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On Sports Talk seven ninety Michael Kunners

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This is Space City Saturday, and
here's seven nineties Astros insider Michael Kunner.

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And as you heard, the man
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well as today is a celebration,
a celebration for one man having a moment

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of a lifetime. Last night there's
two old and at his hammer day till

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right failed and you can't kiss that
one gut bye and in the second deck

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by fifteen rows. Welcome back to
the Astros. John Singleton a three run

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shot three to one Astros. Well, it doesn't get any more explosive than

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that. When his first homer as
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and you know that one was also
against the Angels, and you know

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what, he did not wait very
long to hit his second home run in

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his return to the big leagues one
oh from Debt Mers and another drive right

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field. If it's fair, do
it sing game further than the last one?

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John Singleton two homers and five RBIs
and he's putting on a show.

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I mean, what a night at
Minimde Park for John Singleton, for the

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Astros as a whole. Of course, Justin Verlander makes his return to Minimate

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Park as an Astro for the first
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which was very cool to have him
back out there as always, But the

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night was about Singleton overall because of
those two home runs that you heard right

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there. The Astros have found themselves
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how deep, and there's no you
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are back in action tonight, by
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I shouldn't say late, not a
afternoon game today six fifteen for pitch I'll

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have you for the on deck show
starting at five five, five five for

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that this evening. But the Astros
find themselves in a spot where jose A

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Brayu underwent an MRI. Of course, he missed the game in Baltimore,

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the finale, the day game on
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issue, whatever it might be.
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have him go on the i L. But at this point, how long

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do you go with it? Here's
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now, and this is where,
like the other day, I saw a

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lot of overreaction when Singleton popped out
at the end of the end of the

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game in Baltimore on Thursday, with
the base slowly and two outs in.

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The Astros just needed a base hit
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lead in that ballgame. You can't
overreact to one game last night, as

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great as it was, two home
runs for him. I mean, first

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of all, just before we get
to the baseball side of it, for

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what it means for the team and
what they do, what a moment for

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that guy, his story. I
can remember going to spring training all those

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years ago and this was still in
the midst of him having a lot of

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expectation, and you know, there
was a year where he showed up really

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fat and out of shape, and
you saw it the moment he went out

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there on the field. I was
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It was in twenty sixteen. Now
I know there was a little bit

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in but like he still was in
the system and everything, but that was

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kind of like where I think the
fall from grace happened for him. But

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to get out of baseball to get
his life together like he has is an

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awesome, awesome story. You're so
happy for a person when they can figure

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things out because life is hard at
the end of the day for everybody,

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including people that have expectations that are
put on them. And he got a

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lot of expectation put on him when
he was like the Astros took a gamble,

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gave him ten million bucks, did
not work out, and was out

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of baseball and was probably felt like
he was done with it. Got himself

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back into the game and you know, played well at the minor league level.

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Of course, was with the Brewers
earlier this season, got a very

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small cup of coffee, just eleven
games with them. Did not have any

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result there, and luckily for the
Astros, clearly he was available to get

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back to the spot where you're playing
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debut and did in the email of
the very little, the few things that

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you did at the big league level. To be able to do that again

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last night hitting two home runs has
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I can't imagine that. You know, the smiles and the happiness for

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him and his wife and his family
watching him go out there and do that

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last night, and it sparks your
human interest in it, because you know

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that's the human side of it to
where you're rooting for the guy even more.

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And then there's the baseball side of
it as well. For the Astros,

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which we all know, the first
base position this year has been gone

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awful, absolutely got awful. Josea
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and his level of production has been
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where he was an abovely gaveraged player
there he got his numbers in check for

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a period of time. Now,
not his overall numbers, but his numbers

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for about a two month span were
pretty good and you can live with those.

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If he played like that the rest
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into a tailspin. Now there's this
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victim, in my opinion, of
losing your playing time to injury if John

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Singleton continues to hit. And from
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here, the back quality is great. He was always a guy that had

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the ability to take walks. Has
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see it he has. He knows
the strike zone. I mean, there's

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a couple of years I'm looking back
on his last year in the minor leagues.

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He walked one hundred seventeen times.
This year he had walked a total

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of sixty three times in the minor
leagues. I mean, hell, when

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he was in the big leagues with
the Astros, even when he was terrible,

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ninety five games, he had fifty
walks one year. He knows the

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strike zone. He doesn't look like
he's afraid of the moment. Now.

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Now, look, of course,
you're probably not that when you get a

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second chance and you're thirty one years
old, gonna be thirty two here next

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month. Oh, he and I
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Almost a happy birthday to John Singleton. It's his second chance on life,

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and the window on it's not very
long. He probably knows that,

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but this was a heralded prospect for
a very long time. He crushed the

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baseball this year. Once he got
to sugar Land, he was pretty good.

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He was okay overall. He had
a really good ops number when he

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was in Nashville with the Brewers Triple
A club, hit home runs, batting

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average a little bit like. He's
never gonna be a big batting average guy.

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Just fine if he can play for
the like Let's just go to the

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unbelievable best case scenario. Let's say
he has to become the astros every day

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first base when the rest of the
stretch, if he hits two forty five

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and matches a bunch of home runs
and walks, the Astros are going to

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have a first baseman that's productive.
Now, that's a huge large leap to

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go and make to assume that he
could do any of that or be the

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every day first baseman. But they're
put into this spot that again, if

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a bray is not healthy and not
right, you can't run him out there

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every day. I would imagine that
an Ai'll stint is a possibility for him

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at this point. And then you
do wonder of what happens if this player

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in Singleton comes out and continues to
hit and hits home runs like he did

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last night, does all the little
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You're at that part of the season
where you're chasing the division ray still,

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you are chasing the best record in
the American League if you could get it,

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which is not out of the you
know, it's not like it's impossible

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to go get It's not there for
them at the at the moment for the

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taking. But the number one thing
is to go and get the division title.

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That's what they want. They want
to avoid playing in the first round

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of the playoffs, that wild card
round. They're two and a half games

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back a Texas still, who did
get the victory last night out there in

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San Francisco against the Giants. Thanks
Giants for the help. You guys need

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to win as much as anybody else
too, because the Giants are in the

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wild dry walk card team currently in
the National League, So the Giants need

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to step up this weekend. If
the A's can step up the other day

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and get a win over the Giant
over the Rangers, the Giants can get

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one too, so figure it out, Giants. But the Astros are chasing

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this division title. If they're able
to get there, they have a chance

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chance to catch Baltimore of Baltimore went
and hit the skids at all, And

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who knows what the rest of the
season holds. It is still August the

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twelfth. There is a lot of
time here. There are a lot of

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games left. But if the Astros
find themselves gifted a first baseman suddenly that

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is hitting in John Singleton, you
can't go back to jose A Brey you

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at that point. Now, again, this is a complete overreaction. I

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get that to one game last night. He's going to have games whereast like

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every baseball player. But it's not
too wild to go ahead and get in

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your thought process that, hey,
look at the production that he gave you,

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even if it was at the Triple
A level. We'll see what kind

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of adjustments pictures make to him.
But he still has a lot of the

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qualities to his game at the plate
that made him basically a top one hundred

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prospect in terms of the rankings.
For four years. A lot of that

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stuff is still in there, even
for a thirty one year old. You

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can see it at the plate.
What a story would be if this guy

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came back and found his way into
a role where you can't kick him out

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of the lineup. And from the
astro standpoint, we heard a lot about

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it at the trade deadline, how
they wanted to get into the left handed

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bat. They do need another left
handed bat. And if they are to

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walk into this and be gifted a
left handed bat in John Singleton, it's

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even better. That doesn't make you
sit back and go, God, can

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Michael Brantley come back? Can Michael
Brantley come back? Can Michael Brantley come

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back? He was always silly,
in my opinion, to worry about Michael

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Brantley coming back or think that Michael
Brantley was coming back. But you're always

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hopeful of something. Maybe they're gonna
get the gift of John Singleton coming out

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here and crushing the baseball for a
while and saying, you know what,

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maybe you don't need to play Jose
Brey good week, and for him to

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do it, this Angels team is
obviously falling apart right now. The schedule

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ahead the Marlins this week in Miami. They have not been playing good baseball

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of late, and they'll play Seattle
Boston for four at home, Detroit for

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three, Boston for three. They're
gonna be playing a lot of teams between

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now and the end of this month
that have some pitching matchups that will be

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favorable to you. We'll see if
he can take advantage of the opportunity.

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He's gonna get forever long it might
be, but I will tell you this,

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V hits and Josea. Bray You
is available and ready. At some

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point, you don't take the bad
out of lineup that's hitting. That would

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be a mistake on the part of
the manager. In Dusty Baker seven one

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in the In the next segment, we're

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gonna hear from John Singleton last night, get his thoughts on what happened.

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I want to hear from you guys
this morning on how you're feeling about what

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he did last night. We've got
the Texans to get into after their first

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preseason game the other night, and
some other things in the world of sports,

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including the college world of course,
still doing its thing, which is

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being wild as always said. One
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be dancing right now. John Single
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Here it is a Space City Saturday. Michael Connor back here with you

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on a glorious Saturday. By the
way, it's a big weekend and I'm

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gonna I am going to dedicate a
segment at the end of the show today.

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I'm sorry to those of you that
don't want to hear it. I'm

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just gonna do it. The Premier
League is back this weekend. I'm currently

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watching Everton and Fulham play. I
am a very very happy man at the

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moment. My heart is full.
I have baseball with the Astros doing their

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thing. My club Chelsea will be
back in action tomorrow morning. All is

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good in the world right now for
my sporting ventures that I love to watch.

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So there's my real quick update on
what's going on in the world sports.

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Big big weekend. I will be
watching a ton of soccer between now

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and tomorrow and then every weekend moving
forward before college football and then NFL football,

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and they, of course the Astros
still playing and hopefully playing deep into

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the month of October and early November, because the schedule the other day for

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the postseason did come out and I
don't remember the exact it's into November.

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Again. The World Series would be
if the Astros were to play all the

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way to Game seven. So you
know, it's not the October you know,

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October Classic or whatever anymore, it's
the November whatever you want to call

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it. Let's go to the phone
line, said one three two one two

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five seven ninety. First up this
morning, let's talk to Jake. What's

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up, Jake Man. Hey,
that's why you're the Astraal insider. Everything

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that like just said is right.
I mean, that's exactly how everybody would

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want to picture John Sileton coming back. I mean, for sure, I

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know it's sad that HOSTI bring you
with the injury and all that, but

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John Sileton is not gonna lie.
He's getting he's getting this position headed to

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him on a platter. If he
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I would I would not mind saying
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He's doing a real I mean,
I know it's a short sample size,

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but he's doing real good and like
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his plate discipline, drawing the walks. If we can get somebody in line

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up, given up that production we
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starting position and do what he has
to do. That's all I have to

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say. Thank you so much,
go ass Rows, Thank you Jake.

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Seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety is the number of

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join us who would like to get
in here like Jake did. And look

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again, like I said in the
first segment, it's one game last night.

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It is a little bit of the
football mentality where you overreact to we

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all do it, but I just
I go through all the pros of it

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now. First of all, none
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and he has never produced consistently at
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on him. And he knows that
this is this is like his last chance

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at doing anything probably at the big
league level. Do you even get this

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chance? Again? Is incredible enough
and he's gotten it. And look through

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three games back with the Astros.
He's taken advantage of the moment. I

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like certain things about his game,
and I think the at bat qualities there.

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I saw a quote from the Sugarland
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Mickey's story that I think tells you
a lot about Singleton, and he said

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that no matter what the at bat
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Singleton always gets his a swing off
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that's something that when I watch Josea
Breve, I don't think that. I

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don't think that the player gets his
best swing. He's His timing this year

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has been got awful. Whether that's
because he's just not confident at the plate,

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or he has lost a massive step
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anymore. Just all that and sometimes
he just looks lost. He's swimming three

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games, limited sample size, but
every single time I'm watching Singleton swing the

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bat so far, and even in
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two outs in the ninth and the
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the game or win it, Singleton, even though he pops out, got

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an a swing off. He gets
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take. But it's not like he's
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ideas and flailing and everything that's outside
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stuff that's you know, three feet
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like that. It is intriguing about
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He will strike out. He always
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minor league. Still like he's going
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the day. There is no guarantee
that he is going to one, continue

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to play, two perform like he
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the small sample size that we've seen, you have to be very intrigued.

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And it would be a huge boon
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a player on at that position and
from that side of the plate to do

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something. And if he forces them
to not playing jose A Brayu, that

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means things have gone just unbelievable.
You well for him, and that will

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result in the Astros having a better
lineup because you know, I know that

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he has been the easiest person to
pick at all season and it's deserving.

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And this is what happens when you
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He did at the age of thirty
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that he's had, with the consistency
that he's had, the expectation level was

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insanely high. Now I'm sure he's
gonna have a chance to fix it next

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year or get another opportunity maybe with
how the team views him. But I

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don't know how long his leash will
be. For all that and the facts

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of the facts of late jose A
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again we don't know what exactly it
is. We don't know how long it

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might keep him out. We don't
know anything at this point. If he's

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going to be out for an extended
period of time, the Astros have to

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hope and pray that John Singleton goes
out and does something like this consistently and

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gives them reason to continue to play
him. As I mentioned, if you

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want to share your thoughts seven one
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seven ninety on twitters, where you
find me here is John Singleton for a

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couple of moments after the game last
night, on his return to the Astros,

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Astros eleven to three winners over the
Angels were joined now and the Astros

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dug out by John Singleton two homers
part of a three hit game, five

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runs batted in, And I mean, what was going through your mind as

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you were circling the bases after that
first home run, your first big league

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home run in eight years? You
know, because moments of the data for

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me coming almost glade, I can
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And they were both wall scrapers.
Did you think they were going to

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get out? That was about a
doubt? Hey man, are you allowing

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yourself to have fun? I mean
you've talked about how your perspective it's a

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little different this time around. Definitely
definitely know what's at the end of the

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days, still the game, So
you know, you have to enjoy the

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moments that you were willing. You
know, when you think about where you

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are right now, was there ever
a moment when you thought this was this

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was never possible again? I mean
a long time ago, you know,

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it wasn't a thought, but you
know, as as things changed, you

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know, it definitely became a thought. And then you know every other Pea

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and John, when you were in
Sugarland, you probably had an inkling with

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as well as you were playing that
you were gonna be able to join this

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team once again. It's a lot
different team from the last time you were

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here. What's special about this clubhouse
to you? Uh, you know,

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it's a great it's a great bunch
of guys. You know, they're all

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they're all in it to win,
so you know it's I'm glad I could

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just be a piece of the public, all right and certainly a big piece

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of the puzzle the night. John
Singleton, thanks for joining us. So

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glad you're back in the big league. Thank you. And that was John

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Singleton last night after the game with
Robert and Steve right here that you heard

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on Sports Talk seven ninety. Of
course, big big night for him on

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a night where we didn't even talked
about it. He had Verlander back with

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the Astros. Good stuff for him. But you know, I'm just you

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can't sit here and ignore the story. And again, what a cool and

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you hear that there, you feel
like it's a guy that's got, you

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know, the level head. First
of all, this comes with being a

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little bit older now and having gone
through what he's gone through to get back

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to this point. And that's where
you have some confidence that maybe, just

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maybe you can strike lightning in a
bottle with this player and think that he's

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going to be a productive player for
you for whatever period of time that he's

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with you, and look if he
wants to fart around and turn himself into

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a big league regular for a little
bit. You know, I don't think

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you're gonna get the Astros to complain
about it one bit, you know.

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It's it's just it's such a cool
story for a team that at the time

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when he was here before, was
so bad and he was supposed to be

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part of that next wave of guys
and it just did not necessarily work out

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for him to again get back to
this point wearing that same uniform. I

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had to be just completely surreal last
night. And to go that long between

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hitting big league home runs and hitting
two as he said, he heard Steve

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mess around there and tell him,
hey, wall scrapers there, huh.

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To hit two bombs the way that
he did in front of that home crowd

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had to be just an absolutely unbelievable
feeling. And you know, that feeling

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of floating as you're running around the
base pass, I would imagine that that's

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exactly what John Singleton felt like last
night when he was running around out there

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at Minute Made Park. Seven one
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until twelve o'clock today. We'll continue some

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of the astro's discussion next as we
will talk at justin Verlander and get to

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Sports Talk seven ninety talking about your
astros. Of course, last night slapping

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around the Los Angeles Angels by a
final of eleven to three. They're back

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in action tonight six fifteen. First
pitch. It is a national TV game

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tonight on Fox, so of course
I would suggest to you to listen to

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it as always right here on seven
ninety with Robert Ford and Steve Sparks on

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the Call of the Action as the
Astros look to secure the season or the

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excuse me these series winning this when
they did secure the excuse me these series

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win quite a while ago against these
Angels the last time you're seeing the Angels

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this season. By the way,
the Astros now eight and three against them

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on the year, which is up. That's pretty good. You kind of

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enjoyed beating up on this team.
They've beat up on them for a very

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long time. That did continue last
night. We'll get the Verlander. We'll

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talk Verlin here here in just a
second. But here is let's go to

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the phone lines real quick. Tom
is up next. What's up? Tom?

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Hey, thanks for taking my call. Good to be with you.

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Hey, I'm certainly happy for singing
two. You know, it's nice to

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see you guys come up like he
has and come back, so to speak.

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But I think it's a classic example
of the law of diminishing returns.

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Sooner or later, they're gonna have
to figure out his hole. If he's

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got him, if he could give
us a month, get us some w

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is great, But again he is
what he is. Well, I mean,

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like I don't think that that's completely
fair to the player at this point

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because we haven't seen Hi play at
the big league level on a long time,

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and you know, he's matured and
he's in a different state of his

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life, and I think it's just
the only way that you can truly judge

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him is to watch him go out
there and play. I mean, so,

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I mean, he might have the
same flaws, and yes, teams

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will figure them out, but I'm
not going to sit here and write the

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book on him one way or the
other until I see a good sample size

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on from where he's at. Yeah, I don't blame you for saying that.

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I mean, I'm happy for him. I'd like to take as much

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as we can out of him,
squeeze them like a sponge. I'd like

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to say one more thing about the
Astros. Well, I'm hoping that they

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can make a big, a big
jump and maybe win the division because if

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they have to go to Tampa Bay
in the playoffs. Bye, by thanks

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for taking my call. Yeah,
thank you for the phone call. I

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hope you find some optimism today,
because you're not very optimistic for an Astros

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fan about John Singleton or the fact
that they could win. I'm not going

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to sit here and say it's bye
bye if they go to Tampa Bay.

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Now do I do think that Tampa
Bay is great? Now? They've been

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dealt a massive blow with Shane McClanahan
being done for the season, but they

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still pitch their asses off. They
can hit the ball out of the ballpark

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as well. They're going to be
a very difficult team. But I'm not

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going to sit here today on August
the twelfth until you it's bye bye.

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If the Astros have to face them
in the wild card round, you never

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know. It's baseball. This team
is. This is the Astros who have

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given us no reason to really honestly
sit here and say anything other than,

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well, they're probably gonna make a
deep playoff run at the very least because

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they've done this now for such an
extended period of time. So I'll give

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him the benefit of the doubt and
be hopeful of it. And again on

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the John Singleton thing, I mean, it's just you know it, you

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just have to wait and see.
I think it's the only fair way to

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do it. He might not even
get the playing time. I mean,

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jose A Brey, you could be
okay in a couple of days and the

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Astros just keep playing jose bray You
and he's back to a bench roll or

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whatever. But I'm just saying,
if they do find something, and again

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we're watching a player that went out
there and at the triple A level,

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I get it was doing things that
were incredible. If they could find that

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out of him, and I'm not
even saying to that level where he's hitting

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over three hundred, but just power
bat, gets on base and does the

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things that a bray You was not
doing. And look, the bars not

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very high, like to pass up
what Josea bray You was given in the

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Astros, Like John Singleton doesn't have
to do godly stuff to make you think,

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hey, we should play this guy
every day over jose A brew You.

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Honestly, like if he went out
there, and I said it earlier,

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he hit two forty to two forty
five and got on base at a

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three Like, let's just say a
three twenty clip to a three thirty clip

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and hit six or seven home runs
or maybe eight home runs between now and

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the regular sea into the regular season, Like that's a better player than what

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they've had out of jose Hip brey
You. He just is, so the

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bar is not extremely high. So
I'm just gonna wait and see how he

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performs, how he handles the situation. I think it's the fairest way to

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go about it, because again,
this is a player that's at a different

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stage of his life. Yes,
again the league will make adjustments, but

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I don't think that there's And that's
one of the things that makes me optimistic

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about certain things is that you're not
going to get me to be down on

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his chances of being okay based on
his strike zone discipline. There is the

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eye there that makes you intrigued what
he can do. One of the other

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things that, of course has been
intriguing for the Astros has been the fact

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that Justin Verlander is back back.
Last night were in that Astro's uniform at

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Minnie Made Park for the first time
since last season. God is just still

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so weird. Last night was his
five hundredth career start at the big league

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level, by the way, and
the Astro there should say the two hundred

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and fifty first big league win four
Verlander. He now has three hundred eighty

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of his starts with the Tigers,
where he went one eighty three and one

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fourteen three forty nine era as an
Astro. Now one hundred four starts,

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sixty two and twenty two twenty nine
is his career ra with the Astros.

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That actually went up a little bit
last night with the three runs. Then

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of course he had sixteen starts with
the Met's gonna be the most forgetful sixteen

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games probably of any big leaguer's career. And when we look back at it

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and he's getting his Hall of Fame
blaque one day and going into Cooper's town.

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But it was great to see him
back out there. It just like

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like when he was pitching last week
up there in New York against the Yankees.

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Having him out there in an astro's
uniform was awesome. And you know,

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here until I collapse, which is
what he comes out to the plate

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with, or comes out to the
mound with, excuse me when he when

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he warms up to start a ball
game, was something that was really cool

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as well. It just it just
felt right. It felt like it's the

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place that he belongs. And you
know, I think life kind of works

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that way. It works in circles
to where you know, you kind of

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end up where you're supposed to be
and New York was a pit stop that

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wasn't where he was probably supposed to
be. Had the opportunity to come back

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here to the city of Houston and
obviously accepted that trade. And here he

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is. He's back. You know, you you forget about all. It's

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just a it's a good time and
it's exactly what the Astros need. Of

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course, with the fact that they're
starting pitching. We know about the struggles

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for Christian Javier of late, we
know about the struggles for from borva Aldez

435
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as well. They've had some issues
at times with guys getting deep into baseball

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games. And the fact that he
was able to go out there again now

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in two starts since he's been back
with the Astros, and he's given him

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00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:19.599
exactly what you need. Is it
perfect? No. We talked to Josh

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00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:22.680
Miller earlier this week, the Astros
pitching coach Matt Thomas, and I did.

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I was in for Ross a couple
of days ago, and I asked

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him the question about Verlander and they're
being a little bit less swing and miss

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00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:30.960
and everything, and he just basically
said that, you know, a lot

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of the things still look the same. He's still the same guy. Obviously

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they want to work on a few
things with his fastball to probably get a

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little bit of that back. His
fastball numbers have been down to tick this

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season overall in terms of average velocity
and all that, So you know,

447
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it is what it is there with
that, but I think usage and how

448
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they do it is going to really
tell the story on if he's going to

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have more success with it. He
gives him a solo home run last night,

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which what you give up a solo
home run? But I think that

451
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and again, this is an Angels
team that's not great. I get that

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they've fallen apart of late. They're
definitely gonna be out of the wildcard race

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when September gets here. They're now
below five hundred again. They got red

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hot right after all those trades,
and they've fallen back apart again. They're

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fifty eight and fifty nine. They're
six and a half games out of the

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wildcard. Now are the Angels,
but the Astros, you know, are

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facing a team last night that might
not be as good. I get that.

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Verlander, though, I think showed
you a lot of the things that

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you want to continue to see and
what this team got him back for he

460
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went out there and he got this
club exactly what they needed through the ball

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00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:51.920
game and with the chance to win
the baseball game. And I'm just going

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00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:57.839
back and looking at his fastest velocity
last night on his pitches fast as he

463
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:02.079
threw ninety five point eight through a
total of four pitches over ninety five miles

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an hour. He threw a total
of du twenty three pitches over ninety four

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And that's intriguing and that's encouraging to
me that he was able to have that

466
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:21.720
kind of velocity back last night in
overall ninety three miles an hour or above

467
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:27.920
forty four of the fifty one fastballs
that he threw were over ninety three.

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He was not doing that with the
Mets's. That's a sign of whether it's

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the juices get flowing last night and
hees you're back at Mini Made Park,

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the crowds behind him, people were
excited to see him, of course,

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or is it the fact that the
Astros already found something and said which they've

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been known to do for a long
period of time with pitchers, and said

473
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:52.920
justin you need to do this,
you need to do that. You feel

474
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:58.039
like you're gonna get more of the
Justin Verlander than maybe the Mets got earlier

475
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:01.720
this season, Anna Fresher Justin Verlander. But seven innings three runs are two

476
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:06.559
runs, six innings three runs last
night. If he's giving you that consistently,

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it is going to be a different
player than it's ever been. I

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think you know you're gonna see more
hits scattered. He had hits scattered again

479
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:16.400
last night, but had seven strikeouts
and no walks for a guy that's had

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00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:22.760
a little bit of control issues this
year. Overall encouraging start. Thirteen innings

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for him so far with the Astros. He's won on one three forty six

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r A. The e r A
will bump back down, of course,

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but he has eleven strikeouts and two
walks so far through his first two starts.

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In those thirteen innings with the Astros, I think it had to be

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very very pleased. One with having
the player back, of course, what

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he means, the boost that he
gives to the clubhouse, to the pitching

487
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:49.440
staff, to all of it.
And then two the results so far in

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terms of what he has done out
there on the field. Real quick,

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before we grab a time out,
we're gonna get into the Texans here.

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And just a bit, but I
want to get our astros phone calls in

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before we get to this time out. Martin is up next. What's going

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00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:07.639
on? Martin? Hey? Yeah, I'm so happy for John Singleton,

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00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.159
you know, he he had you
know, I remember those days in twenty

494
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:15.559
fourteen, twenty thirteen, you know, with him and and Brett Wallace another

495
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.000
first baseman, left hander who you
know who was He didn't work out either,

496
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:24.800
Brett Wallace and Singleton didn't work out. And and Singleton had his uh

497
00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:30.840
personal situations you know, will not
get into it, but he, you

498
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:36.599
know, getting married and having a
kid or two like Singleton has gone through,

499
00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:40.920
seems to maybe, uh you know
who knows, it may be brought

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00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:44.800
out the best in him, you
know, and John and I'm we're all

501
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.199
rooting for him, and I'm glad
to see Justin burr Lander. You know

502
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:52.719
Singleton. I like his plate,
like you say, like his plate discipline.

503
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.880
He walks. You know, it's
kind of like that movie and Moneyball,

504
00:35:55.039 --> 00:36:00.840
you know when Brad Pitt's character a
general manager, isn't that isn't that

505
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.760
meeting room? And any points and
it says, what does he do?

506
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.400
He walked? He gets on base. But anyway, that's that's my point.

507
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:15.639
And uh and I'm so happy that. But we need to catch that.

508
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:20.039
We need to win this division.
You stay out of the wild card,

509
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:23.079
man, So so let's go astros
man. That's all I have.

510
00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:25.960
Thank you, Yeah, thank you
Martin. Always good to hear from you

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00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.960
appreciate it. Seven one, three
two or two five seven ninety. I

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00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:31.480
would agree. You need to win
the division. You don't want to play

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00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:35.039
in that wild card ren just the
standpoint of rest. You want to be

514
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:37.719
able to set your your rotation up
how you want to set it up,

515
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:42.519
and have a few days off.
And it mattered last year when they played

516
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:47.920
the Mariners, and you know it
would matter again this year playing whoever they

517
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:52.760
would play if they were to get
up there instead of having to play Tampa

518
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.800
for three games and then having to
go to Baltimore right after that. So

519
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:59.760
that's an important thing. And you
know you're right about Singleton and all those

520
00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:02.840
things from the standpoint of the life
getting it together, it was. It

521
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:06.400
was one of those guys. It
was part of that era that just did

522
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.199
not, you know, go out
there and do anything. So we'll see

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00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.760
what happens for him again. I
think I'm intrigued about a lot of things

524
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.440
out of him and moving forward,
Hopefully he can give the Astros and look

525
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.679
going into a clubhouse like this,
a team with the expectation level, you

526
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.000
know, you gotta you gotta keep
up or you're gonna get shipped out basically

527
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.559
when you get an opportunity here.
So maybe he's one of those guys it's

528
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.559
finally gonna thrive in one of those
kind of situations. We'll see. It'll

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00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:34.000
be very cool again if he is
able to pull that off for this Astros

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00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.639
club seven one three two one two
five seven ninety again, that's our number.

531
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To join us here this morning,
we will take a time out.

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We return, Let's get into some
of the Texans the reaction to what went

533
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:45.840
on with them this week. Plenty
aheads. We're with you until noon right

534
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:53.800
here on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Space City. Saturday on Sports Talk seven

535
00:37:53.880 --> 00:38:08.320
ninety, Space City is Saturday,
right here on Sports Talks seven ninety.

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00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:12.840
My Conner back here with you and
we're with you until noon. If you'd

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00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.960
like to join us on Twitter at
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00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:19.519
You can find the station at Sports
Talks seven ninety. You of course,

539
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:24.440
can find me on all the social
media Instagram, Facebook, threads,

540
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:29.639
whatever it is, MC seven nineties
where you find me there, and again

541
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:30.559
you can join us on the phone
lines and seven one, three, two

542
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.239
and two five seveninety we'll talk more
astros. Of course, we won't ever

543
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.880
stop talking astros because they're playing right
now and they're good, and we are

544
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:43.480
happy with the storylines that are going
on with the ball club. We will

545
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:46.719
discuss the Texans as well, because
they found their way to a preseason victory

546
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:52.000
the night CJ. Stroud makes his
preseason debut. There's really no reason to

547
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:54.960
have any sort of evaluation or any
deep thoughts on what went on out there.

548
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.840
It's his first taste of the NFL. It is what it is.

549
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.000
He threw an interception, You move
on from it. He is the starting

550
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:05.440
quarterback. That is as simple as
it gets. Let's go back to the

551
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:08.840
phones at seven one, three,
two and two five at seven ninety,

552
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:14.559
we'll talk to Wood next. What's
going on? Would hey, I'm just

553
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:16.800
gonna pick it back on your astro
talk right before I get to my texting.

554
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.199
I've been going to quite a few
games this year. At matter of

555
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:25.079
fact, I went to my first
World Series in nineteen seventeen. I didn't

556
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:29.920
make it to the World Series.
We won. In nineteen I went we

557
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:34.000
lost twenty one when we played Atlanta, we lost. I went to that

558
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.559
game last year. I say,
well, maybe I'm the jam said.

559
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:39.679
I didn't go to that World Series
and we won. So I did my

560
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:44.679
part for the team to make sure
we're gonna get that World Series victory.

561
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:49.159
Now coming into this year, I
think Barry Lana coming back here, I

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00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.880
think it's great for the pitches because
it's going to put a take a lot

563
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:55.079
of pressure off of them where they
realize, you know what, we got

564
00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:00.199
another age back here. We got
someone we're comfortable with. He can he

565
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:02.639
can continue to help us with our
game. You know, as a player,

566
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.639
you know that knows the game as
well. And so it's gonna kind

567
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:10.840
of take a lot of that off
of Frans, off of ground, off

568
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:15.360
a ked off of is. It's
gonna put everybody in a position where,

569
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:20.480
you know what, we're getting back
on track going into the end of the

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00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.480
season, going into the playoffs.
Our battles are going to our battles are

571
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coming along. I mean, now
we got John Singleton coming in here.

572
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Look like he's ready to really show
what he's capable of and try to make

573
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:37.679
make some noise for this world.
The playoffs along we're going into. So

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00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.400
it's good to see him in here. Now gett into my texting. Oh

575
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:45.079
man, I'm a big textan fan. Now this is what I see with

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00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:47.960
us, and I see us going
ten and seven. Now, good god.

577
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.960
I mean, I'm free to break
it down to you now, just

578
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:57.480
to break it down real quick on
how we got the easiest schedule that's out

579
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.400
there. I mean Tampa Bay,
I think New Orleans. I don't.

580
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.400
I'm they don't. I'm not afraid
of Then Carolina calling us like I said

581
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:10.039
that that Comforence over there is weak. Then we play h devil Buckos.

582
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:14.119
We should walk through there. Russell
Wilson is old. He don't have it

583
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:17.320
anymore. Now when you come to
our divisions Tennessee, we should whoop them

584
00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:21.119
up. I mean, I don't
care who they roll out there, hopfense

585
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:23.320
up. Don't have nobody to really
throw the ball that I'm worried about,

586
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:27.280
you know, for us, Henry
still along in the truth. You know,

587
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.280
things like this the coach. We
should sweep them. Now we may

588
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:35.800
split with Jacksonville. Now we're coming
into now the rest of the uh Now,

589
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:38.719
Cincinnati Baltimore goes somebody. But the
first game of the year, and

590
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.599
that's the game we're gonna get whooped
off. That's the one. But after

591
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:49.079
that we're gonna go on a chair
with this defense. This defense is magnificent.

592
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.480
What I mean what Demko Ryan has
put together. These boys are gonna

593
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:57.639
come out there and be ranked in
the top five in defense this year.

594
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:02.159
Now when it comes to our office, King Dale as a receiver, he's

595
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:07.519
showing he's something special. I mean
a running game with the three head running

596
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:09.320
backs that I see it, we're
gonna have. We're gonna have a good

597
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:14.679
running games. Should be in the
top ten fars running. Now far as

598
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:20.760
quarterback, Jake is not ready yet. The game is too fast for him

599
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:23.639
for what I see right now.
He needs to do jaylight Patrick Mahomes did

600
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:28.039
with Alex Smith was important. They
was in Kansas City. Let him see

601
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:31.000
what I love you. But you're
making your decided. The games too fast

602
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.960
for him. After two series against
the Patriots, Hey, hey, this

603
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.320
is this is preseason. I'm like
Ivan and Ivans in practice, I ain't

604
00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:42.320
what avery about what he's doing practics. I'm watching the real bullets by now,

605
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.440
I'm watching what he's doing in preseason. Now. Granted, I'm gonna

606
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:49.519
continue to monitor what he's doing in
preseason, but Demiko then need to understay.

607
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.199
He need more than two series.
He need to play at Lisa had.

608
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.719
This young man needs some reps out
there. He needs to know what

609
00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:00.880
it's like to go with these live
bullets and go against the inner failed players.

610
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.239
Because right now he's showing me he's
not The speed is too fast on

611
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.800
him, that he's standing down the
tiever. He needs to get a little

612
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:13.039
tilish on him now running this offense. And what I'm trying to say here,

613
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:15.320
we got a team that's ready to
win. I mean they have to

614
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.119
be going nicssary though. They have
put a team together right now that's ready

615
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.679
to win, and right now the
best chance of winning is going with Chase.

616
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.199
I mean, you you let him
come in there and run what what

617
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.760
what? What? What what are
you saying? You're saying play case Keenum,

618
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:39.480
Yeah, Case Keenom can run that
offense. Letting him let game You're

619
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:45.039
You're don't do this, You're putting
your You're putting yourself on a sound bite

620
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:50.039
somewhere when I'm doing and letting you
know right now he's not ready for the

621
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:53.039
NFL speed of the game. He's
gonna hold the offense up because right now

622
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:58.599
we have weapons on this offense that
we can take advantage of weapons. And

623
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:01.320
what weapons? They don't have any
receivers that they have a if John Mets,

624
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:05.000
who's not played the NFL, they
got take Dell that you said it's

625
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.679
not playing. I got washed up. They got washed up, Robert Woods

626
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:13.559
like, they don't have a weapon. Wise what we have a number two

627
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:15.880
receiving the number three, but we
do have some discussion. Do they have

628
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:22.400
a number one? No, they
don't have a number more. But real

629
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:23.239
quick, real quick, real quick. I just want to go through your

630
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.599
logic real quick, because I a
prey, I do. I really want

631
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:30.800
to understand it. So the first
pick, the second overall pick they took

632
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:34.719
in the draft, is not ready
for the NFL. They have a defense

633
00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:37.599
that's top five, even though it's
barely changed from last year. There are

634
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:39.360
a few key additions, but for
the most part, all these guys are

635
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:42.880
coming back. I will give you
this. The scheme is different that I

636
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.440
feel is going to be a lot
better. But you want them to play

637
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.599
case Keenum and they're somehow gonna find
a way to win ten games without on

638
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.719
a wide receiver that's a number one, with a bunch of guys that are

639
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:59.199
probably number twos or number three's,
and that's going to be the answer with

640
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:02.239
this one game. And if you
put case Keenum in there, who knows

641
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:07.360
how to run this offense, he
can and with Tank Dale stretching the field

642
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:08.840
and with them number two receivers,
like you say, we don't have a

643
00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:12.840
number one, but with their numbers
two receivers and the tight end and the

644
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:15.760
running game that we're gonna put together
and the defense that we're gonna have because

645
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:20.320
that defense gonna get turned over.
That defense gonna put us this position with

646
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.840
good field position where we're gonna get
some point. So with that, and

647
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:27.880
you need a quarterback that can go
in and control this offense and know what

648
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.320
he's doing and not try to learn
on the job. Right away, we

649
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:36.000
go to Davis Mills. Why wouldn't
you go to Davis Mills who actually had

650
00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:38.159
If we're just gonna go off of
what you've seen so far, Davis Mills

651
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:43.440
had a better game than Case Keenum. No, we didn't. We didn't

652
00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:45.599
have the Davis Mills experiment. We
didn't did two years of that. I

653
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:51.440
don't even know you had the Case
Keenum experiment. The Case Keenum experiments going

654
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:54.719
on in multiple places. He's not
a starting quarterback in the NFL. He's

655
00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.280
gonna be the third string quarterback on
this team. No, he's sure be

656
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.920
the starter and then go back to
the seventh string and after after four or

657
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:08.400
five games, then you can bring
see Day in if he's ready to roll

658
00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:12.320
with that offense. But right now, he's not ready to roll with that

659
00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:15.679
offense. It's still we got the
preseason, so everybody's gonna see what I'm

660
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.039
talking about to realize that I'm right, and Demiko hoping that he listening to

661
00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:24.360
this conversation today and gonna realize that
right now, the best option to win

662
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:30.760
and go ten and seven and win
this division and makes him more and we're

663
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:35.079
ready to do this is to go
with Case Keenum. Let's let meals be

664
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.599
your third string quarterback, and then
he theres your Bacca. And once we

665
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:42.840
four or five games in and he
said it's ready to take over, then

666
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.679
we can put him in there.
But right now he's gonna be that weekly

667
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:49.519
that's gonna stop us. Well,
he's not gonna be able to pick up

668
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.199
the first down, he's not gonna
be able to move the teams the way

669
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:55.639
we need to. Case can read
that defense. He's he has that knowledge.

670
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:00.119
That's things why he's a good gentleman
where he can come in here and

671
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.960
what this offend and help us win
until DJ is riddy, And that's what

672
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.679
we can do right now with this
deepest, with the running backs we have

673
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:15.679
with there, we are ready to
roll. Would I appreciate you listening.

674
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:20.800
I gotta get to my top of
the hour break here. I appreciate you

675
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:25.000
listening. I appreciate you being optimistic. I think that your phone call,

676
00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:30.519
unfortunately is a little bit on the
out there side of things, because Case

677
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:32.719
Keenum is not the answer for this
football team. And I don't want to

678
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:36.599
be the Debbie downer. He Look, if they go and win ten games,

679
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:38.880
I'll come on here and eat every
single word of They're not winning ten

680
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:43.320
football games. They're not ready for
that. They could be an improved team

681
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:47.000
this year, and I think the
schedule early on in the season is incredibly

682
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:52.760
favorable to win some football games.
But CJ. Stroud is going to start

683
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:57.000
from week one. They've made it
very obvious the way they've handled the reps

684
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:00.079
in practice and the way that it's
going that they're gonna play him. And

685
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:04.239
there's no better way overall to groom
a quarterback than to go through it like

686
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:07.280
you gotta play. Sitting on the
bench isn't going to do anything for you.

687
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.639
And he's not going to sit on
the bench. He's going to play,

688
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:15.719
and that's the right decision case.
Keenum's not the answer at all.

689
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:19.400
Seven one, three, two on
two five, seven ninety. There's a

690
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.119
bunch of a bunch of you guys
on hold. I'm gonna get to every

691
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:23.559
single one of year. As we
come back, we'll continue some of the

692
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:29.480
discussion on well the Texans and some
of the optimism there after one preseason game,

693
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:32.320
and of course the Astros as well. It is Space City Saturday right

694
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:52.760
here on Sports Talk seven ninety odd. Welcome to another Space City Saturday on

695
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:59.960
Sports Talk seven ninety Michael Cunners Live
and local h Town breakdown of the world

696
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:05.440
that matters to you, Houston forms. Were all these great Houston fans here.

697
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:09.039
We love you all, so finish
up on that to do list,

698
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:15.639
loot up the cooler, because you
can't drinking talk sports all day if you

699
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:22.840
don't start now. This is face
City Saturday. If here are seven nineties

700
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:30.199
Astros insider Michael Kunner, our second
and final hour of the show here on

701
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:34.639
Sports Talk seven ninety Conner back here
with us you if you would like to

702
00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:37.039
get into a seven one three two
one two five at seven ninety seven one

703
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:40.320
three, two one two five seven
ninety. I have a feeling that some

704
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:44.039
of you want to react to the
phone call we had to the end of

705
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.119
the last hour. If you missed
it, We've been talking some Texans.

706
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:51.679
We're gonna talk Texans and Astros as
we go along in this final hour of

707
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:53.320
the show, because well we have
both going on at the moment. Of

708
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.000
course, the Astro's back in action
at a kicking some butt last nine eleven

709
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.119
three final which you heard here on
seven night, and you'll hear again this

710
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:04.079
evening at six fifteen is the first
pitch to night. I'll have you for

711
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:08.320
the on Deck show starting at five
o'clock from five o'clock until five forty five,

712
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:13.239
ahead of Robert Ford and Steve Sparks
as the Astros look to beat the

713
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:16.840
Angels once again. John Singleton two
home runs last night, the Astros also

714
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:21.880
getting a quality start at adjustin Verlander
at his first start back at Mini Made

715
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:24.199
Park as a member of the Astros. Overall, great night for the Stros.

716
00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:29.320
They do remain two and a half
games back of the Rangers in the

717
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.400
American League West, and of course
the Texans getting the victory the other night

718
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:38.199
twenty three twenty two three over the
Patriots in the preseason opener. The overreaction

719
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:44.320
has begun for a lot of things, and it's completely silly. It is

720
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:47.199
two series of CJ. Stroud.
There are going to be rookie growing pains.

721
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:51.800
They're going to be moments of brilliance
for him as well, because he

722
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.159
was a great college player and there's
a reason why he was taking second overall

723
00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:59.400
in the draft. But you can't
write the book on anything about him or

724
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:04.280
make any really any any sort of
assumptions on what they're gonna do based off

725
00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:07.960
of the small sample size of preseason
that they've seen so far, And it

726
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:12.000
is completely silly to go over the
top. You can be optimistic and everything,

727
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.199
and I want to be optimistic because
for the first time in a very

728
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.360
long time with this franchise. There's
reason to watch and to be hopeful,

729
00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:22.760
but we're gonna have to pump the
brakes a little bit based off the last

730
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:24.840
phone call. Let's go back to
the phone lines and talk to Lamont up

731
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:30.639
next. What's going on, Lamont? Hey, how's you doing? Him?

732
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.639
Kind of? Michael, I'm sorry, I'm gonna go a little different

733
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.239
direction. Your last call almost und
like he had the Texans in the super

734
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:39.920
Bowl or something. Man. But
yeah, man, I'll rewatch that.

735
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:47.559
I'll rewatch that game. And you
know, I'm not gonna shroud is Shroud

736
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:51.840
is a nun story. But I'm
gonna go a little different direction. I'm

737
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:55.360
gonna go at Miko man because uh
and I'm not going hard at Miko.

738
00:51:55.960 --> 00:52:00.360
But here's my perspective, and hear
me out. You got your young quarterback

739
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.599
out there. You got your young
quarterback out there, and you didn't put

740
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:08.920
him in the most optable position.
In other words, Windhill was a Tonsol

741
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.960
not out there. You're gonna put
him out there with a paper mache offensive

742
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:17.000
line. I know we got I
know we have injuries, but if if

743
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.679
Tonsil is available, Tonso needs to
be out put your number one investment out

744
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:27.079
there on the football field. Didn't
mean. When I rewatched the game,

745
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:29.599
I was like, it just don't
make any sense. Why would they you

746
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:32.480
know, lead a young and I
know other two quarterbacks went out there behind

747
00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:36.360
him, but man, let's be
real, the other two quarterbacks are not

748
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:39.559
your top investment. That's your top
investment. Not only is your tonsil been

749
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:44.679
out there. Robert Wood should have
been out there, your whole full peers

750
00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:46.519
should have been out there, your
whole full compliments should have been out there.

751
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:52.440
YEA. Now later I heard Demiko, and this is why I give

752
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:54.880
it back up to Demiko. He
said, the way he comes from,

753
00:52:54.920 --> 00:53:00.880
if you can play football, you
play football under any circumstance. And I

754
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.960
get that, man, But if
that's the case, why the other guys

755
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.440
wouldn't playing football? I just don't
get. I really don't get putting your

756
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:13.000
top investment out there for him to
get, for him to get Cats the

757
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.840
way he did. Uh. And
you know, uh, you know Bill

758
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:20.679
Belichick blitz like six percent at a
time with the Ricky. Uh you should

759
00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:24.639
have expected that's to happen. But
that's it's it's minor. But I hope

760
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:29.599
he would never play his young quarterback
out there with his full a couple of

761
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.559
minute UH players, and what I
mean by that, if he wouldn't have

762
00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:37.159
played Uh Stroud yesterday, I would
have been just as satisfied. At least

763
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.440
you're not throwing him to the Wolves
with no backup. That's all I have,

764
00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:45.320
man, Thank you, la lot. I appreciate it now. Look,

765
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:49.920
I get the the curiosity of not
having tons of out there. I

766
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:53.239
think that's just where we're at based
on how teams operate in the preseason.

767
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:58.280
You know, I think you just
wanted to get Stroud's feet wet and they

768
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:02.039
haven't had the joint practice as yet. You know, a team's now clearly

769
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:07.920
value joint practicing more than they value
preseason games. And there's the of course,

770
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:13.599
opportunity for injury in any of those
situations, and it is a scary

771
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:22.280
proposition. I think that teams prefer
now the whole joint practice situation because they

772
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.639
have the ability to control what they're
doing. They will line up, the

773
00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:30.599
coaches will talk about what they want
to do against each other, and then

774
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:32.480
they'll go out there and do that
and they feel better about it and there's

775
00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:36.559
no tackle into the ground. Whatever
it might be. I just think that

776
00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:40.079
these practices coming up against the Dolphins
and against the Saints over the next couple

777
00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:43.840
of weeks, and the joint practices
ahead of the games or what matters now.

778
00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:47.079
I think in this next preseason game, you probably see them play straight

779
00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:51.400
out the most of that he's gonna
play. I would imagine that Tonsil and

780
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:52.840
those guys get out there. But
at the end of the day, they're

781
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:55.760
just trying to protect the players that
matter the most. And like, if

782
00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:00.079
they don't have Tonsil this year during
the regular season, dat's got no chance.

783
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:05.480
We know that they're already without tight
is hired for extended period of time,

784
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:08.760
hopefully it's not too long into the
into the regular season. But to

785
00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:13.000
have their line be what it's expected
to be, which is something that can

786
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:15.079
protect him and help their running game, go and do something this year.

787
00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:17.760
Like I get why they're going to
be protective of them in the preseason.

788
00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:22.480
They just want to get to that
regular season and go get it. Now,

789
00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:23.960
this gets back to the old debate
of do you build any kind of

790
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:28.320
chemistry when you do this? And
I understand that, Like I would always

791
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:30.239
prefer to see guys go and play. You play the sport to play the

792
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:35.360
sport. Injuries are gonna happen no
matter what. Again, if it's gonna

793
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:38.519
happen, you want to avoid it
happening in the preseason. I get it.

794
00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:44.760
It's the life of football. So
it's a battle that unfortunately, I

795
00:55:44.760 --> 00:55:46.239
think for those of us that would
like to see guys play or you're never

796
00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:50.840
gonna win. The players have gotten
so much out of the CBA's over the

797
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:54.000
last few years to where you know
they have so much power and good good

798
00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:58.559
on them to protect them and to
try and lengthen their careers as long as

799
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:01.320
possible in a sport that we've always
said it in NFL not for long.

800
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:07.679
So that's something that I can get
how difficult it is. But I would

801
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:13.480
prefer, like you that they don't
go out there and throw their rookie quarterback

802
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:16.800
in the thick of it without his
best options around him. But this is

803
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:21.719
just got to get your feet wet
somewhere. This week is important for him.

804
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:24.159
I'm interested to see what all the
reports are and how he looks they

805
00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:30.599
look at all that in these next
few days against the Miami Dolphins, which

806
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:37.480
will be intriguing to see exactly what
goes on and how he handles that,

807
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:43.119
and then how much maybe a half
maybe a quarter against the Dolphins in the

808
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:46.000
preseason game, and then I would
imagine he doesn't even play much, if

809
00:56:46.039 --> 00:56:51.800
any, in that game against the
Saints as well. Let's go to Gilbert

810
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:54.199
next on the phone lines, what's
going on? Gilbert? Hey, what's

811
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:57.840
going on? You can't go buy
a first game? And because he wasn't

812
00:56:57.840 --> 00:57:00.880
even opting with the first team,
So that's what Demiko said, so to

813
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:06.159
believe, I mean, it's okay. Do you remember correctly when we got

814
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.760
DeShawn Watson. He wasn't all that
when in preseason game either, but look

815
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:12.880
how he tried has to be the
same thing. When he first started in

816
00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:16.559
the season, he wasn't staying like
like he was, but guess what,

817
00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:21.480
he became a little good quarterback.
And that's the same thing with these shrugs.

818
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:23.519
See the shrub is gonna be okay. Demiko knows what he's doing.

819
00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:28.159
And as far as the defense goes, I think it's a lot better,

820
00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:30.480
as a whole lot better than last
year. And as far as Ashall's go,

821
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:32.960
I think they're gonna be doing great. I think it'll be just fine.

822
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.559
Berlander d good here supposed to a
matter of fact, my brother,

823
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:42.559
his wife, my sister in law
station and in Baltimore and that DC because

824
00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.559
she's the commander in the post guard. And he take me a picture of

825
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:54.440
him at the ball game when they
won. Okay, thank you. I

826
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:58.800
think you have somebody trying to get
your attention back there. Yeah, okay,

827
00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:02.119
I just called. I'm just lifting
all right. I appreciate the phone

828
00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:07.360
call. That's yeah. Cool to
have that moment at the ballpark. Great

829
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:09.960
for them to go and do that. I'm with you on the you know

830
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:15.599
that you don't look too much.
It's one preseason game. It's not against

831
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.079
the starters, it's not with your
starters. It doesn't matter overall. You

832
00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:21.599
cannot and I know that we live
in this world where we have to have

833
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:24.519
a reaction to everything and we want
to create content with everything and have something

834
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:29.559
to talk about constantly. We could
just go back and be simple with it

835
00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:34.559
and use our logical brains. You
know, it's one preseason game and it

836
00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:37.039
does not matter at the end of
the day, and you're hopeful that things

837
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:39.880
continue to go in the right direction
for the football team. And I think

838
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:45.440
again, there's a reason for optimism, and we'll see exactly what builds throughout

839
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:47.760
the rest of this preseason and how
they look in the regular season. That's

840
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:52.079
where you make, of course,
your first determination on where this football team

841
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:55.960
will go. Let's go to Kevin
next here on the phone lines. What's

842
00:58:55.960 --> 00:59:01.639
going on, Kevin, Hey,
Michael, just a few quick things about

843
00:59:01.679 --> 00:59:07.280
the three major sports teams. I
won't try to dominate your your show.

844
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:10.679
I wanted to ask you or tell
you, Yeah, Cougar High a few

845
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:15.360
callers ago, he may have a
point about Keeno if he was, like,

846
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:21.280
you know, playing against the first
stringers and you know, uh,

847
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:25.480
and he had maybe his own first
string I mean, it's similar to Mahomes

848
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:30.280
waiting with Alex Smith, although Keiman
has never been at the level of Alex

849
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:35.760
Smith. Wanted to just put that
in there. Secondly, I noticed that,

850
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:39.559
uh, some players, or at
least one player, Montero, was

851
00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:44.519
not at the White House. Uh
in the picture I didn't see. I

852
00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:46.599
was wondering if you knew what other
players that were on the team last year

853
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:51.760
that are not on other teams this
year, did not, you know,

854
00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:53.840
go to the White House. I
was just wondering about that. And lastly,

855
00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:59.400
I wanted to ask you about Mona
Heyns real quick. Montero was there,

856
01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:02.599
Oh he was he. I just
didn't see him in the in the

857
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:08.760
photograph. He looks like he walked
behind somebody. Oh really, okay,

858
01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:12.760
all right, well yeah, I
guess he is only about six one.

859
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:16.519
That's possible that he could be behind, you know, somebody like Stanic or

860
01:00:16.599 --> 01:00:22.679
somebody. I don't know anyways,
Yeah, but any of anybody else.

861
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:27.519
I think everybody. I think everybody
that was on the team that was last

862
01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:31.559
that was here last year. Okay, all right, Well anyways, I

863
01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:35.760
was just wondering they said, of
course the players that are on their team

864
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:37.119
this year, that we're not on
last year's. You know, they were

865
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:40.760
not really invited. I don't think, and I don't know if any of

866
01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:44.159
them are on there. Who knows. There's a lot of staff that I

867
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:47.599
don't recognize in the picture also,
But whatever, No one to ask you

868
01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:52.800
about Patty Mills. It seems like
when he was acquired, briefly they kind

869
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:54.880
of said that he would be like
a veteran presence off the bench or something.

870
01:00:54.920 --> 01:01:00.639
But then it seems like they may
have just changed, of course on

871
01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:05.760
that to maybe make him available,
like to complete the sign and trade for

872
01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:09.360
the guy from me meant this Dylan
Brooks, I guess because he went to

873
01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:14.440
Atlanta and then he went to Oklahoma
City, you know anything about what happened

874
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:16.320
there. I guess it's just more
of a means to an end with Patty

875
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:20.960
Mills ultimately, but I think first
he was going to be you know,

876
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:23.880
used, maybe as a veteran off
the bench. I don't know, just

877
01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:28.159
your thoughts on those those three things. Thank you, Michael, appreciate your

878
01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:32.599
show. Thank you for the phone
call. I think the original reporting simply

879
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:37.719
got out there that the eight Rockets
were acquiring for acquiring him for that reason.

880
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:40.360
But I think the reporting was just
wrong on the Patty Mills thing,

881
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:44.000
and he was just being shipped out
as part of another trade. And if

882
01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.000
like you mentioned, he was traded
as part as a part of the five

883
01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:51.199
team trade where the Rockets design and
trade to get Dylan Brooks, and then

884
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:54.239
he was traded to the Oklahoma City
Thunder. So I mean, he's a

885
01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:58.599
thirty five year old who doesn't play
much anymore and isn't very good when he

886
01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:01.199
does play. So I don't I
don't know, it didn't It's not something

887
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:05.480
I'm too bothered by, obviously.
I just think that the reporting is probably

888
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:08.119
what was wrong out there when people
initially reported it in terms of what they

889
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:10.119
were going to do with him.
Before we grab a time out, let's

890
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:15.039
go to Christian up NeXT's going on? Christian? Hey, how you doing

891
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:21.360
today? Good? Got so just
real quick wanting to chime in on the

892
01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:24.280
Texans and briefly, you know,
talk about I know you said last segment

893
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:28.559
that dealing with of the groom a
quarterback doesn't put him through it, right,

894
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:35.159
Yeah, Well, I mean obviously, I just kind of think that

895
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:37.519
the Chiefs maybe disagree with that.
I'm not comparing my homes is this strout.

896
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.280
But let me ask you this.
If the Texans go out and win

897
01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:44.639
twelve games this year, where do
we draft in the first round next year?

898
01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:51.039
Well, they'll they'll have then it
doesn't matter, right right, correct,

899
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:52.880
It doesn't matter if we win twelve, it doesn't matter if we winn't

900
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.199
want our performance is not going to
determine where we drafted in the first round

901
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.239
because it depends on where the Browns, how the Browns do. So that

902
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:05.199
being said, I'm just in that
what's gonna happen is I think that stroud

903
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.639
will fit. I think that Mills
will start. I think Case will be

904
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.840
nothing more than a third stringer.
And I think that the first game that

905
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:14.639
we would see c. J.
Strouds start will be after the bye Week

906
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:20.440
seven, verst Sprice Young against Carolina. Honest question, honest question, Why

907
01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:23.079
do you think that when they've already
started him game one and he's beginning all

908
01:03:23.079 --> 01:03:27.400
the number one reps in the prese
in the in the training camp, like

909
01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.599
they're gonna suddenly stop giving him the
one reps and say, okay, we're

910
01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:34.679
gonna go Davis Mills. They're not
doing that. Okay, but that's only

911
01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:37.480
one Okay, Okay, that was
one game. Okay, let's just say

912
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.199
it's not even the game's not even
that important. He literally for the entire

913
01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:45.480
last week took all the reps with
the ones, and he had been taking

914
01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:49.639
them for over a week at that
point. And you're and what you're what

915
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:52.039
you think or what you what you
think is is that Mills will never will

916
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:57.880
not start from this point on.
It's week one. Yeah, okay,

917
01:03:57.920 --> 01:04:00.880
they're not twenty. If they've done
I think that done. The Davis Mills

918
01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:04.400
experience he's not a he's not a
starting quarterback in this league. Okay,

919
01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:08.280
I mean yeah, I mean obviously
that's an opinion. I just think that

920
01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:11.840
it could change, right, I
mean, if the Stroud goes out there,

921
01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:15.199
and you know, if it does
look like the game is two pass

922
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:16.960
world. Yes, it's a couple
of series. Yes, I get it,

923
01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:20.719
it's a week on one of the
preseasons, but it is what it

924
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:24.880
is. And if he continues to
do this, I just got a feeling

925
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:28.719
that maybe they will him and let
him groom him and watch him and let

926
01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:30.760
Mills take the end up being a
starter week one. That's just an opinion,

927
01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:35.079
Okay. Well, I appreciate the
phone call and you listening this morning

928
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:40.119
seven three two one two five seven
ninety, I will I want to get

929
01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:43.039
my time out in because I don't
want to just rush this thought. I

930
01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:45.880
appreciate the phone call. I just
think that you are completely wrong on all

931
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:48.239
of it, and based on everything
that we've seen. We'll discuss it next.

932
01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:50.400
Do you want to get in here
join us. We're with you until

933
01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:57.079
noon right here on Sports Talk seven
ninety. We now return to face City

934
01:04:57.199 --> 01:05:08.920
Saturday. Sports Talk seven ninety Welcome
back to Space City Saturday, right here

935
01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:12.199
on Sports Talk seven. I need
my Connor back here with you. I'm

936
01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:14.920
gonna get back to your phone calls
A seven one three, two one two

937
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:17.639
five seven ninety here in just a
bit. If you want to join us,

938
01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:20.519
of course you can find me on
Twitter as well. At MC seven

939
01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:24.719
ninety is the place to do that. But I want to go back to

940
01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:32.360
the last phone call. And here's
something that I just I don't understand why

941
01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:35.559
we constantly do it. If you
miss the last phone call, and then

942
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:40.320
again is everybody's opinion, and it's
this is my opinion. But and you

943
01:05:40.360 --> 01:05:43.840
could hear it and think I'm completely
wrong. That's fine, That's that is

944
01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:46.480
what it is. I just I
don't I always go in and try to

945
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:50.039
analyze situations and any team in this
city, whether it's the Astros, the

946
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:54.880
Texans of the Rockets, and look
at it logically and for what it is.

947
01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:59.000
And I think we've had two phone
calls this morning, one that wants

948
01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.679
case Keenom to play and another that
says that CJ. Stroud is gonna sit

949
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:06.360
and or that they're not gonna Playhi
and they're gonna play Davis Mills. They've

950
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:11.400
given you zero indication, first of
all, that either of those guys has

951
01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:15.719
any chance to play as the starter
in Week one over CJ. Stroud.

952
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:21.719
First of all, I personally,
now this is my feel on it.

953
01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:28.000
For what I want to see happen. I'm not interested in watching other quarterbacks

954
01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:31.119
play. We all have been,
for the most part in this city as

955
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:39.960
football fans, starved for years for
the football franchise to have a quarterback that

956
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:44.480
we can rally behind. We all
thought we had it into Shaun Watson until

957
01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:48.400
he turned into a well creep and
they got rid of him, thank god.

958
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:56.400
But the fact that we keep jumping
through these hoops do not want to

959
01:06:56.440 --> 01:07:00.519
play the quarterback that they drafted,
it blows my mind. They used the

960
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:03.119
second pick in the draft on him
for a reason. They've invested all this

961
01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:09.039
money and time into him already for
a reason. I know the easy thing

962
01:07:09.079 --> 01:07:11.000
and we do this all the time, and we have to stop doing it.

963
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:14.199
Everybody loves to do it is We'll
look what the chief did with Patrick

964
01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.840
Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes was not the
first quarterback taking in the draft. The

965
01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:19.320
Chiefs were one of the few teams
that was smart enough to realize that what

966
01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:21.679
he did in college was going to
translate to the NFL level and he was

967
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:27.719
gonna be an absolute monster. But
they also sat him because they had an

968
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:30.559
established Pro Bowl quarterback on a team
that could go and win at that very

969
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:34.800
moment, so they gave him a
year. The Texans aren't an established football

970
01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:38.800
team that's that's known to win.
They don't have an established quarterback that's a

971
01:07:38.840 --> 01:07:42.239
Pro Bowl or year after year,
and there's no obvious reason to sit him.

972
01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:49.199
This thought process because we've seen like
two quarterbacks in recent history of Rogers

973
01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:54.760
and and Mahomes sitting for a year
that oh, this is the this is

974
01:07:54.760 --> 01:07:57.920
the Matt this is the secret sauce
to having a quarterback going play. Most

975
01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:03.920
of them go play immediately. So
I don't understand this jumping through hoops as

976
01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:08.480
fans for all these other things that
just aren't realistic. And again, when

977
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:13.519
the team is literally giving you every
single sign of they're not going to sit

978
01:08:13.639 --> 01:08:17.439
the player, They're going to play
the player from week one, they've talked

979
01:08:17.479 --> 01:08:20.239
about it. The only thing that
they have left to do is name him

980
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:24.640
the starting quarterback officially, and guess
what they're gonna do that after this next

981
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:31.960
week? Would be my guess,
I want to see and I think you

982
01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:35.199
should all want to see CJ.
Stroud to play their best chance to win

983
01:08:35.239 --> 01:08:41.119
this year's With CJ Stroud, you
know exactly what you're gonna get out of

984
01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:44.840
Davis Mills bad in the good moments
of the game and the most of the

985
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:46.880
game that are winning time moments,
and then in garbage time of gal put

986
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:53.840
up numbers and stats. That's Davis
Mills. Case Keenum, unbelievable journeyman,

987
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:01.720
great mentor great guy to have in
your locker room, has a pre massive,

988
01:09:01.720 --> 01:09:04.159
a massive love from people in the
city because he was great at the

989
01:09:04.279 --> 01:09:12.439
University of Houston. But I think
you guys got to quit it with the

990
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.720
trying to find reasons to not play
CJ. Stroud. And again it gets

991
01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:23.399
back to me looking at it logically, they're telling you who's playing quarterback by

992
01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:27.800
who is getting the reps in practice
as the one, it's CJ. Stroud

993
01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:31.119
getting all of them. And they've
transitioned that early on. They split in

994
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:35.960
the first week and since then it's
been nothing but CJ. Stroud. They're

995
01:09:35.960 --> 01:09:42.000
not playing Davis Mills, they're not
playing case Keenum. CJ. Stroud.

996
01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:47.800
Week one in Baltimore is starting,
and that is the right decision. There's

997
01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:56.800
no point in sitting around and waiting. Let him play. If he's good,

998
01:09:56.920 --> 01:10:00.680
he's gonna figure it out. He's
not well, then they're gonna have

999
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:03.159
to analyze that and then eventually move
on to somebody else. And it's not

1000
01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:05.359
gonna be high there with those guys. And they're not gonna pull CJ.

1001
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:09.119
Stro out in the middle of the
year unless he goes out there and like

1002
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:17.119
goes and throws like two touchdowns and
fourteen picks or something. This is a

1003
01:10:17.199 --> 01:10:24.560
year of growth and I personally have
zero interest in watching anybody else play quarterback

1004
01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.680
for this team. Let's go to
Statman next on the phone line. What's

1005
01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:34.960
up? Statman? Hey there,
Michael, what's up? Two things?

1006
01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:39.840
Okay, So first I just want
to say that nice to see al Tuobates

1007
01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:44.159
come right back and just be done
to fire. Can't wait until Albarez really

1008
01:10:44.239 --> 01:10:48.279
starts, you know, going on
getting on fire. I'm originally from Detroit,

1009
01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:54.000
Michigan. I would love to see
AJ make the Tigers viable again.

1010
01:10:54.560 --> 01:10:58.640
They had signs of it just recently, but it doesn't look it's gonna happen.

1011
01:10:59.359 --> 01:11:00.800
But there's there are things I want
to talk about about the Texas.

1012
01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:05.680
Number one. I'm glad that Jackie's
gone. I'm glad that Bob has gone.

1013
01:11:06.119 --> 01:11:10.880
But I have a feel on this, Dicky c Uh it's pushing for

1014
01:11:10.960 --> 01:11:15.960
the Stroud because I think he's sweating
bullets. And obviously, uh, the

1015
01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:20.079
head coach is on a five year
plan. But Nicky c he he you

1016
01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:25.439
know, all lost all that draft
cloud to get number two and number three,

1017
01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:30.319
you know, crazy great move.
But you know, I want to

1018
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.359
say, my brother in law said
that they shouldn't they should do what they

1019
01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:35.680
did with Steve mcneer. You know, let this guy sit back and watch.

1020
01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:40.960
Let you know, let us give
us another year to get the offensive

1021
01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:45.680
line and defensive line you know,
stronger, and and let this guy just

1022
01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:47.840
you know, melded to the job. I mean. And another thing is

1023
01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:54.520
is this is this is my biggest
point today. I can't believe, you

1024
01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:58.920
know, Cal and Hannah. Obviously
Hannah is now you know, in charge,

1025
01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:01.279
I guess, But I cannot believe
that they didn't bring back Hopkins.

1026
01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:05.760
That was a chance to save face
because you know, Bob was given all

1027
01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:11.760
that power by Cal and he totally
just completely screwed us over and to get

1028
01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.960
Hopkins back would have been such a
fan favorite. And that's all I've got.

1029
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:17.840
That's all I've got. Thank you
for the phone call. Look,

1030
01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:24.319
I get the thought process behind wanting
to have a fan favorite back and everything

1031
01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:27.039
in the whole Hopkins mess when it
was gone was it was a disaster and

1032
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:31.000
it is embarrassing. Look, I
don't want to disrespect DeAndre Hopkins, but

1033
01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:34.479
since he's left Houston, he's had
one great year, was suspended, has

1034
01:12:34.520 --> 01:12:39.560
been hurt. It was good last
year before you know, the same thing

1035
01:12:39.640 --> 01:12:44.079
happened. He's in his thirties now, he probably lost a step. I

1036
01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:50.720
think that I think that, without
a doubt, he would help this football

1037
01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:54.199
team. But I just don't know
that it was necessarily something that you have

1038
01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:56.479
to go and do. You go
get it DeAndre Hopkins, and you pay

1039
01:12:56.560 --> 01:13:00.640
him money that he's looking for,
which is more than your pro probably willing

1040
01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:01.680
to pay. At this point.
They didn't have a ton of cast so

1041
01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:03.680
they could have made it work.
You can always make it work on your

1042
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:13.600
cap, but it's it's something that
did they need it. Probably not let

1043
01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:17.920
your young guys work. Even if
I'm not intrigued by the by the wide

1044
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.159
receiving corps that they have, and
I do think it's gonna make life difficult

1045
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:25.840
at times for the Texans to have
a consistent all but they're gonna be a

1046
01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:28.640
run heavy team this year. They're
just trying to get c J. Stroud's

1047
01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:32.640
feet wet at the NFL level.
And again, you know this whole thought

1048
01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:36.439
process behind let him sit for you
bring up the line and everything. The

1049
01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:42.439
line is that in their view of
their offensive line, they're at their peak

1050
01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:45.199
right now, like they are at
their spot where they're ready to go forward.

1051
01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:46.960
They've got tons of lockdown. They've
got tight as Harard lockdown. They

1052
01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:49.319
feel good about both players. They
wouldn't have done that if they did not

1053
01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:54.439
feel good about it. They've got
Shack Mason. They obviously lose Question Bearer

1054
01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:58.199
the other day. Juice Scrugs is
gonna have to go ahead and pull his

1055
01:13:58.319 --> 01:14:00.880
weight now as a rookie at the
center, and Kenyan Green is in a

1056
01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:08.960
massive year this year. But like
if everything is right and their evaluation process

1057
01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:14.760
is correct, the line is a
strength of this team and helps the quarterback,

1058
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:19.920
It helps the run game and does
all those things. So you don't

1059
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:23.399
draft a guy. And that's that's
the other part of this, like they

1060
01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:27.000
I just can't get over, Like
why again we jump through these all these

1061
01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:32.279
hoops to try and fit some some
silly narrative that doesn't exist, that you

1062
01:14:32.319 --> 01:14:36.880
need to sit a quarterback, let
him sit for a year in developed and

1063
01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:40.319
develop the other part of the team. You draft a player number two to

1064
01:14:40.399 --> 01:14:45.479
play them. They don't draft players
number two in the NFL to sit them

1065
01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:47.399
for a year. And if you
think that that's what's gonna happen, I'm

1066
01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:54.640
telling you you are wrong. You
will eat those words come week one.

1067
01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:58.119
You will eat them every week this
season. He's playing as he should.

1068
01:15:00.520 --> 01:15:03.720
If you drafted a guy's second overall
and you have to and you're going into

1069
01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:06.439
this process of going on, I'm
gonna put kid gloves on him and protect

1070
01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:09.880
him and do all these things,
then you should have drafted into number two.

1071
01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:15.319
There's no pressure from the GM to
play him. If you think the

1072
01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:18.359
head coach didn't want the player or
isn't ready to have the player player every

1073
01:15:18.399 --> 01:15:23.760
day, you're wrong there. They
drafted him because they evaluated him and thought

1074
01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:26.640
that this is the best player at
number two for us to take, and

1075
01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:29.239
then they traded up and took the
other best player that they wanted to take

1076
01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:34.600
in Will Anderson. So we gotta
quit trying to find things here and there

1077
01:15:34.640 --> 01:15:39.279
and everywhere else. Look at what's
in front of you. Live in reality

1078
01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:43.239
and understand what the situation is.
That's where they're at. Seven one two

1079
01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:45.039
two five seven nineties our phone number
again to join us. We got thirty

1080
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:47.279
minutes to go. Some of you
on hold, don't go anywhere, a

1081
01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:51.159
quick short time out. We will
again continue the discussion with you guys next

1082
01:15:51.239 --> 01:16:00.359
year on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Space City Saturday continues. Find Sports Talk

1083
01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:13.720
seven ninety. It is Space City
Saturday and you're home of the Astros and

1084
01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:15.960
the Rockets. Sports Talk seven ninety. Mcconnor here with you. We've got

1085
01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:18.720
just under thirty minutes if you would
like to join us at seven one three

1086
01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:23.760
two on two five, seven ninety. We've had a lot of Astro's discussion

1087
01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:27.840
today. We've had a lot of
Texans discussion today. So we're going to

1088
01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:30.159
continue with you guys because you guys
want to talk today and I want to

1089
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:31.840
talk to you guys because we got
good things to talk about in sports and

1090
01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:34.359
thing we just have sports in general. We'll talk about right now with two

1091
01:16:34.359 --> 01:16:38.399
teams getting going, are with two
teams going, one team going in the

1092
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:42.000
thick of it, the other teams
starting their twenty twenty three season off and

1093
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:45.039
the Texans, And we'll continue that
discussion now with Bonnie Joe on hold.

1094
01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:48.159
What's going on? Bonnie Joe?
Hey, Michael, First, thank you

1095
01:16:48.199 --> 01:16:50.479
for taking my call. I want
to thank you for a great show.

1096
01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:56.640
As always. I especially appreciate your
baseball acumen. It's it's really always on

1097
01:16:56.760 --> 01:17:00.800
point. But I'm calling about c. J. Stroud and I've heard this

1098
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:04.199
morning and you kind of stolen my
thunder in your last two little commentaries.

1099
01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:08.039
But I'm going to say anyway,
I agree with what you've been saying.

1100
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:12.960
First, they wouldn't have drafted him
that high to have him sit, not

1101
01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:18.039
where this team is or has been
the previous seasons. Secondly, Demiko is

1102
01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:23.279
different from the other coaches. I
feel that, and I don't know.

1103
01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:27.000
I'm not a Texan fan at all. It matters not to me who they

1104
01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:33.760
play, but he Demko is a
much stronger, meaning like mentally stronger coach

1105
01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:39.600
I feel, and I think the
whole going into the c j Stroud thing

1106
01:17:39.760 --> 01:17:44.960
he is in on him unless something
terribly terribly goes wrong, like an injury

1107
01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:50.319
or just massive, massive failings.
I don't think there's any doubt that Stroud

1108
01:17:50.479 --> 01:17:55.760
is the starting quarterback that they're going
to pull him after one or two games

1109
01:17:55.800 --> 01:18:00.960
because he throws an interception. It
just makes no sense to me that these

1110
01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:05.720
people think that, after everything that
the Texans have been through the past several

1111
01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:10.720
seasons, and the type of coaches
that they've had, that this is now

1112
01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:15.000
the direction they're going we we or
the Texans, not we. The Texans,

1113
01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:19.800
you know, draft someone second overall
and they're gonna having sit and watch

1114
01:18:19.960 --> 01:18:25.640
that. That's not the thinking at
all in my mind of what the Texans

1115
01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:31.640
plan is for Stroud. Bonnie Joe, I think you are spot on there.

1116
01:18:32.039 --> 01:18:34.199
I appreciate, first of all,
which says very kind of you to

1117
01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:39.520
say what she said about the Astros
everything. I just I like to,

1118
01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:42.279
uh, you know, as I
said earlier, I like to try and

1119
01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:45.800
look at it the big picture of
a situation and everything. And I just

1120
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:47.640
think that as sports fans and I
get it. In this world where you

1121
01:18:47.680 --> 01:18:51.159
know, there are there's a lot
of content that's put out there, there's

1122
01:18:51.159 --> 01:18:55.359
a lot of voices, there's a
lot of opinions. It's a saturated world

1123
01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:57.680
in terms of people that haven't an
opinion out there, and I'm one of

1124
01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:02.319
those people. I'm part of that
crowd. But sometimes we try to create

1125
01:19:02.399 --> 01:19:06.920
storylines that just aren't always there,
and I think there have been a small

1126
01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:12.199
faction of people that have tried to
create this storyline. And I do think

1127
01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:15.720
that one of those groups of people
is a station that may or may not

1128
01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:23.960
air the Texans And I think that
that kind of gets people trying to stir

1129
01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:26.680
stuff up. And then you know, I don't do it on Facebook.

1130
01:19:26.680 --> 01:19:29.039
I know that Facebook's home of the
crazies. I think that you get on

1131
01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:31.720
Facebook and there's probably a billion people
out there doing the same thing on that,

1132
01:19:31.800 --> 01:19:36.600
and you try to convince yourself that
there's this actual storyline of how it's

1133
01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:40.199
going when it's just not accurate,
when you can't look at what's right there

1134
01:19:40.199 --> 01:19:42.880
in front of your face. And
what's right there in front of your face

1135
01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:45.600
is the fact that they've used the
rookie quarterback with the ones. In practice,

1136
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:50.079
they don't do that without the intention
of playing him as the starting quarterback.

1137
01:19:50.399 --> 01:19:54.000
Like if Davis Mills. Yeah,
Davis Mills is meant to be the

1138
01:19:54.000 --> 01:19:58.119
starting quarterback, he'd be getting all
those opportunities. Sure. Cashing one more

1139
01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:01.319
quick thing about preseason, Yeah,
I'm so sired of people judging things on

1140
01:20:01.399 --> 01:20:05.199
the first preseason game. It has
always driven me in saying, I've been

1141
01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:13.039
a football fan for like five decades. I mean, I don't understand judging

1142
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:16.680
on the very first preseason game.
It makes no sense to me to meet.

1143
01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:20.880
In my opinion, preseason does not
mean too much. It's more for

1144
01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:27.640
the coaches, not for the fans. That's just my feeling. I'm right

1145
01:20:27.640 --> 01:20:30.199
there with you again, thank you
for the phone call this morning here on

1146
01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:33.680
Space City Saturday. It is as
an evaluation process in certainly they know what

1147
01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:36.079
their football team is going to be, they know who they're going to play.

1148
01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:39.720
For the most part, like they
have all that stuff in order.

1149
01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:42.760
There are small battles here and there
that matter, and they're gonna be looking

1150
01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:45.159
for those certain things. Of course, they want to see teams build chemistry,

1151
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:47.960
jail do the things they need to
do to progress in the systems that

1152
01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:50.600
they're trying to put in place to
help them win football games this year.

1153
01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:55.079
But overall. Yes, we do
this whole song and dance every year where

1154
01:20:55.079 --> 01:20:59.039
people and I get it, we've
not been as locked in on Texans in

1155
01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:01.600
recent years as we've been in the
past, and I think that this is

1156
01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:03.760
kind of the thing that you see
with that the Astros at times is and

1157
01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:05.840
I'm not trying to be rude about
it, there's a lot of people that

1158
01:21:05.880 --> 01:21:11.000
don't pay attention to a lot of
things. They're casual and then they get

1159
01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:15.960
back into it, and you know, you just when you're not invested in

1160
01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:17.960
everything every single day, there's things
that you miss, there's things that you

1161
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:21.800
don't see, there's a there's a
there's a thought process that goes through your

1162
01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:27.520
head. That's just something that's not
always accurate. And I think that we

1163
01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:30.760
see a little bit of that when
it comes to the opinions that you get

1164
01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:32.800
in those scenarios. And that's happening
right now. After one preseason game that

1165
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:35.920
means absolutely nothing. Let's go to
Eddie next. What's going on, Eddie?

1166
01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:43.840
Hey there, good morning. I'd
actually like to see Mills start against

1167
01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:47.239
Miami. And here's why. In
the first game against the Pats, Stroud

1168
01:21:48.159 --> 01:21:56.239
was playing with no Titus Howard no
Laramie Tounsil, no Shack Mason juice drugs

1169
01:21:56.279 --> 01:22:00.199
in his first game ever, and
ken Yon Green the worst line we hey

1170
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:02.840
actually might not even be a starter
by the end of the year. So

1171
01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:09.760
Stroud really had no possibility to implement
anything he learned in the preseason. He

1172
01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:14.920
couldn't go through any progressions or anything. He literally ran around for his life

1173
01:22:15.239 --> 01:22:19.680
and it was the most pointless outing
for a quarterback I'd ever seen. I'd

1174
01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:28.239
rather have middles start against the Dolphins
starters on defense. Let's Stroud come in,

1175
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:31.399
work the whole second quarter, the
whole third quarter, and then let

1176
01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:35.039
Case work the fourth. The reason
why, I mean, we're trying to

1177
01:22:35.039 --> 01:22:41.680
groom a rookie quarterback and Case Keenham
gets the most physic quarterback. It's stupid.

1178
01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:46.520
I am a I think Stroud should
start from day one against Baltimore.

1179
01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:51.399
I agree with you there, but
I want him to actually be able to

1180
01:22:51.520 --> 01:22:55.920
learn and use what he's learned.
If he's running for his life like he

1181
01:22:56.039 --> 01:23:00.359
was against Miami, totally pointless.
I want him against the team, the

1182
01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:05.439
B team of Miami, where he
can actually implement what he's learned, and

1183
01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:11.119
he won't be doing that against the
Dolphins first stringer. I'm just because I

1184
01:23:11.199 --> 01:23:15.520
appreciate the phone call. I don't
understand that logic. To be perfectly honest

1185
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:17.359
with you, I want the guy
that's going to be the starter to play

1186
01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:20.079
against starters. I don't think they
can do it. Playing him against backups

1187
01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:25.000
does anything for you in those scenarios, So and it's not a real possibility.

1188
01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:26.720
Thank you again for the phone call. You need to grab one more

1189
01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:29.800
before the time out. Let's go
to Robert. Let's going on, Robert,

1190
01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:34.239
Mike, hey man. I want
to say one thing is that I

1191
01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:40.840
think a lot of people that have
called in people, especially the guys obviously,

1192
01:23:40.920 --> 01:23:43.960
people that's never played football, and
then maybe they played in a lower

1193
01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:46.880
level like Pony League, coat whatever
it is when you like five, six

1194
01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:49.680
of eight, nine, But I
don't think they played in high school,

1195
01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:56.800
our college. And you can tell
by the reasoning behind their comments about what

1196
01:23:56.840 --> 01:24:00.760
the Texans should do, and they
getting all worked up, have some like

1197
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:05.199
these scenarios about playing people that shouldn't
be playing Beside CJ. It's just it's

1198
01:24:05.199 --> 01:24:09.720
just ridiculous. I'm glad the woman
the ladies just hung up. She made

1199
01:24:09.720 --> 01:24:12.159
more sense than all these guys.
That's called in. Come on, guys,

1200
01:24:12.199 --> 01:24:14.960
we need to get get this act
together. With your phone call,

1201
01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:18.000
Michael, you should be having a
headache by now with all these crazy calls,

1202
01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:24.319
crazy scenario. I'm I'm gonna have
a beer after this show. You

1203
01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:26.800
need one. Man. I feel
sorry player. I was coming in and

1204
01:24:26.840 --> 01:24:28.600
give you a release and said,
man, let me take some of these

1205
01:24:28.600 --> 01:24:30.560
crazy calls for you for a few
minutes and give you a break. My

1206
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:34.199
head would explode from all this craziness. So we need to stop all this

1207
01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:39.079
crazy talk. Man. Let let
the people that run this team that they

1208
01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:41.159
know what they're doing. They can't
pay for a reason. We was all

1209
01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:45.000
high on Demiko. Okay, we
may not agree with Demiko in the decision

1210
01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:46.840
that was made about these lineman's and
not playing, but that still don't mean

1211
01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:50.520
c J. Strout can't go out
there and play. He give this guy,

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01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:54.600
this young guy a chance. He
understand what's going on, so you

1213
01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:58.159
can ask you understand too, and
then we and that The thing I will

1214
01:24:58.239 --> 01:25:00.720
say though, is that I was
what we should We're talking about as a

1215
01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:04.399
positive and the positive that I'm taking
from this game is man Tank deal like

1216
01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:10.039
he's a gamer. Tandale looked like
he could be somebody that we can We

1217
01:25:10.159 --> 01:25:15.600
always were complained about not having a
receiver worth as a number one. We

1218
01:25:15.640 --> 01:25:16.600
don't know. I take there I
maybe being a one, but we could

1219
01:25:16.600 --> 01:25:20.560
see he has the potential maybe being
a number one. And I so Menchi,

1220
01:25:21.359 --> 01:25:25.920
I hope I'm pronounced this right,
John mention from uh the wide receiver.

1221
01:25:26.000 --> 01:25:28.239
He looked pretty good, even though
I know he called this for his

1222
01:25:28.359 --> 01:25:30.199
catch. We don't know what this
guy may end up being. And then

1223
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:34.159
we got a lot of these young
guys and the defense look awesome. Let's

1224
01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:40.279
talk about the positives. And that's
he talking homering and talking about these negative

1225
01:25:40.359 --> 01:25:43.359
things, and uh, Mike,
you hang in there, man. That's

1226
01:25:43.359 --> 01:25:45.880
all I got, Robert. I
appreciate it. I'm good overall. At

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01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:48.680
the end of the day, you
know, we are just talking sports,

1228
01:25:48.680 --> 01:25:53.640
and I might think and a caller's
opinions wrong, and I think a lot

1229
01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:56.600
of colors opinions that we've had today
are wrong. And I, like I

1230
01:25:57.119 --> 01:26:00.720
said, I I try to look
at this situation logically in big picture and

1231
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:03.680
look at the evidence that teams are
giving me on certain things. And that's

1232
01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:08.039
why I just keep going back to
like we're doing all this jumping around and

1233
01:26:08.119 --> 01:26:11.479
trying to find this and that and
these different scenarios, and I want this.

1234
01:26:11.600 --> 01:26:14.560
I want that they're telling you what
they're gonna do. They're telling you

1235
01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:16.680
they're gonna play CJ. Strout from
week one, as they should. They

1236
01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:19.039
told you that when they drafted him
with a second pick in the draft.

1237
01:26:19.720 --> 01:26:25.119
It was never going in any other
way. So finding all these different scenarios,

1238
01:26:25.199 --> 01:26:28.720
jumping through all these hoops, it
just it's a waste of time.

1239
01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:30.960
It's like a lot of the things
that I go through when we talk astros

1240
01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:33.720
too, whether it be like the
Maldonado catching or anything, or you know,

1241
01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:40.439
lineups and those things, like you're
wasting your energy. They're gonna play

1242
01:26:40.720 --> 01:26:44.399
CJ. Stroud, you should,
honestly, Like I don't. Again,

1243
01:26:44.399 --> 01:26:47.399
I don't understand the thought process of
not wanting to see him play because we've

1244
01:26:47.399 --> 01:26:54.600
watched crap quarterback play here in this
city for so long, Like you've watched

1245
01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:58.640
Davis Mills for two years, be
hot garbage, And if you're a Davis

1246
01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:02.479
Mills guy, I'm sorry. There's
nothing he's done at the NFL level that

1247
01:27:02.520 --> 01:27:05.359
makes you think he's a starting quarterback, and there's a reason he's not gonna

1248
01:27:05.399 --> 01:27:10.039
be one. So that's where I
keep going back to. We need to

1249
01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:12.079
grab our final time out of the
morning. When we come back, we'll

1250
01:27:12.119 --> 01:27:16.119
wrap up this show. Final thoughts
Astros Texans right here on Sports Talk seven

1251
01:27:16.199 --> 01:27:33.680
ninety. Welcome back to Space City
Saturday one Sports Talks seven ninety. It's

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01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:39.880
our final few minutes of Space City
Saturday here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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01:27:39.920 --> 01:27:42.000
But you won't get rid of me
today. I'll be back with you to

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01:27:42.039 --> 01:27:45.600
this evening at five o'clock to get
you ready for Astros and Angels. With

1255
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:48.800
the Astros on Deck Show right here
on seven nineties, these Stros like to

1256
01:27:48.840 --> 01:27:55.239
secure the series victory today in game
two of the three game weekend series.

1257
01:27:55.279 --> 01:27:59.119
The Astros will give the ball to
JP France today. Thank goodness, he's

1258
01:27:59.159 --> 01:28:02.199
back getting at Arthur in the six
man rotation against six fifteen. First pitch

1259
01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:08.199
on Deck Show at five o'clock with
me, the Astros will face Tyler Anderson

1260
01:28:08.239 --> 01:28:11.720
today. For the Angels, I
want to grab those of you that are

1261
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:14.840
on whole before we get on out
of here in a few minutes. And

1262
01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:19.800
up next we have Roberts. What's
going on Robert all right, I just

1263
01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:25.319
wanted to say a couple of positive
things. You know, when do you

1264
01:28:25.439 --> 01:28:29.680
take baby steps? You know,
I'm looking at our coaching staff, and

1265
01:28:29.760 --> 01:28:34.159
I believe there are This staff is
a lot more organized than the previous staff.

1266
01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:40.359
I didn't see the whole game,
but from what I saw, we

1267
01:28:40.439 --> 01:28:45.600
didn't make stupid kilties. I didn't
see any around the goal, Eric the

1268
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:50.199
red zough like what you normally do. So I don't know, I'm looking

1269
01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:55.800
at a positive thing. I think
we look at a lot more organized at

1270
01:28:55.840 --> 01:29:00.079
the team. I would agree with
you there, Robert, apreciate the phone

1271
01:29:00.119 --> 01:29:03.800
call here this morning on Space City
Saturday. I think that's been something that's

1272
01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:06.520
kind of plagued this football team now
for the last couple of years. I

1273
01:29:06.520 --> 01:29:09.680
mean, look, we can go
back and rehash it if we want,

1274
01:29:09.680 --> 01:29:13.920
but we know that the last two
coaching hires were disasters. I mean,

1275
01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.640
you know, David Culley was not
a real candidate, and they farted around,

1276
01:29:17.640 --> 01:29:21.880
farted around, farted around, ended
up on him. They never really

1277
01:29:21.880 --> 01:29:25.239
thought that he was going to be
a head coach for long. And then

1278
01:29:25.239 --> 01:29:29.479
they did the whole song and dance
again last year and completely screwed up the

1279
01:29:29.479 --> 01:29:32.880
coaching hire process for the second consecutive
year and ended up with Lovey Smith,

1280
01:29:33.520 --> 01:29:36.079
and we all knew that that was
not a long term option. He had

1281
01:29:36.119 --> 01:29:41.319
been a head coach multiple times now
in the NFL. He played an old,

1282
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:44.920
antiquated defense. His thought process on
a lot of things is night and

1283
01:29:44.960 --> 01:29:46.960
now, look, either coach had
any sort of level of talent. The

1284
01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:53.479
Texans were putting out teams on purpose
to not win football games as they should

1285
01:29:53.479 --> 01:29:56.279
have. I mean like they were
just signing one year deals for average players

1286
01:29:56.319 --> 01:29:59.840
at best. They were playing young
guys in other spots, they were coming

1287
01:29:59.800 --> 01:30:02.439
off years and not having draft capital. It was a complete teardown rebuild that

1288
01:30:02.520 --> 01:30:08.000
had to absolutely do this, and
I get it, but they just completely

1289
01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:13.239
botched two head coaches that stunted maybe
some of year development. Now Demiko Ryans

1290
01:30:13.319 --> 01:30:15.039
was able to go and get his
seasoning with the forty nine ers, do

1291
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:19.319
his thing and to be perfectly honestly, at a lot like the Rockets landing

1292
01:30:19.359 --> 01:30:25.439
in Medoko. I was shocked that
the Texans were able to pull off Demiko

1293
01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:29.640
Ryan's I just I wondered, and
again this is you know, you have

1294
01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:32.960
to wonder how the interviews went and
everything. I think that clearly Demko's probably

1295
01:30:33.000 --> 01:30:39.000
got a good, good, strong
stance in this organization that they believe in

1296
01:30:39.039 --> 01:30:42.439
him, and they're going to give
him every resource and the amount of years

1297
01:30:42.520 --> 01:30:45.960
needed to go out and truly develop
this thing. And he probably has quite

1298
01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:50.439
a bit of power and he should
based off of things. But you know,

1299
01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:55.720
I was surprised that they were able
to get him because of the market

1300
01:30:55.800 --> 01:30:59.640
that was out there for other teams, that there were some better situations maybe

1301
01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:01.359
that you know, you could have
said, hey, this team might win

1302
01:31:01.439 --> 01:31:06.079
faster, this team could win.
Now he was basically, you know of

1303
01:31:06.359 --> 01:31:10.479
one of, if not the hottest
name out there for teams to go and

1304
01:31:10.560 --> 01:31:13.840
chase, and I was pleasantly surprised
that the Texans were able to get him.

1305
01:31:13.880 --> 01:31:15.560
I think he's gonna be a great
dynamic head coach. I think that

1306
01:31:16.159 --> 01:31:20.279
based off of everybody that you talked
to and listen to, the leadership is

1307
01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:23.520
there. And now, look,
I've said it before, I was out

1308
01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:26.760
there a lot when Demiko was a
player. Still. I used to go

1309
01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:30.199
to text and stuff daily. I'd
go to practice way back when I started

1310
01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:33.560
in this business and would go to
all the games and everything. And you

1311
01:31:33.600 --> 01:31:38.960
know, even as a young twenty
year old who was honestly terrified of talking

1312
01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:42.159
to athletes in the locker rooms and
everything, he was one of the guys

1313
01:31:42.159 --> 01:31:44.880
you could always go to and even
for me, like I would go and

1314
01:31:44.960 --> 01:31:46.319
try to talk to him and he
would give you time, and you could

1315
01:31:46.359 --> 01:31:53.520
just always tell that he was a
guy that was a leader. And you

1316
01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:56.159
know a guy that we used to
work with who was on the game coverage

1317
01:31:56.479 --> 01:31:59.520
night on television. It was good
to hear Yendy Kalu if you're out there,

1318
01:31:59.560 --> 01:32:00.680
is good to hear you on the
on the game, even though we

1319
01:32:00.720 --> 01:32:06.439
miss you of course. But indeed
has always you know, raved about Damiko

1320
01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:12.760
Ryan's I mean just absolutely raved about
him. And I get why. You

1321
01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:16.079
know it's it's gonna be I think
a home run of a hire. I

1322
01:32:16.119 --> 01:32:20.960
think that there's, like you said, organization, there's just a lot of

1323
01:32:21.000 --> 01:32:25.960
things to be excited about with what
they're doing, where they're going. And

1324
01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:29.479
then they've given him some talent.
They've given him some absolute real talent to

1325
01:32:29.520 --> 01:32:32.079
go out there and to perform this
year. And that starts within my belief

1326
01:32:32.640 --> 01:32:35.600
I said it going into the draft
process, I was always number one.

1327
01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:40.159
Bryce Young. I know that you
can have your detractors out there about the

1328
01:32:40.159 --> 01:32:43.760
size and everything. In part,
I will always admit it's because I watched

1329
01:32:43.880 --> 01:32:46.479
every single Bryce Young game, basically
at the college level, because my wife

1330
01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:50.640
went to Alabama and she loves her
Crimson Tide, so we watch Alabama games,

1331
01:32:50.680 --> 01:32:55.880
and I absolutely became infatuated. Hey, my my, dude, INDI's

1332
01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:58.439
listening. Good to hear that you're
out there. Indeed, he sounded seriously,

1333
01:32:58.439 --> 01:33:06.159
he sounded great. The other night. I was was just absolutely infatuated

1334
01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:11.119
with Bryce Young. But I always
said it too. I did not mind

1335
01:33:11.199 --> 01:33:14.960
for one second landing CJ. Stroud. I think that there's a lot of

1336
01:33:15.039 --> 01:33:17.199
room that he has to go to
grow. That his offense at the Ohio

1337
01:33:17.239 --> 01:33:20.880
and Ohio State was a little bit
different probably than they're gonna run, you

1338
01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:25.680
know, whether it's getting into huddles, getting under center. Sometimes they're gonna

1339
01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:29.680
run an offensive system that I think
we all know it's different. It has

1340
01:33:29.840 --> 01:33:32.560
changed, but the core of it
is a lot of what we liked in

1341
01:33:32.560 --> 01:33:35.279
the Kubiag days. Like there's gonna
be a lot of stretch, there's gonna

1342
01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:38.079
be a lot of zone there's gonna
be a lot of you know, the

1343
01:33:38.159 --> 01:33:42.239
run game is gonna be effective for
this football team. It's gonna be it's

1344
01:33:42.279 --> 01:33:45.479
gonna be refreshing. And I think
that, you know, if he's worth

1345
01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:48.359
his weight, which he should be
when you're taking second, overall, he's

1346
01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:56.760
going to succeed at this level.
So I am extremely happy with having him.

1347
01:33:56.800 --> 01:34:01.960
And I just think that overall,
having the the foundation in place that

1348
01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:09.000
they have matters. And it starts
with Demiko, it starts with the entire

1349
01:34:09.039 --> 01:34:12.199
coaching staff. And again, I've
only been out a couple of times out

1350
01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:15.560
there, and it's different. The
vibe feels different from all the years ago.

1351
01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:16.760
When I went there, I stayed
away during the Bill O'Brien air.

1352
01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:19.680
I was, you know, not
doing that at that point, but it

1353
01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:23.800
was nice to see. It feels
like there's a joy in the air.

1354
01:34:24.359 --> 01:34:28.039
It feels like there's real excitement that's
probably been lacking for a very long time.

1355
01:34:28.079 --> 01:34:30.640
And I'm ready for the season to
get here. We'll see what happens.

1356
01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:33.399
Of course, this week when they
have the joint practices against the Miami

1357
01:34:33.479 --> 01:34:42.239
Dolphins. These are the things that
coaches like having this environment and you know,

1358
01:34:42.319 --> 01:34:45.840
hopefully there can be some growth and
certain whatever it might be, but

1359
01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:48.600
we'll be paying attention to a lot
of that throughout the upcoming week. Thank

1360
01:34:48.600 --> 01:34:53.119
you to every single one of you
that joined us this morning on the phone

1361
01:34:53.119 --> 01:34:55.960
lines, even if you were a
little bit out there on the phone calls.

1362
01:34:56.039 --> 01:35:00.720
I do appreciate you calling and listening. I mean, it's Saturday show.

1363
01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:02.840
You could be spending your weekend doing
something else, so of course I

1364
01:35:02.880 --> 01:35:08.720
appreciate you guys chiming in and making
the two hours fly by like you always

1365
01:35:08.760 --> 01:35:11.199
do. Again, you won't get
rid of me. I'll be back with

1366
01:35:11.239 --> 01:35:15.560
you this evening for Astro's coverage starting
at five o'clock five to five forty five

1367
01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:20.159
ahead of Game two of this three
game series against the Los Angeles Angels JP

1368
01:35:20.359 --> 01:35:26.560
France against Tyler Anderson and that one
Stro's looking to secure the series victory and

1369
01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:30.199
hopefully John Singleton staying in that lineup
and why why not hit two more home

1370
01:35:30.319 --> 01:35:33.119
runs tonight? John? I think
the city of Houston can get by with

1371
01:35:33.159 --> 01:35:36.720
that and all the crazy reaction will
have to that after the game as well

1372
01:35:36.720 --> 01:35:41.000
with the tent any show. Again, thank you for listening this morning.

1373
01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:44.760
Thank you to Adam back in the
studio doing what he always does. It's

1374
01:35:44.800 --> 01:35:47.279
always a great time talking with you
guys, all the Houston sports that we

1375
01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:49.960
do every single Saturday. I'll talk
to you this even at five right here

1376
01:35:50.079 --> 01:35:55.319
on Sports Talk seven ninety