00:00Face Power Text Line, jump in and participate a little real or fake YouTube and Twitch.
00:05Also, please, you can jump in and participate.
00:08I will make a statement.
00:10You will tell me if it is real or fake.
00:15Go ahead and jump in on this thing.
00:17All right, let's kick it off with you, Tyler Milner, a little real or fake.
00:22Yiner Diaz is the wild card for the Astros in 2026, real or fake?
00:29I'm going to go real on that one.
00:31Yiner has been, as you're kind of hinting at, I think, pretty inconsistent in his early years here with the
00:37Astros.
00:37I'm going to need more than 20 homers and 70 RBIs from him this season.
00:41And he also seems to be a fellow that kind of loses his head a little bit at times, as
00:45in like in the clouds,
00:47like just does some dumbassery type things.
00:50I need him to stay focused, Yiner.
00:52And, yeah, I need a lot more than 20 home runs out of that guy.
00:56It is interesting.
00:58I'll get to see what Clint's thoughts are.
01:01But that kind of jumped at me when you said, like some of his numbers, Clint, real or fake?
01:07Yiner Diaz is the wild card for the 2026 Houston Astros.
01:12I think it's fake.
01:13I think the ship has sailed.
01:16Jeez.
01:17I think the ship has sailed.
01:20And Yiner Diaz being the wild card.
01:22I think a couple of years ago it was all about Pena and Diaz taking that next step.
01:26One of them did.
01:27The other one hadn't.
01:28And not to mention he's ass on defense.
01:31That's the one.
01:32That part there.
01:33And so I just – I don't think it hinges.
01:37I think the Walker-Janet kid is coming.
01:41Apparently, according to Joe Espada, great defensively.
01:46We've seen this team win a lot of baseball games with a hell of a sub-100 hitter behind the
01:52plate
01:52as long as he could manage games and play good defense.
01:56I think I saw where they signed Christian Vasquez, a veteran catcher.
02:04You know, there's just a couple of guys back there that I think are guys that are just waiting in
02:10the wings.
02:10And I'll be honest with you, the main reason I think it's fake is because I've swung to center, boys.
02:18I think Jake Myers is it.
02:19Oh, wow.
02:20I think Jake Myers is the wild card this year.
02:22Really?
02:23If you add a center fielder that can swing the bat as well as Jake Myers did in a small
02:28sample –
02:29if he's even remotely close to what he did last year, that's your wild card.
02:34Swings things.
02:35That lengthens your lineup to where he's hitting solid in the seven hole,
02:39and I don't give a damn what you do at 8-9.
02:42And you've got your center fielder.
02:44So I think the wild card – I think it's fake that Yainer Diaz is the wild card,
02:50mainly because I think Jake Myers is that.
02:53Yeah, real or fake, Yainer Diaz is the wild card.
02:59Text line coming in, Diaz is not very good behind the plate.
03:01He's really just a DH.
03:04Jake showed us last year, according to Ray.
03:07I'm going to say fake, too.
03:08It is interesting, though, the amount of contending teams that would take 256, 20 home runs,
03:19and 70 RBIs from their catcher.
03:22Knowing what he was supposed to be.
03:25But it brings to your thought of the expectation of what you think he can do.
03:32Right.
03:33Right?
03:34Like, I'll be honest with you.
03:36If I close my eyes and just think and not look at the numbers,
03:39think about what Yainer Diaz did, I would have thought it was worse than this.
03:44Like, I would have thought it was worse than – now, his on-base percentage just took a complete
03:49nosedive to 284.
03:51But I would have thought it was worse than this.
03:53I'm going to say fake just because I think it is – it's one of those dudes of Christian
03:58Javier or – Imai?
04:02Imai.
04:03Why do I want to do that?
04:04It's like you're trying to sing old McDonald's bars.
04:07Put you an extra syllable in there, man.
04:08I am.
04:08I'm good with it.
04:09I just can't say Imai.
04:09Why can't I just say that?
04:11Imai-io.
04:12I am.
04:12Imai.
04:13But I think it's either Imai or Christian Javier because the wild card is they need a second –
04:20that number two starter.
04:22One of those have to climb over Burroughs.
04:24One of those – just in terms of stuff and what their ability is, one of them have to
04:30climb over old Mike Burroughs.
04:32So, to me, I think getting a big year out of one of those two guys, if not both of
04:38them,
04:38are more wild cards than Yiner Diaz.
04:41But the expectations, man, thought this dude was going to be a straight middle-of-the-bat
04:45type of guy, and now he is sitting in that seventh spot.
04:49All right.
04:50Real or fake, Clint, we should be on lookout.
04:54For the Tennessee Titans as a surprise team in 2026, we should be on lookout for the
05:00Tennessee Titans to be a surprise team.
05:02Real or fake?
05:04I think we're still a year away, man.
05:06I really do like Robert Sala in his second try at this thing.
05:11I think he was too green the first time.
05:14I think that he'll draw from that experience and be better this time.
05:18The fake Oilers.
05:19Yeah, I mean, you know, again, defensive-minded head coach, I think it strongly depends on
05:24what he does on the offensive side of the ball.
05:26I love, and I mean love, I'm a big fan of Cam's.
05:32I think their quarterback, I think they got it right.
05:34I think his, he used to still want to, Casario's words, I think his makeup is real.
05:39I think it works.
05:40It plays.
05:42But I think we're still a year early, so I'm going to say fake that they are, that
05:47they're ready.
05:48Real or fake, Tyler, we should be on the lookout for the Tennessee Titans to be a
05:53surprise team.
05:55Please.
05:56You can't just treat them like the Jags.
05:58Fake as hell.
06:00No, no, no.
06:01And in all seriousness, maybe down the road as Clint saying, because I actually really
06:05like the Sala hire for them as well.
06:06But no, that's fake.
06:09I'm going to go real.
06:11I'm not saying they're going to make the playoffs.
06:13I think they're going to be in playoff contention.
06:16And I think that's a surprise from where they were.
06:21Obviously, they've got a quarterback, and they've got a guy who can work with quarterbacks
06:25in Brian Dayball.
06:26And then if they get Jeremiah Love in this draft, and they add him to that team, that's
06:35a big-time weapon to start with.
06:37We've seen how he has had Saquon Barkley in the backfield, and he's had a quarterback
06:44that's not even as talented as Cam Ward is right now.
06:47And I know their defense is going to be good.
06:49And we know they've got a fourth-place schedule.
06:51I could see them flirting in the 8-9 win, 7-8-9 win range right there for them.
06:58So I will say real on that.
07:00The Tennessee Titans, I think they've got a shot.
07:02We see every year the worst-to-first or worst-to-competitive.
07:08I think they've got a shot to do that.
07:11The fake Oilers.
07:12There you go.
07:12That's all right.
07:13Text line coming in.
07:14The training staff is the X-Factor.
07:16Cam Smith is the X-Factor for this year.
07:19The training staff.
07:21It's not wrong.
07:22Someone texted in real.
07:23The Titans will score more touchdowns than the Texans this year.
07:26Nah.
07:28Nah, man.
07:29That ain't going to be hard.
07:31Whoa.
07:34The thing is, we'll probably get six from our defense.
07:36So we'll get a little bit of a bonus there.
07:38That doesn't mean anything.
07:38Wow.
07:39I mean, they're playing a fourth-place schedule.
07:40I mean, it's not even comparable.
07:43I mean, the schedule.
07:44I don't know.
07:44I haven't seen the schedule.
07:45I haven't looked at the schedule.
07:46But it's got to be.
07:46I mean, the Texans' schedule has to be seen.
07:47I know they've got the Raiders and the Browns.
07:49Right off top.
07:50They've got the Raiders, Browns, and the Jets.
07:54That's three of them.
07:55No, they got them over there.
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