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January 14, 2025 167 mins
Adam Clanton and Geoff Blum talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on January 13th 2025.


  • Texans another day closer to playing the Chiefs.
  • DeMeco is a huge fan of this guy with the Chiefs. 
  • Hot mic moment during the show. 
  • WYD Jerry Jones?
  • JV talks leaving Houston. 
  • Derek Stingley Jr. is the best in the league. 
  • Sports fan doxxing too far?
  • Mike Vrabel says something that might not make his QB too happy. 
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your Teams,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler R The A Team. A.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's alive. He's alive, he still exists, he still walks
among us. His name is Jeff Blum, And I was
telling them before the show started as we get into
a Tuesday edition of The A Team here on Sports
Talk seven ninety and soon to be on Jeff's employer's network,
Space City Home Network.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
At the top of next hour, I said, yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
You thought I was just having you in to a
co host while wex is out for a second consecutive
day and he'll be back tomorrow. No, I just wanted
to hang out because we can't get our schedules on
the same page. And so I was just like, well,
if I do this, I can A make sure you're
still breathing and b you know, just hang out for
a few hours.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
So what's up, buddy.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Not much, it's chaos.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, you've had a busy off season and it's not
even having to do with baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
No, it has nothing to do with baseball, you figure,
and the Astros do a very good job of kind
of cutting us loose and letting us do our own thing.
TK has kind of been off the radar. I myself
have kind of perused being off the grid a little bit,
especially since the first of the year. But around Thanksgiving,
my well, you know what, we had our college tour.
We did a good time. We had a good time

(01:24):
in Faitheville and going to tour, Yeah, we destroyed it.
I mean, I've charged more fields this this season than
I think I ever have in my life. That's great.
With you know, the Arkansas beating Tennessee and then watching
LSU beat Old Miss. And as we're coming back from
Ole Miss, my wife and I are thinking about our
house and how we're you know, we're not using about
you know, a couple thousand square feet. Now the girls

(01:46):
are in college and they come home for you know,
a month or a couple months at a time, and
we're like, man, this is your paying for us, This
is about us, you know. And so we we put
a ridiculous number on a house we were living in.
Somebody took it and we had to find a place
to live. So on November twenty second, our daughters are
flying home from Arkansas. I picked them up and took
them to a new house.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
How about that, Hey, kids, welcome home. We're going to
a new place.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Where they they weren't really were they attached to the
old one at all very much.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
So oh they were all Yeah, they had their own rooms,
owned bathrooms, a pool, outside kitchen. You know, it was
it was a plush resort, blumb resort. Is it was nice. Yeah,
they were pissed.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
So how much of a downsize we lost?

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Maybe about fifteen to sixteen hundred square feet so basically
a second story.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, okay, we'll got for you.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, yeah, screw them exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
But plus you're still paying for their college.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well that was part of the dividend too, you know.
And we were lucky to highly recommend five twenty nines
for all the parents out there because that's where part
of like playoff shares over the years ended up were
in the nights.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
You are the best parent ever? Your playoff shares went
to your daughters.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, no, like Aaron Roan and Joe Crady, you know,
they're going off and by Lamborghini's and Ferraris, And I
was like, hey, can I get a five twenty nine
for four kids?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And I will never not that I ever did I
will never doubt your your your manhood again.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
And that did not come out the way I.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wanted it to. That's you know why you wanted me here,
that's I wanted you. It was a test. Oh we
get fired by four o'clock, all right, problem? Yeah, No,
I will definitely Well listen, if I can have Channel
roam on this on this show yesterday and still make
it back in for a Tuesday edition, it.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Is going to be way more honest than I am.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
He well, he's more honest in the breaks, that's the
fun part.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
But how often have we said it? I've even said
it on our broadcast with TK Juliet myself. Is if
you could actually find and this really goes for you
and I, and if you could record possibly somehow and
put out there what what the conversations are in between breaks,
you would have probably a best selling podcast.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It should be Joe Rogan Numbers. It would be Joe
Rogan Numbers. Uh, he's got a great podcast. By the way,
I just a lot's happened since we got together. Blumber,
what was the over under on before he broke out
the trumpe? Uh, it's but once it again on telestration. Yeah,
I get in trouble his way, I just I'm gonna

(04:12):
It's just when Wex is out, it just goes off
the rails.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
He will be back tomorrow. Like I said, a.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Lot did you do to get him out of here?
He just hasked some stuff he had to attend to,
and and it took Monday and Tuesday and then it's
believe me, he's dying inside. I know, because here's the thing.
You had a Texans playoff game the timing of this
that he also missed. He couldn't attend it because of this.
He didn't go Well, it wasn't because of this, he
just it was. It was an It was like a

(04:37):
series of situations that kind of Yeah, you know, I
can't believe what it was.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Wex cocky enough to prioritize the Texans game last because
he knew they were gonna beat my beloved Chargers.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh you're a Chargers guy. I've been a Chargers guy
from San Diego or before I was a season ticket
Jack Murphy. Yeah, okay, So so when you were playing
for the Padres you got to see and tickets.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oh yeah, and we had them for years after that too,
even when I came back here with Houston. I was
living in California, and you would go for games in
the off season. I would go go to games. It
would just be like basically a Padre alumni.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, I don't you because having been to San Diego
one time in my life.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, it was one of the greatest weeks in my life.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
It's it's unbelievable to show up and watch an NFL
game with the caliber of talent they had in those
early two thousands with Ladani.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
And Philip Rivers.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, uh, you know, Donnie Edwards was playing and uh
uh some of those guys.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
When you say I was still there, yeah, So.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I mean and you show up in seventy five and
Sonny and they're they're playing really well.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
So he was a good cha afterwards, and you play volleyball, oh,
weas gots top gun. Yeah. And my jorts, well, if
you were Tom Cruise, you would have just jeans on
and then you would put after sweating and oiled up and.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Make perfect sense to wear a fabric like that.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
And then put a leather jacket on and drive over
to Kelly mcgillis's house.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
That's how you score.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Just unbelievable. Yeah, all right, So I said it, you know, figuratively,
but it's true. A lot of stuff has happened. We will,
we'll get into some of the Astros conversation, but we're
still very much in Texans mode because it is January.
By the way, when tk's off the grid, how much
is he off the grid? He's off the grid. He's gone.
I can't text me. It's only January.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
I texted him out, dare you do that?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's only January, Plummer. I pitched the Catchers report.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Next month, I'm possibly playing golf on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh nice.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
So it's like seventy degrees that day and then the
next day and it.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Turns to nineteen and snow on Sunday night or Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Or soth that's when the weather comes through.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh hell yeah, yeah, we're gonna get around in a
memorial golf course before you know that comes in.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Because I texted you the other day and I was like,
what do you do when it's thirty and you go,
I'm not golfing in this, dude.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
There ain't no way. I love the game of golf,
I love baseball. I love even going to watch a football.
There's no way I'm not going. I know guys that
have taken like dude trips to to Green Bay to
sit in that weather and watch at Lambeau. I'm wrong,
I'm not that. I'm not that guy.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, you season tickets to the Chargers in San Diego,
not the Packers.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, I'm I'm I mean, I'm a weather guy in
the sense I love watching it, kind of predicting it,
and now that my daughters are in Feville like it
to have fun with them and kind of, you know,
encourage them and educate them on that. But man, I
know the reason I know so much about the weather's
because I know exactly what I don't want to be involved.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, well, I mean Golfer's known and Norton about about
the weather forecast because it affects their lives. Yes, and
they're you know, sometimes their livelihood. But you know, it's funny.
You have triplets and then an additional daughter, so growing
up as daughters of a major leaguer, I'm guessing they
were more attuned just by default to the sports world

(07:39):
than say my eighteen year old now in her second
semester of her freshman year stepdaughter at UT. The reason
I bring that up you just mentioned your SEC tour, right.
Oh yeah, So like the running joke all the time,
especially during this Astros run. Put your phone down, stop
listening to the game at the table, Stop watching the
game at the table, that kind of thing. We go

(08:01):
out to some restaurant and it was during you know,
think it was the first playoff game, so Clemson. It
was either the Clemson or the ASU game. I think
it was the Clemson game. Apparently she's got her phone
out at the table watching and I'm like, wait a second,
when did you learn even to like football or the rules,

(08:22):
let alone all these sundays that I was at the
back of the house in the theater. Yeah, And I'm like,
I mean I'm gearing up, don't get me wrong. I all, yeah,
so I'm in. We're bought in, literally, but like you know,
I just could not believe, and she goes, I get
it now, I get why you were always at the table.
I'm like, I'm in there for you. Well, it's San Diego, right.

(08:44):
We go to to Coronado. Oh yea, so good, so good.
I'm in the heated pool by the way, listening to
to Uh it wasn't well, actually, I think you were
that was when you left and Bagwell was on broadcast Sinnattie.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
I gave him a great series to go watch.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh that was bad, Yeah that was bad, but it
was he said, he was giving you grief on the air. Yeah,
during one of those series. That was when I was
in San Diego. So I'm like listening to Bagwell he
was on TV. But then like the radio was mixed
up too. It was you know, you guys shuffled during
the course of the summer. Anyways, she gets it because

(09:23):
you know, that's that's that's my life. But now it's
hers during football season, she's going to games. I just
never thought i'd see it.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
But it's the sec thing. And that was how my
daughters were, and I was kind of shocked when my
oldest daughter was eighteen. The reason she chose Arkansas was
obviously you got in there pretty easy, and there were
other other schools in the area. Yeah, but she got
she got a scholarship to go up there, and she goes,
I want to go someplace that has a really good
football team. I mean, Arkansas questionably has their moments. Yeah,

(09:50):
she goes, I wanted to go someplace where I could
watch football, basketball, baseball, and that happens to be the place,
and baseball's actually been more fun for her to go watch,
fortunately at the University of Arca. But at the same time,
you get to watch everybody in that conference and it's
amazing to what's amazing to me is I have you know,
obviously I used to have an arrogance about the PAC
twelve because you know, conference champions Back in the day

(10:12):
it was really good. But it's amazing how it kind
of infiltrates everybody in the SEC. And now you're not
just an Arkansas or Tennessee or LSU, You're like, we're
the SEC. Yeah, it will all mess with us.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Definitely an arrogance, definitely, But.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
I think the NIL was kind of taking a chunk
out of that armor for me.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, and even if you are that team at any
given time, it could change on a dime because of
what you just mentioned.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
So yeah, there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's more complicated to be a college Big Times sports
fan than it ever has been, especially on the football side.
All right, that's Jeff Blum. He is in for WEX,
who will be back at it tomorrow. Gotta say thanks
again to Chandler Room. Yesterday we'll talk with Jeff about
some of the things that he said from a baseball standpoint, especially, Yeah,
I'm aware the Rockets are clutching up four straight wins

(11:00):
last night. Called that game with Matt Thomas last night
at Toyota Center. Absolute gut check victory. Love to see it. Hey,
Jahn Morant, if you're going to jaw all contests long,
maybe hit one of your two free throws when the
game's on the line. But hey, you went ozer for two.
I love it. And so the Rockets got their fourth
straight victory. Obviously, more Texans discussion today as they gear

(11:20):
up for the Kansas City Chiefs. There's trash talk already
from the Kansas City side. We'll explain that. Oh, by
the way, Jerry Jones is gonna Jerry Jones. We will
definitely get into that. Because somebody in the building has
a wife that's a Cowboys fan. We'll talk about that
and so much more here on a Tuesday edition of
The eighteen.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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(12:06):
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Speaker 3 (12:11):
You had the ut Ohio State game.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
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Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, we got to talk about that as well.

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(12:44):
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Speaker 6 (12:57):
We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexwerth on
sports talk.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
All right, I promise we were gonna We're gonna do
our best to talk sport, you know, like a sports
talk show. This is but see when Blums in studio,
it's it's like it just becomes like noogie radio is
what it becomes like. I don't know how you does
t K keep you guys on task. He has to
write and you try to break it. If it was
I tried to break him. No that that's a goal

(13:32):
of mine. There's been a handful of times that I've
been able to do it.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
But but if it ever, you know, my producer does
a good job of keeping me on the rails because
we've got experience together. I started at the same time
he started and Julia started, so we've obviously got the
rep you know, the respect for each other and the rhythm,
the rhyme, the chaos. But my producer, Carl Patterson knows
very well when I'm starting to get a little sketchy,

(13:59):
you go yeah, and he'll get my ear and he'll
be like, we got stay on task here. And granted
because our shows are crazy, foal. Now with everything that
we're doing, with this ball club being so good in
the past couple of years, but if it really starts
to get kind of odd and I start to, you know,
go off on tangents that TK is. Definitely he's he's
the bumpers on the lane to keep me going straight.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I can see that, I could, I could, absolutely he's
He does.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
It appropriately too. He doesn't.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
He'll never call me out, he'll never embarrass me. He'll
just be kind of like, oh, let's get back to
the games to count, you.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Know, yeah, oh man, all right, So since you've been gone,
uh or just okay for a song, I know, right,
especially if Kelly Clarkson were to sing it, I feel
like not only baseball, but a lot of just a
lot of Houston sports landscape kind of stuff has happened
in general. I'm sure if nothing else, you were keeping

(14:52):
an eye on the Texans game over the weekend, and
especially with your Chargers.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
You know, sorry about that.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
First of all, standard operating procedure, even with even with
harball at the helm, right, it started to move the
way it did, and you're like, yep, here we go. Really,
oh yeah, remember Shottenheimer.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I was about to say, did I feel like you
had you got Shottenheimer?

Speaker 4 (15:11):
I did.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
I don't want to take anything away from what the
Texans did, because the game plan defensively, obviously getting back
to full health and having a lot of those guys healthy.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
But the way they.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
They they made Herbert move and kept him in the
pocket and didn't allow him to run was very impressible.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, the funny thing is, you know the defense actually
showed up at the start of the game.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, you know, they got the they got the call.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
You know, their alarm did not go.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
That was the only hope the Chargers had was to
get there early and score early and then just kind of.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
And they did their field goals and against an opportunistic
defense like that, which, by the way, probably has to
play like that, if not, better to have a chance
on the road at Arrowhead against the guy who has
Zebras on his side. Yeah, put it out there. We
all know what's You can get mad all you want,

(16:01):
but I sinked it. I was there in Kansas City.
I sinked it. I saw the ridiculous offensive pass interference
call on Tank Dell before he unfortunately ended up putting
his leg on backwards later in the game. I just
the Chiefs are the Chiefs are the Chiefs, and don't
tell me they haven't benefited from officiating. It happened in
the Super Bowl. Eagles fans, where are you at? You

(16:24):
guys know what I'm talking about. So I'm hoping that
doesn't come into play, But yeah, you're gonna have to
have because you said it, like Justin Herbert, I guess
can run if he has to. He's not a mobile quarterback, no,
And Patrick Mahomes is the exact opposite. So you know, yeah,
you have guys that can get after the quarterback. They're
gonna feast if you don't get rid of it. And
they did that this weekend. You know, the Texans defense

(16:46):
absolutely spectacular. But here's the thing, And not to take
anything away from Jim Harbaugh because ironically, he was in
that building around this time last year winning a national
championship with Michigan, and there he was with the Chargers
and we all saw how it unfolded. Not to take
anything away from him, but Andy Reid is a different
animal on the NFL level. And listen to Tamiko Rans

(17:10):
was talking about you know, just the respect he has
for Andy Reid. And you give a guy enough time
to game plan for anybody, let alone you know the
Texans and the issues that they've have offensively. Here was
Tamiko Rans yesterday talking about Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
What I've admire most about Andy is the consistency in
which he's led his teams has He doesn't change in
his approach. It's been effective. Of God's love to play
for Andy. I love playing for Andy. He's he's a
great head coach.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Smart coach, puts.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
His players in positions to thrive. You see him, you know,
kind of Taylor the offense to fit Patrick's abilities, and
it's worked out well for him. Right, He's been very successful.

Speaker 8 (17:51):
Right.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
He has a lot of good coaches around him as well.
Andy does a great job of just finding a way
to win, you know, whatever it takes to win games,
and he's gonna find a way to do that, and
that's why he's been one of the most successful coaches
in our game.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's a nice way, that's a very professional, very subtle
way of saying, this guy is an absolute witch and
will ruin you and embarrass you if you're not ready
to game plan yourself for what he brings to the
table in all three facets of the game.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
But how does he do it in Week one? That's
crazy to me because if you look at the teams
that he's had the last two three years to win
the Super Bowls, they've kind of been different than what
we're watching. I feel like we're watching in this Kansas
City Chiefs this season because he hasn't had that depth
of wide receiver where they can go ahead and stretch
the field and go downfield and just start dropping bombs
and getting deep on guys. Running back has been a

(18:42):
carousel for many reasons with injuries or guys just not producing,
and then all of a sudden, he figures out that
maybe five to seven yeard pass every other play is
going to win us more games and lose. And that's
exactly what he's done. You're talking about quarterbacks managing games.
He is managing this team as well as we've ever seen.
It probably been a bigger challenge this season in the

(19:03):
previous two.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, you mentioned the running back situation. We all you know,
Pachecko's been in and out of the lineup, but it's
been a carousel, Like you said, how about the wide
receiver Tyreek Hill went to the Dolphins and it was like, well,
there goes the Chiefs. Like what he's trying to get
out of Miami already supposedly allegedly, but yeah, like Andy Reid,
and he's done this at different stops. Like somebody who

(19:27):
was talking about this, I think I think it might
have been Chandler that brought up yesterday. But whoever it was,
you know, you've got You've got Mahomes already not breathing
down Brady's neck, but he's not thirty yet, and he's
already got almost a handful of rings.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, his head coach is chasing down Bill Belichick, you know,
because as they go it's a it's a partnership for sure,
and he's not going anywhere. The only thing that probably
stops this, if we're being honest with ourselves, is Andy
Reid saying, all right, I got step beside, because that's what.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
I was I was going to actually ask you. I
don't know how old Andy Reid is. I know he's
been doing it for a very long time. But at
the same time, at what point, because Mahomes is going
to in football life is going to outlive Andy Reid.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Andy Reid sixty six. Yeah, he turned sixty seven in March, so.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Three four more again, you get four more years out
of Andy Reid. That's phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, I think we all had Bill Belichick at seventy
three going and coaching North Carolina on our Bengo cards.
Hell no, what was that. I still don't believe it
until he's on the sideline and.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
See him in a baby blue cutoff sleeves. Hoodie's gotta
have it. Stay on brand.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Good.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, you gotta stay on brand, Lord Vader.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, so so Andy Reid and in Patrick Mahomes, that
is that's a lot to chew on if you're any team,
and especially going up there. You know that game was
just before Christmas, literally a few days before Christmas, and
it was I want to say, when I got to
the stadium that morning, low thirties. It warmed up to

(21:03):
like high thirties. But you're talking about like nineteen or
something like that on Saturday at three thirty when this
game kicks off. I haven't taken a look today at
what the weather forecast is, and it'll change, I'm sure,
but it's no joke. Now, somebody said, well, I mean
Texans can't do that. They're a warm seat, tam Dude.
Their quarterback played at Ohio State. It actually gets colder
up there, So I'm not worried about that. But I

(21:25):
am worried about that offensive line blocking for him a lot.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I think we've been worrying about that all year. Yeah,
I mean that's why c J. Strouder, you know, has
been Oh he's you know, last year was an apparition.
We you know, this year is the reality? Is it
really the reality? I don't think it's the reality of CJ. Shroud.
I think the reality of CJ. Shroud was that last
game against the Chargers. He is going to show up.
He's the only quarterback that got anywhere near throwing three

(21:49):
hundred yards or what he throwed two eighty five to
eighty two or something like that. He's the only quarterback
in that first round of playoffs it actually did any damage,
thank Unico Collins. But uh, I think the line is
a big concern. And you know, having who's at Chris
Jones in the middle of the kids defensive line, I
was just gonna say, what a beast, because if you

(22:09):
even put two, your two, possibly three, or having somebody
chip him, whatever it may be.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
He's there, jord On.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
He is going to be the center of attention. And
so those guys on the peripheral going up against that
line of the Houston Texans that you worry about.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, it's going to open up some avenues. It's going
to be a tall task. It's going to be a
tall task, especially with the interior. See this guy watched football.
You guys are sleeping on Blum's football knowledge. Trust me
on this. This is the reason I brought him in today.
All right. Every day around two thirty, we do a
segment called the best of X. You're gonna love this
because I don't think you've heard this yet. It's another Okay,

(22:43):
it's another.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
What is the best of X? What I mean that
makes him no sense? Well it's Twitter, Yeah I know,
but I mean that's what I mean. There's nothing good
about it.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
So that's true. We find things that qualify.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
But the best part is the intro to the segment,
which was sung by a guy on this show named
after me, And it's not me.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
I think I've actually heard this school.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
So when we come back.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You'll hear that it involves Kate Upton and Bia McTaggart.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Oh oh, I don't know about the tags. I gonna
know about Kate.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I think you're I think you know what I'm getting that.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
But in case you missed it, which is another segment
on the show later that's coming up next here on
the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety, we now return
to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexworth on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Did you all see this?

Speaker 9 (23:36):
We're putting out between five and fifteen posts a day.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Four hundred people were arrested for things that they said
on social media.

Speaker 10 (23:43):
History repeats itself type bangils succeed.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Never doubt that you're the one two puss for no
one building.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
You're the best.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
Nothing's gonna ever top.

Speaker 10 (23:57):
You know, you're the best post an every single day,
You're the best of it, breaking the entire internet.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (24:11):
The range is incredible?

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I know.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know what's funny.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
One of the best pictures of you two is you
both singing into a microphone. Oh yeah, one yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
That was our probably our best performance yet is when
we had to share a microphone. I meant those days
spit back in the day.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Being able to go out to dike in Park.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
I don't think I've said that yet.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is it Dyking or Dacon, Yeah, dyke in Thoughts, dike
in Park? Okay, yeah, I actually can't. I can't in Fuld.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I don't know if I'll get in trouble for this,
but I've said it plenty before it became dike in Park.
Because there's there's you. You got to get a feel
for it and I and then that was part of
my job last year was too.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's always part of your job.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
To kind of behind the scenes give give, gives the entities.
What it's gonna sound like, it's well, it.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Just left dyke in Park. Yeah, it's gonna sound Yep,
it'll be.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's gonna be similar. It'll be similar.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know what the most I know we're gonna get
to the best you gotten.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
I mean, is it the ice box? I mean that's
what that's like. The pressure is like what do we
call it? Now, what's going to be in the back
of the train.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
It's going to be in the back of the train,
gonna be ice cubes.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Or something has to be maybe a robot.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
And then you know, those oranges were always radioactive size.
It's gonna be over like I would put it's gonna
be like ice blocks. Yeah, I would go over the
top because you know, I'm Jim Crane in this scenario,
I would actually put dry ice in there that runs
the entire game.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
I was gonna say, just have like that, just the
smoke coming off at the entire time.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Like how much is dry Eyes really?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Who cares?

Speaker 4 (25:43):
And it doesn't matter be worked into the budget.

Speaker 8 (25:47):
Perhaps Jim Crane trades for the freeze from Atlanta and
that's an an inning entertainment.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'd bring the freeze in. I would like that.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I would I think dry Eyes for all eighty one
home games plus playoffs, yeah is more than I mean,
you didn't pay Alex Bregman, so you saved all that money.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, and it's a it's a new sponsorship. I mean,
we know what goes with that.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
You gotta do it. Yeah, absolutely, money, that's what goes
with that. Oh my goodness. All right, sorry now you're
talking job. He's he's probably hate listening right now. Okay,
Obviously Justin Verlander will not be back with the Astros.
As crazy as this sounds, we know that for a fact,
we still don't know that Alex Bregman, for a fact,

(26:33):
won't be until he signs with somebody else. But you know,
as is usually the case, these players get introduced to
the media, and he did a zoom call, which I
thought was kind of odd because normally they bring him in, right.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
It's just In Verlander, I mean the the show, bring
the show into the.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Tigh and all that kind of stuff. But whatever, just
a regular old button down with no jersey on a
zoom call. The problem was he he didn't log out
from the previous user's profile if you will, when he
did this, and and so somebody from the media saw that. Well,
we were getting the thoughts on Justin Verlanders signing with

(27:12):
the Giants from Kate Upton and it sounded like this
and have always admired, but that's the way that he
takes care of.

Speaker 11 (27:23):
Name.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
If you guys can just all all the media on here,
if you can just.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Mute yourselves, please, I'll change it, all.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Right, I'll change it's the best part. So the obviously
good if you haven't seen it, and it's radio, so
it's kind of hard. One of the reporters mics was unmuted.
He pulled a He was the opposite of Mark Berman.
Mark Burman used to be like during COVID Mark Burman
would always be on a zoom call and there'd be
like fifty other people on the zoom call and their
pictures were up. Okay, we're gonna call on such and

(27:51):
such to ask David Kully a question. Berman, please unmute
your mic. He was always muted. Well, this is the opposite.
This guy was talking freely and his mic was not muted.
And he's like, look at his name. Can't believe he
did that, Michael, who was he talking to? Was he
talking to like somebody in the room for a roommate?
Would he talking to somebody else on his zoom? Check
it out? Just name on the thing. And in the

(28:13):
process he embarrasses himself and so Justin.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well I love the pr guy that jumps in too.
He's like, hey, could you shut the Yeah, hey, could.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
You you please everybody mute your mix so we cannot
have this happening.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
And then they give credit to Justin. He could just
destroy the gun, you know, but he was like, I'll
change the name. I got it, and you've done it
a million times, even around him enough to understand how
like this is almost adorable.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, But to me what I heard was all right, dude,
I'll take it off if it's bothering you that much.
Like it's just one of those things that's really small.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Do you think what if Kate just kind of rolled
in and goes, hey, justin, I'll set this up for
you to get ready to go.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, I'll log in for you. Watch this. She drops
her name in there, it's like, what well or he
she's off to the side and this whole thing happens
and then she shoves him out of the way. What
it's me? Yeah, that would be greatlious. You know she
was probably like right next to him.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
No, she was probably in like on the other side
of the camera hopefully.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah. Yeah yeah. See this is radio still for another.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
I was looking at the clock when I was making
that comment.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
This is why we're going to get fired. So that's
not even the only thing. Okay, So you you love
Brian McTaggart. I love Brian McTaggart.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
How do you not The man is mister I mean
other than Kevin Eshenfetder. He is mister Houston.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Exactly, and he's an American Treasure on top of Treasure
and the brawls on X cry Kid. Oh my gosh, dude,
that's I'm still ripping that line. Yes, it wasn't even
like he just did it too, and like, if you
know him, it's just so subtle.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
I wish.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I hope he brings the mullet back in twenty five.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Have you ever heard him do karaoke?

Speaker 6 (29:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh, George Straight, George Stray to a t Is it
all country? Or makes it?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
That's all George Stray? You name anything off any one
of his albums. He will step up to the mic
in any bar, any given time and sing it.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
So my favorite.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well, so he's better than Matt Thomas doing karaoke, which
happened last week.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
We all just pull that?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Do I love that? Shade throm No McTaggart getting the
picture with George Straight on the night of Game six,
when the Astros clenched the World Series for a second time.
I'm his head must have exploded. Yeah, that's the peak.
It's all downhill from there, right. I would have retired
if I were him. He glad he didn't.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Yeah, me too. He's good people to have around.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Especially when a stupid GM of our rivals up North
starts running his mouth. Oh boy. Anyway, McTaggart found a
tweet from Field Yates and you guys know field Yates
ESPN personality Fantasy footballer.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah, NFL guy.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
The book Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy that AJ Brown
was reading on the sidelines, and yesterday's wild Card game
moved up from five hundred and twenty third thousand, four
hundred and ninety seventh on the list to first on
Amazon's best seller list. So what does mctagger do. Yeah, overnight,

(31:15):
just because it was on TV America is the best
it is. So McTaggart quote tweets that and says, if
any Astros players want to read my book in the dugout,
holler at your boy.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
He throws a book emoji on.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
This shameless plug by tags.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
And I'm ashamed to say that I don't even own it,
but if I did, he's got to personalize it to me.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Okay, he would do that in a harpeat. Oh, I
know he would.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, but he'd be like, you're paying for it, Yeah,
you're buying your copy, damn right.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
I love it all right. So that's a little flavor
of the best of X.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
We kind of peruse the streets of Twitter, the artist
formerly known as Twitter, and we find things like that
and bring it to you after WEX sings. Obviously, Blumb
is in for WEX last day. He will return, but
Blum is with us until five o'clock. Here on a
Tuesday edition of The A Team, we will continue discussing
all things Texans and that Rockets win last night was

(32:09):
fantastic as well, and we will get to what are
you doing Jerry Jones?

Speaker 3 (32:14):
All of that still ahead here on the eighteen.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
Ninety, we now return to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexworth on.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is the eight Team sports Talk seven ninety one
segment away from when Jeff Blum and I will switch
over to the televised portion of the program. That's when
things get really spicy and we might actually get fired.
Well I would, nobody's gonna fire you. You're a Houston treasure.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
We uh doesn't mean you can't push.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
It always, you got to you got to push the limit.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Listen. I know we're gonna get to the Texans. I
know we're gonna get to some some rockets low. You
can do whatever you want. Well, yeah, and that's the
beauty of what's not being here, is that you can
do whatever you want. Well, when Dad's here, you have
to behave yourself somewhat true. I still push the limit,
but you know, there's only so many eye rolls I
can elicit before I have to start, you know, getting
back on track. But no, I wanted to. It's something

(33:29):
that happened, you know, in the past, but relatively recently,
and since I have you in here, I mean, for
those of you who don't know, this isn't Jeff's day job.
He actually has a really sweet gig doing color for
Astros games on Space City whole network. Here man, all
of that, I know checks in the mail for nothing.

(33:50):
What gets you paid during friendship? Right now? Well, I
said it schedule. He thinks I'm kidding. I wanted to
see him. I missed it. I missed his musk, as
they say.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
But no, it's out there.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
We want to get Papa Burgundy's reaction to one Jack Peterson.
If you could pick I mean, other than Joe Kelly,
if you could pick a guy that would be perfect
to go to the most hated in state rival in
the baseball realm for Astros fans. I don't know if

(34:23):
you could have picked anybody other than Joe Kelly that
would have fit the bill the way Jack Peterson and
his pearl wearing I guess press conference.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Gosh, and this guy.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I honestly, after I heard this, I wanted to I
wanted to call up Tommy fam and have him slap
him in the face.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Again.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
This was Jock Peterson, and I just I just wanted
to get, you know, our boy. Jeff Blum's reaction to this.

Speaker 12 (34:48):
Played the Astros a couple of times in the World Series,
and they've they put together a nice little run and
it's coming to an end and it's time for us
to uh to take over the West.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
A nice little run. Part of that run was sending
you home.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
And another part of that run, well, all the parts
of that run were you were being a mercenary bouncing
from team to team. Not even a mercenary, that's too
strong of a term. Yeah, mercenaries get the job done.
You looked fat and wore pearls and rode how He
you wrote, not Howie Kendrick, you wrote Jorge Solar, And yeah,

(35:26):
I was gonna say he was. He was a who
did the he braves everybody but him basically.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Yes, it just against the actual seam that's beat the hell.
By the way, that was probably the worst World Series
team that they showed in the four that they showed
up in.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Still bitter about nineteen, Yeah, I'm bitter about eighteen that.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
If they well, we've we've belabored that point. If they
win in twenty nineteen, they might be arguably one of
the better teams ever in the game of baseball.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
To steal a bit from the Matt Thomas Show, Chandler
and I are walking out after the show yesterday, and
the last thing I said to him before he went
to the left and I went to the right, to
our respective sides of the parking garage, why didn't AJ
put in Garrett Cole. He said he was never going
to take him out. He's never going to replace him
in the middle of an inning, is I guess?

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Was his You want to get those starters clean innings.
But I understand that philosophy, But don't moments change things
a little bit and you take chances maybe.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Where you can.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
And Garrett was a raging Bowl.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
That was I was just saying, angry Garrett doesn't He's
not paying attention who's on the base pass. He's only
focused on one thing. That's that guy standing at the dish.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
Am.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
I the only one that thinks that angry Garrett's just
not as angry anymore. He's he doesn't have any facial hair.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
He's different. Yeah, No, there's something different about him. I
mean obviously visually, but there was some movie, there was
some internal there was some internal angst that made him
really good those couple of years here with Houston.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I don't I know, he's won a cy Young since
leaving here, so technically that I guess that would be
concent that are a better season. I don't think he's
ever going to and I don't think he's ever had
a better season than twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
No, I completely agree. That's well that that season got
him that contract, obviously, Yeah, and you'll never be able
to match that. I know that you get older, stuff changes,
but at the same time, it doesn't look like his
stuff has changed much.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Maybe just a little more of the attitude.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
It looks like Jack Peterson's stuff has changed.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Yeah, completely, Well, yeah, the universe, Yeah, I mean they
unlives have changed a little bit.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
How many teams had that since twenty seventeen six.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
At least four at Ias just trying to find him
a home too. It's not something where you're going, oh,
this guy's going to be my left fielder, we need
a left handed power bat. I know he's got the experience,
the postseason exposure, you know, he's he's he's delivered in
certain situations. But at the same time, if he has
been the guy that he thinks he is, why has

(37:48):
he bounced around?

Speaker 2 (37:50):
He just to me, I mean, he clearly understood the
assignment at the introductory press conference. But if I'm a
Ranger fan, why am I going damn it? Why does
he keep bringing them up? Corey Seeger?

Speaker 4 (38:01):
Yeah, why can't you just show up and say that
we're going to take over the West. It's just say,
we all know who's lead in the West for the
last decade.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Right at the victory parade, Corey Seger saying, you know, yeah,
we didn't win, We'll never know.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Well, we knew what happened the next year.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Nobody knows that you won because you played the Diamondbacks
and you're having a parade around your stadium in Arlington.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
I just I know the the Then the Dodgers say
it again in this when you Know when they beat
the Yankees, they said that as soon as the Astros
are knocked out, it's, you know, that was the team
to beat. And then all of a sudden, the National
League real actses as soon as the Astros are not
in the conversation anymore, all of a sudden, their path
is a little bit clear. They looked forward to playing
the Yankees. Nobody in this run the Astros have been

(38:49):
on it said thank god, we're playing the Astros. Never,
not one time. To be fair, that's maybe twenty one. Well, no, no, no,
the organization certainly didn't.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
But those dumb ass fans that were outside the subway
station saying we want Houston, they definitely asked for that
ass kicking they got and what you wish for?

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Four or nothing? Sweep. I I could not make that
video fast enough that day.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Oh kind of made itself, it did, Yeah, the jokes
writing themselves. Yeah, I'll tell you what I was. For
whatever reason, I got onto a I got into a
rabbit hole on YouTube and I saw the jose Al
twove three run shot in Game five and twenty three
against the Rangers, and the comments, there's a the first

(39:32):
comment you've seen. I don't know if it's the truth
for everybody, but on my profile, for whatever reason, under
the comments, the first one you see is a Yankees
fan and he says that he goes Yankees fan here,
this guy is a god, And I'm like, hey man,
that's that's respect. And he's in discriminate. Yeah, I just yeah,
the wrath will come down and it doesn't matter what

(39:54):
team it is.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Well, it seems like the more vitriol there is coming
from a fan base, he'll.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Be yeah, keep chanting, see what happens.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Well, that's what I said. I that one time he
hit that home run in Yankee Stadium. I was just like,
oh my goshun shows keep booing, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
He didn't care, he doesn't and he just runs around
the bases like he's done in a million times because
he has. Meanwhile, Jordon's hitting two off of Garrett Cole
and he's letting out his own expletives tanks and your.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Cameras are picking it up.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, he tried to beat him with
a fastball and a change up and both of them
got absolutely obliterated.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Hey, speaking of Jordon, you know, since we have it
and you're here, remember that time Todd Kallis was broken.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
I thought he broke. I thought he was gonna have
to catch him.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Sounded like this, Oh my goodness, are you kidding me?

Speaker 5 (40:39):
This ball is odd way out of here.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
What is the longest home run to that history in
the ballpark. I don't think the ball's ever landed up there. Money,
Oh so good? All right?

Speaker 3 (40:57):
She case she hadn't figured it out. Jeff Blum Studio.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
We will particularly, we will attempt to keep it professional
on the televised side of thing. Our number two coming
up next here on the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety.
What is Jerry Jones doing? And yeah, we'll reset Texans
rockets and so much more. It's a Tuesday edition of
the program. Glad you're here to join us, and yeah,

(41:21):
Blum will be here until five o'clock.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
We're taking you up until six.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
It is the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety and
soon to be on Space City home network.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
The eighteen. On Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 1 (42:30):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
It's three o'clock here on sports Talk seven ninety five
four three two one, and now we're apparently on camera
on Space City Home Network. And by we, I mean myself,
Adam Clanton and that guy, the guy who runs this building.
Drink it in, always goes down, smooth, always, all right,

(43:05):
So Jeff Blum in a heavy dose of sex panther
coming your way until five o'clock. He has every time
we're gonna get fired. Is that gasoline. I'm gonna be honest,
this smells like pure gadh. That's quite pungent.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
All right, things the nostrils.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Brian Fantana and Adam Clanton here on a Tuesday edition
of the show. In case, in case you haven't figured
it out, Wex is out for one more day. He'll
be back tomorrow. Blum has been chopper him in. I
gotta get him. We gotta get him into the studio.
This is going off the rails, there is I love it.
Tuesday's Arms and Beck. All right. We talked a little

(43:43):
bit about the Texans in the first hour. Rockets clutching
up at home last night. Man, the Memphis Grizzlies are
so imminently hateable. I know you're not a big NBA guy,
but you work Spacity home network, so you can't help
but sort.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Of have some of it rub off on you.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
It is.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Too Yeah, well that was all on the thread.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
It was a group email. He kept hitting reply all
they have been elite defensively and showed that again last
night and email U Doka. If you can't get on
board with him being your head coach, then I don't
want to be friends with you.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
ED coaching in Houston is strong right now.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
How about the fact that during the hiring cycle and
Joe Aspota was the year prior. Yep, but you got
Joe's spot, who I think everybody wanted, even like people
bag on him and I don't get it, Well what
do you want? But people who initially were like, all right,
let's give a spot at his shot, He's finally his
name was constantly mentioned.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
I'm interviewing him this week for astral Line by the way,
that'll be right here on seven ninety. Yeah, he is
the best and I'm looking forward to talking to him
because this is a this will be a different year
for Joe a spot in the Astros. Sorry little sidebar,
no go ahead. But at the same time, I think
that the head coaching if you're going to look at
something in Houston. Obviously you need GMS. You got a
draft right, make the right trades, pick up some free
agent acquisitions. But at the same time, I love the

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fact that you've got these guys in place in Houston
who are motivators, who don't really put up with a
lot of bs or like perform and you'll play we're
gonna do things this way. I love that kind of attitude.
And I feel like that's how the Rockets are because
a couple of years ago, when you started to have
some of these drafts where we're drafting nineteen twenty year
old type guys. Now they're twenty two to twenty three,

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and I mean, man, they're playing the game the right
way and at the right time.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
And amen Thompson and I used this, I hesitated. I
sat in that chair. I think it might have been
a little over a couple of weeks ago. I think
it might have been last week, and I said, look,
I know this is gonna anytime you make some sort
of statement like this and you use a Hall of
Fame name, you're gonna get blowback.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Come on now, or they just don't like the comparison.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
If I said, Look, it's not necessarily how he plays,
and he certainly doesn't have the shooting prowess yet. But
Amen Thompson to me, could be and is becoming in
my opinion the Rockets. Scottie Pippen, he does it all.
It's not a bad thing.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
He's a defense to just freak.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Hopefully he doesn't write a book and whine about Michael
Jordan in twenty years from now like Scotty did. But
Scotti Pitten Junr was on the floor last night speaking
of which. But I'm telling you, Amen Thompson, to see
him recover on a drive by John Morant. John Morant
is one of the top He's probably a top ten
NBA player at this point and certainly top five athletically athlete,

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and Amen Thompson recovered flat footed and blocked his shot
and started a fast break the other.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Way, and I'm like, WHOA, you don't see that very often.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Gut check win last night for a Rockets team that
trailed most of the night, and now they're three to
zero for this series. I mean, ty breakers already done.
So you know you're talking about the two seed in
the Rockets, three seed in Memphis Grizzlies. Everybody's playing catch
up Paul Ball, as Rick Flair likes to say, to
the Oklahoma City thunder in the West. And the Rockets
got a second consecutive gut check victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.

(46:56):
And oh, by the way, they're gonna turn out and
play them again at the end of the month, so
that series will be done. Rockets are going for the
series sweep, and I'll talk about the numbers of just
how impressive that that win was. Huge surprise spoiler alert,
These numbers I'm going to go over later in the
show are directly from the Wexler research team. I don't

(47:16):
know if you've heard of it. It's been mentioned a
few times on this show. Not even a little bit
surprised that I saw a tweet like this from wex
So I'll.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Reference that later.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
The Texans obviously continuing to prepare for the Kansas City
treat Chiefs up in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium. We
all know what that means. We heard from Demiico Ryans
earlier about Andy Reid and the legend that is Andy Reid,
and specifically the legend is that is Andy Reid and
Pat mahomes as a marriage, if you will. In the
NFL going to be a very tough out. The Texans

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defense is going to have to do what it did
against the Chargers, and then some sorry about your Chargers again.
You guys know that he played for the Padres and
had season tickets. Yeah, we just kind of home.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Yeah, Yeah, Herbert was throwing around at greased bebee. It
was going right through their hands. Well he shoot, they
were wiping it off and letting it get into the
hands of the Texans. But it was beautiful to watch
that defense do what they did because they completely just
embarrassed what the Chargers were trying to do.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
If they weren't baptizing him in the backfield, they were
taking the ball and nearly running it back twice once
they did get it done. And uhn, Derek Stingley Junior,
he's the best corner in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I'll talk about that later on as well.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
But the other thing I wanted to talk to you about,
and as the as the world turns that is the
Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
And I'm sorry, like you know, wex wex.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Hates it because I'll bring up the Yankees and the
Cowboys on this show in a nordon amount of times.
What he doesn't realize is there's a method to my madness.
Those are two of the Holy Trio of T shirt
front running fan bases, the Lakers being the third America's team. Yeah,
Americas proclaimed America's team the okay in a league where
the Patriots have owned the better part of the last

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two plus decades, and their name is the Patriots. You
look silly calling yourself America's team when he and blue. Yeah,
and nineteen ninety six because that was the last time
they won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Gosh, has it been that long?

Speaker 3 (49:14):
I was in high school?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Think about that, and the Steelers were in it that
they beat and they weren't coached by Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Crazy, that's how long it's been. So when I see
today that.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
How does a fan base carry that that much? Wait
for that long?

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Well, I don't want to get into your personal life,
but your wife hat it.

Speaker 11 (49:33):
She was.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
I mean, we have triplets, but she was a fan
of the triplets when they were in in Dallas.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Which one was named after Troy, which one was named
after Immatett.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Well, having four girls, it's tough too, Well for me,
it can be j Novachek. Yeah, yeah, better than Alvin Harper,
way better than Alan Harper. But it's just crazy how
that's carried over and yeah, she's a fan. I mean,
it's it's become a punk, but it's become a punchline.
They've become paid saying that. But now I believe it
more than I maybe did before, because we'll be hanging out,

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you'll have friends over where everybody will be watching, or
you start texting, and all of a sudden, it's like,
at least they're not the cowboys. Yeah, because it's become
that punchline where it's just it's their expectations are always
greater than the team, and it's because of the star.
And I don't understand that because there's never been anything
to back that up. You've had a good run with
Ezekiel Elliott, You've got Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott now

(50:28):
and they've underperformed. Yet you continue to go out there
and give the massive contracts for Prescott.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Because they were losing before he got hurt this year. Yes,
And I just don't understand it.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
And now you've got a coaching vacancy and you're considering
bringing in a guy like Dion Sanders, So I mean,
how big can that tent be?

Speaker 2 (50:47):
That was one of those things where I saw it
today and it was Adam Schefter's tweet and I said,
all right, I have I.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Thought people were saying it on the side like ha ha, Dion, because.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
It's you know why they were saying it on the
side as a joke, because it's almost too ridiculous to
not say because it's Jerry.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
That's the only reason that brings it into relevance is
because of Jerry Jones.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
I've got a buddy who shout out to to Stugie.
He knows who, he knows what I'm talking about. This
guy is a die hard Cowboys and Spurs fan and
he's going through it right now because he never wanted
them to draft Vicked or women yamah, which Victor is
putting up big numbers now on a five hundred team,

(51:28):
by the way, and I just I'm just waiting for
him to turn into Ralph Samson. He's a pumpkin, you guys,
You guys in San Antonio, enjoy him while his knees last.
I promise you it's coming.

Speaker 13 (51:37):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Sorry, I'm gonna put that out there that's just I've
seen too much. I know too much about how the
sausage is made. But forget the spurs. He is in
dire straits over the Cowboys. My cousin in law, same way.
He's from Central Texas, went to Baylor, diehard Cowboys fan,
and I sent him Schefter's tweet last night. You want
to know He texted back to me. He goes, well,
it's been three decades, what's a fourth Jeezuy, that's where

(52:01):
he's at. Yeah, and I can't even imagine, Like.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
So the fan, if you're a Cowboys fan, you're almost expected.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I've said this for you, and I'm not a Cowboys
fan in any right obviously, but I was like, you're
not gonna win another super Bowl until Jerry either sells
the team or dies. His culture is that brand, and
his son has even said, I can't do anything until
he's not saying it, but in so many words, he's
saying like there's nothing's gonna change, and he's right, like

(52:30):
Jerry Jones talking to Dion Sanders. That looks sexy on paper,
does it though, because of the personality, But.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
That's the only thing. He's got a coach, But that's
that's what I'm saying. It's if you Dion Sanders is
gonna be on the marquee, it's gonna sell tickets, it's
gonna get more media attention than they probably deserve to
get in there. But at the same time, ultimately, if
we're talking about it, I guess, pragmatically, what did Dion
do at the University of Colorado that said, yes, he

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is an NFL coach.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
That's my guy.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
That's my guy. That's who that's who's going to turn
this organization around.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Well, and you know, it seems like it's kind of
like a talking point or low hanging fruit or whatever,
but you've got to realistically expect almost well, if we
bring in Deon Sanders, he's gonna want them to draft Shadure.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Well, that's the next layer of it, because you just
signed Dak. Who's going to trade that contract?

Speaker 3 (53:29):
You know it would be funny though.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
The most Dallas thing ever would be they would they
would go through with that ridiculous plan, trade Dak and
wherever he lands, he just blows up.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
He's awesome.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I was gonna say, he finds the right offense, the
right receivers. Look at Oh my gosh, Why am I drying?
What is Sam Darnold until last night? Oh yeah, I was,
except for one game.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
But I mean that's what happened to him.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
He got out of a dysfunctional organization and like he
darn near had, the Vikings have their best season in
regular history, regular season history.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
It's incredible to think that you can move a quarterback
into a situation like that. Obviously, his receiving cor out
there in Minnesota's ridiculous, but you can game plan around
a guy and make a make it turn a guy
into a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
You're always and by the way, speaking of quarterbacks, you're
always looking for that franchise quarterback and until you get him,
you're really probably not going to go anywhere in today's NFL. So,
speaking of which, when we come back, someone wasn't happy
about that busted play that turned into like a fifty
yard game that CJ. Stroud ripped off against the Chargers
on Saturday afternoon. You will hear from that person when

(54:32):
we come back here on the A Team the eighteen
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (54:40):
We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler on
Sports Talk seven ninety's The.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
A Team Sports Talk you heard you heard me? Did
a stut up Stanley, one of my favorite characters on
the Office. No, it does not. If Blama and I
are together, at least on the air, if not off
the air, and we haven't been around each other in
a while, two thousand and five comes up at least once,

(55:15):
and usually I'm.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
The one that brings it up, believe it or not
every time.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Well maybe if it didn't happen against the Astros, I
wouldn't have to do that, now would I?

Speaker 4 (55:24):
But how come you don't where? How come you didn't
complain when I got traded to Tampa Bay and the
Great Loop Panela Tampa.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Bay Rays Because I didn't know you.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Then you didn't care until I showed up in two
thousand and five.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Now I like you, Yeah, but I didn't then.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
It's understandable.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
But I was prefraid, like I never talked about you
the way I talk about Jack Peterson or Joe Kelly.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
That's true. You didn't wear Yeah, no, that's not the thing.
I've had hair colors, but not pearls.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
That's the only thing people could point to. And it's
honestly not that big of a thing. Because Roger Clemens
did the same dumb thing with his hair.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Our team did a good job.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
He was doing jobs a Rodman behind the plate. But like,
if you go back and look at that home run
you hit, there's nothing about it. You didn't You didn't
stomp your feet like adults I do, steroids, Garcia, You
just ran around the bases, You blew a kiss to
your wife, who wasn't there. No, she wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
But we've we've gone through the story.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
We know all that.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Like some of the reason why I didn't trust me.
I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
I wanted to be It's the biggest stage in the world,
and you just did with every kid mimics in their backyard,
their whole lives.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
But the only reason I didn't is because I spent
time in that clubhouse, because I spent time in that dugout,
and I was competing against guys that I was trying
to do that with.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Second time out, time out. If I think what I'm hearing,
if that wasn't in Made.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Mark, if it wasn't or against the Astros, what would
you have done. I'm a tideline of Dave Parker, the
you know what out of that thing. It would be
like a Crawford box. It would have been a Crawford
buck that. Yeah, I would have I would have strutted
that thing out, yeah, because Yeah, there was just no
way I was going to do that in front of
guys that I really respected, and you know, they kind

(57:09):
of they kind of taught me how to play the game, right,
So I just wanted to show them to respect.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
That's of all the conversations we've had about this topic,
you've never told me that that's No, that's a percent
of the red. Yeah. I'm very happy right now. In
a weird way, I'm trying. I'm trying to get back
into good graces, like knowing that it could have been
worse for me, Oh, it could have been way worse.
And by me, I mean all of Houston. Yeah, I'm
just I'm the voice of the fan here like that.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
There's a lot of other National League teams. Oh, if
that would have been against the Cardinals, Oh well, it
would have been outstanding, Yeah, because that would have been
because because back then National League and I went two
o three with the Astros fighting our asses off against
the Lewis Cardinals, and that was you know, everybody likes

(57:56):
to say the Cubs Cardinals. I know that's a natural rivalry.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Because I do bleep until twenty sixteen, thank you, Evan.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
And that's where I felt like it was the Astros
Cardinals more than it was the Cubs Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
And on the field.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
If if you asked those to uh those two clubhouses,
I guarantee you they'd say the same exact thing, because
that's how we felt too. They showed up and all
of a sudden, you kind of all of a sudden,
you know you John Singleton, the jersey on button, a
little bit chested out and try and do some damage.
But if that would have actually been against the Saint
Louis Cardinals, yeah, that would have been definitely a different

(58:27):
uh reaction.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Well, and I probably would have been, well, I know
I would have been cheering along, because I mean, I
don't know. I'm one of those people that like when
the Astros don't make the World Series, no matter how
the season went, whether it's this latest time we know
this about you manf that I'm a.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Oh, the Yankees are in the World Series.

Speaker 4 (58:46):
Great, You're not the guy that like cheers for the
team that beat your team to get to the or
you're cheering for I'll give it exam. You're cheering for
the division or you're cheering for the league.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
When Teresa and I were dating and not married yet,
So this is twenty fifteen, how the Astros get eliminated.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
That ground well against the Kansas City Royals, and you
did and that was Teresa's team.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Well it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
It was her mom's team. Teresa doesn't care.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
I mean she does, but she's like did.

Speaker 6 (59:11):
She use it?

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Like She's like, oh, this is gonna be great. I
just wanted to boyfriend. No, she wanted it to be
over because I was a wreck. And you know how
that series ended. Everything about it was frustrating. I'm with you,
and so you know obviously that that's over with and
the Royals go on to win the World Series and
very innocently poor things. She didn't know any better back then. Now,

(59:34):
she never would have even asked this question, let alone
expect No, she said, it wasn't even that wasn't he
was worse.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
This is how bad of a person I am. Are
you ready for this?

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Yep? She goes, I mean, aren't you happy for my mom?
Because the share team won the World Series? You know
what I said to her, no, I mean I went
off on a tirade. She's like, hey, I don't want
to talk the rest of the night. Yeah, I'm not kidding.
I wish I were making this up. Yeah, you guys think,
oh Adam, I love to me so Houston, you have
no idea I am on an off air. They're gonna

(01:00:04):
find me in my in my theater dead of a
heart attack after some gathering that well whatever film the
blank Houston team finally killed him.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Do you watch all of Houston sports with like meds
on the on the table next year?

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
That's my problem, med meds.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
And you don't drink. You don't do I wish that
we could really get into the options.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
I'll tell you what I obviously being here playing and
then broadcasting for a dozen years now, you start to
understand the Houston fan base. And it's not just an astro.
It's it's all very I'm not saying it's it's a
group effort on every sport. Well, what people I don't understand,
I've understood more because I'm hanging you responses.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Here's the thing, and this this really doesn't even apply
to me. I have a very very convoluted background with
my sports fandom. First of all, the fact that I
do this for a living is really a minor miracle,
since neither of my parents give up it almost it is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
But here's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
And if Houston fans would just sit down, take a breath,
and realize this, everything would make more sense in their
sports world. I can't make sense of the rest of
your lives, whatever's going on in them, but I can
tell you this. Once you realize that the Oilers actually
broke you, whether you want to admit it or not,
every needing except that starts to kind of permeate because
we're still dealing with remnants of that. Look at the

(01:01:24):
idiot daughter of Bud Adams. Oh, I can't dress up
like the Oilers. I was going for.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
You was not an Oiler fan growing up on the
West Coast. I knew who the Oilers were, understood everything.
I was pissed off when the Titans wore the Oilers
unit last year.

Speaker 14 (01:01:40):
I was mad.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I agree Ross had the best tech take on this road.
That effectively ended my love affair with those jerseys. Still
admit that they're beautiful, but you don't want to order
them anymore because you're you're in Tennessee. It's been twenty years.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Well that's what sucks about is this third again by
them doing that against the Texans and everybody talking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Now, what do you remember? What do you associate that
uniform with. That's the prop buffalo, here's the thing. You
want to embrace that thing? Yeah, you want to embrace Well,
then I guess the Tennessee Titans blew that thirty five
to three lead. I think tags or somebody was like,
it's been such and such years to the day since
the Tennessee title.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Absolutely, there's no other way. If you're going to wear
that uniform.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Oakland in Vegas, Vegas has to own all of it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Yep, I mean all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
They're the ones that had, you know, guys with syringes
hanging out of their backsides.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
The Sacto Vegas A's whatever they are.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sacramento Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
So I it's just yeah, I know, you've got to
take if you're going to steal a franchise and move them,
you got to take every piece of this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
This is why, in a weird way, Art Modell greater
than Bud Adams, because Art Modell took the Cleveland Browns
to Baltimore, where they've been an extraordinarily successful franchise, and
but he gave Cleveland the history of that they look,
you would never know that that team left for a
few years because there they are playing again, and nobody thinks, oh,

(01:03:07):
it's it's two point zero. It's no. The dog Pound exists,
the jerseys and colors exist. Meanwhile, you have Amy Adams Strunk,
who's probably hadn't written into her father's will that you
have to be a jackass like your dad was. I
can't think of any especially a woman. I mean, look,
women can be petty. We all know this, right, I'm
gonna get in so much trouble for the show today.
Women can be petty, but very rarely is it for

(01:03:30):
an actual good reason. I'm really getting in trouble for this.
This is a pert four girls and living in a
household of five. I'm just going to back off right now. No,
I'm right, I didn't say anything. The grudge is real.
I there.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
I so I've I've had dinner of thousands of dinners
with five females, yeah and.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Each other.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
I would say seventy percent of them. I literally sit
at the end of the table just in awe.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Why don't you call me because I'm I can watch too.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
It's incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
There are a different species man, and if you and if.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
You poke them the wrong way, it's over they but
you and I would we would we would be rolling
on the ground fighting. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
Yeah, and we sit back up and go at it.
I mean, shots get taken, so.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Their grudges over the years.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
Oh, they're done.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Question there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
There is a holster of silver bullets that every one
of my daughters has on each one at the table
is dude, you're like in the this is like uh
oh man, it's just it's they're just sitting there with
their hands at their side, just going dare me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
What's the what was the book about the wild Kids
on the Island? Oh, yes, that's what it sounds like
over there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
Not anymore, I quill, but that's but that's yeah, it's
it's you better be ready and and if you you
have to be able to take your shots, if you're
going to give the shots too. I don't know if
it's a little bit of clubhouse kind of mentality in there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
I like this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Yeah, it's impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
I like this a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Artemi is like, holy crap. I can't believe you just
said that part of me is going girl.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
It's like a Bravo show.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
You're living in shocking real housewives of the Blum Household.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
All right, just out dinner with us. That's all sudden, shout.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Out, all right when you come back. So that is
why someone wasn't happy about c J. Stroud's improvised play.
Just like I teased, we delivered it. You'll hear from
actually CJ when we come back about that very play.
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Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
Ye know, by the way, if you're listening or watching
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Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
I do this on purpose, and I love.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
It the fact that you can wake up and roll
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Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
You know what I noticed the first time takes me
all of.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
About three minutes to make this happen to doggle my
head today. Yeah, but during the season it's tight. The
lettuce is tight.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
Yeah, HD, you change his things a little bit. Yeah,
but uh no, I have threatened more than a handful
of times to shave my head, have you. Oh, dude,
I had a Texas driver's license that I had a
shaved head. It was down to like a one guard.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
It was tight.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Yeah, but that was because I had elbow surgery.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
I couldn't make this what it is that the yeah
could Yeah, I couldn't use both hands.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
It's a situation.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
It's a two hand job. Yeah, so the one hand
wasn't getting it done. So I shaved my head. And
I've always told my wife, I go, that was the
greatest six months of my life because I didn't have
to not when you die used frost tips, well those
were Yeah, that was good. But as far as maintenance man,
just rolling out of bed, throw a hat on, take
my hat off, hair was the same way no matter

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what bed heead no bed head.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Maybe to make you tell the Gwen Stefani story before
the end of the show, because when I think of
your hair like that, I think I have to go home.

Speaker 8 (01:07:31):
You know that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Right? Oh my bad.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Actually, the Fergie story is the one that gets me
in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
Oh I forgot about the first because.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Corey was I think three months pregnant at the time,
and that work over.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Well, we're definitely going to blow out one of these
pre planned segments for the Fergie story.

Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
Yeah, that that one that was a relationship tester for
both of us.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
You ever see Fergie seeing the national anthem but the
terrible Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Yeah, like and that's what my wife will be like,
that's the girl.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
I'm like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
You know this one, Draymond Green's face.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Singing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Can you imagine the pressure of standing on that sideline,
you know, here in Roseanne Bar, here in Fergie and
you're sitting there and you know, Ca, you know, cameras
are on you and you've a lot to hold it together,
and you know you're you imagine you and I standing
on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Forget it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:23):
I was just that's happening, and you're going, bro, all.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Right, you want full disclosure. I mean I know that
there's an anthem every game you do. Oh, there's an
anthem every game I do. And you know we have
the luxury well you're on camera, but we have the
luxury being on radio. I mean, there have been a
number of times, and it's not just I should probably
stop while I'm still ahead. We're just last moments.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
We're all looking at each other like, hey man, where
do they get this person?

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Yeah, let's go on here? Are you like? That was brutiful?
Do they know this is in public? That's brutiful And
it's not an easy song to sing, not at all.
Let's be honest, you know, and Carl Lewis knows better
than anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
There's another good one being singled out too. I mean
the entire arena stadium. The eyes are on you, ears
are on you, and you were being judged instantly.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
And if you screw up, you're basically disgracing the country.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Yeah, that's on you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Sorry, But is there anything better than somebody that actually
just crushes it? So we had somebody there was emotion
all of a sudden, You're like, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Whoever sang the national anthem before the Texans game, and
I forgive me for not knowing her name. She was
one of those that kind of as it went on,
she's a very unassuming look. You know, some of these
people are flashy and they have a persona. You know,
she was a very unassuming look to her. And it
was one of those that built and as it kept going,

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You're like, this is really good.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
And then she hit the high note and then she
held it just finish.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
And the guy that played the saxophone before the Eagles
game on the Sunday was at the end of the day,
I was like, that's when that's yeah exactly, I love that. Yeah,
it was.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
It was good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
I like the change of pace, if you will.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Speaking of Philly fans, we'll get to one really really
bad one before the end of the show, all right. CJ.
Stroud is the person that was not happy about that
improvised play. Maybe it's surprised, but when he was asked
about that play, which, by the way, a lot of
people are giving credit as the turning point in the

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game against the Chargers, he's third and sixteen. He's being
chased to the sideline by Joey Bosa, and I think
Khalil Mack might have been on it, but he was
definitely getting chased on the side to the sideline by
two different defenders. That's not That's probably one of the
most terrifying moments in an NFL quarterback's life, by the way,
and he just flings it, finds Xavier Hutchinson, huge first down.

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Nico Collins goes the rest of the ninety nine yard
drive the rest of the way, and the Texans are
leading seven to six, of course, after one of the
most poorly played first halfs offensively that we've ever seen.
So you'll excuse CJ, I suppose if he was not
exactly a huge fan of that improvised play.

Speaker 13 (01:11:06):
Even after I made the player, I was kind of
mad at myself for my eyes, Like I didn't look
at the snap, so I just went straight through my hands,
and so I'm looking at trying to see the defense
and it went through my hands and I luckily bounced
right back up to me, and you know, I try
to just save it the play. Hush did a good job.
I trusted me, and you know I trust him, So
he kept on the move. And you know that when
I after you know we made the completion. I looked

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at sidline. Everybody was turned up, So that turned me
up because I was still kind of mad at myself.
But yeah, that those are the type of plays that
changed momentum. And that's when you know a team can
you know, rally around plays like that, So you know,
shout out to Husher making a great a great instinct
a play, and and I'll just try to do my
best to savor the play.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
By the way, we talked to Xavier Hutchinson in the
locker room after that one, and he was all about
giving it to Rex Ryan.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
You you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
So what you know, as a guy who who has
certainly dealt with bulletin board material being thrown back in
the face of the provider with the Astros obviously over
the years, what were your thought when you saw Rex's Commentari,
It's one.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
Thing to say the Texans or the Chargers have a
better chance, but to say it's a bye week, that's
ridiculous as a former head coach, As a former head
coach and understanding as much as you do about the
game both on the field and in broadcasting, that was
a ridiculous statement. And you know, kudos to the Texans
for making the adjustment, using it to go out there

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and beat the Chargers. The humility and confidence of C. J.
Shroud never ceases to amaze. A huge fan of I
am a huge fan of personally yea and but as
a leader. But can you imagine being in there and going, yeah,
you know, my athleticism made that play. If you're in
the clubhouse and you say that, you're like.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Dude, what, yeah, yeah, that doesn't go over well.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
My line didn't give up on the play. I know
I was getting chased, But who Hutchinson not giving up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
On that play?

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
He was probably the left side That probably doesn't get
talked about enough because you have to have the arm
strength to throw back across your body across the field.
As far as he did, put it on his numbers, mate,
let him make the catch. There was only one dude
that even had a remote chance of being in that
in that play, and it was Hutchinson for coming back that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Was flying up on the left side near side where
this play made.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
It was it was It wasn't totally to the right side,
but it was in the middle of the field towards
that opposite side of the field.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Here's a here's Hutchinson after the game on that.

Speaker 9 (01:13:28):
Be honest with you, I didn't even know that, like
the most snap thing happened. I just thought I was
wide opening though he was just so he was just
scrambling to the right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
But I mean that's seven.

Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
You know, that's the type of place he makes.

Speaker 13 (01:13:40):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:13:41):
You know, I just wanted to make them play for
the team got a jump start, and I guess you
could say, so.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
That's what I'm here to do. He's here to make plays.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
You can know full well, and I know you'll understand
this because the Astros have been on the other side
of this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
All of America.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Guys rooting for the Texans on Saturday afternoon, all of them.
Everybody that's not in Kansas City Proper or a suburb
like Oletha shout out to Norma Jean. They're all rooting
against the Chiefs. Yep, it's not even a question. And
that's that's something you got on your side. You're gonna
need plays like that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
You're gonna need some of those those miraculous bounces, you know,
the immaculate reception back in the day. Has there been
anything named for that ball bouncing right back into the
hands of C. J. Stroud to keep them in stride
to go make that play. I don't know, but yeah,
you definitely have the nation on your side when you
go into Kansas City. For sure.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Gonna be an epic matchup coming up on Saturday afternoon,
we'll continue to discuss. And another team's season ended last night, the.

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Hey, this is killer b Craig Vigio up a three
thousand hit plumb, You've got killer aise in the afternoon
though they have three thousand less hits. Oh some fun.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wes on Sports Talk and from

(01:15:09):
one Astros great to another, Jeff Blum in studio for WEX.
WEX is going to be back at it again tomorrow.
I'm just kidding. He's back at it right now. How
much does it surprise you that he tweeted the following
when we were having our Cowboys conversation. Hey, at Adam
Clanton and at Blummer twenty seven. Since you're talking about it,

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did you know Dolphins, Browns, Lions, Commanders, Raiders and Bears
are they only teams exactly with fewer playoff wins than
the Cowboys since two thousand and two, the founded in
two thousand and two, Texans have six wins.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Cowboys have four.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Yeah, the separation is really picking up steam after this
last postseason victory by the Texans, and they can add
to that total if they can win against the Chiefs
on Saturday. But we've been talking about it a long
long time and I just I don't It's gonna take
a monumental effort, and it's gonna take c. J. Stroud

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making plays, like you said, it's gonna take that defense
absolutely going gangbusters. It's gonna take a lot. It's gonna
take more than the Vikings put up last night.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
That was disappointing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Rams just ended that dream season. Yeah, you'll never reminded
me of when Brett Farv went to Minnesota the first
year and they were like awesome all season and then
they just had a total dud. Although he throw he
threw a a Brett Favre special, a soul crushing pick
to the Saints that year, and that was the year
the Saints actually I think actually won the Super Bowl.
So there is that. Yeah, there's a pretty good team.

(01:16:44):
He did that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
That was Darnold didn't do himself, any any favors. No,
By the way, watched him in high school really San
Clementy High school grad. He is, I watched him in
that year high school. Well it was the this is
where I was living at the time, was San Clementy
before I moved here to Houston. Yeah, I went to
school a little bit closer to LA. But yeah, I
watched him in high school. He's a beast, and watched

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them all the way through the ranks, and I was
kind of happy that he was having the season that
he did with Minnesota, just because of everything that when
being the first round pick of the New York Jets
and going through all his scrutiny over there in that
mess of an organization and and ball club that he
was on. To see him succeed, you kind of felt like,
you know, maybe didn't get up to the level of
what he got drafted as, but at least he had
some success.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Well he you know, That's why I'm biased and partial
to Aaron Glenn, who's obviously in the coaching cycle, and
he has said that because of when you know, he
played there, that he has an affinity for the head
coaching position in New York with the Jets, and I'm
just like I've seen Robert Salah and Sam Darnold and

(01:17:50):
Aaron Rodgers there. Now, I don't want Aaron Glenn to
go to that situation. I want him have a chance.
Do you think it really?

Speaker 4 (01:17:55):
I mean he has to change guy. Yeah, But if
you're gonna be a head coach, I mean you you
you grasp any opportunity. It's like, uh, Will Venable going
to the Chicago White Sox from the Rangers, you know,
co head coach or whatever manager or job that he
had with the Rangers. You it's hard to say no
to a dream job if that's what it is for
you to be a head coach. But there is so

(01:18:18):
much you're taking on by going into a Dallas Cowboys
or going into a New York Jets that yeah, you
can go in there and change the culture. Because I
thought Sala would have actually have an opportunity to be
able to do that with his mentality and his uh
resume and who he was, right, But if you know,
if those guys aren't able to do it, why is that?
Like if I'm Aaron Glenn, I'm going to SLA, I'm

(01:18:39):
going why weren't you able to instill your culture and
be successful. And am I able to use that as
I move into that position or I look to move
into that position, because you shouldn't be discouraged to go
take a job because of an owner, because of a city,
or a media. And that's what's frightening, is like if
you go in there and you falter for six games,

(01:18:59):
were street cred shot?

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
I'm glad you said that because that was gonna be
my question to you. What do you think, in your opinion,
is a guy who's around the game every single day,
what do you think is the traditional on average lifespan
if you will, for a manager of an MLB club
to kind of turn things around, I'm giving a guy

(01:19:21):
at least four years. See the fact that you said
for right out of the gate, to me, already exceeds
the average that a head coach in the NFL gets.
I think it's three at best. And it's crazy because
way more players, a way more physical game where injuries are,
way more roster turnover. If your quarterback gets I mean,

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look at look at Mike McCarthy. Great regular season, you know, totals, numbers,
couldn't lose at home all that, but his quarterback couldn't
stop throwing it to the Packers last year, so they
flamed out spectacularly for the umpteenth time in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
This year, it was there's a whole other set of issues.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
But like, I just wonder about that because you have
to have a little bit of patience in ownership and management.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
But yet it's a twenty four hour news cycle. Society.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
Fans are so impatient, so impatient, the news cycle gets you,
and if you move into situations, you know, it's much
like becoming a college coach. You've got to wait for
the previous coaches you know, roster to move out or
you know. I think it's a little bit different in
the NFL as it is in college, just because you're
going onto an NFL team, so you've got you've got

(01:20:33):
a big league roster, you know, so you've got substantial
talent to work with. So it's more of you moving
your system in or finding a system that works with
those players that are in it at the time. And
that might be part of the interview process too, is
sitting down in front of that owner of that GM
saying I've studied your personnel and I've talked to many
managers who have been, you know, gone through this process,

(01:20:55):
and you've got to look at the current roster and
you've got to say, how does my mentality fit with
this team? How does my strategy work with this team? So,
I mean that's probably what Aaron Glenn and some of
these guys are looking at. You know, it's one thing
I've got to deal with, Jerry Jones, I've got to
deal with the media. But at the same time, not
only do I have to convince the ownership group that
I can get these guys to play better, I've got

(01:21:16):
to convince myself because even if you choose me to
be your manager, your coach, if I don't go in
there and really believe that these guys are going to
listen to me and play the game as hard as
they possibly can, or I'm not going to encourage them
enough to go play, then what am I doing going
into that situation.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
That's why I think what you said earlier is so
interesting about Joe Espada year two is going to be
I think I'm not saying there's not gonna be pressure
because they're in a weird astros are in a weird
spot right now.

Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
But I think that's gonna benefit Joe a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
He's got the experience now under his belt.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
Yeah, he had the.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
Rapport with the previous regime.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
He's been there plenty of with the aj Hinches, He's
been there with the Dusty Bakers, He's been there with
a lot of these players. He's developed some of these
guys coming up through the minor leagues. He understands who
these guys are at this current moment. And I think
with this roster, you're losing, Yes, you're losing clubhouse, uh, leadership, Bregman,
the Tuckers, even though Tucker maybe not a you know,

(01:22:11):
a very vulgar, vulgar verbal sometimes guy. Yeah, we all
do vulgar this year. Yeah, that whole situation was but
you you you lose some of that. But I think
that it's an opportunity for Joe to actually fill that
void and move these guys in the right direction. And
you're gonna have some guys like Christian Walker coming in.

(01:22:32):
You're gonna have estak parades, You're gonna hopefully have some
guys coming off the injured list. But I think you're
actually this season is a is a wonderful opportunity for
a guy like Joe Espada to say, Okay, this actually
is a little more of my team and how I
motivate them and how I feel that they're gonna play well.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Speaking of the Astros, obviously Justin Verlander has moved on again.
First it was the Mets for like a cup of
coffee before he came back. Now it is the Giants.
Heard him, Well, we heard Justin Verlander's wife's zoom handle
speak earlier. We'll actually hear what he had to say
specifically about his time with the Astros. How did he

(01:23:10):
look back on his time here in Houston, both times
here in Houston. Plus the latest on Alex Bregman, and
we know the Rockets are good? Just how good are they?
All of that coming up as we start the four
o'clock hour with Jeff Blum. He's filling in for Wex today.
Wex will be returning it tomorrow, but it's a Tuesday
edition of The A Team Sports Talk seven ninety and
of course, as always simulcast on Space City Home.

Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
Network, The A teen. On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team series,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team A.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Four o'clock hour is underway here on Sports Talk seven
to ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:24:01):
It is the A team.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
He is not Wex, he's Jeff Blum. He's filling in
for WEX today.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
Got another hour with you and then we'll cut you
loose and WEX will be back tomorrow. Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
I think Wex walks around right now. Whatever he's doing
with the AirPod in I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Thought you were gonna say a spreadsheet, and I was
gonna like, yes, well.

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
I know he's got the that's a given.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Yeah, I'm just saying, actually it yeah, oh yeah, No,
he's he is using the ieheart is it?

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Is it like home surround sound system that is bluetooth
to his phone so he can play it in every room.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
No, and here's why.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
So he can do laundry and bring it into the
other room. And Wex famously likes to tell me about
various places within his home that are in disrepair, and
the only time he's going to finally address them is
when like the place will burn down if he doesn't.
That's Wex, whereas with me, I'm like, oh man, I
got I'm sorry. I haven't texted you back for a

(01:24:56):
couple hours. I had this contractor over today to do this.
He's like, uh huh, of course, of course. Like, it's
just you know, I don't think I think Wex doesn't
even mow his yard if he can avoid it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
I'm not saying that, well, yeah, nobody likes to do that.
And I'm not saying that.

Speaker 4 (01:25:12):
You would like roll up in there like your house
a certain way.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Yeah yeah, But and I'm not saying that you would
roll up to the Wexler residence and there'd be like
a car up on blocks. No, that's not what I'm saying.
It's just the approach Wex is very much a do
things out of necessity thing. And the necessity is is
there a sporting event that I can cover? And if
I'm not covering a sporting event, I don't think I
really have much use for it in my life. That's

(01:25:37):
how I would define Adam Wexler. God bless him.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
I like, no, thank goodness for him.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Well, I'm like, dude, are you gonna take vacation this year?
It doesn't roll over.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:25:47):
Last time I sat in for you and worked with
wex which went amazingly great. It was the same thing
I asked him in time, I'm like, I go, are
you yeah, going to step out of the chair for us?

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
I was like, here's the week when I'll be gone
in a day? Yeah, he's what's he saying? Let's just
read aloud. He's got a picture? Uh huh, we got
a picture up man.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Probably his front. It's probably my front or his backyard.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
Are you guys good enough to be able to put
this something? And we're on the radio. Yeah, I think
that's in his car.

Speaker 13 (01:26:14):
He's got a.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
Dashboard the tree in here. He's got a tree in
his car.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
Doesn't it look like it's out the front window or something.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Oh, he's he's just showing that he's listening to us. Yeah,
that's there's no, he's probably making a run for some
food or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
Right now. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
I don't know what's going on. He'll be back tomorrow.
And again, I don't know how he hasn't broken out
in hives. It's now going on, well three days since
the playoff victory.

Speaker 4 (01:26:41):
We should earlier everything that's happened between the Rockets and
the Texans and everything that's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Yeah, and then when we started talking about like your
daughter's having silver bullets for each other, and that was
nothing sports related. He probably started hyperventilating. He did, he
went to the competition there is I know that for
a fact. All Right, what do you think about Justin
Verlander signing with the Giants?

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
Initial how about there's a couple of old farts out
there still, you know, there's still the Max Scherzer. I
think is looking for a contract. Obviously Justin got his.
But at the same time, isn't it a credit to
Justin Verlander that he's the first one of those older
guys that are getting that contract. I know it's only
a one year deal and he may be living on
that until he finally does call it a career. I

(01:27:28):
actually think it's a pretty savvy move on the Giant's part,
and I think it's a savvy move on the Justin's part.
That's a big ballpark to pitch in, so I think
his home numbers are actually going to be serviceable. And
they're a high analytic team, so he's going to move
into that having been accustomed to that here in Houston,
right And I would, I would honestly expect him to

(01:27:53):
understand that his fastball doesn't play as the Justin Verdlander
fastball of the past. Major Baseball's passed him up in
that sense. As far as average velocity, it's up over
ninety four miles an hour now and he settled in
about ninety two ninety three last year. So he couldn't
get away with the high fastball slider down on the zone.
Who's to say he doesn't have an epiphany from watching

(01:28:14):
a guy like Hunter Brown and say I'm gonna throw
a two seam, I'm gonna create movement, I'm gonna throw
my fastball down on the zone and my slider down
on the zone, and creates some more.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
Deception to me. And I'm not getting after you when
I say this, but I would feel like everybody in
Houston would be like, why didn't you start that last
season when you weren't having the success.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
There's a certain stubbornness too that has made his success,
So I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Blame him all that. It sounds like you're describing to me,
And this is a very extreme and completely different personality
to go along with the type of situation. Zach Greenky, Yeah,
he couldn't do what he used to do, so he
would and he'd run it up there at fifty. Yeah,
and laugh at you. We all swung it slower and yeah,
make it a little more wild. What is he the
most fascinating personality you ever dealt with? Yes, not even close,

(01:29:01):
not even close. Well, I mean there was plenty of
guys that were, you know, baseball's full of quirky.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
Enigmas, and in some of those guys that were just
kind of but there's probably hasn't been anybody as quirky
and as cerebral as as Zach just because there was
a there was a literal method to the madness. I mean,
he enjoyed being that mad man. He enjoyed making you
think a little too much.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
He enjoyed wearing a jersey it was five sizes too big.

Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
Five size is too big. He loved sitting with cardboard
people in the stands during the COVID era. I mean,
everything about him was but I feel like everything about
him is so calculated that that was something that, you know,
that was part of the game plan. Cerebral, very very
to the point where I faced him when he was
young throwing in the mid nineties, and I kind of

(01:29:50):
I you know, I said, I remember facing you, and
when we got him with the Ashos. He goes, yeah,
I threw you change ups all the time, Like he
remembered that you and him with the recall. Yeah, I
don't know if it's it's got to be an athlete thing,
I mean, but yeah, the recall was unbelievable. The fact
that he and that was me saying hi to him,
you know, that was like that was an introduction.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
It wasn't like you know, I Zach, you son of it.
You know, it was like we didn't have there was
no previous relationship. It established itself in person on that day.
And he goes, yeah, I remember throwing you change ups
all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
So you were Owen Wilson and he was Chaz Yeah. Yeah, Man,
he wanted some meat loaf always, Man, we need more
more meat loaf. Is he going back this year?

Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
More meat loaf next year?

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Crying out loud, Yeah, listen, I'm gonna be all.

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
The projections are saying he's going to be better, but
until you actually do it, they're just projections.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Here's the thing you can.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
I'm glad you've you've avoided the outfield situation. Well now
I'm not going to Now we can go talk about
the rockets.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Well, I'm the one on the show that can be
a little less unfiltered about this situation. I look, there
is no other way to say it. The Astros outfield
for twenty twenty five is currently constructed. Terrifies the but
Jesus out of me that because because here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
That's a weakness.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
I heard somebody say, uh, because I said something about
Chaz having a bounce back. Here, we need more twenty
twenty three Chaz, twenty twenty two Chazz, and they were like, yeah,
and we need the old Jake Myers. I'm like, what
when when was that season? And I look, bless his heart, No,
you need like the month of June Jake Myers. Yeah,
and you know some sustained. We need more sustained because

(01:31:33):
we don't do we really know what Jake is?

Speaker 12 (01:31:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Yeah, I mean we know. Before the injury in Chicago,
I think we were getting an idea. We were we
were going, wow, this was good. It was like George Springer,
who not really but you know what I.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
Mean, no exactly, it was something we were.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
About joy every game.

Speaker 4 (01:31:50):
No, and you were like, there's a there might be
a little something there. And I think we saw that
for a month or two last season where you started
to see some of that apple power. He got some
late hits in plutch situations. The thing that always worries
me when you when you start to talk about these things,
you're like, Okay, the infield's gonna be fine, Paratus at third,
Christian Walker, We've got offense, Okay, that's great. What about

(01:32:13):
the outfield, Well, there, as soon as you start to
hear DRS or defensive run saved or out's above average,
I'm going, who whoa, whoa, whoaa.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
That's great. I love that. But what else? Then?

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
What because you had you know who, You're six, you
know who, your seven, eight, nine hitters are going.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
To be the worst problem for the Astros outfield last
year other than the obvious injury to Kyle Tucker, which
was that when he was healthy, it was like, all right, well,
centerfield's kind of not allowed to write home about. Kyle
Tucker's not here anymore. I don't know if you guys
realize this. He got traded to the Cubs.

Speaker 4 (01:32:45):
But then you go back and you look at last
year and the Astros made their run back into the
West without Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
Right, they played their best offensive baseball while he was
not next to line that I can't And there's so
many and you know, we talk about the infield being
the strength, because it obviously is. You could actually make
an argument that because Christian Walker is such an upgrade
at first base over anything you've had since Julie in
his prime, not the last season of YULEI yep, that

(01:33:13):
okay eighteen. The combination of the infield corner infield, it's like, okay,
can Jeremy pany you take another step? But the outfield
is just such a glaring omission. And I don't think
they're gonna there's It's okay, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
From within, it feels like yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
And there was man, I can't remember what it was,
but there was a comment maybe so I'm sure it
was during the winter meetings when Dana Brown said, you know,
we'll have to evaluate and he said specifically sixty days
into the season about something, and that immediately jumped in
my head. That's a super two situation. That's a time
serve situation, that's more grooming in a triple A situation

(01:33:52):
for some of these guys, whether it's a Bryce Matthews,
whether it's a Jacob Melton maybe and maybe that's what
it is. Maybe there's a sixty day window to start
the season where they're going to evaluate the outfield and
decide where to make that move. And if it's because
of Jacob Melton or Bryce Matthews, is swinging the bat
well in Triple A give him a chance at the
big league level? Or is it the guys aren't producing anywhere?

(01:34:15):
We need to go make a move to go get
somebody and they do.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
I don't know what it is. Who is gonna have
the better first sixty days. I just would like that
answer the question. Now, Yeah, I think that provided it's
not a disaster in those three positions.

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
I mean, he still have a very top heavy line.

Speaker 4 (01:34:35):
Like let's just say, you know, it's crazy top heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
I mean, Yea Diez is gonna be he's.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Another guy that he's taking another step.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Yeah, but I think Christian Walker cancel out what you
lost offensively from Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
Well, let's think about it. If you have Alex Bregman
and John Singleton, are you better with estoc Parades and
Christian Walker? And I think on a total yes, you're
gonna get more production from both those guys for the
price of one. Yeah, unfortunately, not literally. Yeah, well, price
is a thing with that discussion. All right, we'll leave

(01:35:06):
it at that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
You will hear from Justin Verlander when we get back
plus Joe Mixon or Bust this Saturday afternoon. I will explain, actually,
his head coach will explain when we come back.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:35:24):
Back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler, the eighteen.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
It is the eighteen Sports Talk seven ninety always talking
sports and nothing but sports during the commercial breaks. For
you think that it wouldn't be that way, like wex
and I do that all the time, and as usual,
the off air stuff is the best content. But unfortunately
we can't, you know, can't share. But man, there's just

(01:36:02):
so much going for for a down period for baseball,
like pictures, pictures and catchers report next month and before
you know it will be off and running and you'll
never see your your wife again for six months and
everything like that. Okay with it? Is she no that
we have a routine.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
You guys have kind of settled into that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
Yeah, we have a routine. After the first of the
years when things start to ramp up. You start getting
the emails, Hey fan fast, Hey can you do this?
Can you host astro line? And you start doing some
of that stuff. But there's definitely a rhythm to our lives.
In February rolls around and you're kind of like you're
still here.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
It's funny because I even just this last year, she
was she was ready for the season to be over
because you were going to be around.

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
Yeah, and then and then and then, and the reverse
you get towards the end of the season, She's like, Okay,
I'm ready to have you back a little bit, go
play golf more. Yeah, yeah, you should be This year,
I can't actually do well except for her after this
weekend it's supposed to.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
I never know.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
It never ceases to amaze me.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
You know, we live it's like or we live on
a golf course, but like there is a golf course
in our neighborhood. And the people that are on the
driving range in all types of weather, all types of temperatures,
I'm like, you people are sick.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
Yeah, my game's not good enough to be out there
in the sleep and cold and is any and there's
nothing good to do outside in the cold, nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
No, including watching football with your shirt offs.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
Yes, yeah, I'm in a complete agreement on that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
We're WIMPs. You're from California, I'm from Tech from Texas.
We're WIMPs when.

Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
It's acclimated beautifully. I love the summers out here. Yeah, no,
I will gladly sweat. I'm not going to go that
each Yeah, I'm not gonna say I love this. I
love the moisture.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
But well yeah, but it's also what makes like showers
useless during that time of year.

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
Maybe that's the North callum me. I'm like, yeah, showers,
big deal. I will tell you this though, A shower
in like three minutes, so it's like, who cares.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
That's true, you know, and then and then the next
hour is your hair and then I go back in
and power. It's like when I'm walking into Midwell when
I was walking in a minute made now where we
have been shackled to the studio thanks Space City. No,
I mean we like we liked getting out going you
walk in a minute made again. I don't feel like
I will not until I know right you did it.
That's gonna happen a lot. It's like wex calling the

(01:38:12):
charger San Diego. He does it all the time. Trust me,
I know the feeling. But I like the fact that
where we would park. By the time I got to
the media entrance, I was just about to start his sweating.
You're walking up a little bit in July for like
the first hour with you back when we did calling
equipment too.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Yeah, I make wex do that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
This is your mule.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
I don't make him.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
It's just he always had it because he was always
going to get there before me, because he's punctual and responsible.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
It seems like the one that would pack the trunk
by himself because he didn't want you to pack it
because you wouldn't put things in the right supposed.

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
To be game of tetris like his whole life. Hey
how many windows you have open on your laptop right now?
Only forty seven? Yeah, that's todd. Really old spreadsheet guy, don't.
I don't love spreadsheets.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
Look over and I'm like, holy god, this guy. He's
got ninety eight tabs open and he knows where to
go with And I'll say something random about a ballplayer,
and all of a sudden he clicks on the tab
and he's got all the information to back it up.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
You're a big analytics guy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
I've become an analytic guy. But I'm starting to temper
it a little bit because I still believe that's a
whole nother podcast episode whatever. I believe in it, But
I still I'm still a feel eyes guy.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Just don't talk about reading the back of a guy's
baseball card. No help me, God, no, I mean no,
I mean no, that that gout out of hand. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:39:33):
I did get out of hand.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
I jumped up a notch.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
Yeah, And at the same time, the back of the
baseball card wasn't matching what my eyes were telling me
on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
That was the problem. Yeah. Yeah. We were talking about
Justin Verlander going to the Giant. You might wonder what
he's thinking now that he is kind of able to
really reflect. I don't feel like I don't feel like
Jim Crane's going to send out more highly touted prospects
of the trade dead lying for Justin Burlander this year. No,
something tells me that's not going to happen. So having

(01:40:04):
the finality, if you will, and being able to look
back on his time with the Astros. This is what
Justin Berlander had to say about the Houston franchise. He
just left for the second time. I had a phenomenal
ride with Houston. It's been a hell of a chapter
of my career.

Speaker 9 (01:40:18):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:40:18):
The second chapter coming back from New York wasn't what
I would have helped and when I when I got
traded back, I did, you know, I felt like I
fished pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
Well, helping me to the playoffs.

Speaker 15 (01:40:28):
But you know, really last year, that's the sour tase
in my mouth, not with the organization, just with myself.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
I hold myself to a standard that I want to pitch.

Speaker 15 (01:40:35):
It's why in my in my contract, I had one
hundred and I think it was one hundred and forty
innings somewhere around there if to trigger my player option.
If I didn't, and I could have fought for for
more or not had that innings option when I was
negotiating with the Mets, but I want to earn my
Keith and I felt like if I didn't at least

(01:40:56):
with that Manytings, I sure as hell didn't earn what
I was what I was making, So I and deserve
to have the option for that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
Anyway. It's so interesting because and we were having this
conversation last week.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
What And I know that it's different.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
The process is different now, you know, as far as
who's in charge or who has a say in it?

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
What what hat do you think he wears into the
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
That's going to be the question for Justin for as
long as he's playing, and for the five years after
he gets done playing, until he's on that Hall of
Fame ballot, is what hat will he wear going in?
Because he is a surefire first ballot Hall of Famer
And if he didn't pitch as well as he did
and accomplish as much as he did in the time
with Houston, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If he

(01:41:40):
was just a guy went out there and picked up
some wins, it was your two to three in your rotation,
didn't pick up a couple of Cy Young's, didn't win
a couple of championships, and didn't contribute as much as
he did in the postseason, you would say Detroit Tigers
all the way. But I think with what he's accomplished
in those what six or seven years with the Houston Astros, right,
you could make the argument that maybe you were the
best and you solidified your Hall of fame tenure in

(01:42:04):
that Astro's uniform and you can go in there with
the stars.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
The most meaningful successful games were pitched here, even though
he went to the World Series a couple of times
in Detroit and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
Had great postseasons with him, and they love it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Like to me, I wonder, and I said this to Wex,
like which fan base would be more outraged if he
didn't choose them, And I think it would be Detroit.
And it's not even close, not even close. It's not
because the Astros fans don't appreciate what he did. It's
just that he started there and he pitched more there

(01:42:37):
in Rookie of the.

Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
Year and I mean there were things, there were still
things he did, and he got the team to the
World Series a couple of times, pitching in the postseason.
But I think it's also a credit to the Houston
Astro fan base. They get it, they understand the respect,
They understand where he came from, where he was groomed,
where he developed, and what he became. But when he
came here, he slammed into seven years. He slammed a

(01:42:59):
career into seven years.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
With the Houston. A couple of no hitters, Yeah, a
couple of no hitters on top of the throw those away,
and he will be when we start to show uh
starting pitcher numbers in the history of the Astros franchise,
Nolan Ryance, Mike Scott's a lot of these Royo's, Waltz,
some of these names that numbers start to pop up.

(01:43:21):
Guess who's going to be on the top of those
in their career with the Houston ash Rays easy, Justin Verlander.
How how many years did did Oswell pitch here?

Speaker 8 (01:43:29):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (01:43:29):
Off the top of your he was about eight or nine? Okay,
he was a similar amount. I mean he got what
he was a one win away from uh Tyane was.
I think it's necro for one hundred and fifty wins
in the franchise history. So, I mean that would have
solidified roy But if when you start to break down
best seasons, if you go season by season, obviously you're
gonna have Roger Clemens. Yeah in O four oh five

(01:43:51):
or whatever it was when he had the one point
ridiculous era, and then you're gonna bring up the twenty
nineteen Justin Verlander. I mean, there's gonna be seasons and
career where Justin Erlander is top two as far as
starting a pitcher in Astro's history.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
To me, it felt like, and I heard Matt Thomas
say this, and I'm not putting this on Matt Thomas,
but it because I agreed with him when he said it.
And maybe this isn't fair, maybe it's too harsh of
a term. It felt like he was a mercenary. Oh absolutely,
you know, like, not that he didn't embrace Houston, not
that he didn't embrace the organization and all that, but.

Speaker 4 (01:44:29):
How about the fact that the Astros traded for him
and said, you will be our mercenary. Yeah, that might
have given him some fuel.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
Well, yeah, I mean you got to remember, and I
think a lot of people do. Seventeen was obviously the
more dominant version of going out and trading for this
guy because it just happened two years ago. The second
time he was not pitching well that year, No, and
then he was like Randy Johnson.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
He had like two or three starts where you were
kind of like, oh, it looks like he's maybe healthy,
but it wasn't dominant, and it wasn't and he showed
up here and became a horse like to me, again.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
Especially because it became such a talking point towards the end.
I know there's several different moments you can point to.
To me, the peak of Justin Verlander's powers was Game
sticks against the Yankees, when you had to win that
game and you're down three to two.

Speaker 4 (01:45:20):
I will never get tired of watching Todd Fraser to
take one of the most miserably weak swings I've ever
seen in my life.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
But you know it made it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
It wasn't just the swing, it was Joe Buck laughing
at him on the broadcast. That was how he laughed
at him.

Speaker 4 (01:45:36):
That was a natural reaction to seeing that happen in
a championship series.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
I remember everything about it. It was a Saturday afternoon,
he strikes him out with that swing, Joe Buck laughs
at him. Even I remember the music they were playing,
going to Break because it was an ending in strikeout.

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
It was the Killers. I'm the man.

Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
I remember everything about it, yeah, because I was like,
oh my gosh, they're going to kill these guys today.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
And they did.

Speaker 2 (01:46:00):
They did. And then Game seven, Lance mccolors owns you. Yeah,
never talk about knowing what pitch is coming. You couldn't
hit it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:07):
Yeah, well, you knew it told you twenty seven times
or whatever it was, that you still couldn't figure it out.

Speaker 3 (01:46:11):
Also, you scored a lot more when you're in your
home stadium. Just go for that out there. It is weird.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
Stupid hole league was cheating. All right, we will come back.
It's Jeff Blum here on the A team with US
Sports Talk seven ninety. I promise at some point you'll
hear from Joe Mixon.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
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Speaker 6 (01:46:57):
Waters here?

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
What are you talking about?

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On a Tuesday play what Odillan?

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I did?

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Well?

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
Say what?

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
Today is not going to be Joe Mixon.

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
We'll get to to Demico's thoughts on the Texans running back.
This is something I saw that kind of reminds me
yet again. And I know that, you know, people like
fat Jack Peterson and others are hoping that this is
what's going on. Oh yeah, I called him fat is
what's going on with the Astros. I do see this
and in this SoundBite we're gonna play is how I

(01:47:34):
know this is happening. Obviously, the Lakers have been pretenders
for a long long time. You have the guy with
the name on the back of his jersey, and he
still puts up big time points on the offensive end,
but he's not playing a lick of defense. And although
Anthony Davis is still dominant, Lakers are going nowhere fast rockets.
You know, they took care of them a few weeks ago.

(01:47:56):
They just they're not a threat to me. I'm not
quite ready to say that about the Golden State Warriors,
except for I'm going to hey, and here's why.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
When's the last time Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
Blum, who's filling in for Adam Wexler, by the way,
when's the last time ever in his career that you
heard Steph Curry say something like this.

Speaker 11 (01:48:21):
Desperate trades or desperate you know, moves that deplete the future,
like there is a responsibility on allowing keeping the franchise
when you know, in a good space and good spot
when it comes to where we leave this thing, when

(01:48:41):
we're done, doesn't mean that you're not trying to get
better doesn't mean that you're not active in a in
any type of sourch to you know, if you have
an opportunity or trade makes sense, or even in the
summer free agency makes sense, like you want to continue
to get better.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
Okay, what he's saying is the right thing to say
in that, you know, let's not go out and make
a stupid deal just for the sake of you.

Speaker 4 (01:49:05):
Know it, don't make the lateral move, right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
Yeah, But what he's probably not realizing is that it's
already happening. Father time is caught up. Yeah, And you
can be the greatest jump shooter of all time, and
you can still have a guy named Draymond Green on
your team, and you can have some talent around you.

(01:49:27):
But eventually, you know, even if it's not the roster
from a talent standpoint, even though I think it is,
you're just now again. He's still playing at a very
high level when he plays, but he's had a couple
of nagging injuries, and I don't see him having a
late resurgence. And I think any any aspirations for that

(01:49:52):
with the Warriors probably walked out the door when they
just were like what Klay Thompson, we're not paying for you.
And it's it's funny because Charles Barkley was talking about this,
Jimmy Butler's trying to force his way out of Miami,
and it's the same exact scenario in Charles's opinion, and
I happen to agree with this. He wants fifty five
million dollars and then he wants an extension. Klay Thompson
wanted to be paid what he was worth and then

(01:50:13):
he want you know, he wanted the extension. The Warriors
are like, we're not doing that. We're not paying luxury
tax dollars for a team. It's not definitely right there
in the thick of it to win the title, and
they're not. And the fact that Curry is even giving
a SoundBite like that to me is proof that. I mean,
clearly they're on the other side of the hill, but
the dynasty and the real opportunity to be an actual

(01:50:37):
contender is more than likely over. And I guess that
brings me to the Astros because I don't think they're
all the way there yet. There's a lot of pieces
in place, but having spoken to people that know what
they're talking about, let's just leave it at that. There

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are some people that kind of think that the Astros
are in that same space as maybe the Warriors. I mean,
it happens to all great dynasties, and I would call
them a dynasty. By the way, if you're not, you're
just you can't, you're just bitter. I think you don't
do what the baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:51:11):
Funnymore, it's easier to find ways to say they're a
dynasty dynasty than there is to find ways they're not right.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
But but are they, you know, truly contenders?

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
And don't even get me started about the fact that
the Dodgers have tried to buy the next ten championships
on credit deferred interest in.

Speaker 4 (01:51:29):
All, Yeah, good luck to the next owner.

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
I'll just ask you that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:34):
I've asked Chandler this question, and you know, Chandler's again
very black and white, very blunt.

Speaker 4 (01:51:40):
Everybody can do that. Yeah, well, then why aren't they?
I don't know, I don't know. You've got to convince
the player, you got to convince the organization. I don't
know who it benefits the most. I mean, obviously, if
you're in La tech tax reasons, it makes more sense
to make two million now and make fifty million when
you're somewhere else where, you're not going to get hammered.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
And if you're playing, if you're gonna if that must
the business, yeah, you know part of it, but if
you're gonna get the money eventually anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:52:06):
Yeah, I just don't understand how you evaluate a franchise
and say I'm gonna buy this franchise knowing that I've
got to pay some guy on her payroll who's done
playing fifty million a year. I don't that makes sense,
Like that doesn't make sense to me. And I'm I'm
probably missing something in between, because you know the I
don't know. It just doesn't make any sense because you're right,
Bobby Bodea did this back in the nineties, right, and

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teams really didn't do much of that to this extent
that he is, So why haven't they?

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
But it's like you hear about when people say all
the Yankees were buying their championships, the Dodgers are buying
their championships. To me, it applied because they were going
out and getting That's why the Astros were.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
So sweet, because they built it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
Did they go out and eventually get a justin Verland
or did they get a Zach Grankey, did they bring
in other guys traditionally? But they did it, they built it,
and that's where the sustained excellence came from, I thought,
And that's why it hurts so much when these players
are leaving.

Speaker 4 (01:53:02):
Well, the sustained excellence came from an idea of I
have an owner who wants to compete, will write the
paychecks or write the checks for these guys, and then
I also have an analytic department that out here that
can actually evaluate where that money's going and right the
most out of that dollar. And that's where I think
the separation is. Because if you're just going out and
buying look at the back of their baseball card. It's

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got great numbers. I'm gonna pay this guy a bazillion
dollars to come over here, and he's gonna do the
same thing for the next ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
That doesn't necessarily happen all that often. You're lucky if
he has them for two of the five years. I
was going to give him.

Speaker 4 (01:53:39):
Three to five years of getting that kind of production
and value on that. But I think that when you
start to see some of these contracts like the Shoho Tanis,
the Mookie Betts and all those guys that are going
to LA for some of those big contracts. Is ticket sales, concessions,
jersey sales, sponsorships, advertising, I mean, it's not about it's
the player and what brand brings to my brand.

Speaker 2 (01:54:02):
Well, it's to me. It's also very interesting the three
big leagues. I'll leave the NHL out of it just
because I don't I'm not well versed enough to even
talk about it for starters. But secondly, I just the
finances and how it works. But like there's three there's
three tiers of this. You have a luxury tax penalty
in the NBA with the Warriors have paid multiple seasons

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to try and stay competitive. There's zero cap in baseball
you get every bit of the money, it's all guaranteed.
And then you have a hard cap in football. But
it also I mean football, look at that the parody
is there. Every single year you feel like you've got
a chance if you've had a good offseason. How I
mean with the Warriors, you know, I think if their

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fans are being honest, they're probably hearing that SoundBite and thinking, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
If I hear that from my superstar I'm saying, we're
still We're done.

Speaker 12 (01:54:54):
This is it.

Speaker 4 (01:54:55):
Yeah, it's not that he's quitting. And he's not saying
that we're not going to try, because you heard that
in the sound by Just Reality. But the fact is,
he's like, why would we try and bring guys in
here to help us because we're really not in the
mix anymore. And I mean, to be honest, save it
for the off season, to go sign some free agents
and figure it out then, but don't trade away pieces now.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
And to me, I mean, just me sitting here in
Houston in this chair, it could not happen to a
better organization.

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
It's you're kind of much like people outside of Houston
enjoy seeing the potential of it not happening again.

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:55:30):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
Hey, it's Craig Ackerman. The Rockets are certainly popping the
polic propylae back to the eighteen with Adam Wesler and
the Twitter troll Adam Clinton.

Speaker 3 (01:55:43):
Help me to do it with somebody I'm not.

Speaker 5 (01:55:49):
I don't try to. I don't look for fights.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
Why I get irritated?

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
Adam and Adam are on Sports Talk seven ninety. It
always goes by fast when Jeff Blum is involved. Final
segment with you that's not a compliment. Yeah, it is,
I guess in radio it is. No, it is, trust me,
trust me if it's Hey, my wife said that. Do

(01:56:19):
you think she does she How much does she watch
the games?

Speaker 6 (01:56:25):
Not?

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
Not very much.

Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
She watches sometimes it's funny. I'll come home and the
postgame show I'll be on, you know, so that tells
me she was watching, like the last couple of innings.
I think she's like most most families that watched the game.
And this is something that I didn't really learn until
I had the job and started talking to fans, is that,
you know, Todd and I and Julia, we're just kind
of the the background soundtrack during dinner and you know,

(01:56:52):
when you're putting the kids down to bed and kind
of thing. And I think it's the same way with
my wife, where it's just kind of she wants to
know when I'm gonna be coming home, or you know,
when she's you know, she canna have a drink ready,
or is there going to be you know, when's he
when's the game over? So I think it's just kind
of on in the background.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
It's funny because you have your ten seconds on camera
every game, yep. And if Carson happens to see it,
he's always like, there's uncle Blummer.

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
Yeah, And that's the way. I love that part. That's
probably something I didn't anticipate when I got this job.
At the dinner table a lot. Yeah, first seven o'clock star.
So I appreciate the the heck out of that, and
when fans tell me that when I'm out and about.
That's the other thing is usually when you're a player,
you get recognized facially because you're not listening to us,
you're not with any of that stuff. But now, obviously

(01:57:36):
i'll go out, I'll get recognized every once in a while.
But there's a handful of times where I'll just, you know,
be I'll order something at a table and somebody two
tables over goes Blummer and I'm like, yeah, hey, you
know so the voice and it's probably.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
More so for you.

Speaker 3 (01:57:49):
You've got to have Chandler, there's impression of you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
I've got. I'm the I've waited so long to have
somebody to him be impressioned. Really, nobody's ever done that
of me. No, I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (01:58:02):
Yeah, the guys that do you know, the who is
it the batting stance guy on Instagram? Yeah, you know,
my birthday comes around and he'll like, hey, happy birthday,
and he'll do my swing or whatever. That's you know, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
Easy, and especially if you're Jeff Bagwell, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:58:16):
I appreciate that. But actually, you know, I feel like
I've a stablished I've I've taken another step.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
Now. Well, you get listen and you learn this and
it's kind of like, uh, Robert Ford with the radio
calls and you know, anybody that's a Rockets fan for
a long time and was here and coherent for the
championship years. Geen Peterson's that way, Bill Warrell, Like, once
a team wins not just one.

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
But multiple championships, you're you're part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Yep. And that's that's a big deal that you probably
don't realize the scope of until you know you're you're
in your seventies and you're retiring doing this this gig.

Speaker 4 (01:58:54):
Well, that's much like you're playing this. That's a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
I'm making you do it.

Speaker 4 (01:58:57):
Just now, get that contract sign and I will do
it gladly. Yeah. But it's like as a player, like
during the in the in the time you're playing, you're like, man,
I'm just doing my job. I'm trying to do the
best I can. Wow, that was a big head. Okay,
let's go to the next game.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:59:12):
And then you you're so many too, Yeah yeah, yeah,
because there's so many that the casual fan doesn't know about.
They don't know what was going on behind the scenes
that made that moment mean something in that time, or
the group of guys you were in the clubhouse with
where some of those you know, beating a rival meant something,
and you know, guys recognize that. But it's not until
you're done playing where you actually look back and going, damn,

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you know what that was kind of cool but actually
worked out really well. But to be honest, this run
that the Ashros have been on, and understanding that Todd
has been the lead voice on it, I've been a
complimentary voice on it. I realize that we're kind of
going to be around for a while. When the highlight
reels are coming out and when the reunion start to

(01:59:56):
happen and things like that, we're we're we.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
Are, we are part of it. Well that that's why
every time a playoff series would start and you guys
are doing the playball call instead of being in the booth.
I wanted to pull my hair out, which I didn't have.
It's just like that is the one thing in earlier
rounds for the Rockets playoff runs you had Bill Warrel
on the call for some of those games because the
local guys were able to do it. That would be

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so fantastic.

Speaker 4 (02:00:21):
So now we've got an extra round, we've got the
extra wild card, we've got a wild card series. Now,
why can't we do that?

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
And it's an MLB call? Just to be clear, it's not.
It's not Space City. I'm not biting the hand that
feeds behind me.

Speaker 12 (02:00:34):
Here.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
We all, I think would like that.

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
Why can't we do that? That would be so great.
Just throw us a bone, give us a little bit
of it, of the feel of that playoff call, and with.

Speaker 2 (02:00:43):
Your luck, they'll probably come around and do it when
they ask for rebuild. So like, did Blum retire? Okay,
now we can do it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:49):
No, you were there, Todd. Todd basically got the good years.
He didn't go through the hundred lost seasons?

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
Did he No?

Speaker 4 (02:00:57):
But he was in Tampa Bay for a damn long time,
and I know, never mind, that's a lifetime And it
was funny the four team I was on that we
actually set at the time, we set the high wind
total when we were there. Yeah, that was the worst
year of my career. Well, Loup Panella had a lot
to do with that, yes, but it's just funny because
like Todd's like, man, that was the greatest year. We
had so much fun that year oh four, we won

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seventy games, seventy Think about what he's been through watching
that organization grow and went through it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:25):
I forget how long were you there? I was there
a year six months, so went long at all?

Speaker 4 (02:01:31):
No, no, When the assistant to the assistance to the
assistant GM called me to let me out of that
contract and so I wasn't coming back. That was the
first That was the only time I got fired or
released And I said thank you, Yeah, I said thank you.
I was like, I'm like, are you done yet? Can
I get off this phone. I couldn't get off the
phone fast enough.

Speaker 3 (02:01:51):
You just could wait to get to the next stop.

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
So I guess you didn't get to build any rapport
with Todd Kallis on the charter flight back then and
had no idea how much you guys rears would intertwine
later in life.

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
When Todd auditioned for the job here, I specifically told
him afterwards, you cannot say anything about two thousand and
four because Todd Todd. Todd's got stories. Oh K's got stories,
and TK is my boy.

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
So we we were.

Speaker 4 (02:02:24):
We were tight in four because I was an absolute debacle.

Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
Well yeah, you and Loupenella got in a fist fight nearly.

Speaker 4 (02:02:32):
Yeah, a couple of times, and I was not good.
I had a bet with Robert Fick that I lost,
and to anyways, just stay on Todd real quick. On
team flights, he sat in the seat in front of me,
and he still talks to you amazingly. Yeah, what was

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I I made my presence felt on those fars. Oh yeah,
I had to. I had some serious regrouping.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
To do after that old forest easily, so Blob went
to therapy. I did.

Speaker 4 (02:03:12):
Oh God's owns truth. I mean this day and age
talking about mental health, I had. I had a mental
coach that year. That that year almost broke me in
so many ways, But I mean, I was just grateful
to get through it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
And Todd.

Speaker 4 (02:03:23):
Had to wear part of it. But he also kind
of kept me somewhat saying.

Speaker 2 (02:03:27):
He probably you think there's times where he just sits
there and looks at you and he.

Speaker 4 (02:03:30):
Can't believe he's sitting next to me. Right, I guarantee
you there's mom he's going, dude, this guy is my partner.
Stories like that, people only knew the situation.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
What was the bet?

Speaker 4 (02:03:43):
Who was going to get released first?

Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:03:46):
Yeah, me and Robert Fick, we were terrible on that team.
We were not Loop Panela fans. And no, whoever got
released first had to pay, and he got released. He
he got released in the he get he did something
and he get really at least in the moment. But
he did something where I reached into my locker and
I grabbed money and I gave it to him because
I'm like, you win, And two days later he got released.

Speaker 3 (02:04:08):
Well, we win every time you're in studio. We appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:12):
We gotta wind this down quickly, but let's not wait
until you know spring training to do it again. No,
I'm down for whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:04:18):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
It's always good being on with you. Jeff blum here
on Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network Football
at Five.

Speaker 3 (02:04:24):
Coming up next, the.

Speaker 5 (02:04:27):
A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety two.

Speaker 1 (02:04:33):
Lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham Talking your Teams.

Speaker 5 (02:04:40):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 2 (02:04:45):
A many many, many, many many thanks to Jeff Blom,
Space City Home Network astros, color analyst and just all
around fine American. He's a friend of the show. He's

(02:05:06):
a friend, just good good stuff. I know he sometimes
get off track when he's in, but the stories are amazing,
and the off air stories, Oh that bet was fantastic.
He and Lou Panella mortal enemies may loew Rest. But yeah,
I didn't realize that there was only like a handful
of months that he was there in Tampa, and sounds

(02:05:27):
like he fit in as much as he could to
that brief time. All Right, Football at Five, As we
get the fourth and final hour underway here on a
Tuesday edition of the program, Jeff Blum filling in for
Adam Wexler today, wex back in the hot seat tomorrow
and we'll be off and running. Getting you ready for really,
you know, I looked up during the break and the

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screen here in the studio was airing a show and
the talking point on mute didn't hear any of it,
but I saw the graphic, and the Chiefs handle the
Texans pass rush, not can the Texans handle Pat Mahomes.
That tells you how dominant that the defensive effort by

(02:06:13):
your Texans, by the way, start to finish, because the
offense didn't come around until late in the second quarter.
But defensively, you know, they absolutely played their butts off
on Saturday afternoon, big reason why they were even in
the position they were to take over that game, and
it's what they're gonna have to do, and then some
to go up to Kansas City and knock off the

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two time defending Super Bowl champions. I think, well, I
don't think, but maybe some people are forgetting you know,
that hasn't happened in the modern era, back to back
to back championships.

Speaker 3 (02:06:41):
Chiefs are trying to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:43):
The Texans have a very very big opportunity here to
be you know, the latest historical figures, they're the only
ones standing in the way right now until otherwise noted.

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
Be the spoiler, be the.

Speaker 2 (02:06:56):
Ones who aren't favored, be the ones who are seven
and a half point dogs, or whatever. It's gonna end
up being and go into Arrowhead Stadium and knock off
the two time defending champs. But that's why this could
be the biggest will it will be the biggest win
in franchise history, because again, no matter how it happens,
no matter what happens, the Texans advancing past this round

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of the postseason will be historical from the standpoint of
they've been around since two thousand and two and that's
never happened. Got a bunch of divisional or should I say,
wildcard playoff victories and nothing else to show for it.
So even if they go to the AFC Championship Game
because they beat the Chiefs and they fall, maybe they
get their doors blown off by the Ravens again, it

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will still have been a successful season and a step
forward simply because of the fact that you advanced to
that round of the postseason. In order to get that done,
you know, the biggest win in franchise history. They're gonna
have to get have a lot of things go their way.
And certainly, as and these are from these are from Monday. Obviously, Dan,

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certainly only you're excited to play a defending champion, but
certainly you know that in so doing. It's going to
be a very, very tough task to play Kansas City
in Kansas City and actually beat the Chiefs.

Speaker 7 (02:08:13):
We're excited about the opportunity we have. We understand what's
in front of us.

Speaker 2 (02:08:16):
Great team.

Speaker 7 (02:08:17):
Case has done a great job for the past few
years of really dominating the league, you know, being there
at the end, have great coaching staff, great players. Yeah,
great team all the way across the board. So it's
a really tough challenge for us. We're excited about the
opportunity we have versus Case. We know it's a tough,

(02:08:37):
tough team to beat, right, It's going to take everything
that we have. It's going to take all four quarters.
Similar to our last game. We just have to state
the course, remain persistent throughout the game, and find a
way to win in those critical moments.

Speaker 2 (02:08:49):
And if you're into this sort of thing, and I'm
sure that some of you are, it is only Tuesday,
but it is a Saturday game. So those who did
not participate in today's practice ziz Al Shaiir Shaq Mason,
both with knee issues keeping them out, Juice Scrugs with
the ankle, and Robert Woods with the hit limited participation

(02:09:12):
de Nico Autry who had a enormous sack during Saturday's game,
that's with a knee issue, Dalton Schultz a little shoulder
ding that kept him to limited participation, and Nico Collins
had limited participation, not injury related, but rather rest.

Speaker 3 (02:09:30):
I'll take that after a career day.

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
Seven catches, one hundred and twenty two yards and a
touchdown full participation. Just in case you were wondering, Will
Anderson Junior and others that have been nicked up, but
Will Anderson Junior is the one that sticks out on
that list for the Houston Texans. But going back to Demico,
going back to not only the fact that it's going
to be tough to beat Kansas City even though you
are excited about playing them, but it's a fresh start.

(02:09:56):
Everybody that saw what happened, I happen to be in
the building that day.

Speaker 8 (02:09:59):
There.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
It was a lot of promise. The Texans were very
much in that game for much of it, and then
the injuries and specifically Tank Dell's really took the wind
out of the sales of the Texans and it was
just kind of the game unraveled from there.

Speaker 3 (02:10:15):
You don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 2 (02:10:17):
Now you've got a fresh start against Kansas City, you
will have a ziz al share in the lineup in
all likelihood, which you didn't have the first time around
because of the suspension. So yeah, Demko says, this is
definitely a fresh start, different game. I don't take much
from it.

Speaker 7 (02:10:31):
It was a game that was that week, you know,
It's different circumstances that happened in that particular week. Now
it's a new game for me, fresh start, new game, right,
we'll attack it just like it's our first time playing
these guys again.

Speaker 2 (02:10:46):
So we'll go in with the fresh.

Speaker 7 (02:10:47):
Set of OZ and see the things we need to
do to be better, the things we need to do
to close out the game. And that's like you always
go into each game with the first set of OZ,
not really harping on a lot of what happened in
the previous game.

Speaker 2 (02:11:02):
Yeah, look, there is other than the standpoint that it's
the same two teams and it's the same venue from
a few days before Christmas, nothing about this matchup is
even remotely the same. I just feel like you've got
a team that's basically been sitting around in the Chiefs.
You've got a Texans team coming off a very emotional

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high victory over the Chargers at home, and they are
looking to, you know, take that next step, put that
next foot forward.

Speaker 3 (02:11:31):
And the Chiefs are been there, done that.

Speaker 2 (02:11:34):
Not to say they're going to overlook the Texans, not
even a little bit, and they better not because there
are some pieces that are still left they believe it
or not. Even though Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell are
not coming back, even though you've got, you know, other injuries.
The Jalen Peatries of the world, very very talented, especially
on the defensive side of things, and that starts. I mean,
the pass rush is there. But who's to say right now.

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January fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Everything you know about how
the draft went between those two, Sauce Gardner and then
Derek Stingley Junior. It was a rough start to his career.
It was a rough defense to be in to start
your career. And all Derek Stingley Junior is done, in
my opinion, is become the best cornerback in the NFL.

(02:12:18):
And if he's not, he's right in the discussion. It's
all subjective, it's all opinions. Demiko Ryans On his stud
All Pro cornerback Derek Stingley Jr.

Speaker 7 (02:12:27):
Yeah, Derek has done a great job all year of
you know, when people challenge him down the field, he
has a great ability to track the football.

Speaker 2 (02:12:36):
And go make the play.

Speaker 7 (02:12:37):
Not many guys have that ability to track the football.
That's why a lot of guys play dB because they
can't catch it. But Derek does a good job of,
you know, playing with great awareness but also having great
hands to finish the play and make teams pay.

Speaker 2 (02:12:51):
You know, somebody on x had said something about when
is Derek Stingley Junior going to line up at wide
out for the Texans? Like he's that You heard Demiko
talk about him. The ability to catch the football. I
know that Dion Sanders did it for the Cowboys the
famous it was either like a pizza hut or a

(02:13:11):
Pepsi commercial, you know, offensive defense both. You remember the commercial.
If you were around in the mid nineties and you
saw him playing for the Cowboys, Derek Stingley Junior probably
could do it. Obviously has the athleticism, but on top
of that to have the hands, and he has really
carved out a nice niche for himself in Houston and

(02:13:33):
it's gonna be one of the main reasons why you've
got a chance against somebody, and he and Kamari Lassiter,
it's it's at this point you're talking about the divisional
round of the postseason. You know Kamario Lassiter is not
a rookie anymore. I know he is still his rookie campaign.
But man, for all the complaints I've had about the

(02:13:53):
offensive line and Nick Cassario either not addressing it or
addressing it with the wrong people and the money, he
has really nailed some draft picks defensively, and you're throwing
Kaylen Bullock. You've just got a lot of young talent
out there that makes you very excited when you're going
up against the best quarterback in the game, speaking of
which you're gonna need to get some points of your own.
Mentioned that earlier that Joe Mixon or bust is kind

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of my mantra for this Saturday's game. Again, when he
has over one hundred yards, it feels like the Texans
never lose. Happened again this past week against the Chargers.
It was not looking well, not looking good for him
early on, and then he winds up getting twenty five
carries for one hundred and six or whatever it was,
and that late touchdown to kind of seal it. When
Joe Mixon is effective, the Texans win. The Texans are effective.

(02:14:41):
So does that mean it's Joe Mixon or bust. This
Saturday afternoon, here's Demiko Ryan on his bell cow.

Speaker 7 (02:14:48):
Joe provi's confidence as he brings it every week, like
the way he goes about his business, every like what
he has to say.

Speaker 2 (02:14:56):
To the guys all throughout the week.

Speaker 7 (02:14:59):
He he provides confidence, like you see a confident guy
who's trying to exude that confidence off on his teammates.

Speaker 2 (02:15:06):
And that's what he brings.

Speaker 7 (02:15:07):
Confidence. He brings positive energy to everyone, and that's what
you need at this point in time of the year.
Like you, you have to believe first and foremost, and
Joe brings that belief. And if you don't have it
you hear him talk, you bet you'll get it really quickly.

Speaker 3 (02:15:22):
So yeah, I mean it's you. You talk about.

Speaker 2 (02:15:28):
Big name players and them coming over from other teams
where they've already you know, kind of had justin Verlander,
for example, it's sometimes hard to come in and establish
yourself in a locker room in a clubhouse, but not him.
And having seen this firsthand both on the road in

(02:15:49):
Kansas City and then this last week, he commands, he
commands that locker room. I'm not saying he's the only guy,
he's the only leader in there, but it's just interesting
to see, uh, a long time vet like Joe Mixon
and then a second year quarterback in CJ.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
Stroud and see how they both are.

Speaker 2 (02:16:08):
Able to lead in their own unique ways, and see
how those team teammates of theirs gravitate towards them. And
it's not just a visual thing. You hear them when
they talk about both of those guys. So Joe Mixon
big part of why the Texans have a chance in
Kansas City, and I think he's gonna have to have
a big game for them to have a chance to
go ahead and get the job done. Coming up on

(02:16:29):
Saturday afternoon, we'll continue what do you feel about dosing
unruly sports fans? It happened, It involved an Eagles fan.
I know that's a huge shock to you. We'll explain next.

Speaker 1 (02:16:42):
The A Team on Sports Talks seven ninety. The A
Team continues on Sports Talks seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:16:57):
All right, so moral clarity time, How far how far
do you go when things go wrong around you, like
if you're in a situation, and this is kind of
like this speaks to society in general today.

Speaker 3 (02:17:17):
I saw this video. I did not I don't even
know how I came across this.

Speaker 2 (02:17:21):
It's very random, but I saw it, and I'm like, okay,
that is there's a lot going on here. Apparently at
the Eagles Packers game on Sunday night, Sunday afternoon, and
it's it's been deleted, but I was able to see
it before it happened. There was this guy by the
well I won't I won't say his name for the

(02:17:42):
purposes of this conversation, in this discussion, because that's kind
of what this is about.

Speaker 3 (02:17:46):
There was a guy.

Speaker 2 (02:17:49):
Looked like in the upper you know, upper sections of
the Link linkoln Financial, which is where the Eagles play.
And they hosted the Packers and handily eliminated them and
beat them and they're moving on. But you know, Eagles
fans have a reputation so to speak. That's putting it mildly.
So there was a guy that was you know, there's

(02:18:10):
there's trash talk during a game, and then there's knowing
that you're on camera and continuing to trash talk. You know,
the wife of a guy who is taking the video
on his phone, calling her all sorts of like really
really gross names, like over the line names. And I
guess what ended up happening is somebody got a hold

(02:18:32):
of it and decided that, all right, you're gonna be
like this, You're gonna act like this, You're going to
essentially support the worst of the worst reputation of bad
Philly sports fan and specifically Eagles fans.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
You guys know that the Lincoln Financial Field State.

Speaker 2 (02:18:48):
They have a full court right there in the stadium,
Like there's a holding sale cell, there's a judge. They
go ahead and just take care of it right there
on site, because they're not gonna clog up the rest
of the week with all the other crime being committed
in Philadelphia over a stupid football game.

Speaker 3 (02:19:05):
At least that used to be that way.

Speaker 2 (02:19:06):
I'm not sure if it's still that way, but that
the last time I checked, that's what was happening there,
which is actually a sad commentary on the society in Philly,
But I digress. Somebody got a hold of who this
guy was, because he's clear as day. You can see
him on camera, and they basically docked him. They basically

(02:19:27):
found out that he was a business analyst. They found
the firm that he worked for, They put his name
out there, and they're like, yeah, let's make this guy
famous for calling this woman these names, for being this way.
I mean, they were Packers fans. He was an Eagles fan.
He was going after them. And it was not just
the typical trash talk. It was like really low under

(02:19:50):
under the brow of any sort of decorum or decency
stuff that he was saying to a woman.

Speaker 6 (02:19:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:19:56):
It wasn't just that it was another fan, it was
a woman, it was a thing he was saying to her,
the names specifically he was calling her, and a lot
of people. This thing had twenty one point four million
views so far, and you know, people had very visceral
reactions to not only what he did and said, but

(02:20:17):
to the fact that he was essentially being doxed. People
are trying to get him fired from his job because
of how he, you know, was acting in public. So
there were some people that on one side were saying,
all right, this guy represents this company. This guy, you know,
it's it's clear that he's an employee of theirs. And
the reason this is a big deal is because his

(02:20:38):
his firm came out with a statement and basically said,
in so many words, we're aware of the situation we're investigating,
and we will take the proper steps necessary one way
or the other once we determine what we feel like
has happened and how we feel about it. But you
had other people, and I understand where they're coming from,

(02:20:58):
because we're kind of I think we're coming to the
very late stages of the cancel culture phenomenon in this country,
where you know, one set of people decides what is
okay and what isn't for another set of people, even
though they would never hold themselves to that very same standard,
and they say, yeah, you're done. You're gonna lose your job,

(02:21:21):
You're gonna lose you're gonna get kicked out of the
school that you attend, you're going to you know, have
your your personal life and your finances and everything else
ruined because you don't agree with what we think should
be the thing, whatever it may be. That's it's a
very nasty, very slippery slope way to go through life,
and especially when you're talking about sports. So there are

(02:21:43):
people and I sometimes tend to fall in this group
where it's.

Speaker 3 (02:21:46):
Like, all right, this was said, this was done.

Speaker 2 (02:21:49):
Did somebody die, did somebody you know where they really
seriously injured? Were they was their life ruined? If not?
All right, it's it sucks, it's not great, But I
don't know if somebody should their livelihood over it. And
it's like this this argument, especially when it comes to sports,
like at the end of the day and having been
fired over something really really stupid that happened on social

(02:22:10):
media one time. For I mean, everybody knows it was dumb,
but I had to wear that knowing that. You know what,
if I hadn't even engaged, maybe that doesn't happen. Is
it worth somebody losing their job or their livelihood over
And like this guy responded and says, as much as
a loser as this guy is, I feel the right

(02:22:31):
move is to call him out at the game.

Speaker 3 (02:22:34):
This is on those around him.

Speaker 2 (02:22:36):
Yes, this behavior is unacceptable, but at what point does
the targeting, attacking someone's job in life cross the line
that they cross to begin with. And the very next
person that responded was like, I'm not a big fan
of doxing but when you're on camera and you go
out of your way to mistreat someone, you should be

(02:22:56):
well aware of the likely consequences. Should the man be
eighty from the football venue. Absolutely, should the man be fired,
that's up to his employer. And honestly, I haven't checked
in to see whether or not he was fired. I
guarantee you he's going to be. The company that he
works for doesn't release a statement like that see what
he did, and not fire. I find it very hard

(02:23:17):
to believe they wouldn't because now the pressure's on them.

Speaker 8 (02:23:19):
Right there's unconfirmed reports that he has been but again
it's unconfirmed.

Speaker 3 (02:23:24):
I mean, there was something that happened.

Speaker 2 (02:23:27):
During the heat of the election season, and this professor
in Oregon, and I think it might have been at
the University of Oregon, was wishing harm upon people that
basically didn't agree with him politically, and he got fired
and we was suspended without pay, or it was suspended,
he was on put on leave with pay.

Speaker 3 (02:23:46):
I can't remember what it was, but eventually he got fired.
And it's just like I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:23:50):
There's definitely two sides of it, because there has to
be consequences for your actions, or you're not going to
change your actions a lot of times. And this could
go for a number of things. This goes to my
kid when he's wanting an extra thing of candy, or
he wants to stay up later, and inevitably we let
him stay up later than he's supposed to, and when
we say it's time to go to bed and he
starts throwing a fit and doing everything short of throwing

(02:24:13):
himself on the ground, and he's six, It's like, Okay, well,
next time you want to stay up late, we're not
going to do this. Like, I get it, there has
to be consequences, but I'm sure the guy. I'm not
sure the guy was drunk. Maybe he wasn't. There's no
excuse for your behavior even if you are inebriated, especially
at a football game or any sort of sporting event.
But like, I don't know if the guy should lose

(02:24:36):
his livelihood over something like that. And yet I can
see it both ways. I feel like I'm on the
fence about this. I feel like I'm slightly leaning towards
not completely ruining someone's life because they said something, even
as offensive as it may be. But I've seen it
happen so many times and I've seen seemingly the majority

(02:24:59):
of the culture or maybe want to shift away from that.

Speaker 3 (02:25:02):
So I don't really know where I stand.

Speaker 8 (02:25:04):
I mean, I think that it's also too I mean,
you bring up the example of your six year old,
he's six, that's kind of a good pertinent point. But
but I mean, like that's the thing though, is I
feel like certain people feel like behavior should be allowed
because oh, they don't know any better.

Speaker 2 (02:25:18):
If you're a grown adult, you know better. You do
know verry up.

Speaker 8 (02:25:21):
So I mean, like that's the part of it that
I just cannot jive with. And I think that you know,
the whole canceling people everything. I'm normally with you on it,
but I mean, this guy supposedly is married with a daughter, Like,
if that really is on your ledger, now you're affecting
them too. You really have this type of vocabulary towards women, Like,
come on, man.

Speaker 2 (02:25:41):
Yeah, that's the thing. There's two sides of that. Okay,
So there's a there's a wife and a daughter involved.
You went to an Eagles game, you saw Packers fans
sitting close to you, and you decided to go after them.
A you did so by going after one of them
who was a woman and use the type of language
that you know, you use towards a woman if you're pretty,
you know, low, low caliber character type person, and you

(02:26:05):
wouldn't want somebody using towards your wife or daughter in
all likelihood. But then again, if he's fired, if he
loses his job because he used that kind of language
towards that woman that you would not want used towards
your wife or daughter, well now they're suffering because of it,
and so I get again consequences for your actions.

Speaker 3 (02:26:25):
It just it was just ugly.

Speaker 2 (02:26:27):
And I again, it's a playoff game in the NFL.
Why are we doing this? Is a societal commentary thing.
I'm not here to like do an ABC after school
special here, but it goes to a much bigger issue
whereas we are we sometimes are the ugly Americans as
we are called around the world. Because we even are

(02:26:49):
in a situation where we could go to a venue
where a sporting events being played, tickets are obviously off
the charts, even if you are sitting in the quote
cheap sheet seats, and yet you found time to act
like a jackass and it got got on camera. Because
of social media, everybody knows who you are, what you did,
and we're all talking about it. It's just wild to me,

(02:27:11):
like all the aspects of this that go into this
situation that bring us to a point where this guy
might be fired, but also acted like a I mean
just showed as you know what to the world and
is basically by all accounts of scumback because you'd have
to be to do what he did. And if you've
seen the video, you know what I'm talking about. But
should he lose his job, should that wife and child

(02:27:32):
have to suffer, you know, as collateral damage because of that?

Speaker 3 (02:27:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:27:36):
Discuss if you will. We'll get to in case you
missed it, some of the things we have not gotten
to on a Tuesday edition of the show.

Speaker 5 (02:27:43):
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Speaker 7 (02:28:03):
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Speaker 3 (02:28:04):
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Speaker 2 (02:28:05):
It's time for In case you missed it, On a
Tuesday edition of the program, Dan take it.

Speaker 8 (02:28:10):
Away, if you had a Deontay Johnson custom made jersey
in anticipation that he was gonna absolutely go off from
the divisional round, potentially in the AFC Championship Game, or
who knows, maybe even in New Orleans. Well, you are
out of luck. After two active games for the Texans,

(02:28:31):
three total catches twenty four yards from Deontay Johnson, his
time is over. Tamiko Ryans talking about the decision.

Speaker 2 (02:28:40):
Yeah, unfortunately it didn't work out, and you know, we're
all to the Chiefs. So that quickly Deontay did he
go Bill Belichick? Yes, he did, We're onto the Chiefs.
It would have been funny if he actually did the delivery.
It shows you kind of how I feel about the
whole situation that it's five point thirty four of a

(02:29:04):
four hour show and we're just now mentioning this. I
knew it, I just didn't even it didn't even cross
my mind. I'm not saying it's not irrelevant, because we
all talked about it when he got here and the
reasons why he was even available to begin with, and
would this be different. It took the Texans a record
amount of time or lack thereof, to come to this decision,

(02:29:27):
and that probably tells you all you need to know.
Don't even know if anything happened other than just just
going to go their separate ways.

Speaker 8 (02:29:35):
I mean, I will say this without naming names, but
somebody did point out that there were members of the
Texans in the locker room, and I just turned around
and I saw that somebody was talking with him at
his locker But I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:29:46):
This Saturday after the game. Yeah, didn't know.

Speaker 8 (02:29:49):
Of anything else, but the Texans obviously felt like it
was right for their time to come to an end.

Speaker 2 (02:29:55):
In this partnership. Very interesting, Yeah, interesting enough, all right.

Speaker 8 (02:30:00):
Sticking with the NFL teams that are not playing, because
while they were losers last weekend, like the Pittsburgh Steelers,
as is customary around the league, whenever your season comes
to an end, a lot of times the head coach
will talk, maybe even the head coach the GM and
even the owner at times will decide to address the media.
But in this case, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin

(02:30:21):
season ending at press conference. Now, ac, I've not seen
anything of concrete evidence that this rumor could be substantiated
that teams could possibly trade for him.

Speaker 2 (02:30:32):
I've just seen it more of speculation. I've heard that
a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 8 (02:30:36):
Been brought up, and that was brought up to Tomlin today.
His simple response, quote, save your time, end quote, Mike
Tomlin doesn't look like he's going anywhere.

Speaker 6 (02:30:46):
Well, you.

Speaker 2 (02:30:48):
You would have to trade for him if he's under contract.
So that's where a lot of that. I think people
just in the media or whatever saw his situation that
he's still under He just signed a three year extension.
I was trying to find out the exact linked and
that's what it was. So you know, that's the only
way you would be able to get him because I'm
gonna let him out of a contract. But that's the

(02:31:12):
most demonstrative. I guess the fact that it was asked.
You get that kind of answer, that's what that's the
type of answer you're looking for. You don't always get it.
He could have given us coach speak, but I don't
think Mike Tomlin's really ever been much of a coach
speak type of guy. So it doesn't surprise me that
he was very black and white in his answer. There
is no misinterpretations, there's no nothing other than just the

(02:31:36):
blunt Mike Tomlin that we've all come well, I've come
to know and love. I'm a huge fan of this guy.
I don't I would not let him walk out of
that building. If I were the Steelers, I realize he
has not had a playoff victory under his belt in
what eight years now, I think twenty sixteen was this
last one I saw. Yes, great, how many coaches have
come and gone and the organizations in question are probably

(02:31:59):
worse off or they're still trying to find their way.
You would be it would absolutely benefit you to have
the type of stability in your organization win, loser, draw,
but particularly winning that the Pittsburgh Steelers have had, and
Mike Tomlin is a big part of why that's the case.
There's a reason they've had three coaches in franchise history

(02:32:21):
and he's the third. They do things a certain way,
and I'm guessing I'm gonna go on, you know, on
the side of the Pittsburgh Steelers organization as far as
timing goes versus anybody else, even though even though he
just completed year eighteen, that right there, of all the things,

(02:32:41):
and they're a lot in the sports world that kind
of remind me of where I'm at in my life.

Speaker 3 (02:32:46):
That make me feel old. I know that they didn't
just fire the beard the chin yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:32:56):
I cannot believe it's been eighteen years since he became
just the third head coach in franchise history. Remember when
there are people who wanted him here.

Speaker 3 (02:33:05):
Cower, Yeah, well, Bill Cower had quite the run.

Speaker 2 (02:33:14):
I don't know if he even thought he would stay
retired at the time, but as time went on it
became pretty apparent. Much like Jimmy Johnson, I don't need that.
I don't need that grief. I've got a pretty cushy
set up. And yeah, I think I think that for
the right people that happens quite often, actually, and Jimmy

(02:33:34):
Johnson and Bill Cower are two examples of that. But
Mike Tomlin just talk about a guy that feels like
he's gonna end up going out on his terms.

Speaker 3 (02:33:43):
I think he's got to walk away before, kind of
like Coward did.

Speaker 8 (02:33:46):
That's why it's funny to hear coaches whenever they go
from coaching to TV and then back to coaching, Supposedly
the first thing that's said to them by current coaches,
why you get to play coach without actually having to
be a coach.

Speaker 2 (02:33:59):
And there's a reason to the you know, to give
credence to what you just talked about right there.

Speaker 8 (02:34:03):
I think Bill Kawer found that out of Hey, once
the TV season's over, I can go play golf, I
can hang out with my kids, grandkids, all of those
different types of things, and then I can just basically
watch film at my leisure and kind of play being
a coach.

Speaker 2 (02:34:15):
We had, like, I mean, there's several high profile guys,
but John Gruden and Urban Meyer would probably be the
two that immediately come to mind.

Speaker 3 (02:34:26):
That were in the booth for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (02:34:28):
We're either already out of the booth or they left
the booth in Urban's case, I think to come back,
and neither one of those really ended very well for
those two guys. Such as life. All right, let's go
to baseball.

Speaker 8 (02:34:41):
Ken Rosenthal Fox with the least surprising bits of rumor
mill news out there today. Rookie Sasaki is meeting with
the Dodgers. In their quote, star players are going to
be in attendance for that. Rosenthal also saw a post
earlier today that, again no shock in surprise, the Dodgers

(02:35:02):
the favorite to land Sasaki.

Speaker 2 (02:35:04):
When does this end? Man, Well, favorite star player is
going to be there, is their favorite accountant there?

Speaker 3 (02:35:11):
How much of this money's going to be deferred?

Speaker 2 (02:35:12):
How much is this going to be a collective eye
roll and grown from the rest of Major League Baseball's
fans as the Dodgers continue to stockpile buying a championship.
The only thing that's like kind of a small solace
is that they've spent all this money over and over
and over and over again over the years and they
just don't have that. They have no more than the

(02:35:34):
Astros championships to show for it. I mean, it's hard
to argue with that.

Speaker 8 (02:35:38):
And it's also too I mean for all the belly
aching about the Astros, I mean for the last seven years,
they never had a first round exit outside of last year.

Speaker 15 (02:35:48):
But like the.

Speaker 8 (02:35:49):
Dodgers, even with having all of this, they still had
Oh my god, they lost some division series.

Speaker 6 (02:35:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:35:56):
I just the Astros run coming to an end, for example,
is as Jack Peterson said. That's why that makes me laugh.
I just won't believe it until I see it. I
know they lost on the in the wild Card. I
know that the Dodgers have the trajectory has basically been
not the polar opposite.

Speaker 3 (02:36:15):
The Astros were.

Speaker 2 (02:36:16):
Right there before last season to go back to another
World Series, which they would have been heavy favorites really
kills me that they could not win one single home
game against the stupid Rangers.

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It is the a team. Sports Talk seven nineties we
wind down another edition of the program, thanks again to
both Chandler Rome and Jeff Blum today for stopping by
and spelling Adam Wecks. He's been out the last two shows.
He will be back at it again with us tomorrow
and we will. It's gonna be weird not having talked

(02:38:09):
with him about any part of the Texans victory over
the past couple of days, but that's just the way
it goes sometimes. I'm sure he'll have plenty of opinions
to share and we will get to his thoughts on
what happened over the weekend and of course what could
happen coming up as we get you ready for the

(02:38:29):
Chiefs game. I was reading a little bit during the
break about the Deontay Johnson situation. So according to ESPN,
Deontay Johnson, who was cut today, was unhappy with his
target share in the victory over the Chargers on Saturday.
He caught one pass for twelve yards. It was his
only target of the day, and according to ESPN, following

(02:38:53):
the Texans Wildcard playoff victory over the Chargers on Saturday,
Johnson was visibly upset in the locker room, was dressed
and sitting at his locker staring in frustration because of
a lack of playing time and targets running back Joe Mixon,
linebacker Aziz Al Shaier trying to comfort and encourage him,

(02:39:14):
and Demiko was like, yeah, I don't need that in here.
It's just I'll never understand these guys that get like
nine lives. It's just the fourth team in eight months
that Deontay Johnson has been dropped from.

Speaker 3 (02:39:31):
Maybe it's you, man, Maybe it's you. I don't know.
There are mirrors everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:39:38):
I'm guessing if four teams have said thanks but no thanks,
and one team took basically two games, one of which
was a playoff game that they put you in and
targeted you, maybe it's you.

Speaker 3 (02:39:51):
Maybe it is you sent Dan this audio. I'm guessing
he'll have it.

Speaker 2 (02:39:56):
By now. Things going very well for the New England Patriots,
and by that I mean that is an abject failure
of a basically twelve months now. If you're of the
opinion that former Titans and former Titans head coach and
former linebacker for the Patriots Mike Vrabel is going to

(02:40:19):
fix everything, I would submit to you his comments from
earlier today, and specifically his comments on his offensive philosophy.
Check this out Patriots fans.

Speaker 14 (02:40:34):
You don't have to throw it fifty times, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:40:36):
I think an interesting stat was, I think.

Speaker 14 (02:40:38):
The passes quarterbacks at a ten more than fifty passes
a game have won twenty two percent of their games
other than Tom Brady. So he's won like seventy percent
of the games that he's had to throw for more
than forty five times or something.

Speaker 2 (02:40:52):
So if you don't have Tom.

Speaker 14 (02:40:54):
Brady, then you probably shouldn't throw at forty five or
fifty times a game.

Speaker 2 (02:41:00):
Flawed at best. That's how I would listen.

Speaker 9 (02:41:04):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:41:05):
He's a smash mouth, old school type of guy. If
you saw him play, you know that. If you saw
him coach specifically here in the AFC South against the
Texans when he was with the Titans, you know that
he coached here in Houston before he went to Tennessee.
And you know that. But trying to say that, you know,

(02:41:27):
teams that run the ball a lot in a game
happen to win a lot, and teams that throw the
ball in a game happen to lose a lot. I
just don't know if that's in line with today's NFL.

Speaker 3 (02:41:37):
Now, I get it. You know, sometimes.

Speaker 2 (02:41:41):
Teams that are ahead are going to run the ball,
you know, chew up the clock, and teams that are
behind are gonna have to pass going down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (02:41:49):
That's just you know, basic football one oh one.

Speaker 2 (02:41:52):
But it sounds to me like Mike Vrabel is hoping
he still has Derrick Henry they're in New England, which
he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:42:02):
By the way, And if.

Speaker 2 (02:42:03):
You're a team like that, who's been trying to fill
Tom Brady's shoes and now you're trying to fill Bill
Belichick Bell Belichick's shoes and the first guy didn't even
last a season. I mean, it felt like they fired
him before the end of the season, even though they
didn't Girod Mayo. But I don't know. And oh, by

(02:42:24):
the way, Mike Vrabel fifty four and forty five and
six seasons with the Titans, three playoff appearances, one appearance
in the AFC Championship Game. There are worse hires to make.
And I'm actually surprised that it took this long to
get him to New England. It feels like the timing
is right. Feels like they have been, you know, wanting

(02:42:45):
to bring back a piece of the pass, which they
basically did this last time around with girod Mayo. But
you know, Mike Vrabel's had a little bit more success,
as you heard with the numbers I just recited. I
just I'm interested to see how that type of philosophy
which he's willing to say at his introductory press conference,
meshes with a guy like Drake May for example. Now

(02:43:08):
Drake May highly touted. He's not Ryan Tannehill. You know,
he's not anything that Mike Vrabel had at his disposal
there in Tennessee. But Mike Vrabel trying to run the
ball thirty forty times a game, which is what it
kind of sounds like, even though I know it's probably
not that extreme. I don't know. I just feel like

(02:43:31):
I don't feel like the Patriots are going to be
one of those teams. It's going to be screwing up
the pecking order as far as the Texans go for
for anytime soon. Texans are in a good spot if
they can somehow find a way to knock off the
Chiefs on Saturday, because then all the whispers you heard
about at least CJ.

Speaker 3 (02:43:50):
Stroud probably aren't as loud.

Speaker 2 (02:43:52):
And it stands the reason that even if that line
can't protect protect him the way maybe say some of
Tom Brady's lines did over the year.

Speaker 3 (02:44:01):
You found a way to win.

Speaker 2 (02:44:02):
You've got that confidence, and you're playing with house money
at that point. I just can't figure out how I
feel about this game. Yet the Texans do what they're
capable of doing defensively, there's no way you can't give
them a shot. I don't care who it is, especially
this season when the Chiefs are not like lighting up
the scoreboard and Patrick Mahomes is not throwing for just insane,

(02:44:24):
ungodly amounts of yardage like he has in prior seasons
when they did win the Super Bowl. I'm fascinated, as
a matter of fact, to see how this unfolds with
the parameters involved, with the players involved, with the players
not involved. There's not gonna be Stefan Diggs and Tank
Dell out there as you're trying to match wits with
one of the greatest offensive minds in Andy Reid and

(02:44:46):
the best quarterback in the NFL in quite some time,
not named Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 (02:44:51):
How's it gonna go.

Speaker 2 (02:44:52):
How does that defense react to a guy who's a
lot more mobile, by the way.

Speaker 3 (02:44:59):
Than just Herbert.

Speaker 2 (02:45:01):
It's gonna be insane as a matter of fact, to
see it all unfold. I just want it to be competitive.
I'm not gonna be happy with a competitive loss, but
I just don't want it to be a whitewashing.

Speaker 3 (02:45:12):
And it would be.

Speaker 2 (02:45:12):
There'd be some sort of symmetry, I would say to
the Texans going up there where the run started for
the paid for the for the Chiefs against the Texans
after they blew that twenty four to nothing lead, and
for the Texans to end that run at least for
this season and advance with a new quarterback, a new
head coach, and a new identity. Then the Bill O'Brien

(02:45:35):
Deshaun Watson Wolf era where it ended with him being
playing GM, basically playing dress up as GM, and ruining
the team in its cap situation. Laimi's tunsil is still there,
by the way, all right, thanks again to Jeff Blum
for filling in, and thanks to Chandler Rome.

Speaker 3 (02:45:52):
Yesterday wex back at it with me again.

Speaker 2 (02:45:54):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:45:54):
Will be in here at two o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:45:56):
We'll have Rockets basketball later on tomorrow night, the first
of a back to We'll have a whole lot more
to get to and Wex gives his first thoughts on
what happened against the Chargers and what could happen against
the Chiefs. It's all coming up tomorrow at two o'clock
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety and Space City
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