00:00I am going to do a countdown every day to see how long it takes
00:07before they make the decision to move on from Joe Espada.
00:12And I don't think it's all Joe's fault.
00:14I really don't.
00:16I think some of the stuff is out of his control.
00:18The injuries, it's somebody's fault.
00:20But the injuries is an issue.
00:23I think Dana Brown should be up out of here just as fast as he is.
00:27But sometimes, as we see, they don't like to just get rid of complete general managers
00:32and their staffs for the day-to-day.
00:35But I think we've reached the point where Joe's got to go.
00:42And, one, I think they need a shift and a change.
00:44They're not playing for him.
00:46It looks like at times they're going through the motions right now,
00:49and they're just not responding to him in a way that they had before.
00:52And, again, as I said, fellas, it's not all his fault.
00:58But to go along with them having the worst record in the American League,
01:03to go along with them struggling through the injuries,
01:09they also do a lot of things that it appears in which they're not prepared.
01:15It appears that there's some lacks in attention to detail,
01:22which generally you point towards the person leading the ship.
01:26Like Saturday.
01:27Now, I don't want to put this all on Joe because, as Tyler will let you know,
01:32this guy has been doing this long before Joe was here.
01:35But we open up the game, and we need these games.
01:40You're all everything franchise player, Jose Altuve.
01:45Leads the game off with a hit.
01:47Bam.
01:47All right, here we go.
01:49Jordan coming up.
01:50He immediately gets picked off at first base.
01:53Yeah, that's their thing.
01:54And they do that a lot.
01:56Bryce got picked off when he was the go-ahead run
02:00and like the eighth in one of these games this year.
02:03They get themselves picked off.
02:05Just do things because they're not paying attention to detail
02:08that bad, poorly managed coach teams do.
02:13Later on in that game, Cam Smith, here we go.
02:18Got to have it.
02:19There's a fly ball as routine as it can get.
02:22I believe there are girls on my daughter's softball team
02:26who pulled out and won the 9U championship that would have caught.
02:31I know Emory would have.
02:32That would have caught that ball that Cam Smith missed and dropped
02:36and allowed ultimately the Reds to take over that game.
02:41Cam Smith and Bryce Matthews, by the way, who you mentioned,
02:44also supposed to be the faces of the rebuild right now
02:47or of the next era of Astros baseball, I'll call it.
02:50Yeah.
02:50The intention to detail.
02:52And then I'm going to tell you what put me over the top yesterday.
02:55Like, this is so poor.
03:00De La Cruz is a top five base stealer in the National League.
03:05He loves to run.
03:07He loves to.
03:09By the way, Shoemake, hell of a tag.
03:12The day before where he threw him out, caught it on that delayed steal.
03:16But he loves to run.
03:18Salazar is back there catching.
03:21Throw a pitch.
03:22Throw a pitch.
03:22Salazar comes up because De La Cruz is going.
03:25He throws it down there to no one.
03:28Paredes is just chilling.
03:30Yeah.
03:31And his Saints didn't even move.
03:33Never move.
03:33Was not covering that ball.
03:35Luckily, that ball wasn't thrown down the line.
03:38But it's like, what the hell?
03:42Like, yes, all this ain't joke,
03:44but they do stupid stuff like that all the time.
03:48Like, their attention to detail is not there.
03:51And I just think overall, man, he's got to go.
03:54I'm serious.
03:54I'm going to do a check-in every day, Tyler, on Joe's got to go.
03:58I like it.
03:59And I don't know.
03:59How many days do you think we get up to?
04:01Because this is day one.
04:03This is day one of Joe's got to go.
04:06Yeah, it's an interesting question because, like,
04:08what do you think, Tyler?
04:09How many days?
04:11Man, these weird factors we discussed earlier in the show have me,
04:14I really have no idea.
04:15This could go on for months.
04:16You think I'm past day 15, Joe's got to go.
04:20Very well could be as it stands right now.
04:23Yeah.
04:24I mean, it could be.
04:24That's what's weird.
04:25It could be tomorrow.
04:26Yeah.
04:27It could be one.
04:27Because that's how bad things are.
04:28Could be one.
04:29Could be 30.
04:30I could not believe when he threw that ball
04:32that there was nobody down there to cover that.
04:35And he threw it.
04:37And he threw it anyway.
04:39Look, so I don't think that Joe is the problem as much as he is just so
04:44obviously not the solution, which sometimes it's just the same thing.
04:47Like, it doesn't really matter.
04:48Yeah, that's fair.
04:49But then he also is a part of.
04:50Yeah.
04:51Yeah.
04:51Yeah.
04:51So, like, he's not a part.
04:53He's not the solution.
04:54He's a lame duck anyway.
04:55My question to y'all would be, like,
04:57what do you think needs to happen for it to happen?
05:00Like, as bad as they are now, what do they need to get worse?
05:05You know what I mean?
05:05Like, what?
05:06It's a real meltdown somewhere.
05:08I don't.
05:08Yeah.
05:08What is the thing?
05:09What needs to be out of that flashpoint?
05:12They always stop sucking.
05:13Yeah, well, I mean, the A's have become one of the teams now
05:18that are above .500 in the American League.
05:21Maybe they go on a run.
05:23I don't know.
05:24Or at some point, does it become clear to the Astros,
05:27and when I say the Astros, I'm really just talking about Jim Crane,
05:29does at some point it just become clear to Jim Crane
05:32that this is a lost season?
05:33And just let him go?
05:34And he's got these guys under contract no longer than through the remainder
05:38of the season, and then you just start off or start over,
05:40I should say, in the offseason.
05:42Yeah.
05:42And you got old Lopez down there.
05:44Yeah.
05:44The manager who won the WBC.
05:46Do you want to see what?
05:47Yeah.
05:48Look, that part makes sense, even just in terms of salvaging this year.
05:51That's the part that makes sense.
05:53And to see what he is.
05:54Yeah.
05:54So, I don't know.
05:56I'm doing it.
05:56It's official.
05:57It's day one.
05:59Day one of Joe's got to go.
06:00Yeah.
06:01I mean, you can't.
06:01How many days do you think we're going to get up?
06:03You can't shed a tear for Joe.
06:04So, I mean, it could be today.
06:06It could be 15 days.
06:08It could be 30, 40 days.
06:11Can we agree on this?
06:12Any day would justify it?
06:14Oh, it could happen at any point.
06:16Any day.
06:17They've got to.
06:19I'm trying to do the best I can.
06:20I'm trying to do the best I can.
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