April 22, 2024 • 8 mins
Following a 6-0 loss against the Washington Nationals on Sunday, resulting in a 2-1 series defeat on the road, Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of The Matt Thomas Show attempt to diagnose the current problems of the Houston Astros as they find themselves at the bottom of the American League West standings with a 7-16 record.
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(00:01):
The morning Sports show for those whopartied in Midtown way too hard last night
the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. All right, so I'm
gonna pinpoint it right now. What'sthe worst thing about the Astros? To
(00:22):
me, it's their hitting because injuriesthat's just part of life. And if
you have a team that's been besetby injuries, you no team can go
through as many ailments. No Orkatie, no fromber Now, Christian Javier,
you missed justin for four weeks.That's four right there. And you can
(00:45):
Blake Snell into your heart's content.You can Montgomery to Jordan, Montgomery to
your kid. You just can't stockpile. This isn't a video game, This
isn't stat o matic, this isn'tMLB. The show, I think it
was eight guys. They basically cominginto spring training, they had eight candidates
for starting pitchers. Yeah, youdidn't think Hunter Brown would be a complete
(01:08):
hot mess, right? I meanhe is. This isn't completely unexpected from
Hunter Brown. No, I wouldyou were looking for him to take the
next steps at this level. Hewouldn't be. He won't great second half
of last year. He wasn't.But he wasn't this bad. That's true.
He wasn't having the worst start inbaseball history giving up eleven hits without
(01:30):
getting a getting in. Ah,not that it never happened in baseball history.
And like I said, I'm notgiving pitching any bennet for the doub
because they don't deserve either, becausea bullpen shoed, which are all the
guys that have been around and healthyand ready to go have sucked. Hater
has been a disappointment. Presley inhis new role, has been wretched or
braid. He looks like he's turnedthe corner a little bit. Montero has
been good. Martinez is just aguy, think god. Taylor Scott is
(01:53):
just a guy. Thank God fora friend of the show, Taylor Scott.
I mean, did you feel thewarmth to the two of us?
It was okay? Oh, Idon't know. Consider actively hated you,
is what I That's what I said. That may that may be closer to
the truth. I get that.Two point six to one e RA and
ten appearances for our good friend TaylorScott. You know what, he's a
sports MPT blessing. That is whatyou're saying. Sure, why not?
(02:15):
So? Really? That's not asurprise. The surprise is that Bregman contract
year. Meh, sitting two thirteen. How's Tucker doing, Kyl Tucker eight
ninety six? Ops? Great,not a contract year. Five home runs?
Jordan Alvarez five home runs, eightsixty one ops. Okay, you'll
(02:36):
take that. He's been slumping alittle bit, a little bit. Yeah.
Altuve has been great. He's sittingthree fitty. Jeremy penneysitting three forty
four. Yeah, but a bravewho has been ten times worse that we
thought I was going to be.And that's saying something. McCormick has not
picked it up. Myers has beenjust a guy. Uh. Jan er
Diez has been up and down.And again, I don't care how many
(03:00):
hits you get. Drive the smbitches in well right, Okay, the
Astros are fifth in team ops,nineteenth in team ops with runners in scoring
position. You know what, ross, It's like me in the kitchen.
I can make a rice peel off. Oh boy, here we go,
mister analogy. I can't this whatthe green means? Okay that the steak
(03:22):
sucks, Nobe, you don't wantto dinner with me? Okay? And
right now, the astro steak suckshmmm. Or maybe it's more like,
you make a good steak when it'sjust you and your wife, but when
people come over in the pressure,you're under the pressure, then you make
bad steak okay when you need toreally drive their stomachs home. Or how
(03:43):
about this. Okay, if you'remaking a chicken for two or three people,
it's great, but if you're hostinga party and you're trying to serve,
uh, you know, just onebig clucker after the other not gonna
work. And it's like when yousing in the shower, you sound incredible,
but you get in the karaoke andyou hit, you're hitting, missing
all the notes. When I singthe national anthem in the shower, I'm
(04:05):
like, I could do this infront of forty thousand people. Do you
do that? Yeah, that's weird, But I would never do it in
front of a crowd, okay,because I have a deeper voice. I
have a deep voice, bass voice. And the star spangled banner is really
more for basically tenors. You knowwhat this actually tells me? The runners?
What's going It's gonna come around,It'll be fun. Didn't hop out
(04:27):
yesterday? They couldnt get anybody gonewhen they were twenty seventh with runners in
scoring position. Now they're up tonineteenth. Numbers are going to go up.
Fine, the runs will come,by the way. I don't think
the season's over with. I'm justcranky today. You should be. You
lost to the You lost to something. I don't even know who they were.
I still don't if we said wedid a believe it or not,
a national or a member of theUnited Nations Advisory Committee. Okay, Hunter
(04:56):
Brown wasn't even supposed to start yesterday. That's because it was Hobby Aer's turn.
But his neck. Mitchell Parker MitchMitchell Parker born in nineteen ninety nine.
Mitchell Poker was a cousin of ColonelTom Parker. Was he who developed
the was in was who exploited ElvisPresley very badly? Mitchell Little. Don't
think about Mitchell Poker. What hepresided over Elvis and Priscilla in their marriage.
(05:19):
Oh he did. Yes, it'sbeautiful. Let's call the phones.
Steve's and Celia won twenty six onThe Matt Thomas Show. High Steve,
I'm had a question or a commentabout a Brady Which one is it?
A question or a comment. Uh, well, a question and the comment
(05:40):
is, well, what I knowabout is his vision, is that he
wears contacts, and that he hedid pilates in the off season. He's
feeling better. But I'm my questionis does he have a vision problem?
I mean, I know this.Probably the physicians there check everything real close.
You know, they're you know,under a microscope all the time.
(06:02):
But I just wondered, you know, because we all aged differently. I
mean, I M all right,I had not thought of vision being the
issue. Now, there was apicture back in the day that played for
(06:24):
the Cleveland Indians, now the Guardians, that was considered a really good reliever.
Oh my god. But he hadto get cotton, he had to
get glasses control issues. Yes,they even called him, I believe,
unpredictable guy. His name was RichardVaughn. He turned up a little bit.
(06:48):
It's a good song. They're intothe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
by the way. Congratulations it's aforeigner. Nice work by them.
Yeah, just admits all are verygood. Yeah, it's not really just
as a tough jury as other things. All right, here we go here
for when we're singing for us JoseiahBray you it's got double vision. I
(07:18):
wish it was that simple that maybeit is. Let's get his eyes checked.
Didn't that happen with Yulie Berkeley?I Center said one, three,
five, two six eyes let's goall right? One on the Mat Tabi
Show. We can take anything thata caller saysn't turn it into a song.
That's part of the charm of thisradio show. To tell those of
you on hold, Mike Seth,Brian, Steve and the rest of you
(07:42):
come on in. Hank tab willget to you. Act we played to
tell the truth. It's one twentynine on Sports Talk seven eight, where
I need to talk to you aboutyour personal health and well being and how
you've been feeling your day to dayenergy. How's it been. Has it
been lower? Your motivation, lower, libido lower, not getting the way
that you will used to be inthe bedroom and it's getting embarrassing. Well,
go to fixmlowt dot com. Fixmilowt dot com. Just get your
(08:05):
levels check. That is step numberone, because all those things are symptoms
of low testosterone. You find outby going to fixmlow t dot com and
you find Centergenics. They have theconvenience of the on site lab. You
get your results back at your veryfirst visit, and then they can tailor
treatment specifically to you. You're gettingcustomized care from the experts of Centergenics.
(08:26):
They've got clinics all over town.Treatments are covered by most insurances. That's
why you need to go to fixmlowt dot com. For Centergenics at fixmlow
t dot com
The morning Sports show for those whopartied in Midtown way too hard last night
the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. All right, so I'm
gonna pinpoint it right now. What'sthe worst thing about the Astros? To
(00:22):
me, it's their hitting because injuriesthat's just part of life. And if
you have a team that's been besetby injuries, you no team can go
through as many ailments. No Orkatie, no fromber Now, Christian Javier,
you missed justin for four weeks.That's four right there. And you can
(00:45):
Blake Snell into your heart's content.You can Montgomery to Jordan, Montgomery to
your kid. You just can't stockpile. This isn't a video game, This
isn't stat o matic, this isn'tMLB. The show, I think it
was eight guys. They basically cominginto spring training, they had eight candidates
for starting pitchers. Yeah, youdidn't think Hunter Brown would be a complete
(01:08):
hot mess, right? I meanhe is. This isn't completely unexpected from
Hunter Brown. No, I wouldyou were looking for him to take the
next steps at this level. Hewouldn't be. He won't great second half
of last year. He wasn't.But he wasn't this bad. That's true.
He wasn't having the worst start inbaseball history giving up eleven hits without
(01:30):
getting a getting in. Ah,not that it never happened in baseball history.
And like I said, I'm notgiving pitching any bennet for the doub
because they don't deserve either, becausea bullpen shoed, which are all the
guys that have been around and healthyand ready to go have sucked. Hater
has been a disappointment. Presley inhis new role, has been wretched or
braid. He looks like he's turnedthe corner a little bit. Montero has
been good. Martinez is just aguy, think god. Taylor Scott is
(01:53):
just a guy. Thank God fora friend of the show, Taylor Scott.
I mean, did you feel thewarmth to the two of us?
It was okay? Oh, Idon't know. Consider actively hated you,
is what I That's what I said. That may that may be closer to
the truth. I get that.Two point six to one e RA and
ten appearances for our good friend TaylorScott. You know what, he's a
sports MPT blessing. That is whatyou're saying. Sure, why not?
(02:15):
So? Really? That's not asurprise. The surprise is that Bregman contract
year. Meh, sitting two thirteen. How's Tucker doing, Kyl Tucker eight
ninety six? Ops? Great,not a contract year. Five home runs?
Jordan Alvarez five home runs, eightsixty one ops. Okay, you'll
(02:36):
take that. He's been slumping alittle bit, a little bit. Yeah.
Altuve has been great. He's sittingthree fitty. Jeremy penneysitting three forty
four. Yeah, but a bravewho has been ten times worse that we
thought I was going to be.And that's saying something. McCormick has not
picked it up. Myers has beenjust a guy. Uh. Jan er
Diez has been up and down.And again, I don't care how many
(03:00):
hits you get. Drive the smbitches in well right, Okay, the
Astros are fifth in team ops,nineteenth in team ops with runners in scoring
position. You know what, ross, It's like me in the kitchen.
I can make a rice peel off. Oh boy, here we go,
mister analogy. I can't this whatthe green means? Okay that the steak
(03:22):
sucks, Nobe, you don't wantto dinner with me? Okay? And
right now, the astro steak suckshmmm. Or maybe it's more like,
you make a good steak when it'sjust you and your wife, but when
people come over in the pressure,you're under the pressure, then you make
bad steak okay when you need toreally drive their stomachs home. Or how
(03:43):
about this. Okay, if you'remaking a chicken for two or three people,
it's great, but if you're hostinga party and you're trying to serve,
uh, you know, just onebig clucker after the other not gonna
work. And it's like when yousing in the shower, you sound incredible,
but you get in the karaoke andyou hit, you're hitting, missing
all the notes. When I singthe national anthem in the shower, I'm
(04:05):
like, I could do this infront of forty thousand people. Do you
do that? Yeah, that's weird, But I would never do it in
front of a crowd, okay,because I have a deeper voice. I
have a deep voice, bass voice. And the star spangled banner is really
more for basically tenors. You knowwhat this actually tells me? The runners?
What's going It's gonna come around,It'll be fun. Didn't hop out
(04:27):
yesterday? They couldnt get anybody gonewhen they were twenty seventh with runners in
scoring position. Now they're up tonineteenth. Numbers are going to go up.
Fine, the runs will come,by the way. I don't think
the season's over with. I'm justcranky today. You should be. You
lost to the You lost to something. I don't even know who they were.
I still don't if we said wedid a believe it or not,
a national or a member of theUnited Nations Advisory Committee. Okay, Hunter
(04:56):
Brown wasn't even supposed to start yesterday. That's because it was Hobby Aer's turn.
But his neck. Mitchell Parker MitchMitchell Parker born in nineteen ninety nine.
Mitchell Poker was a cousin of ColonelTom Parker. Was he who developed
the was in was who exploited ElvisPresley very badly? Mitchell Little. Don't
think about Mitchell Poker. What hepresided over Elvis and Priscilla in their marriage.
(05:19):
Oh he did. Yes, it'sbeautiful. Let's call the phones.
Steve's and Celia won twenty six onThe Matt Thomas Show. High Steve,
I'm had a question or a commentabout a Brady Which one is it?
A question or a comment. Uh, well, a question and the comment
(05:40):
is, well, what I knowabout is his vision, is that he
wears contacts, and that he hedid pilates in the off season. He's
feeling better. But I'm my questionis does he have a vision problem?
I mean, I know this.Probably the physicians there check everything real close.
You know, they're you know,under a microscope all the time.
(06:02):
But I just wondered, you know, because we all aged differently. I
mean, I M all right,I had not thought of vision being the
issue. Now, there was apicture back in the day that played for
(06:24):
the Cleveland Indians, now the Guardians, that was considered a really good reliever.
Oh my god. But he hadto get cotton, he had to
get glasses control issues. Yes,they even called him, I believe,
unpredictable guy. His name was RichardVaughn. He turned up a little bit.
(06:48):
It's a good song. They're intothe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
by the way. Congratulations it's aforeigner. Nice work by them.
Yeah, just admits all are verygood. Yeah, it's not really just
as a tough jury as other things. All right, here we go here
for when we're singing for us JoseiahBray you it's got double vision. I
(07:18):
wish it was that simple that maybeit is. Let's get his eyes checked.
Didn't that happen with Yulie Berkeley?I Center said one, three,
five, two six eyes let's goall right? One on the Mat Tabi
Show. We can take anything thata caller saysn't turn it into a song.
That's part of the charm of thisradio show. To tell those of
you on hold, Mike Seth,Brian, Steve and the rest of you
(07:42):
come on in. Hank tab willget to you. Act we played to
tell the truth. It's one twentynine on Sports Talk seven eight, where
I need to talk to you aboutyour personal health and well being and how
you've been feeling your day to dayenergy. How's it been. Has it
been lower? Your motivation, lower, libido lower, not getting the way
that you will used to be inthe bedroom and it's getting embarrassing. Well,
go to fixmlowt dot com. Fixmilowt dot com. Just get your
(08:05):
levels check. That is step numberone, because all those things are symptoms
of low testosterone. You find outby going to fixmlow t dot com and
you find Centergenics. They have theconvenience of the on site lab. You
get your results back at your veryfirst visit, and then they can tailor
treatment specifically to you. You're gettingcustomized care from the experts of Centergenics.
(08:26):
They've got clinics all over town.Treatments are covered by most insurances. That's
why you need to go to fixmlowt dot com. For Centergenics at fixmlow
t dot com
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