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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulsbury Old, Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury, there to usc truth.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, Bryan.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Lima, go Lobos.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the Shawn Salsbury Show.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I didn't play any golf good morning. This weekend. I
had birthdays and got myself ready, was doing some spring
cleaning of the houses. Not like me. Well, Saturday, was
it Saturday or Friday Friday? The wind was ridiculous. I
don't think it was Friday Saturday maybe too. No, Saturday
wasn't bad. But I did a little, uh house cleaning.
I had birthday on Saturday at the house and so,
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and then Sunday just watched and was watching college hoops
all weekend. So I actually, which is not like me.
I did not play one round of golf this weekend,
which is a brutal for me when it's that kind
of weather.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
I was gonna say, I mean, when you got weather
like this, it's it's almost a prerequisite you need to
be out there. But now, I mean everything else I
can understand. We did a little bit of yard work
on Saturdays.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So received my lawn and yeah, plant some flowers and
clean windows. We did all that this weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Yeah, well especially too. I mean, you know, playing a
little bit injured right here, the little weather stripping that
goes around your door. We bought this place about a
year ago, and they have like kind of like brass
or copper.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I don't know what it was.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
But one of the parts of it started to jut
out a little bit just from years of opening and
closing the door. And Friday, before I came in here,
the dogs already got up. So I said, all right,
I'll let them out and me and my broad shoulders
I'm walking by, smoked my elbow, oh yeah, and I'll
do it.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Gashed myself pretty good.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
So then decided at that time, you know what, I'm
going to go ahead and start the restoration right now.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Just ripped it off the wall.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
And then once I go I went to home depot,
got what was needed and was able to put it together.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But I kicked a middle of the night when you
wake up and your eyes adjusted, I kicked. I think, I, well,
I'm pretty sure I broke my middle toe on my
right and you can't do anyone broken toe that's good
on my right foot because I kicked it about two
in the morning, and I'm like, I wanted to hot
a wake dogs up and stuff, but my mother and
literally within minutes it's like swelled. It's like and wait,
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you're they're not damn thing you can do. They putting
a cast on a toe. So yeah, that that was
how it went. But that's still I'd still played golf
if I if I wouldn't have been doing stuff around
the house and getting ready for a good Saint Patrick's Day.
It's it's weird when it falls on a Monday. Saint
Patrick's Days, like three straight days. Well, I think.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
That's also to where you start to do things, uh
the adult way. Like in college, you still no matter
what day Halloween fell on, it doesn't matter if you
got eight o'clock class next morning, your party, You're you're
gonna be doing all everything that comes with it, the costumes,
the partying, all of that. And then you know, as
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you get older, you start to adjust a little bit,
Like if Halloween, say falls on a Tuesday, well then
you're gonna have the Halloween party on Saturday night. That's
when you're gonna get your Halloween out of the way.
You're done Saint Patrick's Day. I kind of feel like
it's the same deal like as it's on a Monday
this year, so a lot of people, like a lot
of the bars around the area were doing their Saint
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Patrick's Days on you know, Sunday day drinking or even Saturday.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
No, I did it on Saturday. I saw it up
close and personal at a place and went and watching
college hoops there as well. Saturday Sunday. I mean they're
charging you to get in. I mean they're all grain decorated. Yeah,
they bars are not stupid. They milk it. Matter of fact,
they probably love it on Monday because they doubled the
triple dip. They touch it on Saturday, then they have
it on Sunday and then the real day on Monday.
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By the time you get to Monday is like damn,
I'm beating exhausted. But people will still do another excuse
for people to drink.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
No, I mean, you know, far being from us to
you know, try to find too many excuses to be
able to do that. But my godfather or every single
Saint Patrick's Day, no matter what they had fell on,
he and another good family friend, they would always go
to this one place off West Timer and that was
like their their tradition.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Every single year.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
This is before uber and everything, so you know, cabs home,
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Go to traditions. I love them.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Yeah, So we got our green on, and you knew
with you that I was gonna have my green on
because you know, far far be it from for me
to to not show up prepared, number one. But also
that if I wasn't wearing any green, you know, the
new guy around here probably gonna get a punch or
a pinch or something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
If if you got green socks at on and green
golf shirt on, I'd like to play some golf later
today if possible. Hopefully you get that chance. Yeah. Sometimes
work gets in the way of pleasure. That happen, but regularly, yeah, regularly.
But day, what are you gonna do? We get a
little uh the PGA Tour, uh, the players tournament heading
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into a playoff this morning, So it'll be a fun
it's a It was a great weekend and it'll be
a great week And I cannot believe we're in the
middle of March and baseball is almost here and people
are getting paid in the NFL. Yeah, I mean Cincinnat
Bengals are paying some receivers now, brother, right, They're paying
some receivers.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
You know, it's the best to be this morning, Rocky Arsenal,
They both both those Yeah, he represents both guys. Higgins
did switch over to him according to reports. But yeah,
both of those.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Guys have the highest paid number two receiver in NFL
history and good to have the highest paid non quarterback
in NFL history, both on the same team. Now, only
problem is if you score forty can you give up
forty four? And then they why they don't have Trey Hendrickson.
I've signed and sealed and deliver. Why they're allowing this
to happen is asinine for the Cincinnati Bles can't get
off the field.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
But I mean there is that, but it's also I mean,
it seemed like that Miles Garrett was going to force
his way out of Cleveland and.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Force his way into a new deal. There you go,
so I mean, money will stop trade talk now. But
it's not like the Bengals, though they do that.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I mean, the Bengals are perennially known as being one
of the teams don't Nike go on dime you oh.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Cheat, They will cheap their way through it. But you know,
I mean they have gotten better because they paid. They
paid Burrow, but this is a team when I was playing,
and even after that, they were limited scouting department. They
were the most matter of fact, they most understaffed scouting
department football, and they didn't devote a lot to much
of anything. And then then Marvin Lewis got there, they
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started to get better. Couldn't win a playoff game, but
got to the playoffs, and Andy Dalton got paid a
little bit. But they realized that you had to pay
more in order to keep the best receiver, or if
he's not best, he ain't third. Okay, and Jefferson's the
only other guy in that category, So you got those
and then realizing how important number one is. At least
they get this, and I'm sure Zach Taylor has something
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to do with this, their coach. At least they understand
that number one is always better when number two is
really good, and that's what this team needs to do
as well. Nico Collins. They thought they had it, you know,
in digs, but now with the injury and unfortunately didn't
work out the way they wanted to with him going
somewhere else. But now you're hoping, okay is is the
number two here now? Gonna be better, and it will,
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and I'm not sure they're done looking for to that guy.
But Cincinnati realized that and paid him. But you can't
as well, witness, you're not winning a championship in this
league as a finesse offense. That now, I'm gonna tell
you this, Cincinnati, I guarant asked you wish they still
had Joe Mixon. I promise you, because that's a physical
beast and we're fortunate to have him here. But you
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cannot win a championship in this league as a finasse
team appears so well, the Rams did make no mistake
when Kurt Warner's team was there. Their offensive line was physical,
they played sound defense. Look at the Super Bowl, I
mean at how I mean they you know what a
yard away? Half yard away, that's exactly right. But they
were a physical team that could also fantasy to death.
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And their finesse was Falk and Holt and Isaac Bruce
and Oza here a team and Ricky pol They were
low the Cincinnati Bengals in that division especially, you have
to play defense two years ago, they're a defensive coach.
Was a Super Bowl, I mean it was a high
and want and need and everybody valued him. A year later,
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they don't play defense. Two years later, look what happens.
Two years later they fire him. Yeah, so, and he's
a hell of a defensive coordinator, but he's no longer there,
so you better play defense. But you also got to
give him players. It's one thing to coach a team,
but if you're coaching sixes and they don't play like
eights and you can't maximize it, you don't win. And
against Baltimore, Pittsburgh's always going to be relevant because of
Mike Tomlin. I know, the quarterback room's empty. And then
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you mix in the Cleveland Browns, who should be better,
and they can't find a quarterback. That's a tough ass division.
And so they paid their offense. But it doesn't matter
how good Burrow and Chase are or Higgins. If you
do not pay and play defense, they'll get to the
playoffs and then they will get beat. And you see
every year they start slow Burrow and Cincinnati or Alex
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Bregman start slow picking up play out of their mind,
you know, the last two thirds of the season, trying
to make up for the start, and you say, man,
if we could have just won, if we could have
just won a gamer if they want a game in September.
They're in the playoffs, but they you know, meaning just
one more game in September, and they didn't so well.
I like what Cincinnati's doing. Like I said, they've upgraded
their scouting staff and they're better now at it. But
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they're no longer referred to as cheap, at least on
the offensive side of the ball. But they better show
it up on defense. And this team here knows they've
done it the right way. Got a quarterback and they
play defense, and they got a physical runner. Now clear
out that house and any turd that's on the offensive line,
move them on, and let's see if we can get
this thing right. Bobby Sloan was an MVP coach. I
mean everybody wanted him, like, yeah, this time last year,
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we were all over and now I think we got
him back. Now he's an assistant Miami, and that doesn't
mean that's not a bad thing, but he was going
to be a head coach, right and they moved on
quickly because they didn't get the physicality they need. You
better be physical, and you better play defense, and you
better have a guy under center that's good and sometimes great.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I mean the Texans, at least for right now, we
believe they've got two out of those three because we
feel good about the quarterback. The defense, same deal there.
It'll be a top five defense in the league this year.
You watch well, especially with that secondary that you've got,
and you add to it with CJ. Gardner Johnson, and
you know you have Derek Stingley, who I mean soon
enough he'll be getting his back thrown at him too, so.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Probably being the highest paid corner in the league.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I was gonna say highest paid corner, but I'm not
sure that over forty million per like Jamar Chase is
going to get. I don't think that's going to be
throwing his direction. But he's not going to be far off. No,
I bet you can't pay a corner that much money.
You just can't. That's reserved for the edge rushers. And
I mean, who'd have thought we'd be paying that to
a wide receiver, But we are, and rightfully so. But
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I don't think mean three years from now, you might,
but I don't think right now I can go and
make my highest paid player.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
A corner. Now. It may be on this team, but
until Stroud gets his and they move on. I absolutely
love Stingley, but you've got to he's he's still a
minute away from it in a corner position. Well, great,
Mike Haynes ain't in the league just right now, you know,
and Lester Hayes. But Stingley's pretty damn close. He's going
to be a special player. But in order for the
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and he'll get close. You're exactly right, but he is
highest paid corner. He won't be the highest paid defensive
player I would. I always build my offenses in the
defenses inside out and offense start inside out and an
edge rusher. If you don't have that guy, won't matter
how good the secondary is. It's exactly what you just said.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
He'll be the highest paid for now because it's gonna
be less than twelve months.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And then C. J.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Stroud will Anderson Junior will both say in another quarter
your time was nice, but here you go and it's not.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Sometimes it's not the best player.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
He may be the best corner in league. Sometimes not
the best player. It's the best player at the right time.
Dak Prescott's not the best quarterback in the league. Yearly salary,
he still makes more than anybody and he hadn't won
a Super Bowl. So it's just it's timing and who's
willing to pay you. But they're gonna blow when Mahomes
wants to get paid or the next guys get paid somebody.
We're about two years away from seventy five million a year.
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It seems like it's trending that way, that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
I mean, it seems like every single time, all this
guy's the highest paid, and then about a month later, Oh,
this guy's the highest paid.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
You should think where we're going now. Tom Brady made
about just under three hundred and fifty million as a player.
There's nothing to do with all the other stuff. And
he always took less to make sure the team will
put rings on his finger. And Kirk Cousins, who's a
good player, he's about ten million or five million. Brady
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did in twenty three years, Cousins in thirteen years. They're
within like ten million of each other. If Cousins making
more money than Brady, that's the perspective. That is the perspective.
And Kirk Kirk Cousins will leave the league without winning
a Super Bowl. So a sixty million dogar perty's gonna
go by by Tua to his fifty three, and he
should because he's been in a Super Bowl and he's
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been more productive and to his good he's gonna make
fifty five. So if he's making fifty five, the Mahomes
of the world, those guys, it's what we're in. Prescott,
who hasn't been to a Super Bowl's making sixty We are,
we are within By the time this calendar hits twenty
twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, we'll have a guy making
sixty five to seventy five million a year. Well, sixty
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five will be sixty five will be easy. We're already.
We're damn we're one. We're a stone throw away from
that seventy five seventy million. You have to seventy five
million a year. You have to in this league. You're
going to have to make the quarterback separate from the
rest of the soury cap. You just have to do it.
It has to be the quarterback paying whatever you want.
If you want to pay them a hundred million, go
for it. Then everybody else falls under the soar cap.
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We are headed there. If we're not, the rich are
just going to the teams with the best quarterbacks. Are
just going to play pay it all there. You're going
to have to do that in order to just make
it work. Otherwise we're ten years away from one hundred
million dollar quarterback.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Well, that's why of the teams that drafts so well,
I mean, that's why they find themselves in the positions
that they do. And well, Kansas City is one of
those teams that drafts incredibly well.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
So, yeah, Jamar Chase T. Higgins both getting their money.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Chase four years, one hundred and sixty one million dollar extension,
one hundred and twelve of that guaranteed. This according to
Fox Sports, Higgins getting four years, one hundred and fifteen.
First two years of that deal are guaranteed. So we'll
get into some Texans as the show goes along too,
because everything that Shawn just mentioned, I mean, it applies
to them as they continue to build up their roster.
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Hadn't gotten any astros will do that. Coming up next
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Speaker 2 (14:36):
Buckle up, The Shawn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Continues, is gonna be a hell yesterday?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Tyler McGill. I mean, not necessarily a guy that's like
a game wrecker in this league, but still a guy
that's earned major league checks, been pitching at this level
for some time, and taking them right down the right
field line for a two run shot number three of
the spring.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Here's when people say it's minor league pitching. But if
it was a veteran Raken, they'd say, man, he had
a great spring. We have selective criticism and selective compliment.
They do it. They don't want to give the rookie credit.
When he's doing it. He's there and showing up. So
what happens when a veteran struggles, You know what, they'll say,
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it's just spring training. Oh, it's only spring. Screw those
people who say that. Bottom line is make no mistake.
If you really are going to live up to and
tell us that this was open competition. Cam Smith is
a starter. When we open the season period period and
the upside. Matter of fact, the upside from him. You
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can combine Dubon Myers and Chas McCormick a good players.
One's a good defensive player, the other. We'll see what
offensive meeting McCormick. Is it two years ago or last year?
None of them have a good arm And then then
there's Dubon who's your Swiss army knife? Who is you know?
I know people want him to start every day, but
he's to move around. If you just look at about
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the upside, Listen, Cam Smith can go hit two twenty
just like the center fielder can. Okay, but what he's
not capable of doing is the stuff that Cam Smith
can do. Put him in the lineup, don't look back,
because you'll still get that ext year. The number of
games he plays. People think it's just got to keep
him back for the first two weeks or fifteen games
to get that extra year. The truth is that the
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other side of it that if he put him in
the lineup and he stays on the major league roster,
they get that back anyway. I don't know how many
games it goes and the depth of you know, of
the different layers of it, but I can tell you this.
The bottom line is, and by the time he gets
to that point, you're gonna you're gonna give him. If
he's playing great baseball, you're gonna extend him anyway. And
if he's not playing great baseball and he's a bust,
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well then well he ain't gonna be a bus This
dude is loaded with potential. I don't care who he's
hitting it off. I really don't. And it'll be tougher. Sure,
you face the Dodgers lineup, you got nine deep. Okay,
when you face a team like that, or you face
the Red I mean it'll be tougher. You face the Rangers,
you face the two really good pitching staffs. I can
just tell you this that if you're really doing it
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by potential and production in spring training, if the guy's
not on the major league roster, then you really didn't
let him compete. It's amazing to me. Oh, veteran, he'll
be fine. It's minor league pitching, he'll be fine out
that he's just getting into his mode. But when it's
a rookie who's kicking ass and doing everything you ask
him to do, it's oh it's against Yeah, Well, everybody's
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hitting against average pitching in the spring. They're getting loosened up,
they're getting going, trying to extend their arm and get
themselves ready for the regular season. It's no different, I
can tell you this. There's been no more Pains had
a pretty impressive spring. There's been no more impressive forget prospect.
There's been no more impressive player on the Astros this
spring than that dude. Period. So if it's open, put
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him in there, let him go and quit worrying about
the fragility of I'm talking about fans or media or
US or front office. Quit worrying about if the pacification
kicks in, and oh, he'd be sensitive. If he struggles,
I think he's gonna be okay, and I'd rather have
him struggle here than struggling double A.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Well.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's also, though, Sean, I think that, you know, for
everything we've heard about this guy, if indeed he does struggle,
and you do have to have the you know, hey,
Joe wants to see you. Dana's in there too, of hey,
we're sending you down. I don't think it's going to
be a cowering where he says, oh man, you know,
how am I ever going to get this form back
or anything like that. I think you'll look at it
and just say, I'm not ready yet. Why are you
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a number one prospect? Because not only were you held
in high regard as a physical prospect, and he is
a physical specimen. What I keep hearing, but if I'm
drafting a guy football, baseball, basketball, I got to know
the whole kit and kaboodle. Buddy, are you mentally tough?
Can you handle success? Can you handle failure? I've never
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met a player in the world in any sport that
was successful from the time he got off the team
bus and had no struggle. So the mental toughness for
me is going to be far more important than the
physical toughest.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
He said. Listen, when you're built like that and you
could swing a baseball bat like that, hit at all
fields and got power the other way and deadpool whatever,
and you can play multiple positions, I ain't worried about that.
It's all. It's always the one hundred and sixty two
game grind mental when you go, oh for fifteen, Kyle
Tucker wasn't very good his first hundred bats. Now, okay,
he wasn't very good. Bregman wasn't very good. Matter of fact,
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Bregman's not very good at the beginning of every season.
We'll now, yeah, yes, exactly. So point is is that
I don't care about well, if it's like this quarterback.
I wasn't worried about c. J. Stroud. If he struggled
his rookie year, expected what you got this year, You
expected that last yeah, yeah, yeah if you And if
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you'd struggle, guess what. Bryce Young got his ass kicked
as a rookie and people thought he was a bust,
came back, played some pretty good football and a team's
not very good, and you start to think the future
is looking pretty a lot brighter because you know what
they did. They said deal with it, and they set
him down and he didn't pout, he went to work,
and when he got the starting job back, it's better football.
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I'm not worried about camp Smith. I'm just telling you
right now, he's one of your best nine. He just is.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I gotta play him. That's the way I look at it.
And it's also too I mean, and we can carry
this over to the other side. And also John, I
see you want to get into some Texans. We'll do
that as well. But I mean, you know, I'm fully
on board with if you're gonna have him up here,
he plays every single day, because there is no reason
to have him up here unless you are playing him
every single day. A guy like Joey lo Berfido, he
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had a lot of that experience. He wasn't as highly touted,
so you probably could sit him a day or two.
But if you're going to have him and Zach Desenzo
kind of falls into the same thing. Chandler Roome just
writing about the same thing of if these guys are
going to be part of your twenty six, well then
they play.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Pay am right. My whole thing is, if you're going
to platoon him and he plays once every three days
or four days, send him to Triple A and let
him just get for it. That's a day. But stick
him in there, let him go through the struggles. Let's
find out how mentally tough he is, which I think
is going to be fine. Let him enjoy the successes,
and let him and see how level he is when
things are going good when things aren't. It'll happen. Every
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single player in the history of this game, Ted Williams,
all of them. They struggled at some point in time
they had trouble, you know, doing what they do, and
then they got out of it quick. It didn't fester.
You play him every day and you go and say, Okay,
this is what we're doing now, and it will benefit
you down the road next year. Hell, it may benefit
you by the time may hit. So to me, I
just I've never understood the You don't keep him up
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here just to be a guy staring. You put him
in the lineup. He's earned it. And if he if
he struggles, the sugarland ate far away, and if he's
mentally tough enough, guess what. Oh well, but I'm not
worried about him struggling. Like I said, Well, we're gonna
let the center fielder hit two sixteen and think he's great.
I mean, that's fine, I get it, and he's a
defensive player. But why can't we let the rookie hit
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two twenty five? And I don't think he will. But
oh well, well, I.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
At least feel like already even more with a shorter
sample size, I can count on him much more than.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
The other guy. Who do you want with a bat
in your hand outside al Tuova in the outfield? Who
do you want with the bat in your hand and
for it bats in a game you have to win.
Right now, I'd probably say cam Smith at this moment
with a no brainer and let's see because if they
all can go for four, then what's the big deal?
But who gives you the most upside when they're all raking?
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So I mean, because that's to your point, because you
both you know what Jake Myers is, you have a
good idea of what Chas McCormick is, because I mean,
that's the other thing is too Sean. I'm hearing about
all these adjustments.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I see a guy that's still kind of pressing up
there and not only pressing there, but I mean, I
mentioned this with Gordy on Friday. There was a play
in right field the other day that I said, Chas
McCormick a couple of years ago probably lays out and
makes that play. He got in his hell a little
bit pulled up and it dropped in front of him,
and I hope he's been two years ago. Chas McCormick.
Could he earned the outfield job. Now I'm in the
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right field the other side because with Katucker here, But
I'm telling you, man that if he just every he just.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Needs to hit the ball the other way. When he
became a poll guy, you know, with that close stance
and wanted to pull everything right bad idea. His strength
is hit the ball that did to right center and
let's deal with it.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
A guy that overthinks doesn't homer off. Garrett Cole in
the postseason. That was a guy. Hey, you know what, Hey,
he's here, he's good. But it's all mine. Beind this
batter's box. I can handle it. I can tell you
what they've done. You leave your glove on the mound,
somebody else come out and pick it up. And it
looks to me like cam Smith picked the glove up.
He's at least making a good case for it, that's
for sure. So we'll continue that on the other side,
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John on the northwest side, I know you want to
get into some Texans.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
We'll do that.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
By the way, too, Astros are off today. They get
the Nationals tomorrow there in West Palm. Lance McCullers Junior
going to be on the mound making the start for
that from ber Valdez also yesterday made official. It's something
we all knew, but Joe A. Spot is still putting
the official words to it. He's your opening day starter,
fourth straight opening day start. Haven't gotten into the rockets yet.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
We'll do that.
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Speaker 5 (25:53):
Back in the two spots. Yeah, the Western Conference. This
team loves to give you some streak basketball, doesn't it
lose six win seven? I mean, but I can promise
you on your Bengal card you did not have when
this season started on March seventeenth, them in the two hole.
They just didn't. And it's really impressive, it really is.
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I love the coaches in this town, from Kelvin to Doka,
to Willie Fritz to Dmico Ryans Joe as Spot is
doing some great things. We're fortunate man. Obviously he's a manager,
but I'm so impressed with the way that he's able
to bring his team back in and somebody different on
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a regular on any night is the star this team's
This team's got a real chance. I don't know if
they can go in a long series and win the
whole thing series after series this year. Well, unless the
maturity kicks in when it matters at nutcut and time.
As long as they don't beat themselves, they'll be in
every game. I freaking love them, and they're impressive and
they are on a roll right now. It's a good time.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
To get on a roll for sure, Texans hoping at
a time they can get on a role this coming season.
And John on the Northwest side, appreciate your pacings. John,
what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Hey, I hope the Rockets are on their streaking. I
hope they do it during the playoffs. I have faith
that they'll do it. But on Cam Smith, you know,
I said last month that guy is going to be
a fine and it shouldn't be that big a surprise
to everybody because I mean, he was a number one
draft pick if I remember right.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
And I think that the only thing that worries me.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
A little bit is we're going to have to figure
out what to do about second base with the Astros,
and I think that's going to be up there. They
say Dubond is the guy right now, but I think
I think that infield is not going to be settled till.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Halfway through the season.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
To be honest, and regarding the Texans, I like what
they did with Christian Kirk when they brought him on
as a second receiver. You know they did his contract
where the fifteen million, I think there's just one point
seven of that that's base salary. The rest of it
was a signing bonus, so that's still freed up about
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fourteen million in cap space. I think that was a
brilliant move by Cassario, and they can still do some
things maybe in the free agent or you know, have.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Some more flexibility, like with their draft picks. So just
wand to weigh in on that. Thanks guys, I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
John. I'm I think that Christian Kirk's really good player.
I think he is and he'll he'll he'll succeed more
because quite frankly, Trevor Lawrence has been an up and
down quarterback. He has. He's been a he flashes a
brilliance and then at times he's just a guy. He'll
get He'll get more consistency here. They run it the
same deal when he was in Arizona with Kyler Murray.
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There's no doubt this is the best quarterback he will
have been with Stroud. You know, Kyler Murray inconsistent and
we obviously have seen Trevor lecas and one day Trevor
Lawrence looks like he belongs at the top of the heap,
and the next week, two weeks later, you're like, what happened?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
So?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And then Stroud's gonna be good for him, and he
I almost feel like he feels like, yes'n approved, I one,
they need another one, they need another one, So dominate,
get get three guys. But makes a good point about
second base, but de Bond could hold second base down.
I think you can listen if you get two sixty
five to two seventy out of them, I'm okay.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah, you're doing you're doing that. We're doing backflips and
I can't even do a back floor right.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I don't think that position offensively since al Tuove is
gonna be in the lineup every day and left field,
I don't think that position as long as you can
defend there. I don't think that position is gonna be
because you're gonna hit that. That's a seven, eight or
nine hitter. If if that's who if, if it is Dubon,
so in truth, Swiss Army NF goes there. I don't think,
and I'm with John, it may take a while to
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settle in. I don't think that's going to be the
reason this team wins a title or doesn't.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Well, the last time me and you were together, you
talked about we're gonna need a career year, maybe even
career years out of one or a couple of these guys,
no question. I mean, that's that's what's gonna happen. Is
that usually happen on teams to win championships in any
in any sport, you would think, so, yeah, I mean,
a lot of stuff has to go right. That's what
always cracks me up. All they got lucky, you damn right,
they got lucky. Have to at a certain point. But
I mean when the Astros wanted a couple of years ago,
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oh man, look at this bullpen. They'll never replicate that.
They didn't have to. They just needed to do it
right there, and they did.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
And it was career years. They were lights out. And
pitching has carried them for the most part the last
couple of years to where they whether it's get to
the World Series, fall a little bit shorter, win one,
it hasn't been. I mean hitting with all the talent
they've had in truth, pitching, whether it's the starting pitching
one year or bullpen the next. And they may have
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to do a lot of that this year as well,
Honest to god, get healthy there because now moving out
to me, they have scrambled around, think about they had
to go find a third basement. They think they got them,
they're still looking and see who the everyday second basement is,
and they've they're experimenting. You go out and you're piecing
things together. Rogers is doing some things that's exactly right,
and he's a Gold Glove winner, so you get a
little depth there. And you got a centerfielder that's not
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going to hit and he'll play good defense. And you're
still trying to find a right fielder losing Kyle Tucker.
There's been a lot of changes, man, so pitching is
going to have to do their thing again. And then
you may need a Cam Smith not play like a rookie.
You may need a Dubond to hit two eighty. You
may need Jake Myers to hit to forty five right
and McCormick to go back. You may need those things
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if you're gonna compete with the big boys, not may,
you're going to have them. And the Iron Deans is
gonna have to hit twenty five home runs driving eighty runs.
It just is well.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
You also just can't fall behind twelve games under five
hundred again.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
That happens again this year. This team's cooked well they're
offensively not good enough to chase that down this year,
then go they're just not well. It's just also too,
I mean, everything fell into place for you when you
fell behind ten games, you know, behind Seattle at that point,
and they started pissing down their leg too well, Syattle
did I'm talking about and then it mentally, you know.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
I don't know if it necessarily carried over to the
way they handled their offseason, but I still to this point,
far be it for me to feel bad for the Mariners,
especially all the belly aching their fans did after twenty seventeen,
And it's like, you're not even part of this, Like
why do you why are you even talking?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
You have nothing to say.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Rights I mean, at the same time, I mean, you
know you're right there and Jerry Depoto and everybody you
know to justin Turner's words, doesn't go for it and
try to go after Pete Alonzo or somebody like that
to say, oh, yeah, hey, you guys in Houston, we're
serious about this, like to go along with our pitching staff.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
We're here. You gotta worry about us. Their pitching staff's nasty,
and I assure you the Rangers will be better this
year than they were last year. I don't know if
they're a World Series better, but they'll be better because look,
who they're managed by is really good. So you can
expect great competition. But if you don't get some power
and clutch hitting, it just can't be yord On al
Tuvey and Payn Yend. You're gonna have Christian Walker, You're
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gonna have to have the other guys that you don't
talk about much. One of them or two of them
are gonna have to play, quite frankly, over their head.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
I'm not asking for this team to be four to
zero out the gate like they were zero to four
last year, but throughout the month of April early May,
five hundred baseball.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
At least be able to reach out and touch the
team in front of you. If that's the case, I.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Mean they just they looked non competitive at times last
year where you were like, this is gonna be a
long summer.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Continue, which made them the dog chasing the rabbit the
entire season at the track right of the entire season.
And that's a lot of stress to carry around. If
you can get through the first month and be okay, yeah,
now we got now, guys, start to get rolling and
get comfortable, rookies start to fit in. It's going to
be important for them to have well, what do you say,
a fast start. Just don't have a miserable start, and
that'll be important. That's the hope, all right.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Coming up next to the astros making a decision now
that some might have thought was going to be coming
at sometime during the season. We'll discuss that as we
close out six o'clock hour. It is the Sean Salisbury
Show right here. Sports Talk seven to ninety. The Sewn
Salisbury Show continues. No, no, Now, you know, previously, the
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last astro, Shawn as I was reading about this last night,
that had made the most consecutive opening day starts, Dallas
Kikeel from fifth teen to seventeen was the last guy
that made those opening day posts on the mound.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yeah. Having from er Valdez start the season is about
as surprising as uh, Scotty Scheffler last year. Yeah. Within tournaments,
you know, I'm sing, it's like it's a no brain.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I'm guessing the jail stint is starting to mess with
Scotty a little bit.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I'm wondering. I just think that the flat stick is
and he just can't roll the putt right now. And
in these tournaments you miss one or two. These guys
are all too good. Hell, the ninetieth player in the world,
you're knocking putts. It's like football. Defense travels or a sport.
Defense travels in any sport you play defense. University of Houston,
our Cougar's here that are kicking ass. Kelvin Sampson's team's
always gonna travel. They're gonna get to a certain point. Now,
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you gotta knock down shots in a bigger arena in
the final four. But defense, they're gonna it's gonna travel.
You'll be in every game. It's the same thing here.
You have you know, if you can putt, regardless how
far you can hit it, if you can put you're
in every turn it. And right now, the Scottie schefflerin
you could see the frustrates because he's had so much
success the last three years. You can start to see
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the frustration building, which is not like he's usually been
able to. Okay, I've watched the guy hit a bad
shot and then you say, what's going on? He made
a bogie and then made two pars and then he'll
go on Birdie, Birdie Eagle, and it's like, okay, right
this year the fos early, Yeah, this year, it's just
a little struggle, but hey, it's the guarantee that Frober
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is gonna run out there. Now, Hunter Brown, you can
run him out there too. But Fromber's been the guy
and rightfully so. And I can't wait to see how
he comes back mentally tough this year, because if he
can post every day and do his thing, he'll always
be a cy young candidate.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Well, it's a job interview, I mean really for him.
I mean because you know, the thought is probably it's
not going to be here in Houston, but somebody's gonna
throw a nice little check at him.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Quality lefty who's got great stuff. The only doubt that
the thing on him is can he handle his emotions?
That's that's that's AFPs. Sometimes there are a little bit
of an issue there, no question about it. But he's
gotten better at it. But as long as he can
handle his emotions when things aren't going well. But he's
a he's a left hander, and he's successful and he's
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got great stuff. Oh he's got to get paid. Hell,
if he pitched five hundred baseball. This year, he's going
to get paid. You're standing in line for guys like
that at the front of your rotation. But if he's meant,
if put his this way, if the mental toughness and
emotional toughness match the physical stuff, you'll you'll have a
sygh young candidate.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
I mean, and it's not only that. I mean, it's
what he's given you in the past. And I mean
you mentioned Hunter Brown, that's a guy that you want
to count on this year. Spencer Orghetty, same deal. And
it seems like every single time I bring up those
two guys, it's to think that I'm forgetting about Renel Blanco,
But no, I mean, he gave you great stuff, and
then soon enough you'll get Lance McCullers junior back in
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the fold and you want to see what he can
give you.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Luis Garcia, same deal. Yeah, And with with Ronel Blane,
what a performance last year. I think people are saying,
let's see it again, right and rightfully, and I understand
no question. And I would imagine if you're Bloker saying yeah,
I get it, I mean, are you a one hit wonder?
And he worked so hard and you couldn't be more
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proud of the way he did last year, come back
and do it again this year because he literally kept
this team together with his starting pitching last year. I
hope because if he is, if he's the number three starter,
if he's a number three and pitches like he did
last year, you're in really good shape.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well you're not als champions last year without him. I
don't think there's any doubt about guarantee. The line you
had about good defense. I mean, that's one of the
lines that Imo Doka has is good defense leads to offense,
and well, at least for the last six games, that's
been the case for the Rockets. So we'll get into
them and also to the decision that the Astros have
in front of them.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
We will talk about that.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
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Speaker 6 (38:46):
Astros final week of spring training. It is nice to
say that it is on the horizon. We're closed and
a week from Thursday we're gonna be over at dyk
In Park and the season will get underway that day
from Bervelde is gonna be on the mound, his fourth
straight opening day start for the Astros. The Astros are
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off today, They're gonna get the Nationals tomorrow there Cacti
Park at the West Palm Beaches and you're gonna get
to Lance McCullers making the start, which is a good
positive step in the right direction for him. As we
already know, Sean, he's gonna be down in Sugar Lamb.
That's where he's going to start off. He hasn't pitched
competitively in two years, so to think that he was
just going to break camp with this team, step right
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into I don't know, four five spot in the rotation
and immediately be a guy that would start making an
immediate impact for you. It's just not reality to think
that that's the case. So Sloan sead he is the
race with them, and maybe you get him back in
the middle of May or so.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
That would be nice, wouldn't it, going full boar in
middle May, healthy and ready to go. That would be great.
It'll be great. The depth of this would be, you're
gonna need eight of them throughout the season're gonna get needed.
I mean, last year, what you needed like twelve, thirteen
give me, Well, the Dodgers have them all on the roster.
You're not gonna find you give eight or nine, you're
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gonna have a legitimate shot. You don't go through the
season with five or six. Imagine being Key Hernandez on
that Dodgers route. And not to say he's not a
good player, but you look the Astros how that felt
against him when he was playing with the Red Sox.
It looked like a softball. But go ahead, you're saying
the depth in the lineup everything.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
I mean, you know a guy like him, who I mean,
for all intents and purposes, is pretty much a jobber
in this league. And it's not to say that he's
not a good player, but I mean, you know, you
look around with all the money they have floating around
in that clubhouse, and it's kind of like, what am
I doing here?
Speaker 5 (40:35):
It is, well, you know what. But but if the
guys in the clubhouse that the energy and leaders you
need him. He's a perfect you know, he's been perfect
for them. Let's face facts, buddy. For the Dodgers not
to win it, they'd have to miss the team all honestly,
stay now if they're unfortunate health wise. But if they're healthy,
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and come on, man, it is they are loaded. They
literally could lose three starting pitchers and still mow you down.
They got like eight guys that can win the cy
young or half see. And that's the thing is I mean,
it's when you're facing a team like that and it's
you know, hey, who's warming up in the bullpen? Oh
that guy?
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yeah, they have him coming out of the bullpen like
that's that's not a good feeling to be facing. When
you have it and it's on your side, you're kind
of like, all right, yeah, this is awesome. You can
let walk with that around here.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
You can let Walker Buehler walk no pun intended with
the Walker Bueler walk and still have a staff. That's
like eye popping a team in depth, that's eye popping. Listen,
I don't know how hungry they're gonna be. I would
imagine to prove it two times in a row would
be good, and that they're feeling it. But they are
so friggin loaded that everybody else is chasing. Now you
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got to get little lucky against them, Hope chase and
the rest of it. But let's say overwhelming fair. If
you're betting on the Dodgers, you ain't getting much return
on it. Let's just put it that way. Yeah, there's
not much value there.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
No, It's kind of like what was it yukon the
last couple of years in the NCAA Tournament, which, by
the way, to u of H number one seed in
the Midwest region. They're gonna open up Thursday at one
against SIU Edwardsville, And I was looking this morning what
the spread is for that game.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Koog's twenty eight and a half point favorites in that one.
Uh bet the favorite on the money line that go
money only if you want if you oh, well, the
money lines, I know, Brainer, I'm gonna make it. But
if you're talking about that, if you want. If you
get to bet them, I would. I would give those
points away absolutely. And the they are gonna I don't
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know how that team when they come out of the
locker room and the first possession they get defended by
the Cougars is long as and Coach Sampson will keep
them ready and he will not let them take them lightly.
If they treat this like they're playing duke, they'll win
by thirty five. And that'll be with resting guys with
about eight minutes to go. Because this this team is
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gonna they're gonna run into they they haven't seen defensively,
the relentless pursuit that the Cougars are gonna put on them. Yeah,
as long as they are, they get And I don't
think there's gonna be a problem with that because the
way they're practicing get ready for this. You know, Coach
Sampson's gonna have them treating this like you're getting ready
to play Florida. So go take care of your business
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and do what's right, and then you'll get a little
bit of rest before round two. Because that's the that's
the beauty and the curse of the nc DOUAA Tournament
is that you have one bad day, your season's done.
I mean that's and I mean, and I know that
on the surface, people might say, well, you're a twenty
eight and a half point favorite. I mean he's thrown
out there. Yeah, we've seen it twice now, yeah.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
In the last few years, after never seeing it in
the NC DOUBLEA Tournament as Tony Bennett in Virginia. I'm
trying to think who the most recent number one was.
But I mean, it's happened that teams have had that
happen to.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Them, which you don't want, not misking, but in any
game like this when you're a heavy favorite, is to
allow a team to hang around where it becomes a
one or two possession game. This one's not going to
be that, but that's how you get beat you kind of.
And when Tony Bennett was at Virginia, what do they
play defense? And they low scoring team you play. You
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are in a fifty one to forty eight game against
a team and that's what happened. And then you're not shooting,
You miss a few free throws. Next thing you know,
somebody buries a jumper at the end and you're like, well,
what just happened? And so that ain't going to happen
in this one, I assure you, because even if they
don't score and shoot well, their defense will get them
transition points. On the other end, it's going to be
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a curb stop. The question is when does coach Sampson
take the gas off to preserve second round legs? And
you know what I'm saying. And they'll rotate a lot
of people obviously, so but their bracket, I'm telling you, Boddy, Well,
listen and it could be one of those where there's
upset city in that bracket, but they are the overwhelming
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favorite if you ask me, in that bracket overwhelming favorite.
Speaker 6 (44:56):
Well, it's also two seed in that bracket. Off the
top of my head, I think It'sennessee. Tennessee is the
number two. That's right, and they're down.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
Now. When I say overwhelming and tell you that team's
capable of beating it, Tennessee can win the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Tennessee, basically, I would say, is what Kelvin Sampson's teams
the last few years have been right. Not incredibly strong offensively,
but they'll mall you right, and.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
If they shoot, they'll be They've got a chance to
win the whole thing. I'm just talking about the depth
of that bracket looks a little in my opinion now,
I haven't studied it since last night, just looking over
it after watching this season and play out, the depth
in that bracket gives. Put it this way, at some
point in time, the University of Houston should be playing
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the volunteers, right, should be playing the volunteers with an
opportunity to get there. There's no you're going to have
to do a lot in that bracket to get through.
Those two teams.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
Love to see a lot of Red and White and
San Antonio. That'd be a lot of fun. And the
Coog's four wins away from making that a reality. So
hopefully they can be able to knock off six wins
here and be the team standing when it's all said
and done. As it's been a program that they've gotten
to the final four under Kelvin Samson, but I mean
it's mostly been Sweet sixteens Elite eights, And I know
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that the guy that sits in my chair right here
in about three hours from now, Matt Thomas, he's been
pretty big on Hey, Elite eight's Sweet sixteens. Those are nice,
but it's time to start doing even further of be
one of those final two teams playing on that Monday.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
That there is no doubt. And the truth is, it's like,
if you're the Baltimore Ravens, let's just use them get
into the AFC Championship game, which it's not enough. Now
do you hear what I'm saying, Oh, that's great, we
got their thumbs up. Or even use the Chiefs just
making the playoffs, not that it's that you take that
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for granted because you got to make the playoffs to
get where you want to go. But it's not a
successful season. If the Dodgers make the World Series and
don't win it this year, it's a failure of a season.
And I don't really say that in normal with it,
and I said failure because they're overwhelming favorites. If they
just got in the playoffs and lost in the divisional round,
you know what I'm saying, If they that would be
a major failure. And that's and so teams like that,
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they're no longer setting there. It's like the Texans as well,
Now win in the division two times row. It's great,
and you got that's the first goal, win the division.
Beat the people in your division and win the division,
win your rivalry games, and win the division. But in truth,
you walk away from a season extremely disappointed, and the
expectations grow. For the Houston Cougars, the expectations are no
longer just get to the Elite eight or get to
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the Final four. It's still win it and be playing
on Monday Night.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Well with the Texans, I mean, it's been what their
existence has been in the playoffs, it's been. You're in
the wildcard round, you win said wildcard round game, and
then you go somewhere on the road in the divisional
round and you get crushed. And I mean you heard,
you know Demika Ryans talk about we didn't get this
far just to get this far the first year, and
then after their season ended last year, Will Anderson Junior
(47:55):
is saying, here's what needs to happen next. We got
to find a way to get that game that we
just played in Kansas City. You need to get it here, yeah,
and play the divisional round here and then have a
chance to be able to go on from there.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
And then he's exactly right, or if you don't play
it here to be able to go into somebody else's
building in a hostile environment and beat them. That's when
you know it's a different level. And right now this
team has now got to the point where winning the
division is not the goal. That's the first goal. They
ain't the last one right now. If you're the Carolina Panthers,
winning the division would be a hell of a in
their division, you'd crawl ten miles over broken glass for that.
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But the expectations as you continue to get good, the
expectations grow. And for the guys like the Chiefs and
the Dodgers and the Texans and the Astros in the
same way, even though they've had roster shake up, the
division is not good enough for them. It's just not
being eliminated by the Detroit Tigers getting swept that for them,
in my mind, the way they had to overcome their
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slow start, it's a successful season. But for them in truth,
when they're sitting around drinking beer with their buddies, it's
a failure for them because they didn't expect to come
in here and get boat raced in too straight.
Speaker 6 (49:01):
Well, and that's something too that Joe Aspota I think
talked about with you guys at fan Fest and then
also just with you know what, they went through last
season of saying, look, I don't want guys to think
that it was a failure because you did accomplish some
good things. But that's the huge butt with this is
you know what the expectation is here. You didn't get serious,
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you didn't get to the top at least be the
final two teams left in your own league. Yeah, when
your failure is a harsh word. Now the Dodgers, you
can apply that to them because of all the money,
you know, the expectations if they don't win the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
But but you find good things along the way. Some
player had a great year or somebody won an MVP.
So there's successes you take. But the overall big picture
what it is if the in that case the Astros,
you get to the middle rungs on the ladder and
you're starting to climb and say, okay, I know I
got to get up on top of the roof so
I can stand and hold the trophy at the top,
and you fell short. And that's just the way it works,
and that's not that is not what this team's goal
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is now. So failure harsh. But they fell short, a
far short of the goal. They wanted.
Speaker 6 (50:01):
It's like a drug man, like once once you you
taste it once, as the Astros have done, now twice
you want that feeling every single year, and it's not
reality that it's going to happen. But still you know
exactly what the expectations are once you get there.
Speaker 5 (50:16):
No that it's like Dan, when you wake up and
do blow in the morning. You know what I'm saying,
When you wake up and do blow, now some conversation,
you're supposed to be left. All you get. The white
looks like powdered anything. You come in here and say
I just had a powdered donut, and then you think, man,
that was good stuff. And then the next day you don't.
You just have like black coffee. It's just not the same.
You know what I'm saying. You got you got to
(50:36):
have the blow, right.
Speaker 6 (50:37):
You know, Sean's been asking why I've had to go
to the restroom quite a bit exactly.
Speaker 5 (50:43):
Yeah. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
Now we're gonna start a business together, We're gonna do
all these different things.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
I mean, why your frenzied and your beads a sweater
rolling down your forehead. I don't know what that is,
but do you know, I've never done I've had gummies
and smoked weed in my life. I mean I don't
even like smoke. I mean, you know, it was like
when you have back problem or you've had knee surgeries
like I have little little THC little ten millie ate
bad with a gummy that tastes like, you know, grapefruit.
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I'm on micro micro dosing. Don't hate participate if that's
what you want to do for you. It's just for
pain free, right, not recreational anyway. But I don't. I've
never done I've never even put you know, like cocaine
on your job. I've never done it in my life.
You know, I was afraid I'd be the guy because
I'm an addictive and like OCD personality. I remember my buddy,
(51:33):
I had a buddy might played professional baseball and we
were talking about a teammate of his who had some
trouble over the course of his career. He said, man,
that drug. He said, you don't try it because you
might love it, Right, that's what he was talking about.
That's exactly right. Well, yeah, and boy did they play.
They don't remind me of that season because you know
who they beat. My guys. So yeah, I I've never
(51:56):
done it because I was always afraid that it'd be
I'd be the guy to get that batch. It would
make you, you know, I'm that guy that gets paranoid
if you had like a fifteen million look around that
happened to me one time and start brushing my teeth
and my buddy, he said, dude, I said, if I
brush my teeth because from from like a little one
hit or quick right, but took a big bong hit
(52:18):
and I brushed my teeth like twelve times in eighteen minutes.
I said, dude, I brush my teeth, he said. He said, dude,
the enamel's off your teeth. You know, did you brush?
I said, you can't leave on panic locked the door.
He said, you're not gonna I said, am I dying
because I've got a weed fishing out right and I
don't like smoke. And he said, You're gonna be Okay,
(52:38):
You're not dying. He said, little paranoid, but you're not dying.
And I'm telling you, dude, I was afraid I would
have been that guy when you come in like some
of these movies where he's got all fours on the
top of the wall, you know, hanging from the ceiling,
like what's going on here? And right then on there,
I said, that's not for me. I'm to the low
dose non bong hit, so I can't get it. But
I've never done a drug like any like mushrooms. I've
(53:00):
never done it in my life because I'm I'm always
afraid of the end result or that maybe you'd like it.
So stay away from Dan. So'll get off the blow Dan. Well, okay, I.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
Mean, you know, as Pat McAfee said, the advice he
got when he was swimming in the canal from Bill Pullian,
lay off the hard stuff. There you go, lay off,
lay off the heartstuff. If there's nothing else we tell
you here in the seven o'clock hour, lay off the
heart stuff. That's that's the best advice we can give you.
Speaker 5 (53:26):
There you go, all right.
Speaker 6 (53:27):
Coming up next the astros A decision has to be
made and it might be sooner rather than later.
Speaker 5 (53:33):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 6 (53:34):
Right here, it is the Sean Salisbury Show, Dan Matthews,
Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore, Sean Salisbury right here, Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
The Sean Salisbury Show. Put ours smart ass on your
smart speaker.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Google play Sean Salisbury on iHeartRadio. All Right, Sean, what
are you hearing.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
Out there now?
Speaker 2 (53:59):
This Salsbury East takeout? Salisbury Takeout on the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
It is a Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (54:16):
Dan Matthews, Sean Salsberry, Trip Ley, Emmanuel Elmore, Astros off
today from spring training action. They're gonna get back at
it tomorrow. Final full week of spring training action. Rockets
back on the home floor tonight against the Philadelphia seventy
six ers.
Speaker 5 (54:32):
A win.
Speaker 6 (54:32):
That's a perfect six to oh home stand for the Rockets.
They're back in the two spot in the Western Conference,
so a good thing to have them back in that spot.
Also to U of H number three seed overall in
the entire sixty eighteen field at number one in the
Midwest region. They're gonna open up Thursday, one o'clock against
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SIU Edwardsville. They won the Big twelve tournament over the
weekend seventy two to sixty four win against Arizona and
a Monday morning playoff at the Players Championship sewn Rory
McElroy and JJ spawn three hole playoff there at TPC
Sawgrass for it and also we talked about this beginning
(55:16):
of the show, Jamar Chase t Higgins both getting broken
off by the Cincinnati Bengals, as Chase getting four years,
one hundred and sixty one million dollar extension, highest paid
none quarterback in NFL history over forty per.
Speaker 5 (55:29):
Like a bucket a quarter somewhere around there, guaranteed something
like that. Yeah, one twelve once was coming his ways. Yeah, yeah,
they did get they broke him off. A little something
something he's got. He's got a nice little payday coming
his way. That's good for him. Uh, Higgins earned it.
Do you think LSU receivers are any good? I was
gonna say him justin Jefferson, you know, even both they
(55:50):
can buy a team. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:51):
Well, and then and then the quarterback too that they
had there not not too bad in his own run.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (55:56):
Let's see if you put Burrow, Jefferson and and Chase
this salary together, they're overall salary. You can have a
pretty good share in the biggest guaranteed money winner ever,
the guarantee that'll make the value never goes down. That's
NFL franchise. They could literally, So you got one to sixty,
(56:16):
which Burrow over two hundred. Burrows in the two hundred
somewhere in there, and Chase Burrow and then Jefferson's in
the same so high one hundred. So let's say let's
roun them both off at a buck sixty five, So
that's two sixty, you at three twenty, and then you
add your half a billion dollars even though franchise, if
a franchise is worth four billion, five billion, you can
(56:37):
have pretty good stake in a franchise with those three.
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (56:40):
Anybody ever went broke gowning an NFL team, and they
never will. It doesn't seem like it anytime soon.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
You can go oh in seventeen for three straight years
and your value will go up. That's just a fact.
So then the safest investment on the planet in sports
is being an NFL franchise owner. That's why when people
say I want the owner to sell, they're forced out.
Their ass ain't selling because the value does not go down.
It's not like real estate up and down. Oh man,
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the world's going to hell in a handbasket. What's the value?
Your franchise all went up another billion two years I
mean two years ago, and for instance, the Cowboys five
years from now, and I don't see him winning a
Super Bowl anytime soon. By the time you've had four
or five more birthdays, they'll be worth twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (57:23):
People are still going to come through the door there
at and T Stadium, and they're still going to go
across the street drink beers over there at Texas Live.
Speaker 5 (57:30):
Jerry will be the crypt keeper, and he'll be the
crypt keeper. I mean, that's Nancy Pelosi now, but he'll
be the crypt keeper and he'll still be making money.
Speaker 6 (57:39):
It's the Joneses that aren't even born yet. They're still
going to be making money off.
Speaker 5 (57:43):
And don't try to keep up with those Joneses because
you ain't got enough money to do it. We do not,
it is for sure.
Speaker 6 (57:48):
Adrian wants to wait in here on the Sean Salisberry Show. Adrian,
what's up, buddy? Hello, what's up?
Speaker 5 (57:55):
Buddy? Uh oh, we're here, Adrian got good morning. What's up.
Speaker 10 (58:02):
There's a couple of things that you need to be
done with the past road.
Speaker 6 (58:07):
Yeah, we gotta we gotta fix let's yeah, let's yeah,
Well thank you all right, Well we'll do that. We'll
get get things lined up here and continue with the
Astros conversation also too, uh we've in some rockets as
the show goes along, and Aaron Wilson with some interesting
notes on the Sexans offensive line. A lot of things
said last week. We'll do all that says. We continue
(58:29):
to roll along here on The Seawan Salisbury Show. Dan Matthews,
Sean Salisbury Triple, Emmanuel Elmore Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
The Sewan Salisbury Show continued, we have to call him.
Everybody's got a nickname, you know, like you know Yordy.
Speaker 5 (58:47):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (58:47):
I don't know if anybody calls him that. I don't
know what Yaner does? You know what his nickname is
anything like that, But it's hose Yeah.
Speaker 5 (58:57):
Hey, if the Spot calls him Hosey, guess we're gonna
we war gonna call him what I say? My mama
call me, what what's up? Movie? My mama called me.
Uh No, it's uh not my mama was it uh not?
Coming to America in the in the uh the uh
Eddie Murphy and the barbershop scene, his mama call him Clay.
(59:20):
I call him Clay. So if Joe Spotta calls him Hosey,
he's hoseyl.
Speaker 6 (59:26):
To if Mama calls you that, then guess what your
name is now? There there you go, Yeah, it's it's
no longer. Well my name is Ted. Well it's this.
Now it's I called Eddy Ted Steel. Yeah, you gotta
do it. Just don't call him what late for dinner?
That's that's an ode to that. That's a little lima.
That's like, uh, Will Ferrell that that sketch on Saturday
(59:49):
Night Live.
Speaker 5 (59:49):
We're gonna name you Michael Well, it's Ted. Yeah, I
love it.
Speaker 6 (59:55):
It's too good. But Cam Smith goes deep yesterday. It's
third homer of this spring. Two run shot there in
the second inning from ra Valdez, named the opening day starter,
fourth straight that he's going to get. Rockets wrapping up
a six game homestand tonight against the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
They're back number two overall in the Western Conference.
Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Impressive.
Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
It's been a lot of fun these last few games.
I mean, you know, while you were without Fred van
Vlietz and company, you lost six in a row, then
you lose three in a row, and now they've won
sixty other.
Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
Direction, no doubt. Have you been watching, speaking of the West,
have you been watching Gilgess Alexander do what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Well, they already got an X next to their name,
meaning that they're clinched, they're in.
Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
They're good teams. You know, you want obviously a great
team effort, but all the great teams have that one
guy at least right who can take over a game.
This dude is now. NICOLEI. Yokich is even having a
better season statistically he's had in a couple MVP years.
This that's the MVP shake. Gildes Alexander is friggin filthy.
(01:01:01):
This dude is unbelievable. He really is his game and
there's a reason why. I mean, the Thunder really good
ball club. I say that like it's baseball, but they're
a great team. But he is. Now can they go
and win the whole thing? Put the ball in his hand.
That's got got a pretty good chance of taking care
of my business. He's played it what forty eight the
other night and he took some shots. Oh, it was incredible,
(01:01:23):
and he I love how he attacks the rim as
well and switches to his left hand, kisses it off
the glass and goes it's it's He's he is a
fun watch. You know when you're watching Anthony Edwards. I
felt the same way about John Morant as well. But
there's something about Shay Gilgess Alexander that's different, dude, and
it's he's a what's the average about thirty three a
game right now? So with that, it's it's something unreal.
Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
I mean, he put up fifty against the Rockets and
it was one of those that he looked up and
you're like, oh man, he's got fifty, Like how.
Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
Guy's a freak show. He is a phenomenal and wants
the ball, and I just what's not the Like it's incredible.
You're gonna have a difficult time, but being in the
two seat gives you a little more latitude. And they've
earned the two seed, which is impressive to watch.
Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
Well, especially with the way they've been playing as of
recent times. And you get Fred van Vliet back in
a couple of games ago. That's been nice to see.
And you hope soon enough you get to a Men
Thompson back sooner.
Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
Amen, rather than later.
Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
You've aged number one team in the Midwest region. They're
gonna take on SIU Edwardsville on Thursday at one, and
something else we've been talking about a lot today Jamar
Chase and t Higgins both getting paid by the Cincinnati Bengals.
And here in about twenty minutes or so, you're gonna
have Rory McElroy and JJ Spahn playing for the Players
(01:02:40):
Championship in a Monday morning playoff.
Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
There in Ponavidra sixteen seventeen eighteen aggregate score. It's not
a sudden death playoff. That'll be sudden death after the
first three holes. But if you birdie the first and
McElroy pars, then he still has two shots, and that's
a par five, part three, par four penn play. It'll
be tough on seventeen, and then you got to make
(01:03:02):
sure you drive it in the fairway at eighteen to
have a shot to hit it close and go. So
it's gonna obviously you'd say advantage. I think mclroy's three
and two in playoffs. Advantage McElroy just because he's been
a respond this is he ain't seen this situation much
at that golf course obviously, let alone anywhere else. But
I loved his nerves yesterday. Hits the ball into the
pine straw on eighteen and punches one out of there,
(01:03:23):
to the point where it took a full swing and
then I almost won the tournament with a long thirty
foot or well ill he was going no, no question.
So it'll be fun to watch. But it's not sudden
death until after they play the initial three holes. It's
an aggregate score, so you know the person with the
best score. If they're tied, then they'll go to the playoff.
And I'm not sure if they start on sixteen again
or if they go right to eighteen, or if they
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play Hell, if you're gonna do it, put them at seventeen.
If it's a sudden death, let's see, let's see who's
got the aggressiveness. A short sided and that attack A.
I think it's probably gonna be where it was on
Sunday or close where you've got to manipulate that. Then
you want to put it in a tough place for
those guys to get to.
Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
It's gonna be a fun watch, no doubt about it.
Coming up here in about twenty they're gonna get going there.
All right, let's try them again. Adrian wants to weigh
in here on Sports Talk seven ninety Adrian, what's up, buddy?
Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
That's perfect?
Speaker 11 (01:04:09):
All right?
Speaker 10 (01:04:09):
All right, Brian, I missed you on your way out,
and we know you're listening this morning, so.
Speaker 8 (01:04:16):
You decide to pull the stepdaddy story on us.
Speaker 12 (01:04:18):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (01:04:19):
Get everybody to the table at one time. I know
I've been telling you guys since we're all here that
I've been going to see baseball play baseball. But I've
decided it's better to move in with my other family.
I see you, bro, I see how y'all do it.
From your side of the tracks, it's all good. Go
(01:04:39):
get your bag, brother. We're gonna miss you here. You're
gonna be sorely missed. Now, Dashtros. There's three things they
need to be done. Lance mccullors, I don't care. We
haven't seen you. I forgot you played here until ATV commercials.
So far as I'm concerned, that's money we could use
somewhere else.
Speaker 8 (01:05:00):
Cam. If Cam doesn't charn them with you, If Cam.
Speaker 10 (01:05:04):
Doesn't make this first day roster, I hope they lose
twenty five games until he gets here. I don't care
what place there is. They need to learn something. All
this extra year craft and oh we'll lose.
Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
An extra year. Blah blah blah blah, blah. That's why
people don't like baseball.
Speaker 10 (01:05:21):
It takes too many years to get here, and then
when you get here, everybody just wants to Oh, he's good,
he's good, but we're not gonna pay him.
Speaker 8 (01:05:29):
So out the door you go.
Speaker 10 (01:05:31):
And the picture we had yesterday, Brodo I think his
name is Brogo.
Speaker 8 (01:05:37):
This guy hasn't been hit yet. I don't care who
you put him in front.
Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
I don't care if it's the third string, fourth string,
second string. He hasn't been hit yet.
Speaker 8 (01:05:48):
So Joe, we're.
Speaker 10 (01:05:49):
Gonna find out how good of all manage you you
are because you got a couple of problems on your hands,
and just like Domico did, swallow your prize and do
what's best for the team.
Speaker 8 (01:06:04):
That what's best for the organization.
Speaker 10 (01:06:06):
It's best for the team because this year that lineup
don't look too good and.
Speaker 8 (01:06:13):
The guy's up north, yeah.
Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
Looks like them, and the mayor that's got something for you,
and Brian. For the last time, I'm gonna say this
to you, because once again we know you're listening. Have
a great day out there, be safe, and the rest
of y'all you already know.
Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
Sean, Amen, Amen, appreciate Adrian.
Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
I think he's talking about Steven okert Is who he
was talking about, who made the start yesterday, inning in
two thirds and has not given up an earned run
this spring. So a guy that's trying to fight and
make a roster spot here. Logan van Way also another
guy that is putting together a strong spring kind of
like last year we saw the Taylor Scott that Van
(01:06:54):
Way kind of sounds like he's that guy this year
for the Astros. Do you think he's found his way?
I think he might have. It's Van Why excuse me?
Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Van?
Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Why is his name? Yeah, it looks like it'd be,
but it's being why because he found his way. Yeah,
see what I did that he found his why? There
you go, I'm following, I'm following you. I'm picking up
what I'm simply putting down. That's it. That's it. Yeah. Yeah,
we're we're we're just we're trying to stay you know,
in rhythm right here. Well, yeah, I feel you dog.
Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
You're you're only as strong as you are up the middle,
and we've got a hell of a middle infield here
on the Sean salis.
Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
Led That's it, that's it.
Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
Yeah, he's he's he's our you know, he's a gamer,
Well he is. Yeah, A good strong baseball team is
only as good as the backstop you got, and he's
a hell of a backstop, for sure, is man. Sure
we're lucky to have him, that's for sure. But uh, anyway,
we'll continue the Astros conversation on the other side, Andy, Tim.
See you guys right there. It gets you all on
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the other side. If you want to join them, do so.
Seven one three two, one two five, seven nine. One's
gone seven one three, two one two five at seven
ninety even more decisions for.
Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
The Astros to make.
Speaker 6 (01:08:03):
We can discuss that too as we close out at
seven o'clock hour. He's Sean, I'm Dan Triple Emanuel Elmore.
Sports Talk seven ninety for the Sean Salisbury Show continued.
Lone star state well represented in the NCAA term.
Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Where's where the hell is Steven F Austin No, No
Lumberjacks job shooting a halfull of years ago? Was it?
Did they get to the sixteen? I think they might
have been to the sixteen.
Speaker 6 (01:08:30):
I was trying to remember, and I was trying to
remember the other sixteen that beat on one recent times.
It was fairly. Dickinson beating Purdue a couple of years ago,
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Shocking, you know, the Painters team, Yeah, they were fairly surprised.
Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
Incredibly surprised. I liked that play on words right there.
Good job by you. But then the following year it
was Zach Edy and the crew for Purdue. They were
able to if I'm not mistaken, I think both times
the teams that got bounced by a sixteen the following year,
what was it, Virginia They went on and won the
national title the following year, and then Purdue a finalists
(01:09:06):
last year. To close your good buddy, Danny Hurley and uh,
he took the Husky.
Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
It's tough to go back to back. And Danny saw
a little bit of frustration this year with his Yukon Huskies,
but a little bit. He's a hell of a coach though, man,
hell of a coach.
Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
He's he definitely has had a lot of you know,
some some huge shoes to fill there, no doubt in Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Take it well. And he started off filling him right,
went into in a row and the great Jim Calhoun,
I mean in that whole building with Calhoun and Gino Arama.
The it is. It is a difficult place. I mean
the men and the women's coach there. You got a long,
uh staircase to climb to be those two guys and
Danny Uh he posted his score with back to backers.
I can tell you that.
Speaker 6 (01:09:43):
Every time I think at Jim Calhoun, I always think
of the guy asking him about his contract. Not a
dime back and like to be retired some day.
Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
You know he's got that Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
Yeah, not a dime back and like to be retired
some day. Get some facts, come back and see me
what a hell of a what a hell of a
basketball coach he was?
Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
I mean I also had a guy from here in
the area that went up there and helped him out,
Jake Foskeel. Yeah, I mean he went to a lesser
Catholic school here in the area. We don't hold it
against him. But you know, so you're you're a uh well,
you're you're a St.
Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Thomas. Oh yeah, St. Thomas. Where did Fosco go? He
went to Strake? Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
Oh that's big rise. That's your rival. That's the main
rival it is, Although when I was in school, it
wasn't so much of a rivalry. Especially on the football field.
You spit to us on kicking our ass baseball. We
did baseball.
Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
We got him.
Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
Yeah, and I know a couple of those guys are
listening right now, so it'll irk him a little bit
more me throwing that out there.
Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
My guy, coach maguire over at the Thomas. Boy, what
a good human being and a good man and a
programs in good shape.
Speaker 6 (01:10:41):
Love him for sure, for sure, actually been able to
win some football games of his last few years.
Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
That's nice.
Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
Astros are off today from a great Fruit League action.
They're gonna get on the field again tomorrow. You're gonna
get Lance McCullers junior making a start in that game.
And also too, they're about to hear in about ten
minutes or so, get going on the sixteenth hole. They're
at TPC Sawgrass for a three hole aggregate playoff between
JJ spawn and also Rory McElroy.
Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
Yeah, solid ball strikers. He's good golf lingo, right, Oh,
solid ball striker, you got it all PGA tour players.
Solid ball strikers. I would say that you probably don't
have a job for long if you're not right. I mean,
I understand that some days You're ball striking is not
as well, and that guy's a real shotgun sprayer. You
go now, first, first the sponsorships go, then the tour car.
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There's no question. The truth is, I think McElroy was
hitting like forty percent of the fairways on the team,
which he's one of the best drivers of the golf,
if not the best in the world, right, but still
manage to scramble around and find a way to because
he's so good to dude is so strong out of
bad spots. He's such a powerful golfer. But yeah, you
got a solid ball striker. Yeah, I mean he's a
great driver of the ball. He could flight it. I
(01:11:54):
love golf lingo right quickly to sixteen and vern line Quist,
So yeah, love golf lingo. And we're not going to
se fun.
Speaker 6 (01:12:00):
You know, all good things must come going end no
longer burn on sixteen AUGUSTA.
Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
The hell of a run and legendary, one of the
nicest human beings on the best and uh and we
got the Houston Open coming down to stretch here at
the end of the month, so we're right around the
corner from that. So they are on this Florida swing now.
But today it'll be fun to watch this three whole
playoff and we'll have it on the two boward. If
all of a sudden you asked me a question, I
don't answer it. Wake me up out of golf because
you know my obsession with golf right last night?
Speaker 6 (01:12:27):
How can you not no doubt? It's the great game. Yeah,
we we love it so much. Let's squeeze in Andy
here before we flip it to the top of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Andy, what's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 13 (01:12:37):
Oh? Anybody out there watching Mac worry they better make
sure they got both hands on their cell phone.
Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
Yeah, you don't think he's a bit sensitive, do you?
Speaker 8 (01:12:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
For a guy that for a guy that good? I mean,
are we serious? Are we serious?
Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Andy?
Speaker 13 (01:12:57):
Ground of one out of busting him in his chops?
Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
Uh? Or shoved it up as well? Anyway, go ahead,
what's that, buddy? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (01:13:05):
Major League Baseball is a joke.
Speaker 13 (01:13:08):
You've got a competitive ballance tax two hundred and forty
one dollars two hundred and forty one million.
Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (01:13:17):
The LA Dodgers salary cap is three hundred and twenty
one million this year. You had all the all the
uh the the money they're gonna have to pay. They're
gonna play, have to pay about four hundred million dollars
this year for that.
Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
Team you got. That's exactly that's it's. It's in that.
It's like between four and four and a quarter I think,
or fourteen. Yeah, it's it's it might be north of
four hundred mili.
Speaker 13 (01:13:40):
Yeah, and you've got they are eighty million over the
two hundred and forty one million competitive balloce tax. You
have sevent teams under one hundred million dollar cap. Now
the Marlins are the worst. They forty seven million dollars
compared to three hundred and twenty million for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
This is a joke, MLB.
Speaker 13 (01:14:05):
If you want to if you want to give a
competitive bowet tax, how about a competitive playing tax. Any
team that isn't spinning two hundred, one hundred and fifty
million dollars, you're gonna get taxed because guess what you're
saying to your fans, screw you, we are, we don't
We're not committed to winning. We're not even committed to
(01:14:27):
being competitive.
Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
Andy, I'm so with you. Yeah, I actually think we
need a floor. I think you you have you get
I would have one hundred percent agree. If you go over,
they penalize you. I'm convinced that if you don't get
to the floor, you should be penalized as well, because
basically you're saying, we're just trying to get by as
an organization, we are not committed to winning. Number two
(01:14:50):
is I think it's salary cap. I mean, I know
people aren't gonna want to hear this. I think major
League Baseball needs a salary cap. I understand the competitive
balance and the luxury tax, I get it, but when
you're a team like the Dodgers, you don't give a
fuzzy rats ass about that tax. Obviously, just want to
keep winning, keep paying. So if if we want a ceiling,
(01:15:10):
which is a salary cap, I also believe in all
sports you should have a floor that if you're going
to own and stay competitive and you want your fan
base to continue to come out, you have to have
a floor as well. You cannot be below that floor
in the basement not spending a certain amount of money,
because listen, they're all making money. I don't care what
they say. They're making money, and especially the ones that
aren't spending. I'm one percent with Andy, He's one hundred
(01:15:33):
percent correct.
Speaker 6 (01:15:34):
Yeah, I appreciate the call, Andy, we had to move
it along here, But I mean I think the players
did fight for that. In the most recent CBT talks
that they had CBA about a floor. Yeah about I
mean of you know, teams like the Pirates and some
of these other right exactly. I mean where it's just like,
come on, guys, like at least some sort of effort
here would be nice.
Speaker 5 (01:15:53):
Can you imagine the Big Red Machines team playing now
and still not getting paid like they're supposed to. Can
you imagine that? How would you pull that one off?
They wouldn't be the Big Red Machine.
Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
You'd have Tony Perez and all these guys. I'm playing
for the Arizona Diamondbacks now, I'm playing for the New
York Mets. Now I'm playing for somebody else that you know,
they they want to be Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:16:16):
Yeah, Cincinnati is a nice enough place to live. But
these places I can at least grow to love them
a little bit more if if the money's right.
Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
Oh yeah, you love anywhere if they get the prices right.
I got news for you. Miles Garrett wanted traded a
couple hundred million later, close to it, Hey, Cleveland, I
love it here the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Special and there you go. Money talks as much as
anything does. But yeah, the money can make the mistake
by a lake. I feel like it's a little bit
less of a mistake, that's for sure. All right. Two
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hours in the books, two more to go.
Speaker 6 (01:16:47):
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Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
Cam Smith to run homer to right field off Tyler
McGill there in the second inning there in Port Saint Lucy,
third homer of the spring. We're gonna get the Nationals
tomorrow there in West Palm. Lance McCullers junior gonna make
the start so able to ramp himself back up and
get into some great great Fruit League act. And also
(01:18:01):
to Spencer Arraghetti gonna throw tomorrow just to keep him
on the right pitching track from ber Valdez named the
opening day starter fourth straight year for that. So get
him a week from Thursday there inside Dike and Park
and the Astro season will get underway. Rockets get the
seventy six Ers tonight, close out the six game homestand
(01:18:22):
in a win, makes it seven straight dubs for the Rockets.
Speaking of the Sixers, Quentin Grimes as of late after
the Mavericks said yeah, hey, we're trading you to Philadelphia,
he said, all right, cool, I'll just start dropping forty
plus on everyone.
Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
Whenever I'm on the floor, count the player. Man, he's
it's a good get. I think it's awesome. He was
a blast to watch play here. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
That's one of those Darryl Mory fines too. That I mean,
you get a guy like him kind of like you know,
remember like Courtney Lee oh years ago with the Rockets
where it's just like, hey, who is this guy? Oh man,
this guy's this guy's a player. Yeah, it's Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
It's fun to watch that's a time Grimes Town's player man,
and he shows that he can.
Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
He's showing it on the offensive end, no doubt about that.
U of H speaking of where he used to play,
number one seed in the Midwest Region.
Speaker 5 (01:19:08):
Nice little draw for them.
Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
SIU Edwardsville going to be their first game on Thursday,
one o'clock. You'll be able to hear that over on
kPr C nine to fifty. Not only do they win
the Big Twelve regular season title, they also win the
Big Twelve tournaments over the weekend taking down Arizona.
Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
They were impressive the whole way through, and they've build
They've been a great road team this year, and obviously
in the NC Tournament NC two, a tournament for the
most part, you're on the road, I mean, unless you're
fortunate enough to be a team that were the finals,
is in your least in your neck of the woods
or neighborhood. This is an impressive team. And I actually
think offensively that this is as good as offense as
(01:19:45):
they've had in the last four or five years. To
be able to knock down shots, they're pretty damn good.
That's been something that's been lacking for them. That's a constant.
Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
They'll have that, they they'll they'll hit the boards, they'll
do all of that. But I mean to have Emmanuel Sharp,
Jay Cryer, Milos Uzianne, all three of those guys that
you can pretty much spot him up anywhere and they'll
be able to knock down a shot for you.
Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
They've found some clutch transfers, man, and this and this
is going to be as we move forward, a destination
spot for high school players and transfers that want to
come play for a guy that you know what you're
going to get from him and the expectations, and they've
lived up to it. This is a great group. A
text back and forth with coach Sampson last night, and
I know he loves these kids. He said, it's a
(01:20:27):
great group and in typical Calvin Sampson fashion, I'm excited
for these kids, which I love because he really does
pour himself into it and it is they've got his
I mean, you look around now. Florida's playing great basketball. Man,
Auburn's played well all year long, and they you know,
obviously deserve a one seed, but they've had the SEC's
(01:20:50):
battle tested, needless to say, and it's a bigger basketball conference.
Is year that it was football and Florida's playing great basketball.
We know Duke may have player in America they're really good.
But this team will defend as good as any and
they can knock down shots. I can't wait till this
tournament starts.
Speaker 6 (01:21:07):
Kelvin Samson doesn't subscribe to the Michael Jordan's school of
thought with kids.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
F them kids. Hey, yes, no, there may be times
he has to let him know on the court that
they during practice that they need to pick up their temple.
But he is He's immersed himself so much into making
sure that they get buy in and and I think
that they reward him the same way.
Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
It's also too, I've told you this that it cracks
me up with Kelvin Samson. There's something on the defensive
end that breaks down, or a turnover or something. He
rarely ever yells at the guys on the floor. It's
somebody on the bench that wears it at the time.
Watch Kelvin Samson if you see them like.
Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
It's something there right.
Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
Yeah, it's not only that, but it's you know, a
costly turnover that was just ill ill advised, And it's
somebody on the bench that wears it not the guy
that just.
Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Did it over the weekend when in the championship game,
and I can't remember who it was, but had a
foul at the rim and it was a dumb foul
and he completed the basket right. If you're going to
foul him at the basket, make sure he doesn't get that. Yeah,
make sure the line and he walked. It was either
a timeout or he pulled him out but walked over.
I think it was. They had a time out after
(01:22:17):
the foul. Come walking over and there's a little bit
the earlobe got chewed a little bit bean Utah. That's
not how we're doing it here, basically, And I don't
know what he said, but it wasn't It was a
loud message it next time. Make sure this has done different.
Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
Tough love, it's love in the moment. That's that's how
it pretty much wins.
Speaker 11 (01:22:34):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:22:34):
The three hole playoff there at the Players Championship between
Rory McElroy, JJ Spawn, it's underway, so we'll keep you
up to date on that as they'll close out the
week there in pawn A Vidra and by the way too,
it's not a sports note, but Friday nights at the Rodeo.
Somebody finally got Journey to stop believing. They did right
(01:22:56):
in the middle, don't stop believing. I know that was
what a bum I It's funny too, because Brandy.
Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Soon stop believe it and.
Speaker 6 (01:23:06):
Then cut it ham. We didn't stop believing. Maybe we
should have. Well, so what was it? Brandy Smith who
used to work over at KHO. She's married to Justin Stapleton,
meteorologists over there at kPr c oh fantastic, great listener,
the good guy and I had made the joke on
the post. I said they really bought into the sopranos
(01:23:26):
bit right there, because remember that's what was playing when
Meadows parking the car and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
See what happens when Steve Perry's not on there.
Speaker 6 (01:23:34):
Are now just can't carry the same line. He's pretty
good though, he is. I've had a chance, pretty damn good. Yeah,
you still got Jonathan Kane and everybody part of Journey.
Speaker 5 (01:23:43):
What what a legendary group. What a bummer though, how
that happened?
Speaker 6 (01:23:47):
Imagine being there though, too, because I mean I think
that people probably thought it was part of the bits
of even at concerts, you're kind of like, uh, you know,
it don't make me sing. I came here to see
you sing. You're the one that's supposed to sing. But
I mean then it's after the fact, and then you know,
I saw other videos if you start to see some
of the members of the band walking off and you're
kind of like, is this the bit, Like, what's what's
(01:24:08):
going on here? And then you find out as you're
waiting for a couple of hours there in the light
rail line or the ride share line, Oh there was
a fire. Oh so that wasn't planned yet, it just
kind of happened.
Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Yeah, it wasn't part of the pyro that goes on
at some concerts. Yeah, unfortunate. So what a bummer. But
you know what legendary and if you can get a
ticket to a Journey concert, it's worth going to for sure.
Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
Had a chance to go see him again with def
Leopard a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
So speaking of a legendary band, Yeah, that's not a
bad duel that you got to see.
Speaker 6 (01:24:41):
And it started raining when Pour Some Sugar started to play,
and I was like, man, this is pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
I mean, what happens when you pour some sugar on
you and then the rain hits the sugar. What do
they call it, coagulate?
Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Coagulate?
Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
Yeah, there you go, There you go.
Speaker 6 (01:24:58):
The word on a Monday morning. Well, and now another one.
That's that's my favorite. In the in the same neighborhood,
right there is viscosity.
Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
Oh yeah, you gotta oil viscosity, especially if you have
a brunch though. But if you have a breakdown in
oil viscosity, your vehicle's got a problem. That's it. That's sacked.
Speaker 6 (01:25:16):
That's when that's that's when you get in there and
they start to selling. You got other things you gotta
have replaced. Yeah, one thousand dollars turned into four. There
you go, there you go.
Speaker 5 (01:25:23):
You gotta play. You've got a payment plan. I can
work on.
Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
Brandon, what's the way in You're on Sports Talk seven
ninety Brandon, what's up buddy?
Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
Here?
Speaker 14 (01:25:31):
Here?
Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
I said, no, did not.
Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Hear you, buddy, just started talking with you. What's up?
Speaker 14 (01:25:40):
The when journey was on Friday m h the sawing
fell or the when why it was out saying caught
the cat kin Sewan thought the stage on fire.
Speaker 6 (01:26:03):
Yeah, it was an electrical fire in the back room.
That's that's what they were saying is why this stage
went out?
Speaker 14 (01:26:10):
Did did did you hear what?
Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
Boyd?
Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
And Boyd was there, he.
Speaker 14 (01:26:18):
Saw the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Hm hm, Hey, who's Boyd?
Speaker 14 (01:26:24):
The guys on the way the TV program from the audio?
Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
Okay, yeah, my bad.
Speaker 14 (01:26:36):
No, they they're doing they they exited, Okay, they exit
the mana like towards the where to go the stages.
They exited the band from the stage, from the dirt
(01:26:59):
from the Yeah, and they they told everybody to get out.
Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
Okay, well, now that's a that's a little let's go
out to Jim Cantory from Brandon right there. That's it,
all right, that's letting you know exactly who that's painting
a picture right there, boots on these boots on the peat.
That's like, damn righter. Yes, And I didn't. I didn't
know how it all went down, but I got news
for you. That's that's reporting back to you. Dan. That's it.
That's it. Brandon appreciate Buddy Brandoll good stuff. Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 6 (01:27:31):
Who's a David Muir who had the close pens on
the back of the fireman's jacket. It's just like, come on, man,
if you're gonna do the bit, do the bits.
Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
Let's get out to the rodeo. Brandon. Yeah, Bra, that's
that's breaking it down for us. Yeah, I didn't have
the picture painted because I wasn't watching.
Speaker 6 (01:27:45):
I can see that the hills are on fire there
in California. You don't have to let me know what
the form fitting fireman's jacket. You got it, David. Guess what, buddy,
I know that you're not a fireman. Okay, it's okay,
but right there you go. See if you're gonna you
know the bit, then you got to do all of that.
I don't care about the hair. I gotta have the
fireman's hat on. I gotta have it all man. Maybe
(01:28:06):
you can get him out there with an axe. Oh yeah,
hold in one hand, Mike and the other.
Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
Brother. That's it. That's the way it works. That's it.
Brando told you everything that happened, that the picture has
been painted. That was a Birmingham. We went right to
the source. Pay me at Birmingham.
Speaker 6 (01:28:19):
We went right to the source where Brandon was able
to tell us exactly what happened. So Brandon appreciate that. No,
you've been having fun out at the rodeo and hopefully
some of you get a chance to get out there
if you haven't yet. A final week at the rodeo
over there at NRG Stadium.
Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
All right, coming up.
Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
Next, get back into some of the astros conversation. I
know that a lot of you want to weigh in.
We'll do that here and we will continue to roll
along here on the Sean Salisbury Show. He's Sean triple E,
Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews here Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Going non stop with former QB Sean Salisbury, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
And Hey, who was the caller Tripoli that called in? Asked, Yeah, Todd,
He asked if I went to see my guy Nick
Swartzen and at the improv over the weekend. I did.
Speaker 6 (01:29:14):
The kids would call him Howie from from a movie
that you might be familiar with. I'm familiar with a
lot of Yeahorphobia. Yeah, And he's got some good movies.
Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
He's a writer, director and actor and a couple of
movies he's got coming down the pike and Happy Gilmore
will be out this summer. Yeah, and we was talking
about that. And he is one of my very dear friends.
I love him, you know, been in a couple with
him with Sandler Movies and say yeah, I don't miss it,
and so went back. Then we got a chance to
spend about twenty five minutes or so back in his
(01:29:43):
after the show and having some laughs and talking about
just life. He's one of my favorite people. He puts
on such a great show. So yes, I was there,
and it's my guy Swartson. And you know, he's not
a and I just ironically he's a Minnesota Viking fan
and big Minnesota guy. He's where he's from. But we
didn't know each other then since the thing, but we've
become very good friends. And he is one of the
(01:30:03):
great entertainers and he's funny as hell. So it was
a great show. As typical of Nick Swartz.
Speaker 6 (01:30:07):
It's a it's a friendship where it's mutually beneficial. You know,
we're obviously you're a huge fan of his. He grew
up watching you. Yep, so you probably you know, hit
him with some Dinny Green stories.
Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Oh yeah, and he loves when my kids love him
because my boys were in the movie Benchwarmers with that.
I was in your kids were in that? Yeah, my boys.
My daughter was too young, but my sons were on
my team. And you could see my tallest son and
the dug out in the back, you know. They so
they were in it, and Sandler and Schwartzen and Schneider,
they all treated my kids and Schwartz is their favorite,
(01:30:37):
right Yeah, and still they say, so, I can't wait
till he goes back to Austin. And my kids surprised
my kids to go because they friggin love him. And
I'll make sure I didn't talk to them when I
you know, that night of my boys, but let him know.
So they were in it, and they just they sworts
and was so good to them, and they just think
he's a phenomenal guy.
Speaker 6 (01:30:55):
Can I ask you a question? Does Romanowski really have
a miata? Because remember what what's it? What's his name?
He throws the bat and it goes through the wind
shot of his meada.
Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
You know, I I'd be too big for a miata
that I don't know. But at the time, have you
ever tried to sit in one? Now, Romo is a
big dude. Yeah, yeah, I would. I would think that
that's probably made for made for the movie. We had
a blast, yeah, and he was he was fun in
the movie too.
Speaker 8 (01:31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
Romo's uh, Romo's just good people. But he I would
think that it probably be a little bit bigger. Uh vehicle,
I doubt Mazda Miata was was Romanowski's vehicle of choice
unless you just want to put one leg in right.
So he had a blast with that man. But swart
Nick was a phenomenal show he put on and well
he was here what Thursday, Friday, Saturday, two shows each,
(01:31:40):
so put on a Houston loves him and he loves
coming to Houston. Even said that there and he admitted
again it's one of his favorite stops.
Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
What's good to have him here that I mean, you know,
I know that we had him on the A team
about a year ago or so. Uh, you're good, buddy,
Frank Kelly Indo can be rolling through here pretty soon.
So that'll be a fun as Frank, you know, is
as we leave, you know, we lose the Todd callis impersonation?
Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
What's it? The Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Cadence, you know, I Jerry Jones impersonator Jerry Jones. Although
it's a little bit more Lindsey Graham's.
Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
Combo Jerry Jones Lindsey Graham, he kind of skews more
towards Lindsay Graham a little bit.
Speaker 6 (01:32:19):
You know, I almost feel like Lindsay Graham's talking to
cowboys with but you know it sometimes hits sometimes, doesn't
you play your cards?
Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
Right? You get a John Gruden man? Oh yeah, you
mean with with with our guy Caliendo. Yeah, there's no
doubt about it.
Speaker 6 (01:32:33):
And there's I'm talking about with best voice impersonator on
the planet. I'm talking about with me too. You're seeing
all those boxes these teams are sending me, man, Yeah,
you know, I'm getting all the gear, so you're you're
personator Oregon State sending me stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
We'll have to, uh, we were gonna have to get
you to play that for us. They're gonna do my
best lot on Advisor and and and Adam's uh does
some voices too, right he does. Yeah, we got a
lot of you guys. So I used to do Marv
Albert and I can do Harry Carey and the rest
of it. But I'm gonna leave it to you guys. Man,
We'll try, I'll try.
Speaker 6 (01:33:06):
We we'll try our best not to let you down,
you of h Also, that's over by the way, dude.
Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Is Rory on there on the dance floor and spawn
pressure pressure will get your Rory made par on on
the first hole, and I mean made birdie and Spawn
made par so he goes in. Rory hits it in
the middle of the green. All he got to do
is two putt and Spawn flew the green and uh
and now he's going to play from the drop area.
So he's going to be down minimum of two strokes
(01:33:33):
more than likely going into eighteen. And Rory can hit
a three iron in the middle of that fair We
hit down the green two putt unless Rory McElroy, you know,
chokes on his own spit. This tournament's done. And well
I think he probably knows it. It'll be. It'll be,
There'll be no sudden death. I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 6 (01:33:49):
That ut golf kid would probably think that Rory is
not necessarily a shoe in to make that putt right there.
Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
Yeah, but he may take the phone, but he did.
He did take the phone. Did we ever find out
if Rory got the phone back get back to him.
I know the kid apologize, uh, you know, for he's
a and he's a good golfer at ut Luke Potter
I think is his name. But you've got to you
got to cut the rabbit ears man this this let
it go fun, heckling and Potter. If he gets on
(01:34:14):
the PGA Tour some point's gonna have his. He'll have
it too. But but Rory needs to Rory needs to
take a gummy and chill a little bit. I understand
there's this, there's this reverence that goes with golf. I
get it. But when it's a practice round and you're
having fun, just this. I don't know if he got
the phone back, but it's Ah, that's that's not the
way Fanning, right, That's not the way the PGA Tour
(01:34:36):
is going to gain fans.
Speaker 7 (01:34:37):
Roy.
Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
He's got rabbit. He's a great player, but he hears everything.
A lot of that.
Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
Goes back to Ryder cups though too. I mean, because
that's when it should after it.
Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
That's why. If you can't handle that, then take your
bitch ass home. Okay, if you can't, I'm not talking
just to Rory, I'm talking about to anybody who can't
handle that. Well, he's not the only one. There's plenty. Yeah,
br Bryson Deshambeau has had a few times. Can be
yelling somebody's back swing. Let's looks be fair. But you
know they're standing a practe around you're giving a clay
What about the twenty eleven or two thousand and nine
masters whatever it was, or what two thousand I don't
(01:35:06):
even remember what masters he was joking with macclroy about.
But you know what, it's okay to laugh at yourself
a little bit, and quite frankly, if you didn't do
it right and you played poorly, the mirror is a
good place to start, okay. And I love Rory McElroy.
I just can't stand that when it's all good, they
love it, but then when it's not, there's they got,
they got more excuses and the all I confess he
(01:35:28):
did it thing. We got to slow down with that.
And now I like the heckling at the Ryder Cup,
and if you don't like it, you should get to
step in.
Speaker 6 (01:35:34):
The example that comes to mind for me is I
say this all the time, especially it's used in college football,
is you know, when things are going right, they're they're
young men. But of course you know if a coach
thinks that they're sticking up for them, oh these kids, yeah,
well wait a minute, wait a minute, they're young men?
Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
Are their kids?
Speaker 15 (01:35:49):
Like?
Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
Where are they coached. Where are we at here? Well,
I got news for you. Now with pay, they're grown
adults to say it. They're no longer now if you
don't make it personal. But I've told this story before.
When I was in broadcasting games for ESPN, I really
went into games, like in primetime games when Mark Malona
and I were doing them Charlie Steiner as an analyst,
(01:36:11):
I honestly was very cognizant that an eighteen year old
kid on scholarships parents may be home watching this game, sure,
and not that if you FID listen you throw three picks,
I can't tell you're a great player. That day got
to be. But you don't. You don't have to belabor
the point. Beat the kid down right right, they're still going.
But once they started, once you decide that you can
(01:36:32):
transfer four times and get paid, they now are getting
treated the same way as an NFL player. And if
I was doing college football games right now and you're
a nineteen or twenty year old player that's transferred and
you're getting nil money or any of them, you are
now subject to the same criticism as a professional. So
(01:36:53):
it has just like the money shifted, So is the
way that broadcaster treat you. And there's more criticism these
guys than ever when they're playing a game, and there
should be as just as like just the same compliments.
They're not above him anymore.
Speaker 6 (01:37:05):
You go play, you go play to school, say like
Alabama or somewhere like that college football. There's nowhere to hide,
like you've got to know that already going in. And
if you don't, well, then that's kind of on you.
Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
It's not on anybody. And if you transfer four times
because you got beat out, not because you know you
got hurt twice and somebody you transfer four times you
got beat out. As a broadcaster, I do reserve the
right to set up there and say I don't like it.
I wonder how he is. Is he afraid of competition?
And I wouldn't have any problems saying it out there.
But I was very cognizant before all that. You know,
(01:37:37):
kid fumbles the ball, sure, okay, he lost that. People
make mistakes. You don't have to sit there and brow
beat him while his parents and his brother and sister
are sitting at home watching Unaware a Way game and
the kid. The kid's self esteem at seventeen or eighteen
or nineteen is going to suffer. But as long as
you don't make it personal. Now, criticism to me is
alive and well when it comes to these kids, and
they're not kids, they're grown adults. Now, if you're getting paid,
(01:37:59):
you get treated like getting paid.
Speaker 6 (01:38:00):
Well, it's kind of like a buddy of mine once
told me where there was a guy that committed to
go play at a school, and I said, why would
he go there? There's there's already three running backs at
Randy Cross, probably up with Ever and Randy. When I
brought that up to him, I think it was actually
funny enough. Alvin Kamara when he signed to go to
Alabama and I was like, wait a minute, You've got TJ.
Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
Yeldon, you got all these guys here. Why is he
going there?
Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
He goes because the coach told him when he was
about to commit, well, if you don't like competition, then
this isn't the right place for you. And what kid
that's as good as he is, once you throw that
at him, is not going to say, oh, well you
damn right, I like competition.
Speaker 5 (01:38:35):
I'll be there Monday morning. Well I can. When I
was getting recruited, I've I've shared the story I believe
on here before and John Robinson came into my home
and sat down and it was a couple of days
before signing day, and it was a home visit in
coach Robinson has a national title ring on for seventy eight.
We're talking and going through it and as his last
words to me, where we'd love you to come to USC,
(01:38:57):
we're gonna create and this is almost verbatim, And at
that point time I was in number one recruit in
the country. And he said, we'd love you to come
to USC. We're going to create an environment for you
to be successful and compete in and you'll have every
opportunity to do that, and didn't promise me the starting job,
none of that because we had good players there, needless
to say. And his final words were, but if you
don't come to USC, we're still going to show up
(01:39:19):
on Saturday, and we're still going to win. And he
left my house with Paul Hackett, who was the offensive coordinator,
and they got in the car and drove away, and
my dad, as we stood on the front watching them
drive away, my dad said to me, I think you
want to be a part of that, don't you. And
the truth is, because it was considering them and BYU,
and there was a couple others and b why you
was throwing it all the time? USC running it and
(01:39:39):
stuff and no doubt. And my dad when he walked
to I said, that's one of the only coaches wasn't
promised me a chance to start as a freshman. You
were going to earn it. But they're still shows. So
he send in a loud message at USC's not stopping
because you don't come play for us even though we'd
like you to. And that's all he needed to say.
(01:40:00):
It wasn't money nowadays as you listen to these guys.
Steve Alfred had a great stuff over the weekend. If
you saw he was about nil and recruiting that it's
no longer education school facilities. We got a chance to
play in a national title that the parents want to
know how much of paying my kid and the kid
wants to know how much paying So we got it
all back. We're paying on potential as opposed to production
for college and high school kids. Wow, I mean in
(01:40:21):
the NFL, a lot of them gett paid on that there.
If you produce, you're getting paid Jamar Chase. So yeah,
if you were a competitor at the time, but the
game has changed, man that they're no longer. And the
first two questions the parents are asking is it's about
greenbacks and money, and it's we are We've got to
find a way to get it. It's okay to pay,
but we got to find a way to pay on
on on production as opposed to guy walks on campus
(01:40:43):
and he's making more money than than an assistant coaches.
That's hard to fathom.
Speaker 6 (01:40:48):
And Nick Saban, I mean, he wasn't shy about saying
that was pretty much the reason why he's no longer
the coach at Alabama or coaching in general. So hoping
that we can stop seeing some of the legends leave
the game, that's for sure. Yeah, as you mentioned, they're
on the second hold the playoff there at TPC Sawgrass.
It does look like that Rory's going to be in
position to be able to run away with this thing.
Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
So we'll keep you update on that.
Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
We'll continue on as I do want to weave in
the Chas McCormick and Cam Smith Jake Myers conversation. I
do want to get that in, so maybe we'll hit
that here coming up next. He's Sean Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore,
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Speaker 6 (01:43:07):
You got a little bit of breaking news here, Sean,
we were talking about Derek Stingley Junior. Well, it sounds
like David Mullagetta and the crew over there at Athletes First,
so they might have been listening and saying, oh yeah, well, hey,
we got something for you. Adam Schefter, Texans all Pro
Derek Stingley Junior agreeing to a three year ninety million
dollar extension.
Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
Eighty nine of that is guaranteed.
Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
He is the highest paid defensive back in NFL history.
As Adam Schefter throws out, the cornerback market has now
been completely reset.
Speaker 5 (01:43:39):
Yeah. Well, and like we said, not going to get
the forty, but thirty is about right. You're not paying
your corner forty. But I can tell you this, there's
a reason why he's getting paid that because he can
make a case that he was as good as we
had in the league last year at his position, and
we knew coming in if he just stayed healthy when
Lovey Smith drafted him, that went well when Lovey was
a head coach and they made that pick that if
(01:44:01):
he just stayed healthy, that you had a monster at
corner and they got him. Listen, if you're going to
guarantee eighty nine guarantee ninety, I mean, well, I don't
know if that means you don't want to guarantee at all,
because it makes it tough on others, I mean other teams.
Ninety million and eighty nine of it's guaranteed. What's the
(01:44:22):
other million four? I mean, I guess you can wipe
your rear in because you got enough money with it
if you'd like. But eighty nine million guaranteed, which means
no matter what he'd get paid. So good on him.
Great performance last year. I think their secondary is as
good a young secondary as there is in a league.
They've added physicality and attitude to it. In the back end.
(01:44:44):
Their edge rushers can play with anybody, their linebackers run,
they've got a nasty attitude. If they're not a top
five defense in the league this year, I will be shocked.
And I'm not just talking about yards. I'm talking about points,
as long as our offense doesn't put him in position
to give the other team short fields. Rightfully, so earned it,
deserves it, and he's got to be really really happy
(01:45:05):
this morning. I would imagine that he can pay his bills.
So I think he's gonna be okay. I'm gonna see.
Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
Him and good on the franchise for doing this. I
think that he'll be all right. And you're right too.
I mean, what he's got with Kamari Laster on the
other side from him, you had CJ. Gardner Johnson, You've
got Calen Bullock back there, Jimmy Ward going to be
back with this team, and then obviously Jalen Petrie is
kind of a little bit of a hybrid the star position,
(01:45:30):
playing a little bit more kind of like a linebacker,
but still being counted on in coverage situation and.
Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
They can count on him to cover. I mean, Bullock
has become a great ballhawk in the back end. And
the truth is, as you know, CJ was a he
could play on the slot and nickel when he was
in New Orleans as well. I mean, he's been able
to do both. So you get versatile safeties that can
cover if necessary, so you don't have the substitute all
the time, and veteran leadership that gives you, you know,
(01:45:57):
because a lot of times these days, in truth, you're
not playing with three linebackers. You're playing with five dbs,
and at times in a die package, you're playing with
six dbs, and you hope that those dbs are either
physical or have safety presents that know how to tackle
that can also cover. That's it. So if you have
four receivers, you're in a good you're pretty good. Three receivers.
You got to have it's under rate. We don't talk
(01:46:18):
about it enough across the country that it's no longer
just two. You better have three good guys. And you
know what, your slot guy, the guy who's a nickel
coverage guy, quite frankly, has a tougher job than the
guys on the edge because the crossers and the stuff
moving across the middlefield. You can pin your guy to
the edges right and play outside the numbers those guys
(01:46:39):
inside that's a tough job. And they know how versatile
those guys have to be. And then you get a
corner who you can say, follow their best player if necessary,
if you're going to travel with him. If not, you
don't really need to on this team because Lassiter is
about a year or two away from us saying, damn,
they may have the best corner combo in the league.
They may have it now really good. He showed at
he showed a lot of really good things this year.
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You know, it's kind of gone. Are the days of
you're a boundary Oh you're a field guy. I mean
it's that's in college. You get a boundary corner that's
physical right with a hash marks Well, with the ash
marks close together in the NFL. You're one hundred percent
correct that I need you to be to be able
to do it all. Yeah, there's no longer a base
three four or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
Now.
Speaker 6 (01:47:19):
It's pretty much just all right, you know, Nickel, that's
your base defense right there.
Speaker 5 (01:47:23):
That's pretty much the way the league plays. The times
that dimes even more base than your regular because people
are playing four wides and empty in the backfield on
a regular basis. Anyway, you've got to have guys that
can run and cover but also can get nosy in
the run game.
Speaker 6 (01:47:35):
It's important, Yeah, not as much twelve personnel anymore.
Speaker 9 (01:47:40):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
If Harball has his way, there will be. He has
his way, there will be, and he'll bring it back.
The forty nine ers don't mind getting it once in
a while. But the truth of the matter is you've
got to have those perimeter guys, and you've got to
have corners and safeties that can now cover and then
a ball hawking safety. And Bullock has proved that right
now as far as young goes when it comes to
free safeties young players, he's as good as we have
(01:48:01):
in a league at that position. Yeah, I wanted to
throw out that bit of news.
Speaker 6 (01:48:04):
So again, if you weren't with us at the beginning,
Derek Stingley in the Texans in agreement on a three
year ninety million dollar contract extension eighty nine of that
guaranteed thirty million base value per season, he is now
the highest paid defensive back in NFL history. And this
is reported by Adam Schefter of ESPN. All right, we'll
(01:48:24):
get back into us some astros also, we've in some
rockets you of aged and let you know how they
finish up there at TPC Sawgrass. All of that here
as we close up the eight o'clock hour here on
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This is the Sean Salisbury Show, coming to the deal
with the Texans Astros off today. They're gonna get the
Nationals tomorrow to continue Grapefruit League action. The final full
week of Grapefruit League action going on right now from
ber Valdez yesterday named the opening day starter his fourth
(01:50:55):
straight one. Rockets final home game of this six game
stand tonight against the seventy six ers. They're looking to
make it seven straight wins. They also go into play
tonight in the two spots in the Western Conference back
to the NFL, Jamar Chase T Higgins both agreeing to
multi year contract extensions with the Cincinnati Bengals, and then
(01:51:17):
U of H number one seed in the Midwest Region.
They're gonna take on SIU Edwardsville Thursday at one.
Speaker 5 (01:51:24):
I am so excited for this march. I mean, congrats
to Stingley and obviously the Astros, which I can't wait
to see, and I can't wait to see the Cam
Smith stuff and the way that you know, it's crazy
through all this, they're still under talked about is the
Rockets and the way they're and I know we want
to see the system. We want them to sustain this
because think about what they've done under Udoka. They get
better every year. Last year, five hundred basketball club, this year,
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by basketball team. This year they're sitting in the two
hole and sitting the two seed, which is every year
in that the goal to get better and finally and
they may not be ready for prime time yet, but
why not them? Why not that they're playing like it
in the red season. And then with Kelvin Samson's teams
and this team in particular, and I know his affinity
for this team, and every team's different, but the way
(01:52:08):
he makes them get to work and the way they responding.
They can knock down shots, They've got star power, but
they're relentless on defense. I can't wait to see it.
And it's Edwardsville, right SIU edwards.
Speaker 6 (01:52:18):
Yeah, I have no idea where Edwardsville is. I guess
it's somewhere in southern Illinois. Yeah, I understand if they
study tape. As a matter of fact, if I was them,
this may be the tape. Don't just you might want
to not study it because you're going to see there.
Sometimes you don't need to see the beast, you know
what I'm saying. You just need to go show up
and play and try to be unconscious because that can
(01:52:38):
beat you. Watching Kelvin Sampson's team, the relentless, the way
they play defense.
Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
Forget the fact that they can score. I'm talking about
the other side that can That can make you walk.
It's like walking into a building and you're a high
school team and I've seen this happen before your high
school team. All of a sudden, my high school team,
and fortunately they played one of my best my sophomore year,
we were playing Cliff Levingston, you know the guy Michael
Jordan's power forward, first round pick from Wichita State. We
(01:53:08):
played them my sophomore year, and we played them in
Sarah High School sophomore year and they were the heavy
favorites to win the CIF championship and we had them
on the break for a minute. Man, But walking in
to the you know, I come from a Hispanic, white
guy town, and you know we had to, you know,
And so you walk in there, but it's easy. They're
playing above the rim, right and walked in the gym
(01:53:29):
and the back end there the boom boxes are banging
when you walk in the gym and you're walking in
and Cliff, they all had nicknames on a Cliff good News, Levingston,
Tony the Trimmer, Rasheed, Zach no Slack, true blood. All
I can remember it as vivided and they had a
legendary coach who I love. We lost, but wanted a
legendary coach in San Diego. And I remember walking in
the gym in my first thought, and maybe it was
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because the way I was raised, My first thought was
tall task, but we're kicking their ass and ended up
playing you know, let's just go get them. Nobody expects
us to win the game. And we are really good
high school basketball team. But walked into the gym and
you could see the fact that when you walked in
it was going there was intimidated. Some of our players.
It was like the choked on their own day. Yeah
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they're different, yes, and it was almost like it was
eliminated that their thought going in is we got no shot, right,
and we hung around and hung around, but you're playing
against the guys. You know. Cliff Levingston was a first
round pick in the NBA, was a monster player and
a great, great player. But I remember walking into that
gym and then eyeball on some of my teammates, and
I was just naive enough as a sixteen year old sophomore,
not the care fifteen as a matter of fact, it
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was fifteen at the time, and it was like I
just wanted to go play, and you thought, okay, at
the end of the game, you realized they had almost
won it beforehand. And I'm not saying it's like my
Orangelee High School Patriots against the Morris Tigers and Cliff
good News Levingston. But it can be because it is
an overwhelming team you're about to play, so you might
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want to blindfold yourself before watching it and just go
in and let it rip. Because this team's reputation is
exactly who they are. They are nasty on defense, and
Edwardsville would have to have five out of body experiences
to win a game.
Speaker 6 (01:55:06):
It's almost kind of like the story that Manti te
Ho tells before they played Alabama and that BCS title game,
where he was like, you know, we're doing our chance,
We're doing all of that, and then we saw them
walk out of their locker room and pass us by,
and it was kind of like he turned around, looked
at some of the looks on guy's eyes and they're like, yeah,
we got no shot against these guys. Well, Zeke Motta
ain't showing up against this Alabama team.
Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
It's over before it's over, and that's why the best
thing for them, maybe they should have done warm up
in their own locker room. If that's what and that's
Notre Dame right right, How in the world does Notre
Dame feeling that way? So if Notre Dame's feel in
that way, imagine how overwhelming it can be for Edwardsville
in southern Illinois. Holly wants to wig in here in Beaumont, Holly,
what's going on?
Speaker 15 (01:55:46):
Good morning, guys, How are you all happy Monday? I
just wanted to have a few comments about the Astros.
I just don't see how. I love Chazz, I love
him to death, but I just don't see how we
can go forward with him. He stressed and he's pressing,
and it shows, and I don't know what he can
show us these last ten days that he hasn't seen
us the first three weeks. I don't know if he
would be good coming off the bench, but I think
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cam Smith has earned that job.
Speaker 5 (01:56:10):
Also to I didn't mean to interrupt him with you
one hundred. You put him in and play him the
play Hi one hundred and fifty games and let's go.
Speaker 15 (01:56:17):
Yeah, no doubt he's earned it. I mean, what are
you going to tell him if if you, I mean
you didn't earn it, kid it after these numbers, I
mean you got to go back to and they pre
sure shouldn't start him in double A at least the
very least triple eight. But chess is just I don't know, like,
I don't know if he needs a new start somewhere else,
but he's just not good. And I just want to
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make a comment about Jeremy pinion. That guy has looked
like a different brogue this this supreme training. He is breaking,
He's got a better eye out to plate, and I
just thought the weakest thing about our team is the
bottom of the lineup. And wouldn't it be nice if
we could maybe plot Jeremy into the nine hole and
have him set a better table for al two of
a Alvarez paratus. That was just a out I had.
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And I'll hear y'all comments, and you'll have a.
Speaker 5 (01:57:02):
Great Heay Holly, before you go, you make a great point,
I said earlier on the show. I don't know if
you that Cam Smith and Pain you have been the
two most impressive players this spring training. In my I'm
talking about for everyday players. Yeah, and I absolutely And
I think it's a I like your idea whether Pain
you wants to hit in that slot, but table setter
so you get the yord On and Christian Walker. That's
not a bad idea. We'll see if I actually think
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they're going to hit him six or so, but I
do like the thought process of having it, of having
a two hole hitter hidden in the nine hole. Yeah,
great point, Holly, Thanks for the call, all right, too
happy to say take care.
Speaker 6 (01:57:35):
Yeah, and uh, you know what you just brought up
about Jeremy Pine, something on that I do want to
carry over here as we start the nine o'clock hour,
and then of course we'll weave in the cam Smith's
stuff too.
Speaker 5 (01:57:44):
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This is less than twenty four hours after Jamar Chase
and t Higgins both get broken off by the Cincinnati
Bengals four years, one hundred and sixty one million for Chase,
four years one point fifteen for Higgins. Astros off today.
They're gonna get the Nationals tomorrow. Lance mccullor is gonna
be on the mound to start the final full week
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of Greape Fruit League action from ber Valdez named the
opening day starter yesterday, his fourth straight, and the Rockets
get the Sixers tonight, close out six game homestand trying
to take the win streak to seven straight. They are
now number two in the Western Conference after this stretch,
and the Cougar's going to start NCAA tournament action on Thursday.
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One o'clock against SIU Edwardsville. They are the number one
seed in the Midwest region.
Speaker 5 (01:59:58):
But Sean.
Speaker 6 (01:59:59):
One of the things though, that we to carry over
from Holly, who just dropped in here with us here
to close out the eight o'clock cour is Cam Smith.
I mean, I think we're both pretty much on the
same path with Smith. Of all right, if you're going
to have him here, you play him every single day,
and they've started to work him out in right field.
Nice little play out there yesterday called off on a
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play by Mauricio Dubon. But it's to the point where
don't worry about third base right now with him. If
you're really serious about him being with this team, out
the gate with you as you start the season off
on your twenty six man roster, then the rest of
the week he needs to be out there in right field.
Speaker 5 (02:00:37):
I don't know why we have a third baseman. You
suck pretis we have a third basement. You got a
first basement, yeah, and then you went out and traded
for you've got a third baseman, and you went out
and signed Christian Walker. I don't even know why. It's
a conversation. I know he can go over there and play.
If all of a sudden paratus needs a day off
and you got him in right field and you want
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to play McCormick and right now field on a day,
then move him to third base. His bat needs to
be in the lineup. He needs to learn through the
good and the bad. Cam Smith has earned the job,
he has earned the right to play, and listen, I
understand the old baseball. Well, let's keep him down because
it might We don't want to rush him. Yeah, you actually,
actually you do. And it's not rushing him if he's
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earned it. To me, a rush job is a guy
hitting two twenty in the spring and swinging at pitches
that are completely outside the strike zone and has no clue,
and then because he's in your number one prospect, you
just want to throw him out there. No, no, no. And
this team's been great, This organization's been fantastic at developing
players in the minor leagues and when the time is right,
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bringing them up and allowing them to do their thing.
But sometimes guys are built different. Everybody's not built the same.
Stroud's not built the same as Davis Mills is. And
it happens all the time. It happens all the time.
And in baseball we have this tendency to want to
hold people back and let that they got to go
through this ball and this ball and this ball triple A. Now,
sometimes some guys are just better. Some guys just are
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ready for it and also mentally tougher than some veterans are.
I would put him in there. He started him in
right field. I got news for you. The arm one
thing I do know. It'll be the strongest arm in
the outfield that they have. And let him go play
and at the plate, he'll have some mistakes, he'll flail
away and have a game where he gets a golden sombrero.
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And he's also gonna have a game where hits two
home runs. And you're saying, this is why he's here.
If you really want the best team fielded, you put
him in the lineup and play, and you don't platoon
your number one prospect at the major league level. If
he's not gonna get a match, you put him in
triple A. Let's go and to me, I don't even think,
I don't even know why we're having this, And forget
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to the third base is to me, now his backup position.
He goes in there, he's the fill in at third base.
You got your third base and your corner enfield set.
You're looking to make sure you get Dubon as a
regular second base or if he's not, then you then
you deal with that. Matter of fact, I'm more that's
the concern. I'm less concerned about Cam Smith's starting in
right field that I am who's going to be your
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everyday second basement. And I'm not really that concerned about
that position either. I just to me, I I you
said it was competition. That's what we were told. And
the competition is that your best outfielder not named Jose
al Tuve, your best hitter, is your number one prospect,
Put him in and let's go.
Speaker 6 (02:03:22):
Well, it's also to some of the concerns that you
laid out that could possibly be there is I mean,
you've heard Joe Aspata others talk about how mature his
at bats are. That I mean, he is a guy
that will work a walk. He can be able to
have good recognition of what strike strikes. Yeah, I mean,
and it's not to say that you know he doesn't
have a strikeout here or there, because he does. I mean,
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including one that he had where it was even looking
back at the home plate umpirely, Hey you sure about that?
Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
Like, I don't.
Speaker 6 (02:03:50):
I don't think I'm seeing the same pitch that you
just saw going to the mit right there. But I
mean the other part is I mean sounding like mature
beyond his years in terms of how he carries himself.
I mean, that's been the one thing that has come
out of this spring camp this year that I think
has really impressed me the most with him, as everybody talking.
Speaker 5 (02:04:07):
About this is a guy that acts like he belongs. Okay,
and no question about it. If it wasn't for this,
excuse me, get an extra year thing that you have
and with minor leaguers, right, if it was with when
I say minor leaguers with guys that are prospects, and
you get the extra year before you play him and
you don't play them for the first fifteen games, if
it wasn't for that, but you can get that on
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the back end by playing him all year long. Let's
say that that rule didn't exist. Are we having this conversation?
Speaker 6 (02:04:39):
Probably not having this conversation, because then there wouldn't be
the perceived pressure that you need that he needs to
play every single day. I mean, if that's the case,
then go ahead and have him up here, because I mean, look.
Speaker 5 (02:04:50):
Now, I'm just talking about would he be on the
major league roster?
Speaker 6 (02:04:53):
Yeah, yeah, if you don't question, yeah, if you don't
have that, we're not having this conversation right now because
he's here.
Speaker 5 (02:04:58):
That's exactly right. And so and then again, I hear
it all the time, and you know what, not people
have their opinion and it's all I love that. But
let's get real here. We are way too protective of well,
what if, what if he has? What if he has
some failures? I hope he does, and he will. He
will on a regular basis most of the time. Every
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single day you'll have some sort of a failure, whether
that's striking out. You don't go four four every day.
And as a matter of fact, the chances are you
going to go for four more than you go four
for four as a veteran, ten year veteran Hall of
Famer or not. I just to me, I'm maybe I
think different because I've seen it with players and been
in locker rooms, and some guys just handle failure and
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success better than others. And the only way you know
is by running him out there. Well, what if we
lose him as a prospect, then he was never gonna
be worth anything anyway. You just found out sooner. So
I'm I don't And some guys have swagger even if
they're hitting one eighty five. Hell when Bregman, even though
I know as veteran, but even as a rookieman goes
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if he starts slow. There was never a question. Man,
I'm worried about us. I'm worried about his his psyche.
Is he going to be okay? No, you were never
worried about it, and you never have worried about it
to me. If it wasn't for the rule there, the
conversation will be over, he's your starting right fielder, let's
go play.
Speaker 6 (02:06:16):
Well, it's also too I mean, if he has the
struggles up at the major league level, then it's like, okay,
we kind of expect that to be the case because
he's facing the best of the best. These are going
to happen. You're gonna have some opers here. You're going
to have as you mentioned, the sombrero games, those are there.
It doesn't matter how good you are, you are going
to have that game when you play at that level.
But it's also where we've brought in, you know, the
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conversation about Chaz and Jake. I think as the season
goes along, you're going to have one of those guys
who are not going to be everyday players for you
because he can't because the bat out of Chaz McCormick
is too inconsistent, even when he's better than what he
was last season. And Jake Myers, I mean, look, we
can continue to say, oh, hey, you know, I want
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to have that Jake Myers that was at Yankee Stadium.
Remember Dana Brown mentioning that last year. The problem is
with Jake is it seems like it's all or nothing.
It's either man, this guy, Okay, hey we might have
something here, or it's there's another double play, yep, there's
another three strikeout game. There's too many more of those
than there are of the good moments that we've seen
out of his bat.
Speaker 5 (02:07:20):
Well, let me ask you this. If a center fielder
or a right fielder that's a veteran hits two twenty
and doesn't possess a rocket launch or arm, but we
keep him up here every day, what's the difference If
he's working.
Speaker 6 (02:07:34):
Good at bats he's getting on base here and there.
I mean, because that's the thing with Jake is I mean,
I even heard, you know, our good buddy Steve Sparks saying,
why not if you're a guy with his speed, put
a ball on the ground every once in a while,
but laid down a bunch doesn't hurt you get on base.
I know what you can do with the legs, but
I need you on base, is the point.
Speaker 5 (02:07:51):
Okay, at their very worst, all three of them, let's say, Meyer,
let's just go Myers, Cam Smith and Chas McCormick at
their very worst, they're all gonna hover. Let's say, at
the very worst they are two twenty hitters. Sure, okay,
Now let's go at their very best, very past Myers
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pay reach their potential. Who's the best player? Oh, Cam Smith? Okay?
The question then, as long as you're sure that you're
not worried that he's gonna wilt. And once again, I
wouldn't have traded for him if I thought he was
a fragile personality, because fragile is a rookie. You're gonna
be fragile as a fourth year guy. That's called DNA, buddy,
that's called DNA, and I would much rather if somebody
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told me, Sean, you want to struggle against seven on
seven or do you want to struggle against eleven on eleven?
Let me struggle against eleven on eleven. Get the living
crap kicked out of me, because I'm going to toughen
up and say, Okay, now I'm seeing what the real
stuff looks like. Seven on seven's fake football. Eleven on
eleven is real. So I if I'm throwing three picks
and seven on seven, then you suck ass. Okay, So
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let me suck ass against big league pitching where they're
throwing a hook on me and then hit me with
the splitter and then pumping ninety eight upstairs. Okay, I
got you, but I'm gonna go look at the tam
and say I am gonna get you the other way
next time. So to me, it's not like you're competing
against two seventy five to eighty hitters at driving ninety runs.
This is hard. This has been such a brutal organization
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for young guys to have a chance. It takes Korea
to leave. It takes Reregman to be traded to have
a chance to go in there and play. This is
finally a roster where the path is like if he
earned it during spring training, there's an opening, and there
may be more than one, and you've got a monster player.
To me, this is this is not a hard decision.
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To me, this is a no friggin brainer. I'm not
asking you to go out there, guy who struck out
twenty seven times in spring training. I'm just saying, take
a look at their worst, he's probably better than both
at his best. It ain't close. So you tell me
what you do.
Speaker 6 (02:09:50):
I mean, I think that the decision has been made,
at least for us, and I mean I think in
some ways it's also been made from the astros too.
That's the reason why you're seeing him out in right field.
So we'll see if indeed they do go that route
when they do break camp here at the end of
the week. We mentioned Jeremy Pani, you two, I do
want to get him into the conversation because, I mean,
we've seen what he can mean to this team when
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things are going really well for him, So we'll see
if he is able to be that guy for this
team this season. Ronnie, Tim, see you guys right there.
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At CHELINI used to always hit that he and Fred
were partners for a long time. Huh yep, yeah, God
bless him too well, what a great human he was. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (02:10:52):
I had a chance to actually get to meet him
a few years ago when he was working in Atlanta.
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So that's the thing.
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Those those old CNN guys him around and you're like, gosh, man,
the crew they had rocking there back in the day.
But anyway, it is the Sean Salisbury Show. Astros off
today from grape Fruit League Action, their final off day
before the day before they start the regular season a
week from Thursday. But we're gonna get Lance McCullers Junior
(02:11:19):
on the mound tomorrow against the Nationals. They'll play the
rest of the week and then they'll come back home
take on the Sugarland Space Cowboys for a couple of
nights and then Opening Day from er Valdez on the
mound for the fourth straight season as the Astros will
get the season going against the Mets a week from
Thursday and Rockets back on the home floor tonight. Already
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told you about Derek Stingley Junior getting the three year
contract extension, eighty nine of that guaranteed out of a
ninety million dollar deal. He is the highest paid defensive
back now in NFL history. And we've talked a lot
about U of H being in the NCAA Tournament. They'll
take on SIU Edwardsville on Thursday at one, number three
overall seed in the entire sixty eight team field, but
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the number one there in the Midwest region. And Rory
McElroy wins the three hole playoffs there at the Players Championship,
outlasting JJ Spawn. JJ Spawn a triple bogie on the
seventeenth flew his t shot, then didn't do the ten
cup McAvoy of just go ahead and just tee it
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up from right there and hit it again. He went
to the drop area and unable to do better than
a sixth there on seventeen.
Speaker 5 (02:12:34):
That's the hole that the tournament's usually decided and throughout
the day, and no time has a winner. I don't
believe a winner or somebody with the lead. The person
who won the tournament hit the ball in the water
at eighteen and McElroy hit in the middle of the
green and JJ spawn flew the water, flew, the flew
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the green, hit the water and sometimes when you jacked
up like that, and he'll look back and you know,
obviously a bit overwhelmed. I'm sure your McIlroy's won almost
thirty tournaments. I think this is number twenty eight. Spawns
one one and a really good player. His guts and
some of the shots he hit throughout the tournament were
really good. But now you had a night to think
about it and that intimidation factor community. It's not like
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Rory didn't tear it up here in these three holes.
He just played wayward drive on sixteen and then on seventeen,
you know, just hit it in the middle of the
green and what three putted, And then on you know,
hit another drive on eighteen with an eye and then
had to chip out and go up there and knock
it up there. So you it is McElroy can do
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that to you. And so can a lot of these
veterans spawn or learn. But let's face the facts. It's
it's and I hate using this word, so they it
was an overwhelming choke job in the in the playoff,
but he did a hell of it. When you say that,
people think, oh, that's horrible. It's it's a fact because
he just didn't play good golf in the three holes
and Rory played well enough to win. It's no. I
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don't think many people would have bet that Michael Roy
wasn't going to win this one because he's pretty damn
good and pretty damn consistent, and he's won at Pebble
Beach this year and he's won here. You're dealing with
one of the best players in the world right now.
Is obviously the he'll be the leader in the FedEx
Cup points, he'll pass Stepstraca, and he also has got
a really good start on the Player of the Year
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award early in the season.
Speaker 6 (02:14:21):
He's playing good golf, there's no doubt about it. You
mentioned Scotti Scheffler earlier going through a little bit of
his struggles, so he's hoping to be able to write
that before he gets to a Gusta. We're just a
few weeks away from the Masters, so that'll be exciting
to see play out when we get to that point.
We've been talking a lot about the astros. Jeremy Pania
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one of those guys. Ronnie gets to you here in
just a second, but I mean he can lengthen this
lineup this year, and you hope that what you're seeing
in the spring is a precursor of what's to come,
because I mean we've seen it numerous times. I've talked
about it when I'm talking about the Rockets, that this
Rockets offense pretty much goes as far as Jalen Green
can take you. And if he's able to put up points,
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then you feel good about the team as a whole
being able to go that route. But with Jeremy Pania,
I mean, he showed you the year that you won
the World Series that he's a guy that can ignite
the bottom end of that lineup, and you're hoping that maybe,
oh that's seventh spot this year, six wherever you hit him,
that he can kind of lengthen things out from You
know what you're gonna get from Altuve, you know what
you're gonna get from jord On Jiner.
Speaker 5 (02:15:25):
The same deal.
Speaker 6 (02:15:27):
You think you like what you have in Christian Walker
and also east Sock Peretis. I mean, it's just this
is a lineup that's looking to be able to lengthen
itself out as much as possible.
Speaker 5 (02:15:36):
Yeah, he can. Also he's had great success hitting in
a two hole, so you know you have that ability
if necessary. But for him, it's just better command of
the strike zone. And at the end of the season,
it felt like the way he was hit and affected
some of his defensive play. He'll get that short up.
He's a really good player and Gold Glove potential, we
know that, but as long as he doesn't chase bad
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pitches and he's listen to the physical ability ability. He's
so strong and I actually expect more home runs from
him without trying to hit home runs for him. Just
do your thing, but you know, protect the strike zone,
chase chase competitive pitches. When he's at his worst, he's
chasing non competitive pitches. So if he's disciplined now in
year three as a as a guy who can length
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in the lineup, and that length is is it at
the front of the lineup, is at the back end
of the lineup. If you're hitting you know, all of
a sudden you get prey to hitting in the two hole,
Al two a leading off Jordon in the three, although
the temptation to hit Jord on two will be there.
Christian Walker four, yin or Diz five either paying your
camp Smith's six or seven, depending on where you want.
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And then the dubon Jake Myers at the end of
the lineup, unless you want to move paying you down
to Hollywood suggests it hit him in nine. So you
have basically a guy who's a top order hitter. But
if he simply just changes his command of the strike
zone on pitches that are not competitive Jeremy Paine, you
will have will be just fine, just like he did
in the post season. We know he's got pressure chops.
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He's proven it last year, you know the struggles that
he started pretty hot and was doing a good job.
But his whole thing is too He doesn't need aggressive
is one thing, desperate to another. Just needs to command
the strike zone a little bit better, and when he does,
he's got plenty of ability, it seems like.
Speaker 6 (02:17:18):
And to your point about the chops, it seems like
when the pressure could have gotten the best of him,
it would have been his rookie season. Oh, I got
to be Carlos Korea. I got to be him. I
gotta be you know, I've got to be that guy.
And somewhere along the way, either he understood it himself
or somebody got to him and said, we need you
to be Jeremy Pania.
Speaker 5 (02:17:34):
We don't need you to be Carlos Korea. You're not
going to be him. Yeah, And sitting down with him
at the Astros fest, you know, the to before they
left for spring training, there was a just kind of
sitting next him. There was a quiet, work in silence type.
And there hasn't been a lot of fanfare this offseason.
You know, I'm sure the fans love him, but there's
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a lot of chatter. He's just kind of done some
things in silence. He didn't you know, he's not he
doesn't to bench press the team bus. He's got plenty
of plenty of strength and athleticism. And it felt like
talking to him that he was just that he felt
like this was it's like Saturday to gusta movie year
for him and for him natural ability. He's going to
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be fine. Just lay off the stuff that you don't
you don't have to Chase Man and if he's if
he's as good as we think he can be, you
talk about lengthening the lineup. It also gives you versatility
in the lineup because it's rare that you can have
a guy hitting in the seven hole and then also
hitting a two hole on a regular basis that you
don't have to force there, that you can put there
and have great success doing it.
Speaker 6 (02:18:36):
I love it, and don't carry over the negativity if
that is starting to happen there at the plate, don't
carry it over in the field, which we saw him
do a few times last season.
Speaker 5 (02:18:44):
It takes so it's hard the best in the world
compartmentalize the gold gloves separate from the batting title. That
regardless or the golden sombreros, still doesn't effect because even
though you may strike out three times in a game
and have a bad day at the plate, the ability
to go in the hole and get a ball and
throw somebody out maybe the most important thing you did,
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over and above even if you'd got three hits, and
you see that happen like I compared to like a
good point guard. When Jason Kidd was winning, when he
won the NBA title, with the Dallas but also as
a player, but also in his career, he could take
over a game and score six points because you know
what he did. He'd give you eighteen assists, he'd give
you fourteen rebounds, and the fact even if he wasn't
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shooting well or not taking shots, to still control and
dominate a game. And there's some magic Johnson could do
the same time. I'm just using him because he's right
down and it was recent and I had tickets, say
watching them play, and I used to say the same
thing about hinz Ward. Hines Ward used to be able
to control or commit to a game and be successful
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and catch two balls. Why he'd block the dog crap
out of you. He would wear your ass out blocking you.
So even if he wasn't getting the ball, instead of
pout and not getting his, he'd go make sure he
got is another way. And so he would instead. And
you know, we always think that it's the nine catch,
one hundred and thirty yard guy that dominates the game.
Sometimes it's the two catch, block your ass off and
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get downfield and create a big run in the secondary.
And that's who heinz Ward always was as a football player,
and he wasn't pouting in the locker room after is
doing his thing. So it's the same thing here. You
can control and dominate a game defensively even if you
haven't had a great offensive day and you have to
compartmentalize in baseball.
Speaker 6 (02:20:28):
Well, I mean it's funny too. I heard a story
of a guy talking about that. The first time you
ever heard heines Ward block somebody, He had to turn
around there for a second to be like, who was that? Yeah,
It's like, no, that was the receiver that just did that.
It wasn't the other way around because what he did
was changed. Even if he didn't block you.
Speaker 5 (02:20:44):
He made those inside linebackers on the crack back without cutting,
where you'd peel back and you'd knock the guy's unit
of dirt. Right, is that those linebackers their head was
on a swoow knowing our safeties or somebody down in
the hole in the lane would be like that dude,
because he did not take a playoff and instead of
put there's plenty of receivers now I didn't get mine.
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What's going on?
Speaker 9 (02:21:07):
Now?
Speaker 5 (02:21:07):
What else did you do when you didn't get your
Do you block somebody or did you take the playoff
because it was run away for you. That was Neverraheind's ward.
It's the same thing here. Dominate a game when you're
not hitting well? Can you do that? It's like a pitcher.
Can you dominate a game when you don't have your
best stuff? And if you can, things are different. People
like the Grinders, no doubt about it. Ronnie, see you
right there if you want to join Ronnie on the
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phone line seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.
It is a Sean Salisbury Show. He's Sean Triple E,
Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews here on your home of the
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Speaker 2 (02:21:40):
I had lived there for the Sewn Salisbury Show continued, So.
Speaker 6 (02:21:45):
The Rockets hoping they can hold on to that throughout
the rest of the regular season. Astros are off today,
They're gonna get the Nationals tomorrow to continue Grapefruit League
action at Lance McCullers Junior gonna be on the mound
for that one. We've been talking a lot of Cam Smith.
We'll get into even more of that conversation here. Derek
Stingley Junior agreeing to a three year contract extension with
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the Texans eighty nine million dollars guaranteed ninety million as
a whole, and he is now the highest paid defensive
back in NFL history and the Cougars the number one
seed in the Midwest region. They're going to open up
action on Thursday, one o'clock against SIU Edwards. Phil Let's
get on to some of you on the phone lines, Ronnie,
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and Houston wants to weigh in here on the Shawn
Salisbury Show. Ronnie, what's going on, Buddy.
Speaker 12 (02:22:34):
Good morning guys, And just one quick comment about the
Cam Smith deal. A lot of people won't remember when
Jeff Bagwell came up, they didn't move him over to
first base until like three days before the end of
spring training. Well, I think Yogi finally decided or told
him that, you know, put this down for a space
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he's hitting, he could, you know, play first. So I'm
not worried about whether Cam will you know, succeed in
right field. He's a baseball player. He knows how to
play the game of baseball. And you know, even if
he has the games where he goes over three, not
everybody's gonna get a hit every time they come up.
Even Jordan is going to have bad games, so don't
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worry about it. Put him out there. I'm kind of
curious about some of the guys who may or may
not make the roster with regard to bench players, Whitcomb, Decenzo,
the guy that got Brendan Brendan Rodgers. You know, it's
gonna be kind of curious to see who who makes
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it to the to the roster. And and as far
as the Cougars, I you know, hopefully they'll win. I
mean they should win, but I'm a little worried about
that eight to nine matchup between the Bulldogs and the Bulldogs.
Uh gut that.
Speaker 5 (02:23:55):
Georgia Zach and Georgia. Yeah, that's that's two good teams
that they're a low c it can beat you, no doubt,
and they're well coached.
Speaker 9 (02:24:02):
Peer Yeah.
Speaker 12 (02:24:03):
I say Mark Peugh has been is.
Speaker 5 (02:24:05):
A hell few Mark Mark Fugh, Yeah, no doubt, he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 12 (02:24:10):
And so it's like crazy and it's thinking about basketball.
This may be a comment for future. Uh it's Gonzaga now.
Gonzaga now considered a blue blood. You know, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Indiana,
U c l A, all these schools that are blue bloods,
so called blue bloods. What constitutes the blue blood? What
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makes a blue blood?
Speaker 5 (02:24:34):
Yeah, it's great, great point, Ronnie, and great call. Thank
you for as always, we always appreciate you. To me,
I think it's it's it's worth pondering. Mark Few has
stayed there when he's at other opportunities to leave, which
I love. And they are now getting top of the line,
you know from the chet Holmgrens of the Red they
get frontline, big time recruits. I don't know if there's
a time frame on dominating and being a final four
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power in college battle basketball that constitutes when do you
become a blue blood? Of course, they're not Duke Carolina
Kentucky yet as far as when you say blue blood
Kansas where they've been doing it for decades after decades.
But I'll tell you this, I'd say basketball powerhouse they are.
They've become when we say basketball powers that every year
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that you got to take notice agains zagat they've become that.
I probably fall a little short on the blue blood
just because it's uh when I when I'm thinking, Okay,
Kentucky and eight Alph Rupp, there's the history Mark Few
is the history. John stocked in. I mean, that's the
history of this team. So that's that, right. So there
is a but when you say Thad model, a lot
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of people don't know who that is unless you're a
basketball person, right yeah, So yeah, for me, I think
they're on the edge. I do. It's like, what do
we can when do we consider a team a dynasty?
Is it two wins? Three wins? Some say it's you
got to win three championships? So are the Kansas City
Chiefs of dynasty? They are? They absolutely are? Were the Astros?
Are they a dynasty? When you do it that longer
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the Braves run when they had that run, I believe
that is a dynasty. But I don't know how many
championships is exactly? If there's one stand pad answer, you
gotta win three. To me, what the Assos have done
by dominating their division dynasty. So as far as a
blue blood, I don't know. Put it this way, it's
a powder blue if it is a blue blood program
at Gonzaga. But if you're talking about a team now
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that can go get as good a player as there
is in the country that want to go play there. Now,
the problem is when it comes to nil and pay.
I don't know if they're ever going to be able
to compete with the big boys, but I can tell
you this, getting talent and being well coached, they got
blue blood in them. Basketball powerhouse.
Speaker 6 (02:26:39):
Yes, well, I think for some of the others that
you mentioned, I mean, if you're saying they're power to La, right, yeah, well,
I mean they actually are powder blue, but the others
are royal blue with the national titles and being able
to do it throughout generations. I mean, Kansas they've been
able to do it all the way, even before Roy Williams.
Speaker 5 (02:26:58):
But what is the what is it? Is it three decades?
Is it two decades? Is it three days of basketball?
Mark feugh Now has been going on. I mean that,
and it's also I also think part of me a
dynasty is where somebody like Denny Crumb stays at Louisville
for all that for a long period of time.
Speaker 6 (02:27:13):
It's people will say it's culture. No, that's a program.
Like good teams are there a program, They're there year
in and year out. I mean, you know, when Brad
Nesler was on the station a couple of weeks ago,
he threw out blue blood with you of age, said
Kelvin's built that program in the.
Speaker 5 (02:27:31):
Beatings become it well. And the thing is that you
start to see what why this is possible. Kelvin's built
it into a basketball powerhouse. But you go back and
remember now Fi Slam a Jamas. That was in the eighties,
you know what I'm saying. So we're talking about it
just in between there. So did the Blue blood start?
Then they had a little down. Hell, even Duke has
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had their times down, Kansas has had their times down,
not very many of them. North Carolina it's been I mean,
they've had a couple year so what constituted. But I
can tell you this that Gonzaga University of Houston, even
if you're not considering Blue Blas, you sure hell got
to call them basketball powerhouse because I'll be honest with you,
Houston and Gonzaga are a far bigger powerhouse of the
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last fifteen years than our decade, let's just say decade.
Then UCLA's been and I grew up in Ucla. Was
when you mentioned Ucla, if you said give me the
Mount rushmore basketball powerhouses, Ucla was that team along with
Kentucky and Adolf Rupp and John Wooden and you know, uh,
North Carolina and Dean Smith, those were those were the
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big dogs, and then if the Dukes when Skryzchewski got
there for a long period of time, Indiana and Bob Knight.
I mean, yeah, there's they're they're they're charging both Houston
and Gonzaga and Mark Feugh. The impact Mark Fu's had
on Gonzaga and they may coach differently, but it's a
similar to the impact that Kelvin Sampson has had on
this and Mark Fugh is not leaving and you know
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who else and leaving Kelvin Sampson. I believe this is
going to be coach Sampson's last gig. I mean, I
think he's coaching here and it'll turn it over to
his son, let's hope, and maybe he'll go. But he
had an NBA opportunity when he took this gig, and
he's had other opportunities because who doesn't want Kelvin Samson.
I didn't coach. Sampson's going to coach here until he's done,
and I don't think he may go be an assistant
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or a consultant for somebody, but I don't think he's
anywhere near retiring. If he doesn't want to. I mean,
if he wants to, he is too good right now,
and we need to grab him like like a Jeff
Van Gunnybred. Who was it? You're youing around the ankles
around the Cavs. That's what we need to do with
Coach Sampson and hoping that due. Don't even consider that
right now. Keep that out of your mouth. He's not
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mentioned it. But you get my point. At this stage,
you just start working year to year, especially when it's
you got family there you think could take over and
do a great job too. So we're fortunate to have
him here and we have one of the best, if
not the best coach in America.
Speaker 6 (02:29:48):
You get to a certain point where you don't have
to chase. He doesn't have to chase anymore anything. That's
what it is.
Speaker 5 (02:29:52):
And he also in recruiting players now recruit coach Sampson.
That's what it seems. To recruit and get to their
living room because he cares, but they recruit. It's like
saving at Alabama when he's winning. It got to a
point where you recruited coach saving, we don't. That's exactly
That's pretty much what it is, all right, Brad, Bill.
See you guys right there. We'll get you in before
we close up shop. Here today on a Monday edition
(02:30:13):
of the Seawan Salisbury Show, he's Sean triple E, Emmanuel Olmore,
Dan Matthews here, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:30:20):
Let the celebration start, or Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 6 (02:30:28):
That's like, I forget the player we were talking with
last year and it was me and Ross when we
were out there and we were like, hey, what are
you gonna do for the rest of the day. He's like,
you know, a couple of the guys thinking about going
to play golf. I was like, no, man, tough tough life.
Tough life there. But anyway, Astro is going to finish
that up. Rockets on the home floor again the night
six o'clock Rockets Launch pack coming your way for the
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Rockets and the Sixers at Toyota Center.
Speaker 5 (02:30:51):
U of H the number one.
Speaker 6 (02:30:52):
Team in the Midwest region and to take on SIU
Edwardsville on Thursday. Rory mcelroyd, when's the three hole playoff
over at JJ spond at the Players Championship And also
Derek Stingley Junior three year contract extension with the Texans
paint of about thirty mili per so he is the
(02:31:13):
highest paid defensive back in NFL history. Let's get out
to the phone lines real quick for both Brad and Bill.
Brad go ahead, start us off quickly.
Speaker 5 (02:31:22):
Please Hello.
Speaker 1 (02:31:25):
Okay, you hear me?
Speaker 5 (02:31:25):
I got you, loud and clear, buddy, what's up?
Speaker 11 (02:31:29):
I don't know if you read about these some of
these free agents they picked up, but they're like, especially
this offensive lineman from the Vikings, he's like the worst.
Speaker 13 (02:31:42):
In fact, the analysts on the in the whatever wherever.
Speaker 9 (02:31:46):
I found it said that they're worst off right now
than they were last year, and that he didn't know
how the draft and saved them. And I'm thinking they
might need two offensive linemen in the draft. But that
guy from the Vikings they got, they said he was horrible,
that the only reason he got to play was his
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competition was injured, and when they when his competition got healthy,
they took him right out and put the other guy in.
And I'm not too good with these guys' names. They
should have gone after the Lions. Uh free agency that
the Titans got for nine manion. But you have to pay,
and they're getting away with these one year, two three
(02:32:28):
million dollar deals and you pay for chief, you're gonna
get crapped. I know Stroud has got to be punching
his fists through the wall, man thinking what are they doing?
Speaker 5 (02:32:41):
And anyway, Brad thanks man, Yeah, don't don't. Don't think
we're gonna get to our caller too. We got to
finish up. But I don't punch your fist through the wall.
If you're CJ. Stroud, we need you. Here's what one
team's trash can be another team's treasure. Sometimes you get bargains.
I assure you they have a plan though, yes they
right as we sit today. Then I'll lining up with
this right now. They will have a plan. This isn't
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what they're going to start the season with. So let's
let this get through the rest of free agency and
the draft to see what happens. Because they got rid,
of course, when you get rid of the team, I
mean a bunch of three guys. But they will have
a plan come for draft and more, I promise you.
And they were average last year. They can be average
again if that's the case, but I don't think they're
going to be They'll be better, all right, Just.
Speaker 6 (02:33:21):
A few seconds Bill, real fast, Indiana is not a
blue blood college basketball team.
Speaker 5 (02:33:28):
Now there is UCLA.
Speaker 12 (02:33:30):
The word blue blood needs to be abolished from college
sports right now. It's like saying Nebraska football is a
blue blood used to be no longer.
Speaker 5 (02:33:38):
Have a great day, gain thanks village, Bill. I think
they're all. I think UCLA and I think Indiana are
blue blood's, and I do think Nebraska is a blue
blood program. I just don't think their powerhouse that flips it.
I'm with you, I get it. I don't think you
have to be a blue blood program to be successful.
I think you have had had to have success and
you're going to go through it. But you're right right now, Bill,
you wouldn't look at it like that. But history, says
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Bob Knight, John Wooden, who had Nebraska with Tom Osbourne
and the rest. I think their blue blood programs that
right now are not football and or basketball powerhouses. Do
it again tomorrow. I'll be here, all right, let's go.
Speaker 6 (02:34:12):
He's Sean Salisbury special, Thanks Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore, Dan
Matthews here with you, Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming
up next right here on your Home of the Astros
and the Rockets. Sports Talk seven ninety
Saulsbury Old, Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury, there to usc truth.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, Bryan.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the Shawn Salsbury Show.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I didn't play any golf good morning. This weekend. I
had birthdays and got myself ready, was doing some spring
cleaning of the houses. Not like me. Well, Saturday, was
it Saturday or Friday Friday? The wind was ridiculous. I
don't think it was Friday Saturday maybe too. No, Saturday
wasn't bad. But I did a little, uh house cleaning.
I had birthday on Saturday at the house and so,
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and then Sunday just watched and was watching college hoops
all weekend. So I actually, which is not like me.
I did not play one round of golf this weekend,
which is a brutal for me when it's that kind
of weather.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
I was gonna say, I mean, when you got weather
like this, it's it's almost a prerequisite you need to
be out there. But now, I mean everything else I
can understand. We did a little bit of yard work
on Saturdays.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So received my lawn and yeah, plant some flowers and
clean windows. We did all that this weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Yeah, well especially too. I mean, you know, playing a
little bit injured right here, the little weather stripping that
goes around your door. We bought this place about a
year ago, and they have like kind of like brass
or copper.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I don't know what it was.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
But one of the parts of it started to jut
out a little bit just from years of opening and
closing the door. And Friday, before I came in here,
the dogs already got up. So I said, all right,
I'll let them out and me and my broad shoulders
I'm walking by, smoked my elbow, oh yeah, and I'll
do it.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Gashed myself pretty good.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
So then decided at that time, you know what, I'm
going to go ahead and start the restoration right now.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Just ripped it off the wall.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
And then once I go I went to home depot,
got what was needed and was able to put it together.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But I kicked a middle of the night when you
wake up and your eyes adjusted, I kicked. I think, I, well,
I'm pretty sure I broke my middle toe on my
right and you can't do anyone broken toe that's good
on my right foot because I kicked it about two
in the morning, and I'm like, I wanted to hot
a wake dogs up and stuff, but my mother and
literally within minutes it's like swelled. It's like and wait,
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you're they're not damn thing you can do. They putting
a cast on a toe. So yeah, that that was
how it went. But that's still I'd still played golf
if I if I wouldn't have been doing stuff around
the house and getting ready for a good Saint Patrick's Day.
It's it's weird when it falls on a Monday. Saint
Patrick's Days, like three straight days. Well, I think.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
That's also to where you start to do things, uh
the adult way. Like in college, you still no matter
what day Halloween fell on, it doesn't matter if you
got eight o'clock class next morning, your party, You're you're
gonna be doing all everything that comes with it, the costumes,
the partying, all of that. And then you know, as
(02:59):
you get older, you start to adjust a little bit,
Like if Halloween, say falls on a Tuesday, well then
you're gonna have the Halloween party on Saturday night. That's
when you're gonna get your Halloween out of the way.
You're done Saint Patrick's Day. I kind of feel like
it's the same deal like as it's on a Monday
this year, so a lot of people, like a lot
of the bars around the area were doing their Saint
(03:20):
Patrick's Days on you know, Sunday day drinking or even Saturday.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
No, I did it on Saturday. I saw it up
close and personal at a place and went and watching
college hoops there as well. Saturday Sunday. I mean they're
charging you to get in. I mean they're all grain decorated. Yeah,
they bars are not stupid. They milk it. Matter of fact,
they probably love it on Monday because they doubled the
triple dip. They touch it on Saturday, then they have
it on Sunday and then the real day on Monday.
(03:46):
By the time you get to Monday is like damn,
I'm beating exhausted. But people will still do another excuse
for people to drink.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
No, I mean, you know, far being from us to
you know, try to find too many excuses to be
able to do that. But my godfather or every single
Saint Patrick's Day, no matter what they had fell on,
he and another good family friend, they would always go
to this one place off West Timer and that was
like their their tradition.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Every single year.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
This is before uber and everything, so you know, cabs home,
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Go to traditions. I love them.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Yeah, So we got our green on, and you knew
with you that I was gonna have my green on
because you know, far far be it from for me
to to not show up prepared, number one. But also
that if I wasn't wearing any green, you know, the
new guy around here probably gonna get a punch or
a pinch or something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
If if you got green socks at on and green
golf shirt on, I'd like to play some golf later
today if possible. Hopefully you get that chance. Yeah. Sometimes
work gets in the way of pleasure. That happen, but regularly, yeah, regularly.
But day, what are you gonna do? We get a
little uh the PGA Tour, uh, the players tournament heading
(04:56):
into a playoff this morning, So it'll be a fun
it's a It was a great weekend and it'll be
a great week And I cannot believe we're in the
middle of March and baseball is almost here and people
are getting paid in the NFL. Yeah, I mean Cincinnat
Bengals are paying some receivers now, brother, right, They're paying
some receivers.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
You know, it's the best to be this morning, Rocky Arsenal,
They both both those Yeah, he represents both guys. Higgins
did switch over to him according to reports. But yeah,
both of those.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Guys have the highest paid number two receiver in NFL
history and good to have the highest paid non quarterback
in NFL history, both on the same team. Now, only
problem is if you score forty can you give up
forty four? And then they why they don't have Trey Hendrickson.
I've signed and sealed and deliver. Why they're allowing this
to happen is asinine for the Cincinnati Bles can't get
off the field.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
But I mean there is that, but it's also I mean,
it seemed like that Miles Garrett was going to force
his way out of Cleveland and.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Force his way into a new deal. There you go,
so I mean, money will stop trade talk now. But
it's not like the Bengals, though they do that.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I mean, the Bengals are perennially known as being one
of the teams don't Nike go on dime you oh.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Cheat, They will cheap their way through it. But you know,
I mean they have gotten better because they paid. They
paid Burrow, but this is a team when I was playing,
and even after that, they were limited scouting department. They
were the most matter of fact, they most understaffed scouting
department football, and they didn't devote a lot to much
of anything. And then then Marvin Lewis got there, they
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started to get better. Couldn't win a playoff game, but
got to the playoffs, and Andy Dalton got paid a
little bit. But they realized that you had to pay
more in order to keep the best receiver, or if
he's not best, he ain't third. Okay, and Jefferson's the
only other guy in that category, So you got those
and then realizing how important number one is. At least
they get this, and I'm sure Zach Taylor has something
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to do with this, their coach. At least they understand
that number one is always better when number two is
really good, and that's what this team needs to do
as well. Nico Collins. They thought they had it, you know,
in digs, but now with the injury and unfortunately didn't
work out the way they wanted to with him going
somewhere else. But now you're hoping, okay is is the
number two here now? Gonna be better, and it will,
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and I'm not sure they're done looking for to that guy.
But Cincinnati realized that and paid him. But you can't
as well, witness, you're not winning a championship in this
league as a finesse offense. That now, I'm gonna tell
you this, Cincinnati, I guarant asked you wish they still
had Joe Mixon. I promise you, because that's a physical
beast and we're fortunate to have him here. But you
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cannot win a championship in this league as a finasse
team appears so well, the Rams did make no mistake
when Kurt Warner's team was there. Their offensive line was physical,
they played sound defense. Look at the Super Bowl, I
mean at how I mean they you know what a
yard away? Half yard away, that's exactly right. But they
were a physical team that could also fantasy to death.
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And their finesse was Falk and Holt and Isaac Bruce
and Oza here a team and Ricky pol They were
low the Cincinnati Bengals in that division especially, you have
to play defense two years ago, they're a defensive coach.
Was a Super Bowl, I mean it was a high
and want and need and everybody valued him. A year later,
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they don't play defense. Two years later, look what happens.
Two years later they fire him. Yeah, so, and he's
a hell of a defensive coordinator, but he's no longer there,
so you better play defense. But you also got to
give him players. It's one thing to coach a team,
but if you're coaching sixes and they don't play like
eights and you can't maximize it, you don't win. And
against Baltimore, Pittsburgh's always going to be relevant because of
Mike Tomlin. I know, the quarterback room's empty. And then
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you mix in the Cleveland Browns, who should be better,
and they can't find a quarterback. That's a tough ass division.
And so they paid their offense. But it doesn't matter
how good Burrow and Chase are or Higgins. If you
do not pay and play defense, they'll get to the
playoffs and then they will get beat. And you see
every year they start slow Burrow and Cincinnati or Alex
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Bregman start slow picking up play out of their mind,
you know, the last two thirds of the season, trying
to make up for the start, and you say, man,
if we could have just won, if we could have
just won a gamer if they want a game in September.
They're in the playoffs, but they you know, meaning just
one more game in September, and they didn't so well.
I like what Cincinnati's doing. Like I said, they've upgraded
their scouting staff and they're better now at it. But
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they're no longer referred to as cheap, at least on
the offensive side of the ball. But they better show
it up on defense. And this team here knows they've
done it the right way. Got a quarterback and they
play defense, and they got a physical runner. Now clear
out that house and any turd that's on the offensive line,
move them on, and let's see if we can get
this thing right. Bobby Sloan was an MVP coach. I
mean everybody wanted him, like, yeah, this time last year,
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we were all over and now I think we got
him back. Now he's an assistant Miami, and that doesn't
mean that's not a bad thing, but he was going
to be a head coach, right and they moved on
quickly because they didn't get the physicality they need. You
better be physical, and you better play defense, and you
better have a guy under center that's good and sometimes great.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I mean the Texans, at least for right now, we
believe they've got two out of those three because we
feel good about the quarterback. The defense, same deal there.
It'll be a top five defense in the league this year.
You watch well, especially with that secondary that you've got,
and you add to it with CJ. Gardner Johnson, and
you know you have Derek Stingley, who I mean soon
enough he'll be getting his back thrown at him too, so.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Probably being the highest paid corner in the league.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I was gonna say highest paid corner, but I'm not
sure that over forty million per like Jamar Chase is
going to get. I don't think that's going to be
throwing his direction. But he's not going to be far off. No,
I bet you can't pay a corner that much money.
You just can't. That's reserved for the edge rushers. And
I mean, who'd have thought we'd be paying that to
a wide receiver, But we are, and rightfully so. But
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I don't think mean three years from now, you might,
but I don't think right now I can go and
make my highest paid player.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
A corner. Now. It may be on this team, but
until Stroud gets his and they move on. I absolutely
love Stingley, but you've got to he's he's still a
minute away from it in a corner position. Well, great,
Mike Haynes ain't in the league just right now, you know,
and Lester Hayes. But Stingley's pretty damn close. He's going
to be a special player. But in order for the
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and he'll get close. You're exactly right, but he is
highest paid corner. He won't be the highest paid defensive
player I would. I always build my offenses in the
defenses inside out and offense start inside out and an
edge rusher. If you don't have that guy, won't matter
how good the secondary is. It's exactly what you just said.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
He'll be the highest paid for now because it's gonna
be less than twelve months.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And then C. J.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Stroud will Anderson Junior will both say in another quarter
your time was nice, but here you go and it's not.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Sometimes it's not the best player.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
He may be the best corner in league. Sometimes not
the best player. It's the best player at the right time.
Dak Prescott's not the best quarterback in the league. Yearly salary,
he still makes more than anybody and he hadn't won
a Super Bowl. So it's just it's timing and who's
willing to pay you. But they're gonna blow when Mahomes
wants to get paid or the next guys get paid somebody.
We're about two years away from seventy five million a year.
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It seems like it's trending that way, that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
I mean, it seems like every single time, all this
guy's the highest paid, and then about a month later, Oh,
this guy's the highest paid.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
You should think where we're going now. Tom Brady made
about just under three hundred and fifty million as a player.
There's nothing to do with all the other stuff. And
he always took less to make sure the team will
put rings on his finger. And Kirk Cousins, who's a
good player, he's about ten million or five million. Brady
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did in twenty three years, Cousins in thirteen years. They're
within like ten million of each other. If Cousins making
more money than Brady, that's the perspective. That is the perspective.
And Kirk Kirk Cousins will leave the league without winning
a Super Bowl. So a sixty million dogar perty's gonna
go by by Tua to his fifty three, and he
should because he's been in a Super Bowl and he's
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been more productive and to his good he's gonna make
fifty five. So if he's making fifty five, the Mahomes
of the world, those guys, it's what we're in. Prescott,
who hasn't been to a Super Bowl's making sixty We are,
we are within By the time this calendar hits twenty
twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, we'll have a guy making
sixty five to seventy five million a year. Well, sixty
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five will be sixty five will be easy. We're already.
We're damn we're one. We're a stone throw away from
that seventy five seventy million. You have to seventy five
million a year. You have to in this league. You're
going to have to make the quarterback separate from the
rest of the soury cap. You just have to do it.
It has to be the quarterback paying whatever you want.
If you want to pay them a hundred million, go
for it. Then everybody else falls under the soar cap.
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We are headed there. If we're not, the rich are
just going to the teams with the best quarterbacks. Are
just going to play pay it all there. You're going
to have to do that in order to just make
it work. Otherwise we're ten years away from one hundred
million dollar quarterback.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Well, that's why of the teams that drafts so well,
I mean, that's why they find themselves in the positions
that they do. And well, Kansas City is one of
those teams that drafts incredibly well.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
So, yeah, Jamar Chase T. Higgins both getting their money.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Chase four years, one hundred and sixty one million dollar extension,
one hundred and twelve of that guaranteed. This according to
Fox Sports, Higgins getting four years, one hundred and fifteen.
First two years of that deal are guaranteed. So we'll
get into some Texans as the show goes along too,
because everything that Shawn just mentioned, I mean, it applies
to them as they continue to build up their roster.
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Hadn't gotten any astros will do that. Coming up next
to U of H the number one team in the
Midwest region for the upcoming NCAA tournament. And you mentioned
it too, the Players Championship they extend into today. With
the weather yesterday there in Florida, all of that as
we're just getting going here on the Sean Salisbury Show.
He's Sean Salisbury, Dan Matthews, Triple, Emmanuel Elmore, Sports Talk
(14:33):
seven to ninety.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Buckle up, The Shawn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Continues, is gonna be a hell yesterday?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Tyler McGill. I mean, not necessarily a guy that's like
a game wrecker in this league, but still a guy
that's earned major league checks, been pitching at this level
for some time, and taking them right down the right
field line for a two run shot number three of
the spring.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Here's when people say it's minor league pitching. But if
it was a veteran Raken, they'd say, man, he had
a great spring. We have selective criticism and selective compliment.
They do it. They don't want to give the rookie credit.
When he's doing it. He's there and showing up. So
what happens when a veteran struggles, You know what, they'll say,
(15:20):
it's just spring training. Oh, it's only spring. Screw those
people who say that. Bottom line is make no mistake.
If you really are going to live up to and
tell us that this was open competition. Cam Smith is
a starter. When we open the season period period and
the upside. Matter of fact, the upside from him. You
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can combine Dubon Myers and Chas McCormick a good players.
One's a good defensive player, the other. We'll see what
offensive meeting McCormick. Is it two years ago or last year?
None of them have a good arm And then then
there's Dubon who's your Swiss army knife? Who is you know?
I know people want him to start every day, but
he's to move around. If you just look at about
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the upside, Listen, Cam Smith can go hit two twenty
just like the center fielder can. Okay, but what he's
not capable of doing is the stuff that Cam Smith
can do. Put him in the lineup, don't look back,
because you'll still get that ext year. The number of
games he plays. People think it's just got to keep
him back for the first two weeks or fifteen games
to get that extra year. The truth is that the
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other side of it that if he put him in
the lineup and he stays on the major league roster,
they get that back anyway. I don't know how many
games it goes and the depth of you know, of
the different layers of it, but I can tell you this.
The bottom line is, and by the time he gets
to that point, you're gonna you're gonna give him. If
he's playing great baseball, you're gonna extend him anyway. And
if he's not playing great baseball and he's a bust,
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well then well he ain't gonna be a bus This
dude is loaded with potential. I don't care who he's
hitting it off. I really don't. And it'll be tougher. Sure,
you face the Dodgers lineup, you got nine deep. Okay,
when you face a team like that, or you face
the Red I mean it'll be tougher. You face the Rangers,
you face the two really good pitching staffs. I can
just tell you this that if you're really doing it
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by potential and production in spring training, if the guy's
not on the major league roster, then you really didn't
let him compete. It's amazing to me. Oh, veteran, he'll
be fine. It's minor league pitching, he'll be fine out
that he's just getting into his mode. But when it's
a rookie who's kicking ass and doing everything you ask
him to do, it's oh it's against Yeah, Well, everybody's
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hitting against average pitching in the spring. They're getting loosened up,
they're getting going, trying to extend their arm and get
themselves ready for the regular season. It's no different, I
can tell you this. There's been no more Pains had
a pretty impressive spring. There's been no more impressive forget prospect.
There's been no more impressive player on the Astros this
spring than that dude. Period. So if it's open, put
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him in there, let him go and quit worrying about
the fragility of I'm talking about fans or media or
US or front office. Quit worrying about if the pacification
kicks in, and oh, he'd be sensitive. If he struggles,
I think he's gonna be okay, and I'd rather have
him struggle here than struggling double A.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Well.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's also, though, Sean, I think that, you know, for
everything we've heard about this guy, if indeed he does struggle,
and you do have to have the you know, hey,
Joe wants to see you. Dana's in there too, of hey,
we're sending you down. I don't think it's going to
be a cowering where he says, oh man, you know,
how am I ever going to get this form back
or anything like that. I think you'll look at it
and just say, I'm not ready yet. Why are you
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a number one prospect? Because not only were you held
in high regard as a physical prospect, and he is
a physical specimen. What I keep hearing, but if I'm
drafting a guy football, baseball, basketball, I got to know
the whole kit and kaboodle. Buddy, are you mentally tough?
Can you handle success? Can you handle failure? I've never
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met a player in the world in any sport that
was successful from the time he got off the team
bus and had no struggle. So the mental toughness for
me is going to be far more important than the
physical toughest.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
He said. Listen, when you're built like that and you
could swing a baseball bat like that, hit at all
fields and got power the other way and deadpool whatever,
and you can play multiple positions, I ain't worried about that.
It's all. It's always the one hundred and sixty two
game grind mental when you go, oh for fifteen, Kyle
Tucker wasn't very good his first hundred bats. Now, okay,
he wasn't very good. Bregman wasn't very good. Matter of fact,
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Bregman's not very good at the beginning of every season.
We'll now, yeah, yes, exactly. So point is is that
I don't care about well, if it's like this quarterback.
I wasn't worried about c. J. Stroud. If he struggled
his rookie year, expected what you got this year, You
expected that last yeah, yeah, yeah if you And if
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you'd struggle, guess what. Bryce Young got his ass kicked
as a rookie and people thought he was a bust,
came back, played some pretty good football and a team's
not very good, and you start to think the future
is looking pretty a lot brighter because you know what
they did. They said deal with it, and they set
him down and he didn't pout, he went to work,
and when he got the starting job back, it's better football.
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I'm not worried about camp Smith. I'm just telling you
right now, he's one of your best nine. He just is.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I gotta play him. That's the way I look at it.
And it's also too I mean, and we can carry
this over to the other side. And also John, I
see you want to get into some Texans. We'll do
that as well. But I mean, you know, I'm fully
on board with if you're gonna have him up here,
he plays every single day, because there is no reason
to have him up here unless you are playing him
every single day. A guy like Joey lo Berfido, he
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had a lot of that experience. He wasn't as highly touted,
so you probably could sit him a day or two.
But if you're going to have him and Zach Desenzo
kind of falls into the same thing. Chandler Roome just
writing about the same thing of if these guys are
going to be part of your twenty six, well then
they play.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Pay am right. My whole thing is, if you're going
to platoon him and he plays once every three days
or four days, send him to Triple A and let
him just get for it. That's a day. But stick
him in there, let him go through the struggles. Let's
find out how mentally tough he is, which I think
is going to be fine. Let him enjoy the successes,
and let him and see how level he is when
things are going good when things aren't. It'll happen. Every
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single player in the history of this game, Ted Williams,
all of them. They struggled at some point in time
they had trouble, you know, doing what they do, and
then they got out of it quick. It didn't fester.
You play him every day and you go and say, Okay,
this is what we're doing now, and it will benefit
you down the road next year. Hell, it may benefit
you by the time may hit. So to me, I
just I've never understood the You don't keep him up
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here just to be a guy staring. You put him
in the lineup. He's earned it. And if he if
he struggles, the sugarland ate far away, and if he's
mentally tough enough, guess what. Oh well, but I'm not
worried about him struggling. Like I said, Well, we're gonna
let the center fielder hit two sixteen and think he's great.
I mean, that's fine, I get it, and he's a
defensive player. But why can't we let the rookie hit
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two twenty five? And I don't think he will. But
oh well, well, I.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
At least feel like already even more with a shorter
sample size, I can count on him much more than.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
The other guy. Who do you want with a bat
in your hand outside al Tuova in the outfield? Who
do you want with the bat in your hand and
for it bats in a game you have to win.
Right now, I'd probably say cam Smith at this moment
with a no brainer and let's see because if they
all can go for four, then what's the big deal?
But who gives you the most upside when they're all raking?
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So I mean, because that's to your point, because you
both you know what Jake Myers is, you have a
good idea of what Chas McCormick is, because I mean,
that's the other thing is too Sean. I'm hearing about
all these adjustments.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I see a guy that's still kind of pressing up
there and not only pressing there, but I mean, I
mentioned this with Gordy on Friday. There was a play
in right field the other day that I said, Chas
McCormick a couple of years ago probably lays out and
makes that play. He got in his hell a little
bit pulled up and it dropped in front of him,
and I hope he's been two years ago. Chas McCormick.
Could he earned the outfield job. Now I'm in the
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right field the other side because with Katucker here, But
I'm telling you, man that if he just every he just.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Needs to hit the ball the other way. When he
became a poll guy, you know, with that close stance
and wanted to pull everything right bad idea. His strength
is hit the ball that did to right center and
let's deal with it.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
A guy that overthinks doesn't homer off. Garrett Cole in
the postseason. That was a guy. Hey, you know what, Hey,
he's here, he's good. But it's all mine. Beind this
batter's box. I can handle it. I can tell you
what they've done. You leave your glove on the mound,
somebody else come out and pick it up. And it
looks to me like cam Smith picked the glove up.
He's at least making a good case for it, that's
for sure. So we'll continue that on the other side,
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John on the northwest side, I know you want to
get into some Texans.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
We'll do that.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
By the way, too, Astros are off today. They get
the Nationals tomorrow there in West Palm. Lance McCullers Junior
going to be on the mound making the start for
that from ber Valdez also yesterday made official. It's something
we all knew, but Joe A. Spot is still putting
the official words to it. He's your opening day starter,
fourth straight opening day start. Haven't gotten into the rockets yet.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
We'll do that.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
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Speaker 5 (25:53):
Back in the two spots. Yeah, the Western Conference. This
team loves to give you some streak basketball, doesn't it
lose six win seven? I mean, but I can promise
you on your Bengal card you did not have when
this season started on March seventeenth, them in the two hole.
They just didn't. And it's really impressive, it really is.
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I love the coaches in this town, from Kelvin to Doka,
to Willie Fritz to Dmico Ryans Joe as Spot is
doing some great things. We're fortunate man. Obviously he's a manager,
but I'm so impressed with the way that he's able
to bring his team back in and somebody different on
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a regular on any night is the star this team's
This team's got a real chance. I don't know if
they can go in a long series and win the
whole thing series after series this year. Well, unless the
maturity kicks in when it matters at nutcut and time.
As long as they don't beat themselves, they'll be in
every game. I freaking love them, and they're impressive and
they are on a roll right now. It's a good time.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
To get on a roll for sure, Texans hoping at
a time they can get on a role this coming season.
And John on the Northwest side, appreciate your pacings. John,
what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Hey, I hope the Rockets are on their streaking. I
hope they do it during the playoffs. I have faith
that they'll do it. But on Cam Smith, you know,
I said last month that guy is going to be
a fine and it shouldn't be that big a surprise
to everybody because I mean, he was a number one
draft pick if I remember right.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
And I think that the only thing that worries me.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
A little bit is we're going to have to figure
out what to do about second base with the Astros,
and I think that's going to be up there. They
say Dubond is the guy right now, but I think
I think that infield is not going to be settled till.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Halfway through the season.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
To be honest, and regarding the Texans, I like what
they did with Christian Kirk when they brought him on
as a second receiver. You know they did his contract
where the fifteen million, I think there's just one point
seven of that that's base salary. The rest of it
was a signing bonus, so that's still freed up about
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fourteen million in cap space. I think that was a
brilliant move by Cassario, and they can still do some
things maybe in the free agent or you know, have.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Some more flexibility, like with their draft picks. So just
wand to weigh in on that. Thanks guys, I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
John. I'm I think that Christian Kirk's really good player.
I think he is and he'll he'll he'll succeed more
because quite frankly, Trevor Lawrence has been an up and
down quarterback. He has. He's been a he flashes a
brilliance and then at times he's just a guy. He'll
get He'll get more consistency here. They run it the
same deal when he was in Arizona with Kyler Murray.
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There's no doubt this is the best quarterback he will
have been with Stroud. You know, Kyler Murray inconsistent and
we obviously have seen Trevor lecas and one day Trevor
Lawrence looks like he belongs at the top of the heap,
and the next week, two weeks later, you're like, what happened?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
So?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And then Stroud's gonna be good for him, and he
I almost feel like he feels like, yes'n approved, I one,
they need another one, they need another one, So dominate,
get get three guys. But makes a good point about
second base, but de Bond could hold second base down.
I think you can listen if you get two sixty
five to two seventy out of them, I'm okay.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah, you're doing you're doing that. We're doing backflips and
I can't even do a back floor right.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I don't think that position offensively since al Tuove is
gonna be in the lineup every day and left field,
I don't think that position as long as you can
defend there. I don't think that position is gonna be
because you're gonna hit that. That's a seven, eight or
nine hitter. If if that's who if, if it is Dubon,
so in truth, Swiss Army NF goes there. I don't think,
and I'm with John, it may take a while to
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settle in. I don't think that's going to be the
reason this team wins a title or doesn't.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Well, the last time me and you were together, you
talked about we're gonna need a career year, maybe even
career years out of one or a couple of these guys,
no question. I mean, that's that's what's gonna happen. Is
that usually happen on teams to win championships in any
in any sport, you would think, so, yeah, I mean,
a lot of stuff has to go right. That's what
always cracks me up. All they got lucky, you damn right,
they got lucky. Have to at a certain point. But
I mean when the Astros wanted a couple of years ago,
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oh man, look at this bullpen. They'll never replicate that.
They didn't have to. They just needed to do it
right there, and they did.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
And it was career years. They were lights out. And
pitching has carried them for the most part the last
couple of years to where they whether it's get to
the World Series, fall a little bit shorter, win one,
it hasn't been. I mean hitting with all the talent
they've had in truth, pitching, whether it's the starting pitching
one year or bullpen the next. And they may have
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to do a lot of that this year as well,
Honest to god, get healthy there because now moving out
to me, they have scrambled around, think about they had
to go find a third basement. They think they got them,
they're still looking and see who the everyday second basement is,
and they've they're experimenting. You go out and you're piecing
things together. Rogers is doing some things that's exactly right,
and he's a Gold Glove winner, so you get a
little depth there. And you got a centerfielder that's not
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going to hit and he'll play good defense. And you're
still trying to find a right fielder losing Kyle Tucker.
There's been a lot of changes, man, so pitching is
going to have to do their thing again. And then
you may need a Cam Smith not play like a rookie.
You may need a Dubond to hit two eighty. You
may need Jake Myers to hit to forty five right
and McCormick to go back. You may need those things
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if you're gonna compete with the big boys, not may,
you're going to have them. And the Iron Deans is
gonna have to hit twenty five home runs driving eighty runs.
It just is well.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
You also just can't fall behind twelve games under five
hundred again.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
That happens again this year. This team's cooked well they're
offensively not good enough to chase that down this year,
then go they're just not well. It's just also too,
I mean, everything fell into place for you when you
fell behind ten games, you know, behind Seattle at that point,
and they started pissing down their leg too well, Syattle
did I'm talking about and then it mentally, you know.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
I don't know if it necessarily carried over to the
way they handled their offseason, but I still to this point,
far be it for me to feel bad for the Mariners,
especially all the belly aching their fans did after twenty seventeen,
And it's like, you're not even part of this, Like
why do you why are you even talking?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
You have nothing to say.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Rights I mean, at the same time, I mean, you
know you're right there and Jerry Depoto and everybody you
know to justin Turner's words, doesn't go for it and
try to go after Pete Alonzo or somebody like that
to say, oh, yeah, hey, you guys in Houston, we're
serious about this, like to go along with our pitching staff.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
We're here. You gotta worry about us. Their pitching staff's nasty,
and I assure you the Rangers will be better this
year than they were last year. I don't know if
they're a World Series better, but they'll be better because look,
who they're managed by is really good. So you can
expect great competition. But if you don't get some power
and clutch hitting, it just can't be yord On al
Tuvey and Payn Yend. You're gonna have Christian Walker, You're
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gonna have to have the other guys that you don't
talk about much. One of them or two of them
are gonna have to play, quite frankly, over their head.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
I'm not asking for this team to be four to
zero out the gate like they were zero to four
last year, but throughout the month of April early May,
five hundred baseball.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
At least be able to reach out and touch the
team in front of you. If that's the case, I.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Mean they just they looked non competitive at times last
year where you were like, this is gonna be a
long summer.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Continue, which made them the dog chasing the rabbit the
entire season at the track right of the entire season.
And that's a lot of stress to carry around. If
you can get through the first month and be okay, yeah,
now we got now, guys, start to get rolling and
get comfortable, rookies start to fit in. It's going to
be important for them to have well, what do you say,
a fast start. Just don't have a miserable start, and
that'll be important. That's the hope, all right.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Coming up next to the astros making a decision now
that some might have thought was going to be coming
at sometime during the season. We'll discuss that as we
close out six o'clock hour. It is the Sean Salisbury
Show right here. Sports Talk seven to ninety. The Sewn
Salisbury Show continues. No, no, Now, you know, previously, the
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last astro, Shawn as I was reading about this last night,
that had made the most consecutive opening day starts, Dallas
Kikeel from fifth teen to seventeen was the last guy
that made those opening day posts on the mound.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yeah. Having from er Valdez start the season is about
as surprising as uh, Scotty Scheffler last year. Yeah. Within tournaments,
you know, I'm sing, it's like it's a no brain.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I'm guessing the jail stint is starting to mess with
Scotty a little bit.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I'm wondering. I just think that the flat stick is
and he just can't roll the putt right now. And
in these tournaments you miss one or two. These guys
are all too good. Hell, the ninetieth player in the world,
you're knocking putts. It's like football. Defense travels or a sport.
Defense travels in any sport you play defense. University of Houston,
our Cougar's here that are kicking ass. Kelvin Sampson's team's
always gonna travel. They're gonna get to a certain point. Now,
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you gotta knock down shots in a bigger arena in
the final four. But defense, they're gonna it's gonna travel.
You'll be in every game. It's the same thing here.
You have you know, if you can putt, regardless how
far you can hit it, if you can put you're
in every turn it. And right now, the Scottie schefflerin
you could see the frustrates because he's had so much
success the last three years. You can start to see
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the frustration building, which is not like he's usually been
able to. Okay, I've watched the guy hit a bad
shot and then you say, what's going on? He made
a bogie and then made two pars and then he'll
go on Birdie, Birdie Eagle, and it's like, okay, right
this year the fos early, Yeah, this year, it's just
a little struggle, but hey, it's the guarantee that Frober
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is gonna run out there. Now, Hunter Brown, you can
run him out there too. But Fromber's been the guy
and rightfully so. And I can't wait to see how
he comes back mentally tough this year, because if he
can post every day and do his thing, he'll always
be a cy young candidate.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Well, it's a job interview, I mean really for him.
I mean because you know, the thought is probably it's
not going to be here in Houston, but somebody's gonna
throw a nice little check at him.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Quality lefty who's got great stuff. The only doubt that
the thing on him is can he handle his emotions?
That's that's that's AFPs. Sometimes there are a little bit
of an issue there, no question about it. But he's
gotten better at it. But as long as he can
handle his emotions when things aren't going well. But he's
a he's a left hander, and he's successful and he's
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got great stuff. Oh he's got to get paid. Hell,
if he pitched five hundred baseball. This year, he's going
to get paid. You're standing in line for guys like
that at the front of your rotation. But if he's meant,
if put his this way, if the mental toughness and
emotional toughness match the physical stuff, you'll you'll have a
sygh young candidate.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
I mean, and it's not only that. I mean, it's
what he's given you in the past. And I mean
you mentioned Hunter Brown, that's a guy that you want
to count on this year. Spencer Orghetty, same deal. And
it seems like every single time I bring up those
two guys, it's to think that I'm forgetting about Renel Blanco,
But no, I mean, he gave you great stuff, and
then soon enough you'll get Lance McCullers junior back in
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the fold and you want to see what he can
give you.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Luis Garcia, same deal. Yeah, And with with Ronel Blane,
what a performance last year. I think people are saying,
let's see it again, right and rightfully, and I understand
no question. And I would imagine if you're Bloker saying yeah,
I get it, I mean, are you a one hit wonder?
And he worked so hard and you couldn't be more
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proud of the way he did last year, come back
and do it again this year because he literally kept
this team together with his starting pitching last year. I
hope because if he is, if he's the number three starter,
if he's a number three and pitches like he did
last year, you're in really good shape.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well you're not als champions last year without him. I
don't think there's any doubt about guarantee. The line you
had about good defense. I mean, that's one of the
lines that Imo Doka has is good defense leads to offense,
and well, at least for the last six games, that's
been the case for the Rockets. So we'll get into
them and also to the decision that the Astros have
in front of them.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
We will talk about that.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
To open up to seven o'clock hour right here, Sean
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Speaker 6 (38:46):
Astros final week of spring training. It is nice to
say that it is on the horizon. We're closed and
a week from Thursday we're gonna be over at dyk
In Park and the season will get underway that day
from Bervelde is gonna be on the mound, his fourth
straight opening day start for the Astros. The Astros are
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off today, They're gonna get the Nationals tomorrow there Cacti
Park at the West Palm Beaches and you're gonna get
to Lance McCullers making the start, which is a good
positive step in the right direction for him. As we
already know, Sean, he's gonna be down in Sugar Lamb.
That's where he's going to start off. He hasn't pitched
competitively in two years, so to think that he was
just going to break camp with this team, step right
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into I don't know, four five spot in the rotation
and immediately be a guy that would start making an
immediate impact for you. It's just not reality to think
that that's the case. So Sloan sead he is the
race with them, and maybe you get him back in
the middle of May or so.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
That would be nice, wouldn't it, going full boar in
middle May, healthy and ready to go. That would be great.
It'll be great. The depth of this would be, you're
gonna need eight of them throughout the season're gonna get needed.
I mean, last year, what you needed like twelve, thirteen
give me, Well, the Dodgers have them all on the roster.
You're not gonna find you give eight or nine, you're
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gonna have a legitimate shot. You don't go through the
season with five or six. Imagine being Key Hernandez on
that Dodgers route. And not to say he's not a
good player, but you look the Astros how that felt
against him when he was playing with the Red Sox.
It looked like a softball. But go ahead, you're saying
the depth in the lineup everything.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
I mean, you know a guy like him, who I mean,
for all intents and purposes, is pretty much a jobber
in this league. And it's not to say that he's
not a good player, but I mean, you know, you
look around with all the money they have floating around
in that clubhouse, and it's kind of like, what am
I doing here?
Speaker 5 (40:35):
It is, well, you know what. But but if the
guys in the clubhouse that the energy and leaders you
need him. He's a perfect you know, he's been perfect
for them. Let's face facts, buddy. For the Dodgers not
to win it, they'd have to miss the team all honestly,
stay now if they're unfortunate health wise. But if they're healthy,
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and come on, man, it is they are loaded. They
literally could lose three starting pitchers and still mow you down.
They got like eight guys that can win the cy
young or half see. And that's the thing is I mean,
it's when you're facing a team like that and it's
you know, hey, who's warming up in the bullpen? Oh
that guy?
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yeah, they have him coming out of the bullpen like
that's that's not a good feeling to be facing. When
you have it and it's on your side, you're kind
of like, all right, yeah, this is awesome. You can
let walk with that around here.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
You can let Walker Buehler walk no pun intended with
the Walker Bueler walk and still have a staff. That's
like eye popping a team in depth, that's eye popping. Listen,
I don't know how hungry they're gonna be. I would
imagine to prove it two times in a row would
be good, and that they're feeling it. But they are
so friggin loaded that everybody else is chasing. Now you
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got to get little lucky against them, Hope chase and
the rest of it. But let's say overwhelming fair. If
you're betting on the Dodgers, you ain't getting much return
on it. Let's just put it that way. Yeah, there's
not much value there.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
No, It's kind of like what was it yukon the
last couple of years in the NCAA Tournament, which, by
the way, to u of H number one seed in
the Midwest region. They're gonna open up Thursday at one
against SIU Edwardsville, And I was looking this morning what
the spread is for that game.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Koog's twenty eight and a half point favorites in that one.
Uh bet the favorite on the money line that go
money only if you want if you oh, well, the
money lines, I know, Brainer, I'm gonna make it. But
if you're talking about that, if you want. If you
get to bet them, I would. I would give those
points away absolutely. And the they are gonna I don't
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know how that team when they come out of the
locker room and the first possession they get defended by
the Cougars is long as and Coach Sampson will keep
them ready and he will not let them take them lightly.
If they treat this like they're playing duke, they'll win
by thirty five. And that'll be with resting guys with
about eight minutes to go. Because this this team is
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gonna they're gonna run into they they haven't seen defensively,
the relentless pursuit that the Cougars are gonna put on them. Yeah,
as long as they are, they get And I don't
think there's gonna be a problem with that because the
way they're practicing get ready for this. You know, Coach
Sampson's gonna have them treating this like you're getting ready
to play Florida. So go take care of your business
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and do what's right, and then you'll get a little
bit of rest before round two. Because that's the that's
the beauty and the curse of the nc DOUAA Tournament
is that you have one bad day, your season's done.
I mean that's and I mean, and I know that
on the surface, people might say, well, you're a twenty
eight and a half point favorite. I mean he's thrown
out there. Yeah, we've seen it twice now, yeah.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
In the last few years, after never seeing it in
the NC DOUBLEA Tournament as Tony Bennett in Virginia. I'm
trying to think who the most recent number one was.
But I mean, it's happened that teams have had that
happen to.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Them, which you don't want, not misking, but in any
game like this when you're a heavy favorite, is to
allow a team to hang around where it becomes a
one or two possession game. This one's not going to
be that, but that's how you get beat you kind of.
And when Tony Bennett was at Virginia, what do they
play defense? And they low scoring team you play. You
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are in a fifty one to forty eight game against
a team and that's what happened. And then you're not shooting,
You miss a few free throws. Next thing you know,
somebody buries a jumper at the end and you're like, well,
what just happened? And so that ain't going to happen
in this one, I assure you, because even if they
don't score and shoot well, their defense will get them
transition points. On the other end, it's going to be
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a curb stop. The question is when does coach Sampson
take the gas off to preserve second round legs? And
you know what I'm saying. And they'll rotate a lot
of people obviously, so but their bracket, I'm telling you, Boddy, Well,
listen and it could be one of those where there's
upset city in that bracket, but they are the overwhelming
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favorite if you ask me, in that bracket overwhelming favorite.
Speaker 6 (44:56):
Well, it's also two seed in that bracket. Off the
top of my head, I think It'sennessee. Tennessee is the
number two. That's right, and they're down.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
Now. When I say overwhelming and tell you that team's
capable of beating it, Tennessee can win the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Tennessee, basically, I would say, is what Kelvin Sampson's teams
the last few years have been right. Not incredibly strong offensively,
but they'll mall you right, and.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
If they shoot, they'll be They've got a chance to
win the whole thing. I'm just talking about the depth
of that bracket looks a little in my opinion now,
I haven't studied it since last night, just looking over
it after watching this season and play out, the depth
in that bracket gives. Put it this way, at some
point in time, the University of Houston should be playing
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the volunteers, right, should be playing the volunteers with an
opportunity to get there. There's no you're going to have
to do a lot in that bracket to get through.
Those two teams.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
Love to see a lot of Red and White and
San Antonio. That'd be a lot of fun. And the
Coog's four wins away from making that a reality. So
hopefully they can be able to knock off six wins
here and be the team standing when it's all said
and done. As it's been a program that they've gotten
to the final four under Kelvin Samson, but I mean
it's mostly been Sweet sixteens Elite eights, And I know
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that the guy that sits in my chair right here
in about three hours from now, Matt Thomas, he's been
pretty big on Hey, Elite eight's Sweet sixteens. Those are nice,
but it's time to start doing even further of be
one of those final two teams playing on that Monday.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
That there is no doubt. And the truth is, it's like,
if you're the Baltimore Ravens, let's just use them get
into the AFC Championship game, which it's not enough. Now
do you hear what I'm saying, Oh, that's great, we
got their thumbs up. Or even use the Chiefs just
making the playoffs, not that it's that you take that
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for granted because you got to make the playoffs to
get where you want to go. But it's not a
successful season. If the Dodgers make the World Series and
don't win it this year, it's a failure of a season.
And I don't really say that in normal with it,
and I said failure because they're overwhelming favorites. If they
just got in the playoffs and lost in the divisional round,
you know what I'm saying, If they that would be
a major failure. And that's and so teams like that,
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they're no longer setting there. It's like the Texans as well,
Now win in the division two times row. It's great,
and you got that's the first goal, win the division.
Beat the people in your division and win the division,
win your rivalry games, and win the division. But in truth,
you walk away from a season extremely disappointed, and the
expectations grow. For the Houston Cougars, the expectations are no
longer just get to the Elite eight or get to
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the Final four. It's still win it and be playing
on Monday Night.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Well with the Texans, I mean, it's been what their
existence has been in the playoffs, it's been. You're in
the wildcard round, you win said wildcard round game, and
then you go somewhere on the road in the divisional
round and you get crushed. And I mean you heard,
you know Demika Ryans talk about we didn't get this
far just to get this far the first year, and
then after their season ended last year, Will Anderson Junior
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is saying, here's what needs to happen next. We got
to find a way to get that game that we
just played in Kansas City. You need to get it here, yeah,
and play the divisional round here and then have a
chance to be able to go on from there.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
And then he's exactly right, or if you don't play
it here to be able to go into somebody else's
building in a hostile environment and beat them. That's when
you know it's a different level. And right now this
team has now got to the point where winning the
division is not the goal. That's the first goal. They
ain't the last one right now. If you're the Carolina Panthers,
winning the division would be a hell of a in
their division, you'd crawl ten miles over broken glass for that.
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But the expectations as you continue to get good, the
expectations grow. And for the guys like the Chiefs and
the Dodgers and the Texans and the Astros in the
same way, even though they've had roster shake up, the
division is not good enough for them. It's just not
being eliminated by the Detroit Tigers getting swept that for them,
in my mind, the way they had to overcome their
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slow start, it's a successful season. But for them in truth,
when they're sitting around drinking beer with their buddies, it's
a failure for them because they didn't expect to come
in here and get boat raced in too straight.
Speaker 6 (49:01):
Well, and that's something too that Joe Aspota I think
talked about with you guys at fan Fest and then
also just with you know what, they went through last
season of saying, look, I don't want guys to think
that it was a failure because you did accomplish some
good things. But that's the huge butt with this is
you know what the expectation is here. You didn't get serious,
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you didn't get to the top at least be the
final two teams left in your own league. Yeah, when
your failure is a harsh word. Now the Dodgers, you
can apply that to them because of all the money,
you know, the expectations if they don't win the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
But but you find good things along the way. Some
player had a great year or somebody won an MVP.
So there's successes you take. But the overall big picture
what it is if the in that case the Astros,
you get to the middle rungs on the ladder and
you're starting to climb and say, okay, I know I
got to get up on top of the roof so
I can stand and hold the trophy at the top,
and you fell short. And that's just the way it works,
and that's not that is not what this team's goal
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is now. So failure harsh. But they fell short, a
far short of the goal. They wanted.
Speaker 6 (50:01):
It's like a drug man, like once once you you
taste it once, as the Astros have done, now twice
you want that feeling every single year, and it's not
reality that it's going to happen. But still you know
exactly what the expectations are once you get there.
Speaker 5 (50:16):
No that it's like Dan, when you wake up and
do blow in the morning. You know what I'm saying,
When you wake up and do blow, now some conversation,
you're supposed to be left. All you get. The white
looks like powdered anything. You come in here and say
I just had a powdered donut, and then you think, man,
that was good stuff. And then the next day you don't.
You just have like black coffee. It's just not the same.
You know what I'm saying. You got you got to
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have the blow, right.
Speaker 6 (50:37):
You know, Sean's been asking why I've had to go
to the restroom quite a bit exactly.
Speaker 5 (50:43):
Yeah. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
Now we're gonna start a business together, We're gonna do
all these different things.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
I mean, why your frenzied and your beads a sweater
rolling down your forehead. I don't know what that is,
but do you know, I've never done I've had gummies
and smoked weed in my life. I mean I don't
even like smoke. I mean, you know, it was like
when you have back problem or you've had knee surgeries
like I have little little THC little ten millie ate
bad with a gummy that tastes like, you know, grapefruit.
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I'm on micro micro dosing. Don't hate participate if that's
what you want to do for you. It's just for
pain free, right, not recreational anyway. But I don't. I've
never done I've never even put you know, like cocaine
on your job. I've never done it in my life.
You know, I was afraid I'd be the guy because
I'm an addictive and like OCD personality. I remember my buddy,
(51:33):
I had a buddy might played professional baseball and we
were talking about a teammate of his who had some
trouble over the course of his career. He said, man,
that drug. He said, you don't try it because you
might love it, Right, that's what he was talking about.
That's exactly right. Well, yeah, and boy did they play.
They don't remind me of that season because you know
who they beat. My guys. So yeah, I I've never
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done it because I was always afraid that it'd be
I'd be the guy to get that batch. It would
make you, you know, I'm that guy that gets paranoid
if you had like a fifteen million look around that
happened to me one time and start brushing my teeth
and my buddy, he said, dude, I said, if I
brush my teeth because from from like a little one
hit or quick right, but took a big bong hit
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and I brushed my teeth like twelve times in eighteen minutes.
I said, dude, I brush my teeth, he said. He said, dude,
the enamel's off your teeth. You know, did you brush?
I said, you can't leave on panic locked the door.
He said, you're not gonna I said, am I dying
because I've got a weed fishing out right and I
don't like smoke. And he said, You're gonna be Okay,
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You're not dying. He said, little paranoid, but you're not dying.
And I'm telling you, dude, I was afraid I would
have been that guy when you come in like some
of these movies where he's got all fours on the
top of the wall, you know, hanging from the ceiling,
like what's going on here? And right then on there,
I said, that's not for me. I'm to the low
dose non bong hit, so I can't get it. But
I've never done a drug like any like mushrooms. I've
(53:00):
never done it in my life because I'm I'm always
afraid of the end result or that maybe you'd like it.
So stay away from Dan. So'll get off the blow Dan. Well, okay, I.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
Mean, you know, as Pat McAfee said, the advice he
got when he was swimming in the canal from Bill Pullian,
lay off the hard stuff. There you go, lay off,
lay off the heartstuff. If there's nothing else we tell
you here in the seven o'clock hour, lay off the
heart stuff. That's that's the best advice we can give you.
Speaker 5 (53:26):
There you go, all right.
Speaker 6 (53:27):
Coming up next the astros A decision has to be
made and it might be sooner rather than later.
Speaker 5 (53:33):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 6 (53:34):
Right here, it is the Sean Salisbury Show, Dan Matthews,
Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore, Sean Salisbury right here, Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
The Sean Salisbury Show. Put ours smart ass on your
smart speaker.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Google play Sean Salisbury on iHeartRadio. All Right, Sean, what
are you hearing.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
Out there now?
Speaker 2 (53:59):
This Salsbury East takeout? Salisbury Takeout on the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
It is a Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (54:16):
Dan Matthews, Sean Salsberry, Trip Ley, Emmanuel Elmore, Astros off
today from spring training action. They're gonna get back at
it tomorrow. Final full week of spring training action. Rockets
back on the home floor tonight against the Philadelphia seventy
six ers.
Speaker 5 (54:32):
A win.
Speaker 6 (54:32):
That's a perfect six to oh home stand for the Rockets.
They're back in the two spot in the Western Conference,
so a good thing to have them back in that spot.
Also to U of H number three seed overall in
the entire sixty eighteen field at number one in the
Midwest region. They're gonna open up Thursday, one o'clock against
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SIU Edwardsville. They won the Big twelve tournament over the
weekend seventy two to sixty four win against Arizona and
a Monday morning playoff at the Players Championship sewn Rory
McElroy and JJ spawn three hole playoff there at TPC
Sawgrass for it and also we talked about this beginning
(55:16):
of the show, Jamar Chase t Higgins both getting broken
off by the Cincinnati Bengals, as Chase getting four years,
one hundred and sixty one million dollar extension, highest paid
none quarterback in NFL history over forty per.
Speaker 5 (55:29):
Like a bucket a quarter somewhere around there, guaranteed something
like that. Yeah, one twelve once was coming his ways. Yeah, yeah,
they did get they broke him off. A little something
something he's got. He's got a nice little payday coming
his way. That's good for him. Uh, Higgins earned it.
Do you think LSU receivers are any good? I was
gonna say him justin Jefferson, you know, even both they
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can buy a team. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:51):
Well, and then and then the quarterback too that they
had there not not too bad in his own run.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (55:56):
Let's see if you put Burrow, Jefferson and and Chase
this salary together, they're overall salary. You can have a
pretty good share in the biggest guaranteed money winner ever,
the guarantee that'll make the value never goes down. That's
NFL franchise. They could literally, So you got one to sixty,
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which Burrow over two hundred. Burrows in the two hundred
somewhere in there, and Chase Burrow and then Jefferson's in
the same so high one hundred. So let's say let's
roun them both off at a buck sixty five, So
that's two sixty, you at three twenty, and then you
add your half a billion dollars even though franchise, if
a franchise is worth four billion, five billion, you can
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have pretty good stake in a franchise with those three.
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (56:40):
Anybody ever went broke gowning an NFL team, and they
never will. It doesn't seem like it anytime soon.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
You can go oh in seventeen for three straight years
and your value will go up. That's just a fact.
So then the safest investment on the planet in sports
is being an NFL franchise owner. That's why when people
say I want the owner to sell, they're forced out.
Their ass ain't selling because the value does not go down.
It's not like real estate up and down. Oh man,
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the world's going to hell in a handbasket. What's the value?
Your franchise all went up another billion two years I
mean two years ago, and for instance, the Cowboys five
years from now, and I don't see him winning a
Super Bowl anytime soon. By the time you've had four
or five more birthdays, they'll be worth twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (57:23):
People are still going to come through the door there
at and T Stadium, and they're still going to go
across the street drink beers over there at Texas Live.
Speaker 5 (57:30):
Jerry will be the crypt keeper, and he'll be the
crypt keeper. I mean, that's Nancy Pelosi now, but he'll
be the crypt keeper and he'll still be making money.
Speaker 6 (57:39):
It's the Joneses that aren't even born yet. They're still
going to be making money off.
Speaker 5 (57:43):
And don't try to keep up with those Joneses because
you ain't got enough money to do it. We do not,
it is for sure.
Speaker 6 (57:48):
Adrian wants to wait in here on the Sean Salisberry Show. Adrian,
what's up, buddy? Hello, what's up?
Speaker 5 (57:55):
Buddy? Uh oh, we're here, Adrian got good morning. What's up.
Speaker 10 (58:02):
There's a couple of things that you need to be
done with the past road.
Speaker 6 (58:07):
Yeah, we gotta we gotta fix let's yeah, let's yeah,
Well thank you all right, Well we'll do that. We'll
get get things lined up here and continue with the
Astros conversation also too, uh we've in some rockets as
the show goes along, and Aaron Wilson with some interesting
notes on the Sexans offensive line. A lot of things
said last week. We'll do all that says. We continue
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to roll along here on The Seawan Salisbury Show. Dan Matthews,
Sean Salisbury Triple, Emmanuel Elmore Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
The Sewan Salisbury Show continued, we have to call him.
Everybody's got a nickname, you know, like you know Yordy.
Speaker 5 (58:47):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (58:47):
I don't know if anybody calls him that. I don't
know what Yaner does? You know what his nickname is
anything like that, But it's hose Yeah.
Speaker 5 (58:57):
Hey, if the Spot calls him Hosey, guess we're gonna
we war gonna call him what I say? My mama
call me, what what's up? Movie? My mama called me.
Uh No, it's uh not my mama was it uh not?
Coming to America in the in the uh the uh
Eddie Murphy and the barbershop scene, his mama call him Clay.
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I call him Clay. So if Joe Spotta calls him Hosey,
he's hoseyl.
Speaker 6 (59:26):
To if Mama calls you that, then guess what your
name is now? There there you go, Yeah, it's it's
no longer. Well my name is Ted. Well it's this.
Now it's I called Eddy Ted Steel. Yeah, you gotta
do it. Just don't call him what late for dinner?
That's that's an ode to that. That's a little lima.
That's like, uh, Will Ferrell that that sketch on Saturday
(59:49):
Night Live.
Speaker 5 (59:49):
We're gonna name you Michael Well, it's Ted. Yeah, I
love it.
Speaker 6 (59:55):
It's too good. But Cam Smith goes deep yesterday. It's
third homer of this spring. Two run shot there in
the second inning from ra Valdez, named the opening day starter,
fourth straight that he's going to get. Rockets wrapping up
a six game homestand tonight against the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
They're back number two overall in the Western Conference.
Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Impressive.
Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
It's been a lot of fun these last few games.
I mean, you know, while you were without Fred van
Vlietz and company, you lost six in a row, then
you lose three in a row, and now they've won
sixty other.
Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
Direction, no doubt. Have you been watching, speaking of the West,
have you been watching Gilgess Alexander do what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Well, they already got an X next to their name,
meaning that they're clinched, they're in.
Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
They're good teams. You know, you want obviously a great
team effort, but all the great teams have that one
guy at least right who can take over a game.
This dude is now. NICOLEI. Yokich is even having a
better season statistically he's had in a couple MVP years.
This that's the MVP shake. Gildes Alexander is friggin filthy.
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This dude is unbelievable. He really is his game and
there's a reason why. I mean, the Thunder really good
ball club. I say that like it's baseball, but they're
a great team. But he is. Now can they go
and win the whole thing? Put the ball in his hand.
That's got got a pretty good chance of taking care
of my business. He's played it what forty eight the
other night and he took some shots. Oh, it was incredible,
(01:01:23):
and he I love how he attacks the rim as
well and switches to his left hand, kisses it off
the glass and goes it's it's He's he is a
fun watch. You know when you're watching Anthony Edwards. I
felt the same way about John Morant as well. But
there's something about Shay Gilgess Alexander that's different, dude, and
it's he's a what's the average about thirty three a
game right now? So with that, it's it's something unreal.
Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
I mean, he put up fifty against the Rockets and
it was one of those that he looked up and
you're like, oh man, he's got fifty, Like how.
Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
Guy's a freak show. He is a phenomenal and wants
the ball, and I just what's not the Like it's incredible.
You're gonna have a difficult time, but being in the
two seat gives you a little more latitude. And they've
earned the two seed, which is impressive to watch.
Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
Well, especially with the way they've been playing as of
recent times. And you get Fred van Vliet back in
a couple of games ago. That's been nice to see.
And you hope soon enough you get to a Men
Thompson back sooner.
Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
Amen, rather than later.
Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
You've aged number one team in the Midwest region. They're
gonna take on SIU Edwardsville on Thursday at one, and
something else we've been talking about a lot today Jamar
Chase and t Higgins both getting paid by the Cincinnati Bengals.
And here in about twenty minutes or so, you're gonna
have Rory McElroy and JJ Spahn playing for the Players
(01:02:40):
Championship in a Monday morning playoff.
Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
There in Ponavidra sixteen seventeen eighteen aggregate score. It's not
a sudden death playoff. That'll be sudden death after the
first three holes. But if you birdie the first and
McElroy pars, then he still has two shots, and that's
a par five, part three, par four penn play. It'll
be tough on seventeen, and then you got to make
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sure you drive it in the fairway at eighteen to
have a shot to hit it close and go. So
it's gonna obviously you'd say advantage. I think mclroy's three
and two in playoffs. Advantage McElroy just because he's been
a respond this is he ain't seen this situation much
at that golf course obviously, let alone anywhere else. But
I loved his nerves yesterday. Hits the ball into the
pine straw on eighteen and punches one out of there,
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to the point where it took a full swing and
then I almost won the tournament with a long thirty
foot or well ill he was going no, no question.
So it'll be fun to watch. But it's not sudden
death until after they play the initial three holes. It's
an aggregate score, so you know the person with the
best score. If they're tied, then they'll go to the playoff.
And I'm not sure if they start on sixteen again
or if they go right to eighteen, or if they
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play Hell, if you're gonna do it, put them at seventeen.
If it's a sudden death, let's see, let's see who's
got the aggressiveness. A short sided and that attack A.
I think it's probably gonna be where it was on
Sunday or close where you've got to manipulate that. Then
you want to put it in a tough place for
those guys to get to.
Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
It's gonna be a fun watch, no doubt about it.
Coming up here in about twenty they're gonna get going there.
All right, let's try them again. Adrian wants to weigh
in here on Sports Talk seven ninety Adrian, what's up, buddy?
Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
That's perfect?
Speaker 11 (01:04:09):
All right?
Speaker 10 (01:04:09):
All right, Brian, I missed you on your way out,
and we know you're listening this morning, so.
Speaker 8 (01:04:16):
You decide to pull the stepdaddy story on us.
Speaker 12 (01:04:18):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (01:04:19):
Get everybody to the table at one time. I know
I've been telling you guys since we're all here that
I've been going to see baseball play baseball. But I've
decided it's better to move in with my other family.
I see you, bro, I see how y'all do it.
From your side of the tracks, it's all good. Go
(01:04:39):
get your bag, brother. We're gonna miss you here. You're
gonna be sorely missed. Now, Dashtros. There's three things they
need to be done. Lance mccullors, I don't care. We
haven't seen you. I forgot you played here until ATV commercials.
So far as I'm concerned, that's money we could use
somewhere else.
Speaker 8 (01:05:00):
Cam. If Cam doesn't charn them with you, If Cam.
Speaker 10 (01:05:04):
Doesn't make this first day roster, I hope they lose
twenty five games until he gets here. I don't care
what place there is. They need to learn something. All
this extra year craft and oh we'll lose.
Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
An extra year. Blah blah blah blah, blah. That's why
people don't like baseball.
Speaker 10 (01:05:21):
It takes too many years to get here, and then
when you get here, everybody just wants to Oh, he's good,
he's good, but we're not gonna pay him.
Speaker 8 (01:05:29):
So out the door you go.
Speaker 10 (01:05:31):
And the picture we had yesterday, Brodo I think his
name is Brogo.
Speaker 8 (01:05:37):
This guy hasn't been hit yet. I don't care who
you put him in front.
Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
I don't care if it's the third string, fourth string,
second string. He hasn't been hit yet.
Speaker 8 (01:05:48):
So Joe, we're.
Speaker 10 (01:05:49):
Gonna find out how good of all manage you you
are because you got a couple of problems on your hands,
and just like Domico did, swallow your prize and do
what's best for the team.
Speaker 8 (01:06:04):
That what's best for the organization.
Speaker 10 (01:06:06):
It's best for the team because this year that lineup
don't look too good and.
Speaker 8 (01:06:13):
The guy's up north, yeah.
Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
Looks like them, and the mayor that's got something for you,
and Brian. For the last time, I'm gonna say this
to you, because once again we know you're listening. Have
a great day out there, be safe, and the rest
of y'all you already know.
Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
Sean, Amen, Amen, appreciate Adrian.
Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
I think he's talking about Steven okert Is who he
was talking about, who made the start yesterday, inning in
two thirds and has not given up an earned run
this spring. So a guy that's trying to fight and
make a roster spot here. Logan van Way also another
guy that is putting together a strong spring kind of
like last year we saw the Taylor Scott that Van
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Way kind of sounds like he's that guy this year
for the Astros. Do you think he's found his way?
I think he might have. It's Van Why excuse me?
Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Van?
Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Why is his name? Yeah, it looks like it'd be,
but it's being why because he found his way. Yeah,
see what I did that he found his why? There
you go, I'm following, I'm following you. I'm picking up
what I'm simply putting down. That's it. That's it. Yeah. Yeah,
we're we're we're just we're trying to stay you know,
in rhythm right here. Well, yeah, I feel you dog.
Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
You're you're only as strong as you are up the middle,
and we've got a hell of a middle infield here
on the Sean salis.
Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
Led That's it, that's it.
Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
Yeah, he's he's he's our you know, he's a gamer,
Well he is. Yeah, A good strong baseball team is
only as good as the backstop you got, and he's
a hell of a backstop, for sure, is man. Sure
we're lucky to have him, that's for sure. But uh, anyway,
we'll continue the Astros conversation on the other side, Andy, Tim.
See you guys right there. It gets you all on
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the other side. If you want to join them, do so.
Seven one three two, one two five, seven nine. One's
gone seven one three, two one two five at seven
ninety even more decisions for.
Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
The Astros to make.
Speaker 6 (01:08:03):
We can discuss that too as we close out at
seven o'clock hour. He's Sean, I'm Dan Triple Emanuel Elmore.
Sports Talk seven ninety for the Sean Salisbury Show continued.
Lone star state well represented in the NCAA term.
Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Where's where the hell is Steven F Austin No, No
Lumberjacks job shooting a halfull of years ago? Was it?
Did they get to the sixteen? I think they might
have been to the sixteen.
Speaker 6 (01:08:30):
I was trying to remember, and I was trying to
remember the other sixteen that beat on one recent times.
It was fairly. Dickinson beating Purdue a couple of years ago,
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Shocking, you know, the Painters team, Yeah, they were fairly surprised.
Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
Incredibly surprised. I liked that play on words right there.
Good job by you. But then the following year it
was Zach Edy and the crew for Purdue. They were
able to if I'm not mistaken, I think both times
the teams that got bounced by a sixteen the following year,
what was it, Virginia They went on and won the
national title the following year, and then Purdue a finalists
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last year. To close your good buddy, Danny Hurley and uh,
he took the Husky.
Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
It's tough to go back to back. And Danny saw
a little bit of frustration this year with his Yukon Huskies,
but a little bit. He's a hell of a coach though, man,
hell of a coach.
Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
He's he definitely has had a lot of you know,
some some huge shoes to fill there, no doubt in Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Take it well. And he started off filling him right,
went into in a row and the great Jim Calhoun,
I mean in that whole building with Calhoun and Gino Arama.
The it is. It is a difficult place. I mean
the men and the women's coach there. You got a long,
uh staircase to climb to be those two guys and
Danny Uh he posted his score with back to backers.
I can tell you that.
Speaker 6 (01:09:43):
Every time I think at Jim Calhoun, I always think
of the guy asking him about his contract. Not a
dime back and like to be retired some day.
Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
You know he's got that Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
Yeah, not a dime back and like to be retired
some day. Get some facts, come back and see me
what a hell of a what a hell of a
basketball coach he was?
Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
I mean I also had a guy from here in
the area that went up there and helped him out,
Jake Foskeel. Yeah, I mean he went to a lesser
Catholic school here in the area. We don't hold it
against him. But you know, so you're you're a uh well,
you're you're a St.
Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Thomas. Oh yeah, St. Thomas. Where did Fosco go? He
went to Strake? Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
Oh that's big rise. That's your rival. That's the main
rival it is, Although when I was in school, it
wasn't so much of a rivalry. Especially on the football field.
You spit to us on kicking our ass baseball. We
did baseball.
Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
We got him.
Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
Yeah, and I know a couple of those guys are
listening right now, so it'll irk him a little bit
more me throwing that out there.
Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
My guy, coach maguire over at the Thomas. Boy, what
a good human being and a good man and a
programs in good shape.
Speaker 6 (01:10:41):
Love him for sure, for sure, actually been able to
win some football games of his last few years.
Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
That's nice.
Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
Astros are off today from a great Fruit League action.
They're gonna get on the field again tomorrow. You're gonna
get Lance McCullers junior making a start in that game.
And also too, they're about to hear in about ten
minutes or so, get going on the sixteenth hole. They're
at TPC Sawgrass for a three hole aggregate playoff between
JJ spawn and also Rory McElroy.
Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
Yeah, solid ball strikers. He's good golf lingo, right, Oh,
solid ball striker, you got it all PGA tour players.
Solid ball strikers. I would say that you probably don't
have a job for long if you're not right. I mean,
I understand that some days You're ball striking is not
as well, and that guy's a real shotgun sprayer. You
go now, first, first the sponsorships go, then the tour car.
(01:11:32):
There's no question. The truth is, I think McElroy was
hitting like forty percent of the fairways on the team,
which he's one of the best drivers of the golf,
if not the best in the world, right, but still
manage to scramble around and find a way to because
he's so good to dude is so strong out of
bad spots. He's such a powerful golfer. But yeah, you
got a solid ball striker. Yeah, I mean he's a
great driver of the ball. He could flight it. I
(01:11:54):
love golf lingo right quickly to sixteen and vern line Quist,
So yeah, love golf lingo. And we're not going to
se fun.
Speaker 6 (01:12:00):
You know, all good things must come going end no
longer burn on sixteen AUGUSTA.
Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
The hell of a run and legendary, one of the
nicest human beings on the best and uh and we
got the Houston Open coming down to stretch here at
the end of the month, so we're right around the
corner from that. So they are on this Florida swing now.
But today it'll be fun to watch this three whole
playoff and we'll have it on the two boward. If
all of a sudden you asked me a question, I
don't answer it. Wake me up out of golf because
you know my obsession with golf right last night?
Speaker 6 (01:12:27):
How can you not no doubt? It's the great game. Yeah,
we we love it so much. Let's squeeze in Andy
here before we flip it to the top of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Andy, what's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 13 (01:12:37):
Oh? Anybody out there watching Mac worry they better make
sure they got both hands on their cell phone.
Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
Yeah, you don't think he's a bit sensitive, do you?
Speaker 8 (01:12:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
For a guy that for a guy that good? I mean,
are we serious? Are we serious?
Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Andy?
Speaker 13 (01:12:57):
Ground of one out of busting him in his chops?
Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
Uh? Or shoved it up as well? Anyway, go ahead,
what's that, buddy? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (01:13:05):
Major League Baseball is a joke.
Speaker 13 (01:13:08):
You've got a competitive ballance tax two hundred and forty
one dollars two hundred and forty one million.
Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (01:13:17):
The LA Dodgers salary cap is three hundred and twenty
one million this year. You had all the all the
uh the the money they're gonna have to pay. They're
gonna play, have to pay about four hundred million dollars
this year for that.
Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
Team you got. That's exactly that's it's. It's in that.
It's like between four and four and a quarter I think,
or fourteen. Yeah, it's it's it might be north of
four hundred mili.
Speaker 13 (01:13:40):
Yeah, and you've got they are eighty million over the
two hundred and forty one million competitive balloce tax. You
have sevent teams under one hundred million dollar cap. Now
the Marlins are the worst. They forty seven million dollars
compared to three hundred and twenty million for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
This is a joke, MLB.
Speaker 13 (01:14:05):
If you want to if you want to give a
competitive bowet tax, how about a competitive playing tax. Any
team that isn't spinning two hundred, one hundred and fifty
million dollars, you're gonna get taxed because guess what you're
saying to your fans, screw you, we are, we don't
We're not committed to winning. We're not even committed to
(01:14:27):
being competitive.
Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
Andy, I'm so with you. Yeah, I actually think we
need a floor. I think you you have you get
I would have one hundred percent agree. If you go over,
they penalize you. I'm convinced that if you don't get
to the floor, you should be penalized as well, because
basically you're saying, we're just trying to get by as
an organization, we are not committed to winning. Number two
(01:14:50):
is I think it's salary cap. I mean, I know
people aren't gonna want to hear this. I think major
League Baseball needs a salary cap. I understand the competitive
balance and the luxury tax, I get it, but when
you're a team like the Dodgers, you don't give a
fuzzy rats ass about that tax. Obviously, just want to
keep winning, keep paying. So if if we want a ceiling,
(01:15:10):
which is a salary cap, I also believe in all
sports you should have a floor that if you're going
to own and stay competitive and you want your fan
base to continue to come out, you have to have
a floor as well. You cannot be below that floor
in the basement not spending a certain amount of money,
because listen, they're all making money. I don't care what
they say. They're making money, and especially the ones that
aren't spending. I'm one percent with Andy, He's one hundred
(01:15:33):
percent correct.
Speaker 6 (01:15:34):
Yeah, I appreciate the call, Andy, we had to move
it along here, But I mean I think the players
did fight for that. In the most recent CBT talks
that they had CBA about a floor. Yeah about I
mean of you know, teams like the Pirates and some
of these other right exactly. I mean where it's just like,
come on, guys, like at least some sort of effort
here would be nice.
Speaker 5 (01:15:53):
Can you imagine the Big Red Machines team playing now
and still not getting paid like they're supposed to. Can
you imagine that? How would you pull that one off?
They wouldn't be the Big Red Machine.
Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
You'd have Tony Perez and all these guys. I'm playing
for the Arizona Diamondbacks now, I'm playing for the New
York Mets. Now I'm playing for somebody else that you know,
they they want to be Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:16:16):
Yeah, Cincinnati is a nice enough place to live. But
these places I can at least grow to love them
a little bit more if if the money's right.
Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
Oh yeah, you love anywhere if they get the prices right.
I got news for you. Miles Garrett wanted traded a
couple hundred million later, close to it, Hey, Cleveland, I
love it here the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Special and there you go. Money talks as much as
anything does. But yeah, the money can make the mistake
by a lake. I feel like it's a little bit
less of a mistake, that's for sure. All right. Two
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hours in the books, two more to go.
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Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
Cam Smith to run homer to right field off Tyler
McGill there in the second inning there in Port Saint Lucy,
third homer of the spring. We're gonna get the Nationals
tomorrow there in West Palm. Lance McCullers junior gonna make
the start so able to ramp himself back up and
get into some great great Fruit League act. And also
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to Spencer Arraghetti gonna throw tomorrow just to keep him
on the right pitching track from ber Valdez named the
opening day starter fourth straight year for that. So get
him a week from Thursday there inside Dike and Park
and the Astro season will get underway. Rockets get the
seventy six Ers tonight, close out the six game homestand
(01:18:22):
in a win, makes it seven straight dubs for the Rockets.
Speaking of the Sixers, Quentin Grimes as of late after
the Mavericks said yeah, hey, we're trading you to Philadelphia,
he said, all right, cool, I'll just start dropping forty
plus on everyone.
Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
Whenever I'm on the floor, count the player. Man, he's
it's a good get. I think it's awesome. He was
a blast to watch play here. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
That's one of those Darryl Mory fines too. That I mean,
you get a guy like him kind of like you know,
remember like Courtney Lee oh years ago with the Rockets
where it's just like, hey, who is this guy? Oh man,
this guy's this guy's a player. Yeah, it's Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
It's fun to watch that's a time Grimes Town's player man,
and he shows that he can.
Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
He's showing it on the offensive end, no doubt about that.
U of H speaking of where he used to play,
number one seed in the Midwest Region.
Speaker 5 (01:19:08):
Nice little draw for them.
Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
SIU Edwardsville going to be their first game on Thursday,
one o'clock. You'll be able to hear that over on
kPr C nine to fifty. Not only do they win
the Big Twelve regular season title, they also win the
Big Twelve tournaments over the weekend taking down Arizona.
Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
They were impressive the whole way through, and they've build
They've been a great road team this year, and obviously
in the NC Tournament NC two, a tournament for the
most part, you're on the road, I mean, unless you're
fortunate enough to be a team that were the finals,
is in your least in your neck of the woods
or neighborhood. This is an impressive team. And I actually
think offensively that this is as good as offense as
(01:19:45):
they've had in the last four or five years. To
be able to knock down shots, they're pretty damn good.
That's been something that's been lacking for them. That's a constant.
Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
They'll have that, they they'll they'll hit the boards, they'll
do all of that. But I mean to have Emmanuel Sharp,
Jay Cryer, Milos Uzianne, all three of those guys that
you can pretty much spot him up anywhere and they'll
be able to knock down a shot for you.
Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
They've found some clutch transfers, man, and this and this
is going to be as we move forward, a destination
spot for high school players and transfers that want to
come play for a guy that you know what you're
going to get from him and the expectations, and they've
lived up to it. This is a great group. A
text back and forth with coach Sampson last night, and
I know he loves these kids. He said, it's a
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great group and in typical Calvin Sampson fashion, I'm excited
for these kids, which I love because he really does
pour himself into it and it is they've got his
I mean, you look around now. Florida's playing great basketball. Man,
Auburn's played well all year long, and they you know,
obviously deserve a one seed, but they've had the SEC's
(01:20:50):
battle tested, needless to say, and it's a bigger basketball conference.
Is year that it was football and Florida's playing great basketball.
We know Duke may have player in America they're really good.
But this team will defend as good as any and
they can knock down shots. I can't wait till this
tournament starts.
Speaker 6 (01:21:07):
Kelvin Samson doesn't subscribe to the Michael Jordan's school of
thought with kids.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
F them kids. Hey, yes, no, there may be times
he has to let him know on the court that
they during practice that they need to pick up their temple.
But he is He's immersed himself so much into making
sure that they get buy in and and I think
that they reward him the same way.
Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
It's also too, I've told you this that it cracks
me up with Kelvin Samson. There's something on the defensive
end that breaks down, or a turnover or something. He
rarely ever yells at the guys on the floor. It's
somebody on the bench that wears it at the time.
Watch Kelvin Samson if you see them like.
Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
It's something there right.
Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
Yeah, it's not only that, but it's you know, a
costly turnover that was just ill ill advised, And it's
somebody on the bench that wears it not the guy
that just.
Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Did it over the weekend when in the championship game,
and I can't remember who it was, but had a
foul at the rim and it was a dumb foul
and he completed the basket right. If you're going to
foul him at the basket, make sure he doesn't get that. Yeah,
make sure the line and he walked. It was either
a timeout or he pulled him out but walked over.
I think it was. They had a time out after
(01:22:17):
the foul. Come walking over and there's a little bit
the earlobe got chewed a little bit bean Utah. That's
not how we're doing it here, basically, And I don't
know what he said, but it wasn't It was a
loud message it next time. Make sure this has done different.
Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
Tough love, it's love in the moment. That's that's how
it pretty much wins.
Speaker 11 (01:22:34):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:22:34):
The three hole playoff there at the Players Championship between
Rory McElroy, JJ Spawn, it's underway, so we'll keep you
up to date on that as they'll close out the
week there in pawn A Vidra and by the way too,
it's not a sports note, but Friday nights at the Rodeo.
Somebody finally got Journey to stop believing. They did right
(01:22:56):
in the middle, don't stop believing. I know that was
what a bum I It's funny too, because Brandy.
Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Soon stop believe it and.
Speaker 6 (01:23:06):
Then cut it ham. We didn't stop believing. Maybe we
should have. Well, so what was it? Brandy Smith who
used to work over at KHO. She's married to Justin Stapleton,
meteorologists over there at kPr c oh fantastic, great listener,
the good guy and I had made the joke on
the post. I said they really bought into the sopranos
(01:23:26):
bit right there, because remember that's what was playing when
Meadows parking the car and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
See what happens when Steve Perry's not on there.
Speaker 6 (01:23:34):
Are now just can't carry the same line. He's pretty
good though, he is. I've had a chance, pretty damn good. Yeah,
you still got Jonathan Kane and everybody part of Journey.
Speaker 5 (01:23:43):
What what a legendary group. What a bummer though, how
that happened?
Speaker 6 (01:23:47):
Imagine being there though, too, because I mean I think
that people probably thought it was part of the bits
of even at concerts, you're kind of like, uh, you know,
it don't make me sing. I came here to see
you sing. You're the one that's supposed to sing. But
I mean then it's after the fact, and then you know,
I saw other videos if you start to see some
of the members of the band walking off and you're
kind of like, is this the bit, Like, what's what's
(01:24:08):
going on here? And then you find out as you're
waiting for a couple of hours there in the light
rail line or the ride share line, Oh there was
a fire. Oh so that wasn't planned yet, it just
kind of happened.
Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Yeah, it wasn't part of the pyro that goes on
at some concerts. Yeah, unfortunate. So what a bummer. But
you know what legendary and if you can get a
ticket to a Journey concert, it's worth going to for sure.
Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
Had a chance to go see him again with def
Leopard a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
So speaking of a legendary band, Yeah, that's not a
bad duel that you got to see.
Speaker 6 (01:24:41):
And it started raining when Pour Some Sugar started to play,
and I was like, man, this is pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
I mean, what happens when you pour some sugar on
you and then the rain hits the sugar. What do
they call it, coagulate?
Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Coagulate?
Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
Yeah, there you go, There you go.
Speaker 6 (01:24:58):
The word on a Monday morning. Well, and now another one.
That's that's my favorite. In the in the same neighborhood,
right there is viscosity.
Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
Oh yeah, you gotta oil viscosity, especially if you have
a brunch though. But if you have a breakdown in
oil viscosity, your vehicle's got a problem. That's it. That's sacked.
Speaker 6 (01:25:16):
That's when that's that's when you get in there and
they start to selling. You got other things you gotta
have replaced. Yeah, one thousand dollars turned into four. There
you go, there you go.
Speaker 5 (01:25:23):
You gotta play. You've got a payment plan. I can
work on.
Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
Brandon, what's the way in You're on Sports Talk seven
ninety Brandon, what's up buddy?
Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
Here?
Speaker 14 (01:25:31):
Here?
Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
I said, no, did not.
Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Hear you, buddy, just started talking with you. What's up?
Speaker 14 (01:25:40):
The when journey was on Friday m h the sawing
fell or the when why it was out saying caught
the cat kin Sewan thought the stage on fire.
Speaker 6 (01:26:03):
Yeah, it was an electrical fire in the back room.
That's that's what they were saying is why this stage
went out?
Speaker 14 (01:26:10):
Did did did you hear what?
Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
Boyd?
Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
And Boyd was there, he.
Speaker 14 (01:26:18):
Saw the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Hm hm, Hey, who's Boyd?
Speaker 14 (01:26:24):
The guys on the way the TV program from the audio?
Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
Okay, yeah, my bad.
Speaker 14 (01:26:36):
No, they they're doing they they exited, Okay, they exit
the mana like towards the where to go the stages.
They exited the band from the stage, from the dirt
(01:26:59):
from the Yeah, and they they told everybody to get out.
Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
Okay, well, now that's a that's a little let's go
out to Jim Cantory from Brandon right there. That's it,
all right, that's letting you know exactly who that's painting
a picture right there, boots on these boots on the peat.
That's like, damn righter. Yes, And I didn't. I didn't
know how it all went down, but I got news
for you. That's that's reporting back to you. Dan. That's it.
That's it. Brandon appreciate Buddy Brandoll good stuff. Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 6 (01:27:31):
Who's a David Muir who had the close pens on
the back of the fireman's jacket. It's just like, come on, man,
if you're gonna do the bit, do the bits.
Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
Let's get out to the rodeo. Brandon. Yeah, Bra, that's
that's breaking it down for us. Yeah, I didn't have
the picture painted because I wasn't watching.
Speaker 6 (01:27:45):
I can see that the hills are on fire there
in California. You don't have to let me know what
the form fitting fireman's jacket. You got it, David. Guess what, buddy,
I know that you're not a fireman. Okay, it's okay,
but right there you go. See if you're gonna you
know the bit, then you got to do all of that.
I don't care about the hair. I gotta have the
fireman's hat on. I gotta have it all man. Maybe
(01:28:06):
you can get him out there with an axe. Oh yeah,
hold in one hand, Mike and the other.
Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
Brother. That's it. That's the way it works. That's it.
Brando told you everything that happened, that the picture has
been painted. That was a Birmingham. We went right to
the source. Pay me at Birmingham.
Speaker 6 (01:28:19):
We went right to the source where Brandon was able
to tell us exactly what happened. So Brandon appreciate that. No,
you've been having fun out at the rodeo and hopefully
some of you get a chance to get out there
if you haven't yet. A final week at the rodeo
over there at NRG Stadium.
Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
All right, coming up.
Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
Next, get back into some of the astros conversation. I
know that a lot of you want to weigh in.
We'll do that here and we will continue to roll
along here on the Sean Salisbury Show. He's Sean triple E,
Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews here Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Going non stop with former QB Sean Salisbury, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
And Hey, who was the caller Tripoli that called in? Asked, Yeah, Todd,
He asked if I went to see my guy Nick
Swartzen and at the improv over the weekend. I did.
Speaker 6 (01:29:14):
The kids would call him Howie from from a movie
that you might be familiar with. I'm familiar with a
lot of Yeahorphobia. Yeah, And he's got some good movies.
Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
He's a writer, director and actor and a couple of
movies he's got coming down the pike and Happy Gilmore
will be out this summer. Yeah, and we was talking
about that. And he is one of my very dear friends.
I love him, you know, been in a couple with
him with Sandler Movies and say yeah, I don't miss it,
and so went back. Then we got a chance to
spend about twenty five minutes or so back in his
(01:29:43):
after the show and having some laughs and talking about
just life. He's one of my favorite people. He puts
on such a great show. So yes, I was there,
and it's my guy Swartson. And you know, he's not
a and I just ironically he's a Minnesota Viking fan
and big Minnesota guy. He's where he's from. But we
didn't know each other then since the thing, but we've
become very good friends. And he is one of the
(01:30:03):
great entertainers and he's funny as hell. So it was
a great show. As typical of Nick Swartz.
Speaker 6 (01:30:07):
It's a it's a friendship where it's mutually beneficial. You know,
we're obviously you're a huge fan of his. He grew
up watching you. Yep, so you probably you know, hit
him with some Dinny Green stories.
Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Oh yeah, and he loves when my kids love him
because my boys were in the movie Benchwarmers with that.
I was in your kids were in that? Yeah, my boys.
My daughter was too young, but my sons were on
my team. And you could see my tallest son and
the dug out in the back, you know. They so
they were in it, and Sandler and Schwartzen and Schneider,
they all treated my kids and Schwartz is their favorite,
(01:30:37):
right Yeah, and still they say, so, I can't wait
till he goes back to Austin. And my kids surprised
my kids to go because they friggin love him. And
I'll make sure I didn't talk to them when I
you know, that night of my boys, but let him know.
So they were in it, and they just they sworts
and was so good to them, and they just think
he's a phenomenal guy.
Speaker 6 (01:30:55):
Can I ask you a question? Does Romanowski really have
a miata? Because remember what what's it? What's his name?
He throws the bat and it goes through the wind
shot of his meada.
Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
You know, I I'd be too big for a miata
that I don't know. But at the time, have you
ever tried to sit in one? Now, Romo is a
big dude. Yeah, yeah, I would. I would think that
that's probably made for made for the movie. We had
a blast, yeah, and he was he was fun in
the movie too.
Speaker 8 (01:31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
Romo's uh, Romo's just good people. But he I would
think that it probably be a little bit bigger. Uh vehicle,
I doubt Mazda Miata was was Romanowski's vehicle of choice
unless you just want to put one leg in right.
So he had a blast with that man. But swart
Nick was a phenomenal show he put on and well
he was here what Thursday, Friday, Saturday, two shows each,
(01:31:40):
so put on a Houston loves him and he loves
coming to Houston. Even said that there and he admitted
again it's one of his favorite stops.
Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
What's good to have him here that I mean, you know,
I know that we had him on the A team
about a year ago or so. Uh, you're good, buddy,
Frank Kelly Indo can be rolling through here pretty soon.
So that'll be a fun as Frank, you know, is
as we leave, you know, we lose the Todd callis impersonation?
Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
What's it? The Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Cadence, you know, I Jerry Jones impersonator Jerry Jones. Although
it's a little bit more Lindsey Graham's.
Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
Combo Jerry Jones Lindsey Graham, he kind of skews more
towards Lindsay Graham a little bit.
Speaker 6 (01:32:19):
You know, I almost feel like Lindsay Graham's talking to
cowboys with but you know it sometimes hits sometimes, doesn't
you play your cards?
Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
Right? You get a John Gruden man? Oh yeah, you
mean with with with our guy Caliendo. Yeah, there's no
doubt about it.
Speaker 6 (01:32:33):
And there's I'm talking about with best voice impersonator on
the planet. I'm talking about with me too. You're seeing
all those boxes these teams are sending me, man, Yeah,
you know, I'm getting all the gear, so you're you're
personator Oregon State sending me stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
We'll have to, uh, we were gonna have to get
you to play that for us. They're gonna do my
best lot on Advisor and and and Adam's uh does
some voices too, right he does. Yeah, we got a
lot of you guys. So I used to do Marv
Albert and I can do Harry Carey and the rest
of it. But I'm gonna leave it to you guys. Man,
We'll try, I'll try.
Speaker 6 (01:33:06):
We we'll try our best not to let you down,
you of h Also, that's over by the way, dude.
Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Is Rory on there on the dance floor and spawn
pressure pressure will get your Rory made par on on
the first hole, and I mean made birdie and Spawn
made par so he goes in. Rory hits it in
the middle of the green. All he got to do
is two putt and Spawn flew the green and uh
and now he's going to play from the drop area.
So he's going to be down minimum of two strokes
(01:33:33):
more than likely going into eighteen. And Rory can hit
a three iron in the middle of that fair We
hit down the green two putt unless Rory McElroy, you know,
chokes on his own spit. This tournament's done. And well
I think he probably knows it. It'll be. It'll be,
There'll be no sudden death. I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 6 (01:33:49):
That ut golf kid would probably think that Rory is
not necessarily a shoe in to make that putt right there.
Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
Yeah, but he may take the phone, but he did.
He did take the phone. Did we ever find out
if Rory got the phone back get back to him.
I know the kid apologize, uh, you know, for he's
a and he's a good golfer at ut Luke Potter
I think is his name. But you've got to you
got to cut the rabbit ears man this this let
it go fun, heckling and Potter. If he gets on
(01:34:14):
the PGA Tour some point's gonna have his. He'll have
it too. But but Rory needs to Rory needs to
take a gummy and chill a little bit. I understand
there's this, there's this reverence that goes with golf. I
get it. But when it's a practice round and you're
having fun, just this. I don't know if he got
the phone back, but it's Ah, that's that's not the
way Fanning, right, That's not the way the PGA Tour
(01:34:36):
is going to gain fans.
Speaker 7 (01:34:37):
Roy.
Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
He's got rabbit. He's a great player, but he hears everything.
A lot of that.
Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
Goes back to Ryder cups though too. I mean, because
that's when it should after it.
Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
That's why. If you can't handle that, then take your
bitch ass home. Okay, if you can't, I'm not talking
just to Rory, I'm talking about to anybody who can't
handle that. Well, he's not the only one. There's plenty. Yeah,
br Bryson Deshambeau has had a few times. Can be
yelling somebody's back swing. Let's looks be fair. But you
know they're standing a practe around you're giving a clay
What about the twenty eleven or two thousand and nine
masters whatever it was, or what two thousand I don't
(01:35:06):
even remember what masters he was joking with macclroy about.
But you know what, it's okay to laugh at yourself
a little bit, and quite frankly, if you didn't do
it right and you played poorly, the mirror is a
good place to start, okay. And I love Rory McElroy.
I just can't stand that when it's all good, they
love it, but then when it's not, there's they got,
they got more excuses and the all I confess he
(01:35:28):
did it thing. We got to slow down with that.
And now I like the heckling at the Ryder Cup,
and if you don't like it, you should get to
step in.
Speaker 6 (01:35:34):
The example that comes to mind for me is I
say this all the time, especially it's used in college football,
is you know, when things are going right, they're they're
young men. But of course you know if a coach
thinks that they're sticking up for them, oh these kids, yeah,
well wait a minute, wait a minute, they're young men?
Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
Are their kids?
Speaker 15 (01:35:49):
Like?
Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
Where are they coached. Where are we at here? Well,
I got news for you. Now with pay, they're grown
adults to say it. They're no longer now if you
don't make it personal. But I've told this story before.
When I was in broadcasting games for ESPN, I really
went into games, like in primetime games when Mark Malona
and I were doing them Charlie Steiner as an analyst,
(01:36:11):
I honestly was very cognizant that an eighteen year old
kid on scholarships parents may be home watching this game, sure,
and not that if you FID listen you throw three picks,
I can't tell you're a great player. That day got
to be. But you don't. You don't have to belabor
the point. Beat the kid down right right, they're still going.
But once they started, once you decide that you can
(01:36:32):
transfer four times and get paid, they now are getting
treated the same way as an NFL player. And if
I was doing college football games right now and you're
a nineteen or twenty year old player that's transferred and
you're getting nil money or any of them, you are
now subject to the same criticism as a professional. So
(01:36:53):
it has just like the money shifted, So is the
way that broadcaster treat you. And there's more criticism these
guys than ever when they're playing a game, and there
should be as just as like just the same compliments.
They're not above him anymore.
Speaker 6 (01:37:05):
You go play, you go play to school, say like
Alabama or somewhere like that college football. There's nowhere to hide,
like you've got to know that already going in. And
if you don't, well, then that's kind of on you.
Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
It's not on anybody. And if you transfer four times
because you got beat out, not because you know you
got hurt twice and somebody you transfer four times you
got beat out. As a broadcaster, I do reserve the
right to set up there and say I don't like it.
I wonder how he is. Is he afraid of competition?
And I wouldn't have any problems saying it out there.
But I was very cognizant before all that. You know,
(01:37:37):
kid fumbles the ball, sure, okay, he lost that. People
make mistakes. You don't have to sit there and brow
beat him while his parents and his brother and sister
are sitting at home watching Unaware a Way game and
the kid. The kid's self esteem at seventeen or eighteen
or nineteen is going to suffer. But as long as
you don't make it personal. Now, criticism to me is
alive and well when it comes to these kids, and
they're not kids, they're grown adults. Now, if you're getting paid,
(01:37:59):
you get treated like getting paid.
Speaker 6 (01:38:00):
Well, it's kind of like a buddy of mine once
told me where there was a guy that committed to
go play at a school, and I said, why would
he go there? There's there's already three running backs at
Randy Cross, probably up with Ever and Randy. When I
brought that up to him, I think it was actually
funny enough. Alvin Kamara when he signed to go to
Alabama and I was like, wait a minute, You've got TJ.
Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
Yeldon, you got all these guys here. Why is he
going there?
Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
He goes because the coach told him when he was
about to commit, well, if you don't like competition, then
this isn't the right place for you. And what kid
that's as good as he is, once you throw that
at him, is not going to say, oh, well you
damn right, I like competition.
Speaker 5 (01:38:35):
I'll be there Monday morning. Well I can. When I
was getting recruited, I've I've shared the story I believe
on here before and John Robinson came into my home
and sat down and it was a couple of days
before signing day, and it was a home visit in
coach Robinson has a national title ring on for seventy eight.
We're talking and going through it and as his last
words to me, where we'd love you to come to USC,
(01:38:57):
we're gonna create and this is almost verbatim, And at
that point time I was in number one recruit in
the country. And he said, we'd love you to come
to USC. We're going to create an environment for you
to be successful and compete in and you'll have every
opportunity to do that, and didn't promise me the starting job,
none of that because we had good players there, needless
to say. And his final words were, but if you
don't come to USC, we're still going to show up
(01:39:19):
on Saturday, and we're still going to win. And he
left my house with Paul Hackett, who was the offensive coordinator,
and they got in the car and drove away, and
my dad, as we stood on the front watching them
drive away, my dad said to me, I think you
want to be a part of that, don't you. And
the truth is, because it was considering them and BYU,
and there was a couple others and b why you
was throwing it all the time? USC running it and
(01:39:39):
stuff and no doubt. And my dad when he walked
to I said, that's one of the only coaches wasn't
promised me a chance to start as a freshman. You
were going to earn it. But they're still shows. So
he send in a loud message at USC's not stopping
because you don't come play for us even though we'd
like you to. And that's all he needed to say.
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It wasn't money nowadays as you listen to these guys.
Steve Alfred had a great stuff over the weekend. If
you saw he was about nil and recruiting that it's
no longer education school facilities. We got a chance to
play in a national title that the parents want to
know how much of paying my kid and the kid
wants to know how much paying So we got it
all back. We're paying on potential as opposed to production
for college and high school kids. Wow, I mean in
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the NFL, a lot of them gett paid on that there.
If you produce, you're getting paid Jamar Chase. So yeah,
if you were a competitor at the time, but the
game has changed, man that they're no longer. And the
first two questions the parents are asking is it's about
greenbacks and money, and it's we are We've got to
find a way to get it. It's okay to pay,
but we got to find a way to pay on
on on production as opposed to guy walks on campus
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and he's making more money than than an assistant coaches.
That's hard to fathom.
Speaker 6 (01:40:48):
And Nick Saban, I mean, he wasn't shy about saying
that was pretty much the reason why he's no longer
the coach at Alabama or coaching in general. So hoping
that we can stop seeing some of the legends leave
the game, that's for sure. Yeah, as you mentioned, they're
on the second hold the playoff there at TPC Sawgrass.
It does look like that Rory's going to be in
position to be able to run away with this thing.
Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
So we'll keep you update on that.
Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
We'll continue on as I do want to weave in
the Chas McCormick and Cam Smith Jake Myers conversation. I
do want to get that in, so maybe we'll hit
that here coming up next. He's Sean Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore,
Dan Matthews. This is Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven
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Speaker 6 (01:43:07):
You got a little bit of breaking news here, Sean,
we were talking about Derek Stingley Junior. Well, it sounds
like David Mullagetta and the crew over there at Athletes First,
so they might have been listening and saying, oh yeah, well, hey,
we got something for you. Adam Schefter, Texans all Pro
Derek Stingley Junior agreeing to a three year ninety million
dollar extension.
Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
Eighty nine of that is guaranteed.
Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
He is the highest paid defensive back in NFL history.
As Adam Schefter throws out, the cornerback market has now
been completely reset.
Speaker 5 (01:43:39):
Yeah. Well, and like we said, not going to get
the forty, but thirty is about right. You're not paying
your corner forty. But I can tell you this, there's
a reason why he's getting paid that because he can
make a case that he was as good as we
had in the league last year at his position, and
we knew coming in if he just stayed healthy when
Lovey Smith drafted him, that went well when Lovey was
a head coach and they made that pick that if
(01:44:01):
he just stayed healthy, that you had a monster at
corner and they got him. Listen, if you're going to
guarantee eighty nine guarantee ninety, I mean, well, I don't
know if that means you don't want to guarantee at all,
because it makes it tough on others, I mean other teams.
Ninety million and eighty nine of it's guaranteed. What's the
(01:44:22):
other million four? I mean, I guess you can wipe
your rear in because you got enough money with it
if you'd like. But eighty nine million guaranteed, which means
no matter what he'd get paid. So good on him.
Great performance last year. I think their secondary is as
good a young secondary as there is in a league.
They've added physicality and attitude to it. In the back end.
(01:44:44):
Their edge rushers can play with anybody, their linebackers run,
they've got a nasty attitude. If they're not a top
five defense in the league this year, I will be shocked.
And I'm not just talking about yards. I'm talking about points,
as long as our offense doesn't put him in position
to give the other team short fields. Rightfully, so earned it,
deserves it, and he's got to be really really happy
(01:45:05):
this morning. I would imagine that he can pay his bills.
So I think he's gonna be okay. I'm gonna see.
Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
Him and good on the franchise for doing this. I
think that he'll be all right. And you're right too.
I mean, what he's got with Kamari Laster on the
other side from him, you had CJ. Gardner Johnson, You've
got Calen Bullock back there, Jimmy Ward going to be
back with this team, and then obviously Jalen Petrie is
kind of a little bit of a hybrid the star position,
(01:45:30):
playing a little bit more kind of like a linebacker,
but still being counted on in coverage situation and.
Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
They can count on him to cover. I mean, Bullock
has become a great ballhawk in the back end. And
the truth is, as you know, CJ was a he
could play on the slot and nickel when he was
in New Orleans as well. I mean, he's been able
to do both. So you get versatile safeties that can
cover if necessary, so you don't have the substitute all
the time, and veteran leadership that gives you, you know,
(01:45:57):
because a lot of times these days, in truth, you're
not playing with three linebackers. You're playing with five dbs,
and at times in a die package, you're playing with
six dbs, and you hope that those dbs are either
physical or have safety presents that know how to tackle
that can also cover. That's it. So if you have
four receivers, you're in a good you're pretty good. Three receivers.
You got to have it's under rate. We don't talk
(01:46:18):
about it enough across the country that it's no longer
just two. You better have three good guys. And you
know what, your slot guy, the guy who's a nickel
coverage guy, quite frankly, has a tougher job than the
guys on the edge because the crossers and the stuff
moving across the middlefield. You can pin your guy to
the edges right and play outside the numbers those guys
(01:46:39):
inside that's a tough job. And they know how versatile
those guys have to be. And then you get a
corner who you can say, follow their best player if necessary,
if you're going to travel with him. If not, you
don't really need to on this team because Lassiter is
about a year or two away from us saying, damn,
they may have the best corner combo in the league.
They may have it now really good. He showed at
he showed a lot of really good things this year.
(01:47:00):
You know, it's kind of gone. Are the days of
you're a boundary Oh you're a field guy. I mean
it's that's in college. You get a boundary corner that's
physical right with a hash marks Well, with the ash
marks close together in the NFL. You're one hundred percent
correct that I need you to be to be able
to do it all. Yeah, there's no longer a base
three four or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
Now.
Speaker 6 (01:47:19):
It's pretty much just all right, you know, Nickel, that's
your base defense right there.
Speaker 5 (01:47:23):
That's pretty much the way the league plays. The times
that dimes even more base than your regular because people
are playing four wides and empty in the backfield on
a regular basis. Anyway, you've got to have guys that
can run and cover but also can get nosy in
the run game.
Speaker 6 (01:47:35):
It's important, Yeah, not as much twelve personnel anymore.
Speaker 9 (01:47:40):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
If Harball has his way, there will be. He has
his way, there will be, and he'll bring it back.
The forty nine ers don't mind getting it once in
a while. But the truth of the matter is you've
got to have those perimeter guys, and you've got to
have corners and safeties that can now cover and then
a ball hawking safety. And Bullock has proved that right
now as far as young goes when it comes to
free safeties young players, he's as good as we have
(01:48:01):
in a league at that position. Yeah, I wanted to
throw out that bit of news.
Speaker 6 (01:48:04):
So again, if you weren't with us at the beginning,
Derek Stingley in the Texans in agreement on a three
year ninety million dollar contract extension eighty nine of that
guaranteed thirty million base value per season, he is now
the highest paid defensive back in NFL history. And this
is reported by Adam Schefter of ESPN. All right, we'll
(01:48:24):
get back into us some astros also, we've in some
rockets you of aged and let you know how they
finish up there at TPC Sawgrass. All of that here
as we close up the eight o'clock hour here on
the Sean Salisbury Show. Dan Matthews, Sean Salisbury, Triple, Emmanuel Elmore,
Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Let's go on.
Speaker 6 (01:50:35):
This is the Sean Salisbury Show, coming to the deal
with the Texans Astros off today. They're gonna get the
Nationals tomorrow to continue Grapefruit League action. The final full
week of Grapefruit League action going on right now from
ber Valdez yesterday named the opening day starter his fourth
(01:50:55):
straight one. Rockets final home game of this six game
stand tonight against the seventy six ers. They're looking to
make it seven straight wins. They also go into play
tonight in the two spots in the Western Conference back
to the NFL, Jamar Chase T Higgins both agreeing to
multi year contract extensions with the Cincinnati Bengals, and then
(01:51:17):
U of H number one seed in the Midwest Region.
They're gonna take on SIU Edwardsville Thursday at one.
Speaker 5 (01:51:24):
I am so excited for this march. I mean, congrats
to Stingley and obviously the Astros, which I can't wait
to see, and I can't wait to see the Cam
Smith stuff and the way that you know, it's crazy
through all this, they're still under talked about is the
Rockets and the way they're and I know we want
to see the system. We want them to sustain this
because think about what they've done under Udoka. They get
better every year. Last year, five hundred basketball club, this year,
(01:51:47):
by basketball team. This year they're sitting in the two
hole and sitting the two seed, which is every year
in that the goal to get better and finally and
they may not be ready for prime time yet, but
why not them? Why not that they're playing like it
in the red season. And then with Kelvin Samson's teams
and this team in particular, and I know his affinity
for this team, and every team's different, but the way
(01:52:08):
he makes them get to work and the way they responding.
They can knock down shots, They've got star power, but
they're relentless on defense. I can't wait to see it.
And it's Edwardsville, right SIU edwards.
Speaker 6 (01:52:18):
Yeah, I have no idea where Edwardsville is. I guess
it's somewhere in southern Illinois. Yeah, I understand if they
study tape. As a matter of fact, if I was them,
this may be the tape. Don't just you might want
to not study it because you're going to see there.
Sometimes you don't need to see the beast, you know
what I'm saying. You just need to go show up
and play and try to be unconscious because that can
(01:52:38):
beat you. Watching Kelvin Sampson's team, the relentless, the way
they play defense.
Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
Forget the fact that they can score. I'm talking about
the other side that can That can make you walk.
It's like walking into a building and you're a high
school team and I've seen this happen before your high
school team. All of a sudden, my high school team,
and fortunately they played one of my best my sophomore year,
we were playing Cliff Levingston, you know the guy Michael
Jordan's power forward, first round pick from Wichita State. We
(01:53:08):
played them my sophomore year, and we played them in
Sarah High School sophomore year and they were the heavy
favorites to win the CIF championship and we had them
on the break for a minute. Man, But walking in
to the you know, I come from a Hispanic, white
guy town, and you know we had to, you know,
And so you walk in there, but it's easy. They're
playing above the rim, right and walked in the gym
(01:53:29):
and the back end there the boom boxes are banging
when you walk in the gym and you're walking in
and Cliff, they all had nicknames on a Cliff good News, Levingston,
Tony the Trimmer, Rasheed, Zach no Slack, true blood. All
I can remember it as vivided and they had a
legendary coach who I love. We lost, but wanted a
legendary coach in San Diego. And I remember walking in
the gym in my first thought, and maybe it was
(01:53:50):
because the way I was raised, My first thought was
tall task, but we're kicking their ass and ended up
playing you know, let's just go get them. Nobody expects
us to win the game. And we are really good
high school basketball team. But walked into the gym and
you could see the fact that when you walked in
it was going there was intimidated. Some of our players.
It was like the choked on their own day. Yeah
(01:54:10):
they're different, yes, and it was almost like it was
eliminated that their thought going in is we got no shot, right,
and we hung around and hung around, but you're playing
against the guys. You know. Cliff Levingston was a first
round pick in the NBA, was a monster player and
a great, great player. But I remember walking into that
gym and then eyeball on some of my teammates, and
I was just naive enough as a sixteen year old sophomore,
not the care fifteen as a matter of fact, it
(01:54:31):
was fifteen at the time, and it was like I
just wanted to go play, and you thought, okay, at
the end of the game, you realized they had almost
won it beforehand. And I'm not saying it's like my
Orangelee High School Patriots against the Morris Tigers and Cliff
good News Levingston. But it can be because it is
an overwhelming team you're about to play, so you might
(01:54:53):
want to blindfold yourself before watching it and just go
in and let it rip. Because this team's reputation is
exactly who they are. They are nasty on defense, and
Edwardsville would have to have five out of body experiences
to win a game.
Speaker 6 (01:55:06):
It's almost kind of like the story that Manti te
Ho tells before they played Alabama and that BCS title game,
where he was like, you know, we're doing our chance,
We're doing all of that, and then we saw them
walk out of their locker room and pass us by,
and it was kind of like he turned around, looked
at some of the looks on guy's eyes and they're like, yeah,
we got no shot against these guys. Well, Zeke Motta
ain't showing up against this Alabama team.
Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
It's over before it's over, and that's why the best
thing for them, maybe they should have done warm up
in their own locker room. If that's what and that's
Notre Dame right right, How in the world does Notre
Dame feeling that way? So if Notre Dame's feel in
that way, imagine how overwhelming it can be for Edwardsville
in southern Illinois. Holly wants to wig in here in Beaumont, Holly,
what's going on?
Speaker 15 (01:55:46):
Good morning, guys, How are you all happy Monday? I
just wanted to have a few comments about the Astros.
I just don't see how. I love Chazz, I love
him to death, but I just don't see how we
can go forward with him. He stressed and he's pressing,
and it shows, and I don't know what he can
show us these last ten days that he hasn't seen
us the first three weeks. I don't know if he
would be good coming off the bench, but I think
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cam Smith has earned that job.
Speaker 5 (01:56:10):
Also to I didn't mean to interrupt him with you
one hundred. You put him in and play him the
play Hi one hundred and fifty games and let's go.
Speaker 15 (01:56:17):
Yeah, no doubt he's earned it. I mean, what are
you going to tell him if if you, I mean
you didn't earn it, kid it after these numbers, I
mean you got to go back to and they pre
sure shouldn't start him in double A at least the
very least triple eight. But chess is just I don't know, like,
I don't know if he needs a new start somewhere else,
but he's just not good. And I just want to
(01:56:38):
make a comment about Jeremy pinion. That guy has looked
like a different brogue this this supreme training. He is breaking,
He's got a better eye out to plate, and I
just thought the weakest thing about our team is the
bottom of the lineup. And wouldn't it be nice if
we could maybe plot Jeremy into the nine hole and
have him set a better table for al two of
a Alvarez paratus. That was just a out I had.
(01:57:00):
And I'll hear y'all comments, and you'll have a.
Speaker 5 (01:57:02):
Great Heay Holly, before you go, you make a great point,
I said earlier on the show. I don't know if
you that Cam Smith and Pain you have been the
two most impressive players this spring training. In my I'm
talking about for everyday players. Yeah, and I absolutely And
I think it's a I like your idea whether Pain
you wants to hit in that slot, but table setter
so you get the yord On and Christian Walker. That's
not a bad idea. We'll see if I actually think
(01:57:24):
they're going to hit him six or so, but I
do like the thought process of having it, of having
a two hole hitter hidden in the nine hole. Yeah,
great point, Holly, Thanks for the call, all right, too
happy to say take care.
Speaker 6 (01:57:35):
Yeah, and uh, you know what you just brought up
about Jeremy Pine, something on that I do want to
carry over here as we start the nine o'clock hour,
and then of course we'll weave in the cam Smith's
stuff too.
Speaker 5 (01:57:44):
So a lot of astros here to start off to
nine o'clock hour.
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coming up next. A team A little bit later on
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This is less than twenty four hours after Jamar Chase
and t Higgins both get broken off by the Cincinnati
Bengals four years, one hundred and sixty one million for Chase,
four years one point fifteen for Higgins. Astros off today.
They're gonna get the Nationals tomorrow. Lance mccullor is gonna
be on the mound to start the final full week
(01:59:29):
of Greape Fruit League action from ber Valdez named the
opening day starter yesterday, his fourth straight, and the Rockets
get the Sixers tonight, close out six game homestand trying
to take the win streak to seven straight. They are
now number two in the Western Conference after this stretch,
and the Cougar's going to start NCAA tournament action on Thursday.
(01:59:52):
One o'clock against SIU Edwardsville. They are the number one
seed in the Midwest region.
Speaker 5 (01:59:58):
But Sean.
Speaker 6 (01:59:59):
One of the things though, that we to carry over
from Holly, who just dropped in here with us here
to close out the eight o'clock cour is Cam Smith.
I mean, I think we're both pretty much on the
same path with Smith. Of all right, if you're going
to have him here, you play him every single day,
and they've started to work him out in right field.
Nice little play out there yesterday called off on a
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play by Mauricio Dubon. But it's to the point where
don't worry about third base right now with him. If
you're really serious about him being with this team, out
the gate with you as you start the season off
on your twenty six man roster, then the rest of
the week he needs to be out there in right field.
Speaker 5 (02:00:37):
I don't know why we have a third baseman. You
suck pretis we have a third basement. You got a
first basement, yeah, and then you went out and traded
for you've got a third baseman, and you went out
and signed Christian Walker. I don't even know why. It's
a conversation. I know he can go over there and play.
If all of a sudden paratus needs a day off
and you got him in right field and you want
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to play McCormick and right now field on a day,
then move him to third base. His bat needs to
be in the lineup. He needs to learn through the
good and the bad. Cam Smith has earned the job,
he has earned the right to play, and listen, I
understand the old baseball. Well, let's keep him down because
it might We don't want to rush him. Yeah, you actually,
actually you do. And it's not rushing him if he's
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earned it. To me, a rush job is a guy
hitting two twenty in the spring and swinging at pitches
that are completely outside the strike zone and has no clue,
and then because he's in your number one prospect, you
just want to throw him out there. No, no, no. And
this team's been great, This organization's been fantastic at developing
players in the minor leagues and when the time is right,
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bringing them up and allowing them to do their thing.
But sometimes guys are built different. Everybody's not built the same.
Stroud's not built the same as Davis Mills is. And
it happens all the time. It happens all the time.
And in baseball we have this tendency to want to
hold people back and let that they got to go
through this ball and this ball and this ball triple A. Now,
sometimes some guys are just better. Some guys just are
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ready for it and also mentally tougher than some veterans are.
I would put him in there. He started him in
right field. I got news for you. The arm one
thing I do know. It'll be the strongest arm in
the outfield that they have. And let him go play
and at the plate, he'll have some mistakes, he'll flail
away and have a game where he gets a golden sombrero.
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And he's also gonna have a game where hits two
home runs. And you're saying, this is why he's here.
If you really want the best team fielded, you put
him in the lineup and play, and you don't platoon
your number one prospect at the major league level. If
he's not gonna get a match, you put him in
triple A. Let's go and to me, I don't even think,
I don't even know why we're having this, And forget
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to the third base is to me, now his backup position.
He goes in there, he's the fill in at third base.
You got your third base and your corner enfield set.
You're looking to make sure you get Dubon as a
regular second base or if he's not, then you then
you deal with that. Matter of fact, I'm more that's
the concern. I'm less concerned about Cam Smith's starting in
right field that I am who's going to be your
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everyday second basement. And I'm not really that concerned about
that position either. I just to me, I I you
said it was competition. That's what we were told. And
the competition is that your best outfielder not named Jose
al Tuve, your best hitter, is your number one prospect,
Put him in and let's go.
Speaker 6 (02:03:22):
Well, it's also to some of the concerns that you
laid out that could possibly be there is I mean,
you've heard Joe Aspata others talk about how mature his
at bats are. That I mean, he is a guy
that will work a walk. He can be able to
have good recognition of what strike strikes. Yeah, I mean,
and it's not to say that you know he doesn't
have a strikeout here or there, because he does. I mean,
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including one that he had where it was even looking
back at the home plate umpirely, Hey you sure about that?
Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
Like, I don't.
Speaker 6 (02:03:50):
I don't think I'm seeing the same pitch that you
just saw going to the mit right there. But I
mean the other part is I mean sounding like mature
beyond his years in terms of how he carries himself.
I mean, that's been the one thing that has come
out of this spring camp this year that I think
has really impressed me the most with him, as everybody talking.
Speaker 5 (02:04:07):
About this is a guy that acts like he belongs. Okay,
and no question about it. If it wasn't for this,
excuse me, get an extra year thing that you have
and with minor leaguers, right, if it was with when
I say minor leaguers with guys that are prospects, and
you get the extra year before you play him and
you don't play them for the first fifteen games, if
it wasn't for that, but you can get that on
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the back end by playing him all year long. Let's
say that that rule didn't exist. Are we having this conversation?
Speaker 6 (02:04:39):
Probably not having this conversation, because then there wouldn't be
the perceived pressure that you need that he needs to
play every single day. I mean, if that's the case,
then go ahead and have him up here, because I mean, look.
Speaker 5 (02:04:50):
Now, I'm just talking about would he be on the
major league roster?
Speaker 6 (02:04:53):
Yeah, yeah, if you don't question, yeah, if you don't
have that, we're not having this conversation right now because
he's here.
Speaker 5 (02:04:58):
That's exactly right. And so and then again, I hear
it all the time, and you know what, not people
have their opinion and it's all I love that. But
let's get real here. We are way too protective of well,
what if, what if he has? What if he has
some failures? I hope he does, and he will. He
will on a regular basis most of the time. Every
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single day you'll have some sort of a failure, whether
that's striking out. You don't go four four every day.
And as a matter of fact, the chances are you
going to go for four more than you go four
for four as a veteran, ten year veteran Hall of
Famer or not. I just to me, I'm maybe I
think different because I've seen it with players and been
in locker rooms, and some guys just handle failure and
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success better than others. And the only way you know
is by running him out there. Well, what if we
lose him as a prospect, then he was never gonna
be worth anything anyway. You just found out sooner. So
I'm I don't And some guys have swagger even if
they're hitting one eighty five. Hell when Bregman, even though
I know as veteran, but even as a rookieman goes
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if he starts slow. There was never a question. Man,
I'm worried about us. I'm worried about his his psyche.
Is he going to be okay? No, you were never
worried about it, and you never have worried about it
to me. If it wasn't for the rule there, the
conversation will be over, he's your starting right fielder, let's
go play.
Speaker 6 (02:06:16):
Well, it's also too I mean, if he has the
struggles up at the major league level, then it's like, okay,
we kind of expect that to be the case because
he's facing the best of the best. These are going
to happen. You're gonna have some opers here. You're going
to have as you mentioned, the sombrero games, those are there.
It doesn't matter how good you are, you are going
to have that game when you play at that level.
But it's also where we've brought in, you know, the
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conversation about Chaz and Jake. I think as the season
goes along, you're going to have one of those guys
who are not going to be everyday players for you
because he can't because the bat out of Chaz McCormick
is too inconsistent, even when he's better than what he
was last season. And Jake Myers, I mean, look, we
can continue to say, oh, hey, you know, I want
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to have that Jake Myers that was at Yankee Stadium.
Remember Dana Brown mentioning that last year. The problem is
with Jake is it seems like it's all or nothing.
It's either man, this guy, Okay, hey we might have
something here, or it's there's another double play, yep, there's
another three strikeout game. There's too many more of those
than there are of the good moments that we've seen
out of his bat.
Speaker 5 (02:07:20):
Well, let me ask you this. If a center fielder
or a right fielder that's a veteran hits two twenty
and doesn't possess a rocket launch or arm, but we
keep him up here every day, what's the difference If
he's working.
Speaker 6 (02:07:34):
Good at bats he's getting on base here and there.
I mean, because that's the thing with Jake is I mean,
I even heard, you know, our good buddy Steve Sparks saying,
why not if you're a guy with his speed, put
a ball on the ground every once in a while,
but laid down a bunch doesn't hurt you get on base.
I know what you can do with the legs, but
I need you on base, is the point.
Speaker 5 (02:07:51):
Okay, at their very worst, all three of them, let's say, Meyer,
let's just go Myers, Cam Smith and Chas McCormick at
their very worst, they're all gonna hover. Let's say, at
the very worst they are two twenty hitters. Sure, okay,
Now let's go at their very best, very past Myers
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pay reach their potential. Who's the best player? Oh, Cam Smith? Okay?
The question then, as long as you're sure that you're
not worried that he's gonna wilt. And once again, I
wouldn't have traded for him if I thought he was
a fragile personality, because fragile is a rookie. You're gonna
be fragile as a fourth year guy. That's called DNA, buddy,
that's called DNA, and I would much rather if somebody
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told me, Sean, you want to struggle against seven on
seven or do you want to struggle against eleven on eleven?
Let me struggle against eleven on eleven. Get the living
crap kicked out of me, because I'm going to toughen
up and say, Okay, now I'm seeing what the real
stuff looks like. Seven on seven's fake football. Eleven on
eleven is real. So I if I'm throwing three picks
and seven on seven, then you suck ass. Okay, So
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let me suck ass against big league pitching where they're
throwing a hook on me and then hit me with
the splitter and then pumping ninety eight upstairs. Okay, I
got you, but I'm gonna go look at the tam
and say I am gonna get you the other way
next time. So to me, it's not like you're competing
against two seventy five to eighty hitters at driving ninety runs.
This is hard. This has been such a brutal organization
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for young guys to have a chance. It takes Korea
to leave. It takes Reregman to be traded to have
a chance to go in there and play. This is
finally a roster where the path is like if he
earned it during spring training, there's an opening, and there
may be more than one, and you've got a monster player.
To me, this is this is not a hard decision.
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To me, this is a no friggin brainer. I'm not
asking you to go out there, guy who struck out
twenty seven times in spring training. I'm just saying, take
a look at their worst, he's probably better than both
at his best. It ain't close. So you tell me
what you do.
Speaker 6 (02:09:50):
I mean, I think that the decision has been made,
at least for us, and I mean I think in
some ways it's also been made from the astros too.
That's the reason why you're seeing him out in right field.
So we'll see if indeed they do go that route
when they do break camp here at the end of
the week. We mentioned Jeremy Pani, you two, I do
want to get him into the conversation because, I mean,
we've seen what he can mean to this team when
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things are going really well for him, So we'll see
if he is able to be that guy for this
team this season. Ronnie, Tim, see you guys right there.
Get to you all on the other side. If you
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Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:10:39):
Let's go on. This is the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (02:10:43):
At CHELINI used to always hit that he and Fred
were partners for a long time. Huh yep, yeah, God
bless him too well, what a great human he was. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (02:10:52):
I had a chance to actually get to meet him
a few years ago when he was working in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (02:10:56):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (02:10:58):
Those those old CNN guys him around and you're like, gosh, man,
the crew they had rocking there back in the day.
But anyway, it is the Sean Salisbury Show. Astros off
today from grape Fruit League Action, their final off day
before the day before they start the regular season a
week from Thursday. But we're gonna get Lance McCullers Junior
(02:11:19):
on the mound tomorrow against the Nationals. They'll play the
rest of the week and then they'll come back home
take on the Sugarland Space Cowboys for a couple of
nights and then Opening Day from er Valdez on the
mound for the fourth straight season as the Astros will
get the season going against the Mets a week from
Thursday and Rockets back on the home floor tonight. Already
(02:11:41):
told you about Derek Stingley Junior getting the three year
contract extension, eighty nine of that guaranteed out of a
ninety million dollar deal. He is the highest paid defensive
back now in NFL history. And we've talked a lot
about U of H being in the NCAA Tournament. They'll
take on SIU Edwardsville on Thursday at one, number three
overall seed in the entire sixty eight team field, but
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the number one there in the Midwest region. And Rory
McElroy wins the three hole playoffs there at the Players Championship,
outlasting JJ Spawn. JJ Spawn a triple bogie on the
seventeenth flew his t shot, then didn't do the ten
cup McAvoy of just go ahead and just tee it
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up from right there and hit it again. He went
to the drop area and unable to do better than
a sixth there on seventeen.
Speaker 5 (02:12:34):
That's the hole that the tournament's usually decided and throughout
the day, and no time has a winner. I don't
believe a winner or somebody with the lead. The person
who won the tournament hit the ball in the water
at eighteen and McElroy hit in the middle of the
green and JJ spawn flew the water, flew, the flew
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the green, hit the water and sometimes when you jacked
up like that, and he'll look back and you know,
obviously a bit overwhelmed. I'm sure your McIlroy's won almost
thirty tournaments. I think this is number twenty eight. Spawns
one one and a really good player. His guts and
some of the shots he hit throughout the tournament were
really good. But now you had a night to think
about it and that intimidation factor community. It's not like
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Rory didn't tear it up here in these three holes.
He just played wayward drive on sixteen and then on seventeen,
you know, just hit it in the middle of the
green and what three putted, And then on you know,
hit another drive on eighteen with an eye and then
had to chip out and go up there and knock
it up there. So you it is McElroy can do
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that to you. And so can a lot of these
veterans spawn or learn. But let's face the facts. It's
it's and I hate using this word, so they it
was an overwhelming choke job in the in the playoff,
but he did a hell of it. When you say that,
people think, oh, that's horrible. It's it's a fact because
he just didn't play good golf in the three holes
and Rory played well enough to win. It's no. I
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don't think many people would have bet that Michael Roy
wasn't going to win this one because he's pretty damn
good and pretty damn consistent, and he's won at Pebble
Beach this year and he's won here. You're dealing with
one of the best players in the world right now.
Is obviously the he'll be the leader in the FedEx
Cup points, he'll pass Stepstraca, and he also has got
a really good start on the Player of the Year
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award early in the season.
Speaker 6 (02:14:21):
He's playing good golf, there's no doubt about it. You
mentioned Scotti Scheffler earlier going through a little bit of
his struggles, so he's hoping to be able to write
that before he gets to a Gusta. We're just a
few weeks away from the Masters, so that'll be exciting
to see play out when we get to that point.
We've been talking a lot about the astros. Jeremy Pania
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one of those guys. Ronnie gets to you here in
just a second, but I mean he can lengthen this
lineup this year, and you hope that what you're seeing
in the spring is a precursor of what's to come,
because I mean we've seen it numerous times. I've talked
about it when I'm talking about the Rockets, that this
Rockets offense pretty much goes as far as Jalen Green
can take you. And if he's able to put up points,
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then you feel good about the team as a whole
being able to go that route. But with Jeremy Pania,
I mean, he showed you the year that you won
the World Series that he's a guy that can ignite
the bottom end of that lineup, and you're hoping that maybe,
oh that's seventh spot this year, six wherever you hit him,
that he can kind of lengthen things out from You
know what you're gonna get from Altuve, you know what
you're gonna get from jord On Jiner.
Speaker 5 (02:15:25):
The same deal.
Speaker 6 (02:15:27):
You think you like what you have in Christian Walker
and also east Sock Peretis. I mean, it's just this
is a lineup that's looking to be able to lengthen
itself out as much as possible.
Speaker 5 (02:15:36):
Yeah, he can. Also he's had great success hitting in
a two hole, so you know you have that ability
if necessary. But for him, it's just better command of
the strike zone. And at the end of the season,
it felt like the way he was hit and affected
some of his defensive play. He'll get that short up.
He's a really good player and Gold Glove potential, we
know that, but as long as he doesn't chase bad
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pitches and he's listen to the physical ability ability. He's
so strong and I actually expect more home runs from
him without trying to hit home runs for him. Just
do your thing, but you know, protect the strike zone,
chase chase competitive pitches. When he's at his worst, he's
chasing non competitive pitches. So if he's disciplined now in
year three as a as a guy who can length
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in the lineup, and that length is is it at
the front of the lineup, is at the back end
of the lineup. If you're hitting you know, all of
a sudden you get prey to hitting in the two hole,
Al two a leading off Jordon in the three, although
the temptation to hit Jord on two will be there.
Christian Walker four, yin or Diz five either paying your
camp Smith's six or seven, depending on where you want.
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And then the dubon Jake Myers at the end of
the lineup, unless you want to move paying you down
to Hollywood suggests it hit him in nine. So you
have basically a guy who's a top order hitter. But
if he simply just changes his command of the strike
zone on pitches that are not competitive Jeremy Paine, you
will have will be just fine, just like he did
in the post season. We know he's got pressure chops.
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He's proven it last year, you know the struggles that
he started pretty hot and was doing a good job.
But his whole thing is too He doesn't need aggressive
is one thing, desperate to another. Just needs to command
the strike zone a little bit better, and when he does,
he's got plenty of ability, it seems like.
Speaker 6 (02:17:18):
And to your point about the chops, it seems like
when the pressure could have gotten the best of him,
it would have been his rookie season. Oh, I got
to be Carlos Korea. I got to be him. I
gotta be you know, I've got to be that guy.
And somewhere along the way, either he understood it himself
or somebody got to him and said, we need you
to be Jeremy Pania.
Speaker 5 (02:17:34):
We don't need you to be Carlos Korea. You're not
going to be him. Yeah, And sitting down with him
at the Astros fest, you know, the to before they
left for spring training, there was a just kind of
sitting next him. There was a quiet, work in silence type.
And there hasn't been a lot of fanfare this offseason.
You know, I'm sure the fans love him, but there's
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a lot of chatter. He's just kind of done some
things in silence. He didn't you know, he's not he
doesn't to bench press the team bus. He's got plenty
of plenty of strength and athleticism. And it felt like
talking to him that he was just that he felt
like this was it's like Saturday to gusta movie year
for him and for him natural ability. He's going to
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be fine. Just lay off the stuff that you don't
you don't have to Chase Man and if he's if
he's as good as we think he can be, you
talk about lengthening the lineup. It also gives you versatility
in the lineup because it's rare that you can have
a guy hitting in the seven hole and then also
hitting a two hole on a regular basis that you
don't have to force there, that you can put there
and have great success doing it.
Speaker 6 (02:18:36):
I love it, and don't carry over the negativity if
that is starting to happen there at the plate, don't
carry it over in the field, which we saw him
do a few times last season.
Speaker 5 (02:18:44):
It takes so it's hard the best in the world
compartmentalize the gold gloves separate from the batting title. That
regardless or the golden sombreros, still doesn't effect because even
though you may strike out three times in a game
and have a bad day at the plate, the ability
to go in the hole and get a ball and
throw somebody out maybe the most important thing you did,
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over and above even if you'd got three hits, and
you see that happen like I compared to like a
good point guard. When Jason Kidd was winning, when he
won the NBA title, with the Dallas but also as
a player, but also in his career, he could take
over a game and score six points because you know
what he did. He'd give you eighteen assists, he'd give
you fourteen rebounds, and the fact even if he wasn't
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shooting well or not taking shots, to still control and
dominate a game. And there's some magic Johnson could do
the same time. I'm just using him because he's right
down and it was recent and I had tickets, say
watching them play, and I used to say the same
thing about hinz Ward. Hines Ward used to be able
to control or commit to a game and be successful
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and catch two balls. Why he'd block the dog crap
out of you. He would wear your ass out blocking you.
So even if he wasn't getting the ball, instead of
pout and not getting his, he'd go make sure he
got is another way. And so he would instead. And
you know, we always think that it's the nine catch,
one hundred and thirty yard guy that dominates the game.
Sometimes it's the two catch, block your ass off and
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get downfield and create a big run in the secondary.
And that's who heinz Ward always was as a football player,
and he wasn't pouting in the locker room after is
doing his thing. So it's the same thing here. You
can control and dominate a game defensively even if you
haven't had a great offensive day and you have to
compartmentalize in baseball.
Speaker 6 (02:20:28):
Well, I mean it's funny too. I heard a story
of a guy talking about that. The first time you
ever heard heines Ward block somebody, He had to turn
around there for a second to be like, who was that? Yeah,
It's like, no, that was the receiver that just did that.
It wasn't the other way around because what he did
was changed. Even if he didn't block you.
Speaker 5 (02:20:44):
He made those inside linebackers on the crack back without cutting,
where you'd peel back and you'd knock the guy's unit
of dirt. Right, is that those linebackers their head was
on a swoow knowing our safeties or somebody down in
the hole in the lane would be like that dude,
because he did not take a playoff and instead of
put there's plenty of receivers now I didn't get mine.
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What's going on?
Speaker 9 (02:21:07):
Now?
Speaker 5 (02:21:07):
What else did you do when you didn't get your
Do you block somebody or did you take the playoff
because it was run away for you. That was Neverraheind's ward.
It's the same thing here. Dominate a game when you're
not hitting well? Can you do that? It's like a pitcher.
Can you dominate a game when you don't have your
best stuff? And if you can, things are different. People
like the Grinders, no doubt about it. Ronnie, see you
right there if you want to join Ronnie on the
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Speaker 2 (02:21:40):
I had lived there for the Sewn Salisbury Show continued, So.
Speaker 6 (02:21:45):
The Rockets hoping they can hold on to that throughout
the rest of the regular season. Astros are off today,
They're gonna get the Nationals tomorrow to continue Grapefruit League
action at Lance McCullers Junior gonna be on the mound
for that one. We've been talking a lot of Cam Smith.
We'll get into even more of that conversation here. Derek
Stingley Junior agreeing to a three year contract extension with
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the Texans eighty nine million dollars guaranteed ninety million as
a whole, and he is now the highest paid defensive
back in NFL history and the Cougars the number one
seed in the Midwest region. They're going to open up
action on Thursday, one o'clock against SIU Edwards. Phil Let's
get on to some of you on the phone lines, Ronnie,
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and Houston wants to weigh in here on the Shawn
Salisbury Show. Ronnie, what's going on, Buddy.
Speaker 12 (02:22:34):
Good morning guys, And just one quick comment about the
Cam Smith deal. A lot of people won't remember when
Jeff Bagwell came up, they didn't move him over to
first base until like three days before the end of
spring training. Well, I think Yogi finally decided or told
him that, you know, put this down for a space
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he's hitting, he could, you know, play first. So I'm
not worried about whether Cam will you know, succeed in
right field. He's a baseball player. He knows how to
play the game of baseball. And you know, even if
he has the games where he goes over three, not
everybody's gonna get a hit every time they come up.
Even Jordan is going to have bad games, so don't
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worry about it. Put him out there. I'm kind of
curious about some of the guys who may or may
not make the roster with regard to bench players, Whitcomb, Decenzo,
the guy that got Brendan Brendan Rodgers. You know, it's
gonna be kind of curious to see who who makes
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it to the to the roster. And and as far
as the Cougars, I you know, hopefully they'll win. I
mean they should win, but I'm a little worried about
that eight to nine matchup between the Bulldogs and the Bulldogs.
Uh gut that.
Speaker 5 (02:23:55):
Georgia Zach and Georgia. Yeah, that's that's two good teams
that they're a low c it can beat you, no doubt,
and they're well coached.
Speaker 9 (02:24:02):
Peer Yeah.
Speaker 12 (02:24:03):
I say Mark Peugh has been is.
Speaker 5 (02:24:05):
A hell few Mark Mark Fugh, Yeah, no doubt, he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 12 (02:24:10):
And so it's like crazy and it's thinking about basketball.
This may be a comment for future. Uh it's Gonzaga now.
Gonzaga now considered a blue blood. You know, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Indiana,
U c l A, all these schools that are blue bloods,
so called blue bloods. What constitutes the blue blood? What
(02:24:33):
makes a blue blood?
Speaker 5 (02:24:34):
Yeah, it's great, great point, Ronnie, and great call. Thank
you for as always, we always appreciate you. To me,
I think it's it's it's worth pondering. Mark Few has
stayed there when he's at other opportunities to leave, which
I love. And they are now getting top of the line,
you know from the chet Holmgrens of the Red they
get frontline, big time recruits. I don't know if there's
a time frame on dominating and being a final four
(02:24:58):
power in college battle basketball that constitutes when do you
become a blue blood? Of course, they're not Duke Carolina
Kentucky yet as far as when you say blue blood
Kansas where they've been doing it for decades after decades.
But I'll tell you this, I'd say basketball powerhouse they are.
They've become when we say basketball powers that every year
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that you got to take notice agains zagat they've become that.
I probably fall a little short on the blue blood
just because it's uh when I when I'm thinking, Okay,
Kentucky and eight Alph Rupp, there's the history Mark Few
is the history. John stocked in. I mean, that's the
history of this team. So that's that, right. So there
is a but when you say Thad model, a lot
(02:25:39):
of people don't know who that is unless you're a
basketball person, right yeah, So yeah, for me, I think
they're on the edge. I do. It's like, what do
we can when do we consider a team a dynasty?
Is it two wins? Three wins? Some say it's you
got to win three championships? So are the Kansas City
Chiefs of dynasty? They are? They absolutely are? Were the Astros?
Are they a dynasty? When you do it that longer
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the Braves run when they had that run, I believe
that is a dynasty. But I don't know how many
championships is exactly? If there's one stand pad answer, you
gotta win three. To me, what the Assos have done
by dominating their division dynasty. So as far as a
blue blood, I don't know. Put it this way, it's
a powder blue if it is a blue blood program
at Gonzaga. But if you're talking about a team now
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that can go get as good a player as there
is in the country that want to go play there. Now,
the problem is when it comes to nil and pay.
I don't know if they're ever going to be able
to compete with the big boys, but I can tell
you this, getting talent and being well coached, they got
blue blood in them. Basketball powerhouse.
Speaker 6 (02:26:39):
Yes, well, I think for some of the others that
you mentioned, I mean, if you're saying they're power to La, right, yeah, well,
I mean they actually are powder blue, but the others
are royal blue with the national titles and being able
to do it throughout generations. I mean, Kansas they've been
able to do it all the way, even before Roy Williams.
Speaker 5 (02:26:58):
But what is the what is it? Is it three decades?
Is it two decades? Is it three days of basketball?
Mark feugh Now has been going on. I mean that,
and it's also I also think part of me a
dynasty is where somebody like Denny Crumb stays at Louisville
for all that for a long period of time.
Speaker 6 (02:27:13):
It's people will say it's culture. No, that's a program.
Like good teams are there a program, They're there year
in and year out. I mean, you know, when Brad
Nesler was on the station a couple of weeks ago,
he threw out blue blood with you of age, said
Kelvin's built that program in the.
Speaker 5 (02:27:31):
Beatings become it well. And the thing is that you
start to see what why this is possible. Kelvin's built
it into a basketball powerhouse. But you go back and
remember now Fi Slam a Jamas. That was in the eighties,
you know what I'm saying. So we're talking about it
just in between there. So did the Blue blood start?
Then they had a little down. Hell, even Duke has
(02:27:53):
had their times down, Kansas has had their times down,
not very many of them. North Carolina it's been I mean,
they've had a couple year so what constituted. But I
can tell you this that Gonzaga University of Houston, even
if you're not considering Blue Blas, you sure hell got
to call them basketball powerhouse because I'll be honest with you,
Houston and Gonzaga are a far bigger powerhouse of the
(02:28:13):
last fifteen years than our decade, let's just say decade.
Then UCLA's been and I grew up in Ucla. Was
when you mentioned Ucla, if you said give me the
Mount rushmore basketball powerhouses, Ucla was that team along with
Kentucky and Adolf Rupp and John Wooden and you know, uh,
North Carolina and Dean Smith, those were those were the
(02:28:34):
big dogs, and then if the Dukes when Skryzchewski got
there for a long period of time, Indiana and Bob Knight.
I mean, yeah, there's they're they're they're charging both Houston
and Gonzaga and Mark Feugh. The impact Mark Fu's had
on Gonzaga and they may coach differently, but it's a
similar to the impact that Kelvin Sampson has had on
this and Mark Fugh is not leaving and you know
(02:28:56):
who else and leaving Kelvin Sampson. I believe this is
going to be coach Sampson's last gig. I mean, I
think he's coaching here and it'll turn it over to
his son, let's hope, and maybe he'll go. But he
had an NBA opportunity when he took this gig, and
he's had other opportunities because who doesn't want Kelvin Samson.
I didn't coach. Sampson's going to coach here until he's done,
and I don't think he may go be an assistant
(02:29:17):
or a consultant for somebody, but I don't think he's
anywhere near retiring. If he doesn't want to. I mean,
if he wants to, he is too good right now,
and we need to grab him like like a Jeff
Van Gunnybred. Who was it? You're youing around the ankles
around the Cavs. That's what we need to do with
Coach Sampson and hoping that due. Don't even consider that
right now. Keep that out of your mouth. He's not
(02:29:37):
mentioned it. But you get my point. At this stage,
you just start working year to year, especially when it's
you got family there you think could take over and
do a great job too. So we're fortunate to have
him here and we have one of the best, if
not the best coach in America.
Speaker 6 (02:29:48):
You get to a certain point where you don't have
to chase. He doesn't have to chase anymore anything. That's
what it is.
Speaker 5 (02:29:52):
And he also in recruiting players now recruit coach Sampson.
That's what it seems. To recruit and get to their
living room because he cares, but they recruit. It's like
saving at Alabama when he's winning. It got to a
point where you recruited coach saving, we don't. That's exactly
That's pretty much what it is, all right, Brad, Bill.
See you guys right there. We'll get you in before
we close up shop. Here today on a Monday edition
(02:30:13):
of the Seawan Salisbury Show, he's Sean triple E, Emmanuel Olmore,
Dan Matthews here, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:30:20):
Let the celebration start, or Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 6 (02:30:28):
That's like, I forget the player we were talking with
last year and it was me and Ross when we
were out there and we were like, hey, what are
you gonna do for the rest of the day. He's like,
you know, a couple of the guys thinking about going
to play golf. I was like, no, man, tough tough life.
Tough life there. But anyway, Astro is going to finish
that up. Rockets on the home floor again the night
six o'clock Rockets Launch pack coming your way for the
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Rockets and the Sixers at Toyota Center.
Speaker 5 (02:30:51):
U of H the number one.
Speaker 6 (02:30:52):
Team in the Midwest region and to take on SIU
Edwardsville on Thursday. Rory mcelroyd, when's the three hole playoff
over at JJ spond at the Players Championship And also
Derek Stingley Junior three year contract extension with the Texans
paint of about thirty mili per so he is the
(02:31:13):
highest paid defensive back in NFL history. Let's get out
to the phone lines real quick for both Brad and Bill.
Brad go ahead, start us off quickly.
Speaker 5 (02:31:22):
Please Hello.
Speaker 1 (02:31:25):
Okay, you hear me?
Speaker 5 (02:31:25):
I got you, loud and clear, buddy, what's up?
Speaker 11 (02:31:29):
I don't know if you read about these some of
these free agents they picked up, but they're like, especially
this offensive lineman from the Vikings, he's like the worst.
Speaker 13 (02:31:42):
In fact, the analysts on the in the whatever wherever.
Speaker 9 (02:31:46):
I found it said that they're worst off right now
than they were last year, and that he didn't know
how the draft and saved them. And I'm thinking they
might need two offensive linemen in the draft. But that
guy from the Vikings they got, they said he was horrible,
that the only reason he got to play was his
(02:32:06):
competition was injured, and when they when his competition got healthy,
they took him right out and put the other guy in.
And I'm not too good with these guys' names. They
should have gone after the Lions. Uh free agency that
the Titans got for nine manion. But you have to pay,
and they're getting away with these one year, two three
(02:32:28):
million dollar deals and you pay for chief, you're gonna
get crapped. I know Stroud has got to be punching
his fists through the wall, man thinking what are they doing?
Speaker 5 (02:32:41):
And anyway, Brad thanks man, Yeah, don't don't. Don't think
we're gonna get to our caller too. We got to
finish up. But I don't punch your fist through the wall.
If you're CJ. Stroud, we need you. Here's what one
team's trash can be another team's treasure. Sometimes you get bargains.
I assure you they have a plan though, yes they
right as we sit today. Then I'll lining up with
this right now. They will have a plan. This isn't
(02:33:03):
what they're going to start the season with. So let's
let this get through the rest of free agency and
the draft to see what happens. Because they got rid,
of course, when you get rid of the team, I
mean a bunch of three guys. But they will have
a plan come for draft and more, I promise you.
And they were average last year. They can be average
again if that's the case, but I don't think they're
going to be They'll be better, all right, Just.
Speaker 6 (02:33:21):
A few seconds Bill, real fast, Indiana is not a
blue blood college basketball team.
Speaker 5 (02:33:28):
Now there is UCLA.
Speaker 12 (02:33:30):
The word blue blood needs to be abolished from college
sports right now. It's like saying Nebraska football is a
blue blood used to be no longer.
Speaker 5 (02:33:38):
Have a great day, gain thanks village, Bill. I think
they're all. I think UCLA and I think Indiana are
blue blood's, and I do think Nebraska is a blue
blood program. I just don't think their powerhouse that flips it.
I'm with you, I get it. I don't think you
have to be a blue blood program to be successful.
I think you have had had to have success and
you're going to go through it. But you're right right now, Bill,
you wouldn't look at it like that. But history, says
(02:34:00):
Bob Knight, John Wooden, who had Nebraska with Tom Osbourne
and the rest. I think their blue blood programs that
right now are not football and or basketball powerhouses. Do
it again tomorrow. I'll be here, all right, let's go.
Speaker 6 (02:34:12):
He's Sean Salisbury special, Thanks Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore, Dan
Matthews here with you, Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming
up next right here on your Home of the Astros
and the Rockets. Sports Talk seven ninety
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