Astros Drop The Series vs Blue Jays & Now Tied For AL West… Can They Battle Back This Weekend?

Astros Drop The Series vs Blue Jays & Now Tied For AL West… Can They Battle Back This Weekend? 

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

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ten O one at h Town.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of the
Matt Thomas Show. And Ross that's it Sports Talk seven y.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Don't knock it? Do you try it?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Young Jonathan. That burger that you ate yesterday with Sports
Army was well deserved.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
That was an outstanding Friday open.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I appreciate it. And good lord, Lauren she haughty? Are
you Annie Allzeimmer today? Two seconds into the show, Well
not really? Is ten o three?

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Well?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Two and seconds in us talking on that?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's true? Changes channel for Lauren Shaw haughty is showing
the sausage sampler. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Sometimes I put
things on a tee and I wonder if you're gonna
I mean, I have the perfect response to that, but

(01:11):
I'm not gonna do it. Okay, good family radio show.
M It isn't anything goes Friday as well. It isn't
any anything goes. And you know what I'm pissed off about.
What you pissed off about, Matt. We've got to tie
in America League West. It was if it was gonna
be when and it happened. Well, thanks for nothing, Angels,
get our hopes up. No thanks for nothing. Kevin Gossman

(01:33):
throwing strikes every single time. I mean he that that
dude does have a cy young under his belt. Correct. Well,
here's the funny thing. People call and say, you know,
the Astros got to take some more pitches. They gotta,
they gotta, you know, shorten up there bad. They gotta
do this, They gotta do that, They gotta they gotta
make the picture work. When the pitcher is throwing strike one,
strike two almost to every single batter, there's just something

(01:56):
you can't overcome. And that's exactly what the Astros were yesterday.
They were completely overmatched by the pitching matchup, and Javier
tried to stay in it after a.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Really rough early going gave you a little bit of Lynx, and.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Then Lance mccullor's had to come in and try to
at least get some mojo back, and he was good
for one inning and hey, su Sanchez butchering the ball
out and I feel, not once, but twice, how much
are we blaming the sun or how much were we
saying we've seen him take bad roads. He's he's a
below average outfielder. And the son did First of all,
the sun didn't help. I get that, but he's still

(02:34):
a below average outfielder, and that's a hesitancy that probably
the Astros have him putting him out there.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
He's got a great arm.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
He does have a great arm, but again, you know,
if he was a receiver, he wouldn't be considered a
particularly good route runner.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I like that he's got great hands, but not it
doesn't run good routes.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, you know, Okay, Like, for instance, when I was
playing football as a kid, I was a fantastic rut runner.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
You were, Yeah, I would run right, it's a concession stand.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh she's here all weekend, folks. Try the veal yep.
Oh do you eat much veal? I haven't had veal
in a while. It's it's not one of my favorite things.
But if somebody said, hey, we're gonna have vill Pomer's
on that, I'd eat it.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I mean you feel a little guilty and then you
have a bite and you're like, poor baby cows.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's not something you would ever go. Let's go and
have some veal together.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah all right, all right, So, uh so the Astros
throwing a big veal party this week, and if you
come over.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
The astrobats were feeble again.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it's been happening.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
I'm mean.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm done.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay, I'm gone. What are you done with?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm done? I just yesterday was aggravating. I mean, I
go to the dentist yesterday. She's like, you need to
flash your teeth more. I mean, I mean, you gonna
tell it to somebody? Floss every day, Maddie, Come on,
do you loss every day? I do, but I will
tell you I've only started doing it about a year ago.
And that's when my dentist is like, if you want
to keep your teeth, you need to start flying every day.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
So she dropped the you're gonna lose?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes he did. Ooh yeah, so then I'm getting needlessly right.
That scared me. So not going to lunch with you guys.
I would love to go, but here's I mean, let
me peel the old curtain back. I put that as
a joke. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, not your fault. We
do a show from ten to two. Yes, okay, so angry.
So that's four hours. Yes, it takes me an hour
to get to work. Whoa, it takes me an hour

(04:25):
to get home from work. So that's note. And that's
and I don't show up literally here at ten. I
showed up. Try to get here by nine thirty, So
that means leaving the house at eight thirty to three.
You have very little time because of our shift people
with the work nine to five to find the same situation.
So on a situation where I could actually go and
do something outside of my normal time, I'm gonna take

(04:47):
advantage of it. And so I knew the Astros game
was an early start, afternoon started, uh, And so you
did the on deck show and I was able to
squeeze in at two o'clock.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
The disappointment wonderful. So they did that, and I.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Got home and watched the early implosion by the Astros
and the fact the Astros had runners at first and
third and one inning two hits in the game. It
was the only inning that had a hit two hits
in them. There was no slug or two singles and
a bunch of strikeouts and a bunch of lazy pop flies.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
And then mccullors goes out there and does what he
does and the game was out of hand anyway, it
was on a hand at one It didn't matter. And
then uh so we decided as a family, we're gonna
go suffer together, and we went to Rex's roadhouse and
we ate about fifteen rolls apiece. We felt much better
about ours. We ate steaks. Okay, we're not that compy'd
this Philip on peanuts and rolls and head out. You know,

(05:41):
the reality is you get the two bags of peanuts, yes,
and you get your table and they used to get
a bucket, now you get bags. No, they put the
because I think the peanut allergies. Uh so they used
to have the peanuts on the ground, but they don't
even do that anymore. Which, by the way, could you
and fall hazard, Well, could you imagine being at Bex's
boat house and every day your part of your ship

(06:01):
is cleaning up all the peanuts on the ground. That
would suck. It'd be terrible. And then you got you
got servers slipping on the shelves. Yeah, I mean it was,
it was on you. It was, frankly, a bad idea,
really really bad idea. So they do them in the
bags now, huh uh. And then they bring the rolls
before before you get down or your drink. The rolls
are sitting there in your face. Yeah, and you have

(06:22):
you inhale about three of them because you're hungry. You're
there because you're hungry. Yes, and then then two bites
into your your your chicken, fried chicken, your you're full.
There's four of us, three men and one woman and
the Romans. The woman's having her normal role, and I'm
the boys are you know, the boys are mowing them down.
We're just we're just shoving him and left and right,
boom boom boom boom, just jamming rolls on them out.

(06:43):
It's like a roll eating contest at the table. It was,
but it feel better because yesterday sucked.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
It was not good.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
And then I got home last night watched a very
little bit of the game between Washington and Green Bag.
I didn't have any fantasy impact and then didn't or
you know, Tucker craft seasoned folks, but he was good.
I love those white uniforms, by the way, you know,
I like them, the white on white with the white
look nice. Texans need to do that one time, you know,
they always have the first. They don't have white helmets
though they don't mean they might have won a white

(07:11):
helmet once, but I know I'm not saying you're wrong,
You're you're the expert. Yeah, I'm gonna say expert. No horse, Fine,
let's try to be you know, it's a sorry Friday.
I'm trying me nice.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
But yeah, the Texans will wear white this Monday, United Believe. Okay,
So liberty white for Liberty white, Matt, let's go. Will
they go to Owen two? Maybe? I mean there's a
chance they're favored. I'm feeling good, okay, kind of. I
got a question for you today ahead that I'll save

(07:44):
for the next segment. Okay.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
By the way, the Astros are in Atlanta tonight, it's
a bullpen game.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
How are we feeling. I'm going to ask you a
very simple question. Will the Astros have a share or
be in first place by themselves by the end of
this weekend? Seattle has the Angels. They're in Seattle, where
Seattle almost never loses. By the way her legs, my gosh,
she's just perfect. All right, Focus, I'm gonna turn to you.

(08:16):
I can definitely look at imperfection there. I don't want
to for those white sock put those down. That's terrible. Okay, Focus, Thomas,
come on now, Uh, will they be in first place
by this weekend.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I don't want to get no choked.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Up about it. Hmm No, maybe tired you mean tied
or by themselves, by themselves, tighter, by themselves. I'll say yes.
The Bats and Carlo's career brought this up yesterday after
the game. They've been talking about this for the Bats
just aren't going to be there. I mean, they just aren't.

(08:57):
The offense is not there. We have a problem in
this with offense. Frankly, with two of our three teams. Well,
Kevin Durant's gonna help that. Lasted two of the three teams,
I'm not wouldn't County good? And the Cougar offense will
be great tonight against Colorado? Boo, here we go, Here
we go, big game?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
All right?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Today
isn't anything goes Friday? Let me give you the digits again, then, Ross,
you need to explain the essence of any Friday at
seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
You made it.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
You made it that right now? Okay, now I'm doing it.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yes, folks, the phone lines are wide open on a Friday,
you want to get in. You want to talk about
how the Astros are disappointing you. Does it feel like
it's just not their year? Tied with the Seattle Mariners
atop the American League West seven to one three two
one two five seven ninety Anything you want to get to.
You want to talk about your favorite burger spots around town,

(09:49):
we can talk about that. Uh you want to talk
about how great it is to follow sports RV on Instagram.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
I really would appreciate that as well. Uh, I need
the help. I need anything I can get.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Thank you very much. Appreciate that also, Canelo Crawford. If
you want full breakdown from Matt Thomas on that, we
got that coming up on the show as well. Anything
you want to get to, it isn't Anything goes Friday
here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one
three two one two five seven. Honey the Texans. We're

(10:19):
not prepared on one side of the ball to start
this season. We'll discuss that next seven one three two
one two five seven Nunny. Anything goes Friday here on
The Matt Thomas Show, a raw seven to one three
two one two five seven nine zero seven one three
two one, two five seven, Natty, if you want to
follow us on Twitter at sports MPT, at Sports Survey.

(10:39):
I want to thank the new followers I have on Instagram.
We're going to have a We're gonna have a party
when I hit three thousand. That's great, Matt. Now it's
gonna be probably a very low key party. Where are
we going? I don't know. Well, we'll figure out. You know,
we'll go to Big City Wings a week from Thursday. Well,
hopefully you get there a week from next Thursday. Wait, yeah,

(11:01):
a week from the next Thursday's coming up with me?
Then we's coming up week from Thursday. Yeah, just say
the date. That's twenty five, number twenty fifth. Okay, thank
you very much. You know I'm very organized, yeah, you
and the plaiff. I'm very organized with my planner. Matt
said he'd buy me one in August. He didn't. That's okay, no,
I You've not. You know what, when we go to
Berger's next time, I'll buy you a planning because yours

(11:22):
is too small. And you've heard that before, mothers seven
one three the planner. Of course, they usually say it
out loud, they just think they think it.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Ay.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I thought about this, and Shawn I actually was talking
about on his show this morning. I was driving in Rossie.
How many players on the Texans offense would start for
other NFL teams? What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Nico Collins starts for all thirty two teams in football?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Correct? CJ Start starts for about twenty higher three of them,
twenty three at least, maybe even twenty five. Okay, all right,
continue on. Uh, we'll put Joe Mixon in the healthy category,

(12:12):
although he may not.

Speaker 6 (12:12):
You have many.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Dalton Schultz could start for about ten of them, okay,
Tightas Howard six to seven. Tightus Howard might start for
ten to ten to twelve, if not more. If you
need just Sam Robinson maybe about eight, no.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Lower than that.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Uh, who else are we going with? Joe Mixon would
start for twenty teams if he was healthy, Yes, if
he was healthy, but he's not.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
That's Dalton Schultz. Do we say Dold Shults?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Okay, the nursery. Yeah, you can get a shot with
like ten of them. It's one game. It's one game.
He's a rookie. It's gonna get better.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Then I can't.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Then I can't make him a starter. For snip, snip, snip.
It's confusing. Put him on the right or put him
on the left. The Texans is an organization greatly overrated
their offensive coming in. Now they did address it by
trying to get two receivers. Well, hold on, who told
you was going to be the greatest show on turf? Well, I,

(13:16):
but you you've had all this off season to plan it.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
You knew your offensive line was going to be hot garbage,
and you make shifted it it best, by the way.
Congratulations Larry Tunsil getting a fall start penalty in the
game last night. Only one, uh the one I I
happened to be on for a few minutes, And I'm
telling you those one Al Michaels. He may have lost
his fastball, but he still has a good change up.
He's like, it's nothing foreign for nothing strange for Larmie

(13:41):
Tunseil to go a fall start call.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
He led the league in the last season. So Al
still got a little bit left in the tank.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah he does, but he sleeps walks, sleep walks through
most of the broadcast. But I listened a little bit
he was fine to me. I mean it was also
the first game of the year fine December in Baltimore.
May be a little tired, but that's a different istion
you for him. But yeah, no, the Texans offense might
have been greatly exaggerated. And so how is CJ supposed

(14:09):
to have this amazing third season if he doesn't have
all these parts? Now again, he's got the two rookie receivers.
M he did have multiple tight ends to his availability,
but one's done now for a while for the season,
and then you've got a makeshift offensive line that may
not be ready. Oh, by the way, Christian Kirk you

(14:30):
brought in hasn't played yet and probably will not play
this Monday night. Yeah, Christian Kirk is starting the slot
for about fifteen teams too many. No, he's definitely middle
of the pack slot guy.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I think.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Okay went healthy, but that's always been the big That's something.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's why I think it's a small number, because how
many teams are gonna go say I want to go
get Christian Kirk.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
I always been hurt for two straight seasons.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Houston Texans. Oh, that's true. It takes one. It only
takes one. He can still play fifteen games he misses
this week. That's true, that's true. Got to be positive, man,
get a game of Jacksonville next Sunday. You got a change?
What is it a hamstring for him?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh great?

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Brason Burios?

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Uh okay, Braxon Barios, I mean Braxon Barrios can play. No,
he can play for all thirty two teams as a
return guy and fourth fifth receiver. He can do that anyway.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, there's a spot for him. He's but he's done
it for about six teams.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
So how are you supposed to win games when you
don't have that kind of firepower. You need players who
are going to be special, who can shore up we
can go up and down teams. And everybody's got holes
for the most part somewhere. So that means C. J.
Stroud and Nico Collins need to be special, and you
need to get Joe Mixon back as soon as possible.
If you have guys who are impact, game breaking type

(15:49):
of players, they can make it easier for everyone else.
If Joe Mixon is there and making guys miss and
and changing directions and being patient and and waiting for
the holes to find him, he can make the offensive
line look better.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
CJ.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Stroud as well can make the offensive line look better.
And Nico Collins if he you know, if they can
rather than pass protect for I don't know ninety percent
of the snaps they do it in the in the
half of the snaps they do a good job of it.
You have to make the most of those. So and
look in eight weeks from now. The Jalen's can be
great receivers for this team. Yeah, they they have to

(16:24):
have some impact as well. So could Jaden and Jalen.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
It's so good, so confusing.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
I know, Jayden Higgins, Jalen Nol, not Noel. I think
it's Nol. That's what they're saying on the broadcast. We'll
go Noel. Okay, they consist. So Kevin Harlan says we
would trust him. He gets names wrong.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Some say you're mister under your breath talk guy.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
You hear that. He's just he's talking. He's great, He's
all time, great, all great human being, most important and
super nice guy.

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
I don't think he remembers my name very often.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
I mean, at least, I mean Iron doesn't remember my
name all the time.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's nice.

Speaker 8 (17:07):
Braid.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Does you guys are boys? I got, I got the
national people that I like. What all right, let's get Yes,
I'm very proud of I want to name a lot
of nowhere. Yes, Matt, you're doing a great job. Joe
Buck doesn't know me. Kevin Burkhard doesn't Tom Brady doesn't know.
I'm working on these things. I want to see. I'm

(17:29):
gonna see if me and Tarrico can be Bestie's before
the end of the season, because the rocketing in nbclore
quite a bit. Well, you know, Charlie Plo and here boys,
weren't they roommates or something. They were roommates. They saw
each other in each other's underwear and stuff. How fun
were those parties? Charlie and Tarico pulling up Charlie and
the member's only jacket with a six pack of Bartle

(17:49):
and James. Yeah, or maybe some Zema with some jolly
ranchers on the bottom. Yeah, going to this really cool
place called Chili's. It's really it's it's got litle bit
of everything. It's got a good vibe to it. And
then Charlie's like, I'm more of a Ruby Tuesday's guy,
and they start asking each other trivia questions like they're

(18:10):
they're on this big double date and and Tree goes like, man,
what's up, girl?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
What do you How was your astronomy class today? It
was fine.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Uh, the Big Dipper is really not as big as
you think it would be. M It's a it's actually
not a constellation, Matt. It's part of ursa major, which
is a constellation. I failed astronomy in college and in
high school. Okay, but I paid off the college professor
with sports tickets. I'm kind of proud of that. Why

(18:40):
are you proud?

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Because the power of sports of made its way through
my college life.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
You didn't know like what Star Pluto was like, astronomy
really was a well it's a dwarf planet. It's not
really Yeah, it's a dwarf planet, Jonathan, I'm talking about.
But back in Dall's day, he wasn't planet.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Back in our day. I didn't go to school in
eighteen sixty grade.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
When you know, when you and Copernicus were hanging out
and looking at the telescope, You're terrible.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Wasn't there a class in college? You never could pass astronomy?

Speaker 1 (19:14):
What was it for me? It was all of them
for me because I didn't care.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I didn't. First of all, you had to go to class,
and that was a big problem for me. And then
and then you go into the room and he's just
going through this long ass lecture and you are like
falling asleep to this thing. I can't remember getting caught
snoring twice in astronomy when I was in college. Now,
imagine doing astronomy eight am on a zoom call. Mm hmmm.

Speaker 9 (19:36):
What was your grade in that class? You know, we
all got caught cheating in a group chat. And then
so she had tanked everbody's grades. So the final thing
was passive.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Fail and you failed. No, no, I passed it. I
just had to do a couple of all nighters that week.
You know, what did it to do with your class
study for the task? I didn't.

Speaker 9 (19:53):
I didn't know nothing about anything. Okay, So you were
as bad as student as I was. Yeah, So you know,
I'm just trying to relate to you.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Thank you very much. He ain't cheating, You ain't trying.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
They say that. What the kids say, Rossie, it's the
Houston astros say, get the trash cans back. What's going pits? Anything?
Goes Friday. What class in college did you cheat in
more than others? Min was astronomy and it didn't work
until I failed and had to get him tickets, and
it worked that way. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninetie seven one three two one two five.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Seven ninti.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
It is anything goes swatty on the mat Tom's show
at Ross Astros. What's the past name is pitching today?
So he's a Jaden or a Jalen or something. He's
the opener Jayden Murray?

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Wait was it that guy? Yeah, it's that guy. Got
be a friend of the eighteen?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Can I tell you what Jayden Murray is pitching in
a late September game for the Astros they try to
hold on the American League West. Oh, I'm sorry. He's
got an era of zero. Matt, how many appearances twenty nine?

Speaker 8 (21:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Two and a third this year? Okay, fine it you
were off by twenty seven and two thirds. I want
you to say that the name of the brave starter
Hurston Wilddrip Hasted World, who.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
By the way, is a rookie with a four to
zero record at a one point three three r H.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Histin will well, yeah, well, technically a rookie. He pitched
two games last year though, No, that's he's still a rookie. Yeah,
justin will he's got a mustache too. He looks like
a Hurston waldrip. So the day off all two, it
didn't help out. Huh uh, he needs another one. I
don't know what to tell you. I cannot. I mean,

(21:44):
everybody went, oh for Kevin Gousman was pitching. Well, yeah,
and this is a terrible thing, but sometimes the pictures
are better than the hitters, and unfortunately, it feels like
for much of the season the pitchers have been better
than the hitters. Hmmm, I mean, come on, Carlos is right,
we got to go. No more, no more time for
you know what. We'll get past this. I mean, you

(22:05):
know what, maybe you got maybe you gotta throw and again,
I know it's well, it's not that, it's not it's
not who they are. It's not throwing the gatoray bottles
around and stuff, start flipping tables something. I don't think
that's gonna help. Maybe go, you know what. You know,
when I was Jonathan, when I was playing little league baseball,
our team was really struggling and my manager came into

(22:26):
what we were all taking showers after the game, and
we threw all the bats in the shower and he goes,
you guys are lollygagging to the play. You're lollygagging the
first You're all you do is lollygaggon. It's all they did.
Could you imagine Jonathan having someone throw a bunch of
baseball bats in a shower wall almost trying to get
dressed and shower up. Isn't that terrible? That's not bull

(22:49):
dar hem?

Speaker 7 (22:50):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Seven? One time? Is the greatest victory of my life? Yeah? Yeah,
Bull Durham. Certainly, certainly. Weren't you in North Carolina or
something or in western Kentucky. Same difference, basically, the same difference,
Bold Durham. Okay, And I had not heard he was close.

(23:16):
That's how his that's how the proper pronunciation. That's not
Then Ryan and Montgomery at ten thirty six and the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross and and he goes, froddy, Ryan,
good morning.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Good morning.

Speaker 10 (23:29):
So I uh, I used to go to Blend back
way back in the day before I transferred out, and
there was a bowling class and the professor, I say, professor,
I use that term lightly.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
It was bowling.

Speaker 10 (23:40):
Uh if we took the class at a bowling alley,
like a real bowling alley, at like three o'clock in
the afternoon, So me and my buddies would show up
early and drink a bunch of beer and bowl like crap,
and we were going to fail this class. And then
one day the professor caught me and my friend out
in the parking lot doing our best teaching Shong impression,
and we thought we were just screwed. He walks over, HeSE,

(24:01):
what are y'all doing? I mean he could smell it
in the car, and he goes, hey, you should get
me some of that, and I won't tell anybody, And
I was like, you should give us, as he goes,
I can't make it a's.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Because I'd be too suspicious. I can do bees like cool.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
So he sold him a bunch of stuff and then
we just got drunk for the rest of the semester
in bold and just sold we the teacher and got bees.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
But doesn't it happen in most classes at Blindergarten as
it is?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (24:29):
Probably, I don't know. I don't want to throw any
teachers under the bus. But the guy was really cool
and he took it well. But yeah, I'd committed crimes
for a bee in bowling.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Why why were you failing bowling to begin with? That's
what I'm most troubled by.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
I I was a very uninspired young man at the
time that I just didn't care and it was bowling.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Hold on, hold the phone, Ryan, I could be uninspired
for English. I could be uninspired for I don't know
government or US history pre reconstruction. If you're not motivated
to go bowl and eat Freedo pie and smoke cigarettes
and drink beer, then what is there to live?

Speaker 6 (25:09):
For?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
My friend?

Speaker 10 (25:11):
It was there were tests. I hated the test.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I mean, come on, the history of bowling.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
Look, I'm not I'm not going to get into the
semantics with you. But twenty one year old Ryan really
liked the idea of five dollars, buggets of beer, packs
of Marlborough lights and bowling and just taking tests didn't
seem that great. Hey, I got to be Matt. Why
am I getting I'm getting.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
The I'm getting red my Riot act here?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, because I would have thought it would have been
a more important class Ryan. That's the thing I'm concerned
about now more importantly this when you're eating the Freedo
pie at the Bowling Alley, do you put onions in
your Freedo pie?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Or no?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
No? I do not, And we were once considered friends
thanks to the phone call. I some raw onions. Raw onions. Yeah,
you don't cook them under zero second. They're raw.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Gotta be well grilled onions to be pretty good though.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
In a pie. Chance you gotta chop those bad boys up. Well, yeah,
you're not gonna just have a piece of the onion.
You're not marinating onions to put in your Freedo pie.
You could caramelize them. No, you could not.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Sounds kind of good, No it does not. You're making
it up.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Carmelized onions are going anything?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Now?

Speaker 3 (26:18):
I am team caramelized onion, but not in my Freedo pie.
Try it, hmm. Caramelized onion on a hot dog excellent.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
What about it on a chili dog? You go raw
or caramelized? Both, but I'll probably would go raw. No,
I'm not. Well, you can't criticize my can argue with
my onion stepping out of the batter's But you are
the worst foods. You're now my onion celect. I am

(26:48):
not criticizing. You're going like this, You're misunderstanding. You're misunderstanding.
I am team caramelized Onion. You're a misunderstanding. You just
keep saying raw and I just said, I'm just stepping
out of the matter's bucks. Okay, gosh, relax.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
You like it.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
You're not being a text. See that's exactly what I'm
trying to avoid.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
See, and you did it. And then you're all being
sensitive and think you're getting attacked and you're not. You're
always attacking my food. True, that's not true.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
I had mushrooms on my steak. Class sign. Is that
okay with you?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
This is at Rexis Roadhouse? Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Now, if you're in a nice place, I would criticize it.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I know, I know, I get it. You have to
go Baronet's at a high und redplace. No, I don't
even God, Baronades is delicious. Just eat meat, people love you.
Don't got to put a bunch of sauce on your meat.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
I got news for you. Yeah, I love putting sauce
on my meat.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
I know you do.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
And when you go to a high end restaurants. We
started this show. Listen to me. Listen to me right carefully.
When you go to high end steakhouses, they offer varieties
of sauces because I don't know ross people like to
put sauce on the meat. A bunch of people to
know what, don't know how to have a nice piece
of meat. Gail, you're on seven ninety, good morning.

Speaker 11 (27:51):
Yeah, I wanted to put some chi on it.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Matt with beans too, Go ahead, Gil.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
Both coaches don't go to showers, and literally you take
a you take a shower bath at home. So tell
me you were a referenced something else, because I don't
know a literal league coach in my life that ever
went to in the shower.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
We didn't have showers a little Gil. We literally we
were showering and we were not performing well. And my
man and the coach of our team took a bunch
of bats and he threw him in the middle of
the shower and he goes, you guys are just lollygagging
at first, your lollagagon to play league? Was I was
in a higher league. I was in a higher little leg.

(28:34):
We didn't showers, double a little league, double life. You know,
you know, you know what we did? We uh in
one of my are you ready for this?

Speaker 7 (28:43):
And school?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
You were in little league.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
We had Gil, We had a hot team mom that
would always pick one and make her favor her favorite
on the team.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Oh, there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Well that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
And we had an and we had another Uh, and
we we rode on buses, and we brought our we
brought our guitars and we sang.

Speaker 7 (29:02):
On the bus.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
You talked about wedding gifts and mountain visits and when
we go to the mound, we would talk about our
favorite like we're gonna get our mom some Mother's Day
for gifts and stuff. And then we would and then
some of our players would make out in the bathroom
before games in our uniforms. What was the oldest players?

Speaker 2 (29:21):
I was in the wrong.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
I was in the wrong, Gil, Thank you very much,
to see you later, all right. And the oldest player
on the team, I think his name is Crash. He
had a record for most little league hits. And he's like,
now I want to play high school ball, but I can't.
Am not good enough.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
So they get play a little league over and over again, and.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Then are you ready for this? Jonathan? One time I
was pitching and I wasn't listening to my catcher, and
he told they hit her? What was coming? So disrespectful?
Little ly ten forty three on the matter Thomas Show
with Ros seven one three two one two five CIVI

(29:59):
dut seven one three two one two five seven euty.
Do you have a note all in your life? ROSSI, oh,
I do. Besides you, who's to know it all in
your life? My middle son, Peyton charguing with me yesterday

(30:20):
about the Astros. Are the Mariners playing the Cardinals tonight?
Last night? They didn't. I said, they're playing the Angels. No, Dad,
they're playing I said, son, this can take one second.
I wouldn't go look at the ESPN outlooking schedule. Uh huh, oh,
I know they're playing. He had his red teams mixed up.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, he did.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
That happens, you know the Angels are. I will say,
your son's very smart. He's very very hanging out with him,
like everything we brought up in conversation, he knew details about,
Like when we went to the mom Museum, he knew
everything about everything about everything.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
He's a history major. He loves history.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
I had literally read a book on al capone and
I was like talking about this stuff I read in
the book, trying to act like I was all smart,
and then he more than me. By the way, if
everybody has any ideas my son were, the market's a
little bit of a struggle right now, brutally honest for
his career. And we kind of knew that going in
history major, history major. But if anybody has any ideas
what a good history major could do for a job,
I'm all in because I'd like to get him some employment.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
He wants to work, very he's such a he's such
a good kid. He wants to work.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
He's just there's just not a lot out there right
now for that and something museum. I was thinking, library,
I was thinking some government jobs, something like that. We're
trying to figure it out. So everybody's got any good ideas,
let me just give me a shout. When I was
in Fort Davis, there's like rangers who work at the
historic Fort Davis Historical Site. Like there's historical sites like
that around there where you do tours and stuff like that.
But those they're just not very many jobs like that.

(31:36):
I mean, those they are very highly competitive, yeah, very
very so. And then you got to live in the
middle of nowhere, which I don't think you'd mind. But
I just like the boys, like Dad, I want to work.
I'm like Son, I'm trying I get you a job
in media, but actually don't want to get you a
job of meeting because it's not good. But history is
not giving me a whole lot of happenues here. I
just ask Ai history major careers. I think, hey, I

(31:58):
was taking my son's jobs. That's actually true. Seven. Yeah,
we'll just google it, Bud. Let's talk to Roger on
anything goes Friday.

Speaker 12 (32:08):
Roger, good morning to you, Good morning man, Ross and Jonathan.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
So my thing is, I'm focused on the U of
H beating the snot out of Buffalo. Anything extra is
going to be like sprinkles on the dessert. It's it's
gonna be extra. The Astros, you just you just don't know.
And you know, you got to give them credit for
fighting through a bunch of injuries and you know, at
least being in the being in the hunt. Yeah, they
lost their lead, but they they got their lead with

(32:39):
a bunch of guys from from Triple A helping them,
and nobody thought the level expectation was lowered and we
were just thinking about, you know, not a whole bunch,
and then now they got this lead, and then you know,
pissed about the ass man.

Speaker 12 (32:55):
Yeo, man, they did good. What giddy Korea a natural leader.
But you know, some of the stuff didn't work out
and that's just baseball. So it's a good thing. We
live in a great city where we got teams other teams,
uh you know, uh to to pass the bar and
see what they do.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Man, thank you very much, appreciate the phone call.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Uh yeah, honestly, you know, when you have other things
going on, baseball ten tends to have a difficult time
getting a lot of publicity in the month of September
unless you're in a really good competitive race, which frankly
Astros are in. I mean, this is it. We kind
of knew this was going to happen. It doesn't get
more competitive than this.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
I was going.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I would say that you can't hide it now fifteen
because you get the Rangers and you got the Mariners
come into your town next week. I mean, I would hope,
and I'm going to be going for a few days
with in the NBA, but I would hope next week
for you is going to be a relatively easy week.
I mean there should be some I mean, you got
the Texans on Monday night, which means Tuesday is gonna
be a good day to talk about that. You got

(33:57):
the Astros playing the Rangers. I mean, I would think
this is gonna be a there should be a good
time for us as sports fans should be.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Could be also clinically depressing too, Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
I mean, like.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
I keep saying, they're either gonna get it done or
they're not, and that's basically it there they they have it.
As you said, your two toughest series are at home,
and then you have at the end of the season
the Angels and the the A's who are gonna be
playing out the string. Go out there, win the ball games,
make the playoffs. The reality is this, even though as

(34:34):
things have gone as sorely as they have and they're
playing about what four fifty baseball or take yesh, they
control their destiny. They have the home games, they have
the Rangers and the Mariners in their ballpark. Atlanta is
not going to the playoffs and you're gonna be taking
two playing two teams. Now, granted, the Angels are not

(34:58):
like yesterday's Angel. I mean, they hell, they gave Seattle
all they could handle last night, and the Angels are like,
they're not like forty games under five and they're like,
what ten somewhere in that range you ever take? Now,
the A's have mil long mailed it in, but the
Astros have had problems against the A's. But if you
want to win the division, it's not like you've got
Detroit in New York waiting for you in the final
week of the season on the road at those two stadiums,

(35:20):
you have very winnable games. And if it was meant
to be, it was meant to be. Because here's the
reality of this. If the Astros do not win this
division ross and do not make the playoffs, we're gonna
be pissed because we're not used to that. But it's like,
help me out here. A month from now, we might

(35:44):
say it was never meant to be because there was
just so much going against them. You just aren't supposed
to make the playoffs when you have this many injuries.
You're not supposed to make the playoffs. When you are
having to rely on so many four A players playing
in pivotal spots, right, You're not supposed to.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
No.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
I think in a couple of months, no matter how
it shakes out, and it's probably not gonna be where
the World Series Championship. I mean, let's be honest, we
will say, man, how did they even get as far
as they do? I think it's like any just many
things in life. When you're in the thick of it
and it's going on, it's harder to have that perspective
because right now we don't care about all the injuries.
They're still playing the games and we don't still don't

(36:26):
know how it's going to turn out. But we'll have
more of a perspective in a couple of months, I
feel like, like I mean, I'll give you an example.
When the Rockets lost the Warriors in Game seven, I
was pissed. I wasn't happy. I didn't want I didn't
want to play Golden State. I think it was pretty
re pundently clear about how I felt about Golden State. Yeah,
lot in Game seven and Home lost. I was pissed,

(36:47):
pits for a while, but then I look back and
and go, man, last season was fun. We beat the Rockets,
became relevant again, So there may be a retrospective on it.
The problem's going to be, as we've talked about, we
have been we collectively, not just you out there listen
to us, but you and I as a host, we
have been so spoiled that we don't know how to

(37:07):
handle this, and that the question will be how will
the organization handle this? Will they change coaching staff, will
they trade players or release players or make massive wholesale changes,
or will they say that in twenty twenty six and
hopefully if this team is healthier and doesn't have the

(37:29):
injury bug, that they cannot necessarily run it back but
remain competitive.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
It sucks though, because if they if they were fully healthy,
I mean they could, I would be calling for them
to win the American League. If you had Paradus and
Hater and Blanco and Wesnesky and I mean arrag Getty,
I mean, this be a damn good team. But they
held the US players walker for the most part, well

(37:57):
underperformed true al Tuobay healthy all season long, has slumped
for basically two months now. I think you mentioned two
guys in age decline. I think you just did. I
mean it is what it is, yanners hitting up a
little heating up a little bit but he has been
like a roller coaster this year. But Paridi's playing one
hundred and fifty games. Gang, Astros win the West, they

(38:21):
just do. You're not playing on eighty one games. They
win the West. Yeah, ten fifty seven in one half hour.
We're gonna apologize to some people, and that includes you, Ross,
for all the mean things you said to me this week.
I said something segment or one of the clips that
was playing. I think segment one I need to apologize for.

(38:41):
I cannot wait. If you want to apologize, someone will
do it. One half seven one three is The Matt
Thomas Show, with Ross Brian McTaggart reporting a few minutes
ago that the Astros are calling up outfield inspect Zach Cole.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
You're saying, Matt, who's Zach Cole?

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Wow?

Speaker 13 (39:07):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
He only played in fifteen Triple A games. He's been
crushing it though, was not in spring training at all.
Am I reading this right? Is this ops over eleven hundred?

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, twered excuse me, he he three?

Speaker 6 (39:21):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Three fifty three average? I think something like that, three
fifty three with an on base of four fifty nine,
slugging seven forty five. So I add those two together,
and I'm looking at twelve hundred. Yeah, over twelve hundred
ops in in fifteen games at Triple A. A lot
of that at home, by the way, only at home

(39:43):
or in Round Rock. I mean five home runs in
fifteen games.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I don't care shot in the arm. I mean, this
is again, this is what the organization is saying. We
desperate times, seek desperate measures. He's twenty five years old.
He's not Spring Tree.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Now he can be a late blimmer. Yes, I'm okay
with that.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Did he played college at ball State? So twenty five
isn't super old for a college player. No, it's George
Springer kind of timeline. What was his draft status? We
know he was drafted in the tenth round of the
twenty twenty two draft. Okay, so so mid level prospect. Yeah,
he's their number nineteen. You said nineteen mlwe pipeline. Yeah,
we mentioned him in the past the future success yesterday, Matt,

(40:30):
and well, clearly he's on the fast fast track to
future success. Wow, that's why you listened to this show
because you didn't hear about Zach Cole until you Ross
brought him up. Yesterday, or it was in a PR release.
Uh no, that's not true. Actually it wasn't in a
PR release. I went up and I looked it up
because I knew he was playing well and I knew
his average. When when you brought it up, what's up?

Speaker 3 (40:51):
You astonished me.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
We better get to know Zach Cole because he may
be the difference between the Astros one of the West
and not eighty two games in Double A eight sixty
eight ops, that's you know for Double A, that's not crazy.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
But yeah, he's been really hot in Triple A and
well they said.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Let's go. I don't know his whole prospect profile, we
can bring it. But he wasn't even in spring training camp.
That's crazy. And now he's going he's coming to help
out the Astros in late September. You know how Dana
Brown likes. He's like, all right, let's go, you're hitting,
let's get you out. We'll see how it's gonna go.
All right, He's not shy when it comes to prospect
not at all. Eleven o five on Sports Talk seven ninety,

(41:31):
Matt Ross with you coming up at bottom of the hour,
We're going to ask you to apologize.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
So the things you've said and done this week noon, we'll.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Look the strippers up at one o'clock Doctor Roto for
the fastest thirty minutes of major market radio. And we've
got non Florida story today at one thirty and Helliero
is all things about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He want
those Zach Cole prospect profile from MLB dot com please.
It seems pretty fair, right, Oh yeah. Cole creates at
least plus raw power. With a combination of bat speed

(42:00):
and the loft in his left handed swing, he can
drive the ball out of the park from foul line
to foul line. Approach is scary because he can't get
overly aggressive at times swinging through pitches in the zone.
I mean, yeah, he's he's been striking out a little
bit as well, thirty eight percent strikeout rate last year.
If he can make consistent contact, he has the tools
to be a star. It feels like we heard that

(42:20):
about like Trey Cabbage, Zach Dezenzo, some others. But anyways,
plus speed, base stealing Saggy Fisher. Hey, all right, all right,
plus speed, I'm gonnakeep giving you examples for my bad
plus speed that white guy Bryce Matthews.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Uh, probably the Great White was his Tyler White. He
was more of a contact.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
I have no power. He was whiffing and everything enough,
plus speed, base stealing, savvy, thirty thirty upside playing left
field at ball state, a quality defender and center as
a pro. Well, you know what, he's a thirty thirty
guy with a plus thief glove. Let's go with some speed.
It's funny when I go to mexic In restaurant, this

(43:01):
place in Kingwood. We asked we'll get a margarita, and
they'll say, you want some of the top shelf tequila,
and they go, why not? So that I'm saying back
to him, do you want You shouldn't. You shouldn't get
top shelf in a margarite. I'm gonna tell you why.
It's got so many mixers, especially if they're using like
their triple SEC mix and whatever, unless they're gonna hand
make it with with some more premium orange liqueur like
a Grand Marnier. Perhaps that you should just get the regular.

(43:23):
We gonna taste it. We should do a cooking show.
I just gonna taste about the same because, like, for example,
they want you to get top shelf bourbon with an
old fashioned well you're mixing it with bitters and all
that other stuff. You can't exactly got you. It's like
it's like a it's like upgrading to a prime steak.
But then you're covering like we were talking about covering
mushrooms and all that stuff. All right, fair enough, so
hear that go with the house when you're doing the moderate.

(43:45):
Let's talk to Mike and Tomball at eleven o seven
on seven and he Mike, good morning to you, Hey guys,
good morning.

Speaker 14 (43:52):
Uh you know, I heard the last commentary before the break,
and I just wanted to I wanted to say, Man,
the difference and sports and in life between winners and
losers is winners expect to win and losers hope to win.
And what we've been so graciously blessed with here in

(44:14):
Houston over the last almost ten years is the expectation
to win because of the culture that these guys have
created for our city and frankly for a lot of
our state, and despite the fact that we've had some
challenges with injuries and other things. When you lose series
to the Orioles at home, and you lose other series

(44:37):
at home when you should.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Be expecting to win.

Speaker 14 (44:40):
That's how we found ourselves in this position.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
And you know, honestly, down the stretch or not.

Speaker 14 (44:47):
It's unacceptable, I think, to be where we're at, and
whether that be the coaching staff or whoever, has to
be held accountable.

Speaker 10 (44:56):
We are supposed to be winning.

Speaker 14 (44:58):
We are expected to be winning because of what these
guys have created.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
But Mike, Mike, I gotta let me, let me stop
you real quick.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
I don't think you expected to win with uh Taylor
Trammel playing serious amounts of center field this year.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
You did not.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
You did not expect to win with Cooper Hummel this year.
You did not expect to win with give me some
other people, Bonds played one hundred and twenty five games.
I mean that's the shortstop that was here for a while.
Oh was Zach short? Zach short? I mean Tom, I mean,
excuse me, Mike, There's no way you expected to win. Now,
you can expect more from the guys that you thought

(45:36):
were going to be better. You expected more from Christian Walker,
you expected more from Yarnar Diaz. You probably expected more
from the medical staff. I mean, that's all fair, but
there have been too many guys that have played too
many games of this team to expect them to have
the supremacy that you're speaking of right now. It's just
it's not fair. Their Vegas win total was eighty six
and a half. They have fifteen games left, they have

(45:58):
seventy nine wins. They go seven and eight. They basically
about hit their that was their Vegas expectation.

Speaker 14 (46:02):
Yeah, perspective is fair, but I mean everybody, everybody deals
with injuries, right, everybody deals with this different has upset.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, but this is different. This is a team that
has had at one point had nineteen players on their
injury list. I mean, I mean there's there's exceptions to
the rule. Yes, everybody gets hurt.

Speaker 14 (46:20):
It is it's unprecedented. It's unprecedented for what they've had
to deal with to be where they are. I get it,
but I just don't want There's no consolation prizes, right,
there's no trophy for second place. And the series is
that we have lost have really put us in this
position because when you can go to Boston and win
a series, when you go to LA and you sweep them,

(46:40):
those injured guys were out at those times, right, So
I mean again, you know, we can come up with excuses,
we can come up with reasons and justifications, but at
the end of the day, we are where we are,
not necessarily because of injuries, but because of the way
guys have played.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
I could not.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
I could not disagree. I could not. I'm gonna let
you go and thank you for the call. I cannot
disagree with you more. You just I just told you
what I said, and you just totally said no. No,
he agreed, and then he still went back to his
original point. He's like, yeah, you're right, there's been a
lot of injuries, but there's no excuses. Well it's and
you can have whatever perspective you want on it, but yeah, sorry,

(47:19):
Well here's the point. There have been times where Cooper
Humble helped the team. There were times that Taylor Tramill
hit a home run, but also uh Matt Dominguez hit
home runs back nine years ago for the Astros when
they sucked and they won games. You just have to
take the sum of the parts, some of the parts.
There's this was a team that.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Was not built to win ninety baseball games.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
This was a team that was to It's got Triple
A players on it, You're not gonna be able to
have triple A quality players over one hundred and fifty
games and expect to contend.

Speaker 7 (47:52):
You just not.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
I and I think it's unfair to criticize the organization
collectively for the hot mess of players that have put
the uniform on this year and expect them to be
the same that they were when Carlos Kare and George
Springer and jose L Tuba and Gary Cole and Justin
Verlin were pitching. It's not the same team, so to
expect the same is foolish.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Yeah, I don't really have It doesn't mean we can't
be aggravated about it. I mean, I'm pissed off. I'm
not happy. I don't want the Mariners to win. I
have no interest in them. I want the Astros to win.
But we got to start dealing in some realities here.
The realities are this team has gone through more injuries. Now,
some of this could be on their own because of

(48:40):
malpractice within the training staff, but I'm sorry, friends. Cam
Smith probably shouldn't have played as much this year as
he did. It's playing one hundred and twenty four games.
A normal team would not have brought up Cam Smith
to play serious time for this baseball team this year.

(49:01):
Mauricio Dubon is a utility player. Utility players do not
play one hundred and twenty games. They Zach do? I
mean Brendan Rodgers, Brendan Rodgers, Zach Short, Shae Whitcomb. Oh,
I forgot about Shae? I mean Luiski? Or may you
remember how Leosk?

Speaker 4 (49:22):
What?

Speaker 15 (49:23):
Remember him?

Speaker 1 (49:23):
He played? I forgot not Hardy Forgott. I mean I'm
going to the list here. No, there's some more forgotten
twenty twenty five as shows already. I forgot Rafael Antaro
pitch for them this year. Yeah, Jacob Meltin. Jacob Mountain
may be a very nice player, but he is not
a major leaguer right now. But thirty one games, sixty
seven at bats, thirty one games for Jacob Mountain. Yes,

(49:48):
oh man, remember Jordan Weams. No, I do not remember
Jordan Williams.

Speaker 15 (49:53):
And they're not.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
They they what they have? What the ast have failed
if you want to, if you want to go to
the cut and dry failed card is they failed to
understand that just because injured players are coming back, they
weren't coming back to where they were before they got hurt.
And then if you want to say there's a failing,
they did not get enough pitching at the trade deadline,

(50:19):
if you want to say that, because right now this
bullpen is severely taxed and the guys that have come
back have been very mixed results. And oh, by the way, uh,
your number, your co ace. At one point, Farmer Valdez
is acting like a guy that can't get out of
Houston fast enough. That's I not want to be a

(50:40):
little more blue, but I can't. Uh. Do you know
who has the third most innings pitched to the Astros
this year? Is it Jason Alexander? Please tell me it's not.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
It is not.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Okay, thank god, it's somebody not on the team, Ryan Gusto.
Your third leading innings pitched pitcher is Ryan Gusto. Your
fourth is Colton Gordon. Your fifth is in as a reliever,
Brian Abrad You three four five Gusto, Gordon and a reliever.

(51:14):
Like I said, when we get out of this forest,
we're gonna we're in the thick of it right now.
We're gonna have a little more perspective. And by the way,
it disasked for the next two weeks. I will be
grumpy as hell when they don't they don't win the division,
trust me, I'll be right there with you, Houston. I'm
gonna post this on Twitter. Suit people say what most
innings pitched this season for the Astros. I didn't know.
I knew that Gusto was third. I didn't know Golden

(51:35):
Gordon was fourth. Good deal in realities, this is not
your Astros TEAMO yesteryear. So I know we want it.
We shouldn't temper our expectations, but I think you kind
of have to. Eleven fifteen on Sports Talk seven one.
You want to apologize, something's coming up with you in
about fifteen minutes for your chance to say I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Here on Sports Talk seven ninety oh, thank MB.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Network, Kevin Gospin throws two hit shutout versus Astros the lead.
Two hits, I mean strikeouts that they have nine or ten,
no walks. He was getting a little help from his
friend behind the plate. But also he I mean, he's
it's tough for me to watch him play. I gotta
be honest with you, it's it's tough. Strikes out a lot.

Speaker 7 (52:23):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Right field just doesn't play well. It's an adventure. I
will call it an adventure. That's then that's where you
want to say you were going to more diplomatic. Yeah,
adventure is true. He did save a couple of home runs.
I'll give him that, so yes, but it's still painful.
I understand. Oh he had one walk with nine strikeouts,

(52:44):
threw one hundred pitches in a two hit shutout. Hmm.
He didn't win a cy Young but he's he finished
top five a couple of times. Oh, you said he
want to sig on yesterday? I said, I said, has he?
I asked?

Speaker 3 (52:58):
And that was the first segment that was I think
it was. I think he was.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
I said, well, I I.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Said cy Young winner, right, I said it that way?

Speaker 1 (53:06):
And where did I go?

Speaker 6 (53:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Yeah. See you know what's easier In twenty twenty five
plead ignorance, Well, he finished third and twenty three maybe
I was thinking of that year. And then he finished
sixth in twenty one. So he's been close but not bad.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Kyle with his son seven, I mean, Kyle, thank you
for holding what's on your mind today?

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Hey you guys, how y'all doing good? So I called
him and talked about the starting pitching, But.

Speaker 16 (53:32):
Then you gotta started talking about Zach Cole, and I
just want to say I love that. I mean, he
could be like a shot in the arm that we
needed bring him up. He could be kind of like
I hope he's like how Edvond Carter was for the
Rangers in twenty twenty three. Young guy get called up,
bring the energy and.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Help us out.

Speaker 11 (53:47):
But I wanted to say, tonight, why not.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Call up Miguel u Ola.

Speaker 16 (53:53):
I'm not sure when the last time he already was,
but I mean, if you're gonna call him that Cole
after being there for not even that long, I mean
you always been there pitching good. Yeah, I mean trying
to bring him up, you know, but hopefully Zach Cole
comes up and gives the guys that energy. I wanted
to see where you guys think they'll plug him in
at You think they'll start putting RD on at DH

(54:14):
more and let out do they played more second base
and maybe thows Zach Cole in left field?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Or I want you guys, I don't think he can
play center. Let me see what he's been playing matter.
I don't think Kyle, he's a guy that's going to
be an everyday guy. I think they're just hoping that
they're coming at an extra body. I don't think this
is a bringing Zach up here to play six days
a week for the next two weeks. Yeah, he's a
lefty bat. He can play well. Else I'm trying to
find out where he's played by the way. First of all,

(54:39):
Evan Carter was like a top five prospect in baseball.
I mean, it's not gonna be the same type of
shot in the army that's magic here. We have to
temper our expectations. I'm not Evan Carter was one of
the best prospects in baseball when he gave the Rangers
a shot in the arm So no, I I mean,
I think we'll see him tonight. He's usually teams don't

(54:59):
like to let their keys are first timers get up
here and just sit on the bench. But I I
don't know if there's a specific role for him, and
I don't think it's it would be in terms of
a massive playing role. Uh fifty one games in corpus
at center, twenty five at right. With sugar Land, he's
played two in center, six in left, five and right,
so they've been playing them everywhere. Has Jake really struggled

(55:21):
that much? From the play Myers, Well, they said it
was a planned day off, but before that he was
oh four to three strikeouts, but he had a hit
in every game before that. Juliola is a guy that
has been and I'm well, eventually pronounce la la u
yola two l's equal hy u yola.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
What you think ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh yola
uyola like.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
One uribe the you the Spanish is. Actually I'm pretty
impressed with by Ramon Urias. I got that right in
the first time. No, you just said rue Reris. What'd
you say, Rius Urias? Yes, Urias Urias. Because there's no accent.
Oh right, I don't know. Is there an accent at
the eye?

Speaker 17 (56:03):
You know?

Speaker 1 (56:04):
It may not matter too, it doesn't matter. Yeah, we'll
be out of Lincoln Tomlinson at that point.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Oh god, we're gonna have tech.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Let me take you. Can I can I get some music?

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Can I get them?

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Like some light piano music of something? And when you
find it just played, Jonathan, don't need to word about
que and it just played it. I ain'd some light music.
So I'm gonna give you a heartfelt message here for
about ninety seconds once the music kicks in. Okay, cause
this show we talk about all the things we football, basketball, baseball.
We do not avoid the big issues, big picture of things.

(56:37):
We don't talk about one team for twenty hours a day.
Oh this is perfect, Thank you, guys. But I'm an
Astro fan. We carry the games. I have a vested
interest in their success. And I've enjoyed watching and listening
and talking to you for nine years about how great
this thing has gone. And I'm coming, poor my heart

(57:00):
and my soul to you to tell you that I
don't want to spend fourteen weeks talking about the Texans
offensive line. It's not very interesting. They're not very good.
You have no idea who they are, and I don't
think you particularly care. The only time you're going to
care about that Texans offensive line is if and when CJ.

(57:22):
Stroud takes a five step drop and gets crushed by
three defensive linemen and he tears his acl and breaks
his shoulder. So my heartfelt to you, as friends, I
don't want to be your home for Texans o line talk.
But if the Astros don't get their blank together really quick,
We're going to be your home for Texans O line talk.

(57:43):
We'll talk O line talk and Nick Cayley and Arianta
Ursery more than anybody else will. And that makes me sad.
It should make you sad, because who the hell's going
to want to spend hour after hour after hour worrying
about whether or not ed Ingram's gonna play this week.

(58:05):
You're saying, Matt, who's at Ingram? He's a part of
your offensive line me to you, go astros more astros
means less Texans O line talk. Thank you. I just

(58:26):
had to say it.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Well, we'll see, that's not what I was looking for.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
I was looking for, Matt. I'm with you. I don't
mind talking about the textans. I like him battle Red
Ross checking in bettle red Ross mean you can take it.
You're gonna be taking that red cap off and they
drop this game of the Buccaneers. I won't, Matt. When
I've decided to become a fan, I am a fan for.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Before.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
If you live thirty eight years in your life.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Bury me in a chrome battle red casket. Baby, you
were there bearing Lance mccollors in the h or in
Albuquerque or Helena, Montana in Albuquerque on a minor league deal.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
By the way, Uh, if those are wearing Lance Mculors
jerseys to the playoff games next year, you don't want
to worry about the begasine and playing in them odds
to win the division, just say, let me go to player.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
I'm door sorry.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
Mariner's fifty seven percent, Astros thirty nine percent, Rangers four percent.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
So you're saying there's a chance you still control your
own destiny.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
We were already. We've run through it already. If they
went out, they'll.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Win the division. Baby, let's go. WHOA, How are feeling
all right?

Speaker 6 (59:45):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (59:47):
I'm sorry, you know what. I'm gonna get one in early.
I'm sorry for that. If you're sorry about something, let
us hear it from you right now. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven seven three two one two five seven.
I Ey, it's time for you to apologize for the
mean things you've said this week or done to your friends,
to your neighbors, to your next door neighbors. Seven one

(01:00:08):
three two one two five seven. Honny, I'm sorry, it's
he next here on seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
You owe me many, many things that she's about to
say to you right now here on seven ninty. I'm sorry.
I can't remember sorry the comment from the beginning of
the show, but I was like, man, that's rude.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
It's normally what you say, So I want to I'll
apologize for that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
I just don't remember what it was seven one three,
two one two five seven Aunty. If you want to
apologize to anyone or anything, you have the next half
hour it's a cleansed freezone. I want to apologize with
Lauren she hotty for me constantly making references to her
lusho's body. So, Soudy, you should apologize to audience.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
My audience is those that like females whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Believe me. I dare you to watch thirty minutes of
MLB Network and not think that she's just a goddess.
I mean, she's stunning. Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with you,
but this distracts me from the show, and I apologize
for that. I apologize to you audience that Lauren Shahati
has me, has me in meat sweats and can we
just do a quick curtain peel When the show is

(01:01:27):
on twelve to three, there's a lot of sports, not
a lot more sports on we could put in. We
often put on MLB Network because there were day games on.
For example, thank god the Cubs are home for a
Friday day game. Cubs bail us out and it's something
to watch. We like to watch sports. Other shows put
on other stuff on the TV. We put sports on
the TV, but at ten am, we're short of options,

(01:01:50):
unless it's like, I don't know the Hungarian Soccer League.
I mean, it's just not good. Yeah, but I I
probably talk too much Shahati on the show, and I'm
just sorry. So on Normally it was our habit to
put on go Ahead, Sorry MLB Network because we try
to catch a day game, But at ten am every day,
she's on there and some smoking hot outfits. So it's

(01:02:11):
not it's kind of your fault, but it's kind of
not your fault. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
I appreciate you having my back a little bit on that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Thank you. So I'm you know what, I'm sorry for
getting so upset or you forgetting so distracted. She was
only it would not be an issue. Also considering I'm
normally the one with the remote, so it's my bad,
all right, I lead you to water, and then I
get mad when.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
You drink it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Oh, I drink that water all right, Oh my god,
I'm so sorry. I'm sorry for leading you to that water.
I'm putting golf back on. I'm putting golf one. You
know what I need. I need to be ringed in.
I get it. Yeah, Jonathan, need you follow a fawning
over Victor Hoveland? Jonathan, you need to apologize for the
people you don't tip enough. I haven't been the place

(01:02:58):
where I needed to tip at all. Actually, you don't
go anywhere where you tip anywhere. I haven't been out
to eat since like the first, the thirty first of July. Okay,
you went out yesterday to get a hamburger with our
guy here? Yeah, and he bought, Yeah, and did you tip?
There was no tip jar, there was no there was
no option, and there was no they didn't there wasn't
a tip jar or anything. But he did give a
homeless guy three dollars, so he did hopefully. Uh oh

(01:03:20):
that's excellent, good for you, hopefully.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
We got him a water too. He looked parched, Yeah,
a little worried about him.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Yeah, well, hopefully that's he's using that towards flourishing himself
as compared to unfortunately some problems with the home. It's
a different kind of nourishment, that's true. I'm sure, so
I so the next time, so I will apologize for
you me thinking you don't tip very well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Sorry, I feel pretty comfort you don't tip well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
But that's a different issue, all right, all right, all right,
next time we go out to eat, I want you
to pay for the tip wherever we go. Well, you
always big timeAs you never come anyway. I had to
go to the dentist by last time, chiropractor. It's Frank kevin'son.
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
I forgot about what was her name again?

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Ross?

Speaker 6 (01:04:04):
Move on?

Speaker 10 (01:04:04):
Ross?

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
What are you poet?

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
You said you were flying her in off ig I'm kidding,
missus Thomas, Wait, play that again, Matt, what did you
and that girl do?

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
You're getting me in so much trouble, you really are,
and it's not even fair.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
I'm kidding. I'm sorry, you know what. I'm sorry about that.
Thank you. I really can't well, hell, let's play the
comments and get at noon. But whatever I said at
the beginning of the show that was playing that clipped
that was rude I'm sorry, man, it was rude to you.
Got you what else?

Speaker 8 (01:04:37):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
I'm good right now. Okay, I'm sure we'll think of something.
We've got some folks that want to apologize for things
they've done seven one three, two one two five seven nine.
If you want to join us. And look, I know y'all,
I've met many of you on location. Got a lot
to apologize for. Okay, you just do d kriddle, See
what are you apologizing for?

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
It's September and I finally come to grips with the
Duke loss at the Governor of the Duke Chapter of Houstons.
I'm sorry to all the uh alone. I'm sorry to you,
and I apologize for talking so much noise in March.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Yeah we we.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
It went one ear and out the other. Don't worry
about it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Because, especially because the two nights later, I was having
to apologized to myself.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
I'm finally over. That's how long it takes for me
to get over lost.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
I'm not getting over and losing to Florida. That's never
going to happen. I got two losses that are in
the back of my carw you're ready for this, you
of aged North Carolina State nineteen eighty three in twenty
twenty five April at the Animal Dome.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
I'll see your losses and go ninety four Duke Arkansas,
ninety eight Duke Yukon.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Oh that's deep. Those are deep cuts. Thank you, Deecritel.
I appreciate your phone call. Is there a loss to you, Kevin?
Haven't gotten over yet in your life sports wise?

Speaker 8 (01:06:03):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
I mean the one that hurts the most still to
this day is eighteen Rockets. Oh against Portland?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
So fourteen was Portland eighteen? That was fine, they weren't
gonna win it all. Santonio eighteen Houston Rockets, Oh, Golden
State Game seven. Oh Sam, I'm getting all these mixed
rim rom prance they're talking. I've never seen any like this.
Shut up on mess up. Who said that? Nobody I
said it. I rhymed it. But I'm not gonna say anymore.
One more time rim rom rants rom rimsm rom temps.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Oh yeah, but nobody knows another you can say tim bontemps.

Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
This is very annoying. Sad we ever had We had.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Him on the show one time. We thought we'd be
really good and he was really kind of not good.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
He's snooty. I'll say it whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
No, is he gonna care now?

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
I don't think so he's doing. It's quite he's got
he's miles more successful and I just got a substack.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
ESPN.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Where is he started the layoffs? They said, shut your
momass up. We gotta pay Steven a look at this,
It says, I'm sorry to Matt. All right, here we goes.
It's to the top of the list right here, Steve
on seven, Steve, good morning to you, and I mean
a glorious morning to you.

Speaker 11 (01:07:14):
Yes, sir, okay, Well, you were speaking, or you were
speaking or sports Harv was speaking, and uh you just
you said, uh, you know, we should start a cooking show.
And I just audibly go fawed and laughed in my

(01:07:35):
vehicle as you said that. Uh huh, And I thought
to myself, well, so I got home and I wanted
to just call and say, you know, I'm sorry that
you have a culinary culinary palette up like maybe a
five year old. For that, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
I do not have a palette of a five year old.
You're mixing people up? Do not he help you? Have
a horrible day?

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
Don't you OK on your lunch? By the way, um,
I wouldn't say you have the palette of a five
year old. I would agree with you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:05):
I don't have that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
I would be more like my brother. He doesn't eat vegetables.
You eat vegetables, absolutely, I do. Sorry. Ray asparagus yes,
califlower yes, Broccoli yes.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Not lamma beans no, but no, who eat lamb beans?
Somebody does?

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
But yeah, there just seems to be no rhyme or
reason to your odd proclivities. I love blue cheese. Yeah, see,
you exactly like I said, you don't have the fire.
You just are all over the place. It's very confusing.
I like halibut, I like shrimp, I like flounder. I
do not like uh, salmon. You are like a box

(01:08:39):
of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get, and
I don't know which of those chocolates you're gonna like. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. So I do not have a palate of
a fire five year old. Pallets are yello and chicken
nuggets and mac and cheese kind of playing. It doesn't

(01:09:00):
like like mayonnaise. Dusty it here. I love mayonnaise, I
love ranch. I like I got mayonnaise and mustard. I'm
a burger yesterday, but that is an odd combinations off
for you both. It's I like the mix. I used
to hate mayonnaise. Usually you do the ketchup man mayonnaise combo.
You can do, but mayonnaise, I mean, I would do it.

(01:09:20):
I'm not opposed to. It was a tasty burger. And
I like different forms of mayonnais. I like the uh,
I mean, man's a mustard. I like the gray poupon.
Oh do you like the stone ground stone ground spicy brown? Absolutely? Yeah,
me too. Some want all of you to collectively call
this show that I've ever taken a shot at me
for my food at takes and apologizes right now? Is

(01:09:43):
that what the segment's really all about? You just want
people to apologize to you. But the guy in fairness
with Steve, he did good fall and we don't we
don't know, Yeah, we need more goofa. He came into
here to apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
I don't want to apologize for listeners because of you.
That's true, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
When we got one more segment of this wonderful So
if you're out and about and you need to apologize
for something you've said bad about me, I would like
to no. I'm trying to think because I've done a
lot of terrible things this week. I'll think of some
more because I need to lead by example if I
If I can apologize people, so can you. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

(01:10:19):
two one two five seven ninety. The News that noon's
going to feature who's going to start the Astros game
today and who might be in the lineup.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
That's a tease right there, my friends.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
That's coming up at about fifteen minutes, Pustal, wake the
strippers up, but right now we're looking for you to apologize.
At seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 18 (01:10:36):
Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Vireal Fine on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Eleven fifty on seven ninety coming up at the top
of the hour, wake the strippers up. The news at
noon at one o'clock, we're going to talk to doctor
Rode for the fastest thirty minutes. Oh, by the way,
I'm sorry, Ross, we put a whooping on your fantasy
ass last week. That was a beatdown. I apologize for that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
I don't mind winning by five or six points, but man,
I crushed you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
I thought we talked about fake apologies on this segment.
But what if I am What if I would have
been happy with a five point win, I didn't have
to worry. I'm sorry to the rest of the league
for winning three of the last three championships the last
six that's my bad. Sorry, I'm dominating the league over

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the last six years. That's my fault. You're gonna lose
that belt this year. That's okay, it's a champ. Well,
I'm not gonna win. Sometimes you got to give somebody
else a chance. Seriously, if Adam Clant wins again, I'm
gonna I have to go through and look at the
rosters I thought. I mean, you're in the mix. No,
I don't like my roster. I got Connor Murray's my
starting quarterback. Please, that's what I'm saying. My backup is

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Caleb Williams. It was okay, but he's so massively overthrew receivers.
This pack is rejected to win this this week. Yeah,
if I beat wax Shuts two in Ah after gets
to my patriots here at the station, my ag won't
be out of control. Seven seven ninety. Let's talk to
JR On Apparentlyand JR. What's going on with you? Friend?

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
What are you sorry for?

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:12:12):
Man, matt Ross, Jonathan, you know, I just had to
apologize for.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Uh, you know, I got some.

Speaker 15 (01:12:17):
Tickets to the game next week, and you know, I
originally I'm planning to go with this this one young lady,
but you know, I'm saying another young lady hit me up,
who I'm way more attracted to. So I just kind
of ghosted the first one and the and the bad
thing is I sent her a speech shot of where
I'm sitting there, so I hope she doesn't like pop
up at the game. Wow, you know what I'm saying.

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So I just want to apologize before, you know, and
try to get something off of the corner.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Doesn't sneak up on me?

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
All right? J R? What event are you going to? What?
What game are you going to?

Speaker 11 (01:12:47):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
It's the Rangers game Wednesday night?

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Oh so you huh? So you invited one girl and
you strictly took somebody else just because of her appearance,
and you ghosted the first.

Speaker 15 (01:13:04):
She is the second girl is more attractive and she's
way cooler too, you know, And I wasn't in the right,
mind with with when I was talking to the first one,
so it kind of like my judgment was clouded.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
You know, you have no interest talking to this first
girl ever?

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Again?

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Is that correct?

Speaker 15 (01:13:21):
I do, but I'm choosing not to unless she pops
up about the game. I mean, she knows the seats
on that, so I just hope. No, I'm gonna act
like I don't even know who she is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Honestly, have you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Ever met Have you ever been out with her before?

Speaker 15 (01:13:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
I haven't, not, not not in in in public at least.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
Oh in private you have, Yeah, a nice time for sure,
not not in days.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
All right, last question, last question, I'll leave you. Have
you sent her picks?

Speaker 11 (01:13:54):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Yeah, this isn't gonna end well, forgive my friend.

Speaker 7 (01:13:59):
I hope not. I hope.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
I hope this apology helps me clear it up a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:14:05):
Oh sorry, JR.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
I wish you the very best of luck, but it's
not gonna And you sent her picks that early in
your ghosting girl, you sent picks too. It's not good ross.
When you send pics, youre gonta end things well, right, Jonathan,
No matter what it is, it's the way of the game.

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I mean, no, how do you think he got the
private interaction? He got this in pick somehow he had
to score somehow the word Yet you just dumped yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Okay, you're the first person ever sworn in the air.
Good for you, Jonathan.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
I'm proud of you. I think I met too. I've
done it twice now. I'm always astonished that I don't
do it more.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
All right, h JR. Call us back next week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Give it. I'm kind of curious how this is going
to go bo way that girl is not going the game.
Don't worry a bit that. I'm just worry. I'd be
worried about the publishing. That would be pretty funny, that's true.
Let's go to uh Harry on seven eight. Harry, who
you apologizing to?

Speaker 15 (01:15:07):
I got?

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Oh jeez, it's Friday figured out.

Speaker 8 (01:15:13):
Give us a caller of you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Yeah, we have Harry callback. Harry called back from where
we're calling us from, from the great beyond, the Great beyond.
You see, maybe he's still sucking purgatory, Harry. Yeah, so
I was doing some I don't know why I was
looking on Wikipedia for Harry Carey. Do you know that
he got fire from the Cardinals before he went to

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the White Sox. Okay, he got fire from the Cardinals
because apparently he was having an affair with one of
the Bush daughters.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Hw no Anheuser Busch. Oh not that no, b U
s e h.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Well, I mean their family wasn't hw His father was
in politics, right, like a senator or something. I don't know,
but you can't you can't sleep with the owner's daughter.
And Harry apparently was having some inappropriate and Harry had fired.
He always denied it though, and she did as well.

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But there were too many times where Harry apparently was
in downtown Saint Louis having cocktails with the young bush girl.

Speaker 6 (01:16:28):
B U s e h.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
I see, I stay it away.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Harry will try this again.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Harry was with who Hey, guys, listen.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
They forgot to preface it was allegedly allegedly it's the
key there.

Speaker 6 (01:16:45):
Listen, guys.

Speaker 8 (01:16:45):
I've got few apologies, and I need an apology for
the medical staff of the chiefs an Astros. I mean,
come on, guys, we're just listening through here. I had
to watch the Barriders last night. They've got some Etsy
wizard out there. Somebody paid someone to get those guys

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some wins and here we are into the season. Looks terrible. Hey,
I went to dyik and I came out my shoulder hurt.

Speaker 11 (01:17:14):
I had a little elbow.

Speaker 8 (01:17:16):
Sword of myself. Weird.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Are you lifting too many? Were you lifting too many bizes?
Harry Well?

Speaker 8 (01:17:23):
Let me get to that. Let me get to that.
So two apologies. One is to the fixed pack of
ice cold Budweiser's a crush last night. And the second
apologies to the guy out and Katie.

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
I was at a driving rage last night.

Speaker 8 (01:17:41):
I might have had more than six Budweisers, and uh
I tore that place up. Let me tell you they
got a great range out there. He taught me a
heck of a of a swing, but uh I hiptied
out as cooler and uh sorry about that, buddy. If
you're listening, Katie.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Dall, you stole somebody's beer at the driving range, Harry Well.

Speaker 19 (01:18:05):
I mean, here's the deal.

Speaker 8 (01:18:08):
I get in the zone, and especially when you put
a golf clubs in my hand and I peered over
my shoulder.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
There the real ice covered ones.

Speaker 8 (01:18:16):
You know, they start to drip, get a little frost
on them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
I'm telling you, Harry, I think you might want to
consider getting some help. Forgive me if you're out of
the driving range. You can't steal people's beers driving range,
com hitting larsity and getting quote in the zone into quote.
It sounds like you might be a problem drinker. Harry

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can ask a serious question. Yes, so Harry is very
easy to impersonate. A certainly was he's doing will Will
Ferrel's hair impression of Harry care. But my point is
who is the most what broadcaster is the easiest to impersonate?
Or is anybody in person right now? We don't impersonate

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Al Michaels. No, we don't impersonate Mike Breen. We don't
imperson That's it. We're not in personating Kevin Harlan, not
really who you don't now? I have heard you can
do it. I would go sell and he's long dead.

(01:19:25):
Now we do have somebody that calls in as Todd
Kallis on a mobile. That's true? You actually really good?
Can I tell you that? Many ways? Uh, everybody goes
to broadcasting school and they teach you all the there's
not as many distinctive voices because they teach you all
to speak the same and enunciate and have a certain Cadence.
Maybe that's it, because if if Howard Cosell talked the

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way that he did, and he went to broadcasting school today,
he'd be shot down. He wouldn'tet work, he wouldn't get work. Well,
he would be told to change the way he talks. Yeah,
same thing for like Keith Jackson or whoever. I mean,
Harry Carey, but even Gravelly voiced Jack Buck. People did
Jack Buck. You know that's true, But I mean Joe
Book sounds like he went to broadcasting at school. We

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used used to have Dave South and Mob. We don't
have that anymore. Well, take South was a special case.
All right, there is. I'm sorry for the week rip
to us impersonating sportscasters. We're gonna wakee the stirpers up
next eleven fifty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety with Ross.

Speaker 20 (01:20:30):
Twelve O four in h Town. Good monagebars. This is

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the hour three is about Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
Shown Ross Sports Talk seven nine today.

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
Don't knock it? Do you try it?

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
It is a Friday, edsue. We have an hour fifty
four minutes left to go and we're gonna be busy.
We got the news at noon. We have doctor Rode
at one o'clock. Now I'm four the stories at one
thirty and all things about the Buccaneers on today's edition
of Hell Yeah not at one fifty. Do we still
have Jonathan tickets for the Cougars game then against Colorado?
We don't, Oh, unless we can get Marvin to give

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him quick No, I don't think. I think we're out out.
What do we got left in the prize volt T
shirts we have? Yeah, of course we have T shirts
and then I can try to see the other ones.
But we gotta tickets for next week with you boy,
because you're not doing believe or not for a few days.
So yeah, we'll go to we'll get the next week's prizes.
So you know why because people people are running to
TDCU stitting for tonight's game. It's gonna be a sellout? Close?

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Is it gonna be a sell You just said people
are running? Yeah, I saw what two things can be
true today on Let's go, man, I'll tell you this,
if you have eight wins and beat Colorado, you have
I'll give you respect the rest of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
Well, thank you, they're favored. I mean it's not the
biggest one of the year. The hell was that let's go.
Cougar's sounds like a sick cougar, Like a cougar's got pneumonia.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Cougar's on his deathbed. Time now for the news at noon,
and it's brought to you by one of the greatest
cougars of all time, Jim Nantz and the jim Nants
of Houston Sports Talk.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
It's prospitable. What yeah, wow, what a compliment man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Welcome, Hello, friends, Welcome into Leto's that down here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Yes, the Astros lost yesterday to
the Toronto Blue Jays Kevin Gusman with a nine inning
a two hit and they were only singles, so no
extra base hits. Shut out of your Stros in the rubber.

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They win the matchup, and then later on that evening
the Angels thanks for Nothing, battle back against the Mariners,
but then they lose in twelve innings. So the Astros
and the Mariners are all knotted up atop the American
League West. Good news is Astros have a pretty week
schedule coming up. They're too toughest series are against the

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Rangers and the Mariners, and they get them at home,
but fifteen games remain mett down the stretch.

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
We go.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
How are we feeling. You're asking me this after the
Astros got two hit yesterday. Yes, not great. Oh, I
mean it's right in front of them. It's not like
they're it's a murder resort. I mean they've got six
really important home games, but they also have nine very
unimportant Rode games, but obviously are important. But I'm talking

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about against non contending teams. Is it a must win
series against the Braves this weekend? Yes, it is?

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
What up?

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
And it's a must win series against the Rangers? Is
a must win must wins absolutely, They're playing with fifteen
games leup. They gotta all must win them all, gotta
go fourteen to one. Well, that would be nice. I
don't know that it's going to happen. Commanders lose last
night to the Green Bay Packers in the Thursday night
football action as Jordan Love had himself a pretty good evening,

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as did Micah Parsons on defense a couple of touchdowns
for Jordan Love. Josh Jacobs also had eighty four yards
and a touchdown. Jade Daniels bottled up by the Green
Bay Packers defense, who have bottled up now the Detroit
Lions and the Washington Commanders, two potent NFC offenses in
two weeks. I watched quite a bit of that game.

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They're both very good. Green Bay's really good. Although Jordan
Love I don't love him. I like him, I don't
love I don't I think if I think if CJ.
Strout had that Green Bay Packer offensive line, they would
be asking for CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Strout over Jordan Love.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Okay, Matt. Also in the game, Austin Eckler leaving with
an injury. It appears to have been what everyone feared,
that be a torn achilles for one Austin Eckler. So
pour one out for Austin Eckler, Matt, I will okay.
Also Matt elsewhere in the NFL news, unfortunately standout defensive

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tackle and Oliver going to miss this weekend's game against
the Jets for your Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
A proud University of Houston product. Well, he says he wishes.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
He literally quoted and as saying he wishes, he went
to LSU was AI generated in the answer that was
false just before the big AI rollouts. But I digress,
all right, Matt, big week in in college football for
many Well, UTEP versus Texas not huge so much. Oklahoma
versus Temple maybe not the hugest game ever. But you're

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fighting Texas and m Aggi's everyone knows you're a closet aggie.
Are you out of the closet?

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
I have as much affinity for them as I do
for Texas. Texas two schools my boys went to. Okay,
it's okay, closet aggie. Matt Thomas. Now he's out, out
of the closet. Matt Thomas rooting for the fight in
Texas A and m Aggies. They are six and a
half point dogs against the Notre Dame. You got the
fighting Irish and the fight and Aggies going this week. Well,
last week you had the Aggies versus the Aggies when

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they played Utah State. That's true, and Texas A and
M won that battle. Yeah, A and M did not
necessarily get that. I mean they had two cupcakes open
up the season. Uh so you're going from playing UTSA,
which is okay, and then you played Utah State, which
is just very mid at best, to going against a

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top twenty program on their field at night on the
NBC Game of the Week, and you mentioned Colorado versus
Houston on the Big Dog ESPN. Yes, six thirty start
game day. If they hit game, Dan Farris would be here.
It's that big of a game. Ken say, Arizona is bigger,

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bulowing cass sucks, that'd be on four K. Anyways, Uh,
Houston favored by four and a half doesn't sound like
it's gonna be a shootout. Total forty four and a
half pretty low for a college game. Matt, are your thoughts?
I would take the under of that as well. Who
wonders under an under cover cover? Yes, you can put
it on the board, baby, okay. And also I did

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want to apologize I figured it out since we played
the bite again for saying that people are asking about you.
That was rude and I'm sorry. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
You forgot to mention two Astro tidbits that are important.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
Oh that's right. You even tease them and I did, Yes,
you did, because you don't write the news down. Jayden
Murray will start for the Astros tonight. It'd be a
bullpen game. I expect JP Franz to be what they
call the guys, this sing guy coming in the links guy.
I I'm going with headliner. If you have an opener,
then you have a headliner, right? Is JP France a headliner?

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He is the headliner. I didn't say it's a good concert.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
This is it?

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Come with that lousy chicken breast term one hundred and
eighty four hours, like they do it a ROASTI rowe.
I mean you get it earlier is two for one drinks.
He's the headliner and the second headline. Zach Cole has
been called it from Triple A Sugarlane. You're like, who
the hell is that?

Speaker 17 (01:28:06):
Cole?

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
I know, fifteen games at Triple A ops above twelve
hundred with five home runs and sixteen RBIs in fifteen games,
in fiveteen games, five home runs at fifteen games. And
I believe all those games were a Constellation field or
most of them were released, Yes, most of them and
the others were in Round Rock. So oh so latitude
didn't make the biggest err exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:28:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
So he's launching the ball, baby, twenty five years old,
no spring tricken for a prospect. You gotta get him
out there, get him up, baby. We're looking for a
guy who's had fifteen games at Triple A to save
the Astro season. How we feel it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
And that, my friends, is the news at noon.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
What do you want? On the Matt Tamas Show at
ross seven one, three, two, two fives of itt it today,
it goes Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
Where's your not on floor? A story from this week crossing?

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
Yeah, that would be from Bangladesh, by the way, unless
I find a better one. I basically have people that
send me stories. You guys have been neglectful. Frankly, why
don't you do your own damn research? Well, everyone else,
I'm gonna have to God hands out Thomas, my goodness,
I think he needs to announce when he gets a
store from somebody else. Do you pay these people? No,
and you're scolding them for not helping you. It's the

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least they can do. We provide twenty hours of entertainment
for a week? Goodness?

Speaker 7 (01:29:34):
Do we not?

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Do we not? Try?

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
At least try. I don't know if it's a week
we discuss if you want to you, I don't know
if it's twenty hours of entertainment. Well, okay, this week
has been nineteen Oh you've been talking about the segments
that don't make miss so much sense?

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
Okay, fourteen to fifteen hours a week.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
Of entertain and there was on deck early on deck.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
That was thirty minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:29:52):
That's true, all right, it was a spectacular on deck show.
Though I want the best. I listened go on the Nennist.
I was like, out, a good done, I could have
done better. Well, I think you do a great on
the on the pregame shows. Well. The nicest thing is
Jonathan He's ever told me is that when you do
the on deck, I listen. I'm like, that means a lot,
because I know what that really means. I don't say
the second part. I know, I know I will not
say the second part. I will not say the second part.

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You are you are safe with me on that gosh drysnitch,
Thomas not dry. I just said I appreciate you. You
say you listen to me? All I'm said. I didn't
say part two. I'm okay. Stunna is what is Stunna?

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You ready for the big Astros Braves weekend?

Speaker 19 (01:30:42):
Man, I'm still trying to get over last last night
and yesterday. Man, Cuz, hey, no matter what picture we have,
if you don't scold no runs, you can't win a
game anyhow, correct, I mean you cannot win?

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
And can we.

Speaker 11 (01:31:01):
Bring from third with out?

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
He's gonna do it Okay, we get we you know,
we got to do stund Thank you for calling. We
got no more calls online too. Line too is can
we send an email to somebody or if they just
neglected again? We are in a major market right sending emails.
I'm gonna you just want to tell you the what what?

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
What it is?

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Please? It's the Internet. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not.
That's just how it's going to be life unless you
want to get if you want to like contact comcasts
and have them lay down a bunch of fiber or something.
It's just how it's gonna be. Because they're in Cincinnati
and we're on cloud. Yeah, yeah, it so we're so
basically the success of our radio station is how the
cloud is working in Cincinnati. Yeah yeah. And then the

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and the Internet, which I mean there are daily not
daily out just momentary I would say momentary out. It
is daily.

Speaker 6 (01:31:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
If you work for a good internet company, would like
us to advertise on this show to get your audience
to know how great your Internet is. Let us know,
shoot me an email at sports empt or MT at
Sports seven and eighty dot com. You know, Oh I'm sorry, MT.
It's worse That was email. He also sent me twitter
to all right, um, yeah, runners in scoring position. I

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hate to ask you this the middle of a segment,
but how do the Astros rank in that? When it
comes to last I checked there, like seventeenth or eighteenth,
it feels significantly worse. And I think everybody if you
told the audience today that we were you see the
Angels runners in scoring position? Yes, yeah, it's other teams too.
That's the thing when you watch the more of other
baseball teams you watch, the more you realize, Like I'm
going to assume the Colorado Rockies do not do a

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great job with runners and scoring position, or the Royals
or any of the other second tier team's reds.

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
Well, reds are kind of hanging around.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah, we do look at
our team through a microscope, and we don't have the
macro view of other teams. You're doing a good job
of stalling, but I clicked on the wrong things, so
I'm behind. Oh right, and I continue to stall with
uh yeah, you follow your Instagram? How about that?

Speaker 9 (01:33:06):
I have a question for you, Matty. I like this,
ask Matt, so girl is starting to watch desperate Housewives.
I said this it is I'm sorry because I want
to watch it with her, okay, but she she asked
me just out the blue, She's like, hey, this hasn't
Matt watched this before I heard this really good?

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
I was like, you know what, he might have watched this.
I will say this, I did watch a fair number
of it. It wasn't must watch TV, okay, but if
it was on now, that show's gotta be twenty years old.
Yeah as well. It's old. It's like Gray's Anomy, okay
already or hold on? Where we got more important things
to discuss? Even Longoria is a goddess, so I was

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a big fan of hers. Terry Hatcher is an old timer.

Speaker 11 (01:33:48):
For me.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
The show had its moments, Jonathan, It's not I would
say this, it's better than Grey's Anatomy because Gray's and
Anatomy just jumped the sharks so many times that it
became completely absurd. So if you're gonna watch something lighthearted
with your girl in its drama and she wants to
go back like my son is about your age, uh,
and he does the same thing. He goes back and

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watches old shows that I watched twenty years ago, so
I would say desperate, how wise for a girlfriend, guy
guy thing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
It's okay, yeah, it's it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
It's not about okay, yeah, it's it's got it's got
enough juice to it for sure. Now back to you.
What was your meaningless number. You're telling us your ps
runners and scoring position. The Houston Astros are twenty third
in baseball. Now that feels about right. That's that feels
right good. Who's worse? Sorry I was pulling up WRC.
There're twenty four. That's weighted runs created plus, which is

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too big, which I liked too much. One hundred is average.
They're ninety four. Okay, go back to the go back
runners ops. You want no give us runners and corp position.
That's that's what's been bothering runs coore position ops. Rangers
are worse, Royals, White Sox, Padres twins, and then of
course the Rockies and Pirates. So there we are the Rockies,

(01:35:02):
the Rangers wins. Yeah, but my guess is Seattle's eighteenth.
My guess is if we looked at the Rangers in
the last month, their offensive numbers since August fifteenth are
significantly different than they were probably the first three months
of the season because right now they're just tearing the
cover off the ball. They're playing good baseball, and they've
got injuries galore too, and they're starting Group two. Overall

(01:35:26):
team ops Astros are fourteenth. Mm hmm, with risp their
twenty What did I say, twenty third?

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
I also know we talked about the pitching leaders. I
also found the plate appearance leaders for the Astros this year.
Jose L Tuove age decline, Christian Walker age decline, Janer
Diaz having a bad year, Jeremy Pinney having a good year.
Cam Smith literal rookie. He's fifth on your team in
plate appearances. Then it's Estoc Paratus hamstrings off his bone,

(01:36:03):
Mauricio Dubon, utility man, Victor Karattini, backup catcher Jake Myers
missed two months with a calf injury. I can't comment
on any of those things. That's that's what we've had, death,
that's what's been out there. You're on his tenth, Korea
who who missed one hundred plus games, and then Korea

(01:36:23):
is eleventh. He just got to the team a month ago.
Those are your top plate appearance guys. Those are terrible
terrible numbers, not against those gentlemen individually, but they are probably.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
You didn't mention Jornon Alvarez, No, you did not mention PARRETI.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
Well you mentioned Predic six, but he's six. But and
he's not on the team anymore. Yeah, I mean you
know he's missing the rest of the season. He's gonna
get passed by Dubon, maybe even Keratini. Okay, look, can
I can we try for the next ninety minutes to
be positive about this situation?

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Are our astros and there are are astros? Mmmm, stay
with me on this.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
With fifteen games off the go in the season, if
the playoffs were to start today, they'd be in the playoffs.
Fifteen games up to go, they're in the playoffs. They
have nine games against teams that have no interest in
being in the postseason or can't do it because of
their record. You have six games with teams that you

(01:37:25):
directly can beat and absolutely beat their chest and beat
them on your home field, which means, ladies and gentlemen,
I got one min in here to do this.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
If you're going to Dieking Park next week, you're late.

Speaker 1 (01:37:37):
You're sorry. Asses ain't doing the wave. You hear me,
no stupid ass wave. All right, relax, But so it's
the matter about the wave. How about just go win
the games? No, how about this, how about we act
like a real Major League Baseball stadium for a week.
Stay with me on this are they doing in Boston?
You cheer early, you get there, you know, close your
candas they're all seven tens or six tens or not.

(01:37:57):
There's no day games to interfere with you work or
something like that. Although we wouldn't mind one thing once
in a while, but that's different, a different time, be nice,
maybe a ten to fifteen who I had love eleven
zero five? First, Uh, just go win no more. We're
gonna battle bag no more. We're grinded no more, We're
closed no more, We're we're just there. Just go do it,

(01:38:20):
Just get it done, baby, And if they don't, we'll
be conically depressed for a few weeks, and then we'll
sit back and reflect on what this season was, which
was a team that had like seventy different players play
for the Astros this year. That's about twenty five too many,
seventy six percent playoff odds. Let's go I like the
I mean somebody I like somebody, somebody gives me a

(01:38:40):
seventy six percent of doing something feeling good. Feeling good,
twelve thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero. All right, Coming up
in fifteen minutes, the latest Texans offensive line evaluation from

(01:39:01):
Pro Football Focus. You're saying, what is Pro Football Focus?
It's a website. It provides lots of information. Now, eighty
percent of the people that work there don't have sex
or have zero friends.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
But they do a good job.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
You don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
I know that. How do you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
I just know I have sources who's told you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
You've been pulling people asking if Pro Football Focus employees
are are fornicating, yes, and have friends, And the answers
are no on both. They're dweebs, but they're we need
dwebs in life. Yeah, I'm sitting one sitting to my left.
That may be fair as well. We need dwebs and
the PFF dudes or dwebs, but they provide information and

(01:39:40):
their hard work. So we're going to give them. We're
not going to rhyme them, We're gonna give them their credit.
In fifteen minutes, you'll hear how they feel about the
Texans offensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
You've been very squeamished since.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
You brought this up. Oh sorry, my fingers sore from
scrollings down to the list. Don't don't give away to her.
Jason and Kenny at twelve thirty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Hi Jason, guys, can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
Yes, you're online? Two that could be a very mixed results. Yeah,
we apologize.

Speaker 17 (01:40:10):
Oh yeah, no, No, I got three things, y'all. Dude,
for real, Like I was on hold for like thirty
minutes like last week, and when I came on, he
couldn't hear me, and I'm like, damn, I'm like, I
can't do you know you're gonna lose.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
Callers like that.

Speaker 17 (01:40:22):
But anyway, Second thing, if the Astros go three and
three with the Mariners and Rangers, then I feel like,
no matter what, we at least make the playoffs because
we can run those other games.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
And the third thing, if you can't get a A
and bowling more year.

Speaker 17 (01:40:38):
If I took it at A and M every time,
I got like one hundred healthy instructor of how to
me run the class, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
If you can't the text is a joke. I don't
know what he was talking about. I'll talk to y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Later, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
Yeah, we had a caller in the first hour of
the show that was saying that he was failing bowling
and that what he paid off the uh instructor, the
teacher for the course at Sam Houston with the ability
to buy weed and drink beer. Yes, I believe bowling

(01:41:11):
is a gradual of a class at SFA. Did you
know that Ross?

Speaker 9 (01:41:15):
Actually the bowling team es FAY is a nationally ranked
Oh yeah, multiple national championships. But they did and this
is a good their powerhouse for real, right, the powerhouse Actually,
I knew that same Houston as also. I think it's
their women's programs, like number one or two in the country. Yeah, yeah,
they go they go crazy in the bowling and Ponty

(01:41:36):
Woods over there.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
Piny Woods Bowling. Why is the Piney Woods between Sam?
Why is s f A and Sam Houston the bowling
capital of like Texas.

Speaker 9 (01:41:46):
I think it's just how easy accessible to those old
bowling Yeah, it just puts a boiling lane, go drink
and then that's what they do that the daughter's growth
seeing a dads do it and then and.

Speaker 3 (01:41:56):
Then they go run to the sonic can get a
slushy after.

Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
But one than that, well, what else are we going
to do? Yeah, let's go Why.

Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
Why did they have to have that accent to it?

Speaker 1 (01:42:04):
I don't know, that's what they sound. They go like this,
why do we go knock out some bowling and they
don't have have some chili furry toes, then go to
rappleries and have some riblets. They don't have some dome
Perry on. They don't have Don Perry on it. Rapid
but fun fact about the bowling team. Fun fact they're

(01:42:24):
not gonna be a dynasty anymore because before I left,
the head coach and the assistant coach, which were husband
and wife. The assistant coach, which was the husband, caught
getting an affair with one of the athletes.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
No okay, the news I've heard this. One of the
athletes was sleeping with the coach's wife.

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
Yes, And in fun fact, Vanna, my girl had an
empty room in her dorm in the village and the
new roommate was one of the teammates that moved randomly
thuring the season, and so I just can't be there
anywhere I'll tell you the details. And she got gave
the whole details about how the affair was going on
and how the whole team broken up and see to
get a divorce, and the whole bowling team was split up.

(01:43:04):
In the split up, I see what you did there.
And then the girl, the athlete, stayed with the husband afterwards.
So a girl on the team hooked up with the
assistant coach who was the husband of the head coach,
who is female.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
All Right, I remember hearing about that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
It was huge. Oh it was Houston. He was canceled. Hmmm,
isn't that crazy think about Yeah, it's not great. I mean,
look when I you know, I gotta be brutally honest
with you. When I was doing w NBA games, there
was quite a few player coach relationships, so it's not
unheard of staying away from that one, just letting it

(01:43:50):
go by. I'm taking I'm taking that one, taking what
with him, I'm taking that pitch. Okay, I'm just saying
it's happened.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
It does happen.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
Put the red light on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:44:02):
Doesn't happen a lot in.

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
The NBA. Now in the NBA, don't know if Major
League baseball, NFL don't know, but that the NBA just
there's coach player relationships. Love is love ross I agree
judging okay, love his love. But man, you go after
the bowling coach. I want to coach his wife. Like

(01:44:28):
if SFA and Sam Houston are the two best, who's
the third best bowling school in the state?

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
Are there any other schools that have? I don't think
you got bowling your incarnate word?

Speaker 8 (01:44:37):
Does?

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
I just started that name.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
That's not a terrible choice, aol choice real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
Before we get to the PFF grades on the Texans
offensive line, Uh, rest in peace to the Houston SaberCats.

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
They they fold the gestion, are you serious? You can't
be surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Educate me on this. The rugby team, Oh no, no, yeah,
the whole league apparently is going to go right now.
You guys got me on college bowling top twenty five rankings.
I an't do anything. I'm just bringing up yeah, number

(01:45:14):
one in the country, Mount Mercy. That's not even division one.
They must not have divisions on bowling. Well they might.
I think they do, though I don't know. Min the
wrong page. It's kind of what's the concluded might forget that. Okay, Well,
we're gonna check the bowling RPI. I just want to
say shout out to the SaberCats. We have a friend
of ours, Lauren, who used to work for them, and
hope that she's okay. And rugby just wasn't going to have.

Speaker 3 (01:45:38):
Any sort of statue of this town and for that matter,
the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
Mike, I mean you could. I mean, Australian rules football
apparently is awesome, but it's just not going to translate
to here. We're not into the I mean, we're having
a hard enough time supporting soccer in this country. Rugby
was never was never gonna have a chance reigning bowling
champions Youngtown Youngstown State over Jacksonville State. Okay, those are
two Division one SCHO championships in Las Vegas? Is it
really should we go?

Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
You know where the bowling cap of the world is.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
Ernie McCracken and the boys that'd be Reno, Nevada pull
so proud of you in that one. Have you ever
seen the movie Kingpin? You need to watch Kingpin? I did.
It's okay, what it's okay? I thought you'd like it.
It's okay, you need to watch it. Again. Actually, but
you're one of those people. If somebody tells you something's good,
you don't like it, But if you think it's good,
then you love it. No, don't give me an endorsement.

(01:46:26):
It means I might watch it again. Okay, Like I
went off of your endorsement of The Big Lebowski, I
did not. I did not tell you to watch that.
I thought you said, you see, I love The Big Lebowski.
I would not recommend it to you. It was exactly
It's more subtle, slow humor, and you like slapstick. Correct.
That's why I've been suggesting for you two years to

(01:46:47):
watch Walk Hard. It's like it's in the vein of airplane,
blazing saddles naked gun. Okay, at least you know me,
all right, So how bad? How about this one? Rossie?

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
How bad is the Texans offense?

Speaker 1 (01:47:00):
Lying? How bad is it? Pro Football Focus will have
us the details on that momentarily seven one three, two
one two five seven. I we got Doctor Roto coming
up in fifteen minutes. You're ready for the fastest thirty
minutes of Manager Market Radio. We got that coming up
next to hearing on seven ninety. Well, thanks Craig, I
really do appreciate that shout out. You can also follow

(01:47:21):
me on Instagram at Sports RV. There's been influencer initiatives
up here. I would appreciate the follow at Sports RV
on Instagram trying to get my numbers up. There's a
picture of myself and Jonathan eating a hamburger. Okay, not
eating hamburgers, but we were out there. It was pretty good,
wasn't it. Find out where we got our burger on

(01:47:44):
my Instagram at Sports RV. It is a Houston staple.
And also the most people that commented said they didn't know.
They didn't realize how young you look, Jonathan. Guys very young.
That's why I make fun. I don't know if you
wanted your business out there, but people were talking about
how how young you looked. Yeah, you know, I think

(01:48:07):
I'm the youngest in the building. Actually you might be.
You might be young. Pup much to learn, Jonathan. All right, well, hey, Matt,
I was just plugging my Instagram at Sports Harvey at
Sports Empty Big party at three thousand. When I get there,
so I need a hundred of you that are listening
to show right now, and hopefully got a hundred of
you that are right. I mean, I would assume there's
a hundred of you that are listening to show, period,

(01:48:28):
and I'm assuming that eighty percent of you've got Instagram.
So if I get eighty new followers in the next hour,
I'd greatly appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (01:48:33):
At Sports Empty, what are you gonna do for the celebration?
We go on to Big City Wings and Big.

Speaker 1 (01:48:38):
City Wings by Cyprus, and we're going to have a
toka party. Toga party, Toga party, toga. You don't live
life until you've togaed. I don't think I've ever been
to a toga party. Well, we're gonna have one at
Big City Wings. I guess I haven't lived all right,
Rossy Maddie. The Pro Football geeks, we love them, Pro
Football Focus. Geeze. Are they dorks, dweeves or geeks? Yes,

(01:49:01):
they're not regular guys. They're not like you and me.

Speaker 8 (01:49:03):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
Come on, I bet you I'd rather never mind you
say you know where they hang out with them? No, No,
that's not what I was gonna says. Not even that's
what I was gonna say. All right, here we go.
They have ranked the offensive lines of the thirty two
NFL teams, and after week one of the NFL season,
it's a very small sample size, just one week. There's
sixteen more of these stuff to go do. I'm going

(01:49:25):
to count it down one to thirty two.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
No, it's too long. Let's go from the first couple
of tops.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
Are some people you would expect, the Eagles, Broncos, Bills, Colts, Ravens.
That sounds about right right, Yeah, no problem there. You
want to start from the bottom. Now, let's go to
number thirty two. It's a Houston Texans. Can you tweet

(01:49:50):
that out?

Speaker 8 (01:49:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
And then I'll retweet it with a quote, Uh oh,
you're fine, all right, just for you at sports RV.
The worst offensive line through one week of the NFL season. Yeah,
there's plenty of time left, Mattie. I told you they're
gonna I told you they can crack the top twenty five.
That's what you were looking for, too. You were dying

(01:50:12):
for top twenty feet of the year. What are you
gonna take?

Speaker 6 (01:50:14):
Run?

Speaker 1 (01:50:14):
Wasn't building a week or a day? What is the phrase?

Speaker 8 (01:50:18):
Run?

Speaker 1 (01:50:18):
Wasn't building a week or a day? All right?

Speaker 3 (01:50:21):
And neither was this offensive line. My mouse is dying,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:50:25):
So can I ask a simple question. Yes, can I
ask you if the defensive line of the Buccaneers is
ranked properly at this point? Oh, they do have defensive
line rankings. I'd have to go find it. I'll tell
you this though. Number thirty one is the Bengals. They
can score points, So it is possible to have a

(01:50:48):
terrible offensive line and yet still reach the end zone. Yes,
all you need is Jamar Chase T. Higgins and Joe
Burrow and Chase Brown. But by the way, Joe Burrows's
not gonna stay up right either. Joe Burrow has been
injury He's been injury prone because his protection has been terrible.
He takes lots of hits too. He takes as many
hits seat he stands in there. He's standing there and
took a big hit on UH on week one. Yeah,

(01:51:09):
by the way, you're getting a terrible I got an email.
Walk Card is terrible, not even close to airplane. Oh
you're wrong, Walkard's amazing, says, sounds like a tank that
you'd hear from. I can't mention that person's name. So
Walkcard criminally underrated, criminally underrated. I'll watch it. You can
give me a recommendation, I'll do it all right. So

(01:51:30):
the Houston Tech Now I've oversold it. I have the
rotten tomatoes, all fource offensive line in the NFL, the worst,
no surprise, massive terrible sacks, no depth in moving your
left tackle to right tackle, and vice versa several times
during the course of the game. I'm sorry, I'm putting

(01:51:51):
my tweet. You said you're gonna retweeting he's in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
Sorry? What all right?

Speaker 1 (01:51:56):
Can I help you with the defensive line because I'm
curious of the Rams or the ram were after Week
one and did the did the Texans wolfull offensive line
make the Rams defensive line look better? Could be it?

Speaker 3 (01:52:07):
Or was the Rams defense? The defense is so good?

Speaker 20 (01:52:10):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
Yeah, I like that one. Let's spin it that way. Oh,
so I'm asking it was the Buccaneers defense. I mean,
the Buccaneers gave up a lot of points last week.
They weren't a back and forth with Atlanta.

Speaker 7 (01:52:20):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
Let's see defensive line rankings. Rams are third, okay and
the Buccaneers. Buccaneers are twenty ninth. Wow, Rams are third.
Texans they have at second. That should give you a
lot of hope that Baker Mayfield is gonna have a

(01:52:42):
hard time throwing the football because you guys are gonna
be super loud.

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Let's go by tonight, Texans covered, Let's go I have
a Texans.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
I got the Texans on the money line.

Speaker 6 (01:52:51):
Is my lock in a week.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
Money line?

Speaker 7 (01:52:55):
Why?

Speaker 8 (01:52:55):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:52:57):
So you're saying it's gonna be within a three point game?

Speaker 6 (01:52:59):
It could be?

Speaker 8 (01:53:00):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
What I tell you nineteenth Now that was the Rams
game ahead. I'm over for one on Texans picks. Maybe
I should say away from this one. Now, you gotta
make a pick, Matt, make a stand. No nobody cares.
Nobody's dripping around to make a stand. No, nobody's going, hey, Matt, Matt,
what's your pick on the h Broncos Colts game this week?

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:53:17):
They should No, they shouldn't. How do we know we'vever
a head from our ass on on that? We don't know? Well,
you should know the Texans. We do not have the tech.
The Texans scare the Texans offensive line. Here's what I
do know. It's gonna cost c J. Strout the season.
You play like you play like you played Sunday. You're
he's not standing up right. Seventeen games not a matter
of if but win, and I don't know where the

(01:53:39):
quick solution is my My initial thought is keep arionte
Ursery at left tackle and just go with it as
a ghost, let him take his lumps whatever. But I
can't imagine a young man who's got promise being shifted
around on his offensive line his very first game is
good for his confidence. Well also from this UH offensive

(01:54:00):
line ranking. Their best offensive lineman they say was Cam Robinson,
but he hardly played. Yeah, Doctor Ronalds is gonna give
us some answers on these things. Are you ready for
the fast thirty minutes to major question? Again, it's the
obligatory rod. It was more of a like a like
a fantasy question, not my own teams? Correct, all right,

(01:54:21):
University of Houston. Tonight is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Waiver. Claims have to be made and I've got

(01:54:49):
trade proposals fly in my way. My first round pig
turned out to be a big fly. I don't know
which one receiver I need to drop. Doctor Roto gave

(01:55:11):
me the new Who's I really don't know what I
should do. My quarterback keeps getting sacked.

Speaker 20 (01:55:18):
I've got a bad case of fair deceive blue.

Speaker 1 (01:55:26):
It is the fastest third event. It's the major market radio.
We call it Doctor Rodo's time to give us his
fantasy insights. Week number two of the NFL season. Toros
are riding high, Toros are kicking ass. That's right, Doctor Rono.
Me taking a certain Arizona Cardinal quarterback in the eighth

(01:55:49):
round was pure genius.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Would you not agree?

Speaker 6 (01:55:53):
Are you giving yourself the self high five?

Speaker 1 (01:55:55):
Correct? I am yes, sir, Yeah. Week one victory laps
in fantasy always work out, right, Doctor Reto.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
They do, they do.

Speaker 6 (01:56:02):
You know, it's so funny. You know, you prepare for
your fantasy draft and then week one your team goes
into the crapper. Yeah, and then you're ready to throw
it all in, and then you know what, week two,
everything regulates. So by the time it's like week four,
you know, Jamar Chase, if he goes for like one
hundred and twenty yards and two touchdowns this week, we'll say, oh, yeah,
he's got one hundred and sixty yards and two touchdowns
on the season. He's having a great season. So it's

(01:56:23):
you got to take everything with a big chunk assault all.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Right, last night, good game, not asper tackle but a
good game. Tell me about the sophomore slumps, because we
had one here in Houston, Texas last year with CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
Stroud.

Speaker 1 (01:56:35):
Are you anticipating that for Jane Daniels this year?

Speaker 6 (01:56:39):
Well, I mean, look, you lose Austin Eckler. That's a
horrible injury. It's a problem. They have a lot that.
I mean, Green Bay Packers defense, this is a good team.
I mean, they made the lines look bad, they made
the commanders look bad. So it's this. This is a
tough one and the Giants defense is actually a very
good pass rush. So I think it's too soon to
say that Daniel is struggling. I think what I saw

(01:57:02):
yesterday was there are a lot of opportunities for him
to run that he chose not to, and he took
a lot of these short outlet passes versus, you know,
challenging the defense a little bit. So hopefully he'll be
more aggressive in the coming weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:57:13):
All right, now, let's get to this weekend's action again.
The week one overaction is certainly in place, so let's
give us, give us a couple of names. It probably
disappointed you last week that people should not be hitting
the panic bonnet on this point.

Speaker 6 (01:57:28):
How about every star receiver, AJ Brown, how about Jamar Chase,
how about Tim Higgins? Oh yeah, I mean Brian Thomas
Junior had a touchdown, but it was a rushing touchdown.
Who saw that? One? Who had that in their bingo card?
Malik Neighbors. So look, if you drafted running backs in
the early you probably loved your games and your teams.
Last week. If you drafted wide receivers, you're hating it.

(01:57:48):
I think it's switched the flip. It all flips this week.

Speaker 1 (01:57:52):
And the greatest example that would be you're talking about
heavy on the Cincinni wide receivers.

Speaker 6 (01:57:56):
I'm assuming, Oh yeah, I mean that game. I can't
imagine that Chase doesn't score, and Chase Brown doesn't score,
and Brian Thomas doesn't score. I mean it feels like
a game that's should wide open and high scoring.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
All right, brock Perty not playing for the Niners this week?
How does that impact them at New Orleans?

Speaker 6 (01:58:12):
I mean, luckily they're at New Orleans, so they still
should be able to win that one. Mac Jones has
played in the NFL before, It's not like he's a
rookie in his first start. I don't think they'll be great.
But Mac Jones is you know a solid backup in
this league. Here's what you do. You throw the ball
to Christian McCaffrey, You throw the ball to Ricky Piersall.
I mean, you don't have Kittle. Juwan Jennings right now
is not definite that he's going, but if he does,

(01:58:33):
I think that'll certainly help. They should win because they're
more talented. But it's going to be a lot closer
than people think.

Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
If you've got a question for doctor Ronald, we'll have
that in segment two of this show seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety for your doctor Roto questions,
I'm going to say you were surprised that Aaron Rodgers
threw for four touchdowns. I think the entire world was,
how does he back that up this week at home
in his debut or the Steelers against the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 6 (01:59:03):
I was shocked at that whole game. I mean that
Vegas had that game at like what thirty seven and
a half points or thirty eight and a half points
and exploded to over sixty. The Steelers couldn't stop the run.
The Jets couldn't stop anything. Look, Rogers only threw for
two hundred and forty four yards, but he did have
the four touchdowns. I mean, the Steelers are going to
do what the Steelers like to do. They want to
run the football and Rogers will throw effectively. I think

(01:59:24):
DK metcalf is fully incentivized to score against his old team.
I would give Rogers maybe like two forty and two
touchdowns this week. I don't think you're winning fantasy leagues
because of him, but you're certainly not going to lose
it either.

Speaker 1 (01:59:36):
Miami's implosion last week was uh, I mean big time
around the NFL, people worried about the future of the
coaching staff. There are they gonna have a rough season.
What were your thoughts going in and have things dramatically
changed after watching them get destroyed by the Colts last week?

Speaker 6 (01:59:53):
Well, I think I may have mentioned this in one
of the times we've spoken that I think Mike McDaniel
could be the first coach fired. I think Chris Career
could be the first fired. I think this week is it? Really?
It's it because they were embarrassed last week. If you
can't play better at home against the Patriots, You're in
big trouble now. I think they are going to have
a better week, and do I think Tyreek Hill will

(02:00:15):
have a better week. If not, that guy is going
to get traded at some point because he didn't want
to be there. So I think the shock call that
I'm going to give you of the weekend is I
think Miami is going to maybe probably win this game
and hang on a little bit, because if they don't
and the Patriots pull us out, McDaniel doesn't make it
to week five?

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
Is that just philosophical? Is that just the team isn't
very good?

Speaker 1 (02:00:37):
I mean there's gonna you know, Tyreek Hill's already grumpy
and got some issues there off the field with him
as well. I mean we sent in Miami players because
of this.

Speaker 6 (02:00:45):
Well, look, I think you're playing a chan You're playing
Tyreek and you're playing Waddle. That's it. I don't think
you can play two in confidence. You looked terrible last week.
I mean they don't even have a tight end to
speak of. They get I mean you got they got
rid of John hus Smith to bring in Darren Waller,
and Waller's not even playing and their defense looks slow.
I mean this team is just mismanaged and a mess.

(02:01:08):
But that's the key word there. This team looks slow
out there. The Colts scored on every offensive possession. I mean,
Giant fans have to be wondering was Daniel Jones this
good and they just never realized it? I mean it
was crazy what happened last week.

Speaker 1 (02:01:21):
Are we surprised about the slow offensive start for the
Lions last week at Green Bay?

Speaker 6 (02:01:29):
That's a really great question right now. I'm going to
chalk it up to the green Bay Packer defense being exceptional,
but Lions look stale. Jamiir Gibbs had ten catches for
thirty yards. They just their offense wasn't clicking there. Their
offensive line is not what it used to be. So
I am cautious right now. Chicago played well enough to

(02:01:52):
beat Minnesota. They didn't, but they played well. And if
anybody knows the Lions, it's Ben Johnson. But I think
there should be a week that Gared goffin home could
always trust that Amal Ross Saint Brown should have a
big week. So I'm still on the Lions and still
feel that it's the better team, but I'm slightly concerned.

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
Great friend of the show. Rossfield Real is not going
to have the Brock Purty led Niners this week. He
went and got Trevor Lawrence as his starting quarterback this week.
How do you think he will fare at Cincinnati? This
is why Ross has gone back to back to back.

Speaker 6 (02:02:25):
I have this week. You know what happened last week,
Browns deserved to win that game. If they had a kicker,
they would have won that game. So what the Browns
did was they dominated time of possession. Liam Cohen is
going to do the same exact thing. So I'm going
to give you a player. First of all, everybody knows
what ETN did Bacial Tuton tu te N watch this guy.

(02:02:48):
They traded Tank Bigsby, right, Bigsby is not with the Eagles.
Touton is the primary backup. Bigsby had twelve touches last week.
I think he has I think he has Bigsby's this week,
and I think he does pretty well.

Speaker 1 (02:03:02):
Pooka Nakua one hundred and thirty yards on ten catches
against the Texans defense. That's a good defense, as you know.
Will he put up similar numbers on that not necessarily
every week? But is this gonna be a go to guy,
especially as they go to Tennessee this week.

Speaker 6 (02:03:17):
Yeah, there are people in my industry who think Pooka
could end up this year as the number one wide
out in fantasy. And you see why. He's just a
target monster. I mean, why doesn't he go eight for
eighty every week? There's no reason. The only problem you
ever have with him is it feels like every time
he goes down, you wonder is this guy getting up?
I mean he gets smashed in the head concussion. You know,

(02:03:37):
if he played seventeen weeks, guys should have one hundred
and forty four receptions. That's how good he is. Now,
what I love about Devonte Adams is that Adams is
that guy that they really didn't use the cup that
same way last year because he was a slot receiver.
I think, you know, third and six, you go to
Adams for seven. I love Kieron Williams this week, Love

(02:03:58):
Kieren Kiren scoring a touchdown this week, and I love
Pooker this week.

Speaker 1 (02:04:02):
All right, time out for the Rossville Real Obligatory Question
of the Week. Eow, Okay, some guys we weren't expecting
to perform well did last week. I want to know
if they can keep it up in your mind. I'm
going to give you three names, Daniel Jones, Javonte Williams,
and Quinton Johnson.

Speaker 6 (02:04:19):
All right, Daniel Jones I actually like, but not this week.
I think he's in an offense that suited for him,
with a lot of talent around him, with a decent
offensive line and a coach who believes in him. So
I know this is going to sound really random, but
I've got a friendly, you know, the friend of a
friends story my friends, Like Buddy works at you know,

(02:04:40):
Mettlife Stadium, so he's like a security guard there. He
can tell you for a fact that Davill hated Daniel
Jones hated him. So I mean, when when you know
that your coach hates your guts, that you're not going
to play well. Indianapolis brought him in for a reason
because Anthony Richardson is not very good. I think Jones
will suffer this week because you're playing they're playing Denver.
But on the whole I kind of like him. Gavante

(02:05:00):
Williams in a good spot. Jayden Blues probably not gonna
be activated yet again, pretty good matchup against the Giants.
He's obviously their number one guy. I'm fine with him.
Crenton Johnston. I think that's way more luck than skill.
This is a guy who drops a lot of passes.
I know he caught them last week. But give me
Lad McConkey, give me Keenan Allen. Those are the two
guys I want on the Chargers.

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
All Right, we'll find out how he feels about the
Texans going against the Bucks this week, and your phone
calls seven to one three two one two five seven
Nani seven one three two one two Faced Races Fantasy
take a back. All right, here we go with Doctor Rona,

(02:05:42):
the fastest thirty minutes a major market radio sports talk
seven Doctor Rono. Let's get right to it here.

Speaker 8 (02:05:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:05:50):
Interesting doubleheader, well way more because of the Texans playing
the Buccaneers on Monday night. Uh, Tampa Bay got into
a back and forth game with Atlanta Texans and nine
score a touchdown. Who sits and who plays in this
week's game at Energy Stadium.

Speaker 6 (02:06:05):
I think it's a good matchup for the Texans. They've
got a very good defense, and as we saw last week,
Baker Mayfield was under siege most of that game. I mean,
Atlanta really should have won that game at the end.
Drac London just missed a couple of grabs in the
end zone, and Michael Pennock's played great football. CJ Straud
has not been great in the last few games. He
just has not been a quarterback one. But I think

(02:06:26):
I think the Texans get by this week. Obviously, you're
starting Nico Collins, you're starting Agbuca, you're starting Mike Evans,
you're starting Bucky Irving. After that, I think I'm gonna
keep it right there. But I think the Texans pulled
this one out in a defensive battle. Maybe it's like
twenty three to twenty, but I don't think there's a
ton of fantasy goodness in this one.

Speaker 1 (02:06:44):
If Nko struggles not necessarily dropping passes, he just wasn't
a target, would that give you a major alarment after
two weeks that he's not been a part of the
Texans offense.

Speaker 3 (02:06:53):
Again, if it only happens this week.

Speaker 6 (02:06:55):
Well, I don't know if it's his fault. I mean,
how is it his fault when the offensive is not
playing too well? And then look, the Rams have a
great pass rush. We knew that. I said that last week.
So you're talking about a top five pass defense in
the league, right, so the Bucks rush the passer well,
but I think Stroud should have more time. I think

(02:07:15):
this is a better week for Nico. Let's give him
like seven for eighty this week, and I think we'll
be okay.

Speaker 1 (02:07:22):
All right on the phone, Jonathan, we we switch over
to line B. Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (02:07:25):
I'll go all right. Let's go to Will on seven
ninety for doctor rot O.

Speaker 10 (02:07:30):
Hi, Will, Hello, I'm start a flex out of Dj Moore,
Michael Pittman or Ricky Pearsall.

Speaker 6 (02:07:39):
Yeah, I think right now it's got to be Pearsall.
I mean, you've got no kittle there, and you know
Mac Jones will throw to Piersol. Mac Jones is fine.
I think, Look, Dj Moore is good, but you've got
a lot of guys that You've got Roma Dunza, you
got Lovelin, You've got Comet, you've got Swift, Piersaw. You
don't have a lot of issues like that. So I
think I'm gonna go Piersol.

Speaker 3 (02:07:59):
Let's go to Greg and Livingston on seven Unty, Greg,
your question.

Speaker 1 (02:08:02):
For doctor Rodo.

Speaker 11 (02:08:04):
Yes, I want to thank Rode for an undefeated championship
season last year.

Speaker 6 (02:08:08):
First of all, and congratulations, it's awesome.

Speaker 11 (02:08:12):
Yes, yes, sir, and either Pickens shook here or Johnston.

Speaker 6 (02:08:19):
Yeah. I like Pickens this week. I think Doc and
Lamb and Pickens are gonna have a big week against
the Giants. I could see Pickens scoring a touchdown, Lamb
scoring a touchdown. Johnson I don't. I'm not gonna touch
that game if I am. I like think Hampton scores
and maybe McConkey, So go with Pickens. I think he
has a bigger week. Greg.

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
All right, let's go to Brian on seven. Hontye, Brian,
you're on with doctor Rodeo.

Speaker 2 (02:08:41):
Go ahead, Hey, doctor Roto.

Speaker 1 (02:08:44):
I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question because I'm thinking
I'm overthinking.

Speaker 2 (02:08:47):
But Patrick Mahomes or McCarthy.

Speaker 6 (02:08:52):
So listen, the way to beat the Eagles it's through
the air, and I think Mahome's gonna for throw the football.
Patreco did not look great last week, so I think
this is the game, this is the game that we're
all watching, right, So I'm gonna go with Mahomes. I
like Travis Kelcey to score this week. I think how
Brown will have a decent week. Look, JJ McCarthy did
a sensational job. I mean really, everybody was burying him

(02:09:14):
at halftime. In the second half, comes back to life,
and I think the Vikings are going to win this week.
But I think Jordan Mason scores a touchdown, maybe Aaron Jones,
let's go mahomes in a higher scoring game.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
What did you think of Sam Donald? By the way
in Seattle last week?

Speaker 6 (02:09:29):
That's a mess? I mean, think of it this way.
One guy called the football JSN Cup non existent tight
end non existent. Donald looks closer to losing his job
than being all pro.

Speaker 1 (02:09:40):
All right, kay?

Speaker 3 (02:09:41):
So which a chilikin question for doctor Roto Please?

Speaker 11 (02:09:45):
Yes, sir, I picked up Calvin Austin and Quentin Johnson
off the waivers. I'm seeing if I should play either
one of them.

Speaker 12 (02:09:52):
Were those games one off?

Speaker 2 (02:09:53):
Because I have Juwan Jennings who seems to be hurt
this week? So any help there?

Speaker 17 (02:09:57):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 6 (02:09:59):
Yeah, I mean, look, Austin did fine, but that was
a very high scoring game. Do I think it's going
to be very high scoring this week against Seattle? I don't.
Quinton Johnson has ability. He just can run, can't catch,
So I mean, look, I think it was more lucky
than good. If Juwan Jennings is starting, you play him.
It's a great blocker. They never take him off the field.

(02:10:20):
They don't have kittle. They will use him. Now. If
Jennings doesn't play, you know, pivot to Johnson. But that's
not I'd played Jennings for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:10:27):
Is anybody playing Russell Wilson for the Giants?

Speaker 7 (02:10:30):
Do?

Speaker 6 (02:10:30):
I think the Giants want to play Russell Wilson? And
there's some crazy rumor that David went and said, can
I play Jackson Dart? So let me tell you what
happened there. He was under siege last week Wilson, but
he was didn't have the mobility anymore. Dart has that mobility,
that escapability to make plays last longer. So I think
Russell Wilson. You're looking at week five or less. If

(02:10:52):
the Giants can't get any offense.

Speaker 1 (02:10:53):
All right, let's go to river Oaks And said, how
does Scott for Doctor roto one seven?

Speaker 2 (02:10:57):
I mean, Hi, Scott, Hey, what's going on, guys? Doctor Retto?

Speaker 18 (02:11:01):
I have Kenneth Walker, Zach Charbonet, and Jordan Mason. All
the research I did for pre drafts that Kenneth Walker
was going to be the guy to get targeted in
the fourth round. I can only start one of those three.

Speaker 2 (02:11:14):
Who would you recommend for this week? On on a
weekly week basis?

Speaker 10 (02:11:17):
Going forward? How should I evaluate my middle tier running
back specifically those three guys.

Speaker 6 (02:11:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's a really great question, honestly. So, look,
I think they're ramping up Walker. He was a little
injured in training camp. As we know, Charbone look terrific.
When you're trying to decide between those two guys. In
games where we think Seattle's going to be losing, you're
going to see more Charboney because he's a better receiver.
In games where we think Seattle's going to be winning,

(02:11:43):
then you're going to see more Walker. I think Seattle's
going to be losing this week, so I think Sharbone
is the slightly better play. I love Jordan Mason. He
looked real good last week. But Jordan Mason to me,
is more touchdown dependent. He's not going to catch the football.
So I don't know what your league is. If it's
a standard league, I think Mason's the guy you play
every week. If it's a half point PPR on Mason

(02:12:06):
or sharbon Ay. If it's a full point PPR. Then
I'm leading Charbonay this week. The other thing that you
can do is go look at where Vegas has the
line this week. They have both Sharbonnay and Walker at
about fifty seven and a half yards, which tells you
you know, you can't go wrong either way. I just
think in a PPI, i'd.

Speaker 1 (02:12:22):
Go Sharpenay Brian for doctor Rodell on Sinnati Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:12:25):
Go ahead, Hey, doctor Ruther, I need a help in
my flex.

Speaker 11 (02:12:30):
I've got Trevon Henderson or Benson from Arizona.

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (02:12:35):
Yeah? I think Mike Rabel went to Josh McDaniels after
that game and said, dude, what are you thinking. You
got to get Henderson on the field. Stevenson is slow,
Henderson is fast. You know why they lost that game.
There wasn't enough Henderson out there. Benson had one big play,
but that was against the Saints, and I think it
was a lucky run. I think Connor actually scores this week.
Gimme Trevion Henderson over Benson ten times out of ten.

Speaker 1 (02:12:58):
All right, I got six players here in your emails
for the future. You can give me six. Here we
go about two? He get two wide receivers in one flight.
Here we go Wilson to the Jets, Hill, Evans Williams
of Dallas ATN and Cup. I'll say him again, Wilson,
Hill Evans Williams of Dallas ATN Cup. Three of those six.

Speaker 6 (02:13:19):
All right, give me Etn, give me Tyreek, and give
me Garrett Wilson. I have Garrett.

Speaker 1 (02:13:28):
I was very happy with Garrett Wilson, by the way.
I I don't know if I'm gonna get that for
sixteen more weeks, but I was for week one.

Speaker 3 (02:13:33):
That one't bad?

Speaker 11 (02:13:34):
Was it?

Speaker 6 (02:13:35):
I was shocked. I really was. Justin Fields played out
of his mind last week. They really deserved to win
that game.

Speaker 1 (02:13:40):
Yeah, I mean what?

Speaker 6 (02:13:41):
And they couldn't stop Breese Hall. So this week I
think is going to be a little messy. Really Like
Josh Allen Aaron Glenn. If you remember when he was
the defensive coordinator for the Lions, they could never stop
a mobile quarterback. It worries me this week. Josh Allen's
gonna have a big week.

Speaker 1 (02:13:55):
Let's go to Augustine for doctor Rohute, Ohio. Augustine.

Speaker 2 (02:14:00):
Hey, what's up, guys?

Speaker 8 (02:14:01):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (02:14:01):
This is a muscling game.

Speaker 8 (02:14:03):
So I'm trying to see should I start uh Carbonet
or uh.

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
Trayvon Henderson.

Speaker 6 (02:14:14):
It's a must win it it's only one weekend. I mean, dude,
you're you're on one. Oh, but I appreciate the living
die attitude. I kind of like Traveon Henderson. I think
the Dolphins are actually going to play well. I think
Stevenson kind of stinks, and I think Henderson is going
to get the football more. Here's what I know about Seattle.

(02:14:35):
It's kind of a mess there right now. Both those
guys are getting the same number of touches. I'll take
the shot that Travion has the bicker week.

Speaker 1 (02:14:42):
All right, couple real quick, Josh for doctor Ronal, Go ahead, Josh.

Speaker 17 (02:14:46):
Hey, guys, I got day Flowers, Ceedee Lamb and Sutton starting,
and I can't decide between day Flowers.

Speaker 2 (02:14:52):
Or Mike Evans.

Speaker 6 (02:14:54):
Oh, I'm gonna go with Zay Lamb and Sutton. I
like Mike Evans, but this is a tough game. This
is a really to tough game. And Mike Evans did
not have a great week last week. It was Morrig Buka.
So I don't dislike Mike Evans, but Zay Flowers in
a great matchup this week. You gotta plan all right.

Speaker 1 (02:15:09):
Last one belongs to Mark on seven Honty for doctor Roto.

Speaker 14 (02:15:11):
Go ahead, Mark any two questions one Abart or Mahomes,
Herbert Herbert.

Speaker 3 (02:15:20):
I would not recommend Bobby Abert.

Speaker 1 (02:15:21):
No, I would not.

Speaker 6 (02:15:24):
Herbert.

Speaker 1 (02:15:24):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (02:15:25):
We got you. All right, Well let's go in Mahomes. Yeah.
And what's the other one? All right?

Speaker 8 (02:15:33):
He was he?

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
I think he was.

Speaker 3 (02:15:34):
He took the loss on that one pretty easy. We
were just easing, all.

Speaker 1 (02:15:38):
Right, Doctor Rohto, We ask you once a week to
give us an an unbelievable knockdown drag out for high
end performer. For us, we present to you Dr Rono's
Lock of the week.

Speaker 6 (02:15:51):
This is the week of number one receivers coming back
and playing. Well. I told you I'd like Lamb, I
told you I'd like Chase. I told you I like
Brian Thomas Junior. But the I really like aj Brown.
Whenever they never feed him the football, what happens? He complains,
and they come back the following week and they find him.
How do you beat the Chiefs? Well, look at what
the Chargers did you throw on the Chiefs? Well, Jalen

(02:16:14):
hurts to AJ Brown, I like AJ Brown for one
hundred yards in a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (02:16:17):
And that, my friends, is doctor Rodo's.

Speaker 1 (02:16:20):
Lock of the week. All right, friends, where do we
find doctor ronover for the next seventy two hours? He's
about to tell you right this second?

Speaker 6 (02:16:28):
All right? You can find me on sirius XM Fantasy
Sports Radio every Saturday morning from six to nine am Central.
You could find me over at doctor Roto dot coments
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Speaker 1 (02:16:42):
And of course on x at d R r ot O. That,
my friends, the one and only Doctor Rydal thank you
for the time. He's always look forward to our visit
again next Friday. You got a tickcre guys, That is
Doctor Roto with us here on Sports Talk seven on
the up. Next, it's Non Florida Stories. Mine is from
the UK.

Speaker 3 (02:17:00):
Ross words, you's from not Florida, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:17:06):
On twenty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety eight, Non
Florida Stories.

Speaker 13 (02:17:10):
Next, we find interesting stories that cur outside the state
of Florida and share them with the people of Houston.

Speaker 1 (02:17:26):
It's time for non Florida.

Speaker 21 (02:17:34):
It's time for non Florida story from Coast to coast
will bring the strange and wild.

Speaker 13 (02:17:51):
No alligator tales or something that will make you smile.

Speaker 1 (02:17:59):
It's time for last for fun in this crazy world.

Speaker 6 (02:18:09):
There's no.

Speaker 1 (02:18:15):
All right, I'm going to the UK gentlemen on this
WEIX edition of Non Florida Stories. If you're new to
the show, First of all, where the hell have you been? Secondly,
damn glad to have you in. Third, it's a weekly
segment where what do you got out?

Speaker 5 (02:18:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:18:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:18:26):
Right in where in the UK it doesn't say okay,
uh oh, this is what we do, stories about weird
stuff that happens in the world, but it can't come
in the state of Florida because every of the radio
show in the marketplace and then the world for that matter,
does stories about what happens in Florida. Okay, I'm going
to the UK Fox Business reporting August twenty first that

(02:18:51):
a UK snack company launched some cornships this summer. You
guys like cornships, you guys FreeDOS eaters, Yes, my freedom.

Speaker 14 (02:19:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:19:00):
I mean they're the plainest of the plane. Would you
like the chili cheese if they put little spice? I
like to have them with yeah, with a wolf Chilian
of course fresh onions. Correct. Well, the folks that I
was in the UK like a flavor as well. Okay,
they launched corn ships this summer that tastes like licking
a nine volt battery.

Speaker 3 (02:19:21):
Hmmm.

Speaker 1 (02:19:23):
Apparently accordinated the story that it was licking nine bolt
batteries for its flavor. Was a big thing in the
nineteen nineties, and getting what they say is an electric
tingle rewind now offers a snack of a way to
revisit one of the nineties where does shared experiences, no
batteries required. A spokesman said, the chips deliver it quote

(02:19:45):
a very hard hitting, acidic zin to the tongue, followed
by some salty metallic notes.

Speaker 3 (02:19:52):
Salty metallic notes notes.

Speaker 1 (02:19:56):
The company did go on and say we do not
recommend or condone biting or otherwise ingesting real batteries. For now,
the chips are only available in Dutch retail outlets. So
if you were to put a list of flavors of
chips and or snack corn chips, where would nine volt
battery flavor be on that list? One hundred and forty fifth. Yeah,

(02:20:20):
I'm gonna be in that same range. By the way,
licking a nine volt battery is disgusting. Now have I
done it before?

Speaker 6 (02:20:27):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:20:29):
Don't you check it to see if they're still working?

Speaker 2 (02:20:31):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:20:31):
Yeah, that's okay. But to sit there and lick it
from top to bottom, side to side for its flavor
and delight, No thanks, That is the easiest clip in
the history of the show. And that, my friends, is
my non Florida story. WHOA all right, well man, I

(02:20:54):
was nervous because I'm in the UK as well. Let
me tell you about doctor Shim forty four years old,
who is a surgeon and in September of twenty twenty three,
he was operating on a certain patient and unfortunately had

(02:21:17):
to take quote a comfort break. As he went and
did that, he told the anaesthetician to watch over the
patient while he took this break. And well, he went
to go have sex with a nurse while leaving someone
at the operating room, he went to another room and

(02:21:41):
only the woman only referred to as Nurse C. He
went and fornicated with her while in the middle of surgery.
Doctor Anjelm was gone for about eight minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:21:56):
Well it's like you need sometimes eight minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:21:58):
Came back into the theater and finish the surgery. Let
me ask you this, when people, when surgeons have in
middle six or seven hour surgeries, don't they take breaks? Yes,
So you're saying sex will not be an appropriate break.

Speaker 2 (02:22:12):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:22:13):
Uh, the attorney representing the doctor said, no harm came
to the patient. What Doctor Angel was absent from the
theater and the procedure went on without further incident. Where's
the issue in this then, everybody? I mean, some people smoke,
some people want to go get a coke. Some people
want to just close their eyes for a minute. Some
people want to find nurse see, nurse see and do

(02:22:34):
things with her. Well, Doctor Ajim did apologize, saying it
was quite shameful to say the least. I only have
myself to blame. I offer my sincere apologies to everyone involved,
and I want the opportunity to put this right.

Speaker 3 (02:22:50):
And Nursey was good. Oh and he didn't say that,
did he?

Speaker 2 (02:22:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:22:54):
Okay, I mean look at the Tameside Hospitle in Greater Manchester.
As long as I was under anesthesion, I was fine
if my if my anesthesiologist wants to go get some
I mean I can't overly, it was the doctor.

Speaker 5 (02:23:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:23:08):
He told the algist to watch the patient.

Speaker 1 (02:23:11):
He's like, we got it. Kind of take a quick break. Well,
that's what I'm saying. Doctors do take breaks. He washed
his hands on the way back. I hope, huh. I
didn't thought about that. Yeah, I'm sure they were. He
was cleansed properly. They have to change your outfit too well,
putting new scrubs on. I don't know. Did the scrubs

(02:23:35):
touch the ground?

Speaker 3 (02:23:35):
All right, we're John? Uh Jonathan? What is your non
You're right?

Speaker 6 (02:23:39):
I did?

Speaker 3 (02:23:40):
Now what is your non Florida story, Jonathan?

Speaker 1 (02:23:42):
Mine is located at in Colorado today at Haran Peak.
There's a mountain with a summit over fourteen thousand feet
is h g R O N?

Speaker 2 (02:23:50):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 3 (02:23:51):
It's you are here Uron? Okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
So the Associated Press reported over the Lavery Day weekend
there was hikers going up the summit, you know, doing
you know how waking things? Yeah, just you hiking.

Speaker 9 (02:24:04):
And as they got up to the top of the
summit there was a random man. One hiker named Legend
Dairy was seated in a camping chair wearing an ice
cream cone costume, sunglasses, with a fake mustache and no
one knew who he was. And it was out there
in a with the cooler handing out ice cream sandwiches
for everybody who got up to the top.

Speaker 1 (02:24:25):
That feels nice. Yeah, what's the problem, No problem. He
just skated off in the day after he was done
ice cream sandwiches. And it's a good story. This is
a sweet story, good story. Legendairy was seen and now
he's not. He was just legend dairy ice cream dressed
up in an ice cream cone. So it's a feel

(02:24:45):
good story. I had to feel good to a story too.
Ross would you if you were to dress up as
a dessert, what would you dress up as? Uh, strawberry shortcake?
I'd be a be a split? Yeah, Matt, you like
getting banana split? That's cool. It's banana split maybe the

(02:25:10):
best dessert out there, multiple scoops, good banana cherry whipped
cream boom without only cherry. I know I'm going to
be in the minority on this. But just a plain
sheet of just very well made New York style cheesecake,
no fruit. Really, that's interesting with the gram cracker crust,
gram cracker crust is an absolute I do like cheesecake.

(02:25:31):
I would prefer topicacity, the right amount of like fluffiness,
but also not too soft. New York cheesecake is slicing
cost about fourteen fifteen dollars, but more time than not,
it's worth every penny, especially when you over the delicatestens
very nice. So you so you walk up fourteenth ROSSI
you've done some fair share hike. You go fourteen thousand
feet and you can hand an ice cream cone? Would

(02:25:52):
you be appreciative? I would eat it from legendary there's
an element when I went to a quata page in Colombia. Yeah,
there's the Elpignole that you hike up and then at
the top they have like aguas frescos and stuff. It's
not you. I got a beer.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
Actually I thought they had twenty two year old females
up there.

Speaker 1 (02:26:09):
Oh I'm sorry. Elpignon, not Piannole. Same thing. Yeah, we
we figured it out Elgon. You can go up there
and then yeah you I bought a beer. It was
quite refreshing, more refreshing than say a shower beer. It's
that's about seven thousand feet in elevation. Oh, shower beer
is great too. Jonathan, you're on a shower beer. Yeah,
you know they told me about it and I did
not not to long ago, and yeah, I came out refreshed.

(02:26:30):
I'm like a lie. See you get a hot especially
after like a long workout or you're doing the yard,
or you got your day of moving. It's nice after
your your little sore. You want the hot shower and
the ice cold beer. Whoa, it's nice. HiT's like a
nine volt battery with the zing. Yeah, the metallic zig

(02:26:53):
with a metallic finish. What forty four? Let's play believe
or not?

Speaker 2 (02:26:57):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:26:57):
We were gonna do Buccaneers, but Ross said, no, we're not,
So what are we doing this on instead? That'd be
Canelo Alvarez and Terrence Crawford who are facing off on
Netflix this weekend, big fight in Vegas, and they're spending
the money with us, so well you don't really, oh sorry,
met They go much better trick. Now they want to
spend money and send us there. We'd be glad to
be there. I know we should ask somebody the.

Speaker 3 (02:27:21):
Oh, look at this gift we have today for believe
it or not.

Speaker 1 (02:27:23):
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(02:27:47):
great family event. Get out there todacenter dot com for
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you play this game, which we ask you once, sorry,
ask you one question. What five minutes left to go
in the show? What should with it? We should play
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(02:28:11):
we called it be Believe It or Not, But on
Fridays we called a hell Yeah or Not.

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
And here's how it works.

Speaker 1 (02:28:16):
You call seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Today's edition of Helly Air. Not as things about Canel
Alvarez or Terence Crawford. I'll read your statement about one
of those two gentlemen. Statement's completely and utterly accurate. You'll
say this, hey, if Saven Troni is full of bone.
Commit up.

Speaker 3 (02:28:32):
You'll say this two hell garon outs in a row.

Speaker 1 (02:28:35):
We're gonna win you those tickets to see the Trans
Siberian Orchestra December in the nineteenth at Toyota Center. John
on seven, Aunty John, You're ready to play?

Speaker 10 (02:28:43):
Helly are not?

Speaker 2 (02:28:45):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:28:46):
Canel Albarez had only one amateur fight. Afterwards, he turned
professional at the age of fifteen to assist his family financially.

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
Hell yeah or not.

Speaker 1 (02:28:57):
Not no?

Speaker 3 (02:28:57):
He was forty four and two is an amateur. Statement
number two for the Wind.

Speaker 1 (02:29:01):
Canel Alvarez has stated that his favorite boxer of all
time is fellow Mexican countryman Julio says Oar Chavez Hell
yeah or not? Hell yeah, No, it's Muhammad Ali. Mike
on seven, NUNTI Mike, what was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 2 (02:29:25):
Talking about the Texans?

Speaker 1 (02:29:26):
Canel Alvarez the big Michael Jackson fan and even plays
his music during training sessions. Beat It is his favorite
MJ song, Hell Yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:29:37):
Hell Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:29:38):
That's terrific. Statement number two for the wind.

Speaker 1 (02:29:42):
Canel Alvarez has six brothers, all of them have boxed professionally.

Speaker 3 (02:29:46):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:29:50):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:29:51):
The hell I'm sorry? Why don't you have the family
tree in front of you with Canel Alvarez? You don't
known that?

Speaker 7 (02:29:59):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:29:59):
Bill? What's your favorite Trans Siberian Orchestra song?

Speaker 11 (02:30:04):
Only if Ervin Magic Johnson's son and Dwayne Wade's son
was in that band.

Speaker 1 (02:30:09):
Chick out, That's enough. Terrence Crawford is a two time
Golden Gloves national winner and represented the United States the
Beijing Olympic Beijing Olympics in two thousand and eight. Hell
yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:30:21):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:30:21):
Nope, that's right, statement number two for the wain and
we hope that you lose. In twenty twenty four, Terrence
Crawford was in the crowd at a WWE SmackDown event
where he was handed a chair and smacked Grayson Waller
with it. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:30:36):
That's so unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (02:30:38):
Well, not.

Speaker 1 (02:30:42):
The best part of them. What a way to start
the Friday Renee On Seminini Renee. What was your favorite
part of today's radio show.

Speaker 12 (02:30:50):
The Non Florida Stories.

Speaker 1 (02:30:52):
As a teenager, Terrence Crawford was kicked out of five
different schools, all for fighting.

Speaker 3 (02:30:57):
Hell yeah or not? He was If I've said it
once in a thousand times.

Speaker 1 (02:31:04):
You gotta know if your friend is a troublesome young man,
and if he gets out of fights for school, ask,
I screwed.

Speaker 6 (02:31:13):
That up, my bad.

Speaker 1 (02:31:14):
That's next week, Next week week it is Jay and
love it God seven j You're ready to play believe
it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:31:20):
Helly or not.

Speaker 1 (02:31:23):
As a child, Terrence Crawford's mother toughened him up by
offering neighborhood kills money to beat up her son. But
Terrence never lost hell yeah or not. No, We just
totally how badass he was in school. Terrence Crawford is different.
He sounds like he scares the hell out of me,

(02:31:43):
is what he does. All right, Rossie, we gave away
no TLO stuff, so we'll hold those till next week
when I'm back.

Speaker 3 (02:31:52):
Okay, all right, So here's the plan.

Speaker 1 (02:31:54):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, next week, Ross is in. I'm gonna
be in New York at the NBA Broadcasting meetings, hanging
out with very famous people. That's all. Okay, that's it.
I zoned out. You're gonna have a four hours of
Texans Buccaneers breakdown. Chris Gordy hasn't texted me.

Speaker 6 (02:32:13):
Back.

Speaker 1 (02:32:13):
Don't know how available it is. It'll be me and
a cast of characters. It will be and you'll also
be talking about whether or not the Astros are in
first place in the American League West Come Money. Can
I just say one more thing, Please give me some
calls next week, folks, because I'm gonna be doing three
straight pre imposts, and I mean I normally carry this show,
but you gotta carry even harder when that goes out

(02:32:34):
and you are rude to end the show as so
on break. Okay, I'm sorry strike the first part. I
have to carry the show with Matt out. Plus I'm
doing three straight pre imposts, so I'm gonna be tired.
Call me next week, up next day t on Sports
Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (02:32:48):
Atti