March 31, 2025 • 11 mins
Kicking off the official start of the MLB season following Opening Day last Thursday, the Astros take on Juan Soto and the New York Mets in their first series of the season. Finishing with a 2-1 standing over the Mets, the Astros win their first series of the season in regards to their not so great start last year against the Yankees, finishing with a start of 0-4. Looking to have turned things around following a new season filled with new prospects, the Astros look to step with a different stride rolling into this season. Assessing the Astros first series of the season, Steve Sparks joins for his weekly segment and shares a few things he saw and loved over the weekend along with what still needs work in order to ensure a stable season, hoping to lead to another postseason if not another World Series run.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And eight o'clock during the Astros season means a weekly
visit with our good buddy Steve Sparks that happens right now. Yeah,
our Astros broadcaster each and every Monday at eight o'clock
and grateful to have him on for visit number two.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Of the season.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Steve, if I would have told you last Monday before
we got off that it was going to turn out
exactly like it did this weekend, even the two and
one record obvious, but the way they got to the
two and one record, if I said, will you be
satisfied for one series with what you saw from the
big overall picture, how would you grade it?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I have a great B plus a minus. You know
you're looking to win series.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
You win two out of three, it gets a very
good New York Mets team.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I think you got to come away pretty excited. We
talked about it.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I felt like and I feel like that the Astros'
strongest point is they're starting pitching, and that proved to
be very, very.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Fruitful in that Mets series.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I mean, those guys look good, and now you start
the next series, he's with your number four starter who
led the league and opponent's batting.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Average right now, Blanco's that's pretty strong.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Steve, What do you expect from Blanco this year coming
off that you know, at thirty had his best year
and seemed like he settled in and was confident at
a time last year, Steve, when they were struggling, he
was a He was a force and kept them every
time he pitched, kept them in every game. Uh, what
do you expect from him? Another level? Same level? What
do you expect from this year?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hopefully? I mean if you get the same level, you'd
be ecstatic.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think agree he was.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He was so good and like you said, he kept
the team a flow for a big portion. I mean
they were chasing wins for such a long time and
he was a steady force for the team out of nowhere.
He was their fifth starter to begin the season last
year and ended up having the second best ERA in
the American League to Trek scuball of all people. Right, So,
Blanco was great. He's got four pitches. And when I
(01:59):
asked the analytic people with the astros, what makes him
so good? Because with my eyes, none of those pitches
really look like they're jumping off the page. They said
that his pitches look more similar than any other pitcher
in the league. Everything looks the same coming out of
his hand, and they're going in four different directions. So
that's what I think that makes him so good. His
(02:20):
command's not unbelievable. He kind of sprays the fastball, but
it's almost effectively wild the way he.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Sprays the ball out of his hand.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Everything looking the same, and he's reliable. He's just such
a big guy. You feel pretty comfortable, especially when you're
looking at a number four starter lining up against another
team's number four.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You feel like you have the advantage every time.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Steven the Great Point Steve Sparks, Astro's broadcaster for our
weekly visit here on Sports Talk seven ninety on Mondays
at eight o'clock. Steve going back to the you know
with a Fromer getting seven innings, Spencer getting the six,
and we know Hunter Brown what kind of work coorse
he'll end up being as the season rolls along.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I thought it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Also showed some guts and maybe that's not the right word,
but by Joe a spot, it feels to me like
early in a season people are always a little conservative
on hey, well, seven innings, he's got to a certain
and they were both efficient, but the fact that we
got one to seven, one to six. If you can
get a lot of that, especially early on, to save
a bullpen, that'll work. Wonders moving into the halfway point
(03:19):
of the season and beyond with those guys getting that
deep into games, which is a nice change in Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, I always watch this, Sean, always watch where the
off days lie with a lot of these starting pitchers,
and you'll know that Joe will push them a little
bit further, especially you know, the guys at the top
of the rotation. He'll try to get everything he can
out of a lot of these pitchers, knowing that they
got an extra day of rest, maybe pushing them an
extra out or two, maybe ten extra pitches because he
(03:50):
knows he gets six days of rest instead of four
or something like that. That's a big reason why they
went to a six in rotation the year that they
won the World Series so handily, you know, and they
were so fresh going into the playoffs, and I think
that was the big reason why they want it. Steve,
I'm sorry, they'll always they'll always they'll always go in
that direction when they've got more rest.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Love it, and both those guys validated, and I'm sure
we're going to get more from Hunter Brown and we'll
get some Renelle Blanco as well tonight, Steve, with this
team at the plate, you coming out of this weekend,
they drew a lot of walks. Was there overall? What
was your favorite thing about the offensive point of view?
Even though they only scored six runs?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's Pnia, you know. And now two they got his
knocks the Paynia. Christal Walker too.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
He didn't get much to show for it, but he
hit five balls or six balls, I believe, well over
one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So that's going to change as far as the results go.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
But Painia continues to make good decisions and I think
that's for me and I kind of wear this out
on a daily basis. We talked about Cam Smith's swing
decisions Paynia too. Man, it looks noticeably different that he's
laying off a lot of those sliders off the plate
and buying his himself an opportunity to hammer the bad
ones and also take advantage of the fastballs that he
(05:06):
loves to swing at.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Steve, what's the ceiling for him if there is one?
If he's playing like he is now and becomes more selective.
What kind of ceiling do you see? What kind of
player he is here in and year out? Like the numbers,
what do they look like.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I think the ceiling is all star caliber, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I think he can hit twenty five to thirty homers,
maybe a few more than that. It's still like he
did not walk one single time during spring training, and
I think that's coming. I think the next evolution for
him is to carry it through through an entire bat,
where he starts to get on base more and we're
starting to look at an ops instead of around seventy
(05:46):
ten of around seven sixty seven seventy by getting on
base more and driving the ball even better.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Because of his decisions. So I think there's more of
the take.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You look at a guy at his age who've had
three years of are almost identical offensively. M hm. I
wouldn't say I wouldn't say this about many people, but
just because the way he's seeing the ball, I think
it's possible.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
For another elevation to his game, which would be nice.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Steve Sparks joins us for a couple more minutes, as
he does every Monday at eight o'clock here on a
Sean Salisbury show, Steve to that Cam Smith mentioned what'd
you think about, you know, his early season at bats
here in his first series, how he handled it at
the plate and what you saw from him that gives
you great hope of pushing him in the starting lineup
all year long.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of first for Cam
And I'm sure that was the first time that he's
felt and maybe even heard his heart beating out of
his chest and going through all the emotions that he's
gone through. And he's going to go to these new
ballparks for the first time and feel it as a
visiting player, and he's going to have Fenway Park later
that He's going to have a lot of first that
(06:53):
you just have to experience. And I think he handled
himself very well. It didn't really look like he was
getting outside of himself, are chasing or doing trying to
do too much, And I think that's all you would
hope for for a young player at this stage.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What is your your comfort level? You know, one being
the least comfortable, five being most comfortable right now? If
you think if I just parlay it out like over
the next twenty five games with a bullpen, middle and
all the way to the back end.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Your comfort level with them right now.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think you've got to be pretty pretty excited about
where you're going to bridge to Brian Abray.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think Brian A.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Brady's the most indispensable player on their entire team because
of what he does to get to Hater. But I
don't know if anybody else can do a Bray's job
in the eighth inning. I'm excited about Brian King and
Steven Oker and a lot of those guys who can
go in and get big outs to get him to
Bray You and Hater, And I think that's where my
(07:53):
biggest concern was maybe coming out of spring training, what's
that going to look like? And I know it's only
been three games. We saw it last year too. Brian
King is a force. Steven Okert was unbelievable, and he's
going to be unflappable just because of his veteran status.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So they've got enough guys that are going to fill
up the strike zone, and that's what.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I always worry about us. Are guys going to come
in and challenge guys? You know, you come into a
game and it's only a one run spread, you've got
to pitch to the corners right away. That's why you
see a lot of these relievers.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Fall behind in the count.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
They don't have the luxury of a starting pitcher who
can start in the middle of the play and then
work themselves to the outside corners once.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
They get ahead.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
The relievers have to do it just the opposite, so
it makes things very difficult. That's why you see the
walk rate go up a little bit with these guys
or falling behind in the count because they've got to
be so precise in one run game. So I'm excited
that Brian King and Steven Okre right away have shown
the ability.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
To go at hitters and get swing and missing the
strike zone.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Steve with al two vay and left field.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I mean, are we is it going to get to
the point where we're just we feel pretty comfortable with
him because he's a veteran and you know early on
making some plays and calling Jake Myers off. Will we
ever settle in to the point where we're not going
into a game thinking how's he going to handle it?
Are we going to get to that point defensively, because
obviously offensively, it's not affecting in one bit.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, there's gonna be hiccups, you know, and there's gonna
be weird decisions in I think I said it last
week that it's going to be tough to go into
new ballparks and realize where the wall is and how
not to get too close to it on the balls
that you can't get to. That way, you can play
it off the wall and keep guys from going ninety
feet further. But I'm already there. I feel like, you know,
(09:45):
left fielders see less action.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Than anybody else on the diamond.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I think it's two point seven balls per game, I
think on average last year.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So he's just got He's just got to make the
normal regular plays. Doesn't have to.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Be unbelievable and throw guys out at bases where they're
twenty percent chance to get them at best. Just make
the plays and handle it. Hunter Brown from ber Valdez
or both ground ball pitchers. There's only a couple of
guys that you really think that are going to get
a lot of flyball action or play real big left fields.
(10:20):
One of them is Seattle. It's going to be interesting
to see how Joe spot Up plays it when the
Astros play at t Mobile Park against Seattle on this
first road trip, but he's taking ground balls at second
I think we're going to see him at second base
as well.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Steve will wrap up with this San Francisco comes to town.
Just an overall thought. They're in a very difficult division obviously,
What do we expect from them this year? And will
they be hanging around in September with a chance of
the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I think so, you know, in everybody's gathering information right now.
If I gathered information by the last game the Astros
played is griff and Canning had a really good slider,
and the Astros are very right handed, so we might
see a lot of relievers coming into this series that
have good sliders facing the Astros. That's the information that
I'm gathering right now. As this season progresses, what can
(11:13):
they do to combat somebody that throws are really good slider.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Laying off bad pitches, non competitive strikes. It should be fun.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
A lot of walks over the weekend, which tells us
something at least early on, that there's a little more
discipline going on right now. Steve, great stuff, my man.
Enjoy the home series again, and we'll look forward to
hearing from you and talking to you again next Monday.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
As always, we appreciate you brother.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Thank you all right, Sean, thanks for having.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Us good stuff two and one.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And Steve when he takes away, and he's right, everything
that Paina did in the spring other than walk is
carrying over right now with his discipline at the plate
in he's got a chance. When Steve mentioned twenty five
to thirty maybe more home runs, I think his natural
power says that
And eight o'clock during the Astros season means a weekly
visit with our good buddy Steve Sparks that happens right now. Yeah,
our Astros broadcaster each and every Monday at eight o'clock
and grateful to have him on for visit number two.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Of the season.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Steve, if I would have told you last Monday before
we got off that it was going to turn out
exactly like it did this weekend, even the two and
one record obvious, but the way they got to the
two and one record, if I said, will you be
satisfied for one series with what you saw from the
big overall picture, how would you grade it?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I have a great B plus a minus. You know
you're looking to win series.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
You win two out of three, it gets a very
good New York Mets team.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I think you got to come away pretty excited. We
talked about it.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I felt like and I feel like that the Astros'
strongest point is they're starting pitching, and that proved to
be very, very.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Fruitful in that Mets series.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I mean, those guys look good, and now you start
the next series, he's with your number four starter who
led the league and opponent's batting.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Average right now, Blanco's that's pretty strong.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Steve, What do you expect from Blanco this year coming
off that you know, at thirty had his best year
and seemed like he settled in and was confident at
a time last year, Steve, when they were struggling, he
was a He was a force and kept them every
time he pitched, kept them in every game. Uh, what
do you expect from him? Another level? Same level? What
do you expect from this year?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hopefully? I mean if you get the same level, you'd
be ecstatic.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think agree he was.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He was so good and like you said, he kept
the team a flow for a big portion. I mean
they were chasing wins for such a long time and
he was a steady force for the team out of nowhere.
He was their fifth starter to begin the season last
year and ended up having the second best ERA in
the American League to Trek scuball of all people. Right, So,
Blanco was great. He's got four pitches. And when I
(01:59):
asked the analytic people with the astros, what makes him
so good? Because with my eyes, none of those pitches
really look like they're jumping off the page. They said
that his pitches look more similar than any other pitcher
in the league. Everything looks the same coming out of
his hand, and they're going in four different directions. So
that's what I think that makes him so good. His
(02:20):
command's not unbelievable. He kind of sprays the fastball, but
it's almost effectively wild the way he.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Sprays the ball out of his hand.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Everything looking the same, and he's reliable. He's just such
a big guy. You feel pretty comfortable, especially when you're
looking at a number four starter lining up against another
team's number four.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You feel like you have the advantage every time.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Steven the Great Point Steve Sparks, Astro's broadcaster for our
weekly visit here on Sports Talk seven ninety on Mondays
at eight o'clock. Steve going back to the you know
with a Fromer getting seven innings, Spencer getting the six,
and we know Hunter Brown what kind of work coorse
he'll end up being as the season rolls along.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I thought it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Also showed some guts and maybe that's not the right word,
but by Joe a spot, it feels to me like
early in a season people are always a little conservative
on hey, well, seven innings, he's got to a certain
and they were both efficient, but the fact that we
got one to seven, one to six. If you can
get a lot of that, especially early on, to save
a bullpen, that'll work. Wonders moving into the halfway point
(03:19):
of the season and beyond with those guys getting that
deep into games, which is a nice change in Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, I always watch this, Sean, always watch where the
off days lie with a lot of these starting pitchers,
and you'll know that Joe will push them a little
bit further, especially you know, the guys at the top
of the rotation. He'll try to get everything he can
out of a lot of these pitchers, knowing that they
got an extra day of rest, maybe pushing them an
extra out or two, maybe ten extra pitches because he
(03:50):
knows he gets six days of rest instead of four
or something like that. That's a big reason why they
went to a six in rotation the year that they
won the World Series so handily, you know, and they
were so fresh going into the playoffs, and I think
that was the big reason why they want it. Steve,
I'm sorry, they'll always they'll always they'll always go in
that direction when they've got more rest.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Love it, and both those guys validated, and I'm sure
we're going to get more from Hunter Brown and we'll
get some Renelle Blanco as well tonight, Steve, with this
team at the plate, you coming out of this weekend,
they drew a lot of walks. Was there overall? What
was your favorite thing about the offensive point of view?
Even though they only scored six runs?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's Pnia, you know. And now two they got his
knocks the Paynia. Christal Walker too.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
He didn't get much to show for it, but he
hit five balls or six balls, I believe, well over
one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So that's going to change as far as the results go.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
But Painia continues to make good decisions and I think
that's for me and I kind of wear this out
on a daily basis. We talked about Cam Smith's swing
decisions Paynia too. Man, it looks noticeably different that he's
laying off a lot of those sliders off the plate
and buying his himself an opportunity to hammer the bad
ones and also take advantage of the fastballs that he
(05:06):
loves to swing at.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Steve, what's the ceiling for him if there is one?
If he's playing like he is now and becomes more selective.
What kind of ceiling do you see? What kind of
player he is here in and year out? Like the numbers,
what do they look like.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I think the ceiling is all star caliber, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I think he can hit twenty five to thirty homers,
maybe a few more than that. It's still like he
did not walk one single time during spring training, and
I think that's coming. I think the next evolution for
him is to carry it through through an entire bat,
where he starts to get on base more and we're
starting to look at an ops instead of around seventy
(05:46):
ten of around seven sixty seven seventy by getting on
base more and driving the ball even better.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Because of his decisions. So I think there's more of
the take.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You look at a guy at his age who've had
three years of are almost identical offensively. M hm. I
wouldn't say I wouldn't say this about many people, but
just because the way he's seeing the ball, I think
it's possible.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
For another elevation to his game, which would be nice.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Steve Sparks joins us for a couple more minutes, as
he does every Monday at eight o'clock here on a
Sean Salisbury show, Steve to that Cam Smith mentioned what'd
you think about, you know, his early season at bats
here in his first series, how he handled it at
the plate and what you saw from him that gives
you great hope of pushing him in the starting lineup
all year long.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of first for Cam
And I'm sure that was the first time that he's
felt and maybe even heard his heart beating out of
his chest and going through all the emotions that he's
gone through. And he's going to go to these new
ballparks for the first time and feel it as a
visiting player, and he's going to have Fenway Park later
that He's going to have a lot of first that
(06:53):
you just have to experience. And I think he handled
himself very well. It didn't really look like he was
getting outside of himself, are chasing or doing trying to
do too much, And I think that's all you would
hope for for a young player at this stage.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What is your your comfort level? You know, one being
the least comfortable, five being most comfortable right now? If
you think if I just parlay it out like over
the next twenty five games with a bullpen, middle and
all the way to the back end.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Your comfort level with them right now.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think you've got to be pretty pretty excited about
where you're going to bridge to Brian Abray.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think Brian A.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Brady's the most indispensable player on their entire team because
of what he does to get to Hater. But I
don't know if anybody else can do a Bray's job
in the eighth inning. I'm excited about Brian King and
Steven Oker and a lot of those guys who can
go in and get big outs to get him to
Bray You and Hater, And I think that's where my
(07:53):
biggest concern was maybe coming out of spring training, what's
that going to look like? And I know it's only
been three games. We saw it last year too. Brian
King is a force. Steven Okert was unbelievable, and he's
going to be unflappable just because of his veteran status.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So they've got enough guys that are going to fill
up the strike zone, and that's what.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I always worry about us. Are guys going to come
in and challenge guys? You know, you come into a
game and it's only a one run spread, you've got
to pitch to the corners right away. That's why you
see a lot of these relievers.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Fall behind in the count.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
They don't have the luxury of a starting pitcher who
can start in the middle of the play and then
work themselves to the outside corners once.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
They get ahead.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
The relievers have to do it just the opposite, so
it makes things very difficult. That's why you see the
walk rate go up a little bit with these guys
or falling behind in the count because they've got to
be so precise in one run game. So I'm excited
that Brian King and Steven Okre right away have shown
the ability.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
To go at hitters and get swing and missing the
strike zone.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Steve with al two vay and left field.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I mean, are we is it going to get to
the point where we're just we feel pretty comfortable with
him because he's a veteran and you know early on
making some plays and calling Jake Myers off. Will we
ever settle in to the point where we're not going
into a game thinking how's he going to handle it?
Are we going to get to that point defensively, because
obviously offensively, it's not affecting in one bit.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, there's gonna be hiccups, you know, and there's gonna
be weird decisions in I think I said it last
week that it's going to be tough to go into
new ballparks and realize where the wall is and how
not to get too close to it on the balls
that you can't get to. That way, you can play
it off the wall and keep guys from going ninety
feet further. But I'm already there. I feel like, you know,
(09:45):
left fielders see less action.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Than anybody else on the diamond.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I think it's two point seven balls per game, I
think on average last year.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So he's just got He's just got to make the
normal regular plays. Doesn't have to.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Be unbelievable and throw guys out at bases where they're
twenty percent chance to get them at best. Just make
the plays and handle it. Hunter Brown from ber Valdez
or both ground ball pitchers. There's only a couple of
guys that you really think that are going to get
a lot of flyball action or play real big left fields.
(10:20):
One of them is Seattle. It's going to be interesting
to see how Joe spot Up plays it when the
Astros play at t Mobile Park against Seattle on this
first road trip, but he's taking ground balls at second
I think we're going to see him at second base
as well.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Steve will wrap up with this San Francisco comes to town.
Just an overall thought. They're in a very difficult division obviously,
What do we expect from them this year? And will
they be hanging around in September with a chance of
the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I think so, you know, in everybody's gathering information right now.
If I gathered information by the last game the Astros
played is griff and Canning had a really good slider,
and the Astros are very right handed, so we might
see a lot of relievers coming into this series that
have good sliders facing the Astros. That's the information that
I'm gathering right now. As this season progresses, what can
(11:13):
they do to combat somebody that throws are really good slider.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Laying off bad pitches, non competitive strikes. It should be fun.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
A lot of walks over the weekend, which tells us
something at least early on, that there's a little more
discipline going on right now. Steve, great stuff, my man.
Enjoy the home series again, and we'll look forward to
hearing from you and talking to you again next Monday.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
As always, we appreciate you brother.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Thank you all right, Sean, thanks for having.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Us good stuff two and one.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And Steve when he takes away, and he's right, everything
that Paina did in the spring other than walk is
carrying over right now with his discipline at the plate
in he's got a chance. When Steve mentioned twenty five
to thirty maybe more home runs, I think his natural
power says that
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