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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You look at it, look a look at it. Oh yeah,
this is radio. You listened to it on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ninety Astro is broadcaster Jeff Blom on seven ninety is
drought to you by low T Center. You heard it,
and he's in studio. I kind of like this new
arrangement with Space City Home Network. We start using their
employees extra and I mean, we always had you on,
but now we get to have you in person. So
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that's kind of the new routine for us. As we'll
have you for the next couple of segments. Jeff Blum
over there, Adam Wexler over there, and my name is
Adam Clanton. As we take you up till six o'clock tonight.
Astro's getting the job done last night, despite the fact
that Jordan's bomb was just a loud out. But man,
you beat the Kansas City Royals after you give up
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the lead the way they did, how many ranges of
emotions did you go through that roller coaster?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I just thought it was funny that the Astros did
what they did to give up that lead, and the
Royals said, hey, man, hold my beer, watch this, I'm
gonna break. I'm gonna break our first basement's thumb and
we're gonna let you score two runs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We'll get to that because that's in crazy scenario of
like ten that happened last night. I still have not
seen a replay of where that ball hit that drove
into three runs, which the one that went to the
coffin corner of left field.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh gotcha, got you got the three run.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The base is clearing double Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I have noise. We can't see it from our booth.
We didn't have a camera on it, so I don't
know where it landed or how far fair it was.
But you know, there's minimal foul territory over there.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's less than Dubond had yeah before he ran into
that wall destroyed himself. But yeah, like I just I
was like, of all the ways I said we're gonna do,
I think I texted you we're doing this again.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We are we do? Yeah, that's the roller coaster of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
The tie and then to walk in the go ahead, which,
by the way, pimping a walk is awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The chest I mean the chest pump, like yeah, like
look at me, stand here and take these six pitches.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's what wex texted me He's like man and then yeah,
Dubon Dobee drives in the finals.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's just what a wild game that was for an opener.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
That was all that was such a wild range of emotions.
And by the end of it, filling out my scorecard
and you go to the time of game and it
says two thirty six. I'm going that was the longest
two hour, thirty six minut minute game I have ever
been in. Or it's the most crammed into two hour
and thirty six minute game I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Royo's Watt was not pitching last night. No, when you
usually get it two and a half hour.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Was gonna say him or Greg Maddox are gonna go
out there and pitched contact and well more off of
than not. You want to use your defense.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'm convinced that if Royol's Watt was pitching with today's clock,
he'd breeze through about an hour forty five.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
If you could bring back who would you bring back.
I think I'd bring back Royals Walt and I think
i'd i'd bring back Mark Burley. Yeah, oh yeah, Burley
would absolutely love this clock. He would actually ask you
to take five or six seconds off of it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Do you think you would enjoy it as a as
a hitter will know I didn't think so oh. I
didn't think so oh, but you enjoy it. Went over
the Kansas City Royals in the first of four because
and again.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And Mariners had the off days, so you pick up
that half game. I mean everything about yesterday was beautiful
and the baseball guys were shutting down on the Houston Astros.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, so many things that were taking place during that
game we could now add in starting pitching again. Aces
Hunter Brown turned in another spectacular performance. It lined up
where you took the lead late. Guess who's ready to
go make it look way easier than it's supposed to.
And he continues to do that over and over and
over the way Josh Hader is throwing the baseball. The
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Astros got to win after trailing through seven innings, which
hasn't happened often this year. Able to turn that around
and most of the time they've closed out those wins.
You are four straight games up, you have played the
same number of games. It's kind of an odd part
of the schedule, and that this off day the Astros
have been waiting for comes mid series in Cincinnati, playing
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a game on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and taking an
off day and on a Tuesday in Cincinnati. But this
homestance one series, that road trip is to just one
city and then you're back here again. All that taking place,
and none of it seems to matter. The Astros just
keep astroing. This is what they do. They lose games
and you know, gut wrenching fashion, and the next day
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it's like, yeah, today's the first day of the season.
We're gonna go out there and show. And then they
lose two games in heart wrenching fashion, and then the
next day you'd never know the difference. And they're doing
it with Hi. My name is Ben, Hi, my name tex. Hey,
I'm so, and so what's your name?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
The lineup that was high in the high five line
when that game ended, I mean at the beginning of
the year, who looked at each other and said, man,
Ben Gamblin left, Jason Hayward, Shay Wickham and Dezenzo.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I mean what yet, Jose Bray you at first base? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was crazy, but I mean but by the end
of they get by right now where we're sitting the
Astros winning that game yesterday, going a half another half
game up to make it four games over the Seattle Mariners.
They are doing it with Ben Gamble, Jason Hayward, shay Wickham,
Zach Dezenzo.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
They're contributing. Absolutely. They are Hey Belle left field tonight.
Well let's see how that works out. And it does
and does.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
The dude has done nothing but show up in rake
and then the one at bat where Jason Hayward has
an opportunity to do damage, he gets a mistake, the
one mistake from Brady Singer and pulls it down the
line with the infield drawn in for two RBI.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean book stuff. Yeah, it's crazy. He said something.
I'm going to mess up the phrasing. So, how did
you describe the way he carries himself in the clubhouse
on his first day?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Just this he is.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I think about this from the time he got to
the major leagues and the way he arrived and the
expectations and obviously now this is decade plus time ago.
When he got here, he was he had the look
and the pedigree of this is why you're going to
go out and win games every day. Because Jason Hayward's
on your team. He's going to go out and crush
as a lefty. He can play all the outfield positions.
He's a great athlete, he's a good leader, he's a
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super clubhouse guy. Put this guy on your lineup the
next six to ten years and you're going to be great.
I think that's what the expectations were, and rather quickly
he settled into that's probably not what my major league
career is, but you're gonna want me on your team
every year. I'm playing for a lot of good teams.
And then he goes to another good team and another
good team. He always fits in, and he always does
the things he needs to do, and he always is
a respected veteran. And even listening to him before the
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game then after the game with Juliet right before you
throw it back.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
To you, guys, that's exactly who he is.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
And you're gonna get a month's plus worth of excellence
veteran leadership.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Where do you need me, Let's go win?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, And I mean there's a reason he's been in
the league for as long as he has because you know,
I know they had that huge contract when he went
to the Chicago Cubs known as primarily a defensive guy
with he's a threat of a home run every time
he's up there because he's got the power. But there's
a reason you stick around as long as you do.
If you're Jason Hayward without the the over you know
the WRC plus, it's not one hundred and twenty or
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you know the the ops, that's not a thousand every
time you go out there. He's just a guy that's
a threat. But I think it's a lot of that
stuff that you can't put an algorithm to that makes
him special. And I think that's why you see some
of these highly analytic teams bringing a guy like Jason
Hayward because he's a thread off the bench or he
can play you multiple positions out in the outfield. But
he's also going to show up in your clubhouse and
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understand how to play one hundred and sixty two game season.
He's gonna go up there in a situation against a
great team like the Kansas City Royals and have a
nice comment bat and talk you through it and explain
what his thought process was and why he got the
mistake and how he hit it. Those are the kinds
of things you need and don't not to mention the
fact either that he's coming over from a Dodger organization
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that has been looking up to the Houston Astros and
now he gets to come into the clubhouse. Who's to
say there isn't somebody sitting next to Jason Hayward right now?
And I would imagine a lot of these guys do
that because I'm curious. I just want to sit down
next to the guy and go, Hey, what do you
guys think of us when you're on the outside looking.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
At Oh, that's a good guy to talk to you, You
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Because I would wonder what Jason Hayward like when they're
sitting in the club or when he was sitting in
the clubhouse in LA. Did they sit there and go, man,
those I hate those guys. Those I bet you a
lot of clubhouses around the league they sit there and go, damn,
those guys are good. You see what he did yesterday?
Did you see the way they did that? Did you
see how they won that game? Did you see their rotation?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Everybody but Joe Kelly at this point probably does that.
If they're smart, if they have a brain in their.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Head, Yeah, Hayward situation probably and justin that yesterday he
played his first American League Baseball game. Yeah, crazy against
the American League teams out career, but he'd never been on
an American League team. Thus, going up against the Astros
any given year of his contract, it just would have
been a little bit different in that you're not battling
them to get to where you want to go. You
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hope to meet them where they're always going to be.
It is interesting, though, and you know, I just get
the sense, as we've moved past both twenty seventeen and
twenty nineteen's offseason, we just get the sense from all
these major league players. He's a good example, he's been
in the league since twenty ten. They all generally seem
to have the same feeling. I've been here, I've been
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on all these teams. I know what was taking place
across Major League Baseball. This happens to be a team
that was in Major League Baseball. Probably not much more
than that. All this talking about all these other things,
and clearly I think probably topic number one happened while
both pitchers were cruising and the Astros lineup suddenly had
to change thanks to the home play an umpire.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, he's gonna add Alex Tosi I think is his name.
He could add another ess in there and call himself
Alex TOSSI now after getting Alex Bregman, and according to
our expert statistician Phili Boudreau, it was Alex's first ejection.
It's it's it didn't necessarily look well because it is insane.
But I mean, at the same time, Alex has had
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such a good, uh demeanor about it, and he's handled
himself so professionally with some of these zones. And I mean,
if there's anybody in the league that knows his zone
better than Alex Bregman, I'd like to meet him, because
every time Alex has complained about a strike on our
TV screens, it's been a half an inch outside of
that strikes.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
So crazy I could have this thought, and it's probably
for a bigger, longer, other day discussion. Alex Bregman and
the other eight Astros, the other nine Royals, they step
up to the plate every day the whole year, one
hundred and fifty five hundred and sixty games a year.
Alex Tosi gets behind the plate once every five days,
once every four days, thirty forty times a year. It's
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not crazy to think what you just said is so true.
Of course, Alex knows the strike zone better than he does.
That's his livelihood. The umpire's livelihood is part that part
looking for sticky stuff, part saying I don't think he
checked his swing.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'm just gonna go ahead and ring him a zone
quote unquote. It's different.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, no, and the umpire. That's the one thing the
players don't have the buffer zone. We don't have the
ability to go. Man, that was just off the plate. Man,
good call. We're like, dude, this is the strike zone.
If you don't call it to the rule of the law,
we're gonna have some serious issues. And that's exactly what
happened last night because it was a pitch below the
zone and a pitch off the outside. That's two different
parts of the zone that Alex snapped on, and I
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thought it was It was terrible in that situation against
that team to throw an all star third basement out
of that game.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
All right, that's Jeff Blum, obviously of Space City Home Network.
We will have one more segment with him. I'm going
to ask him about his favorite astro these days. I
think I'm qualified to say that because I think you
know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He pitched last night. There's your hint, oh man, and
we'll talk about that next The Age on Sports Talk
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Speaker 4 (12:15):
The Eighteam The A Team on a Friday continues. Friday
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find him right here on Space City Home Network where
we simulcast the eight Team daily, and of course right
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Speaker 3 (12:31):
You know there's seven to ten.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
First pitch tonight, first pitch of last night's game, thrown
by Hunter Brown, who got the best sidey smile combo.
After the game, when Brian McTaggart said, did you kind
of want to get these guys after what happened earlier
this year, He's like, come on, man, of course I did.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He looked like he did, But.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He looked like that for the last fifteen starts. Now
he has turned into an absolute beast, and you could
go back to the last two starts he's had against
the Kansas City Rules where he has not looked good
at all. And I think what's even more frustrating about that,
at least for me watching the game. I'm sure it's
you know, it's exponentially more for a guy like Hunter
who wants to compete is when that game in Kansas
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City where he went a third of an inning, gave
up nine runs, the duck snorts, you know, the Texas leaguers,
whatever you want to call him. There was not a
lot of hard hit contact in that game, So I
mean that probably made it that much more frustrating for him.
But the fact that he wouldn't talk to anybody, especially Julia,
about the game. I was like, Oh damn, this guy
he wants this, and he went out there and absolutely
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destroyed what the Kansas City Rols thought was a was
a potent offense.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I saw a meme last night and it had a
picture of Detroit Era Justin Verlander and Max Schurz are
standing next to each other, and somebody wrote as the caption,
Spencer Arighedy.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And Hunter Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's turning into that, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And those two guys had both had horrible outings in
that series back in April.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, you know, how much is.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Happen since April. I've gotten married three more times, I've
had two kids. It's like insane, like the difference between
we call it the pre Mexico Astros because that's what
it really is.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, Yeah, the season turned around in Mexico for whatever reason.
Maybe it was in the water.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Sorry, since they went to Mexico City. The Astros are
twenty two games over five hundred. The other four teams
in the division are at five hundred or worse, all
of them. The Mariners are going through a set of
seven games starting today against two other teams in the division,
the A's and the Angels, who have played similar baseball
to the Mariners over the last month and change. And
that's the real difference here. Plus the Mariners are out
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on the road. They're obviously a different team, though they
do have a new manager for the first time in
a road setting starting tonight. But I think to me,
it has seemed like once the Astros got a two, three,
four game lead and they sit at four today, they
stopped really concerning themselves with anything other than the obvious,
which is their own team. And I think that's why
they've managed to whenever things go badly, it doesn't seem
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like it's taking a very long to overcoming you And
Esh mentioned it last night, even within a game. Oh yeah,
the four aer game against the Red Sox, which they won.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Crazy. Yeah, No, this team, I mean, I know that
you know, relentless is the hashtag, but I mean there's
a there's a certain resilience in a short term memory
about this team that you really can't teach because a
lot of teams kind of find that find themselves in
a funk. Bringing up the Mariners that that road trip
they had where everything spiraled out of control. They let
the external things affect them, whereas the Astros can kick
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a ball around. You know, one bad play in Baltimore,
they lose a game, they show up the next day,
they compete, They show up the next day, they compete.
Nothing really seems to phase these guys, And I think
that's why you don't see too many of those lulls.
But also you you minimize the lulls when you get
great starting pitching, which these guys have right now. But
at the same time, it's still incredible to me the
mentality of this ball club to show up day in,
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day out, not have your a team out there and
still go out there and play well. And these guys
aren't afraid to just sit there and go, oh, you
know what, I'm gonna take my walk. You get them, Okay,
I didn't get my pitch, you get them. You know.
They just continue to look at the guy behind him
and go go ahead and take care of business. But
to your point about them as a ball club, they
kind of had their blinders on shooting at the Seattle Marriers,
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but once they got past him, it's almost like they
folded the mirrors in and just kind of went straight
ahead and didn't even look back.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The other thing that's also pretty clearly changed.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
And I don't know if there was a point in
time where Joe and Dana said now is the time,
but there was the Das day off for the first
time in sixty three games always had two of them.
Alvarez got one. The days off are now part of
what every other season has always had. This season didn't
really allow for it, but now they're doing that. Do
you feel like it's had any positive impact, any momentum impact.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I think it's going to have the impact in September
when you start to get a couple more days mixed off.
Mixed into the schedule to give these guys those days off.
And I'm sure Joe's going to be very smart about
it too, knowing when he can get guys off their feet,
if it's a day off leading into a day off,
to give them the two days off, or a day
off coming out of that day off, to give them
the two days off. Because if you think about up
until this these last'st fifteen sixteen games, where this is
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a tough stretch right here against good competition, playing every day,
what they did to get to this point, Like we
keep talking about after that, after that Mexico series, these
guys had to post. Everybody that was in that lineup
had to post every single day. Everybody in that rotation
had to post every five days, Everybody in that bullpen
had to post every two, three days, four days a
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week at times to get themselves back in this situation.
And the reason you're seeing them kind of throttle back
a little bit and give these guys guy's days off
is because they're they're trying to make up for what
they burned through to get to this point, and that's
why you're seeing some of these days off. But again
three and four on a tough road trip like that,
you really can't complain.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Is Hunter still Are you guys still having those fireside chats.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah. I sneak up on him every once in a while.
It's you know, maybe once once every two weeks. I'll
just kind of sneak up there and I remember, you know,
We've had one after that Minnesota game where he kind
of had to battle through. He gave up six or
seven runs, but the Astros needed the innings and I
kind of pulled him off to the side after we
got off the plane. I was like, I go, this
start today is going to mean so much to you.
By the end of the season or two years from now,
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when you get that massive contract, You're going to look
back to the start and understand this is where I
learned how to fight through days where I didn't have
my best stuff and I gave my team everything I had.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It's like along with Fromber, but he's kind of a
different scenario because of his contract situation, ironically, but a
guy like Hunter Brown, a guy like Spencer Araghetty and
with where Justin Verlander is, it gives you a lot
more hope for down the road.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, it really does. I'm in that boat.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I had a conversation about Spencer Araghetty a few starts back,
So this is several weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What could he be.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Somebody said a number three or number four start, I'm
not gonna be an ace.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
That was like the ceiling and I'm like, I'm changing
my mind with each start.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But that's what you want. But that's what you want
guys like that to do. You want them to change
your mind. Hunter Brown changed our mind. Spencer Araghetty is
changing our mind. We were talking about pitch counts, We're
talking about innings limits, load management, his garbage and what
did Spencer ra Gertty Erraghetty do the last month? He
give you five starts of sub two era and he
was wiping guys out with a sub two hundred bating
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average against. He was an unbelievable And I was talking
to Joe Spotty yesterday and I'm like, you know, what's
the difference in some of these guys. Spencer he goes
he he knows that his fastball plays in the zone.
And I think that's one of the biggest differences between
Spencer and Hunter Brown in comparison to some other guys
around the league is that they are aggressive inside the
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zone with their fastball, and it's early reminiscent of a
guy who's on that rotation right now named Justin Verlander.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Not nibbling at the edges, at the edge.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean, there's certain terms for it. I know we
can't use them all the time, but off air, you know,
it's it's that fastball that says, I don't care who
you are or what you have, I am going to
throw my fastball in the zone and I'm going to
dare you to hit it. And I think Hunter Brown,
as soon as he got on his fastball and developed
that two seamer, he became that guy. Spencer a Getty
this month is pitching off of his fastball, and with
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his release point and extension and his deception and the
way his ball rides through the zone, I think he'd
come to the realization that my fastball plays at this
level and plays well.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It shouldn't be something that you and Todd and Robert
and Steve just kind of get to be a part
of every couple of weeks. But these guys taking no
hitters deep into games. And I don't mean one pitcher
doing it five times. I mean everybody who has an
astro jersey doing it once or twice or three times,
finishing one off the beginning of the year, Fromber and
now Spencer Araghetti have both carried one late Fromber's got one,
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Berlanders got several, Viers got molt. Did he have no
hit stuff? Yes, in your mind as you're going through
the first couple of innings.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I absolutely think so. And before Mauricio Dubond made that
play up against the wall, I've specifically said to Todd
as we were saying, you know, there's only four walks
in the game. You know, we're tiptoeing around the idea
of what's happening at that moment on TV, and I
kind of I just I go, I don't think there
has been a play thus far in this game, through
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five or six innings where we've really had the panic.
There was one play in center field where Jake Myers
kind of misjudged a line dry but recovered and made
a play on it. But that was basically about it.
Everything else was routine or a strikeout.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And maybe even the very first batter, Schwarber going down
the way he did, being attacked the way he was
by Spencer, even three pitches in I'm thinking, who knows?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
But I was thinking, he clearly has his stuff and
the mental side of it all. You got through five
minutes of Hunter Brown's mental ability to get to where
he is. How's this kid done it all in the
span of one season, getting clobbered through start after start
after start to where he is now.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Sometimes that's what it takes, you know, or you know,
we have some mental issues as ballplayers because we choose
to play a sport that you're going to fail at
consistently at. So if you get beat around, you're gonna
get humbled. But it allows you the opportunity to try
and find a way to work through it, because if
you want something bad enough, you're going to find a
way to get through that situation. And I think Spencer,
being in this situation, also think about his environment. His
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environment wasn't a bunch four other guys in the rotation
going damn, this guy's pitching again. It wasn't eight guys
standing behind him going damn, Spencer's on the mound again.
We're gonna get crushed. It was never that. It was
hey man, pick it up, slap you on the ass,
and let's go out there and try and find a
way to do it today and maybe today's the day
we turn it around, and he's obviously figured it out.
I think environment and stuff have a lot to play
(22:23):
with the spencer being this good, this late.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Just real quickly, How do you see the rest of
this series playing out, especially in light of the fact
that you're still playing a really good team, but they
they just lost a key game.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, well they lost a key member, Pascuatino breaking that thumb,
So you're gonna see probably more Salvador Perez at first
base for Mean behind home plate. I think for Mean
is better as a defensive catcher, but at the same time,
Perez over there at first base, maybe he's not your
best option. But I think it's gonna be a good series.
You know, three out of four is obviously what I expect,
especially with our rotation pitching. I think our rotation again
(22:55):
and then our offense against their bullpen matchup as the
Astros go.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Get us another win.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I will gust Jeff Blum here on Sports Talk seven
ninety as we continue here in studio Sports Talk seven
ninety and Space City Home Network.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Here it's the eighteen