It's hard to know whether the Astros are really trying to bring back Alex Bregman at this point. But Sean Pendergast says he needs them to put a deadline on it.
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00:00From the Mo Karam Injury Lawyer Studios, Sports Radio 610 presents Pain and Pendergast.
00:07I don't know why. I don't know why it hit me this way yesterday. It wasn't anything I read.
00:11It wasn't anything I saw. It wasn't somebody giving their opinion on something. It just,
00:16for whatever reason, you know, I'm just thinking about the Alex Bregman situation with the Astros
00:22and how the Astros are just kind of sitting. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know if Dana
00:29Brown is super excited to bring Bregman back at this price based on where the Astros are
00:34versus the luxury tax. Like every inkling you get from Dana Brown is like, yeah, you know,
00:40we're, the door's cracked. Oh, that's right. I got to call Scott Boris back. I totally forgot.
00:45Yeah. Yeah. I, I'm not really, I'm taking everything with a grain of salt at this
00:50moment, including the initial report that the, the original deal is still on the table,
00:54frankly, cause that just doesn't make any sense to me. So I, I think there's so many
00:58moving parts here and we don't know exactly what other side, either side is thinking that
01:03I just know it's a possibility. Yeah. And so if, if the original, if the original offer
01:09six years, one 56, 156 million is still on the table, then I, for whatever reason, I went from
01:17like four on a scale of one to 10 to 11 on a scale of one to 10 to they need to give him a date.
01:24They need to give him a drop dead date and say, we are, we are removing this off at this point.
01:29All he's doing is using your offer as leverage. If he wanted to be an Astro, he would have said,
01:34yes, there's nobody else out there in this neighborhood that he wants to play for right now.
01:39So I got agitated on behalf of the Astros, just like, okay, let's, let's be a man about this and
01:45tell him what's today, Seth, January 30th. So you got till Sunday to figure this out. You got
01:51February 2nd. It's going to be February. I don't know if you know this pitchers and catchers show
01:55up in February players show up in February for spring training. It's happening soon. Give him
02:00a date and say, take, I know you're Alex Bregman. I know you're a franchise. I like that, that the
02:07ash that I feel like the Astros are just getting used for this hail Mary of a $200 million deal
02:13right now is starting to me off. Yeah. It's a, and it, listen, it can't be a Daryl Morey
02:18deadline. Like when he was going to trade Asik and they said there was a deadline.
02:25That's right. Sorry. It was a Turk. And, uh, oh wait, no, what's the unit?
02:28Multi units isn't a Turk. So it was, uh, it was, it was some guy from over there. And he said,
02:35we're going to trade him by this date and that's it. And then the date, the deadline passed.
02:39And, uh, and Daryl Morris said, well, you know, he's deadlines. Sometimes they're not hard
02:43deadlines. No, it has to be a firm and tough deadline for, uh, for, for Bregman that yes,
02:50the deal is either there or it's there until this date and then it's not. And we got to move on.
02:55Yeah. We can only go by what we're seeing. Like, you know, Scott Boris is not giving us a ton,
03:00you know, Dana Brown gives us what he gives us again. I'm I'm I'm I, I, I think Dana Brown's
03:04is about an open book is, is, is there is for general managers. Like he's, he's pretty almost
03:10to a fault, like kind of honest in these press conferences. So I, I take his demeanor now to be
03:14honestly, like how he feels and how the franchise feels about this. This definitely feels like
03:19whatever is being stirred is being stirred more from Bregman side. And if he's that,
03:24if he's that anxious to stir the pot with the Astros like that, well, damn it. Take the offer.
03:28If you're not getting anything in neighborhood, like it's like, again, it's February on Saturday.
03:31We got to get going on this thing. I like the thought of Scott Boris just sitting out there,
03:37twisting in the wind. I would love it. I would love it. If I found out eventually
03:42that Dana Brown actually didn't have any back, but he just wanted to let them feel it a little bit.
03:51I don't know. All right. Well, it feels kind of like what he's doing. I know. I know. I'm like,
03:56maybe I'll get back to him and maybe I'll send him a text that's simply sup Scott Boris. And yeah.
04:06What do you got for me? I'm not, I'm not the one doing the talk in here.
04:09The little Mr. Yep. Yep. You got to be the one doing the talking. It was kind of a power move
04:13by Dana Brown. Hey Ben, do we have the Dana Dana Brown? Like you just in going back through the
04:17audio yesterday, like the, my favorite part of the press conference that we didn't really dig
04:22into too much was this part right here. Oh, Boris a call. He got me, he sent me a text,
04:28you know, uh, today. So I'll probably end up getting back to him. I'll probably end up getting
04:33back to him. This is, this is high school relationship drama to a T. This is, and I
04:41feel like Dana Brown right now has got the upper hand. Oh my God. That was the most relatable part
04:47of that. Cause I've got like at any given time I've got like five or six people I owe a phone
04:51call back to. Oh yeah. Well you've got the upper hand on them, you know? Yeah. So are any of those
04:57people like desperately waiting for your answer? I don't think so. Um, no business situation
05:03of any variety. No, no. If it's a business situation, they, they, they get a call back
05:07for sure. Like it's, you know where I go. If there's a trail of money, then I, uh,
05:11and they will get a call back. I, this might be the end of maybe Astros players at least
05:17firing their agent to go work with Scott Boris. Cause Scott Boris is the, the, the money train.
05:23I mean, but Korea, it's not like it was an easy process for Korea. And he ended up,
05:30he ended up getting a really good deal in a place that he doesn't seem or never seemed all
05:35that crazy about. Remember the, when they asked him about living in Minnesota, he said, Hey,
05:40they've got Netflix. Yes. That's your chamber of commerce, commerce moment right there. Hey,
05:45we've got Netflix, Minnesota, we've got Netflix. And, uh, you know, now Bregman gets it. And it's
05:52not a, not a, just a clear, un, uncluttered path to riches with just because he has Scott
05:58Boris as his agent. Yeah. Look, I, um, yeah, we don't know how Bregman's thing is, is going for
06:04sure. Um, I think Keuchel was, was with Boris to the year he sat around until summer. I think
06:10you're right about that. I think you're right about that. Look, it's, it's been, it's been
06:13hit or miss with Boris over the last five years as teams have gotten by and large teams have gotten
06:19a little more savvy about these long-term contracts. I mean, there's some teams that
06:23just don't care, you know? Yeah. Uh, it's a Dallas Keuchel May 6th, 2019 Dallas Keuchel
06:31said he received offers. Some, some, his agent, Scott Boris recommended he, uh, seriously consider.
06:36Yeah. So, and remember it would be, it would still be a while before he would sign June.
06:40It would be a whole nother month until he signed that season. Um, so yeah, so, um, Bregman needs
06:46to Bregman needs to, uh, get off the pot, but the Astros need to initiate this. If, if, I mean,
06:53they're, they're the ones saying, and Dana Brown is saying there's still a line of communication
06:57between the two and I'm being dead serious. Like give him a date then like give him a date
07:01and, and force him to, to do something as up to that time. But we're not going to be
07:09this cuck. That's just sitting there with this six year, one 56, holding it, clutching it in
07:14our hands, waiting for him to do something still out there, gallivanting about talking to other
07:20dudes. Correct. You know? No, no, I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be a schmuck for you.
07:25That's right. You're going to, you're going to go out there and dilly dally with the Cubs and
07:29all these other teams like, no, no. All right. There's a, by this date, this is the ultimatum,
07:34but you got to hold to it. So we got, so we got two things. So in the opening of the show,
07:38we talked about the Texans OC, which is your favorite watch right now? Bregman watch
07:43Texans OC watch or rockets trade deadline next week. Watch, which is your favorite watch of all
07:50those. I expect something to happen in one of those watches, which is the Texans watch. So
07:56I'm going to go with the Texans watch. Yeah. I don't expect anything to happen with the trade
08:01deadline of note other than maybe a minor transaction or something. I mean, there's been,
08:06there's been zero, zero, zero hint that the rockets are really all that interested in making
08:11any kind of a move or at least certainly an aggressive move with one of the bigger names.
08:15And I, and it all makes sense. You know, a lot of people have pointed out various
08:20moves teams have made to, to get over that championship hump and, and, and the vast
08:25majority of the successful ones are done in the off season. It's it's in, in this team too,
08:30especially bringing somebody in that might be good on paper, but might also disrupt the chemistry.
08:37No matter who good, how good you are, there's always a, there's always a, there's a learning
08:41curve with Kevin Durant with the damned warriors and in a good team. So I don't the mid season
08:49trade for a team like this as it's composed. I just don't have a huge appetite. No, I don't
08:55either. Not the way things are going right now for sure. Nick Kelly is way out in front. Oh,
09:00wait, hang on a second here. All this guy, here we go. Nick Kelly, all this guy's ever done is be
09:04a tight ends coach. It could end up being a wonderful idea or Kaylee could end up being
09:08Bobby slow at two dot. Oh, sure. Hey, here's the passing game coordinator with the Rams last year,
09:14whatever that's worth. It's Sean McVay's offense. You know, Hey, Hey, Bobby Sloak was the passing
09:19game coordinator with the 49ers, but so was Mike McDaniel and Matt Lafleur before him. Correct.
09:25And so it's, it, or whoever it was. So there's a, there's a huge crap shoot element to hiring
09:34a coordinator, especially if you're going to go with somebody who hasn't been a coordinator before.
09:38And that's just the uncertainty you have to live with until, until, until we figure out
09:42if it was a good hire and round about October and November of this coming year of this coming season.
09:47Uh, Kaylee versus the others is both outside the organization and he's from outside the
09:52organization and has the most credible resume. That's why I voted for him. Chip Kelly still
09:57intrigues me the most. I, I think if we were doing a popularity contest, if I were doing,
10:02maybe I should do that today. Remember back when it's Hey, Seth, remember that era where the
10:05Texans search for a head coach every year from 2021 through 2023 or 24, whatever it was, uh,
10:12three, three years in a row, they were searching for a head coach.
10:15And I did those approval polls on Twitter where I'm like, Hey, quite simply, if,
10:19if the Texans hired Eric B enemy, would you approve? Yes or no? Should I do that for these?
10:25Oh, CK. Let's see. Uh, if they approve Nick Kaylee, uh, Bill laser, should I do the approval
10:31polls for all these guys and see what the public thinks of them? The actual approval
10:35is yes or no. Would you approve of the higher? Yeah. Let's do that. Would you approve of the
10:39higher? Cause I, cause I think we're heading towards a place where the Texans are going to
10:44hire somebody that the fan base is going to be very mixed on right now. Yeah. Matt,
10:48the floor was an offensive coordinator with the Rams before he was hired to be the offensive
10:53coordinator with the Titans for one year before he got the green Bay head coach. Okay. And that's
10:58the, the Titans one. It wasn't like they had a great year or anything. You got the job as a
11:02head coach the next year, but the, when he got hired to be the offensive coordinator for the
11:06Rams again, all right, it's Sean McVay's offense. It's a, it feels a lot more of a nominal title
11:11than anything else. You have more responsibilities in terms of game planning and execution and all
11:16of that, but it's just, I, it's just different when you're underneath an offensive head coach,
11:21the best, the best argument for hiring a coordinator who wasn't a coordinator before,
11:25but was in house was D'Amico Ryan's and cause he had never been a coordinator.
11:29Didn't have a lot of coaching experience. His playing experience factored in heavily in all of
11:34that. But he did really well with the 49ers. So it's, it's, it's not like I, and I've said this
11:41all along, my parameters are, yeah, I would prefer a guy who's got actual coordinator experience,
11:49not just because of the play calling side of it, but because of the coaching, the entire team side
11:53of it, coaching all the position group side of it. But it's not like any of those are, you know,
12:00it a hundred percent set in stone because there's, there's so many examples
12:05of various in their time as a coordinator. Yeah. Yeah. How involved is CJ in this process?
12:10Do you think, I don't know. Yeah. It's a big, it's it's that's another big crap shoot.
12:17How much do you involve the quarterback? Generally? I think you ask for their input,
12:21but you don't also want him to be in the position of the guy who's making the decision.
12:27For the quarterback's own sake. It's always, it's always really dicey when you allow the quarterback
12:32too much into it, not just for the organization from the organization's perspective, but from the,
12:37the player himself, you know, you don't want players to start looking at the quarterback
12:41as one of them instead of one of us. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's dicey. It's
12:49always in its unique to every situation. Text message is funny. You bring up true detective
12:54Seth. I just watched the commercial. I watched this yesterday too, where Woody
12:57Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, they revised their true detective roles in a commercial
13:03for advocating more production companies making movies in the state of Texas.
13:08Oh really? Yeah. I don't know if it was, I don't know if it's running during the Superbowl there.
13:12I've started, there've been some Superbowl commercials that have already dropped
13:15ahead of time. There's one that I saw yesterday where Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal are reprising.
13:22It's a Hellman's commercial. They're reprising the scene in when Harry met Sally, where she had
13:26the fake orgasm at the booth there. Yeah. And is that what that was? Yeah. Yeah. That's too young
13:32to understand what was got you thought it was food poisoning or cheering something on the TV
13:36in the, in the diner there. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that was, that's why I thought it was so curious
13:40that the old lady said, I'll have what she's like, that's food poisoning.
13:47Yeah. Meg Ryan, she's aged better than Billy Crystal. That's my hot take on that commercial.
13:52Yeah. Yeah. In terms of like actual physical appearance or with career and physical appearance.
13:56Yeah. I have no idea. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't seen Billy Crystal in a while. She, well, I mean,
14:00he looks like an old man. It's not, it's no crime. You know, I'm just saying like Meg, Meg Ryan looks,
14:05she still looks pretty good. Does she look good or does she look like she's all bloated up with a,
14:09you know, various substances? No, I don't think so. I'd have to go back and watch.
14:12I watched it last night and I'm like, uh, no, she, she still looks pretty good. I mean,
14:17she's gotta be, well, that movie was 1987. So we're talking 30, almost 40 years ago.
14:23Uh, that, that movie was at least like 60 or 70 got to be mid sixties at least. Yeah. Good for
14:28Meg Ryan. Yeah. She's doing good, man. That's good. You know, the other Helman's money. Yeah.
14:32The, the movie I can remember where I was too young to know what was going on was when we were
14:36watching Ghostbusters and I was sitting next to my mom and I remember this is the first time I
14:42realized I had a career in comedy was without even with, you know, unintentional comedy. People are
14:47laughing at me more than with me. Yes. Whereas we're in the scene in Ghostbusters where I think
14:51it's Bill Murray asked the old lady, are you, are you menstruating? And, uh, and everybody laughed
14:58and it got quiet. And I turned to my mom and said, what's menstruating at the top of your
15:02lungs in the theater? And that got a big laugh. I was like, yeah, I'm talented. Damn it. I don't
15:08know why, but I am someday why everybody's laughing, but they thought that was funny.
15:12Someday I'm going to be in Ghostbusters seven. Yes.