September 3, 2025 • 16 mins
Looking to make the postseason and still leading the American League West Division ahead of their competitors, the Astros begin to draw lots of concern for fans after yesterday's loss to the Yankees. Teeing off against one of their biggest postseason rivals, the Astros lose their series opener with a final score of 7-1, leaving many shocked following the club's recent struggles, hoping to improve them before the postseason arrives. Unable to score runs with runners in scoring positions, followed by poor base running, Astros GM Dana Brown breaks the silence with a few answers to questions many have.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's that time for US Astros GM.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Dana Brown joins us at this time every single week, Sean,
the floor is yours. Yeah, Dana, welcome in. Good to
have you here, first place, three games up in the division,
with you know, twenty or so to go. Dan, let
me start here. We know the injuries are obviously been
talked about all year, but from your team, for the
guys who are in uniform at this stage of the season,
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are they executing the way that you want them to
on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Look, I don't think we've been as consistent as we
could be, you know, particularly with the with the hitting.
You know, every now and then, you know our pitchers
might make a mistake. But that's the that's the game
of baseball, right and so you still have to get
out there and battle every day. You know, it's a
grind of one sixty two and you know we're still
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in first place. We're up by three games with twenty
three to go, and this group's committed to winning the
Vision and back deep into the postseason. So look, we
feel very confident. We've had them ups and downs, the
ebbs and flow of baseball, but at the end of
the day, this is a really good team and these
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guys are ready to battle.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
How good are they, Dana, Well, anyway deep in the
plass right like today? Are they a World Series caliber
team right now today? Not talent but performance?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, So think about it. So, you know, if you
were into the postseason right now, you probably would have,
you know a rotation of Brown Valdez, you know, Hobby
Air and you know the fourth spot would probably be
you know, up in the air. But then you would
have you know, a good bullpen. You know, at the
end of the day, our pen is still good even
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after losing Hater, you know, and their lineup is pretty good.
You know, you've got a chance to get Pereti's back.
I think Peretis is gonna you know, start some baseball
activity today. We're getting Myers back potentially this weekend, and
then the rest of our lineup with the Jordan actor
coming back. I mean, Jordan has been you know, really good.
You know, he's got an over five hundred on base percentage,
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you know, and he's been like six for eighteen or
whatever it is, so he's hitting over three hundred. So
you know, it's gonna take a little bit of uh
time to get you know, in sync. But I think
the boys are just around the corner. So look, we're
you know the fact that we're still three games up,
we're at this point in the season. We battled through
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all the injuries. All of that should mean something, right,
and so you've gone through an entire season with all
of those injuries, the guys that battled their way all
the way. We're still three games up and we're looking
for that hot streak to you know, to put the
nail in this thing and you know, win the division
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to get back to the posts.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And you mentioned Dana, you talked last week and about
Jordan's presence when he's in and you saw it Reard's
head last week when he got in there with day game. Uh,
he was able to pinch it sitting there and they
decided to pitch the Christian Walker and Walker delivered, right,
They made a pitching change, Walker comes up delivered. So
you saw that impact. So let me push that forward.
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If he's healthy and he's had rest for one hundred games,
why with the grind that we're talking about, and you
know what has to happen. But you know, you're smarter
baseball man than we are. But the passion of the fans,
and I'm curious what the right now, the ball's not heavy,
his legs arrested. If he's healthy, why isn't he in
the lineup every single day? Aren't we at that stage now?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, that's a good question. So this is part of
his build up, and he had one more game that
we wanted to you know, allow him the rest because
you're still you know, you're still at that build up part.
We've we've pushed them hard enough, you know, and we
we wanted to give him that one more day, probably
going to play the rest of the you know, the
rest of the season, you know, as long as he's
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still is good, but you give him that chance to
take the day off because you're still in that build
up mode. You got to remember, he didn't play for
almost four months and that's like, you know, longer than
the offseason. So you have to allow him a chance
to build up, and you don't want to reaggravate anything.
And he's been doing so well that we want to
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really you know, protect him because we're going to need
him down the stretch with those last twenty games and
in the postseason. So we don't want to take any chance,
and so we get him another day off. And now
if the plan is that, you know, we can give
him like five or six in a row, because he
is building up still and we're pushing him. We're pushing
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him pretty hard.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So are these decisions? And Dana Brown astros Jim for
his weekly visit is always grateful to have him on Dana,
is this do you guys go to Jordan say, okay,
on a daily basis, how do you feel? And I'm
sure that he is a competitor, he wants to play.
Who's making the decision how he feels daily? And the
build up is it you guys trying to prevent him
from getting in his own way? Or is it h
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I'm saying I could use another day off? Which one
is it?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, it's collective, right, So it's the first thing. It's
two things. So the first thing is you you know,
as a group, we talk and we try to put
out a plan for him in terms of coming back right,
and so we set a schedule. And then after we
set the schedule, we of course have to ask the player, hey,
how do you feel right? I feel pretty I feel
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pretty good. And so as long as he continues to
feel good, we're gonna we're gonna play them, and we're
gonna put him in the lineup. But we still have
to go by the schedule that we set and so look,
he's to the point where he's probably gonna get at
least five or six in a row, you know, but
you want to build up to that point. And you've
got to remember four months off. It's four months off. Yep.
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You know, you can be well arrested, but you still
have to get back to the build up so that
you don't you know, re injure anything. And I think
that this is the plan that we set forth.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, and this is more and micro and I I'll
always lean on you for this, and even more so
the fans that want to know. So let's say five
games in he's raking and your plan was on the
sixth game to give him a day off. And you
go to him and he says, I feel great. Does
he stay in the lineup or do you get him
that day off?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah? At that point, because it's five in a row,
you can roll with them, right, But when you're building
them up and you let them get one, then two
in a row, then three in a row, you know,
then you know, four or five in a row and
then he still feels good, and that's a good sign.
I mean, you could probably roll with it when you
give him like five in a row, but you really
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want to protect them, right, and so look, that's the
schedule we set out. I mean, you know, right, wrong
or indifferent, but you have to have some type of plan.
You know, when the guy is coming back. You just
can't throw him in the fire and say go get
up now. Look, if this is a postseason game, of course,
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, but we're getting to that point daying on a
day to day basis, you know, one series difference and
you know this, I'm not telling anything. You don't know
that all of them almost feel like single elimination games,
even with a three game lead. You know the urgency.
I'm not telling you that you don't know. So for
for me with this, go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead
and finish you go ahead?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. Yeah, the fact is there is urgency, but they're
not one run games. Right, We're up by three, and
you still have to try to stick to your you know,
your plan of how do you feel you're on' good?
What's the schedule? Okay, let's follow the schedule. So but
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right now it's to the point where we're gonna run.
We're gonna run him out five in a row and
see what it's still like.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Can you win a championship without him in the lineup
right now? At the plate?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Uh, it'd be very difficult. But you know, we always
feel like we can win. You can't say that. Look, oh,
if we lose one guy, we're cooked, right, I mean,
that's not the attitude. I remember. You know, when I
was in Atlanta, we lost a couna. You know, we
still won the World Series. You can't say, you know,
you can't say if you lose one guy, you're cooked.
But with that said, Sean, nobody wants to move their
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number one inner right.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Right, nobody, as you can tell, I want him in
the lineup every day. I'm greedy, Dana, I'm a greedy solb.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I'm as greedy as they get. I'm greedy. I'm filled
with greed when it comes to winning baseball games.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All right, let me move to another subject. We know
how good he is, but the elephant the room, and
it has to be talked about because we've seen the
movie before. You got a left hander that's so good
and fromber at the front, and we know that we've
talked about his stuff. It's elite, but emotionally at times
the headache sometimes gets in the way of his performance.
And I feel like, and I think a lot of
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people do looking at the video and some baseball people,
that last night wasn't an accident, while there may have been,
you know, construed as wonder how they approach it after
the body language when he turned and walked, Explain to
me what you saw last night and why we should
believe that it was miscommunication as opposed to frustration.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, that's that's a great question, and you know, let's
talk about it. Right. So you got a very competitive,
very competitive farmer Valdez. He's pitching against the Yankees. He
gives up a home run, right, a grand slam that
kind of like, you know, put the game out of reach,
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so to speak. Right, So I believe that he was
absolutely frustrated. If anybody ever played any sport and you're
a competitor, you know how competitive this game is. You know,
a competitor other sports is, you know, you get frustrated,
you get rattled, you're you're angry, and so you know
this thing's happened, and you sometimes you get so angry
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you can't see straight, and you know he crossed them up.
You know they had a conversation after the game and
they squashed it. I don't think people understand the competitive
nature when you're chasing the panet race, you're playing the
New York Yankees, you have high drama, and you give
up a grand flat, you're down six to nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's that I told people on the thingk that haven't
been in those you know played If people only knew
the frustration that we club houses and stuff, they don't
hear about how you know, the competitive nature and getting
out It happens all the time. We just happen more
cameras and social media and you see it. So with that,
you hit it perfect. So why not why not say that,
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why not just as frustrated we screwed up, we got
it fixed. We're competitors. It happens instead of like crossed
him up by a respect because the math doesn't add up.
And I understand the media and the way we approach it,
but why not just say that because all of our
questions are on fromber are not as any good the fans,
the questions are is the emotional wreck where he's going
to kill you in a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Look, this guy is very competitive. You cross You get
crossed up all the time. Sometimes you get so frustrated
in your mind in the heat of the battle. You're
you're you're antarticipating throwing one pitch. A guy calls another pitch,
and you're so frustrated. You you forget that what you
what was just called? That is part of the game
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that happens all.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
The time, Dan, I know that feeling. I've got it
forgotten in my own water too.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, you get back to the line of scrimmaty. You forget.
Oh my god, this happened. And I think that the
the the I don't know why. Look, people always want
to look into different things in sports. It is the
competitive nature of players. It's the same competitor, that competitive nature.
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It's the same competitive nature that makes you good. And
sometimes that same competitive nature could be part of what
screws up the game. It just happens. Let me and
I want to I want to just put it to bed.
You can get crossed up. It happens, you forget, it
happens like we should really not dwell on this. We
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should move forward. This team is three games up with
twenty three to go, and they want to talk about
somebody getting crossed.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Up, and I go, yeah, and and that's been taken
care of as you said, So that squelch and in
the clubhouse, right, that's done. All right, now let me
move down.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Good. I had a conversation after the game. You know
when when you calm down, you know, we get into
arguments with our you know, siblings all the time, and
you calm down and say, hey, man, you know I
mean you say that, I'm sorry. You know, it happens, Yep,
it happens. This work human beings in the in the.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Battle, Okay, you've seen in the And I will end
on this one, Dan, And it's a great conversation and
stuff that we all need to hear. And you know,
I'm gonna ask it. And I appreciate your your your candidate,
how candid you are with it. And he's your guy,
and he's at the front of your rotation. Do you,
as a baseball guy, trust that he can handle the
emotion in a bad way in the postseason if it
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goes sideways. Are you were you feeling about him right now.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, here, here's what it's called, Sean. This is the
this is the real deal, right. You You have these
competitors that compete in sports, and you know what it's called.
It's called the mound visit. As soon as you see
him getting a little frustrated, you head to the mound.
You go out there, you talk to them. In basketball
you call the timeout, and football you call it timeout.
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You have to go to the mound, and you can
give them a mound visit. Ye this, look, I do not.
I do not, and I will repeat this over and
over again. I do not want to pull out the
competitive nature of farmer. It is the one thing that
makes them really good and uh competitive. Right. You don't
want to take that away from a player.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You don't want to coach it out of him, right,
I get that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Coach it out of him. However, you do have to
stay under control. So it's gonna take a mound visit.
It's gonna take hey, hey, hey, buddy, look you just
made a hell of a pitch. The guy flipped the base,
hit the right to run, score or it's over, blush it.
Let's go. We gotta get we got two outs, we
got to get the next hitter. That's what it's called.
That's what that's what it takes to be a champion.
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And sometimes we have to read it. And it's exactly
why coaches are on top of it and they call
a time out. You know, you have you have a
twelve pitch at bat where guy files the ball off,
where the bases go to continue to file the ball off,
hits the base hit, ties the game, mound visit, win,
settle them down. That's what it's all about. And you
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have to read the team leaves of these competitors and
sometimes it takes just a mound visit. And so let's
let's not let's not uh, you know, fall fromer for
being a competitive, mean guy that will you know, do
whatever you have to do to win. But let's keep
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them under control. And that's the way I see it.
And I don't want to pull that competitive nature from them,
you know, I want them to continue to compete and
we'll work with them and try to get them settled
down when he gets a little frustrated. It's all a
part of the game. It's all a part of sports.
And you know, you know from looking at championships all
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across every sport, there's always this competitor that you have
to calm down, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Hey, listen, give me a guy who's a prick on
the mound or a quarterback or a basketball player. I'm
gonna win more than i'm gonna lose. And by the way, Dana,
thanks for the candidness. Awesome. But also you guys are
still three in front first place, so we can live
with that right now, and hopefully it'll continue and you'll
take care of the Yankees. He's next few.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, three in front, and you got you know, you've
got a middle linebacker and Framburg who's pitching. Right, That's
what it is. Think about it like that.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
There you go. We appreciate you man, Good luck today,
and we'll look forward to next Wednesday's conversation. Great stuff, man,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
All right, astro fans, let's stay locked in there. You go.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's Dana Brown. We'll come back and discuss for a
quick few minutes. Great stuff here at Sports Talk seven
to ninety
It's that time for US Astros GM.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Dana Brown joins us at this time every single week, Sean,
the floor is yours. Yeah, Dana, welcome in. Good to
have you here, first place, three games up in the division,
with you know, twenty or so to go. Dan, let
me start here. We know the injuries are obviously been
talked about all year, but from your team, for the
guys who are in uniform at this stage of the season,
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are they executing the way that you want them to
on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Look, I don't think we've been as consistent as we
could be, you know, particularly with the with the hitting.
You know, every now and then, you know our pitchers
might make a mistake. But that's the that's the game
of baseball, right and so you still have to get
out there and battle every day. You know, it's a
grind of one sixty two and you know we're still
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in first place. We're up by three games with twenty
three to go, and this group's committed to winning the
Vision and back deep into the postseason. So look, we
feel very confident. We've had them ups and downs, the
ebbs and flow of baseball, but at the end of
the day, this is a really good team and these
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guys are ready to battle.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
How good are they, Dana, Well, anyway deep in the
plass right like today? Are they a World Series caliber
team right now today? Not talent but performance?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, So think about it. So, you know, if you
were into the postseason right now, you probably would have,
you know a rotation of Brown Valdez, you know, Hobby
Air and you know the fourth spot would probably be
you know, up in the air. But then you would
have you know, a good bullpen. You know, at the
end of the day, our pen is still good even
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after losing Hater, you know, and their lineup is pretty good.
You know, you've got a chance to get Pereti's back.
I think Peretis is gonna you know, start some baseball
activity today. We're getting Myers back potentially this weekend, and
then the rest of our lineup with the Jordan actor
coming back. I mean, Jordan has been you know, really good.
You know, he's got an over five hundred on base percentage,
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you know, and he's been like six for eighteen or
whatever it is, so he's hitting over three hundred. So
you know, it's gonna take a little bit of uh
time to get you know, in sync. But I think
the boys are just around the corner. So look, we're
you know the fact that we're still three games up,
we're at this point in the season. We battled through
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all the injuries. All of that should mean something, right,
and so you've gone through an entire season with all
of those injuries, the guys that battled their way all
the way. We're still three games up and we're looking
for that hot streak to you know, to put the
nail in this thing and you know, win the division
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to get back to the posts.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And you mentioned Dana, you talked last week and about
Jordan's presence when he's in and you saw it Reard's
head last week when he got in there with day game. Uh,
he was able to pinch it sitting there and they
decided to pitch the Christian Walker and Walker delivered, right,
They made a pitching change, Walker comes up delivered. So
you saw that impact. So let me push that forward.
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If he's healthy and he's had rest for one hundred games,
why with the grind that we're talking about, and you
know what has to happen. But you know, you're smarter
baseball man than we are. But the passion of the fans,
and I'm curious what the right now, the ball's not heavy,
his legs arrested. If he's healthy, why isn't he in
the lineup every single day? Aren't we at that stage now?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, that's a good question. So this is part of
his build up, and he had one more game that
we wanted to you know, allow him the rest because
you're still you know, you're still at that build up part.
We've we've pushed them hard enough, you know, and we
we wanted to give him that one more day, probably
going to play the rest of the you know, the
rest of the season, you know, as long as he's
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still is good, but you give him that chance to
take the day off because you're still in that build
up mode. You got to remember, he didn't play for
almost four months and that's like, you know, longer than
the offseason. So you have to allow him a chance
to build up, and you don't want to reaggravate anything.
And he's been doing so well that we want to
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really you know, protect him because we're going to need
him down the stretch with those last twenty games and
in the postseason. So we don't want to take any chance,
and so we get him another day off. And now
if the plan is that, you know, we can give
him like five or six in a row, because he
is building up still and we're pushing him. We're pushing
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him pretty hard.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So are these decisions? And Dana Brown astros Jim for
his weekly visit is always grateful to have him on Dana,
is this do you guys go to Jordan say, okay,
on a daily basis, how do you feel? And I'm
sure that he is a competitor, he wants to play.
Who's making the decision how he feels daily? And the
build up is it you guys trying to prevent him
from getting in his own way? Or is it h
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I'm saying I could use another day off? Which one
is it?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, it's collective, right, So it's the first thing. It's
two things. So the first thing is you you know,
as a group, we talk and we try to put
out a plan for him in terms of coming back right,
and so we set a schedule. And then after we
set the schedule, we of course have to ask the player, hey,
how do you feel right? I feel pretty I feel
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pretty good. And so as long as he continues to
feel good, we're gonna we're gonna play them, and we're
gonna put him in the lineup. But we still have
to go by the schedule that we set and so look,
he's to the point where he's probably gonna get at
least five or six in a row, you know, but
you want to build up to that point. And you've
got to remember four months off. It's four months off. Yep.
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You know, you can be well arrested, but you still
have to get back to the build up so that
you don't you know, re injure anything. And I think
that this is the plan that we set forth.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, and this is more and micro and I I'll
always lean on you for this, and even more so
the fans that want to know. So let's say five
games in he's raking and your plan was on the
sixth game to give him a day off. And you
go to him and he says, I feel great. Does
he stay in the lineup or do you get him
that day off?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah? At that point, because it's five in a row,
you can roll with them, right, But when you're building
them up and you let them get one, then two
in a row, then three in a row, you know,
then you know, four or five in a row and
then he still feels good, and that's a good sign.
I mean, you could probably roll with it when you
give him like five in a row, but you really
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want to protect them, right, and so look, that's the
schedule we set out. I mean, you know, right, wrong
or indifferent, but you have to have some type of plan.
You know, when the guy is coming back. You just
can't throw him in the fire and say go get
up now. Look, if this is a postseason game, of course,
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, but we're getting to that point daying on a
day to day basis, you know, one series difference and
you know this, I'm not telling anything. You don't know
that all of them almost feel like single elimination games,
even with a three game lead. You know the urgency.
I'm not telling you that you don't know. So for
for me with this, go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead
and finish you go ahead?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. Yeah, the fact is there is urgency, but they're
not one run games. Right, We're up by three, and
you still have to try to stick to your you know,
your plan of how do you feel you're on' good?
What's the schedule? Okay, let's follow the schedule. So but
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right now it's to the point where we're gonna run.
We're gonna run him out five in a row and
see what it's still like.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Can you win a championship without him in the lineup
right now? At the plate?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Uh, it'd be very difficult. But you know, we always
feel like we can win. You can't say that. Look, oh,
if we lose one guy, we're cooked, right, I mean,
that's not the attitude. I remember. You know, when I
was in Atlanta, we lost a couna. You know, we
still won the World Series. You can't say, you know,
you can't say if you lose one guy, you're cooked.
But with that said, Sean, nobody wants to move their
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number one inner right.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Right, nobody, as you can tell, I want him in
the lineup every day. I'm greedy, Dana, I'm a greedy solb.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I'm as greedy as they get. I'm greedy. I'm filled
with greed when it comes to winning baseball games.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All right, let me move to another subject. We know
how good he is, but the elephant the room, and
it has to be talked about because we've seen the
movie before. You got a left hander that's so good
and fromber at the front, and we know that we've
talked about his stuff. It's elite, but emotionally at times
the headache sometimes gets in the way of his performance.
And I feel like, and I think a lot of
(08:38):
people do looking at the video and some baseball people,
that last night wasn't an accident, while there may have been,
you know, construed as wonder how they approach it after
the body language when he turned and walked, Explain to
me what you saw last night and why we should
believe that it was miscommunication as opposed to frustration.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, that's that's a great question, and you know, let's
talk about it. Right. So you got a very competitive,
very competitive farmer Valdez. He's pitching against the Yankees. He
gives up a home run, right, a grand slam that
kind of like, you know, put the game out of reach,
(09:17):
so to speak. Right, So I believe that he was
absolutely frustrated. If anybody ever played any sport and you're
a competitor, you know how competitive this game is. You know,
a competitor other sports is, you know, you get frustrated,
you get rattled, you're you're angry, and so you know
this thing's happened, and you sometimes you get so angry
(09:40):
you can't see straight, and you know he crossed them up.
You know they had a conversation after the game and
they squashed it. I don't think people understand the competitive
nature when you're chasing the panet race, you're playing the
New York Yankees, you have high drama, and you give
up a grand flat, you're down six to nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's that I told people on the thingk that haven't
been in those you know played If people only knew
the frustration that we club houses and stuff, they don't
hear about how you know, the competitive nature and getting
out It happens all the time. We just happen more
cameras and social media and you see it. So with that,
you hit it perfect. So why not why not say that,
(10:24):
why not just as frustrated we screwed up, we got
it fixed. We're competitors. It happens instead of like crossed
him up by a respect because the math doesn't add up.
And I understand the media and the way we approach it,
but why not just say that because all of our
questions are on fromber are not as any good the fans,
the questions are is the emotional wreck where he's going
to kill you in a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Look, this guy is very competitive. You cross You get
crossed up all the time. Sometimes you get so frustrated
in your mind in the heat of the battle. You're
you're you're antarticipating throwing one pitch. A guy calls another pitch,
and you're so frustrated. You you forget that what you
what was just called? That is part of the game
(11:06):
that happens all.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
The time, Dan, I know that feeling. I've got it
forgotten in my own water too.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, you get back to the line of scrimmaty. You forget.
Oh my god, this happened. And I think that the
the the I don't know why. Look, people always want
to look into different things in sports. It is the
competitive nature of players. It's the same competitor, that competitive nature.
(11:38):
It's the same competitive nature that makes you good. And
sometimes that same competitive nature could be part of what
screws up the game. It just happens. Let me and
I want to I want to just put it to bed.
You can get crossed up. It happens, you forget, it
happens like we should really not dwell on this. We
(11:59):
should move forward. This team is three games up with
twenty three to go, and they want to talk about
somebody getting crossed.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Up, and I go, yeah, and and that's been taken
care of as you said, So that squelch and in
the clubhouse, right, that's done. All right, now let me
move down.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Good. I had a conversation after the game. You know
when when you calm down, you know, we get into
arguments with our you know, siblings all the time, and
you calm down and say, hey, man, you know I
mean you say that, I'm sorry. You know, it happens, Yep,
it happens. This work human beings in the in the.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Battle, Okay, you've seen in the And I will end
on this one, Dan, And it's a great conversation and
stuff that we all need to hear. And you know,
I'm gonna ask it. And I appreciate your your your candidate,
how candid you are with it. And he's your guy,
and he's at the front of your rotation. Do you,
as a baseball guy, trust that he can handle the
emotion in a bad way in the postseason if it
(12:55):
goes sideways. Are you were you feeling about him right now.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, here, here's what it's called, Sean. This is the
this is the real deal, right. You You have these
competitors that compete in sports, and you know what it's called.
It's called the mound visit. As soon as you see
him getting a little frustrated, you head to the mound.
You go out there, you talk to them. In basketball
you call the timeout, and football you call it timeout.
(13:22):
You have to go to the mound, and you can
give them a mound visit. Ye this, look, I do not.
I do not, and I will repeat this over and
over again. I do not want to pull out the
competitive nature of farmer. It is the one thing that
makes them really good and uh competitive. Right. You don't
want to take that away from a player.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You don't want to coach it out of him, right,
I get that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Coach it out of him. However, you do have to
stay under control. So it's gonna take a mound visit.
It's gonna take hey, hey, hey, buddy, look you just
made a hell of a pitch. The guy flipped the base,
hit the right to run, score or it's over, blush it.
Let's go. We gotta get we got two outs, we
got to get the next hitter. That's what it's called.
That's what that's what it takes to be a champion.
(14:07):
And sometimes we have to read it. And it's exactly
why coaches are on top of it and they call
a time out. You know, you have you have a
twelve pitch at bat where guy files the ball off,
where the bases go to continue to file the ball off,
hits the base hit, ties the game, mound visit, win,
settle them down. That's what it's all about. And you
(14:30):
have to read the team leaves of these competitors and
sometimes it takes just a mound visit. And so let's
let's not let's not uh, you know, fall fromer for
being a competitive, mean guy that will you know, do
whatever you have to do to win. But let's keep
(14:52):
them under control. And that's the way I see it.
And I don't want to pull that competitive nature from them,
you know, I want them to continue to compete and
we'll work with them and try to get them settled
down when he gets a little frustrated. It's all a
part of the game. It's all a part of sports.
And you know, you know from looking at championships all
(15:12):
across every sport, there's always this competitor that you have
to calm down, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Hey, listen, give me a guy who's a prick on
the mound or a quarterback or a basketball player. I'm
gonna win more than i'm gonna lose. And by the way, Dana,
thanks for the candidness. Awesome. But also you guys are
still three in front first place, so we can live
with that right now, and hopefully it'll continue and you'll
take care of the Yankees. He's next few.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, three in front, and you got you know, you've
got a middle linebacker and Framburg who's pitching. Right, That's
what it is. Think about it like that.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
There you go. We appreciate you man, Good luck today,
and we'll look forward to next Wednesday's conversation. Great stuff, man,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
All right, astro fans, let's stay locked in there. You go.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's Dana Brown. We'll come back and discuss for a
quick few minutes. Great stuff here at Sports Talk seven
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