00:00Is this an overreaction to you that it is imperative that this team makes the postseason?
00:10And if they don't, at least one of those dudes up top, Dana Brown, Joe Espada, may be in trouble?
00:15Absolutely.
00:16You think it's that to that point?
00:19With the success they've had, well, they've been here two years, they made the playoffs one year,
00:23won the division the next year, they were leading the whole way, had a bunch of injuries.
00:26But you still think if they've got to at least make the playoffs for these guys to keep their gigs?
00:34Definitely for Joe Espada.
00:35I don't know how much Dana Brown is going to have to eat a bunch of this,
00:43but you look at the last, what was it, Ron, two years ago, it was dig the big hole
00:47and then climb out somehow and flirt with the playoffs.
00:51They got in there.
00:52They got in and didn't do nothing.
00:53And then this past year, this past year, it's the injuries and you got a shot late
00:58and you don't get in.
01:00Yeah, you follow that right there up with a, you know, you replace your hitting coaches.
01:05You replace your training staff.
01:07I mean, this is at the spot where at least Joe Espada, like ain't nobody else can go except for
01:12you.
01:13And so, yeah, I think this is a make or break it year for Joe Espada.
01:16Yeah, it's good.
01:17It's interesting because of the success they've had.
01:207-1-3-5-7-2-4-6-10.
01:22Do you think it's imperative this team make the playoffs or Dana Brown or Joe Espada is in trouble?
01:27I could see either one of them, to be honest with you.
01:30I think they have to have a bounce back, bounce back year because I think you're starting to question,
01:35all right, where are we, where are we heading in this thing?
01:38Where are we heading in this?
01:38And I almost think, like in my mind, Clint, the way that it happened two years ago,
01:44I don't know if they can go and roll, make the playoffs,
01:47and then get knocked out the first two games like they did against the Tigers and then go nowhere else.
01:52I think there could be some big changes happening there too
01:57because just making the playoffs, yeah, for this, they've got, I mean,
02:02they've got obviously higher standards than just that.
02:07And I don't know, I think they may need to make a run in the postseason,
02:12having a really big season.
02:13Yeah, look, I mean, you know how I feel about it.
02:15Once you get into the dance, man, I mean, and you're dealing with playoff teams,
02:19it's hard to say, well, if they don't get beyond the first round, you're done, you know, kind of deal.
02:24To me, it's one of those where what do you really look like?
02:27Are you one of the better teams in baseball throughout the season?
02:30And then you just, you mess around and run out of pitching
02:33or you mess around and have a rough series
02:35or maybe somebody just clips you, I can live with that.
02:38I can see the guys surviving that.
02:40But if this is another one of those inconsistent, for one reason or another,
02:44it just, I mean, there's a lot of questions throughout the season
02:46and you somehow sneak in.
02:48Like if it's ugly all year long and you're never really a true contender,
02:54I don't know how they, I don't know how,
02:55I damn sure don't know how Joe Espada keeps his job.
02:57I just don't know Jim Crane, Dana Brown.
02:59I don't know enough about that dynamic right there to know how safe he is or isn't.
03:03And yeah, he sure sounds like he's safe.
03:05Yeah.
03:06Dana sounds as if he's safe.
03:07I, yeah, I don't, I don't know.
03:10I, yeah, I don't know.
03:11I, I, I definitely, I, I'm with you.
03:13If they miss the playoffs, I think, I think they could all, they could,
03:16he could clean house with this thing and start this thing over.
03:19But yeah, it's, it is a huge, important year.
03:22Someone just text in Dana sucks.
03:24Get him out of here.
03:25I'm not, I'm not going to argue one way or the other.
03:28Be honest with you.
03:30I mean, the fact that we're talking about GM is a problem in the first place.
03:33Try to get, he got Kikuchi.
03:36Kikuchi was money now.
03:37I mean, this, I mean, this, this, uh.
03:40Stretching Kikuchi tonight.
03:41MI could be big.
03:42This Burroughs cat could be big.
03:44Yeah.
03:44Yeah.
03:45He is.
03:45You're right.
03:45He has taken some.
03:46Keeping the, keeping the fifth infielder could be big.
03:49He has taken some, some chances, right?
03:50Yeah.
03:51You're right.
03:51If he gets, if he blows up this Parades thing at that, if the, the way he's decided to handle
03:58the rotation, because it is a little iffy again, like nobody's now, I don't think this
04:04is directly on him.
04:05I think this is probably some Jim crane, but nobody Hunter Brown again, did another interview
04:09and talked about nobody said anything to him about no, no extension.
04:12We said call.
04:14We said, wait for the call.
04:16We said.
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