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Saulsbrey, old By Houston. Okay, let's do this. Sewn Salisbury,
the USC Truths, longtime friend,Shawn Salisbury, Bryan Lima, go Lobos.
This is the Sewan Salisbury Show onthe season. They're off today,

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They're at the Yankees tomorrow. Playoffhockey continue to roll on. The Dallas
Stars take down the Golden Knights twogames to one. Show Otani hits two
bombs ten on the season for show. Hey Sean Tripley, good morning.
I hope you all had a fantasticweekend. Maybe a couple of drinks yesterday

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on Cinco de Mayo. Also atthe Kentucky Derby over the weekend a lot
of rain here in the city andthe Astros lose. Yeah. Man,
what a weekend. Huh. Startedwith our guy Nick Schwartz, and on
Friday night that was a blast.He was I was a home run,
grand slam, whatever you want tocall it. He was awesome. Yeah,
it was phenomenal. Glad we gotto go. It was phenomenal into

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our guy. He was special andgreat time seeing him after so good times
there and then Saturday Derby and Iwent out and got to see one of
my buddies. I went to thesenior golf event Spirity event. Yeah,
because my buddy is like the headof the broadcast team and communications and business
development and I worked with him foryears at ESPN. Got to see him.
Has been a long time, solove him. And Sunday Cinko DeMaio

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watched some Masters baseball dealt with alot of rain, and I'm sure a
lot of people around here did somegreat hockey, some good baseball and some
not so good baseball and a bunchof in between. And yeah, it
was and Cinco to Myles always afun celebration. So it was a a
fulfilling weekend. And it goes toofast still, but it was pretty awesome,

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man, And we saw some goodsports and some great stuff going on.
And my horse lost by a noseI had see early on. I
mean, I'm literally any I alwayspick a long shot to in case it
hits right. You say they namedthe horse pedro Leone, no Sierra Leone,
Oh okay, but I'm talking aboutliterally a three horse photo finish,
and it was down. It wasa great race and eighteen to one horse

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won. Drop a grand on thatyou had a pretty good day, Yeah,
you know, yeah, drop agrand but it was it was fun
watching those animals are amazing, man, and a great ride by the lead
jockey and mystic man. It wasa good race man, even though my
horse lost by like I said,literally it nos. And when you say
that, you're like, okay,what by length? No? Nos?
So it was fun when I saymy horse is like I own it.
No what I my pony? Butput a little uh a good song right

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yeah yeah, so uh. Itwas a hell of a weekend for sports
and we need that. And wehad some great Game seven with that Dallas
Stars and Las Vegas night so anda bummer finished in the Astros game yesterday.
It really was I got shut outSaturday, so that was you know,
they just didn't. It wasn't avery good Friday was good. Saturday
wasn't very good. But Sunday backand forth. They fought their way back.

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But you throw one right down themiddle and allow a guy to turn
on it, not too many goodthings happen. And that's a second home
run he's given up in a walkoff type situation or a late you know
game situation for Josh Hater. Butit was a it was a hell of
a game back and forth. Yeah, you talk about photo finishes. Got
to put some respect on the raceover it over in Kansas, Kyle,

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Kyle Larson another good that's exactly right. Don't leave that out. Closest finish
in NASCAR history point zero zero zeroone. How's that? Chris one extra?
Yeah, after that there's one extra, uh little draft or late push
and you just never know. Andman, what a what a run that

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was. It was a hell ofa sports weekend and it really was.
And then there was like another upsetin F one Miami or something like that
too that was going on this week, and I did not get to see
it. I saw some, youknow, some highlights of it. Max
Verse stopping did not win, LandoNorris did win. You gotta love Lando,
big big app upset over at theMiami Grand Prix, Maximilion. Yeah,

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Max Verse stapping, I guess apparentlyhe's like the one of the top
top dogs. Yeah. I don'treally watch it F one, but yeah,
maybe you should start. Man.There was a lot of good things
going on in sports, except forthe Astros losing another series, falling to
twelve and twenty two. What arewe doing throwing an O two middle middle
fastball to cal Rawley when you hadhim looking way out in front of a

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slide piece just before that, Well, you're doing it. Excuse god,
you choked up? Didn't you livewith your best stuff? And sometimes you
get beat by it. Yeah,and you get a little greedy. And
we've said, I mean, you'reDana Brown talk. But he likes seeing
hater throws the best stuff fastballs,and you know, but sometimes that may
not be the best time to throwit, right, And if you're gonna

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throw it, you don't want tomiss there. That's not where you intended
to throw it, absolutely not wherehe could square it up. And that's
that. You know, those Crawfordboxes are awful tempting, and that ball
was smoked, you know, Andthen you know what. And when you
watched al Tuov as well, watchinghim swing the bat this year has been
it's it's he's like playing as goodat baseball as he's ever played. In

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my mind, he's on an MVPtype There is no question about it.
Wrong team right now because the waythey're playing, but MVP type pay.
There's no question he is hitting everything, giving his team a chance on a
regular basis, and then you know, Tucker did what he's done, you
know, home runs and drives inruns, and a guy who's gonna get
paid at some point from somebody justkeeps up. But yeah, when you

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throw that fastball and you get goodhitters sitting on it, it's tough to
sneak it by them, right,especially I'm sure if you're the I mean,
you can't look slide piece when aguy can throw it ninety seven.
I think that was ninety four thathe hit ninety five something, but you
just can't. I mean, yougot to look at and he looked at
it and squared it up, andthat ball jumped out of the park in

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a hurry and a tough way tolose, and then they got closed out.
So Friday night was was a goodone. But Saturday and Sunday,
you know, they got to whatthree hit on Saturday and then yeah,
and I had a couple of longsingletons, you know, proven that he
wants to keep that job at firstbase, and it's a good watch.
But back into they and they've actuallythe last six or seven games there,

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he already been down and they donesome really really good things and unfortunately,
over all the whole season. It'snot you know, where they want to
be. And then closing out yesterday, the right matchup at the plate and
saw a pitch he could drive anddid and it was a bummer way to
end the game. Yeah, talkingabout Seattle will not go away this year
either. They're really good. That'sreally good. Yeah, they're really good.

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Logan Gilbert on Saturday Night, eightinnings, two hits, no runs,
six k's, four walks. Heimproved his record of three and oh
from aer on the flip side ofthat, not very good five and a
third, nine hits, five andruns, three k's, one walk.
He got knocked around, he's gotbarreled every what's his name yesterday for Seattle?
Why am I losing my mind?Hell for for Filer? Yeah,
for five, for five plus sixinnings, he was he was really good

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and they may have left him ina couple of batters too long and that's
when got the hit and Tucker hitthe home run, and then Singleton got
his. But you know what,when he's going that good and his pitch
count was down, so they're watchingit down, I mean, I get
why Scott Servis did that. Andyou know those guys drove the ball,
got back into it. But thesame things that make you laugh make you

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cry in the top of the ninthwhen he served up a pitch that they
could drive and hit it out ofthe ballpark. So good teams make you
pay. Good hitters make you pay. There's some good things going on with
the Astros and the way they swingthe bat. I mean, pain just
having a hell of a season withthe way he's playing. His defense this
year has been fantastic. And uh, obviously we mentioned al Toovey Jordan and

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I still his struggles continue, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean with
with the I'm talking about the consistencyand Alex Bregman just another pop up,
foul third base. He just notswinging the bat well at all. I
don't know what he's seeing or what'sgoing on in his mind, but he
just it's just even though he's aslow starter, this slow start looks a

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lot different to me. This looksway different, This looks way different for
him. Yeah, we can sithere and talk about how he's notoriously a
slow starter in April in May,but yet what we've seen so far from
him is just I've never seen itthis bad. And the truth is,
right now, we can't really affordhim, we meaning the Astros, can't
really afford him to be a slowstarter. I mean because normally if you

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slow start, everybody else's picking uphis slack. Right now, you know,
Jordan's not doing what he normally woulddo, and and Bregman, they're
they're not good enough right now withthe you know, the pitching staff starting
to get healthy, but they're justnot good at playing well enough as an
overall team to have a guy who'smoved back to the cleanup spot hitting about
one ninety five, Yeah, witha home run one of them. So

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that's got to you know, ifyou everybody else is smoking it, you
can, okay, hold off untilhe gets rolling, and maybe that'll be
the case and they'll go on abig win streak. But this is he
just it just looks different. Heis not swinging the bat well at all.
And I've seen more pop ups fromhim. I feel like in the
first forty games and I have orwhatever where I have towards thirty four to

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thirty five games that I have ina long time, they're not even outfield
pop ups. They're infield. That'swhat I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
just the outfield grass. No,And that's the concerning part. He's like,
he hit hit ballted left center centerfield, made to catch that. That's
the ball hit the hardest yesterday.But in situations where you need him,

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he's just not driving the ball atall. And you're getting to the point
are you going to keep fighting itkeeping him in the first four in the
lineup with the way some other guysare swinging the bat that are behind him
right when you look at how he'sstruggling right now, and you look at
some of your other hitters that areswinging it pretty well, how do you
not move him down like to thefive six. I hope that he gets

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going. I don't know. Idon't know what the resistance is. I
don't either, and I and Ireally don't want to hear. Well this
is you know, he'll he'll fighthis way through this, but you can't
keep fighting your way through it andkeep You know, they gained two games
on you this weekend, the Mariners. Did you know you gained a gain
on the game on No. Onegame because you split the the one Saturday

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and then they won side, sothey gained another game on you. I
just and yes we'll continue here.It's early, but we're getting to a
quarter part of the season, andI I I don't know why the resistance
is. Is it an ego thing? You can't move him out of the
top four. I mean, maybeit's six or seven. He does get
going, maybe he does. Youcan't have your cleanup hitter hitting two,

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hitter hitting one ninety five exactly,and he's been both. So it's a
which you don't want to do.You don't want to will get going your
way right out of ten games behindif it keeps up, you know so
well, I say, you see, here's the thing with the Astros.

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You see some really good things everygame for the moment you do. You'll
see al Twove seems every game we'retalking about his performance, or you'll see
a good Bullpins performance, or youknow, getting a good start like a
Verlanders start or Singleton coming around,which is good news. You needed power
at that position. And the wayPayne has played all year, I mean
the middle infield, damn. Imean I haven't looked around at all the

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numbers in the American League, butthat middle infield right now is both all
star players. The way that thePania al tuo Vey are playing and Tucker's
doing his things. So you thinkabout this, think about what Singleton's now
starting to do, and you thinkabout Tucker, Paynya and al Tuove,
just those three this year, youthink we got three hellified players, all
star type players, and you lookat just how important it is. Other

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stars have to other players have toget going. Because even with that,
you are ten games under five hundred, you're ten games yea. So even
with that, even with that,uh, the you you you're you're still
struggling. So they're they're right nownot good enough to overcome a couple of

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your stars not hitting well. Idon't know if it's an ego thing or
why you can't move Bregman into aspot where he's starting to get comfortable.
I don't know. You know itlooks uncomfortable. If if you look at
this lineup and you have Bregman inthe four hole and he is not swinging
it well, and you have Singletonstarting to swing in a little bit,
well, why don't you just switchthose two that would put Bregman in the

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six hole. Why don't you giveit a shot? I don't know,
what do you have to lose rightnow, you're twelve and twenty two.
Another game, Yeah, you're twelveand twenty two. Yeah, another game.
I don't know why. Somebody he'sstruggling mightily, and another another guy
that's that's kind of cooled off abit. Is Yan your Diaz. I
think he swings in more first pitchesthan anybody in the in the lineup.

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Yeah, it's start of the grindof everything. It's it's and it is
a grind, especially the position heplays. Yeah, we've got a lot
to cover. The Astros fall tothe Mariners two games out of three over
the weekend. Let's here's some audiofrom Josh Hater. He talked about his
lack of execution last night. Hegot the loss, gives up the home
run. Man. Tough, toughweekend for the Astros. That's next on

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seven nineteen one playoff Hockey Stars takedown the Golden Knights. To listen to
The Shawn Salisbury Show, Sean Brownand Tripoli here with you. Josh Hader
spoke to the media after the gamelast night. He gave up a go
ahead home run on an O twocount to cal Rawley, left a fastball

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middle. Middle talked about the strugglesat the back end of the bullpen in
spaceball. Man, I mean,nothing's ever easy in this game. I
mean you can write it up andsay on paper it's always always looks easier,
but you got to go out thereand do what you do and execute
and do everything in our power todo it. Obviously didn't fell fell our
way, but he said, wewe do what we do, We put

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in the work, we stick toher routines, and you know, eventually
it'll turn on for us, itkind of sounds like Matthew McConaughey. You
think he sounded like Matty McConaughey.Yeah, Matthew McConaughey. We do.
We do what we do well.They do what they do, and they
just blew their eighth save of theseason. By the way, Swardson knows

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how to imitate McConaughey. And yeah, I mean, of course, and
that's a lot of you. Youdo what you do, and you get
your routine and sometimes work and sometimesit doesn't. I'll tell you who's baffling
to me as well. At timeshas been Brian Abray you, oh yeah,
yeah, had a balk hit abatter, right, yeah, hit

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the tying run, balked him ina scoring position and they'll throw ninety nine
and get you out. Yeah.I mean, he's been it's anything but
what he's been. What he waslike last year was special. It's it's
like a one hundred and eighty degreesdifferent this year. He's not the same
picture right now. So, Imean I know that we back in gets
the hater gets a lot of youknow, wre We're counting on him to

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close games obviously, but a breakyou. Hasn't been the same picture either,
even though there's been some good stufffrom him, it's been it's it's
fluctuating between good bad and some reallyugly. But you're right an O two
pitch, that's not where you wantto throw it. And I think Hater
knows that, and I know,put it this way, it'll turn around.
But you can't keep throwing balls therefor it to turn around for the

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team, right, And he knowsthat. I'm telling him anything he doesn't
know. But these guys were hittersare way too good for you to uh
throw it play, especially on anO two count. Bounce the damn thing.
Yes, I mean, and heknows better than that. It just
gets away. I mean, listen, sometimes where you want to throw it
in exactly where the ball goes.And I know we expect him to be

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perfect all the time, but he'snot on an O two count throwing it
right there and hit it. I'mtalking about. It was just slightly slightly
you know, to the hitters,to the right handed hitters, sweet spot
from middle. I mean, itwas sitting it's in dead red, sitting
right there, and he did.He sat on it and probably knew.
I mean you can't sit there andhit it like that not expecting fastball,

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right, Yeah, cal Rawley.After the game, I was asked about
the O two count and he said, quote, I was looking for for
the heater hole at bat and adjustingto anything else. He made two good
pitches before that. I didn't comeoff my plane. He left it in
the middle of the plate and Igot to it. Yeah, I sure
did. And uh, you knowone thing about it. I know about
catchers too. You always think,well, they should have a pretty good

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idea about sequencing, right, andwhat's well, Listen, when you got
that situation and you want to pushit to the bottom of the ninth where
the score is tied in one runby you gets a chance to win the
game. You are as you knowyou're sitting there. If I'm him,
I'm looking for the best pitch Haterhas too, and that's that heat that
he's lived with his whole career andunfortunately through it in the wrong spot.

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So that's one of the things thatI saw. As soon as that home
run was hit, people were tryingto crush you on your deaz for calling
that pitch. Josh Hater calls hisown pitches your Diaz does not. Plus
once again, I compare this toagent player Catcher, Pitcher. Okay,
everybody seems to get mad at theagent when he makes a deal. At

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any point time, the player cansay no, no, no, no,
that's not what I'm doing. Andif that's the way you're going about
it, I'll replace you. Youwork, I pay you your six or
four or five or six percent,whatever it is. You work for me,
and so we get mad at theWow. Scott Boris is all but
in truth deep down. If I'musing Boris as an example, if somebody
wants three hundred million and he's askingand he says no, we're going for

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three to ten, Well, mythresholds this, and the player says no,
no, and he keeps battling forthat, Well then you got to
decide whether it's not the agent,it's the player. The player pulls the
final and it makes the final decision. If he doesn't, then the player's
an idiot. I mean, Iunderstand you put trust in an agent,
but when it gets right down toit, you're the one who's got to
live with it. You're the oneplaying, right, so you make the
decisions. Same thing here, Yeah, even if you, why would you

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be Okay, So yaner Diaz callsa fastball, the pitcher's got to execute
it too, is hey, there'sbeen a league long and have to shake
it off. Say no, no, no, I'm not throwing that pitch.
Begins it again, and he throwsit down again. He turns him
down. Then you call time outand walk your ass out to the mountain
and you guys can have your discussionthere. The bottom line is, well,
I may throw down, you know, in the Pitchcolm, tell him,

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Hey, here's what we're running bytapping that pitch, Colm, And
here's what I want. But there'sguess what you can do? Shake it
off. You got the ball inyour hand, you throw what you want.
So while you may not like it, what do they want? His
best pitch and his best pitch endedup in the wrong spot. Yaners Dias
didn't throw it. But yeah,maybe you could have called something else.
But I understand a pitcher putting trustin a catcher. But also you could

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trust somebody to a point, butdon't you trust yourself more than anybody else
in certain situations? And so eventhough he called it, I don't know
why people don't understand it where youthink it's against the Major League Baseball rules
that you're not allowed to wave itoff or shake it off and say no,
no, I don't want that pitch. Yes you are, so the
balls in his hand, he threwthe pitch, and he threw it right

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where you can't throw it. Soas much you want to say, dis
still learning. And if Maldonado wasthere, well, if Maldonada called fastball
and he didn't trust it, guesswhat he could have done it shook it
off as well. So now listen, we don't the players are accountable for
where they put that And well itmay not have been the right call.
You'd like to bounce one. Thefact of the matter is he's got the
ability to wave it off and he, you know, say no, I'm

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gonna shake it off and throw whatI want to throw. And it's obvious
that he wanted to throw fastball orhe would have shook it off. He
just do it in the wrong spot. Yeah, yeah, So I wonder
what that dynamic is because Josh Hateris the guy that calls his own pitches
right. Staff. But even ifthey didn't right right, Even if even
if they didn't if you're a guyyou've been in a league. Oh yeah,
either way, even if you're arookie. Now, I feel comfortable
throwing that pitch right now. Thenshake him off and throw what you want

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to throw so that it's not onthe catcher when the end result is not
on the catcher unless they go outthere and getting a fist fight on the
mess. I've called fastball three straighttimes. Throw fastball. No, And
remember who the veteran in this leagueis, one still learning once had great
All Star success and been great soultime. So to me, yeah,
no, that that's that's fall squarelyon the pitcher. He threw it in

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the wrong spot. Yeah, let'slook at the back end end of the
bullpen a little bit more. Theera is up and the run total.
Let's check it out next. Onsports Stalk seven ninety. Putting the logic
in illogical, former pro Jump Salsburycontinues to break it down one seven ninety

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the back end of the bullpen sofar this season, Josh Hader, Ryan
Presseley, Briana Bray. You haveallowed a collective twenty six runs. Their
era together is five point three totwo. They have blown eight saves this

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season. Yesterday, Brian and brayYou hit the tying run, then balked
him into scoring scoring position, thenallowed him to score on a blop single.
Josh Hader then gave up to goahead home run on an o to
middle middle fastball. Things have notbeen going well for the back end of
the bullpen. Coming into this season, they were supposedly the best seven eight

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nine on paper in all of MajorLeague Baseball, and it has been basically
opposite of that. They have notbeen good. Sean It's it's just flat
out yeah, ridiculous. We've saidit, and I this was supposed to
be in truth. I know,the batting order, we always say that
the lineup and the everyday lineup waspretty special, and they've had their struggles

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as well, but this was supposedto be the no brainer guarantee. I
know, there's no guarantees of sports, but about as close to guarantee as
there is with the you know,with the bray You, Presley and and
the hater at the back end,that this was something you had no concern
about. That of all the things, that's not the thing I'm worried about.
And I would imagine most felt thesame way. Unfortunately it has been

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a concern this year, and uh, at some point you would expect to
get it right, you know,you hope it's like the pass and every
you know, whenever you're going throughthis guy's you know, right themselves and
it goes You hope this isn't theone year where they didn't write themselves.
You hope it gets going and it'sgonna need to. But if you'd have
told me, I would have youknow, if you had a future's bet

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on how the back end of theseven, eight nine would do, I
would have been pretty safe betting goodmoney on the fact that we won't have
to spend too much time calling thata weakness for the and it's not a
weakness, but struggling, should Isay, pushing forty games into the season
and here we are and it's becomeit is a struggle. And Hater's not

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been at his best, a Bravehas been far from his best, and
Presley's been kind of up and downas well. Normally, Okay, if
one of them do it, theother two or there it's three of them
have not had what we're used toseeing. And that's not a good thing
considering most of us felt that waspretty close to a guarantee of success this
year. Josh Hater fourteen and twothirds innings so far this season, giving

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up fourteen hits, ten earn runs, seven walks. He's got an ERA
of six point one four. RyanPresley thir teen and two thirds innings,
eighteen hits, eight earned runs,five walks, five point twenty seven e
ra A. Brian abray You sixteenand two thirds innings, fifteen hits,

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eight earned runs, giving up fourbombs, walked eleven and he's got an
ERA of about four and a half. What's your biggest concern? I just,
honestly, I'm moving forward, liketruthfully, like there's there's a couple

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things, obviously, Alex Brett forthe Astros to get back to where they
need to be. Alex Bregman canhit two hundred, you're gonna get You're
gonna get what you get from KyleTucker, You're gonna get it from Altwove,
Jordan Alvarez struggling. I don't imaginethat's gonna continue. But this is
probably one of the worst starts I'veseen from Alex Bregman in his career.

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And I understand he's a slow starter. But that's a concern for me.
This this this slow start looks different. You're about to get Christian Hovey airback.
Josey Erkiti is on the verge ofcoming back as well, So that's
obviously good Fromberd. I mean,I can keep going. Hunter Brown looks
I don't know what it is aboutHunter Brown. He can't get through five
innings. Well, he also can'tcome out of the out of the bullpen

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start a game. He can't gethe came. He never gives you a
great start ever. I mean he'sgiven some I'm talking about at the beginning.
He can't the first or second andthere's always damage right, and he's
always playing catch up when it comesto pitching, and then he settles in
and then doesn't give you a lotof depth because then he pitch count goes
up right in the first or secondand he's struggling and then settles in a

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little bit and then bam, hereyou are. It's like, dude,
somehow, someway we've seen football teamsdo this where they come out in the
first quarter, the flounder around.It's like, you gotta get started,
whatever that gear, whatever routine you'reusing to get yourself going to start a
game. Change it. Yeah,honestly, I know we're all hey,
listen, I'm sure you had pregameroutine. I did all the time OCD
about it. But some point intime the OCD about your your routine.

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You're gonna have to change a golfer. If your pre shout routine isn't working,
you might have to change the wayyou do it. You take three
waggles, then start taking two.Maybe it'll get you into a different way.
If you're a slow players, pickup your tempo and maybe it'll be
better for you. Same thing here. Whatever it is he's doing to come
out of the bullpens to start agame, it's like you come out now

(27:25):
understanding, Okay, you're gonna betrailing in the first inning. And who
would we usually say is dominating teamsin the first inning over the path the
astros usually come out and do that, and it's overwhelming statistics for teams that
win when you come out in youknow the numbers. It's just and as
good as his his his stuff is, whether it's a mental focus, an
emotional approach, or physical mechanics,whatever it is that experts may see and

(27:48):
maybe it's a combination of all ofthem. Is that he has got to
do everything he can to get outof that early inning, getting yourself behind
and so that coupled with Fromber doesn'tlook like your front line dominant number one
ace, he just doesn't he giveyou some good Listen, whatever the soreness

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was, he did not look wellon Saturday. I mean, I'm not
talking about injury, just didn't pitchwell. And think about the theme we
have right now. Think of whatwe're talking about. How many times we
mission mentioned inconsistency and a lot ofstarting pitching, the up and down down
jones of it, the Bregman andJordan Alvarez things expect the back end of

(28:32):
the bullpen. I mean, hell, it's the stress you're putting on the
and then it'll save those guys atthe back end because the middle relief it
doesn't have to get as much dominantin the back end doesn't doesn't have to
get When I say dom doesn't haveto use as many pitches or as much
time. Starting pitching's got to godeeper. How is it that your forty

(28:52):
one year old can get you toseven innings or so and the rest can't
that. Now. I know he'sa probe, but there comes a point
in time when whatever that he's doing, you do that, follow that lead,
and we cannot get to the pointwhere four and a third is thumb
y up. He can't do it. Four and a third, ninety one
U pitches, fifty six of them, strike four, walks four Hunter Brown

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can't do it, can't do itand damage done early. Now, they
came back, as the Astros havedone many times in their care But there's
the theme here. It's the upand down, the inconsistency of a lot.
There's only about three or four placesthat have been consistent this entire year.
Yeah, it's al Tuove, Panya, Tucker, Tucker and land right

(29:34):
coming back right, And I'll tellyou what. And Seth Martinez is grinding,
just coming out and counting on thatguy. If I told you to
begin the season, Seth Martinez isgoing to be your middle middle relief for
of course, what would you havetold me, I'm out of my damn
mind. Yeah, right, giveme some of that crash, So good
for him. Yeah, and youknow, Araghetti's grinding like crazy. He's
going to get a start in NewYork as well. Boy, what if

(29:56):
he's owing three of it but pitchedbetter last time. He's going to get
a start in Yankee State. Sothat's got to be a thrill for him.
But they've got to settle into moreearly consistency. And Hunter Brown's too
good for this to be happening.He just is. When I say good,
too good a skill set. Thequestion is can he put it together.
His starts at the beginning of gamesput the team in a chase mode

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every single time he goes to themound. This year, his last couple
outings he has thrown four and athird five and a third four innings,
six innings, two thirds and threeinnings, and then his opening his first
start of the season, four innings, he's walked four two, two,
three, one four two. It'stoo many, man. Well, he

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just doesn't have command to what's goingon. Eighteen total walks in twenty seven
and a third innings. He's gotan e RA of eight eight nine.
Yeah, Unfortunately, it's not gonnaget it done. It's not it's not
going to get it done. Sevenone three, two, one two five
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Let's talk about it next on sportStock seven ninety, the hottest takes
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two five seven ninety the number tojoin talking about these Houston Astros in order
of August. Wait, we'll startwith John John, welcome in. Hey,
good morning guys. Hey. Regardingthe Astros pitching, you know,
I wonder how much of this ison the pitching coach, because when Strom
was here, the pitchers always gotbetter. I mean, look what he

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did to Garrett Cole. I meanhe reinvented Cole and uh, you know,
he was always able to point outthings and work on the mechanics and
get the best out of the pitching. And there was never an issue.
And since his departure, like lastyear and especially this year. I mean,
there's definitely a deep a degradation inthe quality Astro's pitching and I and
I put a lot of it onhim, and and uh, I don't

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know. I'm just there's something wrongthere. And the other thing is I
brought this up last year to bringup again this year. There's something with
the conditioning. You know, theseguys, like like Sean said, going
four and you know, four inningsor five innings, that's just unacceptable.
And these guys look like they're tiredwhen there's something there's something going on.
I don't know, like the conditioning, I don't know. I don't know

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how much that faults on the pitchingcoach and how much that faults on the
conditioning coach. But I think it'sprobably both of them. But again,
something's just it's not right. Imean, we didn't have these issues when
Strama was a pitching coach here,and I think there's a real issue there.
And I just wanted your thoughts onthat. Thank you for the call.
John. Yeah, I don't.I think we all dissect it,

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and John, you do as well. Trying to figure Okay, why if
mechanics aren't off, isn't mental ifmechanics are strong, and mentally and everything's
fine, the confidence is up.Is it emotional? Is it just things?
Just not his? When I sayhis, I mean them if they're
struggling, is it conditioning? Isit mental? Conditioning? All these things,

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and make no mistake about it,pictures. I mean, you have
to be well conditioned in all thoseaspects. And then if you're mentally,
mental toughness to me is as importantas mechanics when it comes to that position
as well. So I wish Ihad the answer. I sit there and
watched, just like you do,and grind and say why is this guy
struggling? And then he'll come back. I'm using it. I'm just using

(33:34):
a hunter Brown, not just himfor example, And then come out and
strike out the side and then fourinnings, three innings. You've got to
pull them out. I mean,the ball ain't heavy, and it's just
And this is a this was supposedto be for me, a move year
for him, meaning get to anotherlevel. And whether it's conditioning, they're
not going to tell you they're outof shape. You pointed out last year,

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and I think it was obvious thatChristian Hobbyer was out of shape.
It was he looked fat at time. When I say fat, you know
a little bit overweight, and itwasn't with a pH Well he looks fat
out of shape, right, hejust did. And we've seen and it
affects because what happens when you're physicallyand I'm not saying they are, but
if they are, if they're notconditioned the way they want to physically or

(34:17):
the way that they need to besome of them, what happens is it
affects every other part of your mentaland emotional It does. Just like the
teams in a chase mode, you'rechasing down something and trying to grab bag,
and you have to be the bestteams I've ever been around physically or
as conditioned as any you know football. I'll guarantee the Chiefs are conditioned,

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buddy, This Texans team will bewell conditioned. You just have to.
So. I don't know if it'sa mechanical flaw, if it's they're not
grinding on them as much, iftheir expectations were, you know, they
there was some point in time theytook things for granted. If they're too
close to them, I don't know. And Andy, I know we're all
I'm with you. I'm grinding aroundtrying to figure it out. Because when

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we say the guy's got so muchstuff, just because you've got great stuff
doesn't mean you're a great pitcher ora great hitter. You got always got
great, great power. Well stillgot to barrel up and put the bat
on the ball. So I don'tknow. And it's and it's concerning,
even though it's early in the season. It's concerning because I can tell you
what happens is it doesn't get mucheasier going on. I can assure you

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it doesn't get easier. They playthe one of the best teams in baseball
tomorrow, the Yankees. Yes,it's not getting easier. It's not going
to get you the whole year,because what happens. If you struggle,
you grind harder. If you're goinggood, you don't take There's that fine
line. Okay, I'm going good. Let me stick to that. And
baseball is a baseball is a failuresport. It's at the plate. I

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mean, what other job in theworld can you fail seven times out of
ten and be in the Hall ofFame if you last fifteen or twenty years,
I mean, or be an AllStar. You can't. And in
pitching, maybe the expectations have weset our mind that four and a half
or four and two thirds innings isenough, right, So I don't know
because I'm not there. I knowfor a fact that players don't want to

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lose and embarrass themselves or play poorly. Hater didn't want to throw a ball
down the middle. But the questionis how do you prevent how do you
get back? And we have beena lot of teams live right now where
the Astros are living in baseball everyyear, we haven't seen it from them,
and so quite frankly to me,it's I think in a lot of
people it's shocking to see. Butremember where you came from. You've seen
sixty five win seasons here. Andthis team says this is not an eighty

(36:30):
five win team, but the waythey're playing says they're going to struggle to
get the eighty five wins if theydon't pick up the consistency and sustaining.
Listen, we can all be goodfor a day. The question is can
you be good like they've been yearin and year out, sustained greatest and
at some point in time, whenare you just worn out and tired and
lose the mental focus and can buildHow many times have you built an excuse

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when you've gone good. I don'tcare what it is in your life,
whether it's playing a round of golf, whether it's you're going good in sales,
whether it's going good on the showwhere you sit back and say,
okay, this is rolling smoothly,and you lose a little edge, just
a tad bit of edge where you'renot being challenged enough or you're not challenging
yourself enough. And the question youhave to ask when they're twelve and twenty
two, right, you do haveto ask, is there an edge missing?

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I don't know why it is,and it doesn't mean they're lazy,
but if there's an edge missing,they're gonna have to find it, because
it feels to me like there isa bit of an edge missing with this
team. They don't lose those gamesthey're normally the other way around. In
the past, they found ways towin them. Oh, there's something missing
this season, and it's more thanone thing. Brian, Yeah it is,

(37:35):
and but it's so hard to sustaingreat play all the time, and
even when you're not playing well,can you find a way to win.
That'll be the test of the team. They're gonna win. When they're playing
great, they're gonna win games.It's that like yesterday, up and down
pitcher in or Bray you struggles.What are we gonna do here? Bregman
didn't get a hit and pops out, you know in foul grounds that they're

(38:00):
so what are you gonna do tofind ways to win those twenty five games
or thirty games a year where you'rejust like sluggish and you're tired, and
you still got to get through it? There whatever edge that is, there's
some kind of edge missing, mental, emotional or physical that's not the same
as we're used to seeing cold heartfacts and not that they can't get it
fixed, but they're gonna have towork on it pretty quick. Yeah,

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there's something missing for sure that Idon't know what it is. I don't
know if it's just I really don't. I have no words, because they
it seems like every single series theyfind a different way to lose, and
we find a different way to wonderwhat's wrong right, And unfortunately it's been

(38:43):
similar people or similar situations that they'velost in. Yeah, and that when
it becomes three and four or fivetimes. It's no longer just by chance.
It's a trend, right, andthey're getting into trends that are not
good to see. Yeah, it'snot good. Let's hear from the skipper.
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back out to the phone lines.We'll start with Rob. Rob, Good
morning, Good morning. How y'alldoing. We're good man? What's on
your mind? You know, itseems like every time I talk to you

(41:20):
guys, there's nothing the bad stufffor us to talk about. So I'm
gonna u I do have some goodthings that I want to time in on.
Unfortunately, I've got some bad thingsalso, so I'm gonna try and
get them both in. But I'mgonna start with the bad so that I
can for once in with the good. As far as you know, the
team goes right now, there isyou know and sign. You can probably
speak to this more. Having beena professional athlete, there's a certain degree

(41:45):
of trust within a team that happenswhenever, whether in any sport that you're
in, whether it's baseball, football, basketball, you know, teammates trust
their quarterback. The quarterbacks trust theirreceivers and they're lining the protect them to
catch the ball. Baseball, youwould love to say that we trust our
pitcher to go out there and getthe trusts to take advantage of situation.

(42:10):
And with unfortunately a heavy, heavypart of our lineup and our rotation,
honestly can't say that that trust isthere as a point. I can't say
that whatever Hunter Brown takes the moundI was yesterday, We've got a family
chapter growing is our bulking warming upin the first inning, whenever before the

(42:30):
first pitch is even thrown, whenthe Hunter Brown starts, because it's at
this point they may as well whenthat first pitch is front, when the
other thing pitch of the ball gameis made, our our bullpen mans all
be getting ready at that point becausewe can't trust Brown to not lose it
in the first inning. It's everyending. It's it's scary, and you

(42:53):
point earlier. When you can't gomore than three four innings, you gotta
start wondering. And as far asthe lineup goes, I don't think the
lineup can come into a lineup orexcuse me, come into a game going
Okay, we're gonna need to geton the board quick because we know we're
gonna start down. They may notsay it, but I can't imagine that

(43:15):
that mentality can't be there, andthat mentality creates a certain degree of pressure
that causes them to press when they'rein the box. And it's the same
thing when you're halfway through a game. Through a game one run that most
teams can go, Okay, we'rein a good spot because we know the
back end of our bullpen, thateinhing guy, that ninth in the guy,

(43:37):
they're gonna come in and lock itdown. We just need to do
our part on the field to makesure it stays this way. I don't
think our team can do that.When Hater goes out there, if we're
only up by one or two runs, our team is not secure. They
are not comfortable the way that alot of other teams are when they're at
that point in the ballgame. Notsaying they're comfortable, comfortable, they still

(43:59):
go to do their job. Thoseother teams with these closers and these setup
guys that are performing. But Icannot imagine that our our lineup is at
all comfortable. When Brunner Brown startsa game, and when it comes down
behavior, Presley seems like he's startingto come around a little bit more.
And when we got hater. Inever thought i'd see today when I said

(44:20):
I missed Presley being in the nightat this point. And you can also
make the opposite. If I'm apitcher right now, I don't trust we're
scoring nine runs on a regular basis. Absolutely, Yeah. It comes down
to them when if you've got arunners on first and second and you've got
Bregman at the plate, there's atime when it was like, Okay,

(44:43):
we're gonna get at least walk outof this. Something's gonna happen. I
can't. I can't be excited aboutPrekman coming up to bat, or about
Breckman coming up to bat. Thatkind of pressure, whether it's built on
going into a game knowing knowing thatyou're gonna start the game down, you're
clinging to hope that maybe you getto bat and there's no other runs on

(45:05):
the board, that's a I mean, quite frankly, it's a disgusting feeling,
and it's extremely uncomfortable when the game'son the line and you only got
one more at back and you're onlyby one run, when you cannot trust
the guy to get the job donebecause you just can't as fans, As
a fan, I can. Idon't want to speak for everybody, but
as a fan, I'm not excited. I'm not comfortable at all when hater
comes in the game. All Right, I never thought i'd see the day

(45:28):
when I say that you got it? Do you got the good stuff?
Real quick? We got a fullphone line. You're right about that.
Trust And yes, there's no question. Trust is a major thing. And
it doesn't seem like they have what'son the good stuff side. The good
stuff man, that game Friday.I wanted to talk to you guys Saturday
morning, but obviously we don't getthat chance at that game on Friday.
That whole series of Cleveland that Ifeel like was a turning point. I

(45:50):
know yesterday it didn't go the waywe wanted, but Friday was one of
the funnest baseball games I've had thepleasure of watching a long time. I'm
grateful that every the astros between Tanggoing over into the stands, between John
Singleton Due he's been doing this entireseries of past five games, that he's
been starting five or six games.You know, that was the type of

(46:12):
player and the type of series andthe type of game. But I feel
like the Astons did to turn thisseason around. I mean it was just
fun to watch between the Naylor brothers, watching a ball fall between them and
just starting out each other half,something like that season's Little League. Never
thought i'd see that in a professionalgame. But the whole Rob, Rob,
We gotta get going. Thank youfor the call appreciated. Seven one,
three, two five seven ran goodmorning, Hey, good one.

(46:36):
And when you guys was talking abouttrust, it took me back to mab
Donado. Do you think the pitcherstrust d is? Because I think,
uh, trust of kitchen have alot to do with kitchen. I mean
the kitchen. The pitchers are usedto certain kitcheres. Uh do you think
that's an issue? And I missedJim Hickey the pitching code to the Houston

(47:00):
Astros, And I want to givea shout out to Tripoli. He got
a good attitude he always had whenhe answer the phone. So I recommend
that he get a raised and afree lunch that little Square pizza and when
it comes and when it comes tothe batting for the team, the hitting,
I think that these guys are jumpingon the first pitch too much.

(47:22):
They not taking their time and watchingthe ball enough to get a good hit.
So I think it has a lotto do with the confidence. I
don't know if the management has alot to do with it, preparation or
whatever, but I'm gonna hang inthere and stick with the Astros. But
I think that these guys need tobe more focused and quit jumping on the

(47:45):
first pitch because de is always ifyou watch the game tonight, he chops
at his balls. And not onlythat, I think they'll be all right,
but they need to get the confidencebecause these guys know how to hit.
So what's the problem these guys.KBM E Houston, k C the

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the number to join us. Getback out to the phone lines. We'll
start with Rob. Rob, Goodmorning, Good, how y'all doing.
We're good man, what's on yourmind? You know? It seems like
every time I talk to you guys, there's nothing the bad stuff for us
to talk about. So I'm gonnau I do have some good things that

(49:14):
I want to time in on.Unfortunately, I've got some bad things also,
so I'm gonna try and get themboth in. But I'm gonna start
with the bad so that I canfor once in with the good. As
far as you know, the teamgoes right now there is you know and
sign. You can probably speak tothis more. Having been a professional athlete,
there's a certain degree of trust withina team that happens whenever, whether

(49:37):
in any sport that you're in,whether it's baseball, football, basketball,
you know, teammates trust their quarterback. The quarterbacks trust their receivers and they're
lining and protect them to catch theball. And it's baseball. I'd love
to say that we trust our pitcherto go out there and get trust to
take advantage of situation. And witha unfortunately a heavy, heavy part of

(50:01):
our lineup and our rotation, honestlycan't say that that trust is there as
a point, I can't say thatwhatever Hunter Brown takes the mound I was
yesterday, we've got a family chattergrowing is our bulking warming up in the
first inning whenever before the first pitchis even thrown when the Hunter Brown starts,

(50:22):
because it's at this point they mayas well when that first pitch is
front, when the opening pitch ofthe ball game is made, our bullpen
mans all be getting ready at thatpoint because we can't trust Brown to not
lose it in the first inning.It's every ending. It's scary, and
you know, point earlier, whenyou can't go more than three four innings,

(50:45):
you gotta start wondering. And asfar as the lineup goes, I
don't think the lineup can come intoa lineup, or excuse me, come
into a game going okay, we'regonna need to get on the board quick
because we know we're gonna start.They may not say it, but I
can't imagine that that mentality can't bethere, And that mentality creates a certain

(51:07):
degree of pressure that causes them topress when they're in the box. And
it's the same thing when you're halfwaythrough a game. Through a game one
run that most teams can go,Okay, we're in a good spot because
all we know the back end ofour bullpen, that eighth in guy,
that ninth in and guy, they'regoing to come in and lock it down.

(51:28):
We just need to do our parton the field to make sure it
stays this way. I don't thinkour team can do that. When Hater
goes out there, if we're onlyup by one or two runs, our
team is not secure. They arenot comfortable the way that a lot of
other teams are when they're at thatpoint in the ballgame. Not saying they're
comfortable, comfortable, they still gotto do their job. Those other teams

(51:49):
with these closers and these setup guysthat are performing. But I cannot imagine
that our our lineup is at allcomfortable when Brown starts a game and when
it comes down to Haater, Presleyseems like he's starting to come around a
little bit more. And when wegot Hater, I never thought i'd see
to day when I said I missedPresley being in the night thing at this

(52:09):
point, and you can also makethe opposite. If I'm a pitcher right
now, I don't trust we're scoringnine runs on a regular basis. Absolutely
yeah, it comes down to themwhen if you've got a runners on first
and second and you've got Bregman atthe play, there's a time when it

(52:30):
was like, Okay, we're gonnaget at least walked out of this.
Something's gonna happen. I can't.I can't be excited about Brekman coming up
to bat, or about Brekman comingup to bat. That kind of pressure,
whether it's built on going into agame knowing knowing that you're gonna start
the game down, you're clinging tohope that maybe you get to bat and

(52:52):
there's no other runs on the board, that's a I mean, quite frankly,
it's a disgusting feeling, and it'sextremely uncomfortable when the game's on the
line and you only got one moreat pack and you're only by one run,
when you cannot trust the guy toget the job done because you just
can't as fans. As a fan, I can't. I don't want to
speak for everybody, but as afan, I'm not excited I'm not comfortable

(53:13):
at all when hater comes in thegame. All Right, I never thought
i'd see the day when I saythat you got it? Do you got
the good stuff? Real quick?We got a full phone line. You're
right about that trust And yes,there's no question. Trust is a major
thing. And it doesn't seem likethey have what's on the good stuff side
the good stuff man, that gameFriday, I wanted to talk to you
guys Saturday morning, but obviously wedon't get that chance at that game on
Friday. That whole series with Clevelandthat I feel like was a turning point.

(53:37):
I know yesterday I didn't go theway we wanted, but Friday was
one of the funnest baseball games I'vehad the pleasure of watching a long time.
I'm grateful. Let him is theastros between Penyon going over into the
stands, between John Singleton doone.He's been doing this entire series of past
five games that he's been starting fiveor six games. You know, that

(53:59):
was the type of player and thetype of series and the type of game.
But I feel like the askers didto turn this season around. I
mean, it was just fun towatch between the name brothers watching a ball
fall between them and just staring ateach other after something like that seasons little
League. Never thought i'd see thatin a professional game, but the whole
Rob. Thanks Rob. We gottaget going. Thank you for the call.

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Appreciated seven one, three, twofive seven ninety ran a good morning,
Hey, good morning. Uh.When you guys was talking about trust,
it took me back to mar Donado. Do you think the pitchers trust
d is? Because I think,uh, trust of kitchen have a lot
to do with kitchen. I meanthe kitchen. The pitchers are used to

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certain catchers. Uh do you thinkthat's an issue? And I missed Jim
Hickey, uh, the pitching coachof the Houston Astros. And I want
to give a shout out to TripleLey. He got a good attitude he
always had when he answered the phone. So I recommend that he get a
raised and a free lunch that littlesquare pizza. Amen. And when it

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comes and when it comes to thebatting for the team, the hitting,
I think that these guys are jumpingon the first pitch too much. They're
not taking their time and watching theball enough to get a good hit.
So I think it has a lotto do with the confidence. I don't

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know if the management has a lotto do with it, preparation or whatever,
but I'm gonna hang in there andstick with dash Stros. But I
think that these guys need to bemore focused and quit jumping on the first
pitch because d is always if youwatch the game to night, he chops
at his balls. And not onlythat. I think they'll be all right,

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but they need to get the confidencebecause these guys know how to hit.
So what's the problem. These guysknow how to pitch. What's the
problem. You can't always blame mechanics. I think that the catching have a
lot to do with the pitching,and not always because these guys have stoled
enough runs to win. But Idon't know if the kitchen have a lot

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to do with them. Flolding atthe end, Thank you a lot,
appreciated. Random. Let's get youone more before it gets the steake out,
Tribley. We'll get you that squarepizza, don't you worry? Maybe
a couple juice box, chocolate milk. What do you think we'll get it
figured out, Adrian, what's goingon? We'll get him a square pizza
and ay, whu that you settledhim down. Uh anyway, let me

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get this straight. You can moveout to be in the lineup. You
can move jord On in the lineup, even Penya all the way down to
seven. But you can't move AlexBregman. What's wrong with this picture here?
It's obvious he's pressing. I meanit's right there in your face.
He's in a contract here. Wehave never seen him this bad. Joe,

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do your draw. You're killing usand hater Oh my god, dude,
I don't think i've seen Presley blowthis many in such a sort fashion
since he's been here. Can wedo something? I don't know what it
is, but this team is killingme. I actually turned the game off

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for a hockey game, and hockey'smy second favorite sport. Peace, Thank
you, Adrian. A lot offrustration coming in here early twelve and twenty
two on the season. But Ithink a couple of those points made by

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some of our callers. I thinkwhat you're gonna see from Janner Diez is
a catcher that is continuing to learnhow to call pitches, pitch sequencing.
You gotta remember this is his firstyear behind the plate full time. We
didn't see it as much last yearwith marching Maldonado. So I think you're
gonna see struggles throughout the season,but it is what it is. Got

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to learn somehow. Think about allthe things you heard, pitching, coach,
conditioning, m HM, trust yep, catcher calling pitches, trust between
pitcher to hitter, hit her topitchers. Joe has spot his decisions back
into the bullpen, jumping on thefirst pitch, as I said, being

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more selective moving Bregman in the battingorder. Yep, that's a. That's
a that's a whole bunch of things. So normally when you go in through
this, it maybe one or twothings they just named eight. Yeah,
fans continy're all pretty valid opinion,and none of us know the deep the
deep dive of which one stands outthe most. I'll tell you which one

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stands out the most is lack ofproduction under pressure situations right now has not
been there, no simple as that. Yep. Let's get to the stake
out next right here on Sportslock seventto eighty, back to the Sean Salisbury
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.I'm sports your astroids, your rockets,

(59:05):
your voice, all right, Sean. What are you hearing out there now?
This Salsbury's steakouts sALS brief takeouts onthe Sean Salisbury Shows. Time for
the steak out here on the SeanSalisbury Show. Right here on Sports Talk
seven, I Ney Shan Brown,a triple Lee. Astros are off today.

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They're at the Yankees tomorrow. Theylose the series to the Mariners over
the weekend. Astros broadcaster Steve Sparksis going to join us at eight thirty
this morning, as he does everysingle Monday here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Before we get to the steakout,let's talk to Jacob. Jacob.
Good morning, Hey, good morning, Brian, and thanks for having me

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on this morning. I just hada quick question in a comment for you
guys. I watched the game,but I missed the post game. No,
I take that back. I missedlike the last five or six innings
or so. I'm looking at thebox score and I see that Seth Martinez
is only on forero point two innings, and I was just curious as to

(01:00:14):
how come he didn't. I don'tknow if a spot of commented on it,
or why I wasn't Martinez in orat least another inning, Ila,
Jacob, I could answer that beforeyou finish your comment. I think that
was three out of four games he'dpitched in. He'd he'd, he'd,
that would that, and so tryingthat he wasn't going to go along anyway
because he had been used I thinkin three of the last four games.

(01:00:37):
Oh, I see, okay,that makes sense. And then you know,
I was just as excited as thenext guy when when the Astors decided
to sign Josh Hater. But youknow, anytime I look at Josh Hater's
contract or any save opportunity, anyblown safe that he's committed, specifically him,
I always think of I used tofollow this fantasy baseball podcast by Matthew

(01:01:00):
Berry and Nate Rabbits back and Idon't know, I think it might have
been like some years ago. Idon't know. Maybe I don't think he
does any fantasy baseball activities anymore.He mostly does football. But he used
to always say, I don't knowif this would relate in real life as
it would in terms of fantasy baseball. Anytime he would talk about relief pitching,
he would always say, never payfor saves, And I kind of

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wonder, I know that Hater's contractwon't be the last, and it certainly
wasn't the first bad closer contract.But you know, relief pitching is just
so volatile. It's disappointing when itdoesn't go your way to you know,
as far as your team, Idon't want it to know, like which
else's thoughts are on that, youknow, on top of all the all

(01:01:45):
of the grievances we've been talking aboutover the air. But yeah, that's
about all I have to say,Jacob, Jacob, that's the hell of
a point. I I'll speak forme, but Brian and I have both
stated that that we were excited aboutHater now and then that's a hell of
a point. And I've known MatthewBerry for years on you know, working

(01:02:05):
with him, and don't know,I'm curious if that would is fantasy chase
and saves right now, you'd beloving to have saves at the right time,
right So, I'm not sure thereal part, And that's a Jacob,
that's a hell of a point ofdoes the real world apply to fantasy
when it comes to sports? Andmaybe there's if we did a deep dive

(01:02:25):
into analytics in both I wonder whatthe comparisons would be honestly on what your
value would be for both and howwe did that. That's a hell of
a point something that somebody needs tolook into. That's far deeper into that
math stuff and analytics than I mightbe. But as it goes on,
we are going to question every daywas it worth the money? You just

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are That's human nature. Because rightnow, aren't you questioning if Alex Bregman's
worth two hundred and fifty million,let alone or twenty five million a year,
let alone thirty? Are you notquestioning? It doesn't mean that he's
not going to be but those questionsyou open up that that's the human nature.
And it's always it's on talk shows, it's on radio shows, it's
on TV. It'll be the playersthemselves. Of course, that is human

(01:03:12):
nature, just like when somebody's kickingass and we think hell pain is worth
twenty five million. Right now,I'm sure people are starting to say that.
And now two bays best player onthe team and he's not exactly twelve
and you know, in fifteen,twenty twenty one years old. So yeah,
I think Jacob makes a hell ofa point. And just because and
I was all in on Hater,but right now the investment has not been

(01:03:35):
worth it. But it's not fairto judge a season on it. I
guarantee you will have a lot ofjudgment one way or the other and a
bunch in between when this season doesend on was it the right move?
Sometimes you take moves and they workand sometimes they don't. And right now
you say, well, wouldn't bea been better off with keeping two of
those the Matons or one of thosetwo of those guys and hector neris and

(01:03:59):
leaving press and I'll bray you atthe back end. Has that disrupted those
three? And has I mean,Brian, we could sit here and say
all we want about well the teammatesand you root for the next act,
but just moving from where you are. It was a demotion for Presley.
It just was, and so isthe Hater And I'm sure they all get
along and want it, but that'sjust human nature. You go from if
you move the guy down in theorder from from four to seven, what

(01:04:23):
are you telling him you're not hittingvery well? Dude, Go get yourself
right. So yeah, I don'tknow, but the judgment will continue on
every position all season long because that'swhat talk shows, TV, people,
fans, media do all the time, including front offices and managerial staff and
the rest of the coaches. Ithappens, and that's how players are gentling
that that's something the players know gettinginto it, so they got to deal

(01:04:44):
with it. It's a lot ofmoney for Josh Rader for the next what
five years, he won't see thenext five years here if it doesn't get
better. Now you say, well, quote, I mean, I'm hope.
Listen, I'm hoping for five yearsfrom now we're talking about man,
Remember that were smirking it. Rememberthe start of the twenty twenty four season,
the first forty games, and thenwe say, but after that,

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the guy was the best closer inbaseball. That's what we're hoping for.
Are you going to get it?Not? Hell, I don't know.
I'm not sure Joe a Spot orDana Brown know either, or Steve Sparks.
And the reference to well, we'vegot to go by history at some
point in time. History only meanssomething when your career is over. Because
sports is cruel. Man, It'sawesome, but it's cruel. You can

(01:05:30):
be great for five straight years andthen have one bad year. And everybody
wonders why you still got you.It can be extremely cruel and it can
also be great where you can havea Brian a Bray you season and he's
the king, but then you've gotthe focus of coming back and being able
to do it again this year.Listen, I'm not telling you abody anything.
They don't know it's hard, butjudging it's hard for all of us
to be patient. It is,and I'm going to tell you right now,

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players themselves at times aren't patient goingthrough struggles. Think about it in
any job, or anytime you gothrough a struggle in your life, in
a marriage, anything you do job. It's like or a Monday after a
Sunday, a long weekend, you'relike, gosh, dang. The players
are going through it too now.I assure you, Alex Bregman isn't enjoying
what's going on right now because hefeels the dude, are you going to

(01:06:14):
contribute at the plate this year?Even though he's been a hell of a
player since he's come into the league. That's it. I mean, when
the truest cliche on the planet is, hey, you're only as good as
your next at bat or your nextpitch. It is so true in pro
sports. You can throw for fivehundred in a game, throw a pick
that cost your team the game,and guess what nobody cares about your five

(01:06:34):
hundred yards. Nobody cares. Soit is the grind and it's guys,
just judging from what I see,it's going to be a grind all year
long. This doesn't seem like ateam that's going fifteen and two in seventeen
games. Right now, I'm talkingabout performance wise potential. Sure, once
again, potential gets us thinking.Production keeps us going, and right now

(01:06:59):
the production's and dal Jones like upand down. You know one thing I
think about when they made that signingfor Josh Hater, I think me personally,
I got so caught up in ohmy gosh, they went and just
got Josh Hater. Now you gotthe best back end of the bull,
best back in in all Major LeagueBaseball seven eight nine, Brian Obray,
you, Ryan Presley, Josh Hater. And it made me overlook the fact

(01:07:19):
that they let maton standing and theirsall walk. You thought you covered it.
Yeah, And then even even ifI didn't think they covered I thought
some of these other guys would stepright in and be fine, which we've
seen good performances of Seth Martinez andthings like that. However, now,
looking where it is right now,would you not sign Josh Hater and bring

(01:07:40):
back some of those guys on aforty game season, I would sit here
and say, probably, let's juststick with what we got and keep the
keep keep the heavyweights in the middleof the rotation Presley and Obray you were
fine. And another thing we didn'tthink of it Now, like I said,
it may change. I still thinkHater is a hell of a pitcher.
He just going through a rough patch. Let's hope it's a temporary one.
Is Yeah, the as a teamand where we thought them, you

(01:08:08):
know how they were going to be. Of course right now you're gonna do
the hindsight of it, Yeah sayshell no, I wouldn't have spent the
money. Five games from now.If he goes Bingo Bango bombo and Strike
doesn't walk ahere in five games,we're gonna say, Okay, now it's
starting to look like it. Ilisten, man, the grind is is
gonna be something that we're gonna haveto get used to. But you also
didn't expect the disruption. We didn'tknow how I was going to disrupt the

(01:08:30):
pressley A braw thing at the backend being moved around a little bit where
they were comfortable in their role,it appeared, and we sure as hell
didn't know that some of these guyswere going to struggle this mightily. A
couple of them on the mound anda couple of them at the plate.
So yeah, you were hoping,but in order to get to a safe
situ and then when they've got tosafe situations, unfortunately a couple of times
home runs a beat hater this year. Yeah, and you didn't expect that,

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Nope, really did not. Withespecially how he's pitched in his career,
the contract that he was if youthought he was gonna be lights out
and that's been the opposite, wehave not seen it. Let's find some
good news for the Houston Astros ChristianJavier. What's the latest on him and
when he will he make his bigleague return? That's next on Sportstock seven
to eighty. This Sehn Salberry Showcontinues on Sports Talk seven. Home for

(01:09:18):
your Home Teams, Brian, goodmorning, Good morning guys. Hey,
the Chronicle reported yesterday I believe therewas eight blown saves at this point for
Hater, and I was just wonderingif you guys could pull up the stats
for the total amount of blown savesfor last year, I guess as the

(01:09:43):
Astros as a whole, and justsee what pace we're on. Yeah,
so it's eight eight blown saves thisseason for the entire pitching staff, not
just for Hater. Okay, wellthat yeah, I didn't. I didn't.
They didn't report it correctly, ofcourse, but but as a hole
from last year, what did theAstros flow? Yeah, as a team.
Yeah, so I'm actually, uh, I'm looking that up right now,

(01:10:05):
so I'll make sure to get thatfor you, Brian, and uh
yeah, no problem, we'll talkabout it, thank you, Brian.
Yeah, it's just it's eight blownsaves basically between everybody that's pitched in the
back end of the bullpen, notjust uh, not just Josh Hater.
So I'll see what the pace was. I mean, you're not a player,

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Hater, whole should be? Youshould be? Should be? Why
not? Do you want to bea player Hater? No? Huh huh
no, you don't want to dothat. No, you want to come
in with positive upbeat stuff right.Uh. Yeah, but it's it's kind
of hard right now, you knowwhat I mean? Yeah? Are you?
Are you getting caught up in thehigh in the in the pomp and
circumstance of a of a twelve andtwenty two team. Is it still too

(01:10:48):
early? Was it still early?Let's see, we're thirty four games into
this. Uh huh, yeah,that correct. I don't think it's too
early to put it this way.Let's look at it both. Is it
too early to say that al Tuoveis going to have what could be one
of his career years in a ina with all the things he's doing,

(01:11:10):
hits, two hundred hits. Isit is it too early to say that?
No, because look at the backof his card. Stop it all
right. So if this is thecase, if we say, we're allowed
to say, oh, Paynya andal too they having great years. They're
going to be all stars, andthey're going to have a great year the
whole season, is it too earlyto say that, M maybe maybe a
bit? No, okay, yeah, that's fair. Yeah, so I

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either and for somebody else it maynot be too early. That's my point.
So is it too early to saythat that Bregman pressing doesn't look the
same, struggling, and he's notgoing to have a great year in his
in his uh, it's not goingto be one of those career years in
a contract year. Is it tooearly to say that? Maybe? Maybe

(01:11:53):
not. That's for the each individualdecide. What it's not too early for
is to judge what you've seen.You're that that's I mean, thirty four
games is is we're about a fourthof the way through the seed. And
so are you going to judge ifCJ. Stroud's team or Damiico Ryan's teams

(01:12:13):
four to OHO you put them ina super Bowl, or if they're one
and three to start twenty twenty four, you bury in them. They started
out owing to last year, butyou would judge them if they if it
looked different than last year. Right, if Bobby Slow it's not in the
rhythm you wanted to be in.Are you going to say, what's happening
so far this year? And yeah, so what's happening so far is not
this is the way it's going tobe. Do I think that we're out
of our minds thinking the Astros aregoing to end up twenty games under five

(01:12:36):
hundred when the seed is over.I think we're probably a little that's a
little hyperbolic and premature. Yes,I would think so do I think in
my opinion that it's going to beone of those constant grind like baseball is
one hundred and sixty two games,But nobody's running away and hiding in this
division, and the Astros are goingto have to fight and scrape and get
better years out of guys that maybemaybe Spencer Arraghetty's got to go on a

(01:12:59):
roll, I don't know. MaybeJohn Singleton has to have his career year
this year to make up for otherthings. So do I think that that's
the type of stuff that we maybe in for. I do, But
I don't think it's too early tohave an opinion of what you see.
If you don't, then we're notwatching even the good stuff. It goes
both ways. Watching al Tuove,I think it looks different for me al

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Tuove. While he's always aggressive,al Tuove is playing at a level it's
almost like he wants that. He'ssaying, I got paid a lot of
money again a new contract, andI'm gonna go prove to you guys.
Even at this age that I'm headedtowards three thousand hits and I ain't stopping,
and I'm gonna be the best.I'm gonna give us an opportunity to

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be put in position to win everyday. I feel like that. And
when I see this, I can'thelp but think, man, it sound
looks like he's in for a hellof a season. Now, that doesn't
make for one hundred and sixty twogames, but the indication tells me that
his looks well typical of Altuve,but also even looks at tad different with
the way he just smoking balls allthe time. Every time he comes to
the plate. I think he's gettinghit. I do. I think he's

(01:14:02):
going to put the ball in play. So but there are things to be
critical of and judge. And ifthat's not the case, if people are
offended by that, then they're justgoing to have to get over it.
And just same thing with complain.If you can't see what Payne is doing
on offense and defense this year,is that the way he's at the plate,
his approach to is at bats looksso much different, so much different

(01:14:25):
than last year. And so yeah, thirty, that's not too soon.
That's a lot of it bats,and that's a lot of it bats at
least to start a season to say, okay, I'm starting to get a
trend here. What I see fromPayina this year, a little more patient.
He's obviously changes the way he approachesa quieter hand, so and it's
working for him. Other things aren'tworking for a few other players. To

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answer Brian's question, one of ourcallers that asked about blown saves, last
season, the Astros had nineteen blownsaves. They already have eight this season.
Last year, Ryan Presley had six, Rafael Montero had five, Kennel
Graveman had four. Well, atthis stage, Brian, if this continues,
you could say, okay, ifthey blow one more save in the
next six games, that would benine, right, and that's forty games

(01:15:09):
in, so you're talking. Ifthe trend continues, you're looking at a
thirty six blown saves this year typeof team, which is incomparable. Yeah,
I mean, it's maybe incomprehensible isa better word to put it.
I can't even fathom thirty six blownsaves for this team, considering hell,

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I got three closers. In truth, I got three guys that are the
legitimate closers at the back end ofmy bullpen. Somehow, some way,
that's got to work itself out.I can't see this trend continuing, But
then again, it's twenty twenty four. Who the hell knows if they're going
to be if all of them aregoing to settle in, and how many
closing situations are they going to getif this way they're performing doesn't get fixed.

(01:15:53):
Yeah, well, that's another partof it is these save opportunities are
few and far between, right,See, that's a fact, it's just
the facts. So that might beeven that that's a probably part of the
problem as well. They can't evenget into a safe situation. Some good
news Christian Xavier coming back on arehab. I believe he pitched for the

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Hooks of Corpus Christy Hooks over theweekend. Dana Brown spoke yesterday pregame to
ASTROS broadcaster Robert Ford, as hedoes every single Sunday. He said that
the goal is to get him backby at least the Detroit series and that
Josier Key is gonna have two orthree more rehab starts after his live BP
before he can return. So itlooks like Christian Javier going to return hopefully

(01:16:41):
in a couple of days for thatseries against the Detroit Tigers. Looking ahead,
they've got three at the New YorkYankees Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and then Friday, Saturday, Sundayis at Detroit. So Christian Javier hopefully
hopefully back for the Detroit series.As of right now, it's fromer Valdez,

(01:17:02):
Hunter Brown, and Justin Verlanders scheduledto pitch against the Tigers. Uh,
Justin Verlander will pitch tomorrow against theYankee. So if you can get
Christian Hovey air back and then JoseRi Ketty goes out on two or three
rehab starts, then you know mostof your rotation will be back, and
that'll probably move either Arraghetty back downto the minor leagues, you move out

(01:17:26):
Hunter Brown, maybe into the bullpen. I mean, there's gonna be some
decisions made, But for everything thatI've seen from Hunter Brown, he's the
odd man out. If I toldyou right now that the Ragetty, one
of those two had to stay inthe rotation and the other one had to
go, well one way, whetherit's to the bullpen, Roghetty's not going
the bullpen. If he goes,we'll go back down and get more innings
pitch. Who do you trust moreto get to five innings? I have

(01:17:47):
zero trust on Hunter Brown. Okay, well then that answers that question right
now, right, so and so, Brian. I So when we get
this team gets healthy, like Isaid, I'll be honest with you,
I've not counted on Garcia mccullors thewhole time, even though they said in

(01:18:08):
the middle of sea and we heardyou know about mccolors and couldn't last week
we heard the audio of him canbe September thirteen, right about the total
injury time. So if they comeback to me, that's just a bonus,
hopefully Garcia bonus. I don't.I think Louis Garcia will be back
before Lance and I hope so.And you know what, if he's starting
and I don't know where, ifeverybody's going good, where do you put

(01:18:29):
him? If everybody's struggling like theyare, where do you slide him in
and move around? They're gonna bedecisions have to be made. But if
you have your starting rotation now,what's then and they're still struggling, then
what See that's what we're counting onthem to all come back and be healthy
and dominate and get the five andsix innings on a daily basis. Will
they I know the guy going tomorrownight is going to give you whatever he

(01:18:51):
has to give you to keep youin games. He always does. There's
going to have to. And thenyou hope that none of this stuff lingers
Fromber's soreness in his elbow, andthat Javier's neck is isn't one of those
things that lingers all year, andthat you know it's listen once again,
if you think the grind's not goingto be there, they're not runningway and
hiding. They're not good enough todo it right now. There's not talent

(01:19:12):
wise, Yes, talent gets youan apple and a road map and ass
out if you're not applying and beingproductive. This team's got such great ability,
but the availability is going to bepart of it and getting back to
a dominant where I'm not even surethey believe they're a dominant team right now.
That's what I see. No,even though there's I know how they're
confident, but I don't believe thatthey think. I think they're looking around

(01:19:35):
thinking who's making a play right nowwe uh oh, which is human nature
and natural. But somebody's gonna haveto put their foot down on a throat
and say that that's not who weare and get it done without a team
meeting. Just get it done.Yeah. Yeah, what's the one thing
that we're not discussing with these strugglesfor the Houston Astros. That's next on
the Seawan Salisbury Show war Sean Salisburyon Sports Talk seven ninety where Astro Rockets

(01:20:00):
play and Real Texans talk. Imean, dude, this this stuff,
I can't ever keep up. Tripley, Good morning, Hey man, what's
up dude? Morning guys. Man, Tripley's birthday was over the weekend.
My man is struggling this morning.You having a struggle this morning, Triple
Yeah, man, you could comeclean a little struggle. No, No,
it's all right, dude, We'veall been there. I'm fine.

(01:20:23):
See how he's shorty, Look it'sokay, but he's still competes. He's
here. Yeah, I like tostay out here early. And who was
it the Randalls saying, you know, always classy in the rest? Yeah?
Yeah, Triple you want to swearpizza, you want to round pizza.
I'm taking the round pizza. Damn, how about you as your struggles

(01:20:44):
are real today? I mean,people like transparency here me, all of
us do. I'm on the strugglebustle this morning struggle. I'm here Astros
lost to three the rain kind ofeven though it's nice and relaxing at home,
it's still there's a it feels likean energy thing. Hitchy. Let's
get to relaxed, right, andthen you get a little Margo. Maybe
you mix it to Margo yesterday.Who would you rather make love to?

(01:21:05):
Margot or Rita? If you hadto choose Margo. Margo sounds hotter Rita?
Yeah, you see Margot Robbie.I don't know. I don't know.
There's got to be a Rita Hayworthback in the day old scho Yeah,
but so Margot or I don't eventalking about Margot Robbie. Just the
name. You hear the name Margot, Polo, nice, fish out of
water, Margo or Rita. Imean, if you're like, go up

(01:21:29):
and say okay, if somebody saysokay, what name do you expect when
the Margo and a Rita are goingto walk in the door? Correct?
Who's who? You're like? Okay? That who do you think is gonna
look hotter? I don't know.That's tough, that's very tough. This
is almost like you almost feel likethat. You almost feel like if it's
Mark, we haven't when we've whopulls, maybe it's getting time to bring

(01:21:54):
it back. But Margot almost feelslike it's supposed to be a hotter name,
right, I would think, butRita maybe she's from ESCO, could
streets. Yeah, right, Butso you're gonna go Margo first. So
yeah, I'm gonna mar So yourlittle struggle, a little strugg it's real
astro struggles, trying to dissect what'sgoing on. Your team got rained out
Sunday? Well, how many differentways? Yeah? Can we dissect another

(01:22:17):
blown save by the Astros, anotherseries loss right, and a pop up
to the infield? Right? Right? I agreed, So I I understand
it's real. And Tripley had abirthday, yeah, you know, throwing
it down. We had Kentucky Derbya little down because we didn't cost you
a little coin that you could havemade high ratings and most viewed Derby in

(01:22:41):
a while. Really, Oh yeahI didn't even watch? Yeah I did?
I mean, I did you wearone of those suits. Your sucker.
If I go, I'm going,I'll be I'll be on all over
seersucker, powder, blue, seersucker, pink seersucker. Oh hell yeah with
white. Uh what do they callhim white? What do they call you
know? The white lace ups there, there's a name for him, Chuck

(01:23:04):
Taylors. No, no, no, no, it'd be like white.
There's a name for those shoes whenthey call them up, and it'll it'll
come to me. Really you laceup like the white off white. They're
like leather really good with the seersuckersuits. Yeah, there's an old school
name. There's a name for himthough they're called Uh, it'll come to

(01:23:26):
me. I know people now arewearing like the tennis shoe dress shoes and
stuff. But i'd have to go, you know, full on with a
good hat of course. But that'sclassic white buck shoes box. There you
go, the classic bucks. Thereyou go. That's what the little lace
up. It's like an off white. You don't want to go pure what
but an off white buck to matchthe off white? Yah? Right,
that's the look. Yeah, thisis something with what's his name wears these

(01:23:51):
Chevy Chase in the original vacation.There you go. What's them all with
that suit? Right there? Yougo? Right? So you with the
nice be bad boys. Yeah,the bucks exactly great, classic old school
and also cousin Eddie and his Yeahno, see that's the look. You
don't want the white slip on.So between the derby and the Astros losing,

(01:24:14):
and there's a hell of a weekend, a lot going on from golf
tournaments, and I mean it wasit was a good weekend, but that
Monday morning grind, You're like,Okay, streets are still wet. We're
getting back into good weather. Thanthat commitdity. It's just I get the
energy, but sometimes you gotta.Sometimes it takes a Margo read a conversation
to get you back to being jackedout. I mean, it sounds like
to me, you're telling me thewater is rough? Well, did I

(01:24:38):
I? Does it sound to youlike I brought the ship in? Does
it sound like I haven't breaking rough? Right? Waters? A little rough
right now? And guess what youdo, that bitch having breakfast this morning?
Navigate it? Okay, Yeah,what's wrong with you? I don't
know? On it? You haven'teat you get on it. I got
things to do back in the youknow, probably have to go yoke up

(01:25:00):
a little bit after the day.Maybe yoke up, yeah min'ste clinic.
Yeah hey that's maybe you got toget some brain fog out of you today.
Yeah I could. There you go. So I'm all in. Sometimes
you got to you know, nobodywants to hear how rough your weekend was
because you obviously enjoyed it, allof us. Right, you got to
come into your mondy guess what gotto half the half the battle? Showing

(01:25:21):
up? That's true. What youyou got to look for a cliche quote
coming up? Her show up andwhat show out? As you like to
say, Yeah, but we're allhere. And Triple E's got the easiest
excuse because he had birthday over theweekend. Yeah, I'm just I'm just
saying success is never owed. Itis rented, and the rent is do
every day? Yeap, rents doevery day? It is, and then

(01:25:42):
it doesn't no different here, Imean I'm six to ten. I mean,
just in reality, rent is dueonce a month. True, so
true, but if you don't,you can't pay that rent once a month
unless you're showing up every day.Thinking rents do every day that's how you
valid ate it. Yeah, justshow up, showing up and showing out,

(01:26:04):
There's no question about it. Triple. How was your birthday weekend?
Real quick before getting the eight o'clockhour. I was fun. I had
fun. I did. Yeah,we had a little BnB. I had
a barbecue and stepped out yesterday.Yeah, oh you did. I'm about
to start learning what what would okay? I know where that's about learning Spanish?
The perfect motivation? What's that?A nice uh? Nice hispanic?

(01:26:28):
Gal? Oh there you go.I like it so with me and seany
poppy? I like so? Sowould me and Sean be invited to the
cookout? Oh? Yeah, Igot we would. Yeah we're not just
basically guys like that is a man. It's his birthday weekend. Yeah,
obviously a little they got abnb alittle Latina rolls up, Yeah, little

(01:26:51):
bit. And now you want tospeak some of her? Learn a little.
That's a guy who goes right,hey, I know I'm not wasting
any time. Yeah yeah yeah.When she starts speaking, when you say
he met a chick that speaks Spanish, says yes, I will speak Spanish?
What whoa? You better get onit, doog I don't mean literally,

(01:27:11):
but you bet get on that Spanish. You bet it on that Spanish.
So apparently damn. Yeah. Seethat's when he was also so the
read a conversation hit home for Triple, and all of a sudden, all
he keeps hearing about every fourth wordpoppy, poppy. Yeah, I like
it. There you go, thereyou go, Oh my goodness, there
you go. So then, hey, you better get on that. What's

(01:27:33):
that? What's that? Where youlearned languages? What's that? Dog?
All the commercial Roses rose Stone?There you go. You gotta get on
that ross Stone. Brother. NowI gotta take Come on, man,
we'll take a week trip out theEscoll check it out up close and personal,
and you can learn. You canlearn on the fly. Tripleimum menima

(01:27:58):
chick. She don't speak speak Englishman. Next thing you know, Triple
is going to introduce himself. Meyes, Triple, listen morning. Yeah,
he's gonna walk in and go,hey, what's up? Soud?
Who was that? Hey? Man? That's mean? Ways without you home?
What's her name? Triple? Idid not get that. I din't

(01:28:19):
get it. But I'm going backthough, because yeah, we we went
and got bar. We went andgot drinks first before we went bar hopping.
Okay, it was a nice littlerestaurant we found. He walk like,
hey, buddy, I'm back on. So how'd you leave her?
How did you let her go withoutgetting her name? Yeah? Man,
you know where to find her,bro, did you fumble the bag?
Of course you know where to findher. Of course. Okay, she'll

(01:28:41):
be right there. So you didn'tfumble the bag? No, I did
not. Okay, promise you youdidn't fumble. Going I trust back Tuesday,
Taco Taco to Taco Tuesday. I'mgoing back to about to be don't
get Spanish, Yeah, don't name. Don't name the place you're going back
to see her work, because whatdo you do? Get? Tell me
they try to roll off on youyourself, and what's going on? Hey,

(01:29:09):
Maria, I'm backing you. Justcall me poppy. I like it,
y'all here, What did y'all hearwhat JJ Watt had to say?
Did you hear the audio? Yet? It's obvious when when they start saying
that, I'm just telling you Itold you retirement. It's hard to do,
Yeah, especially when you feel likeyou still got some game. Hard
to walk away. And he gota CBS gig all of it hard to

(01:29:29):
walk away from. It tells he'snot fully retired, right, That's what
I'm telling you. Yeah. JJWatt spoke at his charity Softball Classic over
the weekend. He talked about himworking out and what kind of shape he's
in. Could he make his returnto the Texans. Let's talk about it
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Sean Salisbury there to usc trous longtimefriend shown, Ryan Lima, go Lobos.
This is the Sean Sells Very Show. Jj Watt spoke to the media

(01:32:10):
before his charity Classic over the weekend. It's a softball game that they have
every single season down there at inSugarland where the Space Cowboys play. Jj
Watt asked about the potential of hisreturn to the NFL. This is what
he had to say. Fortunate,lucky man. I got a beautiful wife,
I got a beautiful son. I'vehad twelve great years in this league,

(01:32:30):
and I'm very thankful to have walkedaway healthy and playing great. I
mean, I told Tamiko last year, I said, don't call unless you
absolutely need it. But if youever do call, I'll be there.
And he knows not the call unlesshe absolutely needs it. This is the
last year I'll tell him that becauseI'm not going to keep training the way
I've been training. But he knowsthat if he ever truly does need it,

(01:32:54):
I'll be there for him. ButI don't anticipate that happened. They
got a very good crew. Soyou're saying for defensive ends down by week
twelve, Yeah, I don't.I very much don't want that to ever
be the case. Yes, Ihope that everybody stays extremely healthy and they
dominate and they don't need any otherbodies and then I just get to watch
and enjoy it from the couch.That's JJ Watt. So he's still in

(01:33:16):
shape. You're training that hard justin case. Yeah. Plus, it's
training that hard, stay in youknow, good condition when you retire,
because it's easy to get we all, I mean when you walk away from
him, like, man, I'mgonna take a year of if I'm not
doing squat right, easy to lose, hard to get back. So the
fact that he's training this hard toget himself just in case. There you

(01:33:39):
go, and he'd be a greathe'd be great to have in the locker
room and you know where you wouldn'tplay him sixty five snaps a game,
be nice and if he's training thathard. It tells you in his mind
he's still prepared to play football,which is okay. I'll tell you the
first couple of years you leave twothree years, it's hard, whether you're
a star or just a middle ofthe road player, hard to get out

(01:34:00):
because it's still that competitiveness, thatcompetitive fire doesn't go away, and it's
hard to find that anywhere else.You can be competitive in all the things
I'm talking about with that every dayit's a fistfight against somebody else, you
know, practicing game planning, thatchess match that goes into seeing if you're
better than the next guy, thechallenge. And I know, I know
it sounds wild, because man,who'd want that every day? Well,

(01:34:20):
that's what's driven great players like him, that competitive fire that says I still
got it, and it's really hardto walk away from it just is.
And you think, well, whywould Brady and Jerry, Rice and JJ
Watt continue to play when they saidthey were done and they come back.
Why because they still love to competeand they know you're not getting that locker
room feel ever again. Yeah,ever, you're never getting In the hardest

(01:34:43):
part, I think you get itlike we get it here, we got
it. And I'm just talking aboutthat overall feel of battling that guy.
I got to get ready. Theybetter than me. That's a super competitive
aspect, yes, and the physicalside of lining up, walking down the
tunnel and going one more time.Man hard to get rid. It just
is. And think about it.How many jobs do you know when you
hit your thirties, you're almost overthe hill. That's everybody of all the

(01:35:08):
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thirties and your business career forties,fifties, sixties. I mean that's where
that goes in. You're still inyour infancy. In pro sports, especially
football, you cross that thirty thresholdand you're surviving. Brother, now some

(01:35:30):
thrive, But I'm saying now it'slike year to year, you off season,
you quibbed it in eight years,nine years, Do I want to
do it another year? Do Iwant to do another year? And then
you have one bad game or twobad games as running back, and we
all start to think, eh lostthis step right and you're thirty three Okay,
So yeah, it's hard to it'shard to give up when people say
I'll just walk away, telling anathlete that, especially one that's had such

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to usc Truth, longtime friend,Shawn Salisbury, Ryan Lon Lima, go

(01:38:09):
Lobos. This is the Sean SalsburyShow. JJ Watt spoke to the media
before his charity Classic over the weekend. It's a softball game that they have
every single season down there at inSugarland where the Space Cowboys play. JJ
Watt asked about the potential of hisreturn to the NFL. This is what

(01:38:32):
he had to say. Fortunately,lucky man. I got a beautiful wife,
I got a beautiful son. I'vehad twelve great years in this league,
and I'm very thankful to have walkedaway healthy and playing great. I
mean, I told Tamiko last year, I said, don't call unless you
absolutely need it. But if youever do call, I'll be there.
And he knows not the call unlesshe absolutely needs it. This is the

(01:38:55):
last year I'll tell him that becauseI'm not going to keep training the way
I've been training. But you knowis that if he ever truly does need
it, I'll be that farm.But I don't anticipate that happening. They
got a very good crew. You'resaying for defensive end to go down by
week twelve, Yeah, I don't. I very much don't want that to
ever be the case. Yes,I hope that everybody stays extremely healthy and

(01:39:15):
they dominate and they don't need anyother bodies and then I just get to
watch and enjoy it from the couch. That's JJ Watt. So he's still
in shape. You're training that hardjust in case. Yeah. Plus,
it's training that hard, stay inyou know, good condition when you retire,
because it's easy to get we all. I mean when you walk away
from it's like, man, I'mgonna take a year if I'm not doing

(01:39:36):
squat right. Easy to lose,hard to get back. So the fact
that he's training this hard to gethimself just in case, there you go
and he'd be a great he'd begreat to have in the locker room,
and you know you wouldn't play himsixty five snaps a game. Be nice.
And if he's training that hard,it tells you in his mind he's

(01:39:56):
still prepared to play football, whichis okay. I'll tell you the a
couple of years you leave two threeyears it's hard, whether you're a star
or just a middle of the roadplayer, hard to get out because it's
still that competitiveness, that competitive firedoesn't go away, and it's hard to
find that anywhere else. You canbe competitive in all the things I'm talking
about with that every day it's afistfight against somebody else, you know,

(01:40:17):
practicing, game planning, that chessmatch that goes into seeing if you're better
than the next guy, the challenge. And I know, I know it
sounds wild, because man, who'dwant that every day? Well, that's
what's driven great players like him,that competitive fire that says I still got
it, and it's really hard towalk away from it just is. And
you think, well, why wouldBrady and Jerry, Rice and JJ Watt

(01:40:40):
continue to play when they said theywere done and they come back. Why
because they still love to compete andthey know you're not getting that locker room
feel ever again. Yeah, ever, you're never getting in the hardest part,
I think you get it, likewe get it here, we got
it, And I'm just talking aboutthat overall feel of battling that guy about
it. I got to get readyor they better than me. That super
competitive aspect, yes, and thephysical side of lining up, walking down

(01:41:03):
the tunnel and going one more time. Man, hard to get rid of
me. It just is. Andthink about it. How many jobs do
you know? When you hit yourthirties, you're almost over the hill.
That's everybody of all the jobs.If you're going to be a CEO of
a company or run run your owncompany, you're just getting into you you're
now just starting to enter the nextlevel. And you you still haven't even

(01:41:24):
reached your prime in your thirties andyour business career forties, fifties, sixties.
I mean, that's where that goesin. You're still in your infancy.
In pro sports, especially football,you cross that thirty threshold and you're
surviving. Brother, now some thrive, But I'm saying now it's like year
to year, you off season,you quibbed it in eight years, nine
years, Do I want to doit another year? Do I want to

(01:41:45):
do another year? And then youhave one bad game or two bad games
as a running back, and weall start to think, eh, lost
this step right, and you're thirtythree. Okay, So yeah, it's
hard to it's hard to give up. When people say I'll just walk away
an athlete that, especially one that'shad such success as him, or that
loves the competition, because you knownow to once you get to the three

(01:42:06):
years removed, buddy, guess whatyou'll never be that. Then you come
back and guess what it's not.Then you start to look at yourself say
why did I do this? Sohe's on that, he's right now on
that cusp of two years to thethird year. It's like, all right,
I'm fully retired, moving on,but it's still there because Tmiko did
say, dude, I need yourleadership in the locker room, come play

(01:42:28):
one season with me. I wouldguess that he'd walk away from the CBS
gig for a year and do it. So if he's training, stay in
football shape, because there's a difference, right, Oh, of course there
is no He could go and dojust your typical gym workout, kind of
deviate away from your football type workouts. Right, But he's still training to

(01:42:48):
be in football shape. The dudewants to play again or at least contribute,
or or if that was the case, wouldn't he have said, don't
call me. I'm done right,I'm not coming back. I'm having an
extra beer I'm relaxing these commercials thatI'm doing for Miller. That cool.
I'm just I'm enjoying my CBS role, and I'm sure he's enjoying all of
it. But the door is stillthere's no dead bolt on that door for

(01:43:13):
him. You know, there isthat, there's that, and he also
knows and you know what else hegot to drive him. He knows that
this team's a super Bowl caliber teamin the next year or two. Maybe
now he knows what they got.They got something special, and who doesn't
want to be a part of somethingspecial, even when you know that you
don't have to play. And nowhe can train for forty snaps a game
or thirty five instead of seventy orsixty five. So, like I said,

(01:43:38):
you can tell. And even ifhe was banged up, you still
think, I mean, you're stilltraining to do it. He wouldn't train
that. He wouldn't train like thatif he wasn't leaving the door slightly open.
He admitted it. So now ifthis team was two and fifteen and
they had no growth, I don'tthink that door be opened. Special situation
coming to the place that he wasphenomenal in a Hall of fame player is

(01:44:00):
and now they are a better opportunitynow than they've ever had to be that
team. I understand why he'd wantto get a piece of that. Who
wouldn't I would, the damn rightyou would. But that threshold ends.
It becomes a young man's game aftera while, and it's so hard to
keep that competitive, that that edgeyou have in the offseason three years in
a row, because some guys likeI need three months off man, and

(01:44:24):
now but he now see what happens. His body's refreshed now his training,
but he's not tall, he hadn'ttaken hits and he yet his body's refreshed,
and so he wants to do itand his mind says he can,
and he probably can. I don'tdoubt that with him. Is competitive fire
hard to walk away. But itis hard to walk away from something you
love to do. And you stillthink, am I better than that?

(01:44:45):
Right tackle? Am I better thanhim? Do I still have it?
Could I go have a comeback playerof the year win? You know that
type of season? And man,what's the one thing he left without?
Buddy? Championship's exactly right? Andnow he right and he knows and you
could specialize and look at some ofthese guys thirty five years old when knowing
you don't, I don't need youall those plays, and then just his

(01:45:06):
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Friday Night, Saturday Night Logan Gilbertpitched pretty well, h strong for
the Mariners and then yesterday we sawwhat happened. Three hitters, shut them
out and then obviously the the ninthdning home run yesterday off Josh Hater that
on a on a pretty good,I mean a nice comeback effort and to
get battle them Bay back in theups and downs of it and getting clutch

(01:48:06):
hits from Tucker and and John Singletonhome runs and then Bingo unfortunately didn't close
it out. And that's the eighthblown save of the year for the Astros,
which is unheard of for them.So hopefully they'll get it fixed.
It's not gonna be easy and you'llget you know, the Yankee Stadium and
whether it holds the same weight asthe old Yankee Stadium used to the Yankees.

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But they're they're a good baseball cluband you're going on the road and
you're coming off, you know,back to back losses against a good Mariners
team, and it's the road towho do they play after this again?
Tigers? Tigers, that's right,right, and and they're no, they'll
they'll compete to they get some goodyoung bats and arms as well. So
this, uh, this Yankee serieswill be a good test for them on

(01:48:51):
the road against a good team thatcan hit the ball ball out of the
ballpark and that that is Uh,it'll be a good challenge for an Astros
team. Did I just think psychologicallythis is a huge series? I do.
I think it's a monster series forobviously you want to win, but
the psychological factors. Listen, don'tkid yourself when you roll into Yankee Stadium,

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Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park. Regardlessof how the team is and if
they're good, it's just a didThe win almost feels like two wins because
of the atmosphere. It's like whenwe played in Lambeau or go to Chicago
and no disrespect because Detroit was goodthen too with Barry Sanders. But there's
certain place you go in to win. It's a win. When you go
in and beat green Bay, andgreen Bay that felt like two wins.

(01:49:38):
There are just certain places that you'relike, Okay, this is like when
you went and played Pittsburgh in threevers stadium. Did I'm just telling you
we go in there and play them. When you came out of there with
it, it was a fistfight forfour quarters. When you walked out of
there and got on a team busto the airport and flew back home,
You're like, that counts as two. That's how you're telling yourself. And

(01:49:59):
so these well it's what a threegame series. It's still I don't care.
People can minimize and shrink the factthat Yankee Stadium it's still the Bronx.
It's still Yankee Stadium, and itstill has and a guy like Eric,
you know, Spencer Araghetty. Don'ttell me he's not gonna be feeling
a little different walking in there.Of course you will. It's Yankee Stadium.
The key is during those nine ends, you got to shrink the fact

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that it is Yankee Stadium and notlet all that I think you embrace it.
It's man, I'm playing. Thisis awesome. But they need wins
in a desperate way and they needto go win a series, and it
will psychologically matter to them, Itdefinitely will. The Yeah, you're going
there to take an ass kick andthat and that that matters too. Yeah,
and then you don't want that,stay on the road and go over
to Detroit. The Yankees twenty threeand thirteen. Right now on the season

(01:50:44):
the Detroit Tigers eighteen and sixteen,we talked about the blown saves. One
thing to note Sean from Josh Hater'spostgame presser, and something that he said
or would have been worthwhile for him, is show me someone who has done
something worthwhile, and I'll show yousomeone who has overcome a versit. He
didn't say that, No, hedid not. He should have the great
Lou Holtz. Nice. Yeah,So that's how you're asking them to go

(01:51:10):
into Yankee Stadium. I want themto show us people that have I want
them to show us the team thathas overcome adversity. Well, they've been
through a bit of it this year, just so they're going to get that
chance to validate your quote or theLou Holtz quote that you so eloquently stated.

(01:51:30):
You like that, Yeah, goodjob by you, Thank you.
I appreciate that it's been tough sledin this season. Yeah, when I
get when I get, you know, when our fans, when our fans
of the show were fans of themen, I say, our fan me
and the Astros fans are saying,I can't wait till football season already.
Who was it that tweeted us thismorning dream apple? They can't wait for

(01:51:53):
the schedule? Yeah, the Thursdayor something. Yeah, but hey,
you want to go to a partyfor that or what they got those?
No, I don't care about schedulerelease. You don't know, because I
know who they're going to play.For the most part, I don't care.
I don't plan trips around that ill. I mean, go to that's
fine, but I that's there.Like I said, that's not I get
excited for it when it's played.But I don't. I don't set my

(01:52:15):
schedule around, but I like howpeople do when they're so they can plan
their trip ahead of time, buytheir tickets and get themselves going to get
fired up for it. Hell yeah, it's like, well, it's the
same way I feel about like tellingyou, like, you got to go
to Fenaway Park and I'll plan thattrip right yeah, But I but I
get it, you know. It'swhat's crazy is that that? What is
that one of your you know quotesthat you could pull out, But what

(01:52:35):
is it? Hey, if youcan't be around me at my if you're
not around me at my worst,and don't expect to be around me at
my best or whatever, And thatthe same way that the astros should feel.
Now, you got to ride itout, don't. You got to
ride it out. Frustrating as itmay be, you still got to ride
it out. Can't just jump outin front when they're playing good. Got
to ride it out. That doesn'tmean you've got to be a you know,

(01:52:57):
bird, singing around your head androse color glasses and knowing that oh
everything's perfect, No, everything's notperfect right now, but you still got
to ride it out and take somepunches and they're taking some punches and fans
are probably struggling right now as well, because the one thing I know about
this fan base, they seem tolive and die with every pitch. And
that's a good thing, but italso could be when you go to your

(01:53:18):
own job and you're like, ohman the back driving to work and frustrated
because your team lost. It goesboth ways. Yeah, it's difficult.
If you don't love me at myworst, then you don't deserve me at
my best. There you go.You know who said that? Uh?
Madonna? Ooh close? Oh itstarts with an M two ms Marilyn Monroe.

(01:53:40):
Yeah, that's right, she didsay it. I've seen that beam
with her quote underneath it before.There you go. Oh, I thought
you're gonna tell me you saw herlike in person. He wouldn't surprise me.
You and Tony Katain and their name'sTawny Katained. Yes, she's dead
and so is Marilyn. Ip toboth of them. Yeah, rest in
peace, okay. And I don'tknow why you put this Tawny Katain on
me. I'm not White Snake.Well, I mean, I mean I'm

(01:54:00):
not the group White Steak and wellthey call you white bread. Yeah,
yeah, been known to. ButChris Carter is uh Football's Chris Carter.
That is Tony Kataine was Chuck Finley'sand the actress and like with Tom Hanks
and the Man and with Bachelor Party, who was the one that Marilyn Monroe

(01:54:23):
I went around Mary maryln Roy didn'ther and I didn't hang out. Let's
talk to Pete Rose could explain whyMarilyn Morou and Joe Dimagio hung out.
I don't want to know. Yesyou do, yes, you do.
What were you saying? Who isthe one that you and Mike Marshall's hang
out with? No dated? Whowas it? That's not hanging out?
He dated her again? Because thenyou're going to say, oh, Sean

(01:54:44):
you dated her? Yea, whowas No, I didn't date her?
The lead singer of the Go Gos? What you figure it out? He
don't. Don't be asking me allthese questions. I look like you're wind
up, pet toy okay tripping.Oh that's right, Blinda Carlisle, Yeah,
yeah, that's right. That's oneof you that's not Tawny Katan okay.

(01:55:05):
And they didn't say the quote,all right, I know she didn't,
but I just, you know,I can't ever keep up with all
the do you like to call herTony Katain? Then you tell her you
call her Tony to tell her youcalled him? You called him tone Lock?
You remember that? No, rememberwhen you came out here and called
him tone lock? No, Isure don't. Right after you called uh

(01:55:26):
nat king Cole, you called himnat Cole King. Yeah. Yeah,
it was a really hell of aweek by you. That was not it
was. It was right on theholidays, and it was not good.
I was butchering everybody's name. Nobodywas safe, that cold case all timer.
Hey, what'd you call him again? Uh? No, what'd you
call it? Who? What wasthe other one? I said? Who?
You said? Nat King Cole wasthe other one you called him?
That called him? Yeah? Awesome. Yeah, but it was all good

(01:55:49):
fun. Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was a gaff,
but it was a great fun.It was. It was great fun.
It was basically we got to roastyou for like two years now,
that's okay, Yeah, it wasliterally two yeah. Yeah, we got
to talk about that roast said it'sgotta suck. Yes, But the boyfriend

(01:56:11):
that could kick your ass, dude, what a what a great Jeff ross
Man comment about Bob Kraft getting amassage and Tom Brady didn't like it.
Oh, there were some good ones. You got it. You know,
if you're gonna do that in Bradyat all that it's it's all done and
good fun. You got to bethick skinned to do it, because that's
the ultimate compliment that they're roasting you. You've had a hell of a run.

(01:56:32):
Oh and they roasted his. Ohyeah, and he deserves It's good
your face. Don't battle back andjust enjoy because those are that's roaster.
When comedians are at their best,Yes, when they know they don't anybody
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Sports Talk seven ninety on iHeartRadio TalkingBack with the Shawn Salisbury Show. Here
on Sports Talks seven niney Sean BryanTriple Lee. So, welcome in Astros
broadcaster for Steve Sparks of the show. Yeah, our weekly Monday eight thirty

(01:58:26):
visit on the road. He's inNew York. Day off today. I
don't know if it's the day offof them is they prepare every day,
but then the series kicks in tomorrowand Steve welcome in Astro's broadcaster again for
this weekly visit. Steve, letme get to the psychological side or the
presence of like Yankee Stadium you playedand know about all that, and I
know it's not the original Yankee Stadium, but does it play a psychological factor

(01:58:50):
good or bad for a team onthe road. Does it have a presence
about it still that would get somebodylike Spencer Arraghetti jacked up or overwhelmed or
anybody. Is it different going inthere for a game like this in a
series? You know it certainly couldsomebody for like Arrogant who has ever pitched
there before and probably gets a littlejack up thinking about it for a couple

(01:59:12):
of days before he makes that start. It could have an effect on him,
you know, good or bad.I'm not really sure on the type
of pitcher he is. Does herely on adrenaline or not? And I
think he does. You know,he goes through the swing and miss,
so you know, if he cancontain his emotions just a little bit,
I think he can help him.And certainly these guys, you know,
Mexico worked out well for the Astros. Maybe a diversion after that brutal series

(01:59:38):
at Wrigley Field, a heartbreaker againstSeattle. I mean, losing so many
games that they should have won istough. So coming to Yankee Stadium,
maybe taking your mind off what's happenedin the past series, because that crowd
in that stadium forces you to beat the top of your game to win

(01:59:59):
ball games, might help him inthe long run. So we'll see the
man just losing so many games thatthey should have won. They should only
be a couple of games out offirst place, and it makes it tough,
Steve, how hard is it?And you were around them every day
and about the current team, weknow their confidence. You've mentioned that the
way they've been in the past andwhen you were a player, when you

(02:00:19):
lose like they did against Seattle,you know, getting you know, three
hit on Saturday and then losing onSunday and the way they did. How
hard is it for professional athletes toget over that. I know we all
say, oh, you got toget over it quickly and throw away the
rear view mirror, but it's reallynot that easy. And knowing that the
fans are not used to seeing thisthe last seven or eight years and the
players know this, how hard isit to get back into and not press

(02:00:42):
too hard and find that medium ofI'm going to play my ass off,
but I'm not going to press.Where's that fine line? You know?
I I take it as a startingpitcher. I was a starting pitcher for
most of my career, so takeit like that. It's like you might
have a bad game and day youknow, you're working out and you're doing
your stuff. Second day, you'rethrowing your bullpen. You start to feel

(02:01:04):
a little bit better about maybe someof the adjustments you're making. A fourth
day, fifth day, you getto the start and you feel pretty good
until the first inning. You know, it's almost like that Mike Tyson line.
As soon as somebody punches you inthe face, everything goes out the
window and you start to have thosefeelings again. So I would say,
I would say, if the Astrosgot to the seventh or eighth inning and

(02:01:28):
you walk the guy, another guygot a crappy hit, say a blue
pit, it's human nature to go, oh my gosh, here we go
again, and then try to dotoo much. Then you try to do
too much, and then it getssideways again. And I think that's kind
of where you are right now withthis Astros team is they've lost so many
different ways. You know, thatback end was supposed to be the clant

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down. They were supposed to winall those games, you know, if
they had the league, you know, after six innings. So I think
right now that's where they are.I think it's what's going to happen now.
I think that's where they are rightnow. I mean, I know
they have a lot of professionals.You know, you feel good about your
swing and then then you line oneout to the third baseman and you start

(02:02:12):
saying, what else do I gottado? You know, just little things
like that, just heat creeping inyour mind and making things a little harder.
And when you start to try todo a little bit too much collectively,
you see, you see a lotof different losses. See Sparks Astros
broadcaster joins us for his weekly visithere on Sports Talk seven ninety. All
Right, Steve, come out ofthat Mariner series and tell me what when

(02:02:36):
you come out of that series.I know the losses, but find me
the good stuff. Point to somestuff that I should be that the fans
should be excited about coming out ofthat series. For the fans, yeah,
not a lot. I mean,I mean, you get a little
excited about Singleton. You know,how long can this sustain? And you're
happy for him. It's a greatstory. Things like that, and you

(02:02:59):
see little little pieces in your rootfor guys to try to get better.
Right But right now, Sean andI've been in a situation like this.
There's no worse situation as a playeror even a fan base to have high
expectations and to not fulfill those expectations, right, you know, because it's
such a long season coming to theballpark every day. Man, this is

(02:03:20):
going to be a major fight toeven get back to five hundred, and
then to even do that, andyou know that's probably going to take another
fifty games or sixty games of emptyingthe tank and using your leverage relievers in
games that are tied or you're behindby one or two, then everybody's going
to be gased. So this isgoing to be I mean, you've got

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to thread the needle to make thiswork the way things are now, and
when you go around, you startlooking, you know, coming out of
that Seattle series, how can younot look at the Seattle Mariners and not
understand that they're starting pitchers are goingto be a handful. I mean,
they are going to make things everybody. Yeah, it's they're so good and

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they finally got that right. Youknow, they had a lot of guys
that were contact guys for you know, flexing and Marco Gonzalez and those guys
in their rotation for a while whenthey thought that they were going to be
contenders. But those guys just couldn'tstrike anybody out or this really didn't overwhelm
me. And they gave up fourruns in five and a third. So,
uh, it's going to be difficult. You know. I think just

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winning ball games, winning series,that's the right approach. You know,
it's all cliche once you start listeningto these guys talk about that but that's
the only way they're going to digthemselves out. They can't try to win
four games every night. You know, they just got to take it pitched
by pitch and you know those gamesthat they're supposed to win, they got
they got to figure out a wayto execute. Steve, I've got to

(02:04:51):
get asked this from fans, andso I'm gonna ask you this, and
you we've probably we've discussed in thepast. I don't know what the answer
is for. You know, whenguys are like IL two, they start
out having a great season, weit's not too early for us to say
he could be having one of thoseMVP seasons. It's not too early for
us to say that. On thegood side. Yeah, when it comes
on the bad side, we allare, well, it's early, it's

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early. So when it when isit okay to say that there's some things
that are that are a trend,that aren't good, that aren't going to
be easy to overcome. When whenwhen is that threshold that allows there were
people I mean, people can havean opinion they want, but where we
start to see trends that say maybethis is who they are this year,
that it's going to be a grindregardless. Are we there yet? Well,

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I don't. I don't think anybodyreally believes this is who the Ashes
are. Agreed, agreed, butthey but the fact of the matter that
they've gotten off to this brutal startand it's going to be brutal to get
out of it. It's going tobe very tough, and you've got to
stay really healthy. And they aregetting healthier, which is which is good,

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and other teams may not stay ashealthy as they are right now.
You know, you can look ata lot of the teams that have gotten
off to good starts and they've probablyhave been pretty healthy, but they may
not stay healthy. And it's along season. We've talked about that that
anything can happen as far as healthgoes in A team that may look great

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right now in a couple of months, may may may not look very good.
You know, it might be apretty easy sweep at some point if
you're facing two or three triple Aguys in the rotation at that point.
So things can change. But Ijust know, I don't feel like this
is who the Astros are, andI think that's what makes things frustrating for

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us, you know, as fansand in whoever else is in an organization,
you expected this team to get offto a good start and contend,
contend for the division. And theirtalent gives you hope to know that they
can come out of this or believethey can, right Steve that that's kind
of what you hang on right now, Right, You're right, you know
they can, they can do this. And here's one thing you start to

(02:07:00):
look at who's struggling the most.Well, you could probably say the back
end of the bullpen, the guysthat are probably counted on in the seventh,
eighth, and nights, And that'swhat we talked about even before spring
training. That was one of thethings that you talked about with the other
broadcasters. What are the Astros thisyear? Well, they're probably a good
six inning team and they feel likethey should win those games in the back
third because of who they have inthose ends, because of their past and

(02:07:25):
what they've done in the past.But you know, they don't look the
same right now, and sometimes mentallyor physically or whatever it is, things
change from year to year. ButI'll say this, they're really good and
we've seen them really good in thepast, so there's no reason not to
think if they're not hurt, thatthey'll get it back. He'll figure it

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out and they'll get on some typeof role. So but they better get
it done pretty soon. You know, they better figure this thing out pretty
quickly, no doubt. And Steveleave you with this. On the baseball
part of it, Hunter Brown,We've talked about electric stuff, but the
ability to come out of that clubhouseand out of that bullpen to start a
game. Do you need a routinechange? I mean we all have our

(02:08:07):
ocd about how we prepared for games. I mean I did, and I'm
sure you did, how we dressed, what we ate, how many pitches
you threw, What's going to gethim dialed in to start faster? Well,
a routine change does help. Yeah. Sometimes. Here here's a little
trick is that you can warm up, do all your stuff, and then

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simulate an inning sit down, andthen simulate another inning sit down and then
come into the ballgame. Good point. You know, try to create stuff,
right, Steve, You try tocreate You try to try to create
some things that you've already been outthere, so you're you almost feel like
you're going out and it's the thirdinning, you've already pitched through the first
two correct, that's how you're thinkingabout one thing. One thing you don't

(02:08:50):
want to do. When you're warmingup before a ball game. It's just
so pitch after pitch after pitch afterpitch, because that's not the way the
game goes. To get into therhythm of the game, you got rest
for a few minutes every once ina while and then pick it back up
because that's the only way you canget into the rhythm of a game.
So I don't know if those guysare doing that or if they know those

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those little tricks to do, andI'm sure I'm sure they do. There's
enough people around to help guys andthings like that. But there's different routines
that you can do to help stimulate, you know, what's going on in
the game. Like, okay,here I'm facing Stephen Kwan and we'll go
count. So you know, youcatchers call these signals and you're going through
it, and then you face himand then you go into the stretch.
Say he gets on base and youget a double play. You just work

(02:09:33):
it out and try to figure thingsout. But here's the thing for me
with Hunter Arraghetti some of these guys. All the swing and miss stuff is
really good, But how deep intothe ballgame are you going to get trying
to trying to get a guy swingand miss on every pitch, and if
everything's you know, if you've seena lot of foul balls and all they

(02:09:54):
see. The only thing I'm sayingis every once in a while, a
little slower and a little bit lowerit is good to get an early out.
Or if you fall behind the count, not try to throw your best
slider. You know, it justtakes something off of something else. But
you know, being able to landsome stuff in the lower rail is a

(02:10:15):
good thing. You know. Allthe stuff at the top rail with maximum
effort gets a lot of foul ballsand a high pitch counp And if you're
trying to get ten thirteen outs agame out of your bullpen, you'll never
make up the games that you've alreadylost. Man, you've got to start
getting deeper into these ballgates to takecare of those relievers so they can be
more fresh for everybody. Heymen,low and slow helps my golf game too,

(02:10:39):
Steve True, I'm being serious aboutthat, and tech, honest to
god, it does it does,and my game needs it. So as
we go, what do you likeon a day off in New York?
Do you still get like pumped whenyou go to the city. Is it
you love to visit there? Whatdo you do on a day off like
this in the city. Well,I'm going to a Broadway show called six

(02:11:03):
Nice and going out to eat andgoing out to eat. Yeah, my
wife flew in last night. Ohsweet, awesome. Yeah, so she's
here in New York for three days. So the off day to day,
we're gonna go see a show andyou get a good one of our favorite
restaurants around here, we're going there. It's pretty close to the Times Square,
so uh, see a Broadway showand do that and then probably walk

(02:11:24):
around the city and uh just checkthinks that's good weather here right now.
Yeah, at the rainow out ofhere, so we're good. Then on
to the Detroit after this. Soit's a blast, my old South and
Ground. So this is six sixgames, two good teams, and two
good venues to go with and getto spend it with your wife. That's

(02:11:45):
awesome. I love going to Broadwayplays and musicals and stuff. I love
it. So you'll have a blastman. Enjoy fun. Yep, enjoy
Steve. You deserve it and nowwe'll look forward to talk to you next
week. Brother, have a goodone. Appreciate Sean, Thank you.
That's Steve Sparks. That's awesome.And I love love, good news,
good play. That's awesome. Goodwife gets to be with him. It's
Sports Talk Steven, and come backand discuss what Steve said. Routine change
sometimes works and he is spot OnSean Salisbury Show, We want to win.

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Sean Salisbury continues on seven ninety.You're listening to the Sean Salisbury Show
here on Sports Talk seven ninety Homefor your Astros Baseball Sean Brown and Tripoli
Astros lose to the Mariners. They'reoff today to take on the Yankees tomorrow.
Darvin Ham fired by the Lakers overthe weekend. Amen to Michael Wilbon

(02:12:33):
for putting some of this in thelap of Lebron James and Anthony Davis,
and rightfully so, whether you agreewith what Darvin Ham did the last two
years, and he obviously had somegrowing to do, have you ever noticed
when they win, Lebron will takeevery ounce of credit on the planet.
When they lose fire the coach andyou know, damn well, who got
that coach fired? Oh yeah,make no mistake about it. Yes,

(02:12:56):
one percent. I digress. Ithink one of the interesting things that Steve
Sparks said is the question that youasked him about routine and change a routine
might be good for Hunter Brown,because whatever it is, he's got good
stuff, but yet he cannot getthrough five innings. And I think you
are one hundred percent correct, andso is Steve, and I am so

(02:13:16):
on deck. I mean on sittingin the same church as he is.
When it comes to not only changingup your routine, but putting yourself in
visualization situations that are game routine.How many of us have warmed up without
a purpose a million times? AndI know it sounds cheesy in that,

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but if a golfer steps up,puts his peg in the ground tiger Woods
and just you know, doesn't visualizethe shot, stand behind the ball,
whatever his pre shot routine is,he is not going to play the type
of golf. And now he canhit it a country mile and play great
golf in his prime, all thosethings. But if you noticed, when
they're going good, their routine ismeticulous to the point I count waggles on

(02:14:03):
some of these guys are the waya guy taps his club and pulls it
back, taps his club and pullsit back, and it's the same all
the time, all the frigging time, and when they're going good. And
I would imagine I think Justin Thomas, who has struggled last year, changed
some of his pre shout routine andsome of the things he was doing this
year, maybe even a caddy aswell. To not blame it us,
but just trying to get a changeup, and you know, is is

(02:14:26):
it helping or not? We'll findout. With Hunter Brown, I absolutely
believe that the first six hitters orfirst three hitters in the order, if
you're not going a simulated game inthe bullpen and your warm up, I
think you're doing it wrong. NowI don't know if he is or not.
Steve said the same thing, butif you're not, if you're just

(02:14:46):
warming up and throwing pitches to loosenup, I tell if you don't warm
up with a purpose, to me, it doesn't it does it that you
your mind remembers that as well.You have the bodies team that my oh
I remember, yeah, you Warren, you just threw fast threw warm up
and make sure your curveball on yourslider and your change up in your fastball.
But was there a purpose in thewarm up. Whatever he's doing,

(02:15:07):
it needs to change. Whatever he'sdoing to start early, change it,
go talk to some veterans or doit, and if he has then change
it again until you find that routinethat you can get in. Something's got
to change, yes, because theway that he's pitching. Can't count on
him, No, you can't counton him. And the way that Christianavier
is getting ready to return hose airkey right around the corner. I would

(02:15:28):
assume Hunter Brown is going to bethe odd man out, and maybe he's
grinding hard because he sees that comingdown the pike. Whatever it is,
you're the player, you get paidto go and do your thing, and
he's got to start better. He'sgot to change something up. Yeah,
there's no question about it. Something'sgot to change. Lebron or not Lebron
jamescuse me. We'll talk Lebron andDarwinham here in just a couple of segments.
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(02:18:11):
this is the Sean Salisbury Show.Real quick about Steve Sparks comments,
real quick, and I know you'vegot other places we're going to go with
this conversation, but did you getthe the what did you get the feeling?
The vibe that Steve realizes that thisisn't going to be a grind just

(02:18:35):
by absolutely how he says, nomatter what, it's going to be tough
enough to get the five hundred,let alone get to where that would they
expect to go. So he's alreadyhe knows they're capable, but there is
a it's a brutal up. They'veleft themselves an uphill fight. Now there
are seven games out of first place. They're going a six game road trip.

(02:18:58):
They're play Yankee in Detroit, bothover five hundred teams, one of
them is leading the division. Imean the Yankees right at the top of
that thing, right, okay,right from the first place, right And
that's right. Baltimore is in thefirst place. But they're playing good baseball.
But ten games over five hundred forthem. So but you could tell
in Steve's voice that they've lost gamesthat they should have won and didn't and

(02:19:22):
that this season, like we hadsaid, it's going to be a chase
man. The talent says yes rightnow, performance says no, and that's
what's got to get fixed. AndI think he not only does he realize
it, so does that clubhouse.The question is can they capable? Yes?
Will they? None of us know. If you're going by history,
that says yes. But we haven'tseen this in a minute. We've seen

(02:19:43):
him start slow. We haven't seenseven games out before June first hits,
and that I can remember since thisseven year runs been, I can't remember
being this far out this fast.I mean, if you if let's just
say they they win four out oftheir next six, four out of their
next six, that'll still put themat sixteen and twenty four. Yeah,

(02:20:09):
sixteen and twenty four, still belowfive hundred now, and you're counting on
other teams to play poor baseball,right so you can close the gap.
Yeah. So even if they winfour out of their next six, which
means they basically win both of thoseseries against Yankees and the Detroit Tigers,
both on the road, capable,Yes. The way they've played would tell

(02:20:31):
you that's gonna be a tough taskup, he'll climb. You're getting a
rookie making what fourth or fifth starton in game two of this series in
Yankee Stadium. Yeah, so we'llsee. But you're not. You're not
waltzon in to play the Oakland Athleticsor right now, just like we said,
the Angels come back down to realreality. Right they're in last place,

(02:20:56):
So you're not. You're not playingthem without Mike Trouder Showeyo, Tom,
You're you're playing the Yankees and theYankee Stadium and you're not. And
you're coming off two games where yougot three hit in one and lost unfortunately
on a close, safe situation,closer situation, in a safe situation where
you know you had a chance togo in there and win it and couldn't.
So it's that they got some toovercome, and some of their own,
you know, early season demons they'regonna have to overcome as well.

(02:21:20):
Yeah, the way that they're playing, this hole that they've dug themselves is
only going to get deeper, andthey've got to turn it around quick,
faster than a hurry, no nodoubt, and it's gonna be a tough,
tough task to go to New Yorkand take down the Yankees, who
are one of the best teams inbaseball, one of the best teams in
the American League, no question aboutit. Seven one three, two one
two five, seven ninety. Let'stalk to Al. Good morning, now,

(02:21:41):
Hey, what's going on, guys, great show, Sean. I
got a couple of notes. Uhuh. One of them meals, uh,
I'm gonna pre I'm gonna give dashtros, they flowers. I appreciate them.
I said it earlier there. Youknow, they gave us quality baseball
and anybody going out to those gamesbuying that material and that merch. Dave

(02:22:03):
also gave us the buck. Youknow what I'm saying. They gave us
quality baseball for our buck. Can'ttake that from him. Whatever happens this
year, I'm on the ship I'mgonna die with or whatever. But shun,
let me ask you this on asecond note, how those players at
a professional level, with the pastseason experience, whether you win a super

(02:22:26):
Bowl, championship, World Series,or whatever you win in a sport,
how does the players come back thenext year and say, like you got
a quarterback Son Salisbury And I knowit doesn't happen in football too much.
But you bring a guy in andhe starts sharing the load, and what

(02:22:48):
is your mind frame? And Ireference that to the back end of the
lineup, get out of the mainstreamwhat the people are saying and doing.
I just know that on the field, in these guys' mind it's different from
what the TV show us take methrough. What's going on in the guy
head. When you bring a guyin, he's happy with his position and
you kind of shug his shoulders,such as a hater in that last guy

(02:23:11):
we had last year because he wasjust good. But how does that play
in your mind? You know,when you play sports, you protect your
position, you thank you the best, But when you start playing with my
position with another guy, how doesthat factor into your brain on the field,
me playing at a lesser level thanyou, what are your daily routines
with yourself? And in that lockerroom with guys that's they homeboys, They've

(02:23:35):
been there through it thick. Andthen then you start shugging a position with
other guys and I hang up andget your tape. All right, al,
thank you, Well I can justfrom guys I've been around, and
from myself. Number One, isif you don't like or you run from
competition, then you're probably not thepro sports isn't for you. That's my
first thought, and that was mythought because it's like, and you can

(02:23:58):
even apply to high school and college. You can be a great player.
Have everything set up for you.Hudson card you you you're a high recruited
kid, one of the best inthe country. All of a sudden,
Quinn Yours decides to transfer and youdon't have a job anymore. You embrace
the competition, but of course youad e Houston ahd T Houston I hard
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driven by the classic elite view atGMC Studios for the elite car buying
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it now at Sports seven ninety dotcom sulf Right. Okay, let's do
this. Sean Salisbury, the USCTruth, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury,
Bryan Lima, go Lobo. Thisis the Sean Salisbury show fired by the

(02:25:18):
Lakers over the weekend. Real quickabout Steve Sparks comments, real quick,
and I know you've got other placeswe're going to go with this conversation,
but did you get the what didyou get the feeling? The vibe that
Steve realizes that this isn't going tobe a grind just by absolutely how he

(02:25:39):
says, no matter what, it'sgoing to be tough enough to get the
five hundred, let alone get towhere that would they expect to go.
So he's already he knows they're capable, but there is a it's a brutal
up. They've left themselves an uphillfight. Now there's seven games out of

(02:26:00):
first place. They're going a sixgame road trip. They're playing Yankees in
Detroit, both over five hundred teams, one of them is leading the division.
I mean the Yankees right at thetop of that thing, right,
okay, right from the first placeright, And that's right. Baltimore is
in first place. But they're playinggood baseball. But ten games over five
hundred for them. So but youcould tell in Steve's voice that they've lost

(02:26:24):
games that they should have won.And didn't and that this season, like
we had said, it's going tobe a chase man. The talent says
yes right now, performance says no. And that's what's got to get fixed.
And I think here, not onlydoes he realize it, so does
that clubhouse. The question is canthey capable? Yes? Will they?
None of us know. If you'regoing by history, that says yes.

(02:26:46):
But we haven't seen this in aminute. We've seen him start slow.
We haven't seen seven games out beforeJune first hits, and that I can
remember since this seven year runs been, I can't remember being this far out
this fast. I mean, Andif you if let's just say they they
win four out of their next six, four out of their next six,

(02:27:09):
that'll still put them at sixteen andtwenty four. Yeah, sixteen and twenty
four, still below five hundred now, and you're counting on other teams to
play poor baseball, right so youcan close the gap. Yeah. So
even if they win four out oftheir next six, which means they basically

(02:27:30):
win both of those series against Yankeesand the Detroit Tigers, both on the
road, capable, Yes, Theway they've played would tell you that's gonna
be a tough task up, he'llclimb. You're getting a rookie making what
fourth or fifth start on in gametwo of this series in Yankee Stadium.
Yeah, so we'll see. Butyou're not waltzon in to play the Oakland

(02:27:52):
Athletics or right now, just likewe said, the Angels come back down
to reality. Right they're in lastplace. You're not. You're not playing
them without Mike Trout or show HeyoTani. You're you're playing the Yankees and
Yankee Stadium and you're not. Andyou're coming off two games where you got
three hit in one and lost unfortunatelyon a close, safe situation, closer

(02:28:13):
situation, a safe situation where youknow you had a chance to go in
there and win it and couldn't.So it's that they got some to overcome,
and some of their own, youknow, early season demons they're gonna
have to overcome as well. Yeah, the way that they're playing, this
hole that they've dug themselves is onlygonna get deeper, and they've got to
turn it around quick fasten than ahurry, no no doubt. And it's
gonna be a tough, tough taskto go to New York and take down

(02:28:35):
the Yankees, who are one ofthe best teams in baseball, one of
the best teams in the American League, no question about it. Seven one,
three, two, two, five, seven ninety. Let's talk to
Al. Good morning, now,Hey, what's going on, guys,
great show, Sean. I gota cup of notes. Uh. One
of them meals, Uh, I'mgonna pre I'm gonna give dashtros, they

(02:28:58):
flowers. I appreciate them earlier orthat. You know, they gave us
quality baseball and anybody going out tothose games buying that material and that merch.
They've also gave us the buck.You know what I'm saying. They
gave us quality baseball for our buck. Can't take that from him. Whatever
happens this year, I'm on theship I'm gonna die with or whatever.

(02:29:20):
But Seun, let me ask youthis on a second note, how those
players at a professional level, withthe past season experience, whether you win
a super Bowl, championship, WorldSeries, or whatever you win in a
sport, how does the players comeback the next year and say, like,

(02:29:41):
you got a quarterback son Salisbury.And I know it doesn't happen in
football too much, but you bringa guy in and he starts sharing the
load, and what is your mindframe? And I reference that to the
back end of the lineup, getout of the mainstream, what the people
are saying and doing. I justknow that on the field, in these

(02:30:03):
guys' mind, it's different from whatthe TV show us take me through.
What's going on in the guy head. When you bring the guy in,
he's happy with his position and youkind of shug his shoulders, such as
a hater in that last guy wehad last year because he was just good.
But how does that play in yourmind? You know, when you
play sports, you protect your position, you thank you the best, But

(02:30:26):
when you start playing with my positionwith another guy, how does that factor
into your brain on the field,me playing at a lesser level than you,
What are your daily routines with yourself? And in that locker room with
guys that's they homeboys, They've beenthere through it, thick and thin.
Then you start shogging a position withother guys and I hang up and get

(02:30:46):
your tape. All right, al, thank you? Well I can just
from guys I've been around and frommyself. Number one is if you don't
like or you run from competition,then you're probably not The pro sports isn't
for you. That's my first thought, and that was my thought because it's
like you can even apply it tothe high school and college. You can
be a great player. Have everythingset up for you, Hudson Card,

(02:31:09):
You're a high recruited kid, oneof the best in the country. All
of a sudden, Quinn Yours decidesto transfer and you don't have a job
anymore. You embrace the competition,but of course you want a little clearer
path to get a legitimate shot atthe job. I mean, of course
you do, and don't kid yourself. As good as Quinn Yours is.
When they went and signed arch Manning, that'll affect your game, but it
affected it, hopefully in a positiveway. Got into the final four.

(02:31:33):
So I think that's a big partof it. There's no doubt you got
to embrace competition. And I knowit's harder, easier said than done,
and we say it sometimes on thesurface, but if you don't embrace competition,
you'll get less left behind because they'regonna do it at every level.
They're gonna draft somebody at your position, a quarterback, They're gonna bring in
another pitchure they're gonna The number onepriority of a franchise should be to upgrade
your roster every day, every year. And you can't be in the Oh,

(02:31:58):
what if I hurt this guy's feelings, Because if you're in the feelings
business, you're never going to getbetter because everybody's feelings get hurt. If
you're a backup, you're McCormick rightnow, you're hurt. But if you're
Jake Myers and you're not starting everyday or Dubon, you play your ass
off, but of course you're pissedyou're not playing every day you should be.
That's the competitor. So there's thatpart. The other side of it
is and I'm telling you people wouldbe lying if they say that it doesn't

(02:32:24):
affect him. Now, it mayaffect you in a good way. Bring
out the best some guys. Thatbrings out the best. I've seen guys
when they draft the first round pickat your position in the NFL and the
guy who's into the incumbent wears theguy out, I mean, plays his
ass so plays better. And I'veseen the opposite. He wilts little insecure,
and next thing you know, he'ssitting on a bench and makes a
few mistakes and the rookie's taken over. And make no mistake about this either.

(02:32:48):
When they signed Josh Hader, theysimply told Ryan Presley, you're a
really good player and can be acloser for anybody else, but not this
team. Now, it's a demotion. You can look at as you want.
Now it's still you're still the setupguy, you're the eighth inning guy,
but you're not the closer. Sohow would you. I mean,
you still got to show up andearn your paycheck and root for your teammates

(02:33:09):
that want to be good. Butanybody, it's demotion, It just is.
That's the way it works. Now. How you respond to it's on
you. But you can't be inthe feel good business. And you want
it to feel good when you win, but you can't be in the well
what if what if I hurt theguy's feelings? Your franchise and team will
go to hell in a hand basket. Now, that doesn't mean you've got

(02:33:30):
to be disrespectful and draft a guywithout telling him, or bench a guy
and not tell him he finds outon Twitter and all that stuff. That's
that's not what I'm talking about.I'm talking about yes, communications key,
But how could you, if you'reRyan Presley, not think that this was
a demotion, even if you feelthat Haters a better closer than you,
even but I wouldn't imagine that Presleyfeels like that. But even if you

(02:33:52):
felt that that guy's the elite ofthe elite, you still feel demoted.
And if you tell us you're not, I think you're lying. Now how
respond to it? Say, well, I'm gonna grasp this and be the
best eighth inning guy in the league. Great, So how would I feel?
Your guys know? And when theybring in a first round pick at
your position, ultimately, what they'retelling you is, eventually we expect that

(02:34:13):
guy to be in. Now,pitching's different because you got a lot of
them. Quarterback, isn't you playone? You play one? So at
least you know they didn't get ridof Presley. He makes good money and
moved to eight. They're just sayingwe think that Josh Hater is a better
closer than you. They can stick, you can slice it any way you
want. That's what it is.So you got to grasp competition. It's

(02:34:35):
okay to be bothered by them bringingsomebody in. Why wouldn't you. Cousins
has bothered that Michael PENNOCKX was theeighth pick of the draft. We're gonna
find out how Cousins deals with thedamn competition, aren't we? Come fall
time, We're going to see.So you can't feel sorry for the guy,
but it depending you'll find out.You find out a lot about a
guy. I'm not just talking aboutPressy anybody when they're tested good and bad.

(02:35:01):
So we'll find out. But itis a demotion from the closure rule.
But if you embrace competition, you'llfight your way back and make yourself
the best, best eighth inning guyon the planet. You can't help but
think that way. If you don't, then you'll get eliminated both ways,
and you just can't do that.Should Alex Bregnan move down in the lineup.
We'll discuss that next. And youknow, I know for me,

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(02:37:15):
seven ninety. Astros lose to theMariners yesterday, five to four. They
fall to twelve and twenty two onthe season. They play the Yankees tomorrow
up in the Bronx j Justin Berlandare going to be on the mound.
Darveningham fired by the Lakers. We'retalking about the Astros struggle pretty much all

(02:37:35):
show long. Josh Hater gives upa go ahead home run to Cal Raleigh
in the top of the ninth ona two count. He's a fastball middle
middle Raley deposits that ball into theCrawford boxes. Another blown save. That's
the eighth blown save of the seasonfor the Astros. Another player for the

(02:37:58):
ash so this drugging Sean is AlexBregman, hitting barely above two hundred.
Another infield pop, Well, thisone was a foul ball, but it
was uh didn't get past the infield. He is hitting two O two,
two eighty four on base two sixtynine slugging. He was one for four

(02:38:20):
yesterday. This has probably been theslowest start of his career. One home
run, just eleven RBIs and anops of five point fifty two. How
many times has he dipped under twohundred? He was one ninety eight going
into yesterday, I think is thatright? I think he was one ninety
eight going into the game close.I think he dipped below two hundred.
I mean, I know it's early, so the batting average change is not

(02:38:41):
the one ninety eight to two Otwo doesn't matter. So going into Sunday,
he was hitting right at two hundred, but with his first at bat
that's when it did below one.That's when it dipped below two hundred.
So, uh, Brian, thisis I don't feel bad about size,
but I know that and I don'tthe history. I know we give hall

(02:39:03):
passes to people who started slow becausethis is every year, and it does
look a little different this year withhis because I see far more sluggish at
bats than good at bats. Doesthat make sense? Yes, And I
don't know if it's sometimes being havingsuch a good eye can take away some

(02:39:24):
of your aggressiveness, because he does. He draws a lot of walks,
and he makes the pitcher work,and he keeps him. He just does.
But it also get to the pointwhere it gets to the point where
you know that strikes on so wellthat you're not pulling the trigger the way
you normally do because you're expecting tobe called a ball. And this is
just from my observation. I thinkwe all believe that Alex Bregman's going to

(02:39:46):
hit better, and when he does, everyone say, see it doesn't matter
and it's going to haul pass himfor wherever he goes. Is that he
just a notorious two months he justdoesn't swing the bat well. But do
you have to accept it every yearat some point in time he just like
we get one hundred brown for notstarting fast in the game. At some

(02:40:07):
point time, when does his routinechange where he heats up quicker meeting Alex
Bregman, and this is at atime when they desperately need his bat.
You know one thing I like abouthim, It still doesn't affect his glove
and he always plays it really successful. So that's a good thing. But
you know, whether you're into bodylanguage or how you view his facial expressions.
Right now, there's no doubt heknows he's struggling. But I always

(02:40:30):
I wonder now at this stage,if he thinks, oh, I'm going
to get hot in July, he'sgot to think it if he's as confident
as we always hear about. Butunfortunately, if you wait another month to
get hot and you're still going throughthis this, especially when the guy that
d h is and plays left field, who is a a three hundred hitter
potential with fifty home runs and onehundred and twenty rbi. Guy is not

(02:40:52):
hitting either. So when you whenthat happens, something's got to change.
Maybe this is the year. Wecan't wait for Alex Bregman to wait to
heat up. Now. I don'tknow when that threshold hits. Every year
we'd have to go back and say, Okay, started here and then boom.
But I'll tell you this, whilehe drove in ninety plus run ninety
eight runs last year, he didn'thit two ninety last year? Did he

(02:41:15):
no to sixty something? And soI just he's he's spoiled us with great
at bats over his career, buthe's not above criticism. And right now,
thirty four games in, Alex Bregmanis the weak link in the lineup.
Now that Brian, that jose A. Brady is not in the lineup,

(02:41:37):
he's become the weak link at theplate. Now you say that,
and you say, well, butlook at his on base percentage, which
is normally high. His slugging percentageis under three hundred. I think,
is it not? I think he'sgot one home run, it's depending ninety.
So For me, it's you needhim, and this is a time

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when maybe he's got a kick inthe gear a little earlier than normal.
And so regard and I know hishis his history has bought him time and
people's patience. But it right now, when you got the back end of
a bullpen, some of the teamguys on the team, the power is
not there. Singleton's added a littlebit. I think there comes a time

(02:42:26):
when Alex Bregman liked the Hunter Brownsof the world. He needs to this
needs to be a little more urgentpicking up the tempo on his bats,
because they are He's had some somesome pisspoor at bats. He just has
He's hitting four hole now yep,four home two, which also would beg
the question, why are you afraidto move him down? You know what

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they would tell if you want totalk, you know, with the back
of the baseball card that you've heardthat talk, they'll hit that even harder
than they would the Aubraion one.Because the back of this guy's baseball card,
he's been a more productive hitter overthe last three or four years than
a bray you has. Since hisMVP season, what twenty twenty yep,
right, So I just I don'tknow. Do we just always supposed to
sit back say ah, no bigdeal, it's it's it's Bregmant, and

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you can't I don't care what anybody, I don't care how confident he is.
There's no way you can tell methat when there's three hundred million reasons
that that's not weighing on him.There's no way you can tell me.
Now it may weigh on him good, and he may go on a tear
and hit twenty eight home runs anddriving one hundred and five runs and hit
two ninety that it'll tell me,well, that's just Bregmant and he came

(02:43:33):
through and he wants to get paid. But right now, there's no way
you could pay him what he wants. No, No, you'd have to
have big stones to do that.So I said at the beginning of the
year, and I'm gonna hold Idon't know how it's going to turn out,
because I didn't know one way orthe other. But I can tell
you this that that does matter,good or bad, how you're handling pressure.

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Look at after all the gambling stuffthe guy in LA right now,
Look how the Dodgers playing but lookat the guy in La Yeah, he
handles the press. He did notnot one out bombs yesterday, and he's
worth about what a half a billiondollars right now. Contract Yep, it's
not affected him. Matter of fact, he just keeps playing great baseball.
Now. It may be the samewith Bregman. But you cannot tell me
that when Correa was here and Correaseason before his his contract was up,

(02:44:20):
that that walk season had a bigseason. He did, and guess what,
he still didn't get what he wantedlong term. So you got to
start to take into account that thatdoes have an effect. Now, how
it's gonna affect Alex Bregman the wholeyear, I don't know. I just
know this. You cannot tell methe thirty four games in that thinking about
that isn't part of it. Whenhe goes home at night. There's no
way you can tell me that.But I do believe confidence wise, he

(02:44:43):
still thinks he's one of the betterhitters in the league. And that's a
good thing. But he's gonna haveto start showing it. This team needs
him desperately right now. Where shouldhe hit by performance? He should be
hitting by by performance. He shouldbe hitting in the last three hitters in
the order seven, eight nine,because normally we say, well, it's
on base percentage, you should keephim up there because he still gets on
base. That's not the case sluggingpercentage that worry's hitting. If his name

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wasn't Alex Bregman, you wouldn't seehim anywhere before the seventh hitter in the
lineup. Yeah, stick him intosix hole and let's roll with it and
see what happens. Let's keep ontalking about the Houston Astros and the struggles
that we have seen Hunter Brown?What is wrong with Hunter Brown? That's
next to Sportslox seven ninety. Hey, this is Charles Barker, and you

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guys thought I put on some waysince my playing days. You shall see
Sean Solisborough trble. Now back tothe Sean Solersborough Show. What a knucklehead.
They are twelve and twenty two onthe season. They're off today.
They take on the Yankees tomorrow.Up in the Bronx. Darbingham, fired
by the Lakers, are and searchfor another head coach. Seven one,

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three, two point two five,seven ninety is the number to join.
Let's get out to Lufkin and talkto Jeff, Jeff, good morning,
good morning. Are we doing thismorning? Taking Yes, I'm I'm sorry,
No nothing, Jeff, go ahead, Okay, I know we're talking

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about mister Bregman. Uh I've neveractually heard what he what kind of contract
is he expecting or wounding or dowe know? We don't. I mean,
he hasn't nothing. I've heard thathe's actually said it. Jeff,
I don't know, but we're justtrying to put the pieces together. He's
got Scott Borris, who is aguy who milks every ounce of uh milks

(02:46:37):
every ounce of the turn up,you know, to tell the thing else
he'll keep going get trying to geteveryone. That's an agent's job as long
as the players is monitoring it.I would think, judging from other third
basemen, that he wants I mean, my guess is in that thirty million
dollar range for seven years, sixyears or more probably. I mean,
I'm sure he like more years,but I I don't see why he wouldn't

(02:47:01):
think that, just just going bywhere the market is and looking at other
third basemen where they're getting, likeRafael Devers and guys like that, I'm
assuming and Scott Boris is going tosell that he's the best third baseman you
know in the league, of course, and now this isn't this isn't helping
the cause right yet, with theway he's swinging the back. So I'm
going to assume an average of thirtyplus a year, not I don't know

(02:47:22):
if he's going to get it,but I'm assuming that's where he is because
I'm just going by the agent andBregman's production in the past somewhere in that
range. And he ain't getting eightor nine or ten years here. You
and I both know that. Butwith a lot of years and a lot
of money up, you know,in the three hundred to two seventy five
range, I would think that's whathe's going to ask. But we may
be way off, but the performancewill dictate that, I guess a little

(02:47:43):
bit more. Well sure, andyou know it's not rocket science, but
that's that's playing on his mind forsure, no doubt. Al Tuve got
his new contract. We bring inHeyd of course, obviously he's not an
everyday player. All this money beingtossed around and he's you know, he's

(02:48:05):
been He's had a great career.He wants his money. I don't blame
him for that. But if youguys have been saying, you know,
at the end of the season he'shitting two twenty even forget about thirty million
a year. I mean, nobody'sgoing to pay him that. I don't
think. No. Well, somebodymay get close because they look at the
potential of the past, but youare exactly right. There's there's no way

(02:48:28):
somebody's going to pay him this.They can't pay him that here for seven
years. They're not going to dothat too much. And one other thing,
I'm sorry, I interrupted, Ohyou're God, please changing the subject
from Bregman to one of them.What is our problem playing at home?
You know, it's almost like weput more pressure on ourselves playing in front

(02:48:52):
of our own crowd. I don'tknow if that makes sense or not,
but we I bet if you wentback and looked and our runs scored at
home versus on the road, andI'm sure we score more on the road
or ten too, I think werelax more on the road instead of just
the opposite. That's I don't knowwhat you guys think on that. Whatever,

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Jeff, thank you for the calland great great insight and great stuff.
We appreciate that, well, that'sbeen the case last year, said
it. I mean, if you'rejust going by last year, they were
not good at home. No,they're five and ten at home or I'm
sorry, five and ten on theroad this season, I would imagine they're
under five hundred both places. Yeah, they are. So if they're five
and ten, that's fifteen games andthey're playing thirty four. That's nineteen more

(02:49:35):
games. So they've won seven,eleven, twelve. There you go.
Yeah, So, but you're right, you were spot on. It cost
them last year in the postseason.They couldn't win at home. They had
to go on the road and winfive or six to get the playoffs,
win the division. Yeah, sothat there you go. So you're you're
you're right there, whatever it is. And for a crowd that is,

(02:49:56):
I mean I think yesterday there's almostthirty eight thousand people there. I think
there were so this this crowd showingup for a team's ten games out of
five hundred. But they do notplay well at home last year, and
they have started off doing the samething this year. Seven and twelve at
home, five and ten on theroad, which is odd to me.
Yeah, considering the support they getit's not like you're playing the four thousand
people in an empty ballpark. Yeah, you're not playing in Oakland. No.

(02:50:18):
Seven, one, three, two, two, five, seven nights.
Keep going on the phone lines,Q, good morning, Good morning.
How do you fellers doing to day? Good sir? How are you?
I'm good, Sean. I don'tforget my name is O. G.
Goat Now, I don't get thename. I know you, the
O. G. Goat brother.I got you, I got you,
hey man, I would be remissif I did not being a follower of

(02:50:41):
all Houston area athletes, you know, and uh, I've been following them
for long. I've seen the likesof you know, even Kixas. You
know Roy Martin from Dallas, MarlonRamsey from Beaumont, Goden Notes from day
City and our own you know,Matthew Old and Mike Miller. You know,

(02:51:01):
it's bar As track and field goal. But what a Taska Ceda did
this weekend Fellas was something that wasjust if you can't even put it into
words, how great this deal.They had a record that was fit in
nineteen ninety eight when we at theOld Memorial Theater in a ut watching the
track defend before Mike Myerson's Bill andSaltworred Od Whittet ran from lane one and

(02:51:24):
they ran a record of thirty eightseventy six. We tailed all the way
until Saturday when this group of boys, a quartet from a Taxa Ceda ran
a thirty nine fourteen. Now,to put that in perspective, we saw,
you say, vote running nine fiveeight to set the world record,

(02:51:46):
right yep. If somebody wants tobreak that record at that rate, they
would have to run a eight nineseven to break that record to the capacity
that these boys did. So theyneed a great you know, great common
for what they accomplish because you're probablynever see a record of that magnitude broken
at that magnitude. And I justwanted to let those guys, no,

(02:52:09):
gay man, I really appreciate thework that they put in and the things
that they accomplished this weekend. Andthey also won the four by four.
Awesome que thanks man and the oggoat. Talking about goat, do that
I'm trying to fathom. I alwaysused to trying. You know, when
you watch these sprinters do their things, just track people in general, whether

(02:52:31):
it's long distance, the four byI mean the four hundred meter. I'm
always tripping over that or the eighthundred. It's just a dead sprint and
if you the way they have totrain for that. But in this that
was a four by one hundred.Now you do that is flat out churning.
Yeah, that's flying. I meanI started to think about high school

(02:52:52):
kids and I know, listen,we're saying high school kids. He's college
football players, freshmen or eighteen arethe best players on a field. A
lot of times, it's crazy.These NBA played eighteen coming out of high
school. They that a lot ofthem are NBA ready, or some are,
at least physically. It trips meout. I didn't know that they
I didn't know they'd run that fast. I imagine I can't imagine what that
looked like in person. That's justflat out. And think about how how

(02:53:16):
good you have to be on thehand too, on the pass, you
know what I'm saying, to getit, to make sure that they get
you. You're you're hitting full speedwhen that dog on when you're making the
pass, so you're hitting the groundrunning and to make up that ground.
I'm fascinated. Four by one hundredmaybe my most favorite event that I ever
watch because it's four dudes or fourwomen making sure they're in sync and part

(02:53:37):
of the team, and then allof them got flat out hit the ground
running. What did he say theywere in thirty What yeah say? Did
you say thirty seven or thirty eight? Thirty seven? I think four by
one hundred relay at high school?Dude, that's that's just flats under Yeah,
that that's probably dude, that's insane. That's world class speed running for

(02:54:01):
that is that? That is flatout moving. I don't know what the
high school national record is. Maybea task of seat. He just broke
it. I don't know if it'sa Texas record, but that's that's just
that's. Yeah. Thirty eight,come on, man, thirty eight nine
to two. That's a when itbroke the twenty six years standing national record,
the national record, not just Texas. Well, there you go,

(02:54:22):
and good luck. You know that. I mean, somebody may do it,
but everything has to be perfect ina four by one hundred when you're
running like that on the like Isaid, somebody's not hesitating to get the
stick, you know what I'm saying, the baton. I just that I
hope they have that on video.I got to go watch that because in
personal i's got to be frightening tosee. Second, the only time random
faster was when okay, so atask of SETA has the two fastest times,

(02:54:48):
Yeah, ninety seven or something wasthe last time is yees thirty eight
nine to two and thirty nine thirtyeight nine two And that held for what
twenty some years? Twenty six years? Well, guess what you you are
gonna have to because, like Isaid, when four people are involved in
one maybe just if you just hesitatea little on the hand, you're losing
a second. I just that thatto me, that's some of the best.

(02:55:11):
But that's as good as news you'llhear all day. That is flat
ass flying with four cats running.Yeah damn, think about the work they
put in to do that. That'sbasically that you're saying in that hand,
I mean to slow down. Youdon't get to get out of blocks.
You're standing waiting for the baton.That is and that says something. With

(02:55:31):
all the speed we got across thecountry, if the record stood that long
in a task a seat and wentand got their own what a trip.
Wow, that's that's what a greatwatch. That must have been over the
weekend. It's crazy or what wasit? I guess was over the weekend,
right, funning? Good for them, Congratulations a task Asita, that'll
be a tough one to beat.All right, let's look at Tom Brady
getting his ass roasted last night.There was some crazy stuff being said.

(02:55:54):
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Back to the Sean Salisbury Show onSports Talk seven ninety final show or
a final call of the show,Gary good morning, Hey guys, doing
all right? Yes, sir,it's on your mind this morning. Yeah,
I didn't think I'd be making thiscall this sooner in the season.
But a couple of things real quick. The Astros. I saw something yesterday

(02:58:11):
that made me believe that there mightactually be in trouble. Because if you
remember back last year, the Astrosgot scored on in the first you know,
they were outscored in first five,four or five innings. You never
worried last year because the seventh,eighth, ninth inning was money for the
Astros all year long. This yearis not the same thing. I actually

(02:58:33):
saw the Astros wearing the other teamsout uniform yesterday. I mean that team's
got what the Astros have had thelast seven years. They've got speed,
they've got defense, they've got pitching, they've got hitting. So I seen
the baton being passed a little bitto this team and everything. But the
Astros that have so many issues,they don't have one problem hitting the biggest.

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But they've got new coaches, SoI don't know if the coaches and
the veterans are not mentioned, I'mnot quite sure what's going on. But
yesterday was the first day I hadthat feeling in my gut that they're slipping
and it's going to be hard forhim to come back. But did anybody,
did you guys notice the other teamhow good they are in every facet
of the game like the Astros havebeen in the last few years. Absolutely

(02:59:16):
that great starting pitching. May havestayed in a little too long, but
he distribted yesterday, but back intothe bullpen was damn good. They get
clutch hits, they can hit thelong ball, they make you pay for
mistakes, they run and they defend. Yeah, what's not the like about
him? And I get exactly Gary, why you feel that way looking at

(02:59:39):
that team. You almost look athim and say, that looks kind of
like we looked here a few yearsago. Now they're still loaded with talent
on this team, but you cansee Seattle's not going away, and they're
starting pitching. Is filthy, filthystarting pitching, no question about him,
A man, great call at thatpoint. Yeah, what else? No,
what else were you gonna say?I just I just figured that I've

(03:00:01):
seen the Astros and the other jerseysyesterday and that team is gonna be hard
to beat. But yeah, anyway, great show, guys, Thanks,
thank you. Garan to Texas Rangersneed to take notice too, because Seattle,
Seattle's got and you know what that'swith Julio Rodriguez has even played his
best baseball. No he hasn't.He got one home run. But they
they are clutch, and they aredangerous, and they're starting pitching. If

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pitching means a lot, and they'rebullpen, they've got it. They they
they're building something pretty good there.Yeah, and a veteran manager who's seen
the ups and downs too. Theirpitching staff's really good, man, Yes
it is. I think they allbasically have sub three e RA, some
with sub two. Pretty damn good. Yeah, they're pretty good. Also,
it was pretty good, was thatTom Brady getting roasted last night.
Yes, so there was some funnyass love only comedians let it rip,

(03:00:46):
and he's got to be a goodsport about it. It's awesome. He
also basically admitted that the flake gaywas was real. I saw that.
H did you see that? Yeah? He said, if you do,
just pay me the twenty I couldhave told you I often did it.
Yeah, at least the guys.Hey, if you're going to go all
in, go all in. Ilove this. I think it's hilarious.
And when you're when you're that good, the roast is that you like the

(03:01:09):
ultimate compliment when the best of thebest come and roast you. Some of
the things we can't talk about becausethere were some good majority of them.
I can't. We can't say goodgood stuff. But Brady, be a
good sport. When you're the goat, they come. They they comedians like
to get after the goat and thenhigh five him afterwards. It was good.
Getting roasted is the ultimate compliment.I think it is that roast me

(03:01:30):
every day. I appreciate that.Thank you, thank you, fellas.
Appreciate that ultimate compensated because you're notgoing to roast somebody that has an impattle.
What's that? What was the funnyjoke in that one? Is classic?
And you know Brady to be thickskinned like that. It's it's it's
important, man, very important,dude. They were they were talking about
his ex wife. Comedians man,and oh and there's no there is no

(03:01:54):
barrier. There's when those guys getgoing and they know they can empty the
bucket. We need comedy where youcan say whatever you want. And you
know what he hits the name comedy. Yes, offend races, religions,
people, fat, skinny, eightto eighty. That that's why it's comedy.
To make some good the Chappelle's ofthe world. Just put a smile

(03:02:16):
on your face and who cares.We need those days of the priors in
that back where comedy is done.Let these comedians let it rip. Oh
they're not what a bad guy?Did you hear what he said? Yeah,
he's a comedian. Let him go. I love the comedy. We
need it back. Good on themfor roast and Brady the right way.
That was cool. Eli Manning evengot in on it. He tweeted out,

(03:02:39):
I was gonna attend the roast,but I didn't want to roast Tom
Brady for a third time. Whoahey, now about to lie though,
there you go. Tom will havesome comeback on that one. I'm sure
he will, Yes, he will. That's gonna do it for the Sean
Salisbury Show. He is Sean Salisbury, our producer of Triple Emmanuel Elmore,
making it happen every single day forus. I'm Brian Lie. Thank you

(03:03:00):
for listening. We're back tomorrow morningat six am. Don't go anywhere.
Next up we'll stand orfully. ChrisCordy coming up next to Sports Talk seveninety