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Texans Sneak Past the Bills
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The episode begins with Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla discussing Hurricane Milton and reflecting on their post-storm experiences as longtime Houstonians. The conversation transitions to baseball, where they break down the Astros' offseason plans and speculate on the key free agency moves the team may make.
Next, the hosts analyze the Texans' recent victory over the Bills. Although the offense stalled at times during the second half, they praise CJ Stroud for stepping up when it mattered most to secure the win.
As always, the episode concludes with the show's signature segments: "Horses Ass of the Week," "Tips of the Cap," and "Scumbag of the Week," where the hosts highlight notable blunders, achievements, and controversies from the world of sports.
This episode offers a mix of personal anecdotes, sports analysis, and humor, making it a must-listen for Houston sports fans.
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Transcript
Introduction and Host Credentials
00:00:06
Speaker
Welcome to Born on the Bayou Sports, a Houston sports show made for Houstonians by Houstonians. Join Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla every week as they break down the latest in Houston Astros, Rockets and Texans news. Tim's a former minor league broadcaster and Scott has written two books on the Baseball Hall of Fame.
00:00:32
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Yeah, if probably Eric could you get it figured out, it would make things a lot easier because he was that guy everybody was counting on this year to be a Cy Young candidate, take that big step forward and help anchor this rotation with Palmer.
Houston Sports Highlights
00:00:44
Speaker
Since he's come to Houston, you can look at the development of guys like Carlos Correa defensively and Jeremy Pena defensively. You know, Alex Bregman's, you know, certainly I think I'm better than average third baseman.
00:00:56
Speaker
And now you're putting teams in 3rd and 8th, 3rd and 7th, 3rd and 9th. Now the hill comes to Will Anderson. Pin back your ears, let's go. So if you're by you, born and bred, or just like spending time in the age, sit down, relax, and stay Houston strong.
00:01:23
Speaker
Welcome all my friends to the show that returns again a little bit late But hey, we're here, you know family stuff life stuff Scott thought he had a play didn't have a play but Nate we're back We're live. Well, you know, we did have a place him But have you been seeing all the stuff about the Sun in the news? The Sun yes. No, I have not There have been there's actually parts of the United States where you can see in Aurora okay Well, see, the problem is there is that that means that there is a proton particle event. And so Janet has spent three nights this week, from about 10 PM to 5 AM going back into in mission control and monitoring the sun, which, you know, we had tickets last night and we decided that, you know, if she has to be recalled. It's probably not a good idea for her to be at a play. Fair enough. We, uh,
00:02:24
Speaker
Just saw a real fun play. We had our theater night last week. It was, what's nice, I guess sometimes Scott about doing community theater. Cause you know, I was interested about this not long ago. I approached one of the directors. What happens if I, Tim Costello write a new play? How do I get it to Broadway? Like what is the path in 2024 to get a play to Broadway? Cause if you look what's out there, most of it is is shows that have been written years ago or an adaptation of a movie or, you know, some sort of celebrity doing something on Broadway, right? Like that kind of typically sums up Broadway. How do we get new shows there? And so I actually had the opportunity to see a ah new show and it was kind of a ah joke on the that the teenage slasher and it was called, lend me a chainsaw. And what was funny about it is is the person who was the killer
00:03:21
Speaker
never actually got to kill anybody. It's like everybody killed themselves in an attempt to run away from the killer. They kept all accidentally like killing themselves, trying to get away from the killer. So it was just this really ironic, funny, ah satirical look at at that kind of genre you know for the Halloween season. Yeah, and and the Alley Theater does ah doess new plays every now and then, maybe won a season. They might you know debut something And if for those of y'all watching on YouTube, you'll notice that my hairstyle has kind of been disheveled this evening, and which kind of, I think, is a a nice visual representation of what my week has been like. Yeah, I mean, it's it's been a it's been a crazy week. And not just for us, right? like um you know Obviously, any one of us friends and family and in Florida, we've been thinking about them as well.
00:04:17
Speaker
um And I don't know about you, Scott, when these things hit, I still feel like as a former who's donating, I have a little bit of of PTSD from Harvey specifically. Um, and you know, my aunt posted a picture of her, you know, at a restaurant having nachos and and a glass of wine celebrating that they're okay. And it made me wonder, you know, what was like the first place you guys went out to, um, when everything opens back up, you're good to go. Like, what was the way for you to be like, Hey, we're returning to normalcy. We're going to blank.
00:04:48
Speaker
Well, I don't even know normalcy, but I remember after um Ike, not Harvey, we went to Target and there were like three cartons of milk left. And so my wife made eye contact with another woman who had a larger family. And so they decided to just to divvy it up. And, you know, the other woman took two cartons. Janet took one and and that was it on the milk. Yeah. I definitely remember a trip to HUB.
00:05:17
Speaker
Um, where they're letting so many people in at a time and then, um, uh, um, Mila Puca de beppo too. Cause I actually was working at the original caravas at the time. And I was on the other side of that, right? Like I was welcoming people into the environment of, you know, getting back out into the world after being in your home for, I think I was inside for seven straight days, uh, after Harvey just kind of trapped there with the water. But, you know, for those people able to get back out, um,
00:05:46
Speaker
No, for them, it was a chance to just have a bowl of pasta to feel a little bit. Normally but there's no power at home. Yeah. One of the guys I graduated with actually, um, yeah, his, his stepson was in choir with Ann. And so we see each other at concerts all the time, you know, and he was the manager at specs, uh, before he took on a new job. And so he's sending out calls on social media after Harvey, Hey, we got water borrowed water over here at specs. Come by and get it.
00:06:13
Speaker
So that was actually a pretty welcomed announcement on on social media there Yeah, that's it's Anytime you can get water man, it's insane when you think about that stuff, right? and It's it's good that they put it out there and ah you know again. Hey It just makes me think about those times right when when we had been through that in Houston, which Too many too many times, right? Yeah But hey, speaking of maybe something a little bit better or a little bit more exciting, Texans played a football game this week, Scott. And you know maybe it wasn't pretty, maybe it wasn't the best look. Maybe we lost one of our best players in the process. But hey, we got the W. We did. And any and they always teach us in school that we always want to have a sandwich.
00:07:09
Speaker
where you start off with a positive, kind of insert a negative and end with a positive. I don't know if you've ever heard of that. Compliment sandwich. Yeah, the compliment sandwich. So I'm going to start it off with a compliment. And one of the things that I think we've seen over this course of the season is week one, Anthony Richardson played a horrible football game. And everybody thought, yes, Anthony Richardson, he sucks. Week two, Caleb Williams plays a pretty bad football game.
00:07:37
Speaker
Everybody's, he's a rookie, it's Caleb Williams, right? Then Sam Darnold, you know, kicks the shit out of us. Then, you know, Trevor Lawrence comes back, plays a pretty bad game, especially when I'm listening. Yeah, this is Trevor Lawrence. He shouldn't, you know, he I think that was the worst game Josh Allen's ever played in his career by far. And so when that happens four times out of five weeks that a quarterback has a bad game, that's not just the quarterback showing up and going ocean at a bad day.
00:08:06
Speaker
That's your defense doing something to make quarterbacks have a bad day. Is this defense perfect? No, it's not. I think they're susceptible to some deep balls over the top every now and then. And that's shown, even though Richardson had a bad week, he burned us a few times deep. Even though Kayla Williams had a bad week, he burned us a few times deep. Josh Allen you know got us deep ah once or twice, I think.
00:08:31
Speaker
and so did Lawrence. But at the end of the day, the completion percentages are so low, the pressure that these guys are putting on the quarterback is, it's hot it's it's almost every play. the The effort on defense is fantastic, and are they getting the ton of sacks? No. But at the end of the day, when I look at a guy who goes 9 of 30, who's an all-pro,
00:08:56
Speaker
who's someone that everybody lists in the upper echelon of quarterbacks in the NFL, you cannot talk about top five guys in the league without someone mentioned in Josh Allen. We held that guy to less than a 33% completion, less than 30% completion, right? And no, did we get home? No, we didn't get home a bunch. But hey, those numbers alone show me that the pass for us is doing what it needs to be doing, Scott.
00:09:22
Speaker
Yeah, and I can think of two teams in history that I think had dominant defenses. One of them I was definitely around for, and I don't think you would have, you were technically around maybe the 85 Bears. I mean, you technically might have been alive. I was not. No, but you were, I was like glint in my Papa's eye at that point. Yeah, you were not alive for that. That was a great defense. Now I'm sure, surely you were there for the 2000 Ravens. Yeah, absolutely.
00:09:53
Speaker
Those defenses are rare. And so every other defense in the NFL, even like defenses like when D'Amico Ryan's was captaining the the number one overall defense in San Francisco, have holes. Every defense has holes. And so the key question is, can you make plays whenever your de whenever your team needs you to make plays? And I think two weeks in a row, this team made key stops towards the end of the game When there was other portions of the game where, you know, things didn't look so good in the third quarter and early fourth quarter, the bills are starting to move the ball. And I was thinking, Oh shit, this thing is gone. You know, this, this thing is going to end up badly for us. Uh, Jacksonville actually pulls ahead, you know, uh, two weeks ago, but this team made key stops towards the end of the game when it needed to. Yeah. I mean, so far in the season.
00:10:49
Speaker
a team that we expected to have an explosive offense and put a ton of points on the board and all this other stuff, they relied on the defense. The defense is the reason why this team is four and one. Now, CJ Stroud has made some good decisions with the football. He doesn't turn it over a whole lot. At the end of the day, your defense has held every single team you've played in check, except the the Vikings, and given your offense a chance at the end of the game to go out and get you a win.
00:11:19
Speaker
You shouldn't be in this position, right? Like you and I would both agree that that builds game should have been over midway through the third quarter realistically, based on how things were going. And for some reason, it just seems like the team takes the foot off the gas in the second half. But it just seemed to me as watching the game, like the Texans were thoroughly in control of that game. And then next thing you know, you look up and it's tight. Yeah. And I think there's going to be a conversation to be had especially as we keep going, because I think, you know, if if I read my numbers correctly, we are seventh in the NFL in yards. First in passing yards, but we are, I want to say 18th or 19th in points. that's That's a gap that needs to close. Now, part of that is D'Amico Ryans. D'Amico Ryans is a defensive coach. When he's ahead, he is going to, you know, he's going to start turtling. That's going to be his end instinct.
00:12:19
Speaker
So, I mean, he's not a greatest show on turf, you know, Rams, you know, Kurt Warner, we're just going to light up the scoreboard kind of coach. It's not, you know, a Mike Martz or a Dick Vermeel. He's not that kind of coach. But this team needs to find ways to score touchdowns instead of, you know, relying on field goals. And that's that's going to be the next step, critical next step. I agree with you. and and Part of having a good defense and being a defensive coach is knowing that you can punt it away in the third quarter. You can not risk a turnover. You can do some different things that maybe you wouldn't have ah done if you were trailing. right But at the end of the day, you know the intensity that he asked from from that or asks for from that defense, right where we want to swarm. We want everybody on the ball. We want to go, go, go.
00:13:13
Speaker
I want the same thing from the offense, right? Like, I don't feel like we've opened up the playbook in the second half, or really at this point in the season, but especially the second half, it's just such a bland version of the offense. And then you look to CJ late and say, fuck, hey, man, ah hey, we let this one get close. Can you go with me of all game, please? Yeah, and and so I want to ask you, since we're on the the meat portion of the compliment sandwich,
00:13:43
Speaker
What was the biggest head scratcher to you? Now, I'm going to give you two plays that I think were head scratchers to me. Number one is, let's run Daria Ugovale up the gut on fourth and one and in the second quarter. Now, you know you could have done many different things there. you know To me, the decision to go for it to me is defensible in that moment. I wanted to go. But you know you also could have defended, hey, let's let's take the points and you know keep building our lead.
00:14:13
Speaker
I get it. But the other play to me was late in the fourth quarter, passing the ball when you're on the 39 yard line, when you could have just run it with 40 seconds left, maybe gain two yards, send, you know, fair burn out there with three seconds left, kick a field goal, win the game. Which one's more puzzling? I think the second one, and and I'll discuss more later why.
00:14:43
Speaker
Um, I mean, that could have cost us the game at the end of the day, right? Like you, you had to punt the ball back to Josh Allen with a fair amount of time and timeouts left. Like if he isn't, and it's probably, let's be honest, we probably concussed Josh Allen in that game and they allowed him to get back out on the field. So at minimum, he's not concussed. He's playing hurt. What's realistically, what happened is he talked his way out of construction protocol, that blue tent.
00:15:12
Speaker
And we got lucky that we got away with it. But I feel like he hit a longer field goal for the win than he would have had if he would have just run the ball or and got out of there. But at the end of the day, it is what it is. um they didn't have any They did not have any timeouts. I'm wrong about that. But other than that, that was ah undefensible. but i So let's go back to the first one. cause I want to talk more about that second one later in the show. Yeah, that's fine.
00:15:37
Speaker
um But let's go back to that going forward on fourth down because I think that was the right call that was a um momentum shifting Opportunity realistically when you look at where you are in that game However, the play call is terrible, right? You lined up looking like you were gonna do like a Philadelphia push from behind quarterback sneak and then you give it to your your small back and it's just I don't know. Like I would have, if you're going to do that, put it in CJ's hands. Like at this point, put it in CJ's hands and let them either read it or take off. That is your fourth string tailback. I don't, well, it's a flash slash back up. Hey, a, a minor tat hat tip to a Dara for, you know, playing some good football these last two weeks when pressed into duty.
00:16:31
Speaker
especially as a receiver out of the backfield. Hey, you know, hat tip to you, bud. But here's the thing. And this is why I'm almost going to pick this play because this game shouldn't have been 20 to 20. If you have just an RPO or any kind of a play where you get a first down there, you go in for a touchdown, you're up 21 to 3, Buffalo is likely not coming back from that. I mean, that that game, you know, I don't know how to say,
00:17:01
Speaker
The football game is over at that point.
Texans Game Analysis and Preview
00:17:04
Speaker
I mean, they had 20 points in the tank that day, right? yeah like If you go up 21-3, that's 21-20. Yeah, well exactly. but you know you And you you forget, you score a field goal coming back in the first possession in the second half. So then you're looking at 24-3. And then however many, obviously, you had CJ throw a key pick whenever you're in their territory, where you probably could have come away with points there as well.
00:17:31
Speaker
So yeah that one that one hurt. You've left some points on the board and that's kind of what I'm driving at is that even though you're not, you know, teams don't score 40 plus points routinely in the NFL. That's not, this isn't college football. This isn't the big 12 where that happens. So I don't expect the Texans to score 40 plus points a game, but I expect in those moments that you conferred.
00:17:58
Speaker
And you add, like, if you had seven to 10 points in this game, I mean, think about, you know, what that does to the complexion of the game. Oh, absolutely. Because as much as I love the fact that at this point, I don't think there's been a moment yet where you've asked CJ to go win your game in the fourth and he hasn't done it. Right? Like, I feel like in his NFL career, at least the regular season, every time you said, Hey, I need you to go put a drive together to win this game, he's done it.
00:18:28
Speaker
it's not going to be It's not always going to happen that way. right like We have to be realistic. And we've got a portion of our schedule coming up where we should blow the doors off some teams realistically. right like We've seen who teams are for the most part. We know who you are. And we should be putting up some points that we should be winning by double digit points frequently in the next four weeks. Yeah.
00:18:57
Speaker
So to to finish off the compliment sandwich with another compliment, uh, I'm not giving him a hat tip this week, but I am giving him a mention. Did you hear the story about Aziz A's share prior to the game? I did not know he had a great game though. Dropped a pick, but had a good game. Well, he spent Saturday in a hospital. Oh wow. He lost 10 pounds prior to that game. But you know, with, uh, I think some kind of a stomach bug,
00:19:27
Speaker
And then played every snap, right? Played every snap, and played Dan well. He missed one tackle in the first half. That was pretty you know blatant. But other than that, played an absolutely great football game. And you know what they say, Tim? There's reasons why guys are on defense. And he's right good yeah he showed you why he's on defense. Those hands, that was the wrong place to hit him on those throws. But hey, it's OK. The defense played well.
00:19:55
Speaker
but Well, may he followed Kincaid on that first one. And if he wouldn't have been hip to hip with Kincaid, there was nobody else on that play. Kincaid was going to score if he got any kind of separation. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I mentioned you know the upcoming schedule and and the chance to rack some wins together. Texas has taken on the the New England Patriots this week, Scott. And it's been announced Drake May is going to get his first ever NFL start.
00:20:24
Speaker
um kind of a precarious situation. We've mentioned the list of quarterbacks who have had bad days against the Houston Texans. Um, I gotta think that's a tough, tough spot to be in as a rookie. Like obviously the Patriots drafted you with high expectations. Jacoby percent has not been, you know, anything you look at for some spark because they're, that's another elite defense over there in New England. Their defense is, is,
00:20:56
Speaker
Piss cuz you're losing games ten to nine right now. You gotta you know, what do you expect? Well two things on this story and I cuz I covered this don't be coming up came up this afternoon actually what I posted Number one their best offender is out He will spend a little bit of time in the pokey to real peppers So he is on the NFL exempt list, which is basically a paid vacation For those of y'all that are not aware um But number two, I don't get this decision by New England. You had the Dolphins last week. You got the Jaguars next week. And you choose this game to roll out your rookie? I don't know, Tim. I would have to think maybe it's just because he's a little bit more mobile than Jacoby Brissett is. And with the way this this pass rush has been playing, um if you can't manipulate the pocket, you
00:21:55
Speaker
You might be a dead man. He would have been in that game sooner or later. Might as well start him. Yeah, I mean, I agree and in the the general premise that he gives them a better chance to win than Bressette does because Bressette is just not a good quarterback. and And there's going to be, there's nobody on this earth that will convince me otherwise. But if you're looking at him as a long-term answer at the position,
00:22:20
Speaker
To me, I think the decision to sit him for the very first portion of the season was actually a good one. And I think I would have strategically picked a game where he would likely have success. And that to me, that would point to next week. I tend to agree with you, but however, here we are, right? And now the Texans get to face a rookie quarterback where realistically they don't have a lot of tape on him. You can look at.
00:22:48
Speaker
you know, his preseason stuff, you can look at the college stuff, but it's going to be maybe a little bit harder for D'Amico to put together the game plan. I think obviously pressure is going to be first and foremost, right? A young guy, you want to try and get to him early and often and just hit him hard and rattle him, right? I think, well, given what we just went through,
00:23:10
Speaker
I think he has the perfect blueprint. It's the one you just used against Josh Allen, because Josh Allen is a similar quarterback to Drake May. You look at what Drake may, you know, what he brings to the table. You're talking about athleticism. You're talking about a strong arm. Is he accurate? We don't really know. Josh Allen is not particularly accurate. strong arm He's He's, you know, a freakish athlete.
00:23:36
Speaker
So to me, the key is is that you didn't get to Josh Allen, but once, but the key is that you kept guys in their lanes and you've kept him from running wild on you. I think he had about 50 yards rushing, but you know, maybe he only got loose about two or three times, uh, which, you know, for a Josh Allen game is actually pretty good. And so to me, I just roll out the same game plan. I disguise some coverages, you know, and make sure that, you know, he doesn't know what's coming, but.
00:24:04
Speaker
To me, as long as you keep Hunter and Anderson in their lanes and you keep, you know, those running lanes, you know, closed up saying, Hey, you pick us apart. You have to be accurate. You're going to have little time. You're going to have to be accurate. Prove it to us. I don't think you can. Yeah, I agree with you. And I think on, what about on the other side of the ball? Because realistically, uh, not on the other side of the ball, right? But what about stopping the run? Because I think.
00:24:30
Speaker
If the Texans can get a 10-point lead and shut the run down and four straight made a throw, that's the ideal world. Yeah, and and their backs have had some fumbling issues. And that's something, one thing this Texans defense has not done is they have not forced a turnover since the Bears game. So, I mean, that's that's three football games. That's a long time to go without getting a turnover. So if it's bad luck, like, you know, Shire,
00:24:59
Speaker
dropping a couple of interceptions. But to me, this is a prime game where you're going to be able to maybe get a strip sack on him. You're going to get him to force a bad throw into the secondary. We know Lassinger and Stingley are capable of picking guys. you know We know that that Bullock is capable of picking guys. So i'm I'm anticipating a couple of turnovers here on the part of the defense. I i am 1,000% in agreement with you. I think this is a prime opportunity for the defense. i and i Think as good as the Patriots defense is I think may may put them in some bad situations. I think um As you said there's prime opportunity for a strip sack or a bad pass or you know backs fumbling and You know, hopefully the Texans take advantage now on the other side of things You get Joe makes him back this week, right? That is what at least what it's looking like right now based on the fact that he's been at practice um yeah They signed
00:25:59
Speaker
back from the Bears pracking squad, Texas Texans legend, Quintero, he's back, baby got oh well they a spellable baby. He's back. Scott's favorite tight end is back on the roster. And, um, I think, I think it should be a good offensive week. Actually, I, I really do think even though this Patriots offense has been good,
00:26:25
Speaker
there's some things going on in that locker room. I don't know if changing in the quarterback is going to be enough. And I think they maybe get put some bad spots early and and the Texans have an opportunity to maybe get ahead 14-0 in the second quarter. Yeah, one of a couple of things I think on this game. I think number one, obviously we're going to miss Nico Collins. And he's been put on IRR's up for at least four games. But to me, this this screams tank Dell game.
00:26:55
Speaker
Yep. Dreams it. And I think it's time to, you had a week, like, you know, last week I get it. It's hard to, you know, you release a package of plays, you know, when you're going through practice and you think you're going to have certain personnel and then all of a sudden you lose a guy and it's hard to adjust on the fly, but you've had six days. I think you're going to put in, you're going to see some plays that are going to feature tank Dell. And I think number two.
00:27:22
Speaker
Joe Mixon is going to at least keep him honest in terms of, you know, having a rushing attack. I don't think this Texas team is ever going to be, um, a Walter Payton and it's Smith ask even area and foster esque running attack. But I think Nixon's going to be good enough where they can't key in on Stroud. Let me ask, let me give you, let me ask you for a bold prediction for this week, Scott.
00:27:50
Speaker
I'm going to take Dell lands in the end zone. It's at least once I'm gonna take Joe mix in 125 yards rushing Oh, I think I think he if you listen to the interviews man, he's pissed He feels you know, it was an illegal tackle He was robbed and I think he's gonna be returning with a bit of a chip on his shoulder and you know kind of ah a vengeance looking to to run his way into the playoffs theoretically, so I think Joe Mixon comes back strong. And um and and mighty a mini hat tip. So now if you look at Stefan Diggs' numbers, he is on pace to have over 100 catches and over 1,000 yards and nine touchdowns. That's pretty good. Would you take that? I would take that. Yeah, I mean, that's that's good numbers. And I think Nico Collins, assuming he only misses the four or five games,
00:28:44
Speaker
He can easily eclipse 1,000 yards. I mean, he's already at 500 plus. So, I mean, I think, you know, you're you're looking at possibly two receivers over 1,000 yards. And that it assumes that Tank Dell doesn't get going, which I think we both agree that he will at some point. Yeah, i I think he will. I've seen some numbers about his separation that are a little scary coming back off the the two injuries.
00:29:10
Speaker
to the legs, um but we'll see. we We shall see. Let's take a look ahead to our Houston Astros as they get set for free agency here, Scott, coming up towards the end of our opportunity to be able to deal exclusively with Alex Bregman as well as Kukuchi.
Astros Free Agency Decisions
00:29:35
Speaker
And unfortunately, I guess you could say both are represented by Scott Bors.
00:29:40
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm going to go, I'm going to give you two options, which I have a lot more, you know, at my disposal, but oh you can sign Bregman for 30 million a year and maybe afford Kukuchi, maybe, but I don't think you can if you, if you bring back Bregman. Or what would you say if I could give you a trade for Nolan Aeronado with the Cardinals biting off 10 million of it per year, and signing either Paul Goldschmidt to a one-year deal, or Carlos Santana to a one-year deal, great guitarist car Carlos Santana, and getting Kukuchi back. Which of those scenarios would you go for? I think it's crazy, but I want Bregman back. Okay, that's fair.
00:30:41
Speaker
I did an article, an article is going to land tomorrow morning on crawfish boxes where I outlined it now. I want to say a couple of things. Paul Goldschmidt's last, and if you look at his last three seasons and what's happened to him the last three seasons, that scares me. So there is no way I'm giving him more than one year and I'm not even giving him 10 million. He's got to come for less than that.
00:31:07
Speaker
Carlos Santana played for $5 million for the twins. He actually put up some decent numbers. And another thing about Santana that that kind of goes unnoticed is that he is usually between plus five and plus 10 fielding runs every year. So he's actually put up better defensive numbers than Guriel used to when he was in his prime. So, you know, Aeronado, the only thing about Aeronado is he signed for three more years.
00:31:35
Speaker
I think that last year is only for 15 million, but that last year is destined to be a possible Jose Breu kind of season where you might have to write that off. But if the Cardinals are willing to eat off a chunk of it, it's not the worst idea in the world. It's not. And if that's the route you have to go down, okay, we can explore that. I'm more on the side of like, this is,
00:32:05
Speaker
an era, right? This is a group that at the end of the day, you've only found a way to keep one of the guys. When, when we think about golden errors of golden age of Houston Astros baseball, the first original one you had Craig Bijo and Jeff Bagua, who played their entire careers with the Houston Astros. And there's fucking statues of those guys outside of the ballpark. Now here we are an even better era.
00:32:34
Speaker
where you've let everybody but Jose Altuve walk, at some point there has to be the conversation in the locker room, the way Bijo and Bagua had a conversation and said, this is where we want to be. So I think realistically, right? We loved the Jose Altuve contract. It's seven years, 163.5 million dollars comes out to 23 and change million a year. That's what Alex Bregman needs to accept.
00:33:01
Speaker
If yeah you can get Alex Bregman to accept a Jose Altuve type deal, and if we can get Jose Altuve to you know kind of get him to understand that, then yeah, I want Alex Bregman back. And that's, I'm even maybe to go a little bit higher at $25 million a year for those seven years. But it needs to be in that range. I don't know if I'm given the seven years. That's what you've got to do, Scott. I don't know. Because I might go $5.125 or $5.130.
00:33:30
Speaker
um I'd give him the exact same deal you gave out to you back say I I value you I think that's how you have to phrase it you have a I value you the same way I value Jose Altuve in terms of what you guys have meant to this franchise Jose says he wants you back the city of Houston wants you back Look, we're gonna give you the same deal that we gave Jose Altuve because we value you What what now? What were the what's the total on all two days again? 163.5 So what I would do, Tim, is I would go almost like 4-120 for the first four years and then taper it off of those last three. I mean, you can build it out however you want. You can put options in there if you want. I mean, it's up to the first people to build it. I don't think he's going to be good beyond five years, personally.
00:34:24
Speaker
You can throw a player option for the last two and let him have the choice. Yeah, i'm ah but and the amount of money doesn't bother me. 163 doesn't bother me. So as long as you structure it, I think, where those last few years you don't feel bad about paying a replacement level player, you know, the amount of money that he'd be making. But, you know, there's other options out there. I mean, if you want to go heavy first base, how would you like Christian Walker? No, I'd love Christian Walker.
00:34:55
Speaker
And again, if we miss on Alex Bregman, then you have to pivot, right? Like, then it's time to look and make different moves. But I think if you can get Bregman back, that's the best option. And I think you have to hope maybe a combination of Dezenzo and Singleton can get it done next year. Mike, and this is what I said in the article, and this is what's always pissed me off, even going back to the Drake-McLean days.
00:35:21
Speaker
Drayton and Drayton MacLean treated Roger Clemens like he was off books. Like I'll pay you and well I'm just not going to include that as part of the salary. And, you know, we saw that, you know, we've seen that with, yeah we've offered Korea, you know, a contract. Wasn't much, but we offered him one. We've offered some of these guys, we offered coal money. It wasn't nearly enough, but we offered it to them.
00:35:48
Speaker
To me, if you're willing to offer X dollars to Alex Bregman, then you should be willing to offer X dollars to other players, the exact same money. Because I think at the end of the day and where you've gotten the city of Houston is we don't watch players anymore. We watch the team because the team has been great for eight, you know, eight of the last nine years, been to the playoffs.
00:36:16
Speaker
seven times to the league championship series in a row, four times to the world series, two times winning it. That's a great run. And you have a sack of good will. And so if you decide, if if Alex Bregman comes in and says, you know what? I want seven years, 280 million. Then I have no problem with Crane and and Brown saying, fuck off. You know, thanks for the memories.
00:36:43
Speaker
But if you have a sack stack of money there that you were willing to give to him, you need to be willing to give that to somebody else or a group of other players. No, I agree with you. I absolutely agree with you. If you can't keep this player, then you need to find a way to replace that production, right? Like even when you look back at money ball, it was like, Hey, we can't afford to go sign a player that does this much, right? That provides this level of war, but I can find.
00:37:12
Speaker
four guys that add up to that one player and we'll play them strategically or whatever it is, right? And as you mentioned in our last episode, there are holes on this team. there This team is not perfect. And at the end of the day, Mauricio Dubon played the last month of the season hurt. He's going to be having surgery. Chas McCormick had his worst season as a professional. Is that a one-off or you know is ah he trending downward? Did people figure him out?
00:37:41
Speaker
um Jeremy Pena had a defensive woes out the ass. He Was not the hitter that he was his rookie year. He was better, but he still wasn't great, right? Kyle Tucker's contracts coming up right? Like there's just so much and then hey, do you extend from her?
00:38:01
Speaker
I I tend now like I think it's time to just go ahead and extend from If we're going to continue to if you're gonna tell me hey, we can't afford Bregman Then it's extend from burn extend Cal Tucker immediately. Yeah, I don't want to ever see from her pitch in anyone but a Houston Astros Yeah, I'm fine with that and the whole thing is ah and and so crane knows what his budget is And so if it's 250 million, okay, so be it You've got a certain number of players on the books. You've got arbitration that you're expecting. So you know what the gap is. You know, you've got X amount of dollars. Now, one thing I would like to see prioritized because you mentioned paying his defense. I think you miss Yulie's ability to pick throws out of the dirt. And so I'd like to see them go out. I mean, Goldschmidt's
00:38:55
Speaker
basically neutral defensively. So I mean, I don't think that's, that's much of a bonus. Singleton's bad. This is the bad defensive first baseman. Santana's good. If you could get Santana for five or $6 million, dollars that shouldn't preclude you from bringing it. Let me ask you something. You always actually have it a pretty good post-season Scott. Should he decide, I want to play one more year.
00:39:24
Speaker
Would you bring him back on the cheap? A league minimum deal for you, Ligurio? No, for a league minimum, I might. i mean that His defense would make everybody on the infield better. You can platoon him with Singleton if you if his offense isn't what you're looking for. But at the end of the day, he can't be worse than Abreu was. well And he's going to be cheap. For a league minimum, you could sit there and say, he's our guy against the lefties. I mean, that's, you know, and because we know Singleton sucks against lefties.
00:39:55
Speaker
So you can make that work. And I think, you know, Singleton's basically going to be on a veteran minimum deal, I think. I think actually he's still on the deal he signed. Like he signed a 10 year, he signed a 10 year, $10 million dollars deal when he was with the Astros in in the minor league. So I believe it goes back to that when he gets back into the. That's still a million a year. That's not, you know. No, it's not expensive, but I do, I do believe that that is the deal that he's on. So.
00:40:23
Speaker
I could go with that. But the whole thing is if you save there, you need to splurge somewhere else. And if splurging means let's bring back Fromber and Tucker, I'm okay with that. If splurging means let's go out and get like maybe a kick-ass left fielder or center fielder, I'd be okay with that. I mean, there's a lot of different options that you have. And and I think the key is is that Crane needs to sit there and tell Dana Brown This is how many Benjamins you have to spend. You go out and spend it the best way you know how. No, I absolutely agree with you. And I trust in Dana. I think you'll get it done. I mean, I think this team, at the end of the day, was better than they showed in the playoffs. I'm with you. I don't love the new format. We wanted division. And the next thing you know, we're we're knocked out in two games. But at the end of the day, I can't complain. the The format is the format. You weren't one of the top two teams. We were where we were.
00:41:21
Speaker
um It sucks that that's the way it ended, but I do think you know you don't have to do a ton, but there's room to work with. This team wasn't perfect. And if you've got money to spend as they should, let's go spend it and let's get better. Absolutely. Well, Scott, speaking of getting better, um Houston Rockets are going into the season looking to be better than they were last year.
00:41:44
Speaker
they showed
Rockets Preseason Hopes
00:41:46
Speaker
signs of improvement. We saw you know Sengoon show us that he is a guy you can run the offense through. Jaylen Green took some pretty big steps forward at times last season. I thought Jabari Smith played some great basketball points last season um and now the preseason has kicked off and I'd say um you know, a little bit of excitement going into the season and and and looking forward to to watching some more Rockets basketball. And hey, maybe a team that this could be the year, Scott, where they make a run at that six, seven day seed that play in round. Yeah. And there are two big questions to me, um, coming into this season. And I think they're interesting. Number one, what are the realistic expectations for Reed Shepard? I mean, that's, that's, I think a question I, I, we, we were talking off air,
00:42:36
Speaker
There's you some people on on social media comparing them to Adam Morrison here on October 10th, when we have like what, three weeks until the season starts, which is know beyond ridiculous to me. But I think it is a reasonable question to say, hey, what do we expect of this kid? And I think number two, out of your returning players, who do you most expect to show a big improvement this year?
00:43:07
Speaker
Those are two good questions. um I think my personal expectation for Reed Shepard is 15 minutes a game, spot up shooter more than anything, because I think realistically, when this team is healthy, you're going to have a combination of Fred Van Vliet and Amen Thompson handling most of the ball handling. And with that, you've got two guys who can get into the lane. And you've got Jalen Green, who can get into the lane. And I think that's going to get some good looks, and I think Reed's going to hopefully be a guy who can knock down those looks. The guy that I'm looking to take a huge step forward is Jabari Smith, because on the other side of that, he's the starter who I want to knock down those looks, right? This is a guy who who took a step a step forward, year one to year two. He didn't get any plays ran for him offensively in year one. Silas said so. you know Now we've got a guy who
00:43:59
Speaker
could be a stretch for play some good defense. If you want to go with a bigger lineup and you go with Adams at the five said doing at the four, you can play Smith out ah at the three and and and get big and defensive if you want to because of his offensive skill set. So I think this is a guy that they drafted him thinking maybe he could grow into a Kevin Durant type player. He's not that, but he could be a,
00:44:25
Speaker
one of the more, you know, one of the better Morse twins type players who is effective and helps you and stays in the league for 15 years. Yeah, there are two good names that I'm thinking of. One of them I'm really excited to see because to me, Amen Thompson is that guy because last year about the first 20, 30 games, he just, he was more or less lost. He was not, you know, not really much part of the office, not really doing much. This guy,
00:44:53
Speaker
Number one, I think has all NBA first team defense written all over him. Number one. And number two, if he's already shown that, you know, late in the year that he could be an effective slasher. If he could shoot any,
00:45:10
Speaker
any, even like knock down an 1820 footer, I'm not even talking about threes. He could be, you know, he could be all world. But the other guy, under the radar guy, and I saw him mentioned today, and you know you kind of forgot about him last year, but Tari Eason was hurt most of last year. But yeah as a rookie, he was averaging about 10 and 7 coming off the bench. So I'm really interested to see what he can come back with this year. I think he's going to be a big missing piece too, Scott, because you kind of missed that nasty off the bench a little bit from Tari. He was willing to get in and bang.
00:45:47
Speaker
Last year, the the second team didn't have that that punch on defense, right? I think the first team played pretty solid defense. Dylan Brooks is is a menace. um I think, realistically, they, as a team, played good team defense on the first team. That second team, however, I think really lacked that presence. Now, this year, you've added Steven Adams. You've got um Tari Eason coming back healthy. um like You've got Cam Whitmore who may not, and that's another guy returning, Scott. I'm excited to see two, but he can i give you more offense to punch off that second team too. I guess Thompson's technically not a starter. I don't think he is. So those four guys you just listed, that's a pretty damn good pitch. Yeah. Absolutely. No, I think, I think that's not even counting. Yeah, that's not even counting reach shepherd.
00:46:47
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, there's your 10 right there. And that's that's a pretty damn good one through 10. So I think there's opportunity opportunity galore, realistically, for this team. I don't think being a top eight seed in the West is outrageous. I really don't. Do I think they're going to go win a title this year? No, I think they're not quite there yet. But I do think that this team will be playing meaningful basketball come spring. And I think you're you've got enough depth and you have enough, you know, picks stashed away from the Hardin trade still, where if you had an Oklahoma City like situation where you had back with Hardin, you're, you're poised to make a deal. You know, that piece that, you know, would throw you over the top. You've got picks, you've got, as we said, one through 10, you've got players who I think other teams in this league would view as valuable pieces.
00:47:48
Speaker
Maybe not Steven Adams, because I don't think you're moving him. But realistically, you've got, as you said, a litany of of valuable assets to go get a guy if someone becomes disgruntled. If in one Phoenix decides to blow it up, go get you a Devin Booker. Go get you, I don't know, if somebody out of Philly if things go south there. Go get you anywhere, right? You never know which way the season's going to go. But a star could get pissed off and say, I want out.
00:48:19
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, or imagine things, you know, blow up in Milwaukee. Can you imagine john Greek freak on this team? Dude, if you could play John us at the four next to, next to. avi Oh, Sam goon, who I don't care who you call the four. Yeah. I mean, it's because they can both, they can both play that stretch position, particularly saying goon, that that'd be a team.
00:48:45
Speaker
It would be sick, man. It would be absolutely sick. We'll keep an eye on it. I'll ah ah' keep an eye on on what's happening in Milwaukee, Scott.
'Horse's Ass' Award and Anecdotes
00:48:53
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But I think that brings us to the portion of the show when it's time to start handing out some awards. And this week, we're going to be giving out the Horse's Ass Award. Scott, do you want to get us started? Sure, I'll go ahead. So I'm going to do a mini hat tip to Tim.
00:49:11
Speaker
Tim was in attendance at the TCU U of H game sent me some pictures. I'm always I love seeing pictures of the of the Carter um It's you know, one of the best stadiums, you know, I've been to if I do say so myself Now I'm gonna say this It's not the fact that we lost U of H that bothers that bothers me to me if you take away the high-pressure high stakes portion of the college football landscape where everybody is nervous about losing their position in a top four conference and everybody's worried about they're becoming only top three conferences or top two conferences and oh my god, where do we go from there? If you just look at the big 12-16, to me, let's not even talk about the basketball conference because we'll get there later on in one of the future episodes, I'm sure.
00:50:07
Speaker
But let's look at the football conference. There's nobody in there that you feel like we can't beat. And there's nobody in there that you feel like, man, this team just absolutely sucks ass. Yes, Kansas sucks ass right now, but they were good last year. So you get the feeling that you know Kansas, if things you know bounce their way, could you know get things right. So the fact that we lost to U of H, I think U of H is going to end up being a really good program. I think y'all got the right coach in there.
00:50:37
Speaker
Um, and I, I think, you know, I really liked what I saw, you know, particularly, um, a mobile quarterback, you know, did some good things. You have no business being a double digit point favorite and starting that game off down 17 nothing in your home stadium. What in the hell are we doing? And to me, you get one of those a year, Tim, you get one of those a year when you went and laid an egg against SMU.
00:51:07
Speaker
We came back and we beat Kansas. I'm sitting there thinking, okay, we're three and two. We win against U of A for four and two. Maybe we can eke ourselves into a bowl game. Maybe SMU was just kind of a, you know, a weird anomaly. But see, here's the thing. and And you know this well because you're a college football fan yourself. There are two games on the TCU schedule that you circle every year. And you show up to play those games every year.
00:51:36
Speaker
One of those is SMU. It doesn't matter what the records are. You bring your best, you bring your A game and you kick their ass. That's what you do. And the other game is going to come later on this year. It's Baylor. Baylor is just, you know, been at a rival of TCU for years, probably because we have two Christian church going at it. You know, my favorite headline was, you know, you know, the Baptist and the Christians were fighting on the, on the diamond whenever there was a,
00:52:03
Speaker
bench-clearing brawl and the baseball game and the old Southwest Conference days. But that's the point. and And I don't know, you know, I'm not a U of H fan, so you could probably tell me who those teams are that you circle on the calendar every year. But to me, you you show up for those games. But even though U of H is not one of those teams for us, you already blew your wad whenever you went to SMU and laid that egg. You don't get any more eggs to lay.
00:52:32
Speaker
you're going to have to show up. And we started playing football in the second half, and we made it a game for like a brief moment before U of H finally pulled away. but So it's not the fact that y'all won, because you know I think anybody in the Big 12 can beat anybody. And I think that's the best part of the conference. But you got to show up. You got to show up. I definitely agree with you. i i you know When you say the teams that you want to beat, UH definitely Rice is is there every year. The year we lost to Rice was was an absolute and embarrassment. But outside of that, it's probably changed as as time has gone on. right When you played Texas, it was definitely Texas. um When we were in the America Athletic Conference, I think Cincinnati was a team that got our best look every single year. um But no, like I definitely think you're right.
00:53:24
Speaker
You were a primetime game at the end of the day, right? You were a Friday night ESPN primetime game and the effort level was terrible. I mean, I, I, I was impressed with what UH did because we had not scored, I think in like nine quarters coming into that game, but, um, y'all's effort on defense was, was abysmal. Yeah. And then two interceptions early in the first half just kills you. Terrible throws too. Absolutely terrible th throws. Like.
00:53:54
Speaker
He didn't even have to make that good of a play for the interception. Yeah. Minus 10 on turnover ratio in six games. That's right. Not good. Almost as bad as the fan that moved into our sections. God, I told you about this. Some drunk frat boys started heckling, you know, how we lose the worst team in the division, all this other stuff. So towards the end of the game, I, I looked over casually and I just mentioned,
00:54:22
Speaker
Hey, we, we now have the same record in the big 12 this year. Um, you guys just lost to us by the transit of property. Wouldn't that make you the worst team in the division? And he started trying to fight me. So, you know, I'm going to take you, I'm going to take you right now. I said, where do you want to take me? Cause I got a great season, this game right here. He just get more and more pissed. Um,
00:54:44
Speaker
Just a little tiny damper on what is a pretty beautiful night. And and I'm not even talking about the game. That stadium is fantastic. They do that. The cool thing with half priced, uh, or $3 sodas before the six o'clock. So you get like a giant ass jumbo soda for $3 unbelievable deal. They got a free hydration station with, with cold water. I mean, I gotta say it of, of the stadiums I've been to, I'm with you. That's one of the better.
00:55:12
Speaker
Um, one of the better college football venues I've ever been to. Well, and I, I am sorry that you had to experience that, you know, you have 10,000 undergrads and I guess one of them is bound to be an asshole. You know, just by, you know, sheer statistics. i Let me, let me ask you this. Cause I texted my family. I got the vibe from TCU was huge, like.
00:55:34
Speaker
It was like SMU with more purple and more cowboy hats. What are your thoughts on that? A more Western SMU? Because now, remember, it is $81,000 to go to TCU. So you've got a bunch of kids on daddy's money who like to throw cowboy hats and boots on. Oh, yeah, yeah. There's there's that vibe. It's definitely dress up day for the sororities, you know, definitely and and at the games. What I will say about SMU is I don't know if you've ever been to one of their games there. I have.
00:56:02
Speaker
yo There was like three gate fours. Three what? Gate fours. And so we went to the ticket person and said, you know, five comes after four, right? And you're like, yes. That stadium, that stadium's beat to shit considering they're now in the ACC. Well, did you, you know what their school song or fight song is, right? I didn't. Money, money, money, money. She'll be coming around the mountain. Oh, is it really? Yes, it is.
00:56:32
Speaker
It really is. Just don't fucking mountains. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, you you're you're not wrong. You're not wrong about the comparisons. Well, let me take my scum back this week, Scott, because we talked about it briefly, and I said I wanted to come back to it. I mean, sorry, my horse's ass. Bobby Slowick could have cost us the football game on Sunday. The Texans were in field goal position. The Bills were out of timeouts, and there was less than a minute left.
00:57:02
Speaker
You could have run the ball twice, let the clock run down, call a timeout and kick the game winning field goal. Instead, they threw it two times, left 50 seconds on the clunk and clock and had to punt it back to Josh Allen. Like what are we doing? Like not only has the offense been sluggish to this point in the season, the run game has been non-existent. You've not found a way to incorporate all of your receivers into the offense at this point.
00:57:26
Speaker
And then you go and call those plays in that situation. Like, what are we doing? You don't need a touchdown there. You only need a field goal to win. You are in field goal range. How are those the plays that you call with the game on the line and you could have possibly cost your team the game? Because you cannot give Josh Allen the ball back. In my mind, it is run the ball, let the clock run down, either kick it and miss and go to overtime or kick it. We win, but there's no way I'm giving Josh Allen the ball back Scott.
00:57:54
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what the thinking is there. And to me, this is where D'Amico Ryan's needs to step in. And when he hears, he's listening to the headset, he's hearing the play call. He needs to step in and said, no, Bobby. I almost like getting a picture like the Hank Hill, you know, uh, dang it, Bobby. ah got like um But, you know, okay. So let's, let's play this out. You pass the ball. What's the worst that can happen?
00:58:23
Speaker
Interception picks sick use the game. Okay. What's the next worst thing that can happen? Interception steps out of bounds. They've got the possession. Okay. Then we didn't have either of those things happen though. But the third one is you get sacked or you have a penalty. Yeah. You're more likely to have a penalty on a passing play. I mean, the fact that Laramie Tunstall didn't commit a penalty all game might be a minor miracle. Maybe, you know, maybe we can call the Vatican and and get him, you know, sainted, you know, after that, you know,
00:58:53
Speaker
non penalty performance. But what if you run the ball, taking removing fumbling out of the equation, what's the worst that's gonna happen? Negative yardage, but not much bright yardage. And you got two plays. What are the what's the possibility that you're gonna run to running plays and lose, have a net loss in yardage, run to quarterback sneaks,
00:59:19
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, quarterbacks sneak it twice. If you don't get anything, you already had a shorter field goal than he kicked for the win. Yeah. and And the whole thing is that, like you said, you're going to the worst possible scenario is you're going to over time. That's the worst possible scenario. Correct. But the moment you gave the ball back to Josh Allen, the worst possible scenario was he's walking your ass off the field. Yeah. Thank God it didn't go that way. But again, that those play calls, that's a horse's ass play call at the end of the day.
00:59:48
Speaker
And that's, and I'm going to do, you know, throw D'Amico in here. Cause he's really got to step in and he's got to sit there and say, no, we're not doing that. We're running the football. I mean, even if you knelt, you would still been in better position than you were at the end of that football game in terms of the distance of the field goal kneeling, I think.
01:00:10
Speaker
You lose like six yards, or four yards a time. Well, I mean, if you do, but you kneel right behind the line, I mean. Yeah. But again, just QB sneak it. Just QB, just push forward. Like you literally could have just, I don't know. It just seemed to me, Scott, like that was a really, like that's the kind of shit I do on Madden when I'm trying to rack up as many points as possible. And this isn't Madden, right? This is real life. Yeah. All right, Scott, who are you tipping your cap to this?
01:00:39
Speaker
Well, um, I'm going to go with the obvious continuation of that conversation and we're going to have to go with the Hawaiian, Miami fair bear. I mean, he has three field goals and I think the shortest one was what, 47 yards. Yeah. So two above 50 yards, including a 59 yarder. And this is what's sick. And it was, it was crazy about the whole deal is that I was very confident with that 59 yard field goal. I was like, I think he's got this.
01:01:08
Speaker
Yeah. And, and, and how many times can you say that about a kicker with a 59 yard field goal? Remember when, you know, we had, you know, Fairburn was injured and you finally brought in another kicker other than Dari. And you remember that he couldn't even kick it 50 yards. amadola he sock Yeah. I mean, so to me, he's, I don't know if he won a special teams player of the week. If he did, he should have. That'd be a second one of the year.
01:01:37
Speaker
That's, you know, that doesn't happen very often. So I'm going to have to tip my cap to him because you know, there's going to be a moment where maybe he misses a key kick and you know, fans are yelling at him. But so you've got to give him his roses when he comes up huge for you. Absolutely. I think he hit the nail on the head there. He's been fantastic. He has been for years. He's clutch. Um, he hit, you know,
01:02:05
Speaker
What is, I think, Jon Rahm's safety shot off the tee when these guys hit a fairway, a little bit of a pull cut. Shot it right there between the upright. So I think that's a fantastic choice at the end of the day. My hat tip this week, I told you something. I'm going to mix it up a little bit. I'm actually going to give my hat tip to my buddy Justin, Justin Terry, who brought me out to the QHTCU game.
01:02:31
Speaker
um He has a TCU alumni, has season tickets, huge TCU fan, but was willing to bring a UH Cougar to the game when his team was in town. And again, stadium is beautiful. I had toured that campus when I was a senior in high school, haven't been back since. unbelievable beautiful Unbelievably beautiful campus. It's a great part of town. It was a great experience all around. I tip my cap to to Justin for sure for inviting me to that. and
01:03:02
Speaker
and my wife
Social Media and Fan Interactions
01:03:03
Speaker
are allowing me to take a Friday night and go do something like that. Well, you know, Tim, ah that's Ann's number one choice right now as it stands. So we might be selling the house, got some card getting some cardboard, you know, maybe building a little shanty there on campus. So we might be in your neck of the woods. Hey, that's a few if you like Caddyshack or he's like, you live over on Briar, right? Like you gotta got a pool out there.
01:03:32
Speaker
yeah i got I got a pond in a pool. You might be you might be more of the pond guy. A good natural spring. I think it'd be good and you're good for you. All right, Scott. I think it's that time. There are some people out in this godforsaken world who just do some scumbag type of things. And it's up to you and I to just really call them out on it and bring it to light. Scott, who do you have this week as your scumbag of the week?
01:04:00
Speaker
I've got two people and I'm not going to call them out by name because they're trolls and trolls do not deserve to be called out by name because that's exactly what they want. First guy earlier this week said, you just came out with a statement and said, you cannot be a Christian and a Democrat. And so I just responded politely and and said, I am. And he says, you know, basically, you know, when everything's evolved and he just got into, well,
01:04:29
Speaker
you know You're going to need to pray for guidance and yeah know you're you're going to go to hell and all this kind of stuff. And you don't know anything. Now, Tim, I'm going to get to that question here in a second. But I had another woman who I was trying to help her out, just trying to be friendly. There was a conversation about Kamala Harris. And so I just politely pointed out what The job description is for Vice President of the United States according to the U.S. Constitution. This is trying to be helpful. Now, I did insert a joke about her cutting the ribbon at opening of Jamba Juice in Washington, D.C. I hope everybody saw that as sarcasm, but maybe, you know, some people don't really realize that. But she said that, oh, this one I've got to read. I'm sorry. I've got to read this one. So the last one that she gave to me, let's see.
01:05:27
Speaker
um How many times do I have to repeat it? The more I have to repeat it, the more likely I'm correct. You're not smart enough to vote for the best interests of the country and yourself. You just aren't. That was her last quote. And this was basically after me basically telling her, listen, if you were smart, you'd listen to what I say and you would incorporate that into your argument against Kamala Harris.
01:05:56
Speaker
Because if you paid attention, you'd probably say, ah, maybe she doesn't have the experience that you know we thought you know that she did have when we assumed that it was her administration. But going back to my first one, Tim, I wrote an article about this on on the fact, I think this is my last article I wrote on Substag, where it talked about the reasons why I'm a Democrat and Christian. But and ah you were one of my confirmation students. Did I ever tell you who I was voting for?
01:06:27
Speaker
No. Did I ever tell you that God's a Democrat? No, I don't think you ever mentioned anything political Scott. Or that God's won't. No, I think I figured that one out on my own. So what and this is the point I made. I teach what the church teaches. It's your job to decide two things. Number one, do you believe in what the church teaches? Because that's an honest question. You can say no. And there are some of the church's stances on things where I say, no. But the second one is, how do you incorporate those beliefs into how you vote? That's the question. And the point is, is that God is not woke, is not conservatives, not Republican, is not Democrat. See, God is God. Humans take what God says and says, I'm going to form a philosophy around this.
01:07:27
Speaker
And I'm going to call it a political party. I'm going to call it church. I'm going to call it whatever, right? That's what humans do. And so no church is perfect in terms of getting the will of God down because we're human beings. That's just the way it is.
Politics and Society Discussion
01:07:44
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No, absolutely. And again, I, at one point in my life, I was a pretty big fan of the West Wing. I've ah kind of pulled back from a little bit because I'm a lot less of a liberal now. I'm more of.
01:07:57
Speaker
more left than that. But there's a great line in in there where President Bartlett is advising the Republican candidate, Arnold Vinik, and basically tells him, like, when Americans beg for professions of faith from our politicians, we're just asking to be lied to. And what do you know? You've got Donald Trump holding a Bible upside down outside of a church while people get the shit beat out of him. You've got him selling Bibles.
01:08:27
Speaker
The Trump Bible made in China, by the way, like I guess the day of the day, like if you truly think that the Republican party, like if if the world was blown up today with a giant missile and everybody died and we're all lined up at the pearly gates, like I have to believe that they're like, Hey, we're just going to get this process done first. Hey, any Republican Congress people, senators, judges, raise your hand right now. Yep. The board.
01:08:55
Speaker
Line to hell right there. Just go ahead and start Ted Cruz. I got an elevator for you You're gonna go down a little bit faster Greg Abbott. There's a ramp just fucking go right like I cannot imagine a world where you think that any of these people are good Christian people because if if I'm judging you By faith and good works, right? Like that's at the end of day. That's what it's about right your your faith and your good works your faith should influence your good works and Where's the good works? I don't see any good works. I see narcissistic self-influenced works that helped you become a richer person. A minor, a minor scumbag, Tim. I don't know if we've mentioned this last week and and and I don't think this is going to be your scumbag. So I'm not going to step on any toes here. But did you see what the state of Oklahoma is doing? They're buying Trump Bibles and putting them in classrooms. Right. Because
01:09:52
Speaker
the The specs for it is it must contain the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Gee, how many Bible contain all the books of the Bible and the Declaration of Independence, Tim? Kind of makes you want to come up with your own Bible that has the Declaration of Independence in it and price it $1 cheaper than the Trump Bible and see how much money we can make, Scott. I know, no kidding.
01:10:18
Speaker
You know some publishers. Maybe you and I need to have a little conversation about this off air. Yeah, I think so. We're about to make a lot of money on the Oklahoma school districts.
01:10:29
Speaker
but know scott My scumbag this week, let's stay with the theme of the Republican party. That's who my scumbag is. The Republican politicians who all signed against the FEMA um appropriations and in the House bill, who are now sitting here, you know,
01:10:46
Speaker
Finding you know, they fucked around and now they're finding out right but at the end of the day They're not even finding out because the funds are still being offered to the citizens. They're just acting like they're not and and I I absolutely hate this Because again, we mentioned at the top of the show you and I have been through numerous hurricanes I still get PTSD From what I went through in Harvey and I didn't even go through anything as bad as some of the people who lost damn near everything And you've got people acting like there's no help available. Like no one's doing anything. Like they're just hanging us out to dry and it's fucking bullshit. Cause number one, there's not, that's not the case. I guarantee you there are tons of boots on the ground helping those people and not even from the government, from other caring human beings. Cause you know, what one of the most amazing sites I ever saw in my life was the line of
01:11:42
Speaker
trucks carrying fishing boats and fan boats and all that shit from louisiana when the cajun navy came to start pulling people out so don't sit here and tell me that there's gonna there's no help no one gives a shit that's what they're leaving us for because that's bullshit it's absolute bullshit because i've seen what really happens and it's everybody does what they can to help people there's a rush to give blood there's a rush to go get people out of their homes there's a rush to get people to safety to get them clean food to get them clean water to get them whatever they need it's so Frustrating that we are politicizing this situation and the storm landed last night It barely fucking is over and we're already talking about how bad this administration is and all this other stuff and it's and it's just So fucking frustrating Scott because the first thought about a storm shouldn't be like how can I bump my? my poll numbers because of this hurricane it should be Let's save as many lives as we can
01:12:39
Speaker
And I truly, in my heart of hearts, I'm not a Democrat. I'll say that over again. I ah vote sometimes for Democrats in the election because that's the best represent my interests, but I'm not a Democrat. But I guarantee you the Biden administration was having conversations of what can we do to mitigate this disaster the best that we possibly can. And I guarantee you a majority of Republicans were having the conversation of how can we use this come election time? Well, two things that I think that really pissed me off about this whole thing. Number one.
01:13:09
Speaker
even more galling than the lie about whether or not their resources is the galling of the lie of there are looters that are going to take your home because you know what that causes to and that causes people to stay in their home whenever they should be evacuating. There were people that were told that we're in the path of storm. Oh, the storm's not going to hit you. Don't worry about it. What the fuck are we doing?
01:13:37
Speaker
I mean, when you're sitting there saying, oh, these migrant looters are going to come and take your home, take what? It's a category five fucking hurricane. There's not going to be anything left to take. Okay. And then number two, you know, everybody's favorite member as, as Malkowitz said, you know, the representative from Florida, uh, everybody's favorite, uh, member of the Mensa chapter of the house of representatives, Margie Taylor green, who's telling us that.
01:14:06
Speaker
Of course, we're controlling the weather. Of course, the government's doing that. OK, do you really lady, by the way, you said there's Jewish space lasers. Do you realize how much power it would take to generate a storm of that size? I i mean, I can't imagine probably need a lot of solar energy. She didn't like that, though. you you know Yeah, well, you need it's like it's more powerful than any plant could produce in the world.
01:14:36
Speaker
And so, and then they sit there and say, well, they landed it only on red areas. come What the fuck? Really? I mean, this is what we have for intelligent discourse in this country. And we have people, you know, and and there are people who pick that up on social media and they're like, do you think this storm was, you know, man-made or do you think it was natural? Because let's say it was man-made. Let's just pretend.
01:15:03
Speaker
And we have over 100 people that died in the last storm. How do you think anybody would keep it a secret that knew about that? Somebody would come forward and say like, I'm sorry, my bad, that was us. I mean, yeah it's the same people that, you know, and then there are people that on the on the left, the far left who thought, you know, that 9-11 was an inside job. I mean, come on.
01:15:31
Speaker
I mean, this is I mean, the sad part is, Scott, all this stuff traces back to one guy, one piece of shit guy who's losing everything he owns through bankruptcy in Austin named Alex Jones. Like at the end of the day, all of this shit that you've mentioned, the 9-11 conspiracy bullshit, that's fucking Alex Jones. The people are going to come and loot your house. Literally, he's on air saying that.
01:16:01
Speaker
three days ago. i he starts If you look at the right-wing media sphere, almost all this crazy shit starts on Alex Jones, starts on Ben Shapiro, starts on these other crazy fucking nut jobs, and slowly a filtered, filtered, filtered, filtered version of it comes out of Donald Trump's mouth, like within a week. Yeah, and probably not even that much, right? And and and it's just crazy. it's like you know and and i think And I go back to my social media people, just a number of people that are just idiots. And I love the fact that I'm not smart enough to vote for my interests. Oh, honey. And that's because this is a woman. Oh, honey. yeah I could run circles around you with half my brain tied behind my back. Oh, yeah, Rush. That's the old Rush Limbaugh quote. I can out debate you with half my brain tied behind my back.
01:16:57
Speaker
No, I mean, at the end of the day, Scott, somebody that thinks that voting for Donald Trump is the best interest of our country is a moron. If you want to be straight up with me and be like, hey, my net worth is 50 million dollars. And I believe that voting for Donald Trump will allow me to hold on to more of my money and continue to fuck you guys over as a working class and allow me to grow this money further. I'd be like, you know what?
01:17:19
Speaker
Take your piece of shit, but at least you're straightforward about it and you know why you're voting for Donald Trump, right? Like you're not someone who has been conned into thinking that this man has anything of your interest at all exactly Well, I think that is gonna do it here for us this week Scott um Surprise surprise Republicans are scumbags, right? Yeah.
Show Wrap-up and Future Plans
01:17:43
Speaker
So do you have anything coming for us on sub stack? I'm gonna bang something out here tonight Scott. I normally like to Um, do it on the same night that we do our show. I'm, I'm in work mode at that point. So I'll get something out there tonight. I know you said you've got some stuff coming out, uh, both on sub stack and on, um, crawfish boxes and on, um, like, yeah, I'm everywhere. I'm ubiquitous. Hey. Throwing out one of those smart terms, you know, since I'm an idiot.
01:18:13
Speaker
I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere. Where's he been? Alabama, Buffalo, Texaco. I don't even remember at this point. right yeah All right. Well, we appreciate everybody who joined us this week and made us a part of your week. We will see everybody same that time, same that channel next week on born on the body sports. Thanks again, folks.