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00:00I just need a couple of minutes, Tyler, Clint.
00:03I mean, I will obviously allow you to jump in.
00:10Dana Brown was on the flagship today of the Astros.
00:16And his thoughts on his starting pitcher yesterday.
00:19He, my, I'm not worried one bit, is what Dana said.
00:25Hey, Tyler, not one bit.
00:27Not just I ain't worried, I ain't worried one bit.
00:30And I'm telling you, I heard him say it.
00:31And it was, I mean, the sound of defiance in his voice.
00:36And I don't even got a dog in the fight.
00:38It pissed me smooth off.
00:39I kept it real as a true professional myself.
00:42You can go keep it real somewhere else.
00:44He's an arrogant SOB, ain't he?
00:48Guys, you know what he did last night.
00:51My man proceeded to have the blow-up inning of, let me hit a guy.
00:55Let me follow that up by hitting a guy.
00:57Let me follow that up with a four-pitch walk.
00:59And then say goodnight.
01:02It sucks to suck.
01:04Say goodnight, grand slam, gone.
01:07By not even one of their better guys.
01:11Four innings, five hits, six earned, three Ks, three walks, hit two guys,
01:18two home runs, giving up.
01:19Couldn't solve Randy all night.
01:21To be honest, nobody could solve Randy all night.
01:23And I would just say this.
01:26It is a damn shame.
01:28Every one of them, whoever is a part of making the decision in that Astros organization,
01:34whether it's Jim, whether it's delusional Dana, whether it's Joe, whoever it is,
01:41whoever made the decision to run him out there after everything he has shown you up to this
01:47point, which is you don't deserve or aren't ready to grab the ball in a major league game.
01:54Right now, what they said, Tyler and Clint, they said, where's the towel?
01:58Because they threw the damn towel in yesterday.
02:01There is no reason for you to give a damn if they don't give a damn.
02:05How in the hell can they sit there and say, we're going to try to get back in it, Clint?
02:10We got a seven-game homestand right here.
02:12We're playing the Mariners, who they have molly-whopped our ass now nine times in a row.
02:18And you're going to run out a guy who cannot not get outs.
02:22He can't throw strikes to double-A batters.
02:25Bust, bust, bust.
02:27This is it.
02:29We got to get back on it.
02:30We got to get in here.
02:31We got to get back in the race.
02:33Time's out.
02:34The early stuff, over.
02:37You said the best chance for us to win was to walk him out there.
02:42What if I told you?
02:44They could have ran Tang's ass arm off one more time.
02:47Brian King could have started it.
02:49They would have been better in a bullpen game.
02:51And the worst part is, he probably pitched okay for what he's done.
02:58First two innings, anyway.
03:00No, it's not the first two.
03:01He promptly gave up a two-run homer in the second inning after he walked Cal Raleigh, who was 0
03:07for 38.
03:08I meant first inning and a third or something.
03:11They said straight-faced.
03:14And this fool today on the flagship, this fool that I'm talking about is Dana Brown.
03:19This fool came out and said, yeah, man, we just got to stay positive.
03:23We got to stay positive.
03:24We just got to win some games, get our bats going again.
03:27We get our starting pitching back.
03:28No, no, no, no, no.
03:29No, don't tell me you got to stay positive like you're still going.
03:32You ran a guy that you knew would perform poorly.
03:35You knew.
03:36There's no way that he was their best option.
03:39No way.
03:40And they threw the towel in and ran him in.
03:42And then you ran Joe's ass up there to have to go answer questions.
03:46And you know he ain't going to answer them right.
03:48I mean, it's just unbelievable sitting there watching that.
03:53Sitting there watching him just go out there and be put in a position to not be ready.
03:59That's like saying, Clint, all right, here we go.
04:02Season's on the line.
04:03When the Texans were three and five and D'Amico said, you know what?
04:06I'm going to give Graham Mertz the ball.
04:09You got it, Graham.
04:11You get this start right here.
04:11Turn this thing around.
04:12Here, Davis, sit down.
04:13Here, I'm going to give it to Graham.
04:15Like, come on, man.
04:16That was unacceptable by the entire organization to put him in that position
04:22and then to still try to claim and say, we're still trying to be in it and win ballgames.
04:28That's just ridiculous.
04:29I'm so glad you're there, Ron.
04:31I'm so glad you're here with me and here being the short season stuff ain't going to be an excuse
04:37for this one.
04:39I'm sorry, the long season stuff isn't going to be an excuse for this right here.
04:42A lot of baseball left to play is not going to be an excuse here.
04:46It's a long season, y'all.
04:48I'm glad to hear that you're there, man.
04:52And I know you're making the point of who are you fooling?
04:57And you're talking about wanting to turn this thing around, talking about putting your best foot forward,
05:00talking about winning a game, and you're going to try to guy out there that you know can't even throw
05:04strikes.
05:06Yeah, I'm with you.
05:07I'm as disgusted as you are, man.
05:09I'm as disgusted as you.
05:10I sat there and had the conversation with my wife last night.
05:12She said, boy, Astros ain't doing real well, are they?
05:14I said, no.
05:15And not only that, this was a big-ass series.
05:18This was an important series.
05:20If they were going to turn this thing around, are they going to be buyers at the trade deadline or
05:24are they going to be sellers?
05:25This series is going to go a long way towards that, and they have messed the bed back-to-back.
05:30We suck.
05:31And they've already guaranteed that he's going to make his next start.
05:35Oh, yeah.
05:35The spotter said we're going to run him right back out there.
05:37Of course.
05:38No-brainer, right?
05:39Like, just like for me, they told me yesterday they've thrown in the towel.
05:47Or they're imbeciles.
05:48Don't forget to bring a towel.
05:50Because there's no way that that many people came together and said, all right, we're still trying to win this
05:57thing.
05:57Yeah.
05:58This gives us our best chance.
06:00We lost game one of the series, which was pitched pretty decently by Peter Lambert.
06:05Pete.
06:06We lost game one.
06:08E-My.
06:09That's it.
06:10It's a long season, man.
06:11It gives us the best chance to win.
06:13I mean, I know you have lost your mind by some of these lineups.
06:16They make more sense than this.
06:19Fair.
06:19Fair.
06:20I'm not.
06:21And you could see, like, it was written all over his face.
06:23As soon as something bad happened, you could tell it was going downhill.
06:28Well, I tell you, I watched the post-game interview a couple of different times.
06:33Later last night, flipping through, you know, you hit that channel and they're replaying it
06:37or they're doing interviews.
06:41And, yeah, look, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I've watched a million in
06:46my press pressers.
06:48But, boy, he looks defeated.
06:50He looks frustrated.
06:53To add insult to injury to what you're talking about, Ron, the fact that this guy's struggling
06:58the way he has been struggling.
06:59I mean, he flat out said, and I don't know how much truth is to it, because it came through
07:03the interpreter, his third interpreter.
07:05But, I mean, he flat out said he talked to the organization and the veteran catcher and
07:10said, no, I'm going to throw a fastball slider.
07:13And they said, go ahead.
07:13Yeah, go ahead, man.
07:14You got it.
07:15To a guy that couldn't find a strike zone in Sugar Land.
07:19Two pitches.
07:19Yeah, man, so that's, he looks defeated.
07:24He looks lost.
07:26You know, I feel somewhat bad, Ron, because all the stuff that we've, I told you, I tried
07:31to give grace with all the excuse making.
07:32As I'm sitting there watching, he appears to be at a loss for, not even words in an interview,
07:39but at a loss for, like, answers to what he's doing.
07:42You know what I mean?
07:42He looks like a guy that is going through what he's talking about.
07:45I typically pitch this way.
07:47The reason the Astros signed me is because of what I could do on the mound doing it
07:52this way.
07:53Now I'm here, and they're asking me to do different things.
07:55They're asking me to attack it completely different.
07:58And I'm lost.
07:59You know?
08:00And that's the part that is, it's hard, it's sad to watch.
08:04Clint and Tyler, in so many ways, he should not have been on the mound.
08:08Agreed.
08:08You can, from one way, you're telling me that you are still in it.
08:13You are still thinking, I don't know how many, they're behind the A's now, six, whatever
08:18it is.
08:19You're telling me you're still in it, Tyler.
08:21And you'll run him out there, knowing, like, he could not perform against double and triple
08:25A opponents.
08:26And then to the point you're making, Clint, Tyler, we can see it from the television broadcast.
08:32The hell with being up close to him.
08:33You can look in his eyes, and you can see he is not ready for this situation right now.
08:38I'm not saying he's not talented.
08:41He's not, like, he is not ready to handle this.
08:44Between the ears, yeah.
08:45Between the ears, in the eyes, you can see, like, he's not ready for this right now.
08:50He needs, he needs to get, he needs to, and you ran him out there anyway.
08:54There's nothing, there was nothing about anything that he showed or did that said, run him out
09:01there.
09:01I, even if Hunter Brown is sucking ass, I can look in Hunter Brown's eyes and he's like,
09:06give me the ball.
09:07Right.
09:07Let's go.
09:08Hell.
09:08Hell, now, he may, he may just fire up and just start throwing it as hard as he can and,
09:12and, and bypass pitching.
09:14But there's not a, there's not a, like, there's a deal of like, as you said, before the game,
09:19in it, when he, when he lost that challenge, oh, God to hell, it was over.
09:24Lost that challenge, then he just started hitting people.
09:27Then he couldn't throw strikes.
09:28He actually talked about that in the post game.
09:29Yeah, it was, it was gone.
09:31He's like, he's in that post game.
09:33He's just deer in headlights.
09:35And you're like, yeah, let's run him out there.
09:37And hell, let's run him out there next time too.
09:39A spot that was asked in the post game about Emai's, like, body language that we were all
09:44seeing that you're referencing, Ron.
09:45A spot that was asked about that after the game.
09:47And of course he just pivoted right away and started talking about how it's a team
09:50sport.
09:51We're not going to talk about individuals and blah, blah, blah.
09:53But I mean, it, it reminds me of the CJ Stroud stuff.
09:56Like you can see it.
09:57We're human beings.
09:58We read more into body language than we do words.
10:02You speak.
10:03And whenever you see this guy out there giving up grand slams and slumping his
10:06shoulders, it's looking like a bus.
10:08In his worst moment, he made, he made CJ Stroud look like Nelson Mandela in that jail cell.
10:15In his worst moment.
10:16In his, in his, in, in his worst moment.
10:20In CJ's worst moment, Emai made him look like Nelson Mandela in that jail cell.
10:26You're talking about pressure.
10:28Like he made him, like I just.
10:30But you think about it.
10:31It's funny you bring that up.
10:32You got a pitcher with the Astros that is, is that they're trying to taking an
10:36approach, approach pitching completely different.
10:38You got a quarterback in the, with the Texans that they're trying to, to put in a, in a,
10:42in a Brady box and play a certain offense.
10:44You got I'm in Thompson over here with the Rockets.
10:46It's playing out of position.
10:47Seems like it may not, not that he's playing out of position, but he's being asked to do
10:50something somewhat left-handed, no pun intended.
10:55It's, it's a wild way to go about it, man.
10:57You think Joe made that decision to roll him out?
10:59No.
11:00You think I got straight?
11:00I think, I think Joe, I think Joe.
11:02Joe said it and said, here, no, we'll keep him out there.
11:04Oh, no.
11:06In anybody's mind, it was like, all right, man, he just hit three, two batters in a row
11:10and then he walked the guy on four pitches and then, and then promptly, the guy's sitting
11:14there waiting for the fastball and he drills it and deposits it past Cam Smith's nine
11:19hitting ass and he, and it gets out.
11:22And then he, you would think at that point, why'd Cam catch a straight, man?
11:26In the middle of his second damn slump of the year.
11:28Cam can't catch the bat is what he can.
11:30Don't be betting on him, Gene.
11:32Hell no.
11:32But, but, but you would think at that moment, all right, guys, you can go get him now.
11:37Joe said, nah, man, get us four.
11:40Get us four, big dog.
11:41However you got to get there.
11:43Get us four.
11:44No, I mean, but you, you're, you're, you've been through this in, in, in the highest levels
11:48of college in professional sport.
11:50You, what does it look like?
11:52Like you walked in there and told him, you know what, man, guys, I think I'm going to
11:54take this back to how I did it at, uh, at, at Baytown, Baytown Lee, or I'm going to take
11:59this back.
12:00I'm more comfortable with what we did at Arkansas here.
12:02Yeah.
12:02I want to come in here and do it this way.
12:04Yeah.
12:04That's, that's not, that's what I'm saying.
12:06I mean, there's, that's, there's a problem.
12:08There's a problem beyond the kid just not performing well.
12:10There's a problem beyond him being overwhelmed.
12:13And it's exactly what you're talking about is, I mean, we, my man, what, what is it?
12:18How many, how many major league starts he was at two or three?
12:21Was that his second or third?
12:22That's his third.
12:23I mean, he's, he's got three starts and he's telling the organization and the veteran.
12:26I think it's his fourth.
12:27I think it's his fourth.
12:28Cause he had, cause he had five total and he had two in the minors coming into yesterday.
12:33Six, one way, half dozen, another.
12:34You point that at the end of the day, I mean, he ain't even, he still went, I mean, you
12:40know,
12:41I don't know, man, I like that.
12:42That's not, it's not ideal, but Hey guys, I know I've only had about a handful of starts,
12:46but I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to attack this next game.
12:48How I did it in Japan.
12:50Like, I, I think they got a, there's a tug of war going on here in, in, in Houston.
12:55That can't be ideal.
12:55So I think it felt like that.
12:57It felt like they said, all right, go ahead, man.
12:59Yeah.
13:00Yeah, man.
13:01Do what you want to do, man.
13:02Hell with it, man.
13:03Do what you want to do.
13:04You tried it our way and couldn't throw strikes.
13:05Hey man, Randy, Randy, Randy, Randy hits fastballs and, and, and sliders like with the best
13:11of them, but you just keep throwing them to him because that's what you throw.
13:15Joe up there talking about, yeah, I thought there were a couple of point places with those
13:19left-handed hitters.
13:19He could have used the changeup or a split finger.
13:22Oh, do you?
13:23Joe just sat back there with them glasses on and said, come on, man.
13:25Dusty would probably handle that in a little different, would you think?
13:27Nah, man.
13:28Dusty would have, over his dead body, Dusty would have laid over the train tracks of the,
13:32of the steps to go up.
13:33Never sent that kid back out there.
13:35Nah, man.
13:35I'm from a different generation.
13:37I'm from a different generation.
13:37I'm from a different generation.
13:37it.
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