Astros Bring The Brooms! Astros Sweep The Diamondbacks, Now Sitting Tied #1 In The American League.

Astros Bring The Brooms! Astros Sweep The Diamondbacks, Now Sitting Tied #1 In The American League.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Matt Thomas Thomas Ross Be Real.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh one
at Age Town.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This Sports Talk seven iety.
This isn't hit. It just doesn't. My squad isn't tied
for the best record in the American League. You're right. Yeah,
I've used this like three times on this show. You

(00:35):
never said anything. I don't remember this at all. I
know it was out. Actually maybe you were. Yeah, I
was gonna say, because we don't play from we have
a rule when you're out. Actually nothing before nineteen ninety oh,
you know, thirty five years ago. Yeah, but I mean
there's to pull the curtain back. The number one, one

(00:57):
of the top three stations in the city this year.
Listeners is classic rock for a reason. Yeah, we're number two. Yeah,
we are number two. Congratulations to us. Yeah. I under
the category of I just don't get it, I've really Rossy,
I really have tried. I just don't get I don't
think you've really tried. But that's okay. I don't get
hip hop. I just don't oh hip hop. That's fine. Yeah,

(01:20):
are you sure okay, so only you're mad at me. Yeah,
they don't wrap up brick and stocks and khakis. This
just doesn't I like? Okay, khakis, yes, Birkham stocks. No,
although I've told Kim about that, and she's going to
find you and hunt you down like a rabid dog.
Why so that was her idea, not mine? Added to
the list. I know what else is new? You do
have a deep list there. Hey, good morning everybody. It's

(01:41):
nice to have you with us at ten o four
on Sports Talk seven. Honey, Madden Ross with you here?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
An?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
What are you chuckling about? I don't really mean to
do this two minutes into the show, but what do
I do already? Are you gonna put jelly on your
biscuit and then eat the bacon and cheese or are you
eating it separately?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
But are you eating jelly on the bacon and cheese? Yes?
I know you're not alone in doing that. It was
her idea to the woman at the deli. But I
don't get it. Okay, So I'm I have a to
pull to peel the curtain completely back. I had an
early morning appointment this morning, didn't need any breakfast, so

(02:18):
I have a bacon, cheese biscuit, no egg, and I'm
about to put strawberry jelly on it. You can put
strawberry jerry jelly on the biscuit then come recombine the
combine it and have strawberry jelly on your bacon and cheese. Yes, yeah,
do you like jelly? I like ice cream and I
like steak. I don't put ice cream on my steak.

(02:39):
But kelly on a biscuit is not crazy. I'm just
messing it. I'm meshing breakfast slavery together. I didn't mean
to do now, but can we get Jonathan rolling on this?
I don't know strawberry jam on a biscuit with uh?
And again he's bacon, egg or cheese, just a bacon,
egg and cheese biscuit and he's putting strawberry and jelly
on it. On it with the sausage, with the bacon,

(03:02):
with the bacon. Oh, that doesn't stud bacon and jelly though,
bacon jelly cheese biscuit. Now, I've had candy bacon, so
I'm not really judging. I'm just I'm just confused.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I mean it might be good. It doesn't sound like
it's a whore because every time I go to the
drive through and get a biscuit, they ask and I
want jelly, And I'm like, what the hell do I
want Jimmy for guys like us? So, yeah, that's what
I'm saying. I clearly it happened.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
The game changer for me is the steak bag and
this is the last time we'll go to food before
we get to people are listening for the Texans and
as coverage. I'm sorry is I will get the steak,
egg and cheese bagel, the meal. I will take the
hash brown. I will put the hash brown in the bagel,
smash it all together, and I'm eating at one point bagel,
hash brown, steak, egg, cheese, that's sauce. Boom one bite

(03:49):
astro sweep the diamondbag. Thanks you very much. See that's
what we wanted to hear. They did, and it looked
at It wasn't the most entertaining game yesterday. It was
that was a scratch and calowm one. It was the
one you play one sixty two. You're gonna get the blowouts,
You're gonna get this and that. Let's be brutally honest,

(04:10):
the lineup was atrocious. Going in right, it was a
getaway day. You had won this series. You needed some
rests for some guys you're playing tonight. I mean they're
back at Dinkin Park. Yes, you got Walker the half
day in d H No L two A, no cam
Smith of course, no Alvarez, Penna others. Anyway, so you

(04:31):
were thinking, all right, you know what, two out of
three in Arizona ain't bad. You were thinking, you know,
they were gonna meet loafit and they won the game yesterday.
But Brandon Walter had other ideas. Bennet Susa blew the
save and got the win, got the win. And the
number one thing I take away from the game yesterday,
beyond the fact they won, it was that there are

(04:54):
so many people I won't name names, Adam Clinton who
just annihilated umpires because they always he always thinks they're
screwing the Astros. The strike three called to end the
game yesterday, he was a doozy with Josh Hader on
the mound. Was not Boner line. It was a flat

(05:16):
out miss. And I mean if you go look at
the whatever the the what he sked? Po will tell
you with the pitch where it lands and whatnot whatever
they call that thing. It was not even close to
the zone. The Astros one hundred percent yesterday caught a
huge break. Yes they did so. As I've told Adam

(05:38):
for years and he never believes me. I said, man,
these these things do even out. What did he say?
He said, it's fine. He hasn't responded. No, he did.
He respond on Twitter said it's fine. Okay, But like
I said, he he he kills me on referee and calls.
And I said, man, if you thought it was bad
last year, Kevin Durant gonna get some calls that other
players in his and his stature and his part of

(05:59):
the league. Not yet. So it's going Everything does even
out unless you have unless you have a group of
people that have a horrendous bias towards a particular team,
and usually the sports associations will weet those people out. Yeah. Uh,
I'll just say this, and I mean I think Adam
Clanton has said this himself. He's a homer. Yeah, he's

(06:20):
a homer. And when that's not we are homers too.
But we had to call it as we saw it yesterday.
That was abomination would be too strong of a term. Atrocious, egregious.
Uh yeah, egregious, A flat up miss unacceptable And again
if you're can tell Martye feeling about the human element today.

(06:40):
Even gravy trainer Ben Verlander thought it was a terrible
called end the game yesterday. Yeah, yeah, he said on
his tweet, abs can't come soon enough. I'm paraphrasing here
on this. He's he's still working. Good for him? Well,
I haven't muted. If his last name was Johnson, he'd
be working at a restaurant waiting tables. And I mean,

(07:01):
I'm sure it'd be a great living for him. But
what do you mean he played minor league ball? He
got drafted by the Tigers. Oh he did. Huh, it's
getting married apparently, Hold one who's paying for the wedding? Oh,
there's no way Justin's cutting a check for the full wedding.
I bet you if we were to look at the

(07:22):
debit account to act me wedding farm, it'd be a
huge amount of money going to say he's maybe helping,
but come on, full wedding. Are you gonna help your
brother with his wedding?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, no, but bet but Justin is he makes more.
My brother makes more money than I do oh, he's
gonna I asked him show you that. Even Ben Verlander,
who's uh wants to have a smake sweet love with
sho hey o Tani. Every time you look at his
Twitter account thought that the call was way off, and

(07:52):
it was, but you know what, it helped the Astros
and like I said, things do even out okay, And
they did a tipped in the Astro's way in a
big way. That was a full count. He should have walked. Yeah, yeah, Jo,
you know what I mean. I mean, this is all sincerity.
Josh Bond needs a couple of days off. He has
been throwing a lot of pitches. His era has slightly

(08:14):
gone up, his saved perfect saved situation, which was not
going to ever be the case all year long. He's
given up some home runs. It's they haven't been as
nearly as fluid for him in the last week than
it was in say, the first eight or nine weeks
of the season. We talked about this is why somebody
I recall at the beginning of the season said he
was gonna get four of forty saves. Pitching's really good,

(08:37):
offense not so much. Yeah, you're gonna end up in
a lot of close games we've seen this last two years.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, good for him. He's good. He's gonna he's going
to have the type of year that I think a
lot of astro folks thought he was going to have.
You see even a year ago. Yeah, I don't think
he's getting a forty. But he's got twenty seven. But
they have got fifty nine games left. I think, give
or take sixty sixteen. Okay, So when I said fifty nine,
give or take, I was I was in the give
we're taking. Yeah, we took. I had very good all

(09:02):
right on the radio show there. I really enjoyed our
conversation with Jim Bowden yesterday. Good. And we're gonna play
some of that later on this morning, just in case
the one o'clockers didn't get to hear. Because says we've
learned through experiments Rossy, those of you that listened at
ten thirty eleven at eleven thirty may not be around
at one thirty. We want you to stay for us
for the entire four hours, but sometimes it's just not possible. Okay,
So a little bit of that to come up at

(09:23):
eleven twenty. Brian mctagger normally with us on Thursdays is
traveling back from Phoenix, and you're saying, well, Mad, did
Brian text you and say he was unavailable today? No,
he did not. I had to go to the United
Airlines APT to see what flood he was on. You
stocked him on the United Airlines and stock him. I
look to see where he was you guys, buddies or something. No,

(09:44):
how can you look him up? Because he's on the
upgrade list flying back from Phoenix to Houston and it
says MCT com up b I figured it out. Why
didn't you just text him? Because I wanted to save
myself a step. I wanted him to say somewhat feel bad.
Texting is all? Okay? So you wanted to get him. Yeah,
he's answered the question directly, Matt. I mean, he's a

(10:06):
big he's a huge star. Clearly he's not gonna reach
out to us. We gotta we got to ask him
what his travel plans are. That's exactly right. He's the
star of the show. Just ask him. So we'll he
will join mctaggnal Jonas tomorrow at eleven o'clock. We'll get
to that man he's doing and pregame. Yeah, okay, I mean,
I think you can probably do two segments on the
same day. Hell we doe. Well, how was the event

(10:26):
last night? You guys have a good turnout. We had
a few people come out. Yeah, talking to astros recording
your special podcast, y'all do Yes, the Crawford Box Cast
is your podcast. Friends from the Liked Story Saga come
out say that again? Oh when when people started calling

(10:47):
me thirsty r v Oh, they came out last night, Trevor,
And I'm gonna say her name wrong, so I'm not
gonna do it. I asked her lovely people. Yeah, they're
very nice. So that's good to hear. I'm glad to
hear that. And then what what podcast does better? Yours
or the Sarah Spain Women on Sports podcast? Probably hers,
it's more national, which you can trush. Just get the

(11:07):
backing of iHeartRadio. I mean, we get the backing of
Carbuck Brewing. We've got the power of friendship. The power
of friendship. That's what our I think, that's what our
history of our show is the power of friendship. And
then once we become friends, it'll really become good. All right,
seven one, three, two, two, five, seven nine. If you
want to join us. The Astros are on top of
the world sort of. They are tied with the Blue

(11:29):
Jays for the best record in the American League. Did
any of you have that if you did call in
and brag about yourself, say, with one hundred games left
to go in the season, you thought the Astros would
be eighteen games above five hundred and owning the top
record in the American League. Tremel and Carratini, as you're
one two back of the lineup, Matthews, Dubon, Hamel, McCormick, witgham. Wow,

(11:52):
that was a get out of ton lineup. That was
a let's get out of here in two hours and
four minute lineup. And they won. They won beautiful seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Texans back on
the practice field for day number two. I didn't hear
anything yesterday that was necessarily crazy. Again, I think the

(12:14):
number one storyline is going to be this offensive line.
Number two is going to be the running back situation.
Number three is how much how often are we gonna
say Nick Cayley's name over the course of the show.
We've got to just don't get it at eleven thirty,
the News at noon, and believe it or not today
at one fifty. So a busy show is always, but
you guys are always in ladies as well. Very much
welcome to join the show. Seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety Jonathan Alexander C. J. Stroud was
one for two with a completed pass and Eco Collins
in the first series. In team drills, Nick Chubb ran
the ball with first team, but the play was negated
because of a false start by Blake Fisher, who was
immediately pulled. Dog days is number. Folks, think you're talking

(12:55):
about Jonathan Allen for a second. It's like, man, he's
out camp today. No, no, no, he's here with us, Okay,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
out training camp reports. It's all. We're gonna do it.
We're gonna do a contest a year from now. We're
gonna play sound bites we can I should have thought
of this last year. We're gonna take sound bites from
this year and match up with sound bites from last
next year, and we're gonna play which year that he was?

(13:18):
Demiko talking about? What you're talking about? Demiko? Yeah, Okay,
Jalen Petrie has intercepted c. J. Straub, Wait did you
say that? No, I did not go to call the audience.
Defense gets hype. Jalen Petrie intercepts c. J. Stroud. See,
he's not just a tackler, folks. I'm glad he's back

(13:42):
because he was hurt last year and he's a significant
piece of their defense. Yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
I just.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
I got so much I just don't get. I mean,
if I took everything that Brian mctaggery Channel of Rome
gave me during spring training as gospel, I would never
have thought this team was gonna win. You know, as
many games they have, well, I mean they we put
up videos of some pitcher throwing like three pitches of

(14:12):
a side, and we get a lot of views and
people talking about it. I don't think it's all that different.
Maybe no, I don't. I don't pursue. That's just not
my cup of tea. I got stop saying that my
cup of tea too. Nobody says that anymore. It's not okay,
it's not your jam. That's much better. That sounds a
lot better. All right, Okay, you know you know what,

(14:35):
you know what my jam is is Sunday afternoon getting
up at eleven o'clock. Well, I don't get at eleven,
but my being ready at eleven o'clock to watch on
a Sunday, to watch all those games Saturday day, the
three twenty's. It's a crazy thing about the NFL is
that if there's a three twenty five game on that's
of somewhat interest, I'll watch it. Like if there's really

(14:57):
like if the Brewers and the t where was a
Mariners play last night? Now that's a bad example. No,
even then you could say that, oh I didn't want
Yankees blue Jays are playing. Okay, if I miss that,
I miss it. If there's a really good three twenty
five Detroit versus Green Bay game, I'm gonna make sure
I'm in front of it. It's the most well marketed,

(15:20):
the most I would say widely accessible. I mean everything
all the games, not all of them, but there's the
games you want to watch are on network television, and
then you you can also buy this little thing called
red Zone that gives you every game. Yeah yeah, once.
So just to show you the power of the NFL,
we'll get back to the astros here just a couple

(15:41):
of minutes, the Green Bay stockholders are having their big
report coming up. They do it once a year on
this time, and they have to publicly announce how they've
done in terms of profits because they are a publicly
held company. Now I don't know the minutia behind all that,
because you can buy stock, but it's really more just
of a ceremonial thing is compared to really taking its investment.

(16:03):
But as part of the reports they're going to announce,
they have to say, well, what were revenues, and they'll
give you they're giving you hundreds of million dollars or proceeds.
Then this report that I just happened to scan this morning.
You know the NFL last year in revenue thirteen billion dollars.
Uh okay, yeah, that's not profit, that's revenue revenue. Now,

(16:27):
there are expenses to go out to that, but thirteen
billion dollars. Yeah, you gotta pay salaries and then operation costs. Right,
But yeah, just from the NFL, the packers got one
hundred and thirty eight million dollars which every team got
handed to them from a revenue sharing program. Overall revenue

(16:50):
was four hundred and thirty six million. I'm sorry, four
hundred and thirty two point six. That's why you have
to let me tell us if you're a young attractive girl,
Mary an NFL owner's son. Hmmm, I I hear that

(17:11):
fist pump you heard was Hanna McNair. I mean, tell me,
tell me you're wrong. I'm not wrong. Now, the the
origin story goes that she pursued he pursued her. But
she was smart to say, all right, yeah, I mean,
she's the smartest girl in the room for many reasons.
Woman in the room for several reasons. She's been able

(17:34):
to get in front of the microphone because cow can't. Oh,
thank god, she finally speak a little bit. She got
Jack Easter be out of there. But yeah she is, yeah, yeah,
but yeah. Now the only thing she's got left to
do to really cement her place. What she's not sumoning
her place, Matt, But I mean her not leg getting

(17:57):
a statue in front of the stadium. I don't think so.
But she's going to either get a refurbished NRGY or
she's going just they're going to start a blazer path
for a new stadium. So that'll that can that can
sometimes change what people think of ownership. Because like like
when Bud Adams was only the owner's ross. He was

(18:18):
a bumbling, stumbling, you know, trailblazer that brought the team
football football to Houston back in nineteen sixty. And then
all the things are going on with firing the coaches.
Then Lovy Blue came around and they fired bum or
fired Bumb and then they got past that and got
to the run and shoot and got things are going well.
But he was just old crotchety. But Adams, he became

(18:39):
public enemy with number one when he was threatening to
move the team not once but twice, and did move
them in the second time. So again, public opinion about
ownerships can change in a heartbeat. Yeah, but I think
Cal's a bit of a special case. Cal's just like
I'm just the same guy. Yeah, I mean, I think

(19:02):
what he did with the Easter Bey thing is and
letting him run rough shot over the organization is unforgivable.
Even if they win a Super Bowl, He's not getting
most of the credit. I don't think, no, no, no no,
if they're getting anything, not most of the credit. But
you know what I'm saying, the amount of credit that
any other owner would get. Yeah, it's like if the
if the Texans win the Super Bowl this year, well
you know, they go on the stage in Tariko or

(19:23):
Jim Nantz or whoever's hosting the show. They hand the
microphone and to the to the owner. Hannah's like, yeah,
does she smack it out of his hands? She's like,
does she take over? Because normally she stares up at
him to make sure he doesn't make any goofy remarks.
She's pulled the microphone away. She's like, I got this.
He's gonna They're just gonna have to practice the speech

(19:44):
with him over and over. It's not a hard one.
Thank you, Houston, You're the greatest fans in the world.
I love this team. Is this thing on? No, that's
not gonna be I don't know what to do with
my hands. Don't listen to him on this now. Now
you're just being rude and that's not it at all. No,
but it'll there will be a firm rehearsal of what
is said. I practiced this moment and Madden, that's just terrible.

(20:09):
It wasn't where I was going with this. You and
your horrific Forest Gump impersonation of Colt McNair. What is
wrong with it, Matt, all right, So, uh, the astros
are on. I can't turn my left here. I always
giggle in bets. I cannot even focus on new show. Folks,

(20:30):
help me out here.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
What can somebody call me and just talk to me.
I don't care if it's about your life. I don't
care if it's about what you had for breakfast today.
I just need someone to talk to me except Ross.
Jonathan's got his girl calling the show now. I mean, man, Yeah,
she's getting all her misinformation wrong. I didn't even know
she's gonna do that. That was the part is delicious as

(20:53):
our talkies. Talkies are my favorite, but I eat them.
Matt doesn't. Yeah, I'm anti taking anti it does. I
like a crunchy Cheeto, but now I'm not the takies.
No flaming hot. Yeah, it's too much. All right? So again,
I need someone to talk to me because I don't
like talking to the person to my right. Yes, please
please call Matt. I mean anybody but Eric, anybody Erican

(21:15):
Base that he can call Lily. I'm on Matt's side
on this. I'm off the rails today. Call Matt seven
one three. I only had one beer at Carbach. So
it's not like i'mng over or something, okay. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven on it. Let's come back

(21:36):
to the bragger on the Astros in that line up
that was out there yesterday, and that does this stretch
that now has him winning four in a row with
the trade deadline one week from today, does an impact
how Dana's thinking. Seven one three two one two five seven.
Hopefully normally my food takes are annihilated by those of

(21:57):
you on social media. Bulldog one says, jelly on a
biscuits sandwich is next level delicious, fancy mat is on
point Southside riches A put grape jelly in my bacon,
egg and cheese biscuit. Not crazy. I didn't say you
were crazy, Okay, Well, I just wanted to make sure.
I mean, normally, your food opaintons are horrible, I mean

(22:19):
world renowned, not only horrible, but inconsistent. At least Clinton's
in I mean consistent, and he's consistent about jelly, I
mean about gelatinous what does he call it? White gelatinous substances? Yeah,
like dips, dressings, ranch, blue cheese sour cream hate some mayonnaise,

(22:41):
despise yoger okay, sour cream, mayonnaise yogurt go? Yes, yes, no, okay, sorry,
I'll shut up. You got your calls. Yeah, I want
to talk to other people besides Ross. All right, but
kick my feet up. Guys, you can handle this, by
the way, Congratulations justin Verlin. He snapped his six game

(23:01):
sixteen games start windless streak with a win last night.
Oh and we also congratulated you on your your tweet,
and I'm gonna congratulate myself on my tweet. I've got
forty three hundred likes on what a tweet I put up?
It's a meme? Forty three hundred likes, Yeah, five hundred retweets.
What was your tweet about? It was a funny meat yes, yes, yes,

(23:23):
on the memes, it's just a meme about the space
cowboys holding the god of the astros Ah. Don't show
up the wax, he would argue with about it. Yeah,
one hundred and twenty thousand to use. What forty three
hundred likes, I mean new followers you get out of
it at least twenty That's good for you At sports RV.
Let's talk to the great people Houston Ross. You can

(23:43):
take the rest segment off all I see you, Chadd,
and like lind to ten thirty five. Hi, Chad, Hey,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
You're terrible? You are terrible.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
I'm gonna make anything worse. I'm gonna that was the
trade Kyle Tucker mid season last year.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
At But so what do you want right now? Are
you gonna trade somebody this week? Tell me what you're
gonna do?

Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, no, no, I'm good with the team this week.
Have you heard the Space Cowboy commercials for going to
out for sugar Land?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
I have not tell me about them.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
They are ce future stars of the Houston Acos. And
all I could think yesterday when I heard that before
the game, is they are already up here?

Speaker 3 (24:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Are you sure that's the Space Cowboys? So that's the
Corpus CHRISTI Hooks commercial.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
You're hearing the same thing with the Space Cowboys?

Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right?

Speaker 3 (24:41):
No?

Speaker 4 (24:41):
That that was hilarious? And then how excited are you
after the dregs of rocket seasons for next year to
call games?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Chad? I am beside myself. I am staring at my
computer asking from the NBA schedule, is gonna be released
to figure out where I'm going and winning who they're
laying and uh, it's coming out to like the middle
of August. I don't know why I'm doing wasting my time,
but I will be a literally a kid in the candy.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Store, all right.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
And last thing I got for you is ross. It's
just PA and ouncers. Apparently my wife used to work
in Tiger Town here in Lakeland and she got good
friends with the P A N and now for there
who he's still the PA and ouncer for the actual
Tigers in Detroit. They're just absolute purp.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
So it's not just Matt Chad Chad is. I just
got back. Man has to be to leave, so I
really went and got some coffee. I'm back now, Chat.
What what would give you an indication I was a purse?

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Well, I mean, I'm listening eleven to three here on
the east Side on your heart radiot.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Mm hmmm huh. And we've heard the noises you make
when Lauren Shahati comes back to chat. Have you ever
watched Lauren Shahanti on the Baseball Channel?

Speaker 5 (25:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Oh, that's true. Yeah, it's okay. You know I'm hanging up.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Here talking to this man, and he was telling us
a story about his wife. He could not think of
a girl that he knew at the stadium. In mid
story about his wife, He's like, oh, kick with the
jugs and remember your name.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well, thank you, Chad. You know you know where chat
is in Lakeland, Lakeland, Florida, Central Florida, right for the
Tigers of the spring training for so wonderful. Thank you Chad,
making a lot of good points. Call me peach basket too,
which is just.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't like it in there. It's lucky, it's it's
a comment, Yeah exactly. It's about you being a font
of basketball knowledge. And you know you're going to be
busy on Christmas. By the way, So here's what I'm thinking.
I'm working Christmas Day. Yes, you are right right, there's
five games on that day. It means I might be too.
I don't have to get Gordi to do it, had

(27:00):
him Glaton Wexler. Yeah, that's a real knee slapper there, Matt.
Can I get Christmas off? Please? Just just just to
hear you do, Just tell just tell Gordy you can't
do it. I mean, he's on the longest tenured employee here. Please,
can I get Christmas off? Yeah? You know what we'll

(27:21):
give Jonathan, give you a chance to do your first
hosting of a postgame show christ That Yeah, that vehicle
story to tell. Yeah, slowed down just saying, I mean
that'd be a lot of calls that day. I'm gonna
recap the whole game in forty five seconds. Have your
Rod call your show's done. That's true. I know what

(27:41):
we always got. We always want Draw to call in
when he can. Let's do us in Space City Home Network,
so we'll get it back for him. Ryan and Montgomery
at ten forty on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ryan,
good morning to you.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Good morning Matt Ry.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yo.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Man, you say you're gonna kick your feet up and.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
You're like, oh yeah, my tweet what you know? You
don't need this, Matt, you don't need this. Did Johnny
Carson have a co host? No, you're the Johnny Carson.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna leave.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
You don't need this.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, but I don't know. Have you heard the shows
when I'm out? Oh my god. But Ed McMahon had
a role too. He introduced the show. Yes, sac yes, yeah, yes, yes,
you are the greatest of all time. You know, you know,
you know what the thing is is McMahon would brag
on Johnny a lot. You don't brag on me enough.
I think we should have two to three brags an hour.

(28:30):
Continue on, Ryan, tip the floor, tear down.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
It's a constant teardown.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Somebody's got to do it. I swear that we hung out.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
You're a nice person. You're such a nice person. Why
do you treat your boy just like dog dog water man?

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Exactly? I'm I'm actually nice every day. Actually, of everything
I think of, I only say about ten percent of
the things I think to say. And then he tells
me an air that's actually.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Accurate.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Also, by the way, how was I feeling when he
took the mount That what a gift from God of
a mana from heaven.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
That that strike three call was horrible, wretched, Thank you
Ryan for the phone call. Good to hear your voice, Ryan,
good front of the show. H yeah, ros So we
cannot downplay that enough in find everyone to go look
on Twitter the strike three call. It was not even
a strike calling a game down the road. It was Yeah,

(29:27):
I will go back to the word egregious. It was
egregious and it should have been a walk. There should
have been two on mm hmm. That's exactly trying run
should have been in scoring position to make things even
more dicier a base Yeah, yeah, let's talk to our
friend Brian at ten forty two on seven. I ain't Brian,
good morning, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
You know, I will call you fancy Matt, but I'll
leave it there because you you just stand some some
glamorous hotels with your fuzzy slippers and all that. But hey,
you still in the hotels you're required to stay and
what no.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
One forces me to stay there? I you know, yeah exactly, yeah,
real quick.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah, I was kind of like you guys.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I saw the.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Astros lineup you're standing and went, well, they're you know,
they're going for two of three.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
I honestly have no idea how these guys keep doing it,
just game after game after dame, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's rather impressive. But I had a question for you guys.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
I hear I heard it, and I know mctagger talked
about it a little bit last week.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Who all besides guys rehabbing is.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
Down at that Florida Complex, League is that were like
a lot of the recent draft picks start before they
go to Lake Fayetteville.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Or Ashville or wherever.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
They're gonna go, like who all is down there that
they send people doing that, their games and all of
that going on, and.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Then Ross come out to Uh, I haven't seen you
this year. Come out to us, Shell come see me.
All right, Yes, sir, come out and see me. Sound good?
Sounds like you guys. He wants a date with you.
It's okay. Hey, Brian gets a hookup. Brian, you got
hookups at the old soccer game to go? Can you Matt?

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Matt, you come out and see me with your family.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
You hit me up on X. I will take care
of you and your family. Oh no, he hates soccer.
Don't let him come. My son loves soccer, my oldest
one does. So here we will take it. He's not
gonna come. Yeah, there's really no chance I'm coming. Thank
you Brian for the phone call though. However, Okay, So
the answer on the Florida it is a combination of
of new first round picks going to get like a

(31:33):
spring training. It is primarily a place you would go
to have people that have extended injuries. I know the
last time I did an injury report, which would be yesterday,
but it was even more two days ago. Jeremy Pania
is there, Arraghetti's miners, Garcia's miners. Who else am I

(31:57):
thinking about this point? Myers is in Houston. Jordan went
to Florida but now is back with the team. For instance,
I would assume that you know, Blanco, once he's able
to start doing some sort of physical activity, and Westnski
would go to Florida to rehabilitate, if not eyd real
bit hitting their own town. But you know, if the
Astros want to keep an eye on and they would

(32:18):
go to Florida to do so. So it's kind of
a hodgepodge to give you an answer on that. Okay,
I mean the worst place to go. I mean it's
hot as balls down there right now, but hot as
How could it be both cold as balls and hot
as balls? I have never heard cold as balls. You've
never heard that. They never heard it, Okay, not when
you were in Minneapolis. Ooh, I don't know how I

(32:40):
did it. I just don't get it. Thenother one, I
just don't get why did I choose Minneapolis today's temperature?
I remember going to go covering the Astros in spring
or the Astros the Twins in spring training. I left
Fort Myers, Florida. Okay, this is mid March, eighty seven degrees. Polo,
you know them, Pilot Polya gets on and goes. Folks, good,
let's share on the flight today. We're gonna get you

(33:02):
up to thirty five thousand feet and have a nice
smooth ride. We're gonna find our way through Georgia, head
up through Arkansas and then head to a little more
midwest Missouri, get up to Iowa, and we'll get down
to Minnieapples. It should be about two hours and four
minutes lefting this ride. It should be a few bumps
along the way, but generally speaking, gonna gonna get you there,
Saint Lee, as quickly as we can. Want to thank

(33:22):
all the flight attendants for all their big help. And yeah,
and I know this fall computers are love trying to
kill them in here. Uh you know we left it
for eighty seven degrees and we laid out of Minneapples.
Sat Paul nationally reported to me by this twelve one,
thank you for flying Realta Airlines and have a good day.
Thanks flying with US. Breaking news coming back ten to

(33:50):
forty five on seven eight two's MS Crashing Down. This
is such a jam and you're saying, well, why are
you playing this? Hulk Hogan passing away today at the
age of seventy one. I mean, if not for the

(34:18):
Hulkster and Vince McMahon, wrestling wouldn't be the multi billion
dollar industry that it is today. Did he save the
league or just plur or proliferate it? It went from
a niche circus type. He brought it into the mainstream.
He brought into mainstream, he brought into national television and

(34:43):
not him by himself, but most of it is him.
I mean, it's it's just him. He is the most
recognizable wrestler in the history of wrestling. Doesn't mean he
was the best, doesn't mean he was the best worker
or the best talker. But if you were to go
to a crowded bar and say give me one wrestler's name,

(35:04):
even today, in twenty twenty five, Haul Cogan's going to
get near the top of the list. He's gonna be
near the top now. But I would say all time
he's he's one, But I don't know, you know, yeah, yeah,
all time, all time, name one wrestler. I think it's
either him or Rick Flair, one of the two. Rick
Flair has screwed death. I would have said Stone Cold, Steve,
Austin m Dwayne the Rock, Johnson, I mean heavy hitters

(35:28):
for sure, and then John Cena that's my wrestler. Thank
you very much. And I'm I'm pleasantly surprised you named
five wrestlers because usually you just say old then and
uh fall steroids. Well, yeah, that's what's kel speaking of
whole Cogan may he rest. Yeah, I mean a lot
of you are sending me tweets and and emails. Thank
you for that. Yeah. Wow. So here's the thing on

(35:50):
Hull Cogan. Uh, there was a guy by the name
of Bubba the Love Sponge. Does that name ring a
bell to you? I've heard of him and it does
a show he did show or on Serious XAM or
something our podcast. We went out a few months ago,
a couple months ago and said, Hulk's not doing well. Okay,
on his deathbed not you know, and again he said

(36:10):
think about hope. For those who don't know, Hulk has
had a lot of post career surgeries. And when Bubba
the Love sponge speaks. You listen. So everybody in their
mother who was like team Hulk was like, Bubba doesn't
know what he's talking about. He's talking out of his ass.
He should stop saying this. He's doing great. Blah blah
blah blah blah. That's I think Bubba's you know, I

(36:34):
think Bubba's call him for scoreboard here. But Bubba wasn't wrong.
Mm hm, So I would say it's crazy. Hulk was
insanely popular as an athlete, insanely popular as a sports
entertainer for two different organizations, and then got in some

(36:57):
issues with dropping the in bomb. It's just never going
to win on that one. Multiple racism scandals. Yeah, I
think I think he's a racist pos but yeah, may
he rest. Yeah, Didnis had a sex tape made unbeknownst
to him with his best friend's wife, and he sued
and he sued the company and he won, but the

(37:19):
company had no money, so he wasn't what he got. Yeah,
and then most recently, you know, I've always told you
this before, and I've said this one hundred times about
our show. I don't think if I'm an athlete or
I'm a celebrity, I would want to get involved in
politics because I don't want half people immediately to hate me.
Like I am proud of the fact, and I mean

(37:39):
this in all sincerity that we have Republicans and Democrats,
conservatives and liberals that listen to this show because we
don't get into politics. No, so Hank has got got
into politics. Oh that's right. And automatically fifty percent of
America thought he was a pos Oh I thought that
before that, I stay with me, and he said he

(38:00):
didn't want his dutter dating inwards. That's when I thought
I thought he was a PLS. Then, so here's the
here's my point of this. He goes on. So within
the last year, WWE puts their Monday night Raw show
on Netflix and he comes out for the very first
Netflix show and he gets boot off the stage. M
Now there's booing because you're a you're a heel bad guy,

(38:21):
and then there's booing because they just don't like you. Yeah,
And it kind of threw him off a little bit
because for Hawke's career, when he was in character in
a wrestling ring and an arena, he was largely adored. So,
you know, I don't know, I don't think I contributed
to his passing, but his post life, you would think

(38:44):
you'd be able to kind of live. I mean, like,
for instance, Rick Flair is a nut job too, and
he certainly had his issues with tax evasion and wives
and scams and all sorts of things. He's had his
own He's had his own extracurric col activities. When Rick
Flair walk into a restaurant, people couldn't run to him
fast enough because he was the nature boy he was,

(39:05):
you know, spilling drinks and all that kind of thing.
Hulk never got that much of his in the last
ten years. The add on top of that, numerous injuries,
numerous ailments. I don't know if drug prescription drugs got
involved in again, we don't know. We will never know.
I guess we'll sometimes know about the if they have
an autopsy. But you add that all together and it

(39:28):
was probably not the best last five years of hall
Cogan's life. Last time I think I saw hul Cogan
was before that Netflix was when he was speaking at
the Republican National Convention, and he looked fine to me
there obviously, But yeah, there are some things going on.
I'm sure we'll find out more. But hul Cogan the
most famous wrestler of all time. I think it's very
safe in saying of all time passing away today at

(39:48):
seventy one. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to be nice.
I just wanted to put that out there. What I'm
still in shy that Matt called this when he said
it happens in thirties and it happened in Oh gosh,
hold on, Ozzie was two days ago. What's the moratorium?

(40:10):
I think three and five days is? That'song of celebrities? Yeah,
I think I thank you made up Jonathan. There's Jonathan.
It's absolutely Ryanan. Thank you for making that show. Good assessment. Wow,
what if somebody else famous dies tomorrow didn' happened in force? Well, no,
we're we're out of that five pe okay, guy, see
you close the window. It's arbitrary windows. It's arbitrary and
made up. Doesn't mean we can't discuss it. That's true.

(40:32):
Doesn't mean that people don't say, discuss a lot of
arbitraarries and made up things like this drig zone. That's true.
That's true, all right? Ten fifty eight Sports Talk seven
on It is the Matt Thomas Show. With Ross, believe
it or not, today, whole thing's hull Cogan. I would
try to say, with eight questions about his racism scandals,
do you want me to do it? I mean, if
you don't want to do it, I'm doing it, Okay,
I just let you know. Greatest he'll turn in wrestling history?

(40:57):
Is that what they're calling it these days? No, not that. Sorry,
step away from that. We're focusing on the career. Oh
I'm sorry, seven, one, three, two. I'll throw in a
couple of steroids questions. Clearly Ross not a fan of
Hall Cochain, not that I'm Look, when I was growing up,
I wasn't a hope. I wasn't. I was a fan
of the n w Ayes, I totally forgot he was

(41:19):
even at the r n C. Yeah. I was a
fan of the n w A more so than w
w F because I thought the w WF was cartoonish
and gimmicky, but it wound up winning. And now it's
worth about the worth of value of the NFL, the
most powerful sports brands, Ross, w w E and NFL.
What what do you think? What tell me? Tell me

(41:41):
there's not two more valuable commodities out there I'm gonna
guess revenues of the NBA and Major League Baseball or
way higher. But man, the WW prints money like nobody's
business now. Their overheads probably letter less. I'll take your
word for it. Revenue, I'm curiously where it is ten
to fifty nine. Let's get the second hour of the
Matt Thomas Show started after our tay about Big City Wings.

(42:06):
All right, so the topics on the show today, ROSSI,
in no particular order, your astros own a share of
the best wreck in the American League? Is that a
gut feeling hit for Jonathan Allen JK on this radio show.
We gave you two weeks for that, did we not? Yeah,
he said it was gonna be one week, and we
tried to. We backed them off. See, I've done this

(42:26):
to you before, backed you off a gut feeling and
then it's been right. Yeah, you don't ever listen to
me ever, I'm wrong too often? Can you clip that
for future purpose? And you're gonna say that that needs
to be a staple of the show. Just let me
tell you, Hey, Jonathan, you write that down, clip it,
and we'll just randomly use it during the middle of shows.

(42:46):
You have carte blanche to use it whenever you want to.
Just that line right there. Oh wait, okay, it's excent
Oh tomorrow. Well, I mean I'm not talking about this
Friday opens. I'm talking about like Monday through Friday ten
to two all the time. So then got it. He
said the Astros are the best rocking of the American League.
Now they don't have it by themselves. So maybe there's
a little bit of a technicality on this because that's tired, right. Yeah,

(43:08):
I think we can do believe it or not on
things whole Cogan is simply lied about. Sorry, I was
doing research for Believe It or Not. He lied about
uh an experience with a Make a Wish terminally ill child.
He lied about being scouted by MLB teams. He lied
about hitting seven hundred in Little league baseball. They have
no record of him playing little league baseball. He lied

(43:31):
about Elvis Presley being a big fan of his, despite
Elvis having died two years before his debut. Mm hmmm.
He lied that the Rolling Stones and Metallica wanted him
to play bass for them. Mm wow. Have I ever
interviewed hul Cogan John Then yes or no? Yes, that

(43:53):
is correct. He also lied about size. Don't we all,
oh seriously, all of us to except Jonathan. He doesn't
do it live out size? Yeah, Astro sweep the Diamondbacks
yesterday set one three, two, one two five. Oh man,

(44:17):
this is gonna be a good believer or not. This
is gonna be definitely a slant towards nothing he ever
did on the in the y can you lie about
an experience with a terminally ill child through the Make
a Wish Foundation? This dude's a scumbag. Let me tell
you remember our old producer, Trey, who we loved dearly. Yes,
the last two texts he sent us are people who've died.

(44:40):
He's obsessed with death and birthdays. Have you not noticed
that Ozzy Osbourne dead at seventy six? He sent that text? No,
the one before that? Scroll up? It was something else too.
I got rid of it. Oh, Hull Cogan died at
seventy one. I don't like it. I don't like I
have keeping texts around unless I and thus are really relevant.
Mm hmm. What was it before? Don't do Jim Mersey,

(45:00):
damn Jim Irsay May. Oh, it happens in threes. Jim
Mersay May who is.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
The third one?

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Who are the other two? With Jim Mersay as it
happens in three, I don't remember. Oh okay, I'm sure
it did. Yeah. Don't don't you make me go to
the who Died on This Day card? I'm not doing.
I'm busy trying to entertain Houston, Texas. I got, I
got the hatred of Haul Cogan over here house. I
all I did was read the facts. He lied that
Elvis Presley was a fan of visit he died before

(45:28):
he debuted. Are you gonna mention Rocky is rolling? Rocky thunderlips,
center lips? Yeah? Are you gonna you're gonna bring up
any of his movies? Wispy white hair and this is
kind of a hot dog. Are you gonna bring up
any of his movies? Uh, mister mom or something like that,
mister mom. I also think he was like a not
in Shazam that was shack who huh? He said he was.

(45:50):
He turned down the lead role in the Wrestler that
went to Mickey Rourke. But that was also a lie.
M Yeah, we're gonna do believe it or not things
the whole Coogan said, we are they true? U greatest again?
For those of you that are wrestling of fishing out house,
which I am one greatest. He'll turn ever, Yes, they
created the nWo during WCW when he had been a

(46:13):
Did he have like a big rival that helped grow
or was it mostly him? No, he rivaled. His rivalries
were included the Giant of the Giant. They put ninety
thousand people at the Silver Dome and WrestleMania three. That's
a myth, by the way, that ninety thousand people were
in there, I've heard. I gotta be honest with you.
If you look at the video of it, there's seventy

(46:35):
You put seventy five thousand in the stadium, and you
could put another fifteen thousand on the floor. I'm not
telling I'm just telling you that what is the real number?
They say? They say it is mmm. I'm not saying,
look people doing bellish attendant scounts. I'm just I'm going
off of what I've said. Doesn't matter. Sorry, I shouldn't
even sometimes I just talk. We get him nodding, Yeah, Sorry,

(46:55):
go ahead, No, because I was. I don't know. It's
trying to make a parallel, you know how, kind of
like how bird Magic Johnson their rival. We kind of
save the NBA, all right, So this I would go,
Here are my Hug Cogan top five rivalries, Andre the Giant,
macho man, Savage, ultimate Warrior, Rick Flair, although that was

(47:16):
much later in both of their careers. Uh maybe Yokazuna.
I don't know that brother. And then and of course
he was an nWo where he turned heel after being
a favorite for I remember. I remember everybody at school
going crazy about that, and I was like, what are
you nerds watching? So I asked him, I interviewed him

(47:37):
back in two thousand and eight, I think that's what
it was. And I said, do you regret turning heel?
Heel is meaning bad guy face meaning good guy heal being.
I said you do you? Did you regret the heel turning?
He goes, No, just the opposite. It completely resurrected and
gave me a renaissance of my career. And he's absolutely right. Yeah,
And he put on that shoepole's beard. He well, it
was black, that's true. He called himself Hollywood n w

(48:00):
O for life at bound. I'm sorry the thirty year
old is catching up with me here. You know, it's
a character flaw. I get it. I used to like wrestling.
It's fine. I don't like the current It's a huge
billion dollar industry. Man. Adam's great. Oh, he just texted,

(48:22):
at least you're not cause playing it WrestleMania. Let's see here,
which is actually fine too, he says. And I had
a judge Adam Clinton just texted in a group chat
of mine, I am not well man. I'll feel it
for you, man. But yeah, So you know what, when
you see Adam clembing to day two o'clockcause he won't
be here a minute earlier, you should give him a
big bro hug like me, just like Elvis. I was

(48:44):
a huge fan of Hohl cooking. That's what I'm gonna
saying here. That hear that Adam the hatred for one
hook real name is Terry Bullia. Yeah, b o L
he said. Or I kind of knew that, but I
also have been reading his Wikipedia. There you go. Let's
talk to Jerry and golf Gate. At eleven ten of
the Matt Thomas Shows. We segue into the People of

(49:05):
Reason for the show Sports, Sports and more Sports. Jerry sports,
it is kind of sports, Hi, Jerry Man, you gots offending.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Hey man, I.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Like to man, I like the wasting my beer when
the hater threw that change up yesterday, I mean I
was happy that it was not uh well, it just
wasn't an attractive pitch, so the the better didn't He
wasn't sitting sitting on sitting on it. You're not gonna
sit on a change up with with Josh Hater up there.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
But boy, he called me off guard. I didn't know
he had that uh that pitch.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
But uh, I agree with the previous caller, Man, what
you say you you you guys uh uh, I'm excited
about the upcoming season and listening to you emt because
boy that that boy, that boy Durance got that in
the this fade away that he takes and he's got
another shot that that Ekman used to call a corkscrew jumper,

(50:08):
you know where you kind of do that spin. It's
just really basically a fade uh you know, turn around
jumper really for the most part. But I noticed you
was you threw in uh nothing but nylon here. Uh
that that that spiced it up a little bit in
the last last season. So I'm like that pre caller
and a lot of other listeners.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
We we're looking.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Forward to uh to to you call him one quick
thing Ross now now, now, homeboy. I don't like Rod Stewart,
I guess you know. But but but but he wouldn't
like John Rue.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Either, would he. I mean with the Rasby voice.

Speaker 9 (50:47):
Baby, thank your Yeah, thanks Jerry, Jerry.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
I love Jerry's call all over the damn place. Yeah,
I was. I've been saying nothing an island for nine seasons.
Thanks for listener, Jerry. You just snort. Yeah, you're gonna
be saying, I'm I'm gonna argue that Kevin Durant is
at minimum the third best shooter to ever walk the planet.
You're gonna be saying a lot of nothing but nylons. Okay,

(51:18):
Steph is one. I'll put the top four and then
you order him however you want to me, Okay, go
for it. Steph Clay, Durant, Alan, Steph Alan Durant Clay, Okay,
we know who number one is. To me, you can

(51:38):
shuffle the other. Clay has dropped off a little bit
in the last three years. I think that's. Yeah. Well,
he's like, but I mean, longevity is Kevin Durant is
old too. But Durant hasn't dropped that. U. Yeah, but
he's also seven foot with the wingspan of a terodacty.
And again I'm not trying to be Pacier Radio here,
but Reggie. Never bring up Reggie. I'm curious why because
because of most of everything of his First of all,

(51:59):
you look at his it's not the same, but also
its a different game. But he also didn't. One of
the reasons Steph is the greatest shooter of all time
is because of the contested under duress threes that he made.
And not to say that there's not a whole U.
You know, a boatload of Reggie Miller contested threes made,
but he didn't create his own shots off the dribble,

(52:19):
and he had to come around like fifty curls to
get open. So I just feel like you could have
two people if there's gonna be two people draped off
all somebody and they're gonna make the shot. That's the
reason I put Kevin Durant to me second, and the
same thing with Steph Curry. You the amount of times

(52:41):
you say, oh my god, how did that go? In
unbelievable Steph Curry's won, And then I think Kevin Durant's
right up there because of contested shots. Like that's why
I don't put you know, like a Steve Kerr or
I don't know, think of whoever else. I don't know,
Brent Barry, guys with really high three point shooting, because
a lot of times they're just opening the corner. Tim Legler,
him Legler, sure, whoever. And you know what, maybe you

(53:04):
can even downgrade Raylan a little bit because later in
his career he was like that early ray Allen was,
I mean, he was a baller, but late ray Allen
was kind of just open in the corner yep, most
famously in Game six of the two thousand and thirteen Finals.
So that's that because of their ability to make contested threes.
And I put Clay up there as well. Yeah, to

(53:28):
me up all the guys, we're gonna get to break
the guy that makes the How did the hell did
that go in? More than anybody else? With Steph Curry?
Steph Curry and he could score nine points a game
for the rest of his career, and I'm still gonna
say to him about him, how the hell did that
get in? How many times you've been on the call
and you go, oh my goodness, like you're just like,
I don't like game.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
I know.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
That's why when everyone was like bring all the Warriors, like, no,
I don't want the Warriors to me making the contested
shots count. That's why I have Kevin Durant in the
top three seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety.
I just don't get it coming up at the bottom
of the hour. I just don't get it. Let us
know what you don't get coming up in fifteen minutes.
It's the Matt tomashel Ross. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety well twenty as a time, should I text wax

(54:14):
if you'll join us at some point? All right, I'm
a text advice. Now you promote something important not name
your IDA account. Guess what my Instagram at sports RV.
I mean it is growing. I meant to do a
video yesterday, but I forgot them falling off. I'm trying
to get back on there and do better, folks, So
I really would appreciate it if you would follow me

(54:36):
at sports RV on Instagram. We have all these new
influencer initiatives here at iHeartMedia, and I'm trying to build
these things up. I'm really not a big fan of
social media, but it would really help me out if
you give us a follow, and you know what, even
just drop a lke on the occasional post, I'd really
appreciate it. Well, I don't necessarily worry about the social initiative.
I think you just follow me because it'll make you

(54:57):
any better at sports MT, at sports MPT, to feel
better guilty at sports RV. And if you want to
go to my Twitter and drop another like I were
over forty three hundred on my my meme. What that's
way too many, way too many? Thank you? Not that funny.
I appreciate you all right, Honestly, I thought it was

(55:19):
rather innocuous. I'm like, uh what, but you know that
happens on Twitter. Oh man. You make like fifty jokes
that you think are hilarious, and the one you're like
and this is fine, I'm all hit post and then
that's the one that blows up. Yeah. By the way,
you know what I did yesterday and I I got
issues for a lot of variety of things. Oh, we know,
so we've heard the show The match Game is back
on ABO oh yes, and I went to the match

(55:42):
game Facebook page. They won the ABC put together, and
I basically said I needed to be the host of
the show. You crushed them on Match Game. Yeah, so
was it now? Martin Short and I watched like eighty
Well he's like mid seventies. Yeah, I watched half an
episode yesterday. It was atrociously bad. First, well, there were
no celebrities worth. The biggest celebrity on there was probably

(56:05):
Anthony Anderson and Kevin Neilan. Kevin Neilan hasn't done Jack
Squad in thirty five years. He's probably gonna be in
a Happy Gilmore two. I think he is actually okay.
Before that, it was Happy Gilmore one in ninety seven.
I didn't recognize eighty percent of the less celebrities. Second
of all, Martin Short, it was all scripted. Number three,
if you host the match game, part of the legacy

(56:26):
of hosting match game is having the microphone in your hand,
the long stick microphone. The gene Rayburn did. It's an
O two and he had no microphone at all. The
questions were bad, the celebrities were bad. It was just
a train wreck. So I went back to and I
went back to the Facebook page and I said, your
show sucks. Really you think that's going to work. Well

(56:48):
I didn't work. Yeah, They'm called you know what, I yeah,
I need to figure this out.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
I know.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
I just don't get it as coming up it is.
But and you, you were on this, I'm pretty sure
you're on the same page. We've talked about this before.
Martin Short, I just don't get not funny to me, painfully, painfully,
I mean cringe. He was cringe before the kids were
saying cringe. Yeah, he was pre cringe. But the show

(57:17):
sucked yesterday. And there are very few things in my
life that I believe that should be. This is weird.
That's a game show should be. But if you're going
to do something and reboot something, it needs to be
as it needs to do everything impossible to be as
good as it was before or not. Don't just don't
reboot it now. I will say your complaints about the
celebrities and the questions and the hosts are valid, but

(57:38):
complaining about the microphone is definitely game show nerd, a
very game show nerd. Of fully admit that. But when
I went on the Facebook page two days ago before
the show came, I said I would do a better job.
I know how to, I know how to add lib Yeah,
I know how to introduce the guests. I know how
to read the question with the right phrasing. Everything sucked

(57:58):
about the show yesterday. I didn't watch it. Just don't watch, Matt.
I'm not took I took it off the episode, watched
the field. It was a season premiere. Oh you're out
at the premiere. Yeah, maybe it was. It was like
a trial run, Matt. Maybe it was a rehearsal kind
of deal. You know, it'll get better, Kevin Neiland will
get funnier. Just not good, Just really really embarrassed that

(58:21):
that that great show that had such a good nine
year run is got the all these new versions that
and all of them suck. Even Alec baldm was better
than Martin Short. I just don't get Alec Baldwin was
on there. Yeah, and then he shot them and he
took him off the show. See, I wasn't gonna say that.
I mean, he did shoot him, didn't mean to. Got

(58:41):
kind of no criminal activity against it. I would kind
of stay in the shadows for a whole while. I mean,
I know it was a stage accident, but who by
hard want to live through for sure? Yeah, I want
to just lay low for a while, find a safe house.
So we've been on the air for an hour twenty three.
We've discussed Hull Cogan match game a little on the

(59:04):
Astros because the game, the game was yesterday, it was
to forty, so it's not necessarily top of mind for people.
All I'm telling you top of mind is your Astros
are in first place and even ross. Even if the
Astros win, just win the division, don't finish the type
record does not Joe's. I mean, maybe I'm being too
homer here. Joe Spot is the man. He deserves it.

(59:24):
What do you mean, Look, I don't come on. I
don't know how many Tigers are on their IL and
every team's got them. Everything goes to the team. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know how many Blue Jays and Yankees are
on the IL. It ain't seventeen. It's a team that
also lost one incredible player, All Star goal Glover de

(59:45):
free agency, and they traded one. Now that shouldn't come
into play, but they did it to trade it because
it's also something that Spot has to work for. It's
what's it's what a spot I had to do. And
that's the definition of manager of the year. You take
the twenty six or forty players of the astros have
had this year and you manage them, and if you
do a better than everybody else, you should be the
manager of the year. Agreed, And I think he deserves

(01:00:07):
the opportunity to be at least top two, if not
win the whole thing. Yeah. I'm consistent that the players
are really the ones that make them make the games,
but they have to be put in positions to succeed,
and Joe Spotted does a great job. Yeah. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Now I feel like
the first ninety minutes of the show has been nothing
but about it. Just I just don't get. There's got

(01:00:28):
to be some other things that you have that are
on your mind. If there's something in your life you
just don't get, We're here to help, you know. We
got three different perspectives on this one. A ridiculous successful
family man host radio star. Two. A fledgling young man
trying to get in the industry in three rows seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two two sixteen years in this business, pal, Yeah, Yeah,

(01:00:53):
I'm shocked too, about fourteen more than I thought I
had you add seven one game seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero if you want to follow
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don't get it. Eleven twenty seven on seven ninety eleven

(01:01:20):
thirty three on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is this
week's edition of I Just don't get it. You call
them with an issue? Yes, that you simply say to
yourself when you're with your bros Or your gal, you're
whomevery you don't get it. Yeah, are your hoes. That's fine,
I just don't get it. So we are here from
our three perspectives to and I think we've done a
very good job of basically analyzing people's lives and giving

(01:01:40):
them more relevant It's unbelievable and we need to bring
back life advice with m T. That was always good.
I'm here for it. I'm have a lot of things
in my life. I've had bad, ugly You've seen a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Cities, towns, countries. Yeah, that makes a couple of countries.
All right, Ross, Yes, Matt, you have something you wrote
down the other day. What don't you get? Oh, I'm
glad you asked Matt. First of all, yes, I did
want to reiterate Martin short, what the hell? I just
don't get it? I don't get it either, But also
seven one three two two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven for something in your

(01:02:13):
life you just don't get, We're here to help you.
M go ahead, now, I've been seeing this pop up,
I don't know the last few months. Apparently it's been
becoming a thing the last year or two, and I
don't understand it. Players before baseball games are doing national
anthem standoffs where they stand on the line for as

(01:02:39):
long as possible and there's a representative from each team
and whoever least first loses. Why? How? Why can't they
just is it? Can they stay there forever? What if
this standoff goes for an hour? Are they gonna get
like fined or suspended by Major League Baseball? How did
this become a thing? Why is this? I understand it's

(01:03:00):
just fun and they're having some fun, and that's fine.
Get off my lawn. I don't want to be like that,
but at some point, like if I'm at the game,
I don't want to see two dudes standing there in
a standoff, staring at each other, like, let's let's get
the first pitch, folks, let's go. I've got some news
for this number one. It's obviously team Bit versus Team
Bet and you. I guess Julian Morales would better to

(01:03:22):
answer this question than I would. I need somebody to
fill me in, But ultimately I don't get it. It
doesn't really delay the game at all, because the umpire's
are to go out there and say get off the field.
It's so inside baseball that I don't think the average
person trying to get to their seat to sit down
and watch the games playing attention. These are going viral,
though I think they are. I mean, I've been seeing

(01:03:44):
it more and more and more. There's nothing entertaining about it.
I don't laugh at it, and if you hear people
laughing about it, it's because they don't. They don't know.
They're trying to be bros to the front with the team.
They're standing there awkward media. If you know how much
I hate awkward meat. The laugh. I mean they just
stand there and how do I don't know. I don't know.

(01:04:06):
I just don't get it. Yeah, I don't get it either.
It makes no sense, it's not entertaining, it doesn't add
to the pregame festivities. Now, if it starts getting word,
games are delayed five six minutes, guess who's gonna come down. Mentally,
baseball's been like if you if you guys cannot get
off the field fast enough, we won't let you in
the duck out of the dugout for the national anthem. Anyway. Yeah,
a lot of the time they're doing it like they're doing

(01:04:27):
it when the picture is warming up. What about when
the picture is done warming up? Yeah, my timeline is
full of haul coke and stuff right now. So I
can't give you any inswer on this. But all I'm
telling you is that it doesn't make any sense. It's
I think it's stupid bros being bros in baseball games
and are born that baseball is a bros more than

(01:04:48):
any o. My god, it's so bro and it's so
kangaroo court, and it's so you're not the clubhouse, you're
not one of us. Your first win, we're gonna pour
mayonnaise on you in the shower or whatever weird stuff
like that. They do pour strange things on them during
there though, that's so weird. Yeah and yeah, don't like
who finds big vatsive Mann is available to throw guy

(01:05:10):
men's stuff in the shower. I don't know, all right,
it's just a very bro sport shout out Brian li Lima, Yeah,
I mean shoot fits all right, Jonathan, you're up next.
What don't you get? Uh So, just I grew up

(01:05:31):
playing baseball since I was seven to like fourteen, quit
because I was trying to do football and baseball. My
mom wasn't gonna take me to any of those prices.
But what I just don't understand about now, I guess
I didn't really notice when I was younger, is what
I don't understand these some legtball and travel ball teams
that go to like different countries to go take their
kids to go play. I think that's the most waste

(01:05:52):
of money and you're not getting any competition. You wouldn't
be getting if you don't go down the street with
the ballparks and keep me in the same league there.
I don't understand why you going going to these big
things and these big national things and have this cachet
or like, oh, your kids pay five thousand dollars and
you go here for a baseball team when it's I
don't think he needs all that. I don't understand. I don't.
I'm here to tell you, I totally get it. I'm

(01:06:14):
here to inform you, young man, because you're gonna if
you ever have them, get married and have kids, you'll
be doing the exact same thing. Club Ball is a
way of life. And this is in basketball, this is
in football. I don't if it's football, but it's certainly
in basketball, volleyball, softball, and baseball. You play in these
tournaments because you want to play high end competition. You
cannot grab your local team, go down the street and

(01:06:35):
expect to play the similar type of competition that you
would play in club ball. You just wouldn't. Now you
can have different clubs within the city that play each other,
and you do that all the time. But you go
to these tournaments because you want to play for qualifiers,
a chance to win a national championship, and you have
to earn your bid. And that's the reason why you
travel to all these different places. Now, they don't in volleyball,

(01:06:57):
they don't go out of the country. But my daughter
and the last five years has been two places like
Salt Lake City, Minneapolis.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
She has been to Chicago multiple times, Dallas, Indianapolis multiple times, Philadelphia, Orlando.
It is a thing. It is in your to do
your defense. It is a scam because they are spending
crazy amounts of money on these club teams. But it's
a necessary evil because these club teams, if you have
a really good player in your club team, the colleges
will fly to these clubs, these tournaments and watch your

(01:07:28):
kid play and watch forty other kids plays compared to
going to forty different places to watch the game being played.
So it's a chance for college coaches to see a
bunch of kids in one central location in a short
period of time. So it does have a good positive Okay, okay, okay, okay,
all right, positive. It's just a really yeah and money,
it's sick money, really money grabs. It's a straight up racket.

(01:07:48):
That's I mean, you have said that, mad, Other people
have said that the amount of money this this stuff costs,
it's a racket. Yeah, I mean, I I don't mean
to brag. I'm just being real with y'all. Probably Harley
cost me a year in club between club fees, travel practices,
private lessons. Sound like a brag at all, It's not brag,

(01:08:09):
it's just reality. It's probably fifteen thousand dollars a year. Yeah. Yeah,
I only resigned to that because my girl played blah
Black college and I didn't know it was that you know,
that intense, Yeah, you know, Okay. I mean that's why
I've given the advice that if your kids really want
to play at the next level, you have to play club.

(01:08:33):
But if they don't want to play the next level,
then you probably should back out a club because it's
gonna be a lot of money that you're gonna waste
for your mom and dad for no payoff. Playing club
is fun because you're playing higher level competition, but I
would think part of playing club is because you want
college coaches to see you. And thankfully many coaches got
to see my daughter and she made the decision to
go play at University of Hode Island coming up in

(01:08:53):
twenty twenty six, and that will be paid for, but
not really, because I've already paid. I've already paid well
in advance. The money I would have spent on her
college I've already spent on the club scene. And this
is the same for anybody that's got sons that are
playing club baseball and you know, and softball and all
that kind of thing. It's not just in bat I mean,
the A you racket is just terrible too. Yes, so

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it's almost like an investment for college, right, that's right,
an investment for some. But I think it's just a
money pit for a lot in a racket, if it
means some money pit for a lot, because yeah, kids,
I think two percent of kids that play club sports,
at least in volleyball, played Division one volleyball. I mean,
my my daughter's in a two percent talle. That's that's

(01:09:37):
microscopic number of small kids that get to do it.
It's crazy. So I do get it, uh seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. If you've got
something in your mind, you just don't get seven one
three two one two five seven. I don't get Martin Shore.
I already told you that I don't get the reboots

(01:09:58):
because every time something is rebooted, it's never as good
as the first go around. Let me give you some
case in points, Will and Grace was a very funny
show in the nineteen nineties. They brought it back. They
rebooted it when it wasn't about five years ago. Wasn't
nearly as good. They rebooted Fraser and put it on

(01:10:18):
the Paramount channel. Wasn't as good. They rebooted Beverly Hills
cop for the latest version five years ago. That wasn't
very good. They rebooted Coming to America and that got panned.
My guess is Happy Gilmore two is not gonna be
anything close to as good as Happy Gilmore one was.
They're putting you know, if you're going to if you're

(01:10:39):
a movie company, if you're a recording studio, if you're
a anything that is in charge of producing quality entertainment,
be very careful about your reboots, because more times a night,
you're wasting your money and your time and you're pissing
off the audience that loved your original production. Match Game
was classic Rossie. They rebooted it multiple times. In this

(01:11:01):
latest version absolutely blows. So I say to those of
you that are rebooters, I just don't get you. Very
simple Matt money money. They've run, They've run on an
original materity. If these don't well, I mean, I think
because a lot of the let's be honest here, the
country's going in the toilet, and America has a nostalgia fetish,

(01:11:24):
and I have a nostalgia finish. I am was better
than it used to be. Everything. Yeah, you talk about
Ferris Bueller's day, I'm not talking about you, Matt, me too.
I mean, I'm gonna watch Happy Go More to I
always say things are better than they were because they were.
But ah, countryes going to the toilet. There's like multiple
wars going on, all this strife. We want something nice
and fuzzy. It's basically like that South Park episode member Berries.

(01:11:47):
We just all want to eat a bunch of member
berries and and remember how things were when we were kids,
when things are better and simpler, and it's nostalgia. It's
very comforting and soothing for that, and I do that
reminds them at better, simpler times and there was less
going on, less we knew about. It's just, yeah, America
has a nostalgia fetish. I'll leave it at that. But

(01:12:08):
the nostalgia fetish, you would think would just pick up
where you left off. Now they're trying to just like,
I don't want any things weren't making money, they wouldn't
do it. I don't want Anchorman three two was disappointing.
I don't need three. Hollywood does not need new ideas
if the old ideas keep making money. Now now we
just Superman just came out. How many Superman movies have
there been. It's been a lot of Batman movies too,

(01:12:30):
seven hundred Batman movies. You know what it is also too,
it's probably very difficult to take a completely new original
idea and sell it to a movie company. Yeah, yeah,
they they want they don't want to take risks. Movie companies,
especially now fewer people going to the theaters, they can't
afford bombs. They want sure things, so they want big

(01:12:52):
summer blockbusters, and they want rehashed ideas that they're feeling
more safe. But Netflix does a good job of putting
stuff out. A lot of people have talked about how
they don't well, I mean some what do they have
The Irishman with Martin Scorsees. I'm sure maybe there's some
other stuff, but for the most part, they don't want
to take risks. I just if you're a rebooter, just

(01:13:15):
rebooted to what I liked, not this disappointed. I mean,
I just feel like I've never come away and going,
oh my gosh, coming to America. And two was he
never watched it well because the reviews were so bad.
They were really bad. I watch it Moving to America.
One was great, so good. McDowell's. Oh and the Jerry

(01:13:36):
Curl or Jerry Frow whatever he Oh God, Eric LeBlanc war, Oh,
it's fantastic, Samuel Jackson, Robin McDowell's with a shotgun, Arsenio Hall,
Louis Anderson just playing funny eleven forty four, Matt Thomas
Shold rosson there's something you don't get let us know
seven one three, two, one two five seven One of
the News at noon will feature news about the Astros

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and a wrestling goat passing away that's fifteen minutes away.
On seven ninety. As I've said to you many times,
death's happened in fours MANGIONI huh, it's like Ross called
this one that you called chuck Manjoni's death. I was like,

(01:14:19):
threes is made up some what if somebody else dies
in the next day, Well, I said tomorrow three In
the last thirty six hours. All right, stop, hold on.
You said five days with the cutoff. Now it's thirty
six hours. In this particular case, it is made up
in arbitrary. Chuck Mangione, how would you describe him? This was?

(01:14:39):
This was? This was played on radio station Elevator Jazz
No Hot Ac. It was on toty Adult Contemporary. He
was on Top forty show. Yeah, but it's not like
he had like ten hits. Yeah. I mean, you don't sing.
It doesn't it doesn't help pick us up. Hold on,
that's kind of it. Just it is a jam. Listen
to it. It's just like when you're going to the dentist.
Oh no, you don't play this as a dentist. You're

(01:15:00):
you're waiting in the uh in the waiting room for
your STI test results, s t I. Oh, forget what
I am. We've been there, haven't we all? You're on hold?
When do you hear this? You don't hear this at
the dentist offices to the comdia negative, got rhea negative

(01:15:24):
E coli positive, Herpy's simplex a, Herpy's flex b HPV.
I want to think, do you think they dance to
this in the clubs because this was a nobody's dancing
to this in any club now I'm talking about in
nineteen seventy eight. No, I don't know. I would disagree
with you. I didn't know it had this, had this

(01:15:44):
killer guitar song. Yeah, I didn't know. I'd never listened.
I've honestly never listened to his song more than thirty seconds.
I crack this up. Actually, this was a top ten song.
I'm not kidding you, yo, this guy's getting down. I'm
actually really trying to figure out where you would hear this?
Where would you hear Would you hear this? You wouldn't

(01:16:08):
hear it at a workout for Sodia As you're wanting
number two hit by the Way, Man, that's I say,
that's even better. Yeah, number two. Maybe you hear around
on music? Well, I'm sorry the album hit number two?
Oh you know what? You hear this before your movie starts?
Yea in the movie theater? Okay, okay, okay, it was
This was oh nominated for Record of the Year, lost

(01:16:32):
to Just the Way You Are. I won Billy Joel
by the Way. I've recorded the documentary and I can't
wait to get home and watch that. Watch it over
a dumbass match game. Oh yeah, it was a number
four hit. The album was a number two behind Staying
Alive by the Bechees. Yoh, he's hanging up there with
the Begi's in seventy nine, Chuck MANGIONI legend eighty four
Good Life, May he Rest? Yep. So all right, so

(01:16:55):
let's be honest. We have it happens in threes. We
got MANGIONI, Oh, shut up, Hulk Hogan. Check who's next?
Hold on? Its four? Who else was there?

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
There, it's all the other has been four. There's Malcolm
Jamal Warner. There has been Ozzy Osbourne. I think the
rule is three over the age of seven, oh year.
It's a weather channel music that's like a perfect that's
pretty all the four. I think it's just pol music.
Now kids don't know about the hold music. But do
you get put on hold? You know what? I was
on hold with a bank the other day and it

(01:17:25):
was not nearly as cheery as that. I was on
hold for ninety minutes with you know, I'm gonna say
their name, make Sfinity, and then they hung up on me.
You know? Is that because the timer got you knocked off?
I thought you were getting rid of getting rid of them,
and I'm gonna have to crawling back. I think they
knew that fringing monopolies. Don't get me started. Buddy Matt

(01:17:45):
from the Astros Peer twenty three, San Francisco, Chuck MANGIONI
heaven Matt loves him some check man, Chuck Man JOHNI
could play, dude, that was a hit. I didn't know
they had that funky guitar solo, all right. So also
I didn't know the album versions nine as this. I'm
not cranking that on the way then if we're not,
if we're not dancing to the song, I'm we're making
sweet love to this song. No, it's too Kashumi. No,

(01:18:08):
that's when you sit your son down in an intervention
with this song on the background. I don't love about that.
Your drug use has affected me in the following ways.
I swear to guy, we're a sports show, I really do.
But we're not piping out. It's July twenty fourth, July
twenty fourth. Your asters are kicking ass. I mean we

(01:18:30):
we can do auctions training any way. Why we're going
to join us in twenty five? How is the Texans
offensive line configured today. It was interesting to me that
Arianta Ursery was the right tackle in Noblick Fisher. I mean,
we do need to get it is going to be
an absolute storyline for us all season long is who's
moving around? And is Juice Scruggs going to be the

(01:18:52):
center or not be the center? I mean, I mean
they they've been. He was the second round pick, right, yes,
and if he's moving around, it means he doesn't have
a spot. People like they need to draft offensive line.
They have been. Casario's picks haven't been very good. Can
I give you the most hot, tacky thing when we

(01:19:15):
come down? I wanna throw it off, but it's it's
a discussion almost cursed. People have a new news anyone
coming up. Plus, we're gonna are we gonna play Chuck
Mangioni behind astral highlights or are we gonna go with Well,
you didn't want Drake. You said it sucked. It sucked,
I see, and I said, oh, because it was after
nineteen ninety and here we go, we're going to nineteen

(01:19:35):
seventy nine. Chuck Mangioni, let's do it. Give him the
second most popular Chuck Mangioni song. What is the Chuck
MANGIONI song that's getting people fired up. I don't fire up.
We're honoring the dude. He barely has any He's gotta
have a second hit, right, I think so. I don't
know what it is. You got gi it? Yeah, there's
something's in the set. There's another one in the system. Okay,

(01:19:58):
we're gonna play that with As for highlights, it's gonna
be a good use in art. Blakeley's band is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Somebody said you go to

(01:20:31):
a you go walk in the grocery store aisles in
this song. I can do that. Yeah, this is this
is a little funky chuck Man, Joni. I was not
familiar with your game. I have to apologize. I've always
been Tea Mangione. Hey, check a Manion. I'm playing the
car off yo. I'm actually going to listen to some
check Mangione. Well if you make sweet love to check
Man Joony. This week, Jonathan were stop definitely this is

(01:20:56):
this is this is a vibe. This is the vibe.
Yeah m hmm. This is when you know what this
is when you walk into the to the jazz bar
before the live music shows up. This is playing in
the mountain. I want to hear this, dude. I gotta
get these nine minute album versions. I love though, you
know I love stuff like this. I was playing Imagine,
as they called the twelve inch mix map you Don't

(01:21:20):
do you do love a twelve inch mix? Twelve oh five,
Sports Talk seven one. Let's get to the news at noon. Wait,
can we just keep this up?

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
Look that back.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
I want to do the news at noon to check
Man's yon, know what, he died, Let's give him his respect,
turn us down. I'm might throw a look yeah, so
I don't have to hate on Terry Belia so much.
I might throw a couple of Checkman's. Yeah. Well, hey there,
Matt apreciated. You have the news at noon where death's happened.
And three we've had two so far. Oh Colgan pro
Wrestling a legend. Say what you will about his checkered past.

(01:21:55):
One of the most important figures in WWE history, If
not number one, has passed at the age of seventy one,
how about this opening of the ap report. Hulk Hogan,
the mustachioed, headscarf wearing icon of the world of professional wrestling,

(01:22:17):
has died at the age of seventy one. Florida Police
and WWE said Thursday, as you mentioned, Matt a huge
figure in the eighties and nineties, I remember, even as
a kid who wasn't into wrestling like other friends that
I knew, Okay, friend that I knew in middle school,

(01:22:38):
talking about how huge it was that he had turned
heel like it made waves at my school. I think
it was middle school. I have to find I guess
what the year?

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
The year of the heel turn. Gotta be about ninety six,
I want to say someone. Yeah, so I'm gonna say
I was in middle school. I remember it like people
coming to school the next day talking about it. So yeah,
a huge figure in the history of wrestling, also caught
several times making ridiculous racist comments on tape. Also made

(01:23:12):
a lot of false claims, like Elvis was a friend
of his and made a false claim about meeting an
ill child for the Make a Wish Foundation. Yeah, I
mean definitely some issues post career, but in career, like
no race is perfect Matt, no, no, no, but I
mean he's his blemish. Has also got one hundred and
fifteen million dollar judgment from Gawker because they released a
sex tape of him and he didn't know about it

(01:23:33):
with Bubba the love Sponge's wife. Do you think Bubba
set him up for that? Apparently Bubba on the tape
was heard saying to his wife when it was over,
if we ever need a retirement, we have this or
something like that. Oh my god. And Bubba was on
telling the whole world he was dying and people were like, no,
he's doing just fine. Apparently cardiac arrest is the cause

(01:23:54):
of death. I mean, he admitted under oath to have
being in the nineties when Vince McMahon was under u
was on trial for I guess providing steroids or something
like that. He admitted under oath that he had been
using steroids since nineteen seventy six. That was in the nineties. Yeah,
So I mean the body was, yeah, numerous back surgeries, neck,

(01:24:16):
all sorts of things. I mean, with the wear and
terry upon in his body and the things he did
in the gym. Seventy one is a blessing. Frankly. Yes,
somebody's saying tell you that the death three was Malcolm
Jamal Warner, but we knew that, and so there has
been four recently was the other one, but two today Okay,

(01:24:39):
oh sorry, Matt, let's keep moving on the news at noon.
The other death today. Chuck MANGIONI coming to prominence as
I did not know he was an I know, Art Blakeley,
this great band, great band leader, and then of course
made his own hits including whatever the hell this is,

(01:25:00):
Give It All You Got, which is quite frankly a jam.
Darren I was teasing. We knew death came in three Darren,
your about half hour late. But that's thank you. Okay. Yeah,
people can't always listen that. They need to prolific recordings
for Riverside, Jazz Land, Mercury Records and more. Chuck MANGIONI

(01:25:21):
passing today at the age of eighty four. Eighty four,
May he rest, May his music always be a part,
And I'm gonna be a serious XM channel. The first
time I really ever heard of him was on King
of the Hill. Hmm. The first time I ever heard
him was on Casey Caseman's Weekly Top forty Like why
is this instrumental in between BEG songs? I love instrumentals.

(01:25:47):
Last instrumental to be a hit like a top five
hit Harlem Shake? Really I was gonna go with Chariots
of Fire. Chariots of Fire was a hit. I think
Away by Freddy King. I think some Henry Mancini. I
don't know if it was Baby Elephant Walker or Pink
Panther Team or something like that. You can go to
there's a list. Oh, I have several reason a Reason

(01:26:10):
by don't even say it. Don't even say it. Breason
by George Benson. Just restrain yourself trying not to get
angry at this segment. Sounds of Philadelphia. Yeah, okay. Anyways,
Astros sweat the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday. H Brandon Walter. Look,

(01:26:33):
and you know what, can we talk about this? Brandon
Walter through seven innings of one run ball. Bennett Susa
comes in, literally blows the game, gives up two runs
in an inning and gets the win because Josh Hater
saved it after the Astros got a run in the ninth.
I mean, of all the runs that were scratched across

(01:26:54):
scratched across a run and people ask me, can you
change the rules? I guess you could, but it would
be very convoluted. You can't skip over somebody doesn't the
scorer have a judgment anyways on a save he does.
Uh No, I thought there was rules for saves, like
if it's three innings or whatever I'm talking about, it
doesn't some Let's say, let's say somehow Brandon Walter was
out in the fifth and then two guys came in

(01:27:16):
and threw scoreless innings in relief. Doesn't the score judge
who gets the win? You know what? I thought it
was who takes the lead when the picture was last rush.
Let's but let me know what. I have a friend
of mine who's an official scorer. I think it is
a judgment call sometimes, like for like, let's say mccullor starts,
he throws four innings, but the Astros are up ten

(01:27:37):
to one, but he can't qualify for a win.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
He can.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
So then let's say three guys come in and or
five whatever, however many guys come in, they have to
judge who gets the win, right, so there is a
judgment call. And how many pictures pitched yesterday? Three? Well,
then Walter sue's a hater. Okay, Walter can't win it.
He should because he didn't have the lead. I know. Oh, okay,
change the rules. You you can't give somebody a win

(01:28:03):
and a saved. Yeah, but you shouldn't give it to
the guy who came in and went the bed. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. It's a quirk in the rules
that doesn't sound great. I get so we allow a
judgment call sometimes. Why don't we allow a judgment call
every time? Yeah, the only time you do a judgment
call is that starting picture doesn't go for it. You
get my win. You get the win in my eyes,
even though you're one and three. You know what Brandon

(01:28:24):
Walter gets to do. Stay in the rotation and he's
like Lance mccutters, sit down, work on that blisteryears we'll
see you. And so you should get it. Dub Well,
r it Ulso gets a hard win and then you
don't give him any of this love. Oh my god,
Brandon Walter has an era of three thirty five. What's
Ryan Gusto's win loss? I don't know. Windsor's dumb. Like
I just said, Brian, Brandon Waltter's only got one. He

(01:28:45):
threw seventy's a one run ball. I didn't know we
had the Gusto fan club back here. Well, he just
noticed your hate for me is trying to equal it out.
And by the way, we were talking to listeners out
at Carbach and one of them said, Jonathan, you're very
funny and good. Oh appreciate him. Yeah, clearly his mother
or his father, clearly he was drunk. So what is

(01:29:07):
what is Ryan Gusta? Ryan Gusta is six and three
Ernie with a four forty six. That's not terrible. Yeah
for being a swing guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not
bad at all. All Right, it's been good. Let's check
you on AY plus of ninety one averages one hundred.
That's not great. Let's check in on the Texans you
want to, We're gonna call Wes. And by the way, Jonathan,
you have his number now, so we're calling him so

(01:29:28):
there's no confusion. Wax joins us next here. He just
was at Texas training camp for an updown and what's
going on there? Uh today at one fifty it's believe
it or not, hul Cogan and a couple of checkman.
Joni's sliding in there. That what she decided, are you
start working on We're gonna slide into MANGIONI okay, because
I don't want to be too negative. One. You don't

(01:29:50):
have to be negative on there's plenty of positives. Onna
be difficult to restrain myself. Twelve thirteen on Sports Talk
seven ninety it's our friend Adam Waxler, part of the
A team which you'll hear and enjoy today from two
o'clock until six on Sports Talk seven ninety Wex, let's
get right to it. Day number two of camp, Day

(01:30:11):
of two of many coming up. And it feels like
I was looking at your tweets the last hour or
so and it feels like to me, a lot of
shuffling on the offensive line. Is this I gotta find
a combination that works or I'm just trying on different combinations.
Wex Hmmm, I don't hear him here? Nothing all right,

(01:30:37):
Maybe we'll try to reconnect with him. Okay, maybe he's
all right. Let's try this. Hi, Wex here, are you there? Yeah,
I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
I heard your question. How about I just answer it?

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
All the moves they've made this offseason with the offensive line,
I think one thing was clear then, and I would
say there's many camps in two days of training camp.
It's true now there are no definitive starters of tackle.
Everybody who's here that can play tackle essentially has gotten opportunities,
whether it's rotating first and second team, rotating right side
the left side. That is what is clear that they

(01:31:07):
don't have clear and obvious talent above and beyond the
other players they're competing with. So Cam Robinson or tay
Ersrie probably your starting left tackle, Blake Fisher or tay Ersery,
and maybe Trent Brown if he gets off the pup list.
He was working off the side today, but it's a competition,
so they're going to be changing spots throughout these first
few days. They'll see be interesting to see what they

(01:31:29):
do when they get to West Virginia in front of
that first preseason game against the Vikings and then the
interior portion of the line. Jared Patterson or Jake Andrews.
Patterson probably got a few more of the reps today
and yesterday, but it's padless, not real camp for old lineman.
When that's the case, the only thing we know for sure,

(01:31:49):
Titus Howard is not a tackle unless injuries dictate it,
and he will be their starter at guard, where he's
been throughout the late portion of last year and the
early portion of this year.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
And he did say.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Something that I hope is true that they have to
push people around this year. They need to run the ball,
they need to get after people, They need to do
the things that they let other teams do to them
last year. And that's the mentality that they have. All
the stuff that I know you Matt hate to hear
in the offseason because it doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Yeah, but I mean it's still conversation pieces. Look, I
would think that seventy five percent of Texans fans don't
particularly care who's up in front of the offensive line
as long as somebody it works. Laromie Tunsil was the
most recognizable name last year. You brought up a bunch
of new names in the draft picks. One name you
did not bring up with you Scruggs. He's played a lot.
I wouldn't say it's been a exemporary career. He's also

(01:32:36):
had a variety of injuries. Why didn't you mention his
name so far?

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
I doubt he will be playing for this team. It's
possible he makes the team, but he's not the first
or second string center. He's maybe one of the reserve guards.
He's getting worked probably his third team center and as
a reserve guard. But he's absolutely in competition just to
simply make the team, and a guy that might not
be active on game day if he does, and it's

(01:33:00):
unfortunate he was the first of three consecutive seasons of
second round picks Scrugs, Fisher and then this year with Ursery.
I think the talent for Scrugs and Fisher is being
played out and that they keep trying to find players
to play in front of them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Let me ask you this a big picture question. This
is debate point that Ross and I can even have.
If this offensive line plays to what people think it's
going to be, whether it's Pro Footballfocus or NFL dot
Com or any of those goofy websites, and they are
bottom five in the league, again, does Nick shut the
door and go what am I doing wrong? What are

(01:33:36):
my scouts doing wrong? Because this will be if it
indeed plays up to what people think it's going to be,
this will be the third straight year of a below
average to PreTect potentially bottom three offensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
It's way beyond that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Actually, the question you posed to me is a question
I posed to him probably over a year ago. Is
it time or pastime for your evaluators? To start evaluating
what you're doing on the offensive line. And it's a
little hard to figure because obviously he has history prior
to the Texans, and they were finding players in New
England plenty that could play competent enough offensive line to

(01:34:12):
make it all work, whether it was high draft picks
or not. And here in Houston, I don't think we
have any issue with Nick Casario's roster building or drafting
except at the most important spot other than quarterback. They've
been beyond awful. They are arguably the worst in the
league at putting an offensive line together and using their
draft picks in order to do it. So I think
they're way past that, but I don't know if they

(01:34:33):
will ever come around to realize that if they have
another season like this, what they're banking on is a
change in technique, a change in coaching style, and a
change in how they put this group together. Communication was terrible,
technique was terrible, the coaching honestly was terrible, and even
with talent, which they arguably didn't even have last year,
you're not going to be very good. So they're hoping

(01:34:54):
that fixing the other problems will allow them not to
rely solely on talent and they really don't have any
What choice do they have?

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
What about adjacent to the offensive line, the tight end position.
Seeing some videos of Brevin Jordan out there, you've got
some guys who may emerge. How are we feeling about
the hierarchy and where it is there, especially with Dalton
Schultz kind of looking like he was in decline last year.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Yeah, I think it's interesting that they basically didn't address it.
Would I would see it probably the same way you're
kind of forecasting Dalton Schultz declining Brevin Jordan. You're counting
an awful lot on a player who's been here a
long time without being a consistent contributor, and he's now
coming back from significant injury. Great that he's been out
there both days without talking about Jordan both days, without
any limitations. Luke Lache is an added player via draft,

(01:35:40):
but I don't know that they're counting on him for anything.
He's running, you know, deep third team. Earth Smith is
a blocker more than a pass catcher, and we saw
that last year with how he ultimately had to be used.
I'm just a little surprised that, you know, beyond Kate Stover,
who's clearly going to be better this year as opposed
to last year. Nick Casario mentioned him yesterday there they
have to have him be better. I know he has

(01:36:02):
a good relationship with CJ. He walks into the practice
facility with him each morning so far, and that's been
going on for a year plus. Now that's the place
where I would see their most improvement. And Nick Keyley
has a history of trying to utilize his tight end.
So I again, this is a position I'd probably be
most concerned with about how they're gonna help the team
and if they're in fact going to hurt the team
that they can't do their job.

Speaker 1 (01:36:24):
I'm gonna say, have a gut feeling for next week
about CJ. Garner Johnson. But this is what is fourth
team I think wex in the NFL, and my guess
is he'd like to stick around for somewhere more than
a year. Anything. We're gonna get to know him this
year because he's gonna be quite boisterous in a locker room.
We'll say things, and we'll obviously demonstrate a pizazz on
the field. But forgetting about that for a second, just

(01:36:44):
any initial thoughts you have seen him on the field, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Because of what they're doing out here. There's not a
whole lot to take from it, but he is obviously
among what should be an at least starting five of
their secondary with Laster and Stingley, Petrie, he and Bullock,
and I think they will be I'm gonna put him
down as the best secondary in the NFL. And they
have depth, but they also drafted to keep that depth.
And I'm not sure that Gardner Johnson is a long

(01:37:08):
term text and I would probably say he probably is not.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
This could be very.

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Short term, possibly pushes Jimmy off the roster entirely. He's
on the pup list to begin with. But Gardner Johnson
will be heard from both on the field and off.
I was talking with some people about being interested to
see where they place his locker in this locker room
where he'll be mixed among everybody, because he's not afraid
of saying what he feels. He's not afraid of, you know,

(01:37:31):
kind of upsetting the Apple card. This team can handle
all that stuff because their locker room is very, very good,
so everybody doesn't have to be the same. But football wise,
he sure has played on a lot of teams that
have won a lot of football games, and he'll be
the first to tell you about it. So he's looking
to try to get this team to win more than
they have.

Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
Well, you know, he may want to say all the
things he wants and say, but Demiko has shown no
inclination of keeping those types of players around. I mean,
there may be a handful of teams that do it,
but Dimiko's never shown a reputation for keeping as that
are overly boisterous around their locker room. It's a team message,
and I think that would be a long way towards
CJ wanting to be along at least here more than

(01:38:08):
one season.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
I mean, that's all true, but they just got him.
He just okayed the deal to bring him here. He
knows who he is. He doesn't need to see him
in the facility to know who he is. And Demiko,
I honestly would say, he'll look pat any of that
stuff because first of all, it's very minimal, like the
impact that some sort of negative impact just looked till
last year. What kind of reputations did Stefan Diggs have

(01:38:30):
when he came here? Was it was wrong and it
was stupid, but it was there. It didn't upset this
team in any way. It actually did the opposite that
the teammates here could have been more pleased to have
him here. Coaches couldn't say more glowing things about him.
And while I don't think these two players are similar
totally similar, this will he won't be the word we
haven't used his issue, and for a good reason. He

(01:38:51):
won't be an issue here.

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
You're just saying that's it, all right? So one two
days of practice in the books. Is there anything spicy
coming up in the next couple days. Are you gonna
see pads the first time.

Speaker 3 (01:39:02):
I haven't gotten confirmation on it. I'm sure they've decided,
but I haven't heard if they're putting pads off for
the first time Saturday, which is also the first day
that fans.

Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
Will be there.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
But I believe that is the case. If not, it'll
be the first practice of next week. After they take
Sunday off. Fans in the house is a given, will
ramp up the intensity. That's why I believe that will
be the day they can do it. That'll be their
fourth practice. You haven't had any players really have to
step aside from practice so far. Damon Arnett is the
only player that practiced day one that did not practice

(01:39:31):
day two. Don't think there are any other issues for them.
Nobody's had to come off the field for anything. But
it will get spicier immediately once they put the pads on,
which should again be practice for Saturday or five coming
up on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
All right, look forward to seeing you ninety minutes. Drive safely,
my friend. We'll do it all right. That is the
one and only Adam Wexer on our little Texans training
Camp report, and we'll have more from him throughout the
next handful of days. And I think we're putting him
on assignment here for the show. I mean, he's in
this car. What else they're gonna do? Listen to the show? Yeah,
he's listened to the show. Uh. I knew, I knew.
I loved jj Watt for a reason. He had a

(01:40:07):
brilliant tweet just a handful of minutes ago. Okay, we'll
read it to you coming back. It's about training camp
great seven one three two one two five seven ninties
seven one three two one two five seven Nati. I
hope you're having a beautiful time at home. There's a

(01:40:28):
lot of strife in this world, and Terry Balia has passed,
and now Chuck Mangioni has gone. She still have to
take time to stop and smell the roses, enjoy your
family and your loved ones, and the fact that the

(01:40:50):
Astros are sixty and forty two first place America League,
well tied at least by the way I'm watching his
Vermont main game. All these girls are getting hurt this
little league softball. If they're getting hurt, stop playing. Yeah,
getting hurt out. I just turned it off. Seriously, this
is about the third injury in the game. Sorry. I
didn't mean to ruin your vibe, but I did, didn't I.
They're on a knee now too. Damn girl. It looks

(01:41:13):
hot out there. No, it's between Vermont and Maine. It
can't be five. Okay, Well, where are the big games
being held? Well, I'm assuming somewhere, It says New England
to regional elimination. Finally, it looks sunny. I hope they
are wearing SPF fifty can I can? I Let's do
the let's do this. Let's go when Carly is in school,

(01:41:33):
she's gone a year. You and me do three or
four shows in in in Rhode Island, Newport where are they? Well,
the Kingston's where the University of Rhde Island Kingston mane O.
But you fly to Providence and you drive a half
I'm gonna try not to talk like that. And then
Newport is there? Four days? Two or three days? That's what? Okay,

(01:41:55):
three days sounds better with you. It'll be shocked out
were four days? Here's we do? We go to ball
seeing Astros, red Sock, get some labs to rolls gets,
and then go up to see I know, I don't
know if Carl's gonna come home for the summer. Well,
I guess Rhode Island is that's that's Connecticut adjacent, right, Yeah,
they're all really close to Isn't that where all the
like the best pizza places in the country in Connecticut?

(01:42:16):
I don't know. I hated going to Connecticut. I've only
been her twice and hated it both times. Yeah, new Haven?
How far is it from New Haven? About an hour
and a half. Everything's an hour and a half. I'm
gonna go to new I want to try all these
pieces I've been seeing. Okay, so you're looking at me weird.
I as a joke because I know how you click
on something on Instagram that it shows up on your

(01:42:37):
search thing. I clicked a bunch of pizza because I
thought it'd be funny if my whole search thing was pizza.
And now I look at pizza? Is that deb and
we know what you're clicking on on your Instagram search page?
What doesn't do Instagram even have a search page? Let's
take a look. Oh, it is smart, this is very smart.

(01:43:00):
But is your wife going to the store or something.
Let's take a look. Yeah, let's let me. I want
to look at this a live time. I'm coming over here.
Where's the searcher right here, right there's page? Uh huh,
there's all right here it is you ready for this?
It's girls. It's it's girls committing to colleges for volleyball.

(01:43:23):
It's blackjack. You know how much i've uh And it's
the picture of the couple. That's booty. What's this black Jack?
What's this? That's that's my girl, Taylor. I think I
think that's Sydney sweety? Is it Sydney? All right? Back

(01:43:44):
to it? How did we get on this? Let me
tell you something. Don't ever tell anybody any of your
secrets because Russell has spin them out that's not true. Look,
look look at mine. Yeah, all right, you know what
I'm gonna I'm gonna have all mindset at the blackjack.
So let me go to the tweet. I want to
talk about it. So JJ Watt has become so sage

(01:44:08):
a post retirement. He's always been smart. I didn't say
it was smart, but he was. He was corny as
a player at times. Okay, well he just was. I
think he got tired of what I've been seeing and
he had to say something about it. He says, quote,
this is when did he tweet this out? Let's see
here and it's long. It's a ten tosh Uh. Listen

(01:44:28):
to some check MANGIONI we need some run and read
some reading music. Yeah, put that jam back on, JJ.
Here we go. Training camp stats are insane and ridiculous.
Used to think he was always just people joking, but
now seeing them seriously reported. You have no idea what

(01:44:48):
the purpose of that period is, what the goals are,
what the context is, et cetera. It could be a
strictly third and long blitz period where every play is
skewed to be the defensive advantage. Coach could be asking
the quarterback to focus specifically on one route concept. D
line may be focusing only on bull rushes one day,
or just speed rushes for one period. More importantly, practices

(01:45:11):
for practicing. You're supposed to fail. You're supposed to try
new things, see what works, and see what doesn't work,
et cetera. If you only do what works, you'll never
grow adapt change. The entire point of training camp is
to build and grow towards the season so that you
perform your best when the real game start. God J Jay,
I cannot love you enough. I cannot wait for you

(01:45:33):
to be the number two analysts on CBS. He's also
arguing with people in the comments. So, Dan, the Reds
fan says, agree with most of your take, but quote,
you're supposed to fail. That's a terrible mindset. Guess why
that's why you never won a Super Bowl? He responds,
Guess that's why you have a cartoon picture of yourself

(01:45:53):
as a major league ballplayer instead of a real one. Hmmm,
that's a great great Can you imagine lecturing three time
defensive player, future Hall of Famer about mindset? It's ridiculous,
you know what? I love this. I'm muting Dan, Bye
bye Dan. But to the point. That's why when I

(01:46:18):
bring Wex on, I won't and Wex knows he knows
the game on this. It's big picture stuff. If you're
tweeting about a third and nine that wasn't completed because
of this, this and this, there may have been a
reason for it, and I just it's and I've tried
to mute. But there are people that I do look
for other sports things on there that I can't mute,

(01:46:39):
specifically football stuff from them. Right, wait, look at me
that way. You know I'm right. It's it's just he's posting, well,
I don't know who has been posting stats like CJ.
Shroud is eight for ten. Well, I mean if they
if they're doing that, you need to unfollow it. It's
a it's a beat reporter, I think. Let mean, I mean, now,

(01:47:04):
the fake media that goes out there and covers the team,
I don't pay. I don't follow them, I mute them,
blocked and whatever I have to do. I don't know.
I'm just this is a con underm. I find myself
because I like some of the people I do respect
out there, most of my don't, uh, And I you know,
I just the ones I respect, I just don't need
the and JJ is like my top. My timeline is

(01:47:24):
flooded with things from people that don't there on their
head from their aspect comes football. Football. If you've not
played it is the hardest to discuss it just is
there's so many nuances to it. M Baseball's pretty good baseball.
You know it's strategy. If you've played it, or at
least have studied the sport a little bit, it's easy
to figure out. Well, I played a year college ball, Matt,

(01:47:47):
and I know everything there is about baseball, and they
need a bunch more. But speaking of bunts, I think
I saw more bunts in the Astros Diamondback Series and
I saw in the last five years in baseball. Well,
you know, I guess I do feel like that might
be Taylor Tremmell's best shot to getting on base. Hey,
he went yard in Seattle. I know he's hitting two seventeen.

(01:48:07):
That's better than a you know what, let me not
let me not do that. Yeah, you want to go
ahead and not turn the microphone on unless you're ready
to finish the statement. Ooh, Christians season, But okay, whoa
Christian walker' hitting two thirty something? Now? You had a
good series in Phoenix today.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
If you can just get him in Chase Field and
Dodger Stadium all year long, he'll be doing great. Maybe
he's a nationally west guy. Well, he clearly has. But
why do you leave you know, you know why you
love with sixty million dollars? What do you mean? Did
you see what he said in about Phoenix? What they
never offer him a contract? Mmmmm, that's got to be painful.
You've been playing all those years of Diamondbacks and Diamonbacks
are to pay Corbyn burns a billion dollars to get

(01:48:44):
Tommy John. Bryce Matthews hit one sixty seven but three
home runs seven rebeis in a series one sixty seven?
How about this for Bryce Matthews ops of eight oh one?
Mm hmm. So literally what average doesn't tell you everything, folks.
That's why he's literally giving you four basses every time
he hit, swings the ball and it makes contact. Talking

(01:49:05):
to Chris Cordy, is Chris Cordy batting average? Oh he's
batting average guy? Wait a minute, No, we shocked about this? No,
I haven't. No, okay, So when you guys are arguing
on the on the box cast. You guys are arguing
about batting average, and I go to OPI I'm like,
come on, Gardy, thanks for listening, Matt. I mean I

(01:49:28):
haven't listened. It's fine. I mean I don't. I don't
listen to a lot of sports talking except for I
hate listening occasionally and sometimes listen to a team. Well,
just give us the click and leave it on your phone.
I mean I could do that. We could use the downloads.
I'll be happy to do that. Numbers are good. Actually
this year, my my plinkos and power bombs will do
a lot better. Well, then why don't you do it?

(01:49:49):
Stop talking about it than me about it? Mister. If
I really tried, I could be the MLB. You sound
like Holkgan really tried what he did. Go to the MLB,
He went to the mL be of the WWF. He
said he could have been a baseball player. He was
a Metallica was begging him to be his base big player.
So there's gonna be a very negative vibe in today's
edition of Believe In. There's positive things in here. How

(01:50:11):
about I'll throw freebie please do The first and only
professional wrestler wrestler to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
They have han one since Noe, no Rock, Nope, no stunning,
Steve Austin, no Stone Cold. That's not real sports. I mean, well,
go tell the ESPN then let me. Oh you know,
I'm gonna do this right real quick. We got ten seconds.
I'm gonna go to the ESPN. Headlins. Now they put

(01:50:33):
cornball championships in there too. Oh yeah, the very first one.
At the very top pro wrestling legend Hulk Cogan dies
at age seventy one, also light about his base career,
his baseball career, and many other things. Some guy in
Rosenberg says Hogan was the Babe ruth of professional wrestling.
We're really doing that, Huh. I'm not denying his importance

(01:50:57):
and impact. Is everything the babe ruth of something? Now,
I thought we can move forward past that. Uh, there's
no I think that's kind of old school, but I
mean normally, seriously, we're in twenty twenty five and we
have people calling people the babe roof of something. That
just shows you how maybe he's the greatest baseball player
of all time. I like, I like my uh oh

(01:51:19):
is he though? If you can't call the Babe roof
of something in twenty five. It was pre integration though,
so you can't say, okay, but I mean people are
still referring to him as you know. The theory is
that Babe Ruth was Oh that's true. There is a
conspiracy theory that Babe Ruth had some Yeah that's a
black male ancestry. Well one at a time. Here, who's who's

(01:51:41):
talking ancestry? Yeah, you never heard of that me, you know,
just put it in Google. Was the mom or dad?
Maybe furtherm you gotta look at the you gotta the pictures.
You know, Google says he was not black. But who
knows there that is a conspira. You never heard that.
I have never I don't don't. You both brought it up,
so obviously there's some truth to it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
M H.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
All right, twelve forty six, we've got believe it or
not coming up today at one fifty. We have your
phone calls. We're kind of an open line today because
it isn't I mean, look, the Astra's put a day
game yesterday. Nothing's big time happened with the Texans. The
biggest news today, frankly, is the Hulks are passing. We
get seventy one. I want if Clinton's calling in sick,

(01:52:22):
is he gonna be okay? We will find out about
an hour and fourteen minutes. Is he gonna say?

Speaker 2 (01:52:26):
Brother?

Speaker 1 (01:52:26):
All day? It is the Matt Thomas shol Ross Sports
Talk seven ninety Brother. Hi, we got an hour and
ten minutes left to go on the show today. We
thank you all of you for listening. Can I a
hodgepodge of stuff going on? Not a real meaty sports day?
And tonight the Astros do play the athletics and we

(01:52:47):
will see Jason Alexander back. And I think we've gone
five seconds without referring to anything signfal related with mentioning
the name Jonathan Alexander. I try to declare moratorium. It's
just too low hanging fruit. Well, I mean, it's not
like a show it's fresh or interesting. It's not like
he's doing anything right now. That show's been off the
air for twenty seven years. Ninety eight. Yeah, the worst

(01:53:10):
finale of a show ever. Maybe disagree? What do you
think is worse?

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:53:14):
I think it wasn't bad. Oh I didn't like it.
But I'm trying to think of this shape and everything
because everybody's like Oh, it's Jerry and nin Nilane. And
if you know Matt. Of course, as you know Larry
David in his personality, he's not going to just stump
for the audience and give them what they want. They
brought back a lot of the old characters. They ended
with the how it began. They were talking about what

(01:53:35):
the buttons on his shirt or something like that. I
can't even remember. H Yeah, the last line was like
the first line, and they kind of hinted, like when
the plane was going down that Jerry and Lane were
gonna say they loved each other, but then they pulled
the rug and then the plane it stabilized. I thought
it was great. It's funny though, because the final episode

(01:53:56):
of Curbry Enthusiasm, Larry and Jerry alluded to the fact
that how bad their finale was and how it was
routinely hated. And maybe it's because we were just anticipating
it being the funniest show on television. Maybe ever didn't
come up with the funniest closing. Everybody wanted the storybook ending,
do you think let me? And they didn't give it

(01:54:18):
to you. We need sports, I'm sorry we don't have Texans.
Did fine? Todays are they're winning. They're playing the ace tonight,
Astros on deck, come on your way. It's six o'clock
with you, Yes, Astros on deck coming up at six
o'clock tomorrow with you also with me, and I'll have
Saturday show. That's what I'm talking about, Matt, And we
can't teach Wex're coming on the show, but Clinton's not
stepping up. Gordy's got Sunday and that would be take

(01:54:42):
care of it all right. Do you think it's just
too Maybe it's just too hard to write the final
episodes of anything. I guess so was Successions final episode
really good? Game of Thrones are terrible?

Speaker 5 (01:54:54):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
Succession was okay? Uh you was okay. Ozark was below average.
I mean you tell me so, Pranos at it end
the way you wanted it to. Ooh, that's another one
people are upset about. But I like, okay. Again, it's
the whole point. That's the director saying, as David Chase,

(01:55:16):
who everybody is so blood thirsty and they want to
see Tony get killed and they killed us off. We
got whacked. They went to black, and it talked about
the whole show. You never know what it's gonna come.
That's the whole point. Okay, Sorry, I'm just trying to
think of of my of my favorite shows of all time.

(01:55:36):
I mean, did I spoil them? Well, the show has
been gone a while. You're fine. Curb End of the
Way was a good ending for me on that. Okay,
it's over over over over, Yeah, done done. But yeah,
I don't know. Maybe maybe it's just maybe when you
are an episodic television writer that you're just running the
next thing and the next thing and the next thing

(01:55:57):
in the new innovative way, and then you just somebody
says it's time to end it, and you don't know how.
You don't know how to tie it up, wrap it
up like George R. R. Martin and the Song of
Fire and Ice. Yes, all right, I'm gonna segue. That's

(01:56:18):
into sports. Yes, how is how are we gonna end
the twenty twenty five Houston You mean like Chris Paul, No,
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go different, like some guys
know how to write the story book ending of their career. Well,
Chris Paul's hanging on, uh Billy and John Elway had
the best finale. Well, it was Ray Leonard couldn't stop retiring.

(01:56:38):
Jordan did have the best storybook ending, and then he
came back with the Wizards. Lebron doesn't know when to
hang him up. Yeah, but you know, you bring up
Lebron here and look, I'm not the biggest Lebron fan
because he says some really goofy crap off the court,
but he's still on the court amazing. Uh I Look,
he is not even close to what he was even

(01:56:58):
five years ago. ROSSI I watch a lot of NBA.
He can still play. There isn't a question of him
being a detriment to his team though. There isn't a
question of him not having a desire to win. He's
just getting old and father time is in the wear
and the tear. He's not what he was five or
six years ago. And I think that the Lebron fans,

(01:57:19):
the biggest Lebron fans, can't adapt to that, that there
is going to be a natural downplay in his performance.
That the Lakers have said we made the trade for
Luca Dodgers in part because it can't be Lebron's team anymore.
And maybe Lebron's having the hardest time with that. But
I as a fan of Lebron as a player, I
can live with him being sixty percent of what he

(01:57:41):
was because the sixty percent that I do get to
see in the games I've called. He still takes over
games when he needs to. He's averaging twenty four, eight
and eight. I don't know how many people on the
on the planet are still doing that. It's pretty good,
It's really good.

Speaker 2 (01:57:53):
I'm just saying he is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:58:06):
Three is the time. It is the final hour of
the Mount Thomas Show with Ross on a hul Cogan
rip Thursday, seventy one years of age. You've not heard
the Hulkster passing away after apparently cardiac arrests again, numerous
issues post wrestling career. I mean, he felt like he
was under the knife every other day with some sort

(01:58:26):
of back surgery, leg surgery, neck issues, the body broke down,
and obviously putting things into his body, I e. Steroids
probably didn't help the cause. If there's an example of
a guy that be the you know, should do a
video saying hey, don't do them, don't inject things in
your body. He's gonna wind up casting you in the
long run. Would you say professional wrestlers put more of

(01:58:53):
a herding on their body than any other I mean
any of the major sports. Okay, especially now Now in
these days, they aren't doing like three hundred shows a year,
But in the sies eighties, they were doing like literally
three hundred shows a year, right, or they were wrestling
six days a week, sometimes seven days sometimes. I listened

(01:59:15):
to a lot of podcasts. Some guys would wrestle eight
matches in a week, in seven straight days, and sometimes
they go to two different cities. So forgetting about just
going to the ring, how about getting in the car,
traveling long distances, driving, eating very poor meals at three
o'clock in the morning, in the middle of nowhere to
get ready for the match the next day. I will

(01:59:36):
say this Now, look, I'm not giving away company secrets
on this, but it's scripted. Yes, and they do their best. Yeah,
I saw the guy too. They do their best to
make sure they don't hurt each other. But I mean
they're flying at each other, they're flying into they're throwing
themselves against walls, they're landing on concrete floor. You have

(01:59:58):
to do those things to put on a good show.
When when you're talking about it. They're not made men. Now.
Well they're not saying you don't have to put on
a good show now, but you really got to sell it.
You have to sell it, and you have and it's
an art to be able to do it effectively. But
even with that being said, injuries are going to happen.
Seth Rollins' ww wrestler landed awkwardly on his feet about
two weeks ago and hit suffer a serious knee injury. Yeah,

(02:00:21):
I would say this is not because I'm a pro
wrestling aficionado or a fan. I'm saying that the body
goes through more aches and pains and more trauma as
a professional wrestler than an ever one as a professional
football player. Because of the fact that professional wrestling careers

(02:00:42):
it takes you probably five years just to become a star.
Then if you want to be a star, you're talking ten, fifteen,
twenty years. I mean, hell Rick Flair was wrestling on
a regular basis in his fifties, and he started when
he was probably twenty two or twenty three. Thirty years,
three hundred matches a year. Even if you are doing

(02:01:04):
the best you can in faking punches and faking kicks
to the mid section and shots trauma, shots of the head.
It's just the you're throwing yourself against ropes and jumping
and leaping and again is Hulk Hogan. His famous, most
famous move was the was the leg drop, and it

(02:01:26):
obviously did not crush people, but the dropping your leg
going full speed at two hundred at whatever he was
carrying weight wise, two and seventy five pounds, you could
probably feel the spine crackling as it was landing every
single time, and it took its toll. And he filled
his body full of steroids because because that was the pressure.

(02:01:49):
Because back especially in the eighties, when wrestling was really
becoming a national form, you had to look the part.
Vince McMahon wanted you to look like a bodybuilder. They
don't feel like body builders.

Speaker 3 (02:02:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
Now are the best guys. You can't be a fat
slob anymore. Those those days of being a fat slob
wrestling are done. There's no uh, who is that guy
that would sit on people's heads? Rakishi or whatever? Well,
there's no more yo, there's no earthquake, there's no why
not man gang bring back the fat wrestler. There's no Abdullah,
the Butcher, that's rude. Why are they fat shaming wrestlers? Now,

(02:02:21):
So let's say the hardest working guy or most famous
wrestler who I don't know who the current guys are,
how many shows a year they do it? Cody Rhads
probably is doing one hundred and twenty shows. Really well,
let's say, but let's say he works forty weeks a year. Dang,
he's doing the Sunday pay per view or the you know,

(02:02:43):
the Peacock Exclusive. He's going on Monday Night Raw, and
he's going on Friday Tuesday Night or Friday Night smack Down.
Now do is he wrestling on all three of those? No,
he's probably wrestling. Maybe, Okay, there's gonna be some physical
contact in it that if it's in a full so
maybe a number of matches he's in in a year
would probably be in the forties. But appearances and falling

(02:03:03):
on being put on a table, even though the table
is already ready to be broken in half, landing on
that table, there's probably some of some impact. Yeah, for sure.
I mean, that's why there's so few that do it.
There's so few that are really good at doing it.
That's why the money is good. But we as adults

(02:03:24):
love the adult you know, the real life super superheroes,
I guess. But they're human. They land awkwardly, they get concussed,
they have neck injuries. A lot of guys had to retire.
I mean Stone Cold had to retire because of the
injuries or because he wanted to. He would have wrestled
under ten or fifteen years if we could have crushing
some Ice Cold beers. He does it out. He does

(02:03:46):
drink a lot of beer well, as does what are
you doing stop? He saw mid sense, as did Rick Flair.
Yeah you're drinking like thirty beers a night or something. Yeah.
I think I think Under of the Giant was going
for records. I think one of Rick Flair's uh greatest

(02:04:08):
lines is I spilled more money on spilled everything you
spent it all year or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
that's a good one. He had some great lines. He
did have great lines. I call him the goat. Can
I call him the greatest wrestler of all time? H
you probably could. He's my goat because again, very very
very very very casual. He was way more for the
traditional wrestler than being the I mean, hul Cogan would

(02:04:29):
never work thirty minute matches you, Rick Flair would work
forty five minutes sixty minute matches on the regular all
the time. Yeah, but they still on the ground breathing
half the time though, at least when I watched WrestleMania
at your place. Yeah, what, I'd like to put you
in a figure four leg lock before the other the show.
Can we do that? All right? If you can pull
it off, let's it go. Want you to lay down
fat on this ground? Yeah, I'll choke you out in

(02:04:50):
thirty seconds. No, no, you know, and they don't do
chokeouts in wrestling. We were talking about, what do you
mean it's Mma? Oh sorry, get your fact straight, Orioles
of the Guardians three to two in the bottom of
the fourth inning. Well day baseball, okay for you? Yeah, Astros,
It isn't strange the Astros are back in action today. No,

(02:05:12):
I mean, they made baseball, I know, but it is
it's you. You go all the way to Seattle, down
to Phoenix and Phoenix and Houston and around the corner.
That's about a two and a half hour Flight's the grind, baby,
no days off. And yet the Astros, who were dead
to rights by some people. I won't mention names, Dan Matthews.
We have one four in a row and our time.

(02:05:33):
That's why baseball is such a up and down roller
coaster marathon or whatever cliche term you want to use.
This team a week ago was it's All Star break.
They need a break. They went one and five before
the All Star breaking, and then they come out with
two flat performances against Seattle. They're one and seven. Oh
the sky's falling. Yes, it's like your four roh one k.

(02:05:54):
Don't overreact to the daily swing because with the four
one K doing good this week, every time I hear
the stock report on k Rich, don't overreact, man, I
missed them stock with up points yesterday. Dan, that's good.
Not real react on that. I'm very pleased with that.
All right, one twelve and Sports Talk seven out seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. You
all right over there? What's the matter with you? I'm

(02:06:16):
doing great, Matt. You're just trying to get his many
malicious shots in on hul Cogan as you possibly can.
It's not true. I didn't say one bad thing about
him that old segment. I wonder what Mark Henry thinks
of him. You know Mark Henry is wrestler. Yeah, former wrestler. Okay,
he does the morning show in Austin, And are I hired?
Sports station? Okay? Isn't that weird? No? I don't know

(02:06:37):
who he. I mean, who is he? He's a former wrestler,
He's just a WWE guy and he lives in Austin.
And we're like, all right, you're hired. You have to
ask Brian Erics. I think he hired him. I don't, Okay,
but it's I'm curious because I'm seeing a lot of
tributes coming out about him, and most of them are
Rick Flair. Did one Brutus Beefcake who was used to
be uh hul Cogan's best friend, so they stop speaking
to each other. Brutus Beefcake. Brudus Beefcake. Yeah, do you

(02:07:00):
think he? I wonder if he legally changed his name? Hello,
mister Beefcake, mister Beefcake. Party for four Oh go on,
uh stay by, passenger, Beefcake, We have your seat to
sign for you come to the gay please. Okay, you
really got to have a major ego if you're calling
yourself a beefcake? Was he a beefcake? Matt he wouldn't

(02:07:23):
fly me back in the day. He also got involved
in a little In fact, he got involved in a
skiing a motor skiing accident that was so bad that
his face got basically taken off and to reput his
face back on his face. M what, Yeah, that's how
bad it was. How fast were they going? I don't know,

(02:07:49):
but we're not going to go any further to it
because people are cringing right now with me even bringing
that up. And then they wrote a movie about it
with John Travolta Nick Cage. That's actually not true, but
not a bad pull on your part. What do you say, Nathan,
I said me, being one of them cringing. Yeah, yeah,
please break, go to break. Please, We'll be back with
better content. Folks. You know what we need here. Maybe
you know you took a segment off. I need to

(02:08:10):
take a one. Okay, I think I've druk, got coffee
and came back. All right, if you want to talk
to Ross only in the next segment, Let's see how
this work. Not I got form people to call just
be pitching. How about that look on Charlie doing this
now and he's got a crutch out there. Why are
they allowed to bring wheelchairs in the round. It's not nice.

(02:08:31):
All right, So if you want to talk to Ross
in the next segment, please talk to me. I don't
want to talk to Matt's talking about people's faces getting
melted off seven one three two. Back on seven one three.
Matt takes the next segment off. Talk to Ross next
here on sports Star seven. All right, in today's edition
of Come on now, all right? Wait, wait, I just

(02:08:51):
created a segment Ross. So I put out a tweet
about eighteen minutes ago, and it was I said, do
I have time to listen to all the voicemails? I
put out ten phone numbers that left me voicemails. They
were either one or two seconds long. Okay, do you

(02:09:16):
kind of get what they were? No, they were spam calls.
Oh okay, Roberto says, maybe don't put people's phone numbers
out there. They're spam calls. Yeah, I mean, come on,

(02:09:40):
come on, come on, I mean, can we not put
two and two together here? That's all I had to say. Sorry, Matt, No,
it's not sorry for me, and sorry. Roberto didn't realize
that I would. Do you think I got to put
people's numbers phone numbers out there if I didn't know
they were complete spam. No, I mean seriously critical thinking.

(02:10:02):
Were we just talking about this? We don't have it.
I have forty two phone calls because I have a
I have it on my phone that if I don't
know who you are, you go right to voice man.
Uh huh. So the spam callers, And like I said,
I've been intereting. By the way, can I apologize to one?
I tell what happened with the one spammer, the one
you screamed at. Yeah, and he said, why why are

(02:10:22):
you being rude to me? I wasn't rude to you? Yeah,
what did you What did he say? What did you say?
I swore him some more. That's rude, Matt. It is rude.
But I just he's just trying to gift you for
all your money. It's cathartic. Okay, let's see whatever lovew
I love talking to spam callers, and I'll turn my
spam feature off. Let me talk talk people. Right to

(02:10:43):
get off the show two o'clock while I'm listening to
a team of course, all right? Seven one three two,
one two five seventy seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. Does Chronie Morton interest you
at all?

Speaker 5 (02:10:53):
For?

Speaker 1 (02:10:53):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:10:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:10:54):
Lake see raised like six? Well it's low. Now, why
are you so intrigued by Charlie Morden Because that's the
kind of twenty seventeen it's the kind of fringy move
you would make. No, who's better right now? Brandon Walter
or Charlie Morton? Brandon Walter, Lance mccullors. I mean, excuse me,
Lance mccolors or Charlie Morton, Charlie Morton, Lance mccullor's junior.
Don't you're gonna You're gonna die back. You're gonna die

(02:11:16):
on that hill? He will there. Food supplies have been shortened.
We're on hunger strike on Lance mccullor's junior Island. Now,
is this a bit? Or you really believe what you're
talking about. I don't do bits on this show, Matt Well,
I do, and I'm telling you that. I'm telling you
the truth. Look, I applaud Lance. He just doesn't have

(02:11:41):
anything left. Yeah, you're he's Yeah, he's had a couple
of cool You look good in Dodger Stadium. You weren't
saying after that start, I was stunned by it. That's
why I couldn't react to it. I was so astonished
by the way your take is the one that's not
just being shared by a lot of people. When I
brought we brought up the Lance mclors maybe going to
the bullpen. You take was if you're if you're really

(02:12:01):
getting rid of Lance, you are getting rid of him.
You're you're gonna brian a braid basically what you're gonna
do on that? Joserejsera, You can't brian O braw you
know you wont him around you. Jose Braham, Yeah, he's
either DFA. I don't know how much longer the leashes,
but if he continues to not get even five innings
and not get outs, something has to be done. He

(02:12:23):
got a cut bait. What is this got left in
this contract? I'm looking at per quick it's seventeen point
seven this year and next year. Have baseball teams eaten
ten team million dollar contracts? Here on Crawford and Texas
has been doing a lot of that. Rafael Montaro and
Jose Brad who say thanks, yeah, I mean they would

(02:12:52):
applaud him for the work he's done in getting back.
I'll tell you this. If he didn't have next year
on the deal as well, he'd be gone. I think,
oh if he was done after this year, yeah, done
for sure. He's shown he's got what three four quality starts,

(02:13:13):
but he's you can't be and the quality starts to
have been like minimum qualify, Like it's not like he's
going seven eight ins. Really did. There was a ramp
up which we gave him a grace period. Then there
was the crescendo, which was a Dodgers game. Yeah the problem. Yeah,
going after that, it's just him been the same. He well,
he hurt his foot now hear now he's got a blister,

(02:13:34):
and blisters are a part of baseball that he would
not be the first normal, he'd be the last if
he has one. I didn't hear you. If if he
has one, which I think he does, have players fote injuries, Yes,

(02:13:54):
Do the Astros have a history of that? I don't
think so. Would you want to give him a trip
to the injury list to settle him down because he
has been rocked and you don't want to bring up
the fact that it's you're moving him off rotation because
he's rocked. Give him a fifteen day breather ten day, Yeah, whatever,

(02:14:15):
it's fifteen for pitchers, No, yeah, ten or fifteen. I mean,
it's not the craziest notion. I wouldn't necessarily think that's
the case. All I'm in. All Land's wound have to
do with show is hand say, I think he's got
a blister, But I guess it's just because I'm so
wary of the Astros and the injury stuff. But in
this case, I'll defend the Astros. Yeah, they wouldn't be

(02:14:37):
the only team that would put a player on the
injured list with some sort of arab Every team he's
probably done it. Yeah, especially somebody. He's in a very
unique situation. He's owed a lot of money, he's trying
to get back. He's shown some signs of life. I mean,
his Astro's career is on life support, but he's shown
a pulse here and there. And what you do want, honestly,

(02:14:59):
is you do not want to bury his hard work.
It would be because again, Lance in seventeen especially, was
a fantastic addition to this baseball team that, if not
for his performances, would not have put the Astros where
they were winning into World Series. Yeah, he's well, you'll

(02:15:20):
always get credit for them, no matter what the ailments
have been, no matter how much time he's been gone.
It's trying Morton to give a home run three to three. Yea,
you want them. I just started out that was the
same just s Stephen Kwan. I mean, he's a good
slap hitter, contact hitter. But okay, but do you treat

(02:15:40):
are you treating Lance with perhaps a better set of
kid gloves than you would be with other players. And
he's getting more grace absolutely because he's one of the
He is, along with Al Twove, the last astros from
the twenty seventeen team. He's a heart and soul. He
loves the astros. He wants to be here. He's a
competitor here. He's fiery, he says all the right things.
He's smart, and I really that's why one of the

(02:16:02):
reasons I've been on the Colors Island because I'm rooting
for him. I'm rooting for him. I want him to succeed.
And he did sign a contract that you would say, well,
it depends on if he was to pitch, it would
have been very team friendly, but because he didn't pitch,
it ends up being very player friendly A's compared to
Team Friendly. Yeah, the deal when it was signed was, Hey,

(02:16:22):
if he's an effective twenty five games a year starter,
this is a huge win. If he's hurt the whole time,
it's a huge llen. Well, it's been closer to the latter.
But let me let's just let's just get the forecast
out there. Let's say, and again this is going to
be this is a glass half full conversation. What's your rotation?
And you're not gonna give me an answer to this

(02:16:43):
until we come back from the break. Okay, what's the
answer to this question? If Garcia comes back, we do
believe we're getting way back. And let's say Christian Hobber
comes back. Name the five man rotation? Maybe how many days?
I'm many? Ask off days that are in September? They're
enough to go with a six Get to go with

(02:17:04):
the six man? Or can you live with a five
man in September? I mean even with the off day
you can get I mean I think Hunter Brown under
Brown a little off day here and there, not bad
ooh the leads big enough? Yeah, Okay, then the six
man isn't making a great debate. Who's your five man?
Rotation in September, trying to a clinch the division and
being most importantly, maybe try to clinch a one or

(02:17:26):
two spots you can avoid playing in the wild card round.
We'll discuss that at seven one three, two, one two five,
seven ninety. All right, ROSSI name your rotation one thirty
four here on seven ninety if you want to join us,
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seven one three two one two five seven you name
that rotation. Let's go from avel does one. Yeah, what's up?
Hunter Brown? Two good, Spencer Arrogate three yep, Christian Xavier
four yep. Luis Garfacia five hmm No, Brandon Walter, Brandon

(02:18:11):
Walter Man, he's looking. I think he's in consideration too,
and then it depends. I think it's actually very easy
to kind of predict what happens with mccullors. He's going
to get a couple more starts. If he's good, he stays.
If he's not, he's released from the he's released from
the roster. And for a Louis Garcia, Javier whoever Garcia?

(02:18:37):
Because if Lance is not best utilized as a reliever,
to go get his Mojo back, there would be no
purpose to keep him on the team. No, And he's
always been of the characterization of I am a starter.
I mean he nearly threw hands at Gordy for asking
about that. He was asked about it before the start

(02:18:58):
of this season. About it, right, He's like, I don't
know what struggles you're talking about. It's like, you know
what struggles were talking about? Come on? But anyways, Well,
if he is now it's my understanding. I don't know,
But as far as I know, he would be DFA correct.
I don't know if he would wave. He can accept
a real he could accept a minor league assignment, just

(02:19:19):
like b Jose. When does somebody have to go through
waivers for example, I think sh like Forrest Whitley went
through waivers. Well, it's a DFA is you have ten
days to outright release him to go through waivers accept
an emotion everybody. Does he have enough? I think if
you have enough years, you're not subject to waivers. I
don't know if he has that amounty Yeah, it feels

(02:19:41):
like to me it's the same thing as nobody's claiming
to the Landso Colors Junior for eighteen million dollars anyways. No, no, no,
he would be. If he's gonna be picked up, it's
gonna be picked up by a team on a very
much a minimum count. Either he has enough, he has
enough service tign where he wouldn't subject to waivers, or
he's gonna go through waivers and I nobod's gonna claim him anyways. Yeah,
So the point is, yes, he can. I think he
can then accept in a signment from the Astros, which
he might do, or he would elect free agency. I

(02:20:07):
think his ego, would his ego be able to say,
you know what, I'm not who I need to be,
I'll go to the Space Cowboys, go to Space Cowboys
and figure it out and then hopefully get called back up.
I would hope he would do that. That's I mean,
that's kind of what Jose Bray did that he went
to the Florida Complex League. I was like, hey, you
guys paid me all this money. I'm gonna try to
figure this out. Rafael Montero went to the Space Cowboys

(02:20:28):
as well. Now this is if it happens, he comes
out and you know, hey, six inning and one run ball.
Next time, we're not talking about this because we've been
here multiple times. I'm another thing at you. Okay, what
if they do go get a starting pitcher before the
deadlines and it would even make things even more difficult.
Don't think they will. This is part of the reason
they don't think they will. Here here's okay, let's do

(02:20:53):
it very easy. If then statement because we were here
after the Cincinnati game, if they don't get a PA,
they would have the intelligence to say the guys I
just mentioned are coming back or at the very very
worst case, ROSSI Aragedtty's coming back. There's nothing arm wise

(02:21:17):
that has hurt him. He's not coming off of Tommy
John or rotator cut, you know what I mean. It's
it was a flukeish thumb injury that took probably way
too long that noybody thought it would be. But it's
not going to necessarily MC hurt his mas. There should
be a bunch of setbacks, right, So let's dumb it down.
Let's say that Javier and Garcia do not come back. Okay,

(02:21:37):
then do you want to you want to re evaluate
your five man rotation? Then no, Javier Walter's in there,
okay with Araghetty Brown Verlander, I mean Verlander fromber Valdez
the other v and yeah, it could be mccallor's unless
he's terrible, then yeah, it's going to be Gordon Augusta.

(02:22:00):
But I think I think Javier, I think a couple
of those guys are gonna be back, certainly Raghetti. I
wonder if Jason Alexander's got a spot chance. I don't
think the answer is yes. Whatever happened to aj blue
Ball just minor league guy. I mean he got me
kind of in a waiting order. He mean, he made
the one start, wasn't really good, not really fair for him.

(02:22:21):
But he's twenty five years old and was highly considered
before the start of the season. That was one of
those names. Well, yeah, see, this is the thing we
have to remember, just like training camp. Just because you
remember five in the Astros system doesn't mean you're one
of the best pitching prospects at baseball. Yeah, uh five
eighty six ERA.

Speaker 3 (02:22:44):
And A.

Speaker 1 (02:22:45):
Oh of course, we understand the ballflies out in the PCL,
but you can't elevate it for two runs. Yeah, I know.
Oh he's twenty five, he almost twenty five, Still a
triple A. That can't you know what you cannot be
twenty five, I considered a prospect. If you're still the
Triple L you are twenty five and looking to catch

(02:23:07):
lightning in a bottle when you eventually get the call
of the big leagues, if you ever did, or you're
George Springer and they're trying to hold you down. Well,
he won twenty five. He was like twenty four. Yeah, yeah,
but there was pedigree, first round draft pick, he had
went to college. You look at you putting George Springer
in aj Bluebell. George Springer come down here from Toronto

(02:23:27):
and kick your ass for saying that. I don't think
he would. He's too nice. He was twenty four when
he made his debut. George Springer, blue Buskins, Earnie of
almost six yeesh. And this Uliola guy, maybe I think
we're maybe pronouncing itola two l's is a y Uyola

(02:23:50):
u Ola? Say again, Just say mcgil, just say Mikey.
Say his last name, Uyola Ula. It's not gonna go well.
Yola with a Y, Yola, Cola with a Y, I
mean cola with a Y. Cola you cola. Now I'm

(02:24:11):
worse off. It's funny. When he was making I was
asking people in the astros press box about a month ago.
About it? He goes by, oh ya, and there was
a bunch of people trying to mispronounce it. It was
something lah he could do that. I've always called the you.
How about we just call him U Yola say it

(02:24:32):
was to the first part of again. Ooh ooh Yola,
ooh Yola. There he goes, I got it, u Yola.
Here you go. How about that? I appreciate that seven
one three two one two five seven anti gail me
gel yu yol La hey good sing a song? I said,
what you did there? Do you think people caught onto that?

(02:24:52):
I don't know. He's a real town of picture from
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It's stand ne miolo la Miguel Ulio strikes people great,
He strikes people out and runs up the hill, throws

(02:25:15):
ninety five miles an hour. What a thrill, Miguel Miguelulo.
Oh no, that's a banger. Shut up. You don't even
know that song. There once was a space and cowboy

(02:25:35):
who threw really fast and wants to be an astro.
I know, I'll figure this, I turn that off. I'll
work on this. I work on this rog in New Jersey.
I tried it one dad, I got high Roger, guys,
how are you doing today? Thanks so much for having
me on. Sure.

Speaker 6 (02:25:57):
So here's the thing. I mean, you know, obviously we
look at the Try three dead line now in a week.
I don't think there's gonna be some sort of you know,
hitter coming in on a white horse, like, you know,
just saving this lineup. I mean, I do think the
best we could do as a guy like Mike Taalkman,
you know, somebody like that who could just you know,
fill in a role as a lefty bat, you know,
platoon against righty something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:26:17):
But I do think that if we're gonna.

Speaker 6 (02:26:19):
Make a run this postseason, we got to look at
it like twenty two, where our pitching is just locked down,
and I think for that we should look to adding
probably another starter, all right, because I don't think I
want a guy like Walter corn And marching into Toronto
or Detroit for Game three.

Speaker 1 (02:26:36):
And I do think we need one more reliever.

Speaker 6 (02:26:38):
I mean, you know, get a seventh inning guy that
you can trust, you know, in front of brayw and Hater,
you know, just somebody else other than Kean or Sosa,
who you know may not have this kind of stuff
back in octobert What do you guys think?

Speaker 1 (02:26:50):
Uh, you would have to be from the right handed side,
and thank you for the phone call. We appreciate it. Uh,
you got plenty of left handers. The question would be
is could you make a move And the answer, of
course is yes, you can do anything you want. Could
you move one of your lefties for a better righty?
You've got four lefties in your bullpen. You're not moving haters.
That's three three that you would theory and think about?

(02:27:12):
Why not? O krit? I'm not Kurt? Yeah, sorry Ochritz?
Who's the king? Yeah? And guess and somebody's interested. And
left handers are obviously much more of a commodity than
you'd have from a right hand side. Maybe you could
get a little bit better from the right to get
sending off a mid left just start it out there. Okay, Yeah,

(02:27:33):
but I think you can get creative with a reliever.
You can do you know, cash considerations, lot of prospects. Guys,
All the vibes are minor. Move unless Hineo A I
you Heineo I Heeo. Suarez is wearing Astro's gear and
if he's wearing gear, you can say, mamushvili, come on

(02:27:54):
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That's because Gordious is a negative nancy. He thinks nothing
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New Orleans Saints quarterback in two Thoy twenty six. Oh please,
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ahead and tell me. There's no guarantee he's declaring for
the draft. He could andrew luck and continue to stay there.
He's got ungodly millions from nan Aloazamah. Yeah. Do you
think he talks to Grandpa Archie about where he might
end up? I think he talks to Grandpa Archie and
Cooper and everybody about You know, there are some people

(02:30:49):
I won't name names who foolishly thought he would transfer
out if Quen you were stayed the starting quarterback. And
he's going things about He's going about things different, the
different way because he is a Manning. I I will
bet you there was a conversation at some point about
him getting his degree, which he can do probably in
three years. But I mean, it's Dan, You're gonna go somewhere.
It sucks if you're gonna be a high draft pick

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in enjoying the college life, enjoying the campus life. And also, yeah,
we could see it could also depend on who's number one.
If it is number one, and he could come home
to the New Orleans Saints, or if he's even that good,
what if he's not good enough? What if he has
a decent enough year and maybe another year of seasoning,
he'll he'll be really really good and he can improve. Well,
there's no guarantee these I can't. I keep going back

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to there's no guarantees is gonna let the world on fire? None? No,
But I mean the the preseason Hubbub or the preseason's
hubbub has been very high on him. Five minutes up
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