00:00All right, the Masters getting started today as it looks like it is going to be
00:06an interesting four days, and it looks like it's getting out into a good spot
00:13right now, courtesy of our good friends at Grind City Media in Memphis.
00:19Chris Vernon will help us out with our Masters update.
00:24Scott Van Pelt in the booth.
00:27Scott Van Pelt is the truth.
00:30Scott Van Pelt in the booth.
00:34Scott Van Pelt is the truth.
00:36FBF 50 so that head won't burn.
00:40FBF 50 so that head won't burn.
00:44FBP wants a walrus.
00:47But I lost my walrus.
00:51FBP wants a walrus.
00:54Yo, where is my walrus?
00:57I can't find my walrus.
01:00Where'd it go?
01:01Yo, where is my walrus?
01:04Oh, I found my walrus.
01:07This is what's going on in Augusta.
01:10Woo.
01:11Go walrus.
01:13Go walrus.
01:16Go walrus.
01:18Go walrus.
01:19Go walrus.
01:20Go walrus.
01:21Go walrus.
01:23This is what's going on in Augusta.
01:26Oh, okay.
01:27It's going on in Augusta.
01:33Rory is leading five under.
01:35Rory.
01:38Burns at five under.
01:40Scotty Scheffler threw five at three under.
01:42Patrick Reed.
01:43He's done.
01:4469 today.
01:45Three under.
01:46Nice.
01:46Going on in Augusta, baby.
01:48That's right.
01:48Did we get to the scores?
01:51He never got to the scores, did he?
01:54He just really got to the walrus.
01:58Shout out to Chris Vernon.
02:01That is one of the best things I've ever seen in the media, by the way.
02:05Today and tomorrow on Friday.
02:07Anytime you hear this tune, we're giving you a master's update.
02:09Master's update, baby.
02:11Right there.
02:11There it is.
02:13There it is.
02:14Woo.
02:15It gets me every time.
02:17Absolutely kills me.
02:18Every time.
02:19I'm good, man.
02:20I'm glad.
02:22Like Rory right there, man.
02:23You got a chance to repeat, baby.
02:24It's 19 years.
02:2519 years since I think we've had a repeat in the master's.
02:28So, Rory's tied for the lead through 16.
02:32All right.
02:32We were just talking about this with the Astros.
02:35Some Astros news, Clint.
02:37It looks like according to Chandler Rome, who had it first, Taylor Trammell.
02:42We saw a lot of him yesterday, or last year, excuse me.
02:46Him and right-handed pitcher JP France, they will join the Astros in Seattle.
02:53They are going to be a part of the 40-man, or they are neither on the 40-man roster,
02:57but
02:57they're going to have to open up spots for them to jump on there.
03:00But they are going to join when we look at the injuries to center fielder Jake Myers.
03:04I haven't seen yet, Tyler, Cheryl, or Clint, that they've been placed on the IL yet, but
03:12this probably gives us a good sign that they probably will get placed on the IL if they're
03:17bringing those guys up.
03:19And so, JP France and Taylor Trammell coming up when you see the injuries to Jake Myers
03:27and Christian Javier yesterday.
03:29So, that's some news there.
03:30We'll see those guys as they'll return up here to Houston.
03:37And they're probably going to be in the lineup.
03:39They're probably going to have to either hit and pitch very, very soon coming up this,
03:45maybe even this series against the Mariners.
03:46Yeah, definitely JP France.
03:48I mean, look, you don't get brought up that quick after a couple of injuries if you're
03:53not going to get plugged in pretty quick.
03:55There's no need for a starting pitcher up in the bigs right now with the Astros that's
04:00not ready to pitch.
04:01So, you've got to believe that he's going to be slotted in one of those two spots in
04:05game three or game four of this Mariners series that are TBD'd right now.
04:09Have they announced if JP France is starting one of those games, Cheryl, Tyler?
04:12I haven't seen the full.
04:15The full, we only saw what they had two pitchers lined up yesterday.
04:19So, I don't think they've put that in yet.
04:21So, we're getting MI and we're getting Lance McCullers at the game three and game four
04:27starters TBD.
04:28I would imagine JP France and probably Spencer Argetty are going to get those two starts.
04:33So, yeah.
04:33I mean, if you're getting bumped up right now as a starting pitcher, you're definitely
04:36going to get some run.
04:37We'll see what we can do.
04:37Yeah.
04:38Yeah.
04:38Well, they're going to need them.
04:40They get a day off, but they're going to need these guys.
04:43I just, I want to, I want to kind of kick things off with this from yesterday.
04:48We watched them in here and they lost nine to one, which completed the sweep they had
04:54in Colorado.
04:55And obviously that is not, not the way you wanted to see this thing roll, but yes, it
05:02is early.
05:03But I'm wondering from you, was, was this just a bad 72 hours in Colorado or do you think
05:09this was a bad sign of, of what we potentially may be looking at?
05:13You look at this team six and seven, but they're only a game and a half behind the Rangers.
05:17They got this four game set against Seattle, who I think a lot of people count as a favorite.
05:20These injuries are starting to Mount Clint, Hunter Brown, Hader guys in the, in the bullpen
05:27to Zenzo.
05:28He never got off.
05:29We're looking at Jake Myers, Javier, hell Cody Bolton is day to day with a back issue
05:33who pitched in, uh, uh, in place of Hunter Brown, uh, in this series, where, where are
05:39you looking at right now?
05:40Is this just a bad 72 hours that we see multiple times throughout the baseball season or is this
05:45a bad sign?
05:46No, I think it's a bad sign.
05:47I think the, the, and it's particular for me, it's, it's the, it's more of the bullpen,
05:53uh, than anything.
05:54Uh, you know, I, again, I don't know that Christian Javier didn't do us a favor.
05:57Obviously, obviously there's some concern with Hunter Brown.
06:00I mean, that's the, the ACE, you know, you, the bats have been, I can't complain about the
06:04bats for going quiet in a couple of games here.
06:06Um, to me, it's, it's about the bullpen.
06:09Yes.
06:09They've been taxed.
06:10Yes.
06:10They've been put in some bad situations, but blue ball to come out there and the wheels to come
06:14completely off yesterday.
06:16We've talked about that, about Brian, a Bray, you just looking out of sorts.
06:19And I don't know, man, I just, I guess after hearing Dana Brown talk about, maybe I just
06:24heard a bad, bad, uh, you know, bit of audio there from him, but after hearing him talk
06:29about how confident he was in the, in the bullpen and you know, I, I, I hope to see a
06:34little more out of them.
06:35I mean, I, I guess a little better out of them.
06:37It just seems like, I mean, they're rolling guys out there that, that, that I have no idea
06:42who they are, where they came from and then they're, they're messing the bed.
06:45And so I don't, I don't know.
06:46I'm not the bullpen is the, is, is the one for me, man, that I'm, I think it's a bad
06:50sign.
06:51I don't know how you fix that.
06:51You can get a hundred Brown healthy.
06:53You even with these arms, a JP France, Spencer, Eric Getty, Jason Alexander, you got some guys
06:57that you can pull up to eat some innings up in a regular season.
07:00I don't know what you do about the, I don't know what you do about the bullpen.
07:03I mean, you've got any confidence in any guy, like, even if you're starting pitchers
07:06were, were right and they're getting, they're getting into, into the fifth or, or through
07:11six, Brian King, I guess.
07:12I mean, I mean, there's a couple.
07:14Yeah, sure.
07:15There's a couple, but I mean, I mean, like, is there anybody that you see come out of that
07:19bullpen?
07:20You're like, all right, they're nails.
07:21Let's go.
07:21No, I mean, especially, I mean, hell even yesterday when they just tried to get him some, you know,
07:28low pressure work, Brian Abreu, you still gave him hits in a run.
07:32And yesterday, uh, now the pitching is tough because they're, they're, they're the, there
07:37have been the best offense in baseball thus far.
07:40I mean, they're leading in just about every category.
07:42I think the one I saw is they were second in the league in batting average, but they
07:47lead in runs, they leave, lead in run scored most categories there.
07:51They're at the top of, so that is, that is a good space where you feel like, all right,
07:56this offense can carry a little bit, but the pitching is hard to explain.
08:00Like, like hard to get to where it is.
08:04And now Hunter Brown, like Hunter Brown and Hader, we really don't have timetables for
08:09those guys, right?
08:10Like Hunter Brown is not going to throw for three weeks.
08:13So you really don't even know where we are there.
08:16Last week, heard earlier this week is the closer said he just hit 90 in the bullpen.
08:21So like, it could be a minute there.
08:23It's just the pitching.
08:24It is hard to figure out how, how you can hang on to that.
08:30The good thing though, is it does not appear that anybody's running away and hiding in this
08:35division.
08:36Yeah.
08:36Right.
08:36Like you're not, you're not, the good thing is that you feel like you're, you know, you,
08:40your lineup, although they're not going to be as hot as they have been, you feel like
08:44they are going to be, I mean, with a couple of the guys that are, that are swinging the bat
08:47really well, this is going to be a long lineup for, for, for a good chunk of the year.
08:52So the, the good news is to your point, the divisions, nobody's running away with it and
08:56your bats are going to win you some games.
08:58Yeah.
08:59I don't know if you're giving up nine to the Colorado Rockies.
09:01I don't know if that's a good idea, but, but no, it has like, they won some games against
09:05the angels.
09:06They like their, their bats tried to win that finale against the eights.
09:10Right.
09:10They just.
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