KD Rules Houston...Or The Jazz, Life Without Football, Yankees Down & Done?

Wex and AC get you over the hump with news on KD's arrival, plus the Yankees are about be eliminated, thus giving Houston a chance to laugh as the city known for losing a mediocrity

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam, raised by Earl Nolan,
multified the magnificent roller coaster ride that is Houston sports.

(00:22):
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Talking your Teams. Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the
A Team.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
A quadruple header of baseball.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
During our show.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
For the most part, it is the eight Hardstocks one
night game, and most of that's not.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
How you sell. Come on, man, we're in the other night.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Trying to sell them other activities. I'm trying to sell
them on this activity. Oh here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
We talk about it during the show as they listen
to us day being the people.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
What's up Houston?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
It is a Thursday, no Wednesday edition of the A
Team Sports Talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'm all messed up.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I actually woke up today thinking it was a Tuesday,
and then I realized it was a Wednesday after my
wife did the same thing, and then just now I
made it Thursday. But yeah, that's where we're yet. I'm
all messed up. I am all messed up. Listen, I
feel bad for you. I was thinking about this on
I tried today. Well here's why let me explain. I
have never been this excited about a Rocket season since,

(01:40):
Like I said, probably the Chris Paul preseason when they
got him much ballyhooed and it paid off almost.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
One more games that year than they're gonna win this year.
They're gonna win sixty five games this year or more.
I don't think so you haven't taken the over. Actually
we're not allowed to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, But I like then the other night, and I
knew this should be the case in the preseason, and
frankly it might. I haven't decided if I think this
is gonna be the case in the regular season. Well, like, oh,
Kevin Durant's not playing. There's no real reason for him
not to play in the first preseason game.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
If you think about it.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's as healthy as he's gonna be all season, right
theoretically unless.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Something happened that we don't know about this offseason. Fine, exactly, No,
there's nothing. So why wouldn't you play in the opening
preseason game. You're only going to play in one of them,
so you just pick one.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Right, So why wouldn't you have picked the first one
as opposed to tonight when he will play and he's
confirmed that.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Right, well, nobody's disputing it. I'm glad that he was
able to also confirm it personally. So we definitely, definitely,
definitely know some people were still in peap expecting to play,
right because until he plays, he's not playing or he
hasn't played. But yeah, he's gonna play tonight. I don't
think there's a whole lot of which game it was.
They're not looking at matchups, they're not looking at lineups

(02:53):
for the other team, they're not looking at scheduling, and
I think it's okay in that it's also closer to
next week's game.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
So I really don't think there. I can't even imagine
what he may would even say if you asked him.
I wouldn't ask him something like that. That's just because
it's Mania.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
It doesn't I don't think they put enough thought into
it to make a decision mean anything.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
It does sort of feel like you go back to
that game's light, like Tarry Easton was doing. Doesn't mean
what I mean.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
No, I'll take tell you this and maybe this is
a tiny tiny piece of information on it. Every single
player that's healthy was available for the first game, except
for Kevin Durant and.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Uh Jayshawn Tate.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Every player that's healthy is not available for tonight's game
because Tarry Easton and Steven Adams are not going to play.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
So you reverse it.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Now the two players, potentially Jayshawn and Kevin are going
to play while two other players who are rotation players
who you need on the court, who you want to see,
are not available. Then that's how you made your decision.
It can be totally as simple as that, or it
can be even less than that. Do you it doesn't
even matter at this point.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I'm not I'm not I'm gonna leave Tarry Eastan out
of this because I think he's a special case. I
still don't know what happened with his leg, like to
this day, it's like the greatest mystery. But with Steven Adams,
he was coming back from an injury, so I was like,
all right, I'll give him Matt.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
You know, it's his first full year back.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
They traded for him when he was still injured, knowing
that he wasn't gonna play, and then you know, he
didn't play on back to back nights. He would pick
one or the other, but like that shouldn't be the
case this year, he's not why because thirty one? Because
you can So you're just this is load management and
nothing else. It's an ence you would do it with
an older player. You do have a reason because of

(04:39):
the injury, I mean everything. There's tons of reasons why
to do it, and there's no reason not to do
it because they're equipped for it. Do you think next
year they do that with Fred because he's coming off
a leg injury or do you just think.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I mean that's to me, that's different.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
They're the same age though, Well, the difference is and
I would not have done this if we were had
the same roster as last year. I think the fact
that Clint Capella is here is why you could do
it and why you will do it.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
And why we'll see it.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't think it's mandatory that in every single back
to back he only plays one game, but I do
think there are a lot of times where they'll.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Just say he's gonna rest tonight.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
And first of all, planning all this out is great,
and I guarantee you the Rockets have Yeah, it barely
matters because just like the Astros, who's going to start
in a week, Well, where's the roster spot for this
injured player that's coming back. Well, you wait until five
seconds before you have to make it, because it usually
sorts itself out. I mean, is Steven Adams gonna sit
out a bunch of games while Albrey and Clint Coppell

(05:34):
are unavailable?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Probably not.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
As Tarry He's gonna sit out a bunch of games, well,
Kevin Durant or Bari Smith and a Men Thompson are unavailable,
Probably not. I mean, it's all gonna work itself out.
Like I could totally see Kevin Durant. Everything health wise
is you know, on the up and up. He plays
Oklahoma City plays Detroit, Brooklyn's in town.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
I'm not playing that game. There's no sense in risking
him getting injured against a crap team that swept you
last year like that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
I mean, yeah, all that, it's all well and good.
The point is you want to be healthy at the
right time. Is whatever they deem necessary to do that.
You can't get hurt if you don't play. That's all
there is to it. You can't hurt yourself if you're
not practicing, if you're not playing basketball. I would think
players can avoid any catastrophic injury by simply not playing,
And that does factor in because you want these players
when you get to the postseason. This team is headed
to the postseason to be healthy and whatever, by whatever

(06:24):
means necessary is as much as you have to play
within the constraints of the rules and the injured list
and how the NBA has changed things for resting players,
sure you'll play within those rules, but every opportunity that
they deem necessary to take to get this team to
that point as healthy as possible. I don't have any
issue at all with them going out there and doing it,
and I fully expect it all right.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
By the way, if it seems like I'm going a
little too deep on it, does, it does. But I'm
just preparing you for what I think will be this season.
I'm fully prepared you. Just people that are like, why
is any playing tonight? What? I think that question is
going to be asked of certain guys all year long.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Kevin Durant the last handful of years. Is he sitting
out a bunch of games for rest?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
No?

Speaker 5 (07:08):
No, he was hurt, But I think in worder you
can't avoid it, but you're going to do everything you
can to do that, and he was also, I don't
think teams are saying, you know, we have a roster
that we just we can't play they're too brittle, Like
he's not brittle, it's just he's too good not to
have healthy.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's more about that.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
And do you need eighty two games worth of thirty
minutes a night from Kevin Durant to get where you
want to go? Absolutely positively, not name every star in
the league. The same is true for every single one
of them, whether it's a battle for the second seed
versus the third seed, and you're saying, you want me
to sit him a game and it could cost us that, Yeah,
because I think if your team's good enough and you're
the three seed instead of the two seed because of

(07:47):
this one night, you can still win. Watch what happened
in last year's playoffs. In the year after, and or
the year before and the year before and the year before,
the healthiest teams win every single time, almost every single time.
Whether they would have one anyway is another story. Like
Oklahoma City last year, they probably were going to win
regardless of the other team's injuries, which they did see

(08:08):
all on their way to the title, and certainly saw
in the NBA Finals. They also didn't have any of
their own, so that made them even more formidable than
they already were just by simply being good at basketball.
I don't know how the season is going to play out,
so getting into what they should and shouldn't do this
far out like I'm not, you know, the first week
of the season.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
We haven't even gotten there yet. We're in the preseason.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Kevin Durant is probably not even gonna play that many
minutes tonight, by his own acknowledgment. It's just a matter
of trying to get out there on the court, kind
of stay where he is at health wise, and get
his first opportunity in front of the fans under the lights,
with whistles, with the real physical activity you're going to
see banging around with another NBA team, So fans and
listeners and viewers, we'll get to see it for the

(08:52):
first time tonight Toyota Center.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yep, I'm looking forward to it. Can't wait to get
over there to take it all in. And yeah, it's very,
very very interesting here in Houston for a number of reasons. Obviously,
the Texans are in the midst of a bye week,
but plenty of action still ongoing around the NFL. I
just love the fact that Joe Flacco is not only

(09:16):
going to be in a Bengals uniform, they've already determined
that he's better option than anybody they've got.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right now, he's starting. Joe Flaco.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Why they traded for him? I mean, people aren't treating
it like it's this news item today. Did do you
think they orchestrated a trade to get somebody to back
up their terrible quarterback? I know Joe Flacco's awful if
you guys have listened to me since he left, since
he was replaced by Lamar Jackson, like thirty years ago.
It's been a terrible NFL quarterback essentially ever since. And

(09:45):
he keeps going from team to team to team and
playing terrible football. And the football he played this year
for Cleveland might be the most terrible football he's ever played.
But the Bengals didn't trade for him so he could
watch Jake Browning play terrible football. They signed, and Zach
Taylor said the obvious today, he said, he's our starter.
He's taking all the reps. A totally unrelated football item

(10:08):
will hit you regarding Joe Flacco. When we get to
best of X. It's a terrible place to be. It's
an awful, awful place to be. You got a locker
room full of players that I guarantee you and I
would have too. I did it here on the show,
the locker room full of players that expected to reach
the postseason this year in Cincinnati, and I was totally
behind that. I picked him as one of the seven

(10:29):
teams I thought would be in the AFC postseason. And
because of one injury, nothing else, no other factors at all,
one injury and the length of that injury, their season.
They know their season is shot because unfortunately the backup
they thought they had that could play and has played
well enough to win in the past didn't and hasn't

(10:49):
and is costing them the opportunity to win rather than
giving them at least some kind of opportunity to win.
Totally desperate move. You took a guy that was benched,
You took a guy that can't play and offered something
to another team to get him so he could play
for you. And it's not the first time. It's not
the first year that Joe Flacco has been a poor
NFL starting quarterback. Every single team that has paid him

(11:13):
over the years since he left Baltimore, he has played
poorly as the starter. He's done it in Denver, He's
done it in New Jersey for the Jets. He's done
it in Cleveland twice, two different times they brought him in,
and in between he did the very same thing in Indianapolis.
He's a bad quarterback. Everybody in the league knows it.
Even the team that is going to start him this

(11:33):
week knows it. But they think he's better than the
guy they had, and that's all that matters at this point.
He will try to do what well, nobody else has
done it yet, and nobody might do it all season.
Beat the Packers for a second time. Beat him already
he was with the Browns. Now he'll have an opportunity
to do it with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Can't wait. Flacco Ball, that's what they'll call it, all right.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
We need to get something that you'll love, because there's
already imaging for it. The Yankees nausea is in full
bloom after they finally got a win last night and
got it in in large fashion because they're superstar player
that they pay a bunch of money to finally showed
up in the postseason for the.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
First time ever. That's pretty accurate. I think it's pretty accurate.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I know you do.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Of course I do, because it is. We'll discuss when
we come back.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
The eight on.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Sports Talk seven ninety. Welcome back into the A team.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
It's Sports Talk seven ninety Wednesday edition of the program
that's definitely live and definitely not in the seventies.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Wex and ac with you here as well.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Fired off because it's time we need to talk about
what we love to talk about on this show. Not
the Cowboys, not the Lakers, but the other team that's
t shirt frontrunning fan bases. We love to Yeah, we
love to you and me Sports Talk seven ninety. You're
Southwest home for Yankees baseball.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh man, I was so happy last night.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
WEX Carlos Rodan Rawdon rodun It doesn't really matter. He
did his thing, got shelled much like I predicted he would.
Right after you left the show on Monday, calls my
witness and was doing his part. And the Yankees season
was going down the tubes, it was going up in flames.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
It was dead.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
They were done. They were just gone gone. We're gonna
be rid of them. And then the comeback began, and
then Aaron Judge hit a home run, and then it
was the greatest home run in the history of home runs.
At least that's how some people were passing it off.
I just I saw and I meant to bookmark this tweet.

(14:00):
It was just basically talking about how it was like
the perfect swing. Ken Rosenthal writes an entire article on
his momentous home run, but he had to then a
perfect swing.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
He wrote a whole article on how bad he's been
in the postseason, and he was the one we were
talking about, saying that Vladimir Guerrero in two days has
more postseason moments than this guy. And then he said
it again during their pregame because he was working that
particular game, about how he's had no moments. There's nothing there,
even though I think Yankee fans know there have been
a few. That's not enough of the big moments and

(14:33):
obviously the winning moments. They haven't won a World Series,
which it's kind of cool that that's all they care about.
That's awesome. That means you really are in it in
that way. Yesterday's home run tied the game at six.
They don't win if they don't score more runs they did.
Other people drove them in, but it was kind of important.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
I mean, no, no, no, I'm not just dissing the
rest of his postseason.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
This year is silly. He's hitting five hundred, even though
I mean.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
He's hitting five hundred, there doesn't have to be an
even there has to be why.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Why Because because they were in O two hole until
they made this monumental comeback. That's stick four times a game. Well,
what do you want more than half the time? He
should get a hit.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yep. If he's paid seven hundred plus million dollars, yes,
I do.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
No, you don't, I do. I do the purposes the
show you Yeah, well no, listen, Yanke.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
If Aaron Jones doesn't hit over five hundred this series,
I'm done with him. If he doesn't hit over five
hundred this postseason, then they need to look for somebody else.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
I don't care what little snarky remark you make. If
you're getting paid that much money to be the guy,
they're not doing that for the regular season. Like those
goldilocks baseballs in the regular season and all the home
run records and all that kind that's nice. They don't
care about that in New York through the twenty seven
times champs. They care about winning since two thousand and nine,

(15:57):
and they haven't done that in large part because he
hasn't showed up. So when you give for that money,
oh okay, so now he's a year after he signs
the contract said he was also suck about this postseason,
complaining about it. They are they are Yankees fans are
that had this impossible standard for this team that won
half those championships against a bunch of plumbers.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I mean, like, seriously, this is who they are.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
This is how they they envisioned their their their organization
and this team that they root for. And he's finally
doing it. And so it's just funny that, like the
media that is just dying for this to happen is
finally able to slobber all over. It's not just Aaron
Judge why Cam Schlitter could save New York Yankee season.

(16:43):
He has to. They don't have any margin for error.
But it's the way that Jorge Castillo frames the whole situation.
I mean, they're dying for him to have another out
of body experience like he did the last time he
pitched in the play playoffs and he has to by
the way season is over.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
The miracle, there's a for Their pitching has been atrocious. Yeah,
starting pitching specifically, it's been absolutely atrocious. It's it's almost
impossible that they did what they did that they are here.
They were down again early, they couldn't get guys out.
They needed to come back. They obviously did not come
back in either of the two games in Toronto. Now
back at home, and they did clearly score some runs

(17:20):
in the second game in Toronto, but once the game
was already out of reach. They are not still not
getting much from too many others. The jazz Chisholm Hoomer
was huge and special also helps. The Blue Jays made
a couple of errors, mental errors and physical errors in
the game that contributed to the Yankees comeback. But you
know one thing I will say to I guess be

(17:42):
on your side.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thank you about time. I wish we didn't have.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
I mean, I missed a numbers guy, mister reference to
all these great things that we could see and compare
eras from.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's it's what they're there for.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
But the idea that we're promoting him and patting him
on the back for becoming the player with the most
home runs in elimination game postseason history is so funny
to me, Like nobody gets. I mean, the people on
the air are using this like during the game, and
people are writing about it, but then they stop before

(18:16):
they do what I'm going to do? Okay, So tonight
they're playing one more game. And what's tonight for the Yankees? Shockingly,
it's an elimination game. So they've played. This will be
their seventh game in the postseason this year. They trailed
their first series one game to none, then they won
a couple of games.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
They've trailed in this series two games to.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
None, and now they've won a game, so that's two
games to none, one game to none. This will be
their fourth game and the okay, so now more than
half their games this year are elimination games, and if
they win tonight, they're gonna have their fifth elimination game
of just this postseason. Guess who always plays in an
elimination game when they go to the postseason. Aaron Judge

(18:55):
because he's been eliminated from the postseason every single time
he's been there, every single time. You know who's records
he's branking in Yankees history guys who've won World Series titles.
When you win the World Series, you were not eliminated.
You won your last game. You kept playing. And clearly
some of the era players that he's battling with for

(19:16):
this extremely important title were winning and winning and winning,
and we're not facing elimination as often as he is.
I don't have the numbers because I don't ask the
we Wexler research team to do dumb stuff, so I
don't need to research how many, exactly how many elimination
games has Aaron Judge played in. I know it's a
lot because he goes to the postseason every year and

(19:37):
they get eliminated every year, and they've been down in
series plenty before and been eliminated. It's good for him,
and it's you know, when the stars play well. Like
the other side of it. It's awesome that Vladimir Guerrero
is the star of the Blue Jays and he's killing
it in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's great.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Like the storyline from the Dodgers Phillies series is the
exact opposite of that. The two stars in the Yankees
Blue Jay series are killing it. They're both awesome. The
six stars in the Phillies Dodgers series are doing absolutely
positively nothing. Showhy Freddie offensively, Mookie Schwarber, Harper Turner, whoever you.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Want to make nothing a bunch of money lit on fire.
It's just but it happens. It's baseball. It's why we
actually love it and should see something. I'm all for
the drama today.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Every game is an elimination game at this point because
each series has a team with at least two wins
in it, So if somebody's going home today, it could
be everybody going home today. I'd be shocked if all
four teams they were in a trail position win their
game today and extend their series to either a fourth
or fifth game. The National League series are going into
their game threes and both teams trailing are trailing two

(20:47):
games to none, obviously, and the two American League series
said at two games to one. Early game is the
Mariners Tigers. Yesterday I thought the Mariners had the better pitcher,
and today I think the Tigers might have the better pitcher,
so hopefully it plays out that way. But the Yankees
did what I did not expect them to do. Everything
that took place in that game looked like This is

(21:07):
three straight times early runs from the Blue Jays, poor
starting pitching from the Yankees, huge hole. Just get the
next fifteen outs and we can call it a series
and they can go home.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
They fought back. They actually showed some metal. They did
if you will.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
The bullpen clearly kept the game where it needed to be,
and then their offense just and they had run scoring opportunity.
They scored in this inning, and they scored again in
this inning, and they scored again in this if they just
kept putting it on the Blue Jays, which they just
have not been able to do in this series.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Chef passing, you could feel it in your bones. Aaron
Judge meets his October moment at last.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
And all that being said, we're there are two more
chances for the Blue Jays to finish this series, and
this great.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
I mean, I don't want to take the moment away.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
From him, but it's still very very likely that what
now might be called as big as postseason moment. On
the positive side, in a DS just came in. Yeah,
came in an early round series series. They lost it,
but they did not win. It helped him win that
particular game, which should be That's noteworthy. That matters. It's
a short series. You helped him win that game with
a huge, huge swing. He's come up in a lot
of big spots already in this series, and previously he

(22:16):
had not come through. I mean, for a guy who
had hits and half of his bats to strike out
with the bases loaded is a little tough to stomach.
He also isn't striking out that often. It's been up
to the plate twenty five times and for him to
only have four strikeouts is incredible and absolutely remarkable.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Says more about the pitchers he's facing. In my facing
plenty of good pitching. Now they sucked. Yeah, I look,
I I actually and I've said this before. This is
not something I've just like said on the off the
air and then on I get on the show and
I play up my role here. I actually like Aaron Judge.
I like, I think he's a nice I think he's
a neat guy. No, I think he's a nice guy.

(22:52):
I think for as big as superstar as he is,
if it's not the postseason, he's as likable and as
easy to deal with and all that kind of stuff
as you can get. I mean, there's a lot worse
personalities out there.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
That he's handled everything pretty well. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
The only thing that always will be with him for
us and for you is what he had to say
about the MVP that he did not win because another
player was better than him that year.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, but I think that's not even the only thing
that was said.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Once the scandal happened, there were a lot of players
that were chirping that if their name isn't Cody Bellinger,
they'd probably like to have some of those comments back
because they look like total asses and sounded like them,
especially especially in light of what we found out, especially
in light of what we found out about some of
the teams they were playing on. But all that stuff's

(23:40):
in the past. I don't worry about it. Like the
scoreboards the ultimate, you know, indicator of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
And the Yankees, the Astros.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Have had their number when the actual games count, not
some regular season series. So good for Aaron Judge, hopefully
his season ends tonight.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Did you all see this?

Speaker 6 (24:07):
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Speaker 4 (24:10):
Four hundred people were arrested for things that they said
on social media.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
History repeats itself type bangils succeed.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Never doubt that you're the one who bustle no one building.
You're the best of X.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Nothing's gonna ever talk. You know you're the best of X.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Posting every single day. You know you're the best of it,
breaking the entire Internet.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
All right.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's that time of day where we visit the main
streets of social media and we find the best of
X or Instagram or Facebook or TikTok or Twitch or whatever.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Else is out there. I think this is from X
today Twitch.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
I don't know, really, man, I guess it's it's more
creator content and social media.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Do you think Cal McNair has a Twitch account for
his video gaming?

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Well, do you really think he's a gamer or he
just plays video games?

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, to me, there's a difference. Page Rosenfelds told me
he was a gamer.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Against when when.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
We talk about it and it's come up that Cal
was enjoying a nice game of name your video game.
I do know there are current video games that he
probably does play, but I still envision him more on
the What do you mean you can play online? What
do you mean you can play against somebody else? What
does that mean? I didn't know you could do that.
I picture him with a not particularly up to date

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list of games he likes to play, like maybe he's
playing Pitfall or Pole Position, maybe he Super mispac Man.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Something not quite.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
I need to go. I need your gamer tag. We
get like, we gotta get this going, not GTA one through.
How many are there?

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Five? Okay, we're on six. I just don't soon the
new one will be released and I.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
And ironically enough, I don't envision him sitting in his
office or home or mansion or man cave playing Madden either.
Why which he should, right, yes, he should, non stop.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I mean it's the only way the Texans are gonna
win the Super Bowl. I mean, hey, Nick, are you
Are you done making roster moves yet? Can I put
in the roster yet?

Speaker 4 (26:31):
They start playing games?

Speaker 5 (26:32):
I mean I want, I want to be I want
to play out the season here with the guys that
you've gotten for us. No, this isn't really necessarily even
for the comments, but more of a comment on this situation.
Joe Flacco was acquired by the Cincinnati Bengals earlier this week,
made his way to practice for the first time today,
stitch up a new jersey, and because the Bengals are
awful and are playing without a good quarterback, they made

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a big deal out of it by posting the actual
making of his jersey on their social media accounts, which
I'm sure was met with nothing but excellence. And man,
we can't wait to see what this is all about,
so we might have to dig in on some of
those comments for it. But he'll be wearing number sixteen
for those that were wondering and those that know what

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their future holds. But I really did it for a
totally different reason. It's not team related, but all of
their media is clearly going to this is It is
still a big deal, and they have a new quarterback
and he's gonna start, he's gonna get all the reps
this week, and he's gonna be ready to play for
their upcoming game. One thing stood out to me when
I was looking over all of these local media posts

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about his arrival, because today was the first DAID practice.
How do you get to practice? How do you get
to practice? If you're a Houston Texans player. The practice
fields are on site, but they are across the street.
Some teams have their practice facility essentially right outside their
operations doors.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's very easy.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
You know a lot of people, a lot of teams
do it differently. The Bengals and the Texans have a
practice facility that is across the street. If you're a
Texas player, how do he gets practice? When you walk
out the facility door and you go up the steps,
you walk across the bridge that takes you from one
side of Kirby to the other side of Kirby.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Stadium's on one side.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Practice facility, the training centers on the other side. So
you walk up the steps, you walk across the bridge.
Any cars going by, I have no issue with you. You're
above them. You're on the bridge. You walk down the stairs,
and then you walk into the open gate to practice
field number one, and then maybe you go indoors to
the bubble which is also accessible there to other outdoor

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practice Field's nice little setup. The Bengals have a similar
setup with their practice fields and facilities that they can use. However,
they literally walk across the street and they have someone
with the team holding up traffic so they can walk
across the street to get to practice. I saw them
doing this during training camp and I thought them maybe

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this is just a training camp thing.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
But no, it's what they do all season long.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
When they go to practice and leave their their locker
room and go to their practice field. They walk across
the street and you know, I mean you've been around
you know groups of people that all have a specific
time to assignment. All right, we have a show to do,
you and me and Cole and it's at two o'clock.
You could get here at one fifty nine and everything
would be fine. It's not mandated what time we get here.

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So do you think we all get here at the
same time and all walk in the door at the
same time.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
No, we don't.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
That's just three of us.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Probably it takes an hour for the three of us,
but about forty minutes from the whoever gets here first
met and whoever gets here last year, probably about forty minutes.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
What do you think it's like when they.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Have a twelve to fifteen practice, Well, that means you
probably got to be there no later than twelve oh
five if you're a player.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
How long do you think it takes them to get there.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
They're not all getting they're not all leaving the locker
room and walking across the street at the same time.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
I've watched the Texans do it hundreds of times.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
It takes twenty five minutes maybe from when the first
player decides to walk over there and get a stretch
on to the last player walks over there and says,
I'm a rehabber. I don't have to get here early.
So that's how long people who decide to drive. I mean,
maybe you specifically decide to drive by there and say,
oh my gosh, I definitely want to drive through here today.

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I might see I might see Joe Flacco today. I
might see Jake Browning walking to practice. I might see
Jamar Chase walking to practice today. This would be cool,
although it's gonna take me an extra thirty minutes to
get where I want to go because they're holding up traffic.
I mean, this is the NFL, man, you and I
because you sucked me into it. It spent quite a

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bit of time yesterday because of the rain delay, saying,
come on, build a roof, do something. This team can't
even build a bridge.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
And I know it's not quite the same setup as
Houston's setup, so it would be a little different, but
come on, man, that's how you're getting to an NF
college players, high school players don't get to practice like that.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
They just walk to the field. They don't have to
skirt track. You know what, this wasn't even the annoying
thing that I thought you were going to bring up
about Flacco coming to the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Well, I did say.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
They did post his iron on decal jerseys fla CCO
with the number sixteen on it. They pressed it, and
now it's ready for him to go. Browning played so bad.
The social team is marketing Flacco like a first round pick.
Yeah bad, Penny says. Just when you thought things couldn't
go any lower for the Bengals, they release a Flacco

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hype video.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
I mean, that's there's no part of that that I
don't disagree with.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
There's a gift of a really cute looking pooch crying.
Tears are literally coming out of this dog's eyes attached.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
To the caption.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
We had Super Bowl aspirations just forty days ago, and
now this is what we get Flaco's jersey.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
And you know what, that's not even the most depressing
situation in the NFL or in the AFC, because when
we come back, former Texan is already on the chopping block.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
We'll explain.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
It is the a team Sports Talk seven ninety. You know,
we were talking about how things are bad in Cincinnati
for the Bengals, so badly, so bad in fact, that
they are starting Joe Flacco for the foreseeable future. By
the way, it's not just that they're starting Joe Flacco,
it's that they're starting this version of Joe Flacco who

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couldn't even start at the last stop.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
He was in, same version he's been for eight years.
And I've been on for most of those eight years
here and been telling you that. But he was so
bad in Cleveland they benched him for a rookie. And
what else did I I'm not trying to pat myself
on the back.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
I'm just reminding you what.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Did I say after they did their stupidity on Draft
Night two and Draft Night three? The Cleveland Brown select
Dylan Gabriel, The Cleveland Brown select Shadur Sanders. Okay, great
quarterback competition, rookie versus rookie, forget terrible, Kenny Pickett forget terrible,
Huntley forget terrible, Watson forget terrible. Any other veteran and
Joe Flacco turned out to be that other veteran. Just

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let these go, guys, Let these two guys battle it out,
have a winner, have them start, and when they play badly,
if that happens, have the other guys start. Well, it
took him a little while, but that's where they almost
are finally, And I know this is as a Flacco segment,
so I'll save the other part.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Of the brown side of it for later. No, it's
not a Flacco segment. It's worse. There's actually a team
that's worse this year than the Bengals. Do you know
which one it is? It's not the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Well, there's one team with no wins. It would have
to be them.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
I love Aaron Glenn. I loved the when he was here.
I've always thought that he I mean, he's very well
respected around the league and has had a successful coordinator
career since leaving his playing days. I said it when
they hired him, and I felt bad for him at
that moment because there's something about the Jets organization.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's not even like I mean.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
This is like, this is the coaching version of playing
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. It just doesn't work. If
you're the head coach of the Jets, you will fail.
Who's the last guy to succeed Rex Ryan for like
a season or two when he had.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
He went to the playoffs multiple times? That's definitely the answer.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, Mark Sanchez was his quarterback, so that should tell
you how long ago that was.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Now, Mark Sanchez is in the news for other reasons.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Three of their five losses and they have nothing but losses.
They are the lone remaining winless team, have been one
score losses. Played really well against the Steelers but did
not get enough stops, played well enough to beat Tampa
and Baker Mayfield but didn't by two. And of course
they never should a lot to a bad Dolphins team.
But they are losers. I think that's fair to That's

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basically what you're calling them, without being personal. That's literal.
They play a sport, we keep score, we track wins
and losses. They are losers.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
They're apparently reportedly already conversations about whether or not he'll
make it beyond this year in New York as the
head coach. And if you don't believe that, then maybe
you'll believe the report from Ralph now I don't know
how to say.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Okay, Vacchiano, I haven't even seen it, but I know
you're talking about New York.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, I figure that was him. He's their NFL insider quote.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
The Jets are loaded with too many of x GM
Joe Douglas's players.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
So new GM Darren.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Moogie Moogie Mugay, he was hired this offseason just like Aaron.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Are going to want to purge that organization and rebuild
it with their guys. They look like a mess right now,
so I think they'd be open to trading almost anybody good.
That's smart business, for sure, it is. But listen here,
there's what I think. If I'm sitting here in Houston
and on Nick Cassario, They've got to have an offensive

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lineman or ten that are better than anybody that I have.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
They might not.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
I mean, remember when Aaron Rodgers played his game, Yeah,
that was a bad offensive line he was going to
play behind. And then last year when he played all
of the games and led them to five wins, they
also had a substandard line. Okay, so if you've noticed,
I don't know if you have or not, justin Field
likes to run a lot. Now you would anyway because
that's what he does.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
But he's running for his life.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Their line's a little bit better, and player for player,
there might be somebody, honestly that the Texans you can't
look past it.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
You absolutely should want to do it.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
We were talking about this yesterday, and there's a little
bit of a balance here, But the point is you're
trying to win, so you would go after it if
it was there. But building an offensive line that makes
financial sense is a position they actually are in for
the first time in a very long time. If they
actually have some players that can play, and there are
a lot of different to advanced numbers that suggest they're
doing things a lot better than they have in the past,
maybe there's more improvement to be made. I always say this,

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maybe it's true or not for any player in this situation.
I expect this season to be tay Urcery's worst season
as an NFL play.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
And I think he's the only guy.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
He's not a bad player right now, and I think
he's done nothing but get better over the five weeks.
When they start playing teams that have Rams and Bucks
like pressure upfront, players that can pressure upfront. They haven't
really seen that the last couple of weeks, we'll see
if that still holds up.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
But I also think other than Titus Howard, he's the
Those are the only two that I would be looking
at really long term. And if it's not offensive line
and this will qualify, other teams will qualify for this.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
And you're looking at the New York Jets. How about
Breeze Hall.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
I don't think the Texans are going to be trading
for a running back personally, And if they trade Breeze
Hall with Braylen Allen Hurt, then they're I mean, at
oh and five, throwing in the towel doesn't seem crazy. Now,
this couple weeks still the deadline, I don't think they'd
make a move before then. You're putting him in a
position though, where he's probably a short term player, because
what are you going to do with him in the future.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Pay him well, he's on the last year of his
rookie deal, right, which Nick loves.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
Well, I don't know about that, Like, how about you
just have Woody Mark start next year who's making nothing.
At some point, you gotta have players that don't make
any money, especially when you're good. Now they need to
be good to warrant that. But you can't pay everybody,
you can't spend on every position. You won't be paying
Joe Mixon. I know there'll be some money attached to
it on your cap. There is with everybody that Nick

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has signed. Basically, Nick Chubb will be in the same
spot Damian Pierce comes off the books, or hopefully he'll
come off the books before then, because I would be
looking to move him anywhere. If You'll Flacco can net
you something, you'd think maybe Damian Piers similarly, add a
pick to it, get a pick back something like that.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
What if you're just trading him to spell Joe Mixon
this year, Well, that's what you.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Could be doing. But how much more?

Speaker 5 (38:53):
I mean, he's better than whoever they have here, don't
get me wrong, But is it a necessary move to
make over the next three weeks? Find out that it
is less necessary than you think it is.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
And I'll be honest, I that was and that was
part of this article more so than what I was
thinking about, which is that just explore their offensive lineman.
And I would say that for any NFL team that
looks like it might be in the mid in the
midst of a possible fire sale because things are going badly.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
This just happens to be the one that's oh five.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
I mean it's probably hard to do anyway. I mean,
they know where their future is. Every team knows it.
You have to have an offensive line.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
You know.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
They drafted a player in the first round this year.
He's obviously off limits. They signed a couple of players
in free agency this offseason expecting to make the line
better than they have. Their first round draft pick from
twenty four is their left tackle. They probably aren't moving
any of these players to begin with. And again, they're
they're bad, so their players sometimes are also bad.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
All right, just to thought since it looks things are bad,
and I would hate that for Aaron Glenn, but you
know you remember the day.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Aaron Glenn, by the way, not to let that slip away.
Absolutely asinine that if if you want people to think
what you're telling them to think when you make a
move like that, they absolutely will and you'd have a
hard time defending it against it. Yeah, but the Patriots
did the same thing last year and people probably thought
the same thing then too. And now what I told you, yes,
it was just yesterday. I think we've been here three

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maybe it was Monday. Mike Rabel is a better coach,
and the person you hire in place of Aaron Glenn
very well might be a better coach. If you want
to hire and fire coaches, because you always can find
somebody better. Every team would fire their coach almost every years.
That's not why he's getting fired.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
We'll discuss that a little bit more, and we'll get
into Kevin Durant making his debut tonight, amongst other things.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
When we come back.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
The A team on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your team.

Speaker 6 (40:55):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
It's three o'clock here on a Wednesday afternoon. Thanks for
being locked in right here on Sports Talk seven to
ninety and now of course as well over on Space
City Home Network for the simulcast over the next three hours,
getting up to six o'clock.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
Half hour after that, begin our coverage of Rockets basketball
from over at Toyota Center. Rockets and Jazz the last
of their two preseason home games. Of two more preseason
games next week, one against the Pelicans, of course, that
game is in Alabama, and one against the Atlanta Hawks.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Of course, that game is in Atlanta.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
Kevin Durant is set to take the court tonight for
the Houston Rockets for the very first time in a
Rockets uniform, right there on home ice. So hopefully you
guys can enjoy that right here on television or radio
or on site over at Toyota Center as many of
you did on Monday night for the first game of
the twenty five to twenty six preseason.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Rockets took care of the Hawks.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
And showed off a few things that we may see
a little bit more of, some more offense running through
through their big some more pick and rolls where they're
probably in a position now noted this during the broadcast.
Nika said it here. Also, they got three centers to
play above the rim. That's very helpful when you're playing
a lot of pick and roll. And remember way back
to when number fifteen was here for the first time,

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he now wears number thirty.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Clint Capella.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
One of his attributes was even more highlighted even as
a kid, a young player, and that he was better
running the pick and roll as an NBA big. Then
someone had just got enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Dwight Howard.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
They were teammates briefly here in Houston, and there were
just certain things that he was already good at, and
he's obviously been able to stay good at that. There
are only four players active in the NBA with a
higher field goal percentage than Clint, so Clint, along with Steven,
along with obviously their starter alperin Shangoon, building off a
monster season, a nice postseason, a fabulous off season in EuroBasket,

(42:55):
and now probably bigger things on the horizon with playmaking dude.
He's spread out a little bit differently for the team
with no Fred van Vliet, maybe Reed Shepherd as the
fifth starter. He did start the game on Monday. We'll
see what em has in mind as they get closer
to the regular season. No Tari and no Steven tonight,
but kd again expected in the starting lineup, Jabari Smith

(43:15):
Junior and then Thompson and the other advancing, improving core
members of your Houston Rockets. We'll have that for you
beginning at six point thirty tonight. All four Major League
Baseball Division series could come to a conclusion today. Mariners
are already on their way.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
To doing that.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Although it's early it is the Tigers. If the other
team has scored and you're the Tigers, well it's uphill
sledding for your offense.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Their offense sounds familiar.

Speaker 5 (43:42):
Was not very good in the regular season, and it
has definitely not been good as the season has worn on.
They trail won nothing in that game. Bryce Miller Casey
Mize on the mound. Just a little reminder about the
Mariners holding a two games to one series lead. Obviously,
we all know that they advanced to the two seed
and kind of shot past the Appstros, Guardians and Tigers

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late this season. If you only compare the teams that
are there right now in Detroit playing these games, in
other words, the teams that they created after the deadline,
it's not even close. The Mariners won thirty nine times
after the deadline. The Tigers didn't. If you want me
to be nice, the Tigers won twenty eight times. They

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were ten and a half games better than the Tigers
in just a two month period. They're significantly better than
the team they're playing, and through three games it has
shown they're only up won nothing. It was nice attempt
at a comeback late last night against ex Astros reliever
Caleb Ferguson, who just simply couldn't get anybody out in
the ninth inning, did force the Mariners to get Anthony

(44:45):
Munoz not only up but into the game, and the
last pitch he threw, which was only his ninth, was
absolutely crushed right at Josh Naylor, who caught it and
stepped on first base for a game ending double play
instead of a run scoring double that would have cut
the gap to eight to five. Nonetheless, they sit here
today in the fifth end of their game, won nothing

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other three games. Cubs trying to stave off elimination their
first game at home in this series, Brewers lead two
games to none. Chicago native Quinn Priester on the mound
for the Brewers. That should be fun. Blue Jays only
up two to one now after losing last night to
the Yankees despite putting six runs up on Carlos Redawn
Cam Schlittler on the hill for the Yankees. Probably a

(45:30):
bullpen day for the Blue Jays with of Varland on
the hill for them and the last game of the
night way out west the LA Dodgers a chance to
end the season. For the Philadelphia Phillies, they won the
first two games in Philly and I'll come home to
La with Yamamoto facing Aaron Nola.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
So and you mentioned it was early. It is the
top of the fourth Detroit down one nil. How often
did theay? I mean, I know you said it was
uphill sledding. I feel like there were games that they
did had come back in earlier in the year. It's
just you're talking about the final what month of the
season when they had this. I guess it was like

(46:08):
not a tailspin, but like it was a tailspin total tales,
like a slow bomb. Absolutely couldn't win a game the
whole month. Maybe I'm thinking of a different seam. Maybe
I'm thinking of uh.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
And the Astros were game under five hundred. The Tigers
were like twelve games under one point. The Astros got
the best record in the AL.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Last month of the year.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Okay, that that's what happened the Tigers again, they didn't
even win the division. I know, that's how badly they
played down the stretch. Astros and Tigers offensively were pretty
similar the last month. Both of them hit under to forty,
both amount at ops around seven hundred, and both of
them were out hit in most areas by about two
thirds of Major League Baseball not a good offense, by the.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Way, nobody out two men on how do you feel
about the umpcam of any variety, because I hate it.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
I wish we saw a little bit more of it
in the NFL, but I don't think enough of them
wear it because it would give us some different angles,
like you know, a like a line judge, Yeah, just
other people. Usually it's on either the referee who's behind
the offense, which is kind of like a quarterback cam,
so sometimes you see some pretty interesting angles. Or it's
the official that is in the middle of the play,

(47:19):
in the middle of the field, lined up behind the
defense and he you know, they only go to it
when he gets clobbered. They only go to it when
he gets knocked down. Some of the catches on the sidelines,
like what we got with pylon cam, just some different
angles there.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
So I wouldn't mind it.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
I don't think we're ever going to see it in
the NBA because I don't think it's necessary. The you know,
guys like we know Darryl and others, CJ. They're right
there on the court. Their cameras are basically refcams. I
don't think it's necessary. We get almost every single angle
we could ever want. I'm all for umpcam, but I
don't think we need it with the other five postseason umpires.

(47:54):
But the ump behind the plate, it's a pretty good
when guys hit the baseball and you see, well that's
when I launched it off the bat, and the home
run that we're seeing, or or balls that go right
back to the pitcher just line drives off the bat
from the umpire's point of view, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Or maybe why he called that pitch so egregiously bad.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
If you if we watched ump cam for the two
hundred and fifty pitches in any one game, you I
think people would go ahead and stop complaining about umpire.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
It is.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
It is impossible. Yeah, but that's their job. It is
to your job. Yeah, and there. I know people think
you go to work every day. I don't think this,
and I tell you this every day on the show.
I don't think I'm hitting one hundred percent. I don't
think I'm scoring on one hundred percent percent of my attempts.
I'm not getting it right one hundred percent of the time.

(48:40):
Just this segment, I said it was the fifth inning.
It's the fourth inning.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Why reminded you?

Speaker 4 (48:44):
And you just said it without even correcting me, exactly
because I'm nice. If there was a talk show host
auditor on the X platforms, if there was a talk
show host scorecard, yeah, I mean I'd probably hit in
the upper eighties, maybe the mid nineties some days a
case only, I'd get the ninety eight. I'd be a
little bit better than the average talk show host out

(49:05):
there from a mistakes and perfection standpoint. See, that comes
back to the original argument. Every time this comes up.
There are certain professions where that's just not good enough.
What if your airplane pilot only he landed ninety nine
percent of the time?

Speaker 3 (49:20):
What happened to the other one?

Speaker 4 (49:21):
Right?

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I love die, I love the analogies. What about the
hope and heart surgeon time?

Speaker 5 (49:27):
Another good one, another good one. I mean that is
a freaking game, dudude.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
But no, But from the standpoint of your percentages, it's not.
It's like those jobs because if you get them wrong,
especially in a playoff game, nobody dies exactly the team
does team could Your team could metaphorically die and not advanced.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
It just happened. I know.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
The Padres were fuming and all they could do is
yell about it and then get fined because that's what happened.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
What you should say is, instead of getting it almost
right or getting nine eighty nine percent, you have the
means to get more of it right, and we're slowly.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Charging you.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
When your loved one got killed by the surgeon they
employed hospital.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
But that's the same thing metaphorically.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
What's a great looking girl like you doing being all
single at this time? What do you mean doctor, My
boyfriend just went in there with you. I know, I mean,
is that what you're trying to say?

Speaker 4 (50:23):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Is that what you're trying to say? He went in
for surgery and now he's gone.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Sure, your son's airplane crash, but now you can never
fly the airline again.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
Sure that picture threw a pitch that barely missed the
strike zone, but you called it a strike.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
I mean, why analogy? We hear open heart surgery, crashing airplanes,
bat umpires, it's all the same. There is no way
that Tarry Easton's feet were not set there. What is
wrong with you? That is a charge? Get this guy
out of here. What a bum? That's what I'd say
to the airline pilot. The crash the plane. Should I

(50:56):
have walked away? Sure?

Speaker 5 (50:57):
I don't think he was holding on that play. Can
we maybe let the muchdownstand? I mean, it's kind of
life or death here, like there is actually money involved,
like we talk about it all the time. There are people,
and that's why players in all these sports and umpires
sometimes usually players, they are constantly on either Instagram or
the X platform saying I know you guys lost some

(51:17):
money because I pitched poorly, But could you lay off
on the death threats for my family and my kids
and my wife.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Now Nowhere during this entire segment did I condone death threats?

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Well, you're talking about death, that's not a threat. That's
crashing a plane.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
I would say, on average, And we could go to
some of yesterday's there were two of them umpire scorecards
if you'd like, sure we can check in on the
success rate of their calls and compare it to what
we think the success rates are for airline pilots. I'm mean,
I guess they're lower because I'm pretty sure airline pilots,

(51:54):
if you pulled twenty out out of the airport right now,
I bet you their personal success rate is one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
I stand by my analogy. I think it's great, and
I thought it was entertaining. It was entertaining. That's what
we're here to do, entertain you. I was entertained. What
you know, what else is entertaining watching KD in a
Rockets uniform? But who is he actively trying to get
the Rockets to reunite him with.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
We'll discuss next.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
The age on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
It is the eighteen Sports Talk seven ninety Space City
home network.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
It's game Night.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
Doesn't mean much. This is excruciating. These four games spread
out over two weeks until at least mercifully, the Rockets
will play the very first game of the NBA season
Tuesday night, and then you have to wait three more
nights for them to play again.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
But at least it's Opening Night NBA on NBC.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
They've got the defending champion, thunder n Okac and they
will try to put the first blemish on their record
as they try to defend their crown. Meanwhile, they're going
to do so in large part if they get the
job done this year by successfully incorporating Katie into the offense,

(53:18):
into what they do, into their culture, and by the way,
if we were just looking at like esthetics and how
things appear on paper and on social media, where everything
is the perfect version of everything, right.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
I mean, the vibes are fantastic.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
The training facility that's like mere miles from where we're sitting,
like mere feet really, that's how close we are.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
It just he looks like he is loving life. He
never looked like that in Phoenix.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
He probably looked like that in Phoenix. Brooklyn, Oklahoma City,
and who is in between Golden State.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
The first few.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
Weeks he was there, I think he looked at maybe
not at Golden State. Maybe I was going to say
maybe not Golden State, because even on day one on
Draymond was Draymond.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
But nobody was happy in Brooklyn about anything. And your
coach was Steve Nash.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
Well, the first days he got there in Brooklyn, he
was like, I'm sure this field would be fun for
the guys that are healthy.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
I'm not one of them, you know what I think
about sometimes, Just as while we're on the subject that
I may Udoka was an assistant on that staff, one
of the best coaches in the NBA pound for pound,
and they were trotting out Steve Nash as their head coach.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
It's just insane. You think Steve Nash is a bad
head coach? Uh huh?

Speaker 5 (54:30):
You think players like that that have no experience or
bad head coaches?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Uh huh?

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Okay, I mean, don't you not?

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Usually I think everyone's different.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
Well why haven't Why haven't so many other teams just
like trample each other to hire him?

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Uh, he's not even sniffing a head coaching job right now.
That is true. I don't know what his personal desires are.
They may have something to do with it, they may not.
I can't tell you. They were awesome. They obviously could
have one. They were very very close to us, and
he was only there in Yeah. But like, obviously there's
there's another coach or there are other coaches in A

(55:11):
I'd say probably a fairly similar situation in LA. I'm
glad JJ Reddick is very comparable to that. Yeah, doesn't
have any experience, He's extended him and they believe that
their roster is championship caliber. They obviously have some players
whose careers are legendary.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Can't we get this out of the way before any
games are played? By the way, because you and I
differed on that team, last year just confirmed to me
that you disagree with that assessment that what that there
championship caliber?

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Well, the team they have this year is different than
the one they had last year, which is not championship caliber, though, I.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
Mean has played on a championship caliber team that did
not have Lebron on it and did not have some
of the players like if if he is as good
as he has been, I don't know that he will be.
And he definitely looks like he's in better shape than
he who's.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
All the way he wants. He's still gonna pay any defense.
I just don't know. If he didn't play any defense
all the way into the NBA Finals.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
I know, but he had a much better team around him.
That's the point I'm making. That's maybe he did. And
maybe I know you're saying Lebron James and I know
it's him, I know his names on the back of
the jersey and all.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
More than that, I mean, I think that that if
they're counting on Lebron only to be the team with Luca,
which many people think they don't have a chance in heck,
look at you. The other part of it is i'd
have to look back it doesn't seem like it. The
West is just stacked better, way better. A team with
Lebron and Luca on it is just another team.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
That's as much.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
That's as much a reason I don't think they are
a championship caliber team as any Yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
I mean, run down the list and ask me when
I pick, would say, Okay, now, because this, this, this, this, this,
and this happened, those six, seven, eight teams are out
of the way. Now, I think the Lakers might win
the West.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
In order to be championship caliber, you have to at
least be able to be on the floor with OKC
and hold your own. That is limited to like two
other teams teams, and you can argue and I wouldn't
be able to really argue against you if you said
that as constructed with Fred van Vliet missing the year,
Houston isn't one of those. But those two teams I

(57:11):
would say are Denver and Houston. There's too many teams
better than them. It's as simple as you can put it.
The Clippers are better than them Denver, Houston. Okay, see,
just right out of the gate, without even really doing
any of the math analysis. Yeah, they would have to
pull off or get lucky injury wise, and they're not
likely the team to be the lucky team. They're likely
to be the other side of it. And Lebron's not

(57:32):
getting healthier. He's getting older and more injured. He finished
last year. Hard to say how hurt he was, but
hurt nonetheless.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
Yeah, there, he's not getting closer to a championship, even
with some of the moves they've made. He's getting further
from it because the West getting better and he's getting
older now and worse.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
There are as it pertains to the Rockets, there are
a lot of people that are thinking the theory goes.
Rockets are going to see what it's like with Reed
Shepherd starting at the point, even though he may or
may not be the point guard you were talking about
just in the backcourt, yeah, right the other night and
handling versus you know, being the actual point guard. He's

(58:07):
a shooting guard essentially, or at least that's what it
looked like to you for sure in those minutes that
he played the other night. Would the Rockets try and
bring somebody into spell that if it's not going well
early on.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
Well the players that are available, then you'd have to say,
how much better is that player like Malik Beasley. I
don't know how much player. How much better is that
player than your other options that are already here, like
Aaron Holliday or some other just construction of a five
man lineup.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Plus you're limited in what you can do anyways because.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
There and then the other option obviously is at the deadline,
is there something to do? Can you take some of
your depth and turn it into a player? There are
their buyouts, but you're also fifty sixty games into the season.
You probably would have figured things out on what's going
to work for you or not. Rather, this doesn't strike
me as a team that's hitting the deadline or hitting
the buyout market because they're in need of something.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
We'll see. Katie thinks they need somebody.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
I mean, we'll see. I don't know about that. So
he was on this morning with Kay Adams once again, and.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
They're basically in a relationship now from a podcast, no
question about it. He's been on multiple times just since
Media Day, but almost one hundred percent of the conversation
almost first question was about are you going to play?
And he said, yeah, I'm playing tonight, and he went
about describing the minutes he expected to get, which didn't
sound like very many, and why he wants to go

(59:30):
out there and just kind of get the feel for
playing in a game again under the lights, with the whistles,
with his new team, the little bits and pieces of obvious.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
That's why he wants to be out there.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
They spent about eight or nine minutes talking NFL football
after that, his team, which, as you know, not the Texans.
I don't know that it'll ever be the Texans. He
likes Magic Johnson's team, the Commanders, and talked about them.
He's fit from there, Adain. They were talking about Joe
Flacco going to the Bengals. He's good friends with Joe.
He actually said, well, I'm actually friends with Jake Browning

(59:59):
two because Joe introduced me to him. We've hung out
a few times. And she asked him, well, what's it
like when Kdie's hanging out with Jake Browning? Just know
your typical not NBA Minutia Basketball standard interview. Then she
got to well, I think there's this rumor out there
in light of what's happened with your team and in
light of his availability, that maybe not only will you

(01:00:20):
see the Oklahoma City Thunder on opening night. But maybe
we'll see another member of your Oklahoma City Thunder with
you in a Rockets uniform. What do you think, KD
says Kay about the idea of Russell Westbrook joining you
in Houston.

Speaker 7 (01:00:36):
I have no clue. I haven't asked anybody about that.
I heard that too, I haven't.

Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
It hasn't been brought to my best at all.

Speaker 7 (01:00:45):
And usually when stuff like that happens, it's pretty loud,
but I haven't really heard it outside of Lake.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Yeah, hands on the internet.

Speaker 7 (01:00:55):
Yeah, Russ is a legend, and I think he deserves
to be in the NBA right now, I think he
deserves to walk out of the NBA or his term.
So yeah, that'll be dope.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
But it's not my decision.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
It's not my decision.

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
Leave that up to whoever makes those decisions from now.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
First of all, I'm one hundred percent certain. At the
office in the Kevin Durant mansion, there is a notepad
on his desk that says, from the desk of Kevin Durant.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
He doesn't have a desk.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
He has a notepad where he writes things out and
he has his messengers get him off to the people
that need them. Yeah, that hasn't come across my desk.
That is a great line for Katie on the possibility
and the rumors. Maybe and we, yes, we are aware
that a couple months ago that's certainly surfaced. I don't
think we've heard much since and all that's there, But
it's hard for NBA players to see things the way

(01:01:47):
I think basketball people or myself see things. And he
says the same things that a lot of other NBA
veterans or teammates or friends or excellent legends would say,
and it's total hogwash. Russell Westbrook on this team would
not be cool. He does deserve to go out on
his terms. He is a legend, But at some point

(01:02:08):
is he helping your team or is he not helping
your team? And I, miraculously I almost am willing to
say he was helping the.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Denver Nuggets last year.

Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
You have to he was pretty helpful to them, But
I don't know how that happened.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Honestly.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
He still does the things that make you want to
pull your hair out, and does he do enough of
the things that make you want to keep it in
your head?

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
Layups and bad three point shots, those are the two
at the top of the list.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
But for the five years since he left Houston until
last year with the Clippers and Lakers and the Wizards,
he is just not a helpful NBA player, not efficient.
He just makes too many mistakes that are so unnecessary. No,
I can't tell you was shooting percentage was awful and
totally disastrous. Last year is actually higher than his career percentage.

(01:02:55):
But I can't tell you. He was typically awful from
behind the three point line.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Which they don't need.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
He had people that were good at missing three point
shots last year.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
I think good attitude brings good energy, and teammates really
do like him. Yeah, but do we the legend.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
Remember the stories and even though they tried to tell
us they weren't true. Man, Katie cannot wait to stop
playing with Russell Westbrook and that was ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Don't think it's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
The ag on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Are you kidding me? Wex are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
I'm serious, man, dead serious man? Just sometimes all right,
all the time, all the time?

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
Is right?

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
Actually in that regard, Okay, so fun story. The Hulu
documentary that they were gonna do on North Carolina has
now been scrapped.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Do you know why? So Hulu is gonna get some
of the inside access.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
We're gonna chart to the first and only season of
Bill Belichick at North Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
Yes, and scrapped. Why would it have been? I probably
should have given you one other nuggative information. UNC is
the one scrapping it, not Hulu.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
Well U NC, And there've been a couple of articles
over the last handful of days even uh is I
don't know if I really truly believe it. And you
were bringing it up for a different team earlier, the
New York Jets. Is there a possibility that they're going
to be one and donning Aaron Glenn, which, as we
all know, is laughable. Hey man, we brought you here

(01:04:33):
to win in New York with the Jets. We gave
you a whole year to do it. So you're out
because anybody else would have won here because we're awesome.
We have so much talent. We got a great quarterback
and a great GM and you know, no, I don't
know why we fired everybody before you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
We were so good.

Speaker 5 (01:04:49):
Now North Carolina case Carolina's case, it's not nearly as dire.
Mac Brown didn't run the program into the ground. They
just weren't winning enough. And in this era, I do
think we're going to see a lot more head coaches
with shorter leashes because it's a little bit more than
just the wins and losses, which can help you earn
the money necessary to spend on your players via nil,

(01:05:10):
but they are a little bit hand in hand. Oklahoma
State perfect example. They've done nothing but win, so to speak,
with Coach Gundy, year after year after year after year,
just winning a ton of football games.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Not the best team in the.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Country, but a winning program, a program that the university,
their students, their football players absolutely could be proud of.
And a couple of bad seasons, I'm sorry, one bad
season and then the start to this bad season and
he's out. And a lot of it has to do
with the money that they would know they cannot generate
if their program is this bad, even just for one season.

(01:05:45):
And North Carolina is going to have a season like that.
You can mark that down right now, and it's already underway,
so I'm not saying anything crazy. Their season is going
to be terrible on the football field, Their record is
going to be awful, and their games are going to
be oftentimes unwatchable, as their losses have shown. Fans showed
also when they walked out of the stadium at halftime
of their last game with They were only down thirty

(01:06:05):
five to nothing to Clemson this past week, and Clemson's
gotten off to a terrible start, but the remedy for
that playing North Carolina. But the stories like with Aaron
Glenn that has North Carolinlina truly actually had internal discussions
about a potential exit strategy out of the Bill Belichick

(01:06:26):
era already, and the answers yes.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Well, according to reports, Yeah, and we get to that
in just a second. I was about to ask you
this question. Do you think if Jordaan wasn't involved that
things would be going better in un Sea Land?

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Just the football program. I've said it from the very
very beginning.

Speaker 5 (01:06:43):
Well, I think it's embarrassing for Bill, even though we're
guys and we're supposed to not think like that. It's like,
oh my god, this is the greatest thing ever. This
old dude with her. Wow, it's embarrassing for him. I
think it has couldn't It just doesn't have anything to
do cash your personal with what is happening on the
football field. And within the program. Absolutely, that's why I'm here.

(01:07:05):
If you had a circle of friends.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
It's good if. Because I don't. He never fails. I
was hoping you would. I gave you the bait.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
I'll touch the bait, but I'll back it up a
little bit and say, presumably I have two and they're
both with me right now.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Thank you for considering, first of all, the text threat alone.
Get back to the question. Let's just take your Dallas
based text. I guess they're friends. Yeah, okay, they're all
around your age, right, they're all my age.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
Now, none of you are all freshmen in college together
when we met each other.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Okay, none of you guys are that age. But let's
just say, for the sake of argument, one of you
guys in that thread something goes awry in their relationship
that they've I'm assuming everybody's married.

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
One of them is married for the second time. Okay,
his wife is not his age. But there's not a
gap like that. I knew you thought I could get
you the same analogy. It's not quite there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Let's just say, for the sake of argument, one of
you got a little philly.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Like, Seriously, how would that go?

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
Robin will be fine with this, mostly because she'd be
fine with anything, but also because she's not listening. If so,
there's a forty eight forty nine fifty year almost fifty
year age gap. I can't quite marry someone fifty years
younger than me, but let's go thirty. So if I
married a Hudson age woman and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
Robin, no, no, no, you're just dating her.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Okay, dating a ref you are a prior age woman
and everybody and it came thread right. But I came
to work every day and did this job. Nobody would
pay any attention to it. It would matter not at all.
It just doesn't matter for most people. You're a public
figure too. But fair, he's he's one hundred percent right.
Nobody would carry like I post get a picture of

(01:08:52):
me and my wife from the Cougar game this weekend
and a montage of all the stuff that I did
at the tailgate and inside TDCU. If that person next
to me was fresh out of cop was at the
game because she attends the University of Houston and that
was my date, Yeah, do you think that would have
brought that conversation to the airwaves on Monday?

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
To clarify, I'm not even talking about the fact that
you're a public figure or the fact that she's like this,
you know, hot little number. I'm just talking about the
fact that you, in your friends group or whoever has
someone that is that significantly younger than you, wouldn't one
of you say something.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
That's what I'm getting at here.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
I do think people have There are reports that their
family's fine with it. They've met her, they like Jordan,
they like Jordan's family and parents, and everything is seemingly
like a normal relationship. Every time this comes up, I
feel like I missed the opportunity to say what I
really think, and I want to not miss that here
it is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
It's like a total cop.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Out excuse, and people keep using it, and I wonder
if Bill's using it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
It has nothing to do.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
With why he is awful at his job. He's hiring
awful people who are awful at their job, but he's
going to lose there because the only thing he's good
at is coaching the techniques of football. But at the
college level, if you don't have players, it doesn't matter
how much technique you teach them. You cannot win, and
you only get them if you can A recruit or

(01:10:17):
b pay them or see both.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
And then on top of that, I do think a
lot of people that he's hired are not good at
their jobs either or they're jerks. Well, that's a given,
because you have to be a non jerk to be
good in the college football circles. But when the guy
in charge of your entire personnel operation is a jerk,
and everybody knows it, and all the people who are
just meeting him because of the position he's in are

(01:10:41):
finding out so remarkably quickly that he's a jerk, you're
destined to fail. Not to mention his whole family works
for him, and then a bunch of other young coaches
that really don't belong in their positions.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
I'd bring up him her because in this particular article,
it says documents obtained by ESPN through a public records
request showed that Jordan Hudson would have likely I love
saying her name like Jordan, it's Jordaan.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
When she puts that O in on it, she didn't
spell it well, I pronounce it that way.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Would have likely had a sizable role in any documentary
with a quote talking points memo from the school's PR
department noting quote. Jordaan is playing an active role in
the filming and production of a documentary about coach Belichick's
first season of college football, so in that capacity, she

(01:11:33):
may be seen on the sidelines of Carolina football practices
or games.

Speaker 5 (01:11:37):
I tried to verify this post that I saw about
her yesterday, and I think somebody else did for me,
because I lost count. You know, Getty images one of
these sites that has licensing fees and people can purchase
pictures from them in the media outlets. I think they
had fifty seven pictures from the game posted on their
Carolina Clemson game and someone said twenty three of them

(01:11:57):
featured her.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Right. She photogenic and happens to be dating him.

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
By the way, Nixon, the Hulu project likely has far
to do more with the on field issues Belichick is
facing at Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
Thanks. I know the title what went Wrong in the
one year at North Carolina? What if it was just
what went wrong? So all right, there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
That's the latest from the life of Bill Belichick, both
on and off the field.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
A team rolling along here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and Space City home Network wex AC Cole Thompson with
you on a Wednesday edition of the program. The Tigers
are on the board more than once. Oh I looked
over there and they only had one run the last time. No,
this is hard to do where I sit. Yeah, it's

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very easy to do where I say.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
Hey, let me do this.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Look, there's the game.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
It's three to two, one out to bottom of the
fifth inning. Tigers scored each of their runs here in
this fifth inning. A couple of hits and you know,
a single and a double and another double. They only
had two hits in the first four headings. Three more
here in this inning, and an opportunity with a runner
in scoring pitch position maybe to get more. Luckily that

(01:13:24):
runner remains in scoring position. He was nearly picked off.
But they got to outscore the Mariners today or else
their season is over.

Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
Well, here's the thing, trail three to two in the fifth.
You remember the conversation I won't I get you know what.
I don't think he'll mind if I reveal it. At
this point back in twenty twenty two, I was in
the clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
I believe you were as well.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
That day after Jordan hit the walk off in Game
one against the Mariners, and I was standing next to
Tags and I don't think I've ever revealed this on
the air, but it's been it's been three years. At
this point, doesn't matter. He said to me something that
I actually like. He doesn't he's that a controversial, hot,
taky guy. Far from it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Hey, Clinton, I think this Alvarez guy's pretty good. That's
what he said.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
Yeah, he knew that, you know, he said to me,
And he just kind of said it under his breath.
It was just to me. No one else heard it.
And again, I don't think he's gonna mind that I
share this story. Three years later, at this point he
said to me, he goes, I think they might sweep them.
And I go, what, Because remember the context of that game.
They had trailed the whole time. They had trailed by

(01:14:27):
multiple runs twice in that game, and it just things
were just not going well. And then a comedy of
errors coupled with the Astros just completely clutching up led
to one of the most amazing moments in the history
of this city sports. And I said, really, he goes,
It's just hard to come back from something like that,

(01:14:50):
and a couple things went through my mind. One of
them is the thing that you said till you're blue
in the face. Yeah, but it's baseball. But baseball is
what it's mental too. In addition to all the variables
that can just make the most lopsided series seemingly not
go the way it should twenty nineteen World Series, anybody,

(01:15:10):
things like that can happen, and sure enough, they take
Game two. Then they go out to Seattle and they
take Game three in an eighteen inning epic. The reason
I bring all that up if they win this game
the Tigers who just tied it up, by the way,
it's not as debilitating as that, even though it's a
closeout game and it's gonna be a fifth and decisive

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game in your gym, because you're gonna go back to
Seattle to play that game. How much are the Mariners,
a lot of whom were in that core or at
least the core players were in that series with the Astros.
As they got swept, how much of them are gonna
start having a little doubt creep in?

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
Like I mean this series in particular. You know, a
win for you, a win for them. You got another win.
Now you're up to one and Now, if they lose today,
it's two to two. It's not like they blew some lead. Yes,
it's been a competitive series. Blew a two to one
series lead, right, Like.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
That's not the same as two Yankees getting blasted.

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
And then the particular game you're talking about that that
is what kind of sets it apart. They were probably
feeling so good about the entire series because JV's on
the hill. It's one nothing Mariners after one, it's four
nothing Mariners after two.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Oh my gosh, I forgot it was that bad. And
it was six three mariners after four. Didn't JP Crawford
make it for nothing? He hit some home run that
just made me sick because he's JP Crawford. Yeah, he
hit a home run off of JV in the fourth inning.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
That's what made it for nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
I believe it was the last run of the inning.
And he's there, and Raleigh's there, and Suarez is now
back there, and you know, there's a lot of people
who were heavily involved. Col was in the line of
that day, so yeah, there are a lot of people back.
But then they gave up five runs in the eighth
and ninth, and that's the second part of it. I
don't think Astros fans forget, and I don't think Mariners

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fans forget. We never forget the final runs, the big swing,
the stuff we were just talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Trying to close it out on a Tuesday, Brian Anderson.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
But what about the two runs they scored in the
eighth inning. I mean, it's a seven to three game
and their current closer, Andre's Munoz was on the mound,
and what are you gonna do? How are you gonna
get back into this game? Well, Alex Bregman's gonna hit
a monster, two run homer, So when you get to
the ninth inning, it's seven to five and not seven
to three. And obviously they brought in Robbie d Forgeman

(01:17:30):
homer all time huge, obviously, mamts. It was a little
bit like what the Yankees did yesterday. I mean, Aaron
Judge had a three run homer. Well, they scored nine runs.
That was one of the huge hits, but they had
they needed jazz chicks. Yeah, they needed the run he
drove in earlier. There are a lot of things that
needed to happen for them to come back from that deficit,
very much like the Astros did in that game. You remember,

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Seattle held the Astros to five runs in twenty seven
innings after that, HM, but they only scored two.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Maybe they should have scored more in Game three.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
It was four to two in Game two and Castillo,
very good starting pitcher, was their guy that day. And
then obviously George Kirby shut the Astros out. But Lance
mccullor's shut the Mariners out.

Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
Lance mccullor's junior people forget yep, and that again.

Speaker 5 (01:18:18):
They went twelve more innings of shutting the Mariners out
after Lance's.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
Didn't lose until Game one of the World Series that year.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
They were pretty good, man, That's why this season sucked.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
Yeah, Tigers have tied things up bottom five four games
today for you to enjoy. Obviously, mix and at Rockets
Basketball this evening. National League back on tap today after
their off day yesterday. Both of those series with two
games to none. Leads Brewers on the road trying to
close out Dodgers at home, trying.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
To close out the Philadelphia Phillies.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
Yeah, that's I we We could not all have been
more wrong about the Phillies postseason so far.

Speaker 5 (01:18:57):
I still think in baseball it's a shit. I wish
they had none of them they have. A three game
series is too short. I honestly think a five game
series isn't much better.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
So do you think everything should be seven like the NBA?

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
I wish they could do that. It would it would
make what you're do during the series matter. So, I mean,
why is Josh Naylor assaulting people? He's starting pitchers like
the expectations are for them to go three or four
innings half the time. It's just so silly. It's not
the kind I know. It's different. It is the playoffs.
Every game does matter. Either it's pointing out how little

(01:19:31):
the regular season matters, or it's pointing out how different
the game has to be because you're in the postseason,
you have thirteen pitchers, fourteen pitchers available to you. All right, Well,
I'm gonna use them all because I only have five
days to use them for. I mean, Munos is gonna
pitch tonight if they're in a tight game, even if
even if Detroit leads, he will I think he'll pitch tonight.

(01:19:51):
He's pitched in every game. Well, what what about twenty
twenty two astros? Tay Dusty? How do you feel about
your relievers? You mean these four guys. Yeah, I'm gonna
use it every single night.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
I'm gonna throw press labor night and I'm gonna throw
them onto and he was totally right in doing so.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
There's one day in between again for travel, correct it
between four and five, there'll be a travel day.

Speaker 5 (01:20:10):
Yeah, so unlike the National League, though the American League
didn't get the extra travel day this year. That was
for the National League. They got an extra day off
in between games one and two with no travel.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
The Dodgers need that extra mph. They already have like
a gajillion dollar payroll. They need help.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
Asking so many different guys in your bullpen to have
it every game of the series, it's just crazy. I mean,
yesterday even the Mariners Logan Gilbert was of course he
had more in the tank. Well, we're just gonna go
to the bullpen anyway, just because just because they would
never do that in a regular season game, but that's
what they do now every manager does it. Saddle's losing

(01:20:49):
this series now, you know that, right, it's tied. We'll
see if they even lose this game.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
They're gonna lose this game and then they're gonna lose
the series. All right, four o'clock hour is coming up next.
We've got our Wednesday bts. Amongst other things included in
that hour, the.

Speaker 6 (01:21:05):
A team on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking your Team.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
Day two more hours to go here on a Wednesday
edition of the program Sports Talk seven to ninety Ac
wex Cole Thompson with you until six o'clock tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Rockets basketball of the preseason variety.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
This is it wex The home portion of the preseason
calendar is done after tight It's flying by.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
Honestly, think the NBA does it as probably as well
as anybody, way, way way better than baseball and better
than football. Media Day the twenty ninth six days of practice,
a week of two preseason games, followed by a week
of two preseason games, and then the opener.

Speaker 4 (01:21:59):
After another week for most teams give or take, Like
the Rockets are gonna start on Tuesday, most of the
NBA is gonna start two days later.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Yeah, I mean they could start Wednesday Monday too. If
you weren't in one of the four teams that's involved
in opening night.

Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
You're not playing for another two days after those two weeks, true,
and another week.

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
But essentially you're just keeping it like it's a short time.
It's not necessary. You're not wondering if this guy's needs
to get in shape. If he's not in shape, he's
James Harden. Most everybody else is in shape when they
get to camp. The hashtag fat suit in this day
and as pretty normal. And you look around at the
players that you've seen on the court from their social media,
if you're over Toya Center or watch on Space City
Home Network on Monday night, they're not getting in shape.

(01:22:40):
They're gonna get in basketball shape because they haven't played
NBA games and you're not giving them those minutes yet.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
But they don't need to.

Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
The teams don't need to take the time during preseason
to get themes figured out as much as I think
other sports teams think they do. They're okay with we'll
get it figured out. Like the email is not gonna
have answers fleet obvious answers to his rotation or even
his starting lineup when they opened the season against Oklahoma City,
and that's totally fine.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
I haven't seen any footage or pictures of him. What
does James Harden look like for this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
I've seen some of the stuff, just some clipper stuff
that they post. He looks like he has if you've noticed.
I think it did start while he was still here,
because I can picture him in his Blue Rockets City jerseys,
and especially when I was doing games, when he would
come out of the locker room. You know, we're not
very close. We're at the top of the lower Bowl,
but they put the players up on the big screens.

(01:23:34):
They're going through layup lines and stretching and all that,
and I don't know if they had a different size
for him, but it looked very form fitting for an
NBA jersey, and he's looked like that in every jersey
he's worn ever since, in Brooklyn and Philly and LA.
He's a bigger player than he used to be. He
carries more weight with him on the NBA court than
he used.

Speaker 4 (01:23:51):
To his first few seasons in Houston, he was cut
up and just he was jacked.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Like what happened?

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
I'm gonna look because I'm curious, like I would assume
think about his time here in Rockettsville when he was
an MVP candidate when he burst on the scene the
first couple of seasons, and he could easily beat his
man off the dribble and finish with a dunk.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Sometimes his nose would bleed.

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
I'm just baffled how many people do not understand that
for such a.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Long sposing commentators.

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
But what I'm looking at is I wonder what his
dunk count has drifted down to.

Speaker 3 (01:24:32):
It's got to be in the single digits at this point, right.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
So spending all those really positive, offensive explosive years here
in Houston his first year in Houston. Again, he's not
a prolific dunker by any means. His career high as
forty six. He did that once with OKAC, did that
once with Houston. Stayed in the forties early in his career.
He dipped down to the thirties. Last full season in Houston,

(01:24:55):
he had twenty rim rattlers. James Harden broke it down
at the rim him flushed it twenty times. In the
seasons that have followed. That's twenty twenty one, two, three, four,
and five. He's almost to twenty combined dunks. Told you
was single digits, but even I thought a single digit

(01:25:18):
dunker every season since he left Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
I mean, guard is by default gonna have fewer than
a big man.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
But he's not short and he was extremely capable earlier
in his career. He's six to six, He's six', six
And El choppo is not going to dunk very. OFTEN
i don't know If Saint james will get a few
more than that last, year considering he is the, system
maybe he will call for more. Dunks the rattle through
His Basketball reference. Nicknames last year was a good. Year

(01:25:48):
last year he got he threw down four. Dunks that
was twice as many as he did his first year
at The, clippers and twice as many in his last.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
Year Was philadela going? On? MAN i, MEAN i know
he's crossing up guys and hitting. Three he's just finished with,
layups which he did a ton here. Too, yeah he's
also he's being used to touch. Less his ball handling
is down a little. Bit very interesting to see what
they'll do this year considering who they, have and maybe
this year is a year Where kawhi is out there

(01:26:14):
for sixty plus games instead of a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
Less he's had enough.

Speaker 5 (01:26:17):
Rest you, know the other moves that they made With
Norman powell being gone And Bradley beale being, in it's
a little bit, different.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
Looks, ASTERN i don't think it's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Everywhere he's. Gone he's made the team.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Worse he's gone. Too this is only his seconds other, stop, Right, like.

Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
Well he got To washington and he made that team worse.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
Too he took them With John wall to the, playoffs
which for watching what happened is quite an. Accomplishment like
the best years The wizards have had in how many?

Speaker 7 (01:26:47):
Years?

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
Chris, yeah but are his? Years? Yeah that's.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Great he's not a winning basketball, player and now you're
putting him with Fat James harden and doesn't play half
the Year Kawhi. Lenmers it assumes me If i'm not
intimidated by the, clip.

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
You're sounding like you think it's his, fault AND i.
Don't do you really Think bradby bil is to blame
for Why, Beal, Booker durant and their teammates did not?

Speaker 4 (01:27:09):
Win, well just a simple answer to that. Question what
did The suns do the year prior to him getting
there with that? CORE i, mean it's that's What that's the.
Thing everything is those two.

Speaker 5 (01:27:22):
Players, well, no But durant And beale were the reason they,
won not the other. Guys so the losing the other,
GUYS i just See durant And, booker.

Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
Right if they're on the. Team how are you losing
Because biale got? There no, way, MAN i know it
makes your your math is mathing because that's literally what.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
Happened, listen just do me this.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
Favor if The clippers come out of the gates not
exactly a rip, roaring and everything else is by all
accounts the same numberers and all.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
That it's gonna be hard for.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
You to let me ask you this because there are
guys that come into locker rooms and ruin.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
Him keep in, mind the first year he was, there
they won forty nine, Games Bradley, beal, yes, okay and
then last year they couldn't win at all.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
And people were healthy and they were.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Losing Jalen green will shoot forty four percent as a
sun this.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Year very. Believable, right that's about.

Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
Right he'll shoot average thirty six percent from three point,
distance thirty five, okay thirty five, percent thirty, four thirty
four percent for three point. Distance Bradley beal shot fifty
percent from the floor and thirty nine percent from three
point distance and thirty two minutes a. Night, yeah so
it's gonna get. Worse you just said it's gonna be

(01:28:34):
much worse With. Jalen he's older. Too oh you're talking About.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
Jalen he's the two, guard he's the. Shooter there are.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
THERE i thought we were just talking about what's gonna
happen With beal and The.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
CLIPPERS i, KNOW i Think Bradley, BEAL i.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
DON'T i, mean, look if his he's too, GOOD i
do think he is a loser basketball, PLAYER i really.

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
Do i'm with, you BUT i can't.

Speaker 5 (01:28:55):
Ignore LIKE i kept watching him like he's putting the
ball in the, basket he's not taking too many he's
certainly not missing too many. Shots it must all be
on the other. End and that's really the answer our.
Question and plenty of them did.

Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
No, NO i mean there is something to be said for,
well everybody's healthy and they're out there putting their numbers
up and we're, losing, Right.

Speaker 5 (01:29:14):
Like if The rockets did not have the injury To
fred Van. Vliet AND i Know katie is long and
he has at times been a good, Defender like do
you think he would have been attacked as A rockets
defender just because everybody else is so, capable or do
you think it was a nothing because he was?

Speaker 7 (01:29:32):
NOT i.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
Don't it's hard to be a good defender on a
team that so bad. Defensively but it is a team.
Sport certainly defensively is a team, game AND i think
that's what allows The rockets to be so. Good there
is no one PLAYER i think you can, attack And
i'll say the same thing About, reid even though he
gets attacked before The rockets figure out the ways around
that with who they have on the.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
Court SO i don't think it's too big of a.

Speaker 5 (01:29:52):
Deal but we will probably make some sort of. Wager
let's say The, rockets The, nuggets and The thunder are, one,
two three in some.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Order sounds.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Fair.

Speaker 5 (01:30:01):
Probably i'll probably settle on The clippers being at this
spot SOMEWHERE, x and you'll take less THAN. X we'll
figure that out when the regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
GETTING i, say you have a number in mine right,
NOW i don't know IF i want to go with
a seed or a wind total. Seed all, right, Well
i'll have a.

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
NUMBER i know the.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
Number, Well i'm trying to remember WHAT i really think about, five,
six seven and, Eight, like DO i Think memphis got
better by trading Away Desmond?

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Baine memphis is about TO i got news for all of.
You memphis is about to have a, bad bad. Year
and let me tell you why not only did they
trade their best all around?

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Player AND i really do believe.

Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
THAT i, mean given everything we know about how how
why am I Ja morant likes to conduct. Himself it's
same With Bradley. Beal you can't not put that into the,
Math LIKE i just So Desmond baane was, LIKE i,
mean he was awesome and he's good defensively.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
Too well he's In orlando.

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
Now If Jaron Jackson JUNIOR i think is a solid,
player but he's one of those guys THAT i think
has to be part of the cog in the machine
as a humming.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Along that machine is like. Engine these oil, change.

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
They're out of, gas tires are, bald one of them's,
flat And Ja morant's, Like i'm gonna grab a.

Speaker 5 (01:31:17):
Gun maybe, Whatever Maybe i'll make it more difficult for
you to answer WHICH la team will be?

Speaker 4 (01:31:23):
Better how about, This i'll answer your question with another.
Question WHICH la team is going to disappoint the city?
More they both that's. Obvious nobody cares about The, clippers
but they both just are so like like everybody's, Ah,
luca he lost, weight dude does not play? Defense what
did we just get done talking About lebron's a year?

(01:31:44):
Older the soft tissue injuries are gonna. Happen, well at
least they went and got that big, man you, know
that one. Guy, no they Got DeAndre. Ayton he's been
to the finals before with who The? Suns when was
that With Chris paul so many years? Ago? Four and
he was the, fifth, sixth seventh on that. Seam i'm

(01:32:06):
not that far down the. List, well who is it
not ahead of?

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Him, well he.

Speaker 5 (01:32:09):
Started at least he was one of the top. Five
so he's five maybe and we'll go from.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
THERE i just.

Speaker 4 (01:32:16):
THE la teams are not going to be, great And
I'm i'm Actually i'm kind of getting a little giddy
thinking About James. Harden yet another awful. Situation as the
season goes, on we'll get into that as the season.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
Approaches we're less than two weeks out for The rockets,
opener like you, Mentioned Oklahoma city To tuesdays from yesterday
and then a couple of home games after, that the
twenty fourth and twenty Sei pistons come to, Town nets
come to, town come, back and we'll tell you about
how that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
Happened the eighteen On Sports talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
Continues it Is, wednesday almost halfway through your, week certainly
halfway through our. Shows now seventeen minutes into the second
half of the week here On Sports talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Eight that's the exact midway.

Speaker 4 (01:33:03):
Point we have five shows and day in between two hours.
In this is the way you said seventeen with such,
conviction isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Thirty it's four. Seventeen, alright go, Ahead i'm, sorry that's.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Okay he's out seriously mentioned this many many, times AND
i don't think there's anything wrong with the managers that do,
it because everybody does.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
It if everybody does, it how could it be?

Speaker 5 (01:33:26):
Wrong Bryce miller four innings of shutout baseball for The
Seattle mariners in this what could be closed out game for.
Them In game, four they lead two games to, one
send them out for the fifth. Inning he gets one,
out two, runs end up scoring on his. Ledger the
two relievers that have followed have given up five hits
and gotten four outs and allowed the other three runs to,

(01:33:48):
score And seattle's losing five to. Three came to the
bottom of the sixth inning here trailing or excuse, me
in a tie game three apiece homer From Riley green
actually set the stadium, ablaze and Then torkolsen's double McKinstry
single scored.

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
Him that's where we sits are those hits that came
TO i THINK i was saying this to you off. Air,
Yeah Riley, Green come, on Where's Riley? Green that he
hit a home run against The astros every single game this?

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Year where is that boom gone boom gone big?

Speaker 5 (01:34:21):
One and they have the Lead mariners rolling through their,
Relievers tigers rolling through their, relievers and the potential for
a game five certainly exists now nine outs away for
The tigers now and a correction on that, note being
as The tigers are at. HOME i said The astros
or The mariners only allowed The astros to score five

(01:34:43):
runs over the next twenty six. Innings after that series
and a couple of years ago it was twenty six
innings because The astros were at home.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
For one of those, games didn't play Ninth inning's trying
to up my percentage of, accuracy and there was eighteen
innings of just one run scored between the two of. Them,
yeah have any of? Those so they had.

Speaker 5 (01:35:01):
None astro's got one From Jeremy pina hit a home
run off of a Future, Astro Penn, murphrey and he's
never reallymounted to much after.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
That, no he.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
Didn't one of the many players they correctly smartly chose
to take a chance on see if they could get
healthy and pitch for, them and just did not work
out in his. Case BUT i like those opportunities to
try to get somebody that can do something for.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
You bit of everything.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
Here so, far early in this, HOUR i haven't talked
a whole lot OF nfl. Football's we're on A, wednesday
so we're only one day out from tomorrow night's activities
and then on through the. Weekend, yes it is an
off weekend for The Houston. Texans the off weeks began
last week in THE, nfl which my opinion seems a little.
EARLY i don't think this is a particularly good week
to have it, either because now you've got to play

(01:35:47):
into the playoffs for the fourteen teams that get there
depending on their bye.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Week is let's just say it's The.

Speaker 5 (01:35:52):
Texans The texans play into the playoffs well after their bye.
Week they had twelve regular season games without a week.
Off the fake bye they get after Their thursday night
game is still in front of, them but otherwise, no
So i'm not a real huge fan of the early
season off. Week texans are also PARTICULARLY i would call
them a pretty healthy. Group the losses that they've, had you,

(01:36:14):
know they've seen a bunch of guys go, On Irikade,
Stover Jalen smith among, them but, OVERALL i would definitely
call this a healthy. Team didn't mention all the things
That Nick cassario went through. Yesterday when he was asked
about the injuries, elsewhere he just crushed.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
THAT i Know i've way ahead of you seven to Three.

Speaker 5 (01:36:34):
Tigers the players that they have on the pup list
are all of them are still. There Denico autry And
Jalen reid probably probably can be activated whenever The texans need,
them which last week was the first week they could
have actually been, activated but The texans didn't need them.
Yet they're fully, healthy fully, practicing AND i think if

(01:36:54):
something is necessary due to other injuries or just personnel,
issues then maybe they'll get activated before The seattle. Game
otherwise they'll be activated immediately after, that or ELSE i
have to be done for the, year and neither one
of them will be faced with. That Kurt heiness has
not been on the practice field at all and is
not off the pup.

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
List it does not have his practice window.

Speaker 5 (01:37:14):
Opened Jimmy ward back to reverted to the pup list
after he came off the commissioner's, list but it sounded
like From nick he's still a couple weeks away on
the injury, front rehaving his foot and, ankle trying to
get back on the, Field SO i don't think we're
going to see him anytime. Soon and obviously we gave
you the update On Joe mixon the other. Day of

(01:37:35):
all the players that were, mentioned and they have two
players on the reserve Pup Joe mixon And, hussey the
other defensive. Back hussey's not going to play this. Year
they have three players on the pup List heinish And
autrey And Tank. Dell and we didn't mention and he
didn't mention. Anything he was not asking this instance About Tank,

(01:37:58):
dell AND i don't have any update for, you THOUGH
i did see him this. Weekend one of many people
over at The cougar. GAME i saw him On saturday
night with a few. Others one of his, Trainers Justin,
allen was out there with, him and we've seen him at.
Practice he's on the sidelines at home. GAMES i don't
know the, situation But i'd love to have an opportunity
to see him again later this. Year and there's a
lot of debate about what to do With Joe mixon

(01:38:20):
if he gets, healthy but really it really doesn't seem
necessary to discuss it until he gets, healthy So i'll
wait for the three to four weeks probably to get
back into that. AGAIN i think what we're seeing in
the backfield for The, TEXANS i don't. Know i'm sure
if it's surprises people or. Not but the idea That
Woody marks is taking over or even IS rb. ONE i,

(01:38:40):
MEAN i think he does things that the other running
back doesn't do as. Well BUT i don't, think AND
i said this last, week they're not ready to be
done With Nick chubb by any. Means Nick chubb is
probably still going to get the bulk of the. Carries
he's still trusted to pass block and it's very IMPORTANT
i do not think it's a. Coincidence The, texans albeit the,
competition do not think it's a coincidence that their backfield

(01:39:02):
is very situated with two good pass Blockers woody And Nick.
Chubb No, dara he's never back there. Anymore they have
three tight, ends which means they can run two tight
end sets a lot more often if they want. To
and they put the jumbo package on the field really
for the first time all.

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
Year these last two.

Speaker 5 (01:39:19):
Weeks no coincidence that those things have helped lead to
much more successful. Offense AND i KNOW i don't USUALLY
i don't like to here on the air a little
bit easier maybe in person or in an article or
in a, podcast to get into some of the minutia
of what you're really doing on the offensive line or
as a group of. Blockers we talked about yesterday one

(01:39:42):
thing in, particular AND i don't need the numbers to
tell me. THAT i can tell you that because we're
watching the games. Together they're getting their running backs in
a great, position they get handed the ball and they
get to side to decide what to. Do DO i
follow my, Blocker DO i Follow British? Brooks DO i
follow the tight, End DO i go to the? Hole
DO i break it? Outside year of the running backs were,
SAYING i don't get to make any. DECISIONS i have

(01:40:03):
got a bail out of this play immediately because there's
somebody bearing down on me right WHEN cj hands me the.
Football there's NOTHING i can do about. It it's ALL i
can do to lose less than three yards on this,
play and that's humongous in trying to have a successful running.
Game that's if you get rid of the stuff you
can control with the pre snap, penalties which they've done

(01:40:23):
over the last two weeks for the most. Part, well
then now you're only worried about actual bad.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
Plays they cleaned it. Up you know they did clean it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Up but the only time you're going to be a
negative down and distance on second down are sacks or
tackles for. Loss, Right, well if the guys aren't getting
into the, backfield you shouldn't get, sacked and you're definitely
not gonna have A TfL because nobody's there TO. Tflu
AND i don't think every play was. MADE i think
that's been, made making the rounds a little. Bit one
of the two sacks THAT cj went down on probably

(01:40:52):
should have had A woody marks chip, involved but instead
of chipping the player off of the right, EDGE i
just kind of ran right by him and ran hiss
route which was right there in the. Flat technically he
was wide open both at the beginning of the play
and AFTER cj had to scramble because the guy he
didn't chip was all OVER cj and c just never
throw them the. Ball maybe he just didn't feel like

(01:41:12):
the opportunity with how his body was twisting was there
to get the ball To, woodie and that wouldn't have
been a huge, game but it also wouldn't have been
an eight yard. Loss they're again far from, perfection and
the opponents definitely. Matter seattle is. Different in two weeks
On Monday, Night seattle's going to get after the quarterback.
AGAIN i think The texans are going to play. BETTER

(01:41:33):
i think The texans are much more equipped to play
better from a pass blocking and run blocking. Perspective but
they're getting back to a team that can do. Something
The titans And ravens probably will finish the year this same.
Way they are right now two of the worst pass
rushing worst defensive fronts in the league and one of
them As Jeffrey, simmons and he's, awesome but their defensive

(01:41:55):
front and their defense overall isn't particularly, good And baltimore's
defense is significantly.

Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
WORSE i WISH i could say That texans were taking
THE Afc Offensive player of The week into that, game
but technically by then he won't be anymore because he
won't play this.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
Weekend. YEAH.

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
Cj stroud did get the NOD As player of The
week in THE afci would four touchdowns pass the rating
of one forty three no. INTERCEPTIONS i don't know if
they mentioned it in THE nfl. RELEASE i didn't see
it in The texans. Release MAYBE i needed to read
it more. Closely also had a thirty yard run among,
quarterbacks or among all players in THE nfl who have
carried it at least fifteen. Times he's got the third

(01:42:31):
best rushing average Behind Lamar jackson And Pat. Mahomes he's
averaging six point eight yards of pop thirty yards on
his only carry in the game On.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
Sunday he didn't hear Justin herbert's. Name he's right behind.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
Him, actually he had a forty yard run in Since sunday's,
activity but NO.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
Cj stroud won the award for the third.

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
Time it's the Twelfth player of The week Award, Offense
defense Or Special teams that this team has won Since
Demico ryans took. Over they actually did that once previously
in franchise. History twelve awards in a three year. Period
i'm gonna say over the next thirteen weeks they'll get
another and surpass the best era ever of award winning.
Play very important stuff you only get right here on the.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Eighteen the eighteen On Sports talk seven ninety a little
help over the hump with Some WEDNESDAY, bs Two adams.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
And a whole lot of bit, stealing bit.

Speaker 6 (01:43:27):
Stealing with the bit, stealers better known as the.

Speaker 5 (01:43:31):
Eighteen we have talked a little bit about THE nba,
today and because of that, CONVERSATION i think it slides
right Into WEDNESDAY'S. Bs not stealing a bit FROM mt
Or cole Or ross or The Morning show Or Doug
pike as per, usual but rather we're just taking it
for what it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:49):
Is IT'S.

Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
Bs we're talking about a potential friendly, wager probably in
order of white wings or something like, that about the
win total for say The clippers of The.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Lakers THE i want some white. Wings so.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
Bad projected win totals from the only entity we should
ever trust when it comes to sports, ANALYSIS espn FOR
nba basketball teams written about, today and they got super.
Specific i'm usually a big in favor of, this you,
know like when we all write up our POST nfl
draft grades And i'm, like, dude you graded thirty TWO

(01:44:26):
nfl teams and all of them got A c plus or.
Better boy, man that's some killer analysis. HERE i, mean
at least give us. Numbers this team gets a ninety,
eight this team gets a seventy. ONE i, mean we
a little more, differentiation so. Hot tip T espn to
giving projected win totals for THE nba teams with not whole,
numbers like the projected win total for your favorite team In?

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
Texas which one is?

Speaker 4 (01:44:49):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
Again which team In?

Speaker 4 (01:44:51):
Texas your favorite team In?

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
Texas which? Sport?

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
Dallas this is THE, Nba which Sport THE Nba dallas
has a forty three points six projected wind?

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
Total what they went last?

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
Year your second favorite team In, texas The San Antonio,
spurs has a projected wind total of forty point.

Speaker 3 (01:45:10):
One heard nothing about.

Speaker 5 (01:45:11):
This they do recognize these are not matching up With
vegas is over under wind totals at. All The spurs
is at forty four and a. Half The mavericks is
like the, opposite it's forty and a.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
Half much.

Speaker 5 (01:45:26):
Lower BUT i bring all this up not to make you,
mad even THOUGH i thought both of those numbers would,
well they're a little. High neither of them in the top.

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
Eight okay in The west or overall in The. West,
okay you can't expect me to listen to everything you.
Say after all this, TIME i should not expect. That,
now you tell me and the listeners what you think
their projected wind total is.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
For The Houston rockets fifty five and a.

Speaker 5 (01:45:57):
Half none of the numbers they give on The rockets
or that they're over under total if you were to
wager it's fifty three and a. Half so a lot
of houses that offer you that, opportunity you're probably going
to be in the fifty two and a half fifty,
three fifty three and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:46:09):
Range but their.

Speaker 5 (01:46:10):
Projected win total is a paltry forty six point. Nine
they won fifty two games a season, ago had two
players that were pretty healthy Throughout Alpion jalen Obviously.

Speaker 4 (01:46:25):
Just tell me how many more wins they have projected
for the Aging King james's team and the other team
across town in the same. City who is going to
Have Bradley beal nuke any chances of them doing. Anything
just go ahead and tell, me BECAUSE i know they're both.

Speaker 5 (01:46:40):
More The Houston rockets are the, peanut butter and jelly
to The lakers And clippers. Bread they're right in between.
Them Both clippers are projected forty nine point, seven but
again they're wagering over under total six fewer Than. Houston
but ESPN's got a projected win total of three more
than The, rockets and The lakers come in just behind

(01:47:02):
him at forty five point eight sixth that's four five
and Six rockets with the fifth highest projected wind total
Among Western conference. Teams so thunder thunder a, One, Nuggets
nuggets are are three, Three keep. GOING i told you
who four or? Five and six are The, clippers The,

(01:47:22):
rockets and The. LAKERS memphisi is, Seven so just listen
and see if you can figure it. Out memphis is,
Seven minnesota is, Eight dallas is, nine The kings are,
ten The spurs are. Eleven blazers, Twelve, sons, Thirteen pelicans,
Fourteen jazz? Fifteen who's number? Two you're probably gonna need
a pillow or a mattress underneath your chair after you

(01:47:45):
figure this, out because you're going to fall out of it.

Speaker 6 (01:47:48):
NOW i know.

Speaker 4 (01:47:49):
THAT i just can't. THINK i, know you just named
off every other team in The. West i'll tell you
who it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:53):
Isn't it's not The, thunder The, nuggets The, clippers The,
rockets The, lakers The, grizzlies The, wolves The, MAVs The,
kings The, spurs The, blazers The, suns The, pels or The.

Speaker 3 (01:48:03):
JAZZ i can't think of.

Speaker 5 (01:48:06):
It but it's the only team you ever think. About
it's the only Team rockets fans ever think. About oh
effing no. Way Golden State warriors coming in with the
second highest projected win TOTAL, espn ten wins above their
betting total at.

Speaker 4 (01:48:24):
Fifty six point. One you do know full season Is
Jimmy butler case? Closed next. TOPIC i, Mean I'M i.

Speaker 5 (01:48:33):
DIDN'T i know you have work to do, tonight AND
i didn't want your head to, explode but this Is WEDNESDAY'S,
bs SO i kind of had to fifty sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Story seven years old, dude he plays no. Defense Jimmy
butler's gonna get. Hurt seohn at The kamingo was their biggest.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
Storyline and everyone else on that, team Including.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
Draymond sucks and they're gonna win how many?

Speaker 5 (01:48:54):
Games fifty six point one? Pees there you, go you're
falling right in.

Speaker 4 (01:49:00):
Now you just raised my blood pressure And i'm about
to leave and.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
Drive that's not.

Speaker 5 (01:49:05):
Safe when you said he's thirty seven years, OLD i
wasn't even sure who you were talking, about, Right. Draymond
they're all thirty seven or, higher which is the exact
reason they probably Gave houston how many?

Speaker 3 (01:49:18):
Wins again because of thirty seven year Old.

Speaker 5 (01:49:20):
Kdie you could have been talking About Draymond ballpark of
the thirty seven year old could.

Speaker 4 (01:49:24):
Be trous get rehired over AT espn because that's the
Only jamoke loser that would have done something like.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
This that team.

Speaker 4 (01:49:32):
Sucks you could have been talking About Jimmy. Butler, hey
here's a hot, TAKE. Espn they're not even gonna make
the playoffs this. Year you're ready for that to happen
because you're going to cry when it.

Speaker 5 (01:49:41):
Does and you could have been talking about recently Added Al.

Speaker 4 (01:49:44):
Horford, Oh i'm, SORRY i forgot the signed one of
the most awesome players from two thousand and.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
Nine god HATE. ESPN i hate everything about.

Speaker 4 (01:49:56):
Them they don't even do sports half the, time and
when they do they do. This what in turn did?
This i'm sure it Was Ethan Sherwood strauser's assistant in
twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
Nineteen then they lost THE Nba.

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
Finals terrible thing to put in Your this is in,
Public this is on the.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
Internet, People CAN i found? This children are aware of?

Speaker 4 (01:50:15):
This? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:50:15):
Children what do think of the?

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
Women?

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Children and?

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
Women women and children are not being shielded from this
drivel that they put on that?

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
Site where DO i find? THIS i need to see.
This i'll read it to you so you don't have.
TO i need to see it with my own.

Speaker 5 (01:50:28):
Eyes why they project to be better than their Total
why we've projected them? There because The warriors might have
the single most surprising projection for any. Team AND i
didn't mention this part to, you you, know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:43):
Because it's hard to.

Speaker 5 (01:50:45):
Believe having added Superstar Jimmy butler for a full, season
they won at a sixty three win clip With butler
in the lineup that. Season last, season they also have
eleven players who rate better than league, average tied with
the thunder from a of any.

Speaker 4 (01:51:00):
TEAM i can't.

Speaker 5 (01:51:02):
Rage in my heart right, Now, like if you could
get that number AND i know they're fully acknowledging and
that's not the betting. Number if you could get fifty
six and play, less play under my, gosh that is
an absolute gold. Mine Golden State warriors among the best
in The.

Speaker 4 (01:51:20):
West after all of the, Words Jerry jones WHEN i need?
Him Where's Bud adams WHEN i need? Him because that's
HOW i feel about.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
This who wrote?

Speaker 4 (01:51:28):
This what About?

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
Jimmy How's jimmy's?

Speaker 4 (01:51:30):
Name?

Speaker 3 (01:51:30):
Happy what's his? Handle Because i'm coming for.

Speaker 5 (01:51:32):
Him this strikes me as more of a generic, piece
but there is a writer associated with.

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
It and what's the name of this?

Speaker 5 (01:51:38):
Turd i'm sure you guys are dying to, hear but
it's not going to be this segment.

Speaker 1 (01:51:44):
The eight On Sports talk seven Ninety i'm.

Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
Gonna read aloud From reddit Nown Kevin pelton knows. BALL
i don't know who he, is but he knows.

Speaker 5 (01:52:07):
Ball he authored THE nba twenty twenty five to twenty
six season win projections for all thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
Teams THE x factor The dubs, have WHICH i don't
think gets enough, credit is just they are a well
run organization and good coaching. STAFF i know some of
y'all don't Like, kerr but they get it done and
have a good track.

Speaker 5 (01:52:26):
Record well an actual basketball comment if you, will if you,
allow like think about WHAT i said last segment of
about all these ancient players and think about this day
and age in THE, Nba LIKE i don't really care
what they look like when they play.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
Together when are they going to play?

Speaker 5 (01:52:43):
Together who's going to play seventy five games of the
four oldest players on this team that are all in their?
Rotation like how are they going to win these games
that you're projecting them to? Win like shouldn't you factor
that into your win?

Speaker 4 (01:52:54):
Projection like you're factoring into everybody else's non win. Projection
LIKE i get the kicks and the ark Van vleet's,
hurt but teams. AREN'T i guess The warriors have to
get death lineup again in its, Prime like do you
See durant's playing for The warriors?

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
Again?

Speaker 5 (01:53:08):
Maybe do you think fifty two wins is as a
big total for the team that finishes with the second
best record in The.

Speaker 4 (01:53:14):
West this isn't so much about what he thinks The
warriors are gonna, win, which, again speaking of, that the
math doesn't math here. Either if all these teams are so,
good then they're gonna beat the crap out of each.
Other they're gonna beat up on The east for, sure
but they're gonna beat the crap out of each, other
which means you're gonna get exactly what you got last,
year which is a very very tightly Compacted Western conference

(01:53:35):
where a seventh seed can beat a two seed and
nobody even blinks because they were all so similar in their.
Nature but that was last Year's rockets. Team This warriors
squad that's supposedly going to win seventy games because they
have a full season of thirty seven year Old Steph
curry and whatever amount of games That Jimmy butler decides
to play when he feels like it is just so

(01:53:57):
far and above everybody, else including The. Rockets, sure where's
my pillow THAT i fell? ONTO i didn't even put
one out for.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
ME i don't have.

Speaker 4 (01:54:04):
One Kevin pelton's an. Idiot you gotta book. Him.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
COLE i gotta scream at the. Guy you're doing it right,
now very well.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
Without even until five seconds. Ago, WELL i can't believe Espo,
oh just, KIDDING i can BELIEVE espn employs somebody like.
This they fired everybody else except For STEVEN. A, smith
and all he talks about is.

Speaker 3 (01:54:23):
Politics seventy five from the.

Speaker 5 (01:54:24):
Time loved the deal when they made, it and we
talked about it last. YEAR i thought it made. SENSE
i thought it was gonna make them, better AND i
absolutely think it. Did but this is, Absurd thank.

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
You that's. All that's ALL i. Needed it's.

Speaker 4 (01:54:36):
ABSURD i needed to know that somebody in the world
still had a brain.

Speaker 5 (01:54:39):
Like how MANY nba teams expecting to win a? Championship
and that's WHY i brought up the fifty two wins
our teams striving for these fifty, seven fifty eight sixty.
One Oklahoma city won sixty whatever games last, Year cruise
because there was no way to avoid. It they couldn't.
Lose they were too. Good one of their stars was
out for a huge. Chunk third best player stars at

(01:55:01):
a little heavy was out for a huge chunk of the.
Season it barely even was a blip on their ability
to dominate teams and then a huge gap and there were.

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
The rockets at fifty two.

Speaker 5 (01:55:12):
WINS i haven't, looked BUT i would imagine fifty two
wins got you the second seed in The west zero
times in the last ten.

Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
Years that's why last year it was great that they
dying every night and, right The rockets probably close to
anybody last.

Speaker 5 (01:55:28):
Year they really, did AND i think it helped. Them
that's why they were where they were in the seating
and it hoped they hoped it would pay. Off AND
i don't think the matchup was as bad as the results.
Were they absolutely could have outplayed That Golden State warriors.

Speaker 3 (01:55:41):
Team they just.

Speaker 4 (01:55:41):
DIDN'T i, know you have me down for the First
warriors matchup this. Year i'm pretty sure because it's relatively
early in that it takes place in the first.

Speaker 3 (01:55:49):
MONTH i do put a lot of thought into. This,
OH i know you. Do, yeah they play them on
the twenty sixth of The.

Speaker 4 (01:55:54):
November i'm to schedule me for all the. Games.

Speaker 5 (01:55:57):
WELL i do try to keep, like, hey we're In
february Talking. Warriors you And matt are doing The Rockets warriors. Game,
YEAH i remember when they played each other earlier this.
Year and we talked about, this like we don't work every,
GAME i, know SO i actually do put some thought.
It you might have a better broadcast because you worked
the first, Match but it's.

Speaker 4 (01:56:16):
Strictly about me eviscerating some tool on the four letter.

Speaker 5 (01:56:20):
Website it will need if we were doing the, broadcast
then if you And matt were doing the broad.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
BECAUSE i want to drive to his house and tell
him he's an idiot to his, face Or i'll do
it like maybe he'll be in town for that game
since he rides them so.

Speaker 5 (01:56:35):
Much we've well he all, right so we only have
a few more minutes of This alds.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Game it looks like.

Speaker 4 (01:56:44):
Yeah and this season for The mariners because they're done after.
This they're, toast they're.

Speaker 5 (01:56:49):
Cushion they have a loss to, absorb which looks like
they're gonna absorb in this. One they're absorbing it right,
now eight to, three eight to, three bottom of the,
eighth and they're threatening to have you watched any of
their ds ON tv this series and paid any attention
because we mentioned broadcast and got a couple of. Minutes
so it's curious you're talking about their crew that the
crew that is doing this particular, SERIES Aj Presentski Adam

(01:57:11):
Wayne Wright Adam amine on play by play Always just
so a lot of people have made note of.

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
THIS i would be in that group as. Well i've seen,
it not heard. It they're. Phenomenal, yeah we've had him
on the. Show he's.

Speaker 5 (01:57:22):
Great and the reason why it actually does matter who
you put. Together you guys should know. This everybody knows.
This who's in the booth play by play, guy a
catcher and a. Pitcher it's a perfect. Mix it's only
perfect when they're really good at what they. Do Adam
waynwright is very new to. This it's like the opposite
of A Kevin. Pelton, yes very very. Much they've been

(01:57:44):
exceptional in you, know they were killing The tigers for
how they handle the first, play first run scoring play
in the game the other night When Riley green threw,
Home why are you throwing? Home throw it to the cutoff,
man when the cutoff man let the ball go. Through
why the guy's not running? Home when the catcher didn't
block the, Ball why the guy's not running? Home and

(01:58:05):
then the guy ran home and scored because none of
the guys did their.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
Job it's just simple. Baseball stuff that sometimes gets.

Speaker 5 (01:58:11):
Overlooked and he's a former catcher talking About, perzinski so
he was getting On dingler for just put your whole
body in. Front it's not your, fault but now that
it has become your, duty you got to make sure
that ball doesn't get by. You and just little things
THAT i think they've become really really good at, describing
and we analyze all this stuff so. Often it's actually
one of the reasons WHY i think our listeners here

(01:58:32):
have an awesome opportunity With Steve sparks doing what he
does and joining the, show The Morning show Every monday,
morning obviously what he does for one hundred and forty
seven hundred and fifty one games a, year With robert
And jeff on THE tv side being a former, Player
brian Boga sevik being a former hitter and pitcher in
studio almost every, game along.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
With, Josh reddick and.

Speaker 5 (01:58:54):
ESH i think you're getting the best of everything with
the mix of the analysts that they have here In
Houston Astros, baseball and we're lucky we get to bring
it To bogie's a weekly guest on The Matt Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:59:04):
Show it's. Good what do you THINK espn readers are
getting From Kevin. Pelton that's WHAT i need to dorring us,
back bring us back TO. Kp like the amount of
rage in my heart for this idiot that doesn't even
KNOW i, exist AND i didn't know he existed until last.

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
Segment why did you do that to?

Speaker 5 (01:59:20):
ME i did respond to a listener who, said they're
gonna need the nine One you're not gonna have nine
to one one ready to to just hit enter and
have it already punched up and ready to, Go AND i,
SAID i didn't take me long to realize What i'd.

Speaker 4 (01:59:33):
DONE i just don't know about society. ANYMORE i mean
about the oral news every. Night this world is tearing itself,
apart and he's not making it. Better it's supposed to
be an, escape and he's just taken a, huge giant
you know what and thrown it in the punch.

Speaker 3 (01:59:54):
Bowl that is my sports. Life that is rather.

Speaker 4 (01:59:57):
UNFORTUNATELY i just don't like, Him, okay all it's CLEAR
i don't like him at all at. All me And
JOSE i just he's like the Next He's Ethan Sherwood
strauss two point. Zero every tell you about the elevator
ride we had. Together it's not gonna be this, segment
but it wasn't pleasant for.

Speaker 5 (02:00:13):
Him, hey there were years where you guys realized we've
The rockets And warriors played a. Lot we talked about
it a, lot but also meant we got to deal,
with speak to and see their beat, writers their media
year after year after year after, year.

Speaker 4 (02:00:29):
Play by play. Guy they kind of felt, like, yep
we played for The. Warriors oh my, gosh the. Cheerleading
it was just their broadcast crew is. Awesome their media,
sucks And kevin's part of.

Speaker 3 (02:00:40):
It five, o'clock.

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