May 23, 2025 • 12 mins
The Nature Boy 2.0 Josh Reddick hops on The A-Team to talk all things Lance McCullers, Cam Smith, a position switch for Jose Altuve, second-third expectations and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Four o'clock here on the eight team halfway point for us,
and now within three hours of Astros Baseball, we of
course have the Astros on Deck show coming your way
at six six thirty we turn it over to the
network side and tonight that means Robert Ford on the
play by play and Josh Reddick in the booth with
him on the analyst side. Steve Sparks a couple of
days off TV side also with a couple of days
(00:21):
off for them. Josh Reddick joins us here on the
A team from Dyke and Park, where he played none
of his career was called minute May Park at that
point in his career here with the Astros from twenty
seventeen to twenty twenty. I've had a chance to catch
up with you a couple times over the last couple
of years and with this year's team, and we'll just
take you to last night's game, Josh. Those two home
runs hit by al Tuove were the ones that those
(00:44):
in the radio booth enjoy the most, and that they
were pretty obviously, very very well hit. The second of
the two going into the Crawford boxes. That's the Jose
al Twove swing that you and everybody else has been
grown accustomed to. How easy do you think it is
for him or anybody for that matter, to find it
when they're kind of struggling as he was before last night.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, it's probably a whole lot easier for him to
find it than most people on this planet. Considering who
we're talking about, that, you know, and then that guy's
his slumps are very short, and considering everybody else's slump,
like now, two ve going in like a five for
twenty as a slump, whereas somebody like myself would have
been in like a three for thirty best considered a slump.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So now two Bay slumps are a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Different than ours. But he's probably the better one that
can figure it out. And you know, he's also a guy,
you know who could go three for thirty and then
turn around and turning put out there in eighteen for
twenty two series, so he can he can definitely turn
everything around very very quickly, and we've seen that in
the past, so it's definitely in there. He's just you know,
he's not young anymore. He's you know, he's in the
thirty five now, so it might take it a little
(01:45):
bit longer to get things going nowadays, and that's just
how it works now.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
One thing that you certainly will be familiar with, and
heard it from Lance mccullors last night when he was
asked about Jose. And we talked to some of the
newer players each year when they are getting to know
Jose hayden Nesky, for example this year, and they just
talk about who he is every single day. You'd never
know what he's going through or how well he's playing,
or the other side of it. And that's essentially how
(02:11):
he helps lead this team.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
How does he manage to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's a quiet leader.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
He's just like you said, like they say, he's just
even killed every day, doesn't matter what's going on. Team
could be ten game win streak, ten game Loup Street,
he could be raking, he could be not hitting. He's
gonna be happy every day, come in and cheer everybody up.
He just brings smiles all around. He just brings a
bunch of positive injury energy to this team. And that's
even before he steps on the field. So what he
does in that clubhouse and in that batting cage for
(02:38):
this team is unheard of. When you're talking about how
much he keeps everybody in a good mood.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's funny because we were, you know, seeing Lance mccullors
talk about his latest outing as he tries to work
his way back and a guy that's been so integral
to just this winning era of Astros baseball. But one
of the things he mentioned is he was glad he
never has had to face off off against Jose al Tuvey.
Do you ever think about how you're glad you don't
(03:03):
have to face off against a guy like Hunter Brown.
I know he's not pitching during the series, and I
told WEX, I'm very upset that we don't get to
see one of our best I know Fromer is going
to pitch in this series, but the other one of
our best against this uh the Seattle team, when you're
trying to get the lead in the division.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean, you think about facing a guy like
al Tuov. You know, I faced him many many years
before he got all this power that he developed over time,
So it was a little easier back then. But what
he's turned into with the power threat that made him
that much more dangerous. But you're going against guys like
Hunter Brown are never an easy night. You pretty much
have to chalk it up and say, hey, you know
he's gonna get He's gonna punch your ticket at least once,
So you gotta be you got to accept that early
(03:42):
before you even step in the box. You just got
to accept that fact, and it's just gonna happen. So
you just hope you get a mistake. Guys like that
make very minimal mistakes, and if he does, you cannot
miss it because that's probably the only one your whole
line is going to get. So when when he makes mistakes,
and guys like that tend to make this say, but
you know everybody throws to damn hard. Now I couldn't
handle hardly ninety percent of the league. Everybody's pumping ninety
(04:03):
seven to ninety eight. Now, it's just too much of
a different league for me to get back in there.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
No, I don't blame you at all. It's much it's
much more comfortable to watch it from our side of things.
We're talking to Josh Reddick here on Sports Talk seven
to ninety and I'm glad you brought that up because
I didn't intend to bring this up to you, and
you're obviously not a former pitcher, But do you think
that the pitch clock has any inkling of an effect
on why we're seeing maybe an uptick in Tommy John
(04:29):
situations league wide, not just with the astros.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, it's hard to say no, because I mean, what
else has really changed in this game to make something
like that a factor? So I think it has. I
think it definitely has been. Maybe not the main issue,
but it's definitely got some blame to point a finger
at when you're talking about it, because obviously people are
so used to taking their time, and pitchers impoortly to
get that little rest and that extra breather in there.
(04:54):
So that's to speed them up for guys who won't
even train for this. You know, we were a couple
of years into this thing now, but nobody's body was
really trained to work like that. We were also focused
on having plenty of time between everything that our body
clocks have just learned that, so to learn something so
fast and so new could take major adjustments. And I
think we're seeing it take its toll here a little
bit as the pitch clock develops more and more.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Along with Josh Reddick here.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
One of the things you got to see from the
booth last night is the work being done by Cam Smith,
and right field your position here with the Astros, the
position you play the majority of your major league career,
and a position he never played at all before. They said,
oh yeah, you're a major leaguer, let's send you out
to right field. And he made it played last night,
running into foul territory, sprinting to it and making it
(05:39):
look like he's been there. I know how difficult that is.
I think a lot of people have tried to explain it.
What have you seen from him that makes it look like, well,
he's been doing it for a lot longer than he
actually has.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Y know, first, he's a natural athlete.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
When you look at the kid and how well put
together he is as a human, that definitely helps you
because he's got all the natural athlete talent in the
world to make those moves. And you know, we see
it more and more every year. You know, these infielders,
you just as long as they can swing the ball,
you can throw them in the outfield. Apparently it's not
that hard, but the way he's doing it is fantastic.
And the thing that sticks out to me, his route
(06:14):
running ability is fantastic. You look at the ball last night,
down the line. The guys didn't have that tendency to
kind of banana route it towards the find the wall
first and come.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
In where he's more direct. And then I think it.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Was an inning or two later he ran into the
gap and write center and really ran down a ball
that was well hit. That could have been, you know,
a little bit of a worry factor because they had
some guys on ended up being in the inning and
could have you know, provided the mariners at the beginning,
but took one turn straight back diagonal route, didn't you know,
wear away from his route running. Everything was very tight
(06:44):
and compact running towards the ball and then went directly
to it. So that's the big thing. Going directly to
the baseball. It's huge because it doesn't matter how fast
you are, but if you're taking bad routes, that can
definitely make you lose a step or two.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And he's doing a fantastic job of that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Does it pain you at all to say what you
just said, because now Jose's out there doing it like
he's been there, and cam you're saying, well, they're making it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I guess it's not that hard. It is that hard,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's very I mean, outfield is definitely the easiest position,
I think, but for me and you know, and it
makes all the sense on the world if you've got
places for a guy that can get out there and
make you the average plays. And that was what I
talked about with al Twov, like, this was obviously something
that needed to be done, because it's not just that
like ol two Va just wasn't that good at first
base and or second base, and that was just statistical,
(07:28):
statistical facts. So to keep his bat in the lineup
is obviously the right choice. And you throw him out there,
and you can pick your poison with those guys because
you have strikeout guys and then you.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Have your fly ball guys.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So picking your poison with when to put him out there,
and as long as they're making the standard average plays,
anything better than that, you're gonna be happy with. You're
not expecting these guys to make the phenomenal five star
web gyms, but you know, as long as they're making
everything and playing everything and getting the back in as
quickly as possible, then they're doing their job.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I do like the fact that you referred to it
as route running because it looks like Cam Smith could
suit up for the Hexans this year if he wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He probably makes it an outside linebacker for a couple
of games and be just.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Fine, big dude, So is the Zenzel.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Put them together, they make a formert opponent.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
On the football field, Ohio State and Florida State for
those two very very good football programs. We'll see if
maybe there's some of that in their future. I'm sure
the Texans would love to have them. I want to
bring you into something that comes up on our show
all the time specific to your team. In twenty nineteen,
my co host here, Adam. I I'm also Adam. He
can't believe to this day still that that team is
(08:36):
not a World Series change.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
It hurts my heart, Josh, it just kills me. It
keeps me up any nights.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It hurts mine too. Don't worry, I.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Mean I really don't.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I'm not blowing smoke because you're on the phone with us.
That's the best team to not win a title.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It really is, Oh, without a doubt, without a doubt,
the best baseball team probably.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
On paper, to never win a title. A agree, and as.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Much as we should have done as much as we
should have won one. There's one thing we learned about baseball.
It doesn't matter who you are as long as you're
the hot team at the right time.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I think, how I know that this is factual and
I'm taking my emotions out of it is I just
I vividly recall watching on the broadcast whatever they were
calling Space City Home Network at the time. You know,
they would have like graphics up and it was like,
here's the twenty seven Yankees, here's you know, like the
ninety eight Yankee, and here's the Astros leading that category whatever.
(09:27):
It was some insane numbers you guys were putting up,
both offensively and pitching wise. You had the top two
vote getters for the Cy Young that year, like Garrett
Cole was awesome and didn't win it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know, it's just crazy, right you think, if anything,
that should have been a co Co cy Young during
that season. But yeah, when when you look at that
team from top to bottom, I mean, oh, I mean
we just h Carlos kra I think, hitting.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Seventh in that World Series.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So that just shows you the depth that the lineup
really really had. And not only that, just the depth
we had all around. You know, we just had guys
that could get the job done, whether it was a
starting job or somebody that could come off the bench
and get it done. We were just we were just stacked.
But you know when you got guys like Strasburg that
through the way he did, and you know guys that
had timely hitting, that's just just how rolls. We can
(10:15):
lose sleep over it all we want through right now.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Can't change it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But you know, I'm with you, there should be another
gold banner up there between those two.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Before I ask you a ridiculously non baseball question, did
you ever just look around the clubhouse when you were
on that team and be like, this is ridiculous, Oh, without.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A doubt all the time, all the time you look
over there, you got you know, justin Burnley, you got
Garrett Cole, We pick up a guy like Zach Greenkey,
and then you look to your left, you know you
got Springer Brantley, and then into your right al Tuove,
you know the infields Stout. You know, all those guys
we just had just looking around, just superstars surrounding a
whole club out the whole clubhouse. So not only just
(10:51):
not only were we wild, but I think we all
understood how lucky we were and how fortunate we were
to have such a good team for so many years,
and even continuing after my time here, this team is
just continue to stay very competitive and obviously done what
they've done in the past, so they they've been We've
all been very blessed and very lucky to be around
this organization.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Absolutely, before we let you go, I do I do
lament that we couldn't touch base in Vegas at the
you know, the our our playground, we call it the
adult children that we are. I'm sure by now you
are aware that it's coming back to Vegas. We're talking
about WrestleMania. Are you gonna go again next year?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
It'll be a tough task to run by the wife.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I mean, it was a grind to get to that one,
but we'll see.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I'll definitely throw it out there and be like, look, baby,
you know I didn't take her this time, so maybe
I can convince her to make the trip with me
this time.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Are the mine?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah? Now, are the boys into this?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No, they haven't been introduced to it really at all.
My wife's not into it that much either. She just
goes to tolerate it, and I think to, you know,
check out guys with huge muscles and baby oil on
which you know, I get, I understand that nothing wrong
with that for them to be.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
A part of. But don't get there. We'll get there.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Sounds it sounds like me and Josh Reddick are going
back to Vegas together to check out guys with huge
muscles and baby oil.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, that's that's all we want to see outside of
the you know, the wives. We've got to keep the
wives happy, man sometimes.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
All right, Josh, Well, we appreciate the time. Good luck
this weekend in the series and the rest of the season,
and we'll have to catch up against soon.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Sounds good. Thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
A T on Sports Talk seven ninety
Four o'clock here on the eight team halfway point for us,
and now within three hours of Astros Baseball, we of
course have the Astros on Deck show coming your way
at six six thirty we turn it over to the
network side and tonight that means Robert Ford on the
play by play and Josh Reddick in the booth with
him on the analyst side. Steve Sparks a couple of
days off TV side also with a couple of days
(00:21):
off for them. Josh Reddick joins us here on the
A team from Dyke and Park, where he played none
of his career was called minute May Park at that
point in his career here with the Astros from twenty
seventeen to twenty twenty. I've had a chance to catch
up with you a couple times over the last couple
of years and with this year's team, and we'll just
take you to last night's game, Josh. Those two home
runs hit by al Tuove were the ones that those
(00:44):
in the radio booth enjoy the most, and that they
were pretty obviously, very very well hit. The second of
the two going into the Crawford boxes. That's the Jose
al Twove swing that you and everybody else has been
grown accustomed to. How easy do you think it is
for him or anybody for that matter, to find it
when they're kind of struggling as he was before last night.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, it's probably a whole lot easier for him to
find it than most people on this planet. Considering who
we're talking about, that, you know, and then that guy's
his slumps are very short, and considering everybody else's slump,
like now, two ve going in like a five for
twenty as a slump, whereas somebody like myself would have
been in like a three for thirty best considered a slump.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So now two Bay slumps are a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Different than ours. But he's probably the better one that
can figure it out. And you know, he's also a guy,
you know who could go three for thirty and then
turn around and turning put out there in eighteen for
twenty two series, so he can he can definitely turn
everything around very very quickly, and we've seen that in
the past, so it's definitely in there. He's just you know,
he's not young anymore. He's you know, he's in the
thirty five now, so it might take it a little
(01:45):
bit longer to get things going nowadays, and that's just
how it works now.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
One thing that you certainly will be familiar with, and
heard it from Lance mccullors last night when he was
asked about Jose. And we talked to some of the
newer players each year when they are getting to know
Jose hayden Nesky, for example this year, and they just
talk about who he is every single day. You'd never
know what he's going through or how well he's playing,
or the other side of it. And that's essentially how
(02:11):
he helps lead this team.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
How does he manage to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's a quiet leader.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
He's just like you said, like they say, he's just
even killed every day, doesn't matter what's going on. Team
could be ten game win streak, ten game Loup Street,
he could be raking, he could be not hitting. He's
gonna be happy every day, come in and cheer everybody up.
He just brings smiles all around. He just brings a
bunch of positive injury energy to this team. And that's
even before he steps on the field. So what he
does in that clubhouse and in that batting cage for
(02:38):
this team is unheard of. When you're talking about how
much he keeps everybody in a good mood.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's funny because we were, you know, seeing Lance mccullors
talk about his latest outing as he tries to work
his way back and a guy that's been so integral
to just this winning era of Astros baseball. But one
of the things he mentioned is he was glad he
never has had to face off off against Jose al Tuvey.
Do you ever think about how you're glad you don't
(03:03):
have to face off against a guy like Hunter Brown.
I know he's not pitching during the series, and I
told WEX, I'm very upset that we don't get to
see one of our best I know Fromer is going
to pitch in this series, but the other one of
our best against this uh the Seattle team, when you're
trying to get the lead in the division.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean, you think about facing a guy like
al Tuov. You know, I faced him many many years
before he got all this power that he developed over time,
So it was a little easier back then. But what
he's turned into with the power threat that made him
that much more dangerous. But you're going against guys like
Hunter Brown are never an easy night. You pretty much
have to chalk it up and say, hey, you know
he's gonna get He's gonna punch your ticket at least once,
So you gotta be you got to accept that early
(03:42):
before you even step in the box. You just got
to accept that fact, and it's just gonna happen. So
you just hope you get a mistake. Guys like that
make very minimal mistakes, and if he does, you cannot
miss it because that's probably the only one your whole
line is going to get. So when when he makes mistakes,
and guys like that tend to make this say, but
you know everybody throws to damn hard. Now I couldn't
handle hardly ninety percent of the league. Everybody's pumping ninety
(04:03):
seven to ninety eight. Now, it's just too much of
a different league for me to get back in there.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
No, I don't blame you at all. It's much it's
much more comfortable to watch it from our side of things.
We're talking to Josh Reddick here on Sports Talk seven
to ninety and I'm glad you brought that up because
I didn't intend to bring this up to you, and
you're obviously not a former pitcher, But do you think
that the pitch clock has any inkling of an effect
on why we're seeing maybe an uptick in Tommy John
(04:29):
situations league wide, not just with the astros.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, it's hard to say no, because I mean, what
else has really changed in this game to make something
like that a factor? So I think it has. I
think it definitely has been. Maybe not the main issue,
but it's definitely got some blame to point a finger
at when you're talking about it, because obviously people are
so used to taking their time, and pitchers impoortly to
get that little rest and that extra breather in there.
(04:54):
So that's to speed them up for guys who won't
even train for this. You know, we were a couple
of years into this thing now, but nobody's body was
really trained to work like that. We were also focused
on having plenty of time between everything that our body
clocks have just learned that, so to learn something so
fast and so new could take major adjustments. And I
think we're seeing it take its toll here a little
bit as the pitch clock develops more and more.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Along with Josh Reddick here.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
One of the things you got to see from the
booth last night is the work being done by Cam Smith,
and right field your position here with the Astros, the
position you play the majority of your major league career,
and a position he never played at all before. They said,
oh yeah, you're a major leaguer, let's send you out
to right field. And he made it played last night,
running into foul territory, sprinting to it and making it
(05:39):
look like he's been there. I know how difficult that is.
I think a lot of people have tried to explain it.
What have you seen from him that makes it look like, well,
he's been doing it for a lot longer than he
actually has.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Y know, first, he's a natural athlete.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
When you look at the kid and how well put
together he is as a human, that definitely helps you
because he's got all the natural athlete talent in the
world to make those moves. And you know, we see
it more and more every year. You know, these infielders,
you just as long as they can swing the ball,
you can throw them in the outfield. Apparently it's not
that hard, but the way he's doing it is fantastic.
And the thing that sticks out to me, his route
(06:14):
running ability is fantastic. You look at the ball last night,
down the line. The guys didn't have that tendency to
kind of banana route it towards the find the wall
first and come.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
In where he's more direct. And then I think it.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Was an inning or two later he ran into the
gap and write center and really ran down a ball
that was well hit. That could have been, you know,
a little bit of a worry factor because they had
some guys on ended up being in the inning and
could have you know, provided the mariners at the beginning,
but took one turn straight back diagonal route, didn't you know,
wear away from his route running. Everything was very tight
(06:44):
and compact running towards the ball and then went directly
to it. So that's the big thing. Going directly to
the baseball. It's huge because it doesn't matter how fast
you are, but if you're taking bad routes, that can
definitely make you lose a step or two.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And he's doing a fantastic job of that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Does it pain you at all to say what you
just said, because now Jose's out there doing it like
he's been there, and cam you're saying, well, they're making it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I guess it's not that hard. It is that hard,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's very I mean, outfield is definitely the easiest position,
I think, but for me and you know, and it
makes all the sense on the world if you've got
places for a guy that can get out there and
make you the average plays. And that was what I
talked about with al Twov, like, this was obviously something
that needed to be done, because it's not just that
like ol two Va just wasn't that good at first
base and or second base, and that was just statistical,
(07:28):
statistical facts. So to keep his bat in the lineup
is obviously the right choice. And you throw him out there,
and you can pick your poison with those guys because
you have strikeout guys and then you.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Have your fly ball guys.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So picking your poison with when to put him out there,
and as long as they're making the standard average plays,
anything better than that, you're gonna be happy with. You're
not expecting these guys to make the phenomenal five star
web gyms, but you know, as long as they're making
everything and playing everything and getting the back in as
quickly as possible, then they're doing their job.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I do like the fact that you referred to it
as route running because it looks like Cam Smith could
suit up for the Hexans this year if he wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He probably makes it an outside linebacker for a couple
of games and be just.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Fine, big dude, So is the Zenzel.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Put them together, they make a formert opponent.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
On the football field, Ohio State and Florida State for
those two very very good football programs. We'll see if
maybe there's some of that in their future. I'm sure
the Texans would love to have them. I want to
bring you into something that comes up on our show
all the time specific to your team. In twenty nineteen,
my co host here, Adam. I I'm also Adam. He
can't believe to this day still that that team is
(08:36):
not a World Series change.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
It hurts my heart, Josh, it just kills me. It
keeps me up any nights.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It hurts mine too. Don't worry, I.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Mean I really don't.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I'm not blowing smoke because you're on the phone with us.
That's the best team to not win a title.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It really is, Oh, without a doubt, without a doubt,
the best baseball team probably.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
On paper, to never win a title. A agree, and as.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Much as we should have done as much as we
should have won one. There's one thing we learned about baseball.
It doesn't matter who you are as long as you're
the hot team at the right time.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I think, how I know that this is factual and
I'm taking my emotions out of it is I just
I vividly recall watching on the broadcast whatever they were
calling Space City Home Network at the time. You know,
they would have like graphics up and it was like,
here's the twenty seven Yankees, here's you know, like the
ninety eight Yankee, and here's the Astros leading that category whatever.
(09:27):
It was some insane numbers you guys were putting up,
both offensively and pitching wise. You had the top two
vote getters for the Cy Young that year, like Garrett
Cole was awesome and didn't win it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know, it's just crazy, right you think, if anything,
that should have been a co Co cy Young during
that season. But yeah, when when you look at that
team from top to bottom, I mean, oh, I mean
we just h Carlos kra I think, hitting.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Seventh in that World Series.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So that just shows you the depth that the lineup
really really had. And not only that, just the depth
we had all around. You know, we just had guys
that could get the job done, whether it was a
starting job or somebody that could come off the bench
and get it done. We were just we were just stacked.
But you know when you got guys like Strasburg that
through the way he did, and you know guys that
had timely hitting, that's just just how rolls. We can
(10:15):
lose sleep over it all we want through right now.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Can't change it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But you know, I'm with you, there should be another
gold banner up there between those two.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Before I ask you a ridiculously non baseball question, did
you ever just look around the clubhouse when you were
on that team and be like, this is ridiculous, Oh, without.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A doubt all the time, all the time you look
over there, you got you know, justin Burnley, you got
Garrett Cole, We pick up a guy like Zach Greenkey,
and then you look to your left, you know you
got Springer Brantley, and then into your right al Tuove,
you know the infields Stout. You know, all those guys
we just had just looking around, just superstars surrounding a
whole club out the whole clubhouse. So not only just
(10:51):
not only were we wild, but I think we all
understood how lucky we were and how fortunate we were
to have such a good team for so many years,
and even continuing after my time here, this team is
just continue to stay very competitive and obviously done what
they've done in the past, so they they've been We've
all been very blessed and very lucky to be around
this organization.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Absolutely, before we let you go, I do I do
lament that we couldn't touch base in Vegas at the
you know, the our our playground, we call it the
adult children that we are. I'm sure by now you
are aware that it's coming back to Vegas. We're talking
about WrestleMania. Are you gonna go again next year?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
It'll be a tough task to run by the wife.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I mean, it was a grind to get to that one,
but we'll see.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I'll definitely throw it out there and be like, look, baby,
you know I didn't take her this time, so maybe
I can convince her to make the trip with me
this time.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Are the mine?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah? Now, are the boys into this?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No, they haven't been introduced to it really at all.
My wife's not into it that much either. She just
goes to tolerate it, and I think to, you know,
check out guys with huge muscles and baby oil on
which you know, I get, I understand that nothing wrong
with that for them to be.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
A part of. But don't get there. We'll get there.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Sounds it sounds like me and Josh Reddick are going
back to Vegas together to check out guys with huge
muscles and baby oil.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, that's that's all we want to see outside of
the you know, the wives. We've got to keep the
wives happy, man sometimes.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
All right, Josh, Well, we appreciate the time. Good luck
this weekend in the series and the rest of the season,
and we'll have to catch up against soon.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Sounds good. Thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
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