August 6, 2024 • 8 mins
Kicking off their series against the Rangers, the Astros fall in extra innings to a walk-off homer by Josh Smith. Scoring only four runs in the last seven games the Astros have lost their last two series not due to pitching, but the lack of production offensively. Are the Astros entering a slump?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna have to turn this matter over to Sean.
Oh no more.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety all right, Sean,
what are you hearing.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Out there now?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Salisbury takeout sALS brief takeout on the.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Sean Salisbury Show. All right, it's time for the stakeout.
We got six phone lines booked. Let's be crisp, Fellas.
Want to talk Astros Tripley's got the buzzer ready forty
five seconds to a minute each because we've got plenty
of people that are on hold and want to get
in and talk to us about the Astros.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Roger, you're up first, Ony Fellas.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Yeah, it is just this is just a direct result
of too many bad acquisitions. You're gonna be stroutcasts that
for next year, and too many injuries not to overcome
the pitch and finally came around. But you're little too late,
and I'll be ready for next season.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
It's gonna be awesome. I'm a great day, Fellas.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Thank you, Roger, he's ready for next season already. Damn.
Let's talk to our guy, Tom tom A. What's happening?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Thanks for having me in. Hey, you know every time
I hear Joey spot or come on the radio, I
got to tear down the town. I just can't listen
to them, you know. I mean, I don't want to
get on his case. The team's in a horrible slump,
and I think they'll come out of it. But it's
it's awful hard to hear them.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
I remember back in the day some of the managers
I watch, I would look at the team and I'd say,
they take they take on you know the personality of
the manager. Well, right now, the Astros are milk toast.
I mean they're they're hinting less than one hundred with
the base of loading. That means every player that gets
in the batter's box is jose of Brady right now.
(01:48):
Or they're faith in Sandy Kochap. I'm hoping they're going
to snap out of it. I've still got faith in them.
I'm not going to abandon ship. I think that this
is going to still be their fext final season. I
want to look at a half full. The pitch has
been terrific. We need Promber to go out here tonight
and buck with the way. Thanks guys, I appreciate let me.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
In Thank you, Tom. Let's keep it rolling. Let's go
to Billy. Billy, good morning.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Hey, good morning guys. You know we should have seen
this thing coming. It's been coming for a couple of years,
from the Bagwellian contracts to not addressing the center field,
not addressing left field. After we lost Grafter Brentley went down.
We haven't put any bats up there to help anybody
out at all. We've fallen in love with Jake Myers,
which I'll never understand. We fall in love with a
hot streak and call it a reality doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
To me at all.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
A lot of this is on Crane h and it's
some bad decisions that he's made. Yeah, Dana Brown's got
some responsibility to it too, but at some point you
just got to make the right choice and they haven't
done that, and it's a little frustrating to me. And
quite honestly, I don't think that Jose excuse me, I
don't think that Jordan Alvarez is ever going to see
another pitch as long as he's in an astro's uniform
unless it get somebody behind him.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And I'm out. Thank you, Billy, and let's talk to
Edward Edward, welcome in. Hey wait, do look at him? Man,
it wasn't a home run.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
And some guys that they're swinging two picks instead of back.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
You know, they got a whole lot of problems.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I think McCormick reminds me to go back down to
the mining and put me out there.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I'm out, Thank you word.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Let's playing second day, s Edward Edward?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I need I needed that. Let's talk to Jacob. What's
happening to Jacob?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hey? What up? Man?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Hey, it's a long boy, it's this fifty games though,
all right, it's fifty games left. They fought back. There
was ten games. Everybody counting them out. They only a
game and a half out, right, they could be a
half they beat they get Did you win Seattleulu?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Did what?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
They half a game out?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Did you right now?
Speaker 9 (03:58):
I don't think people understand honed didn't stand in a slump,
but they they third an average in the major leagues
right now, two fifty nine over the last three games
has won something. So they're in the slump. Evidently they
can hit something going on. They'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And look what happened with uh with with.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
The Yankees, the Mets came through, swept them, didn't They
lost the Boston They spost to have the biggest bats
in the league without the Philly.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Same thing with Philly.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This is not gonna be consistent. Thing.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
As long as they hang around, it.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Gets a the end of the season, they wake up
the bats and that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
And also they are going to be in the playoffs hopefully.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Aye, y'all, thank you, Jacob.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And last though, it's one percent right, I mean you
stumble in if Seattle has a bad game and you
have an ugly win, your half came out. I mean,
I'm actually more fast. I love the callers today. I
love this every day. I'm more fast saying the fact
that they're a game and a half half out of
first place.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I think that's the whole Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, sorry, is they're a game and a half out
of first place after all they've been through, after everything, injuries.
I'm not saying it's okay they're not playing well, but
after all this, I'm fascinated that they are still a
game and a half out of first SEO, we talk
as if, oh man, they got twelve games with make up.
I mean, it's incredible how quickly things change.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, there's a question about it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, at the end of the day, I mean, we've
seen these struggles over the last two weeks with runners
in squad, I mean all season long has been runners
in score, because that's been a problem. But yet like
statistically they're still like at the top when it comes
to average in a couple other categories. But just here lately,
it's been a struggle, and yet they're only a game
and a half out. But it's like I said earlier,
it's it's like they fought so hard to get back
into this race, and now over the last couple of
(05:44):
weeks it's just been like back to square one from
what we saw earlier this season.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, then there's a hot streak they got on and
now they're playing very well. Two things I know, with
all the injuries and the way they started, they have
no business being a game and a half out of
first place.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Still they are crazy. Yeah, let's let's talk to Brandon. Brandon,
welcome in, Good morning, Good morning, How are you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We're good, Brandon, what's on your mind? I'm all right,
Astros needs to stop losing.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
This or game.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I know Brandon. They're going to be back after today,
hopefully they win.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Yeah, who is pitching today?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Valdez?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Brandon?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I can't hear you, buddy, your your connection is very poor.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Trivially, I can't. Maybe we'll get to that later. I couldn't.
I couldn't understand what he was saying.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I thought he said, who's starting.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Today on the mountain? Yeah, okay, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I think he said I think he said Valve Valdez.
I think he asked you.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
A fromber is indeed pitching today?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I could not understand that. Maybe you on the West
coast could It's crazy that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I speak for the West coast you do? Yeah? I
got it?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well yeah, what's that like?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I got more quad lingual, you know, quad lingual West
I speak, you know, I speak Texan.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, so you know there you go speak the valley.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You speak of you speak dude knees because you know,
you like to you like to holler.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
A lot of dudes, you know, speak valley and I'm
talking about valley, like the valley. Do you think that
every calib you surfer talks like That's exactly how you speak.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right, Sure I do.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm out here on the west. Yeah yeah,
going out and shredding the gnar this morning, you know,
just being one with the ocean, bro playing.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Playing the air guitar. Don't have a guitar, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Out here on the on the on the five, going
over to the four oh five.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You gotta put in front of it, the five and
the four five. Give me a Brosky call you. You're
one of your frat buddies.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No have fred buddies. Hey, Tricky, Hey Sean. We got
to give it up to our callers. That was nice.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And Chris, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, excellent, Chris.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, to the point everybody's got something.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well I love our I sit back and I just
love it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well gone seasons, Old Roger, I mean Rogers, said Roger.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean Roger just said, man, it's been a hell run.
I'm fired up for next year.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We got this year, he said, I'll see you guys
next year.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I ain't ready for next year baseball season yet. I
gotta do.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'm trying to find a way to fight through this
one and get us these Astros to where they got
to get to and you're ready for football season, but
Roger's ready for spring training already.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I see you guys next season.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh man, all right, let's let's get to break. We'll
keep talking about this Astros loss seven one three, seven
phone lines getting fired back up.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let's talk about it next
We're gonna have to turn this matter over to Sean.
Oh no more.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety all right, Sean,
what are you hearing.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Out there now?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Salisbury takeout sALS brief takeout on the.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Sean Salisbury Show. All right, it's time for the stakeout.
We got six phone lines booked. Let's be crisp, Fellas.
Want to talk Astros Tripley's got the buzzer ready forty
five seconds to a minute each because we've got plenty
of people that are on hold and want to get
in and talk to us about the Astros.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Roger, you're up first, Ony Fellas.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Yeah, it is just this is just a direct result
of too many bad acquisitions. You're gonna be stroutcasts that
for next year, and too many injuries not to overcome
the pitch and finally came around. But you're little too late,
and I'll be ready for next season.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
It's gonna be awesome. I'm a great day, Fellas.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Thank you, Roger, he's ready for next season already. Damn.
Let's talk to our guy, Tom tom A. What's happening?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Thanks for having me in. Hey, you know every time
I hear Joey spot or come on the radio, I
got to tear down the town. I just can't listen
to them, you know. I mean, I don't want to
get on his case. The team's in a horrible slump,
and I think they'll come out of it. But it's
it's awful hard to hear them.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
I remember back in the day some of the managers
I watch, I would look at the team and I'd say,
they take they take on you know the personality of
the manager. Well, right now, the Astros are milk toast.
I mean they're they're hinting less than one hundred with
the base of loading. That means every player that gets
in the batter's box is jose of Brady right now.
(01:48):
Or they're faith in Sandy Kochap. I'm hoping they're going
to snap out of it. I've still got faith in them.
I'm not going to abandon ship. I think that this
is going to still be their fext final season. I
want to look at a half full. The pitch has
been terrific. We need Promber to go out here tonight
and buck with the way. Thanks guys, I appreciate let me.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
In Thank you, Tom. Let's keep it rolling. Let's go
to Billy. Billy, good morning.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Hey, good morning guys. You know we should have seen
this thing coming. It's been coming for a couple of years,
from the Bagwellian contracts to not addressing the center field,
not addressing left field. After we lost Grafter Brentley went down.
We haven't put any bats up there to help anybody
out at all. We've fallen in love with Jake Myers,
which I'll never understand. We fall in love with a
hot streak and call it a reality doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
To me at all.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
A lot of this is on Crane h and it's
some bad decisions that he's made. Yeah, Dana Brown's got
some responsibility to it too, but at some point you
just got to make the right choice and they haven't
done that, and it's a little frustrating to me. And
quite honestly, I don't think that Jose excuse me, I
don't think that Jordan Alvarez is ever going to see
another pitch as long as he's in an astro's uniform
unless it get somebody behind him.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And I'm out. Thank you, Billy, and let's talk to
Edward Edward, welcome in. Hey wait, do look at him? Man,
it wasn't a home run.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
And some guys that they're swinging two picks instead of back.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
You know, they got a whole lot of problems.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I think McCormick reminds me to go back down to
the mining and put me out there.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I'm out, Thank you word.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Let's playing second day, s Edward Edward?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I need I needed that. Let's talk to Jacob. What's
happening to Jacob?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hey? What up? Man?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Hey, it's a long boy, it's this fifty games though,
all right, it's fifty games left. They fought back. There
was ten games. Everybody counting them out. They only a
game and a half out, right, they could be a
half they beat they get Did you win Seattleulu?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Did what?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
They half a game out?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Did you right now?
Speaker 9 (03:58):
I don't think people understand honed didn't stand in a slump,
but they they third an average in the major leagues
right now, two fifty nine over the last three games
has won something. So they're in the slump. Evidently they
can hit something going on. They'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And look what happened with uh with with.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
The Yankees, the Mets came through, swept them, didn't They
lost the Boston They spost to have the biggest bats
in the league without the Philly.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Same thing with Philly.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This is not gonna be consistent. Thing.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
As long as they hang around, it.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Gets a the end of the season, they wake up
the bats and that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
And also they are going to be in the playoffs hopefully.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Aye, y'all, thank you, Jacob.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And last though, it's one percent right, I mean you
stumble in if Seattle has a bad game and you
have an ugly win, your half came out. I mean,
I'm actually more fast. I love the callers today. I
love this every day. I'm more fast saying the fact
that they're a game and a half half out of
first place.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I think that's the whole Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, sorry, is they're a game and a half out
of first place after all they've been through, after everything, injuries.
I'm not saying it's okay they're not playing well, but
after all this, I'm fascinated that they are still a
game and a half out of first SEO, we talk
as if, oh man, they got twelve games with make up.
I mean, it's incredible how quickly things change.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, there's a question about it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, at the end of the day, I mean, we've
seen these struggles over the last two weeks with runners
in squad, I mean all season long has been runners
in score, because that's been a problem. But yet like
statistically they're still like at the top when it comes
to average in a couple other categories. But just here lately,
it's been a struggle, and yet they're only a game
and a half out. But it's like I said earlier,
it's it's like they fought so hard to get back
into this race, and now over the last couple of
(05:44):
weeks it's just been like back to square one from
what we saw earlier this season.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, then there's a hot streak they got on and
now they're playing very well. Two things I know, with
all the injuries and the way they started, they have
no business being a game and a half out of
first place.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Still they are crazy. Yeah, let's let's talk to Brandon. Brandon,
welcome in, Good morning, Good morning, How are you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We're good, Brandon, what's on your mind? I'm all right,
Astros needs to stop losing.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
This or game.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I know Brandon. They're going to be back after today,
hopefully they win.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Yeah, who is pitching today?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Valdez?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Brandon?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I can't hear you, buddy, your your connection is very poor.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Trivially, I can't. Maybe we'll get to that later. I couldn't.
I couldn't understand what he was saying.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I thought he said, who's starting.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Today on the mountain? Yeah, okay, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I think he said I think he said Valve Valdez.
I think he asked you.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
A fromber is indeed pitching today?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I could not understand that. Maybe you on the West
coast could It's crazy that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I speak for the West coast you do? Yeah? I
got it?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well yeah, what's that like?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I got more quad lingual, you know, quad lingual West
I speak, you know, I speak Texan.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, so you know there you go speak the valley.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You speak of you speak dude knees because you know,
you like to you like to holler.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
A lot of dudes, you know, speak valley and I'm
talking about valley, like the valley. Do you think that
every calib you surfer talks like That's exactly how you speak.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right, Sure I do.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm out here on the west. Yeah yeah,
going out and shredding the gnar this morning, you know,
just being one with the ocean, bro playing.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Playing the air guitar. Don't have a guitar, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Out here on the on the on the five, going
over to the four oh five.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You gotta put in front of it, the five and
the four five. Give me a Brosky call you. You're
one of your frat buddies.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No have fred buddies. Hey, Tricky, Hey Sean. We got
to give it up to our callers. That was nice.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And Chris, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, excellent, Chris.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, to the point everybody's got something.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well I love our I sit back and I just
love it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well gone seasons, Old Roger, I mean Rogers, said Roger.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean Roger just said, man, it's been a hell run.
I'm fired up for next year.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We got this year, he said, I'll see you guys
next year.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I ain't ready for next year baseball season yet. I
gotta do.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'm trying to find a way to fight through this
one and get us these Astros to where they got
to get to and you're ready for football season, but
Roger's ready for spring training already.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I see you guys next season.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh man, all right, let's let's get to break. We'll
keep talking about this Astros loss seven one three, seven
phone lines getting fired back up.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let's talk about it next
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