why
2824
02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:50.439
you take that's why you take the time out. It's
2825
02:00:50.520 --> 02:00:53.600
because you take the time out and you tell them, guys, look,
2826
02:00:53.680 --> 02:00:57.239
you get trapped anything like that, don't freak out. Just
2827
02:00:57.479 --> 02:01:01.319
either they have to foul you or if you don't
2828
02:01:01.359 --> 02:01:02.760
get the ball across.
2829
02:01:03.000 --> 02:01:04.680
No harm, no foul. We're winning the game.
2830
02:01:04.760 --> 02:01:08.640
I love it. I do, and I'm a non apologetic
2831
02:01:08.840 --> 02:01:11.319
Dan Hurley Truther. I think that he is awesome for
2832
02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:13.319
the game of basketball. I think that in his last
2833
02:01:13.439 --> 02:01:16.000
four years he has risen up the ranks of all
2834
02:01:16.039 --> 02:01:18.520
time great coaches. He has an opportunity for three titles
2835
02:01:18.560 --> 02:01:21.239
in five years. He beats to his own drum. He's
2836
02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:23.319
not afraid to be kin tankers with the media, He's
2837
02:01:23.359 --> 02:01:24.840
not afraid to fight back with the refs.
2838
02:01:24.880 --> 02:01:25.600
On the sidelines.
2839
02:01:26.000 --> 02:01:26.800
He looks like an a.
2840
02:01:27.079 --> 02:01:29.079
He looks like it. He looks like a pompous a.
2841
02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:30.199
You know what.
2842
02:01:30.439 --> 02:01:32.600
At the very end of the day, he does. But
2843
02:01:33.000 --> 02:01:35.319
nobody cares if you're winning. And that's why he just
2844
02:01:35.399 --> 02:01:37.960
simply wins. So act how you want when you're able
2845
02:01:38.000 --> 02:01:39.439
to go ahead and put the crown on and say
2846
02:01:39.560 --> 02:01:41.000
I'm better than everyone else in the game.
2847
02:01:41.039 --> 02:01:42.640
And that's what he's doing right now. And that's what
2848
02:01:42.720 --> 02:01:43.000
he did.
2849
02:01:43.399 --> 02:01:43.520
Is that.
2850
02:01:43.760 --> 02:01:45.880
Did you see him running to the ref after after
2851
02:01:45.920 --> 02:01:48.640
the point three shot? So when mullings balls goes in
2852
02:01:48.760 --> 02:01:51.439
and he's freaking the hell out, he's running up and
2853
02:01:51.520 --> 02:01:54.880
down the court, he headbuts the official and it's just
2854
02:01:55.039 --> 02:01:58.399
like nobody else would do that except for Dan Hurley.
2855
02:01:58.640 --> 02:02:00.439
But he's the only one that right now can get
2856
02:02:00.479 --> 02:02:02.600
away with it because it just feels like the cardiac
2857
02:02:02.760 --> 02:02:05.079
Yukon Huskies are finding a way to get it done
2858
02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:05.439
at week in.
2859
02:02:05.479 --> 02:02:05.880
And week out.
2860
02:02:06.079 --> 02:02:08.560
Well, and where I was going with the video footage
2861
02:02:08.720 --> 02:02:11.119
is I love the caption that somebody put to it.
2862
02:02:11.199 --> 02:02:15.640
I think it was Rigs from a Reagan from Barstool said,
2863
02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:19.560
we almost lost We almost lost Bill Raft because I mean,
2864
02:02:19.600 --> 02:02:22.079
you see the footage, it does look like where it's
2865
02:02:22.159 --> 02:02:24.399
just like like where he kind of has like the
2866
02:02:24.520 --> 02:02:26.560
look like you know, all right, this this might be
2867
02:02:26.640 --> 02:02:28.039
the one that takes me upstairs.
2868
02:02:28.600 --> 02:02:29.960
And then you know he's able to.
2869
02:02:30.319 --> 02:02:33.439
Slowly reel his soul back into his body and then
2870
02:02:33.439 --> 02:02:34.600
he throws out the onions.
2871
02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:35.239
Does all of that?
2872
02:02:36.039 --> 02:02:39.000
Alex Middleton from The Rod Ryan Show asked me during
2873
02:02:39.000 --> 02:02:41.399
the break as I was going to grab some water goes,
2874
02:02:42.560 --> 02:02:44.760
is there any you know which which are the fan bases?
2875
02:02:45.239 --> 02:02:48.800
Is more of a fan base of people who didn't
2876
02:02:48.840 --> 02:02:50.560
go to that school? Is it Duke or is it
2877
02:02:50.680 --> 02:02:52.720
Notre Dame? I said, it's probably Notre Dame just because
2878
02:02:52.720 --> 02:02:56.199
of football. But I mean Duke is one of those schools. Like,
2879
02:02:56.279 --> 02:02:58.439
how many people do you actually know that went to
2880
02:02:58.520 --> 02:03:01.640
Duke too? And I know one and he was on
2881
02:03:01.720 --> 02:03:02.720
the lacrosse team.
2882
02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:04.439
Too, and it's because they both were sparty pants in
2883
02:03:04.439 --> 02:03:04.960
my high school.
2884
02:03:05.079 --> 02:03:06.920
Yeah, so I mean, like, you know, if you know
2885
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people who went to school there, then you're like, you know,
2886
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all right, you know, yeah, I could see it. But
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I mean they definitely have that fan base. I said,
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02:03:14.039 --> 02:03:18.039
third was your alma mater? I said, Alabama. No, Alabama's
2889
02:03:18.079 --> 02:03:20.760
got a lot of T shirt fans, a lot of them.
2890
02:03:21.039 --> 02:03:23.800
A lot of schools do. But I mean it was
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02:03:24.000 --> 02:03:27.119
especially seen during the early twenty tens when they were
2892
02:03:27.159 --> 02:03:32.239
reeling off national titles like Nobody's business. Winning makes people
2893
02:03:32.239 --> 02:03:33.600
want to be part of your program.
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That's fine.
2895
02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:36.359
Iron was also on the call to He was he
2896
02:03:36.640 --> 02:03:37.960
was awesome in that one.
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02:03:38.039 --> 02:03:40.800
And yeah, like I said, you got the final four set,
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02:03:40.880 --> 02:03:43.239
you got Illinois, who of course came out of Houston.
2899
02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:47.000
You've got Yukon, you got Arizona, and you got Michigan
2900
02:03:47.039 --> 02:03:48.600
that are gonna be playing for a chance at a
2901
02:03:48.880 --> 02:03:51.680
national title. All right, let's get back into the Astros conversation,
2902
02:03:51.880 --> 02:03:54.640
because well, I think the question, even with it being
2903
02:03:54.680 --> 02:03:56.880
this early in the season, has to be asked, is
2904
02:03:56.960 --> 02:03:59.600
this guy on borrowed time? We'll discuss right here as
2905
02:03:59.600 --> 02:04:01.479
we get in the nine o'clock Howard is the Morning
2906
02:04:01.560 --> 02:04:03.880
Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
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02:04:05.199 --> 02:04:08.960
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02:04:10.199 --> 02:04:11.039
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02:04:12.880 --> 02:04:16.239
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02:04:16.600 --> 02:04:25.159
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02:04:25.319 --> 02:04:27.760
Drive with Dan and Cole.
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02:04:31.920 --> 02:04:32.399
Rockets win.
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02:04:32.520 --> 02:04:34.640
Last night New Orleans won thirty four one o two
2914
02:04:34.880 --> 02:04:38.439
over the Pelicans. That's two straight wins. Off tonight, get
2915
02:04:38.479 --> 02:04:45.159
the Nixon Town tomorrow and also the final four is set. Illinois, Yukon, Arizona,
2916
02:04:45.520 --> 02:04:48.960
and Michigan are the four teams playing for the national
2917
02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:52.960
title in men's basketball. Seven one three, two, one two five,
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02:04:53.079 --> 02:04:55.479
seven ninety is the number to get in on the
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02:04:55.600 --> 02:04:58.319
phone lines of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming
2920
02:04:58.439 --> 02:05:00.960
up next at ten o'clock. He threw it out on
2921
02:05:01.119 --> 02:05:05.760
Friday is Monday at ten am, too early for aos,
2922
02:05:05.800 --> 02:05:09.760
which are Astros overreactions, which, of course they will then
2923
02:05:09.840 --> 02:05:14.079
go along with a nice little impromptu sing along that
2924
02:05:14.279 --> 02:05:20.600
Matt does to the Ramones. Let's go, can't wait, It's Scott,
2925
02:05:20.720 --> 02:05:23.199
It's always fun. I mean, really, you could do it
2926
02:05:23.319 --> 02:05:25.199
both ways, because I mean we saw the swing of
2927
02:05:25.279 --> 02:05:29.239
emotions where after Friday night's game it was this team's terrible,
2928
02:05:29.359 --> 02:05:31.880
it's going to be a long summer. All of that too,
2929
02:05:32.520 --> 02:05:35.399
in the course of less than twenty four hours. Oh,
2930
02:05:35.520 --> 02:05:38.359
we're so back, We've never been more back. And now
2931
02:05:38.520 --> 02:05:40.479
the postseason pushes on again.
2932
02:05:40.600 --> 02:05:42.079
Don't worry about to night. We're gonna be back to
2933
02:05:42.279 --> 02:05:45.079
we suck again. That's that's the baseball season for many,
2934
02:05:45.239 --> 02:05:45.600
all right.
2935
02:05:46.119 --> 02:05:50.359
Anyway, maybe you can file this under an Astros overreaction
2936
02:05:50.600 --> 02:05:54.279
at least by me. But I came out of this
2937
02:05:54.439 --> 02:05:57.520
weekend feeling like that Jiner Diaz is on borrowed time,
2938
02:05:57.800 --> 02:06:00.880
like he's playing for his Astros future in real time.
2939
02:06:02.920 --> 02:06:05.640
I won't entirely push back. I think that to a degree,
2940
02:06:06.079 --> 02:06:08.680
yes he is, because if you do have Walker Onck
2941
02:06:08.680 --> 02:06:10.600
and the Miners. Then that's somebody that you think maybe
2942
02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:14.199
could be a part of your long term future. It
2943
02:06:14.319 --> 02:06:16.079
does feel like that twenty twenty four is more the
2944
02:06:16.119 --> 02:06:18.159
outlier of what we're gonna see from him moving forward.
2945
02:06:18.319 --> 02:06:20.119
Like that, he is a guy that will not have
2946
02:06:20.239 --> 02:06:22.640
as much power. His play discipline is all over the place,
2947
02:06:22.720 --> 02:06:26.800
his swing is erratic. He's serviceable as a defensive catcher,
2948
02:06:26.960 --> 02:06:29.359
but nothing great. You don't want him.
2949
02:06:29.680 --> 02:06:32.079
He's not why he's in the lineup. He's in the lineup.
2950
02:06:32.159 --> 02:06:34.079
Bailey is in the lineup for the San Francisco Giants
2951
02:06:34.119 --> 02:06:36.439
because of his defense, and Diaz in the lineup because
2952
02:06:36.439 --> 02:06:36.960
he's a catcher.
2953
02:06:37.079 --> 02:06:40.479
The guy before him, Martin Maldonado, Martin Maldonado, was not
2954
02:06:40.560 --> 02:06:43.000
in the lineup because he was somebody that contribute with
2955
02:06:43.039 --> 02:06:45.920
the bat. Right he was, the bat is a bonus
2956
02:06:46.159 --> 02:06:49.119
for you. You get anything offensively out of him, that's awesome.
2957
02:06:49.239 --> 02:06:51.479
It's a plus because you're using him to be able
2958
02:06:51.520 --> 02:06:55.119
to handle the pitching staff, be able to create the
2959
02:06:56.000 --> 02:06:58.880
pitching game plans, and be able to, you know, help
2960
02:06:59.000 --> 02:07:02.800
prevent runs from being scored as opposed to causing the
2961
02:07:02.920 --> 02:07:03.800
runs to be scored.
2962
02:07:04.159 --> 02:07:07.720
No I'm not worried entirely on Yiner yet.
2963
02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:11.199
Of all the overreactions that I think has the most
2964
02:07:11.359 --> 02:07:14.000
plausibility to come true, that's the one I think that's
2965
02:07:14.079 --> 02:07:16.239
fairer because we can talk about, you know, Mike Burrow
2966
02:07:16.319 --> 02:07:17.960
is not having a good day because if he gave
2967
02:07:18.039 --> 02:07:20.319
up five runs. We can talk about Christian Hobvier looking
2968
02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:22.199
rocky in his first start with the walks and the
2969
02:07:22.279 --> 02:07:25.319
hit by pitches. We can talk about the overall play
2970
02:07:25.560 --> 02:07:28.680
of Cam Smith of the plate. We could talk about
2971
02:07:28.760 --> 02:07:32.159
Jake Myers being kind of back to at least a
2972
02:07:32.359 --> 02:07:34.359
decent enough hitter where you would say it's fine putting
2973
02:07:34.399 --> 02:07:36.439
them in the starting lineup. We can overreact to the
2974
02:07:36.479 --> 02:07:38.479
positives too with this team and say some of them
2975
02:07:38.520 --> 02:07:40.279
we think are going to be a flash of the pan,
2976
02:07:40.399 --> 02:07:43.159
others are going to be sticking around until September. The
2977
02:07:43.319 --> 02:07:45.680
one that I think has the most capability of coming
2978
02:07:45.720 --> 02:07:47.680
true is the fact that Janie Diez is not going
2979
02:07:47.760 --> 02:07:50.760
to be a serviceable hitter, and therefore Christian Vasquez is
2980
02:07:50.800 --> 02:07:52.479
going to have to see more plate appearances and more
2981
02:07:52.520 --> 02:07:53.239
time in the lineup, and.
2982
02:07:53.279 --> 02:07:55.239
That's what the Astros want to avoid. I mean, you
2983
02:07:55.279 --> 02:07:58.039
would like to see Yiner getting the majority of the starts.
2984
02:07:58.079 --> 02:07:59.720
But I mean, as I mentioned, you know, and you
2985
02:07:59.800 --> 02:08:02.399
talk about the struggles last year that Janer Diaz had
2986
02:08:02.800 --> 02:08:04.960
and a lot of those created by him because he's
2987
02:08:05.000 --> 02:08:08.079
expanding the zone swinging over pitches. I mean, the worst
2988
02:08:08.159 --> 02:08:10.960
of the worst last year was the final series of
2989
02:08:11.000 --> 02:08:15.159
the season in Anaheim against the Angels, and I remembered
2990
02:08:15.199 --> 02:08:18.039
he had in that bat where I remembered looking at
2991
02:08:18.079 --> 02:08:20.680
it first seeing it before I could see it on
2992
02:08:20.800 --> 02:08:23.239
my own screen, of a pitch that he offered at,
2993
02:08:23.319 --> 02:08:26.079
and I said, that would have hit a left handed batter,
2994
02:08:26.800 --> 02:08:28.520
like if there was somebody standing in the left handed
2995
02:08:28.560 --> 02:08:30.880
batter's box right there, that would have hit them.
2996
02:08:31.279 --> 02:08:32.359
And he offered at it and.
2997
02:08:32.359 --> 02:08:35.079
Swung at it, which it just did twice this past series.
2998
02:08:35.359 --> 02:08:37.560
And I mean, and that's the thing I mentioned, you
2999
02:08:37.600 --> 02:08:40.920
know when we first started talking about this, the first
3000
02:08:40.960 --> 02:08:43.199
app bat that he had on Saturday Nights game where
3001
02:08:43.479 --> 02:08:47.800
struck out on four pitches and the three pitches that
3002
02:08:47.880 --> 02:08:50.920
he offered at for strikes were.
3003
02:08:51.079 --> 02:08:53.800
Ones that he swung out and not a single one
3004
02:08:53.840 --> 02:08:54.800
of them was near the zone.
3005
02:08:54.800 --> 02:08:56.800
It's nerve wracking. We can say what it is it's
3006
02:08:56.840 --> 02:08:58.680
something that has now become a problem, and it's something
3007
02:08:58.720 --> 02:09:01.039
that is now lingering. The matter who the hitting coach
3008
02:09:01.159 --> 02:09:03.359
is doesn't matter where you are in the lineup. Your
3009
02:09:03.439 --> 02:09:06.760
plate discipline is erranic. It's all over the it's all
3010
02:09:06.800 --> 02:09:09.880
over the spot. You don't have a good identity of
3011
02:09:09.920 --> 02:09:12.920
being able to read the counts. And the problem is
3012
02:09:13.039 --> 02:09:14.840
that you get so in your head of now being
3013
02:09:14.840 --> 02:09:16.680
able to say, I got to get a hit here,
3014
02:09:16.720 --> 02:09:17.800
I got to be able to step on up in
3015
02:09:17.880 --> 02:09:20.520
this moment, crucial time where we got rs and scoring position.
3016
02:09:21.119 --> 02:09:23.560
You're over analyzing it and you ending up doing more
3017
02:09:23.640 --> 02:09:26.399
damage than help. Now credit he did have two hits
3018
02:09:26.439 --> 02:09:28.319
and Nick dig you get you dig it a two
3019
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:32.520
RBI game from him in Saturday, but you're still looking
3020
02:09:32.560 --> 02:09:35.199
at him as as a guy that does offer a
3021
02:09:35.279 --> 02:09:36.600
lot of concerns for the long.
3022
02:09:36.439 --> 02:09:39.039
Haul, well, at least here in the early going.
3023
02:09:39.159 --> 02:09:42.239
For Diaz so far this season, a couple of hits
3024
02:09:42.359 --> 02:09:46.119
in twelve at bats, and the strikeouts have been a
3025
02:09:46.159 --> 02:09:48.079
little bit of an issue. Even in that game where
3026
02:09:48.199 --> 02:09:50.479
he knocks in a couple of runs, does strike out
3027
02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:53.640
a couple of times. So one sixty seven batting average,
3028
02:09:53.720 --> 02:09:56.359
so far to start the season. Again, it's early in
3029
02:09:56.439 --> 02:09:59.039
the season. We've seen struggles in the past. We've seen it,
3030
02:09:59.119 --> 02:10:01.920
I mean even here in Houston or else there around
3031
02:10:02.000 --> 02:10:04.079
baseball that some guys get off to a slow start,
3032
02:10:04.119 --> 02:10:06.159
and hopefully that's what the case is for Jiner. But
3033
02:10:06.680 --> 02:10:08.880
I mean, again, you know, getting back to what the
3034
02:10:08.960 --> 02:10:12.760
concern is, you were hoping that he was able to
3035
02:10:12.880 --> 02:10:16.000
work his way out of some of those expanding the
3036
02:10:16.119 --> 02:10:18.920
zone swings that we saw last year, and at least
3037
02:10:18.960 --> 02:10:21.439
in the early going, it looks like Cole it's just
3038
02:10:21.520 --> 02:10:24.720
a continuation of last year. And if that continues, it
3039
02:10:24.880 --> 02:10:27.239
becomes hobby bias. I mean, remember it got to a
3040
02:10:27.319 --> 02:10:30.479
point in Detroit where aj Hinch had to say, I
3041
02:10:30.520 --> 02:10:31.399
can't play this guy.
3042
02:10:31.880 --> 02:10:36.079
He's killing me at the plate with that. Bats responded eventually, And.
3043
02:10:36.399 --> 02:10:38.199
That's and that's what you're hoping for out of Jiner,
3044
02:10:38.359 --> 02:10:40.680
I mean, because I mean it's when you get a
3045
02:10:40.720 --> 02:10:44.199
guy like that, who is you know, swinging at pitches
3046
02:10:44.359 --> 02:10:47.840
and costing himself and at bat i e. Killing any
3047
02:10:47.960 --> 02:10:50.680
chances that you have at a rally, Well then soon enough,
3048
02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:52.279
I mean you've got to be able to turn the
3049
02:10:52.279 --> 02:10:52.840
page from him.
3050
02:10:52.880 --> 02:10:54.560
I'll take it a step further. It's more like DFS
3051
02:10:54.680 --> 02:10:57.159
right here in Houston. Yeah, that's a good point.
3052
02:10:57.279 --> 02:10:59.800
DFS at one point said it was the injuries were
3053
02:10:59.840 --> 02:11:01.199
just a wait for him to kind of get back
3054
02:11:01.239 --> 02:11:02.840
up to speed. We got to see him be a
3055
02:11:02.880 --> 02:11:04.720
little bit more proactive in line up, and then you
3056
02:11:04.760 --> 02:11:07.000
got to a level of he's playing twenty minutes, he's
3057
02:11:07.000 --> 02:11:08.880
getting two buckets and he's having a ton of errors
3058
02:11:08.880 --> 02:11:09.600
when it comes to shots.
3059
02:11:09.600 --> 02:11:11.199
Oh, we can't play him. Now you're getting to the
3060
02:11:11.239 --> 02:11:13.800
point where Hemay's playing him less than ten minutes. Ima
3061
02:11:13.880 --> 02:11:16.760
hasn't played in the last two games. He hasn't played
3062
02:11:16.840 --> 02:11:18.960
a single man the last two games. And it's because
3063
02:11:19.039 --> 02:11:20.319
of if Aaron.
3064
02:11:20.159 --> 02:11:22.119
Holliday is going to shoot a three and it's going
3065
02:11:22.199 --> 02:11:25.520
to go on in that offers us more productivity than
3066
02:11:25.560 --> 02:11:27.960
what we're getting with DFS. And I don't want to
3067
02:11:28.039 --> 02:11:31.760
say that for Yaner because of again, I it's four games.
3068
02:11:32.319 --> 02:11:35.520
It's four games. The problem is it's four games that
3069
02:11:35.600 --> 02:11:38.600
have lingered on over from a season ago where this
3070
02:11:38.720 --> 02:11:41.720
became such a major negative. And the thing is you're
3071
02:11:41.760 --> 02:11:43.680
watching the other guy that had a bunch of strikeouts
3072
02:11:43.760 --> 02:11:46.600
last season and was swinging at junk. Now lead your
3073
02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:48.600
team in extra base sits with Christian Walker. So it's
3074
02:11:48.640 --> 02:11:52.000
working for one and it's not for the other. That's
3075
02:11:52.039 --> 02:11:53.920
where I think that the level of concern starts to
3076
02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:54.720
rise up daily.
3077
02:11:54.880 --> 02:11:57.319
I bring up this example in football all the time,
3078
02:11:57.760 --> 02:12:00.680
and I think that the comparison is in Basepoulso roll
3079
02:12:00.720 --> 02:12:03.640
with me on this is that football head coach fires
3080
02:12:03.640 --> 02:12:07.119
as coordinators. Then after that it's hey, man, like, you're
3081
02:12:07.119 --> 02:12:09.359
getting kind of close to stage four of this thing,
3082
02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:12.479
where once that's the case, then it's there's nothing else
3083
02:12:12.760 --> 02:12:15.399
more we can do for you. In the case of Jiner,
3084
02:12:15.720 --> 02:12:20.079
it's continuously bumping him down in the order, continuously having
3085
02:12:20.199 --> 02:12:23.680
him go further and further down, where eventually I think
3086
02:12:23.720 --> 02:12:26.199
the astros and I mean just kind of keeping an
3087
02:12:26.239 --> 02:12:28.920
eye on what Walker onic does this year at the minor.
3088
02:12:28.840 --> 02:12:31.760
League level to do it. It's nothing until twenty twenty seven.
3089
02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:33.920
I'm not saying that he would be up this season,
3090
02:12:34.039 --> 02:12:37.199
but I'm saying, though, if he is in position, then
3091
02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:39.800
next off season, I think if you're I mean again,
3092
02:12:39.920 --> 02:12:42.000
we're assuming that it'll still be Dana and Joe. But
3093
02:12:42.039 --> 02:12:44.800
if it isn't, whoever is here then they start looking
3094
02:12:44.840 --> 02:12:46.720
at him and saying, hey, we need to do what
3095
02:12:46.800 --> 02:12:48.960
we can to get this guy ready to be our
3096
02:12:49.000 --> 02:12:50.199
opening day starting catcher.
3097
02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:50.800
Let's say this.
3098
02:12:51.119 --> 02:12:54.279
I think the goal for the Astros, whoever is your
3099
02:12:54.399 --> 02:12:57.119
GM and manager next season, and I will say right now,
3100
02:12:57.279 --> 02:12:59.720
Dana and Jarback, I think the goal is is that
3101
02:12:59.840 --> 02:13:02.640
you leave West I mean, you leave for West Palm
3102
02:13:02.720 --> 02:13:05.600
Beach with the intention of walker On breaking camp on
3103
02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:06.520
the opening day roster.
3104
02:13:07.119 --> 02:13:07.760
That is the win.
3105
02:13:08.079 --> 02:13:10.039
You feel confident enough that he is going to have
3106
02:13:10.199 --> 02:13:12.560
one of the twenty six spots, and then you can
3107
02:13:12.680 --> 02:13:14.920
decide do you want to be the primary catcher? Is
3108
02:13:14.960 --> 02:13:17.880
he splitting time with Jiner? Is Jiner even on the team.
3109
02:13:17.920 --> 02:13:19.800
Like we can have those conversations later on, but I
3110
02:13:19.840 --> 02:13:22.920
think the plan for Walker you Onick this year is
3111
02:13:23.000 --> 02:13:26.399
to feel comfortable enough against major league caliber pitches to
3112
02:13:26.520 --> 02:13:30.600
when he goes into West Palm at next March, the
3113
02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:32.520
inclination is that he will be coming back with you
3114
02:13:32.600 --> 02:13:33.800
to dike In Park for opening Day.
3115
02:13:33.880 --> 02:13:35.239
Well again, I mean, and there's going to be a
3116
02:13:35.279 --> 02:13:37.479
lot to happen in between now and then, but I
3117
02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:40.079
mean to your point, if if you break camp with
3118
02:13:40.159 --> 02:13:42.319
walker Onic next year, Walker, you Onis year, every day
3119
02:13:42.319 --> 02:13:42.960
starting catcher.
3120
02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:46.640
I mean, that's that's the long and short of it.
3121
02:13:46.920 --> 02:13:50.319
I mean, that is one hundred percent already been determined
3122
02:13:50.359 --> 02:13:52.840
in my mind that if if you have him here
3123
02:13:52.880 --> 02:13:55.159
at the major league level next year, then I mean
3124
02:13:55.359 --> 02:13:58.159
that's probably you're hoping that you got enough value out
3125
02:13:58.199 --> 02:14:00.439
of Yaner Diaz to be able to work out trade.
3126
02:14:00.680 --> 02:14:02.600
I mean, because that's that's what I think you're you're
3127
02:14:02.640 --> 02:14:06.640
trending towards, because I I don't you would not have
3128
02:14:06.840 --> 02:14:08.239
him being your guy.
3129
02:14:08.439 --> 02:14:10.640
You say trade, and then it's like we thought about
3130
02:14:10.640 --> 02:14:12.840
the trade of Jake Myers, and the Astros value Jake
3131
02:14:12.920 --> 02:14:14.800
Myers too much to give him off for pennies on
3132
02:14:14.840 --> 02:14:17.359
the dollar or for a young prospect. And so if
3133
02:14:17.399 --> 02:14:20.159
Dana's still the GM and says, listen, we still value
3134
02:14:20.239 --> 02:14:22.640
Yiner as a catcher. We still value him as a
3135
02:14:22.800 --> 02:14:25.119
locker room you know, as a locker room culture guy.
3136
02:14:25.199 --> 02:14:28.199
Is a fit for our organization. The price isn't coming down.
3137
02:14:28.279 --> 02:14:30.119
So the price isn't coming down for a Jake Myers,
3138
02:14:30.159 --> 02:14:31.760
and it's not coming down for your Diaz.
3139
02:14:32.439 --> 02:14:33.640
They're gonna be on the team.
3140
02:14:33.600 --> 02:14:36.039
Oh, I mean, And that's where I mean it's incoming
3141
02:14:36.119 --> 02:14:38.239
upon Yiner to be able to you know, back it
3142
02:14:38.359 --> 02:14:40.960
up with the production this year. He hits well enough,
3143
02:14:41.159 --> 02:14:43.760
there will be suitors. You're not only a looking for
3144
02:14:43.880 --> 02:14:46.239
good catchers, but also too. It's kind of one of
3145
02:14:46.239 --> 02:14:47.800
those things that it cracks me up. Oh, we need
3146
02:14:47.880 --> 02:14:49.840
a catcher who can do this. You mean a catcher
3147
02:14:49.920 --> 02:14:52.319
who can hit, because there's not very many of those guys.
3148
02:14:54.079 --> 02:14:57.399
Cal Rowley, guys like that don't exist. You find them,
3149
02:14:57.479 --> 02:14:58.039
you keep them.
3150
02:14:58.159 --> 02:15:00.960
Well, are multi faceted player because again you have some
3151
02:15:01.079 --> 02:15:02.840
catchers that can hit. But like a guy say j
3152
02:15:03.000 --> 02:15:05.720
t Rellimuto, he was the most complete catcher in the
3153
02:15:05.760 --> 02:15:09.479
game because he was great defensively. Raley is fine defensively,
3154
02:15:09.800 --> 02:15:11.359
but then you got guys who were just hitters like
3155
02:15:11.399 --> 02:15:15.319
alejand Kirker the Blue Jays. That's a dude who you're
3156
02:15:15.920 --> 02:15:18.640
gonna take his defense. He's in the line because of
3157
02:15:18.680 --> 02:15:20.439
his bat and that's why you believe that he can
3158
02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:21.760
be a focal point of your offense.
3159
02:15:22.439 --> 02:15:24.800
Well, and you know also too, when it comes to
3160
02:15:24.880 --> 02:15:28.119
your offense, it's positioning of certain guys and one guy
3161
02:15:28.159 --> 02:15:31.960
in particular, well, we have a reason why they're batting
3162
02:15:32.000 --> 02:15:34.479
where they are. We'll talk about that as we continue here.
3163
02:15:34.560 --> 02:15:36.680
It is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole. Don't
3164
02:15:36.680 --> 02:15:41.239
forget Ari Alexander, formerly of KPRC two News here in Houston,
3165
02:15:41.319 --> 02:15:44.000
now with seven News in Boston. He's gonna talk to
3166
02:15:44.000 --> 02:15:45.760
the Red Sox side of the series. That's gonna get
3167
02:15:45.760 --> 02:15:48.479
fired up tonight. Have all of that still to come.
3168
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:50.520
Right here, It is the Morning Drive with Dan and
3169
02:15:50.640 --> 02:15:54.119
Cole Sports Talk seven to ninety. In the meantime, though,
3170
02:15:54.319 --> 02:15:57.560
it's good to talk about my good buddy Kobe and
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Kobe Stevens Apparel, Kobe Stevens dot com, Kobe Stevens dot com,
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and I mean we just saw it here, you know,
3173
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not only for us in Houston to see how amazing
3174
02:16:08.880 --> 02:16:11.840
Memorial Park golf course looked over the weekend, but also
3175
02:16:12.000 --> 02:16:14.960
too if you follow Kobe on social media, you can
3176
02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:17.680
see all of the Kobe Stevens polos.
3177
02:16:17.439 --> 02:16:19.880
That were seen out there on the course. And you
3178
02:16:19.960 --> 02:16:21.479
got the hats to go along with it.
3179
02:16:21.560 --> 02:16:23.960
You got the shorts, you got the pants, You've got
3180
02:16:24.000 --> 02:16:26.319
the ladies and youth options. Because we're getting to the
3181
02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:29.159
time of the year where golf gear is in vogue.
3182
02:16:29.239 --> 02:16:31.159
I mean, it's one of those. Hey, we're going to dinner,
3183
02:16:31.199 --> 02:16:34.000
all right, let me throw all my Kobe Stevens Apparel Polo.
3184
02:16:34.079 --> 02:16:35.680
Come on for the golfers out there, you know what
3185
02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:37.680
I'm talking about. If you're being told you're going to
3186
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one nice enough dinner where a collared shirt is going
3187
02:16:39.760 --> 02:16:42.159
to be able to suffice, then you know that you're
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showing up looking good in Kobe Stevens Apparel, Kobe Stevens
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dot com, Kobe Stevens dot com. Don't forget you can
3190
02:16:48.639 --> 02:16:51.799
always go see them at their brick and mortar location
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sixty four oh two Luetta Road, right there in Spring.
3192
02:16:55.239 --> 02:16:58.079
So everything you see on the website, it's right there
3193
02:16:58.120 --> 02:17:00.159
in store. You got Cleo and the great crew up
3194
02:17:00.200 --> 02:17:01.520
there to be able to help you out. As a
3195
02:17:01.520 --> 02:17:04.079
matter of fact, I owe them a visit sometime this week. Kobe,
3196
02:17:04.159 --> 02:17:07.200
I'm coming out. There's you, Cleo and everybody up there,
3197
02:17:07.360 --> 02:17:08.319
so do the same.
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02:17:08.479 --> 02:17:12.159
In the meantime, again, find him online Kobe Stevens dot com,
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at the end, it's Kobe Stevens Apparel, Kobe Stevens dot com.
3201
02:17:21.840 --> 02:17:27.239
Dan Matthews, Cole Thompson. This is the Morning Drive with
3202
02:17:27.559 --> 02:17:28.319
Tann and Cole.
3203
02:17:30.360 --> 02:17:30.799
Just cool.
3204
02:17:31.000 --> 02:17:32.559
You know, to be able to play a course and
3205
02:17:32.639 --> 02:17:35.120
you see how the pros play it and you're just like, oh, okay,
3206
02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:36.879
that's how you're supposed to do that, all right. Well
3207
02:17:37.120 --> 02:17:41.200
I can't do that. These guys can. So that's always
3208
02:17:41.479 --> 02:17:43.479
fun to be able to live vicariously. I guess what
3209
02:17:43.559 --> 02:17:43.920
do you got?
3210
02:17:44.479 --> 02:17:46.680
I just can't stop loving a Dan Hurley losing his
3211
02:17:46.840 --> 02:17:49.159
mind on a referee of head bunning him after the shot.
3212
02:17:49.639 --> 02:17:52.319
Well it's not only that, the only thing, like he's
3213
02:17:52.399 --> 02:17:54.639
the only guy that can get away with it right now.
3214
02:17:54.879 --> 02:17:58.479
I heard the Duke call of the three players.
3215
02:17:58.680 --> 02:18:01.159
Such a whiney little baby on that call.
3216
02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:03.920
Yeah, where he had said that, I guess because I
3217
02:18:03.959 --> 02:18:05.719
mean you did see some of the Yukon guys go
3218
02:18:05.799 --> 02:18:07.360
out onto the floor and he's like, that's supposed to
3219
02:18:07.360 --> 02:18:10.559
be a technical foul. It's like, hey, buddy, I gotta
3220
02:18:10.639 --> 02:18:14.200
tell you, if there is any you know, group, fan base,
3221
02:18:14.440 --> 02:18:17.879
anybody associated with Duke basketball that's not going to get
3222
02:18:17.959 --> 02:18:20.600
any sympathy from anyone when it comes to the referees.
3223
02:18:20.600 --> 02:18:23.040
It is you and your team, even Bingo and it's
3224
02:18:23.120 --> 02:18:23.680
all of us.
3225
02:18:24.120 --> 02:18:26.319
So we don't want to hear about somebody should have
3226
02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:29.079
gotten a technical or they missed a call or anything
3227
02:18:29.200 --> 02:18:29.760
like that from you.
3228
02:18:30.040 --> 02:18:30.879
We don't want to hear it.
3229
02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:31.840
It's dimon that.
3230
02:18:31.959 --> 02:18:35.479
Again, you have ten seconds take the freaking foul. You
3231
02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:38.000
can't get admilations like why don't you be upset with
3232
02:18:38.079 --> 02:18:40.639
your own guys as opposed to what somebody else did?
3233
02:18:41.159 --> 02:18:42.600
Who do you blame more on that? Do you blame
3234
02:18:42.639 --> 02:18:44.040
the players or do you blame John Shire?
3235
02:18:44.239 --> 02:18:46.440
John Shire, I blame John Coach.
3236
02:18:46.520 --> 02:18:48.479
You control it, And I don't get me wrong, I
3237
02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:50.159
do think that the Boozer brothers are not gonna be
3238
02:18:50.159 --> 02:18:50.879
speaking for a while.
3239
02:18:51.520 --> 02:18:54.399
Probably not, but I mean it's it cost me by
3240
02:18:54.520 --> 02:18:55.040
one shot.
3241
02:18:55.120 --> 02:18:58.440
Is the number one overall player in America to go
3242
02:18:58.600 --> 02:18:59.360
to the final four?
3243
02:18:59.799 --> 02:19:00.399
I hate you.
3244
02:19:01.200 --> 02:19:02.680
I hate you, as been said, at least once you
3245
02:19:02.719 --> 02:19:04.000
watch her and shoot and see if you can make
3246
02:19:04.040 --> 02:19:04.440
a basket.
3247
02:19:04.719 --> 02:19:07.120
Uh yeah, sure I can see if I'm Braylan Mullins.
3248
02:19:07.200 --> 02:19:09.399
I'm not sure if that went in, but anyway, nah,
3249
02:19:09.520 --> 02:19:13.520
probably not. But anyway, so you got that for the
3250
02:19:13.600 --> 02:19:18.440
final four. So the Astros this weekend with their starting lineup,
3251
02:19:18.479 --> 02:19:22.239
which Joe did stay pretty consistent with it, especially the
3252
02:19:22.799 --> 02:19:25.879
first four guys in the lineup. It was, if I'm
3253
02:19:25.879 --> 02:19:30.079
not mistaken, it was one, two, three, four every single game, well,
3254
02:19:30.120 --> 02:19:32.360
actually not every single game because he didn't have Jeremy
3255
02:19:32.399 --> 02:19:36.000
Pania for a couple of those, but it was relatively consistent,
3256
02:19:36.159 --> 02:19:39.040
and it was most consistent at two and three because
3257
02:19:39.079 --> 02:19:42.040
you had ord On Alvarez batting second and you have
3258
02:19:42.159 --> 02:19:44.840
East SoC Perettis batting third, and talked about a little
3259
02:19:44.840 --> 02:19:49.879
bit earlier, but Jabi er Gonzalez of Palota Cubana, USA
3260
02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:54.239
sharing the clubhouse video of them talking with East SOOC
3261
02:19:54.319 --> 02:19:57.559
Perettis and talking about that he's never throughout his career
3262
02:19:57.959 --> 02:20:01.280
had the responsibility of protecting a hit or like Jordan Alvarez,
3263
02:20:01.959 --> 02:20:05.760
as he says that it makes him motivated to do
3264
02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:10.159
things even better, so Parretis. This weekend numbers weren't great,
3265
02:20:10.760 --> 02:20:13.760
one eighty eight batting average, did walk a couple of times,
3266
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:16.120
but it was also two The hits that he got,
3267
02:20:16.200 --> 02:20:20.520
which he got three of them in sixteen at bats, well,
3268
02:20:20.760 --> 02:20:24.360
they mostly counted because he has the two run double
3269
02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:26.520
yesterday to be able to help you win the game,
3270
02:20:27.000 --> 02:20:29.840
and then he's also had the two run double on
3271
02:20:30.159 --> 02:20:34.719
Saturday to be able to spark a comeback to come
3272
02:20:34.760 --> 02:20:37.520
from behind down six to nothing and able to win
3273
02:20:37.600 --> 02:20:38.920
that game eleven to nine.
3274
02:20:41.120 --> 02:20:42.719
Who East sacked Perettis?
3275
02:20:46.639 --> 02:20:48.840
Imagine people still at this point why I'm saying that
3276
02:20:48.879 --> 02:20:51.360
they need to trade him. Oh, I'm sure there's probably
3277
02:20:51.360 --> 02:20:53.559
still the least a handful of people who are saying.
3278
02:20:53.680 --> 02:20:56.719
See as I mentioned, and I'll continue to harp on this.
3279
02:20:56.799 --> 02:20:59.159
I mean, I understand asking the question, and look, I
3280
02:20:59.239 --> 02:21:01.680
say it all the time. Questions don't hurt, ignorance does well.
3281
02:21:01.719 --> 02:21:03.120
Actually I didn't say that that was set on the
3282
02:21:03.159 --> 02:21:05.360
facts of life. But you get my point here, So
3283
02:21:05.639 --> 02:21:07.879
you just ask Scarrett. I get your You can ask
3284
02:21:07.959 --> 02:21:12.079
the question. It's it's fine, and look, not all questions
3285
02:21:12.120 --> 02:21:15.159
are great questions. But it's kind of like the question
3286
02:21:15.639 --> 02:21:18.399
that was asked to Gordy yesterday about why the Astros
3287
02:21:18.399 --> 02:21:20.719
didn't do a better job of finding a backup closer.
3288
02:21:21.239 --> 02:21:24.000
Because you have a backup closer. Most teams have a
3289
02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:25.840
backup closer. It's called your setup man.
3290
02:21:25.959 --> 02:21:29.680
When your closer gets hurt or there's general ineffectiveness, then
3291
02:21:29.719 --> 02:21:31.319
you turn to the setup man, and that's what the
3292
02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:32.120
Astros have done.
3293
02:21:32.159 --> 02:21:32.680
Okay, do you.
3294
02:21:32.680 --> 02:21:34.639
Still want Hose I mean Brian A. Brady you as
3295
02:21:34.680 --> 02:21:35.280
your setup man.
3296
02:21:36.000 --> 02:21:38.399
Yes, I do, until further notice. I want Brian and
3297
02:21:38.440 --> 02:21:39.520
Brady to be the eighth inning guy.
3298
02:21:39.600 --> 02:21:40.280
Yes, I would have.
3299
02:21:40.239 --> 02:21:41.520
Been the eighth inning guide and let him be the
3300
02:21:41.600 --> 02:21:43.040
eighth inning guy, not the ninth inning guy.
3301
02:21:43.159 --> 02:21:45.280
But he's been one of the best eighth inning guys
3302
02:21:45.280 --> 02:21:48.280
in baseball. The guy that was here before Josh Hater,
3303
02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:51.000
the one who was the closer. He at one time
3304
02:21:51.120 --> 02:21:54.760
was an eighth inning guy, and then eventually after Roberto
3305
02:21:54.799 --> 02:21:57.520
Ozuna left, you brought him in to be your closer
3306
02:21:57.520 --> 02:21:59.159
and he became one of the best ones in all
3307
02:21:59.200 --> 02:22:02.200
of baseball. So you do build up to that point.
3308
02:22:02.520 --> 02:22:04.440
I mean Craig Kimberl, when he first came up with
3309
02:22:04.520 --> 02:22:08.600
the Braves, you had Billy Wager the way he's not
3310
02:22:08.719 --> 02:22:11.239
with the Mets. I want to say, yeah, is he
3311
02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:15.079
ever going to retire? I mean, I guess not, Okay,
3312
02:22:15.079 --> 02:22:16.920
because is do you think he's a Hall of Famer.
3313
02:22:17.159 --> 02:22:19.760
I've had many of people ask me what do you
3314
02:22:19.799 --> 02:22:23.120
do with Craig Kimberl, because he's gonna finish like top
3315
02:22:23.159 --> 02:22:24.079
five and saves all time.
3316
02:22:24.319 --> 02:22:26.440
Yeah, probably will. I'm sure he will be a Hall
3317
02:22:26.440 --> 02:22:28.520
of Famer. I'm sure what does he wear At this point,
3318
02:22:28.559 --> 02:22:29.680
I thought it was a brave and then he was
3319
02:22:29.920 --> 02:22:31.680
I was gonna say, I think he probably goes in
3320
02:22:31.760 --> 02:22:35.079
with the Braves regardless. So that's from that side.
3321
02:22:35.280 --> 02:22:38.520
It's from the hitting side, with the astros of a
3322
02:22:38.600 --> 02:22:40.879
guy like Peretis, who you know is going to give
3323
02:22:40.920 --> 02:22:41.840
you a great at bat.
3324
02:22:41.879 --> 02:22:43.200
He's going to give you the best at bad. If
3325
02:22:43.239 --> 02:22:46.079
anybody on the team, I am the most consistent at bad,
3326
02:22:46.120 --> 02:22:46.920
I would say, right.
3327
02:22:47.000 --> 02:22:47.440
And that's why.
3328
02:22:47.559 --> 02:22:50.079
I mean, you know, with a couple of the strikeouts
3329
02:22:50.120 --> 02:22:52.200
he had this weekend, it kind of surprised you because
3330
02:22:52.239 --> 02:22:53.920
it was like expanding the zone.
3331
02:22:53.959 --> 02:22:54.600
He doesn't do that.
3332
02:22:55.200 --> 02:22:58.000
If anything, he's a guy it's incredibly selective up there
3333
02:22:58.040 --> 02:22:58.959
and will be able to work.
3334
02:22:59.000 --> 02:22:59.479
He'll walk.
3335
02:22:59.799 --> 02:23:03.040
Now, having Estoc Parretis on base is not necessarily the
3336
02:23:03.120 --> 02:23:06.040
best thing. And that's also too where we thought that
3337
02:23:06.159 --> 02:23:07.799
he was going to be the number two hitter. But
3338
02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:11.440
then I remembered, you know, talking with somebody where they were,
3339
02:23:11.639 --> 02:23:14.079
you know, just bringing up lineup construction, and their point
3340
02:23:14.120 --> 02:23:16.360
that they brought up was, well, you got to remember
3341
02:23:16.520 --> 02:23:18.520
you know what partis does well for you. He's one
3342
02:23:18.559 --> 02:23:20.840
of your better slug guys. He's one of your guys
3343
02:23:20.879 --> 02:23:23.200
that's better with runners in scoring positions. So you want
3344
02:23:23.280 --> 02:23:26.120
that guy to be lower in the order in those spots.
3345
02:23:26.600 --> 02:23:29.280
Then you want them being the guy right after Jeremy Panna,
3346
02:23:29.319 --> 02:23:32.520
because Pania could get on. Okay, fine, but then you're
3347
02:23:32.559 --> 02:23:35.440
only at best giving yourself an opportunity at two runs.
3348
02:23:35.639 --> 02:23:37.920
Let's say that Pania gets on, so does your to on.
3349
02:23:38.440 --> 02:23:41.399
Now you got an opportunity to give yourself three runs.
3350
02:23:41.440 --> 02:23:43.120
And you might say, Dan, that's only a difference of
3351
02:23:43.159 --> 02:23:45.040
one run. No, that makes a difference.
3352
02:23:45.600 --> 02:23:45.959
It does.
3353
02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:48.399
I think that with Esta Paradies more than anything else
3354
02:23:48.479 --> 02:23:49.840
is that you want to see him get back to
3355
02:23:50.079 --> 02:23:53.360
having more I would say longer played appearances because there
3356
02:23:53.399 --> 02:23:54.959
were a few strikers that he had that were within
3357
02:23:55.040 --> 02:23:57.600
four pitches. But besides that, you know, the one ady
3358
02:23:57.840 --> 02:24:00.239
average is probably what most people are turning to because
3359
02:24:00.280 --> 02:24:02.239
of the hits. I look at the clutch factor and
3360
02:24:02.479 --> 02:24:05.079
twice this season in a short period of time, he
3361
02:24:05.120 --> 02:24:06.559
has come a big when he is at the plate,
3362
02:24:07.000 --> 02:24:09.280
you could say that he's been probably the astros x
3363
02:24:09.360 --> 02:24:12.200
factor can maybe argue Christian Walker at this point just
3364
02:24:12.280 --> 02:24:16.000
simply because of him hitting extra base hits, but I
3365
02:24:16.120 --> 02:24:18.840
appreciate what he provides. Figure out how you got him
3366
02:24:18.840 --> 02:24:21.360
in the lineup every single day. Worry about who's gonna
3367
02:24:21.360 --> 02:24:23.120
be a missing time later, because right now he is
3368
02:24:23.159 --> 02:24:24.440
one dude that I am not taking out of the
3369
02:24:24.479 --> 02:24:24.920
lineup yet.
3370
02:24:25.200 --> 02:24:27.200
It's good to have that guy, that is for sure.
3371
02:24:27.280 --> 02:24:29.680
All right, let's go get the Boston side of this
3372
02:24:29.840 --> 02:24:34.000
upcoming series. Our good buddy Ari Alexander from seven News
3373
02:24:34.200 --> 02:24:36.559
up in Boston. He used to be here in Houston
3374
02:24:36.719 --> 02:24:39.799
over at KPRC two. He's gonna hop on with us
3375
02:24:39.879 --> 02:24:41.760
as we continue here. It is the Morning Drive with
3376
02:24:41.840 --> 02:24:43.719
Dan and Coles Sports Talk seven ninety.
3377
02:24:44.959 --> 02:24:51.120
Real takes, Real Reaction, Real Houston Sports Talk seven ninety
3378
02:24:51.440 --> 02:24:54.200
guarantee human and.
3379
02:24:54.559 --> 02:24:57.399
The final four is set. You got two number ones,
3380
02:24:57.600 --> 02:25:00.799
Michigan and Arizona. You also have a two taking on
3381
02:25:01.040 --> 02:25:04.000
a three. The two is Yukon and the three is
3382
02:25:04.200 --> 02:25:07.040
Illinois for a chance to win a national title. And
3383
02:25:07.520 --> 02:25:09.760
without further ado, let's head out to the phone lines.
3384
02:25:09.760 --> 02:25:11.799
You used to see him on your TV screens here
3385
02:25:11.879 --> 02:25:14.959
in Houston on KPRC two. Well, now, if you're ever
3386
02:25:15.079 --> 02:25:17.040
up in Boston, tune it over to seven News and
3387
02:25:17.040 --> 02:25:20.280
you're gonna see this guy. It is Ari, Alexander Ari.
3388
02:25:20.479 --> 02:25:23.559
Good to hear from you again, buddy. As we preview
3389
02:25:23.639 --> 02:25:26.200
up this series for the Red Sox, I mean, for
3390
02:25:26.239 --> 02:25:29.719
the Astros, kind of an up and down series from
3391
02:25:30.000 --> 02:25:33.159
this weekend Friday, Thursday and Friday not great, and then
3392
02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:35.040
Saturday and Sunday awesome.
3393
02:25:35.440 --> 02:25:37.000
What was it like for the Red Sox up there
3394
02:25:37.040 --> 02:25:37.639
in Cincinnati?
3395
02:25:38.760 --> 02:25:41.760
It was uneven, to say the least. For the Red Sox,
3396
02:25:42.360 --> 02:25:44.440
good things here and there. Will You're a bray You
3397
02:25:44.600 --> 02:25:46.639
and I'm sure Astros fans won't be happy to hear
3398
02:25:46.879 --> 02:25:49.719
was the absolute star of the weekend for Boston. But
3399
02:25:49.840 --> 02:25:52.040
then you get some issues with the bullpens. Some of
3400
02:25:52.079 --> 02:25:55.000
their leverage guys like Justin Slayton and Greg Weiser did
3401
02:25:55.079 --> 02:25:58.840
not have good serieses. And then the pitching staff, largely
3402
02:25:58.959 --> 02:26:02.239
from a starter perspective, it was excellent, and so everything
3403
02:26:02.440 --> 02:26:06.959
every game was very close. Hitting wasn't quite there outside
3404
02:26:07.079 --> 02:26:09.559
really of William or Bray You and maybe Robin Anthony,
3405
02:26:09.600 --> 02:26:11.399
who has been a little bit more consistent. So they're
3406
02:26:11.399 --> 02:26:13.879
going to need to find some more bats, and then
3407
02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:16.239
the bullpen was just sort of an adventure for a
3408
02:26:16.319 --> 02:26:19.280
team that is going to be built on pitching and defense.
3409
02:26:19.360 --> 02:26:21.479
This year was sort of the total opposite of the
3410
02:26:21.559 --> 02:26:23.879
weekend that the Astros had, where almost every game was
3411
02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:28.959
massively high scoring. Boston Cincinnati was just pitchers duels all
3412
02:26:28.959 --> 02:26:29.440
the way through.
3413
02:26:30.319 --> 02:26:32.959
And then you know, as you mentioned about it being
3414
02:26:33.200 --> 02:26:36.920
pitchers duels all the way through, I mean, the starting
3415
02:26:37.040 --> 02:26:39.760
rotation pretty much setting up to be exactly what people
3416
02:26:39.840 --> 02:26:41.479
thought it was going to be coming into the season.
3417
02:26:42.879 --> 02:26:43.680
Yes, it's close.
3418
02:26:43.799 --> 02:26:47.760
So Ranger Suarez is still not fully built up. So
3419
02:26:47.959 --> 02:26:51.000
Johann Obiedo, who was initially supposed to be the fifth starter,
3420
02:26:51.479 --> 02:26:54.520
came over in a trade. He will be piggybacking Ranger
3421
02:26:54.600 --> 02:26:57.920
Swarez a bit. There's a chance that Brian Bao is
3422
02:26:58.040 --> 02:27:00.840
not fully built up. I think he's right around that
3423
02:27:00.959 --> 02:27:04.319
five inning limit, and they'll they'll possibly have to go
3424
02:27:04.360 --> 02:27:06.319
a long man like Ryan Watson. It was a rule
3425
02:27:06.399 --> 02:27:09.040
five who made the team. Other than that, it's everyone
3426
02:27:09.079 --> 02:27:11.600
else you would expect, except the only little surprise was
3427
02:27:11.680 --> 02:27:15.239
Connery Early, the rookie top hundred prospect making the team.
3428
02:27:15.360 --> 02:27:17.799
He started yesterday at an excellent start five and the
3429
02:27:17.840 --> 02:27:20.639
third gave up just one run. He has sort of.
3430
02:27:20.719 --> 02:27:22.440
Beaten out Johanno Viedo for.
3431
02:27:22.479 --> 02:27:25.000
That five spot for now, but I think they're just
3432
02:27:25.079 --> 02:27:27.200
going to evaluate it and see how it goes over
3433
02:27:27.239 --> 02:27:27.959
the next few weeks.
3434
02:27:28.079 --> 02:27:30.479
All Right, what should fans expect for the debut of
3435
02:27:30.559 --> 02:27:32.840
Ranger Swaz in a Red Sox uniform while going up
3436
02:27:32.840 --> 02:27:36.600
against Lance mccully's junior, another guy who we know during
3437
02:27:36.680 --> 02:27:39.799
his tenure, they'll heisman high. The low has been lows,
3438
02:27:39.879 --> 02:27:42.799
but when he struggles, you're gonna see and be port Earlier,
3439
02:27:42.840 --> 02:27:44.760
were we talking about this being potentially a bullpen game
3440
02:27:44.799 --> 02:27:45.399
on Monday Night.
3441
02:27:46.639 --> 02:27:48.239
I think it could be a bullpen game for the
3442
02:27:48.280 --> 02:27:49.159
Red Sox as well.
3443
02:27:49.319 --> 02:27:51.200
Suarez didn't get a whole lot of work for Team
3444
02:27:51.280 --> 02:27:54.440
Venezuela and the World Baseball Classic, and so they're carrying
3445
02:27:54.600 --> 02:27:57.440
six starters, with that six being Johanno Piedo in a
3446
02:27:57.479 --> 02:28:00.000
piggyback role. So the biggest thing that I would expect,
3447
02:28:00.280 --> 02:28:03.559
You're going to see Ranger Swarez for maybe no more
3448
02:28:03.680 --> 02:28:06.120
than four innings, and then after that it's going to
3449
02:28:06.159 --> 02:28:08.719
be ob e tooh and whatever else. The Red Sox
3450
02:28:08.840 --> 02:28:11.840
Bullpen can muster. He's going to eventually get built up.
3451
02:28:11.879 --> 02:28:14.319
They spent a ton of money on him in terms.
3452
02:28:14.120 --> 02:28:15.079
Of what he looks like.
3453
02:28:15.760 --> 02:28:18.479
The Asters have seen Ranger swars plenty, including a game
3454
02:28:18.520 --> 02:28:20.639
in the World Series where he pitched excellent against them
3455
02:28:20.680 --> 02:28:23.959
in twenty twenty two, and so same Ranger Swarez might
3456
02:28:24.000 --> 02:28:25.040
not be going for as long.
3457
02:28:25.639 --> 02:28:29.000
All right, Alexander again used to be with KPRC two
3458
02:28:29.200 --> 02:28:31.600
here in town. You heard him numerous times here with
3459
02:28:31.760 --> 02:28:35.920
us in studio on Sports Talk seven ninety. Now he's
3460
02:28:35.959 --> 02:28:39.280
with seven News up in Boston talking the Red Sox.
3461
02:28:39.360 --> 02:28:41.719
You allude to this a little bit in your first answer,
3462
02:28:41.879 --> 02:28:44.719
but looks like this is a Red Sox lineup that's
3463
02:28:44.719 --> 02:28:46.559
got a lot of promise, but just a lot of
3464
02:28:46.680 --> 02:28:49.360
young guys. I mean, is this a group that people
3465
02:28:49.479 --> 02:28:51.559
up there are looking at to be somebody that can
3466
02:28:51.639 --> 02:28:53.520
put together some damage at the plate.
3467
02:28:54.719 --> 02:28:57.159
I think there's a hope, but there's also a little
3468
02:28:57.159 --> 02:28:59.520
bit of a disappointment that they didn't add the power
3469
02:28:59.639 --> 02:29:02.479
back that was the primary type of player that they
3470
02:29:02.520 --> 02:29:05.600
were looking for, and they pivoted to Ranger Suarez after
3471
02:29:06.159 --> 02:29:09.440
not really going after Alex Bregman. I believe the way
3472
02:29:09.559 --> 02:29:12.159
that they should have gone after him, making some trades
3473
02:29:12.200 --> 02:29:14.600
for guys like Hail Durban, who has really struggled in
3474
02:29:14.639 --> 02:29:17.120
the first three games and again three games sample size.
3475
02:29:17.159 --> 02:29:19.920
But it's not a good feeling when Bregman goes out
3476
02:29:19.920 --> 02:29:21.680
and hits two home runs on the same day that
3477
02:29:22.079 --> 02:29:24.000
the guy that you traded for to replace his.
3478
02:29:24.079 --> 02:29:25.959
Position is struggling for the weekend.
3479
02:29:26.040 --> 02:29:29.000
And so there's plenty of guys where if they hit
3480
02:29:29.079 --> 02:29:31.799
the upper end of their talent, Roman Anthony being one
3481
02:29:31.879 --> 02:29:34.319
of them, who if you ask any Red Sox fans,
3482
02:29:34.360 --> 02:29:36.760
should be an MVP candidate, WILLI or bray you has
3483
02:29:36.799 --> 02:29:39.799
been excellent. Jared Durant at one point two years ago
3484
02:29:39.920 --> 02:29:41.520
is one of the best players in all baseball and
3485
02:29:41.559 --> 02:29:43.280
had a bit of a down year last year. So
3486
02:29:43.760 --> 02:29:47.000
the talent is there, the ceiling is there. But if
3487
02:29:47.040 --> 02:29:49.719
you have a combination of these guys not hit their ceiling,
3488
02:29:50.079 --> 02:29:52.360
this could be a very middle level lineup, and I
3489
02:29:52.479 --> 02:29:55.079
think that's something that they're hoping to avoid and trying
3490
02:29:55.120 --> 02:29:58.399
to maybe avoid adding a bat at the deadline because
3491
02:29:58.479 --> 02:30:00.639
this is supposed to be a pitching and d defense team.
3492
02:30:01.040 --> 02:30:03.360
They are short on power and a lot of people
3493
02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:05.559
are wondering, is there a thirty home run hitter on
3494
02:30:05.639 --> 02:30:07.879
this team? There might not be. If there is, where
3495
02:30:08.000 --> 02:30:08.719
is it going to come from.
3496
02:30:08.879 --> 02:30:10.520
Well, let's flip it to the other side, because you
3497
02:30:10.600 --> 02:30:13.600
do know the Astros quite well, same kind of question.
3498
02:30:13.760 --> 02:30:16.200
Do you think of the Astros at their peak, they're
3499
02:30:16.239 --> 02:30:17.680
a team that is a viable threat to go on
3500
02:30:17.760 --> 02:30:20.440
a run in October. But at the worst, we're talking
3501
02:30:20.440 --> 02:30:22.799
about another middling roster that's fighting for five hundred and
3502
02:30:23.280 --> 02:30:25.520
maybe having to make an entire front office personnel switching
3503
02:30:25.559 --> 02:30:26.120
the offseason.
3504
02:30:27.120 --> 02:30:30.000
Yeah, the Astros are interesting because you've seen kind of
3505
02:30:30.040 --> 02:30:32.840
the trend down from the twenty twenty two World Series
3506
02:30:33.239 --> 02:30:35.760
down to a CS, down to a wildcard down to
3507
02:30:35.799 --> 02:30:38.920
missing the playoffs last year. Number of guys have left,
3508
02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:41.360
number of guys are hurt, and there's a lot of
3509
02:30:41.440 --> 02:30:45.440
shuffle in the rotation, new pitchers, a lot of shuffle
3510
02:30:45.520 --> 02:30:47.239
in the bullpen, a lot of different names. You know,
3511
02:30:47.319 --> 02:30:49.600
Christian row is making the team and looked really good
3512
02:30:49.680 --> 02:30:52.520
throughout spring training, and so this is a little bit
3513
02:30:52.559 --> 02:30:55.319
of a different pitching staff. That's the one thing that
3514
02:30:55.479 --> 02:30:58.000
I would be concerned about early. I think the lineup
3515
02:30:58.159 --> 02:30:59.799
and the lineup's been really good the last few days.
3516
02:30:59.799 --> 02:31:02.600
The lineup carry its weight. You still have all star
3517
02:31:02.760 --> 02:31:05.799
level hitters jord On Alvarez if he is healthy, obviously
3518
02:31:05.840 --> 02:31:09.280
as an MVP candidate type of player, Jeremy Panias coming
3519
02:31:09.319 --> 02:31:10.440
off a career year.
3520
02:31:10.559 --> 02:31:11.639
I think Christian Walker is.
3521
02:31:11.600 --> 02:31:13.520
Gonna have a bounce back season after the good second
3522
02:31:13.520 --> 02:31:15.719
half he had after tweaking with his swing throughout the year.
3523
02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:18.040
And so what you saw in the.
3524
02:31:18.040 --> 02:31:20.440
Angels series, like the Astros could hit, that's not going
3525
02:31:20.520 --> 02:31:22.559
to be the problem, and they'll do the little tweaks
3526
02:31:22.600 --> 02:31:25.920
in the outfield and move around low Berfdo and Bryce Matthews.
3527
02:31:25.479 --> 02:31:26.200
And Cam Smith.
3528
02:31:26.719 --> 02:31:28.079
But can they pitch?
3529
02:31:28.319 --> 02:31:30.520
And you got a lot of guy new guys.
3530
02:31:30.719 --> 02:31:35.920
Burrows kind of struggled, Emi really struggled. Strikeout stuff is there,
3531
02:31:36.000 --> 02:31:37.719
but wasn't able to give you much. And now the
3532
02:31:37.760 --> 02:31:41.040
bullpen is very taxed, and so is it just a
3533
02:31:41.200 --> 02:31:43.319
sense of these guys will get built up and you'll
3534
02:31:43.399 --> 02:31:45.559
see a pitching team that's.
3535
02:31:45.399 --> 02:31:47.120
Going to be better than what we saw against the.
3536
02:31:47.120 --> 02:31:49.440
Angels, which by the way, is not necessarily the most
3537
02:31:49.479 --> 02:31:52.639
dangerous lineup outside of a couple of guys, although they
3538
02:31:52.680 --> 02:31:54.680
could be a little underrated Neto and Sean you Well
3539
02:31:54.680 --> 02:31:58.000
has added some bat speed or is this a team
3540
02:31:58.079 --> 02:31:59.639
that's going to have to win a bunch of nine
3541
02:31:59.680 --> 02:32:02.040
to five games the way that this weekend happened.
3542
02:32:01.799 --> 02:32:02.399
To be fair?
3543
02:32:03.040 --> 02:32:05.559
You are talking about Nolan Shanuel, probably the biggest Astros
3544
02:32:05.639 --> 02:32:08.399
killer that is terrible anywhere else outside of the Dykeer Park.
3545
02:32:09.639 --> 02:32:11.600
I think he's gonna if you're a fantasy baseball guy,
3546
02:32:11.600 --> 02:32:13.280
I would go after him. He had a massive bat
3547
02:32:13.440 --> 02:32:16.159
speed spike over the offseason, so I would go after
3548
02:32:16.280 --> 02:32:19.079
Nolan Shannuel. They have some guys, it's just the depth
3549
02:32:19.120 --> 02:32:21.479
of that lineup. But you got to give the Angels
3550
02:32:21.520 --> 02:32:23.680
some credit. They hit very well this weekend, and I
3551
02:32:23.760 --> 02:32:26.200
do think that the Astros have some concerns in that
3552
02:32:26.319 --> 02:32:29.000
starting rotation. I'd like to see Spencer Arraghetty back as
3553
02:32:29.040 --> 02:32:29.760
soon as possible.
3554
02:32:30.440 --> 02:32:33.360
Yeah, again, And talking the Red Sox side of things,
3555
02:32:33.479 --> 02:32:36.799
he's ari Alexander used to be here in town KPRC two.
3556
02:32:36.879 --> 02:32:40.399
Now he's up in Boston seven News there and he's
3557
02:32:40.440 --> 02:32:43.239
preview on the Red Sox side of this upcoming three
3558
02:32:43.319 --> 02:32:46.120
game series. I mean, we've talked about a little bit
3559
02:32:46.360 --> 02:32:48.920
of starting pitchers not being able to go deep in
3560
02:32:49.000 --> 02:32:51.280
the games. So then of course that puts strain on
3561
02:32:51.319 --> 02:32:55.079
the bullpen. What exact, what exactly do we expect from
3562
02:32:55.319 --> 02:32:57.520
this Red Sox bullpen coming into this series?
3563
02:32:58.719 --> 02:33:01.239
You have two walkdown guys, an oldest Chapman who I
3564
02:33:01.360 --> 02:33:03.479
know you know, Josel Tube, but he was the best
3565
02:33:03.520 --> 02:33:07.399
closer in baseball in twenty twenty five. And then Garrett Whitlock,
3566
02:33:07.479 --> 02:33:10.639
who starred for Team USA and the World Baseball Classic.
3567
02:33:11.120 --> 02:33:14.319
Beyond that, it was supposed to be Justin Slayton, who
3568
02:33:14.600 --> 02:33:18.159
lost on Saturday in extra innings, and then Greg Weissert
3569
02:33:18.200 --> 02:33:20.680
who lost on Sunday, who gave up the home run
3570
02:33:20.719 --> 02:33:23.079
to Ahenio Suarez, and then it's just a bunch of
3571
02:33:23.159 --> 02:33:26.399
different guys. Fourth through aight, Giovanni Moran has looked pretty
3572
02:33:26.440 --> 02:33:30.479
good throughout early this season, but he sort of locked
3573
02:33:30.520 --> 02:33:33.799
his spot on the team very late. Ryan Watson is
3574
02:33:33.840 --> 02:33:36.479
a Rule five guy who looked good in his MLB debut,
3575
02:33:36.600 --> 02:33:38.840
but he wasn't great in spring training, and that was
3576
02:33:38.840 --> 02:33:40.559
another guy where it was a question whether or not
3577
02:33:40.680 --> 02:33:43.200
he was going to make the team. You have Johanno Viedo,
3578
02:33:43.239 --> 02:33:46.239
who is eventually going to be a starter Will piggyback
3579
02:33:46.319 --> 02:33:48.639
for them, and so they have a little bit of
3580
02:33:48.680 --> 02:33:51.479
an interesting bullpen. It's been a bit of a struggle
3581
02:33:51.559 --> 02:33:54.719
beyond the top two guys and it could be a
3582
02:33:54.760 --> 02:33:57.600
little high scoring over these next few games. The Astros
3583
02:33:57.639 --> 02:34:01.000
bullpen is super tax. The Red Sox Bowl beyond the
3584
02:34:01.120 --> 02:34:04.719
two lockdown guys hasn't been all that great. So we'll see,
3585
02:34:05.120 --> 02:34:08.399
we'll maybe we'll see another Angel style series where there's
3586
02:34:08.399 --> 02:34:09.440
a bunch of high scoring games.
3587
02:34:09.520 --> 02:34:10.959
Who do you want to see you have a brig
3588
02:34:11.520 --> 02:34:14.840
breakout performance over the next twenty seven As for the
3589
02:34:14.920 --> 02:34:16.200
Red Sox kind of things.
3590
02:34:16.840 --> 02:34:19.440
For the Red Sox, I think if Will You're a Bray,
3591
02:34:19.520 --> 02:34:21.879
you can keep it going and he can stay healthy
3592
02:34:21.920 --> 02:34:24.280
this year and that's where you're gonna have your thirty.
3593
02:34:24.000 --> 02:34:24.760
Home run bat.
3594
02:34:24.879 --> 02:34:27.520
And it's just also going to make Astros fans that
3595
02:34:27.639 --> 02:34:29.959
much more upset when it comes to that trade, which
3596
02:34:30.639 --> 02:34:32.440
not a bad trade by the way, they won the
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02:34:32.440 --> 02:34:35.079
World Series. You ended up getting Christian Vasquez back now
3598
02:34:35.120 --> 02:34:38.360
as your backup catcher. And keep in mind, the higher
3599
02:34:38.479 --> 02:34:41.280
ranked prospect in that trade was in Manuel Valdez. It
3600
02:34:41.399 --> 02:34:43.120
was not Will You or a Bray who was coming
3601
02:34:43.159 --> 02:34:45.360
off the hottest month of his life in the minor leagues.
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02:34:45.559 --> 02:34:47.280
A bray you was sort of the throw in and
3603
02:34:47.360 --> 02:34:49.799
then he turned into this, which not a whole lot
3604
02:34:49.840 --> 02:34:52.719
of people could expect. But the will you're a bray
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02:34:52.760 --> 02:34:54.200
you revenge angle, I.
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02:34:54.200 --> 02:34:55.600
Think is a fun one for this weekend.
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02:34:55.719 --> 02:34:57.159
You have to keep reminding me of a dude. It's
3608
02:34:57.159 --> 02:34:58.479
really a painful and it's really annoying.
3609
02:34:58.959 --> 02:35:02.920
Come on, man, over prospects. Everybody knows that parades over prospects.
3610
02:35:03.079 --> 02:35:03.879
You got the parade.
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02:35:04.079 --> 02:35:04.879
That's it. That's it.
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02:35:05.079 --> 02:35:07.120
You even said it. They got it. In twenty twenty two.
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02:35:07.719 --> 02:35:12.559
All right again KPRC two formerly with them, now up
3614
02:35:12.639 --> 02:35:16.719
in Boston with seven News. He's Ari Alexander Ario. I
3615
02:35:16.799 --> 02:35:18.760
know you had an eye on Houston. You're a big
3616
02:35:19.040 --> 02:35:23.200
Iowa Hawkeyes fan, so sorry about that. But nonetheless it's
3617
02:35:23.399 --> 02:35:24.799
still great to catch up with you, buddy.
3618
02:35:25.559 --> 02:35:28.559
Yeah, I appreciate you. Guys. Ben mccollamara's coming for everyone,
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02:35:28.680 --> 02:35:30.600
watch a bunch out for them for the next few years.
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02:35:30.760 --> 02:35:33.280
There you go again, Aria, Alexander, appreciate it, buddy. We'll
3621
02:35:33.280 --> 02:35:33.840
catch up soon.
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02:35:33.959 --> 02:35:34.159
Thanks.
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02:35:34.200 --> 02:35:38.639
Sorry, all right, So, yeah, you know from the Red
3624
02:35:38.680 --> 02:35:41.200
Sox side, it sounds like these are two similar teams.
3625
02:35:41.239 --> 02:35:43.559
And oh, by the way, to Steve Sparks pointing this
3626
02:35:43.680 --> 02:35:45.879
out to me, last twenty two games these teams have
3627
02:35:45.920 --> 02:35:49.079
played against each other been in August, so an early
3628
02:35:49.440 --> 02:35:52.280
season meeting between these two, which we haven't seen those
3629
02:35:52.360 --> 02:35:53.360
the last few years.
3630
02:35:53.399 --> 02:35:55.440
Are you saying the last twenty two games both have
3631
02:35:55.479 --> 02:35:57.120
been in August at Dyke and and Fenway or we
3632
02:35:57.200 --> 02:35:58.040
talking about Okay.
3633
02:35:57.920 --> 02:35:59.959
Yeah, so they've been late season meetups. Well, the way
3634
02:36:00.000 --> 02:36:01.399
out with the Red Sox Ari is.
3635
02:36:01.479 --> 02:36:03.360
Right, I had no idea who William or Bray you is.
3636
02:36:03.520 --> 02:36:06.200
I'm not gonna pretend I did when that trade happened. Still,
3637
02:36:06.319 --> 02:36:08.639
the worst trade that I will never forget is when
3638
02:36:09.000 --> 02:36:11.440
Carlos Gomez was shipped on over here and then the
3639
02:36:11.520 --> 02:36:14.799
return with Josh Hater So I still remember being super
3640
02:36:14.879 --> 02:36:15.639
pissed about that one.
3641
02:36:15.719 --> 02:36:19.520
Could could this be the the opposite of Larry Anderson
3642
02:36:19.559 --> 02:36:20.680
for Jeff Bagwell, no, you.
3643
02:36:20.680 --> 02:36:22.479
Know what this is. This is Jordon Alvarez is the
3644
02:36:22.479 --> 02:36:24.319
player to be named later for Josh Field's That's why
3645
02:36:24.360 --> 02:36:27.840
it is awesome. Yeah, the the Los Angeles Dodgers and
3646
02:36:27.879 --> 02:36:30.920
acquired Josh this guy who can hit like four hundred
3647
02:36:30.920 --> 02:36:33.280
and fifty feet blast. Yeah, we're gonna go shut them off.
3648
02:36:33.280 --> 02:36:36.280
I don't think anybody's feeling sorry for the Dodgers having
3649
02:36:37.200 --> 02:36:38.559
or Jordon Alvarez.
3650
02:36:38.600 --> 02:36:40.760
I would hate life. I honestly would just say, quick,
3651
02:36:41.280 --> 02:36:43.159
have have these strike two years ago?
3652
02:36:43.399 --> 02:36:46.200
Well, we would have never known Jordon Alvarez. I mean
3653
02:36:46.239 --> 02:36:47.120
we would have seen him.
3654
02:36:47.760 --> 02:36:49.440
No, No, here's what we wouldn't have known. We would
3655
02:36:49.440 --> 02:36:52.000
have never seen sho Hao Tani in a Dodgers' uniform
3656
02:36:52.079 --> 02:36:54.879
he played with Seattle, share with Cisco, because they'd be
3657
02:36:54.879 --> 02:36:55.559
the DHS there.
3658
02:36:56.079 --> 02:36:58.920
Crazy to think maybe we can do that one day
3659
02:36:58.959 --> 02:37:00.680
when it gets like those over time of the year.
3660
02:37:00.760 --> 02:37:02.799
Think about like the sliding doors of it. I don't know,
3661
02:37:03.239 --> 02:37:05.559
wheels are turning in the head. You know, we'll work
3662
02:37:05.600 --> 02:37:08.200
shop it. We'll see if it works, all right, Ray Brandon,
3663
02:37:08.239 --> 02:37:11.319
see you guys right there kitchen in also to hopefully
3664
02:37:11.399 --> 02:37:13.200
get a chance to get to this before we turn
3665
02:37:13.280 --> 02:37:16.280
it over to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross and awesome, awesome,
3666
02:37:16.479 --> 02:37:20.959
awesome moment this weekend here in the Houston area. Share
3667
02:37:21.000 --> 02:37:22.719
that with you as we continue. It is the Morning
3668
02:37:22.799 --> 02:37:24.799
Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
3669
02:37:26.120 --> 02:37:30.000
Back to Dan Cole as the morning Drive cruise is on.
3670
02:37:32.399 --> 02:37:32.799
Real quick.
3671
02:37:32.879 --> 02:37:35.399
Let's get both of these callers in at seven one three, two,
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02:37:35.440 --> 02:37:36.959
one two five seven ninety.
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02:37:37.079 --> 02:37:39.680
Brandon had to like Saturday and Sunday. Good morning, Brandon.
3674
02:37:40.719 --> 02:37:42.040
I like Saturday and Sunday.
3675
02:37:42.479 --> 02:37:44.520
Those were fun on Saturday.
3676
02:37:45.200 --> 02:37:47.440
So you were the difference. You were the reason. That's
3677
02:37:47.479 --> 02:37:52.239
what we're gonna go with. Yes, awesome, there you go.
3678
02:37:52.600 --> 02:37:55.559
But I mean pitching gotta see that, you know, start
3679
02:37:55.600 --> 02:37:57.239
to pick up a little bit, get a little bit better.
3680
02:37:57.319 --> 02:37:59.559
But it's nice to see them be able to put
3681
02:37:59.639 --> 02:38:01.959
runs of cross the plate with runners in scoring position.
3682
02:38:02.959 --> 02:38:06.959
Yeah, Cole, do you know what happened to our closer.
3683
02:38:07.559 --> 02:38:08.879
Bray you yea.
3684
02:38:08.959 --> 02:38:11.079
I just had a little bit of control issues. Definitely
3685
02:38:11.159 --> 02:38:12.680
not a problem. I think you worry about long term.
3686
02:38:12.719 --> 02:38:13.879
And he's supposed to be an eighth and and guy,
3687
02:38:13.920 --> 02:38:15.719
no matter what, so really no harm, enough foul.
3688
02:38:18.920 --> 02:38:22.079
And we're playing Boston today, yep.
3689
02:38:22.000 --> 02:38:25.319
Boston today, tomorrow and then get Away Day on Wednesday.
3690
02:38:26.639 --> 02:38:31.079
Okay, are we wearing your Space City, New Jerseys today?
3691
02:38:31.319 --> 02:38:31.479
Yeah?
3692
02:38:31.520 --> 02:38:33.719
I think it's Space City Monday this year.
3693
02:38:34.079 --> 02:38:40.399
There you go, Okay today, there you go.
3694
02:38:40.760 --> 02:38:41.399
Take care man.
3695
02:38:41.639 --> 02:38:44.639
We'll uh so Brandon's one and oh so far to
3696
02:38:44.680 --> 02:38:47.440
start the season, so good, good on Brandon. I mean,
3697
02:38:47.559 --> 02:38:49.040
you know, the more games that Brandon can go to,
3698
02:38:49.120 --> 02:38:51.280
hopefully we get more wins out of it. Ray in
3699
02:38:51.360 --> 02:38:53.120
Miami wants to weigh in. Good morning, Ree.
3700
02:38:54.520 --> 02:38:57.959
Okay, go faster, guys. Almost eleven o'clock they're about to close.
3701
02:38:58.079 --> 02:39:01.639
Go faster faster now, Emo, thank you for the three
3702
02:39:01.680 --> 02:39:03.360
and a half. I was gonna put you at six,
3703
02:39:03.479 --> 02:39:05.600
but you got the three and a half strikeouts. And
3704
02:39:06.319 --> 02:39:09.559
what a standing gentleman to not hit the showers and
3705
02:39:09.680 --> 02:39:12.399
to stay right there in the dugout, you know, as
3706
02:39:12.440 --> 02:39:13.639
his first game, to.
3707
02:39:13.719 --> 02:39:14.719
Stay in the dugout.
3708
02:39:14.799 --> 02:39:15.920
I really wanted him.
3709
02:39:15.799 --> 02:39:18.440
To make the complete five to be eligible for the win,
3710
02:39:18.959 --> 02:39:22.600
but he didn't make it. And I'm really happy that
3711
02:39:22.760 --> 02:39:26.120
ol Tuve. These guys are paying me like he wouldn't
3712
02:39:26.120 --> 02:39:30.319
believe the hitters that we have, bro are so good
3713
02:39:30.639 --> 02:39:33.959
at hitting the baseball. You can just sit back and
3714
02:39:34.120 --> 02:39:36.280
just get paid like a fat rat like I am.
3715
02:39:36.920 --> 02:39:39.319
Thank you all Tuesday. Thanks to all the guys with
3716
02:39:39.399 --> 02:39:43.000
the hitting this weekend. It really paid off. I'm like
3717
02:39:43.079 --> 02:39:45.639
an NFL owner. I don't care if they win. I'm
3718
02:39:45.639 --> 02:39:46.600
still gonna get paid.
3719
02:39:47.719 --> 02:39:49.440
Bye, all right, appreciate it.
3720
02:39:49.559 --> 02:39:53.479
Ray, Yeah, mentioning it too about the Astros, says Brian McTaggart,
3721
02:39:53.719 --> 02:39:56.639
reminding everybody two minutes ago something you brought up earlier,
3722
02:39:57.239 --> 02:40:00.120
twenty three walks drawn by the Astros this weekend. That
3723
02:40:00.239 --> 02:40:02.879
was the second most in baseball. The only problem is, well,
3724
02:40:03.079 --> 02:40:05.639
you walked the guys that you just played twenty eight times.
3725
02:40:06.520 --> 02:40:09.799
So that's what you had this weekend. So improvement out
3726
02:40:09.799 --> 02:40:13.719
of the pitching could use that, especially starting tonight against
3727
02:40:13.760 --> 02:40:16.639
the Red Sox where it's going to be Lance mccullors
3728
02:40:16.680 --> 02:40:20.559
Junior against Ranger Suarez. Looked forward to that and hopefully
3729
02:40:20.719 --> 02:40:23.639
be able to see the starting pitching get back on
3730
02:40:23.799 --> 02:40:26.280
track here and and be what we thought it was
3731
02:40:26.319 --> 02:40:27.920
going to be coming into this season.
3732
02:40:27.799 --> 02:40:29.520
That played discipline or just bad pitching.
3733
02:40:29.920 --> 02:40:31.159
I think it was a little bit of both. I
3734
02:40:31.200 --> 02:40:33.120
think it was a little bit of pitchers all over
3735
02:40:33.159 --> 02:40:35.000
the place. But then also though too, I mean, the
3736
02:40:35.079 --> 02:40:37.040
Astros didn't draw a ton of walks last year. You
3737
02:40:37.079 --> 02:40:40.000
brought it up earlier Channel Rooms tweet where Jose al
3738
02:40:40.079 --> 02:40:42.760
Tuove didn't draw his fifth walk until almost one hundred
3739
02:40:42.760 --> 02:40:44.639
at bats in the season, and he's already done it
3740
02:40:44.760 --> 02:40:46.360
in a fraction of that time.
3741
02:40:46.840 --> 02:40:48.600
So that's good to see two walks a night. Jose,
3742
02:40:48.719 --> 02:40:51.360
go ahead and make me rich. Yeah, that is that
3743
02:40:51.360 --> 02:40:53.200
what you're going with sports predict. Oh no yet, I
3744
02:40:53.200 --> 02:40:54.399
haven't looked at the line did this morning.
3745
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By the way, if you want to sign an up
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By the way, is mentioned the cool moment yesterday. We're
3749
02:41:02.639 --> 02:41:04.159
not gonna have time to play the audio from it,
3750
02:41:04.280 --> 02:41:08.920
but Gary Woodland giving an awesome interview on the eighteenth
3751
02:41:08.959 --> 02:41:10.280
Toll after he just wrapped.
3752
02:41:10.079 --> 02:41:11.719
Up, they died, I mean, like, give him a lot
3753
02:41:11.760 --> 02:41:12.920
of credit for that. Well, that's it.
3754
02:41:13.079 --> 02:41:15.159
I mean he so in twenty twenty three, he had
3755
02:41:15.399 --> 02:41:20.760
surgery on his brain to remove allsion and what I
3756
02:41:20.840 --> 02:41:25.120
saw was allegion and he has been dealing with PTSD
3757
02:41:25.360 --> 02:41:27.680
as he opened up to Rex Hoggard of Golf Channel
3758
02:41:27.680 --> 02:41:31.000
a few weeks ago, and yesterday able to get his
3759
02:41:31.120 --> 02:41:33.959
first win since winning the US Open in twenty nineteen, so.
3760
02:41:34.000 --> 02:41:36.959
He hasn't won in six years. Good on him, and
3761
02:41:37.280 --> 02:41:38.079
I mean seven years.
3762
02:41:38.600 --> 02:41:41.120
And then also to a message to people out there
3763
02:41:41.159 --> 02:41:44.319
who are dealing with any issues mentally of saying keep fighting,
3764
02:41:44.799 --> 02:41:49.479
keep going, trust me, and I mean somebody that has
3765
02:41:49.959 --> 02:41:53.719
you know, sought the help of someone professionally. I saw
3766
02:41:53.799 --> 02:41:56.719
that interview and all was like, I'm one of those people. Man,
3767
02:41:56.920 --> 02:41:58.360
I know exactly what you mean.
3768
02:41:58.680 --> 02:42:02.399
Just a friendly reminder. Bullying on social media works when
3769
02:42:02.440 --> 02:42:05.159
it only gets you to the top. Bullying worked for
3770
02:42:05.159 --> 02:42:05.959
the Ashes of this week.
3771
02:42:06.360 --> 02:42:08.879
Could we say good bullying? Yeah, I mean it's like like,
3772
02:42:09.600 --> 02:42:12.159
you know, hey, do your job, you know, stuff like that.
3773
02:42:12.280 --> 02:42:14.840
Hey's so bullying. Bulling's bullying ashos one because of it.
3774
02:42:14.959 --> 02:42:16.840
It is, But I mean it's it's also too it's
3775
02:42:17.159 --> 02:42:20.360
it's you know what, it's not even bullying. It's tough love. Sure,
3776
02:42:20.520 --> 02:42:22.440
that's what That's what I'll take it as. That's what
3777
02:42:22.520 --> 02:42:23.639
you want to call it. Tough love.
3778
02:42:23.799 --> 02:42:26.000
Tough love to Gary Woodley, Hey, look, you know what
3779
02:42:26.159 --> 02:42:28.280
what did coaches tell us? I only yell at you
3780
02:42:28.360 --> 02:42:29.920
if I care. If I'm not yelling at you, I
3781
02:42:29.959 --> 02:42:30.360
don't care.
3782
02:42:30.719 --> 02:42:32.239
You only yell at me because you have power and
3783
02:42:32.280 --> 02:42:34.200
you think that you can have control over sixteen year olds.
3784
02:42:34.879 --> 02:42:36.600
There was a little bit of that too, all right.
3785
02:42:36.680 --> 02:42:39.959
He's Cole Thompson, Triple, Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews, The Matt
3786
02:42:40.079 --> 02:42:43.479
Thomas Show with Ross coming up next. It's four hours
3787
02:42:43.520 --> 02:42:45.879
of them making fun of each other and probably some
3788
02:42:46.000 --> 02:42:50.159
Astros overreactions somewhere in there. All those still to come,
3789
02:42:50.280 --> 02:42:52.399
right here on your home with the Astros and the
3790
02:42:52.520 --> 02:42:55.479
Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety. Cole said it, I'll repeat it.
3791
02:42:55.680 --> 02:42:57.559
We'll talk to you in twenty hours right here, Sports
3792
02:42:57.600 --> 02:42:58.319
Talk seven ninety