Astros Win Series Over Rangers, Framber Update, Master's Tournament Results

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Episode Transcript

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Saulisbury old Berry. Okay, let'sdo this. Sewn Salisbury, The usc
Truth, longtime friend shown Salisbury,Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is
the Sewn Salsbury Show. The Rocketswin their season finale one sixteen one five

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over the Clippers. Scott Scheffler,your Master's Champion, Shawn trip League,
Good morning. Hope you guys hada fantastic weekend. Yes, sir,
sure did. Let me crack overmy tablow real quick. Got something going
on with that voice, yes,yelling all day yesterday coaching. Excuse me,
chamanship, We did? He did? We did? Yeah? Nice,

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he's in late last night? Wasthat I said? I coached in
late last night. Nice. That'sa good thing. Congratulations and I also
apparently we're hitting puberty this morning.Sometimes, as it happens a little later
in life for some A good weekendfor the Astros. Apparently when jose L
two v Rakes things, good thingshappened. Du Bond pretty versatile, m

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h. Some good things happened overthe weekend for them. After that,
after that atrocious Friday, so Saturdayand Sunday, good beat the team that's
the reigning champs. And now yougot another pretty good team coming to town
for three more so see if itcould continue. They won two in a
row. That's a great thing.Man, Nothing like a stray bullet.
It's six h one. That's justfact. Stray bullets are when something comes

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it's like way from the past,or you're you're borrowing trouble or chasing a
ghost. That's just a fact.They finally got themselves two in a row
against a good team. And uh, as far as Scotty Scheffler goes,
I think the guy's any good.I mean is the last four times he's
played he missed a putter, hewould have been four straight, and his

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last four events wins this one bygoing away with four strokes while his wife's
about to go into labor. Theguy's just phenomenal. And the reason why
the world doesn't talk about him moreis because he's just there's nothing. I
thought it was really cool, andthis applies to other athletes, whether it's
here for Houston or our athletes hereor anywhere you go, especially in golf

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there, and I think it happensin all sports. But there's an intimidation
factor. And I was listening tothe analyst talking and I was watching for
the heck early in the morning beforeI went and played golf before after church,
before I watched the Masters is theywere breaking down, like Brandal Shambilely
and Mike Turco and that group onGolf the Golf Channel about the intimidation when

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you played Nicholas, that the intimidationfactor standing at the tea box before you
teed off on it in a tournamentthey already had a four stroke lead.
And I thought that fan with TigerWoods, that was it. You're shooting.
You're playing at par seventy two.He's playing par sixty eight when and
I remember one guy said one ofthose an analyst said, and I played

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Tiger Woods the first time. Whenhe shakes your hand, he stared through
you as opposed to at you.And he said, and Brad Faxon said,
first time I played him, Iwas it was uncomfortable. A guy
like Scotti Scheffler, such a andand that was part of Tiger's mo right,
not talking to you on the golfcourse. I think he's become kinder

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and gentler over the course of hiscraft for what he's went through. But
when he was in his prime,they said Scotty Scheffler is just such a
nice guy and the sweetheart of aguy. It's hard to feel intimidated.
But there's another kind of intimidation,and that's his game. And this dude
is I'm telling you, he's ona roll right now. Five years ago,

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do you ever hear of him?You know who he was when he
came out of the University of Texas. Only one University of Texas name you
were talking about always, And thisguy comes out and if he's playing his
best, and I'm telling not Rory, not John Rahm. If he's playing
his best, you cannot beat him. He's the best iron player. The
only thing he's not the best atright now. And he made he drives

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the golf ball straight and long.He's the best iron player on the planet.
And if he's putting decent, hebeats you. If he's putting great,
you're playing for second place. SoI was just talking and with Scheffler
his second masters, I don't andhe's I think there's a hunger factor.
And he's not a good like yousaid he was. He said it last

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week. He walks into the bar. Nobody knows Scotty Schefer is unless you're
a golf fan, right. Andby the way, congratulations Tiger Woods to
grind out all those holes and thathad to be a win for him,
even though he doesn't new moral victoriesto be able to get through it.
He hasn't played. Last time heteed up, he couldn't get through it
because he was sick. I thinkit wasn't even his back or his legs
or anything. His legs. Socongratulates to Scotti Scheffer. I love watching

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great players dominate. He's so easyto like. He just wears you out.
He forces you to hit bad shots. It's just amazing. And you
could pick him every week and beton him every week, and by the
end of the year, you're goingto make a lot of money. I
mean, there was really no doubt. Like the entire tournament. Well,

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you know, you get to apoint where he goes and I watched the
entire tournament. He makes a doublebogie and misses a few putts and you're
like, and then he goes andgoes Bertie, Bertie Birdie. I mean
that that's who he is, andgot down. He was to two strokes
off the lead, and before youknow what, you blink and he's back
up a stroke. He just isphenomenal at his craft. He just I

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mean, you think about the bestin the world at what they do,
and there is it's not right now, there is no doubt who the best
player in the world is. Youmay want a doubt who the best hitter
in baseball is. Whatever, there'sno doubt Scotti Scheffer's dominating his sport as
well or better than anybody is intheirs right now. Yeah, I think
we always talk about other athletes likearguably the best hitter in baseball, arguably

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the best arguably the best quarterback infootball, arguably the best point and basketball.
There's no argument with Scotti Seffler.He is the best golfer in the
world right now, even when he'sputting average, which normally you say,
you know, drive for show Putford. If you can't put, you can't
win when the guy's putting average.And in this tournament he missed three or
four makeable putts to make Bogie orBertie. And I'm telling you at the

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beginning of this tournament today, atthe beginning of Sunday yesterday, his first
six, seven, eight holes,his his ball distance control was completely out
of sink, hit it short,hit it, hit a flyer thirty yards
over the green, chip it upthere, make park and the guy is
just it's it's it's impressive to watchwhether you bet on him, and I

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did a lot, and after Ipicked him with artheg up Thursday and he
he he he'll pay, he'll payit off and he's just he's special man,
and it was, it was.It's a blast to watch great people
go about their business humbly and hejust buries the field and it's close and

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instead of going bringing himself back tothe pack, he let those guys eliminate
themselves and he goes and wins andwins by four strokes. Was he could
have al he could have putted hisway down the fairway on the final hole
and still won it with a putteroff the tea box. So it's it's
impressive, and uh, I justlove watching dominant players do their thing.

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And it was really good. Andyou see listen rom and Koepka plus nine.
That's how this golf course was frigginbrutal and Scotty Scheffer, I think
I'll go shoot eleven under par sothere there's the gap and you know both
run Ram's last year's winner, andKepka has won five majors and he runs
by those guys, he only beatthem by twenty one strokes. So it's

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just impressive to watch. And Ilove people who dominate their sport and in
Scotti schell and do it in withclass and dignity. And had he of
his wife gone into labor before heteed off, yes, he would have
given that championship up and left.Now I'm sure standing at the eighteenth te
box with a private plane waiting forhim and he's got a four stroke lead,

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I'm sure she would have said,go make par and come home.
Go ahead around and save that golfball that he knocked into the hole.
Don't give it away. That's that'sfor your your newborn baby. So just
an impressive performance and I loved it. And getting back to these astros,
we saw runs, runs, runs, good pitching. Javier looks like he's
supposed to look, this is,this is, and they're raking. And

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now although there was time, youknow, Singleton left of the bass packed.
I mean, there's still some thingsthey got to get fixed. And
by no means are we putting themas a division champions after two straight wins.
But it's the gap between the two. The bads really bad and the
good is really good. It's allthe stuff in between. It goes back
to Scotti Scheffler. Are the Astrosright now capable of reeling off a bunch

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of pars six seven, eight gamesrow? That's what you gotta find out,
because we know they're capable of makingbirdies and eagles. They are high
flyers. The other side is they'realso capable of making double bogies when they
shouldn't. That's where this has gotto change. But two straight wins at
home also not to be taken lightly. It's tough to beat the Texas Rangers,
and they did just that. AndI don't know why. I do

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not have any idea why Nativaldi andanybody else why you throw balls and you
think you get one out of thestrike zone up. Why you lead off
a game and throw him fastballs up? I don't, I honestly I don't.
And of all, he's a smartguy in a hell of a pitcher.
And then it comes back second aboutthrowsing one right down that you know
what, what are you doing?I have no idea? You know what,

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you have a better chance of gettinghim out bouncing five straight pitches because
you've got to wave at two ofthem. Right. Well, if you're
gonna miss, you got to beat a control the ball, miss insight
on his hands, miss away,but you miss up, he's gonna chase
it and he'll tomahawk it for Imean if above his head. I don't
you know, like he's like he'sgot an act and he's beating down on

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a piece of wood. I donot understand. It's your ego and you
think your niz uts are hanging downto your ale. I'm gonna challenge a
guy. Have you not learned it? You can't challenge him most of the
time up and throw him one downAnd I don't get it. But good
on our side that he goes afterit and gets it with his aggressiveness.
Just and that set the tone forthe game, even though they came back

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and scored a few runs and thenit was downhill from there for them mating
the Rangers. I don't understand,Well, that's my best, vers is
guess what your best at as goodas his? And I you get somebody
will watch it on tape. Wantto come back, Brian and throw him
run right up a fastball to wherehe can go hammer it. I don't
get it, I really don't,but I'll take it if it's an Astro.

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Nathan Evalding knows that jose Al Tuovehits bombs against him. He has,
He's got seven career home runs againstUvaldi. After those two against him
the other day, is it,well, at this time, I'm gonna
win. Well, if you're gonnawin, bounce him, make you golf
on? Yes, what are youdoing throwing up? And it was about
three or four inches out of thestrike zone. He still went and got
it. I just I don't getit. But good on the Astros to

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take two at home and hopefully getthis streak rolling. Yeah, especially playing
at home. They won two athome real quick on the Master Sean only
eight guys under par in that finalfinal round. And good for Verne Lunquiz
signing off for the final time andretiring in a history career. Yeahs for
him. Boy, he sure earnedit. Yeah, well, he sure

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earned it. What a yes,sir, That is a Hall of Fame
career. And God bless him forhe's one of the nicest human beings.
And when he meet you, yousee him twenty years later. You know
what he'll do. He'll remember callyour first name. Wow, call you
by your name. He did thatto me, and I was actually shined.
I'm a nobody when it comes tosports. Meet him. Hey,

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all these years later you see him, Hey, Sean, how are you
doing? He just is a phenomenalhuman being. Good for him. What
a way to go out to Andyou could tell the broadcast crew holds him
in the highest regard. Yeah,signing off on the sixteenth, Verne Lundquist
doing it for so many years atthe Masters. All right, let's look
at these Houston Astros. They taketwo out of three from the Texas Rangers.

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Josel. Tuove had himself a weekend. Let's discuss an X on Sports
Talk seven ninety going non stop Seanwith former QB Sean Salisbury Scottie Scheffler winning
the Masters in that series, winover the weekend, and my goodness,

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you look back at uh Friday NightSean and at one point, what was
it like, twelve to two orten to two or something like that,
end up chipping away for a coupleof runs. They lose twelve to eight,
and you think, oh no,here we go JP France and that
loss only four innings, pitch eighthits, eight earned runs. Jose Al
Tuovey was zero for four that nightand how to out well, they lose

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that game, and then Saturday Sun, Look what happens when the other two,
when he goes Haywire in the othertwo. Dude's the catalyst for what
happens on this team. It ain'tBregman. It isn't. It isn't in
truth, it's I'm not saying that. Put it the guy you can at
least likely lose. A big lefthander went over the course of the season.
But I'll too bit to be atthe front of this lineup. When

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he's going, the team is farbetter. You can have a guy hitting
in the five hole, Yainer Diaz. Fine, boy, it looks good
and they still found ways to lose. When this guy's hitting from the get
go, the whole energy of theball club shifts. It's incredible. He
was on Saturday three for five withtwo doubles, two RBI and then on

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Sunday three hits in five at bats, two of those being home runs two
RBIs. He is hitting three eightytwo on the season with an on base
of four sixty two, slugging hisseven to twenty one, which is over
an eleven hundred ops. And Igo back to Nathan Uvaldi, what in
the hell are you doing? Stopthrowing this man fastballs? I mean,

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keep throwing him if that's what I'mall for it if since it's with the
asses, I just don't understand it. I really it makes no sense to
me if a quarterback can't handle.If a quarterback loves when you blitz him
and he completes seventy five percent ofhis passes, and you blitz him and
he leads the league and blitz completionpercentage and touchdown throws and not giving up

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sacks as a quarterback, make surethe balls are out on time, and
you play and blitz him and playa man. What should you not do
as a defensive coordinator? Don't blitzhim? I was gonna say, don't
you know, don't but in zonehe's you know, completes fifty one percent,
fifty two percent. Uh, itjust doesn't can't get through his progressions,
doesn't use his feet, and justit just doesn't work for him.

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Plays on all the time. Altuove, you bet you have a better
chance at throwing four hooks that bounceand getting him out let alone, and
you may not even still walking becausehe's so aggressive. Then busting him up
fastball. He's gonna get it oncein a while. You'll run it by
him. Sure, you'll get itby him. Yeah, But if you're
gonna throw fastball, why not throwfastball on his fists hard and up to

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see if he may still be ableto barrow that up. But I can
take that loss, but I don't. It's like last year. Anybody that
threw anything to Pana aside from asweeper hook outside the competitive strike zone,
a pitch you were getting him out. That was last year. It's to
me, it's the dumbest thing onthe planet. It's the dumbest thing on

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the planet. I don't know,man, you see what Escort has it
over the weekend. I'm talking aboutthat. It's not a gimmick or childlike.
This is just I'm the dumbest thingon the planet. What comes your
egos? We all have egos andpride. Guess what, there's a point
in time when you're ego and pridegets your ascid. It takes an l
and it happens way too often Idon't get it. What's the thought process?

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I don't know in any one.You throw him a fastball, he
puts it in the bleachers. Youknow who the left field right, And
then the very next at bat youthrow him another fastball. And that was
even in the strike zone. Here'syour Mike Maddox is a great pitching coach,
right, And Bochie has handled pitchersphenomenally as a former catcher his whole
career as a as a player andas a as a manager. When he

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come to the dugout after that,and listen native Valdi's pride. He's a
hell of a pitcher. He canramp it up. But when he comes
over there at what point time whenyou walk off the mound after the umpire
checks your hands, and you goin there and Boach and Mike and say,
listen man, And even going intoa game, don't you looking at
game plans as good as he?I don't care who it is, erall

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as Chapman when he was throwing abuck three, I don't care. You
may get him once in a while, but guess what, you get him
twice, and he gets you twice. Who won that battle the hitter?
Especially when they both leave the ballpark. I just don't understand where if you're
Bochie or Mike Maxshaw come up andsay, listen, Nate, you're a
hell of a pitcher. Don't throwhim fastballs up. Do not do it.

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And especially if the dumber one isthrowing somebody a first pitch like I'm
talking about al too, a firstpitch fastball inside whatever with his hitting zone
which is six inches up out ofthe strike zone or anywhere in the square
in the quadrant. Other than that, I have zero idea why you do

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that, other than I'm better thanhim. Well not so fast, my
friend. Yeah, you know what, Keep throwing him fastball is good,
good strategy. Keep throwing hose outtwo A fastballs. I'm a mom all
about it. Gosh, dang,I know, it just seems like the
dumbest thing ever. I mean,he was like everything he the baseball looks

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like a beach ball to him.These past two games, six hits in
ten at bats, I mean,come on, man, dude, his
hitting balls all over the place too. Yeah, it's just it's uh.
I you know, when you lookjust from a pure baseball standpoint, it's
just not a good strategy to continueto throw him fastballs two back to back
at bats. Just makes no sensewhatsoever, But hey, we'll take it,

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you know what I mean. Yeah, they won two out of three
against the Rangers, and two ofthem at home. And again the way
that Friday night went, and thenSaturday we turn it around. Now obviously
Sunday with a good win seth Martineza little shaky in the bullpen, hater
has to come in to close itout for the Astros. They beat him,

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what eight to five? Christian Xaviergot the win. Seven innings,
pitch, five hits, two earnedruns, five k's, two walks.
He's looked really good so far.This seeer Sean in shape. Yeah,
coming in dropping some weight. Obviously, we talked about that when spring training
concluded. But so far, whatwe've seen Christian Vaviner the best thing about

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this past outing. Yesterday he goeseighty nine pitches in seven innings. That's
the Christian Javier that we know,There's no doubt about it. He looks
He looked like the guy we've seenand been asking for from the postseason two
years ago. That's who it is. And Steve Sparks told us when the
seed started you're going to see theChristian Javier you expect, which is a

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good thing. Yeah, so youhe what's it called? Goes two and
oh on the season so far,Like I said, seven innings for Christian
Xavier and then Taylor Scott came inwith a clean inning after giving up two
hits. Seth Martinez, like Isaid, two thirds of an inning,
three hits, three earned runs,giving up a home run. Josh Hader

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has to come in and throw fourpitches to get one out. So Seth
Martinez pitched pretty well, pretty well, and then roughed up a little bit
yesterday, but they get these series. Well, let's talk a little more
about Christian Javier and the pitching staffover the weekend. Let's see how it's
going to be set up against theBraves tonight at Minute Made Park. We'll

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Salisbury Show. In two games,two of those being home runs, and
this is how it sounded on theAstros Radio network of Baldi hands over the
head and the wind up the twoat. Al Twove hammers it deep down
the left field line while the sucking. If it stays fair, it's god

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and it hits off the foul pole. A lead off home run for Jose
l two bay. What nothing,Astros. That's four jacks on the season.
Now for al Tuove on an Otwo pitch from Nathan Valdi, he
just spun on it. Here's athree O to Jose and he cranks this

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one left field. Is it too, say? Signor another jack for all
too by his fifth of the seasoncrowd favorite Jose al Tuo by two nothing
Astros ninety seven mile an hour fastballthat was more or less down the middle.

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Two by knows what to do withthose. That's Astros. Let's see
Robert Ford Steve Sparks right here onseven on your home four Astros baseball.
Yeah, one of those home runsa three to zero count, al two
A turns on it, hammers it. Steve Sparks with the nice call see
signor what if he was like,hey, al do they home run SA?

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He'd have to be from my hometown. Yeah, the mean street to
Vesco. Okay, if you're notfrom the mean streets Escal, you probably
can't go there. Well you canno, But if you do, yeah,
you can't. I don't think youcan't know Gotrasco or you can forget
about it, right exactly. I'mjust a basic white guy. Can't be
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is insane. Seven one three,two one two five seven eineys get out
to the phone line. Will startwith al al good morning, Good morning,

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guys, good morning day. Let'sget right after I went to the
game Friday night, h the firstfive inning, Sean was I saw the
casual list that we talked about onFriday. The second, the last four
innings, It's like we turned theswitch and we started score it runs.

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I saw that, you know,Okay, we lost time. We stayed
from the whole game because I knewabout black want to see fires Saturday.
I watched the game Saturday. Iwatched the game Sunday, and it was
like, Okay, we flip theswitch. These guys can scowl with meat.
But if we can just get ourpitching string, now, I'm gonna

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pay. These guys can get youthe play grant events on the weekend.
Uh, the moms on running today. But I'm concerned. I'm not
concerned with the Lanta company and I'mnot concerned that that are better than us.
But I have concerned with the pitchingwins. Gonna buy husband that is

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starting to grow, keep tonight andI believe this butter Brown tomorrow night and
give the friends on wins. Andthat's the right now, that's the weakness
and our pitching. So once weget the picture, so is pitching back.
And get this pitching string. NowI think we're get beer. Okay.

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I saw a lot of goods.We can exausts and plans they're gonna
be okay, just gotta get thesepitches, go to talk to you,
guys, hang up. This ofwhat you gotta say, no, thank
you out? Yeah, good stuff, man, And it was You're right.
But this is exactly this should beno surprise, right, Al and

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Brian h. This is who wethought coming in, and we felt you
were going to have to score alot of runs to start the season.
This looks like you think about itnow. How many they score on Saturday
again, double digits? Yeah?How many they score yesterday? They scored
eight yesterday. That's eighteen and threeof their other wins. How many runs
they score twenty eight, twenty eight, Yeah, five wins they've scored.

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Their averaging that's twenty eight and eighteenthirty eight. What's that? Forty six
runs in five games. They're averagingdamn near ten runs a game and five
of their wins. Yeah, theyput up a nine nine runs Okay,
so so nine and eight, soseventeen runs over the weekend, right,
So so just add another one.That's thirty seven runs, almost fifty runs
in five games. This is whowe know they are. What do we

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say the biggest Their biggest strength hasalways been it's gonna be the offense,
and it's not only the offense,but it is from one to nine,
the relentless and the exhaustion you puton a pitching staff. Listen, if
all he thrown pumping it up ninetyseven ninety eight miles an hour, it
didn't matter. And he's a hellof a pitcher. I just they that's

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who they are. How many brats? How many bats did Bregman get Saturday
and Sunday? He was on theline exactly and they still raking. So
if that bat gets heated up atsome point here, I mean you start
to look around, and I lookedlike Joe A Spot had tinkered with some
lineup stuff and got himself some runs. Remember who's in charge of the lineup,
Uh, Joe Spottim that's exactly right. So this looked like the team

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this we're not shocked. Maybe we'reshocked at the way it's gone early in
this season, but going into theseason, not only is it the strength
of the Astros, it's one ofthe biggest strengths in all of baseball is
their relentless, exhausting batting on opposingpitching staffs. And Texas Rangers got got
a load of that, and theRangers have been known to exhaust pitching staffs

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their damn selves. They got aload of what it's like in the rest
of baseball, and you're gonna haveto do that against this team too,
tonight, tonight, Tuesday, andWednesday afternoon. Because this is they've got
a similar lineup that if you don'tscore, they'll wear your ass out.
So this is this is this isa chance to test yourself early after you've
been kicked in the teeth a littlebit in back to back series to say,

(28:27):
okay, we went in. Rememberwe said if you could take four
to six, five or whatever.Six, Yeah, you'd start to feel
a little bit better. Hell,now go get five or six. You're
in position. But it won't beeasy. But big part of that is
defending themselves at home, which neededto happen in this series. That's the
old hidden gym that that people maybenationally aren't going to talk about, but
we know locally they needed these homewins. Yeah. I think it was

(28:49):
in the Saturday game. It wasin the seventh inning. Yeah, seventh
inning, bases loaded and you hadVictor Karantini come in and pinch hit for
Dubon hit a single to right fieldand kind of get that inning going,
because they put up a seventh spotin that seventh inning and that was a
big catalyst for them. Keratini,I just love his at bats and I

(29:14):
want more of Victor Carrottini agreed.I think that I think a lot of
us do. Couldn't agree more withyou. And every time he's in there,
it seems like good things happen.And also Joe Aspata going with his
instincts or analytics whatever it was topinch hit for Debon, which I normally
cringe a little bit because I think, don't pinch hit for this guy.
Yeah, I don't care what theanalytics day. And what's he do?

(29:34):
Gambles right the left, He goesin and gets a hit and gets it
going. So I don't even knowif it's a gamble. It was calculated
obviously, and it worked this time. And you know what happens if it
doesn't work, you know what everybodydoes. Everybody's pissed. That's why he's
the manager. And we said alonglike when Dusty was here, aj Hinch.
They make these decisions and even thoughit appears to be for some the

(29:55):
wrong one, but for many theright one. This one paid off for
him. And guess what Joe's itdidn't do when Victor Carrottini walked into the
batter's box, he can swing thebat for him. Kartini did what he's
supposed to do. Give yourself achance by putting the ball in play,
and it worked out. And itwas a it was the calculated whatever you
went into knowing this is the planin this game or this bat and it
worked for him. And that's whenyou say, okay, starting to get

(30:18):
it. That that that's why it'sa tough sport man. It's as pro
sports a and easy, especially hittingthe baseball and making those decisions. And
along the way, when you're theone calling the shots like Joe spot is,
you'll you'll start to feel And it'snot only players that feel momentum confidence
as they go along. It's it'sit's players that are making I mean coaches
that are making those decisions as well. Yeah, you know on Saturday,
John Singleton and josel two or JoseBray, you both had two hits and

(30:41):
it's like, okay, all right, let's get a little momentum. Boys,
let's get a little let's figure somethings happen to happen eventually, right,
and then yesterday Jose Bray who lookslost at the plate again, oh
for four. It's like, dude, I mean, I know, baseball's
tough and it's a you know,it's a it's a bitch, but damn,
it's like one day he looks like, Okay, we might turn a
corner here, and then yesterday it'slike, all right, yet another o

(31:06):
for just looks lost. Tough tostring them together, man, man,
dude, that's just baseball for you. And Victorquarantini yesterday got the start behind
the plate, had to hit twoRBIs, and Janier Diaz still stroking the
baseball, hitting over three hundred witha slugging of four seventy six. All
right, let's look at Christian Javier'souting big boy stuff from Christian Javier.

(31:26):
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wins seven one three, two onetwo five seven items. Get back out
to the phone lines to talk toTom. Tom. We appreciate you.
Hold man, what's going on thismorning? How you guys doing good to

(33:15):
hear your voices. Hey, Iwant to start I want to start right
off with the with the golf.Yesterday, man, I got up early
and I was treated to watch anamateur walk against an amateur champion himself and
obviously the god of golf, NeilShipley, take a bow. You did

(33:37):
your family, you did an amateurthe proudest moment. Could you imagine,
Sean, could you imagine how manytimes that young man, as a young
boy and a golfer, was watchinghis TV and watching Tiger Woods in his
life. And now he steps onthe hollow ground of Augusta with God next
to him, and he goes outthere and shoots at seventy three. That

(33:59):
guy. She was wearing a blueshirt the Golden bear on it. He
looks like Jack body wise. Hebombed it like Jack did. Neil Shipley,
like I said, take a bow, you must have pinched yourself a
million times. I don't know ifhe even had any idea where he was.
Sean's you know what I'm saying,Yeah, I'm watching it and I

(34:19):
have no idea what I'd be doingif I was out there. And then
Tom real quick. I was tellingBrian during the break that they Brandal Shambi
and those guys brad Faction. Beforethis tournam we're talking about how guys always
say, I can't wait to putnow Tiger at this stage, he's still
obviously not at his best, butwhat a warrior golf for you. I'm
not talking about a warrior at war, but in sports that term we use
to go out there and grind hisway through it, when really, what's

(34:40):
he got to prove anymore? Nothing? But they guys say, man,
I get to play at Tiger Woodstoday, and then you stand on the
first t box when he was athis best and it's like, uh about
three holes and he realizing and it'snot real fun to play at Tiger Woods
because he's so good that he wearsyou out with that steely stare and doesn't.
When he was at his best,he would. Intimidation was a huge
part of his game. So yeah, for this kid, I'm sure amateur,

(35:04):
this is the greatest. Now hegets the point where I want to
play better. But what a wayto end your sunday as an amateur is
the high amateur and which allows himto play next year? What a phenomenal
opportunity to play with Woods? Hell, who of us wouldn't pay to play
with Woods? Let alone get thatdraw right now, even at this stage
of his career. You are right, absolutely, he looks like a player.

(35:24):
I hope, I hope it wasn'tjust a one all. But the
guy looks like a player. Hisdemeanor alone to be on that course with
like I said, with God,you know, I tip my hat to
his parents. I tip my hatto the young man. I hope,
I hope he. I hope heshould come in this game because he looks
like a player. Yep, let'stalk astros now, man. I think

(35:47):
they righted the ship. The confidenceis there. Javier, great pitching performance,
Odell Tuve what can you say abouthim? He's our leader. They're
gonna be a k Obviously they gotsomething still to do, but it sure
was nice to see them take twoout of three, especially against Texas.

(36:09):
The division is not running away fromthem. I don't know. I guess
it's good to be an asco fantoday. I guess we've all stepped away
from the edge of the roof.I know I have but good watch this
weekend. I don't know what elseto say. Man, I'm gonna get
off and listen. Thanks to letme and it's always good to be with

(36:30):
you guys. Appreciate it, brother, Yeah, I mean they're head in
the right direction now. The bestway to put an exclamation point on it
with three good ones. Now,Tom's right, it looked better than we've
seen the entire year. And gettingback to Hovier, which you teased,
Brian. My favorite thing about Tom, thanks for the call, good insight,
good stuff is And by the way, that Ludwig Obert, dude,

(36:52):
he's twenty four. Keep an eyethat that guy is a frigging monster on
a golf course. He is goingto be if if he doesn't win a
major, I'll walk to Augusta atsome point in time. I don't know
if you're gonna win one there.That guy can play. But I digress
that with Christian Javier is the depthof where he went yesterday, That the

(37:13):
length of his start and I walka few, get some strikeouts, but
that's a work that that that's howyou throw a guy to the front end
of the rotation. And it lookedgood yesterday. It was a good watch.
Yeah, he was seven innings,five hits, two eurn runs,
five k's, two walks, yepon eighty nine pitches. Pretty efficient,
man. That's the that's the startthat you need from a guy like Christian

(37:37):
Javier, which we talked so muchabout leading into this season, and he
for me, he was the hewas the X factor for this team because
the what is for fromer and yetwe still have we still don't know when
Farmer is going to make us areturn. You know, didn't even get
an mri I. Why he's hetold he told the media yesterday he didn't

(38:00):
get an mri I. So youhad elbow and forearm tightness, but yet
you didn't get an mri I.Well, to me, that seems inexcusable.
Why would you not get an MRI. I I have no idea.
And if you're the team, whywould you not why would you allow it?
Yeah? Why would you allow himto not get an MRI? I
don't know if you can so,man, I got a couple of questions

(38:22):
on that one. Few things aboutthere's a few things about Fromber that are
confusing. Uh huh, A fewthings. That's one of them. Oh,
yes it is. If that's thecase, don't understand it. Oh
no, I'm good. I mean, it just seems like protocol. So
if we walk off and you geta concussion, you just will say you
don't need to look at my head. I'm good, excuse me. But

(38:43):
when it comes to is when anytimeit's anywhere hovering around the elbow, guess
what you're doing, you get anMRI. Yes, but I'm not.
I'm not a doctor. My myacronym isn't hippa. Okay, and I
don't and I'm not Fromber. Maybehe knows more than we do, so
we'll But has he started throwing yet? No? Okay, apparently he's gonna

(39:06):
play catch tomorrow. Good like toget him back fully healthy, that'd be
nice, can't wait. I justdon't understand why would you not get in
him A right? I don't know. Let's say that that's a good question
for Dana Brown on Wednesday. Yeah, we're Steve Sparks today at eight thirty.
Ye, we're gonna have Steve Sparksat eight thirty. Let's talk a
little more about that situation with thefarmer Valdez as we get into the seven

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(41:29):
we got some audio coming. Uh. I know Triple is cutting down
because he speaks through an interpreter.So we'll hear some responses his plan to
play catch tomorrow. See how hefeels. I don't know, Sean.
I know in some of that audioI saw a channeler Rome tweet out over
the weekend he is the beat beatwriter for the Astros or covering the Astros

(41:50):
for the Athletic. Uh that hedid not get an MRI. I that's
a little uh you know what,I'm gonna call it like it is.
That's sketchy to me. Uh,why would you not get an MRI.
I. Well, here, I'mgonna tell you if I'm an out,
if I'm if I'm a conspiracy theorist, how I feel about Yeah, I
love these let's go hmm. Ifyou don't get an MRI I and they

(42:15):
say you have to miss now thiswill be two starts in a row,
right, it'll be a second start. He's he's already missed the second start,
right, Yes, it's about ifnot it's today whatever, Well,
jave Aer pitched yesterday, right,and he's number two in the rotation,
so it should have been on Sunday, Saturday, that should have been his
next start, correct. So that'stwo misstarts so far? Am I am?
I right? Not one? It'stwo. He's he's missed because remember

(42:37):
the emergency spot starter that was uhthere was ah Henley wasn't that place of
Frombert was? And then yesterday shouldhave been start number two. Yeah,
because Javier has moved up in therotation and no Verlander there. Correct.
Right. So if I'm I'm aconspiracy theorist, I'm just don't mind me.
But if I was at out ofthis city and I start to quote,

(42:59):
okay, elbow soreness, the firstthing, if somebody says he's got
meniscus problems, you know what they'regonna do. You're gonna they're gonna go
get your MRI right without there isno argument if you if you land on
your shoulder and they can or youget a concussion, you land on your
shoulder, or they feel like youare your thumb and it was dislocated and

(43:19):
you're a quarterback. You know whatthey're gonna do. Take an MR to
make sure there's no ligament damage.All those things. The only thing that
I can think about, maybe there'stwo, is one that he's not hurt.
I have to question it. Ifyou got elbow stuff and you're not
hurt, I mean, and youdon't get an MRI I elbow not now,

(43:43):
if you'd have told me fatigue,I get it now a little shocking
to me that there'd be fatigued thisearly in the year, that that that
would concern me as well. Andif you don't get an m R I
and sayd this is listen, thisis a non base. But you come
up to me and say, hey, Sean, I had an elbow engine
injury and you're playing, I'd say, would the MRI say, is I
didn't get an MRI? Well,what you are talking me? You didn't

(44:04):
get MR. You're a pitcher,you're missing, you've already missed two started.
What are you talking about? SoI would question it. So I'm
just talking about conspiracy theorist. Andif you don't question everything. I got
a problem with that too, SoI would say, well, then he's
not hurt, he's tired. Well, if you're tired, then I got
a question. You better get tomen's t clinic. Yeah, there you
go, because if you're tired fourstarts into the season, I'm a little

(44:25):
concerned about that. So is thefatigue? Is he worn down? So
if you're not getting an MRI andit's your elbow. You you mentioned how
you're sketchy, that's major sketchy tome for whatever whatever it is. And
then you would advance to the nextlevel. Who do they play after this
series? They've got the Washington Nationals. Do you think he'll pitch in that

(44:45):
series? Yes? I do.So what do you think some you know,
those people will hold up signs afteryou've had been through a tough time
and to dig deep into you andwonder, you know what, if you're
not getting an MRI, I thinkyou're opening up a can of worms for
questions to say, elbow, no, MRI, hurt? Who's he missed
his two starts against? Uh,the Texas Rangers all the time. Yeah,

(45:08):
And I'm talking about conspiracy theorist nowand then you say, well,
I don't understand it. You're openingup a can of worms for me now
to question what is wrong if it'snot your elbow, Because if you're not
getting an MRI and they're not makingyou get an MRI and you're not getting
an MRI to find out what's wrong, then it tells me you don't have
any elbow issue. So now isit fatigue? Well, if you're fatigued

(45:30):
this time, and then how dowe get your energy back up and whatever
it is? That part I getwhy you wouldn't get an MRI, but
you'd probably go see a specialist.Wonder and why you're fatigued this early?
Is it armed fatigue? If youthrew too many pitches in spring training?
Why this early? So I havea yeah, yeah, it bothers me
a little bit. Why wouldn't Idon't have you ever heard of a guy

(45:52):
have an elbow problem soreness and notgetting an MRI. Just to make sure
to cut this is your ace starter, lead off, lead off, your
season as your starter for three straightseasons and he has elbow so horness and
we're not he's not getting an MRI. So do you understand why? Let's

(46:13):
say, ESPN goes on Baseball Tonightor whoever MLB network, you can't get
an MRI. It's too early inthe season to be tired. Aren't you
questioning? Why? Yes, Soyou're basically telling me his arm, his
arm is not hurt. Is thatthat? That's what you're telling me.
If a guy as a hamstring andhe runs first base and grabs it,

(46:35):
do you think they're not going toX ray or MR or MRI at at
some point? Yeah, you wouldthink so, right, I mean that
would make sense. Twist an ankleon a basketball court. Is Jalen Green
going to get an MRI? Makesure it's not torn ligaments? And especially
this year, all the arm injuriesin Major League Baseball, all the questions,
and you're still not getting an MRI. Basically, you've opened up a

(46:59):
Pandora's box for me a question ifyou're hurt. So, if you're not
hurt and you're not fatigued, whyaren't you pitching? Fair? Is it
a fair And if somebody on aroundthe national media that's not around this city,
isn't it a fair question to ask? Yeah? I had no idea,
tell you told me day he didn'tget an MRI. I'm busy watching

(47:19):
the math. Watching there guy,no idea. It makes me wonder why,
Well, he's just tired. Thenguess what tell us you're tired?
Don't don't scare the hell out ofeverybody and say your ace has got an
elbow soreness. Yeah, let mejust put it to you this way.
I ain't buying it. Yeah,okay, I'll just leave it at that.
Seven one three, two one twofive seven nine. Let's talk to

(47:40):
Brian. What's going on? Brian? Hey man, So I actually do
MRI for a living. It's whatI do, and that's something we deal
with on a daily basis. Iwould say it's like as common as one
in three is claustrophobia, Like peopledo not want to get in that machine.
And real quick, Brian, quick, I'm one of them. I

(48:01):
cannot If I have to go fullbody in, I start to hyperventilate.
And I'm not afraid of much upto my waist. I get it.
But isn't there a way that youwell, you go ahead and finish.
But I'm with them on the hyperventilationpart of it. I am, but
it's my prize possession I got,I gotta get a check, don't I
from from a baseball standpoint like,this is your job. Yeah, you

(48:22):
gotta overcome and you gotta get thisdone, especially to help your team take
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(49:08):
Very Show from er Valdez. Setto play catch tomorrow. Yeah, and
uh we got some audio coming.Uh. I know Tripley is cutting down
because he speaks through an interpreter,so we'll hear some responses his plan to
play catch tomorrow. See how hefeels. I don't know, Sean.

(49:30):
I know in some of that audio. I saw a channeler Rome tweet out
over the weekend. He is thebeat beat writer for the Astros or covering
the Astros for the Athletic that hedid not get an MRI. I that's
a little uh you know what,I'm gonna call it like it is.
That's sketchy to me. Uh,why would you not get an MRI.

(49:52):
I Well, here, I'm gonnatell you if I'm an out, if
I'm if I'm a conspiracy theorist,how I feel I love these Let's go
hmm. If you don't get anMRI and they say you have to miss
now, this will be two startsin a row, right, it'll be
a second start. He's he's alreadymissed the second start, right, Yes,

(50:13):
it's about if not it's today whatever, Well, Javier pitched yesterday,
right, and he's number two inthe rotation, so it should have been
on Sunday, Saturday, that shouldhave been his next start, correct,
So that's two misstarts so far?Am I am? I right? Not
one? It's two. He's he'smissed because remember the emergency spot starter that
was uh there was uh Henley wasn'tthat place of Rombert was? And then

(50:35):
yesterday should have been start number two. Yeah, just because Javier has moved
up in the rotation and no Verlanderthere. Correct? Right? So if
I'm find a conspiracy theorist, I'mjust and don't mind me. But if
I was at out of this cityand I start to quote, okay,
elbows soreness. The first thing.If somebody says he's got meniscous problems,
you know what they're gonna do.You're gonna they're gonna go get your MR

(50:58):
right without there is no argument.If you if you land on your shoulder
and they can, or you geta concussion, you land on your shoulder,
or they feel like you are yourthumb and it was dislocated and you're
a quarterback, you know what they'regoing to do. Take an MR to
make sure there's no ligament damage.All those things. The only thing that
I can think about, maybe there'stwo, is one that he's not hurt,

(51:24):
I have to question it. Ifyou got elbow stuff and you're not
hurt, I mean, and youdon't get an MRI elbow not now,
if you'd have told me fatigue,I get it now. A little shocking
to me that there'd be fatigued thisearly in the year that that would concern
me as well. And if youdon't get an m R, I and

(51:44):
sayd this is listen, this isa non base. But you come up
to me and say Hey, Sean, I had an elbow injury and you're
playing, I'd say, we wouldthe MR. I say, is I
didn't get an MRI? Well,what you talking me? Didn't get MR?
You're a pitcher, you're missing,You've already missed two started. What
are you talking about? So Iwould question, So I'm just talking about
conspiracy theorises. And if you don'tquestion everything, I got a problem with
that too. So I would say, well, then he's not hurt,

(52:07):
he's tired. Well, if you'retired, then I got a question.
You better get to men's t clinic. Yeah, there you go, Because
if you're tired four starts into theseason, I'm a little concerned about that.
So is the fatigue? Is heworn down? So if you're not
getting an MRI and it's your elbow, you you mentioned how you're sketchy,
that's major sketchy to me, forwhatever whatever it is, and then you

(52:29):
would advance to the next level.Who do they play after this series?
They've got the Washington Nationals. Doyou think he'll pitch in that series?
Yes? I do. So whatdo you think some you know, those
people will hold up signs after you'vehad been through a tough time and to
dig deep into you and wonder,you know what if you're not getting an
MRI. I think you're opening upa can of worms for questions to say,
elbow, no MRI, hurt?Who's he missed his two starts against

(52:57):
uh, the Texas Rangers all thetime. Yeah, and I'm talking about
conspiracy theorist now and then you sayI don't understand it. You're opening up
a can of worms for me nowto question what is wrong if it's not
your elbow, Because if you're notgetting an MRI and they're not making you
get an MRI and you're not gettingan MRI to find out what's wrong,
then it tells me you don't haveany elbow issue. So now is it

(53:19):
fatigue? Well, if you're fatiguedthis time, and then how do we
get your energy back up and whateverit is? That part I get why
you wouldn't get an MRI, butyou'd probably go see a specialist. Wonder
and why you're fatigued this early?Is it armed fatigue? If you threw
too many pitches in spring training?Why this early? So I have a
yeah, yeah, it bothers mea little bit. Why wouldn't. I

(53:40):
don't have you ever heard of aguy have an elbow problem soreness and not
getting an MRI just to make sureto cut this is your ace, starter,
lead off, lead off, yourseason, as your starter for three
straight seasons, and he has lbsand we're not he's not getting an MRI.

(54:01):
So do you understand why, Let'ssay ESPN goes on Baseball Tonight or
whoever MLB network, you can't getan MRI. It's too early in the
season to be tired. Aren't youquestioning why? Yes, so you're basically
telling me his arm, his armis not hurt. Is that that?
That's what you're telling me. Ifa guy as a hamstring and he runs

(54:23):
first base and grabs it, doyou think they're not going to X ray
or MR or MRI A at somepoint? Yeah, you would think so,
right, I mean that would makesense. Twist an ankle on a
basketball court. Is Jalen Green goingto get an MRI? Make sure it's
not torn ligaments? And especially thisyear, all the arm injuries in Major

(54:43):
League Baseball, all the questions,and you're still not getting an MRI.
Basically you've opened up a Pandora's boxfor me to question if you're hurt.
So, if you're not hurt andyou're not fatigued, why aren't you pitching?
Fair? Is it a fair Andif if somebody on around the national
media that's not around this city,isn't it a fair question to ask?

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Yeah? I had no idea,tell you told me day he didn't get
MRI. I'm busy watching the mathwatching there, gut no idea. It
makes me wonder why, Well,he's just tired. Then guess what tell
us you're tired? Don't don't scarethe hell out of everybody and say your
ace has got an elbow soreness.Yeah, let me just put it to
you this way. I ain't buyingit. Yeah, okay, I'll just

(55:28):
leave it at that. Seven onethree, two one two five seven nine.
Let's talk to Brian. What's goingon? Brian? Hey man?
So I actually do MRI for aliving. It's what I do, and
that's something we deal with on adaily basis. I would say it's like
as common as one and three isclaustrophobia, Like people do not want to
get in that machine and one ofthem, real quick, Brian, Brian,

(55:50):
real quick. I'm one of them. I cannot If I have to
go full body in, I startto hyperventilate, and I'm not afraid of
much up to my waist. Iget it, But isn't there a way
that you well, you go aheadand finish. But I'm with him on
the hyperventilation part of it, Iam, But it's my prize possession.
I got. I gotta get acheck, don't I From from a baseball

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standpoint, like, this is yourjob. Yeah, you got to overcome
and you gotta get this done,especially to help your team. Take an
anxiety pill right or whatever they giveyou. I know they get meds right
right elbow. Elbow is the mostuncomfortable that we do, though, So
a couple of those two things together, maybe there's your answer. And I
had a I had shoulder like alabrum, and that's an uncomfortable one too.

(56:34):
I'm a big guy, tall,and you know those yeah, are
those things that push you in youknow, you got to put your arms
in there because you can't move itand you're you're you're tucked into the tube
and it's got pressure against you andyou can't and you got to sit in
there for like an hour and yeah, yeah, it does. I get
that part if that's it, Butthen how do I find out if he's

(56:54):
got some damage? I gotta Imean, isn't that Isn't it a responsibility?
Do you? I mean, there'sgot to be something that said,
dude, go in there. We'llput you, ask to sleep if we
have to. But that's a wholedifferent Oh yeah, all right, I'll
hang great insight, Brian. Thankyou, Brian. I get that He's

(57:15):
right, dude. I'm I'm tellingyou, I've had multiple MRIs and they
the first thing I say to him, whether it's now when you say me
even with my knee and my ankle, I'm saying, well, I don't
need to go in that far offmy ankle. Hell, just to my
waist. It's my long legs.I'm in there doing my shoulder. I
I don't know why I'm not afraidof the elevators. I can saw scuba

(57:37):
die all that skydive. You stickme in one of those damn tubes and
it's not even the noise that's banged. Just staring straight into the tube.
And even though I'll look down andknow there's an opening on that end,
I got a button in my handand there's an opening behind me. I
feel like I can't breathe. Iget that. Then tell us your claustrophobic,
didn't want to do it. Butalso listen, if you're healthy the

(57:59):
anesthesia, you're not all the wayunder. It's what do they call it,
a uh uh? Just enough towear a little drip that makes you
fall asleep for a few minutes andyou wake back up and it felt like
it was you were asleep for fourteenhours that it was eight minutes or forty
minutes. In this case, Istill just get the dude a gummy but
I still or four or that.Yeah, I still there's got to be

(58:20):
a way, And I'm grateful Briancalled in because I do know that feeling.
If that's the case, and justtell us, but there's still injuries
and injuries, so you've got tofind a way to get him in that
tube. Either way, if you'rea picture your stud has elbow soreness,
fore arm soreness, you are gettingan MRI. And we're speculating, and
Brian makes a great point since hedoes them all the time. Then I

(58:42):
want to hear from that. Iwant to hear that I can't I'm claustrophobic.
I can't do it is and Iknow, I don't know. Has
he ever had another? Has heever an MRI in has passed? I
believe, so okay then then,but great point and great thought process.
But to me, it's odd elbowinjury or soreness, meaning I got to
find out if it's an end injury. It makes me, it makes me
uncomfortable in the two, but italso makes me uncomfortable to my Ace won't

(59:08):
get an MRI, So I don'tknow what the yeah, I don't.
It doesn't make sense, and especiallyit makes it easy to question, especially
with the rise in arm issues withpictures, especially in this year especially,
they're going going crazy over this.We talked about it at Nauseum last week
in the week prior because Spencer SchriderBoom done. He's done for the year.

(59:28):
He just had elbow surgery, notexactly Tommy John, but it's like
the internal brace surgery to avoid theTommy John surgery. Why would you not
get an MRI. It doesn't makesense to me. I don't think there's
an option. I don't think youshould have the option elbow soreness, and
yet you don't get it done andall of a sudden, Oh yeah,
my elbow feels better in like fivedays. So what happens to becomes But

(59:49):
what happens if he comes in andall of a sudden it blows it out?
Is he going to go get anMRI? Then? No, man,
no, of course he is.Yeah, but Brian, I'm glad
Brian brought that because some do.I am that guy that's like, I
don't like this, yeah, eventhough I can see it. Yeah,
you are a big guy in thattoo. Don't blow your shoulder out and
go get an MRI. If you'reclaustrophobic, can go in that too,
because you will trip the out.It sucks have that multiri. I think

(01:00:10):
with all the things we have,we could get a big old circular one
now that we could get or youcan stand up. You can stand up.
Oh man, we were that andit sounds like a damn I don't
even know what they have to explainit right in your ears, you got
the got stuff in your ear.You got sound No, it sounds like
a jackhammer, yeah, in yourear, sitting in their jackamer in your
ear. He is what they're movedin and out. Terrible dude, Yeah

(01:00:31):
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Sean Brown and Tripoley Astros hosting theBraves tonight seven, ten to the first
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home for Astros Baseball, Rockets andthe season. With a win over the
Clippers, they finish out this yearforty one and forty one, Scotta Scheffler
winning the Master's right for the steakout. Uh, Sean, did you see
what Nestor Cortes did over the weekend? Yeah? I was about to tell

(01:02:30):
him to take his April Fool's jokeand his gimmick elementary school minor League on
the mound. Stuff is really we'veadvanced to this is that boy he fooled
a lot of people. The onlything that was missing, but they're playing
the Guardians, right, correct,was that pitch that he threw or that
that fake okie doke did somebody didn'thit it five hundred feet that's the only

(01:02:52):
thing into the seats upper tank him. I mean, nest Cortez is a
good pitcher, but are we reallygetting to the point that what was he
doing putting a TikTok video out?So he does these little yeah, so
he does these little antics right inthe game against the Guardians. It was
in the bottom of the second inning, two outs on an O two count.

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He's in his wind up. Hestarts his wind up, he stops
his wind up with his foot upand then drags it slowly towards the ground,
does not touch the ground. Pumpfakes, but it wasn't even a
full pump. It was like ashort arm like like short arm alligator arm
pump fake. And then like thepicture, like the hitter was gonna over

(01:03:35):
and over, extend and get outof the batter's box, come on now,
and then throws a hanging slider andit's fouled off and then like this
this is what gets me MLB.The official MLB Twitter account posts the video
and says new Nestor Cortes move unlocked, and then a couple minutes later Nestor
Cortez is just having fun out there. You know what Nestor Cortez needs to

(01:03:58):
do or what MLB needs to lockthat back up. Okay, put that
thing away and get rid of it. Now. Listen when somebody, you
know what somebody inevitably would say ifyou posted something on Twitter or on here,
say well, what's the difference?And then then then you know a
Johnny Quato quick pitch, big difference. You know, we've seen people.
We saw at times when when Garcia, you know how he do the before

(01:04:20):
they put the he rocked the babytwo or three times or two times,
and sometimes he just rock it onceand quick pitchy, which is gamesmanship.
That's good. This when you seeit, you're like, you're not fooling
anybody, dude, just stop it. It was I don't know, it's
bush League too harsh, No,it's not. It's not too hard.
Or you got a fourteen year oldkid that does that on the mound,

(01:04:42):
he comes to the dugout after hedoes it, or you're going out after
that pitch, calling time out tothe umpire, walk on saying, we're
not doing that here. Correct.I wouldn't. I wouldn't call time.
I would yell at him from thedugout, and then I would yank his
ass. He's not doing that good, we're not doing that. I would
too, And it come to thedugout if it was, if it all
of a sudden got to pop afterhe did it, and the ball was
popped up, and it was thethird out of anything. When he walks

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back out there, gets to thedug out, say that'll be the first.
Then that'll be the first and thelast time you do that on this
team. It wasn't fooling anybody.It was had nothing to do with it.
Yes, you look like an amateur, Okay, even an amateur that
That's why I asked. You wouldn'teven let an amateur do that. No,
it's just dumb. It's just dumb. No. Yeah, I saw

(01:05:25):
it, and I thought it wasweak. Looks like a little leaguer.
And I would have said it ifit was somebody on this staff doing it
as well. We had nothing todo with The Yankees could care less.
Has everything to do with the factthat it would have been somebody on this
staff doing it. I said,that's that's weak. Just just just pitch,
get somebody out, just stop it. Who told him during in the
in the in the uh bullpen said, Hey, that's a dude. I

(01:05:49):
think that's a great idea. Trythat one fool anybody with his pumpfy you
call it a bug. I meanthat was the worst thing I've ever set.
That was so bad. That wasso bad. What are we doing?
Like zero idea? What he's doingand you didn't fool anybody? He

(01:06:10):
pump face? What did he expectthe hitter to do? Like, oh,
I give that man, Yeah,I give that remark. I give
that move more respect if he hadthrown it underhand, like slow pitch softball.
It's like a slow pitch softball pitcher, just stupid. It was a
pump fake. Yeah, come on, he's better than that. Is it
that big a deal? No,But if he keeps doing it, then
it becomes something that we can mocklike crazy, we already. Should somebody

(01:06:32):
give me a create a gift forthat stupid pitch? I mean, I
no, man, I just youlook, this is we're talking about major
league base Well, this is inthe big leagues. He's doing this.
Yeah, like I said you wouldn'tallow it in coach pitch. Okay,
just stop. It's can you imaginea coach pitch up there, pitch,
you know, doing it and coachpitching and him doing it to a hitter.

(01:06:56):
That's about how bush league it wouldlook, you know. It's It's
even funnier, man, is thatthese ants are on a team that is
so like traditional that you can't evenhave a beard, and their road uniforms
haven't been out. Your hair hasto be cut. Yeah, but man,
you can George Steinbrenner come back andsay somehow, some way and say,

(01:07:16):
you know, raise up from thefrom the dead, right, And
he's he's George Steimer is not alive. Right, I passed away years ago,
right, I just making sure thatI didn't bury somebody before I say
it. I'm thinking George Steiner.I know he's not that, you know,
turned over to his kid and stuff. But yeah, it's been a
long time, you know how Iam with picking dates when somebody's passed away.
Oh just recently, it was thirtyyears ago. Yeah, can he

(01:07:41):
come Can he come back from sixfeet under? And and and whisper to
to the nestra Cortes. We're notdoing that any Yankee uniform, let alone
any other uniform police might be oneof the stupidest things I think I've ever
seen it. May it was froma pro picture, Yes, yeah,
think about that. You just saidpro picture, professional and that's what we're
doing, and that was anything.But yeah, it doesn't even execute the

(01:08:02):
pitch. Yeap, leaves it upon an O two camps have fun out
there. Yeah, okay, atthe expense of stupidity, Go ahead,
stupid bad. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't think i'd see that something
that dumb over the weekend and weyou know, well there you go on
seeing it all in baseball now almostyep, seeing it all. I mean

(01:08:25):
it just goes right in the handin hand with the you know, the
pizza box bases too. Wait,wait, do you see him in there?
The they're the size of a manhole coming up down the pike.
That that's gonna come and we're gonnamake him circular. That'll be a good
one, won't it. Yeah,And you didn't see the video Toss showed
you right which one the next ofCortez this morning, first time I saw
it in all the years you've beendoing this. You've seen something like that

(01:08:46):
before. I've seen quick pitch.I've seen the guy come in and throw
the old Bill Lee spade where theyou know, the what do you call
that pitch to forty mile an hourwith the rainbow pitch. Yeah, yeah,
seeing that, But those are toughto hit because guys looking for law
jaggle like soft. We'll try toor with a guy an I wouldn't.
You wouldn't put it this way.You wouldn't even see that from a everyday

(01:09:10):
player coming into pitching this eighteen tonothing one ball game where you got to
you don't want to wear out yourpitching staff. You wouldn't even see what
Nestra Cortez did with one of thoseguys. Yeah, so I know in
youth baseball, like in a selectworld, I've seen box called on these
kids because they if your your motion, if your motion doesn't seem the same
every time, if you do ittwo times in a row, you can't

(01:09:33):
do it. It's a balk.I'm okay with that. So if you
can do the hesitation once, butif you do it a second time in
a row, it's a balk becauseit's it's deception. Towards the hitter,
and it has to have the samemechanics each time. Yet you look at
what Nestra Cortez is doing and youknow obviously it's not a balk or or
I mean, there's nobody on.But I think you can call it a
ball. But the foot doesn't tapthe mound because he keeps it right above

(01:09:58):
the dirt in his stupid will windup. It may not be a bark,
but it was a croc. Sohe want some crocks. No,
not those crocs, just a crockof crack. Such a croc hater,
dude. No, I love themfor a medical doctor or somebody's on their
feet all day, or a sixyear old. Croc makes slides? Now,
great, he's got me a pair? To get a pair? Yeah,
they're called recovery slides. Oh,I like it. Good? You

(01:10:19):
want to get your pair? No, I'm good. Why not, dude?
They look like regular slides, though, because I got into recovery,
I got a national endorsement with him. I get him for free. You
do have them? No, Ireally don't sounded good though. Or a
size thirteen if you want to alittle too about you're about two sizes is
too short. Well, I'm alsolike three inches shorter than you, so
well i'd be looking a little Imean, I mean your feet. Yeah,

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but it was counting exactly seven threetwo two five seven ninety of the
number to join. Let's get tobreak. Let's talk a little more about
fromber Valdez. He spoke about hisprogression and how his elbow is feeling.
That's next on Supports Talk seven ninety. This is the Sean Salisbury Show,
sales Crey, that's utiful two onetwo five seven nine. We're gonna talk

(01:11:05):
from er Valdez uh and the updateon his health. Before we do that,
let's talk to Jason. Jason,good morning, Welcome in, Good
morning guys, love listening to you, longtime listener, first time caller,
love it man, Well, welcomein. We appreciate you listening and finally
calling in. Yeah. I justI was listening to the Nesser Cortes stuff

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and I was like, man,I got a call. I was watching
the Masters yesterday, watching Scottie andMax do their thing, and then watching
the Stros do their thing, andI pull up to Twitter and I see
Nesser doing the pump fake like he'splaying a whiffle ball. Game in his
backyard. And that's what I'm thinkingto myself, Man, is this the
pros or is he playing in hisbackyard at home? So I was just
like, come on, this guy. I mean, yes, he's a

(01:11:50):
good pitcher, but come on,this is so bush League. And I
swear if if George Steinbrenner was stillalive, he'd have George castand to go
down there. And I love it, old George a little Seinfeld reference.
I like it. There you go, yes, sir, I'm with you.

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Listen. Is it that big adeal in the big in the scheme
of pitching life? No, butit was bush League? And come on,
are we really doing this? Andand then you'll get to people say,
oh, you're just having fun.Don't be a don't be an old
head, or don't be a boomer. Just stop. If you're eight and
you thought that was cool, thenthen then then parents know me to tell

(01:12:30):
their eight year old we don't dothat on the pitching mount even at eight.
Okay, nothing's funny about it.Brian. I yell at his ass
from the dug out and say,don't do that again. And here's a
big Lebowski reference. I dig yourstyle, man, just like steroids don't
help you catch it Garcia. Yeah, referre I appreciates, appreciate you listening

(01:12:54):
years. Yeah, couple movie referencesor movie and show reference from Jason.
I like it. Yeah, thedole scarca dough for a ball on right
field didn't make it. You know, it's because the steroids keep his bicep
from extending. You know what Imean. You know the muscles are too
much in the way for the neededabout another quarter of an inch to make
the catch. Because he was righton. We could all use another quarter

(01:13:14):
in sean, was there a mirrorin front of you cutting off an inch
for anybody in my height? Youknow what, I'm exactly right. You're
talking about hand size. Yeah,you know at the combine they measure my
hands, and like I was talkingabout six five, I don't want to
be six four and five eighths.You know, I would love to be
like and just give me like aninch or two, you know, get

(01:13:38):
me up. Yeah, yeah Ido. That's what you're talking about,
right, exactly. I got youcovered. I'm with you, right,
Yeah. I feel you're picking upwhat I'm putting down. Yeah, I
usually do. Yeah, I usuallypick it up what you're putting down or
what Yeah, I pick up whatyou're putting now, got you. I
don't know where you're going with that. I got you, Okay. I'm
just a simple cave man dude talkingtalking about I'm here for the comments,

(01:14:02):
phone lines, a little quiet thismorning. Here. I got a question.
Here's an interesting question. It's notreally that Okay. I know the
answer to this. So you say, well, if you know the answer,
why ask it? Right? Maybeeverybody doesn't. Have you noticed in
sports, whether it's here and we'renot immune to it here? Correct or
anywhere else? From New York toBoston, to La to San Francisco to

(01:14:25):
the middle of the country in Minnesota, in any sport, have you noticed
that when you win? Okay,I'll ask you this, are more fans
triggered and angry when they lose orgiddy and happy when you win? Where
would you think that the majority offans in this country lie when they got

(01:14:46):
a comment to make or when they'retalking. I feel like it is my
opinion, people relish in the negativitywhen their home team loses. I'm going
to tell you another thing. Thisisn't a blank and statement on everybody.
It's not just your opinion as minetoo. I don't think it's close.
I don't either. I think don'tgo on Twitter, go on social media.

(01:15:08):
Call when you win, it almostfeels like, eh, not today
son, regular season wins. Rightwhen you lose, the whole world's changing.
Uh huh? Do you see youfeel me? Am? I am?
I right? Yes, But italmost goes into the athlete thing.
So well, I'm saying, you'retalking about it. I know in my
life I sure has held didn't relishand share and cell and you should.

(01:15:33):
I did not cherish enough. Mostathletes I know don't. Now some do,
and I think you get the mostout of and save it. I'll
tell you. Have you ever watchedNick Saban walk off the field after championship.
He's walking off and hugging all that, and on his way to the
locker room, you're looking to say, this dude's already miserable. Think about
how he's gonna win the next one, right, which which drives him to
be the best coach we've ever seenin college football. Maybe ever, So

(01:15:55):
it just when I when I seethat, I'm like, well, I
know that, I'm I'm miffed.By it. But I also know for
me, good word, I'm miffed. Good yeah, But I know for
me that the wins were like okay, great, and you immediately are focused
on I gotta do this again nextweek. The loss is like, oh,
you're missing your your the questions youryour whether you're down or you start

(01:16:19):
to look even if you had agood game and you lost, you're like,
I don't care about that. Orwhen you win and have a good
game, and let's say you're twentyeight to thirty five, you know what
you do? You look at theseven incompletions like what should I can remember
a game and I don't mean it'snot a pad on the back through for
like five fifty it was like almostsix hundred yards and had like six I

(01:16:42):
think I told you this, likewe have through six touchdown passes our great
Cup year. Dude, I hada chance. There were three guys opening
an in zone and other times Imissed him like what corner route out of
the en zone? Caught it tojuggle, but one couldn't get his foot
and down because I overthrew him.Or a guy's there and you're throwing sidearm
and miss some bad mechanics. Icould have thrown for eight hundred and it
was like five ninety five and sixtouchdowns. It's like I walk that game.

(01:17:05):
Yeah, great celebration by you getthe player of the week and you're
like, I screwed up. Youshould have had a touchdown. My bad.
You should have had a touchdown.You should and I'm sorry. You
want to apologize your players like therewas two hundred and fifty yards and three
more touchdowns on the table, likeyou're playing Arina League stuff, right,
And it's the same thing here.I think that people and I think it's

(01:17:27):
I don't know, maybe it's normal. It shouldn't be, but I think
we're all and that's why I asked. I think more people are beat down
by the losses than they are giddyand happy by the whims. I think
so at least out loud, youknow, the toilet out loud. I
think you keep the wins in more. And I think unless it's the championship
at the end, but at atime during the season, I think more

(01:17:49):
people are beat down by the losses, athletes and fans especially then the hey
man, we want a game.This is exciting, and like I said,
we should we should love them more. Why is because and maybe you
do at the end of your crew, but his fans are at the end
of the season. But the reasonwhy is you're like, we're supposed to

(01:18:10):
do that, I guess, butit's it's it's amazing how it can beat
you down, like the Rockets fortyone and forty one think about the improvement,
Yeah, big time. But youknow what, they're gonna go to
the offseason disappointed they're not in theplayoffs. Yeah, because they had a
chance to get into plane right,so right, and it was a hell
of it. They played five hundredbasketball this year, which we haven't seen
here for some time. But inbasically, the Astros go beat a good

(01:18:32):
team World Series champions two times row, and you almost get to feel like,
Okay, that's who we're supposed tobe. We don't cherish wins enough.
Nope, and we're all guilty ofit. And but man, we
can't wait to wake up the nextmorning and we got beat what human nature?
But it sucks. Part of it'sthe sucky part of human nature.
You know. Let's get to Benreal quick before we get a break.

(01:18:55):
Ben, welcome in, Hey,guys, well a couple of couple of
little things real quick. One onewith the Astros, right, I think
everybody's cautiously apprehensive, I guess,or you know, just treadning with caution,
right, I guess Dana Brown orwhatever the decision making going in the
Astros. It feels a lot likethe Texans when there's easter to be and
then yeah, Bill O'Brien, andthen you who the hell's making decisions over

(01:19:16):
there right now? Because I hadcareer innings in twenty three, France had
career innings, career innings pitch intwenty three. Hunter Brown died as well.
They all showed exhaustion. Burn Landerstarted on the al at forty What
do you think is gonna happen atforty one? And then fer like Framber's
him not wanting to go get anMRI or whatever. That the whole thing
is right now like gonna have toprobably rebuild a rotation next year or or

(01:19:45):
piece mill it together. The restof this year is one thing. On
the next of course, thats thinglike that bush leak stuff like I'll go
back to Friday night when Kyle Tuckerhit that other the second home run,
Like great for you, you canhit that second home run, but at
the pitcher and and and and throwingyour bat and all the other crap like
that stuff goes unchecked now in baseball, Like I don't know, like you

(01:20:09):
know, I'm you know, eighties, nineties and and and played in college
in the early two thousands, andlike if you if you were getting your
ass kicked and somebody somebody hit abomb off. You're pitching on the mountain,
somebody hit a bomb off you likethat, and and you're blowing them
away. You're just trying to getpitches over and gets outs right like the
next guy is getting hammered like nomatter what, or just even sliding in

(01:20:30):
the second playing hard. The gamehas gotten kind of soft. And and
like Brian, I know you talkabout the travel they I see we've played
teams that like must work ten hoursa week on pickoff moves like kids like
coming over, like doing the insidemove and then spinning back the other way,
and like, oh it's legal.I never went back towards home base.
I mean, it's just home plate. It's just there's all kinds of

(01:20:50):
crazy stuff like that. The bushleague stuff has to stop at all different
levels. But thanks guys. Iappreciate it. Ben, great play.
You know, what I think we'vedone at all levels of sports made it
too easy for to be disrespected.It is. I agree because if you
if you if your hand, oh, he's just having fun. If you
can't deal with it, you know, being stared down, then don't let

(01:21:13):
him get the home run up.That that's how we feel. I mean,
that's what we've got to Now.I'm not going to be an old
head, because you know I lovenew school changes. In the rest of
it, there's certain things I don'tcare if it was nineteen twenty or twenty
eighty, Yeah, should should staythe course. I know one thing and
been mentioned. You know his namehe's referring to without saying the name.
I'm not sure who he's referring to. But what I think of, Yeah,
well you want to stare down.I don't care if he has fifteen

(01:21:35):
strikeouts. Bob Gibson and I thinkit was sixty sixty eight, won the
cy Young and the MVP. I'mpretty sure it was that year, and
then he opened up the first gameof the World Series seventeen strikeouts. Now,
if you would have stared him downand he had sixteen strikeouts after if
you homer off him, you knowwhat would have happened, Not the home

(01:21:55):
run, the disrespect around the basis. Well that was then, this is
now? Why does that have tochange? I mean I like it.
Who doesn't like? Yeah, whodoesn't like a good bat flip and all
that stuff? But the bat flipand then eyeball and eyeball and eyeball.
You a round first, year,round second. There comes a point,
Yeah, I should have thrown apitch to get you out, but you
got me this time. Then,and you keep doing it, and you're

(01:22:16):
you're still staring and talking the entiretime around the basis. I'm not saying
here anywhere. There comes a pointin time when I don't know about you.
I am fighting back. Yeah,I'm okay with pimp jobs. Oh
yeah, I'm also okay with picturesthrowing up and into the very next heater.
You pimp job me. Don't youdesert? Aren't you putting your next
check out? Somebody sure doesn't meanhurt him, but check him, check

(01:22:36):
out and check We've lost that atevery level of sports. Yeah, you
get dunk on and the guy standsover you and taunts you. It taunts
you, well, you shouldn't havelet him unk on. Well, the
guy can jump forty inches and hedunked on me, and I was in
the wrong position, too far underthe basket. He dunkek me. Great.
Yeah, and you know what,I'll give you your respect. You
posterize me, But then to standover me with the basically in a t

(01:22:58):
bag position, disres and right atsome point in time, the next time
you come down and I'm in thatposition, you're you're, you're, you're,
You're gonna get fouled hard, You'regonna get last. I'm gonna Detroit
pist in your ass from the BigBill Lamebier Thomas Joe Dumar's days. Yeah,
Rick Mahorn, you're not gonna likeit. That that that's that's how
you go about those things. Butyeah, I think we've gotten now.

(01:23:21):
People say it's soft, and Ido think we've But society is the same
way. Yeah, we softened.You could call that old, young,
or somewhere in between. Society isthe same way we've allowed disrespect. The
truest statement in the history of mankindis Mike Tyson's quote. It's you know,
everybody, what's what do you sayabout something you get hit in the
mouth. Yeah, right right.Everybody's whatever, everybody's something until you get

(01:23:45):
punched in the face and and thateverybody, you know, whatever it was,
and that plan gets like we said, you know, we talked about
that motivation. Everybody's motivated until thatguy comes in and uh and the first
tackle puts his puts your spine throughyour belly on a legal tackle, and
you're like, we're in for afour quarters of misery in this one.

(01:24:06):
It's on. Let's go full fullblown heavyweight fight. Seven five, seven
ninety Charlie Scott. We'll get toyou guys next as'll get back from the
break. I want to talk aboutthat Kyle Tucker bat flip late in that
game on Friday night for the HoustonAstros. Let's talk about a next on
SPORTSLOK seven to eighty. The ShawnSalisbury Show continues. No, no,

(01:24:29):
now, you know, let's startan order of longest. Wait, let's
start with uh. Let's go toh Louisiana. Talk to Charlie. Charlie,
good morning, good morning. Howare you guys today? We're fantastic,
brother, how are you this morning? All right? Three? Three
things I want to touch on.I think it was a game last week
of the week before we went toextra innings and we lost. Uh.

(01:24:54):
I'm not a fan of this,putting the automatic runner on second base in
every inning. I think it's it'sit's ridiculous. It's little league, Charlie,
it's little league bush league bs thebiggest gimmick in baseball right now,
right, I would just assume whenthe game is tied after nine innings,
just to a coin toss, whoeverhas, whoever calls whatever, lands on

(01:25:16):
the ground and the game to beover. I think it's ridiculous. Secondly,
I listened to the game Friday nightthat Bagwell was the color analyst,
and in my opinion, it seemedlike all he was doing was making excuses
Cya for the poor decisions in theoff season. I understand that we had

(01:25:38):
a bad we're off to a badstar, but he seemed to be constantly
making up excuses. Charlie, youknow what he sounded like, Charlie,
you know what he sounded like.He sounded like a politician trying to convince
you to vote for him. Itwas a horrible listen, and not a
good one. No, not agood one like just spewing out bs is
what I felt like, right,And I was really disappointed because when he's

(01:26:00):
on there, I feel like asa fan, I learned something from listening
to Bagwell, I didn't learn adarn thing the other night, just that
he really lowered himself with his comments. And thirdly, I want to comment
on Montero when he pitches, Sean, anybody that has played sports, it's

(01:26:20):
all about your mechanics and repetition.Amen, will you watch when you watch
Montero on the mound, when hegoes into his wind up in his release,
if his shoulders are parallel with therubber and home plate, he's effective.
He can throw strikes, but hehas a tendency like a golfer or

(01:26:41):
a football player. He opens hisleft shoulder. When he opens his left
shoulder in that wind up and release, he throws the ball off the plate
six inches to a foot. Andit affects your balance too. It affects
your balance because you're you're actually fallingaway from the plate to instead of towards
the place exactly. So, So, Sean, where's our coaches? I
mean I've noticed this two or threeyears ago with him. I'm just a

(01:27:04):
regular baseball fan. Nobody notices this. Why can't they correct him? The
hell of a point, Charlie.Because I'm a guy with quarterbacks. You
don't want to over coach them,but you do evaluate everything they do if
you're trying to make them better.I'm with you, Charlie. Thanks for
the call. Great points. Ididn't watch Bagwell's performance. I've heard him
before on the TV broadcast. Thenumber one thing I'm looking for when I

(01:27:28):
get a veteran who's played it's Hallof Famer. I'm looking for less is
more on a talk when you're talkingon those things, because you know,
you know you're getting teed up.But you know what I'm looking for.
Number one is teach me. Yeah, I I personally, everybody's going to
have their opinion. There's nothing Bagwellcan say it's going to make people change
their mind about Montero and a bray. You other than Montero and a bray

(01:27:50):
You playing baseball to earn their money, period, to earn that they consistently,
not once in a while, consistently. But what I I need from
Bagwell is on two oh, whatis it? What is a how would
you pitch out tuve I any,but not just Bagwell, if Warren Moon's
doing a football game, whenever I'maround Warren Moon, I learned something I'm

(01:28:12):
talking about on a broadcast. IfI'm there, I want you to be
able to take the fan who doesn'tknow anything that's watching, and be able
to talk, not talk under theexpert that may be watching. And there's
a lot of coaches and former players, and not talk over the the amateur.
Teach me when Tom Brady comes indoes Fox this year? I don't
need all the aid, I don'tneed all Teach me. Teach me something.

(01:28:38):
And if you do that without rantand raven, then you'll come across
honest transparency. Teach me, andwhen you do that, you'll always win
in the broadcast booth. Teach mesomething, tell me something I don't know.
Yea, it was a tough lesson, man, I'm talking. But
for everybody tell us all something wedon't know, it was a tough lesson.
I'll be honest with you. Ifthat was the case, I'm I'm

(01:29:00):
probably I know. I know otherways to hear a game. If it's
going about what the way you saidit sounded, that's why you should tune
into Sports Talk seven ninety. RobertFord and Steve Sparks do a great job,
and Blummer and Callous do a greatjob. They dook out there than
Blum. That's what their professionals.And when you get an opportunity to step
in and do that, just teachus. That's all I'm asking seven one
three, two one two five sevenninety Carol Scott, Robert will get to

(01:29:23):
you at the top of the eighto'clock hour. We've got Steve Sparks coming
on to the show at eight thirtythis morning, so you're not gonna want
to miss that. As we getinto the eight o'clock hour, let's talk
about these pitching injuries in baseball.I got some statistics that are pretty alarming
when it comes to these big timearm injuries. That's next on Sports Talk
seven eighty kd E Houston, KTDCHD two Houston, Why hard Radio station.

(01:29:44):
How about the masks. That's theRocket. Sports Talk seven ninety,
your home for your home teams,driven by that classic Elite to you at
GMC Studios, for the elite carbuying the experience. Salisbury, old Bery,

(01:30:04):
Salsbury, Houston. Okay, let'sdo this Sean Salisbury to usc true
longtime friend Shawn Salisbury, Bryan lonLima, go Lobos. This is the
Sean Salsbury Show. Best golfer inthe world, no question about it.

(01:30:25):
Talking about these Astros. Jose AlTuove had a phenomenal weekend. Six hits,
two doubles, two bombs, fourRBIs on Saturday and Sunday. Christian
Javier pitched well yesterday afternoon, seveninnings, just two runs on five hits.
He walked to as well again.They host the Braves tonight. Spencer
Arraghetti getting another shot uh for theAstros his second big league start against the

(01:30:50):
Braves tonight, Minim Park. Let'stalk to Scott seven one three seven.
I want to talk about Hoseel twoA. Scott. Welcome in, Yes,
sir, how you doing guys?We're good man. What's on your
mind this morning? All right?Well, the third third generation Astros fan,
a long time listener here. SoI just wanted to say, and

(01:31:11):
there's a lot of you know,a lot of reasons to love jose Al
today, but probably the number onething is the fact that he has a
performance like he's had this yesterday andthis weekend, and our week, and
he just he just puts his headdown and runs the bases. Doesn't do
any crazy cartwheels or you know,batlicking batflip speed, just runs the bases,
and that that's something that's old Astrofans really appreciate. It doesn't matter

(01:31:34):
if he's home or away, it'sthe same thing. So I just wanted
to highlight that we appreciate it.Yeah, thank you, you got a
lot. He's the teas not onlythe table setter. I think he's the
energy setter for the team, youknow, and it maybe goes hand in
hand with lead Off because I thinkSpringer was the same way. But how
can you not love the way Altovplays it? Almost he plays so hard

(01:31:56):
and so well you almost kind ofokay, man, you don't run the
bases very well, at least youdo it hundred and ninety miles an hour.
But when he is stepping up tothe plate aggressive, which is ninety
eight percent of the time and attacking, the energy is different in the building.
On the team, he may notbe, you know, the guy
you could least to live without,meaning that's probably yourd on, but I

(01:32:17):
can tell you that the guy whohas to get things going throughout. He
is the best energy on this team. Yeah, there's no question about it.
It's not even close. He'll havea statue built for him when it's
all said and done. I've alwayswondered why he can't build a statue for
guys that are still playing currently.Yeah, why can't not? He deserves
it. Why can't you? He'sgoing to have one regardless. Do you
see the statue for Allen Iverson?What are we doing? It was tiny,

(01:32:43):
tiny that belongs in a trophy case. And then a real statue outside
the stadium, a bigger one outsideof the stadium. Stick the replica statue
of smaller like the size of aHeisman trophy inside the trophy case, and
give him Alan Iverson deserves better.Yes, what a slap in the face
to me. I was nasty bestcrossover in the history of the game ever,

(01:33:03):
and I'm going to tell you it'signclose. I actually think pound for
pound, I've talked to and I'vetalked to him. I love when I
got talked to him to just hisenergy when you're around him, Yeah,
is different. He's freaking awesome.He was at the Super Bowl radio row.
When you're talking, I just said, dude, I just love the
way he played, his energy.I'm telling you now, pound for pound,

(01:33:25):
I think now Russ Westbrook's pretty tough, and I mean pound for pound,
he may very well be the toughestplayer I ever saw play. Really.
Yeah, think I'm talking about poundingwith what one hundred and sixty five
hundred and seventy pounds, max drippingwet dude. Go look when he played
at Georgetown with John Thompson. Yeah, and go look when he played in
the NBA attacking you, challenging you. I didn't say the best player ever,

(01:33:48):
but I'll tell you what best crossoverand a guy who could score from
the from the parking lot. Ithink, pound for pound, is the
toughest basketball player I ever saw.And they give out this baby gap ass
statue for hi. Yeah. Andwhen you say toughest basketball player you ever
saw, people automatically think, well, what about his talent? His talent
was off the off the hook.He played as if he played so hard.

(01:34:10):
It was as if he didn't havethe type of skill set he had.
That dude just to and and hewas not afraid to attack you inside
because he took a dunk on yourass and I know, guys, that
sticks atal dunk on your ass,But that dude taking in the lane,
that's a that's a you're going inamong the giants who are a lot bigger
than you. And he played fearless. He's he's as tough as we've ever

(01:34:30):
had on a basketball court, attackingthe rim and getting after it. Loved
him, yeah, freaking loved him. And he deserved a real statue,
not a Heisman trophy size one stickthat, like I said, in the
trophy case, give him, gimwhat he deserves. Yeah, there's no
question. Man, what a joke. Seven one, three, two five
seven nine Starke to Carol, Carol, welcome in, good morning. It's
a Monday. Guys. On KyleTucker and his bat flipped the other night,

(01:34:55):
that's not Kyle Tucker. He's usuallynot that kind of guy. The
Rangers to hit jord On Alvarez twice, and the next pitch Kyle took hit
it out. That was a messagefrom Kyle to the Rangers, stop messing
with our big guy. We don'tlike it, and you need to pay
attention to what you're doing. I'llhang up and listen. Thank you,
Carol. And yeah, that's onething. We took the words out of

(01:35:16):
our mouth. Lyric Carol, thanksfor the call. So in that game
on Friday night, Yeah, theAstros were down. I can't remember exactly
the score, but they were downby five or six runs or whatever the
case is. They threw inside onyord On multiple times, didn't hit him,
didn't hit him, didn't hit him. They finally, I believe,
on the third or fourth pitch theyhit him up and in Kyle Tucker proceeds

(01:35:38):
to hit at Nuke to ride Field, stares a pitcher down, bat flips,
which you don't really see from KyleTucker. And then after the game
in the locker room, he said, yeah, we didn't appreciate it.
They threw in, they threw in. They finally hit him. We didn't
appreciate it. And I believe thatpicture. Last name is Burke for the
Rangers. He punched the locker andbroke his hand after that game. Bruh,

(01:36:02):
what an idiot. Here's a couplethings. Normally in a game,
if you're down four touchdowns and it'sthe fourth quarter, he punched the wall.
Excuse me, yeah, and you'redown four four touchdowns and you celebrate
and do some dance and spike it. I probably, like you know,
when a guy celebrates a six yardcatch and you're down by four touchdowns,
frowned upon, right in this casefor a guy who shows whose emotion is

(01:36:26):
simply done with his play in KyleTucker and I understand the optics of the
game, but I'm always going totake the side of a player who protects
his own. Yeah, you cansay all you want about bat flips and
about staring somebody down, if oneof your own players, I'd want to
guy. Put it this way,if you don't protect your players, I

(01:36:48):
think you're a coward. I've seenplenty of pitchers in the course of time
guy gets hit and goes out.They don't want to get kicked out of
the game, so they're afraid toprotect you get kicked out if that's what
it takes, especially if it's inhigh high, then hit hit him twice
in the best top five hitter inthis league. I have kb E Houston,
KTV HD two Houston Whart radio station. How about the masts as a

(01:37:13):
rocket. This is Sports Talk sevenninety, your home for your home teams,
driven by that classic elite to youat GMC Studios for the Elite car
Buying Experience. Salisbury, Oby Houston. Okay, let's do this. Sean

(01:37:34):
Salisbury, there to usc true,longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, bryanl Lima,
go Lobos. This is the SewanSalisbury Show. Just two runs on
five hits. He walked to aswell again they host the Braves tonight.

(01:37:54):
Spencer Arraghetty getting another shot for theAstros, his second big League start against
the Braves tonight, Ino Ma Park, let's talk to Scott SEVENE three seven.
I want to talk about Hoseel tooa Scott welcome in, Yes,
sir, how you doing guys?We're good man. What's on your mind
this morning? All right? Well, the third third generation the Astros fan,

(01:38:17):
a long time listener here. SoI just wanted to say, and
there's a lot of you know,a lot of reasons to love jose Al
today, but probably the number onething is the fact that he has a
performance like he's had this uh yesterdayand this weekend and our week and he
just he just puts his head downand runs the bases, doesn't do any
crazy cartwheels or you know, batlickingbatflip speed, just runs the bases and

(01:38:42):
that that's something that's old Astro fansreally appreciate. And it doesn't matter if
he's home or away, it's thesame thing. So I just wanted to
highlight that we appreciate it. Scott, Thank you, you got a lot.
He's the t He's not only thetable setter. I think he's the
energy setter for the team, youknow, and it maybe goes hand in
hand with lead Off because I thinkSpringer was the same way. But how
can you not love the way ALTVplays it? Almost he plays so hard

(01:39:05):
and so well you almost kind ofokay, man, you don't run the
bases very well, at least youdo it one hundred and ninety miles an
hour. But when he is steppingup to the plate aggressive, which is
ninety eight percent of the time,and attacking, the energy's different in the
building. On the team. Hemay not be, you know, the
guy you could least to live without, meaning that's probably yourd on, but

(01:39:28):
I can tell you that the guywho has to get things going throughout he
is the best energy on this team. Yeah, there's no question about it.
It's not even close. He'll havea statue built for him when it's
all said and done. I've alwayswondered why he can't build a statue for
guys that are still playing currently.Yeah, why can't not? He deserves
it. Why can't you? He'sgoing to have one regardless. Do you
see the statue for Allen Iverson?Yeah? What are we doing? It

(01:39:53):
was tiny, tiny that belongs ina trophy case. And then a real
statue outside the stadium, a biggerone outside of the stadium. Stick the
replica statue of smaller like the sizeof a Heisman trophy inside of trophy and
give him Alan Iverson deserved better.Yes, what a slap in the face
to me. Hey, I wasnasty. Best crossover in the history of

(01:40:13):
the game ever, And I'm goingto tell you it's I'm close. I
actually think pound for pound, I'vetalked to and I've talked to him.
I love when I got talked tohim to Just his energy when you're around
him is different. He's freaking awesome. He was at the Super Bowl radio
row when you're talking, I justsaid, dude, I just love the
way he played his energy. I'mtelling you now, pound for pound,

(01:40:35):
I think now Russ Westbrooks pretty tough. And I mean, pound for pound,
he may very well be the toughestplayer I ever saw play. Really,
Yeah, think I'm talking about poundingwith what one hundred and sixty five
hundred seventy pounds, max dripping wetdude. Go look when he played at
Georgetown with John Thompson. Yeah,and go look when he played in the

(01:40:55):
NBA attacking you, challenging you.I didn't say the best player ever,
but I'll say what best crossover anda guy who could score from the from
the parking lot. I think,pound for pound is the toughest basketball player
I ever saw. And they giveout this baby gap ass statue fro Hi.
Yeah. And when you say toughestbasketball player you ever saw, people
automatically think, well, what abouthis talent? His talent was off the

(01:41:16):
off the hook. He played asif he played so hard. It was
as if he didn't have the typeof skill set he had. That dude
just to and and he was notafraid to attack you inside because he took
a hill dunk on your ass.And I know, guys, that sticks
atal dunk on your ass, Butthat dude taking in the lane, that's
a that's a you're going in amongthe giants who are a lot bigger than

(01:41:38):
you. And he played fearless.He's he's as tough as we've ever had
on a basketball court, attacking therim and getting after it. Loved him,
yeah, freaking loved him. Andhe deserved a real statue, not
a Heisman trophy side one stick that, like I said, in the trophy
case, givehim, give them whathe deserves. Yeah, there's no question,
man, what a joke. Sevenone, three, five, seven
nine. Stalked to Carol. Carol, welcome in, good morning. It's

(01:42:00):
a Monday, guys. I'm KyleTucker and his bat flip the other night.
That's not Kyle Tucker. He's usuallynot that kind of guy. The
Rangers had hit yord On Alvarez twiceand the next pitch, Kyle Tucker hit
it out. That was a messagefrom Kyle to the Rangers, stop messing
with our big guy. We don'tlike it, and you need to pay

(01:42:21):
attention to what you're doing. I'llhang up and listen. Thank you,
Carol, And yeah, that's onething we took the words out of our
mouth. Thanks for the call.So in that game on Friday night,
Yeah, the Astros were down Ican't remember exactly the score, but they
were down by five or six runsor whatever the case is. They threw
inside on yord On multiple times,didn't hit him, didn't hit him,

(01:42:44):
didn't hit him. They finally,I believe, on the third or fourth
pitch, they hit him up andin Kyle Tucker proceeds to hit at nuke
to right field, stares a pitcherdown, bat flips, which you don't
really see from Kyle Tucker. Andthen after the game in the locker room,
he said, yeah, we didn'tappreciate it. They threw in the
through and they finally hit him.We didn't appreciate it. And I believe
that picture. Last name is Burkefor the Rangers. He punched the locker

(01:43:10):
and broke his hand after that game. Bruh, what an idiot. Here's
a couple things. Normally in agame, if you're down four touchdowns and
it's the fourth quarter, he punchedthe wall. Excuse me, Yeah,
and you're down four four touchdowns andyou celebrate and do some dance and spike
it. I probably like, youknow, when a guy celebrates a six
yard catch and you're down by fourtouchdowns. I frown frowned upon right in

(01:43:31):
this case for a guy who showswhose emotion is simply done with his play
in Kyle Tucker and I understand thethe optics of the game, but I'm
always going to take the side ofa player who protects his own. Yeah,
you can say all you want aboutbat flips and about staring somebody down,

(01:43:54):
if if one of your own players, I'd want to guy. Put
it this way, if you don'tprotect your players, I think you're a
coward. I've seen plenty of pitchersin the course of time guy gets hit
and goes out. They don't wantto get kicked out of the game,
so they're afraid to protect you getkicked out if that's what it takes,
especially if it's in high high thenhit hit him twice and the best top
five hitter in this league. Ihave zero issue with that situation. Now,

(01:44:17):
if there was no throws in there, and Kyle Tucker did it because
he was celebrating their down getting theirass kicked, and he's just celebrating because
he's frustrated, then probably say,well, that's not like him. He
must have But I try to takeinto account what each individual players going through
in this case, I will alwaystake up for a guy who protects his
own teammates because I think you're aI think you're a coward ass bitch.

(01:44:40):
If you don't, I'm not sayingif he didn't there, then that's it.
But may he'd let the message knowthat people in our dugout, can't
that let me know that they weretalking about it in their dugout, that
you're not going to do this toour best player and be able to get
away with it, win loss,up by thirty or down by five,
it doesn't matter, It does notmatter all all. Always take up for

(01:45:00):
a guy, especially who shows zeroemotion. He just plays. You had
to really piss him off to havethat happen. I'm okay, you better
protect your own players. I can'tstand a guy who's too coward and afraid
of a finder to get kicked outbecause he's not protecting his players. Send
the message, especially against that unit, that group they taunt, they stare,
And I understand because and Bochie's notlike that either. He's kind of

(01:45:25):
like got Kyle Tucker's person. Theyjust kind of go about their business.
But at some point in time messagehas to be sent that you're not going
to tolerate it in a win ora loss. I'm okay with Kyle Tucker
doing that because, you know what, it's worth getting kicked out for having
people question it to protect your owntamate Because guess who've got to be around
one hundred and sixty two games.Yeah, you're that guy. And you
know what, all the hits andhome runs at Kyle Tucker and plays that

(01:45:45):
he makes, you know what yourall? And Alvarez is now never gonna
forget Kyle Tucker's sticking up for himin a situation the game when maybe didn't
call for it. I'm talking aboutthe hit did and throwing him up there
and hitting him twice. But thoseare the things you always remember it.
Yeah, I do too. It'svery uncharacteristic of Kyle Tucker, so obviously
he felt a certain type of wayand I love it. Man, No

(01:46:05):
issue there, Carol, I don'tgive a damn about the sting and I
don't care who the other two.You'll get over it, right, save
it, Yeah, exactly. Youknow what you needed to save Sean A
lot of money, A lot ofmoney, a lot of financials, green
backs from a stack, some wopyeah, nice, Yeah, yeah,
you like that. Yeah, simplysome people call me the segue King Sean.

(01:46:26):
Who's nobody I called you that lastweek? King? There you go.
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we got to call from our buddy, is it al John? That's right?

(01:48:19):
John? And OC okay see andby the way, the quietest congratulations
across the country and the run forthe Western Conference one seed the Oklahoma City
Thunder. If this is a Lakersor one of the people would be beside
themself the one seed Oklahoma City kindof just gone about their business. Good

(01:48:39):
for they won the tiebreaker. Ibelieve for the one seed and it's awesome.
But our guy John, who isis an Oklahoma City who we love.
He reminded that every one of thosestatues, right, Brian, is
scaled down when it comes to likedoctor J and Barkley and the rest of
them. I was looking at himafter TRIPLEE told us, so thank you
to John for clarifying that for us. Still why stupid? But why I

(01:49:00):
have no idea? Well we couldfit ten of ten the Bobby Joneses or
the lawyer world beef. I don'tknow who has one there other than I
know doctor J, you know DamnWill Barkley obviously, Allan Iverson, whoever
the seventy six is over the courseof time that have one there because they've
had a history filled organization. Guesswhat, I don't want to be able

(01:49:21):
to fit ten of them on atable. Okay, build the full one,
you go everywhere else in full Let'sput it this one. Iverson deserved
a bigger one. Barkley deserved abigger one. Doc deserves a bigger one.
It just seems weird. It's notlike you're gonna have a you know,
like we have to own the StanleyCup. Gosh, we got to
keep doing this on the Stanley Cupbecause the're writing every year there's a new
Stanley Cup team and give them theirtheir their goat. And if it's a

(01:49:43):
little more expensive, guess what theypaid the price on the court for you.
But if that's their philosophy, fine, I would just like to see
him a tad bigger. I wouldhave thought when you walk into the arena
that docs is the size of Jordan'sin Chicago. Right. That's just me.
Yeah, I'm a simple cave manthough. You know, you know,
you looking at these NBA standings aswe get ready to head into the
playoffs. The Rockets finish at fortyone and forty one, just outside of

(01:50:09):
the playing tournament, and you lookover at the Eastern Conference the final two
teams, the ninth seed and theten seed. One is the Chicago Bulls,
or excuse me, the ninth seedis the Chicago Bulls at thirty nine
and forty three and the Atlanta Hawksat thirty six and forty six, ten
games under five hundred, and theymake the play in tournament and then let
me also by congratulations to San Antonioon your twenty two wins this season.

(01:50:35):
Here know, Victor wembin Yama,Great job, Greg Kopovich. You are
one hell of a coach these days. How you still have your job is
beyond me. It's it's time firehis ass. So you're telling me right
now, great job, san Antonio, twenty two wins. You're telling me
right with one of the most generationalplayers, apparently generational players we've ever seen.

(01:50:57):
He can play, but you're tellingme that you want to pop out.
You don't ever miss an opportunity toget on pop No, sure don't.
And you know what, once thislittle run for the Golden State Warriors,
I'm going after Steve Kerr's dumb asstoo. WHOA, just take it,
man, because that run is runis damn near close to being over.

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When they get kicked out of thisplay in tournament and he's gonna lose
some of those players and they arenot going to be very good, then
what's the narrative going to be forSteve Kerr? Well, I'm gonna listen
for you to wait till you lethus go. Yeah, Oh, they're
cut from the same claw. I'mjust saying, man, if if the
New England Patriots can part ways withBill Belichick, how in the hell as

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San Antonio not parted ways with GregPopovitch. He's doing nothing to elevate that
team. Well, it's been onabout half a dozen years, exactly.
Well, the US House, hestill have a gig. It's called history.
Brother. I mean, I getthat Lifetime Achievement award. Dude's got
a lifetime Achievement award. I gotit. I know what they're saying.
I don't even know who owns thespur is. I could probably google and
figure it out. But all he'ssaying is, look at the back of

(01:52:02):
Pop Popovich's baseball card. His basketballcard is a basketball card. Yeah,
I don't think a baseball card,but he might look at the back of
his basketball card. Good call byyou. There's Pop's history lifetime achievement awards.
With keeping him in the gig.I would imagine, Uh, you

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won't miss an opportunity to get onPop, will you. Nope, Sure
won't. And your guys, SteveKerr, you'll I mean, if you
want an opinion, Pop and Stevewill give you one. But then there's
a lot of guys like that whoaren't afraid to give you an opinion.
But I get where you're going.I can drive you a little bit nuts
and for you the second day,like go three years in a row without

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making the playoffs. Donald, you'reon on Steve Kerr like a chicken on
a June, aren't you. Iwill be a feel you that's coming to
Yeah, pop uh, I meanhe made a difference this year on the
court. Yeah, man, thanksappreciated, Greg, pop Man, cold
whatever Man, Chitler, Brian,I'm not on that, No, I

(01:53:04):
feed well, you know it's it'sokay. So what they win twenty two
games? Right, they're they're twentytwenty two and sixty. I put it
this way, A rookie coach cancoach you into twenty two wins in the
NBA, right, Yeah, Soas a baseball manager, can you get
sixty wins with a baseball team?More than likely? Yeah? I would
imagine. Right? Did they sixtywins last year? The San Antonio Spurs?

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You know what, they went goahead? Twenty two and sixty.
Hey, they've hung. They hungthree more wins in two years than the
than the Rockets had this year.No, wait, they're forty one.
Yeah, so they have forty fourwins the last two years and the Rockets
got forty one this year. That'simprovement. Back in twenty twenty one to
twenty twenty two, that season theywon thirty four games. So they've done

(01:53:47):
nothing but regress. So they're goingbackward. They're going backwards. But yet,
hey, let's just give Greg Papovitchan extension. There's no doubt history
lesson gives you the Hall pass forGreg Papa. That's why he's got the
Hall pass because anybody else, ifyou didn't have his history, would have
been out three years ago. Theywould have. Man, what's worse the
big women in San Antonio or thetwenty two and sixty record two years.

(01:54:10):
I'm actually gonna say pop struggles toget him to the playoffs is worse out
to with a pH? Fat withthe pH that's just a big you weren't
you didn't mean big personality? No, he didn't mean big heart. No,
he meant he meant block out thesun big. He met like you
met you met like uh like Lizzo? Big? No? You whoa what

(01:54:30):
you met like a clips? Big? Yeah, that's what you walk out
the sun. Yeah, bro,not everybody in Santonio, but who you
Brian Barkley, Chazz Brother. Yeah, yeah, I did see something pretty
cool over the weekend. Somebody withthree seeds instead of two, like thick
with three seeds instead. That's thick. That is thick. No, No,

(01:54:50):
that's just fat. No, that'sthat's a big one of the kids
that I grew up playing baseball withand he and I want to say he
spent some time with the Nationals organization. He went to a high school in
New Bronfels who played literally growing upselect baseball as well. He proposed to
his fiance in the middle of theeclipse. She wasn't the eclipse, was

(01:55:13):
she? No, she wasn't thereal good for him? Pretty cool?
Yeah, they got pictures, dude, it was good for them. It
was pretty sweet, little romantic,like sweet as in like not like romantic
sweet, but liked. But I'mbreaking it and I'm breaking off, like,
Okay, the eclipse means everybody elsegets blocked out. It's just you
and I, babe, the restof our lives. See nice cheesy line

(01:55:34):
like that, right, you gotit? So which one of yours?
Here's signifies who we are. Everybodygets blocked out. It's a total eclipse.
The world's blocked that's just you andme. We're in this love together.
Weird, in this love together.You know, cut total eclips of
my heart the same cut or no, no, it's not even close to
be the same cut. Damn.Somehow you had to spin it towards the

(01:55:58):
San Antonio women too, Who didyou did? No? I didn't not
the not the marriage proposal just toPopovich, the big women, big women,
they'd be love to. Yeah,because look, if is it Dominic,
I think it's you in Dominic thatcalls Dominic, one of our callers
that calls in and says, I'mtaking the over on Brian and his slump
busters and big women. And you'relike, just you're just setting it like

(01:56:20):
I said it like eight and ahalf. You're just instantly half was like
a two and a half instead ofit. What you're an enabler to Dominic.
Yes, and the others they call, Hey, I just you call
what do you call it? What? I what I can say? Speaking
of which, when's doctor Jeff Woodsoncoming on you? You don't have I

(01:56:44):
got you done? Yeah, becauseyou know So you got your San Antonio
dig in today. Yeah, youdoubled down though, Yeah on the on
the ladies, Yeah, and Pop, congrats on your twenty two wins.
San Antonio doing a lot. Arewe as mad at San Antonio as we
are about Dallas? Not as madhere? Are they? What are we
mad about Dallas for? I meanwell, I mean people just you know,

(01:57:06):
the hat Fields and McCoys don't,let you know, said the rivalries?
Yeah? Do they? Are theyas mad at San Antonio when that
goes to as mad as they wouldbe at the Lakers, the Mavericks.
I think in this city, Ithink people hate the San Antonio Spurs more
than they hate the Mavericks when itcomes to basketball. Okay, So,
Baska, it is sports dependent,is what you're saying? What the sport

(01:57:27):
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good with Kobe Stevens dot com.You're back. This is the Sean Salisbury
Show. Get back at it.It's that time of the week every Monday
at eight point thirty in the morning, astros broadcaster Steve Sparks, welcome into
the show. Indeed, bring himin and we always look forward to Monday.

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As I said earlier, I lovewhen somebody comes in and teaches her
on a broadcast. Steve teaches usevery week and we have a lot of
laughs along the way and inform.Steve joins us. Now, Steve,
let me start with this Al Tuveyboys, I mean just leading the way
doing what he does, not onlya table setter, but the energy guys
coming off the bench to get startslike Kartini obviously d Bond and then doing

(01:59:31):
what Christian Havier. You said thatyou believed he was going to do this
year looking like an ace type ofpitcher, a lot of energy in those
last two wins that looked more likethe team we expected to see when the
season started. And welcome in,brother, that's right, I appreciate it.
Hey, I'm going to teach youa few things. How about that?
And you know what you do everysingle week, my man, about

(01:59:51):
things I never knew. I didn'tknow, so thank you. Well let's
start without two vy. I mean, he's leading the charge. He wasn't
with the team the first two monthsof last season, so to see him
so twitchy and ability to hit everytype of pitcher fastballs at ninety six ninety

(02:00:13):
seven miles prior he's turning them around, it's great to watch. I mean
the offense, and I told youthis, Sean, I'm not worried about
this offense at all. They weren'thitting with runners in scoring position the last
two games much better. But whenyou give yourself chances after chances, eventually
they're gonna come around and do whatthey've been doing for a long time.

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And I told you, I thinkthis offense is as good as it's been
in a while, maybe a fewyears now. So I like the length
of it, and you know,you can hide some guys from time to
time if you need to, becausethey've got a lot of guys that are
banging pretty well right now and gottenoff to good start. So that's the
good news, you know, andthe bad news is still waiting on a

(02:00:58):
couple of guys. And I thinkyou'll know what this team is really all
about once you get Berlander and Farmerback in the rotation. You feel like
it's a baseball team when a startergoes six innings like they had the last
couple of days, and you canmatch up and manage the way JOEA.
Swatt has been hoping to since thestart of the season. So it starts
with starting pitching. Hey, Steve, let me get to you know the

(02:01:21):
way that you approach out Tove.I mean, you prepare for your job
and a broadcast. As a pitcher, you do the same thing I know
as a quarterback. If they playman eighty five percent of the time in
the red zone, I'm going tocall a man beater. Does that make
sense? You know what I mean? And then you come up, I
still don't understand. I see itevery year all the time, and maybe

(02:01:41):
it's pride and ego. Why evenif you're a good pitcher, why And
we saw it over the weekend.We know the guy can throw from from
Sunday. I mean, why doyou why? Why why do you throw
that? Is that? What?Why throw him fastballs that you know fastballs
did in areas he's gonna hammer awayout of it. I still don't understand

(02:02:03):
why you throw him. I seeit every year on a regular basis.
Why I'd rather bounce forward the dirtand make him swing there? Because if
one of our two of them,with his aggressiveness he is why do we
keep seeing people throw the ball therebecause of Right now, it's because of
your down. I mean, inthe corner of your eye, you know
who's on dat somebody on base.You don't want to put somebody on base,

(02:02:27):
and probably, I mean, that'sthe easy answer right now. And
that's the beautiful thing about protection.And that's why you have all your best
players crammed at the top of thelineup, because you want them to bat
the most. And plus they giveeach other protection, so they all get
better because of it. What amiserable feeling for a picture, right,
Steve, What a miserable feeling fora picture. The exhaust the mental exhaustion's

(02:02:50):
got to suck, right, itdoes. And you're trying to get a
feel for what you have that day, you know, and to start the
ball game off with a guy withwhat's out to be with the twelve hundred
ops already and you're done, andTucker or getting off to great starts too.
So it's a really difficult way tomanage how you feel what kind of

(02:03:14):
stuff you have to get into theball game, because it's always a little
bit different. I mean, nota little, you know, always a
ton, but it's always a littlebit different when you go from that bullpen
mound to the major league man becauseyou're adrenaline, you know, he just
creeps up a little bit and you'renever exactly sure what you're gonna haven.
Of all, he's gonna challenge you, and just challenge the wrong guy and
the wrong Yeah, but you're right. Do you see that in your periphery

(02:03:36):
vision that dude's stand on the ondeck cir circle so small? Yep,
no doubt. He was thinking hecould get a he could get an easy
foul ball strike maybe on the firstpitch and come inside and now too a
whips on it and turns and hegets a strike, and he tries to
come in there again, and forwhatever reason, it cut back towards the

(02:03:58):
inner third of the plate. Nowtoo all over it, so hammered it.
That's the thing is that the marginfor error is so small right now,
Steve with the end. I mean, Jordan is as good good.
I mean, he's one of thosefive players in baseball that every pitcher fears,
and you know that you can't youdon't want to play a season without
him. But I still contest thatthe energy the go to the way this
team goes al to ve forget justsetting the table. Al Tuovey's energy drives

(02:04:24):
this team. Yeah, he does. You know, he's the igniter and
he's gonna set the tone. Andwhen he when he does something special first
bat of the game, he hasa double end of the corner, he
goes deep or something like that.You feel it, you know, I
think everybody feels it watching TV orat the ballpark. We feel it,

(02:04:45):
of course as broadcasters on the radios, that he sets the tone. You're
exactly right. So that's why he'sat the top. You know, he
kind of balked it being the leadoffhitter for a little while there, but
I think he's embraced it. Heunderstands what an impact he can make to
the steed. Well, if hehasn't embraced it, he doesn't have a
choice. He's too good not tobe there. So it looks like he's

(02:05:08):
embracing for a while now. SteveSparks, Astro's broadcaster for his weekly visit
here on Sports Talk seven to ninetySean Salisbury Show, Steve, why wouldn't
And I don't even know if you'reallowed to talk about it, but I
got to ask it. Why wouldn'tfrom Erval does get an MRI when we
ever, especially this year, whenyou hear the word elbow soreness, Why
no MRI? Because of where itwas, I would imagine because I asked

(02:05:32):
Joe even the next day after hesaid that Fromber was going to go back
to Custon, and he pointed towardthe top of his elbow, right,
rather than the inside of his elbow. And the next day I said,
Hey, were you being specific whenyou were pointing to the elbow that it
was at the top of the elbow, because that's more fleshy, and that's

(02:05:54):
more of the muscle stuff rather thanthe inside stuff where you start to so
one more muscle, the other onemore ructure, right, Steve, that's
what the concern was. I meanthe variation between the two, right.
Yeah, it's the location, right. So that's the easy answer is it's
where they were putting to And Iasked him specifically the next day and he
said, yes, it's on thetop. It's not it's not underneath.

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We're probably going to be much moreworried. So he's going to play catch
tomorrow and he might throw a liveVP right after that. He's going to
be back in this rotation. There'sno stepbacks. He'll be back on the
rotation on this next road trip,I think. Yeah. And they played
the open well with Washington, right, that's the first one out of this
homestand against Atlanta I think Washington ChicagoCubs, and then to Mexico to play

(02:06:40):
the Rockies for two games. ToMexico City. Yeah, we're a pop
flight to shortstop, ends up afour hundred and fifty foot home run.
That'll be a blast to watch.Can't wait for that one. But let's
not get ahead of ourselves. Steve. When when do you expect I mean
Verlander to be ready to roll.I think I think you'll pitch this next
road trip if everything goes well inthe next two days. Sean, Uh,

(02:07:04):
I think he'll pitch on this nextroad trip. So maybe it's d
C. You probably want to keephim from pitching in Mexico City, right,
So one of those games in dC, and then and then the
next time rolls around, we'll beback at Mini May Park after the road
tip. Especially that fly ball pitcherto right, Steve, in Mexico City

(02:07:26):
is a fly ball pitcher, right, yeah, And and you recover uh
less quickly after you know altitudes andthings like that. You get more stores.
So you want to keep your guyout of that, right. That
makes sense, all right? Andthe fly balls will be fine, but
you're right that that altitude will getyou anybody that's pitched in Denver anywhere else.
All right, Steve, let meget back to talk to me.

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I mean, I think, doyou know the obvious answer? But this
Carotini, I don't know. Everytime he comes to the player in a
game, I feel good about him. He is really there's a moxie about
him that did I like when he'sin lineup. Yeah, I mean it's
somebody that they they pointed to.You know, when they when they knew

(02:08:07):
that Yer was going to be thestarting catcher, they were looking around the
league, and they probably did ittoward the end of last season. Start
started to look around and Okay,he's thirty years old, he's a switch
hitter, he can play a littlebit of first base, but he can
also mentor he's very smart. Theyprobably did their due diligence or what type
of guy he was. You know, it's interesting. You know what GM's

(02:08:28):
do, Sean, and you probablyknow this. They'll call around visiting clubhouse
guys just to figure out what typeof guys. Oh yeah, I think
you have to somebody. Yeah.Yeah, you start you start to figure
out, all right, what dowe want to bring into our clubhouse,
and how's he going to fit inwith our team. You don't want to
mess things up in your clubhouse.This team's been to the LCS in the

(02:08:50):
last seven years, for goodness sake. So uh, they found out what
type of guy he was. Hewas at the very top of their list,
so priority wise, they got theguy they wanted. Now, Sean,
you're starting to see somebody puts togethersome pretty good abs too. Don't
don't sleep on you know the matchupstoo. You know you're pretty good at
figuring out, you know, whomatches up well. Dubam was having some

(02:09:13):
good abs that game, sure was, But I think, yeah, yeah,
Urania was pitching against the Astros whohad the ninety five ninety six mile
an hour sinker. Probably didn't matchup well for Dubon that pitch running in
on him. Uh, two seamersfor Kartini is a good matchup. So
putting him in in a situation wherehe could have a better chance to get

(02:09:35):
on base and make an impact,I think the Astros did a good job
with that. So you're right,Karten, he looks pretty good out there.
And Steve to validate what you're saying, I found out in my double
digits and all your years you playedthat. If I want to know really
what goes on about a guy andhow he fits in our equipment people,
it's like it's like going to getyour haircut, you know, like you

(02:09:56):
know, love man, do youjust kind of talking to the guy.
It's with some of the greatest storiesright here, barbershop, whatever it is.
Those guys know because you see thetrue personality. There's nothing fake about
it. So you are spot on, one hundred percent correct, and I'm
with you. I think guys doingtheir due diligence get out in front of
that. All right. You talkabout all the good stuff, and there's
still things. Hey, it's twotwo game winning streaks, winning at home,

(02:10:16):
which is huge. But I askyou every week, and I'll continue
to your biggest concern this week now, which you haven't seen yet, Well,
it's it's just the anticipation of gettingthe guy's healthy and back into the
rotation and seeing what you're gonna do. Ronel Blanco is staying in the rotation,
by the way, right, whatare you gonna do with that?
Yeah? Exactly, He's earned aspot. So I guess my biggest concern

(02:10:39):
is Hunter Brown, if I'm beinghonest, Yeah, what's wrong? What's
wrong? Steve? What's wrong?He looks like he belongs in the minor
leagues to get something fixed. Idon't mean to be cold blooded, but
the way he's pitching in twenty twentyfour, what are we missing here?
Look, he's gotten off to arough start. He's got great stuff and
we've seen him be brilliant at times, but to to pitch four or five

(02:11:01):
games in a row at a ata very high level, we haven't seen
that yet. So we're still waitingfor him to take that next step.
And we anticipated that it would bethis year, and he was excited about
the depth of his slider that wouldgive him more separation from his fastball velocity
and things like that. This iswhat I see. He's a supernator,

(02:11:24):
so he can't get inside the baseball, and it's really hard for him to
pitch righties inside. His fastball cutsnaturally right, it just goes away.
So so to get inside on ariding, he's got to start it way
in off the plate to have itride back to the you know, inside
part of the plate, right becausebecause of that, you know, and

(02:11:46):
you're afraid to hit guys when youwhen you're starting the ball in off the
plate. Anyway, Rioties have aone to fifty ops better than they do
than lefties do, so, whichis which is which is a good you
know, most teams have more rietiestypically, so but it's it's because everything's
going towards the barrel and everybody's leaningout over the plate because he's one sided
right now. He pitches to thefirst base side of the plate of the

(02:12:11):
time because that's just the way hishand and everything reacts. So I think
he's got to figure out how toget to the inner third of the plate
against riding's that's that's just the bottomline for me, is this. When
he can do that, he cancommand the inner third, get guys from
leaning out over the plate. Ithink he becomes the guy we hope hopefully
he can become. And keeping theball off the barrel is a great point,

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phenomenal information. Brother. We gota hell of a series against this
team because they're a World Series typeteam too. As we've seen, this
will be This will be a blastto watch and a blast to listen to
you broadcast, So thank you andlook forward to doing it with you again
next week. Brother. Thank you, ah ight Sean having it right with
you too. That's a great SteveSparks always great information. Something people don't
talk about that being able to pitchinside with Hunter Brown, and it makes

(02:12:56):
perfect sense that Steve studies it likehe's pitching himself. Sports Talk seven ninety
coming right back to discuss what Stevesaid. Little fromber maybe his location of
the elbow and the Hunter Brown becausewe know one thing, Renelle Blanco was
not leaving the rotation. Sports Talkseven ninety's High Fastballmacaller's Junior I view's just

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an Astros. You're listening to SeanSalisbury on Sports Talk seven niney Lance book
callers, how about the performance yourhome for Houston Astros baseball. You know
you'd normally say, well, let'sload up left handers. In this situation,
guess what you're doing. I'm righthander after right hander until he can
tell he can control that pitch.As Steve said, that was great insight

(02:13:37):
by Steve Sparks. But no shock. It's a weekly thing for us here.
Yeah, and if you missed out, it'll be up on our blog
at sports seven ninety dot com.I'll tell you what Steve he liked the
eclipse too. Remember we talked tohim, you know, and I got
text. I mean, he hada great picture of the eclipse and stuff.
The way you have to see itthat you share it was awesome,
man, and I loved I mean, sometimes you get the light shining with
a great background depending different parts ofthe country wherever you are. You know,

(02:13:58):
it's a different perspective was phenomenal he'sand then he comes on gives a
great baseball inside too. So hey, you know what we call that the
more you can do right versatile?Yes, why thank you? I like
it. Yeah. He also youknow, we were talking earlier about the
from er Valdez situation, and Stevealluded to the where the injury is or

(02:14:22):
the soreness was. I guess that'swhy they felt like they didn't need to
give him an MRI or he receivedan MRI. And you know, either
way, why not get an MRIjust to double check it when he is
your ace. It still doesn't makesense to me, and I hope it

(02:14:43):
comes back sooner rather than later.He's gonna play catch tomorrow, I believe,
see how his arm feels and sorenessplay catch and then kind of work
through that. And he also,you know what, triply we got that,
we got that audio correct on fromRavaldez. Let's so let's go ahead
and and get that teed up.Uh uh. This was yesterday. Prior

(02:15:07):
to the game. He spoke throughhis interpreter fromer Valdez and talking about his
uh, what his upcoming week isgonna look like? No, you know,
Deremi recognized that it was just ashortness, so we did, all
right, go ahead and cut that. We we couldn't really understand, uh
too much background noise. Basically,he is going to play catch today and

(02:15:31):
go from there. And he alsosays Sean that he doesn't he may not
need a rehab start. He's justgonna jump right back into the rotation.
Oh good, then it wasn't that. Then then that just tells me that
he wasn't hurting that bad exactly.So then what why miss two starts?
Yeah, that that that's a asto that, that's a fromber question.

(02:15:54):
That that's a from I don't know, precautionary or over overly precautionary, especially
that with all the injuries you've had, not only in Major League Baseball,
but on this staff, you don'twant it to linger. I still for
me, and I agree with SteveSparks. I get the located the difference
between muscle and soreness and structural damage. And this is coming from a guy

(02:16:18):
who's about a dozen surgeries, meaningmyself, So the difference in both I
get, But structural damage I alwayserr on the side of caution when it
comes to my guy, I've runout there three years in a rosie as
I'm MRI and it no matter what, just to be safe, to make
sure that what Steve talked about thelocation of the injury says, you don't
need to. I want to doit just to make sure that I didn't
misdiagnose it and that that that I'mright, because doctors do a great job.

(02:16:43):
But in the elbow, if you'reoff by a quarter of an inch,
you never know what could happen andwill that muscle soreness lead to a
mechanical change which could damage it structurally. I want to know. MR.
That's just me, but I'm nota doctor and I'm not gonna play one.
But it's it's a little odd tome, and it just tells me
that the soreness isn't that bad andif he's not going to go for a
start, didn't get an MRI.I to me, it's more precautionary than

(02:17:07):
oh my gosh, we're worried aboutfromber That that to me, and maybe
part of it's in his own headtoo, that he feel more secure about
taking this time off to get itgoing, whatever it might be, come
back healthy and get on the mountand go do your thing. I'm okay
with it, but it obviously iswe had We had nothing to fear right
that he was gonna be fine.Yeah, No. Chandler Roam reported it
yesterday. Farmer Valdez said he hopesto resume playing catch on Tuesday. He

(02:17:31):
said he did not have an MRI. Valdez said he doesn't think he'll need
a minor league rehab start, buta lot of contingent contingent on how he
feels after playing catch on Tuesday.This whole thing just doesn't make sense to
me. But you know it iswhat it is. Your head will explode
trying to figure it out. Buddy, I just did That's a that's a
Fromer question, right, and hecan answer that you missed two starts.

(02:17:52):
You don't get an MRI. Iyou're not going to need a rehab start.
Well, what what it's it's tellingyou that precautionary and that it that
it wasn't as bad that I mean, I nobody said it was. Oh
my gosh. They're worried about uc L. But when they say it's
just soreness, I still get overlyconcerned, especially with everything that's gone on

(02:18:16):
in baseball this year with pitchers.That's just me. But obviously now so
the next time if they're soren so, we supposed to worry to say,
oh he's he's fine. That's that'swhat concerns me. So I just don't
want it to linger, because youneed him on the mound pitching his best
and mentally strong and tough. Yeah, and well, well that's that's a
part that he needs to make surehe's got command over the emotional side of
it. Yeah, what is thelatest on Justin Verlin or could we see

(02:18:39):
him return to the big league clubthis week? That's next as we get
into the final hour here on aMonday morning on the Sean Salisbury Show,
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(02:19:35):
Salisbury to usc True's longtime friend,Shawn Salisbury, Ryanlalima, go Lobos.
This is the Sewn Salsbury Show.In just a couple of days, Scotti
Scheffler winning the Masters. He dominatedall weekend long, came in at eleven

(02:19:56):
under, and Shawn kicked my assin our uh picks for the Masters.
I haven't won one yet. Ohyeah? What they do at a round
of eythea and take your hat off, shake the hand. Just make sure
you acknowledge a crack you can shake. It's that when I beat you by

(02:20:18):
eight strokes this time. But who'scount Why? Why? I don't know
why you brought it up. Ididn't. I was gonna leave it.
You know what I was gonna do. I was gonna leave it. Just
let it go. I'm gonna letit go. Why. Power through the
voice sounds better, It feels betterthis morning. So six so one,
I got a little issue with yourvoice. Huh yeah, I just back
the damn hit. I hit youearly, but I was leaving. I

(02:20:39):
was leaving this one alone. Andnow you have awakened a sleeping giant.
It's not a sleeping giant. I'mthe Scottie Sheffler of gambling and picking,
not that he gambles of just it'sconstant wins. I haven't win in the
NFL pick THEMS, I haven't wonin our March madness. I haven't won
in college pick THEMS, and II cannot win in March or in the

(02:21:01):
Masters the majors, Majors Major,sorry majors. That's right. Hang in
there, buddy. Yeah, Wellwe're in this slove together though, even
when I win. Let's see,I mean, we're this love together.
So I'm like a sophomore right now, rookie years over, you're struggling sophomore
slump. It was continued, Well, don't call attention to you, but
I love your grinds. Somebody yougoing buster, you're going with confidence?

(02:21:26):
Well, call I got to getmy maskets. It's like you know when
it's like you know, when you'regoing through things in life and some people
tell you, hey, at theend of the day, all you got
is family. Well for me,all I got right now is confident.
Is your next pick them? Yeah? My next pick them. I'm the
only I'm as good as one ofmy last pick them. I'm listen.
But you know what I am.I'm a I'm a humble winner and loser.

(02:21:50):
Yeah, humble winner too. Man, I got you. I'm with
you. Yeah it was close,close at all. Man, I'm not
gonna I'm not How can a batflip or club flip any of that stuff?
I listen. I I love yourgrind. That's what you say.
What is like with the girls.You got a great personality. Exactly,

(02:22:11):
that's exactly right. It's the perfectconfairs. I love his personality. I
tell you what. I love you. Hey, no, it's here's I
love the way you compete, right, you know. I love dubs the
j No, but hey, whoreally right? But who's keeping? Yeah?
Well yeah, we don't have toyou. Hey, I was trying
to stay away from it. Giveall the love the Scottie Scheffler and Verne

(02:22:31):
Linquist Tiger Woods for grinding through andyou brought attention to it. Another guy
that we got to give some loveto Bowban is it now? That's winter
winter chicken dinner? Literally there yougo. Literally, I love that guy.
He he what a what a bossmove and what a cool bastard he

(02:22:52):
is standing at the freight throw lineand to win, and they're getting what
tell tell that story? Brother?That was So that's I love it.
I got the audio on the wayto triple he can get that up and
run it. So basically, inthe game last night against the Clippers,
he goes to the free throw line, and if he misses two consecutive free
throws, then everybody in the standstands gets a free chicken sandwich. Right,

(02:23:18):
So he's at the line, hegets the basketball, and he realizes
what's going on, and so he'sliterally looking at the crowd saying, hey,
I got you, I got you, I got you, like eight
right, and he's got the seagroupe like I got you. He says
something like save one for me orsomething like that, and then he just
shakes the free throw and the placegoes wild and he sticks his finger up

(02:23:39):
and the crowd, his teammates arelaughing. Crowd's laughing. You know what,
Now that's a guy. If you'rea fan, Boban's the guy.
How can you not love that?I mean, I know it's a chicken
sandwich, but the fact that youcan feel the energy of the crowd,
and at that point the game's prettymuch over, anyway, right, and
Bobon pulls with a smile on hisface. I loved the guy before it.

(02:24:05):
He can he's invited to the criffriendHe's invited to the party any day
of the week. Yeah, there'sno How awesome is that. I loved
it. Now that you talk,you know what we say. Hell,
guys, just having fun, that'sunderstanding how important the fans feel and getting
them their chicken. Soundch I lovedit. This is this is how it
sounded on the Space City Home Networkbroadcast. I'm start getting excited here.
There might potentially be some freak chickenon the board if he misses the second

(02:24:28):
free throw. Man, free chickenon the board. Why the fans are
getting get a little real Flothy Ohthe pointing season, hold on, play
on the crowd, say you wantchicken, here's your child. He gave
a chicken. He's a man ofthe people. He's a man the pre
perfect he did he came on freakchicken. Hell yeah, he did it

(02:24:50):
on purpose. I love the broadcastenergy to that is classic. And he
is a man of the people.That's Craig Ackerman play by play and Ryan
Hollands of US Space City Home network. It goes in this order over the
weekend over like big wins, andI had no disrespect to the astros at

(02:25:11):
all. Scheffler, Vern line Quist, matter of fact, put Vern first
seven forty years of this Vern Schefflerand bobon there you go, and it's
literally of all time. That's theWinter winner. Chicken Dinner actually got it
for all of them. Oh man, what a great the sound. I
love good sound like that. Andthen bobon reaction. You got to see

(02:25:33):
it if you didn't, that's justthat. That's a guy who is in
tuned with what's going on around andI loved it so great. I've been
interacting with the crowd as well.I mean good for him. Fantastic hoston
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Bills b I L S Bills enterit now at Sports seven ninety dot
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(02:26:35):
true longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury,Ryan Lalima, go Lobos. This is
the Sean Salisbury Show, all weekendlong. Came in at eleven under and
Shawn kicked my ass in our uhpicks for the Masters. I haven't won

(02:26:56):
one yet. Hey, I waslike, oh yeah, then what do
they do at the end of around of eighteen? Take your hat off,
shake the hand, just make sureyour acknowledge a crock you can shake.
It's that what I beat you byeight strokes this time. But who's
count Why? Why? I don'tknow why you brought it up. I
didn't. I was gonna leave it. You know what I was gonna do.
I was gonna leave it. Justlet it go. I'm gonna let

(02:27:20):
it go. Why power through thevoice sounds better, It feels better this
morning. So it was six oone. I got a little issue with
your voice. Huh yeah, Ijust back the damn hit. I hit
you early, but I was leaving. I was leaving this one alone.
And now you have awakened a sleepinggiant. It's not a sleeping giant.
It is why I'm the Scottie shufflerof gambling and picking, not that he

(02:27:43):
gambles of just it's constant wins.I haven't win in the NFL pick thems,
I haven't won in our March madness. I haven't won in college pick'ms
and I cannot win in March orin the masters the majors, majors major,
sorry the major's that's right. Hangin there, buddy, Yeah,
Well, we're in this love togetherthough when I win, let's see,
I mean, we just love together. So I'm like a sophomore right now,

(02:28:03):
rookie years over, you're struggling,sophomore slump. It was continued,
Just don't call attention to you,but I love your grind. Somebody you're
going, you're going with confidence,Well go and call I got. It's
like you know when it's like youknow, when you're going through things in

(02:28:24):
life and some people tell you,hey, at the end of the day,
all you got is family. Well, for me, all I got
right now is confident. Is yournext pick them? Yeah, my next
pick them? I'm the only I'mas good as one of my last pick
them. I'm listen, but youknow what I am. I'm a I'm
a humble winner and loser. Humblewinner too. Man, I got you.
I'm with you. It was closeclose at all. Man, I'm

(02:28:50):
not gonna I'm not gonna bat flipor club flip any of that stuff.
I listen. I I love yourgrind. That's what you say, which
is like when the girls she gota great personality exactly, that's exactly right.
It's the perfect confairs. I lovehis personality. Dude, I'll tell
you what. I love you.Hey, no, it's heres. I
love the way you compete, right, you love dubs them? No,

(02:29:13):
but hey, who really? Butwho's keeping Yeah? Well yeah, we
don't have to you. Hey,I was trying to stay away from it.
You have all the love the ScottieScheffler and Verne lune Quist Tiger Woods
for grinding through and he brought attentionto it. Another guy that we got
to give some love to Bowbon isit now that's winter or winter chicken dinner?

(02:29:33):
Literally there you go. Literally,I love that guy. He a
what a what a boss move andwhat a cool bastard he is standing at
the freight throw line and to winand they're getting what tell tell that story?
Brother, that was so that's Ilove it. I got the audio
on the way to triple he canget that up and run it. So

(02:29:54):
basically, in the game last nightagainst the Clippers, he goes to the
free throw line, and if hemisses two consecutive free throws, then everybody
in the stand stands gets a freechicken sandwich. Right, So he's at
the line, he gets the basketball, and he realizes what's going on,
and so he's literally looking at thecrowd saying, hey, I got you,

(02:30:16):
I got you. He says,I got you, like eight I
would have, right, and he'sgot the two group like I got you.
He says something like save one forme or something like that, and
then he just shakes the free throwand the place goes wild and he sticks
his finger up before the crowd andthe crowd his teammates are laughing. Crowd's
laughing. You know what, Nowthat's a guy. If you're a fan,

(02:30:39):
Boban's the guy. How can younot love that? I mean,
I know it's the chicken sandwich,but the fact that you can feel the
energy of the crowd, and atthat point the game's pretty much over anyway,
right, and Bobon pulls through witha smile on his face. I
loved the guy before it. Hecan He's invited to the criff. He's
invited to the party any day week. Yeah, there's no How awesome is

(02:31:01):
that. I loved it. Nowthat you talk, you know what we
say. Hell guys just having fun. That's understanding how important the fans feel
and getting them their chicken sandich.I loved it. This is this is
how it sounded on the Space CityHome Network broadcast. I'm start getting excited
here. There might potentially be somefreak shook it on the board if he
misses the second free throw. Manfree chicken on the board. So I's

(02:31:22):
why the fans are getting a littlereal flothy on the pointing season. Hold
on on the crowd, say youwant chicken, here's your choo chicken.
He's a man of the people.Are perfect. He did he came on
freak chicken. Hell yeah, Idid it on purpose. I love the

(02:31:45):
broadcast energy to that is classic andhe is a man of the people.
That's Craig Ackerman play by play andRyan Hollins of US Space City Home Network.
It goes in this order over theweekend over like Big Wins and I
have no disrespect to the astros atall. Scheffler, Vern lun Quist,

(02:32:05):
matter of fact, put Vern firstseven forty years of this, Vern Scheffler
and Bobon. Yeah, there yougo, and it's literally of all time.
That's the winner, winner Chicken dinner. Got it for all of them.
Oh man, people, what agreat the sound. I love good
sound like that. And then bobonreaction. You gotta see it. If
you didn't, that's just that that'sa guy who is in tuned with what's

(02:32:28):
going on around him. I lovedit so great. I've been interacting with
the crowd as well. I mean, good for him. Fantastic Yeah,
agreed, agreed. And then ofcourse Vern lung Quist, uh and Vern
lun Quiz finishing his his storied careeras a broadcaster. Obviously he went away
from calling college football for CBS.He always had that Saturday afternoon game,

(02:32:52):
him and Gary Danielson who took hisspot. What's his name, brad Nessler
fantastic stick as well. But VernLundquist finishing his career at the Masters,
and this is how his final callsounded. Scotty Shepherd with another birding his
seventh of the day has Veron said. Verne wrote a book back in twenty

(02:33:22):
eighteen called play by Play. Inthe last line in the plot that you
wrote, Vern, I want toapply it to you, you said,
thanks to borrow a praise, Thanksfor the memories. Your voice has been
a beautiful instrument. Thank you fora wonderful soundtrack for all of our lives.

(02:33:48):
Thank you so much, to myhonor, my poles. Yeah,
you can actually hear him tear up. Okay, yeah, Jim Jim NaN's

(02:34:11):
getting emotional as well. And theydid throughout the broadcast they bring it up,
and they did early in the inthe broadcast they some of Verne's great
calls. Have you said, yougo back and like when he the Jack
Nicholas, Yes, sir in thein the eighty six Masters, when he
made the putt and Jack walked upand raised the putter, and then when
Tiger Woods chipped it in on sixteen. Yeah, and he goes in your

(02:34:33):
life, have you seen any Oh? Yeah, he's an oh my guy.
He is just and he's so understatedand if you listen, he's a
minimalist. Did you listen to broadcast? He's so good he'll say, you
know, just Scheffler for Bertie twoStrokely he's got the Pat Summer ale in
him. What is this? WhenI say minimalist, they are. They

(02:34:54):
make an impact by saying very little, but when they do speak, it's
spot on. And then his energykicks in at the right time, and
he said, he goes, youknow, they were talking about being emotional.
He goes, hopefully I'll be ableto get through this without being emotional.
And Nance came back with, well, you may, Vern, but
I'm not sure we will. Yeah, so forty masters a phenomenon. I

(02:35:16):
think he lives in Colorado Springs orFort cons I'm pretty sure Colorado Springs.
He's just been He's assault of theearth, human being. I've had the
honor of meeting him and a Hallof Fame broadcaster and that sixteenth hole that's
been Vern's spot for you know,forty years at least on the broadcast,

(02:35:37):
and that spot for the last asfar as I can remember. Heck,
he was doing that. I thinkback when Norman and Faldo and for years,
but forty years, and he'd seelegendary. They'll always be a place
for him. At Augusta and heand his good wife and she was there.
You saw the picture, you canimagine what he must be going through.
But a life, a broadcast careerwell lived, of phenomenal human being

(02:36:01):
good for him. Yeah, whata career for Vern lund I've never met
a person that's met him in mylife. That's and that's the thing.
He's one of those guys you knowwhen you pass away, and you know
when your parents whom my pops passedaway as well, you stand up there
and I've never heard anybody saying anill word about my dad. And we
all need to live like that.And when I think about Vern Luonquist alive,

(02:36:24):
and we always wonder, you know, and you wish you could be
around to hear and maybe you are. What people say and how they feel
about you when they lose you hintswhy we need to enjoy him while we
got him on a broadcast and appreciateall the effort and work they put in.
I hope Vern Lundquist is a broadcasterand as a person understands just how
people feel about him. And wheneverhis name's mentioned, it's pro great human

(02:36:46):
being, great broadcaster, longevity,everything that he's done, he deserves retirement.
I hope him and his good wifeenjoy the hell hell out of it
because he's damn well earned it.I can tell you that. Yeah.
And if you also missed a tigerWoods got to share him. Moments before
he tapped in for par on thesixteenth, walked over to Verne lun Quist,
shook his hand, had a fewwords with him, and walks over
taps in for par So what apleasure for both man. Yep, awesome,

(02:37:09):
Awesome. There have been some greatcalls. Verna Lundquist will always go
down as one of the great broadcastersof all time. What a career for
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Twova's home run hit the foul poleyesterday, So that means everybody that was
in the ballpark gets a free Chickfil a sandwich. Nice. So we

(02:39:22):
did Houston, Hell, Houston dida lot of good chicken work yesterday,
big bowl and uh and who else? Al twove so from from Hey,
from the south to the west coastright, mm hmm. Get a little
little yardbird? Are you more?Do you call it yardbird or barnyard pimp

(02:39:43):
or chickens chicken? I called whereI where I come from. Wait,
hold on, it's combe bread andchick y'all called it out in California,
SC That's what we used to callit. Barnyard pimp. So you want
to go get a barnyard get goget some barnyard pimp. Yeah what Yeah,
we are doing chick local good chicken, the red near see the hole

(02:40:07):
in the wall, chicken places right, yeah, barnyard pimper or a yardbird.
So where you been? So inreality, what you're saying is the
chickens are the pimps in the barnyard. Thank you? You know. No,
it's well, it starts with thesea. The rooster, the sea
of the walk, the rooster ofthe walk, otherwise the of the walk.

(02:40:31):
You can say go ahead, Imean, oh, well you go
ahead. Normally I mean, wellyou can refer to a rooster. But
some people listen, would they say, you get you get the point.
And then there's the barnyard, barnyardpimp, and that's that, and then
there's it's yardbird. Isn't that whatit is? Listen? I grew up
in a farm. We race shake. They're floating around your feet and throwing
seed around there eating chicken. Imean they're eating there, eating their seed.

(02:40:54):
Barnyard pimp. I will tape youknow where I'm going. Well,
we're where I come from. It'scorn bread and chickening out on the West
Coast where I was at SC.But we called it and we've been calling
it that. Dude, you didn'tneed chicken, you didn't eat. Listen,
you know what kind of frind youwere at USC. All that money
you were making, dude, youwere eating gray poop on it. No,
No, all that money we weremaking, I owned the chicken,

(02:41:16):
own the chicken. No, here'sthe deal. I know a little old
school can listen to this. Backin the day fried chicken. You didn't
need to go anywhere because you knowwhat you did. You put it in
the skillet, You flower it upa little bit, and you'd stick it
in the skillet with the what's thateasy bake? Not easy bake, that's
easy bacon, what's that shaking bake? You'd fried chicken on the skillet,

(02:41:41):
put butter in there, and itwas as deep fried as possible. And
whether the greens or whatever it isyour side, we used to love fried
chicken and good like uh, potatosalad. Dude, my mother, we'd
make it. I listen, ifyou asked me today, pizza probably in
But if you said, sean onemeal. You don't ever want to give
up the rest of your life.As I love great fried chicken, always

(02:42:05):
have coal slaw, I love potatosalad. I grew dude back in the
day, we'd have Big John's beans, you know, if it w wasn't
get matter what kind. And becausethat was, it was inexpensive. And
I grew up, grew up ina paycheck to paycheck, blue collar family
that my mom and dad worked theirass off, and fried chicken was a
pleasure. And to this day thenI'll crawl ten miles over broken glass teat

(02:42:28):
to teat fried chicken anywhere, andI always like it because it just deppends
and the spice people put on it, that's how I listen. We weren't
going to someplace and get it donecustom. We were making fried chicken and
a frigging skillet at my house.And I know a lot of people listen
saying, still do ain't nothing wrongwith a little fried chicken on the skillet?
Now, I don't understand why people, when you want to go deep,

(02:42:48):
that's where you go. A barnyardpimp is a rooster so called because
the rooster has a pimp comb,a pimp shrut, and a pimp sound,
plus the barnyard pimp keeps track ofall his I e. The chickens
and if one of them needs somesweet love, and the baryard pimp is
there. So let's use it ina deliver some pound cake. Let's use
it in a sentence. Yo,it's time to get up and get to

(02:43:11):
work. The barnyard pimp is upmaking noise, or the hens haven't been
laying eggs. Soon we might haveto eat the barnyard pimp. Or we
need more chickens. We need tobar your pimp yard your barnyard bill,
right, so you thought I wasbs Yeah, yardbird, barnyard pimp.
That's coming from the Gospel Urban dictionarydot com. And guess what we were

(02:43:31):
saying it before Urban Dictionary was eveninvented. We need more chickens, We
need to bar your barnyard. Wedidn't. Nobody stole that where I was
going to school at sc from theUrban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary took that from
the people who started it. Barnyardpimp man, that's where it was.
Tell you another thing I was up. I had double session when I was
in the sixth and seventh grade.You know, double session in school is

(02:43:52):
no so many there were so manykids at the school in Peoria, Arizona,
so many kids that we had thesix o'clock. We'd get on the
bus at six ten in the morning, I remember it. We lived out
on a couple acres and a farm. We had chickens, horses, pig
we had it all. We wouldget up and I had to get up
and dirt. I felt like Iwas the hic from French. Like my

(02:44:13):
dad built me a basketball thing.It was chipping white paint, put it
in the ground and I'd shoot basketsbefore going to school in the morning.
Honest to guy, it was likethat. Sometimes it had a net on
it. Sometimes I did. Iknow it sounds like come on, I
promise you. And early in thewhen you're in the desert in Arizona in
the winter time, it's pretty cold, so i'd wear that blue down,

(02:44:33):
you know, the goose down jacketssay had had that on. I'd had
to get up like five fifteen andgo out and get the eggs from the
chickens, and then I'd shoot alittle hoops and you could see the bus
on the hill. You wanted thebus to be late. Every day.
I had the seven to noon sessionso it'd pick us up at sixten.
It took about forty minutes to getto school from where we lived. You'd
get there about ten minutes before classgoing to school, and at noon we

(02:44:54):
were done. Because the afternoon sessionthey went from like twelve ten to five
ten of school. We are doublesession because they couldn't put everybody. They
had to expand the school wasn't bigenough. So that's where I learned about
all that. But barnyard timp wasan sc thing for us. So I
know my buddies are saying, ifyou call me Bo, get some barnyard
timp. That's good. That's goodass chicken there. But he didn't know
that. Let's get to Greg realquick, Greg, thanks for holding us

(02:45:16):
going on. Hey guys, Ijust wanted to chip in a quick word
about Vernon lond Twist. Verne andmy dad were close friends in Steamboat Springs.
That's what That's where it's out,I said, Colorado Springs. He
still lives in Steambroke Springs, doesn't, hey, ggregular with Steamboat not Colorado
Springs. I think that's where itstill lives. Yes, there you go.
This past fall, Verne delivered theeulogy at my dad's funeral Steamboat,

(02:45:41):
and he just told stories about youknow, many times they've gone camping up
up in the flat tops south ofSteamboat. And in any case, I
had a chance to be around Burnon a number of occasions. He is
the most humble, personable, kindperson and it's just a joy to be
around somebody that's genuinely famous, whowas just a genuinely good guy. And

(02:46:07):
I just wanted to call and justbasically echo what you guys were saying about
Vern. Hey, Greg before yougo, and thank you for Steamboat Springs,
not Colorado Springs. You're exactly right. Your pipes sound like you come
from a broadcast family. You almostgot that low voice voiceover pipes, which
is a good thing. And Isaid earlier on the show and you all
you did was validated the same waybecause you've met him as well, is

(02:46:30):
it. It doesn't matter when youmeet Vern lun Quiz, he remembers your
name years and it doesn't matter.That's he is as kind as gracious a
human being in the broadcast world,let alone everywhere that I've ever met.
And he had no reason to beexcellent. He's called games. I've been
on in football, but when he'sdoing the NFL stuff. Vern Lundquist is
as good a person in this businessthat you will meet now or fifty years

(02:46:50):
from now. And you got toexperience it up close in a non broadcast
way, which is awesome. Allright, appreciate it great. Does Greg
got some pipe study? Yeah,sounds like it sounds like Pops is uh
and best at Greg's. You know, I don't know when his father did
pass away, but can you imaginethat Vern Lunk was given the eulogy.
How much emotion that must have broughtout in that uh and the people there.

(02:47:13):
So that's a great story from Greg. Thank you. What's the latest
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illogical, Former pro John Salisbury continuesto break it down one seven ninety.
They finish out with a forty oneand forty one record. Scottie Scheffler wins
the Masters. Is it feel likethe draft is a little over a week
away for the NFL? No,it's not. It's tonight. Oh I

(02:49:09):
thought w n B A draft isa lot of mystery. And who's gonna
be the first pick tonight? Interesting? I don't know it was gonna be
maybe maybe Caitlin Clark. I don'tknow a lot of mystery. Yes,
she's tough. I think she's gonnabe just fine. And to the to
the jealous, uh, females thatplay basketball out there already that are pro

(02:49:31):
basketball players are former Will she bea star right away? Who knows?
Oh? These are grown? Whowas it Diana Trossi who said that she'll
have trouble judge, We're going thisis like big basically big girl basketball right
now, right, Yeah, Well, I think that Caitlin Clark's going to
be just fine in her adjustment.Just a hunch, but regardless of that,
no mystery there. As far asthe NFL draft, UH, teams

(02:49:54):
are built between the second third roundin the in the end of this draft,
and I'm talking about the the themajority of your team lives in the
middle. It's still hugely important.Even though they don't have a first round
pick. Now, who knows,maybe they're they're concocting something up. And
Nick Cassario deserves a ton of creditfor the way that this team last couple
years has been built. And somaybe they've got something in their repertoire that

(02:50:16):
jumps them back in. But youknow what, maybe it's just building more
strength and depth in case an injury. Look what injuries do to teams in
every sport. So the substance ofyour team, you get your stars,
you expect your stars to play well. The guys that are late round draft
picks that make a team rundown onspecial teams, you need them too,
because once they make the roster,nobody gives a fuzzy rats ass what round

(02:50:37):
they are drafted, and I justneed to know if you can help.
But the depth and the way ateam is built is makes this draft hugely
important, especially for a team thatif this is done right and they build
depth, is no brainer why theyshould be the favorite to win this to
win this division. And I'm tellingyou the quantumly they made last year has

(02:51:01):
put them in the next tier belowthe Kansas City Chiefs. Of five or
six teams that are not just onthe rise, but that are favorites.
You think about the Bengals getting burrowback, of course Buffalo, but I think
there's a chance Buffalo could take astep back. You're obviously the Chiefs are
the team the Miami Dolphins. Maybein the second level we know the forty

(02:51:24):
nine Ers, or they're Baltimore Ravens. I mean, you start to think
about the five or six teams thatare one tier down from the Detroit Lions
have jumped up to that second tierlevel type team. Green Bay looks with
Jordan Love to be on the rise. We're going to see what the Chargers
do with Harbaugh. But Bengals Texans. Matter of fact, the way you

(02:51:46):
feel about the Texans is the wayyou felt about Jacksonville last year. But
this team's better going in. Ifirmly believe that. So the draft,
the depth that they can get fromround two to round five, six and
seven, those guys, those picksmatter. Man. I'm just telling you.
It's not sexy because you don't getto celebrate and be all excited and
cheer when they pick somebody you lovein the first round. But the best

(02:52:11):
teams I've ever been around, theywere able to get gems in the third
and fourth rounds of a draft andfifth round that not only make their team
and contribute, but end up becomingstarters and last in the league for quite
some time. So do not discountthe sexiness. It's out of it.
The substance is in it, andyou need to hit on these picks.
Buffalo, in my opinion, hasregressed. Who's he gonna throw to?

(02:52:37):
Josh Allen? What you may seeyou see that you've seen that that video
where the kid throws a ball highand he's so fast he runs and catches
it too himself. That's what itmight be, Buffalo. That might be
the Buffalo Bills this year. Ohand he also might now cooks pretty good
player in the backfield. But JoshAllen may have to lead the team rushing

(02:53:00):
received again throwing this year. Inow listen, they'll be competitive. They
are when you got a quarterback thatthat's that dynamic. It's that dynamic.
But I I'm not sure that Istill keep them in the three or four
best teams in the league. I'mnot sure I can go there just yet.
The Jets will improve because the quarterbacksthere have an Aaron Rodgers healthy.

(02:53:20):
I love what this team's doing.If they can get lucky with health and
continue to work and say we're andif they have convinced himself that they the
players have not arrived yet, meaningwe got much work to do. If
that is their mental their approach andgetting healthy with Tank Dell and we know
adding Stefan Diggs and he's got tohe should have something to prove because there's

(02:53:41):
people that are still wondering what he'sgonna do, how's he going to fit
in? We know the talent.Nico Collins has got a lot to prove.
He's one step away from a monstercontract because if he's in number one,
he is going to get paid atsome point. So with all that
in mind, there's a lot ofincentive for this team to kick ass.
And you don't want the sophomore slump. If you're strivee you want nobody questioning

(02:54:03):
if last year was an aberration orthat's who the guy is. I think
we know the answer, that's whothe guy is. So they're in Demico.
Ryans, Hey, first year headcoach. It's doing it once is
one thing, now sustaining it yearafter year. So there's a lot of
sidebars that make this a hungry seasonfor the Texans, even though they got
ten wins. I'll be more shockedif they don't win the division than I

(02:54:26):
will if they do and win itwith a with a a one or two
seed in the AFC. I thinkbecause you know what everybody's gunning for Kansas
City. Some of the other divisionscan knock people off, and this division
is a little better. These youngquarterbacks in this division have a chance to
elevate it. I'm telling you,you get the twelve wins, you are
in the conversation about winning the oneseed, it's not just the wins,

(02:54:48):
but how you get there. Thisteam, and it's not hyperbolic. They're
building something and eventually we're going totalk about the defense. Yeah, the
same way we talk about the offense. It's coming. Yeah, So to
stay tuned. It's coming. Course, everybody's gonna be unre for Kansas City,
also Baltimore gonna be in the mix. And then the team that I'm
actually really looking forward to watching outsideof the Houston Texans. I will always
root for Joe Burrow. I can'twait to see him back fully healthy.

(02:55:11):
Yeah, and stay healthy the entireyear. Yeah, with you one PC
Yeah, hey, real quick.I tease it for a couple of times
now, so I just want tomake sure to get this out before we
get to break. Justin Verlander startedSaturday night for the Corpus Christy Hooks and
a rehab start, and then yesterdaythey were the media asked Joe Aspada,
Justin Verlander could start this Friday againstthe Nationals if all is well following Saturday

(02:55:37):
night's rehab start. So looks likethey're set to bring back Justin Verlander to
the big league club and he couldstart Friday night against the Nationals. They
are going to need it. SpencerAraghetti getting his second big league start tonight
against the Braves, let's talk aboutthat next right here on Sports Talk seven
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Alright, that's on Sports Talk sevenninety Rockets finished the season with a forty

(02:57:28):
one to forty one record. ScottiShffler wins the Masters. Yes, spencerrig
Getty on the bup tonight, He'sgonna take on these braves. Braves are
obviously their lineup's pretty damn good.Hopefully his outing goes a little bit better
tonight than it did for his firstouting. I'm sure the emotions will be

(02:57:50):
a little bit calm, more calmcalmer. Yeah, his first his first
outing three innings, pitch seven hits, seven in runs, three walks,
three strikeouts, and now he's gotto turn around and face the Braves.
Darius Vines on the mound for theBraves. In case you got your score

(02:58:15):
caught out, card out early,Suzy, I'm a little bit more concerned
about the tonight. The people aregoing to be in the batter's box.
He's gonna face for Spencer. Iknow the Astros can score runs. I
got a And you know what,it seems like every start you probably feel
a little bit better about your controland composure, right, and I think

(02:58:37):
he showed some composure in the firstone. I mean those are tough,
but lessons learned, man. Butit doesn't get any easier. This lineup
here tonight is pretty formidable, needlessto say. Marcelo Zuna for the Braves.
He is hitting three seventy three onthe season, four thirteen on base
in a seven eighty slugging what heis on fire, already got twenty one

(02:59:00):
RBIs yeah, and he's hitting theball out of the ball bombs, he's
doing everything. Yeah, he's he'she's had a hell of a start,
And I got news for you there'sa few guys on that team that can,
by the time the season's over,will probably out hit him. I
mean, we know that that lineup'sloaded, man, lnup is loaded man.
Yeah, he's pretty good that thatpower has opened up early and often

(02:59:24):
this year. Darius Vines Uh ison the mound for Uh the brace is
gonna make his first start of theseason. I don't know much about this
guy. Heard the name, butI don't. I couldn't give you what
is you know a game plan onhim? Now? He last season he
only pitched in twenty third innings forthe Braves, so obviously rookie last year

(02:59:50):
on getting his first start this season. Either way, it's gonna be tough
sledding for for Spence Airgeney against thislineup for the race. They're they're they're
very very Yeah, you can't missthey'll make you pay for pitchers missed.
You and I both know that.So they're pretty good. This is two
lineups that talk about exhaustion men pitcherstonight, good supply of body bags if

(03:00:11):
they're not on their best game,because both of these lineups will wear your
ass out when they're going. Yeah, they're nine to five on the season.
You've got Marcelo Zuna, I mean, what's the name, Jared Kellnick
twenty nine, Well, smaller samplesize, twenty nine at bats, he's
hitting four to fourteen, Marcelo Zunahitting three seventy three, Ozzie Albi's hitting

(03:00:35):
three seventeen. Ronald Cuonya junior thisseason two seventy three. I mean back
he's stolen Ronald'cunya junior has alreadystolen seven bags. Yeah, he's he's
pretty good. Just a hunch andhe hasn't even really started rolling just yet
with that. So, yeah,this is it. This is no home
runs for Acunyon. Yeah, thisis a good test. And my suggestion

(03:00:56):
is keep the ball down when youface him because he's due for Remember we
kept talking about I I pity thefool who's with jord On Alvarez when he
gets rolling. Well you see that. Now acun has got the same thing,
and you you're rarely going to findI think acun you is still hitting
in the leadoff spot right obviously afterseventy pull of steels or what have you
last year that you're rarely going tofind in baseball anywhere. Two leadoff hitters

(03:01:18):
that start games in the same gamebetter than these two all season long.
This is the best. This isthe best one, you know, leadoff
hitter matchup in baseball that you're goingto find among two teams anywhere. So
there you go. Any predictions,keep the ball in the ballpark. That's
all I'm saying. This is RonaldCoon, you junior hitter. His first
bomb tonight, this series he does, he does. Yeah, I don't

(03:01:41):
know when, but this series hedoes. Boy. Yeah, better Spencer
than me. Yeah, but Ithink that the way that but he ought
to know that they're going to getthe other guys. Hey, you're facing
a lineup if you're Atlanta's staff,and Spencer knows that they're going to get
him some runs, right, Yeah, the way they're hitting. So he's

(03:02:01):
coming in when the team is hot. So this will be fun to watch.
Let's see the pitching, uh forthe Astros against the Braves. You
have Spencer Araghedtty, Hunter Brown JPFrance first day game on Wednesday, Yeah,

(03:02:22):
me too. Don't take day baseballover night baseball any day and twice
on Sunday. See what I didthere? A little doubleheader mix in?
Yeah, why not? I'm inlet's play too. Yeah. So air
Getty big start tonight, Hunter Brown. I mean, we'll talk more about
that tomorrow. But Hunter Brown hasgot to figure it out. Yeah,
and this isn't the team you wantto try to figure it out against that,
I wouldn't think. But maybe thisbrings out the best in him.

(03:02:45):
We'll see. Yeah, and thenof course JP France on Wednesday. Yep.
So hopefully arag Getty has a betterouting. Get give me, give
me six young man. He that'sit all for the he'd like to get
to for you. I'm sure enough, right, yeah, right, that's
it, dude. You got abetter than that one, don't you?
No, I don't. I don'tdo. I was kidding. Make me

(03:03:07):
enough, right, can't dot I'mnot I don't know. I'm not Brando.
That's not me. I can doa lot of other ones, but
not Brando. I'm gonna leave thatto you. You know what I always
say, Sean score more runs thanthe opposing team guarantees a win. Walk
softly, carry a big stick.Is it walk softly? What's what's it?
Speak softly? What's that one?I think it's walk softly? Yeah,

(03:03:30):
speak softly? Yeah? Put inthere speak softly and see what that
says, speak softly, carry abig stick. No, just put it
in and say, speak softly intoyour thing before I close this out.
Speak that's it. Just speaks softly. Yeah, just say speak softly and
see what. See what pops up? Big stick ideology. I'm not talking

(03:03:50):
about Dick Foles. Okay. Itsays, uh yeah, speak softly and
carry a big stick. Huh.Check that out. It means the idea
is negotiating peacefully but also having strengthin case things go wrong. Also known
as big stick ideology. I mean, just the world, just the word

(03:04:11):
Smith. There you go, alot of runs tonight for the Astros.
How's that? Yeah? They neededwell Okay, give me one prediction about
what do you gotta do. What'sthe biggest key to the game tonight scoring
more runs than the Braves, andwhat happens if they win the time.

(03:04:31):
Let's go with it. That's howwe're gonna end the show road with He's
Sean Salisbury, our producer Manuel Elmore, Triple E. I'm Brian Lilma.
Thank you for listening. We're backtomorrow morning at six am, but don't
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