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Seth and Sean kick off the show by discussing the Astros 3-1 win over the Rockies to start what's apparently called a winning streak, and give their thoughts on the Astros' new cowboy hat Home Run bit.
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00:00Call third strike, second straight night, and Yale has picked up a call third for the C.
00:07The Astros win it 3-1.
00:10They have now won seven in a row here at Dyken Park.
00:13And, Blummer, this is a really nice start to the homestand.
00:18Yeah, that's right. I'm playing celebration.
00:20It's a two-game winning streak.
00:22When you have an eight-game losing streak, these are the rules.
00:24When you have an eight-game losing streak, and on the heels of that,
00:28you start another winning streak, you're allowed to play this song.
00:31Yeah, and you have an Astros pitcher go six innings for the first time since Hunter Brown did it
00:37at the very beginning of April.
00:38So they are marathon men now, these Astros pitchers.
00:43Hunter Brown, who we won't see for at least a month or so.
00:47Except in media sessions.
00:49Spencer Arrighetti, which once every five days is a prospect of an Astros starting pitcher going six innings.
00:55Six innings.
00:56I didn't even know it was possible, Sean.
00:57Ten strikeouts, too, Seth.
00:59You know how much I love the strikeouts.
01:01Ten strikeouts, too, for Spencer Arrighetti.
01:03He was really good last night.
01:04Welcome in, everybody.
01:05Payne and Pendergast on a Thursday on the heels of an Astros win again last night.
01:10They get to try to exact sweep revenge on the Rockies for sweeping them last week, tonight.
01:18So that was good, man.
01:19That was the very rare low-scoring Astros game this year.
01:24Three to one.
01:25So you get a Yordan home run in there.
01:28But the big story was Spencer Arrighetti last night.
01:30Six innings.
01:32Ten strikeouts.
01:33They needed that in the worst way, Seth.
01:36I didn't need to come in today and open up the box score and see, you know, seven Astros pitchers
01:40having to pitch again.
01:41You know what, dude?
01:42And there's something especially cool about him, like, with his hair as long as it is right now, looking as
01:49mega-death as he ever has.
01:51You kind of get an image of just, all right, he didn't make the big league roster.
01:56And then he watches these guys doing what they've been doing.
02:00And meanwhile, he's been down in the minors just mowing people down.
02:04Yeah.
02:04I feel like that was a heavy metal performance last night.
02:08He's got that fake, bogus-ass hair metal band stuff from the 80s.
02:11No.
02:11That was actual, that was some Dave Mustaine stuff right there.
02:18Mixed reviews on your take, by the way, on the hair metal 80s stuff a couple days ago.
02:22Boston and Poison, when you came after them, you had some support.
02:26You had some, it was a very polarizing take by you.
02:29I used to, those were bands that I used to love, but I just, I listened to them too much.
02:33And now when I do it, I hear it on classic rock or something, I'm like, ah.
02:38What was I thinking?
02:39What was I thinking?
02:40Screw you guys.
02:41Eric Getty might have that look going, because he does.
02:43He looks a little sleep-deprived, maybe.
02:45He has newborn twins, I believe.
02:47If I'm not mistaken, he's a daddy now.
02:50And I can tell you, as somebody who was a father of newborn twins, you do not get a lot
02:54of sleep.
02:55It is, whatever, if you have one kid, or you've ever only had one kid at a given time,
03:02you have those middle of the night, got to get up, feed them, or change a diaper,
03:06or something like that, times two.
03:07Oh, it's a, him, he's probably operating on pure adrenaline with those 10 strikeouts last night.
03:13You need to hire a wet nurse, like they did back in the day.
03:16Yeah, man, anything.
03:17They got the, even the guys that get paid the minimum now have the resources to do that.
03:21Oh, yeah.
03:22Yeah.
03:22You should have a whole household staff.
03:24Yeah.
03:25Do it like the rich people used to do back in the, back in the day, where you barely even
03:30saw your children.
03:31It's the best.
03:32Stased by the nanny, the wet nurse.
03:33Yeah.
03:34The butler.
03:35Yeah.
03:35I've said that many, many times.
03:37I said, if I could just send my kids off somewhere until they're like three, you know,
03:41like you say, almost like you send your dog off to get housebroken somewhere.
03:44You know, you send them to man's best friend or whatever, and then you get the dog back.
03:48And, you know, probably the equivalent of how long you send your dog away when you do the dog year
03:52thing.
03:53You know, it's, you know, the conversion chart.
03:55I used to have a neighbor that they kind of ran their household that way.
03:59The kids would go off to private school for 10 months a year, and then they'd be there in the
04:03summer,
04:04whereupon the parents would go take a vacation to Europe or something.
04:07Yeah, yeah.
04:07It felt like those kids were, they were vaguely aware of the existence of their parents.
04:13I know.
04:14I couldn't do that.
04:14They were not happy children, Joe.
04:16Yeah, yeah.
04:16Yeah.
04:17I can't, I can't in good conscience recommend that way.
04:19Not a formula.
04:21Not a formula.
04:21Yeah.
04:21Yeah, so, so, so, Eric Getty was great last night.
04:25This is Eric Getty in the postgame talking to Julia Morales.
04:28I needed that one the most I've ever needed in my career, honestly.
04:32Obviously, I was upset when I didn't make the team out of camp.
04:35I knew that there was going to be opportunities for me down the line.
04:38I'm just glad I could come make the most of it tonight and try to do what I could for
04:41the bullpen,
04:42do what I could to give the team a chance to win.
04:44Yeah, that part of it, man.
04:45He didn't make the team for this crap staff.
04:48No, I know.
04:48And that hurts.
04:49He was always going to be eventually on the team when they went to, I think, when, Chandler
04:54Rome will say that the reason he went to the minors was so he could stay stretched out
04:59as a starter.
05:00Right.
05:00For when the rotation expand.
05:02I'm sure what he's referring to there is like Lance McCullers making it ahead of him
05:05for the fifth starter.
05:06You know, he wanted to be the fifth starter, Eric Getty.
05:09So that was great to see last night.
05:11And boy, now, who knows where he is in the pecking order now.
05:14I mean, hell, three of the guys are on the IL.
05:17Lance has an ERA of nearly six.
05:19Burroughs has an ERA of six.
05:21He, I mean, on one start, Eric Getty's their best pitcher right now in the starting rotation.
05:27It's...
05:27Well, and he gave you innings.
05:29That's the biggest thing.
05:30They, the, right now, I haven't checked.
05:33Uh, I'm guessing, yeah, it's gotta be.
05:35The relievers still have more innings pitched than the starters do on the staff.
05:38Gotcha, gotcha.
05:38Since nobody goes more than, I mean, you go more than three innings and you're, uh, you're
05:43basically like, uh, you broke the four-minute mile or something.
05:47You've had three starts in the last week that were an inning or less.
05:50Yeah.
05:50You know, so, yeah, it's gonna be a while.
05:52Uh, yeah, the, it, for, until, until we get notice from somebody else with some good pitching
05:58performances, he's one of my favorite guys right now.
06:01Yeah, he had, if it felt familiar last night at all, his, I was at this game, so I remember
06:05it.
06:06His breakout performance, if you go back and look at his game log of his rookie year, where
06:11he was, you could tell there was something there with him, but he would have these really
06:14bad innings.
06:15And so his ERA was up in the fours and fives and whatever.
06:18He had an incredible seven-inning, 10-strikeout performance against the Rockies in his rookie
06:23year at, at, at, at then Minute Maid Park.
06:26And, and he, so if it felt familiar at all, that's probably, that, that, that may be why
06:30that was, that was like, that was like the first performance that I remember of Arrighetti,
06:34like, all right, well, there's the guy that, that, that we're, you know, hoping we would
06:37see being part of this rotation.
06:40Um, here was Joe Espada on Arrighetti last night.
06:42The curveball was really, really good against righties and lefty, ton of swing and misses.
06:48Um, he gave us a big boost.
06:52That was a big start at the right time.
06:55Um, and then our bullpen, um, you know, Ocurt and Abreu, you know, we've been, we've been
07:04encouraging him and trying and help him.
07:05Um, and I think today was a bright spot.
07:09Um, uh, he threw more competitive pitches.
07:12Um, the slider was on, uh, Velo on the fastball.
07:16It was the right way he needed to be, um, gave us huge four outs there.
07:20Okay.
07:20So kind of a, kind of a breakdown of the entire pitching performance top to bottom of the team.
07:25And Delos Santos came in and got the save in the, uh, in the ninth inning.
07:29Um, it's, I would, I'm guessing Seth, that this is the sign that Brian Abreu is back to
07:35his, his old setup role that they're not going to be using him in the closers role anymore.
07:39They brought him in, in the seventh inning to get one out when there's a little bit of
07:43trouble.
07:43And then they kept him in, in the eighth inning and he did, he did a nice job last night.
07:47If it's just as simple as he's got some sort of mental block from, from closer to setup guy,
07:53then I'm all for this setup because there's literally, there could not have been a worse
07:58option for closer for this team than whatever Brian Abreu was for his first five performances
08:03of the year.
08:04You figure at the very least, whatever mechanical issues he's had in that he's got to fix, put
08:10him in a more comfortable role, so he's not adjusting to multiple things and trying to
08:15tweak things as he's also uncomfortable coming out there with whatever psychological pressure
08:19there is.
08:19Fine.
08:20Yeah, that's, uh, uh, so be it.
08:23And they just gotta, they gotta muddle through and hopefully fix that while also getting Josh
08:28Hader back at some point.
08:29I feel better.
08:29A two game win streak versus a probably bad baseball team shouldn't mean that much, except
08:35that I, there's, there's certain things about, you know, we went through the exercise
08:39yesterday of, okay, how can things improve on the pitching front?
08:41And one of the first things we said was Spencer Arrighetti coming back and looking like the
08:45best version of himself.
08:46Yeah.
08:46That could help a lot.
08:47Yep.
08:48So now you got a two game win streak.
08:49I think the, a lot of the offensive production, it's fair that barring injury, you're going to
08:54see this.
08:54So you're done.
08:55You're done is your done again.
08:57Yeah.
08:57Yeah.
08:57After everything, the ordeal that he had last year and battling through that hand injury,
09:02the entire season hit the longest slump he's ever had in the majors.
09:05There's, I'm not, I've seen enough out of Jordan right now that I feel like, oh, okay.
09:10He's back to being Jordan.
09:12If he can stay healthy, then there we have it.
09:14Yep.
09:14I think L2 Bay is benefiting from the, the, the ABS system to an extreme degree.
09:18Hopefully that should be the fact that he's going to have a fair strike zone.
09:23The entire season is going to be so much different than anything we've seen from him in his career.
09:29It might take five years off his, uh, off his age.
09:32You know, he might, he might, we might start seeing a different version of L2 Bay with his
09:37pitch selection and everything that we haven't seen before that offsets, whatever aging he's
09:42gone through.
09:42Those things I feel good about really.
09:45It's just a matter of just crossing your fingers, hoping the injury situation can't
09:48get any worse and that you get the best version of some of these pictures.
09:52L2 Bay's played a good second base this year too.
09:55Yeah.
09:55He's been solid defensively.
09:57I don't know what the, I don't know what the, the advanced stats say about it.
10:00Still, he, I think the last time I checked, he was like one, uh, he was minus one, uh,
10:050.1 or something.
10:07But it wasn't, it wasn't atrocious or anything.
10:09Yeah.
10:09Yeah.
10:09And he's made plays out there at second base, you know?
10:12So it's, uh, so I'm, yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's been nice, man.
10:16That's the thing with the everyday lineup.
10:18There's been a lot of things that are either, uh, you know, turn back the clock or kind of
10:24nice unexpected improvement.
10:26Maybe, you know, like Cam Smith, the jump he's taken this year offensively, I think
10:30has been bigger than what people anticipate.
10:32And again, we're two weeks into the season, so things can change, but Cam Smith looks
10:37like, like right now looks like a big win for Dana Brown.
10:41Yeah.
10:41Cam Smith.
10:42Yeah.
10:42And there's still a, it's funny.
10:44He's made some spectacular plays in the outfield.
10:46He's still in the last few days, he's had a few plays where you can, you're reminded,
10:51okay, he's still, he's still not a polished veteran when it comes to still a baby deer
10:56out there.
10:57Yeah.
10:57There's a couple of plays where he's tried to kind of scoop it in the balls landed just
11:01in front of them where maybe, you know, with more time and experience, he'll die for
11:05those or he'll be more aggressive on it.
11:07Remember this weekend, there was a game, I think it was on Saturday.
11:10There was a, um, he, he caught a ball, uh, and then just kind of held onto it and the
11:16runner on third made it home.
11:17But then later in the game, he made an incredible throw at home.
11:20Yeah.
11:20Yeah.
11:20Yeah.
11:21So he's just, the, the highs are the, the highs are very, very good in some of the spectacular
11:26plays he's made, but there's still room for improvement just by, by getting reps out
11:30there.
11:31Yeah.
11:31That was a, that game last night, there was that near collision.
11:33Yeah.
11:34Yeah.
11:34Yeah.
11:34That, that game, I remember that game.
11:36Cause I had the over in that game and Cam Smith threw the guy out at home and I lost
11:39my
11:39bet there was a game.
11:41They lost six to one to Seattle, but I loved seeing that throw, you know, I love like as
11:46an Astros fan, those, like, those are things with a young player.
11:49You don't care what the score of the game is.
11:51You're just looking to see things with that player.
11:54And that was, that was really, uh, that was really encouraging.
11:57So good night last night for the Astros.
11:59Other than this, this thing they've added to the home run celebration, I guess we'll call
12:06it a cowboy hat.
12:07Yeah.
12:07Let's play the Yordan Alvarez home run, Ben, from last night.
12:10So we can live the good part of this.
12:11This was Yordan with his what?
12:13Seventh home run of the year.
12:14I think it's this ball down the line and right.
12:18You can forget about that one line drive home run for air.
12:23You're done a quick flight and the Astros lead it three to one.
12:28Okay.
12:29I Seth, I'm going to admit something here.
12:31Confession.
12:31I, I dozed off last night from about the second inning through like the sixth inning.
12:37So I didn't see this live.
12:39I learned of this in looking at your notes in the rundown this morning, where I, where
12:44I, you said, and I quote that cowboy home run hat is effing weak.
12:52And I said, I said, Oh, is this something that the Rockies do?
12:56And I went on Twitter and I put in home run Astros Rockies cowboy hat.
13:01And I see Yordan prancing down the dugout, looking like Woody from Toy Story.
13:06Yeah.
13:07Well, he's got a horrible cowboy hat.
13:09It's a, well, it's a, it's an Astros themed cowboy hat that Vasquez apparently picked up
13:14in the team store where I just, you watch the other teams and you know, you'll see pimp
13:19coats.
13:20The Mariners have a trident, the Viking helmets.
13:25Yeah.
13:25That actual pads.
13:26The angels had that authentic samurai helmet, uh, that, that they'd actually gotten from
13:32Japan, which is pretty bad-ass.
13:35I don't know what they're doing after like, cause Shohei had approved that.
13:38I don't know if, I can't remember if the angels are still using the samurai helmet or
13:41not.
13:42Um, yeah, I felt, it felt frankly, I don't know if I'm buying this story about it all
13:47happening organically and Vasquez picked it up in the team store cause he saw it and he
13:51like, it feels like a team marketing gimmick to try to sell most cowboy hats.
13:54Oh, you think that the team said, Hey guys, look at this.
13:56If you're going to suck, you better sell some cowboy hats.
13:59It wasn't quite gaudy enough for me or stupid enough.
14:02It just felt like, okay, that's a nice little cowboy hat.
14:05That's got it's orange with a Astros logo on it.
14:08Let me be clear about something.
14:10I think if you want to buy the hat and wear it as a fan, do it.
14:13It probably, you know, if you're wearing a team Jersey or if you're a woman who's wearing
14:17like one of those sequined Astro jerseys, I see a lot of those out at the ballpark and
14:22you want to, and I would say, if you want to get that hat though, and you're wearing the
14:25sequined Jersey, then trick the hat out as well to like, just go full sequence everywhere.
14:30I'm with you.
14:30I just don't know.
14:32If it was just like a black Stetson cowboy hat or something like that, you know, something
14:36a little bit more, you know, something a little bit more manly.
14:39No, it doesn't have to be manly.
14:41It has to be goofy as hell.
14:43That's the thing that I like about the, and I feel like the Astros were the ones that really
14:47introduced the over the top home run celebration back in the, um, you know, starting with,
14:53uh, uh, what's his name?
14:54Hank Conger.
14:55Yeah.
14:55Hank Conger and the robot that kind of got everything set off and they did the goldfish and all of
15:00those other things.
15:01And then the Astros, I felt like as they, as they exited the golden era, they also got
15:06way more subdued in their home run celebrations as everybody else was running free with it.
15:11So at the very least, this is a return maybe to a little bit of the club Astros days, uh,
15:16just, you know, acting like a bunch of overgrown children out there, which I approve.
15:20This is the first I can remember them using a prop though.
15:24I don't know that they've had like a, like a, an actual hat or like you said, a trident
15:30or anything like that uniform of some sort.
15:32Yeah.
15:33So many other teams are doing, you know, I don't know.
15:35I get, you don't notice these things nearly as much as I do.
15:38I've noticed it with Brandy too.
15:40Um, she's a horrible consumer cause she doesn't notice all the, the billboard ads behind home
15:46plate for me.
15:47They're the most effective, uh, you're very easily drawn in by those.
15:51Those who are, yeah, I have looked into becoming a submarine builder so many times because of
15:56that build submarines.com ad.
15:58Yeah.
15:59Yeah.
15:59Like it's really effective for me.
16:01If there's an ad behind home plate, I'm going to Google it.
16:04Yeah.
16:04Uh, different tool companies and various things.
16:07You're right.
16:08I'm the total opposite on that.
16:09But can you, can you remember them using an actual prop as a home run celebration?
16:15Yeah.
16:15Well, other than, well, like the goldfish and some of those things, but I don't even remember.
16:19I don't know what you're talking about.
16:20Our listeners will remember.
16:21Our listeners will remember this better than you and I do.
16:23What is, what was the goldfish?
16:25I don't know.
16:26Remember they used to do it with, um, they would like throw goldfish at, uh, the camera
16:31or something.
16:31I want to say it was Evan Gattis.
16:32No, with their face.
16:33Oh.
16:33And then he would act like he was a, like he was a fish or something.
16:36Oh, and he was like eating it or whatever.
16:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:38Oh, okay.
16:39I don't remember that at all.
16:40The only one, the only.
16:41It's weird because you like stupid stuff and then you're completely ignorant of all this
16:46other stuff.
16:46Well, I'm busy celebrating the home runs in my living room and I'm not looking at the
16:49TV.
16:49I'm hugging my wife.
16:50Well, they won't shut up about it on the broadcast.
16:51A lot of times you're watching without the sound on, so you miss this stuff.
16:55You know, no, no, no, no, no.
16:56You know what it is?
16:57A lot of times I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm multitasking and I'm working and not paying attention.
17:02Yeah.
17:02But the sound is always on.
17:03I like listening to the game.
17:04I just don't pay attention a lot.
17:06You got the sound on it at Lizards there for the afternoon games and everything?
17:09Yes, actually.
17:10They do.
17:10Yeah, yeah, they do.
17:11They do.
17:13So, so yeah, the, the only one I remember is Bregman walking up and mean mugging the
17:18camera.
17:18Right.
17:18And that was the thing.
17:19No, and everybody would do that where Bregman started it.
17:22And then everybody would kind of do a stare at the camera like they're at the end of the
17:25runway or something.
17:26Yeah, yeah.
17:26I just don't remember.
17:27I don't remember the props and I don't remember the goldfish at all, but I'm, but you're right.
17:31It's probably because I'm not paying close attention.
17:33So we're thumbs down on the cowboy hat, I guess.
17:36If I know I'm cool with it, I don't want to be a spoil sport.
17:38If people rally around it, then it's good.
17:40You know, if it ends up being a good thing, I just, uh, it's not my, I just watch a
17:45lot
17:45of the, you know, when you watch the, the highlights on YouTube too, that you're always
17:51getting multiple broadcasts and you get the away broadcast.
17:53So I see a lot more of the, the home run celebrations when I watch those early in the
17:57morning from the other teams.
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