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Seth and Sean kick off the show by discussing the Astros' 9-2 win over Cleveland, the club getting an unimaginable 5 innings out of Spencer Arrighetti, but losing Trammell and Allen to the IL as the injuries continue to pile up.
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00:00Hoskins is going to go to second and he might be out. He is out. That's how the game's going
00:04to end.
00:05Dustin Harris throws out Reese Hoskins trying to stretch a single into a double in a 9-2 game.
00:10Game is over. 9-2 final. That's a good win tonight, Blubber.
00:13That's a great win. You talked about it. You've got to change your luck a little bit by going out
00:16there and playing hard.
00:17And that's exactly what they did. What I like about it is, yes, the walks were there,
00:21but the Astros pitching staff pitched around it and kept them from scoring.
00:24And you had Isak and Christian doing damage.
00:27You know what? I'm here to let that final call marinate for a little bit.
00:30Get a little extra Blum in there if they're going to win 9-2 every night.
00:34I don't know they're going to do it every night, Seth, but they did it last night.
00:38Sean, they're going to do it every single night.
00:40If there's one thing I know about baseball, it's that one game is sample size enough.
00:45Tired of all these nerds talking about small sample sizes.
00:49I know what I saw over the course of nine innings yesterday.
00:53That was some tough and gritty baseball.
00:56Partly by a guy that looks like a northeastern cop all of a sudden in Christian Walker.
01:02With that mustache and with his neck covered up, you know, with a turtleneck or whatever.
01:08He looks like a cop getting out of his cruiser.
01:12He totally does.
01:13On a winter highway in New Jersey or something.
01:16I didn't recognize him at first.
01:18Usually you recognize the guy when they shave the beard and leave the mustache.
01:21I'm like, who is that?
01:23I'm like, oh, that's Christian Walker.
01:25Okay.
01:25It was alarming.
01:27Well, he was 0 for 15 going into that game.
01:300 for his last 15 going into that game.
01:32Paredes had been 0 for 18.
01:33Yeah.
01:34And it's a pretty good slump buster when the two guys that are combined 0 for 33 hit four
01:43runs.
01:43Or four home runs.
01:45Not bad.
01:45Not bad at all.
01:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:46Two right in the first couple innings when you need it.
01:48You know, Christian Walker gives them the lead early, 2 to nothing.
01:51And then the Guardians battle back tied at 2.
01:54And then the very next inning, Paredes is hitting a solo bomb.
01:58So, yeah, that was good to see last night.
02:00We don't know what Paredes did for his slump buster because he doesn't have any hair on
02:03his face or the side of his head to really.
02:05No, he may have done what people actually do.
02:07He may have done actually what the slump buster moniker came from, which is going and finding
02:14a heavyset woman.
02:17Yeah.
02:18And, you know, canoodling.
02:21It's interesting you think that's what the origin was.
02:24And it wasn't that it was actually, I would guess that they took it from baseball and applied
02:31it to the dating thing.
02:32Well, the first time I ever heard it, the first time I ever heard about it was on the
02:38Jim Rome show in 1997.
02:41And Mark Grace, hell, the audio is probably out there somewhere.
02:44Mark Grace, former Cubs first baseman, came on the show and brought up the term.
02:49And Jim Rome had not heard the term.
02:51And he said, what do you mean by slump buster?
02:53And Grace was far more, this is in the late 90s when you could probably get away with a
02:57little bit more.
02:58But he was very graphic in describing exactly what you do when you're an 0 for 18 or an
03:040 for 15, particularly when you're on the road, probably.
03:07And there's, you know, you're away from home.
03:09Yeah.
03:09Yeah.
03:10So that's the first time I'd ever heard it.
03:12That's a, no, you're right.
03:13Okay.
03:13So we have to, we'll have to dig into this.
03:15We'll spend the nine o'clock hour.
03:17History of chat GPT.
03:19Slump busting.
03:20I like it.
03:20For perplexity or whichever.
03:21I know, I don't know what, which, which AI the kids are using these days.
03:25Every time I mentioned whichever one I'm experimenting with, I get 20 people on X thing.
03:29Like, you use that dinosaur.
03:33It's been Sean.
03:35It's been like every two months you're behind on what AI is supposed to be doing for you.
03:40I use chat GPT and have been kind of sticking with that.
03:43People have been very impressed with the graphics that I've been generating and putting up from
03:46chat GPT.
03:47They do.
03:48Yeah.
03:48And you and I, you and I don't have to feel guilty at all about taking jobs away from graphic
03:53designers or anything because we were not going to be paying for somebody to do that.
03:57No, I was never using one in the first place.
03:59I didn't have to have, I didn't have to have a hard conversation with any very lowly paid
04:04college kid trying to break in via graphic design.
04:07No.
04:08So you're, you're able to do all these incredible things with AI and yet the Astros supposedly
04:14one of the most technically advanced teams in the, in the sport can't figure out how to
04:19keep their players healthy.
04:20I know.
04:20And this is disappointing me to where are my flying cars or when, and where are my
04:25healthy Astros players?
04:26Well, one of all this, all these promises, I remember reading popular mechanics as a kid
04:31and I was like, Oh, everybody's going to have a flying car and a hover boat.
04:34Hover boats were big in popular mechanics back in the day.
04:36And also every single Astros player will be healthy.
04:39That was the dream.
04:40I was promised.
04:41None of it's true.
04:42None of it.
04:42We're still on the ground with wheels.
04:44The boats all still float on the water.
04:47Yeah.
04:47And Taylor Trammell went out with some sort of leg injury yesterday.
04:50I had so many dreams of hover boats.
04:52People always talk about the flying cars.
04:53I think we're forgetting that popular mechanics every other month would have a hover boat that
04:59you could build at home.
05:01And with no mention of the fact that, yeah, it's louder than three jumbo jets and it goes
05:07about three miles an hour.
05:08You wanted that hover boat, man.
05:09I wanted one.
05:10Yeah.
05:10So bad.
05:11Yep.
05:12Taylor Trammell.
05:14And you know, I caught a lot of heat last night on Twitter because I tweeted this out
05:17and I know I tweeted this out in the midst of Taylor Trammell being off to a start to
05:22the season where he's hitting in the 300s.
05:23Like Taylor Trammell has been decent since he, since he got a regular role in the outfield
05:28after Jake Myers got hurt.
05:30He's been decent.
05:31But when you look at the lineup, I'm like, okay, an outfield of Bryce Matthews, Taylor Trammell
05:35and this Harris character, they just picked up a couple of days for Harris, for Harris.
05:41Remember, was it Saturday or Sunday when he got caught in the nook out there?
05:44That was Sunday.
05:45It was, yeah, it was a game.
05:47Welcome.
05:47Welcome to Dykin park.
05:49Yeah.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Yeah.
05:50So, so I'm looking, I'm looking at the lineup in the bottom three in the order of those
05:54guys.
05:54I'm like, all right, this is a little depressing.
05:56And then Taylor Trammell, like two innings after I tweet that Taylor Trammell goes out with
06:01an injury.
06:01He's, he's going to be the 16th guy to go on the IL this year for the Astros.
06:06Not an exaggeration, not an exaggeration kind of rule against that.
06:10Do you reach a point where there's a dispensation for a team where they're like, all right, they
06:15make some sort of roster accommodation for them.
06:17I have no idea.
06:19You just got to keep bringing guys up from the minors, I guess.
06:21If there's one team that's going to elicit the sympathy from the rest of major league
06:25baseball, it's the Houston Astros.
06:27It's the poor Astros.
06:28Yeah.
06:28At some point, all of baseball is going to rise up and say, you know what, this hard,
06:32this hard luck group of, uh, of, uh, uh, gritty go getters.
06:37We got to give them a break at some point.
06:38Yeah.
06:39Yeah.
06:39The injuries it's, it's sad because that was a good win last night.
06:43And we'll talk about the win here in a second, but that, that is the theme of this year
06:46is that it's no, no exaggeration.
06:49Every day, somebody goes out with an injury with it.
06:53It's so weird.
06:54I, the Zach Allen one, it just all these it's every 12 hours, man.
06:59And we're back.
07:00It's just never ending.
07:01You know what we're back to Seth also is if you recall, like last year in August and September,
07:06after the injuries had piled up, we would get these updates every day of like eight different
07:11guys doing things before games, like injured guys, like so-and-so played catch with so-and-so.
07:18This guy was doing baseball activities.
07:20He was throwing from a half mile.
07:22He's throwing from a half mile.
07:23This guy is using the rubber bands to stretch with like this guy called his grandmother.
07:28Right.
07:28It's stuff like that.
07:29He was able to pick his phone up with his throwing arm and put it next to his head.
07:33He worked with an occupational therapist and he can now eat his meals with a fork.
07:37It's incredible.
07:40It's so depressing, man.
07:42It's so depressing.
07:43He holds his fork like an adult now.
07:45Dude, dude.
07:45And even the ones like Nick Allen would normally elicit a, all right, well, he hasn't been good
07:51anyways.
07:51You know, I hope he gets better, but they'll, you know, this will mean more innings for Bryce
07:56Matthews in the infield where he belongs or whatever.
07:59Like, I can't even say that.
08:00Yeah, he looks awesome.
08:02No, no, no.
08:02I mean like second baseman shortstop.
08:04Yeah.
08:05Yeah.
08:05No, that's a bad look for me.
08:07You're right.
08:08That was bad.
08:10Ben, can you dump that?
08:12Can you dump me talking about Bryce Matthews being good on the infield?
08:15That would be great.
08:16I don't think so.
08:17That would be great for my street cred.
08:21So, yeah, the injuries are piling up, but Christian Walker, Isak Paredes, break their slumps.
08:28And Spencer Arrgetti.
08:30Spencer Arrgetti gave us five.
08:31Hell yeah.
08:32Gave us five innings with nearly a two whip and with more walks and strikeouts.
08:38Yeah.
08:39But who cares?
08:40Hey, it was five innings.
08:42It was cold.
08:43And the guy that at times has a really nasty curveball wasn't going to be able to.
08:49You could see yesterday, the Guardians were not swinging at his curve.
08:53And he gritted his way through it.
08:55And five innings.
08:57I never thought I'd see a day.
08:59This is what I was hoping for when I used to read Popular Mechanics back in the day.
09:03Someday, we'll have starting pitchers for the Astros.
09:06They can go five innings.
09:08The genetic engineering will have engineered this perfect pitcher.
09:11Five innings you'll get.
09:13The bar is so low.
09:14Dude, the bar is so low.
09:15Scarcely more than 50% of the innings in a game he'll pitch.
09:18The bar is.
09:19A complete 50-plus percent of the game.
09:22The bar is so low right now for what qualifies as a starting appearance that gets me enthusiastic.
09:29It's like that old Eddie Murphy bit about giving a starving man some saltine practice.
09:33Yeah, yeah.
09:34It's the greatest cracker I've ever had.
09:35Is this a Ritz pitcher?
09:37Oh, this is delicious.
09:39Is this an Arrogetti?
09:40Is this an Arrogetti?
09:42Mmm.
09:43There's a thing where he wipes his mouth.
09:44Is there brie cheese on top of this cracker?
09:47Yes.
09:47Yes.
09:47Yes.
09:49So, I'll take it.
09:50Five innings, and he may as well be Sandy Koufax.
09:54Five innings with nine guys on base.
09:57Five innings.
09:58Can you believe old Arrogetti?
09:59I'll tell you what.
10:00I used to not be so sure about these Italian fellas, but this kid's all right.
10:05Yes.
10:06He ain't like the other ones.
10:07Italian.
10:08Yes.
10:08I like him.
10:09E-Y-E-Talian.
10:10Yes.
10:11I wouldn't let him date my daughter.
10:12Don't get me wrong.
10:13But still, but still, you got to respect it.
10:16Oh, man.
10:17All right.
10:17So, this is it.
10:19You know what?
10:20I try to refrain from complaining about start times on things, because I think more often
10:26than not, listeners don't want to hear it.
10:28They know we have good jobs, and it's just part of the gig.
10:31No, I think our listeners that are up at this hour.
10:33Up at early.
10:33That's what I was just going to say.
10:34Except for at this time of day, I think there's probably some empathy if you're listening
10:39at 6 a.m.
10:40Yeah, we did this at 9 o'clock.
10:42People are like, yeah, whatever.
10:42Like, you guys get paid to talk about sports.
10:44And it's true.
10:45This is the life we've chosen.
10:46But I think you're right, Seth.
10:48I think people at this time of day, I hate the fact that a 5-10 Astros first pitch, which
10:56is as early as you're going to see outside of a businessman special.
11:00I can't remember an East Coast team starting their games at 6 o'clock local time on the East.
11:07I'm sure it happens or whatever.
11:08I just can't remember it.
11:09But I pay attention to this stuff, obviously, because of the job we're in.
11:135-10 first pitch gets completely blown out of the water in terms of the efficiency for
11:17you and me because the Rockets game starts at 9-30 tonight.
11:21Yeah.
11:229-30.
11:239-30 in L.A.
11:24Well, and it's a draft week, too, so you're going to be planning on staying up late Thursday
11:28night, especially with the Texans having the 28th overall pick.
11:32Yes.
11:32So that part of it, it's a minor inconvenience.
11:35Yeah.
11:35I don't mind complaining about it because I have a hard time sounding cogent on nine hours
11:39of sleep.
11:40So whenever I know that I'm going to have a lot of sleep deprivation, I just, you're going
11:44to get a lot more verbal fillers over the course of this week, everybody.
11:47Yes.
11:47Look at the, you know, that Durant guy.
11:53Yeah.
11:53We're looking at the clock like, oh, that just ate up six seconds.
11:59That heating up some innings.
12:01Yeah.
12:01That, no, that felt good yesterday.
12:03It was honestly, until they framed it after the game that, oh, it's their third win in
12:0715 games.
12:08Yeah, that's depressing.
12:09That hit me hard for some reason.
12:11I just, and I'm sure I'd, even going into the game, I would have seen the two games in
12:15the last 14, whatever it is, man.
12:17I felt good about that victory yesterday.
12:19I felt really good about Eric Getty and his incredible marathon performance of five innings.
12:25Yeah.
12:25But even that too, you just, you have to remind yourself, oh yeah, boy, you went five innings
12:29and I'm acting like that was impressive.
12:31No, it's not.
12:32No.
12:33It's not by normal baseball standards.
12:35No, no.
12:36But the guy, but the guys who, who were, you know, Christian Walker, good to see him get
12:39his swing back.
12:40Jordan's always going to hit, you know, Correa is doing some things to make it shake up at
12:45the top of the order.
12:45Him batting lead off has been a big topic because Altuve had been batting lead off, but Joe
12:51Espada, I read an article that Chandler Rome had where it might've been Matt Kawahara had
12:54it after the game where Joe Espada is talking about, you know, I'm just trying to, you know,
12:59really just trying to do what's best for Jordan Alvarez in terms of getting somebody in front
13:04of him that's getting on base.
13:05He feels better about Altuve protecting Jordan Alvarez behind him in the order, which
13:10is an interesting decision because Altuve was killing it in the lead off spot when Pena was
13:15out.
13:17So, you know, Espada is, you know, he's trying to push as many buttons as he can here.
13:20They've had a different lineup literally every single game this year.
13:23They've not had the same lineup.
13:25Every single game.
13:26They've had a different lineup in every single game.
13:27I read that somewhere yesterday through 22 games where they, they were, so they were
13:31when they were eight and 14, so through their nine and 15 now.
13:34So up through Sunday or up until Sunday's game, and maybe they've had different lineups
13:39now to these last two games.
13:40I just happened to read it.
13:41I think on Sunday morning that in 22 games, they've had 22 different lineups out there
13:46so far.
13:47So Joe Espada is trying to make anything work that he can.
13:54Espada, we're in that spot now where you went, look, you went three times in 15 games.
14:00Pro-rate it out.
14:01That's like a, it's like you're watching a 27-win baseball team.
14:06That's what it feels like the last 15 games.
14:08That's what, I mean, three, you win three out of 18 games.
14:11Yeah.
14:11Is it three of the last 15?
14:12No, it's, they've lost, they've lost 12 of 15.
14:15They've lost 12 of 15.
14:16Okay.
14:16It's not as bad as that then.
14:18Nevermind.
14:18They're three and 12 in their last 15 games.
14:20All right.
14:21I take that back.
14:22Yep.
14:22Yep.
14:22They're three and 12 in their last 15.
14:24They're, uh, it's the equivalent of a 32 win, uh, baseball.
14:28Yeah.
14:28That's an easy one.
14:29Cause that's, uh, that's 20, 20, 20% of your games.
14:32Yeah.
14:32Yeah.
14:32That's a bad team.
14:33And that's, uh, that's what it feels like right now.
14:36This feels like a 32 win team over the last 15 games, but it feels like 110 win team over
14:41the last 24 hours.
14:43I tell you, I can't believe I framed that as a 27 win team when it was actually, yeah,
14:47why are you chipping them out of 32 win team?
14:50Excuse me.
14:51Yeah.
14:51Yeah.
14:52Um, this is, uh, we're getting people weighing in on the text page, a former pro baseball player
14:58weighing in on the text page.
14:59Sean is correct.
15:01Slumpbusters equals.
15:02You know, I know.
15:03I just, I don't, I never knew if, um, if it started, uh, like what the actual start
15:08was, was if it was started as something else and then applied to the, uh, the relation part
15:14or vice versa.
15:15If I know anything, chat CPT will trust you on that.
15:18Yeah.
15:18I'm just telling you where I first heard it.
15:20It was Mark grace.
15:20I have no idea the origin of it.
15:22No, no, no.
15:22I was overthinking it.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24I was, I was in a haste to correct you on something early in the show and I swung
15:28early.
15:28I was like the old L2 that swung at the first pitch like I'm going to take this bastard
15:33down.
15:33This guy thinks he's going to go five innings on me.
15:35And I'm sitting here going, I'm going to ABS check Seth right now on slumpbusters.
15:40Speaking of which, Yiner is rocketing up the leaderboard.
15:42Good.
15:43At least he's doing something well.
15:45Jeez.
15:45Well, he, uh, like, so he's, he's on the leaderboard, which is a rarity or do you know, he hadn't
15:52been at all.
15:52Can you remember, did he start off over five or over six on challenges?
15:55Oh, it was, I, it was at least Oh for four at one point, but I'm not going to say
15:59it
16:00wasn't more than that.
16:01I, yeah, I remember seeing Oh for four in the rundown.
16:03Yeah.
16:03I just don't know if he missed his next one or two after it was bad.
16:06It was bad.
16:07I placed the tracker in here somewhere and now it's gone, but it's there.
16:10It just didn't hyperlink for some reason.
16:13He's been on a, cause he's been on a stretch.
16:14He had been six, six of his last six until the game on Sunday.
16:20That's good.
16:20He lost one, but he's right there now in terms of percentages.
16:24Yeah.
16:27Yiner Diaz is not a hitter.
16:30He's a catcher.
16:32As I scroll, I don't know.
16:34He's 18th.
16:35He's 12.
16:36He's 12 for 17.
16:37And I want to say he's eight.
16:39He's over five or over six.
16:42He's 12 for 17.
16:43He's 18th.
16:44Cause isn't 60% sort of the bar for catchers.
16:46He's at 70.6%.
16:47Yeah.
16:48Yeah.
16:49Okay.
16:49These catchers kind of know what they're doing.
16:50I guess if he's 18th and he's 70%, these guys are going to show the graphic on space
16:55city yesterday or the day before, um, where they show it was weird.
17:00It was almost like they were trying to like, not make the hitters look as bad as they did
17:04because they showed catchers their success rate compared to pitchers and batters combined.
17:09And, uh, the pitchers, uh, the, and so anyway, the batters, you don't want your batters and
17:16pitchers largely doing it.
17:17Um, your catchers are the ones.
17:18And for a while we were thinking, well, every catcher except Yiner, but he's actually been
17:22really, really good at it.
17:23And the percentage, the first couple of weeks for catchers was like 62%.
17:27If 70% is only good enough for 18th, these catchers are, they're like AI.
17:32They're learning this thing quickly, man.
17:33You know, some of them though, that are there, the guys that are at a hundred percent have
17:37most of them have very few challenges challenges.
17:40So I almost put, if you, if you put it at guys that have 10 challenges or more, Yiner
17:45Yiner's actually, uh, doing really well.
17:48He's like top 10 probably.
17:50Yeah.
17:50So he, uh, and I, and I kind of like his demeanor while he's doing it.
17:53He just looks, he looks like the same demeanor for everything.
17:56Yeah.
17:56He's not looking like, wait, like he's waiting for a verdict or something.
17:59He's like, yeah, I challenged it.
18:00I know what I'm doing.
18:01I ain't nervous.
18:02Uh, all right.
18:03Pain and Pendergast off and running.
18:04Uh, the Astros win last night when they win, we spend the open talking about them.
18:08When they lose, we spend the open talking about talking about them, but nice win nine
18:12to two last night.
18:13If you're just waking up.
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