The A-Team: AC Says The 2025 Astros Could Be The 2024-25 Dallas Cowboys

As we are set to start the Astros season, the predictions for how this season will end are vast. Adam Clanton believes this Astros season is going to be really good or one that we'd like to forget. He thinks that the Astros are maybe in for a similar season, that we just saw from the Dallas Cowboys. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I did this last season at the start of the
NFL year, and it was more of like a gut
feeling more than anything. And anybody who heard it at
the time probably thought, Ah, that's just a radio guy
in Houston, just being an anti Dallas guy, even though
they don't play in Dallas, they play in Arlington. I said,
the Dallas Cowboys are either going to be really really

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good and actually make some noise and not get crushed
in the opening round of the playoffs at home by
the Packers, or it's going to be an unmitigated disaster.
And I was not lining that up with injuries, which
ended up factoring in obviously. But they sucked before Dak
Prescott went down. Okay, the elite quarterback went down, Yeah,
what are you gonna do? But they sucked while he

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was playing what are you gonna do? So here it is,
the Astros are about to have a very Dallas Cowboys
like season now. One way or the other. I'm not
saying they're going to do what Dallas did, but with
everything that we just got done talking about, with the
competition as it is in the American League, and with

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you know, only basically I think three teams having the
ability to win in the Astros specific division. It's not
gonna be one of those seasons, in my opinion, where
they're scraping by and at the very tail end it's
been a you know, a juggernaut, it's been a tractor
poll and then at the last day or last week
of the season, they edge ahead and they win. They're

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either gonna win it with like anywhere from eighty five
to ninety wins, or they're gonna be down there with
the Oaklands in the Anaheims of the world. And I
feel very strongly about saying that. And here's why you cannot.
You just cannot ignore what they've lost from a leadership standpoint.
The production standpoint speaks for itself. That's not even a

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conversation starter. You just lost Alex Bregman. Well, those numbers
are trailing, Okay, I'll give you that. Well, he's an
unseasonably slow starter every year, and it was even worse
last year. Right, Kyle Tucker was awesome until he went
down and then he missed the rest of the season practically,
and that's when they took off. I get that too,
But Bregman, Tucker and to a lesser extent, Presley in

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the bullpen. Those departures are not small in any way,
shape or form. And I'm not saying anything that any
of you don't already know. But the problem is when
it comes down to predicting what's gonna happen in twenty
twenty five with the Houston Astros, nobody knows. You can't
sit there and say, yeah, they'll be all right because this,
this and this, all those this, this and this is

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are unproven commodities at best in an Astros uniform. Well
they got Christian Wacker, Great, he's never played a game here. Well,
he's gonna abuse the Crawford boxes. He might, but he'd
better is more like it. You have to not only,
you know, replace that production on the field, you have
to replace that production in the clubhouse and in any

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sort of intangible area. And I'm just not willing to
sit here and say it's a foregone conclusion. And so
that's why I say it's gonna be feast or famine.
They're either gonna win this division and it's gonna be like, Okay,
they're all right. They're at least still in it because
they'd made some moves, some contingency plans, even with the
departures they had, or it's going to be one of
those seasons where we're like, oh my gosh, this is

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the longest summer ever