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In this episode David Coleman, Sean Feist, Bryan Trostel from Astros County and myself discuss:

• David's Fan Fest adventure
• J.A. Happ and Livan Hernandez and the back end of the rotation
• Top prospects invited to Spring Training
• Brett Wallace at third base, Chris Johnson at shortstop and Jimmy Paredes in centerfield
  
• Nicknames

My apologies in getting this up so late. It's been a pretty busy week for me but it should pay off as I've got some pretty cool stuff to post next week. Yesterday we posted audio interviews from Fan Fest
I'll be combining all three into one audio file and putting it on iTunes in the next couple days so keep an eye out for that.

The winner of TCB's 2012 Houston Astro logo is "Astros baseball: we've got uniforms and everything." Look for that at the top of the website starting Monday.

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I've got the tapes.

On Monday and Tuesday David posted a running diary of his trip to Minute Maid Park for Fan Fest 2012 this past Saturday. Among the many behind the scenes things he got to do, as a representative of TCB, was a blogger exclusive interview with Brad Mills, Bud Norris and J.D. Martinez. He's handed off the audio of those interviews to me and now I'm releasing them for your listening pleasure

First up, Brad Mills who talked about his preparation for Spring Training, his accountability, Jose Altuve and Brian Bogusevic batting against left handers.

Direct Link: Brad Mills Interview

Next, Bud Norris talked about his rise through professional baseball, wanting to get to 200 innings and hanging with Jarred Cosart

Direct Link: Bud Norris Interview

The final interview was J.D. Martinez who talked about his surprising rise through the farm system, his unorthodox swing and learning how to handle Minute Maid Parks quirky left field.

Direct Link: J.D. Martinez Interview

Along with TCB were representatives from What The Heck, Bobby?, Tales From The Juice Box, Climbing Tal's Hill, Farmstros and Astros County (These are the blogs I've seen post stuff about Fan Fest; If I've missed a blog please let me know). I will be combining all three interviews into one audio file and posting it on iTunes later this week.

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In this episode Sean Feist, Terri Schlather from Tales From The Juice Box, Jayne Hansen from What The Heck, Bobby and myself discuss:

• Vampires, Abba and Harry and the Hendersons (no really)
• Inside the season ticket holder meetings
• Fan initiatives
• The recent signings and hirings
• Roy Oswalts chances of signing before this podcast releases and whether or not he signs with the Astros.

Big thanks to Terri and Jayne for joining us and giving us the inside scoop on what transpired at the season ticket holder meetings they each attended. We got side tracked a bit but that's par for the course with this podcast.

With the season inching closer and closer we're getting ready to ramp the podcast back up to a weekly release and I wanted to try and get some feedback this month in regards to the production of the podcast. Is intro music and sound effects something you'd like to see us use more?

I've stayed away from adding intro and outro music one because I haven't found the right music yet and two I don't think the podcast necessarily needs it. The more music I have the less time we have to talk baseball, which may actually be a good thing. Sound effects I've added in post production when I felt it was necessary but some podcasts will use it during a podcast. I've often found those uses clunky and unnecessary.

I'd love any feedback on the use or non-use of sound in our podcasts.

Also for next week, per David, we'll be discussing nicknames so if you have any suggestions for any player on the team leave them below and we'll discuss them in the next podcast.

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In this episode David Coleman, Sean Feist, Joshua Powling and myself discuss:

• Jeff Bagwell and the Hall of Fame
• The trade value of Wandy Rodriguez and Carlos Lee
• The draft
• Transactions involving J.R. Towles, Fernando Martinez and the trade of Mark Melancon
• Changes in the coaching staff and front office.

We got into an interesting discussion involving the real reason why Joe Pettini was brought in I completely forgot to mention that Cesar Cedeno was named the hitting coach for the Astros Minor League affiliate in Greeneville. Due to time constraints and conspiracy theory I totally spaced on mentioning him in the podcast, but I wanted to give recognition of that move here as it is a fantastic move.

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In this episode Sean Feist, James Yasko from Astros County and myself discuss:

• The new general manager, Jeff Luhnow
• The rule 5 selections
• Albert Pujols gets a head start on the Astros
• Anery Rodriguez verse Dallas Keuchel

It's been a long strange but fun trip for the podcast in 2011. I'm honestly surprised that it's lasted this long and we like to thank all of you that listen to the podcast for your patience, questions and feedback. We've come along way and we're looking to take the podcast even further. We'll be looking to pick the podcast back up sometime in early January. Until then though Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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In this episode David Coleman, Sean Fiest, Terri Schlather from Tales From The Juice Box and myself discuss:

• The firings of Ed Wade and Tal Smith
• Searching for a new GM
• Searching for a shortstop
• Winter Meetings including the rule 5 draft
• Replacing Junction Jack

So as usual the day after we record a podcast a bit of news comes out that we either could of covered in the podcast or nullifies some of our conversation. In this one we spent almost 10 minutes discussing the possibility of Andrew Friedman coming to Houston. I've decided to cut it out so we can move on.

We're going to get into some Minor League talk for the next podcast, hence the poll. If you have anything specifically you want us to discuss in regards to the minors shoot us an email.

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In this episode David Coleman and myself discuss:

• Sale of the Astros
• Clint Barmes signing with the Pirates
• Transactions from the past couple weeks
• Arizona Fall League Championship notes for Jason Castro, Jacob Goebbert and Josh Zeid

We also got Greg Stanwood and Andrew Martin from Purple Row SB Nations Colorado Rockies site to join us to discuss Wandy Rodriguez to the Rockies. So a big thanks goes out to them for taking some time to discuss the possibility of a trade between the Astros and Rockies.

For those of you looking for Minor League and draft talk it's coming I just don't know if it will be the next episode. We're currently waiting to see what Crane does after Thanksgiving and with the Winter Meetings coming up we may be Major League dominate again. We'll see what we can do.

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In this episode David Coleman, Sean Feist and special guest James Yasko from Astros County join me to discuss the sale of the Astros. Among the things we cover are:

• The sale duh

BREAKING NEWS: We just received this in the mail at the TCB HQ's and It appears to be addressed to the Astros new owner:

It appears that Jim Crane is stepping into a worse situation than previously thought. Not only are the Astros being moved to the American League West but it also appears that attendance will be hostage unless the demands above are meet. Speculation is that the fanbase upset, with the move, have decided to take improvements at the ballpark into their own hands. One can only hope and pray that a quick resolution is found for this tragedy.

Stay tuned to to TCB for up to date coverage on this developing story.

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