Astros Break The Losing Streak Winning Game 3 vs Athletics, Can They Squeeze Into The Post Season?

Astros Break The Losing Streak Winning Game 3 vs Athletics, Can They Squeeze Into The Post Season?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross hen oh
two at h Town.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of The
Mount Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk seven id.
Let's go from Bath from gonna get us some money
on Saturday night? Baby, how we go? Sorry we got

(00:34):
into you today.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, he lost him money last Saturday. Thanks, that was
a big bet. He was money yesterday. He was double
digit striking. We got a good from great from great
from ber Farewell to him is an astro?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
That was it back last morning? Wall season on the
line and he came through.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Let's go Fromscostros.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ill a chance I hadn't even checked. Well, let me
before you give the percentages, let me give you the scenarios,
would you? Is that? Okay? Uh? Yes, all right, here
we go. Here's how it has to go.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
The Astros, oh god, if they sweep the Angels, they
need the Guardians to lose two or three to the Rangers,
or the Tigers will lose two or three of the
Red Sox, or on the converse side of it, the
Tigers need to sweep the Red Sox, but they also
have to win out.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's if they go three and oh Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
If the Astros win two out of three, the Guardians
are tigers.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
One of the two must get swept.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
If the Astros do not win at least two, if
they only win one, no chance, no way.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
No how.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Twenty eight zero point two percent. So you're Sander's a chance.
It went up for me yesterday. It's twenty four. Good
just win, baby, you're well, you're not You're just winning.
Pray now at this point you're your ace. Jason, Alexander
is on the hill.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Let's go. Do you try? If Hunter Brown give you
a two innings on Sunday, do you go to him?
I guess he didn't go long or why not?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Because everybody knows when a guy's on short rest and
you don't use him.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
He would have been perfect, and he would.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Have gotten all the outs in the world and everything
would have been petcha keene. If you didn't go, if
you don't go to the guy on short rest, Okay,
I can't believe that's coming up in twenty twenty five,
that's still coming up. Are you ready for me to
say something I'd only say maybe once every four or
five years. No, let's go, Rangers. They are laying down

(02:56):
and dying. They're already sitting Marcus Simmons and Corey Seeger.
Goodness knows who else they're sitting at this point, or
in Cleveland too, It doesn't help. Okay, So they're on
the road and Seeger and Semion are out and who well,
whoever else they're not playing. Yeah, that's that's done though.
The Astros are done.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
But hey, at least they they showed a little bit
of fight yesterday, so.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
It counts to So we're not going to rely on
the on the Guardians at all. Yeah, right, Uh no,
you shouldn't. So that means the Tigers need to lose
two or three of the Red Sox that is very
possible for that to happen, or sweep the Red Sox
or sweep. Right, No, that's the other direction. Oh, the
Red Sox gotta get swept. Tigers to sweep the Socks.

(03:38):
That's what I'm saying. They could sweep this. You need
to lose two out of three or sweep. Lose two
out of three or win three. Yeah, I'm saying sweep, Yes,
sweep the Red Sox, Yes, win one or win three.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's what you want. Get swept, do sweep. Okay, sweep.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Get the broom their broom, not their broom. Astro's fault. Yeah,
we've confused you. Not because of our fault. It's the
Astros fault. Yeah, just win your games. Just went out
and we'll see what happens. Eight thirty eight pm start tonight.
Whoo who's on postgame?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Mmm? Probably Dan?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'm doing tomorrow. I better get that coffee going on
that Are we doing post games today? I had to
do postgames midweek? I'm sure they are. Yeah, okay, good,
I mean I'm not doing it, client, and sure is
telling you doing? Oh god, Wexer's in Oregon, so doing it.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
He's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Playing with his wrestling figurines. So yeah, he's re enacting
a WrestleMania twelve. All right, is it anything goes Friday
here on the show. If you've not been able to
figure that out, Oh it is Dan? Is Dan doing
post Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
We always do pre We always for sure did games
pre nine o'clock first, that's true, that's right, got speed,
So you were the only I think we did two
nine o'clock post game shows this year, and you did
both of them. And that's why I'm going to be
nice to you for the restless week.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Come Monday. It's all today. You can't say I'm gonna
be nice for you the rest of the week. And
it's Friday.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, you get three hours and fifty minutes plus all
of our text this weekend if we text each other. Oh,
because you're a terrible returner of a text. Best, that's
not true. You haven't been responding to several texts I've
said sent recently. Okay, made me pull up the receipts.
You can pull up the receipts. Hey, anything goes Friday.
Generally it's very bad and rude things I've said about

(05:23):
people and active respond That is actually right. It is
a non rider competition show trying to explain what's going on.
I can tell you Euroship three. Nothing in the foursomes.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I don't think our audience particularly cares. If you do
care about it, you're probably at home watching it.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Are you locked in on the Ryder Cup? No, I'm not.
I will, I mean I will. It's on this.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I'd rather watch Shahati, but you won't put her on
because it's effects show. Yeah, I'd rather you watching Victor
Hovelin's body than the Shahati's body. Something called a can't
lay in a chef chuffle at. I'm wishing that aander
shuffle a cheffle e chephal lisnds like a burn breakfast item.
All the all have one of those shuffles.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right?

Speaker 3 (06:07):
It is anything goes Fridday here on the radio program
seven one three two one two five seven nine. If
you want to join our program today, it is anything
goes Friddy. I do have a poll question up rossy
on the Twitter account. How's that going? It's actually got
some decent response. The sample size could certainly get bigger.
Uh And if you would like to get your response in,
it's at sports empty as my Twitter account. What intrigues

(06:30):
you more this weekend? You're smirking for some reason? What
I can't smile? It is beautiful weather today. By the way,
it's a lovely day. Yeah, all right, Astro's final weekend
or Texan's trying for their first win. I would like
to guess how people are e gauging their interest level
this weekend. Uh, Well, let's talk about the one you

(06:52):
did like a week ago on Monday night. What did
I do on Monday night when it was are you
watching the Buccaneers. Are you watch to the Astros? And
what do people say?

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I wasn't. I think it was heavy Buccaneers Texans. I
think it was.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So with that being said, two hundred and thirteen votes
are in. Fifty six percent are curious about the Astros
final weekend, forty four percent textans trying for their first win. Wow,
that's pretty high. Actually, that's actually fairly high description. I
was gonna guess seventy thirty Astro. I was actually going
to guess more than that. Really, hmm, Okay, Well, I
mean there's a team going for the playoffs and there's

(07:28):
a team that's owned three h I don't know what
to make of that, and again just it's it's just
anecdotal to me. But we are going to be watching
all on television this weekend, obviously late night television and
the Cleveland the Detroit Boston games on Apple TVs. If
you're watching that tonight, that's what. If you want to

(07:49):
watch that game, you can do so. No, I cancel mine?
Did you really?

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Are you? Are you a big cancel a subscribe guy?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Back and forth. Let's see I've done it with paramount
plus multiple times. I've done it with Apple Plus. Multiple
times I signed up for and canceled Discovery Plus.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I haven't been back. I watched a lot of the
I only do it for one thing. I get the
sports pack.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I get the Sports back in the fall, and then
once which has the red zone on it, and then
once the season's overth I cancel it.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's good. Mine is tied in with NBA network, I think,
so I have to have it. Oh really, okay, all right,
I mean teach his.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Own all right, seven one to three, those hardwood classics
in the summer. What is that mea TV gonna be like?

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Now?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
They don't won games on nineteen eighty SuperSonics versus the
Golden State Warriors with Rick Berry and his two pay
falling off and.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Those and those shorts higher than her knees. Yeah, all
John stocked this good stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
How about you know what? One time I told you
this before.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I was in Toronto one time, and NBA Canada has
its own NBA TV channel.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's different than the NBA US and.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I got I turned it on and they were having
the Rockets versus Suns playoff game ninety three. I don't
know what sure it was. It hadn't been in that range,
and they were hitting these top of the key jumpers
and they were nothing but long twos, and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh my god, this is hard. It's difficult to watch.
It makes you mad.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
It does you fear to feel the spirit of Daryl
Morey getting you angry when you see long guys stepping on.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
The line and launching along. Take one more step back,
and it's worth an extra point. It's incredible points. Yeah,
it's incredible.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
All right.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
On the show today, we've got I'm Sorries at eleven thirty.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Today.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Usually you give me a plethora of I'm sorry for
the things you've said and done to me over the
course of the week. I'm cleaning this week. All right,
it's good. You should apologize to me for everything. All Right,
it's fine. Eleven thirty, we got I'm Sorries. That'll be
eleven thirty twelve New while the News at noon. We'll
wake the strippers up at twelve noon. Okay, we have
Doctor Rode at one o'clock. We've got I've got two

(09:48):
non Florida stories this week.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Two two of.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Them someone gave would tell you, yeah, somebody, yeah, how
many of those did you research yourself. One man, do
you know what Jonathan is learning? He called you straight out.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
And don't at all. But that's always stories from Uh,
that's fair. I can I understand. Man.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
At one point thirty we have known Florida stories. We
have hell yea or not? All things about beavers and
Oregon State. Right, we can go with that. We get
the big cougar game the night against Oregon State. Oh,
we're doing cougars and beavers. Well, do you want to
do just beav or do you want to do Oregon State?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Wally the beaver? I don't care.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Once you can mix it up cougars like Jennifer Aniston,
Is she the all time cougar of all time?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
No virgara. There's a mount rushmore of cougar's. That'd be it, right.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
We did We did a forty on that, Yes we did.
Anderson's in there. The gar is on there. I think
now we I think we talked about the prime of
their cougardom because we think we took Raquel.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Somebody took wels right, right, right, right, Sophia Loren.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
If you're talking about prime runs as a cougar, it
might be Roquel Welch number one. Yeah, yeah, I could
give you that even Lyngoia right now. And Hathaway is
that yeah, I guess she counts. She's now in the
Is she in the coup? Was she in the cook Club?
Went did in like five or six years ago? Over
forty now? Yeah, forty two? We have you know what
we had to do a redraft? No, that's for good

(11:14):
circa twenty twenty five Couar Club. Sure, no past tense.
We haven't done a Fantasy five in months? I know,
has Jonathan done one?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
He did?

Speaker 7 (11:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, I have the belt.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
I think no waya I won and yeah you won
the first one, I won the second. So I'm bat
in five hundred with Jonathan. Yes, so give me usually Jonathan,
my win percentage is about twenty he's about Christian Walker esque.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
That is we have all this positive vibe on the
Astros and their performance yesterday, and that's what you do. Sorry,
anything goes Friday seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety So again, if.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
You want to vote, let us know.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I want to get the pulse of at least those
that tolerate me. I was gonna say, I don't think
all of the people that follow me and like me.
But that's fine. I can live with that. Fifty six percent.
Astro's final weekend forty four percent on the Texans trying
to win their first game. Mum, both Innapolis is at
the Rams, Texans are home for Nashville.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
So we're scoreboard watching the AFC South already. I mean,
why not?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, I mean I actually probably way too prematurely declared
the AFC South to the Colts because you can't make
up the ground. You still have two games with the Colts.
It's not feeling it's you're feeling safe that way. We'll
put it this way. After this you have at Baltimore
and at Seattle.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
How you feeling not great?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Seattle's looking good, Seattle wins sad yesterday, sam Donold's playing well.
They absolutely annihilated New Orleans a week before. Well, everybody
that's New Orleans, that's true. And you know the Saints
and not that we're gonna spend a lot of time
on Saints Radio here because that Gordy's on here to
do that. But uh, that's a diehard fan base. When

(13:10):
I you know, when you think of the absolute diehard fans,
I think of Pittsburgh Steeler fans.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
I think a Green Bay. Yes, generational.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
I think there's generational Saints fans, I really do, and
Cowboys fans of this national flying I don't even get.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
That a lot of them are diehard.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
They haven't won anything in thirty years and they still
support the team they do. It's far as little as
the Saints have won.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Seahawks fans, I feel like are pretty die hard. What
do you think? Uh, but it's but they don't. Their
following is just basically parts of Washington State. Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I feel like the Saints kind of have the South Mississippi,
and we weren't Lake Charles. Everybody was upset and everybody
and everybody's losing her mind over that.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
But they're getting they're getting mad at They're getting mad
in Shreeport, they're getting mad in Mumbro. They're not particularly
happy in uh me metri h slide Down. They're not pleased.
So that's an angry state. Well, the Saints suck.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, look that the city closes down when the games
are on, and the closes down a l s U.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I mean, I look, there's a lot of things wrong
with Louisiana probably you know, lack of teeth and education. Uh,
but they they love their sports being drinking. Well, I mean,
is that a negative? I guess it's if you have
an issue. Yeah, like Toddler, since since Toddler man tell
me State of the Union. You can vomit really anywhere
you want to.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Think about it. Yeah, if you're walking on the well,
but you can keep walking. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Usually if you're in Texas, you're in Houston, you're trying
to go to a trash can or go to bathroom.
In Louisiana, they just vomit. What's the ratio of horse
poop to vomit on Bourbon Street? It's so one and
a half, the one that's about right. It's like all
these uh they got the cavalry and the whole, the
horse drawn policeman. It is funny to me that the

(14:58):
only it's the only. And I know where I can
find my rockets on the road, Uh huh, you know,
and we're traveling or you know, look, we're going the
same people. They spread out, they go to different restaurants.
They do the thing in New Orleans. They don't the
Rockets don't go to Bourbon Street. Athletes don't because they
just know that there's gonna be some trouble there. Well, yeah,

(15:20):
you're gonna get surrounded immediately when you're six foot eleven.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, Bob Street. Now they will go to the casino. Uh.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, And it's great that our hotel is right next
to the casino. But and you and Mike EPs can
roll some dice. That's right, it's my close personal friend. Yes,
black Doug, black Dug. Like that was a funny story.
I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
No.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
The funniest part was how many black guys you know
named Doug by the way, I go, Doug Williams, and
you're next, Doug Baldwin. Okay, that's yeah, tight end right,
no receipt receiver, okay, possession guy.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
All right, Jonathan, you're next.

Speaker 8 (16:00):
I don't think I've ever met or even no a
black dog. That's an odd name.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
It is an odd name, and it is just a
bad name. It's just like a noise. You and then
you name somebody that Doug exactly what I don't know
what we're talking about. Oh, we're talking about dice. Yes,
with with Mike Epps. Yeah, and you told the story.
You lied about what I said. Yeah, I did remember.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I don't remember it was me. You were like, I
was with some guy and we were rolling dice.

Speaker 9 (16:36):
Me.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm like, yeah, it was me.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
You.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
It's okay. You know what. I can't even get mad
at you. I've done that before. Something.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
You're telling a story and you're like, was it you,
there's my fee or was it somebody else? And you
can't remember the problem is, I'm embarrassed. I didn't know
who it was with and until I figured it was you.
That's funny, Well, the dire for Rockets. Funny parties that
happened on air. Yeah, that's okay. I think the Rockets
are want to know with you, with you on the
road with me, right, we beat We beat the Pelicans
there day and I think they are really bad those days. Yeah,

(17:06):
I think that was the year.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
It might have been the years before they got Zion,
like they're tanking for Zions.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Unfortunately, New Orleans has a lot of great things, great restaurants,
Casino is amazing hotel, the arena is a dump, and
Pelican fan is It's far from die hard, deep rich history,
great music, great food, World War two museum.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Amazing. I love New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
We were talking about museums yesterday. Yeah, that's the last museum.
I went to, the World War Two museum. I need
to go back to New Orleans. I was there for
like five six hours and there's five buildings and I
saw basically two of them. Yeah, it's you can definitely
knock it out in two days for sure. All right,
seven one three two one two five seven hounty. So
for those of you that are astro fans that were
so upset and so down to the dumps, and that

(17:49):
would include myself and you probably too. I was down
in the dumps, you now have hope remains alive. But
you've got to now root for other people. And unfortunately,
two weeks ago, Ross you didn't have to root for
other people. Now it's out of your control. You know,
they had their backs against the wall. They could have
laid down and died, but they rose up huge and
they put together some great abs. And I'm talking about

(18:10):
the hitting coaches. Great job, guys, get their props. Oh,
I'm sure they did right eleven runs from the hitting coaches.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Now, sure they got full credit.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
You have been so hitting coach on Twitter that you know,
and that when one or both get let go, they're
coming after.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's fine, And.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'm gonna say the same thing. It's on the players.
It is on the players.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Now, I'm just wondering, did did anti hitting coach give
them full credit for yesterday?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's home. That's my only question. I was gonna say this.
Not every one of our sports takes you should treat
as gospel.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Actually none of them.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Well no, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna go this one
blaming the hitting coaches or for that matter, pitching coaches,
but really more hitting coaches anything else. It is the
lowest of lowest hanging fruit. Like for instance, if you
want to blame coordinators in football, ROSSI as you know,

(19:03):
they have a huge role, huge play calling, strategizing. You know,
Demiko gives the reins to Nick Kayley, he gave the
range to Bobby Slowick. That's what head coaches do. Their administrators.
They are game calling third down, go four on two.
They're not intimately involved. Coordinators have a huge, huge role

(19:25):
in football. I my mind treat them way differently than
I treat positional coaches in Major League Baseball. I wouldn't
say I would say they have certainly more involvement to
a degree, but also it comes down to the players
as well. But yeah, it's more on the offensive coordinators
for sure than it is the hitting coaches at the
major league level, and it's not even close. But also

(19:47):
remember Bobby slok was a genius when Joe Mixon was
running and Laramie Tons on the offensive line was good.
Then all that goes bad and Bobby Sloak's an idiot,
you know what I'm saying. So there's some degree of
that as well, but it's more extreme when it comes
to baseball. I'm just I'm telling you. Please trust me, mate,
don't if you don't believe me in any other thing
I tell you. Take wise, the role of a hitting
coach is largely overrated. So please don't feel bad, and

(20:15):
don't feel good either when you say, well, I know
that everything's going to be fixed out because next year's
offense could be just as futile as of this year's
and you're really gonna feel bad if you are. I'm
one hitting coach, fire guy, and this offense struggles next
year like it has most of this year. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety Madden Ross with you at

(20:41):
to ten thirty seven Harel The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
I'm responding to a tweet somebody says, this is from
two time title town. Why are coaches free to blame?
Y'all lose your mind if anyone has any critical to say,
the hitting coach, the manager, if they have no influence
on the results, and why are they here? Well, the
reality is, I'm responding to this, they aren't free to blame.

(21:02):
They're hitting coaches catch it two. I'm not saying they're not,
but it's just silly to always believe it's their fault.
First of all, you never see them do their job.
You never see a situation where the hitting coach comes
out and says, hey, I've told these guys that do this,
and are they're not listening to me? They're largely hidden.
There are largely guys that are in a video room.
There are largely guys that are around the cage. But

(21:25):
the fans and for that matter, of the media have
no intimate knowledge. And most importantly, when the Astros are scoring,
or any team scores eight, nine, ten runs or averaging
seven runs a game, nobody ever calls shows and say
thank God, we have that as a hitting coach.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Nobody ever does that. It's just it's just low hanging fruit.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Every time it's something's wrong with the hitting, it must
be the hitting coach's fault. And I'll tell you another
reason why. I think, especially in this case of the
Houston Astros, it's ridiculous to always go after the hitting coaches.
These guys have been here since twenty and nineteen, both
on the staff. You have a track record of them
being at the helm of one of the best offenses.

(22:02):
In that span, the Astros have been a top three offense.
So that's the thing. If this were the first year
of both Troy Snicker and Alex and Tron and we
had nothing to go on, I would be like, you
know what, Yeah, these guys have everybody chasing everything they
you know, Uh, janr. Diez is literally leading the major
leagues in chase percentage and jose Al Tuvey is is

(22:24):
swinging through his shoes and he's in decline. And Christian
Walker came here in his first year and he's not
been good and close to what he was in Arizona.
If this was their first year on the staff, I
could see that where we could convince.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Ourselves like, maybe these guys aren't doing a very good job.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
However, we have a very very extensive track record of
these guys being here for one of the best offense,
and I'm not giving them credit. I want to be
clear as well. We have a very clear view of
the nineteen twenty two, twenty three Astros being among the
best offenses in baseball while these guys were here. So

(23:04):
either a they forgot how to be hitting coaches, or
B you lost Michael Brantley, George Springer, Kyle Tucker, Alex
Bregman and all the way, you lost the time clock
on JOSEL. Two Bay's career because he's getting older.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Prime Gury Carlos, Carlos Craig was gone.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
And came back, and actually he's been good since he
came back. And the decline, as you said of Jose
al Tuve, Jordan Alvarez was out the entire year. Estak
Paradis was one of their best, their geniuses with Estoc Paradis,
and then the hamstring falls off his bone and you're
trotting out Cooper Hummel and.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
The boys, and then all of a sudden they're idiots.
That's the problem. That's the issue I have is you
you cannot wake up and have the light bulb come
on your brain that these have been good hitting coaches
and great offenses for years and years and years. Taylor
Trammell will never be Kyle Tucker. And that's that's where

(24:01):
I would think if you would have a semblance of
critical thinking, you'd be like, man, they were really good
hitting coaches a couple of years ago when they had
better hitters, and now they're not.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Good hitting coaches. Huh, what's going on here? Figure it out?
And that's the problem is that we just don't have
enough of you that figure it out, and that's why
we get accravated. And that's what I'm saying that it's
not that they don't do anything. And by the way, again,
I want it for the five one hundredth time. There's
going to be changes off this you you have this

(24:32):
one futility. Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna be totally honest
with you. If I'm either one of the coaches, I
might have to call a realtor. I'm just saying both
of their contracts are up at the end of the year.
It wouldn't be it wouldn't be a shock. You're gonna
need a fall guy. It's not a travesty, but but
positional coaches can sometimes take the fall they're gonna miss. Yeah,
they've been here six years, it's a long time, and
then you had the offensive futility overall, But I personally

(24:57):
don't think that they should be shouldering the blame. However,
you do need fall guys when you when you miss
the playoffs, which the Astros in all likelihood are gonna do.
And then when the new guys come in next year,
I'm gonna say the same thing.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's on the players. Imagine this, If Jordon Alvarez plays
one hundred and forty games next year, this offense is
gonna be significantly better. And guess who's not gonna have
a huge part of it. That's the funny coaches.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Each Paridze is gonna be healthy and Jordon Alvarez is
gonna be healthy if they are if and when they're healthy,
and then people are like.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
See the headed coaches are doing a great job this year.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yah Ezac Prettis and Jordon Alvarez are there. Speaking of
Jordon Alvarez, the only hitting coaches that that Jordon Alvarez
has known as a professional. Are these guys and he's
been one of the most dangerous hitters on the planet.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Do we give ord and nobody gives the hitting coach
of the credit.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
You're sitting there at home, y'all have the hitting coach
and you've giving them zero credit. For Jordon Alvarez and
how great he's been. And I'm not saying you should
have I'm saying let's do a little critical thinking and
have some lodge similars of lodge and be consistent. So
Perette's had a better year when he was healthy, Jeremy
Panna had his best has had his best year, and
Jake Myers has had his best year offensively.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Actually now back to back really good years. Yeah, under
the tutelage, Yes, I've the two batting coach and nobody
gives them credit. Career year for Penya.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
And yeah and Myers and that jord Don guy's pretty
good when he's in the lineup.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Victor Carrotten, he's been pretty good for a backup catcher
and pingjit situations.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
He's been good. No credit, no credit to the hitting coaches.
It's all Victor.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Carrottyho Dubon playing six days a week, gonna get your
coach fired? You know what, I'm with you. I don't
know why the guys couldn't fix Mariso Dubon. It's been
an issue for sure. All Right, on the phones next,
Todd and James will get to you seven one three
two one two five seven. Honey, we got some I'm
sorry to get to and we'll do that before you

(26:46):
come up at eleven thirty seven one three two one
two five seven.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Hoety, all right, Gordy's here. We got a lot of
folks who want to talk to So, Gordy, are you
gonna be better than the callers or worse? Uh?

Speaker 10 (27:01):
I was literally in the studio with Jonathan. I heard
somebody calling and going, I gotta set these boys straight.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Who's who is it? Which one is it? Jonathan?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Who?

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Scott? Hold on, Gordon, let's se let's see this guy.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Here's we're gonna do. We're gonna let We're gonna let
Scott set us straight. I'll be the independent argument. You
are the arbitrator, all right, because you heard our portion
and now we're gonna get from Scott. Scott, good morning,
you're on seven and eight. Let's set us straight. Scotty,
what do you got today?

Speaker 6 (27:26):
So let's let's take a realistic chance on this. You
guys are right, everybody's over uh compensated boring on the
hitting coaches. But let's take another step back. Your take
is why because you're given credits. Oh, well, the years

(27:47):
that we had On and George Springer and all these
other guys they're hitting. The hitting coaches are great those years,
the years you have great hit hitters, the hitting coaches
are doing a great job. That doesn't tell me they're
doing very much the years that your hitters in your
lineup is suffering. I think that falls more on the
hitting coaches.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
But what if what if what if the guys there
but hold on Scott? What if the guys hold on Scott?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
What if the guys that are given are French major
leaguers that can't really handle major league pitching.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
There's there's only so much you can do. And they're
not miracle workers. No.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Taylor Taylor Tamal has been bounced around as a major
leaguer for multiple baseball teams. He's a four A player,
God love him, but he's a four A player.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Sure, but to give them the credit of the years
when you have an all far bashing lineup.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, that's not you gotta be consistent. No, it's San Francisco.

Speaker 9 (28:43):
Is not track record.

Speaker 11 (28:45):
No no, no, no no no no no no no,
no no no.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Okay, hold on it. I want to put you on hold.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Mauricio Dubon was with Milwaukee, he was with San Francisco.
He was bad offensively there, and now he's in Houston.
So those hitting staffs are supposed to go ahead and
the Astros are supposed to turn Mauricio Duban. You can't
do that. Data right now? Okay, and now we're done.
All right, arbit Trader, what do you got m I

(29:12):
think there's blame to go around everywhere. Yeah, look, they
can take it blame.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I'm not blaming them for not turning for Jesus Sanchez.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Swinging at everything and not. I think Hayes Sanchez needs Lasik.
Let me that's what I think. Let me put it
this way.

Speaker 10 (29:26):
Mike Gundy will go down as the greatest coach in
the history of Oklahoma State. They fired him. Sometimes it's
just it's just time for a fresh start. It's time
for you know, to to move on. I think this
offseason will be time to move on from the current
hitting coaches who.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Have been here. Probably the new.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Voices in the room never heard. And we we are
not objecting. We're not falling on our sword on this.
We're not going this is a travesty. Sometimes you just
gotta shake things up. They shook up things last year
with Gary Pettis being bounced and Tony Parishchica likes to
h wave runners home or keep guys at their base
and they don't listen to him.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
So it's, you know, that separate issue.

Speaker 10 (30:05):
The pitching coaches, they've done a pretty great job all
things considered, all the injuries they've had to face.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
All of these I mean, who the hell are these
people pitching getting mad?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
I mean, did.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Brian was Brian King going to be your really your
best set up man this year when it came down
to it.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
He's turned into one of your best relievers. Uh.

Speaker 10 (30:25):
They turned Jason Alexander into a viable starter in Major
League Baseball for a contending team. So, I, you know,
pitching coaches doing fine. I just think that, yeah, they
got to change a little bit something. I think Joe
does a good job. You know, he'll still help out
throughout spring training and stuff. In defense, they're always going
to be in Paris. Chico was brought in to help
with the defense, and I think defensively they've been.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Pretty good, right, pretty solid overall all things.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
He's there, cam Smith making plays in right field when
he's never played the position before.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
You get a frisky owner who doesn't mind making changes,
and you needed me. There has been so much prolonged
SLA that you need a different set of eyes.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Don't anybody can use this weekend?

Speaker 10 (31:04):
I think Joe stays, but I think you you just
the training staff's definitely go.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I think that's that's got a change. That's there's now.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Would almost be criminal if there were no changes in
the medical staff.

Speaker 10 (31:15):
And then again, not to throw a guy under the bus,
but the guy Jeremiah just come on, dude, any.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Axel cocky and stuff like that. I can't speak to that.
I'm not around him, so I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 10 (31:25):
I just they never make him available to speak, like,
just tell us what's going on, Like, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
He could consparraency doesn't hurt. He could hold forty five
minute press conference. At this point, the number, the number
of players that have been hurt with severe injuries means
that somebody there needs to be cleansing.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
And sometimes freak accidents happened.

Speaker 10 (31:43):
Don't get me wrong, like sometimes stuff just happens, but yes,
there were sometimes where you're like, this isn't working.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Whatever you guys are doing, this isn't working. Right Auburn
A and M this weekend, who you're like, Man, it's hard.

Speaker 10 (31:57):
To go against the Aggies at home. I will though,
that defense is leaky, leaky. They're giving up a ton
of points, ton of yards. They're dead last in the SEC. Again,
he went on the road and played at Notre Dame
and you found a way to pull out the win.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
But it is weird that. Look, Auburn's got a defense.

Speaker 10 (32:14):
DJ Dirkin's doing a great job with them. They they
held Oklahoma and check outside of that stupid Fluke play
that they that they cheated on and got a touchdown on.
I don't know, but but look, Marcel Reid's playing great.
He's flaying around the football field. Casey concepts on is
Mario Craver. They are hard to contain. So I think

(32:36):
it's a close one. I'll go with the Ages because
they're at home. But wouldn't shock me at all if
Auburn pulls out a win.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Will Brian Kelly be snippy towards the media when the
Tigers lose at Ole Miss tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (32:45):
They can't lose. I think they just can't lose this game.
Bottom line is, this is the best defense else who's
had in a decade. If you can't slow down a
quarterback from Farris State, look, he's been great, but he'd
be Arkansas, who's the worst defense, one of the worst
defenses in the SEC.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
And two lane no offense to two lane in the member.
Yeah but no, no, no, you just defended him. No offense
to usually means offenses coming.

Speaker 10 (33:13):
Yeah, but now I just I'm more worried about LSU's
offense because it sounds like Kayden Durham, the running back,
may not go And so look, you playing Oxford, you
got to score some points. But I think I think
Trinidad Chambliss has a coming back down to Earth party
this weekend.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Are you going to the LSU watch party?

Speaker 1 (33:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
You just like might? Okay, Well, Dan loves every SEC
team too. Too many good games going on all Alabama, Alabama, Georgia. Yeah,
that's a big one. Caitlin de boor Is.

Speaker 10 (33:44):
I think it was two and six on the road,
so far as Alabama head coach Kirby smart, pretty damn
good coach. At home, I think Georgia hasn't lost a
home game in since like twenty nineteen or something. So
I think I'm gonna stick with Georgia on this one.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Okay, and Alsom you are sports Harvey no Texas with
the bye, so they can't.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
It's open week, let's not let's not confuse things. I
means you get to advance to something beyond. This is
just an off week.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
You're bypassing. They get to go to the swamp next week.

Speaker 10 (34:13):
And as bad as Florida has been, their defense has
been a bright spot.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
So how does Arch do against them?

Speaker 3 (34:21):
He's not very good. Hopefully hopefully they can win seventeen
to sixteen under whatever that line is gonna be all right.
So Dan's got the tenth inning tomorrow and on deck.
I have it on Saturday, and you'll be there for Sunday. Wait,
you said tomorrow is senter. Dan's got tonight.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Dance at tonight. I have tomorrow tomorrow, I have Sunday.
Will I be selling?

Speaker 10 (34:41):
Will I be doing a postgame Sunday celebrating the asterisk
making the postseason.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
No, can I hold my response?

Speaker 10 (34:50):
No, if they win, if they lose tonight and tomorrow,
you'll eulogize them Saturday, right, because that's kind of it.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yeah, they cannot lose twice at Anaheim. There's no chance
in the playoffs they lose.

Speaker 10 (35:00):
Two games, they are out out out. If they win
two out of three and the Tigers get swept therein.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I believe that's right because they're on to me. I
don't want to. I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
I want to read it right from the playoff thing.
So you talk about Carbock for a second.

Speaker 10 (35:14):
Make sure you guys are loaded up on playing a
Crawford box from our friends at card Bock Brewing. Of
course browed right here at Houston, Texas Tequila Sunrise stripes
on the can. It's over right, Randall's the other night.
Grab me a nice, uh nice little fresh pack to
load up for this weekend in my mini fridge as
I watch football. Make sure you guys do the same.
Grab your Crawford box from Cardbock Berwing. Hey, it's not
on the question. We can still let playoff games at

(35:36):
Dyke in Park. You can grab yourself a Crawford bock.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
There.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Here we go, Gordy. If the Astros go two and one,
the Guardians or the Tigers must be swept.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yes, and the Tigers are playing the Red Sox. Yes
are playing the Rangers in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
If the Astros go three and oh, the Tigers must
lose two or three in the Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Or the Tigers win three against the Red Sox. Oh,
and then that knocks Boston out. Mm hmm.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
I think your best I think your best chance right now,
like we're just going on odds, is that the Astros
win two out of three and the Tigers get swept.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
I think the best chance for them to get in
is the Astros have to sweep the Angels and then Tigers.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Those two or three to the Red Sox would be
my guess.

Speaker 10 (36:21):
Yeah, I mean, yes, your your best chance is sweeping. Gosh,
it's just hard to envision it.

Speaker 7 (36:28):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Can the Bats carry over a little bit from yesterday?

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Of course they can. As I said, watch them get
three hits over seven inks tonight. That's Gordy, we got
more of you coming up in a moment. Seven one, three,
two one two, five seven nine zero seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. Also in one
half hour, say you're sorry for the week. That's at
eleven thirty here on Sports Talk seven ninety blve it

(36:59):
out two ch Talk seven hounty and as anything goes
Friday you seven one three two one two five seven Auntie, I.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Don't want to speak another word about the hitting coaches.
I just don't.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Nobody's changing their mind, nobody's share. I'm not gonna change
my mind's going. Hey, that makes a good lot of sense.
Thanks guys. So they're gonna move on from them, and
then we can and then we'll go revisit this next year,
and then the offense sputters, and then we can talk
about how those guys are the worst hitting coaches ever too.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
It's gonna be a lot better when uh it's again,
it's just a lot easier to be a hitting coach
when you have all stars and see.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
I think it's also more of a macro thing.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
People just say offense bad, hitting coach bad, and you
have to go and you have to go by to
me dig a little deeper, and it's it's really just
scratching the surface honestly and ask yourself, where are things failing.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Maybe they're failing Christian Walker. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Maybe the hitting coaches have failed him, because I'll give
you a real life scenario. They told Christian Walker to
start doing things and he started to do it and
it's dropped his production.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's a possibility. Absolutely. Again, we have no relationship with
the hitting coaches.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Even if we were around the ballpark every single day,
we wouldn't know the intricacies. We just wouldn't it. So
you have to it's it's only about results. Whatever they
did worked in July and August, and it's been horrible
in September.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
And this is the thing.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
When he has a good in July and August, everybody goes, Wow,
great July and August, Bye Christian Walker.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Not great job li in August by any coaches. Yeah.
I mean they don't go to Hawaii for two weeks.
They were the guys every day. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Look, they're gonna be gone. I think at least one
of them, maybe both, who knows. We'll see because as
I said, both of them, their contracts are over. And
then we'll see and we'll go from there and put
it this way. If they're let me, I'll give you
another one for you. You don't pay a lot for hitting coaches.
I mean, you're not gonna ge get getting into a.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Bidding war. So if they keep them, guess what they
like them? You know what players like.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Remember how we recorded a loop about how Trevor Bower
never be an Astro?

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yes? Can we can?

Speaker 3 (39:09):
We record a quick loop about the hitting coaches and
then we just play that anytime comes up. Well, the
problem is we should have done in a month ago.
It's kind of right because they could. They could be
all gone there. It's Friday. Yeah, anything goes Friday, all right,
I should have thought about this month ago. My side,
my idea was on Layoway. Yes, this I'm see. I'm

(39:29):
not on their side. That's the thing. I'm on the player.
I'm on the players matter the most side. I'm on
the player in the responsibility side. Most plate appearances this
year for the Houston Astros. Al Tuve thirty five in decline,
Christian Walker looking like thirty four in decline. Janer Diez
He's declined for sure. Jeremy Panna, breakout, Cam Smith, Rookie

(39:49):
Esak Praatus Estik Paratus missed like multiple months with a
hamstring injury. He's number six and play appearances on this team.
Then it's Jubon Meyer's Krattini, that's the that's the hitters
who you have gotten the most played appearances. And you say,
why hasn't the offense been good? Because of what I
just read you, That's all I need to say. It's

(40:12):
it's all going to be even if they make the playoffs.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are massive changes.

Speaker 12 (40:18):
Help.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah, I mean they ask.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
When you're an Astros fire general manager after a World
Series victory, you know that they are not immune to
making changes.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Oh, I'm just looking at this played appearance list.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Brendan Rodgers, Taylor Tremmell, Hayesu Sanchez, Zach Dezenzo, Cooper Hummel
talk about don't forget Jacob Mountain. Well, I'm sorry, as Matthews.
You know what, maybe one of these guys, the hitting
coaches should have turned into an All Star when they're
twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty years old, probably would have
kept their jobs again or not. We're just we're just guessing.

(40:50):
Maybe they ruined camp Smith wait a minute, No, no, no, no,
they didn't ruin cam Smith because camp Smith was with
the coaches in Marching spring training when he was crushing
the baseball.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Well, now I'm confused. I don't know who to blame.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
I the theme to me would be just it's the
blame primarily, like if you were to have a pet,
big pie, you were split it up. Ninety percent of
the responsibility goes to the player. It just does. That's
how I see it. Okay, now Maria saying, who's okay?
If du Bond's back next year and he bets three

(41:24):
nineteen with fifteen home runs, then you guys can have
scoreboard on me. But I know sample sizes enough of
Mariso Debona, go, I know who Mariso Deban is.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Utility player.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Seven one three two one two five seven. Nattie seven
one three two one two five seven. Nati john is
with us on the Matt Thomas Shold Ross John good morning, Hey,
good morning, how you doing wonderful?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Thank you for asking.

Speaker 7 (41:49):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (41:50):
First off, I want to say Mike Gundy was not
the best coach at Oklahoma State. It was Jimmy Johnson.
He really transformed that program from seventy nine through eighty
three and ye know, and then is like to see
he grow from there. But but I but I agree
that it's on the player. Uh you know, it's all
the injuries.

Speaker 14 (42:08):
You didn't know who was going to.

Speaker 13 (42:09):
Be healthy and who wasn't and and uh, I don't
I don't really blame it on the coaches. I I uh,
I think that it's just the players and it's just
been it's it's it's just been kind of haphazard. I mean,
you saidn't know who was going to be healthy and
who wasn't, and then the injuries that the Astros have
had this year is just I don't know, it's just
kind of crazy the way this all happened. What's happened

(42:31):
to everybody, And I think it's just a lot of
that comes into play and anyways that yeah, you know,
and I never was I never did agree with that
move that they fired James Klick because you know, when
he went to Toronto, he's at Toronto, not right, and uh,
but anyways, but I agree, I think it's the players
that you know, they just have to come to and

(42:51):
I think that they should sweep the uh the Angels
this weekend.

Speaker 14 (42:56):
And uh, I think that the Red.

Speaker 13 (42:58):
Sox will take two out of three from Patrol. It's
gonna be hard that to do the opposite if you're
the Tigers. Have too many issues going on right now.
I think so the Astros might make it. They might
make it.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
I'm hopeful anyway, as am.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
I thank you John for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Have a good weekend. Tigers are in a free fall.
I mean it, look the Red Sox have everything to
play for sports arev I mean, there's no there's no
reason why the Red Sox can't win two out of
three and they're trying to hold it. They're trying to
get the playoffs themselves. It's just frustrating the tree even here.
I know, I'm just saying I hate to rely on
somebody else. I'm gonna go for a walk during this
next break and no, I'm going to walk around this

(43:33):
and take some deep breaths.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Well, what's matter now? Okayout hitting coach.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
Do it?

Speaker 5 (43:40):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Well, cast is saying, it's simple. People sign here and
they get worse, and they leave and they start getting
better with more power. Alex Bregman. People see people aren't
paying attention. Alex Bregman is is has been horrible the
last couple of months for the Red Sox. His numbers
are not They're not markedly better than what they were.
His ops went a little bit up. His home run
percentage is ops plus is last year with seven sixty

(44:03):
eight with the Astros. This year it's eight twenty two
with the Red Sox. Okay, it was eight h four
of the year before with the Astros. It's eight twenty
two with the Red Sox. That's fairly consistent. That's not
something that's way out of the ordinary. And Kyle Tucker's
numbers are way down from where he was last year
with the Astros. He had not almost one thousand ops
with the Astros and this year it was eight fifty

(44:23):
with the with the with the Cubs. And then people
bury their head in the sand with.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
About that.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Because Kyle Tucker started off a gang busser. Everbody said,
who hit coach? We look at the hitting coaches. Kyle
Tucker finished with a let's see a last year with
the Astros, his home run percentage was six point eight.
This year it's three point eight. Nobody brings that up
when they talk about the hitting coaches.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Let's go that's a fact he almost went in half
his home run percentage from the from the brilliant Astros
hitting coaches to the idiotic Cubs hitting coaches. I'm being
sigar sarcastic. Of course, I know some of you aren't
tomorrow enough to pick up on that. I told you.
I need to go for a walk.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Are you gonna get on decaffe and coffee or caffeine?
I'm going to you know what I've I think I
had a cup and a half. Yeah, I'm something. I'm
going for caffeine.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
I'm sorry. Oh no, you don't need me on more
cafe Now I'm talking me.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Okay, you gook at caffeine. I'm gonna I'm gonna take
a walk.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
You know what you're gonna do. I want you to
apologize people in twenty minutes. I should you know what.
I'm sorry, you got no right now. Twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
I'm gonna write it down, but I want to say
it again. I'm sorry, I'll say it again. It's just baseball.
I'm taking it too serious. I'm gonna I'm gonna take
a one. You know what, focus on what's really important.
That's Kingwood pulling out the Upside of the Century today
again Summer Creek a little boy ball e action Todd
in Cyprus on seven hy high.

Speaker 9 (45:41):
Todd, All right, yeah, I just said, so yeah, I'm
with y'all. I mean, it's it's ninety ninety five percent
of players. My really only complaint is that sometimes it
feels like there's no strategy with the offense. And I'll
give a couple of examples real quick. One, Uh, a
couple months ago, three months ago, maybe I don't remember

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who our starting pitcher was, but he went in and
threw like thirty five forty pitches. It was a horrible inning.
It was rough, and he needed a break, he needed
a rest. And our hitters proceeded to come up the
next three and I think all of them swung at
the very first pitch and it ended up being like
a four pitch inning. So our pitcher did not get
any rest. It might have been avier. And it's just

(46:26):
is there no communication about, hey, when need to get
him a breather. You know, take a pitch if it's
a strike, so be it. Do the best you can.
We need to get you know. I just that seemed
really strange to me that there was no communication.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
There about that.

Speaker 15 (46:42):
And then the other example.

Speaker 9 (46:44):
Is about a month or two ago we were facing
another picture, and even in the notes ahead of time
with Blond and Callous on TV, they talked about how
that pitcher got rocked on the first pitch more than
like anybody in the league, like a three hundred three
seventy batting average against the first pitch in the at bats.

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And so we went up for like the first three
four innings and everyone's just looking at first pitch strikes go.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
By over and over and over, and then.

Speaker 9 (47:13):
Suddenly in the fifth or sixth innings, when it's like
their second or third time through the lineup, they finally
decided to start swinging at the first pitch and we
started getting to the guy. And it just seems like
sometimes there's a lack of strategy, and I don't know
who that is. I don't know if maybe it just
didn't work out, but it just seems like a lot
of that stuff. Because the situational hitting will go zero

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for thirty for four days in a row, and we
don't try to take anything to write. It just seems
like the strategy is off. And I don't know if
that's a spot I don't know if that's the players.
I don't know who it is. I just know that's
something that probably needs to be that needs to be
looked at, and I'll hang up to listen.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Okay, thank you, Tod. It's hard to take one game
out of one to sixty two and say that the
strategy wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Some people want the Astros to take more pitches. Some
people want them to be more free swinging. The Astros
have been free swinging for basically nine years. They have
been uber aggressive. They don't draw a lot of walks.
That's just who they are. With exception of Jordon draws
a fair number of walks. Al two B does not.

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You know, Parde is at a pretty good job of
going deep into counts. Paredes has been working counts, Jordon
works counts. Kare has been working counts. But the other guys,
they're just aggressive. We talked about this is Brian Bogosvic,
and maybe we should just play his answer on a
loop too. It's easier to take Jose al Tuove not
working counts when a he's younger and can get to

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more balls with more power and be you're surrounded by
guys who do take pitches. Yeah, I'm sorry to say this,
and I don't know. I guess we just don't want
to face it. I mean, josel Twov is in decline.
I don't want to face that. I know, three straight
years though his ops has gone down. He's thirty five

(49:02):
years old, he'll be thirty six next season.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
And we're just looking to blade the hitting coaches because
it can't be our sweet, sweet Jose Altuve.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
He's perfect in our eyes. All right, I'm putting a
moratorium on hitting coach. Okay, good, I'm done. Well, I'm
actually typing up a long tweet. See this is really
I mean, I'll do it. I'll let you do that.
I mean, I can't control your tweet. I can't control
the show.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
No, I'm done.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
I'm gonna send this. I'm gonna mute. I'm gonna mute
the word hitting coach. I think there's no way.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I'm sick.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
What's like, what if you want to hear about the
white tax hitting coaches? How are you gonna get the
information that's.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
What we did hitting coach, or what do we do
hitting coach? Or first Congress? Nobody knows who the hitting
coach is until the.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Guys are swinging out of their shoes and striking out
all right, more phones coming up in honits and the
bottom of the arron we've got. I'm sorry he is
to get to seven one three, two, one two five
seven NINETI we do have the Taxis playing the hated Titans.
Derek Stingley probably not gonna play in the game. ROSSI
he he's just been battered and bruised all year long,

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heading on heat. I mean, if there was ever a
time for an early bye week or a off week
in the NFL season, it would.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Be for him. I don't think he's gonna play on Sunday.
Are we scared?

Speaker 10 (50:08):
No?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Titans are not good. Cam Ward is running for his life.
He's been sacked I think fifteen times.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Already this year.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
You see the line moved. It is a significant move
as well. Please, A one point move in Vegas is
can be super significant or not. Like if you go
from you know, thirteen and a half to fourteen and
a half, that's a pretty big one. Six and a
half to seven and a half is huge because you
go from giving the seven now to now you have
to give a hook getting seven. You know what I'm
saying so six and a half to seven and a

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half is a very significant line move. That must mean
a lot of money is coming on the Texans.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
But you know what, and you're not gonna argue with
me on this. Okay.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
That doesn't affect how anybody should feel about that, No,
just strictly for betting person. Actually, it makes me feel
a little better because we were we were in Charles
last week and a bunch of money was getting piled
on the Texans and the Vegas didn't move the line.
When they like their lines, they say, come on and
them bring it, let's go. They're like, all right, fine,
we gotta move it a little bit. Yeah, I and

(51:08):
they were right, and they were right. They were right
last week, right, I mean, yeah, they were right.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
I just I like it because it helps me with
when I'm betting, which I only bet in person. Yeah,
but I don't go, oh my god, I should the
text should be more concerned about the situation.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think. I don't think
Demico's putting it on the whiteboard. Hey guys, get it
right now. Let me tell you how something y'all have
been practicing.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
So good this way and even though Deck says I.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Won't play Vegas likes you morning did?

Speaker 9 (51:36):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Should I can get ear? Yeah? No, they don't do
that at all. They don't do that at all.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Can I just give you the creepiest notion I have
about this game on Sunday?

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Go ahead? She just getting hurt?

Speaker 3 (51:56):
See you're the worst. You are the absolutely ass talking
about feeling just your Texans hater number one. Look at this,
You're talking about the quarterback getting hurt. I why why
would I say that? Because you want it to happen
and you're not manifest it. No, I don't care what
what team hat he's wearing could be any of the

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other opponents the Astros could be playing in the playoffs.
Uh was he He's wearing an Angels hat on Sunday?
That would be pretty funny. That would be the fan
of complete for his career.

Speaker 11 (52:32):
No, Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Them that the offensive line isn't I mean, I know
it's probably getting in pass prot It's been okay.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
The run protection has been non existent. A lot of
that is because the running.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
There's just something I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
I don't feel good. I don't feel good. I don't
want aybody get hurt.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
I just this offensive line just isn't getting generally speaking,
getting any better. It's not the cohesion, the working with
each other. Tanta ursery just got annihilated this past week.

Speaker 9 (53:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
I'm just Josh heines Allen is good. I mean, look,
he's a veteran. You're you're a rookie and you're making
basically your second start to left tackle.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
When you go.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Against Josh heines Allen, you you gonna take some lumps.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
So maybe so maybe I'm going off of that. Yeah,
it was not. It was not. It's certainly bad, certainly bad.
It had been nice.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
If he'd ha stood up to him and shut him down,
then we're talking about you've got a franchise left tackle.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I mean yeah, unfortunately his arbitration years.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Yeah, I'm just this line is playing with fire and
it's next fault.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
It just is.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
I don't want to and and you know what, I
I don't I like CJ. I don't think he's having
a great year. I think CJ wants to win battling.
I think CJ is working hard. I think CJ's I
think probably fed up with I think play calling has
been mint at best. His execution has been minute back,
he said had a great year start of the season,
and the offensive line. He I'm definitely afraid for him

(54:04):
getting hurt. I just and hopefully doesn't happen. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Hopefully I'm wrong, But I'm right about what I said
before the start of the season. Maybe a seven wins season.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Yeah, Actually, I cannot believe I'm gonna lose that bad. Actually,
you don't know that they could change around?

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Why am I? Why am I? Why am I the only.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
One who doesn't believe that Owen three is not the
death nail because it's not not gonna win the ANFC
solid will, But I don't think. I don't think you
can win. You go to the playoffs at nine and eight,
you can't go one in five. They have to have
to go to Baltimore or Seattle and win a game
you're not supposed to win.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Who tell me? Am I right about that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:41):
You're gonna have to go to a place in the
next three weeks that you're not supposed to win. Crazy
things have happened to Baltimore. They do seem have this
air of invincibility and then they just wet the bed.
By the way Baltimore plays Kansas City. The loser of
that game is one in three. That's crazy, with two
in the perennial MVPs, and both of them also much

(55:04):
better than the Texans. Texans go win a game you're
not supposed to win in Baltimore or in Seattle. Now
Seattle plays games close. Case in point last night.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Arizona's not that great. But generally in the NFL, there's
like five teams who are great, and then everybody else
is just kind of in a blob. And five teams
are great, five teams are bad, and everybody's in a blob.
Louise and Katie on seven on a Hello, Luis, go.

Speaker 7 (55:33):
To guys with the ross The Rosses is making fun
of a poor old too, because we shouldn't really brand
blame the coaches. I'm gonna say just a couple of things. First, Yes,
the senior city.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Let let the Yes, he did, let's go first.

Speaker 16 (55:52):
Second, he didn't he played most of the season like
the other guy could go to hurt the ah that
he has. He just reminded him that he was humble
enough to say I'm not good enough second base.

Speaker 7 (56:04):
I'll go play left field, fourth. I just want to
remember that he could. He still got a lot of
money on his age country.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
But he was one of the he.

Speaker 16 (56:13):
Didn't go and run for the money like Bragman Korea
Springer and.

Speaker 14 (56:17):
And uh, what's the other one?

Speaker 9 (56:19):
Anyway, So when.

Speaker 7 (56:21):
When he says about a tube, when we go to
the eighth and we played two games and we care
only one run and the whole team doesn't hit, it's
gonna be only enough to be It's gonna be either
the whole.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Team, Luis, I was not. I was not crushing out two.
You're missing the point. You're totally missing the point.

Speaker 7 (56:40):
Oh my lord, you say ross you said, and you
can record it back. I'm gonna that's what you said.
Don't go back and take.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
It all right, guys, I'm he's in decline.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
What's the fact.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
I'm sorry? Look at his numbers. Yes, he's leading the
team at home runs. He's in decline. One fifty one
oh ps two years ago, one twenty four plus, I
mean in one twelve this year. This is his worst
offensive season since two thy and thirteen.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
And I'm not, Ah, why is this happening? Why is
this collateral damage happening? All because of stupid hitting.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Coach and talk I'm having a great Friday. You know what,
you look good. I forgot to take that walk. Its
last night lovel two V. He's great.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
He's playing on a he's playing on a hurt foot,
and he is an all time great. He also is
in decline.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
And I'm just saying we're crushing the hitting coaches because
the guy who got the most played he shouldn't be
out there for one hundred and fifty three games.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
He's gonna play. If he plays this series, he's gonna
play one hundred and fifty six games. They need to
get him off his feet more. They need to dh
him more. They need to do their best to keep
him comfortable late in his career so he can produce
for a full season. They haven't been able to do
that because of the injuries, and this all ties in together,
all the injuries and.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Everybody running out of gas right now. It's not a coincidence.
And I love please no, I love al Tuve. He's
one of the nicest human beings on the planet. He's
the greatest of all time, according to some, to me,
according to many accordion, maybe even most.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
And that's cool.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
If you want to say he's the greatest of all
time an astro.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
I mean, I can disagree or I control or whatever.
She's up there, he's on the Mount Rushmore. He's an
all time great. He is leading them in home runs.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
He's he's a career three hundred plus hitters. He's hitting
two sixty five. He's in the greatest astro of all time?
Who's in decline?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
And you know what, most thirty five year old with
as much playing time as he's had over his career.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Is will decline. I can get that. The only thing
I still take you.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
The only thing I was saying is he's in decline
and it's not and everyone wants to go up to
the hitting coaches about it.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
No, that's the hit.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
That's I mean, Luis. I'm sorry if it was a
collateral damage there. I'm not trying to cuss Josel TUV.
I love Josel TV. I want to make that clear. Please,
what could happen?

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Look at you? I'm blaming you. I think I've been
very even killed today. You're right, I'm out of here.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Getting a text from a good friend of mine, John,
listening to us Oklahoma City. You're asking the Texans to
go win a game they're not supposed to win when
they can't even win the games they're supposed to win.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Let me tell you something. This city's gonna lose his
mind if Tennessee wins on Sunday. You know this right
all right time. Now for some I'm sorries.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
You need to apologize for Ross because his blood pressure
is really high. Right now, come in and say you're
sorry to Ross. Seven one three two one two five seven, hounty.
If you need to apologize to anyone or anything, seven
one three two one two five seven honey, I'm sorries
are next here on seven ninety. This is the most

(59:47):
cathartic half hour you will experience in Houston sports radio.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
For that matter, radio, you will.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Call seven one three two one two. You will compose
a thought or two and simply utter these simple words.

Speaker 17 (01:00:00):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Ross is working on his list right now. It's about
two pages deep. No, I'm going to start.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
This is not even a backhand, and I'm sorry, this
is not even a I'm gonna just explain myself.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
So I went to host the Coaches Show Willie Fritz
Shaw on Wednesday, and I was asked for the very
last second to do it, and I was glad to
do it. I try to defend our city when I can.
So I went to this area off of St. Emmanuel
to Little Woodropes where the Coaches show was, and I
had to go play find a place to park, and

(01:00:48):
I don't mind paying for parking. Do you know how
much it was to park twenty twenty three dollars with
a service charge?

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I'm sorry, Mix street parking is all gone, not much
of it. Don't leave anything valuable in your car over there.
I'm gonna tell you something right now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
We cannot as a Houston community have a vibrant downtown
when we're putting twenty three dollars charges on people before
they walk outside that their leave their car.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
And go to do their thing for the night.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
I think it's terrible and I'm sorry the City of
Houston makes us pay twenty three dollars to park downtown
to go have a couple of pops, maybe eat something,
or watch a great Coaches show featuring Willie Fritz, America's
coach and me. So I'm sorry Houston that we got
to do that. I was really really irritated by that not.
The twenty dollars isn't mean in the world to me,

(01:01:40):
but it's just it's it's just awful, awful greed. Those
lots have been paid for many times over. If it
was ten dollars, I could live with that, But the
twenty dollars is one thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
And then the service. Why am I getting charge of service?

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Charge? What did I do? What serv What's how hard
are you giving me as a service?

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
It's I was completely flabbergasted and frankly pissed off. So
I'm sorry that our city sucks like the way that does.
It's going to charge or who or they gave the
people the right to charge twenty dollars and I went
to five or six different lots I didn't mind walking.
Everywhere I went was twenty dollars for a half day
and forty dollars for a full day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Shame on you, Houston. You should say you're sorry now.
I feel better, Thank you, Matt, thank you seven one
three two one two five seven, Honey, I want to
say ross the floor's yours.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
I'm sorry for getting in all these Twitter fights. How
many are you in right now? At least four? Oh,
that's tough. Has anybody, by the way, has anybody given
the Astros hitting coaches credit for For Carls Kreta, his
ops is going up. His OPS plus as a twin
this year was ninety four. This year's one seventeen as
an Astro two hundred plate appearances, which is not nothing.

(01:03:06):
Samples anybody, I missed it, I missed hitting coach guys,
has it gotten full credit or no?

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
It's supposed to be apologizing. Okay, you know what, I'm sorry, Yeah,
you're missing the point of this whole stategment.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
I'm sorry for getting in pointless, ridiculous, reductive arguments where
where no one is going to no one is going
to change their minds.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
So I don't know why I'm doing this. I whant
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
No, I'm trying to post more on social media, just
because it's part of the business of twenty twenty five.
We have to be on air, we have to be
on radio, we have to be on social media. Twenty twenty, well,
actually twenty twenty and before it was a social media age,
but even more so so. I'm trying to be more active,
I really am, And I'm sorry for getting in all
these fights with these idiots and spending any time on it,
wasting my time and wasting your time, and then yelling

(01:03:51):
about it on air.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
I'm gonna try to be better, and no one will
get up and walk away so sordy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Because no one's changing their mind. Mm hmm, that's all. Yeah,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
You should apologize to the people Lake Charles because they
played great black jack over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
I am sorry that I unfairly gave a stereotype to
blue hairs that played blackjack. We played with some older
people this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Everybody that went with us or that were in Lake
Charles last weekend when Ross and I went, behaved themselves.
They played cards the right way. They didn't make asses themselves.
And for that, if I've ever made fun of people
in Lake Charles the way they bet, I say, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
I didn't mean it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Now you gotta remember, though, that's by my fiftieth trip
to Lake Charles, and forty nine of them have been
disastrous because of crappy card playing. So maybe it was
a one off. Hopefully it's not, but I'm sorry for that.
For you need to apologize to math, because math it
tells you that the you're just as likely to be
help it hurt say Sorry Math, Sorry Math, I don't

(01:05:07):
know why that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Sorry, Sorry, struck me so fun?

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Sorry college algebra, Sorry, probability, Sorry, coin flip, Sorry, uh
integers'sulous trigger ametry?

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Sorry geometry. I didn't fail giant.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
It was two classes in high school that I failed
for six weeks. One was geometry and one was astronomy.
All right, Uh, anything else, Jonathan, I look, you don't
live a perfect life, so let's go.

Speaker 8 (01:05:43):
You know, I wanted to say sorry to our fans
for us making fun of them about every time. It's
like five times this week they came in and said
we should just give up and start next season. And
the reason why I want to apologize to them because
you know, I thought about it over again, and they
just care. They just want our plans to be safe.
They don't want the disappointment. They just care that much
for the team, and I just want a new, fresh start.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
I can't blame him for that.

Speaker 8 (01:06:06):
And you know I was laughing hard at them and
make fun, but I wanted to say I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Sorry, you should be sorry.

Speaker 8 (01:06:15):
They just care, you know, they just you know, they
want they just want a new fresh start. They don't
want to see this pain, heartbreak curse season anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Is this slide Wolf the guy that you're fighting with.
I don't remember why he says, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
MT, we'll get off your lawn. Geez? What did I do? Now?
I don't know. Oh, it's probably me once you suck
at Slidewalf Matt, Sorry, I'm sorry, show don't tell him
this slide Wolf.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
We love you. You can still suck it. That's fine. If
you ever say get off my lawn, guy, you you
don't deserve us. Sorry, but I'll say sorry slide Wolf,
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hell, that's great. That's one of
my favorite drops. Now, you know you he don't want

(01:07:00):
to follow me?

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Will I?

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
What did I do?

Speaker 17 (01:07:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
I just I don't like I don't I don't like
crappy car playing. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Don't use get off your long No, that's so two
thousand and six. No more lawn talk. Things we got
rid of. We don't bring up Karen anymore, and we
don't bring up long guy. Good is my mom name?
His name Karen. She's a sweet lady. Yeah, not a
great name though.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
She didn't name herself. Well, that's been blame grandma for that. Wait, Matthew,
what's your middle name?

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
Lewis?

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
It's my grandfather's name. I didn't have a choice. You know,
nobody had a choice. What's your middle name? Keith?

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Wow? Like Keith Sweat? Yes, like Keith set like like
Keith Urban. Thank you. That's better than Keith Sweat. Keith
Sweat's a legend, Keith. Keith Sweat's way better than Keith Urban.
I don't know about that, Oh I do. Who's sold more?
Who will?

Speaker 6 (01:07:55):
Don't?

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
I don't care. Keith Sweat's better Keith Urban.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
Suck you?

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
That' is the p that you got to say. So
to Key Bourbon. Keith Urbans is a mega superstar country Western, right?
I guess is it country Western? Just country? It's just
country now?

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
That was ross. I wouldn't even that's a good one.
Why did we do that? I don't know. Was it Texans?

Speaker 8 (01:08:20):
I think it was the Texans bit and you said
I'm gonna make a record this sound bit every time
the Miko is mad?

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Oh is mad? We only care about the well want
media to carry about the players here? Whatever you want?
Media there than a water carrying for you. Hey, hey, coach,
I you know, I know you're only three, but you know,
what do you say to the fans that say the

(01:08:46):
seasons on over? What?

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Dumb ass eleven on Sports Talk. I'm sorry, I'm sorry
said that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
I'm sure you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
I was in a great mood up until you started
battling people, hitting coaches. You're you're infiltrating my good spirits
today energy on our Friday, on Anything Goes Friday. This
is what you guys, you know what it is. You
know all right here, we're going for one second. I
need someone to cleanse our show, Yes, strip it down
to its core.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
I need somebody to give me the most positive thing
you could possibly say, or on Twitter, at sports mt
or on the phones. The weather's great, lower humidity. We
all woke up. That's great.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Yeah, we did wake up today. We're here, we're living.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 9 (01:09:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
Shows are probably out of the playoffs. The textas are
oh ah, oh sorry, the rockets me days Monday. There
you go, let's go, let's go. Kevin Durant will be
on this show Monday. See will be on this show
on Monday. Very excited about that. Will I be shaking
and nervous. I don't know. Oh, you'll be a hot mess.
You'll be a big old. If you want to hear
my voice, crack. Tune in Monday ten to two Sports

(01:09:51):
Talk seven ninety seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
All right, last chance for you to get on the phones.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
It's seven one three two one two this seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
How you doing, Matt, I'm doing great. We have a Friday. Yes,
my Cougars are gonna beat Oregon Steaks. Let's go. Uh
we have the Astros are gonna sneak their way into
the playoffs. You heard me Ra trying to get there's
a revelation. You believe that. Oh he just rolled his eyes, folks,

(01:10:31):
slow blink, slow blink.

Speaker 18 (01:10:33):
I rolled.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
That was funny. I mean, I don't want to come
on and say they're not I don't think they're making it.
I'll say it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
I know that's what you're not. You're sorry to said that.
I'm sorry, but it's their fault. I want to be wrong.
I'm first of all, I'm wrong all the time. The
drought that says, don't listen to anything I say, that's
exactly let's play that one that Yeah, Anthony has a
happy call for us at eleven fifty four.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Anthony, good morning to you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
Hey, good morning guys.

Speaker 15 (01:11:10):
Hey.

Speaker 12 (01:11:11):
So, my thought is is that the Red Sox are
still playing meaningful baseball. The Tigers own the head to
head versus the Red Sox, so the Red Sox have
to win two out of three to maintain their position
in the wallatcart Race, and two Red Sox wins and
three Astros wins equals and Astros playoffs. So I think

(01:11:31):
that the Astros do sneak into the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Yes, let's go, baby, that's great, I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
Uh, okay, I do want to got a feeling for
you on something. Please, Astros win the first two. Yes,
they're alive on Sunday, Yes they are your Game one
sixty two starter is whose turns are supposed to be? Well,
I'll give you two options, Brown or the field. See

(01:12:07):
Hunter pitched on It would be three days rest, and
of course you'd be burning him for a wild card
on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
You you would, you would lose him, but probably the
entire wild card series. Maybe if you had to go
to a game three, Uh, you believe it would be
Javier's turn you. Okay, here's what you do?

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Oh lord, how do you ask Hunter Brown to be
in a bullpen game and being a part of a
bullpen game when he hasn't done it this entire season
and you would call it would cost him a playoff game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Come out of the bullpen before. But it's been a
couple of years obviously. Uh, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
Okay, So you're saying that Detroit loses to loses Friday
and tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
And Sunday, Saturday. Sure, why not.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
I'm just saying, the season's on the line. You're alive.
I don't know if you're gonna win and you're in,
but you're alive. Oh my god, I don't know. Oh
my god.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
I think they turned to him good feeling. We're good field,
just a good feeling. Okay, do me a rogue one
cock favorite? Fore I give you this final answer. How
many pitches did he throw two days ago? I want
to say it was like ninety six or something. Let
me go, you didn't go deep in the game. I
remember that because I was having a sleep and listening
to you in my earphones and that man, thank you
so much. I listened to you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
I've listened to you many times past eleven pm, mitnight
for some reason.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Eighty six not ninety six. Eighty six.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
How about this, Okay, I'm gonna give you a soft answer.
Hunter Brown pitches somehow, some way in that game. Yeah,
I can't give you length. I can't tell you what
part of the game it's in. Hunter Brown will be
available to throw in that game, which would essentially means
you don't get him until game three.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Because here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
You're off Monday, the wild card is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
You could pitch him Sunday and pray to eat him
for a game three on Thursday, or if you could
use him a little bit on when Oh hell no, no, no,
you're not going to shatter his arm in the in
the last week of the season. Well, they'll probably just

(01:14:18):
lose one of the next two and him. I'm just
being realistic. Charles, you're on seven hundred, Charles, please apologize, Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Sir, I want to apologize to my spouse.

Speaker 14 (01:14:30):
A couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Ago, we were I was making her a sandwich and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
There's a weird piece of bread, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Mentioned something two of our giving her the weird piece
of bread said, she's got a weird piece of man.
And so I was in the kitchen, she was in
the living room, and I Frisbee threw it good twenty
five feet and smack it right in the head. And
I won't apologize for that, even though it was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
So you hit it? You hit her with a piece
of bread.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Yeah, like Frisbee toasted.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
How often is bread being thrown in your home? Wow?
Assault my bread slice?

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Not very often, but it's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Was it soft white bread or was it more like
a pumpernickel?

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
No, it's regular regu little white bread.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Okay, it was like a nine green and how to
scratch your head with it?

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
Let me tell you've been hit with a nine grain
Oh god, it hurts sesame seed in her eye? How
did you make up to it? Did you just apologize
or did you go rubber head or what?

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:15:23):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Well I laughed first, and then we watched the video
because we have cameras to our house and left.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
An why do you have cameras in your house? What
do you freaks doing over there? Y'all?

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
A part of TWN? You living? You in Pasadena? What's
going on over there? I know? I knew you freaked
and passidad stuff. See it later, Charles, all right, how
did I guess that neighborhood? No, I'm actually going to
ask you that. That's really funny. Let me tell you
what you got.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
You got video cameras in Pasadena, and you got pineapples
and sand and plantation.

Speaker 19 (01:15:59):
It's all I want to say. Ah God, I'm slow. Okay,
you need to apologize to the people.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Apparently Dolly Madison does quite well in the Kingwood area too.
That's the cookies or the ice cream cakes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
That was a married app I mean, the Dolly Madison
makes like oh snack cake, makes like cupcakes. What is it,
Holly Madison? You tell me, Matt, I don't know. I
don't know. Why are you winkingtop Get out of here.
He's not waking.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
I'm not linking. What's theme of that website? It's it's
for guys that married people that want to hook up.
What's it called? It's for knockoff twinkies, That's what I
something mad Holly met Molly Madison.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
I don't know what it is. I got one more?
All right, one more here? Hire me on seven on hommy,
What are you sorry for?

Speaker 9 (01:16:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:16:55):
I'm gonna be it's gonna be a nominous But never mind.
I have to apologize because I was watching the Astros game. Yeah,
they're all right. They were not a Bible study at
home and discipleship class.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Oh my gosh, is that bad?

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Wait, last night?

Speaker 14 (01:17:14):
No Wednesday?

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
Okay, what you could have turned it off early last night?
You just don't like wait, wit wit those games don't
start till nine o'clock. What do you do in a
Bible study for at nine thirty at night?

Speaker 14 (01:17:24):
Well, we have coffee, fun dudes and all that after that,
and then we have a refresher discipleship class after that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:31):
So we how late do y' all go?

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
That's that's kind of late, don't you think.

Speaker 14 (01:17:37):
Usually ten ten thirty because we started around eight day thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Hmm. You know, I'm gonna tell you what Jesus would
tell you. I forgive you, my.

Speaker 14 (01:17:43):
Son, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Yeah. We always wait. Let me tek you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
If you're speaking the words that late at night, I
won't forgive you. Let's wake the strippers up next. That's
not a sway excited segued, Do not judge me for.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
The day, Jesus, do you wake it up the Shippers.
Next seven Natty is The Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 11 (01:18:06):
With Ross twelve five h Town Goods.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
This is the third hour of About Thomas Show with
Ross Sports Talk seven day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
All right, I want to ask you one question before
we get to the news at noon. I would like
for you and Jonathan to hold hands here in the
studio for a while around.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
What is wrong? Walk around?

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Yeah, seriously, you leave that to your dreams. I'm not
wrong about this. Yes you. Oh my god, I'm surprise
you're married. If you ask me? Okay, Jonathan, do me
a favorite. Take to go to the Galleria. Well, it's
got crime there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Go to uh Woodland, safish, it's only been one or
two shootings there this year.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Take her to Woodlands. They don't start. I won't be
none at the gallery.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
I wouldn't go to Deerbrook and the hood rules of
the GALLERYA now, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Just go. You don't go to Memorial Park.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Walk with your girl and see how long it takes
before y'all eject your hands.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
My girl loves the hold hands.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
That's the difference holding hands and and watching a movie
together is one thing. Going for a stroll gonna be
a certain limitations.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
You are dead wrong. Just in college, we were going
to classic. You weren't walking miles. I can I can
guarantee at least you're talking. Man, you're wrong, s face
only got like a three acre campus. That's not that
big a bunch of office buildings. You know they're not.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
You're not the strip mall, man, Come on, they're not
next to the dollar tree.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
I will fall my sword on this one. Okay, you're wrong,
all right? The star pole then, and you walk with
your woman?

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
What is your what are even your parameters?

Speaker 6 (01:20:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Yeah, I'll make sure we get to be very clear
about it. I think holding hands is amazing. It's a
it's a terrific sign of affection. Okay, I am pro
holding hands. Okay. The reality is you just can't get
very long with it. You're just gonna be how long.
I don't know how far? What's your limit?

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
Now, that's not the question limited tapping out, it's just
natural relief of the hand.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Now, if you're walking next to her, aren't you all
walking at the same speed? So what's the difference if
you're holding hands, are you breezing past your wife? Are
you racing? Are you speed walking Olympic speed walking with
her your left leg maybe in front. Well hers is
the right leg.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
Yet you're not. You're not in a sack race. Both
tall too, the hands to be the same level.

Speaker 11 (01:21:22):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
This is not the three legged race at the field
day at school where your legs are tied together. It's
your hands, matt You can swing there, you can swing
the Matthew, I'm trying to teach you. No time out
for the walk with you at noon. Please get to it.
Doctor Roto by the way at one o'clock, all right,

(01:21:46):
to ask him. Have you gotten anybody to agree with
you yet? All right? How about this? Well? Is this
real quick? Is there anybody that does limited walking with
your girl hand in hand? And I'm saying hates it?
Because if you hate it, no, I want to hear
from that. I'm not saying the people that disagree with you, no, No,
we had that last week, Gardy. I'm just saying, there's

(01:22:09):
just a certain limit. You're only going to be able
to goal. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Three fourner yards news at nud time, Ross, please explain
the Astros playoff scenario.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
That's what people are looking for.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Too, Yes, Matthew, Well, your Houston Astros are in dire straits.
They have a twenty eight point four percent chance at
making the playoffs. They are out in the American League
West as they are now five games back. They are
one game back of the Tigers, two games back of
the Red Sox. That's basically where it starts.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
And ends right now.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
If the Tigers or the Guardians lose two out of three,
you need to win out. Also, you could win out
and have the Red Sox lose out. That's where you
stand right now for your Houston Astros as they settle
in for a three game set. It's a huge one
for the heading coaches coming up this weekend. What wait,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We're trying to get it right.
You're just poking. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's a huge

(01:23:06):
one for the actual players on the field this weekend
in anaim so passive, aggressive, just terrible, just awful.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
I'm the worst.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
I don't no wonder people hate you, Jason Alexander. I
love all of you, even if we argue. Jason Alexander
constantly Jason Alexander undecided and undecided this weekend for the Astros,
how we feeling okay? So let's bed a gut feeling
of this. I say Hunter Brown pitches Sunday. I say
he doesn't. And I say he does if the game matters. No, no, no,

(01:23:38):
if the game matters.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
But I say, the problem is you lose him from
You lose him for games.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
You gotta get in the playoffs, you gotta get in first.
Do you, basically say, Christian Hobbyerd, this is why we
pay you. I mean you did pay a lot of money.
He is l reptil, not l roadkell. I say they
will use him if they need him, but I will
say they will lose one of the next two and
not need I'll give you another strange one. How about

(01:24:06):
we back away from a hunter and we asked Fromber
to throw an inning?

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
He pitched you yesterday, right, that's only two days of rest. No,
so how about this? How about this is I guess
they could do like a regular bullpen day and he
can give you an How about this one?

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
He will worry? How about this if the game means
something on Sunday? Yeah, here's the here's the easy, low
hanging one. Will there be any wonky yes pitchers in
the game if it means something? I'm just not mega
optimistic about it. Okay, sorry, continue on, ask me to
make them making the playoffs? Are the Houston Astros making

(01:24:47):
the playoffs? Clinching a wild card spot? Why would I
think Detroit could win two out of three in Boston
when they've been horrific for three months?

Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
Orse?

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
You want him to sweep Boston, don't you? Or lose
two out of three. It's really weird. Either lose two
of three or sweep the Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
I think A is more much more likelier than b Okay,
all right, what else you got?

Speaker 11 (01:25:13):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
It's tan for Bree. Don't mention Derek Stingley though. How
what's happened with him? He's out? I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:25:21):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
Okay, the Ryder Cup's going on. I'm about to mute
about five more people here in about two seconds. Nice,
go say it. I'm about to I'm team I think
I was gonna go to team mute. I'm going what
is the goat see? I've been telling you for years.
Thanks for coming to my side, especially now that Elon
ruined it. Yeah, because I put I put mutable words
in there and I still see them.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
Oh you do? I don't you gave me the words
to use.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
Yeah, I mute all those words Trump, Biden, Kamala, Democrat,
I have Republican. I muted politics and didn't do me
any good. Yeah all right, uh okay.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
By the way, oh, we have somebody that got our
back here real quick, Niejo or Nigel, I don't know
which one is.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
It says Neeliel, what do you got friend?

Speaker 16 (01:26:04):
Matt?

Speaker 20 (01:26:05):
Me and you are about the same age. And I
don't think that the people that are suggesting that holding
hands for the long period of time really realizes probably
how many times they let go of hands. I love
grabbing my wife's hand when we walk anywhere. It never
lasts for more than two or three minutes because either
somebody's phone goes. Are you point something.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
That seconds hand?

Speaker 3 (01:26:30):
I didn't say thirty Noniedele, you have my back. I
only needed one person. I mean, I'm the minority on this.
I will accept the loss, but needel.

Speaker 15 (01:26:38):
I get guys, we don't have to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
We don't have to lose. We just said be confident
our own beliefs. That's correct, It's twenty twenty five. That's
how you do. Confident in their game, no matter how wrong,
no matter how wrong you are twenty twenty five. Just
do me this favorite Houston, Texas. The next time you
go with your girl for a walk, just figure out
get the old domein out sad way steps you go. Okay,

(01:27:00):
that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
How many steps? Are you saying? What's the limit?

Speaker 14 (01:27:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
No limit. I'm just saying, what's the time limit?

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
No, I'm just saying, if you give me an examples,
can you go two thousand steps.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
With the say there was a limit? You said the limit.
So I'm saying, I'm not saying you stop give me
the limit. When you said that the limit, I'm saying,
where do you stop? You tell me? I meant about
I'm at about five hundred steps. Five hundred steps, that's
like a whole football field. Yeah, that's about it seems
about right. No, that's see what was a Google? Say?

(01:27:33):
Google does have an answer to this? I will have okay,
a quarter of a mile? This kind of far when
you go when you go to the mall, either from
can you walk hand to hand from the parking lot
to the food court?

Speaker 8 (01:27:51):
No, that's extreme unless you like real clinging. You got
some issues.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Why is it super clingy? You hold in hand in hand.
What's the difference from the parking lot to the y'all
are talking about how I got to open the door.
How are you gonna open the door with hands open
the door? You're so ridiculous, Doctor Rodo with this guy
in forty minutes twelve seventeen. That's Sports Talk seven, Daddy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
All right, Doctor Rono's coming up here in about thirty
five minutes from now, Thank goodness, I need some resuscitation. Well,
tell you what it's interesting how fantasy football works. I
did reach out to rot and I said, hey, I've
got and I don't have great quarterback play, to be
honest with you. I've got Kyler Murray for the Cardinals,
and I have Drake May of the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
And I said, you know, I think I even asked you.
I said what do you want to go with?

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
And I asked my son and I said to Roto
and he goes, man, those are your quarterbacks. I'm like, yeah,
he said, I think I want you to go with
Drake May, but I'm not completely sure. So he then
text me later back and said, yeah, go with Murray.
I'm gonna go with Drake Man. So I'm watching the
first quarter of the game. First half of the game
against Seattle and Kyler Murray throws two interceptions and for

(01:29:09):
a lot of the first half he had negative points,
which obviously is a huge detriment to anybody who's trying
to use your quarterback to score.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Yes, I go to bed. I didn't finish watching the game,
didn't know it until I woke up. What happened?

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
He still finished for twenty one fantasy points, which is
pretty good for a quarterback. So to where he was
to where he wins?

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
Wait he did? Oh? He had like two points?

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Yeah, you see it? Almost twenty one points for Kyler Murray.
I didn't go back and check because I was playing
against Kyler.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Murray in another league. Yeah. Now I'm pissed.

Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
That just shows you how really flawed fantasy football could
be your quarterback. I don't think anybody in Phoenix is going, man,
that was a great game for Kula Murray. They were
probably spending all I guarantee you Phoenix Sports Radio today
is like, what the hell Waskyder Murray during in the
first half. But it just shows you that fantasy football
does not mirror the real life of the sport. Of course,
it doesn't. Yeah, justin Field is a great fantasy co

(01:30:00):
Real life not so much, you know. So now I'm
a little worried because I left twenty one points on
my bench.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
We'll see what happens, Mannie. That's how it goes. Man,
it's fantasy football. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
But the Toros are three and oh and I have
been three and oh and god knows how long.

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
See you aren't you glad you're back? Not really? Yes
you are. No, I'm not great. No, it's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
I'm a frog because I told you it was a
man a lot of my last year, and I set
it up for that way over and over and over.
But I think the camaraderie of being with the station
and being the guys and actually following other guys around
the league not named the Texans kind.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
Of helps you out a little bit. Absolutely keep your
football acumen sharp. Oh, well, you know I am the
Texans inside. No you're not, Yeah, I am. I got
I have way too many examples. When did Joe mix
A come back? Probably not at all this year. You
might be right on that. I'm not gonna write that down.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Johnson's knocking back some porkclowing back there. Let me tell you, Johny,
what I got you?

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Right? I told you about Stefan Diggs. Check. I told
you about Larry Mye Tunsel.

Speaker 21 (01:30:55):
Check.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
What'd you tell us about Laramie Tunseel. He's a bad
dude and you're getting in his ass.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Out of here. It's a line going doing with them. Gone,
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
That wasn't an inside, that was just analysis for me
textans insider. Then I told you about Joe Mixon.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
Check.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
And then what I have the other day, oh cee
J Garnol Johnson. I am four for four on my
Textans insider analysis.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
That's not true. There's probably dozens of things. Keep going.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Let's go find me can take this next break, and
I'm gonna come up and I'm gonna tell you there
are other fools out there that pretend they're Textans insiders.
They do these they do these YouTube pages, and all
they do is interview Hannah mcmahir. That's not making you
an insider. That's making you a water carrier. I am
the insider.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
No you're not. Yeah, I amia credentials. What's going on?
You haven't broken a single story? No, But I'm coming.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
They come to me, insiders don't have to break stories
insiders that give you the inside dirt when it comes out.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
And I've given you. I have given you so much
dirt you need a sponge to clean it all up.

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
Okay, let's do this this. What's your next? What's next?
I'm glad you asked what's my next? That's a nice
stall tactic. I'm glad you asked.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
You know the radio game.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
You repeated, You repeated the question and said, I'm glad
you asked. That's too double stalling. You know it's time
for a break. That's a triple stall. Let's go when
we come back.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
When I come back, I'm gonna give you not one,
but two bits of Texans Insider store.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
And seriously, Jonathan, if I hit them both, haven't help
us all. Haven't help us both. If I hit one
of the two, I will still have an eight thirty
three winning percentage. But if I hit both, you think
I'm miserable now to work with. It's gonna be way worse.
Twelve thirty three of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven one three, two one two five seven ninety. We

(01:32:41):
got Doctor Roto coming up in a half an hour
from now. Seven one three, two, one two five seven,
and I'll give you those two bits of Texans insider
analysis next year on seven ninety. I not only do
I consider myself a Texans insider sports harying, I'm an
NFL insider, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Remember when Ross and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
I were having this spirit of conversation about Ashton Genty
is spending the NFL for three games? Now, three games
is not make a season. But he's got one hundred
and forty four yards to three games.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
Okay, that's uh. If you play seventeen on paced guy
puts him at well under one thousand yards.

Speaker 5 (01:33:24):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
So at this point the insight you got from me
on Ashton Genty has worked. You said he's never going
to run for one thousand yards in his entire career.

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
I really said that, Yes, Are you sure I did that?
Sounds kind of yeah. I was pull I wrote down.
I was like, what did he just say?

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Okay, no, made me pull up the file.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
No, when you always go to the dome, maybe pull
up the file car means I must have said it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
So I fully admit that. Let me find it. I mean,
it's still gona happen. But I think you did that.
I wrote down the time this was.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
This was December thirty first, twenty twenty four, at eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Twenty two pm. I will pull up the audio.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
I was like.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
I was like, I mean a ya, I was gonna say.
I was like, this is so bad. I got to
write down what time this was. Said. Uh, you said, okay,
first of all, your first predition was he will be
just a guy. So far he's been just a guy.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Yeah, but the the analytics nerds thinks he's been running well.
They just have a bad offensive line, which gets part
of the problem. And then you said you he will
never rush for a thousand yards. If you want to
go pull it, I can go find it. No, it's okay,
And I said he will Okay, he's he's on pace
for and and sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Okay, Yeah, he could get hurt. Anything could happen. Raiders.
Raiders offense is not very good. We'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Mmm.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
Okay, I gave you gente so far. Someone click clarify.
That is counted as a win at this point. Okay,
Joe counting it as a win three weeks, that's like
you counting Yaner Diaz as the home run leader.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Will win when he's like fourth, he's in the top five.
You're not being hurt all year. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
I don't think we see Joe mixing this year. I
could see that. I think we have too much secrecy.
Have we heard a single word about a word?

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Here's the thing. Don't ask because you don't mean you
care about the player.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
But here's the thing, Matthew, m if he's out for
the year, just say it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
What is the why?

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
I don't get it because I just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Maybe they didn't formulate what they want to say in
terms of it what exactly happened?

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
They said week five, right, Uh, he can come back
week this week.

Speaker 3 (01:35:44):
He's technically allowed to come back next week. And you
haven't heard word one about him practicing or doing anything. Yeah,
you could be right on that one. I don't know
what the heck's going on because you've got But that's
okay because it's what mark season, baby the goat.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
So here's what you got. You have October fifth, you
gotta have Baltimore, then you have the off week.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
You don't play again until Monday, October the twentieth. It
should be a fair question to Monday's press conference. Joe
mix it update, like is he alive? I mean, look,
guys go away on their own and rehabilitate, but you
would think at some point someone in the built, like

(01:36:25):
you know the Texans media that goes they see players
walking around, They see players like you haven't seen Aaron
Wilson or Jonathan Alexander say hey, I saw Joe Mixon
working out today, or I saw Joe Mixon running on
the trademill. You don't see any You don't even you
don't even see a name of picture anything.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
I can't give you a second one. I am afraid
for CJS. I'm afraid for CJ's life. Gent's a bus
and mixings out for the year.

Speaker 8 (01:36:57):
That's what you went with, right, That's how you said
the mixing one though, Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
I'm gonna say with those your Nixon mixing, you are
keeping that one. I'm gonna keep a mixing Okay. I
feel like I'm working at a robble rab creamery.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Bless you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
Remember when robbol Rab first came around. Everybone's like, oh,
you're telling me I can put five mixings in my
ice cream, like fourteen dollars, and then their business models
like I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
It pretty basic. I just get oreos.

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
Well, the problem is that people weren't. People were not
spending fourteen dollars for a cone. So now it's all
you can get mixings.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
M hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
Yeah, I mean they have, they have, They got some
nice ice cream places around town, but just not that one.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
You hold hands and you go get ice cream. Absolutely,
why not? That's very romantic. Yeah, it licked that cone, Maddy,
But what but what if? What if your cone rips?
You gotta use that second hand. You gotta lick it
fast before it gets all over your hands. No, you
gotta eat a cone with the two hands, one with
a napkin in it and one with a cone. It's
just say for that way, maybe if you don't need
cone ripples all over yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
I don't get cone drippings on myself. Man, you get
this on that leftover cream? When it's if you're if you're,
if you're in the call with one hand, you're gonna
have problems. No you Well, it depends how hot is
it outside?

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
Where do you live?

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Cole Mel's on the time you walk out the inside
of the mall, you got time, that's true. Don't need
a cone outside if you like that conea you're gonna
eat it inside. Let's go to uh Bobby in Spring
on seven uinty High.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Bobby, I just want to know, h.

Speaker 9 (01:38:32):
How many more games do the ass when to clint
the division?

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
Zero? They cannot clinch the Seattle Mariners clinch the division?

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
Can they be in the playoffs? Thank you, Bobby. As
a matter of fact, I will give you the Uh.
You know what I'm gonna do. Let's go, man, what's
a good hope for? What's a good song of hope? Google?

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Songs of hope? Don't stop believing? Yeah, I'm a believer.
Oh that's it's monkeys, Don't I believe in? It takes
what's that song hoping? It takes like a half wish
and at five minutes to get to the chorus. Uh,
give me, lean on me, No, give me. I'm a
believer by the Monkeys. Now their smash mount did one too?

Speaker 21 (01:39:20):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Is it basically a straight cover?

Speaker 12 (01:39:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
That was terrible. Give me, I'm a believer by the Monkeys.
It was in Shrick because my man, because our caller
just wanted to know, because Matt loves the Monkeys and
all the members and't playing golf with them.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
No, that one guy was an a hole? Are you
kidding me? I hated and playing on Mickey Dolan's. All right,
turn up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
If the Astros sweep the Angels, they need the Guardians
to lose two or three to the Rangers, or or
the Tigers to lose two or three of the Red Sox,
or the Tigers to sweep the Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
Sing it Beatles, Oh a monkey? Sorry wow the tongue.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
Yeah, you know, I appreciate the Funkys is that they
try to rip off the Beatles and they're like, we
can't do it. We're not as good as they are.
We're not as good as writers as there What do
you mean they had hits? They did have some hits. Again,
Now I'm not done. If the Astros go two and
one against the Halos, the Guardians or the Tigers must

(01:40:26):
get swept.

Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
What got it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
Yeah, so Astros win two or three, Guardians or Tigers.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Must be swept. Guardians ain't getting swept at home by Texas.
Sing it to me, Mickey, and I saw her face.
So I'm playing golf with Mickey Dolan's and I said, man,
what was it like hearing your song again? And Shrek
was a huge hit. Smash Mount did a cover of it,

(01:40:58):
and he was like, pissed at me for even asked.
I thought he would be like, oh, it was great,
the song has been redone. I made some money off it,
the money you met off of it. The Shrek's a
huge successful way and he could have been a bigger jerk.
I was so disappointed. Oh you know what, that's more
to the story. I didn't know you were asking him
about his music and he he was mad at you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
This isn't a bit. You actually met him.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
You played nine holes of golf with him? No, I
swear to god I did. He was mad, he was
cranky the whole time. But I just I didn't know
what to say, Like remember that time you sang last
Train of carks Fall.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
I mean I didn't want to do that. I was
in awe of him. It just took golf, Maddie, Hey,
how's your short game? It wasn't good. He was terry.
He was mad the whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
So I tried to loosen things up, like, man, that
must be great here and I'm a believer her again
and he's like, damn, how was it?

Speaker 11 (01:41:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
Not doing it again? A Beard. He's the only member
of the monkey still alive. You're not surprised for him.
I don't know. I can't name the members of the Monkeys.
Who's the most famous monkey. That's Davy Joe, Davy Jones, George, No,

(01:42:11):
it's not curious, it's the most famous monkey. That's a
good one.

Speaker 3 (01:42:17):
And the man with the yellow hat. What was that
guy's name, The man with the yellow hat? He didn't
really have a name in the book. Yeah, it's just yeah,
that's all it is. Come on, Matt, read a book.
I got one for you, but it was one of
the Pooh's adult friend. I was you are Christopher rob
Christopher Robin. That's somebody you are. No, your is like
that little thing. I walked around with him the mule

(01:42:40):
or No.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
Favorite was the hell is? Then then goes Friday. We
gave we gave you Astro's probabilia, the Monkeys, the Monkeys, Curious,
George Shrek.

Speaker 3 (01:42:57):
Mickey Dolan's and there. What do you want to cuss
and discuss the Texans?

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
We can do that too.

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
Yeah, this big game this weekend, what do you make
it that big? Nobody cares about huge. It's a muscle
in the Gate of Texas. Well, last week was a
must win game. They lost, so why they didn't fold
up shop?

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
It's must win game. Everybody was saying must win game
last week. Who was saying it? People? Media members? Absolutely,
I saw it. I'm not gonna name names, don't say,
but I sinked it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
Okay, James and Climb will get to you coming back
if you want to jump in before Doctor Roto, and
god knows, we got a spot for you. Uh non
four stories by the way, coming up today at one thirty.
Ross worries your non flora story.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
From uh Bulgaria.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
All right, I've got two non flora stories today and
I'll be talking to you about those plus Doctor Roto
in just sixteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
All right, we got Roto coming up in about ten minutes.
I got some folks that have been patiently waiting, and
let's go to them.

Speaker 16 (01:43:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Let's say hello to my screens. Now, where can James
inclined on seven on Hello James?

Speaker 18 (01:44:03):
Yeah, I wanted to get back to holding the hand stuff.
You know, when the Beatles wrote I want to hold
your hand, Paul McCartney said, it's because you're showing that
woman or that man that you're with that that's the
person you want to be with. So it's a terminally determent.
So when you're not holding someone's hand and they want
you to hold your hand, you're kind of letting her
know that you know you're not really the one for me,
so you should hold her hand up.

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
I do hold We do hold hands. Again, people are
only hearing one side of the story. I said, it's
just difficult to do it for a lengthy period of time.
That's my only thing. I'm not anti holding hands at all.

Speaker 18 (01:44:32):
Okay, well, that's not really the reason I called the
These people that are bashing Christian Walker, are you crazy?
The ashes last year you asked him to go out
and get an upgrade from First Space.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
And they did.

Speaker 18 (01:44:46):
They went and got an upgrade. I mean, at the
beginning of the year, you told me that our first
face move was gonna hit twenty four Horme runs and
have ninety RBIs. I would be happy to that. He's
not the reason that we're not in the playoffs. He's
he's not the reason. He's an upgrade from what we
had last year. So all these people bashing Christian Walker,
come on, get.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Off of it.

Speaker 18 (01:45:04):
He's a good I want him back next year.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
He is well, first of all, he's going to be back.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
He's got two years off in his contract, so unless
the Astros deal and he will be back next year.

Speaker 18 (01:45:12):
Yeah, but we're all talking about trades and stuff. The
only thing that I didn't like that he did is
his average isn't very high. Age should be a lot higher.
But he's he's delivered. I mean he's a lot better
than Singleton was, and he's an upgrade.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
He's not.

Speaker 18 (01:45:25):
You know, we can upgrade every position, of course.

Speaker 3 (01:45:28):
Yeah, but you're also paying you're also paying Christian Walker. Well,
you're paying John Singleton two million that you're paying ten
times in the amount and not getting ten times of production. James,
thank you for the phone call. I'm just going to
say this. I think he sometimes gets too much to blame.
He's actually had a pretty decent road trip all things considered.
But I think Christian Walker's would if you went to

(01:45:49):
Christian Walker and staid describe your season, he would say
it's disappointing. And I'm saying it's disappointing. Ross is saying it.
Astro fans as saying it, And I guarantee you Christian
Walker was saying, I'm having a disappointing season. I don't
think it's even worth even a conversation or debate. And
his home runs have gone down for four straight years.

(01:46:11):
His ops plus has gone down for four straight years,
thirty six, thirty three, twenty six, twenty four. This year,
you can hit a couple this weekend, that'd be helpful. Hey,
he's back to zero point zero war He's a replacement
level now according to Baseball Reference.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
That's good. He he hasn't been Brian and Brady Brad.
I mean, uh yeah, that's that was different level. But
he hasn't been What did you want?

Speaker 3 (01:46:42):
Did you want more? You want more of what Juli
Guriel gave you in the same glove. Yep, the glove
isn't disappointed because he's a plus defender. Yeah, he's not
losing balls in the lights and Sacramento, I know what happened.

(01:47:03):
Disappoint And by the way, the RBI situation to me,
and I learned this with a bray, you is largely overrated.
Guys that are batting three, four five in your lineup
are gonna have more chances for RBIs because you would
assume that your table setters are getting on base. Yes,
what can you look this up really really quick? And
I'm mean to put you on the spot. What is

(01:47:23):
Christian Walker's batting average with runners in scoring position? I
can look that up if you get you just for
this year, just for this year, that to me would
be probably where the where the great disappointment is in
his game.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
I'm hit the wrong button.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
Sorry, you talk all right. I'm gonna talk to John
then real quick before we get two of that answer
on that. Okay, I got not you, joh you already
have it two thirty eight with a seven thirty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:47:46):
Ops. You need better from your heart about what he's
been all year.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
So you're saying twenty four percent of the time when
there's a runner on scoring position, I mean second or
third base, he's making Yeah, but I mean he's.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
Got sack flies that have driven in runs and stuff
like that, exactly. Yeah. So so he's driven in runs
in those camps, but it doesn't count as an ab Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
All right, Jonathan the caller, Jonathan, Hi, Jonathan, you're a
twelve fifty five year on seven hoey, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:48:16):
What's up?

Speaker 15 (01:48:17):
Matt Hi and and his noble seed man piggybacking off
of Christian Walker, like sometimes you just gotta look at
the eye tests like we haven't had to y'all's point,
like we haven't had a good hitting first baseman sent
Ulie and that was ages ago, and it's to no

(01:48:38):
fault on the Astros. I feel like, you know, they
tried to get a bray you. They thought Christian Walker
was going to be able to get his hits into
the Crawford boxes.

Speaker 9 (01:48:50):
That didn't happen.

Speaker 15 (01:48:53):
Nonetheless, then anything goes Friday. I've got two candidates for
the Cougar List. One of them Marisa tome Uh. She
still looks good. She has not she's like the female
Dick Clark, Like she is not aged at all.

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
Okay, I get that deep cut from you. I'll agree
with you on that. Continue. Who's your second one?

Speaker 15 (01:49:19):
The second one is Jennifer Connolly.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
I mean we all no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no.

Speaker 15 (01:49:30):
Uh what come on?

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 15 (01:49:32):
In top Gun, Maverick?

Speaker 14 (01:49:34):
You didn't think no, no, what are you.

Speaker 8 (01:49:38):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
Show hold on? I think I'm getting the person mixed up. Okay, good,
That's what I'm saying you were shutting him down. Who
is Stiffer's mom? What is that woman's name? Oh, I
don't That's not Jennifer Connell.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
That's what I'm saying. I was like, mistaken identity there,
What is her name? I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:49:57):
Jennifer Connolly, she was the girl in Labyrinth.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree with you on that absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
For a dream.

Speaker 15 (01:50:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, let's not say
what they did.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
To her, and no, we don't have to talk about that.
But that was eye opening her top gun Maverick like, no,
I'm I got you, I got you. Who is the
Jennifer that I'm talking about?

Speaker 7 (01:50:21):
That is?

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:50:23):
I mean, I know you're talking about Stifford's mom.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
Was oh yeah, but that she's that for Coolidge, That's
who I was thinking of. I'm sorry, I stand correct that, Jonathan.
For the phone call Jennifer Coolidge Stiffler's mom back in
the day, Oh my goodness, Today, Jennifer Jennifer Connelly is
one of the hottest women to ever walk this planet.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
I can't argue.

Speaker 5 (01:50:47):
So hot.

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
Mercey Tie may Too is like almost sixty, I think, right, Yeah,
she's in her sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
I don't mindy, she's good too. Jennifer Coolidge, all right,
you've lost me for the segment. Lets you're looking at
Jennifer Connolly picks. Doctor Roto is up next twelve fifty seven.
You're gonna be able to cool it with Coolidge for
a half hour if you want to, or Connolly Sports
Talk Centery, Doctor Roto is next. J is the Matt

(01:51:16):
Thommas Show with.

Speaker 22 (01:51:18):
Rosso Waiver claims have to be made, and I've got

(01:51:41):
trade proposals fly in my way.

Speaker 11 (01:51:46):
My first round pick.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Turned out to be a big flop. I don't know which.

Speaker 22 (01:51:54):
Wide receiver I need to drive.

Speaker 11 (01:52:00):
Ooo.

Speaker 2 (01:52:01):
Doctor Routo gave me the new Who's that?

Speaker 17 (01:52:03):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
Don't know what else you do?

Speaker 22 (01:52:07):
My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad Keith
on fair Deceive Blue.

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
When is the fastest thirt event? It's in major market radio.
We say hello to the good doctor with us here.
Doctor Roto here on Sports Talk said, and I brought
this up to you yesterday about Drake may Or, Cotta,
Murray and Rhode. I was feeling great, especially after Murray
throws those two early iron ties. But fantasy football can
be cruel. I wake up this morning. He has twenty
one fantasy points. So it just shows you real life

(01:52:40):
football and fantasy football are two different animals.

Speaker 14 (01:52:43):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
I mean, look, Maury was fine, wasn't great? Trust me?
At halftime you were probably, like you said, you were
loving life because he could barely play the game.

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:52:51):
And then the second half it picked up. Well, what
do you finished with two hundred yards and two touchdowns
a few yards rushing. I think Drake May is going
to be better than that. I mean, Carolina not pressure
the quarterback. So look, I always want to find I
think Drake May is on the cusp of being really
good and so worth the risk.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
All right, let's go over a couple of things from
last week and moving forward. CINCINNTI Minnesota game, My god,
the backup quarterbacks one didn't have to do much because
his defense kept scoring, and Cincinnati with Browning was a
hot mess. If I've got t Higgins, which I do have,
and I'm afore you get Jamar Chase, are you if
you're a Bengals wide receiver fan, are you wigging out

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right now?

Speaker 5 (01:53:31):
No? No, no, Look, Jake Browning is not terrible. There
are worse guys.

Speaker 2 (01:53:34):
Out there.

Speaker 5 (01:53:34):
He just played a really hot defense last week. Minnesota
is a good defense. Brian flor is a great defensive coordinator.
This week's a tough matchup, but the Broncos run a
lot of man coverage, which is right up t higgins
A's Ali. You can never say that you're not going
to play Jamar Chase. So look, Browning is better than
a lot of backups in this league. I picked him
up in a couple of leagues. You just got to

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be patient. Maybe after this week he's playable. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
We got Rock Party back playing for San Francisco this week.
Does that change their fortunes much against the Jaguars.

Speaker 5 (01:54:08):
I think they're going to beat the Jaguars regardless. It's
gonna be one of those mccaffers, you know, one hundred
and forty yards from scrimmage and two touchdown weeks. Ricky
Piersoll right now is not one hundred percent. So we've
got to keep our eyes on that. Juwan Jennings I
expect to be back. If he's there, you definitely want
to play him. Look, the Jaguars, these are two teams
that play fast. These are two coaches that are innovative,

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play callers. You know, the big question here is without
Nick Bosa, how will the forty nine ers fare on defense?
That's what I'm concerned to see.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
Atlanta got shell shocked by Carolina last week. If I've
got Penix in company there, how am I going to
do against Washington?

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
You're going to do really well because here's something that works.
Nobody on Planet Earth wants to play Michael Pennock Junior
this weekend. That's why he's going to have a good week.

Speaker 14 (01:54:55):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:54:55):
It's just how the NFL works empty It's just one
of those funny things. So you're playing in I like
Michael Pennock this week, he's playing at home, he's playing
on that fast track. Washington's in big trouble this week.
There's no Jayden Daniels, there's no Terry McLaurin. The Atlantic
defense is better. I think Pennix has a much improved week.
I'm gonna put him down for two hundred and forty
yards and two touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
Doctor Rota.

Speaker 3 (01:55:16):
There are a lot of folks that picked up Daniel
Jones because of what the fast start for the Colts.
They're three and all, but really realistically they're probably they
could be just as easy one and two. We saw
what that Rams defense did against C. J. Stroud in
the opening week. How will Jones and his skill position
players do against the Rams.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
I think this is going to be the most exciting
game of the weekend, truly. I think this game could
really blow up in terms of US scoring. So I
like Daniel Jones, I like Jonathan Taylor. Take a look
at Josh Downs. He doesn't play a lot when the
Colts are winning, but I think they're going to be losing,
so he'll be out there. It might be interesting fantasy wise,
Love Pukaakua, Love Matthew Stafford. Devonte Adams is still very,

(01:55:57):
very h He's been out with a hamstring during practice
this week. If he's not there, Tyan Williams is also
firmly in play. Really liked this game all right.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
De Ross and I have been kind of joshing about
Aston genty only one hundred and one hundred and fifteen
yards in three games. That's the case of a porous
offensive line. Chicago showed a pretty good defense against the Bears.
Against the Cowboys last week, how do you see Chicago
and the Raiders?

Speaker 5 (01:56:22):
I mean, the Cowboys were a mess the second cd
Lamb got injured right at that point. It wasn't like
the Bears were great and the Cowboys defense is awful.
I really like Ashton Genty this week. I think that
should be another exciting game. I think the four o'clock
games are way better than the early Slate games. So look,
I think that Gino Smith in play Genty, in play
Jacoby Myers definitelyly in play Block Bauers. Also on the

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other side, I think you can play Caleb Williams. I
think you could always play Rome with Doonze. That's like,
don't even ask that question anymore. Just play Roma, Dunze
and those were all the guys I'd start in that one.

Speaker 3 (01:56:55):
Okay, Hey, I love that he Detroit Baltimore game because
I had loaded Fantasy play players on both sides. Although
Flowers was kind of quiet for the Ravens. Can he
pipe up this week in Kansas City?

Speaker 5 (01:57:08):
Not sure this is a great spot for them because
the defensive coverage they roll out doesn't really favor him.
I think it favors more Rashad Bateman. I think Derreck
Henry is going to have a good game. On the
other side. If there was ever a week to play
Travis Kelcey.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
This is the week.

Speaker 5 (01:57:24):
Baltimore is awful against tight ends. Second most receiving yards,
second most receptions. It's been a nightmare. Both these teams
need this game desperately. The only way the Chiefs do
it if Kelsey plays.

Speaker 3 (01:57:36):
Well, late game comebacks for both Philadelphia and Tampa Bay.
Low scoring and high scoring this week down in East Florida,
West Florida.

Speaker 5 (01:57:46):
West Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
Yeah, yeah, I you know.

Speaker 5 (01:57:49):
It's funny because you can't run on the Bucks, but
you can throw on the Bucks. So I think this
is one of those games. And the Bucks have led
up the most receptions to opposing running backs, So a
lot of peop people won't want to love Barkley this week.
I have no problem with Barkley this week. Can have
five or six receptions like Jalen Hurts this week, like
Davonta Smith this week, like AJ Brown this week. On
the other side, Mike Evans, as we know, is out,

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Chris Godwin is expected back at BUKA has been fantastic.
I think this is going to be a lower scoring game,
but you could still see fantasy yardage.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
Just not a lot of touchdowns, all right, Jackson Dart
with the Giants there own three. Nobody's surprised they made
the move. Probably this soon is a little bit of
a surprise. How do you see the Chargers of the Giants?

Speaker 5 (01:58:34):
No, No, Brian Dabele was going to get fired. So
the only way that this guy doesn't get fired is, hey,
I've got a new quarterback that I have to mentor Okay,
Brian will give you a few weeks, that's it. Otherwise
I mean to leave Russell Wilson in there was over
but Jackson Dart if you ever watched him an ill miss.
Dude can throw, dude can run. Okay, he's mobile, He's interesting.

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He's a good quarterback right now. Good in college doesn't
necessarily mean good in your first pro game against the
Chargers defense. In Jim Harbaugh, that's a lot to ask for. However,
Malik Neighbors two out of the three games he didn't
see the football. He will see the football this week.
And I love Cam Scattaboo. This dude is very underrated.
Look at his numbers last week. MT. With those numbers,

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he'd be like a third round pickaped to that every week.
On the other side, I love Herbert, I love lad
mcconkee and Omarian Hampton. Very sad what happened to Najee Harris.
But Omarion Hampton becomes a beast right now? All right?

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
Ceedee Lamb, Miles, Dallas Cowboys green Bay really impressive so far.
They've got to be smart with their loss at Cleveland
last week. Will they try to take it out on
the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (01:59:41):
Hide the wife and children? MT This is ugly. It's
really going to be bad. I mean, you have no Lamb.
Maybe Ferguson has a good game. George Pickens, I don't
really like. I don't love Javonte Williams. I don't like
Dak Prescott. Stay away. On the other side, here's a
name that you haven't heard, but I think you will.
Matthew Golden from the University of Texas. I think the
guy Dallas has led up the most yards per target

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in the league. They let up a ton of big plays.
Golds is their big play receiver. That's going to be
the guy who scores this week. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:00:10):
Matthew Golden was a Houston Cougar until he decided that
it was University Houston was too difficult for him.

Speaker 2 (02:00:15):
That's why he made a change to the University of Tech.
He upbraded in prestige and academia.

Speaker 3 (02:00:19):
That's what are you talking about? Oh, here's ross, but
there's obligatory ross. Question of the week. I mean, come on, Matt,
let's be realistic. H Yeah, you mentioned a little bit
of an Ashton Gent. I'm just curious that some of
the running backs who are sputtering, how much longer do
you expect it to to last, Especially in the case
of Gent, Chase Brown and maybe to a lesser extent,
Alvin Kamara.

Speaker 5 (02:00:40):
Yeah, you know, Kamara is not bad, right because they
don't really use a lot of guys that have used
Juan Johnson to use a lave use Rashid Shaheed and Kamara,
So he's different. Chase Bownd's been a nightmare really and
now gets to play Denver this week. That's not good either.
So you can have another bad week of Chase Brown
before it gets better. Genty should get better this week.

(02:01:00):
Problem is you drafted these guys in like round two,
So what are you going to do? Cut them? No,
what are you gonna do? Bench him until they get better? Maybe,
but you have a better guy in your roster probably
not so sad you're kind of stuck with them at
this point.

Speaker 3 (02:01:14):
All right, last thing and forego the phones Tennessee Houston.
Now Nico got pass, the defenders slipped, scored a deep touchdown.
The numbers have not been great for him. There's non
existent offense in terms of running game. CJ has faced
a lot of pressure. Are we getting nervous about our
skill position players for the Texans even though they are

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playing zero to three Tennessee?

Speaker 5 (02:01:38):
Well, look, this should be the game they win, right,
we feel good about that. Stroud should have a better day.
Jeffrey Simmons, though, is a beast. You gotta watch for
that guy. I mean, if the Texans offensive line is
not paying attention, Simmons going to sack Stroud four or
five times. I think the real key to the Texans.
I think there's three guys one Woody Marks. Let's get
him out there. Doesn't he look faster than Chubbs of
the Naked Eye?

Speaker 2 (02:01:59):
Oh my, naked to the to the blind eye. It
looks faster.

Speaker 5 (02:02:03):
It does, So you're like, why are they not getting
this guy out there more? He was one of the
best receiving running backs in college football the last three
years running, so this is not a This is not
a fluke. This guy's legit. Two, Christian Kirk, you've got
to have another receiver there to help Nicole Collins. And
three you got to get the ball to Dalton Schultz, right,
So you've got to get these guys involved. It can't

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just be the Nikos shoe, because if it is, then
you become a one note team and you're in trouble.
The good news is the Titans really stink. I don't.
I don't see a pathway for them to really improve,
not certainly, not this week. So this is the game
that Texans need to get the ball rolling, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
That is doctor Ronal. You've got any questions for him.

Speaker 3 (02:02:43):
Let's go seven one three two one two five seven
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(02:03:06):
The Good Doctor with us here on Sports Talk seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seventy. When you
call in just to let you know, doctor Roto's doing fine. Ross,
You're doing fine. I'm doing fine, right, got all that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:20):
Knocked out, get spectacular, get your year and let's crank
your move than you were earlier today.

Speaker 3 (02:03:24):
Now we have not talked about Astro's hitting coach for
a couple of My god, why do you even have
to say that word?

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
Not bad. Let's go to the phones and talk to
the great people.

Speaker 3 (02:03:31):
We say hello to John on seven ninety John your
question for doctor roto Please?

Speaker 15 (02:03:36):
Hey, guys, think you for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
I'm in the standard lead.

Speaker 8 (02:03:39):
I need to sell my flex spot.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
Montgomery, Ao Minore, Golden or Jaminson and Williams.

Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
Well, these are both great questions and the great options
that you have. Look, Montgomery at home is always a guy,
especially in your league. You got to figure that he's
going to square a touchdown. It is very hard to
run on the Browns. They have a good run defense.
But I always like Montgomery at home. Look, I said
Golden was a good play. It is, but it's not
a safe play. I like Jamison Williams again, but it's

(02:04:12):
not a safe play. Montgomery is a safe play at home.

Speaker 3 (02:04:15):
Is there another one to two combination that you feel
confident with Gibbs and Montgomery that you may not find
in any of the other thirty one teams?

Speaker 5 (02:04:24):
You know, that's an interesting question. I think they are
clearly the best too, because Montgomery is at one right
if he was on another team, wouldn't he be the
clear one such a dealing with Jamiir Gibbs. Now, I
would argue that Tyler Algiers pretty drawing good, but we
don't see that as much because Jean Robinson is there.
But Montgomery was a number one in his own right
before he went to Detroit. So it's a they've got

(02:04:44):
a lot an embarrassment of Richards there.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
Let's go to GEO on seven hunting for doctor rodel
Go ahead, Geo, Hey, roto so our.

Speaker 9 (02:04:53):
Drafted Burrow and drafted JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
They both out. So I picked the Dart and uh, Mariota,
who should I start?

Speaker 5 (02:05:03):
Yeah, I think you're going to start Dart this week.
I know Mariota had a good week last week. I
get that you don't have McLaurin. You're playing Atlanta, who's
going to play a whole lot better at home. Their
defensive pressure is pretty good. I think Mariota had a
great week last week. But now we've got to move
on to this week. Geo, I think Jackson Dart is
going to run for about forty or fifty yards. I
think he's going to throw for about two hundred. I

(02:05:24):
think he's going to throw it at least one touchdown pass.
I would be starting.

Speaker 2 (02:05:28):
Dart need too. This is from Twitter.

Speaker 3 (02:05:30):
Golden Trey, Tecker or Shahed Which one of those three
guys sits?

Speaker 5 (02:05:35):
Yeah? So oh who's sitting.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
Well in two of those three Golden Tucker or Shaheed.

Speaker 5 (02:05:40):
Yeah. I think I'm gonna sit Shaheed right because he's
the riskiest guy. I told you I like Matthew Golden Tucker. Look,
he's not going to do what he did last week.
Last week he won people leagues and he won you know,
he said families in DFS, so I expect that again
this week. No, but it's a why. It's a high
scoring game. So I want to be in that game.

Speaker 2 (02:05:57):
Environment Kinkay or Kelsey.

Speaker 5 (02:06:02):
Kelsey is in the smash spot of the week at
tight end.

Speaker 2 (02:06:05):
Okay. I like hearing that.

Speaker 3 (02:06:07):
Thank you, doctor Roto, You've speak the gospel. Mark on
seven Unty for doctor Rodal go ahead.

Speaker 14 (02:06:12):
Mark Hi Standard League Pick two Scatibboo, Ridley Pachaiko a
Travis Hunter.

Speaker 5 (02:06:22):
Wow. Okay, first of all, we're playing Scott A Boo
from now on. It's not even a question. The guy
is really good with The Giants envisioned him as their
starter when they took them. They think he could score
nine or ten touchdowns. I do too, Isaiah Pacheco. I
think he's about He's like the Nick Chubb of the Chiefs.
Naked Eye tells you this guy stinks, and Brishard Smith

(02:06:44):
from SMU guy's good. They started to play him a
little bit last week's game, so I mean, I guess
in the Standard League he's interesting to me, but I
don't really like it. I don't trust Ridley either, and
Travis Hunter not at all. So I think it's Scataboo
and Ridley. But if you feel wrongly about Pachucka, you
could start him. But I think the check go is
about half away from losing his job.

Speaker 2 (02:07:05):
Go to John and conro for Roto.

Speaker 1 (02:07:07):
Go ahead, John, Roto, I got two quicktions for you.
Do I start Travis Kelcey or Dave Montgomery in the Flakes?

Speaker 9 (02:07:18):
And do I start Jamison Williams or Jordan Addison.

Speaker 5 (02:07:23):
All Right, I'm gonna go Kelsey and Jamison. Addison is
going to be good, but this is his first game back.
Could be a little messy out there. You know they're
on by next week or is it in week six?
One of those two weeks, I'd be waiting on Addison just.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
A little bit.

Speaker 5 (02:07:38):
I like Jamison Williams this week, and I love Kelsey.

Speaker 2 (02:07:41):
Any worry about any of the players playing in Dublin
this weekend?

Speaker 5 (02:07:45):
Yeah, Jalen Warren is questionable right now. He went on
the injury report today. That's never a good sign. So
you could see Kenneth Gainwell, you could see the rookie
Caleb Johnson. Maybe there's a Caleb Johnson siding. But remember
the game is early at nine point thirty. Nobody wants
to wake up early and change their fantasy lineup, but
you might have to.

Speaker 2 (02:08:01):
All right, Travis for doctor Rodeal, go ahead, Travis Hey,
doctor Rotto Scataboo or Travis et in.

Speaker 5 (02:08:09):
I'm all in on Scataboo. If I look at first
of all, Tyrone Tracy's out. Secondly, you got to think
that Dart is going to throw some short passes right
with the pressure he's going to see from the Chargers. Scataboo,
look at what he did last week. He ran for
sixty yards. He caught a bunch of balls. He's gonna
He's just one of those guys who's a PPR machine.
Think of an Alvin Kamara type. That's the type of

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talent we're talking about, not in terms of explosiveness, but
in terms of being able to catch the ball, block
a little bit and be good by the goal line.

Speaker 2 (02:08:38):
Are you flexing McConkie or T McMillan in a full
point PPR two guys?

Speaker 5 (02:08:43):
I really like the only problem I have with McMillan
is that Christian Gonzalez is expected back. He is really
really good on the back end there. I think Lad McCaughey,
the Giants are terrible against slot receivers. They're terrible against
in man coverage. What is mcconaughie do best marin coverage
and he plays in the slot.

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
I love Lad Worthy or Flowers this week?

Speaker 5 (02:09:07):
Worthy?

Speaker 2 (02:09:08):
Okay, Josh for doctor Rode, Go ahead, Josh, Hey, sir,
I got two. So Davante Adams is questionable.

Speaker 13 (02:09:16):
So I was thinking about putting in Golden over him,
or I've got Day Flowers or George Pickens, thank you?

Speaker 5 (02:09:25):
Yeah, I don't really. I mean, I guess I'll go
with Pickens because he's the only guy there. I don't
dislike Jay Flowers. I just think I worry about the matchup.
This week. The Chiefs played defense. That's not great for him.
I'm in on Matthew Golden. The one lucky thing that
you have is you know you can watch and wait
until the four o'clock games and see because the Cowboys
of the night game. So that's an advantage there. You

(02:09:46):
don't have to make up your mind till about four o'clock.
But I think Golden is going to have a big game.

Speaker 2 (02:09:50):
Let's go to Rob on seven. Honey, Rob, what's your
question for doctor Rono?

Speaker 18 (02:09:56):
I hear you talking up. Came scattaboo. I have scataboo.
But I I just dropped Tyrone Tracy and picked up
Woody Marx. Is that something I might regret down the road?

Speaker 5 (02:10:06):
I don't think so. I mean, like I said, I
think the Texans are I don't think they're were gonna
get rid of Nick Chubb and you're not gonna use
Woody Marx by the goal line. But maybe you make
Nick Chubb your short yardage goal line guy and you
get him out of there between the twenties and you
get Woody Marks out there. So Tyrone. Tracy's out for
the next two to four weeks. It can't be a
bad thing to put in a young guy with upside

(02:10:28):
and put a guy like Tracy on here on the bench.

Speaker 2 (02:10:31):
All right, And lastly we go to ray On seven
on Ey for doctor rohdeal Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (02:10:34):
Right, all right?

Speaker 2 (02:10:36):
Two questions standard PPR.

Speaker 9 (02:10:39):
Judkins or Breeth Hall or any other question?

Speaker 5 (02:10:43):
Is worthy or Jealen Waddle?

Speaker 2 (02:10:45):
Thanks?

Speaker 5 (02:10:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna go Judkins and Waddle one of what
we seems to do well against the Jets. This is
a must must, must, must win game for Mike McDaniel
and the Dolphins. Judkins has been good. I know the
Lions are good defense, but Judkins is like Scataboo. The
guy can run, he can catch, you can do a
little bit of everything, and he's even more explosive. So
I'm not taking that guy out of my lineup. So

(02:11:08):
Judkins and model for me.

Speaker 3 (02:11:10):
All right, Ladies generally asked for a second, I was
supposed to get one. You got it in the last segment. Oh,
go ahead and get one more. Go ahead, you mentioned Judkins.
I gotta sit one off he Chase Brown or Tony Pollard,
sit one.

Speaker 5 (02:11:23):
I'm not sitting judgents. How about that. I think your
choices are Pollard or Brown. I'll play Brown. I mean,
if they can get by the two yard line, you
got to think he's got a shot. I don't really
like Tennessee this week. To you, I don't know. I'll
pass on that one.

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
Yeah, you're wigging me out about Zay Flowers against Kansas City?

Speaker 2 (02:11:40):
Am I gonna put him in? I got him in
right now? Am I putting t Higgins?

Speaker 17 (02:11:44):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
The Bengals sucked last week? Are you sure I can
put T Higgins in?

Speaker 5 (02:11:48):
T Higgins for me?

Speaker 2 (02:11:50):
Higgins the process man.

Speaker 5 (02:11:52):
Both they're both good.

Speaker 2 (02:11:54):
I mean, they're both good plays.

Speaker 5 (02:11:55):
But T Higgins you took him?

Speaker 2 (02:11:56):
What round three?

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
Doctor, I'm feeling insulted that you've been giving great advice
for like ten plus years and Matt's questioning you. You
should feel insulted. I don't feel insulted. I felt I'm
looking verify. I'm looking to verify. Although it is a
fantasy expert, you're used to being questioned.

Speaker 2 (02:12:12):
Time now for dtor Roto's lock of the week.

Speaker 5 (02:12:18):
We talked about a little bit before Pooka and Akua.
All this guy needs to do is stay standing up
straight for seventeen games. He might be the number one
receiver in fantasy football. Going up against the Colts Devonte
Adams with a hamstring injury. Sign me up, Pooka and Akua.
A dozen catches, one hundred and forty yards and if
he finds the end zone, it's boom city.

Speaker 3 (02:12:38):
That's Doctor Roto's all right, it's half my show. I'm
going one more. All right, So I've got four guys,
Shut up. I got four guys, Roto. Which one of
my four? Which one of my sitting you ready? Keenan Allen,
Garrett Wilson, Zaint Flowers, T.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Higgins. Which one of the four? Am I sitting.

Speaker 5 (02:13:00):
Out of this second? Unless I get back to you, MT,
I'm sitting Jay Flowers.

Speaker 2 (02:13:06):
In Roto. We trust. Where can we find you? Between
the now and the Sunday kickoffs?

Speaker 5 (02:13:11):
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Speaker 3 (02:13:26):
O ladies and gentlemen, pray Zay Flowers one catch for
nine yards. That's all I need is say, Monday Night football.
I'm not I may have to text you during the game, Roto.
I just I have faith in you. But I Flowers
is quiet last week. I'm just a little scared.

Speaker 5 (02:13:41):
I'll text you.

Speaker 18 (02:13:42):
I'll text you.

Speaker 5 (02:13:42):
Look, I did the deep dive MPT on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (02:13:45):
Okay, good, two am, I'm still upy text me.

Speaker 5 (02:13:47):
I'll text you.

Speaker 2 (02:13:47):
I don't care text Youanny hour. I just need to win.
I gotta go to four and oh, oh my god.
That's a good doctor. We'll talk to you next week.
Thank you, Rodo. All right, there it is who I'm
scared that way from. I'm not playing fantasy.

Speaker 5 (02:14:02):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:14:02):
I was like, this is a must win game, even
though I'm three and all.

Speaker 3 (02:14:07):
You get some good receivers, by the way, I love
to stay undefeated. All right, got a nice roster, Jonathan.
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I'm time for no Florida story on the coast to coast,
great strange and wild, No alligator tales, but something that

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will make you smile.

Speaker 5 (02:15:13):
It's time for last from floren w In this crazy world,
there's nowhere, all.

Speaker 3 (02:15:27):
Right, Jonathan, Do you want the disgusting story first or
the non disgusting story way?

Speaker 2 (02:15:32):
I'm interested. You're get this disgusting one, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:15:36):
A West Florence, South Carolina, teaching assistant was arrested for
something that he did in high school as a teacher.
His name is Alexander Paul Robertson Lewis. That's a lot
of middle names. Thirty two year old teaching assistant at
West Florence High School arrested on September the nineteenth after

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thirty is discovered he had been spraying a substance designed
to mimic the smell.

Speaker 2 (02:16:05):
Of feces throughout the school. Oh God.

Speaker 3 (02:16:08):
The act reportedly took place over several weeks from August
to twenty fifth to September nineteenth, leading to complaints from
students and staff about a foul odor that caused nausea, nausea, headaches,
and respiratory issues.

Speaker 2 (02:16:22):
Respiratory issues. He has been charged with disturbing school, disturbing
school property, and malicious injury to property with damage is
exceeding fifty five thousand dollars due to inspections and repairs
needed to the school's air conditioning system.

Speaker 5 (02:16:36):
WOW.

Speaker 3 (02:16:37):
The investigation revealed that spray was used multiple times, resulting
in significant disruption into the school's environment and prompting some
students to seek medical attention. He was taken into custody,
later released on bonds set over nine thousand dollars. First

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of all, where do you buy such an event? It's
such spray.

Speaker 8 (02:17:02):
It's a popular spray, sing a prank, sing a prank.

Speaker 2 (02:17:06):
You can find for spray. I have never smelled it
in my life. You don't know. It's like it is it?

Speaker 5 (02:17:11):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:17:11):
I think?

Speaker 2 (02:17:12):
It's that bad? Okay, Now we have the anti in
our house. We have the anti spray. That makes it.
You know, when you gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
Like French vanilla or fresh flowers, but not that that's
that is horrible. What would possess I'm going to say,
you know what, I'm gonna make this place smell like
blank West Florence, South Carolina and Natt ROSSI is my

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first of two non Florida stories.

Speaker 2 (02:17:50):
Thank you, Matt. Great stuff. Great stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:17:55):
Well man, let me tell you take you to the
San Francisco Bay I've been there many a time where
you're just watching the tide roll away.

Speaker 2 (02:18:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:18:02):
Now you need to be careful when you go to
San Francisco, Matt, if you have flowers in your hair.

Speaker 2 (02:18:06):
Referent Residents of the San Francisco Bay area are on
the lookout as there has been an animal attack in
the neighborhood of San Rafael, where at least two people
have gone to the emergency for medical treatment.

Speaker 3 (02:18:22):
Okay, it is a very mean squirrel has been attacking people.
Has had at least five attacks, two people in the
emergency room for medical treatment. Joan Heblack was one of
the attacked, saying she was walking in the neighborhood where

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the squirrel seemingly came out of nowhere, attacked her leg
and began clawing and biting. She said, quote it clamped
out of my leg. The tail was flying up and
I was like, get it off me, get it off me.
Another named Isabelle was attacked while walking in the same
area as it launched itself from the ground to her

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face and wind up on her arm, leaving it bloody.
Flyers have now been posted warring warning residents that the
squirrel is no joke, and then more than five people
have been attacked by a quote very mean squirrel that
comes out of nowhere. Can I ask a really stupid question? Yes,
what purpose do squirrels have? I mean, what purpose do

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you have?

Speaker 2 (02:19:30):
Well, I'm here to entertain people twenty hours a week. Okay,
I don't know. I'm a Texans insider. They eat nuts,
good question. They eat nuts. That probably helps with some
kind of fertilization of trees. I mean, that's a good question. Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:19:44):
I'm sure they're an important part of the ecosystem. They're
mammals and their food for.

Speaker 2 (02:19:50):
Hawks, okay, forts chance food, that's okay, Yeah, I mean
that's off the top of my head.

Speaker 3 (02:19:58):
I've heard worse answers. All right, Rod John that what
is your nine four story?

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
Much From Hungary.

Speaker 8 (02:20:04):
On September six, more than twenty teams competed in the
International Grave Digging Competition.

Speaker 2 (02:20:09):
Okay, out of the Central reported.

Speaker 8 (02:20:12):
The contest is sponsored by the country's Association of Cemetery
Operations and Maintainers or short for mt FE, and its
intended to raise the prestige of the profession. Two of
the teams must dig graves two meter long, eighty centimeters
wide and one point six meters deep within two hours,
then shovel the dirt back into the holes to create
a neat barrel ground. Contestants are judged on the speed, accuracy,

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and attention to detail. The Hungry Hungarian team of Lazo
Kiss and Robert Neggy won the first prize for the
first two years or second row sorry, and the Russian
team came in last, blaming the performance on the hot weather.
So this is a serious thing. So they're not digging
up people, are they. I guess they're going to cemetery.
I don't think they're digging up people. But you know, competition,

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it's like a record radio competition. You got you know,
twenty shows compete each other. Best library is.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
Something, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:21:01):
Best library you could actually they're having a contest for that.
You got to send yours in, Matt Oh, you're right
therek okay. I've never dug a grade before either, No,
anticipate doing it. When's the last time you dug a
hole with a shovel? I've dug a hole in this
radio show many a time, and I mean with actual
like shovel in your hands. Oh when I was four?

Speaker 2 (02:21:23):
What were you burying, Jonathan?

Speaker 8 (02:21:25):
Oh, my girlfriend's dead cat. She wanted to bear make
a burial.

Speaker 2 (02:21:30):
And you know, cheeks still in one of our freezers.
That is sick. I don't want to care about that.
What is wrong with you? We just forgot. He's in
the garage for each other. By the way, squirrels are
vital to wacological purposes. They help regenerate forrest's, they disperse
fungi fungi, and they are a food source for various predders,

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including birds of preying coyotes. Thank you for that questionly,
hold on, No, what's going on with cheeks? He's doing fine. No,
he's not. He's dead and rotting in your freezer. He's
he's freezer lock.

Speaker 3 (02:22:04):
He's good, all right, that's Akron, Ohio Haunted Freezer, a
public school administrator in Akron, Ohio, resigning this past week
after he sold the school district's lawnmowers on Facebook marketplace.
Apparently he traded He bought seven of the traded in

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mowers under a quote friends and family discount with the vendor.
According to the agency, he paid five six hundred, andy
three dollars for those lawnmowers.

Speaker 2 (02:22:33):
The agent agenda said.

Speaker 3 (02:22:34):
Keena then listed five of those seven lawnmowers for sale
on Facebook Marketplace, asking for a total price of fourteen thousand,
seven hundred dollars. The Akron School Board, under recommendation from
the superintendent, was considering firing Keenan because he violated the
Stats Code of Ethics. So don't buy stuff for the
school district on Facebook marketplace and then try to resell

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it for your own.

Speaker 2 (02:22:56):
He made a prop though, Yeah, but he may have
lost his job over the whole thing.

Speaker 7 (02:23:00):
The role.

Speaker 3 (02:23:01):
By the way, he did resign. It'll be official to
the school boar meeting coming up this Monday. Administrator resigns
after selling public schools lawnmowers on Facebook marketplace. And by
the way, he's got really long hair. Not that I'm
judging that, but it's definitely like a mullet s type thing.

Speaker 2 (02:23:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:17):
A mullet game was strong in Akron, Ohio and that
is my second non Florida story. We've got to believe
it a helly air not Ross are we talking about today?

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
I don't know. I'm still I'm baffled. What Adam Clinton
doesn't think Jennifer Connelly is attractive. We'll bring it here
with Jeff Connolly. I don't want to discuss it. I mean,
it's each man's opinion.

Speaker 3 (02:23:35):
Hell Ye air nod is up next, complainely Hell's wrong
with him? Seven one three two five, seven, ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:23:41):
Five minutes up and go on the show. What should
we need? We should play.

Speaker 3 (02:23:49):
America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call
it Monday through Thursday, beat leave it or up on Fridays,
we call it a helly air not.

Speaker 2 (02:23:58):
And here's how it works.

Speaker 3 (02:24:00):
Call seven one three two one two five seven ninty
seven one three two one two five seven out of
today's edition of hell Y are no us?

Speaker 2 (02:24:07):
All things about? Was it Beavers and Oregon State? Is
that correct?

Speaker 3 (02:24:10):
Both both and the school and the athletics and actual
Beaver's Oh a polpe herie of conversation pieces. I'll read
your statement about any of the things he just said.
Statement is completely and utterly acurate. You'll say this, he
at the statements he Ronie's football commit up. You will
say this, that was in stereo. My goodness too? Helly

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are knots or in a row? When you're a prized
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the twenty ninth at House of Blues, or a four
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us toe the Toties or Monster Jam, you can go

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online to ticketmaster dot com.

Speaker 2 (02:24:52):
You can win them right here. On today's edition of
Hell Yeah or Not? John on seven pointy, John, you're
ready to play hell Yeah or not?

Speaker 11 (02:25:01):
John?

Speaker 2 (02:25:02):
There are six different species of beaver on three different continents.
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 15 (02:25:09):
Hell Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
No, just two species, the cool beat and the dumb beaver,
right be the North American beaver and the Eurasian beaver.

Speaker 2 (02:25:19):
Which one do you prefer? I prefer North American beaver,
but Euration's good too, all right?

Speaker 11 (02:25:25):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:25:26):
John on seven ready to play hell yeah or not.
He although they do not carry a traditional pouch because
of their adequate prowess. Beaver's aquatic aquatic, and it was like,
I guess it's adequate too. Because of their aquatic prowess.
Beavers are still categorized as marsupials.

Speaker 2 (02:25:45):
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, no, they're rodents.

Speaker 3 (02:25:54):
Anytime I can get the word marsupial in there, and
no kidding. Edgar on seven, Ainty, what was your favorite
part of today? You's tend to two right, Dio show.

Speaker 5 (02:26:01):
I like your Florida stories.

Speaker 3 (02:26:03):
Beavers are extremely good divers and can hold their breath
through up to fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:26:08):
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, Hell yeah, that's right.
Statement number two for the way thing. Beavers are omnivores.

Speaker 3 (02:26:20):
They eat mostly plants, but have known to eat minnows
and other small fish.

Speaker 2 (02:26:24):
Hell yeah or not not not as right? Congratulations sickly herbivores.
James on seven, are you ready to play? Hell yeah
or not?

Speaker 5 (02:26:37):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:26:37):
The Oregon State Beavers have never had a Heisman Trophy
winner in their history.

Speaker 2 (02:26:41):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:26:44):
Hell yeah? No.

Speaker 2 (02:26:45):
Terry Baker won it in nineteen sixty two. What a
great season. He had. How good was he? Hei's been worthy?
He's been worthy?

Speaker 5 (02:26:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:26:58):
Josh on seven ont Josh, you're a part of today's
tend to Too radio.

Speaker 6 (02:27:01):
Show, transitioning from talking about Jesus to waking up the
ladies at leisure.

Speaker 2 (02:27:07):
The Oregon State school newspaper is called the Daily Beaver.
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 7 (02:27:13):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:27:14):
No, it's the Daily Barometer. I would love to see
the Daily Beaver, all right. Paul on seven at he
ready to play?

Speaker 2 (02:27:23):
Hell yeah or not? Hell hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:27:26):
The official model of Oregon State University is quote out
there hell yeah or not.

Speaker 2 (02:27:34):
Not?

Speaker 9 (02:27:34):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:27:35):
If you've been to Oregon, you know exactly what's out there.
Not a horrible university. Botto, though it's terrible. Brian on
sevenat he ready to play? Hell yeah, not there? Brian, Yes,
all right. The Oregon State Beaver's women's soccer team was
a national powerhouse in the two thousands, winning four national
championships between two thousand and twenty eleven. Hell yeah or not? No,

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that's right. They were just mid that's it. Congratulate you, mama.
We made it. No postgames going the Texans game. I'm
looking go forward to this weekend, all right. I got volleyball?
I got uh. Pregame show at eight thirty tonight, O
O A nine to fifty kPr C. OK, we'll talk

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to you Monday. Are the Astros in the postseason?

Speaker 3 (02:28:26):
Monday Media Day Rockets expected to have you know who
on the show. Don't want to jinx it Mevin Moran,
Jay shn Tate of course. Oh the team is next
on seven ninty