00:00Clint, they're in a run here of 13 games in 13 days.
00:04They got four against Seattle.
00:06They get hopefully some get back against Colorado
00:10as they will come back and play them.
00:12And then they get the Cardinals and the Guardians coming up.
00:15So no days off, 13 games in 13 days.
00:22Seattle, who is a good baseball team, but they're struggling 4-9.
00:26The Rockies are supposed to be bad.
00:28The Cardinals are all right, and Cleveland is – those are okay teams.
00:34I don't think any of those teams at all are thought to be contenders
00:38except for Seattle coming into the season.
00:42So this should be a decent stretch after the Mariners series.
00:46Where do you see them going in that?
00:48What are you hoping early on in that 13-game stretch they come out of that with?
00:53I think they end up 8-5.
00:55I feel – I mean, look, losing the five of the last six, I mean, it's been bad
00:59with some injuries and the pitching.
01:01But this team ain't that damn bad.
01:04You know, like I said, I think you get some good out of J.P. France.
01:07I think you get some good out of Spencer Arighetti.
01:11You know, I don't know if one of those guys, along with Jason Alexander,
01:15I don't know if one of those guys, you bump to the pin so you can get a little bit
01:18of –
01:18because I don't know if it's just relief in the pin.
01:20I mean, I think you need guys.
01:22I think you need to find somebody that you can bank on,
01:25particularly in a long relief role if the wheels come off the starter early on.
01:29And I don't know that J.P. France or Jason Alexander or somebody doesn't fit that role
01:36or doesn't slide in there somehow, some way.
01:39J.P. France seems like the one.
01:41I think we've seen him maybe in the playoffs or maybe late season or something,
01:44seen him in that role before.
01:46But I think they get a little relief there.
01:48And I think the starters, obviously with the exception of Hunter Brown not being there,
01:52I think the starters as a whole, one through five,
01:55I think you get a more solid couple of weeks here out of those guys.
02:00Eight and five.
02:01I like eight and five right now.
02:03Yeah, they should give Colorado the business when they come back and play them.
02:07That is one.
02:09But this series right here, I know you would like to win it,
02:13but if they split it with Seattle and then go ahead and take care of business
02:17against these other teams, yeah, I'm with it.
02:18Eight and five is a pretty good run, 13 days.
02:22But their pitching is going to be tested, right?
02:25That means they're going to need guys to go deeper into games to protect their bullpen.
02:30They're going to need guys to push to six innings,
02:34to push a little bit more so they can protect their bullpen.
02:37See, this is the kind of thing, Tyler, in a stretch here,
02:41where you play this many games in a row,
02:44where they're very fortunate to have had an off day after Christian Javier happened.
02:49Yeah.
02:49You know what I mean?
02:50And some of these others.
02:52But you stick some of those starts that they've had this year
02:56in the middle of 13 games in 13 days.
03:00And you've got – like that's what they have to try to avoid big time in this.
03:06Yeah.
03:06And I think they do.
03:08That's where my, I guess, somewhat optimistic here after what we watched.
03:13That's where it comes from, man.
03:14I tell you, as bad as it was in that six-game run that we've talked about,
03:20I'm pretty excited about the next two games for damn sure.
03:24Don't know who's going to start and how it's going to look the rest of the way.
03:27But the next two, man, I'm – this is appointment television as it gets.
03:33Early season Major League Baseball for me is MI on the bump
03:36and McCullers on the bump.
03:37Yeah.
03:38By the way, I am back 100% emotionally.
03:43Clint, you don't have a choice.
03:44I'm just telling you.
03:45You're talking about Lance?
03:47Yes.
03:47I can't help myself.
03:48You can't have no choice.
03:49I mean, I can't help myself.
03:52Like, I mean, I want the guy to be absolute nails.
03:56My dumb ass is sitting here and I'm thinking, hey, man, no Hunter Brown.
03:58Will's done came off Javier.
04:00Don't know what we got in Burroughs.
04:01And am I?
04:02Let Lance pitch like an ace.
04:04I'm really out here thinking, like, man, let Lance have that comeback.
04:10Set back to – what do they say?
04:13Come back to – set back to, I don't know, something like that.
04:17Yeah, they need him.
04:19They damn sure need him right now to be closer to the guy in his first start.
04:23Again, even in his second start.
04:25I mean, it didn't go as well as seven innings, nine strikeouts,
04:28and a walk in one earn.
04:30But he was still pretty good and good enough to give your team a chance.
04:35They've had some dudes just run out there, whether it be –
04:41maybe it may take you to the fourth inning until somebody comes in and piggybacks.
04:44But, oh, would you say, oh, Weiss, he just came in there,
04:46didn't give you a chance the other night against the Rockets.
04:50Yeah, he sucked.
04:51Like, I mean, to be honest, I mean, Christian Javier left the game 1-0.
04:58And then Blue Ball took it to six.
05:01It was 1-1.
05:02Actually, it was 1-1 when he walked back out there
05:04and threw his warm-up tosses.
05:06So, he –
05:06It sucks to suck.
05:07They can roll and just fall apart in a lot of ways
05:12that they've got to clean up when you're playing every day like that
05:14for 13 straight.
05:15One player we have got to mention, guys,
05:20and I don't know about your excitement level.
05:23I am enjoying to watch this.
05:25There's something when you see young players who were under pressure
05:28and this cat was under pressure and then you get to see it appear to click.
05:34And, yes, it is a little early, but it still feels there's a different feel
05:38to this cat, and that is Cam Smith, Clint.
05:41He is looking –
05:44Not even just his production, even his outs.
05:48Like, he looks like he gets it, like it's clicked, something.
05:52And if he came into this thing, Dana Brown was acting like,
05:55hey, man, he don't have no job.
05:56He got to earn the job.
05:58He ain't got no starting job.
05:59But, I mean, he is –
06:00You look at him, he seems to hit the ball.
06:02I was telling Tyler this year, he seems like he hits the ball hard every time.
06:05That home run he hit in Colorado, what did you say, Tyler?
06:08Is that one of the furthest home runs that's ever been hit there?
06:11It's the furthest home run of the baseball season so far for any team.
06:15Yeah, like that's power you can't teach.
06:18Ninth longest all time in the stat cast era for the Astros.
06:21Yeah, he's almost killed several third basemen with his hot shots down there.
06:25I really love the way he's playing ball and the way he's looking.
06:29Well, you got to like it because he's made a couple of big-time catches
06:32in the outfield as well.
06:34Yep.
06:34I mean, a couple of the hits that you're talking about, maybe not the home run,
06:38but a couple of hits in games have been really clutch.
06:42Two outs, you know, runners in scoring position.
06:44He gets a hit, looks really comfortable.
06:47And confident, opposite of Yiner.
06:48I think he's got three bombs already.
06:51I don't know how many bases he's stolen, but again, maybe I shouldn't do this,
06:54but listening to Dana Brown, Dana says he can give you 20, 25 stolen bases.
06:59I saw a stat.
07:00I don't remember exactly who else was on the stat,
07:03but it was basically a speed stat in all of Major League Baseball,
07:06and he was number two.
07:08I didn't realize he was running.
07:09I knew he was fast.
07:10I didn't know he was running like that.
07:11So, yeah, man, I mean, he's one to get excited about, you know,
07:14if the pitching could help him just a little bit and allow us to get excited
07:19about him, it'd be nice.
07:20Yeah, because he's somebody in that.
07:23Obviously, him and Parade, he's in that trade.
07:25You're hoping to maybe get something out of him.
07:27And he had that great spring training start to where you were like,
07:31oh, here we go.
07:32Here we go.
07:33Let's go.
07:33Let's see what he's about.
07:36Three stolen bases, by the way, for him this year.
07:39Three bombs and three stolen bases?
07:40It kind of slowed up a little bit.
07:43Seven walks, two to go along with where he is.
07:45He just needs to play against Strohs.
07:46Yeah.
07:47Play against them.
07:49But, yeah, man, I just – there's just – I don't know, boy.
07:51It's just you can see the look in his face and his eyes.
07:55There's a level of confidence of, like, I'm getting this.
07:59Yeah, I agree.
07:59I got this.
08:00And so, good for Cam Smith.
08:04And they need it because a guy like that makes – you talked about it
08:08with the first baseman whose name is just Christian Walker.
08:15Like, he – what he's doing lengthens this lineup.
08:19Cam Smith coming in right behind him, it damn sure lengthens the lineup,
08:23especially when you're – when Yiner Diaz is doing what he's doing.
08:30So, which is nothing.
08:31So, disappointing.
08:35Faded as hell right now.
08:37Maybe he needs to get there.
08:38I don't know.
08:39He needs to come to Jesus meeting.
08:41I don't know.
08:41He needs Dusty or something to get back in here.
08:43I'm not sure what it is.
08:45All right, coming up as we continue, what you got going on?
08:47Well, there's – Masters is going on,
08:50so we got to give you a little bit of an update.
08:51Been a solid day.
08:54Our newsworthy day.
08:55But there's one guy that's playing out here.
08:57He ain't nowhere near the lead, but he's just like the rest of us.
09:01And I'm going to be a little disappointed if the PGA Tour decides to discipline
09:06or reprimand my man at any – to any degree.
09:10And I've got proof, speaking of golf, I've got proof that my fitting session
09:13that I told you all the other day was as awful as I thought.
09:16We'll do that next right here on Sports Radio 16.
09:19Drop that beat.
09:21Daily's dirty.
09:22In the loop.
09:23Come on.
09:24I would love to add another running back.
09:26I just –
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