Astros comeback and beat the Angels, 6-4

Summary

Payne & Pendergast – Astros Comeback Beats Angels 6–4 (July 28, 2026)

Episode Overview

This episode, hosted by Sean Pendergast with Brandon Scott filling in for Seth Payne, recaps the Houston Astros’ improbable 6–4 comeback victory over the Los Angeles Angels. The main thrust of the show is a breakdown of the Astros’ wild ninth-inning rally, sharp criticism of the Angels’ collapse, and a candid look at Houston’s strengths and lingering concerns—particularly in the starting rotation. Further, the hosts dive into what to expect from Tank Dell as Texans training camp opens, with a blend of statistical analysis, personal anecdotes, and their trademark Houston sports banter.

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Astros vs. Angels: Comeback Breakdown

Setting the Scene

• Seth Payne is out; Brandon Scott joins Sean Pendergast.
• Astros trailed most of the game with starter Tatsuya Imai knocked out in the first inning (“…walked four in the first inning and he was done. …credit Blue Ball. …almost got like an in-game save.” – Sean, 05:17).
• Sean describes leaving a Texans media party with the Astros down 2–0, unaware of the drama to come.

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The Ninth Inning: A Comedy of Errors

(Breakdown starts at [08:49])

• Astros scored four in the ninth with only one hit.
• Recurring theme: “Santa came early”/Angels collapse.
• Complete sequence included:
  • Hit batsman (Tramell).
  • Passed ball.
  • Outfield playing too deep, turning a shallow single into a base hit.
  • Pinch running moves (Nick Allen) questioned for being marginally faster.
  • An error at second base allows a runner to score.
  • Sacrifice bunt for an out rather than letting Vasquez swing.
  • Intentional walk to Yordan Alvarez—puts tying run on third ([11:26]).
  • Next batter, Isaac Paredes, is hit by pitch, tying the game.
  • Walk to Lamonte Wade Jr. with bases loaded puts Astros ahead.
  • Angels challenge, but lose.
  • Another fielding error lets in another run.
• Astros sent 10 men to the plate in the ninth and had only one hit ([37:01]).

Notable Quotes:

“...in the ninth inning last night, had two errors, two hit by pitch, a passed ball, walked your on Alvarez to load the bases, and then hit a batter, walked a batter with the bases loaded, lost a challenge in the process.”
– Sean Pendergast [13:16]

“...10 batters go to the plate. One hit. ...True Angels. Y’all are Angels to me. ...Anaheim and behind home plate, your Angels in our eyes, all of you contributed.”
– Josh Radner [20:16]

Hosts’ Assessment

• Both agree: The game was more about the Angels losing it than the Astros winning it.
• “Did the Astros win? Or did somebody have to not lose?”
  – Josh Radner [08:38]
• “It was almost like, by the time you got to the ninth inning, the Angels were like, ...here's the game. We're not actually interested in winning it. Here you go.”
  – Josh Radner [14:09]

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Pitching Woes & Relief Heroics

Tatsuya Imai: Feast or Famine ([22:40], [16:36])

• Walked four and was pulled in the first inning. Statistically, he’s extreme:
  “...when he goes more than five innings... batting average is .163... can’t make it to the fifth, ...batting average .347 and a WHIP of nearly three.”
  – Sean Pendergast [22:41]
• Unreliability is now part of team identity: “...a part of their identity... unsettling...”
  – Josh Radner [17:27]

Christian Javier: Game MVP ([14:45])

• 5 innings long relief: 3 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, 7 Ks.
• Seen “...vintage Christian Javier performance last night.”
  – Sean Pendergast [39:25]

Bullpen Band-Aids

• AJ Blue Ball, Javier, and others are effectively “emergency doctors” because starters are so unreliable.
• The hosts worry about bullpen overuse:
  “...force multiplier is normally ...raises the level of everybody else. Tatsuya Imai makes sure that Joe Espada is challenged for the next three days after this.”
  – Sean Pendergast [23:43]
• Peter Lambert “has to” give 6 innings next game, under massive pressure.

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Astros Momentum & Fan Takeaway

Are the Astros “for real” or Just Lucky? ([38:22])

• Sean: No change in confidence—still skeptical due to starting pitching.
• Team is gritty, but not consistent.
• “I don't feel different at all... the starting pitching scares the hell out of me. The bullpen... Christian Javier had a truly vintage ...performance…”
  – Sean Pendergast [39:14]

Notable/Funny Moments

• “Santa came early!”
  – Brandon Scott [06:01], [36:03]
• Playful ribbing of Angels infield/outfield.
• Banter about “Angels in the outfield,” “comedy of errors,” and “Angels going to Angel" ([20:16]).

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Texans Training Camp: What Is Tank Dell? ([24:51] – [34:01])

Main Question: What is Tank Dell (and when will he be “ready for violence”)?

• Focus: Will Tank Dell return to form after injury? Is he ready for full contact?
• They compare Tank’s small stature to previous injury-prone players (“Clowney club”).
• Dismiss concerns about learning Bobby Slowik’s new offense—Nick Caserio confirms Tank is smart & engaged.

Notable Quotes

“Is this guy ready for violence? Like, is he ready to take a hit, to take a licking and keep on ticking, as they say?”
– Josh Radner [27:21]

“The most discouraging thing would be if he's off with three other guys working out with elastic bands and medicine balls ... two fields over...”
– Sean Pendergast [31:10]

• Tank’s true position: Often lines up outside despite size—don’t assume he’s just a slot guy ([30:09]).
• If Tank is healthy, the entire receivers room changes hierarchy.

Practice Expectations

• Excitement if Tank participates with 1s, even in walkthroughs.
• “If we see Tank even in a walkthrough thing with the ones... I’ll be pretty excited.”
  – Sean Pendergast [29:54]
• Most fans are keenly awaiting reports on Tank’s health and involvement.

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Quick Hits: NFL Headlines

• Daniel Jones (NY Giants) cleared for camp post-Achilles, reflecting rapid recovery now possible in NFL ([43:16]).
• Serious news: Eric Bieniemy’s son arrested after shooting incident; family is stable and reeling ([41:47]).

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Summary Table: Astros 9th Inning (Key Moments)

| Timestamp | Event/Action | Result/Impact | |-------------|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------| | 09:32 | Taylor Trammell HBP, advances on PB | Opens door for rally | | 09:32 | Christian Walker single | Runners advanced due to poor OF alignment | | 10:08 | Pinch-run Nick Allen thrown out at home | Questioned wisdom of pinch-running | | 10:32 | Lucas Spence grounder, error on 2B | Run scores, inning extended | | 11:04 | Sac bunt (Vasquez), out | Hosts question 1980s baseball logic | | 11:26 | Intentional walk to Yordan Alvarez | Loads bases, pushes tying run to 3B | | 11:47 | Isaac Paredes HBP | Run scores, game tied | | 12:38 | Lamonte Wade Jr. drawn walk (bases loaded) | Astros take the lead | | 12:50 | ANGELS lose challenge, then error at 3B | Another run scores, Astros up further |

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “Santa came early!” – Brandon Scott [06:01], [36:03]
• “The Astros needed Angels last night to win. They did, and they got them.” – Sean Pendergast [20:33]
• “Did the Astros win? Or did somebody have to not lose?” – Josh Radner [08:38]
• “I mean, you tell me—is this more of a sign ... is this real or ... just luck?” – Josh Radner [38:22]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:30 – Show proper begins (Astros win headline)
• 06:44 – Sean’s late night game update, intro to the 9th inning drama
• 08:49 – Full 9th inning sequence breakdown
• 14:45 – Christian Javier’s MVP performance
• 16:36 – Astros' pitching identity: feast or famine
• 22:40 – Statistical extremes of Imai as starter
• 24:51 – Texans “What is Tank Dell?” camp preview discussion
• 36:03 & 37:01 – Recap of 9th inning & postgame reactions
• 41:47 – NFL headlines, Bieniemy family incident

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a must-listen for anyone wanting both a cathartic laugh at the Angels’ foibles and a sober look at the Astros’ current trajectory. While the win brings Houston closer to the playoff picture, the hosts balance celebration with concern, especially around starting pitching. Meanwhile, the Texans’ camp preview pivots to optimism—conditional on Tank Dell’s health. The show is packed with classic Houston sports talk: candid, analytical, and never too serious to miss the absurdity of a wild baseball night.

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For full banter, memorable rants, and detailed play-by-play, you won’t want to miss the whole episode—especially if you love Houston sports.

Transcript

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[Sean Pendergast]

Sports Radio 610 presents Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast.

[Josh Radner]

We coming to eighth time. Let's get the work in, man.

[Brandon Scott]

Let go.

[Sean Pendergast]

Great day. Great day. Oh, give me some juice, baby. Oh yeah.

[Josh Radner]

Let's do it. Broken back Hader backs up, fields it, throws in time. Astros win it 6 4.

[Sean Pendergast]

Not an easy play as Hayter navigated

[Josh Radner]

the back of the mound, kept his feet and threw out Grissom to end the game.

[Brandon Scott]

Plumber.

[Josh Radner]

That was not a classic top half of the ninth inning, but what a comeback by the Astros.

[Brandon Scott]

Santa came early.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well put, Blummer.

[Josh Radner]

Well put indeed.

[Sean Pendergast]

And understatement of the year. Not a classic top of the ninth inning for the Astros. Okay, so welcome in everybody here on a Tuesday. I'm Sean Pendergast alongside Brandon Scott who's in for Seth Payne today. Seth back tomorrow. This is the last day for a while that we will be in studio because Texans training camp gets started tomorrow. Can't wait for that. We had the media party last night, and this plays into some of what we're about to talk about here. The Astros beat the Angels last night. If you went to bed and you're not like me, and when you wake up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, if you ignore your phone, that's a good thing to do. Ignore your phone. If you have to get up. You know, I'm not, I'm not quite at John Lopez level yet. Lopez wears on his sleeve that he gets up like four times during the night to go to the bathroom, which

[Josh Radner]

is probably an issue. Probably not great.

[Sean Pendergast]

It's not good.

[Josh Radner]

But I'll let Lopez handle his own business.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's. If he wants to get that kind of sleep, that's. That's on him.

[Josh Radner]

Grown man.

[Sean Pendergast]

Right. But I get up typically either zero or one time in the, in the night. And especially if I've been out carousing and having a good time, I can almost guarantee I'm getting up to hit the restroom at like 2:30 in the morning. Yeah. So we had the Texans media party last night and it was fun. Shout out to the Texans and the, their, their media relations staff through it. Through a great kickoff party to the 2026 season. It was a whole lot of fun. Good seeing some familiar faces out there who will be seeing for the next several weeks out of training camp. But the party started at 6:30. On paper, it was supposed to be over around 8:30, but I'm always one of those people. I'm the opposite of Seth. Seth can just stroll out of a party and nobody sees him. He's the king of the Irish goodbye.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah, I ended up doing that too, eventually.

[Sean Pendergast]

You Irish goodbye to.

[Josh Radner]

I had to.

[Sean Pendergast]

You snuck out.

[Josh Radner]

Well, because I would have stayed forever.

[Sean Pendergast]

And you've been in for Seth for the last three or four days. So you got to, you know, you

[Josh Radner]

got to channel Seth in the spirit of true Seth.

[Sean Pendergast]

If it's going to be pain and Pendergast with Brandon Scott in for Seth Payne, you've got to lean into his gimmick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Radner]

I didn't even realize it, but I was just through osmosis.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yep.

[Josh Radner]

Live through Seth vicariously or vice versa.

[Sean Pendergast]

All these times you've been telling people to go die during the show.

[Josh Radner]

No, you haven't been doing Yeah, I haven't done that.

[Sean Pendergast]

You haven't totally channeled.

[Josh Radner]

Haven't done that just yet. My mom listens and I don't think. Yeah, I would get angry texts if I did.

[Sean Pendergast]

Right, right, right. So. So anyways, Tatsuya Imai was knocked out of this game before I left the party. I know the game started at 8:38. I was one of a few people still kind of milling around Flight club last night. Fun place, by the way. Kind of milling around there till like nine. And I look down on my phone, the Astros already down to nothing.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And AJ Blue ball is in. And I'm like, I thought Imai was starting. And then I remembered that when you pull an email, when you use his name as a proper name for a performance. Yeah. It means you didn't make it out of the first inning.

[Josh Radner]

Or when you eat my. That's as a verb.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

Either way.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yes.

[Josh Radner]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

You pull an email or you ima e my everywhere. Yes. Got. He might all over the place. It was the worst.

[Josh Radner]

Got him. I was just all over that dog on mountain.

[Sean Pendergast]

Walked four in the first inning and he was done. And credit blue ball.

[Josh Radner]

Like he.

[Sean Pendergast]

He kept the. He left the bases loaded. Blue ball came in there and almost got like, he almost. He got like an in game save. Almost.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. Blue ball, which is kind of, kind of the story of the Astros. Like it's been up and down with the starters, as we know. And the bullpen, as ragtag as it is, has saved it a many times. This is just another example of that. And I do want to say before you continue, speak for yourself, Jeff Blum. Speak for yourself, Sean Pendergast. It felt like a classic to me. This is like, this is turning into classic Astros of just dig yourself out a hole or in some cases, get a little bit lucky in this one.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah, well.

[Sean Pendergast]

And it is. It was classic Angels too. Yes. That's a bad baseball team. So. So it was when I went, I got home, you know, left the party, got home. It was for nothing by then. And Taylor Tramell hit a home run to make it 4 to 1. And I'm like, okay, I just can't. I got to go to bed. I got to get up early and do a show. This game doesn't feel like it's going anywhere.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Seen this movie before.

[Josh Radner]

Back to back games with a home run for Taylor Trammel. Just by the way.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

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[Sean Pendergast]

And then look, with plenty of at bats to seize out there in the outfield. Like, you know, there's the Outfield a problem right now. He can really nail down a spot if he keeps hitting the ball well. So I went to bed, it was 4 to 1. I wake up at 2:30 in the morning to hit the, the, you know, the restroom.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

The tinkle Torium and the tinkle to. And I, I bring my phone with me because I'm an idiot, you know. Don't bring your phone with you when you get up in the. I bring my phone with me.

[Josh Radner]

I'm the same idiot that you are.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just. Well, especially because there was an Astros game, I'm like, I guess I'll see, you know, how much they lost by. And I've got, I've got like nine push notifications from Mark Berman. Not text, but like Twitter, you know, I've got certain people set to push notify when they tweet.

[Josh Radner]

And Mark, probably from back in the days when he was breaking news and

[Sean Pendergast]

Mark is still a really good follower.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

It was no reason to turn off the notifications.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's, in some ways he's even a better follow because we don't, we don't get the breaking news anymore. But someone's always going to break the news. Like it's just not Berman anymore.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Although he does from time to time. It feels like he dips his toe in the water there still. Yeah, but, but he's more fun now because he's opinionated.

[Josh Radner]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

And he's very useful, like for Astro games. He tweets everything that happens after the game.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

So I wake up to like 8 push notifications from Berman and the very first one I see is some quote either from Ashen Felder on the post game show or from somebody saying that the Astros were handed a Christmas gift today. Or, you know, or they, or maybe it was Ashen Felder quoting Blum or it might have been Berman quoting Blum. You know, something like that.

[Josh Radner]

Santa did come early last night.

[Sean Pendergast]

He did, he did. And so, so I'm like, holy crap. So I just looked to make sure they won and they won. They got four in the ninth. It's. It appeared from the tweets. It was a classic Angels thing. I didn't open YouTube and start watching, though. I'm like, I'm gonna go get my two hours of sleep.

[Josh Radner]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

Get up at 4:45 and come in. Holy crap. What an awful, awful baseball team this is. And honestly, that ninth inning, what a battle of two teams. That one is awful and one's just not very good. Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

I mean, you Somebody had to win the game.

[Sean Pendergast]

Somebody. Yes.

[Josh Radner]

That's what it was. Somebody had to not. Did the Astros win? Or did somebody have to not lose? And was the other team just an outright undisputed loser?

[Sean Pendergast]

Right. Because amidst this sea of errors, the Astros are still popping up sacrifice bunts and getting thrown out at home plate by 10ft in the ninth inning. Like it. It wasn't. It wasn't perfect by any means, but if you're an Angels fan, this is what you watched your team do in the ninth inning alone last night, leading four to two. The very first batter was Taylor Tramell. He was hit by a pitch. Yeah, the. He went to second on a passed ball. Then Christian Walker gets a single to center field. Because they're playing the outfield practically with their backs to the wall because they don't want to give up two runs in the inning. I mean, he hit a ball. That's probably. If they're just playing at normal depth, it's probably a pop out to center field.

[Josh Radner]

But they played their way. They played their own way into that situation.

[Sean Pendergast]

Strategize their way into that. Right, right, right.

[Josh Radner]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

Because of the. Because of the hit by pitch in the pass ball. Yeah, yeah. So. So then Nick Allen grounds a ball. No, no, sorry. Nick Allen came in to run for Christian Walker. So. And he got thrown out at home plate. Eventually, they. Joe has spotted. Did that thing where he put somebody in. It's like a. A tiny fraction of a second faster than a good hitter.

[Josh Radner]

And he loves to do it with Nick Allen or Bryce Mattis.

[Sean Pendergast]

He doesn't like Nick Allen is Vince Coleman or something like that.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

So that's another Espada thing, man. Like this whole pinch running thing because you might go to extra innings, man. He's.

[Josh Radner]

It's like he's got some kind of pride in using the entire bench, but it's like, that's cool and all, but sometimes I feel like he's doing it just for the sake of using the entire bench. He overthinks just to say he did it.

[Sean Pendergast]

And this is, I guess, what they used to do back in the 80s, you know, that kind of thing. The. The Angels. Then Lucas Spence grounds a ball to second, which should have been a double play. Yeah. Should have practically ended the game. And it rolls through the second bay. It rolls through. Through Grim's legs. In the innings alive. Instead of two outs and a runner on third, it's. It's runner on, I think. Well, no, it's. It. It's. Tramel scores on the play. So now it's four to three.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Vasquez pops out a sacrifice bun. So here's. Here's Joe Espada doing 80s baseball again. Got a bun. And I know, I know Vasquez is your nine hole hitter. He's also been pretty decent this year with in clutch situations. Yeah, I think I'd rather have Christian Vasquez swinging the bat right there if it were me, but I'm not going to go through this like Paredes gets.

[Josh Radner]

They.

[Sean Pendergast]

They intentionally. Eventually they intentionally walk Jordan Alvarez. Upper run with runners on first and second. Yeah. They choose to walk Jordan Alvarez. So they now push the tying run to third base.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Relevant because the next batter, Isaac Perez, was hit by a pitch.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. Another. We're talking still in the ninth inning.

[Sean Pendergast]

Another hit by pitch. Another hit by pitch that scored a run because the Angels manager chose to push the tying run to third base with an intentional walk to Yordon Alvarez.

[Josh Radner]

This will be the only spot here. Not that I'm here to defend the Angels at all, but this is the one move that they made that I thought was not a comedy of errors because I would rather face anybody in the Astros lineup, especially with the game on the line, considering that they're actively coughing up the game in the moment. Well, knowing that I'm not going to give Jordan Alvarez a chance to beat me, but you know what else I'm not going to do? What else is non negotiable? Like, I think it's non negotiable to let Jordan Alvarez bat in that situation. Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

It's also non negotiable to hit the next guy.

[Sean Pendergast]

Being a guy.

[Josh Radner]

Can't do that.

[Sean Pendergast]

Cannot do it, man.

[Josh Radner]

And they did.

[Sean Pendergast]

And they did. And that only tied the game because then Lamont Wade Jr. Walked with the bases loaded. Bases are still loaded here. Can't do that either. By course. Angels Angels challenged the call, Got it wrong.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah, they should do that.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's. That's a spot where you do challenge. Smoke them if you got them. Then. Then there. There's another fielding error by the third baseman. And in. In Jordan Alvarez scores. So if you're keeping track at home, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the ninth inning last night had two errors to hit by pitch. A past ball.

[Josh Radner]

Walked your on Alvarez to load the bases.

[Sean Pendergast]

Walked. Intentionally walked him to push the tying run to third.

[Josh Radner]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

And then hit a batter. I mentioned the hit by pitch. Then walked a batter with the bases loaded. Lost a challenge in the process. These were two. One really bad baseball team and one just really inconsistent, mediocre baseball team. And I'm glad I got to watch it on YouTube.

[Josh Radner]

A hit, two walks, two errors. It's one of hit batters. It's to hand them their. To hand them their ninth loss of the season. This is the Angels I'm talking about here. This is their ninth loss of the season when leading after eight innings. I mean, I don't know if you can describe collapse any more clearly any more clear or succinct than that. Yes. Like, that's as bad as it gets.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yep. Yep.

[Josh Radner]

It was almost like by the time he got to the ninth inning, the Angels were like, yeah, I know we've been leading the game for pretty much its entirety, but here's the game. We're not actually interested in winning it. Here you go.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, and let's. So. So we laid out the comedy of errors. That was the ninth inning. And look, credit the Astros for being gritty. This is. This is a gritty team. They. You know, they. They have during this run where they've played better baseball. They didn't play great baseball, but better, better baseball. They've. They've been much more of a threat in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings than they were in the first couple months of the season. So I will grant them that.

[Josh Radner]

The.

[Sean Pendergast]

The MVP of this game undoubtedly was Christian Javier. Yes, Christian Javier last night had five innings in relief, three hits, no earned runs, no runs at all. Shut up ball. No walks, which is big. And seven strikeouts, which is big. Two. Cause that's the big thing we've been watching with Javier since, really, since the Tommy John surgery is his velocity has been so up and down. And not that he's some guy that blows you away with Velo, but he does need to be in the mid-90s with the invisible and everything like that.

[Josh Radner]

Exactly. It's not just the velocity, but it's the movement. And I've been asking again ever since he came back from Tommy John, is the invisible still invisible? And that's just been an open question for a long time now. And shout out to him last night for actually performing when I feel like the Astros, you could argue it needed them most. This was probably his most. Like, I don't even know if you'd call it high leverage, because it seemed like it was unlikely that they'd be able to come back, but they absolutely, if they were, they needed him to be what he was.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, this is what the inconsistency of guys like Imai, Spencer Arrogetti, and I know he's on the IL now, but he couldn't make it through an inning. And he was even before the injury. Like, he, he's been very up and down. Spencer Arrogetti, Post AL Pitcher of the

[Josh Radner]

Month Whenever that was May or June, it was May.

[Sean Pendergast]

And he's been terrible since then. Yes, he's been awful. So. So with the inconsistency of the staff as a whole, it's really almost evolved into where aj, Blue Bar and I guess now Christian, Javier are almost like your, your starters, 5A and 5B, like, they've got those two guys now have to be on call, especially when Emi is on the mound. They've got to be on call like an emergency doctor.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Cause you don't know if Tatsuya Imai, I don't think I've ever seen an Astros pitcher that has a bigger window into what you may or may not get out of him. There have been times in the last couple weeks where Imai has looked every bit worth the $18 million that they're paying him. And then there's nights like last night where he doesn't get out of the first inning. Like, he looks like a guy they called up from Double A that day, you know, who got no sleep the night before. Like, he just looks terrible. Half his starts, he doesn't. He doesn't make it to the, to the fifth inning, you know, and that's his third start where he doesn't make it out of the first.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And we know the damage that does to your, to your bullpen. That's the pressure it puts. Boy, the pressure it puts on Peter Lambert tonight. Peter Lambert, almost, to use your word, non negotiably, has to give you six innings tonight. He has to.

[Josh Radner]

Well, it is gotten to the point, and I feel like they've been here for a while now because this is not like, obviously we're talking about the most recent events with the Astros, but it's not like this is a new sort of feeling with Tatsuya Imai and the way you just laid it out, a host of the Astros starters. And so this is kind of like, this is almost like a part of their identity now, which is a. An unsettling thing, but a part of their identity nonetheless.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yep.

[Brandon Scott]

Yep.

[Josh Radner]

And you know what? I would say this about Imai. I'd love to make the excuse that, well, because, you know, earlier it was, oh, the mounds are different and dinner's at the wrong time, and I'm just not comfortable and I'm fatigued And I thought, well, maybe it's going to be. Maybe Tatsuya Mai is going to be the guy who just pitches well at home, and going on the road is just going to be an adventure every time. Tatsuya Mai's. Turn around the rotation car.

[Sean Pendergast]

His. If you look. Or his.

[Josh Radner]

I'm looking at his.

[Sean Pendergast]

What are his splits, but they're.

[Josh Radner]

That's the thing. When you look at his splits, you're expecting to see much better home numbers versus away, and you don't. His ERA on the road is 4.8. 4.88 on the road.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's. That's bad. I know. That's better than his home because his. His actual era is in the sixes.

[Josh Radner]

There you go. His era at home is 6.68.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

So it's like, okay, well, you want to give him a pass for. Or maybe not give him a pass. But. But consider. Maybe this guy is just much more comfortable on a mound that he pitches on more often, which is obviously the case at home. But he ain't good on the. He's not reliable, at least because he can be good at times on the road or at home, but he ain't reliable at home, on the road or anything like that.

[Sean Pendergast]

Nope. Reliable is not.

[Josh Radner]

That's not going to be him.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's not him, man. That's not him. And yet, if he had to start a playoff series, well, it'd be pretty easy right now if it were a wild card round. You pitch Hunter Brown and you pitch Peter Lambert and you hope that you win the thing in two, and then you deal with a divisional round when you get there.

[Josh Radner]

But. But to the point, though, if you do have to play that third game, it's basically as it should be because it's one. That means it's one one at that point. But it's all hands on deck.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yes.

[Josh Radner]

Like, no matter who you go with, it could be T. Tatsuya Imai, it could be Christian IV who has playoff experience, but any of those guys. And you and I were talking about this before the show, whoever it is, you need a backup plan and maybe even a backup plan to that backup plan.

[Sean Pendergast]

It's wild, man. It is wild. But here we are. They got a win last night. I'll read this text real quick, and then we'll. We'll. We'll hit the break here. Um, I'm an. It says I'm a. I'm an OTR driver. I'm in New York, so I didn't have a prayer of staying up late. But when I woke up, I saw we had 10 batters in the ninth and had just one hit. And my first thought was Angels going to Angel. Yep, it's exactly right. Man. One hit. Our angels 10, 10 batters go to the plate. One hit.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah, true Angels. Y' all are Angels to me. Don't let. Don't let nobody tell you you are

[Sean Pendergast]

Angels in the outfield.

[Josh Radner]

Don't tell any infield. Don't let anyone tell you any different. Anaheim and behind home plate, your Angels

[Sean Pendergast]

in our eyes, all of you contributed. All of you. All of you Angels came from the catcher all the way out to the center fielder. All of you contributed.

[Josh Radner]

The Astros needed Angels last night to win. They did, and they got them.

[Sean Pendergast]

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[Sean Pendergast]

First Lincoln of Sugarland Studios, here's Payne and Pender. Okay, so the TV in our studio is on the is on the Astros game, the replay of last night's game. So we're now getting to watch this Tatsuya Imai boy, the numbers when he goes five plus innings and when he goes less than five innings. Holy smokes. Holy smokes. Now, naturally, the numbers are going to be worse when you go less than five innings. Yeah. Take a picture of that, B, Scott. When he goes more than five innings, his opponent's batting average is.163 and he's got a whip of under one. When Tatsui Imai can't make it to the fifth, which is half of his starts this year, if I saw that correctly, they have a batting average of three. 47 and a whip of nearly. Of around two and a half.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. Over two and a half.

[Sean Pendergast]

Over two and a half. He's putting nearly three guys on base per inning and he's giving up a batting average that would basically win the batting title in a runaway this year.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. There's not a more Jekyll and Hyde type of performance or. Or profile on a pitcher than. Than that.

[Sean Pendergast]

When he makes it to five innings, though, he's. He's Justin Verlander. You know what I mean? He's vintage Justin Verlander. If Tatsui might make it to five innings, he's outstanding.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

If he can't make it to five innings, he's me, basically.

[Podcast Host (Various Ads)]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

And to that point, it's like he's like. It's beyond useless. It's like where it's worse than useless. It's like now you have to. Either he's giving you this great advantage, giving you those great numbers that you're talking about, if he's going deeper into the game, or he's a liability. And the new task of the day or of the night in this case, is to overcome Tatsuya Imai and manage

[Sean Pendergast]

your bullpen and tax your bullpen.

[Josh Radner]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's a reverse force multiplier is what he is.

[Josh Radner]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

Your force multiplier is normally a term used for somebody that augments or raises the level of everybody else.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

To Tatsuya Imai makes sure that Joe Espada is challenged for the next three days after this.

[Josh Radner]

Well, I wonder. This is something I could even ask them. I doubt that they would throw their guy under the bus, but I wonder if, like the bullpen, whoever are the available pitchers on a given night. I wonder if they play like a game when he's on the mound. Like when, when, when do you. How long do you think we're going

[Sean Pendergast]

to sit back there? They've got bets going on out there. That's what I'm saying, that they've got bets going on out there.

[Josh Radner]

Cause I know you can't really bet on baseball. That can be dangerous, but could you do a prop Like a. A bet within a bit. You know what I mean? Like this very specific prop bet on your teammate.

[Sean Pendergast]

It's incredible. I've never seen anything like this. Never seen anything like this.

[Josh Radner]

Wild.

[Sean Pendergast]

All right, 10 days till camp. We're down to day number two. Tomorrow will be day number one will be the day of training camp. And that'll be our final question. I would guess it'll have something to do with CJ Stroud. I don't think we've hit CJ in any of these questions yet. Yeah. But today's question is a B. Scott special. Today's question, B. Scott, is what is

[Josh Radner]

an emphasis on the words what is. What is Tank Deal? Okay, simply put, and this is kind of an offshoot of a previous question that we've done on the show before. I don't think I was in with you guys on that day, but y' all did a version of this question about the non Nico wide receivers.

[Sean Pendergast]

That was question number nine. How confident was when Cole Thompson was in with us?

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Cole came up with this question, how confident are the Texans in receivers not named Nico Collins?

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. So this is a little bit of an offshoot of that question, because obviously Tank Dell would be a wide receiver not named Nico Collins. Now, I think when you think of the previous question, receivers not named Nico Collins, you think more so of the healthy guys, maybe the guys who were here who actually played last year. You kind of put Tank in his own box, which is why I felt like he's worth his own question here, because that's going to be a big piece, at least for me. Going out to training camp tomorrow observing. What exactly is Tankdale?

[Sean Pendergast]

That. That. That is the. The guy. You know, when I. When I see people, you know, out and about, and they're all excited. They're Texan fans.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And I say, yeah. Training camp starts Wednesday this week. C.J. is the guy whose name always comes up first. Tank is. You don't get past, like, this, the. The third or fourth player and not have Tank Dell's name come up when you. When people are talking about who they're most interested in hearing about. Yeah. Because 99% of the people I interact with aren't going to get to go to practice.

[Josh Radner]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

So they're like, hey, I'm looking forward to your updates on social media on the show. You know, some of them are on group texts with me and things like that. And Tank is the one. Because the. It's still such a mystery.

[Brandon Scott]

He.

[Sean Pendergast]

He did get in. In OTAs and minicamp, doing, like, walkthrough type stuff.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

So if we're talking about trends, it's been a slow trend. Obviously it's been over a year since he's played competitive football. But he did start to do some things. The videos are getting people very excited that he does his workout videos where he's got the, you know, the little floor cones and he's doing his, his jukes and his cuts. And he looks, obviously, he looks a thousand times quicker than the average human being. He looks really quick. He looks really small. He looks really thin, but he looks really quick.

[Josh Radner]

All consistent with what we know. Tank deal to be. Quick, small, thin, all of those things.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's been all those things since. Since he, since we saw him at U of H playing football.

[Josh Radner]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

How excited do you allow yourself to get looking at the Tank Dell workout videos?

[Josh Radner]

So I don't allow myself to get excited at all. And it's for one real specific reason. It's because of a question that I've been asking on the air, podcast, wherever else I talk about this sort of thing. And so I almost feel like I'm either preaching to the choir or sounding like a broken record. But this is a part of the question that we're asking about, what is Tank Dell? I asked this, when is Tank Dell going to be ready for violence? Right. Like, they're not going to have on pads tomorrow when we go out there. But that's happening eventually, probably a week into the thing, and then I'll really be locked in because, like, how involved is Tank Dell in the violent parts of the game? Because that's the question you're asking me about the videos. We already know that, or at least reasonably expect Tank Dell to be quick. If he's not quick, then what is he? Because he's so small, there's not much else he can do if he doesn't offer you that. So I'm expecting them to have, or at least at the very least hoping that he has these physical attributes that he had before. Fingers crossed, we'll see. But the, the, the relevant question, the most relevant question due to his size and now injury histories, unfortunate injury history, is, is this guy ready for violence? Like, is he ready to take a hit, to take a licking and keep on ticking, as they say.

[Sean Pendergast]

Specifically his legs. Yeah, that's where all the injuries have been.

[Josh Radner]

And honestly, every time he gets hurt, you're going to be looking at everything he is joined, his legs, his whole body. You're like, is he going to get up? Is he okay.

[Sean Pendergast]

He has joined what I call the Clowney club, which is when Jadevian Clowney's first two years, you know, his rookie season obviously got completely wasted because of micro fracture surgery. So after that, anytime Jadevion Clowney went to the ground, I will never forget because his second year was pretty injury plagued also. Yeah. Anytime he would go to the ground. Get up. Yeah, get up. Get up, Jadevion, get up. I call it the Clowney club. That's what it is. Anytime Tankdale takes a hit over the middle.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Gets hit in his lower body especially. Especially his knee, especially on his left leg.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, it's Clowny Club.

[Josh Radner]

It's the Clowney club. But even scarier because at the very least, Clowney looked like a, like an Adonis where his take tail looks like a teenager 8th grader looks. He looks barely past puberty out there. And so when he takes a lick, you're. You're probably already worried absent of the injury history. Now you add that on top of it, it's going to be one of those kind of cringe things until you get through the thick of the season.

[Sean Pendergast]

I think even the first practice, because we know they're going to run the offense, they may just not do it in pads. So there's going to be a three wide receiver set that we see with the ones at some point.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

If we see Tank even in a walkthrough thing with the ones out there in any capacity, then I'll be pretty excited. Now the misnomer with Tank is that people automatically assume because of his size that he's a slot receiver. He.

[Josh Radner]

Not the case.

[Sean Pendergast]

No, no. He played more, way more on the outside than he did on the inside. And so I don't see Tank going. I like, I think they're. If when they go out there in a two wide receiver personnel grouping, I think I'm. I'm like 95% certain it's going to be Nico Collins and Jaden Higgins.

[Josh Radner]

Today.

[Sean Pendergast]

I am today, Today, Today.

[Josh Radner]

Which is why this question is relevant. Because today, that's how I feel. I'm curious, like. So I agree with you.

[Podcast Host (Various Ads)]

Yep.

[Josh Radner]

I'm curious about a week from now. Are you and I sing in a different tune two weeks from now? Are we singing a different tune? Because this is the thing too. Like the, the next logical thought on that is, well, if Tank Dale is Tank Dale, what does that do to the rest of the wide receiving pecking order hierarchy? Depth chart, however you want to look at it.

[Sean Pendergast]

The most discouraging thing would Be the most discouraging thing that involves Tank Dell being out there where we can see him tomorrow. Obviously, the most discouraging thing would be if he's, you know, in the bubble or, you know, or doing what injured guys do and sometimes not coming out there.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. In the building somewhere.

[Sean Pendergast]

In the building somewhere. That would be the most discerning. Now, I. Now, based on OTA as a minicamp, I don't expect that to be the case.

[Josh Radner]

No reason to expect that.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yep. And based on the workout videos he's been dropping, I don't expect that to be the case. But so. So within that realm, within the realm of expecting to see him out there in some capacity, the most discouraging would be if he's off with three other guys working out with elastic bands and medicine balls on, you know, two fields over from us, or we can barely see him. That kind of thing. That would bum me out tomorrow. Yeah, that would bum me out now. Him not being with the ones, or him only doing certain things.

[Josh Radner]

Okay, well, because not only would it bum you out because he's not out there, which is obvious, but it would. It would what? It, what it would tell you, I think, would bum you out because it would tell you that there's been some kind of setback. You just laid out why you don't expect that to be the case.

[Sean Pendergast]

I should have gotten the audio for this segment. That's a fail by me. The audio of Nick Casario. Asked Nick. I asked Nick.

[Josh Radner]

That's right.

[Sean Pendergast]

I asked Nick point blank, and maybe we'll.

[Podcast Host (Various Ads)]

We'll.

[Sean Pendergast]

We'll grab that audio. Byron, I'll tell you where to get it. Don't worry. I'll tell you where to get it. But, but just to paraphrase, I asked Nick, are we going to see Tank practice at some point here? This is back during OTAs and minicamp, and Nick gave the most affirmative answer that we got. He literally said the word yes. And. And he. He kind of hint. Not even hinted. He said the words training camp. Yeah. Around training camp is where they were looking. I'll get the quote, we'll get the cut. So I don't misquote Nick at all

[Josh Radner]

here, but training cam was the, like, the goal that, like, that's the sort of the finish line in this process.

[Sean Pendergast]

One other thing on Casario, and I think I asked him about this at the super bowl, but I. Because I had seen some people talking about Tank and. Okay, when Tank does come back, it's a new offense to him.

[Josh Radner]

It's literally What I was about to

[Sean Pendergast]

say, he has yet to play in the Kaylee offense. And so there were people like, is, you know, is that going to be an issue? You know, is there going to be a learning curve? Casario completely dismissed that, you know, to the extent where he's like, no, Tank's a smart dude, you know, and he's around.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

All the time. And he is around all the time. Like he was standing next to d' Amico at every victory speech during the winning streak. He is with the team or was with the team all the last year.

[Josh Radner]

He was like the counter example to Joe Mixon last year. Not to relive two years ago.

[Sean Pendergast]

You know, Diggs shows up at Christmas. He's been hurt for six weeks, you know, so. So Kasariov dismissed that as a, as a concern. Yeah, you know, the playbook.

[Josh Radner]

But, but aside from the playbook, though, I do think it's interesting for all of us media fans to, to think about the offense and what it looks like. So put aside the learning the offense part. Just what he provides for you. I think we're looking at and discussing the Texans offense a lot differently. Like, we got to just put them in a whole different frame of mind if you're going to have a healthy Tank build. The issue with even just doing that is that is how big of an if that actually is.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yep. All right, good one, B. Scott. What is Tank Dell, if you missed that segment, if you're just getting in your car, We've been doing a question for camp every day for the last nine radio days. Tomorrow will be the final question. Probably C.J. stroud related. If I had to guess, training camp starts tomorrow. We'll be out there 6am Seth and I will be out there. All right, coming up next, headlines. The Astros win in highly. I say improbable fashion, except the opponent was the Angels. We'll lay out exactly what went down, good and bad, last night.

[Brandon Scott]

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[Sean Pendergast]

We've got news around the NFL. Some scary news around the NFL that we'll get to in the next 2222 pain and pender gas with today's headlines

[Josh Radner]

broken back Hater backs up fields it throws in time. Astros win at 6 to 4.

[Sean Pendergast]

Not an easy play as Hater navigated

[Josh Radner]

the back of the mound, kept his feet and threw out Grissom to end the game.

[Brandon Scott]

Plumber.

[Josh Radner]

That was not a classic top half of the ninth inning, but what a comeback by the Astros.

[Brandon Scott]

Santa came early.

[Sean Pendergast]

Okay, I had to let Blum get that in there because he's accurate. Yeah, Santa angel showed up last night.

[Brandon Scott]

He did.

[Sean Pendergast]

The angel of Christmas, the angel of Baseball Christmas showed up in the ninth inning. If you missed this game and I could very well see where many of you treated that game last night. It started at 8:40 local time here, the same way Brandon Scott and I did, which is, I think you said, like me, you went to bed when it was 4 to 1.

[Josh Radner]

It was 4 to 1.

[Sean Pendergast]

Tramell hit the home run when I fell asleep. And I'm like, well, this is a nice thing to go to sleep to Taylor Trammell hitting another home run because he hit one a couple days ago, too. But so I went to bed. I'm like, it's just not their night. And Tatsui Ima got knocked out in the first inning again. So went to bed. Woke up to several push notifications from various outlets. Shout out Mark Berman, who tweeted no fewer than eight times after the game last night and see that The Astros won 6 to 4.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

With four runs in the ninth inning. B. Scott, if you're keeping track at home, the ninth inning, and I'm reciting this from memory now, I don't have the box score open anymore, but you correct me if I'm missing anything here. In the ninth inning, trailing four to two, the Astros sent 10 men to the plate. Yeah, they got one hit. Out of 10 plate appearances, they got one hit. Yeah, there were.

[Josh Radner]

It's all they needed.

[Sean Pendergast]

There were two hit by pitches including one with the bases loaded. The bases were loaded because the Angels manager intentionally walked Jordan Alvarez with runners on first and second.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

A walk with the bases loaded. Two errors, a passed ball, pass ball.

[Josh Radner]

Yep. And you mentioned two hit batters.

[Sean Pendergast]

I mentioned the two hit batteries.

[Josh Radner]

There was. There was a. A hit in there.

[Sean Pendergast]

There was one hit.

[Josh Radner]

So you did get the single.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

Gotta include that.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, I got the single in there, but that's it. It was just this comedy of errors by the Angels.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah, man.

[Sean Pendergast]

And when I say errors, the two. There were two errors. One was literally a bad news Bears double play ball that rolled straight through the legs of the second baseman.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. Hey, Lucas Spence has some kind of juice to him, man. Like, even when he's not like that, that should have been a double play.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, my God.

[Josh Radner]

But there's just been something about this week. Plus or couple of weeks that Luke Spence has been up.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

And he's had some. Some really good fortune. You tell me, is this more of a sign? Like, is this a sign of encouragement or just like. Like, are the Astros just lucky? Because this feels. This feels like. Like we can celebrate an Astros win here, but it feels like. Like it's. Is this, like, real or is this just like. Like team of destiny or just a straight up luck thing?

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, here's a. Just real quick check on the standings. I'll answer your question. There's still two back in the division wild card. They are one and a half back. So this is as close as they've been since they were for that one day inside the velvet rope of the playoffs by a percentage point. That's it. To answer your question, I guess the way the lens I look at it through is how do I feel about this? Do I feel differently about this team today than I did 24 hours ago? The answer is no. I don't feel different at all.

[Josh Radner]

It couldn't be.

[Podcast Host (Various Ads)]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

The starting pitching scares the hell out of me. The bullpen. I guess the one thing that happened last night is Christian Javier had a truly vintage Christian Javier performance last night.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. It was affirmation for your bull.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

And Christian Javier specifically, as you mentioned,

[Sean Pendergast]

if Imai had to die for Javier sins, you know, like, if I. If you look, Sean, you're going to get another one inning outing, less than an inning from Imai. But. But you're going to get five shutout innings, no walks.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And seven strikeouts from Christian Javier. I'm like, I might take that trade off. You know, for the moment, I could

[Josh Radner]

just see if you Were not that we are, but if you were to just straight up look at this game with like your Astros orange colored lenses, you'd be like, instead of just looking at the epic collapse of the Angels, you'd be like, ugh, team of destiny. You can't count these Astros out.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, I think there is something to that. I said that in the open, that I think they are showing some real grit as a team. I think when they're trailing these games late.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah, I was going to say they have throughout the year.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

But this, but this was. I've not seen wanting anywhere close to where it feels like the other team just handed you this game. If the second baseman feels that ball that Spence hit, it's a double play ball and the game is practically over at that point.

[Josh Radner]

What's wild about this ninth inning that we're breaking down is that at least to me, the most logical and sensible thing to happen was walking Yordon Alvarez to load the bases. Walking them on purpose?

[Sean Pendergast]

Yes.

[Josh Radner]

Out of all things that happen. Yes, yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, that right. Intentionally walking a guy with runners on first and second.

[Josh Radner]

Most sensible things happened.

[Sean Pendergast]

Sensible thing in that happening. Crazy. Crazy. All right, I'm going to say, Byron, I'm going to save the tank. Dell Cut for the next segment just because we need a little bit more room here for some of this stuff in headlines. This story in the NFL yesterday happened in the middle. It broke during the final hour that you and I were on together. B. Scott. Yeah, Scary story in the NFL. Elijah B. Enemy, who is the 27 year old son of Eric B. Enemy, the offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs arrested yesterday. At least the news broke yesterday that he was arrested for shooting his mom, Eric B. Enemy's wife, Mia at their home in Virginia. So now what you need to keep in mind is Eric B. Enemy. Is it Chief's training camp? He's their OC Again. He's a Chiefs training camp, which is not in Virginia. No, it's in Missouri. It's in, I think Joplin, Missouri, St. Joe's Missouri, something like that.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

So this is a scary situation. I don't. I'm guessing Eric B. Enemy is back in Virginia to tend to his wife. I would assume so. This is Andy Reid yesterday on that situation. This is our hearts go out to Eric Bien, me and his family.

[Brandon Scott]

Thoughts and prayers are with them.

[Sean Pendergast]

I can't get into details on it, but things happen sometimes and Eric will work through it. He's got a great support group here,

[Brandon Scott]

as does his family as needed.

[Sean Pendergast]

And then we'll just let time take care of it from there.

[Brandon Scott]

But Mia is stable, which is A

[Sean Pendergast]

plus, and so is Eric Jr. And that's all important.

[Brandon Scott]

All right.

[Sean Pendergast]

Okay.

[Josh Radner]

I didn't hear anything about Eric Jr.

[Sean Pendergast]

Eric Jr. Must be obviously another son of Eric B. Enemies that was in a very scary situation. And again, the son that shot his mom is Elijah B.

[Brandon Scott]

Enemy.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Not Eric Jr. Yeah.

[Josh Radner]

So Eric Jr. Could have been a witness. Who knows? But like you could imagine, though, the entire family, everybody that's connected to this family is shaken, I would imagine.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's a wild story, man. That is a wild story. Okay, two less serious things now. Daniel Jones cleared for training camp. These Achilles tears are. I think I saw. It might have been. I think it was Landry locker mine and tweeted this yesterday I saw this tweet. I thought the exact same thing. There was a time where when you tore your ACL back in like the 80s, it was a death blow to your career.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. Your career could be literally over.

[Sean Pendergast]

Your career could be over. At the very least, you're coming back a much lesser version of yourself. And I think the Achilles tear was similar. You know, say 20 years later, the Achilles tear kind of became the new acl.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And now it feels like the Achilles tear is the really new acl. You know, like we're to where like, wow, the surgery, you can get back on the field pretty quickly. And the film that I've seen of Daniel Jones at in their off season stuff, he looks pretty mobile.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah, well, Daniel Jones, I mean, how about even before that we've seen an old guy do it. We saw Aaron Rodgers come back and I know, we understand he's not the same player that he was 10 years ago or even six or seven years

[Sean Pendergast]

ago, but I think that's just normal aging. I don't think it's because of the Achilles that he's not who he was.

[Josh Radner]

That's, that's what I'm getting. I'm saying we, we at least saw him. Like you would think, for example, 10, 15, 20 years ago, a 38, 39, 40 year old guy tears his Achilles. He probably doesn't even consider the comeback the road to return. Whereas Aaron Rodgers did it. And you figure now if a guy around 40 can do it, then certainly Daniel Jones or anybody in the prime of their career can do it. It is, it is like, like amazing to see the progress in medicine or therapy or whatever it is that allows these guys to come back so quickly because it, it felt like Daniel Jones was just out there playing with a broken leg and tearing his Achilles and you figure, okay, well he's going to miss a year certainly.

[Brandon Scott]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, put it this way. I mean they gave him a contract extension when he was not back from this injury yet.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

You would have never given a quarterback a contract, let alone two years. $88 million that they gave him.

[Josh Radner]

Yeah. Let alone him of all people too, on top of that.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Him who's been kind of inconsistent.

[Josh Radner]

It's not like he was Aaron Rodgers.

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[Josh Radner]

You know.

[Sean Pendergast]

No, you'd never give that guy two years. 88 million, you know, just a month or two after because he tore his Achilles late in the season. Yeah, it was after they played the Texans in week 13. It was the next week if I'm not mistaken.

[Brandon Scott]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Because he played in that Texans.

[Josh Radner]

Well, because the story had been want to say either the week before or a couple of weeks before. They had played the Chiefs before. But he also gone out there with like a broken leg or a chipped fibula or something crazy like that.

[Sean Pendergast]

All right, Brandon Scott in for Seth Payne. Those are your headlines today. Reminder August 13th, the big changeover. 95. 7 the Fan is born at 8am on August 13th. Be here for that. If you've been out of town, you missed the news. We are. We're going to be all growns up. We're Moving over to FM95.7 the Fan 610 will still be running simulcast of the station. So it'll be exciting. We'll be on two stations here in this great city of Houston. All right, coming up next, we will circle back just as the sort of the the epilogue to our question of the day. What is Tank Dell? We'll revisit Nick Casario's kind of forecast for what Tank's schedule looked like a month or two ago and see if we think that he's going to hit that schedule also. The highest compliment I've heard for the Texans defense came on Sunday when Zach Yelb and Brandon Scott were doing some radio. We'll have that for you.

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