 Justin Verlander making his seventh all-star appearance and Justin, it's great to have you with us up here And first of all congratulations, man couple days ago your wife Kate Upton announcing you're gonna be a dad So what's that feeling like? It's pretty exciting man nervous excited. You know, it's it's it's a great It's a great feeling man. I'm ready for a new chapter in our lives. You got some catch up to do I got four I'll keep I'll keep working on it Hey JV Alex here congrats on the new baby, um, yeah I think we've said it all with you with you know MVP and what you did in the world series last year a lot of people don't know That you wear number 35 because of the big hurt Frank, which I love that But the latest reveal I want to ask you on the plane on Sunday with your teammates. Yeah, you showed a little Shiggy You'll reveal Your new dance moves. What is it? What do you got on that? Yeah? You know bregman bregman keeps up to date with pop culture and he's like hey, man. Let's do this dance You know And then about halfway through I didn't know what else to do And I've shown all my moves already So I just went ahead and sat down and then and then breg is shaking his butt in my face So what else do you do you slap it tremendous tremendous? You dance like a white guy boy? That's called the all-star boogie Hey Justin this big poppy right here, man. How are you man? Congratulations once again. Thank you Hey, I had a big question for you. I remember a couple of years ago You were having some army choose. Yeah bounce back I would like to know how much it have to take you to get prepared because you know as we get older You know, we start it's a challenge every day to get prepared to go out there and compete But it seems like you you put on play the experience Yeah Before you take the mound every five days and man, let me tell you what I have been seeing the past couple of years Justin Berland that I faced at the beginning of his career. Yeah, thank you man. A lot of hard work You know that you guys all know that you know as you get older need to make some adjustments I had a core surgery and now kind of like I Hit a fork in the road of my career where I either needed to make some adjustments and change some things or I was gonna be out of the Game and obviously that's an easy decision So I kind of completely revamp my body How I think about preparing myself to pitch and how I prepare in the offseason and everything that I do in season maintenance wise and You know, man, it was hard Competing at this level When I was competing against myself being healthy as well You know this games hard enough when you're going out there against the best in the world when you have to when you have to worry About what's going on with your arm as well It's all the harder. So honestly the last couple years man. It's just I Got back to being healthy and got back to my arm not hurting And just was able to go out there and play the game that I've loved and have fun and compete Got you down off a bad boy, man Just in this Frank I got a serious baseball question for you. You're sporting a 2.04 ERN baseball ever since you've been with the Astros. That's the best in baseball one question here I want to go inside your clubhouse How determine is this team to repeat this year? Very That's one of the that's one of the best things about this team man Like if I were to come in to this organization This offseason instead of being there last year, I would have never guessed that they won a world series That's how hungry they were you know working just as hard as ever if not harder, man And that atmosphere it just breeds success man. It's it's a lot of fun to be in here with these guys these young guys It's honestly like showing up and working with 24 your best friends every day, man It's it's a great place to work. That's good. You know Justin I'm curious, you know last such a big story though at the waiver deadline You of course a huge acquisition and you know the after those go on and you guys win the whole thing this year You're playing great playing great ball. Do you need another big acquisition? We just started the show talking about Manny Machado how he may be on the move Yeah, how do you feel it when you're playing so well you still feel like you need upgrades as a team? I don't know. I feel like it's always to have and have nots, you know, it's like When you're part of a team every day and you play as much baseball as we do You know, there there's always holes that you can see and you can always find a way to get better You're wearing a weird transition right now in baseball where you've got some teams that are not trying to compete And you've got some teams that are really really good So I think you're in a situation where you can almost forecast kind of what you need Against said teams in the playoffs if you make it so You know, I I don't know if we'll make a move. I envision us probably doing so But that's you know, that's out of our that's out of our hands And we just you know, like I said that same atmosphere that these guys are always hungry It's kind of that same feeling it's just go play ball win baseball games and let whatever else happens happen Justin, what are the chances to call your little baby poppy? Zero I Honestly, that's the best answer in the history of the show Go enjoy tonight. Thanks for taking the time to do