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Seth and Sean convene a special PettyCast exclusively to air out their frustrations with the Astros. What's really ticking them off about this team right now?
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00:00Seth and I made an executive decision at some point during the show that the Astros deserve
00:04their own petty cast today. They're coming off the worst road trip that I can ever remember
00:09for the Astros. Here's some of the numbers. This will wet the palate for the pettiness here,
00:16Seth, and maybe some of the pettiness gets woven into this. Just some numbers here from this road
00:20trip. One and nine, eight-game losing streak. This is their longest losing streak in 13 seasons
00:26when they lost 15 games to close out the horrific 2013 season that I think to this day is still
00:34the
00:34worst record they've ever had in the history of the franchise. 51 and 111. So that's what has been
00:40accomplished or not accomplished over the last 10 games. They allowed seven and a half runs per game
00:46during that road trip. The starters have recorded three or fewer outs in three of the last five games.
00:55prior to yesterday, prior to Mike Burrow. So now three of the last six starters have lasted an
01:02inning or less in the box score. That's crazy. I just, I think there's something about this scourge
01:11of injuries, but also I like, I want to make excuses with, because of injuries as much as the
01:17next guy. And by that, I mean, Dana Brown, but the, the next guy is Dana Brown in this instance,
01:24I look, but I can't look past Sean. We did this in the six o'clock segment. I'm looking at
01:29all the
01:29Astros who have pitched any, any innings at all for the Astros this year, all the pitchers who have
01:37pitched and of 17 guys, only four of them have an ERA below 4.7. I mean, they've been, I
01:45don't care
01:46about when they got injured or anything. Uh, like it's just, everybody's been awful except for four
01:52guys. It's no, we can't just blanket use injuries as an excuse when Hunter Brown's the only starter
02:00worth a damn with that ERA below 4.71. It's just, it's pathetic. It's just ridiculous. It's not just
02:08the injuries. They've been horrendous. The road trip on the road trip. Cause you know,
02:13the homestand was the homestand was fine. They, they went five and two in the homestand. It's
02:17this road trip where they went one in nine, the ERA on the road trip, Seth was 7.98 an
02:25ERA of nearly
02:26eight in on a 10 game road trip. This is the really, this is a very frustrating thing.
02:32The Mariners came into the series, the four game sweep that they just had with the Astros
02:38averaging a little over three runs per game, 3.08 runs per game. And they had the worst OPS in
02:44baseball in the four games against the Astros. They averaged 7.25 runs per game. They more than
02:49they, they double in a half their output, uh, that they'd had for the entire season up to that point.
02:56The Astros now have sole possession of last place in baseball. They have the worst record in baseball,
03:04not just the AL West. They have the worst record in baseball and they lead the major leagues in runs
03:10scored. That feels like something that is, that has never ever happened before at any point in any
03:17season. And here's why I say that the obvious part I say that is because, well, normally a team that's
03:21terrible doesn't score a lot of runs. That's true. Sole possession is the big thing because there's
03:27probably been a team or two that's led the MLB in runs and they're one in four and they're tied
03:32with
03:32three other teams that are one in four. We are to a part of the season now where, you know,
03:36teams,
03:37teams have played different numbers of games and things like that. I feel like they are
03:41accomplishing something that's never happened in baseball before having sole possession of last
03:46place and leading the league in runs scored. And this is exactly the kind of statistic that you hate
03:52is whenever there are remarkable stats that have never been accomplished before because of
03:58atrocious play. Yes. Or they go back to the Texans before, you know, no teams ever not scored a
04:04touchdown in the first, uh, in the first drive for however many consecutive games since whatever year.
04:10Yeah. I hate, uh, I almost, I kind of like stand back in admiration when it's never been done before.
04:16The ones I really hate are where it's, this is the first time any team has done this since
04:21the year 1903. Yeah. The industrial revolution. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like since the,
04:27since the invention of the cotton gin. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Well, here's one. The Astros,
04:32you hate these so much, Seth. So here's one for you. The Astros are now the 142nd team
04:39dating back to 1898 to allow at least 106 runs in their first 17 games. So you may go, well,
04:45that's a lot. That's 142 granted. It's over a century. This is the key. 24 of those teams had
04:51a winning record. So 17% went on to have a winning record. Only six made the post season. That's
04:57the
04:57big thing for me is that there's a lot of lip service. It's going to be paid over the next
05:01several weeks to how we can turn this around and maybe they do. Maybe they don't. Yeah. Um,
05:06the fact of the matter is they are pitching at such an historically bad level. And to me,
05:11there's, I don't see an end in sight. I don't see a Hunter Brown, 20, 24 turnaround in any of
05:17these guys right now, if anything, they're just going to keep getting more banged up and calling
05:20more and more triple a and double a guys up. So I don't see a light at the end of
05:24the tunnel.
05:24That's the big thing to know is that none of these teams who are doing what they've done
05:28sniff the post season. In fact, a lot of them don't even sniff 70 wins.
05:31You know what else I've got? You know what, you know, what's nice about this Astros team is that
05:35there's a brand new thing to be petty about and it's the, it's the ABS. Where do you hazard the,
05:40the Astros rank right now in major league baseball on a percentage of percentage of
05:47successful challenges? I'm going to guess not good because of the way you're framing
05:50the question. So I wouldn't be in the petty cast. Oh no. Uh, 28, I was going to say 27th.
05:55Okay.
05:5628th. 28th. Yeah. And now is, this is after Yiner actually managed to have a couple successful
06:01challenges yesterday. Yeah. They went over four on the road trip until yesterday. And then Yiner
06:06had a couple successful ones. This is a good one by you on the, as far as an Astros petty
06:10cast, cause I love the ABS. I love the drama with it. They're taking something we love and
06:16turning it into a tawdry whore. That's right. Yes. It's exactly what they're doing. Um, okay.
06:22Well, so, so those are just the numbers. What are we actually petty about? You want to get
06:27am I, am I being on the IL with shoulder fatigue? Let's just like, right, right arm fatigue is what
06:32it's right. Arm fatigue. Sorry. Yeah. God forbid the Astros give us any kind of specificity. Yeah.
06:39That's right. Upper quadrant fatigue, right? This is after look, they were going to, they were
06:44going to, they were going to alter their whole pitching schedule around a guy who needed an extra
06:50day of rest. And before we can even get to that portion of the schedule, Oh, his arm's tired.
06:55Yeah. So you know what else I got petty about yesterday? What was the callus kept saying,
07:01well, they, they, they've got, they've lost 60% of their pitching rotation on this road trip.
07:06Cause three guys have gone home. I'm like, well, listen, man, one of those guys that you sent
07:10home was the guy who were also was going to force you to go to a six man rotation. So
07:14no,
07:15you've lost 50% of your rotation on this trip. Yep. I was petty about simple math and increments
07:21arithmetic. Yeah. I'm with you on that. There's two EMI things that I'm petty about. One is
07:27what you just said. This right arm fatigue. I don't know if it feels a little like Rodney
07:31Dangerfield and Caddyshack. I think he was tired of getting shelled in America.
07:35My arm. It's broken. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think he's homesick. It's the same guy. He's got,
07:40he's got homesickness fatigue. Complaining about 64 degrees being too cool. And the mound is too hard.
07:46Oh, this ball. I'm going to give him a French accent. Uh, is he probably smart or is he from
07:52France?
07:53Ah, this, this ball, it is not as sticky as I would prefer. These mounds, they are too steep.
08:00Oh, it's just too cold in Seattle. And not to mention, have you noticed it's overcast all the
08:10time? Oh, it is not this, it is not this cloudy in France. My, my other EMI thing that I'm
08:16petty
08:16about is that when I don't know, it was McTaggart or Chandler Rome, or maybe both of them probably,
08:23cause it was probably an interview that it was probably a media scrum that Taylor Trammell was
08:27doing. This is not me getting mad at either of them, McTaggart or Chandler Rome. I'm mad at the
08:32concept of this being newsworthy, um, that they were quoting Taylor Trammell after either a bullpen
08:40session or a BP session that he was having. He was watching or maybe in the past time they saw
08:44it
08:44was the first time in my saw live hitters. Okay. So that's what it was. So, so Taylor Trammell was
08:49talking about in his 24 years of playing baseball, he's never seen, I'm paraphrasing, but he's never
08:55seen, you know, whatever the breaking pitch was like that. Yeah. Then he might through the shape
08:59of a pitch like that. And I said this was his wrong way slider. Yeah. And I said this at
09:03the
09:04time and I'll stress it again. Cause Taylor Trammell has been terrible at the plate and he
09:08might've been terrible too. Is that why were, why did at that time, why did I care about Taylor
09:13Trammell's opinion on a pitch? Why would I care about someone's opinion on a pitch? Who's OPS
09:19is like in the 600s and OPS plus is probably in the seventies somewhere. The 60s. Listen,
09:25I know whiffing on pitches and I whiffed hard on this one of all the pitches I've whiffed
09:31on. This one is the most whifferistic. Yes. Yeah. Wake me up when we have AI, AI, Tony
09:37Gwynn in there. And I got his opinion on the pitch. Yeah. While we're on Trammell, Trammell's
09:41the one that squandered their, their second challenge on Saturday, wasn't it? And they're
09:46left without any challenges. You're Taylor Trammell. Trammell who just, we remember
09:50he's a pitch shape expert now because we we've already established that, but his quote from
09:55Amai that he didn't like the looks of that. And that's why they're 28th, uh, they're 28th
10:01and successful challenges. Yep. Um, I've got another one on petty about people citing Christian
10:06Javier's injury as if it matters and should be treated like an injury that's actually damaging
10:11this team right now. Yeah. Cause Christian Javier stunk in all of his starts before he
10:18got hurt. Both of his starts, he gave up six earned runs and then his third, both of his
10:22starts that he actually didn't get injured in. And then his third start, he leaves after
10:26one inning cause he's tight in his shoulder. Um, you, if we're listing the injuries, you are
10:32forbidden by this show of listing Christian Javier's injury in the same paragraph as Hunter
10:38Brown's injury. You can't do that. They're not the same. Hunter Brown is an ace. Hunter
10:42Brown actually pitched decently in his two starts that he had before his shoulder tightness.
10:47Christian Javier was terrible in his two starts before his shoulder injury. So you can mention
10:52it as a point of information because it is a fact he is injured and it is forcing you
10:58to call up some guys from the minors who are probably better than Javier. Um, but you cannot
11:03put, you cannot list his name next to Hunter Brown in the paragraph that you are
11:07citing injuries with the Astros. I was getting, uh, yesterday about the, you know, Callas kept
11:15pointing out that Burroughs had been a victim of bad luck, uh, a little bit in that game,
11:19but he included the botched play at first where, uh, where Burroughs decided to stop a couple
11:27of feet short of first base and, uh, and, and take the throw from, from Christian, from Christian
11:34Walker. Um, uh, Cal has brought up that, you know, one of those that, that added an extra
11:38run to the two run Homer, um, that, that drove that base runner home. Like, well, no, that's
11:44not bad luck. That's Burroughs not understanding the, the simple exchange of the, you were to
11:50look at Christian, you were in a better position to make that play. Just get your freaking foot
11:54on the bag. Yep. Yep. That's it. Um, I am one of our listeners. Do we have any peddies
11:59from our listeners? Let's see here. Um, let's see. Can any of the batters pitch? That's the
12:04first one that I'm just looking at. Yeah, no, I mean, if we go through, if you want to blame
12:07it on bad luck, so be it, but it's just the amount that there's, there's four guys that
12:14have pitched anything close to just competent. And really, I mean, like when it comes to starting
12:21pitchers, just forget about it after, uh, let's see for starting pitchers, Hunter Brown
12:26has his 0.84 ERA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll, we'll get to experience that again in like July.
12:31That'll be cool. Then, then if you want to, and then you got to jump up to, uh, the, a
12:37start at the starting pitcher with the second best ERA on the team is Cody Bolton with his
12:425.4 when Lance McCullers with a 5.87. So you don't have a current healthy starting pitcher.
12:48Who's got lower than a 5.40 ERA. You do not. It's bad. Okay. You want me to read some
12:52of
12:52these on the base power text line? Um, I heard the Astros GM two days ago. That would be Dana
12:57Brown. This team is in a world of hurt. He gave no indication. He was even concerned
13:01about an injury recovery recovery timeline that he himself put forth every situation he described
13:07is two months from resolution optimistically. Yeah. They've got depth. He said they've got
13:12depth. Yeah. Yeah. And we get to experience it. Colton Gordon tonight. Colton Gordon tonight.
13:16Yeah. More on the text page. That's what disgusted me the most about that series
13:21was that Seattle had been horrible all year and we let them break out of their slump. Uh, SMFH
13:28shaking my effing head. So, um, yeah, that's you let them up off the mat. You were a get well
13:34series for the Seattle Mariners. And I guarantee you that most of the American league was probably
13:40rooting for the Astros in that series just to keep Seattle down. Seattle is widely viewed coming
13:45into the season as one of the best two teams in the American league. And they've got really good
13:50pitching. Obviously they may be picked up Brendan Donovan to supplement that lineup. You know,
13:55that's what I do when teams are playing, you know, say the Yankees, I'm rooting for those other
13:59teams. A, I hate the Yankees, but B, I want the good teams to get beat up a little bit.
14:02So the Astros
14:03are in that rare occasion where people might've been actually rooting for them outside of Houston.
14:07Uh, someone's asking, I'm curious, what's the team's record since Dana Brown took over?
14:12Not terrible. Actually. They won the division his first year and they went down to the final day
14:17of the season in his second year, his record another six and 11 this year. And they have the
14:21worst record in baseball, but his record is, is not that bad. I'm not letting Dana Brown off the
14:26hook, but I don't have as much vitriol towards Dana Brown as a lot of people do. I think Dana
14:31Brown is operating in a different, he's operating in a different world than the other GMs in this
14:35town are operating with Dana Brown. A lot of it's going to start being, okay,
14:39this still bereft farm system is, was supposed to be restocked by Dana Brown. And now that he's
14:46been through three drafts, what exactly are we going to start seeing from it? That's another
14:51thing I've been petty about was I saw somewhere people say, well, you know, and Bryce Matthews
14:56is a, which was his first pick is elevated this year. Like, all right, great. Cool. Like you can't
15:00get credit for being the GM who decides to bring your own draft pick up into the majors isn't evidence
15:07that things are on track until Bryce Matthews actually starts producing in major league
15:11baseball. Right, right. No, it's like you're the, it's like you're the, uh, the, the Dean
15:15of an Ivy league school and you let your kid in and he got all these, but you get, he
15:19gets his
15:20diploma. Hey, look at that. Look at that. We're producing a, he got his diploma. Oh, it's like
15:25when we give ourselves awards, you know, those various radio awards we've won where we created
15:31the award. Yeah, that's okay. But we deserve those. Um, this is okay. You want to know what people are
15:36petty about Seth? Yeah. Dubon Mauricio. Oh yeah. Should have kept Dubon. He can pitch to
15:44somebody said he did get in and pitch a couple of times in those blowout type games. Yeah.
15:48Uh, Dubon getting off to a hot start is not been fun. I think people are, this is weird.
15:53I think I've seen more angry people about Dubon than I have about letting Frambo go in free agency,
15:58which is weird. Frambo allowed eight runs, uh, last week versus the twins. I'd take him in a heartbeat
16:04right now though, man. Like it's, you know, like, yeah, Dubon, for those who don't know,
16:08Dubon has an OPS like in the nine hundreds and he's playing every day for the Braves.
16:11Right. Well, and it was always, you know, that was always the question with Mauricio Dubon is
16:15kind of like, I wonder what, what it would be like if he was playing every day in the same
16:19position,
16:20not moving around all over the place and everything. Yeah. The Astros, you know, they had to sign
16:24six pitchers who all suck in the off season and you don't have the money to do that when you
16:28got
16:28a Dubon on the roster. It was a financial move and they got Nick Allen who stinks right now. Yeah.
16:33Yeah. But, and also the, you know, quantity over quality, Sean. Yeah. We brought in,
16:39that's the depth that Dana Brown's talking about. Six pitchers who all suck. Yep. Yep. Yep. And guys
16:45in the minors. All right. So there we go. How do we feel after that petty cat set? How we
16:49feeling?
16:50Did that help to get it off our chest or are we just as mad as we were? No, I
16:53didn't even really get
16:53into like the paltry little stupid things that I'm petty about. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, the broadcast crew
16:58is going to have to, they got to hope for wins. Cause I start to, when I got to sit
17:02through three hours of a
17:03baseball game, I started getting really frustrated with everything and everything. And it's, it's,
17:09it's, I'm biting my tongue sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. It's a long season. I just,
17:14I don't know if you knew that it's a long season. That's what I'm told.
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