Astros Lose Again To Mariners, Texans OTAs, MLB Rankings

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Saulsbury. Okay, let's do this. Sewn Salisbury, The USC Truths,
longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, BryanLima, go Lobos. This is the
Sewan Salisbury Show, Wild Off Seasonfour. The Chiefs so far, Sean

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Tripley, good morning, what atough one. Justin Verlander really really good
and yet they can't get a W. They didn't need a W last night,
Sean, No, they sure didn't. And I listened to bullpen other
than what happened in the tenth inningwas outstanding for both teams. The bullpen
in the tenth unfortunately didn't work out. And you get a hit and a

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couple of walks and then pushed themby, Hey, what a novel concept.
They pushed them all the right sideof the infield, get a guy
to third base and you sacrifice flyhim home. Crazy for the win,
I don't know, and you onlyneed a win? By wrote one run
right, novel concept? Yeah,there you go, so big and then
big, you know, big sacrificefly by. Crawford and Verlander and Kirby

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were both lights out last night.What a great pitching duel that was.
And now you've lost three in arow, and once again now It's what
do they always say, Good pitchingbeats good hitting, and if you're not
hitting great throughout the lineup, goodpitching can dominate average hitting. And Verlander
did his thing, Kirby did histhing, and they were just one better.

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And they the timing of it wasperfect, and they got the right
hit at the right time, andthe ball didn't even land in play.
It was just a simple sacrifice flylifted it far enough to get the runner
home. And now you've lost threein a row to the number one team
in the division, so h gotto try to salvage one today. So
they're six and a half back now. Verlander last night, seven innings,

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three hits, just one earned run, he walked one, struck out nine
ninety eight pitches. Brian A.Bray, you clean inning, struck out
the side. Josh Hater, gaveup a hit and a walk, but
three k's, and then of courseTaylor Scott got the lost two thirds of
an inning, gave up that run, two walks. Gotta love the uh

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the Manford man. You know whatI mean, Bobby Manfred? Huh,
what's wrong with Bobby Manfred? What'snot wrong with him? It's probably drunk
right now. Whoa what? Ohyou can't put that on. A nice
haircut, by the way, thankyou, nice haircut. I got my
ears lowered. Yeah you got aball cut. Yeah, you know,
would you get a haircutse somebody tellsyou the wouldn't got a haircut, that's

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a lie. And somebody literally gotone haircut. That's a flat ass lie.
Yeah. I'm glad you noticed.Triple walked in here and said what's
up, good morning, and thenjust walked out. Man. You know
we said what he said. Hesaid, good morning, light day today,
give us our reeds, our redsheet, and then that's it.
Man, He just looked at meand walked out. Didn't notice the something

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I got? You didn't notice hewould have had a bun or when he
got his twist. Yeah right,Uh, well, apparently there's a you
see where you stand in the inthe whole uh, in the whole uh
food chain of life. I guessman, man, the bottom feet er
you are damn yeh. He treatedyou like man, like you know you

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non existent. Cared more about thesheet that he handed you than the sheet
we got to go through today.It's cold, pretty cold, a six
four in the morning. Why areyou so down on Bobby Manfred? You're
gonna look at me and say,why are you not? Actually, it's
funny because as a part of myprep sheet here, I've got some audio

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from Scott van Pelt. He's nota fan of the ghost runner rule and
extra innings. Go figure all.I think the day that came out,
it's the biggest gimmick in baseball rightnow, the very big biggest. It's
a. It's a it's a youmight as well have a controller at home
and playing a video game. Grownass men for a thing that was cod

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that was invented because of COVID.Because apparently in the tenth inning, germs
get you more than they do inthe eighth. Okay, yeah, apparently.
Okay, I'm surprised they just didn'tstart issuing shots over there by the
first base in the first base batter'sbox. Grab yourself a vax and let's
go play baseball. Get the hellout of here. Okay, Okay,

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So if you did that temporary becauseyou're worried that ooh, your immune system
lets down when the clock strikes tenoh one or tenth inning, then man,
let's make sure that if you're goingto implement a rule, can't you
just as quickly get rid of it? You can? Why are we still
doing this now? Listen? Isaid this earlier in the year. At
some point in time, the Astrosare going to beat somebody in the tenth

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inning, which they have and it'sgoing to be because of that rule,
and it's going to piss their fanbase off. I don't care Seattle would
have lost last night by this.I'd still say it's such a gimmick.
And so it's so amateur hour baseballit is. It's pathetic. It is

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absolutely pathetic that we do this.Why in the world, Oh, are
you worried? Also in baseball?Now you're gonna give me the same excuse.
Football gives us the reason why overtimesare like they are because you're afraid
somebody is gonna get extra hurt becausethey're a little more tired. So in
baseball now, is that why?Or are are we still on the Well?
You know what we put in?Who likes the rule? If you

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got to play fifteen innings as agrown man making seven and a half eight
million, ten million, twenty fivemillion bucks a year, guess what,
Oh, well, you're not goingto miss your flight. You want to
know why the flight doesn't leave withoutyou. It's called a charter, a
team owned charter play flight, Sosave it. And I don't care that

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if they're tired the next day andit's a day game, you know what.
That's why you got twenty five,twenty six, thirty of them.
Whatever. Theost is extended to theplash, that's why we do it.
Oh well, okay, I thinkit is the biggest gimmick. And somebody
can come in here and say,oh, that's old head. Think great,
and I'll live with it. Itis a bush league way to win
a game, and it's a bushleague way to lose a game. And

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in truth, if the rule sitsthere, you win it. Seattle took
care of the rule last night,but I cannot stand it. I've never
been able to stand it. Thatshould never change. You play extra innings
till somebody wins. You don't needto give me a ghost runner like we
did when we were in the seventhgrade little league Saturdays when our buddies went
to the ballpark when there was nogames. We're just playing over there.

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Hey, put the ghost runner onthird. If you hit in the air,
it's an automatic sacrifice fly for abait for a run. Just stop
it. If you hit it tothe left side of the n phillies out.
If you hit the right side,he scores. Okay, that's just
stuff we did back in the seventiesand the eighties in the Little league.
And it wasn't even in a littleleague. It was when we were doing
with our buddies because we didn't haveenough players on the field, and we're

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doing this with grown men because ofif you did it for that temporary season,
great, twenty twenty one's a newyear. Twenty twenty two is a
new year. You got in it, you implement it. Get rid of
this Mickey Mouse clown show rule nomatter who it favors, and get out
because I got news for you.That COVID thing could care less what time

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of day it was, whether itexisted or not. Okay, So you
weren't getting sicker at two in themorning than you were at nine in the
app and the nine in the morning. It's a joke, okay, telling
me that the vibe it hovers worse. You got to get home, lock
up your windows in the drive home, because at eleven o'clock it would have
crept through your air conditioning more thanit would have at nine o'clock if we'd

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ended the game in ten innings andnot fifteen. Just stop it, Just
stop feeding me the crap. Okay, So that's why that rule was implemented.
It was every It was wasn't discussedin my that I can ever remember
before then, No, it wasnot. Guess what, and if it's
one of those games you've used upyour pitchers and your short stop has to
pitch, I hope your shortstop's gota Carlos Krey arm, which most and

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not a Jake Myer's arm, andcenter Fiel hopefully didn't have a water gun.
That's right. So yeah, I'mwith fan telim with anybody. You'll
never ever, at any point intime convince me that that rule was smart
then or smart now. Yeah.This is uh. This is Scott Van
Pelt on ESPN on Sports Center.He was breaking down the Dodgers in Mets
game, which was an extra innings. Look, squeezes that we had it

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to extras. Still do that stupidthing where there's a runner onto the face.
Why do we It's just stupid.It's not a word like the kids
aren't supposed to say the word inelementary school. Well, I'm saying it's
stupid. Mookie Betts break pretty spoton, my man, Scott. You

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might have had the astros of theover. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I SVP is exactly right. It'sthe dumbest rule we have, maybe one
of the dumbest in sports, butthe most elementary school childish. It's just
a dumb ass rule. These grownmen can play an extra two innings and
three and if it takes eighteen,I don't know what to tell you.

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We used to do it. Oh, so that's right when in an N
eighty Dave Parker was more prepared toplay eighteen innings then while he smoked a
grid in between innings. Then thenthen Kyle Tucker is just stop it,
just stop it. Get rid ofthis mickey mouse rule, and anybody who
wants to keep it in there,replace them too. I don't know even

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why they extended it, meaning,you know, to continue on with this
rule optics. I don't know why. Well, yeah, okay, so
so I didn't even like it.Then, Oh you had to stay up
a little later because just just stopit. Maybe you didn't want to watch
ballp you know, watch baseball inthe eleventh inning, twelfth inning, when
nobody was allowed in the ballpark.So you just played it to an inch.
So he just got over quicker.I don't know, but just as

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easy in the Austin. Hey,we're fine, let's go back. We're
we're not doing that. We're notrequiring you to do this anymore. We're
playing regular baseball, big boy baseball. That's not big boy baseball. That's
not even a little kid baseball.That's that's invented stuff that nobody wants to
play, to play with whether youno matter whose side you sit on,
as far as your team, whenyour team wins it or loses, it
doesn't matter. That's the worst rulewe have in baseball. And we got

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some bad rules in sports, buddy, and that's one of them. I'm
just trying to find an explanation onwhy they extended it. They didn't give
you an explanation. I just theythink it's good for baseball. Listen,
and when you pitch like those twoguys did last night, this is what
you get for it. A guygiving up a sacrifice fly. It's just

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I dare anybody to call I meanto I'm curious who likes this rule.
Well, I want to go tobed, so I want the game to
in. Well, you know what, maybe you just have to tape it,
or do we call it tape itanymore? We dvr are Yeah,
so maybe you just DVR it andyou rewatch it the next day so the
rest of us can actually watch goodbaseball, real baseball, earned baseball.
That's not you didn't earn it,man, But that's basically kind of the

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way things are set up all theway around, not just in baseball then,
right, don't have to earn itto get it? No? Well,
yeah, not in today's day andage. Justin Verlander pitched his ass
off, not enough as the Astrosfell in next rings to the Mariners two
to one. Let's hear from JustinVerlander and his outing. He had some
pretty interesting things to say. Let'stalk about it next on Sports Talk seven
ninety. Let's go. This isthe Sean Salisbury Show. It's a day

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game three ten, the first pitch, two o'clock on deck show. Right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety,your home for Astros baseball. You listening
to the Sewn Salisbury Show. SeanBrown and Triple Y Tough sleddon Man,
tough, tough Sledden still got tohitch sixty six games to get to it's

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not happening. Yeah, it's nothappening. Now they'll have to go,
what's that sixty six twenty sixty?No, it's more than that, isn't
it? Well, what do yousay yesterday? Sixty six, sixty six
and twenty one? If I'm nothow many games we played so far?
Mathe and mathod for me right now, math a math If it ain't mathod,

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I can look at the standings rightnow for twenty four and thirty two.
Okay, so fifty six sixty gamesget you we're already more than a
third of the way through the series. Next games left, about ten games
past one hundred. You know,fifty would get you one hundred and fifty
games, So fifty you know thefifty four mark. Fifty four is the

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mid the third point, So they'repast the third of the season. They
gotta go, what'd you say?They got to carry the sixty six and
twenty the rest of the way.Sixty I think it was sixty six.
It was twenty one yesterday, Sothat's that's a tough sledging dude, sixty
six and twenty one. That's twentythree games over I mean, that's twenty

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five games over five hundred. Yeahthey got they got sixty six more wins?
Is it twenty five games over fivehundred? Am I right there?
What's let's see twenty one and twentyfive. No, it's let's see if
you're sixty six and twenty one,sixty six plus twenty one and so you'd
have to get seven, right,So what's half? What's what's the difference
between twenty one and sixty six.I'm just doing the math, and my

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bottom line is you'd have to goyou're forty five, that's right. So
now, so it's about twenty three, So twenty two and a half games
over for that, that's the difference. So to plea over five hundred,
be like twenty three games over fivehundred, you gotta play, yeah,
beteen twenty three and twenty five gamesover five and somewhere in that range.
Right either way, either way nothappening. I don't think so not.
You can you can say, well, they're talented enough to get there,

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but we can't keep saying that.And just like as much as I love
having Dana On and he's right aboutyou know, where's the end of the
row? All the things that hetells us. And I think he's going
to be right about Kyle Tucker gettingpaid big and hopefully staying here. And
he's kicking it around a little bit, struggling a little bit more at the
plate, but he'll he'll always he'llget it in bunches. Not worried about

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him. But he's right about alot of things that we agree with.
But the thing that I disagree withis that how much longer do you keep
saying we've got plenty of time?You got a plenty of time, you
know, plenty, plenty of plentyof time, your way into twelve games
out of first place. That's whyI always ask when the threshold is for

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some I can't I'm sorry to tellyou, I don't believe that when you
sixty games into a season, Ipersonally don't think did There's there's a lot
of time. I mean I don't. I think there's got to be a
sense of urgency. And I thinkthat was twenty games ago. Can you
of course, you're still what sixand a half, seven and a half

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out? I understand that, butI don't like when we talk about the
Abrallu experiment or getting these gout.How long do you continue? When is
the I guess if you're not mathematicallyeliminated, we can sit here and say
there's always a chance. But it'sthe optics of the way you're playing that
also tell me if you're good enoughto reel off twenty five games over five

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hundred the rest of the way.The way they're playing absolutely says no back
to back game. Do you knowhow many runs they've scored in this series?
Five? Five runs? You wantto hear the beating. You're not
beating Oakland five runs, and Iknow they're not. You don't face good
pitching staffs like this in the series. You gotta hit them. They're eighteen
for one hundred in the series,with just two extra base hits, thirty

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three strikeouts and four walks. They'veonly walked four times in this series and
struck out thirty three times while scoringfive runs. Yeah, so so the
optics tell you there's no there's noway this team goes twenty five, you
know, twenty three, twenty fourto twenty five games or five hundred.

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The next eighty they struck out fourteentimes yesterday, and so I don't and
listen, he's a hell of apitcher, but there's hellified pitchers in every
set. After Kirby won two,three, four, five, they roll
through five different arms. The mannersdid right still and still we're able to
carve out a run. But itwas early in the game. And I

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say early was fourth or fifth?Any night? Fourth? Yeah, there
you go. So I don't,I just listen. It's not the frustration
that they can't. Of course theycan. We can say that all in
what I don't even think we shouldneed we need to qualify it anymore.
This team, the way they're playing, the inconsistency of it against especially against
really good teams, cannot tell youthat all we still got forty games leeway.

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No, you actually don't. No, you did not, because while
you got to chase the team down, you're also going to expect a team
like Seattle in Texas to go through. While you going through all those winning
streaks, Dana said, there's fourmore winning streaks in them, so he
said yesterday, then you've got tohope that there's four more losing streaks in
Seattle or Texas along the way correct. Yeah, So that's you're asking a

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lot and the start, and hedid mention this their start put them in
a major bud. So if it'sabout it is, hey, it's a
marathon. The problem is in amarathon, if you're two miles down in
a twenty six point two marathon andthe guy in front of you, you
have to expect the guy in frontof you who's running a sub what are
they running now? Two hour marathons? Is that what they're running right around

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there? So you're running a twohour marathon if you're two miles down to
start the first five miles into themarathon, just what you're not doing.
You're not winning the America cause thatmeans you have to run. Then you
got to run a sub one thirtymarathon and the guy behind you has to
decide he's going to run a sixminute mile the rest of the way in.
So when I that's why it chapsmy ass. No matter whether it's

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football or baseball or basketball, whenevereverybody says, hey, it's not how
you start, it's how you finishwell. If you're twelve games out or
fifteen games under five hundred, whenyou start, how you finish may not
matter either. So those first thirtygames always say, hey, the first
thirty games a lot of season didmatter. Why seven and nineteen or whatever

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it is. Now you're in afull blown chase mode the whole time and
announce you don't get to just controlit. You got it. The other
guy now has to go through aseven and nineteen or one of those type
of streaks somewhere in the middle oftheir season to bring them back to the
pack. And then you know it'snot just one team. If you got

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two or three teams in front ofit, they also have to go through
it. So to me, thestart of this season and then what's it
do? It adds to major pressure. You start to squeeze a little more,
not squeeze, but but squeeze thebad a little harder. Everything you
start, you grip more. Youjust do everybody does. When there's that,
it's like studying for a test.Didn't study it's a hall semester long.

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You knew when the test was,you knew when the final was.
Now it's tomorrow and you're like,uh, now you gotta pull an all
night. And then when you goto class after an all night or you're
miserable, right, and you're sittingthere. Then you're scrambling my memories fogged
out. I gotta have a wholepot of coffee, and then you're sick
during the test because you drank coffeeand you gotta go drop trial. You
see where the whole ball gets rollingdown the hill. It's the same thing

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here. Now, Oh, keephim in longer, do this. It
just leads to fast starts. I'mconvinced fast finishes are great. But you
can win four in a row atthe end in a football season. But
if you're two and eight, guessso that makes you six and eight and
you're still not going to the playoffswith three games to go. Yeah,
you're still blow five. That's exactlyright. So the pressure is you got

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to come out smoking. And whileit's still obviously can happen and may very
well happen. But the team Iwatch in consistently against good teams now ain't
rolling. It ain't going twenty fiveover five. Matter of fact, I'll
make this bet to you. Idon't know if body in baseball, and
I'm talking about the Philadelphia Phillies too, are going twenty five games over five

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hundred from the All Star break on. Does that make fair? Yeah,
I'll make you that bet. Thatwould mean twenty five games over five hundred.
Let's just say when you get tothe midway point eighty one games.
Yeah, so to go twenty fivegames over five hundred for eighty one games
to go when we get to themidway point. You know what kind of
do you know what kind of baseballthat is? It's insane hoping nobody gets

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hurt, your stars keep playing great. You just you put yourself in a
chase one and it's gonna be likethis the whole year. They will be
chasing the whole year if they ifthey pull it out, it ain't gonna
be in July. It's gonna haveto be late, and you're gonna have
to tax your ass trying to getthere, and it's gonna be a fight
attacks too. You ever heard ofthat fight attack? Yeah? Yeah,
okay, yeah, not good.Yeah. You don't want that ass tax?

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No, you don't, You reallydon't. Is that the only thing
you can tax though? That ass? Yeah, you can't tax anything else
like popping a cap. You onlypop a cap in the ass or bust
a cap, But you can't youcan't bust it to shoulder. No,
it's not. It's in the Yeah. So when you tax it, you
don't. Oh bet he taxed myback. Yeah no, no, did
you you see what Sam did?Yeah, uncle said he taxed the back
of my head. Yeah, hetaxed my shoulder. No, he tax

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that ass. Okay, And thatthat's that's that's taking all your money when
you got to when you've got towin that many over five hundred, they're
taking about sixty percent of your coin. You want talking about tough sledding.
I mean, Uncle Sam's already doingthat anyways, you know. Yeah,
So well then now you've got adouble dip Sam and both are taxing that
ass winning games that many over fivehundred and Sam, they've lost six out

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of their last nine, and threeof them are against Oakland and the wins
in the wind call him correct?Yeah? Am I am? I right
about that? Or two of them, two of them in the last yeah,
sorry, two, Yeah, that'sright. So yeah, because they
two have three against Oakland. Right. Yeah, it's the good because you
don't play bad teams in the playoffs, but getting there is going to be

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and this is such a talented team, but just goes to show you if
you're not healthy and you're not puttingit together, it doesn't matter. No.
I mean you look at just froma purebox score standpoint, Kyle Tucker
oh for four with three k's lastnight, John Singleton oh for four with
two strikeouts, Chasmo oh for fourwith a strikeout, Janni r. Diez
one for three with two strikeouts,Jordon two hits but two strike I mean,

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just up and down, fourteen strikeouts, and here's what sometimes you'll get.
We all like to build this excusethat, hey, we only lost
by run. I don't think there'sa fourth category got win loss. Matter
of fact, there's not a third. I don't think there's ties. Nope.
And I also don't think there's afourth category like they used to have
in hockey. Well, they keptclose, so they get a point.

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No, there's no point for it. Sixty games from now, it's just
gonna say that we got swept inSeattle. If they don't take care of
their business today, they got totake care of business today. Justin Verlander
spoke to the media. What didhe say? What's gousing next? In
sports? Tuck seven to eighty theShawn Salisbury show continued Ricks and t Wolves

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Game five in Minneapolis tonight, tWolves trying to extend that series. Celtics
await the winner in the NBA Finals. Seven one, three, two,
five, seven to ninety is thenumber to join. Let's get out to
the phone lines continue to talk aboutthis Astros loss. Billy, good morning,
Good morning guys. H wow,where's the offense? Uh? The

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pitchings there? I said that afew days ago. I've come very confident
that it would be. And theoffense is like gone. Uh, Tucker
is not only was not only overfour last night, but he's over the
series. And we're excited because Alvarezgets a couple of singles and you can't

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move a runner. Sean, I'mone hundred percent with you. It's a
dumb rule. But Seattle didn't haveany problems with moving the runner to third
with less than two outs. Butwe can't. So we're gonna we're gonna
pull everything. You got a guyup there in Chaz who's got an off
field swing. No, he rollsover and pulls the ball. What in

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the world is going on with thisoffense. There's no alt Be, there's
no Tucker, there's no Alpais.Bregman hasn't been there the whole season.
Paine is no no longer know whereto be seen. I just don't get
it. This offense is way toogood to be doing this. It's ridiculous,
and you're right, time is short. If if there is any more
time, I don't even I'm noteven sure if I believe that there is

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any more time. Uh, they'rethey're gonna play well, but they're finding
ways to lose. My big concernand it's not any decisions that are being
made, but a team takes onthe personality of their manager. Football teams
take on the personality of their headcoach, and this team is doing that.

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And maybe that laid back mindset,where it might fit well in the
clubhouse, doesn't fit well in thefield. And is that part of the
problem. Maybe I'm maybe I'm readinginto it. No, Billy, I'll
tell you this. I think you'respot on a lot of it. And
our guy, you know, Larry, our Appo Taco Larry who always talks
about hitting the ball the other way, and he'd been coming on this show

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for years, and then when wetalked to Dana and he said, hit
the ball the other hit the ballthe other way, and they are trying
to pull everything and it has Wekid about it, but it's become a
problem. And the other thing isyou hit it. This team finds ways
to lose. In the past,what have they always done found ways to
win? That's exactly those games.Are the Astros win that game three to
two? Absolutely? And they werementally tough. This was a mentally tough

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team. Right now they're mental midgets. And this is horrible. It's so
many different ways and inexcusable. Thetalent that is on this team one through
nine. I don't care which nineyou put up there, and stop the
crap. I'm sorry, not youguys, but fans, stop the crap
about du Bond. He sucks againstright handed pitching. Look at the numbers.
I know you don't want to hearback of the baseball cards, but

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he's not good against right handed pitching. So Sbot is not going to put
him in against a good right handedpitcher. But my goodness, Kyle Tucker,
you want to be an MVP,you want to be played like a
great player. Fine, in gameslike this against tough pitching, play like
a great player. I mean,you were exposed in the postseason against great
pitching. You did nothing last yearin the postseason. This year you come

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up against good, against average orbad or good pitching and you rake.
But you get a come up againstgreat pitching like this and you can't even
You can't produce anything. You can'teven move a runner. This is so
frustrating, the most frustrating season I'veseen in a number of years. And
I just don't know what to thinkabout him. And I'm an Astros fan,
true and true Benson's nineteen seventy four, but this is probably the most

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frustrating season that I've been through inall these years. And thanks guys for
the rant. I appreciate it.Yeah, and I think I understand.
I think they're called little people justinstead of the instead of the airwork.
Yeah, they might be. Isthat what is the proper turn now?
Little people? I think it's littlepeople a little shorter than you? Yeah,

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a little Yeah you want to goto the gospel, No, don't
go there. Do not use UrbanDictionary when it comes to describing somebody a
little shorter or vertically challenged? Okay, is that what you do is that
it too vertically challenged? Is thatreally a challenge to be shorter. I
mean sometimes there's there there's places thatbeing tall is even a bigger challenge of

(27:37):
being shorter. Right, that wordis considered highly offensive and derogatory, and
a more correct and respectful term fora very short person is known as little
person, person of short stature,or person with dwarfism. I don't think
Billy did not mean it harder.I know, you're just kind of tongue
in cheek. Yeah, you're notright, he admitted harshly. But I

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don't think you go up to somebodyand say, what was the last one?
Again, the last dwarf is.I don't think you're going to and
say, well, you know aguy who was challenged with dwarfism, right,
I don't think they say you Ina sentence he would describe it,
Yeah, it's like, oh,it's like you're you know, you're talking
about uh Bill down the hall,not here, but you know, in
your office, and guys like,who's Bill? Oh, Bill, it's

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the guy with dwarfsm. So whenyou say he's a mentally challenged like challenge,
I'm talking about when you when yousaid meant what you said vertically.
I said vertically challenged or when theysay a mental M word. Correct.
So what do you say he's astature person. Yeah, mental dwarfism.
Yeah, because it's described honestly today. So if you feel like the mentally,

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that your mental dwarf. Yeah,that's yeah. He says the dwarf
is acceptable in twenty twenty four bysaying, you like the runner on second
basis, start the tenth inning.That's mental dwarfism. Is I don't I
don't like No, no, youdon't like it. Okay, So I,
uh but I don't think Billy betterI know he didn't. That's a

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very uh, it's a very youknow that that was back in the Billy
Bardi days, who was one ofthe most of all, one of the
most famous uh shorter people of alltime and a legendary actor and was in
a lot of movies. That's howyou were referred to it. Yeah,
that's how referred to we used.We use that term. I still use
that term when talking about baseball quitea bit. I think a lot of

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people do just and not to bedisreptive, Yeah, I was mental.
What do you say, So,if you're a mental M word, you're
ment that sounds that sounds so thatsounds wrong. It does sounds wrong.
Billy's right about but I mean you'renot a mental little person. Well,

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how how about you just smaller thanthe rest than somebody else? You're a
little shorter. Hey, that's fine. I mean he's got a little bit
less I Q. No, no, maybe maybe you crack under pressure.
I don't know, you don't havethe mental fortitude. Is that better?
Yeah, little dude, little guy, yeah you have. You have your

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short sighted mentally, maybe that where'syour bandwidth? Your your mental bandwidth?
This challenge? Yeah, that couldbe. Yeah, your vertical height is
your vertical bandwidth this challenge? Ormaybe you're just soft? Describe something different
though? Okay, but yeah whatever, Wait what what's being described different?
When you say when you're soft?I mean when you say soft, it's

(30:37):
different than soft as it's hard toput in hot. Oh yeah, mentally
soft? Oh yeah, no doubtabout it. Mentally? Uh Billy meantute
kind though I know, well hedidn't mean it kind. He was pissed.
But you mean it against uh littlepeople? There you go. Okay,
somebody shorter than me to me atsix three, you're still your little

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first, I'm just kidding. Yeah, don't Yeah, I don't enjoy standing
next to you. I mean,I do you know your dog? My
dog, you know dogs. Tripleywas my dog until this morning when he
just you know, wow, Ijust came in amazing tripley. Huh how
he just didicted the bustoss little bustscrazy arm wow shoven reverse yeah twice.

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Yeah, tough man, that istough. Let's look at runners in scoring
position for the Astros. Where hasthe offense gone? Next? Sports Talk
seven eighty Hello haters from LA toNew York, Parker Rop and kiss hour
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(31:45):
your Astros still twenty seventeen chips outabout it sewn Salisbury Show continues right now
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Celtics in the NBA Finals. Sevenone three two one two five seven ninety
Phone lines lighting up Astros lose.Let's get out to the phone lines and
talk to Robert, Robert, welcomein. Good morning guys. Hey,
Triple Ley, don't don't worry aboutLima. He's a you're you're a producer.
You put that show together. Uh, he's he's a prima donna.

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Man, what did he say?He said? Hey, say again,
Robert. No, I'm saying Lima'skind of a prima donna, the one
people with other men due. Idon't know, no, no, hold
on, let me set the rector. Good point man, and I don't
want to. I don't want tocompliment, complimented on it. What douchebag

(32:52):
I am? Whoa. I'm justthankful for Triple That's all I got.
I hate what great to talk toyou, Robert. Have a great day,
buddy. Good to see you.Hey, what a stupid rule.
I agree with vampell, I agreewith y'all. Winston Churchill wants to I'm
not very smart. I had togoogle this. But never let a good

(33:12):
crisis go to waste. It seemslike the MLB, MLB use COVID to
get that in place just for fanattraction, and I don't know it's And
you're right, Sean, you madea good point, man. You pitch
a gym like like Berlander did,and then you put a ghost runner on
second base and it's like, comeon, it's frustrating, But I digress,

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Sean. So we've got a twentyfour hour sports and news cycles nowadays.
Maybe it maybe wouldn't have been thesame when you were playing. But
did you ever sit in the lockerroom with your guys or and hear the
take of a radio guy, TVguy and go, this guy has no
idea what's going on every day?Damn near? Yeah, oh yeah,

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Or a newspaper article that was ina pick, not a fact, you
know, like a column written notevery day. But yes, I'm being
a little hyperbolic, but there's nodoubt you'll be sitting around like at lunch,
you know when when when you're betweenmeetings, and some ESPN show would
come on and say, this guyhas zero clue, that's not anything near
what we talked about in this lockerroom or what happened, and yet yelling

(34:22):
and screaming at the TV, yesall the time, and you'd laugh at
him, not with him. Yes, absolutely, yeah. And I'm just
as passionate as any other fan,and I sometimes I have to think things
are coming out of my mouth going, I have zero idea. It's fun
though, So I'm I love allthe twenty four hour stuff and I loved
it all of my favorite show,but I love that there's shows like this.

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And like the caller before Billy,he's a sharp guy and he calls
in quite a bit, and he'ssaying the team takes on the the personality
of their manager, and I agreewith that, but I would also think
that to balance that out a little, that, you know, I think
the team takes on the personality ofthe integrity of its leaders, and then

(35:06):
we've got some leaders and it startswithout two day. Look, they are
not playing good right now. Andthis is coming from a fan that's been
entitled for since two thousand and sixteenseventeen. I'm I'm looking forward to I'm
optimistic too much, probably my friendssay, but I'm looking forward to,
like, let's grinding it out andjust getting in by a game, getting

(35:29):
into the whatever the playing game,and let's go. I just actually,
I don't know what I'm saying.I just want to wanted to get to
understand how sometimes I'm sure as apro athlet you're going these takes are just
outrageous. I love the takes becauseI love the calling in and doing all

(35:50):
this stuff. But at the sametime, I have no idea, Robert,
you know what? You know whatelse? So about that before you
go is is if that's normal forfan we all do it, and and
is sit around and say, man, are they are they watching the same
game we're watching? And we doit? It's normal for fans, okay,
because everybody has their opinion about it, But yes, when it's on
TV, you're like, what thekey for players? Are they just you

(36:13):
got to let it. You gotto compartmentalize in one year out the other,
because if you paid attention to allthe good noise and all the bad
noise, you wouldn't even be ableto focus on your job. But you
make a good point. Dare wedare we forget that last year they had
to win five out of six onthe road against two players against well Seattle
who was supposed to be a playoffteam and the eventual and National League representative

(36:36):
in the World Series to get tothe playoffs, and a tiebreaker. So
the grind was there at the endof last year. So they're not you
know, it's not unfamiliar to them. It's just hitting a little sooner.
And it looks a little different thanthis year. That's for sure, a
little bit sooner. And uh,triple le hey, keep hey, keep
grinding triple and and and don't worryabout leaving. Did we for love on

(37:00):
the haircut? After I gave yousome love the first thing? I know?
This was a nice haircut? No, I was just giving triple a
hard times. Really well, itwas. That's it. Let me check
you out for a second. Yeah, you like that, give me give
you the other side. High top. No, that's not a high time.
We went. We went load tomedium face because we don't want to
go hide and tire. It is. It's a low medium. It's like

(37:22):
a low pony. You know theygot low mid nine. That's a low
fade a little almost to the middle. It's it's starting to creep to the
middle. I'd like, I'd liketo see you with the high top.
No, yeah, let's try it, No idiot, let's try it once.
No. I did like a couplemonths ago, and I looked like
a jackass more than already, morethan you think it. You think it

(37:42):
slowed your modeling career down a littlebit. The high top fade. Yeah,
let me turtal again. Let mesend me check you out real quick.
The nice line, you know,it really is a tight line,
may be going on camera today.Okay, a couple of different times on
the street, two of them.Yeah nice, Yeah, stay tuned.

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Let's get the tang before it getsthe top of the hoard like that.
Wang dang. Good morning, guys. I wanted to tell all right,
I wanted to tell y'all thanks somuch for always taking my call. I
know you don't get many ladies callingin, and it means a lot to
me, and I appreciate it.I'm not a professional player, but it

(38:28):
just seems like so much that's goingon now at this point is just mental
and I wanted to echo some ofwhat I think Billy said about this is
probably the most frustrating season I've eversat through. And I've been watching them
since the seventies too, and uhsn, I wanted to ask you,
uh, what do they have onon staff to deal with the mental issues?

(38:52):
Do they do they bring in sportspsychologists and I mean the talents there,
It just seems like it's so manyat this point. Yeah, Tagan,
first off, we always love havingfemales call the show because they're usually
smarter than all of us combined.So great to have you in as always,
and nice to have you call again. The mental side, real quick

(39:12):
is you know, some teams willbring like it to spring training. You
know, it's like when you whenlike well in the NFL, they'd bring
like a financial advisor to help guysknow what to do with their money and
and the mental side of it.But some are also uncomfortable with that,
right They feel like, well,do I have to go that? So
I think some do, but Ithink that's more on an individual basis.
If somebody wants to seek out,you know, the sports psychologists to help

(39:37):
them, you know, visualize thevisualization and that. So I think it's
at your it's I've seen guys onmy teams in the past go see a
sports psychologist or talk to athletes whohave used him. How Brady talked about
these guys. A lot of themuse them just to get know how to
get dialed in in the moment.But I don't think it's protocol or normal.
It's normal, it's fine, butI don't think it's done in every

(40:00):
clubhouse or locker room where during theseason they bring in for everybody to listen
because some think, well, whydo I need it so? And I
don't think they want to feel likeit's invasive to them. But it's changed
over the years. Thirty years agowhen I first started playing, that was
taboo, right, Oh, wedon't talk about sports psychologists because I means
you're mentally week. Now it's it'sit's mainstream and everybody uses one. And

(40:20):
it's not because you're mentally week.Sometimes it's to help you go from good
to elite on your focus and tostay locked in. So I think it's
a great point because you're right,Tang a lot of this. It's not
that they're not physically good. They'regood players, they've proven it. But
you can get into a good rhythmand you can get into a bad rhythm
and becomes contagious where the mental strugglekicks in. I think it's a great
point, and I think that individuallysome may use it, and there may

(40:45):
be some on the team using onenow that they just like to work in
silence and keep it private just becausethat's their business. It's a great point
by you. Okay, Well,thanks again, guys. I really appreciate
it. Y'all, y'all have agood day. Okay, thank you,
Tang. We agreciate you. Thankyou. She makes such a great point
on on on that the metal sideend. You know, Brian, it

(41:05):
is okay to use that. AndI think a lot of the grind of
a season in teams that win andlose, a difference in winning and losing
may not be physical. A lotof times it may be mental, especially
for really gifted teams, or thedifference between a last place team and the
first place team, of course isthree or four great talented players. But
it's also maximizing whatever your ability is, and the Astros the last seven years

(41:29):
have been able to maximize it.This year it's taken a little longer to
get there, and hoping it'll getthere. She makes a great point about
sports psychologists are no longer taboo.Seven one three, two, one two
five, seven ninety is the numberto join. Let's get into the seven
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offense did or did not do forthe Astros. That's next in Sports Talk

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Celtics in the NBA Finals. Talkingabout the Astros losing seven seven ninety is

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the number to join. Got acouple of guys that have been on hold
for quite a bit. So let'sget back out to the phone lines.
What are the longest way we'll goto Andrew? Andrew, good morning,
Good morning. Well some years,I guess it might be a year for
everyone to have down years. It'sjust unfortunate that it seems like everyone's having
a career low season other than acouple of players. But uh, there

(44:30):
there appears to be a culture issuewith this team. And culture always starts
at the top, with the withthe guy running the team, at least
on the field. I know lastweek when I call it, I talked
about giving Bregman the A Brave Treatment, and I was told it didn't matter
if he hit one twenty five.They would never do it. But I

(44:50):
have a scenario for you. Ifthe Astros were given a guarantee of a
fifteen game winning streak, if theygave Bregman the A Brave Treatment, would
they do it? If he hadto say it one more time, if
if Espada and Brown were given aguarantee of a fifteen game winning streak,

(45:13):
if they gave Bregnant the brain treatment, would they do it? No?
And that tells me they wouldn't careabout winning at that time. Let me
ask you this, Uh, Andrew, And you make a great point.
I love that that's a well thoughtout point. Do you think they'd do
it? Think about all they thinkabout the right, the collateral and if

(45:38):
you're talking about it healthy, right, if they're they can put um on
there. Let's just say they putDuMond there. So if they did that
to a healthy, physically healthy playerwho is in his walkier and he's supposed
to be a stapleier team, today'sgrinder works hard. Al said, he
say, man, we're going tosend you to Florida. As a Bregman

(46:00):
would probably take it as what aslap in the face. And even I
think I think and I don't meanthis disrespectful to them. I think for
the collateral damage it would hit.And you're right, you say, well,
then that matters more than I think. They all want to win.
But if you're faced with that,which they'll never be faced with, but
I think it's a great point byyou, would they do that? And

(46:21):
the answer is no, I don'tbelieve they would because of the collateral damage
it would send to the team.Yet you would think that it would send
Hey, we care that this isall about winning for us, But you
and I both know first off isnot going to happen. Secondly, if
they were, that would be blownoff faster than we can say blown off.
And you and I both know it. And I do have one more

(46:43):
question. Do they take player's opinionsinto account before they hire a manager.
I think in some cases they do. I don't think they go around and
stick at you and say, hey, let's have a Everybody privately write who
you want as a manager, stickingon a paper folded up stick in the
hat, and we'll go read them. I think there's certain plays and second
football, I wouldn't want that muchplayer empowerment. I wouldn't if I'm an

(47:05):
organization. I don't want some playerwho's been here three years and has got
his own job to do telling methat he wants a manager that's been in
minor leagues, or that he workedwith you know, when he was a
went to their baseball camp when hewas in high school. I don't need
all that. But I think there'scertain situations if you're going to hire.
If Brady was still in New Englandwhen Belichick was let go, would I
want Brady having I'd at least wantto take him aside and say what do

(47:29):
you think would be good for thisteam, whether we use all the information
or not. I think there iscertain guys and teams do hire. I
don't know if the Astros have likea leadership committee, been on one when
I was in San Diego where aboutabout eight of us ten of us players
been in a league a while thatthey'd take aside and just talk to like
a committee that would you know,they kind of gather what the feel and
the pulse of the locker room isand what we thought. So there is

(47:52):
that. But I do think,I mean, if you're going to hire
when you want Verlander's opinion at leastwhere he is right now, where we're
at. But I don't need JeremyO. Pinea's opinion on who he hires
manager. He hadn't been in theleague long enough to warrant that opinion.
Yeah, I guess I'll bring thatup because instead of using their best hitter
and with runners a scoring position anddo bond as a hitter, they use

(48:15):
them as a runner. Makes sense? Yeah, So, But I do
think player empowerment's big in some places. But I don't think many players hire
the head coach and nor do Ineed twenty five guys opinion on it?
Good point, they're great points byyou today, Andrew, thank you,
well thought. I do you thinkthey would run fifteen games? They said

(48:36):
they were going to go on afifteen game winning streak, But you had
to take a healthy Bregman and sayyou're going to Florida West Palm for two
weeks, now fifteen games half amonth. They would say, well,
we can win fifteen in a rowwith him here. They would They would
not do it, But Andrew,that's a well thought out question, thinking,
Okay, if you were guaranteed fifteenwins, would you do it?

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The collateral damage would be too much. They're not gonna do it, right,
No chance. Well, they're nevergoing to be posed with it,
right, there's that as well.It's not going to happen. Seven one
three seven hinety John, thanks forholding good morning there was going on my
friends. Hey, Nicky, Ihope y'all had a good holiday. Nikia.
Uh, you know when you gobuy a house and you think you
got a good credit score, youknow, seven hundred, but you find

(49:19):
out you can't get the high becauseuh the vahcal score. You you got
to have more. You got moregoing out that you got coming in.
He said, wow. Well see, I think Jim Crane look at this
the same way. The value whatcan I get for the value of my
money? And because about a weekor two ago, you know when the
afterro won a seven in the rowwhatever they had a set lineup he got

(49:43):
they had the power hills. Youleft having power hills up front. You
had, you had, you hadPinion raking in the four, you you
had breaking in the in the sixset line up, they winning games,
everybody happy. Then you just rumpedall of that. You said, a
great young, great young player backdown, and you bring up an old
player that ain't doing nothing now thathe's back. But my question is the

(50:06):
deadline coming up? My question isto both of y'all. I started you
Brian first, uh, here'll cometo Lakers. I look here, we're
gonna give you your first round blackpick, and we gonna you know,
we're gonna pay up some money.We won't talker. That's the first I
want you to think on that.Now he'll come to He'll come to San
Francisco. Forty nine is to you, Sean, Hey, lckare we're gonna

(50:29):
give a couple of round picks.We want you done. We'll pay off
whatever. Da da da. Nowwhat with the dead line coming up and
I hey Burdman in there, he'llcome and mess. We want you know,
same scenario if we want Burman now, shun and Brian tell me give
me y'all answer, be truthful,Will y'all bite and sell? That's what

(50:52):
I want to know. But hangup and listen. Thank you, John,
go ahead, Brian. Not Kyle, Tucker and Jordan. I'm not.
I'm not trading those guys. Iput it this way and with that
and for me as well, Ifyou're gonna sell Tucker and Jordon, you

(51:13):
got to find me players that areI don't want assets for them. Reason
why. First of all, they'reunder contract at least Tucker for this one
and another one, and Jordon's undercontract. They've already you know, redone
him. You got to find metwo players that are better. So how
many guys would you be able totrade for in this league that you feel
over the next decade or better thanthose two. I know that they're haven't

(51:36):
you know? Some Jordon's having hisstruggles, but the overall game O Tawani
you're not get him uh Okunya Soto. But guess what they're not doing trading
those guys right now. They maymaybe at some point if they can't sign
him, but right now I amall about when it comes to buying or
selling, I'm about one thing,one winning and with that, have you

(52:00):
enhanced my roster and getting seven assetsfor a twenty five to two guys in
their mid twenties, getting ten assetsin the minor leagues and maybe one pitcher
that it's a major league frontline starterfor those two guys over the next decade.
When the truth of the matter is, of the ten assets, you
know how many of them are probablygonna work out and be stars in the

(52:20):
league. Probably twenty percent of themsay if you're lucky, If you're lucky,
And I already got two stars,So I get what John saying,
But no, no, no,I if I'm giving them up, it
must enhance my roster at some pointor not ten years from now, but
in the next twenty four months,thirty six months. You get my point
on that brand. That's how Ifeel. As far as Jim Crane goes,
I like to pose this to ourlisteners. We always do now it's

(52:44):
not our money, so I'm alwayswilling to spend it right to go get
great players. If you're the ownertoday, what are you doing to the
trade deadline? And if you're theowner, is it win first money second
revenue for winning side. I thinkJim Crane wants to win first and in
the process make money. I don'tknow an owner out there that doesn't want

(53:05):
to make money. These really reallyrich businessmen don't get to be really rich
businessmen unless, of course they've inheredJim Crane earned his money correct through hard
work. But unless you've been aninherited money from you're a Walton that was
born in the great great grandson andyou're e've inherited eight billion dollars. Okay,
But for the most part, theseself made that busts. They are
asked to work. Of course theywant to make money. They got there

(53:29):
by making money so they could affordto buy the franchise. But I think
you want to win because you knowwhat, in every walk of life you
want to win. Why because it'speople always look, well, yeah,
I always spend a lot of money, but what do they stay about owners
that don't That guy didn't want towin. They say about Jim Crane,
First, what do they say?He's very he's very smart with his money,
but he doesn't the right way towin. And they've won by not
spending half a billion dollars. Thequestion is where does that threshold stop?

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So, uh, Brian, Iam not giving up Tucker or Alvarez unless
you've made my roster better within thenext two years. And and if you
can save me money in the processof doing it, great, which will
lead you to Bregman, are youbuying or selling? You know what I'm
selling if I don't think I cansign him, if I think his best
baseball was played, even though Ithink he's still got plenty of great years

(54:12):
in front of him, or ifI'm going to make my roster better,
and as an owner, I getwhy they do it to make money.
I think Jim Crane wants to winfirst and make money second. He's got
enough money. But you still wantto keep winning that way too. Yeah,
there's no reason you can't win itboth. In the last seven years
they have. Yeah, seven onethree, two one two five at seven
ninety is the number to join.Let's get to the stakeout next on Sports

(54:36):
Talk seven eighty you proudly and broadcastingfrom the most hated city in baseball,
Houston rides with the Sean Salisbury Showon Sports Talk seven ninety. All right,

(55:00):
what are you hearing out there now? The Salisbury's stakeout? Salsbury's takeout
on the Sean Salisbury Show. Sidefor the steak out Here on the Seawan

(55:22):
Salisbury Show, Sean Bryan and Tripoli. Astro's looking to avoid this sweep today
in Seattle three ten the first pitch, two o'clock on Deck Show right here
on seven on your home for AstrosBaseball, all right for the steakout,
Sean wild scene. Last night inNew York, the Mets lose again one

(55:45):
of their relievers. I want totalk about Groundhog Day about the Mets.
A year high expectations, low results. Jory Lopez for the Mets was ejected
and as he was being thrown out, yelling at the umpire, he untucks

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his jersey and then launches his gloveinto the stands over the net by his
dugout. After the game, thisis what he had to say, Carlos
Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that that particular action of throwing
your glove into the stands is unacceptablelooking back on it, Do you regret
doing that? No, I don't. I don't regret it. I think

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I've been looking the worst deam inprobably in the whole MLB. So,
you know, whatever happened happened.So whatever they want to do that,
I'll be tomorrow here if they wantme, you know, whatever they want
to do. So I'm gonna keepdoing this thing, you know, so

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I'm healthy on whatever you know,whatever to do. You know, I'm
I'm ready to come back tomorrow ifday want me be here, so I'll
be here, all right. Sothen he was asked to clarify on uh.
He basically said, no, coachcan say bandage. You can say
what he wants. I've got I'lldo what I want to do. He
was then asked to clarify his commentsabout the Mets being the worst team in

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the whole fing league? Is whathe said? Just to clarify what what
you said? Just because I didn'tfully understand. Did you say I'm on
the worst team? Is that?Is that what you had said? Yeah?
Probably it looked like then that theywere embarrassed by you. Is that
what you. Yeah. Well,so basically Jorge Lopez said, screw it,

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I'm gonna launch my glove in thestands. I don't care about the
repercussions. I don't regret it.I'll be back tomorrow. Well, the
worst team in the league. Uh, he was immediately d F eight,
like within an hour, they cuthis ass. Well, let me ask
you, this didn't sign of regardlessof how talented a guy is, he's

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not for us. Wouldn't you getrid now? Listen, I'm with the
manager. Probably a little overboard throwingthat glove into the stance. He could
probably wake up the next day sayingsomebody's got my glove. I'd like to
have it back. And it lookedlike that little league kid that comes run
off and slams it against you know, starts whining at nine years old because

(58:22):
his dad's yelling and your parents aremad. The umpire's getting chewed out over
a snow cone that he's going toget froumpiring a little league game, and
you throw it against the wall andall that stuff, and the next day
you're like, oh, I gotto grow up. Well, apparently he
didn't grow up and didn't regret doingit. Now, maybe this morning he
does because he's out of a job. But here's the problem. Okay,

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so you want it out of there? Are you picking him up saying,
Oh, we'd love to welcome thisin our clubhouse. I like the unfiltered
approach, but probably unfiltered in outof hand are two different things. And
if I was the Mets, regardlessof what you think about their franchise or
how good or bad they are,that he's not going to help you win

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much. No, no, he'snot. Adam Ottavino defended Jorge Lopez after
his ejection, saying, Jorge isa good guy. Inside, deep down
he knows he shouldn't have done that. And then after the guys stupid decision,
after the loss, guess what theyhad Sean what they had? A
team meeting? Well, there yougo. Don't throw your glove into the

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stands. Francisco win Lindor initiated theteam meeting, and they said it was
productive. Sure was hit better,pitch better, feel better, and keep
your glove on your hand. Imean, what do you say, wouldn't
you a df ad him too?And then we're laughing at what he said.
He didn't care on the worst deafand team, and somebody may pick

(59:51):
him up if they think he's talentedenough. But if you're the Mets,
can you imagine coming in the nextday, and what do you say to
your teammates? Yeah, we suckand I just told everybody that, But
what do you say to him?And I'm sure he is a good guy.
I'm sure out of Eno likes him, and I'm sure he's a good
guy. But it's an eye rollingincident. You're like, come on,
man, we could do this.Is okay? Just visualize Hunter Brown doing

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that and then saying that, aren'tyou saying gotta go? Aren't you saying
really? Yeah? Really, comeon, hunt Dog. Yeah, so
yeah, it's I would have Itisn't exactly like they're in penant contention.
Okay, So yeah I would.I would have done the same thing.
If you don't. If you ifyou don't care, then go find another

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place to play and realize just howdifficult it is not only play the game,
but play it good and last init. And then he made his
own bed, so now it getsto go sleep in it, and it
may be he may be sleeping itduring a day game that his team's supposed
to play. So there you go. Seven, one three seven, Eric,
good morning. Hey, what's goingon? Fellows? All right?

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I want your this. What's worsethrowing your glove over the fence or Trevor
Bauer throwing the ball over the centerfield wall and then both immediately getting shoved
from the team. Well, Ican replace I mean the ball. There's
another one sitting the dugout and I'msure you can get another glove. I
would probably say, well, there'sprobably more dangerous to throw the ball into

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the stands. But uh, Ithink both are insufficient and wrong but a
little childish, But I would sayI would probably say, if you had
to throw one or the other,I'll throw the ball as opposed to the
glove, keeping my glove. What'sworse throwing the baseball over dead center field
which is a whis nice? Whichis see I'm said it saying, man,
what a nice arm? Throwing yourglove in the stands, or punching

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yourself in the chin like Ken Giles. I'm gonna go with number three is
the worst. You're like an idiot. Yeah, somebody else probably wanted to
punch you. Oh yeah at thetime, but he did it himself,
so self inflicted. Okay, atleast he did himself and nobody fought him.
It's impressive to throw the ball intothe centerfield sand and a good haul
right shows you got that arm.I think the dumbest one where you're like,

(01:02:07):
dude, that's your glove. Youain't never getting it back. The
ball could your place. There's eightthousand of them in the dugout, So
yeah, I'm gonna go my manwith a punch first, glove second,
and of the most dangerous one unlessyou got a good right hand to your
own face. Probably dangerous. Butthrowing the ball in the stands. But

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all childish and all reflect an eightyear old as opposed to a professional athlete.
We've probably all had blow ups thatwe say, oh, I shouldn't
have done that, you know,to yourself, like oh my gosh,
yeah wherever wherever it is. Butyeah, that it looks like I files
the Mets. Bottom line, he'sgone to he's getting the DFA. Yeah,
and they suck. They're awful,they're not very good so talk about

(01:02:52):
and they've tried, you know,their owner cut and payroll, you know,
with getting rid of like what degrom and they've been there. But
yeah. They I don't know whatit is with them. They are as
underachieving as any team with over theyears. They just find we talk about
Tina find ways to lose and gethurt. It's the Mets. YEAHO just

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got hurt some of the something goingon all this back When you swing that
hard, there might be a fewthings or a hand or he's got some
kind going Is he out? Ishe on the I l or is he
just taking days off. I don'tpay attention. I mean I watch him
if they're playing team I want towatch. I don't pay attention to the
Mets unless it's a story. Likeyou said, seeing him, you know,
haul off and throw the starting outa back injury. It was a

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hand to injury. There you go. Yeah, he swung there hard.
They're a hard watch, dude.I watched him two days ago, did
you Yeah, it was a daygame. It was the only one on
And was it two days ago ormaybe it was Monday. I can't remember,
but watching him and lind Or Homerand stuff, but you're thinking,
this is a really hard watch.They're not very good. There you go.

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They're twenty two and thirty three.As I said, they're not very
good. Fifty five games in,they're they're not far off from the Astros
record. I don't think you're gonnasee anybody throw their glove in the stands
on this probably not little. Ithink there's a little more spresure wise,
haven't we said this team talent?Now that team's not near as talented is

(01:04:23):
this one? But results? Yeah, well we said they're not very good.
Hints why they're in a chase modethe whole time. They are in
a chase mode right now in theoffense, get that cussward out of your
mouth. Do not mention the Astrosand the Mets of the same sentence ever
again. I get it though,record wise, right now twenty two and
thirty three Astros twenty four and thirtytwo. We need a three game series.

(01:04:45):
We need to with them, sacrificethe chicken or something. Get a
couple of slump busters, man,slump busters need love to they damn sure
do. All right, let's lookat the offen It has gone straight up
cold. Next on Sports Talk sevento eighty, but the Shawn Salisbury Show

(01:05:06):
continued, Scotty Scheffler had charges againsthim dismissed, and that whole little saga
up at Valhalla golf Course. Wasthat two weeks ago? Now, yep,
time flies man shot kind of figuredonce the video came out and then

(01:05:30):
also there was some audio and notdash can but bodycam footage that was released
and you can hear Scottie Scheffler describedthe instance that the cop who arrested and
yanked him out of the car didn'teven identify himself as a police officer.
Well, guess what didn't we saya few days when they when you saw
the video, like last week,we said all charging gonna be dropped,

(01:05:55):
that it wasn't gonna happen, andthat it would be silly for him to
even have to make the appearance afterwhat we saw. And there you go
done. What a crazy situation.Man. You always like why truth lies
somewhere in the middle, So yousay, somewhere along the line, somebody's
lying, right, or somebody misjudgedthe situation. And Will Scotty probably wishes

(01:06:16):
he wouldn't have misjudged a little bitlike that. It's obvious all charges drop
meant that uh a little over zealous. Yeah, Scotty Scheffler in that uh
that that body cam footage said basicallysomething along the lines of I wasn't maybe
I should have. What did hesay, uh, something like I know
that I was in a hurry,but I wasn't going very fast. Maybe

(01:06:40):
I should have stopped a little earlier. But I was late for my tea
time and one guy was waving mein and this guy didn't even say he
was a cop and starts beating onmy window. There you go. All's
good. And with the Scotty Schefflersituation, I was okay, yeah,
and didn't think it was gonna bethat. I mean, after you saw
the footage, you you know whatwe talked about last week, there was

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a no brainer. There's no way. There's no way you can run that
through courts and waste people's time.Yeah. Man in the Louisville Metro Police
Department probably saw the video, probablyreviewed the body camp. Even though Brian
Gillis, the detective that pulled himout of the car and arrested Scottie Scheffler
wasn't wearing his or didn't have hisbody came on, which is against procedure

(01:07:27):
for that police department. It probablyreviewed all that and they're like, hm,
we should probably dismiss all that.We should probably drop all these.
Yeah, wise, move move onnow everybody prepares for the US Open.
Correct, Yes, that's next,and it's at Pinehurst number two, I
believe in Pinehurst, North Carolina,which is a phenomenal golf venue, about

(01:07:50):
eight or ten courses there, andnumber two has always been the legendary one.
So yeah, be a fund USOpen nets in the middle of this
month, if I'm not mistaken.A couple around the corner. Yeah,
because in just a couple of daysit's already June. You're getting old,
man, Well, apparently every dayyou get closer. But that's on you.
If you want to get older oryounger, it is it is they

(01:08:13):
say older, but I don't feelolder. It is true that every day
you do get a day older.You're old. Right now, you're older.
Right now, you're older, rightnow, you're older. See by
the second, by the second.All right, let's get back out to
the phone line seven one three.What are your quotes, Sean? What
do you do you feel? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get I'll
get one. Don't worry, Iknow you will. Yeah. Man,
it's late though, man, seventhirty eight, let's talk to Morgan.

(01:08:36):
I'll get one. Don't worry Morgan, good morning, thanks for rolling.
Hey Sean Bryant, Hey, man, I was thinking about a video.
You know those Astros promotional videos.Uh, they ain't there. I mean
it's really well produced and it wasabout the Uh. It was a twenty

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twenty twenty twenty two Alds and theAstros went up to Seattle and Brian.
If you can, maybe you canfind it for Sean and maybe you can
pull it up twenty twenty two alDs. It's a promotional video from that
in the Astros anyway, man,you gotta see it, Sean, and

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it's in like in slow motion,and the guys, the Astros ben there
walking into that stadium and the stadiumis packed. Man, it's packed.
Everybody's going crazy. It's all green. It's just green everywhere you see.
And I forget the song they wereplaying and you got you know your don
and l twove. Those guys arewalking into the field, man, and

(01:09:46):
they're smiling and laughing and strolling.Man. Man, they got their swag.
It's incredible, man, you know. And my point though is that
it's like it's pretty much still thesame team. We have just that much
difference, you know, And soit's like, man, what happened to
that swag man? And but anyway, you know, I just want to

(01:10:10):
call that out to you. Appreciateit, Morgan, thank you. Yeah.
And his point is that the feelingof having fun, swag, getting
rolling is missing from this team.I think he is. I think that's
where Morgan's going with that. Ihave seen it, so I'll have to
maybe I have it. I don'tknow which one he's talking about, but
if we find it, we'll sureseck look at it. Oh. I
mean, you know, here's justthe way to put it. So far
for this season, the Ashos arefive and twelve and one run games this

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season. This is the team thatwhen you knew that they were down by
one run in the last seven seasons, they would find ways to win.
Absolutely they had that killer instinct andthe swag and everything else that's been described.
But so far this season, fiveand twelve and one run games.
Once you have to live sports,there's no written script just because there's no

(01:10:56):
entitlement from the year before, justbecause you've been an All Star two years
the three years before, where you'vebeen you know, seven year All Star
and winning divisions and going to WorldSeries of previous seven years, it doesn't
entitle you to your eighth year tobe just as good. I'm not saying
they take it for granted. Idon't know if there's been complacency that's crept
in come too comfortable, maybe believingthat, hey, it's okay, we've

(01:11:18):
started slow before, we're good enoughto overcome it to you. And that's
a good attitude to have, aslong as you're still putting in all the
stuff that you've done to make youto get to that point. If you're
not taking those little things for granted, I don't know if they are not.
I just know on game days,two to one games usually ended up
going the other way. Now you'regonna get beat. Like I said,

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pencil in sixty of them, Brian, pencil in sixty and usually more than
that, because sixty means you wantone hundred and two games, and that's
an epic year. We've seen thathere too. But the previous season doesn't
entitle the Kansas City Chiefs to anotherSuper Bowl. Just like the previous season
at three wins didn't automatically mean thatthe Texans were going to go out and

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roll off three more wins. Thispast year. That's a team that didn't
believe squat that anybody was saying abouthim, And look what happens. Culture
built and now everybody's talking about hima different light. Now. The question
is can they handle the success partof it. The Astros have handled success
four years, and they handled failurebefore that and built something special. The
question is now they're faced with itthat nobody's fixing it. That's outside the

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building this year, and you andI both know that if it's getting fixed,
it's in the building. To makeno mistake, you ain't going out
there. You guess what. Otani'snot going to be available at the trade
deadline. You ain't getting Sodo Akunya'sknees not going to be healthy by the
deadline where he rehabbed it and theytraded him. That's not happening. And
you've got enough good guys in thebuilding. But I don't think you can
wait till the All Star break.You have got to pick it up.

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So games, just because they wonhim last year or the year before doesn't
entitle them to another ring or anappearance. It entitles them to nine more
innings. And unfortunately it sounds cheesy, but this year, they've been on
the wrong side of close games mostof the time. Five and twelve.
To my knowledge my math, thatmeans you're seven games under five hundred again

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math yeap. Hey, I paidattention in class, even showed up to
the eight o'clock classes in college.You know what they say about time,
sean, time is money. Onefour hundred and forty minutes in your day,
one hundred and sixty eight hours inyour week, eight thousand, seven
hundred and sixty eight thousand, sevenhundred and sixty hours in your year,

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seven hundred and one two hundred andeighty hours in your life. The question
is how do you know? Howdo they know how long you spend them?
Right? Nothing else needs said?Thank you, zig Ziggler. You're
like the hell zig Ziggler, aren'tyou? That's what you're saying to me,
right know? That's uh? Thatwas my good buddy, Maximi Legacy.

(01:14:00):
Let's go to break. How willyou spend them? Hey? Also,
MAXI, what what who got goingon? How do you know how
many hours you got in your life? Yeah? Maybe you have more than
that. I'm gonna have to talkto my dog am family family family.

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Oh my gosh, man, yeah, Astros. Five runs in three games.
Yes, that's correct, five runsand three games, and every single
one of them. There's been aone run game, has it not?
It has all three of them.Do you know how many pitches they saw
on the top of the tenth Notvery many? Five? Yeah, not

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very many. Five pitches in thetop of the tent. Let's keep talking
about these Houston Astros. Seven one, three seven. I also get back
out to the phone lines. Nextin Sports Talk seven to eighty, let
the celebration start. Wor Sean Salisburyon Sports Talk seven ninety The Elements of
the World. This is who itis. Yeah, I have no idea

(01:15:05):
who that is? My dad,I don't even know who it is.
No I do, I said,the Elements of the world. So,
yeah, because you kind of rightthere in front of you. But no,
I really know, I do?You do? I do? I
was raised by old school parents,so I know a lot of old school
stuff. This is the one whenyou raised my You're sitting at the at

(01:15:26):
the kitchen table and then Pop standsup, grabs moms by the hand,
and they start dancing around in thekitchen. Yeah, this is that cut
for my parents. Was the beegees that cut will pop on next thing.
You know, they're they're dancing andevery now and they know if it
was a little romance all of asudden, maybe a candle was lit at
the dinner table and this comes onthe best of Bread. Okay, if

(01:15:48):
a picture a thousand words, don'tknow, why can't I paint you tomorrow?
And light of candle your kitchen?You got around? Yeah? Yeah,
what about best of bread? Youknow bread is you don't do?

(01:16:09):
You no? What happened to you? What happened to you along the way?
Old soul with no old love andyour you know your your pops gave
you some old soul love he did. Yeah? Some music? Yeah,
mom oh yeah, who is it? Old bread? Old bread? Gang,
it's old bread. They're called bestof bread? Was this white bread?

(01:16:30):
Yeah? Probably white bread? Yeah. A lot of white guys in
that group, probably basic white whiteguys. Yeah, sure, really basic.
But they really getting they'd really gettingyour gets you in your feels when
you were like eighteen right, pollmusic too? Oh? Was it?
Oh? Yeah? Pull or pull? Pull? Oh pull pull not pool
like not pull pull? Well youyes gotcha? Okay, yes, not

(01:16:53):
pole? So you could pull toit. Yes, okay, yeah,
throw that bad boy on and you'repulling. Yeah, your girls wear like
did those were the pair of pants? Dittos? Back dittos? Anybody this
list is said, they're saying,yeah, man, Mike Mozola, it
has some dittos on at the highschool dance. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
triple no idea. Oh yeah,some dittos, man, people are

(01:17:19):
I guarantee you somebody just spit theircoffee. I'd say Sean just played the
if she had dittos on it waswith a pH. They have a seventies
ditto highwaisted jeans right now on saleat Macy's seventy nine fifty. They still
they can still charge seventynine to fiftyfor some dittos. Well, if you
go on eBay, they got themon sale for one hundred and eighty nine

(01:17:40):
dollars. Do they still have theYeah, they're going back. That's vintage.
Now do they have all the seam? Are they showing the back of
them? Huh? Do they havethe seam that rolls up like a like
a reverse looking thing. It's therelike the Lululemon emblem, right you get
on the ass? Yeah, fullit covered one from one cheek to the
next. Right, Yeah, thereyou go. They got some ditt was

(01:18:00):
on sale on eBay one hundred andthirty nine dollars and they got it on
a mannequin. How's that if youstart thinking about man just with the pH,
isn't it? Yeah? There yougo, So that's what that's what
you all rock? Yeah? Oh, man to best of Bread or Stairway
to Heaven from you know, alittle or dream weaver from getting dude,

(01:18:25):
if you couldn't pull the in,take two weeks off and quit. Quit?
Oh yeah, what about two weeksin return? No, you can't
pull that you just like I said, take two weeks off and quit.
Okay, there you go. Let'sget a quick call and then we'll get
into the top. We've got alot of folks ready for some calls.
We're getting to them all too,Lisa, Good morning, Good morning,
earth Wind and Fire Baby, Yeah, listening to that song, how do

(01:18:48):
you not know that was earth WindingFire. I thought when he said elements
of Nature, you were going tosay, that's how you were gonna say
naughty by Nature. Oh no,I thought that was an actual band.
No, that's not the that wasWinding Fire. Yeah, God forbid,
y'all, just tell me it wasearth Winding Fire. He told he was
giving you a little sports, earthWinding Fire, earth wind and Fire.

(01:19:10):
I get that now, Thank you, Lisa. Great cut. I actually
thought he said the band was Elementsof the World. That's why I was
like, I have no ide itwas. It was your hint to give
you a chance to get you know, it was a hint. You gotta
you gotta clarify. Hey, I'llgive you a hint. I don't know,
but I've never heard of a bandback in the day of Hey,
the Elements of the World. Oh, let's just change it. Call him
Birth Winding Fire. That's a betterway to do that. Lisa, what's

(01:19:31):
happening? Well, I just Ihaven't called because I don't even know what
to say anymore. I'm so bummed, I'm so deflated. And I wasn't
calling looking for sympathy, But maybeI am calling looking for sympathy because there's
not too many people that have sympathyfor the Astros. But one thing,

(01:19:53):
just get your comment. You know, this season, we've got subpar pitching,
we've got subpar production, we've gotinjuries on the pitching staff, and
we've got questionable managerial decisions that kindof seemed to me like it's just created
a perfect storm of everything that couldgo wrong this season. And I guess

(01:20:15):
my question to you is is doyou think that this is just a one
season thing or do you think thatthis is the beginning of something that may
involve longer term issues that need tobe addressed and fixed, Because that's kind
of the feeling that I'm getting.I'm thinking that this might be, you

(01:20:35):
know, the beginning of some thingsthat need to be done and changes that
need to be made and hard decisions. Lisa, let me ask you this,
and I think it's a great point, and we're going to dive into
this. We'll give you at thetop of the hour, but just real
quick, give me the three thingsthat indicate to you this is the beginning
of the end of this run,so we can talk about them real quick.

(01:20:58):
Just three three, Three that concernyou the most about moving forward?
Pitching okay, overall pitching, okay, okay, yep, start starting pitching.
And I think I think also I'mwilling to give a Spota some some

(01:21:18):
room to see if he can,you know, manage this team, but
the manager, the manager things stillthe jury's out for you, still on
him, jury's are but you know, you know, I think I think
they're going to keep him and lethim, let him work through it and
see how he does. And thenI think the other thing is I just

(01:21:39):
think it concerns me that that there'sloyalty two people that may not that may
not be deserving of it. Okay, so so to loyal loyal to a
fault. Yeah, all right,good, we'll talk about that least.
We'll answer your question to the top. See if we can dive in and
and and maybe who knows, butlet's see if we can still milk some

(01:22:04):
excitement out of the season. Ifpossible, we'll try to motivational speak it
for him. But Lisa, thankyou, great points. I think there's
a lot of people those three andthe money and contracts and is this team
core gonna be here two years fromnow? Yeah. To get into that
in the eight o'clock hour seven onethree two one two five seven Einy Sheena
reed Q will also get to you, guys, thank you for holding.
That's next right here on Sports Talkseven to eighty KB Houston, k t

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te Wolves Game five of the WesternConference Finals tonight in the NBA. Scottie

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Scheffler, number one golfer in theworld, has charges against him dismissed in
the incident at Vahalla Golf Club twoweeks ago. Full phone boards seven one,
three, two two five, sevenninety. Let's get back out and
talk to you the Astro fan Sena, you are up first, Good morning,
Hi, good morning, So yeah, calling in about this offense or

(01:23:40):
lack thereof right now. You knowthe last caller she mentioned about our pitching,
and really I feel like our offensecould take you know, some tips
from our pitching. Our pitching hasreally had to grind through not had the
rotation we expected this year. They'vemade adjustments, They've had to really kind
of push through injury. You know, Hunter Brown getting better every game,

(01:24:02):
Urgetti getting better every game, andyou know, I feel like that's something
offense start finding ways to grind throughthis. It's just been anemic lately.
And I know that Mariners, youknow, they're at the top of the
vision because of their pitching, butuh, I feel like we're starting to
look a little desperate. Players expandingthe zone that don't usually you know,

(01:24:24):
Singleton, yord On, even Bregmannswinging out once they are fair off the
plate. And you know, lastnight I didn't watch the whole game,
but I got to right before Iwent to bed. I saw alt a
leadoff single. I'm like, allright, let me see if Tucker gets
on. If he does, I'llkeep watching if he doesn't. You know,
I don't think with how we're doinglately, that we're going to score

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a run with one out and arun around first. We can barely score
a run with one out and arun around third. Right now, We've
got teams coming up that we canwin against that we are better then despite
their record being better than us,we've got the Twins, We've got the
Cardinals, which have I'm a bigCardinals fan. They have taken their last
five series. But we are betterthan the Cardinals. And I love the

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Cardinals, but we are a betterteam. And then I think we have
the Angels, so we need tofind a way to start, you know,
grinding and getting some runs up onthe scoreboard and showing what our actual
potential is. That's all I haveto say. Thank you, Sheena,
great point, shehena real quick yeah, And I think that our starting pitching

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is starting to excel a little moreconsidering and I'm with her on that.
I think with Lisa, it wasthe overall moving forward because of the injuries.
Vernonder is going to be a yearolder. Where's from we're gonna I
mean, when when's elevation? Youknow, is he going to get to
the next level of where we expecthim? So I think there's concern long
distance with Sheena. I think hellin this series, the strength has been

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pitching and the bullpen did a niceshot until the tenth and Listen ruined a
great performance by Vernonder and that's backto back dominant performances by Verlander. Correct,
he had what was in Oakland withnine strikeouts, right, yeah,
so real quick for Lisa those threeconcerns. I do think the jury's out

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on Joe's body. It's early andhe deserved it. They're going to play
it through the year, and unlessthey hit complete rock bottom, whatever you
consider rock bottom, I'm with her. I don't think that they'd move on
from him after one year, toyou, right, I don't think.
I don't think they want to ifthere was a mistake, I don't think
they'd want to admit it after you. They think they'd want to play it
through and say, okay, let'sget healthy and see how this works.
All right. That's one the pitchingI think moving forward concerned because you're concerned

(01:26:34):
about the if you're not concerned aboutLance mccullor's long term health, and we
haven't been paying attention. Garcia isyoung enough. Hopefully it's not a long
thing. The Aerkidi thing starts toconcern you, right, especially if it's
serious. And then obviously the hobbyerstuff fromber it's not a physical thing with
him, I wouldn't think. AndVerlander's age, but he's still dominant.

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The guy is still pitching at ahigh level at this at this point,
and the bummer to let someone likethat go as he moves towards three hundred
wins, which is not the goalteam wise, but it is his goal,
part of his goal, And whywouldn't it be right he may be
the last one to get there threehundred wins. So I get it,
and and I to answer it,Brian, And I'm curious what you think.
I don't think this is the beginningof the end. Even let's say

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Bregman doesn't sign back here, youtrade him at the deadline. I think
the core of the team now twodays not going anywhere. Pain is here,
Jordan's here now. I can tellyou this. If all of a
sudden we knew Kyle Tucker was movingon at this time next year, it
would start to concern me who's replacinghim? Are you now listen? I

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read something else too yesterday that ina baseball and I can't remember what the
baseball site was, that there's eventhat there was talk again of if the
Toronto Blue Jays are trading vlad Guerrero, that the Astros are the first team
in line. Okay, so we'llsee, So, Lisa, I don't
think this is the beginning the end. I do think that this is a

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pretty good sized speed bump during thisyear. I think the team's talented enough
to get back at it, aslong as the core for the most part,
and even if it's not, Bregmanstays here makes sense. Yeah,
definitely, I don't. I thinkthey're too talented. It's not like they're
losing five players. I don't helpwith the pitching staff is important. I
don't think this at the beginning ofthe end. There are some concerns,
obviously, and then there's gonna besome decisions that are gonna have to be

(01:28:23):
made. Obviously Jose Bray is oneof them, which Dana Brown spoke about
yesterday, And and then you haveto say, that's the extra loyal too
loyal to loyalty to a fault.And then you have to think about Alex
Bregman. If it continues to wherehe struggles. He had to hit last
night, But if he continues tostruggle and you get to a point where
you're getting closer to the trade deadlineand you know you're not gonna sign him,

(01:28:44):
do you move him? You haveto and if you're out of contention,
do you move him? Okay,so Jose Bray you off the books,
Alex Bregman, obviously you'd move him. And then there's there's some other
things. But still you have apretty talented young core. You've been you've
been dealt a bunch of iss injurieswith your pitching staff. Still don't have
any results on Christian Xavier or joseA Rikhidi for whatever reason. Chandler Rome.

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One thing I want to point outreal quick. Chandler Rome is on
with our guys in the afternoon,Adam and Adam on the A team,
And one of the things that hementioned yesterday was think about it this way.
Ronald o'cunya junior, when he torehis ACL, he was on the
road, got hurt in the game. They got him an MRI. Five
hours later, while they were onthe road, the team announced that he

(01:29:31):
had a torn ACL. Well,let me tell you how I feel about
that. And for whatever reason,here we are and all we got yesterday
is at forty. Yeah, gettingsecond opinions from doctors. Joe Spot said
the same thing last night. Wellthey have the script to follow. I
mean, I get, but whyhere's what I'll tell you. They already
know. They know one hundred percent. I agree, completely agree. They

(01:29:54):
already know. And I've told you, and I'm going to stand by this.
If I'm wrong. I don't havea problem mint and I'm wrong my
gut and the way I look atthis is the longer it takes if you
got to get a second opinion becauseyou didn't like the first opinion, I'm
just telling you, it's gonna comeback on the side of bad, not
good. If, in fact,the longer it takes, they know trying

(01:30:15):
to delay the inevitable. That's myopinion. Not that they're lying, they're
just staying close to the vest Iget it. But the fact of the
matters. You think they don't knowthe answer, they know the answer.
They knew that answer the second thedoctor looked at the MRI five minutes after.
They don't like you and I likeus mere mortals have to wait till
doctor get back to you tomorrow onthe m I. They know immediately why
because they get the specialists looking atit for them, so they get if

(01:30:39):
it's got to have surgery soon afterswelling goes down, they can jump all
over it. They know the answer. So for me, the frustration of
the we're talking about moving forward andwith the beginning of the end. I
do think that this team they canget right because the core of their team.
But you're not getting seven more oralcys is at this rate in a

(01:31:01):
row. It's not going to rollto fourteen in a row. It's gonna
be a tough time getting to eight. It's been a hell, it's been
it's it's I don't want to sayI'm pressing in but it's one of the
rare runs. At some point it'sgonna come to a close, but it
doesn't mean it has to stay there. It can be a one run close
and reopen again. Yeah, becausethe core of this team's really good with
or without bregnant. Yes, sevenone three, seven ninety read thanks for

(01:31:24):
holding. What's going on? Hey? What's going on? Guys? So?
I have a couple of questions thatI would like to ask, one
being that jose brayw Is. Wewent from to no no timetable for him
to return now to him coming backand we you know, come back.

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He gave spend no time in theminors, just comes right back to the
big leagues and you know, hasnot particularly looks good. He did have
one single and has made a coupleof errors, but they weren't they didn't
go down as errors on the scorebook at first base. What do you
guys think about that? As wellas the team went from playing well above

(01:32:06):
five hundred the day that he leftto immediately coming back and have lost three
in a row against arguably the bestteam in the in the division, and
you know what, what do wewhat? How do they move forward with
the break? You awesome, Thankyou Reid. We will get to uh,
let's ansterst for those as we comeback from break, because it's kind

(01:32:29):
of something that's been been uh hoveringover the team, if you will,
since he's gotten back. I mean, it's it's they're not playing their best
nine players when they're when they're not, that's just the fact. That's just
the hard fact. Seven one threefive seven ninety Brian Ray, you will
also get to you guys next.Well, we'll answer uh Reid's questions as
we continue to talk about this astrostruggles. That's next on sport Stock seven

(01:32:50):
to eighty. Wear a mask,wear gloves, wear leather and chains.
Reminds me of that time I accidentallywalked into an S and M convention.
My back still hurts. Oh,speaking of back pain. Back to former

(01:33:11):
QB Sean Salsbury on Sports Talk sevenninety getting medieval on them. Shun no,
no overrated cut whoa No, youdon't believe that. I don't if
it brings out happiness and somebody yettouch me? All right, it's my
bar that I get. Let's moveit on. Did you hum a bar?

(01:33:34):
Yeah, yep, you've blurred itout a bard. That's it's all.
You get one bar and that's it. We've cut down on our karaoke.
Why it's time to go get akaraoke machine. You don't have one
yet? Nope. Full I'll talkabout a full fledged full get a bar
from the bar. Yeah, thatyou take to the cribbo, okay,

(01:33:55):
because that's that's dedication. You loveto calling it the cribbo. The cribbo.
Yeah, for sure. When youcome over during halftime of a college
game, we'll start we'll do havea little karaoke halftime just me and you.
Yeah. It's like a concert thatthey put on at this whoever the
you know that they'll put on astadium. We'll have the concert at the
crib. Yeah, just singing cutstriple. Are you coming? I will
be in attendance, So I'm talkingabout Damn Dritsey Will. Yeah. Man,

(01:34:18):
A college football can't get here alittle bit those saturdays, Dude,
I'm a I can't. It's likefive o'clock like a kid at Christmas.
Man. I just think it's wildthat these national shows are just beating down
football right now, right, shovingit down our throat right now. They
gave us the the Jets chance toreach the super Bowl in May, and

(01:34:40):
then they get about ten minutes ago, they gave us the percentage of a
losing season for the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steelers. Well, guess what. That adin't
happened in a long time, hasnot not under Mike Tollin. Did I
tell you what we need to knowthat in May? I know, May
thirtieth? Yeah, seven one three, two two five seven ninety O g
Q in the building. What's happening? Teilers? Tell us fellas. Man,

(01:35:02):
I've been waiting and waiting on this. Shout out to the ladies.
Y'all bringing the fire today, ladies. I'm so proud of y'all. Excellent
points concise and everything. I'm proudof y'all. Not to the antithetical part
of my call today. Brian andLeela, you know, I love you
like a play cousin. But foryou not to recognize the elements of the

(01:35:23):
world Earth, Wind, and Fire, it's like you getting on triple leb
by not recognizing led Zeppelin. Theycare the same amount of weight, They
care a sertain amount of weight.And you can't talk about R and B
and not understand Earth when it's fired. See that's that you know all allegedly
Allegedly. I don't roll the tapeback because I don't hear. I gotta

(01:35:46):
go with you know what. You'remy partner, and I usually sometimes I
just the O G the OGQ.Yeah, he's one as quickly as you
like. You don't know led Zeppelin. The fact that you didn't know I
know Earth went in fire? Knowthe cut no elements, but I know

(01:36:08):
I didn't I know who Earth wentin fire? Are yes, it's fire.
Do you remember the twenty first nightof September, Because I sure as
hell do about u Q. Youknow about it? With you brother,
Give him a formal education, Givehim a formal education. So I'm not
the only one that has to doit. Oh, I got your back.

(01:36:30):
Sean Like, oh hey, Brian, You're like I say, I
love you, man, But justlast week, you and my boy Triple
talking about new rags and wade capsand I'm all weird. Not the man
give brow. We be a royalwed. Damn right. I'm hey man,
players, players, f up,I'm gonna drop you doing what you
do with the cap dog? Whatare you talking about? I'm fighting to
the cookout. You won't even gohigh top fade. You ain't getting a

(01:36:54):
wave cap. No, okay,but I'll go on right now. He
didn't know Winter Fire, but heknew rock Star. If you want to
better, he liked to win RonStewart. He liked when rock Stewart had
bags. I know, I knowlet Man, but he you know what

(01:37:23):
he knows Philip. He knows philCollins, but he doesn't know Philip Bailey.
You know what I'm saying at Tripleplay Al Green next? Please,
Now, he's gonna start digging deep. He's gonna start going with the deep
song. Marvin Gaye's next, Marvinright here every night? Oh my gosh,
WoT the best man I'm gonna getout, you know, just the

(01:37:45):
every day. But I just gota call with an amazing violation. Amazing
you know he's the angel Hernandos.Alright music, that's GQ man, Marvin
gave fired up. Please maybe alittle you know what, sweaty as,

(01:38:11):
you know what, Let's get alittle boys to men up. Okay,
y'all want to take it that?Okay? Yeah, Yeah, yeah,
we're going. You're going, you'regoing deep. Yeah we are for sure.
Yeah. No harmonizing, No,Michael Bolton, no, Barry Manilow.
Really good a cappella group too,Yeah, boys, no doubt about
it. Yeah, Ray, thanksfor holding Good morning one. If any

(01:38:32):
one of those girls, uh Iwant my number, got free to give
it to them. A woman andthat's a great combo, brother, I
got you. The wife won't care. The second thing is I think this
is the end of the Astros.Uh. I mean I remember not too

(01:38:54):
long ago when they were head oneto nothing and I was praying they could
hold on, And that seems tobe what I'm doing now. I think
it's time to start trading players,including their manager. Get some new blood
into the organization, somebody with somefire. I think that picture for the
Mets. I think we need toget him because he seems to have the
right attitude. Uh. In second, hey, Brian sol Ross State called

(01:39:17):
me and said they want their degreeback because you like skipped music appreciation class
man. They called you a mantrying to they're trying to take mine.
Take take your scholarship, boy,Yeah, they're trying to take your scholarship.
Boy. Damn unbelievable great scholarships toState. Hey, we're d two
baby, what you mean man?You now Hamburgon, I know appreciate the

(01:39:42):
call. Ray, I'm gonna haveto, Uh, I guess la call
the White Wold matter that he doesnot care. Oh my gosh, Jack,
what's happening? Hey, good morningguys. Y'all y'all to play Sam
and Dave hold on them coming.That works, But uh, inf I'm
going to give you some bullet pointshere. And you may have already covered
this this morning, probably have,but I wasn't listening in aft offense like

(01:40:05):
I've never seen half swings. Abrelloused to take just the half swings.
Now they're all doing it. I'venever seen any like it. Regman batting
two hundred plaint still was batting cleanup for two months. This manager has
no clue about the lineup. He'sgot Dubon batting three hundred and he plays
them about half the time. Imean, I just don't understand it,

(01:40:27):
Braill, you terrible. Dubon isgreat, low Perffedo. You know,
I know why he send him down. But you know, I'd rather have
low Perfido than McCormick because low Fridois the future. McCormick didn't have a
good year last year, so anyway, I just wonder where Crane is in
all this. Uh, I've neverseen more in that manager in my entire
life, with no fire, noability to structure a productive lineup, and

(01:40:50):
he just puts Dubon in the nightspot batting three hundred. That's everybody I
know said all these same things.Thank you, guys, I listened.
Appreciate the call. Jack. Thankyou. Jack was scynct and to the
point about his dismay with what's goingon. Huh. I think there's a
lot of frustration, and I thinkit all stems from you have a lot

(01:41:13):
of poor at bats, pitch selectionsnot there, the walks are not there.
There's a lot of I wouldn't.There's the sense of urgency is not
one of them. I feel likethere's a lot of pressing going on.
Well don't you do You know anybodythat doesn't press when they're under duress.
I mean in the chase mode,under dress, not pressure situations. Some

(01:41:36):
rise and this team's always done that. But you're right, Brian about the
press and squeeze a little harder.But gosh, I lost my train of
thought because I was so focused onwhat you were so trained. No,
it's it's has to do with,you know, the team and their ability.
And I was thinking about what ourprevious caller said, it'll come to

(01:41:59):
me kind of me. It hadsomething to do with, like I said,
because I'm setting here focused on whatyou're saying about the pressing and pushing
and that grind that goes on,It'll come to me. It'll come of
me. During the break, I'llget it. I'll reintroduce that in a
second. We'll continue to talk aboutthe Houston Astro. Still got a full
phone board. We're gonna get throughall these calls as well. Seven one,
three, two, five, sevenninety. We're all along here on
the Sean Salisbury Show. The SeanSalisbury show continued, Zal Green gives a

(01:42:27):
little soft bed, what a cutewhat a banger singer? Yeah? Is
what a voice is you were talkingabout. There's a lot of fan frustration.
Yes, told you, I wasdial into what we were saying always
am is I could tell you howI know the Astros know there's a lot

(01:42:47):
of fan frustration, and it's notjust from the fact that they aren't playing
well every week. At the endof the conversation, Dana Brown always asked
the fans hang with us, hangon, be patient, we're coming,
and he does so why pausing there? Oh yeah, just quoting the man.

(01:43:12):
We're bringing it. How's that comingto a theater near you? Whatever
that is. But Dana is kindand I mean that affectionately, that they're
almost that they can feel the buzzman and the buzz isn't what they want
to hear, and not just herethat I think Dana knows well through the
interview questions and going after it.We're not we're not sugarcoating anything here,

(01:43:36):
but I think the fan you canfeel it, and it's almost a I
don't maybe it's wrong, but abut a plea for patients does that make
sense? Yes, so they heknows. So if you ever wonder if
an organization hears the frustration, theyhear it absolutely, And you don't have
to and you don't have to brewit at home in your home stadium.

(01:43:57):
They know it. The impatience isthat they can feel it and they have
their finger on the pulse of what'sgoing on with the fan base. And
in seven years this is about aswompy jawed as a fan base has been
since I've been here. Yeah,There's been moments it's been worse, but
I'm talking about the overall consistency inalmost sixty games here. This is as

(01:44:23):
confused about the performance that the fanbase has been in quite some time.
Seven one three, two, onetwo five, seven nine to get back
out to the phone lines, andgot a full full phone board. So
let's get through everybody. Let's startwith Apollo Dez. What's happening Dez?
So up? Hey, first time, first time, long time. Here
we go. I just wanted tosay, how how are you guys mindset

(01:44:45):
about a five pitch tenth inning efficient? As it was, Seattle kind of
had the juice going and then obviouslywalked it off. So we're just discussing
over here at the headquarters. Howuh we know you guys like the quality
at bats and Dana talks about thequality at bats. So our skin was
crawling watching that in the tenth andalso kind of the fans and Seattle just

(01:45:10):
jarring and cheering for every fastball upat all two of his head like he's
the worst, the worst thing tohappen. So I just want to get
you guys thoughts on that. I'msure you guys touch on it. But
have you guys slept yet? Boys? Sail again? Have you guys slept
yet? No, we are onour thirteen, on our thirteenth of our
twenty four our stream. We're descendingin a madness over here. Wow,

(01:45:30):
yeah, it's been a while stream. Yeah, we did a charity twenty
four our stream an nice so likethe result. Hey, Apollo fellas,
thank you guys for calling and I'llsee you a couple of hours. Appreciate
it. Uh yeah, five pitchinting, Sean. I talked about it
in the seven o'clock hour. Theysaw five pitches in the top of the
tenth inning pati for the runner atsecond. Patients may not be this team

(01:45:53):
strong point right now to right now. It's interning what it is and Dana,
as Apollo mentioned that Dana is beggingan out. He says, we
have to have make quality pitches atthe right time. Just repeating what he
said and have quality at bats andswings and five swings in that situation made

(01:46:15):
it way too easy on Seattle fourteenk's They didn't even have a walk offensively
yesterday. It is when you lookat it like that, it's appalling.
Yeah, and appalling is also thetreatment that is nice a guy and is
good a player over the last sincehis career, so he's been great in

(01:46:38):
Josel Tuvey. It just shows I'mnot saying Seattle fans, it seems like
the ignorance is everywhere. You pickthe nicest guy and the guy who was
not part of that and decide thatwe'll go after your on why all accounts
is as kind of soul as thereis on this team or on anything or
in the league. Right, andhe just keeps smiling, keeps right,

(01:47:00):
so he overcomes it. Fine.I just don't get the misplaced nonsense.
I don't either, and I neverwill. You can uh, partially a
lot of that blame is is likeBuster, only it's media driven. It's
media driven for sure. And thenthere's also the dorks up at John Boy
Media running with a couple of differentuh conspiracy theories and burner accounts. And

(01:47:20):
I don't pay attention to that nonsense. Yeah, so you can thank them
in part to them, right,then A caught fire and then the fans,
for whatever reason, continue to stilldo it well because a lot of
the fans don't do their own work, Yeah, and they don't go off
something else. And you know,the truth is in society now, it
seems like people want to believe thefake stuff more than they believe the truth.
Yeah, because it's easier to jumpinto the to the crap, especially

(01:47:43):
when Seattle hasn't done a damn thingin this league and how long, well
the year they won one hundred andninety games and with the World Series.
Yeah yeah, so seven one three, two, one two five seven.
I to keep it rolling here onthe Sean Salisbury show, Biscuit. What's
happen then, Matt cold King,I remember that, man, do I

(01:48:08):
do? I I don't need topile on my brother when you did that
with my brother, we took thecard away a long time ago, but
it takes a long time to getthe car back to brother. You made
it that Avrene selection do that andthat will gets you some points. I'm
getting it back, baby, gettingit back the ways to go way.

(01:48:31):
When he walks in here dressing inold school felt suits, you know,
those big old felt purple suits,and we were back in the day the
crushed vlure. Did we know he'sback and he'll get his card back there?
That's right. Hey, let mesay this, man, and this
is amazing. I remember last year, man, we used to get calls

(01:48:53):
all day long. We need toget McCormick in there. We need to
get Das in there, and thatDas Ben would I ain't, man,
it's not Sometime it's not on themanager, man, you know what I
mean. If they're not hitting,that ain't that's a manager's fault. You
know, come on, man,we gotta we can't put everything on the

(01:49:13):
manager. Man. Sometimes it's theplayers, man, if they don't come
through, they don't hit the clutch. The majority of the time it's the
players win its success and failure,because they're the ones playing now. Mistakes
can be made by manager, nodoubt, with their decisions. But biscuit,
I never met a coach that Iplayed with when I threw an interception,
it was his fault. Okay,the balls. He may call the

(01:49:34):
play I didn't like, Well,guess what I need to do? Throw
the ball out of bounds or savethe play and do it with it was
a smart quarterback is supposed to do. Don't compound a bad call with a
bad decision by me. But atno time did Brian Billicker, Denny Green
or Bobby you know, any ofmy coaches along the way, Tom Moore

(01:49:54):
drop, Mark Trestman throw the ballfor me. I don't remember Denny Green
ever dropping back and throwing it andsaying, Sean, that's on me.
No, it was on me.And if I made a great throw,
guess who it wasn't on maybe themechanics of the week, but you know
then I'll are a great catch.It's on the people who threw it and
caught it, and or the mistakehe made so well decisions of when to
call something or whin to go for. It's on the coach. The performance

(01:50:16):
is on the player strictly when itcomes to clutch play, no doubt,
right, And it just seemed likethe Ashros this year. They just can't
win low scoring, close games,and and you know that's until they get
that turned around. You know,they're gonna be up and down. And
that's that's been their calling and that'sbeen their calling card the last seven years,

(01:50:39):
right, Biscuit, Yeah, yeah, the calling cards. You know,
we we get two runs or onerun, you know, one run,
you know, remember chying, it'dbe a time when they have six
pitchers go out there and throw ano hitter, you know what I mean.
That's not happening now, So youknow, we'll see. But like
I say, I still wait inthe end and see what happens, because

(01:51:01):
we don't necessarily have to win atthe Vision as long as we get in,
you know, and so we getin, then we'll see. It's
a great point, thanks, Biscuit, appreciate it. Bub. Yeah,
he's going on the patient's level andit's testing and I'm sure it's testing him
too, but you know, gotto play them all. I guess,
yeah, he's right about that.Seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety. Let's look at thejustin Verlanders outing last Nightey pitched well,

(01:51:26):
just not enough and will continue totake your calls all morning long here on
the Sean Salisbury Show. Why You'reback? This is the Sean Salisbury Show.
Get back at it. Are theyclose? Are they far away?
Obviously? The frustration and the astrosare wherever this Dana Brown minches we talked
about last segment. He always tellsyou guys every Wednesday to hang in there

(01:51:49):
and be be patient. Things aregoing to get better and hopefully they will.
But patients, uh, and theperformance are not matching and understand.
So let's pop on out. Whowe got up first? Here? Is
it the longest pace at Randall?Yeah, let's get out to Randall.
Randall, Welcome in Bud. Howyou doing? Hey, good morning guys.
Uh. You know Biscuits was talkingabout is not on management, but

(01:52:12):
it is on management because management hasabout to do with motivation. Uh.
And you know, if I wasthe owner of that team, I would
have never hired a novice to bea manager of veteran players. And that
has a lot to do with it. It's it has a logic group with

(01:52:32):
the locker room and uh, youknow I would do well. Who I
would trade right now would be abrad you Uh, the closer and uh,
Briankman. I hated rid of Brakland, but you have more bash up
with him now than you. Uhso, Randy, you want to you

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want to trade you you want toget rid of Josh hater you know,
not hate it the other mean uhbrave you. I hate to let my
guy Bregman go, but you knowit's business because Gregman has more value to
him, I believe, than anyof them. So you think if you

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somehow package them remove those guys atthe at the trade deadline, that you're
gonna get a lot of value tobuild something either to help now but also
build assets for the future, whichyou need. Right, whatever works,
whatever is best for the team.And but but management has a lot to

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do with it. You know,I'm not gonna set up here and let
h Dana Brown continue to convince meto hold on. And I know better,
So you know, the fans knowa lot about the sport. Also,
even though these guys been in itfor years, so we can see
some things that they can't see.So maybe you know you made me go

(01:53:58):
get doctor whisky for them. Youstart seeing a little bit better. Makes
sense? You think this team makesthe pay real quick? Randal, yes,
or no, does this team makethe playoffs as they're currently constructed this
year. I don't think they'll makethe playoff. Astro is a steady bigging
a hole and the front. Ijust want the fans to be patient.

(01:54:21):
You know this turn it too down? Come man, just do things started
makes sense. Appreciate your randall goodstuff, man, appreciate it. Let's
get out to Chris and Katie.Chris, welcome in. Man. What's
going on? Oh? Not much? Getting good. I'm gonna change it
up and go on a positive.Matters looking better. It looks like we're

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holding strong with that. Brilander's pitchinggood. The veterans are coming around,
young bucks are looking stronger as wego on. Yes, it's rough right
now, patients is key. I'mthinking about July fifteenth and know where're at
these close games with good teams.I'm just on the cuss of winning than
anything. Chris one hit and wegot it. Yeah. Let me ask
you this, if on July fifteenth, the lead is let's say they they're

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they're playing good and then the upand down, the inconsistency. But I'd
like the optimism glass half full ifthey're where they are now with similar play
from the guys you mentioned on Julyfifteenth. Where's your optimism? Then?
So if we're still under some games, but then I look like Russells and
Pieces and I think Pregnant's going maybePressley as well, and then we'll see

(01:55:31):
what we can give you from Andwould you be okay with both of those?
Yeah? Okay? Perfect? Likethe optimism, Chris, Thanks brother,
appreciate you very much. Let's getout to New York and Casey,
Casey, welcome in. Man.How you doing not too bad? How
are you guys doing that? Doingawesome? Thank you? What's on your
mind? I'm just going to trymy best to be short and sweet with

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everything I have to say, becauseit's a lot of it. I don't
can talk to a lot of Astrosfans out here, as you can imagine.
Yeah, so personally, I wantto just say to all the fair
Weather fans like you can jump offthe bandwagon whenever you want. Man,
I'm just sick of hearing all therebuild talk, like yes, retooling,

(01:56:15):
okay, sure, but like asfar as oh, tear the whole thing
down, I'm sick of hearing that. Man. I mean, look at
the giants rung that they had.Twenty ten won the World Series, twenty
eleven missed the playoffs, twenty twelvewon the World Series, twenty thirteen miss
the playoffs, twenty fourteen won theWorld Series. So I mean, if

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we don't make the playoffs this year, I'm in frustrated because I think we're
a better team than missing the playoffs. But at the same time, it
could we could have a complete turnaroundthe next year. You never know,
So I don't want to just tearthis whole thing down. I don't think
that's the right thing. You're okayto keep the majority of your bulk groceries,

(01:56:58):
but add a few fresh fruits andvegetables to the to the list,
fair enough, Yes, okay,that makes sense, makes sense, Okay,
And then talker, I think weI think we need to keep him.
I said this like a year anda half ago, even before he's
done this care that he is now. You can't end up just letting your

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best guys walk away. We've gottenaway with it until this point, and
I just don't think. I don'tthink we can just keep letting guys go
and the bringing guys up. That'sa hell of a point where we're not.
We're not the ages, you know, like, yeah, as soon
as the guy gets good and getrid of them, and they've been bad
for a while. To overcome that, to overcome that year after year after

(01:57:45):
year, to overcome it like theyhave is pretty amazing. He speaks to
the farm system and the way theydevelop players. But at some point in
time, that's got to give alittle bit, right while you're continuing to
build. Let me ask you aquestion about that, Casey. And then
we got to go to break andso great to hear from me in New
York, and I would imagine,well, at least you're not the Mets,
right, my man, I justbe a wise ass, But the
Yankees are playing good baseball. Withwith with the Tucker thing, I want

(01:58:10):
you to for the last thirty secondsbefore we go to break. You're the
GM and you're the owner. What'syour threshold of pay? Let's just go.
Just give me two things. Thenumber of years that you'd be willing
to go and the yearly average salary. What is I mean? Obviously that's
a tough question. But at thesame time, I'd say, at the

(01:58:33):
very man, because you you wanthim, you say we can't lose him.
So I'm making you the owner andthe GM at the same time.
So you you tell me seven toeight years, I'd be willing to go
up to about thirty four a year, thirty four, thirty five max three
thirty three, thirty four, thirtyfive something something like that. At eight

(01:58:55):
years more so a thirty five.Then you just put your team in a
right thirty five and thirty five andeight years as your threshold. Where if
it's more than that, you gotto let him go. Is that fair?
All right? Perfect casey, Greatstuff man. We look forward to
hearing more from you. Brother.You always welcome here. Thank you,
appreciate it. It's good stuff.And come back John. We'll get you

(01:59:15):
my man as quickly as we possiblycan. We're gonna take a break,
come on back at Sports Talk sevenninety head into the nine o'clock hour.
Good stuff, man, What apassionate day. And the Astros do bring
that out, which tells you something. Not only do we love the Astros,
our expectations are through the roof ofthe Astros. And when it's tested
and the patience is tested, everybodyhas an opinion. And you know what
I love and I mean this sincerely, there's some opinions that I guarantee you

(01:59:41):
that people that listen, or evenbaseball inside that building listen, have to
say, you know what, We'lleither we've thought about that or it's a
great point a lot to learn,and we learn a lot on the show
every single day. We appreciate you. Nine o'clock hour. Next, Sports
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The Rockets your home for your hometeams driven by the classic Elite Buick GMC
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Lima, go Lobos. This isthe Sean Salisbury Show, three ten,
the first pitch two o'clock on deckshow right here on seven on your Home
for astros of baseball, the Mavericksand t Wolves in Game five of the
Western Conference Finals in the NBA,Scottie Scheffler and more. When golfer in
the world has charges dropped that wereagainst him because of the incident that happened

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a couple of weeks ago out ofAhalla Golf club on the Mariners win the
series against the Astros. In thisseries, so far, the Astros have
gotten three quality starts from their starters. The bullpen has surrendered only two earned
runs, and yet they are zeroin three and you've scored five runs in
three games. Yep, you're notgetting beat many people, especially a team

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that can pitch and play like thatteam. And it's not exactly like Seattle's
erupted for a big offense themselves.They've got good starting pitching, meaning the
Astros in this series. The keythe clutch hits when it matters getting somebody
over. And last night was basicbaseball. In the tenth for them,
base hit, move a runner tosecond, I mean, get on where

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they walked, got two walks intotenth any correct, then they hit two
walks the ground ball, move therunner from second to third, walk to
sacrifice fly. I believe that's howit ended. If I'm thinking about four
yes about the Mariners against Yeah,but my team is hit the ball the
other way, I mean to theright side and get the runner to third,

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couple walks, sacrifice fly right,and that's how the game ends.
Unfortunately, in the in the topof the inning, you had five swings,
you had, you had five pitches, correct, they swung at five
of the they saw the difference ofthe patients, and uh, I think
Scott had a couple walks in thetenth if I'm not mistaken, and it
might have been one, but Ithink it was two. But then you

(02:02:30):
move them over and the simple thingof we talked about it yesterday about being
able to do and it was justa little it's a little thing that the
elementary school rule of putting somebody onsecond sucks, but the rules there.
So what do you got to do? Got to run, you got you
got to push them across. Andthe Mariners did a better job of it.
Yeah, I don't think. Idon't know how you fault the pitching

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in this series. You can't,I really don't. You're going on the
road against the first place team andyou get you score five runs, and
really every game I think has beenby one run. So that's three more
losses in a one run game,five and twelve this season in one run
games, right, and couldn't pushthem across. So well, there's been
up and down for a lot ofdifferent I mean, every single phase of

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the game has had their struggles attimes this year. Right now, even
considering the injuries Hunter Brown, JustinVerlander, who that I missed in the
series at started the game fromber Andnow you're getting your best starters so far
this year, who's undefeated, andRenel Blanco today, I'm assuming he's going
to go out there and do whathe's done this year. And at five

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and zero he's pitched well. Sothe starting pitching has put them in position
to win and unfortunately the bats havegiven them three straight losses. Now didn't
help in the tenth inning with you. You didn't get great finished by Scott
at the end there, but justa simple move, you know, hit
it to the right side of theinfield and then JP Crawford lifts the fly

(02:03:58):
ball and you get home. Didn'ttake a home run to win a game
last night, Nope, sackfly wonit for him. For the Mariners,
every game has been one run.Last night, the Astro struck out of
season high fourteen times and did notwork a walk right intensively. And you're
hoping on the other side for theAstros that when you get two walks and
the bases are packed with one out, you're you're hoping yeah, you're with

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one out, you're hoping that,you you know, get him to ground
into a double play in the inning'sover. Unfortunately, they didn't do it,
and he did what you're supposed todo. Crawford lifted a fly ball
and around. You know, throughthe course, he's not going to get
a lot of credit in his average. You know, sacrifice fly doesn't count,
asn't it batt and all those things. But when Seattle looks back,
we talked about the ass and theylook back, they're going to say,
you know, it was a clutchwin, a simple way to do it.

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Boom, they walk a couple,try to get the double play and
instead of you hit it on theground, your launch angle and your angle
of approach to the baseball lifts itand you drive in a run. Pretty
simple two to one win, right, Yeah, But you can't score five
runs against the worst team in baseballand expect to sweep a series. But
if you score five runs against thebest team in your division, even as

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good as the pitching was, there'sa chance you'll get swept. And it's
happened so far. Hopefully renee Blancwill get some run support today and pitches
like the other three starting performances andgives you a chance to win. Pitching
for the Astros, Renel Blanco,obviously, he has pitch extremely well,
even with the ten games suspension,came back and had another quality start.

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See if you can continue that thisafternoon in Seattle. They need it in
the worst way to avoid that sweep. Seven three two five seven ninety John,
Good morning, How you are doingfantastic? What's on your mind?
Oh? Well, as usual,I mean, they they have to win
so much percentage before the All Starbreak, you know, because after the

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All Star Break, it's going tobe a dogfight. There's gonna be some
teams that are going to emerge.That's the way we look at it over
here. You know, it's it'sgoing to be it's going to be up
to them, you know. Youknow what's so frustrating, Sean you were
talking about. You know, theyget a man on third base and they
just can't push him in there.You know, it's just right there,

(02:06:15):
it's for the taking, but theyjust can't get it across. Yeah,
it's it is frustrating. The consistencyof doing that has been bothersome this year.
There's no question their inability consistency wiseto do that's been bothersome. I
mean I mean why, I mean, you got good quality batters, now,
you got Altule, you got uhuh mister Tucker there, and you

(02:06:36):
know, I hope uh, Ihope. Uh what's his name? Jordan
has not heard or anything or he'sjust you know because he's but last night,
man, we tricked that when hestole that base, I'll tell you
what that was really something. Yeahthere, I mean he can he can
move. Ye oh, he's he'sa hell of an athlete for a big

(02:06:57):
man. They just just we needhis power back and and uh a little
more selective at the plate for thislineup. And it's not the hitting.
I mean the hitting at times hasbeen really good. It's the timely hitting
which has not been there this year. We're going to hang in there.
It's going to get better, hope. So I'm with you. But it's
just it's it's just going to hurtthem. All those games they've lost,
that's what's going to hurt. Yeah, you're gonna be chasing the whole year,

(02:07:18):
the pressure to get the pressure tochase the team and and and continue
to win and hope that the teamin front of you, or two teams
in front of you, goes onlosing streets, You're gonna have to have
them help too, because if theykeep winning, you keep winning. Won't
make a difference. So we'll see. Hey, well you guys, have
you guys, have a good one, you two John anybody appreciate you.
Hell, let's talk to Felipe.Felipe, good morning, what's up?

(02:07:39):
Fellas? Good morning, Good morning. One thing I did we gonna get
about is that earning in the yearwe're talking about pitching and pitching and pitching
with the problem so that I feellike the script has changed. And of
course we see that with the hittingnow. I don't think you guys,
you know, got that stage Jamcurse where they touched the ball and the
Aliens took their power. But Ifeel like, you know, some something's

(02:08:03):
here. We have to look atsomething that we're not talking about. I
mean, have we ever thought aboutmaybe it could be the hitting coats.
I've been thing for alex Denstrown,I believe so, you know, I
just don't understand how these guys usedto smash for all these years and now
they just forgot how to you know, look at the strike zone and you
know, stay out of the stayout from swinging, swinging and missing from

(02:08:26):
pictures in the other batter's box.Uh. Some I don't know. It's
just confusing to me that we justthey just forgot how to hit in some
ways, especially with the runners ofthe scorn position. I mean, we
can get the guys over the thirdone out and pop up and strike out
or ground out and nothing. Youknow, it's I don't know, one
of these guys like if they're justbeing too impatient. But I did a

(02:08:48):
couple of months, a couple ofweeks ago, I did well. I
was on the eight team, andI actually said that these guys are a
little you know, too hesitant tolike trying to make something happen and kill
the ball and hit a whole month. They just get a little bit more
patient at the plate, just taketheir pitches and have quality advance. Like
we've all said, we'll be fine, but a lot of the bad basis
to just hang in there. Imean, we went through one hundred lost

(02:09:09):
seasons back to back to back.You know, I was around, I
was I've been a fan because Iwas born. It's in my family,
and you know, they want tohop off the bandwagon, That's fine by
me, but uh, you know, we got to hang in there.
They just they just didn't get hereovernight. It takes time, and you
know what, we're going to pourour heads through this. We'll be fine.
I mean, I feel like we'rewe're still a playoff teams. We

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have the pedigree for it. Everyteam goes to it. But I know
this team has the chance to,you know, unless rear heads and by
the All Star break we should begood and still in contention for the for
the division. It's all I got, guys. I appreciate that taking my
time. Thank you. Fore theygot the pedigree, Sean, but the
production as of right now is justnot there. Yeah, one one piece
is a little different than the otherright now. Pedigree has been great,

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but production so far has been Buthe is right pitching, pitching, pitching
early. Now it's pitching's light outand it's shifted to hit. When the
Asses have been at their best,the majority of what they've done in phases
of the game have been have favoredtheir side. You know, in the
past get right. This year itjust hasn't, and it's been the streaks
have been long yeah, and it'sthe it's festered a little bit longer.

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So yeah, pedigrees are great,but with pedigree you still have to have
production. So I'll ask you whatcomes first, having fun or winning?
Winning? So when you go outto a baseball field and play, winning
comes before you have fun or havefun. We have fun begat winning or

(02:10:37):
winning, begat having fun winning.So you're not having fun until you're winning.
Losing sucks the point, of courseit does. So can you have
can? Is there? Is it? My point is, is there a
way when you go out there andopen the season, spring training is over,
you get rolling into it, you'replaying baseball, you're having fun?

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Right? My point? When you'veseen this team in the past smile and
free spirited, I haven't seen thatmuch this year. That's my point.
So did the slow start in thehappiness or was complacency and not as happy
in free spirit as they've been leadto the slow start which leads to performance?
Okay? Point? So then thenthat's okay, And that's different than

(02:11:20):
what you said. So happiness andjoy, fun right leads to winning?
Did they get did they? Didthey take the happiness part of it and
the swagger and the fund for granted. Now, just because you're jolly and
happy doesn't mean you're gonna have agreat day, but it sure helps.
So and now here's the problem.You start to press and what happens when

(02:11:41):
you're pressing? Your mind is clutteredwith all that, and it's hard to
be free spirit and have fun.So that's why I ask, do you
happy? And you're happy? Inpedigree says okay, we'll win. This
is no big deal. We losttwo in a row. We're not losing
five in a row. Or isit? When now listen, you go
to tim winning streak, you'll gethappy in hurry. But what happens with

(02:12:03):
this team, That's why I'm sayingis did you see a lot of joy
early in the season with this team? And when it started? And do
we did we take not just aperformance? Did they take that for granted
that this is just who we are. We don't need the swagger and enjoy.
We're just this. It's become work. Does that make sense? Yeah,
I'm just wondering what comes first.I look back at when they're losing

(02:12:24):
blows and when you keep losing,you've pressure. You put more pressure on
yourself. I look back between Maytenth and May nineteenth, so a span
of nine days. They won theseries against Detroit swept the A's won the
series against the Milwaukee Brewers in thattime Jose Brady was not around. So

(02:12:46):
are you do you think they winbecause it was the soft part of the
schedule or the lineup was more consistent, a little more free flowing and not
having to force somebody line up justbecause of a contrast, I think it's
both. If we're going to saythat's not the first three personal, right,
it's just his player presence is aplayer. Yeah, if we're going
to say that, we'll come backand discuss this. But if we're going

(02:13:07):
to say and say, look howtough the Astro schedule was in the first
thirty five games, then you alsohave to lend credence to well, it
was easier. These are much easierthan the Atlanta Braves or the or the
Texas Rangers, the Seattle Mariners.Right. But the other side of it
is, I think it is sotrue as well, that does a couple

(02:13:28):
people's poor play and the frustration fora couple carry over where it becomes just
as contagious as the good stuff does, or is it a simple fact of
Seattle's pitching staff is really good.And I think that's a big part of
it too. That's a big partof it. And does it also come
down to the fact that you're likethat, you know that there's a couple
guys in the lineup right now thatyou're playing with seven guys and not nine.

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Yeah, well that's at the plate. That's the angle too. There
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(02:15:52):
just say part to Toby Keith rip. So wait a minute, we just
started talking Tony Tony to you said, you know Toby Keith, No,
you don't call him tone Look,you call him according to me and Biscuit,
and you're we got the tape,we're gonna run it back. And
they were about a day or twoapart when you went where that cole King

(02:16:16):
the holidays and then you went followedthat up maybe a day or two later
with a I said, it wasup to this girl. She said,
Hi, my name is Sheena.You said, oh man, who's that?
I said? You said, likeI said yes to tone Lock.
Yeah. Yeah. In the secondweek and you said it confidence with conviction.

(02:16:39):
You did it was did you wereconvicted to You're like confidence, Oh
yeah, tone Lock yeah, toneLock manas you did and you were,
yeah that what was it? Thatthat cole King? Yeah yeah k and
you you did you said it withconviction and you were all, that's your
gut, Yeah, that's your guy, tone Lock. You called him.

(02:17:00):
Look win. That literally all happenedin the same week. Now the holidays,
good run by you should like rightbefore Thanksgiving. It was the hell
of a run by. You wasyeah, I can't wait for the fall.
Yeah, I'm ready for the summer. You're already look at the fall.
I'm ready for I'm ready sun golf. Unpopular opinion. I hate the
summers here. I can understand thehumidity. Driving too, damn hot man,

(02:17:20):
and I coaching this bs getting lineddog, that's what Yeah, you're
no, I'm not talking about aboutyou played in it too. That's the
way it works. Look as atwelve year old kid, I'll go back
to All Star practice right now andthe right and they go home and get
pizza and and people don't do itagain. The next morning we're back at
splash Town. That's ten am.They opened up. Give me a chure.

(02:17:41):
Oh damn right, going to theTexas free Fall. See later.
I love it. Actually we startin the Lazy River, don't we bitch?
A lot of adults a kid somuch metal. Adults have screwed it
all up for him, right kid, as you like you say, after
kids, those things will compete,though, man, I guess well not
now. I mean playing on theirdamn iPads and all that. That's like

(02:18:01):
go out and go drink out ofa garden hose. I ain't doing that.
Tell me there's done better than agood garden hose water. That were
the when you put it up toyour lips like an idiot the first time,
you know, it explodes down yourthroat. But also that didn't sound
right. Yeah, but you butthere's that. But the one that comes
out of gott he let it runfor like five minutes. Dude, it's

(02:18:22):
one hundred and twenty in Scottsdale.Yeah, it ain't getting cool, okay.
Yeah. Pause. Ye when you'reholding that hose and you got it
in your mouth, yeah, drinkit out. Hey, everybody told you.
Nobody at that point in time saidyou were going to die from it.
They didn't. They just kept drinkingit. Yeah, now you do
it? What why do you doit? I'll drink hose water right now,
hose or a hose? Which oneh o s I'm not drinking hose

(02:18:45):
water. Pause. Their own waterthey got they gotta drink. They not
only gotta eat, they gotta drink, have their own water. I don't
want any hose water South, Thanksfor all. Good morning. Hey,
good morning, Uh Brian and Sean, how are you doing good? Good?
How about you? I'm doing good? Hey? So uh you know

(02:19:09):
Sean, you were talking about theteam having fun. I think I know
a few players that might have fun. And actually, my help that sows
you probably know him. Well,how about Gus Clark and Richie damn right?
From your damn right, Gus Clarkand Richie You're damn right. And
if they don't, I'll give hima twister dog. Do you know what
that? Guys? And then Ihave a question for you, Sean from

(02:19:33):
your end of the team from themovie, Uh, do you think they
have a chance against Brian's team?And I'll hang up. You're talking about
does the bench warm my team?Are the bench warmers? Those? Well,
first my team, Brad's team.Yeah, Brad, Oh yeah,
we kicked. We kicked Brian's Uh, you couldn't even beat the bench as
matter of fact, we and andwe don't even need Rob Schneider or or

(02:19:54):
Heat or any of those guys.Sad matter of fact, we don't need.
Yeah, we dominated them. Letlet them coach Brady. You couldn't
even beat the benchwarmers. You aren'tbeating me. You know. We'll go
do We'll go get the twenty fiveout? Thanks? So I am twelve.
Yeah, we'll go get him drinka beer right by you, okay
and drink Yes, could be heredepressing song. It really gets in my

(02:20:18):
fields too, Lucas Bryan will getin your field. He likes beer songs.
Dude, Doug, welcome in love. That call what's up, Doug.
You know when you talk about theproblem with the hitting, and it
certainly is so you know hitting,but one component is that you should probably
put your best hitter, and youknow, I mean, hey, Doug,

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Doug, Yeah, hey, hey, you sound like a robot,
so give us give us a shoutback. Please, No, it's it's
it's no, it's pretty bad.Give us a shout back. I actually
thought he was doing that on purpose, due it sounds like he had one
of those voice you know, likeyou'll see in the movie where the guy's
called him alone too. Yeah,yes, when he's when he's ordered,
when he's booking the hotel. Iactually thought that he had like she was

(02:21:05):
just doing it like making fun ofmaybe a caller who who said, well,
we got to put the best playersup at the top of the line.
I actually thought that's the way hewas going one two ten oh Man,
Yeah, good movie Home Alone,Now good movie. Top one hundred

(02:21:26):
maybe of all time. Probably yeah, allegedly. Yeah, benchwarmers, what
a good banger? Yeah, man, good kick your yeah yeah oh yeah
yeah. We had an all starteam, did the bench We were playing
against thirty year olds. Dude,you couldn't beat the bench warmers though,
Dude, have you ever tried toget a fast sneak of fastball by Rob
Schneider? Uh in that movie?If you try to sneak a fastball probably

(02:21:48):
wouldn't go very well, man.I mean he did, He'll turn on
it. He pound the Crawford boxes. Schneider didn't benchwarmers. Yeah, there
you go. Your team wouldn't thoughyour ass. Okay, I'll start calling
you Brad. It's fine, welcomeback to the Brad bitch warmers too.

(02:22:11):
I'll take what's your last name inBrad or I don't even remember you didn't
maybe you know was on there,but everybody. I still have guys who
come to me it's happing the times, say Brad, and the first thing
comes to my mind is no,I'm Sean. Yeah, And I'm like,
oh, now I know what they'retalking about. Right? What what
do you uh? In the inthat scene when you're in the sporting goods
stores. What do they say toyou and you're like, hey, what's

(02:22:33):
up? Losers like, oh rthree silos athlete? Yeah, I told
you the funny It wasn't funny behindthat. When I knocked that face mask
off the south a manakin and hita guy right now, hit one of
our production guys in the head.He had to go and get it.
He had to go get like twentystitches. That's crazy. That's my first
time. I'm like, there goesmy movie career. Oh dude. It

(02:22:58):
was horrible, but they were youknow, they at the shield protection.
He didn't use it, yacked up, but the steel part hit him.
You could see. I mean itwas gashed. And I was sick to
my stomach after that, really reallyreally got I mean, was that probably
prevented? Probably there was a firsttake first take. First I asked,
I said, how hard he goes? Hit it like you mean it?
Sandler did And there they got theshield protections right, and so that wasn't

(02:23:18):
fake. Where I kind of hitit, dude, I unloaded him and
it flew off the steel part ofthat mask and hit him right above the
eye and they had to ambles hadto come get him. And he had
been on the set. He's likea fifteen twenty event. And I called
him that night. He said,Sean, you don't have to worry.
He's not her fault. We knowthat the same protection because they get the
shield to protect. He was asound guy and it hit him. And

(02:23:41):
right then I go to the backof the sporting good store and Sander could
Saulisbury it's it's okay. He andhe understood it's okay. And I'm thinking,
everyone said hates me. I've sathere, big big bully hitting this
seedle like the movie you play outthe bully, right, and now you're
knocking out sound right, right exactly. He comes back the day too later,
grinds again, got stitches all thetime, the reconstruct. I mean

(02:24:01):
it was bad. You know whenit's above you are you're worried about the
blood rolling India. Yeah, Iwant to start to My acting career probably
prevented me from being the best supportingactor in a comedy role. Yeah,
we still got to get stuff.I was stunned. You were snubbed.
The emotions. The emotions get tome now, all right, being snubbed?
Yeah, screw the academy. Yeah, triple Yeah seven to three,

(02:24:26):
dude. You know they say,well, here's what happened on the set.
Christian males cos people out, Yeah, steel face house getting the head
knocking sound, guys out left andright. Yeah, all right, let's
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Golf Apparel. The Sewn Saltbury Showcontinued, Game four of the series.
Ashleys are going to avoid this week. It's a three to ten first pitch
two o'clock on Deck Show right hereon seven on your home for Astros Baseball.
You know I guess two pm onDeck Show and three to ten first

(02:26:18):
pitch. Matt Thomas and Ross.I guess get you know, they get
a you know hour off the Adamand Adam at a day off, they
get another country club day. Wow, unbelievable. Man, are they going
to get some spot treatment and stufftoday? Believe the country club. I'll
probably go hang at Tom's watch bar. Good place to go. Yeah maybe,

(02:26:39):
uh yeah, I listen, wenever get those day let's go,
especially let's say after playing in Europe. Yeah, we got to have one
of those boys. Yeah, we'vegot a few of those in the spring
training one here? Where was thespring training the beginning of the season?
Was it was it an exhibition thisthis season? No? When we were
you on the show and we didthat, No, you were we had
where it was like we started ateight o'clock instead of or whatever acts of

(02:27:01):
the the game's overseas, right,it was either in Japan. No,
I wasn't on the show for that. I can't remember it made it not
been. I can't remember where itwas. But I had a couple of
days off during that that that run. But we don't get days off.
No, sure, don't. Don'tget remotes because it's too early in the
morning. We're right here. Weneed to find out. I love it.
We need to find a good bagelshop to go to begel cc Yeah,
I'm with you. Yeah, man, I don't know if people,

(02:27:22):
hey, give me a bagel CEC. While we're over there howling at the
moon and singing people like I wanteda beg on. I got these clowns
over here singing Tony, Tony,Tony. Why is Brian yelling? Keith
sweat seven two five seven Nine's comeback up to the phone lines, Terrell,
you're up first. Hey, man, here's my problem with the spot,

(02:27:43):
right, it's it's not playing abrave you. He probably ain't got
no choice on that. But lookat the tenth inning last night, right,
I'm thinking we got Chazz coming up, and then we got Das coming
up, and I think Chaz needsto play because we got to get him
going. But in that situation,you're gonna have the Manford Runner on second.

(02:28:05):
All you need is a single andso you got the guy with the
best batting average on the team onyour bench and you put him out there
as the man for Runner. Iscreamed so loud, I want my wife
up. The dog started barking.I'm like, what the hell are you
doing. He's the guy that shouldbe going up to the plate for Chaz

(02:28:26):
or Diz as the pinch hitter.You don't need a homer, you don't
want to walk and set up adouble plate. You need a single,
and you gonna put him out thereas your man for runner. That's what
Grey Kessinger should be doing. Thatdude, don't play anyway, that's the
one thing. Put his butt outthere as the man Ford runner and then
put your best batting average guy atthe plate when you need a single to

(02:28:52):
score a run. It's like,it ain't that difficult. And then go
to the bottom of the ending rightso they get the productive out, get
the guy to third base. I'mscreaming, why are we bringing the infield
in and giving them a chance toknock one through. What you need is
a double play. Just put hisbutt on first base. Now eventually he

(02:29:18):
walked him and so now we getthe back up double play. They hit
a fly ball, it didn't matteranyway, but you're giving them at batch
right there with an easy chance becauseyou got to pull your infield in to
pop one through. It's like,it's the little things like that that I
don't know to me, ain't thatdifficult? And it feels like feels like

(02:29:39):
elementary school baseball decisions? Right,yeah, yeah, I mean it's like
some of the stuff is hard.Right, you talk about putting the lineup
together every day. That ain't aseasy as a fan things because you do
gotta deal with the egos and andwhat your GM or owner wants to see.
Like, there's a lot of stuffthat that makes that a lot more

(02:30:01):
difficult decision than what people really realize. But some of it ain't that hard
anyway. That's what frustrates me withit. I FA and I get it
called that tenth inning was frustrating.Then five swings, Yeah, five pitches?
Five pitches? What they saw?Five pitches? What I'm saying?
Five pitches? Tony, welcome in. That guy's that gotta just called right

(02:30:26):
on the money. Everything he saysabsolutely true when you get into a tenth
inning of a ball game the waywe play it. Now, got to
get that runner at third. Butwhat I want to talk about is what
the general manager said about a break. If he doesn't figure it out,
we got to make a decision.What's he supposed to figure out? Guys,

(02:30:48):
Listen, you can't catch up tothe fastball anymore. He can't.
It doesn't matter what you figure out, man, you're gonna be guessing he
can't get to the fastball anymore.It's just just just the fact he can't.
So what's he supposed to figure out? Uh? You got lock of
feedo down to triple A. Theball game we lost two nights ago,

(02:31:09):
Bray, He gets on base,he gets the base hit the right center
field. He's on first base.There's a ball hit down the right field
line. Anybody else scores from first, but this guy, the ball eats
him up at first base. Howmany times are you being eating up the
last couple of days? What arewe doing? Man? I don't get
it. I don't understand. Iknow that that it's about the money,
but this thing's stay's going to getout of hand. I don't know.

(02:31:33):
The only reason that that people arestill have any hope at all right now
is because everybody else in the divisionis not playing great. Seattle can't score.
We go into a series with ateam that can't score, and what
do we do we can't score.I don't know. I asked Dana Brown
yesterday. If it just simply comesdown to father Time. And he didn't.

(02:31:56):
He didn't. He didn't admit thatFather Time. He did say,
you know, father Time, andwe both kind of agreed. Father Times
undefeated and and I'm not. I'mnot sure going to West Palm and all
that. Maybe Father Time. Listen, when you're not catching up the nineties,
it's pretty tough, right, Andit's it's not it's not a knock
on the guy's life for his personalit's it's just as a baseball player,

(02:32:18):
his best baseball is behind him now, whether whatever that means. But listen,
father Time is undefeated, and II just am not sure that you
can run him out there. AndI ask why they run him out there
every day. I don't think youcan run him out there every day.
And that's and I like the guyon an interview. You asked him all
the questions that needed to be asked, and he's answering the best way that

(02:32:39):
he knows. How as a GM, he's got to protect his players too,
right, I mean you have toto some extent. Right, When
they traded for Verlander last year andthey gave up the two prospects, and
we don't know if these guys areever going to be players. But you
could just see the pain on thisman's face because he's he said, you
brought me in here to build thisthing, keep it going, but also
build it and we're trading away ourprospects. There's gonna be some changes that

(02:33:01):
there's gonna be a Bregman is probablyan ex astro come into July. I
don't think you can just hold onto him. And you know, I
know he's driving his value down everysingle day, but you can't just sit
back and get a draft kick forthe guy. That there's gonna be changes
with this team, you mark myword, changes are coming. That the
owner, he is, he ispanicking right now because the Texans are going

(02:33:24):
to be really good this year.And the same thing happened when the Oilers
were here, John, you playedfor the Oilers. If they were good
and the baseball team was struggling,that the ballpark would be lucky to get
twenty thousand in the ballpark. Theyneed to make There need to be changes
and changes quickly, Tony, greatstuff, man, Thank you, he's
right. You know how that comes. For the first time in a while,

(02:33:46):
this going into a season, theoptimisms through the roof. Yeah,
there's as much optimism about the footballteam as there was about the baseball team
going in, and you haven't seenthat in a while. Speaking of the
football team, they got OTAs thismorning. You know what that means for
tomorrow. You're gonna play Klay Walker. Damn right on our Friday. Damn
right. I love Friday, ourown Adam Wexer out at ot As this

(02:34:07):
morning. Grinding Lex is a grinder. So you've already prepared the people that's
coming. You had a time.Is it the last segment or we have
we have maybe before we have asegment left today. No, We've talked
to Ashtros the whole time. Imean, you sure how our people want
to talk Astro true got your ed. You know we'll get to those calls
next, but you sure yeah?I think you can wait. Oh go

(02:34:30):
go Astros. We'll get it next. This is the Sean Salisbury Show three
ten, the first pitch two o'clockon deck show right here on seven on
your home for Astros Baseball, Maverickst Wolves Game five of the Western Conference
Finals tonight in the NBA. ScottyChefal has charges against him dropped. Final

(02:34:54):
two calls of the show seven onethree, two, one, two,
five seven night before we hand itover to Stan Norfleet and Chris Corres be
on. Next up, Roger,Hello, Roger, what's going on?
Guys? What's going on? Shoutout to triple for the triple T cut
earlier. Uh so my deal isthis, Uh you know you gotta show

(02:35:16):
I mean, Brian gotta learn toembrace summer man it swoll past season.
Man, you gotta you gotta knowthat. You gotta learn embrace that.
Man. That's the way of blackaround here. Byant As. Also the
the hitting philosophy, it's gradually deteriorated. I remember when they had the Bob
Buena's and the Carters and Risks,and you know Carter, those guys were

(02:35:41):
mid meal. So our philosophy graduallychange and getting guys in here. If
you how to work the count,or the philosophy was teach from preacher how
to work thecount, even if itwas a borderline pitch ballid off, spoil
it, but you got out thereand just you know, follow it off
somehow some way and lived lived tofight another day. And even if even

(02:36:01):
if if you came off the secondarywithout any any runs or any any production,
that's fine, as long as thatpitch count was in the middle of
fifties or sixties. By a thirdhitting, you're doing your job. And
we used to be the best atit all the time. And guys like
Gregoran, we're spear of hitting that. Of course, Brantley, you know
he's out here anymore. But thatstuff was preached down the line, and

(02:36:24):
I saw that. I see thatthat philosophy gradually just going away. And
and I know Alcuba would go asthe exception. The pretty much give him
or greenlight to do whatever the heckyou wanted to do. But he needs
to learn how to I gets tomake his game, to alter his game
towards or to make me these peopleunderstand that, Hey, he has to

(02:36:45):
be a leader and he has tochange too. Uh. He don't have
to change his entire approach, butto the green to where these guys can't
understand that. You see a borderlinepitch, just don't sit there and look
at it. Man saw that off. Let these guys work, Let them
make the pictures work. That's allman. I just don't see that anymore.
All right, guys, I wouldappreciated Roger Shada, Roger and let's

(02:37:05):
final call the show, Ed,you're up last, what's up? Yes,
I think you guys did a greatjob, better than the asterisks.
Anyway, what I wanted to saywas that last year a lot of people
were complaining about the catcher Mouldanao,and they complained about manager, and he

(02:37:26):
was a great manager, and Ithink they should have stuck with him.
But you know, when he cameback to Houston, he blamed the media
for running him out of town,supposedly, and uh, I just hope
you guys don't pick on this newmanager. We have, give him a
chance, give him at least oneyear more. And uh, but the
hitters need to hit, and thepictures need the pitch, like they say,

(02:37:50):
I guess say, let me outof here. There you go,
Ed, thank you man, appreciateit. I don't. I'm not ready
to run. I'm not running Joeya spot at of time. Sure,
as I'll know Dusty Baker, therun him out of town. I love
Dusty Baker, and I think hewas a hell of a manager for four
years here. But I know thefrustration I've had conver I know there was
frustration about that and Ryan off there. You know I've discussed that. Oh

(02:38:13):
yeah, and it's too early torun Joe spot out of town. It's
a learning curve and even though DanaBrown didn't expect it to be a long
one with Joe Spotty, Joe spotis not going anywhere right now. And
you know, part of being amanager a player is you got to deal
with the good and you got todeal with the criticism. And when you
lose, Joe Spott is getting criticism, and when they win, he'll get

(02:38:35):
some criticism, just like Dusty Bakerdid and aj Hinch. Now, some
criticism comes harsher because people just itjust does. But that's part and parcel
to what you do as a manager. So I don't think that anybody's as
a matter of fact, I thinkthat people here, the media likes Joe
Spotta. I think the players likeJoe Spotta. I think they had a
lot of life and respect for DustyBaker as well. May differing opinions at

(02:38:58):
time, but media's got a jobto do, and I think Joe listen,
the last thing Joe Spotten needs toworry about is radio, TV and
social media. Just go do yourthing and get it done, and there
will be a learning curve and sixtygames is not enough to judge it.
That's a fact. Whether it's him, aj Hinch, Sparky Anderson, or

(02:39:18):
any of the other you know,a great man or Dusty Baker, there's
got to be now if the decisionsare so heinous as the season rolls long,
you're like, come on, he'sin over his head. We'll know
at the end one hundred and sixtytwo games where it's headed. So no,
it's the second you start worrying aboutsocial media as a player or a
manager or front office and people's opinionthe truth of matters. Now, you

(02:39:41):
can take them in and utilize them, especially if they're good opinions, but
you got to flush the negative stuffout. And that's listen. As a
player, Brian, it doesn't matterif you're managing fourteen year olds, it
doesn't matter if you're playing. Criticismcomes with sports, and I suggest that
if you can't handle success or criticism, that you're probably that's the time you
probably should take two weeks off andquit. And a Brayh was going through

(02:40:05):
it as well as a spot aswell as well Bregman. Bregman hasn't witnessed
a lot of this because he's beenso successful. So it's it's on charted
water for him this long or youknow where it's not him dominate, right,
So it's part of it. Histeam's had been able to stand in
the past. We'll see if theycan this time. Guess who's suited up
and ready to go at ot.As for the Texans, Stephan Dick's that

(02:40:31):
get that song ready for tomorrow ondigs. We're not playing that cut tomorrow.
I'll take tomorrow off that and gogo Astros. Think I'll take tomorrow
off man. They look to avoidthe sweep today. Maybe I'll go through
it. I think I'll Maybe I'lljust fire to do. Maybe I'll go
fired at the flag stick tomorrow.You guys are playing go go Astros,
and we love our Astros in Houston. It's football time, all time in

(02:40:54):
Houston. Whatever damn right, that'stomorrow on a Funky Friday edition. He
is Sean Salisbury Hour producer Triple EmmanuelElmore. I'll be here, you'll be
here. I'm Brian Lima. Thankyou for listening. We're back tomorrow morning
at six am. Don't go anywhere. Next up, we'll standing north for
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