The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
10/25 Hour 2 - This World Series Matchup Makes You Feel What?
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I did half of my prep this morning, actually. Proceeds from the game will benefit the greater Houston disaster Alliance Hurricane Barrel Recovery Fund, which assists those who are affected by the storm tickets available at uhcoogers.com/tickets uhcoogers.com/tickets. We're giving away a four-pack of tickets right now to caller number. We'll go four because seven, one, three, seven, eight zero, three, seven, seven, seven, six, call number four to seven, one, three, seven, eight zero, three, seven, seven, six, you're going to see Houston and Texas A&M play some college basketball inside the Fatita Center on Sunday should be a lot of fun. Darryl's call, he said that he would he would have been Kenyan green, which I'm in favor of. I want a bench Kenyan green too. The Texans are not going to do it. They're going to go with what they've been rolling out there. I would have went with Kenya green. Kenya Kendrick green and left guard. I would have been Kenya. Now Darryl mentions the Patterson into the lineup play him at center kick juice scrubs out to left guard, which is my second option, but I'm doing the other thing first. Yeah, I think that there's so many different variables that play into this that that from a Texans perspective, they're not willing to bench green. And I do think in a suggested it when we were talking about the other day that they're they're going to take every other possible measure before they get into something like that. I think that they would be amicable to looking at center before they'd look at Kenyan green because of where he was drafted because of the fact that, you know, he's been less than and so much is put on him. But it's it's the easiest obvious solution to where you start if you're trying to fix the woes, but they believe that it's communication. They believe that it's internal things that can be fixed without making a lineup change. And we'll see because if this week it continues, I don't think you have any choice. I think starting next week, you're going to have to do more drastic things and you're and you're going to have to sit guys down with regardless of where they were drafted and what you think. And it starts with the guy that was the lowest rated lowest performing guy on the offensive line. Yeah, I don't hate Darryl's idea. It would just be my second option. I would have went Kendrick green over Kenyan green this week, but they're not going to do it. Do you know how do you feel about them not doing it? Not not sitting him down this week. I guess I give them the benefit of the doubt to say if they they believe they can fix it, then I'll believe it when I see it. But I'll buy it for another week. But if it's anything close to what we saw last week, then you can't, you can't do that. You can't do flu me twice. Then forget it. No, then then all bets are not off and you could do whatever you need to do. Yeah, I don't like it. I think they should have made the move. All right. World Series kicks off tonight. Garrett Cole, former Astro on the mound for the, the Yankees. He'll go toe to toe with a flarity of the Dodgers. Can you switch was telling me that the Dodgers are pretty significant favorite in this game? Dodgers are minus 125 Yankees are plus 105 in the pitching matchup is Garrett Cole versus Jack Flaherty. That feels weird. But the Yankees Dodgers World Series makes you feel what seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six one zero eight seven makes me feel angry because the media is finally getting the matchup that they wanted a six four four four only way I feel something about the World Series. If it was the Rangers, that's weird. Two three four one says that it makes him feel great. This guy or person says that it makes me feel nothing. How does it make you feel this World Series Dodgers Yankees? I hate it. I hate it because I hate both teams. And so for me, it's like, you know, kiddingly, I'd love it if it ended in a tie. I'm not being serious, but I'm saying because it's it's so hard to pull for either team and my family on the other side are all Dodgers fans. So it's like rolling over in his grave. If I have to pick one of the two, then I'll pick the Dodgers. But you know, if there were other teams involved, then I would be paying closer attention to the World Series. But the two best teams money can buy going up against one another when I still truly feel like the Astros could could have competed with either team. That whole perfect storm has me feeling a certain kind of way that I just I hate it. He gets what says Yanks Dodgers doesn't do anything for me. Rare candy says makes me want to vomit. This makes me mad. Really. The series makes me mad. Like I was at peace with the Astros losing with the Astros have brought so much joy to the city. They've got so much joy in this golden era. Like I wasn't like so mad when they got eliminated in the wildcard round of the Tigers. But now that this is the World Series, it makes me mad. It does. I am retroactively mad at the Astros. Is that fair? Probably not. Am I being a little bit psychotic? Probably. But the Yankees and the Dodgers meeting up in the World Series makes me retroactively mad that the Houston Astros weren't able to get here. It makes me even matter at Joe Espada for some of his bullpen tactics in those two games. I'm not too pleased with Joe Espada by the way. Like going into the playoffs, I was like, yeah, he's fine. He had a fine rookie year. No big deal as the manager of the Houston Astros. Now that the playoffs have played out, the Astros have been eliminated and I have to deal with the Yankees and the Dodgers in the World Series. I'm now mad at Joe Espada. He's on my hot seat. I'm mad that this is the series. I mean this sincerely. I'm not happy with things 3 1 1 8 says that it makes me feel nostalgic. How? I don't care that these are two historic franchise. I'm an Astro fan. I hate both teams, but you can't lie. This is a pretty epic matchup. So I'll be watching. It's an epic matchup. I'm not watching. I won't watch one game. I will not watch it. I will. Tonight. I'm not going to watch it tonight. It's probably on tomorrow. Right. It'll probably be Friday Saturday off day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, off day. It's like Friday Saturday. No, I'll be watching college football on Saturday. Well, Monday not Nope. Monday night football. Well, what about Tuesday? I don't know. There's probably some basketball. What about Wednesday? No, I'm busy. I will not watch a single pitch in this world series. Yeah, I will. And like I said, my family is deeply dialed into the Dodgers and my wife is now trying to manipulate my children who are Astros fans. Thanks to me because now the Astros are out and she wants them to battle for their souls right now. Are you ready to find the question about it? Like when they went on their their break over this over the summer and they got to visit Grandma and Grandpa and Lisa went out there for a weekend. She was like, we're all going to the Dodgers game. I go really convenient. Make sure the kids get to the Dodgers game. And then she started just buying them all kinds of T shirts and hats and everything. I'm like, trying hard, but they watch Astros with me every night. And now they can watch the Dodgers in the world series. So yeah, I know where their hearts are at, but I just I can't stand either team. Look, I think I think Freddie Freeman shows that he's a great classy dude. And he's a hell of a player. I think O'Tani is easy to like. I just the the cashman thing leading into it even this week where he can't get the Astros out of his head. And he's still, you know, whining and complaining about the fact that they would have done more and they weren't in a drought. If not for teams that cheated, pisses me off. If I have to root for one team over the other, I hope the Dodgers win. But I hate both. Blankers, bleeds, Dodger Blue. I actually agree with them though. Like I obviously both teams I despise and I don't want either team to win. I wish it could just be a forfeit for this year. Maybe we can have a strike that breaks the world series. But I don't know. It's something about the whining that the Yankees like that a lot of the whining that the Dodgers did outside of Kershaw who's still there seems like those guys have mostly left. I mean, how boogey bets. He was a part of the Red Sox cheating is still there. So obviously he can't really say anything. It feels like with cashman and with judge and a few of the other and obviously Boone. It feels like more of the whining still exists on the Yankees rosters from when they were facing the Astros. I think I if I had to pick one gun to my head, I would hope the Dodgers win. But yeah, I'm not going to watch a single pitch of this world series. I don't care. I don't care who wins. I want both of them to lose. I know that's not possible. 9 6 8 1. This World Series makes me feel wrong. I hope both teams lose the World Series and somebody's arm falls off. I don't know if I wanted me to lose an arm 1317 like I wish a meteor hits the stadium. I don't want anybody to die. Like I'm not to that extreme. Like I don't like both of these teams where they have to cancel the World Series earthquake because they still ended up finishing it. Right. When that when the defense on how severe the earthquake. How are we hoping for? Yeah, maybe what level of natural disaster could we do? Does the world series but doesn't hurt anyone? I'm mad at the Astros. I'm not rooting for a natural disaster. Again, that doesn't hurt you one. But I'm sure even an earthquake like Blankers said they're still going to play the world series. I bet you at least one person died in the earthquake and whenever San Francisco and Oakland played in it like there was people on the bridge. There's no way to know. I'm sure there is a way to know that there's no way to know if anybody died in an earthquake. What was your 86? I don't agree. Not a big one. I don't remember what yours was. Yeah, 88. Yeah, I'm sure somebody I'm sure somebody passed away. Unfortunately, that's no way to know. Keith says whoever wins the first game. I hope they sleep. I didn't know he did that's funny. Keith whoever wins the first game. I hope they sweep the entire series of the media doesn't get what they want. That might be the call. Like if you don't want there to be death, if you don't want there like to be a ton of attention here, you hate both teams. That's the best way might be like the like Team A, whoever it is, they win. They sweep the other team and they win every game by like five or six runs. Yeah, where it's just the worst World Series of all time. It was almost like the Met Series where the Met's Dodger Series where every game was a blowout one way or the other. And you were like, this whole series sucks no matter who wins. But yeah, the quicker the better to get it over with. And for me, I just the Yankees are just whiny babies to a different level. So that I would just if one team has to win, I hope the Dodgers. I kind of I think I'm now rooting for Tim Kirch and just not to get what he wants. Because I think like if you get the seven game, every game is a one run game and you get to Tim Kirch and just to have his baseball systems, then I don't want that. I don't want to hear the media fawning over. I want this to be like you guys said a blowout for game sweep sweep every every game decided by five runs or more. Yeah, that's the perfect scenario. Yeah, Kirch and it's going to give you Babe Ruth stories, kofak stories. He's going to be dialed into all the different. I mean, on the radio call, no, no. Oh, he's Fox has the World Series. Oh, that's yeah, he'd be the radio, but he's still be getting all the way, I'll be able to do that. That's frozen to all those Kirch and things. Well, don't leave it up to Verducci because it'll take him an hour and a half to get a sentence out of his mouth. And that's a yeah, that's true. 6171. Y'all are well, this guy is saying great promotion. It's on ESPN can be happily. It's on ESPN radio. I said I'm not going to watch a pitch. I'm going to listen to every single one right here on ESPN radio. 6171. I said, y'all are so soft calling stating facts, whining, please. I don't you have to context, please. I don't know what you said that we were crying about. We cry about a lot of stuff, but I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. 2920. I hate both teams and I'll watch this one because I bet a Yankee fan $300 they wouldn't win. So that's my investment. That's a good investment. $300 is a good enough investment to care about it. 1509. I hate both teams. Can they both lose? I saw a Twitter exposed about Cashman taking shots at the Astros. I know that you felt some kind of way about that. I, I am so sick of science dealing and so sick of Cashman that I literally ignore it now. I do not give it any mind and I give it zero attention to mine because it doesn't deserve any attention to mine. He's so, he's, he's a whining a little bitch and just the fact that he continues to bring it up and he continues to say, you know, oh, you know, we would have done this and we would have done that and they did that. You did it too. And there was proof of all the things you were doing to and the fact that you can't just bask in the fact that for once you got to a World Series and however how long it's taken and you should be just celebrating that and getting ready to play the Dodgers. But you're still talking about it. The beauty of all of it to me was Josh Reddit getting involved in it and calling out fires and calling out the Yankees and really now that he's not playing anymore, just drilling people on Twitter. That was fun. Yeah. Cashman's doing it to like kind of preserve himself as like the general manager and Yankee lore. I'm just not going to pay it any mind. Like I can't argue with stupid. Like if you're going to ignore facts and informations and things that you were doing, like you said, I'm not going to argue with that. I'm not going to. It's a waste of my time. 713780 ESPN, a spot of sucked at making pitching changes this year. I will agree with that. 4958 disgusted 4965. I hate it. I think the Dodgers more of the Yankees though. I hate the Dodgers more than the Yankees though and show hey, Tony definitely gambled on baseball. He definitely gambled on baseball. There's no doubt about that. I do find him to be a little lovable though. 1 9 5 3 first time in a long time that I hate October baseball. I mean, of the two sides, it's easy. If you have to pick one, it's easier to be able to root for guys like Otani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, even even. I don't know about that. I don't like Mookie. He's a he's a known cheater. He didn't get the cheating and and Joe West gifted him the, you know, the guilty party of interference. He's a good dude. No, because I know because I know someone that knows him personally, that knows the family. And because I've read all the stories all the way back to the Boston days where he would take all the food from the clubhouse and give it to homeless people and and and like do things in the community and raise a ton of money to try and bring awareness to things like that. So my second cousin, his third cousin's friend and all of that stuff is not true. Cool. And and the fact that Soto drives me nuts with all of his antics and all the in the box stuff and the over showboating and jazz chism having all of a sudden being a showboat with no success. And now he's going to a world series and he's gloating even more. And even judge gets under my skin. He's like kind of subliminally drops comments and and takes indirect shots. The Yankees, I can't and boom. I think the TLDR version is show. Hey, is infinitely more readable than Aaron judge. Although he got away with the gambling stuff. He did get away with that. I care about that less. Alex Breggman, seven years, 185 and a half million dollars. Yeah, or nay. 713 7803776. It's the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN at two five. This is ESPN 97 5. You're locked in with a killer bees on ESPN 97 5 at 92 5 live for the Veritex Community Bank Studios. Here's Joel Blanket, Jeremy Brannon. 713 780 ESPN is the astro golden era dead. If Alex Breggman leaves not safe. Also, do you think seven years 185 and a half million is too much for Alex Breggman 713 7803776. You think on that you ponder that. Let's go out to the HRP listener line, though, because Ernie from the West Side has a way where the Yankees and the Dodgers can both lose the world series. Alright, let's go Ernie. The math isn't mapping here, Ernie. How are both teams losing? How can it happen? So let's just say that the Yankees sweep the series, neither like one, you know, one run game and then they get caught cheating. So they technically win, but then they get caught cheating and lead a shut up. Okay, but still technically then the Dodgers are the champions. Well, no, I mean, they back to it, but they get it. I'm coming with my death scenario. I like it, though. Try to appreciate the car, Ernie. I mean, happened to the Astros in 17. But they didn't take it away from it. No, that is the thing. Yeah. So they would have to literally take it. Let's let's go. I'll be real about this. They're all thrown. They're all going through the parade in the Bronx. I mean, last time I checked was the commissioner. Man, Robbie ain't taken it away from the Yankees. Of course, I mean, that's that's the Yankees win it. Yeah. So that that's why that's a moot point from Ernie is because the fact that Rob Manfred wants the Yankees to win. There's no way he's taken it away from them. Yeah. All right. Seven years, hundred and eighty five and a half million dollars on Alex Breggman. That's the new projection. That was from the athletic. They're projecting the salaries seven years, hundred and eighty five and a half million dollars, which averages out to an AV of actually 26 and a half million dollars, which would be lower than the AV that he's currently playing on or was playing on. Are you given Breggman seven years, hundred and eighty five and a half million dollars? No way. I'm not because I'm not going seven years. It's way too long even for that amount of money. If you think it's a little bit discounted at the end of it, you're still going to be paying the price because he's he's not going to have any return on investment near what you're paying for. And that's just at his stage in his career at his age. There's no way I'm given Alex Breggman seven years, even if it's at an average of 26 million instead of 30 million or whatever he's looking for. Yeah, this is a just too much. He's gonna be 31 years old next year. You look at the trajectory of the ball players. They start to fade in their late twenties rapid decline into their thirties. And I think we've seen some decline from Breggman. He certainly nowhere near where he was from in 18 and 19. And his, um, his OPS slipped a bit last year. Now he's like he was actually better is on base percentages. What went down, which is weird coming from Alex Breggman. The Grimlins in the elbow, his throwing arm has gotten a lot worse over the years as well. I'm not signed. I love Alex Breggman. I love what he's meant to the organization. I can't sign a guy who's going to be 31 years old next year to a seven million dollar contract. Brandon T, please do not sign Breggman for that too much for far too long, which is something that we certainly agree with. Now, if Breggman does leave, which, what do you think the odds are? Breggman leaving put a percentage on it. Um, oh boy, 60% of him leaving. Yeah. Okay, I'm at 80. I'm at 80% that that he's gone. I think he's gonna want a number that the Astros are not willing to give them. I think they're gonna stay in the cut. The Astros are going to stay in the conversation longer than they have with other guys simply because there, there is a little bit of, of a feeling of, of the fact that he has done so much here that I believe that they're going to stay in longer than maybe we've seen in the case in terms of the years and the money. But at the end of the day, I just think the two sides will be too far apart. I'm with you. So you're at 60% is gone. I'm at 80% that he's gone. Now, if he does leave, I saw this from a swap last week. We've been waiting to have this conversation. But if he thinks that if Alex Breggman leaves that the Astros golden era is done, that it's over their championship window is Adios toast. Goodbye. It's in the, it's in the rear view mirror mirror. If Alex Breggman walks, does it close the Astros championship window to you? Not at all. Absolutely not. And we've been over this multiple times. The roster's too good. And it's not like you just don't get a third baseman then and you don't have possible solutions, whether it be at third base and or in the lineup that you can't consistently still be good. You still have Cautucker for at least another year, depending on what you do. And even if you don't have him, you're going to get something for him. You still have Fromber for another year, but in the middle of lineup, you've got the big fella. You've got Al Tuva leading off. You've got a solid lineup that's going to be around with with Jeremy Peña, his defense is above average. You know, his offense good enough. You've got enough guys in this lineup with the starting pitching that you have locked down in the numbers of starting pitchers that you have. The bullpen and you're going to have Hader and you're going to have Presley and you're going to have, you know, a Bray you. There's just too many good players to say that the window shut if one guy leaves like Alex Bragman. Yeah, I think it's crazy. Actually, I love Bragman. I love Bragman. I love the fact that he visits mounds and he's doing all that in a contract year, which seems like a Boris client thing to do. When did Correa start visiting the mound and the final year of his contract? When did Alex Bragman become a leader and visit the mound and have input on pitchers, pitches in the final year of his contract? But look, I do think that Bragman's a great leader. I think he's great in the clubhouse. I think he is a really good player. I don't think Bragman's a superstar. Like I've heard people call Alex Bragman a superstar. A 768 OPS guy is a superstar. A guy with a four war is a superstar. No, that's not a superstar. It's a really good player. It's a really good player. But can the Astros get by losing a really good player? Yeah, they can get by losing a really good player. They lost Carlos on the World Series the next year. They lost Garrett Cole, who at the time was the best pitcher in all the baseball and we're fine after that. Now, do I think it'd be difficult to replace Alex Bragman? Of course, absolutely. Do I think they're going to be lesser at third base of Alex Bragman leaves next year? Yes, of course, absolutely. But I'm not paying a guy seven years, 180 million dollars whenever he's going to be 31 years old and losing Bragman will hurt. But again, 768 OPS 118 OPS plus a war of 4.1 is are those numbers good? Sure, they're good. Are they 185 and a half million dollars for seven years when you're entering the age of 31? Good? No. And because of that, yes, the Astros can still be a World Series contender. If you have your on Alvarez, Kyle Tucker in the middle of your lineup, Jose Altuve, still hitting at a pretty high level, you have a formidable lineup. Now you have to get creative on how to help that lineup. You mentioned the rotation you give me from her and Hunter Brown pitching the way that he did. That's as good a one two as there is in the American League. So yeah, I don't look at all the guys behind him. The Astros are certainly capable of contending for a World Series title next year. Should they lose Alex Bragman? Yeah, you just you just look at all the different guys that we mentioned and some of the guys that we didn't and know that you still can also add guys as well. So it's not as much who's leaving. It's how do you replace them? So you can replace Alex Bragman in a variety of different ways that maybe it's you're not going to spend a lot of money in free agency or you're going to start someone else there. That's might be in the system, but you're going to, you know, increase the amount of money you spend or who you look at trying to add for it, whether it's trade or free agency in the outfield and add a bat. There's a variety of different ways you can improve this team. If Alex Bragman walks out the door, there's too much talent to say that the doors shut when he walks through it. 713 780 ESPN 8807. So you take Brag's money and spend it on unknowns. I don't think they're going to spend it. I don't think that the Astros are going to be very active in free agency. They got money tied up to a Bray year. They got money tied up to Monteiro. They still are going to are there still on the books for a good amount of money before they're even looking at free agents. So I don't think that they're going to spend it on or on much. They'll probably add to the maybe they add one arm to the bullpen. Maybe they add one bat. I don't think they're going to have a very active off season. I think that you did a great job highlighting this earlier about the fact that even with everybody saying, you know, if you if Verlander walks, if Bragman walks, that you're going to have all this money to spend, you can just go out and get whoever you want. No, it's not that simple. It doesn't work that way. But I do think one of the things that like for the bullpen thing, I think grave men will probably be a guy that well, he seems like he wants to play here. I think grave men's a guy that's going to probably be considered in the mix to be an inexpensive way to add someone to your bullpen that can help. I think that there are guys like that. What's the guy the other guy that they got in the trip? It's funny that you say great man. I literally had that thought with myself this one. I was wondering if they bring back Gary makes. I think there's one spot in the bullpen. I think great man for sure. And what was the other guy that got hurt that they were they were hoping to bring back and pay Murphy's actually under contract. Yeah, so you got between Greyman and Penn Murphy. I think you've got veteran relief pitchers that'll factor into the bullpen at some point if they want more veteran arms. But I think that overall, like you said, they're going to get a little bit after get a little more creative, but there's certainly a lot of ways where they'll be just fine if Braggman walks out the door 713 7803776 back out to the HRMP listener line. Rob in the Southwest. You're in the hive with the bees. What's up, Rob? Hey guys, appreciate taking my call. I agree with you. I think Braggman probably leaves. I think the best replacement for him. And I have no idea what it would take in the trade market, but I think he hit the trade market today and that's no one there an auto in the Cardinals. He's actually an upgrade defensively. He's equal offensively, and he his contract is what you would want to give Braggman. I think he's got three years guaranteed left with a mutual in the fourth. And the contract gets smaller every year. Veteran guy leadership, presidency walks in, doesn't have to prove himself. And if he does deteriorate, it's only three years. But again, I have no idea why I was there, Bray. He was only three years to appreciate the call, Rob. I hated it. And Schwab and I were actually having a little conversation on Twitter about this very conversation earlier today. Aaron Otto is three years older than Alex Braggman. I don't really look at the, you know, the how much money crane would pay the guy. I look more at the the luxury tax number. And for Aaron, I'd be $25 and a half million. So you're paying that'd be for three years like like Rob said. So you're paying him $25 and a half million at the age of 34 at the age of 35 at the age of 36. No, thank you. Like that. That's Jose Abreu. The answer for me is neither one, neither one. I'm not trading for Nolan Aaron Otto at a $25 and a half million per year deal for the next three years when he's 33 years old and had a huge drop off. He went from an 891 OPS in 22 to a 774 and 23 to a 719 this year. I'm not trading for Nolan Aaron Otto. The defense is he better than Braggman defensively? It's borderline at this stage of his career. Certainly was it his prime certainly has a better arm. No doubt about that. That's right. I'm not going to go to his arms. Not very good. And people don't like having that conversation. But no, I'm not trading for Aaron Otto. Now it is interesting looking at Aaron Otto and then looking at Alex Braggman. Because if you do a side by side of Aaron Otto and Braggman based on their age, not their year, like because because Aaron Otto is three years older. But if you look at Aaron Otto when he's 30 years old, you look at Braggman when he's 30 years old, you look at Aaron Otto when he's 29 and Braggman when he's 29, Aaron Otto wins far more of those years than Alex Braggman wins those years. I think Nolan Aaron Otto is actually a good case study of what Alex Braggman's going to look like is his career, career trajectory continues to play out. And if we're looking at Nolan Aaron Otto as an untradable contract, an untradable player, because you don't want the contract. That's what Alex Braggman's going to be. That's exactly what Braggman's going to be in three years. And I think look, we we all agree that Aaron Otto's because that's where I was going to start to Aaron Otto defensively. I think he's more athletic in terms of side to side laterally. I think his arm is way better than Alex Braggman. And that's the thing that people have to also consider into all this too. We don't know what we don't know about his arm right now. And that's got to be a factor for any team that's looking at Alex Braggman because at the end of the year, he couldn't play every day. He was missing games. We don't know what's wrong with that arm. Obviously, physicals are going to take place and things are going to go down. But I just don't that concerns me as well. Like, Bob, how do you get Alex Braggman here on the short term deal? That physical doesn't look great. That's something I hadn't I hadn't really thought about that little Carlos Correa type of deal. We felt a physical okay. Now, it's worth monitoring Braggman. Like, yeah, you're going to kick your tires. You're going to monitor Braggman. There's a certain number you will not pass. Now, does he come back into the Astros window because of a failed physical something to monitor? 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He said it. He said it with the killer bees. All right. Who said it? We didn't play last week. We needed a week off. You'd recover all that stuff. Let's go back and look at the film. Yeah, figure out. So we should bring a ringer in here. All right. Just get started. Well, number one. All right. Well, number one. Don't tell people to be positive. Why would the fans media anyone be positive while watching your quarterback get his ass kicked in a game? So for less than 100 yards in the major reason for that is not just because your wide receivers can't get open or catch the ball when they're supposed to do the in zone take down. But it's because your offensive line is the disaster. Hmm. Long. I got a little Joe George vibe with that pause on that subliminal little tank Dell mentioned. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. I can't ask you to read it again. Because it's so long and novel. Probably part of Brian's thinking Lance Paul or Joe. Yeah, I can see Paul saying it. I don't know if Lance would be in the phrase the way it was. Yeah, I could see that. I think it's Yeah, I would I could narrow it to the G's. Okay, you go par Joe. I mean, I told you you don't have a lean either way. Not really. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. My first inclination was Joe. Let's do it. George. Don't tell people to be positive. Why would the band media? Anyone be positive. But watching your quarterback, it is ass kicked in a game. All right, you guys are up 1.0 quote number two. Everybody is the home team whenever you go play the Rams in the Chargers. So there were Vikings fans there. How do the Vikings fans? I got to tell you pathetic job by Vikings fans. No bottles got thrown on the ground. They're trying to they need to see display up in the thing so they can confer and change their call in the Vikings fans don't throw not one bottle in the field. It's a great take. Oh, that's from the Longhorn, right? Yeah. I'm thinking either Paul Dale, John or Litch. Yeah. Way to narrow down. Hey, man, I'll eliminate one your turn. You'll eliminate one now. I don't think I don't think John said it. Yeah, they'll Paul Lance. Okay. Super sarcastic. They'll be sarcastic. They all three of them. All three of them. Yeah. So that is really helped there. Now. I mean, if it was a different game that the Longhorn thing happened at Lance's wife is the Longhorn that he dialed super dialed in. But that was a big game everybody was watching. So everybody knows. And he said that everybody goes to a Rams game. So I don't think it might be Lance. I kind of feel the same way. You want to do it? Let's do it. Lance early. Everybody's the home team. Let's go. We might have a chance fans there. How are the Viking fans? I got to tell you pathetic job by Viking fans. I heard that this morning, I had to use it. That was the morning. I was born again. I heard it on my body. My daughter off. I had to use that one. All right. Well, number three, you guys going for the win here? Devin White. I don't know. I don't want to call him wash, but Philly had a real need at that spot and they got to look at him and camp and said, Nope, not here. You can't play for us. No thanks. We appreciate we appreciate what you've done. But you did it for Tampa. Not for us. You're not going to play for us. I know the killer G's were not feeling this move because of our text that the textures were snitching them out. Oh, really? Yeah, they're right. Remember, we're writing out the G's. They're writing out the G's. They said he's washed. He's no good. Okay. So maybe Paul called him washed and then Joe said, Well, I don't want to call him washed. But you know, he said, No, thank you, Philly, Philly had a need. I feel it's from the G's. Okay. Can I can I hear it one more time, Brian? Devin White, I don't want to call him wash, but Philly had a real need at that spot. And they got to look at him and camp and said, Nope, not here. You can't play for us. No, thanks. We appreciate we appreciate what you've done. But you did it for Tampa. Not for us. So you're not going to play for us. I guess it could be Dell too. But I know the killer G's were not happy with the move, which was like deadly move. Last linebacker on your team move was Paul do the nope. I think it's Joe. You don't think he does the note. Okay. I think I think Paul probably called him washed, just Paul can be a little contrarian. And then Joe is like, Yeah, I kind of agree. I don't want to go as far to say washed, but in Philly, he wasn't playing. So to me, the only other outside factory still. Yeah, I could I could see it being Dell. I don't know how Dell felt about it. It's like Dell might have liked the move. And like, we're guessing down, he liked the move. I know that the killer G's didn't like the move. I don't know how anybody else felt about it. All right, you call it. Let's go Joe. Never wait. I don't want to call a boss, though. But Philly had a real need at that spot. I had a head down. They got a look at him at camp and say none of the guy right there, right? Are they still up to one so to one quote for honestly, being on a terrible team in Nashville will probably be fun. There's no expectations anymore. The quarterback situation is so bad. You're getting paid millions of dollars to play football. And I'm in bachelorette party heaven. I would love to be a national playing for this organization right now. There are no expectations. There's no pressure. If you're competent, you're fine. Paul sounds like Paul. I mean, bachelorette. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's Paul. You just want to guess it's too easy. Maybe leading us. But sometimes a quote so good that he was using anyways. That's true. Let's do it. Paul. Honestly, being on a terrible team. Yes. No my expectations. The quarterback situation is so I don't want to get the fifth one. I pay millions of dollars to play. You want to be the four and one like you're so close. I could have. I know that's what I'm saying. I want to screw us up. All right. Let's do this. All right. Well, five, even though I think they're going to make the playoffs at the end of the season, if they won 35 games that would not be surprised. If they won 51 games, I would also not be surprised because you're so they're still so young. It wouldn't it would just totally shock me if they take a small step back. I hear Lance. OK, let's do it. Lance. You know, I think they're going to make it. It's fine. I don't want to get that. I didn't want to screw up the five. I know that we've never had before. One day. One day. Good. Good. We want good guys. I think it's August. I don't know. I don't know. You can take another victory lap later. But not this week. There's two types of people in the world. Those look back and those look ahead. Willabits. You never know what you're going to get. You just know it's going to be great. It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. 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I went and I looked at the bet the other day, though, and the only pending bet that we had that was like done was the one one Joe one, right? No, the incident but like that we never paid that. Yeah. Well, that was last place playing first place. So you owed blankers on that. Okay, fair. You have been paid. You haven't paid blankers on that. And then the other one was the baseball Astro thing. Oh, yeah, who won? You and I tied. Oh, finished last. So Joel's got to buy his both ones. I don't know if that's how it works. I think he has to buy us non lunch and we split it. Maybe you can buy a spaghetti and you'll start on one and I'll start on the other will be in the middle. We're going to lady in the lady of the tramp. So you got to he got to buy one lunch and then Brian has to bring up and owes me one. So then he does what I thought was a drink, I think. I don't think that one was a lunch bet. Yeah, but y'all could watch that one out. I don't need anything. Y'all can watch that one out. We're all settled. I'm fine. That's fine with me. Except for Joe. Yeah, we can watch that one out. Yeah, weird behavior there. Alright, so this is the earlier today on the killer G's, Paul said something that was quite attention grabbing. It was very interesting to say the least. Paul has never tried a certain piece of candy until today. And hey, some of the free food that they have here. Really good. Guess what I just had for the first time in my life is below is my mind. I just had a Reese's peanut butter. I think this is a Reese's peanut butter cup. Yeah, it is. It's like a hot the home. It's like a different version of it. Yeah, I'd never had one ever in my life. You see, you don't have like the normal version. No, I was really good. It was really good. I guess I'm just like, it just that it just blows on my I know you don't like chocolate. That that's amazing that Paul has never had a Reese's peanut butter cup. That's that happy story. I never had he ate it is like this is a Reese's peanut butter. Like he heard the uncertainty in his voice like he still wasn't even sure exactly what he was eating. He must be on the TV 12 diet only eats like avocado ice cream. Was he on the TV 12 diet when he was 12 or 10 going trick or treating he's got some crazy he's I don't want to call it weird because that's gonna sound judgmental. But he's got some thing on chocolate. They like he has this fear of eating chocolate. I don't he'll have to explain it one day must. I mean, that's scared of it. If he ate it today. Yeah, I know freaking way you're however old he is and it's never had a Reese's. He's 35. But it's never had a Reese's peanut butter cup until today. That's so weird. I mean trick or treating was off limits or what you just said. No, thank you. When people were handing out the best candy that we get to be treating sour candies like the nerds, the smarties, things like that. But he doesn't like chocolate. So yeah, so we're unbelievable. Really? It's really an American. It's all that and more like how in the world do you not even sample it between when you least try it? Yeah, like it. So it does beg the question. What is the most popular food or candy or chip that you have never tried 713 7803776. I've been thinking about this ever since I knew we were doing this. And I do not know. I do not have an answer for you. I have anything. I try everything. I try everything. I'm kind of a foodie. I think I'm with you. I have one that you can be in on. What's that? The fact that from a local perspective, I have heard all this stuff about Smash Burger. I mean, I smash burger about Bunby's. Yeah, drill burgers. That's a little different though. That's like one specific restaurant. Like I've had a bunch of Smash burgers obviously. Supposedly, you know, the way the burgers down and everything about it is, you know, is raved upon that I haven't had that cut. Yeah, that's why I would say that. Okay. Yeah, I didn't take it that way. That's interesting that you took it that way. That's more of like a specific restaurant that opens up there. Yeah, I was going more like just food. Yeah. I mean, I was kind of stumped. Yeah, I don't really have a great answer 713 780 ESPN. What popular food have you never tried similar to Paul never trying a Reese's peanut butter cup until today? I was pretty late to the sushi game. I was that might wall. I had two answers. One of them sushi. Like I've never I just can't get over the raw fish thing. So you don't eat it at all anymore. Like still to this day. No, and I love seafood, but it has to be cooked. And the other thing is and it's certainly it started off I think is like poor college kid food and now it's become super trendy, but ramen. I've never tried ramen. Really? No, never tried it. See, I'll try everything once. And then I just never have gotten around to it. I don't think I had sushi until I was like 16. Like it took me a while before I would be willing to try sushi. It kind of like creep me over office. This doesn't sound natural. And then I tried it. And I loved it. And I've been hooked ever since. I love it to this day. It's one of my favorite things to eat. So I don't really have a great answer here. I've tried everything. I've tried now I haven't tried everything, but I've tried everything that's popular, at least our country. Like I'm sure there's popular things in other countries that I haven't tried. But anything popular in America, I think I've tried it. I think it would have to be more so of things that were like a fad that came up real quick, like combinations of things that made a new, you know, snack food. I thought Joel would have far more because I know you don't really love like spicy stuff like like Joel and Jeremy and I both like the was it the Vicky's jalapeno chips? I know you're not in on those. I've never tried those. I've never tried those. I'm not helping you. You're right. Okay, here here are a few techs coming in. Never had a big Mac. I've had a big Mac. I've only had a big Mac once though, because I prefer the quarter pounder. You've only had one big Mac. Yeah, because I don't like I'd rather have the quarter pounder. Okay. Yeah. So I don't get a big Mac. I don't like the sauce on the big Mac and there's too much bread. There's a thousand island. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the big Mac. I prefer the other, but I've had it once. I've tried the big Mac once. I'd rather go quarter pounder. Never tried junior mints. I've had junior mints. They're good. Yeah, junior mints are good. You know, oysters 167 says oysters just look disgusting. So I've only had oysters like two or three times. Raw oysters, char girl oysters, delicious. I would never think about raw oysters or oysters in general. Really? I'm not a big seafood guy. Anyway, char girl oysters no way oyster rocker. You're more on your list, Joel, than you think you are. Yeah, I just don't think because yeah, I mean, seafood for me from the majority of seafood. That's a lot of what I'll do shrimp and lobster and in cod and and I don't like seafood be like strip lobster and cod. I don't like fishy fish. Well, cod's fish though. Yeah, but it's not fishy. It's not fishy because they they send it to places that fry them. You don't get it. You don't have to get it fried. Right. But they that's that's usually the fish that whenever you go to like a McDonald's, like a long john silvers, usually it's cod like seafood Joel you've named like for I don't like there's only I'm very particular about certain like I've I've had allergic reactions and broken out on crawfish on a lot of fish different shellfish and other things. So I stay and I don't really like even living in the Pacific Northwest. I couldn't stand salmon. I like raw salmon better and cook salmon. What popular foods have you never tried? So oyster, I've done oysters a few times. I wouldn't order oysters, but it's on the table. I'll try one or two. It's not my favorite, but I will try it 5 5 9 5. He ran a ox tail. He says ox tail. I've tried it. I've tried it. We had it at the tailgate too. Did we? Yeah, we had ox tail. I don't remember that. At the tail drive. Yeah, we did. Oxhos really good. It was good. Very good. 9 6 9 5. Corey says that he's never had lobster. That's amazing. And he says he's never been to a Brazilian steakhouse. Brazilian steakhouses are life changing. They're good. They're delicious 0 7 9 4 Popeyes chicken sandwich. Oh, with Adam. Yeah, I love the Popeye chicken sandwich. It's delicious. 1 2 6 4. I've never had a McRib and I'm not interested. I've had several McRibs. I usually get a McRib once every two to three years. I actually have to add the McRib to the list. I've tried it. It looks it tastes how it looks process pork food every three years or so. I have to remind myself how terrible it is. You forget how bad it is. So you have it then you remember it's terrible and so you said you'll never do it again until you forget and it starts all over again. I don't do the Jeremy part of it. I've had it before. I don't have any inkling to have it again. I hate hate hate pickles and mustard have only tried them because my sister force fed me as a kid. Yeah, but you have to have it once before you learn that you hate it. You know what I mean? So you've had great chops from Agas the best. Oh, goat chops. I've been that places on my list. I haven't been there yet. Yeah, I've I've seen this place pop up on a bunch of like the TikTok food influencers and stuff. I've been meaning to try it. It's in. It's on my list. I haven't eaten there yet, but it looks delicious. I cannot wait to try it. A goat in general. I've had goat but go it's not popular. No, it's not. Go it's not popular. Yeah, I just can't think of anything. I haven't tried. I really can. 713 7803776. Let's get to DJB anime. 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