Astros Lose Series To Twins, Where's Javier and Urquidy's Results?, WNBA Madness

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Saulisbury. Old, Okay, let'sdo this. Shawn Salisbury, the USC
Truths, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This
is the Seawan Salisbury Show, Mavericksand who they playing? Who they playing?

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That's right? So yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, that's later
on this week because there's like anine thousand day gap in between the start
of the NBA Finals in the endof the Western Conference in Eastern Conference Finals,
Good morning, Shawn and Triple Astroslose another series, not good Man,
seven and a half out of firstplace. Both the Mariners and Rangers

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won yesterday seven and a half out. Another one run game, well it
was in a point yeah run gamemakes from five and thirteen, yes,
and one run games, yep.Just couldn't quite close it out, got
down, took a lead, andthen tied and then nothing ever good happens
when you walk the lead off batterto start an inning, and that's what

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Ryan Presley did, and in itwalk a lead off batter, get a
pinch runner, bunt a guy overnovel concept, crazy, but a guy
over novel concept, and then Irgoscores from second and then uh Dran comes
in and was uh, you know, did his thing in the night for
his tenth safe so you got toyou know, and what Bregman four homers

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in five games. Yep. Yeah, looked like you were done. A
couple of home runs over the weekendand it was a uh. I mean,
there's some improvements obviously in swinging thebat with some people that needed it,
but the whole result comes down toeverybody doing their thing. And Hunter
Brown pitched well enough to win agame too. He pitched good. Again,
the whole thing comes down to it, you know, the entire club

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doing their thing on a regular basis, day in and day out, and
they unfortunately have not been able tosustain consistency with it, although flashes of
brilliance at times. But once again, like I said, you're never gonna
I don't know a time very oftenthat when you walk the leadoff hitter,
unless you're fortunate to hit into adouble play, that it turns out good

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for the team that's playing defense.I just don't I don't know. You
know, obviously it's happened over thecourse of time, but you put yourself
in such a buying when you givefree passes like that, and it happened
again, and that's just been what'ssupposed to be no brainer is not no
brainer. And the Astros and Iknow we're going to keep hearing they're going
to be fine, but now they'reseven and a half games out of first

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place. I don't know if they'regoing to be fine. They do some
good things, they do some realaverage things, and quite frankly, they
do some things that are lower thirdtype things for baseball club. So we
can sit here and do it.The only thing's going to change if they
got to keep winning. I'd ratherhave them win ugly than lose pretty.
And like I said, we getsome improvement from Bregman Jordan's powers, you
know, stepped up, but that'sthe case. Come up, you know,

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paying you struggle a little bit andgetting his thing going at the plate,
which he's dipped under three hundred now. Uh so you know, when
guy's cool off, that's when somebodyelse has to step up. But it's
been rare this year that the entireball club has done their thing on a
regular basis. And you know,you lose another series, it's one of
you. If you don't win series, you don't make the playoffs. And

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they lost to a pretty good MinnesotaTwins team. And then you get to
the back end of their bullpen,they're pretty good too. The Twins are
and Doran was, you know,pumping it up one hundred al two.
Vay and Singleton both pinch hit andthey got a couple of slow rollers and
you know, it's tough to hitguys like that. And the key is
they didn't walk the lead off hitor in the ninth inning, but in

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the eighth inning that you know,Presley did. And I once again small
ball the how about that, huhbuy a guy over, like I said,
and then you drive him home witha hit. It's pretty good thing.
Sometimes you got to play that way. And that bunt set up the
Twins to put a runner in scoringposition to stay out of a double play
and then go on and that wasthe eventual game winner team yesterday, one

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for six with runners in scoring position, the left six on base. Yeah,
you're never gonna win games that way. No, they're not. And
hell, it's been worse at times, but yeah, like I said,
it's We've seen a handful of timeson the last two series where you're pitching
has pitched well enough to win games. And for one reason or another.
You haven't been able to close itout, either defensively meaning on the mound,

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or offensively at the plate where yourguy pitches well enough, you only
score a run or two runs andit puts you in a bund. So
it is a it's become a majorissue. And now you're fifty eight or
fifty nine games in. This isa this is a trend, and they're
gonna have to fix it because sevenand a half games out. And I
understand, but here's one thing.You got to look at seven and a

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half games out of a team thatcan pitch like the Mariners, Jae Alls,
I ask is reverse the field.Just flip flip the script right now,
because the Astros have seen that alot in the last seven years.
You put yourself with a staff likethey have right now, with the potential,
and stick yourself in first place andput the Mariners behind use seven and
a half games. What do youthink the fan base would be saying,

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here, Mariner's got no shot,Yeah, no chance. Astros is a
World Series bound. And here theAstros pitching staff, starting pitching staff fromber
pitched his ass off over the weekend. That looked like a guy who's capable
of winning Cy Young's Yeah, andthey won that game. So you're starting

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you're starting to see that if youflipped it, that's all. I flip
it and tell me what we'd besaying here if the Mariners were in second
place seven and a half behind,or should I say third place? But
there's eleven teams in the American Leaguewith higher winning percentage than the Astros right
now? Eleven they're twelveth all fiveteams in the East, what three through

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three teams? Three or four teams, three teams in the Central make it
eight. Now there has to befour teams in the in the Central and
then two teams in the West.So they're they're they're there. There's eleven
teams. Yeah, So the Astroshave a four thirty three winning percentage right
now, eleven teams have a betterwinning percentage. That's that's harsh, almost
sixty games in so yeah, eleven, yep, that's exactly right. So

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it is if I if it flippedand we are seven and a half in
front here in this in this team, with the way that Seattle's pitching staff
is, and you look and they'vebeen there, the Astros have seen this
movie and what was the first thing? No shot to catch us? So
what's the difference whichhold seattles? Fansbe saying, well, it is the
Astros, and they've got a historyof doing playing great baseball. But from

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what you've seen you can't tell mesixty games in that that at least some
of the things you're doing aren't whoyou are? Are? When? When
are you? What is your Whenis your description of your team? Or
when is the you know, infootball we say five six games in,
that's who you are. Now yougo on win streaks and all and all,
but you get a pretty good ideaof what your how we describe you

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and what your what is the howyou who your team is? Give or
take some winning streaks and stuff.What Dana Brown last week told to see
thinks they have four more winning streaksin them, the one hundred and twenty
one games or whatever it is togo. They're going to have to get
those in because with winning, you'vegot to hope that the other team in

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front of you is losing. Thatthat's another problem. And they pitch pretty
well, so you can understand thefrustration from fans, but they just haven't
been able to string against good teamsand close games, dominant play like we're
used to five and thirteen in onerun games. This is unlike anything we've
seen in the last seven years withthe Houston Astro. These are games that

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they find ways to win, andnow they are finding ways to lose.
Ryan Presley is awful right now,there's no sugarcoating it. He is not
good in the eighth inning. Well, Ryan, it is continuing to be
proved every single time he is runout there. Brian Brady should be pitching
the eighth inning. What's called likeit is? Well, you're getting to
the point now in truth that youmay have to if it keeps up this

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way, And in asking Dana Brownlast week if Ryan Presley has just actually
looked at it like he's been demoted, and Dana Brown admitted that that's probably
part of it. If the trendcontinues, you have to consider moving him
at the trade deadline to get somethingfor him for a team that needs a
closer and move him back into thatrole, honestly, because it's obvious that

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this isn't the eighth inning. He'sjust a guy, yeah, for whatever
reason, right, And I don'tlisten for the people who study it,
or in the clubhouse talking to him, or whatever it is you go through
you see every day, meaning themthe astros great. I can watch with
the naked eye. He looks differentto me, but I'm not around him
every day. I just when you'redemoted, it can be a difficult thing,

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especially when you've been a pretty elitecloser for a World Series team.
I just you would have to ifthis continues, you at least have to
engage with somebody else. If somebodyinquires about saying, hey man, he's
not comfortable there, we could usea closer. We'll move him to the
We'll move him to the closure role. And I would imagine Ryan Presley would
welcome that. I especially like shustonanything. If you're a starter and you

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get demoted to basically a backup,even though he's the eighth inning, and
he's no backup because you're running himout there to get to the bullpen,
meaning Josh Hater in the ninth inning. But the heat HiT's just different,
and you're sixty games in, he'snot apparently he's not hurt nothing, So
you tell me what's different. Hejust having bad luck. Bad luck,
didn't walking a guy on the freeand it just he doesn't look the same

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de manding and he's never been throwinga hundred guy, but he you know
when he's going, well you cansee it, and he's obviously got more
than one pitch, and it justyou you'll have to entertain something like that
if it doesn't, because you're goingto have to clear way to move a
braid you there, or move itaround or flip flop those guys. But
wouldn't that be demotion too? Thenif you're oppressing, you need to handle

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the first emotion. Wouldn't you bethinking undermote again? Or is the pressure
to get the hater too much?I don't know what it is. But
he handled the closer role like achamp. But the eighth anything, he's
just been a guy and that's notlike him and what an easy guy to
like and root for. But goodgracious, it's if it is one of
those things where you felt demoted.I can't imagine if somebody inquired about it

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and you could pull off something youneeded for that to give somebody else a
closer and you get something that youcould use. Because the astros are missing
on some things, and so isthe eighth thing of the bullpen, and
I would imagine somebody could use aguy like Ryan Presley to close. So
let me put tell me put itto you this way. In twenty twenty
three, in the regular season,Ryan Presley appeared in sixty five games,

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sixty five and a third innings pitched. Do you how many walks? He
had less than double digits sixteen lastyear. He's already halfway there this year
and he's only pitched twenty two anda third innings. Yeah, he's he's
different this year. He can't locateanything. Well, if you're not hurt,
then what is it? And ifthey say, well, it's mechanics,
will get sixty games in. Don'tyou think mechanics you need to go

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to work on mechanics in it ain'tthat dude, No, this is between
the years thing. Yeah for sure, no, I think. So let's
look at Hunter Brown's outing another goodone from him, but it was not
enough. As the astros fell gota lot to get into from the week.
And as we continue to roll onright here on the Seawn Salisbury Show,
Barrel's his way to the basket.I'm the windowing in hey is Jay

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Shawn Tate. Back to the SeawanSalisbury Show on Sports Talk seven, ninety
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to the Stanley Cup Finals to takeon the Florida Panthers. You're listening to
the Seawan Salisbury Show, Sean Bryanand Triple Lee Astros. Man, Man,
oh man, call the mayor,tell them right now, Hey,
put the uh put the parade onhold. I thought you wanted so you

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told me we were having a prey. It's a cycle, man, it's
a cycle. So you're basically atdow Jones are. It's up and down.
The Astros might be cooked. Thenthey went a couple and you're like,
oh man, they're back. Thenthey went again and they're like,
we're so so back. When didthey win to in a row this week?
This over the week, just youknow, a couple weeks ago.
Oh okay, I'm just making surethat they didn't miss anything from Seattle to

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oh no, no, no,the Twins. Yes, the cycle.
It's a cycle. Now, let'sput it on hold for a little bit.
You'd have to have a fifteen gameswing to tie for first place.
Yeah, I know. I'm notjoking now, I know that that's a
big swing. Yeah, they areseven and a half back, and and

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I know we take it in.Let's see eleven teams. Now, it's
not going to continue five eight under, five hundred twenty six to thirty four.
So we're right at sixty games.Indeed, so you are more than

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a third of the way through theseason. And the trend of up and
down baseball has been who they've been, So they're gonna have to I know
that the people can the light switchcan go on. One thing I know
about this team, well, Ican't say about the franchise. I don't
know about the team. A lotof the bodies are the same. But
years change. Just because you've wona championship ever ring on your finger,

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you're a Hall of Fame player oryou're an All Star, doesn't mean every
year you're entitled to just walk inthere and it's going to be the same
way. Ask Ryan Press how that'sgoing right now. I'm not just dogging
him or I ask a twenty twentyMVP Jose Brady what that's feels like,
or quite frankly and Alex Bregman,what it's like now four homers of five
days, but hidden into two twenties. But this hasn't been the consistency that

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Bregman wants either, And I knowthat when he pops up the first base,
that's not who he is. Andwe saw it over the weekend,
the ball outside the plate and Painatried to pull the ball off the plate
and it was a boom, boomboom, little roller to the pitcher,
turned around, through him out Again, that's the stuff. Yet Paine has
had a phenomenal year. It's notjust one at bat, and I'm not

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talking about one player. But itdoesn't entitle you from twenty twenty three to
just all of a sudden be automaticallygreat in twenty twenty four. I know
the franchise's history, but twenty twentyfour is different. But this year,
I don't know. I mean,if we're a franchise looking at okay,
just look at another team. Doyou pick any team you want baseball?
And you're saying if you're a fanhere and we as we are, or

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you're in the media here or you'rejust a fan to watch his baseball and
you look at another city and Isay, Saint Louis Cardinals, they are
coming a time of to night.You're gonna tell me not the Saint Louis
Cardinals they used to be. Yeah, And you know what they're they're five
hundred team. Yeah, and theyare one game over one. They're twenty

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twenty nine, one game seven andthree in the last ten. And they've
found themselves. I know it's wayway too early to be talking about playoff,
but they're in the wildcardinal right likethey found themselves in the wildcard position.
So my point is, if we'regonna say well, one team,
if you're gonna say it about anotherteam, you still got to direct that
you're sixty If you say, well, look look at sixty games and that's
who they are. The Yankees arepretty good. I think that's who they

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are. This year. You're justgonna have to You're gonna have to play
lights out to beat them. That'sthe Philadelphia Phillies. They get it.
This team gets it. And Iunderstand that here. Whenever it's your own
team, we try to find anycrease we can to slip through, so
we can with the hope, youknow, the hope, the crease of
hope. Right, here's what Ido know about this team. Unlike maybe

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a team, can the Red Soxpitching keep doing what it's been doing this
year? Can can you go wherever? Can Saint Louis continue this trend to
seven and three for a team thatyou know, trying to get back to
the days when they had so muchpitching it didn't matter and they get back
to doing regardless of who you're talkingabout, they and it fits here as

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well. Is the one thing though, that makes this different is that it
is the Astros that the talent ofthe Astros says they can get on a
big win streak. But it's stilljust because the talent says it doesn't mean
it's going to happen, Right,I guess that's the point I'm making.
So I understand how you hold outhope that it can, but I also

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know that you've got to at somepoint there's a realistic part of it that
says, I mean, it's afifteen game swing to get to first place.
Fifteen It's not like you're one gamein front and everybody are battling jockey,
and it's a three game swing.They're up seven and a half,
you're down seven and a half.It's literally a fifteen game swing to get

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you in first place. Now,you may go on a run, but
you've got to hope the Seattle doesn'tas well. So while there's still there's
a lot of baseball left, wesay that every week, but at some
point in time there's not going tobe a lot of baseball left. And
you can't keep losing. If you'rea championship team, you don't lose four
to three, two to one,three to two on a regular basis.

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I don't know a championship team that'slost one run or one score games in
the NFL during the regular season endedup getting into the playoffs and won Super
Bowl. That just doesn't happen.That's a I know. I would imagine
that's an overwhelming stat that if you'reunder well under five hundred in one score
one run games in baseball, onescore games in football three points or less,

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and you are under five hundred orwell under five hundred, and that
three quarters of the way through theseason, and football are a third of
the way or half the way throughin baseball, I would imagine that's who
you are. Now. You canchange that trend, but it's gonna have
to You're gonna have to buckle upand get that done pretty quick. Yeah.
Well, losing one run games iswhere it's got to start. Or

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actually, you know, I takethat back. Scoring with runners in scoring
position is probably where it needs tostart. Well, yeah, starting fast.
Yeah, and when you get agood outing from Hunter Browns six innings,
five hits, three runs, gaveup a couple of bombs, truck
out seven. Is that not asolid outing? Yeah? I agree,
that puts him in position to win. This guy, I want you to

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go back to the first month ofthe season and then now look at the
last four or five appearances. He'sdifferent. That looks like the guy the
reason you say he's got to bein our rotation. And I'll be damned,
he has been really good, butyou can't. I'll tell you what.
The thing, as we saw Blancogot his first loss, right,
you start to see how many timescan you expect these pitchers to go out

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there and run a keep a scorelow and put you in position to win
and then you still lose it.That's the point, because at some point
in time vern Lander's going to losetwo in a row. I would think
at some point in time Blanco maygo into it where it's like, Okay,
the guy's lost one or two orthree and it hasn't pitched as best
we've seen it with Fromber we sawit with Javier, and the fact that

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we still don't have a final analysisor somewhat analysis on these two pitchers ought
to tell you all you need toknow. Yeah, we're going to be
over a week now with no results. They got results. Oh yeah,
they know the res question and thoseresults are in my opinion, tell you
right now if you're counting on thoseguys now, I don't know if it's

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before the All Star Game, ifit's a full season, if it's next
year, If you think those twoare going to help you between now in
game one hundred, in my opinion, if it is, since we haven't
heard, I would say that you'reprobably chasing a ghost there. Buddy.
Yeah, they're they're both done andfor the year, in my opinion,
is what it's going to come back. Wouldn't you if they weren't, wouldn't

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you wouldn't you let everybody know thatthere's hope coming again. And yet the
truth of matters right now, thestrength of the team starting pitching. Yeah,
it's been starting pitching for what tentwelve straight games or ten or so,
the ten or so the lost twelvegames or something going into this past

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weekend. So on Friday, thelast seven outings have all been quality and
it was like a two point twentyfour era for the starting pitching for the
Astros. Yeah, I'd say yougot pretty good pitching from Blanco was fine.
Brown gave you a good start youstart, So there's we'll take Blancos

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out because he got the loss eventhough he pitched pretty set, pretty solid
right there. He gave it apitch like some hack that never knew how
to pitch. He went out thereand I don't know, I can't even
remember how many innings did he go? Five? And was he five or
was he regardless, he's been yourbest pitcher all year. Yeah, blanc
a while four and two thirty threehits four runs, so his worst performance,

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Yeah, it's his worst so far. He finally came down to earth
and had a not so good outing. He's five and one. Well,
how did how did uh had fromburn a Brown pitch pretty damn solid,
right, Yeah, so there's there'stwo more good outings. So you're talking
twelve of the last thirteen or fourteennine, it's been been winnable, yes,
while you're starting pitching. Yeah,and the offense has been atrocious when

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it comes to runs. They've hadsome guys heat up, but in truth,
if two guys heat up and twoother guys can't drive runs in or
three other guys are not coming inthe clutch, you see what happens.
That's why you know the consistency ofthis team for six, seven, eight
nine. We're starting pitching back intothe bullpen, defense and and and the

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everyday lineup has been that that's exawell. The fact that we can't put
string them together, yeah, againstgood teams tells you exactly why they're seven
and a half out in a bunchof games under five hundred. That's why.
Yeah, let's look, uh,look a little bit deeper when it
comes to runners in scoring position forthe Houston Astros, the numbers not good.
Next on Sports Talk seven ninety withthe Seawn Salisbury Show. Continued this

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evening over at Mini ma Parks sevento ten. The first pitch, six
o'clock on deck, show falling lineslighting up early this morning. Seven one
three, two, one two five, seven ninety. Let's get out to
the gallery and talk to Brent.Brent, thank you for alling. Good
morning, Oh thank you gentlemen.Hey, just real quick, U have

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no idea that the Astros are abad baseball team. And they're they're good
at one thing. They're good atlosing this year not to kick a man
when he's down, because that's notyou know, nice. Ryan Presley is
a professional, and he is verysuperstitious in his routine. And Sean,

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I mean, you played quarterback inthe NFL. I'm pretty sure you had
like your routine every day when youwent into practice or you went into your
life every minute of every day.Overly obsessive, compulsive. Absolutely, my
man, it's we call routine.I call it OCD for me. Yes,
you're right. So this this guy, he has been I don't want

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to say demoted because I don't reallyfeel that's like the correct term based on
the amount of money that he ismaking. But there's something going on in
between his ears that has really mess. He's not an eighth inning guy.
He's a closer, and there's justsomething going on there that's just like,

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I don't know how to describe it. Maybe maybe you can expound on it
or something. But he's not aneighth inning guy. He's a closer,
and that's his job to be acloser. But now with the Houston Astros,
he is a eighth inning guy.Now it's up to him to be

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a professional and earn that contract,that money that he's making an adapt But
there's just something going on and thatnoodle in between his ears that he just
can't figure out. So that's allI got, sir, Brent. Great
stuff. Now we're on the samepage. And we had said it.

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This isn't a physical thing. Ifit was, he wouldn't be pitching it.
Sure as hell isn't an injury thingbecause nobody's talked about it. It
is a and I you know thewords tough, and I love what you
said. You're a pro man,and I'm just talking about him, any
of us that when you step outthere, whether it's this job, your
job, his job, with themoney, it's not even just the money,
even if he was making a thirdof the money he's making your job,

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you're pro demoted or not, whateverit is. When you take the
ball, you got to go doyour thing. Even if you're not comfortable
in the eight thing, find away to get comfortable, or you end
up risk being demoted again for aguy who's been a top of the line
closer in this league and a WorldSeries champion. But you got to get
out of your own head because Iknow we're all got our own little quirks,
but you are. It was ademotion. And I asked Dana Brown,

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it may not be the right word, but when I said that exact
word, he said, I canunderstand why he'd probably yeah, feel that
way, because in truth, whenthey went and got Hater, they told
you why you're a pro. Weneed you, but just not in the
ninth inning. And that's exactly whatit was. So he's got to he's
got to step up and get outof his own head. Whatever it is.
You're gonna need him. You can'tkeep losing one run games. And

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if you can't get the hater,well, well then you're gonna hate the
result. No pun intended, Well, yeah pun intended. So we all
like him, but you have toat some point in time you either accept
it or guess what happens, Brian. The guy that it sets you,
that gets to you ends up beingyou have to get to him, right.

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And now you're down to the seventhand comfortability or not. You just
have to deal with it. Ihate to say it. Well, I
mean it's it's it is what itis. You got to figure it out,
man, You got to figure itout. Well, you tell your
fourteen year olds figured it out.Yeah, I tell quarterbacks figured out all
the time. I tell you tofigure it out, right, you tell

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it That's the way it works.Yes, And it has nothing to do
with our feelings for it. Wesay figure it out to a bray you.
We say figure it out to AlexBregman. Ryan Presley's not above figure
it out for what seems to beone of the great dudes on the planet.
But in the eighth inning he isa different pitcher than he's been in
the ninth. Yeah, and it'sfact has been shown. And if you're

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hurting, then let us know.So people are criticizable, is it between
the ears? Do it feel likea demotion? I don't think he's hurd
I think this is more get outof your own way than it is.
And when you walk the leadoff hitter, it never ends well. It just
never ends well. And then theTwins execute small ball and driving the run
after a bunt, pinch runner bunt, move him over base hit ball game

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and Doran comes in and does histhing, and a kid before him,
Is it not Nicks? Why amI losing my mind? I'll get it
for you. Yeah, I'm goingto tell you something now. He is
that that's a he looks like he'sabout fifteen jacks. Jacks. There you
go. He was pumping at ninetyseven ninety eight as well, drink and

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Jackson. He I'm sitting there watchingbecause I don't know a lot about him.
I've obviously with the baseball packet seenhim, but I didn't know a
lot about hiding. And he wasn'tafraid anything. He came in there pumping
it up ninety seven ninety eight andthen got him out. And then Doran
comes in and you the results ofthat in the night inning. So you
have to accept whatever. Well,you don't have to like it, but
you do have to perform in it. And Ryan Presley has not been comfortable

(28:08):
in the eighth inning this year.He just has He has not seven seven,
Al, thanks for rolling. Goodmorning, Good morning guys, Good
morning. Yeah. I went tothe game Friday night, and you know,
Block, He's pitched so well allyear and uh, he just had
an off night, just was missinga little bit. Uh. I think

(28:30):
he'll kill bounce right back. Helooked man. That guy throws well,
but he just was a little bitoff, walked a few guys. Just
things just didn't quite go his way. And but uh, yeah, I'm
a little disappointed with my asstro ButSean, I need to ask you a

(28:51):
question. How well do you knowColin Cowherd. Uh. I worked with
him for for a handful of yearsand was on his show when we were
there for two or three years.Every week. I know him. I
know him pretty well. I don'tI don't spa I don't talk to him
much, but I mean we gotalong good and I was on a show.
And he's a very bright, cleverguy. And sometime sometimes he does

(29:14):
that to give you a some ofhis takes get to get a reaction,
but he is, Uh, he'sa good I mean, he was good
to me, but I know himwell. He got a reaction out of
me this weekend. I bet hedid what do you say, Well,
he's uh, he's pushing that USCneeds to drop the the Notre Dame rivalry

(29:37):
and uh and move on since they'regoing to be moving to the big ten.
Uh, that they need to dropthe Notre Dame rivalry. I was
like, what the heugh, yeah, Hey, listen, we don't need
to get rid of all great rivalries. We got rid of Texas, Texas
and him. They're bringing it back. As much as I think I think
Coward's clever, I think he does. I think he antagonizes someone there to

(29:57):
get people's goat. I mean,that's part of his gig. But he's
a very bright guy and a goodguy. But I couldn't disagree with him
more. You don't get rid ofthe what is considered, in my opinion,
one of the three best national rivalsrivalries on the planet, let alone
just in college football, and especiallywhen they're both playing well. In the
history of it, you don't letthese things go. It's been around longer

(30:18):
than any of us are going tobe broadcasting football and will be around.
That rivalry is not going away.Too much money in it, if anything
else, and it's too important inthe national scale of things that rivalry stays
he's wrong about that. I hope. So two more years in twenty twenty
six, it'll be one anniversary,damn right, and we should we should

(30:41):
all be there for that brother.That's going to be something special. I
felt it was an honor to bein that game to you know, five
times, because I had to redshirt a year because I shreded my knee
twice. That was to be apart of the USC Notre Dame rivalry was
one of the biggest honors in mycollege career, if not my football cur
used to be there, them,come to us, everything about it,

(31:03):
and that's the way I looked atit. I did, and I still
do. I think it's a Itis one of those that if you're not
moved by the in that rivalry,walking down there and watching them touch play
like a champion today or coming downour coliseum steps and all day history of
the games in the past, muchrespect, and I considered an honor to
play in it. Man. Iloved it. I think that that that

(31:23):
that one hundredth anniversary game. Ithink it'll be in the coliseum in LA
because they're they're in the coliseum thisyear in twenty four so I'm assuming Notre
David twenty five back to the college. That's the way it'll be. That's
exactly right. Yep. I've alreadymyself. We got to start saving for
a vacation. There you go,brother, I'm not missing that one.

(31:47):
We'll both be in the house forthat one. I guarantee it. So
there you go. Good, appreciateyou. Look you guys go, you
guys have a great day. Youtoo, buddy, Thank you. You
can't get rid of that rivalry,No, why would you? Can't do
it? Now? Can't do it? That's not I think sometimes, like
a lot of the TV stuff,you do it to get a little bit
of well hot take it, geta little reaction. Yeah, there's no

(32:07):
question. Collin said he loves USCfootball. Make no, did you hear
him talk he loves He don't wantthat rivalry. I mean, in my
opinion, he doesn't want that rivalryto go away. Why would you.
I don't care if they moved tothe Big ten. You keep that rivalry
because we're losing too many good rivalries. Keep that one on. It still
has major impact. It's Notre Damein Southern cal All right, let's get
to break and continue to talk aboutthe Houston Ashles. Look at the numbers

(32:30):
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or go to wit vision dot com. The Shawn Salisbury Show continues in
the No No Now you know you'rehome for Astrows Baseball. Steve Sparks Astros
Broadcast are going to join us ateight thirty this morning, So look at
us some numbers here, Sean notgood when it comes to runners in scoring

(34:22):
position. Since the start of theSeattle series, that's the last seven games,
the Astros are six for thirty fourwith runners in scoring position, with
an average of just one to seventysix. In the three game series against
Minnesota, the Astros were one forthirteen with runners in scoring position. They've

(34:45):
lost five of their last seven games. You're not gonna win much. So
you may win, you'll get youknow, you'll win once in a while,
but then again you've you know,you lose two series because you can't
come up with runs in three ofthe four games and one of them and
two of the three games in theother. And I know this is not

(35:06):
who they are in the past,but this is who they've been in twenty
twenty four sixty games in had acoach in the NFL. He kind of
training camp, and he was talkingabout he's got a Super Bowl ring because
he won one. He gives ouroffensive coordinator and old Brad Johnson, you
know my guy that played quarterback.Brad still to this day, whatever we
call, he'll text me out ofthe blue and he'll say, Sean,

(35:28):
this doesn't entitle you get anything jokingaround and our guy stood up there and
he after we won a preseason gameand he you know, we played well
getting ready for the season, andhe had a cigar and he also had
the ring on it. He goes, one of these doesn't entitle you anything,
meaning just because he got one doesn'tmean it titles us here in this

(35:49):
city to get one unless we goearn it. So this team has him
seven years, doesn't entitle you doan eighth the one to be the ALCS
representative. Long way from that,but you realize June's here and you're gonna
blink and we're gonna be talking tradedeadline. Right. So the point is,
I've said, for me, themarker is a buyer sell, and

(36:10):
I may be completed. And whenI say buyer sell, it doesn't mean
wholesale change. You're gonna gut thefranchise and move on. I'm just talking
about where you're headed at the deadline. If it plays like this, and
it's the you're five and thirteen andone run games, and it becomes a
point where you're still eight games underfive hundred in the one run games and
we're pushing the trade deadline and you'reten and a half out. You have

(36:31):
to seriously think about what are wedoing the rest of the season. And
yes, we can roll with it, but do we roll with it considering
we have to also prepare for twentytwenty five and twenty twenty six and prepare
for the fact that the heart,that certain parts of the core of this
team may not be here. We'restill not We're still not the month of

(36:54):
June. What are you're gonna have? What twenty plus games? Twenty five
games and the next or twenty said, whatever it is. Almost every day
you know, you've been playing whattwenty five of the next thirty days or
whatever it is. Brian, Idon't know what their schedule is in June.
We just went through one of thosewhere they played a day after day
after day, and June it's gonnabe the same thing. It's like it
is for every team. So you'vegot to start to consider your options,

(37:15):
and you got to take phone callsif in fact something's missing. But I've
told you, bless you even unlessyou go get a guy like vlad Guerrero
who comes here and all of asudden, the first base position is lumber
company and he picks up his homerun bat which he's had in the past,
and you you have that. Youthe help, your World Series help

(37:37):
or your playoff help, division winninghelp. It's not outside this building.
Man, it may be in TripleI don't know. It make Joey Li
low Perfido you get low Perfiedo.You get my point? Right, Yeah,
there's nobody there. There's no fourdudes. You're gonna go out there
and get a trade deadline that aregoing to be the the that are going
to just all of a sudden wavea magic wand and you're gonna win twenty
five in a row. So thecore of the team unless you give up

(38:01):
corps to get somebody else any soundexactly like you have four hundred assets sitting
in Triple A, right, Soyou're gonna have to There's a lot of
things you're gonna have to consider ifyou're Jim Crane and if you're Dana Brown
as this thing moves forward, it'sjust been in only why I can describe,
it's been inconsistent, and it hasnot been consistent great baseball that we're

(38:23):
used to, And maybe that's whyit sounds like groundhog Day every day in
twenty twenty four, because this isn'twho they've been. Yeah, so look
looking ahead at their schedule. They'vegot three with Saint Louis, and they
have an off day this Thursday.Then they travel to Los Angeles to take
on the Angels Friday, Saturday Sunday. Then they go up to San Franz
to take on the Giants Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, and they're off again

(38:45):
Thursday. So they got a coupleof days off, nine of the last
nine of the next eleven days basicallyis what they're playing, hmm. And
then three to three game series withtwo thursdays off or something is what it
is. And then they play FridaySaturday Sunday here at home against the Troy
with an off day on a Mondaywhen they travel up to Chicago, so
they go twelve to fifteen man.So they go three games home in the

(39:07):
middle of June, and then theygo to Chicago for a three gamer,
and then they come back home fora five game, five game homestand with
another day off on Thursday, theygot some time. They got a couple
days off coming, right, Andyou probably hate days off when you're going
good, and you probably crave themwhen you're not right, let twelve of

(39:29):
the next fifteen days they're gonna beplaying baseball. And the truth is that
schedule, if you just look atit, it's not exactly Murder's row that
you're facing. You can go winin San Francisco, you can go win
in Anaheim. Can you can beatthe Cardinals here? But as we've said
that, to sustain that has beensomething tough. You go score two runs

(39:50):
tonight against Saint Louis more than likelyyou're not winning, right even with what
Verlander on the hill tonight, Butyeah, Verlander is on the mountain.
So it's gonna take a level consistencythat needs to elevate, and unfortunately for
them, it's just been like that. But the crazy thing about is with
their skill set here, we alwaysbelieve that they're going to find a way
to do. They tease you,you know, it's like, oh my

(40:12):
gosh, here they go, andthen all of a sudden, you give
up, you know, a walkin the eighth inning, they drive the
run in, get a clutch hit, and you end up losing by a
run. To go five and thirteenin one run games this year, which
is not who this team is beensince I've lived in this town. Yeah,
notoriously. They find ways to win, that's right, regardless of what
the pitching performance has been. Theyalways late in games, find ways to

(40:34):
win. But this season it's beena completely different story. We'll continue to
talk about those struggles, especially afterthe eighth inning. Let's look at those
numbers and we'll take your calls atseven one three, two, one two
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Okay, let's do this. SeanSalisbury, there to usc true,

(41:22):
longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, RyanLima, go Lobos. This is the
Sean Salisbury Show. Steve Sparks joinedthe show this morning at a thirty Stanley
Cup Finals set in the NHL EdmontonOilers versus the Florida Panthers seven one three
two one two five seven ninety isthe number two, join us, get

(41:43):
back out. So the phone linesgot a couple guys want to get in
that have been on hold wanting totalk astros. Larry, you're up first.
Good morning, Good morning, goodmorning, top of the day.
Man. We got a problem,Sean. Yes, you were driving down
the road. You got to getto the work. You got to go

(42:04):
down this road every day. It'sgot a pothole in it. And every
time you hit that pothole, youblow out a tire. Or you gonna
keep driving that same blane running overthat same pothole every day. Well,
yeah, no, of course not, Larry. We had two games this

(42:25):
past week we scored five runs withfour home runs. Then we turn around
the next day we scored three runswith two home runs. That's eight runs
with six home runs. Man,we're leaving too many men on base.

(42:47):
You know, pitchers are not gonnachange. When the first basement came back,
he got three hits, all threeof them went the right center field.
What he trying to do now,He's going back to pulling the ball.
If it walks like a duck,quare flack of duck and got well
feet. I called it a duck. We got three ducks on this team

(43:10):
that ain't gonna improve. Mccarmick.We're getting the best out of both first
basement players. We need to replacementwith one of these yosters down in the
miners. I mean, it ain'tgonna get no better. Man. They
at the top of their game andit ain't helping at all. Man,
we're leaving too many men on base. When a right hand batter grounds out

(43:34):
to the sharp stop, that meanshe's trying to pull the outside pitch.
It ain't gonna work. Pitchers arenot gonna change. And as far as
our pictures go, our catchers don'thave the comarader with the pitchers that Marldonado
had. Mardonado made them pitch tohim. These catches don't make them pitch.

(43:58):
They throw the ball where they wantto. How you gonna throw three
balls in a row off of theplate, Man, it ain't good sound
thinking, oh and hitting coaches.Is time for us to make a change.
Man, this guy been here overtwo years and it ain't nothing change.
It's getting worse. It ain't gettingbetter. You know, uh,

(44:21):
back when just resigned from coaching college. Why not bring him in, Man,
we need somebody that know what thegame's all about. You know,
if we don't change, it,ain't gonna change. It. Ain't gonna
change your No. I looked atthe stands the other day. I think

(44:43):
they said they had thirty something peoplein the stands. Man, thirty something
thousand. You know that's gonna changeif they keep playing like they playing,
people paying their hard. Aren't maneyto watch them go out there and guild
games away? Not lose guild gamesaway? Yo, Gotta shag man,
gotta chage y'all have a great day, you too, Larry. If it

(45:07):
walks like a duck, like Larrysaid, at some point, you got
to change that, right, Hey, how well do you hit no potholes?
How well do you know Gary BarryGibb the singer? Yeah? How
well do I know him? I'mjust gonna start asking you how many you
know your relationship with random celebrities.I don't know him, Oh you don't,

(45:28):
okay, but I know his music? Where'd that come from? Al
just randomly asked you if you knowColin Coward. Oh you're talking astros and
I don't know where Al's like,Hey, wow, wow, how well
do you know Colin Coward, butsomebody else, what is this USC Sports
Radio Sports Talk seven ninety that Orangeat bomb squad on Twitter. Uh,
I got news for you. Weain't ever doing four hours on one topic

(45:49):
unless it's post World Series. AndI'm always going to give a caller the
respect if they if we put himon and he wants to know about he
talked about the Astros first, andhe simply wanted to know why Colin Coward
was one of the USC Notre Damerivalry. Go. So we spent what
two and a half minutes on theUSC Notre Dame rivalry. Just so you
guys know, we don't do onetopic on this show unless it's warranted.

(46:14):
And I'm not gonna bore myself withfour hours of Groundhog day talk. Every
friggin day ain't gonna happen. Soif you've got to take a side and
talk rockets for two minutes, waitwait till the text and start. Huh
wait till the tech start. Ifthey're fifteen games out of first place,
stay tuned for that. Okay,but we'll always talk asks. They get

(46:35):
the majority of our show. Butfor our sanity and for the listener sanity,
we ain't given you four hours ofthe same stuff all the time,
but it bears repeating plenty of times. So if I have to take two
minutes just so you guys know,and somebody has a respect a caller who
wants to know about the USC NotreDame rivalry. If two minutes of a
four hour show is too much feeto handle us talking about a rivalry,

(47:00):
I suggest you put on mute onthat on those two minutes, and it
won't be the last time. Sothere you have it. We'll get plenty
of astros talking to the point whereyou'll want to swallow it up and spit
it out because it's so much.So there you go. Okay, So
you don't know Berry GiB I knowof him. I don't know. Again,
I wish I did, though,Yeah, me too. I'd like

(47:21):
to sing, I'd like to dowe with him, but he's I don't.
I don't know if we're going topull that one off. Probably not.
Yeah, seven seven ninety Rob,Welcome in, good morning, Jans,
are y'all fantastic brother? Another dayin paradise, another day above dirt.
You want me to keep going?No, that's good. Uh,
we stay in paradise and the weatherfinally stays office for a few days.

(47:45):
Listen, I think that, youknow, the the biggest issue that I'm
noticing now now because it's if it'snever one thing, it's something else.
Uh. As we have gotten someof our guys back from injury, you
know, McCormick's back now, abreak news back from Florida. Now it

(48:07):
seems that the spot has got moreoptions than what he knows what to do
with, and he's starting to developalmost like a regular platoon of certain players.
And you got to select your bestnine and put him out there every
time. This isn't high school ball, this isn't little league. The best

(48:27):
nine will play. And that's whatDana said was going to be the deal.
And I think we have enough informationto determine who that is, who
those nine are, because we're nowwe really are starting to get too deep
into the season to have this manyplatoon players. And you know, ever
since you know, those guys cameback, du Bond's average has gone down.
Singleton, who's never been a greathitter, but he was performing when

(48:51):
he was the consistent first baseman,and now everybody who's now in a platoon
role, everybody's averages have dipped,regardless of what side of the platoon that
you're on. I used to beable to go through our starters and I
could pick out the top nine andhow to line them up in my head
without having to put too much thoughtinto it. Now I feel like the

(49:12):
only top two players that I feellike have a consistent spot in the lineup
every day that should not be movedis going to be out two of A
one and Tucker two. You're threethrough five, I'm not sure which three
through five that should be. You'redone in there somewhere, Painia in there
somewhere, and then somebody else.You're six through nine. I'm not sure
you got a handful of players thatcould fit any one of those roles.

(49:36):
So with that being said, yourfirst problem is a spot. And this
kind of plays into what everybody's beensaying about a spot is that he may
be a little too soft and alittle too friendly with the players. So
he's trying to play that political roleslash friend role where he's trying to build
his lineup while getting everybody fair amountsof playing time and not focusing enough on
just sitting somebody down and saying,look, you're going to be riding the

(49:58):
pine more often than because such andsuch is better than you. There's too
much rotation in the lineup due tothe amount of players and the options that
he's got now. So I'm wonderingif maybe I can. I'm on the
road, obviously, but I don'tknow if you guys have the analytics and
the data to draw a lineup,and if you guys could pull the data
to see you got Altuve Tucker,then just see who hits the best behind

(50:22):
Tucker, because I think it's baseballsavant. You can pull up Bregman's got
x average behind Tucker, behind yourand on behind whoever you know, McCormick,
Dubond, same thing, and ifwe could. I wonder what the
lineup would look like if we justlooked at it from an analytical standpoint,
because, like I said, alTuove one, Tucker two, there's so

(50:42):
many options to do your three throughnine. I'm curious what the lineup would
look like if you built it thatway, because we've got to start stringing
hits together and if we can't figureit out, leaving the bases loaded again
last night was painful to watch whenwe couldn't push a run across. We
can't keep counting on the long bowl. Guys. It's we've got of string
hits together. And if I don'tknow if you guys have the ability to
do that or not, but I'dbe curious to see what that lineup looks

(51:05):
like. Rob, Thank you.We'll get right on that baseball, savannor
wherever else we can find it.And we have talked on this show when
they were starting to platoon and whena Brady was on his way back,
it not only affects you're not gettingthe guy who's coming back enough or too
much. And then the guys whowere there who started to get Jake Myers
and and John Singleton started to theystarted to rake in their spots when they

(51:32):
were playing every day and knew theywere playing every day and getting the quote
unquote reps like we talk good reps, because not all reps are good reps.
I know this that I've always beentold by experts and people far smarter
than me that sixty games is enoughto judge who the team is. We're
at sixty games, that that's thethreshold. Heard it from general managers,

(51:54):
from players, from guests that havecome on, some may have eighty some
may have, but they're right aroundsixties. Where you say you kind of
have an idea who your team isdoesn't mean you can't go on a winning
streak or a losing streak. Soyeah, and the and this team is
driven by analytics, it appears.And I know this. I can't be

(52:14):
in the feel good business if I'ma manager. I can't be playing people
just to play them because I wantto make sure they're happy. I don't
care. Being happy is everybody rootingfor the other guy and doing your gig
when it comes your turn. Youwant people to be happy and peaceful and
perform. But I can't play youif you're not performing just because I got
to make sure you're happy. Thatpaychecks to what makes you happy. In

(52:36):
winning, what makes you happy,The rest has to take a back seat.
Fact Jack, that's the fact.Jack named the movie you Wild and
Dog be Wild and still saying bewilded trip. Now now we gotta go
to break Let's let's let's talk aboutthe mistake out. Do you know the
movie? That's the fact Jack?What is that Bill Murray in zombie Land?

(53:01):
Nope, goes on over the weekenduh, Ghostbusters, Nope, Space
Jam Nope. Ran a Groundhog Daynineteen eighties movie night. I think of
nineteen eighties Groundhog Day eighty three somewherein there. Nope. The goony stripes,

(53:22):
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It's time for the steak out hereon the Sean Salisbury Show. Let's

(55:42):
get back out to the phone lineseven one three two one two five seven
ninety in order our longest way tostart with Brandon Brandon, Good morning,
Brandon, all right, good morningmorning, Hi you guys. We're good
man. What's on your mind?We're we were come on brand and we
gotta we gotta stay ready. SonU graduated from high school. I'm sorry

(56:07):
say that again. Get my cousingraduated from the high school. That's fantastic.
Congrats to your to your cousin.What you got on your mind about
the Astros Astro Hey Astros one Thursday, but we cannot win yesterday? Nope.
And they're taking on the Cardinals tonight. You pumped? Yes, I

(56:30):
am. Hopefully they win. Brandon, Thank you for the call, buddy.
We got to get to some othercalls. Okay. I have a
good day, you too, Brandon, Thank you. Seven one three two
two five seven hoey, Roger,you're up, good morning guys. Uh
So another installment of Astros Rockey Chabulinseason. Here it goes. I got
two points. One. We talkedabout last about everything that a brave does

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it no matter how my new whetherit be a positive, it's gonna go
ahead and prolong the inevitable. Andthese are small factors that are that are
tributing to what's going on this season. So now they're gonna give another thirty
five at bats and see how itgoes. And it's just more more time
wasted in my in my and myuh my estimation. Also we talked about

(57:12):
when Fromberg blew up and did andwent rogue, and I said, keep
an eye on who the backcatcher isgoing to be for him moving forward,
and lo and behold it is itis. Uh, it is Krotene doing
the doing the work behind the platenow. And these are just small little
things that I kind of look atand see the while that you know,
this little ship is not as smoothas it once was, and uh,

(57:34):
it takes a lot of little smallthings to bring down this mighty. This
mighty sustained as excellent. And thenI just think that you know the small
little things that are tributing to thatcause. And that's all I got for
the guys. They forget for today. Guys. Thanks Roger, appreciate it.
Let's keep it rolling. On thephone line to talk to Steve.
Steve, what's up Steve? Youthere? Yeah? Can you mean yes?

(57:55):
Sir? Got hello? All right? I got some issues with Steve's
call. Not sure Steve, giveus a shower back. Let's talk to
Bill. What's up Bill? Hey, good morning guys. I know it's
splitting hairs or semantics when you saythat Presley has been demoted and then in
factually he has. But when you'rereplaced before the season starts, you are

(58:17):
replaced, that's not a demotion.You're you're flat out replaced. They're saying
you're not the man now before he'seven throwing a ball in spring training.
They really went and got hater.And I know, the guy who's a
professional, he's supposed to go outand get the job done and get himself
reframed, refocused. But your feardemo is because it usually it is demotive

(58:40):
when you're demoted because of performance issues. We're gonna put you out. We're
gonna send a brave at West PalmBeach. You're being demoted for right now.
Presley never had a chance. Soyou got to wonder what his mental
makeup is right now. You gottamake win of his makeup was four months
ago when they went out and gothate. And that's all I got to
say about that. The guy whowas just flat and replaced said, dude,

(59:04):
you're not the man anymore. Webrought in somebody to be the man,
and you're gonna have to take aback seat. Fact, a little
bit of different, a little bitdifferent psyche. Yeah, fact. Then
you have to either adjust or stuff. But I mean that's why you get
paid. And I know it's easiersaid from the worst sitting, but it
just that's the way it works.And you are one hundred percent correct because
something's not the same, something's notthe same built good point. Good point,

(59:28):
you too, you know listen hedid. They went out and signed
so for a lot of money andsaid this guy's better for us in this
position. At least that's what theirapproach was. And so I mean,
I don't know, how do youhow do you? You can't soft sell
it to him. It's just theway it's been, man, And we
need you in the eighth inning,and they needed him yesterday. Can't walk
a guy. I love Presley,but when this happens, you have a

(59:52):
whole team you have to pay attentionto, and they're relying on him,
and he just has not been thesame. Whether it's the psyche, it
doesn't look physical. It looks likebetween the years, right, I think
it's one hundred percent. Yeah,I'm just going back and looking at mentality
that close, and mentality's got tobe I don't give a rats ass,
and so does the eighth inning,and so does the seventh. I mean,
that's that's what you're paid to do, and he's been so good at

(01:00:13):
it in the back end, inthe closer role. Need to get back
and treating the closer role, treatingthe eighth inning like he did when he
was finishing games. He has fourblown saves so far this season in how
many innings twenty two? Yeah,twenty two and to be specific, twenty

(01:00:34):
two and a third innings pitch givingup twenty eight hits, thirteen earned runs,
two homers, eight walks twenty ninecase that's going to have to change
for him. At what point intime do you say that you're gonna flip
flop seven and eight? Guy,and what would that be telling Presley then
too? Yeah, then then yougot to worry about that one to the

(01:00:58):
tank, right, Yeah. Imean he's got the ball in his hand,
That's all I can say. Yeah, let's continue this discussion about the
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are the kids still saying wilin eh, give or take? Let your
answer Sean, hate to break yourheart, buddy. What if the kids
are saying you'd be wild? You'dbe wild and dog? Yeah, I
mean they might be You never know. Well, he said, give or
take? Yeah, you know whatthat times you give and sometimes you take.
It's mid basically all there you go. But yeah, I mean sit

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somewhere in the middle, feel me. Yeah, middle of the road.
Yeah, although we've come to theend of the road, the mid right,
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I'm twenty minutes late to the steakout. I don't know, I worry about
it. That was that was atseven twelve, But hey, who's count
seven to fifteen? Yeah, spentseven to fifteen for like the I don't
know, five years ago. Soguess what you've been on a twenty minutes
later, your party on the steakoutstuck with day. I was the steakou
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steakout question and we can run itback at eight fifteen if you want.
Do you have one? I do. Yeah. You don't need to wait
for the steak up to ask you. You can ask I will. I
mean, I got it on mynotes for today right here. I am
just trying. I don't know whyI said that what I said here and
listen to the steak out. Ialready heard the intro m there's no group,
and I know we're going to talkabout this. This was gonna be
my I know where you're going withthis, and this was gonna be my

(01:04:20):
stakeout. There is no group.I don't want to say this is always
women on women, but in thiswith the w NBA athletes who are really
talented, a lot of great ones, nobody hates their people, meaning they're
they're they're competitors or people. Nobodyhates. They want people to advance the

(01:04:42):
game, and they should good players, good publicity, someone equal pay.
I get all that, but whenone of your own is heightened, the
awareness whether you think she's the bestplayer ever to come out of college.
You can argue Cheryl Miller, who, you can argue Diana Tarassi whatever you
want. So when somebody like TigerWoods comes along and enhances golf purses,

(01:05:04):
there's a lifelong of thanks for him. Whether you like his game or not,
or what's going on with this TigerWoods changed purses and advertising and everything
we know about golf. Yeah,for the better. Caitlin Clark, whether
you think she's the best player ornot. And well, she's getting some
struggles in the WNBA, unlike collegewho doesn't for the way that they treat

(01:05:28):
her and don't want to talk aboutit nothing. I understand the frustration where
there's so much hype surrounding her,But all she's doing is putting more money
in your pocket and more awareness tothe league. People are watching the WNBA
that wouldn't have watched a quarter ofit. Even though there's good players.
It's not saying there's not good playersbefore Caitlin Clark. There's a lot of
great players. She has created anaware The jealousy that exists within their own

(01:05:49):
circle in the WNBA is worse thanany sports league anywhere ever in the history.
They've been begging for somebody to comealong and heighten the awareen see.
Even though they've had great players forwhatever reason it had, it just hasn't
grabbed them like the Caitlin Clark phenomenahas. Whether you like her game or
not, it is. It isabsolutely baffling to me how they resisted.

(01:06:14):
You want to heighten your game andyou want awareness. She brought it,
which is going to give you betterratings, more advertising, put more money
in your pocket, and you justhate her because it's not you. I've
never understood the concept of you.No, they are the biggest group of
haters in all of sports. Yeah, and I'm not so light among the
They're in their own circle of playersyou should be. Doesn't mean you got

(01:06:38):
to kiss Kitlin Clark's ass. Butyou know what, it's not a bad
idea to grasp what's going on becausenow you know what people are starting to
do. People are saying they're havingto defend Caitlin Clark's popularity instead of us
talking about the great players in theleague. And there's more than one.
Caitlin Clark's not the only one,but it is. So the jealousy is

(01:07:00):
as real is any sport, anybusiness I've ever seen do you agree,
yeah, Chnity Clark or excuse me, Chnity Carter over the weekend. Not
even a basketball play, just astraight cheap shot, and Kaylyn Clark called
her a bitch prior to doing it. Happens. It happens every game,
yes, Kate, and I understandphysicality, but the blatant and then the

(01:07:26):
hate and not want to talk aboutShe's she's put money in your pocket whether
you like her game or not.She just is and awareness and goes to
the podium and says, I'm nottaking any any question. Question. Yeah,
I'm not right jealous Caddie. Thenshe gets on Twitter and starts running
her mouth, gets on Instagram,starts running her mouth with posts about Kaylyn
Clark, and she said, eveneven to an extent of quote, besides

(01:07:46):
three point shooting, what does shebring to the table? Man end quote?
Oh, I don't know, she'saveraging like seventeen points a game,
but what she brought to the tableis something you never did, right,
exactly, I don't. I don'teven know who this chick is. Who
the hell is Nity Clark? Excuseme, Kennedy Carter until this game today
or tell we're reading this yesterday afterwell over the weekend which he took.
You know, do you realize andI was actually tuned into some WNBA with

(01:08:10):
the week watching Caitlin Clark's game,Do you realize I have no idea?
If you would have mentioned that lady'sname beforehand, I would have been able
would say who who? Yeah?I have no idea? Right you realize
when Kaitlyn Clark, I believe whenthey went and played the Las Vegas aces,
you know that their ticket prices forLas Vegas. In Las Vegas,
that the ticket price is tripled.Have you ever seen? You know what

(01:08:30):
that does? I know you knowthat that helps your revenue, that helps
your core bottom dollar. You don'thave to say she's the bet. You
don't have to sit there in kinserandsay she's the best. When you go
play, be competitive and beat herand make her a better player. But
to resist everything that you've asked for, meaning you want to get paid more,
you want to get you you wantyou want people to pay attention to

(01:08:53):
your games. You want to renusto sell out, you want commer national
commercials. You want the respect thatyour great players deserve. I don't even
know who the chick is that saidthis. If it wouldn't have been for
a hard foul in this, Ididn't even know she had. You could
have said she's five two or sixfour. I wouldn't add any idea.
Ever. The only reason I knowher now is because what she did to

(01:09:14):
Caten Clark. How she's responding.So there's some perspective. And I guarantee
your ass, I'm not alone inthis. For a league filled with so
many talented players that you've been beggingfor, You've been begging for publicity and
to bring awareness to a to somereally talented and she does it. Sounds
like she goes out there and asksfor it. She's getting paid bringing awareness

(01:09:35):
and play a good game. Whyare they so jealous of this? And
you want more money and she's broughtit to the table. Go play hard
basketball and keep you know, dowhatever you gotta do. But I can
tell you this, the majority ofpeople who even pay attention to sports,
I had no idea who the ladywas until yes to tell to tell over

(01:09:55):
the weekend. Yeah, none.I think there's a I have so many
different thoughts on this. When KennityCarter knocks Kaylyn Clark on her ass you
look over at the bench and there'sAngel Rees standing up clapping her ass off
for a non basketball play. Rightthen then she doesn't even Angel Rees doesn't
even make herself available for the media. So she got fined after afterwards,

(01:10:15):
Uh, their team got fined aswell. And then where where are Kaylyn
Clark's teammates? Like, well,usually on every team you have a couple
of people knocking one of those that, yeah, that respond for them,
messing with their star. Like Isaw Matt Barnes had a pretty good take
over the weekend. Matt Barnes said, straight up, I was one of
those guys that if you rocked oneof my top players, I'm coming for

(01:10:41):
your head. Right So where areKaylyn Clark's teammates? The caddy jealousy,
the like what do they do tome? It's just it's and you know
what, whether the like her gameor not, whatever, she just keeps
showing up, keeps playing, andkeeps bringing awareness and and putting more money
in the back. And if hewas buying, you know what, I'm
her keep taking all that money andall that kind of hype and milk it

(01:11:02):
for as long as you can't.But the jail I've never seen anything like
it in pro sports. Yeah,you could have competitive and gamesmanship, the
sheer hatred for a player who broughtsomething that you ain't. Never had enough
awareness had great players, but wedidn't. They got tucked away, nobody
got to see them as much aswe wanted to. And now that we're

(01:11:23):
seeing these great players and there's moreawareness, you're resisting it. Don't come
bitching that you want equal pay.Then don't come bitching that you want more
publicity than when you get when you'regetting it and you're resisting it and hating
on the one who's actually enhanced thegame. It's straight ass jealousy, period
and envy. Keep rocking, CaitlinClark. Maybe somebody will come along and

(01:11:45):
join you. We've finally seen somegood players. But like you said,
did you know who that lady wasKennedy Carter? Yeah? Sorry, I
had no idea, still don't know. I don't even know what's strength of
her game, no clue, noidea. I know one that can shoot
threes, and if that's the onlything she does, what is Trinity Carter
bring to the table. What's thestrength of her game? And at least

(01:12:05):
I know the strength of Caitlin Clark'scame. Couldn't tell you, man,
Yeah, jealousy is the strength ofthe game in a lot of this case.
And it's ridiculous. Yeah, Ihave no idea. And also that,
I mean, this thing took tookthe social media by storm. There
were so many big time sports analysisanalysts and big time sports people that we're
talking about it, all saying thesame thing that we are. I mean,

(01:12:26):
it's just absolute jealousy, just hatingon your own people. It's just
crazy idea. Man, I don'tget it. You you wanted the equal
pay thing. We talked about thatlast year on this show because it was
such a hot topic for a longtime last season. Now you have somebody
that's gonna help elevate things. Youknow how you get equal pay and you

(01:12:47):
hat on them, sell out arenasand get high ratings even if you're great
players and they deserve I get it. But if you're if a three thousand
people are showing up to arena,you can't You're not gonna get equal pay,
right, But you have somebody who'speople are selling arenasn't playing paying triple
price for a ticket and coming tosee her. But in the process,
they get to see see all theother great players. That's exactly right awareness,
and you're you're you're basically thumbing yournose at it because you're jealousy over

(01:13:11):
a person who was I think prettygood in college. Yeah she was so
dicent. Yeah you're bitch and moaningand complaining about flying on Spirit Airlines.
But yet, and yet you havesomeone that's raising revenue throughout the league.
You can fly on Charter, Butyet, let's just go knock her ass
and call her a bitch because I'mmad that she's better than me. At
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Let's go over to Louisiana, Charlie, thank you for holding. Good
morning, Hey guys, Good morning, hey. I have a comment to
make. One of the astro playersI've been a fans in sixty two.
One of the players I have troublecheering for is justin Boroughland. There last
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was always on the bench and hewas always talking to other players and you
could see him going over their swingsand he was showing you his stance.
But the opposite of that to mewas justin Verlande. To me, he
was a wall. And now I'mthree hundred miles away from you, guys,
but I never saw him on thebench when I did get to see
a game, and it's like,why is he Why was he disconnected from

(01:16:16):
the team? If he lives onthe West Coast, why wasn't he other
if we played the Dodgers, theAngels, the Mariners, the Diamondbacks,
why wasn't he ever there to dosome mentoring like Michael Brantley did? And
he just seemed disconnected to the team. And Seanna asked you, you a
professional athlete, how would you haveresponded to one of your quote teammates never

(01:16:42):
being around to interact with the restof the team. I think it's I
may think different. I don't know. You're talking about when he was hurt,
right, correct, when he washurt, why he was I don't
know. You know, sometimes rehabon your own. Sometimes maybe the team
I don't want to say, doesn'twant him around. Of course you're going
to lean on a guy who's beena great player, a Hall of Famer,

(01:17:04):
and lean on him to you know, mentor or be there for answers.
I be honest with you, Charlie, I don't know the answer to
that. I know how I meanfor me, I now we're different.
Verlander's a superstar and you know theycrave having him back as a guy who
spent ten plus years in pro football, and you wanted to be around it

(01:17:26):
all the time because I know whenI've been hurt, like in college when
I blew out my knee twice,when you're out of sight, you're out
of mind, they're moving on,and you always wanted to feel a part
of it. So for me andI love just being around the guys.
Even when I was hurt, standingon the sidelines in a cast sucked,
but I did it. So Imay think different. I don't know,
and I think we've questioned that inthe past. Why isn't he in the

(01:17:46):
dug out? Why doesn't he travelwith the team or certain tread Maybe he
just spent rehabbing. Maybe that's justhis routine, Charlie, I wish I
knew that answer, and that tobe honest, I'm not trying to sit
on the fence. I don't knowwhy. I think we all look for
a guy that we can lean onduring those times. But I also know
for Verlander, for him, thefrustration of traveling all the time while you're

(01:18:06):
hurt and not being able to help, even if it was once in a
while, and I don't think MichaelBrentley was on every road trip either,
though I don't think he went onevery single one when he was hurt.
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe somebody knowsa different answer, but I understand the
optics. But there has to bea reason, because I don't ever hear
anybody called Justin Verlander a bad teammate. But Charlie, I get from a

(01:18:26):
fan standpoint, you didn't see himthere and wanted the mentorship. I would
have been around just because I wantedto be around. Some guys look at
it different. It doesn't make himwrong, But for me, I just
did it because I like the banter. Even when you heard of being around
the fellas and I wanted to feela part of it. Sure, And
you know, I've seen him inthe dugout and he looks like he's very
studious. He's by himself, andhe looks like he's studying the game.

(01:18:48):
He's by himself, and went endof the dugout. I've only seen him
once this year and he sat nextto Aragaddy and he was talking with Aragaddy
and it's like, you know,what the hell have you been? Do?
We need you? Everybody needs amentor. I don't care if you.
You know, you think you're theGod's gift on this planet. But

(01:19:10):
we all need the mentor. AndI just I never understood that. I
was like you. I would havebeen there and crutches or you know,
in a wheelchair on a stretcher.Get me with my teammates, that's my
guys. I want to be withthem. Whatever you can offer from your
experience, that's what you're there todo. That's all I have to say.

(01:19:32):
I get it. I think peoplethink of it. I don't know
why. I don't know why.I get the point of the optics for
some. But I would have ahard time in baseball of if I was
hurt and rehabbing traveling with the teamthat part. Would you do it every
single series? And I'm not sureyou want him there every series. You
want him taking care of his businessat home at times too. Right.

(01:19:54):
Yeah, So the year that hewas rehabbing from his surgery, he was
getting everything done that he need toand spending time with family. Which do
you have a problem with it?No, I don't, and I've seen
him again. Charlie did say thathe's in Louisiana, so he's miles and
miles and miles away. But mostof the time when I look at Justin

(01:20:14):
Erlander, he's not by himself.He's always working with somebody in the dugout.
It's like like the last time Isaw him, he was sitting next
to Joe a spot in Josh Millerand discussing things. So every every time
I every time me optically, Ialways see him discussing something with someone.
I don't ever see him by himself. The difference was if if he was

(01:20:40):
healthy, he's obviously going to bein there. I think he I think
he's very receptive, and I alsothink he's doing a deep dive studying opponents.
You can't be as successful as himand just be physically good. You
got to be mentally good. SoI really don't I know some people look
at different. I didn't have aproblem with it because I don't think he's
If somebody had kept coming out andsay this guy's a horrible teammate, doesn't
want to be around it, that'dbe one thing I've never heard that of

(01:21:01):
you. No, not one time. And when it comes to getting right,
the truth is, I don't mindselfish when it comes to getting yourself
right to help the team win.I don't think Justin Verlander would have ever
turned down if somebody were quick justI need to spend time. Call me
in the phone. I'll be therefor you. I don't think that was
the case. But I also knowthe frustration of when you're going through an

(01:21:21):
injury out of side of having tobe around all the guys that are playing,
You're like, I got to getmore done, So you spend time
getting stuff done. And we've seenhim have such a great career post forty.
The guy knows how to pitch,so I understand the optics. But
for me, I look at itdifferent. I don't think Justin Verlander went
about it the wrong way. Ido, and I think that he's very

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Sean Salisbury Show. We got SteveSparks joining us at about twenty five minutes
at eight thirty. Houston SaberCats,your professional rugby team here in the city.
They're eleven and one. They winonce again, first team in Major
League Rugby to clinch a playoff berth. Before we talk about jose Air,
Keaty and Christian Hobby, let's getout to the phone lines seven one,

(01:24:38):
three, two point two five sevenninety Biscuit, thanks for holding good morning.
Hey more than my brothers man,Sean, I haven't seen nothing like
this man in a long time,Sean. I hate this young lady is
getting. It's unbelievable, man,and I almost saying it. Sign you

(01:24:58):
you can't. I know you guyscan't say it. Man. Women women
behating on women like nobody's business man. It's it's crazy. And and for
them the way they and to meshout, it's not even on the court
stuff. It's the off the courtstuff, like the tweets and the stuff
on social media. The way theybehave at the press conference. I don't

(01:25:19):
know if you've seen it. Ithink they were playing the Sparks and they
won the game, and you knowthat they had sold out crowd there all
there to see Caitlyn Clark and soshe signs the autographs after the game for
little girls and wearing a dirty andstuff. So she's a little late to
the press conference, right, andand one of her teammates she couldn't walk

(01:25:40):
up. And by the time youmade you know what I mean, it's
like, wow, man, hedon't like this girl for some reason.
And she don't do nothing shying.That's the killer part. She don't do
nothing. Far she she's old hype, but that's not her fault. She's
not looking for the hype. Shewas trying to play ball. I just
don't know one side of your mouth. You feel disrespected if you're the WN

(01:26:03):
because you haven't got the pub andthe and the people tuning in in the
past with all these great players.I get it. Then on the other
side, when you finally get somebodywho brings it to the table, you're
you're as jealous and hate. It'sas bad. You're exactly right. I've
never seen in when some I don'tthe golfers may not like competing at times
against Tiger Woods or said, wellthere's been great ones before him, but

(01:26:26):
you embraced that. Look what he'sdone the golf. Golf will never be
the same because Tiger Woods. AndI'm telling you we've never tuned into at
WNBA like we do now. Andwhether that doesn't mean there's not great players,
but we're doing it right now forone reason. At least it started
this pub because of the gal fromthe University Iowa popped in here and brought
a different visual to it. Andyou're right, she's not out there.

(01:26:49):
I mean, if somebody's gonna comeand off her five million dollars due commercial,
who wouldn't do it. I'm justbaffled at the jealousy and hate for
somebody that's doing exactly what you askedthem to do, bring awareness to some
really talented girls out there, women, and they're so the other side of
them out there speaking at well,we want it, but we don't want

(01:27:11):
it this way. Is that whatyou're telling me. I don't get it,
man. It's as baffling as goingon in sports right now. And
the WNBA, I don't know ifyou noticed it. They didn't do the
fever No Favorites, man, theydidn't play twelve games in the first twenty
days, right because of her.Everybody wants to see her on TV.
Yes, in an arena, Yes, that's right. But shy six or

(01:27:32):
the twelve games they've played has beenagainst three of the top fourteens from last
year, right, So it's likey'all just set them up there. And
then they're like, well, shecan't now, man, she's on the
last place team. They're playing thetoughest teams in the league, and she
just putting on her and going outthere playing every minute every night. I'll

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take my hat off through her.Man. I enjoy it. Man.
She she got I told you Sean, she got that mama mentality. Man,
she sure does. A star sheis in All the nonsense that people
are putting on her just rolls offher. She's like, what, I'm
just gonna keep playing hard. Imean what she's supposed to say? She
not. Her way of fighting backis to go play basketball, and she
she I think she understands there's jealousy, but there's always envy at times when

(01:28:16):
a new star comes in. Butgoodness, gracious, this is this is
ridiculous. Trying to swallow all thisenvy and hate and jealousy. It's nothing
like it. And I am withyou. She will be a star because
her grind is that Mamba mentality.No doubt about it. It's it's hard
to fathom, Biscuit. Thanks man, it really is, Brian, and
I know you feel the same way. Have you seen anything like it?

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It's pro sports? No, no, not at all. I can't think
of anything I understand. Like youwant to, you know, send a
message to to some of the rookiesbecause I saw Angel Reese is taking a
couple of hard fouls as well.You want to send a message to a
rookie. Okay, that makes sense, right, but like just this this
it's every single game and they're notbasketball plays. And then just just what

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this woman did, Kennedy Carter.I guess that's right. Yeah, So
you're your woman enough to hip checkslaunch Kaitlyn Clark to the ground, but
you're not woman enough to answer thequestions on it at the post game press
conference. But then you turn aroundand you get on social media and start

(01:29:23):
running your mouth again about it likeCaddy and Cowardice soft make it makes sense.
But you're gonna win the negotiation comes. She's gonna want money, right,
oh yeah, one hundred percent.And if she gets more money,
uh, I got news for theCaitlyn Clark awareness is gonna bring more money
than Carter's game to the table.And also, if Kaitlyn Clark was like
super loud and obnoxious and running hermouth twenty four to seven, all right,

(01:29:47):
which might be a little bit ofa difference, she may deserve an
elbow to the rib cage. Ifthat's the case, what what have you
heard her say? And she mayhave games with Chip on the court.
Oh yeah, but I'm talking aboutthat. She isn't she just she's not
sitting there. No, did sheattack the galfer didn't know, she knows
she's touch hard fouls. She saidwas it's not a basketball play. It's
literally all she said on that,And it was because she wasn't. It

(01:30:10):
was a way away from the ball. Then you got Angel Reese on the
on the on the freaking bench,clapping in innate like a gas light,
and the whole situations like shut up, sit down, it's it is.
I've never seen anything like it inpro I understand when somebody comes in,
guys are jealous. I got newsfor you. Yeah, this is as
jealous and as envy as you'll eversee in a pro league. It's crazy.

(01:30:33):
The woman on woman is like why, it absolutely is why I beg
for awareness and it absolutely uh ituh it. You beg for you beg
for all the attention, and thenwhen it comes you resist it. It's
crazy, it's crazy. I justdon't understand it at all. Like we

(01:30:57):
heard it all last year, equalequal pay, equal pay. Why is
no one coming to our games?Why is no one watching? Well,
you finally have someone that is helpingyour brand, helping your entire league,
and you just continually continuously hate hatehate, it's it's it's and I mean
it started as soon as she gotdrafted, and it is so thick,

(01:31:20):
the hatred, it's it's craziness,craziness. I can you imagine going to
Tiger man? I hate you man. Thanks for bringing all the person making
it. Yeah, the runner upsmaking money. That runner up's making more
money than when Tiger came into golf. They'd be making for winning a tournament.
The guy in third place is makingmore than the winner. And it's

(01:31:42):
due. Now, it's good golf. Don't misunderstand me. But the attention
brought to golf is by one.It was by one. Yeah, that's
opened up down. We know whoother guys are, right, and we
got eight first time winners on thePGA Tour this year. Yeah, the
guy this past weekend. Yes,that is dad caddying for doubt about how
cool is that sevn Ye old popwins this first to tournament on the PGA

(01:32:02):
Tour. Dad's caddying for him,he says. They ask him after to
uh, you're gonna have your dadcaddy for the next few nuts, and
he goes, no, my dad'sgetting on a plane going back to Scotland
and me and my girlfriend are probablygonna go to and party where he says,
We're gonna have a hell of aparty. And they got to fly
back to Ohio to Doublin Oile toplay at the Memorial next week. So
good for them. But I listen, anything that brings good attention to your

(01:32:25):
game and increases persons for the womenthat have great players in the league.
We just have one that people havelatched onto. And now we're seeing other
players say, oh man that,hey, Caitlin Clark's not the best player
in the WNBA right now. She'snot. But I can tell you this,
nobody has even come close to bringingawareness to to good basketball players that
she's brought in just months, injust months. Play hard, play hard

(01:32:51):
every day, but embrace the factthat you're gonna get paid more and more
eyes are on your game because ofher right period, whether you want to
admitter or it's a fact. Andthen they turn on. There's commercials on
driving. I'd go driving the ladiescrazy. I think it's hilarious. Yeah.
And at the end of the day, man, just show up and
show out. Nice. There yougo, show up and show out.
Yeah, that's what we got todo. And talk about money. Yeah,

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Sports Talk seven ninety just out local, Yeah, Adam Schefter, Okay,

(01:35:09):
hold on triple Let's get that breakingnews sounder real quick from Adam Schefter,
simply known around these parts, iswhat shefty? There you go a record
deal. The Vikings and three timePro Bowl wide receiver Justin Jefferson reached an
agreement on a four year, onehundred and forty million dollar contract extension one

(01:35:32):
hundred and ten million guaranteed. Wow. It not only makes not only makes
them the highest paid, not onlymakes in the highest paid UH wide receiver
in NFL history, but the highestpaid non QB in NFL history. Wow.
Eighty eight point seven four to threemillion do its signing? They're gonna
hand him an eighty eight million dollarcheck at signing. So eighty eight million,

(01:35:55):
seven and forty three thousand Hole,it's the highest non QB guarantee.
It's signing an NFL history and resetsthe wide receiver market wm E Football negotiat
whatever agency that had negotiated and confirmedthe deal. One hundred and forty million,
four years, one hundred and tenmillion guaranteed just under eighty nine million
when he signs the call, mygoodness. The next Uh, he's pretty

(01:36:15):
good man. The next highest paidwide receiver per AA v aj Brown at
thirty two million. Yeah, hejust uh, he just took it to
a whole new level. Good forhim. Holy cow, Wow, that's
a lot of scratch. Yep,Wow, good for good for Justin Jefferson,

(01:36:36):
get that bag dog. I don'tknow how well he's gonna play with
JJ McCarthy at that in his firstyear, but we shall see. Credible
man, that is Wow. Youthink about the receivers that, I mean,
just like just he and Chase together, Yeah, I mean they're not
on the same team, but theyjust keep getting I mean those LSU wide
receivers are a whole new level.And Justin Jefferson quite frankly, if you're

(01:36:59):
paying in football terms, he's earnedthis. He's a great player, Yeah,
phenomenal, phenomenal weapon. A littlesecurity kicked in for him. Now.
Can you imagine somebody right in thatfilling all those zeros on an eighty
eight million dollar signing bonus? Yes, I can, but I but but
not getting it, But I canimagine it. Yeah, be nice to
walk out of there. Uh,who's the first person you call when you

(01:37:20):
sign a contract like that? Yourmom or your father? Oh it would
be my parents, sure, yeah, no doubt, I would say,
Mom, dad, that debt's gone. Yeah. You're like, you're not
gonna believe what happened in Pop's prices? Oh yeah, yeah we do.
You're that good. It's eighty ninemillion up front. Good. I think
that's awesome. What what a whata blessing for him today? And what
a player? What a player?Good for Justin Jefferson getting a massive contract

(01:37:44):
wise by the Vikings. Oh yeah, don't let that dude get out of
him. Way too good. Let'sget out to John. What's happening to
John? Man? That's a Melsuboys for you. Man, that's just
like yesterday watching my Tigers. Uhsolid horns off and hey man, who
who Tigers? L s U?L SU didn't l S You didn't play

(01:38:08):
University of Texas? Oh my bad, my bad, my bad? U
L yeah U L beat them?Yeah? Yeah, come on, man,
get off fellas use nuts bro,God, get off fellas use nuts
bro bro. You want no,no, don't even go down this road.

(01:38:28):
All right, we got about aminute for you, John, We
got Steve Sparks left, so comeon, man, congratulations too. Seriously
though, man, but first part, yeah, I'd call my parents and
I tell him, Look, now, the next phone call you get is
gonna be from a undisclosed phone number, because this phone I have here is
going out the window. Nobody can. Nobody's begging me for money and and

(01:38:50):
all that, but to go.You know, I don't know much about
it, but the w n ba's commissioner better do something and step in
because they somebody's gonna get hurt.Somebody's gonna get hurt, somebody's career is
gonna get ruined. These women.You know, I stepped in on the
on the conversation. If you're jealous, you know, too bad. You

(01:39:15):
should have done something. Y'all shouldhave y'all this this young woman has taken
and given y'all the opportunity. Youknow, don't be mad because she's better
than you, the one chick.All she does is hit threes you have,
But she can hit them. Imean, she can play. The
young lady can play. But Ifeel like the commission needs to step in.

(01:39:39):
And also I'm gonna put some blameout there. On the weave wearing
Jamal Hill. She's out there runningher mouth, bashing Clark and how these
women need to to stand up toher and she don't need this and she
don't need that. All Jamal Hill'sdoing is putting hatred out there and it's
it's a shame. And that's whyshe ain't got a job no more at

(01:40:00):
four Letter Network, you know,but they need to. It's getting ridiculous.
And I'll go one further, MattBarnes. He said, exactly where
are her teammates. Where are herteammates covering her back? You know?
They just they don't have her back, They don't have her six and and
it's a shame that sports has gonedown that road. Man, y'all have

(01:40:24):
a good week. Appreciate it.John. The jealousy is palpable and it's
way overboard. It's ridiculous. Allright, let's get to Brea because we're
gonna welcome in Astros broadcaster Steve Sparksnext on Sports Talk seven to eighty,
The Shawn Salisbury Show continued, allRight, it's that time of the week.

(01:40:44):
I'm talking in Astros broadcaster Steve Sparks. Yeah, we missed him.
Last week a little holiday, right, we had a memorial to have Steve
back in this week for his weeklyeight thirty visit. Steve, Welcome in,
Astros broadcaster. Let me let mestart here, Steve. This pitching
staff, when you consider everything that'sgone on, this starting pitching staff has
become the strength of the team rightnow. When you talk about the consistency

(01:41:05):
over the last twelve to fifteen games, they've been really friggin good. They
have. Yeah, everybody's starting toround in with Eric Getty and Hunter Brown
pitching well now. And you know, Robert and I were talking about on
the pregame show yesterday that we've justfelt like every night you got a good
chance to win. And that's theway the Astros have felt in years past.

(01:41:26):
So that's a good place to start. If you want to turn things
around, it's got to start withstarting pitchers, and those guys are doing
a great job. Got Louise Garciawho threw a live the other day on
the on the field too, andthat was really exciting to see the way
the ball was coming out of hishand. So I don't want to put
a timeline on it, but ifyou're getting back sometime after the All Star
break, he'll be a great shotin the arm too. Well, Steve,

(01:41:48):
how did it look? I meanwhen you were were you a little
bit amazed by it? I meanit seems it just from what we've heard,
and now you were there you sawwith your own eyes. What was
it like? Was it was justjumping you know, it looked better than
it did even his last healthy year. To be honest with you, Wow,
I mean it was jumping out thathe was in the low nineties effortlessly

(01:42:10):
and the breaking stuff was just reallysharp. It was only twenty pitches,
so he could go out there andjust kind of gass it out. But
uh, it was. It exceededmy expectations by a ton. So it
was great news. You know.If he can just temper things and just
kind of coast through a couple morelives and then go out on a rehab
assignment, I think the Astros aregoing to be really happy with the end

(01:42:31):
product. I want to talk aboutthe two guys you mentioned. Let's start
with with Arraghetti. Steve. Isee you every time I watched another strikeout,
six strikeouts, seven strikeouts, eightstrikeers. He seems to there's I
don't know if it's a mental toughness. I love his grind. I do,
and it seems to me he's startingto adjust a major league, you
know, to hitters and how youhave to pitch, and how you have

(01:42:54):
to gear up on. It seemsthat for the most part, you can
ask a guy to improve every start. I feel like he has steve.
Yeah, that's what you're hoping for. You get a young guy in there,
especially with a picture that has histype of swing and miss, then
you really start to impress on himthat, hey, all you got to

(01:43:14):
do is get ahead and then youcan expand the strike zone. It doesn't
work the other way around nearly aswell. So I think he's confident enough
to challenge guys early in the counts. Now, sometimes you can probably tiptoe
into a league as a young guyand not really understand if your stuff plays
at this level, and if youget a little bit timid or whatever it

(01:43:35):
might be, and start to dancea little bit early in the counts and
start to fall behind where you haveto start working inward, then it doesn't
go well. And I think he'slearned that, and I think he's just
going at guys with his best stuff. He just he just rips it early
in the counts and he gets himselfin really good, favorable situations where he

(01:43:56):
can go out there and dominate,and you know, he strikes out a
lot of guys. And when youstrike out guys, there's no risk of
error or lucky hits or anything likethat. Right, Yeah, no question
about Steve Sparks for his weekly eightthirty visit on Monday, joins us astros
broadcasting here on Sports Talk seven toninety. Steve, what's the been that
you've noticed with your expert naked eyeabout Hunter Brown? What's been the turnaround?

(01:44:17):
That is, he's come out withfour or five pretty damn good starts
in a row, and he looksdifferent. What is it for me?
It's the two seam fastball. Ithink I told you, you know a
few weeks ago that everything goes awayfrom the rioties. Everything's away. Yeah,
you did about about three weeks ago. That's exactly what you said.
Yep. Even it's fastball naturally cuts, you know, so everything going away.

(01:44:41):
Every right hander in the world wasdiving across home plate, keeping the
front shoulder closed and just wailing onany mistake. So he adds the two
seam fastball out of the blue inDetroit, coming out of the bullfin starts
to run some pitches in on rioties, starts to have success, starts to
break bats where guys can't dive.You know, they're not taking advantage of

(01:45:01):
mistakes, so he can get awaywith things from time to time. And
even with that, Sean, Imean, you feel like, Okay,
it looks good, but you seethe confidence start to boil and then the
velocity ticks up a little bit becausehe just he feels like he is in
charge. And that's what you loveabout what he's doing right now. We've
seen it and flashes in years past, especially coming out of the bullpen,

(01:45:26):
but to do it as a starterright now, especially when the Ashros need
it most. If they're going toturn things around, it's gonna be starting
pitchers and Arrogetty and Hunter Brown gotto continue this run. No doubt,
Steve, is he limited his usageof the cutter, not throwing it as
much, or is it changed towho he's throwing it too? You know
what it shows up as a cutter. It's usually just his fastball that cuts.

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Okay, he just doesn't get behindthe baseball like a lot of guys.
Some guys just supinate naturally, andthat's where his fastball is. So
he'll cut it every once in awhile and it looks more like a slider,
but a lot of times it sayscutter when it's just as fastball.
It runs away from the rities.Steve, I'm more concerned on this show
about Christian Hove. I know you'renot a doctor, but you're you're around

(01:46:09):
it Cavier and Erkidi, and lastweek Dana Brown had said in about forty
eight hours when he was on ourWednesday show that they should know we don't
know. Well, do you haveany any status on what you think or
should we be prepared for the worstfor both of these guys in this situation.
Yeah, I think you always preparefor the worst. But for me,
I think they're just looking at secondopinions. You know, if it's

(01:46:31):
a little iffy, then you wantto go see if there's there's different routes
you might want to take with whatever'sgoing on. I have no idea what's
going on, but you know,these situations haven't looked good for a lot
of pictures around the league, right, so you prepare for the worst,
you know, and and hopefully you'reyou're pleasantly surprised where Okay, it looks

(01:46:51):
like something that we can probably massageout of there and getting going here again
pretty soon. So same with Urkati. You know, we just don't know
yet, so we'll just deal withit when we get there. And that's
why teams have to do it,you know. And every team is dealing
with pitching woes right now, youknow. For you know, there's probably

(01:47:12):
ten different reasons why so many pitchersare going down, but you just have
to deal with it. At thislevel. You just got to have somebody
come in and take their place.Yeah, the Arrogetties and one hundred Browns,
as you mentioned, got to continueto pitch like this if you're going
to close ground. And I'm justone of those guys that think, well,
if you have to get a secondopinion, you probably are erring on
the side of caution because it rarelydoes a guy with good news go get

(01:47:34):
a second opinion. But hopefully we'llbe wrong in this case and you get
these guys back. But hey,still got to play them. There's a
bunch more to go. We're sixtygames in, Steve and the barometer of
a team, Well, I know, team's going win streaks and you can
win twenty two of the last twentyfive to get in, but seven and
a half out. It's a talentedteam. There's some signs of some good
things happening, but the inconsistency inone run games sixty games in. Is

(01:47:58):
it fair to judge the team ona barometer that says this is the majority
of what they are, that it'sgoing to be that type of grind this
year. I don't think so.Why, to be honest, look at
a couple of Yeah, why Steve, just look at a couple of recent
World Series winners and look at thetalent that they have on offense. So
if the pitching does continue to dowell, and they're pitching has been great

(01:48:18):
right since May, They've got thebest bullpen era in the American League.
Their starting pitchers are doing really well. You've got hope on the horizon with
Luis Garcia, Lance McCullers junior.Maybe you'll get some good news with a
couple of the other guys. Butman, I just can't believe this is

(01:48:39):
what the offense is. I justreally don't believe it. The one run
games is troubling. They're five andthirteen, Mariners are twelve and four.
Those are reversed. The Astros arein first place. They just got to
start executing. They've got to moverunners over, they've got to get them
in from third base with less thantwo outs. They just have to do

(01:48:59):
a better. But there's been acouple of World Series winners recent twenty nineteen
Nationals for twenty seven and thirty threeat point, and the twenty twenty one
Braves who won the World Series didn'tstay at five hundred until one hundred and
ten games in the end of theseason. So I think the Astros have
a lot of talent, and Ithink offensively, when things start to gel

(01:49:21):
and they get a little bit ofmomentum, I think they can They can
run off fifteen out of twenty andthings of that nature and get right back
in it. I don't think anybody'srunning away with it in this division.
Everybody has warts, but I thinkthe Astros have the fewest warts, and
I think it'll start to show prettysoon. I think this month of June

(01:49:41):
might be very telling you look atthe schedule. I think the Astros should
have a really good record this month, but they got to get it going.
I agree with you, like doyou panic? You know fans can
panic, but you know, Idon't think anybody's panicking. Agreed to do.
Agreed, Yeah, because those clubthe athletes just think different than fans,
and we in the medium fans do. And Steve we had said it
on this show earlier too, thatthat's got to be the hope that this

(01:50:03):
team's player, just the town alone. Other teams that are their way out
don't have the skill set offensively toovercome ten twelve games out or seven and
a half games. The Astros stillhaven't ran into their full hot streak against
good teams. So I think we'rewith you and hold out hope on that
and no panic at all. Allright, let me get to Ryan Presley.
I asked Dana Brown last week.I asked Dana Brown last week if

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the demotion if he would look atit as a demotion, meaning Ryan Presley
to go from the closer to theeight, And he said that may have
something to do with it. Hedidn't think it was a lack of confidence.
Is this a physical thing or amental thing? With Ryan Presley in
the adle, he's got four blownsaves already, which is not like him.
You know how good he is.Yeah, you know what, he
had a really good stretch for abouta month where he had about a one

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and a half. The ur rightlast week or so, you know,
it didn't go real well with acouple of games. But get a little
injury on his ring finger. Idon't know if that's affecting anything at all.
If I look at the stuff andI look at the batting average of
balls and play, he's been prettyunlucky. And when you're unlucky in the

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eighth inning, then it's loud,right, you know, and you know
it's game changing. So it's difficultright now for him. And when the
results aren't there, where are youat mentally? I think everybody could say
if you're not doing well at yourjob, or none of us are,
and it's magnified so much at themajor league level, then you are going

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to take a hit with your confidence. So has he lost a little bit
of confidence? I would? Iwould say, I would, Oh yeah,
who wouldn't. I'm with you,Steve. The being a pro and
getting paid doesn't mean you can't losea little confidence when things aren't going well.
It just it hurts so much,you know, you know, you're
letting down your team and the cityand the organization and everything. So it

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does hurt so but I have confidencein his talent, you know, and
I have confidence in his mental abilityto get through this. And everybody goes
through this from time to time.Hater did the first couple of weeks of
the season, and everybody's going togo through little patches. But you know,
when the team's trying to get backto five hundred, then the eighth

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inning, like I said, itgets magnified in it, and it hurts,
always tough to over come. Andit's always tough to overcome. A
lead off walk too, right,Steven, which is which will push you,
We'll put you in trouble and likethat. But that goes to the
pressing part of it. Well,it's struggling, not locating. Somebody gets
a cheap hit on you, andit just the carryover and you're right,
it's it's uh. People don't comeby and you know they're not judging our

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job every day. We're not outin front of what maybe they are.
But we don't get to hear itas loudly as amazing baseball player does.
They get paid a lot of moneyto get judged. Yes, they do.
That's right, that's right. Itcomes with the territory. It comes
with the territory. So when you'rea leverage reliever, uh, and he's
I mean, don't forget that hislast nineteen appearances in the playoffs have been

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scoreless, right, don't forget aboutthose days either, you know it just
this happens. Sometimes you have somelittle patches every once in a while.
But his stuff is still really electric. And guys who've been that good at
the back end and in clutch moment, Steve, their strength becomes that mental
toughness, and I'm sure it's challenginga little bit, but that's what you
can lean on with Brian Presley,aside from the fact that he's got good
stuff as well. My man,great, great stuff. Look forward to

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hearing the broadcast. Let's go getthree of them right off the bat here
and take care of their home business. And we look forward to visiting with
you next week. And we alwaysappreciate you, my man. All right,
Thanks Jan, Thanks everybody, Ohyou too. That's Steve Sparks Cardinals
in Town and justin Berlander on theMountain night Sports Talk seven ninety, we'll
talk with Steve Sparks said, andhe thinks there's a fifteen out of twenty

(01:53:41):
in him. I hope he's right. Sports Talk seven ninety. This is
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(01:54:04):
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That'll be out there somewhere. Doyou nice call JJ McCarthy throws a
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(01:54:55):
A good way indeed. Yeah likeit? Yeah, I like it.
Hey, I do have a sportsAstros related question, actually not an
astros in Houston. How well doyou know Pete Rose? Uh, you're

(01:55:17):
gonna just ask this about the wholeshow? Yeah, why do you?
Why do you? Does it matter? I? Yeah, man that people
want to know. Yeah, I'vebeen pretty good friends with you? Are
okay? Love Pete Rose? Beenfortunate. We've had some good laughs together.
Trivilely do you know who Pete Roseis? Indeed? I do you
do? Yes? Come on now, I told you I play baseball before.

(01:55:38):
Man say, I'm just double checking, man, just making sure good
stuff from Uh Steve Sparks. Ifyou miss it, it's up on our
blog. He's still very very confident. Huh did he say? What did?
He's fIF fifteen fifteen out of twenty. He thinks they got that in
him. Do you think they havethat in him? The way it's been

(01:55:59):
the consistentent as we've seen. DoI think they have the ability to do
it? I'd agree one hundred percentwith Steve. We've said it. The
one thing that gives you hope onit is that they're talented, beyond belief,
more talented than many teams. IfI said the five best hitting lineups
in baseball on paper before anything,you're putting the Astros in there, right
a healthy Atlanta with Akunya's group,the Dodgers obviously going to be in there.

(01:56:23):
This team, you can't the Rangerslineup. You have to put them
in there because they produce all kindsof runs. I mean, you know
the group the Yankees. There's thatgroup, and the Astros are one of
them. But the performance says no, they can't. They're not capable against
good teams, going fifteen out oftwenty. But June starts off with some
games you can win. You gotSaint Louis, although they've crept closer to
five hundred, one game under fivehundred. You get the Angels again.

(01:56:45):
I mean, you get it toDetroit. Somewhere along the way, you're
going to run into some teams thatyou can I think they go play the
White Sox, as you said inChicago, they come back here. So
there's some games that you can winand June could be a good month.
So do I think the talent's thereto do it? I absolutely do.
And the way they're pitching starting pitching, no, doubt, But does performance
the first sixty games say that they'vebeen consistent enough to do it? Absolutely

(01:57:06):
not. I lean Steve. Steve'sright, the town's there. But as
he said, got to get aclutch hit, got to move a runner
over, you've got to drive inthe runs. I think Steve echoes with
a lot of people, and he'sright. What a lot of people think.
It's hard to fathom that the Astrosare going to hit like this all
year long. Yeah, they've gotSaint Louis, the Angels, San Francisco,

(01:57:29):
Detroit White Sox, Baltimore, Colorado, and then the Mets. That's
your June schedule. Couple of roadtrips. Baltimore is the most difficult thing
you'll see through that road trip.There's a couple other good ones, and
you know what this test. Imean. The Cardinals are their corner infielders
are pretty good. They've got somegood players, and if you can continue

(01:57:51):
to get this pitching, you'd thinkat some point they go seven eight games
in a row where they're raking asa team. But this season would say
no. Talent says yes, we'llgo find out. The mental toughness has
always been something we got to findout about in twenty twenty four, not
twenty twenty three. Yeah, it'sa softer part of the schedule. Saint
Louis is right there in the playoffhunt, obviously, only just sixty games

(01:58:14):
in. They're a game below fivehundred, but playing good baseball. They've
won seven out of their last ten. Yep, so they're seven to three
playing good baseball. You got Verlanderon the bump tonight. It's a good
place to start. It is sure, that is true. All right,
let's talk a little Houston Texans football. CJ. Stroud ranked himself throughout all

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(02:00:54):
Stroud was on the Gilly and Wallowpod cast, and before we get to
that, let me yeah, youknow what, will let me preface this
real quick, Sewan, and I'llask you where do you think CJ.
Stroud ranks among all the quarterbacks inthe NFL right now? Well, one

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year of body of work is notenough for me to crown the Texans Super
Bowl champions. But I love wherethey're headed and the things they've done.
The quantum leaps, and it's notenough for me to put him as the
best quarterback in the league. Butfrom my vantage point, what I've seen
for one year from a rookie topfive to six in the league. I
always want to see the second yearin the bounce back. But he shows

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everything that there's not gonna be asophomore slump. He's just good at everything
he does, poised, makes everythrow. I mean when I mean deep,
he can layer the football, theintermediate throw. He's about as good
as we have in the league inthat eighteen to twenty two range, fifteen
to twenty two range, and Imean he just his span. He makes
the ordinary play all the time.So I have him in the There's the

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Mahomes and no particular order. Mahomesat the top, but then there's Alan
Lamar Jackson. Yeah, if you'retalking about one season, Aaron Rodgers still
going to belong in the top sixor seven. He just is Lamar jack
Joe Burrow when he's healthy, butthat took another thing. We got to
keep. Joe's got to get healthy. Top five or six. I personally,

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if when you'll hear this, andI think Stroud two years from now,
if this continues, you're going tobe talking about him in the when
you mentioned Mahomes name and that group. It's just hard for me after one
year to throw a guy at thetop of the list after one year performance
when people are going to try toadjust. But everything I've seen from him
says top five for me. Ifyou're saying over the next five to ten

(02:02:46):
years, pick five quarterbacks you wantin the league, I'm not getting by
three or four without taking him.And if it's that that's ten years.
The next five years, he's stillgoing to be in my top five.
I think he's that gifted and Ithink he's that special. Now it is
one year, so we got totemper it a little bit because for us
to throw the Texans and the KansasCity Chiefs conversation a little premature. We

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got to see what they do comingout this year and respond. But they've
gotten better in the offseason. Nowyou just got to go play him.
So top five or six for meright now, and with room to continue
to chase up that ladder. Ithink, for instance, like a Jalen
Hurts, who you know I holdin high regard, I think he's a
point. If you said Sean pickone right now, you have to have
him for the next five years.I'm taking Stroud. He's a better thrower

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of the football. Hurts is agreat leader. He does some really good
things. Gimmey Stroud. So he'sa top five or six guy. I
just don't done. When you hearthis, I would probably leave my name
out of it when judging others andlet everybody else tell you how great you
are. I love his confidence,but he can work in silence and let
his work through the talking because ithas so far. Yeah. So CJ.
Stroud and Tank Dell were on themillion dollars worth of Game podcast that's

(02:03:56):
with Gilly to Kidd and Wallow.That's part of the barste Little Sports Network,
uh podcast Network, and they werewas asked about the top five quarterbacks
in the NFL, and this washis list. Oh no, I'm tripping.
Let me go, I'm tripping.I know what I'm doing. Mahons

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lamar myself. Dak uh. Hereally and it hurts that that that that
boy. Y'all not gonna say thatbecause he ain't want you said Matthew Cowboys,
Well you're gonna put Dack. Prusgot in there with Joe Burrow.

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Yeah, I got year here,hurt my body. Burrow one of my
favorite players. I'm out of mygame after Burro a little bit like cowboys
don't like that. I ain't whatI ain't see. I don't be knowing,

(02:04:59):
Bro. I'm going on with accuratequarterback. Got to see them.
Yeah, we play Oh my god, the Battle Dallas. All right,
that's ce j Strouden Tank Dell onthe Million Dollars Worth of Game podcast,
he said, Dak Prescott one ofthe most accurate quarterbacks. Last year,

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Dak Prescott was number three in theleague. Actually know what, he was
number one because, uh, theseother three were only played half season,
So Dak Prescott seventeen games played,he was number one at sixty nine point
five. Prescott's a hell of aplayer, but he's in it. Like

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like the question that raises when wetalk about Lamar and talk about the Herberts
and talk about Josh Allen. They'regonna have to get their team to February
and and that's where Prescott resides,right. Jalen Hurts got his team to
February and they didn't win. SoI Hurts and Prescott are not in the
top in my opinion, they're outsideit but close. I think Dak Prescott

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gets a lot of flak for beinga really good player. He's accurate,
he'll put up numbers, but it'shis performance in January. He let Jordan
Love walk in here and the waltsall over the cab. I mean,
he's gonna have to improve that.And you know, I'll pound the table
for Prescott. People keep wanting toreplace him. What are you going to
replace him with? You're not replacinghim with Trey Lance. Sorry to tell
you. Those numbers are hard tocome back. But there's got to be

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a different There's got to be adifferent way to go about your business in
January, which Lamar. That begsthe question on the two time MVP,
Lamar Jackson. But I would Lamarbelongs in the top five because the two
MVP say so. Mahomes at thetop of the list. The guys that
hover around the Prescott, there's Herbert. He left Josh Allen out of it.
He left Burrow out of it.I don't care if Burrow didn't play
last year. Not Burrow belongs inyour top five period. When he's on

(02:06:46):
the field, he is a completegame changer. I don't have a problem
with Lamar there if it was me, if I was a CJED just said,
you know what, you guys decided. He's in top five. I
know where I belong and I feelpretty good about it. Let everybody else
throw you in there. And Ilove his confidence, and I think he
really does believe it, and heshould because I do too. I think
he's a top five guy. Hegoes back and backs it up this year
and plays another great season and getshis team to the playoffs again. He

(02:07:12):
has himself at three. There maybe people who make him the second best
quarterback in the league because you've gota lot of a lot of real estate
to cover to get to Mahomes,right, you just do. But Dack,
I mean CJ's showing everything to getthere, and I love it.
Asked the question, he answered it, and I don't have a problem with
the guy answering it. What hebelieves is honestly, and I'm with him.

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But if you took the Stroud out, who are the other five not
named Stroud? For me? Injuredor not? Last year? Did tell
me? Is it one season youwant this year or is it five seasons?
What you what are you asking me, let's do five for the next
five years. Yeah, it's aStroud. Yes, Stroud's a no brainer,
but let's remove our home field advantageout of it. It's Mahomes,

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Yep, it's Burrell, it's LamarJackson, it's still Josh Allen and probably
comes down to the fifth one forme would be difficult, would it be?
I think Hurts Prescott's the finished secondMP brock Purty, well, that
the most talented all but if youlook at his two your numbers. Okay,
so look at his two your numbers. If we're going by what we

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saw from Stroud, doesn't Purty's toyour numbers belong at least in the conversation.
Yes, he makes boring plays looksimple and that's a good thing.
He may not be as gifted asany of those guys I named, but
what are we looking for? Areyou looking for talented or a guy who's
done what he's done? So Purtyis in your top ten when it comes
to accuracy and all the things he'sdone winning And people say, well he's

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on a good team. Well youcan't pump them. You got to punish
Lamar Jackson and you got to punishMahomes. I mean, so Purty belongs
in it. But those four guysfor me over the next five year Stroud,
Mahomes, Mahomes, Stroud Burrow andJosh Allen and Lamar Jackson. But
if I'm taking Stroud out of it, the fifth one is going to come
down to press Hurts. I thinkI think Herbert is a monster. I

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do. I'd say Jordan Love isgoing to rear his head and get better.
Dak Prescott belongs in that mention,There's no doubt about it. The
fifth one would be tough. Thefirst four or no brainer. And if
you have Stroud in the conversation,my five are Stroud, Burrow, Lamar
Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. You can't deny how talented Josh Allen
is. You just can't. Butnow, if you said, okay,

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sewn in January, name the fiveyou want. That list is different.
That list is different. It justis who is it. From what we've
seen January, I know that theguy at the top belongs there. Patrick
Martins, Mahomes, gimme Burrow.The way Purty's got you going last year,

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you'd have to at least, Imean they didn't win a super Bowl,
but he's been pretty solid. You'dat least consider him. I guess
you still have to throw in Lamar'sthe two time MVP, but he's got
to elevate in the at postseason,like Cousins has got elevate, like Prescott's
got elevate. The truth is we'veonly had a handful of guys dominating January
and Rogers. If you said oneyear, give me, even though he's

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got one super Bowl win, I'dstill take him for one year, not
five though. I don't think he'llbe playing in five years. Once you
get past the first two and we'veseen Stroud in the playoffs but not enough
body of work. I'd still takehim though, because I think he's got
that moxie. I really do.So those three then the other two positions
i'd have to see in January becauseI don't know how much we trust a

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lot of quarterbacks in January right nowto get to February. And truth,
Jalen Hurts probably because he's poised andhe's a really talented player. They just
had a rough year last year.I think he'll bounce back. The three
would be in. The two wouldbe a no brainer Burrow and Mahomes at
the Mahomes and Borough. Even thoughit's a small body of work, I
don't know how you wouldn't take inJanuary say okay, I got to win

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a game. Do you want Stroud? I'd have a hard time not saying
yes. Yeah. I just thinkwhen you look at January, Lamar Jackson,
Josh Allen, Prescott, Drew.None of those guys have been proven
to win in January right on aconsistent basis. That gets you deep,
right. But if you go inand say, okay, if I'm taking
Lamar out, am I putting twoahead of him? No? Just no,
Am I putting Herbert ahead of him. The answers Russ Wilson, No,

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Jordan Love won a little bit,but no, so they it's it
may be the same guys, butif you say, okay, you gotta
win one, knowing where they areand they're all on the same team,
there's no doubt Stroud's going to bein that five and he's only done it
a year. That may seem likehome team bias right now, but Brian,
I've seen enough body of work tosay this guy's really good. That
wouldn't matter where you put him.But the truth is the list right now

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probably stops at two not named Rogers. He'd put him in there for one
year. This year, you would, yeah, but it stops right now.
It is Mahomes and Burrow and everybodyelse has to find a way to
creep them. And Jalen Hurts inyear what three got his team to a
super Bowl? Or year two orthree got his team? Was year three
got his team to a super Bowl? So I loved his poison. That

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team's good. I'd put him inthe top five the teams that I believe,
guys that I think can still getyou to February. But I wouldn't
take him in the top five.As far as guys i'd take right now,
I would. I would have afew others in front of him,
But he is a top ten player. You'd have to put Prescott in the
top ten. You'd have to putyou know, Allen in your top ten.
You just do. Those guys haveall earned that. Herbert would be

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in your top ten of guys you'dtake, but that you don't know about
January because I haven't seen him enough. In January. You ready to talk
mandatory mini camp? I am atyour mandatory. You want to get the
song fired up? No, you'renot playing that on a Monday. Are
you got to ruin the week for? What do you mean? Why do
you You can play the song?Go ahead now, we'll wait to tomorrow.
Tomorrow. Yeah, you're gonna bringit three days early, four days

(02:12:45):
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The Sean Soundsbury Show continues most definitelyon Sports Talk seven ninety first team in
Major League Rugby to clinch a playoffberth the Stanley Cup Finals set in the
NHL, Edmonton Oilers taking on theFlorida Panthers. Talking about the Houston Texans
mandatory mini camp set to start tomorrowfor the Texans. It runs through Let's

(02:14:35):
see Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday willbe mandatory mini camp. They just had
OTA's last week and the week prior. Laramie Tunswell, Titus Howard not there
again on Friday. C J.Stroud, Joe Mixon, Stefon Diggs and
the rest of the group were there. Notable big time player in the NFL

(02:14:56):
that did not attend OTAs he wasat absent from I believe every Ota except
for one. Lamar Jackson, yourstarting quarterback, your franchise quarterback, who
oh, by the way, hasa contract bonus into that contract if he
attends offseason workouts, he gets abonus of seven hundred and fifty grand,

(02:15:20):
and he just decided to only goto one. It does not make sense.
Why would you even negotiate that,Why would you even put that in
if you had no big deal,you know, no plans of going.
I understand it's voluntary workouts, butwait, well, your quarterback should be
a voluntary work You're a franchise guy. Usually quarterbacks are like it's like you

(02:15:41):
just expect him to show up.Yeah, that's why he's the quarterback.
Yeah. I don't understand it either, unless he's hurt. I don't think
he's hurt. I'm curious. Sohe has to attend them all to get
his seven fifty Yeah, yeah,and he did. He attended one,
He attended one. They five,He only went to one, so he
didn't get his bonus. No,so you're telling me that he's made so

(02:16:05):
much money that you can leave sevenhundred fifty grand on the table for four
extra days of going to the facilityto be with the fellas. Nobody's as
matter of fact, you don't haveto throw Nope, nobody's asking you to.
You just be out there and youjust got to go put on your
sweatshirt if you're trying to you know, sweat and you know how people are.
And when you're over there, you'getting a little sweat in, get
a little lift in, take thefellows to dinner, stand around and talk

(02:16:28):
football with the you know, getwhile the other guys getting work. Take
a few one on one snaps ora few routes on air snaps. You
just you know, air it outa little bit. Nobody's asking you to
put yourself at risk. You don'thave a gear on. We're not going
eleven on eleven. We're not blitzingthe quarterback. So you're telling me,
first off, if you had nobonus. I just think quarterbacks should show

(02:16:50):
up to I do. I thinkthe team looks forward to it, even
if you're not participating on the field. Be on the field. Does that
make sense? Yeah, it's notthat hard. And I know people say,
well, you don't have to,it's voluntary. Well to me,
the quarterback position. To me,really, I don't know why you wouldn't
show up anyway. I just don'tget it unless you're hurt, right,
and if your hurt, show upat the facility, show them you're working

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out and do it. I justdon't Maybe that's too old school that now
we've empowered in so much that Idon't have to show up, But who
doesn't show up for seven hundred andfifty thousand dollars for four extra just to
be with the fellas and hanging aroundand going out to eat dinner with them
and laughing and joking for a couplehours a day. What So, I'm
just reading a little bit further inhis contract. To qualify for the seven

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hundred and fifty grand, he mustparticipate in eighty percent of the offseason workouts
in This excludes mandatory mini camp.So all he had to go to he
didn't have to go to all ofthem. He just had to go to
eighty percent of them, three ofthem, three out of the five.
Is that eighty percent? Three andfour out of five gets you to eighty
percent? Right? Whatever, yougo to four, it's not that hard,

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okay, Okay, So four,yeah, it's okay, it's it's
no big deal to do is goto four out of five? Yes,
so he's been to one, hewent to one. He doesn't qualify,
correct, three more? That's itto be with and they were usually one,
two, three in a row.Right, spend a week in Baltimore,
go collect seven hundred You know howmany people won't make that in their

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lifetime. If you make seven hundredand fifty grand grand right now in a
year salary, you're like the topnine in the top two percent, yes,
of earners in America. Right.Well, and then somebody will call
up and say, ah, youknow or worth thinking, Oh, who
cares? Man with all that moneyhe makes. I'll tell you what cares?
It's still why then don't go?Then? Why negotiate? If you're

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got to show up? Why putthat in your contracts? Just all's you
gotta do. Think about this fora second. Hey, Sean and Brian.
Next week's uh voluntary OTAs Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday. Four hours a
day in the meeting room and onthe field. Oh, I get to
come hang with the fellas and goout and eat lunch after during practice,

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or go to dinner and hang out, and then I can go do it.
I want go watch a basketball game, go to an Astros game,
or if in Baltimore, go watchthe Orioles play. All right, cool,
and when you leave, they directdeposit seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in your account. Unless somebody's sick, hurt, or somebody's going through tuvel
trouble and you can't get there orstorm, you know, you go.

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What I'm saying, some disaster hasprevented you from getting there, Your wife
or girlfriend are having a baby andthey want you at the I get all
that to just not show up.That's just to be inconvenienced by three extra
days for seven hundred and fifty grandI. Personally, let me tell you,
I've never understood it. As aquarterback, you should be you should
be at him anyway. Yeah,at the end of the day. For

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me, I don't think it's abig deal. I just don't understand why
you would put seven hundred fifty thousanddollars in your contract. It doesn't mean
he's not going to play great footright, act she's a raining MVP,
right, I'm not worried about himplaying great in the fall. I just
don't get it. I don't either. I don't either. I just don't
get why you wouldn't show up.It's just so silly to me. If
nothing, dude, part of thereason that I'd like to show up and

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with the Fellas in the off seasonprogram is just I just it was a
good getaway to be at the guys. I know you're going up to dinner
and laughs, play a while golfafterwards, and you get to make seven
hundred seven you an extra seven hundredand fifty thousand. Who doesn't show up
for that, even if you're makingJeff Bezils, it's seven hundred fifty grand
donated all to charity. Show upand turn around and say, you know

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what, I made this my offseason work out. I'm donating it all
to my favorite charity or whatever whatever. Who doesn't show up for three extra
workouts. That's a total of whatten to fifteen hours. Yeah, you'll
never convince me that that's normal,okay for seven hundred and fifty geez,
And why if they're not gonna ifyou're the team, get to the point

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say I'm not going to negotiate.I know you can't. In the CBA
forced guys to show up to OTAs. I just don't understand for anything else
other than the laughs. Seven undfifty grand I'm crawling ten miles over broken
lasts to show up, let alone, just to be at the guys anyway.
Yeah, I've never had a nicelittle escape. Yeah, I don't
get it. The college baseball regionalsrolling along over the weekend, one of

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the head coaches had some strong thingsto say about NIL and how it's affecting
not just college baseball but college sports. It's a topic we've discussed a lot
when it comes to college football,but now it's even making its way into
college baseball. That's next on sportsStock seven ninety that the Shawn Salisbury Show
continued, how it's affecting not justcollege football, but now it's affecting college

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baseball. This is Coastal Carolina's headcoach Gary Gilmore. They just got eliminated
from the regionals. Gary Gilmore isretiring from college baseball. He's been the
head coach at Coastal Carolina since nineteenninety six. He won a national title
with them back in twenty sixteen.They've made seventeen NCAA tournaments. He has

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a coaching career just at Coastal Carolinaof one and sixteen wins and five hundred
and ninety five lossus. It's beena damn good baseball program for a long
time. He his overall record asa head coach. He was the head
coach at USC Aiken, which isthe University of South Carolina Aiken located in

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Aiken, South Carolina. They wereThey were a D two program, total
winning total wins in his head coachingcareer one thousand, three hundred and sixty
nine with just six hundred and ninetyseven losses. He's been a head coach
since nineteen ninety so a hell ofa career for Gary Gilmour. He's seen
all different things happen in college sports, including what's going on now and now.

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After being eliminated from the NCAA regionalhe spoke about nil on this.
What do you have to say?It's been just ridiculous for me. You
know, as much as I'm gonnamiss the kids and I'm gonna miss the
heck out, you know, bea little with that mess I'm telling right
now. I mean the fact thatthere are teams in college baseball giving two

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plus million dollars of nil money away. I'm in your home man. This
is you know, a real systemwould be one where they get a little
bit of money, but then theyput money in trust and this and that
so that you have the horror storesyou see in the NFL, and then
in different places. You know,major League Baseball gets good to be big,

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signing bonuses and boom. You know, five ten years later, they're
they're broke. They don't have adime, they don't have an education,
they don't have anything. I mean, there has to be a better way.
It's not just who can raise themost money and give it away.
There has to be a better waybecause, like I said, professional sports
would go in a toll in ahurry if we use this system. You
know, I mean this is meas a college coach, this is what

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I have to deal with. Youcan sign your returning players to a scholarship
which binds you to them. Butthey would come arount ju lying, I'm
gonna going to court. You know, I'm up in the Cape and somebody's
gonna give me a big, bignil deal. And you know you were
held you were held it downable coaching. You had to had to honor that

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scholarship you gave me. But youknow now, I'm going to go into
portal and leave you, Hank thatthat's that's a messed up system, and
I hope somebody fixes it. I'myou know, I be honest with you
that part. I'm going to enjoyit, to be very honestly. All
right, let's go to the back. Pretty pretty transparent stuff, amore.
He's not wrong, He's not wrong. And the fact that nil is affecting

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not just I mean, we alwaystalk about college football becase that's the biggest
money maker, but it's affecting sportslike college baseball. It's a free for
all man. And if you're acoach and you don't buy into it at
a big program, a top twentyfive program, top thirty, top forty
program in college football is them first, you will Why do you think college

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ca they may not like it footballcoaches, but they're going to jump into
it. Yeah, you want toknow why, because if you don't,
the other team is you get leftbehind. And guess what happens. You
lose that seven, eight, nine, ten million dollar contract that you're making
because your team's not very good oryou're not getting the talent. The guys
are up and leaving on you.Because it's now become in this order money

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NFL win a national championship, it'snot the other it's not win a national
championship, playing time education. Thosedays are done, dude, and he
ain't never getting them back. Youtalk to these coaches and I'm fortunate that
I get a chance to. Theyrarely leave a conversation without a parent saying

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how much is my son going tomake? Not is he going to get
a legitimate opportunity to play? Howmany times you guys are going to be
on national TV where where you exposure? Which every who doesn't want that?
And do they have his major atschool? That's it And I'm not saying
this for everybody, but it hascome to the point and coaches right about

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that. They want you to honora scholarship, but a week before a
season starts, you can just upand go on them. Ah. Now,
I got a million dollars more.I was on vacation. I thought
about it, and here's my favorite. I am committed. I'm through and
through a South Carolina game. Cocker, I'm through and through a Florida Gator.

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You're throwing through a Florida Gator untilFlorida State offers you more money.
Right then you're bouncing real quick.And I'm not saying that's for everybody,
but I'm just telling you it's themajority of what's going on in college sports.
And if you're not keeping up withNIL in the collective and you're not
raising money, you'll get left behind. The system has created this. While

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I don't blame the kids for wantingto get paid somehow, some way,
they should, but he's right,it's always been thought process. Just stick
it into trust so when they doleave, isn't that it so they're not
broke three years later. The majorityof these guys that are involved in NIL,
I'm just going to tell you now, are not going to last in
pro Look at the statistics. Everykid that's a five star recruit that's making
all this NIL money. The statisticsare going to tell you they're not going

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to be They may not even geta chance to play in the NFL.
If they do, it'll be inand out. We all look at the
Caleb Williams of the world or theJoe burd those guys. There's far more
of the other guys in there arethose guys. And what's in network about
three point one three point two yearsthe average length of a player who makes
a roster that's how long he lastsin a league. And I understand,

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well, that's good to may getthe money. Well, if you put
it in the trust, they couldn'tspend it while they were a sophomore in
college. Does that makes sense toyou? Where you know certain billionaires will
say, when you're twenty five,I'll give you this amount for your kid,
or then you hit twenty eight,I'll give you this seat. Don't
all spend it one place. Well, we couldn't do that. For imagine
if you're an NIL and you maketen million bucks and it's distributed over the

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course of ten years or five years, wouldn't that be pretty cool for the
kid? So I just got toI say I would force nil. As
I've said in name image, NILand collective and the transfer portal. I'd
lump it all into I would forcethem to be to be working towards graduation,
and they get their money when theymake a certain level GPA, whether
it's two point five, whether it'stwo point five five, whether it's two

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point seventy five. We've just createda system where they're no longer going to
school. And I understand you goto get a job to get paid,
but there's got to be at leasta little regulation on where a kid can
come I need another million dollars.Dude, Well, we've paid you your
nil collective. Well, I don'tcare. I want more money or I'm

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going to the other school that willpay me because they want to jump into
the top twenty. I guess it'sokay to get paid for your talent.
I don't have a problem with it, but there's got to be a better
system so the kid can get paid. And that what are we going to
do If you're outside the top twentyand you're not getting the money? Do
you how do you survive it?You can't? And how do you survive
with the new ruling? How didthe other programs that aren't going to give

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that. They're that people aren't gonnagive a lot of the ni own collective
money too. How are they surviving? That's my point problem. So while
we love it for the kid,it is ruining college sports. The fact
that it's not at least corralled alittle bit. I don't know many coaches
that love it, but you knowwhat they're doing. They're not. Mike
Krzyzewski hated the one and done andguess what he did at the end of
his career. He started recruiting oneand done guys like Calipari. Why because

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if you don't keep they're not comingto your school. Right they adapted.
That's exactly right, and you're gonnahave to adapt it in just both ways.
But right now it is way outof hand. But you know what,
it ain't going away. You've openedup Pandora's box and I don't know
how you're going to close it.Something's got to be done. I mean,
we continue to say it more andmore and more, but something has
to happen. A course and coachesthey're getting paid big upfront, and the

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ones that are at the between herthey're just they're just leaving and saying,
you know what I don't want it. Saban would still be a coach if
it wasn't for that. I'm justtelling you now, Nick Saban would not
have quit playing college coach in collegefoot in my opinion, it's my opinion,
had the rules been the same.Why also, the great equalizer people
were catching up to Nick Saban's teams. Why yeah, because it just wasn't

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about coaching. It was about money, money, and recruiting wasn't about just
being a great recruiter. It wasabout are you a great recruiter with an
extra four million dollars in your wallet? For me? Times change, brother,
It's hard to go back, Yep, it sure is, all right.
Let's look at the Astros. Theyopen up a series tonight against the
Cardinals. Jordan on Alvarez and runnersin scoring positions. Some things gotta change.

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The Ashlers want to get on arun. Let's talk about it.
Next to Sports Talk seven ninety,let the celebration start war Sean Salisbury on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Stanley CupFinals are setting in the NHL ed Minton
Oilers taking on the Florida Panthers.You'r Houston's SaberCats Professional Rugby. They win
again. They're eleven to one onthe season, first team in Major League

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Rugby to clinch a playoff birth.You want to hear a stat, bring
it is this the yard on statJordon Alvarez eight for fifty with runners in
scoring position, eight for his lastfifty. That's a bucks sixty. What

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are we doing here? What doyou like to say? What do we
do here? Are we doing?Son? Let's see thirteen runs in their
last four games. Twelve of thethirteen runs have come via the home run.
Playing a little long ball, Butthat's a lot of solo jobs too,
right, Yeah? Will they beokay at eighty games so twenty more?

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Yes? Okay, will they Icould say eighty one, but just
say eighty. Will they be atthe midway point? Over five hundred?
No, if you're gonna win?And I think it was a Papa Georgio
on Twitter, Nick, Papa Georgia. Yeah, one of our guys said
that if you were gonna move.Basically I'm paraphrasing, if you're gonna make
a move. And when I said, this is the one team you got

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to contend with about it is theBaltimore Oil's record in the next six opponents
or so you're going to face,that's the team that's really good. Other
than that, if you can't makea move in June, and Papa Georgia
is one hundred percent correct, you'renot making a move if you. If
Steve Sparks had mentioned June would bea good month, this is a moth

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where they can make some really goodheadway and do some things. Paraphrasing how
he phrased it as well, butthat June could be a great month for
them if they don't make major movementin June. Brother like, if they're
nine and eleven or eight and twelvein June, in the next twenty games,

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I don't think that we can sithere and keep hanging on saying yeah,
but they're too talented. They are. It'd be a major disappointment because
they are too talented to be tengames under five hundred or whatever it is,
eighty games in the season. Ithink they can do it. June
should be a move month for them, kind of like Saturday at augusta moving
day. Moving month. It's time. Their next twelve games are against teams,

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actually, no twelve, their nextfifteen games, every single team that
they face is under five hundred,gonna say sub five hundred. Baltimore will
be the only one that they faceover the next fifteen to twenty games.
That's next eighteen. Yeah, yeah. And then if you ain't moving,
now, guess what you ain't doing. You ain't moving, dog, that's
right, dog, son, Gotime, baby, gotta figure it out.

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Runners in scoring position, gotta notguys in. Say his stat again,
your dunts, he's eight for hislast fifty with runners in scoring position.
Man, if I would have toldyou that stat in spring training,
said this is gonna happen in twentytwenty four, would you look at me
like I was out of my mind? I'd laugh. Yes, you'd think,
come on, dude, don't behyperbolic. This isn't national TV shows

(02:33:56):
that you're turning on and watching.Yeah, you're exactly right, eight out
of fifty. It's not like him, No, it's not. And another
thing that we really didn't touch ona lot today, Christian Javier Jose Orchidi
still no updates in regards to theirhealth. Dana Brown yesterday said quote,

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we'll know something probably by the endof this week, maybe Thursday or so,
as to what direction we're going togo. In. They're both feeling
better, which is a good sign. But we're still getting second opinions from
doctors. End quote. Here's thedeal. If you're getting a second Have
I said it before, Brian?When's the last time? Now? Maybe
I missed it. When's the lasttime an injury? Hey Sean, they

(02:34:43):
said your knees not blown out?Do you win got a second opinion?
When you get good news the firsttime around, do you go get a
second opinion? Hell? No,you don't. You chalk it up and
rehab or whatever it is. Let'sgo. The only time I think I
can remember somebody get the second opinionwould be when the first one was bad

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news. Right. I don't knowmany times, Hey Sean, man,
your risk is good. I wantto get a second opinion because maybe maybe
the next guy WI tell me it'snot good. Rarely, if ever,
that I could remember. When goodnews comes back, you chalk it up
to good news and get to therehab price. Right, you get to
the rehab part. Right. Whenit's a bad news, you go get

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a second opinion. Correct. Sowhat tells me if it's taking this long?
I would if I was you,and whatever the worst is, I
don't know if it's twenty games,if it's sixty games, or if it's
missed the rest of the season.Judging from what we've seen and when second
opinions come down, I would ifI was you, I'd air on the
side of the fact that you're notgoing to see much more Javier and or

(02:35:48):
Erkiti anytime in the near future.I mean, we're gonna be going on
damn near like twelve days without anykind of results or uh, you're gonna
tell results or game plan for thosetwo pitchers. Bryan, you're back.
It looks sad. Hey took it. Mr it looks great. Yeah,
he looks great. You want togo get a second opinion? I know

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I'm rolling on. You're good,so I'm not going to have an opportunity
for them to tell me. Yeah, you know, second opinions don't don't
usually aren't usually generated after good newsfirst opinions. I mean, how many
damn opinions you got, You've alreadyyou've had like twelve to ten twelve days.
Let me just put it this way, Hunter Brown and Arraghetty keep pitching.

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Well, two of the I thinkover the last ten days or twelve
days, that's two of the brightspots on this team. Yeah, and
pitching has been damn good starting pitching. They've had really good outings from their
starting pitching. But the offense gotto get rolling. Verlander on the Mountain
nights. Good stuff, good stuff, that's gonna do it. For the
Sean Salisbury Show. He is SeanSalisbury. Our producer Triple Lee, Emmanuel

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Elmore. I am Brian Liema.Thank you for listening. We're back tomorrow
morning at six a m. Don'tGo Anywhere? Are next up? Well
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