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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All you need to know right there, what Robert Ford
just told you. And with that we say, away we go,
and good morning here on the Seawan Salisbury Show again.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Sean out today. Cole Thompson in for Sean.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
But the Astros dropped the opener up there in Arlington
to the Rangers. Of course, we'll get into that PGA
Championship former Texas Longhorn Jonathan Vegas the leader after round one.
He is seven under. He's got a two stroke lead
there after eighteen holes, and the Nuggets forcing a Game
seven with a win last night over the Thunder in Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But Cole, I mean we've already alluded to it once
last night, once this morning. The frustrations still mount, and
I mean, we'll get into it as the show goes along,
even more into detail.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But it's just.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's kind of the whose song and meet the old
boss same as the old boss, you know, and meet
the new boss, same as the old boss.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You get it. The coffee hasn't hit whatever, but you
get my point.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I mean, it's it's games like this time and time again,
where we continuously ask the following morning, where are.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The bats morning, Dan Matthews, I would say good, but
there's nothing good about this morning. You know, I try
to drive on in It was a Hawaiian Friday. We
got donuts in here. It's great to be able to
start off the weekend on the right note. But how
can you celebrate. How can you celebrate when you waste
a perfect pitching performance like that from Hunter Brown? And
the problem is, Robert, you know I love you. You know
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I think that you are the bes, needs that you
were the best in the business. It wasn't a pitcher's duel.
It was the Astros failing once again to ever give
run support. Few teams have as dominant as pitching. As
a one to two combination. It is a lethal injection.
Whenever from ber Valdez and Hunter Brown take the field.
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You know that they're gonna give you seven strong you
know they're gonna get you eight strikeouts. You know that
they're gonna hold you to a one run game. And
if you got to give up a long ball, okay,
you make one mistake, that was it, Dan Matthews. One
mistake last night, a Jake Whopper, double quarter pounder to
right center field, and that was your game.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The Astros didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Find a way to be outdueled by Jacob Degram, who,
by the way, had a good performance. Let's not sugarcoat it,
give me eight innings. We saw vintage Shacop de Graam,
the one that the Rangers paid for when they sign
him back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
We saw that version.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But we also saw the same mediocrity that we have
seen throughout the entire year that we've been questioning for weeks. Now,
why are you making these same decisions, Joe Espada? Why
are you not making changes to the lineup, Because if
you know what's going to happen, Ease Operators is gonna
get on, Christian Walker is gonna get out. You have
questions when it comes to the bottom of your lineup,
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whether it be Mauricio Dubon, who's gonna choke up on
the back.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And be first pit swinging.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You know that jose Al Tube is gonna be aggressive
this second day steps into the box, and what did
we see last night? The same old vintage ash shows
that we come and hear every morning and complain about.
It's beyond frustrating because of you know, this was a
game that you needed. You know this was a game
that you could have had. This was a game that
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probably should have been in your favor. But the ineptitude
and the constant bickeringness, and I would say, probably more importantly,
the sheer negativity and narcissism to not make changes cost
the Ashers a game out in Arlington.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I can't be celebrating today on a Hawaiian Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, I mean, you can absolutely celebrate what Hunter Brown
did because he was masterful. He was really good. And
I don't want to take away from what Jacob deGrom did.
He was awesome last night. He was spotting up the fastball.
And I mean the fact that you know you struggled
against him wasn't necessarily that surprising from that standpoint, but
you still had your chances right. And this is I mean,
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this is playoff level baseball. And what I'm about to
say sounds very simple on the surface, but it's just
the truth about this team. Any any decent enough good
pitching shuts this lineup down. That's a problem. That's a
massive problem. Because you're talking about, Oh, we can win
the West, Oh we can get into the playoffs, we
can make a run into the playoffs. Not with this
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lineup you can't make. You can't win the West with.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
This lineup right now, because if here's the problem, you know,
Seattle has good pitching. Texas damn this was a preview
for the weekend because if guess what you get to
go up against Nathan Devaldi, one of the better pitchers
in the young pitchers, Jack Lder depending on what version
you get of him, and timy Oley like like, those
are three names to that can put up seven quality innings.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And then Jack Lighter on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And the problem is that what version Jack Lader are
you getting? Are getting good version or bad version? Because
hopefully for us we get the bad version, but there
is a good version out there sure, And that's the
frustrating part is that there still is a way for
this to be the norm where you're gonna have runners
in scoring position, you're gonna walk out of Arlington with
an zero to four record, you're gonna be swept, but
you're also gonna have a league leading strikeouts for the weekend.
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Because that's what great pitching does against this lineup, and
we've seen it constantly, and we've seen it against this
direct lineup where Jerry pang is Batten first, where Christian
Walker's still in the four hole, where you are putting
Carotini in the six hole, and then you put Mauricio
Dubon in the nine. It's the same lineup, and you
see the results. Any great pitching staff is gonna have
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their way with that with the Asters right now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, I mean that's the way it's been for about
the last year and a half. I mean we saw,
you know, the two games that you had against the Tigers.
I mean you were able to score what two runs
in the first game, two runs in the second. I
mean it's just colds to the point where I'm done,
you know, sticking up for this lineup, oh when they
get hot, all of these different things. You don't get
the benefit of the doubt. You're a bad lineup. Like
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I'm just I'm gonna go ahead and lay it out
there as simple as that. You're a bad lineup. You're
an underperforming You're a lineup that continuously fails this team,
and you don't find ways to be able to win
ball games.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You find ways to do just enough.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Okay, I want to say it's a bad lineup, I'll
say it is a mid lineup, and it's a mid
lineup for a team that you expect to be in
there by their standards, is why I'm going that it's
a bad line. That's fine, but I'm sick and tired
of hearing Oh, you know, they're so close, They're so
close all their timing.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
They've been so close for two and.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
A half years now, And when you talk about this
team losing games, it ain't because of the pitching's Let's
just say, for the sake of argument, we came in
here this morning and we said Astros lose ten to
nothing last night. What are probably most people at someone
three two one two five seven ninety complaining about, Oh,
Hunter Brown was terrible? Really, Hunter Brown was terrible. Did
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you not hear the last part of that no runs whatsoever? Like,
when do we honestly start to put the blame on
them and start to honestly yell into the microphone hit
the damn ball.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Do you know how many times that there was an
O two counterra Farson scoring position last night?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Eleven?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Do you have any times they got actually a contact
with the ball once put in play?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's the problem, Dan Matthews, is that you can't even
make contact you're late on your swings, you're late at
your approach.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Pictures are mowing you down, and they're blanketing you.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
They can go ahead and throw you at eighty six
miles slider and they already know they've won the battle
before you've even taken the plate.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
That's the problem, Dan.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, it's also too I mean, as Josh c put
on the screen and I heard Ross mention this last night,
we hadn't even got to the Christian Walker part of
all of this. But Christian Walker this season with runners
in scoring position, how many strikeouts? Forty one at bats
twenty strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Literally half the time he's going up, pictures know that
he's going out, So by all means, continue to bat
him clean up.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
When is the move going to happen?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
When I mean, honestly, do you want to.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Win the series? This is the and the fact.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
That yesterday before the game, that soul is Is franchise
decide to post a video talking about how we wear
Texas on our sh like it was just a snoozefest.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Of mediocrity at your your disposal.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
The fact that that team has a one to zero
lead against you, when your ace just delivered as perfect
as the performance as you could ask for, minus a
slider that decided to go ahead and hit the second
deck of Fake Dyke in Park. Besides that, that's what
you expect because if you refuse to make changes, you
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refuse to do anything.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It could simply be one.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Move Yiner, you're going in the four hole. Christian, you're
going in the five hole. The numbers back up that
when he's not in the four hole, you get some productivity.
Any productivity at this point would be welcomed. Anything to
know that, hey, paying is on first, you get Eastside
parades up, we're walking parades. People are now walking parades
or excited to see parades, get on base because they
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know who's waiting right behind him. That's infuriating as an organization.
That's one furiating for a team that you and I
both know is better than what's being put out there.
But honestly, is it is.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It at this point?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Or is this what we can't expect for the rest
this season because we had one hundred more games this well,
I mean, that's just a frustrating part of all of it,
is I mean, as I even mentioned last year, where
you continuously did this and it even goes back to
the playoffs the year before.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I mean, in the final two games against the Rangers.
That seemingly is what started this tailspan for this lineup
of not being able to recapture that aggressiveness and being
able to capture that ability to be able to come
through and clutch spots.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
The clutch team. This team doesn't have it right now
at the plate. They don't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And I mean, I don't know if it's something that
can be regained, but it's just something that whenever there's
runners in scoring positions. I mean, here, I'll give you
a good one. Good Buddy Dez with Apollo a polo media.
You know, the one hundred guerrillas against one or the
other way around one. Yeah, there you go. It was
one hundred Astros against the bases loaded. Oh, it's easily
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the bases loader winning that one.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Every single time they're winning that one, they're not working
counts in their favorite either.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Then they had two walks last night.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Two they had four batters three to two counts and it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
All came in the second inning.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I mean, like that was your ending to attack against
Jacob Deagram and then once he got in his rhythm,
once he got out of a jam. Congratulations, he was
off to being the same old bitched Jae's the gram
that we saw when he was back in New York.
That's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, I mean, there's much more that we can get
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I mean, Cole Tripoli, at least we got donuts and
Colotchi's right, and we got that going for us. So
maybe that's something that could be a good vibe change
for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, let's just go ahead and take the positive
side of it. All right. I understand that Cole is angry.
It's fine. I think everybody should be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Ac two over here, you know, angry Cole, It's fine,
It's all right, It's okay.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I like that nickname.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You know, we'll let you have it.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But also two on the show today, the legend that
almost wasn't will let you hear what we mean on that,
Brits visits an SEC and we also have a very
very interesting Salisbury steak out for you here about an
hour from now. But coming up next the numbers are
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visible for you to see. With this Astros lineup and
the message as clear as day, we'll talk about it here.
It is a Sean Salisbury show, Sports Talk seven ninety