00:00That's here we are once again with Lance McCullers.
00:01Yeah, and hell, I wonder, and like Tyler said in my ear,
00:05you get concerned that he's pitching, just trying to pitch through it
00:08how serious this is.
00:09This could be it, man.
00:11I hope not.
00:12I am not wishing that.
00:14Everybody in Houston loves Lance McCullers, always will.
00:16But, dude, this could be the end of the road that we see Lance McCullers
00:20pitching in an Astros uniform.
00:21Or any uniform.
00:22Like Clint said, though, like anything to have to do with Lance's elbow,
00:30shoulder, anything to have to do to that arm could be the end, right?
00:36Like this, like again, man, that's why when people, you know,
00:41every time you talk about Lance,
00:42it's a weird mixed conversation amongst Astros fans with he's stealing money,
00:49he's stealing everything.
00:51Like the amount of work, again, I think some of this was caused for himself,
00:58but I don't even put that on him.
00:59And I think this may be another situation.
01:01Like the doctors and training staff, to me,
01:04got to save athletes from themselves.
01:06And I wonder how much that occurred in this entire time frame with Lance
01:13that he's had stuff.
01:14But the amount of time and effort, Hill, you know better than any of us,
01:18the amount of time and effort that it has taken every single time that Lance
01:22has had to gear it back up to get himself together,
01:25whether it was the bone spurs, whether it was the rested relaxation,
01:30let me try to get myself back before the,
01:32like the amount of times that it has an effort and energy it took to get himself
01:39back, the amount of times he had to, to try to pitch.
01:43Boy, you, you, as you said, you wonder how many more of those he has.
01:47Well, I tell you,
01:48it takes me to a place guys of,
01:50of where I wonder if this was the last ditch effort effort.
01:53Yeah.
01:53Right.
01:54You talk to the team,
01:55you sit down and talk to Joe and it's like, Hey man,
01:57I'm going to give this thing one more shot.
01:58Uh, I'm, I don't have another, you know, rehab stint surgery and rehab stint in,
02:04in my tank.
02:05I'm done.
02:05If that's the case, uh, I'm, I'm going to push the envelope a little bit here.
02:09Yes.
02:09With a little different mental approach and all the different things that he,
02:12that he voiced over spring training and early season.
02:15Um, but you wonder if the tightness in the shoulder is one that they all agreed,
02:19Hey, we're going to push through this because this is my last ditch effort.
02:22Yeah.
02:23Um, maybe I wonder what a, what a while is that that's,
02:26that makes more sense, Ron, than just, Hey man, go on, pitch through it.
02:31Given, given the organization and the player himself, that their history,
02:35like it feels like to me, man.
02:36And I hope I'm just not being optimistic enough.
02:39No one wants to see this and, and see it in this way, but it feels that way.
02:43I just like even Tyler, like, all right, man.
02:47Hey man, we got it.
02:48We got an out man to give you a little rest, man.
02:50That nail off damn, man.
02:51Let's get, let's get you.
02:52Let's get you a start off with the nail and the shoulder.
02:55It's a perfect opportunity.
02:56Let's get you 10 days.
02:58No, no, no, no.
02:59We're going to, we're going to push you through the nail and the shoulder.
03:03He's 36%, you know, good to go.
03:06That's just, that is, it is just really surprising that, that again, I, again,
03:13they see them and they know more than we know and they've seen more than we've seen.
03:17But Lance McCullers dealing with shoulder issues, dealing with it for a while.
03:23Now going to the IL.
03:26And then that's the thing is, did it just pop up on him today?
03:32Like, did it?
03:33Cause he's a scratch today.
03:34Oh, he's been dealing with it for a while.
03:35I know he's been doing it, but did it, but, but was today when he got up a different feeling?
03:39A new level.
03:40Was this a new level that happened today or was it yesterday?
03:44Yeah.
03:44Probably that damn mound and up there.
03:47Probably what it was, man.
03:48He probably slipped on it.
03:50Maybe he needs to talk to him and get more vertical in his, in his delivery.
03:53Maybe somewhere he took the hit that painted did double a and landed on that sucker.
03:59I tell you, I feel for Lance, man.
04:02He's got to be, he's got to be out of, out of give or rips.
04:05Yeah, man.
04:06He's got it.
04:07I mean, he's, he's probably, he's probably overtaking his last trip to Houston to see the doctor.
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