The A-Team: JV Update, Jerry Jones Has To and What's Up With That?!

Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on February 29th, 2024.

Episode Transcript

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Two lifelong Houston sports guys named AdamTalking Your Teams series. Adam Clinton and
Adam Wexler are the A Team AWhat's Up Houston? It is a Thursday
edition of the A Team. AdamWexler over there, Adam Clinton right here,

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Dan Matthews the Showkiller producing as perusual abbreviated edition of the program.
As we're getting you ready for Astro'sspring training action here on your home for
you guessed it, Astros Baseball.I can report a couple of things.
For sure. They have been doingbase running drills. I have video confirmation

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of this and more breaking news.Jr. Don Alvarez will batton the two
hole today against the Mets in thataction that gets underway at four point fifty
here on your home for Astros BaseballSports Talk seven nineties. So yes,
we will just before the five o'clockhour step aside to bring you that.

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We will obviously get into our nonsignature segment an update where Adam Wexler sings
us into the latest news on JustinVerlander. Will he or won't he be
out there for opening Day? Wexsays he won't. I thought you were
gonna say something of very very greatimportance the way you slammed your microphone on
switch to the talk position. No, well, we'll get his update on

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that, and we'll do some afew other things here and there as we
continue. By the way, asthe NFL combine continues. I love,
love, love love when we findout what teams are going to do at
very very important positions on February twentyninth, in anticipation of April's draft.
And I'll explain what I mean aboutthat. There's one team, and look

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it's not a surprise, but there'sone team that is absolutely dying to get
a quarterback. Did you know thatwex there's at least one team that really
needs to get a signal caller inthe NFL. If you stink, you
probably fifth pick at the top ofthe draft, didn't you probably need a
quarterback because that's why you stink.Yes, this just in Or you could
be a team that holds the ninth, ninth pick in the draft and you
can try to trade up to numberone, and then you could also stink

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the following year and earn the numberone pick. That's very ominous of view.
I'll say that's the Carolina path.We finished with the ninth spot in
the draft, we won seven games, we traded up to get a quarterback,
and then we had the worst teamin the NFL. Well based on
record. You know that's true.You know what we keep track of,
you know how we measure teams exactlywell, but you know it matters what

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kind of schedule they're playing. No, it doesn't. That can factor into
things. No, doesn't. Justask the Matt Thomas show their division stinks
and they couldn't beat those teams,It doesn't matter. I mean, we
talk about a difference between a firstplace and a fourth place schedule on a
grand did there's some a little bitof consequence to that. But if you
managed to lose almost all of yourgames, it's not because of the schedule.

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That's true of all of your games. But and we talked about this.
Regardless of what Stan Norfleet will tellyou, the Texan schedule will be
more difficult significantly this upcoming season thanit was last year when they won the
division. Yeah, I don't thinkStan or anybody walking the planet that doesn't
think it's round, I would saythat. No, Stan said, you

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don't know, Well, Stans,I mean, I don't want to pick
a fight with Stan I think youdo you? Yes, we do know?
Well, yeah, I mean youcan say these guys are going to
be hurt, but if you're playingAaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott and Pat Mahomes,
and what if every single guy yousaid is hurt, then the Texan
schedule will still be harder because thehow many players would you have to knock

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out before they play the Texans tomiss the Texans game? Which is to
say their schedule is comparable to thisyear, right, all of them,
But which is to say that theschedule maybe wasn't as easy as some would
like you to believe from last yearother schedule was super easy, crazy easy.
I am, this year's was easy. Next year's is hard. But

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you, among other people, wereone of the ones driving the point home
that the reason for that was becauseof the crap quarterbacks they were playing,
Right, that's what makes your scheduleeasy. Bad quarterback plays play for bad
teams. Yeah, but you justgot done saying you'd have to take other
players away from the teams that areabout to play. No, if you
took the quarterbacks off of all theseteams that the Texans have on their schedule,

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for twenty twenty four, that wouldmake a difference. But how many
of those quarterbacks would we have togo through? Like six of these teams
would lose their quarterback. You'd playsix backups, eight, ten. I
mean the number would have to beastronomical to match what they went up against
this past year. This past yearwas like a cake walk, and they
still couldn't beat Zach Wilson. That'scorrect. Luckily, when Joe Douglas,

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the GM of the Jet, metwith the media at the Combine earlier this
week, he indicated Zach he andhis agents have been given the latitude,
the authority, the go ahead toseek a trade if they so wish.
That was one of my favorite thingsto come out of yesterday's comedy. I
know you're busy, like you're aGM and you can't just sit around and
watch everybody do their job. Youhave a job to do yourself, but

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you're so lazy. You're like,dude, whatever you want to be traded,
just come to me with the dealso I can sign off on it.
But I don't work for you.I'm an agent. I got players
I know, but I don't wantto tell my guys to try to find
a deal. I'm not picking upthe phone to talk to GMS. I
don't want to deal with it.I mean, I'm probably just gonna cut
him anyway. But go ahead.You want to help us out by finding

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a ninth round draft pick that wecan get for Zach Wilson. Go ahead,
and then they see if the agentpicks up on the fact that the
draft is only seven rounds. Itdid strike me as pretty funny that he's
granted him permission to go seek atrade. And what's even worse or better,
depending on how you look at it, is some team will do it.
Some team will think, no,no, this is the Jets fault,

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it's not the player. There's definitelysomething in there. He can throw
the ball sixty five yards flat footed. He's a good athlete, even though
we have multiple seasons worth of absolutelypathetic NFL game film. I think this
guy can do something for us,maybe as a backup, maybe in a
role that helps us out a couplegames a year. But let's go ahead

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and put some time and effort intoacquiring Zach Wilson. Yep, there's gems
out there that will probably do it. Do you have candidates off the bad
ones, well, the dumb ones, the ones who run bad outfits.
But he's coming from a bad outfit. Some would say he's coming from a
team that isn't winning. I thinktheir team is like Joe Douglas. As
a GM is hard to say he'sbeen good because he was the captain of

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a terrible ship for so many years. Wins and losses is what we measure
that by. But the team theyput on the field this year was pretty
good except for one position. Themost important fixed it in the offseason until
he hurt himself. How many playsin they won series, and then they
they doubled down on their stupidity.Okay, we got Zach here, We're

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good. They knew more than anybodythat was a bad idea before he'd hit
the field, before we'd seen him, and we obviously all saw him in
Week one because he had to playthe rest of the game, which they
won because of special teams in overtime, scored a touchdown because Zach Wilson's team
couldn't do anything like they managed tonot do all year except for a half
against the Texans. So that GM. Again, I'm trying not to be

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too hard on him. He hadweeks and weeks and weeks before the trade
deadline, he just said, Ihate you guys in the locker room.
Suck it. I hate you guys. You're awesome, but you're not gonna
win because I'm being an idiot.He's telling the locker room, I don't
like you. I want you tohave a terrible year by not help them

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by getting them a quarterback. That'sthe message you always talk about. What
kind of message does this send whenthe fans do this? What kind of
message does this send when you goout there and sign this player? What
kind of message does this send whenyou go out and signed Josh Hayter,
Hey, Joe, what kind ofmessage does it send when everybody in the
locker room knows Zach Wilson is awful, as do the coaches, as do
you, and you didn't do anythingto fix it all year? What kind

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of message does that send that youwant to get fired? Your response?
Please, Joe, goodness gracious.So those are only thirty two NFL teams.
Find somebody that can fix your problems. I do think it's fascinating.
We didn't get into this yesterday.Speaking of the Jets, the departure of
Mikole Hardman and how that all wentdown, both before he was traded and

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then you know obviously what he didin the Super Bowl for the Chiefs,
and then what he has said sincethen, specifically about that coaching staff,
specifically about the head coach. Andyou know, one article that was written
about it said, well, youknow they're you know their quarterback is Aaron
Rodgers, but he's a narcissist.Right. How many quarterbacks in NFL history

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have been narcis What does that haveto do with anything? Hebacks that have
I don't know, that are different, that are unique, that love themselves,
that are cocky, that are arrogant, that are jerks. None of
that's tough matters. If they don'twant to go on the field and work
out with their teammates during the offseason, and then they want to blame their
teammates for not being on the samepage with them, that matters. That's

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what Rogers did his last year withthe Jets. Beyond that, I don't
have any issue with him as afootball player. None of that stuff matters.
On the field, he was agood leader. They loved playing with
and for him, and then heleft and they're fine. Without him.
It certainly isn't surprising to see NFLpros say these sorts of things about the
Jets, as their leader Aaron Rodgersis a narcissist, while their head coach

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Robert Sala has overseen three straight losingseasons during his time there. Yeah,
with one quarterback who played one series. I mean, yeah, I don't
understand. I saw his Probably,I don't know if he'll get another job.
If Aaron Rodgers doesn't lead that teamto wins, he's getting f fired
and fired early in the season.I bet some people on the Packers team
that won the Super Bowl thought hewas a narcissist then too, And I

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bet they didn't matter. It's justbut the whole Mikole Hardman stuff. We
can certainly get into that, Isuppose. I don't know, Like,
he obviously made an important catch thisyear, but he was pretty much a
non factor this NFL season for thefirst twenty two weeks. But he was
messy on his way out of NewYork. I mean, giving the other
team the game plan. I mean, where would New York have been without

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his catch this year? Uh So, yeah, games a catch, So
you're saying he made a big difference, huge huge amongs, huge difference,
all right, actual hand delivery likeof a what flip some sort of zip
drive, a little you know,mini SD card? Did he hand that

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over? What is it? Asurface? Does he go with an iPad?
I don't think they hand I didn'tsee it in the player survey.
If every player their own personal surface, I feel like it's easier. I
think you're you either get I thinkyou have the game plan loaded onto whatever
it is that you need, Like, did I pad or whatever? Yeah?
Didn't like once uh, once upona time, didn't a textan get

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in trouble because they got into analtercation in their play game rhymes with antoine
peak. I wish I could figureout who you're talking about. Yeah,
on our show, we just tellyou where it's at. Who they are
and his car, His car gotbroken into, That's what it was.
But I don't believe it was locked. It was there was something I think
he like let maybe even left itrunning something like that on his way into
or out of a hotel like TeamHotels, something where it was an innocent

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mistake. But he certainly didn't makeit as difficult as it probably should be
for that you go someplace where thedoor is relatively close to your vehicle,
and you leave it running while yourun in real quick, you get a
lot close to nevers. I'm tryingto say never because I'm trying to run
through the last several decades. ButI don't believe. Well, if somebody's

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in it, maybe not. Ifnobody's in it, nobody's in your truck,
you're running into it. Well notyou, but say someone that you
know, wasn't you, wants torun into a mobile phone order to grab
their Starbucks right off the counter.You know it's going to be there when
you walk in. You're going towalk in, grab the coffee, walk

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out, and jump back into yourvehicle. One hundred percent chance my car
is getting turned off and the keysare coming with me, because what will
happen if you don't. That's justwhat I will jump in and take it.
I don't know, it's a gamble. I'm not taking it. I
mean, I really don't even think, Oh I better not have it stolen.
But that's just what I would do. I just, you know,
take the keys with me, turnthe car off. Nobody's in it.
Cars should be off. Do youlike it your way to it. Yeah,

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do you like a little bit ofrisk with your vehicle? Seven one
three two one two. Easily avoidableissue. Just turn it off and take
the keys. It is. It'sactually astounding how many easily avoidable issues are
out there, and yet here weare, all right, there's an easily
avoidable issue. Next segment. Ifwe don't talk about Justin Verlander, then
we won't have our non signature segment. So we won't do that. Instead,

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we'll do the exact opposite. We'llgive you a JV update as we
always do this time of the daywhen we return here on the eighteen.
He's technical. How do you knowthat? Because he's freaking awesome and well
he's a spectacle. I have takenthis segment and just flung it out this
window. Adam Wexler, Adam Clinton. The A Team continues on Sports Talk

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seven ninety. It is the ATeam here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Seriously, we're watching coverage of thecombine here in the studio, and I
get it. You've got to writethings. You've got to fill air time,
You've got to do this, You'vegot to do that, and I
know you probably wex You probably aremore about this than I am for just

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today's the first d eight players areactually on the field. But when I
say underwear Olympics, I really dofeel that way. And it's not that
these guys don't do impressive things,and it's not that we don't get things
that are absolutely I'll just say itseminal from this event. Look at Tom
Brady's picture from way back in twothousand or wherever he was drafted. It's

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hilarious now that that guy is thegoat. Yep, why don't you call
him sweats Olympics or spandex Olympics.We're not going to see a Chris Jones
incident again. I mean, doyou remember c J. Stroud last year?
He was wearing a tank top andshorts. Yeah, but it's funnier
if you say underwear if that's notwhat they're wearing. By the way,

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did this ever happen to you yoursignificant other in this case? Are that's
the one has called her underwear AndI'm not bringing up hers specifically, let
me be clear, Go go ahead, her whole life. What do you
think she's called him? What doyou think she's referred to them as panties?
There? You go. Why then, as you obviously know what I'm

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talking about. I know what you'retalking. Oh yeah, they go on
underneath your clothes. If you're awoman, they go underneath my clothes too.
If they're not panties, they're underwear, thank you, or boxers.
So when it's time to talk aboutthat subject with a male member of the
household, don't refer to them asthat. Don't tell Carson to put his
panties on, don't tell me toput my panties on. Why do women
help them? It's okay for peopleto tell you specifically not to get them

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in a wad. That's different.Why because it's a figure of speech,
not an actual addressing of the articleof clothing, addressing the dressing. Yeah,
I get it. Plus, Imean, let's face it, it's
slightly misogynistic slash sexist when you're lobbingthat at somebody. Hey, hey,
hey, don't get your panties ina wad. You're acting like a girl

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about this. In other words,you shouldn't say don't get your panties in
a wad? Son. That wouldreally get them riled up. Can I
tell you what I did last night? That's why we're here. In fact,
I'm just gonna do this on thehere. Why we are here,
listen, you know why because peoplethat are listening to us can relate to
this. So just like them,he's five, We put our pants on
one leg at a time, exceptfor after they're on, we make gold

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records. So he's he's carrying onlast night the way you know a one
or two or maybe even three yearold would do. And how old is
he? He's five and a half, got it. Check. He's crying
because he doesn't want to go tobed. Yeah, it's the favorite TV
programs coming on. No, it'snot tired. He had watched several hours

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of mindless entertainment on various screens inthe house, both personal and otherwise.
He doesn't want to go to bed. I'm with you, Yeah, so
he starts doing the fake cry.You know the difference. I've seen it
where you know, he's trying tohe's trying to prove a point and he
can get the tears to go withit, but it's not real. He's
not really hurting, he's not reallyreally sad. He just doesn't want to
go to bed. So I tookvideo of him, and I'm debating whether

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or not I should play this intothe microphone right now. Well, I
mean, is it really good tears? Fake tears for those the tiers of
an alligator or crocodile. Definitely crocodile, but there's a difference. But what
I was doing was wanted to turnthis around on him. Literally, Well,
this is sometimes this is a it'sa psychological warfare, it's a you
know, look here, you gotto know that we understand this. We

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can see right through it. Itisn't working, and you'll understand it if
you see what it looks like fromour perspective. Our parents could never do
unless they had a cam quarter inthe early eighties, yea, when we
were that age, or in yourcase, the late seventies, it would
always work out when you would befake crying and they would say, hey,
hang, hang on a second,let me go grab the cam quarder,

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let me throw in a cassette,let me get that door closed.
Then we flip open the camera andmake sure the lens cap is off.
Let me prop it up on myshoulder here and make sure we got the
batteries running, and then go.It wouldn't have happened right like as easily
as this could happen last night,he's not even giving it the college.

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Try, Uh, what should itsound like? What does real crying sound
like? You have that? No, it's not on camera. That's like
that's almost like he's actually trying tofall asleep, but he can't. He's
so tired. That's what that is. Okay, So I turn it around,
I look at it, and hegoes. He starts laughing at himself,

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but then he also says it's notfunny. I'm like, oh,
it's very funny to me. Isaid, look at how you sound.
So did it work? Of course? Nice job parent I did. I
was actually impressed with myself and Ididn't plan it. It just happened organically.
This is how did he miss thevideo portion of it? Was he
not wear his eyes closed so hecould pump out the tears? Well?
When I so, one of usbasically will get him to sleep, read

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a book and then usually, youknow, you turn in the rain sounds
on or whatever, and then herolls over on his left side and goes
to sleep. That's typical. Butif he's in this, you know,
realm of I'm so tired that I'vegotten myself. You know, it's it's
the witching hour, as Teresa putsit. It's like, you know,
he turns into a pumpkin once youget past a certain point nine point fifteen,

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nine thirty, when he should havebeen in bed an hour ago.
It gets to that point, andyour parents that are listening understand and so
you kind of reached the point ofno return. He's gonna have to wind
down a little bit more forcefully.You know, you might have to use
psychological warfare like I did. So, yeah, that's what happened last night.
But once I turned the mirror inwardand he could see what I was

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like, you sound like a baby. No, I don't, I said,
and he goes, it's not funny, Ago, it kind of is.
That's why you're laughing. So anyways, I don't know how he got
to that, but that's what happenedlast night. That's what you have,
man, this's life. He gothis panties in a while. That's how
we got to that. Yep,I get it. So uh you in
check in out on JV. Let'scheck out on JV and hit you with
our JV update JV update from earlyor JV up day thanks you, MT.

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I'm thanking MT today for our JVupdate because his weekly guest all during
baseball season is our good friend BrianMcTaggart, who covers the Astros low these
many years and for the last severaldecades for the outlet known as major League
Baseball dot Com at astros dot com, and he was on with MT today
and naturally addressed the idea that,yes, it is normal for the people

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covering the Astros on a daily basisstill down there in Florida to ask Joe
Spotta about Justin Verlander on a dailybasis because it is a day to day
thing. It is something that couldchange from one morning to the next.
This day he threw, so thenext day, how does he feel?
And if he feels very good,then what is he going to do today?
And if he does this today,then what is he going to do
tomorrow? What does it all mean? And is his plan to throw Friday?

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And is he going to throw offthe mount? And how far from
the live VP is he was heable to throw off speed? And how
much you know it does every singleday warrant a question and McTaggart acknowledged that
that question does come from them everyday, and this is where Brian says
things stand. Seems like he's progressingpretty well, but he hasn't faced hitters
yet, and we're four weeks awayfrom opening day, and even Justin admitted

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a few, you know days ago, the timeline was really tight. The
longer it takes him to face hitters, I think, the less likely that
he would be available for opening Day. I don't think we're at that point
yet. But you know, ifwe get into next week, middle of
next week, this time next weekand he hasn't faced hitters, I just
don't see how he could get readyto pitch opening day. And that's fine.
I mean he comes back and pitches, you know, in the second

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week of the season, you knowwhatever. They just want to make sure
that he's where it needs to behelpwise, It's not like I don't know
if CJ is gonna be ready ornot. We might have to throw case
in the first two games and thenwe'll see where things are at. This
is We're not gonna close up shopfor the year and make sure we cannot

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have a parade and say we areno match for the other teams in our
division. We can't Pete with theAmerican League, and you guys can come
to the ballpark if you want,but it's over, it's fine, he'll
pitch. It might not be onMarch twenty eighth until something changes. That's
really a date that just happens tobe opening day. Think about this.
If he were behind schedule, ifthat could be the case during the season,

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he wouldn't even have a target date. He would say, well,
we're just trying to get ramped up. I'm just trying to do this.
I'm just on this certain schedule,and when it comes around, then there
I will be. And that's whatwe're sitting with here. If we kind
of in a roundabout way, saywell, he said he was a couple
weeks behind when he got here.Couple, I think is a specific timing
term, means two to three.So if he's two got a handful.

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If there's a difference to three weeksbehind, then sometime within the first ten
to twenty one days of the season, he should be ready to go.
If not sooner, and maybe hewould just pitch if he were pitch a
regular season game where he might havebeen pitching in a spring training game,
just because that's where they are inthe schedule. To me, it is

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of no consequence to their outlook onthe season and the fans outlook on the
season. And honestly, at thispoint, even his ability to reach a
very important benchmark of one hundred andforty innings, which is where his vesting
option sits on next year's deal,I don't think any of that is even
remotely close to in jeopardy. Allthat's in jeopardy is he might not pitch

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on opening Day or against the Yankees. Let's say. Yeah, and we've
talked about this quite a bit.To me, I'm a little surprised at
a guy like McTaggart saying that.The way he did it sounds like he's
still not hopeful. But he's notlike you in other words, where he's
like, he's not saying it likeJoe Aspota has said it, and he's
saying it literally taking the words rightout of Justin's mouth. There's no reason

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to say I'm not going to beready for opening Day today, but the
next week. You know, there'scertain things in order to be prepared to
get I mean, if the Astroswere ridiculous, if he had some stupid
consecutive game streak going, or he'sabout to start his nineteenth straight opening day,
which is not even the case.Oh no, I mean, we're
gonna send him out there. We'regonna introduce him. He's gonna be out

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in the bullpen. We're gonna geta big rousing cheer. He's probably on
a little bit of a pitch limits, probably about twenty to twenty five pitches
today. We're gonna start him anyway. I mean, that's they're just they
wouldn't do something like that. Twentyto twenty five pitches. That's like one
inning for Frombro last year. It'slike one inning for JV last year.
That's true if it was the firstsometimes and one inning for Lance mccullors,
if it were two years ago,or all of the late innings against the

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Yankees, if it was only curveballs, that's true too, Not so much
against the Phillies. Didn't take asmany pitches. They kept sailing over the
fence. That was a rough time. All I'm gonna remember is Lance McCullers
against the Phillies Astros World Series champions. Dude, do you know how do
you remember? They beat them?Right? Big fu? It is to

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get shelled like that and come backwith a no hitter the next night,
all those homers and scoring all theseruns. Wait till tomorrow. You can't
carry him into the rest of thegames this series. See what happens tomorrow,
Baseball. I do, I reallydo, and I can't wait.
You got no hits, got nohit. The next night, you didn't
get any hits. Like saying ano hitter is like an applause for the
pitcher. He threw a no hitter, you got no hit. That also

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sounds good. I'd rather say youdidn't get any hits. You didn't.
He just played a World Series gameand you didn't get any four. In
that case, you wasted a lotof your hits to night before that.
You didn't need to. They couldhave gotten a couple hits that night,
even over the fence, and theystill would have lost. The Astros had
a few runs, and then Chazstole a hit. Yeah, I mean
that probably would have been a hit, I guess, And then he didn't.
Even then, he wasn't even theconcrete starter in that position. The

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very next year, even though hisbat was better at the concrete starter sentenced
done that would be concrete indisputable undisputed. All right, the eighteen continues here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Howabout what is Maury Povich and Jerry Jones
have in common? We'll explain whenwe come back. This is Jabari Smith

(25:59):
Jafari Fort with the iHeartRadio app hereevery Rockets game on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Which of the Jerry Jones sound bitesis less comfortable for you to listen
to, the one about dying laughingat the zoo watching monkeys or the other

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one about you know what he likes? Well, we're definitely not going with
the other one. We don't needthe monkey one. We've played that one
out this week, and we havea third one. I be acceptable to
that, which much mean You've gota Jerry Jones story to tell, so
why don't you. Well, here'sthe deal. Jerry Jones has probably had

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his fair share of enjoying life.Let's just put it that way. But
as we were discussing earlier today,it gets he he he weaves a tangled
web sometimes, and a judge hasordered that the Cowboys owner, who is
now well into his eighties, hehas to go through with a paternity test

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as part of a legal dispute witha twenty seven year old woman who says
the billionaire is her biological father.This was a Texas judge obviously, yesterday
rejected an appeal from Jarah of atwenty twenty two ruling and a paternity case
brought by one Alexandra Davis, whopreviously alleged in a separate lawsuit that she

(27:27):
was conceived from a relationship Jones hadwith her mother in the mid nineteen nineties.
You know, the last time theCowboys were good, really good,
like they could actually win something good, not just we win a bunch of
regular season games and then flame outspectacularly in the playoffs and Jarah gets another
facelift. Yes, so apparently therewas an agreement back then Jones would financially

(27:51):
support Cynthia Davis, the person whois Alexandra's apparently allegedly potentially that was the
that conceived her. Cynthia and Jerrywould financially support her, but wouldn't publicly
acknowledge that Jones is the father ofAlexandra, and that is what has taken
place. He did financially support herbased on that agreement, correct, Yeah,

(28:15):
But and his lawyer came and wentso far as to say she's gotten
millions from him, right, Whydo you think Cynthia would agree to I
mean, I'm assuming she just gota bunch of money, So you can't
talk about this. Was there anNDA, Well, it's just part of

(28:37):
the agreement. I mean, thisperson was obviously a child at the time,
a very very very very young childwith the agreement was put in place.
He's eighty one years old, andwe don't even make it's not even
a joke all the time. Wedon't know how many more of these disappointing
seasons he has left in him likethis is honestly so reminds me a lot
of something else going on in thiscountry right now. This guy got this

(29:00):
he's dealing with right now. That'swhat's happening in his eighties when you do
live that way, at least forhowever long it was, or one night
potentially is all it could have been, although there wasn't a relationship that indicates
it was more than one night.I was no minute man. Jerry Jones
has been ordered, as you said, by judge, to take a DNA
test to determine whether he is thefather of a woman who sued Jones back

(29:22):
in twenty twenty three. So onelikely if the DNA testing goes as it
should, you get two results orone of two results. Right. Yeah.
In the case of Jerry Jones,you are the father, you are
the father, or in the caseof Jerry Jones, you are not.

(29:52):
So what do you think it'll be? Really got a thought in an early
line on this. I don't thinkanyone's taking odds. I think he is
the father. He is the father. Huh. In the case and Jerry
Jones, you are the father,you are the father. So that would
make Alexandria Stephen's sister half sister,half sister, Alexandra, not Alexandria.

(30:19):
Excuse me, alexanddra and Charlotte's Let'ssee, I got Cynthia her mom right
mixed. So Cyntha, So wouldshe is? Because I believe she's trying
to determine and wants to prove thathe isn't her father. Is that correct?
I thought she wanted to prove thathe is so that she could get

(30:40):
one more big payday. I don'tI keep reading, and this is back
when it was filed earlier. Idon't know. Does she just want to
become the assistant to the general manager. Well, that's what's interesting about this.
So Jerry and his Jarah and hiswife Jean were married in nineteen sixty
three. They have hold on,hold on, slow down. How to
do some math here, okay,nineteen sixty three, Yeah, in Dallas.

(31:02):
What happened in nineteen He's still marriedto her and they got married in
sixty three, Yes, and havenever been apart from legally theres obviously they've
been in too, legally separated likeokay, yeah, So when this Cynthia
escapade took place, if if Ido the math correctly, they were married
Jean and Jerry, Oh yeah,okay, I just just wanted to check

(31:23):
and she was too. Yeah,that's creta. So again this is quite
a story. Oh yeah, definitely. I know what happened in Dallas in
nineteen sixty three. What happened?Well, actually I don't. I don't
know what happened. According to you, I didn't say anything. I just
you said you knew what happened.I don't know. I really can't.
I don't know. You can't thinkof anything, hard to say, You

(31:45):
can't think of any sort of thingthat happened in nineteen sixty three. In
Dallas, Texas. I know,yeah, I guess I could say I
know that the president of the UnitedStates of America was shot. That's think
I think I know that, youthink you know that. I think I
feel confidence. This is one ofthose that is this one of those situations
where you can't think of the year. It's one of those situations where I

(32:07):
don't want to say that Lee HarveyOswald shot the president. That's what you'll
say. No, that's not whathappened, And I'm trying not to have
that happen right here on the showFunny Again, you should bring that up,
because there's no way in bleeping bleepthat that's the guy who shot the
president in Dallas in nineteen sixties.So you just bait me and I eat

(32:28):
right off the hook, marginal,right through that door that you leave cracked
open just slightly. I do notbelieve he shot him either. He was
a patsy. I mean, thesetype of issues that Jerry has in his
life right now in his eighties,Well, it didn't happen. It happened.
He was when was this in theearly nineties, so he was only

(32:49):
nineties, fifties, mid nineties,and he had only been married for twenty
five plus years at the time.Well, you know what they say about
the twenty five year itch, it'llget you. I'm sure the first twenty
four times he went through each yearhe was never itching or scratching. So
good. All right, So there'syour update on Jared Jones paternity test.

(33:10):
Well, he focuses on new NFLtalent for his ball club and the awesome
culture that they have. The continuinglawsuit and upcoming submission for a DNA test
is on his calendar. Now,what about a trip to the zoo?
Is that on his calendar anytime soon? Because we know how much he loves
zoo? All right, grandkids,His grandkids are probably middle aged adults.

(33:34):
Now theory, because he's eighty onetaking a paternity suit, that is correct.
That's the real story of the segment. Here, an eighty one year
old billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboysis going to take a paternity suit to
discover whether or not he is thebiological father of a twenty seven year old
And to the left, I doosbelieve one of his grandkids is currently a

(34:00):
quarterback for the Arkansas Razorbacks. It'sjust John Stephen Jones. All of those
Maury shows, it usually centered aroundI don't know, an infant aged child
to maybe to notice the elite editingdone by our production staff there where Joe
Buck said the name Jerry Jones.Yeah, it was to cover up the

(34:20):
audio of in the case of eighteenmonth old Adria Demetrius. And that's and
then I go, you are younot the father in the case of twelve
month old Alexandra John You are notthe father? It's yeah, it's incredible
what qualified in. But first we'regonna get his side of the story,

(34:42):
side of the story. What's funnyabout this is that this was at a
time when Jerry Springer another Jerry,was going way further with the low brow
entertainment. What about Caroldo Rivera,Well, I think he peaked when he
got his nose broken by that guestwho threw a him. So it's Jerry
Springer's show that enlisted the tough guywork of Steve who then chanted his own

(35:07):
show. Right, if you're asecurity guy on stage at a smut television
show, and you are so goodat it that you become good enough to
get your own good at what standingthere and being bald I could do that.
Did the bailiff on Judge Watner gethis own show? That was the
thing. You had these shows,and you had the court shows, of
which Judge Judy right, du Sorryguys and Mills Lane who was able to

(35:32):
both host one of those shows andreferee someone getting their ear been off.
Judy and the Gang from suits aSuper Bowl commercial in twenty twenty four.
It's a good gig if you canget it all right. Speaking of good
gigs, we will wind down thethree o'clock hour. Next here on the
eighteen touchdown Texas coach Stark. Hereback to the eighteen with the Adams,

(35:55):
Adam Wessler and Adam Clinton of SportsTalk seven nine, Houston's home of longhornor
football Man. This takes me backto some trash TV. Can you name

(36:17):
the show that this theme song wasthe original? Four? Wait, I'll
give you a hint. Our nextguest is Adam. What's that's how she
would bring you out? Does shewear multicolored glasses? Nope, so it's
not Salid Jesse Raphael. Nope,I'll give you a hint. The production

(36:40):
company for the show was entitled HarpoMan. I'm lost on this one.
I have no idea. What aterrible how could this be the song?
Like, there's nothing to it.You don't even know about this. It
doesn't like oh immediately, well notto me at least it did for Carlton
Banks on The Fresh Princes when westarted doing the dance for it. When
they went on the show. Awesome. I really don't care for her now

(37:05):
anyway, what a shocker again?On a show like show like Today where
we gotta hand it off to AstrosBaseball at four p fifty, we should
turn those shows into abbreviated edition ofNonStop all segments. Who do you hate?
Why not? That's what I'm saying. Why don't we we have an
intro for that kind of segment?If you want to do it. It's
never It's just a never ending list. I don't hate you, Yeah,

(37:28):
but I'm here most days this segment. It's starting to change. No,
and this is completely off topic,but I caught ESPN dot com doing something
very shady today. If you goto the page right now and you see
the very top story on their littleside panel of headlines, it says embeid

(37:51):
as in Joel plans return regardless ofSixers record seems simple enough, right what
they did about an hour ago beforethey changed it. Somebody got loose that
wasn't supposed to posting this headline.It said Embiid plans return regardless of whether
Sixers are tanking. I kid younot, I saw it. I should

(38:15):
have taken a screen screen grab.Can you believe that? That's like legit?
NBA gets you in trouble? Alsoyou're in did do a screen coup?
I didn't. I wish I had, because that sounds unbelievable. I
knew you would do this. Well, so there's sixth right now, mm
hmm. So all they have todo is get to seventh and then you

(38:35):
can just tank two more games andyou're out of the playoffs and you're that's
tanking. I guess if that's whatyou're trying to say. But what's the
point of tanking to get to thatwas thirteen fourteen? Then the lottery?
I don't actually I was saying like, if Embiid could return on May seventh,
they might have a chance to gethim back. That's deep into that's
after the first round of the playoffs, right, I think we'd returned April

(38:58):
sixteenth, That would be before thatfirst round. What if he could return
April first, that's with two weeksleft in the season. And see what
you're talking about is what really mostpeople would think, why are they tanking?
But for me, knowing how theleague is, knowing that they're very
clearly in bed with ESPN, thatis so much the partner right now.

(39:19):
They're bedfellows. They have pillow talkthe commission. Now, some might look
at their record, the fact thatthey're six, or that the Celtics are
so awesome and say it doesn't matter, But it does matter, absolutely matters,
Like the Celtics have a great recordand a great team and are the
best regardless, they're better than theSixers. Win well, they're probably gonna
win the East, but the Sixersare the next best team if all goes

(39:43):
well. Right, I don't knowif people saw the numbers, so I'll
just give them the numbers. He'smissed twenty four games. They've won seven
of them when he's seven and seventeenwhen he is not playing. They've played
thirty four games when he does play. What have they lost, like four
they've lost eight times? Yeah,twenty six. And here's the other thing
about this, and I needed thisto happen, and maybe it still will,

(40:07):
even though I just got done sayingthe Celtics are better than anybody.
I need the Clippers and the Sixersto get to the finals, badly,
badly for Doctor Rivers in some way, and James Harden me Doc coaches the
Bucks now he'll never play for Darylagain because he's a liar and called him
out repeatedly in public in the middleof China, of all places, China,

(40:30):
and these two would meet up inthe finals. Yeah, it's not
out of the realm of possibility ifMbat is back. If he's not back,
the Sixers have no chance. Andagain, the Clippers are not gonna
be the favorites in the West,but they definitely have a chance. And
they're playing very much better lately.Unless it's last night's fourth quarter against the
Lakers, they have been absolutely osage. That was one of the biggest meltdowns

(40:52):
of the season, almost as badas the MAVs meltdown the night before,
giving up five threes. Max screwslate and you're not doing it right.
It's not a down. It's thegreatest comeback in one of Lebron's greatest games.
Ever, it's a meltdown. They'veallowed no huge quarters and had scored
easily in all quarters, and theneverything other than that happened. I would

(41:12):
only be mad if people were saying, wait, what an awesome defensive play
by Lebron at the end of thegame when he barely stayed with Kawhi who
stupidly took a fade away that wascompletely unguarded even though Lebron was on the
court, and he dismissed it.That's all. Lebron posed no trouble,
did not send him any different direction, didn't body him up, didn't physically

(41:34):
play. He was just the defenderon the player impacted, not at all.
You're making the mistake of thinking thatLebron is just another NBA player and
not the guy that the network that'sin bed with the league needs to push.
Usually when you write a headline orhave a story, then you have
video with it, which would becounterproductive because you can see for real that
that's not the case. You mean, like Lakers complain about was Lebron.

(41:58):
It's something no one I think that'ssuper important, or like you said,
with that network or maybe even TNTprobably will get around to saying it.
I've been saying it for about fiveyears, and it's definitely true. Just
watch their games and it will bea little less true in the playoffs,
but still pretty true. He's postingreally good numbers again this year, right
the numbers that we see on hisbasketball reference page, the numbers of the

(42:19):
people who didn't watch Jordan play willreference when they say he's so good.
He's putting up good numbers again atthe extremely old NBA age that he is,
and it's happening for years. Well. The main reason he allows himself
to do that. The best wayhe can see to getting to those numbers
is by no longer playing defense,which he does not do. There are
plays where he blocks a shot,he's gotten a few steals. He will

(42:42):
defend his man, but over thecourse of the thirty nine minutes that he's
on the court, I'm not askingyou to waste your time watching it because
it's no fun. But he doesn'tplay defense anymore because he expends all his
energy on offense. Lots of greatplayers have done that. Steph does it.
James Harden did it for a decadea fair Steph's done it since the
day he got in the league,so it doesn't play. I just it's
at some point some people will comearound and see, this is one way

(43:05):
he's able to do that, butit's also the other reason, and you
bring it up all the time.He's still putting up great offensive numbers.
Anthony Davis has been on the courtalmost every game this year. He's having
a great season, but they don'twin because they don't do anything on the
other end of the court. Asa tandem. Davis plays pretty good defense.
He's one of the elite defenders inthe league. But the other four
guys are terrible. Austin Reeves miserablehunting. How do we get Austin Reeves

(43:30):
on the basketball and then we willsucceed. Every offense in the NBA does
it. And Lebron, like Isaid, he just doesn't put as much
effort on that end of the floor. It prevents them from winning. Thank
Davis is either fourth or fifth inthe league in block shots. But you're
right, he is the only guythat remotely plays a defense, and that's
when he doesn't have a hangnail that'skeeping him out all right. This year,
it's coming, It is coming.So it's almost March now, got

(43:52):
an extra day for him, allright, four o'clock hour Coming up next,
we will explain why one Major LeagueBaseball franchise absolutely hates their fans.
We will tell you who the teamis that absolutely positively is going to take
a quarterback and shove the current quarterbackthey have starting for them out the door,
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you up until well a few minutesfrom now, because Astro spring training will
be preempting us today. By theway, our good buddy j R.
Patrick passing along the headline from twohours ago. Yeah, I saw that.
Even though your conspiracy theory, comeon, sounded fine. Come on,

(46:05):
I now have a good explanation forthis, Okay, moderately, Can
you read the original headline just sowe can refresh the people who are just
tuning in. Yeah, we gotto refresh the people. The story written
about Joel Embiid had not talked sincesome of the procedures and the fact that
he's been out for a while andwhat his plans are about returning, and
he had indicated he plans on areturn if healthy, no matter what the

(46:28):
Sixers record is, the status oftheir standings, whatever the case may be,
he plans a return. They're currentlyin sixth A headline was attached to
that story on the Worldwide Leader's websiteEspnstarwave dot com. I think it still
goes by It says EMBD plans comebackComma even if Sixer's tanking. So I
think the headline writer the inexperienced headlinewriter. And I can't tell where how

(46:52):
to describe them. They misunderstood,misread, did not really grasp the assignment.
Well, they definitely did not understandthis asignment. But it's like they
were confused on who the Sixers are, right, Like they don't watch the
NBA or something. Players like wejust I'm this person almost assuredly handled the

(47:13):
Aaron Rodgers return from his achilles tendoninjury, which never happened. But what
did he talk about? Well,if we're still in it, they'd like
to bring him back, if there'sstill something to play for. And I
think they just decided that's that mustbe what this means. If MBT is
saying regardless of what our record is, then I'll just interpret it to well,
if they're bad, they're going tobe tanking and missing the playoffs,

(47:35):
So I'll just run with that.They're just not in that stratosphere. That's
not at all what he meant.That's not even even close to what he
said. I think just the merereference to whatever our record is just made
a light bulb go off and dimhead. And they wrote even if tanking,
maybe that I mean, it justmakes no sense. But that's what

(47:58):
I've concluded. That's the end ofmy investigation. Did the Wexler research team
have anything to do with this investigationor was this a private investigator? No,
I'm just making I'm connecting the dotswithout any information or evidence that would
obviously hold up in a court oflaw, just like Jerry's DNA test.
Thank you, Thank you to youknow, go back on something else that

(48:20):
we covered in the first hour.Hey, we talked a lot about Blake
Snell yesterday whether or not he couldjoin the Yankees or any other team because
he's one. We talked a lotabout unsigned Blake Snell, and today he
is unsigned Blake Snell still, Butwhat's he doing? Tell us he's playing
Call of Duty? I think that'swhat this is. He's playing video games.

(48:44):
And he shared this on his Instagramstory standing on business at Eric Aramaki,
who wants to run it. Inother words, I don't care that
I'm want of them now. It'sBoris three. Is that what you're calling
them. I'm just gonna make sureI'm giving them the correct moniker. I'm
gonna stick with Boris for just oneof them got signed. Well, they

(49:07):
can't. He can't be part ofa four if he's signed. Your qualifications
for being in this club are thatyou don't have a contract in Major League
Baseball for twenty twenty four. Therefore, so you're trying to you're not one
hundred percent sure that the screen he'sstaring at is Call of Duty? Well
do you think it is? Idon't. I'm not sure. And here's
why it doesn't look like what Isee when I play Call of Duty.

(49:29):
It looks like it, but it'snot. It's definitely not a game mode
that I normally do. What gamemode would you call this? It's probably
war Zone or something like that Iplay. I play Team Deathmatch almost exclusively.
You can judge me all you want. I don't care, and I
play hardcore. So are we tryingto create some situation here where he's unsigned
and he's got to prepare on hisown for the upcoming season under the premise

(49:51):
that he gets a deal so he'llbe ready. So if he's going to
post anything on his Instagram stories,they've got to be from a facility where
he's lifting, he waits, aplace where he's throwing strikes you a gun
that's measuring his pitches. He's gotto be on the mound. He's got
to be doing PfP. But instead, right he's asking people to go ahead
and link up with him for somegaming. Which is why it's so funny

(50:15):
that the particular account that is postingthis picture, this screen cap of his
Instagram story on x is clearly aYankees fan who's wearing a Yankees hat in
his profile picture and The caption reads, Blake Snell really is an unbothered king.
It's so good because it's so accurate. This guy doesn't give a rats

(50:37):
you know what about anything right now. Oh, I'm not signed and it's
February twenty ninth. Big deal.I know who I am, I know
what I can do, and ScottBores is my agent. I'm gonna get
paid when I need to get paid, and in the meantime, I'm playing
Call of Duty. That's awesome.Now I want the Astros to go after
Blake Snell. I want that mentalityin their clubhouse. I don't want the

(50:58):
Yankees having that advantage. The guywho's so unbothered by what everyone else in
his position would be gripping about thatHe's just like I'm playing some cod Screw
this crap. I'll let Boris handleall that garbage. I don't need that
drama in my life. I'm gonnago war Zone for the next six hours
straight and I'm gonna put it onmy Instagram account so everybody knows what I'm
doing, which is not getting readyfor baseball at a facility. I love

(51:22):
him, so I'm gonna guess hewas playing this poor soul. What would
happen if James Harden had done thiswhen he got to Camp fat So there
were four consecutive posts on his Instagramover a span of fourteen hours, One
was fourteen hours ago his hands werebusy, and one currently was seven minutes
ago. And it's the same personwho he's added in all of them.

(51:45):
Uh huh, Eric, yes,Arama key, yes, whoever that is.
Well, he's someone who is extremelybusy on the Instagram dot com platform.
I'm doing what posting one time?Ever? Okay? To his two
hundred followers, do you think he'slike a cousin or something of Blake Snell's
or some literally what does this looklike? Some complete and total rando online

(52:08):
gaming? Like the other night,I took a picture with Josh c at
the Rockets game because he never goesto the Rockets games because he's always producing
them and every Astros game you hear. I go to tag him on Instagram,
he has no posts on his account. That's like thirty days old.
I'm like, what are you doing, Josh? I can't even tag you.

(52:30):
When I go to tag him,it's an actual account, I know
it's his, and I can't taghim. That's who this guy is,
Eric dot Aramicky. Well, Iwill for from here forward until Blake and
the Yankees get together and sign him. I'll make to sure to keep track
of snell Zilla four and Eric standingon business. He does not care about

(52:51):
spring training. He'll be fine.Well, he's also not some nothing.
He's he won the cy Young That'sthat happened. He's the rainy. He
can't see without a contract next tohis game console. This is fascinating to
me. I love America in twentytwenty four for this. The other part
of it is this, this newcontract has not yet been signed. He

(53:13):
doesn't know how much more money he'sgoing to make, right on top of
the forty plus million he's already made. Likely contending team. I mean,
he's got his pick of the litter. That's all he's ever played for.
He's been in Tampa and San Diego'snot contenders. I don't care. If
they went to that Mickey Mouse WorldSeries they didn't win, advanced to the
World Series by eliminating the Houston Astro. Those weren't the Astros. Those were

(53:37):
frauds. They played the Astros previouslyand did not eliminate them. The Astros
when Tyler Glassnaw was tipping pitches andGarrett Cole was shoving as the kids say
yes with facial hair and a chin, neither of which he has now as
a Yankee, where Blake might notsign when he's done playing Call of Duty.

(53:58):
I love this a Scott Blake here, I kind of want to get
to spring training. Just got donewith another workout. I'm probably right on
schedule. I don't want to giveyou a hard deadline, but when I'm
done mopping the floor with Eric dotArimicky, I really want a contract signed.
Talk to you later and throw someextra XP my way while you're at

(54:19):
it. Scott, could you havethe whoever signs me to throw in some
extra some XP, Like don't youthink he'll need some of those additions where
we saw I don't know if yousaw, but a lot of people had
it flying around the other day.The inner workings and all the details of
coach sarks contract with Texas. Hegets the ability to have eight tickets to
every game home in road, theability to buy another sixteen tickets, access

(54:42):
to a suite blank, number offlights on the on our private jet over
a certain period of time, this, that, and the other. Like
Blake Snell. Remember Carlos Beltron's dealwhen somehow Tim Pepura couldn't get him signed
and he went to the New YorkMets. He got his own place.
He got put up, here's yourplace, and it's gonna be worth this,
and you can do this and youcan do that. Like I would

(55:02):
think at this point, if Blakesnells snidning with the Yankees, he probably
wants one of those Barry Bonds lockerroom setups. But that additional space isn't
because he needs it to keep peopleaway. He probably wants to build a
gaming studio in the Yankees' locker roomclubhouse for him to hang. So,
I mean the days he's not pitching, Oh yeah, I'm just in a

(55:23):
guy, grab some coffee in Cerealand you hit the hit the head.
I'll be back, and then thedugout for the rest of the game.
And then he just goes in thereand games. Anybody an Xbox guy.
He's like Bob sagging an entourage.Did you see what he's probably doing.
He's probably looking over at the otherdugout, at the other starting pitchers.
You're like, come on now,He's like, wait four days till your
next start. You know you're notplaying it. I'm not playing Let's let's

(55:45):
get it on. How's the WiFi in the building? Are you hardwired
in the clubhouse? Exactly can weget from from the console? Starts as
they they're asking these questions as they'relooking at his gaming center right next to
the I love it. I absolutelylove it. By the way, did
you see where John Hammon said thathe's willing to sign a short term with
opt outs. I wish John Haymanwould opt out forever. That's what I

(56:08):
wish. No, he said thatabout Blake Snell. He's willing to sign
a short term deal with opt outs. Yes, hello, Jim Crane,
this is where we want to solidifyyour rotation. We have been here for
weeks. It's a Correa deal.Blake Snell speaking of shoving in an Astro's
uniform, it's a rap, allright. When we come back our signature

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Back to the eighteen eighty oh SportsTalk seven nineteen, Why amuse a new

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signature seven called What's up with that? What's up with that? What's up?
I say, what's up? What'sup with that? With that?
Offseason NFL football finds its way intoour signature segment here on a Thursday edition

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of the eighteen that means what's upwith that? Not about the combine,
although there could be a big fatwhat's up with that? Hey? Best
three quarterbacks in the draft, maybeyou could consider picking up a football?
I guess not, what's up withthat? CJ Stroud was tossing around the
pigskin last year. Anthony Richardson wastossing around the pig skin last year.

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But they will, as Blake Snellwill stand on bust you, they're going
to play video games and not.Caleb Williams is meeting with teams and literally
not doing anything else there, sohe definitely is playing it like he's going
to be the number one pick andwants to bring that to the table kind
of from a attitude standpoint, Itend to agree. I think he will
be the number one selection for whomeverends up making that pick, And I

(59:20):
do think the other two quarterbacks actuallyare going two and three. Don't think
Marvin Harrison Junior is going to slideinto one of those top three spots.
So Drake may or Jade and Daniels, whatever your favorite is, do you
think Justin Fields will be moved?So this will be a fun year for
the teams that don't have quarterback andthuck. Luckily the Texans are not one
of them. But what's up withthat comes from what also happens during the

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off season, hopefully every year,is when teams get together, either together
or individually and submit rules change proposalsand if they get enough support, and
then they go through the competition committeeand then they vote and they pass.
Almost every single time, the gameis better because of it. And I
hope they do some of them againthis year, and we could probably run

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through a few. One thing inparticular, and what's up with that comes
from something Jonathan Jones of CBS Sportsposted and he does an awesome job.
He had some great interviews already thisweek at the combine, and he's next
in line. I think people shouldstart keeping him in that same group with
all the guys we normally do.Schefter, Rappaport, pelis Ara, Garrifolo
breaks as must news as any ofthem. However, he was talking about

(01:00:30):
some of the things that might endup being proposals, and he's talked about
this one particular play a lot,and we just saw it in the playoffs,
and that's the play where you areabout to score a touchdown, but
when you fumble and the ball goesout of bounds through the end zone,

(01:00:50):
through the end zone, it becomesa turnover, even though the other team
did not ever have the football,and they get well nineteen and a half
yards and they get to take itout of the twenty. So both parts
of the rule make very little sense. I mean, I guess the touch
hack for a year probably get exactlyit shouldn't be one at all. But
here's why I bring it up inthis context. He has indicated that the

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league's teams don't really care to puta proposal together to change the rule,
And that's not even the only what'sup with that? From it? So
I'll just read you his tweet.There's next to no movement on changing the
rule on funneling the ball through theend zone since twenty thirteen, so it's
better than a decade's worth of games. It's happened just thirty three times.

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Twenty eight of those occurred at theone yard line. It really just doesn't
happen, So it's a double what'sup with that? For the commentary there,
the first part is why don't teamscare? How can there not be
a proposal backed by everybody to changewhat to me makes so little sense,
even when I've heard the rationale andI've heard the detractors, just I don't

(01:02:00):
understand that at all. So thisis on the leagues. What are y'all
doing? The league's teams and gmslike wake up? But the second part
is it really just doesn't happen,so then we just don't care. Like
that makes no sense either. Ifit happens once, I want the rule
to be better. Just because itdoesn't happen, off, it doesn't mean
we're so freaking lazy we don't wantto go through the trouble of a rules

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proposal and rewriting a rule book.That's nuts. If the rules stinks that
it happens five times in forty years, I want it to be corrected,
don't you? How could you notwant that? That's just in teams?
Players, sports figures are lazy.That's insanity. When when was the last
time we saw this? The playoffs? This year's year? You think Zay

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Flowers would like the rule to bechanged, don't you? And look the
cheap I mean it happened to theChiefs in a game they won, the
ball was full. If they happento the end zone, I mean,
does it does it have to take? But that's the thing. Does it
have to happen in the Super Bowlto a team that winds up losing the
game in a one score affair forthis to That's that's why it's to be.

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It's absolutely absurd to say it doesn'thappen very often. It's not about
the frequency of the occurrens. It'sabout is does the rule make sense?
Should we continue with that? It'sit's cut and dry, it's black and
white. It's simple, and they'rethey're making it harder by doing nothing.
Really the the and again he's notnecessarily speaking for everybody. That's his point
of view, and he's definitely beenon that side of it. He's had
plenty of back and forths on wellwhen it was Twitter and now XT with

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lots of people who were like mesaying, how can you say this is
so inconsequential it should never happen.They could keep fumbling and it could keep
going through the end zone. Butwe can change the consequences to make more
sense. Well, that would maketoo much sense, wex I know that's
the problem. The thing about commonsense is that it's not that common.
That's always been the thing about it. Yes, your friend mi Cole Hardman

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suffering from this rule. He's theguy who fumbled, the guy we talked
about earlier that went through the endzone and became a turnover, and he's
got a lot to say about alot of other things and the other what's
up with that comes from a Majorleague baseball It's just a random spring training
day, right? Uh huh?Why would your best buddy Ben Verlander be
trending today probably talking about show Heyin some way? Well, of course,

(01:04:25):
sho Hey took to social media totell everybody about his personal life.
Did you miss that? Oh?I saw? I'm just not Ben,
So I don't care as much thathe just randomly said, oh, by
the way, I got married.He very much buried it in a run
of the mill social media post I'mmarried sho he Atani made everyone aware of
that today, just kind of aoh by the way, and so everybody

(01:04:46):
took to Twitter with just a barrageof hilarious memes about how sad Ben is
today. He should be. He'sthe biggest Yeah, and I get that.
We you know, been multiple seasonsof making appearances on the show,
friend of the show, good dude, and obsessed with shoheo Tani. Ben
tweets earlier today an he writes,woke up to a bunch of tweets saying

(01:05:11):
condolences at Ben Verlander. So itwas about show hey, and got worried,
sick, he got hurt. Turnsout he got married. Ha ha.
The three laughing emojis Internet a beautifulplace. Some would say the same
thing, getting hurt getting married.You know, well, so we're assuming
he got married to either Yoko ora Kardashian. Is that what you're saying

(01:05:35):
or Jessica Simpson, Like, isthis list even that long of the woman
who ruined this celebrity or athlete's lifeby getting married? It seems rather short,
well, especially when we're talking aboutsuperstars. Travis Kelsey's story has yet
to be written. All he's doingis the same thing he was doing.
What was he doing before winning SuperBowls and being the best ever? He

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still is? What if he?What is something bad happens on her watch?
Will you? Guys kept trying totell me and our listeners, this
is it for him. He's retiring. The season hasn't started yet. I'll
see him in uniform, not retire. He could retire, It could happen.
He could Solake Snell could stop playingvideo games too. I had.
That's not happening. I had.Even when he gets signed, I have

(01:06:20):
another what's sign we want to dothe press conference on Thursday? No,
me and Eric dot m Aroki areplaying Call of Duty? Then try again?
Can I tell you the honest truth? Right now? Yeah, there's
a Rockets game tonight right. Iam aware it's an eight o'clock tip,
eight o'clock tip in Phoenix because everytime the Rocket's playing the Central time zone

(01:06:43):
on the road to start a roadtrip, we tip off at nine,
but then when they go out west, they tip off and back to back.
You're back Thursday and Saturday in Phoenixat eight. Makes perfect sense,
NBA, as per usual. Thatwas a national TV game. What do
you got your fifty stop time forthis show? Yep? Twenty minutes out
seven thirty Network joined for Rockets pregame. Yep. I wish I could play

(01:07:04):
Call of Duty during that time,but we have not set up your own
locker with a gaming system. Youdon't think I'll get a buy one b
leave it here securely, of course, so that I can play it during
commercial breaks. That's your call,man. I know you do have some
prep work during commercial breaks occasionally.Hey Rockets fans, let me make sure

(01:07:27):
I can read that. Okay,Hey Rockets fans, attention Rockets fans.
I got it, Okay, I'mready. I'm talking about during the show.
Oh during this show? Yeah,well you could do that every day.
Who cares if there's a Rockets gameexactly. I don't want to hear
that. Man, You already checkout during breaks. What are you talking
about? Just because I check myphone every single time? I gotta catch
up. I missed a lot bychecking out. Of course, for those

(01:07:48):
of you that want to peek behindthe curtain, that's what I mean when
to say he is locked in onwhat are we doing the next segment?
How are we laying this out?What sound do we need here? And
how exactly he is going to play? But believes break all right. When
we come back, wex will havetweeted a picture of what I do during
the break, and I will tellyou guys about one last item about it

(01:08:09):
could go in what's up with that? But really it's just in general,
bad form, bad bad form byone of Major League Baseball's most storied franchises.
They hate their fans, absolutely hatetheir fans. And I'll explain that
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that a lot. Yes, speakingof angry, how angry would you be
you being if someone tweeted back atme this last segment? You're on the
wrong side of this on the fumblethrough the end zone, change it and
it takes away the preciousness of theend zone. Okay, nobody uses the
word preciousness. Astro man does becauseit's not a word. Okay, what

(01:11:59):
were you gonna ask? How madwould I be? Precious? Are dollar
dogs to you, Adam Wexler?I mean on the Tuesday nights here in
Houston, when I head out there, I would partake. I haven't been
to a lot of Tuesday games,but I know a lot of people that
there are dollar dog ticket packages,and especially ones. You can individualize a
lot of people line it up,so they can make a lot of Tuesday

(01:12:19):
games. It's a fan favorite.It's been a huge promotional success, at
least here in Houston at Minute MayPark. Well, that is true for
teams across the country, but notso in Philly, where they just can't
get out of their own way.Now I lied when I teased about this,

(01:12:40):
because it's not actually the Phillies hatingtheir fans by taking away their dollar
dog nights. Listen to this.So the Phillies have been doing that for
twenty seven seasons. Right, dollardog nights something we enjoy here in Houston,
something baseball fans enjoy all across thecountry. Twenty seven year, they're
going to replace it with a buyone, get one notion. There you

(01:13:04):
go, So, buy one,get one is the Is it regular price?
Yes? I think it's five dollars. So instead of getting two hot
dogs for two dollars, you're gettingtwo hot dogs for five dollars. There
you go. I mean makes sensefrom an economic standpoint for the team,
right, makes a lot of sense. But you might think that they're just
being mean, right, Apparently,Well, they have a good reason for

(01:13:28):
it. The Phillies say that quotelast year was the tipping point to change
their popular promotion after crowds through hotdogs and clogged the concourses waiting in line.
That's why they're doing this. Sothey actually want fewer people to buy
their hot dogs, right, Apparentlythat's what it sounds like. For more

(01:13:50):
money, yes, but if feware a purchase, maybe they'll be less
of a concession clog. How wouldyou like to be the senior vice president
of Ticket Operations and Projects to haveto explain this away. Look, we're
very proud of this promotion. It'sbeen talked about. It's been great for
twenty seven years. But it wastwenty seven years. But it was just

(01:14:13):
time for a change. We've beendiscussing a change for the last couple of
years. The unfortunate incidents last yearof throwing of the hot dogs, plus
the feedback from our fans postgame survey, the fans told us it was time
for a change. So not onlydid they conveniently use what happens all the
time, i e. People throwingthings at sporting events and clogging lines for

(01:14:34):
promotional nights as their excuse to dothis, they actually said the fans told
us it was time to do this, So now they're just gaslighting their own
fan base. I really enjoy thisbecause it's perfect for the fan base we're
talking about ugly, you're discussing fatPhiladelphia fans present that story without telling anybody

(01:14:59):
what cities baseball team we're talking about. I wouldn't imagine it took to take
people very long to guess Philly,right, hey, who was throwing stuff
at their games and being raucous andjust generally unpleasant. But who were also
going to blame for this because we'regonna say that they wanted it. Oh,
definitely Philadelphia fans, Eagles sixers,they're just trying to create a better

(01:15:21):
experience for their fans. Cut thema break, man. It's a slight
change, just a slight change.Last year was kind of the tipping point.
People were throwing the hot dog.Did you use the He did use
the line, by the way,this gentleman John Weber did say, you
know, kind of you heard thesaying a few people ruin it for everybody.

(01:15:42):
That's basically what they how they're kindof treating this. Yeah, it
was just something we couldn't continue becausea few people had now ruined it for
everybody. He continues, being justcompletely ridiculous. We still want to provide
an opportunity for a discounted concession item, two hot dogs for five dollars and
still come out to the game.That was the sin like it's this is
kind of like giving everybody everything butthen trying to pull it back after the

(01:16:03):
fact. And no, you wouldnever have thought of this at the beginning.
Give the dollar dog promotion back then. It's made a lot of financial
sense. As all the other priceshave gone through the roof at the stadium,
your thirteen dollars beer, we're stillselling dollar hot dogs. That is
an unbelievable deal. That's gone now. But two hot dogs for five dollars

(01:16:26):
is an unbelievable deal. I'm notnot yelling unbelievable. Two hot dogs at
a baseball game for five dollars isincredibly affordable. Incredibly affordable. Yeah,
but it sounds bad because the pricefor the hot dog has now gone up
a dollar fifty each. It alsosounds bad because the sentence was uttered,
two hot dogs for five dollars andstill come out to the game. Well,

(01:16:47):
what would you be doing if youweren't getting the two hot dogs for
five dollars. You wouldn't be atthe game for whatever price, it's correct,
you'd be at your own place eatingthe hot dogs you bought for a
different price, a much lower price. Well not a dollar though, well,
I mean not package or hot dogs. Of course, you buy eight
buns, and the bun count andthe dog count don't match. But a

(01:17:11):
pack of let's say ten hot dogs, i e. The superfluous buns that
George Banks talk about the bride.I'm removing at the superfluous buns. But
I do think in his day therereally were twelve hot dog buns. Well,
whatever the numbers were, didn't theydo match? Now? Like there's
eight buns, there's eight all.It took us how long in this society?
In a few years. It tookthem twenty seven years to say,
hey, you guys have thrown thelast hot dog. That's Philly fan for

(01:17:34):
you. I'm glad they lost theWorld Series in twenty twenty two. All
right, we've got Astros baseball,a team that does still offer dollar dog
nights at Minute Made Park. Notyet, though they're in Florida. Still
spring training action getting underway right aroundthe corner here on your home for Astros
Baseball, Sports Talk seven ninety willbe back at it again tomorrow at three

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for Dan, for Wex. Imay see it is the eighteam. Keep
it right here,