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00:00I am going to get to the Astros here in just a second.
00:02I'm sorry, Tyler, but I've got to start reading.
00:05Someone texted in Eon.
00:07I'm guessing they meant Ron.
00:09Or Eon.
00:10You're being very negative.
00:12I think they've built this team the way they want it to.
00:16Yes, CJ had a bad playoff series,
00:18but he has taken them to three times in three years in a row.
00:24Now he has the best O-line he's ever had.
00:26I think this is their year and their best chances.
00:30Oh, I would agree with that.
00:33I would agree with that.
00:35I think this is the best line.
00:37It better be.
00:38This is the best line that they put in from.
00:40This is the most it feels like in a minute
00:45that they've invested all the way across.
00:48Draft picks and free agency.
00:50Yes, this is the best offensive line on paper
00:53it looks like they've put together.
00:54And they have built this team exactly how you want it to.
00:59But I do think their margin for error
01:03to go in and beat three really good,
01:07three to four really good teams in a row
01:11with quarterbacks,
01:13with the ability to have to score big.
01:17I think that is this.
01:18And I am, like if you've listened to this show,
01:21I am higher, I am a lot higher on C.J. Stroud
01:25than many of you are.
01:26Many of you have still, are still hurt
01:29and haven't gotten, gotten past it.
01:30I am a lot higher on Stroud than many of you are.
01:33I don't believe C.J. Stroud is the person
01:35that played the last two playoff games.
01:37I'd take the other 50 games that he played
01:40in his career leading into that.
01:42I'm not going to say I don't have no concerns.
01:43I mean, just don't like, you don't like a guy
01:45to take a dump in the middle of the field
01:47like he did for two straight weeks and not wipe.
01:52But I still remember the other stuff.
01:54So I'm not as, I'm not as long.
01:56I'm just telling you their mentality
01:59is what their mentality
02:00and the way their roster is set up
02:04lessens their margin for error.
02:06That's it.
02:07That's it.
02:08I think they're going to be a playoff team
02:09and I think they can if it falls right.
02:13That's why last year was so tough, Tyler.
02:16Tyler, that's all that, you know the AFC
02:18and you know the NFL.
02:20They got a chance to run through
02:2279-year-old Aaron Rodgers.
02:25First year in the playoff, Drake May.
02:28What would have been Jarrett Stenum,
02:30hell, even if it was Bo Nix,
02:31but Jarrett Stenum and Sam Darnold.
02:33That is not your typical walk
02:36to a Super Bowl.
02:37No.
02:39And they struggled to get to
02:41through the second one.
02:43The walks may be a bit more difficult
02:45or more like it was the previous two years
02:48where one year they had to run
02:49into Herbert and Mahomes
02:51and one year they had to run into Lamar.
02:53I think that is closer
02:55and I'm not saying they can't beat those teams,
02:58but their margin for error
02:59to beat all of those teams
03:01are a little bit tougher.
03:02All right.
03:02The Astros, they play the Orioles.
03:04The lineup out, Correa, Altuve,
03:07or Alvarez, excuse me, is the DH,
03:09Paredes, then Altuve, Walker, Diaz,
03:13Harris, Smith, and Matthews.
03:14And Tang.
03:16Tang.
03:16Oh, Tang gets the ball for the first time.
03:18How many people have made
03:20their first start this year?
03:22Tang to the extreme.
03:24How many Astros have made,
03:25have come in and made their first start?
03:28It's not May.
03:29How many of that?
03:29I mean, whoo, that is,
03:32Tang is the latest.
03:34Tang, it's a kick in the glass.
03:36Dang, man.
03:38Yeah, it'll be a great trivia answer one day.
03:40Try to remember all these names.
03:41How many guys in the bullpen
03:42have been better than Tang?
03:45Not enough.
03:47Yeah, take him out there.
03:49Take him out of it.
03:50Can he come back and piggyback off himself?
03:53Yeah.
03:53Can they take him out
03:55and run him to the bullpen
03:58and bring him into the game
03:59as well for himself?
04:01Tang to the extreme.
04:03I don't know if I trust much more
04:05with this group.
04:06But they'll play the Orioles
04:08and we'll see if they can build upon
04:12the win they had on Sunday
04:14against the Yankees.
04:15But the story that kind of came out, Luke,
04:20was that GM Dana Brown said
04:22he is not considering firing Joe Espada.
04:25My question is, should he?
04:28Realistically, when you look at everything
04:29that has happened to this team,
04:30because he said, no,
04:32Joe is managing through injuries.
04:33We are all watching what's going on.
04:36Brown replied Sunday
04:37in talks with the Athletics Chandler Rome
04:39about considering a manager change.
04:42The pitching has been up to par.
04:46We're walking a ton of guys.
04:48I can't start pointing fingers at Joe
04:51because we're walking a ton of guys
04:53and we're banged up.
04:54That's what he had to say about it.
04:56Realistically, do you think
04:57he should be considering it?
05:00Not too much.
05:01I mean, sure, you're always considering it,
05:03I guess.
05:04But I wouldn't put Joe
05:05on the hot seat right now.
05:06I mean, this isn't his fault.
05:07I think Dana Brown's more to blame
05:09than anybody,
05:10or at least out of the two of them.
05:11That was a no-brainer for me.
05:12Yeah, same for me.
05:14And I think for Joe,
05:16yeah, I mean, just look at
05:17what he's dealing with.
05:18With the injuries,
05:19the roster construction,
05:20because of injuries,
05:21it hasn't even played a big role,
05:23but I don't like the whole construction,
05:24what they were trying to do
05:25with the infield.
05:26And then even the outfield,
05:27you move Bryce Matthews
05:28to the outfield,
05:29and Altuve,
05:30you're jerking around
05:31from the infield,
05:32outfield, yada, yada, yada.
05:34So no, I don't put the blame on Joe,
05:35but I will say
05:36that the old cliche
05:37is what misery loves company,
05:39or it always happens in threes.
05:41And we had Alex Cora
05:42fired over the weekend,
05:43and Rob Thompson was fired today,
05:45and Espada does have
05:46the highest odds,
05:47or second highest odds
05:48to be fired,
05:49only behind the Mets manager.
05:50And if you look at last year,
05:52when the first manager was fired,
05:54which I believe was Brandon Hyde,
05:56he was one of the first.
05:57But when the first manager
05:58was fired last year,
05:59we also got three firings
06:01in that first week.
06:02It's usually like,
06:02once you rip that Band-Aid off,
06:04teams are more willing to do it.
06:06The Phillies tried to offer it
06:08to Alex Cora already.
06:09He turned it down
06:10and said he wanted to spend time
06:11with his family.
06:12I wonder if he would turn it down
06:13here in Houston.
06:13I know.
06:14I would at least find out.
06:15I would rather have Cora
06:17than Joe Spott,
06:18I'll tell you that much.
06:19So I would at least make a call
06:20to the agent
06:21before I do anything.
06:22But all this is to say
06:23that I think the chances
06:24right now are higher
06:25that a manager will be fired
06:26in baseball
06:27at this point in the season already.
06:29I think it's always something
06:30that needs to be considered.
06:31But if we're having
06:31a reasonable conversation,
06:33I don't know how much of this
06:34you can blame on Joe Espada.
06:35I've always defended him.
06:36I thought he did a good job
06:37the last two years
06:38despite all the adversity.
06:39And I think they've been dealt
06:40with even more adversity
06:41this year,
06:42and he's doing as much as he can.
06:43So I don't know
06:44how much that would change.
06:46I don't know how much
06:46it would fix.
06:47I don't think this is
06:47the Spott's fault.
06:50I agree with a lot
06:52of what you said.
06:53But I disagree
06:55with the overall point.
06:57First off,
06:58should Dana be the one
06:58should he be considering it?
07:00Hell no, Dana.
07:01You shouldn't.
07:02But Jim should.
07:03All right, Dana,
07:04you don't get to consider
07:05firing a soul around here.
07:06Okay?
07:07As someone text in,
07:08I'm with you.
07:09Dana needs to fire his own ass.
07:11I'm not going to add
07:12the sorry part on that.
07:14I'm not going to add
07:15the sorry part in there.
07:16That just feels like
07:17that's a little rougher.
07:18Dana needs to be
07:19the one to fire
07:20his own sorry ass.
07:21Like when you add
07:22sorry in front of ass
07:23on somebody like that,
07:24that's really digging it in.
07:27Yeah,
07:27you don't get to make
07:28the managerial decisions here.
07:30All right?
07:30You just sit back and chill
07:32just in case your ass
07:33may get fired.
07:33A person whose ass
07:35may get fired,
07:35they don't get to go
07:36and then make decisions
07:38on firing people.
07:38So of course you said that.
07:40But I think Jim Crane
07:41should consider it.
07:42And I agree.
07:43I don't think it's all
07:44Joe's fault.
07:46All right?
07:47I mean,
07:47he's just got guys flying,
07:49just dropping like flies.
07:50And some guys,
07:51hell,
07:51he's probably excited
07:52that they dropped
07:52Christian Javier.
07:54Some of these guys,
07:55the injury stuff,
07:57it's weird.
07:58But it is clear to me,
07:59though,
08:00that they are not
08:01responding to him
08:01whatsoever.
08:04And to me,
08:05if you don't want
08:07to completely lose
08:08this season,
08:09and they're at 11 and 18,
08:10so that's,
08:11but luckily their division
08:12is not running away from them.
08:13But if you don't want
08:14to completely lose
08:15this season,
08:15to me it feels like
08:16there needs to be
08:19a different voice.
08:21It seems like there needs
08:23to be a shakeup.
08:24And sometimes,
08:24we have seen coaches,
08:26managers,
08:27get relieved
08:28of their duties,
08:28and it's not necessarily
08:30been their fault.
08:31I think Joe has made
08:32some decisions,
08:33but I mean,
08:34you go down there,
08:35I mean,
08:35hell,
08:35I don't know who Joe
08:36should pick
08:37from the bullpen.
08:38Some of the times
08:39when they get,
08:39they roll out there
08:40if they get to the six,
08:42but generally when they
08:43get to the fourth
08:43and they got to go
08:44to the bullpen,
08:45hell,
08:45I don't know who
08:45to go with.
08:46And now Tang is,
08:47he's taking that option
08:48from him,
08:48and now Tang has to
08:49go start games
08:50because they got to
08:51do stuff.
08:52I mean,
08:52has Brian Abreu
08:53pitched since?
08:54I mean,
08:54my God,
08:55I mean,
08:55he had to just sit
08:56him down for a week.
08:57Like,
08:57so some of this
08:58is not his fault,
08:59but clearly though,
09:00they're not responding
09:02to him,
09:02and as Tyler has said,
09:04they do a lot
09:04of dumb stuff.
09:06And I think
09:08that has to be
09:08at the feet
09:09of the manager.
09:10Absolutely.
09:11Who else would it be,
09:12you know?
09:12I mean,
09:13whenever your players
09:14are running around
09:14on the base pass,
09:15like their heads
09:16are up their asses.
09:17Or just standing there.
09:18Yeah,
09:19yeah,
09:19we're just standing there.
09:20I'm looking at
09:20the manager first.
09:21Absolutely.
09:22They had a back-to-back
09:23day there where Bryce
09:24got himself picked off
09:25at first base
09:26as they just took
09:29Paredes out of the game.
09:31Bryce gets picked off
09:32at first base.
09:33It's a go-ahead run.
09:34It's not ideal.
09:35And then the next day,
09:36somebody got picked off
09:37at first base.
09:37So, I mean,
09:38yeah,
09:38I just think
09:39the combination of
09:40it's not like
09:41you look at it
09:42and say,
09:42all right,
09:43the small things
09:43they're nailing.
09:45But,
09:46again,
09:46I don't think
09:47it's all Joel's fault,
09:48but it feels
09:49like a change,
09:51a different voice
09:51is needed in there.
09:53I think that's the reason
09:53why the aforementioned
09:54Alex Cora got fired.
09:56I mean,
09:56the guy,
09:56obviously,
09:56he's a great baseball manager,
09:57but just kind of ran stale.
09:59It's not his fault either.
10:00The GM's done a lousy job there.
10:02I think Dana Brown's done
10:02a lousy job here.
10:04But, yeah,
10:05and then also
10:06what you might factor in,
10:07and it was a fun conversation
10:09at the time,
10:09and now it might become reality,
10:11but you got Omar Lopez
10:12on the bench
10:12who won the World Baseball Classic.
10:14He's right there now.
10:14So, when you want to talk
10:15about changing the voice
10:16or having a different option
10:18in that coaching locker room,
10:20I mean,
10:20you got a pretty decent option.
10:21He hasn't managed
10:22at the big league level,
10:23but we saw what he can do
10:24in a big stage,
10:25you know,
10:26just a couple months ago.
10:27So, you have somebody
10:28in that building
10:29that you could be,
10:30hey,
10:31let's shake things up
10:32and see how Omar does
10:33with this group
10:33the rest of the year.
10:34That Alex Cora thing
10:35looks a little,
10:36that looks attractive.
10:37Knows the,
10:38been there,
10:38knows the room.
10:40I would have called him
10:41as soon as he was let go.
10:42Yeah.
10:42If I'm the Astros,
10:43or call his agent,
10:44whatever.
10:44At least you figure out,
10:45figure something out.
10:45Yeah.
10:46You want to come back,
10:46you want to come back to Houston?
10:47Yeah.
10:48Just for a little bit.
10:49But he's also,
10:49he's owed $14 million
10:51over the next two years,
10:52so when he says
10:52he wants to spend time
10:53with his family,
10:54I would get it.
10:56I might want to just sit
10:57at home for the next two years
10:58and collect $14 million too.
10:59So,
11:00I'll see you next time.
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