August 16, 2024 • 23 mins
Former Astro turned Space City Home Network analyst Geoff Blum joins The A-Team for his weekly visit. He of course talks about the news that Alex Bregman is going to miss at least this series with swelling in his right elbow. Bregman says that he slept on his elbow wrong and that there is no further damage. The Astros are set to open a home series tonight with the Chicago White Sox. Astros On-Deck comes your way at 6:00, with Ross Villareal.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You look at it. Look at it. Oh yeah, this
is radio. We listened to it on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Astro's broadcaster Jeff Blom on seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Is brought to you by low T Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh my gosh, he's sitting like five feet from us.
We haven't done this in like two months.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is weird.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, man, it's gonna be good to see your facial
expressions and how you react too.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Whoa, what is going on over there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I hate man, car's broken, pets heads they're falling off.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What is the deal?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So we find out like five seconds ago that Alex
Bregman is gonna meet with the media in like five
seconds from now, and uh, we don't know what it's about,
but he's out of the lineup tonight, so we know
it's probably not a good thing. Oh hi, Jeff, his elbow.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, the elbow is the thing. But what is it about?
That's the question. And you know we had a day
off yesterday. You figured after eight games, eight game winning
streak on the road trip, everything's on. White Sox are
in town a certain town. We could be well, maybe
here we go. Positively, the White Sox are in town,
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so maybe This is a good time for whatever's ailing
Alex that he can address it. He's addressing it by himself.
He's not using any intermediaries. He's not discomforting us, hopefully,
and he can take three days against the Chicago White
Sox to get things straight before we head into the
Red Sox and that back end of August, which is
going to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know what, the first thing I thought of, because
I'm a pessimist, Yes this is true, that like, why
does he never take days off?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh, you know that, you know why, well, but you
got to take days off. But of all years, why
would he not take a day off this year? Right?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are playing to win? You start seven and nine, you're
winning a contract off.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The only two reasons you play is to win and
get a contract.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Unfortunately for Joe Aspada and Dana Brown and everybody else
in the Astros circle of trust, they don't have time
for that. They don't have time for off this year.
They don't have time to put out the Sunday lineup.
They don't have time to rest guys. They don't say, well,
Brian Bray probably shouldn't pitch in every other game sixty
out of one to twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
They just don't Could it hurt them later? Maybe we
find out today.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Could have hurt them next month with pitching arms, certainly
could but they're going about their business as they have
since they started seven to nineteen. I'll say it again,
it's still true. The best team in baseball for the
last ninety four games, the best era in baseball for
the last ninety four games. Nobody's been better. That's more
than half a season. They're playing to do what they
always do, which is win at all. The release states
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as follows out of the lineup due to swelling in
the back of his right elbow, and as we mentioned,
we're a few minutes away from alex addressing the media.
He is not in the lineup today, and they will
have somebody who's got a little bit of experience playing
third base. Mauricio Dubon another d in the lineup, with
Zach Zach Decenzo also back into the mix. He is
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the first baseman today. They announced the move that was
reported last night by Ari Alexander, that Shaye Whitcomb has
been added to the major league roster. He's a non
forty man guy, so a corresponding move for both the
twenty six man and forty roster has to be made,
though it could still be the same person involved, but
both those moves would have to be made all in
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advance of them trying to continue the best stretch of
baseball they've played all year, having had to lead this
big since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's three games heading into today.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Pitching's been great, hitting has been just enough, you know
when every game you have only two hits, But they
won their most recent game with just two hits, coming
back on a happy flight after an eight to one
road trip into a day off, into a six game
Homestand are the vibes alright with this team?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
This news notwithstanding, I was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Going to say when I got into my trunk to
drive down here to be with you guys, Yeah, vibes
were great. It was you know, Shae Witcomb. I thought
was it would be a really good story. You know,
he's pretty much shattered every Corey Jolk's triple A you
know number that was out there as far as home
runs production RBIs. So I thought it was kind of
and I would imagine Shay was probably the guy that's
sitting back there watching Decenzo and some of these guys
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get called up and going, hey, I've been doing this
for a couple of years, and now he gets his opportunity.
But so I'm kind of curious to see him and
how that does work out, because I agree as far
as the corresponding move, will be very interesting to see
how that works out. But I want to go back
to something you said. In order for the Astros to
be in the position they're in right now, it was
affected by how they started. They had no other choice
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since what mid may to go full throttle and try
and get back into the race. In doing so, you
had to burn a lot of fuel to get to
the point we're at now. And I think the biggest
fear for Joe Aspot and his staff was and even
Josh Miller. You know this goes offensively in pitching wise,
is we have we flamed everybody out? Are we going
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to burn out before we can make that stretch run.
I really hope that today Alex has news for us,
but not I don't want to say catastrophic, but I
want to, you know, is it an il stint? Because
for Alex, and I'm just speculating here, for Alex to
say I need to I need a day off. Is
something substantial after a day off, So I'm kind of
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curious to see what happens.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, there's no question that it is something of great significance.
There's forty two games left in the season. How many
of those forty two games will Kyle Tucker be available
for to help your lineup? If this is a player
now being less available for the final say it was
his throwing elbow. Sorry to cut you, O, No, that's
kind of important information. When don't you think there's more
to baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Than just because he's a right handed hitters change up,
you hyper extend your left elbow. Maybe there's a little inflammation.
You're like, okay, give me a day or two. That's
all that's going on.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
By the way, that scenario you just mapped out would be.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You that would be a great Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That's just something you need to flesh out and get
the range of motion back, and you be fine as
opposed to a throwing elbow, because he's not just throwing
from second base or you know, you could you can
mask that.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
At the timing of these two different things would appear
to be related you have the day off. I don't
think Bregman just necessarily found out about this, and we'll
find out. But Shay Wickham has played first, second, short
and third this year almost exclusively.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
He's got eleven starts in the outfield.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
That makes much more sense that Wickham was the player
they chose to if there is a need on the
infield for at least a player who can play third,
if not just a simple utility player with what now
they don't I mean if Bregman's out of the lineup
for an ile stint well every single day Joe spot
as a gang, well, who do I put it third
or first?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Both to every day?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Moving forward with singled in, Descenzo, Dubon and wickhamb among
the players in the mix, and nobody's clearly right now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Wemus Diaz is out there too. But the problem is
you have you have a gold Glove defender and a
Player of the week offensive guy. You know what part
are you going to replace or try to replace? And
you're not going to replace either of those. You've got
to have somebody that's going to go out there and
turn a double play when you need it, make the
routine play when you need it and maybe find a
base hit when you when they have an opportunity. But
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it's not going to be somebody that's having an august
like Alex is. Right now.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's the thing too. You just said it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
The last play of the last game was the groundout
to Alex Bregman, end of the game. He's not just
missing time at some random point in his last year
of his contract while the Askers are making a run
to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He said it the other day, and he's right.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
This is the best he's ever swung the bat, best
he's felt swinging the bat, and the results are there.
So yeah, perfect storm of come on man, really.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah for real. I don't know how. I also explained,
I can't wait to hear what he has to say,
but I'm really kind of I mean, the fact that
he's holding it in kind of like in front of
his locker type situation. Maybe we can speculate that that's
just kind of like, hey, I'm ailing right now, I'm
gonna I'm gonna get a shot, or I'm going to
go on the injury list for ten days and I'll
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be back. You know, That's what I hope.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That was the first question I was going to ask you,
or the next question I was going to ask is
if it is like a hyper extension or whatever. How
many players hold a press conference that's announced by the Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
But he's the guy, he's the spokesman of this team
right now. He's done everything. He's your hitting coach, he's
your pitching coach.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Goes to the mountain visiting coach.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I sat down in Tampa and had a twenty minute
conversation with him and Hunter Brown about hundred rounds pitches,
and the dude was on everything. He knew which pitches
were coming off, what finger, he knew what shapes were
gonna bedeo freak. He's a he is a baseball freak.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You see him in the cage. Does he still have
the iPad everywhere he goes? What it is?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You? No?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He breaks? How dare you say certain? I'm just kidding. Wow,
I'm just kidding. It's an Apple League, But I don't
know they're paying the.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Great shot the other day of what I'm sure all
our kids look like every day, not talking to each other.
Alvros was on the back and they were both looking
at us. Their swings. They were talking to each other.
They had that they were buried in their technology.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Buried last time.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm like, Carson, your mom's talking to you. That's exactly
how I talked to him in his stupid screen, just
like his dad.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, but you know what, to your point is the
fact that Alex will go to the bus with an iPad.
He'll get on the bus looking at his bats on
the iPad. He'll get on the bus the next day.
I have the iPad, So I mean this guy, he
doesn't check out when the final ounce made definition. He's
working through it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, but okay, he's also happens to be their hottest hitter.
Right now, we're just we were just getting to the
point where maybe you could start talking about, all right,
when's Kyle Tucker coming back around? That'd be a cool
weapon to add. Really, we got to do this right now, So.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
No timing is terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But my thing is regardless of what it is, unless
it's season ending, I just don't because of what we
just got done talking about the way he is.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He'll break my heart if I would say right now,
if it's I, it's it'll break my heart.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Because that could be the last time he saw him
as an astro.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a huge Bregagy guy. I mean that.
I mean yeah, that would that would that would be
seriously punishing. The only hope you have is that the
Mariners stink and can't close out a game and the
Rangers have disappeared. I mean that's the thing. Yeah, But
that's the only thing that you're holding on to. That's
why I kind of say, if it's a ten game
iel Stint, you can tread water until he gets back
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and be fine in the division and think about going
to the playoffs as the AL West champ. But if
it's something longer than that, you might have to show
a little bit more concern.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's just that he and the fact that he's just
so high up in the line. There's a there's nothing
player of the week. Is that bombs the cole Player
of the week. I'm sorry, my bad.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell jord On you said that, and
then you're gonna have to do it. Then you do it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Lastly produced video of him saying that, then Jordon won't
believe it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
True?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Okay, did you see when that happened?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wagen? Not witness it because that was at the moment
I was having that conversation with Breakie and Hunter and Julia.
I get done with the conversation, I go over to
say goodbye to Julie. I'm gonna go up to the booth,
and she goes turn around look at the screen, and
I was like, what the hell it's broken? Are he
broke it?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Hey, guys, pay your bills or wait, it's absolutely something
totally different than that.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Sorry to blame you, guys, even though it seems so.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's the first assumption in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Of course, it is great opening segment.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Hopefully news not so negative as we can send you
here on a Monday edition of The A Team.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Jeff Blum here in studio with us here.
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For the opening of the Friday edition of A Get
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Speaker 1 (12:16):
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Speaker 4 (12:23):
Special treat on a Friday is always our visit with
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right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety so very
much looking forward to a weekend of socks. The next
six games at home, first White, then Red and the
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Astros trying to turn an eight game winning streak into
an even longer one second winning streak of seven games
or more. They're twelve games this month have him at
nine to three with spectacular starting pitching. Renel Blanco and
you say Kakuchi, the two pitchers who have started three games.
The other three pitchers are set to take the three
starts in tonight and tomorrow and Sunday afternoons game. Mister
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Strutt set to take the hill tonight with the lettuce flowing.
This is clearly the best we've seen from Spencer Arraghetty.
And we are anticipating some news on Alex Bregman, which
we'll share with you as soon as we have it.
But the mixture of having the good stuff and the
confidence that goes with it, and acting like you know
you're gonna have the good stuff and the confidence that
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comes with it, he's married them awfully quickly here and rightfully.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So the swing and miss numbers are off the charts.
And I remember when we started to watch Spencer Arraghetty
obviously comes up, goes back, down, comes back, and one
of the reports that we heard is that he's a
guy that goes out there and hunts strikeouts. And if
you watched his first ten start, you're going he may
have to hunt somewhere else, you know, because the barrels
were getting to him. But I think he's kind of
he's a data guy, and I think he's starting to
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marry the data with the scouting reports and with his abilities,
and I think that's what it's been able. That's what's
enabled him to go out there and pitch extremely well.
But that being said, the last what three four starts
where he's got I feel like forty five strikeouts in
the last four games or whatever it is, And you know,
no rookie has ever ever gone I think three games
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in a row with twelve or more strikeouts. So when
you see a line on Spencer Arraghetti where he's got
one or two walks in twelve to thirteen strikeouts, he's
dialed in. And then you start to see that confidence
grow a little bit. You go in and face a
team like the Boston Red Sox where he struck out thirteen.
That is a very good offense for the Boston Red Sox.
He went out there in hostile territory in Fenway and
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absolutely shoved and he started to see a little bit
of that attitude. He was walking around that mound carrying
his luggage and he was chirping it guys, and I
thought that was really interesting to see, because you know,
you need that little bit of an edge if you're
gonna be successful in this game.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Is he not well?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was gonna say it's not as demonstrative, but Hunter
Brown's doing that too.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, he is, very much so.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
The initial comments from al X Bregman as he's speaking
with the media are that he slept on his elbow wrong,
underwent test.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
No ligament damage from those tests.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Chorus Dan he hopes to miss just a few days,
missed the weekend There we Go, says it is not
a long term injury. I like to see all the
tweets of the people who are there to see how
they described the same exact thing. And I will give
credit to Brian mctagger, Chandler oh Matt Kawahara, the three
most ardent to beat members who traveled to and fro
with this ball club. It is.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Julia does the same. That's the bestest, best case scenario.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I would imagine. I just hope that, you know, the
swelling doesn't go down. He's like, man's still there, but
you know, jabe, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Let me let me stop you guys. So we've we've
seen the and heard of the slept on it wrong. Yes,
have you ever heard of the I slept on my
elbow wrong. I've slept on my neck. I have a discomfort.
I slept on it wrong. Christian hopeer had it. We've
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seen it many times. The elbow seems a little less.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Really dig into this. We got home freakingly late because
Tampa Bay decided to have a night getaway game. He
gets it to the house one thirty, settles into bed
at two. Who wakes up at six seven am? I
don't know their scheduled. My family, Dad, let's get in
the cage because he's the same way as dad is,
so that he's up early, having a great off day
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with his son. Maybe he does sleep on it wrong.
I don't know. I mean, when you're that tired, you'll
wake up in a position you've never been in Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And this is again I'm not trying to to pick
on this speculation. Yeah, but this is why whenever they
say discomfort about everything, it drives me insane because we
don't have any frame of reference. You can have, Ah,
I slept it. Julie Guriel slept on his neck wrong. Yeah,
Justin Verlander had a stiff neck. Well, no he didn't,
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he's been gone for a couple of months. Kyle Tucker
had a bruise, the worst bruise in the history of
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Chandler did a good job of like investigating the bone bruise.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
In the fact that though there's so many different results
from and how they got the bruise, but really the
result two months that sounds ridiculous. Well, here are two
or three players that have missed the final three months
of a season.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When you're here in football, Yeah, I mean guys are
getting you know, there are you know, thigh contusions that
lasts you know, four or five months, and you're like,
what's wrong with this guy? But uh, yeah, it's it's interesting.
I'm hoping that it is just sleeping on it wrong.
I've never heard of it, so I don't know what
that means. But at the same time, you know we've
all tweaked. I mean not. I can't say at my
age man tweak everything, you know like.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You can say.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I got out of bed wrong, I stood up from
the chair wrong. I put my foot on the gas
pedal wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I grabbed my phone wrong. I'm like I'm down.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I mentioned there's three different versions of this because Brian
McTaggart says he slept on it wrong a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So but he obvious days ago we were in Tampa
playing the game, So right, did he slay through it
and agtivate it?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I didn't say he doesn't want to play through it anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In the same sentence, he expects to miss the weekend,
but said it's not a long term injury.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, so what if the situation was I slept on
it wrong in Tampa? We played through it because Tampa's
good and we're in first place. We got a day
off coming up. Let's see how it feels on the
day off. I'll show up today. Okay, it's still tweaked
and the White Sox we're playing the White Sox. Why
don't you take a break. We'll call up possibly call
up a young man named Shay Wickham and we'll see
how the weekend goes and play from there, because you
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can protect him this weekend, and that's something you have
to take into account.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And they are, obviously, I imagine, based on what we
haven't heard, contemplating not definitively set to play some on
the injured list. If it's just a weekend of games.
In this situation, yes, you would hold out. You would handicap,
so to speak, Joe a spot for a couple of
days with one fewer players if it means he's going
to miss four games instead of ten, if he's going
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to miss five games instead of ten. Sometimes I usually
rail against it all the time when I'm like, dude,
this guy hasn't played in six days.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
He's clearly hurt. What I know, eventually you're going.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
To retroactive it, but that means they've played short all
these days. But I can understand it where they are
in the season and what's going on with who they have,
And I do commend them on and Dana Brown it
fits in here as well.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They could see what was happening with their offense.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
They can see the dead spots at the bottom of
their order, and at some point we have to bring
this next guy up. We have to bring the next gap,
We have to bring the next guy up. They're from
pedro Leone to Zach Decenzo now to Shay Whitcomb. Clearly
it's exacerbated by the situation, but you gotta try something,
and that's what they're doing to try to help the
monsters at the top who have been monstrous for a
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little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Now. Yeah, and I mean we were spoiled there. What
was through mid July? You know that's six through nine
number was actually doing pretty good. And you could actually
throw Jeremy Painey into that one through five situation because
he's a lot of really good bats here recently in
August as well.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So even though he almost hit into a double play
in the tenth inning.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yes, is he ever going to hit into a not
his usual double play? Just four hundred foot flyout into
a double play?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh my god. Well, I mean I love Gary Pettis,
but Gary Pettis could have been a little more emphatic.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
About well he had already started to slow down.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, that's what you're hitting the brakes, is that balls
coming in. And that was a little frightening.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
By the way, I love that people are so on
brand at all times during a time like this. Space
City Sports literally beds are single handedly taking down the
Astros beds, he says, but also Chandler rome in the
middle of all this, Luis Garcia is still not throwing.
Come on, man, just give us a break for like
five seconds. Can we all get our bearings back after
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finding out that Alex Bregman isn't dead.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Chandler's special on brand's.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Force Chandler to also say it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
By the way, I also was following along with Justin
Verlander pitching quite well, following up to.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Seven pitches of the last night.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Is there any opportunity that he actually takes advantage of
that last nast night.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I'm sure they'll have more reports on it today and
he'll probably be here this weekend in anticipation of pitching
this homestand I would lose fifty seven pitches the last
three innings. He breezed through, got it up to ninety six,
did have trouble in the first inning, had two errors
made in the field with that as well, had a
super long inning from his offense, which had him sitting
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for a long time, which I imagine contributed to just
tossing fifty seven pitches.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, but you also have to talk to the guy.
You're right, he probably sat there and said, you know what,
I feel good enough about what I'm doing. And I
think I heard that he you know, put down ten
of the last eleven guys that he saw struck out
three and one inning. So everything's kind of pointing in
the right direction. But again, when he wakes up today
and he reports to the powers that be, how do
you feel That's gonna be the biggest question for him
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is how did he rebound from that start? Because you're
going into a section of games where you're playing eighteen straight.
You have Renelle Blanco getting over his innings pitch, you
have Spencer or Getty getting over his innings pitched in
his career, and you need to protect those guys. And
if they can go to a six man rotation, that
will mean great things. And how about adding a guy
like Justin Verlander to a rotation that's already been two
times through with Yseay Kakuchi in it pitching as well
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as they are. I mean, it would just extend this
thing and really drive some other team's nuts.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
In ten seconds or less. Do you know the interim
manager for the White Sox at all.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Great Gretty Sizemore. I've only played against him, and I
thought he was a phenomenal talent. I'll find out more
when I get to the yard eventually.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And dude, did you enjoy Greg Maddix sitting down at
the Barry Bonds? Yes, because I know you loved the.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I want to do that with I did, and I've
had conversations. I know that he is an absolute wizard.
But at the same time, I give Greg a lot
of credit for watching the home run because I know
it's chewing him up inside. He's got to be like, man,
I got him like seven more times. Why are we
showing this one?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Hey, we appreciate you coming in.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, it's good to be here. Jeff Witz at Vision
Group has been fantastic. And of course low t Center
dot com is where you got to go. Check it out, fellas.
I'll let you guys drag this thing out. You guys
are on these hard breaks. You're so fancy, be careful
driving to the stadium. We don't anything happening to you. Well,
good news is all the errors in my truck tires,
so I'm ready to roll over anything.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
We'll discuss more next the A team on Sports Talk
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh my gosh, he's sitting like five feet from us.
We haven't done this in like two months.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is weird.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, man, it's gonna be good to see your facial
expressions and how you react too.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Whoa, what is going on over there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I hate man, car's broken, pets heads they're falling off.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What is the deal?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So we find out like five seconds ago that Alex
Bregman is gonna meet with the media in like five
seconds from now, and uh, we don't know what it's about,
but he's out of the lineup tonight, so we know
it's probably not a good thing. Oh hi, Jeff, his elbow.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, the elbow is the thing. But what is it about?
That's the question. And you know we had a day
off yesterday. You figured after eight games, eight game winning
streak on the road trip, everything's on. White Sox are
in town a certain town. We could be well, maybe
here we go. Positively, the White Sox are in town,
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so maybe This is a good time for whatever's ailing
Alex that he can address it. He's addressing it by himself.
He's not using any intermediaries. He's not discomforting us, hopefully,
and he can take three days against the Chicago White
Sox to get things straight before we head into the
Red Sox and that back end of August, which is
going to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know what, the first thing I thought of, because
I'm a pessimist, Yes this is true, that like, why
does he never take days off?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh, you know that, you know why, well, but you
got to take days off. But of all years, why
would he not take a day off this year? Right?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are playing to win? You start seven and nine, you're
winning a contract off.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The only two reasons you play is to win and
get a contract.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Unfortunately for Joe Aspada and Dana Brown and everybody else
in the Astros circle of trust, they don't have time
for that. They don't have time for off this year.
They don't have time to put out the Sunday lineup.
They don't have time to rest guys. They don't say, well,
Brian Bray probably shouldn't pitch in every other game sixty
out of one to twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
They just don't Could it hurt them later? Maybe we
find out today.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Could have hurt them next month with pitching arms, certainly
could but they're going about their business as they have
since they started seven to nineteen. I'll say it again,
it's still true. The best team in baseball for the
last ninety four games, the best era in baseball for
the last ninety four games. Nobody's been better. That's more
than half a season. They're playing to do what they
always do, which is win at all. The release states
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as follows out of the lineup due to swelling in
the back of his right elbow, and as we mentioned,
we're a few minutes away from alex addressing the media.
He is not in the lineup today, and they will
have somebody who's got a little bit of experience playing
third base. Mauricio Dubon another d in the lineup, with
Zach Zach Decenzo also back into the mix. He is
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the first baseman today. They announced the move that was
reported last night by Ari Alexander, that Shaye Whitcomb has
been added to the major league roster. He's a non
forty man guy, so a corresponding move for both the
twenty six man and forty roster has to be made,
though it could still be the same person involved, but
both those moves would have to be made all in
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advance of them trying to continue the best stretch of
baseball they've played all year, having had to lead this
big since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's three games heading into today.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Pitching's been great, hitting has been just enough, you know
when every game you have only two hits, But they
won their most recent game with just two hits, coming
back on a happy flight after an eight to one
road trip into a day off, into a six game
Homestand are the vibes alright with this team?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
This news notwithstanding, I was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Going to say when I got into my trunk to
drive down here to be with you guys, Yeah, vibes
were great. It was you know, Shae Witcomb. I thought
was it would be a really good story. You know,
he's pretty much shattered every Corey Jolk's triple A you
know number that was out there as far as home
runs production RBIs. So I thought it was kind of
and I would imagine Shay was probably the guy that's
sitting back there watching Decenzo and some of these guys
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get called up and going, hey, I've been doing this
for a couple of years, and now he gets his opportunity.
But so I'm kind of curious to see him and
how that does work out, because I agree as far
as the corresponding move, will be very interesting to see
how that works out. But I want to go back
to something you said. In order for the Astros to
be in the position they're in right now, it was
affected by how they started. They had no other choice
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since what mid may to go full throttle and try
and get back into the race. In doing so, you
had to burn a lot of fuel to get to
the point we're at now. And I think the biggest
fear for Joe Aspot and his staff was and even
Josh Miller. You know this goes offensively in pitching wise,
is we have we flamed everybody out? Are we going
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to burn out before we can make that stretch run.
I really hope that today Alex has news for us,
but not I don't want to say catastrophic, but I
want to, you know, is it an il stint? Because
for Alex, and I'm just speculating here, for Alex to
say I need to I need a day off. Is
something substantial after a day off, So I'm kind of
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curious to see what happens.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, there's no question that it is something of great significance.
There's forty two games left in the season. How many
of those forty two games will Kyle Tucker be available
for to help your lineup? If this is a player
now being less available for the final say it was
his throwing elbow. Sorry to cut you, O, No, that's
kind of important information. When don't you think there's more
to baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Than just because he's a right handed hitters change up,
you hyper extend your left elbow. Maybe there's a little inflammation.
You're like, okay, give me a day or two. That's
all that's going on.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
By the way, that scenario you just mapped out would be.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You that would be a great Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That's just something you need to flesh out and get
the range of motion back, and you be fine as
opposed to a throwing elbow, because he's not just throwing
from second base or you know, you could you can
mask that.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
At the timing of these two different things would appear
to be related you have the day off. I don't
think Bregman just necessarily found out about this, and we'll
find out. But Shay Wickham has played first, second, short
and third this year almost exclusively.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
He's got eleven starts in the outfield.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
That makes much more sense that Wickham was the player
they chose to if there is a need on the
infield for at least a player who can play third,
if not just a simple utility player with what now
they don't I mean if Bregman's out of the lineup
for an ile stint well every single day Joe spot
as a gang, well, who do I put it third
or first?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Both to every day?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Moving forward with singled in, Descenzo, Dubon and wickhamb among
the players in the mix, and nobody's clearly right now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Wemus Diaz is out there too. But the problem is
you have you have a gold Glove defender and a
Player of the week offensive guy. You know what part
are you going to replace or try to replace? And
you're not going to replace either of those. You've got
to have somebody that's going to go out there and
turn a double play when you need it, make the
routine play when you need it and maybe find a
base hit when you when they have an opportunity. But
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it's not going to be somebody that's having an august
like Alex is. Right now.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's the thing too. You just said it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
The last play of the last game was the groundout
to Alex Bregman, end of the game. He's not just
missing time at some random point in his last year
of his contract while the Askers are making a run
to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He said it the other day, and he's right.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
This is the best he's ever swung the bat, best
he's felt swinging the bat, and the results are there.
So yeah, perfect storm of come on man, really.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah for real. I don't know how. I also explained,
I can't wait to hear what he has to say,
but I'm really kind of I mean, the fact that
he's holding it in kind of like in front of
his locker type situation. Maybe we can speculate that that's
just kind of like, hey, I'm ailing right now, I'm
gonna I'm gonna get a shot, or I'm going to
go on the injury list for ten days and I'll
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be back. You know, That's what I hope.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That was the first question I was going to ask you,
or the next question I was going to ask is
if it is like a hyper extension or whatever. How
many players hold a press conference that's announced by the Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
But he's the guy, he's the spokesman of this team
right now. He's done everything. He's your hitting coach, he's
your pitching coach.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Goes to the mountain visiting coach.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I sat down in Tampa and had a twenty minute
conversation with him and Hunter Brown about hundred rounds pitches,
and the dude was on everything. He knew which pitches
were coming off, what finger, he knew what shapes were
gonna bedeo freak. He's a he is a baseball freak.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You see him in the cage. Does he still have
the iPad everywhere he goes? What it is?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You? No?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He breaks? How dare you say certain? I'm just kidding. Wow,
I'm just kidding. It's an Apple League, But I don't
know they're paying the.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Great shot the other day of what I'm sure all
our kids look like every day, not talking to each other.
Alvros was on the back and they were both looking
at us. Their swings. They were talking to each other.
They had that they were buried in their technology.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Buried last time.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm like, Carson, your mom's talking to you. That's exactly
how I talked to him in his stupid screen, just
like his dad.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, but you know what, to your point is the
fact that Alex will go to the bus with an iPad.
He'll get on the bus looking at his bats on
the iPad. He'll get on the bus the next day.
I have the iPad, So I mean this guy, he
doesn't check out when the final ounce made definition. He's
working through it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, but okay, he's also happens to be their hottest hitter.
Right now, we're just we were just getting to the
point where maybe you could start talking about, all right,
when's Kyle Tucker coming back around? That'd be a cool
weapon to add. Really, we got to do this right now, So.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
No timing is terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But my thing is regardless of what it is, unless
it's season ending, I just don't because of what we
just got done talking about the way he is.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He'll break my heart if I would say right now,
if it's I, it's it'll break my heart.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Because that could be the last time he saw him
as an astro.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a huge Bregagy guy. I mean that.
I mean yeah, that would that would that would be
seriously punishing. The only hope you have is that the
Mariners stink and can't close out a game and the
Rangers have disappeared. I mean that's the thing. Yeah, But
that's the only thing that you're holding on to. That's
why I kind of say, if it's a ten game
iel Stint, you can tread water until he gets back
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and be fine in the division and think about going
to the playoffs as the AL West champ. But if
it's something longer than that, you might have to show
a little bit more concern.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's just that he and the fact that he's just
so high up in the line. There's a there's nothing
player of the week. Is that bombs the cole Player
of the week. I'm sorry, my bad.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell jord On you said that, and
then you're gonna have to do it. Then you do it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Lastly produced video of him saying that, then Jordon won't
believe it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
True?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Okay, did you see when that happened?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wagen? Not witness it because that was at the moment
I was having that conversation with Breakie and Hunter and Julia.
I get done with the conversation, I go over to
say goodbye to Julie. I'm gonna go up to the booth,
and she goes turn around look at the screen, and
I was like, what the hell it's broken? Are he
broke it?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Hey, guys, pay your bills or wait, it's absolutely something
totally different than that.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Sorry to blame you, guys, even though it seems so.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's the first assumption in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Of course, it is great opening segment.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Hopefully news not so negative as we can send you
here on a Monday edition of The A Team.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Jeff Blum here in studio with us here.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
For the opening of the Friday edition of A Get
into the Weekend against the White Sox, followed by the
Red Sox for the Astros at Minute Made Park.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
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Speaker 3 (11:19):
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Speaker 1 (12:16):
The a team.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Special treat on a Friday is always our visit with
Jeff Blum. An even more special treat is he's in
here in studio with us. He'll obviously be a part
of Tonight's broadcast based City Home Network. Of course, has
the Astros of White Sox tonight. We do as well
right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety so very
much looking forward to a weekend of socks. The next
six games at home, first White, then Red and the
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Astros trying to turn an eight game winning streak into
an even longer one second winning streak of seven games
or more. They're twelve games this month have him at
nine to three with spectacular starting pitching. Renel Blanco and
you say Kakuchi, the two pitchers who have started three games.
The other three pitchers are set to take the three
starts in tonight and tomorrow and Sunday afternoons game. Mister
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Strutt set to take the hill tonight with the lettuce flowing.
This is clearly the best we've seen from Spencer Arraghetty.
And we are anticipating some news on Alex Bregman, which
we'll share with you as soon as we have it.
But the mixture of having the good stuff and the
confidence that goes with it, and acting like you know
you're gonna have the good stuff and the confidence that
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comes with it, he's married them awfully quickly here and rightfully.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So the swing and miss numbers are off the charts.
And I remember when we started to watch Spencer Arraghetty
obviously comes up, goes back, down, comes back, and one
of the reports that we heard is that he's a
guy that goes out there and hunts strikeouts. And if
you watched his first ten start, you're going he may
have to hunt somewhere else, you know, because the barrels
were getting to him. But I think he's kind of
he's a data guy, and I think he's starting to
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marry the data with the scouting reports and with his abilities,
and I think that's what it's been able. That's what's
enabled him to go out there and pitch extremely well.
But that being said, the last what three four starts
where he's got I feel like forty five strikeouts in
the last four games or whatever it is, And you know,
no rookie has ever ever gone I think three games
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in a row with twelve or more strikeouts. So when
you see a line on Spencer Arraghetti where he's got
one or two walks in twelve to thirteen strikeouts, he's
dialed in. And then you start to see that confidence
grow a little bit. You go in and face a
team like the Boston Red Sox where he struck out thirteen.
That is a very good offense for the Boston Red Sox.
He went out there in hostile territory in Fenway and
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absolutely shoved and he started to see a little bit
of that attitude. He was walking around that mound carrying
his luggage and he was chirping it guys, and I
thought that was really interesting to see, because you know,
you need that little bit of an edge if you're
gonna be successful in this game.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Is he not well?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was gonna say it's not as demonstrative, but Hunter
Brown's doing that too.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, he is, very much so.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
The initial comments from al X Bregman as he's speaking
with the media are that he slept on his elbow wrong,
underwent test.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
No ligament damage from those tests.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Chorus Dan he hopes to miss just a few days,
missed the weekend There we Go, says it is not
a long term injury. I like to see all the
tweets of the people who are there to see how
they described the same exact thing. And I will give
credit to Brian mctagger, Chandler oh Matt Kawahara, the three
most ardent to beat members who traveled to and fro
with this ball club. It is.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Julia does the same. That's the bestest, best case scenario.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I would imagine. I just hope that, you know, the
swelling doesn't go down. He's like, man's still there, but
you know, jabe, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Let me let me stop you guys. So we've we've
seen the and heard of the slept on it wrong. Yes,
have you ever heard of the I slept on my
elbow wrong. I've slept on my neck. I have a discomfort.
I slept on it wrong. Christian hopeer had it. We've
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seen it many times. The elbow seems a little less.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Really dig into this. We got home freakingly late because
Tampa Bay decided to have a night getaway game. He
gets it to the house one thirty, settles into bed
at two. Who wakes up at six seven am? I
don't know their scheduled. My family, Dad, let's get in
the cage because he's the same way as dad is,
so that he's up early, having a great off day
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with his son. Maybe he does sleep on it wrong.
I don't know. I mean, when you're that tired, you'll
wake up in a position you've never been in Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And this is again I'm not trying to to pick
on this speculation. Yeah, but this is why whenever they
say discomfort about everything, it drives me insane because we
don't have any frame of reference. You can have, Ah,
I slept it. Julie Guriel slept on his neck wrong. Yeah,
Justin Verlander had a stiff neck. Well, no he didn't,
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he's been gone for a couple of months. Kyle Tucker
had a bruise, the worst bruise in the history of
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Chandler did a good job of like investigating the bone bruise.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
In the fact that though there's so many different results
from and how they got the bruise, but really the
result two months that sounds ridiculous. Well, here are two
or three players that have missed the final three months
of a season.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When you're here in football, Yeah, I mean guys are
getting you know, there are you know, thigh contusions that
lasts you know, four or five months, and you're like,
what's wrong with this guy? But uh, yeah, it's it's interesting.
I'm hoping that it is just sleeping on it wrong.
I've never heard of it, so I don't know what
that means. But at the same time, you know we've
all tweaked. I mean not. I can't say at my
age man tweak everything, you know like.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You can say.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I got out of bed wrong, I stood up from
the chair wrong. I put my foot on the gas
pedal wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I grabbed my phone wrong. I'm like I'm down.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I mentioned there's three different versions of this because Brian
McTaggart says he slept on it wrong a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So but he obvious days ago we were in Tampa
playing the game, So right, did he slay through it
and agtivate it?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I didn't say he doesn't want to play through it anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In the same sentence, he expects to miss the weekend,
but said it's not a long term injury.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, so what if the situation was I slept on
it wrong in Tampa? We played through it because Tampa's
good and we're in first place. We got a day
off coming up. Let's see how it feels on the
day off. I'll show up today. Okay, it's still tweaked
and the White Sox we're playing the White Sox. Why
don't you take a break. We'll call up possibly call
up a young man named Shay Wickham and we'll see
how the weekend goes and play from there, because you
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can protect him this weekend, and that's something you have
to take into account.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And they are, obviously, I imagine, based on what we
haven't heard, contemplating not definitively set to play some on
the injured list. If it's just a weekend of games.
In this situation, yes, you would hold out. You would handicap,
so to speak, Joe a spot for a couple of
days with one fewer players if it means he's going
to miss four games instead of ten, if he's going
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to miss five games instead of ten. Sometimes I usually
rail against it all the time when I'm like, dude,
this guy hasn't played in six days.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
He's clearly hurt. What I know, eventually you're going.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
To retroactive it, but that means they've played short all
these days. But I can understand it where they are
in the season and what's going on with who they have,
And I do commend them on and Dana Brown it
fits in here as well.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They could see what was happening with their offense.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
They can see the dead spots at the bottom of
their order, and at some point we have to bring
this next guy up. We have to bring the next gap,
We have to bring the next guy up. They're from
pedro Leone to Zach Decenzo now to Shay Whitcomb. Clearly
it's exacerbated by the situation, but you gotta try something,
and that's what they're doing to try to help the
monsters at the top who have been monstrous for a
(19:46):
little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Now. Yeah, and I mean we were spoiled there. What
was through mid July? You know that's six through nine
number was actually doing pretty good. And you could actually
throw Jeremy Painey into that one through five situation because
he's a lot of really good bats here recently in
August as well.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So even though he almost hit into a double play
in the tenth inning.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yes, is he ever going to hit into a not
his usual double play? Just four hundred foot flyout into
a double play?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh my god. Well, I mean I love Gary Pettis,
but Gary Pettis could have been a little more emphatic.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
About well he had already started to slow down.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, that's what you're hitting the brakes, is that balls
coming in. And that was a little frightening.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
By the way, I love that people are so on
brand at all times during a time like this. Space
City Sports literally beds are single handedly taking down the
Astros beds, he says, but also Chandler rome in the
middle of all this, Luis Garcia is still not throwing.
Come on, man, just give us a break for like
five seconds. Can we all get our bearings back after
(20:44):
finding out that Alex Bregman isn't dead.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Chandler's special on brand's.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Force Chandler to also say it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
By the way, I also was following along with Justin
Verlander pitching quite well, following up to.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Seven pitches of the last night.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Is there any opportunity that he actually takes advantage of
that last nast night.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I'm sure they'll have more reports on it today and
he'll probably be here this weekend in anticipation of pitching
this homestand I would lose fifty seven pitches the last
three innings. He breezed through, got it up to ninety six,
did have trouble in the first inning, had two errors
made in the field with that as well, had a
super long inning from his offense, which had him sitting
(21:26):
for a long time, which I imagine contributed to just
tossing fifty seven pitches.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, but you also have to talk to the guy.
You're right, he probably sat there and said, you know what,
I feel good enough about what I'm doing. And I
think I heard that he you know, put down ten
of the last eleven guys that he saw struck out
three and one inning. So everything's kind of pointing in
the right direction. But again, when he wakes up today
and he reports to the powers that be, how do
you feel That's gonna be the biggest question for him
(21:52):
is how did he rebound from that start? Because you're
going into a section of games where you're playing eighteen straight.
You have Renelle Blanco getting over his innings pitch, you
have Spencer or Getty getting over his innings pitched in
his career, and you need to protect those guys. And
if they can go to a six man rotation, that
will mean great things. And how about adding a guy
like Justin Verlander to a rotation that's already been two
times through with Yseay Kakuchi in it pitching as well
(22:14):
as they are. I mean, it would just extend this
thing and really drive some other team's nuts.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
In ten seconds or less. Do you know the interim
manager for the White Sox at all.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Great Gretty Sizemore. I've only played against him, and I
thought he was a phenomenal talent. I'll find out more
when I get to the yard eventually.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And dude, did you enjoy Greg Maddix sitting down at
the Barry Bonds? Yes, because I know you loved the.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I want to do that with I did, and I've
had conversations. I know that he is an absolute wizard.
But at the same time, I give Greg a lot
of credit for watching the home run because I know
it's chewing him up inside. He's got to be like, man,
I got him like seven more times. Why are we
showing this one?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Hey, we appreciate you coming in.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, it's good to be here. Jeff Witz at Vision
Group has been fantastic. And of course low t Center
dot com is where you got to go. Check it out, fellas.
I'll let you guys drag this thing out. You guys
are on these hard breaks. You're so fancy, be careful
driving to the stadium. We don't anything happening to you. Well,
good news is all the errors in my truck tires,
so I'm ready to roll over anything.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
We'll discuss more next the A team on Sports Talk
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