September 12, 2024 • 8 mins
Seventeen games from the postseason, the Astros still lead the AL West ahead of the Mariners. Following the last few series, the Astros have loss six of their last eight games. With Altuve leaving early yesterday and Chas placed on the IL, do the Astros still have a shot at making the postseason?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is the Sean Salisbury Show, Buffalo Bills versus Miami
Dolphins in Thursday night football in Miami.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Moon's over my Hammi's there a moon? Yeah? There will
there be a moon over my hammi tonight. You ever
had one of those? Yeah? What do you think about it?
It's all right?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Where's that is that? We don't like to get a
free pub? Right, but Dennys, Yeah, that's what that's where
the moon over Miami isn't.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Have you had you had your order? Give me the moon?
Or do you say give me the moon over Miami?
You say the whole thing? I said the whole thing. Yeah, yeah,
what can I take your order?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Would you like the moon's over my haammi? Please? Okay,
I would like that. Please? Thank you? I got you? Yeah?
Not bad, not a bad plate, you know. Yeah, it'll
do it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A pitch, yeah, and a question about it. Let's see
Astros lost six at eight, lost four in a row.
Not good and uh Jose Altuve left the game last night?
Was sig discomfort? They said discomfort?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Brian mctagger tweeted that out side discomfort.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
All right, sir, So basically that's a. Uh, well, I'm
trying to. I think it's oblique. Yeah, torn oblique?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Uh, not torn. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
But when I hear when I hear discomfort, that's the
first thing that hits egg that makes me nervous. Right,
didn't Alto they say he was okay, you're gonna be okay?
Did I think that they see that?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Did I?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You know, just in or maybe it was some an
article that said that he expect to be okay. I
don't know, but discomfort to day to day. Maybe it
was day to day not okay. I don't know, but HM,
is that basically how we're doing this. He's a he's
a day to day guy.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We actually we have some hose alt A audio him
talking about his injury.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
This is Alto after the game. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I tell you tomorre like some kind you have to
weigh until the next day and see how you feel.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, nice and brief about the truth is said, I'll
tell you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I don't like it. I don't either, especially at this
time of year.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And speaking of that timing, this is out too ve
talking about getting closer to October.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, like I said, I'm not really worried, like I said, Uh,
maybe I just wake up tomorrow and I'm good to go.
So we don't really want to take any decisions tonight
because you're not normally the injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You wait until the next day and see how you feel.
Mmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I don't know how to read that. I don't either,
But he's exactly right. Why jump to conclusions just in truth,
aren't you? We just gotta we got he does got
to see how I feel today, right, I mean, I
know that sounds so generic and cliche, but hell, can
what if he does wake up like, oh, I was
a little discom good and I can swing abat I can?
(03:03):
I would doubt because even if he does feel good,
you say, now, we got to give him a rest,
especially on it it's a day game, tay game, yah, yeah,
after a night game, and that I wouldn't expect to
see him. And the truth of the matter is, well,
it's three and a half games. That makes you, like
you said, a little nervous. But I'd rather have him
(03:23):
one hundred percent healthy in the post season than eighty
five percent healthy, now, wouldn't you play it?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
He just got a Dubond can do to fill in
and do a fine job. Yeah, so, but these can't
keep adding up. I mean, how do you keep overcoming this?
Where how many times this year have they had their
best lineup in ten games.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In a row? Eight games in a row? Maybe seems
like twice maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Okay, Yeah, I'm just caress how many times Bregman, now Tuve, Tucker,
Jordan Yer, Jiner, Dias and Payna been in the same
lineup and maybe it's twenty five or fifty, I don't know,
but just doing them mouth on Tucker's misses what he
missed almost eighty games in the seventies or whatever it was,
And you know, Bregman has missed time off and on
(04:09):
al tuo Ve has been pretty durable this year, Paynya
has been in the lineup the ither Das has played
other than what one little small what he was he
banged up for one minute this year, but it was
the last year.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't even he hadn't.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Missed many games through the injury at all, right, yeah,
just days off.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So I'm just curious how many times.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And then hell, their pitching staff, they haven't had their
you know, with with those four guys that have been
injured and stuff or five what JP Prance makes five?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's uh, and how they can continue to do this,
But what you can't have is a Tucker trying to
get right and al Twove not right because of an
injury heading into the postseason. I mean it's tough enough
overcoming Kyle Tucker and playing like they've played, but you
add a second guy to it who's not healthy. And
Tucker's still trying to round into some kind of form
where it gets his timing down that that that puts
(04:57):
you in a hell of a disadvantage, man really does.
And and Verlanders still laboring yep, I mean it puts
you in a bad way. And they're three and a
half in front of the first place, right, It's craziness,
but it's starting to get it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's at nut cutting time point, right, it really is.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, And with them being you know, just three and
a half out, like you can't afford to lose how
Jose al tuv for a couple of weeks like this
is the big stretch, seventeen eighteen games left, whatever it is,
I mean, it's it's this is like you said, it's
a nut cutting time.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, And the truth is too and you can't. While
they've played well, you still can't let them come in Oakland.
And you know they've been on a roll right, swinging
the bat and stuff, but you can't let them waltz
into your building and take three from it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You can't get this, You just can't. You have to
find a way to win.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I don't care if I don't care if it's Baltimore
else and they didn't and they've played well against good
teams now, the way the A's are playing, If the
A's played like this all year long, they're a playoff team. Yeah,
I mean, matter of fact, not only a playoff team.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
They're battling there.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
If they played like this the whole year, you're looking
at a whole they may be the one. It's not
Seattle dealing with the Astros, right, the way they've played
now to sustain it for a full year and all
that stuff, But they've done some and they're disrupting the division.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
If you're not gonna make it, don't you want to
just say, well, they will just man handle everybody and
just keep We'll go into the postseason and leave Oakland
feeling pretty damn good. Where they're playing a Sacramento next year,
all right, So the fact that they just you know,
play their ass off and the Astros, you just can't.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It wouldn't matter.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
But the Astros have been really good against good teams,
and at this stage you would consider the A's a
good team. So I can't fathom that the way the
A's have played the Astros. Waltzon here, I mean, came
home and thought this will be easy, right after their
previous series and like, oh we got this. Well yeah,
I would imagine you got it, but now the series
is over, meaning you lose the series. Now you got
(06:49):
to salvage a game and three and a half's a
little too close for comfort.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And didn't we see this movie last year? Yeah? And
it was now this was going on.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Where you're like, how are we losing to these teams?
And then you go win five out of six to
get in. But same movie, similar circumstances.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You get them.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
See the Mariners, you just you're seeing the A's now
the Mariners will don't the Arizona Diamondbacks they got them
when they've already got them with Arizona. They don't get
him again, right, No, they don't. Just had them this time.
So they got San die Diego. Are they getting the
Rangers anymore? They they got the Rangers again. Oh no,
I'm sorry, they're done with the Rangers. They have LA
two more times and then the Angels. They've got the
Dodgers Angels. Sorry, so Angels, Angels, Mariner it. So it
(07:27):
goes Oakland today, yep.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Then three with Los Angeles Angels, then three with San Diego,
four with Los Angeles, three with Seattle, three with Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So seven more with the Angels. Yes, favorable, Yeah, favorable.
Well we thought favorable with the open. That's exactly right.
That's the problem paper it says favorable, right, Yeah, they
got to figured out man and losing uh, losing Jose
al Tova for a couple of weeks or whatever. Hopefully
it's not that bad. It's not gonna it's not gonna
(07:57):
help to make it easy.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Joe spot Of spoke about the law and the team
being banged up. We'll hear it and discuss next right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is the Sean Salisbury Show, Buffalo Bills versus Miami
Dolphins in Thursday night football in Miami.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Moon's over my Hammi's there a moon? Yeah? There will
there be a moon over my hammi tonight. You ever
had one of those? Yeah? What do you think about it?
It's all right?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Where's that is that? We don't like to get a
free pub? Right, but Dennys, Yeah, that's what that's where
the moon over Miami isn't.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Have you had you had your order? Give me the moon?
Or do you say give me the moon over Miami?
You say the whole thing? I said the whole thing. Yeah, yeah,
what can I take your order?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Would you like the moon's over my haammi? Please? Okay,
I would like that. Please? Thank you? I got you? Yeah?
Not bad, not a bad plate, you know. Yeah, it'll
do it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A pitch, yeah, and a question about it. Let's see
Astros lost six at eight, lost four in a row.
Not good and uh Jose Altuve left the game last night?
Was sig discomfort? They said discomfort?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Brian mctagger tweeted that out side discomfort.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
All right, sir, So basically that's a. Uh, well, I'm
trying to. I think it's oblique. Yeah, torn oblique?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Uh, not torn. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
But when I hear when I hear discomfort, that's the
first thing that hits egg that makes me nervous. Right,
didn't Alto they say he was okay, you're gonna be okay?
Did I think that they see that?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Did I?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You know, just in or maybe it was some an
article that said that he expect to be okay. I
don't know, but discomfort to day to day. Maybe it
was day to day not okay. I don't know, but HM,
is that basically how we're doing this. He's a he's
a day to day guy.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We actually we have some hose alt A audio him
talking about his injury.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
This is Alto after the game. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I tell you tomorre like some kind you have to
weigh until the next day and see how you feel.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, nice and brief about the truth is said, I'll
tell you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I don't like it. I don't either, especially at this
time of year.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And speaking of that timing, this is out too ve
talking about getting closer to October.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, like I said, I'm not really worried, like I said, Uh,
maybe I just wake up tomorrow and I'm good to go.
So we don't really want to take any decisions tonight
because you're not normally the injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You wait until the next day and see how you feel.
Mmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I don't know how to read that. I don't either,
But he's exactly right. Why jump to conclusions just in truth,
aren't you? We just gotta we got he does got
to see how I feel today, right, I mean, I
know that sounds so generic and cliche, but hell, can
what if he does wake up like, oh, I was
a little discom good and I can swing abat I can?
(03:03):
I would doubt because even if he does feel good,
you say, now, we got to give him a rest,
especially on it it's a day game, tay game, yah, yeah,
after a night game, and that I wouldn't expect to
see him. And the truth of the matter is, well,
it's three and a half games. That makes you, like
you said, a little nervous. But I'd rather have him
(03:23):
one hundred percent healthy in the post season than eighty
five percent healthy, now, wouldn't you play it?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
He just got a Dubond can do to fill in
and do a fine job. Yeah, so, but these can't
keep adding up. I mean, how do you keep overcoming this?
Where how many times this year have they had their
best lineup in ten games.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In a row? Eight games in a row? Maybe seems
like twice maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Okay, Yeah, I'm just caress how many times Bregman, now Tuve, Tucker,
Jordan Yer, Jiner, Dias and Payna been in the same
lineup and maybe it's twenty five or fifty, I don't know,
but just doing them mouth on Tucker's misses what he
missed almost eighty games in the seventies or whatever it was,
And you know, Bregman has missed time off and on
(04:09):
al tuo Ve has been pretty durable this year, Paynya
has been in the lineup the ither Das has played
other than what one little small what he was he
banged up for one minute this year, but it was
the last year.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't even he hadn't.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Missed many games through the injury at all, right, yeah,
just days off.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So I'm just curious how many times.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And then hell, their pitching staff, they haven't had their
you know, with with those four guys that have been
injured and stuff or five what JP Prance makes five?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's uh, and how they can continue to do this,
But what you can't have is a Tucker trying to
get right and al Twove not right because of an
injury heading into the postseason. I mean it's tough enough
overcoming Kyle Tucker and playing like they've played, but you
add a second guy to it who's not healthy. And
Tucker's still trying to round into some kind of form
where it gets his timing down that that that puts
(04:57):
you in a hell of a disadvantage, man really does.
And and Verlanders still laboring yep, I mean it puts
you in a bad way. And they're three and a
half in front of the first place, right, It's craziness,
but it's starting to get it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's at nut cutting time point, right, it really is.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, And with them being you know, just three and
a half out, like you can't afford to lose how
Jose al tuv for a couple of weeks like this
is the big stretch, seventeen eighteen games left, whatever it is,
I mean, it's it's this is like you said, it's
a nut cutting time.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, And the truth is too and you can't. While
they've played well, you still can't let them come in Oakland.
And you know they've been on a roll right, swinging
the bat and stuff, but you can't let them waltz
into your building and take three from it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You can't get this, You just can't. You have to
find a way to win.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I don't care if I don't care if it's Baltimore
else and they didn't and they've played well against good
teams now, the way the A's are playing, If the
A's played like this all year long, they're a playoff team. Yeah,
I mean, matter of fact, not only a playoff team.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
They're battling there.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
If they played like this the whole year, you're looking
at a whole they may be the one. It's not
Seattle dealing with the Astros, right, the way they've played
now to sustain it for a full year and all
that stuff, But they've done some and they're disrupting the division.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
If you're not gonna make it, don't you want to
just say, well, they will just man handle everybody and
just keep We'll go into the postseason and leave Oakland
feeling pretty damn good. Where they're playing a Sacramento next year,
all right, So the fact that they just you know,
play their ass off and the Astros, you just can't.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It wouldn't matter.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
But the Astros have been really good against good teams,
and at this stage you would consider the A's a
good team. So I can't fathom that the way the
A's have played the Astros. Waltzon here, I mean, came
home and thought this will be easy, right after their
previous series and like, oh we got this. Well yeah,
I would imagine you got it, but now the series
is over, meaning you lose the series. Now you got
(06:49):
to salvage a game and three and a half's a
little too close for comfort.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And didn't we see this movie last year? Yeah? And
it was now this was going on.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Where you're like, how are we losing to these teams?
And then you go win five out of six to
get in. But same movie, similar circumstances.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You get them.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
See the Mariners, you just you're seeing the A's now
the Mariners will don't the Arizona Diamondbacks they got them
when they've already got them with Arizona. They don't get
him again, right, No, they don't. Just had them this time.
So they got San die Diego. Are they getting the
Rangers anymore? They they got the Rangers again. Oh no,
I'm sorry, they're done with the Rangers. They have LA
two more times and then the Angels. They've got the
Dodgers Angels. Sorry, so Angels, Angels, Mariner it. So it
(07:27):
goes Oakland today, yep.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Then three with Los Angeles Angels, then three with San Diego,
four with Los Angeles, three with Seattle, three with Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So seven more with the Angels. Yes, favorable, Yeah, favorable.
Well we thought favorable with the open. That's exactly right.
That's the problem paper it says favorable, right, Yeah, they
got to figured out man and losing uh, losing Jose
al Tova for a couple of weeks or whatever. Hopefully
it's not that bad. It's not gonna it's not gonna
(07:57):
help to make it easy.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Joe spot Of spoke about the law and the team
being banged up. We'll hear it and discuss next right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety
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