August 4, 2025 • 13 mins
With the deadline now behind us, the Astros seem to have collapsed a bit coming out of the MLB's legal tampering period, now having lost 8 of their last 10 games. Replenishing depth in most aspects on the field and aiming to pinpoint a few lingering issues still, following the All-Star break and deadline, Steve joins Sean and Dan discussing the Astros' dreadful weekend in Boston along with some things to be mindful of as we course through the season's schedule.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed it is. It's the eight o'clock hour here on
a Monday, Astros Lusory straight to the Red Sox on
their way to Miami, and we're joined for our weekly
eight o'clock visit with Steve Sparks, who's on the road.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Too.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Great to have him with the Steve. Thanks, give me
your first initial thoughts when the trade deadline ended. What
you thought, my man, and welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you very much. I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You know, getting Carrea back obviously energize the team. Is
going to be a Gold Glove third baseman at some
point in his career. I'm pretty certain of that. As
natural as he looks at that position, I think going forward,
you know, you look at that trade and not to
even talk about Hazeus Sanchez and what he's going to
mean with the balance and the lineup, Andrius and his versatility,
(00:45):
but I think you're going to have an opportunity next year,
you know, with Paradis coming back, Correa Payana or Rius Dubon,
all these guys, you're going to have a chance to
get these guys a little more fresh throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That was one thing I was.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Worried about a little bit with so many guys, with
how Tuvey and Paynya and Walker and camp Smith, all
these guys playing so much that I thought it started
to wear them down. So getting more versatility and more
guys in the mix, I think the Astros will be
able to prosper and get guys off the feet.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
A little bit to keep them more fresh and productive.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, Steven didn't with this trade deadline, didn't they? I mean,
you talk about needs, and we talk about this in
the NFL draft all time. Oh you draft best available
or need. You needed a third basement and a star
bringing back your leadership. You get Korea. You needed a
left handed hitting outfielder who cats pop and can play
every day, you got him. You got a versatile infielder
who's a Gold Glove guy too. I mean, they pretty much.
It'd been nice to get a Dylan Ceese. But in truth,
(01:46):
with these guys coming back, what part of the deadline
wasn't good Other than the three losses to the Red Sox,
they got better, as Dana Brown's goals been.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's right, they did.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They got better and that's all you're hoping for. And
it sounded like that the price on starting pitching and
even relievers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Just was just didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You know, you aren't gonna, you know, mortgage your future
just to just to get a guy for a couple
of months.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And it just didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And the Astros are gonna almost have Christmas every four
or five days in August, it seems like, with so
many guys coming back, and so why would you mortgage
the future? With Arraghetti and Javier and Garcia and JP
France and Jordan. There's probably another one or two in
there too. They're gonna get Jake Myers. You know, they're
(02:34):
gonna get guys coming back, and that's the good news,
you know. And they're gonna be able to plug and play.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And match up.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And I think when you go into the postseason, you
know you're looking at all, right, what does our bullpen
look like?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And what does our bench look like?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And I think the Astros are going to be looking
really good and both of those areas going into the postseason.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I think that's what Joe Spotta wants more than anything.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And you talked about both of those, Steve, don't they
both of those with now post deadline and going into
it sands the Red Sox series, but both of those
are World Series tight. They've got a World Series bullpen here,
do they not?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
They do? They do? They've got versatility, and you go.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
In right death too.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
They got a lefty at all, But yeah, they've got.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Four or five lefties in their bullpen now, and you
got guys who can get righty's and lefties out and
feel pretty good about your matchups. So I think that's
that's the biggest thing about the Astros is I think
as a unit right now, they feel pretty well balanced
and ready to go. And I thought that series against
Boston Saturday night was a good example. They left fourteen
(03:44):
men on base and you're scratching your head and you're
shaking your head and feel disappointed.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They have fourteen opportunities.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Driving in some more runs, and I think it's only
a matter of time before.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
This Astros offense really starts to click. Seeing the guys
hit the ball really hard.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I bet if you looked at it, I bet the
Astros average exit velocity. And I know a lot of
people that turns people off, and that's the objective. Hit
the ball hard, and I think the Astros did a
good job of that. Sometimes you get a little unlucky.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
In the series, Hey, Steve, aside from the guys left
on base and having an opportunity and they did hit it,
and we now and I think Karre hit the ball
had I thought there was a great energy about him
this weekend. Aside from the good and the bad of
those What was your biggest disappointment? Not SAMs, the runners
in you know, on bas ur and scoring position. Coming
(04:32):
out of that, what's the one thing you said, man,
that's got to get.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Better the fundamentals, you know, protecting the baseball. They didn't
play good defense in that series, which is uncharacteristic. They've
been very good at that all year longst I said
this on the broadcast yesterday. The Astros are tied for
first in giving up unearned runs this season, which is
a great indicator of how good you play defense. Boston
(04:56):
second to last. The Astros have only giving up twenty
seven undred rou during the course of the entire season,
which means that the pitchers can rely on their defenders
to make place and they didn't do that in Boston.
And I'm sure they'll probably address that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They work very hard.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Shown Man, if you get there an hour before batting practice,
which is pretty early, why would you, But they're working
on defense every day. Man, They're getting after it, and
it's probably very concentrated. They're not spending a ton of
time on it, but they do it right for a
short amount of time. And you probably saw that a
lot in football practices all the time, especially as the
(05:36):
season got.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A little deeper.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But you work on fundamentals every single day and do
it right every day.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It shows up in the games.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Steve Callers, and you hear it just like we do.
And I don't know what the slope is. I know
I'm coming from football. It's different and people, you know,
whether it's a player and constructive criticism as opposed to,
you know, hurting the guy's feelings, all those things that
go with the emotional side of pro sports and well
used sports and college sports as well. But you know
that the talk and I think Joe A. Spot has
done a phenomenal job. But when we get asked these questions,
(06:06):
you're better equipped to answer this than we are and
than I am. Where is the line? But he's so
calm and even keeled. Is there a time when things
aren't going well that you need to loud talk may
not be the best part of it. But out loud,
let him know that hey can't leave runners in the
score off. Joe's been so consistent with just staying level headed.
(06:26):
Do you need a blow up from him once in
a while? And I talked to him about that in
the spring, you know, at the Astros Fest and he
kind of laughs, said, yeah, I get it. We were
laughing about his ejection last year, the first one. And
I'm not even just talking about ejection. Do you need?
Is there more accountability when you call him out loud?
Or do you like the way he goes about his
level headed business that some of us just don't have.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I think every manager in baseball is probably different in football,
but every manager in baseball has to be himself.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And I played on I played on teams where I've
played on veteran teams where we had a We've had
managers that tried to do stuff that it was out
of character for himself, and you can't fake it for
one hundred and sixty two games. You just really you
have to be you, So you can't be everybody, can't
be Billy Martin or Earl Weaver.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You have to be yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And you know, you start to think about Okay, do
I need to blow up because our bats aren't that
good with.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Runners in scoring position.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I think fact that Dave Roberts was saying this when
we were in LA playing the Dodgers, and the reporters
asking right after Max Munsey had gotten hurt, and that's
when the Astros played him, They said, what does Max
Munsey mean for your lineup? He said, you know what,
we are going to miss him, and this is what
we're gonna miss. We're gonna miss his bats, We're gonna
(07:48):
miss the quality of his bats, We're going to miss
the number of pitches he sees because we don't have
anybody else like him. I think right now the Astros
are missing Paradus is it bats? You know, he got
to three and two almost every time we get to
the plate. Saw thirty seven pitches one game at dyke
In Park this year, and I think that trickles down
and it allows the starting pitcher to get through the
(08:11):
game a lot easier. And we keep looking down at
our score books in the seventh or eighth inning. And
we talked about Lucas Giolito yesterday completing eight innings for
the first time in five years. Over and over and
see starting pitchers get deeper into these games because they
miss those.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
At bats by guys like Peadi.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So I think you know you're talking about what the
manager needs to do. Just go into those hitters meetings
every once in a while. Let's re iterate. Hey, it's
you don't have to swing at the first pitch every time.
Be comfortable hitting with two strikes if you have to,
and you'll be fine. So I'd like to see him
work the pitchers a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And along with that, Steven, the opposite is true. And
I know this is the aberration, but your guy paying
you're getting back in the lineup, was hunting first pitches
bam bam bam, right, and the patients of working the count.
But man, he saw something he liked and he was
getting after it. I loved his energy. It didn't look
like he missed a game with the way he was playing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, he was very energized, very excited me a lot
of hugs, but he was ready to get to work.
And I love what he told. Joe shared this with
this a couple of days ago, that Carure just kept
testing him, asking him about different players on the team.
He wanted to know about everybody else on the team
because he was he was hoping he could help those guys.
(09:28):
You know, as a leader, he wanted to know, Okay,
what's Kristian Walker like, what's Taylor Tremmell like? I mean,
he wanted to go over everybody just so he knew
how he could be a better teammate for these guys.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And man, it wasn't lost on me when.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
There was a meeting on the mound that Carlos did
a lot of that talking, you know, And I think
part of it had to do with the Red Sox
had just faced Minnesota in the series before, so he
had a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But I think we're going to see a lot more
of that. He's a national leader.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I remember this aj Hinch saying telling me one time,
uh Korea, I think he broke a rib at one point.
Is an astro. He said, Hey, watch the rest of
our infield defense. You know, while he's on the high
l watch how our defense suffers because he keeps everybody involved.
(10:17):
He communicates after every pitch, you know, and he's looking
around at the outfield and you know he'll give him
a fist pump. Everybody stays more involved with Carlos out
there on the fields.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
He's a great leader.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well he sure as I never saw this movie coming, man,
I didn't. And it's great to have him back. It's
a definite upgrade and adds depth. Steve, before I let
you go, all right, all these things we talk about
runners in scoring position, getting healthy, you get to rub
that Genie bottle and one of those your your biggest
need between now and late September to get where they
(10:52):
want to go. What has to happen the rest of
this year for you get one?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What is it? It's yourd on you know, it's getting
your back in the line up.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
He's he's the best hitter on their team. He's the
most dynamic player in the division. Uh, he's going to
be very important, you know, and get tired of asking
uh every day, Okay, where is he? What's going on?
And I think the Astros are just ready to get
him back in there because he's going to make everybody better.
(11:21):
And we we already saw it three days ago. Once
you start writing the lineup now and you're seeing how
deep this lineup can be with Cam Smith bit batting
eighth and you know Rius or Dubond batting ninth and
you're starting to look at all, right, this is what
it looked like when the.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Astros are going to the World Series. This is a
deep lineup. You got a lot of guys who could
hurt you, but he gets Sean. It gets one hundred
times better with Jordan.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, just his presence alone, right, Steve.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Everybody focused, Yeah, everybody focuses on him. You know, in
two or three batters, even beforehand, you're you're worried about
when's Jordon coming to the plate and do we have
to pitch to it? And he's a difference maker and
the Astros ate him in there.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Do you think we see him this month?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Steve? I do, Yeah, I think they do. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Fingers across in hoping that he gets here sooner than later,
but I'm not exactly sure on where we are. It
sounds like he's swinging the bat in Florida. He's doing
his best to get out there. But we're just like
everybody else, We're just hoping it happens pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What a joy that'll be, right, just having him here.
And if he's Yorn, who's supposed to be Jordon, that
could be a lot of punishment on opposing pitching staff. Steve,
great stuff, brother, and enjoy this next series. We look
forward to seeing you back home, get a chance at
Boston again when they're back here, and a lot before then,
and get this momentum back the way it's supposed to.
We always appreciate you joining us and you have a
(12:50):
good trip.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
My man sounds good, Sean, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You bet. That's a great Steve Sparks. We'll come back
and discuss at Sports Talk seven ninety and yeah, Jordone
back healthy and ready to roll would be great, But
Conneth Cray is an upgrade as well, and it is
a deep lineup. If and when this team has the
biggest problem for all of us is when is that
timeframe to get them all healthy on the mound as well,
we'll discuss Sports Talk seven to ninety
Indeed it is. It's the eight o'clock hour here on
a Monday, Astros Lusory straight to the Red Sox on
their way to Miami, and we're joined for our weekly
eight o'clock visit with Steve Sparks, who's on the road.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Too.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Great to have him with the Steve. Thanks, give me
your first initial thoughts when the trade deadline ended. What
you thought, my man, and welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you very much. I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You know, getting Carrea back obviously energize the team. Is
going to be a Gold Glove third baseman at some
point in his career. I'm pretty certain of that. As
natural as he looks at that position, I think going forward,
you know, you look at that trade and not to
even talk about Hazeus Sanchez and what he's going to
mean with the balance and the lineup, Andrius and his versatility,
(00:45):
but I think you're going to have an opportunity next year,
you know, with Paradis coming back, Correa Payana or Rius Dubon,
all these guys, you're going to have a chance to
get these guys a little more fresh throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That was one thing I was.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Worried about a little bit with so many guys, with
how Tuvey and Paynya and Walker and camp Smith, all
these guys playing so much that I thought it started
to wear them down. So getting more versatility and more
guys in the mix, I think the Astros will be
able to prosper and get guys off the feet.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
A little bit to keep them more fresh and productive.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, Steven didn't with this trade deadline, didn't they? I mean,
you talk about needs, and we talk about this in
the NFL draft all time. Oh you draft best available
or need. You needed a third basement and a star
bringing back your leadership. You get Korea. You needed a
left handed hitting outfielder who cats pop and can play
every day, you got him. You got a versatile infielder
who's a Gold Glove guy too. I mean, they pretty much.
It'd been nice to get a Dylan Ceese. But in truth,
(01:46):
with these guys coming back, what part of the deadline
wasn't good Other than the three losses to the Red Sox,
they got better, as Dana Brown's goals been.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's right, they did.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They got better and that's all you're hoping for. And
it sounded like that the price on starting pitching and
even relievers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Just was just didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You know, you aren't gonna, you know, mortgage your future
just to just to get a guy for a couple
of months.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And it just didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And the Astros are gonna almost have Christmas every four
or five days in August, it seems like, with so
many guys coming back, and so why would you mortgage
the future? With Arraghetti and Javier and Garcia and JP
France and Jordan. There's probably another one or two in
there too. They're gonna get Jake Myers. You know, they're
(02:34):
gonna get guys coming back, and that's the good news,
you know. And they're gonna be able to plug and play.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And match up.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And I think when you go into the postseason, you
know you're looking at all, right, what does our bullpen
look like?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And what does our bench look like?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And I think the Astros are going to be looking
really good and both of those areas going into the postseason.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I think that's what Joe Spotta wants more than anything.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And you talked about both of those, Steve, don't they
both of those with now post deadline and going into
it sands the Red Sox series, but both of those
are World Series tight. They've got a World Series bullpen here,
do they not?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
They do? They do? They've got versatility, and you go.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
In right death too.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
They got a lefty at all, But yeah, they've got.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Four or five lefties in their bullpen now, and you
got guys who can get righty's and lefties out and
feel pretty good about your matchups. So I think that's
that's the biggest thing about the Astros is I think
as a unit right now, they feel pretty well balanced
and ready to go. And I thought that series against
Boston Saturday night was a good example. They left fourteen
(03:44):
men on base and you're scratching your head and you're
shaking your head and feel disappointed.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They have fourteen opportunities.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Driving in some more runs, and I think it's only
a matter of time before.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
This Astros offense really starts to click. Seeing the guys
hit the ball really hard.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I bet if you looked at it, I bet the
Astros average exit velocity. And I know a lot of
people that turns people off, and that's the objective. Hit
the ball hard, and I think the Astros did a
good job of that. Sometimes you get a little unlucky.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
In the series, Hey, Steve, aside from the guys left
on base and having an opportunity and they did hit it,
and we now and I think Karre hit the ball
had I thought there was a great energy about him
this weekend. Aside from the good and the bad of
those What was your biggest disappointment? Not SAMs, the runners
in you know, on bas ur and scoring position. Coming
(04:32):
out of that, what's the one thing you said, man,
that's got to get.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Better the fundamentals, you know, protecting the baseball. They didn't
play good defense in that series, which is uncharacteristic. They've
been very good at that all year longst I said
this on the broadcast yesterday. The Astros are tied for
first in giving up unearned runs this season, which is
a great indicator of how good you play defense. Boston
(04:56):
second to last. The Astros have only giving up twenty
seven undred rou during the course of the entire season,
which means that the pitchers can rely on their defenders
to make place and they didn't do that in Boston.
And I'm sure they'll probably address that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They work very hard.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Shown Man, if you get there an hour before batting practice,
which is pretty early, why would you, But they're working
on defense every day. Man, They're getting after it, and
it's probably very concentrated. They're not spending a ton of
time on it, but they do it right for a
short amount of time. And you probably saw that a
lot in football practices all the time, especially as the
(05:36):
season got.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A little deeper.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But you work on fundamentals every single day and do
it right every day.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It shows up in the games.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Steve Callers, and you hear it just like we do.
And I don't know what the slope is. I know
I'm coming from football. It's different and people, you know,
whether it's a player and constructive criticism as opposed to,
you know, hurting the guy's feelings, all those things that
go with the emotional side of pro sports and well
used sports and college sports as well. But you know
that the talk and I think Joe A. Spot has
done a phenomenal job. But when we get asked these questions,
(06:06):
you're better equipped to answer this than we are and
than I am. Where is the line? But he's so
calm and even keeled. Is there a time when things
aren't going well that you need to loud talk may
not be the best part of it. But out loud,
let him know that hey can't leave runners in the
score off. Joe's been so consistent with just staying level headed.
(06:26):
Do you need a blow up from him once in
a while? And I talked to him about that in
the spring, you know, at the Astros Fest and he
kind of laughs, said, yeah, I get it. We were
laughing about his ejection last year, the first one. And
I'm not even just talking about ejection. Do you need?
Is there more accountability when you call him out loud?
Or do you like the way he goes about his
level headed business that some of us just don't have.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I think every manager in baseball is probably different in football,
but every manager in baseball has to be himself.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And I played on I played on teams where I've
played on veteran teams where we had a We've had
managers that tried to do stuff that it was out
of character for himself, and you can't fake it for
one hundred and sixty two games. You just really you
have to be you, So you can't be everybody, can't
be Billy Martin or Earl Weaver.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You have to be yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And you know, you start to think about Okay, do
I need to blow up because our bats aren't that
good with.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Runners in scoring position.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I think fact that Dave Roberts was saying this when
we were in LA playing the Dodgers, and the reporters
asking right after Max Munsey had gotten hurt, and that's
when the Astros played him, They said, what does Max
Munsey mean for your lineup? He said, you know what,
we are going to miss him, and this is what
we're gonna miss. We're gonna miss his bats, We're gonna
(07:48):
miss the quality of his bats, We're going to miss
the number of pitches he sees because we don't have
anybody else like him. I think right now the Astros
are missing Paradus is it bats? You know, he got
to three and two almost every time we get to
the plate. Saw thirty seven pitches one game at dyke
In Park this year, and I think that trickles down
and it allows the starting pitcher to get through the
(08:11):
game a lot easier. And we keep looking down at
our score books in the seventh or eighth inning. And
we talked about Lucas Giolito yesterday completing eight innings for
the first time in five years. Over and over and
see starting pitchers get deeper into these games because they
miss those.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
At bats by guys like Peadi.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So I think you know you're talking about what the
manager needs to do. Just go into those hitters meetings
every once in a while. Let's re iterate. Hey, it's
you don't have to swing at the first pitch every time.
Be comfortable hitting with two strikes if you have to,
and you'll be fine. So I'd like to see him
work the pitchers a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And along with that, Steven, the opposite is true. And
I know this is the aberration, but your guy paying
you're getting back in the lineup, was hunting first pitches
bam bam bam, right, and the patients of working the count.
But man, he saw something he liked and he was
getting after it. I loved his energy. It didn't look
like he missed a game with the way he was playing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, he was very energized, very excited me a lot
of hugs, but he was ready to get to work.
And I love what he told. Joe shared this with
this a couple of days ago, that Carure just kept
testing him, asking him about different players on the team.
He wanted to know about everybody else on the team
because he was he was hoping he could help those guys.
(09:28):
You know, as a leader, he wanted to know, Okay,
what's Kristian Walker like, what's Taylor Tremmell like? I mean,
he wanted to go over everybody just so he knew
how he could be a better teammate for these guys.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And man, it wasn't lost on me when.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
There was a meeting on the mound that Carlos did
a lot of that talking, you know, And I think
part of it had to do with the Red Sox
had just faced Minnesota in the series before, so he
had a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But I think we're going to see a lot more
of that. He's a national leader.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I remember this aj Hinch saying telling me one time,
uh Korea, I think he broke a rib at one point.
Is an astro. He said, Hey, watch the rest of
our infield defense. You know, while he's on the high
l watch how our defense suffers because he keeps everybody involved.
(10:17):
He communicates after every pitch, you know, and he's looking
around at the outfield and you know he'll give him
a fist pump. Everybody stays more involved with Carlos out
there on the fields.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
He's a great leader.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well he sure as I never saw this movie coming, man,
I didn't. And it's great to have him back. It's
a definite upgrade and adds depth. Steve, before I let
you go, all right, all these things we talk about
runners in scoring position, getting healthy, you get to rub
that Genie bottle and one of those your your biggest
need between now and late September to get where they
(10:52):
want to go. What has to happen the rest of
this year for you get one?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What is it? It's yourd on you know, it's getting
your back in the line up.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
He's he's the best hitter on their team. He's the
most dynamic player in the division. Uh, he's going to
be very important, you know, and get tired of asking
uh every day, Okay, where is he? What's going on?
And I think the Astros are just ready to get
him back in there because he's going to make everybody better.
(11:21):
And we we already saw it three days ago. Once
you start writing the lineup now and you're seeing how
deep this lineup can be with Cam Smith bit batting
eighth and you know Rius or Dubond batting ninth and
you're starting to look at all, right, this is what
it looked like when the.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Astros are going to the World Series. This is a
deep lineup. You got a lot of guys who could
hurt you, but he gets Sean. It gets one hundred
times better with Jordan.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, just his presence alone, right, Steve.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Everybody focused, Yeah, everybody focuses on him. You know, in
two or three batters, even beforehand, you're you're worried about
when's Jordon coming to the plate and do we have
to pitch to it? And he's a difference maker and
the Astros ate him in there.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Do you think we see him this month?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Steve? I do, Yeah, I think they do. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Fingers across in hoping that he gets here sooner than later,
but I'm not exactly sure on where we are. It
sounds like he's swinging the bat in Florida. He's doing
his best to get out there. But we're just like
everybody else, We're just hoping it happens pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What a joy that'll be, right, just having him here.
And if he's Yorn, who's supposed to be Jordon, that
could be a lot of punishment on opposing pitching staff. Steve,
great stuff, brother, and enjoy this next series. We look
forward to seeing you back home, get a chance at
Boston again when they're back here, and a lot before then,
and get this momentum back the way it's supposed to.
We always appreciate you joining us and you have a
(12:50):
good trip.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
My man sounds good, Sean, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You bet. That's a great Steve Sparks. We'll come back
and discuss at Sports Talk seven ninety and yeah, Jordone
back healthy and ready to roll would be great, But
Conneth Cray is an upgrade as well, and it is
a deep lineup. If and when this team has the
biggest problem for all of us is when is that
timeframe to get them all healthy on the mound as well,
we'll discuss Sports Talk seven to ninety
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