September 25, 2024 • 43 mins
Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on September 25th 2024.
- Astros Clinch AL West on Tuesday.
- Wednesday's game didn't matter.
- Last Dance For Bregman?
- Texans Start Prep For Jaguars.
- Injuries and issues to be corrected for Texans.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam talking your Team,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler r d A team.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
A five o'clock hour underway from inside minut May Park.
Astros losing the home finale of the regular season eight
to one to the Mariners doesn't matter. They went ahead
and clinched the division last night. Racous celebration, albeit subdued.
I guess it's.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's subdued because they've done it so many times, and
that's rather unfortunately, I suppose for the circumstances of the
game itself.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
He was a very tense game.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Tense game, had to come back. Pulled your starter to
get a four out outing from Brian Abray, You pulled
Bryan Presley mid inning to get four outs from Josh.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Hater, guy who doesn't do that in San Diego.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And none of those pitchers gave up any runs because
it was a situation. They came into it four to three.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was phenomenal, dramatic, and of course the end of
the game ended with a.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Strikeout Hater's first pitch. I was like, Oh, they're not
getting anything off of him at all, not even a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And Julio Rodriguez. You said it before the series came
in here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Again he smashed one today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, well he wasn't going up against Josh Hater in
a game that mattered. He was going up against who do.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You hit that off of?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Ners?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yes, they have great they have a history.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Hector Nerris was hung over like everybody else today. Nobody
on the Astros cared about this game, nor should they have.
I don't care about Did you care about it? I
didn't care about it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
No, I don't care about the result of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's the right answer.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So okay, I want to get back to what we
were talking about with Hunter Brown and Dana Brown before
the break. But chandeler Rome actually was just walking by
here at the stadium and confirmed he will be on
with us tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
At five o'clock for his weekly visit. It was funny.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I was actually reading one of his tweets as he
walked by, and it was the one about you say Kakuchi.
He of a rigorous sleep routine, famous for this fourteen hours,
I believe is what he tries to get.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'm surprised he had time for post game time for bed.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No, he watched last night's Al West clincher at home
before his start today. Quote, I saw the ending and
celebrating right after the game, but yeah, I slept right after.
I think we'll be celebrating more moving forward, So it's
all right. He went to bed at home. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, they talked about that a little bit during the game,
both sides TV and radio, and that last comment there,
I hope. I think they'll be more celebrating moving forward.
And that's still to me. Every time the Astros have
been on these runs, there's somebody or some bodies that's
joined the team, either in the offseason or in the season.
They haven't done it before, they haven't been through this before.
They haven't felt the euphoria of the clinching and the
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celebrating or the just I'm in the postseason. I'm playing
games that are the biggest games of my major league
professional career, and now he will get to do that. Presumably,
you just know, telling how things go in the postseason
and could have a very short series, might set things
up a little interestingly moved Ford, But yeah, I think
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it's awesome to have those types of guys. Even Hunter Brown,
who's been in the postseason before, He's in a totally
different role. Now he's starting one of the first two
games of the upcoming series. He's trying to get them
to advance. He happened to be on the mound for
one of the last four clinchers. All four pitchers who've
clinched the division crown for the Astros from twenty one,
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twenty two to twenty three, and of course yesterday, all
four of them are still on the squad Nearris Brown Presley,
and of course last night Josh Hater and now they'll
go to Cleveland. As I mentioned earlier, just one quick
thought on the baseball side of it. The Mariners got
their win today. It puts them at eighty two and
seventy seven. Each of the teams they are chasing is
still in a better position. They are ahead of them.
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They only have three games remaining. The Twins still have five,
and that they have not played today and are on
the field tomorrow, but they are also five games over
the Tigers and Royals have one more win than the Mariners.
As we say, he's sit here today, Tigers close at
home with the Rays today and tomorrow, and then the
White Sox. Odds aren't very good that they lose many,
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if any, of their final five games, which puts the
Mariners in a real tough splite size.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Got booed for winning last night. I just want to
point that out.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, fuded by their home crowd because they wanted to
see history in the wrong kind.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
None of their crowd took the seats from their resting
place and ripped them out of their coliseum and took
them with them, like happened in Oakland.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, they're not going to use it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Royals have five games on the road to close. They
play at the Nationals and then at the Braves, whether permitting,
I suppose they and the Tigers have the same record.
The Mariners have exactly zero tiebreakers. They finish in any
kind of tie for a wild card spot, they will
not make it. Three way ties, four way ties, two
way ties, they have none of them.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, they had this one, but that didn't do them
any good.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yes, a tie for the division lead would have helped them.
The Twins have all of the tie breakers. They can't
catch the Orioles, which is another reason why it's so
difficult to have the Orioles slide to the all important
six spot. Who the Astros would play, but If the
Twins end up in a tie scenario with anybody, even
a three way tie or a four way tie, they
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will not be the team facing the Astros. Very slim
chance of that. If they tie with anybody. They're currently seventh.
Royals and Tigers are tied at five, with the Royals
holding that tie breaker, so technically the Tigers are six Tigers.
As I mentioned, raise this next two days, Royals Nationals
the next two days, and the Twins have the Marlins
the next two days. If the Ools beat the Yankees
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tonight and tomorrow, then the Oiols still have a chance
to be the number one seed when they go to
Minnesota for Friday's opening of that series. So there's still
plenty on the line for all of these other teams.
The Astros are locked and loaded in the three spot.
All that's left to do is determine the health of
Jordann Alvarez, determine the health of Chas McCormick, and figure
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out how they want to fill out that twenty six
man roster to be submitted Tuesday before they get the
series started with.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I don't have the bracket in front of me, but
is there a scenario in which the Yankee and Orioles
would face each other before the ALCS.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
No, because they thought, well before the ALCS. Yeah, yeah,
there's a scenario.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You're playing to go to the Ale.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
If the Yankees win the division and the Orioles lose out,
that's the only way. The Royals and Tigers win out,
the Orioles would land the sixth seed.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh that's the only scenario.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wait, no, they would need to be the five seed.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Excuse me.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There's a couple of scenarios where they could be that
makes more sense. But the Orioles are four games up
with five to play. Odds are very high. They're one
and four. So for your question, I should have been simple.
When you're one, it's like the Dodgers and the Padres.
One plays four. I like that if the fourth went
beats the five, they play one. That's what's happened in
the National League to the Dodgers in the past, when
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everyone was ready for the Dodgers to get sized up
for World Series rings.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
The main reason why I bring this.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Up they had even won a playoff series.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Well, and then what happened exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They didn't win one.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I mean, I'm telling you right now, this has all
the makings of another spectacular. We didn't even get to
the Astros to play them and try and get some
sort of vengeance. The Yankees are ripe for the picking.
I'm telling you the right matchup, and this is true
in any matchup in baseball.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You know it's not listen.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I wouldn't particularly actually like to see the Mariners if
I'm the Astros, because their pitching staff owns them. George
Kirby has never given up a home run to this team.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They Astro scored a run off of Kirby today. Again,
granted their lineup was not at full strength and it
wasn't due to injury. They scored no runs off of
Bryce Miller. They scored four runs off of Logan Gilbert,
which is shocking.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
But that's the guy that they usually quote beat up.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
If they do, and I don't know how they would
line things up, I would imagine the two pitchers who dominate.
That's who I would pitch in Games one and two
if I were the Mariners. I'm not sure that that's
what they would do because Castile's probably pitching this weekend
and returning from the IL. Probably not a guy you'd
want to start, but possibly a guy you'd want to
use for a handful of innings. And none of this
conversation included Brian Wu and it doesn't really all their
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starters are capable of acing you to start a series
to giving you six or seven eight ings of shutout baseball.
So I would prefer, like I imagine the other five postseason
teams in the AL, let's just go ahead and not
have them or nobody's afraid of them.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But they're terrible, but yeah, they absolutely do. So speaking
of that, I.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Did win this series. They did beat the Astros eight
times in thirteen games this year.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So the Today during the broadcast, Sparky brought up something
that Blummer has talked about as well with us uh,
the fact that Bregman in what could be his maiden
voyage as as an Astro or not his maiden voyage,
his farewell tour. Wow, I really screwed that one up.
Let me start this over, Alex Bregman has become.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
More of a mound.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Visitor, but just an overall leader that's more visible than
maybe before we all knew he was a good clubhouse leader,
a good guy that's never been in question. He was
one of the main guys that, according to Steve Sparks
today and I've heard this again with other people, was
the key to kind of turning around Hunter Brown's.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Not just this season. This was carryover from last year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Brown was talking to Steve spars about that last night.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Exactly, and the two seam fastball and just changing up
his repertoire and also where he located it inside against
right handers. Is something that Bregman brought to him, and
he's looked like a different guy. And Blum and I
and You've had this conversation with him as well.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Off the air.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
We've talked about this because Blum and Hunter have kind
of gotten pretty close, just as guys that like to
have conversations on the plane or whatever on the road.
He's a good guy to talk to you because he's
just he loves He's like Bregman, he's a junkie.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
He loves baseball. But he wanted to pitch his way.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
He wanted to kind of, you know, take the reins
off or whatever you want to call it. That is
is something that bodes very well going forward because I know, look,
if if Bregman walks away this offseason, it's going to
absolutely suck, and I think it's going to hit harder
than either George Springer or Carlos Korea did. In fact,
I know it is because the replacement, the air apparent
or even a band aid is not here. It's not
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I don't care what you say, it's just not but
not from the standpoint of the dropoff defensively is going
to be insane, insane. The bat's one thing, like everything
else during this run, the defense is what has been
taken for granted, and you've seen that more this season
than ever before. During this run, they just haven't been
as tight defensively, and that's a big reason why they
were as dominant as they were, in addition to the
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offense that was more potent at times in preceding seasons.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's definitely one of the things that's changed a little bit.
Their approach at the plate has quite obviously changed. Statistically,
there's no way around that. A couple of the things
are clearly different, but they could end up in a
very similar situation when it's all said and done this time.
That's the most different. They're going to the postseason and
will be playing in the Wildcard Series. Something they've been
able to avoid. Took them till the last day of
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the regular season a year ago to make sure that happened.
Clinch the playoff spot in game one sixty one, clinched
the division title in game one sixty two. No need
to wait that this year. They took care of it
in one fifty eighty.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's crazy to think about too, when you consider that
they did go down to the last day of the
year last year and the start to the season was
much better for the Astros than this year. So yeah,
we will continue to discuss Astros baseball. We're going to
get into some Texans conversation. And oh, by the way,
as it pertains to the Astros credit where it's due
from very unlikely sources, but it is happening. I don't know,
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it's like an out of body experience I'm having seeing this,
but it's actually very good credit and very well thought
out credit. We'll tell you what that is as well.
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Speaker 4 (11:46):
Going to join them once the hours get a little
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Speaker 2 (11:48):
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Speaker 2 (13:02):
Wound back at it here Inside Minute Made Park Astros
on their way to the postseason. Made it official last
night with that clinch over the Mariners eight to one
loss today in the finale of that series. But the
Astros will have an off day tomorrow and will play
out the remainder of the regular season schedule in Cleveland
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before coming back home for that opening series against whomever
on Tuesday next week.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Real quick, since we're still talking.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
About the Mariners within the division, and another oddity was
that because of tiebreakers, the fact that the Mariners, like
for example, couldn't beat the Angels this year could play
into whether or not they, you know, get a spot
where that spot.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Is that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They were talking about that on the broadcast today was
Sparky and Robert Ford.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
But you know he's not going to be in the postseason,
don't you. In this division, I.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Know three teams won't be probably four.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So we mentioned the Mariners that's still up in the air.
We mentioned the Angels who are definitely not going, as
aren't the Oakland A's. And then of course our neighbors
to the north and southern Oklahoma, where one Evan P. Grant,
not a friend of the show, tweeted the following about
four hours ago.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
By the way, Rangers fans won't want to hear this,
but facts are facts.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
What Houston has done over the last decade is damn
near dynastic, which is hilarious, but whatever, from high draftees
who became a corps to great homegrown pitching corps, that's
what long term success looks like.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's the Rangers. Aim.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Evan Grant has gone out of his way to kind
of I don't want to say he's shorted the Astros,
but he's definitely put in digs and you know, kind
of used this scandal.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
This is what what kind of perturbs me the most about.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You can get upset about twenty seventeen all you want,
even though they were hardly the only team doing anything.
And you know, if you want to bury your head
in the sand On that that's fine, but I don't
see anybody else even coming close to repeating, you know,
the Braves won a championship. They haven't even sniffed the
I mean, have they even sniffed the NLCS since they've
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been very good during the regular season.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
We all know what happened to the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
They've had a fire sale and then Anthony Rendon started
stealing money within the division over in Anaheim and everything else.
But like what the Astros have done consistently from a
contending standpoint, not just winning in the regular season but
then advancing, you know, is like unheard of. The last
time I can remember something like this was I guess
the Braves run in the nineties, Like where it's consistently.
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I mean, the Yankees won at the end of that
decade and that was the last time they were relevant
basically except for that one roided up two thousand and
nine championship. But like it's just I hope that as
time goes on, if Evan Grant can come around, like
I'm hoping that you know, the baseball media at least,
if not the fans can kind of appreciate what's going
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on here. And as we're sitting here after you know,
an eighth season during this nearly decade run.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, what the what the Braves did is close to
what the Astros did, and that they kept going to
the playoffs every year and they advanced. They have their
streak of CS appearances. It unfortunately came with virtually totally
but virtually no World Series success. They have the one title.
And what the Yankees did was win. They won four
World Series championships in five seasons ending the nineties and
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beginning the two thousands. That's what nobody else has recently replicated.
The Astros have been in the World Series that many times,
but they did not win. The Yankees even went to
the World Series two additional times in the three years
that followed. So it ended up winning four World Series
and six trips over a similar span of time that
the Astros have done.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
That.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But that's also twenty years ago. I think for how
the game has changed, A team has changed, The draft
has also changed, you know, the pool money and slotting
and some compensatory things have changed quite a bit even
in just that twenty year period. So I do think
comparing the current Astros to what the Rangers in his
mind currently should be trying to model themselves after It
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should be no different than the other teams that aren't
in this state. You're modeling the Astros, or you could
be modeling the Royals, or you could be modeling the
Orioles because they're already modeling the Astros. There are a
lot of teams that figured out. I think with some
of those changes, it was obviously if you can build
talent within, that was always the way to do it,
especially with all the rounds of the draft you had.
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I think the ability to develop players has always overlooked,
and that's another reason. How do you don't just have
homegrown players. It's not luck, it's not well. I don't
know how they do it, because they put time and
effort into it. They put time and effort into finding
the players they think have the skills that they can
then develop and even when they don't have a full
handle on that, because some of these people were talking
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about are in their teens and who knows what might
be able to be drawn out of them from a
skill standpoint and from progressing through professional baseball. But that's
the credit to a the scouts at the front end
of it, and the development staff all the way through it,
and then you get all the way to the major
league level. They haven't paid attention to what Garrett Cole
did through his minor league career, which was brief, other
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than scouting him. He's not in their system. They're not
hovering over every pitch he throws in the Pirate system,
and he rolls into Houston. They figure out a way
to make him better. They figure out how to make
Ryan Presley from a guy the Twins were willing to
part with because he was just a reliever to them,
a middle relief guy turn to the best postseason closer
of this era and has been humongous in the Astros
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winning what they've won and what could go on forever
and over the course of time. We usually do, but
it is nice to see that at some point you
kind of have to come around. The reason when, or
I guess the timeline when others will recognize it is
probably when you're further away from it. I don't think
it's going to be repeated. You know, this next dynasty
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in baseball, and I'm okay if you want a debate
calling the Astros a dynasty. They do only have two
championships that's a lot, because nobody else has two during
that time period. But I don't know that I would
call it a dynasty. I certainly would have zero issue
if they win a third and going to the ALCS
that well, again, it's not necessarily what you need to
push you over the top to call you a dynasty.
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But nobody's going to do that. It's it's not going
to happen again. We're not going to see another team
that does that. They advance every year, they go to
the CS every year, and they could make it eight
straight years this year. Nobody else is doing that, and
I don't see any reason why some other franchise would
start doing it. It is that special and unique, and
the further away from it we get, we're in it
right now. Other people will recognize that, like Evan p Yeah, no,
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he did in Ranger Nation, you know, one of those
they they gave props to the Astros too.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Although I'm not going to read their tweet on the air,
is there. I mean, it's probably wishful thinking. I just
I don't know why. In the back of my mind,
I feel like there is a scenario where Bregman comes back.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Of course, because there's absolutely a scenario where he comes back,
but it definitely requires some movement on the Astros part,
which we don't have any reason to believe there will be.
Had they didn't have enough movement for Springer, even though
we felt that was obvious. I don't bring Cole into
it because I think it's a totally different scenario, with
him not being a lifer here to begin with and
wanting to play for the Yankees at all costs. They
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were never going to be in that range, and I
don't even think pursuing him was worth their while, and
I don't think they did. Korea is much more like it.
He is a lifer here, he is a high draft pick.
He built what they have here today along with Bregman,
Altuve and others. They really never got even close to
what other teams ended up offering. I think the last offer,
or among the last offers the Astros sent to Carlos
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Korea was perfectly realistic to say, I think there's a
chance he might sign. It's not a bad deal, but
he's he got a better deal and he was going
to got most several Yeah, exactly, and against there's some
other factors with how far you're mo goes and where
you live in taxes, and it can easily make it
a little more equalized, but it was also shorter term.
He ended up signing a much shorter term deal, a
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one year deal with multiple one year deals that he
could opt out of, which he did and he's resigned
and gotten a little more money out of it. I
don't think there's any chance that Scott Boris and Alex
Bregman will be in that situation. I don't think there's
any way things go so badly for him in this
free agent year that he is relegated to signing a
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one year deal or a three year deal with opt
outs after each year.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
If if climate of the market has a lot to
do with it, or had a lot to do with Korea,
I thought it.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Did, and last year, if Alex Bregman was part of
that market, I think I would have said something differently.
I think last year was going to be different. And
I don't know how great the talent is that's going
to be out there. We obviously, though, know that Matt
Chapman at his position is not out there. I don't
know how teams will perceive a Blake Snell, just in
terms of how much money's going to be spent. You
know where things stand with Juan Soto because of his situation.
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I don't really think of him as a free agent.
I think of him as a well. He just hasn't
signed his five hundred million dollars deal with the Yankees yet,
but that's coming. He will and they will pay him,
so I'm not sure how many other players will be taking.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
He's definitely going back.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I do yes, because I think the Yankees, if the
Yankees really want to win, I can't believe they would
think we can be better if we're not spending our
money on him, if we spend it elsewhere. Another GM
in another city might think that. The Nationals thought it,
the Padres thought it, and the Padres were right, But
I don't think the Yankees think like that. I don't
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think they believe spending our money on more pitching, spending
our money on never having to play labor Torres again.
I don't think they will do that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Isn't it funny though, that Juan Soto left the Padres and.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
They're way better?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah? I mean they got good players in return, and
the players that they had were good around him to
begin with, and they've been able to build that. I mean,
it's not many teams where he can leave and he
leaves two superstars behind like Machado and Tazis Junior and
now Profars had an unbelievable season. Their pitching is incredible,
and then they went out. They probably had the best
trade deadline of any team in baseball as it related
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to turning a part of their team into an absolute strength.
And that's their bullpen. Their bullpen. It could be after
hater Astros like exactly astros like when they get to
the postseason this year. I need to get into a
little Texans chatter and we will do that. The Texans
and the Jaguars finally updating everybody on a Wednesday, first
day back at practice for a Sunday game with their
injury situation. A handful of Texans, as you probably heard
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earlier today, not a part of practice will get you
updated on that situation. With Demiko Ryans and CJ. Stroud.
We're talking about today clearly not a tremendous amount about
last week, and much more so about what is in
their future, which is the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to them,
a very good football team. We'll see if that is
in fact the case when the oh and three Jaguars
come to NRG Stadium. Still TVD apparently on whether the
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Eight team. Following the last Astros home game of the
season regular season, be back here on Tuesday to begin
the Wildcard Series. Quite possibly might be there to open
up the entire postseason. All four wildcard series will begin
on Tuesday. They'll all play on Wednesday, and then the
if necessaries will go on Thursday, day off Friday for
all of baseball, and then they get started with the
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Division series. If the Astros are triumphant, then will be
on the road four games one and two of that
division series, likely to be in Cleveland, but not yet
determine who the one seed is or the two seed is.
They will match up with the two seed if they
are to advance, which our last segment pointed out, that's
what they do, and in this case they'll actually have
to advance twice to reach the ALCS, and previous seasons
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other than the one we're not supposed to count in
twenty twenty, they did not have to do so because
of the buys that they were never needing. They've always had,
never needed to play Texans Jaguars this weekend, as expected,
some participants not available at practice today. For Houston, the
running backs that did not play last week did not
practice today. That's Joe Mixon and Damian Pierce. It's kind
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of a week to week thing. With Joe Mixon. I
don't believe it's a whole lot closer to him playing
other than clearly time has passed. We'll see if anything
changes Thursday or Friday with his ankle injury the hamstring
for Damian Pierce, apparently, according to our Aaron Wilson has
improved to the point that maybe there is some on
field limited practice work for him moving forward and maybe
the possibility that he is available along with Cam Akers
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hopefully if he stays healthy to play against the Jaguars.
But neither Mixon r Piers practice today, nor did Folly Fatacasi,
who has been part of their very impressive interior defensive line.
His shoulder situation kept him off the field. Not certain
about his status for Sunday just yet. And take Dell
did not practice today. That was pretty much expected after
the chess injury that he suffered this past week. When
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asked about it, as per usual, Demiko's response offered nothing.
He does not like to divulge injury information over the
course of the week or even on Friday. They have
an injury report for that and it gives you the
cold hard facts. Did he practice, was he limited? And
then on Friday it tells you his game status, whether
it's out, doubtful or questionable. Did not practice today. Four
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others were limited, a pair on the offensive line, although
I bet you both will be available for the game.
Kenyan Green with an illness and Jared Patterson the calf
injury kept him shelved a little bit last week and
similarly this week. Dalton Schultz sure hope he's playing this week.
He was limited with the ankle and has continued to
show up on game day through it. And Jimmy Ward
with a groin injury. They don't have a whole lot
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of depth as safety. But one thing I didn't point
out from last week's game for the first time all season.
Calen Bullock heavily out snapped Eric Murray as their other
safety again. Jalen Petrie technically as an s as his
listed position, but he's basically a slot corner this year.
He's basically their additional linebacker. Earlier this week, I mentioned
they have not had a third linebacker on the field
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for I don't believe a single snap the entire season
because basically that's where he plays. So when a third
safety is on the field, that's really a second safety.
Petrie and Murray, or Petrie and Kayln Bullock. First two
games of the year, they either split reps or Murray
had a slightly higher snap count than Kayln Bullock. Bullock
had almost twice as or almost three times as many
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snaps as he did did this week, and I suspect
that's going to continue moving in that direction. If not
for Bullock and Derek Stingley Junior, thinking they had the interception,
Sam Darnold's picture perfect four touchdown no turnover day would
have absolutely included a Texans interception. Either one of them
could have picked it off, but instead they basically knocked
it out of each other's hands and ran into each other.
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But that happens over the course of the season, even
over the course of the afternoon, and a little less
of that, and they're probably gonna be able to hand
handle the Jaguars. Jaguars are in a bad spot. You're
not gonna start a year ZH to four and make
the postseason. It's been pretty infrequent that a team has
started own three and made the postseason, although the last
time it happened it was Houston with Deshaun Watson and
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an OH and three start that they have a handful
of other teams under the recent playoff format, not the
exact playoff format, have made it at OH to three,
But again, you dropped OH one four, then I think
it's curtains on their season. I do think they'll probably
have a coaching change in their future, and they're gonna
have to figure out or is it worth eating one
hundred and ninety million or so in dead money on
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the two hundred and seventy five million dollar deal they
just signed Trevor Lawrence to It's not and they're going
to keep him and they're going to hope that he
gets better, but there's no real sign of that happening.
They should not be as bad as they are offensively,
even with some offensive line issues. Surprised how ineffective et
ten has been and how much they're take him off
the field so big speed can get on the field.
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He misses Evan Ingram. I can't deny it. I can't
believe they're letting that ruin their offense, though that they're
tight end who's definitely among the top five or six
pass catching tight ends in the league, So I understand
missing him is something, but it shouldn't completely cripple their offense.
Their offense thus far this season has been awful, and
they obviously were never in the game against the Bills
(30:25):
on Monday Night because they couldn't keep up. Bills scored
touchdowns every time they had it first five times, scored
thirty three points, and they were left way behind with
no touchdowns at that point in the game.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I can't believe we're sitting here talking about Trevor Lawrence
like this, though.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
I mean, I know.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
There's been a million a million over hyped quarterbacks at
or near the top of the draft that have not
panned out for any variety of reasons. And I even
know that some of them looked like they were gonna
be sure things in the early stages of their career.
But I mean, I just don't know that I've ever
seen one like this where it's just gone so sad
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and you know it's not even.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
He's not He's not like awful, He's just not good.
Is that? Well? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
If you were talking about last year, I would agree.
He has been awful this year. There's no There's no
way around it. The three games he's played this year
for a starting quarterback in the NFL in year four,
with the talent that's been put on the field, then
he's been playing with and in the same offense, he's
been awful this year and a serious decline from last year.
Last year was already a serious and serious decline for
the year before ye, So that's why they're headed in
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the direction that they're in. It is on his shoulders.
It absolutely falls at his feet. If that play doesn't improve,
their team's not going to improve. He's not on the
field when they give a five consecutive touchdowns. I completely
understand that, and playing from behind. If I mentioned it
about CJ and the Texans falling behind Minnesota, it's only
fair to mention the same thing. You're in a terrible spot.
It leads to terrible football, but you still have to
make plays. And that is simply the reason why I've
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never been a Trevor Lawrence guy. After he got to
the NFL. I'm not gonna lie and say I saw
him play a Clemson. The thought now, I don't think
he has it. I thought it, but after watching him
in the NFL, especially up close like we do here
in this division last year, in the year before, there's
just too many mistakes. There's too many plays that he
leaves on the table, too many plays that aren't made,
too many throws that aren't made. And I just don't
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feel like they know they ever feel like, well, we've
got him, let's put the game, the game plan on
his shoulders, and we'll just watch it roll. It just
doesn't work like that for him. It has happened one time,
for half of a game when he did that to
Justin Herbert's team, when the Chargers took that huge first
half lead and then miraculously they turned it all around
and they won the game going away in the second half.
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His loan playoff victory. In the two games he's so
far played in his career. That's as simple as that
for me. Even if the Jags defense shows up and
they should be a whole lot better than they were
against Buffalo, I don't expect Trevor Lawrence to have a
great day against the Texans. If he doesn't have a
great day, I don't expect them to beat the Texans.
And I'm pretty sure at four point thirty on Friday,
with stole cold locks come our way, I'll be expecting
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a huge day from CJ there at home. That's what
he does at home, and a cover for the Texans.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Interesting. Okay, there's a little snink peak right there. We'll
give you a snink peak.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
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So Colin, if you know the answer to this question
about we will something we were talking about earlier today.
It has to do with the Astros, their dynastic tendencies
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that other teams might want to mirror. Someone in the
media came around on the Astros. It kind of sounded
like with something that he posted. It is a heat
on the X platform earlier today about how good the
Astros are and how well they have done at maintaining that.
And we've mentioned his name many times on the show
over the course of the last two years, very specifically
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the last two years because of what's taken place between
the team he covers and this team. Who is that
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Speaker 2 (36:00):
Last time ATACA played in Texas, it was in the
Arlington area, right next door to where the Astros and
Rangers got together, not quite a year ago this time.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
What a difference a year makes. And I still can't.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Believe that, even though it was way more difficult I
feel like to achieve a division championship, the Astros didn't
have to go to the final day after being twelve
games under five hundred and ten games back of the
division lead.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well yeah, and who's in the division this year, definitely
opposed to last year, three teams fighting for the division
title and a playoff berth last year. Coming down the
final handful of games of the season, this year, clearly
there were only two. There are only two teams above
five hundred in this division, and the A's, while threatening,
haven't quite gotten there yet. I do think that's going
to change a little bit next year for Sacramento, for
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Vegas or whomever becomes their biggest fans, the Angels probably
in the same place. There is still a difference, and
I think people have to realize this, especially when you
look at the Central Division. They're not getting a tremendous
amount of respect, but they clearly have four teams that
are trying to get to the playoffs. Still, the Guardians
are there, the Royals, Twins and Tigers hope to be there,
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and two of those three probably will be. But they're
absolutely getting the benefit of murdering another team almost all
thirteen times they get to play them. It's like what
the Astros had done, but it was because the Astros
were so good. They didn't have a forty win team
in their division never but the worst it's it. It
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does matter. You can add four or five wins over
what you would expect just because they don't beat anybody,
because they exist, because they exist, and you're the only
four teams that get to play them thirteen times a piece.
So it does help. It does push you I mean,
it's gonna come down to the last couple of days
of the season for each of these teams to be
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maybe a game or two better than each other, maybe
a game or two better than the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Just for for the Astros still found a way to
go four and two against them.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yes, well, I bet if they played them thirteen times
they lost two games, maybe they were ten and three.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, Well, Kansas City went twelve and one against the
White Sox. The Twins also went twelve and one against
the White Sox. The Tigers haven't finished their season series.
If they sweep them, they will also go twelve and
one against the White Sox. All three teams in that
division fighting for a while. Take those thirteen games off
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of their schedule, and they're under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I did hear a lot about how weak the AL
West was at times during this run by the Astros.
They've never just like you got done, saying they've never
had a team like that in their division, even when
Oakland was in its worst state, which they looks like
they're kind of coming. Well, they're definitely coming out of
this year. Sure, they were never that bad. I mean,
this is record like the record level in depths of hell.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I do have to hand it to the White Sox, though,
in addition to handling the Astros twice, the division winner
in the American League Central lost to them five times.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Really is so, how many wins do they have?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
They are thirty seven and five of them five of
their wins against Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
We're against the Guardians.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
See, don't ever ask me whether or not I'm intimidated.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
By whoever Ramirez Closset.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Who's the guy Naylor?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
What an absolute that is a punishable face for a
playoff series.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
You don't want to see that guy.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Ben No?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Oh josh, yeah, wait where's Ben At?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
They're both there.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
They're both there. That's right. Oh, that's right because they
played in the same game against the Astros last year,
I believe.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah. So tomorrow the Astros are off Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
they finish with the Guardians. There are a lot of
things that play for everybody else in the American race.
Is just not Houston. Renel Blanco will pitch Friday, justin
Verlander's last regular season appearance again maybe ever in an
Astros uniform comes Saturday, pitching Saturday. He's clearly, I would
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assume the expectations for him to start a game in
a Wildcard series are zero and probably have been regardless
of when they pitched him this weekend. But whether or
not he's included among your twelve or thirteen pitchers on
a Wildcard Series roster, it is still somewhat up in
the air, depending on how they'd like to play it,
maybe the health of everybody. There are still three more
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games to play and pitchers that will be on your
postseason roster, like Hector n Ais who pitch today and
they're going to pitch. You still have to get through
the twenty four innings that you might have left if
you lose all three games. It has to be done,
and hopefully everybody's in a good spot when you get there,
and you're only deciding from a talent standpoint, not from
a health standpoint. With Chaz and Jordan, obviously health is
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a factor with them. Taylor Scott not going to be
a part of their Wildcard Series roster unless they play
it super duper risky because the timeline of when he
can return is not at the beginning of the series.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yes, wow, it's a huge, huge factor in whether or
not they win it all this year.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Although I make that joke, I don't think we thought
Jason Hayward was going.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
To do what he did in Philly. Roster.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Yeah, he definitely will.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
All right, I'll tell you why he's starting.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Uh yeah, If Jordan's dhing or on the DH you
gotta have three outfielders.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
You could go Dubon Myers and Tucker, or you could
play better players.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Do it? That's so mean?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Do we still subscribe to the theory that Jordan is
a better hitter when he plays in the field.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
It doesn't matter his knee is dictating this.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I think he's gonna be fine. We'll see. We will
also see what you.
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We've done it again, boys and girls, We've almost made
it through the one hundred and sixty two game Gamut
for Dan back at the station for WEX here on
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Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam talking your Team,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler r d A team.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
A five o'clock hour underway from inside minut May Park.
Astros losing the home finale of the regular season eight
to one to the Mariners doesn't matter. They went ahead
and clinched the division last night. Racous celebration, albeit subdued.
I guess it's.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's subdued because they've done it so many times, and
that's rather unfortunately, I suppose for the circumstances of the
game itself.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
He was a very tense game.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Tense game, had to come back. Pulled your starter to
get a four out outing from Brian Abray, You pulled
Bryan Presley mid inning to get four outs from Josh.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Hater, guy who doesn't do that in San Diego.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And none of those pitchers gave up any runs because
it was a situation. They came into it four to three.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was phenomenal, dramatic, and of course the end of
the game ended with a.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Strikeout Hater's first pitch. I was like, Oh, they're not
getting anything off of him at all, not even a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And Julio Rodriguez. You said it before the series came
in here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Again he smashed one today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, well he wasn't going up against Josh Hater in
a game that mattered. He was going up against who do.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You hit that off of?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Ners?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yes, they have great they have a history.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Hector Nerris was hung over like everybody else today. Nobody
on the Astros cared about this game, nor should they have.
I don't care about Did you care about it? I
didn't care about it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
No, I don't care about the result of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's the right answer.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So okay, I want to get back to what we
were talking about with Hunter Brown and Dana Brown before
the break. But chandeler Rome actually was just walking by
here at the stadium and confirmed he will be on
with us tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
At five o'clock for his weekly visit. It was funny.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I was actually reading one of his tweets as he
walked by, and it was the one about you say Kakuchi.
He of a rigorous sleep routine, famous for this fourteen hours,
I believe is what he tries to get.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'm surprised he had time for post game time for bed.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No, he watched last night's Al West clincher at home
before his start today. Quote, I saw the ending and
celebrating right after the game, but yeah, I slept right after.
I think we'll be celebrating more moving forward, So it's
all right. He went to bed at home. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, they talked about that a little bit during the game,
both sides TV and radio, and that last comment there,
I hope. I think they'll be more celebrating moving forward.
And that's still to me. Every time the Astros have
been on these runs, there's somebody or some bodies that's
joined the team, either in the offseason or in the season.
They haven't done it before, they haven't been through this before.
They haven't felt the euphoria of the clinching and the
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celebrating or the just I'm in the postseason. I'm playing
games that are the biggest games of my major league
professional career, and now he will get to do that. Presumably,
you just know, telling how things go in the postseason
and could have a very short series, might set things
up a little interestingly moved Ford, But yeah, I think
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it's awesome to have those types of guys. Even Hunter Brown,
who's been in the postseason before, He's in a totally
different role. Now he's starting one of the first two
games of the upcoming series. He's trying to get them
to advance. He happened to be on the mound for
one of the last four clinchers. All four pitchers who've
clinched the division crown for the Astros from twenty one,
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twenty two to twenty three, and of course yesterday, all
four of them are still on the squad Nearris Brown Presley,
and of course last night Josh Hater and now they'll
go to Cleveland. As I mentioned earlier, just one quick
thought on the baseball side of it. The Mariners got
their win today. It puts them at eighty two and
seventy seven. Each of the teams they are chasing is
still in a better position. They are ahead of them.
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They only have three games remaining. The Twins still have five,
and that they have not played today and are on
the field tomorrow, but they are also five games over
the Tigers and Royals have one more win than the Mariners.
As we say, he's sit here today, Tigers close at
home with the Rays today and tomorrow, and then the
White Sox. Odds aren't very good that they lose many,
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if any, of their final five games, which puts the
Mariners in a real tough splite size.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Got booed for winning last night. I just want to
point that out.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, fuded by their home crowd because they wanted to
see history in the wrong kind.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
None of their crowd took the seats from their resting
place and ripped them out of their coliseum and took
them with them, like happened in Oakland.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, they're not going to use it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Royals have five games on the road to close. They
play at the Nationals and then at the Braves, whether permitting,
I suppose they and the Tigers have the same record.
The Mariners have exactly zero tiebreakers. They finish in any
kind of tie for a wild card spot, they will
not make it. Three way ties, four way ties, two
way ties, they have none of them.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, they had this one, but that didn't do them
any good.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yes, a tie for the division lead would have helped them.
The Twins have all of the tie breakers. They can't
catch the Orioles, which is another reason why it's so
difficult to have the Orioles slide to the all important
six spot. Who the Astros would play, but If the
Twins end up in a tie scenario with anybody, even
a three way tie or a four way tie, they
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will not be the team facing the Astros. Very slim
chance of that. If they tie with anybody. They're currently seventh.
Royals and Tigers are tied at five, with the Royals
holding that tie breaker, so technically the Tigers are six Tigers.
As I mentioned, raise this next two days, Royals Nationals
the next two days, and the Twins have the Marlins
the next two days. If the Ools beat the Yankees
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tonight and tomorrow, then the Oiols still have a chance
to be the number one seed when they go to
Minnesota for Friday's opening of that series. So there's still
plenty on the line for all of these other teams.
The Astros are locked and loaded in the three spot.
All that's left to do is determine the health of
Jordann Alvarez, determine the health of Chas McCormick, and figure
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out how they want to fill out that twenty six
man roster to be submitted Tuesday before they get the
series started with.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I don't have the bracket in front of me, but
is there a scenario in which the Yankee and Orioles
would face each other before the ALCS.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
No, because they thought, well before the ALCS. Yeah, yeah,
there's a scenario.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You're playing to go to the Ale.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
If the Yankees win the division and the Orioles lose out,
that's the only way. The Royals and Tigers win out,
the Orioles would land the sixth seed.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh that's the only scenario.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wait, no, they would need to be the five seed.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Excuse me.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There's a couple of scenarios where they could be that
makes more sense. But the Orioles are four games up
with five to play. Odds are very high. They're one
and four. So for your question, I should have been simple.
When you're one, it's like the Dodgers and the Padres.
One plays four. I like that if the fourth went
beats the five, they play one. That's what's happened in
the National League to the Dodgers in the past, when
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everyone was ready for the Dodgers to get sized up
for World Series rings.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
The main reason why I bring this.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Up they had even won a playoff series.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Well, and then what happened exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They didn't win one.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I mean, I'm telling you right now, this has all
the makings of another spectacular. We didn't even get to
the Astros to play them and try and get some
sort of vengeance. The Yankees are ripe for the picking.
I'm telling you the right matchup, and this is true
in any matchup in baseball.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You know it's not listen.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I wouldn't particularly actually like to see the Mariners if
I'm the Astros, because their pitching staff owns them. George
Kirby has never given up a home run to this team.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They Astro scored a run off of Kirby today. Again,
granted their lineup was not at full strength and it
wasn't due to injury. They scored no runs off of
Bryce Miller. They scored four runs off of Logan Gilbert,
which is shocking.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
But that's the guy that they usually quote beat up.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
If they do, and I don't know how they would
line things up, I would imagine the two pitchers who dominate.
That's who I would pitch in Games one and two
if I were the Mariners. I'm not sure that that's
what they would do because Castile's probably pitching this weekend
and returning from the IL. Probably not a guy you'd
want to start, but possibly a guy you'd want to
use for a handful of innings. And none of this
conversation included Brian Wu and it doesn't really all their
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starters are capable of acing you to start a series
to giving you six or seven eight ings of shutout baseball.
So I would prefer, like I imagine the other five postseason
teams in the AL, let's just go ahead and not
have them or nobody's afraid of them.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But they're terrible, but yeah, they absolutely do. So speaking
of that, I.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Did win this series. They did beat the Astros eight
times in thirteen games this year.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So the Today during the broadcast, Sparky brought up something
that Blummer has talked about as well with us uh,
the fact that Bregman in what could be his maiden
voyage as as an Astro or not his maiden voyage,
his farewell tour. Wow, I really screwed that one up.
Let me start this over, Alex Bregman has become.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
More of a mound.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Visitor, but just an overall leader that's more visible than
maybe before we all knew he was a good clubhouse leader,
a good guy that's never been in question. He was
one of the main guys that, according to Steve Sparks
today and I've heard this again with other people, was
the key to kind of turning around Hunter Brown's.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Not just this season. This was carryover from last year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Brown was talking to Steve spars about that last night.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Exactly, and the two seam fastball and just changing up
his repertoire and also where he located it inside against
right handers. Is something that Bregman brought to him, and
he's looked like a different guy. And Blum and I
and You've had this conversation with him as well.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Off the air.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
We've talked about this because Blum and Hunter have kind
of gotten pretty close, just as guys that like to
have conversations on the plane or whatever on the road.
He's a good guy to talk to you because he's
just he loves He's like Bregman, he's a junkie.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
He loves baseball. But he wanted to pitch his way.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
He wanted to kind of, you know, take the reins
off or whatever you want to call it. That is
is something that bodes very well going forward because I know, look,
if if Bregman walks away this offseason, it's going to
absolutely suck, and I think it's going to hit harder
than either George Springer or Carlos Korea did. In fact,
I know it is because the replacement, the air apparent
or even a band aid is not here. It's not
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I don't care what you say, it's just not but
not from the standpoint of the dropoff defensively is going
to be insane, insane. The bat's one thing, like everything
else during this run, the defense is what has been
taken for granted, and you've seen that more this season
than ever before. During this run, they just haven't been
as tight defensively, and that's a big reason why they
were as dominant as they were, in addition to the
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offense that was more potent at times in preceding seasons.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's definitely one of the things that's changed a little bit.
Their approach at the plate has quite obviously changed. Statistically,
there's no way around that. A couple of the things
are clearly different, but they could end up in a
very similar situation when it's all said and done this time.
That's the most different. They're going to the postseason and
will be playing in the Wildcard Series. Something they've been
able to avoid. Took them till the last day of
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the regular season a year ago to make sure that happened.
Clinch the playoff spot in game one sixty one, clinched
the division title in game one sixty two. No need
to wait that this year. They took care of it
in one fifty eighty.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's crazy to think about too, when you consider that
they did go down to the last day of the
year last year and the start to the season was
much better for the Astros than this year. So yeah,
we will continue to discuss Astros baseball. We're going to
get into some Texans conversation. And oh, by the way,
as it pertains to the Astros credit where it's due
from very unlikely sources, but it is happening. I don't know,
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it's like an out of body experience I'm having seeing this,
but it's actually very good credit and very well thought
out credit. We'll tell you what that is as well.
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does that put like kind of a shiver down your spine,
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the road and the drunk drivers that are.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Going to join them once the hours get a little
bit later.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Although you know it doesn't have to be night for
a drunk driver to ruin your life and maybe worse.
What you need to be on the lookout for, though,
is if you're in any sort of auto accident. Because
of that, the Shenanigans and the type of drivers we have,
especially on the Gallery side of the town. The West
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Speaker 1 (12:52):
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Speaker 2 (13:02):
Wound back at it here Inside Minute Made Park Astros
on their way to the postseason. Made it official last
night with that clinch over the Mariners eight to one
loss today in the finale of that series. But the
Astros will have an off day tomorrow and will play
out the remainder of the regular season schedule in Cleveland
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before coming back home for that opening series against whomever
on Tuesday next week.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Real quick, since we're still talking.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
About the Mariners within the division, and another oddity was
that because of tiebreakers, the fact that the Mariners, like
for example, couldn't beat the Angels this year could play
into whether or not they, you know, get a spot
where that spot.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Is that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They were talking about that on the broadcast today was
Sparky and Robert Ford.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
But you know he's not going to be in the postseason,
don't you. In this division, I.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Know three teams won't be probably four.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So we mentioned the Mariners that's still up in the air.
We mentioned the Angels who are definitely not going, as
aren't the Oakland A's. And then of course our neighbors
to the north and southern Oklahoma, where one Evan P. Grant,
not a friend of the show, tweeted the following about
four hours ago.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
By the way, Rangers fans won't want to hear this,
but facts are facts.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
What Houston has done over the last decade is damn
near dynastic, which is hilarious, but whatever, from high draftees
who became a corps to great homegrown pitching corps, that's
what long term success looks like.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's the Rangers. Aim.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Evan Grant has gone out of his way to kind
of I don't want to say he's shorted the Astros,
but he's definitely put in digs and you know, kind
of used this scandal.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
This is what what kind of perturbs me the most about.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You can get upset about twenty seventeen all you want,
even though they were hardly the only team doing anything.
And you know, if you want to bury your head
in the sand On that that's fine, but I don't
see anybody else even coming close to repeating, you know,
the Braves won a championship. They haven't even sniffed the
I mean, have they even sniffed the NLCS since they've
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been very good during the regular season.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
We all know what happened to the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
They've had a fire sale and then Anthony Rendon started
stealing money within the division over in Anaheim and everything else.
But like what the Astros have done consistently from a
contending standpoint, not just winning in the regular season but
then advancing, you know, is like unheard of. The last
time I can remember something like this was I guess
the Braves run in the nineties, Like where it's consistently.
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I mean, the Yankees won at the end of that
decade and that was the last time they were relevant
basically except for that one roided up two thousand and
nine championship. But like it's just I hope that as
time goes on, if Evan Grant can come around, like
I'm hoping that you know, the baseball media at least,
if not the fans can kind of appreciate what's going
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on here. And as we're sitting here after you know,
an eighth season during this nearly decade run.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, what the what the Braves did is close to
what the Astros did, and that they kept going to
the playoffs every year and they advanced. They have their
streak of CS appearances. It unfortunately came with virtually totally
but virtually no World Series success. They have the one title.
And what the Yankees did was win. They won four
World Series championships in five seasons ending the nineties and
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beginning the two thousands. That's what nobody else has recently replicated.
The Astros have been in the World Series that many times,
but they did not win. The Yankees even went to
the World Series two additional times in the three years
that followed. So it ended up winning four World Series
and six trips over a similar span of time that
the Astros have done.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
That.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But that's also twenty years ago. I think for how
the game has changed, A team has changed, The draft
has also changed, you know, the pool money and slotting
and some compensatory things have changed quite a bit even
in just that twenty year period. So I do think
comparing the current Astros to what the Rangers in his
mind currently should be trying to model themselves after It
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should be no different than the other teams that aren't
in this state. You're modeling the Astros, or you could
be modeling the Royals, or you could be modeling the
Orioles because they're already modeling the Astros. There are a
lot of teams that figured out. I think with some
of those changes, it was obviously if you can build
talent within, that was always the way to do it,
especially with all the rounds of the draft you had.
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I think the ability to develop players has always overlooked,
and that's another reason. How do you don't just have
homegrown players. It's not luck, it's not well. I don't
know how they do it, because they put time and
effort into it. They put time and effort into finding
the players they think have the skills that they can
then develop and even when they don't have a full
handle on that, because some of these people were talking
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about are in their teens and who knows what might
be able to be drawn out of them from a
skill standpoint and from progressing through professional baseball. But that's
the credit to a the scouts at the front end
of it, and the development staff all the way through it,
and then you get all the way to the major
league level. They haven't paid attention to what Garrett Cole
did through his minor league career, which was brief, other
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than scouting him. He's not in their system. They're not
hovering over every pitch he throws in the Pirate system,
and he rolls into Houston. They figure out a way
to make him better. They figure out how to make
Ryan Presley from a guy the Twins were willing to
part with because he was just a reliever to them,
a middle relief guy turn to the best postseason closer
of this era and has been humongous in the Astros
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winning what they've won and what could go on forever
and over the course of time. We usually do, but
it is nice to see that at some point you
kind of have to come around. The reason when, or
I guess the timeline when others will recognize it is
probably when you're further away from it. I don't think
it's going to be repeated. You know, this next dynasty
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in baseball, and I'm okay if you want a debate
calling the Astros a dynasty. They do only have two
championships that's a lot, because nobody else has two during
that time period. But I don't know that I would
call it a dynasty. I certainly would have zero issue
if they win a third and going to the ALCS
that well, again, it's not necessarily what you need to
push you over the top to call you a dynasty.
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But nobody's going to do that. It's it's not going
to happen again. We're not going to see another team
that does that. They advance every year, they go to
the CS every year, and they could make it eight
straight years this year. Nobody else is doing that, and
I don't see any reason why some other franchise would
start doing it. It is that special and unique, and
the further away from it we get, we're in it
right now. Other people will recognize that, like Evan p Yeah, no,
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he did in Ranger Nation, you know, one of those
they they gave props to the Astros too.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Although I'm not going to read their tweet on the air,
is there. I mean, it's probably wishful thinking. I just
I don't know why. In the back of my mind,
I feel like there is a scenario where Bregman comes back.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Of course, because there's absolutely a scenario where he comes back,
but it definitely requires some movement on the Astros part,
which we don't have any reason to believe there will be.
Had they didn't have enough movement for Springer, even though
we felt that was obvious. I don't bring Cole into
it because I think it's a totally different scenario, with
him not being a lifer here to begin with and
wanting to play for the Yankees at all costs. They
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were never going to be in that range, and I
don't even think pursuing him was worth their while, and
I don't think they did. Korea is much more like it.
He is a lifer here, he is a high draft pick.
He built what they have here today along with Bregman,
Altuve and others. They really never got even close to
what other teams ended up offering. I think the last offer,
or among the last offers the Astros sent to Carlos
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Korea was perfectly realistic to say, I think there's a
chance he might sign. It's not a bad deal, but
he's he got a better deal and he was going
to got most several Yeah, exactly, and against there's some
other factors with how far you're mo goes and where
you live in taxes, and it can easily make it
a little more equalized, but it was also shorter term.
He ended up signing a much shorter term deal, a
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one year deal with multiple one year deals that he
could opt out of, which he did and he's resigned
and gotten a little more money out of it. I
don't think there's any chance that Scott Boris and Alex
Bregman will be in that situation. I don't think there's
any way things go so badly for him in this
free agent year that he is relegated to signing a
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one year deal or a three year deal with opt
outs after each year.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
If if climate of the market has a lot to
do with it, or had a lot to do with Korea,
I thought it.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Did, and last year, if Alex Bregman was part of
that market, I think I would have said something differently.
I think last year was going to be different. And
I don't know how great the talent is that's going
to be out there. We obviously, though, know that Matt
Chapman at his position is not out there. I don't
know how teams will perceive a Blake Snell, just in
terms of how much money's going to be spent. You
know where things stand with Juan Soto because of his situation.
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I don't really think of him as a free agent.
I think of him as a well. He just hasn't
signed his five hundred million dollars deal with the Yankees yet,
but that's coming. He will and they will pay him,
so I'm not sure how many other players will be taking.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
He's definitely going back.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I do yes, because I think the Yankees, if the
Yankees really want to win, I can't believe they would
think we can be better if we're not spending our
money on him, if we spend it elsewhere. Another GM
in another city might think that. The Nationals thought it,
the Padres thought it, and the Padres were right, But
I don't think the Yankees think like that. I don't
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think they believe spending our money on more pitching, spending
our money on never having to play labor Torres again.
I don't think they will do that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Isn't it funny though, that Juan Soto left the Padres and.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
They're way better?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah? I mean they got good players in return, and
the players that they had were good around him to
begin with, and they've been able to build that. I mean,
it's not many teams where he can leave and he
leaves two superstars behind like Machado and Tazis Junior and
now Profars had an unbelievable season. Their pitching is incredible,
and then they went out. They probably had the best
trade deadline of any team in baseball as it related
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to turning a part of their team into an absolute strength.
And that's their bullpen. Their bullpen. It could be after
hater Astros like exactly astros like when they get to
the postseason this year. I need to get into a
little Texans chatter and we will do that. The Texans
and the Jaguars finally updating everybody on a Wednesday, first
day back at practice for a Sunday game with their
injury situation. A handful of Texans, as you probably heard
(23:32):
earlier today, not a part of practice will get you
updated on that situation. With Demiko Ryans and CJ. Stroud.
We're talking about today clearly not a tremendous amount about
last week, and much more so about what is in
their future, which is the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to them,
a very good football team. We'll see if that is
in fact the case when the oh and three Jaguars
come to NRG Stadium. Still TVD apparently on whether the
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Eight team. Following the last Astros home game of the
season regular season, be back here on Tuesday to begin
the Wildcard Series. Quite possibly might be there to open
up the entire postseason. All four wildcard series will begin
on Tuesday. They'll all play on Wednesday, and then the
if necessaries will go on Thursday, day off Friday for
all of baseball, and then they get started with the
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Division series. If the Astros are triumphant, then will be
on the road four games one and two of that
division series, likely to be in Cleveland, but not yet
determine who the one seed is or the two seed is.
They will match up with the two seed if they
are to advance, which our last segment pointed out, that's
what they do, and in this case they'll actually have
to advance twice to reach the ALCS, and previous seasons
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other than the one we're not supposed to count in
twenty twenty, they did not have to do so because
of the buys that they were never needing. They've always had,
never needed to play Texans Jaguars this weekend, as expected,
some participants not available at practice today. For Houston, the
running backs that did not play last week did not
practice today. That's Joe Mixon and Damian Pierce. It's kind
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of a week to week thing. With Joe Mixon. I
don't believe it's a whole lot closer to him playing
other than clearly time has passed. We'll see if anything
changes Thursday or Friday with his ankle injury the hamstring
for Damian Pierce, apparently, according to our Aaron Wilson has
improved to the point that maybe there is some on
field limited practice work for him moving forward and maybe
the possibility that he is available along with Cam Akers
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hopefully if he stays healthy to play against the Jaguars.
But neither Mixon r Piers practice today, nor did Folly Fatacasi,
who has been part of their very impressive interior defensive line.
His shoulder situation kept him off the field. Not certain
about his status for Sunday just yet. And take Dell
did not practice today. That was pretty much expected after
the chess injury that he suffered this past week. When
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asked about it, as per usual, Demiko's response offered nothing.
He does not like to divulge injury information over the
course of the week or even on Friday. They have
an injury report for that and it gives you the
cold hard facts. Did he practice, was he limited? And
then on Friday it tells you his game status, whether
it's out, doubtful or questionable. Did not practice today. Four
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others were limited, a pair on the offensive line, although
I bet you both will be available for the game.
Kenyan Green with an illness and Jared Patterson the calf
injury kept him shelved a little bit last week and
similarly this week. Dalton Schultz sure hope he's playing this week.
He was limited with the ankle and has continued to
show up on game day through it. And Jimmy Ward
with a groin injury. They don't have a whole lot
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of depth as safety. But one thing I didn't point
out from last week's game for the first time all season.
Calen Bullock heavily out snapped Eric Murray as their other
safety again. Jalen Petrie technically as an s as his
listed position, but he's basically a slot corner this year.
He's basically their additional linebacker. Earlier this week, I mentioned
they have not had a third linebacker on the field
(28:16):
for I don't believe a single snap the entire season
because basically that's where he plays. So when a third
safety is on the field, that's really a second safety.
Petrie and Murray, or Petrie and Kayln Bullock. First two
games of the year, they either split reps or Murray
had a slightly higher snap count than Kayln Bullock. Bullock
had almost twice as or almost three times as many
(28:38):
snaps as he did did this week, and I suspect
that's going to continue moving in that direction. If not
for Bullock and Derek Stingley Junior, thinking they had the interception,
Sam Darnold's picture perfect four touchdown no turnover day would
have absolutely included a Texans interception. Either one of them
could have picked it off, but instead they basically knocked
it out of each other's hands and ran into each other.
(28:59):
But that happens over the course of the season, even
over the course of the afternoon, and a little less
of that, and they're probably gonna be able to hand
handle the Jaguars. Jaguars are in a bad spot. You're
not gonna start a year ZH to four and make
the postseason. It's been pretty infrequent that a team has
started own three and made the postseason, although the last
time it happened it was Houston with Deshaun Watson and
(29:21):
an OH and three start that they have a handful
of other teams under the recent playoff format, not the
exact playoff format, have made it at OH to three,
But again, you dropped OH one four, then I think
it's curtains on their season. I do think they'll probably
have a coaching change in their future, and they're gonna
have to figure out or is it worth eating one
hundred and ninety million or so in dead money on
(29:41):
the two hundred and seventy five million dollar deal they
just signed Trevor Lawrence to It's not and they're going
to keep him and they're going to hope that he
gets better, but there's no real sign of that happening.
They should not be as bad as they are offensively,
even with some offensive line issues. Surprised how ineffective et
ten has been and how much they're take him off
the field so big speed can get on the field.
(30:02):
He misses Evan Ingram. I can't deny it. I can't
believe they're letting that ruin their offense, though that they're
tight end who's definitely among the top five or six
pass catching tight ends in the league, So I understand
missing him is something, but it shouldn't completely cripple their offense.
Their offense thus far this season has been awful, and
they obviously were never in the game against the Bills
(30:25):
on Monday Night because they couldn't keep up. Bills scored
touchdowns every time they had it first five times, scored
thirty three points, and they were left way behind with
no touchdowns at that point in the game.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I can't believe we're sitting here talking about Trevor Lawrence
like this, though.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
I mean, I know.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
There's been a million a million over hyped quarterbacks at
or near the top of the draft that have not
panned out for any variety of reasons. And I even
know that some of them looked like they were gonna
be sure things in the early stages of their career.
But I mean, I just don't know that I've ever
seen one like this where it's just gone so sad
(31:01):
and you know it's not even.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
He's not He's not like awful, He's just not good.
Is that? Well? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
If you were talking about last year, I would agree.
He has been awful this year. There's no There's no
way around it. The three games he's played this year
for a starting quarterback in the NFL in year four,
with the talent that's been put on the field, then
he's been playing with and in the same offense, he's
been awful this year and a serious decline from last year.
Last year was already a serious and serious decline for
the year before ye, So that's why they're headed in
(31:30):
the direction that they're in. It is on his shoulders.
It absolutely falls at his feet. If that play doesn't improve,
their team's not going to improve. He's not on the
field when they give a five consecutive touchdowns. I completely
understand that, and playing from behind. If I mentioned it
about CJ and the Texans falling behind Minnesota, it's only
fair to mention the same thing. You're in a terrible spot.
It leads to terrible football, but you still have to
make plays. And that is simply the reason why I've
(31:53):
never been a Trevor Lawrence guy. After he got to
the NFL. I'm not gonna lie and say I saw
him play a Clemson. The thought now, I don't think
he has it. I thought it, but after watching him
in the NFL, especially up close like we do here
in this division last year, in the year before, there's
just too many mistakes. There's too many plays that he
leaves on the table, too many plays that aren't made,
too many throws that aren't made. And I just don't
(32:14):
feel like they know they ever feel like, well, we've
got him, let's put the game, the game plan on
his shoulders, and we'll just watch it roll. It just
doesn't work like that for him. It has happened one time,
for half of a game when he did that to
Justin Herbert's team, when the Chargers took that huge first
half lead and then miraculously they turned it all around
and they won the game going away in the second half.
(32:35):
His loan playoff victory. In the two games he's so
far played in his career. That's as simple as that
for me. Even if the Jags defense shows up and
they should be a whole lot better than they were
against Buffalo, I don't expect Trevor Lawrence to have a
great day against the Texans. If he doesn't have a
great day, I don't expect them to beat the Texans.
And I'm pretty sure at four point thirty on Friday,
with stole cold locks come our way, I'll be expecting
(32:58):
a huge day from CJ there at home. That's what
he does at home, and a cover for the Texans.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Interesting. Okay, there's a little snink peak right there. We'll
give you a snink peak.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
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Speaker 3 (34:24):
Continues as per usual, we have tickets to give away.
To not mention this earlier, but if you've been listening
throughout the week, you know we have tickets to go
see Metallica. They're coming to the Apes. They're coming to NRG.
They're coming June fourteenth, and they're bringing Pantera and suicidal
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(34:46):
win tickets right here with us. We actually have a
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So Colin, if you know the answer to this question
about we will something we were talking about earlier today.
It has to do with the Astros, their dynastic tendencies
(35:06):
that other teams might want to mirror. Someone in the
media came around on the Astros. It kind of sounded
like with something that he posted. It is a heat
on the X platform earlier today about how good the
Astros are and how well they have done at maintaining that.
And we've mentioned his name many times on the show
over the course of the last two years, very specifically
(35:27):
the last two years because of what's taken place between
the team he covers and this team. Who is that
reporter that seemed to come around in a very pro
Astros tweet? We mentioned it by name a couple of
times earlier on the show. Thus, if you were listening,
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(35:49):
that reporter how much you like him, and follow him
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Speaker 2 (36:00):
Last time ATACA played in Texas, it was in the
Arlington area, right next door to where the Astros and
Rangers got together, not quite a year ago this time.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
What a difference a year makes. And I still can't.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Believe that, even though it was way more difficult I
feel like to achieve a division championship, the Astros didn't
have to go to the final day after being twelve
games under five hundred and ten games back of the
division lead.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well yeah, and who's in the division this year, definitely
opposed to last year, three teams fighting for the division
title and a playoff berth last year. Coming down the
final handful of games of the season, this year, clearly
there were only two. There are only two teams above
five hundred in this division, and the A's, while threatening,
haven't quite gotten there yet. I do think that's going
to change a little bit next year for Sacramento, for
(36:49):
Vegas or whomever becomes their biggest fans, the Angels probably
in the same place. There is still a difference, and
I think people have to realize this, especially when you
look at the Central Division. They're not getting a tremendous
amount of respect, but they clearly have four teams that
are trying to get to the playoffs. Still, the Guardians
are there, the Royals, Twins and Tigers hope to be there,
(37:10):
and two of those three probably will be. But they're
absolutely getting the benefit of murdering another team almost all
thirteen times they get to play them. It's like what
the Astros had done, but it was because the Astros
were so good. They didn't have a forty win team
in their division never but the worst it's it. It
(37:32):
does matter. You can add four or five wins over
what you would expect just because they don't beat anybody,
because they exist, because they exist, and you're the only
four teams that get to play them thirteen times a piece.
So it does help. It does push you I mean,
it's gonna come down to the last couple of days
of the season for each of these teams to be
(37:54):
maybe a game or two better than each other, maybe
a game or two better than the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Just for for the Astros still found a way to
go four and two against them.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yes, well, I bet if they played them thirteen times
they lost two games, maybe they were ten and three.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, Well, Kansas City went twelve and one against the
White Sox. The Twins also went twelve and one against
the White Sox. The Tigers haven't finished their season series.
If they sweep them, they will also go twelve and
one against the White Sox. All three teams in that
division fighting for a while. Take those thirteen games off
(38:30):
of their schedule, and they're under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I did hear a lot about how weak the AL
West was at times during this run by the Astros.
They've never just like you got done, saying they've never
had a team like that in their division, even when
Oakland was in its worst state, which they looks like
they're kind of coming. Well, they're definitely coming out of
this year. Sure, they were never that bad. I mean,
this is record like the record level in depths of hell.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I do have to hand it to the White Sox, though,
in addition to handling the Astros twice, the division winner
in the American League Central lost to them five times.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Really is so, how many wins do they have?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
They are thirty seven and five of them five of
their wins against Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
We're against the Guardians.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
See, don't ever ask me whether or not I'm intimidated.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
By whoever Ramirez Closset.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Who's the guy Naylor?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
What an absolute that is a punishable face for a
playoff series.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
You don't want to see that guy.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Ben No?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Oh josh, yeah, wait where's Ben At?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
They're both there.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
They're both there. That's right. Oh, that's right because they
played in the same game against the Astros last year,
I believe.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah. So tomorrow the Astros are off Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
they finish with the Guardians. There are a lot of
things that play for everybody else in the American race.
Is just not Houston. Renel Blanco will pitch Friday, justin
Verlander's last regular season appearance again maybe ever in an
Astros uniform comes Saturday, pitching Saturday. He's clearly, I would
(40:03):
assume the expectations for him to start a game in
a Wildcard series are zero and probably have been regardless
of when they pitched him this weekend. But whether or
not he's included among your twelve or thirteen pitchers on
a Wildcard Series roster, it is still somewhat up in
the air, depending on how they'd like to play it,
maybe the health of everybody. There are still three more
(40:24):
games to play and pitchers that will be on your
postseason roster, like Hector n Ais who pitch today and
they're going to pitch. You still have to get through
the twenty four innings that you might have left if
you lose all three games. It has to be done,
and hopefully everybody's in a good spot when you get there,
and you're only deciding from a talent standpoint, not from
a health standpoint. With Chaz and Jordan, obviously health is
(40:48):
a factor with them. Taylor Scott not going to be
a part of their Wildcard Series roster unless they play
it super duper risky because the timeline of when he
can return is not at the beginning of the series.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yes, wow, it's a huge, huge factor in whether or
not they win it all this year.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Although I make that joke, I don't think we thought
Jason Hayward was going.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
To do what he did in Philly. Roster.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Yeah, he definitely will.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
All right, I'll tell you why he's starting.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Uh yeah, If Jordan's dhing or on the DH you
gotta have three outfielders.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
You could go Dubon Myers and Tucker, or you could
play better players.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Do it? That's so mean?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Do we still subscribe to the theory that Jordan is
a better hitter when he plays in the field.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
It doesn't matter his knee is dictating this.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I think he's gonna be fine. We'll see. We will
also see what you.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
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Back at it tomorrow in studio as we continue to
get you ready for Texans Jags, an off day by
(42:45):
the Astros heading into the finale of the regular season.
We've done it again, boys and girls, We've almost made
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