Astros Get Shocked By The Rockies, Losing 6-1 In The First Game Of The Series

Astros Get Shocked By The Rockies, Losing 6-1 In The First Game Of The Series

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Two at each town.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
The Astros with the return of Jordon Avarez into in
a thud as they lose their second in a row
to nights, falling.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
To the Rockies six to one.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, I'm a set of shock. The hell was that
last night? Come on, I got news for you The
Jackson's like before Michael Win solo and after Jackson five.
This is some good music right here. This music is
better than what we saw last out of dunkin Park

(01:00):
ten oh four on this Wednesday morning, It is the
Matt Thommys Show with Ross. Ross is off today, back
with his tomorrow. You're not going to win all one
sixty two. You'd love to win close to one hundred,
but that's not going to happen this year. You'd love
to win more than you lose. You'd love to win

(01:22):
as many as you possibly can seek can claim a
division championship. You'd love to be able to win as
enough to maybe secure a buy in the first round,
which probably is not going to happen unless the Astis
put together some incredible run. You're going to have a
series of games over the course of the year that's
going to make you upset, and you're going to lose

(01:42):
the teams you shouldn't be losing.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Two. The Colorado Rockies suck.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
And I don't like to use that term very often
because that's just an indictment against a group of people
or a person. You can say this person underperforms, you
can say a team is underwhelming or not talented enough.
But sometimes you when you're thirty eight and now ninety four,
thirty seven to ninety four going into the game yesterday,

(02:15):
sometimes you just say they suck, and the Astros lost
to a team that sucks.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Series wins are important.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I will take series wins because I'm you know, two
out of three eight bad is the light meat Loaf
would tell you. And you had to be feeling pretty
good for two things early on. First of all, you're
on an Alvarez back in the lineup yesterday, got his
four plate appearances. Then you had Heisu Sanchez with his
first home run at Dynkin Park and I mean a

(02:51):
massive launch for him. You're thinking this is the start
of things. And then the defense lets you down Jeremy
Peny in particular, and Hunter Brown the diesel ran out
of gas. Now, granted, of the six runs he allowed,
only two of which were earned because of the double

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airs on the play, he did have seven strikeouts.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
But and he did give you links.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Because frankly, that's what every Astro starter should be doing
this time of year, even though they are multiple times
through the rotation. What a kick in the shorts, right, guys, gals? Now,
truth be told, I was at my daughter's volleyball game
last night, so I had the game on the EVR
when I got to the house, and I watched it

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as for as long as I could, and then I vomited,
not did int vomit, but you get my drift. So
I have not looked at Astro's Twitter today, and that's
the site where you go to the Astro's website, you
print and they give me the score and the comments
come in below. We'll take a look at that. We'll
have an AO coming up to ten twenty because I

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feel like that. My guess is it's going to be
a surly group. But how in the world do you
only score one run? How in the world do you only.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Get six hits. How how does this happen?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
The starting pitcher for the Rockies last night Tanner Gordon,
Tanner Gordon. Six innings, one earn run, five strikeouts. The
only running Surriders is the Hayesu Sanchez home run. And
after going six scoreless yesterday or six innings with one run,

(04:46):
is Ra dropped as you would expect it would, to
six point four four, six point four four Mickey Moneiac moniac.
I don't care how you pronounced it. No one should
know who Iraqi is. They sure as hell don't know

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who he is in Denver. They shouldn't know when they
are in Houston. And then last night, as after the
Astros lost their game, okay, Podreys score five in the

(05:29):
I think it was in the first inning last night,
then the Mariners get a pair of three run home
runs in one inning and take a six five lad.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
I'm like, oh hell, no, san Diego.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You let me down. But then San Diego came back
and won the game.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
So as frustrating as it may be for the many
of you that are Astro fans that had to watch
or listen to that last night, thank you San Diego.
You know what what did Anchorman say back in the day, Johnathan, help.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Me with that. With Anchorman? What did he say?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
He said, keep it tight, san Diego, hope you're feeling better,
San Diego.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Your guess as good as mine. You didn't see Anchorman.
I have no idea what you're talking about. You have
never seen a movie Anchorman.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
No, a legitimate belly laugher of a movie Anchorman Anchorman.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, okay, what the hell? What are you doing in
the last ten years? Are you just run around the
track exactly? You don't get out that damn track.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Ron Burgerny did say one legendary phrase about San Diego
that cost him his job for a while, but that's
neither here nor there. We cannot pronounce it on the show, Gordy,
what did Ron Burgerny say, for the most part, keep
it cool, san Diego? I don't believe you, Sandiago. That

(06:56):
is for a whales vagina. We can say a giant
HM six to one. We got aos coming up at
ten twenty.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
He ran that character into the ground though he was
doing They were doing an iHeart podcast hosted by Ron.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, that's one of the nine thousand podcasts that don't
do well on our iHeart network. I believe the San
Diego MLS preparatory podcast does better. Sarah Spain's podcast does better.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
M m hm.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
Who's the uh, who's the one that the azy fud?
I got that one going right now about hitting on
girls at the All Star Game or something.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
And of course you can always check out the Crawford
Box cast, so they're awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Myself.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
I would normally ask you, guys, promote your website or
your podcast because it's largely a waste of time. The
material I'm gonna bring is significantly better than whatever you
and Ross are gonna ring. But in this particular case,
I would follow the Crawford Box. Well.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
The one that killed me was they were promoting, and
this is, you know, part of being iHeart national brand.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
They were promoting a podcast on this San Diego.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
F said that, Yeah, if you're gonna do that, then
Ross and I's podcast should be I mean, promote that nationally.
You got that right in Milwaukee. Hey, Astros fans, you
want to hear a podcast? Yeah, makes as much sense.
That's fine, all right.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
So six to one again the podres do win. Congratulations
to the Podres for the victory over Seattle and the
Astros maintain a game and a half leads still in
this division. Shout out to the fathers, the Friars. It's
that fathers, Padre. Yeah, but I mean if their nickname
is the Friars or the Pods San Diego fathers. How

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about one local I'm not gonna say media person. There's
a local social media person who tweeted great job by
Hunt and Brown tonight.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Who did that? You want to say?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
What other you want to You could probably guess. Oh,
I'm sure that if that's who I think it is.
He's very positive about everything.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
Astros I get it was too earned runs sure doesn't
hurt the air are a great it's he still gave
up six.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I watched it last time when I got home, and
I didn't think it was I thought he looked like
he he wasn't anting close to what he was in Detroit,
but that way right.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah, Well, the good news is fromberg Goes tonight, and
he's been awesome lately.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Right, as long as he doesn't out his defense.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
If he is a bad outing tonight, I'm hitting the
panic button.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
No you're not.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
You got a game in a half lead. There have
been five million reasons to hit the panic button. You
yet the Astro still are in first place in the division.
All right, we got to get to that. Today we
have Brian Bogasvik at eleven o'clock. We got Shoo shut
your bum ass up Cajen style with Gardia eleven thirty today.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm excited about that. You got I know you got
something on your mind.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
You have to uh And Craig why the Voice of
the Longhorn is going to join us at one o'clock
today we'll give us his thoughts on the UT versus
the Ohio State University game, which will be Saturday right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety and Nick Cassario spoke today,
I got news for y'all. If you are a Joe
Mixon fan, it might be longer than four weeks where

(10:00):
you see the young man play just a little cut
feeling on that one ten thirteen. It is the Matt
Thomas Show Aos when we come back seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
No Ross to day back tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Gordy's gonna hang out with us a couple hours as
you listen to Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm sorry, Houston.
We have to do it, not what I want to do,
not what I believe in. Hey oh, I got a
little premature there.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's gonna have to happen.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Sometimes, when you lose the Rockies, you come on this
show and you say these simple words.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
Hey oh, let's go, Hey oh, let's go. Astros over
reaction right here on seventh ninety.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
All right, Gordy, you're familiar with this.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
The Astros have a team website, and twelve hours ago
they put the final score of Rocky six Astros one
one hundred and sixty likes, seventy six retweets, one hundred
ninety one responses.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Who's liking that? You shouldn't like that?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Probably Mariner fan, Ranger fan, if there's such thing as
Rocky fan.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
So let's see what the people are thinking.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
At nine to fifty three last night, Astro muse Astro says,
can't believe how bad we are.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Against the worst teams. Man.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, their record against like the A's and the Rocky
I mean, didn't the Rockies beat the Astros two out.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Of three in Denver? Or something like that. Am I
making that up? Okay? Thank god? All right?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Uh? Scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling down. At Red Raider Man,
one says losing to the Rockies is so on brand?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Why is it on brand?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
They're in first place at Mercy Fox sixty one. Damn
with a sad crying emoji.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Let's see here.

Speaker 8 (11:56):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
At Texas Astro, what the hell? Well again with the
Astro is struggling to produce runs. Our division is just
so frustrating. At Folding Aces thirty nine one run bro, Really, hell,
they're gonna keep walking yord on because Walker can't get
on base unless he's hit by a pitch. He's a
right handed version of Milton. Damn, that's tough. At Daddy

(12:20):
four K, y'all are so ass at live Ses just
it says f u he.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Actually puts the word in there.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
I saw one where it was they were attacking him
because they did the pregame meme of Taylor Swift and
Travis Kelcey and it was like your Astros fans and.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Jordan He's back, and uh, you know, one was like.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
Hey started doing Taylor Swift memes, how about you focus
on week A baseball game.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
At Jay Weisner sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Way to help the Rockies climb to just fifty six
games under five hundred. Ooh, that's rough. H at David
Moran forty eight. Man, This Rockies pitching staff is awesome.
Too bad the rest of MLB doesn't realize it. Yikes, rude.
Let's see Houston at Yo. It's Kenneth just a running joke.

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At this point, any six and higher era pitcher looks
like a saw young winner against us. Let's see this guy,
David Ran, He's on here every day. Congrats to the Rockies.
They're now a nifty thirty eight and ninety four at
Mustard thirty three b. We always do this to the
bum teams.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
This guy said they pay. They played Taylor Swift songs
throughout the game. All the scoreboard graphics were about Hello Kitty.
Fans started doing the wave in the first inning. Bad
omens all around today.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, I don't disagree about and they were doing the
wave in the first They were not doing the wave
in the first and it's ridiculous. He weren't even in
their seats in the first inning at Radar two to
seven nine eight zero zero killer instinct by the Astros
at Franken Bones says, ever play a home game again? Oh,
how about Keegan Crawford can't even win on my birthday smh.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Jed said this is because Bagwell was in the booth,
was it?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Hen I own.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
One more here the goat al two bay is zero
for five. Oh, his home ps has dropped considerably at
stacy HC one two eight. I expected this playing a
bad team.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
At home, and that is Astros over action. I can't
read anymore.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Man talking about Jeff and Jeff, I don't really know Jeff.
I mean I covered him, but I don't really particularly
know him. We have no relationship whatsoever. I see him,
he'llow whatever the case would be. But he is in
my mind the second greatest Astro of them all. But man,
I have never seen a guy so beloved as a
player get so crushed as an player.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Like I mean, I think he's fine.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
He think cal Ripkens Junior gets roasted by Oreo fans
the way Jeff Bagwell gets roasted by the Astro fans.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
No, And it's weird because when he I think this
all has to do with the involvement with the front
office is exactly years ago when he was filling on games,
nobody said anything.

Speaker 7 (15:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
In fact, it was ober positive.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
People are like, oh, I like Bagwells takes in the
booth and look, he's not a trained broadcaster, so yeah,
did he step what he does radios? He stepped on call.
Sure it's but it's him with his pure excitement and
all that. But you know some people on TV, they're like, oh,
on TV, he's monotone and he's this. He's like, dude,
he's not a trained broadcaster. He's there filling in and

(15:41):
he's got some great insight. His stories are great.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I loved total stuff, I really do. Is he a
little homer, you know homerrific? Sure?

Speaker 6 (15:49):
But that's it's the home broadcast, right you should want that,
you know what, somebody I want you to tell me
how it is neutral?

Speaker 2 (15:55):
No, it's the home broadcast.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
At Kenny Peacock. Astros are not consistent and they are
not good. Can they find it maybe, but I'm not
counting on a deep run. Pitching is not consistent. Batting
overall stinks. They are walking yard on after four months
seeing major league pitching to get to our trash.

Speaker 6 (16:13):
I will tell you that that was a radar alarms
going off in my head.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
Though.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
When Jordon got walked twice first time, it was like
an intentional wall. It was four straight balls. Yeah, Christian Walker, Bro,
if you're gonna back behind Yorda on the rest of
the year, you're gonna have to pick.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Your game up. But who else is going to back
behind him? Honestly, I don't know. I'm just saying, like,
you move down there.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
One time Walker strikes out, another time he flies out,
Like I gotta have Like this is what Joe Spott
has gotta do with. If they are scared of your
having yourd on back is great, But if they're scared
to pitch to him, they're just gonna walk him. Gotta
have somebody that can help deliver behind him. If Walker's
gonna have zero for four to over five nights, it's
gonna do a whole lot of nothing.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, well then that's the case.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Then then the only realistic answer to me, it would
be their out Tuve or Korea.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
About too bad? No for five night one?

Speaker 3 (17:03):
You know, I mean no, I mean, but that's what
you've got. I mean, I wouldn't put you on your
Diaz behind him. I don't think Hayesue Sanchez is the answer.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
He's at least he's at least hitting lately a little
bit more than the water.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I mean, Walker had.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Those home run that those three games with a home run,
but I don't like on paper. I was giddy when
I saw that line up. I went paying your kore
Al Tuve you'red on Walker. I'm like, that's oh.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
I was hell last night for sure. Well I was
going to go sixt deep if you really want to
go to it. And then if Jake Myers comes back
and he performs like he did before he got hurt,
that's seventy potentially.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's just three four five went over last night, all right.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
So, uh, that's enough about the Astros, at least for
the short term. Brian Bugusfic's gonna join us coming up
in a half an hour from now. Uh, and we
have shut your boy mess up at eleven thirty today.
We got that all the next couple of hours. Gordy's
gonna hang with us to noon as well. But when
we return. Nick Assaria met with the media today. We
did not carry it live here on seven niney Should
we have carried it live? No, because we could probably

(18:01):
sum up what he said in about seven to ten words.
The only thing I cared about is Joe Mixon. And
I will paraphrase what Caserio said about Joe Mixon because
it's a lot of words.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Sound is it in generics?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
It was in generics building a roster, he said, building
like fifty times.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
It's about the big picture. You really want to pull back,
you want to take a step back. It's like, oh
my god, just answer the freaking questions.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Sir, Well, I do want to get to a bigger
thought about this and the philosophy the Texans have about injuries,
which are frankly a lot of teams in sports. You
now have ten twenty seven if you want to join
us seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety all right,
it is ten thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninty.

(18:46):
Nick Cassio met with the media today and I watch
it online and.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Who you can fall asleep?

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, I need to be respectful, but I told you
guys a long time ago that I wasn't gonna play
Caserio sombites in the show. So I'm not gonna do that.
But it's a really really really tough. Watch and listen.
He just doesn't say anything. He I mean, it's it's

(19:23):
I don't want to say disrespectful. It's just his philosophy.
They keep things super tight lipped over there on Kirby,
and you know their philosophy is we are protecting the
player or protecting the building. You know, he says, he
says building like fifty times, the building says this. I

(19:46):
want these guys in the building. I want our building
is this you're building Your owner thinks your building's crap.
So not like literally the people in it, but the
building itself. So he has been.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Saying, Uh, the Texans did that.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
They had their cutdown list yesterday as required by the NFL,
and they have different types of list. They have players
been waved, they have released the players, and they have
reserve physically unable to play list. They have Commissioner Exemple
list where Jimmy Ward is and then they have a
list where they call reserve slash non football injury list.

(20:25):
Elijah Hussele Hussey is on there.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
You know who that is not familiar.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
He's a rookie from North Carolina, is a cornerback. Elijah Hussey,
h u z z i E Hussey, Hussey, whatever. We
don't care about him. The other player that's on that
list that will miss the minimum of four weeks, it's
Joe Mixon, non reserve, non football injury reserve list. So
he meets with the media today and he's like, and

(20:53):
I'm gonna paraphrase here because I don't want to. I'm
not going to give the guy shine because the comments
are so terrible. He's like, well, we'll wait and see
when the four weeks are we're worth whether or not
he'll come back. He was asked if there would be
a setback or not. He would not give the answer
to it, and there was some back and forth with

(21:14):
a couple of reporters there that basically said, we're not
going to tell you things because it's in our best interest,
it's in our player's best interest to tell us or
to tell you what's going on. Because if all of
a sudden, they say, if Joe Mixon's coming back in
eight weeks and he doesn't come back for twelve weeks,
then the initial answer is what went wrong?

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Well, but that's then it's something. Then it's super serious.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Then I believe when you don't say anything.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
It makes it worse. It makes it worse. Not every time,
but most times, because think about this, think about it
from their perspective. If they say that, they say nothing,
and Joe Mixon is back ready to go in five weeks,
then it's okay. Well, you put them on the list
and miss the first four games of the year and
he's back for week number five against Baltimore or maybe
after the buy and whatever. But I do believe when

(22:12):
you don't say anything, it leads to you. Chris Gordy
me frankly just guessing.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
Well, in an NFL, of all places, aren't injuries pretty
like a collar bone?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Is this a knee injury?

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Is this like we kind of know baseball is the
only one with like a pitcher, what it's an elbow
or an arm? I get it sometimes that you can't
put an exact timeline on it. Once you have, once
you diagnose, okay, this is this and we have surgery,
then you know the timeline Tommy John.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
We know is at least twelve to sixteen months.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
Yeah, twelve to fifteen whatever, months, right, But like with
an ankle, okay, if that is the ankle broken, No,
they didn't they haven't said broken, right, Okay, so it's
an ankle, but like, to me, he won't even that's
when it happened, how it happened. It's none of that.
I mean, was he on a dance floor? Was he
pulling up Babe Ruth and chasing h what women naked

(23:09):
around a lobby of a hotel and tripped?

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Like that's the thing. Like a lot of these stories.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
Always come out and I'm joking on that, but like, yeah,
like what so heinous that you can't tell us how
he hurt his ankle? He was doing workouts at home
and you know, like twisted the ankleing I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
To me, it's Casario doing the Patriot way. Yeah, and
he's like, I don't owe it to you. The league
knows what's going on for what they need to know.
The people that are important in our offices know, the
training staff knows, the doctors know, and I know. And
that's as far as it's going to go.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Well, Dimiko too, he's he's going overboard with the over
protection and the players and stuff, like you don't care
about him as a person, so why should I tell
you about his injury. It's like, Okay, dude, it's it's
a football team.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Like, come on, I'm gonna say this, and I don't
mean to be care We really don't care about you.
They're right, we don't care about you beyond being a
football player. I mean, we care about you as a
human being. But I'm not going to think about the
next thirty years. Got to help Matt Shob's doing, ok, Canaday?

Speaker 7 (24:12):
Right? You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
I mean, once you're done, you're done, especially in the
fantasy football generation too.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
I mean you are you are, You're worth on that
fantasy roster and it meant you're hurt Dropia.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, love you so on the all time grades. We
we'll honor your jersey and put you in the Walk
of Fame or whatever. But that we're not going to
have emotional attachments to players because they don't have emotional
attachments to us.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Right.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Do you think the day I retire from the Rockets
that Jabari Smith's like, man, you and I gotta keep
in touch.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Man, we got I'm gonna miss you so much. No,
He's like, well, we'll get somebody else in here.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
Well they're highly compensated for it too, so but yeah,
I don't I don't get it just cause again, if
it's if he hurt the injury, we kind of know
it happened somewhere in the springtime, right like it was
because he wasn't going through the OTA stuff and all that.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
As it wasn't didn't put a uniform on, wasn't walking around,
wasn't high five in people, wasn't sprinting on the backfields,
none of that.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
But even if he say, broke the ankle in April
and had surgery, you have a timetable of no knowing
when that ankle is going to be fine again.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
You know, there are some people that have said to me,
and now they're coming after me in particularly they're just
talking about the general media that have said, when he
comes back, he comes.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Back, why do you care where he's going to be out?

Speaker 3 (25:32):
And I don't think it's that simplistic because there are
millions of people forgetting about the betters, forgetting about the
fantasy football aspect. There are hundreds of thousands of people
in the city of Houston and in Southeast Texas that
love the Houston Texans. And I always said the same

(25:52):
thing about if you know, during the whole Kyle Tucker
stuff at last year. Forget about the uh intelligence you're
giving other teams forgetting about their betting aspect of fantasy
there are people that don't do any of the things
I just said, that just love your team and they
just want to know about one of their favorite players, right,

(26:14):
And so if you don't have fans, you don't have
a team. I think that's where you hurt them. I
don't care Vegas incident information. I don't care if your
fantasy football team is impacted by it one way or
the other, or how you're going to draft. There are
fans that have Texans' logos on the back of their trucks,
that wear gear that when I go to various things

(26:38):
in my life, whether it's at a restaurant or I'm
at the high school or the volleyball match, they're like,
have you heard anything about Joe Mixon.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
They're not asking because they're.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Trying to formulate their seventh round draft pick in their
fantasy draft.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
They're asking because they love the Texans.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
And frankly, I thought today Casario was being as normal
up aty self by saying, we're not going to tell you,
and when we are ready to tell you, we'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think it's a disservice. Yeah, I just think it is.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
You you say, yeah, Look, he had the high ankle
sprain last season, you know, and then had a little
step back in the spring. You know, something that we're
dealing with, and we're gonna have to operate without him
for a while. I mean, you can say that, but
like the whole shutdown be a robot thing. I like
our buddy, Aaron Wilson is really good. He Connie, you
can read between the lines of what Aaron reports. Here's

(27:27):
what he says when asked about Mixing initial play the
season Becauseario reply, we'll see, will evaluate it after four
week weeks. Mixing got hurt last season deal with the
high ankle sprain from the hip drop tackle against the Bears.
His injury recovery progressed from being in a walking boot
in the spring to wearing a lace up race to
having increased mobility over the summer to now still being

(27:50):
out and definitely while rehabbing and navigating a somewhat complicated
medical issue. So Aaron's telling you right there, somewhat complicated
medical issue. It's more than just the ankle. It would appear,
so instead of getting out in front of it.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Now, if he wanted to say, here's what happened, I
can't put a timetable on it. I can live with that,
but to say nothing, And because he's quote unquote protecting
the team and protecting the player, what are you protecting
yourself from?

Speaker 6 (28:25):
He says, the Mixing visited a pediatrist before training camp
that specializes an electromagnetic therapy to break up scar tissue.
There have been issues with the aftercare of the injury
throughout the off season, and it has been slow to recover. So,
I mean, we might be dealing with an issue here. Well,
maybe he's pissed that that. Maybe the training staff misdiagnosed it.

(28:47):
You know what, you know, maybe that's illegal.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Here's the thing. There could be some legalities to it.
There could be some Joe Mixon says, don't say a
damn thing about this. Yeah, you remember this. There are
there are many sides of this.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
Yeah, Well, the Texans are saying, don't say a thing
about this. You might make us libel for something that
our training staff did wrong.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
But it could also be Joe Mixing and his agent
saying shut up, sure, don't say a word, my man,
like for instance, Jonathan, You'll hate to hear this, but
I had a friend of mine who was kidnapping this
really old, ugly woman and he got stuck in a
bed and she broke his ankle.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
It was terrible.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
And maybe that happened to him, maybe he got kidnapped.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Would call it misery, Yeah, and broke his ankle to you, Yeah,
he was trying to get out of the bed and
she was like no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
So she basically got a book, put it between the
ankles and then used a sledgehammer against it.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
It was all, no, I know this movie. No, no,
I've seen this scene before. I'm gonna be so mad
at myself. I don't know the name.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, it's it's certainly it's a misery that you.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Don't know in the name of the movie literally telling
you what it is is this calls I've seen this movie.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
I know you are an SFA guy, Jesus, Oh my gosh.
By the way, today is Believe or Not All things
about SFA. Tomorrow No Tomorrow an astro to day, so
the same and Friday we're doing Believe or Not a
Lee Corso so doing it that way, all right? Ted
forty three? So let me ask you this, Houston, when
these teams and I'm talking about the Astros, I'm talking

(30:24):
certainly about the Houston text and say, you know what,
we'll tell you when you tell you we want to
tell you. Do you get offended by that? Are you
indifferent to it? Or are you're like, yeah, it'd be
nice if they told us. But I just think, hush
and we'll tell you when the moment is right. For
a team that is that that they are a business. Correct,

(30:48):
they do ask you to pay money to go watch
them play in person? Correct, they do ask they do
give make you pay money for them to wear shirts
because of your fandom.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I just think it's.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
I think it's arrogant. I think it's cocky. And that's
why I've never Caceario to me, just he's so New
England and this team doesn't even have had anything close
to New England. No championships, uh, no super Bowl appearances.
Done a good job, though he's done a good job,
I'd like for him to do a great job. He's
got to be great and the offensive line is not

(31:23):
going to be great this year, and Joe Mixon is.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
They've got the right coache. They've got franchise players. By
the way, it's about taking that next step.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
And by the way, you know that Demko's got zero
issues with the way Caseroo's handling because a player players
like to be protected ten forty four On Sports Talk
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninetie Brian Bogacivic to talk some asters with us coming
up in fifteen minutes. All right, So the reality is this,
And look, I don't want to spend a whole lot

(31:53):
of time on this because again, the season's still on
a week away, but and we know that Joe Mixon
is gonna be.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Out for four weeks.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
But I I do believe it's an issue that there
is such lack of transparency on this, and I think
it goes to a bigger point.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Why did the why did sports teams do this?

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Let me now, look, you and I were not covering
the Houston owners in nineteen seventy eight. I wasn't even
covering the owners of nineteen eighty eight. I was still
a kid.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Did the influx of.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Podcast, message boards, Twitter, more people caring about sports? Is
that the reason why we've got these teams that are
just saying no, I'm not gonna take anything.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I mean some of its gamesmanship.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
I get like week of a game, like say Joe
Mixon was on the active roster, but he was having
this ankle issue and he was listen as questionable for
week one.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
I get it. It's gamesmanship.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
You want that opposing team and have to prepare for
both Joe mix and Nick Chubb and any running back.
I get it from that perspective. But when the guy's
hurt and not coming back anytime soon, I don't understand
why being coy about the injury, Like what's the advantage
there other than to go I don't have to tell
you like okay, great, Like what's the benefit here?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
What are you benefiting?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Again, if it's a private company and you are in
a situation where you've got, you know, intelligence that's going
to ultimately make your company either succeed or fail based
off of sales numbers or what, I gotta get it.
But there are people within this audience, there are people
that are not listening to show that would love to
know what their team's going to be like the first

(33:39):
month of the year, or whether or not the Texans
are going to be in a serious trouble spot.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Running the football this year. If Joe Mixon is not
able to go again.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
He could show up in Week five ready to play
against the Baltimore Ravens and this could be all for nothing.
But if that is the case, then by you saying nothing,
all you're doing is creating perhaps artificial uh not, what
would be the term I want to use? Aren't people

(34:09):
are are nervous artificial They're they're I'll forget.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, I get what you're saying. You get.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
I mean there are people that are worried that may
not need me worried. If it's like, hey, the ankle's
not feeling great, we're trying to get it better. There's
four weeks away from the game. Is gonna be fine?
Week five should be ready to go. Well, it's clear
something serious again. Aaron Wilson, saying the injury progressed. He
was in a walking boot in the spring, he was
wearing lace up a lace up brace in the summer,

(34:36):
and then they even came out and said he's having
increased mobility. So you're like, oh, he's getting close to
coming back. Then he calls it a somewhat complicated medical issue,
saying he visited a peddiatrist that does electro magnetic therapy
to breakup scar tissue, and there have been issues with
the aftercare of the injury throughout the off season and
has been slow to recover and left him sidelined up
until now. The the interesting point, Matt is the Non

(34:58):
Football Injury List. For people who don't know the non
Football Injury List, the NFI is an NFL roster designation
for players injured or sick for conditions unrelated to NFL activities.
So he did something that didn't involve him playing and
or practicing.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
The non NFL activities include college injuries, personal accidents, and
long term illnesses. So and again, he says, Casario did
not elaborate on why he was classified that way. By definition,
the designation means that the NFL regards injury as something
not sustainable in a team involved activity, and Casario said, quote,

(35:35):
not my call, it's the league's call. Some of it
is logistics and vernacular. So again, it's something he did
not playing football. Okay, So let's go through a variety
of things. He was on the dance floor and got hurt.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
He was on a cruise ship and somebody dropped a banana, peel.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
He has gambling debts to the MAFI came over and
broke his ankles.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
That it could have been that. I mean, it's certainly possible.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
He was in a movie theater with a really sticky
floor and his ankle like it just got stuck.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, and he's suing the movie company right now. See
that's what you do. You make you you try to
make something silly at it, but if.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
It is ridiculous, you don't want to admit it, right,
Like some of these baseball players that punch a wall,
uh didn't one of them throw like an Xbox controller
and like hit his foot, like broke his foot.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Like, what's the dumbest injury ever in your life? For me?

Speaker 6 (36:25):
Yeah, in high school, we were driving around we got
out of school early. We were driving around the girls school,
and I think we had like some kind of it
was like a puppet or something.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
We had.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
We were sticking out the window and it fell. So
my buddy circled around the block and was like, hey,
let's go pick it up. So as he pulled around
I he didn't stop the car. I just reached out
to go grab it and I fell out of the car,
fell on my hand broke my wrist.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's a good one. That was nice. I wasn't expecting that.
Pretty stupid, no outstanding. Wow, that's a story though.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Another one. I want to I want a toy gun
at like one of those fairs, and they had the stupid,
uh orange productive thing on the end. They let people
know it's not a real gun, and I was like,
I want to get that off because it doesn't look real.
And I had a pocket knife. I had one and
I was pushing it into the orange thing to try
to get it off. It slipped, sliced my fill ad
the top of my index finger.

Speaker 7 (37:23):
Damn.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
I want to.

Speaker 10 (37:24):
I think I want to know who Gordy was in college.
Stupid and this this this is by u ksun guy
right here. He got some stories on him.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, I mean, nothing like getting by an alligator or anything.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
What's your worst injury? Well, I know, because your testicle's
got a really large wing. Yeah, we know about that already.

Speaker 10 (37:40):
I tell my ACM before I got here. We're uh
doing what playing by bla at the wreck? People know
how play black one man.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
That's why you gotta bring the daughter over there.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
My worst injury was I was fighting with someone about
when a food item was going to be done.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
So I've pulled out of the OVID and didn't use
a mint from my hand. Pretty good. I got a
fund Jonathan audio that needs to go on the Best of.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I think, So do we even do best ofs anymore?
We just played Uncle Greg and then we can play
Uncle Bests of Jonathan too. All right, Brian Bogus Sevic's
going to join us to start the second hour of
the Matt Thomas Show at all So we got to
shut your ball mass up. Coming up into half an
hour or a yeah, half an hour from now is
the Mat Thomas Show with Ross eleven O four Sports

(38:24):
Talk seven ninety. We start hour number two with our
regular wins the guests. He is the analyst on the
Space City Home network. We say hello to Brian Bogus
seven Bogie. Look, the worst teams in sports are always
going to be the best teams occasionally, especially in baseball,
because that's what they do.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
They usually win fifty to sixty games.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
With that being said, it felt especially painful because of
you had your ace on the mound and you had
your power hitter back it. The air of the balloon
was pretty quick at dyke In Park last night.

Speaker 11 (38:57):
Yeah, you know, we said on the game show, with
as much adversity as the teammate had to fight through
and all the stuff that they had to overcome, it
finally felt like things were lining up in their favor.
There's a lot of stuff going for them coming in,
whether it be the offense getting it going in Baltimore,
Jordon's back hunters on the mound. You know, you got
the worst team in baseball coming into play, and it

(39:19):
just feels like I missed opportunities right Like you know,
you see it all the time in individual games. You
missed opportunities to score runs and it comes back to
bite you. This is, you know, the scheduling equivalent of
second and third. Nobody out and they didn't take advantage
of it.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
So the big question mark has been of us last night,
A couple of walks for Jordon, which has always been
pretty good at doing.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
That is the protection behind him.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
I know many years ago we were growing up, we
talked about lineup construction a lot. It feels like we
don't talk about it nearly as much here in twenty
twenty five, generally speaking. But let me ask you, how
do you protect him from getting on on base a
couple of times because the teams are like, we're not
going to pitch to him.

Speaker 11 (40:04):
Well, you got to have run producers behind him, right
If you're pitching around somebody, that inevitably means there's going
to be opportunities with runners on base behind him, and
you know, Christian Walker had those opportunities. Yesterday didn't work out.
You know, if you look at the body of work
for Christian Walker over the last two months, basically he's

(40:24):
his numbers are very similar to what they were last
couple of years in Arizona.

Speaker 12 (40:28):
The guy we thought we.

Speaker 11 (40:28):
Were getting, you know, he drove in a bunch of
runs on the road trip. Did it happen yesterday?

Speaker 7 (40:33):
No?

Speaker 11 (40:34):
But you know, as of right now, he's the guy.
He's the guy who, you know, before Yordon came back,
was your best option as a run producer. So now
you stick him behind yord On and hope that a
couple of chances he can cash in on it, and
then all of a sudden you got to pitch to
jord On.

Speaker 6 (40:49):
Yeah, that's I was gonna say, Brian. I mean, you know,
Walker who was so encouraging in that Baltimore series, he was,
you know, hitting home runs, and it was like, all right,
maybe he's getting going here, and then you know, an
zero for three night last night. I just you know, again,
maybe it was just you went up against a pitcher
that's feeling himself right now. It's so funny. I was
looking at Tanner Gordon, what do you give him? Like
ten runs two weeks ago to Arizona and then he

(41:09):
goes one run against the Dodgers, one run against the Astros.
So sometimes you just run into a guy who's just
pitching well. But I think that's the biggest thing. The
Matt's point is, Okay, your Don's back, great, but yeah,
if teams are gonna walk him, you need somebody you're
driving those runs. But Christian Walker has just been so
inconsistent all year. I'm just I'm worried about him being
the guy behind your arm.

Speaker 11 (41:31):
Maybe, but I certainly have to give it more than
one game to really dissect it. I mean, if you
look at the opportunity. Yesterday, he hit a ball, I
forget which inning, it was, maybe the fifth or sixth inning.
He lined out to left field to end the inning
with runners on basis. The ball had an expected batting
average over nine hundred. It was just a good play
right out of guy. So you know, you can't just

(41:53):
say you went over. It's not working. When the guy
you know hit a line drive that could have easily
gotten down his first that the inning that, you know,
the end of the first inning.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
It was a good pitch to hit.

Speaker 11 (42:04):
He barreled, it just got undered, it under, it flew
out the center field. You know, as long as it's
not looking overmatched, as long as it's not hey, they
are targeting you and attacking you one specific way because
they have found a weakness that they know they can
go to time and time again. If he's you know,
in a good spots swing wise, if he's getting good
pitches to hit, let him go out there for more

(42:26):
than a couple of games and really see, because you know,
he's he's produced runs better h than most guys on
the team. I mean, I think there's you know, RBIs
with two outs. He's at the top of the American League.
He's got you know, a high percentage of RBIs to
games over the last two months or so, so he's
been getting it done, but certainly didn't yesterday.

Speaker 6 (42:48):
Starting pitching. It's it's a weird time right now. Look,
we know Howveer is working his way back into form.
Lance is still trying to work his way back into form.
Arraghetti very encouraged from his last outing, you know, after
a dismal out before. Its so okay, starting to maybe
these guys are running in a form. But if this
team's gonna do anything in the postseason, Brian, it starts
with Hunter Brown and starts as from Ber Valdez and

(43:10):
Hunter Brown. Last night an uncharacteristic weird night where yeah
he only gives up to earn, but you still give
up six runs and you lose six to one. I
look at tonight with Fromber and this is a big
start for him. I'm sorry. I mean, I get it's
it's Colorado, but at seven thirty three ra this month
Fromber's been bad the last four starts like, I've got

(43:30):
to see good vintage Fromber here, feel good about myself
and if he's not, man, I'm starting to hit the
panic button because I'm going my two automatics Fromber and
Hudder Brown. If they can't get it done, like you
really start to get a little bit worried.

Speaker 11 (43:44):
No, absolutely, I mean this team's playoff hopes hinge around
kind of bookending a game, right, it's starting pitching in
it's back of the bullpen, and it starts with the
two big guys at the top of the rotation. You
had the two big guys at the back of the bullpen,
you're already down one of them, so that those four
guys that are out of the mix now with Hater
being down, so it becomes even more important to be

(44:04):
getting quality start after quality start from from Hunter and
Fromber and for Fromber. We got to see the stuff
look like it's supposed to. And there's going to be
times when you get hit a little bit, especially a
guy who gives a big round ball. Pitcher balls are
going to find holes all that stuff. But his curveball
two of his last three starts has not looked right.

(44:25):
You know, he hasn't been getting ground balls at the
same rate that he typically does. There are some mechanical
things that are affecting the stuff.

Speaker 13 (44:34):
And if he doesn't have that high end stuff.

Speaker 11 (44:37):
And they don't have, you know, a big two at
the top of that starting rotation, it's going to be
really difficult to go out there and try to run
through a couple series in the playoffs, and.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
You know you'll be able to tell.

Speaker 11 (44:48):
You'll be able to tell today because when his curve
ball is working, it's a really high swing and miss
pitch and the Rockies swinging miss more than anybody in baseball.
So if he's not able to rack up with with
that or vall today, it's still not right.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Do you think, Brian, that is something he works on
on the days he's throwing when he's not in the
rotation and not pitching, or is it something that he's
got to make a self assessment on when he's in
the bullpen get ready for the start that night.

Speaker 11 (45:17):
No, that is a definitely work on during the week.
I mean when his sinker and his curveball both with
the amount of movement that he has in those pitches,
release point is key, right. You got to know where
you're going to let that pitch go to, know where
it's going to land based on how much movement it's
got on any given day, and your mechanics have to

(45:37):
be really synced up and right for you to be able.

Speaker 7 (45:40):
To adjust that based on what you've got that day.

Speaker 11 (45:43):
So you know, you go out there, you try to
be really consistent with your mechanics and the throwing program.
When you get off the mound in between starts and
you know know where you can start that pitch to
land at where you want, and then when you go
out there during the game, you know there are some
guys starting pitchers who if you have a really deep reperture,
if you're a five to six pitch guy, if you
don't have a pitch working, you can just scrap it

(46:04):
and go with something else. Hunter does that all the time.
We've seen Lance McCullers do it at times, but Fromber
essentially a two pitch guy, We'll see him go to
more change ups or incorporate a slider every once in
a while. But he's got to find ways to find
the thinker and find the curveball. He's done it at
times this year. When you see him subtracting velocity from
his fastball, that's when he's really trying to find that

(46:26):
shape to kind of set everything in motion. He's got
to find a way to find it.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Early today, the narrative after last night's loss, and obviously
things can change, especially if the Astros win the next
two games of the series, is the Astros really play
well against the upper echeal on teams, the first place teams,
the wald card teams, but man, they can struggle mightily
with the second tier squad. Last time at home Baltimore,
that was a miserable series the game last night.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Are we talking coincidence?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I don't believe Brian that the Astros clubhouse shuts the
door at six fifteen before our seven to ten first
pitch and says, boys, we got this handled.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
So if that's not the case, which I believe it
isn't the case, then what is it. Why does this.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Team have its issues against teams that are significantly under
five hundred or out of the pennet race.

Speaker 11 (47:13):
It's got to be coincidence because there's nothing else that
makes sense. I mean, you've got too many guys who
have done it at a high level for so long
to think that they're just you know, can be can
go out there and be outclassed by some of those
bottom of the division teams on such a consistent basis.
And also, you know, maybe if you're talking middle of

(47:34):
June July, can you overlook somebody maybe not be as
locked in or or let the wear down of the
season gets you a little bit. Sure, but when you're
talking about thirty games left and a one game lead
in the division and a team breathing down your neck.
The focus should be there to not overlook a team
like the Rockets or a team like Baltimore. So you know,

(47:55):
it's got to just be coincidence because we see what
the best version is. We see them go out there
and go toe to toe with the Phillies and with
the Dodgers, and we see what the good can be.
So why we don't see that against the lesser teams.
I think it's just kind of a random happenstance of
the up and downs of the season, and it's just
lined up to where they haven't been playing well.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Last question, we get Jordan back, maybe Myers hope for
the next hampful of days after rehabilitation starts in sugar Land,
do you suggest any seismic shift in the everyday starting
line up, especially if it goes seven deep, or do
you think the way it's kind of put together right
now it's okay.

Speaker 11 (48:34):
No, I'm fine with the way it's put together now.
Obviously everything is fluid, and if you start getting you know,
eight ten games in and things aren't working out, maybe
you shuffle it around a little bit. I think the
biggest scene that we're going to see in terms of
kind of fluidity in the lineup or the construction during
during any given day is how do you incorporate al

(48:57):
tuove at DH left field? Second day with now yourd
On into the mix. Who's going to get the bigger
share of DH? How are you going to keep each
of them fresh from being out in left field? That's
going to be interesting to watch. I mean, they're both
going to be in there every day, so just how
Joe gets it done and seeing how he thinks he
can maximize the team defensively with those guys. But no,

(49:19):
I think you're getting to the point to where we're
going to see a pretty consistent group of six to
seven guys every day, and then if just a couple
of guys sprinkled in with in matchup situations.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Great Steph.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
As always, Bogie will look forward to seeing you tonight
on Space. Did you appreciate the time? And we will
visit again next Wednesday.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
Sure, see you guys.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Brian Bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk SEVENTONNI we
have shut your bull mass up coming up in fifteen
minutes from now. Anybody got time for that as well?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
The news at noon.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
We've got Craig Waye, the Voice of the Longhorns, wh
us at one o'clock today to get all things get
you ready for Texas versus Ohio State and we believe
it or not, today all things about Steve and f
Austin State University, God School eleven fifteen on Sports Talk
seven ninety Love of twenty on Sports Talk seven ninty.

(50:12):
I'm kind of nervous about your first ever shut your
bow mass up. You cannot go after every SEC school
not named LSU. You know that I got a good one, though,
I think most people will agree with all right. I
did put up a poll question last night as the
Astros were losing to the hated Colorado Rockies.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
I said, what do we go with today? For the
main topic?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Rockies box score preview, fifty three man Texans breakdown, and
Swift Kelsey wedding plans. Rockies box score review was forty
one percent, fifty three man Texans breakdown thirty percent, in
the Swift Kelsey wedding plans of twenty nine percent. You know, uh,
the reality is the Rockies are going to win forty

(50:55):
five games this year, and the Astros are going to
give him at least two of them.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah, I told the audiences yesterday.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
It feels like to me every year the Astros around
this time of year have a sucky set of games
coming up against subpower opponent opponents, and they let them win.
I remember a couple of years ago, it might have
been even last year. Oh it was the A's and
the Royals, or I think we're in a back to
back series and the Astros I think lost all but
you know, one of the games I think in the mix.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
Yeah, they always have a stretch, but there's been multiple
stretches post All Star Break. I mean, you came right
out of the break and lost two out of three
in Seattle. Then you come home and lose four straight
to the A's, and then that was even book ended
with the first loss of that National Series, so it
was what like five in a row. Then you had
the getting swept up in Boston that was ugly. Then

(51:46):
you go and get swept up in Detroit after losing
two out of three at home to Baltimore. So it's
just there's been too many of these stretches, like to
your point. Yes, every year around this time of year,
the Astros have a stretch wing that wasn't great, but
then they get back on track. This team post All
Star break has not gotten back on track.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
It's five team. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, they do have some series wins, but they also
have some disappointing performances too. I mean the Baltimore series
at home was I mean, you almost got perfect gamed
in the game.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Yeah, and then you go up there and you kick ass.
That's why we follow them because.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
There's a certain segment of the population that's ready for
this team to go all right the finalest streak ends
and then there's a large segment of the population, hopefully
that's most of you, that are saying, you know what,
they'll shake out of this and they are getting some
guys back. But what has come back so far of
all the players that have been back so far? Javier

(52:49):
mccullors your there's only one game, so that's even fair.
But who's who's come back that was picked up right
where you left off?

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Paina pay Pain.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
He has been the guy, although yesterday two airs on
one play that was a tough watch.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
He's really good defensively though it's just a a off night. Yeah,
I'm trying to think of anybody else that's meant.

Speaker 6 (53:13):
I mean, we gotta give Korea credit for as soon
as he put that astro's uniform on.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
He's been awesome. He is. He has exceeded my expectations
so far. It's almost like those hitting coaches vibe with him.
You mean, the ones are gonna probably be fired because
everybody wants him fire.

Speaker 6 (53:28):
After every game he couldn't hit Minnesota, I don't know.
He got back here and he hits again. Yeah, another
gird last night.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
All right, seven one three two one two five seven
ninety If you want to jump in seven one three
two one two five seven and I remember again coming
up in about five or six minutes, we're gonna ask
you to call in and tell.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Some people to shut their bumb asses up. What else
we got going on? We mentioned the Joe Mixing situation.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
If today, if today was a gut feeling Tuesday, I
probably would say we're not going to see Joe Mixon
this year. Oh, I think you will see him, but
I just but your guess is literally as good as
mine is right now.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Yeah, it's tough. Part is having these fantasy drafts.

Speaker 7 (54:02):
What do you do?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Nick Chubb's going higher and high? Is that why Casario
is being so tight left?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
You want to protect the image for his players so
people don't over are underdraft him.

Speaker 7 (54:10):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 6 (54:11):
He's like, Look, guys, I have a draft next week,
and I know Mixon's coming back week five, But I'm
not going to say that if.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Any of you are in a.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Casario league and he picks Joe Mixon like in a
sixth round, and that would be encouraging.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Yes, maybe yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Is there I always he had roto on today. Is
there a single Texans running back that will be selected?
Because think about this, even if Nick Chubb gets and
Nick Chubb presumably will be the starter for the first
four weeks, I don't think he's gonna get twenty carries
per game.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
I don't most people do.

Speaker 6 (54:46):
They think Nick Chubb is going to be He's going
to get back to Nick Chubb of three years ago
and be awesome.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I have way too much evidence it said that's not
going to happen.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
What about all the people at training camp who are
tweeting out Nick Chubb looks in great shack.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Because they're not legitimate. I mean I saw wrong. I
saw dozens of tweets.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Now the Texans credential more non media people than any
other team in Houston sports history.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I think I think Chubb can be serviced.

Speaker 6 (55:13):
I think he can be Week one in LA eighteen
carries eighty nine yards and a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
If he gives you eighty nine yards per week, that
is a super big win for this team.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
He won't give that to you every week, but I
think you'd be fine.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
But I mean if you again for fantasy purposes, not
that that makes anything difference because ultimately you're worried about
I think the Texans winning. Is anybody gonna rush for
one hundred yards this year for the Texans. The only
way I think I see it happening is if somebody
gets a huge sixty five yard touchdown run as part
of the day. Because I don't think, I really do

(55:50):
believe Damian Pierce is gonna get every opportunity to be
a legitimate number two backup running back well, especially while
Joe Mixon is gone. I think it's gonna be I
would not be surprised if the if the running back
handoff distribution would be about sixty forty maybe seventy thirty

(56:16):
with what he Mark's getting a little bit of run here.

Speaker 6 (56:18):
Yeah, that's the thing. How much does the rookie do
you play the rookie again? Rookie struggle in pass protection
and things like that, So you know, they'll probably want
to ease him into the offense when the season starts.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
But I don't know. It's like it feels like at times,
Damian Pierce has been on the outs.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Well, the biggest thing is is that he the first
year Damian Pierce was wonderful. This is the last two
have been either not on the field at all or
very little production, or he fumbles the football. Yeah, and
I don't think there's anything that's more aggravating to any
offensive coach than a running back that can't hold onto
the football.

Speaker 6 (56:53):
I think he, I think he. I think he's not
going to play a ton. I think it's going to
be Nick Chubb. I think that in a ride hub
you think, okay, so, but this one. Do you think
he's gonna You think he's going to carry the ball
twenty times a game? I do not believe that under
any circumstance. I think the body will not allow.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Him to do that. Who does carry twenty types of
game other than Saquon Barkley. I mean, is that okay?
Dual backs these days?

Speaker 7 (57:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Yeah, all right? Eleven twenty seven. Are you ready? Oh yeah,
let's go.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Okay, I'm gonna let you go first, Jonathan, are going second? Uh,
And I'm gonna go last. Because I think I'm an
I'm trying to be a better person, Gordy, I'm trying
to be less.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
I'm not mean.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
I'm trying to be less vindictive. I'm trying to be
less petty. So I'm gonna let you guys go first.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Here, Let again here, Let me again here, Let me again,
Tampa cheer, Let me again here, let me again here,
let me again here, let me.

Speaker 5 (57:53):
Get here, Let me again damp.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
Eleven thirty three, Sports Talk SEVENARTI. This half hour is
the most cathartic out half hour.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
You will have in Houston radio. This is where you
get a chance to.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Tell somebody how you feel and how angry you are
about something that was said or done to you, and
you tell them to.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Shut their messes up.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
Shots up man, or let's.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Say somebody at the office is always trying to tease
you about where you went to school. Because of their
open enrollment policy. He could say, Hey, matt ain't nobody
got time for that. We heard SFA is the is
the Harvard of the piney Woods?

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Oh yess I messed up. It's got a lot of
talent out there lately.

Speaker 10 (58:44):
You know, I had a call it. Jeff and Lufkin
say there's more people and Harris kind of that. Go
to SFA and there are jacks than the cougars.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Jeff, don't know what you're talking about. Are the girls
hot at SFA? I'm telling if you like the country
you know country blonds, you know the country blonde. You
know what I mean, hunter bluds?

Speaker 13 (59:01):
All right?

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Seven one three two one two five sevenuti seven one
three two one two five seventy.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Going to ask you one sup a question? What's the
matter with you?

Speaker 6 (59:10):
I'm giving a big shut your boom mess up to
both YouTube TV and.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Fox No okay, Oh I'm gonna let you go.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
From YouTube TVs and a carrots dispute with Fox Sports,
fans may not get to see the Big Texas at
Ohio State game on this Saturday. Google, which is YouTube
TV's parent company, says Fox is asking for payments are
way higher than what are other partners with comparable content
offerings receive but Fox claims otherwise. They say Fox is

(59:39):
proposing a fair, comprehensive deal to continue our relationship.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
With YouTube TV.

Speaker 6 (59:43):
Hey, both Fox and YouTube shut your boom mess up.
Fans don't care about your business deals.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
Get it done.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
Stop pulling hostage because y'all can't do good business with
each other. Bad negotiating, bad business. Get the this crap done.
All we want to do is watch our sports. By
the way, if you have YouTube TV and you're a
sports fan, shut your bumb ass up shit jo bum
ass up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
YouTube TV does not carry Space City Home Network. YouTube
TV doesn't care a lot of the sports packages. If
you are complaining about not having your sports because you
have YouTube TV, shut them boss up, shitcho bumms, hit
drag TV or the cable like grown ass men do,
and get your sports packages.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
I will say.

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
The one workaround for the Saturday is Big Fox isn't
over the air channel. You can buy an antenn at
Walgreens for ten dollars. Uh, screw it onto the back
of your TV and you can get the gig.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Anybody got time for that? Hey, nobody, you should be
calling H. Thomas Sports Enterprise to find out promote for you,
dot biz? Whatever it all right? What else?

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Get my company straight? What else is the matter with you?

Speaker 14 (01:00:50):
You got it?

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
You got multiple things?

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
I got.

Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
The NFL announced they're going to relax their restrictions surrounding
Tom Brady and his role as a Fox broadcaster. They're
gonna allow him to attend production.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Meetings this season. That's good.

Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
Tom Brady, of course, is a partial owner of the
Las Vegas Raiders. He will be able to attend production
meetings when a broadcast crew meets with the games head
coaches and keep players. He was limited last year. Other
restrictions on Brady. Last year he was prohibited from publicly
criticizing game officials. I didn't realize that in the broadcast booth.
But I'm telling Tom Brady to shut his bumb mass up.

(01:01:26):
Ain't nobody got time for you having one foot in
the broadcast booth and one foot in the owner's suite.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Pickwe dude, either a broadcaster or your team owner.

Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
You can't be both because apparently the NFL's creating rules
for you on what you can criticize, what you get.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
I totally agree youe hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
I do believe now Again, Fox pays him a boltload
of cash, but he's got a chance to make even
more cash. When Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders,
is going to offer him a bigger chunk of the team,
He's gonna wind up leaving the booth. He's gonna say, look,
I'm giving up a lot of money at Fox, but
I can make a lot more as an.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Owner of an NFL team. I totally agree with you
on that. I got one more shit.

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
You know what you got?

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Fire in Brimstone.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
By the way, if you got something you are mad
about seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five SEVOINTI what do
you got?

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Ohio State shuts obamass up?

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Oh here we go, shuit, obamass up man.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
Fox Sports Noon Kickoff, added Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy to
their crew.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Whether you like Dave, love him, hate him, whatever, I
don't care.

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
But they announced that Portnoy would not be allowed inside
Ohio Stadium this Saturday as the lead up to Texas
and Ohio State. Well, Ohio State leaks to Yahoo Sports
yesterday this was not our decision.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
This was Fox's decision. They decided not to bring Porty
the stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:02:41):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
On Tuesday, Dave Portnoy went public on a video saying
while wearing a Michigan hat, by the way, because he's
a known Michigan fan, saying, uh yeah, this was Ohio
State and Ryan Day being.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Soft saying he's a Michigan fan. We don't want him
in our in our stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:03:00):
State.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Ain't nobody got time for you lying about who is
and who isn't allowed in your stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
You know what, I'm team Ohio State on this. First
of all, Portnoy is not a journalist. He's not a reporter.
He's not going on the broadcast to be a man
who's gonna analyzing. He's going there to s talk people.
He's Pat McAfee of Fox, and Pat McAfee's a journalist.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
He's there to create chaos. So you know what, Ohio State,
good for you ban these j brownis and we got
it in these sports teams.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
And I'm talking to you, Houston, Texas, gott do a
better job of stop bringing fanboys into sports media.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
So good for them. Ohis State, Gordy, shut your bum
mass up?

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
Can you imagine if T on tn T T NBA
on tn T were to come to a Rockets playoff
game next year and the Rockets came out and saying,
you know what, we've had some history of Charles Barkley.
He's not allowed in Toyota Center.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
That wouldn't happen. That would be soft. That's right, but
that it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
First of all, Charles Barkley has way more skins in
the game in basketball then Dave port Andy's gonna have
in college football.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Please stop. That was a terrible comparison.

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
I'm mister analogy caster. He is not a broadcaster.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
He's a fanboy paying them a ton, though I'm sure
they are seven one three two one two five seven
doty seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Let's talk to Larry. Larry, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 13 (01:04:25):
Hey, Matt Gordy. I listened to the tenth in the
show Sunday, and I have to give you props, Gordy,
because no way I would have made that. It was
about three or four callers be called with some insane
in cent We were they at pre twenty seventeen when
the Astros losing three hundred games in three years. You

(01:04:48):
know what I'm saying, man, All the people that call
it against Sunday shut Joe bum eight up, thank you,
shitchbu ass up.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
I'm with you.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
If Jim Crane listens to some of our postgame callers,
he'd sell the team disastrous, some of those callers and
their takes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
You know what, we still love you. Now here's the thing.
The only person left is on the screen is Brad.
If you want to hear from Brad, Lord, please call
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven eight. Literally, anybody
gets in front of front of Brad seven one three
two one two five seven.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Guy who calls it is Brad in Miami on a mobile, Bradward.
He calls John, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:05:36):
I know, y'all see the video with Rampace Jackson's son,
Roger Jackson beating up that guy on in the we ring.
If you haven't, it's growesome. You guys, go see it.
But I want to say, and anybody got time for
this because this happens in all of professional sports with
these guys losing their anger, losing their like, their mental
and start being barbaric. Anybody got time for this and

(01:05:59):
any hisig the sport it just ruins everything ivey and
had dudes trying to fight me over track because the
lots of rays and stuff like that, like you letting
your It's just it's childish. And this dude beating up
almost putting it, almost put him in a coma. It's
like attempted murdered chart. You guys gotta look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
When did this happen three days ago?

Speaker 15 (01:06:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
The wrestling thing, yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's just it's no,
it's no.

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
I was sure that was legit, by the way, because
you know wrestling's fake. No, go watch the video.

Speaker 10 (01:06:26):
He's throwing haymakers while this dude is knocked out on
the ground, body sunding and all and it it was
like previous beef and they had apologized for it, and
this guy went ahead and went in the ring and
took it as like revenge.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Okay, got time for that. No, I got time for that. Yeah,
fight guy. I hate fight guy. Guy who wants to
fight publicly?

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I mean like you mean, like like the guy that
sent you a d and wants to fight you sure,
I was thinking more Avery Johnson's dad fighting with the brothers.
I want more of that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
I want more family feuds. That was way more interesting
than the I always take Kansas game.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
In twenty twenty five, in this date and age, with
lawsuits and how much you can make if winning a lawsuit,
Please hit me, Hit me so I can see your ass.

Speaker 13 (01:07:10):
I like it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Come on, when she comes to that to my face?
That that comes say it to my face, guys, my favorite.
You won't say that to my face? Yeah. Seven one
three two one two five seven.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
And I remember, the more you call in, the lesser
that Brad has a chance to get on the show.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven. Annie, all right,
here we go seven one three two one two five
seven ninetie seven one three two one two five seven. Annie,
we got James and garden Oaks and Brad. That's a

(01:07:42):
one two punch right there. If you have anything else
you want to get to seven one three two one
two five seven. And if you want to tell somebody
to shut their bumbasses up, baway. Demiko ryans Uh chimes
in on the uh Joe Mixon situation. Will have it
for you coming up at the top of the hour
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

(01:08:03):
one three two one two five seven and we are here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
On w f A and let's go to Brooklyn. James,
Look you're on the fan.

Speaker 16 (01:08:25):
Yeah, man, thanks Governor.

Speaker 12 (01:08:26):
Man.

Speaker 16 (01:08:26):
Governor Thomas was taking my call and shouts out to you,
man Gordy over there.

Speaker 12 (01:08:31):
Doing double duty.

Speaker 8 (01:08:32):
Listen, I got I got beef with two people.

Speaker 16 (01:08:34):
I got beef with that clown that I heard that
was talking to the boy sewn in the morning. Look
when he mentioned and he tried to put it in
his mouth the comparison of the Manning clan, the Manning
family and this young kid name shouting. I don't know
what kind of makeup really this young kid got.

Speaker 17 (01:08:51):
Or I can tell you one thing.

Speaker 16 (01:08:52):
He should have never tried to put Manning on the
same platform from him, because that family, that family is
golden man. Okay, don't know what this young kid man,
and guy, aren't you the grandson or give him a chance,
because I think the man is gonna do well. And
I'm ruined big time for the for the Texas law
on big time Okay, now this other, this other stupid lady.

(01:09:15):
She's with the Box Sports, and you know, I don't
know how good she is to Monte Bolanos.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:09:20):
Okay, she's a West Coast apologist and rule for the Dodgers.
But I should know she should know one thing if
she knows her history, and I don't think she knows
her history in baseball, let it on any sport.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
The Yantrews own Brooklyn.

Speaker 16 (01:09:32):
They owned the Dodgers, whether they were in Brooklyn or
outside of this.

Speaker 8 (01:09:36):
So that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
I'm out.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Shit. Toba, man's up, man, New York.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
Can you please get us someone to sing our station
for us?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
They don't do that anymore?

Speaker 17 (01:09:58):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
You mean to tell me we can't get somebody that's
listening to our show right now to go into a
studio and sing Sports Talk seven ninety Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Yeah, all those people have retired. Let's just clip that
right there. We'll use that. Yeah, you put the music
behind it. Can't do that now, turn it, turn the
music down real quick.

Speaker 7 (01:10:18):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
You're listening to the sports Leader up you stand seven
ninety Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 18 (01:10:30):
Boo boo.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
I would say this, I We're happy to be an
iHeartRadio station. Where are we love? iHeart like?

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
Most of the time, our affiliations are with the nice
people sports radio and everything else. But yes, some of
the pro weekend programming that they put on on Fox
Sports Radio is less than desirable.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
Well, people hate our overnight show too. Well, Ben Ben
Maller is just a fraud. But Montrel Moncey out there
on a who Moncey who?

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
I think that who? She does weekends?

Speaker 6 (01:11:02):
They are based in Los Angeles and they're all unabashed
Dodger Homer.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
So just know that's to take stricks.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
I mean, I wouldn't listen to us on the weekends.
I mean I would like you too, but I'm not
going to force you get.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Mad if you just what's in between Doug Pike and
the Astros game?

Speaker 19 (01:11:16):
Yeah on Sports Talk seven ninety Oh yeah, Mac, what's
the matter with you?

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
Mac Hey?

Speaker 18 (01:11:28):
How y'all going?

Speaker 13 (01:11:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:11:29):
I want to ask this question. I want to ask
this question with the with the way of nil and
the football is, why is Uta playing Sam Houston for
home coming? Granted it helps Sam Houston warn and it
helps you t because they probably paying them a million
That was but she like we should be out of
that stage of playing the small southern schools and Stephen L.

(01:11:51):
Foster's but a number one ranked school in the in
the state, in the in the nation. How do you
feel about that?

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
What's the name of this segment?

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
Shut Joe Bomass?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Who cares about uta?

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
In there?

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Start playing the homecoming and they're taking it. They're giving
the check and they want to win. Whoever's do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Alabama?

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
Whatever, score, whatever, schedule Auburn for homecoming? Oh hell no,
right back?

Speaker 18 (01:12:18):
All right, God, I've got me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
I'll see you later. Who's ls you got for homecoming
this week? Are just here homecoming? Nobody?

Speaker 6 (01:12:25):
Nobody goes to Nobody goes to the homecoming coming. For
the less twenty years, homecoming has always been one of
your crappy games, and nobody got time for homecoming. You
usually want to make it somebody you're gonna beat up
all How many matureill win?

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
How many homecomings have you gone to at your high school?
Abu heigh at your high school once after I graduated?

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Zero for me? How many high school?

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
How many college graduate homecomings you gone to at s
FA Jonathan?

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
I think once? Was that by accident kind of you.
I gotta have practice and everything's going on. You stay
as well? Stay all right? Yeah, homecoming, let's get rid
of homecoming. It makes no sense.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
I was always embarrassed because you of aged like ten
years ago, we were really terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Were everybody's homecoming game. Yeah, that's when you know you're bad.
Somebody is making you their homecoming. It's not good. No,
all right? Uh, Brad, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 14 (01:13:18):
Brad?

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Gordy is the matter with me?

Speaker 16 (01:13:22):
I called Sunday post game and I was asking about
parades this year, and he said he's not coming back.

Speaker 15 (01:13:30):
Then I see a video.

Speaker 16 (01:13:32):
From Florida he came back to you said, and he
said he's coming back real soon.

Speaker 18 (01:13:37):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 17 (01:13:39):
But do your investigative reporting, Gordy.

Speaker 18 (01:13:42):
Nobody got time for your bs. Yeah, shut your bumb
ass up.

Speaker 6 (01:13:46):
Your bumbass, Brad. If East SoC Paratus plays a game
this season, I'll buy you a steak dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
You're gonna have steak with Brad.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
No, I'll buy him a dinner. Oh you're not gonna
go away, all right? Last call seven seventy. So we
don't think Praidie's coming back right, No, And that wasn't
even it was like it was kind of a weird
It was.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
A screen shot thing. And then when I went to
parides Instagram, there was nothing on there. So if he
posted it in.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
A story, it was a story. So it went away.
I mean, that's fine.

Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
I want him to be I want him to think
he's coming back. You're not coming back. It was a
severe hamstring injury. You're done.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Yeah, But that little injected thing, may it maybe a
miracle work. You never know.

Speaker 6 (01:14:36):
I mean, if you want to pop some pills and
get out there, fine, I guess, but that you know
what would happened. Though he rushes back, he plays in
two games, it reinjures it, and then he's just set
back and he's not ready for the start of next season.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
I'd rather you should he should have had the surgery,
and I think the player over ruled the organization, would
be my guess, just a guess on my part.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
All right, Uh, were you in a stead of shock yesterday,
Gordy after the Astros lost that game. I was pretty shocked.
State of shock.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Plus we're gonna hear what a very brief comment about
what Demiko says about the Joe Mixon injury status. It's
all coming up in the next hour. It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. He's off today, back with
me tomorrow. And we've got Craig Way coming up at
one o'clock today, little ut Ohio State preview and all
things about s FA Today at one Unbelieve it or not.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Seven one, seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Rosso.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Yeah, we're all a little bit shocked after the Rockies
come in and win Game one of the three game
series between the Astros and our friends from Colorado. Seven
one three, two, one two five, seven to nine. If
you want to chime in seven one three, two, one
two five seven, we'll get a little college football conversation
coming in. Craig Way, the Voice of the Horns, will

(01:16:11):
be with us, coming up in less than an hour
from now. He'll join us from Austin.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
It'll be the Long.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Horns and Ohio State this Saturday. We'll have it free
beginning at ten o'clock right here on Sports Talk seven.
Even right now, it's time for the news at noon.
As you heard, the Astros did fall in the Game
one of the series. Fortunately, the San Diego Padres did

(01:16:36):
knock off the Seattle Mariners last night seven to six,
so the Astros still maintain a one and a half
game lead over the Ms for first place in the
American League West. Farmer Valdez will take them out today
for the local nine. I'll have the on deck show
beginning at six o'clock. First pitch will be at seven

(01:16:56):
to ten. Chase Dollinger or Dollar or He's two in
ten with an ernie of six point nine to one.
I'm gonna repeat that. Tonight's starting pitcher for the Colorado
Rockies has two wins and ten losses with an ERA
of six point nine one. The Astros better beat that ass.

(01:17:24):
I don't really know how much more plan I can say. Correct, Correct,
Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. The Astros is gonna
beat that ass tonight two in ten with an ernie
of six ninety one. Are you kidding me? The Rockies
of the wind last night are now thirty eight in
ninety four. They have his They're seventeen and forty.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Nine on the road. Gea many Christmas. Come on now,
I'm calling it. You're not ready for this. I'm calling
a must win. Oh you heard me? I didn't swear
yeahs a must win.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
You if Frober Valdez loses tonight the Sucky Rockies because
he has another first inning melt dumb and Chase Doninger
is two and ten with an ernie of almost seven,
and the Astros lose that all the hell of the
season guaranteed, must win game tonight Local nine, right here,
seven ninety. I love the Indeck Show. At six o'clock,
mister Texas said, guys, mister Texas doesn't miss doesn't lead

(01:18:24):
you astray, does he? Mister Texas told you that Joe
Mixon was gonna be ready for the start of the season,
didn't he. Here is Demiko Ryans a few minutes ago
telling us about what and if Joe Mixon plays for
the Texans this year.

Speaker 6 (01:18:42):
Mike's vacation is for Joe be taking it one day
at a time, and when he's ready to be back,
he'll be back.

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
Okay, you hear that was Wexra asking a questionnaire as
wex good question, good question, nice, simple, the expecting I
can be back this season now.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Jamiica would go on to say a few more things.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Jamaiko says that reporters can report an accurate story and
nothing happens.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
They just take it down. Humm.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
He also goes on to say, everything we do when
it comes to injuries, I'm thinking about the player. It's
different for me because I played the game. That's his
personal information. That's Joe's business. That's not anybody else's business.
So we don't talk about it. All right, turn the

(01:19:39):
music off.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
This is a very very.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
I could kind of see both sides of this. I
think I can, but I need y'all to help me
out a little bit. Here on the news at noon,
he's saying he doesn't want to tell you about Joe's
injuries because it's Joe's business.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
But the business in which he is in is a
very public business.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
It is a business that you follow because you love
that team. You chose that team because you want that
team to be good. That team, by the way, in
their business ask you to spend money with them on
tickets and merchandise and beers and sandwiches and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
It asked you to be there in good times and
in bad hmm. Again, this is my philosophy on this.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
And if you disagree with me, I'm okay with that,
because I'd like to I'd like to hear a.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Different viewpoint on this. I think sports teams are just different.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
I don't think this is mom and pop's engineering company
down the road. This isn't Johnson Manufacturing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
This is a city team.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
Now, granted, it's owned by the mcnairs, and it's run
by a general manager and a head coach, and there
are going to be guidelines, and there is a line
of sportsmanship, not necessary sportsmanship, but intelligence that you do
not want to give your opponents any sort of advantage.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
But the reality is.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
This, the NFL has become more and more open to
telling us about injuries because why because so much of
their sport.

Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
Is bet on.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
And even though Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL,
has said, you know, we have very strict guidelines about gambling.
Any NFL show you see, and that's talking about league shows,
that's talking about league television partners, the game itself. You
see odds point spreads over unders. You see some of

(01:22:18):
the biggest betting services about how a player is going
to do.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Hey, I like this player to throw for more than
three hundred yards.

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
I'd like to have to see this player rush for
this many yards, or I don't think he's gonna do that.
You see them on every NFL broadcast, and hell, you
see it with NFL television partners. You see it on
NFL pregame shows. If Roger Goodell told ESPN you cannot

(01:22:48):
have a gambling aspect to your pregame shows, the NFL
has such huge stones that ESPN would say, Okay, all right,
we'll back off of it. But they don't because even
Roger cad the NFL knows that betting is a huge
part of it. Now, I'm trying to not equate Joe
Mixon's health status to worrying about whether or not people

(01:23:12):
are betting on I want to make sure I'm very
clear on that. But you do have a vested interest
in it. You're not asking to look at his X rays,
you're not asking for his MIRI results.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
I think when legitimate media go to a sporting event and.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Their job is to report on how a particular team
is doing, whether it's x'es and o's, whether it's injury status,
I think the more transparency the better. Clearly, the Texans,
Texans and in particular Tamiko Ryans and in particular Nick

(01:23:52):
Cassero don't believe that.

Speaker 18 (01:23:56):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
I don't even know, honestly, if my audience here that
ten to too is overly concerned about this. Remember, I'm
just talking to myself at this point. Now, If you
guys want to chime in with me one way or
the other, you can do it certainly on the phones
at seven one three two one two five seven ninety,
or you can let me know on Twitter at sports MT.

Speaker 5 (01:24:16):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
I think we found ourselves.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
With sports teams more than twenty twenty five than we
did even ten years ago, certainly twenty years ago, where
they just we want it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
We're not going to tell you because that's our right now.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Again, is your water cooler, it's your office. Worried about
Joe Mixon? Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure if you're a
Texans fan and you are pruising the social media streets
or you're with your buddies getting ready to watch the game,
Hey man, I can't wait for Joe Mixon's gonna play.
What is Joe Mixing gonna come back?

Speaker 11 (01:24:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
They don't say, does it bother you? Are you indifferent
to it? Are you like you know what? That's their business?
I kind of I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
I don't know where to go with this on this.
I just think that sometimes when you hide things, more
times than not, you're hiding it because it's way worse
than you're ever willing let on, and that you're legitimately
concerned about. When you hide something, it's because something is

(01:25:28):
not right. You've made a miscalculation, you've done something wrong,
you didn't set up your lineup right, you didn't set
up your roster right. And that if you admit that
Joe Mixon was going to be gone for a long
period of time, that maybe the Texans didn't do their
due diligence in the offseason and go get a better
running back or try to at least eat at additional
depth to the back, to the to the backfield beyond

(01:25:50):
Nick Chubb.

Speaker 5 (01:25:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
These are things I'm mulling over live at twelve thirteen,
But the Texans are holding firm on this. We hope
that that Joe comes back and will tell you how
he's feeling in four weeks well, or will at least
give you an update, But don't ask us until then.
Don't ask if he's going to play this year, don't

(01:26:13):
ask us what his injury is. Don't ask us how
this happened, don't don't give us any details because or
don't ask us any questions is we're not going to
give you the answers. And Dimiko is right about one thing.
If you get something wrong, you just erase it. But
legitimate media companies, newspapers, television networks usually when you get

(01:26:34):
things wrong, you should get fired or you should be
not in the position in which you're in now. And
everybody's built that way. If you if you run a
YouTube page, you can say whatever you want and if
you're wrong, who cares. But legitimate media sources do get
in trouble when they misreport things. It's I don't know,
I don't know. I'm just again, this is just me
talking about loud. The astros found themselves and said, I mean,

(01:26:57):
this is not just a textans problem.

Speaker 7 (01:26:58):
This is sport.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
This is sports mineral problem.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
And the reality is you have more sports radio stations,
you get more sports TV networks, you've got more betting sites,
you've got more websites, you've got me everything in the
mass media of sports has grown three thousand percent in
the last thirty years.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
Some of it good, some of it not so good.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
But there is certainly a thought from the Texans to say,
we don't have to tell you, so we're not gonna
tell you seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

(01:27:39):
I would as a Texans fan if I was a
Texans fan, I don't want to know not everything. But hey,
Joe's hurt. We didn't anticipate this. He could be gone
seven weeks, could be gone ten. Here's what we here's
what we can tell you at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
But to just brush it aside, it feels like they're
trying to cya. That's my only point.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Twelve fifteen, Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety So the fundamental question is
how much do teams owe you transparency? You are the
consumers of those teams, You are the fans of those teams.

(01:28:27):
Do you want to know or do you when when
a coach and a manager or a general manager says,
we take it one day at a time, we hope
for the very best.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
We'll let you all know down the road to media.
Is that satisfactory? Again?

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I
do try to do a four hour radio show to
bring up events, and it's tough for me to think
about what the Texans may or mayy have able to
do if they're not going to be overly forthcoming with
what the current set of their franchise is. Again, it's
a very it's not cut and dry. I'll be brutally

(01:29:05):
honest with you. It's not because again, you do have
to You do have player privacy issues. You do have
an issue with whether or not the player wants you
to say anything. But you also are a public franch
and not publicly honed because again that's the McNair's and
that's all the NFL owners. But you do rely on

(01:29:26):
your fan base to be vested in your team. Like
when you go to a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
You go see the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
You may enjoy it and discuss it with your friends
for a little bit, but you don't think about that
movie for six months, nine months, one year after. When
you go to a Texans game, or you watch a
Texans game, you think about that game over and over again.
You think about that game year to year to year.
You think about what they did last year, what they
did the previous year, what they're going to do in
future years. And that's what sports is. That separates it

(01:29:55):
from going to see a movie, or watching a television show,
or attending a theatrical performance, all forms of entertainment. We're
not talking about cures for cancer. I want to make
sure I'm very clear and putting things in perspective on this,
but ideal in the toy department of life, which is sports.
And you know, there just hasn't been any sort of real,

(01:30:21):
legitimate news about a very key member of the football team.
And look, the Astros have been guilty of this as well.
The Astros have been more transparent with their injury status
the last couple of months because think people are kind
of going, look, we love you Astros, we loved and
I'm going back to last year.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
We go back, we loved Kyle Tucker. We love you.
Know what was going on? We want we want to
know we are.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
You are a living soap opera for us, and there
are new additions to that soap opera every single day.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
We want updates. Again, You're not asking for m I
or MRI results.

Speaker 7 (01:30:52):
Or X ray.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
You're just really, hey, we are vested in you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
So the least you do is give us as much
as you can without giving away too much. But I
promise you, as I said before yesterday, the Los Angeles
Rams are not surprised that Joe Mixon's not playing in
week number one. The Los Angeles Rams have been probably
preparing for Nick Chubb and Daria Gumwalle and others, and

(01:31:21):
Damian Pierce. They have not been preparing. Just try to
stop Joe Mixon. Let's go to Mike on seven ninety
at twelve twenty four.

Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Mike, what you got?

Speaker 13 (01:31:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Yeah, I was just calling.

Speaker 15 (01:31:32):
I think the worst team is the Ash Shows because
the way they hide their injuries. I remember with Kyle Tucker,
at first it was just a bruise or something to
that effect, and then a month later then they tell
us it might be a fracture. The same thing with
yard On, Oh he's got a sore hand, and then

(01:31:56):
a month later it's a fracture, and it goes on
and on.

Speaker 11 (01:32:00):
Huh.

Speaker 15 (01:32:00):
And then I don't know who the training staff is,
but they seem to have more pitchers with shoulder problems
than any team that I can ever remember. And it's always,
you know, they'll they got so should and then next thing,
you know, in two or three weeks they say, well
they got to have Tommy Johns surgery. Something is wrong
with the training step.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
In my opinion, well, you know what, it is very
Uh it's not been a great year, and it's really
not been a great couple of years.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
I can't argue with that. I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
And the Asters don't make their train available. Now some
teams do, some teams do not. The Astros have chosen
not to do so. I will just say this blanket statement,
whether it's the Rockets, the Astros, the Texans, any team
that you care anything about, be as forthcoming as you can,

(01:32:59):
as long as is it doesn't hurt intelligence, meaning you're
not the information you'd be giving out would put your
team in a distinctive disadvantage over the upcoming opponent or opponents. Now,
I'm only speaking to this from the side of being

(01:33:19):
a fan and a guy that gets to you know,
visit with you guys for four hours every day. Maybe
I files on an other side, I'd be different if
the leagues aren't requiring me to be overly forthcoming, why
should I?

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
Why?

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
Why should I?

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
And as I said a little bit ago, maybe the players,
like Joe Mixon calls CASA says, look, here's what happened.
Or maybe they do know, maybe they were witnesses to
it and they said, don't say anything. League's not requiring
us to say anything. We're not going to say anything.
But I think there are, generally speaking, there are people
bumping around town that are lovers of the Houston Texans
or any other team in town that you know, we

(01:33:57):
got this during the Kyle Tucker stuff or An Hourarez
this year. You know, how does a guy have a
hand injury, then a fracture, then a swelling, and then
it feels better and then he goes down. I mean, yeah,
it's we've had to play a guessing game. And I
guess part of the fatigue for me is is that

(01:34:18):
I just got off one long guessing game for the summer.
Thankful that you are on his back, and I feel
like I'm gonna be going through another one. But that's
maybe that's what we have to do with sports fans,
Maybe that we are that's what we have to be
ready for in twenty twenty five because there are so
many people that are trying to get clicks. There are

(01:34:40):
so many people that are trying to get I was
first to report this, or I have this hot take
of this. Because of the situation, I would rather just
come on do the show and say, Hey, Nick Asseio today,
Dimiko Ryan today said here's what's going on with Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
And I could say, Man, that sucks. Man, I'm really
worried about him.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
I'm not thinking about, well, what can I do to
make a thirty minute podcast out of it?

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
I got a four hour show to do, you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
Know, And I guess the only second guessing you would
have to say is, well, do you attack the medical staff,
because certainly the astro's medical staff has been much maligned
over this, or do you go well, if they knew
about Joe Mixon for six months and don't I didn't
want to say anything, then did they not properly prepare
for this season knowing that Joe Mixon probably wasn't gonna

(01:35:39):
be ready for the first handful of games. So conjecture is,
and we're gonna be doing a lot of it, I
think until Joe Mixon does step back on the field.
Seven one three two, one two five seven ninety seven
to one three two one two five seven nine zero
listen to the show, Tesla bus driver sent me a
tweet says, Hey, Matt, society has become so damned I'm entitled.

(01:36:04):
Everyone feels their owed everything. If a team wants to
be transparent or not be, that's their choice. All these
people whining and bitch you need to shut their bumbasses up.
If they cared about their own lives.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
As much, MM.

Speaker 8 (01:36:24):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
Is that overthinking to me? A little bit? A little bit,
I would agree with you a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
I don't think again, I don't If the word owed
is what I would go with, Tesla, I would be like,
I'd appreciate and if they cared about their own lives
as much. I got terrific news for you, Tesla.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
I love you. I care about my family and my
friends way more than I care about sports period. And
I love sports, but I don't care as much about
sports as I care about my family. So I think

(01:37:11):
you've got. What you got is a good case of
reporters just trying to.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
If you're a beat reporter like John Alexander is the
Chronicle and you are there to cover the team, the
main thing about the team going into the start of
the season is they're leading running back, their big runner
is gone for a while and he's trying to figure
out why. That is the same thing with Chandler Rome
and Brian mctaggard and Matt Kywakaro with the Chronicle. I mean,

(01:37:38):
you know, if something is going on, their jobs are
too reported. It's I don't think they're doing it because
they're trying to take away what's going on in their
own life to look at other people's lives. So and again,
this is not a black and white issue, but it's
an issue of.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
You know, are they doing it?

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Is there is there is there an endgame for this
or are they just trying to be we know better
than anybody else and we don't think you need to know,
so we're not going to tell you. And I think
that's clearly what the Texans are saying are that's their
belief is it's better for us to know and not
tell you in just to say when when he's around
to play, he's around to play.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Let's go to UH Tim on seven on a Hello Tim.

Speaker 8 (01:38:28):
Hey, how are you guys today?

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Good?

Speaker 18 (01:38:32):
Good?

Speaker 8 (01:38:33):
One thing with UH information given out by the team
and there are more people, uh than myself who are
going to be more knowledgeable. But that's the hippo laws. Uh,
reporters cannot violate hippo laws. You have to be trained in.
It's really for the the medical industry or in this

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case that is being support the information is being supplied
to the team by the physicians or their offices. Hippa
might play a role of that. That might be why
a lot of them are so reluctant to give out

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more information.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Well, there's two things about that, Tim.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
Number One, the NFL gives out weekly injury reports, so
that would not vibe with hipp And I don't think
hippo comes into play on this because other teams have
talked about injury statuses with their players way more than
the Texans have. So this is not if every team
and every sport did it that way, Tim, I could
probably go with you a little bit on that, But

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there are other teams in sports and even in the
NFL that are more forthcoming with their injury status and
the Texans have ever been.

Speaker 8 (01:39:50):
And I understand what you're saying with that, but that
also can be written into the players contract where we're
going to get your information of injuries and disseminated. So
the other teams could have that. I mean, this is
all speculation.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Sure, I get it, Yeah, I get.

Speaker 8 (01:40:09):
The guy gets back, and I hope to hear Chelsey
I'm hearing. Of course, who knows four weeks has that changed?

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
That is, there is no change because the when he
got put on the non football injury list, meaning he
has to miss the first four games, but there was
no declaration.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
As if it was only going to be four games.

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
And see, that's the point him is you just brought
up a great example is you're like, I'm hearing this, Well,
you didn't hear it. You just saw the transaction, which
meant which makes you think it's four weeks. It could
be nine weeks, it could be five weeks, it could
be twelve weeks. It could be the entire season. That's
the thing is that now we're speculating where they could
have very easily have said we believe that he is

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going to be gone seven to ten weeks, or we
believe this is a season ending injury.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
That's what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
We're speculating because the Texans have decided organization and they're
not the only ones that have done it, but there
are other organizations in sports. The astros certainly have been
in the same case that said, the lesser information.

Speaker 7 (01:41:07):
The better.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
I get you, and I'd like to know. But there again,
does Nixon want the public?

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
That's right, there's it takes two to tango on that. Yeah,
thanks for the phone call.

Speaker 7 (01:41:22):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Yep, there's yeah. There could be also there could be
the agent saying, hey, don't tell silence, but dimiko to me.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Having been in an NFL locker room and playing, he
probably understands the player perspective, perhaps more than a guy
that's never coached before or never been a player before.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
So he's gonna he's he's he hasn't bet it as much.
He signs with the players. He just does. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
There is a segment of the population that says, when
he comes back, he comes back, and we're happy about it.
Because there've also been some times where teams have said, oh,
we expected me back and forth to seven days and
one's it being three months. Who've been burned by that too.
It is a little bit of a dan if you do,
dan if you don't, And I get it. I understand

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where they coming from. But they're just I guess the
central point to this is there's a lot we don't know,
and today the accredited media went to try to find
out and got nothing in terms of an answer. Now

(01:42:32):
that now, I don't I don't think the people that
were there went there and I'm gonna go try to
gotcha Nick Cassio and got youa on Demico Ryans. I
think there are people there that are credited to cover
the team that said, hey, you're number one running back.
Your guy that's missed you a thousand yards and guy
was explosive and was a huge acquisition for you, by
the way, you've paid good money for has been nowhere

(01:42:55):
to be found for a better part of three months.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
What's going on? But I don't think anybody came home
to that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
I mean, I don't think John Alexander, the Chronicle beat writer,
is sitting at home going, man, I wish he would
have told me. I'm so mad that I didn't get
the story. I don't think he's doing that. He's simply
reporting the Texans are not telling you anything. And that's
where you, as the consumer, say, yeah, I'm okay with that.

(01:43:25):
I don't need to know, or what's my football team doing?
Why can't they be honest with us. Let's go to
uh himI on seven hinting at twelve forty high me,
what do you got today?

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
Well, I'm just thinking that this age of the Internet,
everybody wants to know. They should be able to google
what's going on with expect to pop up. But I
think it may be just simply that they don't want
to send and they because they that he's gonna be
out for whatever time he's going say they could cut

(01:43:58):
a get another running back.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
So yeah, we're gonna let you go.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
Hime me because I'm the phone line is bad if
it's your bat phone line or ours, but probably ours.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
I apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
I mean, could there could the cover up be well,
Joe's been gone and Joe total season be ready to
go for the start of the season and he's not.
So now I'm sitting here with Nick Chubb and a
bunch of other role players when we could have gone
out and maybe spent some money in free and said,
I don't know, you know, they're not you know, they're
certainly not going to tell us that. Now, that would
be intelligence, that would be really juicy, but they would

(01:44:33):
never tell you that. I'm gonna expect it to either
because you know, having been on both sides of the
wall and as part of a team and just talking
on the outside, there are juicy stories. There is questions
about how forthcoming players can be to their own teams,

(01:44:58):
you know, but again that's remains speculation. Let's go to
Gary on seven hinting in twelve forty two high Gary.

Speaker 14 (01:45:07):
Hey, Hey, guys, good afternoon. There is there's there's not
a definite answer here. It depends on how much you're
invested in this, this topic. You you guys being this,
you're highly invested in this because this is your livelihood
and everything. Only other thing more important to you, like
you stated, is your family, So you're highly invested in this. Me,

(01:45:31):
I'm an average fan. Although I've watched oilers for many, many,
many many years, the Astros and forty five and all that.
I'm a I'm a casual fan, spend money for the
games every once in a while, so I want to know.
But if they don't want to tell me, I'm okay
with that. It's no big deal to me. I'll see
when I turn the game on. I'll see if they're
in uniform. And you got guys that bed all the

(01:45:51):
time and buy and uh and season tickets and all
of that. They're kind of in between me and you
on that. They're invested in it in a lot of
different ways. So there's really no answer for it. But
here's the good news for for anybody that's really invested
in it. They you finally got your answer today about

(01:46:12):
asking about people's injuries. They're not going to tell you now.
Now you mentioned a couple of times, uh that maybe
they're hiding stuff from me, whether or not hiding on
the running back. They said four weeks, that's all they
know it right now. They don't they can't see four
weeks if he's going to play or not. But at
this point that's all they.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
Can tell you.

Speaker 14 (01:46:31):
So maybe sometimes they don't know, and maybe sometimes they
get it wrong. But uh, there's there's so many different
answers on this topic depending on you as an individual.
Where how much time it?

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
Yeah, the only thing they probably could have told you
more today is that what exactly happened?

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
Why did something? Why is he not available to.

Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
Start the season. No one left that press conference today
knowing the answer to that question. What happened to begin with?
And why why are you keeping that a secret? I
guess would be the core issue of secrecy is okay,
if he's gone for a while, I get that, and
you can't predict the injury. Yeah, it makes sense, But
why won't you tell us what happened?

Speaker 14 (01:47:14):
Well, maybe he asked them not to do vol exactly.
I can't assume anything. Just just accept what they said.
You cannot like it and object to it, but just
know where they're coming from and that's the way they're
going to be, and spend your time and energies on
other areas that you're an expert in with which is many.
You guys have a great station there. But at least

(01:47:34):
you know that they're not going to divulge you too
much information to you in the future. But anyway, that's
kind of the way I look at it, all.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
Right, Thanks, Garry.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
I'm just going to say this, this is they're consistent,
but they also you also understand they're not going to
get the benefit of DOW anymore. Think about this in
your life. I'm not going to get to a break here.
When you were Jonathan, you and I are coworkers here.

(01:48:02):
You told me your life story and everything. You said
it honestly and said, hey, I was late today or
because of this, or I'm not film well because of this,
you were, you'd be transparent with me, right, right, And
I would give you the benefit of the doubt on
things down the road when you're not, when you're not transparents,
you are right, Jonathan Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
I'm fine. You wouldn't tell me I'm not gonna be
I'm not gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.

Speaker 10 (01:48:25):
Yeah, And then that with my kids all the time,
I just feel like it being transparent, and it's not
about that we care more or I feel like.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
It just we don't care about their lives more than
our eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
I trust me.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
I will go to bed tonight feeling very good regardless
of Joe Mixon's health status.

Speaker 10 (01:48:43):
It just makes the fans closer with the team so
they know what's going on, so they can support and understand.
But at least from my point of view of it,
you yeah, I mean I think that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
I don't think people are wavering from their support, like, oh,
I'm not room for the Texas Now, that'd be silly, right,
But I just you tend to give benefit of doubts
when people are honest with you. If you lie, I'm
not saying the Texans a lying but when you hide,
there's always this little little centenism that kicks in.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
More are you coming up?

Speaker 3 (01:49:12):
Craig Way on the Longhorns and the Buckey's Saturday in Columbus.
Ringing through quite a few Twitter responses over a Tesla's tweet,
Bonnie says, not a Texans fan, but no matter the
professional sports team, I feel we should be given the
actual information and injuries. Additionally, it's also just a flippant

(01:49:32):
manner in which Dimko has related his response a bit
of defensiveness. Defensiveness, thank you, Bonnie Ray says, lots of
truth here. This is from Tesla's tweet. Teams, though, also
get pissed off a median fans speculate, well, it's what
they do in the absence of information. Freesen says. The
bottom line is that teams don't owe fans and the information.

(01:49:53):
It's a business. But that in mind, don't be surprised
if folks aren't willing to buy into your product. Comes
back and says, but if what happens with media or misreports,
there are no repercussions. That's actually not true. If you're
a legit media and you report things that are wrong.
You're going to lose your job. Eventually, you're not going

(01:50:15):
to be on the particular beat. You're not going to
be considered credible. You're going to and you've got a
chance of losing your job if you misreport things. He says,
how can you speculate when you have zero information? Then
it becomes false information from the word go, Well, I
think people speculate all the time. Let me give you
a real quick example of this. If a team does

(01:50:36):
not want to tell you how a certain player is doing,
by saying we have nothing to tell you, what's the
easiest way to speculate? To it serious injury? When a
player is gone for three or four days and they
tell you, then you go, well, they don't need to
speculate its three or four days. But if you don't

(01:50:58):
say anything and arcoy about it, then you open your
sop four, Well, it could be a lot worse, and
that's when the speculation begins. So, like I said, this
is a conversation that can run a variety of ways.
For sure, Let's go to Clay and Hockley on seven
ninety and twelve fifty four high Clay, Hey, man.

Speaker 12 (01:51:19):
Hey, I just wondered, is this thing because I watch
want to out of market football games. I don't watch
a lot of out of market baseball games, but is
this It seems like football is more transparent about it
because they always say it's players could just come back
week eight or week twelve, and you know, I don't
know if it's it's like this another market's not baseball.

(01:51:39):
I don't know if the secret he's like this another
markets as well, because I know the Astros keep everything
so close to the cup, right, Just wondering if if
you know anything about you know, the other markets and
they're pretty much centered into boot we get year.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
I can't speak for thirty one other teams. Now, during
the NFL season, Clay, you have to once a regular season,
you have to report an injury report. That is mandatory,
and they do multiple days during the week. They do
not require teams to do that during the preseason. So
I don't know how it's gonna look on Joe Mixon's
injury report. But I don't even think it's he's even
have to put on the injury report because he's on

(01:52:13):
that special list.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
I could be wrong about that, but I think that
they don't.

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
Only have to put injured players on that list that
are part of the active roster. And right now, Joe's
not a part of the active roster. Let's Jimi wants
to get back here, we put it, Hoimi back on
line five. It's gonna be a bad thing, Homie.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
What do you got.

Speaker 7 (01:52:31):
No, I'm just wondering if they're not sharing that information
because they're trying to get a replacement, and if if
teams know that they're going to have him out for
a certain period, they may try to hold out and
try to get some more draft picks, high draft picks, etc.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
No, because it's too late in the game for that.
I mean, the NFL season starts next Thursday. I mean,
I don't think this information was new to them even
at the start of training camp. I mean, remember he
didn't take part of any officers and activities at all
with the team.

Speaker 7 (01:53:06):
Well, it goes back to the point is that they knew,
but they didn't want to share that because it's try
to work a deal. They got chubbed and that other guy,
you know, I don't know. I think now in the
day and age of search engines, we expect to have
information at our fingertips and when we don't get it,
were kind of upset about it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
Well, again, some people thank you for the phone call.
Some may not be in your phone. I was much
better there. I'm very happy about that. Some people may
be upset some people. Again, I'm just an information guy.
I'd rather not speculate. That's not fun because here's the
thing is that when you do speculate halftime, you're wrong,

(01:53:49):
right or more than that, It'd be way easier for
me to go, all right, how are the Texans going to?

Speaker 13 (01:53:56):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
Look?

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
With Mixing being gone for the first four weeks, there's
no need to spy what the team's gonna have to do.
They're gonna have to go with a set steadied out
of Nick Chubb and maybe uh, you know, you got
Marx who comes in, and maybe Damian Pierce has a
more active role. There's no need to speculate about that,
So that not one respect, we don't have to speculate.

Speaker 5 (01:54:17):
But I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:54:18):
I think when you are in season preview mode and
you are thinking about, man, is my team gonna go
eleven and six this year?

Speaker 2 (01:54:26):
Is my team gonna go nine and eight?

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
Is my team gonna go twelve and five, Am, I
is my squad gonna be able to win the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
This is a This is a prime speculation season. Regardless
of whether or not Joe mix It was healthy or not.

Speaker 3 (01:54:41):
But just adding his is uncertainty and with health is
only going to contribute to people going well, you know,
is my team really gonna be good enough to make
this happen and be good and maybe make that Super
Bowl run.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
Let's get to Craig Way. He is the voice of
the Texas Longhorns.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
He will join us next as we get the second
final hour of the Maount Show coming up with Ross.
He's off today, back with us tomorrow. I want to
tell you once again about how you want to get
in a quality home.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:55:15):
This Saturday ten o'clock Sports Talk seven on. You will
be your home for Texas Football Longhorns taking out on
the Ohio State Buck Guys and Columbus. The man that
will call it, longtime voice of the Longhorns and a
great host and a great broadcaster, Craig Way, the voice
of Kingwood Baseball and softball championships.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
Is that right, Craig Way?

Speaker 17 (01:55:36):
Hey, that was a moment of pride for me, Maddie.
Glad that glad I didn't do the softball but I
did do the baseball championships.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
Yeah, I guess we'll do that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
Yes, they were very, very happy to have the local
school taking care of it. Hey, let me ask you
your philosophy. You've called a lot of season openers in
all your years of college football. What's it like to
have this sort of I mean, prime time number one
kind of showdowns so early? This is something we didn't
see a whole lot of fifteen or twenty years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:56:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:56:05):
I think I can count the number of times where
you had a game even approaching this magnitude on one
hand and probably use less than three fingers to do it.
I remember the Charlie Strong debut was in South ben
but everybody was kind of expecting it to not go well,
and it did not go well. It was like a

(01:56:26):
thirty eight to three Notre Dame winning that. There's been
a couple other high profile games like that. In twenty sixteen,
they had that Sunday night over Labor Day weekend, that
crazy double overtime win over Notre Dame. That's when Joe
tessitur uttered the famous ugly words touch us as back,
and the long runs never stopped hearing that for the

(01:56:47):
next several years.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
So you had that.

Speaker 17 (01:56:50):
But I don't think anything quite approaches this, Matt. It's
in the whatever thirty eight years I've been on the
network and my twenty fifth season in the play by
play chair, this is this is the most excited, highly
anticipated height matchup I think that I've ever seen for
a Texas season opener. And yes, some of it has

(01:57:12):
to do with the new guy taking snaps under center.
There's a lot of attention and excitement around that, but
I just think overall, there's a great deal of anticipation
based on what starked is built over the last two years,
going twenty five and five and back to back trips
to the college football playoffs. So there's a lot of
things built into the excitement of this upcoming season opener.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
And I apologize Craig for so much future arch manning conversation,
but the reality is the quarterback in college football is
such a pivotal part of things. You know, he showed
some great scrambling ability during the course of last year's
the limited time that he plays. Forgetting about what coach
Sark wants when Craig ways calling the game, how much
do you anticipate him using his legs to get some

(01:57:53):
first downs get those extra yards.

Speaker 17 (01:57:55):
Oh, I think he'll do it, depending on, you know,
the type of protection he has, and also with the
play calls that sardas because they planned to use his
what does it coaches like to say functional mobility.

Speaker 7 (01:58:08):
I think they.

Speaker 17 (01:58:08):
Planned to use his legs and ways that they could
not do with Quinn Ewers. Quinn was a little more
mobile than a lot of folks wanted to give him
credit for. But Arche I think takes it to a
different level. We saw that on that long touchdown run
against UTSA. We saw it on running around the corner
against Texas A and m to score the touchdown. You know,
he's a big guy and he's a fast guy, and

(01:58:30):
I think they planned to use that part of him
as one of one of the things in his toolkit,
so to speak, to make him more effective on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
Matthew Golden hurt my feelings when he left my school
to go to yours, and obviously he was a big
impactful part of last year's team.

Speaker 2 (01:58:45):
How's the receiving core overall.

Speaker 17 (01:58:48):
Yeah, what a great guy and an outstanding receiver as well,
and I hope it goes well for him in Green Bay.
I do think that while he moves on to the NFL,
they do have plenty of dangerous receivers. Ryan Wingo I
think could wind up being the top receiving target. He's
got great wheels and good hands and that escapability you

(01:59:10):
have that. DeAndre Moore is a veteran guy. I'll tell
you another guy, Parker Livingstone, is a guy who could
surprise some folks say he catches about everything thrown his way.

Speaker 13 (01:59:20):
And then from the tight end spot.

Speaker 17 (01:59:22):
Even though they lost an outstanding tight end, they come
back with another one in the col transfer Jack Indreyes.
So I think all of that makes them, if not
every bit the equal receiving threats they had last year,
darned close to it.

Speaker 13 (01:59:40):
I would imagine going into the opener.

Speaker 3 (01:59:42):
Craig, will the portal be a huge part long term?
And look, we're balancing ANIL money with portal money, with
the fact that's the University of Texas and the great
national brand that it has. How much is this year's
roster put together because of the portal? And do you anticipate,
and how does Sark feel about the next five years
would he'd like to have You know, look, you're going

(02:00:02):
to have money, You're going to have an opportunity for
some kids to really do well with now the twenty
point five million dollars, new adjustments and all that, Can
you go back to not having to spend a lot
of time grabbing kids from other schools or do you
think it's going to be a part of college football
for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 17 (02:00:17):
Yeah, I think it's here to stay now. With regard
to Texas, Matt, you know, Sark likes to use it,
I think more as a supplemental piece and again, picking
up a guy like Jack Injury's to step in to
the tight end spot I think is important. But they're
still going to cast their lot with the high school

(02:00:38):
talent predominantly in the state of Texas, and as Sark
likes to say, roster retention being able to take care
of those guys who are coming back through the expanded
NIL universe as it is, so, I think that it'll
be a part of it. But you know what it
reminds me of, Matt. It reminds me of that what
was that famous quote from Ben Scully about use of

(02:00:58):
statistics by broadcasters. They should be used like a lamppost,
unlike a drunk. They should use the post for illumination,
not for support. And I think that in this case,
you would be looking at Texas wanting to add a
piece here at a piece there, but not to make

(02:01:19):
up the bulk of the roster or even the most
key spots in large number of the roster. It's to supplement,
not necessarily to build a roster.

Speaker 3 (02:01:27):
Greig Wave Voice and the Longhorns with us on our
sister station kve ET in Austin. Of course, you'll have
the game right here on seven y beginning at ten o'clock.
If I looked at the Ohio State practice is which
you're not allowed to and very few people are compared
to the last time they took the field winning a
national championship, how'm different on the Buckeyes from year to hear?

Speaker 17 (02:01:47):
Well, there's some differences and there's there's a similarity in
the differences, if that can be said between these two teams.
And here's here's what I'm talking about. Texas of course,
is replacing as starters all of their offensive lineman except
DJ Campbell, but the guys who are going to be
playing have a lot of experience. They were in the rotation.

(02:02:08):
Trevor Gooseby will start at left tackle. He had to
start a couple of games, including the game the SEC
Championship game because of the ankle injury to Calvin Banks,
so he had to step in and do that. So
there's a lot of guys with skins on the wall
who played quite a bit in the rotation even if

(02:02:28):
they weren't starters. That's on the Texas offensive front. The
Ohio State defensive front is in a similar situation. Their
four down linemen are all gone, but the guys who
are stepping in the play are all veteran, experienced guys
who drew a lot of snaps. And I think, you know,
with the larger power for programs, especially the ones near

(02:02:49):
the top of their leagues like these two are, you're
going to see that be the regular thing because the
depth is built in, and the depth is such that
they can rotate a lot of guys in to keep
their starters fresh, and so by the time those guys
who are rotating in become starters, they've had enough experience
where they can step in without it being too much
of a learning curve.

Speaker 3 (02:03:10):
As the voice of the team, Craig, you get a
chance to go to a few practices. What the squad
that you are covering. What was the one group position
group that perhaps surprised you. Not necessarily there was poor
going in, but man exceeded what you saw when the
limited time you were able to check out the team
practice wise.

Speaker 17 (02:03:25):
Well, I do think like I said, I thought the
offensive line performed well. I was also really curious to
see Matt how the running backs would do, because remember CJ.
Baxer a really good freshman season and then had the
knee injury in fall camp last year, had the miss
all of last year. But what happens is Trey Wisman
rushes for over one thousand yards. Well, to see how

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those two will work together in combination, and there will
be times where they'll be on the field together even
I was very curious to see how that would take
and how that would work, and it seemed to work
out really, really well. So I was quite impressed with that.
The way the secondary has become multifaceted, where a guy
like Jalen Gilbo, who has played the starback that's the

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nickel position or safety, and he's set to be a
starting corner. And all of these guys have cross trained
and a lot of those air same thing with the linebackers.
Anthony Hill has played in the middle, he's played on
the edge, and he's a preseason All American. So the
cross training of those guys I think is really really important.
And that was one thing that was impressive in the
Paul Camp pork out.

Speaker 3 (02:04:30):
Last question, which moment will be hopefully not too big,
And I'm meaning in terms of, look, your squad has
played in national semifinal games and have been in the
tournament and done all these types of things the last
couple of years, but still going to the horseshoe is
going to be big for some young men. So are
there one or two guys that are kind of curious
about whether they're transfers, whether they're true freshmen that are

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getting rotation time in the depth chart that you're kind
of curious to see how they handle being in front
of one hundred and five thousand people.

Speaker 2 (02:04:57):
Are they gonna hate you?

Speaker 8 (02:04:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (02:05:00):
I think there's always that curiosity. You know, the question
has come up the last few years about, you know,
how the Texas defensive front perform And that question comes
up every single year because of the guys that moved
on to the NFL. But the guys who are stepping
in I think are ready for that challenge. And then
obviously everybody's going to be watching March to see how

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he is in the moment. But he's got a great
calm demeanor about him. He's very laid back, but he's
very much a competitor and he's dialed into being prepared
for this thing. So I'm looking forward to watching him
like everybody else.

Speaker 2 (02:05:33):
Is how many games have you done at Ohio Stateium?

Speaker 13 (02:05:35):
For?

Speaker 2 (02:05:35):
How many over your career?

Speaker 5 (02:05:38):
Who know?

Speaker 7 (02:05:39):
Just that one?

Speaker 17 (02:05:39):
And it was pretty dog one memorable?

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
How does this happen?

Speaker 3 (02:05:44):
How do these two i mean franchise type schools only
play each other once every twenty years?

Speaker 2 (02:05:49):
That's crazy?

Speaker 17 (02:05:51):
And when they played in two thousand and five, it
was the first time they'd ever met, and then of
course he had the rematch here you know six Ohio
State won that one. Then they played in the Fiesta
Bowl in January of nine. An incredible performance by Colt
McCoy in that one, and then they didn't play again
until the Cotton Bowl last year, and so they have

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this home and home. They'll play this year in Columbus,
and they'll play next year in Austin. In fact, that
the non conference schedule for Texas pretty impressive when you
look at it coming because it's Ohio State will be
here next year, then Michigan for the return game an
arbor from last year. Michigan will be here in twenty

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twenty seven. Then they have a home and home of
Notre Dame in twenty twenty eight and twenty twenty nine,
and then after that, I think they've got a home
and home of Arizona State, and of course the SEC
when they announced last week that they were going to
a nine game conference schedule, they wanted also to mandate
that all of their schools play at least one power
for opponent per season. Well, Texas already has that taken

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care of with their schedule through the end of the decade.

Speaker 3 (02:07:00):
Have fun, my man, and looking forward to hearing your
calls all year on seven ninety before football and basketball.
Thank you for the visit, and we may bother you
again later this season, and good luck with your show.
What's on the Big Show today between two and five.

Speaker 17 (02:07:12):
We're gonna hear from from March Manning this afternoon, so
it'll be it'll be interesting. And by the way, speaking
to my man, how's it going with my man, Kevin Durant,
How's how's it going with Kate Da.

Speaker 3 (02:07:23):
Well here hasn't been here yet. We haven't seen him.
He didn't come back for the introduction yet. We're not
best he's just yet. But we have Ryan Hollands. Ryan
Hollands and I have a bet up, but we're trying
to convince him to go. The three of us are
going to have dinner at some point this season. We've
got a little small way that's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
So you know, I I hope that happens.

Speaker 8 (02:07:41):
He's a good dude.

Speaker 2 (02:07:41):
Yeah, I'm looking looking very much forward to it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:43):
Craig, Thank you again for the time and again looking
forward to your call this this year on seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
We appreciate it as always.

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
Thank you man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:50):
Talk to you too.

Speaker 3 (02:07:51):
That's Craig Waite, one of the very very talented, first
of all talented playback play broadcasters and second all just
a super guy voice of the Longhorns. Nine o'clock to
say ten o'clock with the pregame show, eleven o'clock with
the kickoff, and it'll be the buck Guys and the
Longhorns right here on seven ninety one.

Speaker 2 (02:08:08):
Sixteen is our time.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
We'll get back on the Astros and Brian Bogus have
a conversation coming up at the bottom of the hour.
If you missed that earlier day, we'll have it for
you next in about fifteen minutes right here on Sports
Talk seven ninetyway.

Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
Always good catching up with Craig.

Speaker 3 (02:08:25):
He loves him some high school football too, and he
calls a game, they'll tell you what high school they went.
The kid went to junior high what he ate for
elementary in the fifth grade. I think he's he's got
some of that ahead of his because look, I have
cheat sheets when I call games for anecdotal purposes and stuff.
He's got to memorized. I guarantee you Craig knows what

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high school I went to. He probably said, all right,
I'm going on with Matt.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
I got a member. He went to Macreek High School.

Speaker 3 (02:08:54):
On twenty three Sports Talk seven ninety I put the
MLB Network game on. The Yankees are leading the Nationals
nine to nothing. In the bottom of the third. They've
already hit like five home runs in the game. You
already for an unpopular take. I'm scared of than the Yankees.

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They can slug the hell out of the ball. Aaron
Judges hit a base hit to left field. I mean
he he just extended his bat. It just threw it
out there. And God, I want the Astros to slug.
I want the Astros hit a bunch of home runs.
I need Jordan Alvarez to do it. Even though I
said zero, I can't listen. I can't one run yesterday

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with Hunter Brown the mound two defense, I need good
defense in a couple of runs Astros did not provide
much of either yesterday. I gotta keep remember reminding my
self it's baseball, because remember, if the Astro is doing
the next two games, it's a winning series and they

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will do no worse than keep their game in a
half lead in the division. I did remember I felt
dirty on gut feelings that our day, John that I
said they were gonna go six and four in this
homestand I.

Speaker 10 (02:10:20):
Wasn't gonna bring that up because I was like, you
Altada got your one. I mean, I'm pacing that way, right,
not the series we expected it.

Speaker 14 (02:10:31):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:31):
Well, again, things can change. I wasn't expecting it to
be well, maybe I.

Speaker 3 (02:10:35):
Was expecting it to be a sweet but maybe that's
part of my problem. From Berveldees, come on, my man,
forget about your ten years of future Houston Astro. We
gotta first of all talk about the here and now
and ultimately we need you to be good so you
can go get yourself some money this offseason.

Speaker 2 (02:10:58):
I mean, he's gonna strike it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:59):
Rich's left tander, he's durable, He's wont to boatload of games.
And when that twelve to six curve ball is working beautifully,
it's a thing of it's a it's just a work
of art. But man, when I think when his dabber
is down, he does he doesn't do a very good
job of hiding it, that's for sure. Oh, Commissioner Adam
Silver's of the game today. Sipper doesn't come to the

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Astros games.

Speaker 2 (02:11:25):
Getting back. He's got going in here to Houston for that,
all right.

Speaker 3 (02:11:28):
So uh, that's kind of what's what I'm thinking is
that Frommer has got to do a much better job tonight.
His defense canna be good around him. And the guy
that's pitching today for the Astro for the for the
Rockies has an area of seven.

Speaker 2 (02:11:45):
Seven.

Speaker 3 (02:11:47):
Come on, now, you heard me, ladies and gentlemen, I'm
guaranteeing you a must This is a this is a
must win, and it's a guaranteed win, because I can't
imagine how grumpy you folks are going to be tomorrow
if the Astros lose this game, or for that matter,

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lose another game in the series. The Rockies are wretched,
the Angels are not much better. And you better get
fat and happy off of these next handful of games,
because the Astros road trip is going a homestand is
going to end with the team that is up nine
to nothing on the New York Yankees on the Washington
Nationals in the bottom of the third inning. Maybe the

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Yankees will be too tired after hitting all these home
runs against the Nationals. They won't won't be able to
score against the Astros.

Speaker 2 (02:12:37):
You never know, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:12:39):
Brian bogus Sevik will give us his thoughts and the
disappointment of what he saw yesterday in the home opener
of this long homestand again the Astros lost, but so
two to the Mariners. Thank you San Diego. You were
up five to nothing, then fell behind six five, then one,
seven to five. That is a blessing one twenty seven
on Sports Talk seven on eighty one. Earlier today, our

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friend Brian Bogasitek joined to Gordie and Me for conversation
on the Astros. It does every Wednesday live at eleven o'clock,
so if you miss them here, you can always get
him on Wednesdays at eleven, and we talked about the
buzzkill that was the loss yesterday, not only being home,
having yourd on back, having the Rockies in should have
been an easy win, right well, Bogie and I discussed that,

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among other things, all things Astros.

Speaker 11 (02:13:27):
Yeah, you know we we said on the pregame show.
With as much adversity as the teammate had a fight
through and all the the stuff that they had to overcome,
it finally felt like things were lining up in their favor.
There's a lot of stuff going for them coming in,
whether it be the offense getting it going in Baltimore,
your back hunters on the mound. You know, you got
the worst team in baseball coming into play, and it

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just feels like I missed opportunities right, Like you know,
you see it all the time in individual games. You
missed opportunities to score runs and it comes back to
bite you. This is, you know, the schedule equivalent of
second and third nobody out and they didn't take advantage
of it.

Speaker 3 (02:14:05):
So the big question mark has been with last night,
a couple of walks for your ton, which he's always
been pretty good at doing.

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
That is the protection behind him.

Speaker 3 (02:14:15):
I know many years ago we were growing up, we
talked about lineup construction a lot. It feels like we
don't talk about it nearly as much here in twenty
twenty five, generally speaking. But let me ask you, how
do you protect him from getting on base a couple
of times because other teams are like, we're not going
to pitch to.

Speaker 11 (02:14:32):
Him, Well, you got to have run producers behind him, right.
If you're pitching around somebody, that inevitably means there's going
to be opportunities with runners on base behind him. And
you know, Christian Walker had those opportunities yesterday didn't work out.
You know, if you look at the body of work
for Christian Walker over the last two months, basically he's

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his numbers are very similar to what they were last
couple of years in Arizona. The guy we thought we
were getting. You know, he drove in a bunch of
runs on the road trip. Did it happen yesterday?

Speaker 17 (02:15:03):
No?

Speaker 11 (02:15:03):
But you know, as of right now, he's the guy.
He's the guy who, you know, before Yordon came back,
was your best option as a run producer. So now
you stick him behind Yord on it and hope that
a couple of chances he can cash in on it,
and then all of a sudden you got to pitch
the jord on.

Speaker 6 (02:15:19):
Yeah, that's all I was gonna say, Brian. I mean,
you know Walker who was so encouraging in that Baltimore series.
He was, you know, hitting home runs, and it was like,
all right, maybe he's getting going here, and then you know,
an zero for three night last night. I just you know, again,
maybe it was just you went up against a pitcher
that's feeling himself right now.

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
It's so funny.

Speaker 6 (02:15:34):
I was looking at Tanner Gordon, what do you give him,
like ten runs two weeks ago to Arizona and then
he goes one run against the Dodgers, one run against
the Astros. So sometimes you just run into a guy
who's just pitching well. But I think that's the biggest thing.
The Matt's point is, Okay, Jordon's back great, but yeah,
if teams are going to walk him, you need somebody
to driving those runs. But Christian Walker has just been

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so inconsistent all year. I'm just I'm worried about him
being the guy behind Yordon.

Speaker 11 (02:16:01):
Maybe, but certainly have to give it more than one
game to really dissect it. I mean, if you look
at the opportunity. Yesterday, he hit a ball I forget
which inning, it was, maybe the fifth or sixth inning
he lined out to left field to end the inning
with runners on basis. The ball had an expected batting
average over nine hundred. It was just a good play
right out a guy. So you know, you can't just

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say you went over. It's not working when the guy,
you know, hit a line drive that could have easily
gotten down his first at bat the inning that, you know,
the end of the first inning.

Speaker 13 (02:16:33):
It was a good pitch to hit.

Speaker 11 (02:16:34):
He barreled, it just got undered, it under, it flew
out the center field. You know, as long as it's
not looking overmatched, as long as it's not hey, they
are targeting you. And attacking you one specific way because
they have found a weakness that they know they can
go to time and time again.

Speaker 2 (02:16:49):
If he's you know, in a.

Speaker 11 (02:16:51):
Good spot swing wise, if he's getting good pitches to hit,
let him go out there for more than a couple
of games and really see, because you know he's he's
produced runs better than most guys on the team. I mean,
I think there's you know, RBI's with two outs. He's
at the top of the American League. He's got you know,
a high percentage of RBIs to games over the last

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two months or so. So he's been getting it done,
but certainly didn't yesterday starting pitching.

Speaker 6 (02:17:20):
It's it's a weird time right now. Look, we know
Hoavier is working his way back into form. Lance is
still trying to work his way back into form. Arraghetti
very encouraged from his last outing, you know, after a
dismal outing before it So okay, starting to maybe these
guys running in a form.

Speaker 2 (02:17:34):
But if this team's gonna do anything in the.

Speaker 6 (02:17:36):
Postseason, Brian, It starts with Hunter Brown and starts as
from Rivaldez and Hunter Brown. Last night an uncharacteristic weird
night where yeah, he only gives up to earn, but
you still give up six runs and you lose six
to one. I look at tonight with Fromber and this
is a big start for him. I'm sorry, I mean,
I get it's it's Colorado, but at seven thirty three
ra this month, Fromber's been bad the last four starts.

Speaker 2 (02:17:59):
Like, I've got to see good.

Speaker 6 (02:18:01):
Vintage Fromber here feel good about myself and if he's not, man,
I'm starting to hit the panic button because I'm going
my two automatics Fromber and Hudder Brown.

Speaker 2 (02:18:09):
If they can't get it done, like you really start
to get a little bit worried.

Speaker 11 (02:18:13):
No, absolutely, I mean this team's playoff hopes hinge around
kind of bookending a game. Right, it's starting pitching, and
it's back of the bullpen, and it starts with the
two big guys at the top of the rotation. You
had the two big guys at the back of the bullpen.
You're already down one of them, so that those four
guys that are out of the mix now with Hitter
being down, so it becomes even more important to be

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getting quality start after quality start from Hunter and Fromber
and for Fromber, we got to see the stuff look
like it's supposed to. And there's going to be times
when you get hit a little bit, especially a guy
who gives a big round ball pitcher, balls are going
to find holes all that stuff. But his curve ball
two of his last three starts has not looked right.

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He hasn't been getting round balls at the same rate
that he typically does. There are some mechanical things that
are affecting the stuff. And if he doesn't have that
high end stuff and they don't have, you know, a
big two at the top of that starting rotation, it's
going to be really difficult to go out there and
try to run through a couple series in the playoffs,

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and you know you'll be able to tell. You'll be
able to tell today because when his curve ball is working,
it's a really high swing and miss pitch and the
Rockies swinging miss more than anybody in baseball. So if
he's not able to rack up wiffs with that curveball today,
it's still not right.

Speaker 3 (02:19:32):
Do you think, Brian, that is something he works on
on the days he's throwing when he's not in the
rotation and not pitching, or is it something that he's
got to make a self assessment on when he's in
the bullpen get ready before the start that night.

Speaker 11 (02:19:46):
No, that is a definitely work on during the week.
I mean when his sinker and his curveball both with
the amount of movement that he has in those pitches.

Speaker 2 (02:19:57):
Relief point is key, right.

Speaker 11 (02:19:58):
You got to know where you're going to let that
pitch go to, know where it's going to land based
on how much movement it's got on any given day,
and your mechanics have to be really synced up and
right for you to be able to adjust that based
on what you've got that day. So you know, you
go out there, you try to be really consistent with
your mechanics and the throwing program when you get off
the mound in between starts, and you know know where

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you can start that pitch to land at where you want.
And then when you go out there during the game,
you know there are some guys starting pitchers who if
you have a really deep repertoire, if you're a five
to six pitch guy, if you don't have a pitch working,
you can just scrap it and go with something else.
A hunter does that all the time. We've seen Lancemo
callers do it at times. But Fromber essentially a two
pitch guy. We'll see him go to more change ups

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or incorporate a slider every once in a while. But
he's got to find ways to find the thinker and
find the curveball. He's done it at times this year.
When you see him subtracting velocity from his fastball, that's
when he's really trying to find that shape to kind
of set everything in motion. He's got to find a
way to find it at early today.

Speaker 3 (02:21:01):
The narrative after last night's loss, and obviously things can change,
especially if the Astros win the next two games of
the series.

Speaker 2 (02:21:07):
Is the Astros really.

Speaker 3 (02:21:08):
Play well against the upper ascheal on teams, the first
place teams, the waald card teams, but man, they can
struggle mightily with the second tier squad. Last time at
home Baltimore, that was a miserable series.

Speaker 2 (02:21:19):
The game last night. Are we talking coincidence?

Speaker 3 (02:21:23):
I don't believe Brian that the Astros clubhouse shuts the
door at six fifteen before seven to ten first pitch
and says, boys, we got this handled. So if that's
not the case, which I believe it isn't the case,
then what is it why does this team have its
issues against teams that are significantly under five hundred or
out of the Pennett race.

Speaker 11 (02:21:43):
It's got to be coincidence because there's nothing else that
makes sense. I mean, you've got too many guys who
have done it at a high level for so long
to think that they're just you know, can go out
there and be outclassed by some of those bottom of
the division teams on such a consistent bay. And also,
you know, maybe if you're talking middle of June July,

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can you overlook somebody maybe not be as locked in
or or let the wear down of the season gets
you a little bit. Sure, but when you're talking about
thirty games left and a one game lead in the
division and a team breathing down your neck, the focus
should be there to not overlook a team like the
Rockies or a team like Baltimore. So, you know, it's
got to just be coincidence because we see what the

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best version is. We see them go out there and
go toe to toe with the Phillies and with the Dodgers,
and we see what the good can be. So why
we don't see that against the lesser teams? I think
it's just kind of a random happenstance of the up
and downs of the season, and it's just lined up
to where they haven't been playing well.

Speaker 3 (02:22:45):
Last question, we get Jordan back, maybe Myers hope for
the next hampful of days after rehabilitation starts in the Sugarland,
do you suggest any seismic shift in the everyday starting
line up, especially if we go seventy or do you
think the way it's kind of put together right now
it's okay.

Speaker 11 (02:23:04):
No, I'm fine with the way it's put together now.
Obviously everything is fluid, and if you start getting, you know,
eight ten games in and things aren't working out, maybe
you shuffle it around a little bit. I think the
biggest scene that we're going to see in terms of
kind of fluidity in the lineup or the construction during
during any given day is how do you incorporate al

(02:23:27):
Tuve at DH left field second base with now yourd
On into the mix. Who's going to get the bigger
share of DH? How are you going to keep each
of them fresh from being out in left field. That's
going to be interesting to watch. I mean, they're both
going to be in there every day, So just how
Joe gets it done and seeing how he thinks he
can maximize you know, the team defensively with those guys.

(02:23:48):
But no, I think you're getting to the point to
where we're going to see a pretty consistent group of
six to seven guys every day.

Speaker 2 (02:23:57):
All right, That again, is Brian Bogus said.

Speaker 3 (02:24:00):
Can we look forward to always grabbing him for a
good conversation wednesdays here on Sports Talk seven and eight.
Now Jonathan Steven at Boston State University is today's edition.

Speaker 2 (02:24:11):
And believe it or not, did you happen to look
at the question so far? No, I actually have that.
I think they're fair. I don't take any pot.

Speaker 3 (02:24:19):
Shots at your school because it's a good school. I
have plenty of friends who went to FA. Okay, and
I consider you a friend. All right, No, di okay, No,
this all right. The disc you'll beginning will be at
about ten o'clock on tomorrow night, when I'm looking at
about a forty two to three score somewhere in that range.
Maybe you'll get a touchdown late to make it forty.

Speaker 10 (02:24:39):
Five, ten, twenty seven, FOURTEENA. Oh, now, I'm sorry, I
almost coughed up my lunch there.

Speaker 3 (02:24:51):
H all right, there is a story that is very interesting,
according to Darren Revel. This is from bleacher Report and
from Darren Revel. Bill Belichick, North Carolina coach and his

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girlfriend Jordan Hudson have filed a trademark for the term
gold Digger, with the intention of using it to create
a line of jewelry and key chains. Per Darren Revel,
They've also followed trademarks for Chapel Hill, Bellustrator, the Trail

(02:25:32):
of Salty Tears, no days Off, and the Belichick Way
Chapple Hill, Chapel Bill, excuse me, not Chettle Hill. You
know I'm glad you're corrected me. And I'm going to

(02:25:52):
say the following statement. Okay, Jonathan, and I mean this
with very much respect. You ready for the statement?

Speaker 2 (02:25:59):
This crazy insane, this is I can that's just uh,
she's wacko.

Speaker 3 (02:26:12):
Do you think Bill Belichick would have time to think
about trademarking any of these things? Again, here they are
real quick gold Digger, Chapel Bill Bellustrator, the Trail of
Salty Tears, no days off, in the Belichick.

Speaker 10 (02:26:27):
Way, you haven't even won anything, so even well he's
won a lot of stuff. Well, I mean saying in college.
It's a completely different ballpark. That's his biggest criticism is
how if you will survive in college and raise these
you know, kid instead of these grown men.

Speaker 3 (02:26:44):
Cold Now it's g O L D space D I
G G E R. I wonder if it's different than
the is gold digger typically one word or two words.
You know, it's a good question. I don't even got
to find that stuff out. But I'm must say, boy,
I'm a stay, but I must stand by my statement.
The bitches she just is that's unreal.

Speaker 2 (02:27:04):
I mean, I'm serious.

Speaker 3 (02:27:06):
She He's trying to resurrect his college, his college football career,
his coaching career, and she's worried about trademarking phrases for jewelry.

Speaker 2 (02:27:17):
She's like, I gotta do something asleep with a seventy
five year old. What's going to buy that? That's that's
my thing. Oh you think you know what, Well, let
me tell you. North Carolina wins. They'll buy it. They don't.
They go to and ten this year, they won't. They
won't be interested in any of it. All right, five
minutes left to go on the show.

Speaker 5 (02:27:33):
What should we do?

Speaker 2 (02:27:36):
We should play?

Speaker 3 (02:27:38):
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Well, our famous SASS first talk all the above.

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The average SAT score for entrance to SFA is ten seventy,
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Unbelieve it?

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You should believe it.

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Nor there.

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Matt.

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The demographic at SFA thirty six percent male, sixty four
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Believe it? Matt?

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That is correct.

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There you go the world. You file a one one.
The streak is over, my friend. Thank you.

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Let's go to uh Larry on Sevenantie, Larry, you're ready
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is the Lumberjacks. The other name that was a finalist
the pine Cones. Believe it or not.

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Doesn't believe it as well.

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Yes, I didn't know this one though.

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It or not?

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SFA is in the second season of competing in Conference USA.

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Not?

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That's right there in the Southland. That's a These are
too easy.

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Right.

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We have four winners so far. Damn I'm losing my well.
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Believe it?

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No, it's fuller. Sorry, I was nervous for a minute there.

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Richard on SEVENINTI Richard, what was your favorite part of
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Definitely the Astros talk now.

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Bum phillips first head coaching job was leading the Lumberjacks
from nineteen sixty one to nineteen sixty four.

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Believe it or not?

Speaker 14 (02:30:57):
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SFA was one of the last schools in.

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The country to offer over excuse me to offer a
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time wouldn't pay the franchise fee.

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Believe it or not.

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Was terrible, absolutely terrible. Leslie will love you.

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I was pretty proud of myself of that one. We
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Here we go. Is somebody going to call in thirty seconds?

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Dude?

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It or not ready to go?

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You can get a degree in cybersecurity at SFA. Believe
it or not. No, you can. How about that the
things you learn about SFA. And now you're ask me
tomorrow Lands what I'm saying right.

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TV.

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