With July Approaching Should The Astros Begin To Worry?

Finishing their three game series against St. Louis the Astros fall short in a 4-2 loss. Following the loss, the Astros are back to seven games from five hundred. With the All-star break approaching and injuries playing a vital role in the Astros decline, the guys discuss should they begin to worry?

Episode Transcript

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The Sean Salisbury Show continues on yourssmart TV. Listen to Sports Talk seven
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The Sean Salisbury Show. All right, it's time for the steak out here
on The Sean Salisbury Show. BrianA Lima, Emmanuel Elmore, Paulodez sitting
in for Shawn today. Astrozs arethe Cardinals yesterday afternoon they're off today,
Texans continue mandatory Mini camp NBA FinalsSenate Game one of the Celtics and MAVs.
Shawn out today or the steakout isgoing to close up for the morning,

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and we're on the street. Isthe Lalima Lounges open for business?
That's right, the Lalima Lounge open. Kick your feet up, stay awhile,
keep your shoes on. Grab youa nice espresso martini if you will.

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At seven twenty two in the morning, we got cigars or dirvs and
a nice whiskey. What's that drinkthat you always drink? Does a bit
old fashioned? There you go,grab an old fashion At seven to twenty
three in the morning. Lima Loungeis open for business. What do y'all
got You got questions for me?No? All right, nothing, big

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jazz guy, huh yeah. Itis a speak easy. The La Lima
Lounge is a speak easy. Yes, yes, no questions. Huh oh.
I'm just yeah, I'm just sittinghere and enjoying this fine, fine
espresso. No martini. What doyou mean? The whole point of the

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lounge is to knock knock him backat seven am, drink up son.
How long has this establishment has beenopen? Uh? This as of two
minutes ago. Now it's been openfor a while. It's it comes and
goes. We're we're usually at thestakeout. But with the Salisbury uh not

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here today getting ready for his golftournament. The Lolima Lounge is open for
another I don't know about five minutes. You can do a lot in five
minutes. I heard. I'm justsaying I can't confirm or to deny,
but you know, it's just wordon the street. Let's get out to

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the phone line seven one three sevenninety do Seki's welcome into the Lalima Lounge.
We'll take a a glass with eyesand h two, go sid don't
drinking my brother. Okay, Soyou want water on the rock, We'll
get that up for you. Hey. Also, uh, it's a pleasure

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to finally get to talk to Apollothis. I'm gonna ask a question for
him. Since you guys have alot of knowledge in baseball, I know
the ass round our seven games behindin the wild card, seven games in
the regular division. Uh, ifthere are ten games south come July or
you're gonna start thinking about next year, bring some young kids, get them

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some experience and go from there.And also, guys have been a Celtic
town since my childhood day. SoI'll take the Celtics in seven. So
Mama Celtics, it's a pleasure intext for taking my call. I don't
call that out to Mama's gonna say, take care of your lama. Love
you guys. Those echis live.But man, I'm gonna get a get

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him a Yeah, you know,water on the rock, put that on
your tap. I think that's thebig question that we've gotten over the last
like two weeks, is will theAstros be buyers or sellers? Dana Brown,
the GM set himself. He seesthat there's no way that they're going
to be sellers. But what doeshappen if they're ten games twelve games out?

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Yeah, great question by mister dosEks. You know what, double
up? Get it? Give himanother you want to water on the rocks?
Okay, good too, Put boththose on my tap. Okay,
got it. I think there's areal conversation that this fan base needs to
have internally about how you can retoolfor twenty twenty five, and it's making

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some hard decisions about impending free agents, arms outfielders to trade to people that
are in it. And you canget major League Baseball players back, you
can get prospects back, and youcan go for it in twenty twenty five.

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You have a of Tucker, yourdone, Al Tuo, ve Ds,
Pina, Jake myers Is hopefully cankeep that rolling, and uh,
Frameber on the mound. Obviously you'regonna miss Hobbyer and Jose for pretty much
all of next year. But yeah, Blanco, you have Spencer Hunter JB

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potentially. Uh, but you canretool, and you've seen other teams do
it. I think the Mariners havedone it pretty well over the last four
years. I mean, obviously withoutthe success in the postseason. But they
always seem to get rid of acontract that they know they're not going to
resign and get someone with years,or they go get prospects and and does

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it really hurt their chances? Andobviously the famous you know, GM of
the time, we're gonna win.Uh. But if you're ten, I
think that I think that numbers prettymuch saying you're selling And obviously we haven't
had that in a while here.It doesn't mean the the golden age is
over and the windows closed. Youjust are chips all in for twenty twenty

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five. Yeah. Yeah, Ithink it's all gonna come down to what
the deficit looks like. Because Igotta get back to five hundred. That's
first and foremost. Dane Brown saidthat yesterday the goal was to get back
to five hundred. But yet you'restill eight game, seven games under five
hundred right now. Yeah, Imean it takes it helps that the AL
West has been so bad, Yeah, that it takes one weekend that you're

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back in it. And obviously theother side of the flip of the coin
is one bad weekend you're out ofit. Uh. And the worry that
I have is when you're constantly playinguphill m that's that's draining. You're you're
I think we saw that a littlelast year. The actions were just fighting
and fighting and fighting, and theywin the division on the last day and
you get in you finally take yourbreath and then you're like, okap,

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now we're in the playoffs. Soget the five hundred as quick as you
can and then you can make therun. And if if you're under ten,
I still think, uh, ifyou buy, you better, you
better go all in. You can'thave one foot in the door and one
foot out. No, you can. And at the end of the day,
just look at the back of thebaseball card tops Now we're not doing

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that. No, But in allseriousness, like what what what's next?
As we go to break what isnext for the Astros? Obviously you have
a pretty good rotation as of rightnow. But let's talk later in the
season. We'll discuss an extra spourstock sevent to eighty