00:00Listen, I'm not going to lie to you.
00:01It felt like there was some potential belief
00:05starting to come back to some Astros fans.
00:10Like they weren't ready to get in,
00:13but I think it moved from throwing in the towel.
00:16Now, not everyone was as confident as Clint.
00:22Clint has been pretty confident on his belief
00:26that they are going to make the postseason, make the playoffs.
00:29Now, what they do when they get there, he doesn't know.
00:32But they get swept by Baltimore.
00:36Baltimore then jumps them in the standings.
00:38They are 47-54, third in the West, behind the Rangers and the Mariners.
00:44They've lost four in a row, three and seven their last ten,
00:47four games back in the West, four and a half in the wild card.
00:52Their three best starters, most reliable ones, went in this series.
00:57And to be honest, Peter Lambert and Eric Getty,
01:01you can't really ask for much more.
01:03Their ace was the one who stunk in Hunter Brown.
01:08And they still lost the series.
01:10We had two chains, Bobby with us, Hotel Lobby Bobby with us.
01:18We had Robert Flores with us over the last couple of weeks.
01:21Yeah, he was.
01:23I'm pretty certain he was, and I'm pretty certain Hotel Bobby was heading to it.
01:31If you're looking for his drink, we believe Ray Goose
01:36and just a smidge of cranberry.
01:38A splash.
01:39Just a splash.
01:41And probably cloves, potentially, on deck.
01:46But they both said they were going to be looking for pitching, buyers, pitching,
01:50Hill, Bob, maybe involved in the school bowl situation.
01:58After this weekend series, and you know where they are right now,
02:03did that change your outlook on how the Astros should approach the rest of the season?
02:087-1-3, 5-7-2-4, 6-10.
02:10Did that change it?
02:14Not completely.
02:15Change, yes.
02:16You're getting there a little.
02:18Oh, so you shifted a bit.
02:20Well, I mean, hell, I mean, you can't.
02:22The way they lost, I mean, good gosh.
02:24I mean, you thought if Peter Lambert and Spencer Arrgetti go out there
02:29and give you good outings, boy, you got a chance to get two of three, if not sweet.
02:34And they did just that, and you peed down your leg.
02:37I mean, I just, yeah, man, no, I mean, I don't know how you can,
02:41everything you just laid out, there's no way that happens and things don't change.
02:46Yeah.
02:46Right?
02:46I'm not out.
02:48I'm not going to move off of my making the playoffs, finishing above 500.
02:53I'm not going to move off that.
02:55But I am a little bit concerned with Hunter Brown in particular,
03:02and obviously the injury piece that I was very confident was not going to be a problem
03:08this next 60 games was a problem before they even threw a pitch on Friday.
03:15To help you feel better, Pena is back in the lineup today.
03:17Big Pena.
03:17I see you, baby.
03:18I'll let you stay married for this month.
03:21Christian Walker is not.
03:22See, Walk is not.
03:24Now, I did hear both of them avoided major injuries.
03:27Right now, yep.
03:27So we should be okay.
03:30Rotation.
03:30I don't know if there's anything in sports more rotational than swinging a bat or a golf club
03:35or so the old hip or oblique or whatever the hell they're calling it can't be a good thing.
03:40But we'll see, man.
03:42Yeah, I mean, it was not a good weekend.
03:44It was definitely a change weekend.
03:47I mean, you use the term change.
03:49Hell yeah.
03:49I don't know how you could watch that or even just follow it and not be somewhat down in the
03:55dumps about what the outcomes were.
03:57Yeah, it's – there was a feel like, all right, this is – the Astros are clearly a team that's
04:07going to be aggressive in trying to add to their team.
04:10Like, I think we had turned the corner as what we were talking coming out of the All-Star break
04:15to, hey, this is going to be one of the aggressive teams.
04:20They're going to be looking at trying to find their latest version of things that they've had in the past.
04:28It's like when they got you, say, Kikuchi, they're trying to – you say, Kikuchi, they're trying to find that.
04:34They're going to be in the market to go get that.
04:36The thought was, are they going to have enough and how much will they use to compete against other teams
04:42that are going to be feeling that way?
04:44Well, damn it, man.
04:45You just look at this team and it's just like they can't stay healthy and they just continue to try
04:52to show you what they are.
04:53And that is not a consistent good baseball team.
04:57But then we keep telling ourselves when we look at the standings, do they have to be that?
05:03But, damn it, I mean, I just – like, you just can't get swept at home by the Orioles.
05:07I mean, you just can't.
05:08And I'll be honest with you, they're going to be – I don't know how I can put it.
05:14And I look for this because I see how they're doing this.
05:17They're going to be a-holes because they're going to keep bringing you back to the water.
05:25They're going to do something.
05:28They may go ahead and sweep the Marlins right now.
05:31They're going to do something to bring you back.
05:33They won't just – no, I'm seriously, Tyler.
05:35You can see –
05:35Bring whatever siblings of hope that was there right on back.
05:38They won't just ride off into the moving on from Dana and Joe sunset.
05:45Nuh-uh.
05:46Nuh-uh.
05:47Nope.
05:49They're going to have you just like in one of the great films, the great films of the
05:5490s, Dumb and Dumber, when he says to him, Lloyd, that's what I thought.
06:02You totally redeemed yourself.
06:04They're going to do it.
06:05They're going to get you.
06:06Hey, all right.
06:07So you're telling me there's a chance.
06:09They're going to win six or seven somewhere.
06:11They're going to do something.
06:12Yeah, and they're going to get above 500.
06:13They're going to get in the playoffs.
06:14So, okay, see, see, now you're going to be the one that they're going to suck right in.
06:18They're going to do it.
06:19These throws ain't loyal.
06:22Just want you to prepare yourself for it.
06:24But you definitely have to view them differently.
06:29And more importantly, Jim Crane has to.
06:32Like at this point, Clinton Tyler, there have been times where you looked at the team and
06:38you're like, all right, yeah, I know our forum system is struggling, but we'll risk it
06:41to try to win a championship.
06:44This team, to me, has shown you, you can't do that.
06:47Like you can't go start.
06:49You ain't got very many prospects to begin with.
06:54You can't do the few you got for this team because, I mean, Hunter Brown can't even get
07:00right.
07:01It's just so.
07:02I think they've at least shown that.
07:04If the Astros are going to do what you say they're going to do, it is going to probably
07:08be with the guys that they got here and not with guys that they bring on significant additions
07:16that they bring on from outside of the Astros.
07:19Because I just don't think Jim Crane can be okay with giving up the few assets that they
07:26have for this team.
07:28Well, tonight could be a significant ad.
07:30Yeah.
07:30They may just go ahead and shut it down.
07:33I mean, tonight could be a significant ad.
07:35Yeah.
07:35Ronnie El Blanco gets the ball.
07:36Yeah.
07:36We'll see.
07:36Yeah.
07:37I mean, that's one that you, I mean, I don't want to oversell expectations here because my
07:42man obviously is fresh off of Tommy John.
07:45But, I mean, he is the guy that we've seen be really good.
07:50What does he look like tonight?
07:51You don't need him to be great.
07:53After Hunter Brown's performance yesterday, I guess you do.
07:55But, but the, it would be nice if he were just a guy that you could have confidence in
07:59fitting in there somewhere in that middle of that rotation.
08:02So, tonight will go a long way versus, you know, versus what, what we're up against here.
08:09Yeah.
08:10I just, I'll be honest with you.
08:12You've lost all hope.
08:13Oh, I, yeah.
08:14Tyler's acting like he don't even care.
08:16Tyler's not even going to games.
08:18He's not even going.
08:19He's acting like he don't even care.
08:20Tyler, Tyler is not.
08:21Tyler.
08:22I haven't been to one.
08:22I know it.
08:23Tyler has never felt enough to go up there and go out there and go get repeated doubles.
08:31I don't know, Tyler.
08:33Like, actually, Tyler, I think you need to get out there and do it, to be honest with you.
08:39This is, like, you've got to keep the streak up.
08:41I don't know the last time you've just not, you've just not going to an Astros game.
08:47It's never happened in my adult life for sure.
08:51Did that happen this year?
08:52Was you the one that, or was that last year where you and Linda got, you got pissed off?
08:55That was last year.
08:56Okay.
08:56Yeah, you ain't spending the money on them this year.
08:58No.
08:59Not a, see, suck.
09:00I'll get out to a game here very soon.
09:02You have to keep the streak.
09:04Go out there.
09:04And maybe that's, maybe, maybe that's the turnaround.
09:06Maybe you go out there.
09:08Give them a little oomph, huh?
09:09And you go out there.
09:10Find your bartender, if she's still there, that gives you the dirty water that you get doubles.
09:15Double dirties, man.
09:16And then go do your thing, man.
09:18I think you're onto something.
09:20I could help myself and help the squad here in town maybe change the narrative here if I can get
09:25out there and change the vibes.
09:27Yeah, who we tell them, man.
09:29You know who they are.
09:30I'll report back.
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