00:00Paul, I want to do this, and Tyler, I think about this with you and all of our listeners.
00:05I really want to believe that the Astros can make a run.
00:11But you don't.
00:12I really want to, Paul.
00:14I think they've got the best player on the planet right now.
00:17I mean, he is just insane.
00:19More on him later as well.
00:21But you can intentionally walk your way around him, as we found out yesterday.
00:24That's all right.
00:24I mean, he showed why he's the MVP over the weekend.
00:27Getting the balls for you.
00:28Specifically that inning.
00:29We'll get into it.
00:31But you've got the best player on the planet right now.
00:33I really want to believe it.
00:35Hunter Brown was a Cy Young candidate last year.
00:39I'd like to get to that again this year.
00:42My buff boy, Hunter Brown.
00:44Hater is great.
00:45When Pena's healthy, he's big for you.
00:49I want to believe in the championship pedigree that they have.
00:56But, Paul, man, I just, in this series, they just do way too many things that bad teams do.
01:04Like, and consistently.
01:06Where would you lead off with those bad things?
01:08Oh, I mean, just a laundry list.
01:09Like, just the top of my head.
01:11And this, like, it used to be, Tyler, oh, you know, Altuve's going to do something stupid on the base
01:15pass.
01:16Something like that.
01:17That are, that, that, that, that, that, that did.
01:20Now, like, it starts from the top.
01:23Right?
01:23They don't have a good roster.
01:26I mean, they don't.
01:27And, and maybe there's some constrictions for, for Dana Brown.
01:30But he, he sure was right on it with some of these guys.
01:33Right.
01:33Like, they, like, they, they don't have this thing positioned.
01:36They've got one of the worst outfields in, in, in the sport.
01:40Which we were told would be addressed.
01:42Yep.
01:42It has not been addressed.
01:43No, man.
01:44And.
01:44And they got, they got guys who don't know how to wear, wear the right cleats out there.
01:48They don't know how tight there she is.
01:49Taylor Tramiel almost killed himself out there because he didn't have metal spikes on.
01:53And he slipped and fell.
01:54It's the first thing the Rangers broadcast were saying.
01:56He must not have metal spikes on.
01:58So, everybody knows you've got to wear metal spikes on that.
02:00I mean, I mean, it's Tramiel.
02:02It's Desenzo.
02:03It's Zach Cole.
02:04It's, it's, it's, they've got a second.
02:07Joey Loper-Feedo.
02:07They've got a second baseman who's playing center field who killed himself before Taylor
02:11went out there.
02:11I mean, they, I mean, they, they got one pitcher, Max.
02:15And God love Peter Lambert.
02:17Shout out to you, Peter Lambert.
02:18It's your six innings, one run.
02:19And you, you had, you had the swing and miss stuff going.
02:22But, I mean, I, like, I don't think many people really are saying, man, I trust, I trust Pete Lambert.
02:26No, you shouldn't.
02:26At some point, it's going to come back to earth like it did with JP France, among other
02:31pitchers that we've seen for this team.
02:32You love that you're getting what you got out of them.
02:34But, you know, go all the way back to last year, Ron.
02:36This team has not had starting pitching depth that you really believe in.
02:40It's been a while since they have had that.
02:42I mean, honestly, when you had Fram Bervaldez, and I think you're all missing him, even if
02:45he's not doing what you thought he could.
02:46Not Tyler.
02:47Detroit, you don't want to deal with all the headaches, but you would love some consistency
02:51right now.
02:52And in your starting rotation, where is that coming from outside of Hunter Brown?
02:55It's not coming from anybody.
02:56And I'd like for him to get it together.
02:59Yeah.
02:59Could we, could we, could he get it together?
03:01But, I mean, this is the problem now is the best players on your team, you're expecting
03:05them to do everything they possibly can on a night-to-night basis.
03:08But yesterday, Josh Hader, three singles he allows in the ninth inning.
03:12He can't be perfect every night.
03:13Hunter Brown can't be perfect every single time he's on the hill.
03:15And, as I said a little bit ago, you can pitch around Jordan Alvarez.
03:20To me, the big issue, you mentioned the outfield, the lack of starting pitching depth.
03:23This was the thing that they've had for years and years and years.
03:26There was always another arm that would come up through the ranks, and that guy would come
03:29in, and he'd give you five to six.
03:31Now, I do not even know who I am looking to in this rotation after Hunter Brown.
03:34But, Paul, they got depth.
03:35They just ain't good.
03:36But, like, we can rattle off the names, right?
03:40I just don't know what I mean.
03:41Peter Lambert's the one you trust the most.
03:43But they got Peter Lambert.
03:44They got Spencer Erighetti.
03:45They got Christian Javier.
03:46They got Homer Mike.
03:48Well, he's been put on the I.L.
03:49We'll get to him.
03:50I mean, they got Lance McCullers, who may make his way.
03:54Ronel Blanco is getting close.
03:55You're hoping Blanco.
03:56Right?
03:56But Wisniewski is pitching wherever.
04:00Emai is up there.
04:01We got a whole bunch of people.
04:03None of them are any good.
04:05Yeah.
04:06They got some depth.
04:07At the very least, none of them are top three caliber anymore.
04:11I just want to believe.
04:12I really do.
04:13Because this A.L. sucks.
04:15The West, too.
04:16The West sucks.
04:17It's just letting you hang around despite not doing anything.
04:20Yeah.
04:20I mean, and you have some great, like, you have the potential of a great starter.
04:25You have the best hitter on the planet right now.
04:28The most feared guy that changes the game for everybody around him.
04:31You got a great closer, despite what he did yesterday, and Josh Hader.
04:35You got some spots.
04:36But you have a bottom third.
04:42I just, they make poor decisions.
04:45I mean, to start, I mean, the first inning of the first game.
04:49All right, Tyler.
04:50When we say biggest series of the year, Jeremy Pena, you're a veteran.
04:54You're an ALCS and World Series MVP.
04:57You get picked off on a fly ball that anybody could read and just blow away an inning.
05:03You're in scoring position already.
05:05Altuve can't turn a double play to extends an inning.
05:09Zach DiCenzo has probably played four times in the last month.
05:13Critical.
05:14Hey, man, hold this thing to a single.
05:16Nope.
05:16The ball gets under his glove.
05:17There's the winning run at second base.
05:19He's nuts.
05:20Ha!
05:20I mean, Jesus.
05:22Got him!
05:23There's not a pitcher, including Hunter Brown, that can't stop walking people.
05:30There's no way to fix this.
05:31I just want to believe they can, man.
05:32Well, you look at the standings.
05:34It's there, Tyler.
05:35The only way.
05:35We've watched championship-level teams.
05:38These guys are the angels.
05:40Do you think if we got Dana Brown and everybody else in the Astros front office some, I don't
05:46know, nun costumes and give them some body armor and rifles, do you think that they could
05:53actually do something at the trade deadline?
05:54Because I don't see anything changing between now and the end of the year without an actual
05:58robbery.
05:59If he could pull off a Kikuchi again.
06:02That's the best thing I think he's ever done.
06:03If he could pull off a Kikuchi again, I think the best that they're going to be able to
06:08do.
06:09But everybody is looking for a Kikuchi this time.
06:12Exactly!
06:12And you don't have much to give to get that Kikuchi.
06:15Ron, I think...
06:16I feel like I need to step out of that, don't I, Tyler?
06:17Yep.
06:19No, I didn't.
06:22Now that you said that, I definitely know that I need to step out of that.
06:27I definitely...
06:27Stretching Kikuchi tonight.
06:28I'm just saying.
06:30The White Sox could use a Kikuchi.
06:32The Guardians could use a Kikuchi.
06:33I'll use a little Kikuchi.
06:35The Yankees probably could use one.
06:37I mean, just...
06:38Alright, let me get out of this.
06:40Let me get out of this.
06:41I think...
06:42I think at this point, what you're going to end up seeing at the trade deadline, Ron,
06:49is the most pander of all pander moves.
06:52And I jokingly suggested this on Channel 11 on Sports Extra a couple of weeks ago.
06:56Alright, shout out.
06:57George Springer.
06:58It's going to be something like that.
07:00Some pander move for a guy who's in the last year of his contract, who's 37 and not playing
07:04particularly well, and maybe the Blue Jays are looking to shed salary.
07:07You bring in a guy for the vibes.
07:08It's like...
07:09It's the Carlos Correa deal all over again.
07:11It's the Carlos Correa deal.
07:11It's the Carlos Correa deal.
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