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Sports Radio Host 1
Texans training camp is here. Live from the Houston Methodist Training Center, Sports Radio 610 presents Pain and Pendergast pitches against Dallas in his last AT B. That's what? Sky deep right field, a three pointer. Taylor Jel, home run, number six. And the Astros now lead six to two. There we go. Now we can all hop on the
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Sports Radio Host 2
All right. So I guess that's Taylor Tramel's catchphrase is hop on the tram.
Sports Radio Host 1
Hop on.
Sports Radio Host 2
Oh, that's Plumber's catchphrase for Taylor.
Sports Radio Host 1
His other catchphrase now is it's actually a home run.
Sports Radio Host 2
Oh, well, yeah, that was. I was happy for Taylor.
Sports Radio Host 1
Tramel so happy he left no doubt
Sports Radio Host 2
that he hit an actual home run. This.
Sports Radio Host 1
This is all these, by the way. These traders, these Sanchez's, these Miles straws, these George Springers, this Toronto Blue Jays, lot of them.
Sports Radio Host 2
These Eric Eddies, a lot of them. Yeah, we'll hear from Eric Eddy's still in his trader.
Spencer Arrighetti (player)
Eric.
Sports Radio Host 2
Eric Eddy's very much in his feelings about the trade.
Sports Radio Host 1
What if he comes in and. No, he's not pitching this series.
Sports Radio Host 2
No, no, no.
Sports Radio Host 1
Yeah, he came out and beamed like three guys or something.
Sports Radio Host 2
He said he'd like to pitch in this series if he could.
Sports Radio Host 1
I'd like to get a piece of These bastards.
Sports Radio Host 2
He's got a 90 ra the last two months. I'd love for him to pitch in this series.
Sports Radio Host 1
Taylor tr. He left no doubt on that.
Sports Radio Host 2
Left no doubt. For those who missed it on Monday, he hit a fly ball to about the deepest part of the ballpark you can hit it to. And I think it was Miles Straw that actually went up and got it. And it was one of the outfielders for the Blue Jays jumps up, didn't rob him of a home run, but had to leap to get the ball. And Tramel just assumed he hit a home run. It looked like, because he.
Sports Radio Host 1
Because he came down with the ball.
Sports Radio Host 2
It was kind of casual about it.
Sports Radio Host 1
Yeah, Circled.
Sports Radio Host 2
He not only circled the bases, touched every base, got home, did his crucifix sign and pointed up at the sky. And it took his teammates pointing it out to him that there was no home run. It was hilarious.
Sports Radio Host 1
That is the best thing to happen on a winning baseball team. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. If they were stuck back in the morass of early in the season, that would be evidence of this team just not having it. Yeah, no attention to detail with these bums.
Sports Radio Host 2
They're not focused. Yeah, but that was cool to see. And that was a big hit. That was a big knock last night.
Sports Radio Host 1
It was a close knock. 32 at the time.
Sports Radio Host 2
32 at the time made it 6 to 2. And I guess the other big story. So for those who missed it, seven two, the final score. The Astros beat the Blue Jays last night. And I would say the story in this game, the Taylor Tramiel home run was definitely the big hit that put some daylight between the two teams. This was kind of the bizarro version of what the Astros had been offensively, where the top four hitters in the lineup didn't do much last night. They were 1 for 13. Jeremy Pena's hitting streak is now over. It ends at 15 games. Jordan had the only base hit out of the top four hitters, but, boy, the bottom five through nine portion of the lineup, eight for 18. Altuve had three hits. You heard the Trammel home run right there. They accounted for all of the RBIs and six of the runs last night. So that was good to see the baton kind of getting passed along in the bottom part of the lineup. And Hayden Wisneski, you know, if you're. People are a little nervous, including myself, about Dana Brown's kind of rationalization of the trade deadline not getting an arm. Well, as we got Wisneski and Blanco coming back that's like getting two guys at the.
Sports Radio Host 1
Which would almost. Which you might be able to sell if we hadn't heard the exact same thing last year.
Sports Radio Host 2
And it was terrible. Yeah, and it was terrible. But Wisneski, you know, he was okay his first outing. Boy, he was strong last night, I thought. Yeah, he was. You know, not a ton of swing and miss, but, you know, six innings, four hits, two, you know, whip of one, two earned runs. You get that out of Hayden Wisneski every time. You should win a bunch of games.
Sports Radio Host 1
And Wisneski's got that little bit of that sneer to him that you like in a. In a pitcher, especially when he's homegrown. He went to size somewhere. I think it was Cy Fair.
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Sports Radio Host 1
Sean, I'm old school, one of the sci fi. Listen, when I grew up, there were two high schools in Cyprus. I can't even remember how many there were.
Sports Radio Host 2
I just remember now that's 26.
Sports Radio Host 1
I just remember that I was a player. So I got here in 2002, and I just remember going on like a community appearance. And it seemed like every year I was in a brand new Cypress High school, I was like, oh, no, this is Sai Creek. Oh, this is Sai Pond.
Sports Radio Host 2
No, this is way more.
Sports Radio Host 1
This is Sai tributary. Yes. Yeah, it's a Sai peninsula.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah, it's. It's. It's growing up.
Sports Radio Host 1
Slow down up there, Cyprus.
Sports Radio Host 2
I know. Chill out. Chill out.
Sports Radio Host 1
So why don't you just start expelling some kids? You know, you don't have to accommodate everybody.
Sports Radio Host 2
Right, right. Show some discipline, man. So they remain two and a half games.
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Sports Radio Host 1
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Sports Radio Host 2
I said this to you this morning. I kind of like not having to check the wild card standings every day.
Sports Radio Host 1
That's for losers.
Sports Radio Host 2
I know, I know. I like such a loser when I had to check it.
Sports Radio Host 1
You're sitting on this lofty perch slightly up side. It's. It's sigh, sigh, hump. We're standing high on a hump looking over the rest of the.
Sports Radio Host 2
Like a gargoyle looking down on the rest of the AL west, but from
Sports Radio Host 1
a, From a lofty speed bump. Not really from really a super lofty.
Jen Hatmaker
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Sports Radio Host 2
Just kind of high up. Not super high up.
Sports Radio Host 1
You don't have to, you don't have to get up all that high in the air to see a lot of stuff in Cyprus.
Sports Radio Host 2
No.
Sports Radio Host 1
You know.
Sports Radio Host 2
No, no, no. Very flat. Very flat. So I was thinking about this. So the, the. Because the pitching is still kind of a mess. Hayden Wisneski last night notwithstanding, I don't
Sports Radio Host 1
know what you're talking about. I see two quality starts in a row. Sean.
Sports Radio Host 2
The rotation. That's true. The rotation. I didn't realize this. I think this is in Chandler's article, like the post trade deadline article that he wrote. I didn't realize that the rotations era was above 5 since June 1st.
Sports Radio Host 1
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sports Radio Host 2
Because maybe it's the, like the recent spate of winning that kind of cleansed my mouth.
Sports Radio Host 1
There's, there's a little bit of weirdness to it, too. Just because of some of the. Just like the ridiculously bad performances.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah.
Sports Radio Host 1
And excuse it, that weight it and skew it a little bit.
Sports Radio Host 2
Oh, yeah. My getting knocked out in the first inning will crush the ERA for the starters. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, like I, I'm, I'm wondering like Wisneski, this would be very welcome because they are thin in the rotation. I'm thinking like, okay, how's the rotation shape up right now? Hunter Brown's your ace. Peter Lambert is your nouveau ace. And then after that it's like, okay, we don't know what we're getting from Christian Javier night tonight? It's been better lately. Wisneski is two starts in. Blanco is four starts into a stint where he's got nearly an eight era. And then after that it's Tatsui Imai and Mike Burrows.
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Sports Radio Host 2
Both of whom were various versions of banished over the last month.
Sports Radio Host 1
Various versions of banished or what the hell? What the hell, bro.
Sports Radio Host 2
You're going to be.
Sports Radio Host 1
They're on the what the hell bro list.
Sports Radio Host 2
They are going to be team bullpen game if they get to the postseason. You know, like, I think there's going to be games that are, I think as currently structured. If you do, they're better off like throwing Javier out there for a few innings and using the bullpen.
Sports Radio Host 1
If you're going to piggyback it. Do you want Imai to be the opener or the reliever? Well, I'm going to go off the. You look good as a reliever starter.
Sports Radio Host 2
I'm going to go off the large sample size of one relief appearance in his life. Yeah. Three innings. Perfect. They have yet to get a hit off him in relief.
Sports Radio Host 1
So this is what I'm worried about. This is what I'm worried about with Imai on the road is a reliever. Is that man. He has a hard enough time adjusting to the mound in visiting parks and now he's got to adjust to both the bullpen mound and the other mound. Say they're like on the road. I'm almost at the point where I just don't want to see Imai on the road. He needs extra rest anyway.
Sports Radio Host 2
He's a home only guy. Don't even bring him. Then he can eat whenever he wants.
Sports Radio Host 1
He's the guy that when he came in, we're like, well, precious Imai, he can't be part of a five man rotation. He needs an extra day of rest.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah.
Sports Radio Host 1
So he. So he can adjust to the mound, I guess. I don't know. No, I've got zero confidence in my. Yeah, it'd be awesome if it works out rightfully so.
Sports Radio Host 2
Spencer Arrighetti. Hey, Byron, if you get Ericetti here, just text back to me when you
Sports Radio Host 1
have it on the phone.
Sports Radio Host 2
No, no, no.
Sports Radio Host 1
Ball players sleep in, man.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah. No, no, no. We don't have Ericetti on the hotline or anything. The Texas mattress makers hotline. No. Spencer Ericetti met with the media yesterday. He was really sad about getting traded from Houston because he was in a bubble of comfort.
Spencer Arrighetti (player)
He said, I told my wife last night it was every emotion there is all at once. I'm going to try not to get sad about it. You know, obviously I had this bubble of supreme comfort being in Houston, being from Houston. My family had the luxury of being at just about every game I've ever pitched here. And that's probably the hardest part to part with. It's just, you know, my house is 20 minutes from here. It's where I'm going to raise my kids. Houston will always be home. And I. I am. I am eternally grateful to the people in charge that gave me the opportunity to be an Astro.
Sports Radio Host 2
Okay. So I'm not going to do the thing here that maybe some people would do, because you can hear it in his voice.
Sports Radio Host 1
Very low. Profito. Like when he was traded, he's very emotional. Yeah.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah. Very emotional. Yeah. Ironically to the Blue Jays. So I'm not going to sit here and go, hey, man up. You know, like, man up. Here you may be. I'm not going to grab him by the lapels and say, be a man.
Sports Radio Host 1
I wouldn't think you would even do that.
Sports Radio Host 2
I'm not going to do that.
Sports Radio Host 1
I didn't know that was a possibility.
Sports Radio Host 2
But I will say this. The thing that did strike me there is when he said I had this supreme bubble of comfort here. Bro, you've got a nearly five ERA for your career. Maybe a little discomfort could do you.
Sports Radio Host 1
Well. Maybe I need to talk to Jevion Clowney about how much. It was a nice kick in the rump that when he got traded, he realized, oh, I got to earn this.
Sports Radio Host 2
Absolutely. I, at times in my life, have been at my best when life has thrust great discomfort on me.
Sports Radio Host 1
That's why you intentionally sabotage your own life. You set obstacles in your way.
Sports Radio Host 2
Sometimes I'm so good at what I do, I just have to sabotage myself and create a little discomfort in this bubble that I'm in.
Sports Radio Host 1
You're big time into stoicism. That's what the word on Sean.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah, that's the scouting report. But I. No, I seriously thought of that. I'm like, you know what? You haven't been great. This might be good for you.
Sports Radio Host 1
Yeah, well, and I wonder, too, like,
Sports Radio Host 2
getting you out of your bubble, having
Sports Radio Host 1
your family around all the time. Sometimes, you know what? Yeah. Sometimes there's such a thing as a little.
Sports Radio Host 2
Am I onto something here?
Sports Radio Host 1
Now, you think you. I think just. Just in the same way that Clowney said that getting traded is what made him kind of wake up. And it's not like there's reports about Araghetti not taking it seriously or anything, but it doesn't matter who you are or just like how dialed in you are. Like, there's sometimes. Yeah, you need your environment changing. Can. Can change. Like, well, what you were.
Sports Radio Host 2
You were about to lose your job when you came off the aisle. What the hell do you have to be comfortable?
Sports Radio Host 1
Well, yeah, and you're not necessarily comfortable. You know, sometimes it's like when you tell a kid, you know, some of these kids that just don't get the message, and you're like, hey, man, you're really in trouble academically. Yeah, that's what matter. That's what I was like, dude, there could be a draft in the next.
Sports Radio Host 2
You never knew, Idiot. I was like. All the talk was he was gonna maybe get sent to Sugar Land when he got bought off, brought off the il. I'm like, what do you have to be comfortable about? And I get what he's saying. It's his hometown. It was really cool to pitch here. Your family can watch you play. Spencer Arretti strikes me in that 45 seconds of audio and on the back of his baseball card as someone who could use a little discomfort in his life. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. All right.
Sports Radio Host 1
What did he call it? A bubble of comfort?
Sports Radio Host 2
Bubble of comfort, Which I didn't like that either. Bubble of comfort.
Sports Radio Host 1
Talk to Brandy about that. Be sure I'm living in a bubble of comfort.
Sports Radio Host 2
Do you think you are?
Sports Radio Host 1
Right now, I'm pretty spoiled, but things could always be better. Yeah.
Sports Radio Host 2
I absolutely live in a bubble of comfort, as you know. I don't know how to work my washer dryer. That's a bubble of comfort right there. All right. Pain and pender. Gassed. So maybe I'll learn how to use my washer dryer. That'll be my discomfort I'll inflict on myself.
Sports Radio Host 1
I want to get a nanny for me, just for you. Yeah. Like, I want to see that nanny that, you know, just like a nice old lady or something that knows how to handle a child. And just. She can. She can give me some discipline, but she'll also take care of, you know, getting me to school on time and all that other stuff.
Sports Radio Host 2
It would get uncomfortable if you ask her to spank you when you're. When you're bad.
Sports Radio Host 1
She's gonna be a. She's gonna be a.
Sports Radio Host 2
That's not a nanny.
Sports Radio Host 1
No, no. She's gonna be a gargoyle. Like, old lady. No, there's not gonna be any of that. Like.
Sports Radio Host 2
Yeah, no blurring of the lines.
Sports Radio Host 1
Yeah, yeah.
Sports Radio Host 2
All right.
Sports Radio Host 1
I'm not gonna be going into business meetings, introducing people to my hot, young nanny.
Sports Radio Host 2
Hey, Brandi, meet my nanny, Cinnamon.
Sports Radio Host 1
People are like, wow, Seth made that old mistake of having a hot nanny. And then they're like, no, it's even worse.
Sports Radio Host 2
It's.
Sports Radio Host 1
It's worse for him.
Sports Radio Host 2
All right, headlines.
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Episode Title: Astros beat the Blue Jays, 7-2
Date: August 5, 2026
Hosts: Seth Payne & Sean Pendergast
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A lively breakdown of the Astros’ 7-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, focusing on Taylor Trammell’s pivotal home run, the unexpected offensive contributions from the lower part of the batting order, the ever-evolving Astros’ pitching situation post-trade deadline, and the emotional aftermath of the Spencer Arrighetti trade. Throughout, Seth and Sean infuse their signature Houston-centric humor and candid insights.
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