00:00Hey, I told you. I told you, Tyler. They aren't just going to go and just die.
00:07Uh-uh. No, man. They're going to keep you reeled in.
00:10They're going to come in and piss you off one week, and then they're going to reel you in.
00:14I think that these last two games, after the sweep, has Clint,
00:17hey, man, let's go be buyers again, baby. Let's go get it.
00:20They're going to keep this rolling.
00:24And there are a lot of things, I think, to take away from last night.
00:26There's at least a few things to take away from last night and the time we got.
00:30But I just got to say, we saw another Yordine MVP moment.
00:33And it didn't even happen to him swinging or hitting the bat.
00:37Now, you know how I feel about Yordine.
00:41I'll be honest with you, Clint Tyler.
00:43I don't really like him to run full speed.
00:46We know that.
00:47I'd rather him not.
00:48And I was totally against what ended up being an MVP moment.
00:53But this is a tight game, and he strikes out.
00:57He strikes out.
00:58You know, it's a rare occurrence.
01:00Strikes out.
01:01Even poses a little bit there on the strikeout.
01:03Ball gets behind the catcher.
01:05Then he realizes, uh-oh, there are a lot of guys that would jog that one out.
01:09And I'll be honest, that's what I would have wanted him to do.
01:13I would have been like, hey, man, just jog.
01:15Hey, let's not.
01:16No.
01:17He got on his horse.
01:19And he did the thing that scares me the most, Tyler, that lunge.
01:23The lunge with the leg.
01:24Right?
01:25That's it.
01:25That's the lunge.
01:26He did that lunge.
01:27When you got bad-ass knees like that, fella, you're going to worry.
01:30Knees, hamstrings.
01:31Throw an ankle in there, too.
01:32That home plate.
01:32That home plate.
01:33You're right.
01:33Yeah.
01:34That armor wall they had on that home plate knows what's on that first base.
01:37But he stuck it out and beat it out with two outs.
01:41And next thing you know, Isak Paredes really blows the game kind of open for them
01:45and hits a three-run home plate that would not have been able to occur
01:51if Jordan didn't leg that out.
01:53Just another addition to the MVP moment for him.
01:58Now, if the Astros can just keep themselves in contention to guarantee
02:01that he will be in the race as the winner, that would be good.
02:07But that was just another example of what he has meant to this team.
02:10Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe if the season ended today,
02:13the Triple Crown is his, correct?
02:15Yeah, at that point, they could lose 117 games, and then he'd still win it.
02:20Yeah.
02:20Well, I mean, the Triple Crown, though, he's got a lead.
02:22There's some people chasing the MVP.
02:25Just saying he'd win the MVP.
02:26Sure.
02:26Sure, yeah.
02:27I mean, the Triple Crown is the one to me.
02:31I mean, obviously, they go hand in hand,
02:32but the Triple Crown is the one to me that would be one of those.
02:35I mean, how many guys in Major League Baseball history have had a Triple Crown?
02:39I mean, somebody wins the MVP every year.
02:41How many guys have had a Triple Crown?
02:43I mean, I'm certain Miguel Cabrera is the last one to do it.
02:45I don't know how many.
02:46There have been 13 Triple Crown.
02:4913 Triple Crown.
02:50That's wild, man.
02:51Going back to 1990.
02:53Yeah.
02:53How many MVPs have there been?
02:58No, but a big moment for him.
03:02Even if he's not hitting the ball out of the ballpark, he did have two hits last night,
03:06which helps his average, which he is really starting to get away from Yandy Diaz of the Rays in that
03:12category.
03:12But another big performance there.
03:16I just, I do want to get to this.
03:21How do we handle E-My?
03:24Have one in the holster, baby.
03:26That's it.
03:27Tyler texted us and said we need to do something with good E-My, bad E-My.
03:33It's like Two-Face, man.
03:34No, yeah.
03:35I mean, how do you handle it?
03:37Because you just, you literally have no clue what you're going to get.
03:43I mean, at all.
03:44I mean, this is probably the fifth time this year he's hit us with, like, a quality start like this,
03:52six innings, one earn or something like that, where it's just been like, all right, here we go.
03:56But he's probably got four or five others where he doesn't make it past the second or the third.
04:01And you know he doesn't.
04:03I just, like, and Joe don't need this stress.
04:07And, I mean, he's working uphill to begin with anyway.
04:11And now he's having to deal with this.
04:13I just, how do you handle this guy?
04:15You just keep going and just crossing your fingers and hoping you get this guy more time?
04:19Well, you've got to.
04:20Unfortunately, you don't have a choice.
04:21I mean, he's somebody at this point right now that you've got to lean on.
04:24But I just think you keep one in the holster.
04:27I mean, you've got to, literally, when it comes cutting time,
04:30which we're pretty damn close to being there with the Astros anyway.
04:31I mean, you've got to.
04:34The plan has to be whatever days M.I. is pitching, you lean over to Javier and say,
04:39hey, bro, I need you.
04:41It makes you get stretched out a little bit.
04:43I need you to wake up that morning with plans of pitching.
04:46Early.
04:46And pitching several innings, not just giving us three outs.
04:49I'm pitching several innings.
04:51And if M.I. comes out and he's dealing the way that he was last night,
04:54the way that he's shown that he can, then you let it ride.
04:59If not, then you've got, you know, exact.
05:02Everybody knows the plan and everybody's going to jump to Javier or whoever it may be.
05:06I don't know who it's going to end up being.
05:08But I think you've just got to keep one.
05:10You've got to keep one on deck, man.
05:11You've got to keep one right there ready to rock and roll.
05:13Yeah.
05:14I mean, do they have to?
05:16Because they've got Hunter, Spencer, Pete.
05:19Sorry, Pete.
05:19They've got Hunter, Pete, Spencer.
05:22I want to give credit to Pete.
05:24He shouldn't be named after Spencer.
05:26No doubt.
05:27No doubt.
05:29I mean, I feel like Ron Elblanco is going to get another start with what he's done.
05:34Does Christian Javier get another start with what he's done?
05:37He might be the piggyback guy.
05:39There's Kaiway.
05:40And then we'll see Hayden Wisniewski gets a start tomorrow.
05:45We'll see what the move is with him.
05:46So, I mean, there was a point where they had to.
05:50There are at least potentially some decisions there with him.
05:55Well, when he's got his best stuff, I mean, he's got to be behind right now.
06:04He's probably better than all of those, potentially all those other options.
06:07No question, right?
06:08I mean, I would go, if you told me he's got his stuff, right now I'm going Hunter Brown,
06:14Peter Lambert, and then am I with what we've seen.
06:20Now, the question is, obviously you don't know if he's going to have his stuff or not.
06:23But I think his stuff is good enough.
06:24He don't know if he's going to have it.
06:25I think the potential to give you six and double-digit strikeouts, I think that's good enough to where you
06:31use it, you have a plan for it.
06:33You just better be ready to call an audible if need be.
06:37Does he have a –
06:38It ain't like we're not used to this.
06:40We've had just give me three guys in there before.
06:43But does he have a bad E-My tail?
06:47I want to go back and watch.
06:48I want to go back and watch some of these bad starts.
06:50Is there something that he does?
06:52I mean, if he's got one, it shouldn't take you going back and watching.
06:55Hell, Joe ought to know about it.
06:56I'm just saying.
06:57I just want to go back and look like –
07:00I mean, you just –
07:01I mean, you literally got no clue on what the hell he is going to bring to the table.
07:06And last night, he was like, all right, man, that's why they went out there and paid him what they
07:12paid him.
07:13We'll see.
07:14But, yeah, I think you're right.
07:15Yeah, you've got to have guys ready.
07:17By the way, I think he should start pitching a couple – maybe an hour before the game starts.
07:22Did you see that stat they put up there when he throws more pitches?
07:27He gets better as he goes?
07:28He gets better as he goes.
07:29When he throws more pitches, at 76 pitches or more, he's almost unhittable.
07:34Finds a screw.
07:35Well, yeah, because he doesn't get to 70 pitches on his bad nights.
07:38Yeah, on his bad – but I'm just saying, like, I mean –
07:39Or if they're mounted.
07:40He's had – I mean, he's had points.
07:42But even when he gets to 50 and when he gets to – yeah.
07:46Maybe he throws, like, two innings in the bullpen before the game starts.
07:52Yeah, like a simulated game, like, for two or three innings.
07:55Yeah, bring them bench players from Sugar Land up who ain't doing nothing.
07:58I love that idea.
07:59Bring Jacob here who ain't doing nothing.
08:00Sorry, Jake.
08:01But bring Jacob here who ain't doing nothing.
08:03And just let him come up there and you – I mean, give us two innings.
08:07So when he gets on the mound –
08:08You might be on to see.
08:09He's on the mound.
08:10He's 45 pitches deep.
08:12And now that slider is really shaking.
08:14Now you're definitely going to need Javier early.
08:16That's fine.
08:16That's fine.
08:18Hell, you never know.
08:19You might need Javier down 9-0.
08:21You might need Javier down 9-0.
08:21You might need Javier down 9-0.
08:21You might need Javier down 9-0.
08:21You might need Javier down 9-0.
08:21You might need Javier down 9-0.
08:21You might need Javier down 9-0.
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