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Chuck & Buck 5-11 Hour 3: Chandler Rome, solving Wemby and Pet Peeves! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: with us. All sorts of cool stuff going on right now. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: our baseball team just can't get off the schneid, losing
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Speaker 1: two out of three to the Chicago White Sox over
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Speaker 1: the week and to put them at nineteen and twenty two.
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Speaker 1: And they will take on the Houston Astros over the
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Speaker 1: course of the next four days, which in the past
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Speaker 1: would have been a horrifying operation to participate in. But
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Speaker 1: things have changed a little bit on the Houston front,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna find out just how much has changed
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Speaker 1: from their beat. Writer of the Athletic Chandler Rome's been
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Speaker 1: covering the Astros beat for quite some time. He's been
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Speaker 1: a guest on the show in the past, and we're
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Speaker 1: happy to have him back here on a Monday morning,
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Speaker 1: I Chandler, what's up all? We're doing great? First, before
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Speaker 1: we get into both of the stories about the Mariners
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Speaker 1: and the Astros this year, what is the story with
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Speaker 1: you and Nick Saban on your Twitter post? Is there
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Speaker 1: like a story that goes with that picture.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a story as much as
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Speaker 2: you know. I saw I covered Alabama before I got
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Speaker 2: covered Alabama football, and he does his coaches show, he
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Speaker 2: coaches radio show every week, and there's a media guest
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Speaker 2: host every week, and I was that guest host. As
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Speaker 2: a radio host yourself, I can imagine. You know, when
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Speaker 2: you have a co host, you like to interact with them,
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Speaker 2: You like to get them into the conversation. That did
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Speaker 2: not happen. He came in, he came in. I think
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Speaker 2: he looked at me twice. I think he shook my
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Speaker 2: hand because he had to. But I was just another nameless,
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Speaker 2: faceless person that he had to sit next to for
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Speaker 2: a couple hours before getting out there.
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Speaker 1: Was it an intimidating experience? Or just did you think
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Speaker 1: less of him when you got done with it or both.
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Speaker 2: Well, well they told me so. They said, look because
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Speaker 2: I asked questions on the show, Like they have a
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Speaker 2: segment where the media guest host asked questions and they said, look,
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Speaker 2: come with questions prepared. They were like, we're not going
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Speaker 2: to tell you what to ask, but also like don't
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Speaker 2: come in asking like why this guy isn't playing, More
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Speaker 2: like this is a coaches show, Like, come with some softballs.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I kind of just throw some softballs and
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Speaker 2: let him kind of say what he wanted to say.
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Speaker 2: But it was I mean, look, it was cool. Like
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Speaker 2: I got that picture out of it. I'll that'll probably
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Speaker 2: be my Twitter header forever.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, he looks like he doesn't really have much
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Speaker 1: to do with you in the picture you captured that.
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Speaker 2: That was a perfect encapsulation.
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Speaker 1: I don't mean to laugh, and it is funny. Chandler
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Speaker 1: Rome is with us here, Astros beat writer from the
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Speaker 1: Athletic and close personal friends with Nick Saban. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's get your opinions on our story here in Seattle
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Speaker 1: so far before we dive into the very interesting story
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Speaker 1: of the Houston Astros. So far, this year, Are you,
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Speaker 1: as somebody that covers the Astros for a living surprise
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Speaker 1: that our Mariners nineteen and twenty two start this year.
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Speaker 2: I mean, on the surface, yes, but I didn't think
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Speaker 2: cal Rawley would hit sixty homers. Again, I didn't. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Julio has been a chronic slow starter in his career,
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Speaker 2: so Julio's starting slow doesn't surprise me. You know, I
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Speaker 2: haven't watched enough of Josh Naylor to know kind of
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Speaker 2: what you know, kind of how he tends to do things.
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Speaker 2: But again, when you've got all of your when you've
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Speaker 2: got all of your marquee names, guys that have to
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Speaker 2: perform when they are off to slow starts. This is
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Speaker 2: what happened. Now, I will say this. I was doing
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Speaker 2: a pot I was doing my own podcast last night,
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Speaker 2: and I was going through the Probibles and I read
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Speaker 2: Luis Castillo and I just do He's a seventy r
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Speaker 2: what is going on? That kind of surprised me. But
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Speaker 2: you know, look, I think it. You can have these
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Speaker 2: stretches at any point in the season, right, but when
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Speaker 2: it happens at the beginning of the season, it always
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Speaker 2: looks worse. So am I surprised, not really, just because
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Speaker 2: that's kind of unless you're the Dodgers. This is just
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Speaker 2: kind of how baseball goes. But I think you know
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Speaker 2: Cal and Julio and Naylor, like when they start to
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Speaker 2: turn things around, you'll see you'll certainly see the Mariners
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Speaker 2: kind of maybe go in a better direction.
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Speaker 1: And you might have said that about the Astros in
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Speaker 1: the past after a slow start, you would have after
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Speaker 1: forty games of a slow start, you just expected them
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Speaker 1: to pick it up. Obviously off the way slow start
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Speaker 1: this year in Houston. But is this troubling? Is this
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Speaker 1: speak volumes about the direction that maybe the organization is
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Speaker 1: heading more so so then it does just a cold
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Speaker 1: start from the Astros this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is far more troubling. Like I
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Speaker 2: don't see a ton of hope on the horizon with
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Speaker 2: the Marriers, Like I just pointed to like four reasons
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Speaker 2: why they can turn it around, Like I can't do
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Speaker 2: that with the Astros. Look that they they are substantially injured,
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Speaker 2: Like they don't have three fifths of their season opening
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Speaker 2: starting rotation is on the injured list. They don't have
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Speaker 2: Hunter Brown, they don't have Josh Hater, Jeremy Pania is
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Speaker 2: on the injured list, Carls Carea will not play again
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Speaker 2: this season, or Diez, their everyday catcher, is on the
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Speaker 2: injured list. They are very very injured. Do not get
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Speaker 2: me wrong, but just you know, the offseason acquisitions that
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Speaker 2: Dana Brown made to bolster the pitching staff just quite front. Well,
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Speaker 2: five of the six of them have just been unmitigated disasters.
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Speaker 2: This is not a team that has a ton of that.
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Speaker 2: This is not a team that has a ton of depth.
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Speaker 2: They don't have a lot of depth in the minor leagues,
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Speaker 2: and their depth on the twenty six man roster is
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Speaker 2: very thin. So when their established guys are either absent
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Speaker 2: or underperforming, they rely on that non exceptant depth to
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Speaker 2: like supplement that, and it just you are seeing the
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Speaker 2: faults in that, and you know, I, personally, I don't
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Speaker 2: know how they get out of this. I you know,
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Speaker 2: you can start to convince yourself that if Jeremy Panne
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Speaker 2: gets back, and if they can get Hunter Brown back,
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Speaker 2: but the problem is, like Hunter Brown's not coming back
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Speaker 2: till June, Josh Hater's not coming back till the end
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Speaker 2: of May, Carl's Korey is not coming back. Your Diaz
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Speaker 2: won't come back for at least another six weeks. Like,
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Speaker 2: none of this is like on the horizon, and they're
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Speaker 2: already nine games below five hundred. It's gonna be tough
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Speaker 2: for them to turn this thing around. Not saying it's impossible,
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Speaker 2: but it's gonna be really, really tough for them to
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Speaker 2: turn this thing around.
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Speaker 1: Chandler Rome is whether it's Astros beat Rider at the
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Speaker 1: athletic our guest, we appreciate him joining us here on
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Speaker 1: day number one of a four game series in Houston
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Speaker 1: between the Mariners and the Astros. This is a different
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Speaker 1: Astro scenario that the Mariners have faced in quite some time.
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Speaker 1: And this is also an organization, as you well know,
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Speaker 1: Chandler that's pretty much executed one of the most full
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Speaker 1: scale rebuilds in professional sports history and it ended up
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Speaker 1: being a dynasty for goodness sake what they got out
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Speaker 1: of it. So I would think if push came to shove,
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Speaker 1: the Astros would not hesitate pushing the plunger on another rebuild.
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Speaker 1: Is that something that they would consider this year? Is
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Speaker 1: there a chance that at the trading deadline we might
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Speaker 1: see every veteran that can be moved be moved by
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Speaker 1: the Houston Astros if they don't get back in this race.
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Speaker 2: So Astro's owner Jim Crane is famous for something he
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Speaker 2: has reiterated numerous times, and he has said, while I'm here,
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Speaker 2: the window will never close. Okay, he has reiterated that
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Speaker 2: on new occasions. Everybody I have spoken to that is
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Speaker 2: associated with Jim Crane, that is around Jim Crane is
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Speaker 2: pretty you know, steadfast in their thought that he does
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Speaker 2: not want another rebuild. He does not want another full
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Speaker 2: scale teart to the Studs rebuild. Now they can reset
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Speaker 2: or step back or whatever vernacular Baseball Operations employees want
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Speaker 2: to call this. They can do that without executing a
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Speaker 2: full rebuild. And to answer your question, yeah, I do
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Speaker 2: think if it keeps going like this, they're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to make some pretty difficult decisions at the trade deadline.
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Speaker 2: Like I already thought, Jeremy Pania was a pretty logical
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Speaker 2: trade candidate this winter because it's the same situation that
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Speaker 2: they faced with Kyle Tucker two years ago. They tried
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Speaker 2: and failed to extend him last season. He has priced
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Speaker 2: himself out of their price range. Trading him this winner
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Speaker 2: seemed pretty logical because they did it with Kyle Tucker.
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Speaker 2: Does he become a someone that is talked about at
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Speaker 2: the deadline? I think so. He sat PARADEA certainly could
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Speaker 2: be a guy that's on the move. Christian Walker, I
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Speaker 2: know he started off really great, and look he's he's
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Speaker 2: been talked about as a great candidate. But and I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying they can't trade him, but he's got almost
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Speaker 2: thirty five million dollars left on this contract and he's
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Speaker 2: thirty five years old. Like they can trade him, that's great.
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Speaker 2: I just don't think that they would get much. They
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Speaker 2: would get as much in return as people think because
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Speaker 2: of what's left on his contract. Josh Hater has a
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Speaker 2: no trade clause, a full no trade clause, so he
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Speaker 2: would have to approve a trade. Christian Walker has a
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Speaker 2: limited no trade clause. I believe that he can decline
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Speaker 2: a trade to six teams. And then you get to
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Speaker 2: the Jordon Alvarez question, right, I don't think they would
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Speaker 2: do that. I really don't. I don't think Jordon wants
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Speaker 2: to go. I think what they should do, to be
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Speaker 2: quite frank, is they should re extend him. He has
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Speaker 2: two more years left on the extension that he signed
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. They should tear up that
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Speaker 2: deal and give him a new content. They should gi
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Speaker 2: him a new extension. I think he is personally knowing him.
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Speaker 2: I think he wants to stay here for the rest
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Speaker 2: of it. He wants to be like Alto Bay. He
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Speaker 2: wants to be like a guy that is in one
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Speaker 2: place his whole career. But when you talk about the
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Speaker 2: sort of package they could get for him, it would
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Speaker 2: be malpracticed for them not to at least listen. Now
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Speaker 2: listening does not mean actually doing it, but it would
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Speaker 2: be a dereliction of duty by Dana Brown or whoever
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Speaker 2: is running the trade deadline. Cause I guess we can
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Speaker 2: get to that in a little bit, because I don't
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Speaker 2: know if he'll be running the trade deadline, whoever is
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Speaker 2: doing it, it would be a dereliction of duty not
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Speaker 2: to at least listen as to what they could get.
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Speaker 2: But I still find it very hard to believe that
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Speaker 2: they would trade you on an operas.
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Speaker 1: So you think maybe a shake up front office is coming.
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Speaker 2: Well. Dana Brown's in the last year of his contract.
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Speaker 2: Joe as spot of the manager is also in the
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Speaker 2: last year of his contract. They're Laane Ducks We've known
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Speaker 2: that since the beginning of the season. Dana Brown has
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Speaker 2: talked about it openly. Joe as spot of the same
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Speaker 2: way to me, like, I'm looking at this from a
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Speaker 2: pragmatic view of you know, they've got the deadline where
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Speaker 2: they can have to make some pretty consequential decisions, and
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Speaker 2: then about three weeks before the deadline is the draft,
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Speaker 2: and the Astros this season will have their biggest bonus
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Speaker 2: pool and draft in their franchise history. They're picking four
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Speaker 2: times before pick ninety five because they've been so good
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Speaker 2: in the past, you know, ten years, they have access
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Speaker 2: to a group of players in this draft that they
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Speaker 2: have just never had access to. It's the sort of
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Speaker 2: draft that if they hit on at least one or
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Speaker 2: two of these guys, can really reshape their farm system,
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Speaker 2: can reshape their their organization. Is that something that they
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Speaker 2: want Dana Brown overseeing. He is here in part because
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Speaker 2: of his draft success, because he's a lifelong scout, a
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Speaker 2: guy that made his name and talent evaluation. But you know,
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Speaker 2: if they if Jim Crane, well, but the fact that
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Speaker 2: this guy is still lamed up would suggest to you
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Speaker 2: that Jim Crane's already made be determined that this is
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Speaker 2: not the guy he wants leading this franchise forward. But
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Speaker 2: if he has made that definitive determination, is this a
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Speaker 2: guy that you want overseeing a draft that's going to
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Speaker 2: mean a ton of this franchise going forward and a
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Speaker 2: trade deadline that could reshape a lot of the trajectory
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Speaker 2: of this franchise. It's a fascinating question, and to be
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Speaker 2: honest with you, it may be one that this week
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Speaker 2: helps to determine. Because the Ashers play four against the
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Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners and then after that they play three against
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Speaker 2: the Rangers. It's seven straight games at home against two
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Speaker 2: divisional opponents. If you go one and six or two
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Speaker 2: and five, and you fall completely completely out of it,
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Speaker 2: because look right now, they're nine games under five hundred.
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Speaker 2: There's somehow only three back of the Mariners in the
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Speaker 2: al Wes because als is a disaster. Like you go
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Speaker 2: five and two on this homestand and you feel pretty
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Speaker 2: good about yourself, you feel like you're in position, and
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Speaker 2: you get some guys back, and then you can start
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Speaker 2: to convince yourself the turnarounds possible if you go one
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Speaker 2: in six or two in five or zh and seven
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Speaker 2: on this homestand and you fall completely out of it,
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Speaker 2: then I think there'll be some real questions as to
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Speaker 2: whether there's stuff in season that needs to change.
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Speaker 1: You know, for a decade, you know, Houston Astro just
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Speaker 1: slapped around the American League West, and of course then
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Speaker 1: you had the scandal in the middle. So this is
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Speaker 1: an organization where it's players have been booed in every
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Speaker 1: stadium they've gone to for the last few years, half
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Speaker 1: a decade, and so I think there is a little
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Speaker 1: bit too. Hey, we might have the upper hand here
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Speaker 1: in Seattle. We'd like to slap you around here for
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Speaker 1: the next ten years or so, and it might not
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Speaker 1: be as fun if you're rebuilding. We kind of want
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Speaker 1: to like steal your lunch. We want you to have hope,
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Speaker 1: and then we want to take it away from you.
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Speaker 1: And maybe you know, the Athletics, who seem to have
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Speaker 1: a good up and coming young team as well and
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Speaker 1: right now are in first place, kind of feel the
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Speaker 1: same way. So I'll close with the question about how
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Speaker 1: Chandler Rome sees the next five five years. Let's go
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Speaker 1: five years of Houston Astros baseball contender, and this is
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Speaker 1: just a blip, a little bump in the road here
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, or do a lot of American
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Speaker 1: League West teams get to have some fun the next
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Speaker 1: five years beating up on the Astros.
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Speaker 2: I would cautiously say the latter, okay, only because only
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Speaker 2: because like and you guys have had to deal with
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Speaker 2: this in Seattle, with you know, ownership that is sometimes
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Speaker 2: reluctant to do what I think the fans want them
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Speaker 2: to do. But now, Jim Crane, Jim Crane is. Jim
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Speaker 2: Crane has never given a free agent deal longer than
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Speaker 2: five years, or longer than or more lucrative than ninety
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Speaker 2: five million dollars. He has never guaranteed a player more
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Speaker 2: than one hundred and fifty one million dollars on any
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Speaker 2: contract to get out of the situation that the Astros
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Speaker 2: are in. To me, there's only two ways to go.
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Speaker 2: You either throw a ton of money at the problem
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Speaker 2: and a bunch of established guys in here, some proven
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Speaker 2: guys that track records and hope that they turn it around.
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Speaker 2: Or you do it through your minor league system. You
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Speaker 2: do it through drafting and developing and make a self
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Speaker 2: sustaining thing if you want to, If you want to
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Speaker 2: contend year after a year, you sometimes have to do
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Speaker 2: both of those things at the same time. You have
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Speaker 2: to spend a ton of money and you have to
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Speaker 2: make sure you're drafting good on the back end. So
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Speaker 2: the draft stuff and player development, that's just stuff that
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Speaker 2: just takes time. You can't do that overnight. So unless
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Speaker 2: there is a huge about face in the way that
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Speaker 2: Jim Crane goes about spending his money. And look, this
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Speaker 2: is not to suggest that Jim Crane's cheap, like the
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Speaker 2: Ashers have run a top five to top seven payroll
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Speaker 2: like each of the last four seasons. How that money
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Speaker 2: has been allocated is a bit of a different discussion.
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Speaker 2: But this is not a situation where he's miserly. It
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Speaker 2: just they have made some really confounding decisions when it
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Speaker 2: comes to who they've given money to, where they have
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Speaker 2: invested that money. You know, for some reason they have
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Speaker 2: a ninety five million dollar closer. Not that not that
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Speaker 2: Josh Hader's not great, but when you look at i mean,
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Speaker 2: look at the Mariners, Like the Mariners aren't you know,
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Speaker 2: pouring a ton of money into their bullpen, right Like
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Speaker 2: Andres Munioz makes a good bit of money. But this
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Speaker 2: is not a bullpen. That's like one hundred million dollar bullpen.
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Speaker 2: For a while, they had two guys at first base
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Speaker 2: and jose A. Brady and Christian Walker. Jose Braidy wasn't
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Speaker 2: on the team, but like they were combined to make
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Speaker 2: fifty million dollars, they had fifty million dollars devoted to
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Speaker 2: first base. Like, it's just they have the decisions that
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Speaker 2: they have made and where they have spent money has
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Speaker 2: been pretty curious. So unless like unless they can find
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Speaker 2: a better way to allocate that money, unless that they
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Speaker 2: can accelerate the drafting and development process, Like I don't
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Speaker 2: see a path where this gets so much better that
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Speaker 2: they are where they were five years ago. I don't
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Speaker 2: see that that happens anytime soon. But you know, look,
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Speaker 2: the Ashers have also made a they've made a living
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Speaker 2: and finding these you know, obscure small school kind of
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Speaker 2: overlooked prospects and turned them into real contributors. So maybe
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Speaker 2: they've got a couple of those in the pipeline that
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Speaker 2: they're going to surprise us with. But it doesn't look
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Speaker 2: great right now, and I don't know where they go
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Speaker 2: for a.
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Speaker 1: Quick fix to that great stuff. Thank you, Chandler, appreciate
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Speaker 1: your time here this morning. That's some tremendous insight. We
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. So next four games you're going to get
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Speaker 1: a load of the Mariners, so hopefully you're going to
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Speaker 1: be writing about a lot of losses here in the
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Speaker 1: very near future.
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Speaker 2: Chandler, Well, I'm getting I'm getting used to that.
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Speaker 1: Thanks man, Really appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
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Speaker 1: All right, Chandler Rome joining us here on Chucking Buck
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Speaker 1: in the morning. You can follow Chandler at Chandler Underscore.
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Speaker 1: Rome Astros beat writer at the Athletic for a number
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Speaker 1: of years now, so good stuff from him. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, certainly we're not going to shed a tear
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Speaker 1: over the Astros potentially being in a transition period, and
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Speaker 1: maybe it won't be the full scale rebuild that it
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Speaker 1: could be, because it could be because I don't think
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Speaker 1: their minor leagues are all that well stocked at this point.
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Speaker 1: And as I've mentioned a couple of times, I think
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Speaker 1: that the organization has proven how good they are. I mean,
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Speaker 1: their best stretch of baseball and organizational history, without question,
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Speaker 1: was due entirely to a massive rebuild of three years
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Speaker 1: five years of some of the worst baseball that has
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Speaker 1: ever been played in Major League Baseball history. But they
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Speaker 1: just kept accumulating high draft picks, they had free agency.
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Speaker 1: They just their payroll was so low that when they
18:40
Speaker 1: decided to go for it, nothing was off the table.
18:43
Speaker 1: And so they've they've they reaped the rewards of five
18:48
Speaker 1: years of drought because for the next ten years they
18:52
Speaker 1: were Kings of the West. Well, I thought maybe they
18:56
Speaker 1: would not be scared of pressing that plunger once again,
19:02
Speaker 1: but according to Chandler, it sounds more like there'll be
19:06
Speaker 1: some sell There'll be a sales job if this season continues.
19:10
Speaker 1: At the trading deadline, there's some guys that are going
19:12
Speaker 1: to be moved, but it won't be the all out,
19:15
Speaker 1: get rid of everything sort of rebuild. And that would
19:19
Speaker 1: probably preclude your Don Alvarez from being moved out of town.
19:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, which I would like him to be moved out
19:27
Speaker 3: of town and out of the division. Yes, out of
19:30
Speaker 3: the American League, if that's if I can get my wishes.
19:33
Speaker 4: Sure, Mariners, those are the options. Okay, take it or
19:36
Speaker 4: leave at Houston.
19:37
Speaker 1: National League's got a DH now too. Everybody. Everybody can
19:41
Speaker 1: use a DH now. I'm saying, yeah, I did see
19:44
Speaker 1: one mock up of the Astros trading deadline, and they
19:48
Speaker 1: did have your Don Alvarez being traded this particular mock
19:52
Speaker 1: up to the Dodgers.
19:54
Speaker 3: I was just about to say, as long as you
19:55
Speaker 3: don't trade them to the Dodgers, and then I was like, oh,
19:57
Speaker 3: come on, they won't, would you stop?
19:59
Speaker 1: No, yeah, don't trade him to the Dodgers.
20:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't need to just give every the Dodgers.
20:04
Speaker 3: First of all, you can only play a certain number
20:06
Speaker 3: of people. You only have nine people on the field.
20:08
Speaker 1: I would rather the Astros keep yard An Alpharez than
20:11
Speaker 1: them trade him to the Dodgers. But I think Josh Hater,
20:15
Speaker 1: Jeremy Pania, Christian Walker, Brian abrau Essach Parades, I think
20:22
Speaker 1: all of those guys, as long as they continue down
20:25
Speaker 1: the street. I mean, he's right. I mean, that's the
20:28
Speaker 1: nastiness about it. Even though the Astros have had a
20:30
Speaker 1: disastrous year to this point, there are only three teams
20:34
Speaker 1: in the American League with winning records right now, so
20:37
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of still alive. They don't look like they
20:41
Speaker 1: can dig out of it themselves. But this has been
20:46
Speaker 1: a strange start to the year, and certainly no one
20:49
Speaker 1: in the American League West has pulled away, much to
20:52
Speaker 1: our chagrin that we have not taken advantage of this opportunity.
20:56
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next on the radio program. It
20:58
Speaker 1: has been the talk of the NBA world, of maybe
21:01
Speaker 1: the sports world over the course of the last twelve hours.
21:05
Speaker 1: Did the face of the league getting kicked out of
21:10
Speaker 1: a playoff game? Since shock waves everywhere? Was it warranted?
21:14
Speaker 1: We'll discuss at next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1: It's back the Major Golf Challenge. It's here for you.
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Speaker 1: That's right, It's Major week, second one of the year.
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Speaker 3: Oh man, I've never been more excited for a major
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21:44
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Speaker 3: if he's in a bigger group, like one of he's
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22:24
Speaker 3: I'm waiting to find out who's going to be paired with.
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Speaker 1: Where is it again?
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Speaker 4: In Philadelphia at Aronomy.
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Speaker 1: In West Philadelphia? Born and raised? Is that were you?
22:58
Speaker 4: Were you on the playground there?
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Speaker 1: That's where I spend most of my days.
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Speaker 4: Oh I did not know that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just chilling out.
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Speaker 4: Oh you were just max and relaxing all cool?
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Speaker 1: Probably, Yeah. I sometimes I would shoot some B ball
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Speaker 3: Oh, you gotta be careful because sometimes I've been out
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Speaker 1: I'm not moving with my auntie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. Seems like we're speaking the
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Speaker 1: same land. It does seem like a Major Golf Challenge
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Speaker 1: PGA Championship edition. You can start filling out your brackets
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Speaker 1: right now. I don't think Derek made a bracket.
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Speaker 3: Uh no, probably not, because we have those brackets are weird,
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Speaker 3: but there's not a lot of non main PGA Tour
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Speaker 3: players on our brackets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
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Speaker 3: So unfortunately I can't pick him this year, although I
23:58
Speaker 3: guess I could in the fourth round.
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Speaker 4: I can pick anyone.
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Speaker 1: Can You can just write him in. That's right, you
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Speaker 3: And also, yea, it would be my I mean, this
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Speaker 1: and we will have our Green Jacket draft on Wednesday,
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Speaker 4: Oh, I've already been thinking about it, don't you worry?
24:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I would love to see kid mow your lawn.
24:54
Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 4: I'll punch him.
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Speaker 3: A lot of things that would make me angry, but
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Speaker 3: that one, Yeah, definitely punch.
25:03
Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's talk about the face of the NBA,
25:07
Speaker 1: and let's face it, Lebron James forty one years old.
25:12
Speaker 1: He's a polarizing figure. I can't even figure out whether
25:15
Speaker 1: or not he wants hair or not. And so I mean,
25:18
Speaker 1: there's not much not many days left to kick Lebron around.
25:22
Speaker 1: And he certainly, even though a phenomenal player, still at
25:26
Speaker 1: age forty one. I mean, he's still one of the
25:28
Speaker 1: better players in the NBA, but his days of being
25:32
Speaker 1: an elite top ten player are past him. And so
25:37
Speaker 1: at forty one years old, the league's going to be
25:39
Speaker 1: looking for a new face. And I think that he's
25:43
Speaker 1: already raised his very long bony arm, and that is
25:48
Speaker 1: Victor wimin Yama. And so, I mean, I've said this
25:52
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. I think they're so invested in
25:56
Speaker 1: this guy that they rigged the lottery so that he
25:58
Speaker 1: could go to the exact frame that he wanted to
26:01
Speaker 1: play with with Man Whujanobili and Tony Parker and Tony
26:07
Speaker 1: and there are other Frenchmen Man who's not French, but
26:10
Speaker 1: Tony Parker is, and so he sort of had a
26:13
Speaker 1: built in support team already there. And so I believe
26:18
Speaker 1: it was his choice. That's where he wanted to play,
26:21
Speaker 1: Greg Popovich being a mentor, and that's where he ended
26:25
Speaker 1: up playing. And then the NBA took my opinion and
26:28
Speaker 1: again just my opinion the next couple of years to
26:31
Speaker 1: make sure that he had surrounding talent around him. With
26:35
Speaker 1: winning the lottery, not the number one pick again, but
26:39
Speaker 1: they won the number two pick two of the next
26:41
Speaker 1: three years or is it back to back your back
26:44
Speaker 1: to back years with the Stefan Castle and then Dylan
26:48
Speaker 1: Harper and then of course there was a trade that
26:50
Speaker 1: was weird for de Aaron Fox. So Victor Wimanyama went
26:54
Speaker 1: from boney rookie. How's he going to transition into the NBA?
26:58
Speaker 1: And here we are three year years later? Is he
27:01
Speaker 1: the MVP of the league? He is such We've never
27:05
Speaker 1: seen anything like him before. You can't take your eyes
27:07
Speaker 1: off of him. He left that game last night and
27:10
Speaker 1: it took something away from the game, There's no question
27:13
Speaker 1: about it, and it certainly cost the Spurs a better
27:17
Speaker 1: chance to win the game, which they of course lost
27:20
Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Timberwolves. So point of all of this
27:24
Speaker 1: is they've gone to great lengths to try to build
27:29
Speaker 1: the brand of Victor Winbinyama. So that Win Lebron and
27:34
Speaker 1: maybe he already has moved on that the baton passing
27:38
Speaker 1: is a smooth one from one twenty year face of
27:42
Speaker 1: the league to hopefully another ten to fifteen year face
27:47
Speaker 1: of the league in Winmbinyama. And so this is a
27:50
Speaker 1: league that in the past we know that they've protected
27:55
Speaker 1: superstar players. I think we should be to a degree
27:58
Speaker 1: appreciative of it. I don't want them just making Layton
28:04
Speaker 1: black and white calls that favor the better player. Even
28:08
Speaker 1: though many people accused the League of doing that in
28:10
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's day. I think they've accused the League of
28:14
Speaker 1: doing that in Lebron's day. But I don't really mind
28:19
Speaker 1: protecting the best players. Yeah, the faces of the league.
28:23
Speaker 1: And yet last night was something that and I give
28:26
Speaker 1: the officials credit for it. No, we can't protect you
28:29
Speaker 1: on this one, son, I'm sorry. An elbow to the
28:32
Speaker 1: face of nas Reed, and even though nas Reed was
28:35
Speaker 1: actively fouling wimben Yama with another teammate, they were basically
28:40
Speaker 1: mugging him in Central Park while the elbow occurred. The
28:45
Speaker 1: elbow was an act of aggression, frustration. It was in
28:50
Speaker 1: the wrong area his neck and face, and that just
28:55
Speaker 1: can't be allowed.
28:56
Speaker 4: And soon they brought it forward and then brought it
28:58
Speaker 4: back into him.
29:00
Speaker 1: So I think they did the right thing last night.
29:02
Speaker 1: You know, the league does not want Victor wembin Yama
29:05
Speaker 1: sitting out missing a playoff game. You know, there's no
29:09
Speaker 1: chance he's going to be suspended going forward. I think
29:12
Speaker 1: they're going to treat it as that was your punishment.
29:15
Speaker 1: You missed a large chunk and your team lost, and
29:17
Speaker 1: your team lost, and now you got to come back
29:19
Speaker 1: from it. I don't think anything less of Wembanyama. I
29:22
Speaker 1: get why he was frustrated, but I kind of appreciate
29:25
Speaker 1: that the league didn't play favorites at that point because
29:29
Speaker 1: they've often been accused of it, and they said, can't
29:31
Speaker 1: overlook it.
29:32
Speaker 2: Sorry.
29:32
Speaker 1: As much as we would all love for you to
29:34
Speaker 1: stay in this game, you can't stay in this game.
29:37
Speaker 3: No. And yeah, when it's something as egregious as that,
29:40
Speaker 3: I mean, if he'd done an elbow kind of to
29:42
Speaker 3: the chest or the ribs or something that you could
29:46
Speaker 3: have kind of been more. Okay, he's trying to wrestle
29:49
Speaker 3: the ball away, but he has the ball, and I
29:51
Speaker 3: understand he's frustrated because there's people just mauling him, and
29:54
Speaker 3: I fully understand why he ended up getting so frustrated.
29:58
Speaker 3: But yeah, when you're holding the ball like that, you
29:59
Speaker 3: can't bring elbow for it and then just back into
30:01
Speaker 3: somebody's neck like that and not expect to get the
30:05
Speaker 3: penalty he got.
30:05
Speaker 4: And it was funny to me that.
30:06
Speaker 3: People were trying to say, like, oh, well, I guess that, yeah,
30:09
Speaker 3: that could be a flagrant one, Like, well, could be.
30:13
Speaker 4: A flagrant one.
30:14
Speaker 3: No, I mean you're they were like starting at the
30:16
Speaker 3: low end and roping their way up versus I mean
30:19
Speaker 3: just watching.
30:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, very obvious.
30:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, But I think that's also the broadcast team
30:24
Speaker 3: trying to kind of protect this soon to be face
30:27
Speaker 3: of the league and hoping it's not a flagrant too,
30:29
Speaker 3: because they.
30:29
Speaker 4: Don't want to believe the game.
30:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't want to broadcast the game without him
30:33
Speaker 1: being in there.
30:34
Speaker 5: Uh.
30:34
Speaker 1: And they also I think in their heads kind of
30:36
Speaker 1: work to protect the league a little bit, uh as well. Now,
30:40
Speaker 1: Mitch Johnson was angry afterwards. He's gonna get fined for it.
30:43
Speaker 1: He called out the officials, called it disgusting what they've
30:47
Speaker 1: allowed to have happen in the playoffs, which is also
30:49
Speaker 1: a little bit surprising. I mean, considering the Jordan rules
30:53
Speaker 1: and how protected Michael Jordan was and Lebron at times
30:56
Speaker 1: and Kobe at times. Here you have of the next
31:00
Speaker 1: face of the league, and he obviously is a skinny dude,
31:04
Speaker 1: and every time he falls it's like watching a giraffe
31:07
Speaker 1: fall down. The stairs. It's like, ah, every time I
31:11
Speaker 1: cringe because I don't want to see him hurt. It's
31:15
Speaker 1: just too fun to watch, so.
31:16
Speaker 3: Much further to fall than everybody else, right, and this
31:19
Speaker 3: unraveling of this human being, it's like watching a transformer
31:23
Speaker 3: fall down a you know, an.
31:25
Speaker 1: Escalator or escalator, That's what it kind of feels like.
31:29
Speaker 1: Every time he just slips and falls on the court.
31:31
Speaker 1: But he has been on the ground a lot in
31:34
Speaker 1: this playoff so far, even bumped his head into concussion
31:37
Speaker 1: and had to miss a game. And so Mitch Johnson's like,
31:41
Speaker 1: enough's enough. You know, you got to protect my guy
31:44
Speaker 1: a little bit. And there's no doubt that teams have
31:48
Speaker 1: no answer for him because of his physical attributes and
31:52
Speaker 1: his skill, and so what are you going to do
31:55
Speaker 1: if you're a head coach. It's nothing, there's nothing wrong
31:58
Speaker 1: with it. You're a head coach. Like the one weakness
32:01
Speaker 1: he has is that he's skinny and tall, and he
32:04
Speaker 1: falls easily. We've got to rough him up. We don't
32:07
Speaker 1: have any choice. We've got to be physical. We've got
32:10
Speaker 1: to put bodies on him, we've got to put hands
32:12
Speaker 1: on him, we've got to muscle them because that's the
32:16
Speaker 1: one thing he doesn't have, so not surprised by doing it.
32:19
Speaker 1: But Mitch Johnson was saying afterwards, Seattle's own Mitch Johnson,
32:23
Speaker 1: you can't do this to my guy. You can't do
32:25
Speaker 1: this to our guy. You know they're targeting him and
32:29
Speaker 1: he's taking it. But at some point, you know you're
32:33
Speaker 1: gonna have to blow the whistle on this stuff. Because
32:35
Speaker 1: I don't blame him for getting frustrated last night. I'm
32:38
Speaker 1: actually proud of him for taking matters into his own hands,
32:41
Speaker 1: even though I would never recommend elbowing another person in
32:44
Speaker 1: the head. So that's where it's at right now, and
32:49
Speaker 1: I think there's some truth to it. I think maybe
32:52
Speaker 1: the officials are airing on the other side, like we
32:54
Speaker 1: don't want to baby him, and we've got to understand
32:58
Speaker 1: the teams are going to go after. We don't want
33:00
Speaker 1: to call the game differently just because he's the face now.
33:05
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, I don't think the league.
33:08
Speaker 1: I have a feeling the League's going to be on
33:10
Speaker 1: the phone with them saying, hey, we can't just let
33:12
Speaker 1: him get bloodied, right, you know, we got to protect
33:15
Speaker 1: him a little bit, especially if they're targeting him. So
33:18
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see how that he's going to
33:20
Speaker 1: be officiated in the next game. I'm sure he's not
33:23
Speaker 1: going to be suspended for any more.
33:24
Speaker 4: I don't think so of.
33:25
Speaker 1: The of the playoff, but I will be curious to
33:29
Speaker 1: see if he's officiated differently come game number five.
33:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will be tuned in. I think it's tomorrow night,
33:35
Speaker 4: isn't it.
33:35
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:36
Speaker 3: I will be tuned in tomorrow night to see if
33:38
Speaker 3: it looks any different.
33:39
Speaker 4: What they do.
33:40
Speaker 3: And I would imagine if nothing changes, tensions are going
33:44
Speaker 3: to be high.
33:44
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'll be very intrigued to see what happens.
33:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I heard this morning. I thought it was
33:48
Speaker 1: a pretty decent debate. Where's your Kendrick Perkins on the Spurs?
33:51
Speaker 1: Those guys don't cost a lot of moneys. Yeah, So
33:55
Speaker 1: that even if, even if Victor is going to be
33:58
Speaker 1: treated this way, because that's how I would try to
34:01
Speaker 1: defend him if I was the other coach, where's the
34:04
Speaker 1: guy to come in and make sure that doesn't happen.
34:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they might need to find one of that.
34:09
Speaker 1: Yes, they've had one. I mean the Bulls had him Rodman,
34:12
Speaker 1: They've all had Can you imagine how Draymond Green would
34:15
Speaker 1: have actively over that. All right, coming out next on
34:19
Speaker 1: the radio program, we all have them, and I'm going
34:23
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34:25
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Speaker 5: F munday Man eleven seems like a good time to
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Speaker 1: We'll talk some hockey with Eddie oh As. At nine
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Speaker 1: we also have your cash contest word and the ABC's
34:55
Speaker 1: of the MS Mariners losing two out of three to
34:58
Speaker 1: the light Socks over the weekend two to one the
35:01
Speaker 1: final score yesterday. Logan Gilbert was fantastic. You could have
35:06
Speaker 1: some arguments with Dan Wilson taking him out of the game.
35:10
Speaker 1: I get that. I think I would listen to the
35:13
Speaker 1: argument on the other side saying, you know, what went
35:16
Speaker 1: through the road went through the lineup a couple of
35:19
Speaker 1: times our three best guys were rested. Why not use them.
35:23
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a conversation to have there about that.
35:28
Speaker 1: But certainly, Logan Gilbert was fantastic. Randy rose Arena continues
35:33
Speaker 1: to struggle defensively in left field, which remains an issue
35:37
Speaker 1: for the Mariners. But the biggest problem with them is
35:40
Speaker 1: they cannot score. It's not summertime yet, so the Mariners
35:44
Speaker 1: offense just won't show up for it. Yeah, it is
35:48
Speaker 1: very annoying. One run on Saturday, one run on Sunday,
35:52
Speaker 1: and lost yesterday to the White Sox two to one,
35:55
Speaker 1: where you led for the entirety of the game until
35:59
Speaker 1: the bottom of the eighth. But when you have to
36:01
Speaker 1: hold on to a one run lead, doesn't matter how
36:04
Speaker 1: great your starting pitcher was, You're at the mercy of
36:09
Speaker 1: one guy getting a hit and hitting and squaring up
36:13
Speaker 1: a reliever. And that's what happened with Randall Gritchick, and
36:16
Speaker 1: the rest ended up being history. So White Sox take
36:19
Speaker 1: out two out of three Mariners. Back in action tonight
36:21
Speaker 1: in Houston against the Astros. But although there were many
36:25
Speaker 1: sources of annoyances from the baseball weekend, I didn't really
36:30
Speaker 1: experience a pet peeve until this morning. Oh I don't
36:34
Speaker 1: know if this is one of yours.
36:36
Speaker 4: Okay.
36:37
Speaker 1: One of my great pet peeves in life are people
36:40
Speaker 1: that don't remember you.
36:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay.
36:44
Speaker 1: And so I mean I get it if you don't
36:46
Speaker 1: remember my name. I'm not saying I'm I'm pretty good
36:50
Speaker 1: at remembering names. I'm not as good at remembering, but
36:53
Speaker 1: I never forget a face. And so maybe maybe maybe
36:56
Speaker 1: i'm you know, because I make it a point, because
37:00
Speaker 1: you're good.
37:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, you make sure to work hard.
37:02
Speaker 1: At it, right that maybe I have a little bit
37:06
Speaker 1: of a built in bias. But like, if you go
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Speaker 1: to the same restaurant consistently, don't you want to I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't need special treatment, but don't you at least want.
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Speaker 4: Like, oh, hey, welcome back again.
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Speaker 1: You're usual? You know that sort of thing. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to go in there. I'll stop going there. If
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Speaker 1: I go in there and they're just like hello sir.
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Speaker 4: Before you.
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Speaker 1: That that bugs me. So this morning I came in.
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Speaker 1: It's getting ready to you know, Monday morning. We're in
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Speaker 1: a really early hours. Mondays are a little bit harder.
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Speaker 1: You're even a little grumpier on a Monday morning. And
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Speaker 1: I walk in and I get this from somebody, a
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Speaker 1: coworker of ours, we won't mention any names, yells at
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Speaker 1: me from his car. Hey, hey, but but you work
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Speaker 1: at the radio station, like I see you every day.
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Speaker 1: I imagine fifteen conversations with you in the bathroom. Now,
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Speaker 1: maybe you've never taken the time to get to know
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Speaker 1: who I'm. Maybe I haven't introduced myself in the past.
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Speaker 1: But well, like six people here at this time in
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Speaker 1: the morning, we're not hard to forget.
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Speaker 3: If you see someone you've never seen before, you should
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Speaker 3: be alarmed.
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Speaker 1: And so I get the intro he introduces himself on
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Speaker 1: the ride up. But I'm like, how do you not
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Speaker 1: recognize me? How do you not recognize? If I found
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Speaker 1: out Chris Kid did not recognize Bender, I'd be I'd
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Speaker 1: pull Chris Kid aside, like, young man, you know at
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Speaker 1: least no kind of who he is. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to know him by name, you don't have to listen
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Speaker 1: to him, you don't have to do any of that.
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Speaker 1: But man, I was kind of angry for like thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes about that.
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Speaker 4: I can understand well. And so when he was asking
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Speaker 4: what do you work in the radio station? What did
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Speaker 4: he need?
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Speaker 1: He needed help getting into the building. His card wasn't working.
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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, so that's the wrong.
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Speaker 3: I mean, all I have to say is, hey, man,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you recognize me. We work together.
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Speaker 3: I don't have my card. Can you let me in?
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Speaker 3: Do you work at the radio station. When he knows
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Speaker 3: you work at the radio station, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't think he did. Oy, but but hey, do you
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Speaker 1: work at the radio station? Weird?
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Speaker 4: But I can't wait till we get off the air
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Speaker 4: so you can tell me who it was.
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Speaker 1: That's a pet peeve. I will never have a relationship
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Speaker 1: with that guy. Yeah, that's understandable based off of what
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Speaker 1: just happened.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, makes sense.
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Speaker 1: I'm like fifteen conversations. Yeah, and the bat he's and
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Speaker 1: he's one of the newer people in the building. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but he's been here for about nine months.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I think I know who it is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and have had numerous interactions and yet still never
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Speaker 1: even hey, do I recognize you from somewhere? I got
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Speaker 1: one of those. You should have been bake.
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Speaker 3: Pet Peeves should have been like, no, you don't, I
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Speaker 3: don't work at the radio station. You probably recognized me
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Speaker 3: from TV, just like made up something. Actually, I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: one of the scientists on the second floor.
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Speaker 1: Had I been thinking, had I not been five in
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Speaker 1: the morning, I think I probably always said no, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm just here for the generator. Yeah, and then.
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Speaker 4: By the way, I have a new generator.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden yeah, and then just went upstairs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah No, can't help you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't. I'm told not to let people I
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Speaker 4: don't know in.
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