Astros Loss To Yankees, Espada Moves Lineup, Yordan Update

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Saulisbury. Okay, let's do this. Sean Salisbury, The usc Truth,
longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, RyanLima, go Lobos. This is the
Sean Salisbury Show. Shawn Tripley,Good morning. It is the same old

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damn story groundhog Day. It's nota it's laughable at this point. Sean.
Yeah, you know, I'm surethey're not laughing, and I know
we're laughing in a it's like anuncomfortable laugh for how poor they are.
I mean, it's just when Iwatch it, you can almost call it.

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You knew it was going to bea struggle, and I give erra
Getty, you know, guts aretrying to show up with six more walks
by the team. They the Yankeesdid not walk anybody. One teams clutch
and one team's choke right now andthey both spell it with a C and
timely hitting. Their best players smokedit yesterday. Stanton hit the ball so

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hard. I watched the whole gameagain, which I try to do every
day, but even when it wasout of hand, I still watch it
just to see how the the Astrosrespond from ending like six on and I
know Dubond got a hit and Payniahomeward. How about that. Don't don't
think they don't listen. Remember earlierthat he said, why aren't we moving

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your done? I'm not saying theylisten to us and get their answers,
but they do listen to know what'sgoing on the astros Well, I asked
Dane Brown yesterday, will you moveBregman out? This? Is he a
sacred cow? Or is can youmove him like you've moved everybody else?
Move him to six he doesn't geta hit and a shock or he popped
out to hit the infield and hislasted bat yea, And he moved Paine
to the four hole and he homersin his first game in the cleanup spot.

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Okay, but I watch even whenthey're getting blown out because I want
to see how they respond. Andit didn't very good. Now, Dubon
responded. Jake Myers responded, Payne, You responded, two, ve got
another hit. But and Tucker homerthe same You know what? The same
guys? Yep, same guy.Dubond comes off the bench, gets start
boom, does his thing and walksix batters. You give up? I

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mean home run after home run afterhome run, and I know it's a
short porch, but you still getyou got to keep the ball in the
ballpark. And Stanton hit a ballso hard yesterday it was almost one hundred
and twenty, just under one hundredtwenty miles an hour. Yeah, hardest
hit ball in the league this year. I'm not sure. The only guy
I know that may hit one hardermaybe the guy in You're not if he
gets rolling, but is Otani.Other than that, I'm not sure anybody

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touches buck twenty this year. Andthat ball if you tried to catch out
in the stands bad idea. Andyou know, it's just the way they're
playing. Soto owns this team.Why why even pitch to Harriet anymore?
He owns this team. So itis a hard watch and like I said,
easy to watch and get into itin the first four or five innings.

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I am. I'm watching now tosee how they respond. And I
don't it's not I don't love thevisual, do you know? And it's
bothersome, it really is. Andthis is you can tell me all you
want. They're twelve and twenty fourand when they get beat, they're usually

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not in a game. And ifit's close, you just don't expect them
to win because they've won one timein a one run game this year.
So, like I said, allthe compliments we've given them over the years,
Like all great teams, some haveto take a step back before they
can stake more forward. And rightnow they're in that mode. I don't
know if it's going to change thisyear. I don't have the confidence that
maybe Dana brown House. I justdon't and maybe he doesn't, but he

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has to say so while he's onhere. Like he said, this is
therapy for him to come on theshow each week because he gets to empty
the bucket a little bit and he'sgot to listen. He got to protect
your team. But there's no wayhe can. Like with Alex bregnant,
pregnant hitting below one ninety's, heis a detriment to the team on offense
right now. Call it like yousee, I'm just telling you, yeah,

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and this is not personal because youand I both like Pregnant a lot.
But what would you be saying abouta guy if it was Soto doing
this, you'd be crushing him?Correct? Yeah? All that money,
oh yeah, and and one homerun four and two spot or that we
were all in New York. Youknow, dude, they would be they'd
be crushing if he is sitting twofifty. Yeah. So my point is

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is that even the Homer of Homersand the rose colored glasses that are so
deep they're red colored glasses. Nownot just rose. I'm talking about red
red rose. You can't even youcan't defend. Oh it's this, Oh
it's that. And I'm gonna tellyou, if you like, if you're
talking body language, the manager's bodylanguage is just as bad as somebody else.

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He looks lost, well, helooks like he doesn't know, confused
on what next decision he's going tomake. And maybe I'm wrong, but
like I said, right now,early returns in thirty six games, as
I told you three weeks ago,and I'll tell you I told you yesterday,
and I say it now, it'sgot David Cully written all over it.
I thought about that a lot yesterdayafter our show Find Me the Difference,

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and I watched I watched every singlepitch yesterday, and I wanted to
see different things and one of thesomething you may a little bit. And
when Dana said yesterday, right,everyone in the same David Cully. The
body language, the facial expressions.He literally looks lost in game. Yes,
in game. I talked to somebodyyesterday who's a major fan and love.
We had a long conversation the frustration, who's a diehard baseball fan and

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you know, loves the organization likewe do, and the frustration, and
it is I you know, Igive Dana Brown a lot of respect coming
out and deservedly, so you know, it's never personal. But I got
to push to get answers when Iinterview him. And when I said,
is it time for disruption or timefor uncomfortable and make him uncomfortable? He

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said, no, I disagree.Discomfort is exactly where he is. I
disagree with him because they're they're toocomfortable. They just are and so while
and when I say it reminds meof David Cully, it's not I like
David. I think David Hully wasawesome, but the parallels lifetime assistant didn't
get him there. There's no extramotivation. And they may be having conversations,

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but I don't need just conversations.I need to come to Jesus.
And they're not whatever if they're doingit, who's ever given the come to
Jesus talk ain't working, and it'sreally hard for me to take to if
Alex Bregman is the guy. Ifthe leader is just playing, well,
we're in trouble. If then,when Dana Brown said, I said,
name one guy you'd pick, andDuck Duck goose yesterday to be that guy

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who has to get things going inthe clubhouse, or that you said,
that's the leader, it's hard whena guy hitting one to eighty nine to
turn to him because he's so worriedabout his own game right now. And
I don't blame him. So it'sgot it now, it can turn around.
And here's the difference between David Kellyand Joe a spotter right now.
The parallels in the career longer careeris David Cully's older, been in it

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longer, great guys, people lovehim, always have nice things to say
about him, kind all those things. But the in game confusion looks different
for guys that know their sport.Here's the difference. Cully had a bad
Texans team, yeah that Joe Aspotahas a World Series team. So what's
missing? That's the question. Ican tell you this. Those same people

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who beat him down, we heardit on the thing yesterday. You missed
the guy who's a consultant San Francisco. Right now, we were to effect.
We were told that anybody could comein, anybody can win with this
roster. Yep, with this lineup. Didn't we hear all preseason, all
spring training? This roster is betterthan it was last year, and they

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went to Game seven of the AOCS. Anybody could come in and manages team.
Anybody can get him to a ALWest title. Anybody can get it
back to the ALCS. Anybody canget it back to the World Series.
They're twelve and freaking twenty four.Okay, and let me take it another
step for you. And we talkedabout, oh when when our pitching gets
healthy? All right, let's startthere. Okay, you trust that Frommer's

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an ace right now. No Javier'sinjury will hope. I think Javier's got
the ability to be one at somethingI do. But we're still he's still
in the twee. I mean,he's still had his ups and downs,
but looking for more swinging myths thathe used to get, like I think
he had a thirteen or fourteen strakeoutgame at Yankee Stadium one time. Yeah,
yeah, a lot of swinging missyou get back to that Verlander.

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He's Verlander, but he's not givingyou nine innings. He's way. If
forty one's your go to, thenthis team's got to pick it up.
Garcie and mccullars. That's just justa bonus in July or augusty. If
you get it by that time,it may not matter. It won't matter
for them, but you may beso far out of it. They're just
getting work at this rate. Yeah, it'll be uh, they'll be sellers,
right Erkid's consistent, but you're not. He's never going to be in

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your first three. He's going tobe in your back two. Brown Hunter
Brett, Well, you can't trustthat. JP, Francis hurt YEP,
Spencer Araghetty is a rookie getting shelledright, and listen, I love he
keeps competing. But if you getfour out of him with five strikeouts,
five innings with five strikeouts, sixstrikeouts, about four walks, and he's
gonna give up some hits, andhe's going to go through a walk or

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two or three or four and giveup a couple of home runs right now.
He's just listen, who wants towalk in the Yankee State. You
know, everybody wants to walk inthere. The problem is coming out of
there feeling good. And he'll getbetter. But right now, Spencer Araghedtty's
not your answer to get him.We'll go neither is a healthy lanceom of
colors, which you're not seeing tillAugust. And if you do, God

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bless you. By that time,the way they're playing, this team will
the fans will have checked out intwenty twenty four. That's just a fact.
So when it comes to discomfort,you got to create it. And
yesterday we said, got to gethim out of the four hole, and
they disc asked him, will ithappen this series? He said it could.
Well, it happened last night andit had to then, quite frankly,

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he did. Right now, AlexBregman doesn't deserve to hit in the
six hole. Du Bond's a betterhitter. Jake Myers is a better hitter.
Right now, Oh this is howBregman starts. Okay, Well,
to me, your stars when theystart slow, got to find a way
to help the rest of the team. They're not they're not good enough to

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overcome Bregman and out and and andalvarezz starts. This team's not good enough
to do that right now. Talented, yes, not good enough. And
it's an eye rolling start for thisteam. And while they'll get at some
point they'll win six in a rowor seven in row? Will they?
I think, will they? SoI think that's why I got a press

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last year. I had told youat any time in the last seven years,
I said, will they? Ofcourse, matter of fact, it
will happen three or four times rightnow if you ask me, they couldn't
win seven straight against Oakland that theycouldn't. So that that Yeah, there's
a concern here that you know,you just hang around until you get going.
But at some point in time,guess what's gonna happen. Paynia and

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Altuve are going to cool off fora minute. I mean they just that's
that's just gonna be. I mean, no offense to Pinion now, to
al Twove, maybe, but Payniaright now is not Wade Bogser or Tony
Gwinn. Okay, let's slow slowa roll here. But he's having an
I'll tell you right now, Ican make an argument that if you combine
an offense and defense right now,he may be your m v P.

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Payya with it and and Tucker's inthe I'm just talking about both because Tucker
plays good right field, but theway Payne is playing as a middle infielder
in a premium position and hitting andyou've moved You started him at seven,
hit him at eight, move himup at six, the into five.
Now he's hitting in the cleanup Spiding'sresponded every single time everybody. Maybe that
guy, maybe he's ere in theright already to be a little more verbal

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and get it going. But it'snot just the verbal, it's let's get
rolled. And so I'm really anxiousto see how the the the Astros respond,
and I'm really anxious to see howthey respond when they're getting their ass
handed to them on a regular basis, and they are today being that who's
pitching today, Renel Blanco? Okay, that's right, Blanco. Well,
he's been the ac er staff thisyear. He's in Yankee Stadium. Can
he keep the ball in the ballpark? We'll go find out. Yeah,

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Renel Blanco three and zero two.He's been your stud so far. Yep.
So if there's a guy that canavoid the sweep for the shows,
that's Renel Blanco. One thing youbrought up, Sean in regards to the
you know, the narrative. Oh, well, the pitching staff is getting
healthy. It's right around the corner. Chris Navier and Jose Rikety do we

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really expect them to start when theyget back from their rehab assignments to go
six seven strong? It's discussing nexton Sports Talk seven ninety. Back to
the Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. Your Astroids, your rockets,
your voice, Nicolo, what doyou what do you call them?

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Sean, Nicola jok Well, ifyou really want to go, you say
Nicolai Djoki. Nicola Jokic wins theMVP in the NBA. It's his third
and four years Yep, tough.You know. Even on that final call
tripley. Can you roll that finalcall back real quick, Sean, Just
listen to the sadness in Robert Ford'svoice too. Two and Alvarez hits it

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in the air to center Lope again, Judge, he's waiting for it,
squeezes it and that is the ballgame. The Yankees have taken the first two
of the series, meeting the HoustonAstros tonight by a final of nine to
four. Astros have lost four ina row. Astros have lost four in
a row. They're twelve and twentyfour. Bruh, bruhs. Right,

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there's no fight, there's no sense. No, there's none of that.
You can is it goodbye? No, none of that either. Could you
kiss them goodbye? Yeah? Fortwenty twenty four? Yes? Is it
still too early? That crowd wentaway real quick, isn't it. No?
I think around August we can.That's when it's tour. Oh you
mean when it gets here? Yeah, they move from or they move Bregman,

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that's what you're thinking. Hmmm.Interesting, Well, they're not going
to be buyers. You got tobuy low, sell high, right what
I call it? That's business oneof this. Yeah. Ye. And
you can't co mingle funds. No, I've tried to teach you that.
I know. I picked up onit a little cole mingling. Yeah,
exactly seven one three, two twofive seven ninety calls lighting up early.

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It's six point twenty one here onthe Sewn Salisbury Show. Random will welcome
in. Hey, good morning,guys man. We've been talking about what
to fix, uh, how tofix the pitch and how to fix the
hitting, but we haven't figured outhow to fix the coaching on the managerial
position. You know, I thinkthat the players have been uncomfortable since the

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season started. I think that thebad in order uh made them un comfortable
from the beginning. You're done isnot used to hitting. Second, I
mean, they disrupted this team fromthe beginning. And if we're in this
same situation next year this time,the fans are gonna be really upset.
And you know, I was thinkingthat maybe we should start Hater off to

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pitch the first inning and then youknow, reverse it and to let the
bullpens start off. We've been playingso bad with the pitching, and then
maybe the starter can come close itout. Hang on her. Before you
go anywhere, let me let meask you this and the two things.
I'm just curious in your thought process. And I like where you're going with
the first part of it. Andwe know Hater is not going to start

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a game. But I get Iget your thinking. I know what you're
talking about a little hyperbolic fund Iget it to to disrupt, but you
you mentioned disruption. I'm gonna sayoverall, I don't think this team's been
disrupted enough I think they're way toocomfortable. That's one as an overall.
But let me ask you this,if you're a great hitter, I mean
I'm talking about, if you're feelingright and you're a great hitter, does

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does it really matter? I mean, and not just put it on a
spot in the lineup. But okay, so you put him in a two
hole. Should we honestly just say, oh, he's uncomfortable, man,
poor guy can't hit the two hole. We got to put him one guy
back in the three. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Dan
and be select. Same thing withBregman. I don't care if he's in
seven or hitting in two or inthe four hole. And I know people

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go through slumps, but when wesay, yeah, man, I'm not
you, but we we've all saidit. Woman. Maybe he's uncomfortable hitter,
that's fine. But if you're goingto be there, get comfortable,
you're gonna have to deal with it. So see, to me, this
team is highly underrated, I meanhighly underachieving. Yeah, no, I
get you. And and see Joea spot has got to get out of

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his comfort zone. If you've gotto change the lineup every day like Joe
Madden, and Tampa used to thenchange the lineup every friggin day. I
mean, I mean the batting orderto find out where you're gonna get hot.
You can't just you can't be dothe same thing over and over again
and ask for a different result.And you're right now they've moved it around
Bregman moves. But with your nonand good hitters, if they're feeling right,
you and I both know hell Seanwould I would have left the lineup

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the same as it was last year. Yes, the problem we had was
with Margonado hitting right. We haveenough people to pitch hit for him.
Yep. So we come in andwe want to tweak and do this chemistry
and I logical type stuff with thisteam. It's not gonna work. Baseball

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is baseball. Let's keep it simple, Let's win, and if we are
in the same situation next years timewe are, I think that I don't
think it'll take till next year.I think if in August July August,
if they're playing like this, Ithink the fans stay home and the rest
of the season. I don't thinkyou're going to see a lot of them
show up to Why would you payone hundred bucks for a ticket. If
the product you're putting on the fieldis irritating, and you make a great

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point, it almost feels like italmost feels like jan it's okay. It
almost feels like Joe Aspota made thechange just for change, because he didn't
want to do the same things Dustydid. Am I right, that's it.
That's it. That's it. Justkeep it simple and and and and
continue to play baseball the way we'vebeen playing. And then if it's anything

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that needs to be changed along theway that we see he changed things,
he's trying to fix something that wasnever broken. Good point, ra I
just needed to tweak a few littlethings. But Joe Spotta is not a
good matter. I don't even seehim go out on the mound and talk
to the pictures. Yeah, Ihave a pretty game. Thanks, appreciate

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you, brother, Thank you.Uh you know what, I I know
where to find Joe Spatta. There'snowhere's Waldo, right, I know where
to find him. You know onething that that he mentioned about last year,
and I think about this quite often, especially here over the last week
or so. At this point lastyear, the team was above five hundred.
If I remember directly Maudy was hittingunder two hundred, Jose al Tuove

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hadn't even suited up yet because hewas hurt, and Justin Berlander wasn't even
on the freaking team. Well,that's fact. This roster is better this
year. This hitting lineup is betterthis year. You've got yan here Diez
in the lineup. Well, butI thought that anybody and with this team,
anybody can manage this team. Iswhat we were told time in and

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time out. Okay, so thenI'm supposed to come out and say this,
anybody, you can go twelve andtwenty four. Yeah, you and
I can manage into twelve and twentyfour. Yeah. It's like I always
say when somebody will team's two andfifteen and football, guess what I can
do. I can coach a teamto two and fifteen. That seems pretty

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easy to do. But it's alsogot to fall the accountability on the player's
And right now, there's some playersthat are such high high underachievers and it's
a bit shocking at Oh, there'sno doubt, no doubt, that's that's
I mean, let's see they werelet's see fifteen and thirteen after April of

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last year and then so let medo some quick math here. Man,
I'm so bad at math, dude, what's the what's your question? They
were? They were? Yeah?They were about five hundred. Yeah,
I mean even though they started slow, they weren't twelve. They weren't this

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sluggish. No, And I honestly, and I had the conversation, like
I said, with that with agood friend and big time Astros lover and
supporter. I they were thirty twoand twenty three after May of last year.
Yeah, well that doesn't look likea whole lot of struggle. It's
nine games over five hundred and playinggood, good baseball. I they I

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don't want to hear. And wehad the conversation. I honestly don't.
I'm tired of it. I understanda picture that those one hundred and ten
pitches. You're you're not gonna tellme that, well, we're tired from
Well if that's the case, thenthe Kansas City chiefs are tired, right,
Oh yeah, then and then thenthe Dodgers should be tired. Well
look at look at shouldn't they?Yeah? Shouldn't? I mean, I

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honestly don't want to hear it.And this isn't disrespectful to baseball players played
it. I know you wear outyour arm play if you're a catcher,
but I honestly I don't want tohear that the third baseman's tired because he
played one hundred and fifty games lastyear. I don't listen, you get
paid to show up. This ain'tload management, and they don't they keep
playing. I don't, well,well, you know we've played it.

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We're tired. They get tired,fatigued. Guess what, you better get
an extra pod of coffee because theperson sitting home that has to go put
a roof on today in ninety sevendegree or ninety four degrees and eighty ninety
percent he made it. If theydon't show up, they don't get paid.
And I know that sounds well,you can't make that comparison. You're
damn right, I can, especiallywhen that guy's got to go pay one

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hundred and twenty five bucks or threehundred or four in a bucks forss family
go watch a game. And I'mnot saying it's just about the fan,
but I'm gonna tell you somebody's gotto say. I confess it's my fault,
and I got to pick my gameup, not looking around. I
retired and blame it on injuries andan umpire missed a call. No,
no, no, no no.Right now the Astros are zero. They

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walk into a building and people say, oh, after the sixth inning,
we got this one. H andin the first inning, we're gonna score.
And we haven't been able to saythat about this team in about eight
years. Yeah, and here weare in their twelve and twenty four seven
one three, two, one twofive seven ninety is the number to join.

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We'll take your calls all morning long. As the Astros lose another one,
they look to avoid the sweep.Can Renell Blanco get him back on
track? That's next. This SeanSalisbury Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety
nine, Home for Your Home TeamsYears a serio real quick, Before we
get back out to the phone lines, let's hear from manager Joe spot.

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Uh. You spoke about jord Onand Alex Bregman struggling. You know,
at some point there will you know, you you hope that it happened that
day, but it eventually will happen, you know. But it's nice to
see other guys contributing, you know, Panya du Bond Jake. You know,
everyone just showing out, do theirbest, and then once things turn

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around, things with one place.That's where we are, Sean, that's
where we are. Everyone's trying todo their best. At some point they'll
turn it around. Sometimes some pointthey'll come around, some point they'll get
there. Oh it's coming, they'llget hot, they'll go on a roll.
Oh, everyone's trying their best.I ever tell you the story,
but you kidding me. I evertell you the story about guy I was
talking about buy guy, Jerry Burns, Jeshuly. We took him for granted,

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and he got fired at the endbecause he was a great coach and
it was our friend. But he'dhad a long line of tremendous success.
Ran Burnsy, god restles soul wasthe best love Burnsy, matter of fact,
line went to Minnesota. I waslike, this is Jerry Burns.
He was with Bud Grant, justa phenomenal human being. And everybody loved
Tim. The epitome of players,old school players, coach. And so

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we were playing and I might havetold you this, but bears repeating real
quick. We're playing, We're havinga season. We're dude, we are
freaking loaded. It's the second halfof the season, and we just get
our ass handed to us, andwe got He called the million dollar players
back then, which now, thoseguys, if you translated that was the
highest homent would be million dollars,making three or form that was the high
dollar. Yeah. Well, ifyou made million dollars, could have been

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describing a five million dollar player.But at that point in time, when
you made over seven figures big moneyand it started going there, guys would
be making twenty five or thirty.Chris Dolman would be making TJ. Watt
money right now, right, JohnRandall that that type of thing. We
had a bunch of. He calledthem big knockers, meaning the big dogs.
You got to go do your thingright. And so we're playing and

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we come back, get our asskick, he said to the team,
and he goes and I'm imitating burns. You. Yeah, yeah, you
like to drop f poms like sixtyof them in a meeting. Yeah,
you big knockers. You know themedia and the fans, I don't care
what they say. They say,you guys are too old and too slow
blank them. Well, we'll playany team in the parking lot. This
was a week, and he wenton because we were struggling. It's like,

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we're too good to struggle, right, We're like to ask load will
five Hall of famers and a defensiveplayer that you were on that team,
and so yeah, you have boom, go to it. Next week,
get our ass handed to us.Comes in your big knockers, this football
team that the media says you're you'reold and slow, and you know what,
I believe them. And it wasa lot funnier, but it was

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funny. You wanted to laugh,but he was serious. Yeah, he
defended defenditifenn he came back because wewere playing old and slow and we weren't
old. We just didn't play.And he's talking about some of the big
knockers, big money guys. Andsix weeks seven weeks later, Burnsy was
out and they were placing with DannyGreen, who was phenomenal but we didn't
know at the time, but itwas the comfort zone of Burnsy And it
reminds me of Joe A. Spotsaid, Oh, at some point we're
gonna get good. I believe inhim. When's it gonna come? Where?

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He says, you know what,we're underachieving and we're not very good.
That's what everybody says, and youknow what, they're right. I
believe him. Yeah, so itwas it was that's familiar. But Brisy
Burns he didn't care about the mediaor trying to sugarcoat it. And he
flat out looked at the big doctorsaid, you're basically underachieving. They say
you're old, slow and under you'renot producing. And you know what,

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I believe them. You want totalk about the group said, this is
our guy, Burnsey tell him assistsyou looked around, put your head on
a swivel, like you want tosave his job. You better pick the
temple up, and didn't do enoughto save it. And that was on
us, not him. We takeresponsibility for it. Yeah, well fall
on the player. At some pointit will happen, but how long and
can you sustain it? So sevenseven ninety Jason, good morning, Good

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morning, my friends. Tell y'alldoing today? Fantastic brother, what's on
your mind? You know, asyou know that little clip you just played,
you know, I just can't helpbut think that that he's just too
damn calm. Yeah, he's noton fire. But my thing is,
you know, whenever you think aboutit, you know and I always tell

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people, I kind of feel likea spot took a job thinking that everything
was going to be, you know, the same as pace as it's always
been, and like, you know, wouldn't necessarily have to make a lot
of changes and everything else in there. And yeah, I know the man
can't go out there and pitch,and he can't you know, he can't

(27:38):
bat for him, But like itthe other more like the other afternoon when
he was listening to the game onseven ninety and I think there was a
balk situation and he came out andhe tried to talk to the umpire,
and the umpire basically tells him toget his butt back into the dugout.
He just like he didn't even contestedor try to contend. You know,

(28:02):
it's like you want to believe inthis team, and you want to believe
in the guy that they put inplace, I mean, but it's just
like it's like it's not there.Something's missing. I just feel like over
the years that they just put everythinginto trying to contend for the Alcs,
and now you're having to plug andplay because you know, you pretty much

(28:25):
gave up a lot of your farmto keep on being in the race every
year. So I just, youknow, I just feel like somebody needs
to give this man a toothpick andyou know, just run with the way
things used to run. But Iknow they ain't. I mean, I'm
just a fan. I'm not oneof them guys that you know, know
everything. But I just feel likethere's there's something, there's a disconnect between

(28:48):
him and the team. Yeah,thank you for the call. Appreciated,
Jason. That man with the toothpickalso deserves far more respect than sometimes at
times of people game. He mayjust here. I know he old school
and gave people a heart time inthe media, but that's old school,
does that. The guy knew howto win, and he knew how to
get players to overcome any kind oflittle adversity. He was a great calming
effect and knew how to to keepthings moving. There's a lot to learn

(29:12):
on this roster right now, andit starts with the manager. Make no
mistake about it. Seven one,three, two two five seven ninety Miss
Carrol, good morning. Hello,Hello you guys. Listen now, I'm
not I'm not in a fantasy world. I am in reality. Hey,

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Sean, what's up all right?How you doing today. Well, I'm
fine, but listen, I stillhave confidence in our team. The thing
that it's an emotional thing. AndI keep preaching this over and over until
you recognize it's your your mechanical mentalproblem. You're you're gonna constantly go down.

(30:03):
If you say, hey, I'mgetting out of this. If you
gotta, if you have the mindto say I'm getting out of this,
I'm gonna overcome this, then everythingis gonna fall in place. I know
we got along summer ahead. Butthe point I'm trying to make I understand

(30:30):
Joe a Spider. I understand whathe's saying. But but when they come
out of this, like I said, we're gonna look back over this and
laugh and and and and I knowit's the same CD playing over and over.

(30:51):
But I'm gonna tell you something.I got faith and confidence and our
team shine and and it's it's hardto believe being the fact that we were
two year World Series champions and wewon the championship, it's hard to believe

(31:15):
that we're paying playing this tour.But there is a way to escape.
And I, you know, Ijust wanted to say that, and I
you know, but I face realitybut it's an a mental emotional thing that

(31:40):
they have got to come to gripswith themselves. I'm talking about the players.
Yep, great call, Miss Carol. We sure appreciate you. And
uh, reality is an important thingand she's always upbeat and I like.
And she said something interesting about cometo grips and mental toughness and reality and

(32:00):
understanding that you've got to have thatmindset. Remember about three weeks ago,
four weeks and when I asked Joethe spot Joe Spot, I asked the
Dana Brown, is your team mentallytough? He said, we're gonna find
out? Right kind of goes alongwith what Miss Carroll sayings ago the question,
Yeah, the question I are theymentally tough? And right now this
team's been spot on mental toughness forseven six seven seasons. Right now,

(32:25):
whatever mentally tough team we're looking forthat Miss Carroll's talking out and we're searching
for it. Ain't gonna be youor me find it. I right now,
right today, I do question theirmental toughness the twenty twenty four team.
Yes, And you say how becausethis roster going in on the everyday
players was better than last year's.I know how we craved. Well,

(32:49):
I know what it is. Well, there's no disruption and there's a lack
of something going on on the leadershipside. Let's talk more about that.
Next on sports Flock seven to eightyare Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety
where Astros and Rockets play and RealTexans talk. Nikole Jokicic wins his third

(33:10):
MVP Trophy in the last four years, talking about the Astros and the struggles
seven one three, two one twofive seven niney. We'll start with Roger.
Roger, thanks for holding. What'sgoing on? What's going on?
Fellas? Yeah, rent, rint, wash and repeat. Man, it's
the same thing like you said GroundhogDay. Uh my, My My concern

(33:35):
is at one point, at whatpoint are we gonna stop talking about competitive
baseball? This is the most borderlinestate in checks over here, now.
Uh, you know, with Gregmanand Alvarez, I've never Yeah, I
got I got guys at the officeat a job, a couple more Yankee
Yankee fans, and you know,it's kind of fun to see, interesting
to see the other side of thefence how they look at it. Uh,

(33:58):
you know, these guys are notthey're not a holes. They're actually
cool people. They're okay uh andthey're like and they know because they were
looking forward to the postseason and wepretty much own him since since fifteen to
two fifteen. And he was like, man, he's like, I don't
understand it. He goes, I'venever seen the team drop off so far
from perennial contender to just now onborderline lot laughing stock if I want to

(34:22):
call it. And I you know, I was a green al. I
didn't see this coming at all.But I called earlier during the season and
said, you know, the teamteam takes on the personality of the coach,
but you know that's something that's justa line. But man, I
kind of believe it this time becauseI just think that the aspot as just

(34:44):
like a he's like a puppet man. He's almost Joe Biden. Like,
man, I'm not I'm not seeinghis fires, his passion, and I
don't know, maybe I'm missing somethinghere. And that's all I got.
Guys, keep all rolling. Appreciateit. Roger, don't ever compare Joe
Spot to Joe Biden. Let's notdo that. That would mean you never

(35:05):
get out of it. In thebasement, let's just let's just not do
that kind of Yeah, I'm notready to put a spot of there just
yeah, no, no, no, it'll be be a awful I'll let
Roger make that comparisons. That's yeah, you feel me, I'm picking up.
I feel you. Not a bighomie, I feel you. Steve,

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Hello, Steve, Hey guys,good morning. All right, this
is gonna be different. The Joe'sspotty is like when the guy gets saved
and he you know, he thoughthe was going on a Hawaiian vacation and
he found out he just joyed theRB. So let's talk about, uh,

(35:51):
the Great Karnac. Johnny Carson didThe Great Karnak and one of his
things was Mount Baldy and he said, how was don Nicholas get on the
course? So I'm gonna do threethings, Elf, shadow Lands and Miracle
on Ice? What does that mean? Elf? The last scene of Elf,
the girl starts singing in James Cohnand they have belief. They sing

(36:12):
a song about Christmas cheer. Sothat's number one. Number two shadow Lands
if you've never seen that, that'sthat story of C. S. Lewis
and he's talking about the guy that'ssleeping. The class that he goes into
the play oversus Socrates plate. Itwould say why why why? And Socrates
would say what what what? Andthe guy wakes up, he says,

(36:32):
the guy comes in, he sleeps, he leaves. The plot dickens,
So why versus what? And thethird thing is miracle on Ice. So
here's my thought. I had athought last night using the wood space.
Somebody said something yesterday on the radioand I said, space up, Steve,
we're getting up to the top ofthe hour. What's your astros comment.
I get where you're going about.They're only eight and a half games

(36:55):
out. Make up a song onspace up, okay, and they have
to believe, just like a Miracleon Ice, that they're the best team
in the world, and just likethe Chicago Bears, and make up a
song, be cocky, just likein Shawn does want to talk about they
were fifteen and one, they gettheir act. Excuse me that they beat

(37:16):
up by Chicago Bears and win wonthis Super Bowl. So that's it.
Thank you, Thanks Steve. Iknow this working will wishing won't? Yeah,
wishing one hand? What is it? What's the same, Yeah,
it's wishing one hand in the other, tell me which one. Phils,
Oh, faster, I get wherehe's going. Steve's got a lot of
like movie comparisons and stuff. IU, yeah, whatever it is,

(37:39):
but eight and they're only eight anda half out. Unfortunately, we're only
two months into the season. Soif this is the way they're going to
play till the All Star break theseason, they will never chase them down.
So in order I said this yestwo days ago, I'll say it
again. In order for them toget back to five hundred, they were
going to have to go seventeen andseven throughout May, and they would have

(38:05):
to win every series. They haven'tdone that. They're not going to get
back to five hundred. We cansit here and say, oh, they're
only eight and a half back.They're not even going to be five hundred
at the end of this month.It's just a reality check. Yeah,
eight and a half back is bsto me. Yeah, doesn't matter.
They're not even going to be afive hundred at the end of this month.
It's easy for us to say bothgood and bad because we're not out
there, but it is that that'swhat they do for a living, and

(38:31):
our expectations now part of it isthey, you know, spoiled us with
great baseball. But once again,last year doesn't earn you squat. Yeah,
you know that next year doesn't earnyou, squat. I think we
all think there's a sense of notjust them, but any of us.
Oh I want it last year?Don't you care about that? Absolutely?
I don't really give a ratsass aboutthe Rangers right now. Yeah, well

(38:52):
two years ago. Well did yousee us last year? I sure did.
I'm sure what I'm watching this yeartoo? Nobody, matter of fact,
not only do if they care.As Dana Brown said, the world
where everybody's chasing us. Now youknow we're the where the hunted. Well,
guess what it's time to go hunt? Yeah. And it's like it's
always hard to win this team.There's nothing that tells me that they can

(39:15):
roll off ten in a row.Talent tells me, but performance doesn't.
Right now, that you win fivein a row. Longest win streaks,
what three or do they get tofour? Three? I think I got
to three. They won both inMexico and then I came, I think
I want to go to the Guardians. Yeah, and they won the first

(39:36):
game of that series, right,So maybe four. Did they win the
first two games? Or no?They won win one lost one, No,
I don't even know. Three orfour games? Four max three?
Maybe three? See what that?There you go? They won? Yeah,
they won three in a row.Yeah, not good. So there's
a lot there's a lot of works. They won five out of six.
There's a lot of work to do, and then they've lost the last four.
A lot of work to do.Yeah, tons of work to do.

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It's his third in four years.The Knicks beat the Pacers in the
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are full here this morning seven onethree, two one two five seven nine
of us. Keep it tight,Let's keep it crisp. I want to
be respectful of everybody's time, butwe also want to hear from all of
you, the Astros fans. Everyone'supset, frustrated, pissed off, sad,
mad. What are you? Letus know? Let's get out to
UH starting uh tomball and talk toAlex. Alex you up, first man?

(42:43):
What's going on? Morning? Bella, Brian. I'm not even gonna
ask you how you're going today becauseI know you're gonna tell me fantastic.
Are being wonderful, but we bothknow that's a load of crap. And
they're in the Astros. They're playinglike I don't know, man, I
get to talk sports for a careerin a living. Man, I'm pretty
damn good, even though the Astrossuck right now. And the key here
is never to have your identity lockedup in a sports team, right,

(43:07):
Okay? That was that was anunfair chip shot. Or maybe you know
what, Alex, maybe we're justnut jobs. I don't know. Well
that's a fact. Okay, thatthat's a lie. That that's a fact.
I get to watch. I getto watch baseball and enjoy it.
I mean, my day isn't terribleeither. But I'm gonna start this with
this right here. I've been listeningto y'all show for two to two and

(43:28):
a half years. You ever takea couple of months. I was here
for Ryan Money, and I washere for Jugsy, and now I'm here
for Triple Y. And Tripley doesnot get the ignoledgy. He's on point
and he is on fire. Sayhey, you cut out. You see
he does not get the acknowledgement.I know he does from us and our

(43:51):
callers, so we we love him. Tripley is on point and on fire.
Man I call the show in themorning, is just talk to him?
Is the doubt. I'm gonna saythis. You've got You've got Chucker
and al Tuove who are playing likeit's contract years for both of them.

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And we both know, we allknow that al Tuo be done to sign
his contract and he's staying. Tucker'sgetting ready to sign a contract and that
I believe the next year or so. But Tucker's playing out of his mind.
So you've got them two that areplaying at an elite level. The
rest of the six hitters and playersare playing at a little league level,

(44:36):
and I don't know why, becausethey're all making money to do this.
And then you've got Bregman, whoI don't think it hit a baseball off
of a key right now. It'sit's crazy, it's it's hard to watch
it. It doesn't make sense.It blows my mind. This is what
he's got. One of the bestguys in baseball at the plate, he's

(44:59):
usually one of the better hitters,minus being a slow starter. And I'm
I'm very old school mentality. Whenit comes to that you're a professional baseball
player, there shouldn't be a slowstart to you being a professional baseball player.
That's why we have spring training.Nobody said that about Michael Branley.

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Nobody said that about Babe Ruth.There was no slow starts. You were
a professional baseball player. Get ittogether, get it over with, and
let's go do something. Are wegonna avoid the sweet tonight? Probably not
with the way they're swinging. Butat the same time, you're an elite

(45:42):
baseball club who knows how to playthe game. If you get back to
get back to basics, that's allyou gotta do. Thanks, brother,
a wonderful thanks. I'm not sure. I'd bet they're gonna win tonight and
take the Blanco gives you the bestchance they have on the staff right now,
with the way he's pitched this year. Now, the key is none

(46:06):
of us expected it to be thisdominant. Let's hope it continues. Pop
flies end up in the seats there. They're just hitting more of them,
right, that's they're more clutch.Barrels and baseball they're more clutch. It's
pretty simple. Let's talk to dominantdominic. Thanks for holding good morning,
Good morning to you guys. Iwant to give a whole lot of respect
to miss Carroll. I believe that'sher name. That's our blesserless, bless

(46:30):
the heart, bless the heart.But respectfully, Mail, you're wrong on
this one. Nothing. You're notwrong on your your optimism. But they're
not coming out of this. Istarted chuckling a little bit when Bryant mentioned
to they're about to trot you ofbought the sweep yet again, Dada Brown.

(46:50):
I mentioned this the last time Icalled. I rolled my eyes.
When he's on your show, Sean. He was on MLB Network saying the
same thing they were asking him about, you know, can you the team
being sellers? He was absolutely not. Why not? Is he pulling the
strings? Is he literally the generalmanager? Or are the other factors involved?
That's that's my one question that Ihang up and listen. My other

(47:13):
My other statement is justin Berlander,trade him to a contender, Alex Bregman,
trade him to a contender. Getwhat you can get Hunter Brown,
whatever you can get from Hunter Brown, do it because this isn't happening this
year. And it's okay. It'snot okay on how Pissport are playing,
but it's okay that you're gonna havea down year, But this isn't even

(47:37):
a down year, Sean Bryant.They're getting their assets handed to their night
in and night out. And Idon't mean to be disrespectful to come on
your program and curse like that,but they're getting mollywopped night in and night
out, and their steady trotting onthe field looking jolly. No enthusiasm,
no, no sense of urgency,no nothing, not even from not even

(47:59):
met from l Tuova. And Iknow that that's not his personality, but
this is just my as a formathlete myself. A standard has been set,
a culture has been set, andthis is your playing like dog crap.
You're not only embarrassing yourself and thenames on the back of the jersey,
but you're embarrassing those of us whogo out there and spend our hard

(48:20):
or money to support you. Youknow, if the general manager comes on
your program and he says, look, I like my whiskey straight, my
stakes media rare, and my cigarsslightly strong, to the point, just
give it to me straight. We'renot a good baseball team. We have
a lot of talent on the roster, but the talent is not living up

(48:42):
to what it should be and theculture of the team, the dynamic of
the team is not where it needsto be. So how are you not
going to be sellers? How canyou not after eight nine weeks into the
season start looking at it and like, whoa, we need to do something.
The Oakland Athletics soon to be theVeiggas Athletics are playing better than we
are, and they'll have they havea minor league system. I'm sorry,

(49:06):
minor league roster out there in Oakland, maybe in my league. In my
opinion, this may be the quickesthigher fire in the Ash Show's history because
somebody has to take the fall forthis, And just like the city of
Houston just got rid of the policechief and for you know, something that
was going on under his watch.Joe spotted nothing personal, But I'm sorry,

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I don't think he's it, DadaBrown, I don't think he's it
either. Guys, have a goodone, Thanks Dominic. Thanks. I
love my cigars strong, I mean, and I like my whiskey strong cigars
slightly strong, too strong. AndI like my steak medium rare as well.
And I can tell you this,here's what. Then Dominic is trying

(49:52):
to wrap up what he said andhe's passionate. I love it is I
hear a hint of built in excusesand overboard on the optimism. Sometimes you
got to have a come to Jesuswith where you are, not where you
think you're going to be. Youshould be taking every call and making every
call to see if you can upgradeyour roster. Now there may not be

(50:15):
about there you can upgrade, butit can't be. You know what I'm
gonna I'm gonna say this because Iwant my team to feel good. Right
now it's parents they feel too good. I know they don't like losing,
but I've questioned the sense of urgencythis year and I don't see it.
I've questioned did we lose leadership thisyear? And I said, I've give

(50:36):
them all the credit for what they'vedone. The talent on the team.
I do know that they want towin. Nobody likes to lose, nobody
likes to embarrass themselves. But weall say that, but are you doing
the necessary and taking the necessary stepsto fix it? In my opinion,
I love when Dana comes on eachweek and I'm gonna I'm gonna go hard
at him to get the answers andbe respectful but hard at him all the
time and he knows it. ButI can tell you this that we do

(51:00):
need disruption with this franchise right nowsomehow whatever whatever that equals. Yeah,
and Dana Brown, it's got toget to the point where somebody's got to
step up and they got to beuncomfortable addressing this situation, and the players
need to understand that last year doesin the last seven years don't mean anything.
Yeah, you know, That's That'sthe thing that I also thought about

(51:22):
yesterday was we sit here and asfans we crush the saying back of the
baseball card. I don't like itbecause it looks in the past, right,
that's not present. That's not whenyour career is over. That's a
career, that's a lifetime Achievement award. But yet when things are going bad,
we say, oh, this game'sbeen turned upside down because we want

(51:45):
to go back to twenty twenty twowhen they won the World Series. If
we as fans are going to crushthe back of the baseball card saying we
have got to stop living in thepast. Oh, they've been here,
they've done this before, They've startedout slow before. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I understand that that's inthe past. They've won World's Series,
they've been to the ALCS. Thisis completely different. This is a new
manager, these optics, what we'relooking at now, This is completely different

(52:07):
than anything we've ever seen from anAstros team in the last seven years.
This is not the same in thepast. We have got to stop living
in the past. If they weretwenty four and twelve, everybody'd be saying,
this is a World Series team.Yes, they're twelve and twenty four.
And the response we get is everything'sgonna be okay, we'll turn it
around, and maybe they will.This is the biggest maybe I've seen in

(52:29):
eight years, Yes, exactly mypoint, exactly the biggest IF I've seen.
As I'll tell you what it is. You know how I feel about
ifs on a roster right on ateam. I say it all the time.
This is by far the most ifsI've seen on a roster here since
I aside from nine when I firstgot here in twenty thirteen, but since

(52:50):
about twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,there's more ifs not on the talent,
on the production and well this andwe got to do this, and I
trust it this guy, you know. But I'll tell you what. My
trust isn't at an all time high. My trust right now in that they're
gonna turn it around. Sits betweenabout a four and a four and a
half. They'll turn it around,will they? Here's here's what I mean.

(53:14):
As I finish it's turn it around? Dot dot dot. Do I
believe they're going to sustain the turnaroundin twenty twenty four? There's no indication
that it is other than about twoor three players. That's not enough.
That's not enough. That's just thecold ard facts. And if you don't
like them, guess what. Idon't give rats ask either. But I'm
gonna support them regardless, right.But the fact is that if you can't,

(53:35):
the first thing is probably they probablyneed a mirror in front of everybody's
locker. Yeah, instead of lookto the other guy, it's a stare
into your own soul. If youwant to fix this, and there's a
few guys that obviously know it's them, Yeah, gotta figure it out.
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(54:44):
one, three, two two fiveseven ninety a. Right, let's see
if we can find some optimism andsome calls. Let's try that. Well,
what times the Texans game? Exactly? Is that schedule? When's that
schedule? Release? Stroud Stroud showingup at a battle right around the corner,

(55:04):
Mike, you're up first. Goodmorning, Hey, good morning guys
man, it's been twenty six minutes. I've been hauling anyway, I'll keep
the Chrispin short. We've seen thistrain wreck, small train wrecks from last
year, all right. They putus on a roller coaster. H that
was crazy up and down. Inever thought would get off of it.

(55:25):
And now it's uh, basically we'reseeing the results. We didn't win the
division last year. The Rangers lostit to us, and then they took
care of visitors in the playoffs andhanded our handed our what's on a plate?
So this is we shouldn't be surprisedat what we're seeing. And as

(55:45):
the saying goes, I think Alexanderthe Great said, you know, an
army of an army of sheep.I'm afraid of an army of sheep lit
by a lion. Then I amon an army of lions led by a
sheep. So right now, Idon't know if we're an army of sheep
or an army of lions by whoand what and final a crane. Right
now, I'd be in the lockerroom swinging a fish bampot and knocking sometention

(56:08):
to these players and figuring out whatthe hell's going on? Great point,
Mike, I think your point isso well taken. I don't. The
question is do we have a lionat the front of it? That's part
of it? And I think he'sit's valid. That has nothing to do

(56:28):
with good guy knows baseball, hellof a person, people love him.
Maybe he needs to go one hundredand eighty degrees different to get those guys
awake. I don't know. Youdo have to try listen how many times
when you're people are coming up withinventions or does this work or investments,
and you go try to sell itto somebody and say, man, invest

(56:51):
this. They say no, no, no, no no, and you're
like gosh dang. And then allof a sudden you make a little shift
in your deck, or you makea little and oh I like that you
changed, you changed, Oh youchanged one leader in the company, or
you changed one part of this.Oh that technology looks good. You fail
a lot of times. So inhis early you cannot get comfortable with this.

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Joe Aspata needs to be so uncomfortablewith what's going on. He's got
to get out of his own sitthere and just watch it happen. At
some point in time, he's goingto have to And he doesn't have a
bat or a ball in his Hey, he's not playing, but he's going
to have to show the other guysthat he's prepared to be disruptive and take
the whatever stuff comes out of itto get his guys to respond. And

(57:38):
it is incumbent upon the players ifhe doesn't to respond on their own and
carry him. If that's what it'sgoing to take, what'd I tell you?
Great coaches with average players or averageperformance get fired. Great players with
an average coach who perform, getthe coach a or the manager in this
case a contract extension, so whateverit is. Sometimes you got to see

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somebody, you know how somebody doessomething. You say, I didn't know
that actor? Could I actor?Like, let me give you a Sandler
real quick, Brant and we wentand saw our guy Swards in. Yeah,
when you saw Sandler, what's thefirst thing comes to your mind about
his movies? What do you dowith his movies? Normal? Say it
loud or something? Okay? Whenhe came out with uncut Gems, did

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you say that's a did you seeit when he's a gambler? Yeah,
uncut Gyms. He deserved an Oscarnomination. And having known him for a
long time, even like, damn, because you don't know, we've seen
you know, you see guys allof a sudden, Oh Manny's humorous and
they get in a drama or something. He's like, oh my gosh,
because you don't know the versatility,and everybody shocked. And he said,

(58:43):
I need more of that with JoeA. Spotta. I need more of
what he's not giving, at leastat least for the optics standpoint for us,
I don't think you can live onwill come out of it. It's
just a matter of time. Amatter of time. Eighty games in will
be too late. So when yougo from comedy to drama and you can
hit both, maybe Joe needs togo from calm to a little les guy.

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It doesn't mean yelling and screaming,Brian, I don't mean that.
It means something whatever, whatever thechange is. But I'm going to tell
you this, at some point time, if you're a great team, you
don't rely on somebody else to getyou ready. Yeah, I mean performs
great talent, but I mean agreat team. And it's not Joe as
Spottish job every day. Like Isaid, say yesterday, say it again.
The shirts are coming. Motivations temporary, Discipline's permanent. This team doesn't

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look very disciplined this year. No, you can tell me you're motivated till
the cows come home. You're motivateduntil somebody punches you right in your throat.
And the Yankees have done it twiceand that's ended up in what seventeen
runs in two games. How's thatfrom motivation. They don't give a rats
ass about your motivation your twelve andtwenty four start. They just know they're
kicking it. They're six and ohagainst the Astros this season, and six

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and oh with heavy punishment. Yes, let's get to ray before we get
to break ray. Good morning,good morning. You already know what I'm
gonna do. Man Dominique was hisname, he keep he stole my thunder.
I was gonna go Scar start,but Danger Brown listened to Danger Brown

(01:00:13):
on you guys to show, andI'm like, I'm like, Dominique Willis,
I was just rolling vised because it'sjust it's just coach speak, or
not even coach speak, but justit's just cliche after cliche after cliche,
and instead of addressing the problem inthe room and what I think it is,
and and again, I'll I'll hangup and listen in just a moment.
But something's off with this team moralewise. And I don't know if

(01:00:38):
I know Bragman has made a coupleof cryptic comments and whatnot. But at
some point when you have when youhave someone in the in the locker room
or in the clubhouse that that doesn'twant to be there, or it's not
all in, that's filters, thatthat's a cancer, and and and other
players and it gets to other playersright now. I just feel like you

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need to cut the snake off atthe head. I feel like if you,
if you find somewhere to move Bregman, get him out of the get
him out of the clubhouse, becausehe's just moping around and looking like he
like he doesn't want to be there, or he's just playing out the screen.
Find somewhere for him to play.Get some prospects back because somebody will,
somebody will take them. He's gotthat track record. Find somebody to

(01:01:23):
take them. Get that. Getthe morale back up, because right now
the morale is off. Somebody's somebody'sgot the morale totally off in that clubhouse.
But you know, I mean,I don't know. I again,
I'll hang up and listen to seewhat you guys have to say and comment
on that. But hey, guys, take care. I have agree Thursday.
Thank you, Ray. Thanks right, all right, let's address that
we go to break. Yeah,let's let's continue to take your calls at

(01:01:44):
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bam bam bam, Yeah, no, chalk of Car's get out to l
Passo and talk to Dwayne. Dwayne, welcome in, Good morning, gentlemen.
Hey, I'm gonna make a prediction, and I'm gonna say that this
year as hard, you know,as hard as they're playing, but they're
not, man, they're not playingat all as far as you know,

(01:04:40):
defense, offense or anything. I'mgonna go with one hundred and twenty losses
this year and they're gonna uh takeover the Mets record in nineteen sixty.
But the question I got here,Dwayney, Dwayney, They're they're terrible.
Dwayne, they gonna lose any man, I love you. And then l
Passo, I'm sure you're having agreat data, but they're not losing one
hundred and twenty games. Come on, Okay, okay, you say they're

(01:05:03):
not, but I'm telling you theway they're playing they're going to do it,
man, break the record. Butthe question I got, how long
is he going to take before theyrebuild this team? Well, if they,
I got news for you, myman, and I hope you have
a great day, but I appreciateyou calling all the way from el Pass
to Dwayne. If they lose onehundred and twenty, well let that be

(01:05:24):
one hundred. That would be onehundred. No, no, they'd be
that'd be losing. Let's see,there'd be one hundred and not a one
hundred. They wouldn't lose a hundredtwenty games. Oh yeah, no,
it would be if they would.He say, they're gonna win sixty,
so they're gonna win forty two games. No, that they're gonna lose one
hundred and two games. Now Instaidone hundred and twenty. He said,
well, well, if they loseone hundred and twenty games, that means
they're gonna go forty two and onetwenty. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

(01:05:47):
I was even going sixty wins andthat would be one hundred and two
losses. That's what we're going Youwant rebuild, my man, Dwayne.
Guess what will rebuild if they loseone hundred and two games. He said
one hundred and twenty because he mentionedthe mess and that was in nineteen sixty
two. Okay, so that meansokay, So then he has him going
forty two in a buck twenty.Yes, if they go forty two and

(01:06:09):
a buck twenty, I got theywon't only rebuild. I can name about
eight nine people that will not havejobs when this year is over, and
I'll start right from right under misterCrane down to a handful of players.
That guy will be gone. Thatguy'll be gone. That guy be gone.
They'll be replacing a whole bunch ofpeople if they go. When he
said it, I'm thinking not sohe wont He literally is talking about one

(01:06:30):
hundred and twenty two losses. Yeah, never gonna have That's not gonna happen
at all. That's not gonna happen. Harry Hatchet, ass, Joe sixpack,
and well Shaka Khan can win morethan forty games? What in twenty
twenty four? Oh, let's seeif Neigel, if they do, that
would be Nigel. No, it'sNegel. Oh did needgel? That's my

(01:06:53):
Badgel? Yeah, that's red.I should have read proper you say you
weren't looking at the board. Iwas. I'm not bad. That's all
good. I'm bad. Thanks night. How's it going, guys? Oh
we are just peachy, my man. So I've got a not a revolutionary

(01:07:13):
thought process here. It's already beentried, and I don't understand. You
know, we're already defining insanity withwhat we're doing right now with running the
same thing out there. We've triedtweaking the lineup a little bit, but
what would be the harm in tryingfor say a week, which would be
a start for everybody. What wouldbe the harm in trying an opener?

(01:07:38):
You know? I mean, ourproblem is we've been giving up. We
were second, we probably are firstnow and giving up the most runs in
the first inning, Like why notturn the game over to our guys in
the second inning or the third inningwhere the softer part of the other team's
lineup is. And you know,a lot of times our batters could be

(01:07:59):
pressing a little bit because you goout there and start the second inning and
you're down by three or four runs, like, you know, guys start
chasing stuff. And I'm not sayingthat's the only reason our hitters are batting
bad, but why not try somethinga little bit different. I mean it
was tried I think by Cleveland orDetroit a couple of years ago. I
mean you got to mix it up, you know, try something else.

(01:08:20):
So you're doing now it's not working. Neigel, do you want an opener
for one game? Are you saying, like, do it three or four?
I mean, because one game isnot going to turn this around.
So do you you just want thatto change a little bit of confidence or
are you talking about mix and matcha full series? What do you what
do you mean just one game toget it started? No? No,
I said, a whole a wholeweek. Oh wait, okay, everybody

(01:08:43):
get a start out of it andsee who it benefits and who it doesn't
benefiting. And if it benefits somemore than others, then you know where
you you may be able to helpyourself out. Okay, let me ask
you this. Do you believe andI understand what you're talking about, because
you're right, you're always in achase mode with this team because they're down
three to one, four to one, five to one by the time second
inning, So maybe the hitters arepressing whatever that is. But do you

(01:09:06):
believe this team would get out ofa comfort zone of doing that. Judging
from what you've seen, there's nothere's no freaking Joe spot and won't do
that. And you and I bothknow it. I know he won't.
And then that's the problem, youknow, you Sometimes you gotta try something
new. Amen, Now that thatI'm on board with that. Yeah.

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Like I said, that's the disruption, change up pitch that we need.
Negil. Thanks, thank you,Neel, appreciate it. Yeah, I
mean if you look at uh,you know what, I'll tease it for
next segment. How about that?Ye getitar callers team? Yeah, I
mean we will also continue to getto your calls. Larry Isabelle Brandon.
We will get to you next aswell. Let's look at the first inning
for the Astros pitching on the roadso far this season, it is not

(01:09:50):
good. Next here on Sports Talkseven to eighty, we want to win.
Sean Salisbury continues on seven ninety.My little tonsil hockey used to say
that when you're like eight, getback out to the phone, I said,

(01:10:12):
little. Does that sound like alittle river band? Yeah? No,
yeah, does what happened to youman? Sounds just like l RB
river band. That's what we're callingAbout'm right, there's they're more average white
band than the than the average whiteband. No, there's a yeah,
they're they're they're more. That's justit's little river band. Yeah, exactly,
white dudes with long hair. Okay, bad Isabelle? Good morning,

(01:10:38):
Good morning, Good morning, gentlemen. How are you good? What's happening?
I have a couple of points.One of them is I really believe
that the culture of the whole teamreally changed when Bagwell came aboard. As
much as I loved him as aplayer and I was there during those times,
it's just changed. And I thinkthat he is a big part of

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that. So I think the blamereally has to go from the top.
The team can't rely on what's happeningat the top. Bagwell was put in
and muddy the waters. We werean analytical team that was a focus,
and it was focused from top tobottom, and everybody knew it. Everybody
knew that's our focus, and that'sthe way we went. We built up
to it and became a strong team, and he came in and kind of

(01:11:24):
muddied the waters by wanting to goback to some old school ways, and
I think when that started happening,everybody started losing a little faith in the
front team and what was happening,and the deals weren't being made, and
the deals that were being made didn'talways make sense. And I think when
you start losing that confidence in whatthe front office is doing, it trickles

(01:11:45):
down to the guys. They're professional, but you know, when the culture
changes, it changes everything and ittakes a while to get that back.
And my other point is about Bregman. I love him and he is struggling.
They also think the whole contract thing, as much as he can say
it doesn't bother him, in theback of his mind, has got to

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here, we made a deal andmade a big deal about keeping out to
they hear long term astro and youknow Bregnant's got to be thinking a little
bit in his mind, Well whatabout me. I've done a lot for
this team. I've been here,I've helped you know, win these championships.
I've been around and boom right away, I was on the block through

(01:12:29):
the media anyway about possible trade,possible trade, and you know, he's
human, that stuff has to awighon him. That's those are my points.
Thank you great stuff, Isabelle.I'm gonna tell you I said it.
And when I asked Dany Brown yesterdayif the contract was bothering Bregnan,
he said, well, he's alreadyhad one big one that was like one
hundred million, right, this islooking at three hundred million, so that's
big. This is generationals one hundredmillion. I get it. This is

(01:12:51):
well three times that in times havechanged. So I and I think Dana
Brown does believe that the pressure thathe he's not adding pressure to himself.
I do believe he's being honest aboutthat. I do, But I'm with
Isabelle, there is no frigging well. You look me in the face right
now, and you tell me thatif you were facing that and then you

(01:13:11):
started to struggle, that you weren'tthinking about it when you were home with
your wife and kid, or sittingin a clubhouse a loan, or on
a plane flight when you're listening tomusic, or of course it does,
matter of fact, I'd be concernedif you didn't. Now that doesn't drive
you the love of playing and doingit knowing, just do your thing,
get back to your ti. Thereis and then when you start to struggle.
You're telling me, you're thinking,man, am I losing money every

(01:13:32):
bat? It would be virtual andyou'd have to be the Good Lord himself
to stare right through that and sayI'm overcoming No big deal, that's out
of my mind. I don't believe. I don't know any athlete. Now.
I know ones that can compartmentalize.Yep, leave the contract outside that
are going and do your thing.But there is no way with the struggle

(01:13:53):
and what's going on. And thisis not just generational wealth, this is
life changing for eight generations type ofmoney he wants to get, and then
the struggle kicks in. I couldn'tdisagree. I completely disagree. I think
that it does matter and it doesplay a part. And Isabelle's one hundred
percent correct, and I'm also Icouldn't agree more with her with the Jeff

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Bagwell comments. Sometimes you try toinfuse yourself into a situation where it's not
your expertise. Jeff's expertise was playingfirst base and hitting the ball. Should
be in player development and that's it, and I'll have problems they go and
if they came in, it's ahitting instructor. Yes, the dude knows
that hit. And I understand peoplecan get better at certain things in there

(01:14:38):
that you can, but there arethere also comes a point in time when
you realize that's probably not your specialty. Yep, and being a baseball analyst
probably isn't either for him. Yeah, but I can tell you this,
he knows that hit and play firstbase and run the basement, all those
things. Yes, being good atone doesn't make you good at the other.
I've seen it too many times,right, We just think it sometimes

(01:15:00):
if if you're the player, youthink, oh, I can do that,
and then you realize, oh,there's a lot more than just well
when I played, Yeah, itdoesn't work. A lot more to it.
Larry, good morning, Well,good morning man. How y'all doing
today? Man, it's so goodto hear your voice. Larry, my
guy, what's happening? What's that? I know where you're, where you're
going, But you're hanging in therewith all his brother I'm trying to man,

(01:15:25):
I'm sitting here watching now. Iseen three home runs hit the day.
Two of them went to the oppositefield. Sohoto hit his the left
center. Uh, the big Mannine and nine, he hit his the
right center you know, and thatpitch that Stanton hit, Wow waist hime

(01:15:50):
middle of the play yep, Imean you know, uh, we are
not improving that all man. Youknow. Uh Alvarez gets up there with
his tongue hanging out of his mouthlike he wants somebody to give him something.

(01:16:12):
He's not gonna swing at that outsidepitch. And they gonna keep it
out there. They exaggerating, Soteller Catcher gets his body halfway out of
the box to hold the glove outside. You know, they're not gonna get
him nothing good to hit send thecarriage the same way. They got a
book on him too. They gonnapitch him outside. And until they go

(01:16:34):
with the pitch, they ain't gonnado nothing. We had three players,
yes, two players yesterday to gowith the pitch. Uh, the center
filler to the line, drives theright center. Freckman tried tried twice to
go to the right field. Bothtimes they were caught. But at least

(01:16:55):
they trying. Man, nobody elseis going with the pitch. They gonna
pitch us outside. That's the bookon the ass shows pitch him outside.
And we just said there and lookat it. How do you take a
third calls track, man, comeon, I mean, I begg the
hitting coach. It's got to startat the top. You know, I've

(01:17:17):
been pushing the same song for overthree years, man, because it ain't
changed. I'm not gonna change tillthey change. They got to go with
it outside pitch, y'all have agreat date man, Larry. Great to
hear from you. He's a greatbaseball fan. We love him a bit.
He's always been a good, bigpart of our show. Larry's a
big believer in uh, going withthe pitch. You know who the last

(01:17:42):
three we got this from on Twitterbefore we go to break and thank you
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(01:18:15):
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Sorry, before we get back outto these callers, let's talk about
a few things here. Smeterri Gettygot roffed up. Justin Verlander got rouffed
up. Alex Bragman got moved downin the lineup, which we spoke to
Dana Brown about yesterday. He isstill struggling. Your Donna is still struggling.
They got some injuries, and opticallyspeaking, Joe as Botta looks lost.

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So there's a lot of things goingon with the Houston Astros right now.
That's where we end up at twelveto twenty four. They're at bats,
have not been good. They seemlike they're pressing right, so all
of that compounds into where they areright now. We played. But yeah,
other than that, it's great.We played a fifteen second clip of

(01:20:14):
Joe Spotter earlier in the six o'clockhour kind of talking about Jordon and Bregman
and the struggles and things like that. Would you think I was full of
crap or politics? We were fullof crap. If we said, hey
man, everything's gonna be great.Yeah, no, that's all we'd be
homers. Yeah, it's not evenjust homers. Would be basically we'll be
overloading our mouth with our ass.Well, apparently to some people I see

(01:20:34):
on Twitter that all we talk about, all we've talked about since six fifteen
is Joe Spotta. Yeah, we'vetalked about numerous things. We played one
fifteen second clip. Well, wesaid Bregman's become a detriment correct offensively.
Yeah, the Jordon is not thesame guy. Uh huh. We talked
about that the back end of theline is producing more than the front end.
Not named Ault too. Van Paigna, Yep, that we can't that

(01:20:57):
you got it. We're spoting teamsruns early when there's Joe Spottle Well I
know those I don't know who's sayingit, but I can assure you this
that if the guy who managed yourlast year, Dusty Baker, was doing
it, they'd say you didn't talkabout him enough. We need four hours
of it. So it's not Listen, this isn't just Joe Spot at all.
I believe I said yesterday. Ifwe're burying Joe A Spot and wanting

(01:21:18):
fired forty games in or thirty fivegames in or thirty six games in now,
then we wouldn't. Then Kyle Tuckerwouldn't be here after one hundred at
bats when he first started it.If people want to remember, oh guy
can't play yeah overhet tradium, wellno, it's gonna take a little longer
that. But the signs that sayif this is the way it's going to

(01:21:39):
be or bothersome, I'm far moreaccountability on a guy holding the bat in
his hand and pitching the baseball andclosing out a game or fielding the ground
ball far more. But if we'regoing to tell us that the manager deserves
credit with a win because he madea great pitching change, then he also
deserves criticism when it's not going theway it is because I've been that you

(01:22:00):
take on the personality of your headcoach, or it starts at the top,
well he's the manager, Yeah,so it filters down. But the
accountabilities on a player. I don'tneed a guy to get me movated,
motivated. That's temporary. I'm gonnabe disciplined. But you've got to be
able to push the right buttons ingame and whatever that button is that gets
people feeling confident to the ballpark,that's your job. And then in game

(01:22:24):
you got to do what a manager'ssupposed to do. But he can't go
pinch it for anybody. So butif if if we're sitting here saying none
of this is on the manager,then then you're not watching the same game
I'm watching. Yeah, he's he'spart and parcel to what's going on,
as is. More so, theguys that are playing on the on the
on the field, he didn't spothim. He didn't walk six last night.

(01:22:45):
The pitching staff did, okay,So he didn't give up a ball
that went four hundred miles an hourto left to the upper tank and left
field. Yeah, that was so. But Joe a spot also as the
leader when things are going good,man, anybody can manage this team.
Look, Joe's spot is great.Joe's spot at thirty six games in,

(01:23:06):
the jury is way out on him, and it should be. He's only
thirty six games in and we needto have that patience with that. But
I also assure you that if theyend up winning seventy games this year,
that there will be questions about thisposition, about that position, just like
there would if somebody hits one ninetyeight. You questioned Maldonado, didn't you.

(01:23:27):
Yeah, okay. Uh. Let'slook at the this real quick Astro
is pitching on the road this season. In the first inning they have an
eighteen ERA and an opponent batting averagerof four to thirty, and the second
inning it drops to a four orfive ERA. In the third inning it
goes back up to a five pointzero six. A fourth inning is three
point three eight. The opponent averagesin the second, third, and fourth

(01:23:50):
inning two seventy seven, two thirtythree and two sixty two. I mean
those numbers are uh concerning, tosay the least in the first inning.
In the first inning, well,with that, you're not beating anybody.
You can't spot them that much leewaygood teams, especially because right now they

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haven't shown the the ability to comeback from down seven again. They've won
one run run game this year,right and when they've beaten people, they've
they've distanced themselves and beat them prettygood. But the other team's doing that
more often. When you're era tostart a game in the first innings eighteen
that that you and are a completechase mode. And no matter what you

(01:24:34):
say, people don't stay the course. When you're in a constant chase mode,
you do, you think different.You put pressure on yourself to have
to perform and win it with oneswing of the bat. It's hard to
grind out wins in small ballet whenyou're an eighteen era from your pitching staff.
So they're to blame for that aswell. And I don't think Joe

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a Spoted threw one pitch last nighthe did not, but getting team,
pitching staff, hitting coach. Theythey have to be accountable as well.
We do it in every sport,right, Yeah, there you go.
Well, I mean yeah they did. Yeah, definitely, Dennis, Good
morning, Hey, good morning,fellas. One scenario I haven't heard anybody
discuss yet, and I've seen itbefore, Sean. If you remember the

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Vikings back in nineteen eighty three,Bud Grant retired, yep, they hired
Las Steckel, who turned a winningfranchise to a three and thirteen team overnight
fed Yep, yeah, overnight,they fired him. They brought back Bud
Grant for one season to write theship, and then he helped the team
hire Burnsey to go forward. Doyou see that scenario ever happening? If

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the team feels like Jolah Spott hastotally lost the franchise, that they could
possibly bring back Duxy Baker for oneseason, help him write the ship and
help them find a coach going forward. And do you see them being sellers
at the trade deadline for any oftheir major pieces if the struggles continue,
I'll hang up listen to see youguys. A couple of things, said
Dennis. One is Dusty Baker's nevergoing to manage here again. Now you

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say never in sports, always andnever, we probably shouldn't use a phrase.
I don't think it would be aI don't not that you wouldn't want
him back. I just don't thinkhe'd come back at this stage. I
don't do you, Brian No,I think that ship has sailed. But
I get why you'd think that too. Is if this continues and they're not
sellers at the deadline, then you'dhave to question the thought process in a

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big way. And then you'd haveto question who's pulling the strings and what's
this decision and why are you doingthis if you're all about winning, which
Jim Crane has been all about winningsince I've been here, And if you're
not selling to improve your roster,and you're fifteen games under five hundred and
ten games out of first place atthe trade deadline and playing like you're playing,

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you know, a couple games upand then four games down and getting
hammered when you get beat and can'twin close games and you're not a seller,
then you're telling me at the deadlinethat I should not be interested in
you. The second half of theseason that's what you're saying to me.
And you're also saying to me you'regoing with the back of the baseball card

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thought, Oh, we'll come aroundbecause guess what, we've done it before,
not with these optics. So youwill be telling me if this continues
and you don't get to the tradedeadline and start to sell and try to
improve your roster for the right reasons, not only just this year, but
for the future, then you're basicallytelling your fan base that you don't care
about winning this year, and you'reasking me the last eighty games to stay

(01:27:35):
my ass home? Am I rightor wrong? I don't think you're wrong?
Well, how am I not right? If you're not selling? How
is it not right? How arewe not right? Or a fan not
right to say? If you're playinglike this and you're not in the market
of selling to get I don't meanfire sale, No, I'm just talking
about pieces. You say, Okay, how are we going to get something

(01:27:57):
for this guy Bregman, And howare we going to start to build this
so we get so we don't staydown for three years. We're right back
at it in spring training or thesecond we see improvement in the second half.
If you're not willing to make amove, if you're not willing to
do something, why should we That'smy point. Yeah, I mean I
believe that, like what Denna said, that you have to at least consider
it. Yeah, because well mynext question was going to be, if

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you're not doing that, then whatare you doing? It's a lost cause.
I just you know what they're doing. You're relying on history and regardless
of the Joe of Spota and whathappens the rest of the year, if
you go and win seventy games,you would have just I'm a big You
got to evaluate everybody every year.That's called job. People do it.

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You got to evaluate did we getbetter? Why? And you go through
the evaluation Jim Crane to Dana Brown, to Joe Aspota, to hitting instructor
to pitching coaches, to write downto every player on your team. They've
got to be evaluated at the endof the year. And if that happened,
do I believe that you would considerit being a possible one and done?
Sure? I do. I don'tknow if it's fair, but in
this day and age, what iswe see a lot of one and done

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in pro sports and well, whenI say a lot more than you're used
to sing, if you got thatkind of patience, and you're telling me
that he wasn't anything responsible for theway it went from here down here.
Yeah, so I'm a big guyon evaluating fairly and we'll see where that
goes. Too early to say,well, we got to fire the man,
in my opinion, I get whypeople are frustrated, but I'm not
firing anybody thirty six games and unless, of course, he did something so

(01:29:24):
heinous that players wanted to fight himin the clubhouse and it was, but
that's not happening. It's the opposite. Quite frankly, matter of fact,
I'd almost like him to want tofight a player right now, not literally,
but that that that feeling towards likeit's a wake up call, because
right now I believe that I stillbelieve. I think. I think they
look too comfortable to me, Yeahthey do. It looks just looks too
comfortable. I don't know much,but I know, I know, I'm

(01:29:45):
just a simple caveman. Look toocomfortable to me. I just feel like
there's no sense of urgency right now, Like when does that kick in?
When does this wind? Does itbecome any even just the at bats like
the at bats are just just notgood. And then the clutch gene like
where the hell did the clutch gand go? All right, let's get
to break seven one, three,two, two, five, seven ninety.
Keep talking about these astros. RenelBlanco on the Mountain tonight, or

(01:30:08):
excuse me, this afternoon against theYankees that's next on Sports Talk seven to
eighty. Let the celebration startre SeanSalisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety. Nice,
I love Phil. This is Philgetting to do his Phil and his
fields. I like it a feelall request line open. Yeah, it's

(01:30:29):
Beverly Hills cop Okay, just incase you didn't know. Of course you
didn't because you think this guy that'ssinging Chaka Khan. No one, let's
go to Brandon. Brandon, thanksfor holding buddy. What's going on?
I'm doing? Okay, I'm right. Shout out New York Yankees, yes
yesterday. Say that again, buddy, you give it a shout out to

(01:30:51):
the Yankees. Why so we canscore? So you want the you want
the Yankees to win? Okay?I shot down, I shut down the
hit or oh shot him down,not shouted him out. I got you

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because you want the Astros to scorethe runs. I got you, my
bat. Yeah, I heard itwrong. I'm with you, Bud.
It'd be nice, wouldn't it niceto start fast and post about seven runs
in the first two innings and makethe other team chase. That'd be great.
Yeah, hey, let's get toZeo first and then see what happens.

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Let's do it, Brandon, thanksfor the call, Maddy, appreciate
you. But like his optimism.Shooting down, shoot down those Yankee sitters.
Let's get those Astros guys, shoutout. But then I thought he's
using reverse psychology. You know whatI'm saying. Shout him out and then
watch him, you know, struggle. But if right now, if you

(01:31:53):
want anybody to stop a losing streakof the way they've pitched this year,
Renelle Blanco's the guy that you wouldlean on on this staff this year.
He's been really good. He's overexceeded expectations. That's for damn sure.
Yeah he yes, three and ohgood? You want you asked for a
positive? That's a positive this yearand has been every start and Jeremy Payne
and Kyle Tucker. Yeah, wellthat's those are obvious, right, and

(01:32:14):
well al twove as well. Yeahthat's well Bill, Good morning Bill,
Yeah, good morning there. Yeah, how you doing? I got I
was dead, I got no where. I had nothing there about, Bill,
Bill, don't die, don't dieon us. Okay, you were
dead, you came back to whorejuvenated? You get a little mouth to

(01:32:34):
mouth. What's up? What's onyour mind? So okay, So here
here's here's my perspective. I'm nota lifelong Astro fan like a lot of
your callers are. And they're greatand they're fun to listen to. I've
listened to this whole week and andI'm going to disagree with you guys.

(01:32:55):
The only time this team was aplayoff championship roster was opening day. It
has not been anything like that sincethe since the season started. It's a
perfect storm. It's no wonder aspot. It looks like he's deer in
the headlights. I mean, youlook at look at the injuries. For
number one, you you've got twoguys that the people have been barking for

(01:33:15):
for two years, Dubon and Diaz. Now they're playing, they're in there,
they're playing, They're they're okay.But they're now there. Everyday players
are almost every day players. Yougutted the middle relief, you brought in
Hater, which changed the entire datdynamic of your back end relief changed it.
It's nothing, it's nothing like lastyear. You got Presley in the

(01:33:38):
seventh, now not in the ninth. Everything that could possibly go wrong is
going wrong right now for the Astros. And the one thing that they did
not do that other teams that aregetting better did like the Yankees, was
they added proven, a proven everyday hitter. We didn't do that.

(01:34:00):
Astros did not add a proven everydaylineup pitter. So you're saying, right,
you're saying going into the season roster, but so many changes with the
current roster. I mean, whathowever they've moved, it have not been
the same production totally. It's it'sit's a mess right now. You look

(01:34:21):
at where they are, it's theroster is a mess now with people either
underperforming. Again, look where theYankees were last year totally great, supposedly
a great lineup. Look where theyfinished last year the bottom of that they
were the bottom of that division withwith Judge and Stanton and Rizzo and love

(01:34:41):
of those guys, they add one, so to who I know is Lolma's
favorite player? Uh and and lookat and look what they're doing. Look
what they're doing now. The team, the team. It's hard to find
a blame, but look look athow many dynamics of the this team have
changed from last year to this year. Whether it's better or not is debatable

(01:35:04):
now the end of last year tonow correct. Hell of a point,
Bill, thanks man, good stuff. That's a that's a that's a litany
of changes right there that he made. Yeah, some's got to be shaken
up. Yeah, it's it's gotto be frustrating for fans and listeners and
to every day it feels like GroundhogDay, like Bill Murray starn in this

(01:35:28):
show, and it feels like,oh my gosh. When I was watching,
you know, from yesterday and theday before, I felt like I
was just it was a different rapper, but the same candy bar, meaning
a different number on the pitcher,a different start, but Soto and Judge
Stanton paying you score, and thenthey turn around and post a bunch of

(01:35:53):
runs on you. You know whatI'm saying. It felt it felt like
a mirror image of the two andWe've seen that all too often this year.
And once again this isn't the sugarcoatit Can it change with the talent?
Yes, now I could tell you. You could come to me right
now, say Sean, well,you know Oakland struggling. Can they turn
it around? The answer is thisyear no, Sean, the Angels,

(01:36:15):
No, no, no. Thenyou go through this roster on paid I'm
talking about. You didn't even lookat the numbers. You said, well,
of course, look at the roster, and they're healthy and they're getting
healthy. But that doesn't always equalyou. You're not entitled to any of
that from last year or the sevenprevious years. So and guess what's not

(01:36:38):
coming anytime soon? At the plate? Help? Right, The help's in.
The help is at the clubhouse rightnow. It's in light. That's
right, That's exactly right. Ifyou're looking for help, that means you
think Juan Soda is getting traded here. And guess what he's not. He's
about to make a half a billion. So the help you're getting, he's

(01:37:00):
gonna be in the pregame clubhouse tonight, getting ready to play it this afternoon.
Play the Yankees start this later thisafter four or five five start.
Yeah, let's hear from Spencer Araghettiand how he felt about his start on
the mound. He falls the Oand four seven one three two one two
five seven ininey walls. So continueto take your calls right here on the
Shawn Salisbury Show. Hey, thisis Charles Barker. You guys start.

(01:37:26):
I put on some way since myplaying days. You shall see Sean Solisborough
horble. Now back to the ShanSolisborough Show. What a knucklehead Knicks beat
the Pacers that take a two zeroseries lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Nicole Jokich wins the MVP in theNBA third time in four years seven one

(01:37:47):
three two one two five seven ninety. Let's start with Jason, then we'll
get to Al Jason. Good morning, Jason. Hello, Hey Sewn Bright,
Hey my part a seam Brian,thanks to saying my call. I
just want to make the point that, you know, I just want to
remind everybody that there was somebody thatwent to prison for years because of the

(01:38:11):
information that they that they stole fromJeff Lunel Okay on his analytics and the
information gathering that he had on prospectsand the type of information that he was
gathering on prospects. Organizations and thepeople that work for these organizations don't take
that sort of risk unless what they'regoing after is worth it. This guy

(01:38:32):
was ahead of the curve on theentire league, and when we gave him
up, that was our biggest mistakeafter the after the whole scandal. We
should have let him be suspended ayear or whatever and bring his butt back
because piece by piece were losing hisanalytics team. And we used to be
ahead of the curve on the entirethe entire league when it comes to the

(01:38:57):
type of analytics and and things thatqualities that we're looking at in these players.
And I've brought it up before onthe show, but I'll bring it
up again. The Montero signing,the braill You' signing when his bat speed
was down. I want to makethis point. Look at Goldschmid, Paul
Goldschman, at the end of lastyear's bat speed was down significantly, and

(01:39:18):
look at his start. He's battenunder two hundred this year. You don't
get that back once you lose it, and I don't think I don't think
that would have been a signing thatJeff Lunel would have signed off on.
And now think about it, ifwe don't make that Montero and a Braill
you're signing, you don't just thinkabout oh look at the lack of production.
You got to think about it aslook at this team and what would

(01:39:39):
we do with that thirty one millionthat we could What could we do that
would be productive for this team withthirty one million dollars added to this roster.
I think Jeff Lunel was the biggestloss that this organization has had and
that's the reason for what we're seeingtoday. Thank you for the call,
Jason. And again I just Ireally feel like when it goes back to

(01:40:01):
Jeff Luno and aj Hinch both beingfired, that Jim Crane had no choice
my opinion, I think Rob Manfordwent to him and said, we're either
going to take the title away fromyou or you have to fire your manager
and your general manager. That's myopinion. Oh, I think there was
a nudge from Major League Baseball.Yeah, Now how far they took the
nudge, I don't know. I'mwith you. I think was that Jason

(01:40:25):
called yes? And I think Jason'sright about the fact that you can't argue
when somebody's got some you want badenough, you're willing to do a lot
of stuff to get it. Yousee it. You know. Hence why
people go study other people's greatness,right because you'll you'll pay. Why you
go listen to a great speech.Why you'll pay a lot of money.
I'm talking about the legal side ofit, not stealing from it. But

(01:40:47):
you go, our leagues are builton stealing information legally. You get guys,
Hey man, what are you doing? I want you to teach me
how to do run urpo? Teachme so I could teach my players,
or that what's my homes doing differentthan the others I want to teach.
Now, well, he's got askill set that others don't have. But
people do that. You go toa speech, you listen to guy,
and when they're selling it. That'swhy they're making half a million bucks or

(01:41:08):
one hundred and fifty thousand or twohundred fifty thousand dollars a speech because or
or a weekend of corporate teaching.Why because they want what you got and
they believe you're teaching it better.And there is no argument. Jeff Luna
is a phenomenal baseball man, butthat situation put them in a major A
major did a hurt. Now Ithink back to that situation, I think,

(01:41:29):
why didn't aj hinch instead of youknow, breaking the monitor? Why
did If you're the manager in chargeand you run the show. I always
think about this, Brian, youand I have talked about this. Yeah,
why didn't you stop? Well youcan't stop it? Well you can,
I think so if you were reallythe big dog in charge, how
did that continue? Because if you'dhave been able to shoe, they may
both still be here. Yeah,sort of lack of respect. You're a

(01:41:50):
manager, right, he was justsay no, dude, it doesn't matter
what you say. We're still doingit because we're having success. And you
know what happens when you get success. If you're a gambler and you keep
going and you keep winning, whatare you gonna keep doing? You gonna
keep playing playing? Sure, Andit's the same thing. We're having success.
No, no cutting into our successand our money. We want to
And I get the thought process.I don't get the way they went about

(01:42:13):
it, but it was simple alongthe way they were able to look at
and say, you may be ourmanager, But you ain't running this show.
That's what it was. And itended up turning out that you win
a World Series and that's behind us, and they earned it. They played
great baseball. That'll always be somethingpeople that want to refer to it are
going to refer to it because theycan't get over it. But I'm not
sure that Jim Crane hadn't now ifthey just said suspend him for a year

(01:42:35):
and you can bring them back now, if what manager's taking that job,
if you know aj Hinch is comingback, I don't think they put it
this way. They didn't take astep back when Dusty came in. They
did not. But you're on yourthird general manager now in three years or
four years, because James Click washere two years so and James Click won

(01:42:57):
a World Series and Dana Brown isa GM. Got to what two home
games and a one game lead,just have to win one game as a
gym. But I've been told thatanybody can win with this team. We
were told that multiple times. Twelveand twenty four yep, talk to Al,

(01:43:17):
Good morning, Al. Hey what'sgoing on? Brian? Brian,
you hit it on the head thismorning when you said we need to stop
looking back and comparing to this team. I don't know what's going on.
What's going on with people thinking thatwe'll come out of it. We've been
in this situation before, No,we haven't. We can the last seven

(01:43:40):
years winning the AL or whatever.This team that will been this deep and
losses and then versus wins. SoI don't understand why people say they'll get
out of it. They never experiencednothing like this, and then this team
here'll definitely show that experiences. Someof these guys' first year stars. And
you know, I want to saythis about Josh had I had a couple
of gonna takes, but I'm gonnabe real quick, Sean, let me

(01:44:01):
ask you a question and analytics andsometimes say a savory picture such as Josh
hater. You bring him in andlooking at the niss He played with the
Milwaukee Brys. Is that correct?He did it well with Milwaukee and with
the Padres. Who did we gethim from Milwaukee? Right? No,

(01:44:23):
he was with the Padres last year, last two years. Okay, So
my thing is this, even ifhe won thirty saves or whatever was those
saves, and uh, they gotbeat in the series two to one.
Or were they up eleven hole hecame in and saved the game or those
saves can be so hyperbolic because itdepends on how the saves came and who

(01:44:46):
was the saves against, and thenyou bring him in, Oh, this
is a good savior, Josh Hater, I have to look at the saves
in the situation that he has thosesaves in because the PA drames was all
right, but they wasn't nothing righthome by? And where does he get
those saves at? Were they quantitysaved or was he just a guy called

(01:45:09):
a couple of teams slipping or washe consistent with playing puppet hexelon elite teams
getting saved, saving the games,saving the getting them to the playoffs the
games that matter, or was hejust a guy with a high rate of
saves? Because we know playing professionalsports, no matter what game you playing,
football, basketball, or baseball,you can get a high volume guy

(01:45:31):
with analytics and rates on whatever positionhe's playing. Doesn't mean he's that guy.
You mean talking about overshatting your youryour accomplishments with really nothing doesn't matter
because of the situational baseball you're indIf that makes sense, men that whereas
was it saves quality basically, soal real quick. Okay, well just

(01:45:54):
to kind of say, you can'tget a save unless it's three runs or
or less. So when you geta save as a closer, they're all
quality because it's a three runner lestball game and just real quick. Looking.
When he was with the Padres,he had five let's see, one,

(01:46:15):
two, three, four, sixsaves in a row one nothing,
seven five five three seven, five, five three six four so two runs
or less and all those saves.Listen, he's been an elite closer.
The question is did you need himhere when you had Presley and Abradio That's
the question. Were you willing tosacrifice? And they were the soul,

(01:46:35):
heart and soul of the Eating UpInnings. See, I think Hector Narris
is a dog. Oh yeah,I do. I do too, And
we said at the end of seasonif there was one, I felt you
had to keep Hector Naius. NowI didn't know what they were gonna do
with Standic and film Ayton and howmuch money they're gonna want. I think
Hector Naris was the center focus ofthat leading into a bray you and Presley

(01:47:00):
do you agree? And what hewas a seventh inning guy. Yeah,
and he could give you more thanone inning if you needed it. The
question is where you're willing to sacrificehaving three closers, and you do have
three closures as admitted by Dana Brownyesterday, and hope that you get leads
getting to those closures within three runsor lead getting into the seventh inning.

(01:47:25):
And if you didn't need hater,then you find somebody else to finish out
the ninth of Presley goes four outsor whatever it is. But you like
in football, Brian, and I'lljust say this quickly, you know that
great teams have to have a groupof stars in all sports, right,
you got to have You got tohave the Brunson's and the Giannices and the
Mahomes. You've got to have agroup. But once again, I'll say

(01:47:47):
it, the heart and soul ofyour team is the other guys. You
beg right now, you think abouthow you're relying on a guy like that's
my guy's name, who's getting allthe innings, not saying a ther you
have Martinez, He's become the gutsof your team. In the middle of

(01:48:08):
it, he's had to You lostthree of them losing a starting linebacker who's
not your superstar. You're starting rightguard who's not a superstar, and you're
tied end who's not a superstar,but all started and played every game.
Doesn't your team suffer? You think? So? If you lost your sixth

(01:48:28):
man of the year and you're twothree of your bench strength, if you're
an eight man let's say you're aneight man rotation team, Yeah, that's
going to hurt, right, Sowho's doing the dirty work right now?
That's what you had to make adecision on. Do we want elite closer
when we already have two of them? If you need them, all bray
you could be an elite closer andye had Presley he's an all star closer,

(01:48:50):
And go get hater and spend alot of money and I get the
intrigue with it. Or keep theheart and soul of your team, keep
the heart and soul kept dubon heartand soul guy, Yeah, want a
gold glove and played his ass off. Yeah, help them get through the
first two months without al tuo Vek. I just I don't know. Man.
McCormick was a pretty it was apretty deep heart and soul guy.

(01:49:12):
Last year. Yeah, I'm givingyou guys that aren't going to be in
the All Star Game, but thatyou need. And I've seen it on
football teams. It can't just allbe stars. And if your stars aren't
performing, you're begging for heart andsoul in dirty work. Guys, it's
missing right now. You want thegrinders, Yes, you want the grinders.
Yes, Renel Blanco is a grinder, perfect man to stop to sweep.

(01:49:33):
Let's talk about it next. Oh, also check this out. I
should have warned you if Sean onlycares about cold hard back to the Sean
Salisbury Show on Sports Talk seven ninetycould be Yeah, need hope, need
it. Let's hope need it.I'd actually rather see him win like five

(01:49:55):
to four or four to three thanI would eight to two. You know
why, I need them to handlestress? I do. I know people
are saying you're nuts. No,I need to I need him to grind
out a A base hit guy goesfrom first to third, sacrifice fly takes
the lead and wins it. That'sThat's what I'm looking for, to win

(01:50:15):
that close game where it's not outof hand and you're winning ten to one
or they're winning nine to two.You feel me, dog, Yeah,
and they get another run to makeit nine to three. I I I'd
like to see that happen, andhopefully Blanc will gets you through six,
maybe up to seven, and anduh, guts it out. You don't
have to go to Scott for whatthe third or fourth day in a row.
It'll be three days in a rowthat he's pitched every game in this

(01:50:38):
series. Don't want to wear thoseguys out. They've been they've they've tried
to hang in there, but they'reputting a buying too, because they got
to come in up innings when somebodyonly gives them three. Renelle Blanco has
been really good this year. Hehas a bright spot, but at GEM
that's for sure. Seven one,three, two five seven. I back
to the phone lines, John,Good morning, Good morning, what's up?

(01:51:00):
What's on your mind? Okay,I'm wanted to talk about your Don
Alvarez last year when he was strugglinga little bit, he might have spot
adjustment by getting a little lower inhis stance and he started turning to cover
up the ball. And it's justnot observation, but it looks like he's
standing too upright, and I don'tknow if y'all noticed that or not.

(01:51:29):
Uh yeah, I mean he's there'sno question he's struggling. John. I
mean, you know, I don'tknow, man, John, I I
don't know. It looks different tome with I don't know if he's healthy
or not. He's playing every dayand in the past, if he had
like hand stuff or thumb stuff,hand stuff, would they do they set
him down right? Yeah, theygave him. I don't know if he's

(01:51:53):
if he's trying to do something different. I don't think it has anything to
do with where he hits in thelineup. I think I think you got
you gotta mute yourself there, buddy, there you go. That's okay.
But I know where John's going.I wish I had answers because I guess

(01:52:13):
does he look as well yesterday?Here, let's use one of his that
bats yesterday, because is aggressive atthe plate three to zero count, takes
a fastball up and in first strike, takes a fastball on the outside half
for ast strike, takes another fastballon the outside happen He didn't even move
the back. You know, that'shappened like three or four times this year
that he's taken three strikes. Andremember the first time it happened and when

(01:52:34):
Bengo Bango Bongo and he sat downand they asked him and he said,
I have no idea why I didn'tswing. Basically, I'm paraphrasing, but
it was like that, yes,And I don't know there feels to me
with him. I'm so used towatching him hit and be aggressive. When
he gets a pitch he can drive, he drives it, and he drives
it the other way when necessary.That is this is I feel like he's

(01:52:57):
always been a guy that's attacked,right, don't you feel like he's a
little bit on the defensive side.Yeah, I don't playing it too close
to the vest for him. Idon't see as much confidence confidence, but
yeah, yeah, right. Igoes back in a sense urgency like I
dude, yesterday literally a three tozero count and the next thing you know,
Rodan fastball, fastball, fastball.He doesn't even swing. It's permeating
through the team though. Now there'sa difference between being aggressive and jumping on

(01:53:21):
every first pitch that comes right.I'm talking about when he decides that there's
a pitch he can drive, Whyis he passing up on it. That's
my thing. There seems to bea little hesitation in his attack at balls
in the strike zone. That's allI'm saying. And I don't listen.
I in the cage watching him swingevery day. I don't see mechanical flaws.
I feel like there's decision hesitation ondecisions because I saw last night he

(01:53:45):
was having ninety three to ninety fourrun by him in this in the strike
zone, which normally you got tohave big balls to throw it in there
against him, right, And peopleare challenging him, yeah, and he's
not. And I'll tell you whoelse are challenging Gregman on the inner half
and he is not. He's hittingthe hands, that thing's right around the
label. Yeah, he's just notsquaring any of those things up. And

(01:54:06):
if he does, it's been fewand far between this year. And then
the balls that he does barrow orhit right at people and they don't fall
for out or fall for hits.Thing is right. Nothing is rough stuff
for him. Yeah, there's noquestion about it. Oh my goodness,
it's been frustrating twelve and twenty fourfor the Houston Ashros. Let's look across

(01:54:28):
all of Major League Baseball and comparethe Houston Astros. Can they get back
to five hundred? The path toit? I talked about it yesterday.
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true longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury,Ryan Lima, go Lobos. This is
the Sean Salisbury Show. Nicks beatthe Pacers to take a two oer series
lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.Nicole Jokic wins the MVP in the NBA
for the third year, third timeout of four years. I should say

(01:57:38):
I've been talking about Astros the entireshow. They struggle once again. They
get beat nine to four real quickin the NBA. Did you see what
the Pacers did after their Game twoloss. I know they don't like the
referee. They submitted seventy eight playsof the NBA that they felt were called

(01:57:59):
incorrect against them during Games one andtwo. Damn, how many plays are
there in the NBA? My goodness. I mean, I know there's far
more than that, but seventy eightseems like a lot of problems with officiating.
But here's the problem, the serieskeeps rolling on. If you spend
too much time focusing on that,you'll forget to play basketball and you get
your ass handed to you. Eventhough I get their complaints, and they

(01:58:19):
had a couple that may have putthem in a better position to win had
they not been called, or hadthey have both been reviewed, but seventy
eight of them. Hell, howlong did that take to cut that tape?
So they found twenty nine questionable callsfrom Game one, Then the Pacers
identified forty nine from Game two,and they submitted them overnight to the NBA

(01:58:40):
office. Head coach Rick Carlisle saidthey decided not to send the Game one
call to the league office for review, but reverse that decision after Game two
had similar officiating issues. Well,and that's fine and dandy. You're not
going to get the wins back.You know what you're doing by doing that,
You're trying to games and ship itgets them thinking different for the rest

(01:59:01):
of the series. That's exactly whatyou're trying to do, because they're not.
Like I said, if they cameback and said, yeah, we
man, we sucked, you'll getan apology and a move forward, that's
what you'll get, or a letterto you to the Indiana Pacers saying,
I mean, we'll try to dobetter, but when you make it so
everybody knows, guess what that is. You're trying to get the refs thinking
different in the Pacers so calls gotheir way. Getting them right would be

(01:59:25):
nice regardless of which way they go. But that's what you would think.
So you know the nixt situation,and there's that they think the series might
be different what the Knicks lead attoo. Oh right, So in this
case will it work? But whatthinking? And Rick Carlisle's a veteran and
has been really good in his career. What you have to do, though,
is well that you can't let theplayers get caught up in every play,

(01:59:48):
the arguing and getting distracted by badcalls. I know it's frustrating,
but before you know it, you'reforty minutes into a game and you're thinking
about that and you're down seven,down nine, down eight, and you
can't because you're more worried about,oh my gosh, what call are they
going to make. I've seen it, see it in football seat all the
time, that you get so caughtup in the officiating, that it's like

(02:00:10):
a guy who chat you know,chatters the whole time on the field,
and your is in your head andyou allow his chatter to take you away
from what you originally came there todo and play football. Deal with the
chatter after and while it's nice andyou may get some gamesmanship at it,
but the referees in the first twogames ain't helping game three, so your

(02:00:30):
players, while the management has toin Carlisle can say that you've got to
coach your players to win game three, not worry about the officiating, because
if that's what they're thinking about,it's hard to you're playing against the Knicks
team that's pretty good. It's goingto be hard to i know, compartmentalize
and separate too, but it's alsogoing to be hard to focus on one
hundred percent of your gig and yourjob to win if the referees are in

(02:00:50):
your head before you even tip itoff to start game three. Rick Carlisle
also said, quote small market teamsdeserve an equal shot. They deserve a
fair shot no matter where they're playing. End quote, implying the Pacers are
being penalized by officials because they're playingagainst the league's largest market in New York.

(02:01:11):
Seventy eight calls. It's a lotof calls. Man. I can
assure you that what the NBA isnot going to do is tell them they
were right on seventy eight calls.No, but if you get them thinking
and the officials and they talk tothe officials going in, and you get
them thinking small market, I don'tknow if that has anything to do with
but it might. Hell, youmight get calls if you're a Laker when

(02:01:32):
you're in it and not out ofit. And then the Knicks in Philly,
you may get more calls into bigmarkets than you do there the respect
factor or the fact that you're supposedto I think that would be heinous if
that's the way officials approached it.But Rick Carlisle's right about that. But
Rick knows that he's got to gocoach him to win these forty eight minutes
instead of worry about the officials.Bitch about the officials before, but make

(02:01:53):
sure you can focus, and youcan bitch after if you'd like. But
right now you have to coach himup because down three to zero, Indiana's
not winning four straight against the Knicks. If they if they lose Game three.
No, I think it's gonna bethe Knicks in the Celtics in the
Eastern Conference Finals. Uh More onthese Houston Astros, where do you think
Alex Bregman ranks among third basement ofMajor League Baseball right now? At the

(02:02:14):
plate? Yes, last, he'sclose to last. Last, and average
out of buck eighty nine second tolast, and on base percentage at two
sixty eight, two fifty two,slugging is last, five twenty oh ps
is last, one home run istied for last, and eleven rbi is
tied for last. Brian, that'sa minimum of ninety seven at bats,
Brian, Yes, it's early.Listen to me, Brian, let me

(02:02:45):
talking. Yeah, go ahead,and go ahead, let me talking.
Let me look into your eyes andtalking. You want me to be your
therapist? No, I'm okay.I want you to be my nine hundred
number, your nine hundred number.Let's see, Brian. Listen, it's
early, all right, Brian.Look at the back of his baseball card.
It's his baseball card. Have youseeing it being on the back of
his baseball card, Brian, history, He tells us Alex Bregman doesn't start

(02:03:12):
fast. Brian, it's early.It's a marathon, not a sprand okay,
but we're twelve games under twelve.Brian, it's early. Let's go
back to twenty twenty one. Brian, hold on, it's early. It's
May ninth. Why are you lookingdown and not in my ass? Let's
see twelve twelve and twenty four isthirty six games. Let's look. Okay,

(02:03:34):
hey, that's now, that's goodmath. Yeah, unbelievable. All
right, let's check it out.How'd you doing math? Like when you're
in the tenth grade? How'd youdo in algebra? I was actually really
really talented at math in high school, and then I got to college and
what happened? I don't know,dude. The pine got you, No,
that right up. First was whenI had to drop a math class

(02:03:56):
and then left there. And thenmath was fine in h Soul Ross just
because of my major only required meto take like two math classes. So
you so you're talking about the postulatesand theorems you were done with in the
algebraic geometry. Didn't quite get thetrig every Yeah, no, not every
math class you've ever taken in highschool and college does nothing for you in

(02:04:20):
real world less, of course you'rein the engineer world or one of those
that architecture. You know those peoplecould draw. I draw that. Andrew
was a stick man, right,I can see it in my mind.
But going from my paper man,yeah yeah, oh yeah, and dangling.
But when you're you know, Iwasn't nut. Now, my daughter

(02:04:43):
Pheno really good with it, justyou didn't get it from her, pops,
right, But the mind and thenyou know, you go to the
architecture. I always loved. Isaid, one of my dream jobs that
I wouldn't be able to do becauseof Ryman. Now you can have somebody
write it up and hit the computer. You know how they computer three D
images. I'm not saying it's easy, but my buddy Steve Jordan, who
I played tighten with, was like, you know that architecture great drawer too.
I've always wanted to think it'd becool to design golf courses and doing

(02:05:06):
all that. You think, Man, that's a lot of math, and
I was good at math as well, but I didn't want to. I'm
with you, what is geometry teachingyou as a broadcaster? Right, I
could push it, but if Ineed that, guess what I'm gonna do
hit II or call somebody else,Hey, what's this? You know how
to get this or figure out thisformula to get me the right thing?
But I've always want to do Butnow we're so computer driven, we've taken

(02:05:27):
away a lot of that, whichsays great, I don't have to do
that, So I'm just listen.You should probably learn a little bit more
about how to balance a check book. Yeah, maybe the basic right resume,
how to interview a little bit morenow. But if you're another thing,
math obviously is important when you're anarchitect or your builder, those things
matter, and you're measured. Whatdo you do? Brian? Measure twice,
cut once? Right? Don't theywere measuring once a cutting twice?

(02:05:51):
Is that where your style was?And more like I was a big,
big believer in the Pythagorean theorem.Yeah, pie too little pie decimal one
pot. There you go, there'sthe recent grad there you go, and
you're saying, let me put thatto paper, like no, And then
when you see like professors go throughall the formulas like better them than me.
So back to geometry? What now? Back to the math. Yeah,

(02:06:13):
I did the math thirty thirty thirtysix games in for the Astros.
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Talk seven ninety for Alex Bregman,No question, he's struggling. We know
it well, is he. Andgentlemen, the captain. Let's go back
vs. Let's go back to twentytwenty one, shall we. Through thirty

(02:09:09):
six games, Alex Bregman was hittingthree to twelve on base of three ninety
one, slugging a four to seventyone and an ops of eight sixty two.
He had five home runs twenty twoRBIs. Okay, let's go to
repeat that one more time, sowe can all hear it? Batting average
with three twelve on base of What'sthat? This was? What year?

(02:09:30):
Twenty twenty one? Okay? Battingaverage with three twelve on base of three
ninety one, slugging a four toseventy one. That's an ops of eight
sixty two YEP, five bombs andtwenty two RBIs. Thirty six games in,
Yes, okay, okay. Let'slook at twenty twenty two. Is
this the back of the baseball card? This is okay? Through thirty six
games and twenty twenty two, AlexBregman was hitting two thirty on base of

(02:09:52):
three forty nine, slugging a fourto twenty six and ops to seven to
seventy five. He had five bombstwenty two RBIs. Let's go to last
year, thirty six games in,hitting two thirteen on base of three thirty
one, slugging a three forty six. He had a six seventy seven OPS
with four bombs at sixteen RBIs andended up about ninety eight runs backed in

(02:10:16):
last year. Yeah, and hehit two seventy two or something like that.
Well, year is this twenty twentytwo, twenty twenty three, No,
I'm looking, I'm talking to myselfhere. Sorry, on the on
the on the air in twenty twentythree, he hit thinking out loud,
Yeah, he hit right around.Come on, man, let's go where

(02:10:37):
we're at? Two sixty two eightRBI. That was last year, correct?
Yeah? And uh, this year, obviously he's hitting under two hundred.
But he's in, he's under oneninety. Now he's in one home

(02:10:58):
run is he had a dozen RBIs, Yeah, eleven RBIs and a ops
of five twenty, slugging under three. As you said, add an average
under one ninety on base under three, right, yep. Yeah, he's
hitting a buck eighty nine, twosixty eight on base two fifty two,

(02:11:20):
slugging ops five twenty. It hasbeen a long time since Alex Bregman,
I believe, was dropped out ofthe top five guys in the order.
Correct, Yes, the last timewas I have it written down here?
Two thy and twenty one September one, twenty twenty one, he hits six
against the Mariners. Wasn't there long? Though? I don't think was he?

(02:11:43):
No? So? And who didDana Brown tell us when I interviewed
him yesterday on this show? Andif you haven't heard the podcast, go
listen. Yeah, it's up onour blocks for seven ninety dot com.
If what who? I asked himto pick me one player and he can
only pick one that if he hadto choose, had to be the guy

(02:12:05):
to disrupt and be the leader throughall this negativity and struggle. Who would
it be? And who he sayhe's at? Alex Bregman, I got
tripley pulling that audio because I thinkit's it needs to be replayed. No,
the do the triple do the Ithink it was my last question I

(02:12:28):
asked him about or close that Yes, that one, Yeah, that one,
tripley, go ahead and follow thatone up. Police, We'll hang
up and get your taken. AlexBregman, he needs to get hot.
He's our veteran and he's in thegrind right now. And I know this

(02:12:50):
team will roll when Bregman rolls.We need him, We need him to
get hot and and and he's atrue professional. He will get hot.
You mark my word. I meanyou know I'll come on the show every
week, yep, and I tryto give you guys the facts. When
Bregman gets hot, you will seethis team roll. He's an important piece

(02:13:11):
to what we're doing. We needhim, We need him to get hot.
He's a leader, you know,he does the team building things for
us in our clubhouse, and sothis is the guy we need him to
get hot, and he will gethot. So basically we're saying, as

(02:13:31):
he goes, so go the Astros. So then it's incumbent upon Bregman to
turn it around. If that's ifI understand Dana Brown, right, it's
not your don it's not ol twobays bet. It is. If Alex
Bregman gets to rolling, everybody elsewill he becomes the CJ Stroud of your
baseball team, is what I'm saying. Everybody else rolls makes everybody better.

(02:13:52):
Well, if that's the case,then he better get rolling. Quicker can't
afford another month of slow start,is what you're telling me. Correct?
Well, it just and and Iget why he's saying that, don't you.
I do. I understand it,But it's like, optically, it
looks this is the worst it's it'sbeen, right, And I only gave

(02:14:13):
him one guy to pick, andhe and he there was did you hear
by the way, you didn't hearthe question? You just heard the answer.
And I had asked him if we'replaying duck duck goose and you need
one guy and you land on thegoose and he's got to chase you and
you're chasing him. What what's theguy the one? And there was not
a let me think about that fora second. He would throw three other

(02:14:33):
names. It was by the timeI got the question out, Alex Bregman's
name had been started out of DanaBrown's mouth. So it is unequivocal.
They've obviously had that conversation. Theyhave had that conversation in that club,
around that team, or he wouldn'thave thought about it that fast. And
Alex Bregman has been a key tothis team. I remember in the past,

(02:14:54):
I've asked Eeve Sparks, Steve wholike heading into a season at the
midway play, who needs to bethe guy to get this thing going?
And it's usually his name, hismost confident player he's ever seen as a
player or a broadcaster. Right,it needs it needs to rear its head
quickly. Yeah, and then Sean, you asked Astro general manager Dana Brown

(02:15:18):
about the contract situation and it couldbe affecting Alex Bregnant. This is what
Dana had to say, no contracts, no pressure. This guy has been
in pressure situations in the entire life. You know, he's been a grinder,
X first round draft pick. Thisguy's battled through through a lot.
I don't I don't see the contractpressure at all. Uh. He knows

(02:15:39):
he's good, and he knows thathe's going to get hot one day.
And you know, I don't thinkthe contract pressure is I mean, he's
been in the game a long time. If this was his first contract,
maybe he would be under a littlebit of pressure. You know, he's
had a big contract already. Thisthe contract situation, it's not a new

(02:16:00):
thing for Alex Bregman. Alex Bregmanis a good player. He's not going
to allow a contract situation to gethim. I mean, as I mentioned,
if this was his first contract,I would say, maybe that's you
know, part of it. Heknows what he needs to do to get
it, you know, to geta good contract. That's that's not the
problem. The problem is he's justgot to be a little bit more patient

(02:16:22):
with himself and he's got to makesome things happen. He's got to drive
the ball the other way in orderto get hot. And and and they're
pitching them tough. But as Isaid before, we're the hunted. You
know what, you know what?It's two things. Dana Brown also said,
and I'm going to ask you aquestion. Dana Brown said, we
got to drive the ball. Hementioned that a few times yesterday. They're

(02:16:45):
not hitting pitches that are that theycan drive one. And he can't throw
balls out over the plate on Otwo counts and those things. And last
night Judge got pitch he could drive. Sodo got a pitch he could drive.
Stanton got one that he set onthe tea and he hit it one
hundred and nineteen plus out of theballpark. That if somebody, if somebody
wouldn't have been sitting in the seat, it has shattered the seat. That's

(02:17:05):
how hard that ball left the ballparkbefore you blinked. So they did.
They didn't respond to that. Yesterdaythey did move Bregman from four to six.
As I asked him, will ithappen? I said, will you
move him? I said, he'snot is he can't treat it as a
sacred cow. You've moved everybody else. Will you move in Goes? That's
Joe spotted, But we the discussion. He may do that I said,
well, it happened this series andhe did it. They did it yesterday,

(02:17:28):
which leads me to do you Ibelieve what Dana is saying about Alex
Bregman, But do you in yourmind believe that there's no pressure because of
a contracts? Discuss the next Allright, right here on the Shawn Salisbury
Show. This is the Shawn StallesburyShow. And his name is sure Sean.
Really, we're Sports Talk seven ninetyyou quit ball washing, Billy oh

(02:17:52):
and Billy Oh, Bill Ocean,no Billy there and get it? But
good jacket put sah, would youstop it? What is this? Is
this? Peaky blinders? Peaky blinders? Irish though? Yeah? I think
so? What's the difference Irish ScottishIrish Irish Scottish Great Britin. What's a

(02:18:13):
difference? What's what's the difference betweenyou know, Rory McElroy and Jason Stath
of hell? You know what theyare? Basic white dudes with accent,
really basic white guys. Hey.I'm curious though, with the with Bill
Ocean. What happened to you?How come you lost respect? You put

(02:18:39):
it on, you put it on, you got respect for Bill Ocean?
I like it. Hey, guys, we had a caller, his name
was Jeff. He said, whatdo you guys think about Breakman going down
there to West Palm out there withnever gonna happen. Yeah, it's not
happening, never, never gonna happen. He could be playing with one arm
and a pulled hammy and he goingdown to West pal That that that that's

(02:19:03):
he's not getting sent down the Yeah, he's not even gonna know where Sugarland
is. Yeah, he's not goingto sugar Land. He ain't going to
Fayetteville. He ain't going to CorpusChristie. No, he might on a
vacation, but he ain't going therebecause baseball needs him there. Yeah,
that's not happening. No, he'snot going to West Palm. Matter fact,
he'll be traded before he takes onestep in another town other than Houston
as a baseball hometown team. Yeah. And uh, you asked me a

(02:19:26):
question before we went to break andI don't know if he's going to be
traded, So there you go.Do I think the contract has any effect?
I think it does. I don'tknow how can it not exactly?
And if you're if you're just anormal thinking human being. I'm not saying
it's the whole thing, right,I'm not saying it's the biggest thing.
How can you not? I thinkit does what it affect you. I
think we're human, Yes, surewe would if I know that I'm coming

(02:19:46):
into probably my last big time contract, not probably if it gets this is
it? Yeah, my last asmaller one. But this is his last
monster deal if he gets that kindof contract. Again, he got like
a ndred millions some dollars. That'sgenerational money, right, But we're talking
he got that early too, right, we're talking what he's probably thinking two

(02:20:09):
fifty to three hundred. Sure,and if you had a monster year over
three hundred, that's like your kidskids are set for life, well in
their kids too, right, Soyes, it would weigh on me.
It would, especially now that ifthis was me struggling, Yeah, that
would weighuld you feel like you missedout an opportunity right now? Missing out
on dollar bills? It feels likeevery swing of the bats a million dollars

(02:20:31):
way? Yeah, and it's not, but that's it. I would imagine
that's what you build in your mind, right. I don't see how it
can't I thought i'd actually say,man, that's not I mean, and
maybe it's a good thing. Now. I agree that you can be thinking
about it and the great the peoplewho are rolling compartmentalizing can leave it outside
and then go in and still dotheir thing. But the normal mortal has

(02:20:54):
to carry it around good and bad. When you're going good, I'm sure
he'd be thinking, I'm hitting threefour if he is playing like a too
there right now, but and hittinghome runs like Tucker, don't you think
you'd be thinking, oh my gosh, did you put this right? Tell
me created and think about it hiswhen he was a man and he pulled
and he played great. So Ilisten, and I don't begrudge him for

(02:21:16):
thinking about it. I would.I don't know if it would control my
mind. But if I was goinggood, the smile get bigger, and
if I was going bad, thegrind would get tougher. And when I
hear Danan Brown say, he keepsgrinding, keeps grinding. Sometimes there can
be a point of diminishing returns ifyou overgrind, because the overgrind physically,
or if the overg you know whatthe overgrind mentally does. Where's the grind

(02:21:37):
out physically where you almost got tosay, I need to step back from
this crap, not away from baseball, but you know my saying like man,
you almost say, yeah, putme in a situation I don't have
to feel. Pressure can be anamazing thing. It can bring out the
best. It can also bury theworst in you in a bad way.
Yeah, I think I think ittakes a toll, especially then you you
He's proven in the past he canhandle pressure though in big moment, oh

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yeah, and we've seen him turnit around. But this is the worst
it's I've seen. It is abats just don't look the same in the
past. He's okay, hit theball hard, not walking that's a big,
big issue with me and looking atit from our perspective, he's warning
track power too, right, whichhe weared up a ball last night,
but I mean outside of that,he popped up another shallow fly ball almost
in the infield. Again, he'snot getting into the inner half. I

(02:22:24):
mean and again, like we saidit all last year or especially this time
last year, Bregman's not finding hits. Yeah, but he's finding his way
on two three. At one pointlast year he was leading all of major
League Baseball and walks, and hewas only hitting like two ten, but
he was still had an on baseof almost four hundred. And that's why
you keep him up in the frontof the lineup. So if history repeats

(02:22:45):
itself, Alex Begman will have agood year. But you're getting deeper and
deeper into the normal grind. Andlike I said, it's pressure is an
amazing thing. It's brought out thebest at him many times. It needs
to bring out the best in him. Now, if Dana Brown says that
he's the biggest piece and the mostimportant leader on our team, then guess
what that means that if they're goingwhere Bregman takes them. He can't live

(02:23:09):
at one eighty nine no and aslugging and on base percentage words hit that
has got to pick up. Andif it does and everybody feeds off it,
will they'll be hell to pay foropposing pitching staffs. Yeah, and
we'll see once he gets rolling.That's you know, like Dania Brown told
us yesterday, the rest of theteam is and it's it's I mean,
it goes back to what we saidin uh spring training. Pressure is nothing

(02:23:33):
more than the shadow of great opportunity. I gotta go to break my good
buddy. Michael Johnson said that hitthe mute button William Tripley and send his
ass to the next time. Youfeel slightly not nuts, So you feel
slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in yourlife, remember Sean, no pressure,
no diamonds. Pressure is a partof success. You're gonna attribute that to

(02:23:56):
somebody. You just gotta say yousaid it. That's uh, that's my
good buddy, Eric Thomas. Ifeel you home, and I'll tell you
what you You didn't give me oneyesterday. That hurts. I didn't.
You're right, it hurt. Well. We took four hours of our lovely
callers, so you let everybody elsedictate your temple. Well is what you're
saying. You gave me an Iconfess. I'm just saying he did it.

(02:24:18):
You know your quotes do? Welive off and we thrive on your
quotes. I know I just gaveyou two though, So yeah, you
really you made up for it.Yeah you got another. Pressure can burst
a piper, or pressure can makea diamond. You decide you're in charge
of it. You know who saidthat, big shot Bob Bobby Ory,
Robert or I call him Bobby.Yes, Triple take us a break,

(02:24:43):
man, get us out of here. See No, No, I'm just
kidding. I was gonna tease something. I was gonna say, have you
talked on them? I can doit. No, Oh, I thought
you about to hit us some break. Yeah, and we got We got
three more calls lining up. Thosegonna be the final three calls of the
show. We'll get to you guysnext, and let's see if we can
get Renel Blanco to get us adove for the Houston Astros. Next on
Sports Talk seven, Who's Who's shown? He's the yse eternal judge who sits

(02:25:09):
on high. He has the finalsay on all disputes. Back to the
Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talk sevenninety Yeah, man looks like man,
Well, of course, man lookslike you got attacked by an easter bunny.
We got the bubble gum shorts,the pink shirt with the bubble gum
blue accents to it. You gotnice. We got nice. The matching

(02:25:30):
pink hat with the bubblegum m it'snot bubble guts, powder blue with the
Travis Matthew pink hat and the bluem with the pink and blue shirt.
Yeah, it's literally matching. Damnright. It is in blue shirt,
the matching shoes as well. Soyou asked them, I'm going to golf
is a bullfrog's bolt water tight?I don't even know what. I couldn't

(02:25:54):
either. I say that last yeara couple of times, and I'm like,
that just says it makes sense.How do you even know that?
That? The same way I dissecteda few frogs in my day in school.
You know that they're directed well,because you know, my dude,
sometimes sometimes your teacher teaches you thesethings. Hey, maybe he didn't come

(02:26:16):
up with that, maybe that wasoff, but at least I asked im
talking bullfrogs, and you're talking seventiesporn. So you're that born told ninety
one nine. So basically you wentback and studied old school porn, is
what you're telling us. Those Yeah, those vhs is hit different, but

(02:26:39):
they don't rewind themselves. They surout, oh my gosh, all right,
that might be the line of theyear themselves. We got three callers.
Let's get them all in before weget out of here and hand it
off to stand and Gordy on nextup, Jim you're up first to keep
it tight. Brother. Hey,guys, apologize for yesterday. Oh,

(02:27:01):
Jim Man talked about you after theshow. We wanted to hear the rest
of that because you were on totalk about hitting coach. Yeah, because
you said you're you know enough abouthitting to be dangerous and finished just no
s bombs. Brother, Yeah,no, I got it, and I
do. And here's the thing.What's happened with Bregman has not surprised me.

(02:27:22):
And here's why. In the offseason. If you go to his
Instagram and I copied you Sean yesterdayon Twitter with a hitting swing and hit
the cages, he was I'll golook at it. I didn't say,
I'll go make sure look Jim,what's your what are you on Twitter?
Real quick? Uh? It wasa Jim mos City. I've got a
goofy hand. It's uh yeah,yeah. But I'll search it out,
thank you. Brother. I didn'tlook out. I was playing golf yesterday,

(02:27:43):
so I'll check it out. Words. But the thing is in the
off season, and then so goesback to who do I hold accountable?
I hold the Astros hitting coaches firstaccountable. But back in the off season
he was posting these videos on Instagramwhere he was doing drills had him leaping
off the backside and diving onto hisfront side and swinging around the front leg.

(02:28:05):
Great hitters swing around the back legas it's turning through contact and bringing
the hit through and the barrel arcsaround that back leg into the hitting zone.
Redman has always had suspect mechanics,but now his drills that he did
in the off season, his failureright now is not surprising me. He
basically, if you guys watch himswing, it looks like when he lands

(02:28:28):
at footplant, he's about to squatdown and take that you know what,
And all he has left is topull the bat through the zone aka the
pop ups. And when he squaresthe ball up, what does he do?
He hits it in the ground becausethe barrel is kind of on a
downward trajectory, it's not arching tothe ball. The flaws in his swing
and mechanics are so obvious to me, and it's so frustrating because I don't

(02:28:52):
think the people that are watching thevideos are reinforcing, are doing drills to
help get him to become more rearleg or maybe they are. And he's
got some bad muscle memory he's tryingto work through. But to me,
this is all based on mechanics,and it all goes back to stuff in
the offseason that he did. Ifyou went on his Instagram, I don't

(02:29:13):
know if he's still got many ofthose videos left, but he would be
diving at the front side, swingingaround his front leg, and it was
just like, what are you doing. It's not what yo, It's not
what Jordan does, it's not whatTucker does, and it's not what Altobe
does when he's hitting Will. It'snot what low Perfido does, it's not
what Judge does. All the greathitters are doing. Mechanics are are completely

(02:29:37):
different than what Breglant's doing. Hehas always had suspect mechanics. But if
you guys watch him and you thinkabout it, what pop ups groundouts?
He gets blown up on mid ninetiesfastballs. Yeah, and it's because he's
waiting his front side before he swings, rather than during the swing when the
bat is launched into the hitting zonethe way it's transferred. Jim Great.

(02:30:00):
Yeah, rear legged versus front Idon't know what God was at and why
he thinks front legged hitting is theanswer. When it's it's clearly not great
stuff. I'm a mechanics fanatic,as I know Brian is, and that
that's so I'm gonna go back andlook at that too. I appreciate you
bringing that to our attention. That'sgood stuff, man, awesome, awesome
stuff. And and and I uh, I always like to listen to somebody

(02:30:22):
to teach that part of the game, at least at least listen to see
where it adds up. Let's getyou a damon real quick, damon,
what's going on? Hey, goodmorning, I got a quick question for
you. We've been talking about thechallenges that Bregman's been having. It made
me wonder when they put players onI l could that also include giving them
time off for mental health issues?Yes, yeah they can, but they

(02:30:45):
would have to tell you that it'smental I believe they have to acknowledge that
it's personal issues or some They don'thave to tell you what it is for
the Hippolaws, right, but itwouldn't they have to. Don't they have
to determine when they say take timeoff? Is he physically hurt? Don't
you have to say you have tonote that is that part of it.
I don't think so. So youcan so physical you can say time off,

(02:31:05):
well, no before somebody take mentaltime off or they say he needs
a mental rest. I've never heardhim say, because aren't you going to
ask, well, what's wrong withhim? Yeah? Yeah, don't you
have to note the physical injury?And the Astros did something like this last
year with Joseh Bray you it wasn'this back because he got injections for his
back. I forgot what it wasit family man, I can't remember,

(02:31:26):
but they basically gave him ten daysoff to give him time. I can't
remember. I have to look thatup real quick, but we'll run out
of times. Yeah, and Iget something yes you can't answer is yes
they can. I don't know howthey're supposed to lay. I don't know
how you can just I don't knowhow they would have to disclose that,
because they're already tight lipped as itis. But if you disclose it,
it just you don't have to becasehippo looss protect you from them. Yeah,
for sure. The last call,Marvin got about forty seconds for you,

(02:31:48):
all right, but I'll try tomake it quick. Yeah, that
was some good calls in front ofI'm a big about mechanics too. You
know, we're working with many andseeing what they do. There's some in
that organization or good the lik himor not. Bag Well was pretty good
at when it comes to mechanical stuff. But it's working them out, you
know, it's finding what's good andwhat's not. But one of the big
problems I got, guys, welltwo problems. I just I'm still to

(02:32:11):
have anybody really give me a firmanswer why it was that all but one
Gallus, who is out now tryingto work his way back. I get
it. But you know, tohave this whole staff, I've never seen
this from any team, you know. But but Joe isn't going to listen
to us. But if I'm goingto have table setters, and it's going
to be too bad. And Iunderstand they want to have that leadoff record

(02:32:33):
with Springer and what Vigio did,But but doubont he filled in nicely?
You get three outs per Indy,I'm going to have these two ahead of
Tucker. That way, we're notcoming out of the first with a one
run league where there's a likelihood we'regoing to come out with a two or
three run league, pushing each otherto the two, but the two that
can splashball and get on, youknow, while others are popping it up

(02:32:56):
or striking out. I mean,why with you not? But but I
understand Joe's probably not going to listento this. He seems to be somewhat
hard headed summer calling him soft andeverything. But you know the pitching staff
that just made no sense for somethingthat we would see in August or September
that we saw coming out of springtraining, not just personally from a strength
and conditioning and trainers. If Iwas Jim Crane, I'd be wanting to

(02:33:20):
know why my staff was not readyfor the most sugar lamb. We got
to run Marvel, give us shouttomorrow. Thank you, Harving, good
stuff, good so great stuff fromour callers and listeners as always. Yeah,
and Tripley always great by you.Appreciate you and got him boy,
got him another compliment today. Everyday, every day, everybody holds him
in high regarding rightfully, so yeah, making it happen. Have a good

(02:33:43):
day, man, yeah, man, straight, that's it. Tomorrow.
Let's get these astros a dub today. How about that? Let's do it
just tell W he to W.That'shohn Salisbury. Tripley is our producer,
Manuel and Ran, Brian Leema.Thank you for listening. We're back tomorrow
morning on a Friday edition to theShawn Salisbury Show right here on Sports Talk
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