00:00I'm not going to lie to you.
00:01I want to play this because if you heard us at the end of the show yesterday,
00:05I pleaded out.
00:06I wanted to hear a different Joe Espada, the captain.
00:11I wanted to hear a Joe.
00:13I'm proud of you for this.
00:14I wanted to hear a Joe Espada that, that, Hey, Hey, I'm a little,
00:18listen, we've lost eight straight.
00:19We've got the, by the way,
00:21I don't know if I was putting that together yesterday,
00:22but they have now slipped themselves into the worst record in baseball right
00:25now at six and 11.
00:26It just keeps getting worse.
00:28Like this is, they lost eight straight for the first time, by the way,
00:32texting and coming in their power running team.
00:34This is the first, the first time they've lost eight straight in 13 years.
00:40And I wanted to hear a little, I ain't going to, I mean,
00:43I don't want Joe to go off and throw something.
00:45I don't want him to go.
00:46How I'm a cray or anything like that.
00:48I wouldn't be opposed to it.
00:49I just know they don't, that ain't Joe's nature,
00:51but a little bit of something to hear.
00:54And then I heard Joe and I'm going to let you hear it.
00:56And then Joe about pissed me off.
00:57But then I got to thinking, they don't call Joe the captain for nothing.
01:02They don't let you know that Joe ain't the man for nothing.
01:06Then I fought deeper the way Joe would think.
01:09So listen, this was Joe after the game in terms of this road trip that just went
01:14awful to the tune of finishing it off, losing eight straight.
01:18The resiliency in the fight in this group makes me feel good about it.
01:21It's not good losing eight straight.
01:23I get it.
01:24But those guys in there make me feel that we were going to get out of this.
01:27We got to stay in this fight.
01:28We got to continue to help these guys every day, man.
01:31Get ready to play.
01:32But I've seen this before, you know, we'll go back home and we'll start fresh tomorrow.
01:36Okay.
01:36So I was pissed.
01:37I'm not going to lie to you.
01:38You got to be kidding me, Joe.
01:39Oh, eight straight.
01:41I'm like, hold on.
01:42Until I heard Los Correa speak.
01:46I heard Los Correa speak and give his assessment on what's happening with the Astros.
01:52Here is his shortstop third baseman leader, Los Correa, speaking about the Astros issues.
01:59Yeah, I think we can't use that as an excuse anymore.
02:02I think we got to just go out there and figure out with the guys that we have and how
02:06to win
02:06ballgames.
02:07And we got a lot of great people here, a lot of great players.
02:10We're just not playing our best baseball right now.
02:12And that's why we're not winning games.
02:14So the personas that we have, I think we can get it done.
02:18So, you know, we got to make better adjustments.
02:20I mean, everything goes through injuries.
02:22You know what I mean?
02:22I mean, I don't want to attach our failures to these injuries.
02:27Our failures are because we're playing baseball.
02:28Simple as that.
02:30There's no way around it.
02:31There's no excuse.
02:32It's just we're playing.
02:33We're a good club playing bad baseball.
02:35And that's what's happening right now.
02:36So we just got to go home, regroup, make adjustments, and play better.
02:41See, when I heard Los, it then dawned on me, Clint.
02:45This is all Joe's working.
02:48Yeah, okay.
02:49This is all Joe clearly.
02:51Get the hell out of here.
02:52Joe clearly was playing good cop, bad cop.
02:57That is clearly what they're doing.
02:59I believe Joe called Los into his office and said, hey, look, this is what we want to do.
03:03You're going to be the Belichick.
03:05I'm going to be the Charlie Weiss.
03:07I'll be the Romeo Cronel.
03:09We're going to play good cop, bad cop.
03:11See, for a second there, he scared me.
03:14But as Tyler knows, he's not the captain for nothing.
03:16This guy didn't finish in sixth place in the AL Manager of the Year voting last year for nothing.
03:25You didn't get a sixth place finish with three votes for nothing.
03:28All right?
03:29This guy's thinking through it, Clint.
03:31I can't even laugh with you.
03:33That was a no-brainer for me.
03:34He's thinking through it.
03:34I can't even laugh with you.
03:36It's disgusting.
03:37That's it.
03:38Good cop, bad cop.
03:39Good cop, bad cop.
03:40Look, you don't think Joe was doing it.
03:41You are creative.
03:43Look, I need Nick Kaley to listen up.
03:45And what Ron just did with that audio right there, I need you to do with this offense over there
03:48at NRG.
03:49But I'm just going to tell you, it's disgusting.
03:51Like, the inability for a manager.
03:53We know you trust these guys.
03:55We know you believe in these guys.
03:56We know that they've got – we all know they've got resolved.
03:59Like, the inability to just say, that's some badass baseball.
04:03We've got to figure this thing out.
04:04We've got to get some guys that can either get deeper into games from a starter
04:08or can stop the bleeding out of the bullpen, and we've got to be significantly better.
04:12That's not just a bad run of eight games.
04:14That's historically bad.
04:16I mean, you just made one of the best offenses in all of Major League Baseball.
04:23Lose – what was it?
04:24I mean, they won one game on that road trip, didn't they?
04:26One and nine.
04:27I mean, one and nine on a road trip.
04:28And, I mean, like, literally, you would have had to score six or more runs to win a ball game.
04:33It's not ideal.
04:35There's nothing – this isn't a time to be patient.
04:37It's so bad that even the good cop could justify being negative.
04:42That's good cop, bad cop.
04:43You know what I mean?
04:44I mean, it's so bad that even the good cop could justify, hey, Joe, man,
04:48you got a little out over your skis there, man.
04:50You may have offended the guys.
04:51Well, I think they get it.
04:52I think they understand why, you know, why I did what I did.
04:57The cuss word is what I needed.
04:59I needed a little swearing.
05:00I could have used it maybe a few more.
05:01I just want to see some heat.
05:02I liked it a little bit.
05:04No, man.
05:04And I don't know if I believe – I don't know if I believe Carlos when he says that –
05:08I do.
05:08We're a good baseball team that's just not playing good baseball.
05:13We'll see if that's actually true.
05:16But I love hearing that from him.
05:17And I just simply believe that's what Joe did.
05:21Joe orchestrated this thing.
05:22No, I ain't giving Joe no credit for what Los Correa did.
05:26He thinks outside the box.
05:27Carlos made a pay.
05:28Joe has shown us that.
05:29He ain't got the ability to step outside the box at all.
05:32Carlos made a pay.
05:33Joe did this.
05:34Shout out to Joe, man.
05:36He created – because who you know?
05:38You know.
05:38Once again, Joe's going to dig a hole deeper in his ass and climb out of it.
05:41And if these Astros pull him out of it, it's going to be Joe that did it.
05:44Tyler, you know of anybody on this team that could play bad cop.
05:48It's Los.
05:49Oh, yeah.
05:50It's Los.
05:50He's the one.
05:51He couldn't have done this without Tuve.
05:54If you don't know the facts, then you've got to chill.
05:57Maybe Hunter could have done it.
05:59He could have done this, but he picked it.
06:02I wonder how he approached Los with this.
06:07Los don't need no coach.
06:11You don't think –
06:12I think Los sat there and said,
06:14whatever we're calling a manager here, he ain't going to say it,
06:17so I need to say it.
06:18I think it's one of those.
06:19You think he's –
06:20We ain't got anybody on this staff that can say what needs to be said right now,
06:23so I'm going to go ahead and start.
06:24Now, let this thing – let them go three, four more games playing bad –
06:27playing like, what did he say, ish?
06:29Yeah.
06:29Let them go three, four more games and see what –
06:31to hell with it, Spada.
06:33See what Los comes out.
06:34I don't know, man.
06:35I just – for some reason, I just – I don't put it past Joe.
06:38He's the guy that has the pulse of his locker room.
06:40His clubhouse.
06:41Whatever you call it.
06:42He has the pulse of it, all right.
06:43He picked this up.
06:44He did this.
06:45All right, coming up.
06:46Hell, he doesn't got – he don't even know who's going to be in it.
06:49I salute you, Joe.
06:50Another man.
06:51He's basically Phil Jackson.
06:53I'm trying to do the best I can.
06:54Basically Phil Jackson just playing on his –
06:57Man, this guy is something else, Tyler.
06:58I don't know.
07:01Every time I underestimate Joe, he comes up with genius stuff like this
07:05to play the good cop, bad cop.
07:06You know what?
07:07We need to do this.
07:08I wonder why he didn't make himself the bad cop.
07:10Probably because that's not natural for him.
07:12Because he's a cab and he knows the best strategy.
07:14He is.
07:14You know what?
07:15What's most upsetting about when you do this is that I don't even really –
07:18like, I am not that pissed off yet at Joe Espada
07:22or I'm calling for his job or anything.
07:24But when you do this, it makes me dislike him more.
07:27Yeah.
07:28I'm realizing that.
07:29Text a line coming in.
07:30Joe's not the captain.
07:31He's a manager.
07:31Only one moron calls in the captain.
07:36I see you, cat.
07:37Ron salute.
07:39It's a captain, man.
07:40Every time.
07:41Again, man.
07:42You don't finish sixth in the AL Manager of the Year voting for nothing.
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