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00:00It's that cologne.
00:03You know what I mean?
00:04Today, Dirty's Daily is powered by that Prada Black.
00:07Y'all hit that yet?
00:09Sex Panther?
00:1060% of the time, it works every time.
00:14Well, I don't have the movie reference.
00:16You know you're talking to the wrong guy.
00:17I ain't got it.
00:18Anchorman.
00:19Okay, I didn't have it, but I appreciate it.
00:21Paul Rudd.
00:22I do appreciate it.
00:23It's made with bits of real panther.
00:24So you know it's good.
00:26I don't know where the panther came from.
00:28Black, maybe?
00:29Prada?
00:29Prada, not panther.
00:30Prada Black.
00:31Prada, not panther.
00:33Prada, not panther.
00:35You know what I'm saying?
00:35Y'all with me?
00:37Have y'all got a little hint of it?
00:39I don't have it.
00:40I don't have that scent.
00:41Oh, man.
00:43I've been, somebody's crop dusted me with it multiple times.
00:47Crop dusted you with it?
00:48Well, you know, the old pass by, and I'm like,
00:50that cat smells good, right?
00:52And I'll be honest with you, I think,
00:56who was it that put me on the million-dollar cologne the other day?
01:00It's a rich musk.
01:03I think it was Jalen Petrie a couple years back put me on one,
01:06and I asked him what he had on in the post-game show,
01:09and he told me one that it was not it,
01:11and I think it was Prada Black.
01:13Anyway, there was a young group at Radio Row,
01:15Super Bowl Radio Row, sitting behind us,
01:17a young group of some Ithaca, from Ithaca, New York.
01:20Ithaca College.
01:21Their college.
01:21They must have a good...
01:23I visited that school once.
01:24Yeah, pretty nice place.
01:25So they had a crew of about eight kids behind us
01:27that were doing radio from Radio Row,
01:29and one of them, I mean, he was sitting right behind me,
01:31and I'm telling you, I couldn't figure out which one it was.
01:33Finally, about day three, I tried to say,
01:35which one of y'all got that go-getter on?
01:36Now, Ithaca, New York, I don't think he understood what I was saying.
01:39He had asked me to repeat what I was saying.
01:41I would have asked.
01:42When I was at Syracuse, I would have asked you to repeat it.
01:44I'm going to be honest with you, Clint.
01:45That smells like pure gasoline.
01:47No.
01:48What are you talking about?
01:48It's a reference from Anchorman.
01:50Oh, man, you've got to watch Anchorman, bud.
01:52I'm just going to keep dropping references.
01:54I just don't memorize lines.
01:55Next commercial break, we'll show you the cologne scene.
01:57But this Dirties Daily is powered by Prada Black.
02:01I'm telling you, go smell it.
02:02You're going to spend some money.
02:03I would not tell Ron Ugly to go try it
02:05because he is not going to spend the money.
02:06But I've been looking for this cologne for a while.
02:09I stumbled upon it with this young fellow at Radio Radio.
02:14And I found me some yesterday, so I picked it up.
02:15I need some new colognes.
02:16Well, it's a little pricey, but I'm telling you,
02:19your old lady's going to appreciate it.
02:20I know mine did.
02:21I got the old sample on my wrist,
02:23and I walked in and stuck it down there by her nose.
02:24She said, ooh, I like that.
02:25I said, okay, I'll buy the bottle tomorrow.
02:26I didn't even ask how much it costs, boy.
02:28You get that kind of response from your old lady.
02:29It's worth a million dollars.
02:30Ain't no doubt about it.
02:31But Prada Black, that is what's bringing you Dirties Daily today.
02:36And a quick reminder, baseball is back.
02:39MLB opening night is tonight.
02:41No Astros, but it is MLB opening night tonight.
02:44Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees face Raphael Devers
02:47and the San Francisco Giants.
02:50Yankees-Giants live on Netflix tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern.
02:54That's 7 p.m. Central.
02:55Also, 5 p.m. Pacific.
02:58Netflix getting in the MLB game, boys.
03:00Opening night.
03:01New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants.
03:03Boy, they going from one side to the other.
03:05They're covering the entire United States on opening night.
03:07I think that's kind of the point.
03:08But good luck, Netflix.
03:11Make sure that thing happens.
03:12Astros opening night is tomorrow.
03:14They wrapped up spring training last night in an exhibition game
03:18with the Space Cowboys.
03:21So disappointed it's not Skeeters anymore.
03:23But the Space Cowboys, what a major mistake.
03:26Major mistake in professional sports in our beautiful city of Houston.
03:30Major mistake going from Skeeters to Space Cowboys on so many fronts.
03:34On so many fronts.
03:36Top questions.
03:37Top questions coming out of spring training for the Astros.
03:41Paul, you said this earlier.
03:42I said it a few days ago.
03:44Just, you know, a lot of us fans, this time of year,
03:47you've got to just lean on the reports that are coming out of spring training.
03:50That's all you got.
03:51Because you don't see many of the games.
03:53Five games might get televised.
03:54Yeah, so you really got to lean into the guys that are there,
03:57that are on site, and their opinions and their takes.
04:00And so much of what we consume and what we're hoping for tomorrow,
04:07as we sit here today, it stems from those guys.
04:10And so there's several of those people, not guys, guys and gals,
04:13that are covering the team.
04:14The top Astro questions coming out of spring training.
04:17All right?
04:18I'm going to start with Altuve, who, by the way,
04:2114th straight opening day roster tomorrow is set to make his 14th straight
04:27opening day start, which is second only to BGO and Bagwell.
04:33Now, pretty sure he's going to start.
04:35Yes.
04:35The question is, how in the hell is he going to start?
04:38Paul Galan, I'm telling you,
04:39Altuve apparently had a rough spring training.
04:41Five for 41.
04:44Oh, free swing in Altuve.
04:45Five for 41.
04:47And here's the concern for me.
04:49No worries about Altuve and five for 41.
04:53The concerns are when you bring into the conversation that the Astros are
04:59making an obvious effort to be more patient at the plate and see more pitches.
05:03I don't know that that's going to jive with Altuve's approach at the plate.
05:07Is five for 41 in spring training something to worry about?
05:10It is a little bit.
05:11And, hey, maybe you can spin zone it to yourself as, well,
05:14he's really trying his best to be patient and not swing out of his shoes,
05:19as you said, all the time.
05:21But, he's that guy that's in the lineup.
05:26And if he doesn't stay disciplined, does the rest of the lineup stop being disciplined?
05:31Because you might have forgotten this, folks, but going into last year,
05:36the Astros were saying the exact same thing about patience at the plate.
05:40They were saying, we're going to see more pitches.
05:42We're going to work counts.
05:44And, for the first couple of games you saw, you even saw it from Jose Altuve a little bit.
05:48And then it just stopped.
05:49And they never got back to that.
05:51Is that on Joe Espada?
05:52Is that on the hitting coaches?
05:54Is that on the players?
05:55Carlos Correa seems to think it was the players.
05:57And, Carlos Correa is going to be a great voice to have in the clubhouse to keep everyone honest.
06:02But, if you're five for 41 to open up the year,
06:05does that mean the Astros are perhaps thinking about where exactly in the lineup Jose Altuve is going to be?
06:09Maybe not in the short term.
06:11He's going to be at the top.
06:12You don't want to disrespect a veteran on opening day.
06:14But, as the season goes along, does he move down in the lineup a little bit?
06:18Or, do they keep things the way that they always keep him?
06:22Especially back in the Dusty Baker days.
06:25Ooh, I tell you.
06:26Because they never moved the lineup at all.
06:28It was all the veterans.
06:29Veterans, veterans, veterans, baby.
06:30I'm going to tell you, Joe ain't scared to move it around.
06:33No, he's not.
06:34There's certain guys that are off limits.
06:36But, Joe ain't scared to move that damn thing around.
06:39Dusty, we ain't talking to you.
06:40You stay out of this.
06:41I'm going to tell you, man.
06:42I mean, he ain't scared to just to straight move folks around.
06:45But keep an eye on Altuve.
06:46Five for 41.
06:47At some time.
06:48I'm not saying it is.
06:50I'm just stating the obvious.
06:51At some time, Father Time is going to jump on Altuve's back.
06:55Is that five for 41 this spring, is that indicative of the greatest Astro of all time?
07:02Maybe struggling a bit with old Father Time.
07:04Or, just a hitch and a giddy up.
07:05He'll be all right once the season gets rolling.
07:07And we'll find out starts tomorrow.
07:09All right, let's stick with that lineup, Paul.
07:11I think the biggest talking point, I think this is beautiful.
07:14I think it's a great problem to have.
07:16I'm glad the Astros landed here.
07:18The extra bat that they've got to find a way to get in the lineup, right?
07:23When you look at Isak Paredes, I believe, is the odd man out.
07:28But not odd man out.
07:29But the guy that you've got to figure out how and where is he going to play?
07:32Where is he going to be in the lineup?
07:33How are you going to get the best bats that the Astros bring to the table?
07:37How are you going to get him in the lineup night in, night out?
07:39Just your overall thoughts on that coming out of spring training of how they go about it.
07:44I think he's got to be DH until you feel comfortable with his hamstring and all the body parts.
07:49And that means that Jordan Alvarez is going to be your most of the day's left fielder.
07:55He has to be that.
07:57Baseball boner for you, boy.
07:58You're pumped about that?
07:59Oh, hell yeah.
08:00I'm so sick and tired of hearing about him being injury prone.
08:04Now, which I'm not disagree.
08:07Look, I'm not no fool.
08:09I understand that the guy has missed more games than he's played in damn near recently.
08:13But it ain't got nothing to do with him playing left field.
08:16I mean, that little old noggin bump that he had with Pena out there in shallow left that he had
08:20to take a golf cart off the field.
08:22Somebody should have told his biggest, hey, man, get up and walk off, man.
08:24Like my mom used to tell me, boy, if your leg ain't broke, you better at least walk off the
08:28field so I know you're all right.
08:29I bet Jordan's mom or dad was like, boy, you better get up off that damn cart and walk your
08:33ass to that dugout, man.
08:34What's wrong with you?
08:34I mean, whoever painted home plate, that's the guy that should have lost his job.
08:39We shouldn't be worried about his ankle.
08:41That damn ankle rolled because that plate was slick, right?
08:44The hand problem he had, that was from swinging a bat.
08:48That didn't do with playing left field.
08:49Hand discomfort, that was a fracture?
08:50Yeah, to my knowledge, that was swinging a bat.
08:53Also, the Astros should have known.
08:55What the hell?
08:56I'm glad you went there.
08:57Good point.
08:57They mismanaged that as well.
08:59So, yeah, that was my next question.
09:01Jordan's playing time in left field.
09:02You obviously think it increases.
09:03How much do you think it increases?
09:04I mean, I think it's 80% of the time at least.
09:06Come on, talk dirty to me.
09:07It's got to be that.
09:08Now, I got to say, going back to the conversation we had a little bit earlier, I'm not a fan
09:12of the open roof.
09:12I want Jordan in the left field in the air conditioning.
09:15I want him in the air conditioning.
09:16How are you going to bring Jordan into this air conditioning thing?
09:18Sir, he was pulled from a game because of smoke once.
09:20Come on, for fireworks.
09:21This is the real thing that happened.
09:23Jordan leaves games for the weirdest reasons, and it might be bad luck.
09:27I mean, if we didn't all love his ass, and if he wasn't one of the best hitters in baseball,
09:31we would call him on this.
09:33I did not know that.
09:34Did he really leave a game for smoke?
09:35Yeah, man.
09:35Come on, man.
09:36I swear.
09:36I swear.
09:37Come on, fireworks smoke?
09:38Maybe my favorite Astros injury ever.
09:40There's been some weird ones, man.
09:41Tyler, did you know this?
09:42Yeah.
09:43Yeah, I was aware.
09:44How did we not do that?
09:45I must have been on the river drinking tequila, listening to country music or something.
09:48I would not have let him live that down.
09:50I mean, I feel like...
09:51He shouldn't.
09:51Hey, this is something Ron Ugly's got to answer for.
09:54So he's got to stay in the A.C.?
09:55Yeah, what about the humidity?
09:56Oh, hell no.
09:58Jordan, are you kidding?
09:58Where's he from?
09:59You got all the Deer Park smoke.
10:02What if that walks into the stadium?
10:03I grew up right there in the middle of that, so I'm good.
10:05Where in the hell did Jordan grow up?
10:07Huh?
10:07Where did Jordan grow up?
10:09I bet it was hotter.
10:10Yeah, Dominican, right?
10:11I bet it was hotter than Haiti down there.
10:13He ain't worried about no down 85 degrees.
10:14Yeah, but now he's playing in the outfield.
10:15If he's DH, I don't care about that.
10:16He's in the outfield now.
10:18Jordan's a damn diva, man.
10:19Get your ass in with it.
10:19Well, I want my diva playing in every game.
10:22He's from Cuba.
10:23Cuba, that's right.
10:24I forgot he defected.
10:25Yeah, I forgot that, too.
10:26It's hot down there, isn't it?
10:27It's hotter than I'll get out down there.
10:29Near the equator.
10:30All right, we'll move on.
10:31This is my wild card for the Astros here, boys.
10:35Jake Myers.
10:36Can Jake Myers continue the tear that he was on last year?
10:40I know I used that term loosely.
10:42I've been hitting roughly 300.
10:45I mean, exceeding my expectations, which admittedly they were low after the first few years.
10:51I'm not a big Jake Myers fan.
10:53I like what he was doing last year before the injury, but he's my wild card.
10:56If Jake Myers swings the bat well enough to lengthen this lineup to one through seven is a problem,
11:05then this team's got a real, real shot to keep that World Series window opening
11:09and make a serious run in the playoffs.
11:11Jake Myers, you buying last year's Jake Myers or the previous?
11:15I loved what I saw, but 7-1-3-5-7-2-4-6-10 on the text line,
11:18what's more likely, he goes on the tear or he tears something?
11:21Oh, now he's injury prone.
11:22Yeah.
11:23Would y'all stop it?
11:24What am I saying?
11:25I mean, ain't nothing wrong.
11:26Jake's all right.
11:27Jake violently throws himself at the outfield balls as well.
11:31There's at least one Wile E. Coyote-esque splat against the wall of season.
11:36I respect how hard he goes after him.
11:38He is a lose control.
11:40It's painful.
11:41Yeah, he is one of those old boys that when he does dive, you worry about the landing.
11:45Yeah.
11:46And it's not about him hurting an elbow, bracing himself.
11:48It's the literal kind of...
11:50He'll learn to fall.
11:50Yeah, it's, yes, good call, man.
11:52It's like the quarterback that can't figure out how to slide and look professional.
11:55When he's out there, I mean, I am actually encouraged about it,
11:59but it just, it feels like he also has bad luck on the injury front.
12:03Well, look, Jake Myers, he's got to swing the bat well.
12:06I'm just, for me anyway, I'm just not, I don't, I could give two rips about the outfield.
12:11Now, I'd like for you to have an arm, you know, my Jordan argument,
12:14I'd like for you to at least have an arm in left field so you can,
12:17so people don't just stroll home on you from third base on shallow pop-ups.
12:20But the Jake Myers gold glove thing, I've heard enough of.
12:25Like, Jake's not swinging the bat well enough to keep his job.
12:28And so, I just think if he goes, if he swings it anywhere close to where he swung it last
12:32year, man,
12:33that length, I mean, that, well, this lineup is deeper than you thought.
12:37Six, seven, maybe even eight deep.
12:38Ooh, that could be nasty.
12:40Ooh, yeah, there you go.
12:40Six, seven.
12:41I got it.
12:41I still don't know what the hell that means.
12:43I don't either.
12:43All right, starters two through five.
12:45Starters two through five in this rotation.
12:48I think the headliners here in this conversation are obviously M.I. and Burroughs.
12:54Your thoughts on where those guys are at coming out of spring training.
12:58Well, we'll see with Burroughs.
12:59I feel pretty good about anybody who gets a little extra coaching from the Astros pitching staff.
13:05It really worked well for Yusei Kikuchi, a guy that I covered up in Seattle when he came here,
13:11and he obviously talked about it, and that's the big reason that Tatsuya M.I. is here.
13:15That was strong.
13:16I hope M.I. is great because I got to tell you, Clint, I am obsessed with the island of
13:22Japan.
13:22I got really into it a couple of years ago because two TV shows came out at the same time
13:26that I really like, Tokyo Vice and Shogun, and I really want Tatsuya M.I. to take on, like, fever.
13:34I think one of the cool things about M.I., and we've heard that Dana Brown wants the guy
13:38to throw a lot of strikes because sometimes Japanese pitchers who historically have been workhorses,
13:43sometimes you'll see him throw 140, 150 pitches in a game in high school.
13:46Like, they aren't, like, babied like American pitchers are.
13:48Yeah.
13:49He said that he wants him to work the strike zone.
13:51Well, for what it's worth, one walk in all spring training.
13:54Not like he was pitching a ton, but that's encouraging as he gets used to pitching against major leaguers.
13:58Yeah, it was impressive.
14:00He was the one guy after I brought, I mean, I think Hunter Brown, Mike Burroughs, and Tatsuya Ima,
14:07I think they all had three start, three appearances maybe.
14:10Now, they were all different innings, inning amounts, obviously, different workloads.
14:14But, I mean, you know, those guys' stat line was, together, combined, was ridiculous.
14:20And it was like, I know it's spring training, guys, but this is turning me on.
14:23And then all of a sudden, in his last outing, Hunter Brown gave up three.
14:26Mike Burroughs gave up three.
14:28And all of a sudden, I'm like, boy, I'm down to M.I.
14:30Can you hang on?
14:32Can you hang on?
14:32He must have did all right, because that was in the exhibition game two nights ago, right?
14:35It was.
14:36Spring training is so weird, too.
14:37This drives me crazy, Clint.
14:39It's one of the reasons that I just force myself to look away and say, okay, hey,
14:43it's all about what happens in the regular season.
14:45After a disastrous performance by a pitcher on the mound, they'll always say, yeah,
14:50I was just working on some stuff in spring training.
14:52Give it like six runs in inning.
14:53I was just working on some stuff.
14:54I feel really good about what I did.
14:55It's like, bro, you got a shell for six runs.
14:57How do you feel good?
14:58You're a competitor.
14:59How do you feel good about that?
15:00Yeah.
15:01How do you just get up there and throw a duck up there and let somebody knock it out of
15:04the park?
15:05Yeah.
15:05Spring training, I get it.
15:06But like, oh, I feel good.
15:07No, I'll get you.
15:08Look, there's certain guys that I'll take that from, you know?
15:11I mean, Frambois Valdez and Verlander and Grinke and Cole and even Hunter Brown today.
15:18You're like, those guys go out there, work on something, get shit.
15:20Okay, cool.
15:21Hey, man, if I'm in M.I., I need you to go out there and give me everything you got.
15:23I need to see how competitive you really are.
15:27So, but that's...
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