00:01Altuve bids for a two-run home run.
00:04It's gone!
00:05Jose Altuve gives the Astros a five-run lead.
00:09It's now 8-3.
00:14You hear the news, Tyler?
00:18I sure as heck did.
00:19There's nobody more.
00:20You and Sean Pendergast, every morning catching right here,
00:26him and Payne and Pendergast.
00:28I'm certain you two lost your minds.
00:32That's Jose Altuve.
00:34And he will not repeat not play in the 2026 World Baseball Classic
00:43after the Astros requested that he not participate.
00:47If you remember the last time, he broke his hand on a hit-by-pitch
00:51that cost him a lot of the start of the season.
00:55And it's just, it has a lot of organizations understanding that these players
01:02want to play for their country, but a lot of organizations that don't love the deal.
01:07And I know this was probably hard for Jose Altuve because, I mean,
01:12I think he truly loves playing for his country.
01:15But I know people, a lot of Astros fans, Tyler, I know is one of them.
01:21Yeah, it's in celebration mode.
01:23You absolutely hate the WBC.
01:25You don't even watch it with any enjoyment when the Astros are playing.
01:30Hell no.
01:31You're probably pissed that Carlos is playing for Puerto Rico.
01:33Absolutely.
01:34I wear Houston Astros jerseys.
01:37I'm a fan of the team that plays at Dyken Park every spring.
01:40The Houston Astros, I could give two ishes less about the WBC.
01:46And I'm so happy to hear that Jose is not playing in it.
01:49Now, Correa, you've got time to change your decision.
01:51He's not changing his decision.
01:52You've got time to make the right decision.
01:55God, I hate that thing.
01:56Man, how'd that conversation go down?
01:57Hey, man, we got to level with you, bro.
01:59I think they had to bring Jim in.
02:01I don't think Dana could have told him not to play.
02:04I think they had to bring.
02:05I don't think Joe or Dana could have told him not to play.
02:07I think Jim had nothing.
02:09He said, here's Jose.
02:11Hey, man, we can't have this happen again.
02:13I kept it real as a true professional myself.
02:16Listen, I enjoy watching the games, but I'm with you.
02:21When it's your team, when it's your guy in there, that is concerning.
02:26I tell you what, for until you're not saying, you better not even think about it.
02:32You bet your ass better not even think about it.
02:36Yeah, that's it.
02:37I'm probably more in line with Tyler and Sean.
02:40I mean, I don't despise it.
02:41I'm not playing celebration music.
02:42But I, you know, I mean, being here in Houston, I mean, one of the things that, as you guys know
02:48and our listeners know, I mean, it just sticks in my crawl, how much we worry about injuries
02:53with some of these guys and how we worry about workload or load management for some of these
02:59guys.
03:00And so much so that the manager speaks consistently about, you know, getting these guys rest all
03:07the damn time.
03:08It sure is hard for me to, it sure is hard for me to, to, to, to, to listen to that and
03:13then go, yeah, let's go, let's go play.
03:15Let's, let's go get started a month or so early and play a bunch of games in a row.
03:19Let's go do that.
03:20It's the pitchers for me, boy.
03:21They got it.
03:22They got it.
03:22They got to gear this thing up and getting playoff mode ready to go, to go in here.
03:29Uh, text or YouTube and Twitch, uh, Joseph to Tyler, uh, Correa has made the right decision.
03:35Tyler country above job.
03:37LOL.
03:38Nah, you're wrong.
03:40Sorry.
03:41I just, as a fan who does not care about the outcome whatsoever, and I'm a very patriotic
03:47person, I could give again, two dishes less.
03:50If the U S wins the WBC, I don't need my guys on the Astros playing in it.
03:55Would you feel different if this was the Olympics?
03:57I do think that is different because now, because right now it's a made up tournament
04:03they've made up because they cannot participate in the Olympics.
04:06If it was, if this was an Olympic gold medal, you'd feel a little different.
04:09There is a difference.
04:11I gotta, I gotta really think about how I would weigh it up against it, but yeah, I mean, I'm
04:16a fan of the Strohs, man.
04:18That that's where, where it lies.
04:20Yeah.
04:20And then, and you, you've clearly Astros fans have clearly seen how it can screw you up.
04:26First-hand experience will do that.
04:30Gosh, damn it.
04:32All right.
04:33About that injury to Altuve.
04:34Uh, uh, Clint, speaking of Altuve, they had fan fest this weekend, uh, and it looks like
04:41according to him, like he's going to play second base for the, for the most part.
04:45And they've already done, so now that's him playing second base, um, for the most part,
04:50we'll do some DH-ing.
04:51And then they also said earlier that, that Yordan's going to be a designated hitter, that
04:57Yordan is for the most part going to play DH.
05:00That's where they want him to be to preserve, uh, his legs, injuries.
05:04So it looks like we got spots for, for Altuve at second and Yordan at DH for the most part.
05:11Um, he's, he didn't, he didn't kill the left field thing, but it seems the way they're
05:16talking that Altuve is a second baseman in a DH.
05:20Yeah.
05:20Altuve is a second baseman in a DH.
05:22They all but said that.
05:23And, and I mean, how, I mean, in hindsight, how, how stupid was playing him in left field?
05:28Just give it a shot.
05:29I mean, you, you got, you've got an, an aging player that is, that is fine and dandy playing
05:35second base.
05:36And all of a sudden you're going to spend a, you're going to spend a spring training playing
05:41him in left field all, all to when it matters most, he's not playing left field.
05:46And then the very next season say, nah, man, that, that experiment is, is, is over.
05:51I mean, can we just take a minute and reflect on how stupid that was and be honest and be
05:55honest about people out there that were like, oh yeah, this, yeah, no big deal.
05:59Now get the hell out of here.
06:00Are you kidding me?
06:01And they're all but telling you how stupid it was.
06:03You want, you want to take a moment of silence for, uh, Altuve in left field?
06:08Yeah.
06:08Do we play, do we play taps?
06:13Altuve in left field?
06:16I just, I do.
06:17I do want to, I want to know who it was.
06:20Who was the person that, that decided to, that, that first came and said, we got to
06:24throw in the towel.
06:26Like who, I wonder who, who it was.
06:29I know it wasn't Altuve.
06:30He'll do whatever for the team, but I wonder, was it Joe?
06:34Was it Dana?
06:34Who was it?
06:35Because whoever's idea it was, they didn't do it.
06:38They, they had to be forced.
06:40Whoever's idea was to move him out there.
06:42I just want to know who finally came up and said, guys, we got to start doing this.
06:45We're going to, we're going to keep him in that.
06:48It's not ideal.
06:49I have no idea.
06:50I have no idea who it was, but that, but that when it's all said and done, am I, well,
06:54I know, I know Ron's answering this.
06:56I meant to ask the guys on in the loop.
06:58I just, I am shocked every time we start having a conversation about Jordan Alvarez and the
07:06Texans out.
07:07I mean, the Texans, the Astros outfield.
07:08I mean, we have literally thought about putting and, and spent a season putting Altuve in
07:17left field.
07:18And I am just, I'm just, I can't help but think that Jordan Alvarez playing left field
07:24doesn't solve a lot of the, I agree with you in a major, major way.
07:30I agree with him playing left field because they're going to have, and we can dive in this
07:34a little bit more, they're going to have a lot of days, the way that they're positioning
07:38this, where like, especially if they're going to keep Christian Walker at first base, like
07:43somebody's got to sit, Parades, Altuve, you're not, somebody's got to sit.
07:50And you can argue those, those are, those may be the three most important bats on the
07:54team.
07:55And somebody's, but if Jordan is, is, is set as a DH most times and he is set as a second
08:02baseman, Altuve, then like if Christian Walker is going to play first, I mean, Parades has,
08:07Parades hasn't played out in, out in the outfield and Correa is playing third.
08:12And like, so like, they're going to, I mean, they're going to, they're going to have one
08:15of those bats out a lot of games, the way that it's set up right now and the way their
08:20roster is.
08:20So yeah, it would help a lot if Jordan was just the, was just the left fielder, but I
08:26mean, it would just make sense.
08:28But I just think you cannot, you can't take, not take the injury risk out of there.
08:34Yeah.
08:34And that's where you lose me.
08:35No, I know that's where we lose you.
08:36I know that's where the disagree.
08:38He gets, I mean, he got injured doing this crap last year.
08:41He still got injured twice.
08:43I mean, swinging a bat and stepping on home plate.
08:45Oh, I know it.
08:46And I, and I think you potentially enhance his risk of getting injured even more.
08:52If you put him out in the outfield, if he's getting hurt swinging, if he's getting hurt
08:56stepping on home plate, I mean, yeah, no home plate.
08:59That was a freak injury.
09:00That was just, that was just, I still think they should have fired whoever painted that
09:03damn plate left.
09:05It's slick.
09:05Like it might've been, it might've been a home plate.
09:10What the hell's on his brush?
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