Is Verlander The Answer The Astros Need?

Starting the season off on the IL list with elbow soreness in preparation for spring training and the season opener, Justin Verlander gears to make his first debut for the 2024 season this afternoon against the Nationals. Could Verlander be the answer the Astros needed to get the season rolling?

Episode Transcript

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Soulsby. Oh okay, let's dothis. Sean Salisbury, The usc Truth,
longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, BryanLima, go Lobos. This is
the Sewan Salisbury Show. NBA Playoffskicking off this weekend. Sean Tripley,

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Good morning, Funky Friday is onus? What's up? What's up?
So Funky Friday? We pretty muchgo anywhere we want a right, especially
with the cuts and everything. Speakingof cut, Tripley got his stuff up
in a nice man bund to day. Looks like he got his ears lowered.
He does, tightened up his eyebrowseron fleek. They are got a
bunch of white and earnest teeth.Is that some smell good? Odds?

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He got zoid? Is? What'shis name? I was gonna say,
what's he doing tonight? He is? It? Is he having a he
having the boys night? Or what? Oh? He came in. We
thought he had a fresh cut,tight this stuff all the parts are bam

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man. It's one turn bad budm. Next thing you know, we're
putting wax on his eyebrows, gotsome sporting wave in. He's good to
go, my guy, man,You look dude, he's tight though,
isn't he I can look at that. I couldn't pull I'll tell you what
that that when you get the forehead, you know when the when it got

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pulled back in the lineupneup tight.Yeah, man, whoever your barberos does
a hell of a job with thatcut. Dog appreciate it. Male or
female, it's a male, yeah, of course twisted? Yeah, of
course it is your hair retwisted.Did you get retwisted yesterday? Did you
get my hair cut from a male? Did you get? He said?

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Course? It is okay. Sobecause they can't, I can't pull that.
I used to be able to.I didn't wear it, but my
hair was good. Oh yeah,used to be able to. But I
don't think i'll pull it off quitelike tripley kid. Oh good, good.
Ahead of let us not to beconfused with tray cabbage. That's exactly
right. Yeah, I mean,let us and cabbage go together. And

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I'm going to tell you this,Yes, is one thing you'll never get.
Your eyebrows will never be quiet,My eyebros will never be quite on
fleek like his. I don't evenyeah, you know what I'm saying.
I don't even know I got Igot scars there and stuff where there's missing
stuff real early, Roger fresh?Really is Roger fresh? Out of it?

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Got going on? Roger, don'tcome on here talking to your hair
cuts better than Triple East because itisn't dog Okay, Damn he wanted to
talk about the Astros manager at sixo'clock in the morning. Why early,
Roger? They didn't even play yesterday, Roger, can I get part of
my coffee down before you start rollingup on a spot of this early in
the morning and tell him you wantto replace the dog on ema Doka?

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Okay, hey, Triple it doeslook good though, it does. Yeah,
I appreciate you. You're like TripleDid you notice he goes, well,
I get it twisted by a dude. I get it cut by a
woman. I got like like you'vegot a barbershop in his crib. Damn,
dude, how many are working onyour head? What a concierge service,
Triple Man? I didn't know hewas. That's got any opening?

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Can I sit in a chair toget mine done? Right? Dude?
Gracious? What you got what yougot on tap for this weekend? Ball
hall? I got a videography thingout there, college station? What are
you doing it's a tournament. Ithink it's a Didas tournament. Again,
is this seven on seven? Ithink it's full team different high schools there
is in college stations. It mightbe it's a big seven on seven turns.
It's a big seven on seven termsthere's that's the one that's in college.

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Yeah. That one Market Center oris it the Legends Event Center something
like? Is it an indoor facility? Yeah, okay, maybe not.
I don't know what that is either. Well, that's awesome, mano.
Legends Centers what you called it?Yeah, it's like it's like it's a
basketball tournament. Oh okay, wetalk you talking about that. They do
have the big one and I thinkit's later in the year. Yeah,
it's like summertime at college station.Yeah. That that park out there,

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that's seven on seven time I wentout there. First time I went out
there. Do you know who's playing? No, Kyle uh from from Allen.
I want to say Kyle Allen,No, Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray
was out there really Yeah. Itwas his going into his last year and
he's pretty good players. Yeah,that's seven on seven. You got to
watch them and if if you're notcareful to ruin your mechanics. You get

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caught up and trying to win asopposed to playing to get better for Friday
nights. You know, it's afine line, but it's farting to watch
a ton of teams everywhere and theywear those really cool hat looking things.
You know what I mean. Theprotection. Yeah, it's called it's called
like like a shell, a softshell. Yeah, protect from concussions.
Camps everywhere. You gotta wear thosenow, I mean all over the place.

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That's what we're doing. Yes,it is really Yeah, guys fall
and you wear one when you're trainingquarter I wear when I coach. Yeah,
yeah, I just stand back.I just like to look. You
want your players to the person outthe head of their trainer as a coach.
Oh, there's no doubt. Ilike it. I wear it sometimes
I'm in the sheets too. Doyou that that the Burger King masks?

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Why? But I'm getting really freaky, you know, it's what. It's
a zoidified Friday, just like wakeup. What you know? You're sitting
there and all a sudden boom,you got the Burger King mask on.
You look yourself in the mirror.Kilo's running scared tan opus. They're all
like, what the hell is wrongwith this mom's name? Her mom's name

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would be her mom's name would beShery, right, Yeah, but I
just, uh, I I justyou know, sometimes I like to sometimes
walk down the street with the Burgerking mask on. Well you've done it
with adjacent mask before around the corner. Yeah, one of the times,
like I said, you're gonna godown some side road, some unpaid road,

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and then I'm gonna just be stayingon the side of it with one
of those what's the man like thehorsehead? That's a freaky one. You
know what I'm saying, I'm stayingwith the horse head. The next thing,
you know, you'll say, well, Sean's no longer the show.
He got shot on Halloween night ahorse A horse head? Really yeah,
that horsehead. Imagine coming out andif I'm down and somebody shoots me and

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on Halloween because they got a horsehead on, then you'll just probably come
by and kick me because you liketo be horse Yeah, makes sense.
So wait a bit. If youwear like another it's like you're wearing a
Wildebeests mask. He said that forhis d If I've said there all of
a sudden. I let's say Igot a wildebeest mask on and you hit

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me. Somebody shoots me for scaringhim on Halloween and you walk by.
What would that be? You kickme? It's like beating a dead wilde
be I think that the same,though that harder if you think about it,
so you might hit harder. BeHey, let's start using that scene
if it takes whatever you say itlike in serious to say. Okay,
listen, you know, like theold I'm going to talk about this ad

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nauseum. We're just going to beatthe dead will to be Can we refer
to that? Is that from nowon? Spare the horses? Yeah,
we'll spare the horse. Speaking ofwitch, spare me another loss tonight.
Let's get on the road. Let'sdo this. I will say they didn't
lose last night. But you knowwhat, that's a real that's kind of
a defeatist attitude by you, mistermotivational speech, like you'll give one hundred

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and ten percent today's Friday. Sooh so you're just you're mailing it in
no no, no, no notalking attitude wise did not care anybody.
They just roll gives a solo inthe first Oh, well, would be
the first time focus on the nextpitch and didn't get to Did you just
say focused on the next you haveto put the rear view mirror away exactly.

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Yeah, I feel you, Dog, Yeah, I feel you.
We'd would be great to have himcome out and pitch a gym. What
what's what's what constitutes really good forhim tonight? Eighty five pitches, five
and two thirds innings. I wasgonna say, yeah, between five and
six innings, he gets to getthrough. He gets through six innings and

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the scores four to two, three, three, four to two. Uh
astros consider that a successful go right? Yeah? And obviously you want to
know about location, how many peoplehe walked and stuff that I don't expect
many, do you? He prettygood with his location, but he's he's
a fly ball pitcher and depending onyou know, I don't know what the

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weather is going to be like inwashingtonight, But is his personal centerfielder going
to play tonight, Dubon? Yeah? Is that still exist? Well,
Dusk, he's no longer the managers, I don't know. And we haven't
seen it this year because JV hasn'tstarted the game. Yet we'll see.
I imagine you're gonna look into theanalytics of who's pitching for them and what
that matchup looks like for your players. See what the weather is tonight up

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in the Washington, d C.Great Ballpark. Great Ballpark be a little
chilly this evening, So the airis not? Is it? No heavy
air tonight? A little too earlyfor that there, huh And so I
I it'll be as a coastal floodadvisory up there. Yeah, one thing
you don't need for him now,another day's rest wouldn't hurt, but you'd

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like for him. I'm sure he'sgeared up mentally, sixty two degrees at
the first pitch. That's perfect pitchingweather, ten hour wins perfect. Just
have him blow in, not outif you're vern Lander. But this,
this is a series. They needto go win, and I mean partially,
I mean I'm talking about and putit on them harshly, send a
message. This is a this isa series. They gotta go sweet Yeah,

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energy good energy boost for Verlander.And then they go where again,
Colorado. They take on the Rockiesin Mexico City in between be that's their
second part of this series. MH. Okay, and that's uh,
is that where we expect didn't DanaBrown say the series two that we see
in the next ten days, Sothat would be where where fromber probably pitches
supposed to come back? Okay?So then and then who they got is

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then who's there? Who's there?Other? That's a two gamer? And
then they got a three gamer?W after that? Is it an eight
game road trip? Is that whatit is? So they play four somewhere?
I mean three two three, isn'tit? Oh no, I'm sorry.
They've got Chicago, that's right.So they go Washington, Washington,
then they travel to Chicago. Thenthey've got the Mexico City, and then

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they come home. Right, Soit's an eight games and a chance that
they should really be able to putsome get themselves back in that mix.
Right have you been to before?I have? Man, I sure have
only been to Wrigley during the holidaysfor like the Wrigleyville where they turn all
the bars into Christmas bars, right, phenomenal. Yeah, it is the

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stuff for around the ballparks. Justa great time. You want to have
a good time, spend time ina spring game. Uh, a spring
game, it's like going to Fenway, right, you really feel where it's
all the action and Lewis Atlanta right, Caskan flagging. You can call it
cactus, but it's casking oh Is. Yeah, that's that's cool though.
But for me, I I absolutelyaround there. It's just a great It's

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something you know, it's an allday affair. You get there early,
have breakfast because then they open upand they're serving their cold beer and uh,
let's go. So it's a it'sa good fun place to be and
it's just a ballpark. Whether you'rea Cubs fan or not, you gotta
go watch it out there. Yeah. So we've got plenty of astros to
get into. Also, there's beenmultiple Houston Texans new jerseys leak where you

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at on that one high on ityou want to like really get into jersey
gate. No, I'm really notto me, to me, one little
striper, one little change and stuff, unless it's a full, blatant,
blown I'm okay with that. ButI normally I'm not into the you know,
did I get giddy over uniform changes? Yeah, it's like the logo.

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I like a lot of old schooluniforms. Anyway, Yeah, I
think back in the day when someof these they still I saw that old
Raiders uniform where it's like they havethe grayish white pants and the white gray
they're like the silver whites when Isay gray silk and because it's silver and
black, and then the white jerseyswith the silver numbers on it. And
I saw those old school It's likeStabler, Darryl Lamonica and George Bland in

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a picture when Stabler was a rookie. I think that that's my type of
uniform. I like the Love YouBlues. I mean, I'm into that.
So I don't usually get all toouh too caught up in the uniform
changes unless they're blatantly different. Yeah, they're pretty. They're pretty different from
that I did. I didn't lookon purpose because I know you were going
to break it out. Yeah,it's it's uh, I don't know.

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Cal mcnera opposed with his dog yesterdaywith one of the new hats on.
Nice there's a new h that heput on the hat. Is it a
takeover? It could be all right, it could be an age town takeover?
There you go, you know what. We do also love we love
going to break Astros Houston. Yeah, all across the lone Star stage.
Yeah yeah, I got you.Let's look at the pitching rotation for the

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Astros. If there is ever atime to get a sweep, it is
this weekend. Let's look at itan next on Sports Talk seven to ninety