September 3, 2024 • 41 mins
Ross Villarreal of The Nightcap reacts to the Houston Astros dropping the first of a three-game road series to the Cincinnati Reds. The Astros lost their five-game winning streak after Monday's 5-3 defeat but still hold a six-game lead in the AL West. Ross also discusses Kyle Tucker revealing he suffered a fracture in his shin, responds to calls that Mauricio Dubon should be in the lineup every day, reviews the latest "Headlines" with Connor McGovern and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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This is the Nightcap with Ross Vieil Rank.
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Sports Talk seven eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello and welcome into another edition of the nightcap program.
Rosby Real with you Live from six to seven. Feels
like we haven't done one of these in quite some time.
It's been a lot of Astros baseball. They had not
had a day off and quite a while. I think
eighteen games in eighteen days. Normally when there is either
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late night, late night West Coast wonkiness on the schedule
or no Astros at all. We're with you from six
to seven, and I am glad to be with you
here alongside Connor McGovern doing some overtime. Connor, what are
you doing here? Go home? Please? I mean, my god,
what did Why did Dan have to force you to
be here for six to seven so you can enjoy
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a wonderful night cap.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I volunteered because I wanted to be with my with
my good friend Ross.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Is that what it is? You're a liar? No, that's okay.
I want to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I appreciate it. Dan is actually off to a birthday dinner.
Happy birthday to Dan Matthew so Connor McGovern covering the
hour hanging out, I do really appreciate him. He'll give
us some headlines coming up at six thirty. In the meantime,
it's gonna be me and you as well at seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. The phone
number to get in seven one three two one two
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five seven ninety. We got a lot of different things
to get to. Of course, college football is up and
ready to go. The last couple of weeks now Week
one as well. Florida State unfortunately continues to disappoint Texas
Longhorns fifty two to nothing win over to Colorado State,
the mighty Colorado State.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And well maybe we'll get into some of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You got football NFL side coming up Thursday, then a
game Friday, and then the Houston Texans back into action.
But of course we're also focused on the Houston Astros
here on Sports Talk seven ninety number one. We are
their flagship and when they do well, we are quite happy.
But that's okay. They continue to do well. But one
thing that has been a storyline for months with the
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Astros has been the health of Kyle Tucker. And I
come to you, folks, and I must apologize because I
trusted the Houston Astros and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There were some of you that called in they talked
to you.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I was actually literally at the game on Sunday talking
with somebody about the Kyle Tucker situation, and I was like,
you know, what, does he have a fracture? I guess
I'd read the story that Chandler Rome had done for
the Athletic I think on look August eighth or whenever.
It was so basically a month ago at this point,
and he had like we we were like uncovering stories
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from orthopedists trying to figure out what was going on
with Kyle Tucker and the doctors he interviewed, or like, yeah,
it's kind of rare, but there can be a shin
bruise that goes on for this long. And then you're
getting into semantics kind of a similar way that an
ankle sprain is a ligament tear, but it's a minor
tearis so you call it a sprain, and then you
call a shin bruise. There's micro fractures, so whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But now I have.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
To apologize because I was just saying to people, why
would the Astros lie, Why would they have this information
in front of them that, rather than it being the
worst shin bruise in human history, he actually had a fracture.
Because if the Astros knew this, they could get ahead
of it. They could just go out and say, hey,
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we did some additional imaging, we consulted another doctor. Whatever,
there's a fracture, so set back your expectations for his
rehab a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But they did not do that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Apparently they knew or I don't know who knew. There
was maybe some miscommunication whatever. But here is Kyle Tucker
talking about to the media last night after the Astros game,
about the exact time frame.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How did this go down?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That going from a shin bruise to a fracture after
additional imaging.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I mean, I don't know exact dates and times off
the top of my head, but I said, originally it
was just more just information swelling in the in the area.
And then kind of after however long and however many
more MRIs and X rays and everything, just after kind
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of everything like calm down. You can kind of see
it then so then that's kind of roughly when we
found out about it. I don't know exact dates or anything,
but from then on we just kind of continue to rehabbing,
and you know, got to this point.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, is that audios from this weekend? Why couldn't that
audio be from two months ago when we figured this out?
Why does that?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's just so weird to me, and it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And I just feel like I've got egg on my
face because I kept on saying, Hey, the Astros wouldn't lie.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
They got no reason to lie.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Why would they lie about it. I'm having a fracture.
It doesn't make any sense. And of course we can
have our conspiracy theories. Perhaps there was he was being
used as trade bait to be traded away at the deadline,
because at the time when he went down, the Astros
were like seven games back in the American League West.
Perhaps the other way around, if it came out that
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he had a fracture, would other teams be upping their
prices for bats or outfielders because if they knew the
Astros were more desperate, perhaps they could get more from
them as far as assets given away. Even though the
Astros didn't trade for a position player in this deadline?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't know. And then you have to ask yourself, Okay,
were there are lines.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of community that were perhaps not open as they should
have been, because Kyle Tucker says and clearly he knew
that there was a fracture at whatever point, he was
very dodgy and vague about the days in the timeline
of all this. And then he was also asked, okay,
was there some miscommunication between the front office and you,
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Kyle Tucker as far as the situation with your shin bruise?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I mean after I said, after however long from where
when you know I originally you know, got hit, and
however long it was until you know, we kind of
saw it. I've just basically just been rehabbing and doing
everything I can to get back. So I've just been
pretty hard focused on my rehabit to get back playing
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as soon as possible. So you know it's coming up
soon and you know, hopefully in the next some one
day as you can get back out there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Okay, If you're like me and you were paying attention, uh,
you kept on waiting and waiting and waiting for Kyle
Tucker to answer the question. He does not, and I
found that interesting. I didn't put in the reporter part
in there, but basically the reporter talked about how earlier
Dana Brown said that there was no fracture, and then
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he asked, basically, was their miscommunication as far as the
front office?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And Kyle Tucker doesn't answer the question.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And I do find that intriguing because it sounded there
had to meet some miscommunication miscommunication somewhere, because Kyle Tucker
is the one that said he was the one doing
the imaging.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't imagine the doctors found.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
A fracture and like, okay, guys, there's a fracture here,
but we're not gonna tell our patient about it. We're
not going to tell him to alter his rehab. We're
not going to tell him about the imaging that we found.
Of course, the doctors probably told Kyle Tucker, and again
we're dodgy on the details, are dodgy on the timelines.
But then I don't know, did Kyle Tucker go to
the front office and they said, Hey, we're gonna shut
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this down. We're gonna keep this as a shin bruise.
Trust us, everything will work out. And at the end
of the day. Nobody died over this. Nothing really changes materially.
We just end up talking about it more and more
and more. And Joe Espada, who is on the Matt
Thomas Show every Tuesday and in front of the media
before and after every single game. And Dana Brown who
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speaks to Astros Radio Network every Sunday, who speaks to
the Sean salazder Berry Show Wednesdays at nine thirty am
here on Sports Talk seven ninety where you ask these questions,
and I'm sure Dana will be asked about it tomorrow morning,
and then you have to just.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Keep on dodging the questions.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's a shin bruises, not a it's not a fracture.
We don't want to use the fracture of the word fracture.
It's so radioactive. But like I said, if they'd have
found this out and then just made it public, we
all could have moved on with our lives. You wouldn't
have people tweeting Kyle Tucker at k Tuck thirty, Hey
you're soft. Hey I'm There was literally a guy tweeting
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him like I'm an army, I'm a disabled vet and
you need to man up and all this other weird stuff,
like just everything could have been avoided. You don't have
to ask him about every couple of weeks. You don't
have to be hounding people about Kyle Tucker and what's
going on with him. I don't think. I think if
you say a fracture, it's like, Okay, well we're going
to back off asking about this, we'll check up. Well,
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we'll check in a week, we'll check in two weeks, whatever.
So it just became this story where there was I thought,
at the time a conspiracy theory that he had had
a fracture, and I just trusted the you know the
article from Rome channel of Rome saying that doctors say
there can be really bad shin bruises to take a month.
It's a case by case basis. Different people respond to
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different ways. I didn't think that Kyle Tucker was jaking
it and being soft and like, yeah, yeah, these guys
don't want to give me a long term contract and
I'm not gonna go ahead and rush my way back
from this shin bruise. I'm gonna take my sweet time.
They're winning games. Anyways. I didn't think any of that
was happening but clearly there were lines of communication that
were not open that maybe should have been. And this
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just seems I'm just gonna call it bizarre because, like
I said at the end of the day, and what
I said most of the time when people said, oh,
I think he's got a fracture, like, well, kind of
does it matter. He's either got the worst shin bruise
in human history or he's a fracture. He has a fracture.
Either way, he's not been back on the field. It's
been Ben Gamble and Jason Hayward and Jazz McCormick and
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company in Rye Field rather than Kyle Tucker. That's the
bottom line. You have not had him in the lineup,
whether it is a fracturer or a bruise. So just bizarre,
just weird, just odd that this drug on the way
that it did. But the good news is our long
national nightmare of the worst shin bruise in human history
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is going to be over very soon. Sounds like Kyle
Tucker will be back, if not at the end of
this series in Cincinnati, most likely when the Astros come
home to play the Arizona Diamondbacks. So just wanted to
play you guys at audio and I especially found it
intriguing that he completely dodged the question about the front office.
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So is there something more to that story or does
he just want to focus on the fact that he
is rehabbing and coming back very soon for the Houston Astros.
We can talk about that anything Ashros related. We've also
been talking at links earlier today on the Matt Thomas
Show about the Astros playoff rotation. Where do you put
Justin Verlander in the pecking order there? As I mentioned,
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we got college football, NFL anything you want to get.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Two lines are open here.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
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Ninety you're.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We'll back, Okay, I can't do that for more than
five seconds. Welcome back to the Nightcap here on Sports
Talk seven. Ay Raviria with you. It's my pleasure and
honor to have Connor mc governor on another nightcap. I
think he's in a couple of these, so he is
hanging out. We really really appreciate having you. How did
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the How are the Missouri Tiger's looking?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh, they look pretty good. I guess Murray State.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
It was like fifty one to zero something like that.
We beat off up on them. Yeah, that's right, take
that Murray State. Although we have Boston College coming up
in Oh, you should be scared. Actually I am kind
of scared. They look there should be.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Bill O'Brien's got the Boston College boys looking pretty good.
I don't know why my Boston turned into New York,
but that's how we roll here on the nightcap. All right,
I'm back with you. Connor's gonna bring us some headlines
coming up. You want to get in on the phone lines,
you can at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety and again on the Kyle Tucker stuff. It's just
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at the end, I would you want to stress like
it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, he
wasn't playing, and he wasn't playing, whatever the reason was.
And we're not necessarily even oh anything. It's a private corporation,
are the Houston Astros, and one of their players was
injured or employees or whatever you want to call it
doesn't need to necessarily need to be revealed. It's just
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something we're used to But I just it's to quote
the Thursday segment, is it on the Mount Thomas Show.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I just don't understand what the motivation was to continue,
especially like the deadline having passed over a month ago.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
At this point, you could even wait, even.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
If you don't want to make it obvious in August first,
like August fourth.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, we read it some imaging and it turns out
contactor as a fracture, so expect them out for another month.
But drugging, and on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
All right, seven one three two one two five seven
nine of the phone number if you'd like to get
in seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
David on the southwest side has gotten in here, David,
go ahead. The floor is yours.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Oh yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
My question is why do the Astros continue playing John
Singleton at first base? Because when he's not hitting home runs,
which are few and far between, he's not a good
defensive player.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
He's not a good base runner.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I mean he's not well, maybe I shouldn't say he's
not a good base runner, but he's not a speedy
base runner.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
At least the other.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Guys that aren't hitting that well, bring some other attributes
to the table, and they consistently claim it first, and
you know, he comes up. It seems like once a
week he comes up in a big situation and he
strikes out. He doesn't even put the ball in play.
So he's just to me, he's not giving them much
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at all. I think he's had one game.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Winning here or a tye tye and run hit.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Or something throughout the course of the season, but other
than that, and even his home runs seem like they
come kind of the equivalent of basketball garbage time.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I never seen does some pluge home runs over his time.
He said twelve of them on the season. Who do
you want to see more more at first base?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I would like, uh, well, Dubon just because he's a
better base runner and a better fielder, and he's also
a better hitter.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But you've been playing Dubon at third You've had Alex
Bregman out there. First of all, Mauricio Dubon in terms
of ops, is not a better hitter than better than
John Singleton.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, actually, but is.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But Dubon's been playing third base a bunch because Alex
Bregman has been out and you kind of play him
off the field, You're probably not going to lock him
down to first base. Maybe come playoff time you would
have Dubon more at first base. But Dubon also has
been playing some first base over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
But I mean, when we compare Dubon, I don't think
it's totally fair comparison because Singleton's getting pretty much consistent
playing time, So why not give some of these other
guys some consistent playing time, not sporadic. And as far
as filling it for Bregman, that's basically more recently.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He was available prior to Bregnant getting hurt.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
And he wasn't much playing time.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He's played one hundred and fifteen games. He's played a.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah, but he's played a lot of outfield. But I'm
just throwing him out as one example. I'm not saying
he's the only one. They have to have somebody else, anybody,
but as far as I'm concerned, anybody other than Singleton,
not just Gobon.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I mean, you know, when I saw the Royals pick.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Up Guriel, I'm like, Uriel at least gonna bring you
some good feeling over there.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
And if you recall when I think they lost that game.
I can't remember. They might have won it.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
When Valdez pitched really well and Singleton waited on that ball,
like just fundamental what not to do? Waited on that ball.
You could tell Valdez was upset. I mean, you know,
a first baseman's got to feel that ball. He gives
you nothing shooting wise, so you know.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
You're talking about ops and all that, you know, but
feeling at first is important.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
That is such an underrated defensive position, and people take
it for granted because they figure it's an easy position.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
It's not an easy position. No positions easy in MLB.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
So I just think that he's got such a sister
playing time, and even last year he got some good
playing time.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
We pretty much know what we can do.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, why did I keep out there?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I think, well, David is just part of a I
appreciate you, thank you for getting in. It's because they
have to put somebody out there. They've been putting Victor
Karattini out there. Some they've been putting Janni Ardez out there.
Some they've been putting Dubon out there. They've been putting
Singleton out there. The last week or so, he's played
a lot at first base, but it's just been a
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matter of nobody has really stepped up. I don't think
I think Karattini has some issues first base. Defensively, I
also think John Singleton. Yeah he's missed some plays, but
he's also made a couple of plays. I don't think
he's horrible out in the field. And Julie Gariel has
been knocking around in the minor leagues, like he was
in the minor league for the Atlanta and then now
he plays for Kansas City and he was not good
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in the field actually last year for the Astros. And
he's like, what forty forty one years old. He's a
French major leaguer and guess what, that's what John Sington
is too. He's a French major leaguer. So we can
talk about Juli Gurriel and how he just warms the
cockles of our hearts and oh Juli and Lapina and
we love you and you've been so great.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We have to face reality.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Juli Guriel is not close to what he was in
his prime as a Houston Astro. There's a reason he's
been knocking around in the minor leagues the last couple
of years. And yeah, he was mashing. His numbers were
good in Triple A with Atlanta, but guess what happens
when John Singleton goes to Driple A. His numbers look
great too. So Dubon has been playing a lot. I
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don't understand where this narrative comes out that Mario Dubon
has not been playing. He's played in one hundred and
sixteen games for the team this year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's a lot, and.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Especially down the stretch the last couple of months, he's
been pretty much an everyday player for the Astros, especially
since Kyle Tucker has gone down. Let's see, Kyle Tucker
went down in June third, We're in September second. As
I pull it up, Mauricio Dubon is played in seventy
games of that stretch, started fifty nine of them, so
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that's sixty two games. That's a lot, and he's hitting
two twenty nine over that span. Yeah, he's been playing.
But I don't know where we get this notion that
Murray Sue Deuban is not is our savior and you
can't lock him down at first base. You have to
play them at third because Pregmant's been hurt playming left.
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You play them right, you play them in the center.
If al Tuoven needs a day off, you play them
at second. I mean, that's just what Murray Sue Duban
is on this team. He's not necessarily an everyday guy.
He's hitting two fifty seven folks with four home runs.
John Singleton is hitting two thirty something, but he's got
twelve home runs. Power matters, and I like Maurciu Duban. Again,
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I feel like I have to do this every week.
I like Maurice Duban. I want Maurice Duban to be successful.
He is also not the savior of the Yuston Astros.
He makes some plays. He plays good all over the
over over the field. He is a utility gold glover.
But you're not gonna confuse him with I don't know,
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prime Paul Goldsmith or Jeff Bagwall or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
First basement you want to go ahead and toss out there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It's nice and I do think come playoff time, if
everybody's healthy, you might see Mauricio Dubon in certain matchups,
depending at first base, or you might see Karatini, you
might see Diaz.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think the uh it's.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
More likely that will be some mixture of Kartini or
d and or Diaz when you get into playoff time,
maybe sprinkled in one of the Murracy Dubon, depending on
what the health of everyone is and where you're gonna
put other guys. But just having a set and forget
Mauricio Dubon at first base, that's not a good idea.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
John Singleton gave me frustrating He's got a little bit
of pop. He's not great defensively. But the question is
what is the better every day option? And it's not great,
but pure ops plus which one hundred being league average.
John Singleton is a much better hitter than Marcia Dubont
this year. This is ninety six. This is league average
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is one hundred, right, he's ninety six, not great. Racy
d Bond's in eighty two. So it is what it is.
There all right, time for a quick break here on
the what is this the night cap? Sorry, I haven't
done one in a while. This is the night cap?
Ros viria with you until seven o'clock when we come back.
You want to hear more, Condomer Governor, I know you do.
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That's why he's going to give us all the top
sports news items of the day. It's a segment that
we always have fun on. It is called Headlines that
is coming up on the Nightcap with you until seven
o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety twenty three games
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in August for a good friend Mauricio Dubon. Let's see
that he started in two games in September. It's twenty five.
How many games have they played over that span? I
think twenty nine? I have that correct somewhere around there.
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Marcile barn has been playing. I still don't get where
this notion is that he has not been playing. He's
played one hundred and sixteen games this year. It's gonna
ops of plus of eighty two. All right, anyways, what's
all the top sports news items of the day. Let's
get those from our good friend Connor McGovern Let's talk
about what.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Else is going around in the sports world. Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
First of all, Connor, I appreciate you being here late
again and where can.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The people follow you on Twitter?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Year?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
This is your reward? Oh, thank you. I'm at Connor,
Dee mcgovernor.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Connor de mcgo hanor Dee mc govern You said you
like it better.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Wouldn't we go with the Irish. How good, young lad
from Limerick.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
The Irish just makes more sense, I order should does
make more sense with a Connor McGovern. Okay, Connor Dee
McGovern follow the man up to four fifty six. Man,
you are growing by leaps and bounds.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Wow, I mean yeah, considering where I started, which was
I can't remember, like one hundred maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I think it was three. Actually, I think you're right
about that. Okay, uh, okay, what do you got? What's
what are the folks talking about here? Well, we'll keep it
local with the first story. At Houston, Texans have announced
their seven captains.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
For the offense, we go C. J.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Stroud, Mammy Tunsel and Stefan Diggs. On the defense, we've
got Will Anderson Junior, Jimmy Ward and as he's.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Al Shai here. And for special teams we have John Weeks.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Stephan Diggs was profiled in GQ, and the article makes
light of the fact that Stephan Diggs has been traded twice.
So Stephan Diggs captain for the Texans in his first
year with the team.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Now, first of all, why do they have seven captains?
Doesn't that seem excessive? Isn't that a lot back? In
the day, wouldn't they just have one captain? Like, do
you need you need seven dudes out there?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Some people don't get their feelings hurt. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Maybe I'm gonna I'm gonna have to google that. Why
so many captains in the NFL? And then okay, Stefan Diggs. However, however,
Stefon Diggs, there's certain hosts twelve to three that really
think he's gonna be this locker room cancer that's gonna
slow the team down and cause all these problems.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
All that type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Sounds like voted by his peers, right, the players vote
the captains in the NFL. I believe I have that correct. Yeh,
Stefon Diggs is out there.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's good. CJ.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Stroud makes sense. And who is the other offensive captain?
I forget you, Laramie Tunsil. That makes sense as well.
Veteran left tackle, star wide receiver that apparently now maybe
the Texans are going overboard and trying to talk about
how great he's been in the locker room and great
he's been with the wide receivers and all that type
of stuff. But hey, he's a captain of the Houston Texans,
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and that's good to hear.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm happy about it. Go Texans.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
This will this will really catapult them into the next
stratusur in the AFC. Okay, maybe it won't, but I
don't know. I'm trying to figure out. I'm gonna go
look this up during the next break. Why they have
so many darned captains that have to be out there.
But we'll figure that out. What else you got, Connor.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Well, from what I've seen, I think a lot of
teams have six to eight captains.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I know you need one guy to go out there
to call the call the toss and then tell them
what side you want to be on.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
The article it looked like didn't give me a clear answer,
So okay, we'll see what you can find. But anyway,
San Francisco forty nine Ers rooky wide receiver Ricky Parcel
will miss at least the first four games of the
twenty twenty four NFL season after he was shot in
the chest during an attempt at robbery over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The shooting took place at.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
About three thirty pm Saturday in San Francisco's Union Square
I when a seventeen year old attempted to rob Parcel
at gunpoint, leading to a physical ar altercation, and the suspects.
Uh and Parcel were struck by gum fire from these
suspects weapon. Parcel has now been placed on the reserve
slash non football injury list and will miss at least
the first regular see let me get this straight against
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the Jets, Ricky, I think it is Pierce all whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
This three point thirty in the PM. Did you say
three thirty pm through? Yeah, Pacific time. Yeah, middle of
the day.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's out broad daylight.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He's out there in San Francisco and some seventeen year
old punk kid is out there trying to rob him.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Initially he was in serious mistable condition, but has been
since released from the hospital.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
My guy got shot in the chest and he's gonna
miss four weeks. Wow, I mean Tank Dell got shot
over the offseason as well.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
This is insane to me.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
What are you folks doing out there in San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Has this has this player been I'm sorry, has the
the perpetrator been detained and arrested?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay, he's in custody.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And then I also saw apparently Trent Williams said, Ricky
Pearsoll getting shot motivated to him to end his contract holdout.
Trent Williams, who signed a huge deal with the San
Francisco forty nine or, is like, man, I just want
to get back around the team. Ricky stood out to
me because when I popped in for OTAs, he did
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go out of his way to come and introduce himself
to me. So he instantly felt the vibe and he
could felt that he was a genuine person and he
wanted to get back and be with his bros. Because
Ricky Pearsall got shot. Wow, this is this is just all.
I don't even know what to say. Wishing the best
to Ricky Pearsall and just a broad daylight armed robbery,
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interesting and just just wild. Hopefully he's okay. Thoughts and
prayers out to our good friend Ricky Pearsall. He's now
a friend of the show, friend of the night cap.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
After that?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
What else?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What anything more uplifting, Connor rather than somebody getting shot
in the chain?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, we'll go with.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Shohei Otani, Los Angeles Dodgers superstar moving closer to becoming
the MLB's first ever fifty to fifty player on Monday Night,
as he racked up three steals and then eleven to
six win over the Arizona Arizona Diamondbacks. He has a
season total of forty four home runs in forty six
stolen bases. He's got about twenty four regular season games remaining,
and he has a good chance to beat a previous
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record set by Alex Rodriguez back in nineteen ninety eight,
which was a forty three and forty three.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So he's at what now forty four? He's at forty
three and forty three. He's at Otani.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
He's at forty four home runs and forty six stolen bases.
He's already broken the previous record set by Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That's insane. So he's gonna be the National League MVP
running away, I imagine, and Aaron Judge is going to
be the American League MVP running away.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I imagine. Who do you think? Would you give I guess?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Because Aaron je Judge plays the field every day, you'd
give it to him over show Hey Otani? Once he
got like fifty one, he's got at least fifty one
home runs. I think Aaron Judge does I'll pull it up. Yeah,
he's got fifty one home runs. This dude's hitting three
twenty six with an ops of eleven hundred. Okay, if
you had to choose one Otani or Judge, if they
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did like a major league wide MVP, who would you choose?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Yeah, I guess Aaron Judge because he does play the
field every day. But Otani, I mean, forty six dolen
bases is pretty amazing as well.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
If he gets to fifty to fifty. I mean, voters
do love milestones, like I think what was like Miguel
Cabrera won the Triple Crown when people argued by terms
of war and stuff like that, Mike Trout should have
won the MVP that year apparently. Okay, I'm pulling up
war leaders just in baseball. I guess Otani really gets
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penalized for not playing the field. They've got Aaron Judge
number one, Bobby Wit number two, one, Soto number three.
That's pretty insane as far as just war leader wins
above replacement. Man, what a freaking season though, that shoe
Heotani is having. If he was doing this and then
like dealing as a pitcher, it'd be like the greatest
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thing we've ever seen in the history of time. But
apparently he's gonna come back as a pitcher, I guess
next year. But Shoe Heotani, absolute freak of nature. I
know here in Houston, we got to talk about Aaron
Judge and how much he sucks and he never performs
in the playoffs and all that type of stuff. But
gotta put us some respect on the man's name when
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two years ago he hit sixty two home runs and
this year he's doing what he did. And Shoeotani, thank god,
he signed with the Dodgers and he's out of the division,
even though Trout and Otani on the same team didn't
do anything for years.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
What an absolute freak of nature.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
How did he just wake up all of a sudden,
was like, Okay, I'm gonna steal fifty bases this year.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's insane. All right, we give us one more story
before we get out.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Connor McGovern Boston College pulled off one of the early
surprises of the college football season on Monday Night, as
the Eagles beat number ten Florida State twenty eight to
thirteen in Tallahassee, dropping the Seminoles to an zero to
two start.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
On the year.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
The road win was Boston College's first victory over a
Top ten opponent in a decade, and also Bill O'Brien's
first win as head coach at Boston College.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And we also have I believe I've heard Mazoo fans
are quaking in their boots, correct, including myself, yet including yourself,
you're worried about It's okay, Bill O'Brien. O Falter looks
like FSU is just complete trash. I mean, let's just
call it what it is. They lose to Georgia Tech
in Dublin, it feels like that was more forgivable, but
then they were just completely awful unless they change quarterbacks.
Who's that guy DJ. I'm not even gonna try to
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say it. He's been horrible for them, So then maybe
they'll make a quarterback change and get a little bit better.
But don't don't be that scared of Boston College and
Bill O'Brien. You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
MISSOO. I got Maszoo minus minus fourteen in that one.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I appreciate that Florida state in the top ten now
not even in the top twenty five after two weeks.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's also a shame after all that whining and crying
they did about not making the college football playoff. Now
they did lose a lot of players. It is a
different team. It just makes me laugh a look, it
makes me laugh. It's not a good look. All Right,
We're gonna go ahead and take a break here on
the Nightcap program. You want to get in talk about
anything that we got into there. Also, we were been
talking about Kyle Tucker and what the heck is going
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on with his shin fracture. Mauriso Dubon is the greatest
player in Astro's history. We're also talking about that. Anything
you want to get to one segment to go here
on the Nightcaps seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety the final segment of the Nightcap here on Sports
(32:57):
Talk seven ninety Ross Ah the Aria with you. You
want to get in on lines are open seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What where I was?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I was trying to think about what we were talking
about during the break with the show, Heyo Tani and
Aaron judge stuff and uh really not being a plus
defender out in the field, hurting Sho heo Tani in
terms of the wins above replacement whatever he gets back
on the mound, though that probably will be short up.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It's not like he's.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Been a dominant, lockdown, best in Baseball type of pitcher,
but been a really good plus plus pitcher and then
just one of the most insane freaks in the planet
at the plate, which he's gotten even better this year.
It feels like with he's gonna hit more home runs
than he did last year for the Angels. Stealing all
these bases. Yeah, I'm pulling up his page. He's got
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forty six stolen bases this year. He's never had more
than twenty six in a season. And that year that
was twenty twenty one, he got caught stealing ten times.
He's only been caught stealing four times this year. Absolute
freaks of nature that we have here. And well, Dodgers
very scary, Yankees pretty good. But you're Houston Astros in
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the mix in the American League again now just four
games back of the Cleveland Guardians, and it felt like
I think they fell six games back recently or something
like that felt like it was completely out of reach.
Gonna be tough even to make up those four games.
With what is it now, twenty four games remaining for
the Astros.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You really need the.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Guardians to fall and also continue to stave off the
Twins in the Kansas City Royals, who are at this
moment you are, I believe ahead, and no, you're behind
the Twins by a half game. But we'll see in
all likelihood Astro is going to be the third seed,
and then of course we'll get to discussions about what's
going to happen with that starting rotation. All right, Paul
(35:00):
in Myreland has got in here on the nightcap program
with you until seven, Paul, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
The floor is yours.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
Hey man, I don't want to discounting our question the
man's claim on ethnicity, but Irish is oh would be O'Connor.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I believe Scottish McGovern McGovern McGovern governs.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's yeah, that's Scottish. I believe.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I may say I believe there's McElroy. I believe there's
Irish as well. Paul, I don't well, I guess there's
a mixing going on in there.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I ges i do guess they migrate? Well anyway, okay,
Dana Brown.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Says he's got Irish heritage, He's got Irish heritage.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Paul, Well, I'm Irish.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
I'm an old Floyd originally.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Okay, okay, mcgo, okay.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
That's.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
Okay. The morning the little boy asked me, he said,
can I get a sprite? I said no, So I
get out of my room and come and learn. About
ten o'clock this morning, I look in the trash can.
There's two cansas sprite in the trash can. I said,
jay R, where did these cans of sprite?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Because?
Speaker 8 (36:14):
Oh, I found him and just put them in the
trash And I said, do I look stupid? Why are
you lying to me? And that's why I had That's
why I question Dana Brown, how stupid do you think
we are?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Why are you lying to us? You know, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's funny you brought that up, Paul, because earlier on
the Matt Thomas Show, I used the phrase childlike stubbornness.
And what had popped into my head of that story?
Is it a story that my It was either my
stepfather or my mother was telling me literally yesterday, there
was they were a bunch of kids. They had six
kids over, because you know, we've got a bunch of
grand kids running over around these days, and they're young.
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And some of them were jumping on the bed. And
one of the little boys that they knew was jumping
on the bed, he lied about it, and they even
said to him, I believe his name is Jacks. Jacks,
you're not going to get in trouble. You can tell
us you were jumping on the bed. It's okay. And
he still continued to lie. And that actually, that story
(37:14):
popped into my head and gave me the phrase childlike stubbornness,
and that's what I used. It is it's funny that
we came to the same conclusion. It is this child
like stubbornness from the astros, from the front office, from whomever, that,
for whatever reason, they continued to dig in and not simply.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Say how easy is it to just.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Say that, God, we got additional what exactly what Kyle
Tucker said, we got additional imaging. Swelling went down, which
makes it easier to see, which a lot of times
on these injuries, they do wait for swelling to go down,
that there was a fracture.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Why what does it hurt. What's the reason to keep
up the ruse? It's just crazy to me. I just
don't know understand it and don't.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Know what and y'all, I don't know if we need
to trust him as long as he does his job
and does it right. But uh, I mean we need
to know.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
But yeah, don't just don't tell us, don't look they say, don't.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Right, yeah, or you're like, all right, man, all right,
take care, thank you, Paul, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, that's just funny to me.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
And I know again, I'll just go back to the phrase,
I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
I don't why the continuing need to to dig in
about this on something I mean clearly, very clearly. It's
been Astro's policy, not this this year, but the last
several years to not make trainers available to the media,
which is something that other teams do. There's there's other
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teams that also don't make their trainers available to the media.
Number Two, there is the if you want to hear
from an Astros person and in the front office or
Astros brass or a leader or whatever, and they say, well,
we don't owe you an explanation on this, they're right
at the end of the day, Do we need to
know the intricate details of what's going on with the
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imaging of Kyle Tucker's shin, No, we don't. But it's
just it's rather regular procedure for teams to give out
injury information. And what's the difference if you say he's
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got a shin bruise, are really bad deep shin bruise
the worst in history a contusion or whatever. To flipping
that around is saying it's a fracture, which everybody and
a lot of people speculated about for if because of
it just lingered and drug out this injury for as
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long as it did, then that word Kyle Tucker in
fracture been popping up for a couple of months. What
would have hurt to just say, you know what, imaging said,
no fracture. Subsequent imaging said there was after swelling and everything.
I believe the phrase used by Kyle Tucker, everything calmed
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down because, yeah, if you've got damage in one part
of the in one part of the leg. It's my
understanding that normally they do wait for some swelling to
go down, and maybe swelling went down a bunch, maybe
he had really bad swelling. And then follow up imaging
says there was a fracture. Boom, closed the book. We'll
move on, or just give you weekly updates what's going
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on or whatever. Just weird, bizarre, odd, I would say,
but whatever, Kyle Tucker should be back very soon for
your Houston.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Astros, and that what is is what is important.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
All right, that's gonna do it for the Nightcap program
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. My name is rossfie Real,
and you don't like to say I'd like to say
thank you very much if you listened it to the
Nightcap Program or anything on Sports Talk seven ninety, I
truly do appreciate you. Thanks to Connor McGovern over time.
I hope he's getting double time, but I don't know
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that he is. But that's okay, hanging out here, Dan
Matthews out on his birthday, so appreciate Connor McGovern for
hanging it out as well. I'll talk to you folks
next tomorrow at noon as part of the Matt Thomas Show.
Until then, have a pleasant and safe Tuesday evening here
in Houston, Texas.
The work day is done.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now kick back, popa top and catch up with your
Houston team rank.
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CAB rank Cap.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is the Nightcap with Ross Vieil Rank.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Cap lank Cap six so one a pm here on
Sports Talk seven eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello and welcome into another edition of the nightcap program.
Rosby Real with you Live from six to seven. Feels
like we haven't done one of these in quite some time.
It's been a lot of Astros baseball. They had not
had a day off and quite a while. I think
eighteen games in eighteen days. Normally when there is either
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late night, late night West Coast wonkiness on the schedule
or no Astros at all. We're with you from six
to seven, and I am glad to be with you
here alongside Connor McGovern doing some overtime. Connor, what are
you doing here? Go home? Please? I mean, my god,
what did Why did Dan have to force you to
be here for six to seven so you can enjoy
(01:14):
a wonderful night cap.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I volunteered because I wanted to be with my with
my good friend Ross.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Is that what it is? You're a liar? No, that's okay.
I want to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I appreciate it. Dan is actually off to a birthday dinner.
Happy birthday to Dan Matthew so Connor McGovern covering the
hour hanging out, I do really appreciate him. He'll give
us some headlines coming up at six thirty. In the meantime,
it's gonna be me and you as well at seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. The phone
number to get in seven one three two one two
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five seven ninety. We got a lot of different things
to get to. Of course, college football is up and
ready to go. The last couple of weeks now Week
one as well. Florida State unfortunately continues to disappoint Texas
Longhorns fifty two to nothing win over to Colorado State,
the mighty Colorado State.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And well maybe we'll get into some of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You got football NFL side coming up Thursday, then a
game Friday, and then the Houston Texans back into action.
But of course we're also focused on the Houston Astros
here on Sports Talk seven ninety number one. We are
their flagship and when they do well, we are quite happy.
But that's okay. They continue to do well. But one
thing that has been a storyline for months with the
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Astros has been the health of Kyle Tucker. And I
come to you, folks, and I must apologize because I
trusted the Houston Astros and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There were some of you that called in they talked
to you.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I was actually literally at the game on Sunday talking
with somebody about the Kyle Tucker situation, and I was like,
you know, what, does he have a fracture? I guess
I'd read the story that Chandler Rome had done for
the Athletic I think on look August eighth or whenever.
It was so basically a month ago at this point,
and he had like we we were like uncovering stories
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from orthopedists trying to figure out what was going on
with Kyle Tucker and the doctors he interviewed, or like, yeah,
it's kind of rare, but there can be a shin
bruise that goes on for this long. And then you're
getting into semantics kind of a similar way that an
ankle sprain is a ligament tear, but it's a minor
tearis so you call it a sprain, and then you
call a shin bruise. There's micro fractures, so whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But now I have.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
To apologize because I was just saying to people, why
would the Astros lie, Why would they have this information
in front of them that, rather than it being the
worst shin bruise in human history, he actually had a fracture.
Because if the Astros knew this, they could get ahead
of it. They could just go out and say, hey,
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we did some additional imaging, we consulted another doctor. Whatever,
there's a fracture, so set back your expectations for his
rehab a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But they did not do that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Apparently they knew or I don't know who knew. There
was maybe some miscommunication whatever. But here is Kyle Tucker
talking about to the media last night after the Astros game,
about the exact time frame.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How did this go down?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That going from a shin bruise to a fracture after
additional imaging.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I mean, I don't know exact dates and times off
the top of my head, but I said, originally it
was just more just information swelling in the in the area.
And then kind of after however long and however many
more MRIs and X rays and everything, just after kind
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of everything like calm down. You can kind of see
it then so then that's kind of roughly when we
found out about it. I don't know exact dates or anything,
but from then on we just kind of continue to rehabbing,
and you know, got to this point.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, is that audios from this weekend? Why couldn't that
audio be from two months ago when we figured this out?
Why does that?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's just so weird to me, and it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And I just feel like I've got egg on my
face because I kept on saying, Hey, the Astros wouldn't lie.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
They got no reason to lie.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Why would they lie about it. I'm having a fracture.
It doesn't make any sense. And of course we can
have our conspiracy theories. Perhaps there was he was being
used as trade bait to be traded away at the deadline,
because at the time when he went down, the Astros
were like seven games back in the American League West.
Perhaps the other way around, if it came out that
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he had a fracture, would other teams be upping their
prices for bats or outfielders because if they knew the
Astros were more desperate, perhaps they could get more from
them as far as assets given away. Even though the
Astros didn't trade for a position player in this deadline?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't know. And then you have to ask yourself, Okay,
were there are lines.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of community that were perhaps not open as they should
have been, because Kyle Tucker says and clearly he knew
that there was a fracture at whatever point, he was
very dodgy and vague about the days in the timeline
of all this. And then he was also asked, okay,
was there some miscommunication between the front office and you,
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Kyle Tucker as far as the situation with your shin bruise?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I mean after I said, after however long from where
when you know I originally you know, got hit, and
however long it was until you know, we kind of
saw it. I've just basically just been rehabbing and doing
everything I can to get back. So I've just been
pretty hard focused on my rehabit to get back playing
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as soon as possible. So you know it's coming up
soon and you know, hopefully in the next some one
day as you can get back out there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Okay, If you're like me and you were paying attention, uh,
you kept on waiting and waiting and waiting for Kyle
Tucker to answer the question. He does not, and I
found that interesting. I didn't put in the reporter part
in there, but basically the reporter talked about how earlier
Dana Brown said that there was no fracture, and then
(07:15):
he asked, basically, was their miscommunication as far as the
front office?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And Kyle Tucker doesn't answer the question.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And I do find that intriguing because it sounded there
had to meet some miscommunication miscommunication somewhere, because Kyle Tucker
is the one that said he was the one doing
the imaging.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't imagine the doctors found.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
A fracture and like, okay, guys, there's a fracture here,
but we're not gonna tell our patient about it. We're
not going to tell him to alter his rehab. We're
not going to tell him about the imaging that we found.
Of course, the doctors probably told Kyle Tucker, and again
we're dodgy on the details, are dodgy on the timelines.
But then I don't know, did Kyle Tucker go to
the front office and they said, Hey, we're gonna shut
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this down. We're gonna keep this as a shin bruise.
Trust us, everything will work out. And at the end
of the day. Nobody died over this. Nothing really changes materially.
We just end up talking about it more and more
and more. And Joe Espada, who is on the Matt
Thomas Show every Tuesday and in front of the media
before and after every single game. And Dana Brown who
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speaks to Astros Radio Network every Sunday, who speaks to
the Sean salazder Berry Show Wednesdays at nine thirty am
here on Sports Talk seven ninety where you ask these questions,
and I'm sure Dana will be asked about it tomorrow morning,
and then you have to just.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Keep on dodging the questions.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's a shin bruises, not a it's not a fracture.
We don't want to use the fracture of the word fracture.
It's so radioactive. But like I said, if they'd have
found this out and then just made it public, we
all could have moved on with our lives. You wouldn't
have people tweeting Kyle Tucker at k Tuck thirty, Hey
you're soft. Hey I'm There was literally a guy tweeting
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him like I'm an army, I'm a disabled vet and
you need to man up and all this other weird stuff,
like just everything could have been avoided. You don't have
to ask him about every couple of weeks. You don't
have to be hounding people about Kyle Tucker and what's
going on with him. I don't think. I think if
you say a fracture, it's like, Okay, well we're going
to back off asking about this, we'll check up. Well,
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we'll check in a week, we'll check in two weeks, whatever.
So it just became this story where there was I thought,
at the time a conspiracy theory that he had had
a fracture, and I just trusted the you know the
article from Rome channel of Rome saying that doctors say
there can be really bad shin bruises to take a month.
It's a case by case basis. Different people respond to
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different ways. I didn't think that Kyle Tucker was jaking
it and being soft and like, yeah, yeah, these guys
don't want to give me a long term contract and
I'm not gonna go ahead and rush my way back
from this shin bruise. I'm gonna take my sweet time.
They're winning games. Anyways. I didn't think any of that
was happening but clearly there were lines of communication that
were not open that maybe should have been. And this
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just seems I'm just gonna call it bizarre because, like
I said at the end of the day, and what
I said most of the time when people said, oh,
I think he's got a fracture, like, well, kind of
does it matter. He's either got the worst shin bruise
in human history or he's a fracture. He has a fracture.
Either way, he's not been back on the field. It's
been Ben Gamble and Jason Hayward and Jazz McCormick and
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company in Rye Field rather than Kyle Tucker. That's the
bottom line. You have not had him in the lineup,
whether it is a fracturer or a bruise. So just bizarre,
just weird, just odd that this drug on the way
that it did. But the good news is our long
national nightmare of the worst shin bruise in human history
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is going to be over very soon. Sounds like Kyle
Tucker will be back, if not at the end of
this series in Cincinnati, most likely when the Astros come
home to play the Arizona Diamondbacks. So just wanted to
play you guys at audio and I especially found it
intriguing that he completely dodged the question about the front office.
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So is there something more to that story or does
he just want to focus on the fact that he
is rehabbing and coming back very soon for the Houston Astros.
We can talk about that anything Ashros related. We've also
been talking at links earlier today on the Matt Thomas
Show about the Astros playoff rotation. Where do you put
Justin Verlander in the pecking order there? As I mentioned,
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we got college football, NFL anything you want to get.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
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We'll back, Okay, I can't do that for more than
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Talk seven. Ay Raviria with you. It's my pleasure and
honor to have Connor mc governor on another nightcap. I
think he's in a couple of these, so he is
hanging out. We really really appreciate having you. How did
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the How are the Missouri Tiger's looking?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh, they look pretty good. I guess Murray State.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
It was like fifty one to zero something like that.
We beat off up on them. Yeah, that's right, take
that Murray State. Although we have Boston College coming up
in Oh, you should be scared. Actually I am kind
of scared. They look there should be.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Bill O'Brien's got the Boston College boys looking pretty good.
I don't know why my Boston turned into New York,
but that's how we roll here on the nightcap. All right,
I'm back with you. Connor's gonna bring us some headlines
coming up. You want to get in on the phone lines,
you can at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety and again on the Kyle Tucker stuff. It's just
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at the end, I would you want to stress like
it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, he
wasn't playing, and he wasn't playing, whatever the reason was.
And we're not necessarily even oh anything. It's a private corporation,
are the Houston Astros, and one of their players was
injured or employees or whatever you want to call it
doesn't need to necessarily need to be revealed. It's just
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something we're used to But I just it's to quote
the Thursday segment, is it on the Mount Thomas Show.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I just don't understand what the motivation was to continue,
especially like the deadline having passed over a month ago.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
At this point, you could even wait, even.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
If you don't want to make it obvious in August first,
like August fourth.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, we read it some imaging and it turns out
contactor as a fracture, so expect them out for another month.
But drugging, and on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
All right, seven one three two one two five seven
nine of the phone number if you'd like to get
in seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
David on the southwest side has gotten in here, David,
go ahead. The floor is yours.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Oh yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
My question is why do the Astros continue playing John
Singleton at first base? Because when he's not hitting home runs,
which are few and far between, he's not a good
defensive player.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
He's not a good base runner.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I mean he's not well, maybe I shouldn't say he's
not a good base runner, but he's not a speedy
base runner.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
At least the other.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Guys that aren't hitting that well, bring some other attributes
to the table, and they consistently claim it first, and
you know, he comes up. It seems like once a
week he comes up in a big situation and he
strikes out. He doesn't even put the ball in play.
So he's just to me, he's not giving them much
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at all. I think he's had one game.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Winning here or a tye tye and run hit.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Or something throughout the course of the season, but other
than that, and even his home runs seem like they
come kind of the equivalent of basketball garbage time.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I never seen does some pluge home runs over his time.
He said twelve of them on the season. Who do
you want to see more more at first base?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I would like, uh, well, Dubon just because he's a
better base runner and a better fielder, and he's also
a better hitter.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But you've been playing Dubon at third You've had Alex
Bregman out there. First of all, Mauricio Dubon in terms
of ops, is not a better hitter than better than
John Singleton.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, actually, but is.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But Dubon's been playing third base a bunch because Alex
Bregman has been out and you kind of play him
off the field, You're probably not going to lock him
down to first base. Maybe come playoff time you would
have Dubon more at first base. But Dubon also has
been playing some first base over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
But I mean, when we compare Dubon, I don't think
it's totally fair comparison because Singleton's getting pretty much consistent
playing time, So why not give some of these other
guys some consistent playing time, not sporadic. And as far
as filling it for Bregman, that's basically more recently.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He was available prior to Bregnant getting hurt.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
And he wasn't much playing time.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He's played one hundred and fifteen games. He's played a.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah, but he's played a lot of outfield. But I'm
just throwing him out as one example. I'm not saying
he's the only one. They have to have somebody else, anybody,
but as far as I'm concerned, anybody other than Singleton,
not just Gobon.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I mean, you know, when I saw the Royals pick.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Up Guriel, I'm like, Uriel at least gonna bring you
some good feeling over there.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
And if you recall when I think they lost that game.
I can't remember. They might have won it.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
When Valdez pitched really well and Singleton waited on that ball,
like just fundamental what not to do? Waited on that ball.
You could tell Valdez was upset. I mean, you know,
a first baseman's got to feel that ball. He gives
you nothing shooting wise, so you know.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
You're talking about ops and all that, you know, but
feeling at first is important.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
That is such an underrated defensive position, and people take
it for granted because they figure it's an easy position.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
It's not an easy position. No positions easy in MLB.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
So I just think that he's got such a sister
playing time, and even last year he got some good
playing time.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
We pretty much know what we can do.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, why did I keep out there?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I think, well, David is just part of a I
appreciate you, thank you for getting in. It's because they
have to put somebody out there. They've been putting Victor
Karattini out there. Some they've been putting Janni Ardez out there.
Some they've been putting Dubon out there. They've been putting
Singleton out there. The last week or so, he's played
a lot at first base, but it's just been a
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matter of nobody has really stepped up. I don't think
I think Karattini has some issues first base. Defensively, I
also think John Singleton. Yeah he's missed some plays, but
he's also made a couple of plays. I don't think
he's horrible out in the field. And Julie Gariel has
been knocking around in the minor leagues, like he was
in the minor league for the Atlanta and then now
he plays for Kansas City and he was not good
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in the field actually last year for the Astros. And
he's like, what forty forty one years old. He's a
French major leaguer and guess what, that's what John Sington
is too. He's a French major leaguer. So we can
talk about Juli Gurriel and how he just warms the
cockles of our hearts and oh Juli and Lapina and
we love you and you've been so great.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We have to face reality.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Juli Guriel is not close to what he was in
his prime as a Houston Astro. There's a reason he's
been knocking around in the minor leagues the last couple
of years. And yeah, he was mashing. His numbers were
good in Triple A with Atlanta, but guess what happens
when John Singleton goes to Driple A. His numbers look
great too. So Dubon has been playing a lot. I
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don't understand where this narrative comes out that Mario Dubon
has not been playing. He's played in one hundred and
sixteen games for the team this year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's a lot, and.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Especially down the stretch the last couple of months, he's
been pretty much an everyday player for the Astros, especially
since Kyle Tucker has gone down. Let's see, Kyle Tucker
went down in June third, We're in September second. As
I pull it up, Mauricio Dubon is played in seventy
games of that stretch, started fifty nine of them, so
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that's sixty two games. That's a lot, and he's hitting
two twenty nine over that span. Yeah, he's been playing.
But I don't know where we get this notion that
Murray Sue Deuban is not is our savior and you
can't lock him down at first base. You have to
play them at third because Pregmant's been hurt playming left.
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You play them right, you play them in the center.
If al Tuoven needs a day off, you play them
at second. I mean, that's just what Murray Sue Duban
is on this team. He's not necessarily an everyday guy.
He's hitting two fifty seven folks with four home runs.
John Singleton is hitting two thirty something, but he's got
twelve home runs. Power matters, and I like Maurciu Duban. Again,
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I feel like I have to do this every week.
I like Maurice Duban. I want Maurice Duban to be successful.
He is also not the savior of the Yuston Astros.
He makes some plays. He plays good all over the
over over the field. He is a utility gold glover.
But you're not gonna confuse him with I don't know,
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prime Paul Goldsmith or Jeff Bagwall or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
First basement you want to go ahead and toss out there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It's nice and I do think come playoff time, if
everybody's healthy, you might see Mauricio Dubon in certain matchups,
depending at first base, or you might see Karatini, you
might see Diaz.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think the uh it's.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
More likely that will be some mixture of Kartini or
d and or Diaz when you get into playoff time,
maybe sprinkled in one of the Murracy Dubon, depending on
what the health of everyone is and where you're gonna
put other guys. But just having a set and forget
Mauricio Dubon at first base, that's not a good idea.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
John Singleton gave me frustrating He's got a little bit
of pop. He's not great defensively. But the question is
what is the better every day option? And it's not great,
but pure ops plus which one hundred being league average.
John Singleton is a much better hitter than Marcia Dubont
this year. This is ninety six. This is league average
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is one hundred, right, he's ninety six, not great. Racy
d Bond's in eighty two. So it is what it is.
There all right, time for a quick break here on
the what is this the night cap? Sorry, I haven't
done one in a while. This is the night cap?
Ros viria with you until seven o'clock when we come back.
You want to hear more, Condomer Governor, I know you do.
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That's why he's going to give us all the top
sports news items of the day. It's a segment that
we always have fun on. It is called Headlines that
is coming up on the Nightcap with you until seven
o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety twenty three games
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in August for a good friend Mauricio Dubon. Let's see
that he started in two games in September. It's twenty five.
How many games have they played over that span? I
think twenty nine? I have that correct somewhere around there.
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Marcile barn has been playing. I still don't get where
this notion is that he has not been playing. He's
played one hundred and sixteen games this year. It's gonna
ops of plus of eighty two. All right, anyways, what's
all the top sports news items of the day. Let's
get those from our good friend Connor McGovern Let's talk
about what.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Else is going around in the sports world. Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
First of all, Connor, I appreciate you being here late
again and where can.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The people follow you on Twitter?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Year?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
This is your reward? Oh, thank you. I'm at Connor,
Dee mcgovernor.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Connor de mcgo hanor Dee mc govern You said you
like it better.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Wouldn't we go with the Irish. How good, young lad
from Limerick.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
The Irish just makes more sense, I order should does
make more sense with a Connor McGovern. Okay, Connor Dee
McGovern follow the man up to four fifty six. Man,
you are growing by leaps and bounds.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Wow, I mean yeah, considering where I started, which was
I can't remember, like one hundred maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I think it was three. Actually, I think you're right
about that. Okay, uh, okay, what do you got? What's
what are the folks talking about here? Well, we'll keep it
local with the first story. At Houston, Texans have announced
their seven captains.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
For the offense, we go C. J.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Stroud, Mammy Tunsel and Stefan Diggs. On the defense, we've
got Will Anderson Junior, Jimmy Ward and as he's.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Al Shai here. And for special teams we have John Weeks.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Stephan Diggs was profiled in GQ, and the article makes
light of the fact that Stephan Diggs has been traded twice.
So Stephan Diggs captain for the Texans in his first
year with the team.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Now, first of all, why do they have seven captains?
Doesn't that seem excessive? Isn't that a lot back? In
the day, wouldn't they just have one captain? Like, do
you need you need seven dudes out there?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Some people don't get their feelings hurt. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Maybe I'm gonna I'm gonna have to google that. Why
so many captains in the NFL? And then okay, Stefan Diggs. However, however,
Stefon Diggs, there's certain hosts twelve to three that really
think he's gonna be this locker room cancer that's gonna
slow the team down and cause all these problems.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
All that type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Sounds like voted by his peers, right, the players vote
the captains in the NFL. I believe I have that correct. Yeh,
Stefon Diggs is out there.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's good. CJ.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Stroud makes sense. And who is the other offensive captain?
I forget you, Laramie Tunsil. That makes sense as well.
Veteran left tackle, star wide receiver that apparently now maybe
the Texans are going overboard and trying to talk about
how great he's been in the locker room and great
he's been with the wide receivers and all that type
of stuff. But hey, he's a captain of the Houston Texans,
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and that's good to hear.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm happy about it. Go Texans.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
This will this will really catapult them into the next
stratusur in the AFC. Okay, maybe it won't, but I
don't know. I'm trying to figure out. I'm gonna go
look this up during the next break. Why they have
so many darned captains that have to be out there.
But we'll figure that out. What else you got, Connor.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Well, from what I've seen, I think a lot of
teams have six to eight captains.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I know you need one guy to go out there
to call the call the toss and then tell them
what side you want to be on.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
The article it looked like didn't give me a clear answer,
So okay, we'll see what you can find. But anyway,
San Francisco forty nine Ers rooky wide receiver Ricky Parcel
will miss at least the first four games of the
twenty twenty four NFL season after he was shot in
the chest during an attempt at robbery over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The shooting took place at.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
About three thirty pm Saturday in San Francisco's Union Square
I when a seventeen year old attempted to rob Parcel
at gunpoint, leading to a physical ar altercation, and the suspects.
Uh and Parcel were struck by gum fire from these
suspects weapon. Parcel has now been placed on the reserve
slash non football injury list and will miss at least
the first regular see let me get this straight against
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the Jets, Ricky, I think it is Pierce all whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
This three point thirty in the PM. Did you say
three thirty pm through? Yeah, Pacific time. Yeah, middle of
the day.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's out broad daylight.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He's out there in San Francisco and some seventeen year
old punk kid is out there trying to rob him.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Initially he was in serious mistable condition, but has been
since released from the hospital.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
My guy got shot in the chest and he's gonna
miss four weeks. Wow, I mean Tank Dell got shot
over the offseason as well.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
This is insane to me.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
What are you folks doing out there in San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Has this has this player been I'm sorry, has the
the perpetrator been detained and arrested?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay, he's in custody.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And then I also saw apparently Trent Williams said, Ricky
Pearsoll getting shot motivated to him to end his contract holdout.
Trent Williams, who signed a huge deal with the San
Francisco forty nine or, is like, man, I just want
to get back around the team. Ricky stood out to
me because when I popped in for OTAs, he did
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go out of his way to come and introduce himself
to me. So he instantly felt the vibe and he
could felt that he was a genuine person and he
wanted to get back and be with his bros. Because
Ricky Pearsall got shot. Wow, this is this is just all.
I don't even know what to say. Wishing the best
to Ricky Pearsall and just a broad daylight armed robbery,
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interesting and just just wild. Hopefully he's okay. Thoughts and
prayers out to our good friend Ricky Pearsall. He's now
a friend of the show, friend of the night cap.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
After that?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
What else?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What anything more uplifting, Connor rather than somebody getting shot
in the chain?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, we'll go with.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Shohei Otani, Los Angeles Dodgers superstar moving closer to becoming
the MLB's first ever fifty to fifty player on Monday Night,
as he racked up three steals and then eleven to
six win over the Arizona Arizona Diamondbacks. He has a
season total of forty four home runs in forty six
stolen bases. He's got about twenty four regular season games remaining,
and he has a good chance to beat a previous
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record set by Alex Rodriguez back in nineteen ninety eight,
which was a forty three and forty three.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So he's at what now forty four? He's at forty
three and forty three. He's at Otani.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
He's at forty four home runs and forty six stolen bases.
He's already broken the previous record set by Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That's insane. So he's gonna be the National League MVP
running away, I imagine, and Aaron Judge is going to
be the American League MVP running away.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I imagine. Who do you think? Would you give I guess?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Because Aaron je Judge plays the field every day, you'd
give it to him over show Hey Otani? Once he
got like fifty one, he's got at least fifty one
home runs. I think Aaron Judge does I'll pull it up. Yeah,
he's got fifty one home runs. This dude's hitting three
twenty six with an ops of eleven hundred. Okay, if
you had to choose one Otani or Judge, if they
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did like a major league wide MVP, who would you choose?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Yeah, I guess Aaron Judge because he does play the
field every day. But Otani, I mean, forty six dolen
bases is pretty amazing as well.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
If he gets to fifty to fifty. I mean, voters
do love milestones, like I think what was like Miguel
Cabrera won the Triple Crown when people argued by terms
of war and stuff like that, Mike Trout should have
won the MVP that year apparently. Okay, I'm pulling up
war leaders just in baseball. I guess Otani really gets
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penalized for not playing the field. They've got Aaron Judge
number one, Bobby Wit number two, one, Soto number three.
That's pretty insane as far as just war leader wins
above replacement. Man, what a freaking season though, that shoe
Heotani is having. If he was doing this and then
like dealing as a pitcher, it'd be like the greatest
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thing we've ever seen in the history of time. But
apparently he's gonna come back as a pitcher, I guess
next year. But Shoe Heotani, absolute freak of nature. I
know here in Houston, we got to talk about Aaron
Judge and how much he sucks and he never performs
in the playoffs and all that type of stuff. But
gotta put us some respect on the man's name when
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two years ago he hit sixty two home runs and
this year he's doing what he did. And Shoeotani, thank god,
he signed with the Dodgers and he's out of the division,
even though Trout and Otani on the same team didn't
do anything for years.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
What an absolute freak of nature.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
How did he just wake up all of a sudden,
was like, Okay, I'm gonna steal fifty bases this year.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's insane. All right, we give us one more story
before we get out.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Connor McGovern Boston College pulled off one of the early
surprises of the college football season on Monday Night, as
the Eagles beat number ten Florida State twenty eight to
thirteen in Tallahassee, dropping the Seminoles to an zero to
two start.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
On the year.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
The road win was Boston College's first victory over a
Top ten opponent in a decade, and also Bill O'Brien's
first win as head coach at Boston College.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And we also have I believe I've heard Mazoo fans
are quaking in their boots, correct, including myself, yet including yourself,
you're worried about It's okay, Bill O'Brien. O Falter looks
like FSU is just complete trash. I mean, let's just
call it what it is. They lose to Georgia Tech
in Dublin, it feels like that was more forgivable, but
then they were just completely awful unless they change quarterbacks.
Who's that guy DJ. I'm not even gonna try to
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say it. He's been horrible for them, So then maybe
they'll make a quarterback change and get a little bit better.
But don't don't be that scared of Boston College and
Bill O'Brien. You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
MISSOO. I got Maszoo minus minus fourteen in that one.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I appreciate that Florida state in the top ten now
not even in the top twenty five after two weeks.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's also a shame after all that whining and crying
they did about not making the college football playoff. Now
they did lose a lot of players. It is a
different team. It just makes me laugh a look, it
makes me laugh. It's not a good look. All Right,
We're gonna go ahead and take a break here on
the Nightcap program. You want to get in talk about
anything that we got into there. Also, we were been
talking about Kyle Tucker and what the heck is going
(32:28):
on with his shin fracture. Mauriso Dubon is the greatest
player in Astro's history. We're also talking about that. Anything
you want to get to one segment to go here
on the Nightcaps seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety the final segment of the Nightcap here on Sports
(32:57):
Talk seven ninety Ross Ah the Aria with you. You
want to get in on lines are open seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What where I was?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I was trying to think about what we were talking
about during the break with the show, Heyo Tani and
Aaron judge stuff and uh really not being a plus
defender out in the field, hurting Sho heo Tani in
terms of the wins above replacement whatever he gets back
on the mound, though that probably will be short up.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It's not like he's.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Been a dominant, lockdown, best in Baseball type of pitcher,
but been a really good plus plus pitcher and then
just one of the most insane freaks in the planet
at the plate, which he's gotten even better this year.
It feels like with he's gonna hit more home runs
than he did last year for the Angels. Stealing all
these bases. Yeah, I'm pulling up his page. He's got
(33:54):
forty six stolen bases this year. He's never had more
than twenty six in a season. And that year that
was twenty twenty one, he got caught stealing ten times.
He's only been caught stealing four times this year. Absolute
freaks of nature that we have here. And well, Dodgers
very scary, Yankees pretty good. But you're Houston Astros in
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the mix in the American League again now just four
games back of the Cleveland Guardians, and it felt like
I think they fell six games back recently or something
like that felt like it was completely out of reach.
Gonna be tough even to make up those four games.
With what is it now, twenty four games remaining for
the Astros.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You really need the.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Guardians to fall and also continue to stave off the
Twins in the Kansas City Royals, who are at this
moment you are, I believe ahead, and no, you're behind
the Twins by a half game. But we'll see in
all likelihood Astro is going to be the third seed,
and then of course we'll get to discussions about what's
going to happen with that starting rotation. All right, Paul
(35:00):
in Myreland has got in here on the nightcap program
with you until seven, Paul, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
The floor is yours.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
Hey man, I don't want to discounting our question the
man's claim on ethnicity, but Irish is oh would be O'Connor.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I believe Scottish McGovern McGovern McGovern governs.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's yeah, that's Scottish. I believe.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I may say I believe there's McElroy. I believe there's
Irish as well. Paul, I don't well, I guess there's
a mixing going on in there.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I ges i do guess they migrate? Well anyway, okay,
Dana Brown.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Says he's got Irish heritage, He's got Irish heritage.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Paul, Well, I'm Irish.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
I'm an old Floyd originally.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Okay, okay, mcgo, okay.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
That's.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
Okay. The morning the little boy asked me, he said,
can I get a sprite? I said no, So I
get out of my room and come and learn. About
ten o'clock this morning, I look in the trash can.
There's two cansas sprite in the trash can. I said,
jay R, where did these cans of sprite?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Because?
Speaker 8 (36:14):
Oh, I found him and just put them in the
trash And I said, do I look stupid? Why are
you lying to me? And that's why I had That's
why I question Dana Brown, how stupid do you think
we are?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Why are you lying to us? You know, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's funny you brought that up, Paul, because earlier on
the Matt Thomas Show, I used the phrase childlike stubbornness.
And what had popped into my head of that story?
Is it a story that my It was either my
stepfather or my mother was telling me literally yesterday, there
was they were a bunch of kids. They had six
kids over, because you know, we've got a bunch of
grand kids running over around these days, and they're young.
(36:51):
And some of them were jumping on the bed. And
one of the little boys that they knew was jumping
on the bed, he lied about it, and they even
said to him, I believe his name is Jacks. Jacks,
you're not going to get in trouble. You can tell
us you were jumping on the bed. It's okay. And
he still continued to lie. And that actually, that story
(37:14):
popped into my head and gave me the phrase childlike stubbornness,
and that's what I used. It is it's funny that
we came to the same conclusion. It is this child
like stubbornness from the astros, from the front office, from whomever, that,
for whatever reason, they continued to dig in and not simply.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Say how easy is it to just.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Say that, God, we got additional what exactly what Kyle
Tucker said, we got additional imaging. Swelling went down, which
makes it easier to see, which a lot of times
on these injuries, they do wait for swelling to go down,
that there was a fracture.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Why what does it hurt. What's the reason to keep
up the ruse? It's just crazy to me. I just
don't know understand it and don't.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Know what and y'all, I don't know if we need
to trust him as long as he does his job
and does it right. But uh, I mean we need
to know.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
But yeah, don't just don't tell us, don't look they say, don't.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Right, yeah, or you're like, all right, man, all right,
take care, thank you, Paul, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, that's just funny to me.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
And I know again, I'll just go back to the phrase,
I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
I don't why the continuing need to to dig in
about this on something I mean clearly, very clearly. It's
been Astro's policy, not this this year, but the last
several years to not make trainers available to the media,
which is something that other teams do. There's there's other
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teams that also don't make their trainers available to the media.
Number Two, there is the if you want to hear
from an Astros person and in the front office or
Astros brass or a leader or whatever, and they say, well,
we don't owe you an explanation on this, they're right
at the end of the day, Do we need to
know the intricate details of what's going on with the
(39:09):
imaging of Kyle Tucker's shin, No, we don't. But it's
just it's rather regular procedure for teams to give out
injury information. And what's the difference if you say he's
(39:29):
got a shin bruise, are really bad deep shin bruise
the worst in history a contusion or whatever. To flipping
that around is saying it's a fracture, which everybody and
a lot of people speculated about for if because of
it just lingered and drug out this injury for as
(39:49):
long as it did, then that word Kyle Tucker in
fracture been popping up for a couple of months. What
would have hurt to just say, you know what, imaging said,
no fracture. Subsequent imaging said there was after swelling and everything.
I believe the phrase used by Kyle Tucker, everything calmed
(40:11):
down because, yeah, if you've got damage in one part
of the in one part of the leg. It's my
understanding that normally they do wait for some swelling to
go down, and maybe swelling went down a bunch, maybe
he had really bad swelling. And then follow up imaging
says there was a fracture. Boom, closed the book. We'll
move on, or just give you weekly updates what's going
(40:33):
on or whatever. Just weird, bizarre, odd, I would say,
but whatever, Kyle Tucker should be back very soon for
your Houston.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Astros, and that what is is what is important.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
All right, that's gonna do it for the Nightcap program
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. My name is rossfie Real,
and you don't like to say I'd like to say
thank you very much if you listened it to the
Nightcap Program or anything on Sports Talk seven ninety, I
truly do appreciate you. Thanks to Connor McGovern over time.
I hope he's getting double time, but I don't know
(41:09):
that he is. But that's okay, hanging out here, Dan
Matthews out on his birthday, so appreciate Connor McGovern for
hanging it out as well. I'll talk to you folks
next tomorrow at noon as part of the Matt Thomas Show.
Until then, have a pleasant and safe Tuesday evening here
in Houston, Texas.
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