The A-Team: Astros Finally Win. What's Up w/ That?! Chandler Rome

Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on September 14th, 2023.

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smile, what the rock is cooking? Blackbrooks three one and at his hammer,
keeped down the right, Phil,I fall this Houckey. If it's
days fair, it's good, andit is fair and a three run homer.
You're on. Alvarez goes deep andthe Astros go up free to nothing.
Looks like a cat at the mouse. Blackbird delivers and Bregman hits it

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high the air and deep to letfield and you can kiss that one goodbye
hit of the Landry's profert boxes backto back checks first Alvarez, now Bregman
and Astro's lead bar to nothing.On Bregman's twenty third, who's this team?
One two? Tucker hits it inthe air pretty deep to right center
field. Brown is going back onthe warning track out of the wall,

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looking up and see later hitt ofthe Astros bull pin career hole Brown number
one hundred for Kyle Tucker, andthe Astros lead is six to nothing A
one and that's hit up the middleand in the center of base hit the
first of the night for the A's. It's courtesy of Ryan Noda on the
third base goes yellow and the OaklandA's will not be no hit tonight,

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oh to the Rooker strike three callon the outside warner. And that is
the ball game. The U said. Astros eight of the third no hit
nings and they avoid getting swept bythe A's, winning today by a final
of six to two. And justlike that, all as well in the

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world because your Astros nearly no hitthe crappy as last night. What's going
on Houston? It is a Thursdayedition of the A Team here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. His name isAdam Wexler, My name is Adam Clanton.
Dan Matthews are fearless producer who justput that together for you, and
we've got you until six o'clock tonight. No Astros tonight because it's Thursday,

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and that's when they won't play forthe rest of the year, every single
Thursday. So and it's a goodthing they did win last night because the
team's chasing them also won. Andthe Astros even though it looked like they
had a little bit of breathing room, which wasn't much as it stood to
begin with. But it's gonna bea dog fight, like we thought going
down the stretch, and last night'sone of those examples. And say you

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don't pull out that game, orsay you don't get that win last night
to salvage the series, well nowyou're really looking at some hairy situations.
So you're gonna have to win.You're gonna have to take care of business
the rest of the way. Fortunately, after this off day, they're in
Kansas City for a three game setthis weekend against a horrific Royals team,
maybe the only team in baseball thatcould realistically claim to be better or worse

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than the Oakland A's. So we'llsee how that goes. I mean,
anything other than a sweep, Iwill officially be disappointed. And that's why
when last night's happening, wex andit's nearly a no hitter, and like,
yeah, that's what you should do. Now. I have to say,
even though it was the Oakland A's, and even though they should have
won that game and they should havewon the first two as well, just

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based on the disparity of talent betweenthese two teams, I didn't care who
it was so long as Hunter Brownpitched like that. If Hunter Brown's gonna
pitch like that, and again,I know it was the A's, I'm
gonna feel a whole lot better atany sort of use of his more than
likely out of the bullpen this postseason, because he had not looked right the
last few times out. He hadlooked very right against the A's all year

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and that continued, and yes,it was a very good sign for him,
very good sign for what might endup being a very positive final couple
of outings of the season. However, they decide to deploy him to prep
him for whatever role they have inmind for him in the postseason. Just
had not had very many happy outings, pleased with his stuff, and he
talked about being more pleased with hisstuff than the results, because sometimes you're

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pleased with your stuff and the resultsaren't there, so it's more probably helpful
if you just think that you hadgood stuff, if you think you executed
your pitches like you wanted to,even if it was a tip your cap
to them kind of a didn't haveto tip this cap to anybody. Neither
did Montero or Neris or a braveas they took that game into the ninth
thinning without allowing a hit, lookingfor yet another combined no hitter. But

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at this point in the season,that's just icing on a half eaten upcake.
Is probably what it was yesterday ingetting one win in three, getting
three wins in six home games duringthis homestand against the A's and prior to
that, the San Diego Padres definitelya happier flight than it would have been.
They certainly would have been in adifferent position. Remember, they hold

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the tiebreaker over the team closest tothem, the Rangers. They do not
hold the tiebreaker with the team justbeyond the Rangers, the Seattle Mariners,
Mariners, and Astros off today,Rangers and Blue Jays finish off their four
game series, and the Rangers aremaking it a little bit more difficult for
the Astros to win the division whilemaking it a little easier for them to

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make the postseason, because if theBlue Jays don't win any games, then
the Astros are never going to fallbehind them. And they can't beat the
Rangers. They've tried three times,it failed three times. They throw their
best tonight and the Rangers can onlyhope that they match that, but they
don't really know. Nathany Valdi makeshis second appearance since his return. What
happened the first time from the Il well, he was on a pitch

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count and so he'd get past givingup the second home run to Jose al
Tuve, and the second inning hedid not pitch well. He felt good
about the way he threw the ball. If I said that about Hunter,
I should say the same thing abouthim. And that's for the Astro's benefit.
Was a good thing because he wasliterally just trying to get his bearings
and get back up to speed asa major league starting pitchers, and the
Rangers chose to have him do thatagainst a major League Baseball team that's better

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than them, and the Astros provedit that day, so they took advantage
of it. We'll see if theBlue Jays can take advantage of him.
Still clearly not being up to speedat this point. They also throw one
of the three best starters in theAmerican League this year. I'd probably if
I were to cast a cy Youngballot, as much as it would sound
odd, I'd probably have Garrett Colefirst, Luis Castillo second, and Kevin

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Gausman third. Gaussman throws tonight forthe Toronto Blue Jays, and yes,
it's okay on a night the Astrosdon't play. You can scoreboard watch.
That's fine. You can NFL Footballwatch if you'd like. Tonight the beginning
of Week two is here. TheEagles will stay undefeated, the Kirk Cousins
will stay winless. But again,you can watch it if you'd like.

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Kind of laid out what would happen. I'm a little more fried it up
than usual for that, so we'llget into that. Obviously, another day
of work for the Texans, alittle bit closer to what is the injury
status for some key positions for thisteam. I know Anthony Richardson is only
playing in his second NFL game,but the Texans defense is facing some similar

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things in how they need to containa quarterback who can move the ball without
throwing it, and their safeties area big part of that, as much
as they are a big part ofthe back end of their pass defense.
And Jalen Petrie and Jimmy Ward nonpracticers again today. I think we'll see
Jalen Petrie as an out coming upon Friday's injury report tomorrow, simply because

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I think that's just we're getting moreand more information about the nature and the
depth of that injury to his chest, to his lung. And again,
if Jimmy Ward's not going to practice, he's obviously not going to play again.
I think we'll find that out tomorrow. I haven't made any additional roster
adjustments to accommodate for that, butkeep in mind, they really don't have
to. The league changed the ruleson the practice squad a couple of years

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ago, and I still think peoplearen't quite used to it. You carry
a sixteen or in their case,seventeen player practice squad, and all you
have to do is elevate those players. You got four wide receivers on the
practice squad right now. If threeof the Texans wide receivers on the active
roster were unavailable, they wouldn't goout and sign anybody. They would just
elevate two wide receivers, most likelya lot of ways to get around it.

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They decided to sign their punter offof the practice squad. I'm very
curious to me. I guess they'reokay with him kicking for punting for three
more games because it would have runout of elevations by the time they got
to the last of the no CamJohnston games. But little Minusha on the
Texans much more to the point,we'll talk about the actual matchup. CJ.
Stroud not versus Anthony Richardson. Hewill spend zero plays on the field

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together. It's CJ. Stroud againstthe Colts defense. It's Anthony Richardson against
the Texans defense. You know,Shane Steiken is truly matching wits with Damiko
Ryan's in this game. It's Shane'soffense, it's Demiko's defense. These are
some of the things to look forwardto. Who comes Sunday noon the home
opener for Jamiko Ryans and everybody elseso fired up for this new era of

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Texans football. The semantics and yousimply cannot allow yourself to not say that,
right, It's just like pictures.It's anthe Yeah, but they're they
are facing each other. They literallynever do anymore now that the DH is
there. That's not true. Theyface each other with their ten they're both
in the dugout and they're staring havinga staring cut. Their teams face each
other, and they wear the samecostumes. Their teams do face each other,

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right, so each other. Yeah, they do. What's the last
How did Justin Verlander fair against MaxScherzer the other day? A lot didn't
against him? Now he felt hefared great. His teammates fared well against
him, his team, not histeammates, his entire team. Yeah,
he's part of that team. NotWas he in the team picture? Yeah?

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He was right in there in againthat tipped me. I want you
to break out in the hives beforethe end of the segment. That's my
goal. Yeah, it's it's funbecause these two guys actually are friends.
Anthony Richardson and c J. Strouthave known each other for a long time.
But it's a kind of the startof something for one of them.
Now, one of them could playreally really well in defeat, but I
get the feeling one of them isgonna play really well in a victory and

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that will kind of flip the scriptinto which team gets their first win.
Well, yeah, I just feellike, and I've said this, I
was talking with somebody about this earliertoday. I win the Texans lose this
game at home. If they do, let's just say that. But I
had this bad feeling they're going toand I don't even think it's because they're

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you know, not better. Ijust think that not better as a roster.
I mean, I just feel like, for whatever reason, Anthony Richardson's
gonna have a big day, youknow, if he doesn't, then maybe
they've got a shot. But withthe absences that are likely on the defense
side of things, with the continuedquestion marks surrounding the past protections, you

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know, specifically for CJ. Stroud, I just think that it's especially with
the line. I mean, whyis the line where it is because they
probably yeah, they probably tend toagree with they do. And I'm not
again, this is not oh procolts. Both these teams suck. Let's
not get it twisted. That's whatThe Teas don't have the worst roster in
the AFC. Then it's the Cults. Yeah, uh yeah, I guess

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I'm trying to think of somebody it'sonly sixteen teams, I know, but
but Arizona's clear cut the worst inthe league in all likelihood. There's gotta
be someone that I'm missing. You'renot. The four teams in the AFC
West actually all think they're good.That includes the Broncos and Raiders. Yeah,
the four teams in the NFC andAFC North all think they're good.

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That includes the Cleveland Browns. Thefour teams of the AFC East all think
they're good, including the Windless Patriots. And then there's the Patriots. You
could argue the Patriots have a muchwhat they do have a much worse situation
with the quarterback position. I don'tthink people of all they definitely happen to
see Belichick would take CJ. Stroudand a heartbeat over mac Jones. We
all know that's one hundred percent,right. I think it's pretty close to

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one hundred percent. But it doesn'tmean they don't believe they can win.
I think you really have to actuallywatch him play, and let's see,
coaching has a lot to do withit sometimes. And I don't want to
get into a long Patriot thing,but we all did it last year,
so let's not forget that he couldnot succeed last year. Go play NFL
football without a coordinator. Good luck. Yeah, go play NFL football with
a disaster situation Monday through Saturday.Good luck. That's what they did to

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him. They did that to him, their first round pick. They're the
guy. They did it to him. That's on them. And now they
at least have an offensive coordinator andone who's familiar with what winning football looks
like. How much he was ahand and it is always debatable, do
you feel like, like you saidwith Matt with Davis Mills, that if
you took Mac Jones plucked him intoa great environment, that he would succeed,

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no doubt about it. Of Course, I don't know, and I
didn't just say that about Mac either, And I don't compare their situations.
Their situations aren't similar. The Texanshad an offensive coordinator, a longtime NFL
offensive coach who became the play callerafter being the quarterback coach. He was
with him his rookie year, hewas with him again his second year.
They didn't have much talent around.The Patriots actually did enough to win with

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I mean, they're roughly a fivehundred team from most of these two years.
But it was you can't put JoeJudge and Matt Patricia in charge of
your offense unless you hate yourself,and I think we think Bill Belichick at
times probably does, including himself.I mean, if he loved himself,
he wouldn't dress the way he does, right, I mean again last week,

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if you literally were watching him.As silly as it sounds, I'll
say it anyway, he plays quarterbackin that uniform and throws the football and
has body motions and footwork and everything. It is a carbon freaking copy of
Tom Brady, the way he plays, the way he gets rid of the
football every just watch it. Theylost, but they were playing the best

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team in the NFC. It wasn'ta bad day of football for the Patriots.
They just didn't win. Ran inthe next game. All right,
So we are on to the nextsegment. We will continue to discuss all
things astros. Actually, we aregoing to catch up with Chandler Rome of
the Athletic at one point today.But yeah, it's going to be a
jam pack Thursday and a full editionof the show here on the eight Team

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seven ninety WEX were you disappointed thismorning when you woke up and you could
not quote musical lyrics of any kindon a video that I posted? I
mean I could have I could havebeen in a better mood. I've seen
it, but I didn't see anything. Do you think I made the right
decision. That's the big question herebecause I posed this question last night on

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social punishing them, but really justpunishing the fans? Is that? What?
Is that? What it is?We're taking it out on the Astros
for not winning at least more thanone time. Hang on, hang on,
I'm not taking it out on theAstros. The Astros in turn took
it out on me the first twogames of this series. That's why we're
in this position. I shouldn't haveplaying for you, and you're not producing

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videos for them. You're producing videosfor the fans as they are to play.
Yeah, I took it personal andthen I turned personally attacked them with
no video. Well, how amI supposed to celebrate you when you can't
even beat the worst team in baseball? Not name the Royals for the first
two nights at home. Hey guesswhat, because it's Visio. They're a

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game that's just baseball. I mean, like I keep saying, they're gonna
somehow, they're gonna get to sixtiessixty five, get there, they get
they can't get there. They're gonnaget no, because they are in they
are in a dog fight for thisdivision. And if they decide they're gonna
get there by dropping games to thelikes of the A's and the Royals,

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then not only are they're not gonnaget there, they're not gonna get there
either. Ten wins in thirteen gamesagainst the A's it's pretty good. That's
great, congratulations. You don't geta video for the last two nights or
the first two nights, so youdon't get a video for last night.
Well, they definitely don't get avideo for I mean, you're just start
making videos for losses. No,that'd be weird new policy. But here's
the thing. I need to giveAstro's Twitter some credit because they've had a

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bad week. Anytime Astros and Iwon't even say Twitter, Astro's social media,
you know, whatever you call them, wouldn't be technically Astro's X.
Now under your standards of calling inaccuracy, Yeah no, it's not accuracy,
that's just snuck. It's just it'sa dumb renamed moniker. I mean,
for the sake of accuracy, theA's or forty six and one hundred,

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Yes, that produces a three fifteenwinning percentage they're winning percentage against the
Astros is twenty three percent, Sothe Astros actually beat them more than they
were supposed to. Is that howyou look at that? I mean,
I'm just trying to provide some info. You're ridiculous, So yeah, I
you know it in the same weekthat they were sliding into the most of

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the time starting Catchers wives dms.That's not decided to make it public.
I mean for all weeks. Well, actually, there are no other I
don't think there are any others Catcherswives dms because I don't believe they're any
other Catchers wives. No, Idon't think. I think Yer's very single,
and I don't think they were goingdeep into the vault to hit up

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say Sar Salazar, because he evenno. I mean, if they really
wanted to go old school, theycould hit up one of the White Sox
Catchers. But Corey is also unmarriedand didn't play any games for the Astros
this year. He did not.I thought he did start one, like
early early on. Am I crazy? I thought it? Maybe he played
in one. Don't believe, soI don't have to check that out.
Did a lot of space cowboy work. He did I just you know,

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I put the the the slate ifyou will. The Good Morning video has
been rated R slate. And Isaid, blown no, no, and
series lost to a horrible club.Blown no, No? Did they not
blow a no hitter? They didn'tget the no hitter. If you give
up hits, you don't get one. If you give the second, you
have thrown eight and a third oreight and two thirds innings. This right

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here is the point where any listeneror exer that was on my side up
until this point in the show absolutelyis railing against They're like, which they're
on the They're in the ninth inning. Wex they needed two more outs.
That's a blown no hitter. Exactly. Shut up. Now I didn't say
it, I hear it. Theydid. I have voices in my head.

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Blown no, no, and aseries lost to a horrible club.
Don't you think they would have completedthe no hitter if the umpire would have
given Pressley the strike on the pitchthat was a strike when he walked the
hitter prior instead of giving him astrike on the pitch that wasn't to end
the game, because that was awfulplay, awful pitch. Like if you
were listening at the time of Yeah, if you've heard the last call,
which was in our intro, andoh wow, that ball just called a

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strike, I guess we win andthat's the ball. Yeah. I didn't
quite get it like that, butbasically yeah, yeah, no, but
I said blown. No, noseries lost to a horrible club video or
not, and I to their credit, I mean all of them nas overwhelmingly.
Yeah, but the creative ones pass. They don't deserve a video for

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losing the series to the worst teamin MLB giving it to them. They
don't get series videos. I meanyou sometimes do that out of when I
mean, I don't want to callit lady videos. It's not easy.
It's not but use mondays often produceseries like videos. Yeah, that's why
I can have a Saturday with myfamily. It's totally understandable. But the
B these were all weekday games,not much to crow about. But when

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has that ever stopped you? Surelythat's how it's to be done. No,
they don't deserve it. I won'twrite, I won't read any of
the natrolling mechanism. This was Taylormade for it, not feeling it as
hope you enjoyed your two measly victories. How about one hundred els eat it?
Something along those lines. A lotof people did want one. Save

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it. Hell to the nah,I'm trying to find the just past Jeff
Blum and all time home runs anddoesn't even get a video for it.
Let's rest tomorrow with the team goingone for four versus the A's this series
deserves no video. He apparently didn'tknow it was a three game series,
one four four, Okay, soit was a three game series, not

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a four game on a missus therewas in the first two games. Hold
off pal till we play the roadWarriors. Yeah, to start your six
games against the Royals three there beforeyou come back here next week to get
three with them. That's good.You can get, hopefully what you've been
doing all year you went on theroad. I would be pretty surprised if

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there weren't two doubs the next threedays. I wouldn't be surprised at all
if there were three. I'd beshocked if there was a second consecutive series
loss to one hundred loss team.But in twenty twenty three, would you
really Yeah, because they crush onthe road, that's true. That's what
they have going for them now whenthe Royals come back here they I haven't
seen the twenty twenty three version ofthe Royals Batter's Eyes, so I don't

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know how that'll treat them. It'sjust some fountains. I'm sure you can
see the ball. It's not eitherthere's a Budwiser party deck out there or
something of the like, because that'sover to the like. I mean,
that's where maybe some of the leftiesthat the A's were throwing, that's where
their pitches. Me I'm like,why is it hard to see a white
ball against green ivy? But Iguess that's not what they're seeing, right,
because if you're on one side ofthe box and the pitch is coming

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from the other, and where theystand on the rubber and the angle from
with those lefties coming from that side, that's where the Budwiser party deck.
Remind me to go stand at homeplate the next time we're out there,
you know, since we can dothat sort of thing. It depends what
time you get out there. Ifyou get out there before after the Royals
bus gets there and drops them offout in right field, and then they
come through the tunnel and walked throughthe douglic when we're starting the show.
Yeah, if you get there beforethat, maybe when Framber's out there with

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Martin's kid throwing in pitches, youcan probably do that. Are we going?
Are they home Friday next week?Yeah? Kansas City, that's right,
so we'll go. We'll go tothe stadium that Dan, I'll do
it. Then, Chris is theone that I was really looking for.
Well, in my opinion, itwould be somewhat embarrassing since we lost a
series at home in a critical Pennantrace to one of the worst teams in

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league history. That's just me,though, I mean, there's nothing and
you went with it. Well,I know, truth be told, I
was never going to make a videolast You've made people think, Oh,
we care what you think. Let'sdo a focus group. Already made up
my mind, dummies, It's sotrue. Nah, nothing about this series
was good. But today we wereat a point thinking about changing the color
schemes and really repping the city.So we brought in a bunch of season

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ticket holders and some focus groups,and we get a lot of opinions around
town. Believe me, what yousay matters. Are they gone? Now?
We already know what we're doing.You know what My favorite response was,
would have been a no hitter ifit was Maldy behind the plate.
Yeah, hey, look Maldy isfixing Hunter Brown. Five no hit innings.
That was awesome. Marked oops Jinercaught him a lot of people doing

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that on the old twitters. Ifthey had done the no hitter, I
would have had no choice though.That's if they had done a no hitter.
Yeah, if they if they hadgotten the no hitter done, they
got her done. If they hadn'tblown it there like last night, should
point at least one thing out,I hoped to fans. It's it's any
other game. I say the samething when you keep going to the bullpen.
How many guys are gonna have itthat night? Your starter? If

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your starter has Presley, You're great. You're good to go. Your starter
just won you to get You havegone to go to another guy, then
you go to another guy. They'reall gonna have it. It's hard,
it's very hard to do. Andthe Astros were about to throw yet another
combined no hitter. It's amazing.Would you really a lot of fun to
watch? Would you have gone onemore inning with Hunter? Yeah? I
had nothing to do with pitch count. I had to do with mental Let's

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let's leave him. Let's let himleave this game feeling good about himself.
Let's let's let him realize what he'scapable of. Let's I get that sort
of thinking. But aren't you,in so doing telling him that you think
he's fragile mentally? No, No, I don't think so at all.
I just think, hey, man, it's been two months since you've thought
something really nice. Let's give thatto you. Plus, he who cared.

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Unless his pitch gaut was twenty,it didn't really matter. He wasn't
gonna throw four more no hit innings. You were going to have to take
him out at some point. Hejust looked good last night, and I'm
sure a lot of it had todo with who he was facing. But
man, he hasn't looked like inthat kind of control in four starts,
It's fair to say that. Andhe has pitched very well against whichever group
of A's he's now faced. Thisis his fourth time seeing them. But

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for the most part, the A'sthat were there last night with the same
as that hit justin Verlander around forfive runs, they were the same as
that hit five home runs in thetwo games prior he handled them. Whoever
they want, well, they betterplay this well against the Mariners. That's
who they're playing next the A's,Yeah, aren't they? Or is it
the Rangers are playing? It's oneof the two teams behind the Astros.

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It's my brain is just next upfor the teams in the race. After
today, when the when the Rangersand Blue Jays get together finish their four
gamesters go to Kansas City, right, blue Jays are home for the rudderless
Boston Red Sox. The Rangers aregoing to see the Guardians, okay,
and the Seattle Mariners are taking onthe other team from Los Angeles in Seattle,

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the Dodgers. So but don't theOakland A's play one of those two
teams coming up behind the Astros notuntil way after the current series. That's
what I thought, going to OaklandMonday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Are the
Mariners. Oh, they'll lose,They'll lose one of those games. I
mean that crowd in Oakland, it'slike probably gonna be five thousand people there.
Maybe it'll be a struggle, Ihave no doubt. Struggle bus all

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right, Uh, plenty more toget to. I want to talk a
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(28:56):
Thursday edition of the program. WexAc Dan Matthews with you here, taking
you up until six o'clock tonight.All right, So I knew that Dion
Sanders was good for college football beforehe was ever hired at Colorado. He
had already proven that to an extent. He's always been good for football,

(29:17):
whether you like him or not,and sports and sports because he's just magnetic.
He is. He brings eyeballs towhatever he's doing, and he wins
a lot. Well yeah, that'sthat's that's almost a player, and as
a coach well obviously, but that'salmost an afterthought, as stupid as that
sounds, because his persona has alwaysbeen will always be larger than life and

(29:38):
it must be the money. Wellhere's the thing. There have been his
own song for you younger or yeah, younger kids. People were smart and
knew that the sports landscape throughout thehistory of time, since sports became organized
in a money, cash cowm whateveryou want to call it, is littered

(30:03):
with larger than life personalities that didn'thave the substance to back up whatever it
was that they brought to the tablefrom a you know, showmanship standpoint,
whatever however you want to describe it. Okay, Dion is one of the
rare birds that can bring both andwe were talking about this both today before
the show and I think either yesterdayor the day before. How long is

(30:27):
it? And we were talking aboutthis affair was stand earlier this week.
How long until he is scooped upby a power five school? And I
had said within five years? Well, he's definitely going to be at a
power five school next year. Stopit a real school, not Colorado,
a real school that has a chanceto win a national championship. And that

(30:48):
is why he will probably be atColorado next year, that statement right there,
because you think it's gonna keep goinglike this believes there's way bigger things
to be done at his current schoolthan everybody else. But you know why
I'm saying this, it's it's noteven a knock at Colorado. This is
the same thing you have aged dealtwith for so long there that school,

(31:08):
fair or not, is going tobe viewed as a stepping stone something bigger
for Dion. It's just the waycollege has been and will be until further
notice. Why why would you stayat Colorado even if you love everything and
they've been good to you, eventhough they don't even they came and pay
you yet, I mean, they'rethey're going to They're not worried about it

(31:29):
when you could go to an Alabamaor I just threw a school out there,
I mean sabans I gotta coach forever, but there there I And I'm
telling you this is just my sickpersonal fantasy. I want them to go
to A and M because I thinkthe the dichotomys plural that would be involved
there are just excellent for drama,just amazing. But I'll take him anywhere,

(31:52):
and I think it's gonna happen.But in the meantime, I mean,
there's a reason that both college gameDay and what's the name of the
other show are to be out thereat the same time, Big Newton kickoff
for what a Colorado State game?Are you kidding me? Yeah? Knew?
Kick like this is because of Dion. There's no if, sands or
butts. That's awesome for everything involvedaround Don right now, unless, of

(32:15):
course, you are the opposing coachand you just can't help yourself. But
it reminds me a little bit ofteams or individual players that kept running their
mouth about the Astros and when theywould come to town in recent seasons,
and then what would inevitably happen.The Astros would absolutely bleep slap them.
Yeah, there's a point in timewhere people on the outside, like myself

(32:37):
and others who don't necessarily believe inbulletin board material can go ahead and take
a seat and pipe down, whichI will. Some people will use every
possible thing out there. They believein it. They will make their players
believe in it'mlike their teammates believe init, and it will work to their
advantage. So when a guy who'sbeen in coaching for almost forty years,
Jane Norville, who's only in hissecond head coaching job, if the Deon

(33:00):
Sanders led Colorado team beats the JayNorvelle led Colorado State team, Jay in
his second season at Colorado State willhave these same wins at as current school
as Dion does, because it'll bethe third win in three tries for Don
Norvelle will drop two, three andeleven as Colorado State head coach. But
nonetheless, when Jay Norvelle want honorson his radio show, he recollected an

(33:23):
interview he had just done in advanceof meeting up with Colorado and Dion Sanders
and decided to, as you willhear from Dion, make something else out
of the game than it should be. Now, I sat out with the
espn of today, and I don'tcare if they hear it. In Boulder.
I told him, I took myhat off and I took my glasses
off, and I said, whenI talked to grown ups, I take
my hat and my glasses off.That's what my mother talked. So now

(33:45):
that's a small thing. Hey,hey, Jay, you are talking to
grown ups. Take off your sunglassesand hat if there's nothing else I do.
As you grow up here, youare going to learn that you do
not talk to grown ups with yoursunglasses on and your hat. Because I'm
sure it came up so many times. It's nothing. When did he grow
up on the surface of the sun? Wi a lesson from his mom?

(34:09):
Don't talk to grown ups with yoursunglasses and hat on. This is like
when buzz Phillips say they want tobe your hat off inside. Take your
hat off inside is common. There'sno mothers taught their son the lesson he's
saying here. He's just beyond it. Just these guys are all saying it

(34:30):
without saying it. And it wasthe more on it in h Norman before
him, coach Venables. If youhate him, why don't you just say
it. You're so you're so afraidof him, is what you really are?
Or just jealous. No, they'reafraid of him. They're afraid of
what he can do in the samejob that they're hired to do, just
better. They're they're afraid of himdoing the job that everyone's now going to

(34:52):
expect them to do, because he'sgonna show everybody else how it's done.
He's gonna show everybody else I canroll in any program in the country and
I can turn them into a bigtime winner. Watch me. No,
you can't, No, you can't. Oh my god, Please don't let
him, Please don't let him,Please don't let him. So far again,
we're very early in the competition.Against whom they've played is obviously not
a lot. It's only been twogames. We'll find out a little bit

(35:12):
more about TCU this week. We'llfind nothing out about Colorado this week because
Colorado State stinks. However, ifthat's what Jay wants, that's what Jay
is going to get. We also, from here moving forward, will self
censor ourselves all the time for atleast the remainder of twenty uh. We
are instead of saying we're I thinkwe should actually change Wednesday's signature segment,

(35:37):
even though it makes a whole lotof sense. Okay, I want to
change it to Wednesday's bull junk becausenow having her Dionce say this multiple times,
he's self censors by calling it bulljunk. I love it. He
said it to Edward or it ispressles darn a lot, and now he's
saying it here to his team onthe field. After catching wind of coach
Norrelle, I'm mada of our oldbusiness, watches some film trying to get

(35:58):
ready to get out of here andbe the best coach Jack of Bee and
I look up and that Reasonabullet jumpingDay said about us. Talk to him
once again, Why would you wantto talk about us? We don't talk
about no bad. All we dois go here, work eye butts.
But wouldn't they give us ammunition?They made it it was just gonna be

(36:20):
a good game. D mess roundand made it now it was gonna be
a great test. It's a Battleof Colorado. But they don't mess round
and made it twenty four point favoritesand it's only going to go up and
they're going to I mean, Idon't know what they're gonna do. Run
it up, dominate them, embarrassm just go play football. Whatever the
case may be. I would I'veplayed Colorado in some form or fashion each

(36:45):
of the first two weeks of theseason, and stone cold locks strongly considering
having them helped me go three forthree this week. Humble brag like he's
he he doesn't want to say itbecause he wants the coaches and other people
to keep doing it, but he'ssaying it with his team's play. Keep
my name out of your mouth,like I said. It reminds me a

(37:06):
lot of the Astros. Not thisyear, though, but nobody's saying anything
this year. I yeahs Deon's fantasticfor college sports. He's a big times
superstar. When did this come outas he was making his way in to
start him at the professional level?Eighty nine? Come on, dude,

(37:28):
you could have said sixty four.I wouldn't know the difference, Dan,
eighty nine checking All right, we'llfigure that out during the break. We'll
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got a bone to pick with you, X. I'll wait for your response

(39:08):
as long as it takes. Okay, pick it. You never disappoint.
I've got a bone to pick withyou. X. Comma. You know
yesterday when you made us play thataudio of that dork who coaches the Arizona
Cardinals. Do we still have it? We always have it because it's properly
being maintained in our audio files likea real show would do. So it's

(39:30):
in the system. Say some otherthings about the facilities real quick before I
move. Well, when when youtake care of it yourself, you being
me, then it's always going tobe there because it's being done the right
way. So it's not deleted accidentallyby someone else because it was location.
It doesn't even have to get deletedbecause it was not handled properly the first
time, and it ever even wentin the system. Oh, I'll just
play it off here and then it'llbe going forever. Oh you want it

(39:51):
again? Yeah? Can you sendthat to me again? Because I didn't
put in the system like I wassupposed to do. What are you saying,
game, go ahead and play thewhole thing. I've got a new
one for you. No, youdon't, Yes, I do. Let
me hear it. He's very verymotivational. Right well, winning behavior is
winning behavior. Winning behavior is winningbehavior. Why did he go full Kamala
Harris? Winning behavior is winning behavior. Yeah, just in case you didn't

(40:16):
know. Thanks for stating the obviousthere, Jonathan. He wants killers bird
Gang guy. Play the thing,Yeah, play the uncomfortable part from yesterday,
which the killers. If you said, hey, JG, what do
you want your team to look like? I want him to be killers,
truthfully silent killers. Killers. Okay, so be who you are. Just

(40:38):
understand I'm looking for killers. Yeah, exactly. Did you also see bird
Gang? Did you welcome back?Good to see everybody's faces? Welcome back?
All right? Hey X what soI'm ready? We missed something that

(41:01):
he said what he wants the fansto do, and this is via the
Arizona Cardinals official Twitter slash x account. It's a graphic with the dork with
his arms folded and his Cardinal's haton and his head set on. Quote.
I want the fans to be loudon defense, quiet on offense.

(41:24):
Pass the word along. Cool.No, he's the opposite of cool.
Everything he does and says is notcool. Plus he's owing one on top
of that, and we knew theywere going to lose this. He's doing
his job, dude, I justyeah, he's doing his job to Caleb,
oh, he's yeah, that's fine. He is doing that job.

(41:45):
But he's also doing the job oftelling the defense, Hey, you might
want to be loud when the defenseis playing, and you might want to
be quiet when the offense is playing. Thank you. Anybody who's been to
an NFL or football game of anykind, I don't know nineteen forty probably
understands that what's up? What's up? Burd gang Jonathan Ghana, new head

(42:06):
coach Arizona Cardinals, ready to getto work. Buckle up, we're gonna
have some fun. Buckle up asa fun. I can't even imagine being
in a film room with that guyand having to listen to that crap all
day long. Like, do hisplayers tune him out as easily as we
already have? Well, I meanthey know everything he's saying is a bunch

(42:28):
of nonsense because they're trying to lose. But he was a highly touted hire.
It's not has nothing to do withhim Ian he happens to be lame,
but it has nothing to do withthat Lane is being nice. This
guy gotta be the goofiest coach ofall time, and the Cards social team
doesn't do him any favors. That'sone response to that tweet. Another one
is from Trey Wingo. I mightadd hear me out. Actual fans already

(42:52):
know this. He mispelled here.I mean, I guess I'll give the
Texans this. They didn't hire somebodygoofy like that. Now David Culley was
pretty goofy. Well, what werethey trying to do? Lose Bingo?
Now he's much more qualified, nooffense to coach Cully. Cully had been
an NFL coach for a long time, so qualified him to continue being an

(43:15):
NFL coach. He wasn't qualified tobe a head coach, Gannon, I
think based on the past most guys, it's just like Josh McCown. Josh
McCown's not qualified to be a headcoach unless you just want to go hey,
anybody can do it, then youcan hire anybody. In Texans almost
did reasonable takes NFL Gannon's pregame speech, I want touchdowns on offense and turnovers

(43:37):
on defense. Pass the word along. Tell a teammate, tag a teammate.
It's so bad. He's so he'ssuch a dork, That's what it
is. He's just such a door. I just don't know how that's a
leader of men, at least asfar as the football team goes in the
NFL. But anyway, all right, there's your Jonathan Gannon update. I
couldn't possibly have what you want beenwhat you wanted from that segment. What

(44:00):
do you mean that you wanted togo full of Jonathan Gannon for a full
segment. That's how you You hada bone to pick with me about Jonathan
Gann. You introduced that crap audioand now I can't unhear it. That's
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(46:19):
Adam Clanton. I'm the other guy. Dan Matthews is our producer, taking
you up until six o'clock tonight.We have covered extensively the series Salvage last
night inside Minute Made Park, inwhich the Astros climbed to a grand total
of one game over five hundred insidethe not so friendly confines of the Juice

(46:39):
Box. They are now thirty eightand thirty seven at home after a much
needed, nearly no hit victory overthe Oakland A's on a scale of one
two, I don't know, homicidal. How upset were you win? Ryan
Pressley blue that combined no hitter?Hey, honey, yes, uh you're

(47:01):
gonna go get Ryan. Wendy iswhen do you need to get picked up
now. I'll leave in a coupleof minutes. Why, I'll go get
him. No, it's all right, I'll leave when the game is over.
When's the game gonna be over.It could be a matter of seconds.
I don't know. We'll see fine, I'll go get him. No,
no, no, no, no, I'll get him. I'll get

(47:22):
him. Don't worry and queue thebase hit. All right, I'll see
you later. So that is,if I'm doing the scale equivalent, that's
not a one. That's a littlebit more than just mildly annoyed. That's
like a two or three, likethe anti. Honestly, it wasn't a
whole lot. It's it's a combinedno hitter, for one thing, So

(47:43):
it carries a little bit different momentumwith it throughout the night. You're playing
the A's, so it carries avery different momentum. Two strikes against you
already, and the win matters waymore than the no hitter. The win
was in the bank, they weregonna win the game, and at no
point during Pressley's give up two runsin the ninth with a huge lead.

(48:05):
Yeah, so never concerned about that. It was more like they do this
all the time. I'm not gonnalie to you. This is this is
what they do. They know hitteams, they throw no hit baseball.
They throw combined no hitters. JoeBiagini is part of a combined Joe I'm
not good is a compart of aPete Monroe is part of a combined no
hitter. It's what they do.Mike Fires is part of a just a

(48:29):
no hitter. He also threw onsomewhere else, so it's like that's his
thing, but he's a rat.That's his other thing. He has some
things. No would have to me. It would have been cool, and
it also would have helped with thethe idea to again present to people,
this is a baseball season. Iknow you guys are familiar with it.
I know you guys understand it.It isn't like everything else. Every day

(48:50):
can be completely different. Basketball teamis what it is. If they're fully
healthy, they're gonna go out thereand they're gonna perform like that nearly every
night all year. Maybe they're agood team. They're gonna in fifty times.
They're an average team, they're gonnawin forty one times. They're the
Rockets. Recently they're gonna win twentytimes. It's it's not day to day.
Well today they're gonna be great.Well, but it's not like that
in baseball. And I mean,maybe you think somebody else has been less

(49:13):
successful recently, but their fifth beststarter in a five man rotation was part
of a eight and a third nohitting performance. Baseball's just different, man,
Baseball hits different Clinton, it doesit does. They almost threw a
no hitter after the back to backworst two days of their season. In

(49:35):
my opinion, they'd had some gutpunch losses that have some disappointing days.
They've had injuries like oh, look, he's going back to the dugout.
What's the deal here? He hadto leave the game. There are lots
of things, but where we arein the season, who they were playing,
Knowing that with the Rangers and BlueJays playing, somebody's gonna take an
l with the fact that Seattle wasstruggling with the La Angels, like this

(49:57):
is it, go take advantage ofit. Make three or four were day's
worth of a cushion and staid theyhave one day of cushion. You know,
there's only a one game advantage.So yeah, to flip that from
what Monday and Tuesday provided to whatlast night provided. Last night, when
Jordan hit the second hardest batted ballof his career, how man I remember
looking at the graphic, felt likeI think they might have this one.

(50:19):
I was like, wait, Imean I saw four and twenty feet.
That's pretty far right. And again, to be specific, it was the
hardest hit he'd ever had. Itwasn't the hardest hit ball. It was
the hardest hit ball that went fora hit right in his career, and
this one went for all that werelike balls usually are not considered an exit

(50:40):
velocity conversation, but didn't happen.They're fouls exactly. But technically it's like
if CJ. Strout throws a touchdownto Nico Collins this week, but Robert
Woods is called for offensive pass interferensicand the Colts accept the penalty. It's
like, it didn't happen. Youthe way you split hairs on some things
and then other things. I dolike going back on NFL games when we

(51:04):
get to debate them and and lookat them, like, let's say,
you know the situation with Will Anderson, you know had the play, you
know there was a penalty on thatplay. You know, if it's first
down, if it's second down,do you take the penalty. I mean
there's things you might have considered whichwould have wiped out Will Anderson's first ever
sack. You know, it wasthird down. They punted after that,
so probably about no. I thoughtabout that when when the official went over

(51:29):
to Demiko, because he had toultimately make that decision, and he could
have taken that sack away. Imean unless he goes up to the booth
and says, Nick, what doyou want to do now? That would
have been last year or the yearprobably would have been never years. David
Cully was taking his cues from theVest. David Culley was hired so he
could follow through on the bird Gangplan. They just were first to it.

(51:52):
Yeah, he was just like hewas telling him how to lose,
like that's why he got hired.That's yeah. Look, I'm glad they
got to win. It's fine.I wish they would have won more than
just the one game against a terribleA's team. But I bring all that
up to say this. I mean, you've kept an eye on the Al

(52:15):
East all year. Obviously we talkedabout this ad naseum at the beginning of
the year, how competitive and howgood that division of teams better than five
hundred? Well barely no, no, no, not anymore. Seventy three
and seventy two is above five hundred. Did I not refresh this page?
Maybe I didn't refresh them. Youdid, because the Yankees are at five
hundred. Yes, they're seventy threeand seventy three. They suck just ahead

(52:38):
of them, I mean literally atseventy four and seventy two. The Red
Sox, who now apparently no longerhave their chief baseball officer in place because
after four years they have fired him. Yeah, I think about this,
All these years of Jeff Luno andA. J. Hinch and James Click
and Jim Crane and winning has costa lot of people jobs in their division

(53:00):
and elsewhere. Rightfully, so theywere the only ones cheating wax School and
what have we said about Baltimore forthe last couple of years. They're doing
what the app they're hoping to replicate, and they're doing a really good job
of it. On the early endof replicating what the Astros helps that they're
employing a guy who is sly,So what are they now doing. They're
making other teams in their division firepeople. Bloom's been there for four years.

(53:22):
They went to the Alcs one timein those four years. Of course,
the Astros told him to kick Rocksand get out of the playoffs.
He was also the person responsible forrehiring Alex Cora, so Alex Cora would
not be back unless a person inhis position wanted it to happen and essentially
made it happen. We expect theYankees to not return to twenty twenty four
with both Aaron Boone and Brian Cashmanin place. One guy just got an

(53:45):
extension and the other guy's Aaron Boone, So you tell me who's getting fired.
And then though Aaron Judges on recordis saying I want him to be
the manager, that's just to memind blowing. Well, it's the only
thing I don't think he does avery good job of. From Afar is
they're not a very fundamentally sound team. But some of that is who they
have on the team. Now,who puts the people on the test.
The thing I mean they could teachthey could be. The Astros, led

(54:07):
by Jose Altuve, makes some unbelievablebone headed moves on the basse pass because
BANKI say, hold my fifty beers. They're so bad at base running.
They run it outs more than andit's been years and years and years,
all of them under Aaron Boone,with all different players. So some of
that is they're not getting the messageor the message is not being delivered and

(54:28):
they just give outs away because theythink they're savages and it doesn't matter.
But stages in the box go insidetheir dugout, their clubhouse. The last
few years, I think what AaronJudge says about Boone is something that most
of the guys would echo. Heck, if and when Dusty Baker is not
the manager the Astros, I don'tthink the players are going to be the
reason. I don't think the playersaren't backing him. I don't think the

(54:49):
players don't believe in him. Theydo. They like him, they like
him as a manager, they likethe things that he does. When managers
get fired, it's not necessarily becausethey did did something wrong, we're bad.
It's it's either time to move on, and it's definitely the case in
New York for both of them,or someone has to do something to save
their job. Okay, so ifI fire him, Am I good?

(55:10):
Yes, Okay, then he's firedthe Astros again getting people fired to this
day because the Yankees have gone throughtwo managers now that couldn't beat Houston.
And as it pertains to this story, when we come back, I just
hope Aaron Boone gets a gig withMLB Network and then he's doing a demonstration
on the field and he accidentally divulgeshow the Yankees used to cheat, just
like the flask I did. Well, he didn't act, he didn't actually

(55:32):
divulge. He caught himself and itwas not obvious at all. And then
we would tell the guy in thebook, it's just unbelievable. And yet
you have idiots like the guy we'regonna talk about in the next segment,
among other things, because it's it'swhat's up with that is our signature segment.
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With that? What's up with that? Dan? Have you gotten used
to this brand new signature segment introthat Adam Wexler sings for us? Yet
it's tremendous? How old is thisnow? Two years? We've been doing
the show over four years now together, it's got to be at least two

(58:50):
years old. Anyway, we typicallyreserve this segment each and every week at
four fifteen twenty on a Thursday togive you an example of some cutting edge
audio and then react to it becauseit makes us say, hey, what's
up with that? And Wax hassomething very good today? I hope so,

(59:12):
oh that's not a good sign Well, I mean, I don't know
how it will play. I'm youhave it? Yeah, I hope I
have it. I mean I hopeit's good. Yeah. So there are
a lot of places to capture theminds of people these days. A lot
of people have switched over from theirplaying career to their entertainment career. A
lot of them with podcasts and otherrelated materials and programs to such people Matty

(59:36):
Barnes and Stephen Jackson, two ofthe more likable role players in NBA history.
I never once thought, wow,that guy's a total douchebag ever about
either of them. Rather amazing.That being said, there was quite a
bit of winning in each of theirrespective careers. Yeah, they were role
players on teams with other good players, right, so the good players could

(59:57):
do what they did, and thenthey would do what they did to help
protect them. It's not a hockeygame, but there's something Towns. So
who might they have had on theirshowtime show? Two guys that would be
described exactly the same way, butin this case they are brothers and twins.
The Morris brothers sat down with them. So that's a lot of duche

(01:00:20):
in one room, a lot ofconversation about basketball, a lot of conversation
about personal life. And you know, we've we've talked about it with different
people over the years that we've comeacross. You see it joked about quite
often. You know, you're you'retwins. You grew up together, you
went to school together, you wentto college, maybe together, all those
ridiculous twin like questions. So naturallythat's one of the questions that Matt Barnes

(01:00:45):
lobbed their way. What's the wildestif you could say the wildest switch off,
y'all pool whether it be in theclassroom, in sports, in life,
it's got to be in life,but inappropriate for the cameras. And
I believe the name of the segmentis what's up with that? She had
no idea that it was actually mytwin she was in bed with. Could

(01:01:07):
just say it, Matt, youdouche, He's still Matt. Yeah,
he was the one laughing. Ohokay, I know that was not as
Jack's laugh It wasn't I know howhe laughs, especially when he wasn't.
Stephen Jackson, the one that recentlydivulged that he left He practically left his

(01:01:30):
fiance at the Altar because she refusedto sign a prenup. Uh, he
might have, but it doesn't soundcrazy like they had talked about this months
in advance. Well, yeah,but you did just not ask too exactly
she was he was. They hadagreed on it and signed one R did
not sign a prenup. She didn't. It's blank still to this h so

(01:01:50):
is the paper he's not written on. Would you guys split up now that
you have a child in high schooland one already in college because it's coming
man, totally, you guys aren'tgonna make it. She's getting half.
So on that note, this lastsuper Bowl Chiefs Eagles, the Kelsey Bowl,
yes mentioned yesterday, I wanted towatch the Twins prime video show Kelsey,

(01:02:13):
the doc on the Kelsey family,mainly focusing on Jason. Now,
think about that last Super Bowl.We saw Donna, their mom, NonStop
for an entire week. She was, as they called her, the heavyweight
champion of the Super Bowl. Shewas everywhere, and I think there were
people wondering, like, Okay,well she's everywhere. Where's he Ed Kelsey?
Their father, He's obviously still around. They're not together in the midst

(01:02:36):
of this. I know it's onlybeen out three days. So this actually
is a spoiler alert. I guessif you don't want me to say it,
I won't, but I'm going to. They they say in the documentary
they stayed together for the kids.While living in the same house and going
to bed in different rooms. Theystayed together because of logistics. Basically,
it would have been too difficult withtwo boys doing all the activities they were

(01:03:00):
doing to get this person there andthat person there, and do this and
do that. And so they,you know, to their own for their
own sacrifice, for their kids benefit, they stayed together. So you stayed
together as a family, did notget divorced. Family unite in the same
under the same roof. So youhave been to my house numerous times,
and you know that we've got youknow, my stepdaughter. It's Teresa's daughter,

(01:03:23):
who is a senior in high schoolthis year. And obviously she is
a child of divorce because and shewas like a year old when they split,
so she's never really known any otherway other than living separately. Well,
then we get together. She's nineyears old when we started dating.
She's I think she's just about tobe ten when we got married. And

(01:03:45):
then Junior comes along. And Ihave said on numerous occasions, I don't
care what she thinks about this orthat I'm saying it on the air,
because I've said it to her face. I don't care what you think.
I said, we're not getting adivorce, Like if something had care what
you think we're not getting I don'tcare what you think we're not getting a
divorce, And here's why I'm notleaving this house and leaving him specifically when

(01:04:10):
he we could make it happen.Okay, if like it comes down to
it and we're like, we're notgoing to be like legally together anymore bound
by law all that I live inthe theater. Yeah, you've kind of
already set yourself up for that.Continue. I'll just get a Murphy bed.
I'll take down the Jerseys, puta murphy bed on the wall.
What would you would the door remainas it is? It has a lock
on it. Okay, but that'sthe chees you're going to hand out,

(01:04:30):
that's the question. Right. Butyou can't get to it without going through
the house, right, you haveto get into the house first. But
I'm the only one that uses thegarage anyways. They all park outside like
heathens. And it's like, ifyou don't use your garage, by the
way, you're a third rate citizen. There are so many streets neighborhoods that
you drive through. It's ridiculous,Like, get out of the street.
Your driveway is empty, your driveways, your garage is empty. Your garage.

(01:04:54):
I can see it when the garagedoor is up, and I'm like,
oh, really, why are youparked on the street. A lot
of times when people do that,it's because they have all their crap in
the garage. Because storage facile,position and Frogger combined is a fun game
when you're in your own car,because there's a car on your right and
a car on your left, andthen another car on your right, and
then two cars parked right next toeach other with a small spot in between,
and you got to decide am Igoing or you're going? It's fun.

(01:05:15):
I love playing. What else isfun? But go ahead and use
your driveway. You know what elseis fun is Tetris, which I drive,
which I play in our driveway allthe time because I have to move
cars around like I'm a clown.It's just there's only two and a half
cars. Her new thing. I'mtired of paying for this storage facility.
It just keeps increasing every three months. Of course it's full. Where's it
gonna go? And she thinks it'sgonna go in the side of the garage

(01:05:39):
that I cleaned out for her carthat she never uses. She wants to
turn the garage into a storage facility. I'm like, we have a garage
that's open for two cars. Ittook an entire Saturday to get it all
cleaned out. You never use it. You have a long driveway up to
your garage, typical driveway. Yeah, why don't you just just extend the
covered, locked and door like portionof it just to bring it out.

(01:06:00):
That's what I want to do.Closer to the stretch. What I want
to do definitely not be an eyesore. Well, no, we have right
in your neighbor. Definitely do that. We have one of those overhangs right,
Yeah, that's open. Yes.My goal might literally like realistic legit
down the road. Goal is toturn that part into the new garage and
put a room behind it where wherethe current garage is. None of that
can happen if you decide to makethat part of our house a storage facility

(01:06:26):
because you don't want to pay thebill anymore. Yeah, to be fair,
that's what happened to me. That'sa racket. That's a whole segment.
I could go on this. Don'tget a storage facility if you're not
planning on paying at least double withinlike two years of getting it, because
that's what they do man, wegot a special going on. We got
a special going on. It's seventyfive dollars a month. You're gonna love
it, and then in six monthsit's going to be two fifty. How

(01:06:49):
does that work. I don't know. It's in the language like everything else.
Hey, man, sign up forthis service. It's only five bucks
this month. Well, I justwish they would hand you the vasoline when
you walk in the door, becausethat's what they do. Slippery hand.
He finally brought us back to theoriginations. Man Matt Bins pulling the old
switcheroo unfit for our podcast. Everytwin set has done that both, So

(01:07:16):
what the female twins go on whata double date? And then go to
the restroom and come back and sitin the opposite seats and see if the
bros notice yep h or or viceversa. Do other things and see if
the bros notice, or the broworder their food. You know, I
mean women don't typically think that way. That's a very devious thing, by
the way, not ness. Imean you might. It might sound cool

(01:07:39):
at one time. It's really cool. No, and it's kind of might
should be illegal right in some way. I don't know. That's a very
very dirty thing to do. Ariseemed to think it was hilarious on Entourage.
I forgot about that, but itwas not intentional. No, he
was discussed that twins weren't the oneswho perpetrated such a thing. It was
really one of the twins wives whoslept with the You mean knowing it was

(01:08:01):
you? Were you trying to behim? What was better? Though?
This isn't funny, are I?No? It's disgusting? What was better
that? Or when uh, Dramaand Turtle crossed swords when Harry Hamlin's wife
to pull the old switcheroo Lisa Renna, Yeah, she was on Entourage.
Drama thought he knew her for years, and so she said come on over,

(01:08:25):
and he's like, come on,Turtle, you gotta come. She's
got this friend who was less attractivethan Lisa Rinna, and so they got
in the hot tub with him.And that's when Lisa presented Turtle and Drama
with the yeah, but I likemy guys younger, So she switched over
to Turtle and then Drama kinda gotthe not the short end of the stick,
the large end of the stick.I need to go back and watch
that episode, he took one forthe team. You could say, Lisa

(01:08:46):
Renna's a close personal friend of mine. You know that, right, That's
why I brought her into the conversation. I know it pops up on your
Phone's no, like we're actually friends. I don't doubt it. That's a
lie. That's absolutely She tweeted meonce, that's all. I'm oh,
how nice. So if everyone thatjust tweeted you once was a friend,
how many friends would you have?Gosh, how a lot of the people
that blocked me. That's a biglist. It's long and distinguished. We'll

(01:09:09):
come back on the other side andset you up if you want to join
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(01:09:31):
house. See what's going on therethese days? Well, that's spent a
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when we set you up with thesetickets, we're gonna set you up with
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two joining and win the four packettickets this yet, this will be the
seventh league the Cougars will have playedin all time, A bunch of them
a long time ago, several morerecent as you know, so their seventh
league opener. They've actually won theirlast four new conference openers, but they've
only opened up conference play a newconference at home one time? Was there

(01:12:33):
cusa opener nearly thirty years ago?Who did they beat in that game when
they opened Conference USA play? Whodid they beat in that game at home?
The only other time before Saturday theyopened a new league, opened their
new league play with a home game. Just tell us switch team they beat

(01:12:56):
soundly in that game in Conference USAseven one three two five ninety and you
and your four packet tickets. We'llsee me out there on Saturday night.
All right, Good luck to theto the contestants, obviously, I hope
I've hinted them along the way tovictory. Well enough, there's no way
they've got to get this now ontosomething a little bit more serious and not

(01:13:21):
as upbeat. I'm gonna give youa choice. Do you want to go
with door number two? Baseball relatedscumbaggery involving Houston one? Or baseball related
scumbaggery involving Houston two? I preanswered, So that's your final answer,

(01:13:44):
though I don't need a lifeline.All right, Well, in that case,
we will go with this any rightson this day fifteen years ago,
two thousand and eight. Yep,what do you think happened? I'll give
you it's just one guess, sinceyou're so good at your baseball. It's
September fourteenth, involves the Astros,two thousand eight, and it involves the

(01:14:08):
Astros. I got nutting fifteen yearsago today, According to a Twitter account
known as at cubs Zone, CarlosAmbrono threw a no hitter against the Astros.
Now that in and of itself whatever, everybody's gonna see that and think,

(01:14:29):
oh wow, that's cool that theones who don't remember it, right,
But Travis Burlson does remember it,and he has quote tweeted this in
a tweet to me that he hastagged me on and he writes in Milwaukee
because that piece of bleep. ButSea League told the Astros, bleep your
family and your homes during a hurricane, fly to Milwaukee to play Chicago because

(01:14:51):
we have to play every game.Remember this bull bleep, Adam Clanton.
And the answer to that question isyes, I do. Rescheduled from s
twelfth in parentheses. Hurricane Ike playedat Milwaukee at Miller Park against who,
again the team most closely located to. There's not a baseball team that was

(01:15:14):
located geographically closer. It's physically impossible. In America in two thousand and eight,
as things were laid out, well, the same teams are existing,
but there's literally couldn't have been someonecloser, literally because the Southsiders in Chicago
are farther away by geography. Thisis literally the closest team possible, and

(01:15:34):
you basically gave them a free homegame in Milwaukee while the Astros players and
their families were dealing with a naturaldisaster. Budd Sea League is a piece
of crap protecting the cleanup hitter thatday for the Astros. Yes, Jeff
Blum, Oh, he was upset. He was one of every member of
the starting lineup other than mcguel Tahata. See this is to strike out in

(01:15:57):
that game. This is why wheneverwe start talking about bud Sea League and
Blumber quickly corrects me and says dudSea League. He can't stand him.
And this is why you mess withpeople's families. You're not there's no coming
back from that. Plus he wasa terrible commissioner. Plus he looked like
or. Plus he just just allback all the way around. He looked

(01:16:18):
like or. You know who finishedout that game on the mound for the
Astros two thousand eight. You don'tremember him? Bud Norris. No,
Matt Castle's brother Jack, Matt Castle. What's he doing these days? He's
not Jack analyst? He is TVanalysts yep, for what network? I

(01:16:38):
believe CBS Sports Network. I thinkit does college football in studios doing college
Okay, But yes they were nohit that day by Carlos Zambrano, another
likable guy. Luckily Borne Michael Bornedrew a walk, so it was not
a perfect game. Good Also,Hunter Pence used some part of his body
to get hit by a pitch,so also still not a perfect game.

(01:17:00):
It's such, I mean, justlunacy. Why do other people like care
even less than possible about the Astroswhen it comes to natural disasters. I
don't know. I don't want tocome on, they don't do the Rangers
now, they don't have a heartevery time the Astros beat down the Rangers
and keep them from winning a ring, which they never will. It's just
it's so much better after what happenedin twenty seventeen. Just move the series,

(01:17:26):
do the right thing. Don't behorrible people. It's just not that
hard, and yet here we are. Why is it with baseball teams?
I don't I don't think I've everhad less of an opportunity to figure it
out because they got eighty billion games. Yeah, that's fine, but this
was easily figure outable. That's whyI'll never hate the Tampa Bay Rays for
opening up their doors for the Astros, you know, because they did the

(01:17:47):
right thing. The Astros were notbound for the postseason that year, four
or three and a half games outof the final spot two thousand and eight.
Yep, that was one loss thathelped keep them out of the plot
was the beginning of the dark timesthat they were on their way. They
were well on their way. Therewere better than the West Division champion that

(01:18:10):
year, but they were only thirdplace in their own division. Yeah,
that's that's kind of like what peopleare gonna be saying about the AL Central
this year. Really, the Twinsjust get a playoff spot. Twins have
played well enough to actually be closeto legitimate. Now they're not an embarrassment.
They're just clearly the sixth best teamof six who land the number three
seed because they get a second gift. Here's our gift. You make the

(01:18:33):
playoffs. Here's your second gift.You get to play at home. Granted
you don't get a third gift becauseonly two teams get a buy. But
they're seventy six and seventy. Theteam that makes the playoffs is the last
wildcard team is only you know,five or so games had a better than
them, it's a plenty. Well, they're not very good. If you
enjoyed a trip down memory lane forbud Sea League, you're really going to

(01:18:57):
enjoy another guy who has drawn theire of Astros fans and is doing it
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Back to Houston's eighteen on Sports Talkseven ninety. It is the eight team

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here on Sports Talk seven ninety.So I was perusing Twitter earlier today and
I know this is gonna surprise you. X found somebody say something that made
me mad. And that person,if you can't guess who it is already,

(01:21:12):
that would be Buster Onney. He'sa guy who for a long time
has said all the wrong things,all the wrong ways as it pertains to
the astros cheating scandal. But he'skind of the gift that keeps on giving,
and it's different for him than itis for like, well, obviously
the players that were in Major LeagueBaseball and going on the record and saying
all the things that they were saying. But it's even different with him than

(01:21:35):
it is with other quote unquote journalists. I mean, Jeff Passon probably enjoyed
some of those reports a little bittoo much. We know what some of
the other the usual suspects, ifyou will, the names that have been
out there saying. But I justfeel like Buster, for whatever reason,
is the only person with a biggeract to grind is probably Evan Drelick.

(01:21:57):
I don't know why. Maybe hedidn't mean it to come off the way
it did, but it always feelslike he just said the wrong thing about
the Astros at any given time toreally stir up the fan base. Now
he didn't directly do that today,but when this whole news about the Boston
Red Sox firing their chief baseball officercame out, what do you think Buster

(01:22:18):
Ali's first thought was, he wentto Twitter today that you shouldn't be blaming
the GM because over the fifteen yearstretched during which they won four World Series,
the Red Sox payroll ranked in thetop three all four of those years.
But then over the last four yearswhile Bloom's been in charge, they've
been under the CBT three times andtheir payroll this year was eleventh, but

(01:22:38):
it was the GM's fault. OhI'm sorry, that was Jeff Passon's tweet.
Yeah, exactro the guy who gotfired in Boston. Yeah yeah,
Oh, don't worry. There's gonnabe some pro guy in Boston with this
tweet. Now, Buster only didn'tsay that Jeff Passon did. This is
what Buster Olney said. It'll beinteresting to see if Alex Cora emerges as

(01:23:00):
one of the candidates to run baseballoperations in Boston. Hang on there,
Carl, just a second. We'vegot the fan who interfered with the game
right here. Let me interview him. Yeah, that's true. You think
Steve Bartman was watching that, Like, you've got to be kidding me.
It's just like it wasn't a playoffgame. So it's like Reggie Bush,
that guy's life was ruined. Timeschanged, rules changed. Look at it,

(01:23:23):
and he continues. Yeah. Soit'll be interesting to see if Alex
Cora, of all the names hecould have said, Alex Cora, emerges
as one of the candidates to runBoston's baseball operations. He has a broad
range of experience. Comma and othersin the organization felt he increased his presence
in the player development this year.Well, he also increased his waistline this

(01:23:45):
year, but that's different, soI know you've got something things to say.
The comments on this are phenomenal becauseAstro's Twitter rose up among the people
that responded. If you remember exactlywhat Clanton just said. As he read
Buster's original tweet, Chris comments backto Buster, saying it'll be interesting to
see if Alex core emerges as oneof the candidates to run Boston's baseball operations.

(01:24:09):
He has a broad range of experiencein cheating, and others in the
organization felt he increased his presence inthe player development of cheating techniques hashtag fixed
it. I mean there is oneperson player, coach, minor league operations
director, video operator, former catcher. There's only one such individual that I

(01:24:31):
can think of that was named inboth of the reports linked to cheating with
two different teams, one report aboutthe Astros, one report about the Red
Sox, and this person that willbe interesting to see if he emerges as
one of the candidates to move intothe front office as a two time cheater

(01:24:53):
is Alex Cora after he was rehiredafter being fired as manager after cheating to
win a World series after leaving Houston, where he cheated to win another World
Series. However, I bust here. Yeah, this is the perfect guy.
That'll be quote interesting, how interestingwill it be? Please tell me
Buster write an entire article so thatyou can drag up all of the other

(01:25:15):
things you want to say about theAstros again, because they're the only team
that ever cheated in based on itmakes you cry into a pillow at night.
To that end, our good friendTony responded to him and said,
I love this completely legitimizes the twentyseventeen World Series title. Why the Astros?
Yeah, so you're vouching Game twentyseventeen member of the clown suit wearing

(01:25:38):
portion of the what do you callthem costumes? He wore a costumes in
the dug out yep okay, nextto AJ and his costume. Again,
it's a it's a report, ninepage report. There are very few names
in that report. AJ's name wasin the report, Carlos Beltron's name was
in the report. Jeff Luno,Jim Crane's names were in the report,
so was Alex Correz, and thenin the report about the Red Sox,

(01:26:00):
none of those names appeared again,well except for Alex Coors. I mean,
it's just it's okay, man,we don't even It's okay Alex Cora
and the Boston Red Sox have achampionship, no problem. The Astros have
one, two now they have two. It's okay. Just count them all
and we do down here in theh But he had to respond, what

(01:26:25):
did your tweets? I actually likeyou? I'm sorry, what did your
post say? I would actually readit. I'd like you to read it
because it's funny. You're coming fromyou. Something I write that you read
to me, I'll go with afresh read. Okay, I'm just your
onna. Five hours ago, threehours after that response, at Adam Clinton
says, let's get a load ofthis guy. Honestly, it's impressive the

(01:26:45):
lack of shame. Twits like BusterUnderscore ESPN have to even tweet something like
this with a straight face. Remindme not to step on you again the
next time you show your face aminute. Make yeah. Matt Barnes liked
it. Seriously. Every time Iwalk by that guy, I'm like,
how do you get stepped on more? You're like four eleven. Buster's got

(01:27:09):
up. You know, he's areasonably sized human up to him. He's
an apps. No, you don't. He's definitely not under five six.
You don't look up to him.Literally, you might be eye level,
but I would never think, youknow what though, I would never look
at you and say I might stepon him if I'm not careful that I
would say that with Buster only whogoes by Buster? How old is he?

(01:27:31):
Sixty five? It's a grown mangoing around by Buster. It's a
cool name. It's not a coolname if you grew up going dog why
would you drop it? If yougo play fetch, it's a cool name.
If you come in through a doggydoor in the back door, it's
a cool name. I gotta say, I've never seen this before for someone
who's currently alive, someone named Buster. It was his first name is Richard.

(01:27:51):
I've seen that before on the alwaysgo to site for information personal information
about people. His real first nameis Richard. Yeah, so we can
start calling I keep saying that it'sit's Robert, not Richard. That's not
as much fun. I gotta callhim Bob. If he was born in
the eighteen hundreds, I might understandthis. If we were born in the

(01:28:11):
seventeen hundreds, I might understand this, but our worldwide leader in information Wikipedia
says he was born in nineteen sixtythree or nineteen sixty four. They're not
sure. I thought he was olderthan that. Well, he'll be either
fifty nine or sixty soon, yesor not. That's crazy, like of

(01:28:34):
all the things you could have said, and we know we get it.
He's the he's an insider. Thisis news other people don't have you.
I'm going to show you what theRed Sox are thinking internally. But he
thinks it'll be interesting. That's notnews. No, this is a Hayman
like report. I'm hearing the RedSox would consider bringing Alex Cora into the

(01:28:57):
front office. He just wrote it. Yes, what it'll be interesting to
see if that drunk can function ina front office after cheating as a manager
and a bench coach twice, onein each, one in each role,
both times being a drunk. It'sall about winning, I guess it is.
Winning is the name of the game. You're not sure lesson, but

(01:29:18):
you're just trying to win. Butwhat about cheating to win? Is that?
Okay? Yes, the answer isif you're in Boston. No,
the answer is if you're in Houston. According to Bob only who goes by
Buster and may or may not besixty how old, fifty six or fifty
eight, fifty nine or sixty whatever. Do you think the Astros are considering
a J. Hints for a frontoffice role? I would if I were

(01:29:39):
them? Why not? So nownow you're making it worse? So why
shouldn't they consider Alice? See you, Dana? I just fired Dana Brown.
No, I didn't say to replacedata. I think no. I
honestly, if if they brought backa J. Hinch, well, it's
not even really what I'm saying itwas, It's what I'm saying now I've
changed. I've changed gears here.If the Astros brought back a J.
Hinch, like next year, first, whatever, whenever, they're gonna do

(01:30:01):
it, January, during the wintermeetings whatever, currently employed, Yeah,
whatever, Send them some draft comperence, send them a minor leaguer. They
don't mind. They don't even likethem. They just ship them off for
retreads. Justin Verlander addition to theAstro's roster, most recently played for the
Detroit Tigers. That's true. Itis a fact. We haven't even mentioned
it yet. It's so big.We'll save it for Oops, we ran

(01:30:25):
out of time on in case youmissed it. That's the name of the
segment. Now, well, we'vegot so many other more pressing things to
say. Then, Hey, BennettSUSA is an astro. Okay, real
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Next Generation Network. Yes, let'sgo, Hey, let's go, guys,
it is the eighteen. Here onSports Talk seven ninety Chandler Rome of
the Athletic joining us here for hisweekly visit off day for the Astros,

(01:32:15):
who managed to salvage their series againstthe A's last night. Chandler, did
you enjoy that near no no combinedhitter no hitter? I was at the
you know, I spend like thesixth and seventh ending of those things just
hoping it gets broken up because it'sjust gonna be more work for me.
But then once you get into theninth ending and you have everything written,

(01:32:38):
you're just like, all right,just finish it. And then I got
broken up with one out in theninth and I was like, oh,
I have all this stuff written andI'm never gonna do anything with So it
was actually probably the worst case scenariofrom my point of view. I'll get
to hear you at a great eveningat the ballpark. Now I get that
it's people don't realize that kind ofstuff. And as someone who who took
phone calls complete lea just trying toobliterate you because you were the root of

(01:33:01):
all the problems with the Houston Nashtionalsoverlive, It's been a weird week with
this team. They're playing so well, then they come home with a great
opportunity in front of them, droppedtwo out of three to one of the
worst teams in baseball. And nowthey're gonna go back out on the road
where I have full confidence they'll startplaying like the good version of themselves because
they're not a minute made. Yeah, I mean, I guess this is

(01:33:25):
I guess this week was kind ofthe epitome of this is why you play
the game, because I think anyonethat looked at this part of the schedule
had to kind of think this wasfavorable. You know, you think of
where they were after that last gameagainst the Padres. They were two and
a half up in the division.They had. Nine of their next twelve
games were against either the Royals ofthe of the A's. You looked at

(01:33:46):
the Rangers, We're gonna go toToronto. You looked at the Mariners reeling
a little bit, and you werejust calling, man, this is like
they could not have it any betterin front of them, and then you
know, you don't play well againstI think it offered a reminder too,
that you know, the A's maybe bad, but like they're also like
they're major league players, like theyget paid too, Like they have some

(01:34:08):
talent. It's not near as muchtalent as the Astros have, but you
know, you, I think ifyou're an Astros fan, you hope that
those two games, you know,didn't really give away the huge advantage that
they have, because look, theystill have a big advantage, right like
six of their next nine games oragainst the Royals, who by record are
worse than the A's, so youknow, they still have the upper hand

(01:34:32):
here going forward in the West.You know, I think if they can
get on that last road trip againstthe Mariners and the d Backs, if
they can get on that trip withat least a two game lead, in
the West. I think they'd haveto feel pretty good about themselves. But
I mean, part of that's gonnainvolve taking care of business, and part
of it's gonna involve beating bad teams, which is something they didn't do this
week. Yeah, I mean,so obviously in their hands, they're to

(01:34:54):
the team in first place. They'reeven you know, have the not only
the division cushion, which is light, the cushion all the way down to
they'd need to fall behind three teamsto miss the postseason entirely. That's still
it's in their hands. We allknow that what's gonna make it work if
they get to the postseason and whenis probably what happens when the maybe four

(01:35:15):
different starting pitchers take them out.And the first two were the two they
got beat this week against the A'sFramber and Justin, both of whom will
likely elicit a lineup that includes MartinMaldonado and at least in one of those
games Mauricio Dubon in a Game oneor two of whatever series they're in.
Am I right in thinking that JPFrance gets the ball next, and I

(01:35:36):
know we're way ahead of ourselves,and what would you suggest they might do
with the next game if they neededa fourth different pitcher to start. Well,
I think what you just said probablyunderscores a couple of things that underscores
why they need to win the divisionbecause if they don't win the division and
they have to play in that wildcardseries and they use Verlander and then they're

(01:35:58):
gonna have to use Verlander, Valdezand in that Wildcard series to get through
it. You know, if theyadvance after that, they're up a creek
once you get to the DS,because you know, I'm not saying they
don't have options, and they do. You know, JP Francis pitched really
well at points of this season.Hunter Brown looked about as good as he
can look last night, and thatwas a really encouraging sign for them.
Christian Javiers obviously heads ups and downs, but it underscores a lot they need

(01:36:23):
to win the division because they needI think maybe more than any team out
there, that they really need thatbuy to be able to set up their
pitching, to be able to rollVerlander and Valdez out there for Game one
and two, and then you know, when Game three comes, then you
know you kind of read and react, you know, as far as who
it's going to be in Game threeand four, I think you'd have to.

(01:36:45):
I think they're so evenly matched rightnow, like the pictures that they're
choosing from, I think it wouldbe matchup based. I think they would
have to look at does this teamthat changeups well? Because JP Francis change
ups really good and that's something thathe relies on. Does this team hit
this well? Does this team hitthat well? So I think it would
be a matchup thing. I think, you know, you certainly could see
a piggyback sort of thing, likelike they did in the twenty twenty postseason

(01:37:10):
with Zach Grinky. They piggyback thatboth those games in Minnesota. So there's
a lot of options they could have. I think JP France says, if
they go just off of track recordand just kind of what have you done
for me lately? I think JPFrance clearly has not, because he's he's
been more consistent, he's got he'sgot over a huge body of work.

(01:37:31):
He's got the most consistency of anycandidate in that in that conversation. So
but I don't think that he hasseparated himself to a point where you put
him in sharpie. You know.Game three is JP France. I think
they've got to I think they've gotto see the matchup. I think they've
got to see what the other teamdoes well and what they don't do well,
and then they greed and react fromthere. Is the purpose behind bringing

(01:37:56):
yet another lefty to the team inBennett SUSA in place of Parker Muschinsky that
they believe they could actually gain someinformation from a playoff roster standpoint over five
or six appearances tops from SUSA,that they would consider him for the postseason
roster. Well, he won't beon the postseason roster because he's not eligible.

(01:38:17):
Oh, he was only picked upin September. Well, he was
claimed off. I think it wasSeptember three or four. Yeah, you
have to be in the organization bySeptember first to be eligible for the playoff
roster. So Bennett SUSA is noteligible for the postseason roster. I presume
he's getting called up because a DustyBaker is pretty insisted on having a lefty
in his bullpen and be you know, I'm sure they looked at some of

(01:38:41):
his pitch metrics and pitch profile andmaybe thought that what he does as a
his arsenal maybe matches up better againstthe Royals or the Orioles in the next
series. So that's the only thingI can think of. It is not
a playoff audition because Bennett Susa isineligible to be on the postseason roster.
Have you and Dusty kissed to madeup? Yet? Uh? No?

(01:39:03):
I mean I don't. I don'tthink that. I don't think there's animus.
I mean, look, I thinkI really think a lot of this
stuff's kind of got blown out ofproportion. I mean this, this kind
of stuff happens all the time.Like I mean, you're around people.
When you're around people for as longas kind of you know, the beat
writers are around the team, it'skind of like, you know, being

(01:39:24):
around your family, Like you gettired of being around your sister or your
brother or things like that, likejust just disagreements. And I mean,
look, I think I know alot of fans can't accept this, but
like sometimes there's gonna be stuff writtenabout your team that's not put out on
Astro's letter heads. This is thegreatest franchise ever established. This is the
greatest baseball team ever. Here aresix reasons why, Like, sometimes there's

(01:39:46):
like actual conflict and adversity and criticismto be had, and you know,
I just think that, you know, I think you know. I don't.
I don't. I'm not seeking.I think we're fine. I don't.
I don't think. I don't wantto talk anymore about it. To
be honest with you, I thinkI think everything's all right. I don't
think there's any animus. I justthink a lot of stuff kind of maybe
got blown out of proportion because peoplehave nothing better to do with themselves and

(01:40:10):
talk on Twitter now, and Itried to do my part, and I
tell people that, you know,if you want to get some feel goods
from Chandler Rome's Twitter account, youcan just go to his pen tweet where
it talks about the Astros winning theWorld Series. So it's not all bad
on your account. But no,I just had to had to check in
on that. We appreciate the timeas always, and we'll do it again
next week. Chandler all right,thanks guys, Channel Rome here of the

(01:40:31):
Athletic. You can find him obviouslythere and on Twitter, slash x slash
whatever they're calling it at Chandler UnderscoreRome. We will continue on here with
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two atoms in the afternoon. I'mso lucky to have you looking out for
me. Adam Clanton and Adam weare eighteen. In case you missed it,
that's what that music means. Dan, take it away. All right,

(01:42:20):
Let's start first with a little bitof entertainment and sports news, because
it was reported a couple of daysago we just haven't had in case you
missed it, that Taylor Swift ianTravis Kelsey might be an item broately hanging
out, I believe is what wasout there. Well, sources tell ET
that they are not officially dating.They are, but they are totally dating

(01:42:45):
so hard. But they are hangingout, so they're talking. I guess,
is what. You know. Whatmy first reaction was to this story,
not whether or not a celebrity couplehas been born here, not how
they would be or not be compatible, not even about the fact that she
will inevitably write a song about howthis relationship went south, when all of
her relationships goes south and she sucksby the way. But what I thought

(01:43:08):
was, okay, is this whatturns the tide? If he's playing in
the super Bowl, then it begsthe question he could get her to perform
at halftime of the Super Bowl whereshe's already said, nah, pass,
I don't want to do it.That's what I thought of, Well,
just let these thirty three year oldsto handle their own business. What will

(01:43:30):
be the name of the song thatshe writes about their failed relationship after they
break up, after they become afisher, which hasn't happened yet, Cruel
Winter, clown December? Why isit all about winter? Well, she
has a song called Cruel Summer Iwas today years old? So called thirty
three? Is that like some othersong that she does? They're both thirty

(01:43:54):
three? She has songs about herher, some other ages. What are
the other ages that she has songsabout? Dan? Can handle that Dan?
What are the songs that Taylor Swifthas about various ages? Not as
swifty in any But yes, there'snot twenty two of them. There's twenty
two songs. Twenty two Okay,is it good? People? They're all

(01:44:19):
good. Do people think it's good? I don't. Yes, the hundreds
of thousands of millions of people whohave attended her concerts, this conversations,
her music, do think in afact that's great. There's lots of people
that sold a bunch of records,don't. We talked about this yesterday.
Taylor Swift to you is James Taylorto me? It's okay, it's James
Taylor blows, Taylor Swift out ofthe water. Now you had me at

(01:44:42):
James Taylor blows. I knew youwere going to say that. That's why
I put it on a t foryou. Thank you, and I'm gonna
need a little bit of James Taylorcoming back. Next we can move on
from number one. In case allof our listeners missed that, Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelcey are hanging out.What's next? All right? Oh?
In sync? The other night makinga reunion at the VMA Awards, Taylor

(01:45:05):
Swift was there. I think theygave some award to Taylor. Well,
people, now, sorry the wonderdoes this mean that justin j C.
The fat one, Lance, thefat one, Yeah, the fat one,
but he doesn't fat. Technically he'sbloated. No, his name is
not Joey Bloated. It's well he'sfat too. And he does have a

(01:45:27):
hot dog place called fat Ones inOrlando. Really, yes, he does
sells Italian ices too. Are youseeing this in here? Dan? He's
all about performing the choreography. Ifhe turns on his mic and goes hey,
hey, then it's gonna be fullblown. Oh my gosh, I
can't even look at you in theeye right now. Well, they confirmed

(01:45:48):
that it's going to perform a songMay called Better Place. May. He
sounds like a billy goat? Dan, Hang on a second, why does
he sound like it? Can youget at that? Can you get that
part isolated? They've mocked him forthis like they got a billy goat in
the Steward happens every day on thefirst of May. The meme of him

(01:46:08):
saying it's got to be May infour days the hook will be coming up.
Then May the fourth be with youand all that. That's all that.
How long do we have to waituntil I hear this billy goat?
I think today he sounds like WillieNelson. This guy's like a megastar.
He got pumped. Man, ofall the girls, I love the balls
one now JB here comes. Where'sthe may it? Hey? May?

(01:46:46):
But the question I have So it'slike a barn yard in there, man,
installment of the case you missed it? Hey there, Little goatsndition saying
a mother for me. If IncincDoes indeed go back out on tour,
which we always know that these areslow burns, huh, will you guys
be there? First of all,I've never been so happy to hear NFL
films music come back up in myentire life. Secondly, if I'm going

(01:47:10):
to a boy band show, I'mgoing the real deal Holy Field in KOTB.
They've done it. Oh, Iknow, I've been Backstreet stunny know
it's funny. The last New Kidsshow I went to and shout out to
my guy Chad doing up in Portlandwere like diehard New Kids. No,
this came back for one more U. They had boys to men and Paula

(01:47:33):
Abdul open for them. Paula couldlike fit in my pocket. She's tiny,
like I knew she was. Mostdancers are like she was an NBA
dancer. She was a Laker girl, right, That's how she got started.
And if you ever go to aRockets game and you sit close enough
to see, they're tiny. They'reall tiny. They're like pocket size,

(01:47:54):
like polly pockets. And uh butI just I guess even despite knowing all
of that, I was just shockedat how tiny Paul Abduel is and she
can still I mean she can neverreally, I mean she goes to bed
early in parties all night. Isthat the one with the animated video opposites
a tract? Yeah, that one, that's the one who was the star
with her and that that took twosteps forward? Wehus she takes two steps

(01:48:16):
back? What about the cold heartedSnake? Who do you think that was
written about Reeves? Seriously? No, that was Rush. That was Keanu
was in that video. Oh ohreally yeah, long before he got in
the Matrix. She can't sing inthat song either. Was it before he
was? It was before he wasJohnny Utah, Yeah, she's like,
I think it was what was hish what was he as a quarterback in

(01:48:38):
the other movie? Have you everread Jersey? I saw him at the
Replacements? Yeah? What was hisname? Because he was he was at
the Longhorn game. I took apicture of the uniform. Really, yes,
some clown had that. Horner waswearing that uniform. Now I can't
even remember his name. Have youseen the guys the forty four Alabama gump
one? I like that a lot. When I went to Ohio State Notre
Dame last year, somebody did havein Ohio date Utah, Jersey because that's

(01:49:00):
where Johnny Utah supposedly played Shane Falco. That's where it is who still played
at Ohio State. Interesting, SoJohnny, we don't usually rank them.
And I know we have another minutein twenty seconds to go, but do
you think this is one of theall time greatest? In case you missed,
it's by far. It's it's atleast in the top like fifty.
All right, So since we've gota minute, I want to make the

(01:49:21):
most of this. So the Atlantic, I think it's around man like a
record. They clips the National League. They clips the National League East last
night, and there was a microphonenear manager Brian Snitker and Ronald Lacuna Junior.
Of course, a couple of yearsago they played against the Astros in

(01:49:41):
the World Series. Akunya was noton the field because he tore his acl
people are wondering if this year BrianSnitker has jinxed the team. Ooh did
he say what? I think hejust said. Yeah, I'm not down
with this stuff. Like, comeon, best record in baseball, clearly

(01:50:03):
the best team in baseball, anda team most of which has been to
the World Series together. Sam's MattOlson, uh Sholder, the fifty plus
homer guy. Screw that guy acting, and of all people, Brian Snicker
is far from a you know,puff your chest out guy acting like they're
gonna play in the World Series.Totally, absolutely, positively fine. However,

(01:50:25):
I'm also into the sports world.I realize when they don't, this
will be used against him, andall the time they almost assuredly won't now
because of this, because of this. Come on, man, So you're
saying the Dodgers are gonna beat him, well, Phillies are gonna beat him.
There beat him. The Brewers arenabe what I'm saying they are the
Dodgers. Oh, we'll just pencilthe man. They're a guy to gougher

(01:50:48):
in the world. Terra's okay,you've won all these games all year.
Did Brian Snicker go to the microphone, go to a podium like Dave Roberts
did, and guarantee another win inthe World Series, another chance championship.
That's a big difference. Well,he did basically guarantee they were going to
play for one. It's not thatmuch of a difference. You can't see
stuff like that. What's what isthe literal setting is does he have the

(01:51:10):
goggles on his head? Is therechampagne flowing off of his head? They
weren't in the clubhouse yet they wereon the field. Yeah, so that's
even worse. Was he being interviewedor did the sound just get picked up
like a bill's media stream where theaudio of someone talking about Stefan Diggs was
picked up. Yeah, it waswhat you could call a private conversation.
That's very different. Pick this up. I could not be happier. I

(01:51:36):
am pro Troy Snickers. I ampro Houston Astros. We have the right
Snicker on our team here in Houston. That's the case. You missed it.
By the way, did you getany sort of attachment whatsoever working in
Atlanta all those years to that stupidorganization you know at answers here? No,

(01:51:56):
I would say that probably of all. No. Georgia two, I
mean I really different. Yeah,I created some really good relationships there.
There's so much pageantry in college thatI don't even get mad about that,
especially if you didn't go to abig school like I went to sam Houston
State. I don't. I'm notgonna sit here like root for all these
teams. But it makes it easier. But no, I mean, if
it wasn't the Astros in the WorldSeries, and I gotta tell you,
guys, like professionally where I wasbecause we were the flagship for the Braves.

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It was awesome for us because itwas great for business. Personally,
it sucked, like I thought itwas gonna be so fun, and then
we got to Game one and Iwas like, this sucks, like against
the Astros. Yeah, you werehere. We sat next to each other
at that and then it's just I'llnever forget that because you remember, like
the nineteen's the one that hurts.You can talk about twenty one hurting because

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you get to the World Series andyou lose. That's such a house money
season. I was just like,Wow, they made it to the World
Series and Lance mcculors was their ace. Think about that, like, just
think about that and so and theBraves. I mean, it was nice
to get it back to a gamesix. But when they lost that game
on Halloween in the way it wouldall on, it's just you know whatever
nineteens the one that sucks for you. Howie Kendrick, screw you, Brandon

(01:53:09):
Todman. Well that was after thatwas say out of the clubhouse. You're
not supposed to be there. Thenthis isn't a distraction. I thought about
that today, but I don't thinkthat's the thing. That's when you win
whatever it is, and clincher whateverit is, those people like that are
in the clubhouse, then go tothe after party and how about this?
He remember how bad that after afterparty? But remember how bad that that

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hangover was. Because Jeff Luno hadto go out there and read that prepared
statement that he didn't write. Thatwas awful. I wish he would have
read it like Ryan Leaf did whenhe threw it in his locker after he
read it. Wait, what wasthat? You remember when the guy was
talking to him and he said,stop talking to me, don't talk to
me, knock it off, Andso then he had read a prepared statement

(01:53:51):
about his apology. The next Oh, I never get in that part.
Then he tossed it in his lockerbecause he obviously had no feeling for it.
Oh, it was like a DwightShrewd statement of regret, something like
that. This is a statement ofregret. Well, that's all you're gonna
say. You're not gonna say somethingelse. I cannot say it because I
do not mean it. It's sogood, all right, we will take
a quick time out. We'll regroup. It's gonna be tough to follow that

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sailor swift. Justin Timberlake, BrianSnicker in case you missed it, next
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home portion of the schedule, likelywith a win, but we'll find out
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That's attached. Our good friend Bunb one of the owners of trill Burgers,
which can now be found inside andRG Stadium on game day, will
be Dan. Are you serious rightnow? He will embrace it? Help
together? You know what I wantto embrace this song being banned from America
for life. They have a cointoss captain. I hate Clay Travis.

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No Clay Walker. Thanks to thesponsors, they have it. Whatever halftime
performance, I'm gonna call him LouieThessenger, So I might call him Louie
the Singer, but smash it together. It looks like Thessenger going to sing
some of his country music rates.But before that, we're gonna all,

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you know, do whatever we dofor the national anthem, and we will
be listening to this gentleman right heresing the national anthem. Hey walk just
once multi platinum recording artists and Houston'shome talk about stupid people for buying records,
We'll sing the national anthem. He'snot no no, no, yes,

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yes, yes, said most oftoday. You know that's another reason
they should change the uniforms. You'reshut up in there are if they change
their uniforms, Yes, you're ready, I'm ready. For real football.

(01:56:40):
I've been waiting twenty three years forit. Let me know if you're ever
gonna play it. I wish they'dchange their jerseys just so they can't use
this song anymore. They got somebrand new jerseys just this year. Yeah.
Well, one of them says AndersonJunior on the back, one says
Shroud, another says Dell. Andthe one that he knew and the one
that he'll be wearing on Sunday ishe sings the anthem for the twenty third

(01:57:00):
consecutive time, We'll say walker onthe back of it, and it'll still
suck. The second best walker towear it? Sorry, Ramon, Gary's
number one, Ramon's number three.Actually i'll go Tras number two. Number
one is Texas Ranger. But hashe ever warn it? Back in Texans
Jersey, Chuck Norris singing the nationalanthem would be better than this. By

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the way, Chuck doesn't sing exactly. He kicks a what's the push ups
one? The push ups one?You know, all the things that Chuck
Norris could do better than I thought, All the things that Chuck Norris could
do or hold his thumbs up indodgeball is one of the judges that helps.
Well, yeah, but average Josehe doesn't do push ups. He
pushes or something like that. Itwas a thing a few years back.

(01:57:45):
Honestly, though, by the timeLouis the Singer hits halftime, this guy
will be gone at his house.Do you think the Sexans will will take
the halftime league When Damiko Ryan's iswalking into the tunnel behind Nico Collins and
he's telling the guy and this yellingat him in the crowd that he sucks
to you know, this is thatthis is the only part of the song
it's accurate because he whispers into themicrophone tradition. Yeah, of losing sounds

(01:58:13):
like someone's skinning a catalyze. Allthe music we try to play you ruin
Well if they if he played JamesTaylor, I wouldn't ruin that because right,
some people think Clay's appearance will beexcellent. Yeah, their names are

(01:58:35):
cal and Hannah, I just anybodysomebody else, just once. It's just
a lot of fun to watch himdo it. That's what you think of
Clay Walker. Huh. After he'sdone with the anthem, what will you
say? Then? That was reallya lot of fun. And then after

(01:58:56):
they win their opener, and youlook forward to the remaining seven home games.
It's gonna be a fun here.But is it a great day to
be a Texan? But most ofthe time, when you you have a
football season, what does it include? Do you have your ups and downs
and you fight your way through it. He's talking about the buffet. Come
on, where are the ups thatwhen he's eating? What are the downs?

(01:59:17):
When out of food? Then hegoes back and it's up again because
he gets along. Wow, doyou have the one where he goes all
right? Do you have that one? Think so? What about the one
where he goes huh No, Idon't think so. I'm sure it's a
lot of fun to watch him doit. If you just go to another
press conference, well, it's alot of fun of his I'm sure that

(01:59:39):
was really a lot of fun.It's gonna be a lot of fun to
watch. It's gonna be a lotof fun to continue to watch him.
Those are all different, so it'sdifferent sentences. He's said the same thing.
Do you think that he would havebeen a good extra on Walker Texas
Ranger? Wait a minute, thatwas an actual scene in South Park,

(02:00:05):
Young Haley Joel Osmond who uttered thatline. Why would Walker tell him that?
Was he wrong script? According tothe script, it was. It
was accurate. Another another of ourfavorite actress who made an appearance on our
He was in the Entourage movie.Oh that's right, that was the thing.

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Hey, that was an underrated movie. I thought they did a good
job with it. It was justlike a long Russell Wilson was perfect as
himself. Yeah, was Sierra inthere? I haven't seen it unless she
attended the screening of the movie.They never got to watch. Ronda Rowsey
got way too much screen time.When you're Turtles girl, you get screen
time that They shouldn't have done that. I mean, I mean, I
guess it could have been worse.It could have been Taylor Swift back then.

(02:00:54):
Yeah, she was around. Shecame out with that one dumb song
to launch her dumb when she wasa country musician. Yeah, that that's
my favorite part. Mariuen SHEI isthe country thinger. No, I don't
because I blocked that out of mymemory too. All right, it is
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to the boy band segment that wedidn't mean to have but did have.
He enjoyed the goat analogy, whichI said, he sounds like a goat,
and he had a perm all whilehe was singing that song. You
realize that, right, You meanhe sounds like Jim Brewer, sounds like

(02:02:53):
goat boy. No, he soundedlike an actual billy goat. I mean
he did kind of permit up duringthat stage of his a very successful career,
and he went to Jeff Blum's hairstylistat the time as well for us
to tips in. I still can'tbelieve Jeff his whole head was frosted.
But I just can't believe, likeJeff having gotten to know him a little
bit like we have over the yearsworking with him so much, like knowing

(02:03:16):
him away from the microphone and awayfrom the TV cameras. You don't think
I'll do this? Watch this man? Yeah? Is that what it was?
He didn't think it looked good,did he? That's why most people
do something like sports player. Youcan pretty much do anything. Was it
a superstitious thing? No? Well, I mean, if there's other ways
to bust slumps. Yeah, buthe was married, so he went with

(02:03:36):
the hair. It's a hall logical. It makes sense now by the way,
I had something that I wanted toget to today and this is the
perfect time to do it. Soyou and I have gone to Minute Made
many many times to do the show, typically on Fridays for home games during

(02:03:56):
the regular season, playoff games ofthat too, But I'm talking about when
we get there and there's nobody thereplayoff games, it's already like you know,
crowds everywhere. There's a little bus. Sometimes we'll get there at the
same time. It's very rare becauseI'm always later than you. But on
the fuel time engineer likes to getthere early. Well, he's got to
set up the equipment and start theshow. It's not gonna do it by

(02:04:17):
itself. That's what you're there for, Okay. An expert explains why it's
pointless to press the pedestrian button morethan once at a crosswalk. Now,
I bring this up, and Ibring up the Astros games because there is
a very prominent crosswalk button at avery very busy intersection right outside of Minute

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Made. Is there not the onesthat the fans use or the ones that
we use we don't also both,I think so. I mean, if
the other side of the ballpark,then where we as the media enter is
one of the most trafficked areas becauseit leads to the parking lots, right,
okay. And I would also argue, probably just because there's parking spots
under the freeway, that the partfurther the side of the freeway furthest from

(02:05:02):
the stadium, that crosswalk clearly themost dangerous. I see my live flash
before my eyes every time I walkacross, because the time just push the
button. Yeah, well, all'swell. So there's a TikTok video that
you have to have seen because you'realways on there. I don't know if
it's reached my four youth page,but I'll look forward. He calls himself

(02:05:24):
the traffic light doctor. Definitely notin my for youth page. He's got.
He's gone viral explaining why you shouldn'tpress the pedestrian button at a crosswalk
more than once. When you dothis. He basically says, uh,
these buttons out here are actually wiredinto this programmable logical controller board, and

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it's controlled by all these other placesback at the other place, and the
other place, the CCU will getthe input from the push buttons and completely
and complete continuity from the buttons tothis backward here in this cabinet, which
is in ran by these cables thatgo into the control over the intersection,
which then allows to put in acall that allows you to get to the
walk signals across the street. Anybodyout there in their car right now saying,

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what in the sticks is he talkingabout? It doesn't matter if you
push it one time or one hundredtimes, it's still going to do the
same thing and just receive a call. It won't drop out until that call
is answered. Once it's answered,it drops out. That button will be
back to where it was prior toyou ever pressing it. It's like when
you get in an elevator and theykeep pushing the buttons. You mean an

(02:06:30):
elevator that isn't in our building.Go ahead and explain what you mean where
our elevators are. Way to advancefor this to make any sense. Before
you enter the elevator, you justtell the touch pad which floor you want
to go to by touching that floor, and then it tells you which one
of the four elevators you need toget into because when it arrives, you'll
see the floor that you want onthe door panel illuminated, and all you

(02:06:54):
do is walk in no buttons topush. There are no buttons, and
it will lead you to your pathif it's working, and you hate it
because you need buttons inside that andbuttons. I like the idea, It
just needs to work. The commentsare the best part, though, to
this guy, what about a threesecond hold? See? These are the
things that you really just need toupgrade them, because there are plenty of

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other places where when you push thearrow to the direction you want to walk,
there'll be an audio message. Pleasewait for the blah blah blads.
You said that because the next personsaid, I like pushing it multiple times,
not because it makes it go faster, but because the wait voice sounds
like a duck. Wait, wait, wait, all right, I'm doing

(02:07:41):
a billy goat last segment and aduck this segment. You can't get this
anywhere else. The other person said, I don't believe you. There is
a small man that lives in thelights, that controls everything, and you
can't change my mind. I've actuallythought that before. Is that same with
an elevator? Is there just aguy in there, like pulling on the
ropes to lift it up to thefloor you want and letting the ropes loose
to you go down to the oneyou want. You joke. But back
in the day, that is howphone calls were made. I mean,

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that's what in Keanu we're riding theelevator when Dennis was operating it. Shoot,
that's such a good movie. TheWildcat, she was a wildcat,
not a tomcat. Well take ashot a wildcat logo on her shirt.
He was he was really bad back. How did Dennis Hopper pull that off?

(02:08:22):
He really loves bad in that movie. Hey spoiler alert, damn good
football team. Oh that's all Igot today. I just figured it because
we are at that intersection in nordonamount of time. So that's why I
brought it. Where at that?Do you think? So? I think?
So? That's a truth. That'sthe truth? Is is that Nick

(02:08:43):
Cassario where there? You know what, when you go there and you keep
pushing in a bunch of times andit doesn't work, it's paint of the
ass. Who is that? That'sNick? That doesn't sound like him that
first. So when you get thereand you basically never get across the street.
Honestly, it's a waste of time, kind of like his tenure as
general manager. Here they're off andrunning, running to where we'll find out

(02:09:05):
the top of the draft again,at the top of the division. Oh
well, we reach the airwaves Mondayat three, they will be in first
place. Who's Jacksonville playing again?You don't know who Kansas City is playing
this weekend. They're not favored andthey're at home. Yeah, well neither
the Lions. And how that go? Is Travis Kelsey get a player?
Is he too busy dating that?Swifty Dan said, they're just hanging out

(02:09:26):
out lacks the Netflix and chilling iswhat they're doing. Yes, Jaguars are
home for the Travis Kelsey's Jaguars wingo to two Texans absolutely, Pat Mahomes
always starts and two he doesn't havehis go to weapon. He will.
You don't know that he's playing,not if he misses the game, because

(02:09:46):
he's that's like he's gonna miss thegame if he missed the game. Are
you Jonathan gannon? Winning behavior iswinning behavior? Thanks for that. This
has all the hallmarks of a disasterseason for the Chiefs. You know,
you're gonna say when you're out orto NRG Stadium at noon to Damika,
what I'm gonna be there? Yeah, this is news to me. Welcome

(02:10:07):
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We'll enjoy talking to you today,and we'll do it all again tomorrow
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