April 12, 2024 • 10 mins
Yesterday afternoon closing out their series against the Royals, the Astros fall tremendously to Kansas City with a final score of 13-3. With no sense of a comeback felt, as nine runs were given in the first inning, Sean takes time to discuss five main points that need addressing for the Astros.
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(00:00):
Oh, also check this out.I should have warned you if Sewan only
cares about cold hard. Back tothe Sean Salisbury show on Sports Talk seven
ninety first pitch and that's popped upon the infield Enfoul Territory, first base
(00:23):
side for being over so is Plndez. Blondez makes the catch, and that
is the ballgame. The Kansas CityRoyals pourted on early and they're able to
blow out the Astros today by afinal of thirteen to three. As the
Royals sweep this three game series.That was Robert Ford on the broadcast.
(00:44):
As the Astros suffered a beat downby the Royals thirteen to three. They
are swept. They welcome in theRangers tonight to Mini ma Park seven to
ten. The first pitch six o'clockon deck show right here on Sports Talk
seven on your home four Astros Baseball. The Rockets loose to the as Master's
second round rolling along Tiger Woods.One under. I saw after a first
(01:07):
round. I'm bad, really solidball striker, your Brooks. Didn't you?
You took Brooksy. I took Scheffler, Kopka and cam Smith, all
I believe were under par I thoughtKepka was like plus two. Oh he
may maybe he was. Maybe itwas like through fifteen or something. At
one point he was minus one.I don't know. I know Scheffler's minus
six. I think cam Smith isminus one. Has not putted well on
(01:30):
a live tour this year. Hehas struggled putting. I was reading about
that and he and I was watchingthe Priest of us as he's even okay,
I was, I was, Iwas reading. Now he's won five
majors. The guy knows how toI think five him. He knows how
to play in big tournaments. Buthe ain't winning at Augusta if he doesn't
put If he puts like he hasso far early this year and there in
(01:51):
their season. Uh because usually inthe big tournaments he's got ice in his
veins, right, and he isa grinder and a tough s ob.
But you gotta put there. Ifif you don't put there, you got
no shots. So but to getback to the even listen, you go
shoot site. He's capable going shootingsixty five. Yeah, he does that.
You're right back in it, right. So and the guy you know
at the top with the way hehits the ball, Deschambeau, if he
all of a sudden starts snaphooking drives. Guess what that minus seven ends up
(02:14):
minus two. Yeah, so it'stoday is fun and then you know the
moving day on Saturday. So yeah, those were my three. Who do
you go? And then I hadthe fourth one for me was Wyndham Clark
as are if we have a tie, he was my tiebreaker against you and
our pick would you have Fleetwood?I had Fleetwood? Tony was my tiebreaker
breaker Xander, And yeah, Johnrom was my friend. And we know
(02:38):
as the reigning champion or a guywho's been the champion. He is the
reigning champion won last year. Heis he's always capable because he's long.
He's one under. I got three. My guys are all one under.
There you go still in striking distance, but man, what a what a
round for Bryson to shambo in truthin this dude, if you're even or
like plus two or to hang aroundbut yeah, yeah really and then go
low on one of those days,because then you put yourself and then that
(03:00):
spit starts you your throat starts todry out a little bit. And listen,
if Wood's body holds up like Isaid, he knows every blade of
grass at the golf course. Ifhis body holds up, he'll hang around.
He'll be there, Yeah, hewill. Plus he's you know,
fresh, no sex, you knowwhat I mean. I'm not sure that
makes you fresh. That might makeyou stupid. No, I'm kidding.
(03:22):
Hey, Triple, he hangs around. More guys, Hey, give us
like a with this, Give uslike some kind of like, uh mysterious
kind of instrumental for this segment.You mean like a Vincent Price thriller old,
yeah, Price, Yeah, thriller. Michael Jackson. Yeah, you
want to low like like like it'suh something like like the world's coming to
(03:44):
him type of thing baseball, becausefourteen games in the world's coming it isn't.
Yeah, well, but Sean threegames against the Rangers, three against
the Braves. If they lose thoseseries, come on, man, okay,
well you ready you're waiting on amusic bet. You want it low
and soft low soft, you know, but like Triple, it doesn't matter.
Man. It's like, yeah,if you're driving it, we got
(04:08):
fire that up perfect nice and sawthe lower than music. Here we go.
Sean five points, Okay, givethem to us in just to reiterate
we all have been to school,whether it's college, postgraduate, high school.
(04:29):
And if you're on the quarter system, there's four of them. Yep,
semester two or if somebody calls now, if I the way colleges and
in high school's changed stuff, Ialmos said changed with an S bombs changed
stuff. Maybe they're on four semesters. Usually when I it was two semesters,
four quarters whatever, depending on theuniversity or in the high school.
So forty forty forty those four quadrants, right, that's the way baseball is.
(04:51):
And we're at almost the point ofmidterm. So when you take a
mid term test, it matters onyour grade. Correct. This isn't about
who was on the honor roll lastyear, and this isn't about who's gonna
win valdictory at the end of theyear, because both may come into play.
You may start to get that honorroll momentum. And you may also,
after this midterm go on and makean A in the class, which
sewed up your GPA four point zero, your graduate and they want you to
(05:14):
be the valedictory. Could happen onthis one too. We got a's in
the class. There's some B minuses, there's some c's probably some incompletes,
and then there's some You're gonna haveto take the class over. Right now,
I'm just talking about it the midterm. This isn't the sky's falling,
the season's over, any of it. I just want to preface that piece.
What do you what are you talkingabout? We're not done, don't
pan. I'm not paying it,I'm not playing. I ain't on scholarship
(05:35):
anymore. But I'll tell you thefive things that come to my mind quickly.
At the midterm. Here's it's notab seid. Here's the midterm one.
That baseball card we talk about,and you know what, we loved
it, but I hear it allthe time, not just here, all
over at the baseball card. Ireally don't care if you made the honor
roll last year. This year,I really don't And I don't care if
(05:58):
your baseball card tells me you wonfour MVPs. I need to know what
the baseball card says in twenty twentyfour. And there's some baseball cards that
would be blank in twenty twenty four. There's one the baseball card on the
back doesn't mean a hill of beansto me, especially now, when your
career is over, the history ofit. Can't wait to have it.
(06:18):
A matter of fact, I hopewe make money off it. Right now,
the back of the baseball card doesn'tmean squat to me. Two.
Joe Spott is starting to realize it. And remember, manager, it is
the midterm, that's all. I'mjust talking about the midterm grade. I
understand there's injuries everywhere. Dusty hadthem, aj Hinch had him, some
more, some less. I don'tcare. I don't want to hear how
(06:39):
rough the water is bringing the ship. We all realize that when you're the
number one guy making the decision,it's a lot tougher than being the number
two guy. You get my point. Oh yeah, And early on he's
realizing it can be overwhelming at times. And I know the players play,
but guess what, you're in charge. Three when Dana Brown come on here
(07:00):
and we love having him each weekin his opinion, I've asked him last
year about the lineup and what washis response, Brian, that's a Dusty
call. The lineup is Dusty's call, yep. And I asked him,
I think week one or two,and what do you say you were last
week or on this past Wednesday.That's a Joe a spot A question about
the lineup. Correct, Yes,if that's the case, and it's a
Joe's spotted decision, the lineup Joeas spot is not putting the best lineup
(07:24):
out there every day. That's hisresponsibility and something he has unless, of
course, there has to know youdon't run that gap there. We're paying
him too much. You make surehe stays out there. You're not running
him off. It's a Joe spot. If that's a Joe's spot a thing,
guess what Joe Spotta is responsible forputting a lineup out that that is
not giving them the best chance towin through the midterm. Remember we're only
(07:45):
a part of the way through thecourt. We just took a midterm test.
Fourteen games in number four, HunterBrown right now, if they were
healthy, pitching would be pitching inTriple A. His performance this year,
save that what he's done in thepast and the only thing Hunter Brown has
it looks like two things that looklike justin Verlander is is mechanics and Detroit
because right now Hunter Brown is aminor league pitcher. And five this team,
(08:09):
who's you cut out your heart feedit to you put their cleat on
your throat and get to your dogon carted artery carotid artery? Should I
say in the past, but rememberthis is this year's midterm. They are
too casual for me. Too casualup to the midterm. You know that
kid who's really smart, but it'sstaying up a little too late. I'm
(08:31):
not saying they're out in the barsit, but stay up a little too
late and kind of fall asleep inclass and gets behind you miss one day
at a university that's like a weekin high school, right yeah, and
like, oh man, I gottago and get my notes. They're a
little bit too casual. I'm lookingfor a killer instinct and a sense of
urgency and fourteen games in it doesnot exist. And when I say this,
remember we're in it as a team. There's some a's on the team,
but one fail, all fail.Brother. If this is a te
(08:54):
in golf of tennis, it's onyou if you can't make birdie or you
can't serve your ball. In intennis team, there's some as the report
card is a team, those arethe five things. This team's ability to
do what they do feels way I'mnot saying they're not into it, but
when they hit the field, myoptics tell me it's too casual. The
(09:16):
extremes are way too much. Sothere's five points to you. And I'm
not backing off Midchell. Now thenext midterm grade, we may be saying,
that's the Joe's spot. We love. Now look at this guy,
but those five things tell me,tell me I'm wrong. Or Katie's healthy,
Verlanders out there, Garcia's healthy.Frommer's back on the mound, knowing
what you know now on this roster, just midterm in w's hunt a Brown
(09:39):
pitching for you, and they saywe'll put him in the bullpen. He
can't get through an it can't getthrough an inning yet, at least yesterday.
No, no, no, it'sa he'd be having to go get
his confidence back in triple A,not at the expense of a major league
club, and if that hurts hisfeelings, it's a businessman. Oh well,
buddy, it's precible. Maybe thelast time you go through struggles,
and do I believe he can comeout of it. Yeah, but right
(10:01):
now he is not a major leaguepitcher. That's all I got to tell
you. Brother. Let's keep talkingabout Hunter Brown, and let's look at
his outings so far this season.It's been a struggle. That's next.
On Sports Talk seven ninety
Oh, also check this out.I should have warned you if Sewan only
cares about cold hard. Back tothe Sean Salisbury show on Sports Talk seven
ninety first pitch and that's popped upon the infield Enfoul Territory, first base
(00:23):
side for being over so is Plndez. Blondez makes the catch, and that
is the ballgame. The Kansas CityRoyals pourted on early and they're able to
blow out the Astros today by afinal of thirteen to three. As the
Royals sweep this three game series.That was Robert Ford on the broadcast.
(00:44):
As the Astros suffered a beat downby the Royals thirteen to three. They
are swept. They welcome in theRangers tonight to Mini ma Park seven to
ten. The first pitch six o'clockon deck show right here on Sports Talk
seven on your home four Astros Baseball. The Rockets loose to the as Master's
second round rolling along Tiger Woods.One under. I saw after a first
(01:07):
round. I'm bad, really solidball striker, your Brooks. Didn't you?
You took Brooksy. I took Scheffler, Kopka and cam Smith, all
I believe were under par I thoughtKepka was like plus two. Oh he
may maybe he was. Maybe itwas like through fifteen or something. At
one point he was minus one.I don't know. I know Scheffler's minus
six. I think cam Smith isminus one. Has not putted well on
(01:30):
a live tour this year. Hehas struggled putting. I was reading about
that and he and I was watchingthe Priest of us as he's even okay,
I was, I was, Iwas reading. Now he's won five
majors. The guy knows how toI think five him. He knows how
to play in big tournaments. Buthe ain't winning at Augusta if he doesn't
put If he puts like he hasso far early this year and there in
(01:51):
their season. Uh because usually inthe big tournaments he's got ice in his
veins, right, and he isa grinder and a tough s ob.
But you gotta put there. Ifif you don't put there, you got
no shots. So but to getback to the even listen, you go
shoot site. He's capable going shootingsixty five. Yeah, he does that.
You're right back in it, right. So and the guy you know
at the top with the way hehits the ball, Deschambeau, if he
all of a sudden starts snaphooking drives. Guess what that minus seven ends up
(02:14):
minus two. Yeah, so it'stoday is fun and then you know the
moving day on Saturday. So yeah, those were my three. Who do
you go? And then I hadthe fourth one for me was Wyndham Clark
as are if we have a tie, he was my tiebreaker against you and
our pick would you have Fleetwood?I had Fleetwood? Tony was my tiebreaker
breaker Xander, And yeah, Johnrom was my friend. And we know
(02:38):
as the reigning champion or a guywho's been the champion. He is the
reigning champion won last year. Heis he's always capable because he's long.
He's one under. I got three. My guys are all one under.
There you go still in striking distance, but man, what a what a
round for Bryson to shambo in truthin this dude, if you're even or
like plus two or to hang aroundbut yeah, yeah really and then go
low on one of those days,because then you put yourself and then that
(03:00):
spit starts you your throat starts todry out a little bit. And listen,
if Wood's body holds up like Isaid, he knows every blade of
grass at the golf course. Ifhis body holds up, he'll hang around.
He'll be there, Yeah, hewill. Plus he's you know,
fresh, no sex, you knowwhat I mean. I'm not sure that
makes you fresh. That might makeyou stupid. No, I'm kidding.
(03:22):
Hey, Triple, he hangs around. More guys, Hey, give us
like a with this, Give uslike some kind of like, uh mysterious
kind of instrumental for this segment.You mean like a Vincent Price thriller old,
yeah, Price, Yeah, thriller. Michael Jackson. Yeah, you
want to low like like like it'suh something like like the world's coming to
(03:44):
him type of thing baseball, becausefourteen games in the world's coming it isn't.
Yeah, well, but Sean threegames against the Rangers, three against
the Braves. If they lose thoseseries, come on, man, okay,
well you ready you're waiting on amusic bet. You want it low
and soft low soft, you know, but like Triple, it doesn't matter.
Man. It's like, yeah,if you're driving it, we got
(04:08):
fire that up perfect nice and sawthe lower than music. Here we go.
Sean five points, Okay, givethem to us in just to reiterate
we all have been to school,whether it's college, postgraduate, high school.
(04:29):
And if you're on the quarter system, there's four of them. Yep,
semester two or if somebody calls now, if I the way colleges and
in high school's changed stuff, Ialmos said changed with an S bombs changed
stuff. Maybe they're on four semesters. Usually when I it was two semesters,
four quarters whatever, depending on theuniversity or in the high school.
So forty forty forty those four quadrants, right, that's the way baseball is.
(04:51):
And we're at almost the point ofmidterm. So when you take a
mid term test, it matters onyour grade. Correct. This isn't about
who was on the honor roll lastyear, and this isn't about who's gonna
win valdictory at the end of theyear, because both may come into play.
You may start to get that honorroll momentum. And you may also,
after this midterm go on and makean A in the class, which
sewed up your GPA four point zero, your graduate and they want you to
(05:14):
be the valedictory. Could happen onthis one too. We got a's in
the class. There's some B minuses, there's some c's probably some incompletes,
and then there's some You're gonna haveto take the class over. Right now,
I'm just talking about it the midterm. This isn't the sky's falling,
the season's over, any of it. I just want to preface that piece.
What do you what are you talkingabout? We're not done, don't
pan. I'm not paying it,I'm not playing. I ain't on scholarship
(05:35):
anymore. But I'll tell you thefive things that come to my mind quickly.
At the midterm. Here's it's notab seid. Here's the midterm one.
That baseball card we talk about,and you know what, we loved
it, but I hear it allthe time, not just here, all
over at the baseball card. Ireally don't care if you made the honor
roll last year. This year,I really don't And I don't care if
(05:58):
your baseball card tells me you wonfour MVPs. I need to know what
the baseball card says in twenty twentyfour. And there's some baseball cards that
would be blank in twenty twenty four. There's one the baseball card on the
back doesn't mean a hill of beansto me, especially now, when your
career is over, the history ofit. Can't wait to have it.
(06:18):
A matter of fact, I hopewe make money off it. Right now,
the back of the baseball card doesn'tmean squat to me. Two.
Joe Spott is starting to realize it. And remember, manager, it is
the midterm, that's all. I'mjust talking about the midterm grade. I
understand there's injuries everywhere. Dusty hadthem, aj Hinch had him, some
more, some less. I don'tcare. I don't want to hear how
(06:39):
rough the water is bringing the ship. We all realize that when you're the
number one guy making the decision,it's a lot tougher than being the number
two guy. You get my point. Oh yeah, And early on he's
realizing it can be overwhelming at times. And I know the players play,
but guess what, you're in charge. Three when Dana Brown come on here
(07:00):
and we love having him each weekin his opinion, I've asked him last
year about the lineup and what washis response, Brian, that's a Dusty
call. The lineup is Dusty's call, yep. And I asked him,
I think week one or two,and what do you say you were last
week or on this past Wednesday.That's a Joe a spot A question about
the lineup. Correct, Yes,if that's the case, and it's a
Joe's spotted decision, the lineup Joeas spot is not putting the best lineup
(07:24):
out there every day. That's hisresponsibility and something he has unless, of
course, there has to know youdon't run that gap there. We're paying
him too much. You make surehe stays out there. You're not running
him off. It's a Joe spot. If that's a Joe's spot a thing,
guess what Joe Spotta is responsible forputting a lineup out that that is
not giving them the best chance towin through the midterm. Remember we're only
(07:45):
a part of the way through thecourt. We just took a midterm test.
Fourteen games in number four, HunterBrown right now, if they were
healthy, pitching would be pitching inTriple A. His performance this year,
save that what he's done in thepast and the only thing Hunter Brown has
it looks like two things that looklike justin Verlander is is mechanics and Detroit
because right now Hunter Brown is aminor league pitcher. And five this team,
(08:09):
who's you cut out your heart feedit to you put their cleat on
your throat and get to your dogon carted artery carotid artery? Should I
say in the past, but rememberthis is this year's midterm. They are
too casual for me. Too casualup to the midterm. You know that
kid who's really smart, but it'sstaying up a little too late. I'm
(08:31):
not saying they're out in the barsit, but stay up a little too
late and kind of fall asleep inclass and gets behind you miss one day
at a university that's like a weekin high school, right yeah, and
like, oh man, I gottago and get my notes. They're a
little bit too casual. I'm lookingfor a killer instinct and a sense of
urgency and fourteen games in it doesnot exist. And when I say this,
remember we're in it as a team. There's some a's on the team,
but one fail, all fail.Brother. If this is a te
(08:54):
in golf of tennis, it's onyou if you can't make birdie or you
can't serve your ball. In intennis team, there's some as the report
card is a team, those arethe five things. This team's ability to
do what they do feels way I'mnot saying they're not into it, but
when they hit the field, myoptics tell me it's too casual. The
(09:16):
extremes are way too much. Sothere's five points to you. And I'm
not backing off Midchell. Now thenext midterm grade, we may be saying,
that's the Joe's spot. We love. Now look at this guy,
but those five things tell me,tell me I'm wrong. Or Katie's healthy,
Verlanders out there, Garcia's healthy.Frommer's back on the mound, knowing
what you know now on this roster, just midterm in w's hunt a Brown
(09:39):
pitching for you, and they saywe'll put him in the bullpen. He
can't get through an it can't getthrough an inning yet, at least yesterday.
No, no, no, it'sa he'd be having to go get
his confidence back in triple A,not at the expense of a major league
club, and if that hurts hisfeelings, it's a businessman. Oh well,
buddy, it's precible. Maybe thelast time you go through struggles,
and do I believe he can comeout of it. Yeah, but right
(10:01):
now he is not a major leaguepitcher. That's all I got to tell
you. Brother. Let's keep talkingabout Hunter Brown, and let's look at
his outings so far this season.It's been a struggle. That's next.
On Sports Talk seven ninety
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