September 5, 2024 • 13 mins
Suffering a brutal loss yesterday, the Astros fall tremendously to the Reds 12-5. With Spencer Arrighetti on the bump for the Astros he allowed six hits, nine runs; all earned and gave up a homer all just in the first inning. Has Spencer reached his peak, as the Astros aim to make the postseason?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Sulbrey. Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sewn Salisbury, there to usc truths, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is the Seawan Salisbury show.
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Last night, Spencer Arighetty two thirds of an inning, they
lose twelve to five. Day gamer today, trying to avoid
the sweep.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That was good morning, good morning, good morning. NFL season
starts tonight, Does it? Really?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It does?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I thought it was last show. Well, this was last
week of preseason. Forget the headlines. We've got two of them.
Astros lose. NFL season starts tonight and Kyle Tucker didn't play.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, he's not named yet.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Can we go back? I thought it was one more
preseason game. Does the NFL starts this week tonight? Oh?
We got a game tonight tonight. Yeah, I'll be watching
Boulden Greenbirst Slippery Rocks.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So you do you do?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You? What's the line on that, sir? The Lion Snake?
That's the over under on how many points are gonna
score the whole year? No, I'm kidding. Why do I
always Why do I gotta be Why do I gotta
throw strays at Slippery.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Slippery Rocks like a top ten FBS team too. I
got a crazy I love the Rock every year love slip.
Maybe that's why I like the name.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hey, where'd you go? I went to Slippery Rock? Think
about that? You like the oh the soul Ross State Universe.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It makes sense.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I think they should name it the Slippery Rock. No
you can't, No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Back to these astros. I think what happened in the
clubhouse before the game. They said, Spencer your thrown batting
practice today, so a little be peace hun That doesn't
bode well with our conch. That argument of who's going
to be in your rotation, well, well I'm talking about
rotation in the postseason. That listen. One off's happened. He's
(01:52):
been pitching fantastic, but we got a judge what we
saw yesterday and.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He couldn't have got you and me out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No, it really, I mean boom, home run, boom, double boom,
and that damn Dela Cruz. You think he can run,
he's pretty good. Yeah, he'll do in a pinch. What's
he sixty plus stolen bases this year?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Already? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think when I say already, noone pushing sixty five
or seventy something like that. Yeah, but just he couldn't
get out of Every ball that was hit was hit hard.
And you know, when you're down nine to nothing, you
spot a team nine runs in Little League three innings later,
we'd mercy rule their ass, right they got they'd have
got mercy ruled yesterday. Sixty two stolen bases for Eli
de la Cruz. Yeah, they'd have got mercy ruled yesterday.
(02:32):
It was not good. It was it was ugly, you know.
And I was saying on Fox this morning with Nate,
I said, they throw out you know, if they throw
out that first you know, on like a professor, high
school teacher and say hey, listen, we're gonna throw out
your worst.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That was a bad first hitting, which led to a
twelve five ass whooping that they took. They haven't beat
Cincinnati since, would they say, twenty sixteen?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Twenty sixteen?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, now, and George Foster, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan
don't play for them anymore so eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yes, it is, thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They don't play the old school nineteen times a year
like they used to it a couple of years ago
in the division, right, so, and that they're in the
National League makes it a good thing. But they listen Cincinnati,
and you know what's crazy for a good team, it's
it's almost disheartening. Maybe they're all ready for Joe Burrow
in the Bengals, but when you see the stands, yeah's
nobody there. No so I'm sitting there if i'm Teams
(03:23):
now start giving tickets away and for in one dollar
hot dogs every single game to get some people to
the ballpark. But it's it's kind of disheartening.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Seventeen thousand fans in attendance last night to watch it,
and honestly looked like it was like seventy fans.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's it. Did it really did so? But it wasn't good.
It wasn't good. The pitching was Spencer Arraghetti. I mean
it was you think, okay, lead off home run, who
that happens? Yeah, but anything, man, it didn't matter what
pitch he threw. They hammered it. So they happen. Hopefully
today the roles will be reversed. Really hard to spot
some many nine runs and expect to go win. But
(03:57):
the bigger picture is as good as he's been. You
know what happens if you're a manager, I think, or
us or anybody. Your first thought is, man, what a
rookie year Spencer Raghety's had and what a run he's
on with these deep getting deep into games and all
this swinging myth and you think, okay, and the temptation
of this rookie's not he's no mentally and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He's not a rookie and he gets people out.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Then when you see what happened yesterday, and although it
was what two thirds of an inning? Two thirds he
and I'm sitting there watching it, I'm like, okay, eating
some Mexicansloys says, this are you going to get out
of this? Is it that ground ball going to hit somebody?
You know, go to somebody and found every every ounce
of grass you could find. But my thought was, if
you're in that judgment phase now, and you are, if
(04:43):
you're the front office, and if you're a Joe Espota
in the pitching, who you trust, come five and a
half game, then the Mariners wins down to five and
a half. I think yesterday I think that I think
so I didn't pay attention to the marinath I think
the Meritors won.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I know the Rangers won. They walked off. So you
go win the divisions, right, you go win the division?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, but don't you always go back to with all
the good stuff. There's got to be a part of
you if you're a manager that says, what if? Yeah,
you know what I mean? Now, game like this is
one when you had that rotation. If Ronell Blanco was
in the bullpen and this was postseason, he's in, he's
pitching in the second inning, right, or you go get
a bullpen guy, get him out, let him get loose
(05:20):
in a normal routine, and then it's like he started
the game. But you're trying to figure out who you trust,
and I trust vincon Araghetty. But the question is in
single elimination type and playoff you know series? All right,
I'll ask you this, Verlander or aarragedty postseason, if it
came to one of those two, you know where you're going?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Not, because now that's when performance and experience yesterday makes
you think, that's why I got to go back to
the forty one year old, right if it was between
those two. So I just and I'm not bearing it
at all. I am so impressed with this kid's makeup.
But yesterday wasn't it. And when you're thinking about the postseason,
those things come into play. When you think about that,
(05:59):
you say, oh, there's no doubt. Now Cokuchi's our third
guy right in the Poston. You start to roll through
those things in your head. But Spencer Araghetty needs to
apologize to know one other than get back to work
because in five or six days he's gonna have to
do it again.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Two thirds of inning, six hits, niner and runs, no strikeouts,
three walks. And it's not like, you know, he went
out there and gave up a couple of bloop hits there,
you know, a couple of line drives. I mean, dude,
he got barreled and barreled and barreled and barreled. Double
(06:33):
home run or home run double fielder's choice. I mean
it just it did not matter. Nine spot and plus
on top of it, the defense for the Astros last
night was atrocious.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Jeremy pania Is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Has not been a very good shortstop defensively over the
last fifteen games. I think he's got seven errors something
like that. Well, for a guy that want to gold glove,
it just doesn't stop there. His start to this season,
what's the first thing he thought of? Superstar?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He worked on you know those pitches he was chasing
on non competitive strikes or balls last year, right pitch.
And then you started through most of the season like,
this guy's raking. When you look at the numbers, he's
two sixty nine, fifteen home runs and built. You know what,
I'm gonna say it as loud as I can, because
I love the guy. You got to have more production
(07:27):
from him in the field without quest would it looks
like the way he's been playing for you know? You
know the guy who puts from four feet, who's who's
been a great putter, and all of a sudden he
wakes up one day, goes out there and misses a
four footer and gets the yips, And then you say,
this dude couldn't put it into a manhole from four
feet and if it's a major he's rolling at eighteen
feet by. He looks like the guy when you're in
(07:50):
when you're in little league baseball, you say, let's put
the guy at shortstop, and a guy goes out there's like, well, okay,
I'm athe, but I've never played the position.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, and it feels it looks for to him.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
There's nothing smooth about him right when it comes, and
this guy's smooth and great glove doesn't make many airs
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's been a struggle.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And when you're hitting two sixty nine, I'm starting to wonder,
is that who Jeremy Paine is? Is that where he's
gonna live with that batting average? But with his build,
if you're gonna hit two sixty nine, I need more
pop than fifteen home runs, don't you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, he's had let's see my goodness, excuse me, since
in August he had Uh, he's got eighteen airs so
far this season.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I hate to say.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Unacceptable, Yeah for him, especially who's got a great arm,
phenomenal hands, big range he got.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I mean, he can do it all.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I start to wonder if at the plate or
in the field is affecting one of the other. Is
the field I mean? And he started to pick it
up with his bat a little bit, right. I mean,
he's had a he was having a really good season
early on with the not chasing bad pitches and looking
like he last year was I thought a step back
(09:04):
plate discipline, you feel me? I thought his plate discipline
was better the first two and a half two and
two thirds of the season, or at least half of it.
But I you know, you start to wonder, are the
airs affecting the next play for him? You know, we've
talked about being able to get over it because this
is unlike him. It's almost like every every every other
game you expect a throwing or a fielding air right now,
(09:25):
and that is not him. But if they don't start
defending the baseball, you got problems.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Actually, the Reds official score did not give him an
air last night, even though I feel like it was
a routine play.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Regardless, that didn't give an air. But for him, that
is a routine that that's where you're judging. The play
has got to be made right.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But he is.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He's You're gonna have to count on him in the postseason, brother,
And we know what his postseason chops look like, at
least his rookie year fantastic, right, But he got to
get back to being smooth, you know, slick fielding and
doing all the things he does. And probably we still
need a little more pop at the plate from him,
and we also need to get Jeff Bagwell out of
(10:04):
the broadcast booth sound down? Why do you punish yourself
like that? I enjoy listening to Todd cast, I know,
but if you don't, if it's if it's fingernails on
a chalkboard for you, Just turn the sound down, buddy.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Just listening, you know, just turn the sound down, open
the window, listen to nature while the astros get their
ass kick last.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Night, and who would want to listen to the sound
and I mean after the first inning, Yeah, you can
keep after the first inning, You're like, keep yourself busy.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Watch it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's like I'm gonna just look over my shoulder watch
I'm gonna keep it. You know how when you're doing something,
you keep the TV on for for the company.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Right, that's what that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Was yesterday last night they did their their like the
Space City Home Network did their whole uh what is it?
Ask the booth Wednesday, right, you tweet the hashtag or
whatever and then they ask so of course, with Jeff
bag will be in a Hall of Famer, a lot
of people wanted to talk about his you know, his
career and things like that. There was like three questions
(11:05):
that Todd Kallis asked him from viewers and like Jeff
bag was like, Oh, I don't know. I don't even
remember that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I don't know. I don't I don't know, I don't
even I don't know. Is that what he said?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, It's like, bro, yes, you do give us some context.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Answer the damn question.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Hans Hans while you're on the broadcast. Yeah, to share
insight we don't have.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's like, come on, man.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In the amount of times he cuts off, Todd kallis like, dude,
get this man out of the booth. I understand everything
he's done for the organization, everything he's done in his
career as a player. O, my god, you don't have
to put You don't have to put every Hall of
Famer or every ex player in the booth.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Some of them, when you put him in the booth,
it almost loses their player luster, which is unfair to
them because like, wait a minute, you you kind of
now you're starting in this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Since I've been here.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Whenever Bagwell goes on, huh, I didn't know because I'm
like I want to hear Jeff Bagwell, No you don't.
But this is like they're like beside himself when he
goes on Talk Baseball and it's all when you hear
people talk. They don't like him as a personnel guy,
they don't like him as a broadcast. They just wanted
to play first base and hit. Yeah, but what's crazy.
But after all this, I'll ask you what did you
answers when we get back so we can get to
(12:20):
break out. What did you expect you? I mean, I'm
talking about what you've heard now. Did you expect like
a full change over that he was going to come
all excitement? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, you're right on that one.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's probably just me being's.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I think that's who Jeff is, right, a little understated,
that kind of goes about his business, and you're not
going to get a whole lot of John Smoltz inside.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's dog, Suck it up, dog, it's on me. That's
why I listened to Robert Ford and Steve Sparks. Bobby Ford. Hey,
we got a loaded show today, do we we did?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
We mean, you know, for a guy that loves football,
you want to talk baseball for the for the next
four hours?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes, you do? I do. I don't. I don't know
if I can create enough topics.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I don't really want to talk baseball because after the
first hitting baseball went out the window yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We got Texans predictions, we got NFL predictions for them
to We have division winners, We've got a FC title,
NFC titles, super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
We are loaded. You're basically saying up any respect on
the NFL. You're not.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You're not, and it's sad. It makes me and TRIPLEY upset.
I'm gonna speak for Tripley as well. So we got
to get the break because we will continue to.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Talk about the okay shot home.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Let's go to a Gruss stalk Astros and Spence Spencer
Righetty got lit up last night.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Uh, let's look a little more into that outing. That's next.
Sulbrey. Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sewn Salisbury, there to usc truths, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is the Seawan Salisbury show.
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Last night, Spencer Arighetty two thirds of an inning, they
lose twelve to five. Day gamer today, trying to avoid
the sweep.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That was good morning, good morning, good morning. NFL season
starts tonight, Does it? Really?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It does?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I thought it was last show. Well, this was last
week of preseason. Forget the headlines. We've got two of them.
Astros lose. NFL season starts tonight and Kyle Tucker didn't play.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, he's not named yet.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Can we go back? I thought it was one more
preseason game. Does the NFL starts this week tonight? Oh?
We got a game tonight tonight. Yeah, I'll be watching
Boulden Greenbirst Slippery Rocks.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So you do you do?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You? What's the line on that, sir? The Lion Snake?
That's the over under on how many points are gonna
score the whole year? No, I'm kidding. Why do I
always Why do I gotta be Why do I gotta
throw strays at Slippery.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Slippery Rocks like a top ten FBS team too. I
got a crazy I love the Rock every year love slip.
Maybe that's why I like the name.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hey, where'd you go? I went to Slippery Rock? Think
about that? You like the oh the soul Ross State Universe.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It makes sense.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I think they should name it the Slippery Rock. No
you can't, No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Back to these astros. I think what happened in the
clubhouse before the game. They said, Spencer your thrown batting
practice today, so a little be peace hun That doesn't
bode well with our conch. That argument of who's going
to be in your rotation, well, well I'm talking about
rotation in the postseason. That listen. One off's happened. He's
(01:52):
been pitching fantastic, but we got a judge what we
saw yesterday and.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He couldn't have got you and me out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No, it really, I mean boom, home run, boom, double boom,
and that damn Dela Cruz. You think he can run,
he's pretty good. Yeah, he'll do in a pinch. What's
he sixty plus stolen bases this year?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Already? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think when I say already, noone pushing sixty five
or seventy something like that. Yeah, but just he couldn't
get out of Every ball that was hit was hit hard.
And you know, when you're down nine to nothing, you
spot a team nine runs in Little League three innings later,
we'd mercy rule their ass, right they got they'd have
got mercy ruled yesterday. Sixty two stolen bases for Eli
de la Cruz. Yeah, they'd have got mercy ruled yesterday.
(02:32):
It was not good. It was it was ugly, you know.
And I was saying on Fox this morning with Nate,
I said, they throw out you know, if they throw
out that first you know, on like a professor, high
school teacher and say hey, listen, we're gonna throw out
your worst.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That was a bad first hitting, which led to a
twelve five ass whooping that they took. They haven't beat
Cincinnati since, would they say, twenty sixteen?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Twenty sixteen?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, now, and George Foster, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan
don't play for them anymore so eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yes, it is, thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They don't play the old school nineteen times a year
like they used to it a couple of years ago
in the division, right, so, and that they're in the
National League makes it a good thing. But they listen Cincinnati,
and you know what's crazy for a good team, it's
it's almost disheartening. Maybe they're all ready for Joe Burrow
in the Bengals, but when you see the stands, yeah's
nobody there. No so I'm sitting there if i'm Teams
(03:23):
now start giving tickets away and for in one dollar
hot dogs every single game to get some people to
the ballpark. But it's it's kind of disheartening.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Seventeen thousand fans in attendance last night to watch it,
and honestly looked like it was like seventy fans.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's it. Did it really did so? But it wasn't good.
It wasn't good. The pitching was Spencer Arraghetti. I mean
it was you think, okay, lead off home run, who
that happens? Yeah, but anything, man, it didn't matter what
pitch he threw. They hammered it. So they happen. Hopefully
today the roles will be reversed. Really hard to spot
some many nine runs and expect to go win. But
(03:57):
the bigger picture is as good as he's been. You
know what happens if you're a manager, I think, or
us or anybody. Your first thought is, man, what a
rookie year Spencer Raghety's had and what a run he's
on with these deep getting deep into games and all
this swinging myth and you think, okay, and the temptation
of this rookie's not he's no mentally and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He's not a rookie and he gets people out.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Then when you see what happened yesterday, and although it
was what two thirds of an inning? Two thirds he
and I'm sitting there watching it, I'm like, okay, eating
some Mexicansloys says, this are you going to get out
of this? Is it that ground ball going to hit somebody?
You know, go to somebody and found every every ounce
of grass you could find. But my thought was, if
you're in that judgment phase now, and you are, if
(04:43):
you're the front office, and if you're a Joe Espota
in the pitching, who you trust, come five and a
half game, then the Mariners wins down to five and
a half. I think yesterday I think that I think
so I didn't pay attention to the marinath I think
the Meritors won.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I know the Rangers won. They walked off. So you
go win the divisions, right, you go win the division?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, but don't you always go back to with all
the good stuff. There's got to be a part of
you if you're a manager that says, what if? Yeah,
you know what I mean? Now, game like this is
one when you had that rotation. If Ronell Blanco was
in the bullpen and this was postseason, he's in, he's
pitching in the second inning, right, or you go get
a bullpen guy, get him out, let him get loose
(05:20):
in a normal routine, and then it's like he started
the game. But you're trying to figure out who you trust,
and I trust vincon Araghetty. But the question is in
single elimination type and playoff you know series? All right,
I'll ask you this, Verlander or aarragedty postseason, if it
came to one of those two, you know where you're going?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Not, because now that's when performance and experience yesterday makes
you think, that's why I got to go back to
the forty one year old, right if it was between
those two. So I just and I'm not bearing it
at all. I am so impressed with this kid's makeup.
But yesterday wasn't it. And when you're thinking about the postseason,
those things come into play. When you think about that,
(05:59):
you say, oh, there's no doubt. Now Cokuchi's our third
guy right in the Poston. You start to roll through
those things in your head. But Spencer Araghetty needs to
apologize to know one other than get back to work
because in five or six days he's gonna have to
do it again.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Two thirds of inning, six hits, niner and runs, no strikeouts,
three walks. And it's not like, you know, he went
out there and gave up a couple of bloop hits there,
you know, a couple of line drives. I mean, dude,
he got barreled and barreled and barreled and barreled. Double
(06:33):
home run or home run double fielder's choice. I mean
it just it did not matter. Nine spot and plus
on top of it, the defense for the Astros last
night was atrocious.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Jeremy pania Is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Has not been a very good shortstop defensively over the
last fifteen games. I think he's got seven errors something
like that. Well, for a guy that want to gold glove,
it just doesn't stop there. His start to this season,
what's the first thing he thought of? Superstar?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He worked on you know those pitches he was chasing
on non competitive strikes or balls last year, right pitch.
And then you started through most of the season like,
this guy's raking. When you look at the numbers, he's
two sixty nine, fifteen home runs and built. You know what,
I'm gonna say it as loud as I can, because
I love the guy. You got to have more production
(07:27):
from him in the field without quest would it looks
like the way he's been playing for you know? You
know the guy who puts from four feet, who's who's
been a great putter, and all of a sudden he
wakes up one day, goes out there and misses a
four footer and gets the yips, And then you say,
this dude couldn't put it into a manhole from four
feet and if it's a major he's rolling at eighteen
feet by. He looks like the guy when you're in
(07:50):
when you're in little league baseball, you say, let's put
the guy at shortstop, and a guy goes out there's like, well, okay,
I'm athe, but I've never played the position.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, and it feels it looks for to him.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
There's nothing smooth about him right when it comes, and
this guy's smooth and great glove doesn't make many airs
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's been a struggle.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And when you're hitting two sixty nine, I'm starting to wonder,
is that who Jeremy Paine is? Is that where he's
gonna live with that batting average? But with his build,
if you're gonna hit two sixty nine, I need more
pop than fifteen home runs, don't you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, he's had let's see my goodness, excuse me, since
in August he had Uh, he's got eighteen airs so
far this season.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I hate to say.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Unacceptable, Yeah for him, especially who's got a great arm,
phenomenal hands, big range he got.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I mean, he can do it all.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I start to wonder if at the plate or
in the field is affecting one of the other. Is
the field I mean? And he started to pick it
up with his bat a little bit, right. I mean,
he's had a he was having a really good season
early on with the not chasing bad pitches and looking
like he last year was I thought a step back
(09:04):
plate discipline, you feel me? I thought his plate discipline
was better the first two and a half two and
two thirds of the season, or at least half of it.
But I you know, you start to wonder, are the
airs affecting the next play for him? You know, we've
talked about being able to get over it because this
is unlike him. It's almost like every every every other
game you expect a throwing or a fielding air right now,
(09:25):
and that is not him. But if they don't start
defending the baseball, you got problems.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Actually, the Reds official score did not give him an
air last night, even though I feel like it was
a routine play.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Regardless, that didn't give an air. But for him, that
is a routine that that's where you're judging. The play
has got to be made right.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But he is.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He's You're gonna have to count on him in the postseason, brother,
And we know what his postseason chops look like, at
least his rookie year fantastic, right, But he got to
get back to being smooth, you know, slick fielding and
doing all the things he does. And probably we still
need a little more pop at the plate from him,
and we also need to get Jeff Bagwell out of
(10:04):
the broadcast booth sound down? Why do you punish yourself
like that? I enjoy listening to Todd cast, I know,
but if you don't, if it's if it's fingernails on
a chalkboard for you, Just turn the sound down, buddy.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Just listening, you know, just turn the sound down, open
the window, listen to nature while the astros get their
ass kick last.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Night, and who would want to listen to the sound
and I mean after the first inning, Yeah, you can
keep after the first inning, You're like, keep yourself busy.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Watch it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's like I'm gonna just look over my shoulder watch
I'm gonna keep it. You know how when you're doing something,
you keep the TV on for for the company.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Right, that's what that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Was yesterday last night they did their their like the
Space City Home Network did their whole uh what is it?
Ask the booth Wednesday, right, you tweet the hashtag or
whatever and then they ask so of course, with Jeff
bag will be in a Hall of Famer, a lot
of people wanted to talk about his you know, his
career and things like that. There was like three questions
(11:05):
that Todd Kallis asked him from viewers and like Jeff
bag was like, Oh, I don't know. I don't even
remember that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I don't know. I don't I don't know, I don't
even I don't know. Is that what he said?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, It's like, bro, yes, you do give us some context.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Answer the damn question.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Hans Hans while you're on the broadcast. Yeah, to share
insight we don't have.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's like, come on, man.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In the amount of times he cuts off, Todd kallis like, dude,
get this man out of the booth. I understand everything
he's done for the organization, everything he's done in his
career as a player. O, my god, you don't have
to put You don't have to put every Hall of
Famer or every ex player in the booth.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Some of them, when you put him in the booth,
it almost loses their player luster, which is unfair to
them because like, wait a minute, you you kind of
now you're starting in this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Since I've been here.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Whenever Bagwell goes on, huh, I didn't know because I'm
like I want to hear Jeff Bagwell, No you don't.
But this is like they're like beside himself when he
goes on Talk Baseball and it's all when you hear
people talk. They don't like him as a personnel guy,
they don't like him as a broadcast. They just wanted
to play first base and hit. Yeah, but what's crazy.
But after all this, I'll ask you what did you
answers when we get back so we can get to
(12:20):
break out. What did you expect you? I mean, I'm
talking about what you've heard now. Did you expect like
a full change over that he was going to come
all excitement? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, you're right on that one.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's probably just me being's.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I think that's who Jeff is, right, a little understated,
that kind of goes about his business, and you're not
going to get a whole lot of John Smoltz inside.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's dog, Suck it up, dog, it's on me. That's
why I listened to Robert Ford and Steve Sparks. Bobby Ford. Hey,
we got a loaded show today, do we we did?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
We mean, you know, for a guy that loves football,
you want to talk baseball for the for the next
four hours?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes, you do? I do. I don't. I don't know
if I can create enough topics.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I don't really want to talk baseball because after the
first hitting baseball went out the window yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We got Texans predictions, we got NFL predictions for them
to We have division winners, We've got a FC title,
NFC titles, super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
We are loaded. You're basically saying up any respect on
the NFL. You're not.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You're not, and it's sad. It makes me and TRIPLEY upset.
I'm gonna speak for Tripley as well. So we got
to get the break because we will continue to.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Talk about the okay shot home.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Let's go to a Gruss stalk Astros and Spence Spencer
Righetty got lit up last night.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Uh, let's look a little more into that outing. That's next.
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