Astros Beat Angels In Extra Innings, Javi's Performance, Kyle Tucker Warming Up

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morning, good. I think weshould start the show by breaking down Tank
Dell's routes at OTA's yesterday. Hardto break them down. If you didn't
see him, I saw highlights.Okay, Well, Chris Gordy was out
there, our Adam Westler was outthere. Yeah, I saw the route.

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Say well, look, then breakhim down for us. They look
good. He's healthy, great analysishad a dig d. Yeah, they
look good. Yeah. He dida couple of out routes. Let me
let me, let me met.He was out there running routes. Let
me ask you and yes to tellme. Hey, break that down for
me. What's the analysis? How'dtake the good He looked good, he
looked in shape. Uh. Thephysicality of this kid man, I mean

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the quickness, the brevity. Youknow, it goes out for about a
five six yard outcut. I meanthere's probably no but nobody with an out
route as good as him. Youwant going to give you a little football
lingo, like when you're talking withthe guys, Just we throw in there
saying you know, yeah he's twitchy. Oh okay, good yeah sudden.
Yeah, when receivers, if you'retwitchy or your sudden twitch, Yeah,
if you're sudden, all of asudden, he's on your boom boom gone

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and put his foot in and puthis foot in the ground and get north
and south. Another another running that'sa good running back. Oh hey,
when he stretches that toss and thenall of a sudden he puts his foot
in the ground and gets north andsouth. What if he watches the go
east and west to get north?Yeah, right right? He got and
you another another you gotta get overyour pad level. Oh okay, I
got it. Gotta add that oneto the repertoire. It's really hard to

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get over your pad level. Whenthe pad levels on top of your shoulder.
You got to get over your padlevel. Yeah, that makes sense,
total sense. Routes when you're runningroutes, shoulders over, knees,
knees over toes. Get that goodbody, lean head, shoulders, knees
and toes. Got got a greatway to learn from the kid. Yeah,
but hey, hey, Tank Dellsudden sudden Okay, Twitchy got it.
Tim Boyle backup quarterback fighting for thebackup quarterback spot. Is he got

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an injured finger a couple of daysago on a snap. He's doing what
he's day to day. I know, but he's battling for the backup quarterback
position. Him Case Milsey and thenTim Dogg, T Bone, t Boil.
He done. Astros walk off theAngels. We'll talk Texans in the

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later in the show. You haveto come, Jeremy Pinia. It's it's
pain you though. Huh. Okay, he's he's pretty sudden too getting out
of first base. That can run. Yeah, the guy can run.
He can. He really can't doit all. Oh, he can run,
Like physically, he can run yeshe can literally run, Yes he
can. That fits just like whenyou say he was good. So he's

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quick down the line. Oh hegets the first base in a hurry.
That guy challenges every If it's aslow roller, you better get out of
your pause quickly. Yeah we didthe Astros. Thats a big win,
just as as important as the Imean as like, oh wow, factor
of that sucked the loss the daybefore, how you lost that and all

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the fromber stuff we talked about yesterdaywas just as important when you look back
winning games like that hater giving youtwo innings, didn't walk anybody struck out
four a braid is I mean theythey did a a really good job of
I mean that's one of those youbattle and your battle and you're playing it
and their home or the ball leftthe parker. I'm sitting there watching Tucker

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and then jord On and then Imean they the Angels started off the game
with a with a couple of runsand a two run homern rent gie fo
okay he goes, he goes,Yam will be there up and over for
a two run lead, and theybattle back. So it was one of
those little uh, it was apickleball game. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. We usually say tennismatch back a little pickball, right,

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pickleball is a bit more twitchy,you know what I'm saying. Court,
Yeah, so got it done.But I the fact that you know,
Tucker comes through again. Man,his he's got so much power the other
way too. He's just I wasthinking this morning, losing Korea, losing
you know, uh, George Springer, who I loved as a player.

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If you go around and many youknow others that they've lost during free agency,
everyday players, I'm going to tellyou, losing Tucker would be the
would be the biggest blow. AndI know people say, well the leaders
Tucker is not, you know,outspoken leader like Correa and the leadoff spot
well, Al two Bay is prettygood, the lead off spout. The

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energy that George Springer brought was isdifferent. There's both those guys who are
completely different than Tucker's personality. Butas an all around player, I think
he's better than both. He's gonnaget paid. Who would you Okay,
the three are sitting on the tableright now considering rosters who you taking for
the next five years. Go backto Springer when he was here, don't

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age wise, And I think GeorgeSpringer was my favorite player woe. I
still to this day say that hewas the one that I wish they would
have kept. I thought he wasthe you know how when Dana Brown talks
about Alex Bregmann being the guy thatwhen he's going everything, to me,
that was Springer here. Yeah,there's no doubt that's a big man,
hit lead off, powerful And Iknow that it's not hyperbolic for me because

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I Springer was my up, wasmy very favorite player. I love Altuve,
who doesn't, But there was theenergy, the the way he played.
I thought he played all the timeon edge and he's you know,
he would love h he was hewould That's the way I felt. And

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I just and I didn't think Ithought he was comp I never thought he
was took things for granted, noneof that stuff. I just to me,
if you're saying I had to havehim over the next seven or eight
years in their prime, I'd behard pressed to pack pass on Tucker,
dude, And he is going toget paid of the three. When you
say, okay, you knew thecare I was going to get more than

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Springer. But Springer is gonna getpaid. And I know times go and
the next year gets more money thanthe next. It's not always the best
player in the league. But youcan't tell me that. I'll tell you
the one thing that people are goingto question, and he's got to do
it this year. And when Iwas I was dry anything about is will
he match either one of their postseasons. That's the problem right now because this
postseason last year was like, dude, gotta have you. That was that

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if Kyle Tucker ever has a postseasonlike Springer or Correa have had during their
run, which was Springer's MVP postseasonwas epic, and we know what Correa
has been like in the postseason.Two is not only a leader but a
performer. That's the only thing thatseparates when I talk about why if you're
saying postseason right now, Kyle Tuckerwould finish in third place, but overall,

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I think he's a better overall allaround player than the other two.
And that's saying something for two reallygood players. But with that, the
reason why you wouldn't put him firstis because of Springer in Correa's postseason heroics.
And isn't that how we judge,quarterbacks and pitchers, and the Andy
Pettits and the great pigeon Marianna Riverais the guys who were lights out?

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How were they Randy Johnson in thepostseason when it mattered the most. And
that's the one thing Kyle Tucker lacksright now. He's five tools. All
he can run, we know,we can steal base, got a great
arm, plays defense, made afew more catches last night. Hey,
He and McCormick were challenged with someearly plays that they needed to make in
the outfield, and all those things. And he can hit, and he

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hit the other way, and hehits for power. He can do drive
and runs. He does all thosethings. It's his postseason that would right
now prevent you from taking him overCorrey and Springer and Krarea. But he
is such a special talent. Buthe's my point of all this. He's
getting paid. Yeah, of thosethree, you know, everybody talking three
hundred min he's going to be theone, especially if he has a good

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postseason, He's going to be theone that gets it. Of those of
the other two they left her.We knew Springer wasn't getting that kind of
money. But Correa wanted it,didn't get it, and he'll never get
three hundred million now, but Tucker'sin a position to go get it.
So last night. I thought lastnight was a huge win, and I
thought it was a great response tothe way you floundered. I didn't think

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Christian Xavier was that sharp. Yeah, I did, seventy plus. The
fastball was between like eighty nine andninety one, and usually he can still
get you out with an elevated fastball, but his swing and miss, I
mean it just he was not assharp. To me, No, he
wasn't. And the bullpen did anothernice job, and haters finished last night

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was really important, and then hewas asking he has been clutched all along,
And like I said, I don'tknow why we changed the lineup to
move Regman to the four hoole.I don't oh for five last night for
Reregman, the average average numbers droppingright back down. Yeah, which quickly.
I know he's good, but whywould you mess with that success.
I have no idea of it.I have no idea. I just wouldn't

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have. But you know, thekey here is that they won just as
disappointed as you were the night beforefor the wrong reason, you know,
for the right reasons of being disappointedunderstandably, so you have to be you
have to like what you saw lastnight. Those again, wins are more
character building. I'm just telling youthey are than a ten to one win
twins win. I think maybe theNationals, whoever they playast night ten to

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nothing, You're not be honest withyou. You're not learning much about your
team in a ten and nothing win. You're just not. What you learn
is the other team's pitching wasn't verygood. Your pitcher shut them out and
took care of your business. Andit was one of we all have one
of those type of days a handfulof times a year. We just shut
somebody out and hang double digits onthem. Last night's win here is far

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more uh. Ones can be gutwrenching if you lose them, and they
can be they can serve you upreally well when you win them. They
may be exhausting and they're mentally taxing. But I'm just telling you right now
you have to Those are the onesyou gotta win if you're going to be
a champion. And the way theyresponded immediately was important. A day later,

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yes, especially after the outing fromfarmer Valdez in the way that they
lost that game. Yep, youlook at this box score. Angels go
up two to nothing, Houston comesback, ties it. Angels go up
four to two in the fourth,a couple of zeros are put up.
Ashes come back to tied in thesixth. The very next inning, Angels
take a one run lead. Ashescome back in the bottom of the seventh

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to tie it. Then it goesscoreless, obviously, and then it goes
into xtra inning, so kind ofa back and forth. But the Ashles
responded pretty much every single time,which which is a good thing. And
they did and they did not letit fast where they get down three runs
and four ones and five runs thatone swing of the bat can't change the
game. Well, you saw Tuckerhomers twice and then even bottom of the
tenth, you give pain an opportunityand hater came in and did his thing.

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That was that's a huge win lastnight. Hashtag pay the man?
No, why not pay him?But leave the hashtag out of it?
Should you do that for me?What was it again? A couple of
days ago you had hashtag what ashtag? Get your bag? Give him the
bag or get your bag something likethat like that, and you're whispering and

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staring at the triple E in thecamera and really really really glared and deep
in your soul visual you know whatI'm saying, checking you out? So
no more hashtag pay the man.You can hashtag you can hashtag something about
money, huh, because if youhashtag pay the man, guess what he'll
be playing somewhere else? He will? You try to do that with Karrey
and look what happened and gone?Don't George Springer gone, Garrett Cole gone,

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Vern Lander was gone. He's bad. Hashtag keep him in the hissy,
hashtag keephim in the h and thehashtag h town takeover. Have you
heard that bit? Maybe gosh homeruns for the fucking Black Pody parking Lot
party, right you Lee Brice guytays Western Wednesday, don't don't start giving

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him. Hey, let's go back. You know, we need some old
school Merle Haggard, maybe some HankSenior. You might need a little Morgan
Wallen just for the hell of it. Yeah, you know, maybe a
little Morgan Morgan maybe at Eastern CorbinDay. I like, not all Easter
in Cork way too much? Couldbe it could be the King. Yeah,
George, whenever you have Western Wednesday, you can't go through four hours

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without somewhere getting the King Walker withoutsomewhere getting the King of Georgia. There,
Okay, Christian Javier, there's arumor going round. That's a good
song. You like that one aboutme? And yeah? Yeah, not
about me and you though, justa song. People are man. I

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know, I know they've got goodchemistry. But let's stop that. Whoa,
let's stop right there. Christian Hobvier, Let's look at the numbers last
night. What is going on withHobvier? The fastball velocity down? We'll
look at it next. On SportsTalk seven ninety of this high Fastballer Junior
views just a Nastros. You're listeningto Shawn Salisbury on Sports Talk seven nine

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colors. How about the performance yourhome for Houston shows Baseball Astro general manager
Dane Brown gonadoin the show at ninethirty. Texans continue OTAs Celtics beat the
Pacers in overtime in Game one ofthe Eastern Conference Finals. T Wolves hosts
the MAVs in Game one of theWestern Conference Finals. Those seas Man,

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they're expected to win this thing.The whole thing. Everybody thinks to see
a lot of pressure on them,but they're loaded with talent. You went
c on their ass. So theycall them, and that's what they call
them in in Beantown, the seas. Brother, If you ain't calling them
the seas, then you might wantto take get to step in. Should
I take two weeks off and thenand then quit? Wait? Yeah,
okay, don't take two weeks offand quit. I don't know who see.

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We don't even give thirty days.You just take two weeks off and
quit. No, not doing that. No, we don't do that here.
Okay, just so everybody understands,you feel me, dog, So
the seas, Okay, the seas, that'd be great. Christian Xavier last
night for Houston four innings, pitchedeight hits, four earned three walks,

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one k he velocity wise, it'sflat out is not very good. Chris
Navier's average forcing velocity in his lastart before his il stint was ninety two
and a half miles an hour.Since he has returned from the aisle,
it has continued to trend down.It was below ninety one miles an hour

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last night. The average on hisfour seen fastball ninety point four miles an
hour. Here's my question, doyou believe coming down the pipeline is need
to give him some take? You'regoin to get time off. So they
asked him and he basically said thatit's his mechanics. Well, you're talking

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to a guy here. Did Ipreach it all the time when you say
mechanics, you know a lot oftimes what people think robotics. It's not
the iron iron golf swing out therewhere you're testing golf balls with a machine.
Now you'd like your players to playlike a machine. But the best
players I know, for the mostlisten, if you're going to watch Mahomes

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or Brett Favre play, guess whatyou don't want to do watch their mechanics.
They're just But that's the outlier.You're like, this is a freak
show. Don't do it like himunless the results the same. Then you
watch Brady or Breeze or the guysthat were the mechanic I'm talking about.
Or a hitter that's mechanically so soundit's sick, right, you're like,
or a pitcher. You know,you could say all you want, Garrett

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Cole, you want to talk aboutit, maximizes mechanics when he's pitching,
no wasted most you know what I'msaying. Everything's just fluid. You know
those guys right, you say,pumping it up like they do that they
don't did. Eighty pitches for themis one hundred and five pitches for somebody
else. Maximizing all the fluid motionmechanics will I'm telling you when it comes

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to the position. I played hitter, I guess you could probably say it
in every sport, and that's nothyperbolic. A pitcher, a hitter,
a golfer, go golf, andwhen you're going good, and then adjust
your hands an eighth of an inchand watch the difference. It's the same
thing with hitting. You teach itevery day or when you're watch or a

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pitcher or a quarterback adjusting me andnow you may still be able to make
this so, but watch things eithergo up or down as the mechanic if
you can't sustain mechanics under pressure.The greatest players in every sport of all
time. When everything's going to hellin a hand basket around and when people
are like choking on their own spit, you know what they do. They're
locked in well, mechanics aren't allof it. You've got to be mentally

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tough, all those things we talkabout. But if your mechanics, when
it's a clean pocket or when everythingyou're or you're on the mound or you're
in the batter's box, if yourmechanics aren't sound, you may get lucky
and run into a good play.But for the most part, things change,
and at the pitching position it doesn'tas you've you've watched it, and
so have I, and I pitchedin my life and play, you don't

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that mechanic fallen off, maybe towardsfirst space if you're writing, or you
know you're not you're not getting theproper push, or you're not lower half
drive or where your arm slot is. It can change everything. But three
miles an hour difference for him,four miles an hour difference. If the
mechanics are settling that and you cansee you got every camera angle, an

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analytic known demand at your availability,then you got to study it and go
fix it. Easier said than done. But look, how look how Verlander
said that after that one performance cameback and then what seven innings of really
good baseball? Now he struggled inhis last start, but the ability and
Brian, I don't I don't wantto belabor this part of it. But

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you know what I've noticed most ofthe time in my career about like a
quarterback position. You know, whenthey study, they don't know how to
study. What's wrong, I'm tellingyou they don't know how to study.
They'll look at themselves and they theydon't know what they're looking at, whether
it's coverage or why you're looking atthe wrong and maybe it's with that that
and then coaches in the people whostudy the analytics mechanics know what they're looking

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at. But can the player himselflook at it and say I can take
that and then apply it to whatI'm doing in my game in the game,
easy, in the bullpen in thegame. So that think what he
lives around ninety three to ninety four, right, Yeah, that's four miles
an hour. Yeah, So ifhe's not banged up and it is mechanics,
you got to get those fixed quickbecause that's the difference of keeping balls
into ballpark or not. Yeah.He did say he was healthy since coming

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back from the IO, and theissue for the velocity drop was his mechanics
got to get fixed then, Sohardest thing to do is fix him during
the season, not the offseason.Off seasons the easiest time to think,
right, Excuse me, My questionis he goes on the io with the
neck discomfort and then mechanics just kindof go to the wayside, just a
couple of little tweaks here and thereto get the extra velocity ticks back to

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what he was. Okay, letme let me ask you this. When
you're going through something. I tryto apply it to sports, but anything,
apply it to anything you do inlife. Three weeks you don't do
it. Okay, let's say workingout. Oh yeah, what happens though?
It goes harder to get back right, so you lose that. So
is that your question about when whenthere's slight adjustment, why to why is
it easy to lose or what?Yeah? Well, I guess I mean

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we've used the analogy before, Likewhen we let's say me and you were
to take two weeks off in thatday we come back to be on radio,
you feel a little rusty, alittle different, even though even though
it's like riding bike, you knowhow to do it. Yeah, So
is that basically going why I guess. And then further further is like when
you're struggling most of the time,what you lean on is your mechanics.
It's like it's your it's your mechanics, right, you lean on your mechanics,

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Sure you do. And if you'releaning on them, remember what I
said yesterday about all reps aren't goodreps if you start to lean into machaale
okay to fifteen days. I've beenout for a minute, neck is sore.
Come back and you start to dothings and you fall into that trap
of okay, I'm repping this andit's half an inch off the mechanics where
the armslaughter, what have you?What happens? What's your mind telling you

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about? This is what we do? And things start to go haywhere?
And then what happens. You startto start gripping because you've got to get
it changed you want And then yousay, well, what's wrong? And
then you're looking at fifteen other partsof your body for the mechanics and it's
one small little thing. And whatare the reps telling you? Because I
can tell you this if you said, take a hundred reps of bad reps
or ten reps of good reps.You know what I'm taking with a quarterback.

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Give me the ten great swings inthe batter's box, timity, ten
great throws. Ninety bad reps aretelling me bad things, and all you're
doing is training your body to doit wrong. So when you lose the
mchay, that's why the grind's gotto be all the time, buddy,
you can't get the reminder. Yougot to take time. You got it
grind all the time. I justthink that he's not one hundred percent healthy
because I look back at him lastyear. I said it multiple times.

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I thought he was fat and outof shape. And what happens when you're
fat and out of shape, Youtweak with your mechanics to try to adjust,
to try to fit your body styleyou can now, and then you
lose your You lose your your yourcardio, whatever it is, you start
to lose it because you're out ofshape. So you make the adjustments that
allow you to be I can't quiteget where I was, so let me
adjust that, and then the mechanicsout helen Amber and the mechanics aren't there

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for him, obviously, think abouthow all off season you can work on
him you know how hard it isin the four days between starts or fifth
on the fifth day to come toadjust that because it's like a golf lesson,
you got it. It takes weeksand weeks to okay, here's what
I'm supposed to do to dial itin. And you don't have enough time
to die it in between, becauseyou got to go out and start at
least with God, you could choose. But imagine a golfer in a turn.

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How about these guys that are winningmajors and then al sudden like Justin
Thomas goes two years, a RickeyFowler and Ricky Fowler struggling to make a
cut, and now the guy adjustgets back to the proper mechanics that look
at him. Now he's on thetent front page of the leader board.
It seems like every week happens allthe time. It's got to get fixed.
But I'm with you, four milesan hour, mechanics fall off four
miles an hour, Then you gotto get that fixed, because that's that's

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a lot of miles per hour fora young guy. I mean, his
last outing he was six innings oftwo hit ball eighth striking, striking out,
eight and we had from what Iremember, I don't remember people questioning
the velocity. No, so wewas living in ninety three, ninety four,
five days ago. Yes, sowhat happened in four days that the
mechanics go south? Good question.That's why it's such a fragile, Yeah

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thing, that's why the grinds continuewhere you lock it in, it is
a fragile thing. I've seen ithappen with quarterbacks all in literally a week.
Got to get fixed. Yeah,and the one outing before that inning
and a third so got up anddown for Christianavier who get it figured out?
Though? All Let's continue to talkastros. The leader in home runs
in Major League Baseball, Kyle Tucker, how much money is he going to

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The Sewn Salisbury Show continued. Gameis this afternoon one ten the first pitch
Noon on Deck show. Right hereon seven ninety. Astros general manager Dana
Brown is going to join us atnine thirty. Texans continue OTA's Real Quick
before we hear from the audio ofJoe spot Us speaking about Christian Javier and
some concerns. I pulled up hispitching report Sean from his last two outings.

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So Christian Javier against the Oakland Athleticssix innings, he got the win.
He threw twenty four four seam fastballs, twenty one of them above the
ninety mile an hour threshold, justthree below ninety miles an hour. Last
night he threw thirty four four seemers. And I would say it's a pretty

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good split between fifty or pretty goodsplit of fifty to fifty mean half above
ninety miles an hour and half below. So what in those five days changed
mechanically? You know, I don'tknow, because hell, you watch it,
little small things that we may notsee on the mound on from our

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TV is the little which makes pitchingcoaches. This is where their specialty has
to come in. The stuff thatthe player can't see, the coach has
to and at times the stuff thatthe coach may not see or feel,
the player has to. So withthat, and you ask in between starts.
You know one thing that makes mewonder, Brian, is I always

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think about these type of whether it'shere people who go through this stuff,
and especially young players who haven't beenaround it a long time. No,
Javier has been in the league afew years, but I'm talking about he's
not a thirty five year old fortyyear old veteran, right and the sooner
you can understand, it's not justthe sooner you can self correct because like

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in football on a high school Fridaynight, I can't yell from the stands
tell a kid to drop back andyou know, like a kid like that
parent does hey throw a strike ata little league baseball game. I'm not
yelling from the stands if we're notprepared six days to prepare the seventh days
on you and your coach on thesideline the rest of it. But me
yelling from the stands with his dador mom sitting there saying, hey,
get your arms slot up. Notdoing anybody good, So you've got to

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prepare him for that. So mypoint is, in between starts or in
between games, do we only dosome of the guys only study the stuff
when they go bad, as opposedto feeding off. You can't just keep
feeding your mind with yeh man badmechanics after a tough start. Are you
looking at all the good stuff soyou can eliminate seeing one thing you got

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to know? Oh is I'm sureit's a small thing. For Christianavire,
there's more good than bad with him. So are you looking in between starts
when you have a great start,studying the things you did well so you
can eliminate those knowing okay, I'mlocked in there, then you can find
it. But when it's like aimssmall, miss small on a target.
If you're aiming big, because there'sall this stuff, aiming big and you

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miss, you're gonna miss by fifteenfeet. If you aim small at the
right eye as a quarterback or apitcher in a certain spot, aim at
the black and you miss, you'restill throwing it in the region of where
you want. It's a small missright right, And it's the same thing
here if it's all if you're kurtmaking, if you're chasing borrowing trouble,
and it's like, oh, mechanicsis it? When you say mechanics,
is it one mechanic is it's sevenof them. But you can't just feed

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off the bad stuff. You gotto feed your mind some of the good
stuff too. That doesn't mean youget arrogant and pat yourself on the back
after a good performance. But yousaw him at his last time out,
strike out at eight and walk one. So did you go when you're having
when good things are happening? Areyou still going and diving in to why
the good things are happening? Soyou can break down the small one thing
that may be the difference, andthen you can focus in on that where

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that becomes even with your own study, it becomes a am small missmall when
you're watching tape and covering the defenseand say that guy's really good or this
is a defense we've got to defend. We got to protect the quarterback in
this defense. But go back andstudy all the ways you attack that and
say, okay, we can dothis, but if something comes up or
we prepared for this small adjustment orthis minor adjustment. Tom Brady said an

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interesting thing talking to rookies. Youknow he treats the preseason in his career.
He said, Oh, he treatsa preseason like it's a super Bowl.
Yeah, and every game he playsit. And then by the time
he gets to the foot playoffs,he said, I'm not thinking about that
stuff. I've already dialed that in. Many times, while the pressure goes
up, guess what doesn't change underpressure. His mechanics. Matter of fact,

(29:51):
his get better under pressure as opposedto other guys than the metal kicks
in and then oh, a dropout of armside and then you talk about
borrowing trouble. Then it becomes trouble. You're not chasing a go anymore.
So my thing is, it's notjust studying yourself and your mechanics in the
losses. You got to study thegood stuff. So you could tell you,
okay, man, we're not notfar off. Because if you if

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you aim big and miss big,it's a big miss buddy, am small,
miss small, You're still in thegreatest golfers in the world. Yes,
what they do when they miss outof the fair. Their misses are
playable. Ninety four to ninety maynot play long enough. That's what's got
to get fixed. Yeah, andwhere's so, where is the issue that's

(30:32):
on him? And a precise pitchingcoach to say, studied the position long
enough to know that that's the reasonthey've got that. Yes, they do.
Take a quick call, real quick. Andy, Good morning, tripley.
We punch him up on your side, please, Andy, good morning.
You know, if I was apitcher, there'd be one guy that

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I would want to emulate, andthat would be No. One. Ryan.
You're like sixty three when he lastpitched in the Major League baseball.
This guy was a horse. Imean, what did he do after after
a game? He went right tothe bike and rode the bike. I

(31:15):
forgot for how many miles you puton that? This guy is who you
want to emulate? And I andand you look at these pictures, they're
so up and down and up anddown and up and down. You know
you got burlanded there. I mean, if you're not chewing off his ear
every chance you get, you're notdoing yourself and the team any good.

(31:41):
And and as far as Valdez withhis mental problem. It reminds me of
Vince Young in the NFL. Alltalent in the world, but if you
you're not in between your ears,if you're not right in between your ears,
that talent is going to go towaste. So yeah, I just
yeah, it's a new breed andthere's not many Nolan Ryan's left in Major

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league sports days. You guys havea good day. Thank you, Andy.
The ability to stay out of yourown head. Now, I'm Nolan
Ryan's mechanics even though he went overhis you know, all the a lot
of motion going, but he canstill throw two hundred and thirty pitches with
his wind up. Nowadays, guysare the efficiency of not not a lot

(32:27):
of upper body movement, right,Yeah, but alls you want to and
I you and I talked during abreak. Everything starts with your base.
Everything in every sport, jump shots, pitching, hitting, quarterback, play,
good golf, everything starts with violentlower half explosion and quiet upper body,

(32:47):
silent, efficient movement. Yeah,if you know nothing else about any
of those positions, if that's allyou can teach, you're you're headed in
the right direction. Yeah, especiallywhen you look at like all three sports
the ones basketball, football, baseballwith the with the bass. When you
walk light and you carry a bigstick, that helps as well. Right,

(33:07):
you're light and carry a big succeehere, you're right triply man paying
attention to your mixed metaphor or mixedphrase or mix. What are we doing
around here? You're putting stuff inthe system? Stuff you did? Right?
You asking? You say hey,can I get some sound? And
then turn around ask him a questionwhile he's putt stuff in the system.
They can't see that, all right? Why why why I got to go?

(33:30):
No? You just ran me overput it in reverse. Yeah,
hey, you asked, so,so what's your saying? Again? Walk
softly and carry a big stick.We can do that too, Walk lightly,
walk lightly. Okay. I thinkI love how you You're great.
We need to put quote book foryou to get it because you're great at
mixing. Yeah, I think it'sspeaks softly, but carry a big stick.

(33:50):
You sure, I'm gonna assume thatwe need to put that at your
base, not the base in yourvoice, because you're speaking softly. Take
a base half right, I carrya big stick. I think I think
I think you're probably you're on aroad. That's probably not the one.
I don't think that's the quote.Yeah, fine new roads. And speaking

(34:16):
of Owen Ryan, Yeah, Ithought you got to read there. I
was going to see you up somehowthat next break. Yeah, hey,
hey, stay the course in truth. Tell me yours again? Walk walk
walk lightly, walk lightly softly.We'll go lightly and carry a big stick.
Are we talking sexual wellness or baseballMen's t Clinic dot com? If

(34:39):
you're struggling with sexual wellness, nowwe're talking about you. So yeah,
starts at the base. I thinkit speaks softly and carry a big stick.
I don't know. I'll double checkduring the break. I hit the
google, Michelle, we'll google thatduring the break. Triply trily Emmanuel listen,
he dude, he is just upin the audio guys shop and right

(35:00):
now Dennison pinions right now, seePina, Yeah there you go. Yeah,
speaking of that audio, that tripley'sout there chopping. Uh. Joe
Spottas spoke about some concerns of ChristianXavier. We'll hear that audio discuss next.
Also seven, one, three,two, five, seven ninety will
take your calls all morning long nexton sports Flock seven ninety. Let the

(35:22):
celebration start war Sean Salisbury. It'sa Seawan Salisbury Show. Game three of
the series today one ten, firstpitch noon on Deck Show General manager Dana
Brown gonna join us at nine thirty. Texans continue O t A's over at
n RG Stadium. Joe Spotta spokeabout the concerns for Christian Javier and this

(35:47):
is what the Skip had to say. You know what, I'm not concerned
health wise. I just don't thinkthat he's just quite there yet. But
I don't I don't, you know, I think we over the that the
health is you it's just more gettinghis mechanics, just getting in a group
of things, you know. Youjust he just wasn't as as sharp,

(36:07):
wasn't able to finish hitters through someokay sliders, but the Delo was down.
They were on his pitches. Andthen when Hovey's getting swinging missus,
specially on his fastball. You knowthat the stuff it's it's on. So
we're just gonna get him ready forthe next one. And that's a Joe
spot of talking abouts Christian Xavier.So no concerns with health. With health

(36:30):
looks like it's all mechanical, whichuh, Christian Xavier himself said in the
postgame presser, UH that he isbattling his mechanics since returning from the I
L and that's what he blames forthe velocity. Don't don't you wish that
we'd get when they talk about mechanics. Don't you wish they'd say, when

(36:53):
we know what's mechanics, tell uswhat the mechanics are. Don't you wish
we did? They'd say, explain, I don't know what you're gonna do
with the what the what? Thesolution is? Yeah? I know when
one person says it, okay,I know the problem. How do we
get to the solution? Are theygoing to go study? I mean,
I just would And I know thatsometimes people don't want to let you know
because it's here, you're they're keepingyou out of the clubhouse. And I

(37:16):
don't mean literally, but not lettingyou in on secrets because if his mechanics
are struggling, then it'll give theopponent an advantage. All that. If
you're a good hitter and you know, guys velocities down four miles an hour,
I would imagine you know that there'ssomething going on with him. If
you're an opposing team, an opposingguy in the batter's box, an imposing
hitting instructor, an imposing player.I just I always wonder, Okay,

(37:40):
it's mechanics. We're just going toget, you know, getting ready for
next time. So what is itis the mechanics is? I mean,
I guess the last day to Brown, I will the specifics of the mechanics.
I think it's too easy to saythe mechanics. So that tells me
with the plural the mechanics are thatthey're span that's a lot wrong. But
if there's not a lot wrong,is it just got to get him?

(38:01):
You know, his neck still botheringhim? So he overadjusted with a sore
neck. And now you know,when you over adjust, your arm slots
in a different place, and that'snot where he lives. Is he falling
off towards for it? Does heneed to change the side of the rubber
he's on? Whatever? I justalways wonder, hey man, because with
me, yeah, man, Igotta get I got to get back to
lower leg drive. I'm not doingit. That's why the velocity is off.

(38:23):
Where is it? Velocity comes fromthat that your lower leg explosion,
right, yeah, a lot ofit does. And you know, obviously
all the arm angle and stuff comesinto place, so I don't know.
It can't be. That's my questionis how do you fix it? I'd
like to know. Okay, Joe, that's mechanics. How do we fix
this? I know you go towork. I'm just more into the specifics

(38:44):
of it. I don't know.Yeah, I guess guess it's not our
right to know, but that's i'dlike to I would too. Yeah,
take a quick call before we getsat the top of the hour, Billy,
thanks for holding. Good morning.Hey, good morning guys. Sean,
I'm with you. I'd love toknow exactly what this mechanics is because
that's a big word that covers awhole lot of things. And if you

(39:05):
remember, many years ago, DizzyDean got hit in the foot by a
line drive. His mechanics got offbecause his stride wasn't right at it ended
his career, yes, because itkilled his shoulder. But I am a
bowling coach and we preach mechanics.We preach a hand position foundation at the
line. Is your foot perpendicular tothe line. There's a lot to it

(39:29):
that people don't know about bowling.But mostly it's about repeatability. Is your
game repeatable? And there's a lotof ways to get there, to get
to make a good shot, butcan you do it every time? And
I see that with pitchers, andI am assuming the same thing with quarterbacks.
And I don't know if it's trueor not, but there's got to

(39:50):
be something an arm slot, aright place with the ball, the right
place to release the ball, whereyour hand is on beside the ball.
There's got to be a lot tothat. My question to you is is
how difficult is it to repeat withthose mechanics in football? How difficult is
it to repeat mechanics in baseball?The stride matters, it, where's your
foot pointing matters. It's all there, and it can it can kill a

(40:14):
career and it can make a career. And I know once again with bowling,
if it's not right, you don'twin. You lose because and it
can be just a small amount offand you can get hurt or you can
lose. And is the same thingas a pitcher and as a quarterback,
where your hand position is behind yourhead, over your head, over your

(40:36):
shoulder, wherever it is, isthat repeatability the same thing in those sports
as well. And ahind up,listen, Bill a great point. Well,
well, I'm we're going to answer. We go to break when we
come out of seven o'clock hour.From my vanage point, I'll tell you
and I think the word repeatability,the ability to do it over and over
again, no matter what the situationis, is so important. And yeah,
let's discuss that when we come back, because it'll take a little longer

(40:57):
to answer. Yeah, let's getto the top of the hour. Continue
to talk about these astros. Gotto look at Kyle Tucker. He leads
the league in home runs. That'sthe next on Sports Talk seven to eighty
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Talking about the Astros win last night, let's talk to Carl. Good

(42:05):
morning, Carl. I appreciate youholding what's going on. Yeah, I
just want to give him a quickreport card. First of all, your
two guys there on the radio show, they're honor students, so they're not
great, and they got exempt fromthe tests. Y'all got the best radio
show in the country. I meanthat, Thank you, but down the
business. Give everybody eight plus exceptfor Javier. He got a C plus.

(42:31):
At least he's not a loser nomore. And also give Steve Sparks
a D minus because for being Bagwell'shead brown noser, because he was interviewed
the other day on the radio andhe said, oh I didn't think to
see if it had the job yet. Well, I'll tell you what that
shot last night did improve the man. Let's quit brown nosing Backwell, Hey,

(42:55):
let's win some games. I loveyou Astros and I love your radio
showed. Thanks, Thank Carl,appreciate you, Carl. Thank you for
the call, and thank you forthe compliment. Carl's opinionated and on fire
this morning. Probably leave the Rword out. You know what I'm saying.
I think we uh yeah, yeah, we got good. But he's

(43:16):
uh uh, he's feeling his gutthis morning. He woke up passionate about
these astros, did he He's excitedabout him. But listen, hey,
you talk about you know when yousay take it astray, when you get
up at seven in the morning,you're coming out of the shoots like that
Andy coming out of them. Peopleare fired up this morning about the astros.

(43:37):
Expectations are high. Makes sense.Do you feel me? I feel
you? Dog? I just Iyeah, I feel you dog? Didn't
feel me? Yeah? Yeah?Yeah, all right, repeatability yes,
mechanic wise, repeat energy when youcome on the show. Damn right,
mechanics wise. And who it wasa billy? It was Billy, Yeah,
Billy, you are one correct.And it's any sport. And I

(44:00):
do refer to golf a lot becausewell, maybe you know you're in search
of the perfect round that you neverplay, although you can go to the
perfect round and play some good indoorgolf, but yeah, see how that
is, but you'd never play it. So I'm always in search of I
think we all are trying to findout what allows you to get his close
on the way up to perfection andyou stop by excellence that works, and

(44:22):
mechanics are a big part of that. In every sport you're one hundred percent
correct. And I had a guywho's a really good golfer. When I'm
out there playing, it's the abilityto find whatever that is in your game.
Every mechanic's not for every player,different extent. Some guys trying to
teach Brett Fahr or trying to teachMatthew Stafford to get to like one p

(44:44):
thirty on a twelve o'clock the armangle at this stage of his career would
be diminishing returns. He's a threequarter side arm going to let him live
there. Now you can adjust otherthings in his feet and part of his
body to be a thrower, andthey have over the You don't mess with
that, you just don't. Somechanics are different. Not every mechanics set

(45:05):
up for everybody to be the sameguy. That would be robotics. That's
the difference. But Billy, you'reright man. Whether it's your bowling that
you're talking about, quarterback play hittingthe baseball golf ball. It's the ability
to watch Scheffler and golf McElroy whenhe drives it out the t the ability
to square the club face being mechanicsand repeatability is is mechanics, repeating the

(45:30):
good stuff over and over and overagain and can it happen? Sure?
It takes a long time and constantgrind, And it's harder during the season.
In the offseason because you're worried aboutthe next game plan. You got
the Yankees, you're getting ready toplay them. You want to think about
mechanics. But the grind on himtakes a lot of blood and sweat.
And when I say blood, sometimesyou know you skin your knee. But

(45:51):
it takes a lot of sweat andgrind and mental and emotional grind in the
off seat. And that's why duringa football season, I've never been with
a coach who coached mechanics every day. Oh Sean gets you on the tell
you, but to coach it.They're worried about the next week's game plan,
how are we going to deal withthis defense? So a lot of
times and when I train quarterbacks,the mechanics are taking care of in the
off season now you you obviously tinkerduring the year to two. It's like

(46:13):
anything else. You just make surethat you stay in tune with it.
But you're not making wholesale changes duringthe season because in your game will go
to crap. It's when coming uponme and the quarterbacks I work with to
get them ready. So when theyhit the ground running in training camp,
if they have to adjust a littlein their quarterback coach says, hey man,
you maybe you're little to your baseis a little wide. Okay,
we'll adjust that. Not major changes, because then you're overloading your mind with

(46:35):
everything. You don't want to overloadit with, so to get them ready,
so you become a reactor, notan overthinker when the games are there.
That's why you don't teach very They'renot grinding on mechanics. You're trying
to adjust, but you don't grindon them during the season. There's not
enough time, and coaches don't havetime to wait on one guy while fifty
three others on a football field aretwenty five plus others in baseball, So

(46:57):
the mechanics are built in the offseason and adjusted during the season. But
yes, repeatability and I had acoach tell me that you used to was
with Troy Aikman in Dallas. TroyAikman is and this is important, and
I know it sounds minor, butit's not that you could go watch him
on his drop back every time,whether it's a three step quick game under
five steps and a hitch five stepsrhythm, that the imprint on the ground

(47:20):
when he dropped back was the exactsame for whatever drop it was. It
never deviated. He wasn't stepping inthe bucket, he wasn't missing the depth
of his drop. Everything was exactlythe same all the time. That's repeatability.
So when a game time comes upin the middle of the third quarter,
you're not sitting there thinking, well, I got to get more depth
on my drops. It's just builtin. It's like when you go to

(47:42):
work driving a car. If you'vedone it four thousand times, you're not
thinking of how to get to work. You drive and you just get there
and somebody said, what streets didyou pass? Which I don't know,
I've just done it. It's thesame thing with bowling, golf, hitting
the baseball football. They're hard todo, but if you're not to put
the grind in of repeatability time.It's boring and it's monotonous, but I

(48:04):
got news for you. Miss itby a quarter of an inch. It
changes careers and changes games. Doesn'tmatter if you win by an inch a
mile winnings winning ask any real race? Well day won by what a run
last night? It only counts asone. But guess what mechanics can get
you to lose by one as well. Mechanics matter, and Christian Javier is
going to have to get that adjustedas quickly as possible, with some help

(48:27):
from his friends and a certain maybeanother verninder needs to go in and watch
too to help him. Maybe itis a veteran who says, dude,
I've been there justice, We'll seeyou know what the astros are give him
a hamster, I'll take a mile. You know what they got family?
Yeah, they are family. Family. He doesn't just have friends. Consistency

(48:49):
and mechanics is so key, andI wish I could bottle that up and
sell to everybody. Yeah, ifyou could change during a season, then
then if you grind and overload I'mtalking about overhaul, rehaul your mechanics and
during the season, yeah, you'vegot zero shot, zero shot to make

(49:09):
it Yeah, you start to meanyou'll, you'll be that, you're done,
You're way down, you'll and you'llbe grinding and you'll you'll and then
it starts messing with your psyching,you know, messing with the mentality.
Yeah, dude, you're done.And I'm telling you the emotional, the
mental side of your mechanics is justas important, if not more. That's
why champions are made when no one'swatching. What are you doing? What

(49:29):
do you mean? How many areyou just gonna left? Today? That?
Yeah? Fire right? That onefloat right right right? Yeah right.
It's called wits, quick wits,not wit set quick wits. Are
you doing all right? Man?Yeah, I'm a little off today.
You're doing all right? Your yourquotes are on fire, they are?
Yeah, yeah, I mean justmix what happens if you give somebody a

(49:52):
hinch, they take a mile?Yeah? O tas are rolling along.
Can't wait to see more routes thismorning? Yeah? Fired up? Baby?
What did you say about mechanics?If you bottle them up? Ye,
bottle them up, sell to everybody, right, and then uh,
champions are made when no one's watching. We just got a call. We

(50:14):
just got a campment from was it, Carl, Yeah, Carl, tell
us this is the best radio showin the country. Yeah, this is
what we're doing. I'll tell youthere's there's no rumor going around here.
No, it's not about me andyou. No, no, no,
no, there's no, there's not. But what we're gonna do is we're
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It's time to stake it out hereon the Sean Salisbury Show, Sean,
Brian and Tripley Astro's general manager DaniBrown going to join us at nine thirty.
Stros and Angels won ten the firstPitch Noon on Deck show this afternoon,
right here on seven on your homefor Astros Baseball. Let's get back
out to the phone line seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Holly,
good morning, Good morning, ashow's it going, Brian? You

(53:22):
are on fire this morning. I'myour quotes are on point. I just
want to let you know that,thank you. I appreciate it. I
wish my, I wish my,you know, my my teammates here would
appreciate him as much as you mean, who could come up in the morning
at seven o'clock with this one.Walk lightly and carry a big stick.
Damn right, you kids, right, you get it. He's making me

(53:44):
smile. He's making me smile,and that's what I listen to see you.
That's exactly We're gonna get shirts madeof mixed quotes and metaphors by Brian
Lalie. There we go. Ilove it. There you how you doing
this? Quick comments? I'm great? Two quick comments. Loot the wind
last night and I appreciate everything hesaid Sean about the repeat, repeating the
mechanics and that being on the playera lot. But I get so frustrated

(54:07):
sometimes with Millard, with the pitchingcoach. I feel like he should do
more than he's doing. I knowhe makes his maund visits. I think
I'm wondering if there's maybe a callfor a change in the pitching coach situation
over at the team. And alsoone last thing about Tucker. It's going
to get a cost US thirty million. He's gonna he's gonna demand thirty million

(54:28):
a year, yep, And Ijust don't know if we're going to do
that. I'd rather sign him formore than I'd rather sign Bregmant and Promber
combined. So I just wanted tohear what you guys want to say about
those two things. Thank you tohave a good day, Thank you,
thank you, Thanks Brian. Ithink she's one hundred percent spot on thirty
million. Might be cheating him.Yeah, with the way with with the

(54:49):
role he's on, he's gonna he'sgonna get every ounce of that somehow.
And I don't know if it's foreight years, six years, seventy,
but when you're talking about the averageyearly salary, he's gonna get thirty million,
and that may price him out ofhere, which would be a bummer.
But I take you back and we'llsee how how much the money starts
to roll and how his performance isthat. Dana Brown told us on this

(55:10):
around this time last year, didhe expects Kyle Tucker to spend his career
as an astro? And boy,everybody's eyes looks like okay, And then
you start to think, well,you know, obviously Jim Crane's going to
have a hand in that, withhis money in the final hand, if
he wants to pay it. ButHolly, you're right, that's gonna be
thirty million on the repeatability. Idon't know, you know as far as

(55:32):
replacing or what the the the depthof the teaching and coaching. Listen,
anytime we're comparing a pitching coach toBrent Strom, you're screwed yours. He
could be good and you're still notgood enough. That that's the way it's
going to be. So when you'recomparing him to a legend filling the legend
shoes, you can the guy behindthem. You want to be the guy

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after the guy you usually do.You want to be the guy after the
guy. I mean, how howgood I don't care how good Drake May
is in New England. Now heis the guy after the guy in mac
Jones because now with mac Jones's struggles, they're gonna they're gonna love some Drake
May if he's good, but he'snever gonna be Brady. And if that's
who we're comparing him to, youwant to be the guy after Mahomes when

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he retires. Hell no, youdon't. You don't want to be the
guy after Andy Reid either, SoI uh, for me, you don't
want to be want to be thesecond basement after Altuve? Nope, bad
idea. So Holly, I don'tknow about that part, but I do
know you are one hundred percent correcton it's on the player. But I
wonder also, and Brian, youtall you with your coaching, your baseball,

(56:36):
your your youth baseball, your youryou know, your elite and uh
baseball players and the ones that aren'telite that you're trying to make elite.
Right, it's not just for theguys that are the the everyday starts.
You got to be able to matterof fact, there's a lot of satisfaction
in taking a guy who's not thatguy and turning him into that guy.
Right, Yeah, whoever that isI take, and I think we all
take pride and helping. If aguy just wants to be a starter on

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his high school team and never goesany further than that, that that's then
that's enough. And if a guywants to if you can help them get
going. But it's on the playerdoing the lonely work, working in quiet.
As you say that, you know, in truth, it really is.
I mean, it really is.It's a fact. We laugh about
it, but it's a fact.I always wanted this, and I'm not
afraid to offend a player when I'mhonest in evaluation, and that's got to

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be the same for a pitching coach. You can't be afraid to offend a
gw hey man, you're not doingthis right, doing this right now?
You want to be a self esteembuilder with young kids, or but there
comes a point in time when yougot two choices. I get you to
sit back and let that go becauseyou might get offended and butt hurt because
I told you the truth and Itell parents this all the time. If
you're here for an honest evaluation,you came to the right guy and good

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teaching with no gimmicks. If you'rehere for me to lie to you and
tell you after one work out yourkid's a Division one starter for four years,
guess what, don't hire me.I'm not that guy. So if
you're looking for sugar coating, I'mnot going to be it. I'm going
to build your kid's self worth andself esteem. But if his arms dropping
out of slot eighty percent d ofthe time, I'm not going to tell
him all is good. We're goingto fix it. Not during the season.

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We're gonna try to fix it inthe offseason so he can just be
a player and react during it.So yeah, when it comes to Javiera's
mechanics, it is incoming upon theplayer, but it's incoming upon the eye,
the sharp eye of the coach toThat's why you hire them to see
the things that nobody else can.That's where the expertise is supposed to come
from. Brian, you get itwith your with your team. I get

(58:25):
it with with with the guys thathad it. You know, try it
in your career, but if youcan't, it's okay to lean on somebody
else. It's okay to do that. So yeah, I think Holly's right
on Ryan with the fact that whilethe player, but the expertise and the
great ones like a Brent Strom wasbeing able to find the little things that

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the mere mortals couldn't stay and find. And that's all our job as coaches
and teas, no question about it. Seven seven ninety Rob, welcome in.
Hey, good more and you all. Happy hump day, Happy hump
day, good good day to bea hump day. Yeah, what's up?

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Yes, sir, it was goodto see air your don had lifted
off last night. He also smokedone to deep center field. Do you
think that he's actually back? Oryou think he still got to establish a
new track record of the you know, hot hitting. Thanks Rob, thank

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you for me what I saw lastnight. The ball looked and he even
had that smirk on his face afterthe home run. It's stuff like that
that I don't know what it is. I don't know if he's back,
meaning he's going to go on fireand hit four twenty and lead the league
in home runs in the month ofJune coming up. I don't know if
that's going to be the case.But it looked more like him last night,
ball jumping off his bat, andyou know, for a guy who

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who set the expectation at some pointin time, he'll be back. I'll
tell you what's going to tell usis when he's beating balls right back at
the mount and the pitcher's ducking andthe ball goes centerfielder, when those home
runs become upper tank jobs, andhe's hitting the ball the other way on
an outside pitch and not chasing andon bad pitches and not letting strikes that
come down where he just doesn't pullthe trigger. It looked more like Jordan.

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It's a good sight, But you'llknow what he's back. I don't
know when that is with him,Brian, But when you start to see
it three four or five games ina row where it's like to the point
where it's like, why are wepitching? You know, when when he's
at his best. You know whatyou and I are talking about, Brian,
Why in the world are you pitchingto this guy right now? That's
where Kyle Tucker is. Even whenhe strikes out, he punishes you when
you come outer part of the plate, inner half, when you throw him

(01:00:35):
a good pitch. It's just dumb. It doesn't matter, does not.
It does not. So when Jordan'sdoing that and hitting and raking lefties as
well, you'll know. So Idon't know if he's back, Brian,
but I can tell you this,Rob But whenever I see the ball leave
the ballpark and him hit it hard, I know that it's getting closer.
It's getting closer, and it willhappen and it's not going to be fun

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for the opposing pitching. Stuff.Yeah, let's continue this. Gosh and
seven one, three, two,two, five, seven ninety of the
number to join and uh, therewas somebody last night in the game that
had a more impressive home run thanyour don and Kyle Tucker, Well,
you look at me like that.I'm I'm I'm intrigued with the t's Yeah,
you know who it was? Iprobably do. You probably do.

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I bet Triple Eazy doesn't about youtell him I'm about to find out.
Next in Sports Talk seven ninety,the Shawn Salisbury Show continued, Brandley Gilbert
is the guy that wears uh edhardy Still. The trucker had in like
one of those chain walls. Yeah, oh yeah, the chane dangles a

(01:01:37):
little bit, and it's a longthing, like the long rectangle Wallace looks
like a chess book holder. Yes, that's right. Yeah, and it's
leather a little worn and uh soBradley Gilbert. But also what about this?
What about Gilbert Godfrey? Do youthink he's Gilbert Godfred's better too?
Is he still alive? Let's let'sgo to the machine. You know,
I don't want to. I hopehe is Gilbert Godfree, Gottfried and a

(01:02:00):
guy who you know, his weirdvoice in some of his movies A legend.
Did he die? I think Ithought he did, like in the
last two years, or damn it, yeah I did. Sixty seven April
twelve, twenty twenty two. Thereyou go in the last couple years.
That's why I asked, man,because I didn't I want to put respect
on Gilbert Godfred's name. Damn it. Yeah, so sorry. I didn't

(01:02:21):
mean to ruin your day. Ihate saying this, but we could turn
that into a segment. Yeah,is he still Are they still alive?
Yeah? Well he was? Whata what a legend? He had recurrent
ventricular attached cardia due to my myotonicdistrophee type two. That's just sad guy.

(01:02:47):
I thought he had passed. That'swhy I'd asked it. I didn't
want to, but he was.He's a really good guilt say. He
died of a rare, often overlookeddisease. Sad man, tough, but
he was better than I. Onlygober to put it to you that way,
no doubt talking astros. Let's getout to timber Grove and talk to
Phil. Phil. What's happening?Oh? You know? First of all,

(01:03:09):
rest in peace, Gilbert gotfree andHappy Western Wednesdays. Wednesday to you
guys, Hey, Phil, Ifeel appreciate that. How are things going
over in timber Grove? Man?I know that place was hit hard last
week. I don't have power.This is still power. Still don't have
power. They're on our street thismorning. They're working hard. Like I

(01:03:29):
appreciate the efforts from the guys,but right now, yeah, we still
don't have power. How's everything holdingup for you though? With all that
going on? Man? Houses ingood shape. We lost a couple of
trees, but the house was good. My neighbors all over the place,
our whole neighborhoods. I it lookslike a war zone, like people with
trees in their houses. It's prettybad. Man. We we we lucked

(01:03:52):
out, honestly, we did.And yeah, you know, it's just
sort of it's sort of what itis. Yeah. Well, I hope
you guys get power back. Ican hope that area start to recover here
faster. Not good. Appreciate it, guys, appreciate it. Yeah.
I just want to talk Kyle Tuckerand how you know how crew, we
all know how crucial it is tosign him, not not only just to

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have him in our lineup, butto keep him out of someone else's lineup.
And I think we've been fortunate withSpringer going to Toronto not really doing
much up there. I'm talking Octoberbaseball. You know, Cole going to
New York, but the Yankees aregonna Yankee come October. I think we're

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gonna run out of luck with Tucker. He's gonna land somewhere where it's gonna
hurt us, La Texas even youknow Arlington is they've dished out big contracts,
and you know it's as much asimportant as it is for him to
be hitting in our lineup, wegot to keep him out of someone else's
lineup because you know he's gonna landin a spot that that it's a team

(01:04:57):
that we're gonna run into come October. And the guy is just too too
good all all facets of the game. The guy flashes the leather, he
runs the base as well, hitsfor power, hits for average, and
this is the guy you just can'tpass up on. Thanks for everything,
guys, I appreciate it. Lovethe show always. Y'all keep doing what
you're doing. Yeah, you takecare of yourself, man, family,

(01:05:19):
Hope, everything's okay, man,that's gosh still yeah, no power,
it sucks. Yeah tough man,it's just not good. Yeah, no
doubt. Seven one seven ninety Brandon, Good morning, good morning, Happy
Humphy Happy Wednesday, Brandon, what'shappening? Oh well, I went over

(01:05:40):
ams my last night and we watchedthe game. It was fun. Did
you watch the entire game? Yeah? Good for you. They want an
extra innings day game today, Buddy, Yep, that's correct. On Deck
Show at noon right here on sevennine. Are you gonna be listening,

(01:06:00):
I'm thinking, yes, that's that'sthe correct answer. That's it. I
do watch Sports City on network,but I can watch both. I can
listen and watch too. Yeah,there you go, Hunter Brown on the
Mountain. You excited? I am. Are they gonna win? I hope

(01:06:26):
we're not going to ast. Yes, well, that's awesome, Brandon.
We appreciate enjoying the game today,Buddy, thanks for calling. All right,
thanks bub I think for Kyle Tucker. He had two home runs last
night. Jordan Alvarez had one aswell. John Singleton's was the most impressive.
He destroyed that baseball. It's deadcentral little batters. I look a

(01:06:48):
close up look at it. Ohmy gosh. He pounded that ball and
the the in rhythm batdrop. That'sthat's whatever we're calling. It's not even
really a flip. It's a batrelease in the middle. I mean right
at the end of your swing,bat comes out too. It's impressive.
That was a that was That wasa a Tator masher right there. He

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was one for two with that bomb, two RBIs and also two walks.
Good for John Singleton get more playingtime with jose A brayhw Uh still being
down in West Palm, even thoughwe have heard that he is going to
return potentially this weekend, and I'massuming he's also going to be inserted in
the lineup, so we'll see howthat goes. Jas McCormick also made his

(01:07:30):
return last night. He was zerofor three. They sent down Trey Cabbage
now with in which one of ourcallers was saying that that would be the
one to go down. Yeah,with a Bray who close to being back,
they're gonna have to make another decision. How you managing the reps.
I'm not playing him, to behonest with you, how you managing the
reps. I wouldn't rush him backeither. I probably would send him to

(01:07:54):
Double A, let him let himhit it in Corpus for a couple of
weeks, and I sent him toTriple A, let him hit for at
least a week and in uh uh, in that with that team, and
then we'll bring him up like nextmonth, because it's really a couple of
weeks away anyway. So what's therush. I don't know, I just
it's it's to me, it's Iknow, I know it's not and I

(01:08:15):
know you have to get him somesort of run in the lineup to see
if what you did by sending himdown to West Palm Beach helped and fix
some things. But yet your teamis on the cusp of winning another series
today and the lineup is swinging itbetter. For the most part, you

(01:08:36):
take the risk of guys that havebeen raking not raking and losing production from
two positions like the Myers is itgoing to be Myers McCormick, dubon on
a little revolving out there and lowPrafedo and or is it And remember when
a Brave comes back, somebody elsegot to go. Yeah, so it's

(01:08:58):
either Joey Loperfiedo or a great Kessinger. Those are the two I would think.
And so how you're going to managethat. It's nice to get everybody
work, but you don't want toget getting everybody work at the expense of
dropping production. That's not the businessI'm in. No hate to say it,
but it's not you know, andyou don't really own explanation. The
explanation is got to play my bestplayers, especially since it's gonna be a

(01:09:21):
grind all year long. Yeah,it's definitely gonna be grind. Let's take
a look at the Al West,the Rangers and Mariners, playing two of
the best teams in Major League Baseball. Obviously, the Astros going for a
series win this afternoon at Minute MadePark with a one to ten first pitch.
We'll discuss the aos next on SportsTalk seven ineighty. The Jean Salisbury

(01:09:42):
Show continues. Win last night inextra innings, Jeremy Paania with a walk
off single, John Singleton hits abomb, jord On with one as well,
and then Kyle Tucker hits two homeruns. He leads all of Major
League and home runs with seven teamseven one three, two, one two
five seven ninety phone lines lighting up, talking Astros. Let's talk to Tim.

(01:10:06):
Tim, welcome in, Hey guys, how are we all fantastic?
Brother? What's on? And nineman? Just listen to y'all talk about
Jose Bray, you coming back andit's so frustrating. They're finally playing good
ball. That guy needs to bedfaid. Send him down and you know,
I mean, I love Chaz,but send that guy down to and

(01:10:28):
bring bring up another reliever from TripleA to I mean, I know it's
not great down there, but whowe we got? We need more arms
in the bullpen. The starters aren'tdoing with the with they have it in
the past. It's just super frustrating. You know, we we gotta we
gotta bring the nerds back into theUH front office and get rid of these
baseball guys because when we had thenerds, we were doing great. You

(01:10:50):
know, I'm gonna hang up andlisten, but I'm just I'm just,
you know, tired of UH thesekind of moves bringing and bring you back
when we're playing good Just DFA,heat the money and move on. I
want to hear your thoughts on that. Thank you, Tim. Tim's not
the only one that said that.Sean I know that, and it got
to a point earlier with his strugglesfor me, I was saying the same

(01:11:11):
thing. I'll admit that I hopeit works out for him because I've heard
nothing but good things about how heis as a teammate and all that,
but as far as production, itwas awful. And now we're going to
have to see if this experiment downto West Palm Beach worked. Do you
think that the Astros are concerned thatif something were to happen to singletonory were
to struggle that the depth is aproblem for them there, even though I
know Carotena can play there, weknow low Brafido can play there. And

(01:11:33):
while the money has to have somethingto do with it in their mind,
I think they also have to validatewhy he's around and why they sent him
down there. Yeah, and theyare also going to lean on and you
know this, did you see himin the end of last year. That's
going to be a calling card forthat, and you know what, I
get it, But I also getthe callers of why the frustration of at

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some point in time, if thisis fair to say on a certain you've
got to take the la You haveto because what happens if you don't take
the l if if the l isfor one you don't want to be for
three others. Does that make sensebecause in the process taking let's just say,
you force feed him back into thelineup and got to give him a
chance and and I and I hopeit works for him. Listen, he's
a good dude and a good he'sbeen a good player in the past and

(01:12:18):
it is a good teammate. Butif you force feed him in there,
it affects what if it affects Singletonand cuts into low Berfeto time in another
position, which cuts into you know, there can be a collateral damage to
this. Now if they guess rightand you didn't know and all of a
sudden, bray You's second half theseason September postseason of bray You, then

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they can come back and say,you know what, this is who he
that, this is what we expectedand it worked. I don't see how
they're going to do it without Idon't see how they're going to get out
of this without trying him there.But you understand that there is collateral damage
possibilities of the confidence and the repetitionand good reps at John Singleton's getting And
let's not discount his play at firstbase, no questions, So you you

(01:13:06):
this is it's And I am goingto ask Dana Brown today, what is
it experimental? Is it force feed? I mean, what what if?
And he can answer however he wants, but that it has to be asked
among other things. And so listen. Of course it's a long season,
but and competition is a good thing. But you if I'd have told you

(01:13:30):
Jake Myers. And it's the outfieldtoo, with McCormick back, you know
that where we know who's penciled inat third base regularly? Yeah, has
Jake Myers earned the center field jobwith the way that he's performed over he
didn't want to be in I'm talkingabout the way he's playing right now?
Yes, who should be your startingcenter fielder? Jake Myers? Just like
we thought going into last season.Chas mcormick should have been your opening day

(01:13:53):
started because he've earned it the year, the postseason before. Yes, it's
that that that's why they get paidthe money to make those decisions the question.
But you know what, not allthe decisions are right. We'll go
find out. Seven three sevens continueon the phone lines and talk to Doug.
Good morning, good morning, howwere you. I just want to
you know, everybody talks about,you know, from a management perspective,

(01:14:15):
you know who's who's great, who'snot. You know, who's just lost
in the conversation all the time.And I think the askers definitely missed him
as Jeff Lunew because I would sayat least sixty percent of their current twenty
five man roster is still made upof people that Jeff lun Now brought in.
And think about how long he's beengone, and uh, I just

(01:14:36):
think kudos needs to go out tohim because, for example, he just
helped he this was a stickler formaking sure he held on to Kyle Tucker
when uh, you know, whenthey were building this team, and you
know, people like Alvarez and McCormickand fromburn Or Keaty and Blanco and Gregman
and Berlander, I mean, BrianAbray, you, Jeremy Payne was a

(01:14:58):
draft choice, Ryan Prestdy, thetrade, Jake Myers, Christian Hobvier.
I mean, and then I'm surethere's more. And I just think that
here's a guy that he built,that he built the Astros dynasty. Thank
you, Doug. Yeah, there'sno question about it. I Mean,
we've talked about Jeff Luno a coupleof different times and and there's no doubt
about it. But what we alsoand he makes a phenomenal point. Listen,

(01:15:21):
you can't take away the success Jeffhad. He built special here,
that ship sailed, though you're neverit's not happening. Yeah, I know,
I know. What do we wantto replicate that? Dand is going
to do it different than James Klickwas a jam during the World Series his
two years here. This is DanaBrown's second second year. I mean,

(01:15:42):
they're going to do it different.I understand the craving for you know what
Jeff Luno did, but I hateyou that's never happening again here. It
may happen on some other team inbaseball, it's not happening here. So
while he was exactly right on thekudos to Jeff Luno that it's going to
get to the point we have tothat you understand that Jeff Luna is never

(01:16:03):
going to be the GM here againever, unfortunately, and you're and it's
hard to repeat the same guy doingthe same thing. You're going to get
different, and you may not likedifferent. But he had great success doing
it, and I choose to lookat all the great things he did here.
But man, we'll drive away.It'll be maddening if you drive yourself
and say, man, I wantthis or that, or I love this
about Dana, I want this aboutJeff Luna and even James click for this.

(01:16:27):
It's the Astros are going to justlike when you lose a player,
you got to redo some things andyou got to adjust. They had to
do that with a manager with aGM and a second GM, and now
they're on Dana Brown and they're startingto They're they're playing better baseball. And
they were a game away from theWorld Series last year, right and now
trying to get back to five hundred. We are spoiled as hell, are
we. There's no doubt, Ronnie. Welcome in. Good morning, guys.

(01:16:50):
I've been wanting to call for thelast several days, but power outage
and all that finally got everything backyesterday. I sort of teased my friends
and some people because you know,I told you, guys, I'm blind.
I don't need those sticking lights toget around. But man, the
arrest of the benefits of electricity arefantastic. Of course, I've got two

(01:17:12):
or three things. Baseball and basketballto me, have painted themselves, the
sports themselves into bad situations by fullyguaranteed contracts. I wish there was a
way that they could get out ofthat, so that brayhe wouldn't be such
a Jose wouldn't be such a problembecause they could get rid of him,

(01:17:33):
but they're gonna have to pay himno matter what. And do you think
that Angels would like to get ridof Rendon's money and Trout's money because they're
not benefiting them anymore with their injuriesand such. And you know, I
don't know. I wish low Graffitocould play short or second base because that

(01:17:54):
way, if he's going to beup here, they could give Jose,
Altuve and pinya arrest every now andthen because they're going to wear out in
August if they have to play everyday, just like Tucker wore out last
year, you know they're gonna haveto give them a little bit of arrest.
And my last final point, andyou're gonna really laugh at this one,

(01:18:17):
you know. I Singleton is suchan interesting case because he gets on
base with walks. So if Iwould do anything with the batting order,
I would want to bat him secondahead of Alvarez, Tucker, Bregman,
Penia and let him use his goodbatting eye to draw some walks for the

(01:18:40):
to be on base because those guysare starting to rake it now, and
if he continues to rake it,I don't know how you're going to stop
this lineup. We appreciate ron Ihope everything's okay after all of those stories,
Ronnie, Ronnie, thanks brother.We appreciate you. Also. Yeah,
he makes some fantastic points about,you know, not only the money

(01:19:01):
thing, but about where you wantpeople in the lineup and the grind of
the season. Now, you knowhow I am. I want to play
my best players every day. Atsome point, Paint is gonna need a
day, But Dubond can play thereand and and they can do that.
And I'm one of those guys.As long as you're going good, screw
the rest. Yeah, exactly.I kep keeping you in the lineup,

(01:19:24):
and I know Ronnie feels the sameway. But at some point the grind,
you know, you go through anzero for twelve slump or one for
fifteen where you need a day andthey'll you'll get it to him. It'll
it'll happen. But right now,you can't afford three or four players taking
a day or two off. Yougot to keep winning. Yeah, I
don't care that late man. Yougotta keep the guys that are on that

(01:19:44):
are hot right now, keep playingthat same damn lineup. Agreed. And
another thing, I'm moving bregnant outof the four hole again. It was
over five last night, over three, then I wouldn't. You didn't that
was changed for changing. I don'tknow why. I don't either. I
don't know why. Then we knowhow we go to making somebody because it's
just like a comp he was doingfive in the five in the five hole.

(01:20:05):
Yeah, the four hole guy hashit everywhere. He's i mean,
paining has hit everywhere, Yeah,and has been successful over it. He's
to me that that didn't need adjusted. Yeah, but I'm not the manager.
Yeah, that's a Joe spot ofquestion. Yes, it is.
All right. Let's look at theA L West as we get into the
eight o'clock hour. Next, that'sSports Talk seven to eighty KBM E Houston,

(01:20:26):
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(01:20:53):
do this. Sean Salisbury to usctruth, longtime friend Shawn Salisbury, right,
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Or Astros walk off the Angels lastnight and extra innings they go for the
series win this afternoon won ten thefirst Pitch Noon on Deck show right here

(01:21:15):
on seven ninety. Astros General managerDana Brown gonna join us at nine to
thirty, about an hour and ahalf. Texans continuing OTA's over at NRG
Stadium's look at the Al West.With the Astros win last night, they

(01:21:35):
are five games back. Seattle's takingthe first two from the New York Yankees.
Up in the Bronx, the Marinersare twenty seven and twenty two.
Texas Rangers fall below five hundred theirtwenty four and twenty five. They've lost
two in a row. They gotbeat down by the Phillies last night.

(01:22:00):
Rangers wore Shawn is nasty. ThePhillies are eight and two in their last
ten. They are thirty five andfourteen. They're the best team in baseball.
There he is, he's nine andoh it doesn't hurt that he's got
some pretty good players. On histeam, right, but you still got
to throw strikes, get people out. The dude is filthy. He's been

(01:22:20):
baseball's best. He went seven moreinnings. You know you mentioned his performance
issue, what you say nine?And yeah, he is. He is
something special and he's dominating. AndI'm gonna tell you what you want to
talk about a tough out that thatteam and you know they've been they've been
flirting the last couple of years withyou know, obviously the Astro situation in

(01:22:44):
the postseason last year getting beat whatwas the pot and that was at the
Arizona got him right, Yeah,And so this is they've gotten close.
So there's there's some a little bitof pressure, but a lot of times
teams may put too much on him. They're not putting too much on himself.
They are thriving in this and I'vetold you one thing about them that
I love is that's a mentally tough, arrogant, in a good way,

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swagger filled team that this may verywell be their time in the National League.
He's had Ranger Suarez for the Phillieshas had two outings so far go
less than six innings. Sunday,March thirty, first five innings pitched.

(01:23:26):
He beat the Braves, and thenon May fifteenth he beat the Mets and
he went five innings. Everything elsehas been a six or seven inn He's
doing a what a starting pitcher issupposed to do. He's what it's supposed
to look like. The result,the grind the five innings for him is
like is a is a roll youreyes type of performance. He's he's grinding

(01:23:47):
through it, and he's one ofthose guys you talk about mechanics and feeling
it. He's at that point nowwhere he's just feeling everything. He's doing
it, and he's doing it right, and he's gonna get run support because
that team can rake. They're likefirst in this for and I mean runs
A mean actually, I mean thePhillies. Everything's rolling right. If they
can stay healthy, they're going tobe hell to pay the rest of the
year because their lineups fierce as well. The Phillies are first in wins,

(01:24:15):
first in batting average, I'm sorry, second to batting average. You know
who number one is as a team, Astros? Yeah to sixty five average
As a team, the Phillies aretwo fifty nine, aren't they? Like?
First in home runs first and runsscore. I mean, I don't
know if all the RBI's Phillies arenumber two. I mean you can go
on and on. Hits, theyare number four in the league. Quality

(01:24:38):
starts number one in the league.Stolen bases number four in the league.
I mean, dude, you isthere e r A and there? I
mean they're there? E are isis best in baseball, isn't it?
Teams is starting p T team era A is third. Oh okay,
Yankees at number one. There yougo, your Red Sox number two.
Yeah. The only aside from thefact that those six straight games head into

(01:24:59):
yesterday, Devers at homeward the pitchingfor the now. When I say Red
Sox pitching, you're gonna look atme and say they've done what. Yeah,
that's the only reason they're hovering aroundfive hundred. They've won a couple
in a row, and they wonthe series against Tampa. I mean,
Devers is hot and we know hecan rake. But the Red Sox and
you go, hey, it's beenRed Sox pitching. You're like, over
the what it's been there pitching that'skept them at least afloat and hanging around.

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Even though that's getting through the AmericanLeague East isn't exactly an easy easy,
you know, easy sledding. It'stough sledding. But their pitching staff's
been lights out so far this year. Astros are number one in the league
in hits with four hundred and fortyeight YEP stolen based leader is the Cincinnati
Reds because Ellie Bayla Cruz is stealingso many bags. Yeah, what a

(01:25:47):
what a what a player that guyis, Sjohn, He's got thirty thirty
stolen bags already. Power run.You talk about a five tool player,
he's uh, he's pretty special.He's got forty five hits on ops of
eight thirty eight seven seven nines.Get out to the phone lines, talk
to Kevin, and then we'll getto Chris Kevin, good morning. Hey,

(01:26:10):
how's it going guys? Hey,Chucker. He kind of reminds me
of uh bagwell, you know,because he produces, but in the playoffs,
man, he drops out. Youpull up his playoff numbers and it's
been a few years since he's producedanything in the playoffs. Man. You

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know, and I don't have youknow, I don't I don't have any
fights with as far as what guysget paid man. You know, they
get paid according to what I'm kindof you know, whatever you can get,
whatever somebody willing to pay you,that's what you take. But uh,
you know, you know he's notthe you know, one of the

(01:26:54):
greatest players or whatever you know,or whatever you know, people put him
up to be. You know,he he really hadn't produced in a few
years in the playoffs, man.And I'm you know, to me,
your big your big time playoffs.Man. They've got to produce in the
playoffs, you know. And soyou know, that's that's just you know,
I don't I don't know what whatthe league is given guys, you

(01:27:15):
know. And you know it waslast year. He started off hot,
you know, and I really feellike the uh, the amount of games
that dash ups have played over thelast few years, and then they went
into that World Baseball Classic thing.I think it they ran out of energy,
you know, towards the end ofthe season last year. You know,
because when it came into the playoffslast year, he was he was

(01:27:38):
nowhere. You couldn't even he wasn'thitting, And so you know, I
think that all that has to beput into consideration. Man. And I
know you got you need players tostep up to the plate to even make
it to that point, you know. But I need you to produce in
the playoffs, you know, Andso that's that's just my only drawback has
been for Tucker is that you know, he he tends to drop off,

(01:28:00):
uh when we need him in theplayoffs. You know, we've been able
to make it, you know,with the other other other hitters we've had
in our lineup. You know,that just brought us through. We won
one World Series of themes. Butso Juckle need to step it up,
man when in the big pack,you know. And that's kind of pretty
much all that. Thanks. Alot of people, know, a lot
of people go disagree, but youknow, no, no, I don't

(01:28:24):
think I don't think anybody's going todisagree with that. I mean, on
now, I don't think Kyle toI don't get in people's wallet either.
But he's one of the better playersin baseball. And when the players would
lie, I mean, don't theyhave him in the top fifteen or top
twenty. He is one of thoseguys. Now, you're exactly right,
And I said it on the showearlier. I said, the only thing
that's preventing him from being in rarefiedair. Is a great postseason like a

(01:28:47):
Career or Springer have had, becausehe is every bit as good as any
of them regular season, And yes, and that's a fair criticism of because
the last year's postseason it was notgood. He had a buck fifty,
right, and he's got and Ithink Kyle Tucker knows that. Yeah,
So Kevin, you're right that that'sthe one. If he had an epic

(01:29:08):
postseason or was and has won thisyear, then it'll it'll take him to
another level because regular season, he'sall world. The guy's a great player,
and we know those talents there,but he has to We judge players,
pitchers, quarterbacks, tennis players,golfers by majors and big wins in
the in those moments, and bigwins for him are winning but also him

(01:29:30):
being the reason. And if hebecomes the reason, look out, that's
that's he's gonna get paid. Idon't know if he'd be able to pay
him here, but he is goingto get everything, and it will validate
not that he needs validation in theregular season, but we seem to validate
players by their postseason domination. Andif he has one of those George Springer
postseasons, that question will never comeup again, but it is a fair

(01:29:54):
point. And when you combine onefifty and two oh four and two postseasons,
yeah, and it will if theyget to the postseason World Series here
that that that will come up.But if he's able to produce like he
is in the regular season in thepostseason, he is gonna the next contract
is going to be a friggin monster. And he is a great player.

(01:30:15):
That's the only thing that prevents peoplefrom putting him in a certain rarefied air
right now, because there's regular seasonKyle, there's very few in the league
better. He's one of those guysrarefied air. It's you need oxygen to
breathe. Some don't because if you'reif you're if you're one of the special

(01:30:36):
ones, maybe you need less oxygenthan the rest of us. Yes,
Mere Mortals do. Twenty twenty twopostseason Kyle, it's likeer hit two oh
four on base the two ninety eightslugging a four oh eight ops of just
seven oh six in uh last season'splayoff run Buck fifty two ninety two on
base two twenty five slug ops fiveseventeen and him and what was it Javier's

(01:30:59):
postseason. I mean, had theyhad a better post season for something,
the result may have been different,and I did. And they may have
run out of team because they playeda lot of games. But nobody when
you're when you're losing, nobody wantsto make that excuse. And I don't
even think they'd make that excuse.But obviously, the more games you play,
the more durability it's tested and therest of it. But when you
get to that point you almost gotto you got to reach in and gather
a new feeling because the postseason shouldbring a new energy, right you got
a chance to win a World Series. So I'm not going to build in

(01:31:21):
that excuse for them, I knowit it is during the regular season.
It's more games. But for me, there's something that you just have to
did A land of Braves have playeda lot of baseball, The Dodgers have
played a lot of baseball, andlast year's champ, the Texas Rangers,
hadn't played a lot of postseason baseballand they were fresher and played better baseball.
So it's a valid point. ButKyle Tucker's postseason, although he may

(01:31:42):
not need validation his career. Thegreat players are always validated in basketball with
Jordan's and the rest of them bydo you take the regular season and played
the same way you did that madeyou great in the regular season. If
you play in the postseason same way, then you will never have that question.
We questioned quarterbacks like that all thetime, right, and Kyle Tucker's
the next up? Yeah, ifyou're next up? Yeah, right,
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(01:34:17):
Texans continue. Ot a's seven onethree two one two five seven ninety is
the number to join. Chris,appreciate you, hold man, welcome in,
Hey, welcome, or thank youfor taking my call. So I
just got two quick things. Onethat caller Tim who said that we should
send down Chaz and bring up anotherpicture. We cannot do that because Blanco

(01:34:41):
is on suspension, so we cannotreplace him. We already have twelve pictures.
If we bring in a thirteenth,that would be replacing Blanco. Yeah.
We did make that point last weektoo, that when Blanco went down
you cannot replace him with another picture. That that's that's taken a thing you
did wrong and rewarding your team.You're not allowed to do that exactly.
And then my second thing is withthis whole A Braid You coming back thing.

(01:35:05):
Whatever. I understand he's a veteran, giving him a shot. We
have Greg Kessinger that has not reallyplayed all year. So if we're just
gonna have a guy sit on thebench, let a break, you sit
on the bench. But I dowant to give a shout out to my
boy Big John, because ever sinceA Braid You has went down, he's

(01:35:26):
had five home runs. He's beenkilling it. So I mean, if
a break he wants to be onthe roster, that's cool. I wouldn't
mind having that guy on the benchif we're an extra innings and we need
a pinch hit. I trust hima little bit more than Kessinger. But
that's my thought on that, SoI'm gonna hang up and listen. Thank
you for taking my call, guys, Thank you, Chris appreciated. Yeah,

(01:35:46):
and he's exactly right, which we'veexcuse me, which we've mentioned you
can't replace a pitcher due to theRenel Blancos suspension, which should be he
should be good to good to gothis weekend against the Uh what uh one
of the take on the Mariners thisweekend or is at the age No,
because they're off Thursday and then theygo to Oakland. So yeah, he
should be back, Yeah to pitchagainst the Mariners, is what I'm saying.

(01:36:09):
So have that suspension go through theweekend and get it back for the
Mariners season. And then, uh, you just got Chazz back yesterday,
Yeah, last night. You ChazzyFizz? Is that what some people call
him? Is that? What isit? Yeah? Unfortunately I don't like
that either. Chuck Baby, I'dgo Chuck Yeah, Chuck Chav walk,

(01:36:30):
Chav McCormick is gonna step into thebox. They call him chazy Fizz.
No, no, Ma me lovema. That Chaz is bigger, Yeah,
Chazz Chaz Ryan. Hold though,you don't want to mess with Chazz
Ryan. Oh you don't, epicyou don't listen. I know you need

(01:36:55):
him for depth, But isn't itthe logical one that you'd send down Kessinger.
Why wouldn't it either him or lowBraffito? Now, why would you
do that because one's more of aninfielder, even though low Perfido plays first
base ones than after. Right now, at this stage, I don't care
low Perfido belongs up here, andI'm not sending McCormick down at the State

(01:37:16):
at the expense of somebody's a bigleague player. He didn't even have options.
Yeah, he's a big even ifhe did, he's a big league
player. But you know, itseems logical. And I don't know what
the options are for Kessinger either rightnow, but I can tell you this,
regardless that alone, it's a nobrainer to me who would have to
go? And I understand the versatility. Guess what. Dubon can do everything

(01:37:40):
Kessinger can do at times ten.He can move around when you I'm not
going to rest al tuva and prayingin the same night. Right, he
can play or Bregman are all threeNow, I know Dubon may be able
to play two positions at once.He's been pretty good. Here as your
Swiss army knife. Now, II just to me and I'm not making
these decisions. But if it's positionsspecific and he won an infielder, okay,

(01:38:01):
But I'm making the decision based onwhat's best for my team, and
that seemed logical to me. Thatseems like stays yeah seven seven Hello Thomas,
Hey there, I just was listeningto y'all talked about Tucker a little
while ago, and you know,the Astros have had a lot of hitters
throughout their history of the team thatwere, you know, our best hitters

(01:38:24):
on the team that would just seemlike they couldn't come through in the playoffs.
I remember that, you know,and it's true, you know the
bagwell and USI ran into Atlanta pitching, you know staff that was gonna be
tough for anybody to hit. ButI'm wondering, who are the Astros that
have the best playoff batting average withrunners and scoring position, because I'm thinking

(01:38:45):
all the way back to the eighties, and it seems like that five game
series with the Phillies that four ofthem went extra inning, seems like Pool
and Cruise were just getting to hitevery time. And I think Cruise even
got a hit to send the lastgame into extra innings that we ended up
losing, but didn't tool that likefive hundred something with you know, runners

(01:39:06):
and scoring position during that playoff run. I mean, which astros are clutch
playoff hitters, is what I'm asking. I guess I will look up Terry
Poole's stats right now for you.Thomas, Terry Poole really crafty, cage
left Tanner on the left side ofthe plate. Terry Poole was a consistent
good hitter. I don't know whathis numbers were in that cruise. Both

(01:39:30):
both of them could rake, thereis no doubt about it. And you're
looking up Terry Pool's pu h L. Yeah. Yeah. He was a
former head coach of the University ofHouston Victoria college baseball program. Yea,
he still might be there. Victoriawatched that. What year were you talking
about? Terry and crews were legends? What year was that? Thomas the
playoff run? Like? Okay,so yeah, So in nineteen eighty,

(01:39:53):
Terry Poole hit five twenty six withan on base percent it's five ninety one
a slugging his six thirty two.That's an ops of uh one point two
to two. He struck out justhe struck out just two times. Yeah,
five five games in nineteen eighty.Uh yeah, he he raked pretty
well. And then the very nextyear he did not. He hit a

(01:40:15):
buck ninety. Yeah he did.He did hit well in nineteen eighty though,
Thomas, we appreciate the call man, Yeah, gold Jose Cruis and
uh Terry Poole two really really impactfulplayers here, and that more than just
that. But both could hit bothfrom that left side of the plate too.
Let's see Jose cruzay did pretty well. He was Okay, he'll do

(01:40:45):
it a pinch, you know whatI mean? Yeah, he was.
He was a really good player.You know who else is a really good
player? Who? C J.Stroud? Yeah, OTA's baby fired up
triple A. Get it get itready, get it ready, Ready ready
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(01:41:10):
know what I'm talking about, heknows. I see him typing guys in
this song. Man who said itwas a song And I know how you
are. You're going to ruin thesegment with the song. No, you're
gonna ruin that segment, aren't you? No? No, what not music.
Dude, we got to break downthe routes they were running on seven
on seven and O T A's Comeon, man, you're not it's not
the the text to football time inhere. Joe Mixing was running zone reads

(01:41:35):
with C. J. Stroud yesterdayand T shirt and a shorts and shorts?
Man, why are you making funof O's helmet? Championships are won
in the off season. I knowthey are when no one's watching. For
everybody, but everybody's watching. Mediawas out watching him run inside zones.
Little r P O axt why notBobby Slowick offensive genius ready to fire it

(01:41:55):
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Salisbury Show continued. Astros Baseballastro generalmanager Dana Brown going to join us at
nine point thirty. Celtics beat thePacers in overtime in Game one of the
Eastern Conference It's Finals. T Wolveshost Themas in Game one of the Western
Conference Finals. We talked to Astrosall morning long. You ready? You

(01:44:17):
ready? No, you're talking tome? I mean, dude, you
hear this guitar riff? You knowwhat time it is. I gotta make
a calum wants I had some timeI listen to it. Who buddy,

(01:44:40):
I think we got to turn thisinto a daily segment. No, you
can talk all the Texans you like. I would love to talk Texans at
nauseum because I love what they're buildingand where they're at. But if you're
gonna company it with this song,every time we talk it, you'll be
talking to a lot of you'll beanswering your own questions. I mean,
come on, you gotta play thisout, aren't you? That made me

(01:45:06):
start clapping? Come on here itis? Yes, Yes, football time
in yusday. If you notice,I've never when this comes, I never
seen you never sing it. AndI love these Texans. And now when

(01:45:31):
I'm just playing it on like ona Friday before the game, you're playing
this for O t A damn right. You know why, Houston Texans.
Ah, you read it for someot as. It's ot A time,
damn right. I got getting thevibe? Yes? Do you ever look

(01:45:54):
when somebody comes up to you?Have you ever I get jacked up when
you look on man? Have youever looked anybody saying I'm just vibing you?
Are you a vibe? Guy?Yeah? Man, you're a vibe?
Are they the streets still staying thestreets say the vibe? They do?
It's a it's a vibe. It'sa vibe or vibe? Just VIBEO.
What about vibes with a Z?That too? Yeah, Okay,

(01:46:15):
So you ever go up and asksomebody if they're vibing? What if?
No, I don't. I ama vibe. You're a vibe. That's
how my response. Yeah, whatabout are the streets saying vibe? Like?
Is there anything like? The vibesare zesty? The girls will say
that I thought you didn't want tobe you don't. Yeah that the kids

(01:46:35):
are saying, yeah, apparently karlAnton Town is a little zesty. Really,
yeah, you don't. You don'tlike the presentation? What's up?
I like the presentation. We callhim cat, Yeah, we talked about
him, just Cat. So it'sfootball time. It's o T a time
in Houston. Damn right, itis Sean. Our caller Chrissy just called
and he said, can you justenjoy the song? It's Western Wednesday.

(01:46:58):
Let's go called. I love Chris. Tell christ to enjoyed ease. It
is Western Wednesday. He's got apoint to do. Yeah, but you
know it, Okay, I justdon't want you to play it out to
the point where we're not. Solook, if you know what, it's
a long season. It's a marathon. Greg. Here's what I think.

(01:47:18):
Uh huh, can we give canwe give this song a couple of days
off decent rest. We didn't playit yesterday. It is Western you know
what. She wanted to take theelements and say, you know what,
great cut? All right, likeClay Walker great cut. Well it's Western
Wednesday. Here's what I want youto start playing that on non Western Wednesday.
Then then then look at the backof his baseball card Clay Walkers.

(01:47:39):
Yeah, was he a good player? Yes? Yeah? Yeah. So
the A team, Adam Adam andDan Matthews, they have a football at
five segment that they do. Ithink we should have its Football Time in
Houston segment. I think we should. So you mean we need more than
one segment about football, right,there's no question. Yeah, but this
has what to do with the Texansand my love for them. Maybe you

(01:48:00):
like everything things changed? Do youthink maybe the new theme song would work?
No, you're gonna stick with thissuper Bowl? Is they won with
this cut? Well? That thathas nothing new? That That's what I
thought, Davis Mills for a year. That's what I thought. So David
Cully was you know, you change, you change uniforms, you change how
much, you change quarterbacks, youchanged coaches. Have you ever thought they

(01:48:20):
I love some play Walker, butdo you think maybe you need to change
the cut? That's all fair pointsand I agree with you on that,
but you're not changing it. Butno, because Clay Walker and it's football
time in Houston just hits different.Oh sure does get you home for the
playoffs? Yeah? And eliminated wellactually Lamar Jackson and you know it really

(01:48:42):
really has absolutely nothing to do withthe song. But we're all trying to
reason something. We can throw itagainst the wall stick Chris, you know
what, Chris, You're right?Yeah, you shone by into the cut.
It's Western Wednesday. Just vibe youwant to play it again? No,
okay, damn Christian right, Iwant to see know what I'm saying
to start vibing with the cut?You are? Oh, yeah, I

(01:49:03):
know, I am. I reallybought in. I bought into it.
We changed a lot of things.Maybe you know, maybe bun Be can
get a group together and put aput a collab together for a new Texans
cut. We got it. Theygot a couple of bangers. When it
comes to like sports themed songs forthe for Houston, Paul Walls involved,

(01:49:25):
bun Bee, Slim Thug. It'snot just another brick in the wall.
So what I did there? It'snot that's not Peter Frampton, is it?
No? That would be just anotherbrick in the What that would be?
Cand That's not that's who'd you say? Peter Frampton? Not Peter.

(01:49:45):
That's not baby I love you?That ain't that cut? Okay, that's
all in all this other brick?Why why am I having a hard time
remembering who this goy? We weshould both slaper this pink floor. There
you go, there you go,thank you man. Ye I'll tell you
what they're than the Beatles though,Pink Floyd. Yeah, I'm sure there's
plenty to make the argument. There'sa lot of people that pick Floyd.
Oh the Beatles are overrated. Onceagain, that's seventies music. But today's

(01:50:10):
Western Wednesday. So class all clayWalker all the time. For this segment,
uh triple For the next segment,there was this one with this woman
and this man by clay Walker.You want to hear him? So you're
just loading up on clay Walker.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's a he's Chris is right.I need a lot I need to just
embrace football time in Houston on aWestern Wednesday, dude, football time in

(01:50:30):
Houston. We could turn it intoa segment. I'm telling you, Well,
then that's four hours of radio.We love. We can talk Texans
forever. There's a lot. No, no, no, not just Texans
though, I mean, come on, dive in this with me real quick,
all right, the deep end oryou want me in the shallow No,
no, no, you want togo deep in shallowing for you you
say at six or five, it'llgo up to your knees. Right there
you go. So we get wepicked, we pick I don't know,

(01:50:53):
nine to fifteen, well not onWednesdays, because we have the in a
brown nine thirty. We could dolike seven thirty. We can go do
we can do, dude, Dude, hang in there with me real quick.
We can go from the steak Outstraight into its Football Time in Houston
at seven point thirty. Imagine leavingthe steak Out and boom there's clay Walker.
We have to get Clay Walker's approvalon the song. No, dude,

(01:51:13):
you don't know, he'll probably cussus out like he did his bus
driver. Whoa whoa, what adick in that moment too, you know,
oh, whoa whoa? We playedthe audio or you heard the audio.
Yeah, I did not ideal peopleneed forgiven. So you think he
did that in his Texans Jersey he'sgot like nineteen of them. I don't
know, but sometimes I think hegot the new ones. People get a

(01:51:34):
little emotional sometimes, buddy, youcall that emotional? Maybe a little over
emotional a little bit, maybe loseit for a second. He told the
bus drivers could have whoop his sass? Who hasn't who hadn't said that their
life? Not to have never beento do a bar? And some guy
says, up to it, youcan't spills the drink audio and laughs at
it and says, if you lookup, I have to get your ass.

(01:51:55):
Whoof Yeah, but that dude you'redriving isn't driving you. You ever
told that to an uber more thanwhat? No? I don't, no,
no, no, put some respect? Yeah, okay, Well for
you, it's like you ever toldthat to your limousine driver, your private
you know, transportation driver, privateprit yeah, your five six yeah,

(01:52:15):
no, yeah no, because theygot a fly A man of the people
exactly. Man, You know whatI do? You agree with Chris?
Yeah, yeah, leaning, Igot to lean into Clay Walker leaning to
Clay Walker, I got to leanin the song It's football time, and
here was exactly. I'll tell youwhat else I do? Is I am
all this talko. You take yourprivate jet limbo? No, you know
what. I drive myself, andunlike you and a lot of other people

(01:52:36):
that refuse to drive more than anhour because it's too tough on him.
If you said, Sean, ifI'm going to Arizon, let's say I'm
going on a trip Arizone. Guesswhat I'll do. You'll drive your damn
rights. Oh yeah, we knowthat though. That's just who I am.
I like, we know the countryside. Yeah, yeah, we know
that, right. That's I stoppedin diners on route sixty six or you
hit UH sixty seven south and youhad to the soul Ros State University.

(01:52:57):
They recruited you, so make time. Yeah, when you when you've been
through Solos, it's simply known asthe Pine. It is, it is
the Pine. I'm fail you.All right, let's let's all see your
just Let's look at the OTAs.Who wasn't around for OTAs yesterday? For
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Former John Salisbury continues to break itdown. Are you doing in ninety

(01:55:15):
three? You pulled? I wasI was at mini camp? You are
you're case at that damned rights andshorts of the T shirt? Yeah,
making place the bank posts, runningplay action running Charlie forty Waco. Charlie
for simple, I right, Charlieforty Waco. What about the hooking ladder?

(01:55:38):
Or we were running trips right zapChuck forty Waco, Charlie forty Waco.
What about annexation of Puerto Rico.We might also been running uh spider
too? Why banana? Why twobanana? Yeah, that was a that's
West Coast verbiage we were or wewere running double right short motions scat ride

(01:56:01):
eighty five, dodge ex post orex dig Yeah, would five eight.
We just had a caller. Hisname was carl He just wanted to say
that he loved that song. See, you just got to get to people
what they want. Salz had aproblem with that song. No, that
song you were about the copper man. A lot of guy's daughter in two

(01:56:26):
thousand and six on a dance floor, or you're a girl. He's like,
hey, Lolima, leave your hand, don't get romantic with my daughter.
What do you want me to do? Man? Stand over in the
corner like most high school guys doingto their song comes out. I was
I was out there, man,you were you were hunting dance the dance
floor. You hunted the dance floor. Malely good song, really good song.
But I to hear that than footballtime in Houston. You know that

(01:56:49):
it is football time in Houston.Soon. I hope you dance, Yeah,
Leanne Womack, there you go.Yeah, man, put a hand
on a on a mid drift,I mean on a bear midriss the front
front, yeah, so the backmaybe yeah, hey, when it when
it comes time to it to hopeyou dance you or you get you or
you just got to get out therejamming a laffy taffy by D four L.

(01:57:13):
Come on, man, you wantme to go back to seven six
for you? Go ahead, havethat to set up the table for us.
Let's hear it, isn't it.It's freaky your your memory like from
a school actually not even just sports. But the memory that you have is
like an elephant or whatever they say. Yeah, I was, uhhant I
talked to you like I still trappingup memory like an elephant. Yeah I

(01:57:36):
would probably I've been you know,maybe I'll do much well, but that's
that's just a god given ability.Thank you. And I read a lot,
so I don't know what do youput you two together? Everything you
do. Yes, you don't readour text. We know that I read
your text. I don't respond toall of them, but I read them
I was supposed to respond to.When you guys thumbing up the booze,

(01:57:58):
we gave triple e. I Igave it the thumbs up. It was
lit. Bet was I bet itwas. Brian's is gone, but Seane
yours is still sitting on the cabinetand you have gone because that almost killed
me with you. You're drinking itthe tequila first. You got that whiskey
is a new, a new waythat burn's going down. That is just
a good burn, brother. Imean, Brian knows what burns like,

(01:58:23):
but that's usually what he's standing atthe La Trene whoa what you don't call
anymore the Southern the tole latrine,soldier burn. Are you talking about the
whiskey? I know you ain't wereto whiskey forgot. Yeah, that whiskey

(01:58:45):
is good, smooth brother. Ye, I'm gone. I'm sending you a
picture. I got to like it. It's all make sure I respond to
it. So Brian does over thegame. Or it's like when somebody you
know you the text you like eleveno'clock when you know you gotta be up
at three thirty the mon when theyyeah, another great one. Yeah love
when that happens. Well, Sean, why didn't you answer a midday bitch?
I was sleeping? Get I getthat like three or four times a

(01:59:09):
week. Well, and then Irespond at four o'clock in the morning,
and they're like, well, youtook me at four o'clock in the morning.
Why are you texting me at eleveno'clock knowing I go to bed at
eight thirty. Yeah, thank youand good night. Man. It's crazy.
Really, go ahead, who itis? Oh, let's let's get
into nine o'clock hour, the finalhour here on a Wednesday morn. Don't
forget we got to Astros general managerDana Brown joining the show at nine thirty.
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Okay, let's do this. SeanSalisbury to usc true longtime friend,
Shawn Salisbury, Ryan Lima, goLobos. This is the Sean Salisbury Show,
one ten, the first pitch Noonon Deck show right here on seven
on your home for Astros Baseball.Astro's general manager Dana Brown is going to

(02:00:42):
join us next segment. He's gotsome things to do. We got to
switch it around a little bit,so will join us earlier. It'll come
at nine to fifteen. So nextsegment, General manager Dana Brown going to
join us. Texans continuing ot a'suh Stefan Diggs not at ot as.
They are voluntary OTAs that started yesterday. Nico Collins was there at Tank Dell,

(02:01:02):
John Metchi, you had Joe Mixon, Laramie Tunzell also not there,
and Titus Howard still recovering from aninjury last season, he was not there.
Do you have an issue with StefanDiggs not being there since I know
he's a veteran, but again it'syour first time with this team, first
time with CJ. Stroud. Yeah, Brian, I've waivered on this over

(02:01:24):
the years. I've gone sometimes backand forth. I don't like the waffle
on anything. I know as aplayer, I felt like when they told
you, but back then it wasmandatory. I mean voluntary met mandatory.
You know, he was voluntary,and you rarely wanted to miss right.
And that was stars or anybody else. It didn't matter whether you're a guy
who was a veteran, had beenin a league a while, but you're

(02:01:46):
a backup or a starter sometimes oryou're the star. Usually meant you need
to show up now. Mandatory obviouslymeans mandatory. And I like a team
that when it's voluntary the majority ofthe players show up. It tells me
that they get buying and they couldn'twait to come back and be with their
teammates and play some football. Ido like that, not just for optics
that we're talking about on radio.I'm talking about in their optics in their

(02:02:08):
own room. It tells me whenit's voluntary and the guys are showing up
that there's a big plan in mindand they're trying to get to that plan
sooner than later. I have waveredon back and forth. I do understand
when it's voluntary. Well it's voluntary. Now, if you're a mid level
player or a guy trying to makea roster and you don't show up to
voluntary meting camp, I think you'rean idiot. Not as a person,

(02:02:31):
but an idiot has approached your career. Does that make sense that to me?
And don't you for one second thinkthat a coaching staff or player does
not keep score on who shows upto lunt. I'm just telling you.
If you're a guy trying to makean impact, and you're a guy who's
you're a veteran, Yeah, butyou're not a star. Let's just put

(02:02:53):
it that way. Not a starand you're not showing up. You think
your position coach or your head coachdoesn't notice. Oh and I don't care
what they tell you they notice.If you've got a voluntary a batting practice
and one of your players din't showup, what you notice? I would
not just because it was a nameyou took a role call and wasn't there
that role call goes into the deep. Maybe this guy doesn't care as much,

(02:03:15):
that's your first thought. So whenI see a team during voluntary and
you'll you'll see it on articles awritten when fall comes around or after all
these OTAs, you know you're goingto see the local people in their cities
and their football teams writing, hey, ninety four percent of the team showed
up to voluntary mini camp. Thatwill tell you something. Now that doesn't
equate to your guaranteed wins, butI can tell you this. It tells

(02:03:39):
me that buying's happening, and thatyou love football and you want to be
around your teammates. Hell, sometimesif you're living out of state, it's
kind of good to get away fora few days being around the fellas and
see what's going on, and welcomethe new guys in and have a beer
with the buddies after practice. Andit is I loved doing that and being
around the guys if nothing else,And just to start talking football I from.

(02:04:02):
When guys don't show up, doesit bug me? I guess it
does a little bit. If I'mbeing honest, which I try to be.
Does it mean Stephan Diggs isn't gonnaplay great football. Absolutely not.
Does it mean Stefan Diggs doesn't care, absolutely not. Does it mean that
he doesn't like his teammates or allhere we go again bad attitude? Absolutely
not. But it does leave thedoor open for people to ask those questions.

(02:04:25):
And when people say it's voluntary,dude, he's a star, what's
this gonna do. It's not gonnado anything for him. It's not like
he's gonna not catch a ball inthe fall because he didn't catch a ball
in May. But there is thatfeeling of I don't know, camaraderie,
buy in, and especially him who'sbeen in two places and he's been really
good in both places. It maystill have something to prove when it comes

(02:04:46):
to putting a ring on your finger. And the narrative about him, whether
it's fair or not, is greatplayer at times of malcontent. That's been
the talk about him, Layton Minnesota, Layton buff And that baggage comes with
you even though listen, sometimes perceptionis reality and sometimes perception which is not

(02:05:09):
fair, you carry that around untilyou dismiss it. Right, and I
think he's going to be a hellof a player here. So, whether
it's Tunsil or him. I justalways think that if I'm a young player,
I loved it when Gary Zimmerman showedup to a Hall of Famer,
showed up and he did Now Ido understand that some guys have. If
you made a vacation plan a yearbefore and you didn't know you're going to

(02:05:30):
be in Houston and it's paid for, I get it. Your family's doing
something, your kid's graduating, whateverit may be. You're doing a voluntary
I get it. You're doing somethingthat you've had planned before you even knew
it. And even if you're justsitting on your ass at home and you
decide I'm not going to voluntary minicampus. May I don't need it.
I just always think, as anew player and as a veteran leader,

(02:05:53):
that you want to show to otherplayers in truth, what's three or four
days doing if you don't have anythingelse going on, Even if if you
didn't right, even if he didn'trun a route while he was here,
just showing up to the meetings andletting younger players like Tank Dell see that
Steph Diggs is there and that youcan throw stuff off as hey man on

(02:06:14):
this route. How do you changejust little things. To me, it's
those small foundation. It's not thebig house and the foundation of it's how
you built the house rights And knowit sounds cheesy, but I always felt
like when everybody was there that thiswere different. This team's different. And
so does it mean a championship?No, if he drops the ball in
September, does it mean he becausehe didn't show up and may absolutely not

(02:06:38):
has nothing to do with it.But there are little things you just don't
want creeping in because you think I'llask you just as a fan. Yeah,
if you heard Steph Diggs was hereon a in Tunsil, we're here
on and they weren't hurting. Theyjust decided to show up and they may
not do a lot of work,but they just want to be there to
start hearing the verbage, especially forDigs on the offense and all that,
and that the young guys that therejust to see it as a fan,

(02:06:59):
aren't you, And there he's pryingfor a big season. Yes, if
you're a young player saying I'm soglad Stephan Diggs is here, can't wait
to talk to him? Right?Those little things For me, I just
maybe I see it different having beenin it. And watching it as a
media guy and watched as a fan. Do I think that we're gonna send
that you'd hate football, what abad teammate. No, but I do
think that in the positive way,it would send a loud message. And

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I always say this, You workyour ass off the whole off season to
get yourself ready to play. Ifyou don't have other plans where your wife's
not having a baby or your kid'snot graduating from school, why can't you
sit in the hotel room here forthree or four days, be around the
fellows, start here in the verbageand that, and then go home.
I've never understood why you wouldn't.Dude, Listen, some guys just like

(02:07:45):
to get away from home anyway theyneed a break. I know guys a
training camp. They loved six weeksof training camp. Why they got away
from the house because, you know, like anything, you're around me,
or you need a break. Ifit was just that, I just like
the feel of having a guy around. So does it bother me? No?
No, no, I you usedto really bother me. But I
understand we've evolved over time and stuff, and he's earned the right to show

(02:08:07):
that he's put it up, ButI still think as a star, I
think it sends a louder message whenthe stars show up then even the mid
level backup. Why because there's itjust shows a little extra buy in,
so that that's the way I wouldlove them all here. But the more
that A're there and coaches do notice, the more that A're there, the
better off the head start your teamgets on the fall. And it's a

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lot of mental and verbal and talkand that matters to me. Texans continuing
their OTAs, Let's turn our attentionback to the Houston Astros as we welcome
in Astros general manager Dana Brown ofthe show. Next, it's Sports Talk
seven to ninety, the hottest takesin Houston's sports so emotionally tied to the
team. The Shawn Salisbury Show continues, Hi, that's not one Sports Talk

(02:08:54):
seven ninety. Welcome back to theJohn souths Ra Show here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Sean Salisbury, BrianLima, Manuel Elmore. Now it's time
to welcome in Astros general manager DanaBrown to the show. Yeah, a
few minutes early, he got stuffto do. We're always grateful that he
makes time for us on his weeklyvisit on a Wednesday, and the sorry

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data it's a modern technology sometimes getsin the way. Good to have you
on Astro's GM for his weekly visit. Dan, let me start here.
What do you learn about your teamwith wins like last night? Yeah,
so last night you learn that theyhave grit. You know that it's a
day after losing a tough one theday before, and then you you come

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in and then you're you're behind,and then you just show grit to fight
back, you know, and acouple of big home runs and we're right
back in it. And so that'sa huge win. You know, it's
a huge run for your morale becauseyou lose that game, you know,
the day before, and if youlose that one, it's like even you
know, more excruciating. So theway the guys up back and pull that

(02:10:01):
off, you know, that's thatshow us some grit and some character,
Dana. There's a lot of reasonsyou guys are playing much better baseball,
as you told us, with themarathon of a season that you'll roll off
some wins and we'll get to acouple of nights ago, but last night,
huge win. Character builder if youhad one, And I'm only going
to give you one to point towhat's been the biggest reason you're playing better

(02:10:24):
baseball right now? Yeah, thebiggest reason we're playing better baseball is we're
getting really good starts. You know, when you get these quality starts,
you know, you get in aposition where you could run off some games.
And I think the fact that we'regetting quality starts that that's and you
know, of course, you know, I'm only pick only can pick one.
But the bullpen's been good too,But the fact that we're getting the

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quality starts is very helpful. Didin Avier's case any concern and maybe the
reason we heard mechanics he mentioned andJoe did a spota. Are you concerned
about a three or four mile anhour difference in the where where you know
where his fastball was last night?No, I mean, Javier has these
moments, you know where he didn'thave the hop to his stuff, and

(02:11:11):
so I don't really have that muchof a concern, you know, you
know, we need to get himback on track because we're gonna need him,
But I don't have that much ofconcern. We need to really,
uh stay focused on him turning thecorner because we're gonna need him down the
stretch. Did do we know whatthe mechanics they had mentioned mechanics? Do
do we know what the mechanical youknow, the game before, what eight

(02:11:33):
strikeouts to start? Eight strikeouts inone walk look like, Javier? Do
we know in a short period oftime what that mechanic or mechanics might be,
Dana. I think it could bea rhythm and timing, you know.
Uh, you know, he's gotthat high elevation of his front glove
and he's got the lean back,and sometimes he'll get out of sink,

(02:11:54):
and I think it's the rhythm andtiming of his delivery that gets him out
of sink a little bit. It. So I'm sure they're going to work
on it on his side, andhopefully we'll get him back, you know,
to being the true Javier that heis. Astros GM Dana Brown for
his weekly visit a few minutes earlythis week. Thank goodness. He's got
stuff to do and we're grateful tohave him. All right, Dana,

(02:12:16):
let's roll over to the night beforeFromberg and admitted that he got off script.
Let me start with the first question. Why yeah, because you know,
sometimes as a you know, veteranas a veteran guy, sometimes you
know, you want to go witha pitch that you're feeling good about,

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and it may not be the case. You know, sometimes you get in
the rhythm of the game and youthink, oh, I can get this
guy out with a change up.Oh, Darren, I made a mistake
with that change up, three runHomer, you know, and oh,
I think I can get this guydown with my breaking ball. Well,
you know, the breaking ball wasputting a bit bad location, and so

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that's what happens. And you'll seehow fast a game to turn around.
Yes, so hopefully hopefully he canbuild on this and learn from this,
because you know it could be damagingand so ultimately, you know, we
put a lot of work into youknow, calling the right pitches and things

(02:13:24):
like that, and so we gotto follow the script. Hey, well
with that script. And when somebodybreaks the script and he's a veteran in
the league and you know, thoselosses like that Dane I said on the
show, and wins the same waylike last night, when over the course
of a season there's a you know, a handful of both, you look
back and say that was one thatwasn't one of the sixty losses or sixty
five losses or one of the onehundred wins or ninety five wins, those

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can be detriment, detrimental to ateam. So not letting infester and getting
the win huge. But back toFrombers what he did and said, does
it need to be addressed with himwhen he admits that he went off script
and has it. Yeah, it'salready going to address. You know,
we don't wait around and in courseof one hundred and sixty two games,

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you know, even hitters get offor off script. You know, sometimes
they you know, they try topull balls that they know that they should
be going the other way. Wesay, look, you got to look
away on this picture. Don't lookin look away, and the hitters would
get off script. It happens.It's part of the game. And as
I mentioned, we gotta we gotto learn from it. We got to

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make the adjustment and we got tokeep it moving in the right direction.
You can't dwell on it. Younip it in the bud, You learn
from it, you get back oncourse. Because each one of these games
that you mentioned will count, andso getting off script is something that we
don't want to do. We wantto stay locked in. These wins are
very important, particularly trying to getback to five hundred. As I mentioned

(02:14:52):
before, get back to five hundred, go on a nice another nice run,
and before you know good things arehappening and you're elevating yourself in the
standing. Yeah, Dana, whenyou were watching that game, like a
lot of us, did you noticewith your naked eye, like what's going
on here? Was there a partof you that knew and could see visibly
that things were changing with his script? Yeah, I mean to to change

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up to Shanuel. You know,I think if you throws, if you
throw hard stuff to Shanuel, Ithink you can get it by them,
right, you know, you throwsoft stuff. As you saw even last
night, he hits off speed pitches. He's an off speed hitter. And
you get off that script. Beforeyou know it, you start running into
trouble and it's almost like you know, flying the plane. You got to

(02:15:37):
follow the instruments. You can't gowith your instincts, and sometimes guys want
to go at their instincts instead offollowing the instruments. So ultimately we got
to stick the script. I thinkthe players understand. We address these things.
Right away, and so we don'tyou know, we don't let it
fester. Sometimes you wait to thenext day. Sometimes you address it that
night. Sometimes you wait for thenext day because guys are frustrated, they're

(02:15:58):
angry, and you know, youwant to catch him. Uh you know
when they're when they're calming down alittle bit. So ultimately we address it,
and uh, you know, wegot to get back on script and
run off some more wins. Andthe script teams playing well. Yep,
the teams playing well. Right now. We're nine out of we're seven out
of our last nine at home.You know, we have been struggling,
you know, at home at time. So there's some good things happening with

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this club and uh, you know, we're nine out of our last twelve.
Uh, good things are happening.Dana with a Brave's return. When
when when will we see him ina major league dugout? Yeah, I
think we've got a chance of seeinghim in the major league dugout potentially sometime.
Uh maybe this weekend or early nextweek. We're just finalizing some things

(02:16:43):
down in West Palm Beach. Uhthat he seemed to be getting his timing.
He's seemed to be getting his loadsright, he's having uh you know,
better at bats and so you know, at some point, you know,
the goals to probably get him intouh triple as if we can get
him in those two trip A gamesand then you know, take it from

(02:17:03):
there. But there's a good chancethat we'll see him maybe early next week
or the latter part of this weekend, Dana. Depth is important and you
know that, and you've talked abouta Bray, you and the guys like
Dubond who've added depth and get McCormickback. Okay, So with with this
situation with the Bray who you sentdown there for a reason, and we've

(02:17:24):
talked about this ad nauseum. Sonow with his imminent return, is there
any you've been a baseball guy fora lot of decades, is there any
concern we know how confidence in repsare Singleton's playing good baseball? Hit a
bomb last night? Any concerns thatthe collateral part of platooning, if you're
going to give a bray you runat first base, any with platooning that

(02:17:46):
he loses meaning Singleton seeing more pitchesthat he's seeing and it's obviously helped him.
Are you concerned it all with collateraldamage to the team. About production
at that position or any other positionthat platoons, Yeah, well I would
say you're only going to play ifyou're productive, right, And so I
think Joe's got that thought proces inhis mind. Uh, you know,

(02:18:09):
we have to put the team first, and so if you're not producing,
you know, it's going to betough to crack this lineup. If you're
producing, you're gonna play, youknow, that's the bottom line. I
mean, you got to produce,you know, whether it's defensively and offensively
or you have to be a big, big part of the bat, you
know, whether it's the middle ofthe order or whatever the case may be.

(02:18:31):
But we need production and if youif you do not produce, it's
going to be really difficult to crackthis lineup. So, uh, you
know, you could, you canstart with the platoon process thought process,
but ultimately, if you're not producing, you can't play. So that's just
the way it's that's the way it'sgoing to be when he's in the dugout

(02:18:54):
on a major league team, onon on the assholes in your dugout,
who's your starting first baseman? Well, I mean that's a Joe question right
now, but I would say rightnow, you know, Singleton's the first
baseman, and you know, whenwe when when he comes back, you
know, we'll get him in somegames. We'll see how it looks.
And I mean, if they bothstart to jel, then you know we

(02:19:16):
can we can work with the platoons. But you know, ultimately, uh,
you know, if you're hot,you're gonna play. If you're cold,
you're you're you're probably gonna sit.You know, that's probably how Joe's
gonna do it. I don't wantto speak to Joe, but I'm sure
from our conversations, you know you'regonna have to produce in order to play.
Astro's GM Dana Brown for his weeklyvisit for a couple more minutes a

(02:19:37):
little early this week, and we'rethankful for it here on Sports Talk seven
ninety. Hey, the Bengo cardfor a lot of us didn't have Jake
Myers hitting in the nine thirty orso o ps. He's played great baseball.
I think he's the biggest pleasant surpriseon the team. But you guys
said coming out of spring that hewas going to get in, so did

(02:19:58):
Joe. Every opportunity to win thatjob been keeping you had confidence this has
to be I mean, he's aneveryday guy. Now, man, this
has to be an unbelievable pleasant surprisefor you guys so far or did you
see this coming with him? Yeah, I mean our data people continue to
talk about how productive they thought,you know, Myers could be. I'm

(02:20:20):
excited about Myers. I fire youknow, every time I see him in
the clubhouse, I fire him upwith a comment. You know, when
he gets a hit in the game, I get fired up in the box,
you know, because he's Yeah,he's taking charge of this opportunity to
play everything. And we told himearly on, look, you're gonna get
a chance to show us what youcan do. And it's exciting to see

(02:20:41):
when guys really answer the bell.And honestly, he's been good, and
you know, we we we hopehe continues, uh, you know,
to produce because it's been really funto watch. We're excited about him and
so if he can keep this up, it's going to be really big for
our club. How do you managethe low perfeto Dubond, McCormick and Myers.

(02:21:05):
So Myers, who's earned that job? Gets to get most of the
run but also get work for youguys. In Dana we've mentioned depth how
important it is. How you howdo you manage that that like force them
right there? Yeah, it's agood problem to have, you know,
when you have good players and youhave to you know, juggle to get
them in the game. Uh.You know, Uh, you handle it

(02:21:26):
by saying, Okay, you know, if you're hot, you're gonna play.
You know, if you cool off, you know, we may sit
you a day or two. Uh. Well, ultimately, uh, you
know, you may have to makea roster move. There's different things you
know to do in terms of howyou handle it. But initially I think,
you know, if you're if you'rehot and you're producing, uh,

(02:21:48):
this is a really good problem tohave because guys will lock in, you
know, because they know, Look, I mean I got to produce.
I got guys that are playing well, and so I got to be a
big part of this production. Andyou know, and if I'm not,
you know, I may have toget optioned out or whatever the case may
be. But you know, ultimately, I think Joe's gonna play the hot

(02:22:09):
hand or the hot bat. Youknow, I should say so you know,
this is a good problem to haveno doubt about it. Dana,
you told us about Bregman. Wetalked about it last week. The when
he gets going, that's the guy. And he got going in the sixth
hole, in the five hole.And it may be a Joe question,
but I don't have Joe, SoI'll ask somebody who's smarter about it than
I am. You, why movePayne out of the four hole and put

(02:22:30):
Bregman back in there? When Paynais hitting like he's an all star and
playing great defense. Why was itnecessary to move that lineup like that?
Yeah, I mean answer Joe question. Maybe Joe thought, like Bregman handles
this particular picture. Well, sometimeswe'll have the matchups, you know,
and Joe will play the matchups.You know, if Bregman's hitting like three
fifty off a pitcher, you know, he may put him a little bit

(02:22:52):
higher in the lineup. I ultimately, I think Pregman will get hot and
stay hot. He's the second halfplayer, and you know, so he's
contributing defensively. He got hot therefor a second we thought like, oh
man, this is gonna be great. Pregnant starting to heat up. Uh,
and I think he will. Hewill heat up. He will definitely
heat up. I know, asI mentioned before, I've been watching this

(02:23:15):
guy since college baseball and I knowhe's a gamer and I can't wait until
he heats up. I think it'scoming, and uh, you know when
when it comes, it's going tobe pretty special to watch. So you
know, stay tuned for that.I think he's going to turn the corner
and you know, good things aregoing to start to happen. We got
to need him to heat up,and he knows it. Yeah, we

(02:23:35):
got We got a taste of thatwhat we've had here in Houston for a
while with and we got a tasteof it. Over the last couple of
weeks, he has started to heatup. All right, I'll leave you
with this and it's a good thingand it's going to be an expensive one,
as we know. Are you guys? And the way he's playing his
lights out? That that guy inright field, I think you know who
I have to talk about is prettygood. Are you talking extension with him?

(02:23:56):
Currently with Kyle Tucker? Currently nottalking extension? We love Kyle Tucker.
He's the heck of a player,you know, and at some point
as I mentioned, we got him, you know, we have him under
contract through twenty five yep, youknow, and and at some point we
will uh talk. We will bein touch with his agent. I'm talking

(02:24:18):
to his agent during spring training andthings like that, and so, I
mean, he knows that at somepoint an offers coming. But right now
we're not in discussion. Uh butyou know, we we love him,
we love to have him. Welove him to retire here if you know,
if possible, and so we'll doWe'll do whatever we got to do
to try to keep him. That'llbe an off season conversation. Data That'll

(02:24:39):
be an off season conversation, notduring the season. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know that. You know, at some point we'll talk about
it. It could be sometime thisyear, you know, it could be
off season, it could be earlynext year. I right now, I
don't know that. The Only thingI can tell you is that the agent

(02:25:00):
is well aware that we, youknow, we want to sign him here.
He's well aware that we want tosign him here, and so at
some point, you know, wewill have a conversation. I love what
he's doing right now. He's beenvery productive. He's on a mission.
He's driving the ball. He's prettymuch carrying us. Yeah, he's pretty
good. At some point we'll getthis, we'll get an offer out to
him. Yeah, but we wewe'd love to keep him here. Yeah,

(02:25:22):
hitting it all over the ballpark.It's a good win, good good
last ten games plus and another seriesis going to start. And I know
you got the Memorial Day week inahead, so enjoy that and enjoy your
baseball club, and we'll see youafter today's game and then when you get
back home, and we'll look forwardto next week's talk. Dana, thanks
for adjusting your time, and weappreciate you absolutely. I'm fired up,

(02:25:45):
Astro fans, thank you for coming. We're going to try to keep rolling.
Appreciate you, Dana. Thank you. That's Dana Brown. A lot
to discuss and soak in, andwe get thirty minutes to do it now,
So appreciate him. I know wehad to justin he I love the
fact that even though he had toadjust, he come on and give us
a lot of about fifteen good minutes. So we'll we'll talk about the abrave
you situation and Alex Bregman and thefour hole and Kyle Tucker's contract. I

(02:26:09):
got thirty minutes of that talk SportsTalk seven ninety Rolls on the Seawn Salisbury
Show, continued, you missed it, It's up on our blog. It'll
be up on our blog Sports sevenninety dot com. Man got some interesting
things from h Dana Brown as alwayslooks like jose A bray You is gonna

(02:26:33):
be back either this weekend or earlynext week. Gonna have a couple of
Triple A games to go through andthen he will be back in the Major
League dugout for the Houston Astros.Why rush is my question? Well,
what Danny did say, if youproduce, you'll get a chance. If
you don't produce, they'll play theplayers who do. So there you go.

(02:26:56):
But he you can tell he's gonnage a chance to produce, meaning
a brave you. Now you cantell they're giddy about Jake Myers too.
Even with McCormick back, Jake Myersis playing too good at baseball not to
play. So there was there's alot to digest there, and a lot
of good stuff. And the KyleTucker stuff's important as well. And the

(02:27:22):
abraid I mean the hobby air stuff, and I love the fact that you
could tell he was pretty firm inthe Fromber stuff too. Wanted to know
if it was address getting off scriptand so people that asked us, are
they going to address it? It'sbeen addressed and it does not fester.
He will make his next start.So it's not like there gonna be any
discipline, I wouldn't think as faras that goes, but to let him
know the path that they're on andto make sure it gets done and there's

(02:27:45):
no you know, the grudges andfester follow the script. And that was
addressed, and Dana shared that withus. What's on your mind? Man?
What are you tripping over? Ijust don't understand why rushing Jose Abrady
back makes sense. Well, Idon't feel like I don't think they think
they're rushing him. I do,right, and I don't. Again,
they know way more than me.That's why they're in the position that they're

(02:28:05):
in. But just optly speaking fromthe outside looking in, you have John
Singleton who's given you productive at bats. The walk rate is continuing to go
up, he's hitting more home runs. Jake Myers is also playing extremely good,
extremely good baseball. Chas McCormick isnow back, so you're gonna have
to work him into the lineup.But yet we hear from the general manager

(02:28:26):
saying the hot bat's gonna play.But yet we still see a rotation of
guys. And now with jose Abrad who coming back, we're gonna see
more of a rotation of guys.Why well, we haven't seen any rotation
with Myers for the most part.He's been since been hot, he's been
in center field with the Abrady thing. You're gonna see the rotation because they're
gonna have to. I'm just this, in my opinion valid date why they

(02:28:48):
send him down Chas McCormick comes backfrom Iol he plays last night, Dubond
does not right in left field.Right. So here's what you're gonna have
to understand about the Dubon thing.They value his versatility and his Swiss army
knife more than they do one positionevery day. You're just not gonna see
it, so that you have tosoak in. He's gonna play five positions,
and four or five positions you're gonnado it on a regular basis.

(02:29:09):
But you're gonna move him around witha little Wearswaldough who he's here today,
and that's just the way it's gonnawork. McCormick's probably gonna get more run
at left field. The question iswhere's low Perfito fit in and all this
and getting at bats to see him, or you say he'll be more get
more value when a bray You comesback and making Low Perfito down there getting
four bats a night in Triple A. Who knows. But with the A
bray You thing real quick and theSingleton thing, had John Singleton a performed

(02:29:33):
average. That's why I asked Danone, who's the starting first baseman? He
said, John Singleton is. I'mnot sure he could say that unequivocally.
If if Singleton was playing average defense, striking out a lot, not drawn
walks, and not hitting the ballat the ballpark, he has more home
runs in his short period of timestarting than bray You had what at the
All Star break last year? Right, So that that's an advantage advantage Singleton.

(02:29:58):
I think it's his glove now andnow just don't lay it on the
mount. Don't lose your confidence.If all of a sudden, I'll bray
You gets a game back to backgames, I don't know if that's going
to happen. It now falls ona bray you to take his experience and
see if he can add what helearned down in West Palm and in these
couple of triple A starts that he'sgoing to get and apply it. If
he doesn't apply it, I don'tthink he's going to play, but he
will get the chance to apply it. That's the key for Singleton. It's

(02:30:22):
got to you don't get in yourown head about this. John's been through
a lot more in his life thanin a bat that he's had to overcome.
This is going to be nothing thatThis should be much easier for him
to overcome than what he's been through. Correct, yea, embrace the challenge.
Well, you may not like thatthey're going to platoon a little bit,
but remember if you're the hot batand they are winning with you,

(02:30:43):
you will see more games as astarter. John Singleton's you're starting first space.
You heard it right from uh DanaBrown, astro general manager seven one
three, two two five seven ninety. Got three guys who want to get
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(02:31:03):
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Let's drive. The Sewn Salisbury Showcontinued. I guess the Matt Thomas Show
just gets the day off Sean countryClub. Wow, might even cut into
the A team must be nice fellasseven one three two one two five Just

(02:32:35):
kidding, guys. I love youguys seven one three two five seven nice.
Yeah, it is nice. Don'they, don't you don't have to
pause. That's nice. I'm surethey love it too. I would good
for them. It's nice. Let'stake these last two calls. Conrad James,
you're up first. Let's beak quick. I gotta get a couple guys
in please, Okay, all right, Yes, that was a great interview.
Thank you. You didn't throw anysoftballs. I got some good information.

(02:32:58):
Number two, you never throw softballs. Brother. It's all hard
balls and upper fastball up in theupper tank stuff. Okay, I'm just
kidding. Okay, you did it, you did it. Okay. So
I think if it wasn't for AstroNation, a brain would have been back
by now. That is just myopinion, okay. And finally, the

(02:33:20):
Angels. You know, the Angels, they are about three pitchers away from
being a wrecking ball, okay.And their record is not addicative of how
they play. And tonight they're gonnahave their hands around our neck. Okay.
And like I've been saying, I'mwith it, Astro Nation. Let's
sweep them, let's take two outof three. But but our mindset really

(02:33:43):
needs to be let's concentrate on thegame that we're playing. Don't be saying,
oh, well, we're playing thesepeople, were playing these people.
We should win two, we shouldwin three. No, let's concentrate on
the game, the actual game thatwe're playing. Because and finally, I
disagree with putting Bragman in at theend. I would have said put him

(02:34:05):
to Bob. Okay, Allie,right now, thank James, appreciate it,
Thank you, James. I Uh, he's right about the Angels.
They've got a good young Bats ifthat pitching ramps up even better, that
they could be formidable after not havingto pay all that money too. And
they're doing it without Trout right now? Who Mike Trot? You ever heard

(02:34:26):
of him? Brook Trout? Yeah, don't give me that Brook Trout.
Look. Yeah, the Angels,they got some good young players, man,
I like it. Take one morecall, Ryan, You're up?
What's going on? Man? Ihad I had some questions, but I'm
gonna try to be quick break itdown just as easy as I can.
I've gotten to a point now,having grown up in Houston, been Ash

(02:34:50):
fan for a long time, whereI'm due to the point where I don't
trust the front office anymore. AndI know that might rub some people the
wrong way. But Dana Brown straighthave just walked back what he said about
Ucker. Tucker will retire inn Astronow here. We're not even talking to
him. We're we're hoping to gethim back. I didn't hear any kind
of something there that makes me feelconfident that they're going to extend him at
all. And we've led players walktime and time again, and I know

(02:35:16):
they're charging enough money down there.A minute made to pay all these guys,
they definitely are making enough money tolet it break you walk and not
really feel that too bad, butwe keep getting shafted. I don't know,
man, it's I love the players, I love what they're doing on
the field. I'm happy to seethey're turning it around. But man,
dude, this front office just drivesme up a wall. And I'll let
you guys go appreciate it. Ryan, Yeah, I have you know.

(02:35:41):
I tweet out several updates on myTwitter account obviously tag you and our seven
ninety Twitter account, And if youmissed the Dana Brown interview, it's gonna
be up on our blog right afterthe show Triple He's going to get that
up at sports seven ninety dot comand then we'll retweet it so forth and
so on. But I'm getting alot of the same kind of sentiments that
Ryan just echoed about, you know, the Kyle Tucker extension, and but

(02:36:03):
it does have to be a twoway street, though, doesn't it.
Yeah, it does have to bea two way yeah. But you know,
also, Sean, he did saylast year on this show, on
our show that Kyle Tucker was goingto be an astro for life for his
career is what he said. Yeah, and he didn't say he didn't.
They're not talking to him right now, which may be alarming to some,

(02:36:24):
but the agent knows. And andhe said hopefully he'll be for the retire
and ASTRA today. He said,hopefully retire an astro and that they want
him. Yeah, it's it's itdoesn't. It's not as firm a foundation
as you saw as you heard lastyear, right, but it is a
two way street in the negotiations.I mean, okay, what's reasonable?
What would you offer Kyle Tucker todayright now? Yeah? Oh man,

(02:36:48):
if you listen. I asked ifyou're negotiating right now, and they said
they're not, so I talked,but if you were, what do you
offer him? And if I'm theagent? What am I asking you?
Though? If? What am Ilaughing at? When I say laughing?
What am I snickering at? Ifyou offer it to me? If I'm
the agent, I want eight betweeneight and ten years. If I'm the
GM, I'm not, you knowhow I feel, just like you are.

(02:37:09):
I don't believe in the ten yearcontract. I believe for Kyle Tucker,
I would probably give eight years.Okay, I'm the general manager,
and I'm offering you thirty four milliondollars a year for eight years. Do
the math. That's two seventy two. You're taking it. Get to me,
give me a three hundred for eightyears. Okay, then I'll come
back and say I can't right now, buddy, all right, well we

(02:37:33):
can revisit in the off season.Okay, Well to at least you have
one on the table. Yeah,okay. So I'm offering you thirty four
million for eight years, and youneed me to revisit this. If that's
what the actual offer is, who'ssigning on? Then that's I mean,
at least it's better than the typicallow ball offers we've seen that they give
cars Kerrey and George Springer, We'reon this show and they make that offer
and you know it, and thenKyle Tucker turns it down. Who you

(02:37:54):
blaming? Man? Thirty four milliona year for eight years for eight years.
See, my point is, I'mwith you. I think we all
want we want it done. We'regonna offer them whatever he wants. Well,
if he wants four hundred million forten years, you've given it.
No, Okay, that's my point. So I guess for me. The
comfort zon would have been that youare talking like all the time during this
season. But I know my cok, Tucker's got folks. You knew they're

(02:38:16):
not gonna be talking, you knowexactly. We don't know. The history
says they're gonna do that. They'reprobably gonna push the limits on this as
far as time goes, right,Yeah, we know, we know they
don't do a lot of talking now. I'm not geared up for it right
now. Plus we get a littlebit of time to spare because he can't
go anywhere right now. So Ido get that part. But I understand
people's disdain for the concerned over thehistory of losing good players. I get

(02:38:39):
it. Top aav right now isAaron Judge at forty mil, Mike Trout
at thirty five one, so toat thirty one, Christian yelling at yell
as at twenty six. I thinkmy first offer is fairly fair. That's
actually eight for two seventy five.Let's do it a little over thirty four.
That took a long time for youto think about, did it well?

(02:39:01):
Because you want to take it.Won Soto's is gonna go way up.
Well, he's gonna bypass Kyle Tucker. Yeah, and you had to
also consider where he's playing right now. They're gonna offer him. They're gonna
offer him half a Yankee Stadium andthe Babe Ruth stuff in center field.
They may even let him grow hisfacial hair out. No, that's what
they won't do up there in theBronx. Good stuff today. Now,

(02:39:22):
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