Astros Cant Catch A Break. Spurs Crush Wolves, CJ Stroud Talk?

Astros Cant Catch A Break. Spurs Crush Wolves, CJ Stroud Talk?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ten o one, It ain't town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Thursday edisue of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Los Angeles Dodgers take the rubber game of this three
game set. Defeated the Astros twelve to two.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the way the world only had two heads. I
googled songs about disappointment and this one is the first
one that popped up. Wake me up when it's all over, Maddie,

(00:48):
not great, Bob. Where is Lance mccollar thumbnail? Yeah? What happened?

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay? What's going on? Does he have vitamin deficiencies? I
mean with his nails? Does his nails fall off?

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What's the vitamin you need for nail strength? E? I
don't know, ok, every one of them, multi vitamin, maybe
a flintstone, a vitamin B seven, and some iron. Let's
get it up, buddy, collagen and zinc. That's what Google says.
Let's get all that now, let's get the cocktail going.
I will give him credit for sticking around. Apparently he

(01:27):
was throwing a puss after that literal puss lord, So
it was a thumbnail he lost, or it was I
heard I saw a fingernail whatever, some sort of nails. Okay,
it doesn't really matter what nail he lost. I guess
it doesn't. Couldn't throw his curve ball anymore, so I
guess he was just throwing straight ephis Well, you won

(01:51):
one out of three.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
You said you.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Would take that. I did tell I would take that.
That's what the odds said. You were two to one
dogs in every game. That means one out of three
out of three eight bad. I don't know when you
get your asking twice, it's not great. It's a two
to one game. It was fun. Not good for the
old run differential, not good for the team e er
if you will, rough day for a Dana is an
idiot for not calling up Jason Alexander. Guy man, Gordy

(02:16):
loves some Jason Alexander two. We love Gordy.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Apparently he was looking good in spring, look good in spring,
look good up and well didn't look good until yesterday
and the year day before that, and then got sitt
down immediately. A hunter Brown's got a bullpen this weekend.
He's coming to save us and Tatsu and I isna
gonna pitch soon. He's coming to say that the Calvary's coming.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, at least you find somebody's finding the sunshine out
of this desperate day. Good grocery turning around. Eric Getty's
been good, Lambert's good. That's three, and you get a
Hunter that's four? Why are you putting Hunter in the
mixed brown? Yeah, he's throwing a bullpen this weekn in
a couple of weeks and be.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
Ready to go.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Okay, you know what positive energy by a couple, I
mean like six. Yeah, remember, sooner rather than later we
don't talk about bullpit is a step in the right direction.
Shoulders feeling good? How about that lineup? What lineup? Cold?
Descenzo shoemake last three in the lineup yesterday? Oh salads,
I don't forget him either that's four or five sixty

(03:21):
seven or uh six seven eight? N I'll be able
to get back rested, refreshed. Day off helped. He was
celebrated a birthday yesterday and didn't play.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
Man.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
You must be really struggling and they don't play any birthday? Yeah?
How does that work? Because usually there you know, we've
always had this conversation about whether people should take day off,
days off in their work. I don't do that because
why don't want to take a random Wednesday off? Now,
if you want to wrap around a long weekend, then
he kind of makes a little bit of sense. Yeah,
that's what I always do. Al two bays birthday on

(03:52):
a Wednesday and got a d MP. Well, it's because
you get the two days off. Now, it'd be really
clear his head. Now he's gonna be in Cincinnati, those
great ribs and chili, He's not gonna be He's not
gonna be the baddest box with a rack of rib
you know, fat the boys up? All right, Good morning everybody.
It's ten oh six on Sports Talk seven on It

(04:12):
is the Mount Thomas Show with Ross on this a Thursday,
where today we will cry in our beer. There's a
tear in your beer. Well, what else we're gonna do? Well,
it's ten in the morning. I'm not sing. You won't
get you in a deep dive on the Texans linebackers. No,
I don't want to do that. Baseball season, okay's baseball? Well,
how's the baseball going? Man's not going?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Gray?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Ross's the basketball going? It's non existing? Okay, can't get
into a deep dive of the Wolves and the Spurs
from last night because I think collectively America turned it
off at the end of the second quarter. They blow
him out. We're at that summer fun We're gonn to
have some summer fun stuff. We have to do something
because I don't want to talk about c. J. Strow Wather.

(04:53):
He's making sixty million dollars for the next four months.
Let those people that ought to work do that. We're
in I don't think he's going to oh Man, our
local nine. I mean, look, it was the Dodgers. They're
the serious World Series' favorites. Their starting picture got hurt
yesterday with backspasms. Yeah, I thought I thought we might

(05:14):
have a shot glassnow got hurt. Yeah, went one in
the top picture hurt. Now it was just backspasm for him.
That's good, I mean not good. I mean like it's
not like, you know, elbow discomforting. I'm glad you brought
that up. Are we going? Is Rob Manford really gonna
just say them's the breaks with these pitching is these
pitching injuries, whether it's the Astros, whether it's the Dodgers,

(05:37):
whether it's the baseball team. Are you talking and with
respect to the pitch clock, I don't know what's he
gonna do. I mean, I'm telling you, if I have
a phenomenon through rob Baseball or my star pitchers are
getting hurt left and right, are you going to continue
to chime it up to them's the breaks? Or are
you going to say that we've got to do a
deep dive. And if you do the deep dive, do
you really want to know what your results are? The

(05:58):
results are probably too many games. The results are probably
not a big enough roster. The results are probably not
enough pitch to clock time, uh, spin rate. The things
that are being I mean ross, there has to be
a number of things. It's not just one, but everything
combined is taking away the heart and soul of some

(06:19):
really good pitching in baseball. Game seven of the World
Series was the most watched baseball game in thirty four years.
I don't want you to argue with me like that.
I want you to argue with real life thoughts. That's
what my Rob Manford's gonna tell you. He's gonna say,
ratings are up, interest is up. We're gonna look into
these injuries. We have a lot what are you gonna
tell the pitchers to stop spinning the ball. We're gonna

(06:39):
put a spin rate governor on the thing, vlo governor.
If you throw, if you throw a pitch over one hundred,
is it like a in Beer League? If you hit it?
If you hit a home run, it's an out if
you throw a pitch over one hundred. But it isn't
even that. It's the torque, it's the curve, it's the
spin rate. Yeah, it's all that that's not adding to
ninety nine to nine. We're not say, guys, we're not

(07:01):
seeing fifteen guys throw above one hundred. We're seing more
guys than ever are throwing over one hundred. I'm not
saying I'm again I'm not watching a ramdo. No, it's
a fact. It's a fact more guys than ever are
throwing high nineties and over one hundred. But are they saying,
I mean, is is that? Are those all the guys
that are going down? I mean a hundred? Brown's a flamethrower.
Christian Havier wasn't a flame flamethrower. Ragetti's on the three flamethrower. Now,

(07:25):
granted he was hurt for different reasons. Just last year.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
I just.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
We have to just at some point say let's take
some sort of deep dive into this, not out of responsibilities,
but somebody's got to say we're seeing I mean, uh,
what was what is scoobl a guy that throws typically
over one hundred on a regular basis a lot. I
don't know, he's high nineties. I don't think he's over
He's humming it over one hundred all the time. And

(07:55):
you know what you could also say is that the
body just can't do this. But the body was not
born to throw with a torque in the way that
the spin rate, and that you're going to just have
more injuries in baseball among pitchers. And if you want
to have that, that's fine. But expand rosters sports science
and that the honing and sharpening of all the tools

(08:15):
is evolving way faster than bodies can catch up. And
that's that's what's happening right now. I mean, sports sciences
revolutions any even even since you and you know you
got in this business, man or I got in this business,
we know so much more in the pitching and the
fastballs have gotten so much faster, and it's every sport,
it's every sport. It's massive injuries in the NFL basketball.

(08:40):
We're talking about a killing, right Achilles. And Okay, so
let me ask you this then and again, I don't
have a super old school from a reference to this,
but why did pitchers in the nineteen seventies and even
before that late sixties, the Bob Gibson's, the Steve Carlton's,
the Nolan Ryan's. Uh, I'm trying to think of some

(09:01):
other big time hard throwers. Maybe we weren't paying attention
in our list. Guys are throwing harder. It's a couple
of things. Yes, guys are throwing harder than they ever
have ever, and it's not even close.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Everybody's like, Robbie Hummell, you threw a pitch and then
it was racing a Model T and it was going
one hundred miles an hour. That's like inexact science with
a film camera that's going like twenty frames per second. Okay,
guys are throwing harder than ever. And then exactly what
you said, there were guys that we never heard of
and don't remember who were either great prospects and ruined

(09:37):
their arms. They used to just call it dead arm.
When you your when you tore your ucl back in
the day, you were done. They're like, well they got
the dead arm, and now come here is Ova. That
was it. They just called it the dead arm. And
then your deed was done and we never heard from
you again. So we didn't think about it. We didn't
talk about it because you couldn't get repaired, you couldn't
come back. We just celebrated the ones that could do
it exactly. It's called survivorship virus. Like if you like

(10:01):
everybody thinks, oh, you know this toaster, My grandma had
this toaster for thirty years. They don't make them like
they used to it. Well, yeah, there's a million toasters
that failed and we don't remember those. We don't talk
about those, you know, all right, I missed the toasters. Yeah,
because everything every toaster I'm watching throw in that Mandeland
game is getting hurt. It feels like everybody's like, why
don't they build a black Nolan Ryan. There's one Nolan Ryan.

(10:24):
Little one dude was my favorite. He was in cy
Young Cy Young rubber arm. Cy Young wasn't rumming it
at ninety nine miles an hour with a spin rate
of like three thousand r PMS is just different, and
maybe some of those guys would be built different and
would be able to survive. Nolan Ryan is surviving any

(10:45):
area obviously, right, but he he is the exception rather
than the rule. Yeah, yesterday it was ugly. Lance tried
to give it a go, and now dumb. I asked
Astros Twitter, y'all are just stupid as you just why
did Joe allow h mccullors to stay out there to

(11:08):
get beat up because he could throw, because the Astros
don't have pictures? Why did he let them out there?
Is his game's over? It was six to Why did
he wanted him to let mccollors out there? No, they're like,
why are you continue to throw lansm colors when the
game was close? The game wasn't gonna be close. Astro's
bullpen's been taxed. It has been all season long. Nobody's

(11:28):
got to get you innings. He went two and two thirds. Yeah,
it was like you stretched him to six. You just
got to start muting people. I'm serious to you, and
I'm not feeling great, so I want to make sure
I call myself. No, it's okay, you don't have to
come after him. He's just I've been begging for smart,
intelligent baseball conversation. I listened to a guy called the

(11:51):
show The Poorest wanting Jordan Alvauz traded. That's not the answer.
You want to trade Jornon Alvauz. You can go fill
up with four or five prospects for three or four
years down the road and then just basically start over
from scratch. Is that what you want? I would say,
you want to retool and be able to compete in
the next couple of years, and jord On Alvarez would

(12:13):
be your centerpiece of that. I honestly don't understand why
people say trade yord On him blow everything up. But
then you're talking, he's on a great contract the next
couple of years, if you're paying him forty five million
dollars a year, if he was if he was the outlier,
and he was making all this money and hampering your
other decisions within your organization, then I would say, okay.

(12:34):
But just because you your team this year has been
saddled with terrible pitching injuries, doesn't mean you fix it
by getting rid of your one of your five greatest
hitters in the history of the franchise. Who's still very
much an upward trend.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
He just is.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, number one in franchise history in ops plus number one.
You can't wait see more of it now. Look, do
I think the Astros could be in a much of
a selloff team? Absolutely could be for sure.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
Yeh.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
But ah what does that mean though? Does that mean everybody?
Does that mean Pena Brown? What do you have to
sell off? Yeah? I meanach, you could sell your but
you need Esaca right now now that Carlos Kray has
done for the season. I hate selling off because the
I mean just in theory, because prospects are prospects. Prospects

(13:21):
means unknown, Prospects mean players, doesn't mean guarantees. Prospect means
no major league track record. Honestly, how many of the
prospects of the Astros sent off that the Astros have
been burned by? Not many?

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Not all?

Speaker 2 (13:32):
You think about it, I mean low perfetal. You moved
to Toronto for U, say Kakuchi, and you didn't do
much there. Now you brought him back here. I'm just
using one small example of that. You know what I'm saying.
When you say prospects, it's almost like the guarantee and
I think all of us in media get caught up
in that too. Is that if you say we're gonna

(13:53):
go get prospects, we're gonna replish. It doesn't necessarily mean
the prospects you're getting back are gonna make a difference.
They just don't. Or you're gonna have you're gonna have
a high draft. You're gonna be able to use your
draft system. Walker you Onick is hurt in batting one
twenty five, there's your future catcher. You're supposed to think
about moving on ourdas first base that's been slowed down considerably.

(14:16):
Let's see Ryan Clifford was on a top hundred list.
The fringe of it with the Mets, Drew Gilbert hasn't
done much. Nope, I'm trying to. Yeah, try the Seth
Bears and the other dudes like that. Nothing at all. Yeah,
Corbyn Martin, who exactly all right? Show This first segment

(14:36):
always flies by so fast. Today. I know Brian mctagger
at eleven o'clock's going to join us at eleven thirty.
I just don't get it. Today News at noon and
believe it or not, today all things about Ted Turner
passing away yesterday at the age of eighty seven, probably
one of the five most significant people in the history
of electronic media. Oh really, you think about it? Okay,
create a news network, owned, a sports team, a sports

(14:59):
team managed, sports team managed. The America's Cup, bat Way
bet was America's Cup? What's the good? The boating one,
the voting thing. I'm sure, why not? I think it's
America's Cup? Is that?

Speaker 4 (15:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Is it called America's Cup? I don't get into the
yachting thing. Yeah, I think so. Mary ted To Jane
Fonda loved pro wrestling pretty much. A gentleman of all
of all, jack of all trades, Jack of all trades.
That's right. Seven one three two one two five seven
nine If you want to join in seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. Life about Carlos Krey.

(15:30):
I will discuss that next ten eighteen on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I know I teased about Carlos Crey in
Life after Him. It's gonna be the greatest most expensive
coach in the Astros history for the rest of the season. Well,
I'll tell you what UH do to worry about us.

(15:51):
East Party's moving on because that guy's gonna be here.
Got to play him, need him. Had a lot of
expensive coaches in this town, you know, kid Fred van
Vliet made a lot of money coach the Rockets this year,
John Wallas, John Wall, Fred Van Vleet, Yeah, Fred van Vleet,
John Wall, Carlos, Joe Mixon. I don't think he was
coaching Joe Mixon showing up on my Twitter timeline that

(16:12):
I can't. I was looking to see if something can happen.
Is he doing? Okay? I saw big man? Did you
see a big hole?

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Man?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
You didn't see a hole in the stree? Did you?
When am I getting my pastry in my coffee? By
the way, when Jonathan gets a sound by effects right,
he's busy. He's talking to Gordy came and talked to him. Okay,
I got you. Yeah, what happened Joe? Maybe he wants
the Joe mixing gunshot. Still nobody has reported that. I
feel like if somebody shot themselves, there would be a

(16:39):
credible report. It is secret in Houston sports history. It
would be a credible reporter who would report it at
some point. Generally when you show, we don't have very
many credible reporters in his town. So we have enough,
though we have enough Jonathan Alexander, Aaron Wilson. That's enough
right there to get to the wrest ofwater carriers. Come
on YouTube page and watch me and takes bro suck.

(17:00):
That's twice in two Segmentsip Jar sip jar, Are you okay?

Speaker 1 (17:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
My astros? Look at my astros? They're not good? What
about them? Well? My rockets?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
What am I gonna do?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
What are we gonna do? We're got Cougar football season
coming up shortly twelve an old baby expanded football playoffs
for a couple of years. No going back to the
central point. We had to call it that. If you
want to call back I I this is not just
about the astros. This is about in general. Baseball is
a wonderful sport with wonderful pictures that are going down

(17:33):
for a long periods of time. If you want to
just tell me that everybody's gonna get hurt and then
it just is gonna be. It's not a matter of if.
But when I guess I can accept what kind of
scenems like, that doesn't it? I think?

Speaker 8 (17:45):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (17:46):
I mean Spencer Arraghetty was on the A team and
he was mentioning that we've had pictures on and it's
like it's like something you gotta put out of your
mind because it's it is almost a matter of if
not when. But let me ask you this, and I
listened to this yesterday. I think it was on the
A team. As a matter of fact, are the Astros
gonna get the voodoo reputation of don't come here? I

(18:07):
don't think. I hope not. I don't think so. Everybody
around baseball, even while I was watching MLB based network yesterday,
second consecutive year this team has been labeled with over
a dozen major injuries. I don't think so. I think
that's more of us than the fans watching that. I

(18:27):
think the players they know everyone gets hurt. As I
just said, we talked to them and they know this happens,
and they know they put their bodies on the line.
And the injuries, I mean Alex Bregman and others have
talked about this too, remember he was having hamstring injuries
like every year. These guys have talked about it and
they know and then it's very very simple, You're gonna
pay me how much? Yeah, I'll come to the Astros'

(18:47):
that's it. But I mean, for two consecutive days to
have your catcher going the injury list in the in
the cage, and then you have Carlos Korea not only
going the injured list, but have to face six to
eight months of rehabilitation after having surgery. Yeah, I don't
think different players in different organization and a lot of

(19:10):
them our friends are talking to each other like, yeah,
it's crazy, everybody's going down over here. But I don't
think there's like some kind of people thinking it's a
voodoo or you know, is our players on the Giants
paying attention to how many players are on the I
l of the Mets'm it's just around the cages kind
of tie.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't think it's like a huge like, oh I
can't go to Houston. All those guys are getting hurt.
I don't think so.

Speaker 9 (19:33):
But to your point whereless like you know, they're probably
like the money's there, we're going to go with the exactly.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
But oh, but you said you're talking about your U
of H Just no, because athletes do we that is
gonna talk about it because it's the organization. That's all
I was saying yesterday. It falls on the ash as
a whole like it. But they changed their they changed
their head trainer last year. It's a new whole, different guy.
That makes it worse.

Speaker 9 (19:54):
So what's going on that everybody still is getting hurt
and you still hire new people?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mean, do you as the medical team, like the
doctors are they the ones? But but the doctors aren't
with the guys every single day. They only come basically
when nasks I have the word for you please, and
I said it yesterday, I think, but I didn't say
the word because I didn't know what it was. Apenia. Okay.
The word of the day is believe it or not.

Speaker 10 (20:19):
Today.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
The human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns, connections or relationships
and random unrelated data or coincidences. Did did Yaner Diaz
hurt his what did he hurt oblique? Or did he
hurt his oblique because Jeremy Paine hurt his hamstring? No,
I don't think so well. I don't think there's a connection.

(20:42):
The only thing that you could attach all these two
is that the medical staff and the training staff. But
the medical staff has their workouts, routines either too hard
or too soft, whether they are taking the wrong type
of supplements, but they're not all under the same right,
this is thing to every one of those guys. They
have their own they have their own training staff, they

(21:04):
have their own There's Team Paena, then there's Team Diez,
and there's Team Alvarez, and there's Team whatever. They all
have their own guys, and they're not all the head trainers.
It's not like PE in third period, all right, everybody
line up time for a stretch. No, they're all on
their own thing. They're all on their own regimens, their
own workout regimens. They're all doing their own thing. I

(21:26):
never want you to bring up PE ever again on
the show. Why not because PE coaches in elementary schools
are used to That's right. They make you climb the
ropes short shorts at a whistle and a short poofy
fro for some reason, and they make you do the
shuttle shuttle cock back and forth. You know. Yeah, you

(21:46):
don't play crap soccer back in the day. Yeah, we had.

Speaker 9 (21:49):
It was only on Fridays we have the ropes and
nothing like that.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
Was that was Matt.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
I think President Eisenhower had Matt doing the uh, the
President's test or whatever. We didn't have to either, Jonathan,
you said the President's Physical Fitness and Test. Yeah, we
had to run shuttles and you have to do chin
ups and pull ups and sit ups, and then when
you do sit ups you have your body hold your
your feet down and you wind up gassing because yeah,
you're trying to hold it in. And then you get
two weeks off for the harvest. Got to hit at

(22:19):
elementary school. I loved elementary No now, Playing like a
dodgeball on Friday's was fun. Yeah, and watching running a
Lot I think that got legislated out, and then running
a lot destroying people on football tape Thursday was pretty good.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
What.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, you know those hard hitter Watch those? Oh yeah,
I used to watch those at home. They were showing
them in school. Twenty percent of them now are legal
in the NFL. The NFL's hardest hit. Yes, most bone
rattling hits. Watch Ronnie a Lot take off his index fingers,
stay alive on the football them cart this guy off
in an ambulance. That those are good videos. Ten thirty
one on Sports or Builders. That's right, ten thirty one

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the day off. They'll play the Reds tomorrow in the
Natty ten thirty one. Here on seven ninety ten thirty

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five on Sports Talk seven NINTI matted Ross with you
at seven one three two one two five sevenati seven
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Brian mctagger coming up at eleven o'clock. I just don't
get at eleven thirty twelve, one fifty, we'll have believe
it or not today all things about Ted Turner and

(23:40):
I don't know. I don't feel like the NBA is
gonna move the needle last night, although we did see
the Nicks beat the seventy six ers for a second
straight game. They're up to nothing and then the San
Antonio Spurs. I fell asleep, honestly in the after after halftime.
They destroyed the Minnesota Timberwolves, I mean destroyed them. We're

(24:03):
setting for our way for a San Antonio versus Oklahoma
City Western Final, which was I think a lot of
folks probably thought they've They've been a conic collision course
basically all season long. I think everybody's him and Holland
about the Rockets and roster construction and Udoka and offensive
schemes and this and that. These are the two best
teams in the West and they're gonna meet in the

(24:23):
Western Finals, and I think that's how it was going
to be. And you know what, they can knock it
out this year and the next year. I'm both going
to be ravaged by injuries. Wow. Yeah, because neither one
of them like they're going to be slowing down. Oklahoma
has got drafted, is only getting better. The injuries completely
changed the complexion of the East, completely change the complexion
of the Rockets. Frankly, yes as well, that's true. Yeah,

(24:46):
so the Rockets are new for some injury luck. Yes,
I want Oklahoma City to get hurt. I want San
Antonio to get hurt.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I can't hide it. Okay, right, I guess who do
you want to get hurt? Every one of them? Everything
Johnson via uh divan shot there, Daron Fox pull quad
out months say, Gilds Alexander gets hit finally on a
real foul acla and the Bahamas for one of them
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Rodgers with us at ten thirty seven.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Roger Good morning, Good morning man, Good morning, ross. Hey,
just a hypothetical with all these injuries seem to be
more of the norm than just anomalies, and they're they're
happening more each year. I wonder, do you think in
this I'll get the wet sau portion after I hang up.
I just wonder if the roster construction is going to

(25:40):
be the whole idea lotgy ideology of them building a
roster pitching roster is going to be totally different. Now
I'm talking about adding or adding more to the roster,
expanding the roster, and even cutting down on salaries. Because
of that, and because the face starting pitchers are just
getting injured rabid by every year after year, it's becoming

(26:01):
more frequently. I don't know what it could be. Could
be the pitch clock, could be just a what's the
vacation of modern apolte, who knows, but it's just happening
more and more, and I was just wondering it's going
to be something that's going to have to make some
kind of dramatic change later on in baseball.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Just just a thought.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Thanks, Roger. You know what you know who should be
very interesting in this, Rossie, is the pictures because if
these pitchers continue to go down, guess what the salaries
are going to do. That's why running back to in
the NFL don't get the super big money because the
injury bug hits guys in the running back Also, they're replaceable.
Picture a high level pitcher is like we're seeing right now,

(26:41):
Hunter Brown is not very replaceable in the Houston Astros roster.
But yeah, I mean it's interesting. That's why I talked
about we in the off season, is like, if you're
choosing Jeremy Paine or a Hunter Brown, part of me
wants to choose Jeremy Paanya just because I don't want
to pay a pitcher forty million dollars to to be
on the sidelines with the UCL tear, it's more likely

(27:04):
that a position player. Now, of course, Jeremy Pene is
out with a hamstring injury and he had what the
ribbed thing last year, right, but he's still at the
end of the day, hopefully going to play like one
hundred twenty games. That's what I'm saying. I think for
the for the greater good of the sport. Now, granted
you're talking about Hunter Brown, you're talking about one as
per team that's thirty pitchers. There's a lot of the

(27:25):
pictures that are number two, number three's on rosters that
would like to get paid too, And they're not gonna
get paid because they're afrad. They're gonna get hurt. It's interesting,
and I mean, and then you pay guys and then
they get hurt. How are the astros feeling about the
Christian Hovier deal right now? Awful? How do they feeling
about tattoo e my deal right now? Terrible? How they
felt about the Lance mccullors deal. For all these years,
Terrekneaples made the biggest arbitration dollars ever. Yeah, he's on

(27:49):
the sidelines right now. What's Garrett Crochet making in Bostoners
he's still under arbitration. I'll have to look. I think
he's got he had like a year left or something
was traded. Just look at the Astro situation, the amount
of money that the Crane ownership group has spent on
pictures and it hasn't paid off. And that's why I
think there's gonna be a little bit of hesitation when
it comes to Hunter Brown. Yeah, Crochet did get his

(28:11):
big deal. He's making twenty five million this year. But
I don't think about all the different pictures. Who you
got to the Max Shirtch's of the world have made
crazy money. Who was the Dodger pitcher that was making
lit great money until I retire recently? Clayton Kershaw, Verlander
Granky made great money, Kevin Brown made great money. I

(28:32):
could go, I mean, on on and on with guys
that just never could fulfill the link to our contract
because of the fact that they spent so much time
on the injury list. If I'm a pitcher and I'm
in a high ender, I want to know why my brethren,
my fraternity is having such a difficult time. So wealthy, Josh,

(28:54):
what's a lot think about this for a second, gag
the amount of money that has been spent on Hater Verlander, Javier,
not Hunter Brown, per se just yet he's making decent,
but he was he was scheduled to make that kind

(29:15):
of money. If you're Jim Crane, does this, oh Emi,
does this make you super super laro of spending big
money on pitchers? I think, well, he's super larious spending
big money on anybody. Yeah, So honestly, y'all think about it.
Baseball is the only sport like Matt you said, that
pays these players that aren't that don't have much shelf time,
like running backs. I mean you can even talk about

(29:37):
it to track.

Speaker 9 (29:38):
You can even go down to all these other sports
that if they're not shelf time, you're not gonna get paid.
And baseball is the only one that risks all that
money going into Obviously it's a necessity, but.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Now running backs, to Ross's point, are easily replaceable. Having
you can go from well, I don't know, uh, Barkley
pie and been replacement running back. They're the only ones
with fully guaranteed long term contract because there's limits. You
can only there's limits, and there's maximums. In the NBA,
there's a maximum amount. There's no max on years, there's

(30:10):
no max on money. In baseball, that's the only one
that's like that to kind of what you were saying there, Jonathan. So, yeah,
it is is a unique animal to where you can
get a ten year, four hundred million dollar contract. You
can't do that in basketball. You certainly ain't doing that
in football, and you probably aren't doing it in baseball anymore.
That's yeah, I don't know, you kind of don't have

(30:30):
a choice. You have it has to be almost a
collusion of the owners to kind of all step back
and say, hey, we can't do this, or a salary
cap or you're seeing a lot of these opt outs
like Todd, so you might just sawn he's opting in.
It's like Billy Joel said, I'm opting in, Denise. That's

(30:54):
a song, right, that's Dona Ross. Oh, No, he's coming out.
I'm moving out. I'm opting in. You know, usually, folks,
I'm the one that butchers the music references. I know
that the song was Matt what is it. I'm moving out,
Billy Joel. Okay, I thought you were. I thought you
were going Diana Ross. Oh, I'm coming out, Yeah, come

(31:17):
in opting and I'm opt in in. I want the
world to know I'm gonna take that money and let
you show that I can pitch in the United States
or maybe not, but I'm still opt in. And there
you go. What's wrong with us?

Speaker 6 (31:38):
A lot?

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh, I'm sorry you wanted more breakdown of twelve to two. No,
So let's break down pitch by pitch. Jason Alexander's outing. No,
he's back in Sugar lad seven one three, two, one two,
five seven ninety seven one three, two, one two five
seven Nintie. Brian mctager coming up in fifteen minutes. We're
gonna hear from also from Dana Brown today he was
the Morning Show. We'll see how you mean it was

(32:01):
a barrel of laughs. Oh, I'm sure it was just
Hey boys, good act. But I'm so glad to do
this with you. He went to breakdown. I got news
for you. What are you What are you gonna do
with data?

Speaker 6 (32:13):
Here?

Speaker 2 (32:13):
We got the draft coming up in two months because
he's drafting. Why why not? Well, you're gonna make a replacement?
No you can. No, I'll look, I'll give you the argument. Okay,
I don't want him to go, but I'm gonna give
you drafting. I'm gonna give you the argument. Ten forty
four on Sports Talk seven Hounty. Ten forty nine on

(32:35):
Sports Talk seven Hounty. We'll have Brian mctagger join us.
And again, I have nothing in Zanna Brown. He's trying,
he's trying to make moves, he's going on the directive
of his ownership, trying to keep payroll where it's at,
trying to field roster field as much depth in the
pitching chorus possible. But you know, there's We've talked about

(32:57):
this the last handful of day Sports survey. You got
fall guys. You can't fire an administration, you can't fire
an entire team. You can fire the man who's ultimately responsible.
And I think Joe and Dana know that on lame
duck contracts with him not having a deal, they know
that their time was limited. If you don't think it's
working and you are going to make a change, Logically,

(33:21):
to me, it's you let the lieutenant handle the draft.
You let the lieutenant handle the draft deadline, of the
trade deadline, because the guy that's gonna be making these
moves isn't going to be the part of your free
future in twenty twenty seven. I mean, I understand that,
but I feel I mean, it could happened. Dana could
get dismissed, and they'll go with somebody else to run
the draft if they don't think that the draft picks

(33:43):
have been good, which is so far, I don't think
there's a single one that's in the top hundred of
any prospect lists, and you've got three years of draft classes.
So I'm not saying it's the craziest thing, but if
if he's going to be gone, you're gonna You're just
gonna let some underling of him make all the draft
picks and run the drafts, when when he has the

(34:05):
experience of somebody who has done this, and you drafted
in here as a scout and as somebody to he's
here to run drafts because there's anything else. But he's
not going to be the future general manager of your team.
So why are you putting the the future picks in
his hand? Neither is the underling? You don't know that?
Probably not, So Dana Brown's bad and we're gonna go

(34:25):
with his first lieutenant. Yeah, I mean I I yeah, absolutely, yeah,
yeah you could. I absolutely. I believe it's I believe
it is something that should be considered. I'm not saying
I want it to happen. I'm saying that if you
cannot be naive to the thought that why would you
let a default, lame duck general manager run your draft

(34:46):
when you know he's on the part of your tape.
The easy reason to let this see itself out is
because everybody's been hurt, and you're also Dana Brown has
been If you're Jim Crane, Dana Brown has been under
your orders. Dana Brown had to ship out Mauricio Dubon
for Nick Allen because you want to stay under the tax.
Dana Brown had to go and ship out Haesu Sanchez
and bring back Joey Lo Perfido because you wanted him out.

(35:09):
Dana Brown hasn't been able to get any sort of
semblance of any big name free agent because you wanted
him out. Then why hasn't Jim backed up Dana with
an additional contract then? Because I'm sure he is unsure
of how good of a job Dana is doing. It's
not fair in life, but business owners take out general

(35:32):
managers even though maybe the ownership fault. Maybe you know
general managers of restaurants. I mean, I don't want to
serve this meanness and as good as all you normally serve.
Or down twenty percent, you're doing it okay, then down
twenty percent? What do you do? You fire yourself? No,
you fire the general manager. I'm not saying Dana Brown
is some general managing genius, but I think he's had
a bad He's been in put in a bad situation. Yeah,

(35:54):
and maybe the ross Maybe the general managers are always
put in bad situations. Don't get over the we have
to compet, we need to be World Series contenders. Oh,
by the way, the competitive balance tax threshold is radioactive.
Stay away from that at all costs. And oh, by
the way, you're gonna trade for Justin Verlander. You're gonna
trade for u se Kakuchi. You're gonna trade away what

(36:14):
any little bit of prospects you have, and you're gonna
sign big money to Josh Hader. Oh and by the way,
eighteen nineteen people are going on the aisle one year
and then you're up to what is it, fourteen fifteen
this year for the one hundredth time. It's not fair.
But you've got to still think. I think you have

(36:36):
to think of an owner if you are like, this
isn't working out. The prospect the Monolingue system isn't as good.
The players who brought in hasn't made the difference. You've
signed all these pictures that haven't Benue Deference, Ryan Weiss,
Mike Burrows. Ryan Weiss has been a disaster. Yeah, Burrows,
you had got in mid Yeah, you've had to build
guys on the cheap too. Yeah, you have to try

(36:59):
to make something where with Mike bro. Peter Lambert's been good.

Speaker 12 (37:02):
Peter.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Do we get any credit for Peter Lambert here?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
You do?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Okay, but but Peter Lambert doesn't. The success of Peter
Lambert does not overshadow this the non success of the team.
I'm just saying, don't sleep on the fact that there
may be somebody doing the heavy lifting around the deadline
if they become something you brought around. You brought Hayden
wesn Esky. He was pretty good and then he ripped
his arm apart. Brandon Walter was pitching very well from you,

(37:26):
and then his arm fell apart. Christian Xavier. That's not
Dana Brown's fault. Lance mc colors Junior, certainly the eight
Dana Brown's fault. You got to throw Dana Brown out there.
I mean, uh, Lance mccollor's and when he was healthy,
Christian Javier and I feel like Jim Crane had a
heavy involvement in bringing tots. So you emi over there
with a dyking deal. Yeah, okay, So all those things
you just said made a tremendous amount of success or

(37:49):
uh made tremendous amount of uh sense. I would say,
at least let him see Yeah, I mean see you
can you can you see turn around so you see him.
Both guys out. That's why, over and over again I
have said, if you're really going to make a move,
do it at the end of the year. Don't be
cool with these guys because a lot of the things

(38:11):
you just said are out of their hands. Now some
could be Roster construction wasn't great. Everything you brought in
hasn't panned out. I mean, Lambert was not on your
radar to be a guy that was supposed to come in.
You were good, you were you were spouting Ryan Weiss,
you were spouting Mike Burrows a big trade there. You
were saying that life would go on without Mauricio Dubond.
That has not worked out. Now, you did keep paridies.

(38:35):
A lot of it was because you had to, not
necessarily because you wanted it, wanted to because you needed
to because you had guys that are hurt. The email deal.
How much of that was Dyk and how much of
that was uh, you know, going to find the international market.
How much of that was Jim Crane. We'll never know
them know the rule rail answers. I'm I'm just knowing

(38:56):
how big business works and big business, and the big
boss says, I've got to make a change. Why don't
want to let my current people running it have any
intel about the future of my team. So that's why
I'm almost if I was a Dana Brown fan, I'd
be more nervous about Dana Brown's future at this point
than I would be of a Joe Aspata because you
do have the draft coming up, and you do have

(39:17):
the trade deadline. Yeah, I mean, if you have somebody
in place that you think is going to do a
better job, I guess go for it. You don't. You
have the lieutenant, you have the interim, and in terms
usually don't do a better job. They just are the placeholders.
That's what I'm saying. Like, I mean, if you have
somebody waiting in the wings who is a baseball scouting genius,
and yes, this guy's tweeting me. Bryce Matthews was not

(39:39):
a top hunter prospect on Baseball Perspective or base Baseball
America list. I think he was like literally one hundredth
on on the MLB pipeline list. And Kevin Alvarez is
not a draft pick. So, by the way, shout out
to elementary school pee teaters in general. We've got. He
was an international signing, not a draft pick, and Alvarez

(40:02):
is doing very well. Yeah, but the pr Academy has
not done enough the dr I would say, and they
tried to go international. Shout out to pe teachers across
the area. I love y'all. I just had a bad one.
Oh okay, I just can get random text from people. Hey,
we're not all the same breed. Sander, if you're out

(40:22):
there listening, God love, you were the best, although I
don't know you never were my pee teacher. I just
had a couple of salty ones back in the day,
and again, the whole rope thing was just uncomfortable. That's
all I'm saying. All right, let's get to our friend
Brian McTaggart of astros dot com. Will talk to him
about what he saw yesterday. He was making a lot
of headlines himself because he was putting his videos out

(40:45):
there talking about how bad Carlos Crale was torn ten
in six to eight months recovery, yikes.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
He is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Every Thursday at ten eleven o'clock. We spend ten calling
a minutes with our friend Brian McTaggart Brian's videos are
becoming way too popular apparently, so I got to put
my face on these Twitter videos, Instagram. The man is
all over the place, and uh, I think, Brian, you're
gonna have to start watching more batting practice because the
last two times the Astros took batting practice before night games,

(41:25):
they sent two guys the injured list. What's going on
down on that plate at about five forty five six o'clock.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
Yeah, that was crazy. I think Cores was actually inside
inside the hitting tunnel. You know, a lot of players
now don't like to hit on the field, so Crea
was hitting inside. So I wouldn't have seen that one anyway,
because apparently he crumpled to the ground. Diaz, I, yeah,
I did not see that one at all when he
was swinging and had to stop. But it's unfathomable that
two days in a row they lose a guy in

(41:54):
batting practice and one of their starters, position players and
a key player. It's just you think, just when you
think they've had enough injuries and they can't get any
more than that happens and I'm speechless. I've never seen
anything like this.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
That's the thing, Brian, is that we're being asked the
same questions you are, Well, you change the medical staff out,
you change out the physical strength and conditioning, you do
all of a sudden, behind the scene things that we
don't see. We have to assume they're all professionals of
their job. They've got training to it. Do you want
to just chalk this up to a second year of unbelievable,

(42:31):
terrible lack of luck, or do you think there's even
another deep dive within the organization that has to be
done because of the number of injuries that have happened
to this team so far this year.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
Well, I mean they changed head trainers, they train changed
their head strength and conditioning coach, They've brought in other
people to the medical staff. I mean, they've made a
lot of changes to their medical staff and it's still
happening happening. So, I mean, I lean on the side
of this is just a easy coincidence. I mean, I
don't think there's I can't imagine there's anything going on

(43:04):
with the astros that is getting all these guys injured.
I mean, you know, Korea looks like he just rolled
his ankle, I guess taking a swing. I mean, you
know whose fault is at is. Nobody's just just you know,
it's it's just unfortunate luck. And you know DS swings
the bat and feels no oblique. I mean, Diaz is
in good shape as far as I know. He does

(43:24):
all their workouts and their plans, and I guess, I
guess there's no firm answer. But you know, two years
in a row, they've had more injuries than anybody, and
you know, I know it's frustrating and everyone wants answers,
and the answer might be it's just the way it is.
There is no there is no answer.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
All right, we'll speaking of injuries. Mcclor's nail. What do
we know about what happened yesterday? His ability to stay
out there was good. Unfortunately he was just throwing stuff
that was easily hittable as the Dodgers took two out
of three. But what do we know about Lance right
now in the nail and whether or not that'll impact
the way he makes his next appearance.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Well, I mean, apparently you know, he's leading off the
third inning against Freeland, the nine hole hitter. In the
third inning, the part of his nail tore off on
his pointer fingernail on his right hand. They came out
there and looked at it. He said, I don't have
my curve ball anymore, but let me try to finish
this inning. I can make quality pitches. They said, okay,
just because they really can't afford their starter to go

(44:22):
two innings. And then he couldn't get out of the
third inning because he said he was a pitch down.
So he was asked directly if it's going to impact
his next start. He said, we'll see. So it would
not shock me considering the struggles that Lance has had
that if they put him on the injured list, you know,
I'm the problem is who do you replace him with.

(44:44):
I mean they you know, they bring up Jason Alexander
and you know he gets knocked around. They're just at
the end of their starting pitching depth. They just don't
have anybody anymore. So just because of all these injuries.
So and you know, Emi is going to come back
and start against Seattle just because kind of what I
did yesterday. Look, I mean, this guy's not injured, he's
throwing ninety seven. He's making a ton of money, you know,

(45:08):
to get guys out in the big leagues or you don't,
so sink or swim time, and so that's where they're
at with him. So it's just nothing about this feels
really good if you're the Astros, but it's just where
they're at.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Brian McTaggart was us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and that's what I was gonna come with. You, come
to with, come to you next, Brian McTaggert is tatsu
I MA, how were you surprised at all that they
kind of made that decision to just throw him in there?
Or is it like you said, it's just a necessity
and you kind of go out there and get some
outs and earn this contract.

Speaker 6 (45:42):
Yeah, I wasn't surprised. I mean, you know, what more
can you do. Let let's let's give him another minor
league start, and you know he walks four guys and okay,
now what you know? I mean, he's they signed him
here major league hitters out and that's what he's going
to have to figure out a way to do. His
first two winnings, Tuggar, I mean I was out there,
I was watching the Astros play at Dyking, But apparently

(46:03):
his first two eatings weren't bad. And then and then
the rails sort of came off, but he mentioned something
about the pitch clock, and I mean we've heard everything now,
We've heard pitchclock, the mound, the balls eating schedule, you know,
you name it. At some point, you're just gonna have
to go out there and man up and get guys out.
And that's the point of the season we're at. And

(46:24):
they're in a really tough part of their schedule right here.
I mean, they just finished playing the Dodgers. You know,
Cincinnati was playing well. You know, they were in first
a few days ago. Now they're they're in last, but
they're still over five hundred. And you know, the Mariners
are just took a series from the Brave, so they're
sort of on the calm. So there's really no soft
landing spot at this point. You're just gonna have to
go out there and get major league hitters out. That's

(46:45):
what we're paying you to do. So it's time to
go do that.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
If it keeps trending in this way, how much grace
do either of Joe Aspata or Dana Brown get in
terms of the injuries and the situation they are on,
Like how thin of ice do you you feel like
both of those guys are on.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
Yeah, that's that's tough because I pinning any of this
on Joel Spot. I just I don't think it's fair.
I mean, you take away the amount of players. We're
talking five starting position players, three members of your starting
rotation who are in the rotation to start the season,
and you're All Star closer. You take them away, and
there's not a manager around that's going to have this

(47:26):
team in first place or you know, playing much better
than they are now. That's just the way it is.
So but I get it. It's some you know, people
want answers, people want accountability. Uh, Jim Crane has never
made a move with a manager or a general manager
in the middle of the season, so that that I
think we're too early for that stuff. I think at

(47:48):
the All Star break maybe maybe that's the time that
the Crane will, you know, sit down and evaluate things.
I have not asked him about this. I've not had
the chance to talk to them about you know, what
do you thinks of the state of the team right
now and where they're at. So it's really hard to say.
It's all speculation, but my gut just tells me I
don't think we're to that point and I think would
be really really unfair, uh for Joe just just with

(48:09):
all the injuries that they've had. It's just, uh, he's
running guys out there who you know should be in
the minor leagues and there's you know, that's that's not
an indictment on him, that's just the roster that he's
been given.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
And specifically on Dana Brown. Matt and I were talking
about this in the last segment. If I mean, what
do you think the prospects of him in terms of
also the draft that you have coming up in terms
of could you just talk tell just tell us how
that goes? Has How involved is Dana Brown? Is he
making the pigs? Is it like director of scouting? And
does the board built? Like what would that entail if

(48:41):
if it weren't Dana Brown running running the draft?

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Well, you know, data was data was brought here because
of his draft record. One of the reasons. I mean
he's a uh, you know, he's a scout at heart.
He's had he had some really good drafts with the Braves,
and so would the draft is what in July? So
I would find it hard to believe they would make
a move. I mean, Dana is very very involved in

(49:09):
the draft. I mean, they brought in Derek Ladimir, who's
you know, one of the top of talent evaluators a
couple of years ago, and and he's very involved as well.
So you know, there's a lot of voices that are
involved in in their draft selection process. But but Dana's
up there as well. Now, if if they managed, if
they did make a move a general manager, would they
still uh, would they still have capable guys who can

(49:31):
make draft picks?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (49:32):
I mean they have a lot of pretty good talent
talent evaluators that Dana brought in. I mean, these are
these are Dana's guys, So you know, do you do
you remove that? If you remove Dana, then you know,
you know, do you other guys stay. I mean, these
are all questions I just don't have an answer to.
So it's sort of uncharted waters at this point.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
It certainly is uncharted waters. But let's let's put this
in perspective here. You have been hanging around the American
League West despite the fact that your team is under
five hundred, the divisi isn't good. But how important are
these Look? Every game is important, but the next seven
at home after you go to this trip to Cinsanni
will be against all division teams. That feels like to me.

(50:11):
Next week is a very important week for figuring out
whether you are just hanging around and thankfully you're hanging around,
or there will be some separation between the top and
the bottom teams in the American League West.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
Yeah, I agree. I mean you look at the standings,
You're like, there's you know, they're not even you know,
at the quarter market a season yet, and you know
there's still sort of in a spot to where if
they could get it together, they could make a little
bit of a move here. But you're right, I mean,
this this is a big homestand coming up, they had
a three and three road trip to Baltimore and Boston.
I mean, you take you take a five hundred road trip.
You know, you lose two or three to the Dodgers,

(50:44):
who are, you know, the best team of the world.
So now you've got to start stacking some series wins again.
You're you're going to slowly start to get some guys
back off the il here. Penya is really close. I
think we'll see him Knicks home stand. You know, haters
a couple of weeks away is coming back. Well, he's
gonna give you know, I'm not sure that they've got
the Senzo back, so they you know, a little bit

(51:06):
more of a capable player than they had in that
spot a week ago. So but at some point they're
going to have to win two out of every three
win series. But if they had, if they have a
poor home stand against the Mariners and the Rangers and
really get buried in the standings and it starts to
look like it's just not going to happen, then you know,
even then, you know, maybe Crane, you know, has some

(51:26):
difficult conversations. But having not talked to him about this,
it's hard for me to know what he's thinking.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Before I let you run the estoc pretties holding on
to him. It wasn't because the Astros were not trying
to kick the tires. I'm making a move with him
during spring training. They just needed him because of necessity,
because of ailments and whatnot. Now the Kray is out,
I would assume unless the Astros are in a full
cell mode, and that could still be a month from
now that Eastock pretty is still to worry about what

(51:52):
gear he's gonna wear for at least the next thirty
to forty five days.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
Yeah, I don't think he's going anywhere. I mean, he's there.
I mean they they tried to trade him. They they
couldn't find a match, so and and yeah, I mean
they you know, all we talked about all winter was
this this surplus of infielders that they have, and you
know what happened to Penya was hurt, you know, right
off the bat didn't play every day, and then uh

(52:18):
even even Pretis left the team for three days, uh,
you know, for the death of his grandparent, and and
now here Kore is out. So you know, they need him.
I mean he's a guy that's still very young, a
guy that's not making a lot of money, so he's
not going anywhere. He's going to be at third base
the rest of the season, and uh, you know, a
guy'll they'll go into next year, you know, probably looking

(52:40):
to uh be in the middle of their lineup as well.
So if they would have traded him, yeah, I don't
know what they would have got for him, but they
would have been and I'm guessing they would have got
younger players, maybe minor league players who aren't ready now,
so they'd be in a lot worse spot than they are.
So I think that was a silver lining for them
for sure, holding on to Peretis.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
And back to you might have wrapping up here. This
is a situation where he's just got to get out.
This is the money that was being spent. I'm curious
how Scott boris and you've had a chance to deal
with him a little bit. What is Scott? What's going
through Scott's mind right now? Is a wrap up this
young man's first for RGNED American Baseball.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I haven't taught to
Scott about about EMI, but yeah, I mean, I think
you're right. He's just gotta throw strikes, just just put
good guys out, don't walk guys throwing his own I
mean the fact that you know, you know, he's pretty
much a two pitch pitcher, and Dana Brown said the
other day that he would like to see him, Yeah,
you know, throw those two pitches, but you know, maybe

(53:36):
open up a little bit more of the arsenal as well.
Because you throw two pitches, you know, you can get predictable.
If you're a starter for a reliever, you can get
away with it. So you know, maybe there's some pitch
useless things they can change. But you know, I'm sure
Boris is probably frustrated. He wants the best for his clients.
But you know, he's got his money. He's got a
lot of money. And I'm sure you know, if I

(53:58):
was in his situation, I would not lie my era.
I would not like the fact that I'm walking so
many guys every nine innings, and you know, I want
to go out here and shove and show people that
I can do this. So and I get there's a
transition period, but I mean, he was at spring training.
The entire ring he pitched with the pitch clock. He
looked really good. It's you know, it's the same game

(54:18):
that it is now. It's just you know, the lights
are brighter, so maybe it's something between the ears. I
don't know, but you're right. You just got to go
out there and throw strikes and give the team a
chance to win. And he hasn't been doing that. In
two of the three starts he get made in the
big leagues. He didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Tag's great stuff, as always, friend, Thank you for the visit.
We'll talk with a game with you again next Thursday.

Speaker 6 (54:38):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
That's Brian McTaggart with MLB dot Com. Eleven fifteen is
the time. If you missed the Dana Brown conversation, we're
gonna have that for you coming up at twelve twenty today,
So we'll have that. Uh, if you missed that from
this morning's show with the Dan and with Cole, We've
got Brian mctagger we just had there. We've got Ted
Turner on Unbelieve It or Not, and we have your
phone calls at seven one three, two one two five

(55:01):
semin on early. I'm currently editing Danna Brown for our
twelve twenty replay today. He's class half full, which he
has to be shocking. I know, I know it's shocking.
He didn't say we're the worst. I'm gonna get fired.
It's been nice talking to you guys. But he's even

(55:23):
oh of course always overtly optimistic, and you know what
he in his defense, this is not abnormal for this
Aster team to be off to a sluggish start. I mean,
it feels like it's a right of passage, isn't it not. Yeah,
but also this just feels different because of the amount
of injuries. Didn't really hit hard till like the middle
of the season last year. They got off to a
good start last year, right, those bad injuries, well they

(55:44):
were able to withstand them and compete all the way
to the very end. I know, they gave up the
leading the division late and Seattle one on to win
the American League West, but they were tied for the
Wall and Cart and they lost a tire breaker because
of the wins of the Tigers. So thank god, your
division sucks. Thank And that's the thing. And that's why
I brought up with McTaggart a few minutes ago about

(56:04):
whether or not the tidle would change if all of
a sudden, Oakland and Seattle are Seattle and the Rangers
come in next week and beat you up pretty badly
because you're I mean, look the line up yesterday, six seven, eight, nine, ross,
what a murderer's role of offensive lineup. You would be
eleven games behind the Braves, thank God, thank god, God

(56:33):
bless the American League West. He'd be eight and a
half behind the Dodgers. Yeah, blessings of the American League West,
very very good blessings. Oh damn, the Yankees have been
ripping off some dubs. Huh yeah, well again, as mctagger
brought up Seattle is playing better. They beat Atlanta in
a series. You're not going to have a team like

(56:55):
right now, isn't the American League Central? Is anybody above five?
Nineteen and nineteen? The Guardians are leading, So yeah, you'd
be ten and a half games behind the Yankees. You're
only four games behind the age just four. You heard him,
let's go, but that's going. You would you would assume
that it's gonna change, as he said, though you're you're

(57:15):
eight games under five hundred. You gotta start two and
out of threes, four out of five. You gotta need
a little six out of seven or something like that,
six out of eight whatever. Yep, you gotta get to
that point. Yes, you gotta. And you're doing it with
pe smelling a pitching rotation. Now, if Lambert wants to
be a hero, if Ragetty wants to continue to be good,
if Mike Burrows continues his upward trend, You've got some

(57:38):
thoughts the colors. I don't know, I mean, how do
you how do you lose a nail and then come
back and pitch five days later? I doesn't it seems
like article It makes a lot of sense what Mick
Taggart said, I think is going to happen. He's been
pitching horribly. He lost a nail.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
I l.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Coffin. Do you ever lose nails like that? I lost
a toenail. I imagine that it did have you in track, Jonathan.
You lose toenails all the time, right, No, Gil Tone
special wonders they do. I don't you know. I I
peel my toenails off sometimes too. I got a little
delayed blood in there. I got rid of it.

Speaker 9 (58:10):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, okay, at least you know that
was good man. I'm glad you took are so because
I can get bad.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Thank you. Don't pop your your blisters though, No, I'm
done with that. Okay, I'm blistered and popping. Done. I
oping that up. No, imagine it again. No, it's it's
just puss. You got the infection. That all right, Let's
move on, all right. I just don't get it coming
up in a bunch five minutes. Maybe that's my fault.
Why do you pull? What do people poke at their toenails?

(58:35):
Don't do it? Don't do it? Jordan and oak Forrest
in eleven twenty five. Jordan, good morning, do you, Hey.

Speaker 13 (58:41):
Matt, how you doing. I wanted to say thank you,
thank you so much the other week. I want to
believe it or not, Rod Stewart tickets took my dad.
He's had a couple of brain surgeries the last couple
of years, and uh, it was just special to be
able to go to the show and we just loved
it and want to say thank you. Also, I just

(59:01):
want to talk about why our managers and pitching coach
keeps leaving pitchers and struggling innings. You know, they're walking
with Lance Colors, seem to be going well and then
all of a sudden you can watch him come apart
and it becomes six runs seven run innings. And I

(59:22):
know we're not deep right now, but surely there has
to be better recognition of a you know, everything going
damn high wire.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
I would have to respectfully disagree. I think Joe is
having to decide, literally by the minute, who he's got
it available to, who's healthy, who hasn't pitched a lot?
He used Blue Ball a lot, he has used who else?
Brian King a lot? I mean, there's no way if
I was wearing his cap and his responsibility, I'll be

(01:00:00):
able to figure out this pitching staff right now, because
I can't figure out who's healthy on a day to
day basis. Is Now that I had my colors in
the mix, it makes even more difficult.

Speaker 13 (01:00:08):
Yeah, I agree. I mean, you know, mccaulus has had
some good performances recently, but man, we are wild as
a team. You know, just give up so many walks
and put ourselves in almost impossible situations. I don't know
what the answer is to keep them healthy. I do
know that someone has to get fired here on that

(01:00:31):
in terms of help wise keep our players ready to go.
I mean, this is just a pattern. I don't know
if it's bad luck anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Well, thank you for the phone call. You're not gonna
be fired by the angelus. You can be fired by
the results. But I just want everybody when when you
call a show and we and we're guilty of this
as well, when you ask for people to be fired,
put yourself in their shoes. If the situation was exact
same and you were running the team, whether you're them,
field manager or the gentleman, what would you say, I'm

(01:01:02):
responsible for this? I mean, it's just crazy. Shoulder oblique ankle,
a popping of attendant in a batting during bat Yeah,
I mean you can blame the manager for a misplacing guy,
giving a guy a day off if not putting the
line up on the right spot. How the hell are
you gonna throw a manager or a general manager under

(01:01:24):
the bus when the guy pops attendant in a pregame
warm up.

Speaker 6 (01:01:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
It's it's bottom line business and it doesn't look good.
But if I were I would talk more and more
to the players. Anything inside. Players are gonna be biased
this because a lot of these guys, Joe's their guy,
yeah is he has? He lost the clubhouse and they're
all playing horribly because of him. I don't think so.
I'll just say when you lose the clubhouse or people
question what's going on, Chandler Roman and Brian mctaggard and

(01:01:56):
Matt Kwa Kawer, they're all ready to listen. Whether it's
behind this scenes, whether it's in front of the microphone
or behind they'll tell you you don't you don't hear that.
Like when we're getting uh, Chas McCormick and Pudding. There
was a story about Chas McCormick not being happy with
Dusty Baker Yeah, that's just but that's that's a very Yeah,

(01:02:16):
that's that's an example, But that's just a very small example.
If there was aggravation about like in for instance, if
Cardl's Korea said, the reason why my tendon is not
feeling great because I'm playing all this shortstop because there's
nobody else, you could say, well, okay, do the Astros
have enough depth in the left side of the infield.
You'd argue that. But they wouldn't got what's his name,

(01:02:37):
Allan who plays all over the place in the infield.
They wouldn't got another utility guy and he's hurt or
he got hurt. Ye back now. But trust me, if
Cardl's krey In jillseel Tuv, I've got something to bitch about,
they'll do it. They'll be just very convenient how they
do it. So we've got two obliques, a quad right,
a hamstring, yes, and a ripped ankle. Talking about just

(01:03:00):
position players. Is the oblique just we swing too hard?

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
I mean I don't know. I mean we get oblique
injuries all I mean, uh, al two Bays had oblique
recently or done Alvarez had an oblique injury. It's pictures
Walker had ye. Yeah, exactly multiple times.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
Bad.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Yeah, Batters get oblique injuries all the time. It's another thing.
You're trying to get your your bat speed up. One
way to do that, swing out of your shoes, rip
your oblique. Yeah, swing as hard as you can. Look. Friends,
And I consider you all friends, well, most of you,
most of you. I love most of y'all. It's just

(01:03:38):
we don't have answers. And I and I feel like
we can't have answers because this is all medical, because
we don't know. Yeah, this is a case by case
basis as well. I mean, it's not contagious. Jeremy Panion
didn't hurt his hamstring and then that caused your Das
to hurt his oblique. Nothing connects the dots except as

(01:04:01):
happening to your baseball team. If this was happening to
the Toronto Blue Jays, you wouldn't care. Josh Hater got
hurt in his off season throwing program, he wouldn't anywhere
near Houston or West Palm. Yeah, it's you know what, Ross,
I just don't get it. It's not the vitamin water

(01:04:24):
or the lack of the floor ride in Dykin Park
or they're using bad equipment. Cage the electrical grid. Yeah,
it could be some cancer cells over the power of
the top of the building. Huh. It's back well. And
Visio played there for all those years. Berkman played there
all those years. Jeff can't play it, Okay, injuries happened,
Jeff can't got hurt though, washing his truck. Wink wink,

(01:04:45):
wink wink. That's true. You hate when you hate when
a Putts hurts himself on a truck. Putts on the truck.
He is a Puttsall not be celebrating his world's his
Hall of Fame entrance. Oh he made it. Yeah, remember
we talked about Yeah, douche lone Portland, No full douche Borderland,
Major League Hall of Fame. But he's in, So credit

(01:05:07):
to him for congratulations. Really happy for him. Seven one
three two one two five, seven ninety What don't you get? Ross?
What don't you get Jonathan? What don't you get Houston, Texas?
We need some answers. Actually, we're gonna supply the answers.
If you have something in your life you just don't get,
We're here for you. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one, three, two, one, two, five,

(01:05:28):
seven ninety. Do you have something in your life that
you just don't get No need to worry, no need
to We will disus for something. Just see if we
comprehend the things that they can use our friends. It's
time to stay. I just don't get it. All right,

(01:05:53):
we're gonna do here eleven thirty seven. We're gonna sit back,
We're gonna listen to y'all. We're gonna use our sage
advice that I've brought to the table. Ross is brought
to the table. Jonathan brings the table in a category
we simply call I just don't get. I'll make mine

(01:06:14):
very grandiose. I don't get why Major League Baseball is
just going to say, yeah, injuries are going to happen.
I'm not blaming the pitch clock. I'm not blaming the
spin rate. My ratings are high, my stadiums are full,
my television ratings are good. Nothing to see here. I

(01:06:34):
think sometimes you, if you're a very effective leader, if
you're not looking at the macro view and looking at
the micro view of your success, that does not make
you a great leader. I hope as baseball sets some
time away from its sport probably next year. Unfortunately, they
look at this and they probably say, maybe five extra
seconds on the clock, couldn't it, couldn't hurt. You're talking

(01:06:56):
about what three to four minutes of an extra game.
I would say baseball's blind eye to the injuries, and
they not bringing it up in serious conversation. I say,
I just don't get it. I think they will look
into it. But it's also that we need years and
years of data to figure anything out. How much of

(01:07:16):
this is just an outlier, how much of this is
in terms of the pitch clock, because what can you You
can't tell guys to not spin the ball. And thanks
to Kylie sent an article from rotal Wire, it's also
talks about not only are guy spinning the ball harder
and throwing the ball faster, they're not throwing their fastball
as much, so they're throwing more sliders, cutters, splitters, whatever
stuff that torques on your elbow. It's it's also more

(01:07:39):
off speed stuff is getting thrown. And that's just the
nature of the way the game has evolved. I don't
know how you've stopped that. Rob Manford making decree you
have to throw at least sixty percent fastballs. He can't
do that. Oh, he can't do that, because then you're
gonna have to people deciding, well, was that a fastball?
And then broadcasts are like, oh, I know what that was,
and then that's gonna their money up the game. Yeah.

(01:08:01):
I would have.

Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Agree with you, though, but because you got you see
the NFL too many people.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Getting hurt on kickoff. They they did. Yeah, but also
at the end of the day, they don't care either.
It's all about money. I mean, I get it, it's
about money and ratings because what happens, Oh, player safety.
Hey guys, we're adding a seventeenth game. Player safety. We
care about our players.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Oh we love our.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Players, all right, guys, eighteenth games coming, Like they keep
adding games. That's not player safety. They changing some of
the rules and tweaking some of them. I got news
for you. Guys are still getting hurt when they get
the eighteenth game. That's gonna happen. I tell you this
a couple of years ago. What's that They're gonna many
people sit out a game. Maybe they don't get paid. No,

(01:08:45):
players are gonna agree to that. No, they'll get paid
for a team. Owners are gonna agree to paying them
with it for them not playing. Oh, this is a
gut feeling. I think you're gonna be in a mandatory
seventeen games. Catching and Nick could be collectively bargained. What
about doing that for baseball? Pitchers can't pitch more than
thirty games or twenty or whatever. Players can't play more
than one to twenty. You could go with a minor
little league number of pitches thrown. I mean, everything's gotta

(01:09:08):
be in the tap pitch limit. Yeah, one hundred pitch limit.
Guys aren't normally hitting that anyways. Or you can only
if you're a reliever. You're only pitching thirty pitchers a week. Wow,
I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. That's
I want to hate on it. I know you do.
I'm not a fan of it either, but I'm just
saying I don't think it would happen. The consistent owner

(01:09:33):
patting this guy forty million dollars a year. He needs
to be out there. That's happening right now. He might
as making what eighteen or what eighteen? You know, you
come home, buddy, You're You're no longer a space cowboy.
You're back up. That's who. That's why I mean, you
don't think Jim Kran's like get his ass out of
minor league. I can't wearing seeing his arm being thrown it.

(01:09:54):
I'm important. If five healthy, good starters, maybe you'd give
him another one. Let him figure it out. But you
don't have it. You don't have Guys. Are our nails
are falling off? We got oat blakes, we got hamstrings
and les colors. Junior's nails are literally falling off, and
we got tendons popping in the in the uh cage?
All right, Ross, what don't you get? I mean, I

(01:10:17):
was just gonna go to the not only the injury car,
but I still I still don't get what happened to
Carlos Korea. He's swinging for a pitch and he pops
a tendon in his ankle. Yeah, yeah, how what's going on?

Speaker 12 (01:10:31):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
I mean think about it. That could it happened? I'd
never heard of that happen. Have you ever heard that
happening in baseball ever? Anytime?

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
But I could envision it. I'm kind of major toe
tap is he doing now? If he popped his achilles?
I can kind of wrap my head around that. But
they haven't said that Nope, they could ultimately say a
lot more. Was he barefoot? No, the barefoot and he
stepped on a baseball. I don't think that's the case.

(01:10:59):
You gotta put you some in the betting cage. I don't.
I don't get it. I'm gonna say I do get it.
I think that you could see some injuries in the
batting cage. I don't want to, but I've never heard
of a guy getting seasoned enging injury on his ankle
from the batting game. Never heard about that ever. And
you've been covering baseball a long time and you never
heard that before. Terrible, But I mean it could happen

(01:11:23):
in the middle of the game, were where. That's what
I'm saying. I feel like there has to be more
to this story. Oh so basically about the whole kage
your ribs at the in the massage that made sense. Actually,
I think he cracked it because guys always, not always,
but often cracked their ribs diving for a ball and
they don't realize until that happened, that happened. It is

(01:11:46):
weird that that Carlos's two injuries happened not on the
active field. No, he cracked his rib diving for a
ball and then the massuse really cracked it. Messus is like, uh,
you want hurt, I'll make you hurt. I can't breathe.
That's what happened. That happen, Yeah, Jonathan, what don't you get?

(01:12:06):
All right, mine's going to be more of a gen
Z thing. So seo okay, So to educate these kids.

Speaker 9 (01:12:13):
I don't understand when you go out and this could
be with anybody. You know, I'm not whatever floats your boat,
but if you're out with somebody that you are like
talking to, or you're you know, you're you know, messing
around with.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
I don't understand.

Speaker 9 (01:12:27):
If you're going on dates with people and someone asks
you like, oh are y'all a thing? You look at
that person and tell everybody it's complicated.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
If you're out on a date, you're dating, right, No
I know, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 9 (01:12:41):
Like but now I'm not saying like a bar day
all you're do on the bar. I'm saying, like, if
you meet this couple, Matt saying okay, oh yeah, we
you know we've been on each other for a couple
of months. You know, we go out round time. That
happens all the time. But I don't understand. I mean,
you don't say it like your boyfriend or girlfriend. But
saying it's complicated, what's opcated about that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Because I don't because if I didn't know you and
your girl were together, and you don't know if you're
together all the way through, it is complicated.

Speaker 8 (01:13:10):
But I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
I think I think you're trying to use one off.
I don't think most young couples in early dating say
it's complicated. You may have a one off. I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:13:20):
I think i'm telling you right now, have you heard
about situationships?

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Yeah? Man, I'm asking that I knew Ross. I'm saying that.
I'm telling you if I went to go to a
bar tonight and met ten couples that were on dates
one through five, that maybe one of them would say
it's complicated.

Speaker 9 (01:13:40):
That's that's why I say it's a small number, it's
a small sample size.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
I think he's right. I think the kids, the kids
are unwilling to commit. Well, then then then that's on them.
I just don't get. But I don't understand that. I
don't because maybe but it is complicated. Are you together
or you not?

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
I mean we're not completely sure.

Speaker 9 (01:13:57):
It's complicated. I'm thinking you're going to bed with them?
Are intelligence? They were formunicating.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
The guys should say we're trying to hook up. Yeah,
but they don't say that. They just I don't because
the guy is trying to be polite. So I would say,
I get it, we're getting late and we're gonna see
what happens. I just it's we're times. I don't I
don't know. All I'm saying is, y'all have got a
terrible dating life. We oh, we know. Everybody's trying to
redefine words. When in nineteen ninety seven, what were people

(01:14:25):
doing dates one through five? I were dating? That's it.

Speaker 9 (01:14:28):
Oh, you know a better question that, Matt, all right,
say your daughter was like, all right, I'm talking to
this guy dad, like you know I read about huh
And you asked, oh, okay, as you take any you guys?
They oh, no, you know, it's like a little situation ship.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
What do you say of the dad's your daughter? I say,
be careful and don't let them touch you. That's what
I'm saying. Okay, all right, you know, I just don't
get it, man, I think we're it's situate never mind
we're talking about this. No. I in twenty twenty six,
I don't date, so I can't speak to this. But

(01:15:02):
in twenty twenty six, nobody wants to find anything. Is
that fair? Because if you say you're dating, then you're like, oh,
then you're together. But you're not completely telling the truth.
Because Jonathan, if you found somebody else on the next night,
you'd be like, yeah, you know, we're gonna go out
and have a date two.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
It's a non committal universe of twenty twenty six, So
live with it. It's so weird. I don't get it.
I don't get it. Back of the phones. Next, Jonathan,
Joan and James, the Triple J's are up next seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. All right,

(01:15:45):
let me set up the next half hour of the
show for you. Uh, we're gonna we got a lot
of people that want to say hi, which we love y'all.
It's I just don't get it. Here on a Thursday,
we have the news at noon coming up. We're gonna
I have to put a lot of uh, dodge your highlights.
At twelve twenty we're gonna let you hear a good
chunk of the interview that Dana Brown did today with

(01:16:08):
Dan and Cole on the Morning Drive. That's at twelve
twenty at one thirty. If you missed the conversation, Brian
mctager will have it for you, we believe it or not.
Today at one fifty, ell things about Ted Turner. So
I got a busy show between now and two o'clock.
Once you guys involved, and thank you very much for
being a part of the show. At seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven to one three

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two one two five seven ninety This week it's a Thursday.
It's I just don't get it when we ask you
to jump in in my computer's frozen ross. So you
will go to Jonathan online number one, not our Jonathan,
but the other Jonathan in full shir Jonathan, What don't
you get? At eleven fifty two.

Speaker 14 (01:16:44):
You know it's it's funny and I'm gonna rapid fire this.
What's up? Matt and his noble speed?

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (01:16:51):
I called your boy as you may or may not know. Uh,
I manage h a way communities. I've got a community
on League City. I called your repair guys. And it's
funny because you just got up got done talking about them.
They don't service everyone. I need them to come out
and fix the dishwasher. And they were like, we don't

(01:17:13):
service League City. You think I was an Orange, Like,
no offense, Michael Berry. But dude, this is greater Houston, Like,
what are we talking about here? You don't service the area.
So I was highly disappointed.

Speaker 11 (01:17:30):
Matthew that, well, I will have appliants.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Well, I'm seeing him in that the Astros game in
a week and I will find out to get the
League City office up and going see the same.

Speaker 14 (01:17:41):
This is not even for you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Guys, don't even have appliances in League City. What are
you talking about.

Speaker 14 (01:17:49):
I've got a million dollar clubhouse that they need a
freaking new dishwasher.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
All Jonathan, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna talk to
them next week. I promise you. Thank you for him
much to the phone call. All right, leg up Town appliants,
get out there the League City because Johnathan's got to
get his appliants taking care of. We love you Uptown
appliants repair two eight one seven eight nine nine seven eight.
Then they'll take I'll get this fixed. Don't worry about that.

(01:18:17):
Let's go to Uh, let's see our friend. If I
got my computer, come back. Hit our equipment. Hate everything
about our equipment. I hate everything. I like you, Ross, No,
thank you. I like Jonathan. He's a swell fella. I
like jonaf I can get to the phone here. Let's

(01:18:37):
try this, Hi Joe, what's going on? Hey man?

Speaker 4 (01:18:41):
How are you guys?

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Hi Ross, We're doing good. Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Well, you know, this Carlos Korea thing is really bugging
me because I don't understand what. I just don't get. Uh,
the non disclosure, the hidden tendon, the I guess privacy.
I get medical. I get all that I worked in
the medical field. I get all that. Okay, for the

(01:19:06):
layman who's seen on live television a million times when
a basketball players achilles pops, And to go back to
Carlos's own description, I swung the bat, I turned my ankle,
I heard the pop, and I fell to the ground.

Speaker 13 (01:19:24):
That's an achilles.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
And if it's not an achilles, okay, fight And I
realized he needs a second opinion and.

Speaker 13 (01:19:30):
All that other stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
But come on, this is what it probably is. Unfortunately,
I really hope not. But this is the perfect description,
but I just had to get that off my look.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Look at nurse Joan coming in here. Thank you, Joe,
let me get Let me give you Joan what he said, Uh,
complete tear while taking swings normal routine in the batting cage.
Took a swing and just felt a pop. It completely
snapped on me and I fell to the ground. He
was in a walking boot Wednesday at the ball park
after seeing a foot specials. He would see some other

(01:20:02):
opinions before scheduling the surgery. So h to Jones point,
he could be an achilles. It to me, it doesn't
even really matter. Six to eight months, six to eight months, right, correct?
I mean it could be a bad hip and it
was six to eight months, six to eight months. The
hip bone is connected to the ankle bone and the
tailbone connected to the butt bone. I think it's they're

(01:20:24):
the same. Okay, that's a bad example, my bad good try.
I was trying, We're proud of you, trying to get
through my fifth grade elementary songs, but I was I
was tarnished by my pe teachers. Couldn't get those songs memorized.
Paul and Myerland. Paul, what don't you get my man,
You d don't.

Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Get well, my wife cannot put the lid back on toothpaste.
When I grabbed the toothpaste and it was my left
hands grab my tooth brush my right hand, I unstrewed
the cap, put the toothpaste on the toothbush, and stood
the cap right back on. Never have to put the
cat down. Why my wife cannot put the lid back
on a toothpaste?

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
I just don't get it. You know what I would do, Paul,
I would divorce. I would divorce her. That's fine at
the bottom where the cap is attached. I had my
flight from l A two weeks ago. Toothpaste all over
all all over my stuff, in my in my toletry bag.
I mean, what are they opening up my toothpaste for?

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Really? Yeah? Oh like t s A did or not?
Whoever the the well they we have t we have
private t s if we do have t s A. Yeah,
they were looking through your toothpaste. I think so. Maybe
it got smashed. That could be it. You probably didn't
put the cap on all the way. It's probably user air.
I would probably blame myself morey thing else, but it's
easier on a major market radio. I'll let you do that,

(01:21:45):
so Dami, thank you very much. All right, last one
belongs to a gym on seven gym. What don't you get?

Speaker 10 (01:21:55):
Yeah, I don't get why you have a h an
area of Houston areas? Did you all cover probably over
five million people in the listening audience, and the gamers
don't buy any radio time on your station so they
can go up that stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
The Gamblers sucked because the Gamblers suck ass because they're
irrelevant and they're a terrible organization, and nobody cares and
nobody goes and people. The product sucks, the organization sucks,
the league sucks, and you suck. I mean that pretty much.
That narrows it all down. That's all right. Three to
the four and I'll tell you why.

Speaker 10 (01:22:29):
Let me tell you why.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
I don't care. Go ahead, I'm my boy. I'm gonna.
I gotta half a voice. Go ahead.

Speaker 10 (01:22:34):
Why Because you've never been to a game.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
I'm not gonna I'm never gonna go because the product sucks. No,
I'm not going. No, no chance, extremely fun, no, no.

Speaker 12 (01:22:44):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
No, No, I am mister Fun, I'm mister Texas and
I'm mister fun and I'm I'm you know what I am.
I'm not mister boring, I'm not mister sucking football. It's
a loser, you hear me, Gamblers, You losers, losers with
no Your PR team sends out fourth grade releases about
how your team did, doesn't even mention the score. You

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have video com calls that no one goes to. You
have nobody. You don't sell tickets, you don't advertise, you
don't do anything. You suck. You're gonna be going bye bye,
bye bye Gambri gym, bye bye Gambers. They're gonna go
bye bye. This is it done, Finito? You feel better?
Feel great? Are you okay? Gambers? Suck the gallany gamblers?

(01:23:31):
I know over the Houston Gambers of the USLFL in
nineteen eighty three, and that was a short lifting thing.
If the product was good, how to watch it? I've
watched more USFL or whatever the hell this is. Then
the three of us combined in this room, I'm sure
you do. And it sucks. It's absolutely terrible, and it's
embarrassing that city, Houston has a stadium that's got forty

(01:23:51):
people on it. But you know what this says, this
is the people Houston have gotten on some taste. Why
is it embarrassing? I mean it's because we shouldn't have
a franchise. Good Bye, Gambler Gym. They're all gonna go
bye bye. No boy, Gamblers, no more, bye bye. They suck.
Worried about you, You should be worried about me now.
I'm all fired up about the Gambler Gamblers.

Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
God with you. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
My asters are in the fourth place. That's what's matter
with me. That's good. There's not good. No, nothing good
about it. No, let's be positive. No, let's focus on
the fourteen games they have one. Okay, you do that,
you knock yourself out. I'm sorry. Fifteen Yeah, I didn't
mean to short them. The fifteen games they have won.
There you go, and a very important series with a

(01:24:44):
Natty coming up tomorrow in Cincinnati. Huge, way more important
than than Gambler. Doug good Jim, Gamblers, No nobody cares.
He was just saying, we have a great station. They
should advertise on our station. Then that's you know what.
Then Gamblers, get out your check book and actually get
a few people in their building. That's all he was saying.
Oh yeah, so yeah, you be you'd in diamond against me.

(01:25:07):
It's indicament against sucky Gamber Organization. Twelve o'clock on Sports
Talk seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
Ross swaying at a vest Walker strikes out on a fastball,
up and end, and that is the ball game. Los
Angeles Dodgers take the rubber game of this three game set.
Defeated the Astros twelve to two.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
But I only had two heads. What do you think
he's talking about here? In his life just be dependent
paper and just started writing about his miserable life. You're
talking about alot black. Yeah, maybe you know. If I
was becoming a lyricist, you know, I'll be writing about

(01:25:56):
the gamblers. Why you got no ways suck? You gotta
know when no one cares. Kenny Rodgers already did it.
That's true. That's right, Good job chat. Come on, Jonathan,
help me out here. Sixty percent throw today, Come on now,
all right, all right, hey, it's a twelve oh seven

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on Sports Talk.

Speaker 15 (01:26:18):
Set on it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
If you missed the conversation with Dana Brown, We're gonna
play out a good chunk of that for you in
the next segment of the show, as he talked with
h Dan and Cold this morning as part of the
Morning Drive. The reality is this, I want to hear
from him. We need you and I spouting all it
ain't gonna help. But what can he say? Everybody's hurting,
everybody else who's not hurt is bad. You'll find out
that twelve twenty right now and interviews over Hey, don't

(01:26:42):
get away too much. Glass half full of Dana, you'll
find out about the Okay, right now, Let's get to
the news at noon, Yes, Matthews, we will start the
news at noon with what the highlights you just heard
off day for the Astros today. Thanks they needed jose
L twove off on his birthday yesterday. Lance McCullers Junior

(01:27:06):
bad and hurt. Feels like we'll be hearing about him
hitting the el. At some point a fingernail popped off
of his pointer finger. According to Brian McTaggart, who we
heard from earlier, two and two thirds innings, seventy pitches,
six earned runs, three walks. Jason Alexander came into relief
and well, at least he ate up some innings four

(01:27:27):
and a third, but he gave up five earned runs
just a disaster for the Astros, even with Tyler Glasnow
leaving the game with backspasms. I love the one I said.
It's a bullpen game for the Dodgers. Oh, their bullpen
was good. Sadly, hey, their bullpen was better than the
Astros bullpen. Well, they lose two out of three to
the Los Angeles Dodgers. They got the day off and

(01:27:50):
then they will be hitting a Cincinnati and then they
will be taking on a Seattle at home. So a
short three game road trip right in the Queen's Uh yeah,
something like that. There's a few Queen City Charlottes and
Queen City too, right, big individual games coming up. Maddie
home for four against the Mariners and four excuse me

(01:28:11):
three against the Texas Rangers. An opportunity to make up
some ground in the American League West. That's a glass
half all I'm looking for right there? Yes, sorry, only
four back, Only four back. It's also May. If you're
four back in May, that's not good. No, you could
be worse. Could be ten and a half back of

(01:28:31):
the Yankees, could be eleven back of the Braves. See
and what did I say nine and a half back
or whatever it was of the or maybe ten and
a half of the Dodgers. But thankfully you're in the
crappy American League West. You're only four games back if
you're the Houston Astros. Elsewhere in sports news, Matt Rogers

(01:28:53):
Aaron A. Rogers likely to visit the Why is he
visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers. See he's gonna visit. It's gonna
sign of contrast. See see the facilities. He's been there before.
Ian Rappaport saying he is likely to be back with
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Go steel Crew. I guess the Texans

(01:29:13):
by the Steelers this year. I don't know. I look,
that puts him at nine to eight. That's a winnable division. Wait,
they are both win the division winners, so yes, right
know theyouldn't win the division Jaguars did. Never mind, No,
I'm talking about the Steelers. Yeah, yeah, well, I was
trying to think of like first play schedule and all that.
Any who Detroit Tigers left handed from er Valde has

(01:29:37):
ever heard of him? Mat He used to play for
the Astros. He was suspended five games by Major League
Baseball on Wednesday for intentionally throwing at Boston Red Sox
shortstop Trevor Story, Tigers manager A. J. Hinch receiving a
one game band. Isn't that crazy that AJ did not
endorse fromber throwing at Trevor Story and yet he gots

(01:29:58):
also suspended too. Yeah, of course, Terrek Scooble, Casey Miz
and Justin Verland are all hurt for the Tigers right now.
And now you've got from Er Valdez missing a start.
He maintained that he did not throw purposely at Trevor's Story.
You believe him it's a lie or not. That's anot
because as you talked about on the show yesterday, he

(01:30:20):
threw war one four four seam fastball, which is the
just rare back and go fastball, and it was the
one that hit Trevor Story in the back. Maybe he
was trying to mix up his repertoire. It got away
from him after throwing too after giving up back to
back home runs. You take those spam calls, don't you?

Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
I do?

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Sometimes you actually talked to them. Yeah, I tell him
to put me on a do not call list. I
gotta do what I can. I don't know, imuti will
people stop reaching out for me with strange names asking
if I need roofing. By the way, my name is
not Gregory, or solar panels for that matter, Oh terrible,
or any kind of plumbing or anything like that. All right, continue,

(01:31:01):
that's ridiculous. Uh, there's not a whole lot of it.
I mean the last night I was going to go
to that, if you want, go ahead. I mean the
Spurs destroyed Timberwolves one thirty three to ninety five. Knicks
beat the seventy six is one oh eight to one
oh two. Spurs and t Wolves tied at one apiece
mix up to nothing on the embiidless seventy six ers.

(01:31:23):
He could not play due to hip and ankle injuries
and whole right side of his body apparently. By the way,
Victor weibin Yama last night, twenty six minutes, nineteen points,
fifteen rebounds. I look at his whole stat line of
block shots. Uh, let's see two block shots. It was

(01:31:44):
a plus twelve. Julian Champannee all their starters, no nobody
played more than twenty six minutes. They blew the hell
out of the game one of the series. He had
twelve blocks with that can't be right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
my God, Yeah, he's gonna get a quadruple double with blocks.
You ready for an unhealthy question? What over under Victor

(01:32:05):
wimban Yama MVPs in the next ten years? Well, how
many of he's gonna be healthy for? Where did they
have the voting? Can come out this year? Yeah, yeah,
he might win this year. I don't think he's going
to five said one and a half. What would you say?
I would say over two fields, troubling ross is why?
That means he's gonna be a throne on the rockets
side for the next decade. He didn't get the ping

(01:32:27):
pong balls. Sorry, we prayed for him though. We did
probably for Victor, and then people backed off him because
they're like, oh, he's a spurry sucks. No, he doesn't suck.
He doesn't. He's soft. He's never gonna be anything now.
Size size could impact him. He's calling him a bum
and benski. He he does fall very awkwardly, got no

(01:32:48):
body fat. Needs to gain some weight. I don't know
that he can, probably can't. He's like seven foot four. Yeah,
there's your news man. How about that? Houston San Antornio
is going to have a great franchise for the next
ten years. Stop. Oh, unless you want to hear the
latest on the Mike Vrabel, Diana Ors anything. Can we

(01:33:09):
do that? Well, let me hold it for twelve thirty. Okay,
TMS Sports TMZ are getting out relentless and I've got
a take on this on the relentlessness of TMZ sports. Okay,
Dana Brown visited with the Morning Drive. This you'll hear
from that next twelve to fifteen on Sports Talk seven
eighty twelve twenty. On Sports Talk seven ninety every Wednesday,

(01:33:32):
normally at nine thirty, Dana Brown visits with the boys.
But yesterday, obviously things were awry with the injury situation
with Carlos Kray and the fact that we lost jan
Air Diez as well to the injured list, and obviously
now we know that Carlos has done for the next
six to eight months. Dana was on today with the boys.
That of course is Dan and Cole's part of the

(01:33:52):
Morning Drive, and they were asked, Dana, among other things,
does this speed up a timetable for bringing Germany Paenia
back off the injury list. Here is the conversation with
the three of those guys this morning. Here on seven
ninety No, we're.

Speaker 11 (01:34:04):
Not going to speed up the timeline on Jeremy because
you know, we're gonna need him the rest of the season,
and so speeding up the timeline, you know, could affect
you know, the rest of the season, and we don't
want we don't want Jeremy to be out. When Jeremy
comes back, we need him for the rest of the season.
So we we certainly have to, you know, take our

(01:34:25):
time with Jeremy. We still think at the end of
the day, we still think it's going to be you know,
ten to twelve days before you know, we can get
him back, and so he's on a good pace to
come back, so we we we won't rush him though.
We will not rush.

Speaker 15 (01:34:42):
Them, Dana, when it comes to Toutsy, he will make
his next start at dyke And Park when you return
from Cincinnati. What went into the decision to bring him
on up after what was a better start than what
we saw in Corpus Christy, but still wanted to dealing
with the walks. Is it a Listen, we believe that
you have something, so you can work on, but you
can work on it for the major league level.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
Or we need an arm.

Speaker 15 (01:35:04):
We believe that you are ready to go, and we'll
figure out the walks along the way.

Speaker 11 (01:35:09):
So that's a good question. So one of the things
that we talked about was simplifying things. Part of you know,
you come over here, you're in a new environment, and
you know, we give you a lot of information, and
so we want to just simplify it and get him
to attack the strike zone like he's been attacking his zone.

(01:35:29):
A lot of times we talk about how to pitch
certain hitters and sometimes a lot of information, you know,
could be tough, and so we'll try it. The goal
is to simplify it, get them in the strike zone,
pitch to hitters, very similar to the way you used
to pitch to hitters, but attack the hitter. What's your

(01:35:50):
best stuff, you know, as opposed to trying to find
the hitters weaknesses or things like that. And so I
think simplifying it for him and telling him, look, get
into the strike zone, attack, attack, attack, is our message
to him.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Astro general manager Dana Brown joins us every single week
here on the Morning Drive with Dan and Coles Sports
Talk seven ninety Dana, for you and Joe personally, I mean,
I mean, it's it's no secret what your current status
is with the team after this season, and I know
that y'all talk after every single game. I mean, do
you notice that, you know, the conversations between you two
are necessarily changing with just where the club is at

(01:36:28):
the moment and and where things stand injury wise, or
is it business as usual for you guys just you know,
focused on the job and trying to be able to
get this team back into contention.

Speaker 11 (01:36:38):
Yeah, we're focused on the job. And hen look, we've
been here in twenty twenty four. We were actually in
twenty twenty four is the worst start, and so we've
been here before. This is not unchared to Territory Force.
You know, we're navigating through these injuries and we feel
confident that this is.

Speaker 6 (01:36:54):
A really good ball club.

Speaker 11 (01:36:56):
You know, not many teams could withstand an injury like
the injury with Korea. Look, we still have the field depth,
you know what. We're gonna have some of our pitching
coming back. We're gonna have Pinya coming back. Haters is
throwing well, he's up to ninety four and most recent
rehabs start and so look, ultimately, you know, we know

(01:37:18):
that we have the pieces and this is a really
good team. So you cannot panic. You've got one hundred
and twenty four games to go and your four games back,
and so this is not the time to panic. The
time is to get healthy, the time is to stay focused.
We've been swinging the bats very well. The defense has
been pretty good. We're not on all cylinder just because

(01:37:38):
the pitching hasn't been as good, but it's we've had
some bright spots and some clips that coming to attractions
of late. You know, you know with the start of
Lambert on an excellent start, you know we we have
the core pieces to stay afloat, compete, stay competitive, and
once all of your guys get back, it'll be on Dana.

Speaker 15 (01:38:01):
When it comes to Lancer Colors Junior, yesterday he left
the game early because of a.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
Nail issue.

Speaker 15 (01:38:07):
Had had trouble gripping the ball, and it's been something
that has been brought up by fans, by multiple people
before that this is a player who, as good as
he can be, he can probably give you about two
to three DS of quality work. There have been internal
conversations about while we know that he still can pitch,
he can still pitch at a high end rate, maybe
it's better to utilize him out of the bullpen at

(01:38:27):
this point because of we can get somebody that can
give us more innings to work with.

Speaker 11 (01:38:31):
Has had some bright spots this year, you know, the
six innings that he threw in Baltimore and only given
him for two runs and nine strikeouts. And so while
I understand, you know, you know, the fans and their assessment,
you know, just from a purely evaluate standpoint, A kind
of evaluated players in my entire career in professional baseball

(01:38:52):
for thirty six years. And the stuff is still really good.
You know, he's you know, he runs into trouble at
times when you know he can't command the stuff, but
the stuff is really good. And so he has had
some bright spots, and you know, we do have a
long season, you know, where we will continue to monitor

(01:39:13):
the outings and then we'll make the necessary adjustments. But
you know, he's had some bright spots here, and we'll
continue to talk them through it and we'll we'll, you know,
we'll give us some more evaluation and talk about things
as we move forward.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
But right now, uh, you.

Speaker 11 (01:39:31):
Know, he's shown those clips of really being good and
the stuff really looks good, and when you're beat up
in the rotation like we are. Uh, you know, we
need lands to have some good starts for.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Us just from a grand scheme of baseball.

Speaker 15 (01:39:45):
There have been multiple injuries to the pitching side, largely
due to form tightness and and other things to where
you have to go under go surgery. And it's been
brought up by multiple people the pitch clock and working
through that situation of maybe going through their approach a
little bit too timely it leads to where their arms
will strain. Do you believe that there is some correlation
between the pitch clock and more injuries happening to your

(01:40:07):
pitchers when they're on the mound.

Speaker 11 (01:40:08):
I do think guys have to learn how to navigate
the pitch clock right, so if you're not used to,
you've been pitching your entire career where you've been able
to take a couple of deep breaths in between pitches,
walk around the mound a little bit kind of get
your win. I do think there's a strategic aspect of

(01:40:30):
managing the pitch clock. I also believe that, you know,
we have a lot of pitchers that are throwing a
lot harder these days, and a lot of pitchers are
chasing spin and you know, trying to you know, get
the ball to do certain things to get to the success.
And so certainly the combination of a few things are

(01:40:52):
weighing heavily on some of the pictures, and I think
learning to navigate these things are going to be important
going forward for the entire sport.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
And finally, Hunter Brown expected to throw a bullpen this weekend.
What would be the next step for him if all
goes well over the weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:41:08):
Yeah, so, Hunter Brown, look, we you know, once he
gets to throw his bullpens, you know, we'll get him going.

Speaker 6 (01:41:15):
We'll get him built up.

Speaker 11 (01:41:16):
He'll go through his regular spring training because we have
to redo that again, you know, because he's been out
for so long, so he has to go through a
full spring training to get him built up. And you know, hopefully,
you know, we get him. We'll circle back in early
June as to some discussions as to when he's going
to actually total rubber and at the major league level.

(01:41:38):
But certainly he's moving in the right direction. He feels
pretty good. We've got to get him throwing his bullpens.
We're gonna get him built back up, and then you know,
and then a few weeks we'll know a lot more
than we know now, but we're certainly trying to get
him on the on the track to get back in June.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
All right, that again Dana Brown from earlier today here
on Sports Talk seth glass half full. We needed it
and Dana provides it for us, because, man, we played
some songs. We've talked about the Carlos Cray injury, we
talked about Lance mcculor's losing a nail, we talked about
jan Air Diaz Harding is oblique. We need something. So

(01:42:16):
there came and helped us out. All right, Uh, somebody
got mad as we did. We were There is nothing
new silacious on the Dina Racini Mike Rabel front or
is there mean if we're talking about the boat, we're
we're gonna we're gonna kind of kind of just put
this away, I think for the with those two people.
Next twelve twenty nine on Sports Talk seven, Honty All right,

(01:42:42):
twelve thirty five on Sports Talk seven, hounty Man and
Ross with you until two o'clock this say, afternoon. If
you missed our visit with Brian mctager, we'll have it
for you at one thirty. Believe it or not. Today
is all things about Ted Turner at one fifty and
TMC sports been busy with the Dina Racini and more.
On Mike Vrabel, I'm just gonna put this in a nutshell.

(01:43:03):
There is video of them on a boat. She's what
seven months pregnant? Is that the correct number on that?
With whose child? Who is? Okay, this is a child
named Mike. So here comes Here comes my segments. Number one,
if I'm if I'm Russini's husband, I get a DNA test?
Do you get a divorce? Number two? Even the kids

(01:43:26):
not yours, gonna raise them? Even raise them? Number two
years or whatever, they're gonna get divorced. Number three, I
don't know if Vrabel's wife's gonna stay with him or not.
And number four, I don't mean to be callous about
this ross, but infidelity happens all the time in the workplace. Yeah,
these are just recognizable people. This is happening all the time.
Doesn't make it right, and fan matter of fact, it

(01:43:46):
makes it very sad. But the reality is, I'm kind
of getting tired of it. I I don't particularly care anymore.
I think it's interesting and I think I think it
is more than that, just because of as I have
we kind of talked about the insider trey and the
potential swapping of insider information and advantages gained by Mike Rabel.
But as the NFL has said, I know, good, that's good.

(01:44:07):
That's because they don't want to deal with it. Yeah,
it's like anything happens, like stuff we hear about the NCAA.
They're like, oh no, yeah, that's on the school. They
can they'll figure that out. Yeah, they want to put
it on Robert Kraft and the Patriots. They don't want
to deal with it. I will say this because there's
a lot of people that are like, first of all,
for Dina's to her, I mean, it is what it is.
But Mike Frable's her too. A vessel in Puttingham County,

(01:44:29):
Tennessee in June of twenty twenty one. According to us SO,
this is a TMZ Sports. According to a source of
direct knowledge, the Tennessee Titans head coach and the journalists
were the only people on board of their two to
three hour rental. I don't know them, either, one of them,
but they are. This is clearly more than just a fling.

(01:44:49):
This is a relationship over several years. Do you think
they were rocking the boat? Yeah? I have one question
on all this. Please don't tip the boat over.

Speaker 9 (01:45:01):
So Craig Ross has said, he was like, you've been
raising the kid for seven years. But we're all men here,
so well, what are you going to do if that's
not your child?

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
I would say in generally, you've you've you have such
a loving bond with the child. You're not going to
throw the You are going to raise the child as yours.
But it absolutely must be discussed in terms of whether
or not it's his or not. Now, if they get
a DNA test, that's really upon them. No one's going
to the court of public opinion is not going to
tell them to do that. Court of public opinions already

(01:45:36):
made up their mind about who, what they what these
people are and their long term lovers they just are.
This is not this is not an overnight, overnight thing.
This was a deep seated relationship. They try. They try
to live two separate lives for seven years. They have
the they have the waiver, they signed to get the boat.

(01:46:00):
How did teams he get all this and what took
him so long? Twenty twenty one, somebody had to dig
back into the documents of this boat rental place. Yeah,
somebody went through some boxes and boxes of waivers. So
I thought all along that Mike Rabel was cool with
this in terms of not losing his job. I still
believe that the case. But if Mike Rabel was to leave,

(01:46:24):
probably because of his own doing more so than the Patriots,
Bob Kraft has said nothing about this. In fact, Bob
Krafter early in this conversation, try to get a lot
of this uh kaibashed if you think about it. Yeah,
Rabel's good. He went to counseling that one day of
the draft. Yeah, he missed a whole third day to
go to the draft. He had no input on the
fifth round pick. And then he hed, He's like, I

(01:46:46):
know it's important for my marriage, and I know the
fifth rounds pick. I'm gonna pick my marriage over the
fifth round. Now, I'm not gonna pack my marriage over
first round pick. I'm not gonna pick my marriage over
second or third round pick. But day three, that's all
you guys, all right. I got another thing for you, Matt.
If you were the husband and you're gonna raise the
child as your own no matter what, would you really
really want to know? Or would you just kind of

(01:47:07):
move on and say, I'm gonna raise this kid no
matter what. He's mine, been raising him for. What is that? However,
many years? Seven years? You're not going to abandon the
child anyways. You are not going to abandon the child
that has been your child. But curiosity does kill the cat, right.
I feel like if you asked one hundred guys, you're

(01:47:29):
not going to get a hundred different answers. But I
don't think everybody's going to say the same thing, no,
because I think about think about this. If you have children,
you don't need DNA test for your children. If you
have multiple children and one of them doesn't look like you,
do you think about that? I would say yes. Now,

(01:47:49):
Fortunately my all my children look like one of the
two of us, So I'm not overly concerned. I think
I shouldn't be overly concerned. Okay, go ahead, Uh get
this about sports?

Speaker 9 (01:48:02):
So what situation is worse than we had last year
with the Michigan coach?

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
You know?

Speaker 9 (01:48:07):
And we found out that was worse. It was came
out that she lied about him coming in time to
attack her.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
Was that true? Yeah? So she came out saying that wait,
she was hold on. It was a lie that he
attacked her.

Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
So you haven't read up on this. Let's just say allegedly.
It was all allegedly, which is worse here true thought.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
I thought he didn't say he was going to kill himself.
Well he got it, he got quided of everything, there
was no charges final. Well he played it. He played
it down. I thought, yeah, plead deal. But he's free
and clear. Now he pled no contest to malicious use
of telecommunication device and domestic relationship and trespassing. See so

(01:48:49):
eighteen months probation. Oh people, plead stuff down and every day.
I don't know if that feels worse. It was a
staffer that he had on the payroll. He say, she
got a two hundred percent raise? What's all? This is weird?
Got a bunch of promotions too. Why is the assistant

(01:49:10):
to the assistant to the assistant marketing person making one
hundred and fifty k? What's going on over here? I think, Jonathan,
in my mind, they are two different situations. I think
you have two adult relationship people to adult people in
working environments of the NFL that are like, you know what,
we got there's a spark. You had a coach to

(01:49:32):
a subordinate a young girl. Stupid. She he's stupid. They
were both horny. I mean, it is what it is.
It is more than that. This is going on for years. Yah,
I didn't expect that to say what. I didn't expect
you to say horny. That's just like sorry, It's gotta

(01:49:52):
be more than that. I mean, they both have one
has a wife and one has a husband. I don't know.
To try to figure out which worse, it doesn't make
any sense. I mean, I think they're both equally bad.
I feel bad for Sharon Moore's wife or a wife
and kids. I feel bad for Diana Rossini's husband, who
has to worry about whether or not the child is
his or not. The thing that pisses me off more

(01:50:16):
than anything else on frankly all the sides, is that
Diana Rossini's like, I didn't do anything wrong. I'm a journalist,
but you doubled down on it. And that's the only
thing that pisses me off. Now, she's radio silent, took
all of her social media stuff off. There are apparently
TV networks gushing to get her interview with her oh

(01:50:38):
and paid for that.

Speaker 15 (01:50:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
See, yeah, maybe Mike Rabel's nothing clear yet. Hmm. This
is like an onion and what do you do and
what do you do if you're Racini, if you really
do love I think you know again, not knowing either
one of them, I think there's a true This was
not a fling for those two. That was a long
standing relationship. You're talking about that many years going on

(01:51:02):
boat friends on the boat. Oh my god, they're not.
They're great friends in the boat and they were great friends.
And Sedona Arizona too. Just don't do it. Just don't
do it. Don't dip your pin in Company Inc. You said,
it's kind of similar journalist the Michigan the Michigan's is

(01:51:25):
the Company Inc. That's true because they're in the same payroll. Yeah,
this is a pretty similar a coach and then an
NFL reporter. But yet the most important thing about that
whole thing about Roussini and about uh, the coach of
the Patriots, is that the NFL is like, we're good,
we don't worry about information that Rabel gave her her.

(01:51:48):
We're not We're not worried about what information that Rassini
got from Rabel. We're not worried about any other team
getting involved in it. That's not it's not Askpiona what
would that be called just inside her information? That insider trading,
inside of trading? How do the Patriots feel about a
certain player? How do the player? How does the what
information about does Ruscini get from another team about an

(01:52:10):
injured player that maybe playing the Patriots the Titans?

Speaker 5 (01:52:13):
M hm?

Speaker 2 (01:52:15):
And nobody cares because you know why, it's it's easier.
Nobody cares. Well, it's it's not the headline the headlines
like Demiko. Ryan's going to hold the press conference, Guys,
I wanted to address this. Uh, Mike Rabel got some
inside info from us, and I think he needs to
be suspended. Going to do that. I the reason why
I think, And this may be a sexist thing for
me to say, boys, I think Racini wasn't just It

(01:52:37):
wasn't just Rabel. Oh yeah, I mean there's Sean McVay rumors,
there's rumors all over the place that's on her. Because
that that's what hurts. And I think they're saying that
if Jonathan, if they're going to go all in on Rassini,
they're going to find other coaches, and I think the
other coaches are saying, let's stay out of this marriage.
That's this is a cruel world.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
Vrabel was just the first. Now we don't have evidence
that that Racini wasn't doing other things, but there are
been long standing rumors. And you know the NFL streets
like to talk. They just do all right seven one
three two one two five Sevenati, there can we give
you Dana Brown and Dina Roussini talk all in one
half hour. Not a radio show in the marketplace is

(01:53:19):
gonna give you that. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Thanks very much. Plumber Blummer is gonna have
the week off, uh in Cincinnati. It's gonna see Steve
Sparks on a Space City Home Network Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Robert will have Kevin Ashenfeld on the radio side for

(01:53:41):
the weekend set in the NATI against the Red Gerre
in the NATTI. The what the NATTI? Cincinnati? Yeah, I
don't think so. No, nice min wesching Down. I mean,
you wouldn't go to the day, you know, they don't
go one two three Cincinnati. It's not on my bucket list,
Casino Ribs Chips, nice peap Midwest Chips. Yeah, the potent

(01:54:03):
Chips at the Montgomery in Delicious. Yeah, I'm not flying
there for potato chips. I would agree with you on that. Now,
he had some guy online one who just called yes,
So I don't get sometimes Matt, I'm checked out walking
back in. So I'm gonna I'm gonna walk you back
into sports and hang us up. Well, I mean he's busy. Maybe,
How can you be busy? How can you call the
show and said I'm gonna call and talk and then

(01:54:23):
hang up like thirty seconds a work call or somebodency.
Maybe is his kidding, is sick at school? I mean
many million of things. No, I think he just didn't
want to wait. I'm gonna go with that. So right now,
right now, I want you all to call this show
and I'm gonna get you fired up for sports?

Speaker 6 (01:54:39):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
We're going to talk some Texans about we're gonna get
on we go chee. We were gonna get in on
the Texans sending the secondary. We gonna get in the
offensive line, and then we gonna get into whether or
not c J. Strouds Worth sixty million dollars a year.
This is your fault, Astros and Rockets. That's a hundred
fifty bucks. You will a stronger punishment from home. Yeah,

(01:55:01):
it's not working. It's not working. You're getting worse. I am.
I just want to pay that pie that pot. I
should not the pie pot. I just don't want to
do it.

Speaker 7 (01:55:12):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
Look, I love football, I don't want to do it
right now. I don't. I'm a three sport guy. I
move on. Okay, Well, you got to get into the gamblers.
I guess no, Gamber suck. I'm not doing Gamber talk.
What are the standings? I don't even know. Is it
the XNFL or the USFL so UFL. Yeah, I want

(01:55:35):
more gamble football anybody in this marketplace. So I'm not
able to do it. Why would you do that though?
Is that a sucker for sports?

Speaker 8 (01:55:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
They're in last place? Kevin. Someone's gained some weight too.
I don't want to two four? What do you mean
he's got all that money? I mean, look, I'm Kevin's
a good guy. But man, what a fall from grace,
from leading our Cougars to having a big party with
Bucky Ridge in the night before championship game. Yeah, I

(01:56:03):
said it, Bucky should be talking to my coach. Our
team wasn't ready because y'all were doing god knows what
game plan was in place by it was not in game. No,
you you're with your players the night before the championship
game plan is all good. Stop. Then you went to
A and M and fell on your ass, and you
went to Arizona and fell on your ass, and now
you're coaching the Gamblers. I forgot. It was six years

(01:56:24):
at A and M, six underwhelming years three at Arizona.

Speaker 10 (01:56:30):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
Yeah, he's got some good payout cash. Good for him.
Now he's running the Gamblers Astros. You know what we
gotta We gotta will the Astros back into intorelevancy. Got
all the things you said earlier. Hunter Brown coming back soon,
Jerry Paynon coming back soon. Yes, Joe Little Pfido coming

(01:56:55):
back soon. My uh tot, sweet am, I gonna pitch
on a real major league baseball He import some Japanese
dirt and get it on the mound for him. We
gotta do something. Let's get him some hookers. What yeah, what? Yeah? High.
That was Matt Thomas who said that it was not

(01:57:16):
me raw. You don't think sex would help Matt would
help him out? Nothing to do. No, you said you
don't want people having sex in the middle of the season.
Linebackers said, J Watt, no sex? Everybody else? Yes, Yes,
that doesn't make any sense. It's a stressful job. How
did this go so right? It did go so right?
Am I right? JJ Watt? No sex? Three time All

(01:57:37):
Defensive Player of the Year. No sex? He was having sex? No,
it wasn't he was. He abstained from sex every year
he won the deference players do, what the hell you're
talking about? You don't know that? Yes, I do. He did.
Did he get pregnant while he was playing? No he did.
He's never gotten pregnant. You did his wife get pregnant
during the Nope?

Speaker 10 (01:57:54):
He was there.

Speaker 2 (01:57:55):
Yeah, that's right because he was upstaining. He's like, I'm
gonna torture quarterbacks. What is wrong with you? He needs
I thought you wanted to have a high pitch count
and that too. I'll take anything at this point. Let's
talk to Chase on seven out of Hello, Chase, a
lot of things.

Speaker 8 (01:58:16):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 10 (01:58:17):
Boys?

Speaker 8 (01:58:17):
First off, I just say good morning. Absolutely, let's get
some hookers.

Speaker 10 (01:58:22):
Are we crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
Yeah, that's crazy. Tell me where Hooker's hurt. I want
him focus on baseball. You know what, he's been focused
on baseball. He's focusing on the pitch mount. He's focusing
on the pitch clock. He needs to focus on some
ass and he's a focus on all that not assen.

Speaker 8 (01:58:38):
Boys, he needs listen, he clears his mind, he clears
his body. He'll be ready to play some baseball.

Speaker 10 (01:58:43):
Get the man some hookers.

Speaker 8 (01:58:44):
What are we talking about? Yes, thank you, Chase, Yes, sir,
I'm right there with you. Secondly, let's talk Astros in general.
This is the saddest season I think I've ever been
a part of. I'm thirty six years old. I've watched
every single Astros game for the majority of my life.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
Good.

Speaker 8 (01:59:00):
I have never felt so kicked in the nuts so
early in the season in this season, and it's hurting me. Boys,
even if when and I heard Cole Thompson's dumbass talk
about this earlier, we listen. Even if we get pinyaback
looking great, even if we get Hunter bound back looking great,
They're not gonna save us with jord on it, They're
not gonna save us. We are in a dark downward

(01:59:22):
spiral right now, and unless everything happens to go right
for the rest of the year, we will not make
it to the playoffs two years in a row. I
will leave it at that. Good morning, strippers, and you'll
have a magical day.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
Thank you very much, Chase. We'll take the stirpers up
tomorrow at noon. You know what it is. Part of
it is Ross is we are so spoiled. Did you
hear what Chase just said? Two years in a row
of no playoffs? How does eighty percent of Major League

(01:59:52):
Baseball feel about the last two years? They're massively disappointed.
We are spoiled. And then Jim cran Era, it's been
very good. And look, we're just so real talking on Thursday.
We're in the dying numbers of a dynasty. It's over.
I'm sorry, nothing lasts forever. We're what the Golden State

(02:00:15):
Warriors are right now? Is that what that says? Are
we going through what we didn't want to go through?
Because the Braves went through this ten years ago. The did, yeah,
they did come back. Best record of the men in
baseball in the early nineties. Yankees, Well then you know
what we so we got to step up our early

(02:00:37):
two thousands. We're not We're not. We as a ten
to two midday radio show in Houston, Texas with a
few people who listen to the show, and for that
we love you. We gotta be better than that. We're
not gonna bring it. We're not gonna let popping of
tendons bring us down. Everybody's hurt and if people are playing,

(02:00:57):
are underperforming except for what jord done and camp Smith,
braid and Shoemaker, Braiden's shoemake. Yeah. If I would have
said Braiden Shoemaker was a third basement starting for the
Astros three months ago, I would have you would have
said that to me, And I said, who the hell
is Braidon shoe What if we brought you that lineup
card from yesterday? The Bryce Matthew's leading off Braid buddy

(02:01:20):
of the show, Zach Cole bettan sixth Oh yeah, Christian
Walker has been great. Your run has been great. Uh
has been good. And the different different spots he's been in.
Camp Smith is showing some flashes. Defensively, He's been fantastic
again for this team. Alright ops six sixty one Albert

(02:01:44):
and we're getting some emi, some ass. Let's get let's
get it, let's get in laid. So you're getting a
picture prostitutes. Correct. Okay again, folks, I will reiterate this
is Matt. Matt Thomas is saying Ross, that'd be prostitutes,
just somebody that's wanted to do sacrifice things for the

(02:02:04):
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I believe I needs a little loving that will get
everything fixed. I don't think that's gonna be to you.
Why do you know he's not getting loving. He's having
a difficult time adapting the United States. Okay, maybe there's

(02:04:16):
a girl back. He brought his girlfriend with him or
wife or what. There should be zero problems with with
a problems? Have you heard him? It's the weather, it's
the mound, it's the ball, pitchclocktch clock, everything. It's a
lot of acclimating he has to do. And there's no
wine in this cheese, is what you're saying. What there's
no whining in this in this little running run around

(02:04:36):
of all the things that's complaining. I mean, doesn't he
just sets a sack up. I mean he's if he's
being asked what's wrong and what's hard to adjust and
he's listing stuff. It's not like it's he's holding a
press conference. Hey guys, I just wanted to announce I
can't hang out with the slope of the mound. I
can't do this with the pitch clock. He's getting asked
questions through an interpreter. Hey, so what's a what's it

(02:04:58):
taking some adjusting? Why having more than everybody else, as
I guess everybody's just different. Everybody. Yeah, I guess everybody's different.
Then get that eighteen million dollars back, go back to
japond Japan. See you later, Sinara rib Go, get you
some Japanese. You know what they're and let's get it.
You know, no, I don't know. I can't say. Okay, Romen,

(02:05:21):
exactly what are you talking about. I'm saying I need
him to be pitching every fifth day, okay, And I
need to say and I don't want excuses. I'm done
with excuses. I want a Scott Boris client. You're a
higher gun. You have no emotions, no desires, no beliefs,
usually throwing strikes to the local nine. They need you.
Why aren't you yelling at Lancewer Colors Junior. Scott Bori's
client making eighteen million dollars We've been selling for five years.

(02:05:44):
Yelled at all, Come come to your mind, can't come
on the show. Poor guy's trying to adjust. Got down
on a half a nail. Yeah he's missing a nail.
Scott Bori's client, eighteen million dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:05:54):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
Seventy hours ju Cranford listening no more Scott Boris, clients'll
pan out, they leave us.

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
That was out.

Speaker 2 (02:06:01):
Well, he's got as like Grayson on seven on a
Good afternoon to you.

Speaker 6 (02:06:08):
Good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 16 (02:06:10):
I don't understand all this, all this talk about astros
aren't gonna pull this out. I mean, we have five,
our first five hitters once Penia gets back, are credible,
and then you have Smith and Lo Braffito comes back.
He was batting good when he left. Nobody's on a
season indie injury, just Korea, and Korea wasn't pulling through

(02:06:32):
with hitters. And when when bat when they were had
the basis, you know, hit it. When hitters were available
to knock in, he wasn't knock going to be in.
So I don't understand what the big big deal is.
We have a better starting five, what Hunter gets back
because you have arra Getty and Lambert instead of the
two guys at the end of the into their into

(02:06:52):
Javier and McCullers.

Speaker 6 (02:06:55):
I think it's gonna turn around.

Speaker 2 (02:06:58):
I hope you're right. Grayson. Uh, I'm just right now.
I'm the I'm in the theater of the moment right now.
I'm discouraged. I don't like the lineup. I don't like
the fact the bullpen's being used so much. I don't
like the fact the starters are not being I mean,
it's just look, things can change in clearly a week.
There's no if ens orbuts about that. But it's it's

(02:07:19):
still fourteen players, right, It's still you're opening you know,
you know, you know, you know, opening day in roster
they always put the players out there and they run
out of the field at first base line and they
tip their cap and they say, hello. If you did
that for right now, you would have nobody out there.

Speaker 16 (02:07:36):
And you have five you have field except for the catcher,
and well and and Pin.

Speaker 2 (02:07:44):
You a completely new left side of the infield.

Speaker 16 (02:07:47):
You have Smith, you have I mean, it's it's gonna
it's gonna be fine.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
And I mean, I hope you know what, Grayson, thank
you for the phone call. I hope you're right. Too
much has to go into place for it to just
be fine. Hunter Brown's gotta be good and back and
effective get hurt again. You are assuming that everyone most
players are coming back and everyone are gonna pick up
with a suppose he left off. He might has to
turn it around. That hasn't he's turn around. You've got

(02:08:12):
to do something. Yeah, all this, I mean we're talking
about like we're all like a one in a million
for everything to hit. He might has to come come
back and be good and give you LinkedIn games Burrow has.
Burrows has to turn it around or at least be
consistently good. I should say Lambert Lambert just came from Japan.
There's no guarantee that Peter Lambert keeps us up all season.
You signed Ryan Weiss to three million dollars. He's not

(02:08:34):
been of good value. He's been terriorating for Mike Burrows
to turn the corner on. Now he's giving you a
couple of quality starts, but he's been far from dominant.
I love Spencer Raghetty, but is he gonna have an
ERA of two all season long? Probably not. Pain's got
to come back and be good. Jake Myers is like
an unknown Joe Joey lo Berffito is a fourth outfielder.
Taylor Tremmell fifth outfielder. Yeah, you're gonna get all these

(02:08:57):
guys back and they're all gonna be great. Yea and Diazy.
People want to the oas dfaid early this season. Well,
react like he's going to come back in and Walter
Yank the future catcher is hurting batting one twenty five
at double A. But Grayce holds optimism and I'm going
to live for it. You need all those things to
go well. You need all of the comebacks. And the

(02:09:20):
biggest and the biggest break is the American League West
is awful. That is a good, Thank god, it is
the biggest thing You need is Hunter Brown to come
back and be Hunter Brown. It's a lot of pressure
for guys missed about ninety percent of the season. You
guarantee me a picture's not going to get hurt again.
Of course you can't. It's too much. It's too much

(02:09:42):
to overcome, I think, especially now when you factor in
the division. Perhaps, but I would say the odds are
very low of them making the playoffs. To me, now,
what I would like is for them to be relevant,
because ROSSI get in the If they are in the mix,
you can then cling to the hope of well, it's

(02:10:04):
been another season of injuries. But if they start to
fall twelve thirteen games under five hundred, that's when people
start to check out. And I don't want you all
to check out. It's not in our goods because then
we're gonna have to get into a deep dive of
you know what, we don't We're not going to do
it anyways. I'm willing to do it grudgingly.

Speaker 10 (02:10:25):
Let me.

Speaker 2 (02:10:25):
You know, I'm my podcasting. That's you know, it's how
much mind it's ten, it's fifty a piece. Damn, you'll
eat well off of me. All right, Vincent Midtown, We'll
get to you. Brian McTaggart on the Astro struggles as well,
plus believe it or not, all things Ted Turner one
fourteen Sports Talk Sternati. Gregs are about to play the Cubs,

(02:10:46):
so maybe the Reds will be tired for the Astros
series tomorrow in Cincinnati. We have some breaking news. That's one.
We'll give it a second one. No, who's hurt, nobody's hurt. Okay,
it is a official. Well, it's got to go through
two more layers. But the NCBLA committee the first round,
the committee is going to expand. It is going to
be a seventy sixteen tournament for the NCBLA March Madness

(02:11:10):
next March. You'll have twelve games play on Tuesday, excuse me,
six games played on Tuesday, six games on Wednesday, and
then you'll have the back to the round of the
rank normal tournament. So seventy six teams totals compared to
sixty eight. Who asked for this, the NLA did, and

(02:11:33):
when the NCBLA said yes. By the way, TV has
not been determined on that yet, but you know that
ESPN and or Turner will get involved in that as well.
So six games, so the first four is done. It's
now the first six, the second six. What yeah, you
get six and six, then six and twelve, and then
you have the sixty four. Make a total seventy six. Yeah,

(02:11:54):
six plus seventy Does that makes sense? It's it's gonna
make sense. Get your get your hell's going on, get
your bracket. It will all make a lot of sense. Okay,
So more impossible to get a perfect bracket. So two
games on Tuesday is gone. It's now six games on Tuesday.

(02:12:16):
Two games are gone on Wednesday. That's gone that. I'll
be six games on Wednesday and then it'll be down.
You'll take the winners of that. Added that to the.

Speaker 10 (02:12:23):
To the.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
Twelve plus the sixty four, it's it makes it seventy
six Okay, you know what this is? It yo. Everybody
wants more. Players want more, coaches want more TV networks,
more and more and more and more and more and
more and more more. So let's stop talking about how
things used to be great and things how money doesn't

(02:12:46):
make the world go around. We all want more money.
We want more exposure, we want more opportunity to keep
our jobs. We want more money for our kids. We
want more money. This. If we want more, you got it.
You just it doesn't organically come out out of nowhere.
You have to create more content to make more money.
Nobody wanted more of this though? Are they not making is?

Speaker 10 (02:13:04):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:13:04):
Is the NCAA struggling to make ends meet not want
to pay the players the un gout lay amounts of money,
So they're going to have to create now they are
going to They're not paying players now, So you have
to create more money to continue to have your economic
window and all the money you made before, and give
the players the money to their giving the institution. Yes,
everybody wanted more. Coaches wanted more, coaches wanted job security.

(02:13:28):
Coach one job security. Do they not make the tournament more?
Is that going to be good enough?

Speaker 1 (02:13:33):
Though?

Speaker 2 (02:13:33):
Is that the threshold when you're spending all these millions.
So what you did is you took three hundred and
fifty teams to play college Division one. Okay, so now
that you've got Grand Canyon's got a better shot of
making the tournament cool a Western Wisconsin or what. I'm
just making things up here. It'll be more bubble teams.
We didn't do We didn't do this with the power teams.
Weren't the agg where the Baggi's mad. They didn't make it.

(02:13:54):
I can't remember they made it? So was it there
was some school? Oh, there's always four or five every year. Yeah,
But the end of the day, it's gonna be Notre
Dame or not Notre Dame. It's gonna be Duke, it's
gonna be Yukon. It's just keeping coaches alive, adding a
layer and frankly ross to be brutally honest. We'll watch it.

(02:14:14):
We may watch a lot of it. We'll watch something.
I don't watch a lot of the first four. Betting
on it, well, bet MGM and all those fan duels.
They can't get enough of this. I know, more games,
more handle, yeah, more money, squeeze it all from everyone.
Squeeze all the night. Just think about it. Everything around

(02:14:36):
sports is concerning money, not about the balance, not about
the bracket, not about the fun of the bracket. It's
about the financial It's about adding a layer of television
games to these networks. It's been that way for a
long long time. It's just more and more apparent. Seventy
six ross, I can somewhat live with this twenty four

(02:14:59):
team tournament. It's gonna the college football tournament. I mean,
congratulations in North Texas. You're gonna probably get a better
shot at getting in. You just are. So the first
eight get a bye, I guess, and then sixteen teams
go down to eight and then you're at sixteen. That's
what you're gonna do. I guess probably. I guess I'll
be some double buys involved in this as well, talking

(02:15:19):
about on the football. So yeah, all so, James Madison
can play Liberty in a first round matchup, and by
the way, bet on it and by you put it
on CNT. I got James Madison plus the points, Lock
of the week, Bock of the Week, Vince in Midtown
at won twenty five high vants.

Speaker 12 (02:15:38):
Hey, guys, change the subject on sure, but I'm just
kind of I'm a big NBA fan then for years,
and man, these playoffs have been extremely disappointing. They've been
really made us two or three games that were really like,
you know, riveting, and just overall the epic droughts that
some of these teams are having, like shooting missing eighteen

(02:15:59):
shots in a row, and it's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
And this.

Speaker 12 (02:16:04):
It's just a very very underwhelming, uh to say the least.
And uh, I don't know where it's going from here,
but just I just you know, other than San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (02:16:13):
And Oklahoma City, those are the.

Speaker 12 (02:16:14):
Only teams that seemed to be intriguing to watch. And
I'm I'm assuming they'll both lead in the Western Conference
Finals and I think that would be.

Speaker 2 (02:16:24):
Really good TV there.

Speaker 12 (02:16:26):
But other than that, it's just been a dud.

Speaker 2 (02:16:28):
Yeah, thank you for watching. Agree. There's been a bunch
of close games. Is Piston's Magic went seven, Cavs Raptors
went seven, yesterday Sixers game, and the next was cool.
But it's just not gonna seem by a lot of
people here in town. Now when you have the one
close team that you are familiar with, San Antonio blow
the walls off of Minnesota that that doesn't help. But
there were some dynamic game sevens, and I'm not trying

(02:16:49):
to give you in Sixers went seven. Yeah, good three
series in the first round, go seven games. It's hard
to paint a broad brush over an entire playoff series.
It just is. I mean, there's been a lot of
good games. But okay, I mean yeah, I mean I'm
trying to look at the score, but I mean the
Cabs Magic and the Cabs Toronto. They're not moving the
needle here, I know. But he's just saying none of

(02:17:10):
the games has been good, and that's just wrong. Yeah,
they've been good. It's just too it's too easy to
say that the whole series have been bad. Now, the
Knicks Atlanta game, then that series was awful. Rockets game
ended there, but that fifteen the Rockets were terrible. Yeah, well,
Spurs was a blowout last night. Nick Sixers were close
to the end. You've also had a lot of injuries.

(02:17:34):
I mean, Luca's out and as he has been terrible
for the Lakers, Edwards is out. Well, it's also the
thunder or just a juggernaut. Yeah, I would say this,
Vince that when the Oklahoma City plays San Antonio. That
has gonna be a knockdown, drag out fight in the
Western Conference. That's a series that I think, frankly, any

(02:17:54):
fan of basketball that doesn't have a dog in a
fight has been looking forward to watching. Yeah, And I
think no matter what the matchup is, well, I mean,
as long as the Knicks are probably gonna beat the
Sixers are up to nothing, I think the East Finals
will be good too. Nick Pistons could be a lot
of fun to watch. So don't give up. Don't give
up on us, baby, and he's seventy songs. Okay, don't

(02:18:16):
bring it all right, let's hear from Brian McTaggart. Next,
Gano wants to jump into One twenty eight is our time.
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one
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(02:18:37):
from my office here at iHeartRadio and I have been
with this company for thirty years this year and they
brought me a guitar with all of the sports logos
on it. Yes, and I've covered all the teams thirty oilers. Yes,
they have the Houston Hotshots logo on there. That's the
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(02:18:59):
Uh but you see a photo thirty years this year
with iHeart altogether. So thank you to my great boss
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(02:19:20):
play it? I don't know you can't. Why not? I
don't know. This is Oh this is so nice and
I'll show a photo. But thank you again. Okay, I can't.
I'm left tell you that don't don't don't break it.

Speaker 6 (02:19:31):
What do I do?

Speaker 2 (02:19:33):
You need to put a picture up of this time.
I'm gonna I'm gonna put it in my office at
the house. Can you play guitar? Play a little sea
Quord's attitude. Oh that wasn't me, that wasn't me. Ouch,
thank you, iHeart, thank you very much. Thirty years. Oh
it's way attitude.

Speaker 5 (02:19:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:19:48):
I started in July of nineteen ninety one and I
moved away from my heart for a few years, but
came back obviously to work. Yeah, non consecutive. Hold on, now,
when did he cut these years back up?

Speaker 12 (02:19:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:19:59):
No, no, this is consecutively. Uh no, it's not. No,
it's a couple years of hubard. But yeah, whatever, close enough,
thirty years. How about that? Thirty years? This is awesome.
Thank you very much everybody to our family. Let's hear
from Brian McTaggart. Uh, you know I went to school together.
You have h way way back guys, the classes together.

Speaker 10 (02:20:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:20:17):
Really, yeah, I didn't know that. I think so maybe
had one class together. Oh really yeah, we're cheat off them. No,
they're all trying to cheat off me. Nah, nobody believes that. Hey,
Brian mctager was on the show, and I hell, I've
even forgot what he talked about. Well, Jonathan, how we
leading into this? I totally forgot talking about Carls Oh,
the Carls Cray injury. But how Rossie, we gotta send

(02:20:40):
McTaggart to cover uh uh batting cages because we're seeing
guys drop like flies the last couple of days. Here's
our visit with Brian.

Speaker 6 (02:20:50):
Yeah, that was crazy. I think Cores was actually inside
inside the hitting tunnel. U. You know a lot of
players now don't like to hit on the field, so
h Crea was hitting inside. So I wouldn't say that
one anyway, because apparently he crumpled to the ground. Diaz.
I did not see that one at all when he
was swinging and had to stop. But it's unfathomable that
two days in a row they lose a guy in

(02:21:12):
batting practice and one of their starters, position players and
a key player. It's just you think, just when you
think they've had enough injuries and they can't get any more,
then that happens, and it's I'm speechless. I've never seen
anything like this.

Speaker 2 (02:21:28):
That's the thing, Brian, is that we're being asked the
same questions you are. Well, you change the medical staff out,
you change out the physical strength and conditioning, You do
all of a sudden, behind the scene things that we
don't see. We have to assume they're all professionals of
their job. They've got training to it. Do you want
to just chalk this up to a second year of
unbelievable terrible lack of luck, or do you think there's

(02:21:52):
even another deep dive within the organization that has to
be done because of the number of injuries that have
happened to this team so far this year.

Speaker 6 (02:22:00):
Well, I mean they changed head trainers, they trained, changed
their head strength and conditioning coach. They've brought in other
other people to the medical staff. I mean, they've made
a lot of changes to their medical staff and it's
still happening happening. So, I mean, I lean on the
side of this is just a crazy coincidence. I mean,
I don't think there's I can't imagine there's anything going

(02:22:22):
on with the Astros that is getting all these guys injured.
I mean, you know, Korea looks like he just rolled
his ankle. I guess taking a swing. I mean, you
know who that whose fault is at is? Nobody's just
just you know, it's it's just unfortunate luck. And you know,
DS swings the bat and feels no oblique. I mean,
Diaz is in good shape as far as I know.

(02:22:42):
He does all their workouts and their plans, and I guess,
I guess there's no firm answer. But you know, two
years in a row, they've had more injuries than anybody,
and you know, I know it's frustrating and everyone wants answers,
and the answer might be it's just the way it is.
There is no there is no answer.

Speaker 2 (02:22:56):
All right. Speaking of injuries, m color is nail. What
do we know about what happened yesterday? His ability to
stay out there was good. Unfortunately, he was just throwing
stuff that was easily hittable as the Dodgers took two
out of three. But what do we know about Lance
right now in the nail and whether or not that'll
impact the way he makes his next appearance.

Speaker 6 (02:23:18):
Well, I mean, apparently you know he's leading off the
third inning against Freeland, the nine hole hitter. In the
third inning, the part of his nail tore off on
his pointer fingernail on his right hand. They came out
there and looked at it. He said, I don't have
my curve ball anymore, but let me try to finish
this inning. I can make quality pitches. They said, okay,
just because they really can't afford their starter to go

(02:23:40):
two innings. And then he couldn't get out of the
third inning because he said he was a pitch down.
So he was asked directly if it's going to impact
his next start. He said, we'll see, So it would
not shock me considering the struggles that Lance has had
that if they put him on the injured list, you know,
I'm the problem is who do you replacing with? I

(02:24:02):
mean they you know, they bring up Jason Alexander and
you know he gets knocked around. They're just at the
end of their starting pitching depth. They just don't have
anybody anymore. So just because of all these injuries. So
and you know, Emi is gonna come back and start
against Seattle just because kind of what I did yesterday. Look,
i mean, this guy's not injured, he's throwing ninety seven.

(02:24:24):
He's making a ton of money. You either get guys
out in the big leagues or you don't, so sink
or swim time. And so that's where they're at with him.
So it's just nothing about this feels really good if
you're the Astros. But it's just where they're at.

Speaker 2 (02:24:37):
Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and that's what I was gonna come with you to with.
Come to you next, Brian McTaggert, is tasi Imai. How
were you surprised at all that they kind of made
that decision to just throw him in there? Or is
it like you said, it's just a necessity and you
kind of go out there and get some out and
earn this contract.

Speaker 6 (02:25:00):
Yeah, I wasn't surprised. I mean, you know, what more
can you do. Let let's let's give him another minor
league start, and you know he walks four guys and okay,
now what you know. I mean, he's they signed him
here to major league hitters out, and that's what he's
going to have to figure out a way to do.
His first two winnings, it's sugar Land. I mean, I
was out there, I was watching the Astros played Dyking,

(02:25:21):
But apparently his first two winnings weren't bad and then
and then the rails sort of came off. But he
mentioned something about the pitch clock, and I mean, we've
heard everything now, We've heard pitchclock, the mound, the balls
eating schedule, you know, you name it. At some point
you're just gonna have to go out there and and
man up and get guys out. And that's the point
of the season we're at. And they're in a really

(02:25:43):
tough part of their schedule right here. I mean, they
just finished playing the Dodgers. You know, Cincinnati was playing well,
you know, they were in first a few days ago.
Now they're they're in last, but they're still over five hundred.
And you know, the Mariners are just took a series
from the Brave, so they're sort of on the com
so there's really no soft landing spot at this point.
You're just gonna have to go out there and get
major league hitters out. That's what we're paying you to do,

(02:26:04):
So it's time to go do that.

Speaker 2 (02:26:06):
If it keeps trending in this way. How much grace
do either of Joe Aspata or Dana Brown get in
terms of the injuries and the situation they are on?
Like how thin of ice do you feel like both
of those guys are on.

Speaker 6 (02:26:22):
Yeah, that's that's tough because I pinning any of this
on Joa Spota just I don't think it's fair. I mean,
you take away the amount of players. We're talking five
starting position players, three members of your starting rotation who
are in the rotation to start the season, and you're
all star closer. You take them away, and there's not
a manager around this is gonna have this team in

(02:26:45):
first place or you know, playing much better than they
are now. That's just the way it is so, but
I get it. It's some you know, people want answers,
people want accountability. Jim Crane has never made a move
with a manager or a general manager in the middle
of the sea, and so that that I think we're
too early for that stuff. I think at the All

(02:27:06):
Star break maybe maybe that's the time that the Crane will,
you know, sit down and evaluate things. I have not
asked him about this. I've not had the chance to
talk to him about, you know, what he thinks of
the state of the team right now and where they're at.
So it's really hard to say it's all speculation, but
my gut just tells me I don't think we're to
that point. I think would be really really unfair for

(02:27:26):
Joe just just with all the injuries that they've had.
It's just he's running guys out there who you know
should be in the minor leagues, and there's you know,
that's that's not an indictment on him, that's just the
roster that he's been given.

Speaker 2 (02:27:38):
And specifically on Dana Brown. Matt and I were talking
about this in the last segment. If I mean, what
do you think the prospects of him in terms of
also the draft that you have coming up in terms
of could you just talk just tell us how that
goes has How involved is Dana Brown? Is he making
the pigs? Is it like director of scouting and does
the board built? Like what would that entail if if

(02:28:00):
it weren't Dana Brown running running the draft?

Speaker 6 (02:28:06):
Well, you know, Dana was. Dana was brought here because
of his draft record. One of the reasons. I mean
he's a uh, you know, he's a scout at heart.
He's had he had some really good drafts with the
Braves and Soul. The draft is what in July, So
I would find it hard to believe they would make
a move. I mean, Dana is very very involved in

(02:28:27):
the draft. I mean they brought in Derek Ladmir, who's
you know, one of the top of talent evaluators a
couple of years ago, and and he's very involved as well.
So you know, there's a lot of voices that are
involved in in their draft selection process, but the Dana's
up there as well. Now, if if they managed, if
they did make a move at general manager, would they
still uh would they still have capable guys who can

(02:28:49):
make draft picks? Yeah, I mean they have a lot
of pretty good talent, talent evaluators that Dana brought in.
I mean, these are these are Dana's guys, So you know,
do you do you remove? If you remove Dana, then
you know, you know, do other guys stay. I mean,
these are all questions I just don't have an answer to.
So it sort of uncharted waters at this point.

Speaker 2 (02:29:08):
It certainly then again part of the Brian mctagger conversation
earlier today, and of course he joins us every Thursday
at eleven o'clock. Here on Sports Talk seven Nuntie Believe
It or Not All Things about Ted Turner is next.
If you want to play seven one three two one
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you can play my guitar only if he uh plays
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Speaker 15 (02:29:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:29:44):
Thanks again? iHeartRadio Houston for bringing me that wonderful gift. Thanks,
and by the way, thanks everybody listens to the show.
We don't always get along, but we're here for each other.
Good to work. I'm like your big brother or your cousin,
or your nephew or a trust friend. Dirty uncle, dirty uncle,
not nice? Maybe accurate. I mean he did just ask

(02:30:06):
for a hooker to be You wanted to get the
picture hookers to turn his season around. I'm gonna ask
you a serious question. You do not think totsu emi
getting a nice girl for a few hours. Loosen them
up a little bit. You're telling me, No, that's what
I thought. No, maybe stress him out, stress him out.

(02:30:27):
I'd give him at break. He's breaking the law. Okay,
well then let's get him a date. Jonathan. Your girl's
got friends, right, Oh my god, you pimp them out.
You're pimping out his Did you just say that out loud? No,
I thought it. I didn't say it out loud. And
you're not the dirty uncle. Really yeah, if anybody can

(02:30:48):
help out, you ask your producer if his girlfriend has
friends he get you can pimp out to a Astro's picture.
Do you want the astros backing contention? Do you think
that's really gonna help? It can't hurt? When does ever
getting now, I'm not looking for a relationship here with
your girls. And girls. Oh my god, disrespect. Why don't

(02:31:11):
you call the friends. You know what, if Tatsumi wanted
my wife's friends, I'd set them up. I guarantee you
I can find some one of my wife's girlfriends would
would happily spend quality time with Tatsuma if you get
six innings at pitching. So we're gonna do the Thomas
families wanted to help out Houston Sports. Put your name
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(02:31:32):
Let's see you get it done. Then, well, I gotta
find you're gonna save the ass. Go ahead, start asking
your wife's friends. Who's gonna sleep with Tatsuo? What if
you met us like older women? What if they don't
like younger men. I don't believe it to be the case. Okay,
I'll set you know what, I'll set some I'll set
em up with somebody this weekend. Zero chance, five minutes

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read your statement about Ted Ted Stamen completely utterly. Actor.
You'll say this believe it same as Sebernie's fulltaball come
made up. You'll say this to believe it or not
in a roll about Ted Turner. When you either a
pair of tickets to see Sting live on May the
thirteenth as the Woolen's Pavilion tickets are on sale ticketmaster

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dot com, or a pair of tickets to see Triumph
on their Rock and Roll Machineryloaded Tour. The It's old
comic Doug no Oh, Traump the band, Although Trump the Crimp,
He's funny, he's back by the way doing great job.
Tickets for Triumph that'll be available at Smart Financialcenter dot net.
Let's play. Let's go to Caleb on seven ninety kleb

(02:32:58):
be ready to play Believe it or not? Yeah, man,
Let's do Caleb. Good luck friend. Ted Turner was a
self made billionaire growing up in Georgia. His father was
a rail worker and his mother was a school teacher.
Believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (02:33:14):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:33:14):
No, he was not self made. Unfortunately, he inherited his
father's billboard company ken On SEVENINTI Ken, You're ready to
play Believe it or not? Believe it. Ted Turner attended
Brown University, where he was expelled for having a female
in his dorm room. Believe it or not, I knew
that one. For yes it is. He's a rascal just

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like Emai is. Statement number two for the Wind. Ted
Turner listed Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid as his
all time favorite movie. Believe it or Not, It no
Gone with the Wind? D ben On Steveanani Ben your
favorite part of today's tended to radio show? Oh the

(02:33:58):
he may talk for short. In twenty sixteen, Ted Turner
traveled on the Virgin Galactic commercial space flight, making him
the oldest civilian to travel to space. Believe it or
not not, Yeah, Ross made that up. Statement number two
for the Wind. Ted Turner was the creator of the
popular children's cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Believe

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it or not.

Speaker 8 (02:34:22):
Oh, that's such a good show.

Speaker 2 (02:34:24):
But I'm gonna say not believe it so good that
he created it? Oh, well do Seki's on seven ninety o,
sekis you ready to play Believe it or Not?

Speaker 10 (02:34:36):
Yes, sir, I'm sorry.

Speaker 14 (02:34:37):
I'm in the Uh, I'm in the secret because of
my poet's all right.

Speaker 2 (02:34:42):
Well. He was owner of the Braves. Ted Turner hosted
College Night, which included wet t shirt contests Believe it
or not?

Speaker 10 (02:34:51):
Oh he was crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:34:52):
Believe it believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:34:53):
That's right, statement number two for the win. In twenty eleven,
Ted Turner was to be honored in a Comedy Central roast,
but the taping was canceled, with Turner citing health problems.
Believe it or not be No, you're pretty proud of

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yourself with that one, aren't you?

Speaker 6 (02:35:15):
Good for you?

Speaker 5 (02:35:17):
Eric?

Speaker 2 (02:35:17):
On seven on E Eric, You're ready to play Believe
it or not?

Speaker 10 (02:35:21):
I believe so.

Speaker 2 (02:35:22):
Ted Turner had a long standing rivalry with Rupert Murdoch,
even once challenging him to a televised fist fight Believe
it or not? There you go, congratulations, all right, and
then goes Friday Tomorrow, Rossie, you thought he thought tatsu
Emi getting laid talk was gonna be crazy? On Thursday.

(02:35:44):
Imagine how Friday's gonna be. We may have the person
called the show. You never know. We gotta get him better.
We gotta get him hookers call the show. Well, I
mean it would be the worst thing. Okay, you want
what we canna break down Lakers versus on Game two?
We can do that. Yeah, you can also do you know,

(02:36:04):
we could also get into what is c J. Stroud
an elite level quarterback just throwing it out there. Who
thinks he is? Maybe he's not a person on the planet.
I think he's worth sixty million dollars. Maybe the flag
ship you don't know. Saying we got I'm sorry is
to get to tomorrow. We have Wexler, We've got clan
a lot of apologizing to do. Oh my god, so much.

(02:36:26):
You need to apologize to Jonaan's friends, your wife's friends,
and tatsu Emi and his family. That's all tomorrow at
eleven thirty up next Clanton Wexler, the team talk to
you for anything goes Friday, and I mean anything. At
ten o'clock Friday, Sports Talk seven Hunty