Astros Make Division Leaders! Yordan Hits For Cycle, Men's USA Basketball Beats South Sudan

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Saulsbury, Old Berry, Houston.Okay, let's do this. Sean Salisbury,
there to usc truths. Longtime friendshown Salisbury, Ryan Lima, go
Lobos. This is the Sean SalisburyShow. Okay, let's just say let

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me let me set the stage forwe get the How about yrd On?
How about a slugger that can thatbig fellow beating You're here for the cycle.
He gets that double, he says, the second he hit it,
It's like, okay, I gotmy double. Yeah he knew it.
Excited. Okay, so you're takingyou know, Kelo one hundred pound.
I got three dogs, one hundredpound bully, about a sixty pound Opus
is my middle one. My myhunting hound dog is about sixty pounds.

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Now that dog the rescue went fromhaving chains around its neck to maybe that's
why it's such a stub. ButI mean it finds everything. And I
got a ten to twelve pound alittle little little one goes ke Lo,
Opus and Patron right just to storyto get your morning. Okay, if
you're on a walkway walking around likethe green Belt and taking your dogs on
a walk, and you've got threedogs, okay, and you're walking on

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the concrete and then people either I'mtalking about without dogs or animals m hm,
are coming there saying of one personor two pe I have like three
times on the walk. You're walkingand you see one hundred pound bully who's
a great boy. Not gonna buyit, but they know he wants to
go up and be everybody's friend.You're walking and you see it. What
would you do if you're walking yousee somebody with three dogs and there's grass

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on both sides of you. It'snot like you're falling off a cliff and
you're walking and some and three dogsare coming your way. Well, what
would you do when you're about torun into each other? I would probably
give you some space, say itloud or some people in the back of
here, I would give you space. I mean, maybe just walk three
yards off the grass while you're goingto stepping in mud and just keep walking,
no big deal, and then getback on like five yards later when
they've passed you. I feel likethat's common courtesy. Say it louder.

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I feel like that's common courtesy.I don't know what it is with you
clowns. You you ask clown dumbpricks ego maniacs or I'm just gonna show
them because one of these times Iwas gonna let Keilo jump on you and
put his big ass jaw around yourneck. Okay, I just don't get
now. It's the other way around. If I'm walking and there's somebody walking
one dog let alone three in oneof them's one hundred pounds, where you

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got to control them on a harnessand not a bad way. But he
just wants to be friends, andI don't want him to jump up on
somebody and say hey, I loveyou. You know, he just friendly
not gonna unless I say, sickas ass, you know what I mean.
Yeah, But it happened like threetimes on a walk here, So
I'm like, were they weren't gettingoff the walkway? And I'm like,
who does this? Have we got? I mean, is it that big

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a deal to see? It iskind of to me because I'm thinking my
common courtesy and respect would be soI'll just get off the grass. It's
easier for me. I mean,get off the pavement, just walk on
the grass, for it's not likeyou were stepping in mud. I wasn't
asking to and if you're walking inwhite slacks and high heels, or you
got your best Sunday stuff on.Then you're just a dumb ass anyway.
Trust you're just taking a walk,wouldn't you say, I didn't even bring

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this up to you said, well, come curse, I'll just walk off
into the grass. And it's notlike I'm asking you to do it for
a mile, just just as wepassed by each other. So I don't
have to sit there and strong armand bulldog my one hundred pound bully from
being your best friend and hugging you. And yet every single person will not
get off the walkway. And Idon't know if it's my community or if
we're at a time now where peopleare just looking for trouble. I'm like,

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I want to say, you knowwhat, Finally, the last one
I said, you know what,probably simpler if you just move over if
you don't want to, if youdon't want my dog to come to you
and you're afraid of it, howabout getting off under the grass and tell
three yards before instead of whit he'sabout to jump up and be your best
friend and kiss your face. Dude? Does it make sense? Yeah,
it doesn't happen in my community.So I don't know what you guys got

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going on out there. You wantme to call the mayor? No,
No, I'm about to tell yousomething though. Guess what I'm going to
do. I'm not getting off thewall. And you know what I norm
ninety five percent time. You knowwhat I do, You probably go out
of the way with three dogs.Yeah, right, while you're strong arm
and a hundred pounds bully. That'sprobably stronger than both of you. You
know what I'm saying. Just I'llget off the walkway. And I'm thinking,
is there egos? It's like sometimesyou get bikers they want to use

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up a lane and they're going eightmiles an hour and they just do it
to slow down traffic on purpose.It's like this, It's like it's a
challenge. And I'm thinking, youknow what, who wakes up with this
feeling on a Sunday morn Just justcalmly move this side and they'n not make
a big data and they're walking rightdown the middle. Dude, they ain't
moving, And I'm like, Okay, these basic white guys, it's a

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mix of a little bit of everything. Okay, I have a theory,
Please give it to me. Ihave a theory on this, But do
you understand that I know exactly whatyou're doing. Would you ever think about,
even if it was one dog,a small dog, just to give
them their face, wouldn't you walkinto the grass? Yeah, I mean
I have smaller dogs, Dodgers maybethirty five pounds. No, he's probably

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yeh, he's probably about forty pounds. And Oprah weighs twenty pounds. Okay,
So when I walk my dogs,I'm the guy that goes out of
my way to get out of peoplewhen they're not going to hurt anybody.
It's still just it's a common courtesyof the person. Without the dogs,
it would just see it's a littleeasier on you. Well here's well,
it's my walkway too. I payhomeowners shuts your ass. See, So

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I know that's not your attitude.But I know that there are old white
men that have that attitude. I'veseen it in the woodlands. I've seen
it and do. But it wasn'tjust old white men that that it's It
was. It was a little bitof everything. It's a female, it's
a couple, it's a it's aperson on walking hand and in a couple
of times, just it's just anindividual walking and thinking you would and I'm

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telling you had to split the dogswalks right down the middle and I and
and then looks back and like movesto the side a little bit on the
pavement. I think, I finallywant to turn around and I want to
grab them by the nap of theneck and say, do you have any
idea about common courtesy and disrespect?Just even if it's not that big a
deal, like my dogs by sayingsit or leave it, they'll they're not
gonna bother anybody. I'm just thinking. And i can see it coming from

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like forty yards away. I'm thinking, let's just see, yeah, and
you test them. And then inthe same walk, you're walking across the
street like in a crosswalk, andyou're on the type of the turn inside
and this lady and her her Minisuv whatever it was, I'm walking about
thirty miles from the crosswalk. Isee you're pulling up to the stop sign,

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and I'm thinking, I'm just gonnakeep walking just to see if it's
one of these days, and I'llbe damn dude, I'm in the middle
of the crosswalk, sped up,didn't stop at the stop sign, just
so she didn't have to wait fifteenextra seconds for the dogs to cross.
And I'm like, okay, it'sone of those days. I am going
to. I am going to justas matter of fact, you've got to

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put a harness on me. Okay, And you know how you did one
of those. He's like, why, why, Well, it can't be
that hard, can't it. No, it's not. So let me just
send this message. If you're oneof those in my community or any of
the community that are walking down thepavement, somebody's got three dogs, one
of them one hundred pounds, Iwould suggest maybe that you just just move
to the side like I would foryou on a three pound dog, just

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out of common courtesy and respect.If you are one of those that just
won't do it because your h oa lead you, this just pavements as
much mine as your, then you'rejust a dumb ass. Okay. And
and and if you're somebody that Iknow and you do it, you're a
dumb ass. Okay. Okay,you're an idiot, You're a dumb prick.
Okay. How about and I'm talkingto you two women, men and
women, all of you get yourass to the grass for somebody else who's

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carrying eight dogs. All right,look to the side. Would you do
it for a baby in a carin a stroller? I would, wouldn't
you? No, okay, youhate them kids? Exactly right? It
was would let's I literally would besaid, how miserable can you be that
you want to have that ego enoughto say the pavement's mind too? Yeah,
it can be yours just three yardslater, just a little grass to

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the extent of where the where theleash may go on the harness to where
I don't have to sit there.And in a wrestling match and one hundred
degree weather with ninety percent humidity,you set that hard. So there you
go here. You know, weget the Ashroos talk. I know sometimes
we come out of hit you inthe face with a sports I'd just like
to hit you in the face sometimesif you're one of those people, well,
I think there's that, like there'sthat side of it. But then
there's also the people like in whereI'm at near the waterway and the pavilion

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and all that. I don't knowwhat it is. And I'm again,
I don't have massive dogs. Idon't have a big bully. I don't
have a pit bull. I don'thave a German Shepherd. I've got mutts
that are thirteen and fifteen, respectively. The people that overreact and freak out
when you come any when you cometen yards from them, they like go
out of their way to like lookscared, like they're gonna sue you because

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your dog barked, right or man, my dogs don't aren't big barkers at
all. No, but neither right, literally sat in here during the hurricane
and didn't say it. They wereright. Yeah, while we're on radio.
That's the same person who walked whosaw you walking down the street in
twenty twenty one or twenty twenty Yeah, walking down the street when it's the
winds blowing it it's a perfect dayin the wintertime. Huh, And sprinted

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to the other side of the sidewalkbecause you were going to breathe COVID on
that and you didn't you just gothrough like where someone did that or tripping.
Oh no, it happened about thetwo months ago. Yeah, like
didn't in the neighborhood. Yeah,walking had a mask on walking. I
was thinking, like one of theother blockers with with the small dog.
Yeah, it's forty yards away.Now, okay, you decided to do
that in your own side sidewalk?Fine, But then they had a mask.

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I said, oh, I getit. COVID might get you from
three. Hey, we don't wantthat on the sidewalk. So I just
wanted to trying to get out ofmy cross because I'm a hand. It's
a happy day always. Yeah,but I'm just saying I was great day,
yes, but a thinking who doesthis? Then it happened like three
times, and then the ladies speak, I'm not stopping for these dogs to
walk into the crosswalk. I'm like, what kind of day are these people
having? I swear to you,I honestly think I pay my h O

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way. So guess what you're uh, You're gonna give me part of this
sidewalk people? Yeah, one ofthese times, I just want my bully
to put up there and scratch thedog crap. Yes, So I know
that after this segment we're gonna getinto Astros. Then we got hours to
get into it. We got plentyof sports coming. People can relate to
what we're sharing right now. Areyou okay? Perfect? Why Joe Biden

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dropped out? Oh? I thoughtyou're going to say, because the Red
Sox had in trouble this week,thanks, say louder So. I can
hear that one too. Thanks,great game your Red Sox loss. Joe
Joe Biden did what he dropped outof the president. Well there's a shocker.
Oh, I'm perfectly fine. Ican tell you this. We had
a couple of guys tweet us overthe weekend asking if you're okay listen,

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I mean I lost sleep over it. Here's another thing. Yes, our
secret service with people on the roof. She's a real brainiac. Okay,
if you want to turn into thefour hours of this, we could have
a blast with this one. AndI can tell you this, watch out
for those slope roofs. The nextperson in line, uh to run?
Okay, ain't exactly the best candidatebecause you want to talk policy fight a

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third grader? Yeah no, II have no idea, and hey,
listen, what are you gonna do? I just want our country to be
happy and safe? Say that's all. Just wanted to be safe. But
uh, this that that news yougot yesterday was about as shocking as Jordan
Alvarez putting the baseball on a bator a bat on a baseball. Yeah,
yeah, see what I'm saying.No, no shock there, no

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shot there? Uh, no shockthere. Okay, good gracious, there
we go. Yeah. Hey,let's let that guy on the roof too.
Yeah, let's let that guy onthe roof. No big deal.
Take a gun while you're at it. Oh no, no, no,
no, I didn't say a squirk. I just take a big old gun,
autom Matt, Yeah, why not? What you want to put a

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scope on it too, Let's justdo that. Let's leave that roof open.
Yeah. You conspiracy theorists could jumpall in on that one, right,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, if you want to watch a
nice comedy show, tune in forabout four days coming up here soon.
It's gonna be an It's gonna it'sgonna be a fun watch. Don't miss

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it as I get yourself some popcornto have some fly. It's gonna be
a classic. Yeah. I can'twait for that one, and I normally
don't want. That's gonna be afun watch. It's gonna be a fun
watch. I can't wait. Astrostake two out of three from the Mariners
over the weekend. Your on Alvarezdid something yesterday that only nine players in
Astro's history has done. And hemust have been visiting somebody that we know

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Back to Sean Salisbury, you're onAlvarez. The ball that he hit yesterday

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off the bat. Stat cast saidwhat like three eighty or something like that,
three eighty four, and then theychange it to four to twenty nine.
I still think four hundred twenty ninefeet is not correct. You talk
about the one off the face,yes, off the third deck deck.
Listen, if you can go threeeighty four, three eighty nine and then
all of a sudden adjusted forty feetfurther statcast name working for this's not right.

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I think they're wrong, just like, hey, listen, does your
computer screw up once in a while. Yeah, I'm not buying it.
When you could I understand it,they said, well we had it at
three eighty nine, but it wasreally three ninety one. Yeah. The
two to three feet air right,the voting air. The distance, well,
okay, two to three feet,okay, big deal to yard,
but when it's forty feet there's noway. And then then somebody will hit

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one to dead center, which isa deeper part of the park, but
it'll go like eight it'll go likeeight rows up or when I say rows
because the thing it'll go what willbe the equivalent of eight rows up because
center field does happening because the theyou know, the backing and the background
for the hitter to be at asat but it did so. So it's
four four to fifteen, you know, hit a four hundred twenty footter over
the four or five four to tensign in center field and it goes over

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by you know, ten fifteen feetand so, okay, hit it good.
Then some guy goes upper tank rightand hits it off the facing of
the third deck and it's under fourhundred feet. Would you just stop it
now if you were going old TigerStadium, yeah, or the upper the
second deck hung over the first deck. Matter of fact, the second deck
hung over the field. You couldlook down and you were in front of

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the fence in the second deck atTiger Stadium, were right there in old
Tiger Stadium where guys would hit whilehigh pop flies would land in the second
deck before it hit the lower level. You had did smoke a line drive.
And in old school Tiger Stadium waslike four. The death Valley was
like four forty five. The deadcenter years ago, it was a polar
gruns. I think it was parlyTiger State program, yeah, where it
was almost four to fifty. Butin Tiger Stadium, you pull one,

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you could hit one that would goupper tank, that would be shorter than
a rope in the right field forhome run. You don't hit it off
the facing of the third deck andtell me it's under four hundred feet and
then you're misguided by forty feet afteryour first as you mentioned. Nah,
I don't believe that's why when Isee somebody go upper tank or hit one
and oh that was four thirty eight. Yeah, and then a guy comes

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back like Gallaraga years ago in Miami, the tarp was up on the top
deck. Big big cat, hybig cat, right, yeah, yeah,
big cat. Galaraga hits one upin the middle of the top deck
and then it was about five hundredand five feet or something five hundred feet
and I'm like, okay, well, how the one that was, you
know, about thirty feet shorter?Yeah for twenty Yeah, this whole stack

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cast I shoo stat cast was inby them. You know, they judge,
they had the thing you could judgewhere it landed by were these experts
and these science experts or these thesedistance experts, math experts, but face
facts. There's no way that wasa four hundred foot home run. Now,
Shohio Tany hit one four hundred andseventy three feet last night and got
every bit of it. Oh yeah, but you look at Jordon's and I'm

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not trying to compare the two,but you look at your Jordons was obliterated
just like Show Hayes was. Andyou need to tell me that off the
bat and when it landed, theyonly came back with three eighty four and
then adjusted it to just four totwenty nine. Yeah, Like, come
on, man, that dude,that ball. The TV broadcast, Steve's
U, Todd Kallis and Jeff Blum, and also Robert Ford and Steve Sparks

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both said separate times that they've beenin that ballpark for so long and that
is probably the farthest ball they haveever seen hit. And you mean to
tell me it's only going four hundredtwenty nine feet. Yeah. I couldn't
agree more. That ball, comeon, was pumped off the facing of
the third third deck. Yeah,and so then you take into account when
it's when the ball was it wassmoked. That you're you're also taking into

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account obviously when they do it.Oh did it where it's going to land?
Now? Word hit Obviously you can'ttell me that ball was only going
five more feet. Yeah, dude, that's and it's already it's already what
down the lines three thirty Yeah,so you're going to top deck. So
let's just add for the fun ofit, twenty yards. That's sixty more
feet, right, So what isthat that three thirsts? So now we're

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at three eighty and now you gotto take the trajectory coming out. You're
telling me it was only twenty moreyards. Yeah, yeah, hell no,
exactly, sorry buddy, not workingfrom me. Yeah yeah, he
I mean just absolutely destroyed that baseball, right for their ten yards is thirty
feet? Right? Correct? Yeah, twenty more yards? Walk twenty yards
and tell me that's all it wenton its descent Yeah hell no, yeah,

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stop it his triggering stuff. Hehit it and like as it can
do, it was a majestic blast. As it keeps going and going,
like two words came into mind.Holy, you know what that's the like,
Wow, that's the exact definition oftape measure job. You know what's
interesting? Brian it was on whenyou came in this when I was doing
it with our guys at Fox twentysix and Nate Nate Griffin are you know,

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great friends over there, And heasked me about Jordan and the hit
for the cycle. You know whatit's It's still amazing. I mean we've
discussed this about him before a lotof times. It's rare. Frank Thomas
was a you know, Frank Thomas, our guy in uh in Detroit for
Miggy Cabrera. Big bodies, itcan hit five hundred home runs but also
hit three hundred three ten, hitthe Triple Crown like NIGGI did. Frank

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Thomas all those hits. It's rare, and I know the Ted Williams of
the world, but it is rarewhen a guy is a big bodied,
home run slugging monster. If yousee Jordan when he first came up to
the league, or if you seea guy like that walking into the battles,
first thing on your mind, youknow anything but well, first of
power hitter, right slugger that hecan hit a he can It's like a

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golfer. I bet he drives atthree thirty, but can he hit yea?
How they play around the greens,right, can he beat you when
his driver's when he has to takethe driver out of his back. Well,
here's this guy, and the initialthought is slugger, home run hitter,
power guy. Do you realize Idon't describe him as that now when
people ask me and I told Natethis, why, I said, the
thing that's amazing. He can beatyou small ball all the time. He
can single you in w you todeath. He's got the power. You

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know, this is a five hundredhome run guy in his career, stays
healthy. But it's also a guyI think he can hit two eighty five
with the dog on broomstick. Ido. I think he's the control he
had. It's like it's also likea pitcher hell Man. He throws at
one oh two, but he walksfour guys in per nine innings. If
you do the stats, right,that pitcher who can throw it a hundred
and still master the strike zone.This guy is a hitter's got the strike

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zone mastered. Now, he maychase once in a while, but you
know what, I always trust thathe's gonna have good at bats for the
most part. I just when Isee that he's described as power. I
don't describe him as that. He'snot a thrower. You know how throwers
are throwers. He's a pitcher.He's not a thrower as a quarterback with
a strong arm. He's a quarterback. He's not a home run hitter,
which he's got the power to doit. He is described to me as

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a just a pure, full ontrue hitter who just happens to have power.
It's the other way around, right, Not a power hitter who sometimes
gets a hit. He's a greathitter who also has power. I know
we're on radio and obviously and stillget his spray chart. Oh yeah,
it's everywhere. Yeah, it's likeit is literally from one foul pull to
the other. You're talking about,so impressive it is for this big,

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massive man. You usually think aguy like that not named a Frank Thomas
or MIGEI Cabrera dead pull, Right, who's gonna be This dude is a
He is the equivalent of a guywho can throw a hundred and beat you
with off speed stuff. Yeah,he came. When he came into the
league, people started to compare himto David Ortiz, saying that's who They
reminded him a lot of people wasreminded of dude, I'm no no disrespect

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to Big Poppy and all the greatthings he did in his career. Better
opposite field guy doing what's doing,no doubt and well and as far as
going from one part to the end, no doubt. And the thing about
it is like Poppy always has hehad flair for the big moment, right
clutch hits at the right time.Alvarez has that. Yeah, he has
the same gene, the same thing. He's a better pure hitter than David.
And remember early in Ortiza's career hewas not a great hitter. He

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had potential, but he didn't whenhe was in Minnesota and they moved him.
But when he came when he cameto Boston is where he flourished.
When he went to Boston. Yeah, this guy came out of the minor
leagues hitting it everywhere and he's justpolishing up. And oh, by the
ways, in his what mid twenties, yeah, twenty six, twenty seven
years old, whatever it is,So yeah, he's so far ahead.
You know, when you compare youngthink about the young players we have in

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the city right now that don't evenknow how to play this guy's still he's
still learned how to play. Yeah, and you double and triple with that
size, and we've seen it ina number of times. A guy can
run, big fella can get downthe line and get around the basis.
So congratulation. That's only the tenthnational history, if I'm not mistaken,
ninth ninth night. Okay, Ithought he was the tenth point. So
there you go. Incredible. Yeah, you know what they call that professional

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hitter? Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, Brandley didn't get the hit
yesterday. Okay, No, hedid not. Impressive by Jordan and the
Astros. These last thirty games havebeen going and win another series and tied
for first place. Yeah, you'rein for one hell of a run.
Now, this trade deadline that's coming, it's gonna be really interest. It
is gonna be really interesting. Let'slook at the updated standings in the Al
West after the first series back afterthe All Star Game, and also will

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take your call seven one three,two point two five seven ininey as we
continue to roll along right here onThe Shawn Salisbury Show. The Shawn Salisbury
Show continued. They lose six tofour. Renew Blanco got his fifth loss
of the season, going five andtwo thirds is allowing six hits, four
and runs, five k's and awalk over. On the other side,

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for the Seattle Mariners, Brian wufive and two thirds, four hits,
two earned runs. He improves afour and one on the season. Do
pretty well, man, you gotsome front man stuff? Man? He
does front man? Huh? Yeah, I mean seriously, he's he's he's
got some get hit around a littlebit. I like his stuff, though?
What do you mean by front man? Stop it? What do you
mean by front man? I justlike his don't you like his stuff?

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What if? What if they tradedhim to that would love that? I
would love to add Brian Wood tothis rotation. Yeah right, yeah,
yeah, I would too like thisstuff. So what do you mean by
front man though? Man, he'she's man or well band, Come on,
man. Normally it's a guy youcan put him. You could put
him in the front meaning the frontman. Usually when you think of front
man, what do you think isa is a go to guy. He's

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my go to guy frontlines. Ithink he's got that kind of stuff.
Huh. I think he's pretty good. Yeah, what is wrong with you?
Didn't you ask me if I thoughthe was good. It's low hanging
fruit. Can you just say it? Why do you want me? Why
do you want me to put himin a band? Can I can I
have that? Can I can?I give the listeners a little bit of
a little insight of what we saidoff air. But but it's not this.

(25:00):
There's nothing disrespectful to know. It'snot. I love the group actually,
so TRIPLEI. Here's here's where we'reat right now. So we're watching
highlights of the big blasts over theweekend on on Sports Ender this morning,
Shohil Tani hits one, jorgees Hilaire, jord On Alvarez, so forth,
and so on. Yeah, AaronJudge not to be confused with uh,
George Clooney. However, I digress, Uh, I said, man,

(25:22):
I said, you know, BrianWu actually looked pretty good. I said,
I wouldn't mind to have him on, uh these this Astros team.
And Sean looks at me with thedead as face. Do you think he's
a member of the Wu Tang clan? Yeah, that's fair, though that's
a compliment. Do not know thegroup? I feel like you does it?

(25:47):
There's nothing dude, be like sayingif you're if you're like you say,
Parker McCollum, right, correct,it'd be like me saying, oh,
Parker McCollum, is he any relationto Ray Parker Jr. Who the
guy for? Oh yeah, there'sa name you put it in like if
you said, uh uh, ohGeorge straight? Well is he member of

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you know? Does he? Ishe still straight? You know you can
say anything about right, you seewhat I'm saying. So Wu Tang Clan.
That's right. I love that.Matter of fact when I said that
group like, I like that,know, but be racist, right?
But I know, yeah, spelleddifferent everything that man, because we're always
looking for, you know, wayswe can nickname people up right, We

(26:30):
like that around here. There yougo. But he's good, man,
he's good, and there's no waythat balls for twenty nine. Sorry to
tell you it is spelled a littledifferent though. Brian Wu is w o
o Wu Tang clan is w wU y a hyphen. Yeah, Tang
clan yep, and like it.But the front man. But but aren't
they both good? The group andand him. You said you'd like him
here, I would be great ifyou could get him right. They've got

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some the one thing about Seattle toman, if they could rake like some
of the top teams in baseball,they're stout. They're they're pat from Kirby.
They're never out. I mean yesterdaythey're run into but their you know
what they do, they just grind, right, they grind. But they
sure as hell they they're they're formidablebecause their pitching staff's always going to keep

(27:12):
in games. But to the Astros, they're really doing some the fact that
we I don't think we're maybe weare, but the credit what they didn't
and I don't care about the Iknow the teams they played, you got
to play them all and last yearthe teams they played at the end were
beating them, right, So justwhat they've done to stay not only stay

(27:36):
for they're tight for first place,man, Yeah, and hey, all
they wanted to be with is whatwithin five games and five or five games
over five hundred by the end ofAugust was was Dana Brown's goal. Well,
they're not only in it if theyget right and get healthy or make
a huge trade. They're dangerous becauseof their postseason ability, right, and

(27:56):
they're you know, people are afraidof them. I mean when I say
afraid of them. They know theastros are around. And then you you
couple that with the fact that Ilove the way they're also playing defense you
used at eighth inning on Saturday.Oh yeah, the defense in the left
and right field low brafito and left. Yeah, I mean he after a
couple of those plays, you couldhave started cabbage patching. You know what

(28:18):
I'm saying, You really could have. I wait for somebody to bring that
dance back. Guy makes a guymakes a catch in the outfield, or
robs a home run eror dives tothe gap. You don't you do start.
I don't think it's coming back.Yeah. And what it's called the
it's tray cabbage right, correct,let's call it the trade patch. There
you go, just start cabbage patching. Dog. I got cabbage patched on
when I threw a pick for aninterception. Oh yeah, I was in

(28:41):
the height of the patch. Ohno, Frank Minifield nicely. Whenever I
see many to this day, I'mlike, dude, come on, man,
disrespectful man. It was late inthe game, we were losing.
We're throwing every day. I calledaudible at the line of scrimmage. Yeah,
I throw a curl route, andit was my bag. It was
loud and cleaning. His playoff game, the game they're beat our brain's in
and and uh. The great receiverBilly Brooks ran a corner. He didn't

(29:03):
hear it. I threw a curlroute. Minifield sitting in the whole,
picks it off, goes down inold Cleveland municipal steam down the sidelines.
I go over there and have totackle. I tackle him. I'm about
eight feet taller than many. He'slittle guy, the toughest, one hundred
year old leather right got into theends. I'm tackling, felling in and
you'll get up and I'm like,there there's mud all over. It's like
dirt because it's Cleveland. And therethey paint the field in January, a
phenomenal setting. It wasn't a phenomenalending, and many uh starts patching.

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I'm like, great the next day, dude, or two days later,
I'm getting ready to go home inmy off season, walking through to get
some like some gear to take hometo my You know, buddies always want
the team you're playing for. Takesome gear home to family and buddies and
a foot locker. You remember afoot lockers of the thing, right,
and they always had a TV ofsports running. I'm telling you the next
two days later, I'm walking inreplay the games on and the one I

(29:52):
walk in all of a sudden,here Salisbury back to pass. It's at
the end of the game. Bob, Trumpy and Donkrioky are calling it.
I walk in there and it showsmany running down the sidelines and he's patching
on me, and I'm like,I ain't buy no shoes here, I'm
out. I got play in thenext day with the home I'm like,
great Frinky and Trumpy and foot locker. But yeah, dude, the old

(30:14):
but tray Cabbage of low ber Fitosplays that show and you're gonna have to
make a few of those phenomenal playswhen to bail teams out? And they
did? Yeah, it was big. I didn't It wasn't Presley on the
mount at the time. Yeah,it was Pressley, right, what did
you say? Of course Elvis wason the mountain. See you got a
nick date for Elvis Presley. Yeah, I just uh fat Elvis fat,

(30:34):
Yeah, not to be confused withfat Albert. Yeah, well was here.
There was that a fun cartoon man. Yeah, we won't mention the
guy who was Wasn't he the voiceof fat Albert or Billy Cosby? Wasn't
that his show? Was he?Was he the voice of fat Albert?
I think? Am I right?Am? I right? Hold on?
Or he hit the Google machine?Is not Keenan? Is it? No?

(30:57):
He was dead. He wasn't evenalive. Then, Oh you watch
one? Are you talking about KeenanIvory Wayans or Keenan Thompson and thoms I
think he's I don't think when Isaid he was dead, that's what I'm
saying. He was, Yeah,fat Albert. It was fat Albert and
the Cosby Kids was Bill Cosby fatAlbert. There you okay, we'll just

(31:18):
move on. We probably shouldn't talk, but hey, you know what it's
Hey, we got to understand thehistory book. Yeah. I'm not sure
the Cosby show is part of thehistory books, but it was part of
TV history history. Yeah. Yeah. Anytime you can get a fat Albert
mentioned in the first hour of ashow, you are sledding the right way.
Sure are damn right, let's talkabout me. The guy wasn't bored
yet, Oh he was dead.He hasn't been alive yet, so that

(31:41):
means what Yeah, if he beyet, so what is he not?
If you have so you're what butI think if you're dead, like you
still were alive at once? Right? Yeah? Okay, but he was
he but was he dead? Washe breathing at the time? He wasn't
He wasn't important yet? Right?No? Okay, well he was dead?
Okay, now you want to gothat. Let's look at Ronel Blanco's

(32:04):
outing yesterday. Pitched. Okay,got the loss. We'll discuss an next
Sportslock seven to eighty. The ShawnSalisbury Show continues. Need to no,
no, now you know, letme uh, let me punch trip tripley.
We punch him. Punch Alex upfor me, please, Alex,
good morning, good morning, Goodmorning, Sean, good morning, good

(32:28):
morning, Sean, good morning.Yes, uh, A couple of bad
decisions. Man. Hey, hey, Alex, you got three other dude,
two other dudes on this show.Man, I don't, I don't.
I just know you, Sean.I'm not Sean, I'm Brian.
Well, I can't see what's goingon over there. You can't. You

(32:50):
can't tell the difference in the voice. Minds so much sexier, Alex what's
on your mind this morning morning?Instead of getting off on a negatives,
here, Altu the hit for thecycle, Alvarez hit for the cycle.

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I would love it if Diaz andTucker hit for the cycle. Could you
imagine going into the playoffs with fourguys that have hit for the cycle?
That would be amazing, won't it? Sure would? It would be nice.
And not getting Tuck Tucker of thoseguys you just mentioned. His his
ability to do it because he canrun, will be great. Diaz would
probably have the toughest time because triplebut he moves pretty well for a catcher.
Yeah, that'd be nice. Ialready think even without that, though,

(33:36):
Alex, I think teams cycle ornot. Respect the fact. Now
you've got yan ord Is hitting ina four hole a lot of time,
right He's he's producing as a asa really a second year starter now and
I called him a semi starter lastyear, but a full time starter first
time this year. So they've gotthe bats and the speed to do it.
Hell, even a guy like littlePerfido has that ability because he can

(33:57):
run and he's got pops. Soat some point in time you may see
that as well. But I gotnews for you cycle or not. They
know the Astos lineup is as dangerousas it gets. Brother, I can
guarantee you that you got that right. We got one of the best hitting
teams in baseball, no doubt now. But apart from the positive I know
I'm getting a reputation here from beinga negative viewer. A fan, I'm

(34:22):
not, but I like for improvementand I think feedback from the fans is
important. So let me tell youthe bad decision. Just First of all,
in the eighth, the game wason the line, so you've got
you've got what's his name, Singletoncoming up the bat. He's been hitting

(34:44):
plus three hundred for the past monthand a half and even when he wasn't
hitting, has a good eye.It gets on base a lot even But
I mean, the guy has beenhitting now, McCormick, he hasn't even
been hitting left hand. What's withtaking Singleton now? Men on base?

(35:05):
It's just a bad decision. Isaw it coming and strike one, strike
two, strike three. I meanit was ridiculous. I'm sorry. Bad
decisions. Then in the sixth you'vegot Blanco in there, and he he's
our best picture all year, bestpicture. I know it was late.

(35:27):
He has about one hundred pitches.He just struck out of me and he's
got only one out to go.No, here comes the manager pulling them
and Seth comes in there. SE'sbeen a great middle believer. But you
know, you never know what kindof bad hair day any picture's going to
have when you bring them out there. But you know you get what you
see. Blanco was getting them out. There was only one man on base

(35:52):
the roof Cathon. We could havewon that game with different decisions. That's
all I got to say on that. What saved you appreciated, Alex,
I get it. But I alsothink this team this year, I think
Blanco it was you don't I believeit was. It was pretty close to
time, don't you uh? Forme? One hundred pitches you got to

(36:15):
keep in mind now again and theydidn't. I don't think that. I
don't mean to interrupted. And they'veused the back of the bullpen too straight
days. Yeah, you are goingto get that in game. I don't
like pulling a pitcher with two outs. I don't either put too much on
the bullpen, PIPA. I liketo try to give my guy fresh inning.
Yeah, freshenning for sure. Ifhe goes out there in the first
batter walks him and you still getthree outs, then you can bring right.

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Yeah. I just think it's notit's pressure to get loose and their
their sense of urgency, and youknow how it is when you come out
of there, you miss one pitchand leave it over the strikes and it
changed. I get Alex frustration.I lean more on the positive side.
I think they're doing some great things. But you also it's okay, Alex,
I don't know if people negative,You're You're entitled to your opinion,
to to to question. We alldo. So. You could have let

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Blanco finish it, but I don'thave. It's not that they trust their
bullpen. So you had yeah,Hanniger was coming to the plate, righty.
Yeah, So obviously there there hadto be some sort of game plan
going into the game that said,hey, once you read one hundred pitches,

(37:21):
you're done. Or if they startedto see something different in not only
velocity or you know, command,you get to a point and then you
got to look at the history ofthe season. How many times has he
gone over hundred. Haven't even lookedat that. I'm just trying to think
of. I get Alex. Iget alex frustration, Alex's frustration, but
I also know that they've had aplan all year long. The way they're

(37:42):
gonna approach this, they've done.There was plenty of times before Hanniger was
over coming into that at bat.I mean, and Alex, I just
for me, I'm I'm okay withit now. Seth Martinez obviously did not
execute. He gave up the homerun. It is what it is.
But he's been executing. He's he'shad himself a pretty solid season. He's
he's been used a lot. Andyou also have to remember that Renel Blanco
hasn't pitched as much as he's aboutto, and you have to be careful

(38:07):
with arms going down the stretch becausethey cannot afford another injury. And that's
the one last thing I was goingto say is remember we said we were
going to get to a point thatwere the threshold where you're trying and I
know, hey, listen, fourmore pitches, if you can get a
six four pitch, six pitch out, whatever it is, I get it.
But there's also that thing, becausehere's what happens. Let's say you
keep him in and it gets outof hand and then you're like, why

(38:30):
did you pull him out? Right? It's hard to win Alex's frustration,
and you look at Blanco the wayhe's pitch this year, you almost say,
what about the benefit of the doubt? But it also you got to
preserve something there, because what ifit's a if all of a sudden,
six seven, eight pitches, tenmore pitches. Now the guy's been up,
he's got to come back, he'sgot to come in, and now
you're pushing it to the next batterand just added ten or twelve more pitches
or eight more pitches. I getit because I'm usually a guy that says,

(38:52):
go finish this inning right, Butthey're around it. They hear the
talk, they see they see themovement, they see arm angle, I
see you know, leg drive,they see v Lo, So listen.
I'm always I like guys getting thebenefit of doubt. But I also know
that the Astros have had a planall year long with the way they're gonna
do this, and for a teamthat's probably pretty gunshy about injuries right now.
Yeah, and speaking of injuries,Dana Brown gave a couple of injury

(39:15):
updates yesterday on the pregame show.Let's listen to that and discuss the next
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(39:37):
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Sean Salisbury, there to USC Troupes. Longtime friend shown Salisbury, Ryan Lon

(40:00):
Lima, go Lobos. This isthe Sean Sells Very Show. Seven seven
ninety is the number to join.Got a couple of guys on holes,
get to them. Start with Chris, Chris, good morning, Hey,
good morning. How a y'all doingthis morning? So I just wanted to

(40:21):
talk about trade talk everybody's talking aboutit. Seems like everybody keeps talking about
we need a first baseman, whichy'all all know we need a we need
a relief pitcher and a starting pitcher. Instead of trading for a first baseman,
why don't we just go claim TyFranz, who just got put on
waivers yesterday after the game. Youknow what's Yeah, Chris, I saw

(40:44):
that he got placed on He wasdeep essentially dfaid yesterday. And you look
at some of his splits, andI mean, if you really want to
add some depth, you why not. I mean he he turns us up
in Houston, so he knows howto play in Houston. If you can't
beat him, join them right,Yeah, pretty good point. Yeah,
I think I guess where when itcomes to some of these trade talks.

(41:07):
I think here lately, the morethat I've seen is is a heavy emphasis
on pitching. And I know thefirst base talk has been there, but
where do you sit on it?You want a relief pitcher and a starting
pitcher over a first baseman. Ohyeah, I think Singleton's doing pretty good.
He just needed reps. But Imean you also do need that right

(41:27):
handed first baseman that can hit againsta lefty. And why not get Ty
France. I mean he's we gotwe got Kessinger just sitting on the bench
not doing anything. We got aspot. Yeah, I'll take him if
I can get him. You're theone thing you gotta do remember and Dana
Brown said, this is the otherteam's got to be willing to deal with
you, right, Yeah, that'sone two. No, I get it.

(41:51):
But I'm talking about in anything,go out and get a first basement
is my point. Yeah, ifyou're talking about adding a guy in a
waiver, I get it. Mything is when it comes to this and
the priorities, I don't think yougo starting pitching another arm in the bullpen
in first base, don't you.I mean really you If I can get
a nine like Dan Brentse, youget a Thanks Chris is a Chris All,
I said, and thank Chris,thank you. Yep, my bad.

(42:13):
I was looking at the wrong board. Thank you Chris. He makes
a good point. And with tyFrance on Waives, I get it.
I I I completely get it.The question is again, when's singing?
When's singleton? I'm talking about singing. I was gonnall him singing, Uh
to be a wise ass, anddon't do that. Where's Dan? Matthews
at Dan, don't do that singing? Yes, singy, we ripped him.
When you are here, we canwin off on him. He said,

(42:37):
you know I made a mistake.I said, yeah, I don't
do that again. On the showing. But you get a guy, hasn't
he improved with reps. We talkedthat remember when a brad You was here
and when the water was muddy whenhe got out of that situation, Singleton,
He's never going to be that guy, but he's proven that he's a
guy who can good plate uh understandingand awareness and power and plays pretty damn

(43:00):
good defense defense right, Yeah,yes, with ty France waivers wise,
I get it. I'm just talkingabout my priorities. Still. Put it
this way, you can have abopper at first base. If you can't
stay healthy, you can't get peopleout of it. It really won't matter
when it comes to winning a champion. You want to get to the playoffs,
it'd be great. Yeah, nowI'm selfish, I want them all.
But what are you gonna have togive up to get a guy if

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ty France isn't one of them?Is my point? Got you know what
I'm saying. You're not getting Petelonz or Vlad Guirro. Yeah, ty
ty France, there's a reason whyhe's on waivers. Brian. Yeah,
three hundred and forty played appearances thisseason, hitting two twenty three on base
of three twelve slugging a three fifty. That's the ops of six sixty two.
I think, and well, andhere with this lineup, which is

(43:43):
far better than their lineup, givesyou more of a chance to do it.
But he's also right, he wantsa right handed bat that gives you
a little bit more chance when yougot a platoon. I do get that,
but I don't. I mean,do you trust Ty Frans more than
you would John Singleton on a dailybasis right now? Right now? No?
I think I think be great toadd depth. The question was now
on waivers, when you pick themup, is it a new contractor is

(44:05):
the waivers out instead of an outrightDFA? Is waivers the same contract you
were on or is it a newone? No? I think it's uh.
I think you pick up Yeah,you go to league minimum. Is
that the way it is with waiversas well as DFA? Right? Yeah,
okay, so either way, ButI just I just wonder. But
you have to point right, you'renot giving up a player, but you

(44:27):
will have to send you depending onroster moves and who has moves left,
you'll have to make moves and theway they're playing right now, I don't
know if I need a lot ofmovement on the day to day basis pitching
pitching. I get you're gonna haveto you know, you want a six
man rotation, getting people healthy,going out and getting it. You got
a better chance to win a championshipright now. There's enough bats in the
lineup to win a title as theyspeak. I don't know if there's enough

(44:47):
pitching to win a title as wespeak. The starting pitching that and so
so to me. I get whathe's saying. And if you can get
type ty France, fine, Idon't know how big of an upgraded are
who you get rid of? Andhe's right, Cassinger is he's not bringing
you much, right, No,how many bets do you have this year?
Is he hit thirty eight bats?Yet? Fifty eight bats? Let
me look so, but I do. I do get it in a platoon

(45:10):
situation, But right now, I'mnot sure that's an upgrade from Singleton.
Let's see Grey Cassinger fifteen A batsthis season. He doesn't even have an
average. He don't even have ahit all right, Well there, he
doesn't have an even ops, hedoesn't have it on base percentage. But
we're winning right here. So forme, while I'd love, I'm greedy
as hell when it comes to big, big power hitters, I don't think

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that's your first priority. No,pitching has to be. It has to
be. Yeah, But he makesa good point on depth, and you
get a guy you're not giving up. I'm just talking about if you're going
to go trade for the nine hundredops guy, you're gonna give up something
that's gonna bother your team. Right. You just are seven one three seven,
Andy welcome. In the last sixgames, I've given up fourteen runs

(45:52):
and I scored fourteen runs. Sothe hitting is the last six games.
Uh, pitcher has been fine.Uh Martinez Steell hung a ball last night
over plate. You as a goodMajor league Babel hitters supposed to that thing
real hard. Exactly what that guydid. Here's my issue. Two issues

(46:15):
with a spot of left you lastnight. See a pitching cook out there.
Find out if he's tired, ifhe's labored, if he if he
doesn't have anything left in the tank. You got one batter. He's been
your horse all year. He's beenthe guy that has showed up. Don't
go out there and pull him rightaway. You go out there and then

(46:37):
and if he says, I'm I'mgassed, turn around, look at your
head, coach, and called inthe reliever. Then and then who did
he pitch hit for? Singleton?Who'd he pitch hit with? Chad McCormick.
I got batting two oh three.I'm pretty sure task weighs more than
that. Pretty soon he's gonna beunder Mendoza. One more start and he'll

(46:58):
be under Mendoza. Does anybody haveany fate? And and McCormick when he
comes up to bat, did yousee that at bat? I told my
wife the picture does three around theplate, he'll he'll get him out.
And what he does through three aroundthe plate? And it was he watched
one and I think you watched oneor two or swung twice, but it
was it was not good. ButI love Mendoza man, that Mendoza guy,

(47:21):
that Mendoza light at two letters?Would you say that he's a bad
away from the Mendoza line? Isthat what you said? Isn't it two
hundred? That's what it costs you? Woul you get that two hutter?
Yeah? He's on wait one ninetyeight? Pretty soon? I mean,
am I Goodness? Do y'all haveany fake when he comes up to bat.

(47:42):
No, think about a difference ina year. He did have an
RBI single later in the game,kept him above Mendoza, He kept him
in the line. That was ourtime to get it. That was our
time to do it. That wasa big moment in the game. I
didn't understand the pitches at that pointeither. And Andy, you make a

(48:05):
valid, great point. Let meask you this, if you were if
you were the guy making the decisionsDana Brown and this organization, is your
priority pitching at the trade deadline?Or do you want more hitting? I
want with that? I don't.I don't know if Dana can fix that.
Just yet, doctor doctor Brown.What was the bruise? Bone brus?

(48:31):
Correct? Yeah, bone brus?Does he bone now? Does he
have? What? It's been almostAugust? Third will be August, third
will be two months. That's nota bone bruise, Andy, and you
and I both know it. Bonebruise. He's got deep bone bruise.
I mean, did he get TanyaHart at harding? I mean, what

(48:52):
you give me a freaking break?And here here's the bottom line. We
talked about all this stuff, butwe need to talk about a g B.
Have you've seen a new commercial?Is that the one where they're driving
down the road. What the hellis Miller doing in the back seat.
He's hurt, That's why they puthim in a back seat. He's in

(49:12):
a back seat in the corner.I'm like, are you kidding me?
So? Are you telling me soAndy? Are you telling me that you're
you're more of a Kroger guy?Now? Oh, hell no, Kroger
thinks that's there an ATV. Butmy goodness, you gotta ask the marketing
guy. Hey, let's get Lance. Does anybody know where he is?

(49:34):
He's not in the clubhouse, He'sin a back seat and he's on fire.
And we got Mendoza line. Sowe got back seats, we got
a TV commercials, and we gotChasmo. What a difference you think about?
How you we talking about Chasmo atthis time last year? Yeah,
I wanted him as the starter.I mean he was well, yeah,
I wanted more Chas McCormick. Andthen coming in I still I crushed Jake

(49:57):
Myers, Jingleheimerschmid's play home and I'mlike, damn, dude gets home run
over the weekend Chaz is gonna betraded guaranteed. I think he's to be
the guy. I think he's oneof the pieces too, That's my opinion.
Yeah, Chas will be moved ChuckMan, Sorry man, thanks for
the Catching the World series. Enjoyyour time and uh, let's see who
do I think he's. Enjoy yourtime in Tampa Bay, Appreciate the nice

(50:19):
closed stance. Enjoy your time inFlushing, New York, Flushing Meadow.
Enjoy your time in Detroit. Youcan't do Chasma like that? Can you?
Can you do Chasma like that?Really? Well? I don't do
him, but but can you Canyou throw chaswall right near the Mendoza line?
Can you do that? He's rightthere near it? Yes, I
mean and let Lance has got somehtb Any crowbar in his stra at Alan

(50:45):
because he's making money do an atHe has what we call a playing so
I mean, mich we'll do something, and he has what we call a
king crowbar approach. Today, I'mcrow barring this one in. I'm getting
this guy out. I'll get thisone in. And by the way,
that Mendoza line in the back seatof HIV. What when you sign a
contract with hib I got to getthe commercial. I mean, you got
to get age. I got toget my commercials out. Yeah, I

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mean you have to. Kyle Tuckerwas in the commercial. He hadn't been
playing in a couple of months,coming up on a couple of months.
Don't tell me. This is likebeing on the on the cover of the
MLB, you know, like theon on the football one. Yeah,
yeah, the curse exactly. Idon't need that here about the HIV curse.

(51:28):
Yeah, we don't need that.I got stakes to go get it.
Ah, b okay, I gotsome groceries to buy one bag for
four hundred dollars bags a bag forfour to Hey, give me two buckses,
a cereal and some skim milk.That'll be ninety three bucks. I
don't have a steak in here,nope, went on. That's that's just

(51:49):
oats are expensive. Now, that'sjust grocery prices. Yeah, there you
go. Five Hour Energy nine dollars. Yeahs. Just about a year or
two ago, a Monster Energy waslike a buck ninety nine, two ninety
nine, and they're like five bucksnow. Oh yeah, so that's fun.
I'll take you below the windows aline here. There's no question.

(52:09):
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(54:00):
It's your job, man, whatyou get paid for? A pro tip
from Houston's official Listen while scrubbing yourbutto mornings sports show. All right,
Sean, what are you hearing outthere now the Salisbury Steakouts, Salsbury's teakout

(54:21):
on the Sean Salisbury Show. Rightfor the steak out here on the Sean
Salisbury Show, Sean Salisbury, BrianLalima, Emmanuel Elmore. Astros back in
action tonight against the Mariners, eightforty the first pitch, excuse me?
Against the Oakland Athletics after playing theMariners eight forty the first pitch seven thirty

(54:45):
on Deck Show. Steve Sparks Ashrosbroadcaster, joining us at about an hour
or so at eight thirty this morning. All right, Sean for the steakout.
Obviously, there was some news overthe weekend. Joe Biden has been,
you know, taking off the ballot. He's not going to run for
the presidency in November. Nick Castianos, you familiar with his home runs?

(55:10):
I'm pretty familiar with him and abunch of other Cats home runs celebration.
Now, okay, so Tom,you remember Tom Brenneman, Yeah, broadcaster.
Yeah. Tom Brenneman was caught ona hot mic using a homophobic slur
talking about back when he was backtwo years ago. Yes, no more
than that, yeah, whatever,it was correct. During his apology on

(55:34):
a broadcast, Nick Castianos hit ahome run, and in that apology,
Tom Brenneman still called the game rightand he says, as there's a deep
drive Castianos blah blah blah. Well, Nick Castianos, for whatever reason,
has a knack for hitting home runsduring significant world events. I have a

(55:57):
list here of times he hit ahome run because yesterday the news comes out
about Joe Biden and guess who hita home run? NICKI, Nick Cassianos,
Oh, NICKI, here are hishome runs. Career threatening obviously,
the apology for the homophobic slur usedon a broadcast by Tom Brenneman. Career
threatening injury for TATIS. Eulogy fora World War Two veteran nine to eleven

(56:22):
tribute video package on air, apologyof opposing team's coach getting a dui ten
minutes after Will smith sla slapped ChrisRock, The Dwayne Haskins death announcement,
Memorial Day tribute package on air.Eulogy for the Just deeceaspa announcer for the
stadium cancer announcement for his own team'sowner, Vince Scully death announcement an hour

(56:45):
after the death of Queen Elizabeth wasannounced, a bridge collapsing killing several people,
the Ocean Gate submarine explosion as itwas trying to get down to see
the Titanic. Three other celebrity deaths, two home runs on the anniversary of
Hiroshima Nagasaki, and the assassination attempton President Trump. Nick Cassianos hit home
runs during all of those. Thedude is like the running gag? Is

(57:08):
he like biblical? I don't know, and I don't know if this is
confirmed or not, but apparently whenOsama bin Laden was killed, Nick Casianos
at a home run, Dude,Uh, dude likes uh not draw whatever
it's draw or uh what are wesaying? Flair for the dramatic, well,

(57:31):
dramatic situations and most of them notgood. Right, No, so
he must know this now. Ohyeah, So you're telling me if all
of a sudden, what's what?I don't know. I don't even want

(57:51):
to put that out there on anybody. If all of a sudden, something
different happens, something happens to youknow, something happens. If there's all
of a sudden, we're gonna getlike, well, we'd expect you just
named eight straight days rain or eightseven straight days, Homer in the next
seven days. I yeah, that'suh, the fact that somebody did that

(58:13):
research, that's that's actually we're joking. That's actually fairly frightening. What is
he biblical? Yeah, I meanhe uh, he thrives in those moments
and uh, he's on a prettygood team now too. So one of
the safest bets in all of sports, is it castileanis a homer when this
controversy, when there's an unfortunate situation. Yeah, all jokes aside, this

(58:37):
thing needs to be studied. Anythingnewsworthy or tragedy. Nick is going to
hit a home run. Yeah,so maybe we should be Yeah, yeah,
he's uh, we need to wedo need to study him going again,
we need to get him one ofthose Mr andiscancon what's in his DNA
that just knows how to that thatjust has a flare for the moment of

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unfortunate circumstances. You know what I'msaying. That's craziness. I thought you'd
give me three or four of them. That's like twenty No, there's there's
it's a long list. Yeay.See. A question to me is that
that that's junion because I'm seeing guys. You know, celebrations are crazy and
everybody, you know the stuff guysdo, that's not that's not a celebration,
that's just okay. Well, I'mjust it's almost like his way of

(59:21):
paying respects to those who've been throughdifficult time. I'm going to Homer for
this guy. I'm gonna home.It was it Marge shot the owner of
the Cincinnati Reds. When yeah,she got it. When you know President
Trump, the assassination on himI Homers, It's like, okay, I'm going
to dial in here. And thatis a flair. It's not just three
of them, it's like thirty threeof Yeah, those things. It's craziness.

(59:42):
It's the weirdest thing is I wonderwhat sparks me? Like, I
want to look. I'm going tolook up the dates of Castalanis's home runs
and you start to go down thelist and you say, gosh, dang.
It's kind of like when people somehowtheir breaks go out and they had
affiliation with the Clinton family four hundredand twenty seven times, it's like,
what happened? There? A coincidence? Faulty? Okay, what fat breakw

(01:00:07):
Many times this Catalona's homerd on oneof those days. You know what I
mean, dude, that's it.That's it's almost eerie, it is.
You read those that times like theharbinger of doom. Yeah, that's crazy,
crazy anytime. And the fashion isit coming before he homers or after
I imagine both, Right, somethinghappens any Homers after in the night game
or he Homer's in the day gameand something happens that day later on,

(01:00:30):
that's after. It's always after.Every one of them's after. After goodness,
after any of those announcements, it'sbeen after. So as the guy
wake up and say who died today, I don't know what it is.
It's the weirdest thing. The oldestperson in the world died at one hundred
and twelve, a national causes perfectday for me to Homer. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, man thrives under that. It's weird,

(01:00:51):
man, it sure is weird.All right, let's hear from Astro's
general manager Dana Brown. He spokeabout Kyle Tucker and the injury update that's
next right here on Sports Tuk sevento eighty. The Shawn Salisbury Show continued.
All right, Astros General manager DanaBrown joined Robert Ford on the pregame
show yesterday as he does every singleSunday, and he spoke about some updates

(01:01:16):
in regards to Kyle Tucker and JustinVerlander. And this is what the general
manager had to say. I mean, a big thing. We were really
we couldn't wait until he got tothe point where he was having baseball activities
on the field. And so there'ssmall baseball activities, but at least there
are baseball activities. He's taking somebatty practice inside too as well, the

(01:01:37):
extra swings, and so, youknow, just to get him doing some
baseball activities, you know, wesee it as a big boost and positive
and so ultimately, you know,as soon as he feels like, hey,
I could start running and doing thosethings, we can get him out
on a rehab, let him playa few games. And you know I

(01:01:59):
mentioned earlier or on the radio thatI had earlier I mentioned about you know,
Kyle Tucker is one of those guyswe all know his swing. He
takes that big aggressive hacks hack.He really uses his lower half to rotate,
and this is a guy that reallyuses his legs well, and you
know he needs. He needs tobe fully healthy in order to play Kyle

(01:02:19):
Tucker type baseball. So it's lookinggood that he's, uh, he's moving
in the right direction. The timelineis still undetermined, but the beauty is
he threw forty seven pitches, youknow, I think it was nineteen ninety
one, and there was no issuesafter, there's no pain next day.
Those are all good signs as toa guy getting close to getting his rehab

(01:02:42):
assignment. Maybe he'll get a coupleof starts and then you know, he'll
be back. So let's, uh, you know, let's stay positive and
hopefully that you know, he'll getthis rehab start soon and then we'll get
him moving as well. But tosee him throwing forty seven pitches on a
bull and you know up to nineteenninety one, that's a good thing.

(01:03:04):
So those are two updates on KyleTucker and Justin Verlander. I understand where
Dane has come from. We'll talkto him on Wednesday, as we do
every week. But did you learnit? Do you know? Forty seven
pitches? But do you know anythingmore about Kyle Tucker? No other than
he needs his baseball activity, Heneeds his full you know, all of
it because he plays. You know, he's that guy who runs and does

(01:03:24):
it all, and he's got youknow, big swing and he's got a
long, sweeping swing or what youknow, pressure on that leg. But
the truth is, do you feelany better about them being closer for Kyle
Tucker? No? Yeah, doyou see Verlander getting a start before the
next two weeks. No, doyou see Kyle Tucker playing before August tenth?

(01:03:46):
No? Trade deadline is going tobe as important if you if you
think you're a championship team, thisis as important to trade deadline as we've
seen. In a minute. Now, I'm going to say that Kyle Tucker
will return to the lineup in likemid September. That's still six weeks away.

(01:04:08):
I know, I take that back. It's Today's what the twenty second
where that's seven weeks. Next weekis August. That's seven weeks. He's
only doing small baseball activities, smallbaseball activities for a bone. Berus some's
got to they have to do something. And now listen, they are tied
for first place. But again,is the goal here just to win a

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division to get into the playoffs.No, why don't we pass that here?
I mean here. The goal isto win the whole thing. Correct,
You know whose goal it is toget in the playoffs? The Miami
Marlin right, the Detroit Type right. The Kansas City Okay, I'm not
talking about how they're playing this show. I'm talking about the O, the
Kansas City Royals, the Oakland Athletics. Okay, some of them have no

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shot and are damn near mathematically eliminatedhere, not literally, but you get
my point. That is hyperbolic.But the goal here is what win a
champions championship? Right, So ifyou put this, if they don't do
anything at the deadline, it tellsyou one or two things. And it's
extreme that nobody wanted to deal withthem the way that they wanted to deal
with or they were people were askingtoo much. It's that they don't think

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they're a championship team and they didn'twant to mortgage a future, or they
do think they're a championship team andthey went all in. I don't know
what all in is considering their circumstancesright now, but if they how can
you not think you're a World Seriesteam considering what you've been through and you're
tied for first place against a teamthat's got a pitching staff that you could

(01:05:39):
argue when they're going they're one ofthe better ones in the American League for
sure. So with that, ifyou're tied at first place and you think,
damn, maybe this is the yearof the American League. Yankees have
struggled. The American League East beatson each other on a regular basis.
Who the Cleveland the Cleveland Guardians.I want to almost set Indians. The
Cleveland Guardians think they're really good.Their record says so, but can they

(01:06:03):
continue the second half the way theyplayed in the first half, Maybe they're
really they grind on you right season. I know, it's amazing. I'm
just talking about the American League.Okay, So where else aren't you thinking
we win the division? We've provednow we're down to what Yankees in Cleveland

(01:06:23):
or somebody like that in a longBaltimore's the other one that that's the one
I put them as the outlier thatI think they're a very dangerous, dangerous
team. But you already proved thisyear you can handle them, and you're
doing it with a seventy five percentof your full time pitching staff basically well
less than that when you consider butwho would be the starter, who would
be and who would be out pointis, you've lost a lot. So

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I'm saying they think they're a championshipteam, aren't you. Yeah, So
that that makes the trade deadline thatthat they have to do something much more
crucial, no doubt so. Andthen Verlander. You got updates on Kyle
Tucker and then Verlander throwing forty someodd pitches. When's he gonna return?
I mean, here we are,it's July twenty second, I would assume

(01:07:10):
mid August. You still gotta go, probably go on a couple of rehab
starts. I mean, so we'relooking what three weeks at then you gotta
Then then you gotta hope both Verlanderand Tucker hit the ground running and don't
have slow starts coming back to whatthey have because by then now you're in.
Then then then you're talking you onlygotta live. There's only what at

(01:07:31):
that point in time, twenty fivegames, thirty games left. I'm saying
September for both, Okay, sohelp me, Well, I mean then
you have to then you I'm justsaying you have to go do something at
the at the trade deadline, August. August first is next Thursday, I
know. So if Kyle Tucker isonly doing small baseball activities, what's he
going to ramp up? Not thisweek, probably not, maybe next week,

(01:07:58):
and then that's that's the first toAugust. Then you gotta think doing
more and more baseball activities by thattime it's the middle of August. Then
you gotta go out on a rehabstart, which will probably be a week
and a half two and then nextthing you know, we're in September.
So there's Kyle Tucker's timeline it hopefully, and then Justin Verlander, who knows

(01:08:20):
when it comes to the neck injury, obviously forty seven pitches in a bullpen,
and then then you gotta think ofwhat to rehab start. Do you
think you're coming out of this tradedeadline? Wow? In a wow?
I can't believe they didn't do much? Or wow, that was off the
charts. We are did this isa championship team. I think it's going

(01:08:40):
to go two ways, and Idon't think it'll be wow either way.
No, No, I think it'llgo. I don't think we will come
out of it saying wow, theydidn't do anything. I think it'll be
Wow, Holy, they just madethat move, or it's gonna be okay,
they didn't make the sexy move,but they made they got pieces that
upgrade their roster. What's more aptto happen non sexy upgraded it boring but

(01:09:01):
helped the roster, or wow,we gave up that but got this.
We are all in head trying towin at this, it's more likely to
happen to me. I think it'sthe non sexy the mid one. Yes,
I agree, agreed, because firstthere's two things you have to find
another team to tangle with, andthen two, what are you giving up?
Well, don't have much to giveup? Well, the deal is
if you if you're going to bringsomething and you want to win, you

(01:09:23):
can't if you bring something all ofa sudden trade Like I'm just using Bregman
as example, you're not gonna tradeit. If you trade him, aren't
you taking away from the very thingyou're trying to build? Yes, a
championship this year, this year,you're weak in your roster if Bregman's not
a third base years do so thatexample. So I know in my heart
I bet a lot that they're goingto make a move. More. Two.

(01:09:45):
I don't know if it's gonna You'renot getting Crochet from Chicago. If
you do it, will sting toget him? Yes, that's my pill.
Take a lot. That's exactly right. You think you'll get Marty Maldonado,
you don't have to do. Youdon't have to give up a lot
to get him. He's free,yeah, well not real free, but
you know you have to give aplay. Well, well, where's he
gonna play? Bench coach? Maybehe'll help singing. I don't think that,

(01:10:12):
I don't. I don't think Danawas uh chomping at the bit to
keep Martin Mark Martin Martin Martin Maldonado. Probably not, you know what I'm
saying. Yeah, probably not.And I think they are pretty optimistic about
Victor Caratini getting back, So that'sright. Yeah, he was making a
rehab starting Corpus Christi, and hewas not in the lineup yesterday, so
hopefully he's coming back at some point. So yeah, the oh, by

(01:10:35):
the way, but he's yeah,I forgot about it. He's pretty good.
Yeah, craziness man, A lotof injuries. Let's look at the
updated major league standings. Yankees notplaying very well. Neither of the Orioles.
Let's look at what's going on acrossthe league. Seven one, three,
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them that Brian Lima sent you.We are professional. Great Shawn Salisbury show
continued. Let's get out to thephone line. You know you got banned
with Would you sign another would youbring another acre to the city of their
acre? Another acre? More property? Yeah, Bandwidth? Do you have
ocean front property in Arizona? Icould tell you so. If you think

(01:12:27):
the Astros aren't winning the division,I'll say someone see how confident I am.
Now? Yeah, Division's over.You gotta use Something's gotta manifest out
there in space. You know youhave to, You really do you have
to. I'm with you all aboutmanifestation. Brother, he really is.
Brother. Let's get out to thephone lines. Talk to Brandon. Hello
Brandon, good morning, Brian,Good morning, Seohn you great, Good

(01:12:49):
morning to you. How are youdoing. I'm all right? How isall
weekend? Mine was spectacular? Thankyou. I'm always great. Hey,
I'm on the right side of thedirt. Yeah, live well, happy,
everybody's good. Yeah, I'm doingwell. Thank you, sir.

(01:13:09):
Appreciate you asking astros. We weretrying to get to win some Seattle and
Seattle cant as well. Probably wiseby Seattle not trying to let us wain.
You're exactly right, but we'll taketwo or three, right, Brandon.
I mean you went to it.If you win every series the rest

(01:13:30):
of the season, the chances areyou're going to win this division, have
a pretty good chance at running throughthe American League. So I'll take it
coming out of especially with all theinjuries. But Seattle's a formidable foe,
so you knew they were going togive you a little trouble at some point.
Yeah, you were talking about barWender and Tucker. Tucker, how

(01:13:54):
are they doing with going to eator rehab? Neither one of them rehab
yet. There's still you know,he's Verlanders, still working through it,
throwing a few more pitches. Tucker'sdoing light baseball work, but neither one
are ready, and there's no timelineon either one of them yet. Okay,
when we give me updated when whenTucker gets back second day, the

(01:14:17):
second we know it, you'll hearit right here, man, and we'll
try to get Tripley to call youif if we do beforehand. Otherwise you
know, we'll give you the updateright here. Okay, appreciate you,
Bank, you have a great day. Thanks you too. Formidable foe.
Yeah you like that. It's agood word. Yeah, nice, good
saying good lingo this morning is formidablefaux formidable foe. Speaking of formidable foes,

(01:14:42):
let's look at the updated standings ofthe Baltimore Orioles sixteen thirty nine.
They're four and six in their lastten. The Yankees and you say that,
you say that, and the ClevelandGuardians records almost as good as the
Orioles. And we when we holdBaltimore in such so much more high regard,
I don't know why, I meanI do, young stars, Cleveland's

(01:15:02):
pretty damn good and dangerous. Sojust record wise, the AL Central is
just as good, if not betterthan the American League. Who's the best
record in baseball right now? InAmerican League? It would be the Baltimore
Orioles by what a game, bya game from Cleveland. Correct, So
the Baltimore Orioles are sixty and thirtynine, The New York Yankees are fifty

(01:15:24):
nine and forty two, and thenyou look down at the Guardians, they're
fifty nine and thirty nine, andthen the Minnesota Twins are fifty four and
forty four. But then you alsohave the Kansas City Royals at fifty five
and forty five. And then youlook up at the Boston Red Sox,
they're fifty three and forty five.And so those two divisions, Yeah,
and three of those Red Sox losseshave come this past week in a row,

(01:15:45):
three in a row. Now theYankees a lot of those losses.
Think about the Yankees records still afterthe struggle they've had the last what twenty
games, they've not played good baseballsince, like June first, are the
worst team in baseball. Put itthis way, they've done in the negative
way kind of what the Astros havedone. In the positive way. They
have struggled after an unbelievable start.The Astros, you know, last twenty
five to thirty games, have playedsome of the best baseball in the major

(01:16:09):
leagues and got themselves in first place. The Yankees had been going in the
wrong direction. So but they aregoing to be around. We know this,
So it's a trip man the America. Now you'll say, well,
the you know Twins in Cleveland,while the record looks good, what will
happen to them in the postseason.Well, we're judging people by one hundred

(01:16:30):
and sixty two games, and ifyou're judging them by one hundred games,
for the most part, Cleveland's beenreal, and so has the Twins.
They're dangerous. But that American LeagueEast is pretty filthy. Man. Now,
I'm just curious what Toronto's going todo here in the next week.
Toronto is forty five and fifty four. They're fifteen games back. That's why
I'm saying I'm not worried about Torontomaking a run to win the division.

(01:16:51):
I'm curious if they have gotten tothe point where they say enough of this
every year, ranking US high inUS disappointing. It's time for us to
make some because they've got some personnel. Dude, they could do a ton
if they wanted to a moving parts. Think about what they could do getting
assets. If you really want tosay, listen, fifteen, this isn't
good enough, and it hasn't beengood enough. We've had World Series type

(01:17:12):
roster the last three or four years, and we've come up short and disappointed
every year, either at the endof the regular season or the postseason.
And they're sitting in the same positionthat that roster truly is too talented.
I could be struggling like that,but they do it every year, That's
what I'm saying. So if you'rethe ownership, aren't you to the point
says okay, enough of this.Yeah, they're nine and a half back
of the wild card as well,they're not going to contend, right,

(01:17:33):
So if you're the ownership in frontoffice, are you saying, you know,
let's get some It's time to movesome of these big salaried stars.
We can be fifteen games out withlesser talent and are you are you in
to the point? I think they'vehad some pretty good patience with this roster.
When is the Is this the time? Because in truth, they have
enough parts where they could be thebiggest mover at the trade deadline if they

(01:17:56):
wanted to be. And you knowwhat's crazy, The Dodgers are going to
go at somebody. Dude. Youwatch, you think somebody I don't know
from that, you watch somebody outthere. The Dodgers are going to find
a way to go get a player. See you watch, dude. I'm
just telling you they are. Imean, I look at like I'm just
looking at the wildcard standings, likeover in the National League, it is
so jumbled up. I mean,you've got the Mets, the Diamondbacks,

(01:18:20):
the Padres, the Pirates, theGiants, the Cubs, the Nationals,
and the Reds all are four orless games back of the wild Card.
That's crazy. So are any ofthose teams going to be movers? Meaning
are they going to sell off anybody? Because if you look at it,
the Colorado Rockies, the Miami Marlins, the Angels, the Athletics, and

(01:18:42):
the White Sox or that's only fiveteams that you could say are going to
be sellers. Okay, let meask you this. You're telling me that
if you hear the Dodgers, I'mjust using this an example with what they
normally do. You're telling me theywouldn't go after a Garret Crochet and say
let's go, let's go on inon him. Yeah, especially with the
dustin Meagan hurting. Yeah. Well, I mean, can't you see it?
That's gonna be sick. Can younot see them say, I know,

(01:19:04):
screw this, We're going on inThey got unlimited money, that's my
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Salisbury, the USC Tropes, longtimefriend, Shawn Salisbury, Ryan l Lima,
Go Lobos. This is the SeanSalisbury Show. Running Back Depth.
Cam Akers is now a Houston,Texan concerning at all that that, uh,

(01:22:00):
the young fella's not making progress inhis own scheme meaning running back you
meaning, uh, what's his name, Pierce, Well, I mean you
went and got camp Makers are obviouslythey needed something done, some good things
in the league. They've they've obviouslyfelt the need to add him. And

(01:22:23):
I'm not saying that he is thathe's did that. There's a depth issue
there at all. But you're addinga body who's experience in the league,
who's been through injuries but when healthyrespected. So the question is are they
is Pierce. I know it's earlyin training camp. Is Pierce his off

(01:22:47):
season? The rest? Is headvancing the way they want him to,
to be that guy who can comeand spell because you know his rookie dude,
I love the way he runs.Has nothing to do with I think
he's a good football player. Thequestion is they think the scheme fits him,
and hopefully it does and hopefully anotheryear of being a part of it
will give him just the next boostof experience to make him as productive as

(01:23:10):
he was as a rookie and gethim more involved in the passing game.
But they've answered the starting thing.Because Damian Pearce is a good player,
Joe Mixon's got a chance to do. Make it different, just different.
No offense to this past receiving crewout of the backfield. They can't dress
in the same locker room as mixing. From here. It's been, when

(01:23:32):
I say, fairly non existent,not a huge threat in the slow screen,
quick screen game when it comes toa back or the ability to get
him out and create mismatches out ofthe backfield with option routes and getting him
involved in deploying him in different areasbecause he's a threat. He is a
threat with the ball in his hand, in space, through the air,
or obviously on the ground. Itdoesn't mean those guys can't play. It

(01:23:55):
just means that Pierce is still inthe growing process and Joe Mixon gets it.
And I think that this offense isgoing to fit him to perfection and
what a relief it's going to beto take some of that pressure off CJ.
Stroud to be able to do somedifferent things without having to feel like
he has to be a hero,even though he's got that ability every single
time. Is ad and depth tothe running back position, I think is

(01:24:16):
smart because what happens is and whoknows who's going to how it's going to
pan out during training camp, butthe last thing you want is for an
injury to happen and in October you'renot prepared depth wise because you're going to
need it. I think mixing issuch a good get and Adam cam Akers
gives you experience depth if he's healthyand if he hits the ground running like

(01:24:38):
he has in the past. Socam Akers tore his left achilles in the
twenty twenty one off season when hewas with the Rams, exactly right.
He came back last year off ofanother torn achilles, that same torn achilles
that he suffered in Week nine asa member of the Minnesota Vikings. And
that's the concern is is ex there. It was the concern after the first

(01:25:01):
one. Still the concern. Butyou can tell people think, man,
if he can, if we canget him healthy and get him back the
way he was with the Remks becausehe was a good player. Man,
man, he uh in rush forthey you know you're not going to get
that guy. But if you canget some some stuff from that guy back
when he was Listen when you rememberhow they' talking about him when he was

(01:25:25):
with the Rams. Yeah, andthen two achilles injuries will if well,
we'll slow anybody down, let aloneone of them. But hopefully he's fully
healthy and not happen to be thefeatured back. You can get some really
really if he's healthy, you canget some really good And remember again,
why do you think this body's thename? Where'd he play? He played

(01:25:45):
under? What's his name? SeanMcVay McVeigh who was and all those guys
that have gone through there and arenow coaching that group of about fifteen Cats,
whether it's the you know, thehead coach in Minnesota, the group
of Cats in Cincinnati, the Ramsright here with Bobby Slowick, San Francisco,

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yep, that group Green Bay.That group of guys come from the
same run game scheme. So ifyou're cam Aker's familiarity with what you're trying
to do McVeigh Shanahan, that's whatyou're trying to get accomplished. So there's
no mystery verbage wise, and tosay, okay, he has had success
in this type of running game,then go so if you can get something

(01:26:28):
out of and let's hope the kidsI see. I think achilles injuries are
more devastating than a knee now,I think so. And when you've had
two of them, it'll make forone hell of a comeback if cam Akers
completed here, yeah, let's see, Yeah, here we go. This
is coming from Aaron Wilson. Obviouslyhe NFL Insider. We have him on
every Friday during football season. Basically, he talked about Damian Pierce. You

(01:26:51):
brought up Damian Pierce when we weretalking about the running back room for the
Texans. He said, quote,he came in ready to compete and ready
to work, and last year there'salways a lot going on. This year,
he's been able to really focus mentally. He's been able to focus physically
to where he can hone in onthe offense, but he can also hone
in on himself. He's always beena tireless worker, but now he's seen
the dividends of that, and it'sbeen fun to watch him. He's doing

(01:27:13):
really good stuff in camp. Imean, it's been fun to watch,
fun to fun to be excited tocontinue to see him grow. End quote.
That's good news. So if he'stalking about him really focusing mentally,
then that shows me he was strugglingwith that last year. But here's probably
understanding the scheme and understanding thing.That's why we didn't see a lot of

(01:27:35):
Damian Pierce. Did you not seelast year with Damian Pierce? Did you
not see a little bit more hesitationthan the year before? Straight down,
He'll go get you, do thething and go play. There's a lot
that goes on in the verbiage andthe approach to the run game. With
that forty nine or Shanahan scheme.And it doesn't surprise me that a second

(01:27:55):
year player who's had two offensive coordinatorsin two years now it'll be obviously finally
has the same one, so twoin three years and a completely different scheme
from what they were running that younow, oh, okay, this is
different. The adjustment not only physicallyto being a patient runner, but the
mental side of understanding how to doit, and so you continue to grow.
And when Peter sa is it thatdifficult, Well, yeah, it

(01:28:17):
can be because with a running back, if you're hesitant, there's a difference
between being patient and being hesitant hesitantsunsure patient, you know exactly, you
trust what those guys up front aredoing in his own blocking scheme. And
hopefully he's elevated and an off seasonto study even more and understand what they're
trying to accomplish should help. Ifcam Akers is healthy, that three man

(01:28:41):
group has got good depth and youyou already know mix and knows what's coming,
what's going on, because he's poppingright out of a team that in
the Zach Taylor group that understands theShanahan and McVeigh group, the scheme and
what they're trying to get accomplished.Yeah, last year you didn't see a
lot of Damian Pears because you sawSingleton, Devon Motor Singy sing single t

(01:29:04):
Devin Motor singing. You call himsingle is singing as well. Yeah,
everybody who's singles Shohn Singleton and DevinSingletary are known as what singy? Yeah,
motor singy? Yeah, there yougo. I mean in Motor City
they sing right, Yes, it'scrazy man tripping. Yeah, I don't

(01:29:28):
know man. Yeah, So Iin true sing Singletary, single Ton,
but single Terarry. I thought hedid a good job for them last year.
He did, but they needed anotherlevel. They did, and especially
in the passing game, and theygot it. This is this will be
some explosive depth if in fact camAkers is healthy and if on the mental
side and understanding what they're trying toget accomplished, if Damian Pierce is plays

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like a third year back and hisexplosives, because I already know what I'm
getting out of mixing. The Texansneeded that other level with the running backs,
and they got it. With JoeMixon. He spoke about the difference
between now and when he was playingfor the Bengals. What did he say?
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like to talk about the most randomstuff. John Harbaugh said to the media

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yesterday. The vision for Lamar Jacksonis to become the greatest QB ever to
play in the history of the NFL. Isn't that everybody's freaking goal? Yeah?
I love the vision. I lovebut I would think that any chore
I would think if you went andasked Jalen Hurts, he'd probably think the

(01:32:44):
same thing. I would imagine theguy here a matter of fact, hasn't
he said it in some way shapefor him wants to be the best of
all time? Hasn't everybody said it? Sure? I know when you went
into the league, your vision wasnot you know what, I'm gonna be
a great backups, great start ofsometime great you know, play ten years
and get out or win some games, not win. I just want to
make sure I'm a guy that guy. Yeah, No, nobody's ever gone
in the league like that. Listen, I understand the pub He's won two

(01:33:05):
MVPs. Guess what, Lamar Jacksonis not going to be the greatest ever
of all time. Yeah. Now, he is a friggin playmaker. He's
a hell of a player. He'sspecial all that, and he should strive
to be that way. Hell,I don't know. Give him. Listen,
he can win five MVP awards andguess what, He's not going to
be the greatest small time unless hestarts and thus they start winning Super Bowl

(01:33:27):
in January. Listen, there's alot of hyperbolic stuff. I don't think
it's hyperbolic for him to want toput himself into a category that a lot
of guys want to put themselves into. It and he's got an early start
to his career, says he.I understand why he wants it. Two
MVPs. Hell yes, And it'shard to win an MVP and the quarterback
position gets harder every year to bethe most valuable player. Now, if
Mahomes was saying that right now,he's in the conversation is already there.

(01:33:50):
But Lamar is not even the bestquarterback of the era, let alone the
best of all time. Now,that doesn't mean he's not special. You
can be the fourth best in theleague and be special. Lamar's a hell
of a player, and I lovethose goals. But if you went and
asked Mahomes, I'm sure it's thesame way. I'm sure Andy would tell
that would tell the media the samething about Mahomes and C. J.

(01:34:11):
Strauden, Demiko Ryans. You thinkright now the Kayleb Williams, Caleb Williams
wants to be the best of alltime haven't taken a snap in a regular
season game, So I get it. But the goal for Lamar is to
be the best of all time.But I'd probably at this stage rather here,
I already know how good he canbe. How about telling me you'd
be the best postseason quarterback of alltime where the Ravers are gonna go win
more Super Bowls. I get thatthat puts a little extra pressure on because

(01:34:33):
it's a team thing and Lamar's gotthe ability, and they're asking the question.
Is criticism of Lamar Jackson fair?Yeah, criticism of every player,
just like compliments are fair. Sowhy is it that if somebody who's is
that if somebody else doesn't win let'ssay Jayalen Hurts doesn't win a title,
that we're not allowed to criticize him, or if he wins the title,

(01:34:57):
we're allowed to give him credit.Of course, they're none of a We're
above criticize criticism because when what dowe always call it? Whether you like
the if it's fair or not tocall the quarterback position quarterback wins and losses
are unfair? Well, listen,they get paid a great deal of money
and it's going to fall on you. It usually does the coach as well.
Is all the criticism unfair? Ofall the court? When you throw

(01:35:17):
a pick that hit a guy ina chest and it bounce off his chest
and the defense gets it in thestat the next day says quarterback interception.
No, it's not fair. Butyou know what, is it fair that
a quarterback's making sixty million in yourright guards making five We can talk about
fair all you want. I thinkLamar Jackson special. I think he should
strive to be the best of alltimes, as should anybody who comes in
the league who's won two MVPs.But I would imagine Lamar's number one priority

(01:35:41):
at this stage. If you said, hey, dude, I'll give an
MVP back, but to replace theMVP, you're going to be the Super
Bowl MVP and you will have wonone. I think he'd probably trade trading
in. So yeah, the hyperboleof it all. And yes, you
are, criticism is fair, justlike right now, Josh Allen, how
many Super Bowls he won? None? His criticism fair? Yes, Rock

(01:36:04):
Purty criticism fair. Yep, thedamn right it is. So there you
go. I was looking at anotherthing they were talking about, will you
know we'll Xavier Worthy helped the KansasCity Chiefs offense make it would make a
comeback or be better this year orget back, but basically saying they weren't
very good last year, make thembetter this year. Now imagine this.

(01:36:25):
You're talking about Patrick Mahomes and KansasCity and the question is, and they
didn't have their best year. Thedefense was the one that carried him last
year with the quarterback. But thinkabout this, your Super Bowl champions and
we're and you got the best quarterbackin the world and we're sitting here questioning
if their offense is any good?Yeah, yeah, good problem to have
heading into the fall. Yeah,and kind of a weak narrative, but

(01:36:45):
I'll go with that, they talkedabout Xavier Worthy and Patrick Mahomes for about
twelve minutes, and then they finallyjust got done talking about Lamar Jackson and
his vision of being the best quarterbackto ever play, and he should because
there were some who put him atthe slot receiver when he came out,
which was stupid then because he wasa quarterback in college. He's a quarterback
now and he's better. He's asgood as he's ever been, if not

(01:37:06):
better. And that vision's there,But I would imagine the next vision is
now getting to January and then findinga way to get to February and win
it, because whether we like itor not, quarterbacks are not judged by
December. I mean, you wantto win in December, but quarterbacks are
judged if we're just judging regular seasonquarterbacks. Dak Prescott's some monster, but
he takes a lot of criticism.Does any sure a ton of it?

(01:37:29):
Why? Because they haven't been toFebruary yet and he's going to continue to
take it as well. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, none of them are
above criticism. They listen. Whenyou make that kind of money and you're
the quarterback of your franchise and you'rethe franchise guy. We give you way
too much credit when you win seventeento fourteen and we're seventeen to thirty throwing.
Just like we give you way toomuch criticism when you've had a great

(01:37:49):
game and somebody played poor defense,they put it on you. Unfair as
well, deal with it. That'sthe way it's got to go. Good
vision by Lamar, the vision forthe Baltimore ravens Lamar. Jackson needs to
be winning in February. Yeah,so he'll always be criticized and judged,
just like any of them that getto a certain point and don't close it
out. Win in January, getto February and then win there him,

(01:38:11):
Josh Allen, Dak Prescott to atongue of Ilo, that's what all those
guys should be striving for the listas well. Burrow hadn't won one year.
Yeah, there you go. There'sanother one. And he's not above
criticism, and the criticism him's fairon the injuries. Can he stay healthy,
which is a bummer because if heis, he's a monster. Herbert's
going to face the same thing.It's coming down to Pike new coach.

(01:38:32):
Hey how many times he sniffed thesecond round of the playoffs. Trevor Lawrence.
It exists for everybody, and Lamaris not above it, just like
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broadcaster Steve Sparks your damned rights itis. He's on the West Coast too.
Thought it's early coffee. Little Koffeefeeready to go three gamer against the

(01:40:26):
Oakland Athletics. Steve Sparks joins UScoming out of a series win in Seattle.
Steve, How's first play sound toyou? Brother? Not bad on
a Monday morning? Huh, it'spretty good. Did you just make up
a new name for coffee? Yeah? Kofiefee, what do you think?
Did you just make that up?No? I just learned that the last
couple three or four years, I'veheard it. Where did I hear that

(01:40:47):
first? Brian first? Koffeefe?Who made that up? I did you
did? Yeah? That was me? Thank you and good night? Spell
it. Use it in a sentence, kofiefe. Yeah, I came in
and the bitches have my co fifeready? Whoa Steve? He's got he's
got to talk to baristas and callhim bitches early wow? Yeah wow see

(01:41:09):
No, you're joining it on itto Steve. Yeah wow, Steve boy,
tough to man? Tell you whatway to be politically correct? Brian
man, Steve, how you doingfirst place coffee? Yeah? Thank you?
Put some respect on Steve Smark's segment. Okay, never said a cuss
word in his life, all right, Toffee's the word of the day.
By the way, Steve, I'dhave told you six weeks ago we talked

(01:41:31):
about June and July moving like Saturdayin augusta moving month, but moving day.
Are we sitting There's no way youthought we'd be in first place right
now at that stage right? Probablynot? No, I mean, it
takes a couple of things for thatto happen. But the Astros, we
knew the schedule was going to bein their favor, but Seattle doing what

(01:41:55):
they did in that that timeframe withtheir pitching, I was surprised, Steve.
How you've talked about no desperation.We've you've made that and it's it's
such a great point. With allthese injuries, they're still in the first
place, which we can talk aboutall the struggles they've had, but it's
still pretty amazing, especially after thatstarts so right now today not have to
but in their minds, just judgingfrom you as an analyst and a broadcaster

(01:42:19):
and a guy on on radio,do you believe that they think that they
all move or to makes them asuper A World Series Championship caliber team.
Yes, yeah, I certainly doyou know, you start to get to
this portion with just sixty two gamesleft, right, yep, number I
think this is game one. Yeah, I believe so, Yep. I

(01:42:42):
just feel they do need to makea push. If they had a starting
pitcher go down, they're in realtrouble. So I think things are getting
pretty thin right now. You whereyou've got to feel like it's gonna it's
gonna hurt a little bit to goout there and get one because there's so
many suitors right now for for innings. But I think they've got to go

(01:43:04):
out there and find somebody who canget them five, six, seven innings,
you know, on a on aturn, just to keep everybody else
up right, Steve, do youbelieve? Steve Sparks joins us for his
weekly visit here Astro's broadcast on SportsTalk seven ninety Do you, Steve,
do you believe one move is enough? Or could you could we use more
than one picture? Whether it's aguy in the bullpen as well. You've

(01:43:25):
talked about saving those arms as well. Yeah, I think I think you
could use more than one arm.But I think I think they really need
to go out there and get somebodywho can accumulate some some quality innings,
you know, so you know,ideally you'd you'd want to make sure that
you get somebody for more than justthis year of control. But whatever it

(01:43:47):
is. Right now, I meanyou're thinking getting to the finish line with
Blanco, Hunter, Brown, Arrogetty, some guys that are getting into some
uncharted territory for them right now.And I mean right now you're thinking of
Fromber, Blanco and Hunter, Roundis probably your top three to pitch in

(01:44:09):
the playoffs. We'll see what happenswith with Verlander here coming up, but
right now, you just got tomake sure that they get to the finish
line. And they're not. They'renot pitching with their tongues hanging out SAMs,
the pitching staff, just the everydayplayers. If I say healthy Tucker
whenever that is, we'll get tothat in a second. Their everyday lineup
right today needs no moves other thanTucker's health. They're a World Series team

(01:44:33):
with their everyday lineup. Agree ordisagree, I believe so, and I've
felt that way the entire time.You know, you're gonna go through Louells
Sean and every once in a while, the other the other team's pitching is
gonna show up and make your teamlook anemic. But I think this offense
for the Astros is top caliber,and I think, you know, you

(01:44:54):
get everybody clicking and things are goingthe way you want. And I think
they have bench options right now topinch it and platoon and do some things
to score a lot of runs.And they're gonna need to score a lot
of runs this series, by theway, with Oakland, who lead the
majors and runs scored this month bya wide margin, it's just crazy,
isn't it, Steve crazy? Huhyeah, yep, they got to score.

(01:45:15):
They're gonna have to slug a littlebit this series, Steve, are
you okay now that we don't now, let's live in real time. No,
Kyle Tucker, how can they sustainwhat they're doing without him? For
he's not doing a little bit ofbaseball stuff. I don't know, as
are we a month away? Stillthree weeks? I have no idea,
and there's no timetable on him.Maybe you know and you can answer that,

(01:45:39):
but can they sustain this with himin the dugout? How is this
going to continue to be sustained withthe batting order? Well, it makes
things tougher and right now Janer Diazis protecting yourn YEP pretty well, which
it has just been very helpful.But once you get Tucker in there,
then then it looks great. Youknow, you start spreading things out and

(01:46:00):
get a lot of production. Butright now, since Yiner has been doing
so well, that's it's made team'spitch to jord On at least a little
bit. And I don't think there'sany team that we faith that is avoiding
Jordan and Alvarez as much as theSeattle Mariners. And yet he had a
he had a cycle against him yesterday, and they're trying not to get him
anything. So it's not easy,and it's you know, you scratch your

(01:46:25):
head wondering how in the world theAstros were able to do this without Tucker,
especially the way he started this seasonhe was in the MVP conversation,
and to be able to do thisand and in score runs and guys are
contributing a lot of guys throughout thelineup, it looks good. Jake Myers
has turned into a guy, JerryPaine has had stretches, Bregman's itself again,

(01:46:46):
so it looks pretty good with whatthey're doing offensively, So I'm I'm
in like I'm throwing throwing my chipsin on their offense. I think they
can get it done if they thinksare a lot more smooth once once kind
gets back. But right now you'recrossing your fingers that it happens pretty quickly.
Mastrow is badcaster Steve Smith for hisawesome weekly visit with us every Monday

(01:47:06):
at eight thirty, Steve, Ididn't how close are we getting Kyle Tucker
back in your mind? And Iwould imagine you're probably surprised because we get
fans all the time and listeners tweetingcalling in. This can't be a bone
bruise. Now, I'm not questioning. Of course, you protect your players
and the rest of it. Theguy's a durable player. Well, when

(01:47:27):
are we going to see him?He just hasn't been able to put weight
on it. So I'm not adoctor. I don't under you know,
I'm not pretending to know how badhe's hurt. I see it right,
you know, I steve the painof him a couple three weeks ago of
him trying to put weight on it. And you can't do anything, you

(01:47:47):
know, if you're trying to putsome weight on that, especially hitting.
You know, you're putting a lotof weights and get that front foot down
on the finish. Yeah yeah,so yeah, you just you just got
to let it take its course,you know. And I'm not zero question
on his toughness or grades to getout there. Agreed, zero, agreed.

(01:48:08):
But it's just taken longer than we'veall thought. So you know,
we'll see. You know, ifI was to Gas and I know the
team doesn't want to put expectations outthere because you don't want people to expect
him to be back on August tenth, and if it's August fifteenth, everybody's
raising their arms. But if Iwas a guest, I would say middle
of August, which which seems aggressive, But I think he's trending in the

(01:48:31):
right direction where you can start takingmore aggressive steps forward. Stee, we
talk about the trade deadline. You'veyou've constantly mentioned arms, you trust,
the batting order, and obviously withKyle Tucker, you know, hopefully getting
back when we hit the trade deadline. Will we be saying, in your
in your opinion, wow, theyare that they believe they're a World Series

(01:48:51):
team, or will it be allright, they've added some depth, So
let's see what happens from here.Which one will we be closer to saying?
As an Astros fan, probably thefirst one. I think they're going
to try to make a splash,you know, and I think I think
they want they want to win theWorld Series badly again. I think,

(01:49:12):
you know, when you've got afew of these guys here right now guaranteed
that you're you're continuing to make thatpush, and you feel like the division
obviously is winnable because you're at thetop of it right now, and you've
got to hold some teams off.You know, Seattle and Texas are still
going to make some noise and havetheir good runs as well, you know,

(01:49:33):
and they're formidable. But I thinkthe Astros, once, especially if
you get Tucker back in there andVerlander comes back to being eighty percent of
his self, you feel pretty goodabout whatever this team rolls out there.
I think, Man, we don'ttalk about this very often, but you
know, a lot of these tradesare insurance too. Who's going to get

(01:49:56):
to the finished line right the mosthealthy? Right? You know, you
have two months left and everybody's probablyyou know, suck an air right now,
just to try to get to thefinish line. This is a really
difficult part. And I don't thinkwe've talked about this before, Sean,
but the one hundred innings mark forstarting pitchers, Yeah, there's a real
thing in there where you start seeingguys get dead arm for about a twenty

(01:50:19):
inning period. Yeah. And you'vetalked about that about Javier in the past,
Steve on this show when no,not this year. I'm talking about
when he became a full time starter. He said we got to keep an
eye on any You've said that aboutguys, and it is as real as
it gets. Right. It's notjust guarding against who's hurt, it's guarding
against what if? What if aguy gets dead armed? Right, Steven,

(01:50:41):
wrong time to get it twenty You'rewhen you're tied with somebody trying to
deal with it, right, andall these injuries, so it double it's
like a double dip for them.They have to deal with this. So
what do you have to do?Okay, so once you get to the
trade deadline, then it's very difficultto acquire anybody past that, right,
right, So what do you howare you proactive in that manner? One

(01:51:02):
of the ways to do that.And I noticed what the Astros did with
Blueball, who's they're probably their theirnext man up as far as their starting
pitchers in tripa A. They hadhim throw out of the bullpen the other
day. Rather than keep him inthe rotation and rack up innings, they're
going to monitor. This is myguests, right, They're going to monitor
his innings, you know, andkeep him a little bit more fresh in

(01:51:25):
case, in case he's the nextman up, you know, if they
can't get a deal done with thestarting pitcher at the deadline, those are
the guys. That's who we're lookingat after after August first on who they
can bring up. So they've gotto make sure that those guys are going
to be healthy too and primed andready for whatever slot they're in with the
fresh arm and fresh leg. Stevecurious, you mentioned the sting. Do

(01:51:46):
you believe this sting that will hurtwill be everyday roster sting or a somewhat
deplea I mean the you know,after what's happened in the past or minor
leader, they're going to give upsomebody or is it a low per field.
I'm not just using I'm just usingnames a guy like that on the
big league roster or a couple ofor three prospects that you're like, damn

(01:52:08):
that one hurt? Which one willbe more saying there big league roster,
minor league rosters. I think maybeboth. And you start looking where do
we have surplus? And we've talkedabout this. I think they have surplus
in the out yes, So I'llkind of leave it at that. I
think, I know we'll take careof those names who we think Steve,
But I get what you're saying,Yes, then we can all we can

(01:52:30):
on our show. We can readbetween the lines. I got you they
have they have surplus for outfielders.I think in their organization you start looking
around infielders, they'll probably keep keepthose as close to uh, the vest
as possible because they don't have aton of infield top prospects right now.
So those guys I think they'll probablykeep in the fold. No matter.
What is the American League saying isthat the Indians and Twins just I want

(01:52:53):
to get out of this division fora second. The records are do you
believe that Cleveland, I say,the Indians, the Guardians. Do you
think they're real, Steve. Imean, the record says so are they
legitimately a World Series caliber team?Yeah? Probably, you know, I
just don't. I think everybody haswarts right now. You can look at
everybody I think right now and startgetting picky and start to see where things

(01:53:16):
could go unravel if things don't goperfectly. And right now, I think
the Twins are poised to make apretty good run on Cleveland because of their
schedule the rest of the way.The Guardians have a much tougher schedule than
the Twins the rest of the way, and I think the Twins are really
good. And if they get RoyceLewis back and Carrea Is on the I
l again right now with the Planterfascists. But they get those guys back

(01:53:40):
and they're healthy the last month anda half of the season, I think
you've got a chance to overtake Cleveland. So it's going to be important.
Let's start talking about tiebreakers. TheAstros have to run the table. They
have to win three in a rowagainst Seattle when they play them late this
season at Mint May Park to havethe tiebreaker against Seattle. They've lost it
to Minnesota already, so the Clevelandseries. You know later on in the

(01:54:02):
season for the Astros might be important. You know, if it's a wildcard
situation and you're looking for those tiebreakers, you're gonna have to start,
you know, you know, makingthe things aware for guys that like,
hey, these games mean just asmuch as maybe a playoff game. So
let's let's get after it. Yeah, it's about that time to start doing
it. And man, this tradedeadline is going to be a fun watch

(01:54:25):
and hopefully a fun watch that thewild Factors like quickly. Yeah, it'll
be honest. And you're in Oakland, enjoy Steve, first place, Houston
Astros. It's a good place tobe after all that started. We appreciate
your inside brother, thanks for joiningus, and we'll talk to you next
week with hopefully by then at leastan idea of a little closer and maybe
some maybe some news by then nextweek. We appreciate you, my man,
Thank you, you got it.Thanks for having me. You bet,

(01:54:47):
that's great, Steve Sparks, we'lldiscuss we come back. Steve thinks
it's a sting Wold factor move,which I like. We'll talk about it.
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Go back out to the phone lines. Talk to Mark Mark, good
morning. Hey you guys. Uh, what's his status on Julio Robrige's because

(01:56:17):
my my point is that Seattle loseshim for any time, it'd be like
us losing Kyle Tucker. Well,I thought Scott Servis said, Uh,
that is a little bit of anankle injury. I mean like like turned
his ankle, heard it a littlebit. He didn't sound like it was
serious in his quote after the gamewhen I read it. But I don't

(01:56:38):
know how, you know, howthat goes. He could be more serious
today, I mean swelling or whathave you. And yes, not having
him would be a big loss fora team that's already struggles to produce a
lot of offense anyway, but itdid it from his you know, and
maybe all managers do this make itsound non serious at first, but it
didn't sound from him, you know. I think he either said a slight

(01:56:59):
or a little ankle of you know, surgery or banged up or something.
But it wasn't. He didn't makeit sound like he tore ligaments in the
ankle or anything. Yeah, Iknow what. Okay, they're not gonna
they're not going to say any namespecific, but what type of player pitcher
would we be going after? Isthere any like the guy from Detroit?

(01:57:19):
Uh school? Yeah? Well,do you have any idea with what any
names? With Steve? Then there'sthe way we could throw all the names
out that that are being talked about, but they're not. You know,
Dana Brown can't give names. That'stampering. Neither of Steve Sparks can't do
that for the money. Now,he can speculate on some good pictures out
there, but uh, in askingSteve Sparks, you know, the question

(01:57:42):
is is it a wow factor moveror is it a a guy who's a
good innings eater. But if it'sa wol factor move, we're talking about
those names that we have heard.Now the question is what are you going
to give up? You'd like tostay away from a rental if possible.
So the names that you think thenyou hear, that's the wow factor move.
So, but where you're not gonnahear come out of their mouth the
names that they're going after until youknow after the deal's done that they can't

(01:58:04):
get, they'll get in trouble byMajor League Baseball. One more thing,
uh, first basement, is thereany Eat Alfonso or the guy from Vlad
Guarrero Pete Alonso. Those two guys, you know there's talk that they're both
being shopped or that they're possibly goingto move them. That that's that's a

(01:58:28):
lot of that. What's Vlad Garrerois the same as Tucker when his deal's
up right in twenty twenty six,Yeah, that would be a rental,
and that's a you're going to giveup. You talk about sting, You're
gonna have to give up quite abit to get either one. I don't
think that's the number one priority.Steve Sparks thinks that their current roster,
when Kyle Tucker's healthy, can wina World Series with the everyday roster,

(01:58:50):
not the pitching. So the priority'sgot to be pitching. Pitching, and
then if you can find a bopperor a guy who is at least can
give you some up in the infieldat first base, that'd be great.
Well, i'd love to as well. I don't know if what you'd have
to give up to get Guerrero andAlonso is going to be something they'd be
willing to give up to get.But you never know if they think that

(01:59:12):
that's the difference in the World Series. But I would think pitching first is
what you're going to be looking attrade deadline wise. My man, I'll
talk to you later. Yeah,that's okay, But it was Sean.
But that's right. You can callsBrian and Sean. We're all teammates here
together. He said, okay,all right, Brian, I said,
okay, it's like all on thesame team, doesn't we don't care same

(01:59:38):
team. Ye, I don't thinkwe found much alike. But that's okay.
There you go. But thanks Mark. There there'll be deals done.
Question is how big will they be. Another name to consider that you have
to consider would be Jack Flaherty fromDetroit pitching. I would love to have
him, So we'll see. Idon't know it's gonna be. You've got

(02:00:00):
a flair for the dramatic, man, does it a? Oh? Because
it's Jack Flaherty. Hey, whydo you hate when? Why do you
say it like you're such a hateron a dad joke. No, I'm
saying again like you said it.Oh no, I said Brian, because
it's flaring. I said, BrianWu got the wind for Seattle yesterday?
And he said, oh, ishe a member of the Wu Tang clan?

(02:00:23):
Like that you do? Yeah?Well, you have a flair for
the dramatic. Yes, you'll gohyperbolic autus once in a while, not
really, but sometimes time for hyperbolic. I wouldn't even say it's a hyperball
hot take, but I like,what you what? Well, what if
a hyperbolic? I really go,what if this happens and it'll be boom
big? You want me to giveyou a hot take? Yeah? I

(02:00:45):
don't really have one right now,but I can Mmm, I don't know.
Garret Crochet is a picture A rememberof the astrois take. But it's
not just that's pretty hot? Isit? You gotta get? What are
you going to give up to gethim? Dude? That's a lot.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.Dog. But Steve said he thinks it'll
sting a little bit more closer tothe it'll sting. Really, I think
the I'm just gonna read between thelines on one of the surplus of outfielders.

(02:01:09):
Chasmo's not in this uniform the secondhalf of the No, he's not
that. Chuck's playing somewhere else.Chazz is. Yeah, Chasmo, you
think of Fizz somewhere else. StopChazzy Fizz not playing with Detroit. They
just here'd be Chazzy Fizz part ofDetroit. They went Scoobale diving and got

(02:01:30):
him right, give me one,say it like that, Give me that
one, Give me that one.Yeah, you know, Bloomeras I look
back on that trade, you know, Chazzy Fizz is now with Detroit and
him and uh Scooble went Scoobale diving. You're an idiot astro decided to goes
Scooble diving. Say to bring oversee all these dad jokes we got with

(02:01:53):
the possible traps. Hey you cando some crochet, but we gotta do
Yeah. Hey, if you crochetat home, hopefully Garrett Crochet will be
a part of that or diving.Yeah, you know, the one of
the famous games for rich basic whiteguys is crochet. There you go.

(02:02:15):
I've played it a few times.Eric T. K Yeah, that's the
best part about it. There yougo. What what do you do when
you're it's croquet, dude, croquet, but you call it crochet. That's
crocheting. That's what I crochet canreally double dip on bolt like knitting.
Essentially, rich people like to playcroquet, ok, right, even though
croquette isn't it? Yes it is? And then Garrett crochet, Yeah,

(02:02:39):
exactly. There you go. Andthe best part about it is they didn't
have to. They did not tradeJoey loperfdol to, but thought about scuball
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out to the put enough respect onXander though, who are you? He
usually always picked Xander Shofley, butI was out of town, so I
couldn't pick respect on him. Hejust kind of blew it all. He
won the Open Major of the yearsecond three times. I mean he won
the second one and the fourth one. The Americans won all four majors this
year. To damn right, proudto be in America. Yeah, or

(02:04:25):
at least I know him? Freethat Lee Greenwood, Yeah, damn right.
It is four straight. Now atthe Olympics. Here's Okay, Who's
the PGA Tour Player of the year, Real American by Rick Darringer. That
is what I'd rather hear. LikeLeroy Greenwood though, too. Who's who's
a Who's a Who's the PGA TourPlayer of the year? Right now,
it's got to be Xander Schoffley wontwo majors. Scheffler's won six events.

(02:04:47):
One's a major, one Lamar Jackson, two m vps, No super Bowl
championships. Okay, so well twomajors is like an VP of did or
Is that like a super Bowl?No, it's like a super Bowl.
So you're basically say you're saying,you're saying that Scheffler and Shaflet they kind

(02:05:09):
of go together. You're saying,how about co players of the Year.
That's fine. So you're saying,basically, Scheffler's Josh Allen. Yeah,
that's what you're saying. No,no, no, no, he's the
best player in the world right now. So you're saying he's Mahomes. Yes,
he's with only one major. SometimesMahomes doesn't win. You really,
you can't go wrong giving either oneof them. How many majors he's one?

(02:05:30):
One? How many majors for Xandertwo? Who's won more events?
But who's one? I love Xander? I do right? I love San
Diego guy too? Is he LaJoya? Okay? Yeah, they know
what to do over in La Joya, not not that BS. You know,
well, be careful where you're treadwith this. Though, be careful
not that bs uh uh yeah,that's where all the money is. You

(02:05:54):
can take those lessons like when you'refour, you know you have a clay
three hundred bucks an hour. Itto some instructor teaching it for when you're
you're hitting your plastic driver. Soyou got there, he's out there,
and then you roll over to themean streets and we're making golf clubs out
of sticks. Yeah, exactly,hitting bottle caps. Actually, you can't
afford golf balls. Thank you,and good night. We steal range balls

(02:06:15):
with the stripe on them of thecourse, the ugly yellow ones. Jeff,
good morning, thanks for holding.Good morning, good morning, go
ahead, air, what's up?Okay, good morning guys. Uh.
I don't know if you remember calledin about four to six weeks ago.

(02:06:38):
We talked about it's not time topanic gastros. Just how I called back
and they that I'm very happy atFirst Place, and I kind of like
I told so is, they're gonnabe just fine this year. I believe.
So you were calling to tell usthat you were correct. Basically,

(02:06:59):
I get that's fair. That's fair. Come on in our bag. I'll
bet you for that. Go ahead, if you're ago. I said that
back in two thousand and five,the Astros had a fifteen and thirty record
and still the world. Yeah,no, I remember your call. We
remember. I remember your call.I mean your arms long enough to patch
yourself on the back. I gotyou, brother, dog kidding Now,

(02:07:21):
I remember the call if it wasyet as if it was today. There
you go. No, you wereright and not the panic. And you
mentioned because matter of fact, atthe time, I don't know if we'd
even discussed about that two thousand wasa five team. Yeah, we'd had
and you brought it up. Andhere they are, man, And I
don't think many of us thought.I think a lot of thought they'd played
better. But to be in firstplace, tied for first place on this

(02:07:45):
day before August hit, with theway they started, pretty impressive. Now
they've got to get healthy, especiallywith their injury. So you're a spot
on, Jeff, no doubt withthat. At that time, I believe
they were six or seven games outand it went to ten, and I
myself, oh boy, shouldn't haveopened my big mouth. Okay, well,
now tell us what your second halfprediction is. See if you're then

(02:08:05):
you can call and tell us.You know, three months from now you
are right again, your arm willget longer and you can pat yourself in
the middle of the back. Sotell us what's the second half prediction?
My man, I think they're gonnabe around ninety wins in the end in
the division. Are they gonna wina world Series? Uh? I don't

(02:08:28):
know about going that hard. Itdepends. I think it really depends on
if anything, another picture like youwere talking about earlier. Appreciate the call,
Felipe, Jeff, we got toget to Felipe. Appreciate it,
Jeff. Good stuff, Jeff,thank you. So let's talk to Felipe.
Felipe, welcome in, good morning. Tell us one thing I want

(02:08:48):
to think. I want to thinkit back off of Jeff for real quick.
He talks about, you know,and not jumping off stair thirty on
and staying tom and staying with theteam, because you know, we know
what they're capable of. And I'mgoing to say one thing, that's pretty
much what a championship team does.You know, even if they're struggling throughout
the year, they find a wayused to pull through, get to the
end, get to the playoffs,you know, go as far as they

(02:09:09):
can, because in the playoffs isa different ballgame compared to the regular season.
And I think this is what achampionship team does. You know,
they know how to fight, theymake things happen. And when we know
that, you know, things lookgrim. And that's one thing that this
team has always been able to do, is no matter what, they've always
been able to pull through. Butanother thing is, we're talking about the

(02:09:30):
trade deadline coming up. We wantto pitture. We need some bullpening,
relief and a starter. And Ilook back on somebody that we sit be
a fade earlier than year, BrandonBelackle. He was a good innings eater.
He was reliable. He wasn't perfect, but the guy did the job.
And I think somewhat that's sort ofcoming back to Hanus because a guy

(02:09:52):
like that right now on our teamthe way we are, you know,
a lot of hurt pitchers of popin the io. He would have been
perfect to have at this point ofthe year, especially going into tradead line,
because he would have been something that, oh, we don't need a
reliever. Now we have a guythat can take up a lot of this
weight off the shoulders of the booking, especially on the back end, to
help it no longer and the likedown the season. Something you thinking back

(02:10:16):
on that really is something that weneed to look forward to come up to
this trade deadline. And I'll goahead and hang out the gas to take
them a call. Appreciate it,Felipe. Yeah, we talked about an
innings Heeter Sean. They could havethey could have gotten an inningseter in spring
training and they didn't. I thinkyou're going to see more than one picture
here. I do. I thinkyou're going to see a starter, and

(02:10:37):
I think part of the not justa throw in. I think you're going
to get a reliever as well beforethe trade deadline. I think that's I
think that they realize not just onreactive measures, but on preventative measures.
I do. So do you thinkthey go get a starter, a reliever,
and a bat. The starter reliever. The bat won't be a Oh

(02:10:58):
my gosh, I can't believe wegot that bat. It may be,
Oh got that that's a good addition, right. It won't be it won't
be the It won't be the there'sour first basement of the future. It
may be, oh, we gotanother bat to give us some some some
versatility on the infield. But Ithink that you'll I do think that you're
gonna say, now that is ahuge help on the pitching staff. I

(02:11:22):
do, and I think it's morethan one body. I just I wonder
who it's going to be. Somany different names that are popping up here
lately, and what we're coming upon a week, what concerns me.
I'm just telling you my concern.I don't think it's gonna happen. But
here's my concern. Is that stingwe're talking about is the your guy j

(02:11:45):
L Joey Loper. No way,dude, you say, no way,
no way, no way, Crochetfor low Perfido, no Scooble for low
Praffito. At some point you gottastop trading your top prospect guy. And
I know it's not good. I'mjust telling you, if we know it's

(02:12:07):
going to be a sting, ChasMcCormick's not a huge don't I don't know.
You're saying it's not a huge sting. No, it's not because it's
not player that we think is gonnabe good. It's not a huge sting
because Steve Steve said both right,An everyday player, and he thinks there
could be stinging. Both of youmake a wow factor move and he thinks
there's gonna be one. So yousay, no way, You tell me

(02:12:28):
there's no way. I mean no, I'm saying me. I agree with
you. Yeah, I think youdon't You think people have called and inquired
about him? Oh? I thinkI think you know who else? I
think a lot of teams are goingto call and inquire about Jake Myers with
the way he's playing. Yes,agree, Well, he's playing like they
they saw. This is what theysaw when they said we're committing to Jake

(02:12:50):
Myers and giving him every opportunity tobe the guy and actually speak. It's
kind of funny that we're talking aboutthis right now. Sports Illustrated just released
uh an article in regards to thehe in the trade deadline all in yeah,
I haven't I haven't even read.It's right here in front of me.
So the key I mean. Okay, So when they say a sting
is Chas McCormick, a big stingfor you right now to lead to no

(02:13:13):
is? But Myers and low Perffitoare, aren't they? Yeah? They
are? So you're not just gonnaget a top line picture and say,
oh we parted with a with adouble A prospect and Chasmo, but we
got a one, two or threetime we got a number two in your
starting rotation. That is not happening. No, that's what I'm talking about

(02:13:33):
this thing now. I hope listen. I don't want that because I'm looking
for some insurance that if you canplay right field that Joey who it's Joey
low Berffito. Yeah, I meanbecause I can't diving. Yes, we
can't guarantee. I love that,Just ask me, uh, I uh,
you can't guarantee the Tucker is goingto be back when it's contracts outen

(02:13:56):
right, So are you preparing forinsurance that? I don't know. I'm
a guy also, so I willdeal with it in two years. But
King Tuck as you like to callhim, because I know you love Dick
Dames. That's King Tuck exactly.I don't want to call the Tucker is
still on the eye out. Butif you call me up and say,
hey, we'll give you chats.McCormick got a double A prospect for Garrett

(02:14:16):
Crochet or I'm in they're not though, right, Yes, that's my point.
There's some sting. It can't justbe a small sting. It's gonna
be a little red mark bump froma beasting. It's gonna hurt you a
little bit if you're gonna get maybewe want to come back with a banger
from the police or just disss inthe butt overrated or underrated? Which one

(02:14:43):
that's sting and the police overrated?Underrated? Probably properly? Yeah, probably?
What about sting the wrestler? Heardof him? Never heard of him?
Come on, never heard of him? You're gonna say, come on
to me when you don't know who? Please, But you don't know who
is? I make me enough.You can't keep going to that, okay,

(02:15:09):
because I don't know a wrestler.You're looking to be like, how
just disgrace? Okay, you're lookingto be this is what we're gonna do.
I go for Ray who Ray ParkerJr? You got? Don't go
to Ray Parker Junior? Was thatwho it was? Because some people that
may be a little like subtle forsome I'm talking about it. Why didn't
you go to somebody you didn't know? Lucille Ball was, Yes, I

(02:15:31):
did, No, you did notI did. You didn't, dude,
you didn't even know don't even knowwho Luel Cinder was? Really okay?
You honestly you didn't know who LucilleBall was. I had to tell you.
John Wooden was Yeah, sure youdid. Okay, here's your here's
all the comparison. I've given youmusic movies and you're like, oh no,

(02:15:52):
I don't know. And then yousay to me, do you know
who sting is? Oh? Yeah, the singer. No, the wrestler.
Okay, yeah, I want toask our listeners, who do you
know more sting the wrestler or stingthe musician? Oh don't seven one three
two, one two five seven ninetycall in right now. Let us know
sting the wrestler or sting from police. Dude, if you're if you're asking

(02:16:16):
one three, I am asking ifyou get three, you'll string the wrestler.
Then they're as dumb as you are. Okay, okay, and you're
not dumb. I gotta thill somelife that that that question might be.
You know what, you know what, we're all dumber for having heard that.

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(02:18:05):
they've had a good run. Hadsex for seven hours at one point.
What what's a big deal with that? That ain't brigging it? The
other six hours and forty eight minutesincludes him. They begged for eight minutes.
For the other six hours and fiftytwo minutes they held each other.

(02:18:33):
Bro, Yeah, honey, tellhim, tell you how you were heddy,
Honey, you were hell for twelveminutes. But that other six hours
and two week noodle. Don't callit a noodle, bro, Six seven
six, seven hours of tak forLyon bastard, Do dude, what were

(02:18:56):
you doing? What were you doing? Hour? Dog? I mean you
really? You really flipped the script? Do the den ward talk? What
do you do it? For?Seven hours? Man? Give me seven
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(02:19:22):
last nave style, and well Igot a style for you. I'm downward
talk for you. Seven hour youlying bastards? Yeah, that would be
adulte. What's even more present?You can sink one of your goods for
some hours. I mean after awhile, after after a while, isn't

(02:19:43):
it like would would you rather bemaking love to sandpaper dog? Dude?
I'm telling you like, like,hey man, I really brought it just
seven hours? Oh yeah yeah yeah, well we did that other six hours
and fifty four minutes. That wasgreat conutally, but you do dinner and
dinner, movie and some cuddling.Yeah right, seven hours now? Yeah,

(02:20:05):
he said, I call even thevideo guy. I'd be like,
dude, enough, come on,man, I call it sacrament. That
what he said. No, that'ssacrilegious. Okay, you can't be biblical.
You can't be talking about seven hoursworth of sex. Bull. Yeah.
What he what he did was youknow what he did, well,
he keep combined he key combined likefourteen years into one seven hour thing.

(02:20:28):
Right yeah. Yeah, let's uhJason real quick? What she got on
sting? Hey man, I wantedto talk about the real Sting. Steve
Borden, the wrestler, the Kingof the Scorpion deathlock. Damn right,
that damn right, thank you,Jason, that took down Rick Flair,

(02:20:50):
single handedly took down the n wO. Come on, man, thank
you, Jason boy. I toldhim you ever heard mister six one night?

(02:21:11):
Yes, I've heard of Yeah,he quite literally sing took down the
n w O. Man. What'sthe n w O? The New World
Order? Oh? Got it?Kevin Ash, Yeah, that I do
know, Steve Guy, Kevin Ash, Yeah, big Kevin good dude too.
Uh that I do know who thoseguys Kevin Ash And I'm drawn a

(02:21:35):
blank now Whole Cogan, Hollywood,Hulk Cogan. I don't know those guys.
Well, I know of those guys, but I didn't watch those guys.
I didn't watch. I wasn't Iwas a w w F guy.
I can't tell you anything about theSting, like the music guy, not
the Sting. I'm not talking atthe music. I'm talking about the wrestler.
What's it? What do we callhim? Sting? Yes? Yea.

(02:21:58):
Every little thing he did was madtwo jeez Scott Hall, Yeah,
Kevin Ash, Scott Hall, andHollywood Hokogan, the original NWA members brother
brother oh man. Yeah man,that was fun all right. So Sting
the wrestler wins. Sure, yeah, one to nothing, what a big
victory. That was another big victorythough. Pitching duel, pitching duel.

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Show continued, Joe Mixon, ChristianHarris soft tissue leg injury, and Dalton
Schultz. So a couple of guyssitting out km akers. I saw a
video of him catching some passes outof the backfield. Damian Pierce getting in
some work as well as practice kicksoff morning practic off season e scope.

(02:24:18):
Oh there you go, that's rightwhat I'm just still laughing about the sting.
I thought you thought he had Tonseliis no. I was waiting for
that as too, do as well. I know you were. That's why
I thought you were started. Iwas waiting for it. We don't.
I don't really need him to practicemuch. I think he's pretty dialed in
Laramie Tunsel. Yeah, I'll takethe rest for him. He doesn't need

(02:24:39):
to beat his legs up. Yeah. I saw Kenyon Green get some work
in as well. He needs totake another jump he does coming off the
injury. Yep, he need hethere's a step he has to take to.
You know, there's a former firstround guy I got to start to
now. It's time come out thatinjury and get going. Over the weekend,
a lot of basketball talk, obviously, you had the United States Olympic
team, the men almost getting upsetby South Sudan. Do he not They

(02:25:05):
won by one. Do not doubtthe Sudanese when it comes to hoops.
The South Sudanese had an opportunity atthe buzzer to put a put back in
and they they missed it. Who'sthe most famous Soudanese basketball player? I
have no idea. I know you'reabout to come, come with it.
So who's a minute bowl from sudanIs? I believe? So? I

(02:25:26):
don't know if he's been the best, But isn't I think Minut Bulls from
the Sudan If I'm not mistaken,he is beloved guy. Yep got the
new ball, so yeah, hewas seven to six yep. Wow?
And then isn't he isn't his sonbull Bull? Is that his son?
I think so? I think thatI'm pretty I think pretty sure it's his

(02:25:48):
son. So I would imagine atleast that's the most famous. I don't
know if there's somebody who's the bestof all time? Yes, Bull Bulls
is new Bowl. There you go, both from Sudanese. So Sudanese on
amst South Sudanese almost took down theOlympic team. Then you look at the
WNB. A wake up call forthe US Olympians, right, I feel
like they have that every time,no doubt they play. I believe Germany

(02:26:09):
in their last warm up before theOlympics kick off here and what coming up
here A couple of weeks COVID Acouple of weeks. Don't we have opening?
Isn't opening? Uh ceremonies either thisweek or next week? I was
I thought it was, and thenthe next week within the next seven days
tripping. This weekend maybe my tripping. Let's see. I gotta love when

(02:26:35):
your computer stops working. Yeah,we should, I mean I should,
we should probably know, but Idon't know the exact opening ceremonies day.
Should I don't am not paying muchtime? Wow, I was completely off.
Isn't it this week? Yeah?It's Wednesday? Oh so in two
days, I said the weekend.So it's welcome. Yeah, opening ceremonies
wednesdays. Time man, a littlewake up call by the Sudanese to get

(02:26:56):
our US ben ready to play Argentinaversus Mara first Olympic event. There you
go in hoops, No, insoccer, Okay, then you have uh,
I'm gonna say hoops if you were, you know, I don't think
Morocco has much chance to win theGolden Basketball if they were. If they
were in it. Women's handball kicksoff on Thursday at three am Slovenia versus

(02:27:18):
Denmark. Sets your alarms you inhave you ever watched handball a day,
a minute in your Olympic life?I have you have? I have just
flipping through channels. To be honestwith you, I can't say that I've
seen the handball competition these years.You also had the w NBA All Star
Game. The www NBA All Starsbeat their Olympic team. So Diana Tarassi

(02:27:43):
and the Olympians spent all that timerunning their mouth about Kaylyn Clark, Angel
Reese and the rest of these rookies, and then the All Stars kick their
ass in the All Star Game.That's those youthful legs. I guess,
huh yeah, yeah, there yougo. I uh oh. And by
the way, Britty Grinder says she'shonored to be wearing a USA basketball jersey

(02:28:03):
because she's an Olympian and that rich. Yeah, I'm not even gonna she's
a hero though, remember uh huh, the hero BG hero, Britney Grinder.
Yeah, didn't she hate the US? She did. I'd say it's
rich that now she's honored. Yeah, who got her home? Joe Biden?

(02:28:24):
The US right, correct? Yeah, they brought almost the president.
It was a it was a USthing. It was a nice trade.
Yeah for the merchant at death.Yeah, but got her home. But
I'm not sure where the hero partcomes in. But either she's home and
she should be proud to wear thatjersey. In fact, she should be
proud ten times, ten thousand timesover to represent the US and the Olympics.
She said, quote it means everythingto me, honestly. For me

(02:28:48):
to now have the honor to wearit again and potentially win gold is icy
on the cake for everything. Endquote. That was a good turnaround for
her. Huh yeah, well goodfor Britain, Grider. I think that
should that should be I wish youto think of that but a year and
a half ago. But she's hereand say, and that's a good thing.

(02:29:09):
And maybe she's learned a valuable lessonabout how important and good it is
to be a to to live inthe US, the United States of America.
As you're sitting in a how theyjust decided, you know what,
we're not going to make a pushto get her out. Would she still
be there? Yeah? Well,there you go, there you go.
I don't I don't have a wholelot of sympathy for her. I'm sorry
to tell you. Did you catchany of the Jake Paul Mike Perry boxing

(02:29:33):
match up. I did not.I did not. I just I want
to know when he's going to fighta real boxer. Mike Perry was an
MMA guy. Now he's a bareknuckle fighter. He's not a boxer.
Fight a legit boxer. Jake Paul, who won Jake Paul knocking out like
the fifth. Yeah, Mike Perry'sbeen doing this for forever, but he's
not a boxer. He's an MMAguy. Yeah, which is which is

(02:29:54):
a major difference. You can involveyou when your when your legs can get
involved. And Jake Paul after hewins, calls out Alex Pereira, who's
the light heavyweight champion in the UFC, also not a boxer. Well why
don't you call it? Yeah,let's start calling out the boxers of the
boxing Yeah, basically you're fighting afifty percenter then, right, Yes,
for the most part. Yeah,So, I mean I understand those guys

(02:30:18):
are talented and and scary as wellwhen it comes to it. But when
you're when you find a guy who'sbeen trained as a boxer, an a
boxer, only it's a whole differentworld. And who's in the pro Find
me a boxer in his weight classwho is his age and is a trained
boxer, and then and is gettingpaid to do it professionally, and then
come see me. It'd be great. Then then then I think the YouTube

(02:30:41):
videos give you a little change ofperspective. I got a lot of respect
for him going in there and doingit. But you can fight somebody in
the same weight class that is atrained boxer, not an MMA or UFC
guy. Right, Yeah, thenlet's go where it's it's hands on hands
and let's get it. Let's getafter it all for it real quick.
Got some comments here on social mediafrom our sting segment. Trey sent the

(02:31:03):
gift of sting taking off a mask. Nice, that's the wrestler, and
I wonder he could do it forseven hours he was getting freaky. Grace
says sorry, Brian the musician meanssting the policeman. There you go,
all right, that's in the police. And then uh, Teresa says,
I was laughing so hard listening toyour sting segment. I missed my destination
and had to turn around at theshow. That's a good thing. And

(02:31:24):
then also, that's Kelly's Kelly saysthe musician never heard of the sting the
wrestler must have been living under arock. Mmm, she said what sting
the musician? No, no,yeah, she said the musician, she's
never heard of sting the wrestler.Oh yeah, well I'm with her.

(02:31:46):
Thank you, Teresa. That wasthat was Kelly. No what I'm saying,
thank you, sir, Teresa onthe she loves the show. And
then Kelly yeah, yeap me.Well, I now that I see the
pictures of him, I saw thegift of yeah, yeah, I know
who he is. Yeah. Butif you said Sean you know who that
and had his no name, itdidn't have his name, I wouldn't.
But if you said there's stage thatyou show me this singer on stage,
I said, oh, that's Sting. So that's what I didn't know.

(02:32:07):
And by the way, Chad makesa good point. Lu Al Dang is
a notable player from the Sunion andhe was a really good player. He
was a really good play for theBulls for a while. There you go
forgot about lu All Dang. Allright, let's uh, let's talk astros.
They take on the Oakland Athletics.Anytime you can miss your destination.
Listen to the show. Yeah,we love that. Even though you were
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(02:32:28):
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Let the celebration start more. SeanSalisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety Make
Me Make Me over Again Powerful,I say, I love it seven seven
Final Call the show, Bobby,what's going on? Oh? I just

(02:34:15):
want to know at that tournament event? Uh, the past weekend. I
went to a tournament at at thePetita Center. You know forever Cougar are
they gonna be on t They're gonnaplay one more time the championship To Bobby,

(02:34:35):
you know what, I gotta whatyou no idea what you're talking about.
I don't know what game or tournamentyou're talking about, Buddy. I
mean, can you fill Is itabout Forever Forever Cougar? You know the
pharm mccugar They the alumni game.Yeah, I guess Rob Gray, a

(02:34:56):
whole bunch of Pamcougar they played.I did not know. I had no
idea, So I don't know ifit's going to be on TV or not.
Bobby. Sorry, we're uninformed aboutthat. Hopefully it is. There's
some legends. I'm sure that playedin it, but I didn't even know
anything about it. So, yeah, they they prayed sixth games. Oh
nice? Uh and uh different differentother people. I don't know who they

(02:35:20):
were. Okay, they didn't haveno programs either. All right, Well,
sorry, we don't know. We'llhave to look into it. Thank
you so much for letting us knowthat. We appreciate it. Okay,
appreciate it. Thank you, Bobby. I have no idea, uh either,

(02:35:41):
Triple E mhm, Spenser Arraghetti's onthe Mountain night. What happened to
you too? It is what happenedto me? Right, the biggest whack

(02:36:03):
job in the world. Oh,you idiot, Sean. Anyway, I
think I think Bobby's referring to theTBT tournament. I just did a Google
search. Bobby's up on the basketballturn it's literally the basketball tournament. You
know what I love is they gotreally creative with the name. Hey,
what do you do? And I'mplaying in the basketball playing the basketball tournament?

(02:36:28):
Well, what's the name of thetournament? The basketball There you go.
There are a lot of teams.So the Forever Koogs that he was
referring to, uh plays team Challengeals tomorrow tomorrow night. Oh okay,
so it's so it's it's just teamsfrom is it just all over the city?
Tournament is massive? Oh? Sothey're playing in They're playing at Butler,

(02:36:48):
They're playing at Cincinnati, They're playingat Dayton, They're playing in Pittsburgh.
They're playing here in Houston. They'replaying in Lexington, Kentucky. They're
playing in Louisville, Kentucky. They'replaying in Wichita. Yeah. I mean,
this thing's huge. It's like afull blown march Manness tournament. There's
a massive bracket. I got tocome clean. I really do, got
to come clean. I've never andthanks for Bobby letting us know too,

(02:37:11):
and you were reading about it.I've never heard anything about it. Entire
day, neither of. It's thefirst time I've ever heard of the basketball
tournament. You got Indiana alumni,an Indiana alumni team You've got, so
it's like a Yukon alumni. You'vegot a Penn State alumni. You got
Butler alumni, Virginia West, Virginia, Pitt Dayton, Ohiose State. So

(02:37:33):
basically, Marshall, it's the guyswho are now that have had great runs
in college or played basketball, butgreat runs or not. I have did
now play at your local fitness gym. Now putting together a tournament across the
country. I like it. RobGray, respect man, respect, Get
out there and get those legs moving. Good for them. I never knew
nothing about. When you say TVTI'm they can throw back Thursday, okay,

(02:37:54):
uh Dejon Jia playing Devin Davis,DeVante Hollered, Eric Werry Junior,
Larry Larry McAfee, Justin Gorham.I mean you got all the Fabian White
Junior I remember his name from youof h That's awesome, though, Keep
those guys out. Is there moneyinvolved in this or is it just yeah,

(02:38:15):
a million dollar prize? Apparently?Oh nice, I don't blame him.
For we Van Beck nice the Uhyeah, I mean Matthew McDonald is
an assistant coach. Lawrence Payne.Lawrence pay is the head coach. Right,
Uh, Spencer Araghetty. How doyou think he does tonight? Oakland?
They've been scoring a lot of runs. He gets through five and two

(02:38:37):
thirds, walks, one strikes outsix. They win. They win?
Yep, good meaning they meaning theAstros, not they meaning Oakland. Right,
you're gonna watch. I think theMariners have the Angels from the next
three as they do, and thenthe Rangers have the Chicago White Sox.
So pretty light schedule for all three. You're gonna go catch up on your
sting wrestling clips when you get hometoday. I have to study a few

(02:39:01):
YouTube videos. You're gonna study somesome of the stings tantra stuff. I
am to extend your your bandwidth.Yeah, six six minutes ain't cutting it.
I guess if you're going, Igot news for you. If you
go seven hours, they either hateyou you got some serious zoid band with
Doc. There is no way I'mtrying to go for that long trainer oxygen

(02:39:24):
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