00:00As we looked at some things, some people texting in,
00:04B. Scott, as they said, is smoking something.
00:06You guys have lost your mind.
00:07You don't trade your dime no matter what.
00:09No matter how bad the team is, you don't have something.
00:12You have to have something to build around.
00:14Okay.
00:15Now, to be clear, I did kind of say that.
00:18It's less of a build-around thing and more of a,
00:22hey, I just want to have watchable baseball.
00:24Like, I want somebody's at-bats that I can't turn away from.
00:27Like, that's the – you ain't building nothing, okay?
00:31You don't have no farm system.
00:34You don't have no GM.
00:36I mean, you haven't shown a willingness to pay your in-house talent
00:41unless they take a sweetheart, Jordan-type of discounted deal,
00:45which I don't think the Scott Boris-led, Jeremy Pena's,
00:49and Hunter Browns of the world are doing.
00:51So, you can dream about building something around somebody all you want.
00:56I just want Jordan around because he hits bombs and I want to watch it.
00:58But not because I think that's going to do nothing for him.
01:01Tearing it down is dumb.
01:02They have core pieces to build around.
01:04Cam Smith, Jordan, Pena, Paredes, Brown, Eric Getty.
01:08Just try to add some pieces to pair with that.
01:12Anything is just dumb.
01:14I mean, it just depends on what you want to do.
01:16If you don't want to add real pieces – now, I think they can.
01:19If you don't want to add real pieces to that, like the pieces that you can really
01:25compete with, which I think the Astros could do, then tearing it down does make sense.
01:33And ripping it down does make sense if you just say, hey, we're not going to pay
01:38these guys.
01:39We might as well get the best we can to start our – I don't agree with that
01:45because I think the Astros can keep that core and add pieces to this team
01:51because they're not a small market team.
01:55I think they have the ability to do that.
01:57I just don't know if they got the want to do it.
02:00And that is the other piece of it.
02:03Three years in a row of being unserious can really beat you now.
02:07And I feel like I'm just beat down by now three consecutive seasons of having
02:12a non-competitive baseball team.
02:13I understand they went to the postseason two seasons ago.
02:15I think you're non-competitive.
02:16They were not competitive.
02:18I was there.
02:18I went to those games.
02:19Both of them.
02:20Non-competitive.
02:21They were not competitive.
02:22I'm sorry.
02:23They barely won a bad division and didn't win a single game in the postseason.
02:27They were non-competitive.
02:28I'm talking about on the standard of an Astros fan.
02:31I just think you need – they didn't meet the standard.
02:33Just say that.
02:35No, I've sat through about 1,400 lost seasons.
02:39That is non-competitive.
02:42Okay.
02:43Losing to A.J. Hinch's Detroit Tigers team that you only probably remember
02:47because you actually watch AL Central Baseball because you root for an AL
02:51Central Baseball team, but nobody else remembers that Tigers team.
02:54And not winning a single game in the postseason to them and barely making
02:58the postseason is not what I consider competitive.
03:00It's not to the standard.
03:01After having won a couple of World Series and gone to the ALCS.
03:04That's not competitive.
03:06No.
03:06Did you feel that was a competitive series or a competitive season, Tyler,
03:09when they backed their way into the postseason and didn't win a single game
03:12in the postseason?
03:13I will look to Mr. Raphael Devers for this answer.
03:16No.
03:16That was not competitive.
03:18Competitive.
03:19They have not been –
03:20It just didn't meet the standard.
03:21They have not been competitive since Dusty said his goodbyes.
03:24You're competitive if you win the division.
03:29Maybe they didn't meet the standard of seven times.
03:32They didn't meet that standard, but you won the division.
03:36Is the NFC South competitive?
03:38Somebody has to win it every year.
03:40This is not –
03:40They were not under 500.
03:42They were kind of the NFC South of the season.
03:47When did B. Scott become such negative Nancy?
03:50He's hurting.
03:50I believe that with the –
03:52I'm a realist.
03:52I've never been positive or negative.
03:54I'm neither one.
03:55I am not a positive person.
03:57I am not a negative person.
03:59I am a realist.
04:01I call it like I see it, and if it's good, I say that,
04:03and if it's bad, I say that too.
04:05That's how I've always been.
04:06That's how I operate.
04:07This ain't good.
04:09I love the Astros.
04:11I have the damn star tattooed on my left arm.
04:16I love the Astros.
04:18I want to watch your –
04:19I'm willing to imprison Yordan.
04:21Like, do him like Mike Trout.
04:24You're German.
04:25Oh, jeez.
04:26Do him like Mike Trout.
04:28But can we acknowledge that Mike Trout has no utility on the Angels?
04:34That Shohei Ohtani, if he had stayed with the Angels,
04:36has no use on that team,
04:38even though you'd much rather have those players on your team?
04:41That's kind of what this is feeling like.
04:44Great player, not a great team.
04:47I wish it was.
04:48I don't want it to be, but this is what it is.
04:50Right now, again, I just –
04:52I think they have enough pieces that they could help this group.
05:00I think it starts with they've got to move on from their manager
05:02and their general manager,
05:03and they've got to get other people in here who have a better eye for talent
05:07and don't look at EMI and think, boy, that's it.
05:11I mean, that's non-negotiable.
05:12I feel like we can all agree on that.
05:13Everybody should be able to come together at the table and agree on that.
05:18They've got to change leadership.
05:22But the question then after that is –
05:24See, but I'm not about just, as you'd use your terminology,
05:28imprisoning Yordan without really the plan,
05:33a real plan of, like, this is how we're going to be competitive.
05:36Well, I'm speaking from two different perspectives.
05:38To be competitive.
05:39Analyst versus fan.
05:40To be competitive here.
05:42Analyst in me says, don't do that.
05:44Fan in me says, hell with it.
05:46I need something to watch.
05:48But analyst in me is giving you – this is the take.
05:50The best way, the best path to move forward and to improve this team
05:55is to get the most for the few players that are valuable on this team.
05:58And that's a short list.
05:59Yordan is on it.
06:01Yordan, Hunter Brown, and Jeremy Piger, really.
06:03It's a short list.
06:05Short list of guys.
06:06No, we suck again.
06:08Yeah, yeah.
06:09Listen, I've told you.
06:11I don't think – I don't think there – anything is going to happen this season
06:16that's going to make you feel better about this.
06:19I do.
06:20Maybe – maybe Bryce Matthews has a good – more promising rest of the way
06:26and Cam has a promising rest of the way, and you can feel better about that.
06:30Spencer Arrighetti continues to do that, but the end of this, I don't –
06:35like, I don't know if they're going to be above .500.
06:38I think this is probably a below .500 baseball team in a real down year.
06:44Like, the down year was what last year that they missed the postseason by one game
06:48that you're calling non-competitive.
06:50I mean, that's not competitive.
06:51This can really be what real non-competitive is.
06:55I mean –
06:56What the hell is going on?
06:57I mean, if you think backing your way into the postseason
07:00and not winning a single game against a team that was also not really all that serious
07:04and the Tigers is competitive, then shout-out to you.
07:08And it shows me how awful the standard has been lowered around here
07:14and what constitutes competitive for an Astros squad.
07:17I think it – I think it – I think the last two to three years have not –
07:22including this year – have not met the standard for the Astros.
07:24But, Tyler, I've watched a team miss the playoffs 29 consecutive seasons
07:30in probably 20 of those seasons.
07:31I mean, this levels to non-competitiveness.
07:33Probably 20 of those seasons.
07:34They're not that yet.
07:35They lost 100 games.
07:37Say goodnight to the Astros.
07:38Let me ask you this.
07:39The manager took a shower in full uniform to try to break the streak.
07:42I've watched that.
07:44Let me ask you this, and this goes to the text line 713-572-4610
07:49and the YouTube chat.
07:50Let me ask you all this, and this is with all due respect to the greatest owner
07:53in Houston pro sports history.
07:56Are you in a position right now where you trust the guy who signed Jose Abreu
08:01without a general manager and then hired the general manager
08:05that y'all can't wait to get rid of?
08:07Hell no.
08:08Do you trust that?
08:11Hell no.
08:12No.
08:12Which to me says no matter who it is that's running the place,
08:16Jim Crane is ultimately in charge.
08:18No matter who it is that's running the place,
08:19this might still be your best course of action.
08:22General manager, no general manager, bad general manager, good general manager.
08:25Yeah, but I hear you, but I don't think –
08:27I don't know what the trust factor at the time was for Cal and Hannah McNair
08:31to go find the right coach, but damn it, they even jumped over Nick
08:35and they found D'Amico Ryans.
08:36Hold on, Joe.
08:37It's plausible.
08:39Sorry, Nick.
08:41We're never going to get that yogurt, man.
08:44Why'd Nick got to catch a straight?
08:45I'm just saying.
08:46He got the best team in town right now.
08:47I'm just being honest.
08:48Yeah, I'm just saying.
08:49Quite frankly, it's bulls**t.
08:50Nick didn't go find the coach, though.
08:53That last score, that wasn't on him.
08:55It's all good.
08:55He drafted Kamari Lassiter.
08:57So maybe –
08:57Traded up for Will Anderson Jr.
08:59Maybe Jim finds his D'Amico.
09:02That's there.
09:02That's a potential.
09:04Maybe.
09:05All right, B. Scott, great job today as always.
09:08Clint, out today.
09:09Tyler, great job as always as well.
09:12I am Ron The Show.
09:15Stay up.
09:16Live and local coming up behind us as always, Houston.
09:19We love you, baby.
09:25It is.
09:26It's phenomenal, too.
09:27It is.
09:27Yeah, you'll roll right.
09:28It is.
09:29It's just you got to stop.
09:30You got to give yourself a break.
09:32I don't – yeah, I had to pause a couple of times there.
09:35I know for certain scenes I'll be pausing as well.
09:37Yeah, I know you will, Tyler.
09:39We all know the scenes you're talking about, Tyler.
09:41That's wild.
09:41We've gotten that understood.
09:44Pausing scenes is crazy.
09:47Now, I haven't had to pause the scene for what he's pausing.
09:49Take a smoke break without the cigarette.
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