September 17, 2024 • 10 mins
With the Texans season beginning and the Astros inching to the postseason, both teams here in the city of Houston looks promising to take it the distance. The guys pose who would you buckle down and pose your wager on getting the furthest, Demeco Ryans and the Texans or Joe Espada and the Astros?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
More.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sean Salisbury get in, strap in and right in.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Falcons beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Monday Night Football. Bryce
Young being benched former number one overall pick, Sean salis beret.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
What's up, Bryant?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Bryan? Is today Western Wednesday? Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
No, today is Tehano Hold on, let me let me
do that again. Today is Tehano Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Teo Tuesday. Yeah, I knew it was Teano Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I just was just check and see if you were
you were all, if all your faculties are.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Ready to go? Ben, you're ready.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm good now, dog, you're good.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh yeah, you're good. Yeah, making sure you're ready to roll?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I mean, today's Tejano Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's one of the m v P days.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It is the m v P day.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, I wonder if I still have that?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well your hometown Padres took down the Astros last night.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Three one you go, Padres? Kidding you?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Darvish pitched really well.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well it appeared last night. He wasn't my darbish? Was
he your darbish?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He was you darbish?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You darbish?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, yeah, but his best start well, he's been out
about three months.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
He just making his way back.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I think, is what a second starter A certain starts
since he's been back.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, is that what it's been.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, he's but you know when he's on, dude, he's
got a lot of pitches. He's a he's a cy
young potential guy. It feels like every year. So yeah,
they couldn't manufacture enough runs last night, and uh, I'm
sitting here watching, I'm thinking, Okay, we're pushing sixty pitches
in a second.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Inning by Arraghetti. I mean he was.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
It was laboring early on, and but he did. He
did something last night that nobody's done in a long time.
Strikeout a Rise. He got him last night after one
hundred and forty or so plate appearances.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Struck.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I struck him out on a little bit of a
look like a hook to the back of I don't
know what the exact pitch was, but offspeed stuff that
a Rise swung over and got him. But that guy
does not strike out, So still stuff to build on.
You know, they had one four straight. I'll ask it.
I asked it two weeks ago. I'll ask it again.
Who's winning the next championship in this city, Astros are Texans.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Who's better?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I know it's early in the Texans season, but if
you had to bet now, have you changed your thoughts
of for two games in Astros are four to a half,
I mean four in front of first place there were
in the teens.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Go, it's the sprint.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Mode now to get in, stay healthy, get right for
the postseason. Tucker's back in the lineup, I mean all
these things. Verlander was a little bit better, Cokuchi was
off the charts, Renel Blanco another solid performance and start.
So you start to see what's going on. So I
asked two two and a half weeks ago, who's winning?
(02:58):
Maybe it was three weeks ago, who would you be on?
So ten thousand sitting in ball in one hand? You
sliding it to the Astros World Series? Are you sliding
it to the Texans Super Bowl in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Either one. Who's your bunny on?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Man, that's tough because I feel like the Texans are
only going to get better this season and they've already
I mean they're two and oh obviously two you know,
two early wins in the season, where like we talked
about it yesterday, still in essentially training camp mode.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And two teams they should have been yeah, you know
even and one on the road. One of them, two
teams they would have favored regardless. So we expect them
to win. But you got to you gotta sample size
of what this team's about. We'll know a little bit
more in two weeks, because that kind is after about
four to five games, you start to see their identity.
I think we got a pretty good idea what their
identity is. Going to want to be running, mix it
(03:52):
in the quarterback and play aggressive, fly around discipline, but uh,
what is it controlled ca I mean, you don't want
to hurt yourself with penalties, but you want to fly
around and hit anything that's moving.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And we've seen that. So but you have to make
the bet today, damn it? What is it? What is it?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You don't you don't You have to, you know, look
into your your you know, crystal ball and say, okay,
can I parlay the Texans out? What's the AFC look like?
What's the American League look like? And getting to a
World Series? I'll even say, not winning it, getting to it.
Which one of these franchises is positioned better in twenty
twenty four to get to that.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
The big Game.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So the way the way that I like just to
get to the World Series or the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The way I look at it is the.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Parallels between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Astros
over the last six, seven, eight years is crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The AFC runs through Kansas City and the AL runs
through Houston. The Texans would have to knock off essentially
the Astros, right, they have to knock off Kansas the
Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. And so for that alone, I
think I would still put my money on the Astros
and get back to a World Series before the Texans
(05:09):
get to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's ry lean right now. I listen, I think that
over the next decade. If you say, okay, who's got
a better chance to win more over the next decade,
I'd have to lean on the Texans now over the
next five to ten years, but not that the Astros can't.
But I also, for me, I'm with you on that.
I still think they're more a little more primed, meaning
(05:34):
the Astros right now, because of their experience and what
they bring to the table, I would say them, and
because I'm looking at the American League right now, I
think it's winnable. Baltimore or and the Yankees are both
within sight. I love what the Astros getting healthy, even
though it's kind of been ugly and up and down.
(05:55):
The battle test part of this year impresses me with them,
and a lot of.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Times when you're thinking, man, no way.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But as long as they're healthy, getting Tucker back, and
they make the right decisions to roll out the starting
pitching in the postseason. As much as I'm excited about
the Texans and I think they could get there, don't
misunderstand me. I told you yesterday after looking at the
AFC and the way things are going, Baltimore and Cincinnati
both owned too. They go into a game right now,
(06:22):
I don't know Baltimore is not a better team than
the Texans. Forget the record, I'm just talking about talent wise.
We match them player for player everywhere. Same thing with
the Cincinnati. Matter of fact, there's more talent right now
on the roster in Houston than there is in Cincinnati.
And a lot of us got Cincinnati as a super
Bowl team yet they've started out own too, but we
expect this from them. Kansas City's who Kansas City is,
(06:44):
so it's harder. I think over the last weeks it's
gotten tougher to pick because I think the Texans are
real told you yesterday, will not shock me if they're
in the AFC title game against playing against the team
like the Chiefs. Honest to god, I fully believe that
it's not Homer because I'm a Raider fan, but just
looking at it fairly, this team, Listen, they had too
many penalties and kick too many field goals even though
(07:05):
they matter, kick too many field goals for them for
us to say, oh my gosh, But I think we know.
I think Larry and Stafford said it yesterday. Eventually, mix
They're all going to come around. There's too much talent
for it to just be not explode. They've won two
games without exploding on offense, meaning where four guys are
involved in kick an ass at the same time. Now
(07:25):
Game one well with Mixing and Nico Collins and Digs
getting two touchdowns, but there with Tank Dell hadn't even
got off gone off yet. And they're all going to
go off in certain situation and plenty of times this year.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
And it's the defense. It's like whoa different? Now different?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
As long as they don't give up the big play
and they play smart. So I would choose the Astros
in a in a photo finish right now. The question
for I is, okay, is it is the AFC tougher
than the American League? And as I look to it, dude,
I think I think so. I think I do, even
though now you tell me you think this is really
(08:04):
who's Cincinnati and Baltimore or are oh and two teams?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I think that you know you are what your record
says you are. But if you're if you're counting Baltimore
and Cincinnati out right now, you're making a mistake. And
if we believe that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the best
team in the division, then you're making a mistake because
that that that's gonna get real when offensively they're not
very good.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So I just to me Astros still slightly.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But but I think the American League, the AC and
the American League are similar. You're you've got two stud
teams zero and two in Baltimore and Cincinnati in the
American League. For a while there, you think, oh, Baltimore
is gonna win one hundred games. They're not gonna stiff
one hundred games. Now, they're not getting to one hundred wins,
and neither is nobody. Hell, people are trying to get
to early nineties and that, and the Astros have come
(08:49):
all the way back and put themselves in that category.
So I'm I'm gonna say Astros because the experience, and
it's at the.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
End of the season and we know what they've done
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But I'll dann Well Tay, if you're buying a futures bet,
put it right on Kirby Drive. Not that the Astros
will go away, but because that young pitching. But I'm
just telling you, man, Kirby Drive, as long as they
keep these players in tax stay healthy.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
That they're going to be here for a minute. And
the quarterback and the head coach.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think that's another discussion we need to have, is
the manager for the Astros and the head coach of
Demiko Ryans. In regards to this topic right now, I
think it's who do you trust more, Joe Spotter or
Demiko Rans.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I think we should discuss that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think Joe Spotty, Yeah, well that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Let's keep let's do that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I think it's pretty cool too, because really one's a
rookie head coach won a second year head coach.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Both been in football for a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Similar and I think I think that bears some talking
about because three win team going last year to where
they went and now this team going through all the
adversity they've been through, they got.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Can you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I mean, I guarantee as a rookie manager you didn't
expect to be tested this much.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I think that's a good conversation. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, let's do it next right here on Sportsblock seven
ninety
More.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sean Salisbury get in, strap in and right in.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Falcons beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Monday Night Football. Bryce
Young being benched former number one overall pick, Sean salis beret.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
What's up, Bryant?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Bryan? Is today Western Wednesday? Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
No, today is Tehano Hold on, let me let me
do that again. Today is Tehano Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Teo Tuesday. Yeah, I knew it was Teano Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I just was just check and see if you were
you were all, if all your faculties are.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Ready to go? Ben, you're ready.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm good now, dog, you're good.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh yeah, you're good. Yeah, making sure you're ready to roll?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I mean, today's Tejano Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's one of the m v P days.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It is the m v P day.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, I wonder if I still have that?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well your hometown Padres took down the Astros last night.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Three one you go, Padres? Kidding you?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Darvish pitched really well.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well it appeared last night. He wasn't my darbish? Was
he your darbish?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He was you darbish?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You darbish?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, yeah, but his best start well, he's been out
about three months.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
He just making his way back.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I think, is what a second starter A certain starts
since he's been back.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, is that what it's been.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, he's but you know when he's on, dude, he's
got a lot of pitches. He's a he's a cy
young potential guy. It feels like every year. So yeah,
they couldn't manufacture enough runs last night, and uh, I'm
sitting here watching, I'm thinking, Okay, we're pushing sixty pitches
in a second.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Inning by Arraghetti. I mean he was.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
It was laboring early on, and but he did. He
did something last night that nobody's done in a long time.
Strikeout a Rise. He got him last night after one
hundred and forty or so plate appearances.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Struck.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I struck him out on a little bit of a
look like a hook to the back of I don't
know what the exact pitch was, but offspeed stuff that
a Rise swung over and got him. But that guy
does not strike out, So still stuff to build on.
You know, they had one four straight. I'll ask it.
I asked it two weeks ago. I'll ask it again.
Who's winning the next championship in this city, Astros are Texans.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Who's better?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I know it's early in the Texans season, but if
you had to bet now, have you changed your thoughts
of for two games in Astros are four to a half,
I mean four in front of first place there were
in the teens.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Go, it's the sprint.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Mode now to get in, stay healthy, get right for
the postseason. Tucker's back in the lineup, I mean all
these things. Verlander was a little bit better, Cokuchi was
off the charts, Renel Blanco another solid performance and start.
So you start to see what's going on. So I
asked two two and a half weeks ago, who's winning?
(02:58):
Maybe it was three weeks ago, who would you be on?
So ten thousand sitting in ball in one hand? You
sliding it to the Astros World Series? Are you sliding
it to the Texans Super Bowl in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Either one. Who's your bunny on?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Man, that's tough because I feel like the Texans are
only going to get better this season and they've already
I mean they're two and oh obviously two you know,
two early wins in the season, where like we talked
about it yesterday, still in essentially training camp mode.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And two teams they should have been yeah, you know
even and one on the road. One of them, two
teams they would have favored regardless. So we expect them
to win. But you got to you gotta sample size
of what this team's about. We'll know a little bit
more in two weeks, because that kind is after about
four to five games, you start to see their identity.
I think we got a pretty good idea what their
identity is. Going to want to be running, mix it
(03:52):
in the quarterback and play aggressive, fly around discipline, but uh,
what is it controlled ca I mean, you don't want
to hurt yourself with penalties, but you want to fly
around and hit anything that's moving.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And we've seen that. So but you have to make
the bet today, damn it? What is it? What is it?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You don't you don't You have to, you know, look
into your your you know, crystal ball and say, okay,
can I parlay the Texans out? What's the AFC look like?
What's the American League look like? And getting to a
World Series? I'll even say, not winning it, getting to it.
Which one of these franchises is positioned better in twenty
twenty four to get to that.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
The big Game.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So the way the way that I like just to
get to the World Series or the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The way I look at it is the.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Parallels between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Astros
over the last six, seven, eight years is crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The AFC runs through Kansas City and the AL runs
through Houston. The Texans would have to knock off essentially
the Astros, right, they have to knock off Kansas the
Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. And so for that alone, I
think I would still put my money on the Astros
and get back to a World Series before the Texans
(05:09):
get to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's ry lean right now. I listen, I think that
over the next decade. If you say, okay, who's got
a better chance to win more over the next decade,
I'd have to lean on the Texans now over the
next five to ten years, but not that the Astros can't.
But I also, for me, I'm with you on that.
I still think they're more a little more primed, meaning
(05:34):
the Astros right now, because of their experience and what
they bring to the table, I would say them, and
because I'm looking at the American League right now, I
think it's winnable. Baltimore or and the Yankees are both
within sight. I love what the Astros getting healthy, even
though it's kind of been ugly and up and down.
(05:55):
The battle test part of this year impresses me with them,
and a lot of.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Times when you're thinking, man, no way.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But as long as they're healthy, getting Tucker back, and
they make the right decisions to roll out the starting
pitching in the postseason. As much as I'm excited about
the Texans and I think they could get there, don't
misunderstand me. I told you yesterday after looking at the
AFC and the way things are going, Baltimore and Cincinnati
both owned too. They go into a game right now,
(06:22):
I don't know Baltimore is not a better team than
the Texans. Forget the record, I'm just talking about talent wise.
We match them player for player everywhere. Same thing with
the Cincinnati. Matter of fact, there's more talent right now
on the roster in Houston than there is in Cincinnati.
And a lot of us got Cincinnati as a super
Bowl team yet they've started out own too, but we
expect this from them. Kansas City's who Kansas City is,
(06:44):
so it's harder. I think over the last weeks it's
gotten tougher to pick because I think the Texans are
real told you yesterday, will not shock me if they're
in the AFC title game against playing against the team
like the Chiefs. Honest to god, I fully believe that
it's not Homer because I'm a Raider fan, but just
looking at it fairly, this team, Listen, they had too
many penalties and kick too many field goals even though
(07:05):
they matter, kick too many field goals for them for
us to say, oh my gosh, But I think we know.
I think Larry and Stafford said it yesterday. Eventually, mix
They're all going to come around. There's too much talent
for it to just be not explode. They've won two
games without exploding on offense, meaning where four guys are
involved in kick an ass at the same time. Now
(07:25):
Game one well with Mixing and Nico Collins and Digs
getting two touchdowns, but there with Tank Dell hadn't even
got off gone off yet. And they're all going to
go off in certain situation and plenty of times this year.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
And it's the defense. It's like whoa different? Now different?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
As long as they don't give up the big play
and they play smart. So I would choose the Astros
in a in a photo finish right now. The question
for I is, okay, is it is the AFC tougher
than the American League? And as I look to it, dude,
I think I think so. I think I do, even
though now you tell me you think this is really
(08:04):
who's Cincinnati and Baltimore or are oh and two teams?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I think that you know you are what your record
says you are. But if you're if you're counting Baltimore
and Cincinnati out right now, you're making a mistake. And
if we believe that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the best
team in the division, then you're making a mistake because
that that that's gonna get real when offensively they're not
very good.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So I just to me Astros still slightly.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But but I think the American League, the AC and
the American League are similar. You're you've got two stud
teams zero and two in Baltimore and Cincinnati in the
American League. For a while there, you think, oh, Baltimore
is gonna win one hundred games. They're not gonna stiff
one hundred games. Now, they're not getting to one hundred wins,
and neither is nobody. Hell, people are trying to get
to early nineties and that, and the Astros have come
(08:49):
all the way back and put themselves in that category.
So I'm I'm gonna say Astros because the experience, and
it's at the.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
End of the season and we know what they've done
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But I'll dann Well Tay, if you're buying a futures bet,
put it right on Kirby Drive. Not that the Astros
will go away, but because that young pitching. But I'm
just telling you, man, Kirby Drive, as long as they
keep these players in tax stay healthy.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
That they're going to be here for a minute. And
the quarterback and the head coach.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think that's another discussion we need to have, is
the manager for the Astros and the head coach of
Demiko Ryans. In regards to this topic right now, I
think it's who do you trust more, Joe Spotter or
Demiko Rans.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I think we should discuss that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think Joe Spotty, Yeah, well that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Let's keep let's do that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I think it's pretty cool too, because really one's a
rookie head coach won a second year head coach.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Both been in football for a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Similar and I think I think that bears some talking
about because three win team going last year to where
they went and now this team going through all the
adversity they've been through, they got.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Can you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I mean, I guarantee as a rookie manager you didn't
expect to be tested this much.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I think that's a good conversation. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, let's do it next right here on Sportsblock seven
ninety
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