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February 11, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 5: Welcome back to now Willie Wednesday. I'll be on the
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  Speaker 5: road this weekend. Will not be in Brian Kolch Station
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  Speaker 5: for the opening of Aggie Baseball. So it's been a
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  Speaker 5: long time since I've missed opening Day, but I will
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  Speaker 5: this year. I'll be in North Carolina following some more
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  Speaker 5: softball next weekend. But A and M getting started with
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  Speaker 5: a Tennessee Tech and before we get he Susan, We're
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  Speaker 5: going to talk a little bit about the Aggies. I'm
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  Speaker 5: very bullish on this team with the talent they have
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  Speaker 5: coming back. I know that you know you cannot absorb
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  Speaker 5: the injuries. A and M had last year at four
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  Speaker 5: different times of the season. The players you lost and
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  Speaker 5: perform at the level that the expectation on the preseason were.
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  Speaker 5: The team that was rated number one in the country
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  Speaker 5: going into last year never step foot on the diamond
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  Speaker 5: together one time, and up until after getting crell back
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  Speaker 5: up until a bad weekend against Missouri, they had climbed
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  Speaker 5: back into the position they should have been in. Now,
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  Speaker 5: what did the team learn last year? What did the
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  Speaker 5: coaches learn last year? Being put in that position?
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  Speaker 2: Where does it fit with A? And and this year?
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  Speaker 5: Rated thirteenth in the pre season and the SEC is
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  Speaker 5: too low? This team has more talent than that, but
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  Speaker 5: the questions about them and what happened last year leads
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  Speaker 5: it to being in that position. Bullish on this team
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  Speaker 5: in a big way. Starting pitching a lineup where if
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  Speaker 5: you're telling me that I may not see Sawyer Far,
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  Speaker 5: I might not see Travis Chestnut, I might not see
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  Speaker 5: Ben Royo on the field in the early going. I
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  Speaker 5: might not see Blake Bender up on the field in
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  Speaker 5: the early going. I may not see budding freshmen's outfielder
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  Speaker 5: Jorian Wilson in the early going up until they go
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  Speaker 5: and after they go to play in Arlington in that
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  Speaker 5: tournament where you're going to face College World Series contenders
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  Speaker 5: in UCLA and on a state, UCLA the number one
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  Speaker 5: team in the country. Saturday, February twenty eighth, It'll start
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  Speaker 5: a little after seven. I'll be on the air. Get
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  Speaker 5: ready to watch that game. If you want to get
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  Speaker 5: on Flow College and watch the MG Bank Classic Baseball
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  Speaker 5: Series up there, you will know a lot more about
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  Speaker 5: A and M. Then you come back the next week.
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  Speaker 5: What have you learned? Are there players that are in
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  Speaker 5: positions they don't need to play in? Does Gravit Grohovac
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  Speaker 5: need to come off a first base and move to
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  Speaker 5: third and you shuffle the infield back up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then you get the next.
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  Speaker 5: Week at Oakland to determine if it's going to work
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  Speaker 5: before you go on the road to play Oh you
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  Speaker 5: and Norman.
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  Speaker 2: The schedules set up nice.
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  Speaker 5: They're in a position where they can figure out where
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  Speaker 5: their best nine on the field need to be, where
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  Speaker 5: they can figure out who needs to be in the rotation.
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  Speaker 5: They've got to stay away from injuries. They've already had one.
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  Speaker 5: But if you get Todeo and you get Moss to
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  Speaker 5: be a one two like they can be. Then you
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  Speaker 5: give guys back behind them in the rotation a chance
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  Speaker 5: to step forward and have the kind of seasons that
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  Speaker 5: can lead to big things.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 5: This is not just three guys and then they're gonna
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  Speaker 5: fall off the table next year.
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  Speaker 2: They're not.
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  Speaker 5: So if you heard that earlier today, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: disagree with that pretty vehemently because it's not just you know,
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  Speaker 5: three guys and then you're not gonna have anybody but
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  Speaker 5: Aiden Simms will be there to help lead next year
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  Speaker 5: in the pitching staff I just talked about far Terence
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  Speaker 5: Kiel will be back. You will have these freshmen in
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  Speaker 5: this year's class, and Kellner and Partida and Wilson. This
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  Speaker 5: is not just a one year thing. Yeah they'll fill
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  Speaker 5: in some spots, but this is not just a one
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  Speaker 5: year thing. So I'm excited about the baseball team just
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  Speaker 5: like I am about the softball team. And it all
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  Speaker 5: starts this Friday, coming up with Tennessee Tech coming to town.
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  Speaker 5: So tune in sports Radio eleven fifty five forty Maybe
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  Speaker 5: it's five four. Let me see what time it is,
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  Speaker 5: five forty five pre game. See, I thought we were
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  Speaker 5: getting five extra minutes this year. Maybe we're having the
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  Speaker 5: first pitch at five after I was thinking we were
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  Speaker 5: gonna have twenty minutes a pregame. But we've got a
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  Speaker 5: great group brownie bed in color. We've got lots of
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  Speaker 5: good guys that are gonna be, you know, helping with this.
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  Speaker 5: Uh Brig Evin's coming on. He is going to be providing,
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  Speaker 5: you know, commentary this year. I don't know, some guy
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  Speaker 5: from the Savannah Bananas is going to be doing games
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  Speaker 5: with us, and I think that everybody will be pretty
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  Speaker 5: excited about the fact that, you know, you get to
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  Speaker 5: listen to Hayden Shot and he'll be doing some radio commentary.
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  Speaker 5: So we've got a great group. I chased Briant softball
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  Speaker 5: the spring brown He's got bo So how about Burgevin
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  Speaker 5: and Shot coming on to the A and M broadcast
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  Speaker 5: crew this year.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be fun to listen to.
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  Speaker 5: So that all starts Friday night, five point forty five
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  Speaker 5: right here on Sports Radio eleven fifty. Let's go off
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  Speaker 5: the phone lines as we're going to bring in Hey
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  Speaker 5: suss Orties to talk astros. Opening the first day of
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  Speaker 5: spring training. Pitchers and catchers have reported, Hey, suys, how are.
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  Speaker 2: You doing today?
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  Speaker 6: I am doing very well. How are you?
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  Speaker 5: It's spring sports. I know there's a lockout on the horizon.
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  Speaker 5: I know that that baseball has all this trouble. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm a guy that when I look and say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'm still going to have college sports to take me
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  Speaker 5: through June July, I.
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  Speaker 2: Get to I just to have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: it early.
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  Speaker 5: But what should Astro fans expect as they have reported
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  Speaker 5: and getting ready for the twenty twenty sixth season.
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  Speaker 6: I think yeahs are going to go into the season
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  Speaker 6: as a team that should be considered an AO West contender.
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  Speaker 6: I think, you know, I have to see the Seattle
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  Speaker 6: Mariners do it a little bit longer for me to
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  Speaker 6: think that they're the top team in the AO West.
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  Speaker 6: The Rangers, I don't know. I have to see more
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  Speaker 6: of from them and the Angels, God bless them. The
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  Speaker 6: Angs have kind of gotten better, but I think they're
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  Speaker 6: two three.
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  Speaker 2: Years away, just in time for Las Vegas, right.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, exactly, That's exactly what they're trying to build forward.
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  Speaker 2: This team.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of parts that left two years ago. This
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  Speaker 5: was kind of to bring together this year's team. Are
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  Speaker 5: there less questions? Going into this year's team than there
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  Speaker 5: were last year, or they're just different questions.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, that's a very good question. I guess there are
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  Speaker 6: fewer questions because last year we didn't know about camp Smith, right,
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  Speaker 6: we didn't know about the outfield. I think the outfield
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  Speaker 6: is pretty I think the answers are pretty much set.
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  Speaker 6: The questions this year is what do they do with
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  Speaker 6: their excess death? What do you do with East Oak
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  Speaker 6: part is? I would not trade them. The fact that
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  Speaker 6: the Boston Red Sox acquired the Milwaukee Brewers third basement
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  Speaker 6: really helps those people who want Paradis to stay, you know,
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  Speaker 6: but they wanted left handed bad they would have wanted.
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  Speaker 6: But with parade Is, where do you play him? Where
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  Speaker 6: do you play Christian Walker? You know he's your first basement,
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  Speaker 6: But does it make more sense to, you know, try
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  Speaker 6: to get rid of him. I'm sure they would if
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  Speaker 6: they could, but there's not much trade value for him
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  Speaker 6: at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Is is the infield set with Al Tuvey going to
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  Speaker 5: be the second baseman and not going to spend as
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  Speaker 5: much time in the outfield in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 6: Six, I would think that speaking of parda Is, I
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  Speaker 6: would think that's where Paradas is going to get most
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  Speaker 6: of his starts. I would think that all two ways
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  Speaker 6: going to play left field, play second base. I think
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  Speaker 6: you know he'll probably get as many starts in left
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  Speaker 6: field as he does at second base. Okay, you know
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  Speaker 6: Jordan Alvarez I would expect would be the DH. With
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  Speaker 6: his injury history, they don't want him out there as much.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't want him out there last year. Unfortunately, he
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  Speaker 6: was never healthy enough to be out there as much
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  Speaker 6: as it could have been an.
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  Speaker 2: Issue, which is a shame.
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  Speaker 5: I know, the injury there is. I don't think people
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  Speaker 5: realize that he's actually an average or a little bit
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  Speaker 5: above average left fielder.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's worked harder to be a good outfielder.
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  Speaker 6: He has. But you have to keep him healthy. So
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  Speaker 6: you have to keep him off his knees. You have
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  Speaker 6: to remember he just like three years ago, four years ago,
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  Speaker 6: he had double knee surgery, right, Uh, so you want
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  Speaker 6: to keep him healthy. Last year he had that arm issue,
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  Speaker 6: the hand issue that really really ruined his year. I
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  Speaker 6: would argue ruined the astro season. But what I will
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  Speaker 6: tell you is that with his knee injuries, with his
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  Speaker 6: history injuries, they don't want him out in left field
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  Speaker 6: as much. Well, I think, I mean the poor the
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  Speaker 6: poor guy, the poor guy got you know, got put
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  Speaker 6: away for the season scoring a run. That's how much
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  Speaker 6: bad luck he had last year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, changed the changed the end of the season
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  Speaker 2: for the Astros.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, just when they thought they were finally gonna get
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  Speaker 6: some some good games out of him.
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  Speaker 2: He you know, it reminded me.
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  Speaker 5: The crazy thing is it reminded me of the injuries
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  Speaker 5: from for Texas A and M that there are certain
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  Speaker 5: guys that you have to have out there, and when
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  Speaker 5: you didn't have them, look what your team looked like.
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  Speaker 2: Parde's was the exact same way.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, like I would, I would not
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  Speaker 6: compare Jordan Alvarez to leveyon Moss, but those are two
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  Speaker 6: guys that I would you know who I'd compare. I
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  Speaker 6: compare perett As more than leveyon Moss. Where the big
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  Speaker 6: dog is Jordan Albarez, right, another big dog would be
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  Speaker 6: Jeremy Panyon. They lost both of those guys, but losing
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  Speaker 6: Parrettes really sunk the ship because parrette Is in many
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  Speaker 6: ways was their best hitter. He saw the most pitches.
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  Speaker 6: He really was underappreciated it as far as being one
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  Speaker 6: of the best players. Moss the same thing. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you might have said, O Casey con Siptum was a
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  Speaker 6: bigger star, right, and I would argue that he was.
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  Speaker 6: I would, you know, I would argue that how was
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  Speaker 6: a bigger star than Moss. But you needed Moss out there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that fit in certain positions that until they're gone,
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  Speaker 5: you don't know what they were unlocking.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, the they brought Carlos Korea and and
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  Speaker 6: he's he's a good veteran player, but uh, fred Is
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  Speaker 6: was your best player behind Jeremy Freda, Jeremy Penya last year,
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  Speaker 6: and as soon as he was done like that, the
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  Speaker 6: whole team kind of unraveled.
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  Speaker 5: What's gonna happen at ketcher for the Astros this year
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  Speaker 5: behind Joanny Diaz.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're still trying to figure that out. I
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  Speaker 6: think obviously at this point, Cessa Salazar is you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's the answer. But I don't know how much they
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  Speaker 6: believe in Cessa. They clearly would like, you know, like
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  Speaker 6: to get another one. But it's you know, the guys
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  Speaker 6: reported today and they worked out today for the first time,
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  Speaker 6: so that you know, I think Cessa was just fine.
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  Speaker 6: I think a bigger question is Ken Yeiner take the
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  Speaker 6: next step? Which they need him to take the next step.
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  Speaker 6: I think he kind of plateaud last year because he
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  Speaker 6: and he may have regressed a little bit because he
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  Speaker 6: was a better hitter as a rookie.
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  Speaker 5: Is that step both offensively and defensively or on one
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  Speaker 5: side or the other?
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  Speaker 6: I think offensively, I think offensively, I think defensively. He's okay.
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  Speaker 6: But he is what he is. He is, he he's
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  Speaker 6: if you if you rate him, you would rate him
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  Speaker 6: as a bat first catcher, which doesn't exist, right, You're
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  Speaker 6: not going to get a bat first catch. Mike Piazza
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  Speaker 6: was the last real legitimate bat first catcher, right. But
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  Speaker 6: you know that those guys are there for for defense. Uh.
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  Speaker 6: But but his offense was was really what made him,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a really good catcher. You wouldn't say that
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  Speaker 6: the defensive part is what made him a good catcher.
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  Speaker 5: Just scattershooting right here? Would you take a bad catcher
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  Speaker 5: contract from somebody if they would take Christian Walker from you?
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  Speaker 6: No, No, I'm just talking about contract.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody that could be that could help you a catcher.
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  Speaker 5: But Sky a bad contract. You don't You don't think
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  Speaker 5: that sounds good.
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  Speaker 6: No, I think Diner is a really good catcher. I
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  Speaker 6: think he's a good No, I'm not. I'm just going
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  Speaker 6: to pay extra money for a backup catcher.
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  Speaker 5: If if you could have them take Christian Walker's contract
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  Speaker 5: away from.
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  Speaker 6: You, nobody's gonna take.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: I just wonder if there's a bad catcher contract out
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  Speaker 5: there for a guy that could be serviceable catcher, because
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  Speaker 5: I think they're what they're missing from last year. That
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  Speaker 5: second catcher gave them a lot that they that they're
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna miss at times.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but keep in mind, Christian Walker is one of
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  Speaker 6: the best defensive first baseman out there. He needs he
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  Speaker 6: needs to hit more. Uh, this prey is give you
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  Speaker 6: enough and can you make for it as a first baseman.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know that that's that's possible. It would be
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  Speaker 6: great if somehow you could you could get first base time.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, no, I'm not. I'm not investing in a
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  Speaker 6: bad catch because you're you have your starter right, so
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  Speaker 6: I'm not investing in a bad catcher contract, even if
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  Speaker 6: it means I'm getting rid of a bad first baseman contract.
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  Speaker 6: I'd rather have Christian because because Christian Walker is really
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  Speaker 6: good at defense, and he's proven in the past that
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  Speaker 6: he's could be good bad yeah, and is going to
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  Speaker 6: catch if he's healthy. You want him to catch one
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  Speaker 6: hundred and twenty games. Are you going to really take
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  Speaker 6: a bad count contract for a guy who's going to
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  Speaker 6: catch forty games?
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  Speaker 5: That was the number I was thinking, exactly, one hundred
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  Speaker 5: and twenty games.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so now I'm not I'm not taking a bad
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  Speaker 6: you know, a bad catcher. And they got that kid.
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  Speaker 5: They was about to ask you just down the road
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  Speaker 5: at Sam Houston, a worn out guy with Arizona Fall League.
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  Speaker 5: But this is a guy that's a plus defensive catcher.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I was wondering because I was looking at the
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  Speaker 6: Baseball America rankings, and I was wondering why he fell
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  Speaker 6: so badly because he's, you know, the top the top
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  Speaker 6: Baseball America guys on the Astros, on the Baseball America
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  Speaker 6: prospect list. They're both from last year's draft, right, and
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  Speaker 6: so like.
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  Speaker 2: Had been up there the year before in front of him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and now he's like six or seventh, which
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  Speaker 6: which has me wondering, like what happened? What did he show?
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  Speaker 6: He hasn't been in the minors long enough for for
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  Speaker 6: me to say, oh, you know, like they've given up
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  Speaker 6: on him or whatever. But I'm like, why did he
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  Speaker 6: drop so much?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 6: You know? And so so I would assume that he's
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  Speaker 6: probably at least a year plus away from from the neighbors.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, where do Cam Smith? Hey, sue Sanchez? Mix in
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  Speaker 5: the outfield overall and and right field with a young
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  Speaker 5: guy and Sanchez who hey, he he can't be as
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  Speaker 5: bad as he was last year after coming over the
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  Speaker 5: trade dead lote. This guy has more pedigree than that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Sanchez has a lot to prove. Sanchez. The benefit
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  Speaker 6: that Sanchez brings to this team is that he's a
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  Speaker 6: left handed bat.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: They need uh, you know, they need that. They're desperate
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  Speaker 6: fer so he's gonna get some time. Ken athletic. He
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  Speaker 6: you know, he's I think he's your right right fielder.
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  Speaker 6: Zach Cole might be your center fielder. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you're going to take another left hand or
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  Speaker 5: out in, uh, put another left hand out. That's for
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  Speaker 5: Jake Myers batting you know, being backwards and batting right
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  Speaker 5: and throwing left.
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  Speaker 2: That that kind of hurts him, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because they need you know, they're so right handed,
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  Speaker 6: heavy and and they need to fix that. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: Zach he bats left, Uh, Zach Desnzo, he's right, Myers,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you know, like you said, that's right and
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  Speaker 6: throws left, which is I don't see. You don't see
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  Speaker 6: many of those.
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  Speaker 2: I remember Joaquin and Andy Haar doing it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think I think, I think I misspoke,
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  Speaker 6: But I think I think Jake Myers has to be
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  Speaker 6: your center fielder, right, like right, But he's just none
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  Speaker 6: of those guys have done enough that that I would
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  Speaker 6: automatically say that you're center fielder. So you have all
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  Speaker 6: too they left, uh, Myers and kan Stman, and its
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  Speaker 6: not just you know right, they have a lot of options.
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  Speaker 6: I would. I would make the case that cas Smith
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  Speaker 6: has the higher ceiling of all those young outfielders.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: I think he showed that last year. Agree with that whatsoever.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I noticed last year. There was
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: there was certain times where Sanchez, I don't the other things,
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: throwing to the right base, hitting the cutoff, things like
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: that that I don't really think matter when you're playing.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: You know, before you came.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Into Astros and you're just on you know, you're on
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: a bottom dwelling type team. I don't think those things matter.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: But when you're not in Miami anymore, you have to
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: play the game in a way that the Astros know
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: what you're going to do when the balls hit to you.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: And I thought at certain point in times it was
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: just this is not the part of my game that
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I'm here for.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you'll have to get better, but I don't
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: know how much better he can get. And offensively, I
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: mean his career highest eighteen home runs, his battan average
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: is very low. He hit you know, two thirty seven
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: last year, Like, what are we doing here?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Does that make sense?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Or whereas Ken Smith? I mean, God bless him. He's
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: gonna be twenty two years old next week.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: That's hard to believe because I remember he had the
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: option to go back to Florida State at the College
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: World Series. Ever talking about, you know, can he get
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: drafted high enough that he'll that he won't come back
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: to Florida State as a Yes.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: I apologize, I apologize. He's gonna be twenty three next week,
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: twenty three still very young.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he still had another year that he could
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: have come back.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, Yeah, he hit two thirty six last year with
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: nine home runs fifty one RBIs in a developmental year
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: where he probably should have been at Double A the
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: whole year. Yeah, the old Astros of five years ago.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: He spends the whole year at Double A and gets
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: promoted at Triple A and and right now we'd be
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: in spring training talking about how this is a prospect
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: that has to be on the opening day roster, whereas
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: last year he took his lumps and he developed in
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: the majors. Yeah, it's hard to do. It's it's you know.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: So I expect big things from him. I like his confidence,
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I like like his his professionalism. He never showed defeat,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: He never seemed to get down on himself because this
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: this grind could crush a guy. And I think I
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: think this year I expect a nice boost from him.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I really do.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: All Right, we didn't get to the pitching. We're running
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: out of time, Josh Hater. I know that some uh
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: you know, he was trying to work his way back.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: What's the latest on Hater.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Well, that was one of the biggest that's the biggest
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: announcements today from Astro's camp. He has inflammation. I think
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: bicep inflammation. You have to double check. I'm pretty sure
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: that's it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: So that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's concerning. Uh, but if it's just that,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: you just push him back a couple of weeks. But
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: he's you know, he's back. He'd done his bullpens, he
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: was fine, He's had his imaging. So that's yeah, that's
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: that's tough. You need him. The Astros. You talk about
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: guys you couldn't afford to lose. Losing Hater really torpedoed
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the season like so many things. And this is why
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: I'm optimistic about the Astros. And I'll tell you why
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Dana Brown mixed and match that team all the way
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: to contention in a city that that defense depends, you
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: know that, like they define excellence now by getting to
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: the Alcs, Like Astros fans have grown spoiled, and they
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: they should be spoiled. But last year's team, on paper,
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: everything that that they suffered, should have been out of
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: the race by late July artist one, yeah, whereas on
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: whereas by late July they're making trades because they're trying
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: to But like Dana Brown figured it out, he figured
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: he had he had additions that. So I have a
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: lot of faith that, like if Dana Brown brings in
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: a guy, he's going to perform. And if if you
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: think of Cardi getting much of Yorda on albares losing
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: your two two all stars, they had three All Stars
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: last year, right.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I lost all three of them.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: And Pinya and Pena and they were all lost for
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: a great period of time. And two of them and
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: two of them like most of July from July on.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: And I'll tell you this, if you're an Astros fan,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: the guy that I who I respect the most is
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Ezac Prede is because they told that guy that he
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: was not coming back. I had people close to him
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: who came up to me and said, hey, you know,
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Essex's not playing in the World Baseball Classic next year.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: I said, what do you mean? This is like July
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: because he goes He told us that the doctors told us.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: He told him he's done for the year. These are
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: like MLB players he's close to who I'm close to.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: And I went and I talked to Dana Brown. I said, hey, Dan,
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to write this because I'm not breaking stories.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: That's that's not what I do. I'm not the Astros
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: beat writer anymore. Like that was for fifteen years with
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: the Chronicle. I said, but hey, he's done, right, And
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: then Dana was like shocked that I knew that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: You know what this guy did.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: He said, I'll decide if I'm done, and that dude
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: came back, and that showed his team, his teammates, an
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Astros fans that he will play hurt and he will
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: rush to get back. And that's old school Jeff Bagwell,
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Craig visual type stuff.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And that's why you don't move him.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: No, that's why I wouldn't moved. And I and I
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: know people, so I know people, and I won't give
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: you the full gallery report, but from when he came
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: from Tampa Bay, some of the coaches did s gallery
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: reports from other coaches, and one coach says, play him
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: every day, let him drink a six pack after the
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: game and and and he'll be fine. Like don't don't
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: talk to him about his weight. That's you know what
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: he's a he's a ballplayer. He he goes and he
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: plays and he's very very good. He improved dramatically defensively,
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: and that's you know, because Tony Perris Chica is a
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: hell of a infield coach, one of the best in baseball.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: And he you know, that whole defense improved, which is
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: going back to your Christian Walker, the ground ball pitchers
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: and farmers out here. But you did great infield defense
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: and when Altuvee was in the outfield, that defense was
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: really really good. And and that saves you runs, that
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: wins games.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: All right, brother, I you you talked great, a great
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: deal of Astros right there.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: For me, tell me this, what's up with the Aggie
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: baseball team. How's Niko Partia looking?
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: They're going to bounce back like the Astros did. They
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: couldn't take the injuries. That group was injured like the
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Astros were. The wrong people were hurt, people you couldn't
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: do without. You talked about three all stars. You had
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: three first round draft picks hurt last year for the Astra.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: For the Aggies, and they stay healthy, it's going to
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: be a different year for a and in baseball.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: So I don't know how to pronounce the name.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: So that's Groove, Grahovic, Cedeo, Cirell and Stewart.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: You have to have those guys every day, every day.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Guys on the infield, the outfield, your starting pitcher and
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: your closer. Sounds familiar, doesn't it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: Who's your third basement?
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: We will Partita be the Partita is going to be
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: the third baseman to start. Grahovik's going to go play
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: first be a team guy and go play first base.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: All right. I love Partita. I'm good friends with his dad.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: That kid is special, man. That kid is very, very.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Special, and and that's why they're making sure he's in
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: that opening daylight up on Friday night.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I got to run to break one more thing.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: He could have been picked in the first round. They
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: wanted him, but he chose college. Be well man, Thank
• 32:03
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• 32:04
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• 32:09
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• 36:14
  Speaker 8: Taylor Swift's marriage to the Hustle has paid off chip
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  Speaker 8: the Life of a show Girl singer Songwriters officially the
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: youngest inductee and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Yeah apparently.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: Anthony Mason, who is a CBS News special correspondent, made
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: the miostone announcement.
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  Speaker 7: This morning today.
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: It was this morning yeah.
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, which formally elects the thirty six year star to
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: the twenty twenty sixth class and placing her among the
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: most influential writers or songwriters in the music industry. She
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: will be an attendance for the July eleventh Galla Oh
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: I know We're all wondering, yea. Her fell class includes
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley from Kiss, Alanis Morsette, Kenny Loggins,
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: Christopher Tricky Stewart, Terry Britton and let me see Graham
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: Lyle and Walter who don't know that last name? Sorry
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: it starts with an A. If you know, you know great.
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: To be eligible for the Induction of Songwriters, first commercially
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: released song must be at least twenty years old, so
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: a swift debut single Tim McGraw arrived in June two
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: thousand and six, just clearing the threshold for the twenty
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: twenty sixth class class. She's also the first artist to
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: be inducted after winning the Hail David Starlight Award in
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: twenty ten, an honor given to young songwriters showing exponential
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: promise are exceptional sorry promise. This is the youngest artist
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: to have ever appear on the ballot. The President and
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: CEO of the Songwriters Hall of Fame did tell you
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: the oldest in November. Each an including I didn't get
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: to vote on each nominating including Swift, must have proved
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: their nomination. It's like five representative songs in a photo
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: before the bell voting you did to roughly eighteen hundred
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: and fifties voting members, which Chip Howard, is not a
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: power of apparently a body made of music industry professionalsanship
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: it's probably because you're not a music.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Well pretty much, yes, pretty much. I play as much
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: music as anyone.
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: That's true.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, however, there's no howevers. There's no howevers I
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: should be voting in this deal.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: I know, Well, you can vote in your brain if
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: that makes you feel.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I've voted no, so I don't know how
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that works.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: But ah well, too bad.
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: Maybe I cast a deciding vote.
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: No, no, I say yes, why not?
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: Well, you don't have a vote, and eventually you don't
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: get a vote.
• 39:09
  Speaker 12: Chip.
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: If you can vote in your brain, I can vote
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: in my brain too.
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: Okay, Well I'm not voting in my brain.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I'm voting online with these weasels.
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: Oh okay, I don't have enough energy to care about that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: But in my brain, yes, I like it.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I don't really have enough energy to care about anything
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: at this point, so that's probably an issue.
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: Real. Yeah, I'm just thinking about how I have to
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: go to the store before.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: This week You and night, you and two hundred thousand
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: other people, so thank you.
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: Last weekend.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Last weekend, last Saturday was pretty nasty, you know, it's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: pretty cold and nasty. And Dusty goes to the store
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: on Friday and it is packed and he's looking.
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: Around some guy.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Some guy's buying like, you know, pounds and pounds of
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: just meat, and he's wondering It's It's not like this
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: weekend the worst blizzard in the history of mankind. It
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: was just gonna be cold, and people are in there
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: just stocking up one stuff. And I'm going, why are
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: people stocking up one stuff when the temperatures dropping twenty degrees?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: So you can imagine what the stores are gonna be
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: like the next two days.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: I think we're all secretly traumatized from COVID times where
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: toilet paper was not sustened.
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: You know, it's gonna be seventeen degrees.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Let's buy seventeen plats of toilet paper.
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: I'll be as if if you wrap it all around you,
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: you're gonna be warm.
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  Speaker 8: Make yourself a toilet paper for people. I know, guys,
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: It's okay, we live in Texas. I'm sure next week.
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: This was Do you do you have any more Taylor
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: Swift news or can we move on?
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: Well, let me say kind of, I kind of have
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: a little bit. I don't know if I mean, I
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: know what this story? Yes, okay, okay, So so we're
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: gonna it's kind of a crossover because Blake Lively, as
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: we know, we don't know if they are friends now,
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: but at one point very good friends. And she's got
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: a lot of legal is she's going on with Justin Baldini,
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: and among a bunch of emails, text and depositions that
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: were unsealed in the Blake Lively Justin Bonnini illegal case
• 41:50
  Speaker 8: is an exchange that allctrically shows Taylor Swift signing with
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: Lively against it with US director. So, I mean, of course,
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: why wouldn't she that's her friend, Like you know, at
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: the end of the day, usually you have your friends back.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: Within the hundreds of exhibits that were unsealed January twentieth,
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: So yesterday is an alleged December twenty twenty four text
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: exchange between Lively and Swift and of filing that was obtained,
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: though the last name for Swiss contact is reducted. Lively's
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: legal team identified the singer by name in a court
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: filing addressing the text in response to the contents of
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: Baldini's legal teams November motion for summary judgment so previously
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: this was filed by his team. On December fifth, twenty
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: twenty four, Swift appeared to send Lively a screenshot of
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: People magazines reporting on Baldini speaking out against the trauma
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: from a prior relationship, along with the message, I think
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: this bleep knows something is coming because he's gotten out
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: his tiny violince.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: Uh oh.
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: On December twenty fourth, twenty first, Lively was the victim
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: of carently a smear campaign after she complained of sexual
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: harassment by Justin and the producer Jamie Heath. That day,
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  Speaker 8: her formal complaint to California's Civil Rights Department also became public.
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  Speaker 8: Lively does seem to respond it rings different when he
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  Speaker 8: doesn't end the story by saying, did I always listen
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  Speaker 8: when they said no? No, like he did with me.
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  Speaker 8: But that must not have tested well in the focus group.
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  Speaker 8: So the conversation taking place in the days leading up
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  Speaker 8: to Swift's final eras tour show appeared to start with
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  Speaker 8: Lively checking in with Swift, asking is everything okay? She
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  Speaker 8: felt like a bad friend lately. Taylor seems to respond
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  Speaker 8: with Lively like was not wrong to feel things were off.
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  Speaker 8: I feel distant from you, even more than when we
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  Speaker 8: are geographically aligned with the message, says Lively's recent communications
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  Speaker 8: felt like I was reading a mass corporate email sent
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  Speaker 8: to two hundred employees.
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  Speaker 9: Taylor has lots of beefs. I will say that she
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  Speaker 9: gets into a lot of beefs.
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  Speaker 8: She does. Yeah, thank god she's not a vegetarian. The
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  Speaker 8: girl loves loves beef.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the Razzie nominations are out.
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  Speaker 9: Okay. The worst movies of the year Are you Ready?
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  Speaker 8: Love It?
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  Speaker 7: A War?
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  Speaker 1: War of the World's starring Ice Cube, Disney's Snow White,
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  Speaker 1: Let's See up for Worst Picture, along with the Weekends
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  Speaker 1: fi Adventure The Electric State.
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  Speaker 9: Cube earned a.
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  Speaker 1: Nomination for Worst Actor, along with Dave Bautista in The
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  Speaker 1: Loss Land, Scott Eastwood Alarum, Jared Leto in tron Abel
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  Speaker 1: The Weekend and Hurry Up Tomorrow Worst Actress. A recent
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  Speaker 1: Oscar winners Arietta Debos for Love Hurts, Michelle Yo Star Trek,
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  Speaker 1: Mila Djovovich in The Lost Lands, Natalie Portman in the
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  Speaker 1: Fountain of Youth, Rebel Wilson in Brideheart Sliced. The Loone
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  Speaker 1: has been a frequent target of the Razzies over the years.
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  Speaker 1: He's nominated for Worst Supporting Actor in Alarum, while his
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  Speaker 1: daughter Scarlett is up for Worst Supporting Actress.
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  Speaker 9: Wow, it's a double team front of the.
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  Speaker 1: Other recognizable names in contention Nicholas Cage and Gunslingers, James
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  Speaker 1: Corden and Rihanna in Smurfs.
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  Speaker 9: So we can look forward to those Razzies.
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  Speaker 1: Which did they tell vise those I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: they should love it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they should.
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  Speaker 8: They should.
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  Speaker 9: You know, they should sew.
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  Speaker 1: Clips from the worst movies and the worst actors.
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  Speaker 9: I think that'd be awesome.
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  Speaker 8: I love that some are nominated for an Oscar, But yeah,
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  Speaker 8: we're also nominated for this Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For razzis Guy Fieri's Tournament of Champions, turning up the competition.
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  Speaker 1: The seventh season starts March first, with thirty two chefs.
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  Speaker 1: This season, the description says, top seeded chefs in every
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  Speaker 1: that takes home the belt at a hundred fifty thousand cash.
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  Speaker 1: The competitors include Adam Greenberg, Adam Sobel, Britt Rescino, Brian Voltagio, Carlos,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. A few of these people.
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  Speaker 9: I know because I've watched this before.
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  Speaker 1: Participants will include eight winners from the qualifying Tournament of Champs,
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  Speaker 1: which starts February the fifteenth. Simon Majundar continues to hold
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  Speaker 1: the role of correspondent.
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  Speaker 9: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Judges along with Alex Gorna, Shelley cat Cora, Curtis Stone,
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  Speaker 1: David Chang, Jeffrey Zakarian, Marcus Samuelson, Nancy Silverton, rock O Dispirtu,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Conant. All these people have been judges in the past.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I need to get a gig being a
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  Speaker 1: judge on this.
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  Speaker 9: Tournament of Champions.
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  Speaker 1: If I get real, if I could vote on the
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  Speaker 1: songwriter thing and get a judge ship on this, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could just quit after a while.
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  Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I will have completed all the all the goals.
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  Speaker 8: of the GOT. Is that what it's called?
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  Speaker 6: Why not?
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  Speaker 9: I'm pretty sure I could. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I have faith in you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we've had we've had Taylor Swift news. We need
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  Speaker 1: we need some royal news to kind of blend in.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, I got it. That's so of course
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  Speaker 8: I've got it. Prince Harry says he's always had an
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  Speaker 8: uneasy relationship with the media, but his position in the
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  Speaker 8: Royal family stopped him from speaking out, which isn't a
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  Speaker 8: problem anymore. He is in London this week as the
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  Speaker 8: trial is underway the Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the
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  Speaker 8: UK outlets Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, who are
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  Speaker 8: accused of using unlawful methods to gather information. Harry is
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  Speaker 8: one of several high profile claimants claimants and then the case,
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  Speaker 8: along with Elton John, Elizabeth Early, and Jude Law's ex
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  Speaker 8: wife Sadie Frost. Uh Prince Harry took to the stand
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  Speaker 8: to give testimony to Day and witness and his witness
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  Speaker 8: statements to detailing why he didn't speak up sooner about
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  Speaker 8: the invasive stories about him and his relationships and a
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  Speaker 8: witness statement, Harry cites the death of his mother, Princess
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  Speaker 8: Diana as the beginning of his discomfort with the media, which, yeah, honest,
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  Speaker 8: that is valid, you know. However, as a member of
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  Speaker 8: the institution, referring to the British Royal Family, he had
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  Speaker 8: to follow their policy of never complain, never explain. There
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  Speaker 8: was no alternative. I was conditioned to accept it. Thought
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  Speaker 8: of the origin of the sorry nineteenth century British Prime
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  Speaker 8: Minister Benjamarin Disraeli Israeli Disraeli. Gosh, I'm so close. The
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  Speaker 8: never complain, never explained motto was adopted by Queen Elizabeth's
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  Speaker 8: late mother, the Queen Mothers of the Family. Queen Mom, Yes,
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  Speaker 8: that makes more sense, followed suit when it came to
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  Speaker 8: contentious public matters.
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  Speaker 9: I hope, I hope Harry wins this thing, you know, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 8: Mean, I look, it's not just him completing obviously, there's
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  Speaker 8: other people who are very notable people, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the British Shapers have a long, sordid history,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: Well, they use very colorful language, very very colorful.
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  Speaker 9: So I love this story.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The Simpsons Bort license plate creates toll troubles. A Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: driver is facing unexpected toll charges due to her Simpson's
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  Speaker 9: Plate reading Bort.
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  Speaker 1: The plate, a nod to a joke from a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: Katie Eunice has been built for tolls intended for other vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: The situation stems from the existence of counterfeit bort plates,
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  Speaker 1: which are often purchased online or at Universal Studios in Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: The fake plates are similar enough to Katie's that automated
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  Speaker 1: In a recent interview, Katie expressed her frustration urging other
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  Speaker 1: drivers to stop using her plate. Well, I mean it
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  Speaker 1: is for sale everywhere, she mentioned. I'm continuing to get
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  Speaker 1: notices and I don't know when the bills will stop.
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  Speaker 1: It's really funny, but it's causing me a bit of
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  Speaker 9: Katie's love for.
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  Speaker 9: I like this girl. I need to reach out to her.
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  Speaker 1: I mean she has a Simpsons tattoo and a Boort
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  Speaker 9: I'm all in on that, all in.
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  Speaker 6: That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is pretty cool. Apparently it's causing some issues.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, So it's cool when it's not yours.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, when it's not you, we'll admire it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Oh man, Uh, well, you know, we haven't talked
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