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Speaker 1: It's certainly the weakest part of this team. Uh and
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Speaker 1: they know it too. Chas McCormick came into camp and said,
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Speaker 1: we hear all the noise and we want to surprise
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Speaker 1: some people.
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Speaker 2: Chandler Room is here. Oh he's got a little sun
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Speaker 2: tan going. Chandler Room spending time outside. There you go,
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Speaker 2: there you go.
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Speaker 1: I mean I tried sunscreen the first couple of days
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Speaker 1: and I was just like, I need, I need, I
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Speaker 1: need some more color.
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Speaker 3: So I hope, I hope I didn't overdo it. No.
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Speaker 4: Great, You're in Dikon Park inside eighty one days too.
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Speaker 4: Let's not forget so, I mean with a you need
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Speaker 4: to get outside with.
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Speaker 3: An air condition that doesn't work.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty funny that they renamed They renamed the ballpark
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Speaker 1: after an air conditioning company, and the air conditioning there
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Speaker 1: never works. It's always a furnace and their ag. You've
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Speaker 1: been in there to broadcast games.
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Speaker 4: I've been in there. It's my second home. They joke
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Speaker 4: that it's my second home. I go to Houston so much,
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Speaker 4: I say it the Yeah, I've been to Houston too
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Speaker 4: many times. I've been at every restaurant. But I want
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Speaker 4: to know, forget before we dig into the Astros. I
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Speaker 4: go to Palm Beach and I love Palm Beach. Okay,
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Speaker 4: what's your spot? What's your spot in Palm Beach? Are
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Speaker 4: you a island guy too? Where you actually go on island?
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Speaker 4: Because Palm Beach, if people understand, is West Palm Beach
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Speaker 4: is like where the Astros and the Nats are, and
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Speaker 4: then there's Palm Beach. So people are like, oh, I'm
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Speaker 4: going to West Palm Beach. No, no, no, that's not
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Speaker 4: Palm Beach like the Palm Beach. So do you venture
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Speaker 4: over to the island, Chandler, or do you just stay
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Speaker 4: in the West Palm area.
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Speaker 1: A lot of my favorite like restaurants and places are
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Speaker 1: in Jupiter. If you've been been in Jupiter, Leftover's food,
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Speaker 1: check Captain Charlie's. I have seen Rob Manford inside Captain
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Speaker 1: Charlie's at least four or five times.
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Speaker 3: It's a it's basically.
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Speaker 1: A hole in the wall seafood bar that's excellent, highly recommended.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to come down here, check out Captain Charlie's.
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Speaker 1: Reef Grill that's in that's.
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Speaker 3: In Juno Beach.
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Speaker 1: U Tiki and Square Grouper are always also go to
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Speaker 1: Square Grouper is, especially if you need to unwind after
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Speaker 1: a long day of watching live vps of guys you've
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Speaker 1: never heard of. So that's where I end up a
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Speaker 1: lot of times to to draw to drown my spring
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Speaker 1: training sorrows.
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Speaker 4: Wow, Square Grouper and U Tiki Hold on if you
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Speaker 4: haven't been to Square Square Group or Utiki, now listen,
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Speaker 4: I was going to Square Grouper before they redid it,
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Speaker 4: and now there's like they used to have like one
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Speaker 4: little bar, now they have like seven bars. So I mean, Jupiter,
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Speaker 4: you're talking, You're Chandler, you're talking my language. We're gonna
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Speaker 4: have to chat off offline here, because man, there's there's
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Speaker 4: there's nothing better than Jupiter or Palm Beach Area.
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Speaker 5: Hey, j they don't like, they don't accept him there,
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Speaker 5: but he would love. I have heard Square Grouper on
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Speaker 5: this show more times than I've heard AJ's kids names.
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Speaker 5: So he definitely he He doesn't need the hole in
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Speaker 5: the walls. He wants the five star places. But who
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Speaker 5: does need five star is? How's he up?
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Speaker 4: T V?
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Speaker 5: Now we watched out two A's video of him taking
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Speaker 5: balls in the airfield. Was that because he was bored.
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Speaker 5: Was that because he was trying to like spark a
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Speaker 5: little interest or was he taking some balls? Like? Was
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Speaker 5: it some real work in the outfield with your Don? Look,
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Speaker 5: come as bigger your Don is than him? Too poor us,
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Speaker 5: You'll never make it.
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Speaker 3: Eric, This is a real thing.
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Speaker 1: I was skeptical even when it all started to come
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Speaker 1: out in January. It really seemed like Al two v's
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Speaker 1: kind of last ditch plea to Alex Bregman to re
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Speaker 1: sign in Houston. But he has worked exclusively in the
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Speaker 1: outfield his first two days here at camp. Today was
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Speaker 1: the Asher's first full squad workout. He spent the entire
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Speaker 1: workout with the outfielders. He did not take a ground
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Speaker 1: ball on the infield, did everything in the outfield. He
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Speaker 1: has been working in the outfield since January.
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Speaker 3: Was doing it at.
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Speaker 1: Dike In Park to get used for the Crawford boxes
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Speaker 1: and everything. This is a real thing. This is not
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Speaker 1: just your normal spring training Oh, we'll see if it
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Speaker 1: works experiment kind of thing. I'm not sitting here saying
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Speaker 1: he's gonna play every game in left field this season
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Speaker 1: for the Astros. I don't think that's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: I still think he is going to play some second
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Speaker 1: base both in season and in spring training. But it's
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Speaker 1: very clear that that Jose Altuve is going to be
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Speaker 1: a part of the Astros plans and left field this season,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna see. I think spring training is going
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Speaker 1: to demonstrate just how much they're going to see how
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Speaker 1: good he looks out there, how well he handles it.
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Speaker 1: You know, he spoke to us yesterday and he seems
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Speaker 1: all for it. He seems excited, he seems like it's
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Speaker 1: something that he wants to really dig into. But I
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Speaker 1: think we'll know how much he's going to play once
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Speaker 1: spring training is open.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's get into this team for twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five in terms of additions and potential subtractions coming up,
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Speaker 2: including actually, of course a pretty big name that they
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Speaker 2: lost about a month and a half ago. So storyline's time, please,
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Speaker 2: All right, here's what we're going to talk about. Talk
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Speaker 2: that Kyle Tucker traded to the Cubs. Is the outfield
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Speaker 2: a little light? Even if elt Tuvey is involved pulling parades?
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Speaker 2: Looks like he's going to enjoy the Crawford boxes. Can
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Speaker 2: you fill the void that is left by Alex Bregman
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Speaker 2: out of the picture. Christian Walker also enters the mix
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Speaker 2: for this team. Will he have fun with the Crawford
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Speaker 2: boxes and give this team a huge upgrade at first
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Speaker 2: base has been a problem position for them. Franbervaldez, what's
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Speaker 2: the deal? Is he staying? Is he going? Is he
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Speaker 2: just going to ride the year out? All right, let's
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Speaker 2: start at the top here. Kyle Tucker is gone. What
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Speaker 2: do you think of the outfield and the fact that
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Speaker 2: most of the bats in the outfield are probably going
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Speaker 2: to be towards the bottom of the lineup right, at
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Speaker 2: least maybe two out of three depending on how all
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Speaker 2: two Vay shakes out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's certainly the weakest part of this team.
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Speaker 3: And they know it too.
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Speaker 1: Chas McCormick came into camp and said, we hear all
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Speaker 1: the noise and we want to surprise some people that outfield.
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Speaker 1: And I think it starts with him. He has got
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Speaker 1: to find a way to kind of regain the form
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Speaker 1: that he had in twenty twenty three. If they can
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Speaker 1: get that form of Chas McCormick, even even somewhat that
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Speaker 1: form of twenty twenty three, Chas McCormick, I think the
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Speaker 1: entire complexion of this outfield changes and you know, they've
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Speaker 1: got some prospects, some guys that could come up. Jacob
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Speaker 1: Melton is one of their better prospects. He's a natural
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Speaker 1: center fielder. If he but didn't have a great year
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Speaker 1: in Triple A last year, if he can start fast,
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Speaker 1: maybe he pushes.
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Speaker 5: For a role.
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Speaker 1: He's also a left handed hitter for a team that's
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Speaker 1: become very very right handed. You know, the Al two
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Speaker 1: a thing in left field that's going to shake itself
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Speaker 1: out how it will. But I think the key to
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Speaker 1: this outfield really turning into something legitimate is Chas McCormick
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Speaker 1: having a bounce back. Jake Myers Gold Glove finalists in
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Speaker 1: center field last year. He's going to run everything down
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Speaker 1: and his importance is only going to grow if Jose
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Speaker 1: Altuve plays left field on a regular basis. So they
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Speaker 1: need Chas McCormick to become the guy that they saw
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three and to turn this into you know,
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Speaker 1: not such a dire look at this outfield, all right, let's.
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Speaker 5: Go to paradis. I mean, is there a stadium that
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Speaker 5: was not built for him when the wind blows in
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Speaker 5: in Chicago that he got traded to and now they
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Speaker 5: they sufficed his ability, and is this just going to
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Speaker 5: exemplify I mean, what was it six extra home runs?
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Speaker 5: Paradis won a hit last year had he played half
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Speaker 5: of his games in Houston.
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Speaker 1: It's funny, Eric, he talked to us today for the
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Speaker 1: first time in camp. It's actually his birthday today, so
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Speaker 1: happy birthday to Estoc Paradis. But before before he got
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Speaker 1: to go celebrate, he talked with us, and I actually
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Speaker 1: asked him, I said, is it going to be are
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Speaker 1: you gonna have to like guard against trying to pull
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Speaker 1: everything just knowing that the Crawford boxer right there, And
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Speaker 1: he goes, no, no, I'm gonna pull everything.
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Speaker 3: He is very very aware that that.
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Speaker 1: That those Crawford boxes are right there, and he knows
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Speaker 1: that he can really seize advantage of it. He did
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Speaker 1: say today that Wrigley just was a difficult park for
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Speaker 1: him to hit in, and if you look at the
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Speaker 1: road splits after he got to Chicago, he did hit
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Speaker 1: a lot better on the road outside of Wrigley. So
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Speaker 1: certainly they're going to need him to be able to
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Speaker 1: to use the Crawford boxes. But I don't mean to
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Speaker 1: dump water on the excitement. But we heard the same
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Speaker 1: thing about Josea Brew when they signed Josea Bray, that
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Speaker 1: the Crawford boxes are right there. He pull, he's he's
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Speaker 1: a poll hitter. Can he'll get ten or fifteen more
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Speaker 1: home runs there. And we've heard that about every free
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Speaker 1: agent they've signed in the last couple of years and
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Speaker 1: just never really has worked out. I'm not comparing Estoc
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Speaker 1: Paradis to Josea Brew, but also like we hear this
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Speaker 1: a lot, that that the Crawford boxes are going to
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Speaker 1: help whoever comes to the Astros. So Estock Paradis us
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Speaker 1: to go out there and show it. He sees us
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Speaker 1: to go out there and produce and hit, and I
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Speaker 1: think he will. I'm more curious to see how he
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Speaker 1: fares defensively, especially replacing the reigning Goal Glover in Alex
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Speaker 1: Bregman at third base. This is a position that they
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Speaker 1: need a good defender there, especially with fromber Valdez and
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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown as the one two in their rotation, guys
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Speaker 1: that get a ton.
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Speaker 3: Of ground balls.
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be imperative that his defense
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Speaker 1: be at least I don't think he's going to be
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Speaker 1: a Gold Glove defender, but they need him to be
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Speaker 1: averaged to maybe a little bit above average defensively.
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Speaker 4: Okay, well they got a great They might not have
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Speaker 4: a great third baseman, but they got a hell of
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Speaker 4: a first baseman now with gold glove. With gold on
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Speaker 4: his glove, Chandler. So what does Christian Walker bring? I mean, finally,
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Speaker 4: it looks like the Astros have solved their first base
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Speaker 4: problem that they've had for the last couple years, starting
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Speaker 4: when they signed Jose A Bray. So is he the
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Speaker 4: right fit for this team? And what will he bring
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Speaker 4: that the Astros fans haven't seen in a while.
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Speaker 1: They have not seen a competent defensive first baseman in
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Speaker 1: a very long time, probably since second to last year
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Speaker 1: of Juli Guriel's tenure. So they're gonna get that he
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Speaker 1: I I you know, look, we know what he can
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Speaker 1: do offensively.
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Speaker 3: The numbers speak for themselves.
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Speaker 1: I really do think that they targeted him specifically for
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Speaker 1: his defense, and I think this was still when they
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Speaker 1: thought Jose Altuve was going to be their their primary
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Speaker 1: second basement. He can cover up a lot of holes
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Speaker 1: on the right side of that infield with what he
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Speaker 1: can do. He can save you know, some guys some
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Speaker 1: some throws on some throws. He can scoop very well.
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Speaker 1: He's just very athletic. He's reunited in Houston with Tony
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Speaker 1: Paris Chica, the guy that he credits with turning him
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Speaker 1: into an elite defensive first baseman during their time in Arizona,
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Speaker 1: so they get to reunite here. He is everything that
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Speaker 1: they have searched for in a first basement since signing
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Speaker 1: Jose Abrew and it's one. It's something that I think
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Speaker 1: fans are going to see the impact from day one,
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Speaker 1: because I it's when you have a bad defensive first baseman,
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Speaker 1: like you can see it's pretty good airing. Like, I
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Speaker 1: don't think fans know what they have until they see
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Speaker 1: a good, very elite defensive first Basemently, they're going to
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Speaker 1: see Christian Walker this year.
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Speaker 5: How about Framber Valdez. I mean this team, some are
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Speaker 5: picking the Astros not to finish in first We saw
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Speaker 5: what happened in April, just a horrific start, and oh,
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Speaker 5: I guess we'll never know because they made it back
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Speaker 5: to the playoffs again. Is there a chance that Framber
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Speaker 5: leads this team to another playoff appearance and gets an
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Speaker 5: extension from Jim Crane who never gives extension, or is
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Speaker 5: there a better chance that he gets traded part way
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Speaker 5: through this season.
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Speaker 1: I think it's probably a better chance that he gets traded.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that that means I'm picking
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Speaker 1: the Astros to not make the playoffs or anything. But
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Speaker 1: if you give me those two scenarios, I don't see
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Speaker 1: a world where Fromberveldez gets an extension from the Astros.
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Speaker 1: This is a you know, under Jim Crane's ownership tenure,
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Speaker 1: they only the most they've ever guaranteed to a starting
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Speaker 1: pitcher is eighty five million dollars. The most they've guaranteed
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Speaker 1: any pitcher is the ninety five million dollars they gave
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Speaker 1: Josh Hater two years ago. You look at the numbers
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Speaker 1: between Fromber and Max Freed, they're pretty similar. You saw
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Speaker 1: what Max Freed just got on the on the free
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Speaker 1: agent market as the best left hander available. Fromber will
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Speaker 1: be the best left hander available on next winners free
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Speaker 1: agent market. To be quite honest with you, it would
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Speaker 1: be foolish for him to sign an extension with the
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Speaker 1: Astros right now, just given his proximity to free agency.
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Speaker 1: The only way that would happen is if the Astros
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Speaker 1: just completely blow him in his camp out of the
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Speaker 1: water with their offer. And as we saw with the
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Speaker 1: Bregman deal, as we saw with every other free agent
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Speaker 1: that's left this franchise, this is not a team that
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Speaker 1: blows anyone out of the water with their offers. So
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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's more likely than not
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Speaker 1: that fromber will come out here. Look, this rotation is
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Speaker 1: going to go as he goes. Justin Verlander is gone
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Speaker 1: Fromberveldez has been the ace of this team for a
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Speaker 1: couple of years now.
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Speaker 3: But as long as Justin.
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Speaker 1: Verlanders kind of on the team, his aura, you just
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Speaker 1: kind of defer to him as the leader. Like this
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Speaker 1: is fromber Valdez's rotation, Now this is fromber Valdez's pitching staff.
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Speaker 1: They're going to go as he goes. I think the
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Speaker 1: most I think the most common outcome, the most likely outcome,
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Speaker 1: is that he has a nice season parlays it into
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Speaker 1: a huge payday in free agency somewhere other than Houston.
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Speaker 4: Wow, all right, so I want you to say it.
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Speaker 4: I want you to say it. What is your prediction
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Speaker 4: for the Astros? Because you just said, oh, they weren't they.
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Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're not going to make the playoffs. Now,
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Speaker 4: somebody on here I'll say me, I didn't pick them
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Speaker 4: to win the division for the first time in forever.
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Speaker 4: This is before Bregman left. I don't know that they're
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Speaker 4: strong enough outfield. I don't know if they're total team
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Speaker 4: package is strong enough to be better than the Rangers,
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Speaker 4: maybe the Mariners, even the A's are up and coming.
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Speaker 4: Right where do the Astros finish this year?
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a dogfight for them.
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Speaker 1: I don't think this is a team that you look
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Speaker 1: at on paper and say this is clear. This is clear,
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Speaker 1: far and away the best team in the division. I
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Speaker 1: think it's certainly a division they can win. They showed
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Speaker 1: last year they started seven and nineteen and still won
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Speaker 1: the division. But they won that division last year because
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Speaker 1: the Rangers had a pretty epic World Series hangover and
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Speaker 1: the Mariners just forgot how to hit for four months.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you can count on either of
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Speaker 1: those things happening again in the same season.
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Speaker 3: So you know, I will say.
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Speaker 1: Too until they are dethroned. Until one of these teams,
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Speaker 1: whether it's the Rangers or the Mariners just comes and
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Speaker 1: takes it from them. It's hard to pick against them,
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Speaker 1: just given you know they still do have jose L Tuvey,
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Speaker 1: who is one of the best collection performers in the
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Speaker 1: modern game. They've got Jordan Alvarez who seems to always
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Speaker 1: rise up in these big moments. Their rotation, I do
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Speaker 1: like their rotation. I like the top and Fromervel doesn't
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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown. They've got enough depth. I think that that
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Speaker 1: can help them out. It's hard for me to pick
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Speaker 1: against them in the division, just given that no team
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Speaker 1: has shown that they can beat them. But this is
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Speaker 1: going to be the most tested that they have ever been.
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Speaker 1: I believe in this division, and that's saying something after
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Speaker 1: last year when they got off to that horrendous start.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna cautiously pick them to win this division,
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Speaker 1: but I don't feel great about it.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and then let's finish on a fun note. Super
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Speaker 2: fan Susie in the chat, can you ask Chandler why
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Speaker 2: jose L Twovay says that Chas McCormick cannot be the
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Speaker 2: club DJ.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want Chazz DJing anything either, So I got
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Speaker 1: I got a side with al twove on that one
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Speaker 1: that's been it's been a weird storyline in Astros camp
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Speaker 1: because Kyle Tucker was the team DJ for the last
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Speaker 1: two years and I don't know how this became something
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Speaker 1: that now every player is getting asked who is going
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Speaker 1: to be the DJ. But judging off of their responses,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like Mauricio Dubon is next in line. Sounds
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Speaker 1: like they want one that can have a nice mix
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Speaker 1: of you know, Latin music, of country of rap, of
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Speaker 1: kind of anything that anybody in there wants to hear.
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Speaker 1: And I think Mauricio Dubond's probably got his pulse on
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Speaker 1: that his finger on that pulse better than anybody, right.
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Speaker 2: You want someone super versatile on the field, off the field,
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Speaker 2: the whole deal. So that makes sense. Chandler, great to
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Speaker 2: talk to you.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's a sixth tool five tools baseball player. That's
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Speaker 5: a sixth tool. That is that is very underrated. Being
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Speaker 5: able to DJ is a talent. Not real DJ just
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Speaker 5: playing whatever is on the people mix sucks. No feel.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Crush City Territory is there for the world, okay,
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Speaker 2: so make sure you check it out multiple episodes week. Chandler,
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Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. We'll give it a plug
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Speaker 2: on the way out, but appreciate you man.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks guys.
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Speaker 2: there or Astros haters. Hot corner Let's sizzle. Do you
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Speaker 2: guys want to hear what Aaron Judge said about the
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Speaker 2: guy who is just impossible to find or reach Juan
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Speaker 2: Soto besides everyone else. I mean, clearly there's more to this,
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Speaker 2: but we still want to run the quote, so let's do.
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Speaker 4: It with him at all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I tried to. He got a different number though,
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Speaker 3: but you know, so techtonic going through. But we should
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Speaker 3: chat it a little bit and caught up.
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Speaker 2: He always does that face krats you played with him.
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Speaker 2: I feel like he is the worst poker face of
17:52
Speaker 2: all time. Whenever he lies, he's.
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Speaker 3: Like, I have his number.
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Speaker 5: I didn't have his number? Zilla was that night?
18:03
Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 5: He does a good job of waiting to answer things,
18:07
Speaker 5: and he is a very honest person. So I think
18:11
Speaker 5: that's why it's more difficult in situations like that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, here number.
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Speaker 4: New number, who dis I mean, come on, basically, I
18:27
Speaker 4: mean basically what he's saying. Yeah, we chit chatted. Oh great,
18:30
Speaker 4: we chit chatted after he signed. Clearly we chit chatted
18:34
Speaker 4: like there was no I don't know. I think this
18:37
Speaker 4: is this is this is kind of funny. Soto now
18:40
Speaker 4: says the Mets give him a better chance. Judge disagrees.
18:42
Speaker 4: They didn't speak. Judge said he wasn't involved. Was there
18:45
Speaker 4: something going on that we didn't know about between these
18:48
Speaker 4: two that nobody talked about. I don't know. But it's
18:51
Speaker 4: just funny that Aaron Judge. You know. Of course, of
18:53
Speaker 4: course Judge is going to disagree that the Mets have
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Speaker 4: a better chance than the team. He's the captain for
18:57
Speaker 4: the Yankees. I don't know. I think this is funny.
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Speaker 4: This is like, this is like a high school movie.
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Speaker 4: There's like Beverly Hills nine O two one. Oh. We're
19:04
Speaker 4: watching here like trying to unfold it here. It's like
19:07
Speaker 4: the Red Sox have their thing, and now the Yankees
19:09
Speaker 4: and the Mets have their thing.
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Speaker 5: It's it's great.
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Speaker 4: It's great for baseball. People are talking about it.
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Speaker 2: That is true. Can we show that quote again. Let's
19:17
Speaker 2: put that up. So Sodo said, how the Mets will
19:22
Speaker 2: give him the best chance to win another World Series.
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Speaker 2: Obviously he's gotta say that. Judge responds, quote, I definitely disagree. Well,
19:30
Speaker 2: then you should have gotten his number and told him.
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Speaker 2: I mean, do you think there's also a part of
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Speaker 2: this that just says he was going to go to
19:37
Speaker 2: the best offer no matter what, even if it was
19:40
Speaker 2: just several million dollars. More So, Judge was like, I
19:43
Speaker 2: get it. You do you. Nothing I'm going to say
19:46
Speaker 2: to you is going to sway you from Met to Yankee.
19:49
Speaker 2: Go get your money. I played this game a couple
19:52
Speaker 2: of years ago, this free agency game. It worked out
19:55
Speaker 2: well for me. I did the whole fake San Francisco thing.
19:58
Speaker 2: I was never really going there, but thank you San
20:00
Speaker 2: Francisco and the whatever FOTAD cameraman person that I hired
20:04
Speaker 2: to act like it was a whole big deal that
20:06
Speaker 2: I'm in San Francisco, since no press was actually covering
20:08
Speaker 2: it and no one knew I was there, and there's
20:11
Speaker 2: no paparazzi following me. Aka, I don't need your new
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Speaker 2: number right now.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I said that from the get go.
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Speaker 4: Wan Soda was gonna sign whoever offered him the most money.
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Speaker 4: It didn't matter. It was all about the money. And
20:28
Speaker 4: that's great, that's that's his decision to make. He's a
20:31
Speaker 4: free agent at twenty six years old. He got that.
20:33
Speaker 4: He got that right, and good for him. But there
20:35
Speaker 4: was nothing Aaron Judge was going to say. I just
20:37
Speaker 4: think it's funny because you know, New York's gonna ask
20:38
Speaker 4: all the questions, and so Judge asked answer him as
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Speaker 4: the captain, and I don't know. I love his answer
20:44
Speaker 4: because he's basically like, I don't really want to talk
20:45
Speaker 4: about this, but I kind of have to, so now
20:47
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to talk about it. And then he
20:48
Speaker 4: gives that smile, which I love it. I think it's great.
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Speaker 2: Good for you, Aaron, Yeah, just go back when he
20:55
Speaker 2: answers serious, he just answers. When he answers like that,
20:58
Speaker 2: he's like, smile came out like a smile Pinocchio, the
21:08
Speaker 2: nose goes out, Judge, the smile wid didn't. So it's
21:12
Speaker 2: just not him, like krat said, he's he's on a stape.
21:14
Speaker 2: He can't say it with a straight face. And that's fine.
21:17
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get to some spring training, Lukes, Josh
21:21
Speaker 2: Hater has much less hair. Do you think this affects
21:26
Speaker 2: his performance on the mound and makes him less intimidating
21:30
Speaker 2: and less distracting?
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Speaker 4: Aj I don't know how he's going to pitch it
21:35
Speaker 4: out their hair. It's like Samson. Sampson cut his hair,
21:37
Speaker 4: he lost all his power. Josh Hater cut his long hair,
21:40
Speaker 4: He's not gonna be able to throw strikes. No, just kidding.
21:42
Speaker 4: I don't think it has anything to do with anything.
21:43
Speaker 4: He's just hot. He's just hot. So he's down in
21:45
Speaker 4: Florida where the weather's beautiful, and he's like, you know what,
21:48
Speaker 4: I'm getting a haircut, something to something to talk about
21:51
Speaker 4: besides spring training.
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Speaker 5: There you go. Let me tell you something, brother. It
21:54
Speaker 5: was getting long and I needed to cut it.
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Speaker 4: Brother.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what do you think of it? Is
21:59
Speaker 5: it nice?
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Speaker 3: Is it nice? I like it?
22:02
Speaker 5: Thanks brother.
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Speaker 2: He didn't go like full shaved head, so he's still
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Speaker 2: got some hair and now he can see who his
22:10
Speaker 2: teammates are. Last year, nobody knew who they were playing
22:13
Speaker 2: with the letters on the back of the jerseys last year, Yeah,
22:17
Speaker 2: exactly what looked like you were watching a game from
22:19
Speaker 2: the moon, even if you were right next to these guys.
22:21
Speaker 2: Last year, they decided to make the uniform feature very
22:27
Speaker 2: small words and letters that you were looking at. Now
22:31
Speaker 2: they're back to normal. This seems like a good idea.
22:35
Speaker 2: AJ whoever thought of this good idea. Let's give them
22:37
Speaker 2: a raise, good marketing. Let's see who we're looking at.
22:42
Speaker 4: Oh that's hilarious. Yeah, listen, how else are people going
22:45
Speaker 4: to know my name if the letters aren't big enough?
22:46
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, of course I want large letters.
22:48
Speaker 4: I want people to see that last name out there.
22:50
Speaker 4: Come on, everybody wants their last name, family friends, people
22:53
Speaker 4: on the moon, you know, the Martians when they get here,
22:56
Speaker 4: you know, they all. I want them all to see
22:57
Speaker 4: my name on the back of my jersey. I want
22:59
Speaker 4: them to know I'm not like the Yankees that don't
23:01
Speaker 4: put names on him. Put that judge on that ninety
23:04
Speaker 4: nine and put it like this big so the Martians
23:05
Speaker 4: can see it when they land.
23:07
Speaker 2: Well, that's taboo, and so is facial hair. So let's
23:11
Speaker 2: finish with this. Then we're gonna talk to Will Carroll
23:13
Speaker 2: about some injury updates. But Devin Williams looks younger, definitely
23:20
Speaker 2: less intimidating, and crats. It looks like he's just trying
23:23
Speaker 2: to make the teams.
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Speaker 5: Not less intimidating. If you're intimidated by some dude's beard,
23:31
Speaker 5: you are You are the softest hitter on the planet.
23:35
Speaker 5: What Brian Wilson has a beard? Who No, I don't
23:40
Speaker 5: even know how. I can't even look at his scatter
23:42
Speaker 5: report to see if he throws any strikes or not.
23:45
Speaker 5: That beard is so distracting. Oh, unless some dude has
23:49
Speaker 5: a The only thing that's intimidating is some dude has
23:52
Speaker 5: like teardrops on his face that are tattooed on his
23:55
Speaker 5: face for every batter that he's killed. And then you're like, ah,
23:59
Speaker 5: you know, I want to get in the batter's box.
24:01
Speaker 5: Or if he has like a or he has like
24:02
Speaker 5: a baseball tattooed going up his wrist like this, and
24:06
Speaker 5: you're like, I can't tell which is the baseball in
24:08
Speaker 5: his hand and which one's on his wrist. Like, No,
24:10
Speaker 5: beards aren't intimidating.
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Speaker 4: Stop, I mean, this is the dumbest conversation we've ever
24:19
Speaker 4: had on the show. Who cares? I mean, you think
24:23
Speaker 4: I've ever looked out there? Now, there's been other times
24:24
Speaker 4: I've looked out there, and there mid some dudes that
24:26
Speaker 4: I don't want to look in the eyes because I
24:27
Speaker 4: turned a stone for other reasons. But a beard never
24:30
Speaker 4: got me.
24:33
Speaker 2: But he ugly, Yeah, we've definitely talked about Yeah. All right,
24:40
Speaker 2: so now we know AJ's crypt tonight.
24:44
Speaker 5: Hey, there.
24:46
Speaker 2: No get ugly.
24:47
Speaker 5: There's a lot of as players, there's a lot of
24:50
Speaker 5: There's top five ugliest dudes that you've ever played against,
24:54
Speaker 5: and you're like, you can't look them directly in the eye.
24:57
Speaker 5: There's also top five best looking guys. You also can't
24:59
Speaker 5: look these guys in the eyes either.
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Speaker 2: Just say it yeah, and you'll get lost in them.