May 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Brian Bogusevic Joins The Show Breaking Down Astros Batting Woes After Sitting 18-18
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eleven o'clock straight up here on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Ross Viria with you. Matt Thomas is out,
his son is graduating from Texas A and m Congratulations
to Peyton Thomas, Dan Matthews hanging out for a little
bit longer. Appreciate him and also appreciate Brian boga Sevic
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Did you get a degree from Tulane?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Brian, I do have a degree?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh nice? What was your major?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was like business law?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh my god, general, I'm gonna go with business ethics.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, what is your what is your consulting fee?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I got a lot of questions, I got a lot
of questions for you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You want nothing? You want? You want nothing from the
other of the day.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
All right, appreciate you joining us as always, Brian. Good
good news is we are going to talk about the
hitting not coming, but at least they scored nine runs yesterday,
so let's start with a little bit of positive I
asked you two weeks ago, do we think the breakout
for Jeremy Pania is here? And you said yes and
continues to be the hard hit rates. He's moved into
(01:03):
the start of the lineup. Just what have you seen
from him, especially relative to the last couple of years,
that that we are seeing the breakout in real time
from Jeremy Pinya.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Uh. He's controlling the strike zone really well. You know,
if you can break down hitting into an overly simplistic idea,
it's get a pitch to hit and get a good
swing off and then whatever happens after that kind of
you just live with. And he's he's getting his foot down,
he's getting keeping his hands back so he's in a
good position to hit. He's not chasing, you know, so
(01:35):
he's getting pitches to drive and he's putting good swings
on them. That's why they felt comfortable moving him up
into you know, the leadoff spot because he can really
control and at Bad and that's where that's where the
confidence was coming from when the results weren't there the
first you know, a couple of weeks or so, he's
hovering around two hundred when I'm thinking it's all there
because at Bad, after that bat, he's got all of
(01:57):
the ingredients for having more success. It's just a matter
of it coming. And now you know what, it's like
twenty four out of twenty five games or something, and
I think yesterday's game was a really good example. You know,
he turns on ninety six up and end to hit
a home run, and then the following at bat he
takes a pretty good breaking ball down in a way
and is able to put the barrel on it also
(02:17):
for a double. So you know, it's not like he's
cheating to get to velocity, it's not like he's giving
up on the fastball to not chase. He's just in
a really good spot.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Brian, what was different about Frombury yesterday?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Like what did we see from him that we hadn't
necessarily seen from any of the other starts.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, for him, it all starts with his sinker and
establishing the bottom of the zone with his sinker and that,
and you know he has to get that ball moving
in with downward action when it starts coming off the
side of his hand and is a little bit flatter,
even if it's harder, even if it's ninety six ninety seven,
but it's it's running flat arm side. That's not a
(02:56):
good thing he started off. You know, he really made
a point to get it a stension out front that
has the ball sinking down at the bottom of the zone.
And that tells hitters, Okay, I have to swing at
that pitch when it's down. He's not going to give
me the mistake out over the plate. He's gonna pound
that fastball down, down, down, And then not only is
he gonna get ground balls off of that pitch, but
now you're susceptible to the curveball because it comes out
(03:17):
of the same spot. And then he just starts going
to work on guys and it's a bunch of ground
balls on the sinker, it's a bunch of swings and
misses on the curve ball. That is the exact formula
that you want to see from him. Establish the sinker down,
go to work on guys with the curve ball, mix
in a couple of changeups, and once he can do
both of those things, he doesn't have to do anything different.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Brian boga Sevic was us here on a Sports Talk
seven ninety Let's just go to the weekly Christian Walker update.
We keep saying it's going to turn around. Unfortunately it hasn't.
And we don't want to invoke the name of his
who rhymes with Mose Momayu, but for is there a
curse at first base for this team?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What's going on over there.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to say it's
cursed yet, but it's not looking good. You know what
the thing with him is that you can't really point
to anyone sing and say, hey, this is not there.
You know when when jose A. Brady was really struggling,
he was over matched by fastballs, and I was like,
oh man, if you can't hit the fastball, you're in trouble.
And for Walker, it's like, you know, he'll get blown
(04:22):
up by a fastball one at bat, but then he'll
turn on a fastball or he'll chase It's just it's
just a guy who's searching, and you know, everybody goes
through it, and you know it it stinks when it's
at the beginning of the season. It really stinks when
it's at the beginning of a season with a brand
new team. But you know, there isn't anything that you
can point to and say, like, he can no longer
(04:42):
recognize the breaking ball, or he can no longer catch
up to a fastball. He's just a dude who's in
a slump, and you know he's kind of swimming in
his head a little bit. I'm still very hopeful that
he'll break out and he'll be fine, but yeah, it's
past the point of just kind of early season at
all all level out. There's got to be something that
kind of there's gonna be a switch that flips mentally
where he can relax. It looks like he might have
(05:02):
been coming out of it on the last home stand
a little bit, but you know, now he's kind of
regressed a little bit again.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Brian Bogusavic Space City Home Network joining us here on
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Bogie. A little bit
of a revolving door right now. Platoon situation over at
second Base. You get Mauricio Dubon on Monday, then you
get Brendan Rodgers their last couple of nights.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Would you like to see Joe kind of settle that.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Position of if he's gonna go with Rogers, go with him,
if you're gonna go with Dubon, same deal.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, I would love to see it settled. But it's
not going to be Joe who settles it. It's going
to be the players to settle it. And I would
love to see it settled because somebody, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just starts.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
If you start hitting, you're going to be there every day,
you know, between one of those two guys, and it
just hasn't happened for either yet. You know. The good
news is the main reason you moved out two A
into the outfield was to get better defense at second base,
and you're getting that with both of those guys. They've
they've both been very good over there. But yeah, I
would like for one of them to settle it by
(06:02):
getting hot, and you know, Brendan Rodgers can provide, you know,
a little bit more power theoretically, but we've also seen
Mauricio Dubon get hot and just put together some stretches
where he's getting a ton of hits. If either one
of those guys gets remotely hot, it will be their job,
you know, until it's not. But it's not on Joe
to just decide on one or the other, because you know,
(06:24):
if you can't make the decision, it's probably because neither
guy is really taken hold of it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Camp Smith, with the day off yesterday, can can you
just try to at least get into the mind of
a camp Smith? What do you think is going through
his mind? What do you think is his head spinning?
Is he just being uncomfortable. Is he just having a
little bit of bad luck when you're a young guy
and you're struggling and you get the day off.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Where do you think he is right now?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, Well, for a guy like him, a young guys
still working on you know, days off are workday right, Like,
it's a lot of work in the cage for him still,
you know, getting work in the outfield and stuff. But
for him it's it's extra swings. It's not just sit
down and watch the game and get a day off
like you would. You know when when al Tuve gets
a day off once every month or so, because he's
(07:11):
still got things that he's got to work on. I
mean it's been made very clear to him by the
hitting coaches of what that plan needs to be, you know,
getting more aggressive in is that bats, trying to work
to get a little bit more pre pitch rhythm, get
his hands going a little bit, trying to move the
contact point out in front. Because until he can do
that consistently and be timed up to a fastball, nothing
(07:33):
else is really going to fall in place. And now,
even to the fact that teams have gotten you know,
gotten a little bit of a book on him, and
he's not going to get the Oh this guy just
randomly threw me a change up and hung it over
the middle of the plate and I ran into it.
Like like teams are catching on to the fact that
he's struggling to get the bad head out on velocity
and he's gonna see less and less soft stuff that
(07:54):
he can handle. So, uh, yeah, off days for a
young guy like that are you know, extra workdays.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
And bogie with yourd on. I mean, expect him back,
hopefully sometime in the middle of the week. It's not
a hamstring, it's it's not a quad, it's not anything
like that. But when you see injuries like this with
the hands, I mean, is it something that it goes
away now that it comes back later? Like, you know,
how do you think that this is going to shake
out for him?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, you know, it's kind of vague on what the
actual injury is. They called it a strain or a
sprain or something. You know, a lot of times with hands,
I think of you know, you get jammed and your
hand kind of blows up on you and you get swelling.
That that's not the case. That's something that can pop
up on any given swing. You know, if this is
some kind of a muscular thing, you would think that
just giving it some time off, it calms down and
(08:43):
then it's back to normal. Hopefully that's the case, and
hopefully once he picks the bat back up, it's it's
fine and there's no lingering effects. But you know, you
never really know. Hands are are such delicate things when
it comes to hitting. You know, even just being sore
a little bit, you know something that in sidriy you
think out, I can play through this. It doesn't hurt
(09:04):
all of that all that bad, but just being off
a little bit with with your grip strength can affect
your swing, which can really affect, you know, the production
that you're putting up. So hopefully the the i OL
stint was overly precaution, and you know, what could have
been knocked out in three or four days really gets
knocked out in ten days, and you know it comes
(09:25):
back and you've got to get him hot. You know,
this offense is not going to be what it can
be or what it needs to be until he's healthy
and getting going, and they've got to have it quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Brian bogas Sevic continuing us Continuing with us here on
Sports Talk seven nine. This is more of a general question, Brian,
This is more for the fans. I see this everywhere.
It's like, fire the hitting coaches, Fire the hitting coaches.
I'm like, Okay, well, Jeremy Peni is having a breakout season,
Jake Myers is looking great. A lot of the production
they're not getting is from established major leaguers. But two parter,
(09:57):
what is the exactly the job of the hitting co
coach is like how much is it on the players?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
How much is it on the coaches?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And then just as much as you can from your
perspective evaluating Troye Snicker and Alex Centron.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, you know a lot of you know, we think
of you have to think of coaching at the major
league level as very different than coaching at say, youth levels, right, Like, yes,
you're still developing players, Yes you're working on things. Yes
you're teaching things. But a lot of what coaches do
in the major league that's it's game planning stuff and
(10:29):
it's maintenance type stuff. On there with my dog, you know,
they're they're not. Yeah he's he hears us talking about
hitting and he's ready to go. You know, it's not
they're not building guys swings from the ground up. You
know that. That's at a ball in college and high school.
They're they're talking about getting ready to put together a
(10:53):
game plan against a certain a certain starting pitcher, or
they're digging into video with an established guy saying, hey,
this is a video for you know, late last year,
and this looks a little bit different than what I'm
seeing right now. It's it's very minor things. It's very
detailed and minute type of things. So I don't think
that you can look and look at a hitting coach
(11:15):
and say, oh, well, the team's struggling offensively. It's the
hitting coaches like, really, like, what what are they doing
differently this year with you know Jordon that they haven't
done in the last four or five years. You know,
some of it you just look at the players and say, hey, eventually,
you guys are gonna have to do what's your hair
to do and what we know you can do otherwise
we're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But you know what, what is.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A new hitting coach going to come in and tell,
you know, Christian Walker that they're that they don't already
know about him. So I think the hitting coaches are
doing are doing fine. It's not that it's you've got
guys who are supposed to hit, you know, second, third, fourth, fifth,
in the middle of your lineup not doing it. You know, nobody,
nobody is going to have a productive offense when the
(11:55):
middle of their order is not really getting it done.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, it feels like to me if something were to
have and it would be one of those situations where
somebody's got to be the fall guy and then maybe
just getting a different voice in the different voices in
the clubhouse. Do you think there's value in that or
do you think that would just be a rash decision
if the organization did something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't. I think the I think the firing of
coaches and even managers in the middle of the season
is just because it's something that you can do, because
you can't fire players, you know. I mean it's it's
almost always struggling teams and the players are struggling, and
what are we going to do? We got to shake
it up. These guys know what needs to be done.
It's an experienced team, they've got veteran leadership. You know,
(12:37):
they don't need no nobody needs to send a message
to Jose l tuove. Nobody needs to send a message
to Jordan Albaretz. They know what they needed from them,
they know how to do it. It's just a matter
of time before it happens. So no that I think
that would just be those those types of moves are
more or less useless in my book.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
All Right, there we go, Love, That's why we bring
you on here, Brian for the hard hitting stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Plus it's treat time too, So I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We're gonna let you get to your dog, Brian, go
for you guys going for a walk or what's going on.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, we already did that. He's just barking at everything.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Okay, So you've got a security system too, like ours.
Anything that moves past.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
There you go. What's his name, Van Van?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He's new. He's a new guy.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yep, all right, send Van our regards. Give us a
couple extra pets just for us. Brian, Thanks for the time, man.
We'll talk to you down the road. Yeah, there we go,
Brian Bogus seven good stuff with him as always, love
his perspective on hitting and I hope his fans will
take the heart that that hitting coach stuff that we
just got to there
Eleven o'clock straight up here on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Ross Viria with you. Matt Thomas is out,
his son is graduating from Texas A and m Congratulations
to Peyton Thomas, Dan Matthews hanging out for a little
bit longer. Appreciate him and also appreciate Brian boga Sevic
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Did you get a degree from Tulane?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Brian, I do have a degree?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh nice? What was your major?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was like business law?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh my god, general, I'm gonna go with business ethics.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, what is your what is your consulting fee?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I got a lot of questions, I got a lot
of questions for you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You want nothing? You want? You want nothing from the
other of the day.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
All right, appreciate you joining us as always, Brian. Good
good news is we are going to talk about the
hitting not coming, but at least they scored nine runs yesterday,
so let's start with a little bit of positive I
asked you two weeks ago, do we think the breakout
for Jeremy Pania is here? And you said yes and
continues to be the hard hit rates. He's moved into
(01:03):
the start of the lineup. Just what have you seen
from him, especially relative to the last couple of years,
that that we are seeing the breakout in real time
from Jeremy Pinya.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Uh. He's controlling the strike zone really well. You know,
if you can break down hitting into an overly simplistic idea,
it's get a pitch to hit and get a good
swing off and then whatever happens after that kind of
you just live with. And he's he's getting his foot down,
he's getting keeping his hands back so he's in a
good position to hit. He's not chasing, you know, so
(01:35):
he's getting pitches to drive and he's putting good swings
on them. That's why they felt comfortable moving him up
into you know, the leadoff spot because he can really
control and at Bad and that's where that's where the
confidence was coming from when the results weren't there the
first you know, a couple of weeks or so, he's
hovering around two hundred when I'm thinking it's all there
because at Bad, after that bat, he's got all of
(01:57):
the ingredients for having more success. It's just a matter
of it coming. And now you know what, it's like
twenty four out of twenty five games or something, and
I think yesterday's game was a really good example. You know,
he turns on ninety six up and end to hit
a home run, and then the following at bat he
takes a pretty good breaking ball down in a way
and is able to put the barrel on it also
(02:17):
for a double. So you know, it's not like he's
cheating to get to velocity, it's not like he's giving
up on the fastball to not chase. He's just in
a really good spot.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Brian, what was different about Frombury yesterday?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Like what did we see from him that we hadn't
necessarily seen from any of the other starts.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, for him, it all starts with his sinker and
establishing the bottom of the zone with his sinker and that,
and you know he has to get that ball moving
in with downward action when it starts coming off the
side of his hand and is a little bit flatter,
even if it's harder, even if it's ninety six ninety seven,
but it's it's running flat arm side. That's not a
(02:56):
good thing he started off. You know, he really made
a point to get it a stension out front that
has the ball sinking down at the bottom of the zone.
And that tells hitters, Okay, I have to swing at
that pitch when it's down. He's not going to give
me the mistake out over the plate. He's gonna pound
that fastball down, down, down, And then not only is
he gonna get ground balls off of that pitch, but
now you're susceptible to the curveball because it comes out
(03:17):
of the same spot. And then he just starts going
to work on guys and it's a bunch of ground
balls on the sinker, it's a bunch of swings and
misses on the curve ball. That is the exact formula
that you want to see from him. Establish the sinker down,
go to work on guys with the curve ball, mix
in a couple of changeups, and once he can do
both of those things, he doesn't have to do anything different.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Brian boga Sevic was us here on a Sports Talk
seven ninety Let's just go to the weekly Christian Walker update.
We keep saying it's going to turn around. Unfortunately it hasn't.
And we don't want to invoke the name of his
who rhymes with Mose Momayu, but for is there a
curse at first base for this team?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What's going on over there.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to say it's
cursed yet, but it's not looking good. You know what
the thing with him is that you can't really point
to anyone sing and say, hey, this is not there.
You know when when jose A. Brady was really struggling,
he was over matched by fastballs, and I was like,
oh man, if you can't hit the fastball, you're in trouble.
And for Walker, it's like, you know, he'll get blown
(04:22):
up by a fastball one at bat, but then he'll
turn on a fastball or he'll chase It's just it's
just a guy who's searching, and you know, everybody goes
through it, and you know it it stinks when it's
at the beginning of the season. It really stinks when
it's at the beginning of a season with a brand
new team. But you know, there isn't anything that you
can point to and say, like, he can no longer
(04:42):
recognize the breaking ball, or he can no longer catch
up to a fastball. He's just a dude who's in
a slump, and you know he's kind of swimming in
his head a little bit. I'm still very hopeful that
he'll break out and he'll be fine, but yeah, it's
past the point of just kind of early season at
all all level out. There's got to be something that
kind of there's gonna be a switch that flips mentally
where he can relax. It looks like he might have
(05:02):
been coming out of it on the last home stand
a little bit, but you know, now he's kind of
regressed a little bit again.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Brian Bogusavic Space City Home Network joining us here on
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Bogie. A little bit
of a revolving door right now. Platoon situation over at
second Base. You get Mauricio Dubon on Monday, then you
get Brendan Rodgers their last couple of nights.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Would you like to see Joe kind of settle that.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Position of if he's gonna go with Rogers, go with him,
if you're gonna go with Dubon, same deal.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, I would love to see it settled. But it's
not going to be Joe who settles it. It's going
to be the players to settle it. And I would
love to see it settled because somebody, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just starts.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
If you start hitting, you're going to be there every day,
you know, between one of those two guys, and it
just hasn't happened for either yet. You know. The good
news is the main reason you moved out two A
into the outfield was to get better defense at second base,
and you're getting that with both of those guys. They've
they've both been very good over there. But yeah, I
would like for one of them to settle it by
(06:02):
getting hot, and you know, Brendan Rodgers can provide, you know,
a little bit more power theoretically, but we've also seen
Mauricio Dubon get hot and just put together some stretches
where he's getting a ton of hits. If either one
of those guys gets remotely hot, it will be their job,
you know, until it's not. But it's not on Joe
to just decide on one or the other, because you know,
(06:24):
if you can't make the decision, it's probably because neither
guy is really taken hold of it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Camp Smith, with the day off yesterday, can can you
just try to at least get into the mind of
a camp Smith? What do you think is going through
his mind? What do you think is his head spinning?
Is he just being uncomfortable. Is he just having a
little bit of bad luck when you're a young guy
and you're struggling and you get the day off.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Where do you think he is right now?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, Well, for a guy like him, a young guys
still working on you know, days off are workday right, Like,
it's a lot of work in the cage for him still,
you know, getting work in the outfield and stuff. But
for him it's it's extra swings. It's not just sit
down and watch the game and get a day off
like you would. You know when when al Tuve gets
a day off once every month or so, because he's
(07:11):
still got things that he's got to work on. I
mean it's been made very clear to him by the
hitting coaches of what that plan needs to be, you know,
getting more aggressive in is that bats, trying to work
to get a little bit more pre pitch rhythm, get
his hands going a little bit, trying to move the
contact point out in front. Because until he can do
that consistently and be timed up to a fastball, nothing
(07:33):
else is really going to fall in place. And now,
even to the fact that teams have gotten you know,
gotten a little bit of a book on him, and
he's not going to get the Oh this guy just
randomly threw me a change up and hung it over
the middle of the plate and I ran into it.
Like like teams are catching on to the fact that
he's struggling to get the bad head out on velocity
and he's gonna see less and less soft stuff that
(07:54):
he can handle. So, uh, yeah, off days for a
young guy like that are you know, extra workdays.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
And bogie with yourd on. I mean, expect him back,
hopefully sometime in the middle of the week. It's not
a hamstring, it's it's not a quad, it's not anything
like that. But when you see injuries like this with
the hands, I mean, is it something that it goes
away now that it comes back later? Like, you know,
how do you think that this is going to shake
out for him?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, you know, it's kind of vague on what the
actual injury is. They called it a strain or a
sprain or something. You know, a lot of times with hands,
I think of you know, you get jammed and your
hand kind of blows up on you and you get swelling.
That that's not the case. That's something that can pop
up on any given swing. You know, if this is
some kind of a muscular thing, you would think that
just giving it some time off, it calms down and
(08:43):
then it's back to normal. Hopefully that's the case, and
hopefully once he picks the bat back up, it's it's
fine and there's no lingering effects. But you know, you
never really know. Hands are are such delicate things when
it comes to hitting. You know, even just being sore
a little bit, you know something that in sidriy you
think out, I can play through this. It doesn't hurt
(09:04):
all of that all that bad, but just being off
a little bit with with your grip strength can affect
your swing, which can really affect, you know, the production
that you're putting up. So hopefully the the i OL
stint was overly precaution, and you know, what could have
been knocked out in three or four days really gets
knocked out in ten days, and you know it comes
(09:25):
back and you've got to get him hot. You know,
this offense is not going to be what it can
be or what it needs to be until he's healthy
and getting going, and they've got to have it quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Brian bogas Sevic continuing us Continuing with us here on
Sports Talk seven nine. This is more of a general question, Brian,
This is more for the fans. I see this everywhere.
It's like, fire the hitting coaches, Fire the hitting coaches.
I'm like, Okay, well, Jeremy Peni is having a breakout season,
Jake Myers is looking great. A lot of the production
they're not getting is from established major leaguers. But two parter,
(09:57):
what is the exactly the job of the hitting co
coach is like how much is it on the players?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
How much is it on the coaches?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And then just as much as you can from your
perspective evaluating Troye Snicker and Alex Centron.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, you know a lot of you know, we think
of you have to think of coaching at the major
league level as very different than coaching at say, youth levels, right, Like, yes,
you're still developing players, Yes you're working on things. Yes
you're teaching things. But a lot of what coaches do
in the major league that's it's game planning stuff and
(10:29):
it's maintenance type stuff. On there with my dog, you know,
they're they're not. Yeah he's he hears us talking about
hitting and he's ready to go. You know, it's not
they're not building guys swings from the ground up. You
know that. That's at a ball in college and high school.
They're they're talking about getting ready to put together a
(10:53):
game plan against a certain a certain starting pitcher, or
they're digging into video with an established guy saying, hey,
this is a video for you know, late last year,
and this looks a little bit different than what I'm
seeing right now. It's it's very minor things. It's very
detailed and minute type of things. So I don't think
that you can look and look at a hitting coach
(11:15):
and say, oh, well, the team's struggling offensively. It's the
hitting coaches like, really, like, what what are they doing
differently this year with you know Jordon that they haven't
done in the last four or five years. You know,
some of it you just look at the players and say, hey, eventually,
you guys are gonna have to do what's your hair
to do and what we know you can do otherwise
we're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But you know what, what is.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A new hitting coach going to come in and tell,
you know, Christian Walker that they're that they don't already
know about him. So I think the hitting coaches are
doing are doing fine. It's not that it's you've got
guys who are supposed to hit, you know, second, third, fourth, fifth,
in the middle of your lineup not doing it. You know, nobody,
nobody is going to have a productive offense when the
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middle of their order is not really getting it done.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, it feels like to me if something were to
have and it would be one of those situations where
somebody's got to be the fall guy and then maybe
just getting a different voice in the different voices in
the clubhouse. Do you think there's value in that or
do you think that would just be a rash decision
if the organization did something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't. I think the I think the firing of
coaches and even managers in the middle of the season
is just because it's something that you can do, because
you can't fire players, you know. I mean it's it's
almost always struggling teams and the players are struggling, and
what are we going to do? We got to shake
it up. These guys know what needs to be done.
It's an experienced team, they've got veteran leadership. You know,
(12:37):
they don't need no nobody needs to send a message
to Jose l tuove. Nobody needs to send a message
to Jordan Albaretz. They know what they needed from them,
they know how to do it. It's just a matter
of time before it happens. So no that I think
that would just be those those types of moves are
more or less useless in my book.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
All Right, there we go, Love, That's why we bring
you on here, Brian for the hard hitting stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Plus it's treat time too, So I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We're gonna let you get to your dog, Brian, go
for you guys going for a walk or what's going on.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, we already did that. He's just barking at everything.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Okay, So you've got a security system too, like ours.
Anything that moves past.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
There you go. What's his name, Van Van?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He's new. He's a new guy.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yep, all right, send Van our regards. Give us a
couple extra pets just for us. Brian, Thanks for the time, man.
We'll talk to you down the road. Yeah, there we go,
Brian Bogus seven good stuff with him as always, love
his perspective on hitting and I hope his fans will
take the heart that that hitting coach stuff that we
just got to there
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