Astros Lose in Extra Innings to Tigers, Astros vs. Tigers Game 3 Preview, Dana Brown's Weekly Segment

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Salsbury.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
First pitch, round ball, left side two is left McKinstry.
He has it the second for one on the first out,
close play at first base. Astro's thinking about challenging.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Joe A.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Spotto holds up the left hand and the Astros are
not going to challenge. So the inning ends with a five,
four to three double play. Google works around the lead
off walk.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Here's the pitch and that is strike three inside corner Correy.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
I thought it was in bo played up our.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Carlos Torres rings him up, and that'll do it for
the Astros.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Google the one oh pitch and that's hit down the
right field line.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Base hit that's going to roll to the wall around
second base goes Diaz around third base. Here he comes.
Here's the cutoff. The throw is a one hopper out.
Diaz thought he got.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
His hand in there.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
Mauricio Duban, who was on deck, thought the same thing.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
After we drew the calls confirmed the runner is out.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
From the logo town here's the two to toorcal Cent
and that's hit on one short hopped Apenia. He gloves,
throws across in time, and the side is retired. Hunter
Brown has completed six shutout innings. Two round ball left
side too is left by as flips a second for
one on the first Torres double play six four to three,

(01:41):
side retired to two swinging a miss got him on
a fastball just below the zone. Caratini strikes out and
the side has retired. Two scoreless innings for will vest
and we head to the bottom of the tenth In Detroit,
Astros nothing, Tiger's nothing, no place to put. Torres the
three to two glow and outside ball four Perez scores

(02:05):
and the Tigers walk off the Astros and ten innings
one to nothing.

Speaker 7 (02:16):
Yeah, awesome, just fun, just great, just all the way around.
What a great night, you know, sean great at bats
all that, but all together, you know, don't worry. This
team will hit. This team will find a way every
single one of those things. Astros lose won nothing last
night for the third straight game. Your shutout. With that,

(02:37):
I say away, we go in good morning. What what
what uh? What good at bats are we talking about?

Speaker 4 (02:42):
That's what I'm wondering too, you can we can, we
can be all the you know, there's a roses, you know,
there's rose petals on our bed and birds are singing
around our head and all the optimism we have. The
bottom line is this team can't hit.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
You can slice it anyway, can't hit They are average. Listen,
I give him at a little bit of latitude because
of who they faced last night, of course, but they
knew going in he had two great pictures, two cy
young candidates, the guy on the Houston and Hunter Brown
was really good and and Scooba was even better. And

(03:20):
they were both damn right, uh dominant. But the problem
is that we can't. You can say all you want
it's Scooba, doesn't matter. You've got to face great pictures
and somehow you got to manufacture, do your thing, whatever
it is you got to do to close it out.
And and listen, I love Joe Aspata, but this this
is almost scripted. Talk to tell me they've had good

(03:43):
at bats. Has Joe ever been kicked out of a
game this year? I can't remember one that he got
thrown out of. Now he did last year and we
laughed about it during the you know the astro comes. Yeah,
where he kind of was kind of a there was
It wasn't like a real fiery one. And we were
laughing about it just before.

Speaker 7 (03:58):
There's a fine line between you know, showing a little
bit of fire and being Aaron Boone.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
I will get you. Oh, there's no question or Bobby Cox,
there's no question. But and not saying that matters. But
I'm out at the dugout on that one and we
can we'll get to the play at the plate. You know,
if you're Detroit, you're loving it. The call in the
field wasn't out. They confirmed it in football that the
you know, unless there was over the third bed the

(04:24):
runner's left shoulder, that angle coming in from third base
to home plate and and he was able to clip
him on it. Just so you know, the wrist or
the laces are not the wrist the arm. You have
to touch them with the glove. You obviously have to
control the ball or it's not a tagout. The question
is was there any point in time that we didn't

(04:45):
see that they did from our living rooms? That and
I however many angles they have, I mean it's skewed
because I don't know how many different camera angles. They
have neither to you, right, we don't know. But the folks,
first off, they're not mad at the Astros. They weren't
in it to get a dig on the Astros and
to did some conspiracy theory. Let's pick against the Astros here.
Let's make sure we, you know, call him out because well,

(05:06):
we don't want the Astras when that that wasn't in
their thought. But the fact of the matter is, it
looked to me like they missed the call. And I
don't know. I mean, if the call was the other
way on the field, there's no way you could have
reversed it either. If they called him safe, you couldn't
said he was out. Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have. I mean,
if you're if you're doing your job right. That's why

(05:26):
that's what confirmed. Did not stand up to me because
there was nothing I saw that confirmed that. That's that's
the thing that bothered me. The call stands, Yeah, that
that's the one that bothered me the most is confirming
the out call like it was just a blatant, clear
cut out. No, the call stands means we can't see
anything that would make us change it, and so we
didn't that to me, but firm like. So it tells

(05:47):
me what angle did they see because the wrist is
not a tagout. It has to be the glove with
the ball in it or your hand with the ball
in it. So but you know we're going to argue
that all the time, as are they in the Detroit
loves it and Houston can't stand it. But you know
the call stands. Yeah, not confirmed, big difference to me.

(06:08):
That was the pissed off er. But I'd have been
up the dugout stuck steps and you would have had
to run me see that stuff, and I just I
know we want to be positive, upbeat, but everything isn't
always going well. Now they tell me, I can't remember
the last time they had consistent games with good at
bat after good at bat. You can't tell me they have.

(06:29):
They haven't. So sometimes you just got to be cold
blooded and say, listen, no, we're not having good at bats.
That's the reason we're not scoring. Because if you're having
good at bats, you'd carve one or two out. It
doesn't matter if it's Schooball, Joe Sixpack, Harry hatchet Ass
or Matthew, Mark Luke and John Okay, you would you
would be able to carve out a run somewhere somewhere.

(06:50):
They can't hit, it's it's going to be their detriment.
They are not a World Series team period. Right now, Well,
we're getting you. I know all that. It's all possible.
I'm talking about as we sit today. No, don't give
me three weeks from now, because I'm not sure four
other Cats aren't gonna end up on the IL in
four weeks. Okay, I'm not sure that's not gonna happen.
All right, So I'm not sure somebody's gonna get set back,

(07:10):
or somebod's gonna have a setback, or somebody's gonna get sick,
or somebody's gonna get a blister. I don't know what's
gonna go on. But I know this, this team right
now is as poor a hitting team as there is
in baseball period. Are they talented? Yeah, there's a whole
lot of talented people that are unemployed in the world. Okay,
for whatever reason, this team's really good. But you got

(07:30):
to call it. Yeah, goooble all, I get it all well,
knew going in take the under. You should have you
could have bet. You could have bet the farm and
you were getting the under yesterday with those two guys
going to the mound. So I get it. It's hard,
it's not easy. I couldn't do it, so why we're
sitting here talking about it? But from my vantage point,
I don't see a lot of good at bats. I
don't see a ton of great decisions at the plate,
and I don't see them making great contact that's driving

(07:53):
the ball or the ball be leaving the ballpark. You
gotta carve it out somewhere, Scooble or somebody. You've got
to carve it out somewhere. I don't you pitched the
whole game, did he? Yeah? No, he did. That's exactly right.
So well, you still got what six outs, eight outs,
nine outs to get to somebody else, So you gotta
have them. You just do. And they at the plate,
and if they don't see that, then then there's a

(08:14):
major discrepancy going on from what you and I are
seeing and they're seeing. The bottom line is they don't
hit well enough to beat great teams in a long series,
let alone teams in a one game series or three
game series. So they're gonna have to fix it. And
Hunter Brown was outstanding, Like I said, we'll argue to
play call forever. I get it. I don't know, man,
that was If I was a man, that would have

(08:35):
I'd have been hard. I love Joe, but that would
have I'd have been hard to stay on the to
not be out there uh wolfing and saying I'm letting loose.
It's just sometimes everything's not great.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
Harry hatchett Ass is one of my favorites that you
bring up all the time. I always, I always smile
whenever you bring up Harry. Harry hatchett Ass might be
more prime to get a hit right now. Well, that's
the thing fact hitting in a two hole to That's
the thing too, is you know anybody that you know
that's ever in a rut in life or you know,
just down on their luck and you just look at
them and you're just like, gosh, how do you fix this?

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (09:08):
You know, I just go about my routine. I just
go about my day. And how's that getting you? Because
that's what I'm seeing with this lineup right now. Sometimes
stay in the course is the wrong course?

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Bingo, Hey man, stay the course, keep repping, because apparently
the at bats that you're having where you're hitting these
little candy hops to third base.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
I mean last night, the tenth th inning, perfect example.
You've got the middle of the order, you got al
Twov on second base. Somebody should probably be able to
at least find a hole, do something like that. Carlos Korea,
little candy hop bouncer to third base. That's one out.
Christian Walker, little candy hop the shortstop, that's two outs.
And then you send Victor Karattini up there, who probably
should have hit for one of the other guys with

(09:49):
the lefty right there, and then same deal out of him.
You could have put Jose al Twove halfway between third
and home plate and he wouldn't have scored.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
The frustrations mounts, dude, and stay in the course. We
just got to keep staying the course. Listen, if you
and I are driving to the beach and we're in
a vehicle and we're staying the course, and we keep
driving and driver we go into the ocean, what's going
to happen. You're gonna drown, dude.

Speaker 7 (10:16):
But we're staying the course. Yeah, but we stayed the course,
putting together good at bat Yeah. No, no, we're doing
all of that. No, we actually didn't. We actually didn't
put good, good bats. We stayed the course and the
course these guys will hit. Yeah, win.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
That's what I want to know too, win. Yeah, that's so,
that's that's what I'd like to know as well. When
great teams don't, great teams don't go twenty seven scoreless innings,
they just don't great great hitting teams.

Speaker 7 (10:38):
There's a reason why this organization hasn't done it in
forty years. And that's even the futile, the most.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Futile scoreless innings. Yes, yeah, it's of years in the
nearly twenty. I don't know, man.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Yeah, Carlos corpor On and Justin Maxwell and guys on
your team.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, I can't. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Man.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
My frustrated. I know, it's hard game, all those things
that we say every day, nothing againse those guys. Yeah,
I just for me, it is. It's frustrating. Like I said,
you knew you were going to be in a fight
when Schooble pitches in Detroit, New with Hunter Brown and
it's gonna be it's one of those nights. It was
a brilliant pitch game. I mean by by the starters.
They just don't disagree with that. Yeah, I mean, it's

(11:17):
one of those you know, most people like, you know,
a nine to seven game because it's offense and it
that's that you you got a taste of what Bob
Gibson and Don Drysdale do, right. I mean, I know
that's an old school reference. Watch every once in a while.
I don't want to see it every night. No, of
course you don't because you're not going to see it
every night. Because if you're seeing it every night and
you're getting beat one to nothing by somebody that's not
Trek Scoubel, then we got an even bigger problem than

(11:38):
you thought we had. Stay in the course isn't always
the course you need to be on sometimes. Guess what
you got to do? Alter your GPS. And right now
the GPS on their Bats is taking them right to
uh service. You know, when the service light comes on
in your vehicle, it is a flashing neon sign in
your SUV right now, that's your damn right it is.
And the check engine like listen, basically telling me they're

(12:02):
having good at BATS. And it's not personal. It's just
a fact. And I whether people like it or not,
telling me they're having considered that good. We're having good
at bats is just the equivalent of peeing in my
face and telling me it's raining. Well, it's actually insulting
to the intelligence.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Well, if you wanted to keep raining, in that case,
I can allow it to keep raining for you because well,
somebody says that, you know, hey, stay positive, We're okay,
everything's all right. We're gonna let you hear from them.
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Speaker 7 (15:03):
Jordon Alvarez did have some good at bats with the
Corpus Christy hooks two for four, double single, couple of flyouts,
walks in his first game action since May the second.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
That's nice. Yeah, he checked out the hook while his
dche revolved. He did it really absolutely, he was ice Ice,
Now can we please get that here? Well, some of
the swings I saw last night, I was like, I
don't know if he needs a couple of more.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
I think those swings that I saw to say this,
why waste him there? I mean, who knows. I mean
he's gonna have today off. So hey, I feel good,
bring me back. Jordon wants back. I got news for you.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Their inability at the plate will speed up the process. Okay,
that I could promise you. If you think three or
four games, you're now thinking one sounds pretty good.

Speaker 7 (15:46):
Deadlines make deals and effectiveness makes haste.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Man, I'm just telling you, brother, that's been a hard watch. Offensively,
I know what's gonna happen. At some point they're gonna
have an explosive game. I don't know when. I'm not
sure when, but it Well, we're back now. But then
you can tell me good atbots. You haven't had good
at bats in what they had some good Listen when
you say that futility for about a month and a half,

(16:11):
as say good at beats. Yes, every now and then
a guy will have a good at bat. When we're talking,
we're talking about the overall umbrella staven as an overall team,
they're at bats are average at best. Right now, does
that say that they're oh, you Sean, you know how
hard it is?

Speaker 8 (16:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I actually do. I have pretty good idea how hard
it is. And but when they're raking, we're telling them
how great they are. This team's not above criticism. I
know at times when you're the home team, you're supper
we I'm not saying they think they are, but anybody
that does, no, you can still be positive and optimistic,
but criticize what you've seen. I personally, if you're a manager,

(16:46):
or if you're in the and you're not criticized, if
you're a player and you're not self analyzing and criticizing yourself,
then then you probably need you probably need a little
check at the door. Well, here's the bag talking about
the money check. Here here's the bad news. You ain't
gonna get it from Joe Aspota. Let's hear from him
after last night's game. The first one, needless to say,

(17:08):
a tough pitcher that you were facing last night, But
Joe overall pleased with how they approached him. He's a
tough pitcher.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
I thought that we asked them some good at bats,
we hit the balls hard, I told them play at
the plate was he could have gone either way, but
I thought we competed and we put barrel on the ball.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
And we just couldn't do you know, we couldn't do enough.

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Okay, So if that's not enough for you, let's go
ahead and hear the last one too, where asked about
the offensive struggles of this team.

Speaker 9 (17:38):
I think we just going through a little stretch where
good teams, every team goes through, and we're a.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Really good team. This team's going to hit.

Speaker 7 (17:46):
Okay again, I understand what he's doing, and yes, you
are still a game and a half up. But Sean,
I hear both of those cuts right there, and I
think two things. That's insulting to your fan base. One
thing that's insulting to your fan base. That's insulting to
keep telling people, you know what, Hey, we're doing the
right things. Things are gonna be okay, you know, just

(18:07):
miraculously we're gonna start hitting the baseball based off what,
based off what? Because from what I've seen this entire season, team,
it's been more of this than it's been the good times.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, the good The lack of hitting is going to
cost you, send you home early secondly did last year, yep,
and it will again this year if it keeps up.
Hit the ball hard, had some good at bats, you
got to run, run. Then there's the other side. It'd
be like me said here saying, well, you know, the
Texans could win ten and they could lose ten.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
That's what it feels like watching this team. Honestly, it
feels like watching Bobby Slowk's offense.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
But it's like anything. It's like, well, you know, the
Yankees could hit four home runs and they Bobby, why
can't you run the ball here?

Speaker 7 (18:46):
Let me just BLOWVI eight for two and a half
minutes with my answer because I don't have the answer.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
But when his answer said, well like to play at
the plate, well it could have gone either way. Yeah,
And you know what, schoobl could pitch good and he couldn't.
Brown could get people out and he could. It's like
that guy who makes a prediction, some national analyst who
makes predictions. Well, I think they got a chance to win,
but they could also lose. Oh appreciate appreciate you taking

(19:11):
us like I could see him winning this game. I
could see him losing this game, right, Okay, great, so
you've given me this great insight expert analysis, right, and
now all of a sudden when they win or lose
the next day, you know what you're going to say.
You're gonna say, so I told you, I told you
they could win or lose. Well, no kidding, You're playing
a game they can actually win or lose, So you
could actually call it stro you can actually he was
actually safe or out. It was closed. Could have gone

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either way. See if that was me, and maybe I'm
Joe's better at than I am, I would have said
he was safe. Yeah, he was flat ass safe. I
wouldn't have said umpire, wouldn't use the word umpire. You
can't find me for say he was safe. He was safe.
It was with the replay I saw said he was safe.
So uh, And it's tough to score runs against school.
But but we're not putting enough. See, I would have gone

(19:55):
the other way. We're not putting enough good at bats
together to beat good teams consistently, let alone teams that aren't.
We got to get better. I gotta get better. I
gotta manage better. We got to swing the bat better.
We gotta be we gotta rest as coaches, have to
do a better job putting your guys in position to succeed.
But but it's listen, it's a it's a chalk answer.

(20:17):
It's a it's a stock answer, dude. We we put
together good at bats for the third straight game. You
got shut out. You had four hits, one, two, three, four. Well,
tell me the last time they had six hits in
a game, seven hits in a game.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
I think Sunday they had six, Okay, six, I think
I think it was Sunday.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
It's been three, it's been four, it's been four. It's
I mean they've been covering around. Yeah, it's been one
of those. It's been the other way around. So listen,
there's there's things to like, I get it. But but
to look at me in the face that we haven't
good at bats. We we can hit, We're going here's
the problem you are going through what a lot of
good teams go through. I'd rather be Milwaukee Brewers right now. Okay,
you know what I'm saying. Losing two straight for the
first time in a really long time, right and I

(20:56):
had won fourteen to fifteen sixteenth straight, whatever it was.
But my point is the other side of it is
this is the wrong time to be going through this exactly.
So you can tell me, yeah, we're gonna hit win
and I know you may hit in twenty twenty six
or when you're not gets back, but well, you know what, Well,
here's the answer, what do you think about you? Well,
he may hit and he may not.

Speaker 7 (21:18):
And then keep hearing about how those team's best baseballs
in front of him. Here's the follow up, why do
you believe that? What what have you done here in
about the last month and a half that leads you
to believe the best baseballs in front of us? Because
the pattern I'm seeing right now shows me that this
is a middling team right now. This is a team
that's about maybe five hundred down the stretcher. I don't

(21:39):
think that cuts it.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Here's how I look at it, pretty simple, dude, is
they're not great and they're not poor. They're playing poorly
at the play now. They're not stringing together many good
at bats at all. So you know, I'm a Joe.
I think Joe does a good job.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I do.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I think he's a good man. I am too, But
he's not above criticism. Just like we said, it's not arsenal.
Part of the time, I would approach it differ, but
I can tell you this, they're they're not having that
many good at bats. There's not But the truth of
the matter is whether you're if you're just one of
those Hanks, it's a I'm never going to criticize. It's
always going to be better Roses than Everything's no, no, no,

(22:16):
they're between. Like I said to you and Gordy yesterday,
they're not great and they're not they're they're not a
crappy team. They're somewhere in between, and they're fortunate. The
Marinders playing poorly as well.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
They're they're they're giving up games. They're they're they're they're
an average They're they're a good team. They're playing poorly
at the plate. They're pitching staff in the bullpens seems
a little taxed. They're not. They got a great start
last night. They're not getting the consistent great starts throughout
the starting pitching. And when you don't do that, you
need to rely on some hitting to carry there. It's
about time hitting started carrying the pitching. It really is

(22:49):
a matter of fact, it goes even back to last year.
It is time that the hitting starts to that the
kid that was raised by the parents that carried them
through their life. It's time now, you know, when it
switches where they get to be seven, we're now you
got to carry the mom and dad help them whatever
it is, whether you go visit them more or what
have you. It's time. The pitching staff was the parent.
It's time for the kid, meaning the hitting, to flip

(23:11):
this script a little bit and give the pitching staff
a break and start hanging some runs on them. They're
not having consistent grade at bats. That's a false statement.
It just is. That's ay. I'm the manager. I want
to keep things going, maybe just maybe to rough it
up a little. Joe needs to drop a few f
bombs and let them know this ain't the way it's
gonna stay. We are better than this, and me and
my staff gotta get better. My hitting coaches got to

(23:33):
get better. I gotta get better. We got to pitch better,
we gotta hit better, and we also got to score
more runs. We gotta be more selective. We got to
know what we're doing. We got to make better plays.
That's not personal. That's just called a long season.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
And I don't think there'd be a single guy of
the twenty six in that clubhouse. So would take exception
if they're exception. If they take exception or they're offended
by screw them, Who the hell cares what they're offended.
I'm so tired of this player. Don't hurt the players.
Screw the player all the time.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
If the coach comes to me and says, Sean, you
throw three picks four games in a row, well I'm
offended by that. Oh well, are you offended by the
friggin bus ticket out of town? Then you're offended. You're
damn right, So I I and don't tell me. I
don't know what. I know what it's like because I've
been on that side of it where a coach has
got to look at you. You don't play well, we
don't win when you play poortly throw to the other team.
We got no shot. You're putting our team in a

(24:22):
mind and so oh, if a player's offended, then guess what.
Take two weeks off and take your ass dfight and
go do something else. If you if you do it
the right way, you'll say you know what you're damn right,
and then you'll grind and you'll stay the course and
you'll go back to work. Don't give me the well
if a play. If a player's offended by a coach,

(24:43):
look at him in the faceaying we're not doing what
we need to do, like Dave Roberts challenging taoscar Hernandez's defense.
If you're offended by that, I suggest you find something
else to do. I'm worried about being your best friggin friend.
I got one of those. So sometimes a little fire
in your belly, even if it's just for optics, ain't

(25:05):
a bad thing. It's not just on Joe, It's it's
on everybody. You got to do it. It's a team game.
But defended, I'm so tired of athletes, and I'm not
saying this team will. But anywhere a college care will
offender you benchmam. Transfer, You don't get to transfer in
pro sports. We don't give you that opportunity. You either
players show up, or sit your ass on the bench,
or find a new job. Burger King's hiring, okay, And

(25:27):
you could put the dog on mask on if you'd like,
and go home and sleep with your wife. If you
don't like it, then guess what somebody else does. Leave
your glove on the mountain, will somebody else come out
and pick it up. So as good as this team
is and all the compliments and the great stuff we
give them, let's face facts that right now, if this,
if you didn't know the record and watch them hit,
you'd say, damn, we need to trade for seventeen players

(25:52):
at the deadline. So all the compliments and tell them
how all optimism. And I'm a glass half full every now,
and in the glass ain't half, it's damn near empty,
and right now it's bone dry at the plate. And
if you can't accept it and you're offended by it,
screw you two. That's just the way I feel. And
I don't give a fuzzy rats ass. If a player's
feelings are hurt over true honest critiquing buyer's manager, it's okay.

(26:19):
And I wouldn't imagine this team, with all the character
they got, would be offended. I would imagine, to a man,
every single one of the ass would say, he's damn right.
We are letting the pitching staff down. And that's exactly
what they're doing. That's why after last night's game. Honestly,
I didn't care to hear from Hunter Brown. I don't
need to hear, uh, you know, put together good pitches
all of that, because he did. I mean he he
beat a round with spectacular as most of the time

(26:40):
as always, and so were the guys that you count
on in your bullpen.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
And then the last inning you put your pitcher in
a really tough spot and just unable to throw a
strike there. So Roger, Jason, Leon Jim see you guys
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(28:30):
I've been on teams and good. I'm glad they're fired up.
When we got a bunch of callers, we'll get to them.
I'm not offended when my guy Norp Turner great offensive court.
It should be in the Hall of Fame if you're
talking about County. I've been watching a documentary on him.
Well not him per se, but he's part of it. Yeah,
Norv's awesome. Yeah, a Cowboys documentary is awesome. See when
things were going wrong, dude, I remember the old school projectors.
He was so frustrated with the way we were playing.

(28:52):
He turned around and whipped that thing and it shattered
in pieces against the wall. And it was the old school.
Lace it through projector or when a play, and you
don't have to do that. If you do it all
the time, it falls on deafiers. You get my point.
Just like you said, you know, I love Boone and
he's an sc guy, but at times like come on, dude,
you're just arguing because you're tired and hot one. That's
why his nickname is Karen Boom. There's no doubt it's

(29:14):
a regular occurrence. And Bobby couys, like I said, they
get to what He just wants to go and smoke
a cigarette. Dude, it's the fourth that he gets hot
as hell in Atlanta. But he could go and sit
in the clubhouse with his feet up, smoking a grit
and let this and be back at it. Lee will
take care of the pitching staff of Mazzoni, right, so
watch and patra fight Ned Yost and pat Rause will

(29:34):
fight you ass to back in the day.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
Now.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
I'm talking about what corrals. But the point is that
every now and then it can't stay the course. Dan,
how many times in your life if you had to
alter your course and they actually the compass actually worked better.
I don't know what the answer is. Listen, I'm standing
in the batter's box. I'm looking at from I get
how hard it is. That's not the boy cook there
he got into it with. There you go remember that

(29:57):
it's not the you for me. It's it's that's not
that you know you change things. Listen, they're good, but
we got a compartment. It's day to day, right, just
like we say during the wins, look at their kicking
ass here, they're going well. But you can be a
huge fan, like I always say, you don't have to
root for somebody's failure to give honest criticism and critique
and analysis. The problem is we don't have enough of

(30:20):
it in the world because we got some because it's
so pussified out there that if you critique somebody or
offend of whoa, what about their self esteem? I don't
care about their self esteem. When they're forty, they're big
enough to fix it. If their self esteem gets lost
on a critique, then we got a real problem. I love,
I do care about their self esteem. Of course, we
all care about our own. But you of saying Sean dad, dude,

(30:41):
you can't throw it to the other team three times.
I'm offended, Dude, I have no self esteem. If that's
what my self esteem is relying on, Dude, I got
no shot anyway.

Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, I mean, you tell me I'm bad at this job,
trust me, I'll probably have a pretty good idea.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
I would not need to tell you had a bad
show or a bad week, or a bad day or
you know you're not. But you get my point why,
Because you're a professional. I have to know you know.
You don't need to tell me. It was like, oh damn,
did you so? And listen? If I had a dime
for every time you coach and was offended by it,
my self esteem would be coming out my ass. Okay,

(31:15):
so we all. I mean, it's part of it. It's
part of the toughening up and the blisters and the
callouses you take as being a professional and athlete. And
there's a time and a place for all of it.
I got news for you. Now's the time to change
the course. It doesn't mean change it wholesale. It means
maybe you're going now. You don't want to take the
Chevy Chase row where you fall asleep and go into

(31:36):
the desert trying to walk across when you're heading down
to Wally World. But it's okay to stop off a
little change up pitch and get it wrong. Whatever that is.
They're the brilliant ones, they're the runs running it. From
my vantage point, this team has got there's some different
things that need to happen, and it's not all roses
like I said, and everything's great, and every fish is
swimming downstream. No, they're swimming up streaming. It ain't good

(31:59):
if you haven't noticed. So it just frustrates me. And
like I said, this team's mature enough to know that
if you get offended by it, react one or two ways.
Go ahead, and if you're offended, go ahead, be offended,
but respond in kind the right way. If you're a player,
I don't see this place now. There are players that
if you tell him, dude, you're struggling and we got

(32:20):
to get you out. Ooh what do he and they'll
pout about it. Well, good, he's not for me. This
team seems to know how to sift through those guys.
And I'll just say this, and I don't know how soon,
but we got Carlos Gray here for a couple of reasons. Right,
there's one of the reasons you brought him here. Oh well,
maybe maybe it's time not a players only mean, maybe
it's time to waltz into a clubhouse after a game
and say this is done. Enough enough of this. Sometimes

(32:46):
the arm around you doesn't need to be the case.
Sometimes it's a cleat in your ass, whether it's from
a spada Dana Brown Carlos Korea. Maybe it's the guy
who doesn't say something once in a while that sits
at the end of the bar and then finally when
you push him, he wheels on you and knocks the
hell out of you. Maybe it's out too Bay that
needs I don't know forget players only, but I there's
a fire in your belly that's got to change. But

(33:08):
it's more important. It's not just yelling and screaming. It's
production and being smart and having good at bats, which
they're not having right now. You need John Taffer, remember that, Yeah,
go into the place I would I would I love taffor,
but I'd want to fight it.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Go go go, it makes it personal. Go into the
player's cafeteria right there.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Nobody eat this foo. Yeah, starts tipping it over. But
but John that those are steaks and prime burgers. Did
you do it off the floor? There you go? But
you get my point. There's a there's a way to
do it, but sometimes you got to alter the course.
Think what somebody does it? And you kind of took around,
say I didn't see that coming in the movie, and

(33:46):
boo nobody perfect movie to say, go see nobody. Do
you never saw that. You go watch nobody one. You'll say, what,
Bob Odenkirk's got it in them? Thank you? I need Bob,
I need some Bob Odenkirk at the plate, he said,
somebody to let them vacation, right, And then you saw
the kids who were kind of soft, all of a

(34:07):
sudden they're like ah, and the wife was like, well,
we're all in yeah, we're all fighting for this. So
trying to add a little light to a situation, it's
not real fun. Right now, I'm going to tell you this,
at some point Seattle is going to turn it around,
and you're fortunate they haven't. And that's a good thing.

Speaker 7 (34:20):
And at some point the Astros will see that's the
only silver lining to this.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
But there's also this that you get pinched. The truth
of the matter is Dan from the beginning of the
season until now, they've been a they have not been
a great hitting team. No, they just I mean then,
so so okay, so you know that, so now you
got to grind How are you going to grind it out?
Now that you know where the weakness is. How are
you going to do whatever it takes to just get

(34:45):
to the tournament? And then maybe have to alter your course.
I'm saying, yeah, what a concept.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Like I said last night, tenth thinning tigers first go
up to the plate, Hey, let me list something to
the right side, and he did, and he gets the
guy over to third base. Of course we know the
rest of history, all right, all of you next right here,
Roger Jason Leon, you want to join them, got a
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Speaker 6 (37:09):
Damn it, I love your passion, Shine. That was spot on,
well said I. You know, I called the tenth Inning
Show last night and pretty much said the same thing
about why didn't the spot come out and and you know,
at least get an explanation or kind of argue it.

(37:31):
And I was coming, I was foolish, and that I
didn't know about analytics, and sometimes analytics has got nothing
to do with a call that was clearly blown by
the officials or the umpires or whatever you want to
call them, you know, the cookie cutters behind the plate nowadays.
But I mean, this is, this is you know, this
is crazy and all night long and this you know,

(37:57):
there's nothing wrong with being optimistic, but you know you're
gonna hear people say, well, you know, the last time
we lost four shutouts, you know, we ended up going
to the World Series and win. Well, you know what
if they go to the postseason playing like this, like
you said yesterday, they're not going to get out of
the first round. And you know, and it's it's just crazy.

(38:18):
It's blowing my mind how good this team is and
they just can't get it figured out. If you put
a teball a t ball stand at home plate, could
they even hit off of that. That's how we feel
right now. That's how frustrated we are, and we should
be because we made things at the deadlines that we

(38:38):
thought were going to be great and it just isn't
panning out and it gets frustrating. Man, this is just frustrating,
and it just pisses me off to the end because
it's it's just it blows my mind. That's that's all
I can say this morning.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
Blows.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
It blows my mind.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Well, appreciate it, Jason.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
And it's also too, I mean, what is another thing
that we've done talked about ad nausea and with this
team this year is the guys that are supposed to
be getting it done don't get it done. I mean
Jose Al Tuve for for his last twenty eight Carlos Korea,
he's he's he's pulled off a little bit.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Yeah, and he sure has. And I mean he got
you a hit last night. But that's that shouldn't be
the bar for Carlos, Korea, payd the Astros, especially those
three guys that I just mentioned, right, those three guys
have to be the ones that set the tone for you.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
And then I mean we've talked about Jiner Diaz, We've
talked about Christian Walker and those guys, I mean, they
are who they are at this point. I mean, if
you're going to try tell now, Yiner, look, we got
to be better in the strike zone. Stop doing that
one hated swing. Okay, and then there you go, you
get the one hated swing again. Well you'll be doing
it next time because you just struck out again swinging

(39:45):
over a slider you had no business offering at Like
we're what one hundred and twenty games in now, Like,
however far we are into this season and you're still
seeing the same mistakes over and over and over again.
I went back for every sing one of those little
tappers at third base, and I said, I want to
see where these pitches are outer third, sean outer third,

(40:07):
So you honestly think you're going to do something pulling
that baseball. Yeah, keep doing it, You're crushing it. Can somebody.
I don't know where.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
I mean, I know you can find the stat I
haven't looked at, but I want to know how many
pitches per game the opponent on average sees more than
the Astros.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
You saw it in the first inning last night with
Detroit taking Hunter Brown the what twenty two pitches.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
I'm going to take a guess and say that it's
extremely significant that the average that the amount of pitches
that the Astros that the other another team sees as
opposed to the Astros at the plate. I guess it's
pretty easy to figure out, but I was thinking about
it last night. I wonder I'm going to suggest that

(40:54):
that the opponent sees far more pitches at the plate
than the Astros do. I'm going to suggest it fair,
not three more game for more game. I'm going to
suggest that it's that it's double figures. And I'm talking
about mate. I did my guests. Now I may be
completely wrong. From my optics, it feels like that there's
a difference between being aggressive and being silly aggressive, you know,

(41:16):
and then there's the difference of being being patient and
being patient and being passive to where you have no
aggressiveness in you and you're just looking at strikes all
the time. But I'm gonna I believe from my vantage point,
and I don't know if the metrics bear it out,
that the astros see far less pitches than the opponent
does on average, I believe that, whether that makes any deal,

(41:38):
I'm just looking for I'm looking for the GPS system, brother,
I'm looking for I'm trying to find. Now we know
the we know what. Now you got to find the
why and the how. And until they do, they're not
a threat to win the World Series. Sorry to tell
you that is not. And I'm gonna tell you one
little thing that happens real quick, Dan, and I know
you're gonna hear. Well, this clubhouse is strong. The clubhouse

(41:59):
has changed over the last three or four years. It
just has, it evolves. I'm sure it is very strong.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
And even the guys that are in it or yeah
that's Sam, Yeah right, that's my point, And I'm sure
it's very strong.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
But I can tell you what happens is it keeps up.
It's only human nature. Two. If you have a school
project and you have three of them during the year,
and it's the same group doing a school project in
college and two people are doing it. In the third
I say there's five people and four of them are
doing it, and the one never does it but gets
the same grade. What ends up happening? Resentment go to break. Yeah,

(42:31):
when one's doing it and the other isn't. Human nature
is to say, when are you going to pick your
ass up? Ask the Baltimore Ravens the year they finally
went on in one one, I mean won the Super Bowl.
I think it was a two thousand season. Go take
a look at the discrepancies and that how good the
defense was compared to the offense and the changes they
had to make. And then come see me and talk
to me about I'll guarant ask to you in that
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(42:53):
what you weren't doing? You knew that. Yeah, I'm putting
extra pressure on you. I'm tired of carrying you on
my bad every friggin day. Resentment is the exact word
I was going to say. Whether it's here or not,
I'm just telling you it can creep in. Well, see,
you better guard against it. Do what you Can Roger,
Leon Scott.

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Speaker 7 (45:58):
Labor Torres with the bay is loaded to lose it.
Jordan Alvarez two for four, double, single, couple of flyouts.
He also walks in his first game action since May
the second. And Daniel Jones named the starting quarterback for
the Indianapolis Colts. So the Texans at least no one
of the other quarterbacks are gonna be facing it this year.

(46:20):
So you got Jones, you got a rookie in Tennessee
and cam Ward, and you got Trevor Lawrence of course
still there in Jacksonville. A lot of people high on
Jacksonville this year head this season interesting enough, But we're
all astros right now because well, the frustration has mounted,
it continues to mount, and I know that a lot
of you want to be able. Like we said yesterday
was the airing of grievances. Well, when you lose one

(46:42):
nothing and you got four hits, you can continue to
airset grievances. And Roger can be one of those.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Right now. Roger, it's Festivus for you, buddy.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Good morning gentlemen.

Speaker 11 (46:54):
Yeah. So I'm not a guy who likes it, you know,
mess with hitting coaches or you know, says a particular
person's fault. But this is the bottom line business. You
got Sometimes you gotta make a sacrifice.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 11 (47:13):
Who's gonna go, but uh, you know, people do generally
feel bad when they quote unquote get somebody fired or
can and this is like a historic fertility. Man, somebody's
got to wear it on this one. I'm not sure who.
I'm not sure how somebody can have to work now
we're talking. Let me just move a little bit forward
towards the end of the season. Whoever that is the

(47:34):
interdeas cannot come back to the ass shows with that
same batting. Uh that that same that same batting uh
uh whatever he what what whatever with with the same
guiding philosophy that that's gotta go all that's got to
be redone. I don't know who's gonna do it, but

(47:55):
he's gotta talk to at least talk to pay Paya
had the same problem and the ite to toes with
the butt sticking out. Oh my god, man, that is
just it's like literally if you're looking at a little
league guy, man, it's it's embarrassing, you know. And this
guy's got crazy pop whatever he was in the ones,
And then when he does that, I think, yeah, you
need to do that. I think when he's stracked out

(48:16):
because you didn't look at the pitch, uh, somebody else,
somebody's got to wear it on this one. Oh, and
feel free to go over there and whoever's gonna go
and knock on Yourdan's door and say, hey man, how
are you feeling everything?

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Good?

Speaker 12 (48:30):
All right?

Speaker 11 (48:31):
Your first you get your ass on the first charter
to Detroit or wherever our next series is, because we
need that guy two for four.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I'll take it.

Speaker 11 (48:38):
Let's go be fine. If he's fine, somebody didn't check
his take the boxes this morning. You'm already wake up call.
Because we need that guy not to say that one
guy's gonna fix all this, because this is getting this
is getting bad. And these are good players, man, these
are good players.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Something is up. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 11 (48:57):
I'm sitting here driving a man. You know, I don't know,
but uh yeah, something is up.

Speaker 12 (49:03):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Something needs to be fixed and money fast. And you
need to ask data the hard questions.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
I asked him a hard question, hard questions every week,
every freaking week. I don't ask him softballs, and it
won't happen today. That's never in question. Save that for
those guys you see on your national TV shows or
some other some other show. That never happens here ever,
because I'm not pussified and I'll never approach him soft ever.

Speaker 11 (49:29):
Thank you for that matter.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
All rogers right about Carlos carea apart coming in here.
But here's what we also have to realize. Carlos Cray
is not responsible for twenty five other cats. He's not
the Mama Bear all the time. I mean, what I'm
saying is, yes, we expect it because he's such so
good at the leadership. Carlus Gray has also got to

(49:53):
take care of Carlos Correa too, because if he spends
all this time you went to get him, not to
just babysit people. Carlus Correa has actually got to per
because he's got his own career, does your damn righty
does so while being a good teammate. But being a
good teammate is also you make sure you're doing your
job before you go out and do somebody else's and leadership,
putting your arm around it, getting out the fromber more

(50:14):
often on the play. I get all that, but we
also got to let Carlos kore at some Sometimes you
got to police your damnself and be a grown up
enough man that I don't need babysat when when it
goes a little sideways in a friggin game, that I
don't need to the kid who throws a fastball to
home plate when he's nine and every single pitch he
throws looks at his dad in the stands, can't you

(50:35):
can't it can't be, I confess it's got Let's let
Carlos fix everything. Fix my game, fix his game, fix
this game, fix the pitcher's game. Great leaders do make
others better and they help them in different ways, and
you can't treat everybody the same. Somebody need a kick,
somebody needs a hug, somebody needs a dressing down, somebody
needs to say nothing to But let's not forget Carlos
care is here for the first reason is to produce

(50:57):
and and take care of his game, and in the
process hopefully that filters through the rest of the team
so we get caught it. Everything's not okay right now,
They're in first place, which is the biggest okay. Everything's
not okay if you're talking about in baseball terms, it's not.
They're lucky. Seattle is playing just as poorly as they

(51:18):
are at least in the in the win loss column
the last handful of days against better teams.

Speaker 7 (51:23):
Right so well, I mean Detroit and Philadelphia probably about
on the same level.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
We do, we all get, and we all do we
caught him in. Maybe Carlos Kas like I said earlier,
Carlins may have to be the one that goes in
the clubhouse and lets it rip on those guys and say, hey, boom,
this is we're not talented. We're not tolerating the average
baseball and below average baseball on this team. Nor should
they They're too talented for that. But the dudes also,
he's got to work on things he needs to work
on too, because without his production, I can tell you this,

(51:47):
Without his production and without yourn in the lineup, you
can you can put your head between your legs and
kiss you or ask goodbye. When it comes to winning
a World Series, they that that that won't even be
on the tip of your tongue, let alone on the
back burner. He's got to be able to do his
job too.

Speaker 7 (52:01):
Remember in twenty twenty two what they said one of
the differences was Michael Brantley after Game three, getting up
and saying, I just that's that's not gonna cut it,
like seriously, like you guys think like you're putting together
good at pats up there like it all. It almost
kind of came across, of course, paraphrasing, where he was
just like almost look like you guys gave in this.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
That's not this team. Damn this team. The cold hard
facts are this team is not good enough to turn
it on and off like a light switch. No, they
are not good enough just to show up and think, well,
certain guys are, but not as a whole. No, no, no, no,
they're not name one LTV should be No Carlos now

(52:40):
should and do or two different things. I didn't say talent.
I didn't say talent. I didn't say that they're not
skilled enough. Those two guys have been in wild since that.
That's how my point. Hear me out. Now, don't don't
create what I'm saying. I said. This team, the way
they're playing is not good. They're not the Lakers Showtime
of the Celtics of Larry Bird. They're not Michael Jordan's
Bulls where they can show up and play kind of

(53:02):
seventy percent and still win. They didn't do that. They
showed up played seventy percent in one game in Colorado.
What happened? They showed up and played about sixty percent
against one Baltimore pitcher, a rookie hush, and almost got
perfect gamed. This team is not good enough this year.
I'd say talented enough good enough this year. Listen. Even
Hunter Brunn Fromber's really good, he ain't good enough just

(53:24):
to show up and think he can work his way
through it. Not the last four start, well, that's this year, right, yep.
So talented, Yes, nobody's quite. There's a lot of talented people, dude,
that aren't that aren't producing. It's so for me, it's
you just I'm not saying their attitude says or showed up,
but that that's all they're doing. But they are not

(53:45):
good enough.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Man.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
Maybe in the years past, in twenty nineteen, at times
that lineup, and at times in twenty seventeen their team
was good enough to show up and play sixty five
percent and three guys win the game for you consistently,
and then when everybody gets in the act, they were
kick in your ass. They're not good enough this year,
with everything that's gone on, injuries and all of it encompassed,
they are not good enough just to show up and

(54:08):
say we're the astros.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Man.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Of course it's gonna turn around. Of course we're gonna
do this. And the proof is one hundred and twenty
some one hundred and thirty games in whatever we're at now. Yeah. No,
So you have to be on edge and you have
to be urgent because you're getting the play. Urgency is
a great thing, you know, it's not desperation and plan

(54:32):
and hurried. You don't't be hurried. You're you're about to
be in that place. Well, if you keep doing this,
you're gonna be You're gonna be hurried instead of urgent.
And guess what's gon sense urgency? Guess what happens when
you're desperate now, namely a time when somebody's made a
trade aut of desperation. It's worked. Name of a time
you made a decision at a desperation. It may have
worked once when you got lucky tried driving out of desperation.
See how that works for you. Yeah, yeah, your car

(54:55):
will be in the shop with either new tires or
a fender bender. Let's hope that's the only thing it is, right, So, no,
they're not good enough to show up, right, thank goodness,
and hope that never happens. They're not good enough just
to show up. They're just not The Dodgers aren't The
Dodgers aren't good enough to show up? Ask the pod
reason everybody else about that? So this is yeah, And
the truth of the matter is everything's not okay when

(55:16):
it comes to baseball. You're in first place. That's a
good thing, but everything is not okay.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
Well, the results would pan out for that to be
the case, and then they definitely have Leon Scott. See
you guys right there, get you involved here, but also
want to talk about in the stakeout, there's something about
memories and wanting to remember something.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
But is this a little overboard? We'll discuss here.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
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Speaker 4 (57:57):
All right, Sean, what are you hearing out there now?

Speaker 2 (58:00):
The Salisbury's takeouts sALS brief takeout on.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
The Sean Salisbury Show Western Wednesday.

Speaker 7 (58:08):
Here on the Sewn Salisbury Show, it's the stakeout. Astros
lose won nothing in ten innings. Kayla boards a basis
loaded walk to lose it. Jordan Alvarez though two for four,
double single, couple of flyouts. He also gets a walk
in his first game action with the Corpus Christy Hooks
since May. The second Lance McCullers Junior gonna make his
return from the blister of Friday a start against the

(58:31):
Orioles in Baltimore. Get to the memories and maybe going
a little bit overboard coming up, But first Leon wants
to wig in. Leon, good morning, Good morning guys.

Speaker 13 (58:41):
Sean, as you as you You dialed it all the time,
but the ain't nothing new question.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Who was our hitting coach.

Speaker 13 (58:48):
From twenty seventeen to twenty twenty? I don't, Samuel, I
don't think Simone was. Uh do you remember all chance
you said?

Speaker 4 (58:59):
The hitting and stry and thank you for the compliment
you said the hitting instructor in twenty seventeen, what do
you say to twenty twenty Dave Hudgens was the hitting coach.

Speaker 13 (59:07):
Okay, to me again, I'm the casual fan. To me,
we made adjustment. We meet in game adjustice all the time.
Players are walking back to the to the bench and said, hey,
he's doing this, he's doing that. We've made in in
game adjustice. Football, if you could adjust at halftime, all
between quarters, you lost the game. No matter what the

(59:29):
defensial officers were thrown at you adjust. We're not adjusting.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
It's just that simple.

Speaker 13 (59:34):
We're simply not adjusted to what the other team's throwing
at us. And I don't, I don't.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
I don't get it.

Speaker 8 (59:40):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 12 (59:41):
Leon.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
I think Leon, I think you're one hundred percent correct
on this. This is spot on in other sports. If
you and I'll speak from the sport I played, you
can go in with a game plan that gets punched
right in the friggin face, right and if you don't
adjut that's what made Bill. We talk about Brady and
Belichick all the time, and rightfully, Peyton Manning all the time.

(01:00:02):
Did Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, you know what they
do aside from great skill set and teammates, but the league,
there's too many good players not to adjust in sports,
these pros. The difference, the difference between mahol that's right.
The difference between Andy Reid and the next great coach
is not far. You got a quarterback, got a couple of players,
is the reason Brady and Belichick. Aside from talent, they

(01:00:23):
added there was other rosters that were as talented as them.
But nobody in the world in football has ever been
better at adjusting mid game, halftime, during a game, in
between series. That's right, and this team does not do
that very well. At the plate right now, you are
one hundred percent and if you can't do that, you
get left behind.

Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
Again.

Speaker 13 (01:00:44):
As always, great show.

Speaker 8 (01:00:46):
I love your new term.

Speaker 13 (01:00:48):
I'm not gonna say it, but I love you new
term youttle pee you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
I love it. Thanks mother, Leon, thank you. No, I'll
say it. The pacification is that, Yeah, that's that's the one.
When people get offended or if you're criticized, or if
you compliment somebody they don't like. Yeah, Leon, he's right.
Adapt and to just brother, and it's every part of
life and includes sports. And it's every single day, every inning,
every pitch.

Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
See and I keep hearing about this good at bats
and you know, putting good swings on it and hard
hit contact all of that. Who's seeing this? Like, seriously,
that's an honest question that I have. Who in that
dugout is seeing that? Because if they are, then they're
in the wrong dog whether they're not evaluating properly.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
I can also tell you this that when you constantly
tell everybody how great they are, even when they're not great,
I understand what you want to build up and be confident.
Like I said, you can have optimism and confidence, but
you can also criticize, critique analyzed the right way. That's constructive. Constructive. Listen,
they you can't Eventually what happens, Just like when you

(01:01:51):
get a yeller and screamer that's always constantly got to
be in your face, eventually you just shut him off.
The opposite can be true, whether it's a player, a coach,
a front office, what a fan media turn on your
television set when a guy just yells and screams all
the time, or it's always a racist comment, or it's
always this shouldn't be on there, it's always a negative comment,
it's always positive, and the same thing goes with positive.

(01:02:14):
It's great to be positive, but when you get to
a point when everything's got and silver lining is great.
But when everything's you know, just hunky Dorian going great,
right Dan, when it's not, you know what you do.
You can lose a team as fast with that as
you can as the guy who's always critical as you
just can they shut you off. I've seen it happen.

(01:02:39):
They shut you up. We've all done it. You got
you got somebody on TV you watch, whether it's news, sports,
that you thought you liked, and then they kept yelling
and yelling and ye, well there's some guy. And then
what do you eventually do they kept saying stuff that
just hot take you eventually just shut him off. What
about the person that everything's always perfect and great, that
perfect on that person on social media who always tells

(01:03:00):
you their everything. I'm telling you it's one thing to
be optimistic in paint a great pick because you're excited
and happy every day by approaching your day blessed and thankful,
all that's important, But even the blessed and thankful have
days that are like I gotta change something, Tony. And
that person on social media on Facebook that tells you everything,
aren't you? Said Max saying your life's not like that.
You're full of crap. You do have bad days, doesn't

(01:03:23):
mean you've got to share them all with everybody and
post the picture of it and whine on video. But
you do have them, and it's okay to let that
be known in a locker room and a work to
a friend, to your spouse. It just his and everything.
Like I said, you can't look me in the face
say everything's gonna be fine. I don't know if everything's
gonna be fine baseball wise here, I don't this year,

(01:03:45):
I don't, And I don't know if they're gonna hit
even when your note comes back, I don't know. But
I can tell you this, if you're not adjusting and
adapting regularly and sometimes come to Jesus, means you got
to let people know constructively. And it's this team. They
know they're smart, but it's one thing being smart and

(01:04:06):
knowing it. It's another thing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
I know I got to make some changes. Dan, you
talked about it, going to get in your shots. You
know you got to make a change. You for you.
If you don't, what happens just keeps going and going,
and then eventually now you're desperate.

Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
Right, well, then yeah, then you get into a situation
where it's too late for right and then then you're
in the chase mode all the time. You don't want
to be that in baseball. You don't want to be
in football, in any sport. And right now, put it
this way, this team is fortunate to be in first place.
You're here, I mean last night Christian Walker one hundred

(01:04:39):
and three point nine off the back ground out Korea,
one hundred and nine point seven. It's a single, it's nice,
But I mean, for the most part, all of the
one hundred's and good contact on the ball outs.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
And I know that sometimes you hit them where they
ain't and sometimes you hit it hard it goes to them.
And I understand the metrics and all the all this
and the analytics and the numbers. Right, we got a
statistic for us, We got statistics flowing out of our
ass man. And sometimes those statistics don't mean to hill
of beans. You tell me you want a wobbly touchdown

(01:05:14):
pass thrown from Peyton Manning like he threw him sometimes
to the tune of five hundred of them or whatever
it is. You know, you get my point. That a
touchdown pass that was accurate but didn't look pretty, we scored.
What about the one that looked pretty but it ended
up four yards over? The guy said, but man, did
you see that spiral? Same thing here. I don't listen.

(01:05:34):
I'll take a bloop single, a seeing eye single, a
bloop double down, the line that kicks in and kicks
right and goes there.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
They said, well, keep it a hard eventually it's going
to turn around for you. Sure, but you know what
also turns around. A boop single gives a guy confidence say, okay,
it's it's in your mind. You're thinking, okay, right, that's
the one that's going to turn my time around. Give
me a average. Oh I didn't even hit it hard.
You got to be hit more. How do you think
the Arizona Diamonbacks won a World Series? What was that hit?

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
This was probably about like sixty problem, probably the least
amount of explosion off the bat that Louis the Gonzo
ever had, Louis Gonzales, And what do you do? They
won a World series? Yea, so I understand all that, Well,
we're hitt it hard. Great, that's awesome. One hundred and
three miles an hour. I see guys throw one hundred
and three miles an hour before and the ball ends
up over in the bob Bucher area. God rest his soul,

(01:06:28):
and it's a ball.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
I don't know. You want results or you want pretty.
I don't. I don't, I don't. I'd rather win ugly
than lose pretty. Well, right now, they're not even losing pretty.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
And then even the one that they won ugly was
incredibly ugly because well, you scored because the other team
made the wrong defensive decision on that place.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Well, they capitalized on it and adjusted to it and
won the game.

Speaker 7 (01:06:51):
You got that going to say, they haven't right now?
That's right, So tell me how things are going, Aggie
Doug see you right there. A little bit of a
stakeouts overtime because somebody did something after doing something memorable,
but was it overkill?

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Show continued. Have you ever asked been asked to quite
you once? My favorite one thousand people? Well, listen, a
thousand people said this. We only have three hundred and
twenty million people once. Yeah. I never have been asked
one of those questions in my life.

Speaker 7 (01:08:47):
I've never Sir Upholster got me as I was coming
out of the precinct and I was like, all right,
who you with? And they said and I was like
how long is this? And they're like two minutes. I
was like, so this was when you when you're voting. Yeah, okay,
that's one thing they're hovered. Yeah, all you get those
guys ice keep walking? Yeah great, Hey, I've had that
I'm talking about, you know. Have you ever I've never, like,

(01:09:08):
seven months before voting, just just hey here the poll
say he's leading, right, Well, yeah, because a thousand people
in that state said so, okay, I guess I should
buy into it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:09:18):
A thousand people makes me laugh, man, Yeah, no, it
is always quite comical. But what is not comicals The
show's losing in ten innings last night? Walk off walk
does them in one?

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Nothing lost? An ugly phrase exactly, walk off on. It
almost seems redundant, but I mean it's really what it was.
What it was. Yeah, So facts are facts, whether you
like them or not.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
Texans another day of practice, final preseason game coming up
Saturday against the Lions in Detroit Houston Open. Going to
be a couple of weeks for the Masters this year,
March twenty six through twenty ninth over at Memorial Park
golf Course. We'll get to Aggie, Doug and Sheena here
in just a second. But speaking of the Masters, Rory
McElroy when he won last year, sean he went into
the Master's merch shop afterwards and asked him how many

(01:10:03):
pen flags do you have? And they said eleven hundred.
I want them all. He wanted all eleven hundred of them. Now,
I'm not sure what the hell you can do with
eleven hundred Masters pen flags. I mean pretty much, you know,
you just need one and I don't even know if
you know eleven hundred people, maybe now you know he's
signing them, giving you know, giving him the charities title
auction off.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
I think that that would be I don't know. Maybe Rory.
Rory has has a golf course on his property. I
don't know if he's you don't have some people do
he's got enough money.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
To do it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
I mean, it's sure maybe he does. He does, but
I'm talking about a full golf course, not even a whole.
Maybe he owns a golf I don't know, but I
would think that that's exactly what it's for. Maybe for
you for your memorabilia room and all that, or your pet,
you for your friends, but like a like a good
baseball card that you have a bunch of them to sign,
I would I would assume that maybe for Rory, it's

(01:10:53):
let me get them all and I can use those.
Since he won his first man, he would have gone
in there and bottom off, he wouldn't won. Last year.
He went in there and bought him because he won,
And now it makes it even more valuable that he
can sign for people, and it makes for a good gift. Hell,
I'd like him to send me one. There's a eleven
hundred him out there. Yeah, so I mean, I gotta believe.
And he said he will never get sick of signing them.
So he is doing that, of course he is. And

(01:11:16):
I can't blame him. That's a tough win. And he
got one, and he's got enough money to afford all
eleven hundred of him and then some. And the key
if he goes back and wins the second one, does
he go back and say how many? There's twelve hundred
this year, Rory, I want them all. But it's a
really it's kind of clever, right, What a cool thing
to send somebody? They say, is car here, let me
include this for you. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
So he also said because they're playing in Atlanta this
weekend for the Tour Championship and the season effectively is over.
I mean, I know they have the fall swing, but
then after this it doesn't pick back up till Jack
cups the last big thing, right exactly, So he'll get
ready for that. But McElroy said that he has a
plan trip with friends in some Augusta National members where
he would be required to wear the green jacket. But

(01:11:58):
I don't think that that's going to be too tough
for him, Like I feel like that's one of those
that you know, oh, hey, you know you got to
wear a jacket.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Oh I do.

Speaker 7 (01:12:05):
But in that case, right there, you win that jacket
and they tell you, well, sir, you know now you're
an honorary member of Augusta National. I'd say, let me
make sure that it's dry cleaned and dry cleaned again.
I will wear that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Instead of telling me I have to wear it, I'll
tell you I'd love to wear it. You can take
your jacket off now, sir. I prefer not to, no
doubt about it. I was watching yesterday they were it
on the Golf Channel and they were interviewing like Sam
Burns all a bunch of players just going by about
the format at Eastlake this week now, and to a

(01:12:37):
man before they even got through, it's like, you know,
I mean Shane Lowry Burnsy Sam Burns, it is like, well,
you know, because they've changed the format. It used to
be you'd get a certain stroke lead, you'd go in
they would be seven under before you start. The next
guy in second place as seven strokes down before you've
teed off. Well, this year it's not everybody starts even
every single one of it. At some point said, come on, well,

(01:12:59):
it's kind of ny this year. Act. We're not spotting
Scottie Scheffler ten strokes. It's tough enough to beat him
when you're in front of him, or it's even let
alone when you're giving him strokes. At least you know
you got a fighting chance that you're not spotting the
best player on the universe in any sport right now.

Speaker 7 (01:13:18):
He needs to pull to pull a santy wheeler to
really fall apart stick For anybody that doesn't know out there,
I recommend it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Great show. My guess is Scotty Scheffer would be somewhere
on the leaderboard early and late. So but I love it.
They're all out like shaded Sam Burt eat, and they're
not doing it together. They're all in different, you know,
different areas where they go interview, and to a man,
it's like, well, you know, we're not spotting Scotty Scheffer,
the best player of the world, so we at least
we go in with a chance. Uh what chance that is?

(01:13:47):
Who the hell? If he plays his a game, it
won't matter. He might as well have spotted him ten strokes.
But yeah, that's a pretty cool ten million for the
winner and he's already won like twenty eight on this,
on this.

Speaker 7 (01:13:58):
If you're on scott if you're on Scotty's bag, you're
you're probably really enjoying that that bag has gotten a
lot lighter?

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Is it the normal course? Is it the normal? The
winner gets like ten percent of the isn't that? Has
it been on this? Isn't that seven normal?

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Pass?

Speaker 10 (01:14:14):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
What they do? We? What do you win last week?
For that win? Four million bucks or something? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:14:20):
So nice little and so Chris Kirk's uh, caddy, who
but you just bought a house with a tournament. That's right,
not bad? And Ted Ted is making more than a
lot of golfers on tour. He's bought four houses. I'm
sure loud because he just every every time you wake up,
they're in the money or they're winning tournament.

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
I told you the.

Speaker 7 (01:14:39):
Story about Bones mackay my. But he met him one
time and you know, and he asked him, Hey, where
are you from? And he told him where in Georgia
is from? Oh I got a house there. Love that place.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
It's caddy, Oh yeah, yeah you know, yah, yeah, I
got got a house there. Yeah, he's got it. Main
because because there's many others. I love Bones. You know,
good broadcast a great it really is. Yeah, somebody hits
one last week into the rough and like it's one
of the I think it might have been Robert McIntyre
and it was either Dan Hicks or one of the
broadcasts goes, well, Bones, you know what it's like to
be over there, don't you. I mean a guy who

(01:15:10):
was going to take a meaning take a shot. The
guy was grabbing like a club. You say, he can't
hit that out of there. You also need because he
had Phil Micholson to talk him out of it, right,
but he's bones. You have pretty good idea because he
was following mcintyren shovel. You have a pretty good idea
what it's like to have to hit out of place
like that and and hit shots they're near impossible. And
they were talking about Phil. Obviously.

Speaker 7 (01:15:29):
You also need the caddies to almost be kind of
like the doorman bouncer, where you know, you get some
overzealous people, give him some space. He's got a swing. Yeah,
Stan really still be very quiet, quiet place. I was
going to say, no, you'll you'll have some that will
do that was it Stevie Williams, although Stevie like to
make it about himself.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
Yeah, oh they'll If you're not doing it, you're not
doing your job. Quiet the golfer shouldn't have to say.
That's part of the cat that's part of that ten
percent you get for winning firs. Yeah, that is pumping
out a half.

Speaker 7 (01:15:57):
Yeah you got my back out there, bones. Yeah, thank you, Yeah,
no doubt. Thanks Fluff.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
I can't wait till tomorrow. Joy enjoy, enjoy that next cigarette.

Speaker 7 (01:16:05):
That was always what cracked me up to You see
Fluff Cowen walking down the fairway. You know he's got
the facial hair going and the mustache and he's got
a smoke. Yeah, you know, just just just puts it,
you know, puts puts the cigarette in really quick, takes
the butter out, takes the cover off, wipes it off
the towel, gives.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
It to you.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
That's why. That's why I like even go over like
Miguel on hell h Menez where he's getting ready to
off the cigar, flicks it on the side, It smokes
one down the faaraway win it picks it right back up,
keeps the peeps going down the farewell and look what's
the while you work?

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Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
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Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
Ladies. First, Shena, good morning, Shena.

Speaker 14 (01:19:05):
Good morning. So I wanted to get y'all's take on
the offensive substitutions in the eighth inning. You know, obviously
I'm not putting this. You know that this is the
reason we lost, or that this game was on a
spot it. You know, we got to hit. But I
was a little confused. And what got me kind of
looking at it a little closely is that you had
schoolbol finally out of the game. Right hand pitcher Finnegan

(01:19:28):
in the game, and I was listening to a radio
at this time, and Sparks and for one of them
had said, you know the spot and must like left
hand batting against Finnegan. Not sure why, so I kind
of looked at it and I saw his splits. You know,
for Finnegan, it wasn't really like, you know, obvious that
you want to hit put lefties against him. The whip

(01:19:50):
favored lefties a little more. The batting average was actually
a little better righting. So but it was pretty you know, equivocal.
I know Chaz, you know, we took out Chaz, he.

Speaker 7 (01:20:00):
Took out he took out every single one of your outfielders.
You took out Dubond, you took out Cam Smith, and
you took out Chaz.

Speaker 14 (01:20:05):
Yes, yeah, And so I understand maybe Sanchez coming in
because you know he's slumping right now, but he does
have good numbers against right hand pitching, and the only
way to get out a slump is give him some opportunities.
And Chaz does not hit good against right hand pitching.
Hit he definitely favors left caies. So maybe I understand that.
But Dubon, you know, he does hit better against lefties,

(01:20:26):
but his right hand pitching numbers is like two forty five,
two fifty, and for cam Smith it's you know, only
slightly down from you know, it's basically equivocal writings first
lefties for his batting. So you put in Trammel, who's
batting like two ten, two fifteen, and Melton, who's below
the Mendoza line and doesn't have a home run in
Major league baseball. Yet I didn't understand putting those guys

(01:20:49):
in at all, you know, I you know, Dubon's numbers
are better, He's got more experience as a hitter than
like Melton. And you know, Cam Smith, I know he's
you know, been down the second half of the season,
but definitely I see, you know, more opportunities to get
runs and get on base with him than Trammel or Melton. So,

(01:21:10):
I you know, I'm just like, am I missing something here?

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
No, you're not. I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:21:15):
I Mean, the only one that I had an issue
with Sean was Melton because for the reason that Sheena
had brought up, he's not a major league hitter right now,
and I mean he even wasn't that very impressive at
the Triple A level. He looks like a guy at
the moment, not to say that it can't change. He's
a four A player. You'll get good defense, he's got
good speed, all of those things, but the bat's not there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
I'm not putting him up in.

Speaker 7 (01:21:40):
A high leverage situation where you really need somebody on
base because I don't trust he can get on base.
And as Sheena laid out, and the numbers will show you,
it shows you he's not going to get on base.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
It's the scary and Sheena's spot on you, as are you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:21:56):
The one thing through all that that just kind of
kind of hits me that you're scrambling around to find
that you don't know precisely who the guy should be.
Does that make sense to you? It looks desperate right that.
It's like you grab backing because he did it on
Saturday too.

Speaker 7 (01:22:11):
He emptied out the bench and the next guy after
Rheumoniareus would have been the pitcher's spot.

Speaker 4 (01:22:15):
So what's the word that feel? Just to feel, like
I said, our affinity for Joe Spotta is through the
roof love him. But you do have to question some
things as you would as they did Dusty, as you
did aj hinch pulling somebody, you know, all the things
that go on that all those things that you have
to deal with. And he's in his second year, he's

(01:22:37):
going to he's a manager. That thing crap happens just
like with players. But doesn't it reek of at times
that there's some desperate moose because you're just trying it
and and you're looking around because normally you find the
guy regardless of the metrics, over what the analytics say.
You have that certain guy that comes off the bench.
It's going to be a first cout theventure. It's kind
of like a six man in basketball, right where you
need to hit and a key point if Alt two

(01:22:59):
bay's on the No matter who the picture is, what
are you gonna do? You're going to bring up out too. Sure,
so I'm talking you. You get a guy and you'll
have that bench guy that you know about right six weeks?
Sure aren't we saying in this in this case? Isn't it?
I'm not real sure? The desperation of the other Right,
So the word desperation does fit here. And if you

(01:23:19):
can and if it continues, that desperation puts you in
some bad, bad tough situations and you make and we
all get skewed in an artistics how many of how many
times you made a decision that it was desperate? We
all do and you're like, well you have I wish Yeah.
I was like, man, I wish I'd have got out
in front of that a little bit more right.

Speaker 7 (01:23:36):
We would maybe have to skip through data today for
that discussion.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
And let me just let's just put this out there
with all we all have disdain for decisions or why
you did this or why the empire's call? Or why
did Yoe make this move? Or what's wrong with you know,
why we keep popping up on first pitches out of
the strikes on why are we chasing you know, non
competitive strikes. The one thing, though, also is when all
is said and done, Joe's spotty doesn't have a bat

(01:24:01):
in his hand, and you're a paid major leaguer, he
ain't swinging the bat for you. So regarding we may
disagree with some of the people he puts in, like
Shena was saying, but when all of a sadden when you
are strolling to the plate, I believe you're one at
twenty six, correct, Yeah, so what does that mean? You're
paid to produce. Well, the Angiel doesn't mean a hill
of beans if you're getting if you're not putting the
ball play. I mean, it's the thing, even with the struggles.

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
To Shena's point, and I agree to hey, Zeus Sanchez,
you want to give him a chance because he does
have the track record just and haven't seen it here.
And I also didn't really mind Taylor Tremmel and he
ended up factoring for you defensively, even though his tailbone
was the one that took the run of that one.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
But Aggie, Doug john.

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Speaker 7 (01:27:03):
Jordan Alvarez, though first action since May the second, playing
with the corpus, Christy Hooks last night two for four
single double also walks a couple of times or at
least flies out a couple of times, and the Texans
back on the practice field this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:27:20):
Don't forget Astros GM.

Speaker 7 (01:27:21):
Dana Brown gonna join us at nine thirty for his
weekly visit. Speaking of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
as Me and Matt me and Sean. We're talking about
Matt during the break. Short show for them today, only
an hour for Matt, so he's really putting in the hours.
This afternoon. Oh he'll probably have to host day it is.
It is day game today, so a little lunchtime afternoon

(01:27:44):
baseball for the Strows. So hopefully you're able to keep
your appetite while watching this offense at the plate, because
it hasn't been easy lately. As a matter of fact,
it's probably if you've been looking to drop a few
and you've wanted to do a little intermittent fasting, watching
this offense will make you less than hunger.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
That's a fact. That's the fact. Jack. Was that Bill
Murray and Stripes? Yeah, yeah, yeah that Uh. It's it's
amazing how quickly it can turn around both ways. A
month ago, what were we saying that this was a
World Series team? And now you're saying, oh, Ken are they?

(01:28:26):
Are they playoff team?

Speaker 7 (01:28:27):
I was gonna say, you mean, I almost want to
go Jim Mora on you playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
We'll talk about playoffs, right, So I'm talking playoffs because
that's they should hear that, right. But it's it's it's
amazing how quickly if you don't know, you don't know,
Jim Moore was was something else, no doubt. Good dude,

(01:28:51):
kid's a good man too, That's what I hear. But uh,
but yeah, I mean the astros.

Speaker 7 (01:28:55):
I mean, just something to get this team going, because
I mean, you know, we played the audio earlier from
Joe a spot. I maybe we can reprise that for
you hear in a little bit if you missed it
at the six o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
But I mean, you know, staying positive.

Speaker 7 (01:29:07):
Oh you know, we're putting together good at bats, all
the same stuff we've heard, and yet again you get
four hits last night, only one of them for an
extra BaseT and consequently that was the one that you
had the your DZ play at the plate doesn't work
out for you. And I look, I used to be like,
you know, Paris Chica, why are you sending them right now?

Speaker 4 (01:29:24):
Why the hell not? Why not?

Speaker 7 (01:29:27):
It's not it's not like you say, hey, let's let's
get ourselves in position for a beginning.

Speaker 4 (01:29:32):
You haven't had a beginning in about two weeks. You're
talking about sending dias at the end. Yeah, no problem
with it. And I'll tell you why is the exact
reason you're saying. For me, it was like, did you
really trust yourself if you hugged up at third, that
you're gonna push him across. No, And at that point
in time, it's going to take a really good throw,
it's going to take a the everything every and even

(01:29:53):
then we can say he was safe. But everything that
comes into play, you're like, my chances are better with
the ey dea is running to home plate and trying
to beat the throw. Then they are me holding him
up and playing passive baseball and not giving us a chance. Well,
my gut tells me that he would have been standing

(01:30:13):
on third anyway had they not. You do get my point,
You keep up next and maybe, but my point is
the way they're swinging it, you have to if you're
the third Bay coach singing any if there's gonna if
it's close, I got to send him to see if
maybe the catcher drops it, maybe he misses the throw,
maybe he misses throw, why short hops him, whatever it is,

(01:30:35):
it doesn't hold on to it, I would have. I
understand that there's some that frustrated he sent him. I
don't trust the bats enough to keep standing on third
and us coming here today and say, why in the
hell wouldn't you send him. I'll take my chances. I'd
rather be aggressive and go for it. Then I'd rather
regret what I did do than what I didn't do. Well.

Speaker 7 (01:30:53):
They definitely tried and it didn't work out for him,
and now the Astros find themselves losers of three straits one, three,
two and two five seven ninety is the number to
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us going in the eight o'clock hour, John, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:31:08):
Hey man?

Speaker 15 (01:31:09):
You know what the lady that called there is man
to go. You know, I just want to definitely agree
with her. I saw no reason for that. Either you
don't take a car out of the race and you
have one lap to go, and you bring in a.

Speaker 4 (01:31:21):
Car that's not as fast.

Speaker 15 (01:31:24):
That didn't make no sense for him to bring Tamail
in Sanchas in that game and take du Bon and
cam Smith out, especially since Dubon is known for winning
games like that. It made no sense at all to
do that. Joey Spider I never lived dead. He'd been
great this year, but it is what it is. You
made a mistake last night. You got paranoid. You lost

(01:31:47):
your cool.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
You brought you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
You don't bring.

Speaker 15 (01:31:50):
Guys in that game hit over guys that have hit
it made no sense. In the races almost over that
made no sense.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Jig Rice math you was back up.

Speaker 7 (01:32:01):
He is tam appreciate the call, John, I mean, you know,
I gave my thoughts on the Melton one. I mean, Dubon,
he's just like everybody else. It's it's not like you
can point to anybody here, like there was a buddy
of mine earlier, Sean that said, really, the only somewhat
consistent performer is Jeremy Panion I said, and he hasn't

(01:32:22):
even been great. I think he was six for thirty
five coming in the last night's game. And he does
get a hit that's nice to see. And I mean
he is a much improved offensive player then he has
been for the last couple of years. All of those
things are true. But I mean I mentioned him jose
Al tuve oh for four, Yeah, I know for four
last night he was four for twenty four coming into

(01:32:43):
that game.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
So do the math where he is now? Yeah, Dan,
It reminds me when I when I watch you know,
when Joe said, we're having some really good at bats.
You know the frustration that you got from it, and
I get from it as well. I know you're staying positive,
but you still got to critique it. It's like you
had a fifteen footer. Oh that didn't sound right? When

(01:33:04):
you had a fifteen foot putt.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
And a guy some would say why I argue with that,
but you argue right, And a guy hits the putt
and it misses, rolls two feet by.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
That was a great putt. No, Now it feels a
great putt, right, good putt, good, good, good distance control? Oh, good, right,
which I mean is a thing. But a great putt
goes in. Yeah, And we're having really good at bats,
really good at bats. Tell me that you're scoring runs.
So if you want to tell me, we've had some
decent at bats from some but overall our approach to

(01:33:40):
the plate has been quite frankly underachieving. It's good. And
it's okay to say once in a while that we
are playing poor baseball. Yeah at the plate, And if
somebody's offended, they're going to have to get over it.
I can't double rant you because it's already out there.
Because I went off earlier and try to say it,
but I get it out. It's fine, and it's on
our socials if you missed it, yeah good, well there

(01:34:03):
you go. So there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:34:05):
I mean, it's and it's also where you know, there's
a delicate balance behind doing it, like where I feel
like you have to throw it out there.

Speaker 4 (01:34:14):
I brought up the Augi Gurito video numerous times. Oh yeah,
I'm not worried about I'm more concerned about the calling
something good that is great, that's not great, or good
that's not good.

Speaker 7 (01:34:23):
But the point I'm going to with this is, I mean,
I had a couple of buddies of mine that were
on that team. We're in that locker room when they
got that documentary footage, you know, just absolute ash chewing
from Augi Gurito, and they said, here's the thing. He
didn't do that very often. It got to such a
crescendo that he felt like he had to. That's why
that's why we all sit there, and that's why we

(01:34:44):
all sat there and took it, because we knew that
he had a reason to be.

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
That's why I'm saying, if you're a constant screamer and yeller,
it falls on deaf ears if you're a constantly telling
me how great everything is when it's not great, that
too falls on deaf fears. Yeah, no, I you know
the the oll everything's you know, with birds are singing
around your head when you wake up in the morning
and put your feet on the ground and man, everything's No,
it's actually not. And it's okay to say that the

(01:35:09):
Astros are in some trouble right now, injury wise, they've
been in trouble all year and they've been resilient all year.
But we don't play one hundred and thirty five of them, Dan,
we play one hundred and sixty two of them. As
I've been told a million times right that it's a
long season. But I'll tell you what. Guess what it
is now. It's a short season, Yes it is.

Speaker 7 (01:35:27):
You're sixty nine and fifty seven, so that works out
to one hundred and twenty six games. Yep, So you're
under now that you're you're you're at you have Let's see,
what'd you say, how many games? One hundred and twenty
six thirty six forty six fifty six is thirty games.

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
You've got thirty six games left.

Speaker 7 (01:35:49):
So we've heard what Dana Brown said about that stretch
about twenty twenty five games left to go in the season.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
Oh, if you're not in a dead sprint now, then
then you're you won't win the race. Well, better start
picking up the pace.

Speaker 7 (01:36:03):
That's all I can say, Andy Biscuit, Robert Ce all
right there also too, as I mentioned that show a
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Biscuit Man hadn't heard from Biscuit in a minute. What's
going on? Man? Where you been?

Speaker 10 (01:38:46):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:38:47):
Dan the Man?

Speaker 1 (01:38:47):
Dan?

Speaker 8 (01:38:48):
You know I heard something one day? You go on,
there are are you in the front of four ones.
That's where you grew up.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
In the full one, that's it.

Speaker 7 (01:38:56):
Yeah, yeah, bell air Born raised Condit Elementary, Pershing Middle School.

Speaker 8 (01:39:00):
You know, because I said I had I think the
decade of the nineties, I delivered in the full ones.
That is that Burger plays the Burger.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
Place, biler Berger Man, Breilerberger was a legend.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
Man.

Speaker 7 (01:39:14):
So I think that it went away. And then I
want to say that someone was going to bring it back.
Somebody hit me up on Twitter if they've brought it back.
But uh, yeah, I'm I. I think it's our I
think it's gone the other route of r I P.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
Biscuit.

Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
Oh man, that was in good Burgers, man.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Frink Fries.

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
You know it all man, Yeah, let me say this, man.

Speaker 8 (01:39:35):
Uh, this is when the manager makes his money. Man,
when the team was not doing well, you know, and
you don't want to beat panic Sean, but I think
it's time, you know, maybe it's spotted. Might need to
make some changes in the line.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
There better be a sense of urgency with it without apologizing,
no doubt.

Speaker 8 (01:39:53):
Yeah you know what I mean for me? Uh, and
I don't know you're scoring me if I'm wrong. The
problem for me with the lineup is a three, four
or five. They're not getting enough production from spots. You
gotta make your money at you know what I mean, seven, eight,
nine and not it, you know, okay, but three four five,
those guys need to knock in some people. And for

(01:40:16):
my I don't know if i'm you know, correct me
from to me, I would move Korea back in the lineup.
I would take him out of the two old. I
would put him into either four or five. You need
somebody to come up. It's gonna knock some people in
when you got people on base, and when they don't
get him on that much, but when they do, you

(01:40:36):
need somebody to cash him in. And I think Correa
is the type of guy that if he's put in
a spot where somebody's on base two hours or whatever,
I trust Perea to try to come through even better
than in the second. I think you just you don't
use you're not utilizing his string. He's a clutch type
of gamer type of guy. And I think, you know,

(01:40:57):
I would move him back and maybe put Walker maybe
that's six or whatever it may. I still might leave
dias afore, but I think Korea to me, I think
you need to move back in a line, will me
to move out? Would make them out this one.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Yeah, if we're talking about biscuit, great stuff and appreciate
you calling brother as always and make a great point
for me, and you can change it. But I I
would it go painyal tuove jord On when he's here,
and Karey would hit in the four hole. I trust
him more than I do Christian Walker and yinderda Is
both because I know in big moments at least the
guy's delivered. Now if you want to go by this

(01:41:31):
year and he came here and started off with the flare.
I think he has a flare for the dramatic. I do,
and I think he loves it. So whether he's you know,
he's he's slowed down a little bit, but just his
body in the four hole right now now. If you
wanted to put jord on the four, him at three,
but I want more bats opportunities for Jordon. I am
putting him Al two a's not hitting him the three hole.

(01:41:52):
I'll put al two A two, pay you one al
two A two jord On when he's back three and
right now until further notice, craze it in the four hole,
because right this year, I really don't have a lot
to trust as far as the lineup. Who's going to
deliver in the clutch on a regular basis? In that
And he's right, we said it all along. If three, four,
five aren't good, you're usually not very good as a
team overall. Just not if they're not consistently, they're gonna

(01:42:13):
have their slumps. But where you go around the teams,
those guys deliver. You think, you know, those guys perform,
and this team in the past has had those guys perform,
including guys at the back end of the lineup. But
those boppers, got it. Those are your Those are your
Those are the big knockers. Those are the ones that
have to take care of their business. And right now, okay,

(01:42:34):
game seven of a of an elimination game Playoffs World Series,
I'm selling good okay, but you got one out left,
and I'm giving you a choice in game you can
make it, and we're gonna change the lineup Walker, Diaz
or Core in the four hole. This is your last
at bat. Who's a guy on third? You're down a run?

(01:42:55):
You know the answer, Okay, So then put him in there.
Now that that that's where he belongs well, and it's
also where for optics too. Just when players see him
come up, I guarantee they believe Carls Korea is gonna
d he believes he's done. That's exactly right. And listen, analytics,
the great Clint Hurtle said it, and I pulled up
this quote again. You can measure everything with a radar gun,

(01:43:18):
with radar guns and analytics, but none of these can
measure guts and nuts. And it is a fact. Now,
the guys we just named who on this team over
the course of time when he was here, analytics be damned,
had guts and nuts. Dusty, Well, I'm talking about it
in the Korea of the guys, it's Carls Kraa guts

(01:43:40):
and nuts. Sometimes, when it gets right down to it,
a piece of paper in your hand is going to
be the reason. And you tell me piece of paper
proven guts and nuts, which way you go in if
your life, if your career depends on it, I'm going
to go with your guts and nuts.

Speaker 1 (01:43:57):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:43:58):
Yeah, that's and so for me that that's that's where
you gotta and it's going to take a bunch of
that down the stretch to do this. It ain't gonna
be a card that's going to be the difference. I
assure you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:07):
The fact of the matter is that this team, if Correa, Altuve,
Payania in whatever order do not factor, it seems like
it permeates to the rest of the team because it's
not gonna be Christian Walker, it's not gonna be yanor Diez,
It's not gonna be Mauricio Dubon cam Smith. Cam Smith's
giving you some good things this year, but second half

(01:44:27):
of the season, cam Smith has largely been a non
factor for.

Speaker 4 (01:44:30):
You at the plate. You can tell the the rookie
depth is it's getting to him. I mean, pitchers haven't
event they don't how to pitch him, and I'm sure
he's tired. I'm not making an excuse for him. He's
a rookie and play so long. But the only way
you do it is you got to You gotta stay
in it right And this is kind of what we expected.

(01:44:51):
At times, we knew his gifted. He should be here,
He's going to be a hell of a player, but
he was going to go through this and like anything,
third time around for a pitcher, sometimes they'll get to you.
For him, the longer the season goes, whether it's a
tired mind or a tired body, even though he's competitive,
wants to play. You knew he's going to go through this.
I mean, don't they all? And so I expected this.
So it's listen but part in biscuit mention. This is

(01:45:14):
where a manager earns his money, not you and me him.
This is where manager GM, whoever's making the decision, get
together a coaching staff and a managerial team with it.
Managing that you're not looking around for answers, you're deciding.
There's nothing worse than indecisive at this time of year,
nothing other than the lack of production. But indecisive leads

(01:45:37):
to lack of production. So to go, make decisions and
live with them. But make decisions that are aggressive, not passive,
and truth Sometimes you're just going to have to look
at somebody say, almost set you down. You're not producing. Sorry,
your feelings are hurt. In essence, you're going to basically
have to get over it. Can you imagine managing a
team or coaching a team and you have to worry now,

(01:45:58):
worry about feelings being respectful, But can you imagine that
you have to babysit twenty that you'd have to manage
everybody's feelings that any time it wasn't favorable conversation that
you had that you would have to be tread lightly
on what how you approached the players enough, there's no
need to make it harder. That's exactly right, having to
you'd have to keep an analytics card on that. Well,

(01:46:19):
this guy gets offended when I say this this, I
don't think that team's this team, and he can't a
manage like that. He's got to manage because if Joe
was being honest, he's a good baseball man, he knows baseball.
You're not having great at bats. I'm sorry you're not
having good at bats. Some guys are having them at times,
but we're talking about the overall umbrella consistency. The truth
of the matter is he needs to look at his

(01:46:40):
team and saying we are inefficient and below what we
need to be. We are not a good hitting That
didn't say we're not a talented hitting team. We're not
a good hitting team, and right now they are not.
It's painfully obvious. If you can't see that, then he's
then then Joe doesn't belong there. Joe can see that,
and you also got to stress it. And the players
can see it too. It's okay for them to know it.

(01:47:01):
And we're seeing it play out right now. And speaking
of Joe, is it as bad as it seems? We'll
We'll let you decide when you hear from him. After
last night's one Nothing Lost. Randy Roberts, All right there,
you want to join them?

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Speaker 7 (01:49:33):
And we're there for The Sean Salisbury Show continued played
this a little bit earlier in the six o'clock hour.
If you missed it, your chance to hear it now.
But we've been talking about these at bats, just how
this team is going right now, how it just kind
of seems like it's a hey, stay the chorus.

Speaker 4 (01:49:50):
Everything's fine.

Speaker 7 (01:49:50):
You know we'll be able to just miraculously work our
way out of it. And usually if you're the person
that feels like you're being offended by this, you just
don't trust that that's going to be the case, because
you feel like the other one is in a rut
and they're just unable to find their way out of it.
They're unwilling to change at a certain point. So at
that point words don't matter. But in this case, last night,

(01:50:12):
you're facing trek Scuuble, tough pitcher. You knew that you
were not going to get a ton of offense against them.
But Joe Aspota, this is the first cut from him
talking about their approach against trek Scuble last night.

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
He's a tough pitcher.

Speaker 9 (01:50:27):
I thought that we asked them some good at bats,
We hit some balls hard.

Speaker 4 (01:50:30):
I told them play at the plate.

Speaker 9 (01:50:32):
Was could have gone either way, but I thought we
compete it and we put barrel on the ball and
we just couldn't We couldn't do enough.

Speaker 7 (01:50:42):
Okay, So you're probably frustrated by that response from Joe.

Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
Me and Shawn are included.

Speaker 7 (01:50:46):
You've heard it for about two and a half hours
now how about this one. Just the overall offensive struggles.

Speaker 9 (01:50:52):
I think we just going through a little stretch where
good teams, every team goes through, and we're really good team.

Speaker 1 (01:50:59):
This team is going to hit.

Speaker 7 (01:51:00):
Okay, look, Sean, me and you, we've said it numerous times.
We don't have to continue to repeat it. But for
this sake, I will. We are Joe a spot of
fans that right there is insulting to your fan base
and that it's just because a little stretch. This has
not been a little stretch. This has been for the
better part since Estach Peretis went out against the Seattle

(01:51:21):
Mariners and you won the following day. But you have
not consistently had good offense. You came back home, you
got swept by the Cleveland Guardians, and then about a
week later, you got swept by the A's and then
you also, we're lucky to get two out of three
against the Washington Nationals. It has not been consistent good baseball,
especially on the offensive end, for about a month and

(01:51:41):
a half.

Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
Now, that's not a stretch, that's a pattern. There's no doubt. Yeah,
well what happens once it's you get it happens twice
you start to want to happens three times. It is
a it's a trend and they're they're trending the wrong
way when it comes to the plate. But it's been
an inconsistent season. This isn't there. Their inconsistency is not new,
but the the rock bottom is. I mean, when it

(01:52:04):
comes to performance at the plate, they are and I
know some guys are hitting the ball hard and it's
going to somebody. I get that. There's that analytics woo
Man exit velocities off the charts, but it's not producing
what you need to produce to keep you in some
games and be as competitive as you need to be
and be a World Series caliber team, which this team
has that in mind. This is not just a team

(01:52:25):
that thinks playoffs. They're at their past that they got
to get there. There's obviously stuff you got to knock
down on pins, you got to knock down on the
way there. But let's face facts, there's nobody You don't
have to be an expert in baseball when you watch
this team right now. At what point in time this
year you said this is a dominant hitting baseball team.
I didn't say talented, I said production wise, dominating team.

(01:52:48):
This is who they are this year. This year. Now,
they may go on a hot streak and win ten
in a row and hit and Rake, but that doesn't
mean they were that way for one hundred and forty
other games. So you just gotta It's just we're talking now.
I ain't talking about Game three. I'm not talking about
Jordan's injury. I'm not talking I get all that. But
you're still a paid professional. You still get paid, you
still got a job to do, you still have expectations. Listen,

(01:53:10):
there's no way Joe believes his team's having great at bats.
He's trying to sell it. There's nobody buying it. Some
are good at bats, and when we say they're not,
it's not one or two guys. It's the overall consistency
of the at bats and their production. And they're driving
the baseball and they're slugging, and they're putting the ball
in play, and smart decisions and not chasing non competitive piction,
all those things that we've talked about ad nauseum. Listen,

(01:53:34):
the truth is by telling this that real good at
bats were cold, we're just not. The last part was
the right part. He could have simply answered it by saying,
and I love Joe Aspata, We're not getting it done.
We are not. We means him, your staff, your players,
we are not getting it done, and we cannot continue
to play this way if we want to get where

(01:53:54):
we want to go into conversation, Why is that? Why
would that offend anybody? Can you believe the manager said that.
If it was me, I'd be saying a lot worse.
I got news for you, So God bless him. Okay,
God bless him. I'd never make it personal, but I
got news for it. And if you the truth is
you is a player should be taking it personal. He
doesn't have to tell it. You should be taking it
personal that you're hitting one ninety seven with runners in

(01:54:17):
scoring position. If you're not, then you're not as good
as we thought you were, or you're not as competitive
or tough minded as we thought you were as a player.

Speaker 7 (01:54:25):
Whoever that might fall on. Oh you think that's good
what you just did out there? Okay, Well I got
tough news for you.

Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
It's not good six singles when you get beat ten
to nothing or whatever it is, that's not good at bats.
I'm sorry to tell you now. Tarek School we can
make everybody look stupid. He's made everything you do going in. Unfortunately,
we had our best going against their best, and their
best got the best of you, which is a bummer
because normally Hunter Brown, well he's gonna post, gonna give
you a perfect chance to win. Can you give him

(01:54:51):
two runs? You knew it was gonna take the under yesterday.
So there's nobody You don't even have to be a
baseball fan. You can just be an average casual view
to watch this team over the last let's just say
twenty five games. Forget the whole season. The whole season.
You can look at the plate and I can get
there's just as much. There's just as much not good

(01:55:12):
at the plate as there is good. Now, you've been
fortunate at the time when you're not getting stuff at
the plate. Hunter Brown gives you a two to one
win if you're not getting it from or goes out
there and gives you seven and a third and you
score seven runs, and then all of a sudden, bam,
you come back and win a five to four you know,
walk off or what. But there hasn't been enough of it.
They're fortunate there in first place, but they are in
first place. So there's a silver lining. Yeah, after all this,

(01:55:35):
you still control your own destiny. Well, I mean that is,
as you mentioned, the silver lining, but it's also where
we've only about a handful of times this year coming
in and said, hey, the bats they showed man, they
haven't carried the pitching.

Speaker 7 (01:55:48):
The pitching is still carried the hitting this year more
often than not, I would say probably ninety five percent
of the time this year, that has been the case.
If I'm a player right now, Honestly, from my personality,
I'm not saying that was an all, you know, all everything,
but my personality, it would be insulting for you to
come up to me right now and say, hey, man.

Speaker 4 (01:56:06):
We're having really good at bats. I was gonna say, now,
you know, hey, look you're you're getting it done. It's okay,
you know, all's fine if you want to tell me
it's coming along. But you know, what what can I
do to get better? I mean, no, no, no, this this
this baseball team is not hitting good enough to sustain
a playoff run. Simple.

Speaker 7 (01:56:24):
It kind of reminds me too of a team that
loses their final regular season game in the NFL and
you're wondering if the coach is going to get fired,
and you find out he's not gonna get fired. But
then him and the GM go to the podium the
next day and they say, hey, we're doing the right things.
We're on the right track. Things are good. Oh they are.
Because you lost your last game and you didn't make
the playoffs. I would say that that's not on the

(01:56:45):
right track at that point. Something is a miss. You're
just delaying the inevitable at this point. If that's what
you continue to think that is the case, because clearly
you're not good enough to make the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:56:56):
Like that's one thing. When Kevin mchayble was.

Speaker 7 (01:56:58):
Here, I remembered Rockets had a pretty season, probably not
the most talented team, and they're like, hey, decent season.
Stop the reporter, and he said, no, it wasn't. We
didn't make the playoffs. You don't make you don't make
the playoffs. It's kind of good seasy. I think Michale's
pass as a player would settle for that. Hell no,
it wouldn't. And boss, of course he wasn't.

Speaker 4 (01:57:14):
He wouldn't. Now they could turn it all it off
like all right, answers, Okay, Let's say this was the
final series of the year. Play this with me real quick,
and then you can comment on it. After the final
series of the year and Seattle goes and and sweeps you,
or when it wins the division and you lose the

(01:57:34):
wild cartoon. Let's say the playoffs ended this weekend. What
would you say about the Astros just we had three
games left?

Speaker 7 (01:57:41):
I said it last night. I jumped I jumped the
shark last night. I said it last night that I mean,
you're not gonna get from or back. I get that
you're gonna have money to be able to work. With
the charge of Dana Brown. This offseason is significantly improved,
this offense, okay, significantly.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
Well, what would you say about the current team if
it ended, if we had a this after detroil. Let's
say Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Was it failure season? You
had a one game lead and you lost, you got swept,
and they beat you by two games and they won
the division?

Speaker 7 (01:58:09):
Failure of a season? You had the lead for the
majority of the season, you did not close it up.

Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
Okay, Then I say, Dan, give me the three things
in order, which are the reason you'd put injuries there
give me the two others. Not hitting nobody's business and
he probably you might even stay on the offensive side
of the ball.

Speaker 7 (01:58:25):
In not being able to stop people from getting extra
bases on you.

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Okay, So, whether it's now, if this continues like it
is up and down and thirty games from now, and
if it were to happen thirty games from now or now,
if they don't do what they want to do, what
is going to be the reason. I just gave you
my answer. Okay, So that's my point. So this isn't
overly critical. This is a matter of fact. I think
at times we've probably undersold how that how much you've

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had to carry hitting along with you this year.

Speaker 7 (01:58:55):
Unfair criticism would have me searching for answers. I don't
have to search for an right there. You know what
an unfair compliment is. And disingenuous is telling me at
any point in time, uh that right now that the
Astros are there's a lot of good at bats.

Speaker 4 (01:59:11):
No, there isn't. I'm sorry, I don't buy into that.
I'm not going to either.

Speaker 7 (01:59:15):
It's lipstick on a pig, I mean, and it's and
it's just continuing and until you decide you're gonna change it.
The same thing's gonna continue to happen, you cause.

Speaker 4 (01:59:23):
Great colone on it. And it may for a minute, right,
but by the end of the.

Speaker 7 (01:59:27):
Eventually it wears af Thank you, ye Joe, excuse me,
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Speaker 7 (02:00:43):
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Speaker 12 (02:00:48):
Morning, guys, thanks for taking my call. Hey, uh so,
God bear with me for a moment, because I I did.
I was looking at the numbers, and so last year
the Astros average four point five six runs a game.
This year right now, they're averaging four point two zero
runs a game. So they're pretty much the same. They're

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on pace, Grady win. But I looked at twenty nineteen
and they scored nine hundred and twenty runs in that year.
So if they keep treading that, if they keep treading
the way they are, they're gonna be might at two
hundred and thirty nine runs per year since or since

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twenty nineteen. So it's like that, I mean, listen to
the Astros are now, I mean they lose Kyle Kunker Bregman,
and he didn't have Gordon hard Way at all this year.
And I mean that's two hundred and ten RBIs last year,
so that's like one point two to nine runs a
game to those three guys. I mean, it's honestly, it is.

(02:01:56):
It's amazing that they're even in the situation right now
and they're all pay the waves again like they did
last year. I just with the with the offense going
trending down in the last couple of years, I just
don't I wouldn't be shocked with this is just you know,

(02:02:16):
borderline wild card team and you know, maybe an experience.
I just, you know, I hope I'm wrong, you know,
but I just you know, that's just how I feel
about it. And you know, the numbers don't lie, right, Yeah, yeah,
the numbers don't.

Speaker 4 (02:02:32):
Yeah. No, Robert appreciate it. I can tell you this well,
you just said it. They were they basically the offense
was carried by the pitching last year for the most part.
And what happened last year in the playoffs, the offense
lets you down and they got eliminading two quick games. Man,
it wasn't even particularly close, right, right, and then the
first one, yes, and second one and then this year

(02:02:54):
runs down differential. Like I said, I think you're seeing
a lot less pitches than other teams offenses for their
bad their order, the patients and the aggressiveness and the
controlled and proper aggressiveness. But and right now you continue
to produce this, you can't get through the playoffs hitting
like this.

Speaker 7 (02:03:09):
They're plus sixteen right now in run differential. The Mariners
are plus twenty four. The Rangers, who are seven and
a half games back of you, are plus forty six.
The Toronto Blue Jays are plus fifty four. They lead
the Al East. In the Detroit Tigers are plus ninety
one leading the Central.

Speaker 4 (02:03:25):
So not gonna notice the difference. That's the runs due. Yeah,
and it's a massive difference major. So yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:03:32):
Again, you want to continue to say you're having good
at bats, the numbers that definitely prove otherwise. And that's
the way it's been for the Astros here at the
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Speaker 1 (02:05:50):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (02:05:50):
Mike wants to weigh in.

Speaker 16 (02:05:51):
Mike, Hey, good morning, guys, good stuff. I might ran
a little bit here like others should bear with his name,
but I'll keep it you as I can. You know,
I'm a native of Uwstonian. I'm a lifelong fan of
the Astros. I'm old school. I'm maybe strong about the
same age as you. It maybe the same age, but
it was a different era that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:10):
You grew up in.

Speaker 16 (02:06:11):
And by the way, I love the way that you
approach interviews and just kind of this whole your rent
and both of you guys. The rant on Monday morning,
I made sure I was awake and listening to hear
that because it was exactly kind of what I'm feeling.

Speaker 1 (02:06:24):
You know, this this season.

Speaker 16 (02:06:27):
It's unreal what the team has done, given everything that's happened,
you know, the injuries and so forth. We all know it,
and the fact that they're leading the division, especially now
what's going on is just.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
It's fascinating, isn't it. It's crazy, right, no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 16 (02:06:42):
Yeah, but this last stretch, Look, it's been twenty eight innings.
I think this is right. They haven't scored a run.
And I'm not too smart, but in baseball, I do
know this. If you don't score an runs, you're not
going to win the games, you know, I mean, And
the last time I saw the the last time that
happened was like forty years ago. Go and and it
just I heard the comments about a spot out. You know,

(02:07:04):
I'll give him some grace. I do think they scored
a run last night and the fourth then, but but
the ump said no, so they didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:07:09):
Give him some grace for Scoobal.

Speaker 16 (02:07:11):
But even in the tenth inning, and I think Dan,
I heard you say this earlier. They didn't move the
guy over when they won that game the other night.
Nextra innings they did. They got lucky, and you look,
a win's a win. Friend of mine posts a great game.
It wasn't great game, but it's a win. That's what matters.
But that tenth inning did move the runner.

Speaker 1 (02:07:27):
You cannot we all know this. You can't walk the
guy in.

Speaker 4 (02:07:32):
Unbelievable. You've got to throw strikes. You just have to,
like you don't have a choice.

Speaker 16 (02:07:36):
I'm serious about that, but you know, put it in play.
You don't know what's going to happen. But when I
hear a spot of the coach speak, I hope, because
you know, John, your old school, I am sometimes you
need your tail kicks. I'm like you Sean.

Speaker 1 (02:07:49):
Without the athletic ability.

Speaker 4 (02:07:51):
But I'm I played.

Speaker 16 (02:07:53):
You know, you gave your butt kick a little bit sometimes,
And I hope he's doing that, and I know it's
not going to change it. They got to do something different.
I don't know what the answers are, but I hope
he's given it to him in the clubhouse something. Anyways,
it's frustrating.

Speaker 4 (02:08:09):
I'm a fan.

Speaker 16 (02:08:10):
In the end of this is a gang. It's jobs
and careers for those in the organization. I'm looking forward
to your interview with Dana Brown and I'll close it
with a little bit of levity here as I close out,
which I want to know who has the fifteen Twitter.
I heard that segment and that's really impressive.

Speaker 4 (02:08:25):
So Scotty Scheffler on Sundays.

Speaker 1 (02:08:29):
Straight.

Speaker 4 (02:08:30):
Thanks, appreciate good stuff.

Speaker 7 (02:08:32):
Man, you'd like to have a little bit of Scotty
Scheffler in this clubhouse right now, especially at the plate.
I mean, that be a little bit more clutch gene
than I were seeing at the minute.

Speaker 4 (02:08:43):
I may need some uh Wyndham Clark, you know, say,
throwing clubs.

Speaker 7 (02:08:48):
I mean, as long as it's not ms, it's not
as long as it's not hands and you know, feet
and all those kind of things. Where Hey, those bones
in those areas are pretty small. That thing's pretty hard.
Guess what breaks not the locker?

Speaker 4 (02:09:00):
Yep? Well, once again, the definition of an insanity is
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
a different result.

Speaker 7 (02:09:08):
I mean, and that's The thing is, it's kind of
to the point here where when you keep going the
way that you are. I'm not saying that this is
the case, but it's the perception of it and a
lot of people's eyes that's all that matters. When you
continue to look like, oh, you know, shuck, so we
didn't get it. Oh we'll get them tomorrow, break a
damn bat. I mean, I'm not a big throw a
helmet guy, but at least if nothing else, it's a

(02:09:31):
okay they care. They're feeling it too, And maybe that's
what it is. You don't want to see people, You
don't want to let people know that you're bleeding. All right, fine, whatever,
But I mean, at the same time, like show something
that makes us believe, Yeah, this is getting to you
and you're frustrated and you want to find a way
out of it.

Speaker 4 (02:09:48):
I don't always believe that stay the course is the
is the right answer. More often than not, it's not well,
adapt or die. That's the sing to live by. You're
on your yacht, dan and some waves are coming. But
they say if you go two miles to your to
the west, you can get out of that and have
smooth sailing. What do you what are you gonna do.
I'm gonna go to the west, even if it takes

(02:10:09):
a little longer to get there. Yeah, okay, So I.

Speaker 7 (02:10:12):
Don't like traffic and I don't like huge waves. I
just you know, it's one of my one of my
biggest fears of that's how I'm going to go is
out in the middle of the ocean, right, and I
don't want that.

Speaker 4 (02:10:21):
The analogies are endless, But the fact of the matter
is you can't look at this team and say we
are hitting the ball. Well, we're having good at bats.
Somebody may have had a good at bat, hit the
ball one hundred and three miles an hour. I get
it was with Christian Walker. I care more about production.
That was it the Dodge Yankees homeward eight times last night?

(02:10:42):
Nine Oh, that's right, they hit a night that's right,
You're exactly right, nine time. Matter of fact, I think
it ties an all time Yankee record. Yeah, I knowed Ballpark.
I get who they're playing. I don't care about that,
and I know schoobl schoobl is a semi hall pass.
But you had your guy going to and guess what,
they scored a run. You didn't and those those controllable airs.
You walk to the run in the guy didn't get

(02:11:02):
a layer of throw his bat out and get a
boop single the left. You walk the running and the
final pitch wasn't close.

Speaker 7 (02:11:08):
You didn't You didn't even give yourself a chance to compete.
Is really what it boils down to. I mean, you
put yourself in a position where you want to be able.
And that's why I said it too. Whatever pitch you
have that you know you can throw for a strike,
or at least have a good idea that you can
throw for a strike, trying to make a perfect pitch
right there, and you yank it and you get what

(02:11:28):
you got last night? Like, what are we doing? Man
puts the ball in play, he hits it for a
single somewhere. I can live with that. I can't live
with not giving yourself any opportunity. You basically kneeled on
the football. Right, these all can be true, You're right.
One is they've had a lot of injuries. Yep, you've
done a phenomenal job.

Speaker 4 (02:11:47):
You threw it away on fourth down right of stay
on and didn't mean to. Yeah, you threw it down
because you didn't know you're turning the football over anyway,
just throw it, maybe you get a tipball catch. So
the all this can be true. One is you injuries
have affected you. Sure you've been resilient. Yes, you're in
first place, which is quite frankly pretty amazing. But it

(02:12:11):
also true is you can also blow that first place lead.
You can also get there by you know, you've had
some smoke and mirrors this year and get there and
then when it gets to nutcut and time not come through.
I'm not talking about the last year's Astros five years ago,
some time about this year's team. You can also have
somebody performing well in the rest of the team not
performing and still lose. And sometimes when all these things

(02:12:33):
are true, but what I don't want is to get
caught up and for me is much respect. And we've
talked about a nauseaum. How what a job. A month
ago Joe Spotted was the manager of the year in
my opinion, and I think a lot of others. But
those things can change too. Well. A month and a
half ago Kyle Tucker was the was an MVP candidate

(02:12:53):
in the National League. No right, So things change in
a hurry, and they can all be true. The only
thing that really matters when it is all said and done,
is did you get to the to the destination. The
journey is a trip, man, it's paved, it's unpaved, it's up,
it's down, it's it's all. The journey's unpaid. But you still, regardless,
you go the destination. While you may want to enjoy

(02:13:14):
the journey, the journey could be tough to enjoy when
you're going through this, but you still got to fight
through the journey. But the destination is what we all want.
But this can also be true of all the good
you've done and thirty five games, you can ruin it
and get eliminad in the playoffs and nobody gives a
rats ask which you did when people were hurt, they
were banged up and injured. Because if we do that
in this in this city, or fans or media or

(02:13:36):
team starts to think like that, then we become third
place team gets a ribbon guy. And that's not this team.
Save that. Save that right now for a team that
that is not used to what that's gone on, that
that is used to finishing in third, that wins one
once in a while, but comes back. Okay, man, close

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to the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (02:13:58):
Yeah, we won seventy games the Relands being close, we
lost the game.

Speaker 4 (02:14:02):
That's exactly right. The goal isn't to kind of get there,
it's to get there, and this team getting the playoffs
is a goal. But if you get to the playoffs
and get eliminated early, nobody cares. So I just am
you know, I don't want third place ribbon, hang a
banner and everybody it's you know, the hey man, Let's
just always say positive is great, Enthusiasm is great. But
sometimes come to Jesus is better. And this come to

(02:14:24):
Jesus needs to happen. I don't know how or who,
but it's got to happen. It may just as simply
as come as Jordun comes in and starts hitting balls
all over the ballpark and people start to feed up.
I don't know, but I know this. They're not having
good at bats and their hitting is a detriment to
this club.

Speaker 1 (02:14:38):
Right now.

Speaker 7 (02:14:38):
It's losing, and it has and it'll continue to lose.

Speaker 4 (02:14:42):
I don't care where you come from, what analytics you
can tell me the detriment the hitting. The hitting right
now is here's the greatest comparison I can give you.
The hitting right now is the Texans twenty twenty four
offensive line. That's exactly what it is. Some good when
the balls snap, pretty good, not real physical balls out

(02:15:04):
flying out of the ballpark, pre snap penalties, walking, a guide, walking,
a run in with a non competitive pitch, all those things.
The Texans hitting is right now, simply excuse me. The
Astros hitting is right now, simply the Texans twenty twenty
four offensive line. There, you got a good place. Yes,
the Texans got eliminated round two. Yeah, And are we

(02:15:28):
looking at them saying they're not talented, that they don't
have a good manager, I mean a good coach that
they're not Yeah, they got all that young talent too,
great defensive backfield. Guess what came up short? And the
offensive line was a detriment right now. I didn't say
the talent, just the way they played, the way the
hitting is. The hitting is not a plus. The hitting

(02:15:49):
is a minus for this team right now and has
been up and down for most of this year.

Speaker 7 (02:15:53):
It's a liability, right I mean, it's as simple as
can be, no doubt, and it's playing out that way
right now, all right. Like I've said, and we've said,
the silver lining. But what if the silver lining is
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Speaker 1 (02:18:29):
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Speaker 4 (02:18:31):
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Speaker 7 (02:18:31):
They had to walk through yesterday over there, Cam Robinson,
Titus Howard. So good to see some of the guys
that are making their way back as we get even
closer to the start of the regular season and the
Texans hope and they can win the AFC South yet again.
But seOne three, two, one two, five seven ninety is
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us for his weekly visit and Shawn all morning. We've
been saying the silver lining is, well, you're still a
game and a half up in the West. That's gonna
be short lived because I understand we've done the schedule
game and you know we do this all the time
where oh, that should be a win. But how many
times have we done that with the Astros this year
where hey, you got a series four games against the Orioles.

Speaker 4 (02:19:13):
They're not very good.

Speaker 7 (02:19:14):
Well, they just took two out of three from you,
so they must not be too bad. And they also
have you for four at their place. But the game
and a half you have right now, you've got Seattle
in Philadelphia finishing up their series today, the Phillies trying
to sweep that series.

Speaker 4 (02:19:30):
Appreciative if they do it.

Speaker 1 (02:19:32):
But then the.

Speaker 7 (02:19:32):
Mariners go home where they don't lose, they win at
T Mobile Park.

Speaker 4 (02:19:37):
The A's for three. I gotta believe they'll handle that.

Speaker 7 (02:19:40):
And the Padres, who after last weekend kind of scuffling
a little bit. So you've got at least six winnable
games for you. You're Seattle at that point.

Speaker 4 (02:19:49):
Yeah, and the and the Padres, though the pottery is
are going to give them hell you know that Potter
is going to give everybody hell you talking about you
said the Padres scuffling. Is that what you said?

Speaker 7 (02:19:58):
Yeah, I mean I just got swept over the weekend
and the Dodgers, which which But in the other side
of it is they're not going to live there long either.

Speaker 4 (02:20:05):
They're too talented with both hitting and pitching. So that's listen,
you still can The greatest thing, the greatest silver line
is you just control it. Nobody else does. Seattle doesn't
get to control their destiny now over right unless when
do they play each other again? Do they have them anymore?

Speaker 7 (02:20:21):
The Astros will play the Mariners one of the third
to last series of the season.

Speaker 4 (02:20:27):
Okay, you're here at Dykins Park, so as we sit today, yes,
then we look at it if you're looking at fine toothcomb,
of course, if it's one and a half lead either way,
both will have an opportunity to control their destiny. But
right now, until you meet again the Dolls, you just
got to take care of your business. And if you
were able to extend it to four games, then you
then they wouldn't control You would control it. But you're

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in position, you're in first place to stay there, but
you can't stay there like this, You just can't. I
don't care who you play. I don't care who you play,
the all important Dodgers team, like we don't mean the
big boppers of Dodgers went and got beaten Colorado to
what three days ago? Two days ago? So it does
that these are it can't be an I dan, I'm

(02:21:08):
not resting any players. I'm sorry, I'm just not The
time for rest is done.

Speaker 1 (02:21:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:21:13):
Now if I'm sitting down because I can't improve your
chances at getting to the two seed, which right now
your four and a half games out of two. See,
you just got to look at your players and say
you're just gonna have to gut this one out.

Speaker 1 (02:21:24):
Man.

Speaker 4 (02:21:25):
I can't wait. I'm talking to Chipper Jones for something
I'm doing later today, and I can't wait to hear
what he says about about these types of situations. How
do you approach it from the old school when he
was a tweener, old school, right, there was old school.
Then there was that area that the kind of making
some chip, but he was still got that old school.
And now now how would you change it? Guys that

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are Hall of Fames. I'm always interested in what would
you do? What would that clubhouse look like? And it's
the same thing here. Somebody's got to Now you can
tell me what we got to do. I need to
know how see that's it, And that's a question I'm
going to ask for Danny Brown. How how are you chan?
How are you fixing this? It can't be stay on
the grind and stay and the grind's important. The resilience
is important, but that does to keep you somewhere. Thank

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you say, I can't make it a treadmill. We actually
have to be moving. You've got to be on the
pavement moving. And so I'm anxious to hear how Dana
Brown how his response is to some of the stuff
we're going to discuss here in a few minutes.

Speaker 7 (02:22:20):
I'm anxious too and look forward to having that chance.
And we're actually gonna do and have that chance right
here on the Shawn Salisbury Show for Dana Brown his
weekly visit here on a Western Wednesday Sports Talk seven
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Speaker 4 (02:23:57):
First place Astros GM. Dana Brown joins us here. Dana,
welcome in. Uh, before we hit the big picture to
get the last night. You and I talked last week.
Getting beat fourteen to one sucks, but you can get
over those unless there's two or three in a row.
But a one to nothing loss, although it was a
great picture, those ones are gut punches, man, especially the
way it ended. How'd you feel emotionally last night?

Speaker 1 (02:24:20):
Yeah, you get a range of emotions during that time. Look, ultimately,
when you face a guy like Schoogle, we know it's
going to be a difficult night going in. You know,
you got a cy Young Award winner throwing up to
ninety nine with a you know, a wicket change up
and a pretty good breaking ball. So you know, you
just try to battle through it and sort. Our guys

(02:24:42):
put up a pretty good fight. You know, we got
within that, you know, inches of getting that run when
Diez was thrown out at the plate, probably a different game.
We probably won that game, won nothing if we can
get that running. And so, uh, it's tough, but it's
playoff atmosphere, and you know, you you rather be in
those kind of games and battle through those games. It's

(02:25:05):
it's better for the team to be in that type
of game.

Speaker 4 (02:25:08):
Dana tough questions when things are going like they have recently,
and just like it's good stuff when things are going
great and you're still in first place, which is a
great silver lining, but it'll be tough to stay there
with the way they're hitting and with scoobl everybody gets it,
but with but they're getting mowed down by a lot
of people right now. When are we going to see
the offense actually carry the pitching as opposed to the

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pitching You have to carry this offense because there's a
lot of bad at bats right now for the Astros.

Speaker 1 (02:25:35):
Look, I would say the bat would be that sooner
rather than later. I think we're on the brink. We're
in striking distance. You know, teams go through this. You
know you looked at the Dodgers, you know they went
down that street. They were like, you know, they'll want
ten to twelve. Even you know Detroit, who we're playing
right now. It's at one point in July eight or
all twelve or thirteen teams go through these struggles. You know,

(02:25:58):
we're seven and seven in our last fourteen games. You know,
it seems like sometimes that you think this guy is falling,
but look the team is, you know, hanging in there
and showing the things that I talked about earlier, you know,
in the year with the grit, you know, the grind,
the perseverance. You know, we have to keep in mind,

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it's one hundred and sixty two games. This is a
winning team. We have winning players, and the sky's not falling.
We're going to be all right once we turn that
offense on, you know, I think it'll be for the
rest of the season. You know, we're right there at
the brink, you know, of turning and on, and I
think these guys are really working their tails up.

Speaker 4 (02:26:40):
Well, Danny, you're the expert. But from a distance or
from fans, or from our advantage player, my advantage point,
I'll put it on me on the brink, Explain to
me what that means and what tells you that you're
seeing twenty eight scoreless innings, whereas in some bat at
bats and some bad and non competitive at bats and
some inconsistent at bats. In twenty eight scoreless innings, I mean,
it's in almost forty years since the Astros offenses looked

(02:27:03):
like this with run. So when you stay on the
brink from your expertise, because you know more than I do,
what tells you watching your lineup, you're on the brink.

Speaker 1 (02:27:13):
Yeah, So I get it. I'm a fan of sports
my entire life, right, and so I know how it
is when you're rooting for your team and they're you know,
they just seem to be falling. Like I've been a
fan since five years old, you know, So I know,
and I love all the sports, and so I get it,
and I want our fence to know. Look, when you're

(02:27:35):
in the middle and in the midst of a winning team,
you know that it's just a matter of time before
this team breaks out. You look at the lineup, you
know we're gonna be getting Jordan On here back soon.
And I know we'll talk about that a little bit
later on the show, but we're going to be getting

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dord On back here soon. That's gonna really help our lineup.
If you look at all the teams across MLB, no
one I don't think has lost their big hit for
as many games as we've lost. Our guys and our
guys have stilled, continue to hold it up, keep your
head above water, stay in first place. I think it's

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just a matter of time before this offense breaks out.
And I think, you know, once you get your big
power hitter right in the middle and you have nowhere
to go at the other, you know, as the opponent,
when you're facing these guys every now and then, you know,
once you see that you got yourn back in that lineup,
I think it's going to be a dangerous, dangerous lineup.

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And so I really see our guys putting it together,
they grinding through it that you know, every now and then, Uh,
you know, we're having a bat where we may swing
a little early in the account, and you know, maybe
we should play a little bit more of the small
ball in terms of getting guys over. But you know,

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you put so much pressure on yourself as a ballplayer
when you're going through these times. You know, and you
listen to all the other major leaguers talk, they'll tell
you they've been on really good costs, and they've been
on clubs that have not scored thirty innings, that have
lost fourteen in a row at times, but still win

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the World Series. Or still go to the World Series,
or still win the division. You go through these down
times in this sport of one hundred and sixty two games,
and that's why the team that have a bunch of
winners that had the grit usually ends up one top.
And so I feel really confident about this team. I'm

(02:29:42):
not worried one bit. You know. You know we went
through some down times last year. You guys heard me
talk about it. Look, you guys are going to be fine.
The guys are going to be okay. I think these
guys are going to be fine. I'm not worried one bit.
They have to continue to grind and continue to show
up and you will see this offense explode.

Speaker 4 (02:30:03):
That promise you Astro's GM Dana Brown on his weekly
visit nine point thirty here on Sports Talk seven ninety
And Dana, that's why you're the GM because of that
confidence and you see it close and than we do.
But let me let me pound this even a little deeper. Yes,
injuries have been devastating, but the fascinating thing and we
all are fascinating still in first place after all the
beatdown and injuries. But let me take you just your

(02:30:25):
your your expertise into this looking at the hitting, and
I know I'm focusing a lot on hitting, and rightfully
so if you're evaluating your team's hitting with the injury,
I know, guys get hurt, but with the teams that
have to come to the plate, paid professionals that got
a bat, that's just the way it is. And you've
put a team together, and a good one, a damn
good one. What would your evaluation be if you're an

(02:30:47):
outsider looking at the Astros lineup? What would you say
about the way they're the consistency or inconsistency of hitting
throughout the year? How would you How would you rate them?

Speaker 1 (02:30:59):
Yeah, very good question. I would tell you that, look,
this is a If I was an outsider looking at
and I'm evaluating this club, I would walk away and go, man,
that's the heck of a club. They have really good hitters.
They can catch the ball and they can pitch, but
their offense is pressing right now. That's how I would
evaluate them. I would say, look, this is a dangerous lineup,

(02:31:20):
and you do not want to be the team that
get the fury when these guys turn the corner, because
at some point they're going to turn the corner. They're
going through a tough time right now, and you know rightfully,
so I understand it, I get it. I'm I'm you know,
I'm a fan. I'm watching, But I would say that
fury of this lineup is going to explode, and you

(02:31:42):
do not want to be on the receiving end of
this explosion. That's how I would evaluate. They're pressing right now,
and you know, guys are trying to, you know, fill
in for the injured players that we have, and you know,
maybe you know, some guys could use the day off,
but when you don't have the death because of injuries,
you know, you have to keep going out there. You
have to keep grinding through it. And I would tell

(02:32:04):
you at some point, and it's I feel it's in
the their future, this lineup will explode, all.

Speaker 4 (02:32:12):
Right, Dana. With that, you mentioned Jordon, and I'm gonna
get back to the to the to the lineup about exploding.
But with Jordon in the lineup, let's say he comes
back and is great. Is your lineup around him the
way they're producing good enough to pick up the temple
that they're Because if I'm playing you guys and Jordon's
in the middle of the lineup. He ain't seeing a pitch.

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He's just not seeing a pitch somebody else Correa Sanchez
al Tuve. They're going to have to beat me, So
why would I throw him a pitch? So how long
can you survive this? Even with Jordon hitting like this?
To go where I know you want to go because
you've built the team to a World Series because that's
your expectations. How how long can you survive this at

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the plate?

Speaker 1 (02:32:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:32:57):
Great point.

Speaker 1 (02:32:57):
So look, once you start see this is the beauty
of baseball. Once you start to pitch around one guy,
Now you've got a guy on base, and if another
guy gets to hit, it changes the whole dynamic. And
that's why I say one player is is that important?
And when you get that player back, it changes the

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whole dynamic of the lineup. Now I got to pitch,
you know, I got to pitch around your on. I
end up walking your on. Now okay, I got I
got the next matter. Now I got a man on base.
You know, anything can happen, a flare, a line drive,
a ball down the gap. Now you got first and third.
It's a totally different And that's why these guys you know,
you know that hit in the middle of the order

(02:33:41):
makes you know, decent money. It's because you know, when
you pitch around them, it's gonna you have to pay.
And so that's the whole point, you know, it's it's
easy to you know, once the guy is out of
the lineup. That's why it hurts. It hurts the team
so much, you know, when the guy is out of
the line up, and particularly when it's your big boy,

(02:34:02):
you know, anytime you big boys. You know, it's like
when Pinya went down, right, we had no yord On,
no Pinia. When Pinya went down, we started to struggle
a little bit because now you're taking out two guys,
and then Myers was out. Now you have a thirty
lineup out and the guys still held going and they're
still holding on and they're still showing the grit. But

(02:34:22):
this whole thing of a major league lineup, when you
look at a lineup and you start to evaluate this
lineup and you start taking pieces out, you know, you know,
look look at the choice lineup. You know, you know,
let me take out Carpenter, you know, let me take
out a Green, you know, let me let me take
out those kind of players, and it looks like a

(02:34:44):
way different lineup, right, And so that's the impact of
what you three players could make, you know, if you
start removing these players from the lineup. And that's why
I will not preach, stop preaching from the roof off
about how these guys have showed the grind and the
grit from all the eel days that we've experienced this year.

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And you know, I just feel like, once you get
these guys all back in the lineup and you're a
you're a pitcher and you got to face these guys
and you don't have an exit ramp, that's a tough
way to go. And so I feel like, uh, the
fury of this lineup is going to explode. We're on
the brink and we're looking forward to getting your on

(02:35:30):
that and and and then we're getting Myers fat and
and and then this being a whole different lineup and
and and then we can get on all cylinders and
and have a great run, you know, uh, towards the
end of the season and win the division and get
deep into the post.

Speaker 4 (02:35:45):
Sason, all right, Dana, you and I are old school
when it comes to grit resilience, all that, and it
holds exactly true. You are one hundred correct. That defines
your team. But at what point does grint and grind
and resilience not mean a hill of beans if you
don't get production on the end of it. Because you
and I both know GrITT and grinds great. But at
some point in time that stay the course, the GPS

(02:36:08):
breaks down and you've got to just find your way.
You got the grit and grind's got to become production.
How close are we from grit to production?

Speaker 1 (02:36:17):
Yeah? I think we're close. It's the grit and the
grind that leads to production. That's that's what the whole
point of the grit and the grind is. I don't
think GrITT and grind leads to emptiness, right, I think
the GrITT and grind leads to production. And I think
our guys have been productive enough one to hold on
to the lead, two to hang in there until we

(02:36:39):
get these guys back off the IL, you know, and
three stay on top. And it's it's been it's been
a difficult season. You know. At one point we had
the eighteen people on the IL, which is unthinkable, unheard
of and unrealistic. You know, for teams to remain in
first place when they go through that high from a

(02:37:00):
season of injuries. And so these guys are showing it.
You know, it's not the comfort that we all like
to see and that we want. You know, trust me,
we'd all like to see it. We'd all like to
see you know, ken game leads with you know, you know,
thirty five to go or whatever we'd have left to go.

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You know, we had the thirty six to go, you know,
it'd be great. You know, most seasons don't play out
that way. And if you've been in baseball, like I've
been in baseball for thirty six years, you know what
a bad team is. You know what a good team is.
You know what a team that has fight, grit and perseverances.
And so these guys have it. And you know, I'm

(02:37:44):
making a promise that you guys will see it in
the near future with the offense. And so we're on
the brink right and I think it'd be beautiful. I
feel like a profit if it happens.

Speaker 4 (02:37:57):
Tonight, well, good gracious, well all, I'll crawl ten miles
over broken glass to see it. My man Dana Brown
Astro's GM for a few more minutes here on Sports
Talk seventy seven ninety Sean Salisbury schell Jordan two for
four single, double, looked good? Why waste?

Speaker 1 (02:38:13):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (02:38:14):
Bats in the minor league? Are we could we see
him as soon as post Detroit Tiger Series? I mean immediately?
Are we that close?

Speaker 1 (02:38:24):
Look? I did it we leave in a microwave age.
I understand it. I want to microwaved as well. But
you know we've wait, we waited this long. We need
to allow him to get some at bats. I don't
think having him down, uh, you know for one week?
You know, is you know a bad thing?

Speaker 4 (02:38:43):
Is that the plan in a week is a is
a week kind of the plan? A week?

Speaker 1 (02:38:48):
I would say it's probably less than a week. But
I'm using a week as you know, just.

Speaker 4 (02:38:53):
A measuring the borderline.

Speaker 1 (02:38:54):
Yeah, as the borderline. I don't think it'd be more
than a week. I think it's you know, probably get
him back here less than a week. I would love
for you know, him to walk in and say, look
I feel really good and start fighting us saying let's
let's let's get back to the big leagues.

Speaker 17 (02:39:10):
And we still will probably say no, let's let you
get these at that. So you know, the plan is
if we can get them through, you know, at least
to the weekend, maybe we make a decision and get
them back, maybe for a game or two in Baltimore,
but that would be the earliest. But I would feel
very comfortable saying, you know, the next home stand, he

(02:39:32):
should be ready to.

Speaker 4 (02:39:33):
Go data with them. Well, that's good news. And I
mean we're all obviously impatient. I know you are too,
one hundred days and it's but he keeps hitting like that,
it'll sure help. Right, A couple of quick questions before
I get you out here. I never have enough time
with you. I could use an hour. I wish we
did in one of these days maybe and get you
here in studio. Is your bullpen because of the lack
of offense? Is your bullpen text or are they feeling it?

Speaker 1 (02:39:57):
Yeah? I just think you know, look, most bullpens go
through the you know, during the course of the season,
and we've we we rode our bullpen really hard all
year long, and and so you know, we would figure
that they would go through some downtimes, you know, and
that's just the part of the game. It's the rotation
sometimes going to have downtimes, the bullpen sometimes going to

(02:40:19):
have downtimes, you know, the defense sometimes going to have
down times, and so, uh, you know this, this, this
could certainly happen. And so I think our bullpen has
been really carrying us and working their tail off. And
then with the loss of Hater, with the loss of Hater,
you know, of course your you're taxed even more. And

(02:40:39):
so but I still feel confident that our bullpen is
really good and good enough. It's just that, you know,
in the course of this, you know, one hundred and
sixty two game season, you know you're going to go
through some downtimes, and no one, no one, that's the
beauty of the sport. No one can you know, be
elite for one hundred and sixty two.

Speaker 4 (02:41:00):
All right, I'm going to leave you with this, the
know the resilience and all that. Let me get to
just with your expertise, just straight baseball x's and o's,
THEO coys. To coin a football phrase is how do
you fix this data the bats, the at bats? How
do you get to a point with thirty six games
to go? Because we're in a dead sprint now and
you and I both know that the marathon's over. It's

(02:41:22):
now a sprint. It's like a four by one hundred
meter relay sprint. So how do you fix the x's
and o's of quality at bats, of you know, competitive
strikes when the bases are packed and you walk a
guy in. How does this get fixed?

Speaker 1 (02:41:37):
Yeah, I believe I mentioned it a little bit earlier.
There's a naturalness to fix and this and the first
part of it is you get your big boy bat right.
That's the first part of getting it fixed. The next
part of getting it fixed is everyone flots into their spot.
You feel a lot more comfortable. You take a lot

(02:41:59):
of the pressure off yourself. You stop trying to be
the man, and you know, just be a part of it.

Speaker 4 (02:42:05):
No hero, no hero ball is right, right, Daniel Dan.

Speaker 1 (02:42:09):
So the guys, everybody do their part. Right. I don't
need to try to drive this ball out of the ballpark.
I need to get on base for Euron. Right, these
are some of the things I don't have to be
the man today.

Speaker 17 (02:42:23):
You know, I got I got yourdon I got a
healthy urdon coming back and he's going to be the
man for a while, right, So you.

Speaker 1 (02:42:32):
Just play your part, you know, that's part of you know,
this whole ebb and flow. You just you just play
your part and take the pressure off yourself. You don't
have to be the man every day. I get it.
It's it's a natural reaction to try to field gaps
when you have guys that are hurt. It's just an actual,

(02:42:55):
it's a natural y aton. Oh I got to pick
up the club. Oh I got to do this, or
I gotta do that. And it doesn't always work that way.
You know. Just see yourself, make the good contact, don't
take good pictures, you know those kind of things.

Speaker 4 (02:43:13):
Dan, And the good thing will great stuff, Man, appreciate it.
Hopefully next Wednesday it'll be that you're out of roll
and you're on. Rolling is more pleasant when it comes
to production at the plate conversation, but awesome. And you
always take on the questions when they come, man. And
I can't thank you enough. And I look forward to
good luck today and we'll see you next Wednesday at
this time. Good luck on this next week as well.

Speaker 1 (02:43:35):
Hanging there are still fans.

Speaker 4 (02:43:37):
The offense is come on there, you go. Appreciate you, Dana,
that's Danny Brown. We'll come back quickly, finish it up
and get to the Matt Thomas Show. It'll be a quickie,
but we needed to keep them on and I can't
wait till I get an hour with them one day.
Come right back, Sean salisbra Show, and we're the Shawn
Salisbury Show continued thirty seconds.

Speaker 7 (02:43:56):
Still grinding, and that grind is going to pay off
for offense, says Dana Brown.

Speaker 4 (02:44:02):
Yeah, we'll see. He's confident in it. And he took
a lot of hard questions at him today. Yes, and
he knows and he's and I think he was well
expected it and he should have and I thought he did.
But you know what, all that's fine and Dany, grit's great,
but grit's got to lead to production and that's part
and Parson to it and getting the Ordon back. You
better damn well. Hope Jordan's back and productive, because this

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team's not good enough right now offensively to have to
carry him.

Speaker 7 (02:44:29):
Definitely not the case, and hopefully that is the case
that he is back sooner rather than later. He's Shawn Triple,
Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews here with you The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross and then Astros on Deck coming your
way at eleven o'clock, leading you into the Astros and
Tigers final game of this series.

Speaker 4 (02:44:46):
We will talk to you in twenty hours