Astros Lose Series To Rays, LMJ Out For Season, Kikuchi's Astros Debut, USA Olympics

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulsbury.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury, The USC Truth, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Brian Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salisbury Show.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
John Triplee, Good morning. Not a good weekend for the Astros.
The Americans over at the Olympics had a really good weekend.
A lot of gold medals being won, lot of medals
in general being one small Biles one another one I
saw man. She is fantastic.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, it's awesome to see in the motion of Scottie Scheffler.
Another dominating performance by Simone Biles as always. Uh, incredible
finish in one hundred meter. I mean that you'll never
see I mean that many guys that close. I mean

(01:00):
you're talking. That's epitome of a photo finish. I think
it was a one hundred meter and it was you
see the picture. It's incredible. Yeah, and you know, Katie
the Decky does her things. So yeah, a lot of
gold to go around and a lot of emotion. And
you listen to people talk about winning to metal what
it's like, it's pretty cool. So representing a lot bigger

(01:22):
than yourself. Yeah, it was a really really good weekend
for our Olympians and back to these Astros. I'll tell
you this, Well, it wasn't a good weekend for the Astros.
Couldn't generate runs and you know, a couple of the
games enough.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
To do their thing. Kokuchi was real.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now, okay, he he did everything.

Speaker 6 (01:44):
He did far more than I think people thought he
was going to do it. At one point. What struck
out eight in a row?

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Eight in a row.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, so he's got electric stuff, make no mistake about it,
and it's gonna it's going to be better for this team.
What I saw is was a guy that if he
continues to improve off that they this trade is will
end up being a good one for this year. I'm
just talking about if this is who you're gonna get,

(02:12):
you have a better chance to win the World Series
with what Kakuchi gave you the other night than what
you're gonna get from low Low Perfido and the bloss
was just going to be a guy this year, and
we weren't going to see Wagner. So for the most part,
you know, it's only one start, but if the returns,
if you will come back with return saying okay, that's

(02:32):
a hell of a way. Now, my eyes are open
even wider to find out who the guy is. Hell
per me, didn't you know Arraghetti strike out twelve in
his performance?

Speaker 5 (02:40):
He did.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's exactly right, So who knows. Maybe there's even a
little energy even though they lost the pitching staff. You know,
when somebody good comes around you, everybody seems to elevate
because it becomes an intercompetition competition. So I know the
guy's got many more starts to make, but for his
first one, it's more than encouraged.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
You had to be more than encouraged.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
And if that's the way he's going to pitch just
like that the rest of the season. Then in twenty
twenty four, the trade was worth letting low bra Fido
go because he will impact the roster for more than
Lowberfido would have this year. So for early returns, Cakuchi's
got some stuff, make no mistake.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, he was really good Friday night. That was the
only game that they won.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Than that, their offense was awful.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Sure were they got three hit yesterday. I mean they
could not produce runs. And you know, Blanco solid probably
not as down. He looks like there's a little guy.
It's not the same but he's still giving you solid performance.
And you know, errag Getti struck out twelve, so the
guys are pitching well, and I mean, what's he supposed

(03:54):
to do.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
He can't go get the hit to win the game
for him as well, And.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It was it was.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
It was a good sight to see.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So there's something to take away from it, especially on
the mound.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
But they they got to score. They got to score
more runs.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You can You're you're not obviously you're not gonna win
a game where you don't score any but you can't.
You're wasting good performances and you're you're keeping the Mariners around,
who now have a one game lead.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, I think let me pull this up real quick.
Yesterday they let me. Brian mctiger put out this stat.
Since July thirteenth, the Astros have averaged three point four
runs per game over a fifteen game stretch. They are
seven and eight in that stretch. That's ahead of just

(04:43):
one team Sean. Can you guess.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
Ahead of just one team? Well?

Speaker 1 (04:49):
No, because Oakland's been raking, uh, putting runs up and stuff.
Let's see, how about the Seattle Mariners?

Speaker 5 (04:59):
No, okay, who Chicago White Sox Oh yeah, the two
point two five runs.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah. Having the White Sox loss now twenty one in
a row twenty Yeah, that twenty in a row. Yeah, yeah,
that makes sense then, so should have thought of that,
might have sawt Well, where is it so blatant that
the Mariners offense, who's in first place, has been has
been worse? Yeah? No, the White Sox, they're they're at
the bottom of a lot of categories and unfortunately twenty
losses in a rows one of them.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
So yeah, White Sox two point twenty five runs during
that span, and the Astros are the only team above
them at three point four.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, they're gonna have to that's gonna have to change.
And I know Steve Sparks that joined us today said
is constantly leaning on that that he doesn't feel that's
going to be a problem. He trusts it and slumps happen.
See how he felt about the weekend at eight thirty.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Is this a slump or is this just kind of
how that you like? The offense is who they are? Yeah,
like who they are. I think you know what we're
gonna see, Sean. The more that we continue on and again,
they always play well up in Arlington, so that's a
good uh, that's a good remedy for struggles like this.
But if they continue on with this type of offense,
they miss Kyle Tucker. I think we're finally going to

(06:11):
see them missing Kyle Tucker in this lineup and he's
still not anywhere close to returning.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, and I mean, and oh, by the way, mccullors,
they didn't a spot a States not pitching this year.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, I was gonna save that for its own segment.
But yeah, he's he's done for the year, which we
we said that weeks ago. So yeah, but then Joe,
but to hear it from there, the manager is I mean,
it's like, okay, all right, well now the manager is saying.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's zero zero surprise, zero surprise there. But as far
as the hitting, I look at the lineup and when
you say, is this who they are? Well, this is
who they've been in a lot of the time, and
especially early in twenty twenty four. But you how can
I look at a lineup without Tuve and Paynya, Bregman,

(06:56):
Jordan is you and you know, with Chaz and Jake
Myers and Dubond doing his thing. I look up and
down the lineup. How can this be a three run team?
How can this be who they are? But there comes
a point when it's who you are at that particular time.

(07:18):
You know, Reputation's great problem is reputation doesn't I mean,
it may matter to some and when you get in
the postseason, reputation makes people take notice, say oh they
get the clutch gene. But right now, your reputation, you know,
on paper, isn't really it isn't near what the run
production should be. The run production should be a lot higher,

(07:42):
so that reputation is like, well, wait a minute, this
is any of the astros are. But if this is
who they are in twenty twenty four, then now you're
putting more pressure on a pitching staff. I would tend
to say somewhere in between, Brian, I don't think they're
this team that's averaging just over what three runs a game?
And I sure as hell don't think they're an eight
running game seven running game average team this year. They've

(08:03):
just been too inconsistent certain parts of the lineup, So
that's not who they are either. In Obviously, Tucker's injury matters,
but the longer it goes, the longer it.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Takes him is the more it's gonna take him.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
He's gonna have to get into rhythm when he does
come back, if he comes back, and there won't be
a lot of time when he does come back, So
they better, they better if you're relying on Tucker, don't.
And then the bonus is when he comes back and
you get him for however many games in a postseason.
But you've got to be hanging around so you can
put yourself in postseason position. Now, I don't think this
is who they are, but I don't think they're Their

(08:36):
lineup's proven that it's a great lineup consistently this year,
and I'm just talking twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
I think it's somewhere in between.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
If they they're gonna have to be a little lucky
to win the whole thing, or they're gonna have to
have two or three guys going the last fourth of
the year or thirty you know whatever that is, the
last fourth of the year on a on a bender
and then then then you know, go on one of
those hotsaks and then we can talk. But no in between,
I don't think either one describes them as when they're

(09:06):
when they're great, eight scoring eight runs.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
That's not who they are this year.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
When they're scoring three, they're somewhere in between, which you know,
you'd say that they're capable, more than capable of getting rolling.
But it's you're supposed to trust the lineup more than
you do the staff with all the injuries and over
the weekend that sures Hell won the case and hasn't
been the cases of reason.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
No, they have not been swinging it well. I don't know.
I mean you look at just yesterday's game. What they
have bases loaded like in the first and could not
even get a.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Run in Nope, like at all, no runs.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Running runners in scoring position yesterday they were one for five.
They left six on.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, and there wasn't many of them either, wasn't many
many many runners make getting to get in the base
with the way they pitched them up and kept them
off the base pass And we're smart and I think, uh,
I think thinking about when I Tampa's run might have
come in the third of the fourth inning and there
was no running after that came in the third. There

(10:06):
you go, everything was shut down. So but impressive Tampa's
Tampa started to come together and they're pitching well and
then this team's gotta.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
You gotta help the Arraghetty.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
You gotta you got a spot of more runs to
give a chance at least one right to have a chance.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
So but Arraghetty was impressive.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
We know Renew Blanco was the grinder and had a
hell of a season and early returns on Kakuchi tell
me that he's going to be a little different here,
which is a good thing. He looked different here.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, he looked he looked really good. Let's talk about you, say, Kakuchi,
start Friday night, I got tons to get into. You
got the Texans practicing. First NFL preseason week is upon us.
They play this coming Friday in preseason week. Number one
got a lot of Olympic stuff to go through. And
of course he's Houston astro struggling offensively. But Kakuchi looked good.

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Speaker 1 (12:46):
Did you read what they said about just just listening
to your headlines and about Sharon Moore's we're not in
violation of any NCTA rules fifteen hours ago?

Speaker 5 (13:00):
I did? I did see this?

Speaker 6 (13:01):
Is that true?

Speaker 5 (13:02):
Is this true? So it's conflicting reports. So yesterday a
couple of different media outlets I know ESPN was one
of them, said that he would be in violation. But
then I also just saw that he wasn't. So I
don't know. That whole thing is sketchy.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Yeah, I just that's why I wait till still.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
The real stuff comes out before you know, right, I
mean when I say it, So there's enough sources to say, okay,
this isn't true, that is true? Yeah, to put something
on their name until we know the nature of if
they were breaking Pete family.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
That's why I was feeling records, right.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, So Pete Famil and Dan Murphy of ESPN say
Michigan football coach Sean Moore violated NCAA rules in a draft, says,
and then it says new Michigan head coach Sewan Moore
is one of seven members from the twenty twenty three
football program accused of violating NCUBA rules in a draft
of the nc doublea's notice of allegations obtained by ESPN.

(14:07):
So that was posted yesterday. But then I did see
a report this morning that the text messages were not
in violation of anything nc DOUBLEA, but they were just
they use the word weird between him and what's his name?
What was the guys the Connor Stallions. Yeah, so I

(14:30):
don't know, I'll dig into it more. Could be a
stakeout question, could be not tuned into seven to fifteen
to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You got to just figure out the nature of the
side stealing, what the intent was, and if he's going
to be held responsible for it.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
We'll see.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Jim Harbaugh, you know you have
Connor stillings out there stealing signs for you. Now, Searan
Moore's got to take the heat for it as he's
you know, fat cat in the NFL. I mean, we
knew this was gonna happen, though we told talked about
it at nauseum when this was all going on. I
think you said, you know, he's gonna he's gonna leave
and going to uh into the NFL.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
There's not a thing you can do.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Everything at the university gets fine.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Not that that's what Jim wanted, but what they can't
do anything to him in the NFL. So the timing
for him win a national title and go it's perfect.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, just like that. Seven one three, seven ninety the
number to join. Let's get to an early phone call.
Talk to Jason. Jason, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Good morning fellas has always loved the.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Show, Appreciate it. How you feeling this morning?

Speaker 7 (15:39):
I'm feeling great, feeling really good.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (15:43):
I gotta be an honest baseball fan, and don't don't
kill me too much because I noticed here lately a
lot of the Astroisks fans that I talked to and
hang out with pretty much say that you know here
recently that they're ugly wins, and it's only because the
other team either commits an error and they capitalize off

(16:07):
of it. And I noticed that Friday night when Alvarez
sported home and a couple other you know, errors created
in the past with the Pirates, you know, there's been
series where they won ugly and honestly when the other
team plays clean baseball. It just seems like the Astros

(16:27):
forget how to play baseball. We've seen that this weekend,
and I mean we've seen that with the Pirates and
some other teams ahead of that. You know, they're not
exactly you know, like mister Shawn said, you know, they
can't let the Mariners, who obviously went out there and
kind of had a better trade line deadline we did.

(16:49):
And that's you know, that's not criticizing, that's just being honest.
So I kind of want to get your idea and
your take on that because it kind of makes sense,
and I just I don't want to believe it, but
that's what we're seeing on TV right now. I want
to get y'all's take.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Thank you Jason for me.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I mean, maybe it's from uh players perspective and not
saying that you had to play to have this perspective.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
You could have played at.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Any level, but at that level, I don't think that players.
At least when we won, we may come off and say, man,
that was an ugly win, But I don't think we
suffered over and were bothered by winning ugly, because it's
the ads of very nature of sports anyway. Most wins
are not pretty. I get what your friends are saying

(17:42):
and what our callers saying, Brian, I do that you
want to you want it. It just looks cleaner. And
I do agree that when a team plays clean baseball
against the Astros, it just appears to the naked eye
that they're a step ahead and that there's more unforeced
airs with the Astros when the other teams playing clean.
And I know it's obvious when no team's playing clean,

(18:05):
one team in the game is and one isn't. Usually
the clean team is going to win unless the other
team's just so dominant. And the Assos have been able
to in the past play ugly and still win, and
they're doing it again now, and I'm okay with that,
but you do have to understand you're going to run
into teams who may go on a three or four
game pretty streak in the postseason, and if score and
two runs is ugly and you get by one of them,

(18:26):
you're not going to be able to sustain that in
the postseason, obviously, because you know there's elimination part of
it that comes into it. But I do agree that
at times it's ugly. But I don't think winning ugly
is a problem. I look at it the other way.
I think sometimes when you prove that you can win ugly,
it's only a matter of time before you win some
pretty ones too. It's the team that has to win

(18:49):
every time pretty that the probably doesn't. Those are those
are historic years because most of the time in sports, baseball,
if there's an any series in football, or two a
couple innings, a couple quarters in basketball where it's like, damn,
we're not very good now what?

Speaker 6 (19:07):
So I think win and ugly.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Can prove to your team that you, guys, you don't
have to have everything going perfect to win, because teams
that feel that way won't.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
I don't think that they can.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Then mentally, that's good on them, where they say, well
if we don't score seven runs, we can we got
to play pretty every night.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Well, we don't win.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think I'd rather be the other way, knowing I
got a pretty lineup when they're going good and can
win and score a lot of runs, but I'm winning ugly,
you know, sometimes three to two, sometimes with the late
air by somebody else on the team that didn't play clean.
But yeah, it's usually the case when the team plays clean,
that team wins. And if both play clean, the team
of the most talent, better pitching is.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Probably gonna win.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
But I don't have a problem with the perspective is
you find a way in one hundred and sixty two
of them to grab any wins you can, and then
when the pretty ones come it's a bonus. We hope
the pretty ones come into postseason and that you're able
to grind out. But I'd rather be on the one
that knows how to win a close game and an
ugly one. Then always has to be on a team
that wins pretty because they usually don't sustain pretty winning.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
It's a there's always stuff that goes on.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Man, it's an adverse filled world when it comes to sports.
You got to be able to deal with failure because
it happens more than success does in pro sports.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
I don't care if they're ugly.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Just win.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, that's right, And.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
I mean you got you got things you got to
clean up. But yes, win, it's all I care.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well it gets in our color. He's just right, yeah right,
But would you rather win three to two? Grind it out?
Where it was like, damn, we weren't very good, we
made an air, we walked a few, but we grinded
it out or lose nine to eight because you couldn't
win the those that sixth, seventh and eighth inning, we're
like nut cutting time and it was like it just was.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
It wasn't clean innings.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
You get a couple of swing and misses out of
the strike zone, you took some pitches you shouldn't, you
made an air, but he still won. So when it
gets right down to it, I'm okay with the grind
of it. There's been ugly winning championships. The Detroit Tigers
in eighty four. Now they started off what thirty five
and five or thirty and five, don what anything ugly
about that, but they were tough and grinded out the Phillies.

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While they're talented, they grind this stuff out. But there
are also obviously a lot of clean wins with them too,
So I'll take a team if I have to choose
that grinds out ugly wins as opposed to looks pretty
once in a while.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Hey, that the report real quick on Sharon Moore Sean
is Did you see it this morning from an account
the first name of Brody.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, that's why that's fake. That's fake. That's what I thought. Yeah, yeah,
I start once I read Yeah, that's why I said
I could. But I have heard both ways that yeah,
he's guilty of it and that he's not guilty of
the science dealing. When I saw that, that's why Bryce said,
is this And then I read it more and I said, no,
this can't be. Well I'm gonna wait till somebody verifies that,

(21:57):
because that's it was. It was almost like a type thing. Yeah,
exactly what it is. And that's why I didn't say
anything about it until I read through it and left
it there.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
So because people are out of their minds.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
So you don't ever want to put that on anybody,
because fake count. That's why I don't give me ten
accounts that are validated to say it, then you can
talk about it. Other than that, I don't trust many
of those people. So yeah, fake accounts for a parody
at somebody's expense. Yeah, that's why you got to do
your due diligence.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
So good on them.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah. I saw the same thing this morning, just went
through it and then looked at Dan Murphy from ESPN
and it's it's all still from him and Pete Thamils.
So it's legit.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Stay with those two names. You'll have a chance to
get the right answer.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, So the allegations against Sharon Moore and the science
dealing scan of course, Jim Harball, we're gonna we'll talk
about that. Could be a seven to fifteen steak out
here on the Sean Salisbury Show. Let's talk you say, Kakuchi,
he was really really good Friday night. That's about the
only silver lining of the weekend as the actually fall
of the Rays two games out of three. That's next
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And The Seawan Salisbury Show continues talking about the Astros.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
They lose the series to the Rays two games out
of three over the weekend. Kakuji pitched extremely well Friday night.
We're going to talk about him this segment. Let's get
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Speaker 8 (25:05):
Hey want to I just want to talk to I
just want to talk to the refer to the caller
before about I think it's official that were spoiled as
Astro fans. When fans complain about how you're winning, I mean,
Brad Gilbert wrote a book called Winning Ugly an old

(25:28):
tennis player. I mean when I mean, come on, you're
complaining about winning? What is going on?

Speaker 9 (25:37):
You know?

Speaker 8 (25:38):
Uh? It just it seems silly to me. You know,
to me, if you're Winning Ugly, that show's real grit
Sean you mentioned it, Uh you know about grinding. You know,
to me, that's you want that in a club. And
just a side note, I thought Carcoucie looked great. I
got to say the first two batters were not pleasant.

(25:59):
You know, he got but he settled in quickly and
what eate in a row almost set a record. I mean,
he looked really good. They talked about his pitch mix.
He was super precise. It was it was really fun
to watch him play. But anyway, that's that's my two
cents for the morning.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Appreciate it, Philip, Enjoy your Monday.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
So if I'm all in on, I'm all in on.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
You know this.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
So the early returns tell me that what we saw
from Kakuchie Friday was pretty damn outstanding and hence you
saw why Dana Brown went and got him. But you
still like it or not, because it's still early in
this infancy of the trade. Early returns say, guys got
stuff to be a top three rotation guy that said,

(26:44):
like Dana Brown expects to be, or at least it's
what he said on our show. And so those expectations
I and plus I think, I mean, when you go
get a rental and give up what they gave up,
you probably expect the same thing. Lights out performance, and
he was really good settled in. I'm with you, Like
I said, I think that you know, people are looking
for stuff to you know, we all do well, why

(27:07):
is this and why is that? And who and why
are they struggling? Why can't be cause we want everybody
score eight or nine runs. We want the football team
to score forty points and not give up any But
I have always been under the any team that I've
ever been on that was any good at any level,
our best teams were our teams that knew how to
win ugly, Because I mean, I don't know, I haven't

(27:28):
seen a perfect game played before. And he missed a
hole in a run. Quarterback has a guy. He throws
a ten yard completion, but the wheel route was open
for a touchdown.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
That's a mistake.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
So now I think, I think your team becomes tougher
when you learn how to win ugly. But I do
get fans frustration with, you know, two to one and
three to two and five to four and make an
air and leave runners and scoring all those things. But
in the course of every championship season and every franchise
and ever in the history of sports, even the undefeated
Miami Dolphins some oh my gosh moments where they're like,

(28:02):
we are ugly. They ran the ball, they through it
about eight or twelve times a game, and then they
find a way to win. So I'll take find a
way to win any day of the week, especially in
seasons like this, when this is the way you're gonna win.
It isn't gonna be pretty. They're not good enough to
win pretty every game. They're not. They're not productive enough

(28:22):
this year I'm talking about twenty twenty four to win
where it's like, man, it's a cakewalk. Hell, they're gonna
be They're gonna be in the fight for their playoff
lives at this rate, and you don't want to mess
with the wild card. So yeah, I don't have a
problem with winning ugly. Matter of fact, I think those
are better teams. Usually talented teams will win ugly or
bety better than losing teams that are talented but only

(28:44):
can win pretty, can only front run and play well
against teams or in games where they're playing their best baseball.
I need teams that can win when they're not.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, just win whatever it takes to win.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's all.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
That's what I care about. In the kakoos debut five
and two thirds innings, three hits, two earned runs, three walks,
eleven strikeouts, sixty two strikes out of ninety five pitches,
fifty one swings, twenty six whiffs. He threw a season
high twenty five change ups, which generated eleven of those whiffs.

(29:16):
Nine more came against his slider. He was really good
outside of the first two hitters. That's where the runs
came from. But I mean he looked fantastic. Eight strikeouts
in a row at one point, and like we talked
about coming in, one of the things that I noticed
Sean that Toronto wasn't doing for whatever reason, was having

(29:37):
him throw his change up. And it was reported after
the game that Kakuji said himself, that's the most he's
ever used his change up. Victor Carrottini and Alex Bregman
encouraged him to use the changeup more. What the hell
were the Toronto Blue Jay's doing as far as pitch calling? Well,
what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Look look at the results of the Blue Jays last
three or four years, highly published, big payroll, overrated, So whatever's.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
Going on over there and they're not there?

Speaker 1 (30:06):
They're development wise or what have you there, they are
one of the three or four talented teams that is major,
major underachievers.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
So you come here and it gets better. So I mean, I'm.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Sure that's the case at a lot of places where
you're you know, you're getting When you come to the
Astros from where you were, you're seeing it a little
bit different.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
But yeah, they whatever.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I mean, I guess it can't surprise us with the
result we've seen in Toronto. But Kakuchi has some pretty
damn electric stuff when he's going good, and that's why
they went and got him, and he'll induce a lot
of strikeouts.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
What I love too, is, you know, it feels like.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
To me that the change up across baseball this year
has been an outpitch for a lot of people. It
just maybe it's just because we I hear it, you know,
and you see guys on our roster using it.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Man adding, you know what was it?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Is?

Speaker 6 (30:59):
It? Blanco is a change up?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
He added, I mean you start to see it's in
when there's a such a different you know, up, down,
in and out with this, and you're not afraid to
throw it, and you think you can get both rightis
and lefties out, depending on which side of the you know,
what side of the mountain, and what side of what arm,
which your arm side is pitching. So I think the
change up, especially if you've got stuff that moves. There's

(31:23):
such a discrepancy between and a cat, you know, a
big gap between speeds. If you can throw it for
strikes but still make it look like you know it's
coming off your hand like fastball. I thought it was good,
and twenty five of them. You're going to see more
of that. And when your own players are encouraging it,
you know what they're telling you. It's it's an outpitch.
It's tough, it can be deceptive, so throw it. They

(31:45):
see it. Guys in the field see it all the time.
And the guy like Alex Bregman, who's eyes as good
as areas in baseball. So yeah, early returns for me
if I get Let me ask you, Brian, if I
give you Kokuchi three more starts in that same realm,
which just like that, the next three starts, now, Judge,
is the trade.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
There you go, come in all day, just like we said,
we got to see what he does here right right,
and after after one start, you cannot be mad. Now
if I'm just not for one start, you cannot say
this was that the Astros are idiots right now, if
you were saying that, you're were saying, you're saying, now,
we'll wait a second. Now, let me see this Kakuchi

(32:26):
dude again. So if he gives you three or four
like this, the trade was worth it and it would
be more impactful than having low Perfito on your roster
in twenty twenty four down the line, who knows, well,
once again, they're trying to go win a ring and
at some point that it's gonna they're gonna have to
come to Jesus with the farm system and continue to rebuild.
But right now that come to Jesus is we wanted

(32:48):
a left handed arm that can win us, help us
win a World Series, and he pitched like a guy
who could. They just got it and they were fortunate
to win, but they got to score more runs. They
just have to.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
They sure do. What is going on with this Astros offense,
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Speaker 5 (34:45):
Is the number to joints gome back out to the
phone lines, Doctor Chris Chris, good morning.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
Hey Brian, Good morning, Sean.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
I want to kind of help out this conversation about
the winning ugly. I really don't think that's what the
first met. What he means is unless the astros are
given an extra outer to we are not winning. Like
his his example on Friday night, we don't win that

(35:13):
game without without the misplay. I'm not sure if it
was an error.

Speaker 10 (35:17):
When you're done scores and we go ahead by one.
So yes, winning.

Speaker 11 (35:22):
Ugly is great and that's what good teams do, like
Sean said, But what I think he was trying to
say that first caller is that we're not winning unless
the team is giving us some extra outs.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
I mean, yesterday and the ninth inning, Jeremy Peny is
at bat.

Speaker 11 (35:38):
At three pitch strikeout and he swings at every single
off speed spinner.

Speaker 10 (35:46):
To me, that is.

Speaker 11 (35:49):
The best example of how the Astros offense is going
right now. Brian mctagger, a great follow on Twitter, had
a stat yesterday that just blew my mind. We are
only ahead of the Chicago White Sox, who have now
lost twenty games in a row for the last almost month.

Speaker 10 (36:07):
We are just above them.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yeah, I read that average. Yeah, I read Chris. Yeah,
I read that first thing this morning that they're averaging
three point four runs over the last fifteen games. The
only team below us is the Chicago White Sox.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
I'm with you on the caller too.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
I took it as they and I didn't take it
as he was ripping winning ugly at all. And I
don't I think when you hear some you know, when
another caller calls and say, we really can play, and
he made good points too that I love the banter,
and I think there was like like the one callers
that was shown. I think winning ugly is a grind
good on your team, and I agree with that. But
I know what our caller was saying. I think that

(36:46):
he feels like the Astros have to be gifted something
for that they're that they're not good enough or consistent
enough this year to win Ugly in bigger moments that
are going to come down the pike, but also that
they've had to be gifted, you know, like, oh, here's
your here's some help of the fifth inning and the
eighth inning, and that other teams that play clean, even

(37:08):
if they're not as talented as the Astros, find ways
to beat the Astros. I knew what he was saying.
I don't think he was ripping being able to play ugly.
I just think he felt like they were getting more
gifts than earning it this year at times, and it's
tough to win. So yeah, I'm with you. I don't
I didn't. I didn't look at it negative at all,
but it is interesting perspective. To some win an ugly
means we're not very good and to others when an

(37:30):
ugly means damn, we know how to win when it
when we're not playing our best, So it could it
can work both ways. But you're right.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
You can't be making airs.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
You can't be swinging and missing at three balls that
were his problem last year. You know that they're just
out of the strike zone. You got to work the
picture more. I know it's easier said than done from
our vantage point, but you are one hundred percent correct.
It can go both ways about winning ugly, and I
don't think our caller meant like.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
That as well. I'm with you one I just you know.

Speaker 11 (37:57):
One more thing is you know this was the Tampa
Bay Rays, who were sellers at the deadline, and we
just lost to this team. I think, to me, it's
except for that winning streak, and give credit to the
Astros for putting that great winning streak together right before
the All Star break to get back in the division race.

Speaker 10 (38:15):
I mean, other than that, the.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
Astros have just been playing really, really bad offensive baseball.

Speaker 10 (38:21):
There's no patients at to play. I don't see them
working walks.

Speaker 11 (38:25):
I think I think Jeremy yesterday and the Knights was
trying to be a hero and hit the home run
rather than, as they say, pass the baton.

Speaker 10 (38:31):
And I really hope that they get their act.

Speaker 11 (38:35):
Together offensively, or we're yeah, I was gonna win this division.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Good show, guys, appreciate it, Chris, it's gonna And in
the pitching, Seattle's got pitching. And we said, Brian, the
favorable part of the schedule in June and July was
good for the Astros, and they capitalized on it. They
also got help from Seattle, who was not playing very
good baseball. But at some point here in this second,
you know, the last part of the last sixty games,

(39:00):
the Mariners are gonna get hot. So that's why you've
got to find a way to at least stay close.
And I think Adam Kakuchi was part of that reason.
But it's gonna get down to it when the team
only has to score four runs to beat you. There's
a lot of those teams out there that can rake,
that will do that, especially when your staff speed up
like it is you're gonna and asking them to pitch
nearly I mean near, not just perfection, but excellence every

(39:23):
night is a hard thing to do. And then you
tax the bullpen again if you don't. So they've got
to start extending their leads and scoring more than three
point four runs.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
Yeah, they've got to figure it out offensively, because you know,
when you get runners in scoring position and you leave
them stranded, obviously you're gonna lose games like one. Nothing.
I mean, just to watch the offense yesterday, it was
so frustrating. Oh goh, my gosh, man.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
Just make your head explode.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
Back to back strikeouts with less than two outs.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I mean, come on, man, which is the strength of
this team's been? What Brian Over did this long run?
Putting the bomb play right, you know, putting the ball
in play, forcing stress for somebody to turn a double play,
which we know they've hit into in their past. But
at least you're making them work. But you know, waving
at non competitive strikes in certain situations. And I love

(40:11):
the hero feeling, but usually when you're trying to be
the hero, it doesn't happen, you know, trying to end
it with one swing. Usually, you know, hero ball ends
up being you start to get a little bit desperate
and do things you don't want to do.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
And they're going to be okay.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
But in order to win a World Series, the bat's
got to be better than Okay, they're going to have
to provide more and the power of Jordan's got to
come back into play is slugging, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Even on Friday night they won that game three to two,
they were still just one for nine with runners in
scoring position and left eight on base.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Well, if Kakuchi doesn't go through a lot of swing
and miss and fight his way back, they don't win
that game.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Yeah they lose.

Speaker 6 (40:46):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
What there is a stat that I have in regards
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Speaker 5 (43:31):
You're ready for the stat Sean.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
YEP since July third.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
On July third, they played the Toronto Blue Jays. They
won nine to two. Jordan hit a home run since
that mark. Since that day, Jordon has homer just one time.
That's it. One home run since July fourth, because he

(44:02):
hit a home run on the third.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
So basically we've had the number three for Tucker and.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
Jordan.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Yeah, three four, because June third was Tucker. July third
was what he homered on the fourth. You said, no,
he homered on the third on the third, July fourth.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah, and since then he's only had one since since
the two total.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
You just passed an hour what August fifth now? So yeah,
a month is way too long. Hell of day seems
too long for that guy. Not the homer. But and
the number three is a good number too.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
I like the number three.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Yeah, I love the number three.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Good good numerology. Yeah, yeah, they need to get going.
Not the right time to have Tucker out at Jordadd's
power bat be out of the middle of line up
to he lose double power from the left side. Man.
Sometimes you I mean, it's that's tougher than passing the
duchy to the left hand side. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, you get the left hand side of your

(45:08):
power source. Two cats. One's not hitting home runs, which
he normally does. The other's not in the lineup that'll
make you pass the duchy. I'm just telling you, dog, Okay,
what side do you want to pass the duchy?

Speaker 5 (45:21):
You want to pass it to the left side, to the.

Speaker 6 (45:25):
Left hand side.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Oh man, King talk still not playing? Yeah, no update
on him.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
What he say it's a bone and bruise.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
They say it's a well, you know, blummer. They say
it's a bone bruise. But I just I don't believe that.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
I think they actually cut his knee off right right,
cut him off with the knee. We just haven't seated.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
Can we confirm that for us?

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Please? That bone brother?

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Yeah? So I I had a uh some friends at
the game on Sunday and they saw Kyle Tucker pre
game and he was still walking with a limp and
not a pimp walk.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
It was.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
It was a limp you feel me on a pimp walk?
His dog?

Speaker 6 (46:18):
Yeah, I don't come on, dog, You know where I'm from.
West Coast.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
See that that just went that we educate this man
on a pimp walk And it's not coming from the
West Coast.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
I'm just saying out on the West Coast, we're usually
ahead of everything. Yeah, all about the I don't know,
we just when we're in the West. We just got
stuff before everybody else close.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
It's the way it used to be. I don't know
now it.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
Used to be.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
Yeah, okay, well yeah, what do you what do you
think you used to do well?

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Back when legends were born? You know what I'm saying? Yeah,
that was back.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
It was Arnold's office at that time. I don't know,
we don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
I don't know Arnie was I don't know there At some.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
Point, did you buy chance? See the viral tweet over
the weekend of the picture of Alex Smith's leg from
his gruesome leg injury.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Seen it before, dude, So you.

Speaker 5 (47:19):
Know how mangled it is, right, I absolutely do. Somebody
somebody took that picture and added a caption and says,
this is Kyle Tucker's leg after fouling a baseball off
his shint on June third, and it's Alex. It's Alex
Smith's mangled leg.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
That that is so wrong. But it's like, damn feels
like that. I know, what a what a comeback to that?
The fact that I was seeing Alex smith leg, the
fact that he can walk on it, and the fact
that he played it again. You know that he played on.
It is nothing short of mind boggling. But yeah, it
would be nice to get Kyle Tucker back, But how

(48:01):
do we pass the dutchy I mean, see the lefties.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
This this is the I almost drop the S bomb.
This is the The crappy bar about yeah, crappy bart
about Kyle Tucker's injury is that we are now making
jokes about his bone bruise. Yes, because he's been out
for over two months with a bone bruise.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah, you're not joking at the fact that he's hurt. No,
we're joking at the fact that normally a bone bruise
wouldn't take two Well, it's gonna end up being three months.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
He's not coming back until mid September. Mid September is
my opinion.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
At this stage that would feel lucky, judging from here
telling me the dude's still limping. Okay, so yeah it's
and then Jordan is not the you know, his power
sources you know left him for a second. It's uh
in they're one game out of first place. I see
why they had to go get pitching. I wonder you

(49:01):
know you asked Brian who they are. There's no way
they can be three running game team. Right, There's no way,
there's no way that's not who they are, right or
is it? Or is it in.

Speaker 6 (49:13):
Twenty twenty four? Is this just who they are now
in twenty twenty four?

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Well, I think you know what, even even when Kyle
Tucker was in the lineup, they were still struggling with
runners in scoring position. So do I think they miss
him in the lineup? Absolutely, It's Kyle freaking Tucker. In
the year that he was having, he was playing extremely well.
But even when he was in the lineup, they were
they were just they could not figure it out with
runners in scoring position. That's been the big outside of

(49:38):
pitching and injuries, that has been the biggest bugaboo for
the Astros. It's been with runners in scoring position. And
they continue to struggle.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Well, at some point in time, then you didn't have
to lean on it's it's not this is a trend exactly.
So that was who they are.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Yeah, So I was gonna that was gonna be My
final point on that is, Yes, I think this is
who they are.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Unfortunately, man, they're gonna need another one of those winning
streaks where they are on fire to where they can
try to extend the lead and stay away from the
ugly moments. But if you can keep winning, win him
as often as you can. But it's just it's gonna
be hard to win them without both left handers in
the lineup, right playing well, playing well, right, we'll be

(50:26):
playing well.

Speaker 6 (50:26):
That's being in a lineup.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
Joe Aspota, this was let's see on I believe Saturday. Yep,
this was Saturday, he said. Quote this was excuse me,
let me let me preface it by saying he was
asked about Kyle Tucker returning this month in August. Joe
Spotta said, quote, I'm not going to sit here and
say that it's gonna happen. It would be fantastic. It's

(50:50):
kind of day to day see how he feels. It
would be too aggressive to say we'll have him by
the end of the month. It's a possibility. End quote.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Now you think about this, too aggressive to say that.
And remember when when I asked Dana and I'm reminded,
reminded you of this last week, Brian, But you knew
just when I said, oh, is there a chance we
won't see him till September? Because all I mean his discipline,
how disappointed he'd be if Kyle Tucker was out that long, right,
not just a Kyle Tucker in the situation. So if

(51:19):
Joe Spot said it'd be awfully what do you say,
optimistic or ambitious?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Yeah, he said it'd be too aggressive to say we'll
happen at the end of the month. It's a possibility.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
So now you're saying that an injury, there was a
bone bruise on June third, is now it's aggressive and
really overly optimistic for us to think that.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
Three months is not enough time.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
That's wild.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, that's why this is. This injury is it may
be a bone bruise, but it's of the absolute worst kind. Yes,
I've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
I haven't.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
In all your years, Jim, I've never seen a bone
bruise keep anybody out three month in any sport.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
Have you?

Speaker 5 (52:02):
No, I haven't. I'm just saying you've got so much more. Uh,
you're a seasoned vet compared to me, and everything that
you've seen between the NFL, playing in the Canadian League,
covering it for ESPN, covered in radio, and everything you've
been through, You've never seen anything like this.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Yeah, not this long. No, I've seen it. Fractures and
you know, ligaments and knees, and.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
I mean and another thing like se you played in
the NFL and in college when you could like just
absolutely declete somebody.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Right now, think about this, and I know this sounds
I mean, I don't even know which one's worse. I'm
just like I think when you're a teenager, you think, well,
this would be worse. Think about Taron Ligermans and your
ankle being in a plaster cast and then being ready
to play in that same sport six six weeks later,
seven weeks later, Yeah, and that'll be five weeks quicker

(52:52):
or six weeks quicker. Then at the at the minimum
time we're going to see see Kyle Tucker, see you
see what I'm saying. I mean Legerman's tear, put a
cast on, comeback, take the cast off, and be ready
to go in less time than a bone bruise. Now,
like I said, I'm not diminishing the bone bruise because
I don't believe that he's missing because he wants so.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
I believe it's he's truly in pain.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
I've just never seen a bone bruce keep an NFL
player out a seria. We like a helmet to the
shin maybe a week. I've never seen three months. But
that's why this has got to be as serious, I
mean as deep as it gets. So now, maybe along
the way somebody did do it. I don't know, but
in no team I'm on, where has anybody ever said, yeh,
he's got a shoulders, there's a bruise on his shoulder

(53:37):
from a helmet separated shoulder. I've seen guys back quicker
than three months on a separated shoulder or an ac sprain.
Like I said, so this has got to be. That's
why a bone bruise seems so it's it seems so
non painful over three months, right, I mean I understand
a bone bruise, but you think, oh bone, he'll be

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back in three weeks, two weeks, but it's severe. But
I can't remember and recalling any time in my career
did somebody miss as much time from a bone bruce.
That's why it's got to be something so significant, because
you don't miss three months with the bone bruce. Guys
foul stuff off their shed all the time. Just had
to hit in an unbelievably unfortunate spot with a incredible

(54:23):
just you know, everything was in the perfect storm for
to keep it. I don't know. I'm trying to find
logic in it, but I it's it's hard to find
the logic in a three months injury where the guy's
still limping. As you said, it's craziness, Brian, it just is.
And it's I mean, it'll be great to get him
back on the field, but that's a serious injury that
feels like we're diminishing it by calling it a bone bruise.

(54:45):
This is what I'm saying, That's what it feels like.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Seven three, seven einety is the number to join. Let's
get to the stake out next right here on Sportslock
seven eighty.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
We want to wait.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Sean Salisbury continues on seven ninety. All right, Sean, what
are you hearing out there now? The Salisbury's takeout sALS
brief takeout on the Sean Salisbury Show.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
Time for the stake out here on the show, Sean,
Brian and Trivoli. Here on the Shawn Salisbury Show. Astros
take on the Rangers tonight in Arlington seven oh five.
The first pitch six o'clock on Deck show right here
on seven on your Home for Astros Baseball, Steve Sparks
joining us at eight thirty this morning. Before we get
to the stake up questions, God's full on seven hinty Hello.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Brandon, Hello Brian, how are you guys?

Speaker 5 (55:34):
We're fantastic. What's on your mind?

Speaker 13 (55:36):
I had a good a weekend?

Speaker 5 (55:38):
That's great, Brandon.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Uh my mom had to get birthday.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
Good for her. Brandon, what you got on these astros?

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Um?

Speaker 14 (55:50):
We need to stop winning?

Speaker 5 (55:52):
Need to stop winning or start winning? All right, stop losing.
Did you go to the game this weekend?

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (56:00):
I did?

Speaker 5 (56:01):
How was it? How was the game? Brandon?

Speaker 8 (56:06):
I was in.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
By side.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
That's great, Brandon. Enjoy your day. Thanks for calling, Buddy.
All right, suck to Roger real quick, Roger, good morning,
Good morning, gentlemen.

Speaker 10 (56:19):
How are you guys? Help over these good just Monday?

Speaker 5 (56:23):
What if we told you, Roger, what if we told
you we we we we feel like crap today? What
if we said we suck right now?

Speaker 15 (56:30):
But then I guess what you shout right in with
how I feel?

Speaker 10 (56:33):
But it's all good.

Speaker 15 (56:35):
You gotta come and get you gotta come and do
it anyway. You gotta you gotta put on the small
and uh and just persevere through it.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
I guess Yeah, I'm just kind. I'm just kidding, Roger.
We're fantastic, man. So whatever you got going on, figure
it out.

Speaker 10 (56:48):
Huh exactly.

Speaker 15 (56:50):
It's Monday, man, anyway, so uh, I hope no.

Speaker 10 (56:56):
Now let me know I didn't get this with my guys.

Speaker 16 (56:58):
Well, just understand that.

Speaker 15 (56:59):
I hope what I say here ages like bad brown bananas.

Speaker 10 (57:02):
Man.

Speaker 15 (57:03):
Seriously, but I really don't think we're not gonna see
Tucker or Garcia this year, more so Garcia because he's
a pitcher and if he has any kind of setback,
it's gonna shut him down.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Why why do you think Luis Garcia is not going
to come back? The report is that he's getting ready
to go out on a rehab assignment.

Speaker 15 (57:20):
I well, I just I just that's that's how the
whole season has been, right, just the season of injuries
and no run.

Speaker 17 (57:30):
No time to hitting.

Speaker 15 (57:31):
That that's how the season's gone. Injuries, yeah, and no
time hitting. That's that's the whole season of microcoss. And
now we can catch lighting in a bottle. Believe me,
I hope there's a lot of lighting for for whatever
size the bottle.

Speaker 10 (57:45):
Uh, if we get to the postseason.

Speaker 15 (57:46):
But right now, I mean and and you know, it's
been a long they've been screamed, they've been swimming up
here all year long.

Speaker 10 (57:53):
I mean, these guys have been warriors. Man.

Speaker 15 (57:55):
They've foughten and and and scratched and clagged away to
to you know, trying to get to the.

Speaker 10 (58:01):
To the finish line.

Speaker 15 (58:02):
And man, I just I love my strosn Uh this season.
It gives me a lot of inside about all these
guys off because these guys, man, they've been they've been
they've been grinding, they've been grinding, but uh, it's just
it's just man, I just feel like a fight is
almost gonna catch up to him and and I hate
to see it, man, because I like to see that.

(58:23):
That's that stretch of a playoff appearance in the A
c l s keep going. But man, I just I
just feel like that's some that's what's gonna be. And
like I said, I hope this age is back, but
I just feel like that. So guys, have a good week,
have a great Monday, and see you next time.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
Awesome Roger and Jory, your day, buddy, appreciate it. Man.
Let's get out to John, John, what's happening?

Speaker 18 (58:44):
Hey, good morning, Hey boy, that was really rough yesterday.
That was a beautiful pitching performance that was wasted. Uh,
you know, Eron Getty got twelve strikeouts. And I don't
know what the deal is that they don't score runs
for him, because I think I saw the statistic where
his last five Stars they've they've scored a total of
five runs.

Speaker 14 (59:05):
And I mean.

Speaker 18 (59:06):
It's it's, you know, I feel sorry for him because
he's been really pitching well. He keeps us in all
the games and uh, and now he's getting better and better.
And that was a beautiful pitching performance.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
I let's see, So let's see John his last Oh
my gosh. Since Okay, I'm just going to go through
this game log with you real quick. Yeah, July seventh,
they scored two runs. July thirteenth, they scored one run.
July twenty second, they scored no runs. July twenty eighth,

(59:39):
they scored two runs. And this past Sunday, yesterday, they
scored no runs. Those are the last couple of games
for Righetti. Wow.

Speaker 18 (59:49):
I mean, yeah, it's it's just it's an amazing stat
And I don't know what the deal is when he's
out there that they just don't give him the support
but he's been pitched well. He deserves he deserves more
wins than what he has. And uh, but I was
very impressed with him, you know. And some of these
guys like Pemia, I don't know what the deal is.

(01:00:11):
He looks horrible batting lately. I don't know what the
deal is. He just uh doesn't look like himself. Uh,
there's just there's just kind of a malaise going on
there right now. Yes, regarding hitting, but uh, it's tough
to watch. It really is tough to watch. And I
hope they can get it together on this road trip.
That they're gonna have to get it together soon because

(01:00:32):
they can't mess around. They're inn this is going to
go down to the wire. Then they got to keep
up with Seattle and Dallas is going to be coming
or the text or the uh uh Rangers are going
to be coming on. Yeah, so they're not going to
go away. It was it was a it was a
rough It was a rough game to watch. I mean,

(01:00:52):
I I enjoyed watching Aaron Getty. He looked great, but boy,
they just don't look good hitting. I mean, they just
don't look good in the as box at all. I
don't know what's going on there, But hopefully they can
get it together.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
Yeah, they're gonna have to figure it out. John, We
appreciate the calls always, man, Yep, thank you that. Looking
at arag Getty's performance yesterday, six innings, five hits, just
one earned run came in the third inning. H two walks,
twelve k's one hundred pitches, he falls to four and
ten on the season.

Speaker 16 (01:01:21):
Damn.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
And we had when you can't score runs for a
guy like Ragetty that pitch pitch as well yesterday, Obviously
you're not gonna win, but that just hurts.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
That twelve strikeouts, Yep, that's coral high for uh Spencer Araghedtty. Yeah, man,
so he's uh, he's pitched well over the last couple
of outings. Well, when you look up and down this lineup,
and they had three total hits yesterday, just three, and
Jordan had two of them. Oh wow, and Yard has
had the other one. Yeah. So Jeremy Pennie oh for
four with three strikeouts. John Singleton zero for four with

(01:01:52):
three strikeouts. They struck out twelve times yesterday, twelve, al
twove with two, Jordan had one. I mean, my goodness,
they had two guys with a hat trick, both going
over four with three strikeouts between Payna and Singleton yesterday,
oh for eight with six strikeouts bruh. Oh my gosh,

(01:02:15):
twelve strikeouts toltal Man. They did not look good over
the weekend Friday's game. Even then they still I believe,
one for nine, one for eight with runners in scoring position,
but they were able to find a way to win
in Kakuchie's debut. Just it's just been a struggle offensively,
So hopefully going up to Arlington and playing in that

(01:02:35):
stadium will get the offense rolling. They always seem to
play well against the Rangers. You guys want to extend
the steakout triple. I think we should extend the Steakout, Yeah,
because I got a topic for Sean in regards to
college football that I want to go over with him.
And then of course we'll get back to these astros
because it's it's been ugly over the last couple of
games for the Strows. Walls are gonna have. Steve Sparks

(01:02:58):
joined the show at eight thirty, so so let's extend
the steakout and uh keep it rolling right here on
The Shawn Salisbury Show.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
The Shawn Salisbury Show continued, all right, Sean.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
What are you hearing out there now?

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
The Salisbury steakouts. Salisbury steakouts on the Sean Salisbury Show.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Let's extend the steakout, Salzy, okay with that? I anywash?
We should extend it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Extend it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
Yeah, We're gonna extend the steak out. Are you okay
with that?

Speaker 9 (01:03:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
I am okay, perfectly okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
Michigan football m HM Sharon Moore violated n C Double
A rules. There was a draft of the n C
Double a's Notice of allegations. This was obtained by ESPN
and reported on by Dan and Pete Fammeil of ESPN.

(01:04:03):
The draft, which could be subject to change, states that
Moore could face a show caused penalty and possibly a
suspension for allegedly deleting a thread of fifty two text
messages with former Michigan stafford Connor Stallions in October twenty
twenty three, on the same day that the media reports
revealed Stallions was leading an effort to capture the play
calling signals of future opponents. Basically, we know all of

(01:04:28):
these allegations, and now it looks like some punishment is
getting ready to come down. So they also did confirm
that Connor Stallions was in disguise on several different sidelines
last season and seasons prior to that. So my question
to you is does anything happen to Sharon Moore? And

(01:04:52):
where does Jim Harbaugh lie in all of this?

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Well, Jim Harbaugh is not gonna listen to this and
the union just so we're just talking about from the
optics and a business part of it, not personal.

Speaker 6 (01:05:05):
We're just talking about the allegations.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Yes, absolute, here's how this is going to go and
should go. First off of Jim Harbaugh of court, he
was He was the head football coach of the program,
and a head football coach knows when these guys go
to bed at night for the most part, so and
I loved Jim, but the fact of the matter is
he was the leader and the head football coach had

(01:05:28):
a team who got caught doing this apparently, and now
he's no longer there, there's going to be nothing other
than repute. People say, yeah, he won a national championship,
by I mean, haven't we gone through that? In this city?
They wanted world series, World series by excuse me? With
the sign stealing and all that stuff. And the Astros

(01:05:50):
were the best team, well, it's the same Michigan was
the best.

Speaker 6 (01:05:52):
They played great football last year.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
But people now, I mean there's that well did they play,
did they how much sign stealing did they have in
key games? All the things that will be asked. Harbaugh
is going to suffer nothing from it. He's got rewarded
new contract, NFL and a national championship and they're not
taking their national championship away. So that's his, that's theirs

(01:06:15):
and nothing. Now. He also has been a big part
in getting the next coaching staff and the next coach
the job correct, like you know, being a part of that.
So while helping that guy that's still there and the
players that are still there are the ones that are
going to suffer now whatever they do to the program,
who knows, but there is going to be a suspension
for more. It is going to happen, I would imagine.

(01:06:38):
And through all this, dare we not think that there
was text messages somewhere talking about the cheating scandal or
what they should be doing about Stein's sign stealing for
other teams. I mean, there will be punishment because I
don't think the Big ten would allow there not to
be And I think Jim Tarball was ready to move

(01:06:58):
on anyway. But I also think that, I mean was
perfect for him. This happened with Pete Carroll at USC
going down the things that were happening. Pete Carroll left
just in time. He got to see how and then
win won a Super Bowl, He had a couple of
national titles. He left the Reggie other a bunch of allegations,
and those after him had to suffer the thing. Pete
didn't suffer from it now other than you know, people

(01:07:19):
beating up on your reputation a little bit, and man,
they did it under your watch, but as the leader
of the program, they did it under Jim's watch. So
whether regardless of the knowledge or the depth of it,
I have a hard time believing in this day and age,
the coaches don't know most of what goes on on
their program.

Speaker 6 (01:07:36):
But the other side of it is is.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
It is the he does. He bears the responsibility, whether
he knew a lot or not, because he's the one
who's out in front of the program.

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
It was his team. But he won't suffer. He's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
It's the next group of guys that suffer. And if
the next group of guys were involved in it, they
should face punishment. But it doesn't diminish to me what
a hell of a season Michigan had.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
So it looks like in this NCAA draft that was
obtained by ESPN, Connor Stallions scouted at least thirteen future
Michigan opponents on at least fifty eight occasions between twenty
twenty one and twenty twenty three. He also directed others
to scout some opponents multiple times, including one team that
they scouted seven different times in twenty twenty two. It

(01:08:28):
looks like multiple interns and at least one other full
time staffer knew about this scheme and helped Connor Stallions participate.
And it did. It did become confirmed that he was
in disguise scouting the Central Michigan team back in twenty

(01:08:49):
twenty three. He was wearing Central Michigan gear to try
to blend in. And also, you know we're talking about
Jim Harbaugh on all of this. In this draft it
alleges that Harball failed. Well, no, hang on, let me
make sure I got this correct. He denied the nc
double a's request to review relevant messages and phone records

(01:09:11):
from his personal cell phone, and that the draft says
that if he ever returns to college sports, he will
face a show cause restriction. So basically, he did not
cooperate with the nc double a's investigation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Well, when he was knowing he was leaving, why would he?

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Yeah exactly, I mean would he's his.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Private Yeah, really we want to ask that. I'm out,
you don't. You don't get my phone. You don't get
to see the text messages to either Connor Stallions or
what have you. But when you start getting all this
great information, don't you think that maybe well where we
get this one? Frump people? I mean, you got to
be your head's got to be any round not to
know correct?

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
Yeah, in the verbiage people talk, you know, they always
want somebody to lean on. So but Jim's now the
coach of the Charger, So it's not going to be
him that's going to have to go through any of this.
And regardless of how much he knew, Like I said,
it's his pro And it becomes your accountability and responsibility
falls on you when you're the leader of anything, and
if you're the leader of a business, of a football
team and you're there. You're the boss. What happens under

(01:10:12):
your watch matters good and bad. And it looks like
the Michigan those that are still there are going to
suffer a little bit from it. Whatever that however long
that suspension is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
So all in all, through this draft, fifty two deleted
text messages by Searon Moore, fifty eight games or excuse me,
occasions where games were scouted, seven coaches in violation, which
several of them removed their hard drives, and then one
disguise Connor Stallions and everything that he lies. I wonder if.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
If seven coaches are involved and they remove their hard drive,
what is that?

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Come on?

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:10:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
And like I said, I'm not dogging University of Michigan.
I mean, it's just the facts got to criticize.

Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
If you know they didn't just do they wake up,
Let's get rid of a hard drive.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Obviously they're trying to protect it, and without proof, the
alls you can do is speculate, right.

Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
Yeah, all of this, and I wonder, I mean, surely
they're not going to vacate anything from last year, right.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
That national title stand on their finger?

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Ring, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:11:18):
And they they'll never be there, won't be enough evidence
to prove that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
How's that you also, even though you may know there's
it's true, there won't be enough to snap to snatch
their national title a way.

Speaker 5 (01:11:29):
Yeah, you also have coaches that followed him to the NFL,
Coach Partridge, Clinkscale, and Robinson. They were also in hot
hot water for providing impermissible benefits to recruits in twenty
twenty three. Clinkscale and Mentor, those two coaches followed Harbaugh

(01:11:50):
to Los Angeles. So those and actually Partridge is now
an assistant coach for the Seattle Seahawks. So all three
of those that have allegations against them for in permission benefits,
they're not gonna have to worry about that either because
they are now in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
The only time they'll have to worry. It becomes retroactive
if you go back and coach college football then and
then then they can hold that. To get back in,
you're going to have to cooperate. So Wow, it may
be NFL or bus for some of them.

Speaker 5 (01:12:17):
Wow. Yeah, a lot of sketchiness going on with Michigan.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Well, the college football is filled with sketch dude. Yeah,
it's everywhere, and a lot of it's legal now, Okay,
so there you go. Well, what have been sketchy five
years ago is now encouraged. Think about that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:37):
It's nuts.

Speaker 6 (01:12:38):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Could you, Matt, I've asked you this before. Could you
imagine if you were able to get nil money when
you were playing at USC.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Yes, as a guy who came out as the number
one recruited quarter cut, Yes, I can. I don't mean
that arrogant, but I'm just applying it to Well, if
you're the number one recruit, now, what's that worth?

Speaker 5 (01:12:55):
Oh, it's a lot of money. I mean you look
at what like Tech Texas, the Texas long Horns are
giving out nil deals for the Lamborghini dealership.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
Yeah, if you're the number one recruit in the country
coming out and you play quarterback to boot, you tell
me what it's worth?

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
A lot?

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
Yeah, I mean a lot. Like I said, I'm not
saying this isn't a pat on the back, and those
are just that's just the facts. Right. You asked the question.
I'm just giving you the answer. I don't know what
it'd be worth.

Speaker 6 (01:13:24):
But you know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Quarterbacks that are number one recruit the country during an
nil that's put it this way. I would have been
driving a Chevy Love pickup truck. I could tell you
that a mini truck or my jeep. That there was
a little old school which was a nice CJ seven.
But I yeah, it would have been different. But that's okay,

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you know, time shade and not bitter about it all.
But I sure would like to wonder what it would
have been like to be walking across campus and like, hey, fellas,
you ready to go out? I got it tonight. I
just made ten million dollars in name image and like
this and collective.

Speaker 16 (01:13:59):
How you like that?

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
Could you imagine that money college?

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Yeah, we'll be taking the nice SUV that they just
gave me to Yeah, that's been great. I would love that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:07):
I if I was making that money in college, I
would have never left college. I'd be a ninth year senior.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
That's go back with with with with with academically eight
years still to go, right, Yeah, exactly, My goodness. The responsibility,
there's a burden to bear with that. But I guess
I don't know. Would you rather be rich and miserable
or college get or poor? I don't know, you know,
poor at college or Richard beat icet have buddy, where
you get pizza anytime you wanted, right, But that's like, well,

(01:14:34):
when I can buy eight cars, Yeah, that would have
been nice, although I would have only wanted one. Yeah,
but yeah, it would have been fun to see my man.
It would have been nice.

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
Man. It's okay, a lot of money. All right, We're
gonna get back to Astros at eight o'clock this morning,
Let's look at the Olympics. Something crazy happened at the
Olympics about an hour ago. Got to discuss that and
Scottie Scheffler, Wow, dude, is unbelievab Let's talk about a
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Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
But she's human and it happened this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Sean, Yep, you ain't lying, man, It's uh. I did
not see it because I don't have a TV in
front of me, or I'm out this morning. But I uh,
you know, we can't expect everything she does to turn
to gold, which it has no pun intended it. It's
amazing that it happens. Okay, which is I mean think

(01:16:35):
about I think about gymnas. I think one little missed
step here, and I know that happens in every sports,
but it's so pronounced on Jim NASKI. You know, stick
a landing, if one little thing where your legs aren't
together on us done it whatever it is, however they judge.
I don't want to say. You know, it's not going
to be easier for her to accept it, but she

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has nothing left to prove.

Speaker 6 (01:16:58):
Another metal would have been great for her.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
She's been the most dominant we've ever seen in our Olympics.
With the US women's it's been incredible, let alone gymnasts period.
So it's gonna happen. Man, we can't expect perfection. We've
gotten excellence from her and it's been one hell of
a run. So at some point, you know, somebody else

(01:17:22):
gets to win one. I would have imagine, but I'm
not sure she wants to hear that. But she is
set the standard, man, and the bar is awfully high.
So we have we don't. We are like those heroes
who go do this. When I'm talking about sports heroes
that you just watch love to watch compete, we expect
them to do something perfect all the time, and the
majority of the time they don't disappoint. But it's it's

(01:17:44):
hard to sustain that every single time, especially with the
pressure and burden you're carrying around as the best we've
ever had.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
It's impressive what she is able to do. Same with
Katie le Deeckian and honestly, obviously Scotti Scheffler is fantastic man.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
He is.

Speaker 5 (01:17:58):
He's unbelievable. Roar back to uh to win that gold
medal over the weekend seven two five, seven ninety got
a full phone board. So let's be Chris and try
to get through these doctor Ray, what's up?

Speaker 16 (01:18:10):
Ray?

Speaker 14 (01:18:14):
I'm just curious, can the NCAA go all the way
back to Stanford to see if he was pulling this? Because, Uh,
Sean's probably gonna get mad at me, But teams like
Stanford aren't supposed to win as much as as he was.
Maybe that's just my ignorant opinion, but uh, I think

(01:18:36):
he's done this before, and I think he I've always
said he was an overrated coach. But I'll hang up
and listen to what you guys have to say.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Thank you y talking about Jim Harbosh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
Yeah, I don't know why I'd be mad at that
ray about you said about Harbaugh and Stanford. I mean,
I obviously competed against Stanford plenty when I was out
on the West Coast. I'll tell you what. During those
times when David Shaw was working with him and Pep
Hamilton and Jim Harbad Stanford they got some good players
and their quarterback was pretty good too, in Luck right.

Speaker 6 (01:19:11):
It wasn't Jim there with Andrew Luck.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
David David Shaw obviously, so they were well coached, they
played well, and they always had good at and we
played them. You know l Way and Kenny Marjorham and
Darren Nelson. They always had good players. It's just they
didn't have enough of them, and they weren't deep because
the academic standards, the constant grind on you know, academics.

(01:19:36):
It's it's tough. But they started to get some great,
tough players and some you know, I mean when I
say innovative, they I backed they did what Jim does,
but they were able to turn that into innovative football somehow,
some way by moving formations and get people. And they
were just physical and they didn't beat themselves. So there's
that part. And so I don't know, you know, if

(01:19:59):
the read the only reason.

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
But they had good players. I can tell you that well.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
I mean they'd get the l Way guy, you know,
they get the Andrew Luck guy and then them. So
they had good players and they had smart players. They
didn't beat themselves. But it wouldn't be shocked if this
has happened before Ray, to be honest with you, it
wouldn't shock me one bit. But I don't know if
he did it at Stanford now. Also don't know if
he did, how often would have been in Lastly, I

(01:20:24):
don't know if it can be retroactive or if there
is a time, you know, a statute of limitations on
when you can go back to a guy in his
college and say, okay, ten years ago you did this,
and by now, how would they prove it? Then it's
not gonna be in his phone? I mean, how would
they prove it then? If they're not, If they can't
prove Michigan with Jim, how the hell they going to
prove Stanford. So I understand why you'd say this. This

(01:20:46):
may have happened before that you think he's overrated, but
that's not going to affect the ring and the money
he's making as a coach. The Chargers don't, and it
didn't affect me when you do it. Hell, I didn't
go to Stanford. A lot of respect for him, but
didn't go there art football players and better football players
than we think. That's just the parts weren't where the
parts were better than the sum and we've seen a

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catch back up to Stanford. They need to get back
to it. But I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't
think you're gonna be able to dig and find anything
because I'm not sure there would be any proof to
prove it that far back to Stanford if he if
he did do it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:20):
Before gets to the top of the aros, go to biscuit, Biscuit,
I got about a minute for you, man, before we
get back to these astros. What you got on the Olympics,
hey man.

Speaker 17 (01:21:27):
Olympics. First, though it's hard to say Hardro was over eight.
He took the forty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
Well, he made Stanford better. Took the forty nine ers
to a super Bowl and now one of the national time.
I get how some people feel it. Yeah, there's no
doubt about it. He's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:21:46):
Hey the Olympics, Man, that first one hundred meter rate yesterday, Man,
that was that was a sight to see. Man, all
those guys within what hit of the second of each other.

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Point zero point point zero zero five was the margin
of victor for USA.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
And there was like eight cats that were like and
then the guy who finished in eighth place was like
a quarter of a step behind. I mean, it was incredible.
It felt they had a chance.

Speaker 17 (01:22:14):
They say the guy to finished eight with a mettled
a couple of years ago, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Exactly.

Speaker 19 (01:22:21):
And also man, uh looking at the swimming Latinki, you know,
and and Bows, Man, her performances, it's amazing that she don't.

Speaker 17 (01:22:32):
Fall more all them twist and turns she's doing on
flips like yeah, I had a sheet, you know. So
you know, it's been fun to watch the Olympics this time.
I've watched more than I normally have. And and Sean
last point, I would make, Man, we we still got
to verify stories. Man, this boxing controversy or whatever, and
people jumped on that and now we find out other way.

(01:22:52):
Come on, man, let's just not just jump the conclusion
on every little.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
Thing, biscuit. That's why I'd rather have somebody be second
and right, then first and wrong when you come with
information and I'm I'm I'm not in the business of
I I could care less who gets it first, as
long as it's right. So yeah, it's amazing how the
the the stories can change and the gap in between

(01:23:17):
when you do it. So I wouldn't want to be
the person in the breaking news cycle, like the urgency
to get it done, but just get it done right,
you know, I understand the job. But yeah, and that's
why for for fans and people, how do you know
which one's true which one isn't when you're thinking about this,
But we are quick to judge, man, without doing all

(01:23:39):
our due diligence. A lot of times now everything is
such a knee jerk. Have to get it done first,
which is not usually Sometimes first isn't best because it's
not as accurate. But what do I know?

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
To get into the top of the hour talk about
these Houston astros still got some guys that want to
get in on the strow seven, What is wrong with offense?
That's next.

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Speaker 5 (01:24:51):
Since July thirteenth, the Astros have averaged three point four
runs per game over a fifteen game strets. They're seven
to eight in that stretch. They're ahead of just the
White Socks, who are happening two point twenty five runs
per game during that span. Not good for the Stros.

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
And one of those two teams lost twenty plus games
or twenty games in a row. You don't want to
be them. No, and this team's one game at of
first place and their offense has almost been them. That's
the scary part when it comes to run production. Who
would have thunked that? Right?

Speaker 6 (01:25:25):
Yeah, thirty teams.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
The only other one you're worse than the last is
the Chicago White Sox, who right now couldn't beat a
double A team. So I'm not dogging the ash. What
I'm saying that just puts in perspective how the Astros
have grinded out some wins even though they haven't exploded
at the plate.

Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
And I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
The highlight I thought Arigetti pitched weelve, But the highlight
was Kokuchi's first start after a slow I mean, after
a slow start, to be able to settle in and
give nothing else up the rest of the game until
he came out and have the you know, the team
take care of their business and uh bullpen wise and
go get the you know, get this win on a

(01:26:10):
Friday night, and the other two you get beat because
you couldn't score and then you get three hit shutout
thrown on you by what multiple guys, three or four
guys yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
So, but Kakuchi stuff was right.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
You mentioned twenty five change ups that he threw eleven
a lot of with twenty five whiffs, a lot of
swinging myths, so and eleven strikeouts. If that's the Kakuchi
we get Brian, the trade in twenty twenty four will
have been worth it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
Yeah, no doubt that's who you get.

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
Yeah. The pitches that well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
And and continues to do what he give up a
couple of runs, you walk with two or three, but
you strike out eleven and you keep the ball in
the park. I mean, you give up two runs an outing,
three runs an outing.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
They win a lot of games. If that's who you get.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
By the end of twenty twenty four season, people aren't
going to be complaining about the current that the trade
that happened before August first.

Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
Yeah, just need this offense to figure it out and
start score and more runs, because it's not good when
just the White Socks are the only team behind you,
when it's coming to average runs per game since July thirteenth,
seven three, two five, seven ninety. Let's get out to
the phone lines. Got a couple guys, WO want to
talk about the Astros to talk to John?

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
John?

Speaker 5 (01:27:23):
What's up? How are doing fantastic brother? What's on your
mind with the Stros?

Speaker 9 (01:27:28):
Him? The words of the day that you guys said,
what's wrong with the offense? Now? When you go two
days with mister Bregman and mister two zero for four.
Now that's there's something wrong there. You know, Alvarez gets
his hits, of course, you know he's going to hit
the ball. Uh, but what's wrong after that? You know,

(01:27:53):
maybe mister Spider needs to shuffle the lineup a little bit.
What do you guys think of that? And I'll hang up.

Speaker 5 (01:28:00):
Listen to you, Thank you, John. Yesterday Sean jose al
tve oh for three, Alex bregmant oh for four. Between
Paynya and Singleton they were oh for eight with six
strikeouts between those two. It's not good.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
Well Hens, no runs, right, Hans you you get three hit?

Speaker 6 (01:28:26):
I mean, well what with it? And how many?

Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
And what we gave up? What one run yesterday? I'm
talking to my mind on the different Saturday?

Speaker 5 (01:28:32):
Yeah, right, Saturday was six lost?

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Right, you get beats, you get beat. That's the one
you get beat six to one on Saturday, pace course
six runs, which you win a lot of games scoring
six runs, but you come back and and so in
the final two games of the series, you scored one run,
left runners on scoring billions on base and you saw
the lack of top of the order.

Speaker 6 (01:28:53):
You know, Jordan will get his hits.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
You need the power back obviously, the slug back, which
would be nice, but yeah, man, it's so it is
the top of the lineup. Listen, with all is said
and done, your best players have got to perform not
only throughout the season, but they've got to perform in
the postseason as well.

Speaker 6 (01:29:13):
Right, your best players do.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
And I think Bregman's average dipped back down below two fifty, right,
So they just got it. They got to get back.
Now you're begging for the slugging and the long ball
in the same June, in early July they had. But
it's not going to get a lot easier because teams
then are starting to dial in and Astro is still
dealing with injuries. You still don't have your right field er,
so somebody is going to have to, you know, take

(01:29:38):
a look at themselves and not look to somebody else
to get it done and go on a role here.
And there's only a couple guys on the roster capable
of carrying a team for a month, right that. I
mean Bregman's proven he can do that. We know Jordon's
done it. Al Tuve can mix in that long ball,
and we know he gets on a roll, there's a
momentum and a feeling of confidence and he's doing something

(01:30:01):
at the top of the order. But other than that,
as far, I'm not saying other guys aren't good. Payne's good,
DS good. I'm talking about can load you on their
back and for a month it's like, damn, this guy's
been the player of the month. He's been off the charts.
There's a handful, So it'll be more than just that.
It's going to have to take a bunch of guys
playing really good baseball, because even after all that they

(01:30:22):
did to get back into this and now just be
a game out, think about all they had to overcome
to get back into it, Brian, do you know this,
Think about sustaining that, all the emotion you spent getting
back into it. A lot of times that emotion to
that part of the grind becomes even tougher than the
physical grind, which I think that has more an effect

(01:30:44):
on the physical grind than the physical of one hundred
and sixty two games itself. Anyway, it's that emotional constantly.
Now you've got to stay on top of your game.
You don't get there's not a bye week along the way,
makes sense, you don't get that luxury. So they're in
one of those where that's the emotional and the like
the mental part that's going to have to stay stable

(01:31:06):
and strong because you're going to be tired. But the
grind you had to go to the overcome that big
leap deficit and now you're there. Now you've got to
sustain that for fifty plus more games. It's a hard
thing to do every single year.

Speaker 6 (01:31:20):
So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Because I asked about their mental toughness the first month
of the season, we'll go find out how mentally tough
they are the second what the last fifty games or so, yeah,
and then plus games.

Speaker 5 (01:31:29):
And that's where they are right now. Got to figure
it out, man. I think at the end of the day,
your offensive player, like your your players, have got to execute.
They have got to be better. You can sit here
and flush the or change the lineup all you want,
but if they're not executing and putting good at bats
together and having good pitch selection, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
Your best players have to perform, Yeah, and then you
got to get let then there's some guy that's the
seventh hitter, in the lineup, well has to do or
a rookie has to do what Pain you did in
the postseason when he won the MVP. Yeah, in the
ALCS and the World Series. Your stars and then find
some hidden star that then becomes like, oh, that guy's
a player like Paine. You did after it was a
good rookie year, but not you didn't hit three hundred,

(01:32:07):
but it was his postseason. You got to find one
of those guys along the line too, as well as
your studs. Getting one back would be nice, but the
guys that are in there, the schedule is not gonna
be It will not be easy the second fifty plus
game or the last fifty plus games of the season. No,
it's gonna be difficult task. Yeah, there's no question about it. Charlie,
Good morning.

Speaker 20 (01:32:27):
Good morning guys. Hey, I listened to most of the
Dana Brown pre game interview on the radio yesterday and
the guy Shave Whitcomb's name came up, and I think
the guy has like twenty four home runs eighty four
RBIs he's sitting maybe two seventy two eighty And he commented, yeah, well,

(01:32:49):
he played a game at first base on Friday night
and then he went on to say, you know, maybe
it's time we start to bring up some of these
younger guys and see what they can do. And I'm thinking,
you know, you fool you head all off season, we
go into the season. God bless John Singleton for what

(01:33:09):
he's overcome on a personal level, but he's a backup.
With all due respect, Then we were counting on a
brave you who had a miserable LS year to just
flip the coin and he's going to hit to eighty
with thirty homers in back to seventy.

Speaker 10 (01:33:28):
It wasn't going to happen.

Speaker 20 (01:33:29):
So to wait this long to do something, I mean,
we must have some other guy in the minors that
can play first base, or we can't teach one of
our existing players on the roster to be I'm not
saying everybody can be a Dubond who can do everything
but catch. We haven't trained any of our other players

(01:33:51):
to be versatile and step in at first base. And look,
pitching was a priority. I understand that, and I'll compliment
this Bath for juggling Cakuchies percentages of his pitches, and
I think that's what threw the Rays off. And I
think that's what It'll make him a better picture. Maybe
he got into a rut with the raise of just

(01:34:13):
repeating the same pitches and the percentage as he threw.
So I'm hopeful for him, but I'm disappointed that Dana
Brown said, well, now it's time to bring up to
young kids. Well, hell man, we're two thirds into the
season and now you get a thought in your brain
that we need to do something. I understand we couldn't
make massive trades for a picture and the first baseman,

(01:34:36):
but you know, sometimes when you go to the cupboard
to make something, sometimes you have to use different things
to complete your dinner. And I just think that we're
really absent on filling that first base season in the
off season and.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
During the season.

Speaker 20 (01:34:54):
Bring a guy up from the miners who's contributing planned
first base. We can't teach any body to play first space.
That's all I have to say. Oh, last Ning Tucker,
you guys know people in Houston. Talk to one of
your orthopedic friends, talk to one of your physical therapy friends,
and find out some information about bone bruises on a leg.

Speaker 10 (01:35:15):
That's all I have to say.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
Guys, have a great week as well.

Speaker 6 (01:35:18):
Thank you. I have done that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
I've asked guys orthopedics and people. I mean, there comes
a point in time that, for instance, let's say, if
they I'm just using this examples and thank you for
the call. And first Base has been a the products.
The lack of production in first Base has been the
last couple of years. It's two or three years to
get the production you needed. Yearly was the last overly

(01:35:43):
productive first baseman they had for real quick, Brian, Let's think,
let's say you had tendonitis in your shoulder that was
so painful you can't detect the pain. A bone bruises
a bone if it is a bone beruce. I'm just
going by this when you ask people, unless the guy
has been around him, even in orthopedia.

Speaker 6 (01:36:00):
I mean, I've talked to couple.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
I've talked to a handful of my buddies that are
in the in the business, that have worked for pro
teams and that have done my stuff, and I don't
think many of them see bone bruises. But they have explanations,
like we've all heard that the severity of it, But
it comes back down to that threshold of pain, and
it's really hard for a doctor who's not you know, wait,

(01:36:22):
caring for the patient to know what that person's toughness
or level of pain thresholder is or how hard it hit.
They can read and listen to the same stuff. But yeah,
I mean, you'll get both very rarely. If I ord
anybody that's seen a bone bruise this long, and it
may have happened a thousand times. But the people I
talk to is this is obviously more severe than just

(01:36:46):
your typical foul one off your shin. But they unless
you're treating the patient, it's really hard to understand their
threshold of pain and how deep it goes. And that's
the case with Kyle Tucker. How how could we tell
with when you have the tendon itis in your shoulder
in the and pains. Well, MRI is not detecting that.
I don't think. It's like, dude, it's up to you.
Can you go how you're feeling, how's all those things?

(01:37:08):
And it appears that's the same with Kyle Tucker when
it comes to this bone bruise with the threshold of
pain and far far more severe than what would be
your typical bone bruise.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
All right, let's get to break and we'll hear that
audio from Dana Brown talking about the first pace position.

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Speaker 5 (01:37:29):
Looks like she might get the silver, not the goal,
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Unbelievable, no doubt. Man, incredible, Watch incredible.

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Hey, good morning guys. How are you all doing good?

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What's going on?

Speaker 21 (01:37:54):
Well, I'm just wondering if they're having trouble hitting.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
I mean, we got some really.

Speaker 21 (01:37:58):
Fast runners on there, right, I mean matters like, what's
the problem with bunting every now and then? Man, I'm
getting these guys on. And then the other thing too.
Petro Leone looked pretty decent. He would he almost would
have gotten credited for a hit. Well, he got a hit,
but then he got he got greedy. Try to make
a double lot of a single. But anyway, I'm just

(01:38:20):
wondering what is wrong with bunting?

Speaker 19 (01:38:22):
Man.

Speaker 21 (01:38:23):
Anyway, I'm gonna hang up and let's just listen to
you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Thank you carlos Sean. Do you like bunning.

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
In certain situations? I do, Yeah, I think there's a
place for it. I don't think that I you know,
I'm not I'm less interested in bunning than I used
to be, but I am not one when people say
it's just a wasted at bat, I think that's I
think that's bs. I I don't understand certain situations. I mean,

(01:38:53):
the practicing of bunting, you see, is like one down
the left line, one down the third base line, one
down the first base line, one back to it's a picture. Okay,
there's your bunning practice for the for the for the day.
So the people don't practice. People don't practice bunning, but
you can steal some hits. What I'm talking about is,
you know, not to start at anything and go get
a base Hit'd be you know, al two bay Land,

(01:39:14):
one down where he's a free swinger'd be great. And
he's done it before. But that's awesome. But but and
moving people over. I don't know why we're so adamant
against small ball at times. To me, when a guy's
on second and it's the tenth inning and there's no
outs and they put a free runner there, I don't

(01:39:35):
know why moving him to third bunting is not the
top priority depending on who the hitter is. Obviously you're
not going to bunt Jordan. But my point is, you know,
analytics and all the metrics that come into each at
batter and matchups, but no, I'm not. I'm not one
of those that people like. There's just people that want

(01:39:56):
to throw bunting out completely and never bunt.

Speaker 6 (01:39:59):
Don't get it. They just don't.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
But you know, people want to live by the bunt.

Speaker 6 (01:40:04):
You're not going to live by it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
The analytics and numbers talk about wasteded bats and all
those things, but I can tell you this that they
are those seventh eight ninetheen later in games to move
runners over and get a runner and squire position. Hell,
even early in games you never looked look at yesterday.
One run would have been a lot to the Astros.
You got a guy on second base with no outs
and your eight hitters coming up. You can't bun him

(01:40:26):
to third. Then you're in sacrifice fly position to score
another run. I do believe that bunning there's a place
for it. I think we've abandoned it way too much
because the metrics, but the field if a guy a
little practical, if you can get him to the third base,
and now I still got one out with the sacrifice
fly and play for a run. Now I'll take my chances.

(01:40:47):
I think there's a I sit in the middle. I
don't want it all the time, but I'm sure as
helld not against it.

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
In situational baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
I think the situation's got to be right for them
to bunt.

Speaker 1 (01:41:00):
Yeah, say, yeah, you're that news guy. But when they
say the situation, okay, guy on second, eight hitters in
the lineup, he said, two.

Speaker 5 (01:41:07):
Twenty, drop a bun down. It's not that hard.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
And to get him the.

Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
Third base for sacrifice flag.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
Yeah, it's pretty sad.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
That's my thing. Now there's no outs and Jordan's at
the plate. He's not bunting a guy to third.

Speaker 10 (01:41:19):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
He is swinging because the damage he can do. But
I put it this way, I don't want to steady
diet of it. But I don't think in later any
small ball, I don't think we use it enough, not
just here, any baseball. I think they've we've turned bunning
into one of the hardest things there is to do
for these guys to move a guy from second to
third and then you know, no outs or one out,
so now you've got a chance to allow this to

(01:41:42):
just a lifted fly ball to right field or center
field or left field to score run. I don't think
we do enough of it. I don't want to steady
diet of it, but I think situation of baseball calls
for it. And I think I think you're over analytical.
If you think bunting has no place in baseball, I
think you are one hundred percent wrong. Not you, anybody.

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Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Steve Sparks joined us first weekly visit at eight thirty.
Great to have him on ASTROS broadcaster, Steve, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:43:59):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
You've mentioned many times that the hitting order, and rightfully so,
isn't a big concern of yours. You expect them to
hit well other than the ryt. I'm not telling you
that you don't know other than the White Sox last
fifteen games or so, they're second to the bottom in
runs scored.

Speaker 6 (01:44:18):
So what's going on with them?

Speaker 1 (01:44:20):
Steve? That you can see that you're in the ballpark
every night.

Speaker 13 (01:44:24):
A lot of guys have gotten cold at the same time,
and that's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
You'll have spurts where that occurs.

Speaker 13 (01:44:32):
But I'm surprised to some extent that it hasn't happened
more with Tucker.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
Out of the line up, nobody's going to pitch to
yord On, you know.

Speaker 13 (01:44:42):
But you've got your table setters right now that have
gone cold without two By and Bragnant. So Jordon isn't
just getting opportunities to really drive the ball because nobody's
gonna throw him many.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Pitches to really hit. So I think that's part of
the problem right now.

Speaker 13 (01:45:00):
I think they're just biding time and hopefully they continue
to pitch as well as they can.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
You mentioned that puny run.

Speaker 13 (01:45:07):
Production, but they still are close to five hundred and those,
so I mean, you got to feel pretty fortunate about that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
So they've done a great job in that manner.

Speaker 13 (01:45:18):
But yeah, offensively one through nine, it doesn't look as
lengthy as it has at other times. But a lot
of that is because Tucker's out of there and he's
one of the best hitters in baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
Hey, Steve, you you had mentioned about jord On, you know,
not seeing the pitches he can drive. He's such a
great hitter, but in his power, you know, where he
can hit the ball out of the ballpark. Is there
no mechanical issues or nothing wrong with him? Do you
think it is just simply they're locating where they want
to and they're not going to throw him a good
pitch because of the lack of protection of the lineup.

(01:45:48):
Is that is that solely what you see from and
a little bad luck hitting it at people? But why
isn't the ball going out of the ballpark other than that?

Speaker 13 (01:45:58):
You know, yeah, I probably can't at some point good
enough to see super small things that might be going
on right now. But the glaring numbers between home and
road right now for him would suggest that he's just
not seeing the ball that well at home. So I
think he's sitting two fifty ish at home and three

(01:46:20):
fifty ish on the road, and the ops numbers are
super spread in those regards.

Speaker 2 (01:46:25):
So you know, the Astros go to Globe By Field.

Speaker 13 (01:46:29):
In the last ten or eleven games there, they're averaging
almost nine runs a games.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
So maybe that's what's that's what's going to cure their.

Speaker 13 (01:46:36):
Ills right now, is just getting into an environment where
they've had pass success and they can go out.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
There and start banging again.

Speaker 13 (01:46:44):
But right now, it seems like bottom half of the
lineup isn't really picking up the slack.

Speaker 1 (01:46:52):
Steve Sparks, Ash's broadcaster, for his weekly visit, Steve, I
do do you like teams? We had the conversation from
a caller, and I don't think he was suggested that
he doesn't like teams that went ugly, but if he
felt like that, if the Astros weren't gifted something in
gain like an air from the other team or mistakes

(01:47:13):
that this year, it just isn't hitting to the point
where they look smooth in their wins. You know, if
it's not clean, other teams are playing cleaner than them.
So is it? As Steve as a former player as well,
do you see the teams that know how to win ugly?
Like you mentioned these games and there's still only one
game out of first place? Are those teams better equipped

(01:47:33):
for the postseason than a team that has had a
fairly smooth, easy path path to the You know, they're
scoring six runs and five runs and not facing much adversity.
Which team do you like better?

Speaker 2 (01:47:46):
I think the teams that you're being shown in the
playoffs are usually those ones that you're talking about.

Speaker 13 (01:47:51):
Those are the ones that are more clean and they
don't give games away.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
It's it's unreal. It's like we go over and listen
to the other teams.

Speaker 13 (01:47:58):
Manager most days as well, and almost everybody to a
man in the last five years, is talked about how
his team has to flee play clean Baseball to beat
this Astros too, can't give them extra outs. They say
it almost every day, you know, they talk about how
perfectly they almost have to play to beat them, So
you know, that's that's the kind of pressure that the

(01:48:19):
Astros put on teams, and even going into a series,
they know it, so that makes them a little tighter.

Speaker 2 (01:48:25):
Even going into the series.

Speaker 13 (01:48:27):
I think the Astros can play more clean than they
have lately, you know. I think they can shore it
up a little bit in a few areas, and I
think that's part of being tired, you know, and what
they've done.

Speaker 2 (01:48:40):
They played guys to a great degree.

Speaker 13 (01:48:43):
And I think being able to get some guys off
their feet, and I'm thinking of Bregman and Pena and Altuve,
maybe rotate them in the in the d a spot
or get them off their feet for a day or
every once in a while.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
Could go a long way.

Speaker 13 (01:48:58):
But right now it's really hard to pick those days
because there's only a game separating them and the Mariners
and the Rangers are nipping at their heels too, so
it's very difficult to do. But I think in the
long run, you look at the big picture, I think
it would be beneficial. But I think a lot of
teams you look at ugly games and I think it's
a lot of times because guys are tired.

Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
Yet they still know how to win those a lot
of times to or at least that's been their mo
in the past to be able to find a way well.
Other teams have to play clean to be the Astros.
The Astros have survived at times not playing clean and
still winning games, which is a tribute to you know,
when pitching's going well or somebody getting the right timing
of the hit, which hasn't been their norm this year.
Steve go going back to the to the Kyle Tucker situation,

(01:49:44):
because I well, first off, let me let me ask
you this with the Astros. Could you mentioned the exhaustion
both are on my mind. They're tired. That run that
they had that you had called and said June in
July is a good chance for them to start moving,
like on a golf on a Saturday at a major,
and they did. Could there because they had so much
ground to makeup. Couldn't that emotional and mental exhaustion catch

(01:50:05):
back up to you to where it's like, damn, we
exerted so much energy and we're not getting the rest
we need after that that that becomes a problem with
this as well, the emotional and mental grind as opposed
to just the physical.

Speaker 13 (01:50:19):
I don't think they think like that. I think they
just go out there and prepare themost the same way
every day. They're fifteen to thirty five since the end
of April. That's the best record in all of baseball.
So over the long haul, you just look at doing
things the same way every day, because you know that works.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Over the long haul. Out of the last eighty five games,
they're the best in all of baseball. So you want
to look at ten game.

Speaker 13 (01:50:41):
Samples that I think you're missing the picture on what
they do really well.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
Is they prepare.

Speaker 13 (01:50:46):
They're good to begin with, and they just keep forging
on mentally. I don't think that they feel like they've
gotten to where they want to go just because they
caught the maritors at one point. I think they understand
that that there's something way down a line. It's a
couple of months away, and they just keep doing the
same thing over and over.

Speaker 6 (01:51:06):
Steve, are you surprised?

Speaker 1 (01:51:08):
I mean, when when this happened with Kyle Tucker and
by It's obviously a serious injury because the guy's been durable.
Are you surprised it's taking Are you surprised it's taken
this long?

Speaker 2 (01:51:17):
Oh yeah, of course. Yeah. We all thought that it
was going to be a minimal eyel stit.

Speaker 13 (01:51:23):
And I don't question him at all as far as
how long it's taken. It's just it's just one of
those things where it's frustrating on a fans and you know,
an organization that you can't get him in there because
he means so much to the team. So other than that,
that's that's all I'm thinking, because I know he's doing

(01:51:43):
everything you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:51:44):
I'll be honest with you. I seek him in the.

Speaker 13 (01:51:46):
Hotel pools, the indoor pools with trainers every day, you know.
So he's he's getting after it, and you know it's
just a situation where to plant that foot and.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
A twist is excruciating.

Speaker 13 (01:52:03):
Yeah, So whatever it takes to get it to getting
past that, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
It's just a matter of healing.

Speaker 13 (01:52:10):
And once he gets to that point, he'll hit the
ground running and the astros are just.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
Hoping it soon, you know. I know he stayed back
for the first portion of this road trip.

Speaker 13 (01:52:19):
He just wants to make sure he exhausts everything he
can at the ballpark with the trainers there and the
doctor's there to continue to push this forward. There's a
flying line, and you know on injuries, pushing things too
far could be detrimental.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
So you got you got to play it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:35):
Just run, no doubt. This injury sucks. Man, it's a
bumber because like we got really just it just sucks.
You can almost take that injury, Steve that like you know,
the guy blows out his ankle or isn't he You
don't want to, but it's one that you were not
hanging on every trip. Yes, exactly. It's like he will
see Tommy Jomp, We'll see you next year. We'll see
in eighteen months, We'll see in twelve months. This one

(01:52:56):
is like every day you wake up, is this the day?
So the frustrate all right? Last week when the trade
came down, your initial your initial thought is a baseball
guy Kakuchie for you know, for Wagner and bloss and
for low Pafito.

Speaker 13 (01:53:13):
My first thought was I'm glad they didn't part with Melton,
Matthews and Uola.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20):
That's my that's my initial thought.

Speaker 6 (01:53:22):
Okay, I love those.

Speaker 13 (01:53:23):
Three guys, Melton, Matthews and Uola. I think those guys
and even Chase jo Orsky down at lower myners. I'm
sure teams are asking about these guys, and I know,
I know there's popularity, but there was popularity with Miles
Straw and Jake Marisnik and a.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
Lot of guys that the Astros have traded in years past.
But you got to you got to give up something
from time to time.

Speaker 13 (01:53:48):
And I think bloss was the headliner, and that in
a couple of years down the line he might be
a mid rotation starter in the big leagues and you're going, man,
But the Astros had to give themselves a chance to
get five or six innings in every single spot in
their rotation, or because of what we've been talking about,
their relievers were not going to be upright.

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
At the end.

Speaker 13 (01:54:12):
So getting Kikuchi in there, who posts every day, nobody
has started more games than Kakuchi this year. It's going
to go out there and give you good, solid major
league innings was paramount.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
They had nobody else to rely on.

Speaker 13 (01:54:24):
In the minor league at this point that had any
experience to do that. So to get him it was
going to cost. The other team knows exactly how badly
you need them, and they're gonna squeeze you for everything
they can. And I thought they did a good job
of not giving up.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
Their best pieces.

Speaker 13 (01:54:42):
It hurt, and it's a lot, and it looks like,
all right, they give up three guys that looks like
they can help a major league team. But the Astros
also have guys that are probably better, you know, in
the system. I mentioned Miguel Huyola. He's probably better than
bloss and I'm glad they didn't give him up, to

(01:55:02):
be honest with you, I love that kid.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
Yeah, and Steve with that after watching Kakuchie Friday night,
which we know he can induce a lot of swing
and miss and struck out eleven and did it. He
pitched really well Friday early indication. If that's what we're
going to see from him after he settled in, then
this trade's definitely Then then this is a win for
the Astros, right And do you think that go ahead?

(01:55:29):
I was just gonna say, do you do you think
that this trade is? Does this get him over the
top and make them a much heavier world series. Are
they better? Are they better?

Speaker 13 (01:55:49):
They're better, no question about it. And he's good and
they think they can unlock some things. And the pitch
usage is the easiest thing to tweak, especially with the
thirty three year old. You're not going to change his
mechanics and say, hey, do this and you'll get better
in nine games. We got you for nine games. But
there's one thing you can tweak in a nine game

(01:56:10):
sample size, and if he buys in, and if you
can show and prove to him that this is probably work,
then it's all worth it. So it looked like the
pitch usage, as far as going some more change ups
and utilizing that slider with two strikes, was the way
to go, and he bought in and the.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
Change up was unbelievable.

Speaker 13 (01:56:31):
And how much he I think he threw twenty five
of those, but the swing and miss he got more
swing and misses than any Astros pitcher has all season long.
I think it was twenty six at the end of
the day. And that's a that's an exorbitant number. So
he looked great in that one. That can't I can't
imagine we can expect him to look like that every

(01:56:53):
game for the next two months, that of that man
would be fantastic. But the one thing this Astro's rotation
right now, they're all pitching well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
The Astros have.

Speaker 13 (01:57:03):
One Fromber's last seven games. Hunter Brown's pitching to a
two three era in his last two month. You know,
you can go down the list. Arrag Getty's punching out
twelve yesterday. Now it looks like you got a really
good chance to win every single night.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
For a long time. There.

Speaker 13 (01:57:19):
For a long time, Sean, you didn't love the pitching matchup.
You know, you look at what the Astros were facing
as far as their picture against their pictures, and you
never right, I didn't feel great about it, agreeiven night.

Speaker 2 (01:57:34):
In the last few years, we always have.

Speaker 13 (01:57:37):
And to think that you can feel that way, Sean
was six starting pitchers on the IL and you can
still feel like that. I think that's the mark of
how good this Astro's team is is is when you
can take like a hard gut punch six times and
still come out smelling like a rose.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
I think that says a ton about them.

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
Yes, Steve, if they go on and win this division
and make a run in this playoffs, this is as
impressive as any of them, considering what it really will,
it would be as impressive as any of the runs
they've had since in the last seven or eight years.
So yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Get frustrated with it, the offense and time time, but man, to.

Speaker 13 (01:58:18):
Be in the position they're in with all they've endured,
it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
So I think going forward, yeah, you can get better.
I'm a little excited about pedro.

Speaker 13 (01:58:28):
Leone seeing you know, the most of the ball, what
he can possibly do, you know, stick him in the
nine hole and let him ride for a little bit
and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:58:37):
But that was overdue.

Speaker 2 (01:58:41):
Yeah, I think the Astros did just fine. I think
they've got options.

Speaker 13 (01:58:45):
And Dana mentioned it on the pregame show yesterday with
Shane Wham and Zach Dencenzo maybe platuning with Singleton. He said,
if you don't trade them, bring them up and I
like that, you know, let's see what you got, you know,
if they need some help from time to time, let's get.

Speaker 16 (01:59:01):
Him up here.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Yeah. The only way we're going to see is by
putting them in a batter's of box and letter rip.

Speaker 6 (01:59:05):
Let's do this.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
I'm with you, Steve Hey, great stuff. My man, I'm
glad it worked out. Kokuchi looked really nice on Friday night.
Let's hope that couldn't continue somewhere close to that, and
the bats will awaken and we'll be back at it
and we look forward to next Monday. Steve, thanks so much, brother,
Thanks for having me. Sean, you bet appreciate it. That's
a great Steve Sparks. We'll come back and discuss.

Speaker 6 (01:59:25):
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Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
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Speaker 22 (02:00:58):
That was the post game show Friday, and it was
you know, I have to say this about says Astro fans,
is that like it seemed like most of us the
half empty instead of half full. Steve told the guy
after the game, he was complained about the trade that

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we gave away prospect, But you know, Steve told him, Man,
we're trying to win, now, you know. And this guy
came in there.

Speaker 17 (02:01:30):
Did he did he maintain? Did he maintain that?

Speaker 22 (02:01:33):
Third all time Astro pictures did a Gucci?

Speaker 7 (02:01:38):
Did he did he maintain it?

Speaker 22 (02:01:40):
Because I was in and out of that because when
they say he was on his way to it and
I didn't catch the rest of it.

Speaker 21 (02:01:46):
Did he did he.

Speaker 16 (02:01:47):
End up with it?

Speaker 8 (02:01:48):
The third all time Astro pitcher with a strikeouts?

Speaker 5 (02:01:53):
I'd have a double check that. I'm not actually sure, Sean.

Speaker 1 (02:01:55):
I don't know that you're talking about he's talking about
in a row. He's in the tea he was. Yeah,
I think he tied the record with eight strikeouts in
a row. If he didn't tie it, he's one off
it or something. Yeah, eight strikeouts, Yeah he had.

Speaker 5 (02:02:09):
He tied the Astros franchise record by striking out eight
consecutive batters, becoming the fourth player in team history to
do so in the first since Justin Verlander on October
fourth of twenty twenty two.

Speaker 3 (02:02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (02:02:20):
So I gotta say this, yere Man, I got to
give him my a on that on this trade, uh,
because I think that same night. Like I said, I'm
bad with some time on some of these sets. But
from my understand that same night, man Lo Cafedo lay
the goofy, you know, and I have to give him
a on this trade, man, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:02:41):
And Uh, And I.

Speaker 22 (02:02:43):
Gotta say, man, we got to be optimistic because I
understand they're not putting up the kind of numbers people like,
you know and stuff like that. But this is crutch
play they putting up with it. Take it only takes
one point to win, you know. I could remember thematics, uh,
and Atlanta that these people went to the World Series.
They didn't put up a lot of points. And if

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I at the time, I'll.

Speaker 14 (02:03:08):
Pull up the stats, you know.

Speaker 22 (02:03:09):
But I had to say that. And Sean, I'm good
to asking you.

Speaker 14 (02:03:15):
Some football questions.

Speaker 22 (02:03:16):
Can I ask you just one?

Speaker 1 (02:03:19):
You know what? Yeah, you ask it. We we got
to go to the top of our brake. I won't
be able to answer until we come back at the
eight o'clock hour so or nine o'clock hours.

Speaker 22 (02:03:26):
So, okay, I gotta ask you that because I was
a fan of Steve Brogan and I noticed y'all had
about the same deal. Did anybody able to compare you
to Grogan and just no his hang up.

Speaker 1 (02:03:39):
Thank you, Yeah, Kenneth, no problem. I can answer that
real quick. They didn't. We're saying height. He's about six
four ur six y five. I was bigger than he was.
I've played at about two thirty. I think Steve was
a little lighter than that, but his neck was longer
than mine too. Steve was a big, tough guy, though, No,
I didn't get compared. I think the fact that you know,

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throwing the football around, but never compared side by side.
I think the physical stature probably had something to do that.
He was a little more lean and sinewy with his
upper body than I was. But I appreciate that. I
take it as a compliment anyway, because he was a
hell of a player.

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Speaker 5 (02:06:41):
Texans practicing today. They've got their first preseason game coming
up this Friday. Oh, by the way, Sean, over the weekend,
Blake Snell threw a no hitter for the Giants.

Speaker 1 (02:06:55):
Yeah, I was watching that. It was impressive. Man, I
was watching it. He was uh, he was impressive. Walk
to I think three of them, but he did. He
was spot and locate and got some good defensive plays
that It was an impressive watch. He did a he
looked like Cy Young winner Blake Snell. I think he's
won it twice now, hasn't he? Yes, I know he

(02:07:15):
won it twice. Yeah, he's uh, he was impressive. I
was watching that on TV out here.

Speaker 5 (02:07:21):
Do you realize he is never in his career thrown
into the ninth inning?

Speaker 6 (02:07:26):
Yeah, which just crazy and won two Cy youngs.

Speaker 1 (02:07:30):
Yeah, that's a that's an odd stat but yeah, I
mean he'll take that one, no doubt. And like we
said that, he uh he gets into rarefied air. What's
that Giants like the eighteenth no hitter in their franchise
this year or something. They've had a few of them.

(02:07:50):
But impressive performance by by Blake Snell. He looked good
and got some help from his friends. It was good.
It was fun to see the celebration after as well.
I always like seeing that.

Speaker 5 (02:08:00):
After everything that he's done in his career, the stat
that remains is that he's this is the only time
he's ever pitched into the ninth inning. It's insane.

Speaker 1 (02:08:10):
It really is, over the course of his career that
he hasn't had one complete game. There's no that that
think about that. Cy Young's been in baseball for a while.

Speaker 6 (02:08:23):
You've never had a complete game in your career.

Speaker 5 (02:08:25):
His longest outing shan seven and two thirds innings. He's
never even gotten into the ninth.

Speaker 1 (02:08:32):
How do you and you know what to Cy Young's dude,
I don't even know how to where he's at. Wins
wise two, say Young's puts you in Hall of Fame,
callt talk right, as long as the rest of your
career is pretty solid. Absolutely, I don't know what the
end numbers are going to look like. But I don't
know is there a picture in the Hall of Fame
modern having I'm just saying modern times, even though hell

(02:08:54):
before modern before, like in let's say, pre nineteen seventy, Hell,
those guys were pitching twelve fifteen in throwing two hundred
and twenty five pitches, So I'm not worried about could
they go nine innings? But do you think there's a
modern era pitcher in the Hall of Fame that didn't
have a complete game in his entire career. Maybe there's
more than I think. That just to me is fascinating.

(02:09:19):
I mean, a guy that's won Cy Young's hell, I
don't know, is there a Cy Young winner. It's didn't
didn't have a complete game during his Cy Young year.
I mean, he hadn't had one end got to the
ninth inning and one time in his career until he
threw the no no. That's unbelievable to me, that's unbelieva.

(02:09:40):
He went a lot of money on that bet because
I said, you, you out of your mind. Never been
to the ninth inning two Cy youngs. He's been in
a playoff pitcher, he's been, and he's and he just
threw a no hitter, but he's never been. That's the
first time he's been into the ninth inning. I about
have laughed and said, you out of your mind. But
that's a hard that's a hard stat to fathom.

Speaker 5 (02:10:01):
So in his career, he has seventy two wins. He's
not even at one hundred.

Speaker 1 (02:10:08):
And he can't get in the Hall of Fame with
seventy two wins. But he's gonna have two or three.
I mean, I don't know if he can win another
Sy young, But two cy youngs puts you in in
really I mean elite company. And he's under one hundred
wins and is never just length of starts alone. And
when you when those numbers come back to me, considering

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he's been in the league for a minute, seventy two
wins does not get you in the Hall of Fame. No,
even if you won three Cy Youngs. He's been really
good in stints. But that's amazing. It's seventy two wins
and not one of them or any of the losses.
Did he go a complete game? Hard to fathom.

Speaker 5 (02:10:49):
It's very hard to fathom it.

Speaker 6 (02:10:50):
Yeah, sure is.

Speaker 5 (02:10:51):
I mean you talk about just a complete game. I
think the harder thing to fathom for me is that
he's never even gotten into the ninth let alone throwing
a complete game like that. Yeah is, as long as outing.

Speaker 1 (02:11:01):
It's crazy. I would have never ever ever thought that
I would. I mean, I'm be like if you just
told me that that C. C. Sabathia never threw a
complete game. I know sabbath He's got a lot more wins,
but I'd look at you like, well, what you know?
Did you know that Max Schuzer has never thrown a
complete game, and I know Surezi has got a lot
more wins.

Speaker 6 (02:11:20):
My point is, I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:11:22):
Talking cy young guys. Even with all his injuries, Jacob
de gram has to have a complete game, has to
a bunch of he has to even I mean he
won a cy Young I think when he won eleven
games one year or something.

Speaker 6 (02:11:35):
But he has to have with all his injuries, still got.

Speaker 1 (02:11:39):
A complete game. I think that's a fascinating statistic, and
maybe there's more of them, but I don't think that.
I don't think that happens very often.

Speaker 5 (02:11:49):
So let's see, Jacob de Grom has four complete games
in his career.

Speaker 1 (02:11:54):
Which to me is even with all his injuries, is
still amazing. It's only four. As dominant as that guy's
been he's.

Speaker 5 (02:12:00):
In the league, that he's been in the league since
twenty fourteen.

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
I don't think about that a decade with the games
he's even him though, it feels like force not enough,
you know what I mean, all the injuries. I don't know, man.
I guess it's a stat that we don't get much
of these days. We know we don't give many complete games.
We've talked about that, but the fact that a two
times Cy Young winner never got to the ninth inning
until this past weekend is fascinating to me.

Speaker 5 (02:12:27):
Let's see, trying to think, well, it's it'd be tough
for me to find how many Cy Young pitchers have
never thrown a complete game. But yeah, that'd be just
a little bit too much, I think trying to find.

Speaker 1 (02:12:40):
You know, this could but I'm sure somebody's got it
out there, but there can't be many. I wouldn't think
you No, I didn't get at least one complete or
pitch into the ninth inning at least during a cy
Young year, let alone in their career at any time.

Speaker 6 (02:12:54):
Crazy, it's amazing, you know.

Speaker 5 (02:12:55):
And they've got so many different websites out that have
that keep track of all these different type of random
stats and things like that. But I mean, it's it's
still just insane that Blake Snell the longest outing he's
had going into the no hitter seven and two thirds innings.
And then also another stat have you seen what Aaron

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Judge is doing home run wise?

Speaker 1 (02:13:18):
Dude? How can you not?

Speaker 5 (02:13:20):
Why do Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:13:21):
I think I have a wood back to the head.
If you don't know what that cat's doing right now?
Good gracious, what a season? Huh?

Speaker 5 (02:13:28):
What did he hit? Forty half? He's at forty one bombs,
hitting three twenty two, one hundred and three RBIs on
base of four fifty six. He's got one hundred and
twenty seven hits.

Speaker 1 (02:13:38):
Do you know how many guys would stand in line
for his season? Now? Right now? If he didn't play
another game in the I'm talking, he'd still get MVP consideration.
Oh yeah, they got fifty plus games or so to go.
He'd still get MVP consideration because he has put up

(02:14:01):
most Valuable Player type numbers already than another seven RBIs
gets him to one ten. He hits three, twenty three, fifteen.
If he stopped today and said, you know what, let's
just stop and see, I gotta believe he finished in
the top three in the American League Most Valuable Player voting,
do you man?

Speaker 5 (02:14:21):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. His last seven days, twenty two at bats,
ten hits for those being bombs, eight walks.

Speaker 1 (02:14:30):
It's been a whek And yeah, there's another part of him.
You're like, well, dude, what's better. You wanted to run
around four bases? You wanted to run to one. He's
he's at the stage now he's swinging the bats so
frigging good, and he's done this before. But where you're like,
maybe we should walk him in the second inning so
we don't get killed. I mean, the guy is he
is having an MVP season. He's having a career season

(02:14:52):
for some I'm not talking about for him. He's having
a season that would get you a major pay raise
if you were a free agent. And if he stopped today,
he'd get a major pay raise if this was his season.
We're gonna have a hard time. See anybody in the
Astros hit forty home runs this year. Yeah, we're gonna
have a hard time. I mean, the RBI somebody should

(02:15:13):
get to But putting up those numbers, and if he
just decided fifty games, I'm gonna I'm sitting out the
last fifty. You'd still give him an MVP vote. Possibly,
That's how stupid his season's been so far.

Speaker 2 (02:15:25):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:15:25):
The even crazier thing about Aaron Judge. I mean, we
always talk about Kirk Cousins in the regular season, we
talk about Dak Prescott, we talk about Josh Allen. He
is the equivalent to those quarterbacks because he sucks in
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (02:15:41):
Yep. And there's been some baseball players going through their
time that you're like, he had a great career, but
boy was he non existent in the postseason. That's the
for for Aaron Judge to get to even another level
of rarefied, so everybody knows how great he is. It
would be for him to go have an MVP like
Bryce Harper in Washington had you know where every night

(02:16:02):
where he's he's changing games in the postseason and al Tuve,
we've seen Hellapenia, a George Springer postseason. He has one
of those, and it'll take him to another because he's
a Yankee and all that. He needs one of those
postseasons to get him. And if you're talking, you know
the mantles and all that. I know people are because
his home run ball and it's all around game right now,

(02:16:24):
but they still want people still want postseason production. You're
exactly right. That's those are Harden like numbers, right, James
Harden like numbers. Those are y yeah, Cousins like numbers,
Prescott like numbers. But also it's also the same finish
as those guys have given you at the end of
a season too. But no diminishing his greatness. The guy
is a monster and it's having a great year.

Speaker 5 (02:16:46):
As we go to break in twenty seventeen, Aaron Judge
hit a buck eighty eight in the playoffs. In twenty eighteen,
he hit four twenty one. In twenty nineteen, he hit
two sixty five. In twenty twenty, he hit a buck
thirty three. In twenty twenty one, he hit two fifty.
In twenty twenty two, he hit a buck thirty nine.
He is only hitting two eleven in the playoffs in

(02:17:08):
his career with a seven seventy two ops. Those are
not good numbers, but man, what he does during the
regular season is stupid.

Speaker 1 (02:17:17):
It's it's like, just don't pitch to him, man, put
it on first base. Yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah,
thank more to talk about about that.

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Credible seven one three two one two five seven ninety
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What a knuckle here.

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Chris Tripley's got the buzzer ready to go. He will
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Speaker 23 (02:19:16):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, great show, guys.

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That's why I'm talking about Jack.

Speaker 23 (02:19:25):
Appreciate what I quick question, our quick comment Paina.

Speaker 19 (02:19:30):
Uh.

Speaker 23 (02:19:31):
You know, I'm a big fan of Paya, but god,
I'm tired of watching him with two strikes on him
swing at the low outside slider, especially two games ago
with the bases loaded and one out.

Speaker 1 (02:19:41):
But he tried, he tries to pull it. He just
can't stay off that pitch.

Speaker 23 (02:19:45):
I don't understand why that's not coachable.

Speaker 1 (02:19:47):
Second thing.

Speaker 23 (02:19:48):
Second thing is Tucker, why don't we get more information
from the Astros about this?

Speaker 16 (02:19:52):
Because we're all thinking, man, what have went uh?

Speaker 23 (02:19:55):
I mean with with two months out with a with
a bruise, with a you know anyway, I think the
Astros would be wise if there's more to it, let
us know.

Speaker 1 (02:20:05):
I mean, so we won't have that attitude about him.
That's all I got, guys, great show. I'll listen.

Speaker 5 (02:20:09):
Thanks, thank you, Jack, and we can address that here
in just a second. We get through with a couple
of these calls. If you don't mind, Sean's talk to
Conrod James. Conrad James, what's happening? Yes, Hi there, good morning.
If I was there, Getty, I would be frustrated. Including Espoto.
We got the picture up there.

Speaker 24 (02:20:27):
He's giving you twelve strikeouts, twelve and you're in a
one run game and you can't win that game. You
got the basis loaded with no out in the first
inning and nobody could come home. It's just frustrating. It's
not a slump. It's frustrating. And that's what I have
to say.

Speaker 5 (02:20:47):
Thank you, James, and uh, let's see, let's talk to Michael.
Got Mike and Michael. Let's go to Michael. What's up, Michael?

Speaker 14 (02:20:57):
Yeah, you don't want Harry today?

Speaker 5 (02:21:00):
Another day? What is it, Sean? Another day? Above dirt?

Speaker 6 (02:21:04):
Right on the right side of the dirt.

Speaker 5 (02:21:06):
There you go, my bad, Yeah, right side of the dirt. Michael,
were great, man.

Speaker 16 (02:21:10):
I just had a couple of quots. First, I was
gonna ask Sean. I had an analytics question, but I
needed to ask Sean. I think I think the guy
probably was at USC maybe six years before Shawn, and
he played baseball. But I was just wondering if you
ever ran into it, because because they were I mean
they were like I think they won it like five
years in a row, like sixty eight and damn near

(02:21:30):
maybe seven years of a year anyway. Anyway, So he
was a pitcher, lefty and his name was Cliff Holland.
Did you ever run into that guy any chance?

Speaker 1 (02:21:40):
Yeah, he's pretty He wasn't there when I was there.

Speaker 6 (02:21:43):
I think what year did he graduate?

Speaker 16 (02:21:45):
Because yeah, I think I was there seventy four.

Speaker 1 (02:21:50):
Yeah, he's he's about a you know, a decade or
more sooner than I am. I had I was there
when we and we were good then too, Randy Johnson,
Mark McGuire, del that group. Yeah, that all played, you know,
so we that was our group. So he was a
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(02:22:11):
Freddie Lynn and Dave Kingman. Yeah, there's a lot of great,
great players. Steve Camp, a lot of great players, Freddie Lynn.
They want a lot of them back in the day,
but I don't. I don't know Cliff though, but yes,
he was there. He was really great, really great guy.

Speaker 16 (02:22:23):
Anyway, I just want to shout out to him.

Speaker 17 (02:22:24):
I think he's still with us.

Speaker 16 (02:22:25):
But that's Dave Kingman. There's a guy who would hit
like fifty home runs and hit about about eighty five.
I saw him play at the Kingdo.

Speaker 1 (02:22:32):
Man to strike out two hundred times. But boy was
he fun to watch.

Speaker 16 (02:22:37):
Absolutely to get cheated.

Speaker 1 (02:22:40):
What's your analytics question?

Speaker 16 (02:22:42):
Well, you know, when I was the guy's brian like
when you played, so to me, it seems and I
think that I've always been so old school and just
tried to disregard it. But I'll finally come around. Okay,
I think it obviously it has its complete place. You know,
it can basically dissect anything and whether Bob's throwing a

(02:23:02):
curveball on Sunday at three o'clock with humidity at four
point five and that's due anyway, So I think.

Speaker 6 (02:23:07):
You get it.

Speaker 16 (02:23:08):
But so sometimes I think these guys they have their
game plan and everything is so analytics and it's and
it's mailed out, and they've got their spreadsheets and they've
got the you know, they've got their iPads in the
in the in the dugout and this that I think
sometimes you know, a guy or a hitter more so
from hitting, it seems like, okay, so I'm so analytics
trained and these guys are and you're up there, what

(02:23:30):
it seems like like when the game plan breaks down
or the guy's not doing what we said he's supposed
to do, or you know, I mean, this thing's going
side to us quick, it's like what do I do?
What do I do?

Speaker 1 (02:23:40):
Now?

Speaker 16 (02:23:41):
Things aren't happening like the analytics told me to. And
I just wonder if you know, if some of these
guys just didn't grow up with that adapt and adjust
and anyway, I just wanted your thoughts on that it was.
I was thinking about that yesterday and figured that I
tossed that out and I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 5 (02:23:55):
Thank you, Michael, And let's real quick, Mike, what's happening.

Speaker 18 (02:24:01):
Hey, guys.

Speaker 25 (02:24:01):
I just wanted to chime in on your conversation earlier
about Blake Snell and in his lack of complete games.
I think it just has to do with the sign
of the times.

Speaker 2 (02:24:08):
If you go back, like you were.

Speaker 25 (02:24:10):
Saying, in modern day pictures, I mean, just for reference,
I mean, obviously cy Young himself had seven hundred and
forty nine of them, Sandy Kofax had won thirty seven,
and in the more modern day Roger Clemens had won
eighteen and Randy Johnson one hundred complete games. So Blake
Snipsnell came up in twenty sixteen. I just don't think.
I mean, that just shows you the sign of the times.
It's just not the way the pictures pitch anymore. They don't,

(02:24:32):
they don't go deep into ball games.

Speaker 2 (02:24:34):
They don't.

Speaker 25 (02:24:35):
They pay them all this ungodly money and they're trying
to save them and keep them fresh. So I think
that has something to do with with what you're seeing
with Blake Snell.

Speaker 2 (02:24:43):
And no complete games, so.

Speaker 1 (02:24:45):
Just might take thank you, Mike. No, you're right, Yeah,
Mike's still hard to fathom though, it really is. And
I know we're in a specialization time. They give me
six innings and you're a hero. I get it, and
I know that's the way we're training our pictures. So
it's hardest. Came for six innings and we got you.
It's a good thing and it is a sign of
the times, but it's still just an odd stat that

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a guy of his stature doesn't have one game in
the ninth inning other than his no hitter, which was impressive.
I watched it over the weekend with a Friday or
Saturday it was. It was impressive. But yeah, he makes
a good point. Man. We just don't see the Bob
Gibson's and cofax'es and Clemens and Randy Johnson's anymore where
they were determined not only Nolan Ryan's to finish games,
but put to put their foot on your throat while

(02:25:27):
they were doing it too. Yeah, in big fashion.

Speaker 5 (02:25:30):
It's still crazy that Blake Snell's never thrown into the night.

Speaker 1 (02:25:33):
Oh, I would agree, it'd be like you telling me honestly,
did I don't know if you give me a good
player that that is that has been in league eight years,
it you know, to be like telling me one of
these guys has never got a base hit with the
base you know it, never had a two run double
with the bases loaded, you know what I mean? I know,
that's just an odd reach to be like, what would

(02:25:53):
you just say he never had a two run double
with the bass load?

Speaker 6 (02:25:56):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (02:25:56):
Or he never had a Grand Slam and in four
thousand at bats and he's been to the plate one
hundred times, you know, eighty times with the bases loadedd
be like, what that guy he won two MVPs. So
I just think it's an even though with the sign
of the times, it's a nuts stat. It really is
out of this world.

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(02:27:18):
Brian Liema sent you. The Shawn Salisbury Show continued. It's
where Texans GM Nick Casario went to high.

Speaker 1 (02:27:28):
School Nice much to your chagrin. Yeah, Yeah, The.

Speaker 5 (02:27:35):
University School in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Huh they played the
Steelers this Friday. You a little vac maybe, I guess
they just wanted to go from can Ohio over to
Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Speaker 1 (02:27:53):
Yeah. Uh, Steelers used to I used to good coach
at Jack Lambert's camp when I was in by the
people to coach there two years in Alliance, Ohio, home
of the Mount Union. Mount Union College is a place
for the Steelers spent some time. So what is the
significance of that? That's what they're practicing.

Speaker 5 (02:28:12):
They just started practice this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:28:14):
Yeah, okay, Texas. Yeah, I mean, you know they're not
here so much to our chagrin.

Speaker 6 (02:28:20):
They're in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (02:28:21):
I'm gonna use that they'll tell me these things, man, because.

Speaker 5 (02:28:26):
There's a reason I told you that.

Speaker 1 (02:28:28):
Yeah, because you know they're not here. So what is
it much to your what? Exactly? Yeah, Let's hope they
will get a victory and take care of their business.
Maybe see a few more some starters in for a
few minutes this time, a handful of snaps, get them rolling,
it'd be great. Safe, stay safe.

Speaker 5 (02:28:46):
The best part about uh waking up as folders in
your cup and then.

Speaker 1 (02:28:50):
I swear I was just about yeah, and then yo cup.

Speaker 5 (02:28:57):
Yeah. And then as we inch closer to the preseason
game this coming Friday, you already know what we're gonna
jam out to, so you know, make sure you right, yeah, right,
that's gonna get the Texans fired up.

Speaker 1 (02:29:10):
Nothing better than inching closer, okay or Texas to the
start of the season.

Speaker 6 (02:29:14):
Uh huh, you know what I'm staying.

Speaker 5 (02:29:17):
Yeah, first preseason game is Friday. Hey, got a couple
of U C. Tripley's fired up. Got a couple of
questions that we've had coming in throughout uh Twitter, I
know a couple seawn, you weren't tagged on, but I
can go ahead and read them. There's one that's coming in.
Why can it? Why do the Houston Astros continue to

(02:29:38):
struggle with runners in scoring position? Is this what we're
gonna see the longer that Kyle Tucker is out? That
one coming from a Christopher, that.

Speaker 6 (02:29:47):
Answer would be absolutely.

Speaker 1 (02:29:49):
I mean, I hope people step up, but eventually you're
gonna have to get protection the lineup for your on
and Tucker's beat. It's hard to sustain really good play without.

Speaker 6 (02:29:59):
Your best player.

Speaker 1 (02:30:00):
Yeah, So I would imagine the struggle won't be any easier.
Now you're gonna have to have other people that not
named Tucker get hot again, where three or four guys
aren't cold at the same time. So it's bound to
improve because it can't get much worse than there, what
three runs a game for the way they're swinging it.

Speaker 6 (02:30:17):
But yes, Tucker would be a great help.

Speaker 1 (02:30:19):
That would upgrade it immensely and Jordan would see more pitches.

Speaker 5 (02:30:23):
This one coming from Tim. Is anybody surprised about Joe
spottus comments in regards to Lance mccullors junior being out
for the season.

Speaker 1 (02:30:34):
Well, we were questioning about two months ago.

Speaker 6 (02:30:38):
Okay, so I.

Speaker 1 (02:30:41):
It's a bummer. It sucks all those things that we've
said a million times for a guy that you'd love
to have out there. But the longer it went on
and they were doing sud setback and well they're just
you know, you knew it wasn't then when they when
we heard them say, well maybe September, it was done
not pitching this year. So I am not surprised one bit,
not one bit, not one bit, are you?

Speaker 5 (02:31:04):
Uh No, not at all. We said it. I said
it two months ago. Uh, to a caller, I can't
remember which one. I I said, there's no way, uh
that Lance mcclor junior is going to pitch this year.
And I know you agreed with me on that as well.
And here we are. Jospotas said yesterday that it is
quote safe to say and quote that Lance mccullor junior
will not pitch this season. So no, I'm not surprised.

(02:31:25):
It sucks.

Speaker 1 (02:31:26):
But I see where didn't Garcia have a setback over
the weekend? Uh? That late last week? Where was he
a minor league? Did I did I read something where no,
I thought him and the should shoulder? So wasn't there
some shoulder sores? Not that I did?

Speaker 17 (02:31:40):
I did?

Speaker 1 (02:31:41):
I not readers? That's was I. Did I dream that?

Speaker 6 (02:31:44):
Did I dream that it was a little stiff or tight?

Speaker 5 (02:31:47):
Maybe? Did I miss that?

Speaker 1 (02:31:49):
Was it during the week or the weekend? Did we
discuss it? I mean I'm out here, like I said, I'm.

Speaker 5 (02:31:55):
Oh, yeah, here we go. Uh yeah, you were not dreaming?
That was two days ago. Rehab A signment has been
delayed with elbow soreness.

Speaker 1 (02:32:02):
Okay, so they're not shoulder but elbows sons there.

Speaker 5 (02:32:05):
Yeah, that's right because I said, it's you guys in
our group text. I'm like, yeah, okay, maybe I'm trimping.

Speaker 1 (02:32:09):
Dog. I was gonna say that I missed something here,
but no, so that concerns me. You think you're seeing
him this month?

Speaker 5 (02:32:17):
Yeah? My bad. Yeah, I'm definitely tripping. I sent that
to you'all at four fifteen on Friday. Uh, he was
scheduled to have a rehab assignment this Sunday. And that's
not gonna happen with elbows sonas so yeah, hm doubt Yeah, yeah,
my goodness man.

Speaker 1 (02:32:33):
Yeah, it's not discomfort though, okay, soreness, right, Discomfort discomforts
the worst. You know, whenever your discomfort, it should make
you uncomfortable. See what I did there? Yeah, well there's
that discomfortable. There's no you can't say you can't be discomfortable.
I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah, you can be
uncomfortable facing discomfort, but you can't be discomfortable with uncomfort.

Speaker 6 (02:32:59):
That makes sense. See what I did there? Yeah? Follow along.

Speaker 5 (02:33:03):
Now I'm trying. I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Speaker 1 (02:33:06):
Yeah, I'm just I'm just I'm just you know, I'm
burrowing through the English language that's all I'm doing. Burrowing
through You got to burrow through it, dog.

Speaker 5 (02:33:15):
Yeah, sometimes you do. And then uh, one of the
last comments, I got a couple more about just cut
it short. Ryan Fortson. You know Ryan calls in sometimes
he tweets us him and the n Yeah. Yeah, So
I saw Ryan and Nick at the bar Saturday night
over there in the Woodlands.

Speaker 1 (02:33:31):
Why at the bar?

Speaker 6 (02:33:33):
Why at the bar?

Speaker 5 (02:33:34):
Bro What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (02:33:35):
I thought that. I thought that you're a homebody and
you just stay at home with your dog at home?
What do you mean? Man?

Speaker 5 (02:33:40):
I went out and had had a couple of adult beverages. Yeah.
And then Ryan Fortson, I saw him and Nick. Ryan
Fortson gave me the worst dap up of all time.
It couldn't have been more of a basic white guy
dap up when I'm trying to like dap up with
a little culture, you know what I mean. He tweeted
us and he said, trying to find time to call in.
But this has been a Monday for the books. The
astros bats are about his good as I am at

(02:34:00):
dapping people up. He's still embarrassed about that bad, bad
dap up. Yeah, or they have been drinking red jet
fuel martinis at Mahoney's. So we're at the bar called
Mahoney's in the Woodlands, and uh yeah, Ryan drank this,
just absolutely positively drink what he drank. It was one
of the worst martinis I've ever tasted in my life.
It tastes like jet fuel. And Ryan shugged it right
in front of us.

Speaker 6 (02:34:21):
It was a red martini.

Speaker 1 (02:34:23):
Yeah, yeah, gosh.

Speaker 5 (02:34:25):
Yeah, Well he wasn't drinking it, like it wasn't his drink. No, no, no,
somebody had it. You're like, we shared martinis together.

Speaker 1 (02:34:35):
Like, hey, bro, you got to be careful.

Speaker 6 (02:34:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:34:38):
You did rufie his ass. You didn't go all roofie
on his ass.

Speaker 5 (02:34:41):
I might have.

Speaker 1 (02:34:42):
Man, you know he's sitting there dragged drabbing somebody else's
red drink. Yeah roofie Ryan.

Speaker 5 (02:34:48):
Dogg yeah man, him and him and Nick and there
was another guy there. I can't remember his buddy's name,
but uh, you know, I said I needed another I
need another beer, And next thing you know, he's handing
me a red martini. I don't know what's going on.
Why Ryan's remarks, No, I gave it to Brian, Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:35:03):
You gave it to Ryan. I know you said somebody
else gave it to him. I'm like, what if somebody
who knows what went on there? You know, hey, man,
keep a good eye on your peep.

Speaker 4 (02:35:13):
What if?

Speaker 1 (02:35:13):
What if?

Speaker 5 (02:35:13):
What if you know someone is throwing a couple of
roofies in there?

Speaker 1 (02:35:16):
I mean, you know, yeah, well you they mean they
maye they need they may need their roof repaired. Okay,
and you know where to go evoke roofing dot com
right on the country boy proofing, right over to country
boys roofing.

Speaker 5 (02:35:33):
I would rather go to evoke roofing, but.

Speaker 6 (02:35:36):
Rather evoked.

Speaker 1 (02:35:39):
Country boys.

Speaker 5 (02:35:40):
Hey Sean tripleing and I tripling tripley. And I saw
the Instagram clip of you getting that guy on Bobby
D's Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:35:51):
God, and it was not And I and I set
it up to like when we were talking about I
had Pat pres also was listening.

Speaker 6 (02:35:58):
He goes, oh man, you got him and JB.

Speaker 1 (02:35:59):
And because we were at Pat's house this weekend, as
you guys saw, but we were at his house this
week at Pat's house, barbecue and stuff this weekend, so
we were laughing about it.

Speaker 6 (02:36:08):
But I set it up by it was like a
real analysis.

Speaker 1 (02:36:11):
I call him man. They went out and got mixing.
But the real, you know, set it up and the
real talk of the camp that's been Bobby D's I said,
I said, I don't know. He's from Slippery I said,
from Slippery Rock. I said, un drafted running back. They're
looking for depth. This kid's hit the ground run in
the first ten days he can. It's been unbelievable. He's
the buzz around Houston. And I said, and I said, Smitty,

(02:36:31):
do you I don't.

Speaker 6 (02:36:32):
I don't you know.

Speaker 1 (02:36:33):
I study the draft, but I didn't know the backup
running back or the running back at Slippery Rocket. He
get drafted. Was that kind of player? I said, did
you know who he was or anything about he goes?
No man Sjolie Goes. I knew nothing about them. Bobby
D's I said, yeah, Bobby's nuts in your forehead and
JV friggin lost it. I could. I couldn't resist because
it was set up, because they were so intense. I said,

(02:36:55):
I'm gonna hammer his ass.

Speaker 5 (02:36:56):
I'm going to get him the.

Speaker 1 (02:36:57):
God is asked, got him, all right, But yeah, you
keep an eye on Nick and Ryan Ryan Fort's watch
over your peeps, Dog and those guys gotta watch over you.
I gotta have my co host in the mix. No
more vacations, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (02:37:10):
Yeah, uh, I think it'll be okay.

Speaker 1 (02:37:15):
Let Red Martiniz keep you out of the lineup.

Speaker 5 (02:37:17):
Yeah, we'll be fine. Fine as we get to break. Man,
there's a joint practices starting in the NFL. There's a
little scrap going on right now. Giants and Lions getting
after it. Punches thrown, helmets thrown. Some dude just got
yanked down by his face mask. It's football time in Houston. Boys,
there you go. Let's it's time. Yeah, little bits.

Speaker 1 (02:37:38):
See they're practicing against each other. Let's or against somebody else.

Speaker 5 (02:37:43):
Get it going. Yeah, let's go, yeah, said in the
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Speaker 4 (02:39:41):
Let the celebration start more, Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (02:39:46):
Ninety Yeah, and it won't. Andre had to wait a
little longer than he'd want to, but he's a Hall
of famer and congratulations to him.

Speaker 6 (02:39:56):
And JJ will more than likely be a first ballad guy.

Speaker 1 (02:39:59):
So I want to move with three defensive m vps
and I would imagine he's going to be that one,
but yeah, he'll be the second, which is awesome. Again,
congratulations to Andre Johnson. What a what a thrill that
has to be to join your the greatest players that
ever walked the planet in the Hall of Fame. Awesome

(02:40:21):
news and great stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:40:23):
That's Dre dog Dred.

Speaker 6 (02:40:25):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:40:26):
Can you give me a and then another the one I.

Speaker 5 (02:40:29):
Think Triple's got that. Uh that's somewhere in there.

Speaker 1 (02:40:31):
Yeah, you gotta love it, don't you. We play the Rangers,
and another one we always seem to play the Rangers,
you know, and another the one time that game kick
off and what times that game kick off?

Speaker 5 (02:40:42):
The kickoff for the Astros game tonight seven kick off
seven five, first pitch on deck show start at six o'clock.

Speaker 1 (02:40:48):
That's that's when the kick that's when we kick it
off on the correct pitch.

Speaker 6 (02:40:51):
Ye there you go?

Speaker 5 (02:40:53):
All right, Yeah, that is that's tonight up in Arlington.

Speaker 1 (02:40:57):
Give me a give me a Kokuchi. Yeah that in
that fun ballpark there, and they've been known to score runs,
have the Astros in that ballpark? Is sparks A mention? Correct,
give me your one to scale a one to ten.
So I'm like, what do you do? You know, like
a sliding scale. You've heard that before. Yeah, yeah, give
me the one to ten Kukuchi opening performance. No, I said, okay,

(02:41:24):
not asking you to rate any of the just the pitcher.

Speaker 6 (02:41:27):
Okay, uh, you say he's.

Speaker 1 (02:41:30):
Good, correct, Yeah, and I do too. Give me a
one to ten performance on Friday night?

Speaker 5 (02:41:39):
What it was this past Friday night?

Speaker 1 (02:41:41):
Yes? No, no, this Friday's performed.

Speaker 5 (02:41:44):
Well, he pitches Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (02:41:45):
So hints Why I said last hints or hints.

Speaker 5 (02:41:49):
Or a j hinch.

Speaker 1 (02:41:51):
Well we're hinting towards another division channel.

Speaker 5 (02:41:53):
You think Kakucci through five and two thirds Friday night.

Speaker 1 (02:42:00):
You got a letter you got a letter grade.

Speaker 5 (02:42:02):
I would say a letter grade. Oh, it's an a
just for the simple fact of him settling in after
giving up the first two hits, a home run and
all that, and then only giving up three hits in
five and two thirds, striking out eight in a row
and eleven and throwing his change up the most he's
thrown ever. Yeah, give me an a dog.

Speaker 1 (02:42:21):
And after that getting settling in, keeping the ballpark, getting
eleven strikeouts eight in a row, and with all the
pressure on him, knowing about the trade and he's been
struggling in Toronto. I think it was a hell of
a start. I love the early returns. I'm sure Dana
Brown had to have a smile on his face for
that part of that game. They still need to score
more runs and be more selected with the play. You're
gonna have to start working pitchers longer like they do, Brian,

(02:42:44):
instead of playing and chasing pitchers pitches. They got to
get back to that.

Speaker 5 (02:42:49):
You know what kind of fuel they're gonna have tonight? Diesel?

Speaker 1 (02:42:54):
Diesel? Yeah, because Diesel.

Speaker 5 (02:42:56):
The hunt dog is on the mound, wrote and.

Speaker 1 (02:43:01):
If the Rangers don't like it, the Rangers don't like it,
the d's yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, facing they're facing the
hunt dog tonight, take Diesel.

Speaker 5 (02:43:10):
D's Yeah, taking on the Arlington Rangers tonight. So yeah, hope,
I wonder how many I wonder if steroids adult scarcie
is going to hit you home runs.

Speaker 1 (02:43:21):
He hasn't stud he has never taken any illegal performing
enhancing ever. Ever. Yeah, it's just jacked quit hate, right.

Speaker 5 (02:43:31):
Yeah, probably a little little Winny, little Decca, maybe.

Speaker 6 (02:43:34):
A little var to cut up.

Speaker 5 (02:43:36):
Little you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (02:43:39):
Yeah, Yeah, I come home bearing gifts by the way
you do later this week. Let's yeah, come home bearing
gifts and none of it will be none of it
will be d ball, winstral or anavar.

Speaker 5 (02:43:53):
That when you coming home.

Speaker 1 (02:43:55):
See that sounds like a song. Please come the Boston
for the springtime. Yeah, I'll be in it. I'll be
studio bound Friday, my man, I'll be all I'll be
on the show all week, but I'll be sitting next
to you Friday, Friday. Perfect.

Speaker 5 (02:44:14):
Ye, all right, that's gonna do it for the Seawan
Salisbury Show. He is Sean Salisbury. Our producer is Triple
Emmanuel Elmore I and Brian Lilima. Thank you for listening.
We're back tomorrow morning at six a m. Don't go anywhere.
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