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Sacramento Kings arena: Mayor Johnson and Kings owner Ranadive to testify in arena hearing on Tuesday

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by Jerry Feitelberg and Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–The price tag on building the Sacramento Kings brand new arena has climbed to $507 million from the original estimate of $448 million then went to $477 million. Sacramento Assistant City Manager John Dangberg said in Sacramento Superior Court this week that the reason for the cost increase is that the new arena would help bring millions of dollars to Sacramento which would benefit the city. The city has put in $225 million for the land and other assets.

Dangberg admitted that the $60 million cost increase will go up further than the current $507 due to cost overruns, part of the cost of the hotel that will be built next door to the arena will run up to $13 million with the hotel plaza being shared with the Kings new arena will be constructed and factored in with the cost.

The arena is expected to open in October 2016 and is said to be one of the most advanced technologically arenas in the world. Plaintiffs in the case Issac Gonzalez, James Cathcart, and Julian Camacho say that Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has not been forthcoming with the full value of the new arena. Gonzalez, Cathcart and Camacho point out that the city didn’t disclose in the beginning that they would throw in a parking lot with 3700 parking spaces and six digital signs along the freeways.

The plaintiffs said in the hearing that the city hid those pay out costs and benefits because the Kings ownership overpaid for the team in their bidding war with a Seattle group in 2013. The plaintiffs attorney Jeff Anderson in his opening comments said “fraud pervades the entire action by the city.” Meanwhile in her opening remarks to the court Attorney Dawn McIntosh representing the city said that the city was fully transparent and that the plaintiffs are disgruntled over the city subsidy.

Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley did not have a jury selected for this hearing and will render a decision himself at it’s conclusion. Mayor Johnson with Kings owner Vivek Ranadive are scheduled to testify on Tuesday.

Charlie O Mallonee and Jerry Feitelberg are talk show hosts at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: New Warriors arena needs an Act of Congress

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

Anybody that has lived in the Bay Area for a long time, realizes that to build anything in San Francisco its always an adventure. Mr Joe Lacob and Mr Peter Gruber owners of the Golden State Warriors want to move the Golden State Warriors to San Francisco, from the Oracle Arena in Oakland.

I believe in free enterprise 100X100, If I didn’t I would be happy to go back to Cuba, where my family’s business they built from a whole life of hard work, was taken away by a despost communist government. So I can appreciate the Warriors owners plan to move to a thriving city, where everything is happening now days.

The City of San Francisco has a height limit of 84 feet on all bayfront construction. Basically nothing higher than a bus bench can be built here. maybe a lemonade stand. Today UCSF Nurses and the California Nursing Association voiced their opposition, to the Warriors Arena in San Francisco, they have other concerns, and there will be meetings and meetings, and townhalls and all of that in the future. Other groups in San Francisco are not as happy to have a new building in the bayfront area of the city. Giants fans remember(the ones that used to go to Candlestick Park and weather July nights games with 40 mile per hour winds and 50 degree temperatures, (not the ones going today to “the party” dude at the AT&T game tonight)on the trials and tribulations of getting a sports venue built in the city by the Golden Gate.

We all witnessed the civic pride that Oakland experienced during the recent Warriors Victory Parade, Champions of the National Basketball Association.

God knows that Oakland needs these type of positive gatherings where thousands of people gathered to celebrate in a positive fashion and not to destroy businesses windows, or to occupy parks for extended periods of time.

Oakland was once called “City of Champions” During the 1970’s and 1980’s Champion Warriors, Athletics, Raiders, Oakland was the hub for sports in the Bay Area, But (like we all know)things change.

Silicon Valley is now moving north to San Francisco, people pay $4500 a month for a one bedroom studio in the city. Like the “old timers”during the gold rush would say “there is money in them hills!!!”.

So, of course there makes perfect sense for the Golden State Warriors to move to San Francisco and become the San Francisco Warriors; after all that was their name when they first moved from Philadelphia in the early 1960’s.

Will it happen? Will the Warriors move to San Francisco? First Oakland A’s owner Charlie O Finley used to say “money talks and BS walks”. Ay Caramba… Oi vey, said one of my good friends!

Well, there is a lot of money involved here and also a lot of BS.

I think money will eventually win at the end. You can bet on it.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for the Angels and the Spanish radio voice for the A’s and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Joe Lami: Niemi likely to sign with Dallas still could come back to Sharks

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by Joe Lami

SAN JOSE–San Jose Sharks goaltender Antti Niemi becomes a free agent and all the Sharks did was deal his rights to Dallas they have the negotiation rights and that’s what the seventh round pick brought in. The Sharks did the same thing very similar in acquiring former Shark Brad Stuart a few years back with Detroit he was a free agent to be.

The Sharks traded the seventh round pick to Detroit it gives them the negotiation rights for a couple of days or July 1st. Niemi isn’t a Dallas Star yet that should be decided I the next one or two days. There is talk that Sharks general manager Doug Wilson would like to bring him back from Dallas.

If I’m Niemi I don’t want to come back to San Jose last year was a huge mess at the Sharks and he can get out of that mess and be in a tandem with Dallas goaltender Kari Lehtonen. In Dallas Niemi would share duties Lehtonen he could on the other hand come back to San Jose but that’s something that he would have to think about.

Again San Jose is in kind of a mess they really need to fix a lot of things over there and Niemi was kind of treated poorly towards the end of the season he shared netminder work with the Sharks goaltender Alex Stalock. They stopped playing Stalock down the stretch and he looked like he was going to exit towards the end of the season but there is a chance that he does come back to San Jose.

The Sharks signed 25 year old Troy Grosenick and would he share the net with Stalock if Niemi doesn’t come back? The Sharks more than likely will try and sign a unrestricted free agent or a trade. They need to pick up a viable number one goalie and a viable option. Grosenick is a couple years down the road to make up with the big club.

Grosenick is 25 years old, he signed a two year deal with a cap of $600,000 he will play for the Sharks AHL minor league affiliate the SJ Barracuda and he could be called up by the Sharks if need be. Grosenick signed a one way deal and that’s the most interesting part of this deal because Stalock has one year remaining and it might seem like that Stalock might be done as a goalie in San Jose and the Sharks turnover Grosenick to the back up position.

Joe Lami covers the NHL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders podcast with David Zizmor: 49ers may have to look forward to 2016 draft for retiree replacements; Raiders expect lots from Murray at running back

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by David Zizmor

San Francisco 49ers camp update: When the San Francisco 49ers were wrought with four players retiring in the off season and well before their time at that. These were guys who were all starters that’s tough to replace. Anthony Davis is the most recent retiree he retired after the draft the Niners didn’t even have an opportunity to approach their draft with the knowledge that they would replace Davis at right tackle.

The Davis retirement was probably the toughest one of them all. The 2016 draft is going to be in Virginia they did this year’s draft in Chicago it had always been in New York the NFL realized that the draft is a money generator. You just don’t need to do it in New York you could do it anywhere and people will show up.

Chicago was there first choice Chicago is a great town, and anybody whose been there would agree. They have very dedicated fans with the Bears and it’s centrally located you have a lot of people down from Green Bay, Detroit, Indianapolis, and those places are from shouting distance and it’s certainly an easy drive from each other.

What the NFL is doing now is trying to spread the love around and their going to accommodate Washington their the closest team to Virginia. This is going to be a Washington draft it’s not as far away as Philadelphia frankly New York isn’t all that far. Pittsburgh, Carolina, those towns are all relatively close to each other as the draft will be held in Virginia in 16.

Oakland Raiders camp update: Running back Latavius Murray who is expected to take over the starting position from ex-Raider Darren McFadden. Murray who was with the Raiders last season rushed for 424 yards, two touchdowns, while picking up 5.2 yards per carry. He had a strong 2014 season when he was on the field if you were watching the Raiders down the stretch you would notice him, he definitely stood out when he was out on the field.

The issue so far in his career is keeping him on the field, Murray is a guy who has a lot talent and he has to play. Murray has had a series of injuries that’s been a little bit rough but if he continues to improve your talking about a guy who has the talent to be an every down back in the NFL. We saw him make amazing plays last season.

Murray had that one big run against Kansas City this is a guy given the opportunity and given a decent offensive line he could be very successful. It’s still tough to say as I said he needs to stay on the field, the talent level is there the Raiders are very hopeful he doesn’t have Maurice Jones Drew blocking his path to the starting position anymore like he did last year.

This is a guy who has speed, he has power, size, he can be a every down back if he wants he’s a little bit successful. The biggest thing he’s got going for him this year is the offense looks more rounded. The one problem the Raiders had last year was quarterback Derrick Carr was improving but he didn’t have any wide receivers to throw to which meant teams could challenge him.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below

San Francisco Giants podcast with Jeremy Kahn: The rivalry brewing up again as Giants close in on the Dodgers one game lead

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by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–The Giants in the month of June are just a game out of first place behind first place Los Angeles in the National League West. Heading for the first week of July if the Giants stay healthy they can make a run at the Dodgers. It’s a two team race it’s almost like the 50s when these two teams kept it up in the race for the best in the National League when they played in Brooklyn and Polo Grounds.

The Giants and the Dodgers look at these standings it’s the Giants and the Dodgers all over again. The fans at Dodgers Stadium are sick of the Giants winning championships every other year and their sick and tired of the Giants coming to Dodgers Stadium and beat LA and that’s what the Giants have done all season.

The Dodgers haven’t scored since April on the Giants at AT&T Park and they got shutout in all three games and then the Giants this past week went to LA and won two out of three and won the first two games the Giants nailed them by scores of 9-5 and 6-2. It’s a series like this that Giants fans love and the Dodgers fans despise.

The San Padres found out about the bats of Angel Pagan, Buster Posey and Brandon Crawford this past series at ATz&T and if Posey can get a good pitch to hit there’s telling what he can do. He’s a Mike Trout or a Miguel Cabrera type hitter he could get it going and it’ll be off to the races with Buster. Tuesday night Madison Bumgarner pitcher brilliantly only to lose 3-2 in 11 innings in the one loss to the Pads in this series.

It’s like after Mad Bum threw for 14 strikeouts and lost you have to ask “what’s going on here?” It’s a question now what the Giants are going to do in their rotation when starting pitcher Jake Peavy gets back. Ryann Vogelsong pitched himself a ball game on Wednesday night for the win and now with Nori Aoki out with the fractured fibula the Giants will be counting on the line up to keep getting the base knocks to keep them in ball games.

It’s very tight in the outfield right now it’s so strange that the first two guys they brought in are now being depended on because of all the injuries that the Giants have right now. The Giants are looking to Travis Ishikawa and Brandon Crawford for some extra hits in the long run Ishikawa has some great experience.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below

Sacramento Kings podcast with Charlie O: As the soap box turns Karl and Cousins could very well be stuck with each other

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by Charlie O

SACRAMENTO–Does the current Sacramento Kings management style have similarities with the former Kings owners the Maloof Family? In terms of finances no, managing partner Vivek Ranadive is lucrative and liquid and he can get what he wants. The team dollar wise is solid which is an issue the team had when the Maloofs owned the club.

Financially the team is on strong footing they have no problems with the investments they made into the arena or downtown. What is Malooflike is the fact that team owner Vivek Ranadive by all reports and there are a consensus of reports that he is very actively inserting himself into the day to day basketball operations and management.

Which what the Maloofs did frankly when the Maloofs got involved telling former Kings general manager Geoff Petrie what he ought to be doing that’s when the Kings started going down hill. So right now the Kings are at risk in having an owner that he feels knows whats best for the team.

Ranadive is a billionaire, he’s a tremendous tech guy, as an owner he’s business savvy because what he’s trying to put together with the arena and the associated buildings with it it’s nothing short of genius. When it comes to operating a pro basketball team he’s flat out a rookie.Ranadive has to recognize that, ten years from now when you walk into a room and he says “guys I’ve seen this guy and he’s the player we need to sign” and everybody says “he knows what he’s talking about” right now he’s a little short on knowledge.

Also with the Kings head coach George Karl and the Kings DeMarcus Cousins situation doesn’t have much to do with George Karl.Cousins is a mad young man because they took a coach Michael Malone who had won him over for whom has said “I want to play for you, I will make commitments to you and I will make changes in attitude on the floor 110 percent best efforts.”

Then when Cousins made those changes they fired Malone, then people acted surprised that DeMarcus is pissed off, he’s a 24 year old guy who in five seasons has played for two owners, three general managers, and five coaches. I’d be angry too, I’d be really angry, if I was Cousins I’d be standing on somebody’s desk in my whole 6’11 height jumping up and down saying “get me the hell out of this town.”

Instead he just voiced some of that and of course he’s frustrated at this point how can you expect him to commit this much to Karl especially when it’s rumored that Ranadive is going up and down the halls in the offices of the Kings asking his employees “should we get rid of Karl.” For Cousins he has to know whose going to be boss and it doesn’t make a difference whose boss he just needs to know somebody is boss.

Charlie O covers the Sacramento Kings for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Exclusive interview with LA Angels Albert Pujols

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Angel Stadium, Anaheim.

During night games, usually around 4PM every afternoon here in Anaheim, when the Angels are playing at home, manager Mike Scioscia speaks to the media, and around that same time Albert Pujols and other Angels players also come out to the field for practice.

Albert Pujols is leading the American League with 23 Homeruns, and currently is #16 in the All-Time Homerun list with 543 Homeruns. This interview took place around 4:30PM, prior to the game on Wednesday night that took 13 innings and the Angels won 2-1 over the first place Houston Astros. The Angels won the 3-game series and now are 4.5 games behind the Astros.

Sat in the corner of the Angel dugout with Albert Pujols.

Q: What you have been doing these past two weeks is really remarkable, and especially during this month of June, you have been hitting Homeruns with great frequency.

Pujols: I do not think much of that, I just want to help this team win, that has been my mission which I have been focused since I signed with the team four years ago.

Q: I see you always hanging with shortstop Erick Aybar(also Dominican like you) and you are always talking with him. What do you guys talk about?

Pujols: Everything…but mostly baseball all the time, we are always talking about the game that day, what do we see in a particular, the pitcher we are facing, some other times we just talk about our approach at the plate, Erick is a great competitor and he always gives this team a great at bat.

Q: What is your best advice for a young hitter?

Albert: If he is lucky to make it to this level, he has to keep working all the time, stay in good shape(I have been hurt in the past here in Anaheim, but the trainers here do a sensational job)and I have been blessed to have the good people around me. But basically you need to play the game correctly and always have a good approach and work very hard to accomplish what you want for you and for your team.

Q; You have seen for the first time in this series the young Astros shortstop Carlos Correa, (born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, same town as Orlando Cepeda)the #1 pick of the draft, he has been here just for a couple of weeks, and he has impressed everybody. What can you tell me about him?

Pujols: He is already a very good player and at his age of 20 years, he looks like a guy that is going to be here for a long long time, I like the way he swings the bat and his approach at the plate, he is a great young talent.

Q: You have 543 Homeruns as of today, this season you have passed a bunch o great sluggers, guys like Ted Williams, Willie McCovey, Mickey Mantle and others, and today you are just a handful of Homeruns behind Mike Schmidt for the 15th place on the All Time Homerun list. Can you talk about that?

Pujols: I really do not like to talk about that. When I am finished and I retired we can talk about that, but not now, I really do not follow that stuff, I try to play and approach every game the same way…I will talk about that when I am done playing.

Q: Tony LaRussa was here last homestand with the Arizona Diamondbacks, you once said you have a special place for Tony in your life. Can you expand on that?

Pujols: He has been my favorite manager, he was like a father to me in St Louis, I was very happy last year when he went into the Hall of Fame, everytime I see him we talk about the times there and also about our families and all that, Tony is a special person for me.

Q: Your young 14-year old son A.J sits with us in the Fox Sports Spanish TV booth here at Anaheim, and we see him before the games shagging balls in the outfield during batting practice. Do you want him to follow your steps?

Pujols: He knows that as long as he does well in school, he can come here, and sometimes he travels with me, but it all depends on his grades in school. If he wants to be a player, I would help him and always be there for him, but whatever he wants to do in life, I will support him.

Albert Pujols is the ultimate professional, usually if somebody wants to interview him, you would have to ask the media relations person for the team, and usually if you ask in advance you can get an interview. Here in Anaheim Mike Trout is the player(reigning MVP)that gets more demands for interviews, and we have talked before prior to our telecast in the past, but during the past few weeks, Albert Pujols, whose 23 Homeruns to lead the league, prior to the All Star Game is the most he ever had since the 2009 season in St Louis when he won that year the MVP.He is getting a lot of attention, even from reporters that are coming from out of the area. Pujols has done it all, MVP, Gold Gloves, hitting records, All Star games, World Series and he shall be someday after he retires(5 years after he retires)a unanimous choice for Cooperstown.

Tomorrow, Thursday, the Angels have the day off, and Friday they will host the first of a three game series against division rival Seattle Mariners.

This Angels homestand is the last one prior to the All Star Break, and the team will finish the first half of the season on a roadtrip to Texas, Colorado and Seattle.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for the Angels and the Spanish radio voice for the A’s and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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San Francisco Giants podcast with Jeremy Harness: Mad Bum misses a win in tough loss, Machi needs to make the diff, Akoi out with fracture

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by Jeremy Harness

SAN FRANCISCO–The loss by San Francisco Giant pitcher Madison Bumgarner in Tuesday’s 3-2 decision to the San Diego Padres in 11 innings was almost like his loss to the Seattle Mariners and pitcher King Felix Hernandez who threw a great game and only gave up no runs, struck out eight hitters, and walked only two against the Mariners.

The problem was Bumgarner gave up two runs, the difference was the Mariners scored the two runs off Mad Bum and the Giants couldn’t do anything off King Felix. There aren’t a lot of teams who get many runs off Hernandez anyways, every now and then Hernandez would have a blip or a bump in the road. Otherwise Bumgarner is as dominate as any pitcher there is in the big leagues.

Bumgarner on Tuesday threw and got 14 strikeouts but suffered that tough luck extra inning loss no doubt he had his stuff going. He threw a lot of pitches and he had a lot of his good stuff going. It’s always encouraging when you have that kind of arsenal. It’s kind of a funny thing with pitchers and the way you get outs is that you get strikeouts their flashy and they definitely look good on a stat sheet but what saves a pitcher’s bacon is getting a lot of ground outs.

The ground out is handy because it gets the fielders the ball and it gets your fielders involved in the game. In the movie Bull Durham Crash Davis said, “strikeouts are boring plus their fascist throw some more ground balls it’s a little more democratic.” Also with Giants right handed relief pitcher Jean Machi returning off the 15 day DL it’s also a relief for the Giants bullpen. The Giants not only for their left hand pitchers but the right hand core has to be relieved to have Machi back.

Machi needs to get things going coming back with a record of 1-0 ERS 5.47 he was great last year for the Giants in his current role. In the post season Machi completely went into the tank and they weren’t able to use him on a regular basis. He needs to do some things to get back on track and now is the time to do it if your Machi.

Nori Akoi who is on the 15 day DL with a fractured right fibula has had such an amazing season, hitting .317 two home runs, 33 runs, 83 hits, and 19 RBIs. He has better than average speed as scouts have reported and he puts the ball on the ground in a ball park that he calls home at AT&T. This ball park is not made for home runs. The only guy that the Giants had picked up that hit home runs on a regular basis at AT&T was former outfielder Barry Bonds and that’s pretty self explanatory.

Jeremy Harness is a San Francisco Giants beat writer at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below

Oakland A’s podcast with Charlie O: A’s on the way to fourth place making a move in the win column

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by Charlie O Mallonee

The Oakland A’s are 7-3 in their last ten games and they have won four games in a row, the A’s in last place are 32-41 in the A.L.West. The A’s are 9.5 games behind the Houston Astros. That’s not a real surmountable amount of games for the A’s to play catch up on. More importantly at this point in time the A’s are a 1.5 behind Seattle with the M’s being in fourth place.

That is what the major goal has to be right now for the A’s is to make up that ground and get out of the cellar and get into fourth place. If the A’s can get into fourth place. Then they can go after let’s go after .500. Currently their nine games under .500 they have improved that number, they were further down than that.

The A’s can get into fourth and they have some work to do and things are going to look different and we know that this team could look different. Take the game against Texas it was a game two weeks ago that they lost, the A’s got down 5-2 and they came back to win 8-6. The offense came out big, they had a 11 hits and they had two key home runs.

One of those key homers came from the A’s catcher Josh Phegley and then they had a two run blast from Ben Zobrist whose been off the charts. So last night they had doubles help from Ike Davis, Marcus Semien, Phegley, and Zobrist the A’s had extra base hits all the way around. Phegley is doing a great job taking over for Stephen Vogt who had to take a cortisone shot so he couldn’t play Tuesday night.

Phegley did a great job, they got RBIs from Eric Sogard, one from Billy Butler, two from Zobrist, two from Phegley and with runners in scoring position this is one thing we were talking about when they were not converting with runners in scoring position. They were 4-8 with runners in scoring position.

You’ll take a 500 percentage with runners in scoring position anytime, they just left five men on base. So the A’s did a great job on offense but the other team we talked about the M’s are underperforming so far. The A’s bullpen had really performed well on Tuesday in Detroit. A’s reliever Evan Scribner pitched two innings shutting out the Tigers and getting two strikeouts.

Charlie O does the Oakland A’s commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: AL West is loaded, the Angels are on the move, the Astros have the hitting, and the A’s need relief

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

LOS ANGELES–This is the time of the year when the Los Angeles Angels start to get hot and jell and they did it this time last year. The Angels were hovering in the .500 range at 33-32 and all of a sudden they caught fire they won 98 games at the end of the season. It’s a wonder if they can do that again. The American League West is going to be a race until the finish.

The Oakland A’s are still in the cellar and if they can fix their bullpen and they’re 11 games out, this western division is certainly exciting and anything can happen. For the A’s to catch up it’s going to be tough because like the Angels their going to have to win three game series like two out of three. The A’s are going to have to win a lot of series to get back into the race.

Once in a while the A’s will have to sweep somebody to get right back into this race. We’ve been saying this all along the bullpen is very weak the A’s could make a run for it but they’re 10.5 games out and in order to get back into it all the stars will have to be aligned. Houston is going to have to go into a slump.

Houston holds a slight 3 game margin lead in the AL West and just lost two out of three over the week. The Astros have a lot of confidence and they have very good pitching. The Astros are more interesting they’re aggressive, they hit the long ball, they get pitching they can come back and string a few victories together.

That’s how they win and the A’s can hope by the end of July they’ll be just three games out but if they’re ten games out by the end of July there’s going to be a big fire sale and A’s general manager Billy Beane is going to trade for some new players. The Astros have one of the best lefthanded pitchers in baseball Dallas Keuchel 8-3 ERA 2.53.

Here’s one of the things as I was talking with one of the Astros broadcasters last night and I asked if they were going to make any trades and the Astros are so talented and it will be tough to decide who to deal. For Houston that’s a wonderful problem to have because they have talented players all throughout their roster.

The Astros were not expected to contend this year and maybe they would contend for 2016 or 2017 so what happened the Astros have guys who can hit, George Springer is hitting .279, Jose Atulve .287, Chris Cater strikes out a lot but hits a lot of home runs and is hitting .201. The Astros have a lot of talent and their in first place.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the A’s, the Spanish radio voice for the Angels, and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com