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Bob Nightengale on Astros GM (and Manager?) shakeup, Ketel’s case + Yankees check up with Brendan Kuty · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, we had to call the emergency hotline here
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  Speaker 1: for Bob Nightingale to go over this story. Bob, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Yes, it is no more Dana Brown
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  Speaker 1: running the front office for the Astros. And before we
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  Speaker 1: even get to that, can you chime in on your
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  Speaker 1: notes and your article on.
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  Speaker 2: The status of Joe A Spota the Afterros.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, before we get to the Astros. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: were you at the casino with catl Marte? You live
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  Speaker 3: in the Greater Phoenix area. Were you the ones sitting
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  Speaker 3: next Tom.
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  Speaker 4: That I saw? Unfortunately I was out of town.
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  Speaker 5: I think like five or six people shot pictures a
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  Speaker 5: video of them.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, it's just a bad look, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And you know when guys on the Angel List, a
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  Speaker 5: lot of guys don't go to the ballpark.
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  Speaker 4: But just a horrible look.
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  Speaker 5: And I agree, I think it makes a whole organizational
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  Speaker 5: like bad. You can't sit in front of a podium
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  Speaker 5: and Ben Marte and then you disrespecting everybody else in
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  Speaker 5: that club else by saying, oh, it's okay, we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: forgive him.
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  Speaker 4: This is three years a row now.
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  Speaker 5: Last year he took the vacation after the All Star
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  Speaker 5: break that was three days. Then two years and the
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  Speaker 5: year before that took a day off the foual week
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  Speaker 5: of the season and they missed the playoffs by a week.
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  Speaker 5: So who knows where he was? Yeah, yeah, missed by game,
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  Speaker 5: So who knows where he was after? You know, Boston
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  Speaker 5: Viteam Boston Arizona. That's never been you know, that's never
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  Speaker 5: been said yet. He still had you to address the
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  Speaker 5: teammates or anybody else, and it'd be very interesting the
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  Speaker 5: fan reaction when he does finally play, as far as
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  Speaker 5: if they boom or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna hear it. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the Astros. I want to run dig in on this,
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with Joe's spot it.
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  Speaker 2: We know Dana Brown is gone. We'll get into why.
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  Speaker 1: But is Joe spotted definitely not going to return or
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  Speaker 1: be on a contract starting next years contract ends after
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  Speaker 1: this season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's toughen, gonna be gone.
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  Speaker 5: I mean the Astros say, you know, it's up to
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  Speaker 5: Jim Grain he makes a final call. Of course he does.
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  Speaker 5: He's the owner that no decision has been made. Other people,
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  Speaker 5: organizations say no, the decision has definitely been made.
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  Speaker 4: He's gone.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if he had managed Sunday, Remember he was
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  Speaker 5: not there Sunday at a Famin emergency.
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  Speaker 4: They believe that six to zero lead.
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  Speaker 5: If they had lost that game, it wouldn't been interesting
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  Speaker 5: to see if you have been gone too.
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  Speaker 4: But looks like he'll he'll be there for the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, But because they lost one game, Bob, that makes
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  Speaker 3: a determination of whether you fire your first place manager
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of the year. You fire your first
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  Speaker 3: place GM in the middle of the I just don't
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  Speaker 3: understand why they make this decision. Now, if their contracts
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  Speaker 3: up at the end of the year, you wait one
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  Speaker 3: more month. Let's say they make a deep run and
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  Speaker 3: I mean get into the postseason, they run to the
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  Speaker 3: ALCS somehow, right, Are you still getting rid of Joe
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  Speaker 3: Spoda with the things he's done?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think Dana Brown was going to let go
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  Speaker 5: if they want a rule series. Obviously it'd been it
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  Speaker 5: before after twenty twenty two with Jim Click and uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think the same thing here with the
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  Speaker 5: spot just the fact that the team is playing that poorly,
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  Speaker 5: just lost six of eight games to three of the
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  Speaker 5: worst teams in baseball, particularly of the A's and the
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  Speaker 5: Angels that lost a couple also to Seattle. And you
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  Speaker 5: know you're below five hundred. So I think Jim Crane
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  Speaker 5: was saying, enough's enough, let's see what we can do here.
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  Speaker 5: It's almost like I think just hit a tipping point,
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  Speaker 5: like we've got to make some change here. We're finding
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  Speaker 5: jam and uh. And you know, Joe Spott has been the.
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  Speaker 4: Hot seat all year, just like Daniel Brown.
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  Speaker 6: Turn first place is turn first place, Bob.
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  Speaker 3: The point is to be in first place to get
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  Speaker 3: to the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing about first place.
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  Speaker 3: There's not I don't know, Bob, I don't know. They're
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  Speaker 3: in first place. That's and Joe Spott has done a
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  Speaker 3: lot with not a lot to work with. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 3: the bullpen wasn't very good going to the year. Hater
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  Speaker 3: mister much time Bray, you sucked early. Right, He's kept
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  Speaker 3: them alive. They lose their big acquisition Carlos Korea. You
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  Speaker 3: know they got him back last year, but they lose
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  Speaker 3: him basically for the season. They lost Jeremy Payne. You
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  Speaker 3: for a huge chunk of time. Two Va is not
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  Speaker 3: the same guy. They have one guy really and at
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  Speaker 3: Jordan on Alvaaz. The rest of the team has been
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  Speaker 3: in Atlina or hurt. Joe Spottas should be getting a
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  Speaker 3: contract extension for what he's done.
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  Speaker 4: Is that getting extension?
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  Speaker 5: I mean the fact of matter is a below five
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  Speaker 5: hundred in the worst division in baseball and could go
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  Speaker 5: down the worst division of baseball history. Number once in
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  Speaker 5: a pold season as a team made the playoffs for
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  Speaker 5: the losing record.
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  Speaker 4: This division got a chance to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Uh never reminds you of ninety four ninety five in
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  Speaker 5: the strike year.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the leading team in the West was twelve
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  Speaker 4: games below five hundred. This is trying to resemble that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, actually, I think he's the one who got
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan Opera's extension done. Or is that right before
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  Speaker 1: Dana Brown? Maybe it might have Click, might have been
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  Speaker 1: James Clik. Wait, I still have to rewind to the
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  Speaker 1: part you said, Bob about how I know it's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but let's say the Astros win or even just make
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, even the Alcs, right, you're a Final
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  Speaker 1: four team, they were already set.
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  Speaker 2: No, we stink.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think these guys are good enough. Brown out
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  Speaker 1: a spot out It takes us back to the James
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  Speaker 1: Click scenario where you're like, something going on and did
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  Speaker 1: someone get in trouble? And after all that, we're like, no,
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  Speaker 1: not really, like they just didn't totally see eye and
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  Speaker 1: the Astros did what everybody tries to do, and the sport,
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  Speaker 1: the whole point is what it should be.
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  Speaker 2: The whole point is to win a world series. And
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  Speaker 2: Click was gone.
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  Speaker 1: So isn't that a little bit strange the way to operate, well.
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  Speaker 5: Particular, were gonna let him go to the Detroit deadline
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  Speaker 5: and everything else went to the draft obviously, and obviously
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  Speaker 5: he lost thrust in him. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 5: losing a blown to six to zero lead to the
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  Speaker 5: a's of all teams in front of your home fans
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  Speaker 5: and having a horrible home stand. But three and six
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  Speaker 5: against you know, three blow of five hundred teams. I
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  Speaker 5: used to think, hey, I'm done. I'm gonna make the
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  Speaker 5: decision anyway. I'm gonna let you lose. That way, if
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  Speaker 5: you want to find employment, maybe somebody can pick you
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  Speaker 5: up in the UH early on, we can start doing
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  Speaker 5: some interviews for jobs. So I think it was just saying,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, it's not working I bought your vetoed
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  Speaker 5: a trade that you tried to make with the Minnesota
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  Speaker 5: Twins in July.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't, you know, trust what you're doing anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And we're making a change.
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  Speaker 2: What was that trade?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? It was it was a uh the reliever break
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  Speaker 4: you for uh.
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  Speaker 2: For the uh for Trevor Larnick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Larnick, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a one for one and the jill
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  Speaker 5: was done and uh it was it was next And
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  Speaker 5: I think right then, you know, Dana Brown knew, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be not gonna be here much longer
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  Speaker 5: if you if I'm getting my trades vetoed, you know
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  Speaker 5: that they don't trust me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: you know, And sometimes we smash moves, sometimes we praise
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  Speaker 1: the move.
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  Speaker 2: It's just what you do. Right, We're an opinionated show here.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that we're like supporting the Dana Brown
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  Speaker 1: side of this too much? We were talking earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the show about how you know the Astros have had
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  Speaker 1: picked stripped from them not long ago. Right, he takes
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  Speaker 1: over the team a few years ago. They had just
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  Speaker 1: signed a bray you and given money to Montero. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like they certainly spend money, but they go up
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  Speaker 1: against They treat the luxury tax as a salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: They've never given a contract over one fifty one MILI,
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  Speaker 1: which in baseball terms, that's not a lot. They you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Hater deal was finally the first time they went
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  Speaker 1: to a larger extent for a free agent.
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  Speaker 2: So is this job one.
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  Speaker 1: Of the most demanding in baseball and very difficult to
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  Speaker 1: keep for long? Because Jim Crean's had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: success and the expectations are so high.
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  Speaker 4: I think the expectations are high, but they should be.
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  Speaker 5: And they go up to the lecture cap every single
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  Speaker 5: year in and say, okay, you got this much money
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  Speaker 5: to spend with. And they made a lot of free
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  Speaker 5: agent signings, and the winner for pitchers, and now I
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  Speaker 5: want to say, six of them may not even being
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  Speaker 5: the organization anymore. So the pitchers haven't worked out. The
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  Speaker 5: pitcher for Japan hasn't worked out. So a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the free signings just went billy up. I mean, really,
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  Speaker 5: the best move they made was that Kyle Trucker trade,
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  Speaker 5: you know, in getting Pretty's out of it and Cam
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  Speaker 5: Smith out of it and let her pitcher as well,
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  Speaker 5: So I think.
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  Speaker 4: That was the best move that was made.
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  Speaker 5: And the others remember talking about getting extensions and signing
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  Speaker 5: guys to long term deals that that hasn't happened even
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  Speaker 5: though it should have with guys like Hunter Brown and
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  Speaker 5: those type of guys.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think, I mean, if what you're saying is
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  Speaker 1: true about Espada right where they're not going to extend
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  Speaker 1: him for next year, is this a weird scenario where
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  Speaker 1: he's managing right now a team that's in first place
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  Speaker 1: and he's on a contract that expires that the end
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  Speaker 1: of this season. Again, I'm still having trouble getting over
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  Speaker 1: this part too, Like what if the Astros make the
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  Speaker 1: World Series? Sorry, Joe wasn't good enough. We only gave
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  Speaker 1: you like two starters, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you figured it out. Hunter Brown missed most of
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  Speaker 3: the year.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I'm just having a hard time
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  Speaker 1: conceptualizing how the expectations are here and who's going to
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  Speaker 1: do a better job.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, what do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he still got Lopez on the staff as a
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  Speaker 4: bench coach. Obviously he will love to have that job,
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  Speaker 4: but he did with a WBC.
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  Speaker 5: Team and Nezuela and hey, if the spotal leads a
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  Speaker 5: team to the playoffs and even goes deeper in October,
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  Speaker 5: then other teams will say, you know what, we're going
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  Speaker 5: to fire our manager. Anyway, we'll hire this guy. At
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  Speaker 5: least puts him in the conversation. Uh So, I think
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  Speaker 5: if they do make the playoffs, at least it helps
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  Speaker 5: his chances to get rehired by somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Bob, you know they're not hiring Omar Lopez.
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  Speaker 3: He'll just tell the team to f off, like he
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  Speaker 3: did in the WBC when they called him and said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: don't use plenty of two days in a row. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: we're winning this thing.
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  Speaker 7: We don't care.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And he has a job, and he's uh, definitely wants
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  Speaker 5: a major league baseball job. He's made no secret of it.
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  Speaker 5: So I'll be interesting to see if he's the next
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  Speaker 5: gap for the job or not.
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  Speaker 1: How do you measure the AL West right now, Bob?
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  Speaker 1: Final A couple of questions here where we at? I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it's not a good division, but somebody
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  Speaker 1: will have to win it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, on.
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  Speaker 5: Paper, it still should be Seattle Mariners. So unbelievable. How
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  Speaker 5: poorly they played. When you're talking about disappointing teams in baseball,
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  Speaker 5: you know they might have taken the cake now over
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  Speaker 5: even over the Mets and uh Detroit Tigers can't see
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  Speaker 5: Royals that sort of thing. So there's no reason a
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  Speaker 5: rule they should win the division. But you know right now,
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  Speaker 5: you know, might go with Texas. Uh, they're hanging around.
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  Speaker 5: They should have been put away for dead a long
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  Speaker 5: time ago, and they've done a great job there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: I think where they're pitching, and they got some Vetroans
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  Speaker 5: out lineup, you know, you kind of like their chances
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  Speaker 5: if you had to put some money on somebody.
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  Speaker 2: My last one.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that a move like this sets a
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  Speaker 1: tone for the rest of the sport where if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at your team and you underperformed it like damn,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they fired Brown and they might not let
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  Speaker 1: a spot to come back. I mean, look at a
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  Speaker 1: team like the Orioles, disappointing right on the GM side,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: look at a team like the Mariners this year. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that we could have more moves to come?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've already had what two others in the
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  Speaker 1: Al West, the A's parted ways or fired David Forrest
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  Speaker 1: and the Angels fired perrimanation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying a few gms. They don't remember any
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  Speaker 4: time my three.
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  Speaker 5: Gms got fired from the same division in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of the summer. It was amazing. Yeah, I think Seattle,
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  Speaker 5: I think some jobs will be on the line if
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  Speaker 5: they don't make the playoffs. For sure. I think Dan Wilson,
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  Speaker 5: the manager's got to be in the hot seat. Expectations
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  Speaker 5: were high there, I think going to the season, or
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  Speaker 5: at least in spring trending, you're thinking, Okay, who's going
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  Speaker 5: to come on the America League this year?
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  Speaker 4: It's give to Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners. Teams are
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  Speaker 4: that good and to be whatever they are now.
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  Speaker 5: But six seven games, eight games below five hundred is
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  Speaker 5: almost unacceptable with the talent on that team. They're certainly underperforming.
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  Speaker 5: So remember two of these guys too, when the last
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  Speaker 5: year's contracts. Dana Brown last year, Perrymnesian was last year
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  Speaker 5: as well, and David the Forest was last year as
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  Speaker 5: well and didn't really want to go to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 5: anyway in the year. So you know, uh, well, three
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  Speaker 5: guys been the last year of contract. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: different from firing a guy if we got a couple
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  Speaker 5: of years left, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, duck never works, Bob. Now, I mean, do we
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  Speaker 3: think Kurtsuzuki is going to be back in Anaheim after
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  Speaker 3: he signed that long term one year deal.
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  Speaker 5: By now, I think this was the alex uh decision
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  Speaker 5: and he he liked.
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  Speaker 4: What he saw so far after talking to Suzuki.
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  Speaker 5: It'd be interesting because people think that Suzuki has a
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  Speaker 5: chance to be a good manager if given a chance.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see if he see if he gets that chance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I have a great chance to be
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  Speaker 3: a manager.
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  Speaker 6: To Bob, if someone would hire me, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'd pay to watch that. I'd watch that all Bob.
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  Speaker 5: That guaranty if a j was managing the Diamondbacks, can
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  Speaker 5: tell he wouldn't be putting his arms around. Could tell
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Marte and saying, hey, everything's fine, ya come back and
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: have a two week vacation.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Three days will be paid, but the others will be paid.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, enjoy your enjoy your Greek Greek cruise. Could tell
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: in the middle of August it'd be awesome. Caribbean vacation
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  Speaker 3: cost of a comprom wherever you want to know.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a better chance a j would have
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  Speaker 1: just gotten ejected in that game, driven to the casino
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: and been like, hey bro, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't reach you for a week.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: We pay for my next hand, can tell I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Calls. Let's chat, Bob, good stuff. Thank you for hopping
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  Speaker 2: on with us.
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  Speaker 1: the latest from you.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it all right, My pleasure, see you guys.
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  Speaker 8: Well, speaking about being out of it, I'm an American
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  Speaker 8: League East guy, and I'm talking to you Toronto fans.
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  Speaker 8: I'm talking to you Baltimore fans. A couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 8: probably not a reason to come out of the games.
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  Speaker 8: Look at the standings right now. Both of you teams
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: are right back in this wildcard race.
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• 16:03
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  Speaker 2: I think we should start with Jihn.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Carlo stand because that's the news that looks like it'll
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: toward the rest.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Of the season for him individually.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: So if you don't mind what happened there, why can't
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: someone at that age run the bases like is I know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: I don't want to sound too harsh, but like is
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: his body completely broken down that he shouldn't even try
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: to come back next year for one last season on
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: his current deal.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: No, he should absolutely try to come back next season,
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: And thank you guys for having me on. Look. John
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: Carlos Stanton is a proud veteran. He's someone who's accomplished
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: a lot in this game. He's someone who thinks that
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: he's got more in the tank.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: He wouldn't be out here trying to get back on
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: the field if he didn't think he could get back
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: on the field, if he didn't want to get back
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: on the field. He's got a lot to play for.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: You know, the Yankees, he's real respected in that clubhouse.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Just last season, he was, you know, kind of getting
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: into his teammates to perform better, to perform up to
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: their standards in a closed door meeting in their clubhouse
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: in Texas. He also, you know, just is a forty
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: home runs shy of five hundred. I mean, he's got
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: a lot to play for. There's still one more year
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: left on his deal. And if I'm John Carlos Day
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: and I try to keep playing.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, what was it? It was one calf and then
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: he hurt the other calf because we saw videos of
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: him running. I know Aaron Boone got angry when he
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: was asked about when with Stanton coming back? Right, So
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: what was it? He was just running and I mean
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: the videos I saw of him, he I guess that
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: was full speed, because we've all seen the memes and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I love John Carloston, I think he's a stud, but
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: we've seen the memes of how slow he is. So
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: he just couldn't get up to full speed and then
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: when he tried, he popped the other calf.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, look it goes without saying. John Carlos, Dan and
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: Ray Dude enjoyed covering him throughout the years. We've all tried.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: We've all seen him trying to run these days, it's
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: not a run so much as it is a trot.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: My understanding is that he was running the basis at
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: Yankee Stadium trying to get around and during that trod
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: like one of his legs, his left leg, the new
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: strained calf, gave out on him and he went down.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: And that is a new development. In these previous strains
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: of his right calf, he had never fallen, And for
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: Aaron Boon to mention that he fell within the injury
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: update shows the significance, right, because you don't include that
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: detail if you don't think it's a big deal. So
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: giohn Carlo's legs are just not letting them get back
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: on the field. But look, if you're him, if you're
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: the Yankees. You value his leadership, you value the gravitas
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: he brings, and you value his work ethic and you
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: want him in that clubhouse. You want him in those
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: hairs meetings, and you want to give him one last
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: full off season to see what he can do, to
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: see if he can get a straight to see what
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: he looks like next opening day, and see if you're
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: going to have John Carlos stan I'm back one more time.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair, that's fair. Let's move on from him.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Let's actually talk about someone that just came back, Cody Bellinger.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: He's back, right, Cody's back. What does he bring to
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the table for the Yankees offense, especially until if we
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: ever see Judge again this year?
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Well, real quick, probably the best fielding left fielder in
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: the game, right, you know, the range, just knows what
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: he's doing out there, and Yankee Stadium left field probably
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: one of the toughest left fields in baseball. When it
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: comes to the offense, he's a low strikeout guy, a
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: high contact guy, someone who's going to pepper that short
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: porch at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees need any offense they
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: can get. They've been playing hockey games lately, you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: two to three, three to four, five to three. They
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: need athleticism, they need basketball skills, they need someone in
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: the lineup who's confident, who's been there before, and who's
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: going to get it done. That's Cody Bellan, you know.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: And also this allows Spencer Jones to shift over to
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: right field where he can be more comfortable, allows them
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: to maybe split time with Elliott Ramos in right field
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: where they can get him in against lefties. Though Jones
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: has been great against left handers, I actually think he
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: should get more bats against left handers. This just makes
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: their lineup deeper, makes their defense better, and supports that
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: pitching staff that's been so great for them.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: Well, I might not agree with you that Yankee Stadium
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: has the hardest left field when you got Houston and
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: Boston and some of these other ones with some weirder
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: outfield walls and just I mean, what's hard about it
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: that it's so close to the field Pittsburgh and stuff
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: like that. But are you worried at all? Because it's
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: kind of shaping out this Yankees team and they're kind
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: of in the same position they've been in these last
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: couple of years. Where they hit a lot of home
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: runs and they have very good maybe one of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: lowest starting pitchers eras, But it's that contact that you're
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: talking about with Cody Bellinger, where it's kind of their
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: samemo where they just don't hit for high enough average
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: and if Judge or if standing aren't putting the ball
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: out of the ballpark in the playoffs, they can kind
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: of beat beat. Are you worried that that's kind of
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: what's happening or what is different from this year than
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: these years past?
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Well, first, Jason, I want to thank you for getting
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: my email on matching our outfits today that that's.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: You look great. You look great.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Same. So, look, you're worried about this offense having too
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: much strikeouts, too many strikeouts. You're you're worried about this
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: offense not performing well against high level pitching that you
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: tend to face in the postseason. You worry about this
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: offense not carrying the pitching staff that has carried it
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: all season without Aaron Judge. Really, guys, all this comes
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: down to is Aaron Judge. This lineup is this lineup
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: can get it done. This lineup chem school runs. But man,
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: if they don't get Aaron Judge back. And if they
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: don't get the Aaron Judge back, like you know, capital letters,
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Aaron Judge back, they're gonna be in rough shape. So
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: I think a lot of this hinges on Aaron Judge.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I think Trent Brisham can pop one at any time.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Ben Rice, We've seen him go on and run this season.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Cody Bellinger, you like what Luiska Sea Junior brings to,
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: you know, first base at Yankee Stadium, there's a lot
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: of potential there, But you need Aaron Judge, you need
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: the Yankees captain and Jason to your point that this
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: offense really will go as far as Aaron Judge goes.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: But back to left field real quick. At Yankee Stadium,
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: from what I'm told, it's just gigantic and that sudden
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: during day games in particular, as it goes down throughout
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: the day, could really be a B word. So that's
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: my understanding what makes the right left field the Yankee
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Stadium pretty rough.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And then they make these things called sunglasses that you
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: can put on and they help with the sun. I'm
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: just throwing that out there. They make these cool things.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: There's sunglasses. You know, if you haven't bought them. There's
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: a lot of companies that sell them. You can put
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: them on. They even make these ones. When the ball
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: goes up, you can flip them down and it makes
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: the sun. I mean, it's amazing how far we've come
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: in the last I don't know, one hundred and fifty
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: years or so with these things called sunglasses. And also
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: what I want to know you talk about Aaron Judge,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: is Aaron Judge. If Aaron Judge does come back, which again,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: you know we started hitting off a tee and all
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: this stuff, but he's still got a ways to go,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: you know, more imaging. I'm sure scheduled for this week
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: and next week and the week after, right, But if
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: he comes back and he goes, oh, for one, will
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yankee fans boo them in the playoff?
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Hope not?
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: But in the playoffs?
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: So look, actually, you know that's actually a really good point, right,
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Aaron has to ask himself. He doesn't have to ask
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: himself this. He's the team captain. If he can play,
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: he has to be on the field, he has to
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: be in the batter's box, he has to give it
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: a chance. But fans have to ask themselves. Is Aaron
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: potentially setting himself up for failure. You know, there have
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: been some difficult postseasons for him in the past. There's
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: been really good ones like last year, and for him
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: to take off months and then come back potentially not healed,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: it's potentially behind in terms of hitting, major league pitching.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Is he putting himself behind the eight ball and just
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: you know, furthering that narrative as we like to call it,
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: that he doesn't perform well in the postseason. So that's
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: a that's a rough spot to be in if you're
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Aaron Judge. But also if you're Aaron Judge, you know
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: that you don't care about all that. You're the Yankees captain.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: You want to win, you want a World Series, and
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• 24:16
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• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, let me clarify something for you right now, Brendan,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Aaron Judge, if he's healthy, will be out there. He
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: doesn't give a crap about that. So I just want
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: to make that clear right now, that Aaron Judge will
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: be out there. And Aaron Judge is awesome, dude, he's
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the captain. But he would never think about and say,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: now there some other players out there that might make
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: other decisions and go, you know, and not show up
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: to their team and stuff like that. But if Aaron
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Judge has the opportunity to play, if it's fifty percent
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: sixty percent, if he feels like he could be on
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the field, Aaron Judges can be out there.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: And that's and that's why I stop myself. It's like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: look that that that is a thing. But that's not
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: a thing that Aaron Judge is gonna care about. That's
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: the thing that fans are going to you know, if
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: he's over one of the postseason, like you said, boot him,
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: they need to understand that this guy is coming back.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: Whatever he can do, he's gonna do.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Brandon, what about George Lombard three errs last three games.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I think it is his defense is supposed to be amazing. Offensively,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: he got off to a good start, which George Lombard
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: because is he gonna be a superstar? Like everyone every
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yankee fan thought Anthony Volpi was gonna be. Is he
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: gonna be a good player? What's the what's the real
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: feeling behind the scenes, not just the I'm a fan.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: He hit a home run his first game, He's made
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: some amazing players. What's the real feeling in the Yankees.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: So, look, I wrote a story about George today, talking
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: to a bunch of people around the Yankees, people who
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: have been around George, who've seen him every day going
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: back to spring training, going through Double A through Triple A.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: They talk about him being a sponge. They talk about
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: him wanting to get better, his desire to get better,
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: and this you know, confidence which which he carries himself. Now,
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: were we saying the same thing about Anthony Bolpi three
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: years ago? We weren't not saying that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: For Anthony, the desire is always there, the work ethic
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: was always there. With George, he really looks the part.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: It's it's the six foot two whatever he is at shortstop.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: It's the wiry frame, it's the explosion, it's the arm.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: This guy. You look at him and you say, hey,
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: that's what shortstop looks like. So when it comes to
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: expectations for him, I'm hoping that the Yankees fan base
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: keeps them low, understanding that he's twenty one years old.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: I mean, geez, what were you guys doing when you're
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: twenty one years old? Not you guys, the fans, You
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: know I wasn't playing the legs age twenty.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: One, playing in the big leagues.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: Brennan just saying, I feel you, but you know, it's
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: just it's tough, right, And I think he has all
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: the potential, he has all the ability. It's just a
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: matter of growth and whether he's going to be given
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: that time to grow. We saw Anthony Volpi was given
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: several years, So George Lombard should expect that same treatment,
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: provided he's putting in the work every day, which I
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: have no doubt that he will.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That's funny because the Yankees fans are very known to
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: be very calm and steady. I mean, they didn't put
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: any expectations on Anthony Wolpey, so why would they do
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: that to George Lombard. I mean Spencer Deminguez, I mean
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: naming Yankees prospect Austin Wells, name one and find me
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: one where they haven't overhyped him to the point where
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: if he doesn't come up and be Aaron Judge or like.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Get him out of here right now.
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, everyone's looking for the next Derek Jeters. Everyone wants
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: the next Robinson Cano that the next Core four. When
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: is not going to happen. Who the heck knows? Is
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: it going to be Spencer Jones, George Lombard, Ben Rice
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Austin Wells, Well, it wasn't Glaber Torrez, Clint Fraser, uh
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Justice Sheffield and whoever else, Miguel Anduhar. So the chances
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: are that this is not the next Core four we're
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: looking at, but we are looking at a supremely talented
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: player at shortstop who just needs to grow into his
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: offensive game.
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: Let's turn the attention to pitching a little bit. I know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: with weather's going down a little bit, they're gonna have
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: some some questions that need answering. And where are they
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: going to turn to find some starting pitcher? Are they
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: going to go to Lucas Gill or are they going
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: to go to Luis gi Excuse me? Are they going
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: to go to stretch out Ryan Yarborough back to that
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: kind of spot start that he used to do back
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: in Tampa and stuff like that. What do you think
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: is theirn answer to these with not many off days
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: left this year.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: Well, they actually have a good amount of off days
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: for the month, for the calendar month, right like they
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: have one off day like every week, which is which
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: is kind of nice that being so they have two
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: more yeah, but they also have two more double headers,
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: So what are you going to do there? They're kind
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: of up against it. Their best pitching prospect is Elmer Rodriguez.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: He's already been called up three times and you're bumping
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: up against that five call up limit. So they may
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: only be open to calling him up in a straight
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: call up situation one more time the rest of the season,
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: and then maybe drop him in for those double headers
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: where he can be the twenty seventh man or twenty
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: ninth man in September, right, But until then, they'll cover
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: it with Yarborough, they'll cover it with Brendan Beck, they'll
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: cover it with openers. I think that you're not going
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: to see them pull someone off the scrap heap. They
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: do have arms at Triple A that you know they
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: can use him for one or two innings for an opener,
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: but it's really just piecing it together the rest of
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: the way, and then when Ryan Weathers gets back, it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: straight to the bullpen. It's straight gas and it's that
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: left handed power lefty that the Yankees haven't had all
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: season down the bullpen.
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: I like that before we let you go one more
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: quick question because I saw this, we posted your tweet
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: about weathers where there's no damage. There's no UCL damage,
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: no structural damage, nothing is showing up. Is it just
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: soreness or did the Yankees know what it is? His
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: weathers even know what it is? He said, it happened
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: in Miami before. But I mean, if nothing's showing up,
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: what's the diagnosis here?
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Forearm lextra stream He said that. You know, just in
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: a conversation with him yesterday, he said that he kind
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: of fielded the bunt that happened prior to the Dazz
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: cameron at that he fielded it and threw it kind
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: of funky, came out of his hand weird, the grip weird.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: So when he went into that Dazz camera at bat,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: that's when he started feeling something in the forearm. So
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: that's when he said, hey, you know what, let's be
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: smart here. Let's he said, he could pitch through it,
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: but let's not big things worse because typically it was
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: forearm UCL. Right, So as for now, he says it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: a lower grade strain of the flex are tended than
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: he had last year. And remember last year it took
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: him a month and a half to get back from
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: that flexure strain. But it was a more severe strain,
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: he said, and he was building up as a starting pitcher.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: This is a less severe strain, and he's building up
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: as a reliever. Nine to nine percent short. So someone
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: with the Yankees told me that they think Weathers will
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: be fine and definitely will pitch again this season.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Hey, Brandon, great info, man, Hope you enjoyed it. Yeah,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: first time on here was I was told we had
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: wrong phone number for you. So now we got it,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: so now expect more fun.
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry about that, guys. That's like anytime he.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Had the wrong number.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I feel bad for the whoever the guy that was
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: or girl that was getting the notes from us. Hey,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: can you come on to talk Yankees? And they're like what,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you want from me?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I don't even like the Yankees.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I wrote it the Yankees.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But Brendan, this was great man. Hope you enjoyed it,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and thanks for coming on here for the first time.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: We'll definitely invite you back for.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Down I'm here. Thanks, guys, appreciate it.