Rockets Can't Hurt Us Anymore, Opening Day Tonight, Texans Linemen on Stroud

Wednesday on The A-Team, Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler look ahead to Rockets-Timberwolves, get you ready for Opening Day in MLB, react to the latest comments from the Texans' newly signed linemen, and much more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in to the final show of the A Team
this year. Before we're talking about baseball. That counts. Later
on that day, it is a Wednesday edition of the
A Team Sports Talk seven ninety in Opening Day Eve
edition for the Astros. At least technically it's opening night
tonight because they're gonna force one in on us out

(00:21):
on the West Coast. But as far as games the
Astros are involved in, that counts. As I mentioned, tomorrow
is the day. In case you haven't heard or we
haven't been promoting it enough. Of course we will be
out there live in the middle of fan Fest, myself,
Wex and Ross. We're gonna Bogart his show. I think
Matt Thomas is on that show sometimes like today, but

(00:43):
he won't be tomorrow, so it'll be the three of
us out there, and absolutely by all means come by
and say hello. We are looking forward to it. It's
gonna be nearly five hours of us talking, yacking before
we hand things off to Robert and Steve and get
you ready for Game one of one hundred and sixty two.
It's going to be a marathon. And we already have

(01:03):
thoughts on the upcoming season because a lot of people
are who there's some hot takes. I'm just gonna put
it like that. I'm gonna say primarily in the American League.
I don't think there's anything hot taky over in the
National League by all the pundits nationally and locally. I
just I don't look at it that way. But in
the American League there is some.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Pipe good because there's not obvious. Yeah, I mean, I
think not obvious who the best team in the American
League is. It is obvious who the best team in
the National League is. So I bought in people as
the other twenty nine teams are. But everybody say that
that's not like they pay well for the Astros as
zero dollars and zero cents.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm sorry. I'll get to you and Jeff pass and
next segment, you're the same guy apparently on this. You're
not as bad as him on this, but he is.
Oh my gosh, it's like, you can't. You cannot be
as disingenuous as he is and keep a straight face,
and he somehow does it. Still I don't know how
he does it, I really don't. And it's not it
doesn't even have to do with his It has to

(02:01):
do with how he approaches that very team you're talking about.
That's fine, he wrote a picks article. No, no, no,
I'm saying it's not about his picks, right, It's about
how he looks at the Dodgers, the most obvious good
team in the National League, and why they're the most
obviously good team in the National league. You got the
best players, how'd they get those? They paid for him,

(02:21):
But everybody else could do it, right, they want Yeah,
it's all the same. It is the same.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's not if the owners wanted to put themselves in
a bad situation personally financially, they could do it too.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
The Dodgers have a better kitty to pull from that
part right there. He doesn't say that part though. That's
the difference between you two.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, I think it's I mean, I guess it's not
common knowledge. People reading their stuff might not be smart.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I guess. Well, I mean, listen, I'm not saying that
you and him are the only ones that say that.
Chandler Romme says it. We've texted about it off the air,
But it's it's disingenuous to act like its reality. For
I don't know, ninety five percent of a major League
Baseball's teams. This is why this time next year, when

(03:05):
we're not getting ready for baseball, it's gonna suck, But
it's gonna be a necessary evil because something's been needing
to change for a long long time, and the Dodgers
finally violently pushed us into it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I mean, we can waste our whole show on that
if you want. But I don't know, We're just gonna
waste next segment. I just like they were headed for
a strike long, long before anything the Dodgers recently did.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
But why is it?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Because the league needs it? It's not really about the Dodgers.
It's about everything, and it's about every team. It's both
the high end of salary caps spending over the cap
that doesn't exist CBT, and then the lower end teams
that are just hey, man, you want to spend all
this money, you want to go into CBT. Hell, that's
awesome for me. I'm not spending any money. Our team
isn't very good, fans don't come to the stadium, and

(03:48):
you keep putting money in my pockets.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
This is great. Let's keep doing this.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
These are disingenuous unity among the owners because they're not unified, right,
there's just like there's a presumed unity among the players
when we all know they're not unified. That's both sides
have their own issues, and this is I mean, the
Dodgers could not have Kyle Tucker and could not have
sho he O Tani and we'd still be here.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I think the Dodgers headline one end of the spectrum,
and several other teams headline the other end of the spectrum,
all of which culminates in the labor strife we're about
to have. Is gonna be nasty.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's going to last a long time. Hopefully the solution
is a good one, because it's not always the case.
Sometimes they just all right, we're gonna play baseball again,
and you're gonna do that, and you know one side
is not very happy, but ultimately a play and it's
never a guess on which side is not very happy.
It's no such thing as the owner saying, man, this
deal stinks for us, right.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
We got hose. They got over on us.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Exactly because, as we always say, billionaires versus millionaires, guess
who wins. It's pretty standard in sports, just a matter
of how much can you make out of it? If
you're on the player's side, and you know they want
to go out there and make money. It's a lot
harder for them to go without, even though, as we said,
many of them are millionaires and those that aren't our
many hundred thousand airs. So it's a fight that's on

(05:11):
its way. It's unfortunate that they're not doing much to
prevent it. From a timeline standpoint, they're not going to
get together for several months. They're going to start negotiating
during the season. They're not going to get anywhere during
the season, and then when the deadlines approach, they will
also not have gotten anywhere, and we'll know that they're
locked out, especially since the manner which the owner's representative,
Bob Manfred, has addressed it. He's basically talked about the

(05:35):
attributes from a ownerships and ownership standpoint, that a lockout produces.
He's talking about why it can be it's a tool
we have and we can't wait to use it. And
I'm paraphrasing, but he has flat out said that publicly
multiple times. So it is definitely where we're headed. Luckily,
we do have the one sixty two in front of us,
beginning tonight with the Yankees and Giants tomorrow afternoon and evening,

(05:59):
all throughout the day and evening, and the Astros slotted
in right here at three ten on Sports Talk seven
to ninety we take you all the way into first
pitch from ten am on.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Obviously, after the morning.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Drive, we'll have a bunch of guests join us, our
weekly guests both on our show and on the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross Considering those are the times we
will be on expecting to join us. We'll have a
full lineup for you tomorrow afternoon. But this is why
it's one of those days where everyone says they're excited
for it. Hopefully you're excited for more than just Thursday.
Hopefully over the course of these next seven games, the

(06:30):
Astros have won more than they've lost, and they' hit
the row with a winning record. And you'll like what
you've seen from Tatsui Emi, and you'll like what you've
seen from the first Astros batter of twenty twenty six,
Jeremy Pania. If you weren't already aware of this, after
he howered last night, he was trending towards being on
the opening day roster, and I can't imagine that they
put him on it, which they have officially done, and

(06:52):
don't intend on playing him tomorrow and starting him tomorrow
and batting him lead off tomorrow. So now we can
all expect that the Astros did announce their opening day roster,
and him being on it, to me not the biggest surprise.
I was almost to say I was floored by the
fact this very much unknown, very much outsider minor league

(07:15):
contract with an invite to spring training pitcher from right
here in Houston, who I don't believe we have said
his name more than one time during the last thirty days,
but Christian Rowa is an Astro. He will be on
the opening day roster. They had to clear a couple
of roster spots for a couple of players that were
not on the forty man roster. You knew one of

(07:36):
them yesterday since the Joe Spot announced that Christian Vasquez
would claim the backup catching position, so he had to
be put on the forty man roster, and in that
k Seysar Salazar does not have options, he has to
be put through waivers. He could be an ASTRO moving forward,
but if any other major league team would like to
put him on their team.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
They have the ability to do that now.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
So it's a tough spot to be in at that
position for they sar who's obviously been up and down
with the Astros multiple seasons. Here, Bryce Matthews is an
opening day Houston Astro. And then they littered their injured
list with pretty much everybody we figured they would. A
matter of is this guy going on the fifteen day IL,
one player put on the sixty day IL, which also

(08:19):
opens up a forty man roster spot, and they're ready
to go tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
It is. It was odd to see that when they
put out the first of the release, and then of
course very much more neatly the graphics that the social
media department put together, so you just kind of see
it all divided up.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
But yeah, and they went with thirteen pitchers and thirteen
positions position players some NFL hawks that cover baseball, I
guess never just for your information, that's standard, that's actually mandated.
That's how every team outfits their roster. What are you
talking about with the football One of the football beat

(08:59):
writers from Miami goes, huh, well, thirteen position players thirteen
pitchers are teams adding more pictures these days to the
roster than they used to. They're just following the rules,
which you don't know it.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
But he's thirteen pictures. Is like you said, that's pretty standard.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's not pretty standard. It's mandated, but it's the norm. Yeah, exactly,
there's no other alternative. You have to Yeah. So Christian
row and Christian Vasquez joined Christian Javier. There's no way
any team is more Christian than the Astros. All three
of them are opening day roster Astros. Zach Decenzo, one
of those ILS players we mentioned as he came back

(09:36):
from the World Baseball Classic, had a little bit of
an elbow issue, so the right elbow sprain as it
is determined, that puts him on the ten day IL.
The two pitchers that had either injuries very early in
spring training or just simply weren't able to get on
the mound, Josh Hater and Annul de los Santos, they
are on the IL fifteen day IL each.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Dello Santos is probably.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Ready to come off as that time period elapses, and
that he got into a little bit of action here
late in spring training, presuming he is again healthy and
being on the mound usually suggests that it's also not
an arm, elbow, or shoulder injury and the biceps tendonitis
that we've been following since he arrived at camp. For
Josh Hater, as expected, lands him on the fifteen day IL,

(10:19):
Same for Bennett Sussa, same for Nate Pearson, who ultimately
did not throw a pitch in spring training for the Astros.
Same for Renel Blanco and Hayden was Nesky. Only noteworthy
in their cases in that they can pretty much at
any time be placed on the sixty day IL, which
would open up forty man roster spots should the Astros
need them. Neither one of them is pitching for the

(10:41):
Astros over the next sixty days. It'd be more of
a procedural move in both of their cases, but in
the fact they don't have to do it now they didn't.
Brandon Walter goes to the sixty day L another one
of if you forgot Astros pitchers whose season was cut
short by a long term throwing arm injury. And Zach Cole,

(11:01):
the last of the Astros to find out that he
would not be a part of the brush. Not at all.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Zach Cole is headed to Triple A. I say not
at all.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
For this reason, they have better options currently, Zach Cole
might end up being a better player than you name
it in the Astros outfield and I mean everybody. If
you don't consider Alvarez an outfielder, he could have a
better major league career than every single one of them.
But at the present time, he swings and misses too much.
His recognition of the strike zone is not quite what
it needs to be. I think facing even more regular

(11:31):
season quality major league pitching, which is all that you'll
see now, I think it'd be even worse for him.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
He's barely played in Triple A.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
This is a perfect opportunity for him to go out
there every day and try to get a little bit
better in that area. Adding Joey Lo Perfito made this
a real possibility. I'd probably have to respect spring training
at least a little bit. He crushed it and Zach didn't.
I know, Zach had a tremendous amount of hard hit
balls that might not have ended up his hits, but
he just doesn't make enough contact yet. And it's a
problem that Joey had a couple of years ago, and

(11:59):
they think he's got past that. I think there's a
pretty good chance that low Perfido, Jake Myers and Cam
Smith are your regular outfielders. But the other thing that
Jeremy Pania being on the opening day roster does is
it forces the Astros hand, It forces Joe aspot his hand.
Please find a way to have all of your best

(12:20):
bats in the lineup. That's the best way to try
to win. I think you think the windows open. I
think you're going to challenge in this division. I don't
think you believe the Mariners are significantly better than you.
But if you are daily placing a player on the
bench next to you, Joe, that is an everyday major
league quality hitter, then you're not trying to win as

(12:42):
much as you should with the roster you've been given.
Play bad defense in left field every day, if you
have to play bad defense at second base every day,
if you have to, which they're already going to do.
Both of their second basement are bad defensively, presuming that
Eesakperetis is a bad defensive second for second baseman. But
putting any of those players on the bench with any

(13:02):
kind of regularity is unwise with the roster.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
That they have. That part you said about, Uh, what'd
you say about the lineup every day, I like the
everyday lineup to have the best hitters in. It isn't
that Joe spot is number one through ten priority. It is.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
But they've managed Danna's unfortunately outfit him with a daily conundrum. Yeah,
which again is super duper easily solved if they just
decide to go against what they want to do, which
is play ord On Alvarez in left field.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, just do that. Problem solved. Problem solved.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
You may they think they might be creating another problem
with jord On playing is often on his feet and
in the outfield.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
He's fresh. He didn't play it all last year, so
keep him that way.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
You know, there's I'm not saying Joe's not it's a
hard spot to be. There's a lot of I'm not
the manager. I'm just telling you what I would do
if I were the manager.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
There's a lot of intangibles. It's not it's not easy,
and that's why he gets paid the big bucks and
we don't. But we'll continue anyways, a lot to get
to a matter of fact speak, thinking of just tomorrow
and the absolute what do you call Schmorgusborg that it's
going to be of sports. We need to kind of

(14:09):
clear that up, especially where you can catch everything on
our network of stations. Plus, as I mentioned, the Yankees
with their insane World Series odds, I might add, are
gonna get us started tonight. I'm gonna tell you why
that is so lame, but not nearly as lame as
the latest freaking Dennis ingenuous article by my favorite whipping

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boy at the Four Letter Network. All that coming up next,
all right, is the eighteen sports I had to wait
for that part is the A Team Sports Talk seven
ninety where with tomorrow's a very very busy day you
have h and Illinois in their Sweet sixteen game that's
gonna air right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. You're

(14:53):
talking about Astro's Angels Astros pregame. Obviously with us, you're
gonna want to tune into that. Normally they call that
the Matt Thomas Show Featuring Ross. Tomorrow, it's going to
be the Matt Thomas Show featuring Ross. No Matt Thomas
and the A Team. So we'll have you beginning at
ten am out live at FanFest in front of the

(15:13):
third base side basically minute of Dyke in Park and
then of course Astros Angels and Astro's postgame, and then
of course the Koogs taking on Illinois in the sweet
sixteen game. That's all going to be right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. But don't worry you of H
Purdue or UT Purdue. I should say it's going to
be on nine to fifty. And then after that post

(15:35):
game ends, U of H will be joined on the simulcast,
and I believe they're going to be on seven forty.
Is that clear as mud? Did I do it? Okay?
Did I? Did I go down the list somewhat clearly
of all the things we have for you tomorrow the
biggest sports day on the calendar so far in twenty
twenty six. Uh? Yeah, for the most part, what parts?

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Did you not like? UT will be on.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
KPRC, and then the home of the Cougars, which is
nine fifty. That's where the simul cast will then also be,
not seven forty.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Ah got you? Okay? But you of H is going
to be on seven ninety, which is what most people
listening care about.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Right, Yes, we are the home for Sweet sixteen University
of Houston Cougars basketball.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Sports Talk seven ninety nailed it all, right? Why in
your opinion, And don't say it's because they have a
good roster, because I just I can't. I can't deal
with that. Why Why are the Yankees just penciled in
in what is not there? You go, sport, he took

(16:44):
you long enough, Geez, Southwest home for Yankees Baseball? Why
are they just penciled in as the Al East winners?
Do the Blue Jays not exist? Do the Red Sox
not exist? Do the Orioles not exist? Does Tampa not exists?
That last part I was kidding about. I just don't

(17:05):
get it. Like, if you want to tell me that
the Dodgers have the best World Series by far, to
win World Series odds by far out of anybody in
the majors, right.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Who led the American League in regular season wins last year?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I suppose it's gonna be the Yankees, that is correct? Okay,
how many? Was it? Ninety four? Who was the team
behind them with win total?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Technically behind them would have been Seattle, But the team
that actually won the American League East via a tiebreaker,
who had the same number of wins as Toronto. So,
in other words, if all these odds makers did was say, ah,
we don't want to make any money. We're not gonna
pay any attention to anybody's roster. We're just gonna flip
a coin and pick between the Blue Jays and Yankees

(17:49):
and make them the favorites. You could say, yeah, that's
what they did. What are you doing if you're odds makers?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Are you? I know? The number one goal is to
make money. I get that. I do, even me noted
non gambler, because I like my money. I like to
keep it. I don't like to give it to other
people that I don't want to have it. But like
it also lends itself to who you think is can
actually win at some point, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Is it just you're trying to generate activity and have
it work in your favor as the house. Okay, but again,
let's just say it's not odds makers. Let's just say
it's prognosticators. It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Everybody is like drink prognosticators.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I'm a prognosticator and I can pick anybody I want
and nobody's I don't think, after all this time, is
going to stop listening to me because I got it wrong. No,
pretty much every time I don't, I wouldn't agree with that, Well,
I'm just saying it's it matters to odds makers, So
they're going to get fired if they're putting odds on
the board that people are betting on and taking money

(18:54):
from the house at too high a level.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah. But to me, if I listen to you and
you pick X team to win the division, I know
you're doing it because you truly think that's what's going
to happen, based on facts and knowledge and statistics and
numbers and data and blah blah blah blah blah dah.
I like some of these people, I'm just like, do
you think it's two thousand and nine again? Do you

(19:16):
think it's nineteen ninety eight again? Do you think the
stein Brenner Senior still owns the two? Like? What do
you think is happening in New York? That is just overweight?
It's because it's overwhelming, it is. Yes, If I.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
See favorites and the Mariners are right behind them with
very similar but not quite as good odds.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Forget, forget the American League take their division. It's still
overwhelmingly Yankees. Yankee, there's no Blue Jays in sight. If
they were like two away from winning the whole thing
last year over the Dodgers. Do you think the Blue
Jays got better? I don't think they got worse.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
I mean, could you argue their second best player and
now play somewhere else?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
I think you could. Who's that? But shit? I mean
I guess I don't feel like he was their second
best player, though. Who's their best player? Thank you? Who
was their second best player in the playoffs last year? Well,
but it matters great he didn't. He was hurt, okay,
but who was it? I'm asking? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Say that's why they won because a lot of different
guys had good postseasons.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, could you make an argument for George Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
You could make an argument he was actually their second
best player during the regular season too. Yeah, but pretty
much they had a bunch of players have I mean
Ernie Clement sadly because Team USA fell for it and
put him on the roster.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
He was awesome in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
He was he was their second rest player, like Vladimir
felt like he could not be stopped for three weeks.
And but that's going to call him had one more
hit than he did. He hit four eleven in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
He was crazy it's not.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
During the regular season, George Bow and Laddie were clearly
their best three offensive players.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And they added Dylan Cees, who was an inning but
not good.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
The early innings eaters and then he stops eating innings
because he gets full after five. But their pitching staff
is not terrible. It's no, it's not terrible.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
And the people that you're touting, if you're saying this
is why the Yankees are better their rotation, well haven't
even gotten to the Yankees part of it yet. That's
my point, like, why are we talking about the Yankees
instead of the Blue Jays When you talk about the
Al East. It should the conversation to start with the
Blue Jays and it should probably end with the Blue
Jays until further notice.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
They are a negative in the starting pitching department last
year to this year, even with adding Dylan Ce's. Their
second their innings eater last year was Chris Bassett, he's
in Baltimore. Their third most innings pitched was Jose Burrios.
He's not healthy and I don't know when he's gonna
be healthy. So it craise them with one quality repeat

(21:51):
or returning starter, hopefully Eric Lauer pitch as well, Max
Scherzers in their rotation again, and then you got Dylan
ces there. I mean I put it out out there, like,
could you say they got better? I think it'd be
very hard to say.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
They they got worse. They definitely got worse, right, Okay,
so do the Yankees now?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
The Yankees have to the only reason people should be
super high on the Yankees is their magic doctors. And
they know for a fact Carlos Radon's is not only
going to come back in late May or early June,
but he's gonna be awesome when he does. And then
say the exact same thing and just insert Garrett Cole's name.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, that's two fifths of your starting rotation for opening Day,
not there? And I get it. Garrett Cole's back. He
was out last year and there's no there's been no setbacks,
all that kind of stuff. I still have to see it.
And Radon, it's not a matter of if he's already
hurt and he's gonna get hurt again, and then he's
gonna get hurt again after that, and then he's gonna
get hurt again after that, and then next year is

(22:48):
gonna happen and the whole thing's gonna start over. Like,
why do you think that the Yankees have this just
arsenal of pictures when half of them are hurt half
the time and the ones that aren't hurt, I mean,
Garrett Cole can't even field first.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Base in the world too spool. They got lucky with
today's game. It slows down their activity, so they have
multiple off days and they committed. The Astros were contemplating
a six man rotation to open the season, and obviously
they've gone with five and will have a six rotation early.
The Yankees have a four man rotation.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, start, Sorry, but we haven't even gotten to Aaron Judge,
who has the biggest turtle act on the planet when
games matter. I don't give a crap if he hits
eighty home runs this year. That's the regular season, and
it doesn't mean Jack you know what, He's never ever
clutched up in an important moment ever in his career. Ever,
it's not intentional. But we do have a four hour show.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'll just let you know that entire segment could have
been encapsulated in fifteen seconds starting now. Whatever the odds
are for the Yankees, good bad or otherwise, if you
hate your money, bet on them to win the World Series.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
God, I love you so I've never loved you more
than I do.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Right now, I'm sitting here because the fifteen seconds is
now up. I'm just adding some flavor. The Yankees are
gonna win a ton of regular season games. The Yankees
are probably gonna win their division or very very close
to it. They're definitely going to the playoffs barring a
rash of new injuries. And I wouldn't even bet on
them at that point, with only twelve teams remaining, well,
only six teams remaining in the American League. The last

(24:17):
thing I'm going to do before I see it happen
is put money down on the Yankees to win the
World Series. Everybody else is winning the World Series every
single season. Picking the right one is hard. Picking the
right one to not bet on is easy, super easy.
And we didn't even get the Jeff passing. We'll do

(24:38):
that later in the show because Best of X is next.
It's gonna be a quick one, but it's gonna be
a good one. What do I always talk about when
it comes to Terminator? Any of the films will do
you think Edward Furlong was a fantastic choice as an actor.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Uncle Bob he was for that movie.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
On the social media streets, have you seen probably not
on Twitter, but undoubtedly on ig and if you were
a TikToker there as well. Have you seen the I
don't know why this fits here so well, but it
certainly does. Here's Terminator with flatulance, noises, no way, it's

(25:23):
the first movie. It's parts of all. It's definitely the
most of two. Do you like T two better than T one? Now?
When Ed meets Arnold for the first time, Yeah, and
he doesn't really believe him, and he's asking him to
do things like stand on one leg, that's classic. Well,
obviously what I just mentioned fits there nicely. When he's

(25:43):
forcing him to smile and it's very hard to do.
It's another one. It's another spot.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
And I'm assuming different degrees of flatulence for some of these.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Absolutely, okay, So what were you gonna say about best
of X? That's obviously what I scroll for. Stuff like
that bathroom humor.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well. A bizarre video from China Shows where China Thank You,
shows the moment a robot slapped a child in the
face during a botched dance performance. Oh they lied afterwards
and said this wasn't supposed to happen. Well, duh. And
if you look at the video, he's just doing a

(26:19):
little dance this robot. Again, I can't stress that enough
a robot. Are you watching it? Yes? Come on, man,
he slapped him in the face. You know why because
he was standing there. Because the creators did a very
bad job when they designed his dance routine and the

(26:39):
space required to perform it safely. They roped off the area,
but let the people the area wasn't large enough. Don't
when you schematically put together this robot and you said, oh,
we're gonna the absolute number one reason why we want
all this technology to reach this certain level, so he
can make robots that dance. Everybody knows that's all we're

(27:00):
trying to get to. If we can just make robots
that dance, not fly planes with no people in it,
not get us to the moon, not dig to the
Earth's core safely. We want robots that can dance. That's
our ultimate goal with technology, which they have now accomplished.
Does this robot have some semblance of a visionary apparatus
on it?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean, if you if you know if you know
you programmed it, told it what to do, so you
have to rope off the appropriate area or else he's
going to do a spinning, dirty dancing move and throw
his right hand out.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Operating under he's going to hit a kid. You are
operating under the mentality that this was pre programmed every
move and that robot cannot think for itself with its CPA.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
This is how it's written, the fact that the humanoid
robots smacked a kid in the face. I mean yeah,
because they allowed people to get too close. It didn't
go off tart like, here's his routino. Hey, Bob, Bob,
get him, get a back online. Something's not right. He's
outside the dance zone. What is going on here? Everybody
be alert, Be alert. Something has gone wrong here. You

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cannot possibly mean this. You can't with a stray face,
I mean it all if they back them up ten feet,
there's no. We don't have a best of expert today.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Your attention. Please listeners, if you're listening at home or
in your car, drive driven off the freeway already because
you're hearing what WEX is saying. Apparently, get out of
the robots way, because you human beings are now second
on the food chain to these creations. Why is there
a rope at all of this? Yes, humanoid robot casually

(28:41):
punching a kid. Yeah, we're still far from everything punching
a kid. We're still far from everyday uncontrolled usage. This
is this is radio.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
So you heard what he said and read and it
was written, casually punches a kid like we have those
conversations every single night.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
You're doing an anyway game, open face? Was that a punch? Really?
Did he really wind up it?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
And we're just flat out calling it a punch, creating
some visual for people out there in their cars and
on their heart radio apps all across the world. That
a humanoid robot? I don't you don't even want to
say he went rogue sounds like West Rogue and j
Doe are of the same opinion. Robot isn't in the wrong.

(29:24):
Keep your child out of the way, No, tell the
programmers to back everybody up.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's not nearly as abhorrent as Spider Baby, who just
simply wrote he deserved it. Yeah, I could see that.
Just casually it slaps the poor kid and dances away.
To add insult to injury.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Did the parents of the child like high five the
robot after saying that's yeah, we needed somebody to step
in and help with our parents.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, if you look at the I'm assuming this is
the father that's standing right behind the child that gets struck.
He's laughing. Hey, but I don't know. I don't know
how they do things in China as parents. That's not
how I would have done it. I would have been
on that robot. Man, we're going to war.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
This bigger than the kid, taller than the kid. Humanoid
robot slapped him across the face. He didn't appear to
start crying, He did not fall over. His parents didn't react.
Oh my god, we this is awful. Almost no one reacted,
even the handlers.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Monkey said that was personal. JT says, I'm sure that
kid said something snide about that performing robot.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
So do you think this humanoid robot is pre nineteen
eighty four terminator post two thousand whatever, terminator.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
In nineteen eighty four. Yeah, it's actually set in twenty
twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, So do you think he's a T one thousand
year Arnold's T one thousand right on schedule for this
stuff happening. Okay, right after the lockout it's over.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
We're gonna all have zappers. Is Arnold a T one thousand?
I think? So, what's Bob Patrick T two thousand?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Right, So this humanoid robot would fall in where pre
T one thousand, in between one and two.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Or the prototype phase for the T one thousand.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well, he can't pull off his skin and show his
is machinery underneath.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's all machinery, well, not just the skin, but obviously
the components around an inside.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
I just hope we can see inside his brain where
he scrolls through his potential responses negative, did you intend
to slap that kid?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Negative? Of course, some of the comments got really really political,
and that's where I stopped reading, although the last one
that I liked was, oh he wound up good to
strike the kid in China? All right, hopefully American robots
are a little bit more responsible.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Coming up next on the A team, will we as
a human race survive?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Really, this is where we're headed, I mean kind of
whether we want to be your or not?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Now, why don't we talk about the National Basketball Association
not good results last night on the scoreboard for Houston.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
They can do it for themselves.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Tonight, being as they're playing one of their most important
standings rivals tonight and the NBA. As we alluded to yesterday,
we'll see what they decide to do over the next
month's time. If they want to change a rule that's
been in place for three years, what is it?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
We'll tell you next. You mentioned that the Rockets didn't
get any favors done for them last night.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Close Devin Booker couldn't hit a eight three, which would
have dealt the Nuggets and.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
L But I was told the Suns are better than
the Rockets this year. I don't think you were only
by Suns fans.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I mean they have access to information just like we do.
There's nothing again, you have two ways to say it. Well,
I don't care that they don't have a better record
than them. Look at their head to head. You can't
look at either one of them. They haven't beaten them
head to head. They don't have a better record. I
don't think anybody thinks the sun Sons are in a
better position moving forward.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
It's also a no.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
But if you want to go that route, I can't
have any facts to shoot that one down.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
I can shoot the other ones down. Yeah, I'm not
going to entertain that much longer, but I will say.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
The Rockets dropped from sixth to sixth with the results
last night.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
They were in sixth to begin with because they couldn't
beat the freaking.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Bulls YEP, or the Pelicans, or the MAVs or the
Jazz or the Kings.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Enough, didn't you leave one off? There's got to be
another terrible team that they've Oh, they got beaten twice
in a row by Portland.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Portland's only seven games behind them, eight games behind.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Where does that slot them?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Then?

Speaker 2 (33:44):
They will be hosting the Golden State Warriors with an
option with an opportunity to win and play again.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Is Draymond Green? Maybe for a chance that the only
Warrior who doesn't have his neon backwards these days, Like.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
That happened because he wasn't even trying to go crazy.
You were playing in overtime if you missed that earlier
this week, Moses Moody overtime game against the MAVs. They
had a late five point lead. He was single covering
Cooper flag twenty five feet thirty feet from the basket.
Clean Steel popped it out front. Nobody was in front
of him, nobody was trailing him to try to prevent
him from scoring and really putting the game on ice.

(34:19):
You just gathered the ball and went up to jump
to dunk it. I don't think he was looking to
do anything on crazy And when he put his plant
leg down, it obviously ruptured. He had a potella injury,
something fierce, and I don't even know that they've gotten
all the way to the bottom of it yet with
what they've been able to go in and look at
with all the damage, but obviously was immediately to being

(34:42):
put on a stretcher to head off the court and
then expected exceptionally long recovery for you know, one of
the honestly, if you look up and down their roster
players that they've added here in season, Chris STAPs the
veteran players they've had all year, and the group of
younger players of which he's a part of moving forward.
If you had to tell me who's been the most

(35:03):
uh who's shown the most upward movement on their roster,
it's probably him.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Uh yeah, I mean, listen, this just in Apparently, when
you don't have the most stacked team in NBA history
talent wise, you're not Apparently the greatest coach ever pre.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Or post Kevin Durant. Do you think that still holds true?
I think the Kevin got a specialist in Draymond, you
got a shooter in Clay, and then you have an
elite all time player. I mean, most championship teams have
at least that.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I think, and it pains me to say this. I
think you sold Clay short with how you just described him.
No offense to you, it's just that, well, then how
good he was and is in the all time great
category of shooting in this league. Like it's one thing
to have the greatest all time shooter, then you have
like the third fourth greatest all time pure shooter from

(35:54):
a statistical standpoint in your backcourt, and then you add
Durant to that. Right, I'm trying to there's no debating
the Durant part of it. I mean, I can't believe
they only won two championship.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
You think someone with five titles and two All NBA
selections is a Hall of Famer, I would say so,
that's Clay Thompson, especially.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Since I mean everybody gets into the Hall of Fame
for pro basketball, everybody. I think he's gonna get in
as a contributor or something. They'll find a way. I mean, seriously,
it does not take much to get into the Hall
of Fame. We will table what I actually wanted to
talk about here. I just think it's hilarious. So basically
the Players Association, who was so upset about this horrific schedule?

(36:39):
And why are you so mad about load management? We're
just trying to keep our bodies in shape for this
grind of six star hotels and chartered flights. Now they're
upset that they can't win those postseason awards or regular
season awards given out in the postseason.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yeah, one very specific player mentioned in this release from
the NBA PA. You're probably not even sure who it is,
and I'll bet you'll be surprised on whose behalf it was.
For get into that obviously, Reset where we're headed. With
tomorrow's opening day now just twenty four hours away, the
twenty six man roster for your Houston Astros is set.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
We get on it all next the A Team, Sports
Talk seven to ninety and Space City Home Network. I
can't wait until Wex looks up and realizes he has
not changed the logos on the screens behind us I'm
not too concerned. Guys. Sometime we need to do a
documentary behind the scenes of just working with Wex on

(37:36):
a day to day basis and how you can tell him, Hey,
why are you in a bad mood today? I'm in
the same mood I'm always in, he says it on
on air, off air, if you are consistent about that,
see right now what he's doing. God, I wish you
guys could experience this. It's a joy, all right. Opening

(37:57):
day is tomorrow if you want to see this in person.
We'll be out there Dyke in Park from ten until
two forty. We will be on the air with Ross
obviously it's his show. We're just bowguarding. We're just barging
in on it because Matt's got to do rocket stuff.
And we will be getting you ready for one of
one sixty two Astros Angels getting underway here on Sports

(38:20):
Talk seven to ninety and fan Fest will be popping
as per usual. We'll be out there. You know, last
year we were supposed to be out there and then
like a torrential monsoon came through and really, if you
think about it, Wex that was symbolic. It was just
a sign of things to come from an injury standpoint,
and the Astros still were competitive last year, but they

(38:43):
did announce their opening day roster. We kind of went
over that about an hour ago and we started the show.
We'll kind of revisit it here as your biggest surprise
was Christian Roa. Just never saw that coming.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I had a discussion with Josh c our Network producer
both on Rockets and Astros one night, probably two or
three weeks ago. We both recognized who was pitching well
but being a non roster guy, and really all they've
seen in person is spring training activity. I just didn't
think there was I didn't he could throw ten outings
of zero run baseball with fifteen strikeouts and ten innings,
And I didn't even think he would give them the

(39:18):
option of finding a forty man spot for him in
order to put him on the twenty six man roster.
But they did kind of figured they were in a
tough spot with Rodery Munos because of the acquisition method.
It was a rule five ad, so they have to
keep him on the major league roster the entire season
or offer him back to the Cincinnati Reds. He pitched
really well in between the beginning of spring training and

(39:39):
the end of spring training, and I think that was
enough for them to see what they thought they would
when they brought him on board. He throws gas. They
think he has a lot of good swing and miss
stuff in the bullpen, and I think there would like
to what they want to do with the rest of
their bullpen because they have Okurt and King and Hater
and etc. I think they'd like to have more power

(39:59):
in their bullpen, if possible, harder throwers, and I think
that's where he might fit in most of the rest
of the of the group, certainly on the pitching side,
I think we already had a very good idea of
what it would look like there.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Ryan Weiss signed to be a starter. They already have five.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Spenser Aregett he's probably six, so Weiss being a part
of the rotation was not really a thing, even though
he pitched well enough to have earned it.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
He'll probably be the long.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Man out of the bullpen for as long as he
is needed, but can't fill in and is certainly stretched
out as a starter if need be. Kaiwai Tang, the
player they added to kind of give them a lot
more flexibility in their bullpen, you need two innings from
somebody out of the bullpen. He can definitely do that.
And I think he pitched well enough here to be
this thing. You know, he wasn't great in San Francisco,

(40:43):
but he's a major league quality arm and now he's
also a part of their bullpen. And congrats to Bryce Matthews.
He made the team in my opinion, during spring he
played his way onto the roster. They obviously know all
about him, They are obviously very high on him, and
they think there's you know, with the trade of Mauricio Dubon,
there's always a possibility. But they also traded Dubond for
his own replacement. Nick Allen is Dubon's replacement defensively speaking,

(41:07):
but Matthews brings an element that they need. They need
a player who's way more flexible positionally than Allan. Allen's
gonna play second, third, and short, which is great, and
that's very flexible. Well, Matthews can play pretty much every
position on the diamond except for first base, and I
think they wanted to find.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
That and he showed that he can.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Almost made a spectacular play in left field last night,
catching a soft liner one handed off the bounce and
nearly threw a runner out at third base. But he
also brings the element of speed. Could absolutely see him
coming into games late for the element of stealing a base,
you know, getting second to home on a single to
win it, all those types of things. So congrats to

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him his first opening day with the Astros. Aj Bluebaw
another opening day pitcher there. I think they're cognizant of
what might happen at the start of any season. We're
probably gonna need to go to our bullpen early more
often than we think. And that's not even forecasting a
bad start. It's just how many pitches can this guy
throw first week, first two weeks of the season. A

(42:07):
lot of these guys also have options, which means they
can start manipulating those pretty much at any moment, and
we'll see a lot of movement on their pitching staff,
I think, pretty permanently, as they usually do.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
All right, Tomorrow's opening Day, and I do want to
get to this because I think it lends itself to
something that you deal with you personally every single season.
You've done a show with me for Oh my gosh,
it's going on Twitter. Actually I was wrong last week.
Today is actually the anniversary of my first show that

(42:38):
you weren't on the eighteen.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Stick around for the next three hours. We've got lots
of celebrations, our seven year anniversary. We've got a lot
of things planned for the next three hours, So you'll
definitely want to be with us for.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
That centered around that. Yeah, actually nothing, actually nothing at all.
But you've done the show long enough now, especially during
baseball season, to know about what twenty five maybe thirty
times a year I come in and just a foul
mood because of the game that happened the night before
involving the Astros.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yeah, five two lead, ninth inning, Abraho puts a couple
runners on bass Heterer gives up the go ahead Grand Slam,
And here.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
You are the next day, And how would you describe me? Uh,
you talk about your build usually because I'm not built
for it, exactly, because I'm apoplectic about that loss.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
You're not built for the fact that immediately tomorrow, while
we're on the air, before they've played any of their
one hundred and sixty two games, I will probably at
some point during our four hours and forty minutes say
just put this in the bank.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Today They're gonna lose sixty times. Booms, you could probably
put seventy in the back. That's how you sound when
you say it, because.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
After any one of those random they didn't have it
today's or they did blow it this day, whatever, if
they lose, look at the other sports we cover. If
the Rockets lose sixty games, it's a freaking disaster.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
If the Texans lose sixty games over five seasons, it's
a disaster.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Lose a lot of games because they play a lot
of games.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Definitely gonna lose sixty times during this upcoming season.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
It's unbelievable. We'll be on the air after nearly all,
no context, no nothing, just hey, these one of the
sixty exactly, it's one of one sixty two.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Now's one of the sixty. What do you do with
the other one oh two? But what about when these
losses come and way the plays mention the five to
two lead being turned into a go ahead grand slam
for the enough to get the three run lead that
can be tough to an't good enough to keep it.
The days where they walk nine times in single eight
times and leave fourteen runners on base and lose three

(44:36):
to two, you'll come in after those games too.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Because that's been their season lately. We don't know that
yet lately.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I said, what if they go safe, they have three
hits on Opening Day and win six to four.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Geez, they're going yard Yeah, okay, So this is why
I say this. It's a very good time to point
this out, especially since we're not I mean, Opening Night
is technically tonight with that jerk team New York and
that they're the Yankees on the hill tonight stream in
San Francisco, which is collecting human poop everywhere.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Metallist Logan Webb pitching for the Giants, great cameo in
game night as well Lesse Clemons.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
There you go. Okay, So the nine major league teams
with the best Opening Day records?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh oh oh, very important. Well, with just one sixty
one remaining, how did this team? These teams fair?

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Here's the thing. Both the teams that we like to
hate on love to hate on. Actually, if you're me,
the Yankees and the Dodgers are on this list because
it means so much opening day one of one sixty two.
But this is going to be the part that makes
you feel better, especially if, for example, as wex just predicted,
I mean said the Astros lose their season opener. Some

(45:48):
of then say that I just said they're going to
win six to four. I know, I lied. It was fun.
So some of these teams are just the dregs of society.
Number nine on this list, I guess all time opening
day records. This one goes way back. By the way,
the Pittsburgh Pirates. Eighteen eighty seven was their opening to
eighteen eighty seven, They've played one hundred and thirty nine openers.

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I didn't even know they've been around that long. They're
seventy four and sixty five. That's a five thirty two
winning percentage nine games over five hundred. The Tampa Bay Rays,
who are not as old, in fact very young. They're
twenty eight years old. They've won fifteen times in twenty
eight tries, fifteen opening day wins. Congrats the Giants, who

(46:32):
will host that other stupid team from New York. They
have a five forty two winning percentage on opening Day.
And by the way, in case you're wondering, and I
know you were, they beat the Reds last year on
opening Day. Big time. They improved by the way. Their
record to seventy seven sixty five and one. Nice stupid ties.
The Cubs another blue blood or at least heritage franchise

(46:56):
blue uniforms. They're number six with a five forty seven
cross one hundred and fifty openers, and their eighty one
opening day victories are the most in league history. Tip
your cap, I'll just skip over the next team, and
then I'll get to number three, which is the Orioles.
Also in the division of that team I just skipped over.
They have a five ninety seven winning percentage. Oh, that's good.

(47:20):
The Orioles have had some crappy teams. Agree, I mean,
you're really crappy team also had some good runss. Yeah,
but seventy four to fifty to one. That's pretty good
across one hundred and twenty five season openers dating back
to nineteen oh one. Just in for the last century.
The Astros honestly current most heated division rival, the Seattle Mariners,

(47:42):
are number two on this list with a six twelve
winning percentage. By the way, when's the last time they
went to the World Series? Can you tell me? I mean,
with like ticket vouchers or something. No, I mean their
team appeared in the Fall Classic. Ever, doesn't happen. Okay,
they've only existed since nineteen seventy seven, though, so give

(48:04):
them a pass.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Just for you math people out there, a six twelve
winning percentage would equal a ninety nine win season if
you played that way all year.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
They're thirty and nineteen on opening day. Very good and
the biggest reason I wanted to bring this up. Who
is the most consistent underachieving team in all of baseball,
especially given the ownership, no matter who it is and
how much they spend at times on free agents and Whatnotuh,
the Metropolitans. There you go, forty one and twenty three
all time across sixty four openers. That is a fantastic

(48:39):
six forty one winning percentage, and they have nothing to
show for it since nineteen eighty six. Don't like that?
There you go, don't worry about it. If you lose
that game, it's just one of one's sixty two Tomorrow,
Astros fans, all right, we'll take a quick time out
when we come back. Well, Texans news, and you're gonna
actually hear from a member of that Organization's next.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Thing?

Speaker 1 (49:03):
You wish you to do?

Speaker 2 (49:03):
That?

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Now? Yeah, tell me about it.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Texans have new players that on a pretty regular basis,
they're letting the media get to know a little bit.
A couple of zoom calls last week with ree Blanken's
Ship number six, Logan Hall number ninety, and yesterday Wyatt
Teller number seventy five. Obviously, all three of those players
new to the Texans, thus any number for them would

(49:30):
be a new number for them. Here a bunch of
other number changes if you missed some of those, The
Texans have been kind enough to post those. Sheldon Rankin's
able to flip flop back to his number of choice
after last year his return, and a few other interesting changes.
But you'll know who they are when you see them
out there from probably some of my work when I'm
getting ready to empty the notebook, because we'll see them

(49:51):
all this offseason and during camp. I'm looking forward to
seeing their preseason schedule so I know which team is
going to look bad at their joint practice with the
Texans prior to the year. The only important against an
opponent part of their off season. Preseason games less important
than joint workouts, according to me, and I think everybody

(50:13):
else but White Teller. As I mentioned yesterday, I met
with the media a little bit, very very very very
thoughtful person longest answers ever, and he got into a
lot of stuff, a lot of reflection back on what
his life was like as a Cleveland Brown. It's not
the only NFL life he's known, since he briefly began
his NFL career with Buffalo before they moved him to Cleveland,
and that move to Cleveland necessitated a position change. It

(50:36):
was a left guard, which you'll hear from him and
talk a little bit about why he is where he
is headed here in Houston, which should help. It's nice
when somebody from the Texans because we're not going to
hear from the coach or the GM much during the
off season. Some teams will have a post season opening
like negotiating window, league year starting. Some of them will

(50:58):
have an availability with their general manager or somebody on
the personnel staff very high up, like the Panthers, but
we'll get to that later. But hearing from the players,
they may shed some light on some things that the
people who like to write about the Texans from AFAR
really don't have any idea about, and now hopefully they
can get that information as they continue to speculate on
where all these guys are going to be playing next

(51:19):
year on the offensive line. I don't know how these
pieces are going to fit together. You can also fire
up the iHeartRadio app, subscribe to the eighteen podcast and
you would have that information. Or you can check in
with Wyatt Teller. He'll give you that as well. But
he's got a new quarterback. He's going from Shadeur Sanders
and Dylan Gabriel and all the other quarterbacks he had

(51:40):
in Cleveland over the years to c J.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Stroud.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
So some thoughts about developing that relationship and how quickly
it probably will come for in his mind, obvious reasons.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Yeah, CJ and I got to talk at pl which
is the Christian Base NFL Christian Base Seminar conference at
the East Coast West. We've met two years ago when
he was on the East Coast and then this past
year it was in Dna Point, California, and just getting
to talk to him, you know, he was like he
was recruiting me and recruiting my wife, but really he

(52:11):
was just saying, you know, wherever you go, you know,
I know you're gonna have you know, success and everything
at that, but I would love for you to block
for me and everything at that and you know, just
kind of be an enforcer and a protector of him,
you know, when he's healthy. You know, I don't I
don't know many teams that can beat beat the Houston Texans.
So if I can help in any way, not that

(52:32):
there's I need to be superman or anything like that,
but just get back to what I'm good at and
protect my quarterbacks and running backs.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
I don't think there's many teams that can beat him
when he's at his best. I mean that's a bold
statement considering the state of the AFC, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Well, you take it with a little bit of perspective.
Sometimes you're getting someone who's been playing with someone elite,
who doesn't lose very often have They've seen that elite
level play, and so they know what it's about. I mean,
when we get this kind of play from our quarterback,
we're not losing. Or you get somebody from the other
end of it. Now, he's had everything because obviously Cleveland

(53:09):
has been a postseason team during his time there, but
their quarterback play has obviously not been particularly good, certainly
not after he and the Browns moved on from Baker Mayfield.
It's been awful since then, so he has that perspective.
But he's also been on the field against the Texans
and CJ. Stroud twice in a very short period of time.

(53:30):
Both times he was hoping to win with Joe Flacco.
We will also hear from later on the show. One
time it worked out when the Texans were playing with
the second best quarterback no offense case Keenum, when they
were playing with the first best quarterback, c J.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Stroud.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
He's won Joe Flacco's two, so you had the better one.
They crushed him, absolutely dominated them, and quarterback play was
largely the reason why. But more from Whyatt Teller he
likes his quarterback, thinks they can win a lot of
football games with him.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
I tend to agree.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
He had a lot of things to say about the
situation he was in with Cleveland and the situation he's
now in with Houston, and again referencing playing against Houston
over the years.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Two years ago or really three years ago, we were
in Houston playing y'all, and you know, here in that
loud stadium and everything like that, so it's right there,
you know, we were right on the cusp of being
a really talented team, and we had a winning streat
going in there, but a team like the Textans they
have you know, so much talent, great quarterback, great running back,
people to build off of, you know, so much stability

(54:34):
and great culture, great coaches.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
It's just it feels like what we were right.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
On that edge in Cleveland, having you know, two years ago,
you know right there, or you guys are already there.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Is that hard to believe how recently that was. They
were playing really good football. That was a third straight
win of a four game winning streak which ultimately resulted
in an eleven win season. They had won during that
time seven of nine games, and then the Texans ruined
it all by crushing them well in the playoffs. It

(55:10):
was it is hard to believe that that was just
two years ago, because you would have never said half
of the things that people are saying about CJ.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Stroud after that game. It's just a different time. But
I never thought looking at I mean, here's a game.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Well they went from eleven and six going to the
playoffs playing at a team with a worse record than
theirs to three and fourteen.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
No I and I remember laughing because their media there
in Cleveland was very cocky going into that game, and
they were cocky about specifically CJ. Stroud, who, as I recall,
carved them. He was okay, he was good.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
I mean they won because the Browns kept giving them touchdowns. Well, yeah,
they won by that's a large margin.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
But when he had the ball, it wasn't like year
three at all.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
No, I'm not. He did not have a bad game
at all. He had a very good game. But I
don't know that. I just I mean he only completed
sixteen passes, which doesn't sound like a lot. But one
of them was the seventy six yard at er Brevin Jordan.
Another one was they should Another one was the throat
at Dalton Schultz over the middle wide open thirty seven

(56:20):
yard touchdown. They schemed up the Browns defense brilliantly and
he executed brilliantly. I mean all this being said good,
bad or otherwise. Again, I probably get too much into
the some of the terms we use on the show.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
He threw for three.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Touchdowns, then turn the ball over through two hundred and
seventy four yards and was sixteen of twenty one.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
If he does that against the Patriots, that cruise is
the best performance of his playoff career. Yeah, and his
worst one came at the very end of last year
against a much better team and on the round in
much better defense, Oh for sure. And that's saying something
because Cleveland had Miles Garrett then too. We're burying the
lead here. Why did anybody ask whyatt tell her about

(57:02):
what it was like to play with Deshaun Watson? You know,
since he's going to be playing with both of the
last two starting quarterbacks for the Texans.

Speaker 5 (57:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (57:10):
I mean that might Mike get asked of him sometime
on or off the record in the locker room at
some point technically, and the Texans are are pretty good
about Hey, this is a media call. I mean, I
don't I don't think any comedians have been on a
zoom call with the Texans. I mean, it's it sounds

(57:31):
fun and all. If he were here with us, would
would you ask him that?

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I would ask him something about CJ or about Deshaun
Watson if for no other reason than take the Houston
aspect out of it. And I know that's a big
aspect to take out. What did did this guy forget
how to play football? Because if it's not injuries, he
was out there. Yeah, he hasn't looked anything like he
did here. It's a tough question for a player to answer.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
I think because of how I think they feel about
most teammates in the locker room, good, bad or otherwise,
how they really truly feel.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
But how much Wyatt?

Speaker 2 (58:06):
How much did the acquisition that clearly did not work
out of Deshaun Watson, the assets that went out and
the obvious it can't be a very good feeling in
your locker room knowing that this player can't get on
the field or when he does has not played well.
How much do you think that prevented you, guys from
maybe replicating what you were in twenty twenty three and
maybe continue to move forward.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
I don't know how you answer that, but.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
That kind of question I could see, you know, a
comedy question about hey, how was it? What was it
like with DeShawn all these years? I don't know if
that's going to play well either.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Well, and that's not how I would frame it, But
I would be remiss if I didn't ask him a
question about Deshaun Watson in some way, shape or form.
I mean, these doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
I mean it's five years ago, you won the trade
that that's that, and he hasn't played he doesn't. I
would only say he matters in this league currently in
a financial sense. How much money does he hit the
cap this year? That's all the Browns are considering every year,
and they're reworking his deal to get that figure to
something they can work with. I still don't think they
have any real designs on him winning the.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Job this year.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
It looks like he's gonna be on the roster, but
that's not even a given.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
If you can't beat out Shud or Sanders.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Well, if he's on the roster and the he's given
a chance to beat him, my gosh, I would hope
he would.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Do you think he starts he's their starting quarterback this year?
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Wow, that's just insane to me. What a fall in
so many ways. All Right, that's gonna have to do
it for that because we have a lot to get
to still, Like for example, Rockets Bucks tickets coming up
on April first, we're gonna tell you about how you
can win those today. And let's face it, we could
listen to Kay Adams read a phone book, or we

(59:46):
could listen to her Dote on the Texans. Either way,
it's gonna be fantastic and you're gonna hear it. Next
it is the eight Team Sports Talks seven to ninety
Space City Home Network. Consider yourself a Kay Adams fan?

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Yeah, okay, that's all yet? Yeah, I think she puts
on a good show, good guests, good content.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
It's entertaining. I'm a fan. Do you like? I can't
even do it? Go ahead, No, what's the what's the
the meme? It's not even a meme, it's just a
I guess it's a meme. Sure, sex is good? Wait,
have you ever you know?

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Like? Did you want to ask me that question again?
But I have to be like Matt Thomas and give
an answer like that, do you like Kay Adams? I
can't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Why? I think used the buzzwords that he would use,
like I would say so old. I don't even know
what that's the thing. I would say she's hot. He
would say she's very attractive. Somebody calls people attractive.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
She talks sports a lot of it, almost all of
it is football, and when she's not she has an
interview Katie in a while.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
I can't believe he passes MJ on the scoring.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
List, and she hasn't reached out to do a little session.
I'm sure it since all the way soon. He is
a frequent guest on her pod.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
He gets up and at him with her. But aren't
weren't they rumored to be like a thing? Come on, man,
at one point? How many different people should Hey? I
saw her standing next to Tom Brady on the Red
Blue Garbet and they were talking to each other. So
let's say they're together.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Every time she does anything with anybody, in the fact
that she's not married and is very flirty, maybe they're together.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
She is not flirty with everybody the way she's flirty
with certain people, and Kati is one of them. That's
a fact. If she was talking to you like she
talks to kat you'd notice, Yeah, but you wouldn't ask
if we're together because I'm not available. Well yeah, but
KD isn't with somebody that I know of, right, And
the difference.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
He's attaching her to people in that group of people.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
All right, Well, she's very very high on the Texans offseason.
She might be the happiest national type. About what Nick
Cassario has done this offseason, I don't know anybody that
tap here.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
She likes their offense, she likes their defense. Let's start
with the defense.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
They haven't made like slashy moves in free agency, but
they've quietly had one of the best off seasons of
any team in the league. Their GM brought back eleven
defensive starters from Houston's playoff games while adding former Eagle
Reid Blankenship Sorry Cooper to jan not only is this
historic defense completely running it back, They're deeper than they've

(01:02:36):
ever been.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
She's predicting a super Bowl. You just heard it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
If they did bring back the eleven starters from last
year's playoff team. It was, and she applauded the GM
for doing so. I'm amazed he was able to do that.
They brought back all eleven starters, and then they told
one of them beat it from the starting lineup. They
brought back all eleven starters. We'll work from the back
end to the front. The five starters in the second day,

(01:03:00):
we're already under contract for this upcoming season. The linebackers
that started that day all under contract for the twenty
twenty sixth season, and everybody on the line that started
except for Sheldon Rankins, was under contract for twenty twenty
six and he's still available, so well, he's on the team.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
He was signed.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
So Nick Cassario was hard at work signing one starter
from last year's eleven. Who am I thinking of that
they haven't brought back that's still available then, because I
could have sworn Sheldon.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
A tree That's what it was. That's what it was,
And then I apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Reid Blanketship is now likely taking over for Jalen Reed
as the other starter. But again what she said, there's
nothing wrong with it. And keep in mind who she's
applauding there, because we like to have you know, we
like to make sure everybody knows all the facts necessary
when you hear this a rare glowing report about the Texans.
Who's also is a frequent guest on upp In Adams

(01:03:53):
JJ Watt Nick Cassario, is he really he goes on
there as much as he does with them.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
I don't remember that he's been more than a couple
of times. Was he less robotic with her than he
was with us?

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
He was fine with us, but I would say he
was even more fine with her as most so less
romans that are around the game of football would be,
or cyborgs in his case, maybe, but she went on
to applaud the work that they've done, much more significant
work they've done offensively and on the other.

Speaker 7 (01:04:22):
Side of the ball.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
They gave their twenty ninth ranked run game like a
major facelift. They bring in David Montgomery. We know and
love Gibbs there alone, which is fine. There's two upgrades
on the O line, right. They brought in Wyatt Teller,
who's an All Pro Braden Smith the Colts tackle. That's
amazing because those two are as far as like run
blocking offensive line, which is what they need over the

(01:04:43):
past two years. They're consistent AF and I love that,
and they're going to help desperately help shroud out.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
What did you play with Thomas? Yeah? Good, good to
play that on a Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
We like to use words we can't say by using
the letters that everybody knows. Wednesday's BS coming up and
little on an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Harsh letters from k there. That's something Matt Thomas woodsay
on his show. Consistent AF.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
They are doing things that it's okay to look at
and say, I really like what they did this offseason.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Seriously, though, if you're listening to her say it and
then on the other side of the ball, and.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
On the other side of the ball, and on the
other side of the ball, on the other side of it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
You could play that the whole segment on loop. That's
where you lose use the loop feature. Why not play
it one more time?

Speaker 7 (01:05:29):
Just one more time and on the other side of
the ball.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Now play the whole thing one more time.

Speaker 7 (01:05:34):
And on the other side of the ball.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
That's all. Come on, give me a few more words.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Do you do you agree with being that excited about it,
like she clearly is excited about it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
I mean, in all honesty and being completely serious, you know,
all the other stuff, notwithstanding what she's saying, in the
way she's saying it is how I feel a lot
of off seasons if you take away the offer offensive
line about what Nick Cassario has done, because starting with okay,

(01:06:06):
Derek Stingley Junior actually is going to be worth where
they took him from that point forward. It's not like
you can point to a lot of oh my gosh,
you really craped the bet on that draft pick. It's
actually quite the opposite. With the exception of Kenyon Green,
I've been I've allowed myself to sound as excited as

(01:06:27):
she is in most off seasons, except for when it
came to the offensive line, and then it was like
the complete opposite of that. But I can't with what
I was saying last offseason, all through this year and
into this off season pending the draft, obviously, I can't
disagree or not find myself wanting to sound exactly like

(01:06:49):
she sounds, especially about the offensive side of the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Yeah, there's a couple of ways I think you could
say it. It wasn't more than twenty hours ago. I
heard somebody say on this very station, Uh, this is
probably the happiest I've ever been about the state of
the Texans offensive line.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Who was it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
I was on the night Cap with Josh Sjordan. He
said those very words yesterday, and I tend to agree.
Now you're talking about these draft picks. We wrap this
up here, like, clearly Kenyon Green is in a class
of his own. Well, let's add the other offensive lineman
that they've drafted in the first two rounds to that group.
And then you also uttered the phrase crap the bed,

(01:07:25):
like there's the worst draft pick he made?

Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
What if I can't let you say an offensive lineman
the list is there isn't one. I don't even know
who say because a player might not work out and
most players after the fifth round. I'm not even going
to get into the conversation. But they actually have so
many hits all things considered, out of the post fifth
round draft picks. You'd have to put a feather in

(01:07:51):
his cap for that too. But they're not missing on
any of them. Some of them will play here four
years and move on. Cad Stover might be a player
like that. Jalen Smith might be a player like that.
What he marks might be. They're not losing the players.
They're helping you win while they're here. They're on the
field because they're good enough. They just might not be
good enough to earn a second contract. That's not a miss.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
John met messing up the one that I would look
at because he traded up to get him.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Yeah, four years ago. The fourth pick in that draft
for the Texans. Right, Christian Harris is an example of
what I just said. He played out his four years,
he helped the team win. He caught a touchdown pass
from Joe Flacco in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
It's true. It's good stuff. Kay. You're welcome on the
show anytime one end of the spectrum to the other.
And I say that in all sincerity and love, because
we do love Dan Orlofsky on this show. I think,
at least I do. I'm not going to speak for Wex,

(01:08:50):
but I think that his his ability to break down
quarterback play on the NFL level is just fantastic. He's
one of the few guys on ESPN that I would
actually want to listen to talk about anything sports or otherwise.
But he is getting a lot of heat. And he's

(01:09:12):
getting a lot of heat because who's the pound for
pound best quarterback in this draft likely to go number one?
No questions about it? In your opinion, you're asking me
to say, Fernando Mendoza, So I will no. I'm asking
your opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Well, it's a bad quarterback class, so it's hard to
give a good answer.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
But but do you still, even having said that, do
you think it's Tam or Ty Simpson.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
I told you that our listeners last week entertaining a
conversation about Ty Simpson should be the number one pick
in this year's NFL draft is something I will not do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Meaning you think Fernando is better.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Meaning I think it's totally utterly ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Say he's better, Fernando Mendoza is better.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Yeah, along with like fifteen or twenty other players that
are available in this drafts that just don't happen to
play quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
But you also said that given where ty Simpson might
be taken, you know, right around where the Texans are
picking right now. If they don't move, maybe you can
give somebody that wants to try on him that pick
and move back.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
If you're Nick Cassario, don't mind having a conversation about
a team trying to find a quarterback anywhere but the
top of the draft when he's not the best player
in the draft or the best player at his position
in the draft.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
You want a draft, can you pick it at twenty?
Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Do you want to trade up in jack trade for
Jordan Love in the back twelve of the first round?

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
Do it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
You want to do the same for Jackson Dart? Go
for it, same for Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Do it? Wasn't Jordan Love twenty fifth? I think he was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Twenty third and Dart was twenty fifth, but I might
not be correct. I tend to goof those.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
That's okay? Say Having said all that, and we only.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
One of the reasons again why we brought that up
is because if Ty Simpson, who may or may not
be available at twenty eight or even around twenty three
or four, because that's when teams will start thinking about
it more. If you need a quarterback and you stink
and you're at the top of this year's draft also
means you're at the top of the second round. You're
not drafting for Nanda Mentoza because he's going number one overall.
I guess you consider could consider taking sy Simpson two

(01:11:10):
or four or wherever this team might be, but more
likely you I have the thirty sixth pick, or the
thirty fourth pick or the thirty seventh pick. Could I
just called Nick Casarro and say, would you give me
twenty eight because that makes it easier for me to
know that I'm getting Ty Simpson because I really do
believe in him. And quarterbacks drafted in all sorts of
places in the top fifty fifty five, they can actually

(01:11:31):
turn out to be great players.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
And by the way, given what the Texans are in
need of and where that pick is, which is currently
number twenty eight, uh, if he were to do that
and get say I don't know what would I mean,
what's what's a what's a first round or at twenty
eight worth?

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Well, that's again, if you're trading with somebody at the
top of the second round, it obviously should allow you
to draft within a ten pick range. You're probably not
draft pushing your pick back beyond thirty eight, and I
don't think there's many teams after thirty eight that are
looking to do that. So your first player drafted this
year is a lot like your first player drafted last year.
They went into the draft with twenty five, the first

(01:12:07):
pick they made was thirty four. You'd be looking at
something similar.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
And then getting some compensation additionally, obviously, that's what I
was really asking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Yeah, the other pick that you get will then allow
you to jump up at to number forty eight and
draft ta ursery, which is what they did last year.
They gave you thirty four, and it gave you the
ability to move back up and then that's what they'll do.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
And that's what I'm saying if that were to be
the scenario given the Texans needs.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Again, that's what this is contingent upon. And let me
cut it off at thirty seven. You're not going to
move past thirty seven because the Texans have the thirty
eighth pick already, so.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
They might go back to back again like twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
I got a call from the team at thirty eight,
and I realized that died my own number.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
As the most wex thing ever. All Right, So I
say all that because Dan Orlowski not on the same
page as us when it comes to this particular topic
and specifically these two particular quarterbacks. By the way, it's
Pro day for ty Simpson and Alabama. How do you
think he's doing well? Let's just hear from Dan his
thoughts on Tyler.

Speaker 8 (01:13:09):
I think ty Simpson is QB one. I think ty
Simpson is the best quarterback in this class. I think
when you look at the body of work and what
was asked of these two quarterbacks, you have to start
with the question who needed to do more to carry
their football team to play well ty Simpson. And it's
not close between those two quarterbacks who took more games

(01:13:30):
over throughout the course of the season ty Simpson.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
It's not even close.

Speaker 8 (01:13:34):
And if we're asking, like, okay, we're trying to see
what you are as a player in college and what
you're gonna be asked to do in the NFL and
what translates?

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
So, hey, where did we get this audio from? Probably
the internet? No, I mean what program was it on?
That was on his whatever ESPN show that he's on
in the mornings, Okay, obviously, which is all of them,
by the way, which that's a good point. It's the
one with Greenberg greet I get it. I'm up. Sometimes

(01:14:07):
it wasn't up in Adams. But you know all that
this is a bad quarterback class aside.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Yeah, forget everything else. He's not adding any of that
to it. He said it quite simply.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
He's QB one and that just means in this draft,
which is really not an outlandish thing to say.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
I guess if you think, what is QB one when
you're talking about the draft, the best quarterback in this
particular draft, the player you think most highly of to
have a great NFL career.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
There's some years.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I mean, technically Kenny Pickett was QB one. He got
drafted twentieth. You might not have lofty goals for him.
But when you're saying that in a year like this year,
everybody knows the Raiders are putting their whole everything together
to draft a quarterback and everyone knows it's Fernando Mendoza.
So if you're saying QB one is somebody else, you're
saying your expectations are for this player to be better

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than everybody else in the draft. But the caveat well,
he plays quarterbacks, so it's different, but better than this
other particular quarterback. So that's really what he's taking his
reputation all. I suppose that he's going to have a
better NFL career than.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
For any And what he's basically saying in so doing
or in saying this, is that the Raiders will be
better off drafting somebody else that high in the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
No, he's really saying they'd be better off drafting this
particular player. So you see he's saying they draft high
Simpson number one overall. Yes, I do, unless he has
said otherwise elsewhere, which I don't believe he has.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
And maybe that was what got Pat mcafe's so upset,
hot and bothered, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
I was really asking about where the audio came from,
because Dan is a frequent guest of that progrum.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
But this is what Pat said, and do you just
have so the college football playoffs a big mockery.

Speaker 7 (01:15:47):
His stam doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
These games just don't matter, Like, what do you mean,
what are the biggest games?

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
So the college football playoffs started and they played opening championship.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
I guess you could say Big ten championship.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
In that game, they're down thirteen to six going into
the fourth quarter Indiana games and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Then what brother, Yes, but we're talking about all the moments.
You're talking about traits. It's like, okay, how about second
in seventeen six points through the first three quarters. People
think that's a historic defense. Like what do we be
talking about Chris arch Manning for doing that on the road.
Chris fight arch Manning. Arch man is not a part
of the arm.

Speaker 9 (01:16:24):
Well if you go by that too, like Indiana beat
Alabama at thirty eight nothing, I mean, you know, just.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Picking you chose no no no no no no no
no no. Yeah. And this is why people say you're
getting paid to do this? You know what I mean,
he's accusing him of getting paid. You know why he's
accusing him of that, or you know why he's saying
that people are accusing him of that because Ty Simpson
and dan Orlowski are both represented by the same agency,
c AA, and so people are just drawing that conclusion. Now,

(01:16:55):
I will say this, I listen, you know how I
feel about the drafts and draft shows and prognostications. It's
such a huge crapshoot the NFL, even though college level
play is far closer to the pros on the football
side than I think in any other sport. You just
never know, you That's why people get it wrong all

(01:17:17):
the time. And if Fernando is awful and ty Simpson
ends up being a steal, Dan Orlowski will be the
first one to actually he probably won't because he's too
much of a nice guy, but he'll be the first
one to be able to just crow about it. And
Dan's been wrong about things before, and he's been right
about a lot of things. But I think it's funny

(01:17:38):
that Pat got so hot and bothered over this particular
because it really is. It's honestly like just the lesser
of two evils to me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
You're probably going to make me a liar because I
will probably want to add to this conversation, but you
can't do it well, not right here, right, You'll do
it next segment though, right, absolutely all right next tween
the four o'clock hour gets underway the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Eighteen on Sports Talk seven h thry over from the
end of the three o'clock hours, we get the four
o'clock hour underway. Here on the A team Sports Talk
seven ninety Space City home network, wex at Josh Jordan
with you the final day before the first Major League
Baseball action of the year that doesn't include the Giants
and Yankees. So random? Do they do a Wednesday game

(01:18:25):
every year, by the way, or they just start doing that?
This is new? Okay, that's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Just like the NFL who made their announcements earlier today, what.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Was your favorite? Oh, it was my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
My favorite was them announcing one game and the matchup
for that one game to be played on two different days. Go, well,
they're playing overseas, so technically it's starting live on location
on September eleventh, but it will be starting live in
America on September tenth.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
What time in America and which time zone? Oh, I
don't know anything about that. Okay. Going back to the
last segment, we were talking about Fernando v Tie. I mean,
everybody is debating about the best quarterback in this twenty
twenty six draft.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Yeah, like I was saying, it's the Niners and Rams
on Thursday, September tenth. Okay, and the kickoff game still
doesn't have a matchup yet, but we already knew it
was going to be Seattle for the first kickoff edition
of Wednesday night football in the NFL. There have been
Wednesday games before. Yeah, Texans participated in one. It was
on Christmas and they got slaughtered.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Yep. The second most recent Wednesday kickoff last year was
what on Christmas? Or on Uh, it just wasn't a Wednesday.
The second most recent kickoff happened after them the same day. Jess,
you're the worst. You know that, I know? All right?
Did you make? The Beyonce Bowl was first, and then

(01:19:54):
the Chiefs game was after.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Awful, awful, awful They they got practiced the ownership duo
of the Texans riding onto the field in a vehicle,
which they replicated here during rodeo scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Whose fan base will come after me more violently if
I said I can't stand both of them, hers or
that other one that Ella just passed, you know Travis
Kelsey's Well, the thing is girl music is for everybody,
pretty much. Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Like everybody likes music, it's subjective. They just don't like
the same music, right. Why why do you have to
tell people how much you hate or love anybody? Everybody
knows you're gonna hate something that they like, and vice versa,
they're gonna love something that you hate. Or I think
I said both the same thing both ways you meant.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I mean, if you want to tell people how much
you hate something, go right ahead. Well, oddly enough, like
I think Beyonce actually has talent, whereas with the other one,
I don't really think that much. I mean, she can
write some songs.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
If you put together a top three all time I'm musicians, bands,
et cetera that had both no talent and tremendous popularity
and earning power. Who are the other two? Because I
think I know who you already put on the list.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
Well, Taylor's definitely on that list, clearly I got that
from your state. No talent and what was the other?

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Caveat super popular in moneymaking because it's it's hard to
find because usually they don't go together.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
Just somebody that everybody was gaga over that I just
don't really believe is all that great? Well, see to me,
the only reason I'm entertaining those right now. You don't
like their music is fine, it's hard to also think
they're really untalented. You just don't like what they sing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
You don't like their music, you don't like how they
play guitar, you don't like how they sing their songs.
You don't like who they have in their band, you
hate their melodies, you don't like the music itself. But
it's pretty unlikely they're that's just untalented, unless you just
kind of believe they're just a total fabrication of Well,
they write the song and they mix it in the
in the sound room, and it makes it sound like this.
I don't know if you've ever seen this person in concert,

(01:22:05):
Holy cow, they're bad like all those things. Even that's
hard to find. Like you just don't like it, which
is totally.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Fine, But then you got to bring in their personality.
That's a whole nother ball.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
Of I also has nothing to do with talent. You
don't like them either. You don't like the person and
you don't like the music. But I just got so,
I just got done. Sane Beyonce, I think has some talents.
I don't think Taylor has any like, hmm, it's just
it's all bad, you know what? Right now, it was
a recent up and comer, if you will, got a

(01:22:37):
handful of Grammys, or at least one one. I'm just
not And again, I I differ with my wife on
this because she actually went to one of her concerts
and that said it was just incredible. I'm like, okay,
I'm not a big Billie Eilish fan. I kind of
think she's in that category.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
I think there's a lot of again that's you don't
like this. I feel like I'm missing like an obvious
one that like, oh man, everybody was into this and
it was just awful.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Well, I listen, unfortunately to a lot of the music
that you're describing. Yeah, you have to, and there's artists
that I hear. I'm like, I don't understand why you
like this. I don't like this music.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
I also sometimes say I'm not sure how talented this
person is she or he nobody in particular that it
does seem more of a this is a made made
to order, This is going to make money artists. We're
feeding them this, We're feeding them that, we're making them
look like this we're making them sound like this because
we know what works.

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
It's very manufacturer and the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
Formula, which is again aside from what I'm talking about,
clearly exists in some forms, because that's what these shows
that created boy bands and the people who are behind
these it's a formula. It's not oh my god, this
guy's so unbelievably talented, I can't believe we found him.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Let's make him a star.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
No, they're finding five people who look a certain way
and sound a certain way, and we can promote them
a certain way.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
And all the music sounds exactly this, over and over
and over.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Album one, album two, album three, and they're gonna be
swimming in money that maybe we can keep from them
and their families because.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
They're only making eleven cents per record.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Something like that. But yeah, I mean, these manufactured groups.
So they found this guy and found this guy and
found that guy, and we put him on a show
together and then boom, mega millionaires. I feel like some
of these others, there's talent there. There's talent there. All
this from saying they wrote on a vehicle inside the
Inside Energy Stadium on Christmas Day.

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Game it's fine, all right? Going back to the last segment.
Did you change your mind about the two aforementioned quarterbacks?

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
No, I haven't seen it, although I'm sure it's out there.
I don't know if he was combined, measured correctly or
not at all, and then pro day measured today. Do
you know the height of Tyz Simpson? You have a guess,
because I know you don't know it specifically six to
two and you'd be okay with six to two and above,

(01:25:00):
six three and above, six four and above.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Is a quarterback? I mean like six to two maybe
is the cutoff. I'd say six one's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
He might be six to one maybe. I mean Drew
Brees was what Drew Brees? Because there's always one. He's
pretty much the ultimate outlier. And he's not only the
ultimate outlier. Most of the other quarterbacks that are comparable
to him in height also are fantastic athletically or with
their feet.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
He wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
He's the real outlier. He's a pocket passer. I'm not
going anywhere I might be able to sidestep you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
For a nut. I can't see.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
I can't see, and I can't move, and I don't
want to move, and I'm not gonna need to see
because I'm gonna create passing lanes, We're gonna devise this
awesome blocking scheme, and I'm gonna crush and I'm headed
to the Hall, big, big, big time outlier. So now
you're gonna say, after twenty years pre breeze and twenty
drafts post breeze, we've got another outlier.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
And his name is ty Simpson.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
I mean, Tyson is probably a little bit more athletic,
somewhere between six feet and six to one.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
He's no Bryce Young, He's not Bryce Young.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
But when we're talking about who could be the number
one overall pick, if other people think this is ty Simpson,
they're gonna say it. And then the people who don't
think it, they're gonna say, but he's on the Bryce
Young side of height, and this should be a major
concern for the Raiders or whomever else is thinking of
drafting ty Simpson.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
Bryce Young wasn't just short, he was also slim, frail, awaf,
Kate Moss, whatever you want to say.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Concern wasn't Bryce is gonna get hit too hard with me.
Concern is he can't see over an NFL defensive player
or his six foot five offensive linemen. And now he's
gonna get hit hard. Yes, but he's been hit hard
for three years. He's not getting hurt because of it.
He's miss timed. It's not because of he's been hit
too hard. I mean, pretty's more time from being hit
too hard.

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
Who is pretty small? Is he not? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
But even then, like I hate mister excuse maker joining
you in studio today. I don't know how this is possible,
but I am a firm believer in it. And he's
the only member in the club. He's in the I
don't know how to get tackled club, and he's the president,
founder and only member.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
But when he does get tackled, he also gets concussed.
That's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
He has to know how to get tackled properly. He
goes down in a he hurts his hip getting tackled.
He hurtsting. Think No, he knows how to get tackled improperly.
He go I again, I don't know how he does it,
and that's why Miami, I think was at odds with it.
I think the official Simpson combine measurements are six feet,

(01:27:33):
one inch and one twelfth of an inch, which means
what you really think he is is what five to eleven? No,
this is an accurate measurement. Okay, it's the nbadge like inches,
so it's it would be for that's right out of
the gate.

Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
That's a major concern.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
I know sometimes I want to push the tape to
the forefront, to the elimination of all these other nonsense
factors which off the field. A lot of them are
test taking, height, weight, hand measured. All those they do
play a little bit larger role usually when it's a QUB.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
Listen, Fernando is tall, He's got that, and he has
played clutch in big games. So the two things that
Pat was trying to argue when he was going back
and forth with Pat McAfee and Daniel Lawski when they
were going back and forth, I get that, but I
think they both suck. How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
But for analysis, right, But you're still trying to the
QB won for twenty twenty six draft.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
Look, you're the Raiders. You're already behind like fifty eight
balls because of just what you've done since I don't know,
two thousand and two, the last time you were really
really mattered because you were in the Super Bowl. That's
an eternity ago. They've made so many mistakes since then,
and they've been trying to get that position right for
so long. And I mean, just who's the best quarterback

(01:28:50):
since rich Gannon for them? Go ahead, try and name it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Nobody immediately comes to mind, But there's a reason leadre
Marcus rus draft.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
The answer is Roger Carr's kid. Okay, and you, I mean,
other than maybe Kirk Cousins. I don't remember someone on
the show who you've taken a verbal.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Yepping to AFC Kirk Cousins and the NFC Derek Carr.
If you reverse them, da guy, you you have put
a ceiling on your season by employing them as your quarterback.
And it's not very high. They're not gonna go five
and eleven more very often. They're not gonna rank at
the bottom of the league as a quarterback. Their passer
rating will probably look good. They're touchdown to interception ratios

(01:29:32):
also going to look good. But you cannot in the
NFL win when it matters with those quarterbacks. It never
happened with one of them. It also never happened with
the other. They're in a group of quarterbacks I would
hate to have as my quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
We lied to you and said to listen at four
o'clock for a way to win Rockets tickets. Will make
good on that when we come back. Plus someone else
a huge fan of the Texans, specifically their quarterback, and
you're gonna hear from him on CJ. Stroud while also
throwing some shaded his old team. All of that is
next the A team. So before we go any further mentioned,

(01:30:08):
we would give you a a way that you're gonna
be able to win these Rockets tickets. Here's the deal.
We're gonna talk about something related to the Sonics last segment,
but we got off on the top two quarterbacks in
this upcoming draft. I use that term very loosely.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
I don't think they're much different than last year's top quarterback.
I agree it's a chance that that cam Ward can
succeed as much as there's a chance that Fernando can succeed.

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
I don't think it's tremendously higher in either case. The
we talked about this a little bit earlier this week.
The thunder are gonna give back everything Sonics related to
Seattle when they get that team. And obviously the NBA
is meeting or they have met and now they're considering.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Yeah, they put out they knew they were gonna have
a vote on this, and they have done that. Now said,
we have voted to approve the exploration of expansion, and
I think we explained that pretty well last week. This
just means they're moving forward with all the necessary is
this going to work, who are the groups that could buy,
what kind of stadiums, situation are we looking like, and

(01:31:16):
all those other things, and some of those things are
already in place. But they've got an investment partner on
board now. And the two cities that will be explored
for a potential expansion officially are Seattle in Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
Which means that somewhere down the line, maybe the Rockets
and the Sonics, which they will definitely be named. I
don't know about the Vegas team, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Saw odds on Vegas potential team names today top three choices.
Survey says bad, worse, and yuck Ooh, but I'm not
trying to sidetrack you, Okay, but tell me in a
little bit. U.

Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
This means that the Rockets and Sonics might meet up
in the postseason again, And until nineteen ninety seven, the
Rockets had never beaten said Sonics in the postseason. As
a matter of fact, the Sonics famously was the franchise
that Rockets could never get through. Finally didn't have to
face and won two straight championships, and then promptly had

(01:32:11):
to face them again the following year in nineteen ninety
six and got swept by the team that went on
to face the Bulls in the ninety six finals. But
the following year after they got rid of that pesky
Robert Ori and Sam Cassel and got Charles Barkley, then
all of a sudden, they couldn't lose to the Sonics
and they couldn't beat the Jazz. And this was proof
because to get to the nineteen ninety seven Western Conference Finals,

(01:32:35):
they had to beat the Sonics in Game seven at
their home floor in the Summit, and it sounded like this.
Barkley five seconds laid the tight Corlay six ninety one

(01:32:56):
used to win Game seven. There you go, now you
probably want to remember that score. Let's just put it
that way.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
Unfortunate, obviously, it's kind of more years past this particular
night of basketball, but far too frequently we're hearing these
great moments. And I was watching this as well the
voice obviously you heard Greg Gumbel, And as the Rockets
and Sonics were tightly packed in that tiny little exit

(01:33:31):
that both teams used to walk off the floor together,
whether they're happy, sadd or or we're just in a
huge fight at the summit, the broadcasters were also right
next to it, and if the tallest of the broadcasters
wanted to catch a quick high five from Charles or
any other Rocket or Sonic, he could have Detla Shrump
and it was Bill Walton. Unfortunately, those two gentlemen no

(01:33:53):
longer with us, and there was a third member of
that crew would be in the same category.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
Yeah, everybody, Jones, I was just thinking that today when
I was getting that link. Everybody in the booth for
that game is no longer with us nineteen ninety seven,
when that long ago, but it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Was so Rockets Sonics postseason game seven triumphs and the
numbers that go with it. Just keep that in mind
as we get bet you back at four point thirty
for not only our signature segments Wednesday's BS, but also
your opportunity to go see the Rockets and Bucks on
April first.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
We're in the very very very very early.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
Stages of new imaging for Wednesdays no longer a bit
steal Ooh so we're working on that. You asked for
the Vegas team names, Yes, just I have a long,
long list. So if I ask you to guess what
one might be, it should be on this list. There's
almost forty possible names listed here. Aces Aces. As we've suggested,

(01:34:54):
it's a good, good thought, But considering it's already owned
by a team owned by the NBA, they're probably not
going to put a men's team in Vegas and say
we'd like your name so much, we're taking it from you, craps.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
We talked about that the other day. I would love that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
I'm not sure what the mascot would be or what
the logo design would be. But because I'm uncertain, as
would anybody, that's not an option, I'm not on the list.
Can you try to get one that is on the list?

Speaker 1 (01:35:24):
Flush?

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
I tried to tell you how easy this would be,
and you're making it sound the opposite the roulette. It's
on the list, it's at the bottom. It's fifty to one.
It's one of the least likely wagerable team names to
land as the winner. But Roulette is on there, and
lots of names like that obviously make the list. Hustlers, Jacks, Jokers, Diamonds.

(01:35:50):
I'm not sure all of the names of the four
suits would be on my list, but Spades, along with
Diamonds is there. Hearts is not go down the list
of all the name I want to hear. Al said
the ones at the top were stinky, and I meant it.
The Las Vegas Mirage that's number one. Three teams at
ten to one odds, the Las Vegas Jokers, the Las

(01:36:11):
Vegas Outlaws, the Las Vegas Scorpions.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
I don't hate jokers. I don't know why. Maybe it's
because I think they could do a lot with the
imaging and their logo.

Speaker 6 (01:36:20):
And what a.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Historic win for the Jokers upending the Kings and they're
headed to the draft lottery.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
These guys can't play a look at defense what jokers
they are? Escorpions venom scorpions isn't awful either. By the way,
nobody uses.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
That vipers bandits sidewinders, jackpots, blackjacks, Vegas vipers has a
ring to it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
I wouldn't mind that. Of course, you're gonna have to
take that up with the Rockets, Rio Grand Valley team.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
Part of the party in the NBA, but probably one
they'd say, you guys want it great, we will tell
this team you are out of luck. Besides, you could
just change after the commissioner. The Silvers Well, no s
on the end Vegas Silver, No, that's listed no, because
people would call them Silvers, Vegas High, Vegas, Nightlife, Vegas, Crown, Vegas, Degenerates.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
Why don't she's call them the Vegas Strip. It's on
the list fifty to one, is it really? What about
the bunny ranch? Well, wouldn't you that's a thing. It's
a ranch. If players, why don't you just call them
the bunnies? Why don't you just call them the lamar Odoms. Okay,
you can do that. That documentary is coming out, I

(01:37:35):
strangely documentary. What the subject matter is just him, the
dock of his call, the winds and losses of lamar
Odom or something. I know I'm butchering the title, but
it's along those lines, the highs and lows. He had
a lot of demons. He had some great NBA moments,
great on the court moments. Sure, there's plenty of material.

(01:37:55):
I'll never forget.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
He also was a very close personal after kind of
joining the family for a short period of time for it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Then Bruce Jenner, Yeah, and I'll never forget after he
and Chloe Chewbacca broke up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
What what?

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
What did I say? So after they broke up, she
started dating James Harden for a minute, and she's like
showing up courtside at Rockets games. And I'm not gonna
I'll protect the innocent here. But I made a comment
to a member of the organization. I'll just leave it
at that. I'm like, dude, Chewbacca's courtside and this person

(01:38:40):
was like, would you not be such a jerk? She's very,
very nice. That's basically what I just said with my face. No,
because she's a Kardashian, so by nature, I don't care
if she is nice. She's a demon. She damned awful.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
These people in my family want to monetize our family,
all right, No problem. I have all eat salads with
them at the counter. On every episode, I'll date twenty
to twenty five different people, most of which everybody in
America knows. No problem. I'm I'm here for you, sisters
and Chris Brothers, the nicest one of the entire family. Yeah,

(01:39:19):
I don't know about the nicest. She look like any
of them is another conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Though I am none of them. I don't see that.
I don't understand why people. I guess she's blonde and
green eyes. First, they all have dark features.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Get about their hair color. Now, I know everybody thinks
from the background they should all have dark hair. Yeah,
but the facial features, which I don't know what to
look at anymore because many of them have changed them
many times over. Yeah, well, you say she doesn't look
like any of them, there's only two to look like.
There's two sisters. I don't really think she needs to
look like one of the Jenner sisters.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
But they all look the same.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
No, the Jenner sisters look like each other and the
Kardashian sisters look like each other. They're two different. I mean,
I know one part of each of them is comparable.
And sorry that Rob doesn't make the conversation, but he does.
He does look like them?

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
Is he still?

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Who cares? Good job man? See he knew how to
throw a segment aside. I just had to do that
for you. Thanks for me, glad to be here. All right,
we'll hear from uh Brayden Smith. We'll hear from Joe
Flacco and we'll give away Rockets tickets and more next. Indeed,

(01:40:30):
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(01:40:51):
seven ninety only a segment ago because we relate and
we didn't fulfill a tase we promised. We played some audio.
Rockets beat the Sonics, the upcoming addition to the NBA
one of two teams, the Seattle Sonics will be coming back.
But the last time they were the Sonics uh and

(01:41:12):
in the postseason against the Rockets was nineteen ninety seven.
It went seven games. It was a heavyweight title fight
and Hakeem Barkley and Clyde took out then Sean Kemp
younger Gary Payton in that loser debt list Shrimp because
Terry Cummings couldn't hit free throws late what was the
final scoring game seven, The Rockets advanced to play the Utah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Jazz Game seven, Rocket Sonics Western Conference Semis Rockets winning.
What was the final tally seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Give us the answer to that
and we'll get you set up with Rockets Bucks. On
April first, you had another postseason series for Chuck Barkley

(01:41:54):
where it was three to one and still went to
a Game seven.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
Had him three to one. In that series, they won
game one, they won Game three, they won game four. Wow.
Kudos to the Sonics for making it a series.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Super competitive though you had the last six games of
the series, if this is a hint, were all decided
by six points or less. No.

Speaker 1 (01:42:17):
I In fact, I'm watching that file that we clipped
with the audio and Bill Walton's talking about if you
just add up the point totals of each team throughout
the first seven games, and I think he said there
was eleven forty remaining or whatever it was. I mean,
it was was within like a few points.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
So the points probably were that the Rockets had on
their side as an advantage. Probably came from Matt Maloney, Yeah,
because he couldn't miss in game whatever it was in Seattle.
What did Barkley like hugged him at the end of
that game or something.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
Yeah, teammate does well, hug well. They did a lot
together while they played.

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
I mean, he made forty one percent of his threes
in that series and forty one percent of his twos
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
And if I can use a tired joke him, Oh
my gosh, that's right. They still are not. They paid
him off last year.

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
Give you and you want to get mad at the
Dodgers and you didn't want to get mad at the Dodgers. Yeah,
deferred money for Matt Maloney dynasty. I would Houston Rockets.

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
Let me tell you something, if I could convince Matt
Maloney to come sit in studio for a show, I
would be so happy. You would. You don't even know.
That would be so much fun. I agree. He's probably
still here in Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
He has been here for a long time. I'm not
sure if he still is. But I came across Pats
with him not too long ago.

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
How did that ever even cut? Like Kenny Smith was
the starter and then he just disappeared after Sam Cassell
got traded. How did that happen? I mean, what do
you want? What do you want Ken to do?

Speaker 9 (01:43:54):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
It was just like Kenny Smith was the starter for
the championship teams and then all of a sudden he's
just gone. Nobody hears from him again until he winds
up on TNT and Matt Maloney out of nowhere as
the starting point guard for the Rockets because Brent Price
blew out his knee. He was a better option than
Brent Price and sidel three, so they went with him
because Brent Price his knee was on backwards. He had
injury issues throughout his career. It can happen. Hey, we

(01:44:16):
should probably spend a bunch of money on the lesser
Price brother. What could go wrong? That's like spending a
bunch of money on Seth Curry. I mean, very rough comparison,
but still pretty much the same. He's in the league.
Mark Price is a Hall of Famer, is he not?

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Hall of Fame caliber for Brent's probably into because everyone
gets in. No, not true. Brent made a lot of
money here for not a lot of playing. Yeah, take it,
they really really? That's lame, all right? Twice as many
all NBA elections as Klay Thompson. That's crazy to me.

(01:44:58):
For to two better shoot than Klay Thompson. True or false.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
Uh, it's probably very close. I mean Mark, but just
eyeball it, you would probably say Clay. I think the
numbers are super duper close.

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
Mark Price was the best player on a Cavs team
that went toe to toe with the Bowls in the
early nineties all the time. Very not the second best.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
Yeah, he and Doherty were doerty very similar in terms
of who's the one in one A. I gotta tell you, Uh,
Clay's career three point shooting percentage does have Mark Price
by a couple of hundredths of percentage points.

Speaker 1 (01:45:35):
Very I mean, very comparable. I did not have us
debating Ty Simpson, Fernando Mendoza and late nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
I never said I will not entertain a conversation comparing
Mark Price and Klay Thompson. I did say I would
not entertain a conversation saying Ty Simpson should go first overall.

Speaker 1 (01:45:52):
But I did it anyway. Mark Price eminently more likable
on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Uh, he's he gave the impression of Yeah, I'm much
out here, play basketball, keep everybody happy, shake some hands
after the game, go home and have a coc and
a pizza. Other players who wanted to promote that impression.
Then they didn't play.

Speaker 1 (01:46:10):
Like that though in that era they were the point
guard for the jazz Johnny Stockton, Johnny Dirty. You really
don't like him. I like him, but you should. I
don't like players who act like they haven't done anything.
I hate it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
You shouldn't if you do it like you see it
with lou Dord every now and then, sometimes like he
creates this I want to punch you situation and he
acts like, why why would you want to punch the
same thing?

Speaker 1 (01:46:41):
I mean, you thought he owned it more? No, Carl,
I don't really even think.

Speaker 9 (01:46:45):
Carl.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
We get this Isaiah Thomas video in our head every
time we bring up call him alone.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
What about David Robinson? Same thing? He can cust him
with his elbow, And you're saying this and I don't
even visualize it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Really, it's not even it's not my memory, like a
bag of potatoes, right, he But then what did he do?
Did he run away from a fight, did he act
like he didn't do anything? Or did the other guy
just go to the free Karl Malone would stand over
the guy like, yeah, I did that. What are you
to do about it?

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
Like in that era, that's what most guys did. That's
what's different about this era. And that's only what he
was doing on the flightwork.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
The bad boys didn't act like they didn't do anything.
I mean, Bill Lambert acted a little bit surprised. I
can't believe Larry threw the ball at me. Why are
you so mad? I just closed lined your teammate. Why
are you so angry?

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
I just closed line you. But Mahorn and Sally and Rod.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
Like they actually told you they were going to do
it before they did, and then they did it, and
then they would say, all right, let's fight.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
Only nice guy on that team was Joe Dumars.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
It's well, he's managed to earn a check from the
NBA or their teams for a long long period of
time largely because of it, and still to today.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
And hardly the first guy like of his ILK that
is doing it poorly and stealing money.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
Yeah, I made some mistakes and they're gonna pay off
for somebody else in this NBA draft. The fact that
that bad basketball team who actually has a worse record
than their roster because now they're healthy and the Rockets
saw them first hand last homestand the Pelicans do not
have a bad roster, and Jeremiah Fears and even Derek Queen,
who's kind of the root of this whole conversation, they

(01:48:12):
might even be good NBA players, But you have a
top six, seven to eight draft pick right now. They'd
be slotted in an F eight if no lottery weirdness happens.
But you gave your pickaway last year, so you could
move up ten spots, eleven spots. I'm not sure the
exact number to go. Get Derek Queen to not have
a pick at all in the first round in the lottery.
Of this trend, of course, you're gonna be in the lottery,

(01:48:34):
I think right.

Speaker 1 (01:48:35):
Just contract the Pelicans. Nobody's gonna miss them unprotected as well.
And while you're at it, since they shut Jahn Morant
down for the rest of the season, go ahead and
contract Memphis. Seriously, nobody would miss Memphis or New Orleans
at all, not even a little. Just move them to Vegas. No,
I don't want that trash there all right when we
come back, Braden Smith, Joe Flacco and Poka Nakua I

(01:49:00):
squeeze it all in. Two of the three don't seem
very bright next.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
Braden Smith, Uh, Joe Flacco or Puka Nakua. Go, let's
start with Joe because that should take the least amount
of time.

Speaker 1 (01:49:18):
He thinks teams are how should I say this delicately
dumb for not signing him to start. And I just
when I saw this story, I was like, I cannot
get this in front of we's fast enough. I mean,
it's great to be confident.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
I'm not sure after all these years, and he's he
talked about it in each of his stops really other
than Cincinnati, where he's ironically resigning, he felt like he
should be the option there every place he's been the
last several stops. He's been on the field for all
of them, most recently, you know, looking at what he
did with Cleveland, he's like, he was, I'm the best
you guys got.

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
I should be out there.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
I give us the best chance to win the A
little bit of a yeah, in these games, maybe, but
he definitely has a ceiling at this point in his career.
I still can't believe we have to talk about this
guy and the fact that he won a Super Bowl
and that was a week in that particular postseason, very
much like Eli did in his two very good postseasons,

(01:50:18):
sebest he's ever played. He put the ball on the
end zone a bunch of times and he never turned
it over. All the things that don't match up with
his entire regular season career.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
All the things that CJ. Stroud couldn't do.

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
Like and in Joe's case, to me, I find it
even more hilarious because the Ravens couldn't stop playing him
fast enough once they drafted Lamar Jackson. Ten really good years.
That's a really good career. He started for ten years
in Baltimore, and then in year eleven he got hurt
mid season and they're like, finally, Lamar, it's your team.

Speaker 1 (01:50:51):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
And that was his last year in Baltimore, and it
was followed for some reason by Denver, New York, Cleveland,
and Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, I'm back to Cincinnati because you're
not good enough to start. The only teams that have
told you that are everybody that hasn't signed you, and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
New York, Denver, and Baltimore. All the teams that have

(01:51:15):
signed you, though, are the only ones who think you
shouldn't be QB one.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
All of them. They're the only ones, all of them.
This article says after being traded to the Bengals last
season or a place an injured Joe Burrow, he had
one of the most productive stretches of his career, but
teams ultimately opted to not sign him to compete for
a starting role, and he isn't shy about voicing his
belief that teams made a mistake by passing on him. Quote,

(01:51:41):
believe me, I wish I was a guy somewhere. He's
forty one, by the way, and I think teams are
dumb for not having me be that guy. He also
went on to say he's very happy to be where
he is, so, hey, you're right. Confidence is key. Do
you feel like this is the equivalent of a really

(01:52:01):
ugly guy who's super funny and so he tries to
get all the ladies because of that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
No, because every once in a while or like it worked,
or like a super ugly have to have in your mate.
Well he really he's got to make me laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:52:17):
Check it works. It's like those really ugly rock stars
that wind up married to models.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
Like the thing is with with Joe, Like he hasn't
been case Keenum where he signed as the backup, and
the starter never left the field, so he backed him
up without throwing any passes. He's had opportunities in every
single stop. He has started games every single season since
he left Baltimore, as many as eight ten he's been

(01:52:47):
on the field. Everybody's watched him play the kind of
football that tells them super loudly, we don't want you
as a starter, and then each off season they act accordingly.
This season is not as offsea for this out forty
plus year old quarterback is no different.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
Great, have confidence, go get your.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
Three starts, produce a lot of offense while maybe not
producing me any wins. Great, I love it. Joe Flacco
is still a story. And all of this happening after
his first Pro Bowl games selection. You saw that Audio
Will Anderson had the mic at some of their games activities.
Hey Joe, Yeah, how many Pro Bowls is this for you?

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
This is my first? What was the reaction from Will
Anderson Junior? Did Will not watch football for twenty years?

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
Most of the time, If you're in the league for
twenty years and you've started at least one game all
twenty of those years, you've probably been there before He
won a Super Bowl. He was the permanent starter in
Baltimore for a decade until he would find somebody better.
Like I said, next Braiden Smith or Puka Uh, let's
do Braiden Smith.

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:53:54):
Would you say he is a fan of CJ. Stroud
or a huge fan of c J. Stroud, I'd probably
go the ladder. Okay, do you want to hear have
him prove it with his words.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
He was on a podcast recently and talking about the
situation he's in here in Houston and the new quarterback
he's going to get to play with. So here's Braden Smith,
new right tackle for CJ. Stroud in the Houston Texans offense,
talking about siege.

Speaker 7 (01:54:16):
And on the other side of the bad obviously being
in there and on the other side.

Speaker 5 (01:54:19):
Of the bad obviously being in I just want himself,
like I've watched him for you too, but I know
you're going to play here.

Speaker 1 (01:54:24):
And on the other side of the bad obviously being
in AFC South.

Speaker 5 (01:54:27):
Like I've watched him for years, you know, the opposing
sideline and stuff like that. On the field, I mean,
he's obviously like a great quarterback. I mean you watch
what he's capable capable of over the years. And yeah,
he just seems like a guy to me really just
like you know, stays within himself. He's not a guy
to you know, lash out or get you know, frazzled

(01:54:48):
or phased or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
You know, obviously he's a big into his faith and that.

Speaker 5 (01:54:52):
You know, he was actually the first guy to really
text me once I signed there, which I thought was
pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
And you know, I'm excited to really get to know
him on it personal level. So he's fired up, excited
to get to know him.

Speaker 2 (01:55:04):
First guy reaches out, really feels good about where he
and the rest of the group that they have now
can take him.

Speaker 1 (01:55:11):
By the way, Happy birthday, thirty year old Braiden Smith today. Yeah,
but the best part you haven't played yet, right, I
mean that's in the eye of the beholder. I guess
more of the year of the beholder. He does talk
about his former situation.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
Yeah, so something I've said many many times over. I'll
give you an opportunity to answer this question before we
hear from. Braden Smith been starting there in Indianapolis for
since twenty eighteen. The quarterback in twenty eighteen was Andrew
Luck Who else primarily has he blocked for as an
Indianapolis cult.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
Jacobe Prissette, that's the first one. Philip Rivers, that's the
second and last one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
Anthony Richardson, Yes again, Daniel Jones, you got it them all?

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
He got three more.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
One of them just signed to be the third quarterback
in Minnesota. I believe one of them just signed to
be the backup if after leaving Kansas City and one
of them runs the Falcons.

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
Gardner Minshew Matt Ryan.

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
Why do I not remember him as a cult?

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
He had his one year there, like each of these
other quarterbacks did the other's Carson Wentz. Oh, yeah, here's
Brayden Smith on the quarterback situations he's been used to
versus the one he's going into now.

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
A familiar start.

Speaker 7 (01:56:34):
To this clip though, and on the other side of
the ball.

Speaker 5 (01:56:36):
Obviously being in AFC South, Like I've watched him for years,
you know, on the opposing sideline and stuff like that.
On the field though, I mean, he's obviously like a
great quarterback. I mean you watch what he's a capable
capable of over the years.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
And did that sound way too familiar? Yeah? Like you
just played it? Yeah, every day I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Do this until I forced them to say, oh yeah,
we should probably not have a system that does that,
but we still do thirty. So this sound bite's nineteen
seconds heard on the Clockets twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
I run out of time. I ran out of time.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
I guess I can't play it here. I guess I'll
have to play at Football at five.

Speaker 1 (01:57:10):
Play it anyway. No, I don't want to give anybody
an unnecessary headache. Fight the power. I'm not a fighter.
He get to the man. No, he just ran. We
had so much content. We ran out of time. That's true.
We have so much content we haven't gotten to and
we'll get to it next, starting with the second Braiden
Smith SoundBite and ending with.

Speaker 7 (01:57:28):
And on the other side of the ball, Kay Adams.

Speaker 1 (01:57:30):
Apparently, all right, Football at five is underway. We have
to get to the second Braiden Smith clip of audio
before we go any further with any of the other
football nonsense. We have this segment.

Speaker 2 (01:57:49):
Yeah, if you're listening in the last six minutes, you
heard us talking about the extreme stability that the Indianapolis
Colts have had at their quarterback position. Braiden Smith goes
to training camp every year and there's a new guy
for him to block four. He anticipates the joy he
will feel this year, at least for the next couple
of years while he's under contract, that that likely now
will finally not be the case.

Speaker 5 (01:58:10):
He's a really great quarterback, and obviously coming from a
place where quarterback stability has been you know, just NonStop,
like I've had a different quarterback every year, and you know,
it's nice to go to a team that has that stability.
And obviously he's a great player, a young player, and
you know, this guy's the limit for him.

Speaker 2 (01:58:27):
This guy's the limit for him. Great to hear that,
I can't even help saying. You've heard me say it
so many times. I hope it takes on more meeting
when you hear the player on the team say it,
I've had a different start quarterback every year. You know
how bad that is, you know how awful that is.
You know how bad a job you're doing. Andre Hopkins
his whole career while the Texans were in the toilet. Yeah,
I mean, somehow they managed to win some games because

(01:58:48):
brock Osweler was so good.

Speaker 1 (01:58:50):
But the Colts have been in that competitive suituation. It's
not the point.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
The point is you can't go that long without attempting it.
The point you're making is a great one, though, because
I said the exact same freaking thing about the Texans.
You have to put some effort into finding your quarterback
of the future. Eventually, a year goes by. Okay, it
wasn't this off seasons free agent market. I couldn't find

(01:59:14):
any quarterback with trading for and we just weren't in
the right place in the draft, all right, And two
years and three years goes by, and you start thinking
you're kind of not going anywhere. You're not nearly good
enough to win anything important, and you're not probably bad
enough to find yourselves in the spot you want to
be in on the draft, nor do you have enough
assets to go get somebody That has to change. You
just can't go year after year after year and saying, well,

(01:59:36):
I think we can win this with these guys, and
these guys are Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallett or Ryan Fitzpryer.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
That's why I repeat it his exact words, insane.

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
It's just not good business unless you're not trying to win.
And I would hope that the majority of the thirty
two NFL franchises, especially their gms, are trying to win.
You don't have to win immediately. It has to happen overnight.
But I cannot believe. And in their situation, it's actually worse.
That's the same guy running the show every season. They

(02:00:11):
haven't changed their decision maker once. Chris Ballard was there
with Andrew Luck and he's been there with every single
other one of these quarterbacks one time since twenty eighteen.
This next football season is twenty twenty six. It's eighteen nineteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty two to twenty three, twenty four

(02:00:32):
to twenty five.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
It's eight NFL seasons.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
They have made an attempt to find their quarterback of
the future one time, and they chose to make that
one time to ride the broad shoulders of Anthony Richardson,
which did not work out. That's what I'm applauding them for.
They actually tried, that's all. That's how low the bar
is when you're working for the new ursays who decided

(02:01:01):
to keep you on the Newsy She was the face
forward er, say, all three of them holds large rolls.

Speaker 1 (02:01:08):
The headset y you think she wears those this year?
I mean her.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Reasoning behind wearing them is a good one if you
want to if you really are into learning everything you
might not otherwise be able to learn without wearing it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:22):
Go for it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:25):
Okay, I just uh, everybody's conference, which was they're pissed?
How I mean, how many times did she say a lot?
You're pissed, We're pissed. I know the fans are pissed.
We're all pissed. It wasn't just what she was saying.
It was the delivery, like and then her dad's guitar

(02:01:49):
collection fetches like a couple million. Just an odd family.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Sometimes ownership families have some interesting stores. And his we
get to the worst part, I mean, your real tragic part.
He could never get anywhere near control of massive addiction problems.

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
Seriously, what NFL conference has a more eclectic group of
owners than the AFC South. I mean, I know Mark
Davis is in the AFC West. I know that Woody
is just awful in every way in the AFC East.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
Just give our listeners your quick rundown of this division,
since that's what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (02:02:30):
But Adams start with the Colts. You're on them already. Yeah,
ursay's weird. Daughter. Okay, I thought it would be Ursay's
own personal actions.

Speaker 2 (02:02:40):
But okay, okay, yeah, I mean, but Adams's daughter who
looks like a thumb. So we have two franchises run
by daughters. Yeah, a third, we'll go here for the
closeness of it, run by a son. And then so
that's it. That's it on them.

Speaker 1 (02:02:59):
No, then you have Mustache in Jacksonville who also has
a son who owns something, only it's a fledgling pro
wrestling company.

Speaker 2 (02:03:08):
No, that's what this conference or this division has probably
over anybody else. I know there's a few other siblings
with massive input to Weirdos still own the Tampa Bay Bucks.
What were they called, weird the Glazers, Yes, the weirdos.

Speaker 1 (02:03:20):
Did you see them talk? They're weird all right? Come on, man,
you have to you mean they're weird looking, yes, okay,
and they talked weird too, So they're weird sounding and weirdos.
That's why I call them weirdos.

Speaker 2 (02:03:34):
But they own an NFL franchise, and they that's what
I Didn't they do a good job. Aren't they doing
a good job? I mean they're own multiple sports franchises.
They seem to all be doing fine. They wasn't necessarily
about winning a Super bowls about it? Are you running
a good organization? I feel like they are and pirate
ship they have a little added bonus. But yeah, this

(02:03:54):
is the this is the division of sibling power or
power of sons and daughters power. But again going back
to Mark Davis, Hello, Tony also has a big role
all inside Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 (02:04:08):
Tony Kahan. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:10):
I mean, if you say the it's the coach, Liam,
it's the Texan Tony Bisseller.

Speaker 1 (02:04:16):
Are you talking about the time he had Urban Meyer
give a guy a chair shot on an AEW broadcast
or social post. No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
I guess you do remember that though, right, Yes, that
was the highlight of his tenure. There you go, there
you have it all right, So we got through Braden Smith.
He likes stability at quarterback and he thinks the sky's
the limit for CJ. Stroud, having watched him while on
the sideline not listening to his not very good quarterbacks
talk to them about their offense. He was focused on
the Texans while they were on the field because he
didn't want to listen to Carson or Matt or Gardner

(02:04:49):
or Tony Anthony or Phil lipp all Right, he probably
couldn't avoid it.

Speaker 1 (02:04:53):
Listening to Philip oh Man, nobody can, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
So Puka Nakua is what second best receiver in the NFL,
super talent, super stupid, very low intelligence level based on
his actions, Like, I don't know anything beyond that.

Speaker 1 (02:05:11):
I'll only go with what he appears to have, which
is very low intelligence. Every week it's something with this
guy and the latest one. Just when I first saw
the story, I was like, no way, no way, he's
an idiot, but there's no way she's trying to extort him.

(02:05:31):
Any number of things ran through my mind and then
I saw the picks. So a woman in Los Angeles.
This is according to TMZ, claims Puka Nakua made an
anti Semitic comment and later bit her so hard he
broke her skin. Now he's saying they are total bs,
and his lawyer's really saying that. But you mean they

(02:05:54):
deny the allegations in the strongest possible terms. Yes, that's
one way to put it. Those are their words. In
an application for a temporary restraining order, the alleged victim
lays out what she claimed to happen back on December
thirty first of last year, after a group outing in
Century City, And for those of you who don't know
where that is, it's where the Diehard Building is located.

(02:06:14):
I just felt the need to say.

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
That, Yeah, this essentially a situation we've seen far too
many times involving athletes. Sometimes it is proven to be
one hundred percent true and the athlete is a totally
at fault. Other times it is as their attorneys in
this situation and many others claim it to be not
a legitimate claim blackmail.

Speaker 1 (02:06:33):
Well she made it. She says that the night got
off to a rocky start after he allegedly said something
anti Semitic. I'm not even gonna read the quote, but
unfortunately that was just quote the first act in what
became an escalating course of rude or vulgar, threatening, violent
and harassing contact conduct. I should say buy nikua. After eating,

(02:06:58):
the woman says she and her friend got into a
sprinter van with him and others where he became touchy feely.
As she put it, you can draw your own conclusions.
And then she says that Puka Nakua again probably one.
I mean he's either one or one. A best wide
receiver in the NFL currently right now, pound for pound,

(02:07:20):
no arguments out of nowhere. Quote dropped he bit her girlfriend.
I'm just gonna leave it at that. I'm not gonna
do all the details on the air. It's just too much.
But then after he bit the girlfriend on her thumb,
he turned to her and bit her left shoulder, breaking

(02:07:40):
skin and leaving a circular imprint of his teeth. That's
kind of something that's hard to prove unless you have
the mark. But what if you have the mark and
it's so clear that I'm looking at the picture right
now and you can clearly see his teeth and the
pattern and how they're arranged in his mouth. I mean,

(02:08:01):
good grief, And so she's making this up. Who bitter?

Speaker 3 (02:08:06):
Then?

Speaker 1 (02:08:07):
Because somebody bitter, that's all I know. You can say
it wasn't Puka if you're Puka in his attorney, But
then I need to know who did bite her, because
somebody clearly did.

Speaker 2 (02:08:16):
Probably not an accident. Whether this these allegations are totally
true or fabricated completely, probably not an accident. That this
is now multiple times the same person has been involved
with some of the same circumstances, like he's because it
is idiot.

Speaker 1 (02:08:33):
Like there's been some idiots in pro sports. There's clearly
been some idiots in the NFL. Like people that play
sports sometimes this is our hero, this is that, and
the other. Really, I didn't have much to do with
who they are as a person, and bad people play
sports very well sometimes, and Sea's like he's one of them,
and that's why they keep getting to play because they
are so good at those sports. I always bring up

(02:08:55):
to Greg Hardy situation, because he had no business getting
that chance, except for Jerry was like, hey, he could
help my defense, I'll sign him. I don't care that
he beat the crap out of this girl over here
and threaten her with guns. Pukinaku is no different. In fact,
I don't even I would be shocked if something significant
happened to him. He might get suspended, but that's the

(02:09:16):
name of the game in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:09:17):
Well, you have to, I mean, honestly, is here we
are so the legal course still has to play.

Speaker 1 (02:09:24):
I bet the RAMS are going to release a statement
if they haven't already where they're gathering information, Well.

Speaker 2 (02:09:29):
They could just re release the statement they did the
last time he made anti Semitic remarks.

Speaker 1 (02:09:34):
That's a good point.

Speaker 2 (02:09:39):
The A.

Speaker 1 (02:09:41):
So I'm looking at instagram post by my guy Judah.

Speaker 2 (02:09:48):
I have a.

Speaker 1 (02:09:50):
Just a complete affinity and kind of weird obsession with
drone shots of stadiums or arenas, just basically sports venues
and anything else, like using him in the videos. He
just shot one of Dyke in that's like sick. It's
like a dusk shot of the stadium from a different

(02:10:11):
angle I haven't seen before. I'm looking forward to that
this year.

Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
It is wild that, you know, watching last night's game
for those of you that did obviously for those of
you that were in the ballpark last night for the
last exhibition game, is that it just has such a
different feel to it when it's open, because the roof
was open. Yeah, it definitely feels different. It clearly looks different,
and obviously if you're there, it's dramatically different.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
Something obviously pretty noteworthy took place.

Speaker 2 (02:10:36):
Jeremy Payne was able to get back into their lineup,
but not been in a lineup since the fourth of March,
obviously prior to leaving for the WBC, and in one
of his team's exhibition games before the World Baseball Classic began.
He obviously heard his finger has not played in a
game since, but now he has and made the Astros.
How about that, Jeremy pay you made the Astros opening

(02:10:56):
day roster. Obviously, if health is not an issue, it's
not a storyline whatsoever. But health wise, it doesn't sound
like that is of any issue, Just more about how
he feels at the plate and if he's comfortable after
what he got done yesterday and what he was able
to do at.

Speaker 1 (02:11:10):
The ballpark today.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
He's in on the active roster and he's almost assuredly
you're starting shortstop tomorrow Andrew leadoff hitter Bryce Matthews is
an astro. Joey Loperfdo is an astro. Christian Vasquez is
an astro. And in light of the fact that Jeremy
Payinia is healthy, that means you have first baseman Christian Walker,
second basement Jose al Tuove, shortstop Jeremy Pania, third baseman

(02:11:33):
Carlos Correa, and you have one more spot to fill
in left field. And I haven't named Jeremy or Jordan
Alvarez or Esach Peretis yet. Well, you got left field
and you got designated hitter. You don't have to play
either one of them in left field on any given day,
and they very well might not do that very often. Okay, well,

(02:11:55):
that leaves you with designated hitter only if Joey loperfdo
is going to play some left field, If Bryce Matthews
is going to play some left field, that means it's
not being played by Altuve, Perettis or Alvarez. Which also
means if Jeremy Payne, you're, Christian Walker, and Carlos Carea
are healthy, they should be starting a massive majority of
the games. Not this. Give him a day off, give

(02:12:16):
him a day off, give him a day off, nonsense.
That means you don't have everybody that should be in
the lineup every day. Christian Walker would have to do
what he did during spring for him to get regularly benched.

Speaker 1 (02:12:26):
He had a bad spring.

Speaker 2 (02:12:27):
He had a couple of balls really hard late and
hit won over the fence, won him a game with
a three run homer, as a matter of fact. But
if he's hitting in the low two hundred and striking
out a ton, then maybe the arithmetic on positions changes
a little bit. I just don't expect that from anybody
else we're talking about even if there's a downturn with
Jose Altuve, it doesn't seem like they want to play
him any innings in left field this year, and I'm

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not sure how many more there are for Jordan, and
I do think Joe softened his public stance on that.
You never know what they're thinking internally, but it sounded
like he was a little bit more into Yes, our
roster dictates we're probably going to need to play yord
On in left field more than maybe we originally anticipated
when we thought maybe we would fix this ourselves with
a move, or maybe it would fix itself. Unfortunately, due

(02:13:12):
to injury, there's no none of them are hurt right now,
and especially look at who else they have. They got
the catching position, they got right field with Cam Smith,
and they've got center field with Jake Myers. The all
three of those hitters very possibly are worse than each
of the other six. But you're going to start those

(02:13:32):
guys every day because you got too many players for
positions you can't fill.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
Also, a good rule of thumb, if you're a second
basement for the Astros and you want to know whether
or not you're getting to the end of the line,
you're probably experimentation or you're probably experimenting with playing an
outfield position. At least that's the rule of thumb for
the Astros. Well, they're doing They did it with valtub
last year. Now they're doing it with the one of
the youngest players on the roster. I'm talking about Craigmigio.

Speaker 2 (02:13:58):
Well that, yes, well that was what they That's what
they did last year. Last year, obviously we have traded
for a player who now fills a position. Now we
don't have a spot for Escoc Parrettis. He's got nowhere
to play. Well, that happened during the year, before the
year even started, they tried to open up a spot.
The Astros opened up a spot at second base for

(02:14:19):
who when Craig went to the outfield Jeff Kent a
Hall of Fame or I wish that were the case.
Last year they said jose Al to hit a left
field because they didn't think his defense was very good
at second base, and they're right, and they knew his
defense wouldn't be very good in left field, and they
were right, but they thought they could hide him there more.

(02:14:40):
Now he's going back to second base, where he's only
gonna be hidden less because you have thirty two fewer
starts from the ground ball machine in from ber Valdez.
He's gonna get a ton of work over at second base,
and when he's not there, Estock Parretis is gonna get
a ton of work. And when they hit it directly
at them, they'll probably probably make the plays. If you
hit it any where else and they have to go

(02:15:00):
get it, it's gonna get through. And I'm still basically
advocating for it. Put him back out in the outfield.
When you got the Crawford boxes out there, you just
these guys have to hit. I don't think they're gonna
have such an overwhelming offense that these you can just
sit one of them and say, well, we have a
seventh inning opportunity here for you to pinch hit an
eighth inning opportunity.

Speaker 1 (02:15:21):
I feel like this lineup is going to take care
of the problem all on its own in some way,
shape or form. I just don't know what that is yet, Like.

Speaker 2 (02:15:28):
That's that's a curious thought, because I've had the same
one and I talked about it on paper in the
names of the back of their jerseys.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
So if I'm telling you the twenty twenty six Astros are.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
Going Payna, Perettis, Alvarez, Correa, Altuve, Diaz, Walker, Smith.

Speaker 1 (02:15:44):
It sounds pretty good, doesn't it. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:15:46):
Those are we sure that, even healthy, all of those
guys are gonna have good offensive seasons. It's going to
produce one of the eight to ten best offenses in baseball.

Speaker 1 (02:15:56):
You know, it's the We're sure of that, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:15:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:15:59):
It's the worst and meanest part of last season with
all the injuries that Christian Walker was never unhealthy. Now,
wishing injury on your own, I'm not wishing injury on him,
But what I'm saying is he was the one guy
who was answering the bell every single day, and he
was the one guy where you would probably want to

(02:16:19):
replace him in the lineup a lot because his bat
was awful. Your home run leader, yes, your home run leader. Yeah.
The way I.

Speaker 2 (02:16:27):
Phrased that last year is the players who, among them
were among the least successful offensive players, they stayed the healthiest.
The three players who led the Astros uncanny games played
last year and played appearances. Walker and his seven eighteen ops,
with his two thirty eight average and a billion strikeouts,
actually won seventy seven just closel tove Right and Yer Dias.

(02:16:51):
You would slot all of them behind Perettas, Paanya Correa Alvarez,
all better hitters offensive.

Speaker 1 (02:16:58):
Cris Joe Walker for jord On alvarez As. Last season,
you make the postseason, probably you win the division, make
the postseason, you might even advance. Not with Christian Walker
at first base.

Speaker 2 (02:17:07):
Yeah, he had a much clear last he had two months,
not his last two months, but the two months prior
to September, we're actually very productive. He's too many non
productive abs lasted his entire season. Move a runner over,
hit a sack fly, don't just don't walk back to
the dugout with your back because you swung and miss
or you let a ball go right. But he just

(02:17:27):
he could not hit the ball enough. He can't have
one hundred and seventy seven strike out season.

Speaker 1 (02:17:32):
He cannot be Jose A Brew this year. Again, he
was already better than that, I know, but that I'm
sorry if you want to call it PTSD at first
base or whatever. That's what we were all thinking all
year long.

Speaker 2 (02:17:43):
So it's kind of like the reverse of trying to
fill the shoes of Nick Saban. It's not Christian Walker's
fault that he followed jose A Brew because now you're
comparing him to what he did just on the other
end of the scale.

Speaker 1 (02:17:55):
But what's interesting is it wasn't one season. It took
two before the Astros were finally like, you know what, man,
just get lost. We'll pay you to go away. And
I really hope I don't think that's what's going to happen.
But as bad as season one was for jose A Bray, you,
it's somehow got worse in season two. If you're in May,

(02:18:18):
the end of May, you're going into June, and Christian
Walker's batting, I don't know, give me his rough numbers
from last year. It's not even possible.

Speaker 2 (02:18:29):
I know it's not going to be as bad as
Joseah braw but like he's not getting cut during the
season because he can't play, I'll state that as fact.

Speaker 1 (02:18:36):
Well, whoever plays first base permanently next for the Astros,
I would like for them to do a little bit
better than the last two guys.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
His season last year was better than Abrah's first season. Yeah,
but that's a very low bar, of course it is.
But he also is not going to drop into these
are the last days of your major league career, which
is what happened. Abrao never played again because he couldn't play.

Speaker 1 (02:18:57):
The suckiest part of this is both guys, by all accounts,
are good dudes.

Speaker 2 (02:19:02):
Yes, clearly Christian Walker shouldn't be at the end of
his career a little bit looks a little bit leaner.
Maybe he has worked on a few things, which I
think many of you have heard him talk about. One
of the schn broadcasts earlier this year, he joined the
Todd and jeff In game. And you know his results
in spring training were poor. Jose Al Tuveys were worse.
Doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot for what their regular season.

(02:19:23):
Would would say, just bar it off right here. You
know what he did last year. He had twenty seven
homers amidst all those other things that I gave you.
Is he going to be better or worse offensively than
he was last year?

Speaker 1 (02:19:35):
I hope he's better. Very easy to do that. Well,
I didn't say he was going to be better. I
said he hoped. You wanted an answer.

Speaker 2 (02:19:42):
I think Christian Walker will have a better season in
twenty twenty six. Not a ton, but I think he'll
be better it's not the game changer on the Astros.
That would be if he's a forty home run hitter.
But I think he can easily and will have a
slightly better season this year. Then you're number one with
your Houston Astros. In case you missed it, any of it.

Speaker 1 (02:20:00):
Next the eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:20:05):
We look forward to the actual implementation of the ABS
challenge system.

Speaker 1 (02:20:11):
Oh yeah, that's right, first challenge of the season tomorrow.
First any at that.

Speaker 2 (02:20:15):
Dike In Park. There'll probably be another challenge before that.
One happens in the majors. And I'm not sure that
you saw this, and we'll get to all of Josh's
doings here and in case you missed it, but the
contingency plan, I think it was Friday or Saturday's game,
we got to see one a ball. A pitch was
thrown and it was challenged, and the umpire announced the

(02:20:36):
challenge and they said the call will stand without ever
showing the viewers or the audience in house the replay
and the video production of where the pitch actually was,
because it was not operational at the moment. And so
if you call for a challenge and there's a technical difficulty. Obviously,
the call must stand, and it will happen in a

(02:20:59):
key moment in a regular season game.

Speaker 1 (02:21:01):
I probably wait until along with Goldilocks balls, we have
y York exactly. It's all Oh, Rob Manfred just happens
to be sitting behind home plate. Look, Aaron Judge gets
to go to first base on ball four.

Speaker 2 (02:21:17):
So the catcher behind Aaron Judge immediately reaches for his helmet.
But we can see right behind him off his right shoulder.
Sitting behind home plate. Rob Manfred is giving some sort
of signal, some sort of signal. I don't know what
it might mean. The technology is down all right, Probably
not gonna happen, but we do have Giants and Yankees

(02:21:39):
tonight that will be pitches first pitches of the season
this evening, and then tomorrow the Astros and Angels will
do so. Ceremonial first pitch tomorrow for the Astros is
going to be awesome. Not me. They're honoring Team Venezuela.
Manager of Team Venezuela, Omar Lopez, will throw the ceremonial
first pitch to Venezuela's bullpen coach Javier Bracamanti. The Astros

(02:22:03):
bullpen coach, bullpen catcher.

Speaker 1 (02:22:05):
Excuse me.

Speaker 2 (02:22:06):
I cannot wait to see the fans give them what
they've earned and they love them anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:22:11):
But that's gonna be great winners. Win suck at Team USA.
I bet Josel Tube is going to have another classic
smirk on his face.

Speaker 2 (02:22:19):
Now, they could include some video memories of why they're
the champions.

Speaker 1 (02:22:25):
At the expense of Team USA.

Speaker 2 (02:22:28):
Yes, and if you wanted to maybe soften the blow
of like the last out of the ninth inning and
then then the celebration, which is hard to do because
that's the moment you want to see, you could just
go back one inning and just show Team Venezuela striking
out Aaron Judge.

Speaker 1 (02:22:45):
Classic. Look, what's the problem? Half the country roots against
our country anyway? Right, Oh, I'm sorry that was in
the World Baseball Classic.

Speaker 2 (02:22:54):
Maybe half the Wow, I don't even want to I
don't even I don't even know to do anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:23:00):
Half the country roots against the country every single day, Right,
I love it because of how uncomfortable it makes. It's
not right. It's not right. It's not it's not accurate. Oh,
it's not accurate. It's definitely not accurate. I disagree.

Speaker 2 (02:23:16):
Half the country hates the country, even on all the
small percentage of people that do give you the impression
that they hate the country, love living here and continue
to do so.

Speaker 1 (02:23:32):
That's my favorite part. Why don't you leave if it's
so bad? It's perfectly fine?

Speaker 2 (02:23:36):
All right, Josh, good luck with in case you missed it,
because in case you missed it, that was not sports talk.

Speaker 1 (02:23:42):
Thanks for the leader in there. That was great, all right,
Exlay myself, Yeah, that was great. All right.

Speaker 9 (02:23:48):
I'm going to go back to just what you guys
were talking about last segment with Christian Walker and just
an observation. Maybe it means something, maybe it doesn't. Yesterday
last night was an exhibition game. One of my big
issues early in the year last year when Christian Walker
was struggling so much, was that he was so often
hitting fourth or fifth, and often guys would be on base,

(02:24:08):
he'd strike out in a big moment, double plays. He
batted seventh last night, and I know you have righty, lefty, righty,
all that kind of stuff. I just wonder if it's
and we know he did not have a good spring.
I wonder if the Astros maybe a spot is a
little more aware that maybe we don't need to hit
him right in the middle of the order to start out.

Speaker 1 (02:24:26):
We'll try him at seventh. If he hits well, we'll
move him up. I don't know. I think it could
be a good thing.

Speaker 2 (02:24:31):
Well, Josh, I'm not sure if you know off the
top of your head. Day one for you making this
program better, which you have done, was when no idea
But after the Astro season ended? Is that fair? Sure
you came aboard after last season, and that was a
talking point for me all season long. Why is Christian
Walker batting in these places where it obviously isn't working

(02:24:54):
and all of the numbers you could ever look at
are right there staring you in the face. He's got
a sick He's fifty two OPS batting fourth, where he
constantly bat's in the situations that Josh promoted. When he's
batting sixth, he hits five forty nine as an OPS.
That's also awful. Well, so bat him somewhere else. I
know it seems dumb, all it doesn't matter where they hit. Well,

(02:25:17):
it might not matter, but if you're eight twenty nine OPS, well,
batting fifth doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (02:25:22):
Prove it.

Speaker 2 (02:25:23):
Bat him fifth last year I would have done that
so early in the season considering what else they had.
I'm not just really not sure why that's not something
that they moved to. But to your other better angle
on this, Paynelo, Perffito, Perettis, Altuve, Correa, Cole Walker, Matthews Vasquez.
That was the starting nine in the lineup that they used,

(02:25:45):
So you can't look too much into it.

Speaker 1 (02:25:47):
For the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (02:25:48):
Diez is going to be a starters at Coles, obviously
a triple A player. Pretty sure al Tuove is not
batting clean up. But I do think there is some
of what we've seen this spring as to what Joe
might do this year, which I actually think what Josh
is promoting is something that I buy and I think
Joe might also. I think we're going to see Yaner,
Diez and Christian Walker opened the year in prove it spots,

(02:26:13):
not we know who you are, you're four or five
six hitters, We got to hit you there. Maybe they
have other players that are pushing them down, and maybe
there's some confidence in cam Smith.

Speaker 1 (02:26:21):
I'm not sure what you want to use as your reasoning.
Give it. Who's pushing yinor Diaz well pushing him down
in the later nobody's pushing him.

Speaker 2 (02:26:28):
Christian Vasquez is not pushing him. That pushing him down
in the order. So Peynya, Perettis, Altuve, Correa, Alvarez. That's
five right out of the gate. They all have to
bat before both Christian Walker and Yanar Diez. How long
until Christian Walker is batting ninth go? If they take
the designated hitter away, maybe that would help prevent it.

(02:26:51):
He's not hitting ninth in this order unless it's a
key pinch hitting situation. All of the Astros are healthy
and it was Christian Walker's day to be their primary
pinch hitting option.

Speaker 1 (02:27:02):
What else do we have?

Speaker 9 (02:27:03):
You y, I would say, if they're considering batting him ninth,
then Perettis needs to be your new first base.

Speaker 1 (02:27:08):
I don't disagree with you. We don't talk.

Speaker 2 (02:27:10):
About that enough because I just think Walker is such
an everyday commodity. Perettis can clearly play first base, second base,
and third base.

Speaker 1 (02:27:19):
Okay, this one's for ac.

Speaker 9 (02:27:21):
According to wrestling reporter Dave Meltzer, Brady is apparently in
negotiations to appear at WrestleMania in Las Vegas to face
off against Logan Paul we all have seen the stuff
they've been doing lately. That's the thought of what all
this could be leading up to? What do you think, Ac,
you're an expert on this stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:27:39):
Well, so obviously WrestleMania for the second consecutive year is
being hosted by Tom Brady's teams building. How did I do?
That's pretty good. So it's in Tampa. No, oh, New England.
I knew that was next. So secondly, wait, nowhere is it?
It's in Vegas? Yeah, okay, at Raiders Stadium, Allegiant whatever.

(02:28:02):
You saw him throwing those dimes the other day, didn't you.
He's still got a lot of athleticism. And besides, if
Rick Flair can wrestle at like age eighty, then Tom
Brady can get in there in the mid forties.

Speaker 2 (02:28:16):
Everything that they are doing with their words and actions,
and I told you this months ago, screams that they're
going to get in the ring together and fools are gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:28:25):
Fall for it, fools being wrestling fans. Yep. Oh yeah,
I can't wait to see this mockery of wrestling, that's
what it will be. There's no mockery of wrestling. They're
making a mockery it's a sport we love. It's a
sports entertainment.

Speaker 2 (02:28:39):
He ain't fighting this guy. Come on, he's play fighting him,
maybe slap fighting. You think he'll oil up and put
on fighting Tom Giselle will come in and hit him
with a chair. As a as a plot twist, I'd
reverse my opinion and saying we got this. We didn't
fall for it, We got this.

Speaker 1 (02:28:58):
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Speaker 2 (02:29:17):
They were on the court not too long ago, the
last of the four teams here at the South Regional
here at Toyota Center to practice and met with the
media a little over two hours ago, trading it just
like any other road game, as they should now granted
their ride away from their own facility on the bus
took them less than four miles to get there.

Speaker 1 (02:29:38):
Are there going to be as an hotel as anyone
because they're not playing on their home court.

Speaker 2 (02:29:42):
Yeah, once they leave the facility on the bus, it
is a road game. They're staying in a hotel. They're
playing on a non Fertita Center court. It's a road game,
though it is owned by a Fertita, true, but it
will have all the March Madness branding that every other
court has. You know, somebody brought this up the other
day and I'm actually on board with it. It's very

(02:30:03):
nonsense type stuff, but it actually it makes some sense
to me. The games that we watched all four days
last weekend, the same thing for the four days starting tomorrow,
and then the three games for the final weekend and
the final four in the championship game, we're gonna watch
games with exactly the same floor. On one end line,
we will see the city that they're playing in, and

(02:30:24):
that's it. You won't notice any other difference from the
game you're watching to any of the other sixty seven
games that were played in this tournament. And then a
year from now and two years fround, ten years from now,
and twenty years from now, it won't stand out as
much to you when you remember it, because oh I
remember them they were playing in this city on that floor,
because the floor was different. The floor stood out. Where

(02:30:46):
were they playing. They were playing in San Jose, their arena.
They were playing at this home arena. Or they were
playing in this city and they all had different.

Speaker 1 (02:30:52):
Floor, same generic.

Speaker 2 (02:30:54):
Now it's all the same. It's awesome for branding, it's
good for the NCAA and their product and all that.
And March Madness is not getting smaller, it's getting bigger.
So I don't not blaming them for it, but just
as a fan whose memory of years might not be
the greatest, the memory of seeing this game winning three
point shot drop on that particular floor with the black
painted area and the green lines. Whatever the it doesn't

(02:31:16):
it's not gonna stay. Like the Cougar's championship game appearances,
they stand out still to this day because of what
I was looking at the floor that they were playing
on in their respective unfortunate l's to Georgetown and NC State.

Speaker 1 (02:31:30):
Well, I think you were there. I know I was
Villanova's buzzer beater to beat u NC With Jordan in
the house, I was making my way from the sports
department to the control room when that show was dropping
through the nets. How are you not watching the final?

Speaker 2 (02:31:48):
I was working, well, I wasn't on the air, even
as was a pre on air days, I was a producer.

Speaker 1 (02:31:54):
I was working too in the building. One of the
all time greatest finals pretty much at any sport. Yeah,
and you remember exactly where it was because of the
floor they played, Oh dice, that's right. It's the same
exact thing we've seen for like twenty years now. Yeah,
it be.

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
It will be interesting, just since Toyota Center has not
been a long time, ever time host of games at
this level. Most of the games that have come through
Houston the last decade plus they've been over at Energy Stadium.

Speaker 1 (02:32:18):
But this will be it'll be nice. I've obviously seen.

Speaker 2 (02:32:20):
I went over there today to grab my credential as
I anticipate tomorrow being phenomenal. Not have to get up early,
but I'll be up early, make my way over to
Memorial Park, catch a little bit of the early action,
and then head on over to dyke In Park. We'll
be on the air at ten o'clock ten to two
forty all the way through Astros on deck special guests

(02:32:41):
all lined up for you. We will have joining us
live Brian mctagger, Chandler Rome, and Jeff Blum as they
all get set for another season of Astros Baseball obviously
set for it. Jeff will be with you later that
afternoon on sc h N and those two others along
with Jeff should be joining us all throughout the regular season.
And after I take in some Astros still undefeated baseball

(02:33:04):
game one, I will head on over to Toyota Center
for Nebraska, Iowa and U of H Illinois.

Speaker 1 (02:33:12):
And that's not starting until about nine to thirty, So.

Speaker 2 (02:33:15):
We're just scheduled at nine oh five, but it almost
never happens that way. The first game will take a
little bit longer, and then there's the thirty minutes in between,
so it's a little.

Speaker 1 (02:33:24):
Bit later than that. You're looking at a twenty hour day. Oh,
I can't. I could not be more fired up about it.
And then how much sleep will you get Thursday night
going into Friday, because again you and I have an
appointment somewhere earlier before the show on Friday. Yeah, meeting
with a client.

Speaker 2 (02:33:41):
Cannot wait to get out there at their wonderful place
of business. We are excited about and then we'll knock
out a show and then we will both handle Rockets basketball.

Speaker 1 (02:33:51):
The night's where we both are on the game.

Speaker 2 (02:33:53):
Usually that means you're on radio with MT and I'm
on television on sechn And that's exactly what it will be.

Speaker 1 (02:33:59):
You'll be stepping aside a little bit earlier.

Speaker 2 (02:34:01):
I will be leaving this program a half an hour
earlier till I can drive downtown to the Sehn Studios'
Fine Road Rockets Basketball with Calvin Murphy.

Speaker 1 (02:34:10):
Will you get food from across the way or from
down the way? Do you know the two options I'm
talking about?

Speaker 2 (02:34:18):
I know the two options, and you'll hate my answer.
I probably will not eat until after the game.

Speaker 1 (02:34:24):
What is wrong with you? I'm seriously asking, especially when
those two options are there, I don't know, man, the
one across the way. Have you ever had that tex Mex? Yeah,
I've had it. We've had it together. Oh, that's right,
I forgot about that. Who are we there?

Speaker 3 (02:34:41):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:34:41):
I know who we are there with? Okay, yeah, I
haven't had that in a minute. And it's really really good.
You know what we didn't get to. We didn't get
to two things, and I'm actually going one of them
is perfect for tomorrow. It's got what four hours and
forty minutes of just opportunities to crap on Jeff Passing.
That sounds like awesome radio. I don't know about you.

(02:35:04):
That's tomorrow. This NBA thing where players agents, specifically Kate
Cunningham's agent, guy can't win award because you didn't play
enough games? Are you kidding me, NBA?

Speaker 2 (02:35:17):
Yeah, Well, all his point is my guy plays unless
he has an injury that he cannot play through, and
he has. What the rule is, it doesn't matter what
that you have to play sixty The spirit of the
rule clearly is not That's not really what it's about.
The spirit of the rule is we want guys to
play as often as possible. And when you're sitting for
rest or when you're saying that you can't play through this,

(02:35:40):
and we know that you can, and everybody knows that
you can, but it's not the best interest of your team.
And these fans have come out to they bought their
tickets to see you play, and this is a night
you've decided to take off.

Speaker 1 (02:35:49):
Whose agent isn't whining about it? Nicole Jokic, who has
MVP aspirations on the line for the umpteenth time.

Speaker 2 (02:35:57):
Yeah, Jokic and Cunningham are very similar, and they've missed
their games this year.

Speaker 1 (02:36:01):
Kawhi Leonard, on the other hand, is like, I'm never
winning another award again after this. They be the one
who started.

Speaker 2 (02:36:06):
They probably, I mean the serious nature, serious part of this.
They will revisit the sixty five game rule because as
we sit here today, every team has ten or eleven
games remaining, and the list of an MVP tracker that
I'm looking at of the top seven, here's how many
have played in sixty one games. I mean, you got

(02:36:26):
to get to sixty five. Nikol is at fifty seven.
He can miss one more game or he can't get there.
Lucas at sixty he's got to play in half of
their remaining games. Shay's at sixty. Kid's at sixty one
and he's hurt. Now he has to come back for
the final four games to get to sixty five. Okay,
Glenby's at fifty seven. That's first team all NBA one
through five.

Speaker 1 (02:36:47):
We might talk about this tomorrow because at some point
I would like you to fin and I know you
can do this because you're you. I want to find
a list of all of the previous MVP Award winners
and I want to see how many games they played
those seasons, and I want to see how many of
those got wouldn't have qualified under these rules.

Speaker 2 (02:37:02):
I think a little bit more of it should probably
be focused on the teams. All NBA teams are an
all defensive team. Winning the MVP is one player. You
got five spots on the all defensive teams. You really
have fifteen spots on both All NBA and all defensive teams.

Speaker 1 (02:37:18):
Three teams, right, and you're ineligible for all of them.

Speaker 2 (02:37:21):
Like you play sixty four games of unbelievable defense and
unbelievable offense, and you're a great player. Some people wouldn't
be too put off by saying, well, you miss too
much of the season, I can't vote you for MVP,
and they would look at defensive player maybe a little
bit differently. You're that impactful, So he missed a few games,
he's still that impactful.

Speaker 1 (02:37:38):
I'm putting him on the team. What about scoring champion?

Speaker 2 (02:37:41):
Same thing I mean, But again, you're not voting on
any of that. That's just to qualify for those things statistically, and.

Speaker 1 (02:37:47):
You have to play enough games to be in order
to qualify, right. So I don't feel bad for any
of these guys, not even a little. You know the
rules player.

Speaker 2 (02:37:58):
Games, or he'll get hurt exactly, or don't get hurt.
Come on, man, well, the same thing. It's not the
same thing, Sure it is. You just described the players
who aren't the same. Kawhi Leonard missus games because that's
what he does. These guys legitimately had an injury. They
can't play. He gets hurt too occasionally. Yeah, it's not

(02:38:19):
that they don't like it, but I don't. What are
you gonna do. It's just like including the amount of time.

Speaker 1 (02:38:24):
Eliminate the number entirely and tell voters to vote at
their discretion. It's twelve teams enough for the playoff. It's
the same thing. What's going to be the magic number
for NBA players that? Oh, well, if you played this
many games.

Speaker 2 (02:38:36):
What I said, we actually have a solution to other problems.
You can like it or you can dislike it. Eliminate
the number entirely, leave it to the voter's discretion. If
you want to vote for a guy who played fifty
four games, you can, and take away the votes of
people who say they vote based on narratives.

Speaker 1 (02:38:48):
Ramona Shelburne, we.

Speaker 2 (02:38:49):
Aren't very far removed from seeing you again on these
airwaves audio wise ten am tomorrow at Dyke and Park.
We will be with you, looking forward to that opening
day All day, right here on Sports Talk seven nine,