Astros Lose To Cubs Again!, Espada's Lineup Changes, NFL Draft Day

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Saulsby. Okay, let's do this. Sean Salisbury, The USC Truths,
longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, RyanLima, go Lobos. This is the
Sewan Salsbury Show. They lose fourto three. Well, we got some

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lineup changes, didn't we still didn'twork. Yeah. Unfortunately, they're just
not good with runners in scoring position. They they just can't get people across
either, you know, ground out, uh, some weak pop flies.
They're just they're, like I said, talent the team, they're just not
very good. And if there's asense of urgency on this team, I

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don't see it. Arraghetti did anice job strikeouts wise, but you know,
the pitches started to stack up earlyafter the first inning and that pitch
count gets up, and but hedid. His fastball is pretty lively last
night and some movement and he gotthat. So it's a step in the
right direction there. Getting Bregmann outof the four hole. Step in the
right direction. I mean, stillneed production from a two hole. But

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between Diaz and Jordan, and eventhough he's he homered again late last night,
it is I think he's one ofsixteen or one to seventeen with runners
in scoring position, Josel Tuva.Ye, he's got two d oh ps
and he's having a phenomenal season.But with runners in score positions, right,
it's you know what it is.It's like, you know right now,

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and no disrespect to him, Imean, it's but he's he's got
to be more. It's like whenyou hit the home run or when you
throw a touchdown pass when you're upforty two to seven and it's forty two
to fourteen, it's still forty twoto fourteen, right, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, Sammy Sostiused to Sosi used to hit a lot
of solo home runs. Does thatmake sense? So? And jose Al
Twovy is doing everything he can,but runners in scoring position he has not

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been good. Jordan has not beengood, Kyle Tucker has been pretty solid,
and Diaz hasn't. So you know, paying you a couple more hits,
yes, you know, so hecontinues to rake. So I like
the fact that they move Bregman outof the four that that lineup yesterday.
In truth, now you can dealwith the first base situation all you want
in Singleton. That that's fine.That's He's an upgrade from a brave,

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but there may be an upgrade fromhim. But in talking to Dana Brown,
you're saying said, is lineup changeimminent and will it happen urgently?
And it happened. That's their bestthat that's close to being the best way
the batting order should be at leaststart. I'll take that all day,
every day. Now, you justgot to get production from it. But
this is a this is a veryaverage team right now with good players.

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That's what it is. You youcan we can dissect who should be where
all we want. And I knowwhen we hear Brian that Bryant that,
uh, when we hear that,oh yeah. But if they pitching right,
I get that they're pitching right now. Let's let's compartmentalize and separate the
two. All that pitching. They'vewon games when they score a lot of

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runs, it doesn't matter, butthey have not. They don't win close
games this year for two for threethree two. They don't in those games.
They whatever mistake it is they make, they do not this year.
Whatever that hit factor that gets thosehits putting them back the well, they
don't get those hits right now.And so you can tell me pitching all
you want. But if you scoreruns like we expected them to in masses,

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in clutch situations, they'll hit.Hell, we seen the numbers.
They're they're they're hitting. They'll they'llget hit as many hits as anybody.
The problem is when they come andthey've they've got to come in more clutch
moments. Hence why they're now elevengames under five hundred. Yes, so
the record what you are where yourrecord says you are Bill Parcells, and

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that's who they are. So youcan give me the pitching. And I
know if you get great pitching rightnow, even if the game was two
to one and they were down,if you if you've got to still a
three hitter from a starting pitcher andthey were all healthy and you put up
two runs, you're still in dangerof losing the game. So that that's
not the point. The point isbeing able to win. I'm talking about
on the offensive side. The twothings we should have never thought we had

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to worry about production at the plateand back into the bullpen, and to
date, back into the bullpen andproduction at the plate in clutch moments have
not been there. And in truth, starting pitching right now, I mean
at times they've done a nice job. Now they're not going you're not getting

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the max freed nine innings. Butat lead, I mean with all the
mixing and matching you're trying to dothere, it's the guys at the plate
right now that are not producing thatare a problem in clutch situations. They
would have never thought it either.They were one for ten with runners in
scoring position last night. Sean,you can't one for ten. It doesn't
matter how well you pitch, becauseyou know, you can pitch a great

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game and lose three to two.All that takes is a base hit,
a two run. It could bea fluke to run homer and then you
know, guy make an air.Next thing, you know, guy hits
a double in that third run scoresand you lose and they may have only
got five hits. This is That'swhy I asked yesterday how mentally tough is
this team? They haven't faced thiskind of adversity, all these injuries,
managerial change, and a start thatlooks like a team eight years ago,

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the beginning when they started, whenthey were like, man, how are
we going to get out of this? The advert the last time they faced
the adversity was obviously post all thehate and anger from the chiefing candle,
right, and they handled that adversityfine, I mean getting booed. Ever
they still do yet they went on. But remember they had different leadership,
even though a core of the teamis pretty similar. The manager had been

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through plenty of adversity through his careerand he was able to navigate them through
it and they came up big.So they haven't faced this kind of who
who are we since then? Andmaybe that caused some people to lose some
swagger here, but they won aWorld Series since then. They've been into
the A L c US every yearsince then. So we're going to find

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out because right now their clutch genedoesn't exist. You don't want to get
a pair of those, feel me? You know what I'm saying. Nice?
Nice haircut. By the way,I got my ears lowered. Yeah
nice? You got them all?Do you get a haircut? Or you
get them all? Cut them allcut? There you go? Yeah,
so been about six seven weeks,right, tight, tighten up a little
bit. Going with the beard nowfor a minute, yeah, going beard.

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See this is what happens. I'venoticed a trend with you. Yeah,
this is our third summer. We'regoing into our third summer together.
Yep, some nothing. You startwith the beard and then out of nowhere,
No, then nowhere, you'll goclean shape and you'll shave your head
next thing. You know, youlook like a serial killer. Like you
look like like the natural born killers. What do you hair as much?
Yeah? Yes, you'll come inand you were like, you didn't pay

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your you didn't pay your your debt, you know, Jimmy down down south,
And I don't just stick to theknees, dude, No you don't,
Okay, I mean go for thejugger there. It could be a
base fall back to the head.At least I'll make contact right in clutch
situations if your back turned and abig head, I think so little Robert,

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did you, Bobby de Niro?Yeah, I'll tell you you know
who you know who won't be ableto do that. Jose Bray, Sorry,
my bad, that's a little straightbullet. Why are you throwing them
astray? Because he got demoted?It's early. Why are you throwing him
astray? Hey? John Singleton gothim a couple of hits last night.
Well cool soft contact, but hey, those are line drives in the books.
Hey, that's nobody's told question inthe next stage. Now you know

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what in Pittsburgh right now they thinkyou get too smoked smoking singles, right,
damn the two singles, I can'tremember that. The first one I
miss went down the line, right. I was just getting how I didn't
see his first hit, but thentune it in from you know then on
so I you know what I cantell you now that uh back to that

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is they just and the clutch Jean'sgot improved. But that I don't know.
Do you know how many tough theyare right now? I really don't.
I keep seeing they're fine. It'sa long season. That that's great.
I actually I haven't seen that,not lately at least or in the
last couple of days. I sawone this morning. Oh they're going the
Asters are going to be Okay,there's no way. It's a weak division.

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There's no way they don't make acareer. It's a weak division.
But damn, but it's a weakdivision right now. Do you really think
when the Range don't the Rangers havethe same pitching gripe just not as many.
Yeah, two Hall of famers aren't, aren't right? And they they're
trying to get healthy and uh,you know they've had something to some they
had to fight to adversity last yearwith see you know, didn't see or

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miss a bunch of baseball last yearand still was the MVP playing like or
was he runner up in the MVPin the in the league runner up right
or second or he was in thetop three second? Yeah, yeah,
and played like one hundred and twentyfive, one hundred and thirty games.
So this year, but we're talkingabout twenty twenty four. Seattle's not a
weak team. They've started the divisionhasn't started well. I wouldn't look at
this as a yeah, he wassorry second in an MVP voting and he

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only played in one hundred and nineteenone hundred nineteen. Oh I gave him
eleven more than it should have.So point is that they understand they overhead
kids some adversity last year as well. That's part of Bruce Bochi's ability to
keep it going. And they alsohave started off slowly, but they can
rake. They're going to hit thedivisional hit. Seattle's got good players too.
Right now, it's a weak division, But do you really think that

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the AFC Central is better than thethe AFC. The American League Central is
better than the American League West asright now, as of right now,
right now, they are I'm talkingabout I'm talking going into the season.
What'd you say the weekst divisions?It was the Central for like the last
five years? Yes, in seasondivid depth right. So point is,

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I don't expect this to be theweakest division in baseball as it goes on.
We knew the East was going tobe good in the American League.
So it's not a foregone conclusion tome that when you you know, start
to push double digits games out offirst place, that it's such a weak
division. And you know what's partof making this division week right now,
the Houston Astros, the Oakland Age, you're a last place team. So

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if the division's weak, the anchorof the weakness right now is the Astros,
not talent wise, but production wise. There's some things to like and
there's a lot of things that needfix. That's just the cold hard facts
of this thing. One for tenwith runners in scoring position, as the
Astros lose another series that's already etchedin stone because they've lost the first two.

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Now they're going to try to avoidthe sweep. And I found it
interesting yesterday that Dana Brown and youknow, I listened to everything he says
for follow up questions and he waspretty forthright yesterday. I mean, he
really was transparent. It felt likehe was observing it from a sense of
urgency standpoint too, and we divedinto everything. What I found interesting yesterday
to Bryant, how many times weresay we're going to go on an eight,

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nine, ten, eleven. Thisteam has a couple two or three
of those type of streaks in himyesterday he said a two or three game
streak. So you know, andI don't know if it was on purpose,
but naturally lowing your lowering your expectationsbecause we all have high expectations.
And yes they can they can dothis, but right now they can't win

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ten in or old body. No, it's not enough, not not the
way they're performing now. They can'thell give like he said, give me
three in a win a series.That's when you'll hopefully it'll start to turn
around. So good players don't alwaysequal good production, right, I've seen
it in all sports. Yeah,and the production with the Runners runners in
scoring position, especially last night,was not good like I said, they

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were one for ten with runners inscoring position. And let's look at Spencer
Arraghetty start on the mound. Justa couple of starts for him in the
big leagues, a little bit better, but not enough for the Ashles.
That's next on sports Flock seven toeighty Sean Salisbury, Brian The Sewn Salisbury
Show continues. Good go on SportsTalk seven ninety tomorrow night, starting at

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six o'clock. It's going to beStan Northfleet, Adam Wexler and Dan Matthews
taking you through all of the draftpicks, second and third round. Well,
Spencer Arighetty got another start on themound and four runs in the first
inning. As that he's settled infor the most part. Cold night in

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Chicago, guy's the worst baseball weather. Yeah, you can't convince me otherwise.
Win blowing in cold and yeah whenit says it's in the thirties,
that's not exactly your favorite way toplay baseball. And we're a pushing may
Thank goodness we live in Texas.Horrible baseball, no doubt what Dana Brown
say yesterday. We can't keep gettingdown four to nothing, five to nothing,
inevitably and then chasing and what happened? You get down four to nothing.

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It makes it really difficult because whathappens is if you're always feeling now
sometimes that edge of feeling the urgencyof like single game elimination, feeling that
you'll get late in the season.That's good. You see it in football
teams. We've seen it where lastyear in the Astros have to win five
or six to win the division andyou know the in the tiebreaker stuff,
so they put themselves in a positionto win it. They did, but

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that what happens is it's hard tosustain that always happened to be in that
situation. And what happens when youkeep losing putting yourself in it, you
feel like for one hundred and twentygames you're in that ten games you can
stay in it. It's hard tosustain that feeling of now you're gripping the
bat a little harder. You're downforward to nothing. So what are you
doing? What's your thought process?You want? You want to hero it

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right, and when the game withone swing of the bat with nobody on
base. You can't win a gamedown forward to nothing with one swing of
the bat and the base is empty, so it becomes that and now you're
chasing again, and now you gotto okay, do we manufacture runs?
Are we gonna bunt somebody over?Well, we don't bunt, We're going
to swing the bat. And thennext thing you know, you've popped up
a few times and that eating's overand you left the bass packed. Whatever
it might be, it you getto a point where that the grind of

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have to overcome slow starts. Solast couple of times it's been pitching that's
put them in a bind early andthe hitting has not been able to catch
up, and then in a closegame at the end, they haven't been
able to close it out, whetherfrom a pitching standpoint or from a hitting
standpoint where they are where most oftheir wins come from. Score early,

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score a lot, and then legit out. That's the way it's been.
But inside of three runs, mantwo runs, this team so far
has not been what we're used to, which I think makes it more frustrating
for everybody because their expectations are sohigh. Sometimes you just don't play your
best, but they can't continue towait in thirty games from now, we

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can't say, well, it's stillplenty of time left, because I listen,
you get the double digits out.If you think pressure's on you now
and you're chasing double ten games,twelve games out of first place, it
is a It becomes and then everyinn you've got to pitch a guy an
extra inning. You start to getfatigued all the way. We can't rest
Bregmann on a day and needs ress. That kind of stuff happens before you

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know it. You find yourself wasteseventeen games out of it, and then
you're done. You'll need you tojust can't. It's hard enough to catch
up from double digits against good teams, and there are good teams all over
the American League. Spends arag Gettylast night, three and two thirds innings,
pitch seven hits, four and runs, seven strikeouts, two walks.
The shrike gout numbers are up.His fastball had some pretty good life on

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it. However, it was thatfirst inning that that was not good.
Four runs. Dansby Swanson hit ahome run off of rag Getty, and
then the Astros got two in thethird to cut it in half, and
then they did not score until thatlate solo home run by Jose Altuve after
Hector off of Hector and Nerris inthe top of the ninth, Astros have

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ten. They out hit him again. They out hit teams, yet they
go one for ten with runners inscoring position. You know who looked pretty
good last night? He got robbedon a hammered a baseball that was caught
by the third basemy color Victor Carringteam looked pretty good at the plate.
I think he's pretty good at theplate. I think much. The truth
is, Saize. The truth is, once again, you give me Dh

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Diez catcher CARROTENI and then flip it. But make instead of Keroteny Dh get
him more work at first base.Dude, he is a pro. He
puts about on the ball. Yeah, he just does. And I love
the fact that when he hit thatball into the gap, even though it
got cut off, he was goingto the whole way and that that was
called You want to talk about urgency. See it seems to me like every

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game he plays since urgency because hewants more playing time. Yes, that
to me right now is about theonly thing missed. Well, there's two
things for me missing I would loveand I we said it last year.
Just you trying to find when yougot one of the best utility guys.
You know, Swiss army knives inbaseball, you want to use them that
way. But to me, aSwiss army knife is only a Swiss army
knife until you need him to playevery day. No disrespect to Jake Myers,

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but I'd like du Bonds bat inthe lineup every day. The best
lineup for me right now, Ijust it's just simple, And you know,
maybe we got to to change alittle bit. I'm kidding. We
are to obviously influence them, butwe've talked loudly enough about some changes in
the lineup in the batting order,and they did it yesterday with submergency.
Now they've got to adjust to it. But the best one to me is
Dubon and center McCormick and left Tuckerand right Bregman, Panya Altuve, Carotini

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at first base or Don dhing orplaying left field, and Keratini catching or
playing first base, and DS catchingor playing or dhing when they're not doing
one or the other. That's yourlineup like yesterday DS, And if it
flip flopped tomorrow or today, I'dstick Caroten at first base, Jordon goes

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to left field. You decide onDubon or McCormick, and center field with
your analytics and das either DHS orcatches. So if Caroten's playing first base
and DS catches, your Don isyour DH, and your left field's McCormick
and Dubon's center field. To me, I think that's easy. If you're
gonna run him out there, runthem out there. You made a change
in the lineup good. Bregman's inthe two hole, Jordon's in the fight,

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and the lineup was good too,just as we had said the first
six. We said it Altuve,Bregman, Jordan, Tucker, Diaz and
Payna. And after that you mixand match seven, eight nine, How
have you won? And that waswhat it was yesterday. I personally think
that gives you the best chance towin and to exhaust the lineup, and

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you're not exhausting anybody when you're chasingand can't push runners across and scoring one
and two runs in close games.But I think over time that gives them
the best chance. I think Krotiniand Dubon actually need more at bats at
this point in time. You can'tcater to one. You got to cater
to your team. And I thinktwo of your better player, two of

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the better nine are on the benchmost of the time, and that's Krotene
and Dubon. And then you canJake can move around. You can throw
Singleton and a bray you in therewhen necessary. Whenever analytics say you know
it's getting warmer, put a brakyou in for a maybe he gets hot.
But for every day base runners,there's no doubt that that's the best

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lineup. And du Bond's in it, Caroteni and Diaz are in it,
and no matter how you match upthat the way you move them, that's
your best lineup. Jake Myers ishitting two seventeen. Listen, Jake Myers
is a good center fielder that everynow and then shows up a power power
moment and plays hard on the restof it. Jake Myers, to me,

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should be doing what du Bond's doing. You'd be the utility guy.
Yeah, run some bases, getgoing, play defensive replacement. An analytical
say, today's your day. Dubonshould be the everyday player every day.
He's earned the right as a guy. When you're a backup, you want
to be a starter when you're autility man. What we're telling you is
we don't want you in the lineupevery day when you've earned being in a
lineup every day and your team struggling, and put him in a lineup and

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listen, Carrotin, you'll have morehits in a month then Singleton and a
bray you will have in three months. That's just a fact. Yeah,
that's not hyperball. That's a fact. Yeah, I'm talking about right now.
Right So I just I think,to me, listen, if there
was flipped, you have opportunity togive a brak. You can be a

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patient with the bray. You weresingle to do what you want to do,
rest all the cats you want toif the if your record was flipped.
But guess what, it's not.So if you want to create sense
of urgency from your players, youknow what you do. You make some
changes and the backups then become oohor the guy that was the starter says,
hell, so I can lose myjob. That fear losing your job
is a pretty good damn motivator.But motivation and discipline that's the next level.

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And to me, Dubon and krotenaneed to be in the lineup regularly,
and you need to flip them.Yeah, and Myers in the two
first basement need to be the onescoming off the bench. I agree.
I've been saying that for the lastcouple of weeks. Finally we saw a
little bit of uh lineup change asBregman comes out of the four hole,
goes into the two hole. RdOn hits three, tuck or four.
Joe's bought it. The skipper ofthe Houston Astros spoke about the loss and

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some of those lineup changes after thegame last night. We'll hear that audio
and discuss it next right here onThe Seawan Salisbury Show. Back to ithwn
pring you on juice, bring thejuice, Let's go. The Sean Salisbury
Show continues most definitely on Sports Talkseven ninety. Yeah, quite a bit.
I don't like it. Yeah.I also got the NFL Draft tonight.

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Seven one three, two one twofive, seven ninety is the number
to join this morning. Let's talkto Brandon Tripley. Gonna need a little
help. Hang on, real holdon, Brandon, hold on, hold
on, Go ahead, Tripley,Brandon, good morning. Sorry, I
was I was gonna do the dishes, but I can write, No,

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we're not doing the dishes at sixpoint thirty this morning, Brandon. Let's
let's hold off on that. Puthim innute, put it just put him
in a dishwasher yet, great questionfor you. Okay, I will watch
the draft tonight. What time isit on seven o'clock? Okay? Do

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you know what is it? ESPNor the NFL network? Right? Yeah,
both depends on what crew you like. Probably NFL Network over ESPN.
Okay, and now a question,yeah, the boy, the three they
do need to avoid the sweet Brandon, and let's hope they do, my

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friends, we do need a scorefirst, yes, we sure do,
and and often that would be nice. So you stay out of having to
drive runners in in scoring position whenyou're in a close game, because right
now that's not their strength. Yep. Hopefully they'll get that win today,
buddy. Okay, pressure all right, Brandon, thank you, have a
good day. Buddy. Brandon's upearly. Start telling mom I'm about to

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do dishes to his mother? Yesually, you know, we get a call
every day doing a dish. That'sguy, you know what, getting things
done. When's the last time youwoke up and did dishes at six thirty.
Uh. Never like when you tooka day off from you know,
a hangnail. The last time,the last time my mother yelled at me
about the dishes, the dishes,it was because I was in trouble.

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Yeah, screaming at me at sixo'clock in the morning to do the dish.
It looks like Brandon just contributing.I like his style. I like
guy too. He's all air.Hey, I'll get those I was gonna
do those dishes. I liked it. That's my man, Yes, he
said, hang on, mom,I got an interview to do. Mom,
I phone make I love it.Oh, I love it. So
let's talk to Steve. Hey,Steve, all right, only for you

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this morning, Steve. Okay,let me start off with AFC. Let's
call it set a give, andI'm going to go through a repertoire.
We changed it to American League.Maybe maybe they need to play in the
AFC. Right now, that's tough. I know what you're thinking. Okay,
So we're gonna go through a repertoire. I already we're gonna go.

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We're gonna do what I figured thisout, a repertoire of movies. And
you know how Larry says, I'llholler. Well, I'm a holler back.
I'll holler back. Okay, Soyou're a holler back guy. Ain't
no hall of back guy. Thatcut? You know that cut, don't
you see? That's get the wordof Okay. So Eddie Murphy said,
what, Victor, I'm back,And of course Arnold said I'll be back,

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and of course Jack Nichols said saidI'm back. But also you said
it the other day, Mortarmer,we're back, okay, and you named
those movies coming to America. Butokay. So I was looking I had
a vision on an endiagram. NowI know Brian and Triple may not understand
what the niagram that's. I assumethat that Sean does because he's real anal,

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you know, he's real smart.And and it's eight nine to one,
and it's it's not one, twothree, it's two, three,
four, five, six, sevenand eight and one. I said,
eight nine to one. There's myanswer. God gave me the answer,
I guess. So I was thinking, well, they're not going to change
Altuve, so he's at one,like you said, well that means to
me, I think that and youall think this is a downgrade. I

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think Brightman needs to be at nine. He walks, and I want I
want h two at Pina and Iwant Dubon at eight. So now I'll
get my wish. I wanted thosetwo before l TWOV. So really you
just have to wait eight, youknow, eight eight batters. Anyways,
I concurred, you, concur you. I concur with Sean On on the

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players that should play and Dave thatmovie and what else was I going to
say? Okay, so now we'regoing to go to Moneyball, Okay one
O nine two, that's three sixtyfour. We're going to get him in
the cumulative and of course Roy Hobbs. You know, we need Roy Hobbs
because right now we're in a roya natural movie. Right now we're in
it. We're all negative and weneed to change. That's a day because

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Roy Hobbs, whoever that Roy Hobbsis going to be, that is coming
to play and they're going to getthe belief and they're gonna they're gonna start
winning. I think because this guySpencer okay four runs, I think he
got a stud there. You know. Now, it's just a matter of
the biggest problem we have, andyou know it. Brian and Sean and
Tripoli is we're at the lob wherewe should be at the RBIs And I

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think once they start hitting like RoyHobbs, the belief level comes back and
we're off to the races. I'llhang up and listen to all this.
Appreciate it. Steve. You cangive me wonder Boy if you can give
me Roy Hobbs. Huh and onestadium. I think that that movie was
filmed in Buffalo, that old stadiumin Buffalo. I would think that if

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we can knock the lights out thathigh, things will go turn around.
As Steve said, that'd be great. I don't one thing I don't think
is ever gonna happen. I knowwhat Steve's talking about. I don't think
you're ever gonna see Bregman in thenine hole that I don't think the team
would have the actual nerve to wantto do that put him there, if
that's what it takes. But Iget the thought process, but I don't

(27:00):
think you're ever going to do it. They're not there. They're not.
If Bregman ever went back, itwouldn't be anything deeper than what the six
hole. He's not. He's notgoing back, but I understand his thought
process for the at A lot ofgood movie references by Steve for the Astros
Bregman will never come out of thetwo three four hole. Ever, Joe's
bottle will never move if you shouldeven if you should. I yeah,

(27:22):
yeah, no, I get you. But Joe Spott ain't doing that.
Let's be real here, it's nothappening that. Amma, give me one
man, you don't want to doit. No. Steve was up early
with the movie references because you youknow half those you don't never even see
what's the uh what's moms uh uhtrading places? That's ry trading place.

(27:44):
Not not coming to America? Thatwas that. That was Randa Lawson,
right, that's the Eddie Murphy ArsenioHall coming to America. Good movie.
Remember Randy Watson rand Have you seenthat movie? I remember Bubba Watson Loss.
And you don't remember that part?Do you? Come on, dude?
Best part of the movie Astros Lost. Not say that. Just a

(28:12):
real deep dive right there. That'scome on, man, We're made for
deep dives around here. You knowthat one for ten with runners in scoring
position? Oh my goodness, Well, what was the final score four to
what the three? You know whythey lost? Right, Dusty's fault.

(28:37):
That's someone probably fault. It isbecause you know what, if Dusty would
have been here, they would havewhat lost? They would have won or
lost four to two. Yeah,it's Dusty's fault. You know another thing
to be I had an epiphany lastnight. Spell it. Use it in
a sentence. E E H Ip A y epiphany E P I p

(28:59):
h A n Y. Yeah Ihad I was right. I was on
the right. You did epiphany?Yeah? Yeah, had a right except
for the end. Okay, sohe didn't have a right. Jack easterbe
Jeff Bagwell? Same whoa clip it, post it paste it. You heard
it here first man say it againto the people that he was out at

(29:23):
the golf for me? You wereat yesterday? Who Jackson, Jackson Easter
me or Jeff Bagwell, Jeff Bagwell. I didn't see him. You would
have saw if if Jack Eastbury wouldhave been at that golf turment, you
would have saw his front bump fromlike the eighteenth green helicopter out there.
Might have been I might have beenTillman's don't know I was Tilman out there
yesterday. I can got there,you know, because after our show Rush
it started eleven a little after eleven, and you know, I saw the
Dan Pastorini and it's the Brothers inArms with Andrea Ware, Evince Young and

(29:47):
Warren Moon and it's a great eventand it was phenomenal, great food.
My team is I'll talk at sevenfifteen dedication on the steakout today to one
of the great golf teams and dudesI've ever played with in a tournament.
And they were really good too though. We had a blast, and Warren,
thank you, and to to theBrothers in Arms and everybody, Patty,
the whole group. You guys ranan incredible event and h and Warren

(30:11):
has always did it with class andwith Andrea and and and Vince Young.
It just was awesome, saying yousaw some new school, some old school,
some great you know, Sterling Sharpwas there, Eric Dickerson was there,
a lot of Warren's friends and alot of great local athletes. Calvin
Murphy, the group was there andit was a fun watch or Rudy,
Tom Johnovitch. So it was itwas awesome to watch. The NBA part

(30:33):
of Yeah, a lot of goodconversation run very well. They raised.
Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, it was a fazzio course out at
Carlton Woods, and our caddy wasphenomenal. What a great kid. He
must have ran fifteen miles yesterday,not to chase the other guy's balls,
but to find ours, and itwas like a hawk. He couldn't do.
He did lose a ball. Whatdo you got the he's beating the
ball down before it hits the ground. That's how good he was. I

(30:56):
said, how good he was agolfer, goes pretty good scratch golfers.
Oh to scratch golfer. Huh asour caddy, he should have hit with
us. But my group, I'llgive him a little dedication at seven to
fifteen Warren and andre and and Vince. Hell of a job and all the
great people that were there, h'allbreak off the caddy. He had a
good day. Bet he had agood day. Yeah, and he deserved
it, every bit of it.Let's let's hear from Joe a spot.

(31:18):
We got some audio of him discussingthe struggles with runners in scoring position.
That's next on Sports Talk seven ninetyThe Shawn Salisbury Show with Sean Salisbury and
Brian Lima on Sports Talk seven ninety, Draft reports, expert analysis, and

(31:40):
some special guests along the way thatis tomorrow night, starting at six o'clock
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Joe Spot has spoke to the media
after the game in regards to runnersin scoring position, and this is what
Joe A. Spot of the managerhad to say. You know, we
we got we're getting people in basewe just have n't able to you know,

(32:00):
just like just like that ball likecarry Tina hit. You know,
we hit it right at some oneor somebody makes a great play or they
say dive and played. But hey, that's baseball. We gotta fight through
it. You know. We wewere in the same spot. We can
make place. They trying to makeplace. We're trying to win games.
They trying to win games. Sowe just gotta keep grinding. Just gotta
keep grinding. One for ten withrunners in the scoring position, said a

(32:27):
couple of times this morning. Obviouslythings are not getting done, so grinding
through it, I understand, butjust get it done, man, something
something's got to give. Hopefully eventuallyseven seven Dominant. Good morning, Hey,
good morning, Brian, good morning, Sean. I got two things,
One with the Strolls, one withthe Texas uh, but not football

(32:49):
related kind of facility related as faras the Strows is concerned. I listened
to the program yesterday with Dana Brownwas on there, and I honestly was
like rolling my eyes. He hasno and I'm not bashing him or anything
like that, he just has noanswers. Sean was asking him pinpoint tough
questions that the fan base wants answersto us some type of clarity, to

(33:10):
to see what he has to sayand see if he has a plan,
if the organization has a plan,and he has zero answers other than well,
he said the previous week, asfar as he trusts his experience for
thirty plus years in the game,he trust the back of the baseball card
for certain types of players. Andat the end and when and oh,
he brought up I guess that thecertain players on this roster have played ninety

(33:34):
seven x amount of postseason games.That's almost like a whole equivalent to a
whole other season or something of thatform, which means absolutely nothing to those
of us who go out, suchas myself season ticket holder, pay our
money to support this organization and thisteam they have been doing so when they
were god awful and when they weregod awful versus also when they were winning.

(33:57):
And so now it's like they're notgod awful, but they're not even
average. And I heard you,I heard Sean say that, you know,
just just a average baseball team.They're not even average. They have
about two of it. They haveBreakman, they have these names and whatnot,
but they're not living up to thebuild. And let's be honest,
those names are old and Bregman probablywon't be here next year. So as
far as the general managers concerned,in my opinion, honestly and truly,
I'm already tired of him because hehad zero answers whatsoever. Bryant said,

(34:22):
he made the comment about Jeff Bagwell, great player, but get the hell
out the office. Man, youhave no business making having your input saying
anything on what's going on as faras baseball person that O is baseball related.
And so I don't think that theyare average anymore. I don't think
that they're good anymore. I think, honestly and truly, we can't even
say that still early. We saidit was early last week and the week

(34:44):
before. If you're a good baseballteam, if you're a really good baseball
team, are you going to getdon't get swept the first twenty games,
the first twenty and twenty five gamesin three or four series. No,
you're not. And the Rangers arenot gonna stay where they are, and
the Marriagers are not going the statewhere they are. And look the hole
and behold look the Angels. They'rethey're playing good baseball and they seem to

(35:06):
be rocking and rolling. So Idon't think there is early no more.
I just think that the general managerdoesn't have a clue on how how to
fix this thing. And I don'tthink that Joe Spotter knows how to press
the right button as far as theTexans is concerned. A couple of weeks
ago, shun the McNair's. Theywent all around the city doing local interviews

(35:27):
about, you know, the upcomingevents with the team and whatnot. And
one thing that stood out to methat the mcnaire said, and that was
they was I think it was Foxtwenty sixth and maybe it was Channel two,
I'm not really sure, to askthe question about the dome. And
they asked the question about the expectancyor the how much longer they're going to
be at reliant pretty much and notin those words, but that's where the
question was going. And Kles saidback and said, where the at least

(35:50):
ends in twenty thirty or twenty thirtyone, and the Texas Organization is our
and the Houston Livestar show on Rodeohave I already started, you know in
discussions of out what's next? Sean, what do you think is what's next
as far as the facility, asfar as the Texas are going to want
a new stadium after the World CupLeagues comes and goes at twenty twenty six,
I believe they're gonna want a newstadium. So what do you think

(36:13):
is the likelihood of them staying andrely at part or they're moving to someplace
else in the city. And I'llhang up and listen. Thanks dominic I
personally, and it's just from aguy who's lived ten years in Houston.
I if you have a chance ata new facility, depending on where it
is, and make it where obviouslysuper Bowls want to come, which they

(36:35):
want to come here, but whereit's located. This may hurt people's feelings
is not conducive to fun around thestadium. There's no there's really if it's
not a good tailgate, you gotto get in your car in drive.
That's horrible. And I think it'sa difficult entryway, not from the freeway,
but other places, and maybe allstadiums are. I've been done enough
of them where it's like we couldsay it about anywhere. I personally,
if the opportunity present self, I'dlove to see him build a new facility.

(36:58):
I would in a different at anarea where it's like we talked about
a love minute made park and nowat Jim Crane's do to start to make
it feel like Fenway Park or Atlantaor Wrigleyfield or Saint Louis where when you
go it's an all day affair.It's not just go to the ballgame,
because even around the ballpark do andyou know this, around the ballpark there
was nothing to do. It's nota great fan friendly, spind all day

(37:21):
type of thing, but so youneed that's also for a football stadium.
Tailgating is awesome and I know thatsometimes like it in Arlington, but look
what Arlington's done. They got allthat bar area right around there. What
is it Dallas Live or whatever itis Texans Live where. I think you
need that type of Atlanta Arlington Founderyright Atlanta and so listen. I don't
think it's a great place for astadium. I think the facility's nice,

(37:45):
and it's obviously a Houston and allthe great people here attract super Bowls here.
But I think you could even makeit more of an all day affair
that's not just tailgating on the stadiumgrounds, but bars around it. I
think that's fine for people that can'tget there and get a spot at tailgating.
You want to have a place togo, and I think nowadays you
build stadiums and places to where ifpeople don't want to go in the game,

(38:07):
they can still watch it and feellike they are part of the game
at a bar or something. Ithink it'd be great to have a better
entertainment area. I think that areait's nice with the stadium, but I
don't think the surrounding area is conduciveto great want to hang out around the
steaum. You're going everywhere else inHouston, not around the stadium unless you're
on the grounds. I would doit if the opportunity financially presents itself.

(38:29):
Yeah, that area is not thebest. Put it to you that way.
Well, there's just nothing to do. If you're not Tailgaton, What
are you driving over to the stadiumto hang out at a bar or anything
around there on non football day games? No, right, there's nothing to
do to me. That's what itis. A massive parking lot and then
the rotting astronhilm. If Atlanta's baseballgame, that needs to go. If

(38:50):
Atlanta's baseball game, I'm not.I don't have that. Oh, I
gotta get the history. Just keepit there because we want to remember off
the end of the battery. Thebattery is unbelievable battery. Yeah, where
the area for the brazen I wantto play? Here's what I want.
I want to place that when theteam's not playing and they're out of town,
that I can go eat, havea cold beer and meet friends there.

(39:12):
Listen and if I say, Brian, I'll meet you at a bar.
Let's go to dinner. There's nogame there. Are you going over?
Are you going going to go?I'm talking about you? Are I'm
talking about now here? Yes?I thought you meant the battery, the
battery, But here, You're notso to me, that's like, what's
the There's like paw Pasitos over there? Do you want to go over there?

(39:34):
Yeah? Well but I want togo down there right So for me,
when I'm building it, you wantspace and great parking and a lot
of ways to get in and outof the stadium. I want a place.
It's just like if you build yourown bar, you know what I
want. I want my bar tobe so good. If you said the
food and the drink and the andthe atmosphere is so good that you don't

(39:55):
need games on TV to want togo there. You don't want to go
there just as a there's a familyor a dating experience. And I think
that's what you need because right now, the only reason you're going over there
on game day is for the game. It's not conduced that I'm all for
building a new facility. Yeah,one hundred percent, all in a different
area. I am one all infor it. Seven three, two two

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evening, six pm right here onSports Talk seven ninty seven one three two
one two five seven ninety got thephone line is starting to light up.
Let's start with Will Welcome in.Will Patty Fellas. Hey, can y'all
do me a favor and tell StevenI think was his name, to next
time he calls in. Call backaround seven thirty eight o'clock after I've had

(42:49):
my cup of coffee, because Imean, that guy my brain almost shut
down when he was talking trying tofollow him. That's impressive. Yeah,
Uhi, Steve is a very smartman, and uh, sometimes it's hard
to follow, so I agree.I mean I might need two cups of
coffee to follow that. All right, So I want to talk to you
real quick. That Sean the battingorder man, is spot on. I

(43:13):
mean, Mauricio Dubond would be thebest nine hole hitter in baseball if he
stayed there. Heck, he'd beprobably a six to seven hole hitter on
the other team in baseball or higher. So probably would love to have the
best nine hole baseball. Yeah,agreed, I mean that just that's just
I mean, it's just he's provenhimself. I've been saying this forever now.
The only slippery slope with getting himin the lineup every day is,

(43:36):
oh, if you side to pinchhit singleton for him, well you're gonna
get real creative on your defensive substitution. So that does start a little wrinkle
it. Let me ask you,Jo, who's not going to go play?
Yeah, well, let me askyou about that. And Brian and
I were talking about it off hereand we kind of mentioned on here.
So you got a guy, it'slike a backup quarterback. You get an
opportunity to play time and time again. If the starter's not doing his job,
you eventually take his glove and takeit with you. You don't,

(43:58):
you don't just keep performing this say, you know, back, we only
want you in a role because weneed you maybe to fill in when the
guy's hurt. You get what I'msaying. In this situation gets to the
point I want to play my bestnine And if that's the fact that I
got to give up my Swiss Armyknife, who wants to play every day
and has flat out earned it,I need him for it. That's not
just one in hopes of a pinchhit late. You know what. Unfortunately

(44:20):
it's not exactly like Singleton of Bray. You and Jake Myers are going to
be your best three pinch hitters onthe planet. But oh well, if
I get out enough in front ofpeople with my nine guys in the lineup.
Then with Carottini and Dubon in thereas well, I may not have
to pinch it as much late ingames. Right, So I want to
play my best nine. Screw theSwiss Army Knife thing. If the Swiss

(44:42):
Army Knife is a better player thanthe guy who's starting every day, you
get my point. I am withyou one hundred percent. Dubon would be
the best nine hitter. I couldsee on some teams him hitting one or
two as well. You got tohave him in the lineup, especially when
you're not hitting the ball. There'sno doubt. Absolutely. Man, I
got one more thing for you.I want to know, what do you
think do you think Jordan Travis isgoing to fall to ooh? And you
had that catastrophic injury. But thatguy was a Heisman Trophy contender and I

(45:06):
mean he's got the talent. Sowhere do you see him ending up?
You know, that's a hell ofa question. And what happens is this
the stigma of getting yourself back atit when you have that injury. But
there are some that will look atit and say, overcame it, big
time player. I really don't know, having been a guy who went through
an injury, do you think,well, I'm still getting drafted in this
round, and then you go throughthe entire drafts and not get drafted.

(45:27):
Put it this way, healthy hepresents wherever it is that he gets picked,
it's a bonus and a bargain foryou coming out of this because I
look from the standpoint anybody who overcomesthat has got a great skill set and
can play and has overcome his injuries. It tells me that this is a
fighter, right yeah. And thoseare the type of guys I've seen.

(45:49):
I saw with players that I playedwith, and one in particular, I
watched Dave Wyman, you know,play football, comes in out of Stanford,
had a gruesome injury, come inand was better than guys we'd after
the ahead of him, and endedup starting playing the league a long time.
Those type of guys last, andyou know, with Jordan Trapps,
you've got an opportunity to do that, and with him and the way he

(46:10):
led his team, it's one ofthose mid round picks you say, I
love his potential and a project,and after two or three years you find
out this guy got hurt, thenext guy got hurt, and I'm to
my brock Purdy guy and next thingyou know, the guy's starting for you
can't come out. I love hisleadership, I love his grind, and
it would have been a different storyat the end of the season had he

(46:30):
been in the lineup. It reallywould have the playoff. The playoff teams
might have been different. I thinkI think he's a sneaky geit because they
really needed him, and I thoughthe yeared to year got better. So
when I see guys like that,there's a toughness about them that makes me
want them on my roster. Andhe's a smart football player too, so

(46:50):
I want to He'll probably be whatfourth fifth round? Well, and yeah,
the problem is how where do youthink? How long did w is
durability at the position last? Butyou know what, you get a chance.
You're not expecting a guy like thatto play right away, right,
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(47:15):
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(48:08):
six pm right here on Sports Talkseven ninety seven, one three,
two, two five, seven ninetygot the phone line is starting to light
up. Let's start with Will welcomein, Will Patty Fellas, Hey,
can y'all do me a favor andtell Steven I think was his name to
next time he calls in. Callback around seven thirty eight o'clock after I've

(48:30):
had my cup of coffee, becauseI mean, that guy, my brain
almost shut down when he was talking. Trying to follow him. That's impressive.
Yeah, Uh, Steve is avery smart man, and uh,
sometimes it's hard to follow, soI agree. I mean I might need
two cups of coffee to follow that. Uh all right, so I want

(48:51):
to talk to you real quick.That shun the batting order man is spot
on. I mean, Mauricio Dubondwould be the best nine hole hitter in
baseball. If he stayed there,he'd be probably a six seven hole hitter
on the other team in baseball orhigher. Love to have the best nine
hole baseball. Yeah, agreed,I mean that just that's just I mean,
it's just he's proven himself. I'vebeen saying this forever now. The

(49:14):
only slippery slope with getting him inthe lineup every day is, oh,
if you decide to pinch hit Singletonfor him, oh, you're gonna get
real creative on your defensive substitution.So that does throw a little wrinkle it
He let me ask you to goplay. Yeah, well, let me
ask you about that. And Brianand I were talking about it off air,
and we kind of mentioned on air. So you got a guy,
it's like a backup quarterback. Youget an opportunity to play time and time

(49:35):
again. If the starter's not doinghis job. You eventually take his glove
and take it with you. Youdon't, you don't just keep performing this
say, you know, go back. We only want you in a role
because we need you maybe to fillin when the guy's hurt. You get
what I'm saying. In this situationgets to the point, I want to
play my best nine. And ifthat's the fact that I got to give
up my Swiss Army Knife, whowants to play every day and has flat
out earned it, I need emfor it. That's not just one in

(49:58):
hopes of a pinch hit late,you know what. Unfortunately it's not exactly
like Singleton of Bray. You andand and Jake Myers are going to be
your best three pinch hitters on theplanet. But oh well, if I
get out enough in front of peoplewith my nine guys in the lineup,
then with Carottini and Dubon in thereas well, I may not have to
pinch hit as much late in games. Right, So I want to play

(50:20):
my best nine. Screw the SwissArmy Knife thing. If the Swiss Army
Knife is a better player than theguy who's starting every day, you get
my point. I am with youone hundred percent Dubon would be the best
nine hitter. I could see onsome teams him hitting one or two as
well. You got to have himin the lineup, especially when you're not
hitting the ball. There's no doubt. Absolutely. Man. All right,
I got one more thing for you. I want to know, what do
you think where do you think JordanTravis is going to fall to? And

(50:43):
you had that catastrophic injury, Butthat guy was a Heisman Trophy contender,
and I mean he's got the talent. So where do you see him ending
up? You know, that's ahell of a question call. And what
happens is this the stigma of gettingyourself back at it when you have that
injury. But there are some that'lllook at it and say, overcame it,
big time player. I really don'tknow. Having a bit a guy
who went through an injury, doyou think, well, I'm still getting

(51:05):
drafted in this round and then yougo through the entire drafts and not get
drafted. Put it this way,healthy he presents wherever it is that he
gets picked. It's a bonus anda bargain for you coming out of this.
Because I look from the standpoint anybodywho overcomes that has got a a
great skill set and can play andhas overcome his injuries. It tells me

(51:27):
that this is a fighter, rightYeah, And those are the type of
guys I've seen. I saw withplayers that I played with, and one
in particular, I watched Dave Wyman, you know, play football, comes
in out of Stanford, ahead ofa gruesome injury, come in and was
better than guys we drafted ahead ofhim and ended up starting playing the league
a long time. Those type ofguys last, and you know, with
Jordan Traps, you've got an opportunityto do that. And with him and

(51:51):
the way he led his team,it's one of those mid round picks you
say, I love his potential anda project, and after two or three
years you find out this guy gothurt. The next guy got hurt,
and I'm to my brock Purdy guyand next thing you know, the guy's
starting for you can't come out.I love his leadership, I love his
grind and it would have been adifferent story at the end of the season

(52:12):
had he been in the lineup.It really would have the playoff, the
playoff teams might have been different.I think he's a sneaky geit because they
really needed him, and I thoughthe yeared to year got better. So
when I see guys like that,there's a toughness about them that makes me
want them on my roster. Andhe's a smart football player too, so
I want to he'll probably be whatfourth fifth round? Well, and well,

(52:36):
yeah, the problem is how wheredo you think and how long did
will is? Durability at the positionlasts? But you know what, you
get a change. You're not expectinga guy like that to play right away,
right, Yeah, this is oneof those you wait your time,
and all of a sudden, man, a fourth round draft pick has just
stayed the course in four years intothe league. Our starter left, he
went for bigger money, and nowwe got this guy. And what a

(52:58):
bargain it is. And that's whatyou're looking for mid rounds and maybe a
guy that you could take earlier anda guy who may last even later in
that he needs to throw away pickin the sixth round, which at that
position, what I tell you Ido with that with quarterbacks every year you
take every year every year, andthat's one of those that sixth round pick.
At that point, you're not draftingneed. You're drafting best available.
The kid can play. Yeah,CBS Sports is predicting him to be drafted

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between the third and the fifth round. Right. I would have said my
initial right when he said his name, my thought would have been fourth round,
fifth round pick. Yeah, andmaybe third round. Some may think
it's a bit of a reach,but had he not been hurt or you
know, just fully healthy, Ithink he's a guy. You're not taking
a flyer on him. You're saying, this third round pick who can play?
And I think he can. Ifyou get him in a fifth round,

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I think you get a bargain.Let's talk to Tom before we get
to the stakeout. Tom, welcomein, Thanks man, thanks for taking
my call. Hey, listen,I want to say something about the Astros,
especially off the last two starting pitches, Jakie France and of course Urgetty.
Yes, we got to win thefirst three innings. Guys, look
at our records. We're not winningthe first three innings. I mean they

(54:05):
pitched great. Both of those guyshad good performances. He said that said
this a couple of seasons ago,you know, the first three inning,
said to the table, if youcan get out in the league, if
the starting pitcher has an easier timeto win those first three innings. Most
of the teams that get through thefirst three innings have winning records, and
they have not done that, andI'd like to see that happen. That's

(54:29):
my one wish. This has beenone long season. The month of April.
I will be happy to see itgo this week. Group, let's
start May zero zero and work ourway back up to standings. I'm really
calling about the draft. Today isthe official start for me and my buddies.

(54:50):
We get together every week to watchdetections of our season. We always
get together on Draft Day and wewatch it and we plan out where we're
watching each game each week, whatfood we're eating, what kind of party
we're gonna lay out. We playgolf in the morning, if it's a
late game, where we play attwilight, if it's an early game,
we map it out this week.This year, we're going to Tom's watchball.

(55:14):
Baby. We got a hotel room, we won't have to drive.
We're all off on Friday. We'replaying golf in the morning. We're gonna
have a few talks and Christian thestart of a successful texting season. I
am so so ramped up for thisyear. You know, I'm worried about
the Astros, but when the textingsstart getting their gear at and everything starts

(55:36):
to go, I kind of putit on the side. Hey, man,
appreciate being with you guys and BrianMan, I'm gonna be working on
that clock. That's all we gottado. Baby, Appreciate it. Tom,
thank you for taking me in.Yeah, yes, sir, thank
you. Yeah, we got tobe Chris Thomas, Chris right there.
That's what I'm talking about. Youknow, it's because we make adjustments here
on the Shawn and Stosbury. Sure, you know what I'm saying, Dude,

(55:58):
I saw of that feel you.I know what Tom's coming from.
And I like the fact that theyget that pumped up for football season.
This early drafted draft evokes a lotof emotions. And tonight will be or
what should I say? And maybetonight they may get back in that first
round two second rounds. But I'mgoing to suggest that if they don't believe
after like in the teens to theend of the first round, if they
don't think the guy's a dominant need, you don't try to trade back up

(56:21):
into it. That that second roundpick sometimes in the you know, in
the first fifty picks, sometimes endsup being a first round type player.
It's April. Well, man,it's April. It's the draft too early.
It's April. Baseball season, NBAplayoff season, baseball about the NBA,
just kidding. I watched that Celticsgame yesterday. I watched it.

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They're pretty good. Yeah, theygot beat, but they're still pretty good.
Miami's Miami's got a nasty news overMiami. Yeah, or your hammy,
you know. But Boston. WhatI'm saying is Boston still that's a
tough out. Yeah, tough.It should be them in Denver in the
finals. Well, we'll see,Yeah, we will see. Yeah,
Miami put him on, put iton him last night. So I did
watch entertaining, that's for sure.And to uh Tom and his buddies,

(57:06):
you guys enjoy enjoy that bar sceneand fun on draft and have a blast.
This is an important draft for theTexans on the Yeah, their depth,
oh yeah, I think their cornerback end. We'll we'll get into
it, but yeah, depth isgonna matter. And you're counting on the
third rounder and both second rounders tohelp seven one three, two, five,
seven ninety, got a full boardof calls. We'll get to you
guys next talking Astros as we getto the steak out on Sports Talk seven

(57:29):
to eighty. This is this SeanSalisbury Show. Yes, yes, that's
very nice now with that fresh leatherscent on Sports Talk seven ninety. All
right, Sean, what are youhearing out there now? The Salisbury Steakouts,

(57:52):
Salsbury Takout on the Sean Salisbury Show. It's time for the steak out
here on the Seawan Salisbury Joe,Sean, Bryan and Triple Lee Astros looking
to avoid the sweep. One isthe first pitch noon on Decks Show right
here on seven on your home forAstros Baseball. And they got the NFL
Draft tonight. See if the Texanstrade back in Brian on this steakoup,

(58:12):
Brian on this steakout, And we'llget to our callers quickly. I gotta
think first of all, I said, the Warren Moon and Andre Ware and
Bence Young, the Brothers in Armsgolf tournament out at Carlton Woods, the
facility, Caddie Food. It wasjust off the charts class so thank you
and hopefully they were able to raisea lot of many former current athletes,

(58:34):
you know, the laundry list ofcelebrities at a big time that have in
this Houston area. It was anhonor to be a part of it.
Thank you. In my group.First of all, you know, when
you go into a golf tournament,you think, what kind of group am
I gonna have? Are they gonnabe good guys? Are they gonna be
guys at plumbbob from forty feet youknow as as a forty handicap, you
know that type of thing, andare they gonna be fun and all that?
So you go into it wondering you'regonna have fun anyway, because that's
why you're there, is to raisemoney and enjoy it. But I run

(58:58):
into a bunch of hacks. Coreycan't play, Danny blows, you got
the styles who couldn't hit it ifit was uh well it was sitting on
a tee. And then you knowBubba and Danny, I said, Danny,
Bubba, I got my guy,uh Turbo, I mean my group.

(59:21):
Well, you know when you goon to tourna you think somebody's got
to carry me. And I'm aguy who every shot I hits perfect and
these guys are sitting back and I'mlike, my shoulders are heavy with these
dog on bastards. Can somebody contribute? And we shoot eighteen under par A
lot of it do to me?And these guys just said may, I'm
like, you know, do yourthing. Could you go back work on
your golf game. As a matterof fact, I wanted them to go

(59:43):
to the range, practice range afterthe tournament, like a like a VJ
singer, start grinding. So maybenext time I can actually have some help
on a golf tournament. Now let'sget to the true story. This is
the greatest group I've may have everplayed with. And we shot eighteen under
Paul and although making a few puttsand hitting the decent shot, even when
you hit your best shot and fourof them are forty yards by you,

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you know you're a good group.This listen about three thirty guys hitting at
the Turbo hits it to about sixfeet on a par four. It do
you understand? And we didn't winthe tournament. So in truth to my
guys, Turbo and Styles and Dannyand Corey and Bubba, the greatest group

(01:00:28):
conversation fun. It's about relationships andI gained five new buddies yesterday and had
laughs galore to the point of hardto swing the golf club. And I
was the weak link on this team. Yes, they hit some good shots,
made some putts. These guys hitshots with one hand tied behind their
back in a vodka in the other. Okay, that's how good this group

(01:00:50):
was. Friendships galore. How doyou not win at eighteen hunder par pencil
whip? And the only three thepar threes were the hardest for us,
and they weren't that difficult. Butthe best guys on the planet a lot
of lasts, and you know,they go crazy. You hit a putt
and they have to like carry ontheir shoulders because well, Shawn, you
didn't contribute anymore. You get adrive, say okay, mine's gonna be

(01:01:10):
a good position, and you goby and Turbo's out there, Danting's out
there like forty feet farther. Bubba. So great group, great laughs,
and eighteen hundred par is good enoughto you know, get invited to the
Masters. Okay, I love youguys, Thank you. I don't know
you played. Did you invite atloss than the mail? No, it
did not, just I don't knowyou played golf with the former Houston Rockets

(01:01:30):
mascot Turbo. Now this Turbo,wow can hit it a country? Remember
Turbo? Yes, I know Turbo, but hey, don't bury the league.
The greatest group of laughs and funI'll ever have friendships, forever,
memories and great golfers. Dude.Their shoulders had to be tired carrying a
two hundred and forty five pound dudefor eighteen holes. I had to contribute

(01:01:53):
at least a putter three other thanthat pencil with it didn't matter. After
fellows, thank you, I loveyou guys man, and uh, I
can't wait to do it time andtime again. It's a new traveling group
of buddies and uh, bubba,you don't need to pilot the plane,
okay, you just sit back anddrink with us. Brother A bunch of
goofball bastards and I love every oneof them so good times. Seven.

(01:02:16):
Seven items to get back out tothe phone lines. Alex you up first,
boy, fellas, how's it goingawesome? First of all, Sean,
congratulations on your group shooting eighteen hunderpart. Yeah, you mean congratulations
to me basically, even though Iwasn't the caddy caddy in for a great
group and helping out, which wasthe best caddy on the planet. And

(01:02:37):
he still he still couldn't teach mehow to hit a ball eighty yards to
ten feet. But my group wasoff the charts. Brother. It was
fun to watch and finish in likethird place at eighteen hundred. But I
appreciate it. There you go,Hey, I'm right there with you.
I'm going to go try and playnine holes this afternoon after I get off
the work like it, I mayget right to my point with the lineup

(01:02:58):
last night. I like the wayit looked. The only things that I
would change are this. I wouldput McCormick and left, dubon and center,
and then you've got Victor Karantini,so he's got a two to ninety
batting average with an eight seventeen ops. And you've got uh Diz with a
two eighty six average and at sevento fifty six ops. I would be

(01:03:21):
flopping them at catcher in first baseand that solves your first basement issue and
it puts solid bets regularly in yourlineup. Alex, what time did you
start what time did you start listeningtoday to this show? UH six Okay,
that's the exact lineup that Brian andI said. Two players are missing

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from the every day that the firstbase position needs to be platooned. I
mean the starters in Singleton and toBray you need to come off the bench.
That the everyday player either needs tobe Caratini over there once in a
while, Daz, but the dDubon needs to be in center field,
and Jake Myers needs to be theutility guy. That's exactly, and Dubond
hitting in the nine hole be thebest nine hole hitter in baseball. So
you were on the exact same pageand that's what we came out with.

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If you put that lineup out thereand they can't succeed with that lineup,
then this then this just wasn't meantto be this year. That's the lineup
that should start every day. Absolutely. Yeah, I don't know. I
just I watched that game last nightand it was frustrating to see then score
first and then it just die out. It just all disappeared like something's got

(01:04:30):
to give one way or the other. I mean that you can't do the
same thing day in and day outexpect a different result when it's shown you
the result already the exact definition ofinsanity, brother, And you're exactly right.
So I appreciate it. Fellows Heyhit him, hit him, hit
him straight today, My man,if you if you're a good player,
you'd love to play with the groupI was with yesterday. They were awesome.

(01:04:53):
So thank you. Have fun.Man appreciated, Alex. Talk to
Tang Tang, good morning, Goodmorning guys, thanks for taking my call.
Uh. I agree with the lineupdiscussion y'all are having about swapping Diaz
and quarantin me at first. Butone thing that I've noticed that it's real
frustrating to me is the energy onthe team. I mean, they they

(01:05:15):
just seems like they're moping around,like you know, when Springer was here
and Perey was here, they hada way of firing up the dugout.
They're acting like, uh, Ijust see this give up mentality that that's
what I'm seeing. I don't seea lot of hustle. Uh. You

(01:05:38):
know, I'd like to see himI call it Pete Rose in every play
like hustle down the first base.I just think they're the grit and the
resolve is is missing and I don'twant a dog on a spot of But
I think there's a leadership issue.There's an inability to get these guys mentally

(01:05:59):
for their mentally fired up. UhSo that's that's all I had to say.
I've set three hundred game loss seasons. I'm you know, but but
that part of it is real frustratingto me. That's all I have to
say. Guys, appreciate y'all takingmy call later, Tank, Thank you
Tang leadership and sense of urgency.Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
You are the next contestant on thePrice is Right. You're a showcase winner.

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Yes, everything the Tang said iswhat we've been saying over the last
couple of weeks. Seven five,seven ninety. Phone line still lit up.
We will get to your calls nextas we continue to talking about this
Astros loss. On Sports Talk sevenninety Sean Salisbury, Brian La this is
the Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. When you're asked to get

(01:06:47):
it under a minute, have yourbuilt in time clock, quickness and brevity,
bingo, let's go, Jonathan,You're up first, John the pressure
appreciate you. Yeah, let's seewe all operate under pressure. Jonathan show
us your stuff, dude, letthem hang. Let's do that driving up,
driving up to Dallas. You guysare helping me cut pavement. Thank

(01:07:10):
you very much. It's a littlebit of a different take. I just
want to hear what you guys haveto say, because I totally think you
are right. I'm not disagreeing withplaying devil's advocate. We are not the
coaches, and we do not seewhat goes on at practice. We don't
see what some of these guys thatare struggling are still able to do in
practice in their talent level. AndRyan, you coached, Seawan, you
played and coached, and I coached, and so I just wonder sometimes is

(01:07:30):
that you just kind of know deepdown that that that guy that struggles will
probably give you a better shot percentagewise. That's number one and number two
quite frankly, these guys are paidmillions of dollars to know what they're doing,
and they probably know what everybody iscalling in that doesn't know. And
you talk about all the time,Sean, and so the last little thing
I'll say is that call hang upin here. What you guys have to

(01:07:55):
say that later and listen. Andwe've said a million times. They in
all sports, we're allowed. Everybody'sallowed their opinion. They're experts and they
got hired because they're specialists that justlike somebody is in sales in their job,
or as an engineer and their job. I can have an opinion on
engineering, but I wouldn't know howto put what they do together. Yeah,
it makes sense, but the opinion, And to be honest with you,

(01:08:19):
I don't think the opinion of whatwe said, like about Dubon and
Victor Kartini, I don't think thathas anything to do with practice the game.
I want gamers to me it reeksof these two guys are better at
their position right now and now thespring training's over. In truth, Jonathan,
unlike other sports where you practice inbetween like football for a week,

(01:08:39):
they don't really practice. You comeback in, take a little batting practice
and fielding practice, the hardcore practicesover. They want you off your feet
on the day off, right,So they're not really getting a chance to
compete like you would at a footballpractice. Hey, we got four practices
for the next game. Let's seewhat you do during nine on seven and
team and blitz pick up. Thisis game related. Want spring training's over

(01:09:00):
and performance not potentially related. Soyou're right though they know more than we
do, but it still doesn't meanthat they know more that they're making the
right decision based on what they needto do, because in truth, if
the you don't need analytics to tellyou do bonds an everyday player, you
just don't need analytics to take it'sobvious. I guess analytics the evidence,
the results are showing it, andKeratini's proven right now, and it's okay

(01:09:21):
to adjust and go back. It'snot saying that their failures as players or
a manager for making that decision.So Jonathan, I'm in total agreement with
you, and that's why they getpaid that money to manage them and the
rest of it. But from adistance, and sometimes for us and you,
Jonathan or anybody that calls in here, we look at a different perspective
because we're not in that arena fightingwith them every day, and we may

(01:09:43):
be able to give a different perspective. I know this. We wanted Bregmann
in the two hole, and Yourdanin the three hole, and Tucker in
the four hole, and Diaz inthe five hole, and pain you in
the six hole and I'll be damnednot that they're listening to us and asking
Dane Brown, is there a senseof urgency to change this lineup? He
says, I think you're going tosee some changes. And it happened overnight,
well not even overnight, happened afew hours later, So I think

(01:10:04):
they see it as well. Butthe Dubon Carotina thing, they need more
at that's they're just better right now. It doesn't mean you're tied into it,
and it's a life sentence that abrave's never getting back in the lineup,
But right now, and especially whenyou're in a chase mode, you
got to put your best nine outthere. And I don't think there's any
argument that Kartini and Dubon are betterthan the guys who are running out there
right now. Yeah, they shouldbe playing, Andy, you're up next.

(01:10:28):
What's going on? Pil in practicedoesn't mean nothing if you can't produce
in real games. Yeah, Iwant gamers. I want gamers. Yeah,
me too, that's right. Sothat's yeah, that's yeah. So
real quick, well we we wesaid Dubon should have been McCormack should have
been started the Oh my gosh,Andy, give us a shower back.
We got all kinds of issues overhere, give us a shower back.

(01:10:51):
That voice changed. It was fromit was like for robotic after Wow,
it was like it was like,you know how somebody you know, somebody
when they're like on a movie,the host caller, they did that voice
thing, that talking. Yeah,that was that's crazy. What was going
on? Seven one three? Hewas on the right page of It's pretty

(01:11:12):
easy to see dark. Let's trythis again, Andy, good morning,
Yeah, okay, real quick.I love the lineup. What Sean's saying.
That's what we kind of said atthe beginning year, besides Katrina,
but we knew of break if hestarted off bad. He needs he didn't
even need to be on the ballclub. But here's the thing, Penia
needs a bat second, Reckman needs. You know what needs to happen to

(01:11:34):
break. He needs to be puttinga ninth hole because right now, if
you take, if you take thatlineup that you want to play Sean and
I do too, he is ninthand slugging ninth and ops eighth and on
base percent it's ninth and average andhe's tight for ninth in RBIs to a
guy who has fifty three less atbats than he does. Rekman is the

(01:11:59):
worst hitter on the team. Heneeds the bat night. Maybe some shame
will get his button moving, Butputting him in the second hole is not
the answer, not right now,because he's not producing. Enius Penius has
been the second hole and appreciate Ilike that long sap. I like that

(01:12:19):
long snapper from Betune Cookman in thesixth round. Yeah, that's a great
need pick sany and oh my gosh, let's talk to John John welcome in
god Man. Uh? Who isDana Brown? And Joe spot of listening
to the people that's calling in aboutmoving Bregman in the two hole. Listen

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man. Traditionally the weak hitters,you put him at the bottom of the
lineup Sean what's our boy name thatleft Boston and went over there to the
Dodgers. Uh, Mookie Betts,Guys like that that have a history of
being great hitters if they're struggling,and then you moved him up into two
hole so that they can get somebetter some better pitches. Gregman, I

(01:13:02):
don't care what people say. Youcan run be destats to me. Uh
for Gregman every year. But theproblem is they take him the whole season
to get to those stats. Reregman'sa great defensive player, he is not
a great hitter. Put Gregman downthere around there fifth sixth seven hole,
and if you really want to moveup, let him earn his way back.

(01:13:25):
You see how it worked out lastnight. Oh he'll come, Gregman.
He gets put out. Now wegot one man out. We only
got two more chops to try andtie this game. Or take the lead
man that it don't work. Puthim down there in a fifth sixth hole.
I'm sorry. He ain't even hittingbetter than Chas McCormick. All through
bod Man, Thank you, John. I love I love our I love

(01:13:46):
our guys, passion man, allof them. I do. And the
varying opinions makes for great banter.Told you all ours, our callers are
the best on the planet. Sevenone seven, hy Bill, Good morning,
Good morning, what's happening? What'son your mind? Bill? Fire
us up, baby, Yeah,I love the conversation this morning. I

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got another wrinkle on Dubon. Let'sblame at first base. You're not to
keep myers in the lineup? WhyBill, let me ask you? Let
me ask you, Bill, Bill, Let me ask you a question,
why do you want to keep JakeMyers in the lineup. Hey, he's
a good hitter. He's got threehome runs in what sixty at bats?
He's got a better home run forstance than anyone. And Myers is much

(01:14:31):
better than a Bray who Bray whoshould be off the team? I agree?
So what about what if I couldgive you a Cartini and Dubon in
the lineup at the same time.Oh that's good too, there you go,
Yeah, yeah, that's good.Yeah, definitely. But let me
ask you. Look how gury Lwas at first base when he went from

(01:14:53):
third base to first base, hewas a Gold Glover. I bet Dubon
could be a Gold Glover at firstbase. Thank you for the call.
With Dumont at first base, Keratinistill is a part timer right, Dubon
and centerfield full timer, Caroteni atfirst base and catcher full timer when Diaz
isn't catching, Caroteni at first Diazbehind the plate, and want to on

(01:15:15):
the bench when you want to giveDiaz, arrest d him. Stick yourd
On in left field. Dubond playscenterfield, Carotini plays is catcher, and
then you can then once every fiveor ten days. That's when Singleton and
a bray you get a little bitof run to keep them, keep them.
That's it. They become the guysoff the bench. I need my

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strongest nine there because we don't haveany luxury right now with all the pitching
injuries. This isn't a we're goodman, we're nineteen and four. It's
the other way around with Yeah,that's exactly right. So if you're eighteen
and seven, different ballgame, youhave a little luxury. I'll tell you
what. It may not be desperate, but it better be urgent, desperately

(01:15:58):
significa love. And now, dude, name that name? That cut name
name? Come on, I don'tknow because Western Wednesday it was off tune?
What was it? Whoa stray?Before eight? When am I ever
on? It's a good point.So your off tune is on too,
exactly. So that's the whole pointof our Salisbury show karaoke. Who was

(01:16:19):
the cutmaster? Speak for your Thefact that you don't know is it's just
a shame. It's horrible it andcan you fix that wire before you choke
yourself? Please? Thank you?That was that was go ahead? That
was there you appreciate it. Sowhat what's your who was it? Who
was it? The who was thegreatest country artist of all time? King
George? There you go, Georgestraight, tripley desperately by George Straight,

(01:16:43):
bring it, bring us back.Here's another thing. The reason why I
couldn't. I didn't hear the lyrics. Huh. The way your facial expressions
and the way you were staring atme and tilted your head. Yeah,
man, you like that. Andwith the with the fresh hair cut too,
they sunk, they sunk into thedeep blue green, the deep green
eyes. You my guys, thatare green. Yeah. I went from
out of it. You brought outthe green in my eyes. Why are
you looking at me like that?Just stop it. These cameras are on

(01:17:05):
there gonna say what Gliam it singsand mix facial expressions at Sean and furrows
his brotrong with you. I couldeven hear the cut because I was,
I was, you were you standinto my steely greens, just just mesmerized,
Oh my gosh, yeah lost thatyeah, bricked up. Yeah,
damn right, three damn rights.It'd be perfect if you we would have

(01:17:29):
had men's tea at that point.But that's okay. We got it later
on the show. Damn rights.Yeah, break yourself up dog. Seven
one three, two one two fiveseven ninety Astros fans, what would your
lineup be? Jake Myers or MauricioDubon in center field? Let's talk about
it. Next. The Sean SalisburyShow continues on your game console. Listen

(01:17:49):
to Sports Talk seven ninety on anydevice with our free iHeart radio app.
We're gonna have our seven ninety Draftshow tomorrow night that starts at six o'clock.
Let's gonna be Adam Weser, StandingNorthleet, and Dan Matthews. They're
gonna take you through every pick ofthe second and third round of the draft.
Seven one three, two, onetwo five, seven ninety is the
number to join full board once again. Let's start with Leo. Leo,

(01:18:13):
you want to talk about a slumpbuster? Yeah? Man, uh man,
you know again, I'm I'm anACTUALS fan. No matter what hundred
wins, hundred losses, I don'tcare. It's there's still there's still the
Astros. Uh. But uh,if they come back after that Mexico series,
uh with Colorado and they if theycome out like Gangbusters and and as

(01:18:34):
Spotty starts getting dejected out of gamesfor backing up his players and stuff like
that. Uh, the slum busterstill exists, man. So I think
when they come back from Mexico,I think it's I think it's gonna turn
around. That's just my take.Hey, Leo, you know what I've
noticed, Leo. You know whatI've noticed about you as one of our
great callers and listeners is that youmust have been through a lot of slump

(01:18:58):
busters, because that's your lead everytime. You're a go to slump buster
guy. Man. I mean,look, we've all had some slump busters,
but you know, when your slumpbuster becomes your norm, that's not
really a slump buster anymore. Itmeans you're just like big women. So
your slump busters your biz notch.You know, I love you, baby,
I love you, I love you, honey. Yeah. That's baseball,

(01:19:20):
man, That that's baseball. That'sjust the way baseball is. Plenty.
You can you imagine, though,could you imagine they get on a
roll, Leo, and all ofa sudden they're rolling. They say,
yeah, man, hey, wellwhat was the turnaround? And about five
guys at their press conference say,oh, dude, I went about two
thirty your batting average. No,the size of this girl for a slump
buster. Man, it's carried over. Hey, Leo, Leo, before

(01:19:44):
I let you, Leo, beforeI let you go. Are you ever
out at the ballparks anymore? Foryouth baseball? Are you you kind of
passed that? No, I'm Istill go out and watch them games and
stuff, you know, uh,just to see how things have evolved.
H you know, but but uh, it's not the same as it was.
No, you know, I meanif it's not. And if you
look at if you look at theassholes, the way they're putting things together

(01:20:08):
right now, you know it kindof resembles daddy ball. Yeah, it's
really good comparison. Yeah yeah,yeah, and then and but yeah,
it's just you know, things youjust have involved in, you know,
like you and Sean talking about thecompetitive edge, it's not competitive anymore.
And and uh, I think coachesjust aren't uh being real competitive. And
I remember Ray used to say uhto parents and we used to say it

(01:20:30):
too, and they would get mad. But it's like, you know,
your kid is only half as goodas you think he is. Yep,
that's usually the case. Great,we got to let you go. Man,
You've got a couple more thanks.You know it's crazy too, could
you imagine, Oh that's a tapemeasure job. Yeah, she sure was.
Yeah, man, dude, Leoloving the slump Buster. Let's talk

(01:20:51):
to Roger. Roger, let's keepit, Chris, no golf talk.
We're talking astros. Yeah, Idon't want to hear about Jayalen Green Togain.
The NBA season is over or theRocket season's over. Okay, are
done, We're we're cutting into yourtime. Dog, Let's go exactly what
the hell anyway? So Dubon Dubon, Yes, obviously Dubon needs to be

(01:21:15):
in that a lot more. Dubitchis always good. He's actually playing people
played better on du Bitch. Buthey whatever, Yeah, Dubon needs to
be in the lineup and the onefor ten things. You know, if
you would have had won a coupleof those chances, you know, we
don't ever know now because the spotdoesn't want to see it, and it's
gonna be a shame to see.His spot is hard work. Seven years
of the bench coach, you know, shot shot to hell because you know

(01:21:38):
Jim cran ain't gonna take this he'sgonna he's gonna cut his head off at
the season, all before the endof the season. I don't want that.
But it's just, yeah, he'snot getting the sense of urgency.
Yeah, he mixed the lineup yesterday, but he didn't maximize the lineup.
Yes, he mixed the lineup around, but he did not maximize it.
With the first base open. Youcan have caroy chini and all right,
guys, appreciate your buddy. Iwas a little curious, a little curious

(01:22:03):
about my Roger great stuff, andthen we got a dump. I thought,
did I hear an F? Ithink, well, I don't.
I don't think, right, Idon't just in case. I don't know
if anybody had just listened would haveheard it, but we did. But
I just heard it carefully. Yeah, it started with an F and with
a case between. But we gotit. But here's the comfort level they

(01:22:26):
feel comfortable talking. The overcomfort levelis we hit the dump entirely too often
these days. Oh no, wedon't. We get it just about the
time we need to. Okay,you want to pay two fifty thousand on
a fire, I don't think Ididn't got that kind of scratch. You'll
need a slop buster if yeah,that right, two fifties, so get
it. That was Roger just casuallysnuck in at the You looked at me,

(01:22:51):
and I was looking at you andwas already don't worry. Oh my
gosh. Hey. You know,there's a lot of talk about some of
these lack of offseason moves for theHouston Astros, and the fan base a
little upset with Jeff Bagwell. Well, Jeff Bagwell spoke at that Brother in
Arms golf tournament that Sean played inyesterday. We got the audio. Let's

(01:23:12):
hear what Jeff Bagwell had to sayabout the struggles of these Houston nationals.
Seven one three, two one twofive, seven ninety. We'll keep on
taking your calls as well. Let'sget into the eight o'clock our right here
on Sports Talk seven ninety, kdE Houston, k t V HD two
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(01:23:32):
Talk seven ninety your home for yourhome teams, driven by that classic elite
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(01:23:57):
longtime friend Shawn Salisbury, Ryan LimaLobos. This is the Sean Sells Very
Show. Brown One is tonight Tomorrownight. We're gonna have our seven to
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you through every pick of the secondand third round of the draft that starts
right here at six o'clock. Wasit yesterday? Real quick? Brian?

(01:24:25):
I think it was triple C onTwitter? Reminded us and I don't even
know if we said it in thefirst hour. If we didn't, we
probably we probably should have, butnot a big deal. But he's right.
They moved bregmant of the two hole. How many guys on base yesterday
and runners in the scoring position?We're driven in one? Right, I'll
two ve hit the solo home runwhich nobody's on base, and who drove

(01:24:46):
the run in? Uh? Itwas Alex Bregman Alex. So at least
there was some production, right,Yeah, So that's the one and triple
not triple but triple C on Twitterwas uh, and it's right now Bragman
still got to produce more still waitingon that was RB I six, and

(01:25:08):
still there was still devoid of homeruns at first base and in that third
base right when it comes to thecorner in fillers and can't be can't be
down four nothing, five nothing,or down three or four runs after anyone
got to start to get to apoint where the comfort comes in your lead,
not theirs. On a cold nightin Chicago sounds like a movie or

(01:25:30):
a song. Cold night in Chicagosounds like a song. You know.
Peter Satara though, who Peter Satara? You know that is you'll do.
You'll do some dude, deal ithit the Google machine for yourself. Peter
C. E. T. Er A. Oh yeah, yeah,

(01:25:51):
Peter Satara. Yeah. He wasborn in Chicago. And what's what he
was in Chicago frontman for Chicago AmericanRock in Chicago. Yeah, he left
in nineteen eighty five. There yougo, hmm. Learned something new every
day, sure do. Wow.He's from Chicago and he played in the
band called Chicago. Yeah, that'she was with Chicago. That's It's like

(01:26:15):
you being from Escondido and you playedin on a football team called Escondido.
I played at Orange Glenn High.Escondido was the other high school. Yeah,
a little more. We're busy whippingtheir ass. Okay, Well,
you played with probably a bunch ofbasic white dudes at Orange Glenn High.
Well, I'm not going to denythat, but we we had we had
a little more mixed than just basicwhite dudes at our school. Not Notas

(01:26:41):
No, No, it was SampasSquall. That was the one with all
the money. The third high school, and there's three of them, yep.
Now Valley Center, which is aneighboring city, was really the fourth
high school because a lot of kidswhen they built the high school there,
you know, when they built theywere going to school there, the high
school there instead of Orange Glen orEscondido, Sampa Squall. But so it
was really four but three when Iwas going to high school. A lot

(01:27:03):
of tough times out there, toughtoday. Let me tell you what if
you get through the scow main streets, life, life becomes a little bit
more glorious. Does John, goodmorning? Welcome in, Hey, good
morning, Brian. I wish youknew uh your movies like you halfway know
your music. Me too, John. It's it's the struggle every day,

(01:27:25):
man, yo. You know Seanand I saw Doctor Strangelove and The Godfather
the same night. That was really. Now, that's that's that's a hell
of a that's a hell of amovie duo, right there, brother,
Yes, sir, it is.It is very great. But hey,
I don't, for the life ofme, don't understand why we keep trotting
Jake Myers out there. Thank you, thank you. John had enough,

(01:27:47):
he's had enough body of work.I mean, he's not gonna make it.
He's not. And I agree withyou totally that Dubond needs to be
in center field. He plays itjust as good as centerfield as Jake Myers,
if not better. But I meanhe certainly hits better, and he's
more consistent. There's more productivity.And I do like the idea of Quarantini.

(01:28:08):
And I h I don't know whatwhat's been going on with Trey Cabbage.
I mean, you know, supposedlyhe hits the ball a ton.
I don't know how he's doing inthe miners, but why not give him
a chance to at first? Wegot nothing to lose, really, And
uh, finally, I hope theAstros don't face Trevor Bauer when they go
down to Mexico. Oh, he'sgonna ride down. Appreciate it. On
John had to get that in there. The cabbage sting is the cabbage staing

(01:28:30):
is. We need him to bea carnivore, not a herbivore. See
what I did there? Because herbivoreeat nothing about right? Yeah, because
tray cabbage. I'll tell you whatI am. So seventh grade, did
you see what Loper Fiedo did lastnight? Lopo, I did not.
You're gonna tell me homeward homeward Oncehe drove in three, he hit two

(01:28:53):
more home runs, one of thembeing four hundred and fifty seven foot tape
measure job, and then he hitanother one four hundred and twenty seven feet.
He was uh, let's see,they were going into the eighth inning.
He was three for four, twobombs. Do you see him before
after the All Star break? God, what's your prediction? The problem is

(01:29:15):
his strikeout numbers are up. Well, that's welcome to the Major League Baseball,
and that what we all we wantnowadays. Franchise, yes, strikeouts
and home runs. Stanton's made abouteight billion dollars doing that. Let's see.
And I believe low Brafietal probably putshis bat on the ball a little
more than he strikes out at aclip of thirty seven. He's got thirty
two k's and eighty five at bats. Do that simple strikeout, ground out?

(01:29:39):
What's the difference. He's got twelveThey tell me he's got twelve bombs,
And dude, they're not he gettinghe doesn't not getting cheated on him.
They're just basically going over. Theyget an extra player for the city
for the trip to Mexico? Whynot bring him up? Don't you think
they'll be Would you rather have highout to would you rather have an extra
pitcher, maybe one of each togo there with the outitude? You ask

(01:30:00):
them pictures, man, maybe JoeyLoper? They need an extra picture as
much as the ball is gonna fly. Yeah, Well, and then how
four fifty seven? You know whatthat that that translations? That's about five
hundred foot home run there. Nicejob, Lopo seven thousand feet above sea
level. Man. Oh yeah.We went from John talking to just getting
a little punch in about Trevor Bauerto your favorite caller of all time?

(01:30:25):
You ready? I love Gilbert sevenone three two one two five seven ninety
gil Good morning, what's going on, guys, what's up? So I
was listening to the astros on theradio because I was on the road,
and I actually turned it off anddidn't find out today to they lost till
this morning. That's how. That'show disgusted it I have. But him,

(01:30:45):
it's it's man. Was there fourruns in the first in? And
that's correct? Yes, sir,yeah, yeah, as soon as I
started listening out, I mean,I did just turn it off. And
when I woke up this morning,damn they lost again. But anyway,
I wanted to talk about it.Excuse me. You don't know who Peter
is? Oh, Peter Satara yourbuddy there? I know that was him.

(01:31:12):
You'll have a name. Okay,I hate to say it, but
I forgot your name. Hold onno, no, no, no no.
I say it literally, no nono, I literally say it.
Every time we come back from commercialbreak, I say it. Do you
know you got selective hearing? Gil? No? Really, I don't give

(01:31:33):
a damn. Sean's Sean's sixty nine? Whoa I'm not that's Do you remember
our our third cohort here on theshow, Ziggy Piggy Gil. I love
to call Mal, but we gottago see you later. Are you freaking

(01:31:54):
kidding me? Oh, that's goodto talk to you. Sidekick. I
love that called tripley ziggy, Sotriple I'm sidekick or little buddy. No,
just sidekick and TRIPLEY is known asziggy. I could I could make
that work. If you want itto the old buddy or sidekick, you

(01:32:15):
can't call it. And if youdon't know, if you don't know the
names of the team, you can't. I can't. I can't give you
your minute. Is that what you'resaying? KD E Houston, k t
D h D two Houston, aniHeart radio station. How about the Masters
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(01:32:40):
car buying experience. Salsbury, Olbury, Houston. Okay, let's do this.
Sean Salisbury to usc Truth, longtimefriend, Shawn Salisbury, Bryan Lima,
go Lobo. This is the SeanSells Very Show. I think it

(01:33:05):
was Triple C on Twitter reminded usand I don't even know if we said
it in the first hour. Ifwe didn't, we probably we probably should
have, but not a big deal. But he's they moved bragmant of the
two hole. How many guys onbase yesterday and runners the scoring position were
driven in? One? Right,I'll two a hit the solo home run

(01:33:26):
which nobody's on base, and whodrove the run in? Uh? It
was Alex Bregman. Alex. Soat least there was some production, right,
So that's the one. And triplenot triple E but triple C on
Twitter was uh, and it's rightnow Bragman still got to produce more still
waiting on that was RB I sixand still there was still devoid of home

(01:33:50):
runs at first base and in thatthird base right when it comes to the
corner and fillers and can't be can'tbe down four nothing, five nothing,
or down three or four runs afteranyone got to start to get to a
point where the comfort comes in yourlead, not theirs. On a cold
night in Chicago sounds like a movieor a song. Cold night in Chicago

(01:34:12):
sounds like a song. You know, Peter Satara though, who Peter Satara?
You know that is you'll do.You'll do some dude, deal it
hit the Google machine for yourself.Peter C. E. T E R
A oh yeah, yeah, PeterSatara. Yeah, he was born in

(01:34:34):
Chicago, and what's what he wasin Chicago frontman for Chicago American rock band
Chicago. Yeah, he left innineteen eighty five. There you go,
hm hm, learn something new everyday, sure do. Wow, he's
from Chicago and he played in theband called Chicago. Yeah, that's like

(01:34:55):
it was with Chicago. That's it'slike you being from Escondido and you played
in on a football ta called Escondido. I played at Orange Glenn High.
Escondido was the other high school.Yeah, a little more we're busy whipping
their ass. Okay, Well youplayed with probably a bunch of basic white
dudes at Orange Glen High. Well, I'm not going to deny that,
but we we had we had alittle more mixed than just basic white dudes

(01:35:18):
at our school. Not not no, no. It was Sampa Squall.
That was the one with all themoney. The third high school, and
there's three of them, yep.Now, Valley Center, which is a
neighboring city, was really the fourthhigh school because a lot of kids when
they built the high school there,you know, when it built, they
were going to school there the highschool there instead of Orange Glen or Escondida

(01:35:41):
or Sampa squall. But so itwas really four but three when I was
going to high school. A lotof tough times out there to to Hey,
let me tell you what, ifyou get through the ESCO main streets,
life, life becomes a little bitmore glorious, does John? Good
morning? Welcome in, Hey,good morning, Brian. I wish you
knew uh your movies like you halfwayknow your music. Me too, John.

(01:36:03):
It's it's the struggle every day manyyou know, Sean and I saw
Doctor Strangelove and The Godfather the samenight. That was really Now that that's
a hell of a that's a hellof a movie duel, right there,
brother, Yes, sir, itis. It is very great. But
hey, I don't, for thelife of me, don't understand why we

(01:36:24):
keep trotting Jake Myers out there.Thank you, Thank you. John had
enough, he's had enough body ofwork. I mean, he's not gonna
make it. He's not. AndI agree with you totally that Dubond needs
to be in center field. Heplays it just as good as center field
as Jake Myers, if not better. But I mean he certainly hits better
and he's more consistent, there's moreproductivity, and I do like the idea

(01:36:46):
of quaranteeny and I uh, Idon't know what what's been going on with
Trey Cabbage. I mean, youknow, supposedly he hits the ball a
ton. I don't know how he'sdoing in the miners, but why not
give him a chance to at first? I mean, we got nothing to
lose, really, and uh,finally, I hope the Ashers do on
face Trevor Bauer when they go downto Mexico. Oh, he's gonna ride
that. Appreciate it on John.And to get that in there. The

(01:37:09):
cabbage stag is the cabbage steak is. We need him to be a carnivore,
not a herbivore. See what Idid there, because herbivore eat nothing
about is right? Yeah, tradecabbage, I'll tell you what I am.
So seventh grade, did you seewhat lower Fido did last night?
Lopo, I did not. You'regonna tell me homeward homeward. Once he

(01:37:31):
drove in three, he hit twomore home runs, one of them being
four hundred and fifty seven foot tapemeasure job, and then he hit another
one four hundred and twenty seven feet. He was uh, let's see,
they were going into the eighth inning, he was three for four, two
bombs. Do you see him beforeafter the All Star break? God,

(01:37:54):
what's your prediction? The problem ishis strikeout numbers are up. Well,
that's welcome to the Made League Baseballand that what we all we want nowadays.
Franchise, Yes, strikeouts and homeruns. Stanton's made about eight billion
dollars doing that. Let's see,and I believe low Perfido probably puts his
bat on the ball a little morethan strike out at a clip of thirty

(01:38:15):
seven percent. He's got thirty twok's and eighty five at bats. Do
that simple strikeout, ground out,what's the difference? He got twelve They
take me out, he's got twelvebombs, and dude, they're not he
getting he doesn't not getting cheated on, just basically going over. They get
an extra player for the city forthe trip to Mexico? Why why not
bring him up? Don't you thinkthey'll be hot? Thing? Would you
rather have high outitude? Would yourather have an extra pitcher, maybe one

(01:38:39):
of each, to go there withthe out dude? Because you need an
extra pictures man even Joey. Theyneeded extra picture as much as the ball
is gonna fly there. Well,and then how four fifty seven? You
know what that that that translation that'sabout five hundred foot home run there.
Nice job, Lopo seven thousand feetabove sea level. Man. Oh yeah.

(01:39:00):
We went from John talking to justgetting a little punching about Trevor Bauer
to your favorite caller of all time. You ready? I love Gilbert seven
one three two one two five sevenninety gil Good morning. What's going on?
Guys? What's up? So?I was listening to the astros on
the radio because I was on theroad, and I actually turned it off

(01:39:21):
and didn't find out today today losttill this morning. That's how. That's
how disgusted it. I haven't buthim. It's it's man, what was
there four runs in the first inand that's correct? Yes, sir,
yeah, yeah. As soon asI started listening out, I mean,
I do there just to turn itoff. And when I woke up this
morning, damn they lost again.But anyway, I wanted to talk about

(01:39:41):
it. Excuse me, you don'tknow who Peter Satara is? Who Peter
sat your buddy there? I knowthat was him. You have a name.
I can't. I hate to sayit, but I forgot your day.
Hold on no, no, no, no no. I say it

(01:40:02):
literally, no no no, Iliterally say it. Every time we come
back from commercial break, I sayit. Do you know you got selective
hearing? Gil? No, Idon't give a damn. Sean's Sean's sixty
nine? Whoa, I'm not that'sDo you remember our our third cohort here

(01:40:24):
on the show, Higgy Piggy Gil? I love to call man, Well,
we gotta go see you later.Are you freaking kidding me? Oh?
That's good to talk to you.Sidekick. I love that he called
triple Ziggy, So triple I'm sidekickor little buddy sidekick and tripley is known

(01:40:49):
as Ziggy. I could I couldmake that work. If you want me
to buddy or sidekick, you can'tcall it. And if you don't know,
if you don't know the names ofthe team, you can't. I
can't. I can't give you yourminute. Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, but I'll give Andy.I'll give Andy his minute because he calls
Victor Karantini for whatever reason, hecalls him Katrina did it again today?

(01:41:10):
Yeah, he does. And doyou notice that Hell it's Katrina. Do
you know that all of our allof our callers now call a bray you
a brave because and it's a verybig trend center. I bet you.
Now. Gil's got to write yourname down. He didn't even know what
he said. He did five.By the way, your body, I'm
not sixty nine clown, I know, but by the way, sixty sixty

(01:41:31):
one, yeah, just turned it. What is Gil? Gil? He's
held sixty two? And I wantto check for a concussion. I want
to an MRI or something, youknow what I mean. We don't get
mr. Share, We sure don't. Framber apparently is going to start in
Mexico City. By the way,I guess that elbow was just perfectly fine.

(01:41:54):
No need for an m R.That's all anymore. That's already thanks
those three stars plan the Colorado Rockies. And you know who their first basement
is in Colorado? Little Buddy inZiggy that's who. The first basement is?
Whose first base? Who's the firstbase? Well, who's first baseman

(01:42:16):
Colorado? Little Buddy? And ZIGGIis whose first baseman? Colorado's Yes,
he lost me triple You know whatI'm saying, yeah, yeah, wants
to explain it. Gil called us, called me understand what was that have
to do with college? I don'tknow who the first basement is, so
I'm just gonna call him a littleblown there. Now I get it.
Okay, yeah, I know.Probably Blackman played first base. No,

(01:42:40):
Brian is playing first base for him? Isn't he the third and first of
thing? Yeah, he's struggling.Well, he was at least about a
week ago. He was not theChris Bryant m v P Chris Brant.
So there'll be a couple of homeruns there. Good, good place to
get healthy. So Fromber is goingto start a game there? Good reportedly.
Yeah, well let's hope. Sothank god, thank god that elbows
Okay, okay, yeah, hopefullywon't linger all year long. Ziggy,

(01:43:03):
how you feeling over there? Man? Me right, guys, you guys
feeling Did Gil hurts your guys feelingsa little bit? No? No,
I'm not heard at all. Sensitive, No, man, I'm good.
I just Ziggy. Since Ziggy andLittle Buddy, it's simply Ziggy's sidekicking Ziggy

(01:43:25):
sounds like a restaurant or something.Oh my god, Oh my gosh,
I will get to you, uhwhen we get back seven one three,
I mean, we're not going anywhere. But then when we returned from commercial
breaks seven one three, two onetwo five seven ninety, we also got
to get to that Jeff Bagwall audio. He talked about the astro struggle.

(01:43:45):
That's next right here, uh withSean, Little Buddy and Ziggy. The
Sean Salisbury Show continues on your Roku. Listen to Sports Talk seven on any
device with our free iHeartRadio app.Or that guy, oh my god,

(01:44:08):
that guy strippers cutter. Do youwant to use in a sentence? Hurry
up and shot me up a lineof blow? Poorche I go on stage
next. Oh yeah, wow,I like it when you go off the
rails. That's not really off therails, that's just real. That's just
cold hoartor Now that's that's where youshould get your information. Urban Dictionary.

(01:44:31):
Okay, but you had five differentdifferent definitions of blow. Three of them
you can't read. One of themis hilarious, the other singing. Okay,
there you go, and that's whatI was referring to. There's also
another definition. Blow can be consideredto irritate or annoy someone miss Jackson is
here today. Damn Son. Sheabout to blow me. You can't say

(01:44:54):
that, but it has to irritateand annoy. So there's a blowing blowing
me. She's irritating me. Sheis that like saying cap correct and for
the bs. Uh huh, Okay, got you? Yeah all right,
I got you? Yeah, Igot you. So singing is what you
were going with? Yes, that'sbeen referred to many times. Okay,
and even Triple he got that.He did. Yeah, he's gospel.

(01:45:17):
Oh but apparently you weren't paying attention. Triple eight. What is he?
What's his name? Ziggy Ziggy?Yeah? Thanksiziggler over there? Have you
met? The sidekick according to Leo, sounds like another according to the world
according to Garp and the sidekick accordingto Leo seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Talking about these astros, let's go to Al on the South

(01:45:40):
Side. Al, welcome in.Hey, what's going on? Guy's great
show? Oh? I'm an hyall question about this this line up?
Oh? I see they put Brigmanin the two hole. It is it's
alarming to see that he's changed inthe line up. And I noticed a
lot of people wanted that bacheon.Let me ask you this, how do

(01:46:02):
you take a man that's supposed tobe your best hitter. You started him
off with analytics saying everybody do ajudge and whoever we know what they got
him, and you put your besthitter out the second lineup saying he get
the most bats and you get thebetter chance with the avaesk and you take

(01:46:24):
the worst hitter. How do youropposed to be quote superstars and he's betting
less than two twenty and you puthim in a two hole where he gets
more bats with analytics in which isbrigmant, and you move your best hitter
how to the two hole? That'salarming to me. That's why I know

(01:46:45):
this game has changed so much.The blue print of this game to Power
at four. I don't know livingdown at Hill. But you take Brigman
and the biggest slump in his careerto me, and you put him in
a two hole and a need ofwill win in a game the way the
Astros have started off, and youchange and put him in a two hole.

(01:47:05):
But I digress from neck shun.What do you think Nick Cazirio,
Because he real sneaky now I givehim his call because last year he took
NFL by storm. What are hegonna do to take I think he gonna
do some crazy, sneaky stuff butwill benefit from it in the end.
And I hang up and get yourtape. Well, first off, I

(01:47:25):
think that with Cassario as far astoday, he won't be doing anything today
unless it's trading up into that slotor trading out of one of those two
picks and getting more picks in thethird round. But crazy, the crazy
could be packaging two or three picksand moving into the first round if you
think it gets you into an areawhere there's a difference maker, whether it's

(01:47:45):
at the back end on the defense, whether it's an offensive lineman or a
you know, another playmaker. Sothat I think that's part of if they
move in there, it'll be forspecific reason. But Belichick in the asked
and now Nick Cassa remember their historyhas been to move out of positions like
they did with the Vikings out ofthe first round and accumulate more assets.

(01:48:08):
We'll see. I think Nick Cassiahas done a fantastic job to answer.
And Brian, it's amazing how somepeople want lineup changes and al doesn't and
then do it. Here Al,here's the reason. I think the question
is why would you do it?I think there's only one reason. We
know who their best hitter is bythe time the season's over. It's not
happening right now, but who it'sAlvarez is that valuable asset. But right

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now he's not producing in a run, driving in runs. So the simple
route was to just flip the twoand get Bregman too, and moving Bregman
up. And I know people sayshould be hitting late in the order,
and I don't argue that, buthis eye is so good. Maybe it
kick starts him and it changes hisshifts, his paradigms on his approach,

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not flying open, staying there andstaying off the week pop up and driving
balls and then getting table setters forJordon Alvage. It's just whether it's permanent
or not. The two in thefour hole aren't doing what they normally do
in run scoring situations, runners inscoring positions, so they just flipped them
to see if that can generate theyneed something. They didn't take them out

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of the line if they just slippedthemselves. I'm not alarmed by the flip.
We needed a change. Bregman shouldnot be in the four hole,
and I'd rather see him in thetwo hole and see what happens, and
I can move him out of theretoo. And Jordon, while your best
hitter normally in the three hole,what I say to four hole, You
didn't flip them. You took Tuckerin the four hole. Jordon's in the
three hole in Bregman. What Imeant by flip them has moved them out
of their current spots. I loveTucker in the four hole. I can

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live with forever. Jordan's just oneguy behind is the three guy. He's
gonna get. He's gonna get plentyof at bats. So I think it
was just a shift in. Theyneeded a change, and right now that
was the place to do it,because neither are doing what they normally do.
You don't have to you don't haveto live there forever. But I
actually think the lineup change, meaningthe batting or change, was needed.

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And I don't think that's alarming.Alarming Alarming right now for me, al
is the way the lack of productionwith runners in scoring position. Although Bregman
finally drove in that run yesterday,that's the alarming part one for ten.
Yeah, one for ten, butthat's been constant for them in all years.
That's a full trend yep. Brandon, good morning, Hey, good
morning man, you'll good morning Brianmorn Soon. I love the show man.
Uh No, just I mean,like everybody else, kind of frustrated.

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We listen to the interview you guysdid with Dana Brown his today and
obviously those changes. You know,standard is of yesterday to agree with the
lineup changes too. You're saying,I think that the Bregman or two hole
definitely your bound back to the floorpast Gift. We all know the first
base spot is weak, and Ihope love perfume that we see him sooner
than than later. Even there andthere that Rob you were talking about the

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thirty seven percent strikeout clip there too, but you know, put the ball
in play and matching homers will seeif you can get makes league pitching.
But I think he's a long termsolution at first base. And I will
be just pointing, you know,down there too, because you've got some
guys on the farm on the capt'sgot a nine to twenty six ops.
You've got fortunately came up just hada kind of like a little cup of
coffee that that makes a bible gotsent down when Barl Lander came back.
So and they're gonna start thinking aboutthe future of this club, Sean,

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like who's going to be the foundationof it for twenty twenty five? And
then you got to the trade tradedeadline July thirtieth, so obviously you're not
gonna keep everybody. I think bregnantthe contract you're Sean has putting a lot
of pressure on him to get whathe wanted to distraction. I think he's
going to be moved by the tradedeadline, just my prediction to get some
prospects back for the system. Andthe guy you got to start thinking about

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signing, Sean, I think isis Kyle Tucker for the future. I
think that's a big paramount bat inthe lineup too, And I think losing
just causes a lot of frustration.And I think as they go through this
and until something gives and until youput the best, best best guys out
there like Dubon cart and he'd beplaying every day, so illng up in
the listen. But I think alot of us is getting to it mentally,
you know, physically, and whenyou start losing Sean and I've coached

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in the past, it just putsyou in a mental rut and it's hard
to it's hard to climb out ofthat, There's no doubt Bran I I
appreciate Brian and I agreed. Listenand said at the beginning to hear,
I was curious, and Brian andI had the discussion of when you are
in a contract, which is agenerational, wealth changing deal, and he's
already had that. Well, whathis first country was one hundred million the
first team this year, right,so he's already made that. But this

(01:52:08):
is the next one. And youknow what the truth is, this will
be his last big contract to hiscareer more time, a monumental one if
he plays good baseball. Either way, he's going to get paid. But
you know, the difference in twohundred million and three hundred millions a lot.
So Brandon, I agree. Ithink we shrunk and devalued or kind

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of blew it away and didn't talkmuch about the pressure that goes with it.
And the pressure does mount, Idon't care the simple human beings man.
And then when the pressure mounts,it's normal mere mortals to try harder
to do things and start to changethings that have got you where you are.
We've all done it. Now thatthe the one who's living in a

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different stratosphere can do that, overcomethe pressure and go and Bregman's been a
really good player for a long timenow and he will again. But right
now, the struggling, Yes,you start to press because it's not just
the team. Right now, there'sBrian. You have to be thinking about
what you're doing. You do becauseyou know, if it continues at this

(01:53:10):
pace, he's not making he's notgetting eight or nine years and he's not
making three hundred million dollars because he'dbe overpaid. He would be, but
you start to think about the historyand how he's played that you expect him
to come out of it. Butyes, and it's also going to get
to the point you're gonna have tohave a come to Jesus with what's going
on the future about what you're doing, and if the struggle continues, you've

(01:53:32):
got to get something for him becausehe can. He can get you some
assets if you're ten games out andhe's struggling, because he even then he's
gonna make what Brian twenty five million, right right now with this contract twenty
eight point five, because but he'sgonna make it bladed, right. But
he'll make that between that regardless ofwhat happens, because people look at the
potential and pass production and so whetherhe's here or not. But I'd rather

(01:53:56):
get something for him if he werestruggling. Now, if you're in the
lead by four games, go,it CANSWL win the World Series and he'll
be here and you're going to endup losing him maye because he's gonna get
paid bigger money. I'm with you. If you said Bregman or Tucker,
I'll take Tucker if I if Ihad to choose one of the two long
term big money, gimme Tucker.I just think Tucker is a better all
around player right now. I justdo. And so we'll see what the

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Bregman thing. But the struggle isreal when the pressure and I don't want
to hear anybody tell me the pressuredoesn't when his money pressure doesn't. These
players don't think about it, bullcrap. Every single one of them does.
Some rise and some don't. We'retoo early to wonder if Bregman's going
to rise. But we needed tomove him, meaning the franchise needed to
move him to see if you couldkickstart him. Because you are getting to

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the point in the next thirty games, Brian, if this continues, desperation
is going to kick in. Ohyeah, I think we're and they will
be operating from a place of desperationif that happens. We are getting closer
and closer to that. And don'tkid you. If the team's operating from
desperation, what do you think theplayers are going to be doing? Feeling
it shut That's exactly why I askedhow mentally tough they were to Dana Brown
yesterday seven and I will keep takingyour calls in regards to the Houston astros

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Sean, you know who's not playingout of desperation six and one SaberCats houstonsabercats
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of the Cougars. I wouldn't mindhaving some of these rugby dudes from the

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SaberCats Physical athletic, great facility,and it got San Diego coming. There's
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(01:56:06):
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(01:56:30):
good morning. I'm so sad thatI won't be able to see your beautiful
eyes at Cedar Creek this year,but that's okay. I appreciate that,
Aisha, thank you. What Iwant to talk about is somebody called yesterday
and said something about Martin Maldonado,and I know, you know he's gone,
but I actually think there was alot of communication between him and his

(01:56:51):
pictures because if you notice, weget slammed light off the gate every first
inning, every second inning, they'vegot four or five HiT's, like what's
going on? I think Jannerdy isjust great, but I think that vision,
that communication that Maldy had with hispictures is something that we're not talking

(01:57:11):
about, and it's sorely missed inmy opinion, And I kind of want
to know what you guys think,and I'll hang up. Have a wonderful
day. Thank you. Ayisha.She's not the first one Sean to kind
of bring up thinking that the thoughtprocess of Martin Maldonado being missing this clubhouse,
I think from a leadership standpoint,Maldon Maldonado is missed. That's what
we're not not from the plate,but the standpoint behind the intensively was atrocious.

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We know that right, Yes,that Brantley and Dusty Baker combined.
Okay, let me ask you this, if you could have these three situations
changed, we're back. Let's letme throw the what if on you and
people listening. If I told youcould have Dusty, I'm not saying get
rid of Jous, but you getmy points. We'll just play the game
with me for a second. Okay, Baker, Maldonado, Brandtley or Stanic

(01:58:00):
Mayton and nearis you get to chooseone of the three, one of the
three groupings. What are you taking? Give me Stanic, Maton and Therris.
I think you're right now. Iknow you'd love to have Dusty Baker's
leadership and experience right the bat.But the if you had Dusty and Maldolada
back back back, here's the problem. The Madonnada would be playing every day
instead of just being a presence onthe roster and helping Diaz through some of

(01:58:24):
these growing pains that a young playergoes through. And that's normal. And
then Brantley healthy, Brantley hitting inthe lineup, there would be your natural
two hitter, right, that wouldbe your natural two hitter if you needed
him, or but he could hitseven, think it hit six. But
is there's a presence you have tohave at every locker room that wins has
talent and good leadership. This teamright now has talent and we're hoping there's

(01:58:45):
leadership, but we're not sure whothat is right now. Yeah, but
that middle relief thing, that thosearms and gobbling up innings would be nice,
and it would also save not onlypitchers, even though they're not giving
you seven or eight innings anyway startingpitching, it would also save the seven
eight nine guys and maybe it wouldmaximize their production as well. The hitting's
got to get better regardless of allthat. But she is right the leadership

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and Maldonado was was there, unquestionedguy and Brantley right there with him.
He lost three leaders and experienced guys. The production not not a big deal
with the Brantley and I'm talking aboutthe last year or so and Maldonado,
but the ability to calm things downdoes matter. Seven seven y hey zus,

(01:59:29):
good morning, Good morning. Goodmorning, guys. How you doing
to day? We're great, man, what's on your mind? Hey?
Yeah, yeah, man, Acouple of things. Uh, why are
they thinking so much to uh havinga problem the center field? When I
understand the bonn is a prayer,he's a utility prayer. But if you
have an issue at first bathe thathe's really not producing at all. The

(01:59:50):
boss pretty high. Why not youjust stick to the bond and stop mentioned
Lyle McCormick and Jake Myers the centerfield. Another thing, I've watched Ashley
baseball for a long time and I'vepicked up on a few things that U
Chad McCormick is not the smartest guyon the field. He's made mental mistakes
that most people don't see, butI've seen him at For example, when

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we lost that extra in the gamein Atlanta, he got a base hit
and he didn't realize where he hitthe ball. He kind of hit it
in the gap between center field andleft field, and he dropped his first
baby. By the time he realizedI wanted it extended to a double,
the thlub was coming back in.He just smiled after that. GRANDBA push
him a second Dubronc comes in,hits a pair enough. I bought the

(02:00:34):
right field where he touched the third, but at that point there's already two
outs. If he would have huzzledand hey, maybe that the ban hit
Flavau would score him from third baseand that would aborid it the extrangage,
we would have won it four tothree. Little start that I pick up
on. So I'll hang up andlisten to your gods taken have a great

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day. Than He makes a goodpoint, Donny Brown. But here's the
deal, and the point that theheavy point on this is there's always an
if we'd have done something, Ifhe'd done that, if Altuve doesn't get
picked off, if Altuve hits athree run job instead of a solo home
run, if we get more inningsand don't give up early runs. That's
the problem, Brian. The ifsoutweigh the the pluses right now and the

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if on the negative side they justdo. I'm talking about the overall sums.
So Haysus is right. One thingI know, regardless of the gaff
mistake you're talking about, Hasius McCormick'snot the issue I'm taking out of the
show lineup he's staying in regularly.He's an everyday player, but so is
Dubond and in my mind, sois Victor Kartini. That is your best

(02:01:41):
lineup, no matter how you sliceit, Karante, you should be getting
every day reps. People are goingto make mistakes. You can live with
it, especially if they're aggressive mistakes. But it can't continue to do it.
But every single game that they thatthey lose in or even some that
they win in Brian, it's beenhard for them to do everything right that
game, you know what I'm saying, And that happens a lot. You're

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not gonna play perfect baseball or anysport, but it's always something, and
normally the always something was the Astrospulling it off twenty five games in the
always something. This is a verytalented team that isn't very good right now.
Nope, they are not. They'renot get done in the first couple
of innings on the mount. They'renot getting it done with runners in scoring

(02:02:23):
position. They are struggling tremendously andthey're looking to avoid another sweep. All
right, let's get the break.We'll keep talking about these Astro struggles.
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Show. Are you not as atime? And let's just beginning now alcohol
Yeah, cat on Sports Talk sevenninety seven ninety Let's start with Jeff.
Jeff, welcome in. Good morning, guys, Good morning, what's on

(02:04:31):
your mind? I just wanted to, uh give a reminder about two thousand
and five Astro starting out fifteen andthirty and ending up in the World Series.
I don't think it's time to panicjust yet. I don't know when
to hit the panic button. ButI don't think it's just time just yet.

(02:04:53):
Let me ask you this, nopan, no, no, no
panic. I mean it'd be likepanic in four games into an NFL SE
and right a fourth of the waythrough. I don't think you panic at
all. But there are trends thatyou've got to be alarmed. There's got
to be something concerning. And twothousand and five is different than twenty twenty
four. It looks different. Something'smissing. Don't you agree that that's aside

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from injuries I'm talking about at theplate. This team is healthy. Their
everyday players are healthy. They arefully healthy. So the excuse of the
plate, it can't be Yeah,well we're waiting until pitching comes back.
Well, this is the time youelevate. It's like if your right guard
gets hurt in football, then yourdamn backup right guard better come in and
take care of his business. Butthe meaning hitting better cover pitching and vice

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versa, which it has in thepast, it just hasn't this year.
So great talent doesn't equal good teamall the time. This is not a
good team right now. It's ahell of a talented team. So I
don't think panic. But Jeff,if you're not concerned at all, then
you're then I'm watching a different gamethan you are. Oh I'm concerned.
Yeah, but the team in twothousand and five look like a dumpster fire.

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Fifteen to thirty. They looked reallyterrible. I don't see how they
look how this team looks any worsethan that team started out. Well,
I guess what I'm trying to getat is there's still a possibility. There's
still a chance that they can turnthis thing around. Oh yeah, there's
a lot of negativity on Twitter,Facebook, whatever, and I think it's

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a little There is a lot tobe concerned about. Yes, I agree
with that, but there was intwo thousand and five. Also it looked
like an impossibility, right, Oh, no doubt. And Jeff, to
me, listen, one thing Ithink you know, Twitter, Facebook,
social media, if they were twentyfour and one, somebody would be pissed.

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I don't get my the finger onthe pulse doesn't come from Twitter.
It's entertaining, and there's some peoplewho make great points, and just like
anything, there's people who make horsesass points on social media. Jeff,
you make a good point, andI don't think panics. Some may be
panicked, and that's okay too.I don't think the Astros are, but
there better be a sense of urgencyand it's far from being let's fold it
up and go away. But thereare some concerns because the trends here are

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uh, there's more than one badtrend and that's not normally who the Astros
are. And that's part of thereason people are concerned. Just looks different,
different optics, and the performance isshowing that this team is doing stuff
different and the different isn't right rightnow. It's just it's simple. But
yeah, I don't think Jeff,I'm with you. I don't. I
don't think that you need to cashin the season. See us up on

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the phone, go ahead, mattressMac Ishue, that's me, Brian.
I'm good, Mac. How arewe doing? Mac? How are you,
buddy? I'm good. Say.The problem with the Astros is right
now, they can't catch a break, right, they don't be all right?
Mac? You's you've been around herelong time seeing it before. It

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really does just take three or fourgames of clutch hitting to kind of open
up the confidence factor again, right, I mean, they're healthy and getting
pitching healthy. But they're hitting sealthy. Too many good play so you've seen
it over the history of the good, the bad, and the ugly,
So you feel pretty good about thisteam, at least with a little momentum
shift. Like last nine. Inthe first inning, there's two plays that

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would have been extremely difficult, butthey make those two plays are out of
the inning. In the ninth inning, they're rallying and the guy hits the
ball in the third basement. Evermake that incredible play. Otherwise the game's
tied up, so you know they'reobviously in a rough run. All these
pitchers are hurt. Which other teamcould go with one out of the starting

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pitchers none, especially five injured backand that's I think that's a very about
you're talking about five starters. Itwould be starters on most teams as well.
You can't lose five starters and bea great baseball team. It's hard
to do, hard to do.Nobody could a high school team team,
right, and so they're still fightingthen ten or eleven games back. That's

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nothing to the Houston Astros. Ineeded Mac on this morning. We appreciate
your calling back, thank you,But how's everything else going. How's everything
else going better? Everything else isgood? You know I started better on
the Astros yesterday and they got himat UH plus one ten. The boys
in Las Vegas still believe in theAstros, Yes they do. And and
you and I got we got sometalking to you about all that stuff and

(02:09:16):
that that fun Astro stuff and somesome good things hanging on with in the
future. Mac. We appreciate it, and we always appreciate your grind and
joining us. Brother, Thank youfor calling in. I appreciate you.
The best. One thing I cantell you about him, I think he
understands the grind price changes in hisbusiness. And while the guy has been
nothing but sports is my love thathe said to maybe Vegas still likes the

(02:09:39):
Houston Astros dot that much. Howmany teams would be in the situation they're
in right now, injured and struggling, and Vegas still likes them. I
assure you Mac knows about that man. He's been a guy who's seen ugly,
ugly, ugly, some decent teams, and he's seen some really good
teams. There. There is noway on God's green Earth a team with

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this kind of talent plays this wayall year long. Well, if they
do well, then there's a biggerissue. It's deeper seeded than just talent.
It is talent's one thing, theability to start. But you know,
to understand. But that's the oneplace when you talk about the back
of a baseball card, right,and we hate the phrase, but that
is the one place you say.History. History is part of what we

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do in our country and everything wedo. Right, history and even in
your life some things it may havebeen good or bad. The history will
tell in certain things you've been ableto overcome it or whatever. Right,
So that part of it. Wedo have to believe in some history,
especially when the history is that Altuveand Jordan and Bregman that at some point
in time we know who they are. I think the frustration is it hit

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us so quickly in the season.Sometimes it can get lost in translation.
In the middle of a season,Right, you're up five games, You're
okay, that's tied. Then you'reback up to three games down one like
last year. It was fluctuated.I think it's so like you're like,
man, our offense was better goinginto the season. So I'm with I
think we're all with Mattress. Macthere's and it's not even hope. Hope

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is too harsh a word to say, Matt, I hope that we're not
rebuilding. They're not there yet.This door is not closed because we slow
start now. We don't want tobe thirty games from now. You sure
as hell don't want to be havingthe same conversation. So there is a
sense of urgency like there is inany business. Hey, if you go
six months without selling anything in yourbusiness, guess what quarter three you might

(02:11:30):
want to sell something. You knowwhat I'm saying, Whether you're an insurance
I don't care what it is,or in the furniture business. Mac knows
about that. He's seen it right, So hey, there's worse things.
But as a perspective is it's likeget your gripping because you know, if
you didn't think the team was anygood, you wouldn't care. You'd say,
eh, we've had our run.I don't think that you can approach

(02:11:52):
it that way. I think thinkMax spot On and like I said,
Vegas will tell you if they believein the team. Vegas still believes this
team could win. We are notmakers of history. We are made by
history. That's the great Martin LutherKing Jr. You couldn't wait. You
could just say, Man, youtalked about history. Yeah. I had
that off the top of my head. So we are not makers of history.

(02:12:16):
We are made by history, MartinLuther. You just had that off
the top of here. I did. Yeah, yeah. I don't know
if you've noticed this or I knowyou're I know I'm your sidekicking. We
got Ziggler over there or Ziggy Justask you don't Gill, it was guilt
Leo? Yeah? Oh man,did I blame it on Lia? You
did blame and on Twitter? Youblamed on Sorry Leo, Leo? Leo's

(02:12:37):
a slumpbuster? Correct my bad?Gil? Yeah. Case in case you
didn't notice, that's I know allkinds of quotes off the top of my
head. You may know movies andmusic. Why no quotes? It's so
easy when you read them too,isn't is just free flowing right off the
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You know what I mean? Theonly John that's missing jinglemer Smith John Jacob
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Oh, dude, I just Iwas about to go to go to Drew
and he hangs up. Come oncall him, Drew Ski sing the song
about Jacob Jingle Himer Sjean Jacob jingleHimer Schmidt. That's all I know.
His name is my name too,whenever we go out. Yeah, people

(02:14:31):
will always shout. Here goes John, Jacob, Jingle Heimer Schmidt, how's
your how's your nut job? Youknow who's you know who else's top shelf?
Francis Scott Key? What happened toyou? Gosh? All right?

(02:14:56):
Did you know? Ask Gil Man? Thanks? I telled you every day,
come on every all for a year, and I would you uh any
calls? I mean, ziggy.Yeah, I've only been on the show
for over two years. Now,come on, Gilly, come on,
come on, let's go. Gilbring the noise stuck to James. Now

(02:15:16):
we'll get to Mike and then JohnJames. Welcome in. Good morning,
gentlemen. I haven't talked to youguys since I believe the Super Bowl time
and my Niners lost another heartbreaker tothe Chiefs. But you know I got
over it. But now the Astrosthey're making me sick just as well.
I got a couple of rants here, like my favorite, my favorite comedian's
Dennis Miller used to always say beforehandabout the shows. First of all,

(02:15:39):
I don't understand I'm getting tired.I don't know about you, guys.
I love the broadcast of Blumber anduh TK, But I'm getting tired of
their apologist attitude about like, youknow, the answer is like you know
this crap about oh you know,they're they're giving up too many stoff contact
hits and they're expected batting average.We should be this and it doesn't matter.
They they're losing. Only matter leastthat that matters in baseball and there's

(02:16:03):
too many to count is the finalscore. So that stuff's getting old.
I mean, Das's just not gettingit done. They're pitching the trocious Either
in the first thing, they're givingup five runs and they're done, or
their bullpen blows it with these elitesaved guys they're supposed to have. So
either way, it's just it's adisaster right now. I thought about the
two thousand and five season, whenthey're fifteen and thirty, I could easily

(02:16:24):
see them being fifteen and thirty seveneighteen. Right now after twenty five,
yes they're sep late that twenty moregames, they could easily go eight and
twelve in the next twenty and befifteen and thirty. I mean, it's
done. And then secondly, I'mreally tired of it's absolutely ridiculous, are
absolutely atrocious extra ding records as theimplemented this whole. Don't even be started

(02:16:46):
about this rule. That's not evenbaseball where you start on second base,
and that's garbage. But the factis it's a terrible management problem. I
say, if you, especially asa road team, can't score one that
one run that they're setting up toscore, it's kind of equated to college
football overtime, where you're set upto score a field goal. At twenty
five, you don't get the fieldgoal, you're probably done. It's like
to me, you have to playsmall ball. You gotta depending on who

(02:17:07):
the hitter is, of course,but you brought them the third. You
play the percentage you try to geta stack fly or a ball you know,
hard to the right side of theendfield or whatever. It is.
The fact they can't do that andthey refuse to do it, I mean,
what the hell's happened to the artof bunning in Major League Baseball?
If you can't bunt, I mean, no one does it anymore. I
grew up in the eighties watching guyslike you know, Vince Coleman, William
McGee, Lenny Dykes or the yeahyeah, you get on and still second.

(02:17:33):
I mean, now it's all analyticsabout you. Try it at the
home run. I mean I don'tknow the stats, but how many home
runs in relation to singles or hitpercentage wise in baseball every year? It's
got to be what five to oneon Yeah, right, So if you
can't play, just move the guysstation in the station you play. I
mean, everyone stayed a freaking homerun all the time. Home runs are

(02:17:54):
rare. I mean it's like everyonethinks, I mean the steroid or that
the one is rare, but that'sthat's long gone. I mean, it's
just it's ridiculous the way that ateam is talented. The Astros. I
mean, if you look, Idon't know what the record is, but
I bet you they're probably not evenlike at a two fifty clip. And
actually they probably lost three to fourtimes as many as they won since two
thousand and twenty one or twenty wheneverthey started this, Like it's it's it's

(02:18:16):
ridiculous. I'm almost ready to stopwatching them for a while because he just
frustrates the hell out of me tosee a team that, like I said,
it's got this payroll that's in thehundreds of millions and run with like,
you know, kind of like theRed Sox Yankees now and we're seven
and eighteen. I mean, Idon't know, James, appreciate you Colling
man. I appreciate your passion.Don't stop watching them. They don't don't
stop watching them. The fact thatyou're that passionate tells you you don't want

(02:18:37):
to stop watching. I know,little frustration mounts, but a little perspective.
It's going to be whatever, It'lltake care of itself. But I
get your concerns and disappointment. Onething I do know is that I what
he said is remember when we talkedthat there's no way they get to twenty
losses before ten wins. Huh.Yeah, it's close down. That's getting

(02:19:00):
there staring at you, and thatis that there. There's there's obviously things
to be concerned about, but Iguess you gotta trust the people in charge
that can fix it. And theonly way you fix it, in truth
is the players. The players haveto fix it. Yeah, starts with
them. There's no question about its. Talk to Mike, Mike, good
morning, Hey, Ryan ad EHouston a HD two Houston, and I

(02:19:22):
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(02:20:11):
Drew longtime friends shown Salisbury, RyanLima, go Lobos. This is the
Sean Salisbury Show. Well, really, I appreciate you telling me something I
don't know. Thanks, be gracious. All right, we got three gentlemen
that have been holding for quite abit of time. Well, what are

(02:20:31):
you? The fourth ones? Nota gentleman? How many Johns do we
have? You know what I mean? The only John that's missing Jingle Himersmith,
John Jacob Jingle Himerschmidt. You knowthat is you sing the song for
me before we Oh, dude,I just I was about to go to
go to Drew and he hangs up. Come on call him Drew Ski sing
the song about Jacob Jingle Himer SeanJacob Jingle himer Schmidt. That's all I

(02:20:56):
know. His name is my nametoo. In every we go out,
Yeah, people will always shout,he goes John Jacob Jingle you nut Jos,
how's your how's your nut job?You know who's you know? Who

(02:21:18):
else's top shelf? Francis Scott Key, what happened to you? Gosh A
known man? Thanks? I killedyou every day, come on every all
for for a year and I waslike, would you uh an he calls

(02:21:39):
me ziggy. Yeah, I've onlybeen on the show for over two years.
Now, come on, Gilly,come on, come on, let's
go Gil bring the noise. Startto James and then we'll get to Mike
and then John James. Welcome in. Good morning, gentlemen. I haven't
talked to you guys since I believethe Super Bowl time and my Niners lost
another heartbreaker to the Chiefs. Butyou know I got to it. But

(02:22:00):
now the Astros they're making me sick. Just as well. They got a
couple of ramps here. Like myfavorite my favorite comedians, Dennis Miller,
used to always say beforehand about theStrows. First of all, I don't
understand I'm getting tired, don't aboutyou guys. I love the broadcast of
Blummer and TK, but I'm gettingtired of their apologies attitude about like,
you know, the aswer is likeyou know this crap about oh you know,

(02:22:24):
they're they're giving up too many softcontact hits and they're expected batting average.
We should be this and it doesn'tmatter. They either losing. The
only mattered at least that that mattersin baseball and there's too many to count
is the final score. So thatstuff's getting old. I mean, the
asker's just not getting it done.They're they're pitching, they're trocious. Either
in the first thing, they're givingup five runs and they're done, or
their bullpen blows it. With theseelite saved guys we're supposed to have,

(02:22:48):
so either way, it's just it'sa disaster right now. I thought about
the two thousand and five season,when they're fifteen and thirty. I could
easily see them being fifteen and thirtywith the seven eighteen right now to twenty
five that yes, they're se playedthat twenty more games, they could easily
go eight and twelve in the nexttwenty and be fifteen and thirty. I
mean, it's done and then secondly, I'm really tired of it's absolutely ridiculous.

(02:23:09):
Are absolutely atrocious extra ending records asthat implemented this whole Don't even get
me started about this rule that's noteven baseball where you start on second base
and that's garbage. But the factis it's a terrible management problem. I
think if you, especially as aroad team, can't score one that one
run that they're setting up to score, it's kind of equated to college of

(02:23:30):
football over time, where you're setup to score a field goal. At
twenty five, you don't get thefield goal, you're probably done. It's
like to me, you have toplay small ball. You got to,
depending on who the hitter is,of course, but you've brought them the
third you played the percentage you tryto get a sack fly or a ball
you know, hard to the rightside of the endfield or whatever. It
is. The fact they can't dothat and they're refuse to do it,
I mean, what the hell hashappened to the art of bunning in Major
League Baseball? If you can't bunt, I mean, no one does it

(02:23:54):
anymore. I grew up in theeighties watching guys like you know, Vince
Coleman, Willie McGee, Lenny Dykes, spread, Yeah, yeah, get
on, and it's still second.I mean, now it's all analytics about
you turned at the home run.I mean I don't know the stats,
but how many home runs in relationto singles or hit percentage wise in baseball
every year? It's got to bewhat five to one on? Yeah?

(02:24:18):
Right, So if you can't play, just move the guys station in the
station you play more. I mean, everyone stayed a freaking home run all
the time. Home runs are rare. I mean it's like everyone thinks,
I mean the steroid or that theyone is rare, but that's that's long
gone. I mean, to me, it's just it's ridiculous the way that
a team is talented, the Astros. I mean, if you look,
I don't know what the record is, but I bet you they're probably not
even like at a two fifty clip, and actually they probably lost three to

(02:24:41):
four times as many as they've wonsince two thousand and twenty one or twenty
whenever they started this, Like it'sit's it's ridiculous. I'm almost ready to
stop watching him for a while becausehe just frustrates the hell out of me
to see a team that, likeI said, it's got this payroll that's
in the hundreds of millions, andwe're almost like, you know, kind
of like the Red Sox Yankees.Now we're seven and eighteen. I mean,

(02:25:01):
I don't know, James, appreciateyou calling man. I appreciate your
passion. Don't stop watching them,don't don't stop watching them. The fact
that you're that passionate tells you youdon't want to stop watching. My little
frustration mounts, but a little perspective, it's going to be whatever. It'll
take care of itself. But Iget your concerns and disappointment. One thing
I do know is that I whathe said is remember when we talked that

(02:25:24):
there's no way they get to twentylosses before ten wins. Yeah, it's
close. Now it's getting there.Staring at you and that is there's there's
obviously things to be concerned about,but I guess you got to trust the
people in charge that can fix it. And the only way you fix it,
in truth is the players. Theplayers have to fix it. Yeah,
starts with them, There's no questionabout it. Stalk to Mike,

(02:25:48):
Mike, good morning, Hey Ryan, He Hey, Sean A well nine
o fam was tired of a lotof stuff. Let's see, I guess
what I'm First of all, I'mgoing to get a shout out to Tripoli
every time I call. The guy'sa true professionally. He's very respectful to
all the callers. He's awesome,isn't he, Mike, He's man?
Yes, yes, uh? Andwhy I called? I was just going

(02:26:09):
to give some perspective on liber Fedo. I think because of the black hole
at first and the desperation that we'reseeing so much is being put on when
he comes up and and like he'sgoing to be the savior, I mean,
we got to put that in alittle bit of perspective. This kid's
not even a top one hundred minorleague prospect, and he strikes out quite

(02:26:31):
a bit a lot a game.On April second, he struck out six
times, I don't know, andhe hits a lot of bombs, I
know, but I think we justneed to put that in perspective. When
he does come up, I mean, he's going to struggle a little bit,
and you know, the first time, I think he comes up at
the bases loaded and doesn't deliver orstrikes out. I don't want everybody'd be
running Hi out of town. SoI think he's going to be a solution
in the future. I just thinkbecause of the situation that the Astros are

(02:26:54):
in, it's that spotlights on himhard and we just need to put that
in a little perspective. I thinkAstros a pull out of this in the
end though. All right, guys, thank you Mike Man. Hey,
what do you think? So?I agree with him. I still would
like to see him at some pointthis season. My concern is just the

(02:27:15):
strikeout rate, like I said earlier, was around thirty seven percent. He's
got thirty two strikeouts in eighty fiveat bats this season. There's no question
that he hits bombs. He's gottwelve. I believe he leads to the
minor leagues, all of minor leaguebaseball with twelve home runs. Well,
what would concern you more? It'sthat he'd be fragile by striking out a
lot but still giving you pop,and that he wouldn't be able to overcome

(02:27:35):
some failures that he'd have, orthe lack of production at first base.
Right now, which one do youthink could be overcome easier? The two
guys that are at first base doingtheir thing and producing, or low Braffido
producing and going through some struggles andyou're worried about losing him because he's not
confident. Well, the easy answerfor that is you play Victor Krattini at

(02:27:56):
first and you play you on yourdas behind the plate. That's my answer.
That is the answer. Yeah,So when it comes to and then
low perfet will have his time.But if they brought him up, are
you worried that he's fragile? No? No, I would like to hope
is they fragile? Doesn't seem tobe. He keeps grinding. Yeah,
And I think you've got to knowyou're going to go through some failures.

(02:28:16):
That's the key is the expectations,not meaning you want to live there,
but you got to learn how tolisten. There's far more failure than there
is success playing was swinging the batand pro baseball. Yeah, there just
is. You got to live infailure with the game of baseball. There's
no question about it. You're failingseventy eighty percent of the time. Don't
have to be comfortable with it matter, but you do have to get comfortable

(02:28:39):
being uncomfortable with it and then andthen thrive. So we have the urgent
answer at least what appears. AndI think that Kartena needs more bats.
Just put it that way, John, I got about a minute for you,
man. What's going on? Hey, what's going I want to make
this real quick. This is notthis is not the ninety this is not
the nineteen seventeen Astros. No way, there's not twenty two Astros in no

(02:29:01):
way. This is not a wayof championship team tellers. I'm sorry.
It's just the players. Other thanthree or four players on this team,
it's mediocre. And and to tellyou something else, the other team is
not gonna sit back in pre sorryfor the Astros. They're pulling it on.
And if the Astros don't change theway they're doing things now, they
ain't gonna get out of that nomatter if they do have a good record.

(02:29:24):
Because these other teams have study winning, they bringing them players there gonna
contribute. Astros got rid of theirplayers that contribute. What they have now
is players are disgust it because theythe pay. Now, I'm gonna tell
you something. I think it's inthe front offic I think it's between the
front office and the bull and themanage their position. And I'm gonna say
this and let you go when whenDusty. One thing Dusty had when he

(02:29:46):
was when he was coaching, Dustyhad respect from his players. They loved
him, He got the best outof even though he was strict, and
even though he played win and thenchuckar coated, they respected him. But
the front off has got to realizethat if they really want to turn this
thing around, they got to letthe coach be the coach and get out

(02:30:07):
of it and let him coach thisteam like you. That's it? Like
that? Thank you? John thinksstuff, John, yeah things Well said,
Yeah, boy, we have.I'd love the deep dive that all
of our from Mattress Smack to theand I and I do love the I
do love the range of not onlydiffering opinions, but differing concerns and still

(02:30:28):
being able to stay understand. Youdon't have to be a homer to still
have beliefs that they're going to succeed, but there are. You do have
to have a little understanding that whenyou're failing and not failure is not permanent,
when you're struggling, that it's realand that you can get out of
it. I think for the mostpart, like what we hear from our

(02:30:48):
callers and the fans, frustration isis obviously there, But giving up on
this team is not there. Alittle cautious optimism. Yeah, they're treading
a little more lightly than they havemaybe in the past. Yeah, but
until John Helville calls in and wantsto sign you Le Gurriel. Yeah,
John John's ready to get rid ofthe manager too. So but hey,

(02:31:09):
listen, that's what makes both thingsinspective, because when you hear from somebody,
yep, when you hear from somebodyand they give you something else,
that's why I love our college.He's like, you know, I didn't
really think about that coming from theirperspective. And the only way you get
into people's perspective is here in theirpoint of view. Right, So I
think I think the varying. Don'thave to agree with them all. But
the truth is, I think we'reall close to the same page. You
need some changes, but you're notwholesaling the franchise away right now, right

(02:31:33):
You're You're definitely not. And thebest ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.
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shotgun everything want him with someone who'sthrown from the shotgun? Football is what
helm it to Hammt Sean Salisbury,Bryan Lolly, you want to see what
real football looks like. This isthe Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety Larry, what's happenings? Ertmartinment, Larry, I can't tell you

(02:34:15):
how good it is to hear yourvoice. Seawan and I have been talking
about you, probably for the lastmonth, and we are so happy they're
calling it. Man. Yeah,where are you being scaring us? Larry?
If we don't have it? Ifif you're retired, you't retired from
this damn show, though, wegotta have you. Tell the people where
to hit Larry. Damn it.I hear you, I hear you.
Good to have Yeah, we missyou, okay, Sean. The book

(02:34:39):
is out on the astros and it'sup and down the line up. Nobody
wafts to swing at that outside track. If they swing at it, they're
trying to pull it. Nobody isgoing with the pitch. So as lone
as I can get you out,I don't keep the on it. Alvarez

(02:35:01):
yesterday just laughed at bet He finallyus out to start swinging at that outside
pitch. He kept filing it off, and then on the last track they
threw one lower and outside and helaunched at it our too Bay style.
They don't help discipline at the plate. Nobody is trying to go with the

(02:35:22):
pitch. Everybody wants to pull thehome run. Picture's not the books out
on there, so everybody's pitching themthe same way. Ners came in there,
lad yesterday, pitching them outside.They're trying to hit that outside corner.
But they asked Olds either taking itor trying to pull it. You
got to go with that pitch,man or as sooner or lady. We're

(02:35:46):
gonna have to change our thinking.As long as we're thinking like we think
we're gonna lose. Man, wereleaving too many runners on base. We
can't win like that. Hurt me, ye, Man, Larry great to
hear you. You know, Larry'sin his seventies and still knows baseball,
just retiring. I'm not saying theseventies or old can congratulate or old,

(02:36:09):
but I mean Larry talks like he'sgot that the baseball enthusiasm. Well,
if he's a lifer in baseball,he loves it, but I'd always love
to hear his take because you know, we kid him about calling him opo
tako with Larry hit the ball theother way. But in truth, what
do you tell your guys when they'restruggling, Ryan, you hit the ball?
I mean, I always got myapproach for my kid from my fourteen

(02:36:30):
kids is gap to gap approach,right, because we get in the habit
of trying to try to pull thingsand you roll over, you fly out.
So yeah, well I always tellmy right he's to hit the right
center. I always tell my lefthe's hit left center. When you see
a guy pumping it to right centerand the other way nor the least optics
wise, that's an indication they understandthe hitting part of it right as a
young player. Now, the olderguys, you know, as they get

(02:36:50):
on the pros A obviously are therebecause they understand it. But once again,
when you start to press, whatdo you do think I need to
hit the ball over the fence,So a ball on the outer half or
on the black outside. When they'reat their best, we say, remember
we talked about McCormick when he's athis best right center. Yep, pumping
it to right, center, right. And we've talked about Alvarez this foul
poll to foul, pull with him, gap to gap thats you talk about

(02:37:11):
and Larry, we kid him.But the truth is the sames thing.
Things start to seem to turn aroundwhen you're willing to push the ball the
other way. You know what Imean? Now, listen, they're going
to throw you on the inner half. What are you going to do now?
You've got to barrel it up andpull your hands in and get through
it right, which is but theselectivity part of it is sometimes being overly

(02:37:33):
selective can be irritained. Got tobe aggressive, but aggressive the right way
makes sense. Good to hear.Larry, Yeah, so much energy.
I love talking hitting with him.He's fun. Drew, Thanks for calling
back, man, what's going on? Hey? Good morning, Phillips.
Hope y'all doing all right this morning. I'll be quick, but I got
to put some mistick on y'all namesince the other caller tried to play with
it. So I got some nicknamesfor y'all. You got Elite on the

(02:37:56):
ones and twos, you know,smoking on top five. Then you got
Brian that ain't lying, bringing youthe cold hort text. Then you got
the man that makes it all happen, the Podfather. Yes, write that
down, and guess what, I'mbeing serious, Dree, I'm gonna have
shirts made and you're gonna get You'regonna get what size are you that that

(02:38:22):
sounded wrong. I don't want toknow what sounds you. I want to
know the size shirt you wear.Hey, Lord, both laws, we're
gonna get that. So we gotwe gotta get that. We gotta get
that, right, Marge, wegotta get that shirt. Great stuff,
man, that's classic. I gottaand I got a quick astros and then

(02:38:46):
I got a draft question for youto uh with the astros, ain't gonna
beat it to death, but y'allwere preaching and t last you got to
hit him with that church organ.Sometimes when they're preaching like that, that
line up y'all said, is perfect, and it's different when you maximize the
lineup. Uh, you know,like your other callers said. He still
didn't maximize it, but it stillfelt better because he gave us a better

(02:39:09):
chance to win with that lineup.So keep going to strouder. You almost
got it right, uh. Andwith the draft a quick question for y'all
if you can get the same valuewith that with that second with that first
pick and the second round, ifyou can get that same value player with
a safety, corner, dtackle,linebacker, and receiver, which one would
you get like they would they wouldbasically all be impact players. You would

(02:39:33):
have your pick up the letter,But what position would you go with?
And then lastly, I'm gonna givea little nugget uh to our divisional rivals.
I got a way y'all can getup, get a leg up on
the competition. With y'all first roundpicks. You need the draft. All
three need to draft kick us fromJerusalem and they'll get get the lest get.

(02:39:58):
Here's how I think my thought processis too lean. I love you
everybody, All thirty one teams candraft a kicker. We'll just we'll take
all the good players. And thenbut those kickers can make a difference for
you too. But go ahead,and you like running backs, don't draft
him in the first tie. Right. Here's what I'd go right now,
Brian, just my overall thought isdefensive backslash corner for depth. With that

(02:40:26):
second round pick at the top,my priorities would be back end secondary help
offensive line depth, and I'm goingto tell you right now, I'm not
so sure that I wouldn't think aboutif I'm going offensive weapon, I want
another tight end somewhere. It's areally good player that's going to be available
between the third and fourth round fromPenn State sixty six, big physical kid.

(02:40:50):
Watched him play and I've looked atsome draft how people feel about him
just kind of getting a and youneed an in line tight end that can
put his hand in the dirt freeDalton Shoultz up all sort to pass catch
and still because it's just so peopleunderstand what twelve personnel and twenty twenty two
personnel, two backs, two tightends. Uh, one tight end,
two backs, one back two Youknow, when you're talking about personnel,

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what are the forty nine ers liketo change a lot of personnel groupings,
a lot of different looks. Andwith Joe Mixon, now you want to
you all want to. You wantto give the we're going to play downhill
run in the football, but wecan also throw at of it even if
we get two tight ends in thegame, and I think that'd be good.
Also, you can max protect withthe big body in there. So
for me, it's back end help, offensive line help, and then after
the third round, best available inthe fifth round, I'm not looking for

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anything specific. I want the bestavailable player, maybe a receiver because my
paradigms have shifted now they've got StephanDiggs. I don't need a high a
wide receiver that early, but yougive me back in it starts to me
in the secondary with that second round. I think that's that's the mindset that
I have as well. You gotto go get somebody in the secondary.
Seven one three, two, onetwo five, seven ninety. My goodness,

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the calls all morning long, andwe got another full board. Let's
get to them next right here onSports Talk seven to eighty, Coach Stark
here, touchdown, Texas. You'vegot Sports Talk seven to ninety, Houston's
home of longhornor Football. Back tothe Shawn Salisbury Showy, Ben, you're

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up first man. Good morning,Hey, Gay. So, the the
biggest thing that I see with theAstros is they're pressing right, So the
pitchers are trying to make too finethe plate. You know, Bregman swinging
a crap that I've never seen himswing at in his whole entire career.
And then everybody's wanting to be thathero Tenya come in and trying to kick
that extra base last night. Ifhe just takes a single and and and

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and plays it, you know,plays it like he usually would instead of
pressing into it, Singleton scores him, and then we end up tying the
game last night. Like it's goingto come around. But these guys,
like you were saying earlier, isthat you have to stay up the middle
and and and guys are playing outsideof themselves instead of staying in their game.
And it's going to continue like thisuntil everybody just takes a deep breath
and and and just goes through thefundamentals of the game. Thank you,

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thank you, and that tam mattressSmack said real quick bright about those two
plays. Swanson doesn't get a shotat the three run homer. So a
couple of breaks and it's different,but still got to start better. Yeah,
Karantinis smoked the ball in the eighthinning with runners at first and third
and it got caught. So that'sjust baseball. Todd, you're up and
what's up? Hey, good morning. Let me talk a little bit about

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hitting. Let me qualify it firstby saying I have a son that played
you All Stars from time he sevenand played a four year starter in college.
He hit with an astro scout forabout fifteen years, and so I've
always been very analytical on that.And my question is it seems like the
hitting coaches don't want to make adjustmentsin the season. And I'm going to

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give an example. I said,behind the third base dugout on the Toronto
Series, and I watched jose atBray, you swinging all stiff armed and
upper body, no lower body intoyou. Look at people like Jeremy Paine,
you who last year we knew hishands were not quiet, and they
didn't want to fix it during theyear five. They fixed it in the
off season, and there he is. So here's my here's my point.

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You know, the scout told myson one day, he goes, you
know how to hit the curveball?And my son, look, he said,
you don't miss the fastball. Youdon't. You don't miss the fastball
down the heart of the play.You're gonna see one of them per at
back yep, and the rest aregoing to go fishing. Tom So,
where did your son play college?He played for UT Dallas, Okay,

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oh, he's a four year starter. What years Dallas? He was in
two thousand and eight through twenty twelve. Okay, so I played against him.
He was in the same conference asme. I was at Soul Ross
State, so we played UT dollars, Yes, sir, Yeah, so
I played three years there. Whatwas his name? If you don't mind
me asking, Yeah, Kyle guessed, okay, And he always hit forever.

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He's always hit for power. Hehit with a scout for last y
from time he's seven years old untilall the way through college. And you
know, my my issue is yougot to see I'm telling you what I'm
seeing, bragmants. He's got toomuch bottom pull hand, and I would
think that the hitting coaches could correctthat and not wait till after the season

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is over to correct it. Andthat's why, you know, I'm taking
an issue with some of the hittingthat I'm seeing and not making corrections to
some of the mechanics that are there. Well, thank you, thank you
for the call, TI. Weappreciate it. A great call and great
point. You got to be ableto adjust on the fly. Now you're
not going to hold. You're notgoing to change a guy's arm action during
the season because then it's screwed.But it's like taking a golf lesson and

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then go and playing eighteen holes.You're your heads everywhere. A couple of
days later, it gets different inthis there's no doubt you've got to be
able to make slight adjustments to mechanicsand the rest of it while you're in
the season, because you need.These guys were early enough that you got
to make adjustments. So I'm I'mone with him on that. The ability
to change on the fly without makingit wholesale changes. Carl, good morning.

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Yeah, this is my last callfor the year. Boy? Why
why is it your last call?Well, you know, I don't want
to waste your time calling in andyou're not. That's okay. Let me
get it over with it real quick. It's back to the same thing last
year called y'all and cold y'all thatthe pitchers are going to ruin the morale

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of the baseball team, and theyhave. They've ruined the morale of the
whole team. They can't start thegames out three runs behind first in it.
You can't do it. It's backto the old humble pile eating thing
here. It's time to probably.I hate to drop the bomb, but
get rid of the general manager,bring in the old guy, bringing back

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Okay, put the guy back inthere. He knew how to develop a
team. He knew how to getthe players in there, get the glue
together. Same thing. The generalmanager is repossible. I hate to say
it, boys, but you gottago appreciate the call. Carl. Let's
keep it going, Doctor wood wouldgood morning. Tell us this is Christmas

(02:47:01):
time in table. This is thetime when dreams are coming true coaches,
players and their family. But unfortunately, my dream was cut short when Nick
Sario gave away my first round pickand then decide, okay, with that

(02:47:24):
second round pick, since I havetwo of them, I'm geting one away
to Buffalo. And then he justget a little smarter and say what we
got digs? Well, you knowwhat, we got them locked up for
three years. Now, I'm gonnatell her about how smart I am.
I want to sign him for oneyear, give him a bump on Rais.
That way, he'll be a freeagent next year. So that makes

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him a one year rental. Andnow we don't have a number one,
our number two. We only haveone two left and he's not a genius.
He not the sharpest night in thekitchen. I keep trying to tell
people this because you talk fast andyou educated, don't mean you the smartest
person on the block. And I'mletting you know right now, I'm disappointed

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because I was looking forward to havingthis draft pick because we would have had
a corner back with a fails inthat twenty third pick that could have came
and started with. We would havehad a four year start, not a
one year rental, which is whatwe have now. You may still get
a starter with that pick in thesecond round, the first pick, you
may still get a good, solidcorner back in back end player. It

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makes a valid point. I'm notI think Nick Casserio there may be decisions
people don't like. I think NickCasserio's decisions on a lot of the personnel
have hit. Yeah, I givehim more credit. I understand are the
caller's concern, but I'm not.I'm not. I think that Nick Cassia
has been an asset, not aproblem. I do. I think you
can get a good corner with thesecond but with that first pick in the

(02:48:52):
second round, I think their firstpick in the second round, Mike good
morning. Hey, good morning guys. Thank you making the call combat the
Astros. I'm gonna make a moviereference. I'll come back to it.
Do you remember the movie Sky Highand All. The reason I bring that
up is because there was this Theyhad a they were talking about sidekicks and
all that discussion this morning. Itwas back in like the two thousands.

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But there's a superhero in the sidekick. I'll come back that in a minute.
But Sean Hale wanted to compliment youon your interview with Dan Brown.
I thought it was really excellent.You really pressed them and you you were
able to do it in a thesame tackle way that I probably couldn't do.
I didn't hear all the discussion,but I heard in his comment like
intersection of like he said disappointment andOPTI business, And I was like,

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what not me? I try notto go this way? But and then
I realized he had to put apositive spun. But Astros are not a
good baseball team. We know it, and we've been spoiled by them.
They're so good. I didn't hearBrian didn't hear any reactions for me.
I don't know if you usually askedquestions about about all that, but anyway,

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I just it is not good.They're just not getting it done and
we know that. So hopefully theycan turn it around. But I don't
even last night four runs of ThePerson and I hate to go negative,
but well they're going to lose thisgame. Hey, but that's that's where
I went, and they ended upunfortunately losing. So back to the Skott
High So you know they have thesuperhero I think, I don't. I
know you've got You've got they gotmister Peace in that movie. You've got

(02:50:22):
tripley piece tripley. I think,Brian, you need a nickname. So
my nickname, Ryan's maybe like theselike you know, Shaw can refer to
you go for these nuts right rightright on his forehead exactly, Mike appreciate
you. That's very subtle nuts rightfor us. Yeah, I think that's

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a good one for you. Whyam I catching You're like forty on people?
Do you who did you crush?You crushed to bray you what else?
Who else you crushed? It?My faulty can't hit out of water?
No wow, no no, no, I won't carroteen in the lineup

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and he called them Katrina. Yeah, you said trade Altuve. Okay,
what's wrong? Yeah? Half adeal? Are you the one who started?
I mean you call him a bray? Who? Now you and Andy?
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(02:53:22):
show, What's up, Lerey?You know what time it is, Belie
Ma Shan this big girl time forthe draft tonight. Baby. Look,
this is this is a fun timefor the entire city of Houston. And
I heard my boy would call inman and saying he was disappointed about losing
the first pick or trading the firstpick with Minnesota. Doug, you got

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Daniil Hunter. Dog that first pick. You ain't gonna get nobody in the
draft like Daneil Hunter. And thenon the second pick for Stefan, look
we still got two picks. TheTexas are sitting in the ideal position that
Nick Casario has us in that wehave two number two's, a number three,
and two number fours. Nick Casioand Demko are gonna eat in this

(02:54:07):
draft. And let me explain toyou why. Because when you can go
into a draft and you don't haveno needs, you could just go in
there and get best player available andonce then that's the position you want to
be in because then there's no pressurefor you to go out there and take
too much risk. The Texas needto just come out of this draft with

(02:54:28):
tame on a sweat from ut becausewe need a big Vince wolfolk at that
one technique that's gonna clog that holeand keep my linebackers clean. Then they
just need to go give me abig old pitcher of kool aid from Alabama,
because kool Aid McKinstry is one ofthem DB's that can lock your hands
down, and he got make upspeed and he can he gonna hit your

(02:54:50):
ass. And then you go rightback on over that old house State and
make my boy CJ. Sprouler ashappy as he can beat by go and
get stolen his old tight end andlet him back up behind Dawns shows and
get in the mix so that thisthing can get popping and head on to
the super Bowl. Because with thosenew uniforms, but that quarterback over there,

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with that head coach over there,we are sitting in a cat birds
seat. But being in the catbird seat me, your ass is gonna
be haunted like a lion, andeverybody's gonna be shooting at you. Because
everybody understand it's a new day anda new era over there on Kirby,
so be Leima, the Texas aregonna be exactly what we want them to
be because they got some dogs overthere, and they got some players over

(02:55:33):
there, and bringing in Steph FanDiggs is not gonna be an issue because
when you got a head coach likethe Miko Rans that understand the game,
played the game and understand the hamderof how the hammer personality, Steph Fan's
gonna fit it right in. Andthat contract that he got. If the
dass play good, then we gonnago ahead and cut him loose and let
him go test free agency. Andif he gets the kind of deal that

(02:55:54):
he wants, great, If webring him back, that's even better.
Laugh and far, I let y'allgo. I gotta talk about the Mastros.
This thing here is fine, andlet me explain to you why.
I know it's ugly right now,but damn, were only in April.
Look, this team has went througha gun lit for the last six to

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seven years of giving us elite levelbaseball, and now it's just one of
those seasons where everything gets really hardbecause they had this menagerie of injuries.
They've had a change in leadership overthere, and so that's an adjustment period.
But if I'm not mistaken, Idon't think the Astros are ten games
out of first place yet. Soif that is the case, let's see

(02:56:37):
how this thing looks once. Everybodyjust pull they head out, they ass
and get it to the our regularposition of being not trying to press too
much, but doing what they're capableof doing. This thing is it doesn't
work out, that's okay. Justlook down at your damn fingers and look
at those those World Series rings andunderstand that it's gonna be okay. Belima.

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I got a chance to hang withmy boy bull dog o oh Dan
over there May from seven to ninetyat that Texas release party. Me and
dad been cool for a long time. Fellas tonight just light your stick,
sit back. We don't have noworry tomorrow. Put them on your left
and how appreciate it? There?There you go, hanging out, Dann
Matthews the bullet. What are yougoing, Bulldog? I think so?

(02:57:20):
I didn't know that was Astros aresix games back Texas Rangers at thirteen and
twelve leading the division. The OaklandA's have more wins than the Astros.
Just put it to you that way. Justin Earlander the up today, Let's
see if he can help help helpclean it up and not have a sweep

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Sean, Caleb Williams are Jayden Daniels? Who you're taking first? You one,
two, three, four, firstfour pixil either be before quarterbacks,
a fifth or receiver or three quarterbacks, receiver then quarterbacks. So do you
take I did cayleb Williams is goingfirst? That's what you would take playing

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on the field. That's ill stilltake him first because the reward is too
big. But I still think Jaydedaniel is going to be a hell of
a player. I think it's CalebWilliams and Jayde Daniels won two. I
think Marvin Harrison goes four to theCardinals. The biggest guarantee in this draft
of success is Marvin Harrison, juniorfrom Ohio State. He is as close
to a campus as you can haveanywhere, especially at that position. Hopefully
the Astros score more runs in theCubs today. That's usually the object,

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right, Yes, one is thefirst pitch Noon on deck show, so
real quick give one exit. Sowhat's the one guarantee in sports? If
you score more runs or points thanyour opponent, you win one hundred percent
of the time. That's going todo it. That's Shawn Salisbury. Our
producer Triple Emmanuel Elmore. I'm Brianli Lima. Thank you for listening.
We're back tomorrow morning for a funkyFriday edition right here, six a m.

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