140. Houston Astros: Poverty Franchise

The Houston Astros have been having downright zero fun recently, and you just absolutely hate to see it happen to such an upstanding organization. We look at this weekend’s brawl featuring Oakland A’s Ramon Laureano and what led up to it, why Alex Cintron is soft, and whether Rob Manfred will continue to protect his favorite team. We also discuss Houston getting throttled and walked-off in subsequent nights at the hands of a last-place, no good Arizona Diamondbacks team, how the AL West will finish, and why the Oakland A’s are baseball’s best team right now. Later in the episode we break down the recent news of Zach Plesac and Mike Clevinger breaking MLB’s health protocols, how this affects the Cleveland Indians, what contributed to the poor decision, and whether this affects the team’s chances to make the postseason. We discuss whether or not the St. Louis Cardinals will ever play another game and what their schedule looks like moving forward before closing out the show with our Props segment and listener DMs.