Astros vs Rangers Game 11 LIVE Play-By-Play @ Daikin Park Houston Sept. 15th 2025
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I am the love. I am you. You love me. You are love. You are me. We love us. We are love. We are love. We are true. We are [Music] God. I remember. I accept. I become. I am. I am. I am. I am. [Music] I am. [Music] Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in this great big world, this great big flat baseball field that we call Houston. Houston Earth, the planets 15 and0 or more. Does anybody know what movie that’s from? So, this is the planet scenario that the Astros are in over the course of the next two weeks. You have to embrace that. If you can tell me what that’s from, and I imagine there are many of you who can, then you are pretty cool. Good morning to you from Hiroshima, Japan. I have been doing a lot of work on my channel, doing a variety of things, trying to make some improvements and uh adjustments, etc., etc., because there are several things coming up and I need to uh make some changes in order to get the improvements going. And uh one of those is the scoreboard that you see. I noticed that there were some errors with the scoreboard and I had to get those things fixed. Plus, I’m trying to get a live stream going. That’s a uh 24-hour live stream for the scoreboards. And I did schedule it, but I have not started it yet. And the reason is simple. And that’s just because I haven’t finished working out all of the coding yet. It’s that simple. I haven’t finished working out all of the coding yet. That’s interesting. The audio was going a little crazy there, but I just got it fixed. All right, good to go. I put on my foam mic filter instead of my pop filter because the pop filter just takes up so much space. It’s it’s like it’s such a huge thing to have in front of my face. I can’t really see all of my screen here. So, I decided to go with the foam cover for my microphone. should do a little better. As long as it helps to block the noise from the fan, the interference from the fan, and it gives me a better view of the screens, it’s all good. The lineup for the Astros today, we are in Dyking Park. So, Jason Alexander will be on the mound first. The Astros will be on D. Alexander is going to be facing. Let’s see. Need to get my layout fixed here. Josh Smith is leading it all for the Strangers, followed by Wyatt Langford and Jock Peterson. Jacqu Jacqu Kustoau Peterson. As for the Astros lineup today, let’s take a quick look. Jeremy Pñena leading it off. Yordon Alvarez still in the second slot. He’ll be in left field today. Carlos Koreah batting third. Altuve is back in the game today. I I’m hoping that he’s feeling good for this series. He was having trouble with his foot, but they said it wasn’t serious. Apparently, as far as we know, that’s correct because he’s back on the field today at second base in the cleanup spot. Let’s hope that his very recent improvement at the plate continues and amplifies. I want to see Altuve bat 500 for the rest of the season. Christian Walker will be a batting fifth. Jake Meyers batting sixth in center field. Victor Keratini is the DH today batting seventh. Yiner Diaz batting eighth and he’s catching. And then Jesus Sanchez batting ninth. We got a pretty balanced lineup. Righty, lefty, righty, righty, righty, righty, lefty, righty, lefty. The good thing is that Walker is batting fifth and Diaz eighth. In between those, we have Meyers and Keratini. I think this is much better. And with Sanchez in the ninth slot, and then that goes back to the top of the lineup with Pñena Alvarez, I I think that this lineup could do pretty well. We’ll see how it goes. The Astros are a coin flip these days at the plate. So, you never really know, but I guess we’ll see, right? I guess we’ll see. Nine wins in a row for the Mariners right now. They’ve just gotten incredibly lucky. incredibly lucky playing some of these teams that they were supposed to lose to at least a little bit. Death Before Dishonor, good to see you. Thank you for being here, Mark. Welcome back, Marduk. Ghostros indeed. Let’s bring home the lobsters. The people want to feast. Run, Keratini, run. Work off some of that chub. Danny Berry Sports, happy Tuesday to you. the lion. Good to see you as always. Astro’s wearing the space city uniforms today. Got about 27 people watching. Let’s go ahead and get those likes on the live stream a little early so that we can get this out to more Astros fans. If the Strangers fans are here, you’re welcome. Sometimes I know that the games are blacked out for some of you. So if that’s the case, you’re welcome to be here. I appreciate you stopping in on commercial break right now. We will just I think maybe it’ll be about seven more minutes if I’m not mistaken. We’ll have the first pitch. Let’s take a look maybe at the Rangers lineup right quick. Josh Smith leads it off at shortstop followed by Wyatt Langford in center field. Jacques Peterson in the DH spot batting third. Batting fourth is Jake Burger. Burger time. Double cheeseburger. Let’s hope today he is a junior whopper. Adulles Garcia is back in the lineup. Let’s hope the Astros fans will refrain from booing him today. I want to see the Astros fans cheer when he comes to the plate. A little reverse psychology throw him off. Osuna is batting sixth and he’ll be in left field. Young is batting seventh at third base. Him is catching, batting eighth. And Moore at second base, batting ninth. Jack Later is the pitcher for the Strangers today. He’ll be facing off against our very own third in the rotation savior this year, Jason Alexander. I heard a pretty interesting conversation earlier today. They were talking about if you were in a tight situation in the playoffs, Hunter Brown was not available and you had Fromber on four days of rest versus Jason Alexander on five days of rest, who would you go with? It was an interesting discussion because on one hand they said if you were Joe Espatada in that situation and you choose to go with Jason Alexander, you could very easily lose your job, especially if he gets blown up, right? But at the same time, Prober is literally a coin toss. You have no idea who you’re going to get. You know for sure you know for sure that has the stuff but whether he is able to deliver on that particular day or not there’s just no way to know that you know and he’s progressively gotten worse as the season has gone along not just in attitude but in performance. Little bit of a discussion with Josh Miller. It’s funny. Prodigy Josh Miller just said they have a tough lineup, but we’re going to try to put something together and attack them as best we can. It’s funny because you just posted their averages in the chat and said, “Tell me this isn’t a crappy Rangers lineup.” And I agree with you. It really is. The Astros should should do well. But Josh Miller, the pitching coach for the Astros, he just said it was a tough lineup. Seriously, in Japanese, I’d say honto. It means really pontto the lion says frers a splinter cell for his next team at this point. I hear that. But you know what? It’s kind of crazy because you know, let let’s forget about Frober’s attitude for a minute because we all know that in in the majors there there are many teams out there that are willing to take a guy with an attitude as long as he is able to perform, right? So if Rober is lights out, you know, if he is at his height in pitching success, then it will be so easy for teams to overlook that stuff and say, “Well, you know, he said he didn’t mean to cross up Salazar and he apologized and and but you know, and on top of that, look at his performance. He’s stellar. You know, he’s truly an ace. If that were all true, then he could still get a nice bag. But the combination of his performance and how it’s gotten worse and worse and worse, the combination of that and his attitude and the way he’s behaving on the field has caused his value to go way down. I have an interesting question for you all about that. Let’s say that for some reason, and I don’t think this is going to be possible, but let’s just speculate. Let’s say that Frober did so terrible for the rest of the season that his value dropped so much causing him to be easily signable for the Astros, would you resign him? And I’m going to put that into a poll right quick because I think it’s an interesting question. If Romber was available at a discount, would you want the Astros to sign him? Yes. Why not? No. No way. N H E double hockey sticks. Well, let’s just say there we go. Let’s try that. Alexander is getting himself warmed up on the mound. Had a very interesting day out here. I’m always seeing critters out here at the house, but the deer have been very, very active behind my house recently, and you can hear them outside. I don’t know if any of you have ever heard deer before. It’s funny that I grew up in Louisiana and I’ve been deer hunting before and we were around nature and I saw deer many times, but my whole life, I swear to God, I never knew that deer made sounds. I never knew that. And then when I got out here to live in the countryside by this mountain, I started hearing these strange sounds one night. The first time I heard it, I just parked my van. I got out of my van. It was completely quiet out here and I heard this this sound the sound of like kind of like that and I was like what the heck is that? You know, it kind of scared me at first. Found out later on it was deer. Deer make those sounds. Did you know that? Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there. First pitch is outside. 91 mile per hour sinker. Ball one. Josh Smith at the plate facing our summer of George 91. Bottom of the zone. Strike one. Hey Glenn, quietly wandering. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Well, I’ve gotten used to it. It’s pretty cool. But they’ve really really been getting closer and closer to the house recently. Sometimes I hear them in the back in the field in the forest, but they’ve been really active back there recently. Two ball, I’m sorry, one ball and two strikes. That last toss was a strike. Here’s the next one. That’s ripped to the right side. Cow remains one and two. Prodigy says the Astros have lost eight of the last nine frer decisions. That’s right. That’s right. And his RRA is way up there. his recent RRA is what like around six. That’s smurfing terrible. Uh it comes from Seinfeld the Lion. It’s a reference to George Castanza, Jason Alexander’s character in Seinfeld. Pena gets that first out with a little fly ball into shallow left field. One up and one down. Josh Smith will go back to the dugout with his head held down in shame. Wyatt Langford comes down from the farmstead to be the second batter for the Texas Strangers. Here comes the first pitch. Nice. 92 milesPH low inside. Another strike. Hey Glenn, I know you’re listening, so I wonder if you uh if I can convince you to get on the mic one of these days, maybe you can sit and do one of these games with me. I wonder just how much you know about baseball. Strike two delivered to Langford. Here’s the next toss. Blowing outside. One ball, two strikes. Prodigy wants to know, “Besides, man, what natural predators do the deer have in Japan?” Swinging a miss, strike three. Nice change up. The change up, I believe, is the number one strikeout pitch for Mr. Alexander. And that one is right there. Thing of beauty. Can’t touch this. Prodigy. I would say that if if the the bear is big enough, there are black bears here. If they’re big enough, 92 in the bottom of the zone. Jacques Peterson is at the plate. Hey, Altuve. Hey, Altuve. Here’s a 0 and one pitch. Pine outside one and one the count to Mr. Peterson. Jordan Peterson is at the plate. No, I don’t think so. I think it’s too existential. Baseball is is such a deep topic and once you get into it, you just keep digging and digging and digging and and it’ll make you cry. Next pitch is a bowl. Two in one. I’m kind of out of practice on my Jordan Peterson impersonation. Here’s the toss. That’s grounded straight to Alt Tube. Scoops it up and lobs it over to Walker. Three up and three down in the first in. That’s what I like to see in Houston. Welcome to Planet Houston. Welcome to Planet Houston. Okay. I don’t I don’t think I’ve ever actually discussed baseball too detailed with my friend Glenn, but if he’s if he happens to be here, whenever I have to do some of these games, maybe I’ll have him sit in and uh whenever we have some opportunities, we’ll discuss a little bit of Australian culture. For those of you who don’t know who I’m talking about, it’s quietly wandering in the chat. He’s going to be visiting pretty soon. But, uh, Prodigy, what I was saying is that there are black bears here, but the bears in this area tend to be much smaller. And, um, I don’t think they really pose much of a threat to the deer. I mean, the deer are really fast. And I think the deer in general are kind of bigger than the bears are around here. If you go up to Hokkaido, northn northeast Japan, those bears are pretty big and they they can be aggressive and super dangerous. You don’t mess with those. But the bears around here, from what I understand, they’re not nearly as big. They’re not typically as aggressive. So, I guess the the deer, I mean, there are also wild boores, but you know, I think those animals tend to leave each other alone. And the boores generally are pretty shy. They’re they’re even worse than the deer. The deer are much bolder about coming out in the open and um and being around human civilization and eating our stuff right out in the open. They are much more intrusive actually in Japan than the boores are. But the boores are are highly damaging. You just have to put up a a fence and some cans and stuff like that. Pñena is at the plate. Fouls off the first pitch and it’s going to be out of play for strike one. If you walk around here around the rice fields, you’ll see that they have these fences around them and they put aluminum cans on top of the fences. And the reason they do that is because whenever the boar try to push through the fence or something, it shakes the fence and it rattles and it scares them away. They’re they’re that stuff doesn’t bother the deer. They’ll just jump over it. a half swing and that’s a strike on the outside. Leader is on the mound for the rangers. But other than that, the deer have pretty much free reign of Japan. That’s why they become kind of a nuisance in many areas here. You can actually get a license to be a hunter and hunt them here. You can have a gun here. 99 up and in and fouled off on the fists. Anyone who tells you you can’t have a gun in Japan, that’s not the complete truth. You can actually go through a process of getting uh approved for a gun, become a hunter, a licensed hunter, and then you can have a gun. I met a guy in Tokyo who was a licensed hunter. Hey, Pñena’s got a leadoff base hit to right field. A single line drive. He was musling it off and he finally launches one out into right field. Good job, Flash. For those of you who do not know this, this series must be a sweep for the Astros in order for them to win the silver boot. What is the silver boot, you might ask? If you don’t know, I will tell you. That’s the Texas trophy, the winner of the series throughout the year between the Astros and the Texans. Whoever wins the series gets the silver boot. Right now, the Astros are down by two games, and this is a three-game series, so they can’t even give up one. They’re going to have to win all three. So, let’s get the sweep on. Yordon is at the plate. Up and out. Two balls and no strikes. Come on, your daddy. Your dad is at the plate, boy. Your daddy’s at the plate. Here comes the next toss. A 20. That was crushed, but foul. I think it’s going to be foul. That went way way up in the air. That was a nice crack of the bat there for Alvarez. Man, that was that was calling out for the Crawford boxes on the opposite field, but turns into a strike. Two balls in one strike. Michael says, “From’s best days have already happened.” I agree completely, Michael. He says, “But I hope he finishes his last year here on a high note.” I I hope so. I I really do hope so for him and for the Astros. I don’t have anything bad against him. I appreciate what he’s done. I just I’m just disappointed in his behavior. His pitching is not even what I’m upset about recently. I’m just sad that he was playing the way that he was and had the attitude that he had. Three balls and one strikes now. Three and one strikes. Three balls and one strike to Mr. Yord on. Pñena on first. He cracks it again. 98 miles an hour right in the center of the zone. Fouls it off. Fouls it off. Fouls it off. Fouls it off. Full count. Glenn says, “I’ll deliver the equivalent of a cricket commentary which will confuse everyone. My baseball knowledge is very limited. It’s not a high-profile game here in Oz.” Yeah, that’s right. But you can tell us some interesting things about Oz. Ball four. O Yordon. How about that? Nice take. Nice take your daddy. We got two runners on with no outs here in the bottom of the first. This is what the Astros need to do is get runners on early. Score a lot of runners early and keep the pedal to the metal. Don’t let off. Just keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Don’t assume that your defense is going to get it done. Offense is the best defense. All right. Slider to Koreah. Misses for ball one. Come on there, South Korea. Let’s take him to the woodshed. Here comes the next Little tapper at the plate. It’s going to be a hard play. He throws it over the head of the first baseman and Kareah is going to go to second base. Pñena is going to score. Alvarez might score. Here’s the throw. He’s safe in there. Look at that. Look at the big man. Oh, and he comes in limping after he hits the plate. Yordon went running in there and didn’t slide. And it looks like he might have hurt his knee. Are you kidding me? Two to nothing Astros. But at what cost? Yordon Alvarez, if you saw that play just now, he came running in there and he did not slide and he landed on what looked like his left knee. That might be it for Yordon in this game. We’ll see. He’s limping to the dugout. See how he goes down the steps here. Yeah, they’re going to show the replay here. That was tapped to lighter and he slipped down and he threw it way over the head of the first baseman and that caused the nonsense. There was no way that double cheeseburger could get to that ball. They’re going to take him back and have a little look at him. Oh man, the Astros. The Astros and their injuries, right? The Houston Injuries, they should change their name instead of Dyking Park. Should be uh Houston Medical, Texas Astros Hospital. I swear. Here it is. Right here. Oh, he slipped on the plate. That’s what it was. He slipped on the plate. Did you see that? Okay. On the live shot, I didn’t see that. I just saw him come running in there. But from that angle, you can see that he slipped. Altuve’s at the plate, but the quiet the quiet crowd right now. You’d think they’d be excited, but after seeing that, everybody’s scared to death, right? One and0 to Alt. Hey, Blue Devil. Good to see you. Socks didn’t play today. Okay. Yeah, I want to see some lobsters. Plenty of lobsters. We’ve already brought two home. Let’s get some more. Here comes the one pitch. Tuveet outside. 2 and 0. Korea is on second base. No outs. Two to nothing stroves here in the bottom of the second. Here’s another angle. There’s Pñena. Actually, Paris Chica tried to stop him. He was waving him in and then he told him to stop, but Yordon came in anyway. Altuve hits that one in the air on the infield. Triple cheeseburger takes it in. Quarter pounder with cheese. One away. Koreah on the second base. That’s right. Prodigy. Cash in right now. Make them pay. Whoa. Uh, okay. Walker’s at the plate. In the very first pitch, he gets hit with a 95 mile per hour fastball. Thanks a lot, Jack. Jack Lighter having a great first inning. Fine by me Walker. Oh, luckily he pulled his elbow in. It looked like it got him on the elbow on that protector. Man, I almost hit him on the ribs. 95 miles an hour to the ribs. That would suck. Two on with one out. Jake Myers at the plate takes that first pitch. The curve ball in there for strike one. Marduk, he did not hurt himself sliding. He never slid. He slipped on the plate. Here’s the toss low and outside. One ball, one strike to Mr. Baseball. Yeah, Delane, you’re right. Can’t dwell on it. Let’s just hope that he’s all right. I’ve hurt my knee in a similar situation before and at first it felt pretty bad, but then after a few minutes it was okay. 84 bottom of the zone. One ball and two strikes to Myers. I I kind of pulled my my my knee out of joint just a little bit, twisted it a little bit one time when I was playing basketball. A so-called friend of mine fouled me while I was making a layup because he couldn’t stop me and so he just decided to just take me out and caused me to land funny on my knee and hurt it. It really, really hurt. I thought my knee was broken, but after resting for like 15 minutes or so, it got better. And I didn’t bother me after that. Not until years later, though. Years later, it started bothering me. Here’s the 22. Ah, 97 on the outside edge. He takes it for strike three. Myers, what are you doing? You got to swing at that stuff. You can’t take a 97 mile per hour fast ball down the middle. I mean, it was on the edge, but still, it’s it’s in the zone. You got to swing. You got to swing, bro. We got runners on first and second. We’ve already got a couple of lobsters on the board right now. We got three three lobsters that we have lost. We brought two home. Lost three. The Batman is at the plate. Victor Keratini. Let’s go. Here’s the toss outside. Ball one. Surprisingly, Jack Lighter’s pitch count is not very high. He’s only tossed 22 pitches. It feels like he’s thrown more than 30, but he might get lucky with this inning. Here’s the toss. Keratini chops it foul down the first base side and the count’s one and one. Texans playing so so. Yeah, kind of like the last game, right? Rub some dirt on it. Yeah, they actually they just need they need to to get a Japanese guy to spit on his hands, rub his hands together and rub it and then it’ll be okay. Here comes a one-1 pitch to Keratini. Oo, almost got him. Curveball way inside. Almost the second hit by pitch of the inning. Two balls and one strike. Don’t know yet. We’ll find out. We’re waiting to hear something. Uh, Mr. Antonio, we’ll find out about Yordon soon enough, I’m sure. Inside again. Three and one to Keratini. Might have bases loaded for Yiner Diaz, our biggest power hitter in the lineup. Michael says, “Somebody call Eso Britis. We’ll figure where to play him later. We need his bet. That’s hit hard to the second baseman. He fumbles it for a second, but he’s got plenty of time to get to first base. Two runs, five lobsters in the first inning for the Astros. Not the best, not the best result. I mean, getting the two runs was great, but getting shut down after that, that’s no good. They had no outs. still had a guy on second base and they didn’t move him around. Not at all. You know, I think at that point they could have considered some small ball, right? It’s like, hey, we got a guy on second base. We’ve already scored two runs. We have no outs. Why don’t we go small ball? Altuve came to the plate. Could have had Alt just bump the ball down the first baseline. Get the guy over to third. If Altuve is lucky, he beats the throw to first base. If not, doesn’t matter. We got a guy on third with just one out. And then after that, you’ve got Walker. Walker, you know, as far as I know, is a terrible bunter. But if Walker manages to get on base, then Meyers comes up and then may if if Walker happens to get on base, Meyers can definitely bunt, you know, bunt the runner home. Maybe I think they could have considered some small ball to pick up an extra run there instead of just letting them swing away, but whatever. At least we got the lead right. Two hits, two runs. The strangers have one error. Alexander will be back up in just a moment. The top of the second facing Mini Cheeseburger and then Adoleis Garcia, Alejandro Osuna. It would be nice to get five runs in the inning prodigy. I agree. Hey Fox at bat. Good to see you. Absolutely. Let’s regain first place. Let’s do it. Do it. Do it. You’re welcome. Fox, he says, “Another day watching the Astros with a broadcast from Japan.” Thanks for that. Thank you for being here. I wouldn’t be doing it without all of you guys and gals. And that’s serious. That’s serious. It’s fun to do it, but I don’t just do it for fun. I do it because there are people out there that want to hear it. If there’s somebody out there that wants to hear it. Well, it looks like Yordon’s out. Cole is in the game. As soon as we get an update for Yordon, I’ll let you know. That’s a strike right in there. One ball, one strike to Mr. Burger. It look He’s chewing on something. It look It’s like It looks like he’s eating. I know he’s probably chewing gum, but it just looks like he’s eating. Maybe Burger is chewing the last few bites of the hamburger that he was eating just before he came out on the field. Here’s the one-1 toss blowing outside. Ball two. Two-1 pitch on the way. Nice. 91 in the top of the zone. Strike two and the count is even. Here comes a toss. Swing and a miss. All right. How do you like that, Swiffer? Eat that, says Mr. Alexander. Take a look at this. Starts off inside, goes to the outside. A thing of beauty. Keep doing that. Jon Jon some mixed applause and booing for Garcia. That’s better than usual. The Astros fans are trying. Bless their hearts. They’re trying. They’re trying. Change their attitude towards Garcia. 0 and1 is the count. Here comes the toss. High outside. One. I’m going to go ahead and stop the poll right now. Let’s see what it looks like. Pretty interesting. We’ll go over in just a second. Here comes the one-1 pitch. Hi. Two balls, one strike to Garcia. My question in the poll was, if was available at a discount, would you want the Astros to sign him? 48% say no way in houble hockey sticks. 25% say yes, why not? 25% say nah depends. All right. Low and outside swinging a miss. Two balls and two strikes. Nice change up once again. That’s that strikeout pitch that he’s got in the dirt. Full count. Patrick uh he slipped on home plate when he came in and scored. It’s it’s crazy because Paris Chica was waving him home and then he told him to stop, but Yordon was already booking it and he ran all the way to home plate and scored. He never slid. He just ran in. Swing and a miss. Another strike out. And guess what? It’s on the change up. Surprise, surprise. Adoleus Garcia goes down. I felt that air all the way over here in Hiroshima. Look at that swoosh. Thank you for the breeze, Mr. Garcia. Two down, five retired for Alexander. Next batter is Alejandro Osuna. 92 on the inside. Strike one. Good toss. Uh Patrick, he didn’t hurt himself stepping on home plate. As he was as he was running across and stepped on home plate, he slipped on it and that’s what caused him to hurt. I think he hurt his knee. Maybe that’s my guess is that he hurt his knee. They’re taking a look at him right now. So, I’ll update you guys and gals as soon as I hear something low and outside. Two balls and one strike to Osuna. Literally, Mr. Antonio, he says we’re going to limp into the playoffs with all these injuries. If we get to the playoffs, right, if we manage to get there, it will be with a limp. Man, we just we just can’t stay away from it all season long. We should change the name to the Outstros. The Houston Outstros, its maybe itai in Japanese means hurt. Itai can say it, but alstro sounds better. Altu puts the grounder away. lobbing it over to Walker and that’s six up and six down for Mr. Jason Alexander. Looking good so far. Astros up two to nothing at the end of two. Two hits for the Stros in area one for the Strangers, but they do have an error. Yer Diaz do up next for the Stros with Jesus Sanchez on deck and Jeremy Pñena in the hole. Somebody get that boy out of the hole. He didn’t do nothing wrong. Fox atbat says, “Given the way he’s been playing, I don’t think he can demand much for his contract.” I agree. He’s cost himself a lot of money between his pitching performance and his attitude. He has just made himself a hard pass for a lot of teams. I wouldn’t doubt it. Dehunt says Frober’s going to Colorado. They’re opening up the books a little this off seasonason with all that young talent coming up. They’re gonna be after Frober and pitching. I don’t doubt it. I can see him up there. Maybe maybe he’ll like the weather a little better. He sweats a lot. I know it’s hot and humid in Houston. I I I mean, you can’t avoid it when you play in the MLB. Obviously, you can’t avoid playing in hot weather sometimes. It’s just impossible because even if where you’re playing at home is such a nice climate, you can’t play there every single day. You got to travel on the road and you got to play in all sorts of weather. You just got to get used to it. But I I I will say that I can’t stand the heat and humidity. That combination is Yeah, I had enough of it when I was uh growing up down that way. Yanner takes the first pitch outside for bowl one. One and0. Hey, Prodigy. Thank you so much. My first super chat of the day. Thank you, sir. $5 go to go towards that nice breakfast. That $5 breakfast. There we go. Thank you, sir. That was a nice hard opposite field foul ball by Diaz. Strike two. One and two. 98 mileph pitch. You couldn’t get around on it early, but the sound off the bat was nice. Top of the third, nobody out, nobody on. Here’s the toss to Diaz. He bounces that one to the third base side. He runs but a little late. He got kind of a late start out of the box. Is not able to beat it out. And one down. Jesus Sanchez coming to the plate. Let’s see what Buddy Sanchez can do for his first at bat. He didn’t have a single hit they said on the road trip. That’s terrible. Absolutely terrible. He needs to get going. Get it going, baby. There’s the first pitch. 97 low inside. Strike one. Glenn says, “I lived in Houston Galveston for my childhood and lived in South Vietnam for almost two years.” It’s funny when people talk about heat with humidity about New York City in here in Poland. I just laughed. Same here. 98 on the inside. That was a little far inside, but the umpire liked it. You can see where that was located in the zone there. 0 and2 is the count to Sanchez with one out, nobody on. Still Viper, thank you so much with the $20 super chat. Viper says, “I’ve been working a lot lately, but here to watch the strangers go down. 98 highing outside. The look on his face, he’s like, “That was close.” He’s hilarious. Look at him. He’s smiling about it. He knew that was close, but it was definitely a good take. Here’s a one and two. Grounded to the right side. Second baseman Moore grabs it and throws it to first. Burger grabs it. Out number two. There we go. That brings Pena back up to the plate. First pitch is high for ball one on that super chat. Strangers go down super chat. Aato, thank you, Viper. Thank you so much for that. I really do appreciate that. Highly appreciated. Here comes the next toss. Pñena fouls that one off on the third base side. One and one is the count with two outs. Nobody on. Later is up to 36 pitches. I see your comments about the pitchers. We’ll get to those in just a second. Low and outside in the dirt. two in one to Pena the Hunt says Frurn Seas have high ground ball rates and that’s what Colorado is going to target for with that thin air ballpark they have Beck Moniac Tovar Caros Romo and in the miners Charlie Kondon in the dirt three and one he says I would expect Ethan Holiday in a year and half the way in a year and a half and the way he’s progressing faster than his brother. Yeah, you’re right. I I think that the the Rockies would definitely want to target pitchers who are uh who have a high ground ball rate and a low home run rate. Thrombber is a good match. So, I agree. I could see him going there. That’s hit pretty hard, but dies quickly. A little thick off the bat. Didn’t get it on the sweet spot. Nice. Nice loud crack, but a little a little dense. Pñena flies out to left field and that’s the third out of the inning. Nothing doing for the Stros in the top of the third. Two to nothing. The score remains. I’m sorry. Going going into the top of the third is what I meant to say. Nothing doing for the Stros in the bottom of the second or going into the top of the third. At least I was able to recognize it and correct myself. It’s because I haven’t been able to get into this next cup of coffee. That’s the reason why. But it’s ready now. See, I just want to doctor it up just a little bit with some some half and half. Blue Devil says Viper must get paid good to do all these super chats. I I think Viper just works his butt off. If I had a super chat for every single time Viper said that he had to work or was working or anything about working, I I would already be rich. I think that Viper must be the hardest worker in the chat, but the super chats are definitely appreciated. A dollar, $5, 20, $100, $1,000, a million dollar, $1 million. All of those are fine and appreciated greatly. Can’t find my spoon. I need to stir my coffee. I need to stir my coffee. Can’t find my spoon. Alexander is back on the mound. He will be facing Josh Young. 90 on the outside edge. Good tall strike one. Next pitch 91 up and out. Ball one. There we go. Next pitch is right in the zone and fouled off. One ball and two strikes and my coffee is prepared. I can get my hand back onto the mouse. Sounds kind of funny. I can get my hand back onto the mouse. Hopefully he won’t bite me. Blown outside. Two and two. We are in the top of the third. That ball is up and inside. Two and two. I’m sorry. Three and two now. Full count. They are having some kind of a promotion with I guess EMS and the police. That’s hit hard to the left side. The Strangers have their first hit of the game. First base runner. Josh Young takes the full count pitch and puts it into left field. Runner on first. Here in the top of the third, Jonah comes to the plate in just a moment. Oh my gosh, Mark, are you serious? Prodigy says, “Let’s add on a run to every inning.” I wish we could do that. If the Astros scored just one run every single inning, I’d be more than happy with that. Oh, what a great play by Albe. Holy cow. Did they get it? Oh my gosh, that’s the best double play I’ve seen all year long. Did you see that? Altuve with the dive and the toss to Pñena. Pñena scoops it out of the dirt, fires it to first base and gets the double play. Look at this. Oh my gosh. That was the most beautiful double play I’ve seen from any team this year. Look at that. Welcome back to the lineup. Aluve Superman getting it done. The Flash. We got the Super Friends going on right now. The only thing that was missing from that double play was a scoop at first by Walker. Painted just made a great throw. 0 and one is the count to Dylan Moore. He fouls off the next pitch. Ow and two just like that. Man, what a great play. That eliminates the base runner. Here comes the next toss. A little high. I’m surprised he didn’t go with the change up in the strikeout. Fast ball high. One ball, two strikes. Mark Bryant, I see your comment. I’ll get to it. It’s pretty funny. Here’s a toss. That’s hit high in the air on the infield. Who’s got it? Pñena has got it. Everybody’s just walking off the field. Py gets underneath it. The cameraman wasn’t sure where to go cuz everybody was walking. All right, Alexander gives up one hit, but that’s quickly eliminated with a freaking awesome double play on behalf of Jose’s diving stop and toss to Pena. And Pñena’s great catch and throw to first base. That was great stuff right there. We go to the bottom of the third. Astros up by two. Two to nothing. Mark Bryant in the chat says, “Your next trip to Cafe Gusto, you need to try one of those monk bean.” Oh, mung bean. Mung bean. Mu n I think. Or no, I’m sorry. Red red red bean. Not mung bean. Red bean. Uh red bean and cream hot dogs. and report it in the following live stream. Are you really going to make me do that? Are you going to make me do that? Tell you what, Mark, if you if you donate $5, then I’ll do it. But otherwise, no guarantees because I really don’t want to eat that. Really don’t want to eat it. But if you’re willing to cover it, I’ll do it just for you and I’ll make the video. How about that? Let’s see here. Yes, please get the likes up. Let me let me take a look. Let me reload the screen here and see how many likes we have currently. Oh, there’s another Prodigy with another super chat. Thank you so very much. We’re going to call that one the Altuve Pñena double play. We’re going to call that the Thank you for the It won’t let me reply. I just typed in a message and it says it won’t let me reply. I waited too long. Apparently, Zack Cole is at the plate on the 0 and1. They’re showing this again earlier. This was Yordon coming across the plate. Oh, it was his ankle. Ouch. Ooh, it was his ankle. His left ankle, not his knee. Did you see that? Terrible. Let me Let me try this again. There we go. Cole grounds this in towards shortstop and he fires it over to first for out number two. Or is that out number one? That’s out number one. I’m trying to figure out where my butt is right now. I typed some messages into the chat and then they didn’t they didn’t send. So, I was trying to get that straightened out and I was only half paying attention to Cole’s at bat. My bad. Korea is at the plate with one out. Nobody on. Here’s the toss. He grounds that one to the short stop who fires over to first and gets him no problem. That’s out number two. Two up and two down here in the bottom of the third. Altuve is back at the plate. Well, too bad. A great defensive play. Does that mean is he does he get the home run here? You know, you have a great defensive play and then you wind up making a big hit, right? Your next at bat in the next inning. Come on, Aluve. Crawford boxes. Crawford boxes. Crawford boxes. Jose Alu. Here comes the first pitch. from Mr. Lighter outside bowl one. Here comes the next pitch. He pops that one straight up on the infield. Second baseman takes it for out number three. And that’s it for the third through three. The Astros are leading two to nothing. That’s two fly balls to the infield for all 2A. Yeah, it could be it could be bad, Glenn, but let’s hope that it’s just like a maybe just a a little twist, you know, just a little twist. But we’re going to find out. I guess I guess we’re going to find out slip around. Find out. Patrick says just good. Just tape the ankle. At least it’s not the knee. You probably sprained it. Yeah, I think that for for Yordon, if I think about my own experience, I’m not quite as tall as Yordon. I’m 6’2. I think Gordon is a little bit taller than that. Let’s see. He’s also a beefier guy than I am. He’s 6’4. He’s 2 inches taller than me. And his weight is uh much more than mine. He weighs 237bs. He’s a beefy guy. Beefy. So, I think that to twist or hurt his knee would be much worse for him. But if his body is similar to mine, I’ve always had strong good ankles. I’ve never had any issues with my ankles. It’s the the knees. That’s a different issue. The Undertaker. Are you talking about the wrestler? That’s kind of a random comment. Speaking of the Texans game, let’s see if we can see if we can pull up that score. 14-10. The Texans have the ball with four minutes left in the third. Okay, they need to do something. and I scored 10 in the first, but I haven’t done anything since then, apparently. Josh Smith is now at the plate facing Jason Alexander. 0 and2 is the count and outside. One ball, two strikes. While I was looking up the Texans score, Alexander tossed two strikes. Maybe I should have stayed on the score. He tossed the ball. Here’s the one and two in the dirt. Low inside. He goes to the back stop. Now it’s two and two. Two balls and two strikes to Josh Smith. Here comes a pitch from Alexander. That’s outside on the change up. Now it’s a full count. Started off 0 and2 and now it’s full. Yeah, I hear that. He doesn’t have a lot of protection right now. Woo! 92 on the outside edge. The umpire rung him up. Josh Smith couldn’t believe it. It was really close. If it got the edge of the zone, it was by a hair. Maybe a a pig’s hair. Wyatt Langford is back at the plate. Takes that first pitch. The change up and in for ball one. Here’s the next toss. 92 on the outside edge. Strike one. The count’s even. That’s right. Sit down, son. Get back in that dugout, boy. What are you doing out there on that field? I didn’t tell you to go out there. Here’s the one-1 pitch with one out. That’s going to be hit into right field for a hit. Cole grabs it. Throws it in. Got a runner on first with one out. That’s the second hit for the Strangers this game. They’re showing the Astros top two pitchers recently. Don’t see Frober there. Don’t see no stinking Valdes. Here comes the 51st pitch of the game from Alexander. The first Jacqu Peterson swinging a foul at the plate. Speaking of Frober, he looks comfy. Where’s his gold chains? 0 and one. Here comes the pitch. Peterson hits that up the middle. Is going to be playable. Myers is back and he makes the play. Right at the warning track, he makes the catch over his shoulder, brings it back in. Peterson is down and that’s out number two. And Mark says Texans scored a TD on their opening drive. Haven’t done anything since. Offensive line is pitiful. Tampa Bay has ball halfway through the third quarter. First pitch to Mr. Burger. A single with cheese or without cheese. Either way, that’s a strike on the outside edge. Runner on first. Two outs in the top of the fourth. No balls, one strike to Mr. Bergar. Bier. Here’s the toss. 78 at the bottom of the zone. Swing a miss. 0 and2. They just said that Yordon has an ankle sprain. If it’s just a mild sprain, then that’s fine. Yeah. Right now, we don’t have any idea how bad the sprain is. if it’s a light sprain or what, but a sprain is so much better than a break or a tear. That’s for sure. And it’s also better than a knee issue. Here comes 0 and2 pitch swing and a miss on the change up. Alexander just like clockwork, he gets those two strikes, comes in with the change up, and that bat can’t touch it. There was at least a few inches between the ball and the bat there. I don’t think you’re very much of a cheeseburger, my friend. You’re more like a You’re more like a vegan burger. You’re a fake burger. Get out of here, you fake burger. You’re not a real burger. You’re not a real boy or a real burger. Yeah, they a double play would have been nice, but Alexander had other plans apparently. Patrick says, “Mark Bryant, yeah, I’ve been telling the Texans fans the success of Houston is their offensive line.” Prodigy says, “What was the name of that Bert Lancaster movie?” Valdez is coming. Valdez is coming. Yeah, that’s right. That’s the name of the film. Valdez is coming. 1971 western film. Bert Lancaster is Bob Valdez, a Mexican American law man seeking revenge against a wealthy rancher for tricking him into killing an innocent man and then refusing to provide compensation to the widow. Sounds interesting. Never saw it, but now I’m interested. Give him a vegetarian burger. That’s right. Serve it up. Foxit bad says, “If that happened to me, I would already be in the hospital ready for surgery. Some people would be in the ambulance crying right now. But I’ve never had a problem with my ankles. I’ve been able to avoid sprains. I mean, even when I started to like lightly twist or hurt my ankle, I’ve been able to get out of it. Walker at the plate grounds it to short stop on the very first pitch and he’ll be thrown out at first base for out number one. Jake Myers comes up with one out, nobody on. Speaking of Myers, they’re showing some of his highlights since he’s been back seven games. He’s his on base percentage is 400. Nine hits and two steals. Not too bad. Not too shabby. Not shoddy. Not shabby. First pitch he takes for ball one. Yeah. Valdez. What I want is for Valdez to do really well. get us through the playoffs into the World Series and win it and then he can go. Is it too much to ask for? It might be. But that’s what I want for Christmas. Santa. Foul ball for Meyers. The count is even one and one. 50 pitches for Lighter coming up in just a moment. We are in the bottom of the fourth. Two to nothing Strows. Here’s the pitch. Grounded straight to short again. Another play to first base. Lots of ground balls to the shortstop today for the Stros. Two down and Zetman comes to the plate. Are you able to take your cup and reach into the sea and scoop up the depth of the waters that represents the power of the Batman? What does it even mean? Keratini fouls the first pitch off on the first base side. Strike one. Yeah, I’ve I’ve only slightly hurt my ankle, but never enough to to to need a wrapping or anything like that. I have very strong angles. This is hit out into center field and it’s caught over the shoulder by the center fielder. One, two, three inning. The Astros have done nothing since the first. That’s the end of the fourth. Astros looked really good coming right out of the gate in the first inning. We’ve seen that often, right? It’s funny because most of the year the Astros they they had this really long streak of not scoring any runs at all in the first, right? And and for the season they haven’t scored many runs in the first. And then I think they they went how many innings before they were able to score first in the game? Like nearly 30 or around 30, something silly like that. And then Oh. Oh, no. That was the innings without a run. They went like 30 or 31 innings or something like that without scoring a run. But they also had many, many games where they didn’t score first. And they’ve had many games throughout the year where they didn’t score in the first inning at all. But when they do score in the first inning, they have often not scored at all either for the rest of the game or for many innings. They have so many strange quirks, you know, this this offense. Man of culture angel, welcome in. Good to see you, sir. Juan Valdez might be able to pitch better for the Astros. I wouldn’t doubt it. I wouldn’t doubt it. Glenn is asking about THE instead of RH in the score line. Adoleis Garcia at the plate bounces that one foul to the third base side. Craig grabs it and throws it to first base just for the heck of it. 0 and one is the count. He struck out his last at bat. He calls timeout. Um Glenn, I’m not sure exactly what you’re talking about there. you talk Oh, you’re talking about the runs, hits, and the errors. I see. Okay. I I was looking all the around the screen for THE and RHE, but I see what you’re talking about. You’re talking about the the run column, the hits column, and the error column. I see. I see. Lowing outside on my screen right here in my software. The actual layout of the screen that you guys are looking at is super tiny. Very hard for me to see that. Swinging a miss. Two and two is the count to Garcia. Um that is showing a T in that section for the the hits. Oh, Pñena uh ground ball. Pñena ran over to scoop it up. Couldn’t handle it. And they’re going to give Pena an error on that play. They say that the ball was spinning. It jumped. Yeah, one little one little jump and then a big jump. So, it came up a little higher than he was expecting, but he’s going to get an error for that. We have runner on first with no outs. Alejandro Osuna at the plate. Maybe we’ll get the double play here. Another double play. We’ll see. Um that coding is all done by AI. That’s hit straight to Craya goes to second base. Pñena to first. He’s safe at first base. They don’t get Osuna at first base, but we get the lead runner, Garcia. One down. Josh Young comes to the plate. But, um, I actually made some changes to the the coating earlier today, not manually, but, um, these are things that you guys probably wouldn’t notice, but on the left side where it has the base runners, it was too compact and crammed together. So, I I had that widened out and had the the size increased so it wasn’t so compact. It’s still not as wide and and situated to the left as I want, but you know, it’s not something you can easily do. You can tell the AI what you want it to do and it says, “Okay, I’ve got it.” And it redo the code and then when it comes up, it’s still it either breaks the code or it doesn’t do exactly what you want yet. You just have to keep working with it for hours and hours and hours before it finally gets it right. But I think in the process of that somehow it changed that to a T. I’m not sure why. So that’s my short answer is the uh it’s the the coding done by chat GPT. I don’t know why it changed it. 0 and2 is the count to Young. Here comes the toss. 92 outside. Ball one. One out, one runner on first. One ball, two strikes. Alexander on the mound with 65 pitches in his pocket. His back pocket. Well, he goes over to first base. Runner’s back. Here’s the toss loan outside. Here’s the toss. That’s hit hard out to left field and it’s gone. It’s tied. Josh Young with a homer to the Crawford boxes off Alexander. That was just an easy golf. That’s unfortunate because the error by Pñena on that hit by Garcia enables the Rangers to tie up the game with one swing of the bat inside. Not very far down. That was right across the knees. Easily hitable and he just golfed it out there. Goodness gracious. Three hits now for the Rangers. They actually now have more hits than the Astros do. The Astros only have two. The game’s tied up. But if you look at the Lobsters, it makes sense. The Astros have five. The Strangers have four. Jonah comes to the plate with one out, nobody on. Here’s a pitch. 91 outside, but in just just enough inside the zone for strike one. Here’s a pitch. Swinging a miss on that fast ball just above the zone. 0 and2 is the count. Here’s the next pitch. fouled back. Count stays 0 and2. Here we see that Houston has the ball right now. Second down and one on the 49 yd line. Moving down the field below the zone. One ball, two strikes to Mr. Heim. Uh-oh, big play. Stra just passed it down the field. Turns into a 28 yardd play that’s hit into center field. Myers goes back and grabs it. Out number two, 24 yd reception. No, 28 yards. Straoud to Higgins. Tampa Bay 23 yd line. First and 10. First pitch is a little out of the zone. Dylan Moore at the plate with two outs. Nobody on. One and0 is the count. That’s low and outside. Just misses the corner. Two and 0. I agree with you, Prodigy, based on skill, but that’s the problem. They haven’t been focused on any type of hitting strategy or hitting system that I can see. Two balls in one strike. That’s right in there. Nice pitch by Alexander. 75 pitches. Here comes the next toss. Let’s hit up the middle. Altuve backhands it. Goes to first base. His throw is way off track. Ali had to go across the bag and throw from the short stop side back over his shoulder there. Not much he could do there, I think. Mound visit coming from Josh Miller. Diaz will stroll out to join the party. Little bit of a long inning. I guess they’re giving him a break here. Just giving him a breather. Two outs, runner on first. 76 pitches for Alexander here in the top of the fifth. Two-run homer evened it up. Josh Smith is at the plate. He is 0 for two today. It looks like the Texans are in the red zone now. 16yd gain to the Tampa Bay 8 yd line. Dalton Schultz on the reception. Josh Smith at the plate. The runner still second base. The throw is not there. He’ll be safe at second base. So, the Strangers get their guy into scoring position. And that is strike one on Josh Smith. 0 and one is the count. Two outs. Runner on second. Here comes the pitch. Smith hits that right up the middle. And that’s probably going to give them the lead. And it does. three to two strangers. So, an error early in the inning and then a grounder that Altuve could not get to first base come back to bite them in the butt and Diaz not being able to throw him out at second. All these things add up to two extra runs. So, instead of the score being two to one Astros, it’s three to two strangers. Two outs, runner on first. Wyatt Langford comes to the plate. Nope. He throws it over to first base and Young is back. Third down and one on the oneyd line for the Texans. And they try a pass and it’s incomplete. Fourth and goal. What kind of nonsense is that? I wish I could see that. What was that play call? Steven Ogre is warming up in the bullpin for the Stros right now. 0 and1 count to Langford. Crowd is pretty quiet in Houston right now. Come on, Alexander. A little low. One and one. Looks like the Buccaneers got it back. Incomplete pass. They turn it over on downs at the one yardd line. Two balls, one strike. Here’s the toss outside again. Three and one. Alexander looks so good through the first four innings and now we’re getting the frer treatment. Three runs given up so far. Here’s a 3-1 pitch. That’s low. Ball four. That might be his last batter. I don’t think they’re going to let him stay in. Two on now with two outs. Yeah, Spot is coming out. They’re going to pull him out and put in ochre, I think. No, he’s hanging on. There he goes. That’s unfortunate. Alexander was doing so good and he was almost there, almost at the finish line and just started breaking down and Oak will be in with two runners on, two outs here in the top of the fifth. Three runs have already been scored by the strangers this inning. Hopefully Oak will be able to get this batter and get us out of the inning. So, just as the Astros start giving up runs, the Texans can’t put it into the end zone. You know, right there in the in the end of the third at at the beginning of the fourth, they could have just kicked a field goal. They didn’t have to go for it. Could have just kicked a field goal. It would have been a one-point game. Not that big of a deal. Even if the Buccaneers had scored a touchdown, most likely they would not have gone for a two-point conversion. most likely. And if the uh Texans got the ball back after that and scored a touchdown, they could always go for the two-point version to tie it up. But what do I know? I’m just a guy doing uh playbyplay on YouTube. I’m not the coach, but I can’t stand seeing teams fail at the one yard line, especially when they start off with such a good drive, you know, and then do nothing for two quarters. You got to take what you can get. In that situation, it’s like, hey, would you rather have an opportunity to score a touchdown in just one play or would you rather have guaranteed three points and you’re only down by four? I would take the field goal all day long. We got a whole another quarter to play, man. Kick the field goal and figure it out later. Yep, Angel’s right. Astros and the Texans at the same exact time simultaneously. Houston was feeling really upset simultaneously. So much disappointment at the same time in Houston. Pitching change. Fried Oak is in the game, baby. I still haven’t updated his his portrait. In the portrait, he’s pitching right-handed, but he is a left-hander. Here comes the first toss. That’s a nice pitch. 80 mph slider. Jacques Peterson is at the plate. Two for nine in 15 plate appearances against left-handers. Here comes the 0 and1 pitch. Little check swing. Did he go? They say no, he didn’t. That’s one and one. One ball, one strike. Here comes the toss. Nice 91 mile per hour fast ball on that outside edge. The count is one and two. Here comes a one-two pitch. Strike three. Good job. A little fried ochre is served. Peterson doesn’t like it, but his daddy serves him up some fried okre. You’re going to eat your vegetables and go to sleep. Finally, Oak gets us out of the inning, but the Astros have given up the lead. We are down by one, folks, going into the bottom of the fifth inning. Let’s get those runs back. Screw this. Let’s get those runs back 100%. I’ll be right back. I’m going to go in here and make myself feel a little relieved, if you know what I mean. Also need to get some water heated up. I’ll be right back. Ghosts and all that. [Music] Yanner Diaz at the plate with the 0 and1 pitch. He fouls that one off. It’s now 0 and2. 02 pitch on the way. 89 on the outside edge. He fouls that one off on the first base side. You know, MLB has been getting very, very annoying the past couple of days. They’re starting to give me copyright claims on 3second clips. That’s crazy. Here’s a pitch. 98 miles an hour. And uh one of the the clips that they claimed, they claimed 3 seconds. I looked at those 3 seconds and it was literally I it was my content during the whole 3 seconds with one exception. There was a very quick flash on the screen of the game. I mean, it was literally just a quick display. It was like boom boom gone. Just like you’re blinking if you blink and you can you have your eyes closed, right? And you open your eyes and close them really quick. That’s how fast it was on the screen. Just super fast. And they copyright claimed that. Can you believe it? Crazy. The one and two pitches crushed out to right field but foul. Diaz trying to get that opposite field home run. Phillip, who are you talking to? What are you talking about? What in the world are you talking about? Here’s a pitch in the dirt. Two and two. Lighter is up to almost 60 pitches. He’ll have 60 with this next one. Here comes a two- two pitch to Diaz. That’s hit up the middle, scooped up by Smith, and he makes a low throw to first base. The first baseman can’t handle it. Diaz will be safe. If that had been Walker, he probably would have made that scoop, but they don’t have Walker at first base. So, no scoop today. No scoop for you. Look at this. Boom. Too many cheeseburgers at first base for the Strangers. We have a leadoff runner with Jesus Sanchez at the plate. Oh, he took a nice cut at that one low and inside. He missed it. The change up. Strike one. Angel says, “We played better with AAA guys in July when everyone was hurt than now with almost full team back.” You’re right, sir. Only men of culture know such things. Here’s 01 pitch. Whoa. Sar stared at the pitcher like, “Dude, what are you doing?” He almost hit him. Look at this. Look at his response here. He almost gets hit and he’s like, “What are you doing?” [Laughter] One ball, one strike. Here’s the toss. He rips that one down the first baseline. Man, he’s getting some good swings. Just needs to straighten it out and put it in a good spot. A two-run bomb from Sanchez would be so sweet right here. He hasn’t had one in a while. That’s high. 97 miles an hour. Two balls and two strikes. Eric says, “I agree. Can’t believe it’s the current situation.” I like uh Michael’s comment. On the contrary, I think both teams are quite offensive right now. That’s funny. Chopper to first. They go to second and lob it to first, but they can’t get the double play. Fielder’s choice. Diaz is out at second base. Sanchez is on first. One away. And that will bring up the top of the batting order. The flash. Jeremy Pñena comes to the plate. Zack Cole on deck. Prodigy wants to know if we can employ a strategy like not hitting the ball directly to the shorts stop third, second baseman, or any other defensive player. If the Crummy Rangers batters can get some hits, so can the Astros. Yeah. And the Astros are one of the worst teams for grounding out and grounding into double plays. I’m sure that doesn’t surprise you. They continue that tradition. Here in Houston, we are proud of our ground out and double play tradition. One ball, no strikes to Pñena. Here comes the toss. Pñena hits it to the third base side and that’s a low throw to second. Do they get him at first? No. Once again, just as as soon as we’re talking about it, another ground ball, almost a double play, but they get the lead runner. Sanchez is out and Pñena’s on first. So, the Astros are just playing musical chairs with first base. That’s two lobsters backto back for the Stros. Zack King Cole comes to the plate. Since that first game, man, you haven’t done much. You haven’t done anything really. I mean, little. 80 miles an hour on that outside edge. Catches the corner. Strike one. Come on, bro. Let’s do it. Let’s do it, son. 0 and1 pitch from lighter on the way. 97 inside. He fouls it off on the third base side. The count’s 0 and2. Should have let him He should have let him hit hit him. That would have put the runner in scoring position. That’s right, Prod. just let it hit his shirt. Cole fouls it off at the plate. 91 in the bottom of the zone on that change up. Count stays 0 and2. Delion says I like this. Sanchez. I’d like it even more if he would get a line drive hit or a homer or double triple. Anything that moves the runners around, it’s fine by me. Here comes the next toss. High and outside. What in the world are you doing? Hey, look at that. The Texans block a punt. That’s nice. They got the ball on the 35 yd line of Tampa Bay. Good D. Here’s a one-two pitch to Cole. He fouls it off. 90 I’m sorry, 89 miles an hour off the end of the bat. Astro Astros could take batting practice in the lobby of the Hilton and not break anything. Just anything on the floor with all those ground balls. Lighter steps off the mound to reset. That’s going to be one disengagement. How many ground balls, David? I can tell you exactly how many ground balls the Astros have hit. Two. Too many. That is Pena is stealing second base and it’s fouled off by Cole. He will go back. There are two outs. Two outs here in the bottom of the fifth inning. Right in the middle of this game, the Astros are down by one. Three to two. Zack King Cole at the plate with Pñena on first. Here’s the one, two. That’s crusher right field. It’s gone. It’s a no downer. He does it again. Two-run homer. Twerrun homer in his first game at Daiken Park in Houston. And he gives us back the lead. Four to three. Absolutely heck yes. Uh-oh. The Houston Astros commentators have now taken my Zack King Cole from me. Just remember, you heard it here first. Zack King Cole was a swinging old soul. He’s pumped up. He’s out there screaming. That brings up Carlos Koreah 87. just a little outside but called strike one. The count is 0 and one to Koreah. Fast ball up in the zone and he just crushed it. Nice. There’s the toss. 96 miles an hour on the inside edge. Strike two. Lighter. He’s feeling heavy right now. Heavier, not lighter. Here’s the 0 and2 in the dirt. One and two to Koreah. How about that? Texans fourth and 10 again. And then Texans decide this time to go for the field goal. What a bunch of weirdos. There’s five minutes left in the game. They decide to go for a field goal. What a bunch of weirdos. High and inside. See, if they had gotten the field goal earlier, they’d be leading the game right now by two. But no, let’s not play smart. Let’s Let’s live on the edge. Two balls and two strikes to South Korea. Here comes the toss in the dirt outside. Full count. Make him work, baby. That was a 99 mile perph fast ball. Later seems to be angry right now, but he’s not getting it in the zone. Auto zone. H I saw too many TV ads back in the day. Strike three, 97. Right in the middle of the plate. Kareah takes it like a champ. He’s like, you know what? I’m not going to swing anymore. But that big swing from Zack King Cole. Gives us the lead again. Heck yes, baby. Four to three. Astros regain the lead in the bottom of the fifth. We don’t get back all three runs, but we get back two of them. That’s enough to get the lead. Five hits for the Strangers. Just three hits for the Stros. But that big one, what a big important hit. That’s how you avoid grounders. The rookie showing the Astros veterans how it’s done. Let’s see what’s going on with the Texans and Buccaneers. Third down and eight. Ball on their own 37 yd line. Tampa Bay has it with um 443 left. Man, they’ve run almost no time off the clock. I mean, I know that you don’t want to just run the time off the clock when you when you’ve got so many minutes and you’re just up by one, but they’re not doing a very good job of moving it down the field. And that’s it’s fine by me, but they’ve only managed to get two yards. Come on, shut them down, boy. Shut them down, boy. Hey, they moved him backwards. Holy cow. Mayfield was sacked for an eight-yd loss. It’s fourth and 16. I think the Buccaneers are going to have to punt it away. The Texans are going to get it back with less than four minutes left on the clock. All right, how about that? Mini Cheeseburger, Junior Whopper comes to the plate. That first pitch is a strike. He immediately takes a timeout. Fried okra serving up the dishes hot and fresh. Still on the mound for the Astros. Here’s the pitch. Fouls it off. Strike two. That’s right, Gregory. All they need to do is get a field goal. But with four minutes left on the clock, they need to try to run that off. If they can get it down to less than 30 seconds and kick a field goal, that’d be great. But who knows? Here comes O2 pitch right on that outside corner, but a little too low and a little too out. One ball and two strikes. There we go. Strike three on the slider. Steven Ochre serving it up fresh. No burgers around here. Just some fried veggies. How long has it been since the Astros went back to back? You mean on a victory? That’ be the first two games of the Braves series, right? They won game one and game two. Is that what you mean? Are you talking about homers? Back-to-back homers. 0 and one is a count to Garcia. Yeah, I mean Jordan Yordon’s not in, but who knows what he would have done if Cole were in the game if Jordan had stayed in, you know, if he hadn’t gotten hurt. One ball, one strike with that delivery. Got a couple of people yelling. Kind of annoying. Here comes a 1-1 toss. Garcia fouls it off. That one was below the zone on the slider. Good toss by Ochard. One and two. Eric is dividing his time between helping his son with math and watching this game. Sucker for punishment or a glutton for punishment. Right here’s the one and two. Fouled off on the right side. Count stays one and two. Eric wants to know what we can get in a trade market for Cam Smith now that we have our right fielder. Uh I don’t know. I don’t know if they decide to trade him. If they did decide to trade him, I think we could probably get another nice piece. Two balls and two strikes now at the Garcia. Come on, Ochre. Got one out, nobody on. Here’s the pitch. This is grounded up the middle. Altuve scoops it up. Nice catch. Nice lob. Out number two. Good job. Altuve is not fooled by the bounce like Pena was. Two down. Prodigy says, “Swing with two strikes doesn’t cost you anything.” Yep. If you got a got a pitch in the zone and you got two strikes, swinging is the best option. Darlene says, “Texans are going to get the ball back. Maybe they can do something.” Yeah, they have it right now. They got a touchdown. Yes. How about that? The Texans score a touchdown, baby. They’re up 19 to 14. They didn’t get the extra point. They try Well, they tried the two-point conversion. They weren’t able to get it. It makes sense why they go for the two-point conversion, but oh well. They’re up by five. Here’s a pitch. Fouled back. Michael Helman is at the plate batting for Osuna. OSA 0 and one is the count. But two outs, nobody on Steven Oak on the mound. 14 pitches, 10 of those in the zone. Left that up on the screen way too long. I didn’t realize it was still in the game. My bad. But Ochre gets the K and that’s out number three. Good inning for Ochre. Ochre’s had a good outing so far. He’s retired four batters and allowed no runs. Astros are up by one. Four to three going into the bottom of the sixth. Superman is due up. Jos Alt followed by Christian Skywalker and Jake the Rake Meyers. Let’s put some more runs on the board here in the bottom of the sixth. See what’s going on in the Texans game. Anything of note. Hey, look at that offensive holding. Right off the bat, the Buccaneers are going to be moved backwards. 10 yardd penalty. They’re going to be on the 20 yardd line starting it off with two minutes left. 2 minutes and 10 seconds on the clock. Philip, are you drunk? Just curious. Maybe that’s why your girlfriend is mad at you. Drinking too much. Oh, my hot water’s ready. Let me go grab that right quick. Whoops, man. can’t seem to stop bumping the microphone. Altuve is at the plate. Fouls off the first pitch on the left side of the field. 0 and one is the count. Here’s the next pitch outside. Holy cow, that was a couple of couple of inches off the plate and called a strike. 0 and2. Yeah, don’t let the Astros hang around indeed. Here’s the pitch. The 0 and2 swinging a miss 86 mile per hour slider on a three pitch strikeout. Alta goes down. Prodigy, thank you so much. I’m going to call that the insurance run super chat. Thank you so much, Prodigy. Here’s the pitch to Walker. Walker crushes it to the right side, but foul. Phillip, you you come into the chat and you say a bunch of things that don’t really make any sense and you say some negative things and you seem to be a kind of a antagonist type person that’s in there for a strike 0 and two. So I’m kind of wondering why I allow you to stay in the chat. Give me one good reason not to block you. Because when you come in and you start saying things that are rude to me or anyone else, then you have no place on this channel at all. Swinging a miss. Walker strikes out backto back three pitch strikeouts for Lighter so far this inning. Mark, nice try. I’m not going to do the red bean cream hot dog breakfast unless you donate the money. I’m definitely not going to do it unless you donate because I really don’t want to. So, you’re going to have to put your money where your mouth is. So, I’ll put the red bean where my mouth is cuz it is disgusting. I don’t mind the sweet red bean, but a sweet red bean and cream hot dog sandwich for breakfast, it’s just not my thing. Myers is at the plate with the 10 pitch. He fouls it off. It’s one. Well, I have before. Matt Garcia says, “Give him a timeout.” I have. I’ve given him some before. Doesn’t work apparently. That’s why I’m thinking about just blocking him permanently to be be done with it. I don’t have time for annoying people. It’s like a gnat or fly. I just assume swat it or squash it on the outside edge. Strike two. 97 miles an hour. Completely outside the zone, but the umpire has been calling those. Yeah, Mark, I appreciate that. Somebody actually said he didn’t eat the food. Seriously, did it really matter that I didn’t eat the food on the video? Who wants to watch me sit there and eat? That’s a grounder to third. He bounces it over to first and that’s going to be it for the Astros this inning. Nothing doing three up and three down. Two strikeouts and a ground out. Easy inning for Lighter. Astros have a new pitcher coming in. We’re finished with six innings of baseball. We’re now in the top of the seventh. Philip says, “You are a friend.” I’m sorry. I don’t have any friends that treat me like you’ve been treating me. Not today. I don’t have I don’t keep friends like that. I don’t understand when people say stuff like that. I’m your friend. I’m supposed to bust your balls. No, I don’t think so. That’s not what friends do. Friends are enjoyable to be around, not annoying. And I can guarantee you that I have zero friends who are annoying. Mark says, “Especially when you’re filling up the waitress.” Now, the the waitress there that day, she was really cute. She was really cute. But actually, the the server in that restaurant most of the time is the robot cat. It’s a robot waiter. But yeah, that’s the one I was feeling up. So, you’re right about that. I was filling up the the robot the cute robot waitress. That’s true. They’re showing that awesome double play again. Altuveet to Pena to Walker. Beautiful play all the way around. That’s how you do D right there, baby. You’re annoying. Well, at least you’re self-aware. But I’ll put you in timeout for five minutes anyway. Very first pitch hit out to right field. Cole puts it away for number one. Looks like Jaden Murray is on the mound for the Stros. Jonah Hyen comes to the plate with one out, nobody on. 0 for two today. Let’s make it 0 for three. Nice pitch. 96 miles an hour right on the inside. Strike one. Patrick says, “You always got to have one annoying friend.” I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I gave up on that. I got tired of it. You get to a certain point in your life where you just get tired. You can’t take it anymore. When you’re younger, you you tolerate that stuff because of immaturity, your own immaturity. But when you get older, I like humor, but I’m a more balanced guy. You know, I like to have a serious conversation sometimes, and when I’m trying to tell somebody something serious and they’re being annoying and ridiculous, I’m sorry, that person just has to go. That’s hit hard into right field. That’s going to be down for a single. Heim is on base with one out. Dylan Moore comes to the plate. Let’s go for another one of those double plays. I actually had a conversation with a friend that I had for almost 15 years and um his whole thing was we’ve been friends for 15 years. He kept saying that. But that doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care about how long we’ve been friends. What I care about is the condition of the relationship. But I kid you not, I don’t know if it was a combination of his addiction to Tik Tok and the vast amount of vaccines he’s had over the past few years because he works as a like a chaplain or something. And um in order to keep his job, he had to get basically all of the vaccines and all of the boosters. and constantly he was getting vaccines and stuff and I I feel like the combination of those things really changed him cuz he did change a lot. He got worse and worse and worse. First pitch is a curveball right in there. Rowdy Telles is batting for Moore. Actually, they pulled Moore out and put in Rowdy Rody Telles. Another beefy guy. He’s kind of like a a double cheeseburger. Jake Burger is more like a triple I think in size. Swinging a miss. Strike two. Murray’s ahead in the count. But my friend’s attention attention span just got down to like nothing. You couldn’t get one single sentence out of your mouth without him interrupting. Here’s O2. Ground ball right through the right side. Cole brings it in. Backto back base hits, both singles. Runners on first and second with one out. So, bringing in the lefty to hit off of Murray was a good idea for the strangers. He puts it right through the hole. But actually, he tried to talk with him. I said, “Hey, listen. I value our friendship and stuff.” And that’s it for Murray, by the way. He’s coming out of the game. Brian King is going to be brought in the game. Magnum PI will be on the mound in just a moment. But you know what’s crazy is that I literally had a a conversation with him. I tried to have a serious conversation and say, “Hey, look, there’s some sometimes where we have like a serious conversation, right? for example, I have cancer and um my doctor doesn’t think I’m going to be around very long. So sometimes on a day-to-day basis and and sometimes even on a minute-by-minute basis, I’m not sure what’s going to happen to me. Sometimes I feel like, man, I’m like one foot one foot away, one second away from either having to rush to the hospital, call the paramedics, or or just kill over and die. You know, that’s that’s how I feel sometimes. It’s not like I have everything in my life just cruising along, you know, as normal. And so I have some things that sometimes I need to to discuss that’s serious. And he can never be serious. Literally can never be serious. So I tried to tell him, I need you to be serious. When I when I need to be serious, I need you to be serious. and he got he got upset with me and he accused me of trying to change him. And I said, ‘I’m not trying to change you. It’s your choice. You don’t have to change. But if you can’t be serious with me when I’m serious, then we don’t have a friendship, you know? So that’s why I say that I can’t have any ridiculous friends. They can be ridiculous sometimes, but not all the time. Well, looks like the Buccaneers got a touchdown with 6 seconds left. It’s 20 to 19 Buccaneers. Texan struggling again at the same time the Astros start struggling right once again. At least the Astros are still in it. Still got a couple more innings to go. They bring in a pinch hitter. Here comes the pitch. 90 on the upper outer corner. Magnum PI is on the mound. Ryan King. 0 and one is the count. Here comes the next toss. Cody Freeman is at the plate. He fouls it off. 0 and2. There’s one out. Runners on first and second. and inherited from Jaden Murray who started the inning for the Astros. Sorry to hear about that text pad. Yeah, I saw the uh little debacle. I I saw I didn’t see all the details, but I saw that the Texans blew the situation. 0 and2 is the count to Freeman. Here’s the pitch from King. This is hit up on the infield. Walker’s under it. Easy out. Nice. He didn’t even have to move to get that one. 91 miles an hour on the fast ball. Up and in. He hit it off the fists. Good location. Good result. Two outs. Way to go, Magnum. PI getting killed by Well, we’re not getting killed just yet. I mean, they’ve given up three runs. That’s That’s not good, but we can hang on. 92 miles an hour in the bottom of the zone. Good pitch. Strike one. Wyatt Langford. Juan Langford’s back up the plate. You don’t have a much more country name than Wyatt Langford, I think. 92 fouled off on the right side. And that’s an 0 and2 count. King gets ahead again. Uh, Patrick, I I’m My life is quite adventurous without the nonsense. I prefer no nonsense. Humor, joking around. Sure. Nonsense. No thanks. Hard pass in the dirt. One and two. Daryl says Houston Texans playing like the Oilers. Not surprised. Yeah, so much potential and yet so much let down, so much disappointment. Here’s the pitch. Grounded to the left side. That might be a scored run. They’re going to send him home. Sanchez throws it home and easily gets him at the plate. I am shocked that they sent him home. I am so shocked that they sent him home, but Sanchez makes a perfect throw from left field. I am really surprised that they sent him home. One hopper right to Diaz. Nailed him at home plate. Look at that. That’s the third out. Magnum PI comes in and gets it done with the help of Buddy Sanchez. Baby, how about that? Buddy Sanchez all day long. That’s right. We get the thumbs up from Buddy Sanchez. Hey Mark, I’m I’m still with you. That’s why I haven’t That’s why I haven’t gotten into the Texans is because I’m an Oilers fan at heart. But I will always be number one and foremost an Oiler Oilers fan. I used an Oilers fan. I was heavy heavy into the Oilers big time. But I would never make fun of the players or the team, but when it comes to the coaching, the management of the team, the ownership of the team, total garbage. Absolutely. They were total garbage. They really screwed the fans over. They really didn’t care about Houston. didn’t care about the fans. So, I don’t have any problems with anybody who has negativity against the organization. I think it’s justified. Absolutely. The rat did not get out of the sewer. Prodigy, that’s correct. Yep. Great play. Another great defensive play. The Astros have come up with a couple of nice defensive plays today that have really helped them out. Maybe even saved the game. That preserved the lead just now and could have they could have came come back and scored more runs. So we shut him down. Keratini’s at the plate. The Batman. Here’s the first plate. Pitch to the plate rather. Jack Lighter still on the mound. He’s at 91 pitches now. 0 and one is the count to the bat man. He takes a timeout at the plate. Here’s the pitch. Low and inside. Ball one counts. Even Prodigy, you’re right. Looked like uh Altuve was tossing a grenade from the ground. That’s right. Chopper to the right side and taken by Dylan Moore over to first base and Keratini grounds out with the chopper. Yanner Diaz comes to the plate. Just a moment. We’re in the bottom of the seventh with one out. Yanner Diaz up. Sanchez on deck. Angel says, “Between the Astros and the Texans, sure making the blood medication work. Overtime.” That’s right. First pitch to Diaz is in the dirt. Ball one. Yeah. Right now, two games at home in Houston going on basically at the same time. really really testing the the health, the patience, and the nerves of the fans. Right. Here comes a 10 pitch. That’s hit hard to left field. No, that’s center field. That could be gone. It’s all the way to the wall. Oh my gosh. Caught right at the wall. Over 400 ft to center field. Just short. Just shy of a homer. Wow, that was close. Man, if Yiner had pulled it either direction, it would have been gone. Right at the base of the wall, 409 ft basically. Sanchez comes to the plate. Is he going to get that hit? He had the great throw to get that out, right? Great defensive play. Come up the next inning, get a good hit. Two outs. Well, Tuveet didn’t do it earlier. He flew out, but Sanchez can do it. He’s got the smile on his face. Here’s the 10 high outside. Tuno JT text says, “Had the absolute honor of sharing a seafood and beerfest with Earl Campbell, William Fuller, Bubba, and Tony Smith. And when I was work worked when I worked as a trainer at Olympia Fitness Center.” Holy cow, that is awesome. invited you after a workout. Three and 0 is the count. He’s not pitching to Sanchez right now. He doesn’t want him to rip one out. If he delivers him one right down the middle, he should just let her rip. Here comes the pitch. He does. 96 out to left field. All the way out to the wall. It’s off the wall. Exactly what I was hoping he would do. A 3 and 0 pitch. 96 mph right down the middle of the plate. And Sanchez did not take it. He let her rip. Good call, bro. Off the scoreboard in left field. 96. Right in the bottom of the zone. Right off the top of the scoreboard there, we have ourselves a runner in scoring position with Jeremy Pñena at the plate. I love to see it when you got the righty up there, the lefty at the plate with a three- 0 count, you know, he’s probably just going to throw it down the middle. Might as well go ahead and let her rip. And that’s exactly what he did. Houston Oilers. Houston Oilers. I remember that old song. I don’t remember all the words, but I still remember it. They got a little meeting on the mound right now. They’re not going to pull Lighter out yet. He’s at 99 pitches. Oh, yeah. They’re going to go ahead and get him now. The Strangers Oh, they’re going to let him pitch to Pñena. He looked like he was going to come out. Now he’s going to let him pitch. 86 at the top of the zone, fouled off by Pñena. That’s 100 pitches. Now Sanchez is on second base with two outs here in the bottom of the seventh. The Astros looking for some insurance runs. Pñena, is Pena able to give them the runs? That’s the question. Here comes the next pitch. Lo and outside one and one. Good question, Prodigy. Why won’t the freaking ball go out of the yard? Just a little ext just just a little extra oomph, you know. Pay hits it into right center field. Is it going to be down? Yes, it is. Absolutely. And that brings in Sanchez. Pñena with a double. Backto back doubles for the Astros. Five to three. Astros up by two. Pñena brings another lobster home for dinner. That was a slider that stayed up. Painted took it out to right center field. There’s no chance. Yeah, you applaud. That’s right. Good job, bro. Good job, Flash. Lighter’s done, obviously. You know what’s interesting about that is check this out. They left Pñena, I’m sorry, they left Lighter in to face Pñena. And I just heard an interesting stat about that. Jack Lighter has never stayed in the game long enough to face a batter a fourth time. Can you believe that? Pena was his first batter to face four times and he made him pay. How about that? How about that? And I’m going to have myself some hot tea because you know what? I want Well, see I want that needs to steep for a couple of minutes. And I’m going to fill up my thermos. I’m going to cap it off. Top it off, baby. Top it off. Top it off. Let’s make Botchi pay for his quirky managing practices. Yes. Stalling the game, slowing the game down, making the game unenjoyable. Dealing with botchi is like ordering sweet tea and then you take a big sip of it and it’s unsweet. That’s enough to make a man want to fight. You knows what I’m saying. You knows what I’m saying. Still on commercial break right now where they got the new pitcher warming up. I’ll let you know who is in as soon as they come back. I might could get that. Whoa, there it is. Jacob Webb is in the game for the strangers. Jacob Charlotte’s Web. First pitch he tosses is a ball. He is facing Zack Cole. Next pitch, woo! 86 right in there on that change up. Swinging a miss. Nice cut by Cole, but he doesn’t get anything. We still have a runner in scoring position on second base with two outs here in the bottom of the seventh. The Astros up by two, five to three. Here’s a 1-1 pitch to Cole. Line drive to right field. It is down. Pñena is being waved around. Here’s the throw. Not in time. Pñena slides in head first and Cole goes to second. He’s safe. Look at that. Zack Cole with a heads up play. He books it around. When the throw goes home, he books it to second base. The Astros are now playing musical chairs with second base. That’s what I like to see. Six to three Astros. Nice line drive rip to right field. Painy was off to the races. Garcia thought too much of his arm. He could not get that there in time. Nice head first slide. Even if the throw had been right on target, it wouldn’t have mattered. There was no chance to get him. And Cole at second base, that ball’s in the dirt. Ball one. Carlos Koreah at the plate. Zack King Cole comes through again. Heck yes. Yeah. Who is this kid indeed? One ball, no strikes. Here’s the toss. Ooh, this is hit really hard into center field, but that’s way too high. Koreah crushed it and it went way up there. But man, how about this inning? The Astros come back, take back all those runs that the Strangers scored on them. They’re now up by three. Six to three going into the top of the eighth. Go freaking Stros. Steel Viper. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you so much for that awesome super chat. Seventh inning doubles brought to you by Steel Viper. There you go, sir. I’m dedicating those those runs in the seventh inning to you. Seventh inning doubles brought to you by Steel Viper, Ghost Stro, and Guim. How about that? What a great inning, man. And if the Astros could play like this in the playoffs, if they could play like this from now until the playoffs and then all the way through the playoffs, right? Okay, the pitchers give up a little bit, but he gave us four solid innings. Um, gave up a few in the fifth, took him out. The relievers have have held it together so far, right? And the batters have been getting two here, two there, right? If we could get this type of base level productivity on offense and defense, how awesome would that be? The Astros have made a couple of really stellar plays today on defense. Alexander had a wonderful performance through four innings. The relievers have been wonderful so far. eight hits for the Strangers and only six hits for the Stros, but they have been very crucial, well-timed hits with runners in scoring position. The Astros only have eight lobsters this game in six runs. That’s excellent. That’s excellent. That means the majority of opportunities they’ve had, they’ve capitalized on, and that’s what we need. Brian King is back on the mound for the Astros for his second inning. Well, his first full inning hopefully. He is facing Kyle Higashio. Top of the eighth. Gregory says, “I love the Astros.” I do too. And I also love it when the Astros win. When the Astros win, America wins. The world wins. Everyone wins. Brendan says, “I watched the wrong game. I watched the Texans game.” Dummy me. That pitch is high. Jake McBer. Leftover junior Whopper at the plate. One and0 is the count with one out, nobody on. Pie 2 and 0. I think my tea is ready. I’m going to take a sip. How about that? O, nice. Earl Gay Lipton Earl Grey T 91 up and in. Fouled off by Burger. Two and one. I swear the Houston Astros commentators are copying me. They said this is the Burger King matchup. Fouled off down the third baseline. That counts two and two. Brian King against Burger. That’s why they’re calling it the Burger King matchup. They played the bum drum hit, the snare hit. Wamp wamp. Come on. Here’s the 2-2. 92 up and in. Fouled off down the first baseline. The count remains same. Same. Have you guys and gals liked the live stream? Thank you for visiting Ghostros today. If you have not liked the live stream, I appreciate you doing so right now. Thank you very much. 92 miles an hour fouled away. Count stays two and two. Got about 140 people watching right now. It has gone up since the Texans game finished. And 76 likes. We need 100 likes. Fouled off again. 80 on the Swiffer outside. He’s able to get a hold of it and send it into the crowd. Count stays two and two. Give him the flame broiled K. That’s right. Give him the flame broiled K. Here’s the toss. That’s up the middle. Altuveet grabs it. Lombs it over to first. No problem. Ground out to Koreah at third, followed by ground out to Altuve at second base. Two up and two down for the Astros and Magnum PI on the mound. Here comes the crowd with a bow. Boo. Must be a Dolius Garcia. I will say though, the booing wasn’t too heavy, so that’s all right. 92 right in the bottom of the zone. Strike one at KK. Strike out your way. Swinging a miss. 92 above the zone and he couldn’t get the bat on it. 0 and2’s the count. Did you get your burgers worth? One more strike. Garcia calls timeout. He’s like, “No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I’m not ready. I’m not ready.” Brian Abrau is out there getting warm for the Astros. Here’s the toss. Ground ball. Short stop. Pñena throws it over to first base. How about that? Ground out to Koreah. Ground out to Altuve. And then a ground out to Pñena. Everybody gets in on the action. Good job. My favorite bridge reliever. in this Astros bullpin. Magnum PI Brian King himself shuts down the strangers one, two, three in the top of the eighth. The Astros come up in the bottom of the eighth. Another opportunity to tack on some insurance runs. My personal hero, Jose is due up. He doesn’t have a hit yet today. Now’s the time. Christian Walker on deck and Jake Meyers in the hole. Yeah, Allan, I I don’t know why they do. It’s not like Garcia is a guy that has has I mean I mean I know that he has done some damage against the Astros, but what’s the point in booing a guy like that who seems to really thrive on the booing? I think that if the Astros fans cheered whenever he came to the plate, like gave him a standing ovation, it would it would confuse him so much that he would be flustered at the plate. You know, maybe it would make him laugh and shake his head and it would take his mind off the at bat and then he wouldn’t do so good. That’s what I think. Because when you they boo him and stuff, you know, he’s soaking that up. He’s soaking it up. Yeah, J. Paul, I’m not going to disagree with you. I don’t think that Garcia is a particularly great guy, but at the same time, he’s not the worst. But I think that the Astros fans could decide, you know what, booing him actually helps him. So, let’s try a different approach. Let’s try giving him a standing ovation all the way through the bat. Just don’t stop, you know, just keep cheering him before every single pitch. Just start cheering him. You know that it would mess him up, right? If I were Joe Spot, I’d spread the word. Okay, everybody. May maybe they could hand those out at Dying Park. They could give flyers to everybody wearing Astros shirts and Astros hats just to make sure that the Rangers fans don’t get the they don’t get the handout. You know what I’m saying? Carl Edwards Jr. is on the mound. He looks like a kid with a a beard and a mustache. Wow. First pitch is 95. way over the head of the catcher, Carl Edwards Jr. Here comes the next pitch, the 10 curve ball right in the top of the zone. Strike one to Altuve. The count’s one and one. Come on, Jose. Do me a favor and get a hit, buddy. He hits that one out into right field and that’s going to be another fly out. Should be easily take takeable by Garcia and it is out number one. Have we gotten to 100 likes yet? We should. We have 151 people viewing the live stream or listening in. I appreciate you being here. We are only at 82 likes. Come on, guys. That’s barely 50%. Guys and gals, if you’re an Astros fan and you don’t like the live stream, what’s wrong with you? If you’re a Rangers fan and you’re listening in, you should at least like it because I’m bringing the game to you. You know what I’m saying? Walker is at the plate and he hits that one straight up in foul territory and it’s not going to be playable right over the dugout. Strike one. Gregor says, “Great.” Uh, Eric, no, he’s not. I’ve liked Brian King since uh last year. I’ve really liked him. He He came on a lot last year and I really started to like him a lot. So, that’s incorrect. I I never really had a big thing for Nerys, and that’s because of his attitude. He’s kind of a dangerous personality type guy. One ball, one strike on that ball in the dirt. Here comes a one-1 pitch. Grounded foul down the third base side. The count is one and two to Walker with one out. Nobody on. Meyers waiting on deck. Give him a base runner. Walker, you need to get a lobster in the net. Get it onto the boat. Get it into the trap so that Meyers can take her home. Or you guys can put a couple of lobsters in the trap for the Batman. 95 above the zone. Swinging a miss. I think that’s another strikeout for Walker. Two strikeouts today. And nar a hit for Christian Walker. Nar a walk. Nar a hit. Nar a nothing. Jake Myers at the plate with two outs, nobody on. Very first pitch is grounded to third. Meyers is thrown out at first base on one pitch. One, two, three for Carl Edwards Jr. Why am I think of the hamburger place? No insurance runs for the Astros in the eighth. We go to the top of the ninth. Up by three. Six- to three. Six hits for the Stros. Eight for the Strangers. Two errors for those strangers and one for the Astros. Pretty sure that a Breu will be in the game. Why wouldn’t you bring in a Breu, Angel? It’s not because of uh those couple of games that he he played poorly. Surely not because of that. I mean, he is Brian Abrau. Still a good pitcher. He’s a great pitcher, one of the best. Well, I I see. Okay. Hey, Eric says, “I was thinking the same thing. I like it old school and a picture was showing no signs of struggling. You left him in.” Yeah, I I understand what you guys are saying, but you have to also understand who’s on the mound. Okay. Um Brian King is a bridge reliever and he has a certain limit of pitches. Now, I don’t know what that is. I don’t know what it is. Right now, he’s at 19 pitches and 16 of those have been in the zone. He’s done really well. That’s really, really good, right? But what is his pitching limit? And there’s no way to know that. If he’s good for like 15 to 20 more pitches, no problem. Then they might could leave him in depending on who he’s facing at the plate, but they’re not going to do that. They’re going with a Breu. And Breu is up there right now. Brian Abrau on the mound. He’s going to be facing Michael Helman. Come on, Abrau. Let’s get her did first pitch is on the way. I go straight up in the air and foul it out of play. Strike one. Michael Helman came on as a pinch hitter a few innings ago and he stayed in the game. Trudley Truly says Altuve can’t swing at the first pitch if it’s over his head. That ball is hit up the middle, but Pñena dives at it. He’s not able to get it. Cohen has a single to start the inning off. That just means we have a double play opportunity. So, we have a couple of chances here. Bray, you can either get a strike out on the next batter or you can get the double play. That was really close, man. Looks like that that one went over Pena’s glove or under it. Was that not an error? That was close. That was so close it looked like he missed it. Here’s the pitch. 98 mph on that lower outside corner. Strike one. Josh Young at the plate. 0 for one today. He came in 0 for seven versus Abrau in his career. That’s outside on the slider. One and one. Oh, okay. Eric, I see. Well, you know, back in the day, back in the day, I was thinking about how Nery used to be, right? Not how he was when he came in last time. Look at that. Duban gets the ground right up the middle, steps on second base and fires it to first. And that’s a double play. How about that? What did I tell you? Abrau was just setting up the double play. They’re showing the play of the game right there. That’s the two-run shot by Zack King Cole. Six to three with two outs. Astros up in the ninth inning. Just need one out. First pitch. Sean Jonah at the plate. 97 on the inside. Just barely misses the zone. 1 and0 is the count. Well, it’s not about him pitching good. Even if King is pitching good, doesn’t matter. What matters is how many pitches is he capable of throwing in one outing. You know what I’m saying? So, if his normal pitch count is no more than 20 to 25 and he’s already pitched 19, they’re not going to bring him back in. You know what I’m saying? Here’s the pitch. 2 and 0 is way outside. Abrau loses that one. Maybe lost his grip on the ball. It’s 3 and 0. Nobody on. Two outs. Here’s a toss. 95 inside. Ball four. That was close. Heim wasn’t sure if that was going to be called a strike or a ball, but the umpire didn’t say anything, so he ran to first base. We’ve got ourselves a runner on first with no out. I’m sorry, two outs. Ezekiel Duran is in the game and he will be at the plate. First pitch from Abrau is on the way. That’s into right field for a single. Now we got two runners on with two outs. Here we go again. It’s the same thing that we talked about so many times. I’m tired of talking about it. The Astros getting two outs. The pitchers getting two outs and then starting to struggle. Kind of ridiculous, isn’t it? Just put it away. They call a little meeting on the mound. Miller’s going to come out. Why didn’t he come out early like that with Frober? I wonder what was your favorite era of the Astros and what was your favorite uniform that they wore? I like the orange that they have right now and I like the navy blue, the dark blue space city uniforms. But um overall, more recently, the era of their two championships is my favorite. Not because of the championships, but because Altuve was a part of all of that and what he means to me. I’ve got a video coming up in a couple of days. It’s going to premiere the day after this series completes. So, if you guys have a few minutes to watch that, I’d appreciate it. It tells a little story that’s related to Altuve and my time in the hospital. 98 below the zone on the first pitch to Cody Freeman. Freeman is at the plate with two outs and two runners on first and second. Here in the top of the ninth, the Astros are up by three. He steps out of the box and takes a timeout. One and0 is a count. Yeah, Brendan, you’re right. Don’t pull a Texans game. Can’t stand that again. I’m glad that I didn’t watch that game and then the end of this one. I’d rather just focus on one high blood pressure game. This is a ground ball to Craya. He gets it and goes to second base. I’ll No, that’s Dubon on second. He puts it away and that’s out number three. So, they get the ground ball that they’re looking for and the Astros take the first game of this series, increase their run, their one uh I’m sorry, increase their lead over the Rangers by one run, one game rather. I’ll get it out eventually. A little bit of a struggle at the end there after the first two outs, but a Breu came back and got the grounder to end it. Six to three Astros win. 10 hits for the Strangers actually. Six hits for the Stros, but the Astros are strangely productive today. Only had eight lobsters. Eight lobsters, that means eight lost opportunities, but they brought home six runs. The Rangers had 11 lobsters, only brought home three. So, they are they are the losing fisherman today. Fred says, “Woohoo!” J Paul, let’s go. Brendan, thank God. Absolutely. Eric says, “Enjoy the rest of your night.” Ara, you just wanted to break their hearts. Well, it’s like what I used to say about hater. You know, hater would often make it interesting in the ninth inning. You know what I’m saying? He would come out and all he would need to do is just we’ve got like a three-run lead. All he has to do is get the outs, you know, and he gives up a walk, gives up a hit, gives up a run, makes it interesting, and then manages to pull it out. That stuff just it’s too much. and stressly. Yeah, that’s right. Mark says, “I like the old rainbow striped uniforms that match the color seats of the Astrodome.” Yeah, I liked those, too. Actually, I like them more now than I did back then, even. Not that I didn’t like them back then. It’s just that now they feel so, you know, nostalgic and retro to me. But yeah, the Astros multicolored uniforms were really cool. I’m going to do a quick recap of this game, a quick scoring summary. If you guys and gals want to take a look at that right quick, there’s a already got a news article about Yordon spraining his ankle. I’ll try to give you guys and gals an update about that later on whenever I hear about it. But let’s take a quick look at this and then we’ll review tomorrow’s game before we get started. on uh today’s scores around the league. Real quick, here’s a scoring recap. In the first inning, the Astros got on the board when Korea reached on an infield single to the pitcher. Pñena scored and then Alvarez scored on a throwing error by the pitcher because he threw it out into he threw it over the head of the first baseman. So, it was two to nothing Astros in the first. That’s when Yordon sprained his ankle right off the bat. He was coming in and he slipped when his foot went on home plate and he turned his ankle. So hopefully he will be better ASAP. In the top of the fifth, Young homer to left field, scoring Osuna. In the fifth inning, this is when Jason Alexander would start to kind of break down and they had to pull him out. Smith single to right, scoring more. So, three runs were scored off of Alexander in the fifth inning and the Strangers took the lead three to two. But after that, the Astros relievers would shut down their offense. In the bottom of the fifth, the Astros answered with a Cole homer. 390 ft to right field scoring Pñena. Four to three, the Astros retook the lead. Bottom of the seventh, Pñena doubled to center, scoring Sanchez. And then Cole singled to right, scoring Pena, and then he was able to advance to second with that throw home. The Astros were playing doubles. Sanchez doubled, Pena doubled, and then Cole basically doubled in the seventh inning. It was awesome. The Astros extended their lead by a couple of runs, and that’s where the score would end up, six-3. You can see it right here, six-3. As far as pitching, let’s go all the way down now. Well, quickly though, we’ll take a look at the hitting. Pena two for four. Alvarez only had the one at bat, but he was able to walk. Cole two for three with a hit. Three RBI’s, a two-run homer, and another RBI on a single. Koreah one for four today. Altuve 0 for four. He was hitting the ball, getting it into the air, but he flew out like three times and struck out once, I believe. Dubon came in to pinch it, but I think I don’t think he actually had an opportunity to at bat or or bat, did he? Yeah, he he didn’t even bat. He was in the field, but he replaced all at the end of the game. Walker went over three, had a couple of strikeouts. Meyers went over four. Keratini went 0 for three. Diaz went over three. So if you look at it, only a few guys on the Astros team pulled us through today. So Diaz, Keratini, Meyers, Walker, and Altbe. And of course, Alvarez was replaced by Cole, so he doesn’t count. We had five batters in the lineup who did almost nothing. Three of our runs were scored by Cole. Without that, we we would have been in extra innings. So, Cole comes through once again. So, Pena, Cole, and Sanchez essentially. That was our that was our and Korea. Yeah, that was our run productivity today. That’s right. Pena, Cole, Koreah, and Sanchez. Those are our guys today, but they got it done. And uh as for pitching, Alexander went 4.2 innings, five hits, one run, one earned run, a walk, and five strikeouts. Acceptable, but once again, he only had one earned run. There was some uh errors and and mistakes by the Astros that cost them some extra runs. So, he didn’t he didn’t do poorly. He could have finished five, I think, if not for a couple of little mistakes. But it is what it is. Oak came in 1.1 innings, three strikeouts, no problems. Murray came in, he struggled a little bit and only pitched.1 innings, gave up two hits. Brian King came in and shut it down, pitched 1.2 innings, very good performance, one hit, no runs, no walks, no strikeouts. Breu started off really well. Got a couple of outs and then gave up a couple of hits, but he wound up getting um getting the job done and shutting it down. So, the Astros are able to pull it out no problem. So, how many innings did they pitch here? One 1.2 2.2 two 3.3 4.3. So yeah, the Astros Astros relievers basically pitch half the game and don’t give up any runs. How about that? That’s nice to see. What about tomorrow’s game? I’m glad you asked. Let’s take a quick look. Tomorrow’s game is at the same time as today’s game. Merryill Kelly is on the mound for the Strangers. Right now, this has been changed to undecided. They did have a picture announced for tomorrow, but they have since changed it to undecided or undetermined. So, unless they have announced it elsewhere, it is still up in the air. We don’t know, but we’ll see. Kelly is 12 and seven, 3.21 21 RA. He’s pitched a lot of innings, 176.2. Doesn’t give up a tremendous amount of hits, just 141. Has a decent amount of strikeouts at 162. The walks. So, so 23 homers. Hopefully, we have a a good day of hitting. It’d be nice if the Astros bats woke up as a team tomorrow and we can take Kelly out quickly. I’d like to see Kelly go no more than four innings. I’d like I’d like for us to knock him out. Yes, that’s right. J Paul TBD is undefeated. Undecided is the best pitcher in the MLB. Undecided is undefeated. That’s right, Salty Dog. You came in. You came in just in time. Just in time. Brendan feels like drinking some alcohol tonight. just take it easy. Yeah. Well, North Side, you’re right. The Seattle series isn’t is going to be and is very important, but this this series is just as important. Both are equally important. So, we have to deal with the now. Forget about Seattle for the moment. Deal with what’s in front of us. Uh yeah, Salty Dog was Bit Dog, then Old Dog, and is now Salty Dog. Only Only the old-timers know that. Yep. Half a game behind the Submariners. Final lobster count, Marduk is 11 for the Strangers and eight for the Stros. There we go. That’s a really good That’s a really good nice and low lobster count. Now, if the Astros have a lot of lobsters, it’s fine as long as long long as they have a lot of runs to go with it. But low lobster count and six runs on the board, that’s really good. That’s that means they didn’t get a tremendous amount of opportunities, but they capitalized on the ones that they have. So, that’s very good. It really helped them out a lot when they started playing musical chairs at second base. You know, double double double. That kind of stuff helps out a lot. Let’s see here. Uh what else did we want to take a look at? There’s one more thing, right? Oh yeah, scoreboard. That’s right. Scoreboard. Let’s move this over so we can actually see it. Anything of note? The Blue Jays were able to beat the Rays in overtime, two to one overtime. They had two extra innings of play. Let’s see here. Wow, the Twins beat up on the Yankees. Look at that. Seven to nothing. That’s crazy. Woods Richardson struck out 11 stankies. Nice. That is nice. No game for the Submariners today. So there’s no chance for them to get back that half a game that the Astros gained on them today. The good thing is with a win tomorrow for the Astros and a loss tomorrow for the Submariners. We’ll be up one and a half games. I like the sound of that. I like the sound of that a lot. I like a lot. But I think that’s pretty much it, right? We already know about the result of the Texans game, so I won’t go into any of that. But thank you so much, guys and gals, for being here today. I’ve got to go get some more thumbnails together. I’m going to try today, if I can, I’m going to try to get the thumbnails made for all of the rest of the games from now until the end of the season, all of the regular season games. So, the Submariners G games coming up next. The rest of the Rangers, the Strangers games, of course, and then the remaining games that the Astros have on the road. I’ll try to get those all together today and get them posted. That’s my goal. I have two goals today. That’s one of them. The other goal is to finish my next chapter, my novel. But right now, it is almost 12:00. Time to have lunch, I believe. Brendan, you’re right. October 21st, regular season game with the Rockets. Um, I was thinking about getting the getting the um there I can get the NFL package and the NBA package here in Japan. And um nothing is blacked out. So, I can get all of the games home and on the road, playoff games, doesn’t matter. I can get all of them. It’s no problem. But I decided not to get the Texans package yet. And the reason is because it interferes with the Astros schedule. I can’t do both. And so I will wait until the Astros are finished before I start with the Texans unless unless there’s a way that I can do both games in the same day without them interfering with each other. I don’t know what the schedule is next week, but if the Texans and the Astros don’t play at the same time, then maybe I’ll go ahead and start my subscription and do the Texans game, but I also have to set up my scoreboard and live stream layout for that. So, just be on the lookout for that. For those of you who are interested in the Texans games, did we manage to get over 100 likes today? Let’s see. We’re at 97. We’re three likes short of 100. I can’t believe we got up to more than 150, 160 people listening in and didn’t get to 100 likes. People were really lazy with the likes today, the thumbs up on the videos. Um, yeah, Brendan, um, my plan is to do the rockets. Uh, I can’t remember if it was you or one of the other one of the subscribers said, “Why don’t you just try it? You know, just call one of the games and try it and see how it goes.” And I think that’s a very fair way to look at it. If for some reason it’s just something that doesn’t work out uh or is not really doable for me, then it makes sense for me not to do it. But I should at least try. And I got to thinking about it and and this is the most important thing, okay? When the baseball season ends, whether it’s in a few weeks, in a couple of weeks, or if it’s in a month and a half, whenever the baseball season ends for the Astros, from that time until the end of spring training in 2026, there are no games for me to call. So, it only makes sense for me to do the live streams for the NBA. Now, of course, the Texans have games once a week, and so it’s actually not a heavy load for me. Uh, one of my kind subscribers said, you know, you should take care of your health first. You know, consider your health first. And I get that, but I have to consider two things. I have to consider my health and my finances. And of course, I want the channel to continue growing. And if the channel doesn’t continue to grow, then I can’t sustain it financially because my other primary income right now is partial disability. In my condition, they will not hire me to go back and work. So even if I want to go teach again here in Japan, it’s a requirement that I go and get a health check. And of course, Japan has health laws, privacy health laws. So if if they say, you know, go get a health check, the main thing that they want to check for is TB, right? They don’t want people with TB to um be out and about and and around other people. So that that’s the main thing they’re checking for when they do the chest X-ray. But because of the privacy, the medical privacy that they have here, it’s similar to the US. I don’t have to reveal to any potential employers about my health situation, but they’re going to figure it out real fast. If I go and get a teaching job, which by the way, I don’t want. I would very much prefer to be here with you guys and gals doing the games. I’d rather be at home doing these games. And if I don’t feel good, I can just can go lie down. I can sleep when I need to. And that’s the problem with going to one of these schools. If I go to one of these schools, the the majority of the students that I have or would have are kids and some of them at elementary, some of them are middle school, occasionally high school, but most of the time it’s middle school and elementary. And you’re talking about being at the at the school 50 hours a week. No such thing as just working part-time. Uh I would have to be there early in the morning all the way until at least 5 in the evening. And um the total amount of time that I would have to dedicate to that would be so exhausting. And the schools don’t have elevators or anything like that. So you’re constantly having to go up and down the stairs. And right now I’m not in physical condition to do that. And sometimes I feel nauseated or or sick or worn out etc etc just whatever. And so going back to work in this condition is not only not feasible, it’s not advisable. So that’s why I’m saying that the companies would figure out very fast. Even if I didn’t tell them about my condition, they’d find out real fast and um then I would be right back where I’m at right now. So, it’s better for me to figure out how to keep doing this. And to wrap all that up in with a neat little bow, doing the NBA games and the NFL games is a way for me to bridge the gap between the end of the baseball season and the start of the next baseball season. Does that make sense, Robsky? Um, I’ve already done that poll twice. I’ve already done the poll twice and everybody has, if you look at the overall results. Um, the ma the minority wants me to just do Astros content even during the offseason. But like I said, if I do, and I said this in in one of the previous live streams, I didn’t say it today, but I will say it again now just for your benefit. If I do only Astros content between now and the beginning of next season, that means that I have to do a lot of video creation, long form videos, a lot of editing, a lot of shorts. I have to post at least two shorts a day, preferably five shorts a day, plus a long form video multiple times a week. Uh, but even if I did all of that, it’s not going to be nearly as successful and and uh as engaging as doing the live streams. So, it would be actually more work. And that’s that’s a a thing that I was going to mention for those of you who’ve never done videos for YouTube and have never done live streams. If if you’re looking at it from a health point of view, which one is easier to do? live streaming the playbyplays like this, like we’re doing here with the Astros. Is it easier to do that for the NBA and for the NFL during the offseason? Or is it easier for me to not do the Texans and not do the Rockets, but instead just focus on making videos and short videos about the Houston Astros during the off season? Which one is better for my health and which one is better for my finances? And actually, that’s a very, very easy question because I I seriously thought about this the other day and I realized I don’t really have a choice. It’s kind of a no-brainer. But when you think about it from a health point of view, the NBA games are like three to five games a week, right? They don’t have nearly as many games as the MLB. Sometimes there’ll be like three weeks in a row with a game every single day. So doing the Astros games is actually a much it’s actually much harder, much more difficult physically than to do any other sport. And there are a couple of reasons for that. One is they play almost every single day. The other thing is they have a lot of games in the afternoon throughout the season and those games are in the middle of the night for me. Those games start anywhere from 12:30 in the morning or like right after midnight all the way up until 5:00 a.m. You know, the the games are on a weird schedule. Some of the games start at like 12:00, you know, when they’re playing on the West Coast, 11:00 in the morning. Lunchtime is when they start for me. Those games are not a problem. But when they play in the afternoon the next day, and I have to get up at 2 or 3:00 a.m., that’s crazy, right? And that happens a lot. The NFL games, it is true that the Texans, most of the Texans game on games on Sunday start for me at around uh midnight or 1:00 in the morning or something like that. Maybe if they play at 3:00, that’s like 1:00 in the morning for me. Um, yes, it’s true that they have games. They have several games that start in the middle of the night, but it’s just once a week. It’s once a week. And the NBA games, When are the afternoon NBA games? Do they ever play in the afternoon? Uh, rarely or never, I think. Brendan says, “Maybe I’m the good luck charm the Texans need.” Well, we’ll see. We’ll see. Because I I do promise you I’m going to give it a whirl as soon as I’m able. Yeah. I mean, to to be honest, guys and gals, I’ve gotten used to doing the live streaming. I’m not saying that, oh, I’m good at it, but most everything that I need to do my live streaming is set up and ready to go. You know, the camera’s there, the computer’s here, all the software is here, I’ve got my scoreboards, I’ve got my internet connection, I’ve got my microphone, I’ve got everything that I need, and I’m trying to make myself as comfortable as possible, you know, because, you know, I it’s because of my health, right? This is something that I can do and honestly, I want to do. I don’t want it. It’s kind of it’s it’s an interesting situation because I’ve had people try to push me to go back to teaching. I don’t tell anybody here about my my live playbyplay that I’m doing. Not really. A couple of people know, but they’re good people. That’s the reason they know, but I don’t tell a lot of people about what I’m doing here. Um, a couple of close friends, like my friend Glenn from Australia, he’s in the chat sometimes, even though he’s not a baseball guy. He he stops in and he supports. Um he knows and a couple of other people know, but I don’t go spamming. I think Glenn knows this, too. I’ve got another channel, another YouTube channel that has about 3,000 subscribers and Oh. Oh, 3,000. That sounds great. But it’s it’s very inactive. Uh I don’t have a lot of interaction there. I don’t get a lot of views on my videos. I I don’t make really any money. I think it takes like six months for me to get enough money through my channel to get paid for it. It’s not real active. I don’t tell anybody there about my baseball channel. I don’t think it’s it’s useful. So, but anyway, I was just I was just saying that even if I did all of the NBA games and the NFL games, it’s still a lighter schedule for me than the MLB games for the Astros. So, from a health perspective, it’s an improvement. It’s more relaxing and actually fewer games in the middle of the night. The other thing is financially it’s the best option because to continue to do the live streams is the best thing for me. It’s the main thing that I do and it’s the main thing that people are here for. So, uh, and it’s much less work. I don’t have to do a tremendous amount of editing. I just have to make sure everything is set up and enjoyable for everybody. You know, I make sure that I have the right scoreboards and get all that working. If I have problems with it, I need to get that worked out. I interact with everybody as best I can in the live chat and I try to make the whole experience a good value for everybody. That’s all I have to do with the live streams. I mean, those things are I wouldn’t say that they’re easy, but I can do them so much better than trying to come up with video ideas for the Astros and then spending hours upon hours upon hours doing editing only to upload it and get 150 views. You know what I’m saying? that I I can’t afford to do that. I know that I I would not I would I would have to stop doing my channel if I tried to do that during the offseason. That’s the truth of it. So, I’m definitely going to be doing the NBA and uh NFL games. Just letting you know. And uh I think I’m going to have to alter the name of my channel just a little bit. So, I’ve been thinking about how I can change it without changing it too much so that the emphasis is on the the pro Houston sports and not just the Astros. But like I’ve told you before, my pri my priority is still the Astros and it will continue to be, but as I do the other teams, uh I want everyone to know that my priority overall is to be Houston Pro Sports Guy. So maybe maybe I’ll become the number one Houston Sports Live Play guy. Maybe. We’ll see. Maybe. Actually, my vision is once the uh once the channel grows a lot more, it’d be nice to have some other people come in and uh that way if I have another person to do live playby-play with my channel, then whenever there’s another game going on simultaneously, I won’t have to choose one over the other. You know what I’m saying? Because even though the early games in the beginning of the season are not as important, if the NBA playoffs are going on and the Rockets are playing in the playoffs, uh I definitely cannot miss those games just for an early season Astros game. But at the same time, I don’t want to miss those Astros games. So to have somebody else doing the live playbyplay with me would be perfect. Because whenever there is a game on just one game, I can handle it no problem or my partner can handle it, not a problem. And sometimes we can do the same game together. But when there are two games happening at the same time, then it would be nice to have somebody else to do that game while I’m doing the other game at the same time. You know what I’m saying? That way we don’t miss everything. We can cover everything on the same channel. Let me get to the chat right quick and then I’m going to get out of here because I’m really starting to feel the the hunger pangs pangs. Jerry says the Jays won two to1 another comeback win. Amazing. Let’s see here. Uh J Paul wants to know if I’ve seen Northwest Sports Fanatics. Yes, I have. And today, if I’m not mistaken, he was doing the the uh Texans Buccaneers game. But, um, I have to say, I’m not impressed at all. I don’t see how how he has so many subscribers because his sound his sound is terrible and he’s playing obnoxious music in the background and he talks loud the whole time. It’s just not my style. I’m not into that. I I know that I’m not straight as straight laced as listening to Houston Astros Radio Network. Right. If you listen to those guys, they’re going to be very straight laced. Much more uh not necessarily serious, but I don’t I don’t even want really want to say professional. You could say that. May maybe more professional in uh their suppression of opinions perhaps. So, I’m definitely more opinionative than they are, but the guy Northwest Sports, he’s just too far one direction. I feel like, you know, Houston Astros Radio Network is is one direction, right, towards professional sports, live playbyplay. Uh, the focus is on that, more serious, I guess, and then I’m kind of in the middle. And then you have the guys on the far right side who play obnoxious music. Their microphones sound terrible and they yell and I don’t get it. I saw one guy doing the Texans live stream. That guy had had a ton of people watching a lot of people watching his live stream. He he was just doing his channel is all about the Texans. Just just the Texans. But I was shocked to see how many people he had following him cuz he’s like yelling the whole time. the whole time he’s calling the game. I just can’t I can’t listen to somebody’s yelling the whole time. Every single play, you know, it’s first and it’s first and 10 and Stout is back. He’s He’s going to bring it over to the right side. He brings it over the right side. He’s going to have to toss that one out of bounds, out of bounds. It’s going to be second and 10. You know, somebody who’s who’s talking like that the whole game from beginning to end, I I can’t I can’t take that. It’s just not my style. Brendan says, “Most of the game starts 6 o’clock Houston time.” Yeah, it’s a little early for me, but it’s manageable. 7 o’clock. It’s no problem. The sun starts coming up here about that time, so I wouldn’t mind being on a schedule like that. Eric says, “Muller’s starting tomorrow.” McCull is injured, my friend. He’s not starting tomorrow. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s AJ. I’m I’m going to go with J. Paul and guess AJ. France needs a little more rest. He can’t pitch tomorrow. I think he did pitch a little bit already for the Astros uh in their game yesterday. So, I don’t think he’ll be pitching tomorrow. My guess is AJ. Could be wrong. Just my guess. But anyway, that’s it. Did Did we wind up getting to 100 likes? We were only at like three away. I hope so. 100 likes. Yes, we got over 100. Let’s cut some of this. Thank you for your hard work everyone today. I do appreciate your support. All of the likes, the subscriptions, the the super chats, the support has been great today. the Astros. This is what you call kind of a basic This is just a classic baseball game. What we saw today, I think a little bit of everything. Some great defense, some um some good pitching, but also some struggling in the from the mound and uh some moderate hitting. But it got the job done, didn’t it? Six to three, the Astros win. And we are one step closer to that silver boot. We need two more wins to get it. Hopefully we can do that with game 12 in this series against the strangers tomorrow. I’ll see you for that game at the same time. Same bat time, same bat channel. I’m going to sign off and go grab something to eat and work on my thumbnails. Thank you again. Only thing left to say is go Stros and I will see you tomorrow’s. Good night to you too, Eric. Bye-bye, everyone.
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