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Speaker 3: Two strike three call at the knees, eighty nine mile
Speaker 3: an hour fastball and Capairo goes down looking a lot
Speaker 3: of movement on that fastball, and there are two outs,
Speaker 3: the one zero and Myers drives it in the center field,
Speaker 3: racing back Capalliro on the warning track. It's off the
Speaker 3: face of the wall, Carrotinia round third. He will score
Speaker 3: Myers in the second with an RBI double in the
Speaker 3: Astros with a one nothing league, Jack Myers drives in
Speaker 3: his sixteenth runt of the year.
Speaker 1: Here's the two to two ripped.
Speaker 3: Left field that could go that we it's gone.
Speaker 1: Barrettis does it again in eighth home run of the season.
Speaker 3: Astros lead to nothing on a bullet off the bat
Speaker 3: of a sad Hunters lead off second and third pitch
Speaker 3: on the way and that is hit through the right
Speaker 3: side of base. Hit that'll score Meisner. Caprierro coming home
Speaker 3: to throw in by Smith not nearly in time, and
Speaker 3: we're tied at two. Jonathan Ronda drives him in both
Speaker 3: that double steel pays off for Tampa Bay. The pitch
Speaker 3: and that's hit in the left Shallow McCormick backs up
Speaker 3: a few steps, gets behind it makes the catch. Morel
Speaker 3: tags trying to score the throw home.
Speaker 1: Not nearly in time.
Speaker 3: Christopher Morel scores and the Rays walk off the Astros
Speaker 3: three to two.
Speaker 1: On the Taylor Walls Sackfly.
Speaker 3: McCormick was already playing Shallow just had to back up
Speaker 3: a couple of steps. Morel took off and it paid
Speaker 3: off for the Rays.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's how it goes. Last night.
Speaker 4: The Astros put up too early, they are unable to
Speaker 4: be able to do anything more than that, and they
Speaker 4: lose it. As you just heard Robert Ford tell you
Speaker 4: three to two to drop the second game of this series.
Speaker 4: And with all that we say away we go here
Speaker 4: on the Sean Salisbury Show, Second straight Morning, a good buddy.
Speaker 4: KPRC two's Ari Alexander hanging out with us as the
Speaker 4: Astros last night. As I mentioned, I mean, you get
Speaker 4: a couple of runs early there, but that wasn't necessarily
Speaker 4: the main storyline. I mean, let me just go ahead
Speaker 4: and ask it this way, Ari, if I tell you
Speaker 4: Brandon Walter yesterday five innings scoreless. What are we saying
Speaker 4: after that game?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you think that Brandon Walter helped deliver and steal
Speaker 5: a win for you, because nobody is expecting Brandon Walter
Speaker 5: to go out and give you five scoreless innings on
Speaker 5: eighty pitches.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and he goes out there. It does that.
Speaker 4: But I mean, I talked about it last night on
Speaker 4: the Tenth Inning Show. It's just I understand. There's no
Speaker 4: yord On. You don't have Jiner Diaz yesterday because of
Speaker 4: a scheduled day off. Jose Al Tuve does get a
Speaker 4: couple of hits, but it's yet again, it's another one
Speaker 4: of these day after shows where we're saying those guys
Speaker 4: did not do enough, The bats did not do enough.
Speaker 5: This lineup is just so inconsistent and something that's been
Speaker 5: going on with the Astros for the past couple of years.
Speaker 5: The haucyon days of the twenty nineteen lineup and looking
Speaker 5: at that and going, oh my god, where is there
Speaker 5: a break for a pitcher that's gone. They're gonna have
Speaker 5: to find and pick their spots. This is a completely
Speaker 5: new team. The length of this lineup can be in
Speaker 5: question sometimes and they did not come up with the
Speaker 5: couch hits. And there are some nights they do, and
Speaker 5: there are some nights they don't. The Rays always have
Speaker 5: sort of interesting relief pitching. They're one of these teams
Speaker 5: and organizations like the Astros that are really good at
Speaker 5: getting guys out of nowhere. Like nobody knows who Edwin
Speaker 5: Ucette is, and he's been one of the best relievers
Speaker 5: in baseball. Last year he was incredible. Well, then they
Speaker 5: just find these guys out of nowhere. The Astros are
Speaker 5: good at it. Two. But this is a game that
Speaker 5: you could have won. And I'm not necessarily going to
Speaker 5: blame the b bullpen for this, but you can hit
Speaker 5: more than this against the Rays.
Speaker 4: You should be able to. I mean, you mentioned it
Speaker 4: that Zach Lettel goes. I mean this is also to
Speaker 4: a Rays just pitching staff across the board. For as
Speaker 4: good as you mentioned some of those guys are, they
Speaker 4: are the textbook definition of mid They are a three
Speaker 4: eight eight er at least coming into the yesterday's game.
Speaker 4: They're right in the middle of the league, fifteenth in
Speaker 4: overall team er and you can only manage six runs
Speaker 4: against them in the first two games. Again, the lineup.
Speaker 4: We've said it numerous times. Sometimes they do enough, and
Speaker 4: nights like last night, they don't do enough.
Speaker 5: A lot of the times they do just enough. And
Speaker 5: that's something where there aren't that many games, especially recently.
Speaker 5: Last year was a good example of this. They don't
Speaker 5: break out that often. There isn't that big five, six,
Speaker 5: seven run inning. It's happened recently once or twice, but
Speaker 5: it doesn't happen all that much. And then you look
Speaker 5: around the league at these different teams, especially in the
Speaker 5: National League. There's such a difference between the National League
Speaker 5: and the American League. Right now, the Yankees are good
Speaker 5: most of the time, the Tigers are really good this year,
Speaker 5: and then what in the American League. That's why Astros
Speaker 5: fans shouldn't necessarily be panicked, because anybody can win the AL.
Speaker 5: Nobody is that scary in the AL. Yeah, the Tigers
Speaker 5: look pretty good. The Yankees are whatever they are. They
Speaker 5: have the talent to win the American League, clearly, but
Speaker 5: that's it. There's no one else that is scary. Then
Speaker 5: you get to the World Series. You got the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: you got the Phillies, the Mets, the Braves. You have
Speaker 5: the Diamondbacks look really good, you have the Padres look
Speaker 5: really good, and then randomly the Cardinals are somehow playing
Speaker 5: pretty well and the Cubs are sort of decent this year.
Speaker 5: So you have a number of teams where you look
Speaker 5: down the league and the Diamondbacks can explode for seven runs,
Speaker 5: you know, the Dodgers can explore for seven runs.
Speaker 1: The Astros just don't do it enough. No, they don't.
Speaker 4: And that's something that we just continuously are waiting for
Speaker 4: with this team. And I mean there's individual performances too
Speaker 4: that you can point to, not just this game, but
Speaker 4: just overall that. Obviously we'll get into as the show
Speaker 4: moves along, which by the way, to Wednesdays, that means
Speaker 4: Dana Brown nine point thirty joins us, and we'll get
Speaker 4: into not only the current guys that are healthy, but
Speaker 4: also do wanted to try to get an update on
Speaker 4: yourd on maybe even I mean, you know, pitching wise,
Speaker 4: we were just talking about it. Spencer Raghetty, what's next
Speaker 4: for him? Soon enough? Hopefully get forced Whitley back, in
Speaker 4: which I would probably if I were going to put
Speaker 4: a wager on it, have to guess that he's activated.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow that I think you have him for that Mariners series,
Speaker 4: and you mentioned it too. You go at the B
Speaker 4: bullpen last night, Sean Dubin gives you a couple of
Speaker 4: good innings, a couple of walks in there, but still
Speaker 4: able to give you scoreless relief. And Steven Okert, I mean, dude,
Speaker 4: I threw this out on Twitter as soon as it happened.
Speaker 4: Nothing makes my blood boil than an O two count
Speaker 4: and you hit a guy like nothing makes me like
Speaker 4: more enraged than that.
Speaker 5: Which Steven Okert's been incredible so far this season. He's
Speaker 5: one of those guys that that's a find, right Like,
Speaker 5: He's a guy that has had success in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: He had a down year last year.
Speaker 5: There's a reason that he was available for basically nothing
Speaker 5: this offseason, and then they tweaked and figured out what
Speaker 5: it is that they can do to make him effective,
Speaker 5: and he's been really good to start the year. But
Speaker 5: that is what happens when you are using your B bullpen.
Speaker 5: That is what happens when half your bullpen is guys
Speaker 5: that you have claimed off waivers or signed off the street.
Speaker 5: There is a wide range of outcomes and sometimes that's
Speaker 5: the outcome that a guy that's been really good all
Speaker 5: year is going to have an off night. That even
Speaker 5: you know, Briana brew has off nights, but you know
Speaker 5: that those off nights are few and far between. With
Speaker 5: Briana Bray, you range of outcomes is a little different
Speaker 5: when it comes to the Steven Oaktz, the Bennett Suss's,
Speaker 5: the Sean Dubins and give credit to the Astros, those
Speaker 5: guys have been good most of the year. You can't
Speaker 5: expect it all the time. And last night was one
Speaker 5: of those nights.
Speaker 4: No, And I mean that's the thing is for you know,
Speaker 4: me dinging him there in the initial I mean it's
Speaker 4: also you have to remember he's got a two point
Speaker 4: oh one era, so that shows you how good he's
Speaker 4: been this year. But I mean last night was definitely
Speaker 4: not one of those. He hits a batter, gives up
Speaker 4: a base hit, then gives up a double steal after
Speaker 4: he looked the guy back to second before he took off.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you have.
Speaker 5: An idea that he's going to go, then step off,
Speaker 5: step off. Yeah, there's It's something that's been troubling the
Speaker 5: Astros all year is controlling the running game. And those
Speaker 5: are just some of the little things that winning teams
Speaker 5: are better at doing. And you know, we talked about
Speaker 5: the lineup, but there are these small things that they
Speaker 5: can do better at and relievers controlling the running game.
Speaker 5: And this isn't something that's on the catchers. I mean
Speaker 5: these catchers that they have Diaz, Victor Karattini and says
Speaker 5: our Salas are even though he never gets in the game,
Speaker 5: I don't know, does just give him one at bad
Speaker 5: give my guy says are a game a day. Their
Speaker 5: pop times are great, they get up, they make the throw.
Speaker 5: The pitchers are the ones that are struggling to control
Speaker 5: the running game. And Killibort came in. You saw immediately
Speaker 5: like real quick slidestep on his first pitch because Joe
Speaker 5: Spottamus has said.
Speaker 4: Something now, I mean it's and it's something that at
Speaker 4: times they've been able to do a better at but
Speaker 4: not only trying to keep runners from taking the extra base,
Speaker 4: but also you being able to take the extra base.
Speaker 4: Although jose Al Twove does steal second last night, so
Speaker 4: that was nice to see. But I mean that's been
Speaker 4: one of the biggest achilles heels for this team is
Speaker 4: both of those part of the game where you're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: you can't throw guys out, and then you get thrown
Speaker 4: out trying to steal a base. Like it's almost kind
Speaker 4: of to a point where it's like, just stop trying
Speaker 4: to take an extra base.
Speaker 1: Seriously, man, they should they should keep trying to do it.
Speaker 5: I want them to be as aggressive on the basis
Speaker 5: as pos because you have some of the fastest guys
Speaker 5: in the league, guys that you wouldn't even expect. Cam
Speaker 5: Smith is so fast he gets on late in the
Speaker 5: game and then try to steal you know, Chaz, They
Speaker 5: try to have him bunt over and Chaz has got
Speaker 5: to do a better job bunting than that. He's trying
Speaker 5: to like stab at it high. I know he can
Speaker 5: bunt better, and I've seen Chaz lay down sacrifice bunts before,
Speaker 5: so I don't know why yesterday he decided to have
Speaker 5: one of the worst bunting performances of his career because
Speaker 5: he's a guy that can do it. But Cam can
Speaker 5: run and should run more. Jeremy Payne, you can run
Speaker 5: and should run more. And they were really aggressive really
Speaker 5: early this year, like the first few weeks of the season.
Speaker 5: It's like whoa Pina's got three stolen bases? Here we go,
Speaker 5: We're starting to get to the thirty stolen base mark
Speaker 5: for a guy that's like the eighth fastest guy in
Speaker 5: the league. And then you look at Cam Smith's sprint
Speaker 5: speed and it's like and then you asse him come
Speaker 5: around third on like a single off a second, You're like,
Speaker 5: whoa Cam Smith can steal some basses? And whoa Jake
Speaker 5: Myers can steal some bases? Then do run?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: I get a little bit because running is hard on
Speaker 5: your body. But if sho Hao Tani, who is one
Speaker 5: of the most valuable assets in the sport, who is huge,
Speaker 5: If you've ever stood anywhere near sho Hao Tani, he
Speaker 5: is six three two twenty. He's a big, kind of
Speaker 5: lumbering guy who looks like a monster on the baseball field.
Speaker 5: If he can steal fifty bases, slide, put all that
Speaker 5: torque trying to get off a first base and slide
Speaker 5: and dive and do all that stuff and put all
Speaker 5: that on his body.
Speaker 1: So can you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and you know, I know that you're
Speaker 4: a big Proponent's on the twenty twenty watch for Jeremy
Speaker 4: Peney this year. I'm thinking that it's it's very much
Speaker 4: in play for him, and I mean, yeah, that would
Speaker 4: feed into it.
Speaker 1: It should be.
Speaker 5: I mean, he he has the ability to steal thirty
Speaker 5: and there's a reason that they talked about betting him
Speaker 5: a car to steal fifty this year because when you
Speaker 5: are one of those fastest sprint speed guys, and I
Speaker 5: know that he's been working on timing the reads off
Speaker 5: the pitchers and that's where Kyle Tucker was so good,
Speaker 5: because Kyle Tucker is not fast. Kyle Tucker is like
Speaker 5: a twenty six point whatever sprint speed guy. So for
Speaker 5: those of you at home who are not obsessive with
Speaker 5: sprint speed, thirty is elite elite. Twenty eight is really good.
Speaker 5: PAYNYA is at twenty nine point I think six this
Speaker 5: year is at twenty nine point eight last year. So
Speaker 5: it's the average. And then there are bolts, which is
Speaker 5: how many times you run and it's higher than thirty
Speaker 5: feet per seconds. That's what we're looking at numbers wise.
Speaker 5: So if you can do thirty, you're the fastest guy
Speaker 5: in the game. This is Bobby Witt that we're talking
Speaker 5: about is like a thirty guy Trey Turner, those kind
Speaker 5: of guys. Twenty nine is still insane, twenty eight is
Speaker 5: really good, and then like twenty six twenty seven is like,
Speaker 5: you're not a bad runner, and then everything below that
Speaker 5: is like Martin Maldonado. Right, So Paya is like twenty
Speaker 5: nine point eight. You have Cam Smith. I think it's
Speaker 5: like twenty nine to three. Myers is twenty eight something.
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker was twenty six to seven, and he's stealing
Speaker 5: thirty bases, not because he's fast, but because he has
Speaker 5: the ability to read every little tick that a pitcher does,
Speaker 5: and he does the preparation. And that's something that Jeremy Penny,
Speaker 5: I know, worked on because last year he worked on
Speaker 5: it in the offseason before last year, and he didn't
Speaker 5: feel like he was that good at it, something we'd
Speaker 5: have conversations about. And then this year it felt like
Speaker 5: I'm getting better at this, like I'm starting to figure
Speaker 5: out reads on pictures, and early in the year it
Speaker 5: looked like he was doing it, and I'm kind of
Speaker 5: trying to figure out why isn't running more and why
Speaker 5: Cam Smith? And I know, like Cam Smith's a rookie.
Speaker 5: Cam Smith barely had any minor league experience very little
Speaker 5: obviously major league experience. This the first six weeks of
Speaker 5: the year.
Speaker 1: But try it.
Speaker 5: He's fast, and you can't use his size as an
Speaker 5: excuse of like, oh, we don't want him awkward sliding
Speaker 5: and getting hurt because he is the same size as
Speaker 5: show Heo Tani and Shoeo Tani is a seven hundred
Speaker 5: million dollar player who is sliding, however many times a
Speaker 5: game because he is stealing these bases.
Speaker 1: And you can't have these guys run. Cam Smith can run.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got cheat the angles as much as you
Speaker 4: possibly can. And the Astros, I mean especially two, with
Speaker 4: how inconsistent this lineup can be. That's something that they
Speaker 4: strive to try to do. So, Yeah, they lose last
Speaker 4: night three to two to the Rays. Rubber game this afternoon,
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Speaker 4: It's got a cult following. I don't even think it
Speaker 4: has a cult following. Like most people don't even know
Speaker 4: it's out there. Alec Baldwin's in it, Sean Hitassi, Amy
Speaker 4: Smart was in it and it's a funny movie. And
Speaker 4: he's one of the guys that's part of the card game,
Speaker 4: along with Richard Jenkins, the dad from Step Brothers. He's
Speaker 4: in that. He throws on the New England accent in it.
Speaker 4: It's a great movie.
Speaker 5: You are, yeah, I mean as if you guys can't
Speaker 5: see at home. But the look on my face.
Speaker 4: Is just like amazing sound, amazing soundtrack, Outside Providence, Outside,
Speaker 4: amazing soundtrack.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the whole yes, it does. In the whole movie
Speaker 4: is Sean Hitossi's character. He's kind of you know, high
Speaker 4: school screw up up there, and he gets in trouble
Speaker 4: because he and his buddies get high and they crash
Speaker 4: into a parked cop car with the cop in it.
Speaker 4: Nobody gets hurt, but still, I mean, you know you
Speaker 4: do that, you're gonna get in a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 4: And his dad's friend, who says he's connected gets him
Speaker 4: into a prestigious boarding school up there in New England,
Speaker 4: and hi everything else, you know, the sort like John
Speaker 4: Abrams is in it and his name is Drugs Delaney
Speaker 4: and he writes him a letter and it gets intercepted
Speaker 4: by the school and they start reading it and he's like,
Speaker 4: you know, do you have enough of this or do
Speaker 4: you need me to send you more? And uh, of
Speaker 4: course they're like, you know, how many people named drugs?
Speaker 1: Can you associate yourself? Just one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it doesn't have an amazing soundtrack, even
Speaker 5: though I got it when I was a kid, and
Speaker 5: I'm not quite sure for what reason. Wild Wild West
Speaker 5: I want to say I was like seven or eight
Speaker 5: years old. This was peak Will Smith fame. If you remember,
Speaker 5: Burger King had the promotion where if you get yourself
Speaker 5: a whopper, you get the sunglasses that Will Smith and
Speaker 5: whoever they got Kevin Klein plays Artemis Gordon wore and
Speaker 5: you have the silver ones and the gold ones, the
Speaker 5: sunglasses they wore in Wild Wild West. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 5: I was like, I want the soundtrack to Wild Wild West.
Speaker 1: So we walked over to best Buy.
Speaker 5: I thinks always remember I was in the summer staying
Speaker 5: with his family in Brooklyn and walked over to best
Speaker 5: Buy and got the soundtrack to Wild Wild West and
Speaker 5: Unleash the Dragon by Cisco, which I had the Thong
Speaker 5: song on it. Of course, So those are two of
Speaker 5: my first album purchases of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh it's the.
Speaker 4: Ones you always remember, and it's you know, I thought
Speaker 4: you were going to say that, then you guys went
Speaker 4: over to Burger King and got.
Speaker 1: Those I got those sunglasses. So there was a good Day.
Speaker 5: I make fun of people who have like the transition
Speaker 5: lenses because they remind me of the sunglasses from the
Speaker 5: Burger King from Wild wild West.
Speaker 4: There you go, And that was also too prime, you know,
Speaker 4: like you said, those are the prime Will Smith hears.
Speaker 4: That was also any movie that Will Smith did well,
Speaker 4: I mean, then he's got to have the presenting track
Speaker 4: on the soundtrack.
Speaker 1: That's part of it. I mean Men in Black he
Speaker 1: had it.
Speaker 4: I always remember the music video too, of the dance
Speaker 4: the alien doing the dance with them. It's the things
Speaker 4: you remember, Yeah, I mean will Smith run late nineties
Speaker 4: was like undefeated and the song Wild wild West not great,
Speaker 4: but at the time, eight year old me was into it.
Speaker 4: I was locked in on the Will Smith Wild wild
Speaker 4: West track.
Speaker 1: Then his wife ruined his career and his reputation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's been a less of an easy time
Speaker 5: for the guy.
Speaker 1: It has.
Speaker 4: I'm thumb here though, for when we have the Will
Speaker 4: Smith come back, it's gonna happen. It will he'll he'll
Speaker 4: do the right things. He'll finally distance himself away from
Speaker 4: that wretched person and be able to have the bounce back,
Speaker 4: and people will be like see still a good guy
Speaker 4: like my buddy for example, would run into him all
Speaker 4: the time out in La said, couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 4: And the other thing is too he goes grey because
Speaker 4: you know, obviously in the movies, yeah he's died up
Speaker 4: for it, but he goes when you see him when
Speaker 4: he's not working grey hair.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting for the late career role where he has
Speaker 5: like a they'll put him in like a serious Christopher
Speaker 5: Nolan movie where he has a supporting role where he's
Speaker 5: just later later in the career where he's no longer
Speaker 5: kind of a bankable star, and then he just like
Speaker 5: nails it and wins wins an Academy Award for being
Speaker 5: you know, the like I'm thinking of Oppenheimer here, but
Speaker 5: like he's like a scientist and he doesn't do like
Speaker 5: the Nigerian accent he did in the Concussion movie, and
Speaker 5: he just like nails his eighteen minutes on screen.
Speaker 1: Oppenheimer. What a movie.
Speaker 4: Which, by the way, his brother, I think his name
Speaker 4: was Frank Oppenheimer wrote a song called the Adam Bomb,
Speaker 4: which maybe one of these days I have triple le
Speaker 4: pull it up. But I remember the buddy of mine
Speaker 4: was like you know he he has that song right,
Speaker 4: and it's like one of those like kitchy like sixties songs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know the ad bomb, the ad bomb, Like that's
Speaker 4: the whole hook of the song. And uh, you know
Speaker 4: you also realized if if you followed up Inheimer's life,
Speaker 4: the guy was a wild boy.
Speaker 1: Man, he was a little bit of a wild.
Speaker 5: Cardppenheimer's a wild boy. That's great, dude. He was like
Speaker 5: he was a woman. He really, he really was.
Speaker 4: Like it's just like, not only is he building like
Speaker 4: massive weapons of mass destruction, but he's also too he's
Speaker 4: slaying in other ways.
Speaker 5: He's James Harden of theoretical physics. That's that's pretty much
Speaker 5: what he was.
Speaker 4: But it's uh, it's me and Sean had this discussion
Speaker 4: too of like what cracks me up about that is
Speaker 4: when they're talking about, hey, what happens when we detonate
Speaker 4: this thing, and they're kind of all like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I guess we could all go yeah, that good movie.
Speaker 5: And uh, it's just funny to think of him in
Speaker 5: those terms of these guys like trying to say essentially
Speaker 5: save the world for continuing war. And then also he's
Speaker 5: on this like two am, like, hey, you up whatever
Speaker 5: they in the forties, the version of you is, yeah,
Speaker 5: now he was, he was throwing rocks off the window.
Speaker 5: But to you know, kind of do that.
Speaker 4: There were there were many different ways of trying to
Speaker 4: risk back then, much more than the U up text.
Speaker 1: I mean, good for offen Iraman. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: Multi talented, multi faceted man.
Speaker 1: That's it man, he was. He was not only you know.
Speaker 4: As Harry Carey, as Will Ferrell or Will Ferrell as
Speaker 4: Harry Carey, you know, asked Jeff Goldbloom, would you rather
Speaker 4: have a debilitating disease or be the best scientists in
Speaker 4: your field?
Speaker 5: I think we know which one that Oppenheimer chose. Yeah,
Speaker 5: both of them. That's well, the debilitating disease with this
Speaker 5: man was too horny.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, well you know, we all have our crosses,
Speaker 4: I guess. But anyway, a little history lesson for y'all
Speaker 4: here on the Sean Salisbury Show. I do want to
Speaker 4: get into just a ongoing topic on this show. Christian
Speaker 4: Walker is. I mean, it's it's yet again rearing its uglyhead.
Speaker 4: We'll do that here. As you know, this segment, we
Speaker 4: got wild Wild West, we got Oppenheimer and uh oh
Speaker 4: outside Providence is what got us all going because of
Speaker 4: George wentz So and and you know, as usually when
Speaker 4: things like this happen, you know, people pass away that
Speaker 4: had great roles on shows, memorable roles. You'll have people
Speaker 4: who will put together the compilations on social media, and
Speaker 4: somebody put together all of his when he walks into
Speaker 4: Cheers and everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh Norm.
Speaker 4: And I never realized the blonde on there would always
Speaker 4: say Norman because you know, you'd have coach Ernie Pantuso.
Speaker 4: Is there an Ernie Pantuso, that's you coach?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: He would always be the loudest of Norm, you know,
Speaker 4: whenever he'd walk in. But I never realized that he
Speaker 4: had one liners whenever he'd come in, you know, didn't
Speaker 4: I've seen like four episodes of Cheers. I'm more of
Speaker 4: a Fraser guy. Okay, Fraser dominated that wash.
Speaker 1: I mean you could. First of all, you couldn't. I
Speaker 1: mean they're doing it.
Speaker 5: I love I love when people said and I just
Speaker 5: fell into this, like, oh you couldn't do that show today,
Speaker 5: which you couldn't, And there's like backing this up. They
Speaker 5: are and it's not going well, right, Fraser doesn't work today,
Speaker 5: even though you know it's on Paramount Plus or whatever,
Speaker 5: there's no way that people are watching it. And then
Speaker 5: back when they had it originally on in the nineties,
Speaker 5: it crushed, right, It won all these these Emmy Awards,
Speaker 5: the ratings because you know, TV was different and you
Speaker 5: didn't have ten thousand options. On Netflix, there's like eight
Speaker 5: shows you can watch. People watched all of that, and
Speaker 5: so I'm a little too young for Cheers, although I've
Speaker 5: seen like maybe four episodes ever, But shout out to
Speaker 5: them for the spinoff. It was incredible, Like how many
Speaker 5: times I know it used to be spinoffs back in
Speaker 5: the day, like All in the Family, and then the
Speaker 5: Jefferson's was a spinoff of All in the Family, and
Speaker 5: then yeah, it didn't really work out for Joey Tribiani. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that one didn't work. But back in the day, they
Speaker 5: used to do this all the time. And Fraser did great,
Speaker 5: like Young Sheldon somehow worked as a spinoff. Apparently it
Speaker 5: was better than Big Bang Theory. I've never seen an
Speaker 5: episode of Young Sheldon, but I've heard that it, you know,
Speaker 5: did well and had the long run. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean they got all these seasons out of Cheers.
Speaker 5: It's this legendary show, and you know, you know the
Speaker 5: actors well enough to where we're talking about George went
Speaker 5: here and then Fraser goes on for like eleven seasons
Speaker 5: and wins a million Emmys, And arguably it was a
Speaker 5: better show by the trophy count, for sure, And it
Speaker 5: made the careers of Kelsey Grammer and David Hype Pierce
Speaker 5: and John Mahoney and all these other people. Eddie the
Speaker 5: Dog and Eddie the de Moose, Yeah the real name
Speaker 5: of the dog. I don't know why I know that,
Speaker 5: but yeah, they I mean that used to be a
Speaker 5: thing where like any show did decently. They're like sitting
Speaker 5: in this boardroom, going, how can we spin this off?
Speaker 5: How can we take the the wacky like kid character
Speaker 5: that's been in three episodes and turn this into syndication?
Speaker 1: That was like all they did in these board rooms.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 4: That's the funny thing is I remember so many years
Speaker 4: ago said they could have made a spin off after
Speaker 4: Seinfeld of George Costanza said, you know that they did.
Speaker 4: It was called Kurby your Enthusiasm. Because George Costanza was
Speaker 4: built off Larry David.
Speaker 5: You could make a lot of spinoff Kramer, I'm surprised
Speaker 5: they didn't try to do a well he canceled himself,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I'm surprised they didn't try to do that.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised that Julia Louis Dreyfus ended up having to
Speaker 5: do The New Adventures of Old Christine, which I'm sure
Speaker 5: ran for more seasons than it should have, but they didn't.
Speaker 5: I feel like today, if there was this big of
Speaker 5: a hit as Seinfeld today, they would have tried nine
Speaker 5: spinoffs show like Peterman's got his own spinoff. David Puddy, like,
Speaker 5: let's give let's give Patrick Warburton something to do.
Speaker 4: I remember, funny Enough Peterman years ago. It was the
Speaker 4: twenty eleven Sweet sixteen Elite eight when he was here
Speaker 4: in town. That was when Baylor played Duke. John Shier
Speaker 4: was on that Duke team, you know all of that,
Speaker 4: and I just remembered, funny enough, Matt Thomas sitting near
Speaker 4: us and we're, you know, walking to the seats, and
Speaker 4: we're like, is that the guy that played Peterman off Seinfeld?
Speaker 4: And then we found out yes, it was, because he is.
Speaker 4: His wife went to Baylor and they were at the
Speaker 4: game and I was like, I'm kind of tempted, Like
Speaker 4: I'm kind of tempted to go and you know, hey, man,
Speaker 4: big fan, which it's just kind of like, hey, that's
Speaker 4: that's awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm here to watch the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's one of those where you just let
Speaker 5: those His name is something Hurley, right.
Speaker 4: I think the actor, Yeah, I think so. It's kind
Speaker 4: of like did you ever see the video last year
Speaker 4: where an Auburn fan tried to go up to Bo
Speaker 4: Jackson at the Auburn basketball game and tried to do
Speaker 4: the selfie thing and Bo was like.
Speaker 1: No, I'm watching the game.
Speaker 4: He's very much that like it's it's it's not you know,
Speaker 4: being rude, but it's still like, you know, it's just
Speaker 4: like hey, like no, I'm not here for that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: There's time and place for the autographs the pictures today,
Speaker 4: ain't it. But anyway, we'll get back into the Astros
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Speaker 4: but we're talking astros right now. seOne three two, one
Speaker 4: two five seven ninety the number two get in and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, Ari, I've thrown this outs, and I mean
Speaker 4: just as long as this continues, I will continue to
Speaker 4: throw this out. Christian Walker, and I understand what the
Speaker 4: fan reaction is at times when you bring up the
Speaker 4: name Christian Walker right now, Jose to Brady two point
Speaker 4: zero and the Astros can't figure out first base whatever
Speaker 4: it might be. But has a nice game on Friday night,
Speaker 4: he has to go ahead, three run homer there. That
Speaker 4: was nice to see. You love seeing that he's got
Speaker 4: the RBI double on Saturday. But you are you aware
Speaker 4: he has not gotten a hit since that RBI double
Speaker 4: there in the first inning Saturday night. He's oh for
Speaker 4: his last fourteen he he can't be getting into stretches
Speaker 4: like this, and especially at first base, right, Like, you
Speaker 4: have a fan base that is gunshye now about any
Speaker 4: first baseman over the age of twenty five, you know,
Speaker 4: right like they're Leo DiCaprio over here, like you're above
Speaker 4: twenty five and we're worried about you. It hasn't worked
Speaker 4: out at the plate so far, which is unfortunate because
Speaker 4: because of Hooseir, Right Like, you had Yuli Guriel for
Speaker 4: years and years and years, and he would have his
Speaker 4: ups and downs, but for the most part was this
Speaker 4: really good player. And there's a lot of fans out
Speaker 4: there that it's unrealistic that would be like, oh, I
Speaker 4: couldn't have just kept Yulie. Well, they tried to make
Speaker 4: an upgrade and it didn't work, and then obviously they
Speaker 4: cut ties with Jose Bray You and now these free
Speaker 4: agent markets at first base have been weird because either
Speaker 4: you go all out and you get Pete Alonzo, and
Speaker 4: the deal that Pete Alonzo was looking for did not
Speaker 4: fit what the Astros do, and he didn't even get
Speaker 4: the deal that he was looking for, and he's obviously
Speaker 4: punished everyone by having a tremendous start of the year,
Speaker 4: and he also didn't want to leave New York and
Speaker 4: there was no way that the Astros were realistically in
Speaker 4: on Pete Alonzo. So you go down to the next
Speaker 4: tier of guy.
Speaker 5: And the reason that Christian Walker came at the price
Speaker 5: he did, which twenty million over three years is not
Speaker 5: that bad twenty sixty million, because he was a little older,
Speaker 5: and so that's the trade off you get. Because Christian
Speaker 5: Walker was a late bloomer. He was a guy that's
Speaker 5: good player at South Carolina and then it took him
Speaker 5: a while to be something at the major league level,
Speaker 5: and then he had a number of great years in Arizona,
Speaker 5: but it started really late in his career, and so
Speaker 5: he's kind of making up for lost time. And then
Speaker 5: you signed the guy and it's like, whoa, We're getting
Speaker 5: this guy in his mid thirties, Like what are we
Speaker 5: doing here? And you hope that he produces immediately and
Speaker 5: he hasn't at all, and you can tell it's wearing
Speaker 5: on him a little bit. But the good thing is
Speaker 5: the defense has been solid. Last year was an absolute
Speaker 5: black hole at first base defensively, and if your infield
Speaker 5: defense is bad, there is rot that comes from that
Speaker 5: everywhere else on the field. And it's been much improved
Speaker 5: this year. Pain just having a good defensive season. Eastcock
Speaker 5: Paradus has been better on defense than anyone could have expected.
Speaker 5: Even Dana Brown, who will talk to you later, when
Speaker 5: we talked to him in the offseason, his assessment of
Speaker 5: eastcoc Paratus at third base was, well, this guy is
Speaker 5: probably a little below average to average, and we think
Speaker 5: that he can be averaged to slightly above average.
Speaker 1: He's been above average. He's been really good.
Speaker 5: He has been at the top level of what you
Speaker 5: could want from esak Paratus. Christian Walker is doing his
Speaker 5: job defensively. There's more scoops, there's more just casual plays
Speaker 5: that he makes that got a lot of them. John
Speaker 5: Singleton had no chance of making last year with the
Speaker 5: month that Jose Brady was playing, no chance of making.
Speaker 5: And then all the backups that you use of Victor
Speaker 5: Kartini and Racio Dubon who are out of position, We're
Speaker 5: not gonna make those plays. But you can't be hitting
Speaker 5: below the Mendoza line as the big free agent signing
Speaker 5: for a team that is trying to compete for a
Speaker 5: pennant and it is May twenty first, and he still
Speaker 5: hasn't figured it out.
Speaker 1: It is troubling.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's gonna end up finishing this year
Speaker 5: at like, oh, he's sitting two oh seven with only
Speaker 5: sixteen home runs, Like his end of the year numbers
Speaker 5: are gonna be fine, probably, but they're not going to
Speaker 5: be good unless he just goes on a massive tear.
Speaker 5: And you keep waiting for it to happen because it's
Speaker 5: in there, he has the ability to do it. But
Speaker 5: as he gets later and later, like, when is it
Speaker 5: going to happen? Right, it doesn't happen. What if it
Speaker 5: happens in August? And then by the end of the year,
Speaker 5: you look at his numbers and It's like this is
Speaker 5: the worst full season this guy's ever had.
Speaker 4: Well, and then you got two more years of it too,
Speaker 4: which would make people a little uneasy when it comes
Speaker 4: to that. But we'll continue this discussion because I mean,
Speaker 4: I know how Joe a spot It feels a certain
Speaker 4: way about this topic, but I mean continue to have
Speaker 4: to disagree with him on that, So we'll talk about
Speaker 4: that here. Benjamin c you right there, and as a
Speaker 4: he alluded to, don't forget nine thirty This morning, Dana
Speaker 4: Brown joins us for his weekly visit here on the
Speaker 4: Sean Salisbury Show. We continue on a Western Wednesday Sports
Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Let the celebration start core Sean Salisbury.
Speaker 1: It's a Sean Salisbury.
Speaker 8: Show one two one two four.
Speaker 4: Part of Flag Football and actor George went cheers fame
Speaker 4: passing away at the age of seventy six. Someone three
Speaker 4: two one two five seven ninety will continue the Christian
Speaker 4: Walker conversation, but Benjamin wants to weigh in to get
Speaker 4: us started this morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Benjamin, how you doing.
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning guys. Thanks for taking my call this morning. Uh,
Speaker 9: I just wanted to talk to you real quick about
Speaker 9: your upcoming conversation with Dana Brown this morning a particular
Speaker 9: a few personnel questions. One I want to talk with
Speaker 9: dealing uh with Cam Smith and the PPI Prospect Promotion
Speaker 9: Incentive stipulation that says, I, if you win Rookie of
Speaker 9: the Year, you'll get a first round pick, or you'll
Speaker 9: you'll get a draft pick at the end of the
Speaker 9: first round. And UH just wanted to see Dana's thoughts
Speaker 9: on like how much they've weighed that as far as
Speaker 9: to you know, potentially keep Cam up or to send
Speaker 9: him back down, because as I understand right now, to
Speaker 9: qualify as a rookie, you have to have you can't
Speaker 9: have any more than one hundred and thirty five at
Speaker 9: bats in a season, and Cam's getting pretty close to
Speaker 9: that threshold, and as well as you can't be on
Speaker 9: the major league active roster I believe for more than
Speaker 9: forty five days. So I think he may have actually
Speaker 9: crossed that unfortunately, but you know, with the way that
Speaker 9: the Rookie of the Year race is looking right now,
Speaker 9: I mean Cam would have to really really get going,
Speaker 9: and you know, I think it. You know, obviously he
Speaker 9: has gotten hot recently. They've been kind of tinkering with
Speaker 9: his stance a little bit. He's been, you know, kind
Speaker 9: of trying to work some things out. But you know,
Speaker 9: right now, Jacob Wilson with the Athletics, and you know,
Speaker 9: quite a few more guys, you know, Christian Campbell with
Speaker 9: the Red Sox have you know, outperformed him so far.
Speaker 9: So you know, especially when you got a guy like
Speaker 9: Shay Whitcomb, you know down triple A, who can know.
Speaker 9: I think his best infield position at second base, counsel
Speaker 9: play corner outfield for you to you know, had two
Speaker 9: games last week with multi he had a multi home
Speaker 9: run game and back to back games including a walk
Speaker 9: off home run last week. Yeah, I think he's a
Speaker 9: guy that we should be looking at potential to call up.
Speaker 9: You know, I know Cam is getting hot right now,
Speaker 9: but you know, it's just worth considering that PPI, especially
Speaker 9: to you know, try to bolster our FUM.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I appreciate the call, Benjamin. I honestly, that's
Speaker 4: the first I've heard of that, the PPI. Yeah, as
Speaker 4: is my wheelhouse. Oh yeah, that's why I was saying,
Speaker 4: that's why you're here. Uh, Cam Smith is not getting
Speaker 4: sent down. They're not trying to limit his at bats.
Speaker 4: They're not trying to limit his service time. They're not
Speaker 4: going to be messing around with that. And whether or
Speaker 4: not he wins Rookie of the Year has absolutely nothing
Speaker 4: to do with what cam Smith is going to be
Speaker 4: doing on this roster, and it's not necessarily about getting
Speaker 4: hot recently. Cam Smith is above replacement level as a
Speaker 4: major league player right now on every level. He is
Speaker 4: above the league average at the plate, he is playing
Speaker 4: a really solid right field defense from a range standpoint,
Speaker 4: and he hasn't really thrown out runners, but he's learning
Speaker 4: a brand new position. So if you're a team that
Speaker 4: is trying to win, you're gonna put your best twenty
Speaker 4: six out there on the roster and in this organization,
Speaker 4: even though he's twenty two years old, even though he's
Speaker 4: played four minutes of minor league baseball, he's one of
Speaker 4: your best twenty six. He is one of your best
Speaker 4: nine hitters in that he is having a better start
Speaker 4: to the year on offense than Christian Walker, jord On Alvarez,
Speaker 4: and Jose Altuve, among others on this Astros roster, including
Speaker 4: Zec Dezenzo, including Chas McCormick, Jiner Diaz Smith is one
Speaker 4: of your best players right now. He is worth almost
Speaker 4: a win already a war. I think he's at zero
Speaker 4: point nine, which would put him on pace this year
Speaker 4: to be like a three to four win player, which
Speaker 4: would be worth twenty plus million dollars in a free
Speaker 4: agent contract. I don't think the PPI stuff plays into
Speaker 4: it at all, the hope at the beginning of this
Speaker 4: year when they put him on the roster, other than
Speaker 4: to some degree justifying the Kyle Tucker trade of giving
Speaker 4: up one year of one of the best players in
Speaker 4: baseball for six years plus of a top prospect and
Speaker 4: several years of paratus and several years of Wesnewsky, which
Speaker 4: is a whole different conversation.
Speaker 1: But to me, for the most part, like they.
Speaker 5: Had the right idea, even if you're giving up that
Speaker 5: good of a player, but even if he doesn't win
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year, like he's one of your better players.
Speaker 5: He's been good at the plate, he's been good in
Speaker 5: the field. He's already worth a win so far this
Speaker 5: season and has outplayed half your team. And one of
Speaker 5: the key reasons you mentioned why he's here is you're
Speaker 5: trying to win. I mean that's one of the main
Speaker 5: reasons you brought him up is because you feel like
Speaker 5: he is somebody that can help you out on pretty
Speaker 5: much a day in and day out basis. Although I mean,
Speaker 5: he's gotten his off days here and there, and it's
Speaker 5: hard to argue with the results too, and you've given
Speaker 5: him a day or two off. How it's not helped
Speaker 5: him be able to get going again when he seems
Speaker 5: like he's been found out. But to your point, too,
Speaker 5: are I mean, if you had any designs of limiting him,
Speaker 5: then he'd still be playing in Sugarland, or he'd be
Speaker 5: playing in Corpus Christie right now. He would not be
Speaker 5: up with the Astros. If you had any of those designs,
Speaker 5: you would do the post June one thing. We would
Speaker 5: be seeing Cam Smith after Memorial Day if those things
Speaker 5: were the case. Yeah, And that's the conversation that maybe
Speaker 5: they had in spring training. But it pretty quickly became
Speaker 5: evident that this guy can legitimately hit in a major
Speaker 5: league lineup, and it's going to be a while until
Speaker 5: he's at the top of the lineup. It's going to
Speaker 5: be a while until he's expected to really deliver the
Speaker 5: kind of result that a top half of the lineup player.
Speaker 1: Should but he is twenty two.
Speaker 5: He was incredibly impressive enough to get himself on a
Speaker 5: major league roster with barely any minor league time and
Speaker 5: all he's done. And I know it's been quiet, and
Speaker 5: Jacob Wilson has been really good, and Christian Campbell has
Speaker 5: been good for the Red Sox, and there's some other
Speaker 5: players who are going to finish ahead of him in
Speaker 5: the Rookie of the Year race unless he turns it on.
Speaker 5: I mean, Sugano for the Orioles has been good this year.
Speaker 5: Kid for the White Sox, a pitcher, and Shane Smith,
Speaker 5: like there's guys that have been playing well. But if
Speaker 5: you're the Astros and you have Cam Smith playing semi regularly,
Speaker 5: you want him to get better, which it feels like
Speaker 5: he has. You want him to play a passable right field,
Speaker 5: which he more than has, and you want him to
Speaker 5: do enough to justify his role, which he absolutely has.
Speaker 5: And I don't think there is anybody in this there's
Speaker 5: a reason he is their top prospect or no longer
Speaker 5: a prospect. I think he's graduated. There's a reason that
Speaker 5: there is nobody else in the minor league system, even close.
Speaker 5: There's a reason you trade for camp Smith because your
Speaker 5: minor league system is not strong at the top. It
Speaker 5: is Bryce Matthews, he was in Triple A, who if
Speaker 5: he got called up right now, I'm not sure what
Speaker 5: role he would occupy or whether he would be able
Speaker 5: to hit major league pitching. It is Jacob Melton, who
Speaker 5: has had lingering injuries. And it's Shay Whitcomb, who is
Speaker 5: not really rated that highly as a prospect, And you
Speaker 5: don't necessarily know what position he's going to play at
Speaker 5: the major league level because he struggled defensively when he
Speaker 5: got called up and they're bouncing them around in sugar Land.
Speaker 5: And to Benjamin's point, second base may be his best
Speaker 5: position right now, because that's what they need. They need
Speaker 5: a second baseman if you're continuing to commit to Jsel
Speaker 5: two bain left and Brendan Rodgers hasn't been hitting all
Speaker 5: that well, although he's played good defense. That's the only
Speaker 5: slot you can have for appreciate wacombe, But where else?
Speaker 5: And what like crushing in Triple A in the Pacific
Speaker 5: Coast League doesn't mean a whole lot versus cam Smith
Speaker 5: is hitting above league average in Major League baseball against
Speaker 5: major league pitching.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and you know, in terms of trying
Speaker 4: to find guys that can be consistent in this lineup,
Speaker 4: I mean, he as of late has been one of
Speaker 4: those guys you can count on it. You're hoping that
Speaker 4: you can continue to see that out of him. Christian Walker.
Speaker 4: We've touched on him a little bit, Brian, so you
Speaker 4: want to get in on that topic. Conversation seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two five seven ninety is the number two.
Speaker 4: Join Brian right there as the hour one is in
Speaker 4: the books seven o'clock hour ahead, will continue the stros
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Speaker 4: Tampa Bay and the NBA Western Conference Finals Game one.
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Speaker 4: zero lead in that series. Someone three two, one, two,
Speaker 4: five seven ninety the number two jump in and Ari.
Speaker 4: You know, we were talking a little bit about Christian
Speaker 4: Walker earlier. I know that you've got some numbers on him.
Speaker 4: But Baseball Reference obviously a great page where you can
Speaker 4: go and be able to see, you know, any types
Speaker 4: of stats that you want to see splits all of
Speaker 4: those other things. And the splits that I've been going
Speaker 4: back to quite a bit as of late is Christian
Speaker 4: Walker where he hits this year, batting third? Three times
Speaker 4: they've done it. And if I'm not mistaken, was it
Speaker 4: Friday or Saturday night that they batted him third? I
Speaker 4: think it was Friday night that they did, and he
Speaker 4: hit the three run homer, so I mean things worked
Speaker 4: out obviously for him. Actually, no, it was he batted
Speaker 4: fourth that night. I think it was the Saturday night.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. Four forty four with an OPS of
Speaker 4: nine eighty three hitting third this season, batting fifth this
Speaker 4: season three thirty three in nine games. So he's had
Speaker 4: thirty three at bats, eleven hits out of those, and
Speaker 4: over one thousand OPS this season. But then you ask yourself, well, Dan,
Speaker 4: with those numbers, how's he batting one ninety eight on
Speaker 4: the season. That's because in the one hundred and thirty
Speaker 4: five at bats he's had in thirty five games this year,
Speaker 4: hitting fourth in the cleanup spot one forty eight with
Speaker 4: a four to sixty OPS like that, OPS usually will
Speaker 4: get you sent down, not even not in the starting lineup,
Speaker 4: not even coming off the bench to hit. That's a oh,
Speaker 4: you need to go work on some things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's strange that he would just randomly be hot
Speaker 5: in the three spot. Five spot makes a little bit
Speaker 5: more sense, but struggling out of the four spot. You
Speaker 5: can't really move him up because one thing I noticed
Speaker 5: you mentioned baseball reference.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna one up you here. I got baseball savant
Speaker 4: up and Chile Darren Willman went to college with that guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah. His walk rate has dropped precipitously this year. It's
Speaker 5: down to seven percent. He was in the tens, which
Speaker 5: was pretty good. So last year, if you look at
Speaker 5: his numbers, he had a walk rate of ten percent,
Speaker 5: he had a strikeout rate of twenty four percent. Most
Speaker 5: everything was pretty good in his offensive profile. This year,
Speaker 5: everything is dropped off. His bat speed is still good.
Speaker 5: He's still barreling the ball, he's still hitting the ball hard.
Speaker 5: His average ax of velocity is still good, but everything
Speaker 5: else is down. It's not squaring up the ball. His
Speaker 5: strikeout rate is twenty six point six percent. In his
Speaker 5: peak that was like nineteen nineteen something, so his strikeout
Speaker 5: rate is spiked up. His walk rate is down to
Speaker 5: seven and so that just means he's not seeing the
Speaker 5: ball that well. He's not getting deeper into counts the
Speaker 5: way that he had previously. He is hitting the ball hard,
Speaker 5: he is hitting the ball at people. This isn't an ageing,
Speaker 5: This isn't a loss of bat speed thing. This is
Speaker 5: an approach thing. And his approach at the plate when
Speaker 5: it comes to balls and strikes have just not been
Speaker 5: as good this year. And I don't know what the
Speaker 5: solution is because you can't move him up because you
Speaker 5: want a guy to get on base. That's what Estoc
Speaker 5: Paratus is. Estoc Paratus in the two and three spot
Speaker 5: has been great because he gets on base. Jose al
Speaker 5: Tuovey has the cache to hit wherever he wants in
Speaker 5: the order, and you can figure it out and then
Speaker 5: you have jord On Alvarez. Wouldn't be the worst idea
Speaker 5: to me to put jord On in the fourth spot.
Speaker 5: Keep this setup that you have going with Paynat one
Speaker 5: Paratus is two, I'll two B three. Put jord On
Speaker 5: back at the four and then Christian Walker in the
Speaker 5: five spot. The problem is who's his lineup protection? Because
Speaker 5: right now the only guy in that bottom of the
Speaker 5: order is hitting consistently are as two guys as Jake
Speaker 5: Myers and Victor Krarrottini. So do you just continue playing
Speaker 5: Victor Krarrottini full time, which would take away at bats
Speaker 5: from behind your Diaz, Or do you move Jake Myers
Speaker 5: into the sixth spot, which Jake Myers could also have
Speaker 5: two three straight down games and you're trying to rely
Speaker 5: on him for a lineup protection for Christian Walker's not
Speaker 5: necessarily the best idea. Or you got to believe that
Speaker 5: Yin or Diaz in that sixth spot is going to
Speaker 5: turn it around. Or you move Paya out of the
Speaker 5: one spot which has been working. There are a lot
Speaker 5: of lineup construction questions, especially when the focus is getting
Speaker 5: Christian Walker going well. I think there's a couple of
Speaker 5: things say there. I mean, number one, with Kartini, you
Speaker 5: want to try to linthen this lineup as much as possible.
Speaker 5: He gives you that opportunity to do that right now,
Speaker 5: So I mean, I think that's one of the intentional
Speaker 5: things that you're doing, is to help yourself offensively. But
Speaker 5: also I think with the jiner is to try to
Speaker 5: preserve how good his bat can be, so then that brings. Okay,
Speaker 5: then you play Jordon in left field quite a bit more,
Speaker 5: which if it were up to jord On, he'd play
Speaker 5: out there almost every day because he loves playing in
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact.
Speaker 4: I mean the numbers will even show you that he
Speaker 4: looks like he loves it even more the plate too.
Speaker 4: I think the L two a part of it that
Speaker 4: you just mentioned right there is Jordon coming back. Him
Speaker 4: being in this lineup already has that intimidation factor. We
Speaker 4: can't let that guy get going against us. That helps
Speaker 4: Altuve get going of he starts to see better, more
Speaker 4: pitches that he can handle and be able to try
Speaker 4: to barrel up and become the al twove that we've
Speaker 4: become accustomed to over these years. And al Tuove in
Speaker 4: the three spot does that with Jordon in the four spot,
Speaker 4: because I don't I don't think you can put jord
Speaker 4: On back in the three spot and Al two b
Speaker 4: in the four.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Maybe you put Estac Paradis down to protect someone, but
Speaker 5: I don't like that because Paradis is your best on
Speaker 5: base guy.
Speaker 1: I want him in the two spot right now.
Speaker 5: I actually like the move that they've done to move
Speaker 5: Al two by to the three to put Paradis behind
Speaker 5: Jeremy Paanya. That's been what Paenya in the leadoff spot's
Speaker 5: been working. Paradis getting on base has been working, and
Speaker 5: then you figure it out from there. And so if
Speaker 5: you can get those top four once Jordon comes back,
Speaker 5: I like altwove there because to have the lineup protection
Speaker 5: from Jordon, and that was the ideal last year a
Speaker 5: little bit with Al two Bay leading off yord on
Speaker 5: your best hitter in the two spot, which obviously they
Speaker 5: moved him back down to the three spot, but it works.
Speaker 5: I don't know how much you need to be worried
Speaker 5: about protecting Christian Walker rather than protecting Hosel Tube, because
Speaker 5: if Josel Tuoba gets going, and as much of size difference,
Speaker 5: like Christian Walker's a big guy, he's a first baseman
Speaker 5: Al two Bays obviously Al Tuoba. Over the years, you
Speaker 5: know who's got a higher ops between the two, Al
Speaker 5: two b. L two b is a better hitter than
Speaker 5: Christian Walker is and has been. Al two b is
Speaker 5: on a Hall of Fame track. If you can get
Speaker 5: him going, I think it helps the rest of the lineup.
Speaker 4: Well, it's also too I mean for you know what
Speaker 4: we've talked about with Walker with runners in scoring position
Speaker 4: this year, that's not been good. I mean, I told
Speaker 4: you where he's been in the four spot this year.
Speaker 4: That's also been another struggle this season for him. I mean,
Speaker 4: I just I feel like at this point it's a
Speaker 4: you're running into almost the point of insanity here when
Speaker 4: you continue to put him in this position. And last night,
Speaker 4: you know, you've had first inning struggles all year. I
Speaker 4: heard Sparky mentioned this last night. The Astros have scored
Speaker 4: nine times in the first inning this year. Shohe Otani
Speaker 4: all by himself has scored eleven times this season. That's
Speaker 4: how that's how poor this group has been. And by
Speaker 4: the way, this year, with runners in scoring position for
Speaker 4: Walker won seventy eight a homer with twelve runs batted in.
Speaker 4: He has struck out in the forty five at bats
Speaker 4: this year twenty one times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not good. It's not good at all.
Speaker 5: The strikeout rate thing that it matters, and they're I
Speaker 5: don't know if it's people are bringing up the hitting coaches,
Speaker 5: but there are guys that have spiked strikeout rates that
Speaker 5: have come from other organizations. One of them coming from
Speaker 5: a significantly worse organization, the worst organization, and his strikeout
Speaker 5: rate has spiked. Talking about Brendan Rodgers, Brendan Rodgers is
Speaker 5: striking out thirty seven percent of the time, which he
Speaker 5: never did in Colorado. He's doing a bunch of good
Speaker 5: things at the plate, process wise, not results wise, where
Speaker 5: he's hitting the ball really hard and he's got like
Speaker 5: phenomenal bat speed for a second basement, but he's striking
Speaker 5: out a lot. And Christian Walker is striking out way
Speaker 5: more than he did as a diamondback.
Speaker 1: Things you don't like to see.
Speaker 4: That's how it's been here in the early going for
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Speaker 4: He is getting ready for the draft out there scouting.
Speaker 4: So one thing we know about the guy of you
Speaker 4: know this, he's got the scout side and still has
Speaker 4: that part of himself in there. So he will join
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Speaker 1: Adrian C you right there.
Speaker 4: We'll get to you here in just a few But
Speaker 4: are you're a workout guy. I'm guessing you'll you'll you'll
Speaker 4: get in, you know, either go into the gym, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe go get some miles in at the Memorial Park trail,
Speaker 4: you know, whatever that might be. I mean, you you
Speaker 4: try to keep yourself in shape. You gotta look presentable
Speaker 4: on TV like us radio guys, we don't have to
Speaker 4: look presentable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a little different. Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 5: So I mean unless you're Adam and Adam and you know,
Speaker 5: and then you're simulcast on TV and people get to
Speaker 5: see us.
Speaker 1: So you got to tighten it up a little bit.
Speaker 4: So people look at working out, I feel like in
Speaker 4: one of two ways. Either they really enjoy it and
Speaker 4: it is a massive priority in their life and they'll
Speaker 4: do it all the time, or people look at it
Speaker 4: as almost like you're obligated because you want to be
Speaker 4: in somewhat pass shape, you want to be able to
Speaker 4: have a better quality of life, all of that, those
Speaker 4: aren't the issues here. The issue is the other people.
Speaker 4: Like I would say that like going to workout at
Speaker 4: a place that is a crowded gym, or maybe you
Speaker 4: do the class workouts CrossFit to any of the others
Speaker 4: that are out there, which I do. I need to
Speaker 4: do it more, but that's what I do. And it's
Speaker 4: sometimes it's the people around you that it's almost like
Speaker 4: air travel, you know, the airport. It's the people on
Speaker 4: the planes, it's the people in the airport. Like a
Speaker 4: buddy of mine has said it numerous times, and I
Speaker 4: can't agree with this more that it's almost like there's
Speaker 4: agency in some people's minds that once you go through
Speaker 4: security then you can pretty much act whatever way you want.
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, it's air travel.
Speaker 4: People are have anxiety, people are angry, whatever it might be.
Speaker 4: You know, just try to go about your own business
Speaker 4: and let them handle themselves. So yesterday, quick story here,
Speaker 4: be very fast, go to the workout, do it and
Speaker 4: cardio workout.
Speaker 5: All of that's fine. You know, you're able to use
Speaker 5: your own machine whatever it is.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 4: Afterwards we do accessory work and it was I think
Speaker 4: hip extensions and then GHD sit ups, but it was
Speaker 4: I think it was back extensions.
Speaker 1: Is the what you call it.
Speaker 4: It's where it's where you flip around and you do
Speaker 4: like almost kind of a reverse sit up there where
Speaker 4: you're hinging forward and then you know, trying to you know,
Speaker 4: help out the glutes and the hamstrings all of that.
Speaker 4: So it's one of those that there's only one of
Speaker 4: the ghds there, so we have to you know, split
Speaker 4: it between different people. There's one guy that is on
Speaker 4: it who's a very nice guy and he is very sociable,
Speaker 4: and somebody that was there for the next class. They're
Speaker 4: talking and it's one of those that it's like you're
Speaker 4: supposed to swap out like let other people and I'm
Speaker 4: standing there and it's kind of to the point too,
Speaker 4: like where it's like, Okay, I'm not trying to lurk,
Speaker 4: because I'm not lurking.
Speaker 1: I'm off like to the side.
Speaker 4: But it's like also too, like dude, have the presence
Speaker 4: of mind, Like hey, maybe that guy's trying to get
Speaker 4: on the machine and do this now. So then finally
Speaker 4: after he's done with the conversation, I'm thinking, Okay, you know,
Speaker 4: he's gonna do his work, get off, and it's fine.
Speaker 4: Still stays on it and starts talking to me. And
Speaker 4: it's just one of those that I didn't have the
Speaker 4: heart at the time to be like, dude, I'm trying
Speaker 4: to get work into I'm trying to just get my
Speaker 4: work done and get out of here.
Speaker 1: And it's things like.
Speaker 4: That that I'm just likeugh, man, like a little bit
Speaker 4: of awareness of the situation here, like we're all going
Speaker 4: through the struggle, we're all doing it. It's it's all
Speaker 4: of those things. But this is a reason why people
Speaker 4: don't work out. Yeah, I mean the crowded gym thing
Speaker 4: is not fun. So I typically go to a gym
Speaker 4: where there aren't a lot of people in it, not
Speaker 4: that many people know about it, it's not very packed.
Speaker 4: Or I'll go to the one in my apartment complex
Speaker 4: where there's very few people, or I'll go to time
Speaker 4: of day where there aren't I don't like to be
Speaker 4: in crowds.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the airport.
Speaker 5: That's the and I think It's less that people don't
Speaker 5: know how to act once they get through security. It's
Speaker 5: people don't know how to act insecurity. There should be
Speaker 5: two lines for like people who have been to an
Speaker 5: airport before and everyone else, or like there should be
Speaker 5: like a security guard that just looks at you and
Speaker 5: judges how efficient you are, and if you don't look
Speaker 5: like you're gonna be efficient, get to the other get
Speaker 5: to the other side. Like out up in the air
Speaker 5: did it perfectly at the George Clooney movie where he
Speaker 5: was like, I go in the line with the traveling
Speaker 5: businessmen because they pack light and they're efficient. Everyone else
Speaker 5: can go in the other line. You see the strollers
Speaker 5: stay away from that group out here. Nope, yeah, I like,
Speaker 5: and yes, I know that there are differences in airports
Speaker 5: and how they do things, like there are some that
Speaker 5: you do no longer have to take your shoes off,
Speaker 5: or you don't have to take out the laptop or whatever.
Speaker 5: And for the most part, TSA does a great job
Speaker 5: of screaming at you what your directions are, so follow
Speaker 5: the directions. It is not hard like it is so
Speaker 5: it was simple to be efficient at the airport, and
Speaker 5: ninety five percent of the people especially I'm fine.
Speaker 1: In the morning.
Speaker 5: I'm going to a Texans game or whatever on a
Speaker 5: Saturday morning. It's seven am. I'm not a morning person,
Speaker 5: and you're just standing there in line, just being inefficient.
Speaker 5: That drives me crazy. But yeah, the at the gym, yeah,
Speaker 5: you gotta have the presence of mind. I would have
Speaker 5: said something. I'm not a I'm more of the in
Speaker 5: the curb sense of like, all right, you've been sitting
Speaker 5: here chit chatting for twenty minutes, dilly dallying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get out of here. It's like, buddy, hey, let
Speaker 4: me get my core work in. I mean, I could
Speaker 4: probably use a little bit more core work, but it's
Speaker 4: like exactly that. And then one of one of the
Speaker 4: other ones is when I used to go to one
Speaker 4: of these crowded gyms, is you know, it's common courtesy
Speaker 4: that somebody comes up and you're doing I don't know,
Speaker 4: the chest press or whatever machine right there, and then somebody,
Speaker 4: you know, hey, do you mind if I work in?
Speaker 4: I remember once a guy goes, oh, I got about
Speaker 4: ten more minutes on this. I was like, this isn't
Speaker 4: a time thing, Dudeah. You do like your reps, you
Speaker 4: do your whatever amount of reps that you do for
Speaker 4: whatever regiments that you do of it, and then you
Speaker 4: get off the machine or in that case right there
Speaker 4: where it's something that's so easy as I can just
Speaker 4: pull the pen out, put it on the weight that
Speaker 4: I want, and then put it back where you were,
Speaker 4: and then you can.
Speaker 1: Get in and work.
Speaker 4: Then that's the part of it, Like there is a
Speaker 4: partnership that goes into this, especially like when it's shared
Speaker 4: equipment like that. And then you know the other one
Speaker 4: too is people who don't put their weights back up.
Speaker 4: Who's worse that don't put their weights back up? Or
Speaker 4: the overly loud grunters and people who want to let
Speaker 4: you know that they're working out, who after they're done
Speaker 4: will then in their cut off shirt hit the mere selfie,
Speaker 4: I would say, like people who don't put their weights
Speaker 4: back up because like you could trip over it.
Speaker 1: You have to do it. The staff has to do it.
Speaker 5: Like the grunting is annoying, but it's not like really
Speaker 5: directly affecting you, especially you know, I know anyone no
Speaker 5: one wears doesn't wear headphones of the gym, right, Like
Speaker 5: if you're listening to the gym music, you're a psychopath.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear.
Speaker 5: Late Age Maroon five and roar by Katie Perry over
Speaker 5: and over again, right, Like, you have your own stuff.
Speaker 5: So I have my my workout music. My headphone's on
Speaker 5: listening to push a T or whatever. If you're grunting
Speaker 5: over there, like I'll just turn the music up. That
Speaker 5: doesn't bother me as much. There was one guy I
Speaker 5: remember when I was in college at Missoo. There's a
Speaker 5: dude who was on the football team and then got
Speaker 5: off the football team. I think there was some sort
Speaker 5: of something and there was some rumors that he was
Speaker 5: doing steroids and he would go to the gym to
Speaker 5: do the steroids, and he I mean he was like,
Speaker 5: you know, to his credit, he's putting a massive weights
Speaker 5: guys like bench presdent won tens and yeah, he was
Speaker 5: just gotta know that this man was once on the
Speaker 5: football team.
Speaker 1: Like, good for you, bro, But that doesn't bother me
Speaker 1: as much.
Speaker 5: As you walk in, you see the dumbbell area and
Speaker 5: there's like out of order stuff bothers me. And then
Speaker 5: there's random ones on the ground, like there's twenty sitting here,
Speaker 5: there's a forty five sitting here. And there's two fifty
Speaker 5: five sitting here, like, it's not that hard to put
Speaker 5: your weights up.
Speaker 4: Man, And I mean it's just again to get back
Speaker 4: to the overall point of just be aware. And it's
Speaker 4: on top of it too, where you know, when you
Speaker 4: do these class settings like this, you will have some
Speaker 4: people who they've had a day and it's kind of
Speaker 4: like again getting back to like gauge the situation. Like
Speaker 4: air travel. Usually I get on a plane, same deal.
Speaker 4: AirPods are in whatever magazine book, which that's the old
Speaker 4: school way, but I give off cues. I feel like
Speaker 4: of hey man, just let me sit here, let me
Speaker 4: get my couple of pops from you know, the beverage carts,
Speaker 4: and aside from that, I just hope we don't have
Speaker 4: bad turbulence and we get there and we can all
Speaker 4: go about our business and just go about our days.
Speaker 4: But it's like if you've had a long day at
Speaker 4: that point and then you go get the work out
Speaker 4: in and you have the overly rambunctious person.
Speaker 1: Hey man, what's going on, Good to see you. How
Speaker 1: is your day? No, it's just like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, Bud, we're about to hit the warm up, right,
Speaker 4: now then we're gonna get into the workout, and then afterwards,
Speaker 4: if I've got enough endorphins, then maybe I will Hey man,
Speaker 4: good see you.
Speaker 1: How's your day? Yeah.
Speaker 5: So the good thing that I have I have because
Speaker 5: I'm Eastern European, I have kind of a natural face
Speaker 5: where like don't I have a good don't talk to
Speaker 5: me face, So I can do that where I'll just
Speaker 5: I'll just give a look. And that works at the gym,
Speaker 5: that works at the airport. That's works in a lot
Speaker 5: of places of just like, hey, it's eight in the morning.
Speaker 5: I'm not usually awake this early. Now is not the time,
Speaker 5: so that that does help sometimes. But yeah, I was
Speaker 5: on the plane last week and there was a guy.
Speaker 5: So I sit next to a guy and his wife.
Speaker 5: The wife was next to me, the guy was in
Speaker 5: the aisle seat. He would not shut up the whole
Speaker 5: flight about the dumbest stuff, telling his wife whatever, Like
Speaker 5: he spent like ten minutes on a dissertation about the
Speaker 5: lyrics to some Empire of the Sun song and how.
Speaker 1: Brilliant it was.
Speaker 5: It's like, bro, it's eight am, Like I just want
Speaker 5: to drink my apple juice, Like I don't you know,
Speaker 5: and he was so like, like, why are you happy?
Speaker 1: It's ain't the morning. We're on a plane like it, and.
Speaker 4: It's like Empire the Sun is fine, but like to
Speaker 4: like go like that part in for the Empire of
Speaker 4: the Sun.
Speaker 1: He was what's there there?
Speaker 5: It was whatever, their most popular song on the side whatever,
Speaker 5: walking on a dreams?
Speaker 1: Man, man, there.
Speaker 5: I just thought that was so brilliant. How they're talking
Speaker 5: about walking on a dream what what are we doing.
Speaker 5: He's one of those music snobs. Music snobs and beer snobs,
Speaker 5: the two worst snobs.
Speaker 1: It was a snob.
Speaker 5: He was just excited about like the minutia of whatever
Speaker 5: it was at seven forty five in the morning, just
Speaker 5: like relax or some song that's in an Owen Wilson movie. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like come on, man, yeah, all pass by the way.
Speaker 5: That's that's that's what it really is.
Speaker 4: And Sadekas speaking of George Went, I had no idea
Speaker 4: that Sadakas was his nephew.
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I found that out yesterday. I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: I didn't know that. So the more you the more
Speaker 4: you learn that right now, there you go. You were
Speaker 4: today's year old when you found that out. Adrian see
Speaker 4: you right there. We'll get back into the Astros conversation
Speaker 4: and also involve anybody else who wants to hop in
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Speaker 5: I grew up in FFA in Iowa, and I did
Speaker 5: not fit in because I was a hip hop guy
Speaker 5: amongst the country people of FFA. And so I have
Speaker 5: a disdain for You're You're apparently disdain Dan, But yeah,
Speaker 5: I have a disdain for country music. My hot take here,
Speaker 5: and I'm sure this will I've said this a million times.
Speaker 5: The women in country music are talented. They all can
Speaker 5: sing well, many of them right well. Some of them
Speaker 5: are part of the Nashville whole thing where you have
Speaker 5: like fourteen writers in a room to do whatever. Most
Speaker 5: of the men Josh Turner is not one of them.
Speaker 5: Luke Bryan is you can't sing, like on a technical level,
Speaker 5: right like on a are you a technically good singer?
Speaker 5: Many of the women in country music that Carrie Underwood's
Speaker 5: excellent technical singers, dudes are not good singers. And for
Speaker 5: the most Eric Church right like you hear these guys
Speaker 5: do a national anthem, You're not. They're not any better
Speaker 5: than any random person who's trying out on the voice.
Speaker 5: They just got lucky, right like you get me and
Speaker 5: I can't sing at all? You give me six months
Speaker 5: of guitar lessons and I don't know, two hundred dollars
Speaker 5: worth of flannel shirts and tight jeans.
Speaker 1: I could be a country singer. Not difficult to be
Speaker 1: a male country singer. I say we try this.
Speaker 4: I say, I say we put the social experiment to
Speaker 4: work and see if you know, if Ari Alexander could
Speaker 4: be a Nashville.
Speaker 5: So I would change my you know, change change everything,
Speaker 5: change my name. I would play up the Iowa background
Speaker 5: or whatever. I don't think it's difficult to write these songs.
Speaker 5: They are not musically difficult. It's four chords and whatever.
Speaker 5: Uh and these dudes can't sting. It's not it's not hard.
Speaker 4: Well then you know, then you get the lady Wilson's
Speaker 4: who really lean into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah I'm from Louisiana.
Speaker 4: It's just like, oh God, okay, we get it. We understand,
Speaker 4: we know, thank you. Like Miranda Lambert would kind of
Speaker 4: play that up too, It's just like, oh God, like okay, fine,
Speaker 4: we understand, Like, yeah, you're the every woman we.
Speaker 1: Know, Gretchen Wilson. I don't.
Speaker 5: I just frommer Like that's who you know who was
Speaker 5: was the redneck woman, and that's I don't like eight
Speaker 5: country songs all right, like I refuse to I used
Speaker 5: to work at the State Fair in Iowa and some
Speaker 5: of the concerts were like the old school of the
Speaker 5: eighties rock, the Foreigner of the Journey, those kind of guys,
Speaker 5: and those are cool, like a Siles Cooper Live and
Speaker 5: that stuff was cool. And then you'd have like Blake
Speaker 5: Shelton and it's I don't want to be here and
Speaker 5: showing people to their seats.
Speaker 4: Like Tripley Knows. One of my favorite Blake Shelton's the
Speaker 4: Neon Light at the end of the Tunnel.
Speaker 1: There's a neon at the end of the tunnel? What
Speaker 1: what like?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I no, man, you see on that one he
Speaker 4: leans into the tent revival country that is out there
Speaker 4: of people who you know, well, of course you know,
Speaker 4: I've got my faith.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I mean, look, Kenny Chesney's got a song
Speaker 5: or two. I respect the Legends, the Johnny Cashes, the
Speaker 5: George Straits, but the Luke Bryan's and the Eric Churches.
Speaker 5: I remember I used to work at a shot store in
Speaker 5: college and there's an eclectic mix of music, and one
Speaker 5: of them was an Eric Church song.
Speaker 1: Like Creeping or something like that.
Speaker 5: Is that a song grape vine or I don't even
Speaker 5: know the worst song in the history of music? Like
Speaker 5: what are how how do people how do these people
Speaker 5: sell out stadiums?
Speaker 1: I don't there are paycheck songs.
Speaker 4: And I've brought this up with Sean that there are
Speaker 4: some like you know, they lay down the track and
Speaker 4: they'll do the interviews and do everything.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we we love this one. You know it's great.
Speaker 4: It's like, no, you just went for the thing that
Speaker 4: you know is gonna go top thirty and you're gonna
Speaker 4: be able to get the royalties from that. Like I
Speaker 4: get it. Look, I don't knock the hustle. Like, if
Speaker 4: you know that people are gonna pay for it and
Speaker 4: this is gonna be a hit.
Speaker 1: Then go for it.
Speaker 4: Fine, that's why, Like that's why, you know, kind of
Speaker 4: getting back to like when we were younger, Oh, they
Speaker 4: sold out. Then you get older and you realize, like
Speaker 4: you've got bills to pay and everything, so then you're
Speaker 4: kind of like, Okay, I would sell out too, Like
Speaker 4: it's it's not that it's hard to make that business decision.
Speaker 5: I also don't like the machine of there's fourteen guys
Speaker 5: in a boardroom writing your song, and you're trying to
Speaker 5: present yourself to a blue collar part of the country
Speaker 5: like this is who listens to country music. Much of
Speaker 5: the people and much of the people that are spending
Speaker 5: their hard earned money paying ninety to two hundred to
Speaker 5: three hundred dollars to go see this person live. And
Speaker 5: they can barely play guitar and they physically cannot sing,
Speaker 5: and they didn't write their song. And there's twelve people
Speaker 5: in Nashville. They're all make a ton of money making
Speaker 5: a song for Luke Brian that did it, and they're
Speaker 5: trying to present themselves as you know, some down salt
Speaker 5: of the earth person.
Speaker 1: No, it's just it's also too lot.
Speaker 4: Adrian and Ryan. We'll get you guys involved in the conversation.
Speaker 4: But one more quick one is you know here in Houston,
Speaker 4: of course, you know, we're in Texas. And it always
Speaker 4: cracks me up of people's outside interpretations of Texas like
Speaker 4: a nine to one one lone.
Speaker 1: Star or whatever the hell they called it.
Speaker 4: With Rob Low, it cracked me up when they had
Speaker 4: he and his son moving from New York to drive
Speaker 4: to Austin and you know, welcome the Texas, and it's
Speaker 4: like desert road like tumbleweeds, like all of this. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: if they were driving in from New York, they would
Speaker 4: be driving in through East Texas, which is all piny
Speaker 4: woods and the complete opposite of what people think that
Speaker 4: is even remotely West Texas at that point. But where
Speaker 4: I'm going with this is that like here in Houston,
Speaker 4: we costplay liking the Western lifestyle for like two weeks
Speaker 4: a year.
Speaker 1: That's when we do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean, if you see somebody show up
Speaker 4: to an event now like look, you know wintertime, it's
Speaker 4: cold out. The boots they help you know, all of that,
Speaker 4: the jeans, you know, everything else.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: Look it it helps out, you know, to add to
Speaker 4: the winter wardrobe that most of us don't have here.
Speaker 4: That's fine, But like when you just see somebody like that.
Speaker 4: There's there's a friend of mine whose husband is in
Speaker 4: that lifestyle. They're ranching and farming, and all of their
Speaker 4: pictures is him in some sort of western where in Seriously,
Speaker 4: like my response that I have to another friend of
Speaker 4: ours every single time they post family photos is I'm like, dude.
Speaker 5: We get it, we understand, we got it. On a farm,
Speaker 5: you're we got it. We understand you're John Dutton.
Speaker 1: We get it. Yeah, we get it. We know, we
Speaker 1: know you're fine.
Speaker 5: Well, so I'm looking at Luke Bryan's latest album.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 5: It has fourteen tracks. You want to guess how many
Speaker 5: of them he had a hand in writing?
Speaker 1: Probably one? Two?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 5: To guess how many of those two he wrote by himself?
Speaker 5: One zero all right? First song, Luke Brian, Rhett Aikens,
Speaker 5: Dallas Davison, Ben hayeslips so four people to write one song,
Speaker 5: including Luke Brian, tracks two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 5: and thirteen he had no hand in writing. And then
Speaker 5: track fourteen. Wait, hold on, I messed this up. He wrote,
Speaker 5: co wrote track eleven, but then tracks twelve, thirteen and
Speaker 5: fourteen he didn't write. All right, this is blyying my point.
Speaker 5: I see what we got a caller, So he want
Speaker 5: to talk about the country music thing. You didn't write
Speaker 5: twelve of the fourteen tracks on your album, you co
Speaker 5: wrote two of them.
Speaker 1: People want to hate on Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5: At least she writes her own songs and writes her
Speaker 5: own lyrics, and all these other people like Luke Brian's
Speaker 5: got the easiest job in the world. Show up, co
Speaker 5: write two of your fourteen songs, put on a flannel
Speaker 5: shirt and put like a zin whatever in your back
Speaker 5: pocket and sing about closing time in California. I can't
Speaker 5: imagine that song is good Kansas that he didn't write.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine that song is good. But I got
Speaker 5: a beer in my hand, which I'm sure sounds like
Speaker 5: fourteen other songs about having a beer in your hand
Speaker 5: after a tough day. You didn't have a tough day.
Speaker 5: You're a performer, right, You don't even write your own music.
Speaker 5: You know, physically easy it is to write a song
Speaker 5: on your phone or whatever.
Speaker 1: He didn't even do that. It's the group project. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't do anything.
Speaker 4: He got most of the accolades for the group projects,
Speaker 4: so good for him. Hey, look, you draw a paycheck
Speaker 4: doing that. I can't sit here and hate you. But uh, Adrian, Ryan,
Speaker 4: we'll get you guys involved Astro's conversation.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Ryan.
Speaker 4: He wants to get in on this conversation, so uh,
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll enjoy chopping that up here. But it
Speaker 4: is a Sean Salisbury show, a sports talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: The Jean Salisbury Show continues. Adrian, what's going on? Morning Fellas,
Speaker 1: Morning Money, Morning Morning, Adrian, about it.
Speaker 6: About it. That's about the nice I need to be
Speaker 6: this morning.
Speaker 1: It's all good. Dave still got room to work and baseball.
Speaker 6: I played high school baseball.
Speaker 12: Literally, we've all been told get behind the ball when
Speaker 12: you throw it. When that guy was standing on third
Speaker 12: yesterday and that ball was hit, he already had his
Speaker 12: hand in the air. That's already a show with disrespect.
Speaker 12: That means Dan got no chance of throwing me out.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 12: Then he comes home and slide knowing the ball is
Speaker 12: five paces behind him because the ball ain't made a
Speaker 12: third yet.
Speaker 6: That is another sign of disrespect. Okay, Dana.
Speaker 12: There's nobody in that outfield better than cam Ward any
Speaker 12: kind of way. So why is he on the bench
Speaker 12: all the time and his knucklehead bad news bears are
Speaker 12: out there? Chas McCormick's arm is no better than a
Speaker 12: little leaguer that you're waiting on to throw the ball home,
Speaker 12: and you keep telling him throw it home, throw it home,
Speaker 12: and he's standing there looking at you. That's basically what
Speaker 12: happened yesterday, and without hater, and I bray, you are
Speaker 12: you telling me this bullpen can't hold up Dana. That's
Speaker 12: another problem that's on you. Okay, So I don't want
Speaker 12: to hear it. Nothing about Joe. Joe ain't got nothing
Speaker 12: to do with this. You provide the groceries, Joe cooks
Speaker 12: the meal, okay, Joseph chef.
Speaker 6: This is a classic blah blah blah. I didn't want
Speaker 6: to hear about it. This team looks like trash this year.
Speaker 6: You knew jord On somehow was gonna come up hurt
Speaker 6: this year. What do we do?
Speaker 12: Back of the base card, back of the baseball card,
Speaker 12: back of the baseball card, back of the card is
Speaker 12: killing us, Chaz, his arm is weak.
Speaker 6: Sit his on that bench. We got weight training, We.
Speaker 12: Got all these guys that we pay all this money for,
Speaker 12: and these guys still look like the bad news bears.
Speaker 1: This is horrible.
Speaker 12: Lance mccollors will not be called Lance mccullors until he
Speaker 12: does better than he does in his HV commercials.
Speaker 6: Go back and look at the bread crumb when he
Speaker 6: went down. He was bad. He looks like the same Lance.
Speaker 6: So I don't mention his name. I called him mister.
Speaker 12: AGV because he's better there than he is on the field,
Speaker 12: and the rest of y'all, y'all already know what the
Speaker 12: day is be terrible, Sean, I know you're listening, So
Speaker 12: here you go, baby.
Speaker 1: He appreciate the call a dream. I disagree about the bullpen.
Speaker 4: The bullpen's been strong this year, tied with the Giants
Speaker 4: going into the last night's geame with the best bullpen
Speaker 4: in era in all of baseball two sixty four. And
Speaker 4: I mentioned it too. Okurt had a bad night. He's
Speaker 4: been good for this team. But getting to the Chaz
Speaker 4: you know discussion there. This is an outfield that's devoid
Speaker 4: of arms. They do not have of any plus arms
Speaker 4: out there, even average arms out there that you feel
Speaker 4: like a situation like that, Like as soon as that
Speaker 4: ball left the bat and I saw where it was going,
Speaker 4: I said, this game's over.
Speaker 1: He's not throwing them out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a monkey's paw situation where you have side
Speaker 5: note Dana brings the groceries and Joe cooks the meals
Speaker 5: a bar. I love that. It's a monkey's pas situation
Speaker 5: where the guys who have the arms, which is deznz
Speaker 5: on Cam Smith, you are either learning that they're both
Speaker 5: learning the position, or in Dezenzo's case, his range isn't good,
Speaker 5: but his arm's great. Chaz, the range is phenomenal. Jake Myers,
Speaker 5: the range ist phenomenal. Myers is a Gold Glove caliber
Speaker 5: center fielder, but he has one of the weakest arms
Speaker 5: in baseball. We know that Josel. Tuvey weak arm, we
Speaker 5: know the Chas McCormick weak arm. And so the guys
Speaker 5: that can track the ball, that can cover the ground,
Speaker 5: that can run out there, they can't throw. And the
Speaker 5: guys that can throw are not as good as going
Speaker 5: out and tracking the ball. And it's just you've built
Speaker 5: an imperfect team and you're gonna have to find ways
Speaker 5: around your weaknesses. And that is one of the weaknesses
Speaker 5: right now, is that you either have a guy that's
Speaker 5: going to be able to track down balls and isn't
Speaker 5: going to be able to throw a runner out in
Speaker 5: that situation, or you have a guy who's probably gonna
Speaker 5: be able to throw runner out in that situation, but
Speaker 5: he might not be able to track down the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's kind of as you said, I mean,
Speaker 5: the chicken in the egg, the monkey.
Speaker 1: Paul that the monkey's paw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you you make a wish, but then there's
Speaker 5: a sin, the unintended well it's an old like Arabic
Speaker 5: folk tale, is like an unintended consequence to your wish.
Speaker 5: That's a negative unintended consequence. Yeah, yeah, the monkey's paw. Okay, interesting,
Speaker 5: I'll have to remember that. That's that's an interesting way
Speaker 5: of looking at it. But uh now, I mean, you
Speaker 5: know what you have in the outfield.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 4: I mean it's a massive reason, as me and you
Speaker 4: talked about yesterday that jose Al Tuvey is playing as
Speaker 4: many games see as out in left field because you
Speaker 4: value the offense or in this case hoping it to
Speaker 4: you know, increase the offense out there more than you have,
Speaker 4: and that obviously hasn't necessarily lived up. But I mean, Chaz,
Speaker 4: the key is with him. Everything you mentioned, the speed,
Speaker 4: the range, all of that, that's all nice.
Speaker 1: He's got a hit.
Speaker 4: And in the case last night where you're trying to
Speaker 4: regain the lead and give yourself an opportunity after you
Speaker 4: get the lead off single from cam Smith there in
Speaker 4: the ninth will be nice to be all laid down
Speaker 4: a bunt and be able to increase your chances of
Speaker 4: getting in the lineup a lot more. You do things
Speaker 4: like that when you haven't gotten a consistent amount of
Speaker 4: at bats. That's usually a way to say you're not
Speaker 4: going to get more at bats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think part of it too, is that
Speaker 5: he's not getting the consistent at bats and so he's
Speaker 5: just eager to like do something, and that's why he's
Speaker 5: flailing at a strike two bunt. Most hitters that are
Speaker 5: kind of comfortable in their role are laying off that
Speaker 5: pitch and going all right, cool one one, I got
Speaker 5: another chance to bunt. But he's kind of stabbing at
Speaker 5: the ball there because he has limited opportunities to do
Speaker 5: something to show that he should be playing. This is,
Speaker 5: you know, first time in a while that he's playing
Speaker 5: back to back games, that he's starting back to back games.
Speaker 5: So I just feel like that he he wants to
Speaker 5: do something, he wants to show off, like, hey, I
Speaker 5: deserve this playing time. And it's a little bit of
Speaker 5: that over eagerness and it backfired on him.
Speaker 4: Ryan, your topic always plays. We will absolutely get you involved, Chena.
Speaker 4: We also will get you involved here as we start
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Speaker 4: in Astros three to two losers last night Diesel Day
Speaker 4: here on a rubber game of this series against the
Speaker 4: Rays out in Tampa and actor George went passing away
Speaker 4: at the age of seventy six. We've kind of done
Speaker 4: the the eulogy of George Wentz here another one too
Speaker 4: underrated in he was Fat, Sam in Fletch kind of
Speaker 4: a bit roll in it, but still you know it
Speaker 4: was part of the movie with Chevy Chase. I mean,
Speaker 4: I've said that his nephew Jason sideikis that that he
Speaker 4: he is the Chevy Chase of this time.
Speaker 5: That's crazy that Jason Sidakas is his nephew. I mean
Speaker 5: he's Jason Sadaka's really good career, funny, funny, more to go.
Speaker 5: I think ted Lasso is coming back, right. I'm sure
Speaker 5: ted Lasso will have spinoffs, as we've talked about the
Speaker 5: spinoffs that used to do this, spinoffs.
Speaker 1: Of every show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh yeah, I mean they're uh, there's some good
Speaker 5: stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Good Jayceondega should do.
Speaker 5: A show about a guy that goes from zero to
Speaker 5: country singer in six months. That would be a good show,
Speaker 5: I would say.
Speaker 4: I mean he's got the ted Lasso part of it,
Speaker 4: so I mean he could probably be able to parlay
Speaker 4: it into that. I said though, because they did a
Speaker 4: remake of Fletch and they had John Hamm as Fletched, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I was like that seems like that was Jason
Speaker 4: Sidekas all the way.
Speaker 5: John Ham's a good comedic actor though, which is funny
Speaker 5: because like the first role everyone knows him as is
Speaker 5: Don Draper, and he's this very serious and like mad
Speaker 5: Men is so good, and John Hamm is so good
Speaker 5: he's funny.
Speaker 1: Neighbors and Friends. Good show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Apple TV show that they have out right now, Yeah,
Speaker 4: check it out.
Speaker 5: I met John Hamm. He was very cool. So he
Speaker 5: he went to HISO. That's right, he went to the zoo.
Speaker 5: And so I was the Super Bowl in twenty twenty,
Speaker 5: the year the Chiefs won their first one.
Speaker 1: I dropped like.
Speaker 5: A hey, John m I Z comes back all zou
Speaker 5: and then nothing else happened. And I ran into him
Speaker 5: at the All Star Game at twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 5: he was just kind of by himself. So I went
Speaker 5: over and just like chatted him up and had a
Speaker 5: nice conversation and he like couldn't have been more normal.
Speaker 1: That's cool. He see.
Speaker 4: He seems like he's got that in him. But you know,
Speaker 4: with those actor types, you just you never know. It's like,
Speaker 4: I mean, they're actors, That's what That's what cracks me up.
Speaker 4: It's like the Bill Burr bit that he has about
Speaker 4: Brian Cranston getting a hard time for playing a quadriplegic,
Speaker 4: and he's like, it's acting. That's what the whole point
Speaker 4: of it is. Like, yes, he's not a quadriplegic. We
Speaker 4: know he's not, but he's like people were giving him
Speaker 4: a hard time about it, and it's just like, see, if.
Speaker 1: He was a quadriplegic, you wouldn't be acting.
Speaker 4: It's not funny to say that, right, But it's the
Speaker 4: bit that Bill Burr does that that lays it out
Speaker 4: and it's it's so good. But someone three two one
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Speaker 4: Is anything we've talked about? Ryan up in my neck
Speaker 4: of the woods, Montgomery. He wants to hop in Ryan,
Speaker 4: what's going on?
Speaker 13: As much?
Speaker 6: Guys?
Speaker 12: How are you?
Speaker 8: I'll doing this morning?
Speaker 1: Man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna try to make this quick.
Speaker 6: So I used to hate country music.
Speaker 8: I think it was funny that you went from music
Speaker 8: snobs are the worst to Luke Bryan's technical singing abilities. However,
Speaker 8: Luke Bryant is dog water. So I will agree with
Speaker 8: you on that if if you want to, I'm been
Speaker 8: playing guitar for twenty three years.
Speaker 6: I will give you free.
Speaker 8: Guitar lessons if you can write a song, and then
Speaker 8: now all the money you would have spent on guitar lessons,
Speaker 8: I'll donate to the charity of your choice if you
Speaker 8: want to take that.
Speaker 5: Bet, all right, if I can, Okay, So what do
Speaker 5: we how are we setting this? What do you mean
Speaker 5: to write a song?
Speaker 1: So? How how many verses a chorus?
Speaker 5: Cause, so I played piano growing up, so I have
Speaker 5: a little bit of, like, you know, ability to kind
Speaker 5: of understand where it's going.
Speaker 1: But it's been a while. So what do we talk?
Speaker 5: Like? What do I have to write? Do I need
Speaker 5: to write the melody? Do I need to just write
Speaker 5: the lyrics?
Speaker 8: So what we'll do is we'll teach you guitar and
Speaker 8: then you'll write a basic song, will make it sound
Speaker 8: really good, but you got to write all the lyrics,
Speaker 8: and then you have to be able to perform and
Speaker 8: open my night, so covers and then include your original song.
Speaker 1: How many songs are I have to perform?
Speaker 6: I'd say like six?
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, covers I'm trying to do.
Speaker 8: We'll do o G country, three chords in the truth,
Speaker 8: nothing crazy, and that'll be it.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like the idea. Sounds like a
Speaker 1: heavy time commitment, but I like the idea. I think
Speaker 1: you're in.
Speaker 4: I think you're pot committed at this point Ryan, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put
Speaker 4: you on hold triple. He's gonna get your info. We're
Speaker 4: gonna make this happen. This is gonna happen. Okay, all right,
Speaker 4: there we go, Ryan, appreciate.
Speaker 10: It before you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, before you go.
Speaker 8: I want to say the Astros losing. I always dread
Speaker 8: listening after just a bad sports day.
Speaker 6: I appreciate these little.
Speaker 8: Breaks of levity in the when we're all just oppressed
Speaker 8: after a miserable loss.
Speaker 4: So thank you out a problem, buddy, any anything we
Speaker 4: can do. Appreciate the call. I mean, look, you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's it's best to smile and laugh through. I
Speaker 4: mean it's not even tears. It's a it's a mid
Speaker 4: May loss. I mean they've won games in a similar
Speaker 4: fashion where it's like, oh man, how they get away
Speaker 4: with doing that?
Speaker 5: It's one sixty two. You have good days, you have
Speaker 5: bad days. The end of the year, you hope you
Speaker 5: stack up more good days than bad days. I know
Speaker 5: it's like a coach cliche, but it's you can't you know. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they did blow like a nine run lead, like they
Speaker 5: lost a close game.
Speaker 1: It happens. They're still in a decent spot.
Speaker 5: It's May, like there's no reason to to freak out
Speaker 5: if you want to freak out after a playoff loss
Speaker 5: like twenty two, Max Schus are choking against the Padres,
Speaker 5: like go for it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is you know, they lost a game
Speaker 1: in May whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it happens and hopefully they can get it back today.
Speaker 4: So Ryan, do appreciate the kind words, and also too,
Speaker 4: the project to make Ari Alexander a country music star.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have We're gonna have to work on the persona.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to work on the gimmick for you
Speaker 4: to be able to play into and be able to
Speaker 4: get you in the character for this, I think this
Speaker 4: could be a real pay.
Speaker 5: Get into character. Yeah, the no guitar is not easy, man.
Speaker 5: I Uh, I think we had like a class when
Speaker 5: I was in sixth grade and I picked it up
Speaker 5: fairly quickly. But ever since then, it just like doesn't
Speaker 5: make sense to me. So you know, music is hard.
Speaker 4: It is it is, so Ryan appreciate uh the offer
Speaker 4: there and what you do uh in the music industry.
Speaker 4: But seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Speaker 4: is the number to get in let's continue Shena sugar Land.
Speaker 1: It's going on Shena good morning.
Speaker 14: Before I jump in here, I just want to drop
Speaker 14: a quick to Ri m I z z o.
Speaker 1: Uhah.
Speaker 14: So, so why it's mainly cold calling in uh one
Speaker 14: of the prior callers here. Try to get to everything
Speaker 14: as briefly as I can. For one thing this is
Speaker 14: I can't remember when the caller. It was earlier this week.
Speaker 14: But when we're gonna be so high on Cam Smith,
Speaker 14: let's get his name right. I heard a couple of
Speaker 14: callers that you know, praising him, but can't get his
Speaker 14: name right. So it's Cam Smith. Just so we know,
Speaker 14: we went into this season knowing that number one, none
Speaker 14: of our outfielders had strong arms. We were going to
Speaker 14: get tested.
Speaker 6: We were gonna get run on.
Speaker 14: Nobody has particularly strong arms out there. Number two, we're
Speaker 14: going in playing two thirds of our games with infielders
Speaker 14: play outfielders, you know, and still learning since subtleties of
Speaker 14: the game playing the ball off the wall angles to
Speaker 14: get to the ball.
Speaker 6: So you know, we knew that there was going to.
Speaker 14: Be some issues going into the season, and right now
Speaker 14: it seems to me a spot as just trying to
Speaker 14: throw out to the outfield whoever's batting hot right now,
Speaker 14: which makes sense. So myers is, you know, are basically
Speaker 14: our main offensive production on the team, which nobody would
Speaker 14: have guessed this year. McCormick played two games in a row.
Speaker 14: He had, you know, some strong hits. Two days ago,
Speaker 14: had one that would have been a home run I
Speaker 14: think in like fifteen ballparks, and then yesterday was one
Speaker 14: of the ones got a hit and got helped with
Speaker 14: our offense. So when we're you know, only scoring two
Speaker 14: runs a game and we've got guys like Christian Walker
Speaker 14: that just aren't producing, you've got to put in the
Speaker 14: outfield whoever is going to be contributing offensively to the team.
Speaker 14: Number Two, getting to the points that were made or
Speaker 14: tried to be made about pitching earlier. Our bullpen has
Speaker 14: been nails this year. I mean, we got Whitley coming up,
Speaker 14: and the question is, oh my gosh, of all these guys,
Speaker 14: who are just you know, lights out, who are we
Speaker 14: optioning back to Sugarland or Dfang And it's like, I
Speaker 14: know a lot of guys don't even have options. I know,
Speaker 14: like Dubin doesn't have options. I think Benetcelza has like
Speaker 14: one option. So you know, it's not like we walked
Speaker 14: a lot of guys yesterday and gave a lot of
Speaker 14: free passes and they scored the hit the two run
Speaker 14: RBI that tam but guy, it was because cam Smith
Speaker 14: was playing deep right for that situation and with that
Speaker 14: ball just you know, it took time for him to
Speaker 14: get to it because he was playing deep. You know.
Speaker 14: Another now, the third run they scored was just a
Speaker 14: sac fly. You only score. We only scored two runs
Speaker 14: in a game. That's gonna make it hard to win games.
Speaker 14: So we've got to have better offensive production our pitching.
Speaker 14: I don't think you can blame last night's game on
Speaker 14: the pitching, even though it was late in the game
Speaker 14: that they scored and came back and got it. So
Speaker 14: we've got to score more than two runs. And then McCullers,
Speaker 14: you know, he's still coming back. He's you know, hasn't
Speaker 14: pitched since twenty twenty two. He's got to get stretched out.
Speaker 14: For all those who are Hayden on McCullers, you take
Speaker 14: him out of the rotation, who you going with a
Speaker 14: six man rotation with Blanco Hunter fromber and then Gordon
Speaker 14: Walter and Gusto. I mean, are what what are we
Speaker 14: trying to do. We've got Arragetti get out. We just
Speaker 14: had Lesnsky go to so you've got to give it.
Speaker 14: And he's he It's not like he's been bad. He
Speaker 14: had a I think fore innings with no earned runs
Speaker 14: his last outing. So and when you've got Fromber and
Speaker 14: Hunter Brown pitching, you know near him, you're saving the bullpen,
Speaker 14: and you know you're going to have a bull use
Speaker 14: to bullpen for McCullers. McCullers has never been a guy
Speaker 14: that's going to have give you a nine in incomplete
Speaker 14: game or even an eight inning game. His pitching style
Speaker 14: just isn't that. It never has been so so yeah,
Speaker 14: I just I don't know what you know, what the
Speaker 14: thought process is of. You know that he doesn't deserve
Speaker 14: to be in the rotation right now.
Speaker 4: Got Sheena appreciate the call, I mean, to the point
Speaker 4: she laid out. It's something that we talked about earlier
Speaker 4: and it's something that will continue to be a storyline
Speaker 4: about this team. I'm not putting last night, even though
Speaker 4: you can say statistically that it was on Okre and
Speaker 4: Caleb Ard, that's just an overall symptom of this team
Speaker 4: is you put these guys in situations like that where
Speaker 4: time and time again they've come through in those spots,
Speaker 4: like even with hitting the first batter of the eighth
Speaker 4: inning with an O two pitch and you give up
Speaker 4: the next hit.
Speaker 1: I was still believing that.
Speaker 4: Steven Okert was going to find a way to be
Speaker 4: able to get out of that, because he's done that
Speaker 4: he I mean, aside from the Grand Slam he gave
Speaker 4: up to Randy a Rose Arena to the Mariners, He's
Speaker 4: been pretty nails in those spots. So again, you continue
Speaker 4: to put these guys on.
Speaker 1: A high wire.
Speaker 4: Eventually they're going to get one bad gust to win
Speaker 4: and they're gonna fall off that high wire. And that's
Speaker 4: again the offense not being able to reinforce and add
Speaker 4: on a couple of more runs. Because even when it
Speaker 4: was too nothing last night, I was still like, that's
Speaker 4: not enough. They're going to be able to put together
Speaker 4: some sort of offense and be able to come back.
Speaker 1: And beat you, and they did.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's not easy to win these games when
Speaker 5: you have such a tight way of winning everything, like
Speaker 5: you can't always go out and win to nothing. You
Speaker 5: gotta be able to score more runs. You're not relying
Speaker 5: on your b bullpen to shut it down every time,
Speaker 5: like they are playing with fire, where Steven Okert is
Speaker 5: never gonna have a one twenty ERA for the whole year.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have a few bad games here or there.
Speaker 5: Caleb Ard has not ever had a big enough sample
Speaker 5: size to even really know what he is. He's been
Speaker 5: good up until yesterday, but like, we don't know what
Speaker 5: it is. It's not a big enough sample size with
Speaker 5: some of these guys. And Sheen was right, like there's
Speaker 5: not not a lot of optionality with this team, and
Speaker 5: so you kind of have who you have, Otherwise you
Speaker 5: lose these guys. If the Astros ever were to option
Speaker 5: Forced Whitley and put him on waivers, he's gonna get
Speaker 5: claimed immediately. No, yeah, someone's gonna claim Sean Dubin once
Speaker 5: if Sean Dubin gets ever gets optioned and gets put
Speaker 5: on waivers. Like, they have guys that are useful, and
Speaker 5: yesterday is just one of those situations where the offense
Speaker 5: needs to cover you. You don't have a bray You, you
Speaker 5: don't have Brian King, you don't have Josh hater. So
Speaker 5: give Steven Okert, Sean dub and Caleb Boord these guys
Speaker 5: that don't have them necessarily a big enough sample size
Speaker 5: to be able to prove that like they're gonna shut
Speaker 5: it down.
Speaker 1: Give them a little bit more than two runs.
Speaker 4: Yep, definitely would be nice to be able to help
Speaker 4: those guys out, especially with how much they've helped you
Speaker 4: out this season. Because you're gonna give the benefit of
Speaker 4: the doubt. I'm definitely gonna give it to these pitchers
Speaker 4: for how they perform this year, because your two games
Speaker 4: above five hundred, because of how well that group has
Speaker 4: done this season. Brandon Jason, Johnny, see you guys right there.
Speaker 4: We'll get you guys involved in the conversation. Do you
Speaker 4: want to dive a little bit more into the Astros
Speaker 4: pitching here? Who is to think for the good pitching
Speaker 4: this year? We'll talk about that here. Sean Salisbury Show
Speaker 4: continues here on a Western Wednesday, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: The Sewn Salisbury Show continues.
Speaker 1: And now you.
Speaker 5: Know, there's a kid I went to college with who
Speaker 5: became a country singer and it was out of nowhere,
Speaker 5: like he was in broadcast journalism, and I don't want
Speaker 5: to give away too much information for anyone to figure
Speaker 5: out who it is. But his mom was a professional
Speaker 5: some sort of singer, I think in Christian something out there,
Speaker 5: one of the Christian genres, and so like she was
Speaker 5: a pro. She had sold, however, many albums and she decided,
Speaker 5: I guess, like he should try to get into it.
Speaker 5: So I think he can play a little bit of guitar,
Speaker 5: and he's got a really like good deep voice, so
Speaker 5: he definitely has the voice for it. He can actually
Speaker 5: technically sing, okay. I think she wrote most of his
Speaker 5: songs and it was they weren't it was bad so
Speaker 5: and then he did a cover of a famous song.
Speaker 5: It'll easily be found if I say who what song
Speaker 5: it was, But I don't think it worked out. But
Speaker 5: he like toured and did like different like small town
Speaker 5: like country radio and kind of tried to give it
Speaker 5: a go. And I have no idea what he's doing now,
Speaker 5: but hey, he tried to give it a go, and
Speaker 5: it was it was interesting.
Speaker 4: That's always the fun part too of you know, you
Speaker 4: go on lower broad right there in Nashville and then
Speaker 4: it's you know, somebody doing you know, the live music,
Speaker 4: like what was it. I forget it was her name,
Speaker 4: the Hunter Girl. We were at the Jason Al Dean Bar,
Speaker 4: and I just remember, like, you know, she's up there singing,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, hm, that's kind of interesting, I guess,
Speaker 4: kind of playing into the character. And then soon enough,
Speaker 4: about a year later, I turn on the voice and
Speaker 4: she's on the voice and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, wow, okay, there you go.
Speaker 4: So and it's also too like in Nashville, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, he's part of the music industry. She's part
Speaker 4: of the music industry. It's like, okay, I get it.
Speaker 4: Everybody's part of the music industry in this town.
Speaker 5: We know they're sitting in a corner of a room
Speaker 5: writing two of the words to some terrible Luke Bryan song.
Speaker 5: That's what part of the music industry. Hey guys, what
Speaker 5: are you'all working on? Luke wants us to put something
Speaker 5: that rhymes beer. Put a beer, give me a thesaurus.
Speaker 5: I got to hide something. Put a beer in my hand.
Speaker 5: Oh and you guys are drinking beer. Look you're already
Speaker 5: in character. Good for you.
Speaker 4: But the Astros lose last night three two to the
Speaker 4: rais rubber game of the series. This afternoon coming up
Speaker 4: un He beat the Timberwolves Game one at NBA Western
Speaker 4: Conference Finals last night. Eastern Conference goes tonight game one
Speaker 4: there in New York between the Knicks and the Pacers.
Speaker 4: Seven one, three two five, seven ninety is the number two.
Speaker 1: Get in. Johnny on the north side wants to weigh in. Johnny,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Hey, thanks guys. You know that lady said a
Speaker 13: lot that she never mentioned Pareas is being basically a
Speaker 13: god send to this team for what he's done offensively,
Speaker 13: So that was kind of odd that she would mention
Speaker 13: virtually every other player on the team other than parreta
Speaker 13: Is and what he's done. But that being said, I
Speaker 13: was calling about Altuve hurd a statistic yesterday that he's
Speaker 13: number six in the league hidden into double plays and
Speaker 13: he's really impacting the rallies on the top of the
Speaker 13: lineup now batting third, and then was doing that at
Speaker 13: the number one spot whenever the back of the lineup
Speaker 13: was rallying. So he's killing rallies. He really needs to
Speaker 13: be batting, you know, maybe six or seventh if he's
Speaker 13: gonna be hitting like that, because we can't just count
Speaker 13: on him to hit the home runs because he's just
Speaker 13: not doing it at a pace he was before when
Speaker 13: he was younger, and he's really not coming through with
Speaker 13: you know, your typical small ball base hit double, you know,
Speaker 13: or double. So that's really what's killing our rallies. That's
Speaker 13: all I had about that, But I just wanted to
Speaker 13: get your opinion.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call.
Speaker 4: I mean, with the L two a stuff, jose Al
Speaker 4: two is going to get every single opportunity to be
Speaker 4: able to work his way out of this. And at
Speaker 4: the top of the order. I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 4: it's a conversation, it's not even worth having.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, jose.
Speaker 5: Al tuo By has gained enough trust from everybody in
Speaker 5: baseball and not just the Astros, to be able to
Speaker 5: work out of whatever it is that he needs to
Speaker 5: work out of.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's not getting moved down of the order.
Speaker 4: And I mean and with Peretis, I mean, look, you know,
Speaker 4: Sina laid out a lot of points. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to put this on Shena. He has been a godsend
Speaker 4: for this team. He's i mean, the lineup the way
Speaker 4: it is right now, you don't have him in this
Speaker 4: lineup and much less jord On and then last night
Speaker 4: you don't have yianor Diaz, I mean, number one, you
Speaker 4: probably don't score another run because he gave you one
Speaker 4: of the two runs you had. And for what you
Speaker 4: laid out too, I mean not only offensively, he's played
Speaker 4: plus defense over at third base.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been one of the better players, if not
Speaker 5: him and Peigna, essentially the best players in the team.
Speaker 5: And Jake Myers I have been carrying the team on
Speaker 5: the offensive end. He's played way better defensively on third
Speaker 5: base than anyone I would say, even Dana Brown expected
Speaker 5: him to play. And he's doing what they brought him
Speaker 5: in to do. He's doing what this team coveted him for,
Speaker 5: which is he hits pull side home runs. He plays
Speaker 5: enough defense to get you across on that, and he
Speaker 5: draws long at bats and he gets on base. And
Speaker 5: so the Kyle Tucker trade in that sense has worked
Speaker 5: out the way you wanted to. Cam Smith is the
Speaker 5: real deal, or will be eventually. He's still hitting a
Speaker 5: bubbly average right now. East Soak Paratus is exactly what
Speaker 5: you believed East Soak Paratus would be. And then they
Speaker 5: threw in a pitcher who was doing solid, but before
Speaker 5: he had to have Tommy Johnson surgery and go down.
Speaker 5: But you still have a ton of team control with Lozneski,
Speaker 5: and you have a ton of team control with Paradis.
Speaker 5: You have a ton of team control with Cam Smith.
Speaker 5: And Kyle Tucker is going to play one year for
Speaker 5: the Chicago Cubs and then he is going to get
Speaker 5: four to five hundred million dollars, which you're not going
Speaker 5: to be able to afford.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll go to the Dodgers and get it all deferred,
Speaker 4: and then you know they'll have yet another All Star
Speaker 4: on their team in the outfield.
Speaker 5: But the problem is they're pitching. Been a little suspect
Speaker 5: over there right now, But that's their problem. And they
Speaker 5: go through twenty five pitchers because they're all injured. Their
Speaker 5: injurial list is scarier than the Astros pitching injury list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely is.
Speaker 4: But I don't think we're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 4: people feeling sorry for them around these parts. Jason Brandon,
Speaker 4: see you guys right there. We'll get you guys involved. Also,
Speaker 4: do want to get into that Astros pitching discussion.
Speaker 1: We'll do that here.
Speaker 4: It is the Sean Salisbury show, He's our Alexander, Dan Matthews, Tripley,
Speaker 4: Emanuel Elmore. Sports Talk seven to ninety The Sewn Salisbury
Speaker 4: Show continued, Can you imagine that too? And you know,
Speaker 4: Jason Brandon will get to you guys here in just
Speaker 4: a second, but can you imagine that we go out
Speaker 4: the training camp and the player that I'm gonna mention
Speaker 4: is not there, and you know we're talking with them
Speaker 4: O tas all of that. Oh the Olympics. Oh, how
Speaker 4: cool is that? Oh, the the Olympics. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 4: And it's gonna be every single media availability that that
Speaker 4: player is in front of the podium that you're gonna
Speaker 4: have somebody who wasn't there at the time before when
Speaker 4: they answered it, and they're gonna be asked about it again. Well,
Speaker 4: funny enough if that player is gonna be the guy
Speaker 4: who's gonna say three words about it and be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's cool, that'll be the answer, and that'll be the
Speaker 4: whole answer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's I'm looking forward to Yeah, yeah, yeah'd
Speaker 5: be cool. You know I'm representiting my country. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: that'll that'll be awesome. So the Olympics are cool, though,
Speaker 5: Like this is this is cool. Like it's you know,
Speaker 5: Scottie Scheffler winning a gold medal and a golf and
Speaker 5: they added golf recent years. Uh, flag football. I think
Speaker 5: it's a good idea to show off the world football.
Speaker 5: I know, like there is football around the world, but
Speaker 5: like sort of right, like you travel all these different
Speaker 5: countries in Europe and other places.
Speaker 1: Like they don't care.
Speaker 5: I've been to Egypt and there's soccer jerseys of Mohammed
Speaker 5: Salat everywhere. They they have no idea who Patrick Mahomes is.
Speaker 5: And but those people watch the Olympics. They have a
Speaker 5: better chance of knowing who Simone Biles is than knowing
Speaker 5: who Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady or whatever. H And
Speaker 5: you get to show the world football. I think it's
Speaker 5: it's great. I love the Olympics. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 4: It's it's one of my favorites every single year. Summer
Speaker 4: over winter for sure. I mean that's what I grew
Speaker 4: up on. And you know, of course, you know, more
Speaker 4: summer athletes from this area as opposed to winter athletes
Speaker 4: that are from here. So I mean that's that's part
Speaker 4: of it too. Don't sleep on winter though.
Speaker 5: Man, let's figure skaters figure skating, speed skating, hockey. You
Speaker 5: know you get that there the downhill skiing that's fun too,
Speaker 5: So you've got it all at your disposal for sure.
Speaker 5: Someone three two one, two five seven ninety Brandon, what's
Speaker 5: going on?
Speaker 1: Good morning, buddy, Good morning man? Hey, what's going on doing? Okay?
Speaker 1: I'm playing the detO against Tampa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like you got a lot going on
Speaker 4: behind you there. But how's diesel throwing?
Speaker 1: So far? He's doing good. I got my first drag
Speaker 1: out all right.
Speaker 4: So there you go, got that one off the board already.
Speaker 4: So Brandon, I mean we talked about it. I think
Speaker 4: we're two for two now. Of whenever you play as
Speaker 4: the starter that day they go out there, they absolutely shove.
Speaker 1: They have a heck of a day. So you feeling
Speaker 1: good about three for three?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 4: All right, well good because it be nice to get
Speaker 4: this win. Come back home, and then you get a
Speaker 4: Mariner's team coming in here. Okay, Well there you go.
Speaker 4: You've got play by play going with the Brandon's full
Speaker 4: service delivery.
Speaker 1: Here I like it. Here comes here comes the closer.
Speaker 4: I like it all right, Brandon, Well, hey gonna let
Speaker 4: you play and you finish up the game and uh,
Speaker 4: hopefully we get a good one out a hundred Browns
Speaker 4: today and you know where to find us. Ah, buddy,
Speaker 4: there you go, Brandon playing as uh you know, because
Speaker 4: was it you yesterday that said it's it's easier to
Speaker 4: pitch than it is to hit on that game.
Speaker 5: Pitching is so easy if you if you know how
Speaker 5: to pitch sequence in real life, it's so easy. You
Speaker 5: could put it onto the hardest mode and you can
Speaker 5: still have a sub twr A. Hitting is so hard
Speaker 5: on that game, you can like because you'll just jam
Speaker 5: the controller down and miss, and hitting's very hard.
Speaker 4: I go, I go back to the old m VP
Speaker 4: triple triple play Baseball a sports days where you know
Speaker 4: you just use a little toggle thing to be able
Speaker 4: to hit with, and you know, it was much easier
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 1: I have not played MLB the show in years.
Speaker 4: M v PO five greatest sports video game of all
Speaker 4: time and a great soundtrack too, m v P O
Speaker 4: four and oh five great soundtrack. When I when I
Speaker 4: produced UH the A Team and we would have Blummer
Speaker 4: on every single week, A lot of times I would
Speaker 4: use music from the soundtrack there and Gordy caught up
Speaker 4: to it once and he texted me and goes, MVP Baseball.
Speaker 1: I go, you got it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's some of these bands that didn't have a
Speaker 5: whole lot of success in general that have songs in MVP,
Speaker 5: like Stella Star on MVPO four of My Coco Jam revs.
Speaker 1: Hot Hot Heat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, irock Z song is so good and like, I
Speaker 5: bet you could book the Hot Hot Heat to do
Speaker 5: the irock Z song for not very expensive.
Speaker 4: Let's guess say, I mean, we got Buzzfest coming on
Speaker 4: this weekend, you know with our sister station. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, that'd be amazing, like to have them up there, Like,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe I need to talk with Elliott the
Speaker 4: PD over there and be like, Okay, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give you a soundtrack. Yeah, and see how many of
Speaker 4: these groups will show up next year.
Speaker 1: Bring me the do Nots. We got the Noise?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah that one all American rejects. Although, Jason, before
Speaker 4: we get to you, like the the rejects now are
Speaker 4: like just like showing up at random places there and
Speaker 4: apparently like I don't know this because I'm not on TikTok.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm totally a boomer for being nearly forty.
Speaker 4: That's fine, but the fiance is and she lets me know.
Speaker 4: Like of like all the trends, and one of them
Speaker 4: is that garage bands are coming back like that gen
Speaker 4: Z is like starting our We're out of gen Z now,
Speaker 4: I think, but whatever, that it's becoming a cool thing
Speaker 4: again is to do a full on garage band of
Speaker 4: you know, lead guitar, bass drums, lead singer and go
Speaker 4: that way. I could totally see like a late two
Speaker 4: thousands emo adjacent like pop punk revival with with the
Speaker 4: younger audience like Cartel and all American rejects obviously.
Speaker 1: All Newfound Glory in there. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those bands that sound I think could do well.
Speaker 1: I think so too. They can open for me when
Speaker 1: I'm a country singer. There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: We're setting up the bill already. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it again.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Jason
Speaker 4: and Katie wants the way in.
Speaker 1: Jason, what's going on?
Speaker 10: Hey guys, good morning.
Speaker 1: A couple of takes.
Speaker 10: I didn't know it was gonna have to follow the
Speaker 10: legend Brando, but it's a couple of takes and I'll
Speaker 10: hang up and listen to the caller two callers ago
Speaker 10: talking about two Bay going to the sick So just stop,
Speaker 10: you know, just stop. It's don't be a little funk
Speaker 10: right now. I think he'd be good for having a
Speaker 10: day off today, a day game, especially on a getaway day,
Speaker 10: and Hunter Brown going so I think du Bond playing
Speaker 10: second wouldn't be the worst thing today.
Speaker 1: A couple of things.
Speaker 10: Alex c in tron is he in the hot seat?
Speaker 10: Is he not? I know the offense has been scuffling,
Speaker 10: and it hasn't been really just this year. We've gone
Speaker 10: on for a while. And another thing lastly before I
Speaker 10: hang him and listen the run.
Speaker 6: I don't know if the run's over.
Speaker 1: I feel like it is.
Speaker 10: I'm kind of, you know, at peace with it. We've
Speaker 10: had a damn good run. I don't know if it'll
Speaker 10: happen again in my lifetime. I don't think it's Joe
Speaker 10: a spot up for it. I don't think it's Dana.
Speaker 1: Brown for it. A guy in charge man.
Speaker 10: Jim Crane. You know you don't want to pay the
Speaker 10: guys that are in front of you. You don't want
Speaker 10: to pay the breaks of the breakmans of the world
Speaker 10: and and the Springers of the world, which is okay
Speaker 10: because we had Tucker, but then Tucker and then those guys,
Speaker 10: you know, those homegrown the homegrown talent. We can't go
Speaker 10: out and keep signing aging first baseman to a small
Speaker 10: contracts and think that's.
Speaker 1: Gonna hold over.
Speaker 10: You know, we're not gonna be able to keep up
Speaker 10: with all these teams if we do not spend money.
Speaker 10: And he's got to get off his little I don't
Speaker 10: want to give over five year contracts away and over
Speaker 10: X amount of dollars away because that's not going to
Speaker 10: keep up with today's baseball.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Carl Jason. I mean the
Speaker 4: run as we've had it from twenty seventeen until I
Speaker 4: would say twenty twenty three was really when you could
Speaker 4: point to that because fifteen you make the playoffs. You
Speaker 4: miss it in sixteen, but you still knew, like, all right,
Speaker 4: enough of the guys are here.
Speaker 1: We know that this thing can be special. And it
Speaker 1: has been.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know that's that's there, but it's also
Speaker 4: too I mean, look at runs all throughout you know
Speaker 4: the course of sports. I mean the Yankees of the
Speaker 4: late nineties, I mean they've been still trying to get
Speaker 4: back to that point. Even after winning the World Series
Speaker 4: in two thousand and nine, the Red Sox, even with
Speaker 4: their World Series wins, they've you know, not been able
Speaker 4: to have the replicated success that.
Speaker 1: The Astros have had. I just think it's gonna look different.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that probably yes here in the
Speaker 4: next few years, you're going to have missed playoffs. You're
Speaker 4: going to have where another team wins the division and
Speaker 4: you might have to fight for a wild card and
Speaker 4: again miss playoffs because you don't get in at that
Speaker 4: spot either.
Speaker 5: It's not going to be easy to replicate, you know,
Speaker 5: seven years of straight alcs's. It's the only team that
Speaker 5: has been that successful for that long is the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: and they had tons of early playoff exits that Dodgers
Speaker 5: fans were not happy about. They also have unlimited money,
Speaker 5: and look at the Mets right now, have unlimited money
Speaker 5: and it's been limited playoff success since Steve Cohen took over.
Speaker 5: He said when he took over, I want to win
Speaker 5: a World Series in three to five years. Well, I
Speaker 5: think we're on year four or five here and it's
Speaker 5: been early playoff exit, bad year, surprisingly good playoff run
Speaker 5: to the NLCS and then this year they're expected to
Speaker 5: be good, but it does still feel like they're building
Speaker 5: and clearly not favored to win the National League. Because
Speaker 5: the Dodge are favorite to win the National League, the
Speaker 5: Astros still have a chance, like you can call the
Speaker 5: Golden Era over. But at the same time, there's not
Speaker 5: that much stopping them from having as good of a
Speaker 5: chance as anyone to win the American League. These leagues
Speaker 5: are so split. The NL is way better than the
Speaker 5: American League, and right now you look at the rest
Speaker 5: of the league that they have to contend against, it's
Speaker 5: the Rangers are decent, the Tigers are good, and the
Speaker 5: Yankees are good, and everyone else is fine or worse
Speaker 5: or whatever. But like you get into a playoff series,
Speaker 5: if you're the Astros against any team in the AL,
Speaker 5: are you intimidated by any of them?
Speaker 1: No? Not right now. You could lose to them.
Speaker 5: You can lose to the Yankees, you can lose to
Speaker 5: the Tigers, beat them, you can lose the Ringers.
Speaker 1: You could also beat them. There's no one like.
Speaker 5: I don't think that with healthy pitching that the Astros
Speaker 5: match up well against the Dodgers in a playoff series.
Speaker 5: I think the Astros would have a tough time with
Speaker 5: the Mets in a playoff series, or the Phillies in
Speaker 5: a playoff series, or the Diamondbacks in a playoff series,
Speaker 5: but not against anyone in the American League.
Speaker 1: This is a bad lead.
Speaker 4: Well as well as they pitched. I mean, that's where
Speaker 4: it comes down to the hitting part of it. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you hit, they win. I mean, and that's the
Speaker 4: part of it that if you get to that time
Speaker 4: of the year, like even last year, as good as
Speaker 4: the Tigers were playing at that point, if the Astros
Speaker 4: hit whatsoever, Yeah, in either of those games, they win
Speaker 4: that series and they move on and face Cleveland and
Speaker 4: they probably beat Cleveland in that next series.
Speaker 5: There was no one scary in last year's playoffs. They
Speaker 5: just got out played by the Tigers in a two
Speaker 5: game you know, in a three game series.
Speaker 1: But that's a beatable team.
Speaker 5: They did great with you know, they have Trek Scuball
Speaker 5: and then the pitching chaos, but those guys are beatable.
Speaker 5: No one is scared of shout out Ridge point along
Speaker 5: will Vest. But like it's not the game is not
Speaker 5: over when will Vest comes in the game. They other
Speaker 5: than scooball. It's a bunch of decent pitchers. Yankees the
Speaker 5: same thing. Like they're even down Garrett Cole this year,
Speaker 5: and they've got Will Warren and all these random guys
Speaker 5: coming out of the woodwork to pitch well.
Speaker 1: But so did the Astro.
Speaker 5: The Astros have the best pitcher in the American League
Speaker 5: right now, and at Game one Yankees Astros matchup of
Speaker 5: Mac Freed and Hunter Brown is an even match.
Speaker 4: Well, life short when you hit a bunch of singles.
Speaker 4: And that's what they did and that's what they're hoping
Speaker 4: to be able to get off of here in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the pitching.
Speaker 4: Somebody to think for that will discuss that here as
Speaker 4: we close out the eight o'clock hour on the Sean
Speaker 4: Salisbury Show.
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 5: There's a show, the Comedy Show's got Mallie Shannon and
Speaker 5: some other people called the Other two and they tried
Speaker 5: to put it on I want to say Comedy Central,
Speaker 5: and it did a few episodes and no one cared
Speaker 5: so they threw it on a streaming stary like HBO
Speaker 5: Max or whatever the formerly known as Max, formerly known
Speaker 5: as HBO Plus, formally known as whatever. Yeah, and it
Speaker 5: like did well enough. They got two seasons and it
Speaker 5: like did well. Okay, it's either that or I'm confusing
Speaker 5: her with broad City. Maybe she was in broad City.
Speaker 5: I thinks broad City. It's broad City. Okay, so Shania
Speaker 5: Twain was in an episode of broad City and then
Speaker 5: but she also hasn't been heard from before or since
Speaker 5: for a long time, and then she like popped up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if she's just like randomly shows up. Like with
Speaker 4: wedding music, I've always said it. You know that you're
Speaker 4: at a white people wedding when two songs play, shout
Speaker 4: and don't stop believing like it's it's it's almost a
Speaker 4: requirement that the DJ or the live band has to
Speaker 4: play both of those songs. And then of course, you know,
Speaker 4: then you'll get the glowstick halo's out and some of
Speaker 4: them now do like the hats, the commemorative hats of hey,
Speaker 4: we got married. But you have those songs at at
Speaker 4: those weddings.
Speaker 5: One of the strangest closing songs at a wedding that
Speaker 5: I've ever been to. It went to my buddy's wedding
Speaker 5: in Saint Louis a few years ago. They played American Pie,
Speaker 5: don McLean, which is fine on its face, until they
Speaker 5: played all.
Speaker 1: Nine verses of American Pie.
Speaker 5: I can't do it, and the guy the or was
Speaker 5: it DJ or live band singer? The live band would
Speaker 5: go out and like stick the mic in people's faces
Speaker 5: to sing along like verse six. How am I supposed
Speaker 5: to know the lyrics to verse six of American Pie?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like, dude, just come to me for
Speaker 4: bye bye American Pie like that. At least you know
Speaker 4: that I'm gonna know that, Like you put me on
Speaker 4: the spot here, what are you doing to me? Thirteen
Speaker 4: minutes of American Pie to close out a wedding, And
Speaker 4: we're gonna close you out with a really good one.
Speaker 4: I think you all are going to enjoy it. And
Speaker 4: you know, you start getting the band and for free Bird, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, so you get the whole build up of that,
Speaker 4: and it's just like all right, first few minutes here,
Speaker 4: we're kind of just standing around with our drinks in
Speaker 4: our hands, and you know, finally you'll get to the
Speaker 4: part where you know fly High, you know Free Bird.
Speaker 1: DJ live band for wedding. All right, you said fiance
Speaker 1: you're getting married, yeah, JR Live band.
Speaker 4: Uh So it's going to be a small service and
Speaker 4: we're actually gonna do like a dinner, but then like
Speaker 4: we'll do a kind of like reception for like everybody
Speaker 4: else later probably go DJ.
Speaker 5: I would think, right choice, yeah, because live bands are limited.
Speaker 5: They're good sometimes, but they're limited because they play September
Speaker 5: and like three Bruno Mars song are you talking about?
Speaker 1: What you hear? White people weddings?
Speaker 5: September by Earth Wind and Fire is like the you
Speaker 5: have to if you have a live band, they're gonna
Speaker 5: set give you a list of the here's the twenty
Speaker 5: five songs we can play, and the top of the
Speaker 5: list is just September four times.
Speaker 1: Don't believe me, just stop. Yeah that one too. That's
Speaker 1: all there.
Speaker 5: They're like, we know these three brune O Mars songs,
Speaker 5: we know September and we can do shout and don't stop.
Speaker 4: Because I feel like with a DJ, there's no scouting
Speaker 4: trips that are needed or anything like that. Like we
Speaker 4: actually had this conversation and all was like because it's
Speaker 4: gonna be somebody's gonna give you a recommendation, and then
Speaker 4: we got to go to this place and see them play,
Speaker 4: and it's just like, like, why.
Speaker 1: Is this turning into you out? You're turning into wedding
Speaker 1: Dana Brown. You're just sitting there like, yeah, he's.
Speaker 5: Got a forty five guitar, but a sixty five drums.
Speaker 5: So so the pregame press conference, I'm gonna have, you know,
Speaker 5: the Scout's eye is gonna be something that I mentioned with,
Speaker 5: you know, while we went with you know, I don't
Speaker 5: know Tommy d and the Wonders or somebody like.
Speaker 1: That, like, you know, it's we've even pronounced the Naders.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Theneaders, No, the Wonders.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What a what a movie? What a what a
Speaker 1: what a pull by you right there.
Speaker 4: I appreciate what you bring to the program here, Ari
Speaker 4: Alexander again Arian for Sean here Sports Talk seven ninety
Speaker 4: Astros trying to get the rubber game of the series
Speaker 4: this afternoon against the Rays. That's gonna be coming your
Speaker 4: way here in just about three hours actually, so lunchtime
Speaker 4: baseball today for the Stros and also to Western Conference
Speaker 4: Finals last night, Game one going to the thunder over
Speaker 4: the Timberwolves Eastern Conference is gonna get going the night.
Speaker 1: NFL news, the Tush push.
Speaker 4: Ban vote is supposed to come up today, but the
Speaker 4: Lions had the playoff receding proposal out there, and according
Speaker 4: to Adam Schefter, about ten minutes ago, they pulled it.
Speaker 1: They said, no, we're good, it's fine. Football is doing great.
Speaker 5: I don't know why you have to change that much stuff,
Speaker 5: like it's crushing everyone watches, We're all super excited for
Speaker 5: the playoffs, we're all super sided every week to watch football,
Speaker 5: and there isn't that.
Speaker 1: Much that needs to be changed.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not only that, it's also I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: you had Roger Goodell, YESA saying that they do anticipate
Speaker 4: that they will have sixteen up regular season international games
Speaker 4: in the near future, which it's not surprising. I mean
Speaker 4: what they're at like eight now, where they're playing in Brazil,
Speaker 4: playing in Germany England of course. I mean, yeah, eventually
Speaker 4: we will have games in Australia and in Asia and
Speaker 4: you know, just other places because you mentioned it the Olympics.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think they're going to try to kind
Speaker 4: of parlay off of that of countries getting to see
Speaker 4: this sport that to them will almost be like what
Speaker 4: curling is to us, where they're gonna be like, oh man,
Speaker 4: this is kind of exciting. I want to watch this.
Speaker 4: I you know, I want to start learning how to
Speaker 4: play this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not.
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Speaker 5: him to Minsk, Belarus get the dictator Lukashenko out of
Speaker 5: there through the power of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 4: That's it, the erotic journey from Milan to men. Yeah, Rochelle, Rochelle,
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: For the Seinfeld fans out there, go ahead and shout
Speaker 4: you out with that one. But the Astros conversations in
Speaker 4: Hot and Heavy get into a little bit more of that.
Speaker 4: I do want to weave in a couple of texts
Speaker 4: and things that I had here for the show today,
Speaker 4: even though next week they'll get back on the Ota
Speaker 4: field and then soon enough Mini camp and then I mean,
Speaker 4: pretty much like once you hit July, it's football season
Speaker 4: at that point, Like once you're there after fourth of July,
Speaker 4: it's kind of like what New Year's Day is for baseball.
Speaker 4: Like after you get north of that, you're like, all right,
Speaker 4: we're getting close football's coming to a close. We don't
Speaker 4: really care about basketball at this point, so we'll start
Speaker 4: getting pitchers and catchers showing up and we get going.
Speaker 4: So that's when football gets going and you get into
Speaker 4: that part of the year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, late All Star game this year for baseball, and
Speaker 5: then immediately the week after it's training camp time. And
Speaker 5: you have a team here that has an opportunity to
Speaker 5: make some sort of run. Although there's three really good
Speaker 5: AFC teams in their way that they haven't been able
Speaker 5: to to get passed.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's this. It's good.
Speaker 5: It's good to have a team that can win that
Speaker 5: there is exciting football that you're not going in going,
Speaker 5: oh my god, we're seven to ten this year, Like
Speaker 5: what ninth pick are we going to get to draft
Speaker 5: some offensive linemen?
Speaker 1: You have to have a quarterback. They have the quarterback,
Speaker 1: they got some weapons.
Speaker 5: You know, this is a year that you can look
Speaker 5: forward to because we had the surprise year, we had
Speaker 5: the supposed breakout year that didn't really break out. And
Speaker 5: now the expectation is that there's a baseline of like
Speaker 5: this has to be a playoff team. And my hot
Speaker 5: take is that you should go six and oh in
Speaker 5: the AFC South. The AFC South is garbage. The Jaguars
Speaker 5: are not good, the Titans are not good. The Colts
Speaker 5: are not good. They went five to one last year
Speaker 5: with a stupid loss to the Titans. You can go
Speaker 5: six and oh they're better than those three teams.
Speaker 4: That would be the hope. I mean that Titans game
Speaker 4: last year. What a frustrating loss. But that's the NFL
Speaker 4: that happens. Let's actually continue that next because the roadmap
Speaker 4: the future. People already looking at what the text. I
Speaker 4: feel like the roadmap is in front of us in
Speaker 4: terms of how this thing is going to go, especially
Speaker 4: when they have to make certain decisions. We'll talk about
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Speaker 4: right here Sports Talk seventy ninety, Hunter Brown, TODJ. Bradley
Speaker 4: on the Moland for that one. Stro is trying to
Speaker 4: take that one to win the series. Then come back
Speaker 4: home for the Mariners for four, which, by the way,
Speaker 4: to a little bit of help with that last night.
Speaker 4: How about the White Sox holding on load the bases
Speaker 4: up there the Mariners do in the eighth inning with
Speaker 4: one out, you get Mitch Garver who strikes out looking,
Speaker 4: and then you get a Boozer, Cam Boozer to be
Speaker 4: able to get Julio Roderiguez to fly out to in
Speaker 4: the inning. And as soon as that happened, you were like, okay,
Speaker 4: White Socks, you might do something here. The Pope Leo
Speaker 4: helping you out here.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 5: I mean, classic Mariners a lot, They're just not able
Speaker 5: to hit. They went with an opener yesterday, they went
Speaker 5: with back to back. Casey's Casey Legamina opened. Casey Lawrence
Speaker 5: was the bulk guy. Went five innings of one run ball.
Speaker 5: So both the Astros and the Mariners got five innings
Speaker 5: of good pitching from someone you would not have expected yesterday,
Speaker 5: with Brandon Walter for the Astros coming in in five scoreless.
Speaker 4: Speaking of you know, obviously Pope Leo the fourteenth being
Speaker 4: a White Sox fan, I mean it is reasonablieve that
Speaker 4: he is a Jeff Blum fan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he has to he has to know who
Speaker 5: Jeff Blum is. He has to be excited when he
Speaker 5: hears Jeff Blum do the TV call.
Speaker 1: Think about that, Like the Pope.
Speaker 5: The Pope of all the Catholics is like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 5: Jeff Blum walk off. At some point in his life,
Speaker 5: the Pope has been happy because of something that Jeff
Speaker 5: Blum did.
Speaker 4: Our Pope loves Italian beefs in old style. Like the
Speaker 4: actor comedian Ike Baron Holtz. I saw a clip of
Speaker 4: him on The Rich Eisen Show, and he like that
Speaker 4: means that the Pope is an Ozzy Gehan fan. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Pope is a big Paul Knerko guy. Yeah, which,
Speaker 4: uh I think I was looking this up when we
Speaker 4: were talking about Pete Rose yesterday and the career ops Plus.
Speaker 4: I think Paulko and Pete Rose have the same career
Speaker 4: ops plus.
Speaker 1: Make Jermaine Dye fan. Oh yeah, Jan Yaiba.
Speaker 4: Game some guys Aj Persenski, although I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: maybe with Aj it was a little bit of yeah,
Speaker 4: he could be too much y Dwayne Wise. There's there
Speaker 4: were some names on that team. We remember him, Scott Pasednik.
Speaker 4: I mean, you forget that Pasednik with that fight between
Speaker 4: Michael Barrett and the Aj Persenski that he was in
Speaker 4: the middle of that that he tackled Michael Barrett after
Speaker 4: Barrett put a right hook on Aj Persenski.
Speaker 5: There's so few good baseball fights that I feel like
Speaker 5: we remember, like all the classics.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say that one was one, uh. I
Speaker 4: mean a lot of them in the you know, seventies
Speaker 4: and eighties too. I mean, like I always remember the
Speaker 4: Ray Knights. Did he get into it with Oz Smith?
Speaker 4: Like did Ozzie Smith like slide in hard there and
Speaker 4: then Ray Knight Smith is so nice? Who fights Ozzie?
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, or was it Barry Lark? And
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember who it was that slid in?
Speaker 4: It was either the Reds or the Cardinals that the
Speaker 4: Mets were playing, and they had it in the eighty
Speaker 4: six thirty for thirty and you see Ray Knight just
Speaker 4: start throwing hands and it's just like nobody does that anymore.
Speaker 5: Mets used to Yeah, I used to have a little feistiness,
Speaker 5: feistiness to him. Are remember when Albert Bell just absolutely
Speaker 5: decided to kill fernand Yeah, well, Fernando Vinya is like
Speaker 5: a classic. Like you want to name a guy, Fernando
Speaker 5: Vina's top of the list, He's up there.
Speaker 1: I mean it was Eric.
Speaker 4: Davis, Okay, he'd be he'd be one that I'm not
Speaker 4: really sure I want to try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric Davis is a big guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Ray Knight just said I don't care,
Speaker 4: I'm going in Yeah, and he definitely uh backed up
Speaker 4: those words.
Speaker 1: But yeah.
Speaker 4: The Astros Western Conference Finals Game one going to the
Speaker 4: Thunder last night over the Timberwolves. The East gonna get
Speaker 4: going tonight NFL meeting still ongoing. The allion's pullback on
Speaker 4: the receding for the playoffs, the tush push ban especially
Speaker 4: gonna be voted on today. It sounds like.
Speaker 5: I'm so not interested in the tush push ban or
Speaker 5: not ban. Just do something with it and let's stop
Speaker 5: talking about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of to that point too, And I mean,
Speaker 4: it's s the point of talking season football where it's okay, OTAs,
Speaker 4: we're excited about that mini camp, same deal, just because
Speaker 4: it's some sort of football on the field. But then
Speaker 4: it's like, Okay, you just get back to me second
Speaker 4: week of September and then we can start talking.
Speaker 5: I have a guy that I want to talk to
Speaker 5: at mini camp because I ran into him, and so
Speaker 5: I'm not going to tell you who it is. You'll
Speaker 5: have to guess off air who it is, but it's
Speaker 5: the player. I ran into him at Super Bowl at
Speaker 5: some of the events and he was really cool, and
Speaker 5: the Texans signed him this offseason. So I'm waiting to
Speaker 5: get to know the guy a little bit more. Also
Speaker 5: side note, I've heard Christian Kirk phenomenal golfer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I saw the video too. They were
Speaker 4: talking about it was either he or Kuym Baron, of
Speaker 4: who is. The kickers are always the kickers, and quarterbacks
Speaker 4: are usually always the golfers.
Speaker 1: On the team. Punters too, you'll get the punters involved.
Speaker 5: Fair Baron's really good at ping pong apparently, oh okay,
Speaker 5: And they're the guy that runs him. And back when
Speaker 5: they had case Keenum, they're the guys that ran the
Speaker 5: ping pong table. I remember Keenum used to always be
Speaker 5: on that ping pong table there in the locker room.
Speaker 5: But you know, a couple of days ago, brock Perty
Speaker 5: signed his deal with the forty nine ers sixty million
Speaker 5: per So that immediately has people like me and you
Speaker 5: and like everybody else saying, oh, well, now the Texans
Speaker 5: are on the clock for CJ.
Speaker 4: That deal is gonna get done next offseason. That's going
Speaker 4: to happen, and he probably will be north of you know,
Speaker 4: sixty sixty one, sixty two, sixty three, something like that
Speaker 4: in terms of annual value of the contract coming to
Speaker 4: his way. But then it's also too you're gonna make
Speaker 4: a decision on Will Anderson Junior. They're gonna take that
Speaker 4: fifth year option Will Anderson Junior. They're gonna say we
Speaker 4: take care of CJ. This year, we get another year
Speaker 4: somewhat rookie money on him. Year after that is when
Speaker 4: things get interesting with the Texans, because it is going
Speaker 4: to start to have some of the offseason storylines of
Speaker 4: they've traded this guy, they've released this guy and one
Speaker 4: of the guys, and this is gonna make some Texans
Speaker 4: fans shut or to even think about this. But I
Speaker 4: think that these are the last couple of years of
Speaker 4: Nico Collins. Maybe maybe not. Maybe you find other ways
Speaker 4: to clear some of the money. You're gonna have guys
Speaker 4: that are aging out of bigger contracts. You don't have
Speaker 4: a super expensive offensive line right now, you've already cleared
Speaker 4: all that the salary off of Laramie Tunsel. You're paying
Speaker 4: a lot of money to Daniel Hunter, rightfully so, because
Speaker 4: he's really good. But Daniel Hunter is gonna be gone
Speaker 4: in a couple of years.
Speaker 5: I think you keep you know, you have your building box,
Speaker 5: your quarterback, your number one receiver. You don't have to
Speaker 5: pay running backs. We know that you have Will Anderson
Speaker 5: and you have Derek Stingley, and then you can figure
Speaker 5: out everything else around it. I just the way that
Speaker 5: they handled the draft this year of going out and
Speaker 5: getting Jayden Higgins and then Jalen Knowle, who a lot
Speaker 5: of people think is going to be able to fit
Speaker 5: the Tank Dell role for now, I mean because I mean,
Speaker 5: when Tank Dell comes back, if I'm not mistaken, he's
Speaker 5: not going to play this season.
Speaker 4: I think we can all pretty much agree on that.
Speaker 4: So then he's back next year. What do you get
Speaker 4: out of him next year? And then I guess that
Speaker 4: would be the fourth year of his deal at that point,
Speaker 4: so he would be playing his free agent year there.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is where you start to Once you
Speaker 4: have the guys who are able to be on the
Speaker 4: found money of rookie deals and you find a quarterback
Speaker 4: in that in that mold right there, then it's like,
Speaker 4: oh man, the rest of the roster is wide open
Speaker 4: for us to pretty much go out and get whoever
Speaker 4: we want. Because that guy's fine, we don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about him right now. But then you do have
Speaker 4: to worry about him. Then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 4: penny pinching starts.
Speaker 5: Well, it also just depends on what what can you
Speaker 5: get out of Nico Collins and is he going to
Speaker 5: deserve continuing these extensions and CJ's got to have a
Speaker 5: number one. And right now, you look down the rest
Speaker 5: of the roster, these guys aren't super high picks. Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: as much as you love Jayden Higgins to draft him
Speaker 5: in the second round over an offensive line, but he's
Speaker 5: still a second round pick. Right Noel is still a
Speaker 5: third round pick. And you lucked into Nico turning into
Speaker 5: what he's turned into because he was a third round
Speaker 5: pick who was banged up and he wasn't who wasn't
Speaker 5: the guy that he is now, Like he has transformed
Speaker 5: his body. He was always banged up and now he's
Speaker 5: been less so hurt, although there's still some soft tissue
Speaker 5: stuff that pops up with him. But when he was
Speaker 5: in his first you know, his rookie year here, I
Speaker 5: don't think anyone could have imagined like this is going
Speaker 5: to be an Alpha number one, super good, top ten
Speaker 5: NFL receiver. This is where also too, when you get
Speaker 5: into this category of you've paid the quarterback. Now you
Speaker 5: know that a fourth of your salary cap has gone.
Speaker 5: This is where Nick Cassio, who's been incredibly good overall
Speaker 5: with the draft, that's where it's like, all right now,
Speaker 5: that's when you really have to be even better because
Speaker 5: you can't have that situation pop up and then you've
Speaker 5: got to pay Will Anderson Junior soon. So that's another
Speaker 5: what you know, thirty million off the top right there
Speaker 5: that you're taking away from the cap. So I mean
Speaker 5: that's about ninety.
Speaker 4: Plus million dollars that you have of however much against
Speaker 4: the cap that you're going to be going with, Like
Speaker 4: you know, for example, Miles Garrett forty million per Daneil
Speaker 4: Hunter right now thirty five point six. I mean, I
Speaker 4: would probably think that Hunter is in his final two
Speaker 4: years with the team, Max Crosby, guys like that. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's probably the going rate that you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: pay for Will Anderson Junior when that time comes up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, and it's going to keep going up.
Speaker 5: I mean, the inflation of these contracts is going to
Speaker 5: keep you know, Will Anderson probably get forty right, Like,
Speaker 5: he's one of the best defensive ends in the league.
Speaker 5: He's going to continue getting better and it's going to
Speaker 5: be the market rate. But then at the same time,
Speaker 5: the salary cap is going to keep going up. The
Speaker 5: NFL is doing great, and these guys are going to
Speaker 5: keep finding more and more space the rest of these deals.
Speaker 5: I mean it's football, right, Like they structure these deals
Speaker 5: in a way the teams can, for the most part,
Speaker 5: unless you're the Browns and Deshaun Watson, for the most part,
Speaker 5: can find a way to get out of it somehow
Speaker 5: without two problems that the new or owned Saints have
Speaker 5: been pushing back the tax man for you know, however
Speaker 5: many years, and it's finally, you know, finally come due.
Speaker 1: But they can get creative. I'm not that worried about it.
Speaker 4: The credit card bill definitely does come due. Let's get
Speaker 4: back into a little bit of baseball here, because something
Speaker 4: happened a couple of nights ago that somebody took massive
Speaker 4: exception two and they could not be more wrong.
Speaker 1: And we'll discuss that here.
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Speaker 4: Christian Walker is not batting cleanup today, it's batting fifth
Speaker 4: over at first base. You get Pania Perettas Altuve as
Speaker 4: the DH today, hitting one through three rds. Back in
Speaker 4: the lineup, they're in the cleanup spot and catching you
Speaker 4: get Walker and Myers. Five and six, you get camp
Speaker 4: Smith out and writes Brendan Rodgers over at second Mauricio
Speaker 4: Dubond getting the start out in left field today for
Speaker 4: Hunter Brown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 5: So it's a lineup that's meant to accentuate Hunter Brown
Speaker 5: or what he does and throws a lot of ground balls.
Speaker 5: But Rogers at second base, you have an outfielder and
Speaker 5: left who can throw a little bit. In Mauricio Dubond,
Speaker 5: you have your best center fielder out there. Camp Smith
Speaker 5: has continued to earn playing time, and you get Jose
Speaker 5: al tub off of his feet while you are Don
Speaker 5: Alvarez is still on the il and moving Christian Walker
Speaker 5: down to fifth. I mean that's he's earned that too,
Speaker 5: and not in the way that he wants. But he's
Speaker 5: just not hitting well enough to be in the fourth
Speaker 5: spot and having Jake Myers directly behind him, and Myers
Speaker 5: has been hitting really well this month.
Speaker 4: Making a prediction Walker Homers today, why not he likes
Speaker 4: that fifth spot? Told you how while he's hitting that
Speaker 4: fifth spot, I think there's gonna be some comfort there.
Speaker 4: And then Joe look, any other injuries, anything else that happens.
Speaker 4: Christian Walker hits fifth Yeah, let's will it into the atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Let's make it happen. Christian Walker is one for two
Speaker 4: with a home run off of Toaj Bradley in his career.
Speaker 4: I think you might be onto something here you go there,
Speaker 4: you go for your beat the streak. Who knows, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe that's somebody. Although it's one of the other things
Speaker 4: too that it's one of my sick games that I
Speaker 4: like to do with Twitter during a game is especially
Speaker 4: while watching the Astros, is to wade into the waters
Speaker 4: that is Astros Twitter, and one of them is to
Speaker 4: search a player's name and see what it is. And
Speaker 4: of course you know, strike out runners in scoring position.
Speaker 6: All of that.
Speaker 4: You'll get to people who are angry about that. But
Speaker 4: it's often people like you with beat the Streak or
Speaker 4: with Daily Fantasy or anything like that, that are like,
Speaker 4: this is the last time I take Christian Walker Like
Speaker 4: those are the ones that always pop up whenever his
Speaker 4: name comes up on Twitter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gambling has massively changed how people talk about players,
Speaker 5: often in a really negative way, and you hope that
Speaker 5: you can separate the like these are real people that
Speaker 5: might not be having the best day at work when
Speaker 5: you're relying.
Speaker 1: On them too.
Speaker 5: This is on you for relying on humans and or
Speaker 5: sometimes horses and or sometimes the lesser times greyhounds.
Speaker 1: I think that's still legal.
Speaker 5: I don't know, to win you money, like these are
Speaker 5: not you know, these are not robots.
Speaker 1: There is a wide range of outcomes.
Speaker 4: You want to feel a certain way about yourself, go
Speaker 4: to a Vegas sports book, like early in the morning
Speaker 4: when like I don't know, Indonesian like kart racing is happening,
Speaker 4: and you see people in there that are actually wagering
Speaker 4: on it, and.
Speaker 1: You're just like, dude, what are you doing with your life?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you haven't lived until you've bet on euro
Speaker 5: Tour golf at three am.
Speaker 14: Dan.
Speaker 4: It's like a buddy of mine would like tell us
Speaker 4: about you know, certain like soccer bets, and we're just like,
Speaker 4: you know nothing about them, Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's on it four in the morning, and
Speaker 1: you gotta have something to do.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you just got to throw ten bucks on Adrian
Speaker 5: moronk to win his three ball in Dubai, all right.
Speaker 1: I would think of other things to do.
Speaker 4: Sleep would be one of them at that time of
Speaker 4: the morning, especially out there in you know, Vegas, wherever
Speaker 4: you're at. I mean, I feel like you probably might
Speaker 4: be going in at that time. So if that's the case,
Speaker 4: then you know, get up, bloody Mary Michlata something like that.
Speaker 4: You're going for the next day, come back from omnia,
Speaker 4: sit down at the sports bar and throw a little
Speaker 4: bit of money on. I love betting on Euro Tour golf,
Speaker 4: by the way, I think that's uh, you can win
Speaker 4: those three balls. Give me a little Richard Bland on
Speaker 4: there to win his winners group.
Speaker 5: You know. Okay, not a bad idea, but it's one
Speaker 5: of those you wake up in the middle of the night,
Speaker 5: maybe had on the golf channel for whatever reason, and
Speaker 5: that's on. You're like, oh, yeah, hey, they're actually playing
Speaker 5: right now over in Jakarta or somewhere like that as
Speaker 5: part of the DP World Tour. Throw uh yeah, throw
Speaker 5: some money on the guys when they're playing at the
Speaker 5: LEA what's the golf course in France, Le Golf Lacional
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'll go with it, yeah, or of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds good, and that's that sounds like that's
Speaker 4: probably the place. But uh yeah, the Astros coming up
Speaker 4: a little bit later on this afternoon. The Red Sox,
Speaker 4: though they've got a former Astros coach as their manager,
Speaker 4: Alex Korra. It's graduation season two, and this isn't something
Speaker 4: that is new, Like, you know, it wasn't something you know,
Speaker 4: him stepping away for a game to go to his
Speaker 4: daughter's graduation. I mean, like I remembered when I covered
Speaker 4: the Braves, for example, Freddy Gonzalez was the manager. He
Speaker 4: took the entire series off when one of his kids
Speaker 4: graduated and Carlos Tosca had the series for them, and
Speaker 4: he was the acting manager because they were out on
Speaker 4: the West Coast and he's like, I gotta go back
Speaker 4: and you know, go to graduation.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take the weekend. That's fine.
Speaker 4: But Alex Korra did it, and he met some backlash
Speaker 4: yesterday from it. So his daughter just graduated from Boston College.
Speaker 4: And Mike Felger, who is on ninety eight to five
Speaker 4: the Sports Hub there in Boston, called the decision for
Speaker 4: Kora to step away kind of preposterous, adding on, it
Speaker 4: just sets a tone. It's just a tone. You set
Speaker 4: an example you set for the team. It's not like
Speaker 4: they need him there to make the pitching change or
Speaker 4: lay down the bunt. It's the leadership optics of the
Speaker 4: whole thing. It's a very easy choice for him to
Speaker 4: say nothing's more important than tonight's game. He just does
Speaker 4: it by example. Nothing's more important than this game.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 4: It's the middle of May game, and I get it
Speaker 4: it was against the Mets, But like you just kind
Speaker 4: of already like proved your own point of it's not
Speaker 4: like they need him there to do this or that. Okay, fine,
Speaker 4: it's one game. It's all good. He's going to be
Speaker 4: a dad for the rest of his in her life.
Speaker 4: He's going to be the manager for only a short
Speaker 4: amount of time. This is a prime example ari of
Speaker 4: don't ever put something like this in front of the
Speaker 4: people who matter the most, and that's your family. I
Speaker 4: also am not one hundred percent sure that I believe
Speaker 4: this guy right, Like how many times are people just
Speaker 4: manufacturing opinions for just reaction.
Speaker 1: That's in play? That does happen?
Speaker 5: Sure, like all the time, Like all this one Soto
Speaker 5: stuff that's going on, Like how much of that is
Speaker 5: Like do you actually believe that whatever this is going on,
Speaker 5: or just like yappin for attention. This feels like a
Speaker 5: yapp and for attention thing to me. That's one of
Speaker 5: my favorite responses to have is whenever like I see
Speaker 5: or hear somebody say something and I'm just like.
Speaker 1: You don't even believe that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it can also come into play quite a bit,
Speaker 4: like where it's you know, you see somebody, Oh, they
Speaker 4: just eviscerated this guy, and I'm just like, you're playing
Speaker 4: up for the cameras, you're playing up for the microphones,
Speaker 4: Like are you really being honest with your audience? In
Speaker 4: most chances, I would say probably not.
Speaker 5: No, they're playing a character like do you really think
Speaker 5: And I know I've I've read articles about like people
Speaker 5: talking about how sincere like Skip Bayless is or how
Speaker 5: insane he is about whatever it is that he does.
Speaker 5: But like, do you really think that he's sitting at
Speaker 5: home and Lebron does something and he's like his day
Speaker 5: is ruined.
Speaker 1: Because of it? No, it's all fake.
Speaker 4: Well, there is that, And it's also though, like especially
Speaker 4: he's one of the ones who's on the list for me,
Speaker 4: like I haven't given you the concept triple he knows
Speaker 4: about the concept of me. Of the lists on the
Speaker 4: side of the refrigerator, the pay No Mind list, Skip
Speaker 4: Bayless is on that list.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I don't think I think that, Like
Speaker 5: you're you're coming up with something to talk about. If
Speaker 5: it's May and Alex Korra took a day off to
Speaker 5: go to his daughter's graduation, and you're turning it into
Speaker 5: a whole thing. It's also clearly your ship does not
Speaker 5: work anymore because if it if it did, you'd still
Speaker 5: be in the position that you were in. Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's that's one of those things where too it's Boston, right,
Speaker 5: and so you feel like you have to have this
Speaker 5: like hardcore like masculinity take about like this guy's got
Speaker 5: to come into work every day and work at the dockyards,
Speaker 5: and like also he's a baseball manager. Of all the coaches,
Speaker 5: they do the least of having an impact on whatever
Speaker 5: it is happens on the field.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: He got thrown out last night, Yeah, because Walker Bueller
Speaker 5: missed a you know, didn't get a call and he
Speaker 5: cussed out the umpire and then Cora gets thrown out
Speaker 5: and then the rest of the game they had their
Speaker 5: bench coach managing and they won. Like the difference between
Speaker 5: Alex Korra being there and not being there for No.
Speaker 5: One of One's sixty two is nothing. It's just I
Speaker 5: mean contrived. Some people will buy it, some people will
Speaker 5: go with it. I mean, I do agree with you
Speaker 5: on this thing, because it's just like you won the
Speaker 5: game first and foremost, So that's fine.
Speaker 1: It's one day.
Speaker 4: Like, it's not like he's taking time away because I
Speaker 4: don't know, think of a reason that he could possibly
Speaker 4: take time away that's not really that serious, Like nobody's
Speaker 4: in you know, danger of passing or anything like that.
Speaker 4: So you want to be with them and you know
Speaker 4: in all those moments. But like it's his daughter's graduation,
Speaker 4: and for the reasons that I just gave you there, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't think there's a single person in that clubhouse that, oh,
Speaker 4: Skip's not gonna be here tonight because it's going to
Speaker 4: his daughter's graduation. Skipper really care about us? Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: there's no way. Like the look, these guys are people.
Speaker 4: They understand.
Speaker 5: I guarantee you they're gonna at some point grow up
Speaker 5: and be like, yeah, I want to be at my
Speaker 5: daughter's graduation.
Speaker 1: They all understand.
Speaker 5: It's Also it's one day, Like most of these guys
Speaker 5: are so locked in all on the details of what
Speaker 5: they have to do. And keep in mind who the
Speaker 5: clubhouse leader is. In that clubhouse right now is Alex Bregman,
Speaker 5: who thinks about the minute details of swing mechanics and
Speaker 5: relief pitcher release points. Do you think that he cares
Speaker 5: that Alex Cora took a day off. No, he's got
Speaker 5: to go study Ryan's stannick splitter finger grip, all right,
Speaker 5: Like these guys don't care.
Speaker 1: They have their own stuff to worry about.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, and you think about it too, from
Speaker 4: in this case managers, but like coaches in this industry,
Speaker 4: like we're around it close enough that we know, like
Speaker 4: when you're on the job, you're on the job. The
Speaker 4: family is secondary and it's unfortunate and you miss a
Speaker 4: lot of those moments too. So I think like kind
Speaker 4: of Cora looks at this of saying, hey, I've missed
Speaker 4: first games, I've missed all of these other things because
Speaker 4: we've been playing a series out in LA against the
Speaker 4: Dodgers and I can't be there for that. This is
Speaker 4: one of these where it's in Boston. He's right there,
Speaker 4: he's right down the street, and he just says, look,
Speaker 4: I'm not missing this one. Like there's many things that
Speaker 4: unfortunately I have to grin and Barrett and I have
Speaker 4: to miss it, but this is not one that I
Speaker 4: can go back at and say, you know what, I'm
Speaker 4: really glad I managed that Monday night game against the
Speaker 4: Mets and mister graduation.
Speaker 1: No, he's not gonna say that.
Speaker 5: I don't think John Henry cares either. There's no way
Speaker 5: that they care that he's going to take one day
Speaker 5: off in the middle of the year. And it's also
Speaker 5: like it's not a Pennant race, like it's may It's fine.
Speaker 5: This is such a made up for attention take. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, he got the most of it right there, because
Speaker 4: Cora did have to talk about it. As he was
Speaker 4: asked before last night's game, said, people have their own opinions.
Speaker 4: I bet those people have families too, and at one
Speaker 4: point they have to make decisions as well. Bet they
Speaker 4: made decisions for the best of the family. I made
Speaker 4: the decision for my daughter. For those who don't understand,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to try to convince them. It is
Speaker 4: what it is. I made the best decision for my girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Fine, like the fact that even had to answer that
Speaker 5: is stupid. Yeah, I mean I saw that yesterday and
Speaker 5: I was just like backlash. I was like, what the
Speaker 5: hell could be back slash from missing a May nineteenth
Speaker 5: game against the Mets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that dumb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, some people want to wait in those waters.
Speaker 4: We try not to hear on The Seawan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 4: And I think for the most part, our batting average
Speaker 4: is good. All right, let's get back into the astros conversation.
Speaker 4: As the pitching as good as it's been this year.
Speaker 4: This guy's not getting their flowers enough and we'll talk
Speaker 4: about them right here. It is a Sean Salisbury's show.
Speaker 4: He is Ari Alexander KPRC two in for Sean, Dan Matthews,
Speaker 4: Triple E Emmanuel Elmore Sports Talk seven ninety The Shawn
Speaker 4: Salisbury Show continued. Was A, I mean he doesn't really
Speaker 4: look the part, you know, because we've been through that.
Speaker 4: But B he was writing all the songs for everybody,
Speaker 4: and then it was finally like they were like, dude,
Speaker 4: your stuff is really good, like you know, and you
Speaker 4: can sing, you can play like you need to do it.
Speaker 4: And then finally got his shot and now he's considered
Speaker 4: to be one of the best. I mean, he's awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm a big Stapleton.
Speaker 5: He was the guy that was sitting in the corner
Speaker 5: of the boardroom going like, this is the one that
Speaker 5: rhymes a beer.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he was trying to sell anybody
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 4: I think he was quietly like writing it out and
Speaker 4: like everybody's like, you know, hashing things out and doing
Speaker 4: all that, and then he just slides the paper across
Speaker 4: the table and it's just like that's the one puts
Speaker 4: the pen down on the paper and gets up and
Speaker 4: walks off. He's probably that cool with it right there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like you know, it's everybody else, Oh hey, we should try.
Speaker 4: Like there's nothing better than like a you know, a
Speaker 4: conference room of people trying to pitch ideas and then
Speaker 4: somebody is just sitting back. Like it's almost like Billy
Speaker 4: bean in in Moneyball, where he's just sitting there and
Speaker 4: everybody Alhwa's got an ugly girlfriend.
Speaker 1: He's just like, what are we talking about? Yeah? Can
Speaker 1: he play baseball? Yeah? All right? Give me, all right,
Speaker 1: give me topics.
Speaker 5: Here, cold beer, tight jeans, dirt road, big truck.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna snap my fingers and point at Pete. Guys,
Speaker 4: you do not want me to point at Pete again? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I always love that scene. It's a movie that I
Speaker 4: don't think it's enough run, but good movie.
Speaker 1: Too long of a movie.
Speaker 4: Well that's and then also too, it's it's another one
Speaker 4: that you know we were talking about the music and
Speaker 4: beer snobs are the book was better than the movie.
Speaker 4: That's another one that people will throw at you. Who
Speaker 4: the book was better? It's just like, dude, you're trying
Speaker 4: to squeeze in a three hundred page book into a
Speaker 4: two and a half hour if then that's even long,
Speaker 4: but into a shorter amount of time frame. Like, yes,
Speaker 4: of course some things are going to be changed for
Speaker 4: cinematic entertainment. That's what the whole thing is. What do
Speaker 4: you knew here?
Speaker 5: Well, Billy Bean too, he's got to be excited that,
Speaker 5: like they got Brad Pitt to play him, Like could
Speaker 5: you imagine a better Like all right, hey man, we're
Speaker 5: optioning the book.
Speaker 1: Who are they gonned to play me? Yead pitch Well,
Speaker 1: Sean talks about that all the time.
Speaker 4: He knows Billy Bean and he said that that's something
Speaker 4: that he's brought up with him before he goes, hey, look,
Speaker 4: if nothing else happens to you in life, which had
Speaker 4: a pretty accomplished career in baseball, He's like, you can
Speaker 4: always lean back on the fact of Brad Pitt played
Speaker 4: me in a movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you imagine how incredible that would be. You know
Speaker 5: how many times you're like, a god, who would play
Speaker 5: me in a movie? They're like, we're gonna get Brad
Speaker 5: Pitt to play you. That reminds me of those interviews.
Speaker 1: All right, hey, we're gonna ask the off the wall
Speaker 1: stuff here. If somebody was to play you in a movie,
Speaker 1: who would who would play you?
Speaker 5: I love the confident like the white guy confident answer
Speaker 5: and Denzel Washington on Denzel Washington to.
Speaker 1: Play me in a movie? What I like? Denzel Washington? Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: who would play you in a movie? Lu Diamond Phillips,
Speaker 1: that's it would play me?
Speaker 5: There you go, all right, you know, I don't know
Speaker 5: just that that's a good one, right there, Just throw
Speaker 5: out like an off the wall one, so then like
Speaker 5: it kind of like makes them feel awkward and then
Speaker 5: they're like, oh yeah, be serious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like, dude, you asked the question, I
Speaker 4: answered it. What do you want from me, He can
Speaker 4: do macronus, he can play me. There you go, there,
Speaker 4: you go. See we're solving the problems here in terms
Speaker 4: of you know, some of these you know, original and
Speaker 4: I say it in air quotes, original questions that people
Speaker 4: will ask, like one of the ones that I like
Speaker 4: to ask pictures here, and you know we'll get into
Speaker 4: the astros pictures here is. We used to do this
Speaker 4: all the time on a former show I worked on,
Speaker 4: and we would have Colin McEwan And one of the
Speaker 4: times we had him on, one of my guys asked him, goes,
Speaker 4: if you go to the grocery store and there's the
Speaker 4: produce department, what piece of produce could you pick to
Speaker 4: be able to throw for a strike?
Speaker 1: He said, a key lime, a key lin.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, he said, probably has the same density
Speaker 5: as a baseball. No what, well, just like the weight
Speaker 5: of it is what he was getting at.
Speaker 1: Like too small.
Speaker 4: Well he did throw that into you know, into the equation,
Speaker 4: but he said that probably in terms of the weight
Speaker 4: and being able to you know, everything to follow through
Speaker 4: all of that, that he feels like he'd be able
Speaker 4: to throw a strike like an apple, he said, would
Speaker 4: be too big, an orange the same deal or.
Speaker 1: Just too big for sure? Now I'm thinking of like
Speaker 1: a kiwi.
Speaker 5: I think a kiwi decent density, the size spits in
Speaker 5: the palm of your hand like a baseball does. I
Speaker 5: think kiwi would be good. Key limes are too kidding me?
Speaker 5: What about a regular line? A regular line would be fine.
Speaker 5: First of all. Second of all, limes are oblong. You
Speaker 5: throw a baseball as a perfectly circular ball with seams.
Speaker 5: Why would you want an oblong shaped fruit? Wouldn't you
Speaker 5: want something more circular?
Speaker 4: Like I'd say, like maybe even you know, because kind
Speaker 4: of tomatoes fit into that category two? So maybe like tomatoes, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean because because it's all though. That's the problem
Speaker 4: is that, like you know, you can only grip it so,
Speaker 4: you know, so hard, because then you know it could
Speaker 4: squish in your hand and you're like, oh man, damn,
Speaker 4: I didn't really get to throw that.
Speaker 1: Mangoes are maybe too big.
Speaker 5: I think a kiwi is the point is the best
Speaker 5: thing here, because a kiwi is close enough to being round.
Speaker 5: It is dense with the fruit inside and the ship
Speaker 5: and that the shell. What's the the I don't know,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm talking about the outside of the
Speaker 5: key husk. The yeah Kiwi husk is uh is thick
Speaker 5: enough to where you can dig your your fingers into it.
Speaker 4: Interesting. Interesting. I wonder if Josh Miller would have a
Speaker 4: good take on this.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, maybe that's the if I ever, you know,
Speaker 4: run into him, is be like, hey, Josh, look not
Speaker 4: for nothing here, damn Matthews. By the way, Sports Talk
Speaker 4: seven ninety senior around just setting a chance introduced. If
Speaker 4: I took you to a produce department, what could you
Speaker 4: throw for a strike right now? That'd be a hell
Speaker 4: of a first impression, that god question. Maybe I would
Speaker 4: actually think, you know, if any of the astros who
Speaker 4: could answer that question, the clubhouse, arrag Getty probably would
Speaker 4: be the guy that would think about it the most.
Speaker 5: It wasn't Asky. Those two guys would actually have a legitate,
Speaker 5: right Ryan Stanek back in the day have been phenomenal.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Notice I wouldn't go to Ryan Presley with that
Speaker 4: because I think press just glare you down. Pressley would
Speaker 4: be funny about it later, but he do like the
Speaker 4: fake glare and just he'd just be like, this is
Speaker 4: why I don't answer questions. It would also be a
Speaker 4: point to air me out right there he look at
Speaker 4: everybody else and be like this, this is why I
Speaker 4: avoid you guys after games. Questions like this are why
Speaker 4: I step away and tell you guys, I'm not available. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then I didn't want to answer questions about produce.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, look, it could be
Speaker 5: a plug, it could be something you know, to be
Speaker 5: able to feed into somebody throughout the brand earlier.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 4: We don't have to, you know, go go further into
Speaker 4: who that is. We all know who it is. But no,
Speaker 4: that's that's that's something that keep keep in mind because
Speaker 4: I do do a lot of the Saturday games here
Speaker 4: for on deck and for the tenth inning, and a
Speaker 4: lot of times I'll go to the ballpark because I
Speaker 4: do want to get a player. So the next time
Speaker 4: I have a picture, sure as you're born, that's going
Speaker 4: to be asked, Yeah, get.
Speaker 5: When Urgedtty's back with the hand injury of the broken
Speaker 5: thumb Arragedtty's gonna have like an analytical, like smart answer
Speaker 5: about it. I agree, I agree, So hopefully I get
Speaker 5: him on a non start day there at the ballpark.
Speaker 5: But speaking to Josh Miller. The flowers need to go
Speaker 5: to the man.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that a little bit here to close
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Speaker 4: Matt and Ross step in, quitting your job and sailing
Speaker 4: the world with your pet, that's something you would be
Speaker 4: interested in. We'll talk about it here. It is the
Speaker 4: Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 4: Last couple of minutes of the show seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two five seven ninety against seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two five seven ninety. We've been a lot
Speaker 4: of astros today and haven't had a chance much to
Speaker 4: be able to give the flowers to a guy that
Speaker 4: at times last year took it on the chin from
Speaker 4: some of our callers and from some of Astro's Twitter, dude,
Speaker 4: I mean, how much more do you have to see
Speaker 4: from this pitching staff the better part of the last
Speaker 4: two and a half years than to say, oh, Josh
Speaker 4: Miller knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: They're good. They're really good.
Speaker 5: They're good from an organizational standpoint all the way up.
Speaker 5: And there are organizations that are terrible at this, the
Speaker 5: Rockies being the biggest one that don't know how to
Speaker 5: develop pitchers and the Astros. Do you have guys that
Speaker 5: have come out of nowhere, you have guys that are
Speaker 5: waiver claims. You have guys that they just get from pluck,
Speaker 5: from wherever, and they turn them into useful pictures. Taylor Scott.
Speaker 5: It's a great example career nine era, great year circle
Speaker 5: of trust last year. Obviously it hasn't worked out this year.
Speaker 5: And it's relievers right like they have a shelf life
Speaker 5: one and year to year. There's so much volatility in
Speaker 5: the relief game that you never know if is going
Speaker 5: to be good or not. Steven Okert, I know last
Speaker 5: night whatever, coming out of nowhere. He's a guy that
Speaker 5: they just picked up on, you know, on a minor
Speaker 5: league deal. Brian King late round pick out of nowhere,
Speaker 5: non prospect. He is their seventh inning guy right now.
Speaker 5: Like they have done a great job turning random guys
Speaker 5: that you would never believe are going to be good
Speaker 5: pitchers into useful players. Yeah, I mean, you know you
Speaker 5: mentioned Okret this year being another kind of reclamation project.
Speaker 5: I mean, hell, last year you say Kakuchi of having
Speaker 5: all the struggles he had there in Toronto, and then
Speaker 5: he gets here and they're like, yeah, that change up
Speaker 5: that you've got, throw that a little bit more and
Speaker 5: it's going to help you. And then sure enough he did,
Speaker 5: and it got him a nice little deal after the offseason.
Speaker 1: They fixed him immediately.
Speaker 5: It was like one start, they're like, hey, by the way,
Speaker 5: you have a four seam fastball that needs to.
Speaker 1: Be up in the zone.
Speaker 5: I don't know why the Angels told you to throw
Speaker 5: it low in the zone, but stop doing that. And
Speaker 5: then he goes out and as a two seventy era
Speaker 5: because they fixed like two minor things like stop throwing
Speaker 5: your curveball, throw this more fastball needs to be up
Speaker 5: in the zone. And then it's such an easy face,
Speaker 5: such a fix that makes sense. You're sitting there and
Speaker 5: going like, why are the Angels stupid? Why are they
Speaker 5: looking at this guy that there are the Angels?
Speaker 1: Sorry the blue Jay? Why are the signed with the Angels?
Speaker 5: Why are the blue Jays stupid that they're looking at
Speaker 5: this guy and they know that all the metrics show
Speaker 5: that he should be throwing his fast behind the zone
Speaker 5: and they just don't have him do that.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 4: Yeah, some things that are just incredibly mind boggling in
Speaker 4: terms of, you know, how organizations run their things. But
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously the Astros, I mean you touched on it.
Speaker 4: I mean there's an organizational standard. Hey, this is how
Speaker 4: we handle our pictures. This is how we do it.
Speaker 4: This is you know, how we take guys from where
Speaker 4: they are and get them to overhear. And I mean
Speaker 4: that's something that he's got a hard enough job on,
Speaker 4: you know, the thirteen guys that he's got, But then
Speaker 4: you factor in all of the other guys that have
Speaker 4: had to make spot starts for you, Guys that have
Speaker 4: come up for you and seemingly been able to kind
Speaker 4: of pick up from where they left off there at
Speaker 4: Corpus or sugar Land or wherever whenever they get them
Speaker 4: up here.
Speaker 5: And there's so many guys that they have to deal
Speaker 5: with and just know this is how this guy fits
Speaker 5: into the system. And then they all have their unique
Speaker 5: tendencies and the different things they do, and they do
Speaker 5: teach certain things, right, So a lot of their pitchers,
Speaker 5: they want them to learn the fastball that Christian Haavier throws,
Speaker 5: the rising quote unquote rising fastball, the.
Speaker 1: High vaa vaaaa.
Speaker 5: If you want to go fastball, the above average vertical
Speaker 5: attack angle, above average fastball, and so Aarraghetti throws that
Speaker 5: kind of a fastball. They have a kid in Tripa
Speaker 5: right now, Miguel Iola, who throws that kind of a fastball.
Speaker 5: And then they teach the different sweeper and all the
Speaker 5: you know, the things that fit into what a modern
Speaker 5: pitcher is today. They have been among the best in
Speaker 5: baseball at doing this for years and years, and they
Speaker 5: have turned non prospects JP France in twenty twenty three
Speaker 5: into viable major league pitchers. Though nothing bad to say
Speaker 5: about the Astros pitching coaches and the Astros pitching development,
Speaker 5: Brandon Walter perfect exa ample guy that they signed off
Speaker 5: the street and said, hey, tweak this because remember we
Speaker 5: were talking about him yesterday.
Speaker 1: You asked me, what does he have?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm looking at his twenty twenty three usage and
Speaker 5: he's a sinker sweeper guy. Well, last night he was
Speaker 5: throwing different stuff. They came in and said, stop doing this.
Speaker 5: Start doing this. Five scoreless innings, first time in the
Speaker 5: majors this year, signed off the street.
Speaker 1: They're good at their jobs.
Speaker 4: How amazing is it too, that you know, you talked
Speaker 4: about him being a crafty lefty last night and I see,
Speaker 4: you know, he's ninety ninety one somewhere around there, And
Speaker 4: it's like there was a time where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's not bad for a lefty. Now it's like you're
Speaker 4: throwing that like it's almost like when we were growing up.
Speaker 4: I'd be somebody throwing in like the mid to high
Speaker 4: eighties at that point, and it doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 4: much of a difference. But it's like, no, like now
Speaker 4: like ninety five is an average fastball, Like back then
Speaker 4: it was like ninety two was. It's it's amazing to think,
Speaker 4: like how much like that's grown.
Speaker 1: The game has changed.
Speaker 5: And there's a Code of five baseball who I nail
Speaker 5: all the time for their Tony Gwyn obsession. Actually, he
Speaker 5: put out a really good chart. I forgot what day
Speaker 5: it was recently, but it was basically average slugging and
Speaker 5: ops against certain velocity fastballs, and it goes down from
Speaker 5: eighty whatever all the way up to one hundred. And
Speaker 5: you can see that every one to two ticks up
Speaker 5: on a fastball, it gets harder and harder to hit.
Speaker 5: So for all these little league dads that are like you,
Speaker 5: go out there and beat Greg Maddox and I don't
Speaker 5: care how hard you throw it. Velocity doesn't matter. Just
Speaker 5: throw strikes and just try to paint the corners wrong.
Speaker 5: There's a reason that pitchers in Major League Baseball chase
Speaker 5: velocity because the number show the harder you throw doesn't
Speaker 5: matter where.
Speaker 1: It is, the harder it is to hit.
Speaker 5: So yes, guys throwing ninety seven are gonna do better
Speaker 5: than guys throwing ninety three.
Speaker 4: Man, we didn't get to the guy that you know
Speaker 4: is traveling in the world with his cat right now.
Speaker 4: But luckily Gordy's a cat guy, and Gordy's in with
Speaker 4: me and I'm a cat guy.
Speaker 5: Well there you go. His name's Henry's very cute. Oh
Speaker 5: that's right, person. I got two of my pups. Love
Speaker 5: our dogs, Pixie and Choco. Shout out to them. But
Speaker 5: that's gonna do it for dude. Great stuff this last
Speaker 5: couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed it, man, tons
Speaker 5: of fun. And you're on the list. You're gonna be
Speaker 5: back on the good list, not the not the do not.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: That's it. Yeah, you're you're you're on the fifth notepad.
Speaker 4: There the good list. Okay, you know, probably needs to
Speaker 4: be closer to the top, but definitely you're on the
Speaker 4: list of people that will definitely be invited back.
Speaker 1: So no, appreciate it. Man.
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