Justin Verlander Left off Houston's Wild Card Roster

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00:00Uh, with one more note on the Astros, Scotty, as we're watching him here this afternoon,

00:07and that is that they did not put Verlander on the wildcard roster.

00:12And honestly, can you blame them?

00:13Oh, he's been awful.

00:15He's been awful this year.

00:16Uh, that's just the bottom line.

00:17He even admitted it.

00:19He admitted that it was the right decision to leave him off at a roster.

00:23There's no one more intense than, uh, Justin, uh, he's had a great career, but I think this

00:28is kind of writings on the wall that it's over.

00:32Like, you know, at the end here, he's not making the roster for the playoff team.

00:37That's all she wrote.

00:38I think he's finished.

00:40Yeah.

00:41I think it's just about there too.

00:43Now, if they continue to move on and you get into some longer series, um, I think it's

00:48possible, uh, that you might want, uh, that veteran experience in there, but you know,

00:53maybe, maybe not.

00:54I think he's, you know, Mike, honestly, I gotta be frank about this.

00:58I think that he, you know, Kershaw and him are in the same boat.

01:03I think that no one wants to face reality that it's the beginning of the end and, uh,

01:10they just don't have it anymore.

01:12And then this guy's like, yeah, I'm hoping to be able to pitch in the playoffs Kershaw.

01:18And the thing is Kershaw can't get anybody out anymore.

01:21Like what more do you need to know that it's over?

01:24Like, uh, his, he goes three innings.

01:27If that two innings, he'll go an inning and a third, uh, it's over.

01:32It's over.

01:33It's, you know, why is it so hard?

01:36You know, it almost reminds me of boxers.

01:39They just never get the message that it's over and they can't take a punch and they

01:45can't win a fight and they, and they go down a lot and they just keep fighting.

01:50They just never go away and they just can't win.

01:54And it's amazing to me how they, no one can get through to boxers that it's over.

01:59You just can't fight anymore.

02:01Your, your career's over and they just don't listen to anyone and they just keep going

02:05out there and getting their brains bashed in.

02:08And it's the same thing with pitchers and baseball players.

02:11I mean, when, when you don't have it anymore, you don't have it anymore.

02:15It's over.

02:16That's the end of the road.

02:17And it's amazing to me how no one can get through to them.

02:21Their agent, their wife, their family, fans, nobody.

02:25I mean, you turn on the TV and everyone's talking bad about you that you don't have

02:29it anymore.

02:30Like take a clue, man.

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