April 8, 2024 • 7 mins
There's been lots of discussion about the Astros kicking the season off with a Win/Loss record of 3-7 leaving many confused as to how? With the heat of the discussion referring to the issue at first base, the guys discuss and assess how long is it before the Astros find a new first basemen?
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Change your loofah Sponge monthly great andright now listen to more Sean Salisbury.
That's your job, then don't youget paid for a pro tip from Houston's
official listen while scrubbing your butt morningsports show played tonight in at the Man's
National Championship in college basketball. Let'sget back out to the phone line seven
(00:22):
one three two one two five sevenhinety. Let's start with Mike. Mike,
welcome in, Good morning morning.How are you doing. We're good
man. What's on your mind thismorning? You know, I appreciate your
last caller's passion, but for himto say that Dusty Baker did something and
no other manager could do. Thisteam was already a World Series team.
They were already a World Series contender. You I'm not going to say throw
(00:44):
anybody in there, but you couldhave put pretty much anybody in there.
They would have been in the WorldSeries. Hey, Mike, let me
ask you before you finished, realquick. I also think in in what
Dominic was saying, too, iswhat Dusty Baker did here under the circumstances
of the cheating scandal and co comingin here and all those things, he
had to come in and took iton and still kept them not only as
(01:04):
a good team, but kept themin World Series and won a World Series.
Whether you like Dusty Baker or not, Dusty Baker wasn't just a guy.
He's a Hall of Famer. Andif AJ Hinch and Joe A.
Spotted together have the baseball career thatDusty Baker's had, they'll be blessed.
Unfortunate. So, Dusty made plentyof mistakes, but to just poo poo
(01:29):
Dusty away and saying he didn't matter, that he's the reason. He's a
really good manager and damn good atit. I'm not poo pooing Dusty away.
My only point is to try tosay that he did something nobody else
could do. I not correct.I don't think I think AJ Hinch could
have done the same thing. Ithink the Astro should have done exactly what
the Red Sox did, suspended Hinchfor a year. You could have brought
(01:51):
him back, and I don't thinkanything would be different. In fact,
I think he might even have acouple of World World Series titles. That's
just my opinion, and I'm nottaking anything away from Dusty Baker. He
is a Hall of fame player,hall of Fame manager. He's all that
stuff. And if you wonder whya spot is not getting the criticism that
dusty guy, that's exactly why whenyou're a Hall of Fame guy, you
kick way more criticism than you dowhen you're just another guy, which is
(02:14):
exactly what his spotty is. Rightnow, he is just another guy who's
in his first year of managing.Now, don't get me wrong, there
are a lot of concerns. I'mworried. I know it's early in the
season, and I understand the Astroshave been slow starters for a couple of
years. But it's not just thatthey're slow starting, it's the way they
look. The optics are concerned.No, it's not the it's not optics.
(02:35):
No, I'm talking about the opticsof the way they look. It's
naked eye can see that they're notgood right now. Yeah, it does
not look like a World Series contendingteam. They do not look like the
same Astros that I have seen forthe last well we'll go back nineteen ten,
twelve years. They do not looklike the same confident bunch. When
you say, ah, they're downfour runs with three innutes to go,
(02:57):
we got it, they'll be okay. I don't have that same feeling you
anymore. So that's just me.And again this is I'm not trashing Dusty
in any way. I'm just sayingthat for somebody to say that they think
nobody else could have done this,I think you're not giving those players.
There are still a lot of reallygood players who are older now, and
something does need to be done aboutfirst base. That's the last thing I
(03:19):
want to say. Something. Maybeyou can trade a break you Maybe he
needs to change of scenery or something. Maybe he doesn't like it down here
or whatever it may be. Something'sgot to be done at first place.
Anyway, that's all I have tosay. You guys, have a good
day. I appreciate it. Let'stalk to Sena down to Circlelne Seena,
good morning, Hey, good morning. So a couple of things. One
of the callers, you know aboutstarting rotation, that we didn't go out
(03:43):
really and get anybody in the offseason. I think we're missing the fact
that, you know, we gotvery close to the World Series last year.
It's not like we didn't miss theplayoffs altogether with his starting rotation last
year, and we were expecting tohave Luis Garcia back, which you know,
he's looking good and already throwing in. As such, we've got other
truths Verlander, that's all in theIL that hopefully we'll get back that we
(04:05):
weren't expecting to, you know,be missed in the beginning of season.
Until Hunter Brown's kind of lost iton what was that Friday night? Our
starting rotation had the best E rA in baseball. So I'm not too
concerned about the starting rotation right now. I think strength is going to strength
(04:27):
for the most part. Yeah,And I mean our bigger concern is when
some of these guys come back fromthe IL where we put in the current
guys. Are we sending Hunter Brownto the bullpen? I mean, what
are we doing here? Because Isure don't want to send Blanco down right
now. So so I mean,you know, I don't think our starting
rotation is a problem. I thinka lot of these losses we were really
(04:54):
we were in the games. Imean, got the one loss where Hater
gave up the home run with twoouts in the ninth, had the other
loss that we had three base runningkind of blunders that probably could have we
probably could have won the game ifwe hadn't made those and I don't expect
us to make those again. There'sa lot of these losses. We were
really in those games, So I'mnot you know, I don't think I'm
(05:15):
quite as panicked as some people onthis. I am a little bit concerned
about the bullpen, but I meanI think Hater is going to turn out
to be like Presley has been forus, where every time he comes out
of the bullpen, it's like,well, did you take your heart medicine
this morning? Because you know he'sgonna give us a little bit of a
worry out there, but I'm thinkinghe's gonna lock it in and start getting
(05:38):
the job done too. Same withPresley. He looked good last night and
you can tell by the end ofthat inning he was like, Okay,
thank God, finally finally got it. So I do feel like first base,
you know, a little bit ofa worry, a little bit of
an issue. I did look thisup at the beginning of last year,
after the first month or so,and a bray you has historically been like
(05:58):
Bregmant where he historically before it wasever with the Astros was a slow starter,
And I don't think John Singleton's theanswer. So I am more comfortable
with a bray You in the lineupright now than John Stetil we get somebody,
Yeah, until we get somebody youknow, really that that we can
start, you know, sprinkling inhere at the major league level. I
(06:20):
think a bray You is you knowwhat we're what we're going to be,
you know, seeing And I thinkhe will come around, hopefully a lot
sooner than last year, but Ithink he will come around. So she
had great stuff, Thank you forthe cause. It's a great optimism,
and she's spot on with with that. Well, who you want if you
only had two to choose from aBralli or Singleton, you want a brave
(06:40):
with first base Between the two youhave. It's not a choice. It
is not a choice, and youand I both know it. Man so
but his history of late starts,But why do we give Bregman the same
hall pass. One's been an MVP, one hasn't. We shouldn't. One's
younger. That's exactly what we do. So listen, you want the lesser
of two, however it is.But you want somebody else over there?
(07:01):
Hell, you're ready to put dubonnetfor a space. I would imagine I
am okay, and I get thatworth a conversation. I'm just talking as
well. There's no doubt and realquick once again. The base running al
two, they got picked off herspace again. Well, one thing we
don't tell you now. The guyis hitting the ball and he's great.
His base running is as bad asthere is in baseball. Yeah, for
(07:21):
a guy who's a leadoff hitter,especially right Yeah, he got picked off
and he was out. Yeah,so that's got improved. But they're just
doing little things that the Astros arebetter than the things they're doing at times.
Right now. Yeah, there's aninteresting quote from Joe's body in regards
to Jose Abre. I've got itright here in front of me. We'll
discuss it next on The Sean SalisburyShow.
Change your loofah Sponge monthly great andright now listen to more Sean Salisbury.
That's your job, then don't youget paid for a pro tip from Houston's
official listen while scrubbing your butt morningsports show played tonight in at the Man's
National Championship in college basketball. Let'sget back out to the phone line seven
(00:22):
one three two one two five sevenhinety. Let's start with Mike. Mike,
welcome in, Good morning morning.How are you doing. We're good
man. What's on your mind thismorning? You know, I appreciate your
last caller's passion, but for himto say that Dusty Baker did something and
no other manager could do. Thisteam was already a World Series team.
They were already a World Series contender. You I'm not going to say throw
(00:44):
anybody in there, but you couldhave put pretty much anybody in there.
They would have been in the WorldSeries. Hey, Mike, let me
ask you before you finished, realquick. I also think in in what
Dominic was saying, too, iswhat Dusty Baker did here under the circumstances
of the cheating scandal and co comingin here and all those things, he
had to come in and took iton and still kept them not only as
(01:04):
a good team, but kept themin World Series and won a World Series.
Whether you like Dusty Baker or not, Dusty Baker wasn't just a guy.
He's a Hall of Famer. Andif AJ Hinch and Joe A.
Spotted together have the baseball career thatDusty Baker's had, they'll be blessed.
Unfortunate. So, Dusty made plentyof mistakes, but to just poo poo
(01:29):
Dusty away and saying he didn't matter, that he's the reason. He's a
really good manager and damn good atit. I'm not poo pooing Dusty away.
My only point is to try tosay that he did something nobody else
could do. I not correct.I don't think I think AJ Hinch could
have done the same thing. Ithink the Astro should have done exactly what
the Red Sox did, suspended Hinchfor a year. You could have brought
(01:51):
him back, and I don't thinkanything would be different. In fact,
I think he might even have acouple of World World Series titles. That's
just my opinion, and I'm nottaking anything away from Dusty Baker. He
is a Hall of fame player,hall of Fame manager. He's all that
stuff. And if you wonder whya spot is not getting the criticism that
dusty guy, that's exactly why whenyou're a Hall of Fame guy, you
kick way more criticism than you dowhen you're just another guy, which is
(02:14):
exactly what his spotty is. Rightnow, he is just another guy who's
in his first year of managing.Now, don't get me wrong, there
are a lot of concerns. I'mworried. I know it's early in the
season, and I understand the Astroshave been slow starters for a couple of
years. But it's not just thatthey're slow starting, it's the way they
look. The optics are concerned.No, it's not the it's not optics.
(02:35):
No, I'm talking about the opticsof the way they look. It's
naked eye can see that they're notgood right now. Yeah, it does
not look like a World Series contendingteam. They do not look like the
same Astros that I have seen forthe last well we'll go back nineteen ten,
twelve years. They do not looklike the same confident bunch. When
you say, ah, they're downfour runs with three innutes to go,
(02:57):
we got it, they'll be okay. I don't have that same feeling you
anymore. So that's just me.And again this is I'm not trashing Dusty
in any way. I'm just sayingthat for somebody to say that they think
nobody else could have done this,I think you're not giving those players.
There are still a lot of reallygood players who are older now, and
something does need to be done aboutfirst base. That's the last thing I
(03:19):
want to say. Something. Maybeyou can trade a break you Maybe he
needs to change of scenery or something. Maybe he doesn't like it down here
or whatever it may be. Something'sgot to be done at first place.
Anyway, that's all I have tosay. You guys, have a good
day. I appreciate it. Let'stalk to Sena down to Circlelne Seena,
good morning, Hey, good morning. So a couple of things. One
of the callers, you know aboutstarting rotation, that we didn't go out
(03:43):
really and get anybody in the offseason. I think we're missing the fact
that, you know, we gotvery close to the World Series last year.
It's not like we didn't miss theplayoffs altogether with his starting rotation last
year, and we were expecting tohave Luis Garcia back, which you know,
he's looking good and already throwing in. As such, we've got other
truths Verlander, that's all in theIL that hopefully we'll get back that we
(04:05):
weren't expecting to, you know,be missed in the beginning of season.
Until Hunter Brown's kind of lost iton what was that Friday night? Our
starting rotation had the best E rA in baseball. So I'm not too
concerned about the starting rotation right now. I think strength is going to strength
(04:27):
for the most part. Yeah,And I mean our bigger concern is when
some of these guys come back fromthe IL where we put in the current
guys. Are we sending Hunter Brownto the bullpen? I mean, what
are we doing here? Because Isure don't want to send Blanco down right
now. So so I mean,you know, I don't think our starting
rotation is a problem. I thinka lot of these losses we were really
(04:54):
we were in the games. Imean, got the one loss where Hater
gave up the home run with twoouts in the ninth, had the other
loss that we had three base runningkind of blunders that probably could have we
probably could have won the game ifwe hadn't made those and I don't expect
us to make those again. There'sa lot of these losses. We were
really in those games, So I'mnot you know, I don't think I'm
(05:15):
quite as panicked as some people onthis. I am a little bit concerned
about the bullpen, but I meanI think Hater is going to turn out
to be like Presley has been forus, where every time he comes out
of the bullpen, it's like,well, did you take your heart medicine
this morning? Because you know he'sgonna give us a little bit of a
worry out there, but I'm thinkinghe's gonna lock it in and start getting
(05:38):
the job done too. Same withPresley. He looked good last night and
you can tell by the end ofthat inning he was like, Okay,
thank God, finally finally got it. So I do feel like first base,
you know, a little bit ofa worry, a little bit of
an issue. I did look thisup at the beginning of last year,
after the first month or so,and a bray you has historically been like
(05:58):
Bregmant where he historically before it wasever with the Astros was a slow starter,
And I don't think John Singleton's theanswer. So I am more comfortable
with a bray You in the lineupright now than John Stetil we get somebody,
Yeah, until we get somebody youknow, really that that we can
start, you know, sprinkling inhere at the major league level. I
(06:20):
think a bray You is you knowwhat we're what we're going to be,
you know, seeing And I thinkhe will come around, hopefully a lot
sooner than last year, but Ithink he will come around. So she
had great stuff, Thank you forthe cause. It's a great optimism,
and she's spot on with with that. Well, who you want if you
only had two to choose from aBralli or Singleton, you want a brave
(06:40):
with first base Between the two youhave. It's not a choice. It
is not a choice, and youand I both know it. Man so
but his history of late starts,But why do we give Bregman the same
hall pass. One's been an MVP, one hasn't. We shouldn't. One's
younger. That's exactly what we do. So listen, you want the lesser
of two, however it is.But you want somebody else over there?
(07:01):
Hell, you're ready to put dubonnetfor a space. I would imagine I
am okay, and I get thatworth a conversation. I'm just talking as
well. There's no doubt and realquick once again. The base running al
two, they got picked off herspace again. Well, one thing we
don't tell you now. The guyis hitting the ball and he's great.
His base running is as bad asthere is in baseball. Yeah, for
(07:21):
a guy who's a leadoff hitter,especially right Yeah, he got picked off
and he was out. Yeah,so that's got improved. But they're just
doing little things that the Astros arebetter than the things they're doing at times.
Right now. Yeah, there's aninteresting quote from Joe's body in regards
to Jose Abre. I've got itright here in front of me. We'll
discuss it next on The Sean SalisburyShow.
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