Astros Sweep Dodgers, Rockets Finalized Deal for Kevin Durant & Clint Capela, Mexico Beats U.S. for Concacaf Gold Cup

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Said, Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sewan Salisbury.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
To usc Troupes longtime friend Shawn Salisbury.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Dan Matthew, excuse, this is the Sean Salisbury show.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh two, o'tani pops it up shallow left field, going out,
Dubon coming in, Hummel Dubon with the call and the
catches humble yielded at the last instant and the side
is retired. Bryan Gusto's retired the last seven in a row.
Three to two again and that is high ball four.
Astros lead two to one. Dastrat's home short picks up

(00:45):
his third RBI in the last two days.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Two two, and that's hit in the air pretty deep
to right center field.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Ruiz is back on the warning track.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
He leaps at the wall and that ball is gone.
For the seventh time in his last eight games at
Dodger Stadium. Christian Walker has homered and the Astros lead
at three to one.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
On Walker's twelfth of.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
The year to two and daspranks this one deep to
left center. Confordo back looking up, say leta back to
back jacks first Walker now DZ four to one. Astros
pitch on the way and L two ve hits it
in the year to deep left field. That sends back
confordo at the wall. He leaves say Aleta Jose l

(01:35):
two ve goes deep for the third time in the series,
and the Astros lead is five to one. Al twove
sixteenth of the year Boo louder.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
To two.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Strike three call on the outside corner, and that is
the ballgame. The Astros love la, they love it. They
sweep the Dodgers five to one, bringing out the rooms
at Dodger Stadium for the first time since two thousand
and eight.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Who doesn't love a salty Robert Ford? And that's exactly
what you get right there. And with that we say
away we go in Good morning here on the Sean
Salisbury Show. That's about as close to working blue as
Robert is going to get right there.

Speaker 7 (02:19):
Yeah, well, I love it and good morning. Good to
be with you guys today on a morning. Hope that
we'll get into how difficult it is to celebrate stuff
this morning. But that's music tar years hearing about Robert Ford?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
What about that?

Speaker 7 (02:36):
And you know what, what does jose al Toovey do
still signs autographs in Dodger Stadium? I mean, just because
he's a good guy and then he hammers you on
a regular basis, as did Christian Walker. Longball and his
bat woke up in the two series that he's you
gave the alarming number in a good way.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It says.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
When he goes to Colorado or La he ran and
he long balls back a little bit. He may not
have gone five for five, but over the weekend he
was relevant when it came to swinging the bat, as
was Diaz, as was I mean Cam Smith got his,
You start to look around parades, continues to get his
and then pitching again. The Astros may very well be

(03:18):
the best team in baseball. And I can't believe I'm
saying this after what I mean, not about the Astros,
but about There's no way you say this about somebody
who's been through all this.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
You just don't. You can't. You can't with all the injuries.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
We say it every David, I don't really know if
I think we're so used to it kind of blow
it off.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Joe spot is clearly the manager of the Earth. What
he's done.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
This bullpen may be the bullpen of the Earth. There's
a fire back in the old roll Aids Relief Firemen
of the Year. You can throw them all in there
with the way they've done their gig. You see Gusto
as a starter comes in and does his gig. It
almost feels like that's becoming a comfortable spot for him.
You got solid pitching from fromber and who I miss
on Friday? Who who started Friday? I got to go

(04:05):
back Friday, Friday Friday. Who's who's the start?

Speaker 8 (04:10):
Now?

Speaker 7 (04:10):
Why we'll go through the rotation. Let's see it's fromber
Hunter Brown. It was Lance mccolors. Yeah, yeah, and and
and he duh that Lance mccollor's plays meaning that plays
that that that goes forward and gives you great help.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
Now sustain it. I mean, here's the problem.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Did I not say Dan going into Friday when we
left here on the show, say and not Friday Thursday,
when we need Lance mccolors was going to get his start?

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Did we did?

Speaker 7 (04:47):
Do we not point out that the extremes both ways,
that he doesn't he doesn't a lot of times live
in the middle.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Right, if he just to fight through.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
It's either sometimes he's really bad or other times he's
really really good. It's that when you're not really really
good that you don't that the floor is not lowered.
You raise the floor right where you can still survive it.
Like hell, we've seen fromber Do a number of times
this year. He's not at his best, maybe not strike,
but he just given you six. Would gust will give

(05:15):
you six again? Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I was impressed
with mccullors. Heck, you got to get it all in
because there are so many things to like. But they
waltzed in. Well, they went five or six on a
trip and sweet and sweep the Dodgers five and one. Yep,
I mean a five out of six is what I met.
Five and one and sweep the Dodgers. It's an impressive
it's impressive. And when you keep doing that. The injuries,

(05:39):
we don't lean on him is hard, even though they're frustrating.
You don't lean on the Jordon injuries hard. Although anxious
to see what'll be like when he gets back, but
he wasn't raking when he left. And this team's still
playing phenomenal baseball. So in a long series they get
this pitching and the mix of hitting like you saw
over these last six games. You know, in a ball

(06:00):
and against the team they should take care of. But
then you go on the road with the best team
in baseball in their building. And then for Oral Herscheizer,
who I've known a long time and I love him,
I do, but his comment was misplaced and stupid and
irresponsible to talk about. Well, first, they're in your ballpark,
and did you ever think that maybe your curve when
they throw a lot of curve balls, that maybe your

(06:21):
team just had no movement they sucked that night or
that day. Okay, and then maybe the Astros actually are
pretty good and just to diminish what they do because
well you'd almost think, well, or maybe if your guys
are tipping pitchers, you just don't know how.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
To get people out.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Or maybe you ran into a baseball team in the
Astros that are tired of this and keep breaking and
you want zero part of them. Come World Series, because
I got news for you. In a seven game series,
the Astros will beat the Dodgers because the truth is,
the Astros are a thousand times more mentally tough than
they are. And I'm from California and I grew up
with that organization.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 7 (06:58):
They are so worried about all the exterior I'm not
saying the players or Dave Roberts, but there's just this
feeling of.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
We're the Dodgers, but we really are.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
Do you know that person who has all the looks
and has everything the cosmetic I mean, if it's a
female or body's like an army, right, And if it's
a dude, he just looks like he's chiseled out of rock,
walks around and got his full head of hair when
he's sixty, and it's still it's not grant all those
things that go with cosmetic that Hollywood brings to you say,
but then you dig down and say, well, they're substance.

(07:29):
The hell, the Dodgers are world series champs. I'm not
saying the players, but there's this feeling of insecurity. And
then you look at somebody and say, what do you
care about your load? You come from a great family,
your hell, you're a forty year old and your body
looks like it's twenty five, and all the you know
what I'm saying, we say about cosmetic, right, and then
you start to look deep in the soul.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
I'm gonna tell you what they want.

Speaker 7 (07:51):
Zero part of adversity when they face it with the Dodgers,
will be great, and they're a hell of an organization
and they are a hell of a talented team. And
I'm not a Dodger hater, but it frustrates me and
I see this good as almost as if people continue
to think that the ass was after even all this
still and there's really one regular that's playing and he's
the one that dominates you all the time and gets

(08:14):
big hits against you and was the one well noted
for not doing it neither hear no there if you
can't get over it eight years later, from seventeen to now,
they're that's a u problem. But to disrespect them and
you just got to get used to it. But the
frustrate or Hursteiser was an overachiever in his career and
was damn good pitcher. But it's one thing to give

(08:34):
like hot take and get people's reaction and you're a Dodger.
But to the point of for a guy who knows
how difficult it is to pitch and get people out
and was really good at it, Hell, what do you
have like fifty five scoreless innings or something in a
row when he was in a Dodger or Hersteiser performed
a lot of oral surgery on opposing teams, but irresponsible
for a guy who's smarter than that to put that

(08:55):
on them. And maybe they did know curveballs were coming.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
You want to know why.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
Maybe you're just not good at a there's no movement
and this team just knows how to be resilient and hit.
I'm just telling you when it comes to mental toughness
and grit, that team's talent is so good they can
struggle and still beat you.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
But if it gets down a nut cut in time, gimme.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
The Astros all day, every day, times a million, because
if it gets to the World Series and there's a
seven game and I'm just telling you this now, and
they it's a World Series and it's a seven game series,
I don't care if it doesn't go seven games just
the opening series. No, it's a long series. Gimme the
Astros and be prepared because I'll be putting money down
on that one in a big way. It's worth the

(09:34):
rewards for the reward pay off the risk, I'm just
telling you. And if they with what they're I'm saying,
if it stays like this, there's no team in baseball
that's mentally or emotionally tougher in this team. You can
give me all the crap you want about talent. The
Yankees aren't emotionally tougher, mentally tougher. Detroit may have a
little bit of that in the hardcore the astra. I mean,
the Dodgers are supremely talented. They've got good players, the players,

(09:58):
I'm just talking about the overall feel. I don't think
they want a three to two game in Game six,
when you're down three to two in a series, I
don't think they want that against this team. You may
want it to get somebody else, but this team, they'll
get you out at the end of the bullpen. The
starting pitching will give you enough trouble. Hell, you better
run out some good people because of the first two
they are opening up against the series against you, in

(10:18):
a long series, in a world series, your first two
aren't better than these first two. Okay, and you may
have a hitting advantage, but do you have a great advantage.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
And the answer to that is absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (10:29):
So.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
The fact that you've.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Got to continue to deal with and it's smile. I
don't usually get that frustrated by this stuf. I've told you,
it doesn't buy it it's like, oh, eye rolling constant,
but the fact that people still think that. And then
you got hammered in three straight in your building. They
went into your building, on your kitchen table, in front
of your family and beat the dog piss out of
you for three straight days. With all the talk, all

(10:54):
the chatter, all the excited Astros are coming to town,
all the injuries, all the offseason people leaving, and you
you loading up and spending more money. A lot of
respect for the Dodgers organization, do a lot of friends
from the love them.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
But I got news for you.

Speaker 7 (11:06):
They walked into your bill and while they were at it,
they got into your microwave while you were in bed,
and kicked your ass and ate all your food too,
and drink all your beer. And actually, by the end
of the day their kids were calling the Astros Daddy,
not the guy who lived in their own house. Okay,
So they waltzed in there, smirked at you, and kicked
your ever loving ass up and down. Chavez ravine. So

(11:28):
take that, put it in your pipe and smoke it.
And if you're lucky enough with your great roster, we'll
see you in October. And if not, it won't be
us if they play like this, that's watching here and
I say us meeting fans of Houston, Well, we'll be watching,
but it'll be the team from there. So I please
let us see him again, Let this city see them

(11:49):
again in the postseason. Please let that happen in the
World Series. So I know my frustration. Like I said,
you know how much respect to have for the Dodgers,
But to me, just haan, he'd be like, Mokay, then
you know what, oral you better talk about your own guy,
who is one of the great people in baseball. Does
he say it, well, Mooki's getting hits because he knew
the pitch. Is he saying that? No, I haven't heard that, Okay,

(12:13):
I just I was just making sure because you know,
as a Red Sox, I love Mookie, but I'm still
pissed at them for getting rid of Mooky bets. Okay,
but I do believe he was on a team that
had to go through this too. Yeah, yeah, just curious.
But hey, you know it's just and if three astros
from the past walked into Dodger Stadium and were on
that team and made a difference, they'd welcome him. You

(12:35):
never hear from it again, But you know what, I
kind of like it this way, So good to the
Astros played well, it's a long season.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
But I got a new Well.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
We keep saying it's a long season and they keep
knocking down pins man and the Dodgers were simply nothing
more than another rapper for us to kick your ass
and unwrap it and do it right in your building
in front of your wives and kids. How'd that sound
and how did it look? I know they're coming home
and you're in your streak, says three in a row

(13:04):
against the Astros. So, whether you like it or not,
if you're fortunate enough to meet them in the World Series,
both sides you damn well, no, you're in a fistfight
and it ain't gonna be with a pillow. So good luck.
The constant chatter. They got their ass handed to them,
and there's a little when it comes to resilience. Put
it this way, Dodgers down three to zero, eh, Astros

(13:26):
down three Oho. I'd still give them a chance, if
that makes sense. Just a different grit World Series or not,
this team's got more of it.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
Well, and a couple of thoughts on what you just
talked about too, with oral on on Friday. I mean,
you know, as soon as I saw that that came
down ill, I was just saying, aer right, whatever. But anyway,
we'll talk about that here, Brad, see you right there,
and if you want to join them, someone three two
one two five seven ninety against someone three two one
two five seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
It is a Monday.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
After fourth July weekend here on the Sean Salisbury Show,
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Lord Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety, where Astros
and Rockets play and Real Texans talk.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
Oral Hersheiser comments on Friday night. I understand what broadcast
he's working with. He's talking to Dodger fans when he
says things like this, So I get it. I mean,
I'm sure probably there are people out there that if
you just say, hey, you know what I want to,
you know, watch the Astros broadcast and hear what these
guys have to say, and of course they'd probably come
away from it saying, oh my gosh, orange and blue

(14:35):
colored glasses with those guys. Well, of course they're on
the team broadcast. But I agree with you on the
you know better like he knows better and he even
knew it too, where he does the whole I don't
want to open up an old wound here, Well, then
don't say it if you don't want to kick a
hornet's nest. I got to a point, honestly, Sean, where

(14:55):
I said, I want to hear a story of somebody
from the ASTROS organization. If he's on the field for
batting practice, confronting him in front of people.

Speaker 7 (15:03):
It would have been great to see how he handled it.
I and here's the deal. I agree with you, but
I also disagree on the professional part of it. Is
when when I said he knows better, especially for a
guy who played and was in it was in that
battle all the time. Is and I understand if you

(15:23):
have disdain for the for the if that's your case
and can't get up, fine, but they still had to
go win.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
On the road.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
We can go through all that. I don't need to
remind oral hearst Eiser about all that. He's a smart guy.
But here's what I don't like is when people say, oh, yeah,
you know what not you dan, But they say, oh yeah,
but when you said he caters to the Dodgers, because
that that that broadcasts his team. But catering to the
Dodgers doesn't mean dragging down somebody who you should be

(15:54):
over it by now. He'd have been better served as
a Dodger broadcaster by saying, you know what, with all
they've gone through self inflicted in the past, there's one
guy that plays every day that's on the roster that
I'm not talking Sansma colors. But he didn't play every day, right,
that plays and we all know that it's been documented
he wasn't part of it. But even if that hovers,

(16:16):
even if you want to say he thought he was.
But we're talking eight years the roster. Everything's changed, we've
been through since then. This year you're on two other
general managers and two other managers, okay, and a bunch
of different people in the front office that have gone
on and got other jobs. Because people hold him in
high regard, you don't have the same pitching color. I mean,
it's changed completely. Sure, So as a matter of fact,

(16:38):
your two generations removed from that, as far as coaching
generations that are not talking about the time in your
own family.

Speaker 8 (16:44):
You get.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
My point is there's also a responsible in the brought
and then the national part. Well, I know he's cater
to the Dodgers, he'd have been better service say, regardless
of what went on in the past, and they've suffered
their punishment, and that they there was self inflicted teams
different and there was a he'd have been more respect
even from Dodge saying you know what, like it or not,
this team's real and and to say wether you may

(17:07):
not like in the past, but at some point we're
gonna have to get over and just give them their
credit that this is a really good organization and a
really good baseball team. That that that's what that that
that's how you get ahead everything. It's weird how the revenge,
you know, revenge is really a dish. It's best not served.
That revenge you seek out done, Let me get revenge

(17:28):
on it.

Speaker 10 (17:28):
Now.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
The best revenge for the Dodgers is to get people
out and win. The best the revenge for the Astros
at those people who continue to think that they just
were an organization that lived on some trash can that
now that is to kick their ass.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Oh not, almighty Otani. You get more than just one hit.

Speaker 7 (17:46):
Right, Your best Your best player didn't dominate on the
mound or off it. And we know he's the best
player in the world. But in this series, the other
guys were better. So it's just the and the broadcasting profession.
Even if you're a local guy in the broadcast, in
my opinion, not even on a national broadcast. In my opinion,
I don't think you do your job right. I understand

(18:08):
why they all Kenny Hawk Harrelson of it. You lean
towards your team, come on, get him out, of course,
that's just that's not like in a national where you're
rooting like you know, the Herbstreet L Duncan stuff that
you saw or l openly rooting for your almoter. But
people do it all the time, and that disagreement. But
when your local broadcast, okay, to lean Steve Sparks should
be rooting for the Astros show, should Robert Ford and

(18:29):
the rest of him. But there also comes a point
in time, and we've heard Steve Sparks is always good
to other organizations. Matter of fact, he's always very careful
to give people their credit without burying him just to
be as wise ass right, Steve doesn't do that. So
I just think there's a professional courtesy or professional respect
or protocol that goes with if you're the local broadcast teams.

(18:51):
Of course, you're rooting for your team, but there's also
I think it's part and parcelanta responsibility for you to
point out exactly who you're dealing with, good or bad. Now,
if this happened in twenty twenty four, again, let it
rip broadcasters all over the world. You've got your fair
share of flesh, and now they're getting their flesh back
by the way they play. But it's okay to be

(19:12):
critical without constantly So what happens five years from now?

Speaker 5 (19:16):
What happens if they can if they continue to kick.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
Ass this year and go win a World Series, there
will be some that the first thing they'll say is,
how did they manage to go cheat on the road
and at home and come up with some suggestion.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
I don't think they put.

Speaker 7 (19:29):
A any kind of camera into your Dodgers stadium for
three games and got out and saying in that quick
a time, it's too hard to hit with two people
at your ear, let alone one or none.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Okay, So you'll tell, hey, what about.

Speaker 7 (19:44):
This made their bed serve their time as far as
their baseball time, and it just I do think as
a broadcaster, if the reverse is true, like I've said,
it before you can get on the Dodgers all you want.
The Dodgers were really, really good last year in their
hell of an organization. Regardless of you loved or not,
you better respect because there's a good chance you'll see
him again. Didn't you hear Robert Ford was working blue

(20:06):
on Friday? You know, come back tomorrow if you want
to ask kicking like this again.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
You're lucky. Vin Scully's not around to see this. He
got so much to the point where Steve Sparks said
to be like Robert, Robert, take it easy.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
I love it.

Speaker 7 (20:17):
None of those things happen. I love it right, but
it sounds good. And now I can tell you this,
And like I said, I like Oral Herscheizer. I was
right there in Dodge State and watching him operate and
perform oral surgery when I was growing up, or when
I said, growing up, when I was younger. But I
can tell you this that Vin Scully would never have

(20:37):
said that. Vin Scully would have pointed out the history
of it and would have made a point to say
this is a different team. Resilient would have done, would
have the due diligence of what's happened from then to now.
Vin Scully would have made a point of saying, here's
what happened in history, here's what went on, but this
had nothing to do with this team, and he would
have pointed out how many people and who wasn't there

(20:58):
and what they're doing pitching, because Vin Scully probably knows
more about the Dodger organization than even Tommy Lasorda, who's
passed away, and a whole bunch of others, Walter Alston
or anybody else who was there, including the you know
family that's you know what, the O'Malley f whoever. All
the history. Vin Scully knows as much about any of it,
even in death. Vin Scully probably has a voice we

(21:20):
want to hear. He wouldn't have said it like that,
but like I said, this stuff doesn't normally bother me
a bit, but it's to the point where to put
that one in while you're taking that ass kicking was
just a cheap shot.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
And Oral Hirscheiser knows that well.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
In the postgame rap two, somebody had posted it online
of him and Joe Davis afterwards what happened, and it was, oh, well,
what the Dodgers didn't do?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Brother?

Speaker 6 (21:43):
You got outscore twenty nine to six, Like, how about
like even if you've got to, you know, cross the
fingers and put it behind your back. There of giving
them a compliment, I think that's probably the time of saying, hey,
let's just call it what it is, Joe. This team
came in here and they handled business.

Speaker 7 (21:59):
That's my favorite, like a football gamer on baseball when
you get your ass handed to you and everybody saying, well,
you know the old if I an't had balls, she'd
be my uncle syndrome. Or I confess he did it
center where I confessed somebody else's fault.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
I love it.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
You take the ass whooping and it's like, yeah, they
didn't win it.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
We gave it to him.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
You lost by four touchdowns and got out rushed by
two hundred yards, but you gave it to him. No,
you got physically whipped. Now in this case, No, you
didn't give anybody because I don't remember at any time,
although it looked like it that your pitchers were putting
the ball on a tee, although the astros hammered.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
You liked that it was.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
And on the other side they looked like they were
throwing peas to you that you couldn't see. Oh, but
here's what we didn't do. What you didn't do is
that the person who's who was better than you all
week and long showed up and didn't allow you to
do what you're best at. One hit for Otani. I't
to tell you because you're gonna tell me. Oh, Tani

(22:59):
wasn't prepared. No, here's prepared for it. He was just
out executed. And it happens on a regular basis in
pro sports. And you show up with a team you're
supposed to beat because they're in our building, or the Dodgers.
If I'm the Dodgers, I'd beg for the Yankees or
somebody else in the postseason. Okay, in a World Series,
if I'm them, I would be begging for somebody else.

(23:20):
And I got news for it. They won't admit it
out loud. They don't want any part of seven games
with the dog with the Astros.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
They don't dude the way that this is even best
record in baseball going into it. I get it all,
but you know exactly what I'm talking about. As good
as you are, it goes back to the cosmetic. Give
me the soul. The rapper may not look as like
it used to with all these players, but the soul
of this team. I'll take it over any team in baseball.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
Well, three straight games and three straight games of domination
for the Astros. They get out of there with the
sweep this weekend and come back home up for the Guardians.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
Brad JTC. You guys right there, you want to join them?

Speaker 6 (23:56):
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Speaker 5 (24:11):
It'd be great, and I think you put it.

Speaker 7 (24:14):
Think about this three and you got a whole bunch
of guys that have been so good for this team.
Three all stars going in and three guys who you
needed a career year from pain to this year, and
he's given it. You needed Josh Hater back to being
Josh Hater and he has not. He's blown one. He
got one loss, I believe where he blew one game

(24:35):
where he came in and got a loss on a
walk off home run or close hitt extra Runner on
second exactly right, and I think it was a home
run that beat him.

Speaker 5 (24:43):
Hasn't it save opportunity?

Speaker 7 (24:44):
He's not been He is one hundred percent with twenty
four to twenty four, twenty five, twenty five, whatever it
is right, And then the obviously Hunter Brown, I will
remind you a little over a year ago, the guy
couldn't get anybody out, made a switch with what a
two seemer And now you've got three guys having career
years and and and those career years are a big

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reason why. And Haters. We've seen this movie before, obviously
with Hater and and Payina, we've seen it in the postseason.
And with Hunter Brown we saw at this point last
year him get into this who he is now. But
trumnute that they've had to elevate because I always tell
you when when you get hurt or you lose a
lot of players, somebody that you're not expecting to have

(25:30):
a career, you has to. I think we kind of
expected Hater to come back and be better. So we'll
put that on the shelf. Hunter Brown a rising star.
And I don't know how I mean the ceiling the
floor is raised where there there's not a there's not
a big drop when he's not pitching great, and the
ceiling you can just kind of knock that out and
shizzle that out, because right now there is none with
how good the guy can be. And Payne is just

(25:52):
scratching the surface of who he is. But you had
to have him in light of you've lost three All
Star bats and three MVP candidates, one who's finished second,
the other who we think is a four hundred million
dollar player, and the third who's a top ten player
in baseball with a bat in his hand, and you're not.
That's Jordan Tucker and Bregman. You lost all of that

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and you're better. You're better right now.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
You also wonder too, if if a third baseman drops out,
if he sucked, Pereatis is not on the short list.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
Well, what he's meant to this team may not matter
on the national scale to others, but what he's meant
for this team in truth, if the MVP of an
everyday player, forget pitching, if everyday player, if the MVP
is not Paynya, it is Peretis on this team, and
you can make a case for a guy who continues
just when he's okay. He had a game or two
where he is one for seven and then he goes

(26:45):
three for four. Is it the upgrade that Jake Myers
has given this roster this year from him to him
is an out of body experience. Now, I don't know
if this is him for the rest of his career,
but maybe we're realizing that confidence and grows and he's
adjusted some that he's athletic enough, which he is to
play that kind of defense in center field, that that

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somewhere between where he was and where he is now
is who is Maybe he is a two seventy five
guy and he's hitting over three hundred. But yes, there
is a scenario where you could see where they say
that guy belongs in the All Star Game. Pretis with
what he's met here with circumstances. But you know, they
go by a lot of gaudy numbers. His home run
totals are gonna I mean, he's got a chance to

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do with the guy in front of him, who's in
his MVP year. How many Bregman hitting his MVP or forty?
So when I said his MVP or when he finished
second but made a run, was it high thirties or
was it forty somewhere in the thirties. Maybe I don't
know if Pretis will get there, but he really has
been a I don't know if surprises it, but a

(27:48):
pleasant pleasantly better than I think we thought he'd be
power bat even though you knew he had.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Pop forty one in nineteen for Alex.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
He may not get there, but you do go. But
this is there's the pop that they said has been
has been relevant man and prevalent here as well.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
It's definitely been on display. There is no doubt about that.
And it's a good thing because the Astros have needed
every single one of those home runs.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
He said some one.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
Three, two, one, two, five, seven ninety is the number
to get in. Brad's gonna get us go in this
morning here on the show, Brad, good morning, Hey, good
morning guys.

Speaker 11 (28:23):
Glad to see y'all made it through the weekend real quick.
If was sorta at Drysdale, we're alive. Oh my gosh,
her side would be behind Piggley Wiggly right now. And
I wouldn't doubt if Carby already gave you my call
and said, knock it off.

Speaker 12 (28:35):
We're not that weak.

Speaker 13 (28:36):
I will touch on this, Sean.

Speaker 11 (28:38):
I think the National broadcast did bring that up with
the Astros, what they've been through and how they got
around it or got over there.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't hear the National broadcast man,
So yeah, I hope so.

Speaker 11 (28:49):
I think they did, and it felt pretty good to
hear that. And I agree with you. I mean, once
again we're talking about the young kids.

Speaker 8 (28:56):
Yeah, I'll two be.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Give him his props. Props are due. That's a amazing
what he does against them.

Speaker 11 (29:01):
But good night, man, hit by pitch walk walk walk,
you know, and next thing you know, we're blowing their
doors off again.

Speaker 13 (29:10):
Uh, I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 11 (29:13):
But wow, it might be you know, it might be August,
mid August that we're done with this division. I know,
I'm going a little crazy, but good night, I just
don't see the Mariners doing anything.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Have a good one, brother. He appreciate it, Brad.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
I mean, the Mariners are hanging on with you though,
I mean only seven games back of you, and even
though you're eight and two in your last ten games,
there's seven and three, so it's not a significant drop
off from them. And you hit them right out the
gate too. After the All Star break.

Speaker 7 (29:41):
Think about this though, they are what's their last would
you say the last ten or what eight and two?
Or would you say there's seven and three, seven and
three and they can't gain ground.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
That's one way of looking at it. That is the
way I look at it.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
You're hot, well, the Astros are hot, you don't gat
Now you gain ground in a wild card situation, but
you don't gain ground. And if you get cold and
the Astros stay hot, which we've also seen. We saw
last year and the Astros are twelve and twenty four
and in the month of June and July, the Astros
made incredible ground up on them and it was a

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battle to the end, obviously, But when you're playing that well,
and you've got to like the way you're playing because
you also, if you're Seattle are counting on the wall.
The Astros are going to go through their losing skid
as well, maybe not this year. And depending on how
long is a losing skid for the Astros. Three games,
five games, two games, you know what's that gig?

Speaker 5 (30:33):
But I like it as well.

Speaker 7 (30:35):
As the Mariners are playing, they cannot move up the
ladder on the way that the Astros are playing.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
I guarantee.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
They thought they were going to make some move a
game or two towards the top this weekend, and the
Astros go in and sweep the Dodgers And didn't see
that coming, even Gordy when he said, he goes, if
you can go in there and not get swept, then
you consider it a decent series. They went in there
and bamboozled the Dodgers in three straight and I love
it well.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
And you get a Cleveland Guardian team coming in here
that has lost their last ten. And oh, by the way,
for the Mariners, how about this for a finishing stretch
for these final six games, Three in the Bronx against
the Yankees, who they've been on their own struggle as well,
but they win, Yes, stay against the Mets, and then
you go to Detroit and take on the best team
in the American League to close it out. So the

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Astros have a chance to be able to increase the
padding before you get to the All Star Break and
start off with that series in Seattle.

Speaker 7 (31:33):
I so even if they split and the Astros take
care of their business and gain another game or two,
meaning if they split their games, maybe the Mariners before
the All Star Break great. If the Astros just keep
winning series, they can push this thing to ten games
by the time you get the All Star break. I
don't think they're gonna lose ground they play like this.

(31:54):
They won't because their pitching is just too good and
they're getting timely hitting now. And you can't do it now,
can't say well it was there's just the Colorado Rockets.
They did it in Dodger Stadium. So but what I
love about this team. I always talk about overcoming failures,
and it's not even a failure, temporary failures or whatever
it is to be able to get back and get
over it quickly. You also got to get over the

(32:15):
good stuff. You ride the wave of confidence, but you've
got to get over it next. You just swept the Dodgers,
but nobody cares coming back here. You know, you've got
to go and take care of your business. So if
you do, it'd be easy to take a deep breath,
say we just beat the best team in baseball and
swept them, But you can't. You got to continue to,
as a matter of fact, even get more, like on
the Autobahn in Germany, let's we need more out of it,

(32:37):
and then get yourself when you go on the All
Star break a nine ten game lead. Now you can
rest people, maybe mix in, you know, get comfortable with
six men, get other people some work, and get some
people off their legs in the second half of the season.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
But it's going to take.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
A lot of doing because when people say, well, the
ass was if they go through some injuries or stuff.
If they go through some injuries, yeah, yeah, we're on
the other side. We're on the healing phase.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Now.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
They've been for ninety games, been through the injuries, and
they got a chance to get to double digit.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Lead by the All Star break.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
So if you're waiting on that, keep waiting, because the
more injuries they have, the more winning streaks.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
They go on.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Well, I mean you even touched on it too. I
mean it's the other side where you're gonna start getting
guys back, yes, and you say, yeah you should, and
maybe you're to the point like, please let the guys
come back, because this version of the Astros who keep
overcoming injuries, this is getting out of hand if you're
an opponent. So if you're waiting for, oh, eventually they'll
run through their guys being banged up.

Speaker 7 (33:35):
What you mean forty eight of them already, and five
five of them would be your starting or three of
them would be your starting pitching staff. But they haven't
picked up a baseball in a live game in a while. No, man,
it's they're they're creating exactly what you need. I didn't
think for one second anybody was running away with this division.
And I know it's still we haven't even got the

(33:55):
All Star break. But keep playing like this and three
weeks to go and this division in September or whatever
it is, you'll be your alls. You're going to be
thinking about is rest and playing for home field advantage throughout.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
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Speaker 5 (34:37):
And Illinois wants the way in JT. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (34:41):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (34:41):
A couple of book things you mentioned, The John Dear
Classic that's right down the street. For me in able
to Way. And then I heard Fred Van Fleet in
one of the sweepers. He's he's a Illinois high school
whop legend man, so I didn't realize he was Houston Rocket.
But anyway, quickly about the Dodger Astro series. The Dodgers
are mad for one thing their organization, because they arguably

(35:04):
made the worst trade in baseball right they gave up
you word on Alvarez for Josh Fields are eat that?
And then I so where I live, I try I
see the Astros play in all the Midwest cities, and
I always think it's interesting where you go to a
game and you see you know, now bad in twenty

(35:25):
seven jose.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
L Tuve Boo.

Speaker 14 (35:29):
And then I'm I'm in Minneapolis. They're playing the Twins
now bading number one, Carlos Korea Are. I was in
Detroit before they made the turn. And they're the best
team in baseball right arguably now. And who's their manager?

Speaker 8 (35:43):
A J. Hinch?

Speaker 14 (35:44):
And who are all these free agents that all these
major League Baseball teams want?

Speaker 12 (35:49):
Now you can.

Speaker 14 (35:50):
Circle back to Bregman, to Tucker, to George Springer. I mean,
the list goes on and on since twenty seventeen. So
that's why still more pleased about this whole thing. And
I would ask Coralherscheiser this and it's a great conversation
to say, Dude, rank jose L twove right now, and

(36:14):
there's only one player on the Dodgers that is better
than him, and that's so Tommy. And that's what I
would like somebody to question him about. Hey, where does
Hose I mean Al Tuovey is a first ballot, unequivocal
Hall of Famer with what he's done in the postseason alone,
not just his regular season stats. And and I'm just
amazed how that goes, especially with all these free agents,

(36:38):
like I said, that have been signed by all these
teams and cheered and beloved. But then he gets food
and you're paying, you know, two hundred and fifty million
dollars for some of these former astros. That's my rant
of the day. So I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
He I appreciate the call.

Speaker 7 (36:55):
I mean, what's stuff. I'm appreciate it it's fair or not.
He's the face of this.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
I mean, he's the guy that, even though it has
been documented both by Major League Baseball and other witness
accounts of what happened in twenty seventeen that he did
not benefit from it as a matter of fact. That
chows to go as far away from using the scheme
as anyone. But sometimes facts don't get in a way

(37:19):
of a good story for people.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
Well, and you're gonna be.

Speaker 7 (37:21):
Failing it just guilt by association, just the fact that
he's in the dugout people. Most people, it doesn't matter
if you tell him that or if it was documented,
it could be cleared by somebody who yes, he was
not on that whatever, you know, the baseball let's just
say they had it. Some said no, Josel tub never
participate and been documented by players and everything that he
was not part of it. But people don't that doesn't

(37:43):
fit the narrative. It's not a good story if you're
boon jose al Tuve for that. So it's gonna happen,
and he continues to deliver. I would imagine he's at
the point where revenge and all that isn't part of
his life.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
And you can tell by the way he approached it.
He just gets you on the field.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
He doesn't deal in those things off it, and he's
a hell of a man. And he just continues to perform.
I imagine it's probably eye rolling to him by now.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Well, I mean, he's had numerous opportunities to do it too,
and he has declined it every single turn. And the
one time that I do remember him being on the
record about it, he just said we were a team
and look, if one guy was doing it, that means
we were all doing it. But it's not, that's not true.
But that's a teammate that's got his guys back. But
you know that those Dodger fans that are on the field,
mister al Tuv, will you please sign this? That probably

(38:28):
as soon as they get into the stands, you see
the one yuts.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
That it was the the al two va home run.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
The moron reached into his pocket and grabbed a baseball
and threw that one back on the field.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
People a bunch of bluffs, dude.

Speaker 7 (38:40):
There's a lot of people that are just really dumb
that their IQ, their emotional mental whatever it is, or
common sense. If there's an IQ that falls under all
of them, great, because they're missing it. You just don't
get it. But it's it's it's just all part of
the Oh, somebody next to me is doing it. I
got to jump in when you have zero idea. But

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the key here is is that he never allows it
to bother him. And the Astros apparently dote either because
they keep dominating opponents. And this was another dominating road
trip and a dominating final series against the Dodgers with
three straights.

Speaker 6 (39:17):
This is one of those where you'd love to have
final series of this trip, should I say? Maybe not
with al twove, but the off the record conversation, you know,
team plane, sit next to Joe, Hey, Joe, this was personal,
wasn't it? And I'm sure he'd probably say, oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah it was.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
There's certain teams and players you'll play against in your career.
It's always personal when you play against there certain and
in truth, if you can find a way to make
it personal in every series, it's probably a good thing
as long as you don't let the personal even if
you don't really have any big personal geinst them, if
you can get your mindset, I don't know, somewhere along
I gotta make it personal, just because that's part of

(39:50):
an athlete's competitive mindset, and when you walk off the field,
you go back to they can be your buddy.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Or what have you.

Speaker 7 (39:54):
But yeah, oh there's no doubt there's certain games and
teams that are more special, I assure you. And it
can either be the one that's talk trashed, the one
that got rid of you, the one that didn't believe
in you, the one that didn't want to pay you.
It can be a player that's now there that you
actually like the organization. Some guy walks in, like there's
some who have a Joe Kelly problem. Well, when Joe

(40:16):
Kelly came there from Boston or with to La, immediately
those oh I hate the Dodgers. I mean there's people
that have that feeling, right, and then it didn't matter
if he went to Pittsburgh tomorrow. Oh I got to
hate Pittsburgh because it was Joe Kelly and drives you crazy.
So yeah, but making it personal as long as it's
used to your advantage on the field and not let
it sidetrack your preparation, and then's wrong with that. That's

(40:39):
called built in gamesmanship, man, and it's needed. Do you
see I got Grock to draw over the Joe Kelly mural.
Now it's jose L two on a l a city wall. Yeah,
so bow to your overlord.

Speaker 13 (40:52):
La.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yeah, I mean enjoy it. We're not the key for
the ass is. I don't think they're trying to lease
or rent the Dodgers. They are trying to own them.
And over the weekend they did that. They did like
I said, it looked it looked to me I was
watching the same tape Oral hears, I was watching just
where I was watching art defense and pitching. It looked
to me like the Dodgers had no friggin clue a

(41:14):
curveball or a fastball was coming. Do you see so
just in the same opposite you'd think that a team
that talent would be able to hit. But you know what,
maybe they need to change the change up there there
there the I and there you know where they can
get the signal in or whatever. Maybe they need to
adjust their their their their little in the pitcher's ear.
Because while it may have looked to Oral like the Dodgers,

(41:37):
like the Astros knew a curveball was coming, it looked
to me like the Dodgers had no friggin clue what
was coming, and they got dominated.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
Oh I mentioned, I mean al twove Otani yesterday that
O two fastball right down the middle from Brian King,
he had no clue.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Well, he didn't see it.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
Maybe they need to upgrade their system because they looked
like a team that had no clue against Astro's pitching. Interesting,
I guess, I guess it kind of goes both ways.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
A lot of sour faces in that dugout this weekend.
But oh well, that's their problem. What a bummer, Yeah, exactly,
you can deal with it, Joe John Johnny see you
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Some one three two, one two five seven ninety is
the number two. Get in and uh, Like I said,
we've been on quite a string of guys with the
name that starts with a jay, and we'll continue it
right now.

Speaker 5 (43:42):
Joe wants to weigh in. Joe, good morning.

Speaker 12 (43:46):
Hey, i's a gone guys.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
I was calling to say, we got to give props
to Joe A.

Speaker 16 (43:51):
Spata and the staff for what the astros are doing
because Tucker's gone, Bragman's gone. I was hopeful, like one
guy would step up, but we got guys that every
on the team last year and they just stepped up plush.
When Alvarez comes back, it's like we got an MVP
player at the trade deadline and we'd have to trade

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nobody to get him. And I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 8 (44:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
I appreciate the call. I mean, I know that's been
talked about too. And for those of you that missed
that over the weekend, apparently, and encouraging bit of news
on Alvarez, the fracture not even a factor at this point.
A couple of injections into the hand, and Dana Brown
saying yesterday they'll get him start swinging a bat again,
try to ramp him up, do all that kind of
stuff and hopefully have him soon after they all.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
I'll just tell you this, injections a lot of times
can be band aids. So that's a I mean, a shot.
I'm not a doctor. I'm just telling you from guy
has been through shoulders at knees injuries and about a
dozen of them that if it's a deeper thing, if
shots can get you, it's like anything, you know, if
a shot can get you through the play. Players want

(44:58):
to play right. But how many time as you heard,
Hey man, he's gonna need surgery. We'll get it done
when the season's over, right, because he can handle it.
We can't hurt it any worse. The pain tolerance there.
I kind of think that's what this is. And if
it's just simply a shot that does it, you'll still
have to address whatever whatever the address and needs happen
in the rehab or if there's something further than that,

(45:18):
but time still, I don't care what news I'm getting
ent I see him with a bat in his hand
and actually going through the rehab part of it. I'm
not getting excited because it's a good and I get
it because they.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Know they're close to it.

Speaker 7 (45:29):
But to me right now, everything anything you get from
him as a bonus, and if it happens to be
sooner than later, that'd be great. And if a shot
can get him to play and then you address that.
If there's nothing you can do more serious to it,
then you can address it as a season goes on
or in the off season, great. But shots, if if
that was the case with an injury, we'd all be

(45:50):
taking them to heal and mistate with the injuries. Oh,
it just goes away poof. Now there's other stuff that
has to go in it. But if it's temporary, can help.
Swelling can help you get through it. I know that's
what I've done for my ankle. The needs fuse together
and I know at some point I'm going to have
to have surgery to it. Unless you want to get
to a point where range of motion keeps getting to
the point where you're basically walking no more he'll tow

(46:12):
you're basically walking boom boom, just putting it on a grass.
So at some point, but in the process a shot
has sustained where you go play and then three months
later or six months later may need another one, right
or however long you do it. So I'm not saying
that's the case then, but most of the time a
SHOT's not the great elixer. Okay, it's still there's still
things that need to be addressed. But if you can

(46:33):
get him on a field, that'd be great.

Speaker 6 (46:34):
Well, and you know to the point too, that Joe
just brought up there, I mean Zach Short yesterday, a
guy that you've not been counting on even in the
short time that he's been here A short time, Yeah,
a short time that he's been here three for three yesterday,
and he knocks in a run. Cooper Hummel has been
huge for you. How about Taylor Trammel comes off the
bench and a huge spot there yesterday, sliding catch to

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be able to get you out of the inning.

Speaker 7 (46:58):
Yeah, it's nothing short of a mirror. Which it's nothing
short of a miracle. How he came in here perform.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
You've got one more.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
I'm gonna give you got one more more, one more
for free? Uh who are you? Who did you mentioned
mentioned Trammell? Who else did you mention?

Speaker 8 (47:15):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Cooper hummel? Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:16):
I humbled by the fact that, uh they didn't come
up short say what I did there? Uh huh yeah, okay,
just making sure yeah yeah, and then uh, I mean,
you know, Cam Smith has been unbelievable for you. I
mean he's now a two eighty six hitter seven eighty
six ops. Takes an o for yesterday, but still a
guy that was huge for you all throughout this series

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and this road trip.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
This overhead cam engine.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
I took a side. I took liberties to get your
second one side camp.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (47:44):
Yeah, there you go, There you go, There you go.
But it's been joking. But once again, do you know
who what's short's first name again?

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Zach?

Speaker 5 (47:55):
Zach? That's right. Do you know did you know much
about him? I think that's my point.

Speaker 7 (48:01):
I knew nothing about the Guti Duke comes and gives
your bingo bengo bongo, get you three.

Speaker 6 (48:05):
Hits, other than he'd been on a couple of teams
in Major League Baseball. That's about all I knew about
the gal Take a look at this roster. How many
of them have been on a couple of teams? I
don't know what the percentage is, but there's well, aside
from Altuove and Lance mccullors, haven't everybody on this roster
been on more than one team?

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Well?

Speaker 5 (48:27):
And then again we're missing.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah, I mean a guy like Cooper Hummel who was here,
got here, then told you weren't good enough to be here,
and came back and is doing what he's doing.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
Even the great Josh Hater he's been on three or
four teams. Yeah, I'm thinking, you know, I mean, obviously Milwaukee,
San Diego here, so this team was in the organization
that's exactly right before it, So really four because you
can't just counting different stops at different times in the
organization or not. And now look, so it's it's somebody
and it shouldn't surprise us. It's somebody else that comes

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in here that you don't know about, gets three hits
in his appearance and add something to the fray, which
is nice.

Speaker 6 (49:02):
Absolutely it is someone two five seven ninety John on
the northwest Side, John, good morning, Hey.

Speaker 7 (49:09):
Good morning, guys, where you've been, man, where you've been
obey to leave?

Speaker 5 (49:12):
Where the hell have you been?

Speaker 8 (49:14):
I've been traveling a lot.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
My figure.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
That's why I sent you that message, hopefully you know.
I sent you a message on your Twitter, I believe. Yeah,
just to say hope things are well and uh, you
take care of that dog yours. But just making sure
you're all right, brother, and I hope you've enjoyed your time.

Speaker 17 (49:30):
I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Yeah, I know
I'm back now for a good while. But yeah, I
had to do some presentation. Is doing a lot of
traveling there, you know, But I think the worst is over.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
So so what's on your mind about this team?

Speaker 17 (49:43):
But well, you know, there's a lot on my mind.
But I think, uh, this was special what happened over
the weekend and uh that Hunter Brown trade of Hunter
Brown u uh Tuck Kyle Tucker excuse me, uh, the
Kyle Tucker trade was it really is really turning into
our favor more and more by the day, it seems like.

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And uh, I think that Cam Smith is going to
continue to improve. You know, we haven't come near to
seeing his best and he's already I think he's gonna
be hard to move out.

Speaker 8 (50:15):
Of that four spot, I think.

Speaker 17 (50:17):
And you know the thing about the astros, you hit
it is that makes them different from everybody else is
it's all about the team.

Speaker 8 (50:25):
And you know, if a player wants to.

Speaker 17 (50:27):
Go for the money, they'll just let him go on
and uh, they'll make they'll make a pitch.

Speaker 8 (50:32):
But but that's about it.

Speaker 17 (50:33):
But I think they've they've returned back to their basis
because you know, I was calling in uh in the past,
you know, saying, don't go for the superstars, don't do
these big contracts, because they need to get back to
what worked for them where they have the uh you know,
the old fashioned scouting, the metrics and all that sort
of thing, and it all seems to work. And they've
built really well from within. They are the best organization

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as far as player development when you look at what
they've done to so many players.

Speaker 8 (50:59):
They're going to he did to Garrett Cole. I mean,
he was a journeyman pitcher.

Speaker 17 (51:03):
We got here and so uh, I think the formula
is working and uh, I think the team's going to
continue to get better and better. I Mean, you see
a lot of spots where it's going to continue to improve.
And I'm excited about this team. I really really am,
uh there for real and I think they've caught a
lot of people's attention what they did when they went
into LA over the weekend. So it's, uh, it's great

(51:25):
what's happening. So uh, I'm going to enjoy the show.

Speaker 5 (51:29):
Hey, guys, Hey appreciate John.

Speaker 8 (51:32):
Man.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
The one thing I ain't going to push back on, though,
is the Garrett Cole line. Garrett Cole was pretty dan
good before he got here, and I mean you could
make the argument that he got even better during his
time here.

Speaker 7 (51:44):
All yeah, he was really good, but he's he was
better once he rolled through here.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
He was he was a top of the rotation guy
that you were just able to add and put alongside
justin Verlinern.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
But he and he was then and he is now
and he was while he was here.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
But it also too, I mean John's point, though, you
have seen teams that they don't improve a guy.

Speaker 7 (52:04):
I'm going to agree with John. I'm going to raise
him one and there's a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
I'm going to say this.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
In any sport, they can make the argument that they're
the best at developing players. In any sport, basketball, football,
or baseball. Look at Justin Burlander. Baseball is not the
issue for me. That's not that's obvious. The question is,
or do they develop them better than Baltimore does in
making their draft picks hit or that the way the
Kansas City Chiefs squad and get somebody and they come

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back and Andy Reid's second chance giving and then they
come back and perform whatever it is. But there's nobody
who does it better in any sport period. I don't
care if you mentioned in G League, basketball or anything.
This franchise does a better job of anybody. And it
goes twofold of bringing people that have already been in
pro sports somewhere else and bringing them in here and
changing their thought process towards not that they weren't successful before,

(52:56):
but elevating it. And then in your own organization where
they're home own, they come up and make them better
and they're always prepared for what's to come.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
And if they don't get the.

Speaker 7 (53:06):
Gig, like Corey Lee, who's a good player, and you're
hope it turns into what's in Chicago, But what happens
is is it while you had great plans for him,
they are so good at developing players. The guy who
wasn't supposed to be ahead of him in the way
minor league Corey Lee was the catcher of the future

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has just passed him up. Doesn't mean Corey Lee can't
go on to be a star, and maybe at some
point he will. But leading up to this is that's
a tribute to them that if even if you're the
number one prospect in an organization, the number eight guy
may bypass you if you're not working on your game
somewhere else. But here, I think they all know the
significance of it. Yeah, you find me somebody who develops

(53:49):
outside people that come in and or homegrown people better. However,
you want to compare that in other sports, since we
don't have a minor league for the most part in football,
But however, you want to come the development once they
get into your hands, there's nobody that does it better.
If the astro, if the if the Kansas City Chiefs
lost Andy Reid their front office Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes,

(54:12):
they're not the King's State Chiefs. They may developed and
they may eventually ten years later be the Kansa City
Chiefs or eight years because hitting on that quarterback is.
We know here's so important, right if the hell if
the if the NBA, if if if Shank Gilds is
Alexander and and Chet Holmgren are not on Oklahoma City
next year, if they if they pull the hammy, we're

(54:34):
out too much. Oklahoma City ain't doing what this team
is doing. You get my point, And I know it
sounds hyperbolic, but now do the Astros well, Sean, if
you lose Springer in Korea and Garrett Cole and Verlander
doesn't come back, and you what you Bregman signed somewhere
else and you traded Kyle Tucker and your dun stopped playing,
Oh you got no shot?

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Oh okay, Now do everybody else? I mean New England
Patriots without number twelve under center.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
And without for a minute with Bill there, they started
to fall off a little bit because after a twenty
plus year run, you understand this is the run the
Astros are. We're now staring at a decade of positive stuff.
So and it's not because I live here, dude. I
wish I could say it about my Raiders. I wish
I could say. The bottom line is, nobody does it

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better at developing players whatever that means.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
They just don't in any sport.

Speaker 7 (55:30):
And it's obvious and that's not hyperbolic or hot takesh
because all you got to do is look at the result.

Speaker 6 (55:35):
Can't argue with the results, right, And the astros have
put together some really good ones, especially over the weekend.
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Speaker 2 (55:54):
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Speaker 2 (57:24):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, home of the Rockets,
Astros and the best line up in Houston Sports. Now
back to Sean Salisbury. All right, Sean, what are you
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(57:46):
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Speaker 6 (57:52):
It is the Monday edition of the Sean Salisbury Show.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
Sports Talks seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (57:57):
Stros take care of business out in LA five winners
yesterday over the Dodgers. They sweeped that series. Hunter Brown,
Josh Hater, Jeremy Pania all make the American League All
Star Team in the US loses to Mexico to one
in the Gold Cup Final here in Houston last night. Sean,

(58:17):
over the weekend, your beloved USC Trojans, who have been
doing a hell of a job on the recruiting trail.
By the way, they got a commitment from one Ethan Feaster.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
They were the number one recruiting class in the country
until somebody by.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
They're back and forth one two three. Oh, they're still there,
at least according to twenty four to seven. And this helps.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
But four star receiver out of De Soto, Texas so
in the Dallas for Warth area and his name is
not Ethan, though Ethan goes by Booby. So Booby Feaster
committing over the weekend to your USC Trojans.

Speaker 7 (58:58):
And I appreciate you pointing that out follow some USC
stuff that, but I got it right away from you
before I even had to find it. And I appreciate
that that tagging me in that. But as I said
to you, well, who isn't I mean, what a great name.
He's already on your the top five names in college football? Oh,
I mean the Feaster right right fasting on opposing defenses.

(59:22):
That ain't the only thing, like you say, is name's
Booby Feaster. Well who doesn't? Okay, who isn't? So there
you go. But what a name. And if if the
talent matches the like the elevation of the name, like wow,
that's he's gonna be fun to watch. Talented guy. The
hell of a high school career so far, and uh.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
You take him?

Speaker 7 (59:45):
What's he He's going to be a senior in high
school right, committed for the twenty twenty sixth class.

Speaker 5 (59:49):
Right, there you go, So that means he'll probably be
there next spring, right, you.

Speaker 7 (59:51):
Know, the January make the way over to Southern cast
So that's good. But what an all time name? Uh,
Booby Feaster.

Speaker 6 (59:58):
I mean, we've even got some of the others that
have been some of the greatest of all time. The
Coldest Crawford and that was a kid that committed to Nebraska,
Storm Duck who had a little bit of a NFL career.
Captain Munterlin was another one. Yeah, major Carolina guy. Yeah,
Captain Marlin. Yeah, defensive back Major Wright, kool Aid McKinstry.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Although I mean I've.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
Said that nobody does names like LSU Ali high Smith,
Early du Set, Skyler Green, trying to remember some of
the other names that came through LSU's program that you're
just like, oh man, those are some names right there.

Speaker 7 (01:00:38):
Yeah, you start to go McFarland, you start, yeah, you
start to go to you apply it to the NBA
or college basketball too, you know, like a god sham God,
remember him, kin Er Bigley, Big East guy. God sham God.
At one point is starting with God sham God. You
got a lot to live up to. If your first
name is God, I would imagine you God doesn't miss

(01:01:02):
jump shots. God sham God, have missed a few. Okay,
what do we get? Then you got the two do
you get like a two namer. It's the same name
like bull Bull you know bull Bulls won you had?

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:01:15):
And there they all seem to be a lot of them,
like the like the names like biggies like Georgetown Hoya's
Seaton Hall. Always come with a God sham God type
of guy, right, trying to think big center with the
same name, first and last name, like a bull Bull.
But it was another name back in like maybe the
nineties eighties. There's a bunch of them. But uh, it

(01:01:37):
is Booby Feasters in the team picture. There you go.
Uh he was a Yukon guard, right, Yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
He was there with former straight jing Wood probably product,
Jake Foskell.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
There you go. It was part of the KG veteran
Jake Foskell with with Jim Calhoun.

Speaker 12 (01:01:56):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (01:01:57):
Got a dime back by the way, get some facts
come back and see. Yeah he was old school hard
on his players. But did they they they played for
coach Calhoun as well.

Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
My favorite part of that was the guy that just
can't continue to persist in And finally Calhoun.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
What'd you please?

Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
Classic that that Boston, the East coast Boston? Actually would
you please? Right there were they say eventually you get
fed up, right and uh, and that that old school
approaches enough enough talking to me about this? Yeah, would
you please? So there's always those names. But Booby Feasters
the name of the twenty twenty sixth class so far,
and my Trojans.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Have him easily.

Speaker 7 (01:02:35):
Can you play defense? Uh, we'll have to get back
to you. I know we're going to score. We always do.
The question is can you prevent somebody from Hagen forty forty?
You're forty two and Booby Feaster will definitely score. Well, well,
hopefully we'll feast on defenses.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Aha, there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
See, Yeah, Dad jokes galore, dude, Kevin Pittsnoggle was yeah,
and the guys like a like a Villanova guy or
says any of big when I'm oh, he was, that's right?
So I mean was right exactly. They were the original
Big East right, And I remember back when Georgetown Seaton
Hall in Saint John, the whole group of Syracuse, that

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Big East in like ten teams, twelve teams will go
to the Etc. Two A tournament, and it was that
was Big East basketball at its best. And you used
to watch Big Monday and with those teams were always
playing in it because they always had And it switched
from Raleigh mass Amino to it didn't matter, you know
what I'm saying. It was always some old school coach
Temple and John Cheney. I mean, you had some great

(01:03:35):
Big East teams.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
Well another one too, that's the all Name team is
a guy that won the national championship right here in town,
Ryan Archied Yakano. There you go, buy a vowel and
he was part of that that Villanova team.

Speaker 7 (01:03:48):
Yeah, spell it and use it in a sentence, right, exactly,
no question, Yeah, no question.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
So I get in origin, that's right. That doesn't help me,
that's right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
I have to start doing like the hand counting or
whatever that the kids do before they try to say, yeah,
you asked me to try to spell Archie and I'm
gonna just just gonna's Archie dah and let's move on. Yeah,
I think right there, you throw out Archie and now
I'm like, just give me the bell. Just just just
give me the bell. There you go, There you go. Yeah,

(01:04:18):
you're in basic training. You want the bell, your your
check it out on that one right, Ring the bell
and take you ass home.

Speaker 8 (01:04:23):
Bright.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
I'm gonna say, Seal Seals buds all of a sudden
doesn't sound as tough as trying to spell that name.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
That wasn't that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
What's was it?

Speaker 17 (01:04:30):
That?

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
The one with Demi Moore?

Speaker 7 (01:04:31):
What they kept trying to get her to ring the
bell when she was when she was training and she
cut her hair short.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
What was the name of that movie? Again? G J Yeah, J.

Speaker 8 (01:04:39):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
So that's that.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
That's what it is in Seals butts they tell you
very quickly you want to quit, right there, they'll do it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
And you know what's ironic about that? That ring the
bell when you quit when you can't when you're you know,
training for Seal team or what have you. But you
ring the bell when you're gonna live from a cancer unit. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. They both have their significance.
So one ring the bell and you're done because it's
got a little the training got a little tough. The
others ring the bell and you went through the toughest

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time of your life and now you're walking out cancer free.
Both of them meaningful needlessness.

Speaker 6 (01:05:14):
That's the whole point of Seals training though, is like
they basically because like it is your freedom right at
that point, because they're like, this is hell.

Speaker 7 (01:05:22):
We know this is hell, and it's going to continue
to be hell. And you knew it going in as
well when you signed up for it. So yeah, it's interesting.
But some all name team and he's going to feast
off that when it comes to nil endorsements. I'm sure
I was going.

Speaker 6 (01:05:37):
I mean especially out in La too where I mean,
you gotta wonder if like a cosmetic surgery clinic out
there is gonna be like, hey this guy, Yeah, Hey,
the best ones out there?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Yeah, I mean my name's Booby.

Speaker 8 (01:05:49):
How would I not know?

Speaker 7 (01:05:50):
Yeah, some of you like full seas, but how about
the small d's and those you can get? And I'll
be right there greeting you when you come out on purpose.
I'm Booby Feaster'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 8 (01:06:01):
I like it. I like it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
We've got a lot of different marketing campaigns that we
can throw out there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
Well, it's a good thing, is first name's not ass.

Speaker 8 (01:06:11):
Man.

Speaker 7 (01:06:12):
I'll show you ass man, ladies and gentlemen starting a
wide receiver twenty twenty six class freshman ass Feaster. No, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah No, we'll stick to Booby Feaster.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
But just if he can make a play, I don't
care what his name.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
There's there's a lot of different ways that I think, uh,
you know, whoever coined him to be Booby, whoever gave
that to him, they could have gone a lot of
different bad directions there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
This is gonna be I think he's really good at doubt.

Speaker 7 (01:06:36):
There's no doubt but this. Yeah, So when people are
making fun of him Lassky, they get their ass whooped?

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 12 (01:06:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
He But you're gonna hear the story at some time
did mom and dad named him this when he was
you know, because he was when he's for whatever reason,
either during uh, during labor or when he came out
when he was well nursing something along the line.

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
You're gonna get a oh, that's.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
A cute story for a baby, and then you think
it's not for an adult, so but it's cool, and
then you know, sometimes the nicknames become actually nobody ever,
matter of fact, a lot of these nicknames, had you
not said his first name, I wouldn't have known it, right,
I've heard of during the there's recruiting boards, you know
guys they're going after, right, But you just kind of
gloss over him, And then when he brought up them,

(01:07:19):
blake because I had the same feeling like, oh yeah,
but I still to this day, I know you said
his first name. What's his first name?

Speaker 9 (01:07:24):
Again?

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
Yeah, wouldn't have no idea only only known him as
that because you know that it's going to be people
are gonna have fun, and the broadcast team's gonna How
are you not going to laugh when you on the
set of College Game Day and they bring it up
and McAfee looks over and like also, you'll you know,
he will say something if they happen to cover College
Game Day or even when they're doing it somewhere else

(01:07:47):
and sc beats somebody and guy catches three touchdown passes,
you know it's all. It's gonna be Rhysese Davis and
receiver Ethan Feaster and you're gonna hear McAfee that's not
his name, Oh yeah, because Reese is gonna go about
it in the way of like I can't I can't
ar laugh and ye, yeah, Saban's not gonna say to that.

(01:08:07):
He's got to look at Pat like you're out of
your mind in a fun way. And then and and
Desmond's going to have that great laugh that he has
and before you know it, they're gonna try to move
on to the next segment because Reese will keep it moving. Like, Okay,
guys up next to you see LA's playing at Orgon right, Yeah,
it's it's a what a great name, but what a
He's a hell of a talent, at least by all
accounts that that I've read and heard. So I was

(01:08:29):
gonna say, I haven't seen him play in person or
a star player.

Speaker 6 (01:08:31):
You usually somebody that's got a chance to be really good,
you know, make even more money there after making a
lot of money here.

Speaker 7 (01:08:38):
Well, Texas Tech paid an offensive lineman five milan. Texas
Tech has jumped into the Remember I told you teams
to look out for real quick Dan Arkansas, Arkansas s
m U teams, and you've seen Arkansas. They're one of
the top basketball n I L when Calipari went there.
He didn't go there because that was all that wanted him.
He went there because he could see there's a lot
of money that surround in that state are Arkansas gas

(01:09:01):
and oil or oil and gas should I say, and
some restaurant ownership and some people where you go do
some shopping for an inexpensive price or maybe it's expensive
out Walmart.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
There's a lot of money.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
There's no question Tyson Foods cal Party didn't just go
there by chance. He knows to get the one and
done so he wants and stuff you have to pay
for him. And he had one in Kentucky and went
to a place it's probably going to spend more and
so you will see that. But Texas Tech. I was
reading some stuff like three weeks ago in Texas Tech
and alumni and a former player there what they've done

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for the collective and to add to it and to
build this thing. Texas Tech is a player in nil
big and why wouldn't they be West Texas. There's a
lot of money there that you don't hear about. And
now with a coach who's gone out and shake enough
hands and kiss babies, say let's get this program where
it belongs. This it's got to be exciting for them
because they're spending money and getting players that probably they

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weren't going to get if Texas or A and M
or Florida was recruiting them.

Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
That the game changed. The guns are up, yep, and
there is no doubt about that. And the Hogs definitely called.
They're in Arkansas. Let's get back into the Astros conversation.
As see, a couple of you went away in there.
But a couple of guys that we've been asking for
for the Astros they deliver. We'll talk about them right here.
It is Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety. The

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seven o'clock hour, seven ninety listener line is presented by
one eight hundred car Cash Ronnie.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Good morning, Good.

Speaker 8 (01:10:28):
Morning, guys.

Speaker 18 (01:10:30):
I have a weird idea and you're probably gonna think
I'm crazy, but that's that's true. What's the most important
thing to have in a.

Speaker 5 (01:10:40):
Short series in baseball?

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Pitching?

Speaker 8 (01:10:44):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:10:46):
I want Paul Schimes.

Speaker 18 (01:10:49):
I am willing to give up Jordan Alvarez to get
him and whatever other ancillary, perpendicular kind of things that
the Pirates can give and we can give. I mean,
we want to give up one of our four pitchers
who may be coming back Arraghetti ave er Garcia France,
you know, something like that. And if the Pirates really

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don't want to pay anybody anything in the future, i'd
throw something else in, like Jake Myers or somebody to
get O'Neil Cruz.

Speaker 14 (01:11:20):
But I really would like.

Speaker 18 (01:11:20):
To get Schemes, because if you throw Schemes Valdez and
Brown in a short series, it's going to be tough
to lose.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
Hey, Ronnie, appreciate the call. Uh, You've got a lot
of good players. But the Pirates would ask for everything,
and they should, and I know, well Ronnie's going with that.

Speaker 7 (01:11:44):
Number two is O'Neil Cruz needs to pick up his
hustle and effort a little more. For me, I've seen
some things recently that bugged me. But he's a talented
guy and maybe well culture change here. One thing I
do know, as much as as good as Jordon when
he's healthy, is a great player. The Pirates would not

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trade one for one, no schemes for him.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
They just wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (01:12:07):
Yet I still Schemes dominates. He's out there dominating, striking
out ten and they're only like he's throwing like seventy
nine pitches, pulling him out like the fifteen. Yeah, it's crazy.
Why are you pulling him out seventy? I know, don't
hoard him to let him go dominate some more. But
I give where Ronnie's going because Skeens is that good

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and Jordon can be that good. And think about this
when he's healthy and Rake and Jordon's like they well,
Major didn't MLB network have him in the top ten
or top fifteen players And Pittsburgh wouldn't trade him one
for one Paul Skins for him.

Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
They just wouldn't do it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:45):
But ant Illary, like you said, bringing more people in,
I just think it'd be tough, and right now with
the injury situation, I would imagine that Pittsburgh would say
it's going to take more because we got a guard
against that, right and the questions you may have about that,
But Ronnie's on to someone. It comes to why you
want him. That's a long line. If he became available,

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and I'm sure he would love to pitch here, and
he an't going to say it because he wants to
make sure the Pittsburgh crowds out of side take.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
A lot to get him away. After what he's doing.

Speaker 7 (01:13:16):
You draft drafted him high and he's dominating like he's
been in league a decade.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
So do twenty eight other teams. Yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah,
there's no doubt.

Speaker 6 (01:13:24):
That's that's that's a long line. And you might be
like twenty fourth or twenty fifth in that line in
terms of what you could possibly everybody would be able
to give up a guy like Jordan.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Sure, and and and do it.

Speaker 7 (01:13:35):
But I don't even know would the Astros if you
if if if Pittsburgh call ups and listen, you got
schemes for you, schemes and we want, uh your third
prospect in the organization and Jordan Alvarez, I mean, would
you do it?

Speaker 5 (01:13:57):
If you're the Astros, would you do it?

Speaker 6 (01:14:00):
I'm gonna my I know, Like it's just why you
still got a lot of control over Jordan, And I
mean they got they got quite a bit of control
over over I just know it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
Would be more than that though too. If you're the Pirates,
like you need this to be kind.

Speaker 7 (01:14:19):
Of your thinking, Jordon your number three prospect and like
another stud player, another prospect for another another two or three. Wow,
that's saying something for a guy who Major League Baseball
has as a top fifteen player. Now you think about that,
and the injuries are a big reason why it would
come at a different price because you're concerned about it.
Let's say Jordon's the MVP at the midway point right now.

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Let's say he was playing like he's done and Skins
is doing what he's doing. Would either one want to
go one for one? Who's who's whose advantage?

Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
Now? Both obviously in their twenties. Jordan just a tad older,
but not all.

Speaker 7 (01:14:54):
I'd still say the Astros have to give up more
because it's pitching, yeah, yeah, makes it and paying munt oh.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
There's no doubt. There's zero reason for the Pirates to
trade him. Hey, Ronnie, I love where you're going. But
guess what, And I know he likes you, and so
do I.

Speaker 7 (01:15:11):
But there's about five players in baseball that may fall
under right now, the untouchable part, at least you think,
and in pittsburgh's not very good. I would say that
Skeens is one of them. If your top ten guys,
that guy is untouchable. I'm not sure that Paul Skeen's
is a matter of fact, I am quite sure that

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you're not going to get the ten names before his
name's named.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
I don't know if you could get him sounds great.

Speaker 7 (01:15:39):
And then he said here and say, why do we
need to do anything if he comes back, As our
first caller said, you're getting a superstar that you didn't
have to go out of the building to get because
he's he's healthy. And Steve Sparks made that point in
the past about hey, listen, it's nice of you can
keep a guy and get a guy healthy. It's like
adding three players when he's healthy. And Riot, I understand

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what he's saying. Of course, Ronnie's on. I get it,
you know, make this thing even better. But that's a
that's a tough task to lure schemes away from them.
If they do it, it would take a hell of
a package from some team.

Speaker 6 (01:16:12):
I was going to say, like I said, about four
or five of players that are really going to hurt you.
Like if you thought you got a lot for Kyle Tucker,
that guy would get about double what you gave what
you got in return for Kyle Tucker. Andy al John,
see you guys right there. We'll get you guys involved.
Someone three two on two, five seven ninety is the
number to get in. Don't forget Steve Sparks. Join us

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Speaker 9 (01:18:21):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:18:22):
UH.

Speaker 9 (01:18:24):
Just so let the uh the listeners know. I reached
out to Shawn yesterday discerning the flooding and Kurveville, and UH,
I asked them to be okay if I could come
on here and talk about it. And I asked him
to you know, if he needed to talk to his bosses,
and he said no, he didn't need to talk to
the bosses, just come on on. So I just want

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to let everybody know everybody wants to be able to.
Most good people would love to give to and donate
to help these people out. And you always worry about
the places that you're going to donate where the money's
going to. So I've vetted the church out of Curveville
called Southern Oaks Church. They've been around for forty years

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and these guys are legit. If you guys feel in
your heart to give, these people will make sure that
money goes directly to those who need it. Once again,
at Southern Oaks Church, Curveville, Texas. You go to their site,
it'll show River Flood Relief Fund and give as much

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as you can because these people need to rebuild. And
we can be the hands and we can't be the
hands and feet of God because we're not there on
the front lines, but we can feed the hands and
feet of God on the front line. So please people
give Southern Oaks Church, Curveville, Texas. Thank you, Sean.

Speaker 7 (01:19:53):
You're very welcome, man. I appreciate you. Anytime that we have.
We were obviously talk sports, and it pales in comparison
to what's going on. I don't think many of us
have words. Appreciate you, Andy, and appreciate you checking in
with me, but when it comes to this, it wouldn't matter,
because everybody's trying to make a difference in this town
and is his eyeheart. As you've heard Mattress Smack do

(01:20:14):
the commercials about you know, donations and stuff, and it's
a again, it's Southern Oaks Church and Curvin. And when
when he had reached out, Andy reached out, I said, absolutely,
come on here and discuss this. I know we got
to go to break and we'll discuss it more.

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
I don't know how.

Speaker 7 (01:20:31):
I mean, you talk sports and the astles are going well,
and I know people you're looking for a little bit
of a after the devastating weekend, hard to enjoy fireworks
and all that stuff. When families are wondering where their
kid is. And this isn't finger pointing or blame. It's
just tragic and unfortunate and they're and much you can
do other than you know, donate help if you can.

(01:20:55):
If somebody has stuff that they can't get to there
and they need it, you can bring it here all
put it in my truck and I'll drive it for
you and load up as much as we can. I
you know you feel helpless in these times, but you're
really not. Every can good or blanket or diapers or
let's not leave out the animals as well, the wildlife

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and dogs that are scrambling around as well, these kids
and their families. I can't imagine. You're not supposed to
bury your kids. But this isn't just kids adults, but
those that aren't found and you're looking for, you know,
whether it's the closure of it where they're alive and
miracles happen or not. It's just it's so gut wrenching, man,
and I'm trying to prevent from getting emotional. And Andy,

(01:21:37):
thanks for sharing again if you can. Southern Oaks Church
and Curville and Andy has vetted them. But whatever we're
trying to do just to somehow feel good about it,
it sure should put it. And I can tell you this,
it's disgraceful for any politician or any person to go
on and talk about politics and say these people get
what they've When I read tweets and stuff like that
on Instagram do It makes me sick to my stomach

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that he can actually think like that. And these families
are suffering and struggling. And this state here has seen
a lot of tragedy and has always helped people in
state and out of state. And if you have a
chance to do it, I think, you know, we can
all give a little more and step outside ourself or
forget ten cups of coffee if we've got to go

(01:22:20):
and buy some blankets or whatever it might be. But
to those who are for the responders who are saving lives,
and pray to the Good Lord that these families can
get understanding.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
I don't know what else. Yeah, understanding and find peace
at some point. I don't know what that.

Speaker 7 (01:22:37):
I wouldn't even know where to start other than trying
to help any way you can. And and Y, I
appreciate the calling into a lot of people. It's heavy
on their minds and I can't fathom what the families
are going through and talking sports feels irrelevant. I know
we have to because it's our job, but we can
also mix in discussing how you can help. And because
the sad thing about it these things mother and is

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a powerful force man and I get sick over the
weekend thinking what must what fear must these kids have
gone through? And if some are still alive, what fear
they must be going through to those families.

Speaker 8 (01:23:13):
Man, I.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
God, bless your peace of mind. I don't I don't
even know how you do it. I can't, I can't
even think about it.

Speaker 6 (01:23:20):
Well, and then you're also thankful for you know, the
brave men and women out there, who are you know,
doing things like Scott Ruskin, you know on.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
Hundred and sixty five lives, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
Coast Guard rescue swimmer that you know rightfully so is
getting notoriety.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
But I mean, you know, I was.

Speaker 6 (01:23:34):
Reading about the notoriety said, you know what, if it's
not me, it's somebody else that's going to be doing
this for this Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:23:40):
And he And now you think about his expert swimming,
and then I think about for those that didn't know
how to swim, and how long can you hold on?

Speaker 12 (01:23:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:23:49):
I mean I just us you Those are the things
I think about and think about. Man, I got three kids.
I worry about my kids in their thirties, in their twenties. Yeah,
then I and and but I don't just how however
you can help, but more importantly, whoever it is you
pray to, or some being that you feel better about,
if you're not a god fearing person, whatever, it is,

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just some good thoughts their ways, because there isn't a
soul of us alive no matter what. They want to
wish this well, I take that bet there may be some,
but they would want to wish this on your worst enemy,
let alone.

Speaker 5 (01:24:22):
Your best friend.

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
And I hope these families somehow get fine peace of
mind and understanding and comfort through this, which I don't
know how you find comfort in this, because I don't
know how I would do it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
It's pretty tough right now.

Speaker 7 (01:24:34):
I mean it's no state rallies around their people more
than this one, though, and no state rallies around other
states as much as this one. We talk about everything's
bigger in Texas, I can tell you this, and maybe
every other state says it. But they put their money
and their goods and their elbow grease where their mouth
is here.

Speaker 6 (01:24:52):
Shout out the United Cajun Navy too. Those people always
show man.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
And then they know.

Speaker 7 (01:25:00):
Can you imagine coming to work every day and every
day your job is to you simply save lives? Now
and you never ever when you sign up think this
is going to happen. It's the second I think it's
the second biggest flood in since nineteen twenty five or
something in Texas history. Maybe take special people, man, it's awful,
definitely does awful.

Speaker 5 (01:25:20):
Let's talk some astros. Andy, thank you for letting so again.
That's Southern Oaks Church.

Speaker 7 (01:25:24):
And if some of you guys have them, and he said,
I don't know what to do with them, you find
a way to get to me and I'll drive a
truck down there and deliver them whatever it takes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Let's talk some astros.

Speaker 6 (01:25:35):
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Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
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Speaker 12 (01:26:02):
Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
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Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
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Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
On the road back home after an incredible road trip. Steve,
welcome in utter domination, and you talk about pitching, talk
about the way they went about their business. If there's
a psychological advantage advantage Astros, they're playing as if they're
the best team in baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
Welcome in.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
What do you think, Well, they scored the Dodgers twenty
nine to six in that series. I mean, I know
there's an eighteen to one game mixed in there, but
that's a great, really good offense the Dodgers and the
Astros held them.

Speaker 12 (01:26:51):
Down a team that's had more comeback wins than anybody
by that long shot.

Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
In the Astros bullpen proved that if you make good
pitches at the end of the game, the teams are
going to come back nearly as often.

Speaker 12 (01:27:05):
So if pitching, you know, we can say that over.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
And over, but guys contributing like Cooper Homelands, that sort
of guys that they plug in, whether it be seventh
in the lineup or ninth in the lineup. You know,
in that sixth game road trip, the ninth place hitter
for the Astros got on base thirteen times. It's nuts,
and that means so much to what they're able to
do second time through the order with guys on base

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and continuing to put pressure on the other teams.

Speaker 12 (01:27:32):
So it's been fun. Christian Walker. We've been waiting for
that too, haven't we.

Speaker 7 (01:27:36):
Yeah, Steven, And I know hard game to game momentum
is tough because you've run into a good pitcher and
that momentum gets punched in the face, but that confidence
moving forward. He's had success in Colorado and against the
Dodgers in his career, and it looked like that continued.
Did you see anything different about him other than I
mean his eyes. I'm sure we're lighting up. But what's

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different or coming out of this weekend or these two games?
Should I say a series? Should I say I guess
Colorado in LA? That told you anything different than you
already knew.

Speaker 12 (01:28:09):
You know, there wasn't a whole lot when I told
you this.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
When I watch him in battie practice or in the games,
the balance looks great and the swing looks really good.
I just keep seeing him fouling off some pitches that
he probably drives. And when he got to Colorado, I
think he had six hits.

Speaker 12 (01:28:26):
In that series. But it's really started to drive the
ball in LA.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
And he's got the highest ops of any visiting player
ever at Dodger Stadium, which is ridiculous, but It's just
one of those things.

Speaker 12 (01:28:38):
John. You know this is you feel very confident.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
You don't know your exact numbers, you just know that
you play really well there and everything that he swung at,
he put the barrel on and he didn't foul off,
hit able pitches, he drove him to the gaps, he
hit op opposite field.

Speaker 12 (01:28:55):
Homers, whatever you needed. He was right in the middle
of everything.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
So hopefully that's what's going to jump start Disaster's career.

Speaker 7 (01:29:02):
Steve Broadcaster, you played for a long time. I'm just
trying to pull you out like we're sitting around having
a conversation like we are, but deeper dive into we
hear all the time. And we've talked about the culture
when they get here, the way they develop players not
only they come in from other places, but that they've
they're homegrown. But maybe another level, maybe I'm reaching into

(01:29:22):
the psychological part of it. Why I hear all that
we do, Why why are they able to do what
they do? Steve, I would take this record if everybody,
if Bregman Tucker and we're still here in Jordan Alvarez
was the MVP the first half of the season, I
would take the record they have now and take a
look at all this, so they've already overcome the tough
stuff with injuries psychologically. Just from a vantage point, maybe

(01:29:46):
different your insights, Steve, Why are they so good at this?

Speaker 12 (01:29:52):
I think they prepare very well.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
I think we all gain really a lot of confidence
in the way we prepare. We feel like we're prepared,
we do things the right way. I think we're going
to get the most out of our ability. And I've
told you a couple of times there's some guys on
this team that galvanize these players as soon as they
walk in the door. So probably no accident that Zach

(01:30:14):
Short can get to know these guys a little bit
in the spring training, but walk in the door a
couple of days ago, I mean.

Speaker 12 (01:30:22):
He was the star of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
They with three hits, a walk, and a couple of RBIs.

Speaker 12 (01:30:28):
Yesterday with the double down the line, I mean, he
was fantastic. So I think guys play their best in
this environment.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
And I was thinking about this yesterday as I watched
them on a Sunday when typically teams.

Speaker 12 (01:30:40):
Don't do a whole lot on the field before a
day game after a night game.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
But it reminded me of a minor league manager that
we had one time, said, hey, guys, tomorrow, this is
after a game. So tomorrow we've got two buses coming
to the ballpark. Guys that want to come to the
field early and get some early work in. Guys feel
like they need to get some work in can come
on the one o'clock bus, and the empty bus is
going to come at two o'clock. And I feel like

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that's kind of the ASTROS philosophy is everybody is held accountable.
Everybody's going to show up on that first bus, can
get work in and hang out with each other and
get better and prepare to win a baseball game, and
the empty bus.

Speaker 12 (01:31:22):
Is right hour later. Nobody, nobody.

Speaker 7 (01:31:25):
That's that's the voluntary mandatory thing, right, Steve. Hey, it's
you guys, come when you want. But everybody realizes we'll
be on.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
That first bus.

Speaker 7 (01:31:34):
Right. So Steve with fear pressure, right exactly. And that's
a good thing because his success begat success.

Speaker 8 (01:31:41):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:31:41):
Steve Sparks joins us for his weekly visit ASTROS broadcaster. Steve,
you were around the cages and you talk to these
guys all the time, and you watch it so closely
and having played it and been in other clubhouses. Do
teams that come from other places know ahead of time
that the reputation is strong culture own clubhouse. You got
to do it a certain way of preparation when you

(01:32:03):
come to play for the Astros. Is that widely known
around baseball that the Astros do do it different or
is it just us being here in.

Speaker 5 (01:32:09):
Houston that know this.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
I think everybody around baseball knows that they do it differently.
They're not exactly sure how that they want to be
a part of it, and I think guys get pretty
excited when they get acquired by the Astros or they
sign in the offseason or free agents or guys that.

Speaker 12 (01:32:28):
Might be hurt. You know, We've seen this with Brian King,
Bennett SUSA.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
We've seen guys hurt on other teams' rosters that are
taking off the roster because they need roster space, and
who plucks them other hurts The Astros do, and they'll
rehab them the rest of the way and take advantage
of something that they liked about these guys.

Speaker 12 (01:32:47):
So they're always on the alert and.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
They do a fantastic job of acquiring guys that maybe
some teams don't value as much as the Astros might
see if they can get something out of them. But
what they're able to do their bullpen, and it kind
of reminds me about maybe even drafting playing Sean. When
you think about how well that the Astros develop pitchers,

(01:33:13):
I think my priority in a draft would be position
players early and guys like Hunter Brown, who they drafted
in the fifth round, Eric Getty, you know around that
same kind of guys like that a little bit later
on because the Astros developed them so well throughout their
minor league system. Wait a little bit and really back

(01:33:37):
up and of the position layers in the first few rounds.

Speaker 7 (01:33:40):
Steve, how it's constructed. I'm gonna give you the worst
possible environment. I guess maybe it isn't because the way
they're playing that none of these guys that are injured
make it back this year. I'm going so hyperbolic it's crazy,
But they don't. Jordan doesn't quite get it. He makes
it back, but he's not the same. Still working on
rehab for Garcia and and Hobby. Maybe you get Arrogatti,

(01:34:02):
you know, all the Maybies, but this is what you
this is what you got. As we sit here July seventh.
Why aren't they a World Series team? I know that
it's hard to sustain this, but they've sustained it for
ninety of them or right around there. Can they do
this consistent and do this all the way through this thing, Steve?

(01:34:22):
With the roster of the way it's constructed, not counting
on anybody coming back, the rest is a bonus?

Speaker 5 (01:34:28):
Can they? And why?

Speaker 8 (01:34:31):
Well?

Speaker 12 (01:34:31):
I might have these I might have to be numbers wrong,
but I think they're twenty four and eighth since June first.
That's without a lot of players, right, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
They're also I think thirteen and two maybe against the
current division leaders around baseball.

Speaker 7 (01:34:48):
Thirteen and two, I mean that's they dominate one run games,
to right, Steve dominate them?

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think yeah they do. So they've got
the best mark in that area too. But the record
against the division leaders right now is eye popping. It's
been done a lot more lately, right, the Phillies, the Cubs,
the Dodgers. We send that a lot here just recently.
And it's not like those teams came in limping. You know,

(01:35:15):
those teams were playing pretty good baseball coming into this,
and the Astros took care of them, so they're pitching
really well and they're getting more production out of more
guys in the lineup. Now AL two B is really
starting to round in the forum, and we knew that
was only a matter of time.

Speaker 12 (01:35:33):
But Parade has been fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
Walker's coming along night, or ds swinging the bat well.

Speaker 12 (01:35:38):
We can go on and on, but.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
Once you start to get multiple guys in the light
up feeling good and swinging the bats well and not
scoring just two in three runs per game, but you
know you're starting to see eighteen every once in a while,
the five and a six and that Dodger series, that's
when you've got a chance to go off on streaks
like this. So you know, right now it's just nose

(01:36:01):
to the ground and get just six more games and
play quality baseball until the All Star break. But you
don't want to put or take the foot off the
gas right now because it's a lot of fun for
these guys to come to the ballpark.

Speaker 7 (01:36:13):
Steve, is that eye rolling or bother you as a
guy with such a great approach to all this, because
it at the times it bothers me. I try it
to let it, but you know and I listen. I
grew up watching being in la at sc and Oral
hirscheis are there, and I know he's an opposing broadcaster
and I hold him in high regard. I thought what
he said was kind of weak over the weekend. You
don't have to comment on that part of it, but overall, Stever,

(01:36:36):
you passed. The point is that I rolling for you.
When people talk about twenty seventeen and oh they know
it's a curveball, or it feels like it, you'd think
they knew just the little digs?

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
Are you passed?

Speaker 7 (01:36:46):
If Steve does, it still irritate you as if they
haven't done their homework.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
The right way.

Speaker 12 (01:36:53):
Yeah, it's pretty it's eye rolling to me.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
Yeah, I don't worry about it, and I don't think
many people in the Astros clock and there's hardly.

Speaker 12 (01:37:01):
Anybody left to really matter it, right.

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
So I think there's two guys that were on the
twenty seventeen team, and it was Ley for Coolers who
bounced back well and pitched very well in Game one
of this series, and Altuve who dominated. So I think
sometimes you just let your play do your talking.

Speaker 7 (01:37:22):
It's the best revenge, right, Steve doing it that way
because you don't carry that burden around.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
Yeah, you know, guys do a good job of kind
of compartmentalizing a lot of this stuff and just playing
good baseball.

Speaker 12 (01:37:34):
And I kind of go back to the one thing
that I knowed do as.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
Well as anybody, if not better, And they prepare very well,
and I think they've got a good staff in there
to help guys know what to look for and have
a good game plan against certain pitchers and certainly against
the other team's hitters.

Speaker 12 (01:37:50):
So they continue to do that really well. And a
little thing.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
We keep noticing a lot of balls hit right at
the Astros fielders, so they positioned themselves.

Speaker 12 (01:38:00):
Pretty well too.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
So they're checking off a lot of boxes on how
to beat other teams. And right now it's a lot
of fun to go to go to the field.

Speaker 7 (01:38:09):
Hey, Steve, you mentioned Lance mccullors, and we've seen both
extremes since come back, and rightfully so, hell guys trying
to get back into rhythm. We've seen some ugly and
we've seen some really really good. So if I ask
you who is Lance mccullors, what's the answer?

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
As a player, I think he's still coming back from
a two year absence, and you know, I think you're
going to see inconsistency at times, but I think he's
learning himself. It's a little bit different pitcher nowadays. He's
changed his mechanics a little bit. But I like the
fact that once that the Astros did get a lead,

(01:38:44):
that he started using.

Speaker 12 (01:38:45):
His fastball more.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
And I told you last week that I felt like
Lancey needed to use his fastball a little bit more
and I think I think that helped him out in
that last game against the Dodgers.

Speaker 12 (01:38:54):
So he still has plenty of it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
We saw him get up to ninety five in that
last game a few times, and uh, that's plenty, you know.
And and continue to pitch inside and get him off
your get him off your stint, get him off the
curve and slider, uh in the change up. I mean,
he's got plenty of weapons to go out there and
pitch very well for him.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
And I love seeing our guy Robert Ford pumped up
with a chip. What that awesome?

Speaker 7 (01:39:16):
You with the weekid you guys are said they're going
back and forth, and I loved he he was all
over it, and I love that. I love the approach
that must have been a fun to send that booth
over the weekend. Brother, be a part of that, you
both with all that.

Speaker 12 (01:39:31):
Yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
I mean, I mean the Dodgers Lord for Bear, I mean,
they really have a hard time, uh, losing to the Astros,
so it's kind of fun. I mean that puts a
smirk on your face when you're playing them. But you know,
we're just trying to do a good job.

Speaker 12 (01:39:48):
But watch that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
The Astros, the way they handle themselves over the weekend
was pretty satisfying.

Speaker 7 (01:39:53):
You guys do not a good job, a great job
of not only keeping us entertained, but teaching it's good baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
Steve, great stuff, man.

Speaker 7 (01:40:02):
Great to have you back home, and we'll look forward
to to next Wednesdays and hopefully this thing will continue
and get it up to ten games before the All
Star break. That'd be awesome, especially with the Marinder schedule.
Great stuff, Brother, appreciate you.

Speaker 12 (01:40:15):
Thanks, thank you Everybudy you too.

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
That's great, Steve Sparks.

Speaker 7 (01:40:18):
We'll come back and discuss as we roll along here
in the eight o'clock hour, Dan, myself and Triple E
and you guys, phone lines are loaded. We're ready to
take you on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
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Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
Al on the south Side wants to weigh in. Al,
Good morning, Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:40:46):
Great show?

Speaker 19 (01:40:47):
Thanks buying Hey, Sean, shout shout out to Andy with
that Carl first and foremost, we want to give some
prayers up and love to those people out there with
that bad tragic You know, one thing about this is
sn we come together all this time, so prayers goes
out to those people's in family, especially of kids as well.

Speaker 8 (01:41:08):
Sean, I'm gonna take us.

Speaker 19 (01:41:09):
I'm gonna start taking up or offering for being you
because Sean, I mentioned it last week and I'm on
the reference to the Houston Nation. I was talking about
that ten percent collective. You know what I'm saying, Sean,
how about these guys in the seven, especially ninety old Shorts.
I mean, I'm talking about that stuff. When you get them,
When you get them guys that come come to work

(01:41:31):
and put on their hard head and contribute, It's.

Speaker 12 (01:41:34):
One of the good things can happen with this team.

Speaker 19 (01:41:37):
I'm just saying ten percent of their batting, you know,
going through the struggles in first half of season and
into the quarter of it, it was kind of you know,
the bathroom slow to come around. But these guys, like
I say, once again, I would take a collective guys.
And as I said that, Sehan, it's proven you have
a collective guys in groups. You can have all the

(01:41:57):
our stars and the big names you want. You give
me some guys that collectively that's contributing.

Speaker 12 (01:42:03):
There's no way to stop this.

Speaker 19 (01:42:05):
And Shun, I'm gonna say this, and I hang up
and listen and get your tape. That guy called being
about show held Tony best player in baseball.

Speaker 12 (01:42:13):
Or whatever whatever to me, Shun.

Speaker 19 (01:42:16):
And it's just my preference any guy in the Astros
for as the Houston Ashros even in him all be
I take my chance with.

Speaker 8 (01:42:24):
Jose too, the longevity way.

Speaker 19 (01:42:27):
Yet now he's got two rings to prove it, so
you know you can have those shell Tany.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (01:42:36):
Tovie with the body of work himself as my best
baseball player as of now with the Houston Ashros period, and.

Speaker 12 (01:42:44):
We go in there and sweep those guys.

Speaker 19 (01:42:46):
How did he look so, Sean, I like the guy
just keeps on moving in the flair that that plays
in the game when it matters. Some of these guys
when it really didn't matter, they kind of struggle ose
air two is that guy got to my man.

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
I appreciate the call oul stuff, ol, thank you. Yeah,
I don't think you're going to get a lot of
argument in this city.

Speaker 6 (01:43:07):
Well, I mean, not only are you not gonna get
a lot of argument, it's also too that throughout baseball
he's widely respected. You see the player reaction to him.
And also, I mean the ones that I'm willing to
listen to will give credit where credit is due. I
mean Ken Rosenthal catching up with them after the game
in al Tuove saying what he always says, well, just
put me wherever you want to put me, and I'm

(01:43:28):
gonna do whatever I can to help this team win.
And one way or another, he seems to always rise
up to the moment. He just epitomizes what a great
teammate is. And you can be a great teammate without
being a great player.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
He's both.

Speaker 5 (01:43:38):
And we're fortunate to have him here.

Speaker 7 (01:43:39):
And I know he'd probably say he's grateful to play
in Houston, and rightfully so, because he's had unbelievable support.
But I would imagine this city stand in line to
give thanks. It's going to be a crazy ass day
when that guy retires from baseball. What it's going to
be here. It's going to be a parade the size
of like you won a World Series. Oh, I think
it's gonna is what it's going to feel like you

(01:44:01):
put the statue up now? Oh yeah, I'd like him
to enjoy Wally's there.

Speaker 12 (01:44:04):
I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:05):
He's been phenomenal, but it listen, the good be got
good and breeds good, and Jose al Tuva is the
hell of a baseball player. But he knows what it's
like that to fight and scratch and have people tell
him he's not big enough or good enough to do it,
and then also while he's doing it good and bad.
I can't remember a time since I've been here for

(01:44:27):
since twenty thirteen, twelve years, that I can ever remember him,
and even pre before I mean obviously following him as
a baseball fan, I never remember him making an excuse
at any point in time about his career or why
he did something wrong or good and pat himself on
the back I don't remember if I can ever think
about a time when it was he was an I
confess at somebody else's Faulder there was just some little

(01:44:50):
hint of an excuse. I've never heard it. And I
just think he he is what every team would like
to have with their best player or their one of
their career players here who's been well arguably as popular
as anybody in this town when it comes to sports stars.

Speaker 5 (01:45:05):
So he just does it right.

Speaker 7 (01:45:07):
But his life feeling, it feels like he does his
life right, and I think there is at times direct
proportion because he can live relaxed and he can play
relaxed and knowing that, oh yeah, I go through streaks,
but he never gets talked out of swinging and keep
doing his thing. It's impressive, man, and he's just a
good human. And on top of that, he's going to be,
you know, wearing a Hall of fame by a jacket

(01:45:29):
or ring or whatever they give them. I think it's rings,
and then finding himself in the Hall of Fame one day,
and he'll continue to tell you why it's everybody else
not him.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
That's who he is. I was gonna say.

Speaker 6 (01:45:39):
I mean, he is very much the I mean, and
it's why everybody you know fights for him the way
that they do it is because, I mean, he does
all of those things the right way. And then oh,
by the way, he shows up in some huge moments too,
so that helps. I can't begin to tell you what
a great teammate does for a locker room. You don't
need to have.

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
It's great if you have twenty six of them, or
in NFL fifty three of them. But they're not all
great teammates. Some are good players, some are overachievers, some
are underachievers, some are malcontents. Most are really good guys,
you know they are. He covers all the good stuff,
and it's amazing what a one guy. And don't for
kid yourself. We always say one play isn't the difference
in a game, if it's the last play, we always

(01:46:21):
hang on that. But one player can make a difference
in a clubhouse. I'm just telling you in locker room,
one player can because they shift the entire naar they
don't let gossip or nonsense envelop them. And even through
all this, he stayed the course. I just he's the
perfect example of why, like I said, if he would

(01:46:41):
have wanted eight billion dollars, Jim Crane probably would have
paid it, and being obviously a little hyperbok, you get
my point.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
Who's been here the entire time. He has through some
crappy ass seasons. So then the question about culture, who's.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
The guy that drives?

Speaker 7 (01:46:57):
So you're basically saying he's a big reason why the
culture is good here, Bingo, he is the court. I
can't argue with the result, buddy, I just can't. And
he's at the forefront of it absolutely. Roger Brandon, see
you guys right there.

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Speaker 20 (01:49:30):
I'm sorry, I had a eat to you bonk.

Speaker 8 (01:49:32):
Sorry all right, hope you're here now? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
What's up?

Speaker 20 (01:49:37):
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I have not. It's fun I mean it's it's funny.

Speaker 5 (01:49:49):
All right, I'll check it out. What you got on
these astros?

Speaker 20 (01:49:52):
Hey, we swapped them?

Speaker 5 (01:49:54):
How about that?

Speaker 8 (01:49:54):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (01:49:55):
What was your favorite part of the weekend.

Speaker 20 (01:50:00):
I watched the game. I watched it on the Actually
I watched uh Friday's.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
Game on.

Speaker 20 (01:50:08):
On the fourth.

Speaker 6 (01:50:09):
Okay, Yeah, Lance McCullers was awesome that day. Ose l Tuve,
Christian Walker was. There was a lot of good stuff
this weekend.

Speaker 20 (01:50:16):
Brandon, yep, any updates from number six?

Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
Number six?

Speaker 8 (01:50:26):
Jake?

Speaker 6 (01:50:27):
Oh yeah, Jake, Now just the calf and I guess
we'll find out a little bit more today. But they
pulled him because I guess this calf started to tighten
up on him. That's what Joe said after the game.

Speaker 20 (01:50:40):
I thought, Joe's hey, is number thirty? Is he coming
back to us?

Speaker 5 (01:50:50):
Kyle Tucker? Yeah, probably not.

Speaker 6 (01:50:53):
I would say that Kyle Tucker is gonna be making
a lot of money somewhere else, if not in Chicago.
But the Astros that think got out ahead on that one,
Brandon with getting cam Smith and east sokparatus and we'll
see you on Hayden was nesky, But Uh. Now, it's good,
good things all weekend, man, And I know that you
got to see and hear it.

Speaker 20 (01:51:12):
All any news from the Rockets.

Speaker 6 (01:51:19):
Uh, just what I told you. I've got to get
some others in here, Brandon. Appreciate the call. But now,
just what I said earlier about the deals being made official.
So we'll hear from rafel Stone a little bit later
on today. But I thought it might have been Jake
from State Farm for a second. Yeah, exactly, Jake from
State Farm? Are you what are you wearing khakis?

Speaker 15 (01:51:43):
You know?

Speaker 21 (01:51:43):
I like it?

Speaker 8 (01:51:45):
I like it?

Speaker 6 (01:51:46):
Yeah, you know, just that guy just sitting at his desk. Oh,
she sounds idious. Well she's a guy.

Speaker 7 (01:51:50):
Yeah, Brandon uh Brand had a good week and you
could tell watching the game. Had a few laughs over
the weekend with that. Was he talking about a show?

Speaker 5 (01:51:58):
Is that what he said?

Speaker 8 (01:51:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:51:59):
Show good.

Speaker 8 (01:52:00):
I like it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:01):
It's good to have him on and he's right. Swept
the Dodgers in big fashion. Absolutely a lot of fun. Plus,
the plus minus run differential went up this week. It
did quite a bit. The twenty three was the amount
of runs. It's called a quantum leap over a weekend. Brother, Yeah,
that's big.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Yeah, you were.

Speaker 6 (01:52:18):
You were able to start taking knees at the end
if you could do that. But in this case right here,
it was just Brian Upray you getting the final outs
and then saying, hey, it's been real la, We've we've
really enjoyed it until next time.

Speaker 7 (01:52:30):
Win loss column advantage Astros when it comes to wins
against head to head with those two in the psychological
advantage astros, thank you very much, and let's hope they
find a way to meet again sometime when the postseason starts,
and that would mean the final series of the season.

Speaker 6 (01:52:47):
That would be it'd be quite nice, and hopefully you
have a similar result to what you had in seventeen.
Roger real Quick wants to weigh in.

Speaker 5 (01:52:55):
Roger, good morning, Oh, good morning, Jeff.

Speaker 21 (01:52:58):
You're in lovely, lovely weekend. We had celebrations with my
mother in law's eightieth birthday. Was just amazing. And to
add the Assos explosion of eighteen to one runs. You know,
we're we're dancing all night. You know, my mother in
law just cutting, just cutting carpet all night long, just amazing, amazing, excly. See,
I'm I'm sure she's putting so ex today but now

(01:53:21):
what a great time we had. Every time we got
back to the table because I had a gay ball,
the score just grew and grew and grew, and everybody
was just like, oh my god, that this is really happening.
And uh, it's just it's just funny how low our
expect our expectations were before the series started. We're like,
you know, if we get one, if we think one
with the with the doctors, you know, I think we're good,

(01:53:42):
you know, to you know, too bad. You know, we're
still in there. Just ashes just take no prisoners, and
that attitude you just you just forget about it. That
just just who they are, who we are just a
just a a a uh just an inevitable you know,
for just you just can't be wreckon with it. At
times you just can't explain it. You just want to

(01:54:04):
be part of it. So yeah, and to that jackass
or horseyze it, dude, get over it, man, get over
your Your reputation is so good man, you just you're
just you know, everybody's gonna you know, for what you
were at the picture. Now you you know, slowly becoming
what you know from being a jackass and moving your
lips like that for no parent reason. Guys have a

(01:54:27):
great Monday man.

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
Guys appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:54:30):
Roger, Yeah, I mean we we talked a lot about
that earlier on and I mean you even asked Sparky
about it too. I mean, it's just it's a I think,
you know, Like I said, he even knew that he
was waiting into those waters when he said, I don't
want to open up an old wound, then stop full
stop it.

Speaker 5 (01:54:46):
Listen, it's done. If if you don't want the smoke
from it, don't mention it, don't bring it up.

Speaker 7 (01:54:50):
Yeah, he knows, he knows, and Oral is a smart guy.
You can still like a guy and not like what
he said. Maybe it's his way of just being flabbergasted
and that's the only thing that came out of his
mouth because he couldn't didn't realize this team's just kicking
our ass.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Would that be?

Speaker 6 (01:55:08):
Would that qualify for what you said before about overloading
your mouth with your ass?

Speaker 7 (01:55:12):
That's a that is the epitome of Hey, if you
want to listen to a guy overload his mouth with
his ass and a broadcast comment, that would be the
start of it. There is absolutely and maybe the the
the MVP of the week, and you know, of like
stupid things people say, that's at the top of the list.

Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
And I like Oral Hirscheizer and he was a hell
of a player.

Speaker 7 (01:55:30):
That one was the Let me see what I can say,
because I really don't know anything else to say. I
can't give him too much credit because they're kicking our ass.
Let me try this, and it's it's the perfect case
of overloading your mouth with your ass. And I think
if we had a cartoonist straw it up, we'd know
what that looks like.

Speaker 6 (01:55:45):
I saw one Dodgers fan on Twitter said, I'm not
even booing Altova anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:55:48):
It's not worth it.

Speaker 7 (01:55:50):
Well keep doing it and pay the price. I was
going to say, And his price is never going to
come from chatter. It's going to come from beating you.
And you can't you can't keep him in the ball
and you can't get his ass out.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
So I like, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:56:02):
I like Plummer on the TV side said yeah, more
of them saying two yeah, good for them, it's exactly right.
Even though they're not.

Speaker 7 (01:56:11):
They should probably start and start using the old uh
reverse psychology, start cheering him on and hopefully that'll have
it make a difference for those Dodgers or hopefully not.
But regardless, the guy just it's it's a beach ball
to Altove when he's playing against the Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:56:25):
They're not saying boo, they're seeing move right hate Manning
exactly right. Great commercial, but it really was, It really.

Speaker 5 (01:56:33):
Was for sure. Seven one three, two one two five.

Speaker 6 (01:56:35):
Seven ninety is the number to get in continue the
astros conversation because, as I mentioned, a couple of guys
showing up and showing out for the shows, and it's
great to see. We'll talk about him right here. It
is the Shaan Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
This is the Sean Salisbury show.

Speaker 5 (01:58:28):
We've been asking for it.

Speaker 6 (01:58:29):
Sean, We've been wanting Christian Walker and Jiner Diaz to
get it going this season. Well in the month of
July here three games against the Rockies, three games against
the Dodgers. Christian Walker for twenty nine average with a
six forty three, slugging, two homers, eight runs batted in.
He is at twelve for twenty eight at the plate

(01:58:51):
right now. That's getting it done, sizzling. Jiner Diaz seven
for twenty one. He's got a couple of homers, three
runs batted in, and he's hitting three thirty three.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
During that time, we'd been asking for.

Speaker 6 (01:59:05):
These guys to go ahead and step up and step forward,
and it's safe to say they did that these last
six games.

Speaker 5 (01:59:10):
No doubt.

Speaker 7 (01:59:11):
And now imagine if it continues, what a great bonus
that'll be. And that's the Christian Walker.

Speaker 5 (01:59:18):
We've seen.

Speaker 7 (01:59:20):
A lot of his career, and as Steve's sparks made
a great point and I did not know this, it's
the highest. He's the best hitter against the Dodgers on
the road of any player in the history. He sees
the ball a little different with them, and let's hope
that that continues, because if it is a sustained consistency
with those two, it's only going to help and take
pressure off the pitching staff as well.

Speaker 6 (01:59:42):
When you were out, Eric Kratz joined us from Foul
Territory TV and he had talked about with Walker. He goes,
you know, when he's really going good, it's a home
run to right center field.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
He goes.

Speaker 6 (01:59:52):
I can't tell you how many baseballs he put into
that pool there at Chase Field and during his time.

Speaker 7 (01:59:57):
Yeah, he came highly re going. I told you this before.
I talked to a couple of people there that close
to the organization said, you're getting a pro won't make excuses,
and you're going to get not only a good player
on it, but really a hell of a good guy
and a good teammate. And I think all those things
are true. And now the at least his last you know,
just a little under thirty at bats, he's been the

(02:00:20):
Christian Walker that you went out and.

Speaker 6 (02:00:21):
Paid and that home running yet on Friday night like
it was. That was one of those of oh, I
know it, he doesn't get cheated. Man, he didn't know.

Speaker 5 (02:00:29):
She was a good one.

Speaker 8 (02:00:29):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (02:00:30):
As soon as soon as that ball up his bat,
I was like, how far is it going to go?

Speaker 7 (02:00:34):
Garatest keeps doing this and then over Christian Walker at
first base and playing good defense and elevates like he's done.
We're just talking about that that'll make for a really
good corner infield, because the guy in right field is
a corner outfielder is pretty freaking good too.

Speaker 6 (02:00:50):
And what's a third thing that can go into this
conversation we're having right now that me and you had
talked about ad nauseum, Hey, the bats need to carry you.
The bats need to carry you.

Speaker 7 (02:00:58):
And look if they even if they don't need to carry,
they need to approach it like that. So the pitching
knows it, Okay, we don't have to win two to one.

Speaker 5 (02:01:05):
We don't have to win.

Speaker 7 (02:01:06):
We don't have to pitch shutouts that you can give
up a solo here, give up two or three runs
but when you score twenty nine and three games, then
then you got a chance.

Speaker 6 (02:01:14):
To really elevate all three games. He did that because
Lance McCullers Junior was fantastic on Friday. But you score
eighteen runs, then fromber goes six innings solid. But he
had to grind through it a little bit because the
Dodgers did get to.

Speaker 2 (02:01:26):
Him a little.

Speaker 5 (02:01:27):
But the Bats said we got you.

Speaker 7 (02:01:29):
Which is becoming a fun watch, which is becoming a
good trade of his five years ago, four years ago,
he had a hard time overcoming that stuff, and he's
able to get over some of the speed bumps and continue,
which he has.

Speaker 5 (02:01:40):
And then Gusto's performance yesterday.

Speaker 6 (02:01:42):
I mean credit to Joe spot It two for sticking
with Gusto because the temptation was there to move away
from him. The temptation had to be there to say, hey,
it's got to be somebody else. This just isn't happening
for him in the starting rotation. But he said, now
we're going to keep running him out there. I would
have liked, so we've seen him gott the seventh yesterday. Yeah,
and consider when you were asking the question, well what
are you going to do? And Joe's spot is saying,

(02:02:03):
I don't know, I'm sticking by him as a starter.
He's he's elevated and validated Joe as spot his belief
in him. He had the one what last week or
whatever from the bullpen where he struggled a little bit,
and you know, I think it was Lance's was it
Lance's last start before that? He struggled and they both
gave up an inordinate amount of runs and looked, you know,

(02:02:25):
looked a little off. But as the starting pitcher, Ryan
Gusto is is validating exactly what Joe's spott and what
this team special for, which is what believing having a
little more patience than the rest of us do, and
knowing that the culture and that their work and that
their preparation is going to shine at some point. You're
not always going to be right, but when you are,

(02:02:46):
it pays off. Hence why the all to talk about
what are they going to do at first base? They're
not going to do anything. Christian Walker is going to
be your first baseman now and in September and October
they're fortunate enough to get all the way to November
then and if they all guess what, you'll be saying
that the patience with him paid off because you're going
to need him to swing the back. You may not

(02:03:07):
get it like you've got it these last six games,
but if Christian Walker continues to do this and gives
you something similar to that, it's going to do nothing
but make this team even.

Speaker 5 (02:03:16):
Better with or without or Alvarez.

Speaker 6 (02:03:18):
It really is well, you hope to get forty four
backs sooner rather than later, though, it's just an absolute grace.

Speaker 5 (02:03:24):
I'm with you, but.

Speaker 7 (02:03:27):
I'm not my expectations with this situation and low not
meaning because they're telling the wrong thing, just low because
less disappointment on time frame. If you don't have expectations
to win, We'll leave it that. If jord On Alvarez
is hammering balls before we get out a month in July, that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:45):
Didn't sound right.

Speaker 7 (02:03:46):
Hammering balls you have baseballs, Yeah, hammering baseballs I think
sometime in the month of July then then considered a
bonus and what a great gig it'll be if it
happens after that. Then when he gets hopefully it'll be
Jordon that we're used to, not Jordon the first month
of the season.

Speaker 6 (02:04:03):
It's a trained response, Honestly, I mean, just because you
didn't expect this to go on as long as it has,
and it continues to linger.

Speaker 5 (02:04:10):
So Bill Carlos, see you guys right there.

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Speaker 6 (02:05:26):
Un A Brown, Josh Hater, and Jeremy Pania, all three
on the American League All Star Team heading to Atlanta
for the Midsummer Classic and Kevin Durant Clint Capella to
the Rockets is now official. The seventeen deal is complete.
Cam Whitmore going to the Washington Wizards as part of
that deal. So we'll hear a little bit later on

(02:05:47):
this afternoon from Rockets GM rafel Stone as he is
going to talk about the moves. And I look forward
to seeing what the Rockets look like this year.

Speaker 5 (02:05:56):
That's a big hurt.

Speaker 7 (02:05:57):
You think that's a big hurt with the Whitmore situation.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
It's losing Cam.

Speaker 6 (02:06:00):
Yeah, I would have liked to have seen him develop here,
but I just think that the money and playing time wise,
they just realize it's best for him to get his
opportunity somewhere else.

Speaker 7 (02:06:09):
There you go, So, but were you going to say?
You're gonna say real quick now?

Speaker 6 (02:06:14):
Chris Gorny pointing this out that the Rockets win total
according to bet Online fifty four and a half this season,
and they have the second best NBA Championship odds behind
the Oklahoma City thunder.

Speaker 5 (02:06:27):
Things are looking up here as they have since Udoka
has coming here, and they really have.

Speaker 7 (02:06:33):
Rafel Stones really elevated the feeling around the league about
what this organization's doing, and it just fits right into
what two other organizations in this city when it comes
to pro sports are doing as well.

Speaker 6 (02:06:45):
The last time the Rockets won at fifty five plus
games was twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen.

Speaker 7 (02:06:53):
One of those years turned out, let's see last time,
how close.

Speaker 5 (02:06:58):
Did they get in that year? Is not the Western
Conference finals? What it was when they won fifty five?
Was it fifty five games?

Speaker 8 (02:07:05):
They want?

Speaker 7 (02:07:06):
Yeah, this team's pretty loaded on bullet men they can
now we know their commitment to defense. Now they've got
some guys who can knock down shots, and they've got
what they're planning on being is a closer, and I'm
anxious to see it on. My anticipation for basketball seasons
higher than it's been in a long time for the NBA.

Speaker 6 (02:07:27):
I was going to say, I mean, I usually, you know,
we've gotten to that point last few years. It's a oh,
let's see now, it's a oh, let's can't wait.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:07:34):
Yeah, And that's even knowing how much work the Astros
still have to do, and that football seasons right around
the corner and the college is about to start, and
we're still sitting here thinking oh, because I mean, and
the NBA season just it's like, man, what a long season.
So if you're begging for it or like I can't
wait till it starts again, that means good things here.
And I would imagine there's a lot of people that
feel the same way about this organization that quite frankly,

(02:07:57):
we'll have as I mean, we're going into a season Astros, Rockets,
and Texans included this pass in twenty twenty five and
now going into twenty twenty six for this year, none
of the three, I mean, none of the other two
will have better odds to win a championship than the Rockets.
Now think about that, that's Astros and Texans included. They're
gonna both be held in high regard where they're picked.

(02:08:18):
The Astros were, and we know the Texans will as well,
but nobody, nobody will be when it comes to odds,
will be closer to being picked to win a championship
this within a calendar year when it comes to the Texans,
Astros and Rockets than the Rockets will, which is a
long ways away from a twenty win season two years ago.

Speaker 5 (02:08:37):
Just goes to show you how good things are around
here right now, swins, Low points yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (02:08:41):
The Astros continue those good vibes by taking out the
Dodgers over the weekend. They're in La one three two
one two five seven ninety. Getting back into the Astros conversation,
Bill wants to wag you in.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
Good morning, Bill, Good.

Speaker 13 (02:08:54):
Morning, gentlemen.

Speaker 22 (02:08:55):
From now moving forward, I'd like to be referred to
and called Booby Easter.

Speaker 7 (02:09:00):
Please, thank you, and once again, who wouldn't. Okay, there
you go, brother.

Speaker 8 (02:09:05):
You know what.

Speaker 22 (02:09:06):
I don't know why I didn't think of that decades ago,
but I'm good, uh listening to you guys talk this morning.
By the way, I'm in the middle of Mississippi heading
home from a week in Indiana, and thank you for
iHeartRadio so I can.

Speaker 13 (02:09:20):
Listen to you guys all the way down the highway.

Speaker 7 (02:09:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 22 (02:09:23):
What's what's sad about this whole situation this weekend is
that the national Baseball media is going to portray this
as Dodgers getting swept.

Speaker 13 (02:09:35):
What's wrong with the Dodgers? Oh my god, look what
happened to the Dodgers?

Speaker 22 (02:09:40):
Not that the Astros won three games and pounded their
sorry asses for a weekend.

Speaker 13 (02:09:45):
A holiday weekend that the Dodgers lost. What's wrong with it?

Speaker 22 (02:09:51):
How could they lose eighteen to one on national television
on fourth of July?

Speaker 13 (02:09:57):
Uh, that's and that's.

Speaker 22 (02:09:59):
I don't get why Houston just simply will not get
credited for doing good things on a national level.

Speaker 13 (02:10:07):
Don't know why, since I've been down here six years.
It blows me away.

Speaker 22 (02:10:14):
The whether it's State Texans, whether it's the Rockets, and
the Rockets will get their love just coming here, obviously,
But man, the Astros just can't buy a positive spin
on anything.

Speaker 7 (02:10:27):
Bill They'll make, they'll they'll they'll give Lebron more credit
for the Dodgers losing this weekend and more attention on
national media than they will the Astros for actually winning
on the baseball diamond. You'll get more Lakers Lebron talk
than you will that it wasn't in order to take
the best team in baseball down, you've got to kick
their ass, and it happened three straight days. But you're

(02:10:48):
exactly right. They'll find a way to maneuver around it
to where it looks like the Dodgers are the ones
who gave it away, as opposed to they got their
ass handed to them by twenty three run differential, which
is huge in a three game series, as we know.

Speaker 22 (02:11:00):
And yeah, you've touched on it a number of times,
and I think Sean, you mentioned the last the last
time you referenced it the hirsch Heizer comments on Friday,
and I went back and listened to him several times
over the weekend because I was so amused by it.

Speaker 13 (02:11:14):
And he knows better. We I think we all know
better on multiple platforms.

Speaker 12 (02:11:18):
He knows better.

Speaker 22 (02:11:20):
But that sounds like eighteen to one losing on national
television on a holiday, you know, to open up a
big weekend, and they're getting their fannies spanked.

Speaker 13 (02:11:31):
And I think you're right. He didn't have anything else
to say. He just he was He was in word solid.

Speaker 22 (02:11:36):
His brain's just fried and he I think maybe he's
just trying to be funny if nothing else. I'm not
trying to make an excuse for the guy, but like
he just like he lost his mind. Anyways, guys, appreciate
the trip and I'll joy the last hour of the show.

Speaker 7 (02:11:50):
Yeah, be safe, buddy, appreciate it, have a safe, have
a safe trip. Yeah, appreciated Booby Feaster. Yeah that's yeah,
they'll they'll, they'll find ways. But yeah, and when you're
flabbergasted by the way a team's kicking your team's ass,
I guess you kind of lose sight of what you
really want to talk about. So throwing that that that
Phil statement in there was, like I said, overloading your mouth,

(02:12:12):
that you're ass and Herscheiser does know better.

Speaker 6 (02:12:14):
You know it's gonna be funny though, because like they
don't have Blake Snell right now, they don't have a
lot of gu.

Speaker 5 (02:12:20):
Miss me with that, Yeah, miss me with it? Save it.

Speaker 6 (02:12:22):
I don't have my all star shortstop. I don't have
best power hitter in baseball. I don't have four starting
rotation members right now.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
Like, yeah, miss me with that.

Speaker 7 (02:12:31):
Let me just that is is is uh is Mookie
Betts and show Heyo Tani playing for another organization right now?
They are not okay, And and and again you want
to go. You want to go player for player, pitcher
for pitcher, of free agent, loss for free agent loss,
and trade for trade.

Speaker 5 (02:12:46):
Best hitting first basement, best hitting catchers still there with you.

Speaker 7 (02:12:50):
We can, we can have the conversation, but you can
you want to make that excuse in another way, Go ahead,
when the Astros roll into town, they'll see and raise
you on every single thing you want to talk about,
from pitching excellence to to pitching losses because of injury,
from losing players and staying alive. A lot of respect
for the Dodgers, I do, man, and it is a
part of me because I grew up going to that

(02:13:11):
ballpark regularly. But in truth, I can compartmentalize this team's
got more resilience than they do, and they're the reigning champs.
I get all those things that are great, but they're
not overcoming with this team's overcome with all their injuries.
That would be like taking their staff that's been hurt
and you know, Tany Betts and Freddie are are all

(02:13:32):
out for an extended amount of or two of them
are no longer there, and you're and you're in Freddie
Freeman's hurt for three months like Jordan and is just
not playing or two and a half months, or we'll
be back when it will have been three months hopefully.
So yeah, no, that's where you do got to miss
me that that's that's all chatter that you can put
on twenty eight other teams. But I'll give the Dodgers

(02:13:54):
their injuries, but we can raise you a couple if
you really want to go there.

Speaker 6 (02:13:58):
This was the Miami Hurricanes and the Sugar Bowl against
the Florida Gators, where they fought them on Bourbon Street,
kicked their ass out there, and then they played them
and they beat them on the field.

Speaker 7 (02:14:07):
We always had I had Jerry Burns, our coach Burnsy.
He used to always say, well, we played like Chicago
or somebody. He'd get fired up. We were getting ready
to play the Bears one time, and Burnsy is a
phenomenal old school guy. Hey, you know he talked like
Burgess Meredith and I'm not making fun of it. And
f bomb was his fill with that.

Speaker 5 (02:14:24):
They well kick their ass. Hey, we're gonna kick their ass.
And by the way, we'll kick their ass in the
parking lot. If Ditka wants to go there too, that's
what he'd say. We'd be like, we're not.

Speaker 7 (02:14:34):
Gonna kick their ass on the field, if they want
to fight us in the parking lot after. And I
can tell you this, we got beat by the Bears plenty,
but with the Joey Browners and Keith Millard's we would
have kicked most teams ass of the parking lot, but
take them off. But Burnsy always said, well, we'll kick
their ass there too, and he loved it, man, and
he would He was sold all in on those rivalries.
And this has become a rival, a rival in a

(02:14:56):
in a roundabout way for the Astros.

Speaker 5 (02:14:58):
For sure, you said defensive line, it's right, No Burns,
he was the head coach.

Speaker 7 (02:15:02):
Jerry Burns, My guy John Tierlick would have just f bomb,
would have fought their coach. God rested, So JT would
have just said, let's fight him, forget the game, Let's
just go fight him and then we'll kick their ass
there first as opposed after the game, and then we'll
beat him in the game.

Speaker 5 (02:15:18):
That would have been JT.

Speaker 7 (02:15:18):
But Burns he'll fight, We'll fight him in the parking
lot and I'll kick dick his ass, you know, joke
it around about it, but he was intense to it.

Speaker 5 (02:15:25):
And I kind of feel that same way.

Speaker 2 (02:15:26):
About this d line coaches.

Speaker 8 (02:15:28):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:15:28):
There they're a different breed.

Speaker 6 (02:15:29):
Like I remember once being at a training camp practice
and Brian Cox was a defensive line coach and it
was one of those where the linemen gets you know,
tussled up and then everybody starts running in because they're
they're gonna want to get their shots into like empty
in the bullpen.

Speaker 7 (02:15:42):
Cox, Oh yeah, and it's there. But this those aren't
pillow fights like you see in baseball.

Speaker 5 (02:15:48):
This is real.

Speaker 7 (02:15:49):
And you mentioned a guy that I've told you I'm
fond of, and Brian's one of my favorite people in
the world. I got news for you as a coach,
as a defensive line coach, if a fight breaks out,
the players are scrambling, not because the guys that are
running in because the defensive line coaches, O yours going
to run.

Speaker 5 (02:16:06):
I got news for it.

Speaker 7 (02:16:07):
Where Brian grew up, it's not just survival of the
fittest with fists. Brian grew up in East Saint Louis,
which is a hard Times are spreading, just like the flu.
And Brian's one of my to sit and talk to
him intense and he's a great dude, cares about people.
But those fights I've seen it because we've been other fielding.
Joey Browner comes running in, everybody scrambles like, don't let
Joey get his hands on you. That's a six degree

(02:16:28):
black belt. That's going to destroy you when the coach
is what you're afraid of. That's Brian Cox. You want
him on your team. That's exactly right, those type of things,
And if you said that to Brian Cox, he'd say,
where do I sign up? We'll get We're going to
fight him before the game. Oh, I'm all in, who
do you want me to get? And see, they wouldn't
give Cox the opposing defensive line coach. They give Cox

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the baddest cat on their team to go fight. I
don't care if Cox is fifty five or not. At
twenty five, you want zero part of him. He'll just
mentally wear you out with where he grew up and
out toy as mentally. So yeah, those type of things.
Maybe the Astros have that stronghold on these Dodgers as well.
It seems like they do, and they definitely played him
as much this weekend. Brandon Will John see you guys

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Speaker 6 (02:17:26):
John on the Northwest Side. I know we're gonna get
to you earlier, but get you in here now.

Speaker 2 (02:17:29):
Good morning. That's all right, man.

Speaker 10 (02:17:32):
I just want to say, is fark and live and
it's still listening. I just want to let him know.
I just love listening to him Home Sports Radio. He's
got them that good wit. He doesn't try too hard
to be funny. He's just a funny guy.

Speaker 20 (02:17:49):
I really love listening to him.

Speaker 10 (02:17:51):
But look, man, this well one will say, fans don't
get mad at Earl.

Speaker 8 (02:17:55):
Earl used to play for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (02:17:58):
You be mad too.

Speaker 10 (02:18:00):
The same team always come in and beat you down.
So let's let's let's give him a little break right there.

Speaker 12 (02:18:06):
It's kind of funny.

Speaker 10 (02:18:07):
It tickles me. You know when you beat a team
and the payers that used to play start talking a
bunch of noise. Well, you're doing something good. But this
is what I want to talk about it John, real quick,
real quick, and you can make your point. And I
understand with Hersheiser and I don't get bothered by that stuff.

Speaker 8 (02:18:26):
Very off.

Speaker 5 (02:18:26):
It's just kind of irritable.

Speaker 7 (02:18:27):
But think how it would have sounded different if he'd
have said if he'd have prefaced it by saying this
and it would still he's a Dodger fan, and obviously
they got a stronghold on the Astros doing them. Think
if he'd have said, you know what, I may may
open up a wound. But I mean, this is a
compliment because they're so good right now? Is you almost
feel like they're so good that they know that the

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pitch is coming. It may have still irritated BELISSI would
have prefaced it by saying, I'm showing respect, that I'm
trying to be funny with this, as opposed to because
when you say it, the rest of us are like, come.

Speaker 5 (02:19:01):
On, man, you know better than that.

Speaker 7 (02:19:03):
You know how hard it is to win. But he
is a Dodger broadcaster and he's a Dodger guy, and
I get it. But it's still just, oh, come on, man,
you're above that, and he is. But people are gonna
get their digs in. Yeah, it's the way it happens.
What else is on your mind?

Speaker 8 (02:19:16):
Man?

Speaker 10 (02:19:18):
Man? You know I just wanted to say, Man, you know,
you know I always knew this to be true, but
there really is confirmation to me. It's the It really
is the Astros culture, their organization there, their coaches and
their manager Joe Spotted. I dogged him out last season,
but I ain't said nothing this season because he's doing

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real well. I mean, you look at a lot of
teams man, over the years, and John, I'm.

Speaker 8 (02:19:44):
Sure you can.

Speaker 10 (02:19:47):
Comment on this. You know, you can have all the
talent in the world, man, but if you do not
have a good organization, good coaches and stuff like that,
you're not gonna win. The poor Yankees, Oh, they've been
great Yanks for years now, but every time they get
in the playoffs, they show great, great talent, but they

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got no culture. They got no heart, and you got
to have You can have all the talent in the world,
but you got.

Speaker 8 (02:20:18):
To have heart to go with it.

Speaker 10 (02:20:21):
The Yankees last season had a great chance to win
the World Series, was in their way and what they
got beat what they want one game in the World Series. Listen, man,
Nastros culture. Man, it's just amazing to be winning so
many years like this. Every year. It's just the the Dodgers,

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I got no problem with their.

Speaker 8 (02:20:44):
Plays, and.

Speaker 14 (02:20:46):
I like that.

Speaker 10 (02:20:47):
You really don't have no problem with players period, you know,
because the Dodgers has a great organization, man, you know,
but the Astros is the big boys that come in.
I mean even the sorry when Nastros go to play them.
For some reason, this stadiums feel up. The reason their
stadiums feel up because their fans is saying, oh, the

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Astros is coming to time. I got to go and
buy a ticket. I may not have been to any
games this season, but I gotta go to this one
that maybe we can win. And please stop poking the bag.
Every time you boo a two bag, you piss the
rest of the players off. You may them kick you,
but y'all have a good one.

Speaker 14 (02:21:30):
Man.

Speaker 6 (02:21:30):
No, I appreciate the call. John, No, keep booing. No, please,
by all means, please please keep doing it, because so
clearly it's working. And you know the other thing is
you know a guy that used to be part of
this organization, Reggie Jackson, what do you famously say they
don't boo nobody's.

Speaker 7 (02:21:46):
Yeah, especially on the road, when you're getting booed, that's
a great sign of respect and welcome it. Even if
even if they're booing you for reasons, you'll shake your
head and like, oh, here we go. If you want
to boom because they're good, that's another thing. But they're
gonna have to let it go. But the key is
it's it is eye rolling some of the things they say.
But I have a hunch there's a chance you may
meet them again in the postseason when it comes to

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when it's all on the line, and I'd love it
to be all on the line and one game decide
it and they go do it again. Can you imagine
the story it would make if they had to go
through this with all these injuries in the way that
they've come back and they go win the whole thing.
I know I'm out in front of myself, but that's
what we do in the meetia. We love the what
if game, And my what if game is what if
they were able to do this and didn't get healthy

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this year? It would be one of the least likely
World Series championships you've seen in a while, considering all
they've had to overcome. But I don't think they look
at it like that. I think they just assume, well,
we got good players, man, and we're well coached, and
we're just going to keep doing it while the rest
of us kind of stand in amazement. This has been
at least the first half of season, considering all the circumstances.

Speaker 5 (02:22:47):
To me, Dan.

Speaker 7 (02:22:48):
Since I've been here, now there's been World Series runs
where they've been dominant. I'm saying best team, but it
sure is one of my favorite watches since I've been
here because of the way they're doing it.

Speaker 5 (02:22:58):
I think it's really cool.

Speaker 6 (02:22:59):
No, it's it's probably one of the more gratifying note
that we've seen. I mean, seventeen was just because we
didn't know any better, and then once we did after seventeen,
it was trying to reach that point again. Took you
five years to get back there, but you finally did
and you were able to, as Joe Davis said, finished
the job at the time. But I mean the core
of this team, the Yankees teams of the late nineties,

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they had that with Jeter, Pasada, with Pettit and Mariano.
I mean that was you know, what their organization was,
and they built around those. But even then, think about it, Pasada,
Bernie Williams. They added people, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, They
added pieces like brought along a rod at one point,
Paul O'Neill at one point was it. You know, you

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start to look around, but maddingly you start to stare
at the way that this team's done it in different eras,
but different time when they've been at their best. But
think about it, how many of those teams were beat
up for the majority of the season, and how many
of them lost three or four key players in one
season injuries or free agency or trade and still can say, Ah,

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that culture kept us together. The Yankees had it like
Stanton was a part of it, Nelly a part of it.
We know the pitching clowns rolled through, Chuck Dobloch.

Speaker 7 (02:24:12):
They brought in some guys from other places and they
fit in very similar except expectations were far higher for them,
and they didn't have to go with losing Jeter. They
didn't have to go with losing Bernie Williams or Pisada
to somebody else or Mariano Rivera.

Speaker 5 (02:24:27):
They kept the core of their place. This team's lost
some core.

Speaker 7 (02:24:31):
And they're still doing it, which validates their business model
to some people's sagrin because they're not pad but they
still get the most out of them. And two that
the expectations of the player themselves expects to be part
of the Astros, and the Astros just expect them to
fit in, and it's worked and fit in and play well,
and they're doing it to epic proportions in the first

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half of the season.

Speaker 6 (02:24:53):
It's like I talked about the Chandler roam piece of
talking with Peritis, and you like, I thought it was
going to be an uptight clubhouse. You know, it's just
you know, you kind of have to find your way
around there, he goes, couldn't have been the complete opposite.

Speaker 7 (02:25:04):
Now, now go easy going, Go talk to people who've
Clint Fraser, who's been in Matt White Sox. Go talk
to somebody these people who've went and now left and
are like this was that was truly a job, and
you get the job and career the job. When you
say it like that it's supposed a job, Well, it
is a job, and everybody has one. You like to

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hope are the ones that do. But I almost feel like, oh, yeah,
it's career, man, we get to come to the clubhouse.
It felt like when I was reading Fraser's article that
they had to go to work and they despised it.
I actually think this team likes being around each other
all the time, and I think they like going on
the road and playing. I think they like playing at home,
and I actually think they expect to play well and

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clubhouse culture. I actually also think they allow the players
for the most part to police themselves. And at one
point in time it cost them and they've paid dearly
for it. But there's a great mix of being a
and present without being a helicopter or a meddling. That's
just constantly not allowing your players to freedom, to struggle

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and to have success and to come out of it
and just you know, the voice of reason. And there's
just seems to be a lot of people in that building.

Speaker 2 (02:26:16):
Who get it.

Speaker 6 (02:26:16):
It's the best working environment you can have. We know
that you know how to do your job. Just do
your job right, that's all we ask.

Speaker 7 (02:26:22):
And if we're not, if no news from us, we'll
just keep going to such good news, man, Let's just
keep on rolling. That's it, Yeah, meaning from us, meaning
the managery or the front office. And and I don't
think they come in and give them those tall speefle
here's what we do here. I think the player just
understands this is if you want to stick around, dude,
this is how they do it.

Speaker 5 (02:26:41):
And for some of you that want to stick around
and don't, well.

Speaker 7 (02:26:44):
Sometimes we got to trade you and sometimes they got
to move you on because they're not going to pay you.

Speaker 5 (02:26:48):
But the guy that's.

Speaker 7 (02:26:48):
Replacing you at cam Smith, we expect him to play
like Kyle Tucker, and I'll be damned, but he is.

Speaker 5 (02:26:54):
Well, you know, a Ken Giles does happen, And remember
after that happened. Asking A J.

Speaker 6 (02:26:59):
Hinch about it, he goes, yeah, I'd probably say that
buy in is a good thing to have, like very much.
A Hey, you just didn't get it, man, Dan, I've.

Speaker 7 (02:27:06):
Said it a million ten you've heard me and I
overuse it, but I do it on purpose because on
teams I've been in there. We had a color talk
about talented teams. I've been on some talented teams that
didn't have full buy in and we we weren't. I
can remember two in particular, and the two times I said, man,
this is his gifted. A team I've been we didn't
make the playoffs, and that didn't happen very often. Fortunately
in Minnesota, we had so much talent. But you've got

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to have buy in all the way around. And it's
under utilized and overused, but in this case it is
utilized properly and not over utilized properly. When we talk
about how much it matters and buy in is everything
and it's got to go. It's got to be both ways.
Organization to the player and vice versa. What's the secret
for the astros? Right now, we'll talk about it. It's

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Speaker 2 (02:28:08):
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Speaker 5 (02:28:10):
Area wants to weigh in. Brandon, what's going on?

Speaker 23 (02:28:13):
Hey guys, good morning. I hope you guys had a
great fourth of July. Shann always good to talk to you, man. Now,
I agree with a lot of the points you guys made. Man,
it's just a winning breed success And as a former
coach and a person who's been in the dugout, who's
made those decisions and had a chance to punch the
right buttons out there to make players successful, develop players.
This culture of this organization right now, from top to bottom,

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speaking of what Dana Brown has done, and even before that,
even what Jeff Lunou did in the past, has been
amazing to draft players, develop them, see the process through.
It's not always easy to trust the process when you
draft somebody, and I think the biggest thing is stick
to your guns, stick to what you know, and see
those players through. This is like that next man up
mentality of you know, it's kind of like I kind
of compared to somebody working, you know, for a company

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for a lot of years, and they're very much an
invaluable employee. Well they get a better offer to go
somewhere else and take that raise, and then somebody else,
you know, the next man up kind of steps up.
So this is amazing to see what this team is doing.
Twenty nine and ten, their last thirty nine and plus
seventy one in run differential is amazing and I think
you a stat was there twelve and two against teams
leading the division is amazing. But I love it, and

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I think it's going to be amazing to see Sean
I they can really finish the job over the next
few months and lead this thing all the way to
at least a pennant. I think a Pennant would be amazing,
and then you got to think about Joe Spotta and
as the manager of the year, Data Browne Executive of
the year.

Speaker 12 (02:29:31):
This is crazy.

Speaker 23 (02:29:32):
And this is still a few weeks before the trade deadline,
so they could still add some players, but getting some
players back Sean, I think they pretty much can give
you what they can give you. But the biggest thing
is just keep keep it rolling, keep this thing moving.
And I still think a left handed bat would be
a great asset at the trade deadline. Have a great week, guys.
We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 12 (02:29:49):
Thanks.

Speaker 7 (02:29:50):
Yeah, I appreciate it, Brandon, great stuff, Brandon. You know
what else, the players that have been here that are
hurt or that are you know, well hurt because the
ones that aren't here are gone probably crave wish they
were here at times.

Speaker 5 (02:30:01):
We've discussed.

Speaker 7 (02:30:03):
But when these guys get healthy, they also have to
rebuy in, not to them, but rebuy into where the
situation is Yeah that okay, man, this guy's pitching, Well,
what do we do? And if it's not you, and
then the buy in is going to have to be
real there. I think this team's proven that they're so
good this year in overcoming that. I think you have

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to earn your way back. I know I'm saying Jordon's
gonna be that's not what I'm winning your job. I
don't mean that I'm talking about it'll be hard you
buying you're a start all of a sudden, Christian hobbyer
comes back and we know what we get from the guys. Great,
but you don't just get to We're just not going
to nudge a guy aside who's having success and say
I wouldn't think and say, yeah, thanks for the job,
well done, man, I don't know what you're doing next.

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I think that the innercompetition I think is real as well.
So while you were bought in, you get hurt and
I know the out of side, out of mind feeling
an injury has where your season. You're like, what to
my coming back and you feel like nobody's paying attention. Well,
they got work to do, and you have to find
and shift your narrative as the injured guy to buy
back into that momentum that they've built and Doe, they're

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not slowing down at the train station to allow you
to walk it. You know how it goes by, and
you got to get into a slow jog and chase
it down like in the movies. The guys who've been
here that buy in is going to have to carry
there too, because it may not be as pretty and
as clear cut as you thought it was.

Speaker 2 (02:31:29):
Coming back.

Speaker 7 (02:31:29):
Got to earn your way back or somebody's got to
play their way out of it. That's the competition they've created,
and it's a good thing because whether you're a pro golfer,
whether you're a baseball player, football player, if you're worth anything,
competition and compellit that that competitiveness.

Speaker 5 (02:31:44):
Brings you out, brings out better in you than makes
you wilt.

Speaker 7 (02:31:47):
And if you are gonna wilt with competition, then you
aren't going to be very good for me when it mattered.

Speaker 5 (02:31:53):
And this team's prepared for.

Speaker 2 (02:31:54):
It, which I like.

Speaker 6 (02:31:56):
It's definitely a toughness groove on this team. I think
there's any any question.

Speaker 5 (02:32:01):
It's really hard to go buy Dan.

Speaker 7 (02:32:03):
You're like, oh, we're gonna go buy a guy in
a free agent market, We're gonna trade Forge. It's really
That's why I think this team. Also when we ask
Steve Sparks, when you do your due diligence, you're not
just doing it well what's his ops or how's he
hit under pressure? Or man his splits against this team
in the American League or in this division have been great,
Let's go trade for him, or you know, any of
those things. You fit us, we don't fit right And

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it's and it's all those things that matter. But I
also think that they're looking into the you know, we're
doing all these psychological deep dives into quarterbacks and all that,
which rightfully so if you're investing that much, that much money,
or investing in a little money. To me, the smartest
people in the world treat the small investment just like
they do the big one, because it becomes a big investment,
right and and the stuff the money you can't buy.

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I think that's maybe where I'm headed with this. Maybe
just maybe the buy in, whether it leads to a championship. Now,
you can have great buy in and come up short
in a couple of games and face somebody who's got
the same approach to buy in in their organization, you
get beat. But I'm convinced did the the the aspect
of this, did their deep dive into the fit and
what we're trying to get accomplished here, that they that

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they do their dive into how would the person fit?
Is there any chance at disruption in there? I think
that when they're assessing players and when we say, well,
how do they do it? I think they're ahead of
the game because I don't think they're just staring. Man,
you see how that guy can hit. While all the
talent matters, you can't win without some skill. But to
bring them here, I think there is there's that extra,

(02:33:29):
the stuff money can't buy, or that maybe you don't
see that's tangible us that we don't see that you say,
they knew when the guy came here that he's bought in.
And maybe they're better at that than just not just
training players and developing them. Maybe they're all so better
at seeing stuff that, like a great financial forecaster can see,

(02:33:50):
they get out in front of it and they know
because they've prepared for it. It feels to me like
this is like that great financial forecast did down times. Man,
what's going on by the dip? The Astros buy the
dip better than any team in sports. They just do
so apply it to your financial world. They buy the
dip as well as anybody in sports does. Dana Brown

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and his staff take a look at it short and
not do your shorting the stock short. He goes and
gets three hits, and you do it with gusto, Gusto.
They bought the dip in guys that you don' oh,
let's buy that and then your your ROI adds up
to wins with add upts to better career and all
of them may not even be here next you may
have to move. So who knows, but now and in

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the in the present, and they are also I feel
like they're in the present better than any team around.

Speaker 5 (02:34:40):
They live in it.

Speaker 7 (02:34:42):
There's no what ifs like we put on because that's
what we do in radio and television is put what if.
But I think they buy the dip comparing it to
financial better than anybody on the planet does right now.
Or you could not do this and you would not
get buy in if you didn't do some pre work
on is that a buy in guy?

Speaker 5 (02:35:00):
And I got news for it. I've been in the
locker room.

Speaker 7 (02:35:02):
A turd comes in and they will disrupt it as
quickly as possible, especially young guys that you can influence
to get them on your side. You get that guy,
You got to get that turd out of your locker
room quickly. They don't have many of them, if any,
And I think that's a big part. You buy the
dip when it's with the Astros and they've been doing
it and nobody does it better.

Speaker 5 (02:35:20):
In Major League Baseball.

Speaker 6 (02:35:21):
He equals twenty games above five hundred right now, seven
games up on the Mariners in the West and the
Astros trying to increase that lead as we get close
to the All Star break. Will Adrian see you guys,
get you guys involved also too.

Speaker 2 (02:35:34):
If we have time.

Speaker 6 (02:35:36):
Something baseball related that did come out and I know
it did not sit well with both me and Sean.
We'll talk about it right here. And this is Sean
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Speaker 8 (02:35:50):
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And we got the best eyedea doctor, I care doctor
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Speaker 5 (02:36:02):
Why wouldn't you use him.

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I've had a lot of buddies go to him and
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(02:36:24):
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the buddy standing next to he has to say, oh,
it rolled into the rough, or it landed in the bunker,
or in good cases, sean, it's three feet from the

(02:36:45):
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I know it sounds crazy, but a lot of you
could relate. Seeing my ball down was huge for me,
so I could like, hey, I'm not relying on somebody
that has to look through a dog on through through
your binoculars to see.

Speaker 2 (02:36:59):
Where your ball is.

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Speaker 5 (02:37:35):
Adriam, what's going on?

Speaker 12 (02:37:37):
Good moving, gentlemen?

Speaker 2 (02:37:38):
Here are y'all very well? How are you good?

Speaker 8 (02:37:41):
Good Sean?

Speaker 24 (02:37:41):
Are you sitting down? I'm about to do something. Nay,
You're probably gonna fall out of your chair.

Speaker 5 (02:37:50):
Well he's gonna he's gonna have to fall off his
two feet. Yeah, I'm listen. I'm listening. I got you.
What's up? Eager anticipation?

Speaker 24 (02:37:59):
Hey, I apologize, mister Myers, because what it looks like
is we run into the jake that we had before
the shoulder injury. Because that stick is swinging and the
defenses since cam Ward's got there and looked like Jake
rolled back three years.

Speaker 12 (02:38:17):
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:38:19):
And yeah, all you get off.

Speaker 24 (02:38:20):
My long guys that were Cam needs to go down.
Cam needs to go down. I don't hear no clanging
with them hitting the ground. You need to call and
apologize next time. And just look and what I love
about this jord arm injury. If they had the idea
of Paul we got a left handed stick coming back

(02:38:41):
and what no u uh huh, hey Rick, my boy
next door, that pain contest just became legal.

Speaker 8 (02:38:50):
So come on with that stick, babe.

Speaker 12 (02:38:53):
Let's just make sure it's left hand. The rest of
the team, they're waiting on you.

Speaker 24 (02:38:58):
And the cyboorder to do ahead, have his arm nuclear
repaired and America, y'all are out celebrating this big independence.

Speaker 8 (02:39:07):
That we love.

Speaker 24 (02:39:08):
Meanwhile, the big beautiful was being passed. They took you
with the forehand in the election. This kicks in the
month of the midterms. With your medicaid and your food assistant,
they're expecting you.

Speaker 8 (02:39:22):
To take the back hand.

Speaker 12 (02:39:24):
We'll see what happened.

Speaker 24 (02:39:26):
And believe me, I'm upset. I had to go from
e halls with my medical pharmacist to what it do, my.

Speaker 2 (02:39:33):
Dude, believe me, it hurts me too.

Speaker 8 (02:39:37):
Have a good week.

Speaker 6 (02:39:38):
By appreciate Adrian throughout, Rick, I think he meant Dana
there with going out and making the moves. But regardless,
we always know that we can count on Adrian to
come with the facts and also come with a little
bit of uh, well whatever you want to call that
at the end. But anyway, real quick here as I

(02:40:00):
saw that, and we can maybe even carry this over
to tomorrow, we can agree that Bobby Jinks was more
than just part of the two thousand and five White
Sox roster, as the ESPN eulogy that they had for
their posts had him as that. I go, oh, that's funny,
because having watched that team up close against the Astros,
he was a huge reason why they won the World
Series that year.

Speaker 7 (02:40:21):
Yeah, he was a closer, and he was a closer
on a World Series championship team. And I know it's
not the same, but when you close it out, you're
not referring to Trevor Hoffman as he was on the roster.
I'm not saying he had as many windsy Bobby Jenks
was in a Hall of Famer, but in those moments

(02:40:42):
he was their closer. I would suggest you do a
little research and put a little more respect on his name.

Speaker 2 (02:40:49):
He's earned it.

Speaker 7 (02:40:50):
And you know, we lost a guy in his forties,
so respect on his life. And I know a bunch
of teammates that loved to have me And I remember
Ozzie Geen used to go out and put his hands
like that, he's wrapped around.

Speaker 5 (02:41:01):
Give me this guy, how you go out? Give me
the why?

Speaker 10 (02:41:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:41:03):
Get right?

Speaker 5 (02:41:04):
Yeah, that was that was his signal in the Bullpen.

Speaker 7 (02:41:07):
Jenkson was a big part of the reason why they
won a World Series, as they know all too well here.

Speaker 6 (02:41:11):
Yeah, painfully so, God bless God, bless the Jenks fans. Absolutely,
for sure, that's gonna do it for us here on
the Sean Salisbury Show this morning.

Speaker 7 (02:41:19):
He's Sean, And to all of our folks that are
doing going through this struggle, considered continued prayers and help
any way you can for those in need after those
flunts and what floods in the Hunt, Texas Curveville area.

Speaker 6 (02:41:32):
Yep, for sure. Absolutely that was a rough, rough part
of the weekend. Absolutely, He's Shawn Tripoli, Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews,
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming up next. We
will talk to you in twenty hours