February 19, 2025 • 13 mins
New Astros pitcher and Houston native Hayden Wesneski joined "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" from the second day of full squad workouts at spring training. The Cy-Fair High School and Sam Houston State alum was acquired along with third baseman Isaac Paredes and prospect Cam Smith in a trade that sent outfielder Kyle Tucker to the Chicago Cubs. Wesneski discussed returning home, adding new pitches, his goal to be a starter and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are joined by one of the goats of sci
Fair High School class of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're getting older, man, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Where'd you go to high school at Made Creek? You
ever been there?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
No, by the way, played against Mere Arrogety No hit
my high school twice when he was playing.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I already know what your high school's like.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It feels rude.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Twice once is broh It's Hayden Westnsky with us.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was in one day as well. Yes, say your name.
Say your name for the autist. Hayden was Nasky. Hayden was.
He's an enterprising young fan.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, all right, Hey, okay, So you're in Chicago, you're
getting a cup of coffee and you're getting ready for camp,
and all of a sudden you hear boom Kyle Tucker
truck trade at school. Oh, I'm part of the train.
So I was in Houston. That's right, because you you
are Sam Houston Bearcat.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yes, I'm born and raised Houston Estonian, like a lot
of guys on the team.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Right, But yeah, I get a all.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I was golfing with my uh family that I chose
the one I'm marrying into.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh it's a future father in law. Yes, okay, we're
going get through that a minute about it. So, then
this is the second time I got traded in. Both
times we're on a golf course.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh what was your first trade?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I was with the Yankees and I got traded to
the Cups.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Got you're all over the place, man, I must have
a friendly contract.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
No bad teammate.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh is that right? You come?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
You come across the roll a hole? You really do,
that's what That's what the guys at the gym say.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, so your reaction was the same as this time,
were different? Alright, be happy. You had to be fired
up coming home.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah. And a boy while you're in the rotation, he
had the best round of his life, right, I did.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I helped my golf?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Is that true? Are you making that up?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
No? No, that's actually seriously, that's not that's not a joke.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What's your handicap?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean you don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I don't play enough. I really, I seriously don't play.
I don't play that much.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The last round you shot was a It sounds like
a real gambler. I don't know. Probably three, three digits.
There we go. Is your follow up future follow on?
Proven I approve of this or what.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I played baseball? It's okay, ye was gonna he's all right, Yeah,
he's okay. I have a job. That's like that was
the he's.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
A low bars.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You know he's not asking You're not asking for money
just yet, finest, Yes, this is the girl you met
in college or high school.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
After after college and Pro Bowl early in pro bawl.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Okay, not a.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Big baseball fan.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Your girl isn't.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
She likes it because I do it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So what is her number one thing? Is she a
big Bravo watcher?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, that's that's kind of an upper ally.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Now let me guess the way to her heart was
by watching The Real Housewives with her.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I don't want no, I let her watch it. I
give her, I give her the time.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You just sit in the bed and look at your
baseball reference numbers, right.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, pretty yeah, whatever, whatever whatever that day's mission is,
don't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Don't don't look at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All right, So you get the trade and the phone call,
and then I mean you're penciled in. First of all,
congratulations on that, right, you got to be fired up
for that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh pumped you? Yeah, you have no idea?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Uh, just yeah, pumped my My family's really stoked about it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I packed the lighter this the spring, any knowing I
didn't have to. I'm gonna move back to where it.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Just it's just moving away.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So mom and dad still in town? Yes, same house
you grew up in?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh yeah, I'm twenty minutes away from everybody. So are
you gonna live in that part of town or are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We're not sure.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm forty five minutes away. I live more in tall
Are Ye. No, you gotta get closer, dude, where.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You come up with me and Kinglin if you want to.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's kind of that's very far too.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's a straight shot to fifty nine. OK, but you can.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I don't know. I don't know. We've talked a few things,
me and my fiance have.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
We've stuck with maybe getting hotel rooms every whenever we
need to, so for like long term no no, no, no,
like we'll get like this day, we'll get a hotel,
like we'll pick it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I know one day, Yeah, vacation the day before your game. Yes,
that makes a lot of like.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
The night to day, Like, uh so we'll play a
night game on a Saturday and then Sunday we have
a day game.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'll get one Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I am so jealous.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's that's life I.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Want to live.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, it's it's I'd rather go home.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But that's just around. I'm sorry to do this. Someone
asks you a baseball question. Yeah, so, I'm not gonna
We talked to FanFest. You said your goal was to
be a starter.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Have there any conversations with the people up here about
your your role coming up or just go out there
and start.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
They haven't changed nothing. Nothing's really changed.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Number five today, number two in a couple of years.
I'm hoping Brown get out of the way. I'm gonna
take your spot.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It doesn't matter if it does not as long as
one of the five, it doesn't matter. That's right, right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It is kind of one of the most overrated things
about well, you know, i'd be like, he's a three
four guy.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You don't know that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I mean, if three four needed to win a game
in late September, they're going to count on you to
do so.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, that's right, And I'm telling you it's yeah, though
there's the opening day starter.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's so cool.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
R Right, that's a whole nother ball game two to five.
I'm not after the first opening day. It's kind of
just whoever stole in the next game, right, And so
I don't really care. I've been in such a point
where in Chicago I was they would tell me to
start when I when I needed to start, and so
I didn't know if I was the three or the
one or the five.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Was just on whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, okay, So what is the game plan in
terms of what did you bring into camp this year
that you have not ever brought to the camp? In
terms of is there a pitch, is there a philosophy,
is there a workout routine? If you have you changed
much from saying when you first became a professional baseball player.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh, A lot has changed since I've been a professional
baseball player.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
From last season. Not a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But when I got drafted, I was a sinker slider, guy,
sinker slider, change up as Pro Bowl's gone on about it,
a cutter and four seem I throw a little harder.
I was low nineties at SAM and now I'm kind
of two to five, right, I'll run it up there
if I.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Like things going well, feeling good kind of Uh, so.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We know you're gonna be amped up if it hits
ninety five on the gun.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
No, I'm happy about it, not amped amp amps above happy,
I think, right, Okay, I got you see, I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Like I'm yeah, you want to be consistent.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yes, I'd rather Yeah, if I'm sitting I would. If
I'm sitting three to five, we're in a good spot.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Uh, Sam Houston State, Uh, there's a catch up there.
By the way, they just got drafted. You know that.
You know that kid?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I wear him out as much as I can.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Explain Walker on that kid is. By the way, I
get another name is your guys are giving us a
bunch of names.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Weren't have to really get to know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
That's East Texas.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Baby Walk is an enterprising young fellow.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He is yeah, very country dude. He is. I'm sorry
right now.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
He's tough as a two dollars steak, and dude can
freaking swing it has all the power. I try to
help him out because the biggest thing with young catchers
is that they you have to learn how to manage
two parts of a game, right, And so I don't
know anything about hitting, So I'm not gonna tell try
to help him on the hitting part. But when it
comes to the pitching side, I'm gonna tell him what
(06:37):
how to help him? Right, I go, you need to
talk to your your your pictures, like, you gotta talk
to him. I know it's exhausting. And you got thirteen
of them on your team, fifteen of them in my
lower levels, it's up to twenty, right, whatever it is,
m But I go, you got to talk to him,
like you got you got to know what they do.
You got to know them, and you have to be
able to call a game.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Right. That's and I try to tell him, I go.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The easiest way to stick in the big leagues is
being a pitcher. The second easiest is a catcher. So
you gotta, like, you gotta figure out how to call
a game. I know you have all the tools and stuff, right,
but like you have to understand you have to know
your guys.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Highlight Pitch com love it because it's just it's quick clarity.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
There's no arguments.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
You can't uh no, there's arguments, but uh with the clock,
it speeds everything up.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Got on second base.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
When we had the clock and we were I was
in triple A and they had the clock, and then
we didn't have a calm.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Dude, it was impossible. You can't shake.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
So whatever the guy calls, it's like you have to
do multiple signs so he doesn't steal it and relay it.
And then if you shake, then you're you're to zero
and you're doing you're throwing the pitch shit call.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Really, so with the column is just it's the best
by far.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, as long as there's no it seems like there's
always some kind of battery issue or something.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Is that you guys? Are you guys making that up?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like I need I need like thirty seconds. I'm gonna
act like my Pitchcom's acting up. It feels like it's
a trick of the trade.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Uh yeah, I feel I assume every time that it
happens that they are doing that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Can you change a voice like on ways? No, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I haven't asked. I just kind of assumed.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Basically, like would you want James Earl Jones swimming your
pitch to you or like a like a a sultry.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Actress you Like, No, I'm thinking I want something a
little bit more. No, no, no, we need something intense. I
can't have like screen. Yeah I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's that's awesome. But we're so excited to have you again.
The story about you being on the golf course is great,
and your.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Spot is here. I mean that's to see that in
the I don't know if you're much of a season.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Preview guy, but to have your spot, I have to
kind of not trying to work your way up has
to be you get to a new team and then
you they were saying, look, we we need you every
fifth day.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Man, You'll have no idea how much a big deal
it is. As with the Cubs it was, and I
love playing for him. It's just I didn't know what
my role was. I didn't where I stuck. I did everything.
I would show up the park and I wouldn't know
what I was doing that day. And that's a weird
feeling to have.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Is that is that unfortunately the management or is that
just guys like yourself that just don't have a spot
just yet.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I think it's that. I think it's what they needed
me to do. Right.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
A lot of guys get hurt, and I think a
lot of it has tout the clock. That's another issue
another time. But a lot of guys get hurt, and
at some time my starter gets hurt. They need me
to go there, and then a guy get the ball
pin gets hurt and I got to move there.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's just kind of what you have to do to
balance out. How does your arm handle all that.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I got hurt last year, so you know what happens.
But for the most part it's good. I'm pretty healthy.
I mean, like you get banged up, but it happens.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, well we're going to see you out here for
the first time.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think what is today? That's nineteen. We got six
days twenty fifth.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, I throw live tomorrow and then after that, I
think the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Do you like spring training? No, sucks are just part
of the business. Part of the business.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It's just like I'm you get really frustrated. I get
really frustrated, like things aren't going the ball's not coming
out the way I wanted to.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You know, like it's just like it's early on. Ye
get through the season.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's like, okay, when something doesn't happen the way you
want it to, you know how to fix it. You know,
how to spin it, ride or pull it back. Yeah,
screen training. I just for some reason, I'm like throwing
a pitch and I go, why isn't it doing what
I wanted to do? And it's just you try to
figure out how to fix it and you put your
head against.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The white great news. You got a month and nine
days or something to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
No, I will figure it out. But it doesn't mean
I'm not gonna be frustrate the whole.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No, you know, you have an open invitation to show
anytime you want. We'll be back in Houston. You're gonna
be on with the shows, all of our You're our guy. Now,
what can we get you for a wedding gift? What's
time that you have a registry?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Just yet? No, I don't. I'm trying to think of
something unique that.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I mean, when I got married nineteen ninety seven, back
play I was born, you were born. I put a
direct TV receiver on there, and people are like, we're
not giving you. That's not happening because that was back
in the day. That was like the brand new direct
you know, don't know, is that like evilevision?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But that was the big thing.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You know, what I've heard nowadays is you put on
really expensive gifts and then the registry gives you like
a discount on it. So we're gonna get like, for instance,
you get.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I'm trying to think of something that's like a thousand dollars, right, Okay,
you get something that a thousand dollars. You know, no
one's gonna get it for you.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
It doesn't matter though, because the registry is gonna give
you like ten percent off or twenty percent off by yourself.
So you buy yourself because you're gonna get it for
yourself anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What a sham. That is why we bring bring him,
bring him on from Yeah, I've learned. I learned that
the life had Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, there's also Hey, there's also some stuff about couples
of massages and stuff on that. I'm as a grown
ass man another man, I'm not giving you any money
towards a couple's massage. I want that freaking up life.
You handle it on your own.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I cannot agree more.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We're on the same page there, all right, Well, congrant
what's your name by the way, JC?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
All right, Jason, I want her to listen to the
show because we're very lighthearted and fun. Uh, and we
want to win. You're gonna win fifteen sixteen games this year. Ope,
it's every fifth day. Small steps, my friend.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
You have the Astros win thirty five thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Five, Astros win.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Astros win the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
They know they win a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, they do win a lot. So you got you
got a new infield behind you, which is fine. Yes,
you got sluggers up and down the lineup always awesome.
And your strike up numbers are gonna be good this year.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I like outs, okay, you know, like they just out
to watch out for that left field fancy all right, strikeouts.
And Blake sells really good. He doesn't go seven eight,
nine innings. He just he punched.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll get the money he's making, now, sure that's fair.
He plays a different game.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
The most you pitch, Well, you're gonna be insanely rich.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I have thought about that every day.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Of course you should.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think Ross and I think of our career is like,
we're gonna be okay, We're never gonna.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Be insanely rich, especially him. I mean, I'm doing okay.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Those jobs are you trade a little money for a
lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
We have a good time.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's the easiest job in the one it's the dumbest
job in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
We're here in West Point. You throw a ball and
we talk about you. I don't do anything. I just
talk about you.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And since we like you so much else, if you
give up, if you give up six runs over three innings,
we'll probably been kinder to you.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Than guys we don't like and I appreciate. We'll say
it's a tight.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Strike zone or ball Harley went out, Paul Harley went
out to win. Ad it?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Or yeah that's all right, Hayden wistsky, did I get it? Okay, yep,
perfect scifier.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
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Speaker 3 (13:18):
This is sports Talk, Siven Nighting
We are joined by one of the goats of sci
Fair High School class of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're getting older, man, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Where'd you go to high school at Made Creek? You
ever been there?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
No, by the way, played against Mere Arrogety No hit
my high school twice when he was playing.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I already know what your high school's like.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It feels rude.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Twice once is broh It's Hayden Westnsky with us.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was in one day as well. Yes, say your name.
Say your name for the autist. Hayden was Nasky. Hayden was.
He's an enterprising young fan.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, all right, Hey, okay, So you're in Chicago, you're
getting a cup of coffee and you're getting ready for camp,
and all of a sudden you hear boom Kyle Tucker
truck trade at school. Oh, I'm part of the train.
So I was in Houston. That's right, because you you
are Sam Houston Bearcat.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yes, I'm born and raised Houston Estonian, like a lot
of guys on the team.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Right, But yeah, I get a all.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I was golfing with my uh family that I chose
the one I'm marrying into.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh it's a future father in law. Yes, okay, we're
going get through that a minute about it. So, then
this is the second time I got traded in. Both
times we're on a golf course.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh what was your first trade?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I was with the Yankees and I got traded to
the Cups.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Got you're all over the place, man, I must have
a friendly contract.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
No bad teammate.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh is that right? You come?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
You come across the roll a hole? You really do,
that's what That's what the guys at the gym say.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, so your reaction was the same as this time,
were different? Alright, be happy. You had to be fired
up coming home.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah. And a boy while you're in the rotation, he
had the best round of his life, right, I did.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I helped my golf?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Is that true? Are you making that up?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
No? No, that's actually seriously, that's not that's not a joke.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What's your handicap?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean you don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I don't play enough. I really, I seriously don't play.
I don't play that much.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The last round you shot was a It sounds like
a real gambler. I don't know. Probably three, three digits.
There we go. Is your follow up future follow on?
Proven I approve of this or what.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I played baseball? It's okay, ye was gonna he's all right, Yeah,
he's okay. I have a job. That's like that was
the he's.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
A low bars.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You know he's not asking You're not asking for money
just yet, finest, Yes, this is the girl you met
in college or high school.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
After after college and Pro Bowl early in pro bawl.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Okay, not a.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Big baseball fan.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Your girl isn't.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
She likes it because I do it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So what is her number one thing? Is she a
big Bravo watcher?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, that's that's kind of an upper ally.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Now let me guess the way to her heart was
by watching The Real Housewives with her.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I don't want no, I let her watch it. I
give her, I give her the time.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You just sit in the bed and look at your
baseball reference numbers, right.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, pretty yeah, whatever, whatever whatever that day's mission is,
don't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Don't don't look at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All right, So you get the trade and the phone call,
and then I mean you're penciled in. First of all,
congratulations on that, right, you got to be fired up
for that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh pumped you? Yeah, you have no idea?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Uh, just yeah, pumped my My family's really stoked about it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I packed the lighter this the spring, any knowing I
didn't have to. I'm gonna move back to where it.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Just it's just moving away.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So mom and dad still in town? Yes, same house
you grew up in?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh yeah, I'm twenty minutes away from everybody. So are
you gonna live in that part of town or are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We're not sure.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm forty five minutes away. I live more in tall
Are Ye. No, you gotta get closer, dude, where.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You come up with me and Kinglin if you want to.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's kind of that's very far too.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's a straight shot to fifty nine. OK, but you can.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I don't know. I don't know. We've talked a few things,
me and my fiance have.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
We've stuck with maybe getting hotel rooms every whenever we
need to, so for like long term no no, no, no,
like we'll get like this day, we'll get a hotel,
like we'll pick it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I know one day, Yeah, vacation the day before your game. Yes,
that makes a lot of like.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
The night to day, Like, uh so we'll play a
night game on a Saturday and then Sunday we have
a day game.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'll get one Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I am so jealous.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's that's life I.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Want to live.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, it's it's I'd rather go home.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But that's just around. I'm sorry to do this. Someone
asks you a baseball question. Yeah, so, I'm not gonna
We talked to FanFest. You said your goal was to
be a starter.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Have there any conversations with the people up here about
your your role coming up or just go out there
and start.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
They haven't changed nothing. Nothing's really changed.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Number five today, number two in a couple of years.
I'm hoping Brown get out of the way. I'm gonna
take your spot.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It doesn't matter if it does not as long as
one of the five, it doesn't matter. That's right, right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It is kind of one of the most overrated things
about well, you know, i'd be like, he's a three
four guy.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You don't know that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I mean, if three four needed to win a game
in late September, they're going to count on you to
do so.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, that's right, And I'm telling you it's yeah, though
there's the opening day starter.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's so cool.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
R Right, that's a whole nother ball game two to five.
I'm not after the first opening day. It's kind of
just whoever stole in the next game, right, And so
I don't really care. I've been in such a point
where in Chicago I was they would tell me to
start when I when I needed to start, and so
I didn't know if I was the three or the
one or the five.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Was just on whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, okay, So what is the game plan in
terms of what did you bring into camp this year
that you have not ever brought to the camp? In
terms of is there a pitch, is there a philosophy,
is there a workout routine? If you have you changed
much from saying when you first became a professional baseball player.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh, A lot has changed since I've been a professional
baseball player.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
From last season. Not a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But when I got drafted, I was a sinker slider, guy,
sinker slider, change up as Pro Bowl's gone on about it,
a cutter and four seem I throw a little harder.
I was low nineties at SAM and now I'm kind
of two to five, right, I'll run it up there
if I.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Like things going well, feeling good kind of Uh, so.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We know you're gonna be amped up if it hits
ninety five on the gun.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
No, I'm happy about it, not amped amp amps above happy,
I think, right, Okay, I got you see, I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Like I'm yeah, you want to be consistent.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yes, I'd rather Yeah, if I'm sitting I would. If
I'm sitting three to five, we're in a good spot.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Uh, Sam Houston State, Uh, there's a catch up there.
By the way, they just got drafted. You know that.
You know that kid?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I wear him out as much as I can.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Explain Walker on that kid is. By the way, I
get another name is your guys are giving us a
bunch of names.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Weren't have to really get to know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
That's East Texas.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Baby Walk is an enterprising young fellow.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He is yeah, very country dude. He is. I'm sorry
right now.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
He's tough as a two dollars steak, and dude can
freaking swing it has all the power. I try to
help him out because the biggest thing with young catchers
is that they you have to learn how to manage
two parts of a game, right, And so I don't
know anything about hitting, So I'm not gonna tell try
to help him on the hitting part. But when it
comes to the pitching side, I'm gonna tell him what
(06:37):
how to help him? Right, I go, you need to
talk to your your your pictures, like, you gotta talk
to him. I know it's exhausting. And you got thirteen
of them on your team, fifteen of them in my
lower levels, it's up to twenty, right, whatever it is,
m But I go, you got to talk to him,
like you got you got to know what they do.
You got to know them, and you have to be
able to call a game.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Right. That's and I try to tell him, I go.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The easiest way to stick in the big leagues is
being a pitcher. The second easiest is a catcher. So
you gotta, like, you gotta figure out how to call
a game. I know you have all the tools and stuff, right,
but like you have to understand you have to know
your guys.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Highlight Pitch com love it because it's just it's quick clarity.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
There's no arguments.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
You can't uh no, there's arguments, but uh with the clock,
it speeds everything up.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Got on second base.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
When we had the clock and we were I was
in triple A and they had the clock, and then
we didn't have a calm.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Dude, it was impossible. You can't shake.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
So whatever the guy calls, it's like you have to
do multiple signs so he doesn't steal it and relay it.
And then if you shake, then you're you're to zero
and you're doing you're throwing the pitch shit call.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Really, so with the column is just it's the best
by far.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, as long as there's no it seems like there's
always some kind of battery issue or something.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Is that you guys? Are you guys making that up?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like I need I need like thirty seconds. I'm gonna
act like my Pitchcom's acting up. It feels like it's
a trick of the trade.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Uh yeah, I feel I assume every time that it
happens that they are doing that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Can you change a voice like on ways? No, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I haven't asked. I just kind of assumed.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Basically, like would you want James Earl Jones swimming your
pitch to you or like a like a a sultry.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Actress you Like, No, I'm thinking I want something a
little bit more. No, no, no, we need something intense. I
can't have like screen. Yeah I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's that's awesome. But we're so excited to have you again.
The story about you being on the golf course is great,
and your.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Spot is here. I mean that's to see that in
the I don't know if you're much of a season.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Preview guy, but to have your spot, I have to
kind of not trying to work your way up has
to be you get to a new team and then
you they were saying, look, we we need you every
fifth day.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Man, You'll have no idea how much a big deal
it is. As with the Cubs it was, and I
love playing for him. It's just I didn't know what
my role was. I didn't where I stuck. I did everything.
I would show up the park and I wouldn't know
what I was doing that day. And that's a weird
feeling to have.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Is that is that unfortunately the management or is that
just guys like yourself that just don't have a spot
just yet.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I think it's that. I think it's what they needed
me to do. Right.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
A lot of guys get hurt, and I think a
lot of it has tout the clock. That's another issue
another time. But a lot of guys get hurt, and
at some time my starter gets hurt. They need me
to go there, and then a guy get the ball
pin gets hurt and I got to move there.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's just kind of what you have to do to
balance out. How does your arm handle all that.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I got hurt last year, so you know what happens.
But for the most part it's good. I'm pretty healthy.
I mean, like you get banged up, but it happens.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, well we're going to see you out here for
the first time.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think what is today? That's nineteen. We got six
days twenty fifth.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, I throw live tomorrow and then after that, I
think the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Do you like spring training? No, sucks are just part
of the business. Part of the business.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It's just like I'm you get really frustrated. I get
really frustrated, like things aren't going the ball's not coming
out the way I wanted to.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You know, like it's just like it's early on. Ye
get through the season.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's like, okay, when something doesn't happen the way you
want it to, you know how to fix it. You know,
how to spin it, ride or pull it back. Yeah,
screen training. I just for some reason, I'm like throwing
a pitch and I go, why isn't it doing what
I wanted to do? And it's just you try to
figure out how to fix it and you put your
head against.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The white great news. You got a month and nine
days or something to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
No, I will figure it out. But it doesn't mean
I'm not gonna be frustrate the whole.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No, you know, you have an open invitation to show
anytime you want. We'll be back in Houston. You're gonna
be on with the shows, all of our You're our guy. Now,
what can we get you for a wedding gift? What's
time that you have a registry?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Just yet? No, I don't. I'm trying to think of
something unique that.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I mean, when I got married nineteen ninety seven, back
play I was born, you were born. I put a
direct TV receiver on there, and people are like, we're
not giving you. That's not happening because that was back
in the day. That was like the brand new direct
you know, don't know, is that like evilevision?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But that was the big thing.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You know, what I've heard nowadays is you put on
really expensive gifts and then the registry gives you like
a discount on it. So we're gonna get like, for instance,
you get.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I'm trying to think of something that's like a thousand dollars, right, Okay,
you get something that a thousand dollars. You know, no
one's gonna get it for you.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
It doesn't matter though, because the registry is gonna give
you like ten percent off or twenty percent off by yourself.
So you buy yourself because you're gonna get it for
yourself anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What a sham. That is why we bring bring him,
bring him on from Yeah, I've learned. I learned that
the life had Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, there's also Hey, there's also some stuff about couples
of massages and stuff on that. I'm as a grown
ass man another man, I'm not giving you any money
towards a couple's massage. I want that freaking up life.
You handle it on your own.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I cannot agree more.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We're on the same page there, all right, Well, congrant
what's your name by the way, JC?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
All right, Jason, I want her to listen to the
show because we're very lighthearted and fun. Uh, and we
want to win. You're gonna win fifteen sixteen games this year. Ope,
it's every fifth day. Small steps, my friend.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
You have the Astros win thirty five thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Five, Astros win.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Astros win the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
They know they win a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, they do win a lot. So you got you
got a new infield behind you, which is fine. Yes,
you got sluggers up and down the lineup always awesome.
And your strike up numbers are gonna be good this year.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I like outs, okay, you know, like they just out
to watch out for that left field fancy all right, strikeouts.
And Blake sells really good. He doesn't go seven eight,
nine innings. He just he punched.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll get the money he's making, now, sure that's fair.
He plays a different game.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
The most you pitch, Well, you're gonna be insanely rich.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I have thought about that every day.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Of course you should.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think Ross and I think of our career is like,
we're gonna be okay, We're never gonna.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Be insanely rich, especially him. I mean, I'm doing okay.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Those jobs are you trade a little money for a
lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
We have a good time.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's the easiest job in the one it's the dumbest
job in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
We're here in West Point. You throw a ball and
we talk about you. I don't do anything. I just
talk about you.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And since we like you so much else, if you
give up, if you give up six runs over three innings,
we'll probably been kinder to you.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Than guys we don't like and I appreciate. We'll say
it's a tight.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Strike zone or ball Harley went out, Paul Harley went
out to win. Ad it?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Or yeah that's all right, Hayden wistsky, did I get it? Okay, yep,
perfect scifier.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Bobcats sifaer Bobcatscats, Yeah, in the same use, but the
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Speaker 3 (13:18):
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