Astros Drop Series To Athletics, Jake Bloss Gets Shelled, Things Get Chippy At Texans Training Camp

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He's in his usual position on theother side of the glass there. Salute,
tip of the cap to him.Couldn't do it without him, certainly,
couldn't do it without you, hTown. As it is, Uh,
it's gonna be dreary this week.Water's gonna come and go. Will
not stop the tech since from practicing. I count day six, second day
in pads as I was over thereyesterday. We will continue to get updates

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on who's practicing who's not. Wewill also hear from some players that are
getting busy. I want to hearfrom some young guys. Kamari last of
that continues to be top of mindfor me. Second round pick Coin out
of Georgia. He's been playing reallywell this early in camp. But he
spoke yesterday. Kind of a softspoken guy, doesn't say a lot,
but I want to hear him.Titus High we spoke yesterday as well.

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No, he did not sign anextension, but someone in the division
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Friends of the program. Could wesee an all time great roaming the sidelines

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power rankings. The Athletic is gonnaassist us with that. Also, we'll
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you at Sports Talk seven ninety.I'm burying the lead on purpose. Houston

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Astros weren't action last night late nightbaseball over the West Coast, game two
of a three game series, finalnight game in Oakland. Today's afternoon baseball
will be the final game in theOakland Coliseum for the Houston Astros, and
the Astros they they don't just lose, they get the Bejesus beat out of

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them, and bless his heart,young Jake Bloss gets the loss. He's
now owing one as a starter.And we'll come back to Jake Boss because
I want to hear from him too. So the question is quite simple,
the Astros. What are they now? Fifty two or forty nine? Loss

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of three games in a row forthe first time since May twenty seven,
twenty eight, and twenty nine.In that in that span, they dropped
three games below Seattle. Now goodnews Astros still remain in first place from
a percentage point basis, but Idisagree with many folks. So okay,

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you guys get on me about thisout of time. And if Gordy was
here, he'd say the same thing. Oh Stan, so today's Wednesday,
Tuesday, excuse me Monday. Monday'sloss to the A's. Everybody said,
oh okay, baseball. Baseball isgoing to baseball one on one sixty two,
where you come out the next nightand you get blasted. Giving up

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five home runs and scoring two runsin eighteen innings of baseball, probably not
great. So what was last night? Just two at one sixty two?
Now, I'm not telling you thatagain. It should be celebrated where the
Astros are, where they fought from. But the bottom line is two things

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right now. Rang true, thehitting has not been at an adequate level,
and that's for quite some time.I give you this stack. The
Astros have totaled just sixteen runs overtheir past seven games, a stretch in
which they have gone two and fiveagainst division teams. Rangers manners A's so

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against the teams because if you,if you haven't looked, he'll go to
Rangers. The Rangers have closed thegap. They are now just three games
back from Seattle and Houston. They'veclimbed back into this thing as they've gotten
healthier. Now, are they playingsome dog bleak teams? Yeah, beating
up on Chicago gonna happen. ButI'm sorry, are the A's Did they
not come into this series as theworst team in the American League. I

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understand they had caught fire and they'vebeen okay, but they shouldn't be beating
the Astros. No, damn eightto two giving up five home runs.
Two things can be true, thehitting, moving runners around the base pass
what they have the other night.The other day they had eight hits,

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but seven of them were singles.So even when you're putting back on ball,
we're not moving dudes around. Sothat has flared back up here recently.
And we're gonna have that conversation.And I appreciate Sean Salisbury and I
have to thank that crew. AppreciateSean and Brian and and Manual for getting
us started. Each week six toten am. DeShawn Salisbury Show, they
interviewed Dana Brown. We're gonna reairsome of the interview coming up in eleven

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o'clock hour because I want to askDana Brown a question, and Sean was
right there at it. I justwish I could have jumped in the room
just to expound on it a ted. The pitching on this team, and
I'm talking about in the rotation startersfour and five are costing you ball games.

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And we all know, and we'veknown for a month, they've got
to go address pitching. I'm gonnasay it again until I've been proven to
be wrong. Now, there aregonna be many of you that don't like
people that I say the hard truths. Some of you, including some gentlemen
that come into this room and sharethis room with me from time to time,
they disagree with me. It isobvious de Astros should have added all

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insurance to start this season because theydamn sure need it now, like I
told you they would. Nonetheless,here we are, fifty two or forty
nine, Artis Strows, not goingto overreact, still in first place,
currently on a three game loser streak, playing five hundred baseball over their last
ten. Let me hear from somepeople, Connor, what did George spot

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I have to say about this twogame loser streak and whatever the hell that
was last night. It's fine,it's fine. Yeah, I think you
know, he's ninety two, ninetyfour average, ninety two. That's that's
kind of how he's always been.You know. It's just not a not
a good night for him. Andyou know, but Rino, we'll go

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back and well we'll go we'll getback to work. That's a spot on
Jake Bloss's performance last night. We'llget into the numbers here in a little
bit. Overall, two games intothis series in Oakland, Joe, tell
me something. You know, theway I look at it, we have
a chance to come in the yearthem all and make it a five hundred
road trip, which that's what youwant to do as a team. There's

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no highs, no lows. Shouldyou got to keep pushing forward. And
we got a chance to come outhere and you got to wait a moment.
George Spotter, manager of the Astros, said, we come in to
day some afternoon baseball. What timeis that Astro's on deck at one thirty,
will get first pitch around two forty. George Spotter's mindset is let's play
five hundred baseball coming out of theAll Star break, where you face Seattle

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and then have lost the series tothe Olten Athletics. I don't know that
I like that. I don't knowthat I'm comfortable with that. I don't
know that I'm comfortable that. GeorgeSpotter seems to be too bleep and comfortable.
We're going five hundred against Seattle anda bad Mariner team, excuse me,

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a bad age team. Yes,it is commendable coming out of the
break, rested that they take twoor three from Seattle, but my god,
potentially getting swept. Hunter Brown's backon the man to night or this
afternoon. Who knows what the hellthis Hanna Brown thing is gonna look like?

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He had been nice, he hadbeen really solid. I can't recall
the last time, well the lasttime we saw him. I want to
hear something else from a spot up, but I don't want to get into
the trade deadline stuff just yet.He said something else that I thought stood

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out to me. I'm gonna findit here in just a second. Oh
give me a spot of too talkingabout this is a good athletics team.
Joe A. Spotter stopped this.What happened last night? We heard the
page and we move on. Wewe got to go out there today and
then and get this win. Andyou know, the message continues to be
the same. You know the dH team, he's playing, he's playing

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well, and we let the boy, We let the players know that last
yesterday, before we took before westarted the series. They're playing well,
they're hitting the ball well, theygot a couple of arms in the back
end, and when they have tolead, they could shut down the door.
Oh John, the players are veryaware of that. I don't think
they need me to remind them everysingle day of where we had in the
standing and what we want to accomplish. This is a winning team and they

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need to take the field and dothe job on the field. I expect
them to do that tonight. Sothat must have been before the game.
That was before the game, yester, before the game last night. This
is a good age team. Isthat the narrative we're framing. That's what
we're doing, Like, yes,we should celebrate the Astros have climbed out

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of it here, cool first place, Roland. We still got some games
left to play here and you stillgot folks nipping at your heels. So
Joe A spotted talking about going somebleeping five hundred. No, the mindset

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has to be, the performance onthe field has to be no matter what,
we've got to go win the series. Stand in some unrealistic that they're
gonna win every series the rest ofthe season. I agree, it's not
unrealistic to expect them to win aseries versus the worst team in the American
League. That is not unrealistic.First inning, off the rip. Here

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we go with this first inning bleepagain, down two zero off the rip.
First inning, Astros don't score onto the third, and then there's
a barrage of runs scored by theA's, which we'll discuss. Jake Bloss,
We'll do a deeper dive on youngBloss. On the other side,
I'll see you. Who is thatchetown will House? You'll be next up
on the other side. Let's talksome stroe, shall we? Seven?

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What's coming next? What do wedo next? And who's gotta take
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this is next up Sports Talk sevenninety. Yeah, and Rooker hits it

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well the left it sents back Alvarezand that ball is gone over the out
of town scoreboard. A two runhome run for Brent Rooker, his twenty
third of the year, and it'stwo to nothing Oakland. Yikes. Appreciate
Robert Pord and Steve Sparks Astros RadioNetwork, welcome back in the next up's

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fleet Here, Gordion Long shortly,Jake bloss right off the rip. Yeah,
that was a two run shot.Now, okay, yes, Stan,
it's just the first inning. Whyare you reacting? Go look at
the Astros losses this season when theylet the other team score first. Go
look up the Astros record this yearwhen they give up multiple runs off the

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rip. It's a bad formula forbaseball. I mentioned to you to open
the show. The bats here recentlyhaving what they were to climb back into
this thing. Sixteen runs scored overthe past seven games. Ashows are two

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and five in that stretch. Now, the A's are a fickle bunch.
I will say that the A's arewoken Tuesday morning with the division's worst record.
But they ranked fourth in the majorsand home runs, so you knew

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they had some potential, but notfive And I get it. They've had
games I think they had. Itwas a graphic and I don't have it
now. Gordon would probably have itif he was here. Connor, if
you see it, you let meknow there was a graphic out there about
like the A's are hitting like sixseven, eight home runs, They've got
more of those type of games thaneverybody else or something like that. So

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I get it. There's propensity forthe ball to Leader Park when the A's
are swinging. Get it. It'snot a good baseball team. Somebody hit
me up on at Stan Sportsman onthe X platform, staying, you have
to consider this. Though the A'sare playing good baseball right now. Destros
offense has been bad since last Saturday. Our pitching his fickle at best right

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now. Can't trust the rookies LesBlanco, my Man, Nathan l one
ninety five. Okay, Like,are the Astros not better than A's?
Who is in the lineup? Stamglad you asked, Let's take a look
at the lineup. I see joseL. Tuvey, I see Alex Bregman.

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There's Jordan Alvarez, yannidz oh forfour, Singleton Oh for four,
Jake Myeres one for four, CARROTENIback in the lineup. Good to see
you. Who's in right field inKawent Tuckt's absence, Joey Lopofito Oh for
three. But I look at thetop of that lineup two v. Brad
Gold, You're and on Yanni dz. We scored two runs off two home

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runs. What do you want meto do? Carroteeny Homer's four hundred and
four feet in the third and thenin the ninth Jeremy Pinyon goes four eighteen
over left center and joe A.Spott is talking about we feel good about
going back to Houston should they winthis afternoon playing some damn five hundred baseball

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over this road trip. Wow tome, Ahtown wheelhouse out in League City?
What up? What's up? Man? Look you you just acting my
frustration? This morning? We didwe did an early morning locked on this
morning, locked on astros man,and I couldn't. I couldn't do it
last night. I was too tired. And I'm like, you know what,

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I need some time to think aboutthis because when I read that article
from Chandler Rome, and I loveChandler Roach Report, I know a lot
of people give them grief, butI think it's a solid I think Chandler
does a great job. Yeah,I mean, but you you come out
here and you literally said, guys, you know five hundred. I mean,
come on, I mean, it'snot a losing record. And look,

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I don't expect Joe Spotta to goout there and blast his guys,
put them on the rope, throwthem under the bus. I'm not saying
he's gotta be some firebrand or orhave some fake stephen A Smith like rage.
Right, I need I need JoeA. Spotted to say, you
know what, the Oakland A's havebeen playing really good baseball. We knew

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coming in that they could hit thelong ball. We simply didn't perform,
and our offense did not step upplaying and simple. If we don't step
up, we're gonna have a realhard time against the Dodgers. We're gonna
struggle against the Pirates, and wehave got to take come like tomorrow.
We've got to flip the switch andmove forward. Yes, you never get

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too high, you never get toolow. I understand that, But I
said, from the beginning season,this team seems to lack a true leader,
like someone like a Jeorde Springer,someone someone that comes in and rallies
the troops and I'm not I'm notlooking for Tony Robbins motivator. I'm looking
for a guy in the club outto step up. BS Like, yeah,

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they've got the fourth bust home runs, but they also have the worst
record. Just because you hit homeruns doesn't mean you're a good baseball team.
It just means you probably, liketoday or like this series, you
caught the back end of a bullpeninto rookies. So, man, I'm
frustrated. Keep dude, keep spittingthe facts. You know, I get

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called a homer because I'm such afan of my team that I talk about.
Yeah, but at the same time, I'm a realist man, and
this team, if they're gonna win, they gotta change that mindset because Joe
Spott is not gonna win a titlethinking like that. Appreciate the ball man,
Thanks so much, Htown Wheelhouse LeagueCity giving us a shot here on
Next up, you can do thesame as we talk to Master Ros for
the next five minutes or so.Seven one, three, two point two

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five, seven ninety I'm not evenmad. Real talk Houston at Jake Bloss.
Jake Bloss, his third career startlast night was his fourth game above
double A in his career. Ican't be mad at Jake bloss He's not
ready to be here. Some ofyou are questioning if Rigatta is ready to

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be here. I have my momentsthat I have asked that these are men
that are being forced We're not evengetting into Blair Henley. These are men
that have been forced into scenarios thatwere avoidable. Some of you are going
to disagree with me about that untiluntil the cows come home. Gordy would

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be one of them. There's somebodyelse who's's got us always anytime I bring
up pitching on this station, onthis show, he's always of me.
Who is this guy? A commonsense? Fifty seven to fifty seven?
He swears that there was no needfor the organization to address pitching when they
went after blakes Nol. They toldyou that and the one question, and
I'm gonna give it to you nowbecause I'm not gonna be able to necessarily

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remember this when we get to theeleven o'clock hour. It's one thing that
I wish Shawn Salisbury and Sewan doesa great job with Dana Brown, and
we are appreciative of Dana Brown joiningthe Shawn Salisbury Show every Wednesday morning.
I wanted to know one thing,Daney, if you had it to do
again, would you have signed oneof those arms in the beginning of the

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year or would you roll the dicelike you did and get the result at
this point that you have right now. So let me do some crew map
eleven. So what's that nine totwo is one? So there's one hundred
and one games that have been playedby my math, So that means we
would have sixty one games remaining ifyou believe that this team is going to

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be energized, because oh look,Hunter Brown and those guys are approaching an
any pitch threshold that they had previouslynot seen. As it's the case of
Jake Bloss as is the case forEric Gettett and others. Blanco has never
seen this many innings before. He'sbeen good. V Loo's coming down multiple

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games. And I'm not trying tosay, oh the sky's falling and oh
Astros fans give up. No,I want to ask Danil Brown one question
and one question only, would youmake the same bleeping decision again when you
had a chance to do it?He said it himself. We'll get to
it in eleven o'clock hour. Hesaid it himself. There's not a lot
out there to assist us from arotation standpoint. But when it was a

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more robust market, and you knewyou had guys that were on the il,
and you knew guys had made deepplayoff runs seven consecutive alcs's, you
knew guys had not been the thresholdsthe day had pitched last year, Hunter
Brown, JP Franz and others.You knew. I feel like I'm in
a few good men. You knewwould you do it again? Courage is

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not getting hit in the face andhit in the face when you know what's
coming. Would you do it again? Conn? I know I'm sorry.
Let me hear from Jake Bloss.Jake Bloss, let me hear from you
again. I can't even be completelymad at you. What we want to
say, like, let me hearthis Jake Bloss three? Maybe no,

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no, no, I want tohear about all three of these starts.
Let me hear Jake Bloss four.Yeah. I mean I would say big
takeaway. I mean, if youare ex shooting your stuff, she'll be
completely fine. But obviously if you'releaving stuff up like I wis today,
missing a few spots. They're gonnapunish it. I think they're a little

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better at punishing mistakes. Uh yeah, Jake Bloss that's kind of how maazing
League Baseball works. If you serveup me long. I'm trying to lay
up to start from crying our problems. kJ and Cyprus, followed by Andy
and Katie. What up? kJ? What up? What up? Man?
Usually well, I love to showit again, go, but that's
sick. Everybody wants me today.I'm not gonna let it. Have it.

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Go ahead, what's your assos sake? I've been duck here in the
duck eyt man again. Stan,you've heard me singing this song, I'll
season its pitching pitching pitching. Atthe worst case scenario the Astros would have
had had they gone and gotten astarter like me, and you have been
singing out saying our season yep.The work scenario is, at some point
towards the end of the season orthe next season, you would have had

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a pleas rough starting pitching that youcould have sold off or traded off to
replace the form system and still havefive, maybe six valuable arms in that
roat in that starting rotation. Now, as you stated, it's coming back
to the chickens of coming home toroost. And it's obvious the offense obviously
has had a bad series. He'spassed two games, yep, two runs
and two games. I get it, that's gonna happen. That's gonna happen.

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But you look at where the offensewas, say two months ago with
breaking baton under two hundred Alvarez bettentwo forty something ds couldn't couldn't, my
man, The offense has picked updramatically, But when you try that Jake
bloss and Spencer Irrighetty long term,they may be signing out the bullpen at

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some point. These guys on theBible starters. And this is in hindsight.
I've said this all year and youguys know it. You need pitching.
You can at worst, worst casescenario, you got too many pitchers
and that's never a good thing,and base that's never a bad thing.
Yeah, I know what you're saying. We're up against the kJ Thank you
so much for supporting the show mangiving us a shout, Andy and Katie,
if you'll pause for a second,brother, let me get on the

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other side. I'll take Jamal andmemorial as well, and to to punctuate
the point that kJ and Cyprus justmade just in what if they had and
I'm not saying, hell'll be itthat it had to be Blakes Noil,
It could have been four other dudes. Suppose you had somebody, and then
you do get all of these guyshealthy, and Erlanda is drinking from the

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fountain of youth and all of thatgood stuff. Right, And you have
used the pitching to not just replenishthe farm system, but you know that
hole at first base because you havenot used the abundance of pitching to trade
for somebody to go get a firstbaseman, so you wouldn't have to go
over the luxury tax to do so. Hey, look, Thinty Brown and

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those guys over there get paid alot of money they can pay. They
get compensated handsomely. They do aton of work. I'm just questioning the
decision on the other side, Andy, Jamal Homer Stros I'll talk to you
guys as well. Seven one threetwo point two five seven ninety. Next
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with our free iHeartRadio WAP. Here'sthe pitch. This one slugged the right
center. Meyer's going back and he'sgonna look up and watch it go.
Homer for Seth Brown on a changeup, third homer for the as they
lead four to one. I wastrying to execute a three to two pitch

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here it is slug a left fieldand that's way out of here. Go
Off about eight rows deep into thebleachers and left field over the high wall,
and it's back to back homers forOpland. The thirteenth homer for gal
Off their second basement head. It'sfive to one. Welcome back to next

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up here on Sports Talk seven ninety, we're half an hour into a Wednesday.
Appreciate everybody locking in with a sevenone three two one two five,
seven ninety. If you want totalk some astros. Astros get blasted in
the Bay Area last night, eightto two, the two runs, two
home runs, Quarantine top of thethird, Jeremy Pinya, top of the

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ninth, top of the batting orderfor the Astros, l two of a
for three, Bregman one for four, and we all to talk about Bregman.
What the hell was that? Bregman? My boy, I get it.
When I hit my thirties, therewere things athletically I could not do
in my thirties that I could doin my twenties. Break oh, just

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put the brakes on right there.I mean that play at the plate wasn't
even close. Do we have that? Do we have Bregman again thrown out?
Let me know, I can't lookat RCS right now? Do it?
Let me hear Bregman again thrown out? And then who's that? Andy?
I'm coming to you, Bregman?What are we doing right here?
Works on the first base side ofthe rubber, the one to Ozero and
ds Sky's this one out to rightto his right. Butler, he's waiting

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for it to come down, makesthe catch. Bregman tags on his way
home the foot of the plate byButler. On the Hata slide, Breakman
is out by a mile tag appliedby Lange layers, and the side is
retired. Astros take a look atit. Inside Joe's Spotta says they will
not shout, of course not.It was clear Breakman's ass was out.

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Oh my god, I forgot Jamalhit me back, brother, I'll get
you up. I apologize, Andyand Kate have been holding for a while.
What's going on? Andy? Andjust like everybody else, just trying
to figure out what the heck isgoing on. You know, back when
Luno was a general manager, Imean, they they built a team that
was, you know, going goingto stand and now it just seems like,

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right now, all we're doing isputting band aids in there. Right
now. You know, I canappreciate trying to bring in a young picture
and all and and and kind ofgive him exposure, but so far,
it just seems like it's more dishearteningfor these kids to be coming up and
get hammered. They're not they're notgetting they're not ready. It's not funny.

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It's really not funny. I'm notlaughing at the kids. I promise
no, no, And and youknow, and again, who is the
evaluator that's sitting here going, ohyeah, he's ready, Oh yeah,
he's ready. Uh No, Imean I played golf. I played golf
with some retired asters and they're shakingtheir heads. Okay, let's say this
with context. I'm gonna let youfor to jump. This is add this

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with context, right, Jake blossdidn't just come, They skipped sugar Land.
They brought him from Corpus to puthim out there in this rotation exactly
exactly. But Dana and Joe knowthey don't have a choice. There's nothing
they can do right now into thedeadline comes. Well, we had,

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we had opportunities before the season.You're saying about Schnelling there and these guys
out there, like, Okay,we already know what we're what our needs
are. Nobody's gonna sit there andsay, oh, uh, you know
we're okay with our pitching, ourfrontline pitching. No we're not. We
know the deficiencies that are there.The thing about you know, uh,

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injuries happen. Okay, that's true. The thing with Tucker and Off they're
gonna happen, and so you havea have so many backup to come in
there. But even I'm still strugglingtrying to figure out myers. You know,
it's like what is what is thelike Dusty and and and him and
wanting you know, a certain lefthanded picture to come in all the time.

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Right. Yeah, So you know, again I'm not I'm not blaming
you know, a spot of becauseagain he's he's only going with what he's
what he's been given. But eventhen, you sat back there, you
watched Dusty. You saw what hewas doing. You saw an experienced coach,
you know, making these these actionsand these moves and stuff. Now

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bringing up these kids. Uh,we're just we're putting band aids out there.
And if we're going to make atrue run, you know, for
a division title, then something hasto happen, especially on our offense.
I appreciate you, Andy and Katie, thank you so much. I mean,
I agree, man said he's playingoff with former astros and they're all
going. Now we'll take Andy athis word. I have no reason believe

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Andy calling in a lot. Theypigeon sell them their pigeon sells themselves,
pigeon hold themselves into this position.Jamal and Memorial. I appreciate your patience.
Bro. Hey, y'all going onthis morning. So I just want
to kind of tell everybody real quick, let's take a deep breath in and

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exhil a deep breath out. Okay, my eyes shows take coming in from
a Cooper's perspective. All where you'vegot here to the baseball. Let's person
out there. But let's remind ourselveswhere we were just a month ago.
Woa, how far did we getback? Eight games? It was twelve
games. It was twelve games underfive hundred, ten games back from the

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manners. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Now this is why I
feel optimistic about the I'm gonna takeit back to a year ago. Remember,
we had that situation that really lastedall season that the city couldn't put
their finger on it, but itwas it was like a black cloud over

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the organization where they couldn't win athome, injuries, et cetera, et
cetera. Now we saw how thatplayed out because it came back. We
really to win a division last year. I believe we were very fortunate with
uh you know, ending out ontheir last or seven games. We went
to get in and and the Rangersended up collapsing. So it was it

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was fortunate that we even got thedivision last year. So coming to this
season, it was some of thesame parallel which we're still dealing with today,
the injuries, the pitching, soon and so forth. So with
them being where they are now,finally getting to that and here's my here's

(31:55):
my point, my point that Ifeel what we suffered from last because I
there was a hangover and I waslike, man, this is gonna be
two years in a row where we'regoing through the same We can't put a
finger on it, but whatever itis, it's a great clown black cloud
over the organization. But they wereable to flip the script, close the
gap, and be where they aretoday. Now things could be real different,

(32:21):
like that Mariner series is ded comingout of the break. We could
have went one and two. Wecould have went one and two in those
three games. We could have gotswept in those three games. So I'm
just calling in to just tell everybody, look at the Macro. I believe
they're gonna do something before the deadline. We still got arms that are coming
back. The lineup. Look,even without Tucker, the lineup is looking

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pretty good. We still got sixtygames. So I think with us finally
getting if we're kind of over thehere. We had to climb up the
hill up to this point. Wegot to the peak. Now it's downhill
for the rest of the season.And I just yeah, so I I
just see, I see it's gonnastill be tight. It's gonna be between
the three teams. Didn't I didn'tbelieve the experts when they when the preseason

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stuff came out about the Rangers andwas like, oh, they wasn't looked
at to do they wouldn't you know, World Series favorites to repeat or nothing
like that. So I just wantedto tell everybody, look at the macro.
We're in the number one spot.Yet this is kind of a buzzer
boot with what we're doing with theage right now. It's a little little
bit of taste in the mouth.But let's look at the macro. Appreciate

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you, Jamal and Memorial. Wegotta get out of here, brother well
up against the break. Yes,it's fair. I started this by saying
congratulations to the Astros in first place. Cool, But then Joe Spott is
talking about losing to the worst teamin the AL and coming home back to
Houston day off tomorrow. And thenyou start a series versus the Dodgers,
some about coming back home five hundred. Be happy with that? Hell no,

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when you gotta face the Dodgers overthe weekend, staying what are the
Dodgers doing? They're twenty games abovefive hundred, their run differential is plus
ninety nine. Things are gonna getbetter versus the Dodgers. Now you're gonna
face the front line of the staffcoming off a day off, all of
those things, I get it.And then the Pirates here at home the

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end of the month are no slouch. The Pirates are playing slightly above five
hundred baseball winners of seven of theirlast three I think were the Astros luck
out. And we're going to missPaul Skeins by the time he comes here,
by the time the Pirates come here. All right, let's do maybe
an injury update, and then somebodyhas a suggestion for the arm that Dana
Brown would likely do the deal for. Let's wrap up our one. Gordion

(34:37):
along shortly. This is next up. The legendary KB and Me with your
non next up pictures tremble with fearright over us over all, Coup three,
run over with north Fleet and Gordion. Next up, Bellies, tremble
with hunger. Lunchtime is so closeuntil then, shout down on more are

(35:00):
next up? Yeah no, no, he's Daily's daily. You know,
conversation, text messages, you know, guys who are available. My opinion
on certain players, the culture inour clubhouse, it's very important. So

(35:21):
makeup of the players that we areconsidering or or coming up in conversations,
they asked me, right, youknow this guy could be a good fit
in our clubhouse. Whatre my thoughts. I talked to my coaches about,
you know, their thoughts, ifif there's any background on any of these
guys who they know, anyone thatknows some of these guys who want to

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make sure that not only are goodplayers, but are good fit for for
our clubhouse and for for our culture, something that we we work really hard
to protect and maintain for for fora long time. Manager Joe Spotta says
he's in constant communication with Dana Brownand the organized leadership about just not what
player, but what person might beadded to this rotation and to this lineup

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moving forward with what some sixty onegames to go to wrap up the regular
season. Welcome back to next up, stan Fleet. Here will finish our
one and we'll hop an hour twowhere we will discuss Texans. Texans Day
two in pads. It is thesecond day that the fans are allowed out
over there at the Houston Methodist TrainingCenter, and I got practice number six,

(36:32):
so we'll see what of the Nuggetsare on. Adam J. Wexler
is likely over and others. Let'ssee what's going on with the Texans here
in day two. Getting back towhat joege Spotter said, I'm a big
culture guy. I think in business, hell in your personal life dealing with
some stuff right now, I'm apersonal I'm a little bit off my game,
distracted a little bit. But aswe try and hone in and be

(36:52):
a professional, like culture matters whoyou're associated with, connected with, like,
are y'all all seeing this thing thesame way? So I'm not mad
at the spoter for saying that.Do I think they ask a spotter and
he talks to the coaches, doeshe have some input? Sure? But
what if we've seen from the organizationthis is about Jim Crane, Bagwell,

(37:12):
Reggie Jackson and others, and thenthey'll kind of look seek the input of
Dana Brown and then they'll make whateverthis is and they make. We will
hear from Dana Brown any eleven o'clockhour. He dropped by for his Weekly
with DeShawn Salisbury show on Wednesday's ninethirty This morning. As it pertains to
pitching Jake Bloss he got beat up, Bless his heart, owing one as

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a starter, third game as astarter, hearing the majors. He's learning
on the fly. Did they dohim a disservice by calling him up this
song? Probably? But hey,he here, now make the best of
it. It was highlighted to me. And if you didn't hear, how
open the show, I'll do itagain by saying it's not just the pitching.
The bottom line is the Astros bats, and I have not spent enough

(37:58):
time on that. We would dothat at eleven o'clock as well. The
Astros bats sixteen runs total over thepast seven games. So yeah, when
you got an age team that camein hot, what fourth most home runs
in the majors, that means thepitching must be better. But you also
your offense has to manufacture runs.Had been a case for the Strolls two

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and five seven game stretch. They'renot helping young Jake bloss the twenty three
year old right hander. All right, So I mentioned I thought that the
Astros because everybody kept saying, whowas it? Oh was it kJ that
called in? No, it wasn'tkJ. I forgot who it was.
Oh Jamala Memorial. He called inand was like, Yo, everybody calm

(38:43):
down, It's gonna be okay.They fought to get in this position.
We celebrate that year. We gotsixty one games to go. Things are
gonna turn around here, come toDodgers. Dodgers to be here on Friday,
and it looks like we get fromberon Friday, Ronel Blanco on Saturday,
Spencer ere Ghetty on Sunday. Okay, oh yeah, I thought we

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avoided Paul Skins, you know,the starter in the All Star Game for
the American League. No get him, I said, americanly for the National
Excuse me. Paul Skins will likelytake the bump for the Pirates as is
scheduled. That's on Monday. We'reguess who he's pitching against. Air quotes

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Yeah, young Jake bloss from lastnight. So our youngin is going up
against their youngin, and the Pirateshave the better youngin. I'll say the
Astros a better lineup. We'll see. Okay, that's that. Some reports
coming out what deals to be doneat the deadline. Dana Brown dropped by
We'll get to that eleven o'clock.But ESPN dot Com a man that I

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has referenced his work previously, DavidSchonfield. He's a senior writer from Major
League Baseball on ESPN. He didlike what is he called this MLB trade
deadline? Domino's the ten biggest nameson the market and well where they land
off the top and Dana Brown wasasked by Sean Salisbury Garrett Crochet, they

(40:20):
got him going to the from theWhite Sox to the Orioles. Flaherty goes
from the Tigers, Jack Clerity,Tigers to the Dodgers, Luis Robert Junior,
Chicago White Sox to the Phillies.That's what they need, the guy
needed. They need a center filingand coming in at number four. White

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Sox trade Eric Fetti to the HoustonAstros. Let's jump into this right up
real quick. On June eighteen,Stros were thirty three and forty ten games
behind Seattle. It took him justtwenty four days to catch the Mariners,
the fastest a team has ever madeup that much ground in the Divisional era
dating back to nineteen sixty nine.Hunter Brown turned the season around from but

(41:07):
has been better. Houston is stillscrambling in its rotation. I give you
exhibit a last night, young JakeBloss for Houston to reach its eighth straight
ALCS and fifth World series in eightyears. They clearly must add another starter
here. Sean Field says, sincewe have the White Sox trading Crochet and

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Robert, the next obvious candidate isfor the White Sox to move off Fetti.
Fedti spent a year in Korea,then sided a two year deal with
the White Sox, making real moneyseventy three as a starter two point nine
eight ERA, he's held batters tozero point one eight six average with runners
in scoring position. So this isShaufeer saying he's not sure that Feddy's going

(41:52):
to keep his ERA below three pointzero zero the rest of the season,
but he is indeed a solid rotationalstarter. He says. The issue is
whether the Astros have enough prospects anddepth to outbe it other teams for Fetti's
services. Dana Brown proved last yearwhen he went and got Berlanda again that

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he's willing to be aggressive at thedeadline. Look for the Astros to be
bold yet again, So keep gettingthe eyes on the name Eric Fetti,
Chicago White Sox coming over to Houston. That was the only player of these
top ten best available or likely tobe available players at the deadline. Eric

(42:36):
Fetti White Sox to the Astros.All right, eleven o'clock hour, we
will pivot to tech sans. Ihave some thoughts on what we've seen out
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This team wants to be next.This is next up with Tad Northfleeten Chris
Gordy. Let's see what's next nextThanks, final hour of the program.

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Let's kick off the second half rightway here in the Sports Talk seven ninety
studios. We're over in the Galleryarea, West Loops South to be precise,
stay in Northfleet Me. I'm atstand sportsman on social. To my
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our one. I'd like to pivothere and get some Texans in and we'll
come back bottom of this hour.We will get to Dana Brown joined the
Shawn Salisbury Show for his weekly hit, I like to react and respond.
I'd also like to hear what Gordonhas to say about the gentle manager of
the Astros. Let's talk some textans, shall we. There are some things

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that jumped out of me if youdidn't hear the show yesterday made my first
practice of this training camp. Attendedyesterday's practice, first padded practice, and
there were several things to take awayin the hour that I was there.
Day two underway and the reports areguys, you know those paths come on,

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people, things get chirpy. That'swhen you find out how physical your
team is gonna be. Is thisgonna be a good year? We officially
have. According to Jonathan m Alexanderof The Houston Chronicle, the first training
camp scuffle Gordy Uh, Derek StingleyJr. And Dalton Schultz mixing it up.
Stinglely knocked Schutz to the ground.Sounds like Schultz took exception. It

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started between Stepan Diggs and Jimmy Ward. Diggs took exception to the late hit
when he was trying to slide andget down. So there you are.
Stepan Diggs is being petulant. Gordon. He's insinuating or inciting rather fights at
practice, his second padded practice.You finally got what you want at Gordon
on Stepan Diggs, he's a cancerin the locker room. Well, I

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mean, hopefully it doesn't carry overinto the regular season and cost some games.
You made four. Oh my god, they got chippy today. Look
out. It's the second day ofpads and this is where we are.
Also Jonathan m Alexander, about halfan hour ago, he references, I've

(47:05):
counted about four drops from the firstteam offense. Not a great day from
receivers and tight ends. So Daltonshots probably started that bs because he's out
there dropping balls. The offense Iwould say definitely got the advantage yesterday.
In the portions of practice that Isaw. I mentioned Stefan Diggs dunking on
Derek Stingley Junior. I also sawDiggs run a shallow crosser for a touchdown.

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I think every tighty end called atouchdown yesterday, except for Dalton Schultz,
who practiced sparingly. Given that whereI guess veteran Day's off and all
those other things. Also, JoeMixon, watch, No Joe Mixon at
practice today. I going it he'sgoing to miss some time to tell you
that on Monday. I'm saying youact like Joe Mix's watch. I'm I

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just wonder what's time? You know, it's time all the training campus time.
No six weeks of the regular season. What is time? Time is
what Kyle Tucker's got going on withthis shin that we all know is fracture.
That's time. Joe Mixon ain't missingtwo months? All right? What
else we got here? CJ.Stroud to Nico Big Gang Collins, Juke,

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Jamari Lassiter, excuse me, Kamarlast night we haven't talked about last
night. He took the podium yesterday. Let me hear from the young last
because go to you been high onhim and I need to see some more
now. You know, does thekid look the part with pads on over
there yesterday? Yes, I thoughthis footwork was adequate. I didn't think
he was a superb athlete, buthe looked apart right now he's running with

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the ones. Let's see what happened. Kamari lasted the one last of the
high things. Going thus far throughtraining camp, I feel like I got
a long way to go, youknow, I feel like there's been the
first couple of practices and uh,I feel like to get to the point
where I really want to be at. I have a long way to go.
I have a lot to learn,I have a lot to you know,
work on. So I mean,right now it's okay, but I
want to I want to be alot better. Yeah, I'd say there's

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gonna be so I'm good and somebad, especially during training camp. Going
to take me back to when Stingleywas drafted. Stingley's take care what pick
was he? He's a top tenpick? Right? Yeah? Like so
yes, so two or three somethinglike that. Okay, So when Stingley
took the practice field, was hehealthy to start or was he still had
some things lingering from LSU. Ithink he was. I think he was
banked up if I recall, so, I was going to try and ask

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what was the buzz and scudder?But when Stingley took the field and versus
what we're hearing about lasting, Iget it. One guy's the second round
pick. Stingley's obs their top whatever, top five pick, third overall,
third overall. Okay, So yeah, we're talking about different neighborhoods here.
So I was just curious the theuh conversation arounding the player, surrounding the

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player. Then yeah, and thenhe only played nine games as her ky
year and it was a mixed bag. I mean, he he had some
some moments of Electroy good Bi onlyhad the one interception and that was again
we don't we hate to compare,but what pick later was sauce Gardner,
and everybody was comparing him to SausceGardner winning Defensive Rookie of the Year and

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Derek Stingley playing in nine games,deal with injury and kind of you know,
average play. A lot of peoplewere ready to yell bust. That's
what was so good about his seasonlast year. Again he did miss games,
only played eleven games last year,but five interceptions. You know,
solid cover guy and you know,really started to come into his own as
one of the better cover corners.And you know, sekid just turned twenty

(50:29):
three years old. I mean,his best football still ahead of him.
But the big that's the big thing, is that Lsu he dealt with injuries
and then there was the COVID yearin there where they kind of said he
could have played, but he kindof sat out to protect his you know,
draft stock and all that. Butyou know that's gonna be the big
thing with him, his health.But if he's healthy and Lasser continues to

(50:52):
develop and step up like he is, man, it's gonna be nice to
have possibly two solid corners that youdon't need to worry for the foreseeable future.
Yeah, let's see what last eragain. I don't know what it
is. I know what he's saying. Let's go back to here, lasted,
Here, lasted that they've been workingyour inside outside where you feel most
comfortable. Now that we are.This was after practice five yesterday. Oh

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that doesn't matter. I can playD line. It wouldn't matter as long
as I'm gonna wait day line,he said inside outside play do line.
It doesn't matter as long as I'mon the field. Okay, see what
happens now. The good thing aboutlast year, which he's gonna take some
lumps early, he's gonna make someplays. He's gonna have some plays made
on him. When you're practicing againstNico Collins, I don't know if Nico

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practice to day or not. Heand met you were out yesterday going up
against Tank Dale and Nico and StephDiggs and a crafty veteran like Noah Brown.
Going up against those different types ofreceivers and receivers that play at that
level every day, and going againsta talent at c J. Stroup last
of is on the fast track.It wouldn't surprise me if we looked up

(51:59):
at mid season, towards the endof the season, we start getting in
the playoffs. Maybe and certainly thistime next year you may look up and
lasted or should be on one otwo. He might be on more like
two oh one two o two nextyear. So just something to consider there
from Aaron Wilson. Nico collinstead returnto practice after one day off. John
Metchi was working on the side withthe injured players today. So they do

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a lot of like player performance,like they monitor, Hey, this guy's
exerted too much for us over thelast forty eight hours. Let's maybe scale
him back. So they they've gotthe whole, you know, health management
team. So some of that Ithink factors in. Can you share anything
else from Aaron Wilson in terms ofwho practiced and who didn't? I know
Joe Mixon's out in practice and practicingtoday was Joe mix Harrison Harris? Can

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I give him a helmet? Aaronfinally gave us what it is that it's
a soft tissue issue with Joe mixing, So about it, Ol Hammy,
Yeah, it's not a fracture.Shein like tu also practicing. Christian Harris
also again also dealing with soft tissueissue. Andrew Beck who's on the he's
a puplist or the calf strain softtissue. Larry Tunseel deal with the OFFSEASONISCO

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and CJ. Henderson, and hedoesn't list the reason for cee Janderson Henderson
not practicing. Uh, staying withthe secondary because we like to say that
rush and coverage go together, andthey do. I want to talk about
the pass rush on the other sideof the break. But something happened yesterday.
Sticking with your boy, Derek Stingley, jun, I should say our
boy because I cheer from two.There was something that happened in the division

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and it impacts Derek Stingley. Whatin the world was that the Jacksonville Jaguars
did yesterday, Gordon. I don'thave the money up in front of me.
Tyson Campbell, a corner for theJaguars, just got four years seventy
six point five million dollar extension sixteenmillion to sign. I'm looking for the

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total guarantees. The details are buriedin here the new money and your average
is just under twenty million or justover nineteen good god, thirty one point
four million fully guaranteed at signing.Dair Stingleer Jr. Made money yesterday,
Gordon. He was just at atMany I mean a mini camp. He

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was just at training camp. Dar'ssingle Jr. Is gonna make more than
Tyson Campbell, who nobody revers asa top of the market corner. But
I think he just got top ofthe market money. Dari's Stingley Jr.
Do you get concerned on the wayout? Maybe we'll pick this up.
Are they gonna be able to payStingley, Will CJ. Who else is

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young can do for new money overthere? That's right, really gonna make
money? Yeah, I mean alltheir draft picks. Take Dale at some
point you're gonna have to pay likeand then what will happen is the mixings
will come off the book. DanilHunter will come off the book. Titus
Howard at some point we think mightcome off the book. We'll see what
happens with Laramy Tonsil. So you'regonna have some guys making a ton of

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cash, and it may not bethat are the first round picks. The
big ones are going to be Stroud, Will Anderson and sucks Stroud in the
center in the same draft again,but you'll probably pay Stroud at the first
chance possible to keep because yeah,the long wait, you don't want to
be in this Jordan Love situation.The pack isane, so he's the most
important player, but Will Anderson's DerekStingley, he took care of Nico.

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I mean, you know, thenthere's guys like Pee Tree is the second
round pick. Petrie I put inthe same boat with Christian Harris, Like
you want to pay him what theysaid wanted. You know, we'll see
what Ju Scruggs and Jared Patterson become, but they won't break the bank for
you. So yeah, I mean, really it's you. It's those high
first round picks. You were goingto be worried about a sneaky contract to
keep your eyes on. What ifDamian Piers starts to look more like rookie

(55:45):
Damian Piers he's eligible for more money? What do you do? Is just
something to keep mind? Lord twentytwenty four running back Sir Dimond Dozen't are
they? I see the good teams, like the reigning Super Bowl champions,
they have a good one. Theteam that they faced in the Super Bowl
can in San Francisco. They havea good one. Who was Baltimore's starter
last year. His name is LamarJackson. Well he's he's not the running

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What I'm saying is he is,he's just also the quarterback. I just
I think now more than ever youcould find running Ask Dallas would they like
to have a real running back?Again? Well, that's their own Damn.
I'm just giving you examples of Sea. I'm just telling you teams that
run the ball typically find them theyfound Devon A. Shane the middle rounds

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and Raheem Mostert. They you know, as a top ten rusher last year.
You could find us. That's onethe other teams I just named clearly
my point running back, Yes,seventh round pick. He's an excellent running
back. But I'm saying they areliterally operating. We can find guys and
they have a Hall of Famer arguablythe best they ever do it at quarterback.

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If you don't have that, youbetter go find you a runner.
On the other side, we talkedDBS just then we heard from Kamar and
last and we also talked Dari StingleyJunior making some money Tyson Campbell for Jacksonville.
I'm glad they're spending their money oncorners that don't take away the football.
Ridiculous. Something jumped out of me. Let's get some standarlytics the area,
specifically on defense. That's going todrive the campaign for the Texans.

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In twenty four Sports Talk seven ninetywhen Fleet streets Houston listens, Yes,
I have a great shot, alreadya huge brand. I'm liking your stuff.
Stanton or Fleet ten Chris Gordy arenext on Sports Talk seven ninety welcome
back in the next up here forthe next forty minutes, a little bit
less than we'll get you over toMatt Thomas and Rossville re album for the

(57:36):
Matt Thomas Show. They'll have youfrom noon to three talking some updates from
Texans training Camp six. Had alittle scuffle first scuple of training camp.
Nothing unusual going on there. DaltonSchultz got shoved to the ground by Dick
Stingley Junior. Sound like Stefan Diggsand Jimmy Ward had something going early and

(57:59):
then and it just got away.And that's what we have there. No
Joe Mixon soft tissue injury, dealingwith that. Christian Harris also soft tissue
injury. He's not practicing, noris Mechi Nicocollins did return to practice obviously.
Dalton Schultz is a participant as well. So those are some of the

(58:21):
injuries that we know of. Courtesyof our Texans insider Aaron Wilson. All
right, I went out to practiceyesterday and I came back and I told
you guys know, I was havingsome fun poking with Gordy, just talking
about what Will Anderson Jr. Hasdone with his body. In adding fifteen
sixteen pounds of solid mass. WillLanderson Jr. Said himself it did not

(58:45):
compromise his speed. And then Isaw Willanison Jr. Standing next to Danil
Hunter price free agent out of Minnesotabrother making a twenty five million year,
and I'm looking at those two andI'm like, Yeah, that that's got

(59:05):
to be. And I saw ProFootball Focus put it out a little while
back, like the top pass rushduos in the league, and I believe
Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson Jr.Came in in the top ten. I
have the number seven in my head. Whether they're seven, whether they're ten,
it kind of doesn't really matter becausenot all things are created equal.

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People are playing different opponents, Nada dah, all of that. So
I look at especially if you addin a Deniko archery. I started thinking
about what's gonna drive this thing.We talked so much about the offensive line,
which is where I start for thesuccess of the Texans in twenty four.
Offensive line wise. We heard fromTitus yesterday while I'm on the offensive

(59:50):
line. What did I hear fromTitus? Let me hear Titus high with
three and then I'll move to thedefense. I just say, an offensive
line that made me think about Titusright tight as Howard. Man ELT is
doing really good. I think itjust uh it's just taking him with his
uh stuff a little different. Butl T's doing great, in great shape,
feeling good. But as far aslast year man, uh and this

(01:00:12):
year, I just seem like thedepth of guys that we got on this
team is it's it's very high.We've got a lot of guys that can
play some football. And uh,you know, we got the rook fisher
coming in uh Man, We've beenpouring into him. He's getting better every
day. Uh So he's learning alot from me and LT and you know
he's gonna be a great player himselftoo. So I feel like we got
a great roster now. They builtthe best old line they can bill and

(01:00:35):
I think, you know, wejust got to continue to work, like
I said, work every day,get better, you know, every day,
and we're probably gonna be ups anddown. We just steadily keep climbing
and when week one come, we'regonna put it all together right to tackle
Titus Howard on the offensive line asa unit coming into as we're into training
camp for a weekend to training camp. Now, Uh, speaking of rookie

(01:00:58):
Blake Blake Fisher, how he's beingacclimated when Laramy is healthy, none of
us are worried about lt. Whenit's time to go, he'll be ready
to go. So that's the offensiveline. I would probably go. That's
probably one for me. Second,we've talked a lot about c J.
Stroud. We've talked that nause him, about the wide receivers and the tight
ends, and the backs, thesecondary, Kamari Lassiter corner back to you

(01:01:22):
know, we spent some time inthe secondary. I told you I am
very concerned about that linebacker depth aftergoing over there and seeing it. Aziz
al Shire at the middle linebacker spot. Brother solid? Is he ro Kwan
Smith? No, but he's good. He's more than serviceable. It's a
good player. But I started lettingin I saw something in the athletic,

(01:01:43):
which is where I'm going to now. If you would Connor Daniil Hunter spoke
last week, I think let meknow when you have that because I want
to get to Neil Hunter to chimein as well, because he's a part
of this conversation. The athletic.The other day they went around the AC
and they kind of rated oh,this is about a week ago. They
stacked up in each division ranking thepass rush room or the pass rush situation,

(01:02:12):
and in the AFC South to noone's surprised, the Texans are ranked
first. They have Will and AndersonJunior statistically as the best overall rusher on
the team. So Will Anderson's likeefficiency graded out better than Danil Hunter a
year ago, but Danil Hunter hadlike more than double the amount of sacks.

(01:02:37):
Daniel Hunter came in ranked overall outof last year a better player.
But for whatever reason, they haveWill Anderson Jr. Listed here, So
that's need to end. Know therethose are your two starting ends. What
I find because I've made the commentthe Texans defensive end room specifically Will Anderson

(01:02:58):
Jr. Daniel Hunter. Niko Archeryhas had a good camp. Saw him
show up yesterday. When I wentback and looked at some video that some
folks had posted. He graded outreally well. He had eleven and a
half sacks a career year for DonicoArchery last year. And then you start
adding in Jerry Hughes as well asDerek Barnett. Best defensive end room in

(01:03:22):
the league, and it's going tohave to be because it's going to be
about those five dudes. Yeah,the guys on the interior got to show
up too, but specifically those five. That pass rush has got to get
home because I do have corners.This new role for Jalen Petrick kind of

(01:03:43):
a new old role for Jalen Petrie, a rookie second rounder that may be
starting at corner opposite Derek Stingley Jr. Derek Stingley Junior's health, Jimmy Ward's
health. If either those guys godown, we may be looking at some
snaps, some quality snaps from thirdround out of Southern California Bullock. This

(01:04:04):
pass rush. I mentioned to youhow thin they are at linebacker right now.
This pass rush for the Texans isgoing to have to get home,
and they're gonna have to get homewith regularity. That defensive end room,
I think that's going to be thepillar of which this thing gets built on.

(01:04:25):
At least defensively, good news.That d line is one of the
best. At least that defensive endroom one of the best in the league.
When Tomsul's in there, tomsl andTitus Howard, that's one of the
best left or offensive tackle duos.In the league, so they're gonna get
quality work throughout the training camp.In preseason, Danil Hunter, he spoke

(01:04:49):
that was either over the weekend,I do believe, or late last week
the Nil Hunter, you're one ofthe stars. You're making the most money
on this d line. What canwe expect from you, sir Paul?
Dude, man, it was likeexpectations and goals. You know, you
just got to come in and lockin what we got here every day,
day by day, practice by practice, a step by step. You know

(01:05:10):
what matters is what's going on insideour building. You know, it's never
about what's going on there. Sowe're all actions. We don't really talk
about like what we're gonna do isjust get in here and just working day
and day out. Appreciate the NeilHunter. There the Athletic which ranked the
Texans defensive line. I'm specifically highlightingthe ends. It says as a quick

(01:05:30):
caption, it's pretty rare that theteam can invest in two game changing free
agents like the Neil Hunter and theNico Artry. This is largely in thanks
to CJ. Straus rookie contract.The Neil Hunter stat line speaks for itself
and should be an upgrade over JonathanGrenard in the short term, and though
the Nico Autry turned thirty four inJuly, he's truly showing no signs of

(01:05:56):
slowing down, coming off the highestsack total of his career. If Derek
Barnett had had enough games or enoughpass rush attempts to rank, he would
have ranked, from a percentage standpoint, hired than Jerry Hughes and just shouted
to Neil Hunter, their damn goodwhat I saw yesterday. That team is
gonna go as those defensive ends goon that defensive side of the ball.

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Norfleet and Chris Gordy during this nextstage on Sports Talk seven ninety Young baby,
Yeah, I think what happens is, you know, you ran into
a team that's extremely hot. Youknow over their last six games. You

(01:07:49):
know, these guys are at eighteenhome runs and scored fifty six runs.
You know, every now and then, you're going to run into a team
that's red hot. It's baseball.It's part of the game. That's why
we have a long season. Youknow, of one hundred and sixty two
games. But you know, makeno mistake, we do have a really
good team. You know. It'sjust that we ran into a ball club
that's really hot, you know,and they got the back end of our

(01:08:12):
rotation, and so you know,hopefully we can get this one today with
Brown going, he's been our bestguys so uh but I think it's basically
because they're extremely, extremely hot.The general manager of the Houston Astro host
Dana Brown, joined The Shawn SalisburyShow for his weekly at nine thirty this
morning. This show, however,is next up for the next twenty four

(01:08:34):
minutes at least Chris Gordy alongside StanFleet Connody McGovern as well taking your phone
calls as we pivot off the Texans. We'll return to the Texans in the
next segment. Is there something else? I want to get to? Seven
one three, two, one twofive seven ninety your home in Houston Sports.
That's what we do here at KBand me. Gordy, the general
manager says, Stan we got ourass smack last night eight to two.

(01:08:56):
Because the A's are a hot team. The A's are currently twenty one games
under five hundred. However, they'vewon seven of their last ten. And
yes they did catch the back endof an Astros rotation. That is fair
tough night for Jake Bloss. Heis oher and one gets the lost last
night in his third start in anAstro's uniform. Yeah, but the same

(01:09:21):
realm. If he ain't ready,then then then say you ain't ready,
you know what I mean, likethere's a certain but you worked for this,
you earned this, go take advantageof it. And Jake Bloss was
not great last night. I thoughthe was, you know, halfway decent
his first two career starts and obviouslyyou know, the the toughest one most
when they first put him out thereagainst that Baltimore lineup, he got shit.

(01:09:42):
No, he didn't get sheldy againstBaltimore. No, oh you have
two runs? Last night was hisfirst bad you know, bad bad outing
as a remember, as a starter, maybe confusing. He gave the young
He gave two runs against Baltimore,two runs against the Marlands. Yeah,
I saw take that in those firsttwo. Well, the first I will
remember. It was the fourth,it was three and two thirds and he
got the next thing and came out. Oh see that's when the arm thing

(01:10:05):
and okay. So that's why I'mlike, wait a minute, there's no
way. He went six innings andwith that gotcha okay, And then the
second one it was his first startback from the rehab and so they had
him on a pitch count. Sohe went four innings against Miami Jake loss
last night, four innings while you'rethere, four innings, six hits,
five earned runs attributed to him,including five dingers, struck out five.

(01:10:29):
We just won, all right.By my point is this twenty three.
You know, this isn't like anineteen year old that they fast tracked and
went, hey, you don't knowif anybody else fast track pitch. Yeah,
but he's pitching very right. Butit's not crazy. I mean,
Paul Skans skipped the Paul is numberone over the thought him the NAS.
So this guy's way older than PaulSkiing. So I'm just saying he was

(01:10:50):
awesome in double A. They thoughthe was good enough and he earned an
opportunity, and last night was justnot good. But he was fine his
first two outings. So again he'llget other chance. But point being like,
if he wasn't ready, like youknow, it would be like,
hey, let's you know, Hey, guys, I don't think I'm ready
send me back to double the tripleA. Okay, fine, we'll find

(01:11:12):
somebody else. No, he's readyfor the moment. But but the bottom
line is this stand. They've scoredjust over two runs the game since the
All Star Break. Yeah, again, since the problem. I gave the
stat earl. If you can wingame seven to five, you can win
game six to five. I thinkif you can't win games with zero in
two runs, your point is valid. And I'll give the stat again for
those that missed but prepared to.Astros have total sixteen runs over the past

(01:11:35):
seven games, a stretch in whichthey've gone too and five against Division fos
Rangers manners as the bats have notand the run production has not been there
in totally over that stretch, nodoubt about it. However, if you've
watched this year's Astro team, toexpect them to come out there every day

(01:11:56):
and score five runs, that's justnot who they are, especially with aut
Tucker not in the lineup. Tome, that's just unrealistic for this year's
team specifically. Now you're gonna haveto put it together. Complimentary baseball.
They didn't do that last night youdid have two home runs. Quarantine had
one and the third Jeremy Pina hadone a night. But it's just that

(01:12:17):
it's just two runs. There wasno traffic. And what was that the
other night, gor To they hadeight they had eight hits the Dashtros.
Yeah, but seven of them weresingles. They're not moving guys around,
they're not timely hits. As aterm that continues to come up, and
again it's your this is ebbs andflows of a one sixty two. You
knew they weren't gonna keep on thepace that they were winning, uh,

(01:12:38):
all the way down the backstretch ofthe season. But again the good news
is Seattle is helping you. Seattlelost, But yes, I saw them.
Jared Sandler, who's part of thebroadcast network that carries the Rangers,
I saw him last night talking beatinghis chest a little gone there come to
Rangers games back now. And that'sthat's what scares you a little bit,
is because if they have a lotof injuries, they start to get healthy

(01:13:00):
here, they're gonna be a problem. And look, maybe Astros fans might
want that, Maybe we do wantsome drama down the stretch. Maybe we
don't want, you know, theAstros to do what they typically do.
Pack this thing in and we getto September and we're going, yawn,
let me know when the playoffs arehere. But you know, last year
it was a race down to thedown to the final value. I think
this year it's it's gonna be that. And again Matt Rangers are not going

(01:13:23):
anywhere. Hopefully the Murders keep stumblinglike they are. But yeah, I
mean this is again losen to abad Oakland team, like we talked about.
They just beat the Phillies in Philly, took two out of three,
so they're just playing good ball rightnow. They'll get back to their suck
ass here in a couple of weeks. But the problem with the Asters is
you get the Dodgers would Showyotani comingto this weekend, and you get Paul

(01:13:43):
skiens laid to go Monday for Pittsburgh. He just almost He went into the
ninth inning last night for the Pirates. They lost two to one, and
it was you know, I don'tput the loss on him. As his
team scores some runs, you know, he's he cruises to a victory.
But an ironic part is it washis first career loss. He took his
first career loss going down to getto the night then there and he gives
up an RBI hit in the ninthand they lose. But then you got

(01:14:06):
Tampa. Then you're at the Rangers, then you're at Boston. This schedule
is tough these next couple weeks.Yeah, the cupcake portion is over.
Yeah, they can't afford which manypeople that are pissed off. And Joe
spot is talking about going five hundredon this road trip is except but no,
it's not Joe. That can't bethe goal. But this is where
they find themselves. Astro's back inaction. As we go to break this

(01:14:28):
afternoon one, you'll get Astros ondeck right here, KB and mean your
Homo Stros baseball first pitch is ata weird time, two thirty seven pm
local time. Again we will carrythat. Robert Ford, Steve Sparks in
their usual spots. Let's come back, let's close out. We will hear
more from Dana Brown as well.Gordy, you have some suggestions for the
people. Well, yeah, Imean, hopefully you're you're drinking responsibly,

(01:14:51):
but hopefully you're enjoying as cold CrawfordBok from Carbock Burn while you're watching the
Astros and of course Carbock Brewing.They got some great stuff going out on
a over there at the restaurant,the outdoor patio weather there's actually been halfway
decent. This rain's kind of coolthings off and hasn't been oppressively humid and
hot. So get it out thereto Carbaco, sit under their covered patio

(01:15:12):
area out there and enjoying icecult.Crawford Bach. They got some great burgers
going on as well, the toastycake and bacon buns, the cherizo,
the brisket patty, tons of greatfood out there if you want to do
If you look for a spot tojust go hang out watch the Astros games,
do so over at Carbock Brow andwe'll be back over there real soon
with the A team and we'll doa live edition of the Crawford Box Cast
with Ross Virial and myself. Buttons of great stuff going on over at

(01:15:36):
car Back and make sure you guysare stocked up on plenty of Crawford BAC.
Will be back at Minimate on Friday, Dodgers coming to town and we'll
be enjoying ice school Crawford Bacle watchingAstros baseball, eating peanuts, eating pluckers,
whatever you're eating during the games,do so with a Crawford bak.
It's a home run every time.To the neck, to the dirt.
Rob this is next time. You'vekind of hit on everything I wanted to

(01:15:58):
say with stan Or Vlat and ChrisGordy on Sports Talk seven. Yeah,
I think we've got a chance tomove the needle. You know, we
just have to get this. Wejust have to get this deal done.
If we can get a deal done, so there is definitely a chance.
I mean, that's our goal thatwe want to move the needle. We
want to get you know, wewant to acquire a picture that's going to

(01:16:20):
really impact our rotation. You know. We we would like to get an
arm in the back end of thepen or I should say in the middle
of the pen that you know,could take some of the heat off of
our back end and that that wouldalso move the needle. So you know,
we're we're in the grind trying toget it done, and I think

(01:16:41):
that's what the goal is, andwe feel like we're making progress. When
to stop, Let's wrap up aWednesday edition. The next up, you're
on Sports song seven ninety stand FleetGordy that was the voice of GM of
the astros. Dana Brown dropping bythe Sean Salisbury Show for his weekly he
says, they want to move toNeedle. They're in the market for acquiring

(01:17:02):
the best picture possible, whether that'sa frontline starter, a back end starter.
He mentioned middle relief. It's allhands on deck. And I mentioned
in the first hour of the showwhen we talked a ton of astros,
I said, I wanted Sean doesa great job when he interviews Dana Brown,
and we thanked Dana Brown for histime and his willingness to be candid

(01:17:26):
with us. I wish I couldhave jumped in and just ask one other
thing, Dana, now that we'rehere, if you had to do again,
would you make the same decisions.You did not sign a starter coming
out of training camp, and youdid not get anybody to feel the two

(01:17:53):
hundred innings of mere relief vacated byStannic and nears and I'm missing somebody.
You knew anything. You rolled thedice and hoped that people like Luis Garcia
and JP France and what's my Guy, Lance mccullis Junior and jose Air Kitty,

(01:18:17):
a forty one year old Orlanda.You thought he was gonna be okay
the whole season. You roll thedice, and now the options are not
as plentiful as they were then.It's more expensive now. And now the
teams know we're barely holding onto thisdivision lead by the hair on our chinny

(01:18:39):
chen chin. They're going to taxyou and everybody else. Other teams who
are also in the mix in theirrespective divisions are going to be bidding for
these athletes as well. These pictures. Now there are options that might be
available. Crochet is probably not oneof them. But the White Sox also

(01:19:00):
have someone and Eric Fetti that accordingto Who's at Spencer Shoonfield of ESPN dot
com, he's a staff writer forMajor League Baseball for the Four Letter Network.
He says, hey, keep youreyes on air, and he actually
anticipates that the White Sox will tradeEric Fetti to the Astros. Fetti is
seventy three. He's seventy three asa start, excuse me with a two

(01:19:24):
point nine eight Era batters are battingjust one point eight six with runners and
scoring position versus Fetti. So there'sjust one name let's get back to Dana
Brown. I like what he saidhere. Dana Brown, when asked,
did he feel like other teams thathave something against the Astros would like holding

(01:19:47):
against them and reluctant to do adeal with them, let me hear this
from Dana Brown. I don't feellike that at all. You know,
I've had really good conversations with otherclubs. I don't think that, you
know, these other clubs have egosand turns of acquiring you know, young
talent and prospects. If you ifyou, if you have the goods,
I think they're in you know,And that's that's the bottom line. These

(01:20:09):
clubs they want they want good players. They don't care about, you know,
your past success. They want goodyoung players. And if I think,
if we have a good young playerto give them, you know,
you know, we got a chanceof making a deal, you know.
And then you know the part ofthat too, you know, do we
want to give up that player?And so there's a chess match in terms

(01:20:30):
of you know, who do yougive up? How much do you give
up? But I've found that theteams engage with me with good dialogue,
and I don't think that's the problemat all, Dana Brown continues, and
he adds a and I would agreewith that as well. Sometimes we get
even the agent community, this agentdoesn't want to deal with that team.

(01:20:54):
If the deal is advantageous, thenwe do it. If it's not,
then we don't. Like we don'tget into all the stuff that any of
the pundits and fans and loudmouths likemyself, sometimes we make more of it
than the actual teams. Having workedfor an actual MLBL team MLB team,
excuse me to Washington Nationals years agobeing in the bows No, I wasn't
involved in personnel, but I spokevery frequently with the men that do the

(01:21:15):
men and women that do make thosedecisions. And Jim Bowden to stand Cassi,
he needs to tell us all thetime. We don't give it to
him. Who's the player. Let'sdo the deal now. On our way
out of here, Dana Brown shookme up on this one a little bit.
Dana Brown went asked by Sean Salisberyabout some injury updates on Verlander and
Kyle Tucker. Verlander is really makinga good progress. As I mentioned last

(01:21:41):
last time or the other day,He's up to like forty seven pinches,
he's not sore. The next dayhe's touching ninety ninety one. And so
that's progress for us. I mean, you get me start throwing sidelines up
to forty five, fifty pitches upto ninety ninety one, no pain or
no issues. The next day,you know, he's got another bullpen coming

(01:22:03):
up. So that's real, that'sreal progress. You know, Tucker.
Uh, he's starting light baseball activityon the field. He's continuing to hit
inside of the cages. Uh.He's still fighting through uh soreness and swelling
in that area you know where hefiled the ball, throw the ball off

(01:22:27):
and it really just it's like crushedthe bone. It's just like really hurt.
Oh did crush sure? You knowthat deep boom bruise. Uh,
it's it's achy. And so thesoreness, he's fighting through that and every
day so if he can, butyeah, get me to this part,
Dana Brown would add, And it'sa little lengthy, so I can't get

(01:22:49):
to it, Dana Brown says viaa Sean Salisbury show this morning. He
is optimistic that Kyle Tucker will returnbefore September. September like after August September
is when the last month of theseason is when we get Kyle Tucker.
Count that up, people, that'sthree months for a bone bruise. Now.

(01:23:15):
I know Gordon. He teached meabout being a doctor yesterday, so
I did go do some work overnight. As we get ready to get out
of here, I mentioned that itmight have been a hairline fracture. Hairline
fracture generally in the leg heals insix to eight weeks. That's two months.
We're going on two months. Oh, but I found out if the
fracture is in the tibia, itcould take twenty weeks. Just me,

(01:23:41):
I think Kyle Tuck's leg is fractured. Asho's got to be better than they
have been. Afternoon baseball at theplate, I mean afternoon baseball coming up.
Matt Thomas also coming your way fromnoon to three for Connedy McGovern,
Gordon, myself and all of you. Yes, you, Houston, allow
us to maintain our status as yourhome in Houston sports. God bless you.
We appreciate it. Enjoy your lunch. God willing what door to get
in tomorrow? Gus Drugs

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