December 13, 2024 • 10 mins
Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to breaking news that the Houston Astros are trading Kyle Tucker to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for third baseman Isaac Paredes, pitcher Hayden Wesneski and prospect Cam Smith.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We break away from non floor stories. No hit the sounder.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Who No, that's one.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Go on, that's two. Let's keep going. That's three, let's
one more.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
For the good of the game.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Might it even be?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, say the Max.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I think you're right. I mean, this is earthshaking, even
though we knew it was imminent.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And it happened during our show.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Sucking a tube, suck it.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's the last segment of the show.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
We get no damn.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We can literally have believe it or not coming up next.
We can skip it and take.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It and take calls. Yeah, because we have the topic
is Las Vegas. We're gonna be here multiple times in
the next ten years, so we'll be fine. Actually, some
of them are Kyle Tucker to the Cubs for or
Isaac whatever, Issacharis, Hayden West, Necky cam Smith done, Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Okay, passing said or who has those three guys? Is Rosenthal?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Uh, that's Chandler Rome Okay, Jeff Passing. And I'm going
to assume that Ken Rosenthal has it.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I saw a deal done from Passing. He did not
have the players, but yeah, Chandler has the has the players? Okay,
Paradis Wes Nesky and Cam Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Done. Wow, this is what Kyle Tucker is a Chicago
cub and is no longer a Houston Astro.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Your reaction, Let's just do it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Let's take a time out. What's your reaction? What is
your react?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Action?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven eight your very
first opportunity because other stations in town are talking about
dumbass football right now, I want to talk about the base.
This is the biggest off season trade the Astros have
(02:21):
made since win Rossie because they didn't trade for uh
Josh Hater.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I mean you, well, you acquisition or trading away? It
would be Erlander, I guess in twenty three. Yeah, the
biggest send away.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
How about that one?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean since win.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Kyle Tucker for Isaac or eastak peretis Hayden Westnecky, Cam
Smith seven one three two one two five seven ninety
What is your reaction? You get the very first opportunity
to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Tucker hits it in the year pretty deep to right field.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Here King talking well, looking let.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Things child, Tucker slam.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
This is Kyle Tucker Sports Talk seven ninety is your
home for Astros baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
To two again and Tucker hits it in They're pretty
deep to right field. That sends back McKenna at the
wall looking.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Up, say a letter.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Kyle Tucker gets the Astros a lead with a grand
slam seven to.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Six Houston.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
One hundred miles per hour from Bautista and more than
that from Tucker to right field and the Astro stunham.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Tucker's fifth grand slam of his career.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We got about six minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
In this show.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh, raw Snow, We're not doing this, are we? H?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Kyle King Tuck.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Preston's more talented brother, significantly more talented. Uh, noah in Mississippi. Noah,
Kyle Tucker's gone. Your thoughts please not dead, but just
I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
I feel like our team has just gone completely, just
been broken apart. I don't like how we've been spending
our money. We let Springer walk because we say we're
gonna sign Korea. We let Korea walk because we say
we're gonna have to sign Bregman. Now we haven't signed
Bregman Yetcause we said, oh, we prosbibly gonna sign Tucker.
Tucker has obviously not signed, and I don't know what
we're gonna do with Bregman. Crane hasn't spent any money.
(04:52):
I don't get what his problem is. I get not
signing older players for long contracts, but Tucker is as
a generational player that we've actually had, So I just
don't get what point.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Is letting him go.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Gotta put put your money where your mouth is.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
You say where the windows open.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
As long as he's here, it looks like that windows closed.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
So that's all I got.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I know why you are.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I don't even know if Kyle would have gotten decently
blank check would have made a difference. I just think
he wanted to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I just did.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm not saying he was unhappy. Just like you know what,
you sent me to arbitration almost I'm gonna get you back.
He got him back, and he has spent money ross.
That's just that's that's just a line of thinking. That's
just not true. You may and I spent the money
in the best spots, but he has spent money. He
went got a high end first basement. We thought, jose
(05:47):
air Bray you he went and got a high end
closer and was good, not great. He went and got
justin Vernlonder. He's put a lot of money in Jose
al two Ba's piggy bank. He put a lot of
money in your Alvarez's piggy bank. I mean he's if
this is not as the owner. But there's a certain threshold.
That threshold does not include one Kyle Tucker. Reagan inclined
(06:08):
at one fifty two high.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Reagan, Hello, how you doing a good beautiful to be
an astro fan? Huh?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean it's a different day for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What is y'all starting lineup right now without Kyle Tucker?
I mean in last year, Dana Brown, he said Kyle
Tucker will be an astro for life? I mean, how
does that deal now?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That he was just that was lip service that nobody
believed in when he said that, right, you were right?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You believe that, right, Reagan?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You didn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, okay?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I also found out Kyle Tucker's wife, she's from Chicago.
Is he going to get a hometown discount now? No,
there's no more hometown discounts.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Thanks for the phone call, prettiest by the way, maybe
your first basement next year sports over You ready for that?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
That's an upgrade?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Is he gonna play?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Where is where? Replaced you?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You couldn't put the first The first base contributions last
year just weren't good enough. They just weren't right, I
mean correct, let's fat face facts. You had to get
an upgrade there. Roddie and Lake Jackson, say your farewells
to Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Sure will Matke appreciate you'all taking the call, And I'm
glad they broke.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
On your show.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Fantastic. No outfield, You have no outfield now you had
one legitimate outfielder that was a presence on the team.
Now you have none, and and they're evidently not just
And I haven't kept up with the National League since
we went to the American League, so I'm not sure
who these people are. But you gave away the only
(07:53):
contributing outfielder you had. You got two center fielders that
can hit a buck fifty, can run into walls, and
that you Baal can't throw, can't hit this This just sucks,
sucks all the way around, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Part of me Ross says this is happening today when
it could have happened a year from now. Does that
make any sense to you?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It hurts.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
And I mean we can hear the callers that we've
ran through here really quickly that, yeah, your team is
not better for twenty twenty four. They're not, but you're
hoping that the team is better for twenty five twenty six,
because no, and all indications are yeah, I'm sorry twenty
six twenty seven. Excuse me? Yeah, yeah, clearly the indication
(08:41):
from Dana Brown and the Astros, what was it, Kyle
Tucker was not going to stay here, so you had
to do something. It wasn't premium. This is not a
premature move on the Astros part.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
This is getting ahead of it, Frank, and I know
you don't want to hear that it's getting ahead of it.
It just is Wes and Humble one fifty five West,
Good afternoons, say good bye to Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Hey man, let me give you some stanity talk here. Look,
ten and fifteen year contracts in the Major League baseballs
are stupid, and Kyle's gonna want a ten year contract.
If you waited till next year, you would have got less.
Cam Smith is the number seven prospect in the Cup system.
Faretti's hit two thirty eight nineteen and eighty last year,
which is similar to.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What Bregman did you know?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
So maybe this is a sign that they're gonna ship
Paretti's for first and bring Bregman to third, keep Bregmant
the third. But I agree with the last caller. We
need help in the outfield, and I don't think they're done,
so everybody needs to kind of step back from the ledge.
Let Dana Brown work. You were gonna lose Tucker last
next year.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Anyway, there you go, Wes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's a good song too. Gosh, we wish you a
happy weekend. Russell gets you on Monday for more on this,
I'll have you for Rockets and thunder tomorrow. Talcket's been real,
my man, King Tuck no longer in Houston
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And su
We break away from non floor stories. No hit the sounder.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Who No, that's one.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Go on, that's two. Let's keep going. That's three, let's
one more.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
For the good of the game.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Might it even be?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, say the Max.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I think you're right. I mean, this is earthshaking, even
though we knew it was imminent.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And it happened during our show.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Sucking a tube, suck it.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's the last segment of the show.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
We get no damn.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We can literally have believe it or not coming up next.
We can skip it and take.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It and take calls. Yeah, because we have the topic
is Las Vegas. We're gonna be here multiple times in
the next ten years, so we'll be fine. Actually, some
of them are Kyle Tucker to the Cubs for or
Isaac whatever, Issacharis, Hayden West, Necky cam Smith done, Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Okay, passing said or who has those three guys? Is Rosenthal?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Uh, that's Chandler Rome Okay, Jeff Passing. And I'm going
to assume that Ken Rosenthal has it.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I saw a deal done from Passing. He did not
have the players, but yeah, Chandler has the has the players? Okay,
Paradis Wes Nesky and Cam Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Done. Wow, this is what Kyle Tucker is a Chicago
cub and is no longer a Houston Astro.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Your reaction, Let's just do it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Let's take a time out. What's your reaction? What is
your react?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Action?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven eight your very
first opportunity because other stations in town are talking about
dumbass football right now, I want to talk about the base.
This is the biggest off season trade the Astros have
(02:21):
made since win Rossie because they didn't trade for uh
Josh Hater.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I mean you, well, you acquisition or trading away? It
would be Erlander, I guess in twenty three. Yeah, the
biggest send away.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
How about that one?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean since win.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Kyle Tucker for Isaac or eastak peretis Hayden Westnecky, Cam
Smith seven one three two one two five seven ninety
What is your reaction? You get the very first opportunity
to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Tucker hits it in the year pretty deep to right field.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Here King talking well, looking let.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Things child, Tucker slam.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
This is Kyle Tucker Sports Talk seven ninety is your
home for Astros baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
To two again and Tucker hits it in They're pretty
deep to right field. That sends back McKenna at the
wall looking.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Up, say a letter.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Kyle Tucker gets the Astros a lead with a grand
slam seven to.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Six Houston.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
One hundred miles per hour from Bautista and more than
that from Tucker to right field and the Astro stunham.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Tucker's fifth grand slam of his career.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We got about six minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
In this show.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh, raw Snow, We're not doing this, are we? H?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Kyle King Tuck.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Preston's more talented brother, significantly more talented. Uh, noah in Mississippi. Noah,
Kyle Tucker's gone. Your thoughts please not dead, but just
I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
I feel like our team has just gone completely, just
been broken apart. I don't like how we've been spending
our money. We let Springer walk because we say we're
gonna sign Korea. We let Korea walk because we say
we're gonna have to sign Bregman. Now we haven't signed
Bregman Yetcause we said, oh, we prosbibly gonna sign Tucker.
Tucker has obviously not signed, and I don't know what
we're gonna do with Bregman. Crane hasn't spent any money.
(04:52):
I don't get what his problem is. I get not
signing older players for long contracts, but Tucker is as
a generational player that we've actually had, So I just
don't get what point.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Is letting him go.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Gotta put put your money where your mouth is.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
You say where the windows open.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
As long as he's here, it looks like that windows closed.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
So that's all I got.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I know why you are.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I don't even know if Kyle would have gotten decently
blank check would have made a difference. I just think
he wanted to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I just did.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm not saying he was unhappy. Just like you know what,
you sent me to arbitration almost I'm gonna get you back.
He got him back, and he has spent money ross.
That's just that's that's just a line of thinking. That's
just not true. You may and I spent the money
in the best spots, but he has spent money. He
went got a high end first basement. We thought, jose
(05:47):
air Bray you he went and got a high end
closer and was good, not great. He went and got
justin Vernlonder. He's put a lot of money in Jose
al two Ba's piggy bank. He put a lot of
money in your Alvarez's piggy bank. I mean he's if
this is not as the owner. But there's a certain threshold.
That threshold does not include one Kyle Tucker. Reagan inclined
(06:08):
at one fifty two high.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Reagan, Hello, how you doing a good beautiful to be
an astro fan? Huh?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean it's a different day for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What is y'all starting lineup right now without Kyle Tucker?
I mean in last year, Dana Brown, he said Kyle
Tucker will be an astro for life? I mean, how
does that deal now?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That he was just that was lip service that nobody
believed in when he said that, right, you were right?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You believe that, right, Reagan?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You didn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, okay?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I also found out Kyle Tucker's wife, she's from Chicago.
Is he going to get a hometown discount now? No,
there's no more hometown discounts.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Thanks for the phone call, prettiest by the way, maybe
your first basement next year sports over You ready for that?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
That's an upgrade?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Is he gonna play?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Where is where? Replaced you?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You couldn't put the first The first base contributions last
year just weren't good enough. They just weren't right, I
mean correct, let's fat face facts. You had to get
an upgrade there. Roddie and Lake Jackson, say your farewells
to Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Sure will Matke appreciate you'all taking the call, And I'm
glad they broke.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
On your show.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Fantastic. No outfield, You have no outfield now you had
one legitimate outfielder that was a presence on the team.
Now you have none, and and they're evidently not just
And I haven't kept up with the National League since
we went to the American League, so I'm not sure
who these people are. But you gave away the only
(07:53):
contributing outfielder you had. You got two center fielders that
can hit a buck fifty, can run into walls, and
that you Baal can't throw, can't hit this This just sucks,
sucks all the way around, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Part of me Ross says this is happening today when
it could have happened a year from now. Does that
make any sense to you?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It hurts.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
And I mean we can hear the callers that we've
ran through here really quickly that, yeah, your team is
not better for twenty twenty four. They're not, but you're
hoping that the team is better for twenty five twenty six,
because no, and all indications are yeah, I'm sorry twenty
six twenty seven. Excuse me? Yeah, yeah, clearly the indication
(08:41):
from Dana Brown and the Astros, what was it, Kyle
Tucker was not going to stay here, so you had
to do something. It wasn't premium. This is not a
premature move on the Astros part.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
This is getting ahead of it, Frank, and I know
you don't want to hear that it's getting ahead of it.
It just is Wes and Humble one fifty five West,
Good afternoons, say good bye to Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Hey man, let me give you some stanity talk here. Look,
ten and fifteen year contracts in the Major League baseballs
are stupid, and Kyle's gonna want a ten year contract.
If you waited till next year, you would have got less.
Cam Smith is the number seven prospect in the Cup system.
Faretti's hit two thirty eight nineteen and eighty last year,
which is similar to.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What Bregman did you know?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
So maybe this is a sign that they're gonna ship
Paretti's for first and bring Bregman to third, keep Bregmant
the third. But I agree with the last caller. We
need help in the outfield, and I don't think they're done,
so everybody needs to kind of step back from the ledge.
Let Dana Brown work. You were gonna lose Tucker last
next year.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Anyway, there you go, Wes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's a good song too. Gosh, we wish you a
happy weekend. Russell gets you on Monday for more on this,
I'll have you for Rockets and thunder tomorrow. Talcket's been real,
my man, King Tuck no longer in Houston
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And su
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