Astros Are On A 3 Game Lost Streak Falling 17-18, Can They Grab A Win Today Hopefully Grabbing Their Momentum Back?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ten oh one inh Town.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. It is a snack
size edition of the program. As we take you till
eleven o'clock. We've got Astros on deck from eleven until
eleven forty and then on to first pitch at twelve
ten from some insurance name stadium that used to be
called a beer and it's whatever it is, Ross, It's
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just not a great place to watch Houston Astros baseball.
Another setback against the Milli Walkee Breweries last night in
the Upper Midwest.
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Yes, first pitch, twelve ten, first bunt about twelve twelve,
I believe here on Sports Talk seven.
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Ninety Okay, okay.
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We had of the gates.
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I'm sorry, Well, I was gonna go out of the
gates either on that.
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Or Tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No, I mean that will be probably a glancing mentioned
at best. I did this last ount of the tenth
inning show, and also.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Did that go by the way.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Brief?
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Okay?
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Is that okay?
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With it?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
That?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
If I say it that way.
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Truncated as the kids say.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
As you have said many many times, if there are
people calling and want to talk baseball, indoor basketball.
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Yeah, we're here for you. It's a postgame call in show.
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But that show is ninety nine percent call in and
one percent monologue and.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Depends on when you slice in the pot.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I did the one percent monologue and played a couple
of interviews and said, hey, here's the number, call in,
and if you don't call in, we say good night
and get some good rest.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So that's we've done the last two nights.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Okay, you said see you later. Do you ever see us,
Robert Ford?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I do.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I can't help it. I don't know. I don't even.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Nylon when I'm not around or nothing, or you just
like that's not a great cliche term.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, if if somebody is leaving, if if you're going
to leave the show, I'm not going to say, all right, guys,
shows over nothing but nylon.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Or you could say that guy is going with that
that girl.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
All right, guys, you have a good time. I'm leaving
the bar, nothing but nylon. No, Matt, that doesn't make
any sense.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All right, Well, maybe you know what I mean. By
the time next season comes around, I will have to
figure out a way to give you a cliche term
so you can run around and tell your friends all
that same. Okay, all right, so back to my original.
I opened the show with I said this, and you
know how I feel about this person.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I literally love Josey L. Tuvan.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
However, I'm not done. In my mind, he's the greatest
aster of all time. He's going to, I think, get
very close to three thousand hints. He is going to
be a guy that it was with this team in
the lean times and the good times, the great times
and whatever we're calling this right now, the five hundred times.
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He is going to be a guy that you could
rely on in terms of durability, in terms of regular
season play, and the most important thing that puts him
over the top of our Bagwae Bigio for me, is
what he was able to contribute generally speaking, over his
postseason career. Okay, with that being said, he's my favorite
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player who has one negative thing that's in his column
that is so negative it drives me insane. He's the
worst base runner I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'm laughing because I don't know how to dispute that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I and I'm not saying yesterday was.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Atrocious or the worst I've ever seen, because unfortunately he's
done a lot worse. Yeah, that's true, but I literally
love Jose Altuve. I literally hate the way he runs
on the base paths. Contrari's a good catcher, by the way,
so you gotta be really careful when you're trying to
snag extra ninety feet. You better, Dan, We'll make sure
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that ball is well away from him, like maybe to
the backs. You know what I'm saying, Yes, but a
key key out in that inning yesterday was him being
tagged out at second base.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Not the reason why I lost, but a factor.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Then, to go along with what you were saying, the
back to back bunts that the local line put.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Out there yesterday, Rossie, I.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Am not one hundred percent against against buns, a eighty
five percent against bounce. I can bunt in a close
one run game. I can bunt in extra innings. I
can bunt when I've got guys behind me that I
know that aren't great contact that I need to get
the extra ninety feet. I am not the no bunt,
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no chance, no way, no how like That's how I
feel about the wave.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I never want to see the wave. I don't care
what the scenario is.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I can I can buy into slight bunt usage, not
down for nothing, and certainly Matt Ross in a back
to back a bad situation.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I was just it was just unthinkable. I couldn't
believe what I was watching. It is the way that
I would put it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I mean, what was.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Going through both Pena and al Twova's mind.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You know what's happening is there, it's a collective struggle offensively,
and somebody's trying to light some fire under the squad. Yeah,
pressing to know that, Frankly, to get the extra ninety
feet is good because it's probably at this point in
their minds it's a lot easier for me to get
my guy over with the bunt than it would be
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if I'm trying to speck the ball to let the
right center field. Because right now the team just doesn't
do a whole.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Lot of that.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, but Jeremy Paine has been good. He's been one
of the hottest hitters on the team.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
That makes it even more inexplicable. There there are out
of sorts. Doesn't mean they can't come back from it,
doesn't mean they're a hot mess. I mean, they're just
now they're unfortunately a little under average because they went under.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Five hundred yesterday after losing.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
But and to be clear, those calls did not come
from the dugout.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I don't think they could have. I can't imagine. And again,
Joe's gonna protect because that's what managers. Yes, I cannot
imagine there was back to back bunt calls from the dugout.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So thus here we.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are and your boy Jake Myers, who I mean, And
maybe they not. Maybe the expectation levels are clearly significantly
higher because of his terrific range and the ability to make.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The hard catch look easy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And I'm not saying he could have made the playout
in left center field because it was an awkward angle
and that's that part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's right there where the divit is. Yeah, in the
outfield fence. It was weird, weirdest placing. If it was
a regular fence, he would have hit it. It was a wall,
I should say, So maybe that's what he was anticipating. Clearly,
he you know, he didn't seem one hundred percent comfortable
out there because that's not his home ballpark.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, not his home ballpark. It was a strange part
of the left center field area, but that could have
made a difference if he made facts. Yes, I mean definitely.
I mean, you know, Brendan Rodgers HiT's the home run
yesterday and you're all of a sudden okay. But again,
that's to my point of what happened last night, is
when a team is struggling and now the Astros have
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dropped five of their last six, you're looking at these
things through a microscope and you're going, Okay, that was
a difference. The getting caught stealing at second base, especially
because Paratius walked after that, and I think it was
who did Christian Walker get a base it after that?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm yes, okay, I think so.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That would have been worst case.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
ROSSI had the bases loaded and only went out the
Meyers non catch, the back to back bunts. There's just
when you are struggling offensively, the little things matter, and
everything in the intangibles and the quote unquote little things category.
The Astros went zero for three, or in buns case,
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zero for four if you count two bunts.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yeah, it happens over the course of a baseball season
where just certain nights everything goes against you and that's
what it kind of felt like last night.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So needless to say, it was aggravating, and I was
able to get a little bit of a monologue off there,
and I did my one percent, and then I said, hey,
here are the phone lines, Come on in and join me.
And either the city Houston was enthralled in the rock
of the NBA playoff game last night or of the games,
or they were watching something on YouTube, or they just
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don't want to be on our radio station at ten
o'clock at night to complain about the Astros, whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You you do you as we say.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It has been a little bit of a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Not a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I think it's been a significant drop off in the
firing brimstone at the Local nine. When you're average, it's
hard to get inspired one way or the other. And
that's where we are. We mentioned on the show yesterday,
So gotta get you, gotta get this one today. I mean,
it's not a must win. We don't we don't do
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must wins in baseball.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Bor Astros baseball coming up here.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We want you to love them, we want you to
embrace them.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
As Julia Morales would say, if they win today, it'll
be a happy flight.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Not a happy road trip, but a happy flight.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So Robervaldez on the hill, you never know what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Let's get it's what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
He is.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He the Forrest Gump box of child.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You know, I really spent all off season and a
lot of last year saying, hey, since that bad start
was against the Angels or whoever where he gave up
three home runs in an inning, he was really good consistently.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
So I said, it's over blown.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
You guys are talking about up and down from Brona.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He's normally really good.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
When he goes out there. Then this year he has
been up and down Fromber. That's what I get for
defending him.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's fine, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean, when Fromber is at his best, he is
as tough of a baseball pitcher as you'll find in baseball.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, locked in Fromber is just unittable, and he's.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You're just gonna his head or somethings tend to snowball.
Then it becomes hittable Frombert to frustrated, Frombert to he's
throwing on loollipops. If you think things were bad for
the current Astros, a former astro has a line score
of his performance yesterday that I have never seen as
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bad as I've ever seen it ever for any major
league player, much less a former astro and at one
point a former astro.
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Great.
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got a lot of things to get to in a
very very short period of time. I was not going
to bring up the Giants Cubs game yesterday, Rossie.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But we kind of have to, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So the game was five to five and it went
to extra innings, I mean, and it went to eleven.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So you know you're gonna be taxing your bullpen.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yes, and you get the ghost runner.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You do.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The Chicago Cubs used one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight pitchers yesterday. Their starter went five, the relievers
had to cover the other six. Now that may sound
familiar because the astrostarters have not gone super long.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The second to last pitcher that threw for the Chicago
Cubs last night was Ryan Presley, Rossie.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He suffered the loss. He's now two and two on
the year.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Number of innings pitched.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Zero point zero.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now, he faced eight batters.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Stay with me on this. That's not good.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So even though he is technically zero point zero, he
was on the mound for eight A different folks in
these zero point zero, meaning he did not recording out
Ryan Presley gave up five hits, nine runs, eight of
which were earned, one walk, no strikeouts, no home runs.
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They just beat the hell out of him for eight batters.
M He only threw twenty six pitches and eight batters Ross,
So was he just growing him down Main Street? It
hadn't have been that case.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I mean, there had been slippage in his game the
last couple of years, but not this bad.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I mean, and I'm a Ryan Presley guy. We love
Ryan Presley.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Ryan used to listen to show a right and then
he got kind of sid but it wasn't our fault
it was.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And then he was mad that Josh hated the best
closer in baseball, took his closing job.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Get over yourself, Ryan Presley.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, it didn't particularly end well, and the trade happened ROSSI.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
His era is now seven point six two. I don't
know what it was beforehand. I guess I could figure
it out, but I don't need to say program.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, you gotta calculate infinite infinity out of there somehow.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But you tell me, have you ever seen a late
game relievers line score as bad as that?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
In my in my entire life?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Now, we've seen starters get ripped like this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
No, you are correct to thinking that history was made.
Apparently it ties a major league record of giving up
nine runs or more without recording an out. Matter, are
you familiar with Hank Borow. We Hank Borrow, We Hank
Hank Barrow.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He's an enterprising young fellow.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Hag Borrow.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, he was one of the finest pitches in the land. Well,
clearly he wasn't, because he holds this distinction. In that
nineteen fifty one for the Detroit Tigers, he gave up
nine earned runs without recording it out. That ties the
major league record. Well, Ryan Presley tied his major league
record last night.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, it says on the box score here, And I
don't know if if this is an accurate but it
says nine runs, eight of which were earned.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
There must be okay, care somewhere in the mix. Maybe Okay, Well,
I guess that's just a nine plus run. Sorry, then
you you're right, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, I'm not all earned.
Good for him, I guess.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, I mean, the area could have been worse if
it was all nine.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
He is the only relief pitcher to ever allow eight
plus runs in a game and not recording out and
get credit for the loss.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So that's there is some history being made after all, isn't.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
A crazy baseball When you said the history in baseball,
which has been around since like eighteen sixty eight, you've
achieved something.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, he I mean they're going to the games and.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
A horse and carriage back in the day, and you
did something even those guys never did. Congratulations, Ryan Presley,
you are in the history books.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
By the way, Justin Verlinder started that game for the Giants.
He got another no decisions. That was his eighth start
of the season. He's zering too, with an ERA of
four point five zero, so he is still stuck on
two hundred and sixty two career wins.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
That's a shame he ain't getting three hundred.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
No, I think we're not gonna see three hundred ever again,
are we. Nope. I don't think ROSSI I don't think
we're gonna get closed. I think the three hundred it's
gonna be the news is gonna be the new numbers
be two fifty.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah, he was the last. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't even think anybody's going I don't know if
anybody's getting two fifty.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So again, that's probably more thought I would ever give
into a Cubs Giants game. But I just saw that
box score. I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
How Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Do do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Not?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Sure Is Kershaw has two hundred twelve wins. Sure's has
two hundred and sixteen. I don't even if anybody's getting
two fifty. Matt Well, Surezier can't stay healthy. Yeah, those
and those are the two leaders. Next up would be
Garrett Cole at one fifty three. He's thirty four years old.
It ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Kyle Tucker two for four, Well, it's KRBI.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
What's his ops? I'm just asking a question.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Batting average to ninety mm hmm ops nine eight.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
MVP candidate good for him?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Had Hayden? What was an nesk?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You do?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Four innings?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Cam Smith is hitting two twelve ESUK Pray has been good.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I'm sorry Kyle Tucker this year for the UH Cubs
nine home runs, thirty one RBIs, He's drawn twenty seven walks.
I mentioned the ops in nine fifty eight.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
He getting paid.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He also says he have nine stolen bases too?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh my god, Kyle Tucker's got nine stolen bases.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
This I'm not you know what I'm done.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's it, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not looking at Kyle
Tucker and or Alex Bregman numbers anymore this year, because
lord knows, we'll be popping up on my espn uh
web page every other minute.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You don't want to BRAGMN update now the top five MVP.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Candidate right now, that's enough from you. I don't need
any of Kyle Tucker. How's he doing today?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And this lineup would be uh, imagine this lineup with
Alex Bregmant and Kyle Tucker in it, wouldn't it be wild?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
All right, I'm mixing out of the Cubs box score,
I'm mixing out of Justin Ferlander, I'm mixing out of
MLB stats.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Just mute the word Kyle Tucker on your timeline.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's point O cam behind seven one, three, five, seven ninety.
As we've already tried to clinically to press you. We've
only got a half hour left to go in the
show today. Let's go Ross. We have the NTI flow
from last night. We also have a major trade of
the NFL. Yes, interesting that there is not a part
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on Deck at eleven, So if you'd like to join us,
whether it be about the astro frustration or Ryan Presley's
box score, or a couple other things. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety George Pickens leaves the Pittsburgh
Steelers Ross with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
A couple of mid round draft picks for that.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Pickens And not that I spend a lot of time
watching Pittsburgh Steeler football, but we have got good friends
that are Steeler fans, right ROSSI uh, yes, they have
a national following mm hmm. That group of people that
meaning Steeler Nation, whatever they call themselves. They either love
every minute of George Pickens on the or they can't
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wait to get his ass off the field.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I think it's probably more the latter.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
He's good, yeah, when he makes plays and when he's focused.
But there's a lot of people in NFL circles who
have highlights of him not blocking, disinterested in plays when
the ball's not going to him, and not putting in
full effort. But when he streaks down the field and
when he plays well and when things are going his way,
he's a dynamic talent. Some call him the did Jalen
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Green of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's a risky prop because you're giving away those draft picks,
and remember these draft picks are traded like gold, no
matter what grounds they are. And the crazy part of
it is is that when this trade came down this morning,
a lot of folks said, hey, did George sign a
new deal with the Cowboys? And at this point it
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being ten thirty four on this Wednesday, he is only
scheduled to stay with the Cowboys this year. Kind of
a weight and the mode very similar, not completely, but
very similar to the to the US to find Diggs
move where the Texans decided to avoid out the last
couple of years of the contract and said, hey, we're.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Going to see what you can do for us on
a one year deal.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So a third and a fifth for a George Pickens
and a sixth. I mean, for a guy that is
so often disinterested in being on the field, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm telling you the time that I watched the Pittsburgh Steelers,
which typically is you know, they're on national TV quite
a bit because again they've got a strong following, it
is alarming how often they show him just sitting out
there and just being a bystander. It's it's it's troubling
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to me that a guy that is as freakishly athletic
as he is just doesn't want to play every snap.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean, it's as happens, and we've seen it
before and clearly also when it's a guy who's maybe
had some attitude problems and some issues, it's like, here
come the Dallas Cowboys, feels right.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I Mean, if you were to say, name a perfect
place for him to play, the Cowboys are the top
of the list, right.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Jerry Jones just loves him like some kind of broken player,
So some kind of flawed players.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It's almost like, hey, we'll fix him. And you know what,
they can fix him. There are a lot of teams
that have that philosophy.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
But I can fix him.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
In twenty twenty five and maybe the last ten years
in sports in general, regardless of the sport, I think
we're seeing less of that. I think we're seeing less
of the bring him under our wing will fix him.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, as usually was be the Cowboys and the Raiders
throughout history.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Right, yeah again, I'm so.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You now have a second great receiver there in Dallas,
but you know in Pittsburgh you got no I mean again,
I don't have their depth turn in front of me.
But he was still even though he was mailing in
pickens or whatever you want to call him, he still
could take over game.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, he still get a thousand yards and he can
get you. He hasn't gotten ten touchdowns in a season,
but he can. He has that type of quality. Yeah,
this could end up being a good deal for them,
And it depends on how much they're gonna pay him.
And I mean the Cowboys are cash strapp because Dak
Prescott is like the highest paid quarterback. They just paid
Ceedee Lamb too, right, and did Michael Parsons get a
big deal. I can't remember, but I.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It'll be his best quarterback he's ever played for the
problem is can Dak Prescott stay on the football field
for seventeen games?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Matt, it's a violent sport.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I didn't stutter.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Speaking of saying on the field.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
A quick note coming out of Milwaukee, Joe Spot of
talking about the MRI from yord On Alvarez good news.
It is a muscle strain in the top of his
right hand. Astros hope he can be swinging a bat
when they return home from the road trip.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And that'll be this weekend against Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
That's from Chilling.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Save that little nugget for our on Deck show Ross
because I'll yeah, I'll let you handle the injury report.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh thanks for letting me know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, pull it right together.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We were gonna have Dana Brown for you on the
show today, but apparently that's not gonna be until tomorrow.
So okay, maybe dinn It's like, I gotta think of
some things about his team, and I'm ready to is
ready to work.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
He's like, give me one more day. Hopefully they can
win a game.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We need a five run game at least, I don't
want to answer questions.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
About double bump.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We want to talk about Yeah, we want to talk
about buns and Josel two A's base running.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's not been good.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Seven one three two one two five, seven nine. If
you want to jump in and we are with you
to the top of the hour, seven one three, two
one two five At seven ninety, let's talk to uh
Richard in League City at ten thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Richard, good morning, Hey guys, good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
So strange.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I mean, as I'm on hold, I realize I'm getting
a little emotional because I'm calling. I'm calling in to
talk about the Rockets, and like I thought, the sadness
had kind of lifted, but it's out that I'm sad.
I'm really grateful.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
First off, I'm grateful to you, Matt for the call.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
I I I probably get more Rockets games on the
radio than any other way, and I.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Just really enjoyed you this season.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
This team is wrong and I love it.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
On the longer line, the game six kind of Matt's
greatest hits.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
From that's nice to say that. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
That was really great.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah, my wish list for this team in the off
season a warning and uh and then just my wish list.
My warning is that they don't try to bring in someone.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Like k D.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
And the reason being is I think uh Udoka coachka
has h He's built a culture that I don't think
a really old, superstar veteran is going to fit in
with easily. They're gonna have to be someone who's just
absolutely the picture of rationalism, like a Steven Adams and
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where there's not going to be a lick of entitlement
in them, and I think that automatically disqualifies Katie. I
don't know him personally, but and he seems to be
on his best behavior the last couple of years, but
my impression is he just would not it would not
be a good fit. So that said, my Christmas wish
list is that we bring in someone like a Devin Booker.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
We package to Jalen Green and.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Draft picks for a Devin Booker, and if somehow we
can try him away from Phoenix, that's it. And in
otherwise I'd want to see because I don't I don't
know how far this team. I think this team could
have really gone far if you had just replaced Kaitlin
with a constant, proven UH player in the position who
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doesn't who plays his best games when the stakes of Austin.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I think he kind of fits that that profile.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Otherwise, I just can't wait to see how this team
continues to mature and grow.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
And uh, and that's it.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I'm and I don't know what I'm gonna do between
now and next season because this Astros team has just
really not got me inspired. And uh and then after
your thing this morning with Kyle Tucker and Bradman, I'm
I'm a special.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I can't do that. Yeah, Richard, thank you very much
for the phone call, my friend. I'm not doing it anymore.
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I'm not doing it to our audience. Rossie, if you
want to go check it. Everybody wants check out those numbers.
The internet works for everybody. Usually, I'm not doing I can't.
I can't do it to our audience. I can't do
it the great people of Houston, Texas because it makes
me sad.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Things will turn, things will get better.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Matt Uh to the Rockets, and we did carry the
most of the press conference yesterday, but with ima A
Doka and Rafelstone, the general manager by the way to
the caller and thank you again Richard for the next words,
It's gonna take more than draft picks and Jalen Green.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yes for Devin Booker, I mean.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Again, Phoenix Suns at least the last time they publicly
said anything, and certainly behind the scenes with some things
said that Devin Booker is a cornerstone piece of their franchise,
that they have no interest in trying to train him.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, it's funny because Rockets Twitter is all like Reed Shepherd,
Kim Whitmore.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
And two first for Devin Booker, who says Jack Landell's
fuck who says no, the Phoenix Suns hang up on
you thinking they got prank called I think it's break
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
If you were to go get if you were to
go get Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And again I'm terrible on the on the draft.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
You know what would it taken? I would think, and
he helped me out. Rosso Fitz two draft picks.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Rudy Gobert went for four first rounders. Let's start there.
Donovan Minchell was three first rounders.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Okay, so let's go there.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Three first round Jabbari Tari, Jalen you know who they're
gonna call for and they're not gonna get that. They're
not gonna get that return. I'm gonna say who new phone?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Who is.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
They're gonna ask for? Don't even say his name, men, Thompson,
that you said his name. By the way, I came
up with a I mean I kind of organically came
up with a nickname for him. I haven't I haven't
floated out to anybody publicly yet. It's just something I
thought of when we come back. My nickname idea for
him and Thompson?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Is it gonna be good?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I like it, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Throw to you.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We'll find out next baton Ross with you for a
few more minutes, and then we will transition into Astro's
coverage Series finales. The Astros try to avoid the sweep
in Milwaukee really fast. We'll go back on the phones.
Tyree's Halliburton. I mean, his dad wanted to be at
that game so bad last night. Oh, but he wasn't there.
And it didn't matter because Halliburton with a game winning
(29:58):
three Indiana up two. Thing on the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
They were missing? Was it Mobley? Hunter? Hunter?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And Garland I think I'll missed the game. But they
were winning for most of it. Donovan Mitchell was great.
And then they came back. It came out and choked
that game. And now I think they're two to one
dogs in that series. I don't know how long Mobiley
and the others are supposed to be out though.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Sixty plus win basketball team. If they get bounced into semifinals,
that is going to Yeah, it's been crushed a lot
in sports. I mean, let's three rotational players hurt. I
think is a good enough excuse.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
It is? It is.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And then last night Draymond Green.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Oh my god, Steph Curry got hurt. Steph Curry got hurt.
They won by double dits. I hate you Warriors. I
hate you.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I hate you. Listen to me.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
I hate you Garland State. I hate you Warriors. I
hate you Draymond Green. I hate you Steph Curry. I
hate I really hate you, Buddy Yield. I hate Quinton Post,
I hate Moses Moody, most.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Moody, Pat Spencer. I hate Cobonbler Hell.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I can run them off.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Is that called seven games with them? I hate the.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Ah Yeah, the Warrior.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I mean, I'm sorry the Wolves are on some kind
of historic three point shooting spell. They were five to
twenty nine last night, and they're on like some worst
I think it's like a worst two game stretch and
playoff history shooting threes or something like that.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, they missed their first seventeen last night. Meanwhile, Draymond
Green is knocking back jumpers. They won by double digits
and stuff. Didn't even play in the second half. Got
to hate you Warriors, crazy hit you hate you.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, there's seven for their last fifty six from three.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Renfro on seven ninety get ten to fifty three high renfro.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Hey, guys, I'm doing mag Can I say this Matt
And I think, Matt, you have you have basketball guys,
you would kind of see what I'm going with your
Michael Jordan took a while before he learned how to
win and learn how to and knowing when to take
over a game, be dominant and everything that's get everybody
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involved in the game. Jalen is a good talent. He
gets downfield, you know, gets down here real good. You know,
uh and and you know, better than average jumper. I
think with Jalen, hursts, just like I've seen.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Other stars had to do they had.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
You have to learn how to win if we break
this team up. Now with him at his you know,
getting there getting to the point where he have a
hell of a coach that that I'm quite sure working
with him, he just has to learn how and really
realize how. He has to just learn when to take
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over a game went and when to get people involved
in the game. And I think that's his only flaw
that he really has. He just have a learned how
to win games. He has to learn that ain't nowhere
in the world you can win showing eight points if
you're not really really active, you know, uh with the
team and knowing that you ought to you know, you're
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the first option. So I think, you know, this is
just what maybe I think Michael Jordan took almost He
was an.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
All Star his first season and Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Right, Okay, So I don't want to put Michael Jordan
in the same conversation.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
You shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
In the same style up.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
You have to still learn how to win.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Michael Jordan was a Michael Jordan was an All Star
all four of his first seasons in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Jalen Greens had four seasons, He's got zero.
Speaker 9 (33:38):
But when did Michael Jordan win his first player I'm
a championship.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Game when he was nineteen nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, that over the lake?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
How many years?
Speaker 9 (33:46):
How many years was he in the league before he won?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Probably six or seven, but he had like four scoring
championships by then. He wasn't shooting forty two percent from
the field in his fourth year. I mean, come on, man,
that's not please.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Got you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
You gotta do cops. Stay with me on this, Jordan, Yeah,
you gotta do comps on current players.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Please.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Look I just had a caller go off for one minute.
Well yeah, well we're gonna do that too. It's funny
that that was brought up because I actually been working
on a little pet project. Matt comparing Jalen Green's first
four years to other contemporaries the Devin Bookers, Jaylen Brown's
(34:34):
and Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum, Trey Young, Jay gild dearon
Fox and I'm gonna be putting up I'm actually gonna
be putting something up on the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Blog and probably the next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Am I gonna like it or not? Like I'm just.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Gonna tell you it's not looking good.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, listen, we're gonna go into astros coverage next.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
So when't ask me the nickname I got ahead for
a Men Thompson. Yes, I was watching Steph Curry get
guarded by him and open for three and he didn't
want to put a shot up, and I was like, man,
he is he is shook, he is scared.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
A Men Thompson is the Boogeyman?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Do a pole question it?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah, you tell me sounds like you don't like it.
That's okay, it's like the Boogeyman.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Here's the thing I don't There's gotta be some other
athletes that have been named the Boogeyman.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Yes, I looked it up. It was like some guy
for that played for the Patriots in the eighties or something.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Oh, then you're well within your right to call him
the Boogeyman.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And he's and he's like that and a wrestler, let's see,
I'm sorry player Derek while for.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Derek Bouguard who when he was the Minnesota Wild. Unfortunate
he's passed away, but he was a Goon.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
And then it was the Patriots. It was a Patriots
Ten oh one inh Town.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. It is a snack
size edition of the program. As we take you till
eleven o'clock. We've got Astros on deck from eleven until
eleven forty and then on to first pitch at twelve
ten from some insurance name stadium that used to be
called a beer and it's whatever it is, Ross, It's
(00:24):
just not a great place to watch Houston Astros baseball.
Another setback against the Milli Walkee Breweries last night in
the Upper Midwest.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yes, first pitch, twelve ten, first bunt about twelve twelve,
I believe here on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Ninety Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We had of the gates.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm sorry, Well, I was gonna go out of the
gates either on that.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Or Tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No, I mean that will be probably a glancing mentioned
at best. I did this last ount of the tenth
inning show, and also.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Did that go by the way.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Brief?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
With it?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
That?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
If I say it that way.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Truncated as the kids say.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
As you have said many many times, if there are
people calling and want to talk baseball, indoor basketball.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, we're here for you. It's a postgame call in show.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But that show is ninety nine percent call in and
one percent monologue and.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Depends on when you slice in the pot.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I did the one percent monologue and played a couple
of interviews and said, hey, here's the number, call in,
and if you don't call in, we say good night
and get some good rest.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So that's we've done the last two nights.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Okay, you said see you later. Do you ever see us,
Robert Ford?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I do.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I can't help it. I don't know. I don't even.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Nylon when I'm not around or nothing, or you just
like that's not a great cliche term.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, if if somebody is leaving, if if you're going
to leave the show, I'm not going to say, all right, guys,
shows over nothing but nylon.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Or you could say that guy is going with that
that girl.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
All right, guys, you have a good time. I'm leaving
the bar, nothing but nylon. No, Matt, that doesn't make
any sense.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All right, Well, maybe you know what I mean. By
the time next season comes around, I will have to
figure out a way to give you a cliche term
so you can run around and tell your friends all
that same. Okay, all right, so back to my original.
I opened the show with I said this, and you
know how I feel about this person.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I literally love Josey L. Tuvan.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
However, I'm not done. In my mind, he's the greatest
aster of all time. He's going to, I think, get
very close to three thousand hints. He is going to
be a guy that it was with this team in
the lean times and the good times, the great times
and whatever we're calling this right now, the five hundred times.
(02:48):
He is going to be a guy that you could
rely on in terms of durability, in terms of regular
season play, and the most important thing that puts him
over the top of our Bagwae Bigio for me, is
what he was able to contribute generally speaking, over his
postseason career. Okay, with that being said, he's my favorite
(03:09):
player who has one negative thing that's in his column
that is so negative it drives me insane. He's the
worst base runner I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'm laughing because I don't know how to dispute that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I and I'm not saying yesterday was.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Atrocious or the worst I've ever seen, because unfortunately he's
done a lot worse. Yeah, that's true, but I literally
love Jose Altuve. I literally hate the way he runs
on the base paths. Contrari's a good catcher, by the way,
so you gotta be really careful when you're trying to
snag extra ninety feet. You better, Dan, We'll make sure
(03:57):
that ball is well away from him, like maybe to
the backs. You know what I'm saying, Yes, but a
key key out in that inning yesterday was him being
tagged out at second base.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Not the reason why I lost, but a factor.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Then, to go along with what you were saying, the
back to back bunts that the local line put.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Out there yesterday, Rossie, I.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Am not one hundred percent against against buns, a eighty
five percent against bounce. I can bunt in a close
one run game. I can bunt in extra innings. I
can bunt when I've got guys behind me that I
know that aren't great contact that I need to get
the extra ninety feet. I am not the no bunt,
(04:47):
no chance, no way, no how like That's how I
feel about the wave.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I never want to see the wave. I don't care
what the scenario is.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I can I can buy into slight bunt usage, not
down for nothing, and certainly Matt Ross in a back
to back a bad situation.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I was just it was just unthinkable. I couldn't
believe what I was watching. It is the way that
I would put it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I mean, what was.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Going through both Pena and al Twova's mind.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You know what's happening is there, it's a collective struggle offensively,
and somebody's trying to light some fire under the squad. Yeah,
pressing to know that, Frankly, to get the extra ninety
feet is good because it's probably at this point in
their minds it's a lot easier for me to get
my guy over with the bunt than it would be
(05:47):
if I'm trying to speck the ball to let the
right center field. Because right now the team just doesn't
do a whole.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Lot of that.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, but Jeremy Paine has been good. He's been one
of the hottest hitters on the team.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
That makes it even more inexplicable. There there are out
of sorts. Doesn't mean they can't come back from it,
doesn't mean they're a hot mess. I mean, they're just
now they're unfortunately a little under average because they went under.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Five hundred yesterday after losing.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
But and to be clear, those calls did not come
from the dugout.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I don't think they could have. I can't imagine. And again,
Joe's gonna protect because that's what managers. Yes, I cannot
imagine there was back to back bunt calls from the dugout.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So thus here we.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are and your boy Jake Myers, who I mean, And
maybe they not. Maybe the expectation levels are clearly significantly
higher because of his terrific range and the ability to make.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The hard catch look easy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And I'm not saying he could have made the playout
in left center field because it was an awkward angle
and that's that part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's right there where the divit is. Yeah, in the
outfield fence. It was weird, weirdest placing. If it was
a regular fence, he would have hit it. It was a wall,
I should say, So maybe that's what he was anticipating. Clearly,
he you know, he didn't seem one hundred percent comfortable
out there because that's not his home ballpark.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, not his home ballpark. It was a strange part
of the left center field area, but that could have
made a difference if he made facts. Yes, I mean definitely.
I mean, you know, Brendan Rodgers HiT's the home run
yesterday and you're all of a sudden okay. But again,
that's to my point of what happened last night, is
when a team is struggling and now the Astros have
(07:33):
dropped five of their last six, you're looking at these
things through a microscope and you're going, Okay, that was
a difference. The getting caught stealing at second base, especially
because Paratius walked after that, and I think it was
who did Christian Walker get a base it after that?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm yes, okay, I think so.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That would have been worst case.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
ROSSI had the bases loaded and only went out the
Meyers non catch, the back to back bunts. There's just
when you are struggling offensively, the little things matter, and
everything in the intangibles and the quote unquote little things category.
The Astros went zero for three, or in buns case,
(08:14):
zero for four if you count two bunts.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yeah, it happens over the course of a baseball season
where just certain nights everything goes against you and that's
what it kind of felt like last night.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So needless to say, it was aggravating, and I was
able to get a little bit of a monologue off there,
and I did my one percent, and then I said, hey,
here are the phone lines, Come on in and join me.
And either the city Houston was enthralled in the rock
of the NBA playoff game last night or of the games,
or they were watching something on YouTube, or they just
(08:46):
don't want to be on our radio station at ten
o'clock at night to complain about the Astros, whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You you do you as we say.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It has been a little bit of a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Not a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I think it's been a significant drop off in the
firing brimstone at the Local nine. When you're average, it's
hard to get inspired one way or the other. And
that's where we are. We mentioned on the show yesterday,
So gotta get you, gotta get this one today. I mean,
it's not a must win. We don't we don't do
(09:19):
must wins in baseball.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Bor Astros baseball coming up here.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We want you to love them, we want you to
embrace them.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
As Julia Morales would say, if they win today, it'll
be a happy flight.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Not a happy road trip, but a happy flight.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So Robervaldez on the hill, you never know what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Let's get it's what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
He is.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He the Forrest Gump box of child.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You know, I really spent all off season and a
lot of last year saying, hey, since that bad start
was against the Angels or whoever where he gave up
three home runs in an inning, he was really good consistently.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
So I said, it's over blown.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
You guys are talking about up and down from Brona.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He's normally really good.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
When he goes out there. Then this year he has
been up and down Fromber. That's what I get for
defending him.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's fine, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean, when Fromber is at his best, he is
as tough of a baseball pitcher as you'll find in baseball.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, locked in Fromber is just unittable, and he's.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You're just gonna his head or somethings tend to snowball.
Then it becomes hittable Frombert to frustrated, Frombert to he's
throwing on loollipops. If you think things were bad for
the current Astros, a former astro has a line score
of his performance yesterday that I have never seen as
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bad as I've ever seen it ever for any major
league player, much less a former astro and at one
point a former astro.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Great.
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got a lot of things to get to in a
very very short period of time. I was not going
to bring up the Giants Cubs game yesterday, Rossie.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But we kind of have to, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So the game was five to five and it went
to extra innings, I mean, and it went to eleven.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So you know you're gonna be taxing your bullpen.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yes, and you get the ghost runner.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You do.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The Chicago Cubs used one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight pitchers yesterday. Their starter went five, the relievers
had to cover the other six. Now that may sound
familiar because the astrostarters have not gone super long.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The second to last pitcher that threw for the Chicago
Cubs last night was Ryan Presley, Rossie.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He suffered the loss. He's now two and two on
the year.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Number of innings pitched.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Zero point zero.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now, he faced eight batters.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Stay with me on this. That's not good.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So even though he is technically zero point zero, he
was on the mound for eight A different folks in
these zero point zero, meaning he did not recording out
Ryan Presley gave up five hits, nine runs, eight of
which were earned, one walk, no strikeouts, no home runs.
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They just beat the hell out of him for eight batters.
M He only threw twenty six pitches and eight batters Ross,
So was he just growing him down Main Street? It
hadn't have been that case.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I mean, there had been slippage in his game the
last couple of years, but not this bad.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I mean, and I'm a Ryan Presley guy. We love
Ryan Presley.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Ryan used to listen to show a right and then
he got kind of sid but it wasn't our fault
it was.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And then he was mad that Josh hated the best
closer in baseball, took his closing job.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Get over yourself, Ryan Presley.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, it didn't particularly end well, and the trade happened ROSSI.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
His era is now seven point six two. I don't
know what it was beforehand. I guess I could figure
it out, but I don't need to say program.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, you gotta calculate infinite infinity out of there somehow.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But you tell me, have you ever seen a late
game relievers line score as bad as that?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
In my in my entire life?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Now, we've seen starters get ripped like this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
No, you are correct to thinking that history was made.
Apparently it ties a major league record of giving up
nine runs or more without recording an out. Matter, are
you familiar with Hank Borow. We Hank Borrow, We Hank
Hank Barrow.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He's an enterprising young fellow.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Hag Borrow.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, he was one of the finest pitches in the land. Well,
clearly he wasn't, because he holds this distinction. In that
nineteen fifty one for the Detroit Tigers, he gave up
nine earned runs without recording it out. That ties the
major league record. Well, Ryan Presley tied his major league
record last night.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, it says on the box score here, And I
don't know if if this is an accurate but it
says nine runs, eight of which were earned.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
There must be okay, care somewhere in the mix. Maybe Okay, Well,
I guess that's just a nine plus run. Sorry, then
you you're right, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, I'm not all earned.
Good for him, I guess.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, I mean, the area could have been worse if
it was all nine.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
He is the only relief pitcher to ever allow eight
plus runs in a game and not recording out and
get credit for the loss.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So that's there is some history being made after all, isn't.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
A crazy baseball When you said the history in baseball,
which has been around since like eighteen sixty eight, you've
achieved something.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, he I mean they're going to the games and.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
A horse and carriage back in the day, and you
did something even those guys never did. Congratulations, Ryan Presley,
you are in the history books.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
By the way, Justin Verlinder started that game for the Giants.
He got another no decisions. That was his eighth start
of the season. He's zering too, with an ERA of
four point five zero, so he is still stuck on
two hundred and sixty two career wins.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
That's a shame he ain't getting three hundred.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
No, I think we're not gonna see three hundred ever again,
are we. Nope. I don't think ROSSI I don't think
we're gonna get closed. I think the three hundred it's
gonna be the news is gonna be the new numbers
be two fifty.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah, he was the last. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't even think anybody's going I don't know if
anybody's getting two fifty.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So again, that's probably more thought I would ever give
into a Cubs Giants game. But I just saw that
box score. I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
How Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Do do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Not?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Sure Is Kershaw has two hundred twelve wins. Sure's has
two hundred and sixteen. I don't even if anybody's getting
two fifty. Matt Well, Surezier can't stay healthy. Yeah, those
and those are the two leaders. Next up would be
Garrett Cole at one fifty three. He's thirty four years old.
It ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Kyle Tucker two for four, Well, it's KRBI.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
What's his ops? I'm just asking a question.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Batting average to ninety mm hmm ops nine eight.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
MVP candidate good for him?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Had Hayden? What was an nesk?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You do?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Four innings?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Cam Smith is hitting two twelve ESUK Pray has been good.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I'm sorry Kyle Tucker this year for the UH Cubs
nine home runs, thirty one RBIs, He's drawn twenty seven walks.
I mentioned the ops in nine fifty eight.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
He getting paid.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He also says he have nine stolen bases too?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh my god, Kyle Tucker's got nine stolen bases.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
This I'm not you know what I'm done.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's it, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not looking at Kyle
Tucker and or Alex Bregman numbers anymore this year, because
lord knows, we'll be popping up on my espn uh
web page every other minute.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You don't want to BRAGMN update now the top five MVP.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Candidate right now, that's enough from you. I don't need
any of Kyle Tucker. How's he doing today?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And this lineup would be uh, imagine this lineup with
Alex Bregmant and Kyle Tucker in it, wouldn't it be wild?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
All right, I'm mixing out of the Cubs box score,
I'm mixing out of Justin Ferlander, I'm mixing out of
MLB stats.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Just mute the word Kyle Tucker on your timeline.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's point O cam behind seven one, three, five, seven ninety.
As we've already tried to clinically to press you. We've
only got a half hour left to go in the
show today. Let's go Ross. We have the NTI flow
from last night. We also have a major trade of
the NFL. Yes, interesting that there is not a part
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two to that interesting big training NFL tap that seven
one three two one two five seven niney. If you
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At seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Matt Ross with you on a snack size edition of
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on Deck at eleven, So if you'd like to join us,
whether it be about the astro frustration or Ryan Presley's
box score, or a couple other things. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety George Pickens leaves the Pittsburgh
Steelers Ross with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
A couple of mid round draft picks for that.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Pickens And not that I spend a lot of time
watching Pittsburgh Steeler football, but we have got good friends
that are Steeler fans, right ROSSI uh, yes, they have
a national following mm hmm. That group of people that
meaning Steeler Nation, whatever they call themselves. They either love
every minute of George Pickens on the or they can't
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wait to get his ass off the field.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I think it's probably more the latter.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
He's good, yeah, when he makes plays and when he's focused.
But there's a lot of people in NFL circles who
have highlights of him not blocking, disinterested in plays when
the ball's not going to him, and not putting in
full effort. But when he streaks down the field and
when he plays well and when things are going his way,
he's a dynamic talent. Some call him the did Jalen
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Green of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's a risky prop because you're giving away those draft picks,
and remember these draft picks are traded like gold, no
matter what grounds they are. And the crazy part of
it is is that when this trade came down this morning,
a lot of folks said, hey, did George sign a
new deal with the Cowboys? And at this point it
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being ten thirty four on this Wednesday, he is only
scheduled to stay with the Cowboys this year. Kind of
a weight and the mode very similar, not completely, but
very similar to the to the US to find Diggs
move where the Texans decided to avoid out the last
couple of years of the contract and said, hey, we're.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Going to see what you can do for us on
a one year deal.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So a third and a fifth for a George Pickens
and a sixth. I mean, for a guy that is
so often disinterested in being on the field, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm telling you the time that I watched the Pittsburgh Steelers,
which typically is you know, they're on national TV quite
a bit because again they've got a strong following, it
is alarming how often they show him just sitting out
there and just being a bystander. It's it's it's troubling
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to me that a guy that is as freakishly athletic
as he is just doesn't want to play every snap.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean, it's as happens, and we've seen it
before and clearly also when it's a guy who's maybe
had some attitude problems and some issues, it's like, here
come the Dallas Cowboys, feels right.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I Mean, if you were to say, name a perfect
place for him to play, the Cowboys are the top
of the list, right.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Jerry Jones just loves him like some kind of broken player,
So some kind of flawed players.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It's almost like, hey, we'll fix him. And you know what,
they can fix him. There are a lot of teams
that have that philosophy.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
But I can fix him.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
In twenty twenty five and maybe the last ten years
in sports in general, regardless of the sport, I think
we're seeing less of that. I think we're seeing less
of the bring him under our wing will fix him.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, as usually was be the Cowboys and the Raiders
throughout history.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Right, yeah again, I'm so.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You now have a second great receiver there in Dallas,
but you know in Pittsburgh you got no I mean again,
I don't have their depth turn in front of me.
But he was still even though he was mailing in
pickens or whatever you want to call him, he still
could take over game.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, he still get a thousand yards and he can
get you. He hasn't gotten ten touchdowns in a season,
but he can. He has that type of quality. Yeah,
this could end up being a good deal for them,
And it depends on how much they're gonna pay him.
And I mean the Cowboys are cash strapp because Dak
Prescott is like the highest paid quarterback. They just paid
Ceedee Lamb too, right, and did Michael Parsons get a
big deal. I can't remember, but I.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It'll be his best quarterback he's ever played for the
problem is can Dak Prescott stay on the football field
for seventeen games?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Matt, it's a violent sport.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I didn't stutter.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Speaking of saying on the field.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
A quick note coming out of Milwaukee, Joe Spot of
talking about the MRI from yord On Alvarez good news.
It is a muscle strain in the top of his
right hand. Astros hope he can be swinging a bat
when they return home from the road trip.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And that'll be this weekend against Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
That's from Chilling.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Save that little nugget for our on Deck show Ross
because I'll yeah, I'll let you handle the injury report.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh thanks for letting me know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, pull it right together.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We were gonna have Dana Brown for you on the
show today, but apparently that's not gonna be until tomorrow.
So okay, maybe dinn It's like, I gotta think of
some things about his team, and I'm ready to is
ready to work.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
He's like, give me one more day. Hopefully they can
win a game.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We need a five run game at least, I don't
want to answer questions.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
About double bump.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We want to talk about Yeah, we want to talk
about buns and Josel two A's base running.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's not been good.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Seven one three two one two five, seven nine. If
you want to jump in and we are with you
to the top of the hour, seven one three, two
one two five At seven ninety, let's talk to uh
Richard in League City at ten thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Richard, good morning, Hey guys, good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
So strange.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I mean, as I'm on hold, I realize I'm getting
a little emotional because I'm calling. I'm calling in to
talk about the Rockets, and like I thought, the sadness
had kind of lifted, but it's out that I'm sad.
I'm really grateful.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
First off, I'm grateful to you, Matt for the call.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
I I I probably get more Rockets games on the
radio than any other way, and I.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Just really enjoyed you this season.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
This team is wrong and I love it.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
On the longer line, the game six kind of Matt's
greatest hits.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
From that's nice to say that. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
That was really great.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah, my wish list for this team in the off
season a warning and uh and then just my wish list.
My warning is that they don't try to bring in someone.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Like k D.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
And the reason being is I think uh Udoka coachka
has h He's built a culture that I don't think
a really old, superstar veteran is going to fit in
with easily. They're gonna have to be someone who's just
absolutely the picture of rationalism, like a Steven Adams and
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where there's not going to be a lick of entitlement
in them, and I think that automatically disqualifies Katie. I
don't know him personally, but and he seems to be
on his best behavior the last couple of years, but
my impression is he just would not it would not
be a good fit. So that said, my Christmas wish
list is that we bring in someone like a Devin Booker.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
We package to Jalen Green and.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Draft picks for a Devin Booker, and if somehow we
can try him away from Phoenix, that's it. And in
otherwise I'd want to see because I don't I don't
know how far this team. I think this team could
have really gone far if you had just replaced Kaitlin
with a constant, proven UH player in the position who
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doesn't who plays his best games when the stakes of Austin.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I think he kind of fits that that profile.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Otherwise, I just can't wait to see how this team
continues to mature and grow.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
And uh, and that's it.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I'm and I don't know what I'm gonna do between
now and next season because this Astros team has just
really not got me inspired. And uh and then after
your thing this morning with Kyle Tucker and Bradman, I'm
I'm a special.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I can't do that. Yeah, Richard, thank you very much
for the phone call, my friend. I'm not doing it anymore.
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I'm not doing it to our audience. Rossie, if you
want to go check it. Everybody wants check out those numbers.
The internet works for everybody. Usually, I'm not doing I can't.
I can't do it to our audience. I can't do
it the great people of Houston, Texas because it makes
me sad.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Things will turn, things will get better.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Matt Uh to the Rockets, and we did carry the
most of the press conference yesterday, but with ima A
Doka and Rafelstone, the general manager by the way to
the caller and thank you again Richard for the next words,
It's gonna take more than draft picks and Jalen Green.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yes for Devin Booker, I mean.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Again, Phoenix Suns at least the last time they publicly
said anything, and certainly behind the scenes with some things
said that Devin Booker is a cornerstone piece of their franchise,
that they have no interest in trying to train him.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, it's funny because Rockets Twitter is all like Reed Shepherd,
Kim Whitmore.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
And two first for Devin Booker, who says Jack Landell's
fuck who says no, the Phoenix Suns hang up on
you thinking they got prank called I think it's break
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
If you were to go get if you were to
go get Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And again I'm terrible on the on the draft.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
You know what would it taken? I would think, and
he helped me out. Rosso Fitz two draft picks.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Rudy Gobert went for four first rounders. Let's start there.
Donovan Minchell was three first rounders.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Okay, so let's go there.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Three first round Jabbari Tari, Jalen you know who they're
gonna call for and they're not gonna get that. They're
not gonna get that return. I'm gonna say who new phone?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Who is.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
They're gonna ask for? Don't even say his name, men, Thompson,
that you said his name. By the way, I came
up with a I mean I kind of organically came
up with a nickname for him. I haven't I haven't
floated out to anybody publicly yet. It's just something I
thought of when we come back. My nickname idea for
him and Thompson?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Is it gonna be good?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I like it, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Throw to you.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We'll find out next baton Ross with you for a
few more minutes, and then we will transition into Astro's
coverage Series finales. The Astros try to avoid the sweep
in Milwaukee really fast. We'll go back on the phones.
Tyree's Halliburton. I mean, his dad wanted to be at
that game so bad last night. Oh, but he wasn't there.
And it didn't matter because Halliburton with a game winning
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three Indiana up two. Thing on the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
They were missing? Was it Mobley? Hunter? Hunter?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And Garland I think I'll missed the game. But they
were winning for most of it. Donovan Mitchell was great.
And then they came back. It came out and choked
that game. And now I think they're two to one
dogs in that series. I don't know how long Mobiley
and the others are supposed to be out though.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Sixty plus win basketball team. If they get bounced into semifinals,
that is going to Yeah, it's been crushed a lot
in sports. I mean, let's three rotational players hurt. I
think is a good enough excuse.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
It is? It is.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And then last night Draymond Green.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Oh my god, Steph Curry got hurt. Steph Curry got hurt.
They won by double dits. I hate you Warriors. I
hate you.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I hate you. Listen to me.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
I hate you Garland State. I hate you Warriors. I
hate you Draymond Green. I hate you Steph Curry. I
hate I really hate you, Buddy Yield. I hate Quinton Post,
I hate Moses Moody, most.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Moody, Pat Spencer. I hate Cobonbler Hell.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I can run them off.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Is that called seven games with them? I hate the.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Ah Yeah, the Warrior.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I mean, I'm sorry the Wolves are on some kind
of historic three point shooting spell. They were five to
twenty nine last night, and they're on like some worst
I think it's like a worst two game stretch and
playoff history shooting threes or something like that.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, they missed their first seventeen last night. Meanwhile, Draymond
Green is knocking back jumpers. They won by double digits
and stuff. Didn't even play in the second half. Got
to hate you Warriors, crazy hit you hate you.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, there's seven for their last fifty six from three.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Renfro on seven ninety get ten to fifty three high renfro.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Hey, guys, I'm doing mag Can I say this Matt
And I think, Matt, you have you have basketball guys,
you would kind of see what I'm going with your
Michael Jordan took a while before he learned how to
win and learn how to and knowing when to take
over a game, be dominant and everything that's get everybody
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involved in the game. Jalen is a good talent. He
gets downfield, you know, gets down here real good. You know,
uh and and you know, better than average jumper. I
think with Jalen, hursts, just like I've seen.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Other stars had to do they had.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
You have to learn how to win if we break
this team up. Now with him at his you know,
getting there getting to the point where he have a
hell of a coach that that I'm quite sure working
with him, he just has to learn how and really
realize how. He has to just learn when to take
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over a game went and when to get people involved
in the game. And I think that's his only flaw
that he really has. He just have a learned how
to win games. He has to learn that ain't nowhere
in the world you can win showing eight points if
you're not really really active, you know, uh with the
team and knowing that you ought to you know, you're
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the first option. So I think, you know, this is
just what maybe I think Michael Jordan took almost He
was an.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
All Star his first season and Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Right, Okay, So I don't want to put Michael Jordan
in the same conversation.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
You shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
In the same style up.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
You have to still learn how to win.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Michael Jordan was a Michael Jordan was an All Star
all four of his first seasons in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Jalen Greens had four seasons, He's got zero.
Speaker 9 (33:38):
But when did Michael Jordan win his first player I'm
a championship.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Game when he was nineteen nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, that over the lake?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
How many years?
Speaker 9 (33:46):
How many years was he in the league before he won?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Probably six or seven, but he had like four scoring
championships by then. He wasn't shooting forty two percent from
the field in his fourth year. I mean, come on, man,
that's not please.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Got you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
You gotta do cops. Stay with me on this, Jordan, Yeah,
you gotta do comps on current players.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Please.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Look I just had a caller go off for one minute.
Well yeah, well we're gonna do that too. It's funny
that that was brought up because I actually been working
on a little pet project. Matt comparing Jalen Green's first
four years to other contemporaries the Devin Bookers, Jaylen Brown's
(34:34):
and Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum, Trey Young, Jay gild dearon
Fox and I'm gonna be putting up I'm actually gonna
be putting something up on the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Blog and probably the next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Am I gonna like it or not? Like I'm just.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Gonna tell you it's not looking good.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, listen, we're gonna go into astros coverage next.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
So when't ask me the nickname I got ahead for
a Men Thompson. Yes, I was watching Steph Curry get
guarded by him and open for three and he didn't
want to put a shot up, and I was like, man,
he is he is shook, he is scared.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
A Men Thompson is the Boogeyman?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Do a pole question it?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah, you tell me sounds like you don't like it.
That's okay, it's like the Boogeyman.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Here's the thing I don't There's gotta be some other
athletes that have been named the Boogeyman.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Yes, I looked it up. It was like some guy
for that played for the Patriots in the eighties or something.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Oh, then you're well within your right to call him
the Boogeyman.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And he's and he's like that and a wrestler, let's see,
I'm sorry player Derek while for.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Derek Bouguard who when he was the Minnesota Wild. Unfortunate
he's passed away, but he was a Goon.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
And then it was the Patriots. It was a Patriots
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