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Two strike three call at the knees, eighty nine mile an hour fastball and Capairo goes down looking a lot of movement on that fastball, and there are two outs, the one zero and Myers drives it in the center field, racing back Capalliro on the warning track. It's off the face of the wall, Carrotinia round third. He will score Myers in the second with an RBI double in the Astros with a one nothing league, Jack Myers drives in his sixteenth runt of the year.

Here's the two to two ripped.

Left field that could go that we it's gone.

Barrettis does it again in eighth home run of the season.

Astros lead to nothing on a bullet off the bat of a sad Hunters lead off second and third pitch on the way and that is hit through the right side of base. Hit that'll score Meisner. Caprierro coming home to throw in by Smith not nearly in time, and we're tied at two. Jonathan Ronda drives him in both that double steel pays off for Tampa Bay. The pitch and that's hit in the left Shallow McCormick backs up a few steps, gets behind it makes the catch. Morel tags trying to score the throw home.

Not nearly in time.

Christopher Morel scores and the Rays walk off the Astros three to two.

On the Taylor Walls Sackfly.

McCormick was already playing Shallow just had to back up a couple of steps. Morel took off and it paid off for the Rays.

Yep, that's how it goes. Last night.

The Astros put up too early, they are unable to be able to do anything more than that, and they lose it. As you just heard Robert Ford tell you three to two to drop the second game of this series. And with all that we say away we go here on the Sean Salisbury Show, Second straight Morning, a good buddy. KPRC two's Ari Alexander hanging out with us as the Astros last night. As I mentioned, I mean, you get a couple of runs early there, but that wasn't necessarily

Yeah, you think that Brandon Walter helped deliver and steal a win for you, because nobody is expecting Brandon Walter to go out and give you five scoreless innings on eighty pitches.

Exactly, and he goes out there. It does that.

But I mean, I talked about it last night on the Tenth Inning Show. It's just I understand. There's no yord On. You don't have Jiner Diaz yesterday because of a scheduled day off. Jose Al Tuve does get a couple of hits, but it's yet again, it's another one of these day after shows where we're saying those guys did not do enough, The bats did not do enough.

This lineup is just so inconsistent and something that's been going on with the Astros for the past couple of years. The haucyon days of the twenty nineteen lineup and looking at that and going, oh my god, where is there a break for a pitcher that's gone. They're gonna have to find and pick their spots. This is a completely new team. The length of this lineup can be in question sometimes and they did not come up with the couch hits. And there are some nights they do, and

You should be able to. I mean, you mentioned it that Zach Lettel goes. I mean this is also to a Rays just pitching staff across the board. For as good as you mentioned some of those guys are, they are the textbook definition of mid They are a three eight eight er at least coming into the yesterday's game. They're right in the middle of the league, fifteenth in overall team er and you can only manage six runs against them in the first two games. Again, the lineup.

A lot of the times they do just enough. And that's something where there aren't that many games, especially recently. Last year was a good example of this. They don't break out that often. There isn't that big five, six, seven run inning. It's happened recently once or twice, but it doesn't happen all that much. And then you look around the league at these different teams, especially in the National League. There's such a difference between the National League

The Astros just don't do it enough. No, they don't.

And that's something that we just continuously are waiting for with this team. And I mean there's individual performances too that you can point to, not just this game, but just overall that. Obviously we'll get into as the show moves along, which by the way, to Wednesdays, that means Dana Brown nine point thirty joins us, and we'll get into not only the current guys that are healthy, but also do wanted to try to get an update on yourd on maybe even I mean, you know, pitching wise,

Which Steven Okert's been incredible so far this season. He's one of those guys that that's a find, right Like, He's a guy that has had success in Major League Baseball.

He had a down year last year.

There's a reason that he was available for basically nothing this offseason, and then they tweaked and figured out what it is that they can do to make him effective, and he's been really good to start the year. But that is what happens when you are using your B bullpen. That is what happens when half your bullpen is guys that you have claimed off waivers or signed off the street. There is a wide range of outcomes and sometimes that's the outcome that a guy that's been really good all

No, And I mean that's the thing is for you know, me dinging him there in the initial I mean it's also you have to remember he's got a two point oh one era, so that shows you how good he's been this year. But I mean last night was definitely not one of those. He hits a batter, gives up a base hit, then gives up a double steal after he looked the guy back to second before he took off.

It's like, if you have.

An idea that he's going to go, then step off, step off. Yeah, there's It's something that's been troubling the Astros all year is controlling the running game. And those are just some of the little things that winning teams are better at doing. And you know, we talked about the lineup, but there are these small things that they can do better at and relievers controlling the running game.

Something now, I mean it's and it's something that at times they've been able to do a better at but not only trying to keep runners from taking the extra base, but also you being able to take the extra base. Although jose Al Twove does steal second last night, so that was nice to see. But I mean that's been one of the biggest achilles heels for this team is both of those part of the game where you're like, Okay, you can't throw guys out, and then you get thrown

Seriously, man, they should they should keep trying to do it.

I want them to be as aggressive on the basis as pos because you have some of the fastest guys in the league, guys that you wouldn't even expect. Cam Smith is so fast he gets on late in the game and then try to steal you know, Chaz, They try to have him bunt over and Chaz has got to do a better job bunting than that. He's trying

I don't.

I get a little bit because running is hard on your body. But if sho Hao Tani, who is one of the most valuable assets in the sport, who is huge, If you've ever stood anywhere near sho Hao Tani, he is six three two twenty. He's a big, kind of lumbering guy who looks like a monster on the baseball field. If he can steal fifty bases, slide, put all that torque trying to get off a first base and slide and dive and do all that stuff and put all that on his body.

So can you.

Yeah, I mean, and you know, I know that you're a big Proponent's on the twenty twenty watch for Jeremy Peney this year. I'm thinking that it's it's very much in play for him, and I mean, yeah, that would feed into it.

It should be.

I mean, he he has the ability to steal thirty and there's a reason that they talked about betting him a car to steal fifty this year because when you are one of those fastest sprint speed guys, and I know that he's been working on timing the reads off the pitchers and that's where Kyle Tucker was so good, because Kyle Tucker is not fast. Kyle Tucker is like a twenty six point whatever sprint speed guy. So for those of you at home who are not obsessive with

But try it.

He's fast, and you can't use his size as an excuse of like, oh, we don't want him awkward sliding and getting hurt because he is the same size as show Heo Tani and Shoeo Tani is a seven hundred million dollar player who is sliding, however many times a game because he is stealing these bases.

And you can't have these guys run. Cam Smith can run.

Yeah, you got cheat the angles as much as you possibly can. And the Astros, I mean especially two, with how inconsistent this lineup can be. That's something that they strive to try to do. So, Yeah, they lose last night three to two to the Rays. Rubber game this afternoon, coming your way here on Sports Talk seven to ninety noon.

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It's got a cult following. I don't even think it has a cult following. Like most people don't even know it's out there. Alec Baldwin's in it, Sean Hitassi, Amy Smart was in it and it's a funny movie. And he's one of the guys that's part of the card game, along with Richard Jenkins, the dad from Step Brothers. He's in that. He throws on the New England accent in it. It's a great movie.

You are, yeah, I mean as if you guys can't see at home. But the look on my face.

Is just like amazing sound, amazing soundtrack, Outside Providence, Outside, amazing soundtrack.

Yeah.

So the whole yes, it does. In the whole movie is Sean Hitossi's character. He's kind of you know, high school screw up up there, and he gets in trouble because he and his buddies get high and they crash into a parked cop car with the cop in it. Nobody gets hurt, but still, I mean, you know you do that, you're gonna get in a little bit of trouble.

Can you associate yourself? Just one.

Yeah, you know, it doesn't have an amazing soundtrack, even though I got it when I was a kid, and I'm not quite sure for what reason. Wild Wild West I want to say I was like seven or eight years old. This was peak Will Smith fame. If you remember, Burger King had the promotion where if you get yourself a whopper, you get the sunglasses that Will Smith and whoever they got Kevin Klein plays Artemis Gordon wore and you have the silver ones and the gold ones, the

So we walked over to best Buy.

I thinks always remember I was in the summer staying with his family in Brooklyn and walked over to best Buy and got the soundtrack to Wild Wild West and Unleash the Dragon by Cisco, which I had the Thong song on it. Of course, So those are two of my first album purchases of all time.

Oh it's the.

Ones you always remember, and it's you know, I thought you were going to say that, then you guys went over to Burger King and got.

Those I got those sunglasses. So there was a good Day.

I make fun of people who have like the transition lenses because they remind me of the sunglasses from the Burger King from Wild wild West.

There you go, And that was also too prime, you know, like you said, those are the prime Will Smith hears. That was also any movie that Will Smith did well, I mean, then he's got to have the presenting track on the soundtrack.

That's part of it. I mean Men in Black he had it.

I always remember the music video too, of the dance the alien doing the dance with them. It's the things you remember, Yeah, I mean will Smith run late nineties was like undefeated and the song Wild wild West not great, but at the time, eight year old me was into it. I was locked in on the Will Smith Wild wild West track.

Then his wife ruined his career and his reputation.

Yeah, it's it's been a less of an easy time for the guy.

It has.

I'm thumb here though, for when we have the Will Smith come back, it's gonna happen. It will he'll he'll do the right things. He'll finally distance himself away from that wretched person and be able to have the bounce back, and people will be like see still a good guy like my buddy for example, would run into him all the time out in La said, couldn't have been nicer.

I'm waiting for the late career role where he has like a they'll put him in like a serious Christopher Nolan movie where he has a supporting role where he's just later later in the career where he's no longer kind of a bankable star, and then he just like nails it and wins wins an Academy Award for being you know, the like I'm thinking of Oppenheimer here, but like he's like a scientist and he doesn't do like the Nigerian accent he did in the Concussion movie, and

Oppenheimer. What a movie.

Which, by the way, his brother, I think his name was Frank Oppenheimer wrote a song called the Adam Bomb, which maybe one of these days I have triple le pull it up. But I remember the buddy of mine was like you know he he has that song right, and it's like one of those like kitchy like sixties songs. Yeah, you know the ad bomb, the ad bomb, Like that's the whole hook of the song. And uh, you know you also realized if if you followed up Inheimer's life, the guy was a wild boy.

Man, he was a little bit of a wild.

Cardppenheimer's a wild boy. That's great, dude. He was like he was a woman. He really, he really was.

Like it's just like, not only is he building like massive weapons of mass destruction, but he's also too he's slaying in other ways.

He's James Harden of theoretical physics. That's that's pretty much what he was.

But it's uh, it's me and Sean had this discussion too of like what cracks me up about that is when they're talking about, hey, what happens when we detonate this thing, and they're kind of all like, I don't know, I guess we could all go yeah, that good movie.

And uh, it's just funny to think of him in those terms of these guys like trying to say essentially save the world for continuing war. And then also he's on this like two am, like, hey, you up whatever they in the forties, the version of you is, yeah, now he was, he was throwing rocks off the window. But to you know, kind of do that.

There were there were many different ways of trying to risk back then, much more than the U up text.

I mean, good for offen Iraman. Yeah, he was.

Multi talented, multi faceted man.

That's it man, he was. He was not only you know.

As Harry Carey, as Will Ferrell or Will Ferrell as Harry Carey, you know, asked Jeff Goldbloom, would you rather have a debilitating disease or be the best scientists in your field?

I think we know which one that Oppenheimer chose. Yeah, both of them. That's well, the debilitating disease with this man was too horny.

Yeah yeah, well you know, we all have our crosses, I guess. But anyway, a little history lesson for y'all here on the Sean Salisbury Show. I do want to get into just a ongoing topic on this show. Christian Walker is. I mean, it's it's yet again rearing its uglyhead.

Oh Norm.

And I never realized the blonde on there would always say Norman because you know, you'd have coach Ernie Pantuso. Is there an Ernie Pantuso, that's you coach?

You know.

He would always be the loudest of Norm, you know, whenever he'd walk in. But I never realized that he had one liners whenever he'd come in, you know, didn't I've seen like four episodes of Cheers. I'm more of a Fraser guy. Okay, Fraser dominated that wash.

I mean you could. First of all, you couldn't. I mean they're doing it.

I love I love when people said and I just fell into this, like, oh you couldn't do that show today, which you couldn't, And there's like backing this up. They are and it's not going well, right, Fraser doesn't work today, even though you know it's on Paramount Plus or whatever, there's no way that people are watching it. And then back when they had it originally on in the nineties, it crushed, right, It won all these these Emmy Awards, the ratings because you know, TV was different and you

That was like all they did in these board rooms.

See.

That's the funny thing is I remember so many years ago said they could have made a spin off after Seinfeld of George Costanza said, you know that they did. It was called Kurby your Enthusiasm. Because George Costanza was built off Larry David.

You could make a lot of spinoff Kramer, I'm surprised they didn't try to do a well he canceled himself, but yeah, I'm surprised they didn't try to do that. I'm surprised that Julia Louis Dreyfus ended up having to do The New Adventures of Old Christine, which I'm sure ran for more seasons than it should have, but they didn't. I feel like today, if there was this big of a hit as Seinfeld today, they would have tried nine

I remember, funny Enough Peterman years ago. It was the twenty eleven Sweet sixteen Elite eight when he was here in town. That was when Baylor played Duke. John Shier was on that Duke team, you know all of that, and I just remembered, funny enough, Matt Thomas sitting near us and we're, you know, walking to the seats, and we're like, is that the guy that played Peterman off Seinfeld? And then we found out yes, it was, because he is.

I'm here to watch the game.

Yeah, that's that's one of those where you just let those His name is something Hurley, right.

I think the actor, Yeah, I think so. It's kind of like did you ever see the video last year where an Auburn fan tried to go up to Bo Jackson at the Auburn basketball game and tried to do the selfie thing and Bo was like.

No, I'm watching the game.

He's very much that like it's it's it's not you know, being rude, but it's still like, you know, it's just like hey, like no, I'm not here for that.

You know.

There's time and place for the autographs the pictures today, ain't it. But anyway, we'll get back into the Astros conversation as we continue along here on the Sean Salisbury Show. Ari Alexander in for Sean right here on a Western Wednesday Sports Talk seven ninety.

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For the Shawn Salisbury Show continued, allowing for players to take parts in the twenty twenty eights Summer Olympics flag football and a little bit later on there was a site out there that put out a what they would go with with their Olympic team for flag football, and at Texan makes the list. So we'll see if we agree or maybe even disagree a little bit later on,

And the reason that Christian Walker came at the price he did, which twenty million over three years is not that bad twenty sixty million, because he was a little older, and so that's the trade off you get. Because Christian Walker was a late bloomer. He was a guy that's good player at South Carolina and then it took him a while to be something at the major league level, and then he had a number of great years in Arizona, but it started really late in his career, and so

He's been above average. He's been really good.

He has been at the top level of what you could want from esak Paratus. Christian Walker is doing his job defensively. There's more scoops, there's more just casual plays that he makes that got a lot of them. John Singleton had no chance of making last year with the month that Jose Brady was playing, no chance of making. And then all the backups that you use of Victor Kartini and Racio Dubon who are out of position, We're

It is troubling.

I don't think he's gonna end up finishing this year at like, oh, he's sitting two oh seven with only sixteen home runs, Like his end of the year numbers are gonna be fine, probably, but they're not going to be good unless he just goes on a massive tear. And you keep waiting for it to happen because it's in there, he has the ability to do it. But as he gets later and later, like, when is it going to happen? Right, it doesn't happen. What if it

Well, and then you got two more years of it too, which would make people a little uneasy when it comes to that. But we'll continue this discussion because I mean, I know how Joe a spot It feels a certain way about this topic, but I mean continue to have to disagree with him on that, So we'll talk about that here. Benjamin c you right there, and as a he alluded to, don't forget nine thirty This morning, Dana Brown joins us for his weekly visit here on the

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Part of Flag Football and actor George went cheers fame passing away at the age of seventy six. Someone three two one two five seven ninety will continue the Christian Walker conversation, but Benjamin wants to weigh in to get us started this morning.

Good morning, Benjamin, how you doing.

Hey, good morning guys. Thanks for taking my call this morning. Uh, I just wanted to talk to you real quick about your upcoming conversation with Dana Brown this morning a particular a few personnel questions. One I want to talk with dealing uh with Cam Smith and the PPI Prospect Promotion Incentive stipulation that says, I, if you win Rookie of the Year, you'll get a first round pick, or you'll you'll get a draft pick at the end of the

Yeah.

Yeah, No, I appreciate the call, Benjamin. I honestly, that's the first I've heard of that, the PPI. Yeah, as is my wheelhouse. Oh yeah, that's why I was saying, that's why you're here. Uh, Cam Smith is not getting sent down. They're not trying to limit his at bats. They're not trying to limit his service time. They're not

But to me, for the most part, like they.

Had the right idea, even if you're giving up that good of a player, but even if he doesn't win Rookie of the Year, like he's one of your better players. He's been good at the plate, he's been good in the field. He's already worth a win so far this season and has outplayed half your team. And one of the key reasons you mentioned why he's here is you're trying to win. I mean that's one of the main reasons you brought him up is because you feel like he is somebody that can help you out on pretty

Should but he is twenty two.

He was incredibly impressive enough to get himself on a major league roster with barely any minor league time and all he's done. And I know it's been quiet, and Jacob Wilson has been really good, and Christian Campbell has been good for the Red Sox, and there's some other players who are going to finish ahead of him in the Rookie of the Year race unless he turns it on. I mean, Sugano for the Orioles has been good this year. Kid for the White Sox, a pitcher, and Shane Smith,

Yeah, I mean, and you know, in terms of trying to find guys that can be consistent in this lineup, I mean, he as of late has been one of those guys you can count on it. You're hoping that you can continue to see that out of him. Christian Walker. We've touched on him a little bit, Brian, so you want to get in on that topic. Conversation seven one three two one two five seven ninety is the number two.

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Dana Brown Astros g I'm gonna join us nine to thirty here for his weekly visit here on the show. Astros lose last night three to two to the Rays. Rubber game of the series coming up this afternoon in Tampa Bay and the NBA Western Conference Finals Game one. Thunder taken down the Timberwolves last night, take a one zero lead in that series. Someone three two, one, two, five seven ninety the number two jump in and Ari. You know, we were talking a little bit about Christian

Yeah, that's strange that he would just randomly be hot in the three spot. Five spot makes a little bit more sense, but struggling out of the four spot. You can't really move him up because one thing I noticed you mentioned baseball reference.

I'm gonna one up you here. I got baseball savant up and Chile Darren Willman went to college with that guy.

Yeah. His walk rate has dropped precipitously this year. It's down to seven percent. He was in the tens, which was pretty good. So last year, if you look at his numbers, he had a walk rate of ten percent, he had a strikeout rate of twenty four percent. Most everything was pretty good in his offensive profile. This year, everything is dropped off. His bat speed is still good. He's still barreling the ball, he's still hitting the ball hard. His average ax of velocity is still good, but everything

As a matter of fact.

I mean the numbers will even show you that he looks like he loves it even more the plate too. I think the L two a part of it that you just mentioned right there is Jordon coming back. Him being in this lineup already has that intimidation factor. We can't let that guy get going against us. That helps Altuve get going of he starts to see better, more pitches that he can handle and be able to try to barrel up and become the al twove that we've

Uh.

Maybe you put Estac Paradis down to protect someone, but I don't like that because Paradis is your best on base guy.

I want him in the two spot right now.

I actually like the move that they've done to move Al two by to the three to put Paradis behind Jeremy Paanya. That's been what Paenya in the leadoff spot's been working. Paradis getting on base has been working, and

Well, it's also too I mean for you know what we've talked about with Walker with runners in scoring position this year, that's not been good. I mean, I told you where he's been in the four spot this year. That's also been another struggle this season for him. I mean, I just I feel like at this point it's a you're running into almost the point of insanity here when you continue to put him in this position. And last night, you know, you've had first inning struggles all year. I

Yeah, that's not good. It's not good at all.

The strikeout rate thing that it matters, and they're I don't know if it's people are bringing up the hitting coaches, but there are guys that have spiked strikeout rates that have come from other organizations. One of them coming from a significantly worse organization, the worst organization, and his strikeout rate has spiked. Talking about Brendan Rodgers, Brendan Rodgers is striking out thirty seven percent of the time, which he

Things you don't like to see.

That's how it's been here in the early going for the Astros this year, which, by the way, to a programming notes, Dana Brown gonna have to push to tomorrow. He is getting ready for the draft out there scouting. So one thing we know about the guy of you know this, he's got the scout side and still has that part of himself in there. So he will join us tomorrow at nine point thirty here on the Sean Salisbury Show, so we'll catch up with him then. But coming up, it is the steakout. We do it every

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We do it every day at this time and here on a western Wednesday on The Sean Salisbury Show. Astros three two losers last night to the Rays, rubber game of the series. Coming up this afternoon, the Thunder take Game one of the NBA Western Conference Finals against the Timberwolves. Game one Eastern Conference Finals tonight in New York between the Knicks and the Pacers.

Adrian C you right there.

We'll get to you here in just a few But are you're a workout guy. I'm guessing you'll you'll you'll get in, you know, either go into the gym, you know, maybe go get some miles in at the Memorial Park trail, you know, whatever that might be. I mean, you you try to keep yourself in shape. You gotta look presentable on TV like us radio guys, we don't have to look presentable.

Yeah, it's it's a little different. Yeah, yeah for sure.

So I mean unless you're Adam and Adam and you know, and then you're simulcast on TV and people get to see us.

So you got to tighten it up a little bit.

So people look at working out, I feel like in one of two ways. Either they really enjoy it and it is a massive priority in their life and they'll do it all the time, or people look at it as almost like you're obligated because you want to be in somewhat pass shape, you want to be able to have a better quality of life, all of that, those aren't the issues here. The issue is the other people.

And it's like, no, it's air travel.

People are have anxiety, people are angry, whatever it might be. You know, just try to go about your own business and let them handle themselves. So yesterday, quick story here, be very fast, go to the workout, do it and cardio workout.

All of that's fine. You know, you're able to use your own machine whatever it is.

All of that.

Afterwards we do accessory work and it was I think hip extensions and then GHD sit ups, but it was I think it was back extensions.

Is the what you call it.

It's where it's where you flip around and you do like almost kind of a reverse sit up there where you're hinging forward and then you know, trying to you know, help out the glutes and the hamstrings all of that. So it's one of those that there's only one of the ghds there, so we have to you know, split it between different people. There's one guy that is on it who's a very nice guy and he is very sociable,

I'm off like to the side.

But it's like also too, like dude, have the presence of mind, Like hey, maybe that guy's trying to get on the machine and do this now. So then finally after he's done with the conversation, I'm thinking, Okay, you know, he's gonna do his work, get off, and it's fine. Still stays on it and starts talking to me. And it's just one of those that I didn't have the heart at the time to be like, dude, I'm trying to get work into I'm trying to just get my work done and get out of here.

And it's things like.

That that I'm just likeugh, man, like a little bit of awareness of the situation here, like we're all going through the struggle, we're all doing it. It's it's all of those things. But this is a reason why people don't work out. Yeah, I mean the crowded gym thing is not fun. So I typically go to a gym where there aren't a lot of people in it, not that many people know about it, it's not very packed.

You mentioned the airport.

That's the and I think It's less that people don't know how to act once they get through security. It's people don't know how to act insecurity. There should be two lines for like people who have been to an airport before and everyone else, or like there should be like a security guard that just looks at you and judges how efficient you are, and if you don't look like you're gonna be efficient, get to the other get

In the morning.

I'm going to a Texans game or whatever on a Saturday morning. It's seven am. I'm not a morning person, and you're just standing there in line, just being inefficient. That drives me crazy. But yeah, the at the gym, yeah, you gotta have the presence of mind. I would have said something. I'm not a I'm more of the in the curb sense of like, all right, you've been sitting here chit chatting for twenty minutes, dilly dallying.

Yeah, get out of here. It's like, buddy, hey, let me get my core work in. I mean, I could probably use a little bit more core work, but it's like exactly that. And then one of one of the other ones is when I used to go to one of these crowded gyms, is you know, it's common courtesy that somebody comes up and you're doing I don't know, the chest press or whatever machine right there, and then somebody, you know, hey, do you mind if I work in? I remember once a guy goes, oh, I got about

Get in and work.

Then that's the part of it, Like there is a partnership that goes into this, especially like when it's shared equipment like that. And then you know the other one too is people who don't put their weights back up.

You have to do it. The staff has to do it.

Like the grunting is annoying, but it's not like really directly affecting you, especially you know, I know anyone no one wears doesn't wear headphones of the gym, right, Like if you're listening to the gym music, you're a psychopath.

I don't want to hear.

Late Age Maroon five and roar by Katie Perry over and over again, right, Like, you have your own stuff. So I have my my workout music. My headphone's on listening to push a T or whatever. If you're grunting over there, like I'll just turn the music up. That doesn't bother me as much. There was one guy I remember when I was in college at Missoo. There's a dude who was on the football team and then got

Like, good for you, bro, But that doesn't bother me as much.

As you walk in, you see the dumbbell area and there's like out of order stuff bothers me. And then there's random ones on the ground, like there's twenty sitting here, there's a forty five sitting here. And there's two fifty five sitting here, like, it's not that hard to put your weights up.

Man, And I mean it's just again to get back to the overall point of just be aware. And it's on top of it too, where you know, when you do these class settings like this, you will have some people who they've had a day and it's kind of like again getting back to like gauge the situation. Like air travel. Usually I get on a plane, same deal. AirPods are in whatever magazine book, which that's the old

Hey man, what's going on, Good to see you. How is your day? No, it's just like that.

Yeah, it's like, Bud, we're about to hit the warm up, right, now then we're gonna get into the workout, and then afterwards, if I've got enough endorphins, then maybe I will Hey man, good see you.

How's your day? Yeah.

So the good thing that I have I have because I'm Eastern European, I have kind of a natural face where like don't I have a good don't talk to me face, So I can do that where I'll just I'll just give a look. And that works at the gym, that works at the airport. That's works in a lot of places of just like, hey, it's eight in the morning. I'm not usually awake this early. Now is not the time, so that that does help sometimes. But yeah, I was on the plane last week and there was a guy.

Brilliant it was.

It's like, bro, it's eight am, Like I just want to drink my apple juice, Like I don't you know, and he was so like, like, why are you happy?

It's ain't the morning. We're on a plane like it, and.

It's like Empire the Sun is fine, but like to like go like that part in for the Empire of the Sun.

He was what's there there?

It was whatever, their most popular song on the side whatever, walking on a dreams?

Man, man, there.

I just thought that was so brilliant. How they're talking about walking on a dream what what are we doing. He's one of those music snobs. Music snobs and beer snobs, the two worst snobs.

It was a snob.

He was just excited about like the minutia of whatever it was at seven forty five in the morning, just like relax or some song that's in an Owen Wilson movie. Yeah, like come on, man, yeah, all pass by the way. That's that's that's what it really is.

And Sadekas speaking of George Went, I had no idea that Sadakas was his nephew.

That's what.

Yeah, yeah, I found that out yesterday. I was like, wow, I didn't know that. So the more you the more you learn that right now, there you go. You were today's year old when you found that out. Adrian see you right there. We'll get back into the Astros conversation and also involve anybody else who wants to hop in on what we've talked about there with the Stros seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Once again that's seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

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I grew up in FFA in Iowa, and I did not fit in because I was a hip hop guy amongst the country people of FFA. And so I have a disdain for You're You're apparently disdain Dan, But yeah, I have a disdain for country music. My hot take here, and I'm sure this will I've said this a million times. The women in country music are talented. They all can sing well, many of them right well. Some of them are part of the Nashville whole thing where you have

I could be a country singer. Not difficult to be a male country singer. I say we try this.

I say, I say we put the social experiment to work and see if you know, if Ari Alexander could be a Nashville.

So I would change my you know, change change everything, change my name. I would play up the Iowa background or whatever. I don't think it's difficult to write these songs. They are not musically difficult. It's four chords and whatever. Uh and these dudes can't sting. It's not it's not hard.

Well then you know, then you get the lady Wilson's who really lean into it.

Yeah I'm from Louisiana.

It's just like, oh God, okay, we get it. We understand, we know, thank you. Like Miranda Lambert would kind of play that up too, It's just like, oh God, like okay, fine, we understand, Like, yeah, you're the every woman we.

Know, Gretchen Wilson. I don't.

I just frommer Like that's who you know who was was the redneck woman, and that's I don't like eight country songs all right, like I refuse to I used to work at the State Fair in Iowa and some of the concerts were like the old school of the eighties rock, the Foreigner of the Journey, those kind of guys, and those are cool, like a Siles Cooper Live and that stuff was cool. And then you'd have like Blake Shelton and it's I don't want to be here and showing people to their seats.

Like Tripley Knows. One of my favorite Blake Shelton's the Neon Light at the end of the Tunnel.

There's a neon at the end of the tunnel? What what like?

Yeah?

And I no, man, you see on that one he leans into the tent revival country that is out there of people who you know, well, of course you know, I've got my faith.

Yeah, it's I mean, look, Kenny Chesney's got a song or two. I respect the Legends, the Johnny Cashes, the George Straits, but the Luke Bryan's and the Eric Churches. I remember I used to work at a shot store in college and there's an eclectic mix of music, and one of them was an Eric Church song.

Like Creeping or something like that.

Is that a song grape vine or I don't even know the worst song in the history of music? Like what are how how do people how do these people sell out stadiums?

I don't there are paycheck songs.

And I've brought this up with Sean that there are some like you know, they lay down the track and they'll do the interviews and do everything.

Oh man, we we love this one. You know it's great.

It's like, no, you just went for the thing that you know is gonna go top thirty and you're gonna be able to get the royalties from that. Like I get it. Look, I don't knock the hustle. Like, if you know that people are gonna pay for it and this is gonna be a hit.

Then go for it.

Fine, that's why, Like that's why, you know, kind of getting back to like when we were younger, Oh, they sold out. Then you get older and you realize, like you've got bills to pay and everything, so then you're kind of like, Okay, I would sell out too, Like it's it's not that it's hard to make that business decision.

I also don't like the machine of there's fourteen guys in a boardroom writing your song, and you're trying to present yourself to a blue collar part of the country like this is who listens to country music. Much of the people and much of the people that are spending their hard earned money paying ninety to two hundred to three hundred dollars to go see this person live. And they can barely play guitar and they physically cannot sing, and they didn't write their song. And there's twelve people

No, it's just it's also too lot.

Adrian and Ryan. We'll get you guys involved in the conversation. But one more quick one is you know here in Houston, of course, you know, we're in Texas. And it always cracks me up of people's outside interpretations of Texas like a nine to one one lone.

Star or whatever the hell they called it.

With Rob Low, it cracked me up when they had he and his son moving from New York to drive to Austin and you know, welcome the Texas, and it's like desert road like tumbleweeds, like all of this. I'm like, Okay, if they were driving in from New York, they would be driving in through East Texas, which is all piny woods and the complete opposite of what people think that

That's when we do it.

Yeah, because I mean, if you see somebody show up to an event now like look, you know wintertime, it's cold out. The boots they help you know, all of that, the jeans, you know, everything else.

I get it.

Look it it helps out, you know, to add to the winter wardrobe that most of us don't have here. That's fine, But like when you just see somebody like that. There's there's a friend of mine whose husband is in that lifestyle. They're ranching and farming, and all of their pictures is him in some sort of western where in Seriously, like my response that I have to another friend of ours every single time they post family photos is I'm like, dude.

We get it, we understand, we got it. On a farm, you're we got it. We understand you're John Dutton.

We get it. Yeah, we get it. We know, we know you're fine.

Well, so I'm looking at Luke Bryan's latest album.

M hmm.

It has fourteen tracks. You want to guess how many of them he had a hand in writing?

Probably one? Two?

All right?

To guess how many of those two he wrote by himself? One zero all right? First song, Luke Brian, Rhett Aikens, Dallas Davison, Ben hayeslips so four people to write one song, including Luke Brian, tracks two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen he had no hand in writing. And then track fourteen. Wait, hold on, I messed this up. He wrote, co wrote track eleven, but then tracks twelve, thirteen and

People want to hate on Taylor Swift.

At least she writes her own songs and writes her own lyrics, and all these other people like Luke Brian's got the easiest job in the world. Show up, co write two of your fourteen songs, put on a flannel shirt and put like a zin whatever in your back pocket and sing about closing time in California. I can't imagine that song is good Kansas that he didn't write.

He didn't even do that. It's the group project. Yes, I mean he didn't do anything.

He got most of the accolades for the group projects, so good for him. Hey, look, you draw a paycheck doing that. I can't sit here and hate you. But uh, Adrian, Ryan, we'll get you guys involved Astro's conversation.

You mentioned Ryan.

He wants to get in on this conversation, so uh, I'm sure we'll enjoy chopping that up here. But it is a Sean Salisbury show, a sports talk seven ninety.

The Jean Salisbury Show continues. Adrian, what's going on? Morning Fellas, Morning Money, Morning Morning, Adrian, about it.

About it. That's about the nice I need to be this morning.

It's all good. Dave still got room to work and baseball.

I played high school baseball.

Literally, we've all been told get behind the ball when you throw it. When that guy was standing on third yesterday and that ball was hit, he already had his hand in the air. That's already a show with disrespect. That means Dan got no chance of throwing me out.

Okay.

Then he comes home and slide knowing the ball is five paces behind him because the ball ain't made a third yet.

That is another sign of disrespect. Okay, Dana.

There's nobody in that outfield better than cam Ward any kind of way. So why is he on the bench all the time and his knucklehead bad news bears are out there? Chas McCormick's arm is no better than a little leaguer that you're waiting on to throw the ball home, and you keep telling him throw it home, throw it home, and he's standing there looking at you. That's basically what happened yesterday, and without hater, and I bray, you are you telling me this bullpen can't hold up Dana. That's

This is a classic blah blah blah. I didn't want to hear about it. This team looks like trash this year. You knew jord On somehow was gonna come up hurt this year. What do we do?

Back of the base card, back of the baseball card, back of the baseball card, back of the card is killing us, Chaz, his arm is weak.

Sit his on that bench. We got weight training, We.

Got all these guys that we pay all this money for, and these guys still look like the bad news bears.

This is horrible.

Lance mccollors will not be called Lance mccullors until he does better than he does in his HV commercials.

Go back and look at the bread crumb when he went down. He was bad. He looks like the same Lance. So I don't mention his name. I called him mister.

AGV because he's better there than he is on the field, and the rest of y'all, y'all already know what the day is be terrible, Sean, I know you're listening, So here you go, baby.

He appreciate the call a dream. I disagree about the bullpen.

The bullpen's been strong this year, tied with the Giants going into the last night's geame with the best bullpen in era in all of baseball two sixty four. And I mentioned it too. Okurt had a bad night. He's been good for this team. But getting to the Chaz you know discussion there. This is an outfield that's devoid

He's not throwing them out.

Yeah, it's a monkey's paw situation where you have side note Dana brings the groceries and Joe cooks the meals a bar. I love that. It's a monkey's pas situation where the guys who have the arms, which is deznz on Cam Smith, you are either learning that they're both learning the position, or in Dezenzo's case, his range isn't good, but his arm's great. Chaz, the range is phenomenal. Jake Myers,

Paul that the monkey's paw.

Yeah, when you you make a wish, but then there's a sin, the unintended well it's an old like Arabic folk tale, is like an unintended consequence to your wish. That's a negative unintended consequence. Yeah, yeah, the monkey's paw. Okay, interesting, I'll have to remember that. That's that's an interesting way of looking at it. But uh now, I mean, you know what you have in the outfield.

You know that.

I mean it's a massive reason, as me and you talked about yesterday that jose Al Tuvey is playing as many games see as out in left field because you value the offense or in this case hoping it to you know, increase the offense out there more than you have, and that obviously hasn't necessarily lived up. But I mean, Chaz, the key is with him. Everything you mentioned, the speed, the range, all of that, that's all nice.

He's got a hit.

And in the case last night where you're trying to regain the lead and give yourself an opportunity after you get the lead off single from cam Smith there in the ninth will be nice to be all laid down a bunt and be able to increase your chances of getting in the lineup a lot more. You do things like that when you haven't gotten a consistent amount of at bats. That's usually a way to say you're not going to get more at bats.

Yeah, And I think part of it too, is that he's not getting the consistent at bats and so he's just eager to like do something, and that's why he's flailing at a strike two bunt. Most hitters that are kind of comfortable in their role are laying off that pitch and going all right, cool one one, I got another chance to bunt. But he's kind of stabbing at the ball there because he has limited opportunities to do

Ryan, your topic always plays. We will absolutely get you involved, Chena. We also will get you involved here as we start the eight o'clock Howury here It is the Seawan Salisbury Show.

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Our number three of the show gets going here on the Sean Salisbury Show. Ario Alexander in for Sean Dean Matthews Tripoli hanging out with he is seven one three two one two five seven ninety the number to get in Astros three to two losers last night Diesel Day here on a rubber game of this series against the Rays out in Tampa and actor George went passing away

That's crazy that Jason Sidakas is his nephew. I mean he's Jason Sadaka's really good career, funny, funny, more to go. I think ted Lasso is coming back, right. I'm sure ted Lasso will have spinoffs, as we've talked about the spinoffs that used to do this, spinoffs.

Of every show.

Yeah, uh yeah, I mean they're uh, there's some good stuff going on.

Good Jayceondega should do.

A show about a guy that goes from zero to country singer in six months. That would be a good show, I would say.

I mean he's got the ted Lasso part of it, so I mean he could probably be able to parlay it into that. I said though, because they did a remake of Fletch and they had John Hamm as Fletched, Yeah, and I was like that seems like that was Jason Sidekas all the way.

John Ham's a good comedic actor though, which is funny because like the first role everyone knows him as is Don Draper, and he's this very serious and like mad Men is so good, and John Hamm is so good he's funny.

Neighbors and Friends. Good show.

Yeah, the Apple TV show that they have out right now, Yeah, check it out.

I met John Hamm. He was very cool. So he he went to HISO. That's right, he went to the zoo. And so I was the Super Bowl in twenty twenty, the year the Chiefs won their first one.

I dropped like.

A hey, John m I Z comes back all zou and then nothing else happened. And I ran into him at the All Star Game at twenty twenty two, and he was just kind of by himself. So I went over and just like chatted him up and had a nice conversation and he like couldn't have been more normal.

That's cool. He see.

He seems like he's got that in him. But you know, with those actor types, you just you never know. It's like, I mean, they're actors, That's what That's what cracks me up. It's like the Bill Burr bit that he has about Brian Cranston getting a hard time for playing a quadriplegic, and he's like, it's acting. That's what the whole point of it is. Like, yes, he's not a quadriplegic. We know he's not, but he's like people were giving him a hard time about it, and it's just like, see, if.

He was a quadriplegic, you wouldn't be acting.

It's not funny to say that, right, But it's the bit that Bill Burr does that that lays it out and it's it's so good. But someone three two one two five seven ninety got a couple of phone lines open here if you want to get in on the astro. Is anything we've talked about? Ryan up in my neck of the woods, Montgomery. He wants to hop in Ryan, what's going on?

As much?

Guys?

How are you?

I'll doing this morning?

Man, I appreciate it.

I'm gonna try to make this quick.

So I used to hate country music.

I think it was funny that you went from music snobs are the worst to Luke Bryan's technical singing abilities. However, Luke Bryant is dog water. So I will agree with you on that if if you want to, I'm been playing guitar for twenty three years.

I will give you free.

Guitar lessons if you can write a song, and then now all the money you would have spent on guitar lessons, I'll donate to the charity of your choice if you want to take that.

Bet, all right, if I can, Okay, So what do we how are we setting this? What do you mean to write a song?

So? How how many verses a chorus?

Cause, so I played piano growing up, so I have a little bit of, like, you know, ability to kind of understand where it's going.

But it's been a while. So what do we talk?

Like? What do I have to write? Do I need to write the melody? Do I need to just write the lyrics?

So what we'll do is we'll teach you guitar and then you'll write a basic song, will make it sound really good, but you got to write all the lyrics, and then you have to be able to perform and open my night, so covers and then include your original song.

How many songs are I have to perform?

I'd say like six?

Oh, okay, covers I'm trying to do.

We'll do o G country, three chords in the truth, nothing crazy, and that'll be it.

I like it. I like the idea. Sounds like a heavy time commitment, but I like the idea. I think you're in.

I think you're pot committed at this point Ryan, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put you on hold triple. He's gonna get your info. We're gonna make this happen. This is gonna happen. Okay, all right, there we go, Ryan, appreciate.

It before you go.

Yeah, before you go.

I want to say the Astros losing. I always dread listening after just a bad sports day.

I appreciate these little.

Breaks of levity in the when we're all just oppressed after a miserable loss.

So thank you out a problem, buddy, any anything we can do. Appreciate the call. I mean, look, you know, sometimes it's it's best to smile and laugh through. I mean it's not even tears. It's a it's a mid May loss. I mean they've won games in a similar fashion where it's like, oh man, how they get away with doing that?

It's one sixty two. You have good days, you have bad days. The end of the year, you hope you stack up more good days than bad days. I know it's like a coach cliche, but it's you can't you know. Yeah, they did blow like a nine run lead, like they lost a close game.

It happens. They're still in a decent spot.

It's May, like there's no reason to to freak out if you want to freak out after a playoff loss like twenty two, Max Schus are choking against the Padres, like go for it.

But yeah, this is you know, they lost a game in May whatever.

Yeah, it happens and hopefully they can get it back today. So Ryan, do appreciate the kind words, and also too, the project to make Ari Alexander a country music star.

We're gonna have We're gonna have to work on the persona.

We're gonna have to work on the gimmick for you to be able to play into and be able to get you in the character for this, I think this could be a real pay.

Get into character. Yeah, the no guitar is not easy, man. I Uh, I think we had like a class when I was in sixth grade and I picked it up fairly quickly. But ever since then, it just like doesn't make sense to me. So you know, music is hard.

It is it is, so Ryan appreciate uh the offer there and what you do uh in the music industry. But seven one three two one two five seven ninety is the number to get in let's continue Shena sugar Land.

It's going on Shena good morning.

Before I jump in here, I just want to drop a quick to Ri m I z z o.

Uhah.

So, so why it's mainly cold calling in uh one of the prior callers here. Try to get to everything as briefly as I can. For one thing this is I can't remember when the caller. It was earlier this week. But when we're gonna be so high on Cam Smith, let's get his name right. I heard a couple of callers that you know, praising him, but can't get his name right. So it's Cam Smith. Just so we know, we went into this season knowing that number one, none

We were gonna get run on.

Nobody has particularly strong arms out there. Number two, we're going in playing two thirds of our games with infielders play outfielders, you know, and still learning since subtleties of the game playing the ball off the wall angles to get to the ball.

So you know, we knew that there was going to.

Be some issues going into the season, and right now it seems to me a spot as just trying to throw out to the outfield whoever's batting hot right now, which makes sense. So myers is, you know, are basically our main offensive production on the team, which nobody would have guessed this year. McCormick played two games in a row.

Got Sheena appreciate the call, I mean, to the point she laid out. It's something that we talked about earlier and it's something that will continue to be a storyline

I was still believing that.

Steven Okert was going to find a way to be able to get out of that, because he's done that he I mean, aside from the Grand Slam he gave up to Randy a Rose Arena to the Mariners, He's been pretty nails in those spots. So again, you continue to put these guys on.

A high wire.

Eventually they're going to get one bad gust to win and they're gonna fall off that high wire. And that's again the offense not being able to reinforce and add on a couple of more runs. Because even when it was too nothing last night, I was still like, that's not enough. They're going to be able to put together some sort of offense and be able to come back.

And beat you, and they did.

Yeah.

I mean, it's not easy to win these games when you have such a tight way of winning everything, like you can't always go out and win to nothing. You gotta be able to score more runs. You're not relying on your b bullpen to shut it down every time, like they are playing with fire, where Steven Okert is never gonna have a one twenty ERA for the whole year. He's gonna have a few bad games here or there. Caleb Ard has not ever had a big enough sample

Give them a little bit more than two runs.

Yep, definitely would be nice to be able to help those guys out, especially with how much they've helped you out this season. Because you're gonna give the benefit of the doubt. I'm definitely gonna give it to these pitchers for how they perform this year, because your two games above five hundred, because of how well that group has done this season. Brandon Jason, Johnny, see you guys right there.

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Know, there's a kid I went to college with who became a country singer and it was out of nowhere, like he was in broadcast journalism, and I don't want to give away too much information for anyone to figure out who it is. But his mom was a professional some sort of singer, I think in Christian something out there, one of the Christian genres, and so like she was a pro. She had sold, however, many albums and she decided, I guess, like he should try to get into it.

That's always the fun part too of you know, you go on lower broad right there in Nashville and then it's you know, somebody doing you know, the live music, like what was it. I forget it was her name, the Hunter Girl. We were at the Jason Al Dean Bar, and I just remember, like, you know, she's up there singing, and I'm like, hm, that's kind of interesting, I guess, kind of playing into the character. And then soon enough, about a year later, I turn on the voice and she's on the voice and I was.

Like, oh, wow, okay, there you go.

So and it's also too like in Nashville, Oh yeah, you know, he's part of the music industry. She's part of the music industry. It's like, okay, I get it. Everybody's part of the music industry in this town.

We know they're sitting in a corner of a room writing two of the words to some terrible Luke Bryan song. That's what part of the music industry. Hey guys, what are you'all working on? Luke wants us to put something that rhymes beer. Put a beer, give me a thesaurus. I got to hide something. Put a beer in my hand. Oh and you guys are drinking beer. Look you're already in character. Good for you.

But the Astros lose last night three two to the rais rubber game of the series. This afternoon coming up un He beat the Timberwolves Game one at NBA Western Conference Finals last night. Eastern Conference goes tonight game one there in New York between the Knicks and the Pacers. Seven one, three two five, seven ninety is the number two.

Get in. Johnny on the north side wants to weigh in. Johnny, good morning.

Yeah, Hey, thanks guys. You know that lady said a lot that she never mentioned Pareas is being basically a god send to this team for what he's done offensively, So that was kind of odd that she would mention virtually every other player on the team other than parreta

I appreciate the call.

I mean, with the L two a stuff, jose Al two is going to get every single opportunity to be able to work his way out of this. And at the top of the order. I mean, it's just it's it's a conversation, it's not even worth having.

Yeah, I mean, jose.

Al tuo By has gained enough trust from everybody in baseball and not just the Astros, to be able to work out of whatever it is that he needs to work out of.

Uh, he's not getting moved down of the order.

And I mean and with Peretis, I mean, look, you know, Sina laid out a lot of points. I'm not going to put this on Shena. He has been a godsend for this team. He's i mean, the lineup the way it is right now, you don't have him in this lineup and much less jord On and then last night you don't have yianor Diaz, I mean, number one, you probably don't score another run because he gave you one

Yeah, he's been one of the better players, if not him and Peigna, essentially the best players in the team. And Jake Myers I have been carrying the team on the offensive end. He's played way better defensively on third base than anyone I would say, even Dana Brown expected him to play. And he's doing what they brought him in to do. He's doing what this team coveted him for, which is he hits pull side home runs. He plays enough defense to get you across on that, and he

Yeah, he'll go to the Dodgers and get it all deferred, and then you know they'll have yet another All Star on their team in the outfield.

But the problem is they're pitching. Been a little suspect over there right now, But that's their problem. And they go through twenty five pitchers because they're all injured. Their injurial list is scarier than the Astros pitching injury list.

Yeah, definitely is.

But I don't think we're gonna have a lot of people feeling sorry for them around these parts. Jason Brandon, see you guys right there. We'll get you guys involved. Also, do want to get into that Astros pitching discussion.

We'll do that here.

It is the Sean Salisbury show, He's our Alexander, Dan Matthews, Tripley, Emanuel Elmore. Sports Talk seven to ninety The Sewn Salisbury Show continued, Can you imagine that too? And you know, Jason Brandon will get to you guys here in just a second, but can you imagine that we go out the training camp and the player that I'm gonna mention is not there, and you know we're talking with them O tas all of that. Oh the Olympics. Oh, how cool is that? Oh, the the Olympics. That's gonna be great.

Yeah, No, it's I'm looking forward to Yeah, yeah, yeah'd be cool. You know I'm representiting my country. Yeah yeah, that'll that'll be awesome. So the Olympics are cool, though, Like this is this is cool. Like it's you know, Scottie Scheffler winning a gold medal and a golf and they added golf recent years. Uh, flag football. I think it's a good idea to show off the world football.

Like they don't care.

I've been to Egypt and there's soccer jerseys of Mohammed Salat everywhere. They they have no idea who Patrick Mahomes is. And but those people watch the Olympics. They have a better chance of knowing who Simone Biles is than knowing who Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady or whatever. H And you get to show the world football. I think it's it's great. I love the Olympics. Yeah, I do too.

It's it's one of my favorites every single year. Summer over winter for sure. I mean that's what I grew up on. And you know, of course, you know, more summer athletes from this area as opposed to winter athletes that are from here. So I mean that's that's part of it too. Don't sleep on winter though.

Man, let's figure skaters figure skating, speed skating, hockey. You know you get that there the downhill skiing that's fun too, So you've got it all at your disposal for sure. Someone three two one, two five seven ninety Brandon, what's going on?

Good morning, buddy, Good morning man? Hey, what's going on doing? Okay? I'm playing the detO against Tampa.

Yeah, it sounds like you got a lot going on behind you there. But how's diesel throwing?

So far? He's doing good. I got my first drag out all right.

So there you go, got that one off the board already. So Brandon, I mean we talked about it. I think we're two for two now. Of whenever you play as the starter that day they go out there, they absolutely shove.

They have a heck of a day. So you feeling good about three for three?

Yeah?

All right, well good because it be nice to get this win. Come back home, and then you get a Mariner's team coming in here. Okay, Well there you go. You've got play by play going with the Brandon's full service delivery.

Here I like it. Here comes here comes the closer.

I like it all right, Brandon, Well, hey gonna let you play and you finish up the game and uh, hopefully we get a good one out a hundred Browns today and you know where to find us. Ah, buddy, there you go, Brandon playing as uh you know, because was it you yesterday that said it's it's easier to pitch than it is to hit on that game.

Pitching is so easy if you if you know how to pitch sequence in real life, it's so easy. You could put it onto the hardest mode and you can still have a sub twr A. Hitting is so hard on that game, you can like because you'll just jam the controller down and miss, and hitting's very hard.

I go, I go back to the old m VP triple triple play Baseball a sports days where you know you just use a little toggle thing to be able to hit with, and you know, it was much easier that way.

I have not played MLB the show in years.

M v PO five greatest sports video game of all time and a great soundtrack too, m v P O four and oh five great soundtrack. When I when I produced UH the A Team and we would have Blummer on every single week, A lot of times I would use music from the soundtrack there and Gordy caught up to it once and he texted me and goes, MVP Baseball.

I go, you got it.

Yeah, there's some of these bands that didn't have a whole lot of success in general that have songs in MVP, like Stella Star on MVPO four of My Coco Jam revs.

Hot Hot Heat.

Yeah, irock Z song is so good and like, I bet you could book the Hot Hot Heat to do the irock Z song for not very expensive.

Let's guess say, I mean, we got Buzzfest coming on this weekend, you know with our sister station. I mean, you know, that'd be amazing, like to have them up there, Like, you know, maybe I need to talk with Elliott the PD over there and be like, Okay, hey, I'm gonna give you a soundtrack. Yeah, and see how many of these groups will show up next year.

Bring me the do Nots. We got the Noise?

Yeah, yeah that one all American rejects. Although, Jason, before we get to you, like the the rejects now are like just like showing up at random places there and apparently like I don't know this because I'm not on TikTok. I know, I'm totally a boomer for being nearly forty. That's fine, but the fiance is and she lets me know.

All Newfound Glory in there. Yeah.

Yeah, those bands that sound I think could do well.

I think so too. They can open for me when I'm a country singer. There you go, there you go. We're setting up the bill already. I like it. I like it again.

Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Jason and Katie wants the way in.

Jason, what's going on?

Hey guys, good morning.

A couple of takes.

I didn't know it was gonna have to follow the legend Brando, but it's a couple of takes and I'll hang up and listen to the caller two callers ago talking about two Bay going to the sick So just stop, you know, just stop. It's don't be a little funk right now. I think he'd be good for having a day off today, a day game, especially on a getaway day, and Hunter Brown going so I think du Bond playing second wouldn't be the worst thing today.

A couple of things.

Alex c in tron is he in the hot seat? Is he not? I know the offense has been scuffling, and it hasn't been really just this year. We've gone on for a while. And another thing lastly before I hang him and listen the run.

I don't know if the run's over.

I feel like it is.

I'm kind of, you know, at peace with it. We've had a damn good run. I don't know if it'll happen again in my lifetime. I don't think it's Joe a spot up for it. I don't think it's Dana.

Brown for it. A guy in charge man.

Jim Crane. You know you don't want to pay the guys that are in front of you. You don't want to pay the breaks of the breakmans of the world and and the Springers of the world, which is okay because we had Tucker, but then Tucker and then those guys, you know, those homegrown the homegrown talent. We can't go out and keep signing aging first baseman to a small contracts and think that's.

Gonna hold over.

You know, we're not gonna be able to keep up with all these teams if we do not spend money. And he's got to get off his little I don't want to give over five year contracts away and over X amount of dollars away because that's not going to keep up with today's baseball.

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Carl Jason. I mean the run as we've had it from twenty seventeen until I would say twenty twenty three was really when you could point to that because fifteen you make the playoffs. You miss it in sixteen, but you still knew, like, all right, enough of the guys are here.

We know that this thing can be special. And it has been.

I mean, you know that's that's there, but it's also too I mean, look at runs all throughout you know the course of sports. I mean the Yankees of the late nineties, I mean they've been still trying to get back to that point. Even after winning the World Series in two thousand and nine, the Red Sox, even with their World Series wins, they've you know, not been able to have the replicated success that.

The Astros have had. I just think it's gonna look different.

I mean, I think that probably yes here in the next few years, you're going to have missed playoffs. You're going to have where another team wins the division and you might have to fight for a wild card and again miss playoffs because you don't get in at that spot either.

It's not going to be easy to replicate, you know, seven years of straight alcs's. It's the only team that has been that successful for that long is the Dodgers, and they had tons of early playoff exits that Dodgers fans were not happy about. They also have unlimited money, and look at the Mets right now, have unlimited money and it's been limited playoff success since Steve Cohen took over. He said when he took over, I want to win

No? Not right now. You could lose to them.

You can lose to the Yankees, you can lose to the Tigers, beat them, you can lose the Ringers.

You could also beat them. There's no one like.

I don't think that with healthy pitching that the Astros match up well against the Dodgers in a playoff series. I think the Astros would have a tough time with the Mets in a playoff series, or the Phillies in a playoff series, or the Diamondbacks in a playoff series, but not against anyone in the American League.

This is a bad lead.

Well as well as they pitched. I mean, that's where it comes down to the hitting part of it. I mean, if you hit, they win. I mean, and that's the part of it that if you get to that time of the year, like even last year, as good as the Tigers were playing at that point, if the Astros hit whatsoever, Yeah, in either of those games, they win that series and they move on and face Cleveland and they probably beat Cleveland in that next series.

There was no one scary in last year's playoffs. They just got out played by the Tigers in a two game you know, in a three game series.

But that's a beatable team.

They did great with you know, they have Trek Scuball and then the pitching chaos, but those guys are beatable. No one is scared of shout out Ridge point along will Vest. But like it's not the game is not over when will Vest comes in the game. They other than scooball. It's a bunch of decent pitchers. Yankees the same thing. Like they're even down Garrett Cole this year, and they've got Will Warren and all these random guys coming out of the woodwork to pitch well.

But so did the Astro.

The Astros have the best pitcher in the American League right now, and at Game one Yankees Astros matchup of Mac Freed and Hunter Brown is an even match.

Well, life short when you hit a bunch of singles. And that's what they did and that's what they're hoping to be able to get off of here in twenty twenty five.

And you mentioned the pitching.

Somebody to think for that will discuss that here as we close out the eight o'clock hour on the Sean Salisbury Show.

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There's a show, the Comedy Show's got Mallie Shannon and some other people called the Other two and they tried to put it on I want to say Comedy Central, and it did a few episodes and no one cared so they threw it on a streaming stary like HBO Max or whatever the formerly known as Max, formerly known as HBO Plus, formally known as whatever. Yeah, and it like did well enough. They got two seasons and it like did well. Okay, it's either that or I'm confusing

Yeah, if she's just like randomly shows up. Like with wedding music, I've always said it. You know that you're at a white people wedding when two songs play, shout and don't stop believing like it's it's it's almost a requirement that the DJ or the live band has to play both of those songs. And then of course, you know, then you'll get the glowstick halo's out and some of them now do like the hats, the commemorative hats of hey, we got married. But you have those songs at at those weddings.

One of the strangest closing songs at a wedding that I've ever been to. It went to my buddy's wedding in Saint Louis a few years ago. They played American Pie, don McLean, which is fine on its face, until they played all.

Nine verses of American Pie.

I can't do it, and the guy the or was it DJ or live band singer? The live band would go out and like stick the mic in people's faces to sing along like verse six. How am I supposed to know the lyrics to verse six of American Pie?

Yeah, it's just like, dude, just come to me for bye bye American Pie like that. At least you know that I'm gonna know that, Like you put me on the spot here, what are you doing to me? Thirteen minutes of American Pie to close out a wedding, And we're gonna close you out with a really good one.

DJ live band for wedding. All right, you said fiance you're getting married, yeah, JR Live band.

Uh So it's going to be a small service and we're actually gonna do like a dinner, but then like we'll do a kind of like reception for like everybody else later probably go DJ.

I would think, right choice, yeah, because live bands are limited. They're good sometimes, but they're limited because they play September and like three Bruno Mars song are you talking about?

What you hear? White people weddings?

September by Earth Wind and Fire is like the you have to if you have a live band, they're gonna set give you a list of the here's the twenty five songs we can play, and the top of the list is just September four times.

Don't believe me, just stop. Yeah that one too. That's all there.

They're like, we know these three brune O Mars songs, we know September and we can do shout and don't stop.

Because I feel like with a DJ, there's no scouting trips that are needed or anything like that. Like we actually had this conversation and all was like because it's gonna be somebody's gonna give you a recommendation, and then we got to go to this place and see them play, and it's just like, like, why.

Is this turning into you out? You're turning into wedding Dana Brown. You're just sitting there like, yeah, he's.

Got a forty five guitar, but a sixty five drums. So so the pregame press conference, I'm gonna have, you know, the Scout's eye is gonna be something that I mentioned with, you know, while we went with you know, I don't know Tommy d and the Wonders or somebody like.

That, like, you know, it's we've even pronounced the Naders.

Yeah, Theneaders, No, the Wonders.

Yeah. What a what a movie? What a what a what a pull by you right there.

I appreciate what you bring to the program here, Ari Alexander again Arian for Sean here Sports Talk seven ninety Astros trying to get the rubber game of the series this afternoon against the Rays. That's gonna be coming your way here in just about three hours actually, so lunchtime baseball today for the Stros and also to Western Conference Finals last night, Game one going to the thunder over the Timberwolves Eastern Conference is gonna get going the night.

NFL news, the Tush push.

Ban vote is supposed to come up today, but the Lions had the playoff receding proposal out there, and according to Adam Schefter, about ten minutes ago, they pulled it.

They said, no, we're good, it's fine. Football is doing great.

I don't know why you have to change that much stuff, like it's crushing everyone watches, We're all super excited for the playoffs, we're all super sided every week to watch football, and there isn't that.

Much that needs to be changed.

Well, it's not only that, it's also I mean, you know, you had Roger Goodell, YESA saying that they do anticipate that they will have sixteen up regular season international games in the near future, which it's not surprising. I mean what they're at like eight now, where they're playing in Brazil, playing in Germany England of course. I mean, yeah, eventually we will have games in Australia and in Asia and you know, just other places because you mentioned it the Olympics.

Yeah, why not.

Bring you bring the world together football diplomacy and send him to Minsk, Belarus get the dictator Lukashenko out of there through the power of Patrick Mahomes.

That's it, the erotic journey from Milan to men. Yeah, Rochelle, Rochelle, there you go.

Yeah.

For the Seinfeld fans out there, go ahead and shout you out with that one. But the Astros conversations in Hot and Heavy get into a little bit more of that.

Yeah, late All Star game this year for baseball, and then immediately the week after it's training camp time. And you have a team here that has an opportunity to make some sort of run. Although there's three really good AFC teams in their way that they haven't been able to to get passed.

But yeah, it's this. It's good.

It's good to have a team that can win that there is exciting football that you're not going in going, oh my god, we're seven to ten this year, Like what ninth pick are we going to get to draft some offensive linemen?

You have to have a quarterback. They have the quarterback, they got some weapons.

You know, this is a year that you can look forward to because we had the surprise year, we had the supposed breakout year that didn't really break out. And now the expectation is that there's a baseline of like this has to be a playoff team. And my hot take is that you should go six and oh in the AFC South. The AFC South is garbage. The Jaguars are not good, the Titans are not good. The Colts are not good. They went five to one last year

That would be the hope. I mean that Titans game last year. What a frustrating loss. But that's the NFL that happens. Let's actually continue that next because the roadmap the future. People already looking at what the text. I feel like the roadmap is in front of us in terms of how this thing is going to go, especially when they have to make certain decisions. We'll talk about that here start the nine o'clock hour. It is a

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Ten to eleven today, because then they get into Astros on deck and then the game coming up at noon right here Sports Talk seventy ninety, Hunter Brown, TODJ. Bradley on the Moland for that one. Stro is trying to take that one to win the series. Then come back home for the Mariners for four, which, by the way, to a little bit of help with that last night.

Good for you.

I mean, classic Mariners a lot, They're just not able to hit. They went with an opener yesterday, they went with back to back. Casey's Casey Legamina opened. Casey Lawrence was the bulk guy. Went five innings of one run ball. So both the Astros and the Mariners got five innings of good pitching from someone you would not have expected yesterday, with Brandon Walter for the Astros coming in in five scoreless.

Speaking of you know, obviously Pope Leo the fourteenth being a White Sox fan, I mean it is reasonablieve that he is a Jeff Blum fan.

Yeah, so he has to he has to know who Jeff Blum is. He has to be excited when he hears Jeff Blum do the TV call.

Think about that, Like the Pope.

The Pope of all the Catholics is like, hell, yeah, Jeff Blum walk off. At some point in his life, the Pope has been happy because of something that Jeff Blum did.

Our Pope loves Italian beefs in old style. Like the actor comedian Ike Baron Holtz. I saw a clip of him on The Rich Eisen Show, and he like that means that the Pope is an Ozzy Gehan fan. Yeah, the Pope is a big Paul Knerko guy. Yeah, which, uh I think I was looking this up when we were talking about Pete Rose yesterday and the career ops Plus. I think Paulko and Pete Rose have the same career ops plus.

Make Jermaine Dye fan. Oh yeah, Jan Yaiba.

Game some guys Aj Persenski, although I don't know, maybe maybe with Aj it was a little bit of yeah, he could be too much y Dwayne Wise. There's there were some names on that team. We remember him, Scott Pasednik. I mean, you forget that Pasednik with that fight between Michael Barrett and the Aj Persenski that he was in the middle of that that he tackled Michael Barrett after Barrett put a right hook on Aj Persenski.

There's so few good baseball fights that I feel like we remember, like all the classics.

I was gonna say that one was one, uh. I mean a lot of them in the you know, seventies and eighties too. I mean, like I always remember the Ray Knights. Did he get into it with Oz Smith? Like did Ozzie Smith like slide in hard there and then Ray Knight Smith is so nice? Who fights Ozzie? I was gonna say, or was it Barry Lark? And I'm trying to remember who it was that slid in?

Mets used to Yeah, I used to have a little feistiness, feistiness to him. Are remember when Albert Bell just absolutely decided to kill fernand Yeah, well, Fernando Vinya is like a classic. Like you want to name a guy, Fernando Vina's top of the list, He's up there.

I mean it was Eric.

Davis, Okay, he'd be he'd be one that I'm not really sure I want to try.

Yeah, Eric Davis is a big guy.

Yeah, and then Ray Knight just said I don't care, I'm going in Yeah, and he definitely uh backed up those words.

But yeah.

The Astros Western Conference Finals Game one going to the Thunder last night over the Timberwolves. The East gonna get going tonight NFL meeting still ongoing. The allion's pullback on the receding for the playoffs, the tush push ban especially gonna be voted on today. It sounds like.

I'm so not interested in the tush push ban or not ban. Just do something with it and let's stop talking about it.

Yeah.

I'm kind of to that point too, And I mean, it's s the point of talking season football where it's okay, OTAs, we're excited about that mini camp, same deal, just because it's some sort of football on the field. But then it's like, Okay, you just get back to me second week of September and then we can start talking.

I have a guy that I want to talk to at mini camp because I ran into him, and so I'm not going to tell you who it is. You'll have to guess off air who it is, but it's the player. I ran into him at Super Bowl at some of the events and he was really cool, and the Texans signed him this offseason. So I'm waiting to get to know the guy a little bit more. Also side note, I've heard Christian Kirk phenomenal golfer.

Yeah, yeah, so I saw the video too. They were talking about it was either he or Kuym Baron, of who is. The kickers are always the kickers, and quarterbacks are usually always the golfers.

On the team. Punters too, you'll get the punters involved.

Fair Baron's really good at ping pong apparently, oh okay, And they're the guy that runs him. And back when they had case Keenum, they're the guys that ran the ping pong table. I remember Keenum used to always be on that ping pong table there in the locker room. But you know, a couple of days ago, brock Perty signed his deal with the forty nine ers sixty million per So that immediately has people like me and you and like everybody else saying, oh, well, now the Texans are on the clock for CJ.

That deal is gonna get done next offseason. That's going to happen, and he probably will be north of you know, sixty sixty one, sixty two, sixty three, something like that in terms of annual value of the contract coming to his way. But then it's also too you're gonna make a decision on Will Anderson Junior. They're gonna take that fifth year option Will Anderson Junior. They're gonna say we take care of CJ. This year, we get another year

I think you keep you know, you have your building box, your quarterback, your number one receiver. You don't have to pay running backs. We know that you have Will Anderson and you have Derek Stingley, and then you can figure

I think we can all pretty much agree on that. So then he's back next year. What do you get out of him next year? And then I guess that would be the fourth year of his deal at that point, so he would be playing his free agent year there.

Well, it also just depends on what what can you get out of Nico Collins and is he going to deserve continuing these extensions and CJ's got to have a number one. And right now, you look down the rest of the roster, these guys aren't super high picks. Like, yeah, as much as you love Jayden Higgins to draft him in the second round over an offensive line, but he's still a second round pick. Right Noel is still a

Plus million dollars that you have of however much against the cap that you're going to be going with, Like you know, for example, Miles Garrett forty million per Daneil Hunter right now thirty five point six. I mean, I would probably think that Hunter is in his final two years with the team, Max Crosby, guys like that. I mean, that's probably the going rate that you're gonna have to pay for Will Anderson Junior when that time comes up.

Yeah, it is, and it's going to keep going up. I mean, the inflation of these contracts is going to keep you know, Will Anderson probably get forty right, Like, he's one of the best defensive ends in the league. He's going to continue getting better and it's going to be the market rate. But then at the same time, the salary cap is going to keep going up. The NFL is doing great, and these guys are going to keep finding more and more space the rest of these deals.

But they can get creative. I'm not that worried about it.

The credit card bill definitely does come due. Let's get back into a little bit of baseball here, because something happened a couple of nights ago that somebody took massive exception two and they could not be more wrong.

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Christian Walker is not batting cleanup today, it's batting fifth over at first base. You get Pania Perettas Altuve as the DH today, hitting one through three rds. Back in the lineup, they're in the cleanup spot and catching you get Walker and Myers. Five and six, you get camp Smith out and writes Brendan Rodgers over at second Mauricio Dubond getting the start out in left field today for Hunter Brown.

Yeah, it's fine.

So it's a lineup that's meant to accentuate Hunter Brown or what he does and throws a lot of ground balls. But Rogers at second base, you have an outfielder and left who can throw a little bit. In Mauricio Dubond, you have your best center fielder out there. Camp Smith has continued to earn playing time, and you get Jose al tub off of his feet while you are Don Alvarez is still on the il and moving Christian Walker down to fifth. I mean that's he's earned that too,

Making a prediction Walker Homers today, why not he likes that fifth spot? Told you how while he's hitting that fifth spot, I think there's gonna be some comfort there. And then Joe look, any other injuries, anything else that happens. Christian Walker hits fifth Yeah, let's will it into the atmosphere. Let's make it happen. Christian Walker is one for two with a home run off of Toaj Bradley in his career. I think you might be onto something here you go there,

All of that.

You'll get to people who are angry about that. But it's often people like you with beat the Streak or with Daily Fantasy or anything like that, that are like, this is the last time I take Christian Walker Like those are the ones that always pop up whenever his name comes up on Twitter.

Yeah, gambling has massively changed how people talk about players, often in a really negative way, and you hope that you can separate the like these are real people that might not be having the best day at work when you're relying.

On them too.

This is on you for relying on humans and or sometimes horses and or sometimes the lesser times greyhounds.

I think that's still legal.

I don't know, to win you money, like these are not you know, these are not robots.

There is a wide range of outcomes.

You want to feel a certain way about yourself, go to a Vegas sports book, like early in the morning when like I don't know, Indonesian like kart racing is happening, and you see people in there that are actually wagering on it, and.

You're just like, dude, what are you doing with your life?

Yeah, well you haven't lived until you've bet on euro Tour golf at three am.

Dan.

It's like a buddy of mine would like tell us about you know, certain like soccer bets, and we're just like, you know nothing about them, Like what are you doing?

Yeah, but it's on it four in the morning, and you gotta have something to do.

Man.

Sometimes you just got to throw ten bucks on Adrian moronk to win his three ball in Dubai, all right.

I would think of other things to do.

Sleep would be one of them at that time of the morning, especially out there in you know, Vegas, wherever you're at. I mean, I feel like you probably might be going in at that time. So if that's the case, then you know, get up, bloody Mary Michlata something like that. You're going for the next day, come back from omnia, sit down at the sports bar and throw a little bit of money on. I love betting on Euro Tour golf, by the way, I think that's uh, you can win

You know. Okay, not a bad idea, but it's one of those you wake up in the middle of the night, maybe had on the golf channel for whatever reason, and that's on. You're like, oh, yeah, hey, they're actually playing right now over in Jakarta or somewhere like that as part of the DP World Tour. Throw uh yeah, throw some money on the guys when they're playing at the LEA what's the golf course in France, Le Golf Lacional or whatever.

I'll go with it, yeah, or of it.

Yeah, that sounds good, and that's that sounds like that's probably the place. But uh yeah, the Astros coming up a little bit later on this afternoon. The Red Sox, though they've got a former Astros coach as their manager, Alex Korra. It's graduation season two, and this isn't something that is new, Like, you know, it wasn't something you know, him stepping away for a game to go to his daughter's graduation. I mean, like I remembered when I covered

So I'm gonna take the weekend. That's fine.

But Alex Korra did it, and he met some backlash yesterday from it. So his daughter just graduated from Boston College. And Mike Felger, who is on ninety eight to five the Sports Hub there in Boston, called the decision for Kora to step away kind of preposterous, adding on, it just sets a tone. It's just a tone. You set an example you set for the team. It's not like they need him there to make the pitching change or lay down the bunt. It's the leadership optics of the

Dude.

It's the middle of May game, and I get it it was against the Mets, But like you just kind of already like proved your own point of it's not like they need him there to do this or that. Okay, fine, it's one game. It's all good. He's going to be a dad for the rest of his in her life. He's going to be the manager for only a short amount of time. This is a prime example ari of don't ever put something like this in front of the

That's in play? That does happen?

Sure, like all the time, Like all this one Soto stuff that's going on, Like how much of that is Like do you actually believe that whatever this is going on, or just like yappin for attention. This feels like a yapp and for attention thing to me. That's one of my favorite responses to have is whenever like I see or hear somebody say something and I'm just like.

You don't even believe that.

Yeah, And it can also come into play quite a bit, like where it's you know, you see somebody, Oh, they just eviscerated this guy, and I'm just like, you're playing up for the cameras, you're playing up for the microphones, Like are you really being honest with your audience? In most chances, I would say probably not.

No, they're playing a character like do you really think And I know I've I've read articles about like people talking about how sincere like Skip Bayless is or how insane he is about whatever it is that he does. But like, do you really think that he's sitting at home and Lebron does something and he's like his day is ruined.

Because of it? No, it's all fake.

Well, there is that, And it's also though, like especially he's one of the ones who's on the list for me, like I haven't given you the concept triple he knows about the concept of me. Of the lists on the side of the refrigerator, the pay No Mind list, Skip Bayless is on that list.

Yeah, I mean I don't think I think that, Like you're you're coming up with something to talk about. If it's May and Alex Korra took a day off to go to his daughter's graduation, and you're turning it into a whole thing. It's also clearly your ship does not work anymore because if it if it did, you'd still

Right.

He got thrown out last night, Yeah, because Walker Bueller missed a you know, didn't get a call and he cussed out the umpire and then Cora gets thrown out and then the rest of the game they had their bench coach managing and they won. Like the difference between Alex Korra being there and not being there for No. One of One's sixty two is nothing. It's just I mean contrived. Some people will buy it, some people will

It's one day.

Like, it's not like he's taking time away because I don't know, think of a reason that he could possibly take time away that's not really that serious, Like nobody's in you know, danger of passing or anything like that. So you want to be with them and you know in all those moments. But like it's his daughter's graduation, and for the reasons that I just gave you there, Like, I don't think there's a single person in that clubhouse that, oh, Skip's not gonna be here tonight because it's going to

I guarantee you they're gonna at some point grow up and be like, yeah, I want to be at my daughter's graduation.

They all understand.

It's Also it's one day, Like most of these guys are so locked in all on the details of what they have to do. And keep in mind who the clubhouse leader is. In that clubhouse right now is Alex Bregman, who thinks about the minute details of swing mechanics and relief pitcher release points. Do you think that he cares that Alex Cora took a day off. No, he's got to go study Ryan's stannick splitter finger grip, all right, Like these guys don't care.

They have their own stuff to worry about.

Well, I mean, and you think about it too, from in this case managers, but like coaches in this industry, like we're around it close enough that we know, like when you're on the job, you're on the job. The family is secondary and it's unfortunate and you miss a lot of those moments too. So I think like kind of Cora looks at this of saying, hey, I've missed first games, I've missed all of these other things because we've been playing a series out in LA against the

No, he's not gonna say that.

I don't think John Henry cares either. There's no way that they care that he's going to take one day off in the middle of the year. And it's also like it's not a Pennant race, like it's may It's fine. This is such a made up for attention take. Yeah.

Well, he got the most of it right there, because Cora did have to talk about it. As he was asked before last night's game, said, people have their own opinions. I bet those people have families too, and at one point they have to make decisions as well. Bet they made decisions for the best of the family. I made the decision for my daughter. For those who don't understand, I'm not going to try to convince them. It is what it is. I made the best decision for my girl.

Yeah.

Fine, like the fact that even had to answer that is stupid. Yeah, I mean I saw that yesterday and I was just like backlash. I was like, what the hell could be back slash from missing a May nineteenth game against the Mets.

Yeah, that dumb.

Yeah, Well, some people want to wait in those waters. We try not to hear on The Seawan Salisbury Show. And I think for the most part, our batting average is good. All right, let's get back into the astros conversation. As the pitching as good as it's been this year. This guy's not getting their flowers enough and we'll talk about them right here. It is a Sean Salisbury's show. He is Ari Alexander KPRC two in for Sean, Dan Matthews, Triple E Emmanuel Elmore Sports Talk seven ninety The Shawn

He was the guy that was sitting in the corner of the boardroom going like, this is the one that rhymes a beer.

I don't think that he was trying to sell anybody on it.

I think he was quietly like writing it out and like everybody's like, you know, hashing things out and doing all that, and then he just slides the paper across the table and it's just like that's the one puts the pen down on the paper and gets up and walks off. He's probably that cool with it right there. Yeah, like you know, it's everybody else, Oh hey, we should try. Like there's nothing better than like a you know, a conference room of people trying to pitch ideas and then

He's just like, what are we talking about? Yeah? Can he play baseball? Yeah? All right? Give me, all right, give me topics.

Here, cold beer, tight jeans, dirt road, big truck.

I'm gonna snap my fingers and point at Pete. Guys, you do not want me to point at Pete again? Yeah, I always love that scene. It's a movie that I don't think it's enough run, but good movie.

Too long of a movie.

Well that's and then also too, it's it's another one that you know we were talking about the music and beer snobs are the book was better than the movie. That's another one that people will throw at you. Who the book was better? It's just like, dude, you're trying to squeeze in a three hundred page book into a two and a half hour if then that's even long, but into a shorter amount of time frame. Like, yes, of course some things are going to be changed for

Well, Billy Bean too, he's got to be excited that, like they got Brad Pitt to play him, Like could you imagine a better Like all right, hey man, we're optioning the book.

Who are they gonned to play me? Yead pitch Well, Sean talks about that all the time.

He knows Billy Bean and he said that that's something that he's brought up with him before he goes, hey, look, if nothing else happens to you in life, which had a pretty accomplished career in baseball, He's like, you can always lean back on the fact of Brad Pitt played me in a movie.

Yeah, you imagine how incredible that would be. You know how many times you're like, a god, who would play me in a movie? They're like, we're gonna get Brad Pitt to play you. That reminds me of those interviews.

All right, hey, we're gonna ask the off the wall stuff here. If somebody was to play you in a movie, who would who would play you?

I love the confident like the white guy confident answer and Denzel Washington on Denzel Washington to.

Play me in a movie? What I like? Denzel Washington? Hey, Dan, who would play you in a movie? Lu Diamond Phillips, that's it would play me?

There you go, all right, you know, I don't know just that that's a good one, right there, Just throw out like an off the wall one, so then like it kind of like makes them feel awkward and then they're like, oh yeah, be serious.

Yeah, it's just like, dude, you asked the question, I answered it. What do you want from me, He can do macronus, he can play me. There you go, there, you go. See we're solving the problems here in terms of you know, some of these you know, original and I say it in air quotes, original questions that people will ask, like one of the ones that I like to ask pictures here, and you know we'll get into

He said, a key lime, a key lin.

Oh my god, he said, probably has the same density as a baseball. No what, well, just like the weight of it is what he was getting at.

Like too small.

Well he did throw that into you know, into the equation, but he said that probably in terms of the weight and being able to you know, everything to follow through all of that, that he feels like he'd be able to throw a strike like an apple, he said, would be too big, an orange the same deal or.

Just too big for sure? Now I'm thinking of like a kiwi.

I think a kiwi decent density, the size spits in the palm of your hand like a baseball does. I think kiwi would be good. Key limes are too kidding me? What about a regular line? A regular line would be fine. First of all. Second of all, limes are oblong. You throw a baseball as a perfectly circular ball with seams. Why would you want an oblong shaped fruit? Wouldn't you want something more circular?

Like I'd say, like maybe even you know, because kind of tomatoes fit into that category two? So maybe like tomatoes, Yeah, I mean because because it's all though. That's the problem is that, like you know, you can only grip it so, you know, so hard, because then you know it could squish in your hand and you're like, oh man, damn, I didn't really get to throw that.

Mangoes are maybe too big.

I think a kiwi is the point is the best thing here, because a kiwi is close enough to being round. It is dense with the fruit inside and the ship and that the shell. What's the the I don't know, you know what I'm talking about the outside of the key husk. The yeah Kiwi husk is uh is thick enough to where you can dig your your fingers into it.

Interesting. Interesting. I wonder if Josh Miller would have a good take on this.

That's a good idea.

Yeah, you know, maybe that's the if I ever, you know, run into him, is be like, hey, Josh, look not for nothing here, damn Matthews. By the way, Sports Talk seven ninety senior around just setting a chance introduced. If I took you to a produce department, what could you throw for a strike right now? That'd be a hell

It wasn't Asky. Those two guys would actually have a legitate, right Ryan Stanek back in the day have been phenomenal.

Yeah.

Yeah, Notice I wouldn't go to Ryan Presley with that because I think press just glare you down. Pressley would be funny about it later, but he do like the fake glare and just he'd just be like, this is why I don't answer questions. It would also be a point to air me out right there he look at everybody else and be like this, this is why I avoid you guys after games. Questions like this are why

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, look, it could be a plug, it could be something you know, to be able to feed into somebody throughout the brand earlier.

We don't.

We don't have to, you know, go go further into who that is. We all know who it is. But no, that's that's that's something that keep keep in mind because I do do a lot of the Saturday games here for on deck and for the tenth inning, and a lot of times I'll go to the ballpark because I do want to get a player. So the next time I have a picture, sure as you're born, that's going to be asked, Yeah, get.

When Urgedtty's back with the hand injury of the broken thumb Arragedtty's gonna have like an analytical, like smart answer about it. I agree, I agree, So hopefully I get him on a non start day there at the ballpark. But speaking to Josh Miller. The flowers need to go to the man.

We'll talk about that a little bit here to close out the show. Also, if we have time here before Matt and Ross step in, quitting your job and sailing the world with your pet, that's something you would be interested in. We'll talk about it here. It is the Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.

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They're good. They're really good.

They're good from an organizational standpoint all the way up. And there are organizations that are terrible at this, the Rockies being the biggest one that don't know how to develop pitchers and the Astros. Do you have guys that have come out of nowhere, you have guys that are waiver claims. You have guys that they just get from pluck, from wherever, and they turn them into useful pictures. Taylor Scott. It's a great example career nine era, great year circle

They fixed him immediately.

It was like one start, they're like, hey, by the way, you have a four seam fastball that needs to.

Be up in the zone.

I don't know why the Angels told you to throw it low in the zone, but stop doing that. And then he goes out and as a two seventy era because they fixed like two minor things like stop throwing your curveball, throw this more fastball needs to be up in the zone. And then it's such an easy face, such a fix that makes sense. You're sitting there and going like, why are the Angels stupid? Why are they looking at this guy that there are the Angels?

Sorry the blue Jay? Why are the signed with the Angels?

Why are the blue Jays stupid that they're looking at this guy and they know that all the metrics show that he should be throwing his fast behind the zone and they just don't have him do that.

Why?

Yeah, some things that are just incredibly mind boggling in terms of, you know, how organizations run their things. But I mean, obviously the Astros, I mean you touched on it. I mean there's an organizational standard. Hey, this is how we handle our pictures. This is how we do it. This is you know, how we take guys from where

And there's so many guys that they have to deal with and just know this is how this guy fits into the system. And then they all have their unique tendencies and the different things they do, and they do teach certain things, right, So a lot of their pitchers, they want them to learn the fastball that Christian Haavier throws, the rising quote unquote rising fastball, the.

High vaa vaaaa.

If you want to go fastball, the above average vertical attack angle, above average fastball, and so Aarraghetti throws that kind of a fastball. They have a kid in Tripa right now, Miguel Iola, who throws that kind of a fastball. And then they teach the different sweeper and all the you know, the things that fit into what a modern pitcher is today. They have been among the best in baseball at doing this for years and years, and they have turned non prospects JP France in twenty twenty three

You asked me, what does he have?

Well, I'm looking at his twenty twenty three usage and he's a sinker sweeper guy. Well, last night he was throwing different stuff. They came in and said, stop doing this. Start doing this. Five scoreless innings, first time in the majors this year, signed off the street.

They're good at their jobs.

How amazing is it too, that you know, you talked about him being a crafty lefty last night and I see, you know, he's ninety ninety one somewhere around there, And it's like there was a time where it's like, oh, that's not bad for a lefty. Now it's like you're throwing that like it's almost like when we were growing up. I'd be somebody throwing in like the mid to high eighties at that point, and it doesn't seem like it's

The game has changed.

And there's a Code of five baseball who I nail all the time for their Tony Gwyn obsession. Actually, he put out a really good chart. I forgot what day it was recently, but it was basically average slugging and ops against certain velocity fastballs, and it goes down from eighty whatever all the way up to one hundred. And you can see that every one to two ticks up on a fastball, it gets harder and harder to hit.

It is, the harder it is to hit.

So yes, guys throwing ninety seven are gonna do better than guys throwing ninety three.

Man, we didn't get to the guy that you know is traveling in the world with his cat right now. But luckily Gordy's a cat guy, and Gordy's in with me and I'm a cat guy.

Well there you go. His name's Henry's very cute. Oh that's right, person. I got two of my pups. Love our dogs, Pixie and Choco. Shout out to them. But that's gonna do it for dude. Great stuff this last couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed it, man, tons of fun. And you're on the list. You're gonna be back on the good list, not the not the do not.

That's it.

That's it. Yeah, you're you're you're on the fifth notepad. There the good list. Okay, you know, probably needs to be closer to the top, but definitely you're on the list of people that will definitely be invited back.

So no, appreciate it. Man.

He's Ari Alexander KPRC two, Imdian Matthews, Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore, The Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming up next as Astros Baseball coming your way here at noon. We'll talk to you in twenty hours right here Sports Talk seven ninety