00:01The Astros, they take two of three, which is, hey, it's a successful series.
00:06That's what they – you need them to start winning series.
00:08Again, they're four games back in the West.
00:11The Mariners now are all of a sudden just one game over .500 again.
00:14So this division could be in a week with everybody under .500 in it
00:18if the Mariners keep losing.
00:20But they're four games back.
00:22They're three back in the wild card.
00:24And they took two – those games were crazy, by the way.
00:27I mean, that first inning on Friday night was insane.
00:31Me and Tyler and Clint, we're going back and forth on what's happening
00:35in that first game just when we thought EMI was taking steps forward.
00:39He goes and puts a performance like that together.
00:42But they win those first two games, crazy, 10-8, and then 8-7.
00:48And then they got Spencer Arrighetti on the mound Sunday.
00:54All right, here we go.
00:54We got a chance to sweep.
00:56We got a chance to sweep.
00:57We got the Tigers at home, another team that's well below .500.
01:01We can really make some hay here.
01:03Here we go.
01:05And he runs out there.
01:06And I don't know who it was, but they came together and they said,
01:08let's put this line up.
01:11Jeremy Pena, Jordan, Christian Walker, and then the hell with it.
01:17Joey Loprofito, Cam Smith, Rick Myers, Bryce Matthews, Delgado in his first game ever.
01:31And Price.
01:32I mean, Vasquez couldn't even be catching this day.
01:35This whole Price.
01:36That's the lineup with a chance to sweep.
01:39A chance to sweep.
01:41And what happens?
01:42Your ass loses 4-0.
01:44And you sit Paredes and Altuve.
01:47Both of them.
01:48I just – it is – and it is so stupid.
01:51And then when he was asked about it, Tyler, Joe said, well, I just think those guys needed a breather.
02:00Hell, they got a rain delay the other night.
02:02They got an hour or two in a rain delay.
02:04That was a breather.
02:06Look, I just – listen, I'm sorry, man.
02:08Like, right now, those five dudes till the wheels fall off.
02:14Now when you're seven, eight games under .500, you're in chase mode.
02:17That's just unbelievable.
02:19And you cannot tell me that didn't damper a little bit of the mindset going into the game of the
02:27team.
02:27I'm sorry.
02:28You just can't – like, I mean, people are happy for Delgado.
02:30That's fine.
02:31But you can't tell them that – this is what we're about to roll out here.
02:34Like, this is the decision.
02:36I just – unbelievable that they – whoever it was all came together and made that decision.
02:40I didn't watch a pitch one when I saw that lineup.
02:47I went back and checked it multiple times to make sure that was correct.
02:50Did you see there's an injury?
02:50I wanted to say – I just kept checking that there's an injury.
02:53Yeah, it just – well, I did.
02:55I mean, at least I asked on social media, am I missing something?
02:58Is Paredes or Altuve injured?
03:00Nope.
03:00Nope.
03:01Nope.
03:01Not one bit.
03:03Didn't watch it.
03:03Didn't watch it lick.
03:04Went back – just out of respect for my band, Spencer, I went back and watched his highlights,
03:08watched him deal a little bit.
03:11It's disgusting.
03:12I mean, it is – anybody out there that sits around and watches the Astros
03:19and that doesn't make their skin crawl, I want nothing to do with.
03:25I don't want to watch a lick of sports with you.
03:28You got a chance to get that sweep.
03:30Like, they need – we've talked about it.
03:33Yes, they need to win series, but they're also probably going to need to pick up some sweeps
03:40and get on a real stretch.
03:42But, Ron, they're not a team – I hear you, but the Astros are not a team that can play
03:47the whole
03:47all we need to do is win series moving forward.
03:50You're not that team anymore.
03:52You're a team right now – I mean, if we're being honest, it's who you are anyway,
03:57but the team you are right now constructed the way that this roster is constructed
04:02with the injuries that they've suffered and the hole that they've dug in the division,
04:07you are not a team that can proceed accordingly to plan from the very beginning of the season,
04:15oh, we plan to rest these guys this much.
04:17You're not a team that can, a week after a guy returns from an injury,
04:21give them a break because they're 37 years old.
04:25You're not that team anymore.
04:27Like, that approach, that it's a long season, a lot of baseball left approach,
04:33again, leaves you a game or two out of the playoffs.
04:37I mean, you're not that team anymore.
04:40When you've got a chance to sweep a team, win three in a row, get a little bit of momentum,
04:45you've got your ace on the bump, you're not a team that can make decisions like,
04:51oh, well, you know, you calculate that into whether guys are playing or not.
04:56They're not that team anymore.
04:58Who are we fooling?
04:59If they take –
04:59Well, the standing says they're not – they're just that team.
05:03They're going to do – they've got to win series, but they've got to go on a tear.
05:06They've got to get themselves back to 500.
05:09And when you've got a chance to sweep a team like that, that is probably demoralized.
05:15One of their big hitters got injured and is out for the next six, eight weeks,
05:20their first baseman.
05:21That happens.
05:22You go into the game and you just take the air right out of everything
05:26as soon as it starts with that lineup.
05:28Well, you just don't give yourself the best chance to win.
05:30I mean, at the end of the day, you're in a give yourself a best chance to win
05:35type of situation and resting two guys, two of your top five guys,
05:40while the rest of your lineup has been decimated,
05:44resting those two guys in that moment is a luxury.
05:50That is a, hey, man, our division sucks and we've got a five-game lead in the division.
05:54We can rest guys excessively and we're going to be all right.
05:57That is not a – we're four games back in the division.
06:01Like, you've got to sweep a team.
06:04Because you don't know – you're going to mess around and lose a series to a team
06:07you shouldn't lose a series to.
06:08Like, that's who you really are.
06:09You're not going to go perfect.
06:10Yeah, you got it.
06:10You got it.
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