Astros Get Swept vs Athletics… Is There Any Hope Left? Joe Mixon Is Out Nick Chubb Is In.

Astros Get Swept vs Athletics…. Is There Any Hope Left? Joe Mixon Is Out Nick Chubb Is In...

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Matt Thomas, Thomas Ross Verial.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Viria is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh one in ahe Town. Good morning, and welcome to
a Monday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety real.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
And that's hammer deep to left, kiss it goodbye. A
long home run off the bat of Shay Langlers down
the left field line. Second home run of the nich
third straight day. Langon Leers is homer and the A's
have a two to nothing lead in the first number,
seventeen years to two and that's lifted in the left

(01:05):
and that's down for a base hit. Langonier scores. When's
around third, he will score as well. A two run
single for Max Schuman and it is six to nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
As when we.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Voted sent the Belt delivers and dz hits it well
out to center.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
But this is playable for Butler. He's back waiting for it,
takes the catch.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
And that is the ballgame for the first time ever,
the Athletics suite of four game series at Dyked Park
as they beat the Astros today seven to one.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
In a rock.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
When my kids are sick or I've been sick in
the past my wife. It's a tough decision if they're
sick at two o'clock in the morning to take into
the eer because you got to get dressed. You're thinking,
can't wait till the next day to go to the clinic.
Can you go set doctor in two days? But sometimes
ross you gotta go to the er, and the Astros

(02:12):
are in the er right now.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
What a difference four games made?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I mean, by god, we were riding high talking about
out there the miracle stros number one. It's the greatest
thing ever. We're flying to the World Series. And now
the season is over, folks. Well four games later, well
we will have aos coming up in the next segment.

(02:38):
I have not seen them yet, but I'm going to
presume they're not going to be overly pretty okay. I
would like to hear from the Ryan Gusto fan club
about Friday start. You know what you did? By the way, Jonathan,
besides that, I don't think Cooper Hummels had a hit
since you talked to him.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
To say, since you guys slept, I feel like the
Gustos didn't go to I but like they were just
that much.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
That was just a better team. Gusto is not very
good right now, Cooper humbles the Ras at thirty six.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Cooper humbles ERA is higher than his batting average. Well
that's yeah, that good.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
The Astros had huge crowds and had nothing to celebrate.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I mean I did the Saturday post game show and
I I did Thursday Friday. Yeah, it's funny job. We
all pick up the slacker around here. What about that?
I mean some more than others. Wex is calling you
from Texans. I'm not going to get to it. I'm
not giving him grief until this time. Well, I don't know.
He responded to your text. He's uh, he's worse than

(03:45):
you are. He is, which is hard to believe. Yes,
the worst textures that at this station. Your number two,
Jonathan is Jonathan, You're three and and Wex is number one.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
All right, I feel getting better, uh a little bit. Okay, and.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Not the current players on the field fall Okay, we're
just gonna just flat out say that, but the Astro.
But Joe Spot is putting out Sugarland lineups now and
has done so for a long period of time, and
you've been able to somewhat thrive on those Sugarland lineups
for a while case in point, Arizona, case in point,
some of that sugar Lin lineup helped out in Los Angeles.

(04:28):
But really, but week before the All Star Game to
where we are right now, this team is five and
eleven and have lost considerable ground to not only one
team in the American League West, but two because the
Rangers don't want to lose ever anymore. So that pesky
Arlington fan that won, that went to the parade a

(04:50):
couple of years back, that was in front of the
rold In Rural celebrating, go Rangers, we win.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
He's very loud and very boisterous.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Right now, I think we were talking about like eighty
percent to win of the division. Recently it has dropped considerably,
has it not fifty seven percent? I'm getting a little concerned.
Trade at deadline looming large coming up Thursday afternoon. Now,
Remember I said it for sure, and I think you

(05:21):
backed me up on it. That's an we're willing to
change our mind. I thinks you can't. The one thing
you have to learned about sports, you just if just
because you have an opinion three weeks ago doesn't mean
you have to stay on it, and especially it makes
you sound stupid, especially if five more pitchers go down. Well,
I mean, the reality is this. I'm still not going
to crush them if they don't make a trade, but
I'll be disappointed. There's a difference in being disappointed in

(05:44):
your and job malpractice. Yes, because here's the reality of it,
and we'll spend the next handful of days talking about
until the deadline comes up in a couple of days.
I don't know if one utility player can fix this.
You are looking for something in left field. You are

(06:06):
looking for something in centerfield. You are looking for something
at third base. You are looking to get Jose a
l Tub probably to DH more and get him off
the field. At second base, you are looking for starting pitching.
You are looking for a right handed reliever. I mean,
you've asked Dana Brown to go get everything, yes, and
what does he have in return.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
He's probably got three or four.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Guys in his system that he absolutely loves, and I
think he wants to hold on to them because part
of the reason why this organization has had no left
handed hitting to call up and been productive is because
of all the different players that have left in previous
year's traits. You do have to pay a price when
you sell them. So again, I want them under all

(06:50):
circumstances to make a trade. They've got to bolster this team,
and I'm not waiting for you on a Alvarez Jeremy
Pannas sounds like that could be some one in the
near future. I've heard nothing about Jake Myers that makes
me sound very good. East SoC Paride has done for
the year. I mean, that's what it sounds like. I mean,
they just don't want to say that. And we'll get
to that a little bit later on Brandon Brendan Rodgers

(07:14):
doesn't matter. Jacob Mountain, if he comes back, that's great too.
But it wasn't like Jacob Mountain was ops and eight
fifty when he was here, you know what I mean.
Camp Smith looks like he needs a vacation, Yes he does,
whereas Matthews has come down to earth. I mean, you've
just sugar land the hell out of this team. Yeah,
And we keep talking about this, how those resources are limited.

(07:38):
We keep talking about how tough of a job Dana
Brown has to do. But this is like, this is
the biggest not I want to say. I don't want
to call it a test because it's not a pass
or failed correct. But this is the most difficult situation
he could possibly have been put in to, where a
hard situation of building up this farm system and contending
at the major league level continues to get more and

(08:00):
more and more difficult. Now we can argue over how
much of this is self inflicted. If you want to
blame the Astros and their their training staff or whatever,
that doesn't have to do with Dana Brown. Dana Brown's
not on the training staff. Dana Brown wasn't telling guys
to go play or not or whatever. He's got to
figure out how to construct this team. What's going on
with the guys who are coming back and when are

(08:23):
they coming back? But I'm with you, it sounds like
Espich Paratis is out for the year, if not even
plus the playoffs. That's not good. And then you have
to go and make some trades. But a lot of
the most desirable names you're getting into bidding wars and
the Astros, and again, say what you all about the Yankees.
Their farm system has been for about five or six

(08:46):
years considered significantly better than the Astros. I mean, the
Astros have been anywhere from twenty seven to thirty I
haven't seen the word Yankees in twenty seven to thirty.
And I don't spend a lot of time looking at
Baseball America, and I expect I spend no time looking
at it. But the Yank he's had done it the
right way. They've been able to keep their draft picks,
They've been able to spend wisely. They don't overspend like
they used to. Now they do spend for their super players.

(09:08):
Aaron judgeming one of them, by the way, he's really
heard it sounds like could have been worse, but doesn't.
It's like it's right around the corner elbow. Yeah. Uh.
The reality is this, you can't have it both ways.
You can't have a flush minor league system. Because look,
anybody that I mean, who's been the most impactful Space
Cowboys since he's been up here.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I would have said Brandon Walter, but he's got elbow inflammation.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
That doesn't count.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean they've all helped out in small little pieces, right,
Tremmell Taylor, Tremmell Taylor. Tremmell's been Yeah, I would say
the nicest surprise of the group. But I don't think
you're building a line up around him playing six days
a week. Now, Singleton, Where's how can you keep benching
John Singleton?

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Guy?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Put him in the lineup? How's that guy doing?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Who's doing that? That's all that was happening. I swear
to you. Sure, yes, have you seen this fan base?
And now we have fire the hitting coaches guys back.
They can't turn Taylor Trammel into one of the best
hitters in baseball. Fire the hitting coaches. Jesus say that

(10:18):
for Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, there's there's there's people sending me
fire the hitting coaches tweets, and I think they're just
trying to make me angry.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
And it's probably working, right. It worked got.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Me angry at nine am when I was sent ten
eleven is our time at eleven thirty today. We'll have
to tell the truth coming up later on some point,
Wex is going to join us from Texans training camp
there putting the pads on. And oh, by the way,
I don't know if the Astros or the Texans are
going by the Astros rules. But remember when Joe Mixon

(10:54):
was put on the non football jail list and everyone's
like why and they're like, I can't hear you microphones
out just nothing, nothing to see here, and then he
and Rappaport two days later says that he's gonna miss
most of training camp if all of it battle red,
I would not be happy about that. It's weak. We'll

(11:15):
see what happens. It's football. People get hurt. What do
you want me to do? I don't want you to do.
Why can't I be happy? I mean, I'm not happy
about it. Just pray for Nick Chubb. Pray for a Chub. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
I think they're clocking in with the sun dial. It's
forty times.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. I
just caught that late. It was almost like a tape
tape delay. All right, Jonathan, get the Ale music ready.
We're gonna play it next here on The Matt Thomas
Show with ras seven one three two one two five
seven nine at zero. I'm sorry, Houston, Texas had to

(12:00):
go check see what's going on. Prost.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
You should do this in April. We're in the middle
of July for the trade dadline. I got one thing
to ask you. Are you ready for something we like
to call yes?

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Hey, oh, let's go, Hey, oh, let's go.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Astros Oliver Reacttion right here on seven ninety all right
three point fifty one yesterday ROSSI on the Astros Twitter
count final athletic seven hashtag Astros one, four hundred and
sixty likes, okay seven book marks okay, ninety seven retweets okay,

(12:44):
two hundred and sixty nine replies.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Wow, that's what the kids call a ratio.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Walker to Crawford boxes, F you and trade for someone please.
At All Caps, Rendonius says, w TF man, despaired Mariners
fan four game sweep to a blank team. That's a

(13:10):
I don't we're reading Mariners fans. That's right, my bad?
Uh at FCBM eight five five, our conditioning staff costed
this team a world series. Just fire them all? What
mm hmmm, uh Nick but Te, maybe Nick Bute? What

(13:33):
the f bro? What the f with a bunch of
k's at the very end at b B loves Oranges?
What Astro's downfall will be studied in grade school? At
Derp's fire the medical staff now, uh next j Pro

(13:59):
six eighty nine trash Jason Danger Diaz hashtag disappointed next
uh at sports Guy underscored Joe got embarrassed by the
ages who just got embarrassed by the Rangers Jordan Razzade.
The game wasn't even on a red robin at first.

(14:21):
I was mad, oh remote figure dot biz potential client
there at Julio Moo's astros. What happened with a bunch
of hes at the very eight at the very end?
All right? Uh, Caleb McMillan, this is Seattle fan swept
by a homeless team. I mean they are homeless. That's tough.

(14:44):
That's tough, that's terrible. Let's see here going by Ranger
fans is drunken and oh hear a drunk a j
Hinches fire the entire medical staff. U. Let's see, man,
the Aies fans are jumping in at Jonathan Lee. Only

(15:08):
three more losses until the trade deadline. Mighty, come on,
they're not getting swept by you know what I'm calling it.
They're not getting swept by the Nationals. At Rocketman two K,
we still number one in the division and rocket Apologist
is still obese. I win regardless of this weekend sounds personal,

(15:29):
very personal. Let's do a few more here, go f yourselves,
you effing bums. Wow astros a to z OOFU. Let's
see Waterburger Gaming says was told this Triple A team

(15:50):
would make it to the World Series. M god, almighty,
let's see here. The Downfall of the Astros will be
published in a four part series in D Magazine this November.
That feels rude. Nobody believes you, says one and nine

(16:11):
in the last ten home games, embarrassing. How bad they've been.
Nathan Simcoe says pitiful. Angel Garza says garbage, garbage at
Javier San Diego. Y'all got Ben veron Lander on suicide Watch.

(16:31):
That's pretty good one, that's funny. Tommy just says elle mhmm.
And let's see here goes to one more here make it.
Aman Thompson says it making trade already, and that is
your aos or a Monday A man, it's gonna get better. Well,

(17:00):
at least the Nationals are in town. It's a guaranteed
win Monday. You know what, don't ever listen to me?
Oh god, we just coulda play this every all right,
all right, jot it did. There's worse soundbites. Lorden knows,
I gotta go. You play a bunch of my stuff
on this show. That's not true. I don't ever play anything.
I'm just trying to reverse jinx it just in case

(17:21):
I see what you're doing. All I'm gonna start clipping
y'all see how the game is played? All right? Yeah?
Ross what they're leaving men on base? Uh, they're not
getting much on bass. They hit one home run in
the entire series. I think I didn't pay attention to
ninth and I know this scored a run, So maybe
I'm wrong about that. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
I mean, I had it on, but I wasn't really
watching at that point.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
You know what I'm saying. Oh, Duban got a doubles
playing chess. McCormick, Yeah, y this I did what you
know what I did. I'll be lucky days. You can't
shut the Astros out. Nick Kurtz just basically owns the
city of Houston for twenty four hours. It wasn't hurt
up much since that was at least that was all
time like arguably the greatest game in like baseball history.

(18:09):
He was about what two feet away from a five
home run game? Yes, has that ever happened in baseball?
I don't think so. There's been twenty four home run games. Yeah,
that's fewer than the amount of perfect game. It's rareer
than a perfect game, that's correct, and he tied Sean
Green's record. I believe he had a four home run
game when he did this too, for all time most

(18:32):
total bases in a game, with nineteen. Now four of
those came off of Cooper Humble, so there's a little
bit of an asterisk next to it, a little bit,
but he had already done plenty damage beforehand. Yeah, and hey,
don't say that doesn't count because it came off of
Ryan Gusto.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
That's the rude guys. They just count.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
We didn't say that, did you say that, Jonathan Bill?
I didn't say that.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
No.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I mean, I'm kind of speechless. You know what I did, Honestly,
after things got on a hand on Saturday as swamping
four game ass swamping, I watched the first half of
the Billy Joel documentary Saturday really, and then when the
Asterers were getting blown out yesterday, I watched the second half. Okay, great,
how'd that go? Really good? Who was that really hot piece?
He was within the eighties, Christie Brinkling. Okay, that was

(19:18):
wife number two of four? Okay, two, four, two, three
and four were I mean he's in with four now,
three was pretty good, two two, and they are all
pretty attractive. One was okay, but she's obviously his age,
so it's it's not like, you know, okay, I mean
she's aged.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
But they were, I mean they were love birds for
a long time.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
That's beautiful. Yeah, if you all want to talk about
the Billy Joel documentary, I'd be willing to take your
phone calls. Left her just the way she was until
it was time for divorce. Well that was it's ironic
that song was made for his first wife and then
he divorced her. Well, they were gathered like nine years.
That's a good run. That's good.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
That's like twenty five years in Hollywood. I've seen Hollywood
dog years. I was like, what are you going with this?

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, all right, we've spent the first twenty six minutes
talking about unfortunately a triple A lineup. I mean, I
don't know what else to tell you. It's it's not
like the guy. It's if it be, it'd be one
thing to really come in here and be upset. If
Jeremy Peney was batting one fifty seven, or jose Go
Tuve was two for his last thirty one, or Christian

(20:22):
Walker was for Well, it's a bad example. Uh, yeah, yeah,
it's a bad example. Or if if jord On Albarezad
I had a home run in three weeks. But I mean, honestly,
ross the lineup yesterday, Tremell lead off. Karatini, who I love,
is not a three hitter. He's just not. Maybe in

(20:43):
the Beer League, I mean John Singleton hit fifth, Cam
Smith oh for three yesterday, batting six, Cooper Hummel oh
for three, seventh, I mean Zach Short, I mean they
they just they mustered nothing yesterday. Seven hits. Yeah, and
how those game of the ninth and how many times
I feel like I've heard this year and insert pitcher

(21:05):
has had the best start he's had all year.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
It was the best start all year for JT Gin.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah. Matter of fact, has the I believe the tightest
pants in Major League Baseball. Markatson went to go up
to the mountain. Everybody think he was gonna pull him,
and he said, now you go, you got one more
on you and he got it him out.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Uh, six innings, a shutout ball.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Great, that's fantastic. Right, we've said enough. I'm gonna start
crying pretty soon here. All right, let me ask you
all this. Would you like to have your voices heard
on a major market radio show or here?

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Rossk weep for the next segment. That's your weep?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
What was that? Sorry?

Speaker 4 (21:47):
I felt sad during the Billy Joel documentary.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I cry. I had a few tears. Yeah, what happened.
I'm not gonna spoil it. I can go to his
wiki page. Okay, get the gist of it, all right,
I'll just say this. His mother, unfortunately, was Bipohler, and
his father left the family at age eight, oh man,
And so you know, he struggled with that for a

(22:10):
lot of the time, and I felt bad for him.
Name in a bunch of hits and one of you know,
drinking a lot of strange things, and he's trying to
trail himself multiple times. But he's you know, he's obviously
going through some issues now. But uh, you know, played
one hundred straight at Madison Square Garden. I mean that's
pretty good run. He's in a better place now, he's alive. Yeah, yeah,

(22:33):
I mean I was. Yeah, I know you're going with that,
all right, ten twenty nine of The Matt Tamas Show
with Ross. Next segment, either Ross cries or you called
in seven one both. I mean we can do both
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(22:55):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Uh, we've got to tell
the truth coming up at eleven thirty. So when we
heard about Joe Mixon. I don't think it was a
complete surprise. It felt like Nick Chubb was brought in
as extra. I mean, because you already had Damian Pierce
drafted Woody Marks, you drafted Woody Marks, you had a

(23:17):
goomble womble still a goomble walle still here. It's fun
to say it's not. It's not fun, I think. But
if I was calling the games, I mean I'd be
fun after a while. Yes, I'd practice it. So they've
known about this for quite some time, and that's okay.
I mean, you don't have necessarily to give out all
the deats on the injury information. Lord knows, we were
having a difficult time with our sports franchise with that.

(23:39):
Mm hmm. But boy, the pressure now I think on
Nick Chubb is okay. Here's my point. I don't know
this for a fact, and it doesn't necessarily mean you
have to have training camp. Doesn't necessarily mean you have
to play in the preseason. Lord knows, we've got a
lot of guys that that skip on preseason games. But
I would think for a guy that has been battling

(24:00):
the ailment that he's had all off season, that he's
just not gonna step on the field and pick up
where he left off from last year. So I think
it's gonna have to be seriously a running back by
committee at least probably the first two or three weeks
of the season, provided that Joe Mixon is one hundred
percent healthy. I'm not worried about it as long as
he's ready for Week one. He's a veteran guy, doesn't
need preseason. I mean they need to limit his workload

(24:23):
in the first place, which is one of the reasons
that they tried to shore up the running back position.
My concern level is very low. Okay, I'm gonna go
a little higher than yours. Okay, I just I don't
think you go get a guy that's best days are long,
but passed him just to bring him in for a
training camp. By it, they had to have known something
about mix him for quite some time. But again, you

(24:43):
need insurance policies. Why not mh And again it sounds
like Damian Pierce. Maybe, I mean, maybe he sneaks to
one on the roster if Mixing is not ready to
go for the start of the season. Yeah, uh yeah,
pierces on the pup right now. What text going on
with him? I don't know, it's I just I think

(25:05):
de Miko. Even though you've got this explosive young quarterback
and you've got all these wide receiving targets, I still
think he You know, like most coaches, they want to
they want to time, control of the clock, they want
to run their offense. They're not looking to score in
two minutes. And they think they love eight nine, ten
play drives. Keep the quarterback up right. The running game
is gonna be very, very important. It's I mean, it's

(25:25):
important to every team in the NFL. Yeah, but it's
more important to defensive coaches. And we know that it's
always run the damn ball and we're gonna win with
defense and right. And you know, he's generally been conservative,
not on the conservative side. He's been aggressive here and there,
but generally with kicking decisions. Fourth down decisionstive, uber conservative,
but one of the more conservative coaches. And I and

(25:47):
my guess is, I don't know if Nick Keyley is
going to come in here and let him open Demko's
eyes to some different things that kind of got the
you know, look at they have been throwing Bobby Slog
under the bus since camp begin. They really have. I
mean it's interesting to me. You go from this great
innovative mind two years ago to hit coaching interviews, Yeah,
to he stale and doesn't know anything and just cuts

(26:09):
and pace. They have thrown him under the bus. I
mean all the way through. Yeah, So you know, we'll see.
But I don't know if Demko's ever going to change it.
I think Zamika would rather would rather go well, who's
to say, would he. I mean, you don't want to
go seventy thirty run pass, but he'd like he'd like

(26:30):
it where the running game was chewing up clock, keeping
his defense off the field, keeping the offense, and more
importantly for our offensive line that's going to be growing.
I mean, I would presume ross with all the commodities
the Texans have picked up in the last couple of
years in the draft ursery being one of them that
you'd like to build some sort of consistency on the
offensive line. It may not happen this year, but you'd
like two or three years for that to happen. So

(26:52):
as you're still in this transition phase and Cam Robinson
is whether he's the short term or longer term solution
at left tackle, you want to all utimately be able
to have some sort of running game. And that's the
value we talked about on Friday Show, is that Joe
Mixon had a beautiful set of eyes in terms of
awareness in the field and that he could cover up
for some of those offensive line mistakes. Yeah, so you

(27:13):
need him week one, and I mean the latest is
that he's going to miss the majority of the preseason
with an ankle injury. Remember when that happens. When they
say that, they usually means the entire preseason. Yeah, I mean,
like I said, it's fine, he's twenty nine years old.
You're lighting his workload. I mean, how many let's say
he's one hundred percent healthy starting week one of the preseason,
how many snaps is he going to get? Anyways, six

(27:35):
or seven? Not many, but at least if he was healthy,
you'd feel a little bit better about the situation. Yeah,
I would, but I'm really not that concerned. Like I said,
you need to limit his workload anyways. If they're saying
he's going to be ready week one, that's okay. Honestly,
it isn't a daily conversation. But I do believe that
when you get late in the preseason, around maybe August fifteenth, twentieth,
you'll want to hear some sort of he's ready to go,

(27:57):
or he's on his way back, or we're going to
have to we'll play this. If we were talking about
a rookie or somebody or CJ. Stroud or somebody that
needs to get a little bit more in rhythm, I
would be more concerned. And I guess I shouldn't say
I'm zero percent concern, but it's very It's like it's
a one out of ten. It's not a zero out
of ten. It's like a one or two max. It'll

(28:18):
be fine. And then if not, yeah, you can split
snaps with some other young guys.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
We'll see what happens. How Nick Chubb develops.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Every Daman Pierce is ready to go, or Woody Marks
or whatever, even Dario Gumbawale. I mean Can has has
been a guy who can get some spot snaps here
and there, good pass catcher out of the backfield, third
down back, prototypical third down back. Yeah, my concern is low. Yeah,
I don't think it changes the focus of where we

(28:45):
are with this offense in terms of what we're worried about,
and that would obviously be can the offensive line keep
the quarterback up right? You know what the crazy thing
about it is, and this is an all honesty, is
that the Texans will have, probably and look it's on paper,
but it's online the worst offensive line in the league.
You there have been quarterbacks that have had the number
three offensive line the league. They still get hurt. Some

(29:05):
of them.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Is just flucish.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, just if you're the third offensive best offensive
line in the NFL, guess what you still give up sacks?
You still do? Yes, Well, if you also have a
quarterback who's running himself into sacks, right, C J. Shroud
was holding on the ball too long, kind of that
kind of stuff. Yeah, So it's it's not a It'd
be way too simplistic for us to say, well, if

(29:27):
the five guys up front can't protect, he's toast.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I think CJ to make the adjustment for year three.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
For him is going to have to know to get
rid of the football if the coverage breaks down, and
probably just a hairtick sooner than he did a year ago.
That'd be nice. And he's gonna be healthy, ready to go, determined, smart,
a leader does the holy shake bit. He's got seventy
six handshakes for everyone on the roster.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
He's ready to go. I mean that's a lot of
that's a lot to think about.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, you have the play calls, you have the opposing defenses,
and you get the handshakes to worry about.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
And he's got the mental capacity for it.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Man, I hope.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
So we went to the Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, did he finish? I don't think most guys aren't
finishing right. I'm not worried about it. They didn't come
to play school. They came to play football. Did you
hear what Cardile Jones said about Ohio State? I did not.
You don't remember that quote? He put it on Twitter.
We didn't come here to play school. We came here
to play football. Why do we have to go to class?

Speaker 4 (30:29):
How is Cardile?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
By the way, he's probably he's playing in the Venezuelan football. Okay,
I think he's coaching the Lingerie League team in Columbus.
Wishing him the best. It's one of the biggest arms
I've ever seen, and accuracy was always an issue. I'm
trying to find the exact quote here. Why should we

(30:52):
have to go to class? If we came here to
play football, in all caps, we ain't come to play school? Class?
Is our pointless? Jim Tressell had zero issue, which I comment, right,
I can tell you that for sure. Last played with
the Massachusetts Pirates in what year, in twenty twenty three
of the Indoor Football League. You know there's an indoor
football team in Beaumont, No American football great, arena football

(31:18):
great listener of ours lives in Beaumont. And we met
him in Vegas and he and his wife were telling
us they go to arena football games in Beaumont and
playing like a six or eight team league. It's a
bunch of you know, Beaumont sized towns. Really, because I
love you know, I love arena football. You do, I did? Yeah,
I did every I did almost every Thunderbears and Terror
game in the history of the franchise before. Yeah, it's

(31:42):
I mean, let me taste them. I folded some franchises
back in the day, Comets, Comets, Thunderberry Slash hot Shots. Oh,
I did a game for the Minnesota Swarm of the
Major Lacrosse League that that that team folded too. Did
I ever do utah game? I don't think I did
the whole league, I mean the whole arena league fold.

(32:03):
Not your fault, man, Hi, Yeah, it's usually bad business fault.
It's gonna be my fault. It's not your fault. I
just called the games I promoted as best I could.
It's not your fault.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Checks still clear though, thankfully.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
All right? Oh wow, any of them bounce? Do you
ever have Do you ever have any trouble with it
getting a check from any of those leagues? Uh? No,
because the Thunderbears and the comments and the it was
terror were all along by Les Alexander, so I knew
where to find him. Oh okay, Now some of those
teams it would write to IOUs they would have issues. Yeah,

(32:38):
best story I ever heard. The Milwaukee Mustangs were an
arena team. Ironically enough, that was JJ Watts's first love
was the Milwaukee Mustangs Arena football. Okay, he wore a
shirt on his Twitter catch just the other day with
the Milwaukee Mustangs, and they were flying from one city
to the next, and they had to change planes in
Saint Louis. The owner of the team used to travel.

(32:58):
He was like there, Mark Cuban and some Milwaukee Mustangs
told us that they were so tight that they were
having to put like fifteen people on one plane, fourteen
because they want to get the low airfare, they didn't
put everybody on the same plane, okay, And he snuck
on a flight before everybody else was supposed to. And
he turns around with a bunch of players sitting in

(33:18):
the run in the Saint Louis airport before they're going
to go take off and have their delay for the
next flight. He turns on and says, see you suckers
in Milwaukee. I mean double rods all of his players.
What I known't that crazy? It is crazy.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
As long as they got there, well take of the bus.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
I mean, I can't imagine. I don't know. They wouldn't
still be at Saint Louis Airport, would they? Your long
ass weight twenty six years uh ten forty three on
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(33:56):
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on the radio show. All right, thanks for the advanced

(34:19):
prep seven one three two one two five seven ninety
all right, full lines with full ROSSI which one can
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Speaker 4 (34:27):
Let's go to line seventy six.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
We got seventy six full lines here, all right, Come
on now, Houston, Texas. Y'all were damn grumpy on Twitter yesterday.
Can't I manage? You just want to go into silence?
You know what it is? You know what's like sometimes
and I'm not counting like dorks like Eric and basity
and James and Klein who there could me some better calls.
My point being we love you both equally. But it's

(34:51):
what it is. Uh, we're like therapists. Oh you don't
want to talk about huh.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Oh you have to pry. Yeah, I'm going to pry.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Hmmm. No, I mean, uh, shouldn't a therapist let you
go at your own pace?

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Especially you can rack up some more sessions.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
We'll talk about we'll talk about it next session, but
we're talking about six weeks.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
We don't charge you. What's your copeck, you know what
you could do?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
You can just call right now at seven one three
seven and if you want to and just say, look,
I'm tired to seeing the sugar Land Space cowboys. Yeah,
that's the thing. Though, there's what can be done. I
feel like, if you're fully healthy, you'd say, okay, shuffle
the lineup or do this or do that or yeah, uh,
this guy Augusto needs to go to the bullpen. But
you can't put anybody in the bullpen. You can't shuffle

(35:36):
around this lineup. Really, there's nobody on the Some guy
was all mad that Cooper Hummel was still in the lineup.
I was like, brother, who do you want in there
on the Cooper humble stuff? And again, such a good dude.
I hate when don't we have to to unfortunately bear
out the numbers of a good dude. I know he
had eighty two miles an hour in the tank. He

(35:57):
was out there spinning it.

Speaker 9 (35:58):
Man.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
But Nick Kurtson care, No he didn't. But man, Cooper
Hammel can't hit. And I feel bad because when nice
guys come on the show. I mean, there were some
guys who hit over the years. I wouldn't care if
he didn't go another hit again. Okay, but he's not
one of those dudes. No, he's nice Portland Pilot's legend.

(36:20):
I mean he was literally let go of Baltimore earlier
this year. He's thirty years old. Isn't that some diamond
in the rough? No?

Speaker 4 (36:29):
And that has to be very difficult as a human being.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I've been playing baseball since I was I'm gonna assume
Cooper was five years old, six years old probably, you know,
and he was a star in high school, got to
play college baseball, he got drafted, he got to the show,
and you reached the crescendo and you just can't do it. Yeah,
but I mean everybody hit h That's right. He is

(36:56):
not the only one. There'll be millions of others that
will have done in the past that way. There'll be
millions of others that will play professional sports that will
be in the same spot as he is. So he's
finding on what means in his own world. There there
are millions and of others never got as far as
he did. Matt, I'm sorry I had to guess at
his career OPS plus.

Speaker 10 (37:15):
Now I remember hunting is average fifty.

Speaker 11 (37:28):
So who.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
I mean, can you I don't even know what to say.
What's it?

Speaker 4 (37:38):
What's his OPS plus and triple A?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Is it? Can you lot cats? I don't know if
they have those. I mean, that'd be nice if they did.
It would make a story sound a little bit better. No,
they only have ops. Career ops in the minors is
eight forty eight. Okay, well that's good. Career in the
miners five twenty five. I mean majors. I mean oh

(38:00):
eight minors eight forty eight, majors five twenty five. Yeah,
so he uh, our old friend Howard of momoriw may
he rest used to always call me and say, is
this guy just just a four A player. I mean,
Cooper is a for a player, can get a hit
into major leagues once in a while, nothing more. He
can do at the Triple A level to prove anything,
but is a Maine. And then this is again, this

(38:22):
is no indictment exclusively to him. In a matter of fact,
it's not an indictment against him. Cooper Humble probably is
just an organizational body.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yeah, John Singleton for a organizational player.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Taylor Trammell kind of making the most of what he's
given been given playing town, but exact short, same kind
of thing I mean. And Bryce Matthews probably needs to
go marinate a little bit, okay, I mean we pulled up,
we pulled the cookies out early. We still ate them,
but I like him Doe now I like it. I
like a crispy cookie. My my wife was out. This

(39:02):
is funny. I figured that up. My wife went out
Saturday night with some friends and I said, can you
have some kind I was working in post game, so
I didn't have a chance to go out with them,
and yeah, I said, hey, can I can.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
You bring me home on crispy cookies? And she's like,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (39:16):
It?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
She was, I said, ship, I mean sorry, like Mips momoy,
Like Mips Momoy, those are crispy, and I like them softer.
Oh no, we the Thomas household is a Krispy Cookie family. Okay,
but I mean but point being yeah, but it's but
some people like it soft. I like a cookie that's
hard and crispy. You like it soft. To each his own,

(39:39):
She's like, why would you call it a krispy cookie?

Speaker 4 (39:41):
Because I was like, I.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Don't want you going to somewhere and go and give
me a you know, a soft patch. M The reason
why I didn't like soft patches when I was fat.
When I was a kid, I would eat like a
whole sleeve of the soft patch. You need a whole
sleeve of the dough. No I didn't do that. No, definitely.
Oh I wasn't gonna go cook something. No, the whole
sleeve of the soft patch. And and I got sick,
and I'm like, it's just nemal. Thanks, Okay, I think

(40:03):
I chased it down with some orange drink too. So
you like it hard?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
My cookies crunchy, not soft?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Not soft? How do you like your cookies?

Speaker 9 (40:14):
You know?

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Hot? Take? I don't like cookies. That's not a hot take.
That's the worst thing I heard of it. That's the
worst taking the history. How do you not like cookies?
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
They're sweet, delicious and baked soft or hard?

Speaker 1 (40:25):
However you like? It's too inconsistent. You don't what is inconsistent?
I opened up a bag of chips ahoy. I see
the exact same every oreos in the city.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
Like no, no, no, no, no no. See these are different.
Oreos are different than just cookies. Like I'm not gonna
go and see some cookies. Oh cookies, No, I'm not
gonna try those if they're bad, you know what I mean? Like, No,
I don't. We have no idea what you mean. So
like like chips hoy are always gonna be the same.
So if I'm gonna eat a cookie, it's gonna be
liken oreo or chips a hoy.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
So why would you say I don't like cookies. I
don't like cookies. I wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
I wouldn't like if there was sweets around, I'm not
gonna pick a cookie, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (40:57):
No, I don't like. Hey, I don't like you don't
like cake? Okay? I don't like like you know what
I mean, cheesecake.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Oh, you're getting on the Matt Thomas list of banded
food takes.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Hold On, I gotta apologize to somebody real quick. Our
buddy James and Klin I said. I said I like them, James,
I just don't like some of your tanks. That's all
I'm saying. Hi, James, how are your friend good to
hear from you?

Speaker 7 (41:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
I didn't even apology if you call me a dorg?
How am I a door?

Speaker 4 (41:22):
I didn't call you a dork. I said your tanks
were bad.

Speaker 11 (41:25):
Now you said you call me.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
A dog, a dork like Brad and James. Oh that
I really?

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Oh okay, I'm sorry. Just you're not a dog.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
It's just and you need to apologize to Ross as well. Yeah,
what I do to him?

Speaker 11 (41:36):
No idea said that he urinated all over the urinal
on the outside of Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
You're you're having my point, James. You're a dork. No,
you're a dark I didn't say Ross did that.

Speaker 9 (41:47):
Hold on?

Speaker 11 (41:49):
Everybody knows that Ross piece sitting down, So how can
you exactly?

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Oh my god, you're the terrible go go away? Yeah,
what's wrong with that? You can get on your phone.
Sometimes the one turns into it too. You gotta go
sit down there. Sometimes, what are.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
You trying to turn? A double play in the toilet?
Sometimes it happens, Matt, Sometimes you turn two.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Sports Talk seven on everybody, Yeah, we've just given you
a new definition of turning two.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
You think it's a double playing? Baseball Ross has other ideas.
Thanks James for their phone call. Did I call him
a dork like Brad? I think it? Yeah, I said,
I said, you're definitely a bad Becaus got him on.
That's some of the worst takes ever. There are bad.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
I think he's pompous about it. That's the worst part.
But at least he's he's confident in his bad takes.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yes, he's confident in his dumbassayuh ten to fifty eight
on Sports Talk seven and eight to Tell the Truth
is coming up in one half hour. We'll check in
with Wex. Let's see if Wex's texted. He was again,
what a horrific texture Twex was, Nope, nothing near. But
we've got some odds on some players the astros may

(43:01):
or may not be interesting, and will tell you about
that coming up in the second Hour of the Matt
Thomas should Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Get
age eleven oh one. I'm Sports Talk seven ninety Matt
and Ross with you here.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Congratulations.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
We forgot to mention briefly to Billy Wagner, Iachi Ro
Suzuki among those in the Baseball Hall of Fame, I
got a somewhat of a hot take for you, and
I told this to somebody this weekend. I loved Billy
Wagner as an astro because he was a badass, and
when he sucked, he wanted to tell you he sucked

(43:36):
and he admitted it, and when his team didn't do
the right things, he would go after ownership and say
we got to do some things and ultimately cost him
staying with the team because Rant mc clean's like, I'm
not going to have that. How don't talking bad about me?
But Yesterda didn't carry the same cachet for me as
a big bag one visuo. I don't think that's no,
that's bad towards Billy because for such a long period

(43:58):
of time he was such a great player for this team,
but he played for four other teams. He was an
astra for what like seven seven or eight years. Yeah,
I mean the bet, the nine nine. The best of
Billy Wagner was obviously as an astro, but he wasn't
like he was bad as a white sock. Wasn't as
a white sock as red sock, wasn't bad as a
mat I remember, Yeah, he was good as a met.

(44:18):
I think he finished his career with the safe again
as a red sock, I think is what it was.
Something like that. But Atlanta, well Atlanta, okay, twenty ten,
he was still throwing wow. But it took him a
long time to get in. And yes, uh glad he
got in. But it just yesterday to me was a
I was flipping through the channels. I stopped each roo

(44:40):
was a very good speech. Yes, he's like there was
one of you Jabbarnis out there that didn't vote for me. Yeah.
He was talking about what went to the Miami Marlins
when you contacted me and I didn't know who you
were or something like that. Yeah, it's like I didn't
know you existed, man, that's truthful. It was a Eachiero
Wagner and Sabbathia cc be one in his a Yankee
by the way, okay, rather than a Cleveland Indian that's

(45:06):
what they were.

Speaker 12 (45:06):
Yeah, uh yeah, I think, I mean, yeah, he got
in because he was a Yankee, right, I didn't look
at the rest of his Yeah, ERI plus one sixteen.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Billy Wigners was an astro cap Iniechuro was a Seattle
Mariners cap. So it's you know again, two hundred and
fifty wins. I do want to go to Cooperstown. I
don't know Young, six time All Star, very borderline for
CC Sabathia for me, how many wins? Two fifty one?

Speaker 3 (45:36):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I think two fifty is a new three hundred. Yeah,
but he was part of the old Guard, I mean
older guard. He started in two thousand and one. I
would still say anybody in the two thousands and then
some the numbers change for.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
The picture ERI plus one sixteen not spectacular, but obviously
going now for the Hall of Fame. Six time All Star,
one time Sy Young.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Well, part I think is helping this is it shouldn't help,
but it does. Is he played in the biggest medium
market's Yankee and he was also considered a pretty decent dude.
I mean if he stayed well. Yeah, he worked through
alcoholism problems too. Yeah, but I mean, when you're affable,
you're gonna get the benefit down on some people. When
you're an a hole, you take longer to get in
five top five finishes and sign on. That's pretty good. Yeah, borderline,

(46:23):
but it was just you know, again, the coolest part
was that somebody the former astros are there, bagwell, Bigio
Portman was there. Uh, I mean the askers put out
a listener prs. I mean it was like like twenty
players that were teammates of his were in.

Speaker 12 (46:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Yeah, Larry Derker was there as former manager. So yeah,
they had Brad Lidge was there. He was on the
TV broadcast on the phone. How that sound? It was odd?

Speaker 4 (46:46):
I don't remember there, I'm ever taking a phone call
on the TV broadcast.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
That is a weird kind of thing. It was cool,
but it was like I always like a quick one, two,
three inning. So they only had him on for a
couple of minutes. Well, they were trying to say money
on a long distance bill.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Hmmm.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Remember we used to get long distance bills? Yes, now
I remember I used to call collect Oh you know
the scam we used to put together back in the day. Oh,
here we go, what do we got? What do you
got scam Thomas, No, it's actually we learned it from
a TV commercial.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Go ahead, does the name how the baby eats a
boy ring a bell to you?

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Ah? Yes, that was yes, that was that was it.
The wife and the wife and the husband were talking
or something. Mm hmmm. Yeah. It was a collect call
for Yeah, we could decline it. So what we would do,
isn't this back in the eighties. We would fly home
from Florida and we would call my call my grandparents
or my father and my mother's parents at the time,

(47:42):
and we would say, uh, collect call from Sergio. Yeah,
And that was the key name that once you knew
Sergio called you and you you got home. Okay, you say, no,
I don't know who the Sergio is and that was
a sign that you got home on right, Okay, that's okay.

Speaker 13 (48:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
There was a commercial that said had a baby eats
a boy? That was the way to you can declined. Yeah,
you decline the baby was born. Yeah, that's pretty well
triggered the trade back in the day. Yeah, nobody needs
that anymore. Remember, I mean at that point in the
phone business, probably what calls verse seventy five eighty cents
a minute, maybe something like that, something ridiculous. Yeah, now

(48:22):
you get like unlimited. I don't think I I don't
think I have a minutes plan on my phone. I
mean we're in a family plan. But I've never heard, Hey,
you gotta be careful about your limit. Now I've heard
about your data issues. Used to get text message limits. Yeah,
I got in big trouble in high school with that.
Apparently they were like, you sent two thousand text messages?
How does this happen?

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Two thousand? Yeah, that's nothing. You do that in a
week these days?

Speaker 5 (48:45):
Oh you cupcake in two thousands in your business for.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Those playing at home, two thousand? Hold up, hold up?
Probably said five thousand this month. I'm a good context,
cool guy, but I want to hear the exact definition
of cupcaking.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
Like you're like sweet talking a girl, like you know,
just in there, like you know, what's what's going on?

Speaker 1 (49:04):
House? House class? You know?

Speaker 5 (49:05):
Oh I missed you today, you know, Yeah, just a
little sugar on it, little cookcake.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yeah, but you couldn't call it cooking because you don't
like cookies.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
No, I mean, dude, cookies. This is a lot of
people right now, listen to me that agree with me.
Cookies are overrated. They're just not that good.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I mean, you've had you've had some brutal takes on
this show. That might be the dumbest thing I've ever
heard in my own No, the worst one is s
f A. Yeah, that's right. Until we win. Do you win?

Speaker 5 (49:35):
You're never going to beat the University of Houston. You've
it's just became a power five. Man, we were at
the same level.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Basically. No, that's not true. Texas Texas State beat you.
You Bates football has been horrible coach in Texas State one.
Was it major or was it somebody else? No? I
think it was it was James Dickie. No, it's not
James Dickie. I believe it was who's the guy that
owns the what.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Tony Levine? It might have been Turning Levine. Don't help
me to that.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
I won't.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
We're not.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
We have never been on the same level with s
f A ever, except maybe the same number of sonics
in the vicinity of the campus.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
Texas State is now a power five quote unquote, it's.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Not a power five. I mean that it's not the
same level.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
I look on you know what I must say.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
You ain't Cupcake in here.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I can say that right now. You ain't Cupcaken.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
We got a month from today, a month gosh.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Anyways, AnyWho, all right, so the there's a there's a
website that sends us uh odds on players going places. Okay,
and it's it's just it's just for fodder and they're
looking to get a plug and they're not going to
get it from us because they don't pay the money
to get the plug.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Well, they gave me the odds. Yeah, that's I didn't
ask for them.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Okay. Uh astros are seven to one odds to land
Dylan Cease, No way, not gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
O'Neil Cruz eight to one.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
You Hineo Suarez not even in the top eight teams listed,
That makes sense. Stephen Kwan outfielder, three to one odds
for him. Hell no, they don't have enough to get
Stephen Kwan. He's a Gold Glove left fielder and he's
one of the best contact hitters.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
In baseball and a lefty.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Five to two to land Zach Gallon, who they just
beat up at day. All right, where do I go
to shorten these odds? These are just made up? This
is this is some dude. Stephen Kwan's under control until
twenty eight. He's a three times, he's won, he's been
in the he's been in the majors for three years,
he's won three gold gloves and left I mean I

(52:00):
would love it, Yeah, I this is just some service
trying to create something so Houston Radio can talk about it. Well,
we just we gave you your well, we didn't give
you a company the thirty seconds. We just we just
stole your material because you gave it to us. All right,
So in order of preferences, Yes, it's the lefty bat.

(52:21):
One problem is ross any bat. I don't care what's
not going to take. It's gonna take more than one
bat to fix this lineup. It's gonna it's gonna require
pain you coming back soon. It's gonna require albert Is
doing something before they see me. Paina and you're done
plus a bat and you're actually not in a bad
spot with as long as the pitching and who's playing
center field the rest of the year, who's playing third

(52:41):
base the rest of the year, You're gonna hope that'll
get that in via the trade. Right, Taylor Tremmell can
play center in bat ninth. I mean, it's not ideal,
but who's playing third you'r a bat you trade for,
So let's narrow it down. The Asters have got to
go get themselves a third base. That's why the thing

(53:01):
man signing by the Yankees and that trade probably hurt
a little bit because that guy would have been perry
for this team. Yeah, he would have, but he just
doesn't He doesn't hit. But I mean he'd be going
from one hitter friendly ballpark to the other one. But
the problem is is I say that though ross every
ballpark it feels like it's a hitter friendly ballpark. Not everyone,
but I mean of the thirty yeah, yeah, twenty two
of them are cozy.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Well yeah, because offense is better. Offenses count.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
So you would think, Okay, guy can hit the ball
at Corus Field, probably can hit it, and I can park.
Oh okay, like Brendan Rodgers. Oh what a great example.
Not a great example at all. I mean Brendan Rodgers.
I am working to get back for my ailment and
I bunk into a player and I'm not concussed. I
go in the sixty eight and injured list. It's probably
the safest way for him to keep making a major

(53:47):
league salary. Yeah, I mean I wouldn't. I wouldn't necessarily
be measuring him for the Astros Hall of Fame jacket.
Like in three years we remember Brendan Rodgers' name, Probably not,
My names are terrible. I'd be like, he's gonna be
who was that guy that had like a handful of
games a second base that couldn't bat for squad here,
I'll take it'll be a good name to keep for
your opening day roster trivia. Oh, like day starter opening

(54:11):
day lineup of twenty twenty five, and you're like, all right,
I'll two by You're on. You're never gonna get Brendan
Rodgers never ever, ever, And he started a purpose because
yeah he was a late signing. They got Al two
v out of the second base spot, which they've always
been trying to do at least for the last year
or so. And now Al two is playing on a
semi regular basis, although with Bryce being here, he's played

(54:33):
on you he's played exclusively second base. Promise Bryce is
Bryce is feeling a little bit. I need some more
home runs. It's gonna be strikeouts and home runs, maybe mixing,
mixing in some walks would be nice to something that
that open. Get the batting average up, well, the on
base percentage hip, that's for anything. Hit it all up
eleven thirteen seven one three two one two five seven.

(54:57):
Donety go write that down that's not even a good one.
Then repeat it. Get all of your numbers up now. No, man,
you didn't say that. You said ops, and I said, yeah,
I get it all up seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero seven one three two one
two five seven ninety to tell the truth coming up
in just fifteen minutes, Ross, I believe three things. One

(55:21):
I will not one three lie, three truths, three truths okay,
one lie, one lie, three truths okay, eleven fourteen on
Sports Talk seven ninety, ROSSI, I've noticed a little bit
of change in the demeanor of Dimico Ryan since he

(55:42):
has taken over as the head coach of the Texans.
You have, I have, and I think I've got a
good example of it right here right now.

Speaker 14 (55:53):
Yeah, nothing's changed with Joe. Joe is still working.

Speaker 15 (55:56):
You know, in the background, I know we get reports
about Joe. Nothing shit, He's still working. Whenever it's time
for Joe to be back he'll be back right. I
know a lot of people want to report a lot
of things about guys and injuries. My thing is this is,
are you really concerned about our guys? Are you really uh,
just trying to get something out there?

Speaker 9 (56:16):
Right?

Speaker 15 (56:16):
And for me, I always put my players health and
safety first and foremost, so I care about the guys.
So you guys don't hear me talking a lot about
injuries because that's their personal information. Guys are working through
that and it's nothing to report or or get in
an uproar about like our.

Speaker 14 (56:34):
Guys are working.

Speaker 15 (56:34):
And that's it's always sensitive to me because I've been there,
I've went through that, So it's not just to report
something to report something like on people here who truly
care about our guys. I care about our guys and
what they're doing throughout their process, and it'll continue to
be that way.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Mm hm. He's getting a little combative, a little little cranky.
Wait a minute, let me let me let's leave you
respect it. Let's get to the conversation here first and foremost.
Somebody in the building said something to Ian Rapaport. So
this this sentiment of it doesn't lead the building is

(57:15):
complete hogwash. If Joe Mixon, I don't think the agent
ran to the women and said this was going on.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Now, agents can run the reporters all the time.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
That happens, Yes, but if possible, it's very very small possibility.
But somebody's got a set of loose lips. Somebody wants
to use Ian Rapaport to say, all right, Ian, I've
gave you this, and if something comes up where I
can get myself a job, I want you to float
my name. I'm not saying that's a position coach or
a coordinator, but somebody wanted to make sure that Ian

(57:48):
rap I believe it is Ian Rapport that said it,
that reported over the weekend. Uh. Again, if you're an agent,
you're not telling it the world about Joe Mixon being heard.
That's the last thing you wanted your player being out
there told that unless the team was telling you. The
only way you want to play an agent telling a
reporter about an injury is if the team is saying, well,

(58:08):
we don't know where he is, we don't know why
is he not out there? No, that's not the message.
That can't be it either. Number two, the first fifteen
seconds I wanted are y'all caring about the player or
are you caring about the news? Honestly to make up
love you, but we care about the news. I mean,

(58:29):
it's just the reality of it. Look as we've said before,
Cooper Hummel the sweetest kid in the world, really nice guy,
had him on the show. Very pleasant. But Cooper Hummel
plays for a baseball team that we talk about a
lot of this radio show and is asked to produce

(58:52):
for a team that people care about, that people are
interested in. While getting to know Cooper Hummel personally is cool,
the results are you want Cooper umb to hit when
he's in the Astros lineup. Fans do want to know
about the player. They care about the players, so to speak,
but they also care about the player to be good.
So this whole notion of well, what are you out

(59:12):
here for? No, you're out here to report. You want
to report what's going on because the people that you're
reporting to want the team to be successful. So I
just make them get a little cranky. Yeah, I understand
where he's coming from, though I would too, But it's
not a witch hunt. That's not when you have your

(59:33):
number one running back on the physically a non football
player injury list. That is a story. I'm sorry to
me go, that's just what it is. Just like when
the Astros say, you know, any what their writing injuries,
it's not a story. It is a story. Injuries are
stories on sports teams, yes, but uh, I mean, I
will also say that it increasingly, and it's always been

(59:56):
like this to an extent, but I feel like increasingly
questions are a so people can put out quotes, so
they can get.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Their interactions and their likes and all that type of.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Stuff, and people when injury stuff comes out, then you
have sectors of fan bases who attack players and call
them soft and tell them they need to get back
on the field, which I'm not seeing with Joe makes
all that type of stuff. I mean, I mean, I
don't know if it's happening and not or not with
Joe Mix. And I'm just saying it's like, I guess
I just understand where Demiko Ryans is coming from, but

(01:00:24):
I also understand that, hey, this is a football team.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Injuries happen, People report injuries.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Most everyone in front of you is a reporter or
working for some media. I mean, seriously, if you were
to take a look at the people the Demiico Ryans
are asking questions for half of them should not be credentialed.
That's an They're just fanboys that want to create their
YouTube pages. That's not great. But there are some that
are there that are supposed to report on the team.
You report on the ex's and o's, you report on

(01:00:53):
the salaries, you report on the contracts, you report on
the positions, you report on the battles, and you do
report about injuries. Yeah, and if part of the team,
a very key part of the team is injured, it's
a story. It is now. Some people try to make
stories out of things or blow up things that aren't stories.
But Joe Mixon being heard as a story and frankly,

(01:01:14):
to me, it's to Miko going after the wrong crowd.
The Houston Texans. The people that are in Houston covering
the team. They're just going off of what the national
report was. What are they supposed to do, say, oh,
Ian Rapaport must have reported, so I don't ask a
fall about it. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Yeah, And that's the thing too, It's it's the national.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Guys that are getting this stuff. Is that the local guys.
It's to me, with all this stuff that the Astros
are doing and the Texans and stuff. Everybody moves on
from stuff like in five minutes in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
So if you say, yeah, Joe Mixon.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Has an ankle injury where he's probably gonna miss most
of the preseason boom, you don't really get asked about
it more after that day unless but you do have,
unfortunately a situation where there are people that you talked about,
like boy media, that want to make sure they ask
a question because then they record themselves and they asked. Yeah.
When you find somebody on Twitter that says I asked this,

(01:02:09):
block them, mute them, don't follow them because they didn't
ask it by themselves in a one on one situation.
They asked it because they got they screamed loudered before
over the other reporter. It's just it's they don't get
me started. Sorry, I know, I understand. So I'm saying
I kind of I get both sides on this, but
I think I think transparency is the best policy, and
especially now, you don't have to give everyone's intricate, uh

(01:02:32):
you know, medical details. But you're saying, yeah, Joe Mixon's
got an ankle injury, he'll be out a few weeks,
we think boom or not, it doesn't become a story.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
And they don't ask them today, tomorrow, the day after.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
And there's probably one or two follow ups and you
knock it all out and you say, hey, i'll have
another update for you in a week, or we'll have
an update in six seven days. But I don't know.
I just it's just too personal. He got too personally.
That's exactly right. Not that he went over the line,
it just got too personal, Like, how dare you ask
about this guy like he doesn't have feelings in emotion? Well,

(01:03:04):
of course he's got feelings in emotions, him being all
of us do. But he signed that contract, so when
when he yeah, well we again, is Adam wants coming
on here or not? And when when everybody's done, he's
getting interviewed with stuff? So yeah, so yeah, what we
can ask him if like if is he just getting
hounded in the scrums or is how you know? Because
we're not there, we're not seeing every question that is

(01:03:24):
getting asked. So if he's getting asked about it five times,
so let's let's play the time, Let's do it one
more time here I and again I'm only going off.
This is the tweet that wex just literally said that
we took the audit from here us again. This was
asked about the Joe Mixon situation.

Speaker 15 (01:03:38):
Yeah, nothing, nothing's changed with Joe. Joe is still working,
you know in the background.

Speaker 14 (01:03:42):
I know we get.

Speaker 15 (01:03:43):
Reports about Joe. Nothing said. He's still working. Whenever it's
time for Joe to be back, he'll be back, right.
I know a lot of people want to report a
lot of things about guys with injuries. My thing is
this is, are you really concerned about our guys?

Speaker 14 (01:03:57):
Are you really uh, just trying to get something out there? Right?

Speaker 15 (01:04:01):
And for me, I always put my players health and
safety first and foremost.

Speaker 14 (01:04:06):
So I care about the guys.

Speaker 15 (01:04:07):
So you guys don't hear me talking a lot about
injuries because that's their personal information.

Speaker 14 (01:04:12):
Guys are working through that and it's nothing.

Speaker 15 (01:04:14):
To report or get in an uproar about like our
guys are working. And that's it's always sensitive to me
because I've been there, I've went through this, so it's
not just to report something to report something like on
people here who truly care about our guys. I care
about our guys and what they're doing throughout their process
and it'll continue to be that way.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Well, then maybe you should lot have a phone called
again wrap report into Adam Schefter and who else is
out there, the Tom Pellow Arrows of the world. Yeah,
because they're the ones that are hunting this stuff down.
Local guys aren't getting this stuff. Uh yeah, well I
say I would maybe put who do you think breaks
Aaron Wilson breaks a lot of stuff locally. I don't
know if he was on this ankle thing, but no,

(01:04:59):
it was definitely U. I believe it was Rappaport that
got it. Okay, and again unless the agent is lobbing
a phone call to saying hey, my guys hurt, which
that would be really odd for them to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
But they work closely with agents. They certainly do. They
certainly do.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
I Rossie, I've got four takes, so three of them, yes,
I believe one.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Are you none, Jonathan? You are in a long losing streak.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
No, you won last week? Yeah, So let me ask
you this. If ross loses again this week, Jonathan, will
he be bitter and argumentative with you?

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
What was your horrible take you were wrong about last week?

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
I can't remember about the University of Texas if they
don't want a national champion to be a major disappointment,
major disappointment. Yeah, fire everything. I didn't call for anybody.
If that's the thing is you added words to If
program's a major disappointment, why wouldn't you fire the coach.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
Oh, We're not doing this again.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Bye.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
I'm turning my mic off to tell the truth.

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Speaker 14 (01:10:04):
Yeah, nothing's changed with.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
The nice part about me is I do know how
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Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
I will lie to you frequently now, zero issue doing it.
And one of the four things I'm about to tell
you is a liross, but three of them, Johnathan will
be the truth. Three the truths, alright, you liar, here
we go. Which one of the am I not telling
the truth? Number one?

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
When Dana makes a.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
Trade this week, I truly believe that it will involve
an active member of the Astros right now. Okay, now,
there could be some minor league deals too, but I
believe that on the twenty six man roster right now,
somebody is going somewhere else this week on IL he's

(01:11:13):
active active, You can't You're not gonna try to al play.
I'm just I'm okay, twenty six guys in this roster
right now, somebody is going somewhere else. I mean, you
got a lot of options of guys on the ale
of the train. I know you're like, it's forty forty
five players. If you can buy an active at IL.
Number two, I believe the Texans are soft playing the

(01:11:34):
mix and injury situation. I would be surprised if he's
ready for the start of the regular season. Okay, Number three,
JJ Watt is a given. The next player I think
the Texans will put in their Wall of Fame, will
be Arian Foster.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Isn't JJ Watt already in there?

Speaker 13 (01:11:57):
Or no?

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Did they do him yet? I thought he got indebted indicted?
Uh is J? I don't know. I thought it was
Andre former? Oh geez, I actually like indicted better. Maybe
maybe maybe JJ isn't the Wall of honor already? Let's
see here Wall of honor. A bunch of Janie McNair

(01:12:22):
stories here. Oh it is Andre, Rob, Bob and JJ. Okay,
so the next one is going to be uh will
be Arion Foster? Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:12:29):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
And number four we'll NBA for you. I think these
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(01:12:54):
not be this season, but I think for it's all
said and done, Lebron will be a Dallas. Will you
believe one of these? I really believe three of them?
Slop yep? Would Dana makes trade? I truly believe it
will be involved with active member the Tros. I think
the Texans, Sorry, that was rude. That was rude, but

(01:13:17):
you're also a good start. Called it slop. I think
the Texans are saw playing the Joe mix an injury situation,
unlike you'll be ready for the start of the season.
Now again, no, no there for a gospel, but I'm
getting I feel I feel in the airy Number three J. J.
Watt is already in latest one. The next player to
get no Texans Wall of Fame will be Arion Foster

(01:13:38):
and number four Lebron is going to be a Dallas
Maverick at some point in his NBA career.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
Which one of them I not telling the truth?

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
I mean, uh, you want to work through this, Jonathan,
and then you can disagree with me and be wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
Yeah, but real fast was Arion fustered that. I just
you know, I'm younger, so I don't know his days
are like I was like sixteen.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
Yeah, I think that's probably the one I'm gonna go
with because it is the uh not a long enough
tenure there. But I also don't think, I mean, unless
Matth got some inside information, the Texans aren't soft playing anything.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
They didn't say anything. The report was from Ian Rappaport.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Okay, what said cause the report was, look is going
to miss the RECIPRICISID. I think it's going to be
more than that. Okay, So so yeah, I don't. I
mean Ian Rappaport is soft playing it, Okay, whatever I'm
saying that. I think this is a much more serious
injury situation that's going to cause him to miss some ring.
But again, I'm not a doctor. I've not seen the

(01:14:38):
X RAYCE just telling you just a little bit of.

Speaker 13 (01:14:40):
What I know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Of your lack of an MD and excuse me. Wait,
all right, which I can go with? Let's go? Lebron
is not going to Dallas. I don't think unless I mean,
I guess I'm missing some trade wins that I haven't
been reading some tea leaves on his four U AB
then I just haven't been. I'm gonna go with three

(01:15:03):
because it's not gonna be Aaron Foster. He didn't play
long enough. Yeah, uh you know what, Yeah, I'm gonna
go with three as well.

Speaker 5 (01:15:11):
I don't think. I don't think that Lebon's going to Dallas.
I don't think Danni Brown's not gonna trade anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
So I'm going three, all right. Number one, I do
believe that a current member of the Astros organization will
be traded as part of the deadline if there's a
trade mate. Okay, okay. Number two, I do believe that
Joe Mixon is gonna miss the first gonna miss some
time in the regular He's.

Speaker 4 (01:15:33):
Done what based on Ian Rappitport is lying to people.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
No, I think he didn't see he's he didn't say,
and we'll be ready for week one of the season.
Didn't that didn't come miss part of the of the tweet,
the beating around the bush. He's trying to say. I'm
saying that that we've sitting around these parts. Oh, he'll
miss a couple of weeks, well, a couple big spets. Okay, yeah,
but again that wasn't put out by the Texans. I
know I'm saying. I'm just okay, So I'm telling you

(01:15:59):
that I would not Joe makes it to be a
part of the Texans in week one.

Speaker 4 (01:16:02):
Hope I'm wrong, because God knows they need him.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Okay, it's gonna be four, gentlemen, I one hundred percent
agree with you that Arion Foster should not be in
the Texans Hall, the Hall of Fame. But the Texans
don't have rules like you and I do about having
not about what should and shouldn't be up there. They
are so void of players putting up there that if

(01:16:25):
they go five or six years without putting one in,
they're gonna be like, what's going on. So I do
believe that Arion Foster is going to get in the
Hall of Fame. He doesn't deserve it. I agree with
you on that, but I think the Texans are gonna
do it anyway. So the one I don't believe is
Lebron gonna be a Maverick before the end of his
NBA career. Mark Stein put a story out this weekend
about Lebron is open to going to Dallas. Lebron's open

(01:16:48):
to a lot of things. I think mark Stein just
got a little lebbel from somebody and he went with it.
But Lebron, I mean, do you want to just I mean,
you want to be more than Jordan's so bad you
just can't keep bouncing around and around and around the
rest of your NBA career, going from team to teen
to team. If he was going anywhere else. Rossie honestly

(01:17:08):
to me, you better going to Cleveland or at least
again when it'd be a faster path in the Eastern Championship,
right mm hm. So I don't think he's gonna be
a Maverick. So that's the one I was not telling
you the truth. I figured there might be something on
your for you tab that I missed. Yeah, it was
Mark Stein, not me, because you're all over there. You
were you in the NBA trade wins on for you tab.
But Arian Foster should in no way be I don't

(01:17:30):
you know what I what I just in the ring?
Did I just tell you? I remember playing? I don't
think it's gonna happen good. I just remember that mediocare okay.
So that's so if JJ's in, Andrea's in, Robert is in,
and now Janis is in. I mean, are you gonna
go five or six years without having a.

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
Watt Andre Johnson?

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Why not? Why do you have to have a limit
on it? Why do you have the time limit? If
you're not good enough, you're not good enough. I think
they're gonna be like, we got to put somebody up
for a franchise that has been around since two thousand
and two. To have four people in it, that's it,
and two of them are your owners. Yeah, but you
can only I mean, you only have so much room
in the rig around the stadium. You can't just be

(01:18:10):
putting people in there willy nilly. For the one hundredth time,
I do not disagree with you. I just know how
the Texans roll, Okay. I mean why did they put
Janis with Bob Aye together? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
I mean there there, What did Janie even do? Was
she even lucid during her tenure as well?

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
Own that?

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
I wasn't speaking to her on a regular okay, but
she did when Bob passed.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
She did run it for a few years until Cal
and Carey got sided with each other and well now
it's officially Cal, yes, but he was basically running the
day to day, Well Janis was. I mean, yeah, I
don't think Janis was crunching numbers. She was guests. Yeah,
I don't think she was breaking necks and cashing checks.

(01:18:58):
She wasn't like, ky, can we got a third and
fourth for this so we try to trade down? Yeah,
she wasn't calling. She wasn't calling Chris Olsen, the team
Capologists five seven years ago, saying, do we have another
three million dollars ago? Get a backup tight end? No,
I don't think maybe she was, though she's in the
Ring of honor. Now does she go next to Bob?

(01:19:19):
How does this work? I haven't even seen this ring
in the stadium. Just such I am by this point.
My point is that they've they're not gonna be able
to Okay, So let's go over the candidates real quick.
Deshaun Watson, Nope, Dwayne Brown left a terrible situation. That's
a no.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
DeAndre Hopkins left in a scorely situation.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
That's a no.

Speaker 4 (01:19:43):
Yeah, she's just leaving blank Hopkins more.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Foster.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
See, that's the thing, boys, you don't seem to understand
we are an agreement on that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:19:55):
Facing your opinion on some fiction you made up in
your head.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
No, I'm just telling you. I'm think, I think I
know the Texans thinks. Okay, yeah, fiction you made up
in your head. I cannot wait from to get in.
I cannot way from the get it because I'm gonna
be like I told you so. I told you so,
and I told you so. Okay, he had what four
one thousand yard seasons? I think three. Maybe there was

(01:20:18):
a stretch where he was I have to look up
his numbers, but I want to say three or four
of those. Okay, had seasons seven years. He was only
there for seven years, four thousand yard seasons. Not good enough, right,
ring enough, not ring of honor worthy? But guess what

(01:20:38):
you and they had never asked for us to be
the judges, okay, because honestly, I mean, why is Janis
going in?

Speaker 4 (01:20:43):
I mean, I mean in brutal honesty because of Bob.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
Yeah, I mean when Janie wasn't on the field, Matt,
excuse not a four time pro bowler? All right, I
got one free for it. Let's go on, Okay, Gary
Kubiak in or out out. You don't think Gary gonna
get a shot at it? He might, just so remember
it's we're not the jry. We're not the jury on this.
You've got to talk to Hannah on this. What's the

(01:21:08):
criteria that there is no criteria?

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
That's what they do.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Criteria is being an all time great. They put they
put Andre Johnson in eight years ago, and they've only
done one player since then. JJ Watt played more recently
with the Texans and Arion Foster did, didn't he m M.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
But you weren't gonna put Arian Foster in before you're
gonna put in JJ Watt.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
That had been stupid. That wasn't gonna happen. Okay, we
have a juicy major League baseball story to talk about
it when we come back. Juicy juicy Okay, eleven forty
four on Sports Talk seven on if you want to
join the conversation. Should know you know what this is?
In an argument Aaron Foster should not be in, but

(01:21:49):
I think the Texans will put him in. Okay, I'm
almost I'm already put my name on it.

Speaker 9 (01:21:55):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
I'm write this down saying for tomorrow. I can't do
it right now. No, you know that's a gut feeling.
You put your name on it. It's a strong guy.
It's chess Maddie, a strong gut, fella. It's a strong
gut a category for strong guts. It's not quite put
my name on it. It's more. But it's more than
a gut. Okay, it's like a fat gut. I mean,
like a dun lapper belt gut. Here's me, eleven forty

(01:22:18):
five on Sports Talk seven. Ninety damn listen to the show.
Kirwin sent us a tweet and says he thinks that
Arion Foster's going to get in, and he also says,
what about Bill O'Brien. Bill O'Brien was a more successful
coach than uh Gary coopiac more Division titles. I thought
Houston hated we do hate him. Oh okay, all right,

(01:22:38):
I'm gonna make a statement. Please, the Texans are a
joke of a franchise. If they're putting Bill O'Brien and
Arian Foster in their ring of honor, I'm gonna make
sure and be very clear about this. Neither deserve to
get in. Bill O'Brien is not going to get in.
Arion Foster is going to get into the Texans Hall
of Fame. Okay, doesn't deserve it, but he's going to
get in. Okay, Well, I'm just in that statement. I

(01:23:01):
know what you said, and I'm again I'm not arguing
with you. Let me ask WEX WEX over Texanville WEX.
I we don't believe that Arion Foster should get in,
but I believe the next Texans we did this have
to tell the truth here. I believe the next Texans
halt Ring of honor guy is going to be Arion
Foster Agreer disagree.

Speaker 11 (01:23:20):
I agree with you, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Hmmm, what about my statement that the Texans are a
Joco franchise with Bill O'Brien and Arian Foster. Brian's not
getting game. You don't, don't worry about that. What you
got to turn? Sing a lot? Are you going left
or right?

Speaker 19 (01:23:38):
Left?

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
I was gonna say left because it's been a while. Right,
you're you're usually right in there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Yeah, you usually go quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:44):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Uh patted practice today for the first time. Give me
two or three initial thoughts from your eyes to our audience.

Speaker 13 (01:23:52):
The biggest pop of the day, Klin Bullock popped Cade
Stover on one of the very first plays in front
of the fans.

Speaker 11 (01:23:58):
Everybody got up, no problem.

Speaker 13 (01:24:00):
Pass was incomplete, probably about as you don't want much
more from a hit stick standpoint when you're only practicing
against your teammates. But it wasn't anything too big of
a deal. And Jalen Nol very good practice today. Probably
his best catch was a nice little floated pass about
thirty yards down on the field from the backup quarterback
Davis Mills. Miles Bryan and coverage for a forty yard touchdown,

(01:24:22):
lots of scores, lots of red zone work, so minutia
details coming up on the A team.

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
I was gonna say, we like to leave the minutia
between two and six, all right. Another thing we brought.
We played the sound by that you got of Demico.
I gave the audience and look, you see him a
lot more than I do. He's getting a tinge more
grouchy with these media availability, not every single time, but

(01:24:48):
once in a while. And I thought his comment about
Joe Mixon's injury status was kind of grouchy. I think
if it's that's his phone, nott ours right correct.

Speaker 13 (01:25:01):
Everybody doesn't talk about it, seeing on guy's personal injury business.

Speaker 11 (01:25:04):
When they're back, they're back. I just don't like to
get into all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:25:08):
And when a report comes out over the weekend trying
to throw everybody into a tizzy that Joe Mixon's availability
for the start of the season is in jeopardy, it's
not necessarily untrue, but it also is necessarily a differing
viewpoint from what they had internally, which is probably more accurate.
They knew this wasn't a couple of weeks they knew
this was more like four or five weeks, and that's

(01:25:29):
how long we still have until the season.

Speaker 11 (01:25:31):
So whenever a question about a player's status, especially we're.

Speaker 13 (01:25:35):
Still in the off season, when that comes up, he
has zero interest in giving details, but would prefer.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
To tell you.

Speaker 11 (01:25:42):
Why don't bother asking you?

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
And that's what he did.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Well, I just thought it was weird that he says,
you know you, I want people around here that care
about the person, not the you know, in the injury status.
I'm like, well, first of all, why don't you go
tell Ian Rappaport and Adam Schefter that and Tom Pelli
Cerro because their life is living for talking about injuries. Secondly,
we do care about these people. We don't just consider
them bots. But at the same time, they're players on

(01:26:05):
an active roster, which people care about and how the
team's gonna go. It's not unfair to ask follow up
to a report that was let off by a national
reporter because somebody in the building said something to somebody.
I don't think the agent would go run and tell
this to Ian Rap Report. I think somebody in the
building wants again some good graces with Ian Rap Report,
and thus that the report came out this weekend.

Speaker 13 (01:26:26):
Yeah, the manner in which he described it, he didn't
have to worry about having people around they care about
the players, because all three reporters you mentioned, they're not around.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
They're not here.

Speaker 7 (01:26:36):
We're there.

Speaker 11 (01:26:36):
We're the ones who are out there every day. But
one has nothing to do with the other.

Speaker 13 (01:26:40):
Reporting on injuries or trying to get details about players
availabilities not counter to not caring about the player.

Speaker 11 (01:26:48):
They don't go hand in hand. So you know, the
pattern path that he took on that probably not necessary,
but very minor.

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
Issue, Very Christian Harris.

Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
What's going on with him? I know he's still walking
around but not putting any pads on or working out.
When is that going to start becoming even a bigger
alarm in terms of when he's gonna actively get back
on the football field.

Speaker 13 (01:27:09):
Yeah, I guess it could just be a roster situation,
but I don't understand why it doesn't start on published
he's not practicing.

Speaker 11 (01:27:15):
Why why do you have a player on the active
roster who is not practicing. This is their fifth practice.
He hasn't practiced at all.

Speaker 13 (01:27:21):
You know, I saw him walking across the field one
from the facility before practice.

Speaker 11 (01:27:26):
He ran across the field or jogged across the field
that I did without any issue.

Speaker 13 (01:27:30):
And then I watched him come out of the practice
bubble for their beginning of practice, same thing. He was
jogging into wherever he and the linebackers were headed. And
again it didn't look like there's too much going on.
And so when Demiko in the offseason said he expects
him to be ready, he hasn't practiced. He obviously is
not ready. But I do not think this is something
that will continue to linger beyond this unless there's a reoccurrence.

(01:27:53):
And I state that in Harris' case because that's exactly
what happened last year. Last year, he was missing time
at camp, he returned into camp, he re injured himself,
and then he played the entire season or had to
deal with it the entire season, which essentially turned into
a completely lost season.

Speaker 11 (01:28:08):
They're equipped to not need him.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
That's why EJ.

Speaker 13 (01:28:11):
Speed is here, That's why Henry Toatoa is ahead of
him on the depth chart, which is essentially what you
did last year. So be nice to have a player
with those athletic abilities, but they're at least in a
position where they don't have to count on him, and
until he practices, I don't only have much of a
thought on what he'll do for this.

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
Team this year. Back to the running back situation, I'm
assuming that we're getting What are we getting in terms
of balance? We know that Damian Pierce is not taking part,
But how are the rest of the running backs in
term of a number of carries? How is that being
distributed at this point?

Speaker 13 (01:28:42):
Well, the only running back that's expected to get more
than fifteen carries this year for the Texans that had
even one carry at training camp is Nick Chubb. The
other four and now today five guys running behind him
because JJ Taylor was activated off the pub list today,
JJ Taylor, British Brooks, the rookie, would Daria good Balwally.

Speaker 11 (01:29:01):
They're not carrying the ball for the Texans.

Speaker 13 (01:29:03):
Woody Marx would be next in line if they had
injuries in season to mix in and to Chubb, and
if Pierce makes the team, So it's Nick Chubb running
it as the one, and that's really all.

Speaker 11 (01:29:14):
That's a great consequence.

Speaker 9 (01:29:15):
You're gonna get a ton of Woody Marx and joint
practices and you're gonna Sait a ton of him during
the cra season game activity. But that what we're sitting
out here, and today it was still the only day
that truly could do any actual analysis.

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
Is when all right, you know things like that. All right,
that'll do it for WEX, Thank you so much. I
don't know if it's our fault. Usually it is.

Speaker 4 (01:29:40):
No, that sounds like he's driving that Wax. Now you're
clear as a bell, so no, it sounds No, it
doesn't sound the same as the other issues we've had. Yeah,
I think it's he's driving.

Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
He's driving. So Wax will be the most minutia thing
he will bring up today two to six.

Speaker 11 (01:29:55):
Uh, the third offensive line group, how they lined up?

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
That's radio Sex right there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
So that is Wax is gonna join us tomorrow at
twelve twenty ross and you're gonna do the entire You're
doing the entire interview tomorrow, the entire segment off of
time you prepared. All right, I was ready. You cut
me off, Wax, we love you. We'll see in about
two hours then the uh, will you leave the studio?
He gets here early. Yeah, but you go out there
and see him. Yeah, I go get some water, some coffee,

(01:30:23):
that's gonna dress my legs. So tomorrow at twelve twenty,
before we talk to Joe Spot, it'll be Ross and Wex.
That's great for a full segment, all right, not only
do I have you actually good one? What was wrong
with the segment? I just said nothing. I got astros.
We're gonna get to the news at noon at twelve twenty.
I have two juicy baseball stories. Okay, I like juicy

(01:30:52):
news at noon, two juicy stories at twelve twenty. Juicy
sounds good and your phone calls wonder man, I mean,
i'd be juicy. Who knows seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven. I believe the Astros are in the emergency room.
Can they get out with a huge copey? We'll find
out next on seven.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
Ninety three zero and that's hammer deep to left, kiss
it goodbye.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
A long home run off the bat of Shay Langoliers
down the left field line, second home run of the
Yennich third straight day. Langoliers is Halbert and the A's
have a two to nothing lead in the first number
seventeen for Legoliers to two, and that's lifted in the

(01:31:54):
left and that's down for a basin. Langoliers scores. When's
around third, he will score as well. A two run
single for Max Schuman, and it is six to nothing
as if the voting set of the belt delivers Ands

(01:32:15):
hits it well out the center.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
But this is playable for Butler, easy back waiting for it,
makes the catch and that is the ball game.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
For the first time ever, the Athletics sweep a four
game series at Niken Party as they beat the Astros
today seven to one.

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
ROSSI, we just added the emergency room. They're asking for
our kope. We want to make you better. We're gonna
get you some players. It's gonna cost you some prospects.
You want to pay that cope. We'll see if Dana Brown,
I don't know if he's got the funds.

Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
It's like king.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
We just gets like some town solve this and get
in a payment plan.

Speaker 1 (01:32:57):
Rough rough goal things for the local nine four straight,
I mean not even not even competitive games either, four
non competitive and the crowds were amazing this weekend, thirty
thousand plus all of them. Robert Ford was listening to
the game yesterday said there were thirty six thousand at
Dyke and Parking. So that was the quiet Dike in

(01:33:18):
parkspin in years.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
That makes sense. And they got their ass kick for
four games.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
What do you want? Yeah, there's nothing.

Speaker 13 (01:33:26):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
I mean, y'all did your part. You showed up, you ate,
you drank, you cheered. Yeah, the worst was on Friday.
It was a fifteen to three, but people had to
hang out for the fireworks. Oh yeah, the Astro did
the Dodgers on July fourth. Don't forget that? All right,
twelve five on Sports Talk seven and I have two
juicy Major League Baseball stories. A third one has just
popped up. It's part of our news at noon, Yes,

(01:33:53):
Matt Nos at noon. We'll start with what we just
talked about. The Astros a four straight losses, Washington Nationals
coming into town feeling better. How are we feeling? Uh,
there're three and sixty two minutes the ass came to
town that after being swept by the Rangers. What if
I said this from er Valdez on the hill today,

(01:34:15):
what if I said there was a professional Line'm gonna
be out there. It is also going against Brad Lord,
who's actually Brad Brad Lord Lord. Yeah, they're going up
against the lord doesn't feel great. It's gonna be tough.
Nationals coming into today's game with a record of forty
three and sixty two. They fire their manager and their

(01:34:37):
general manager earlier this year. Of course, Uh, they are
forty three and sixty two. Before the A Series, they
were forty two and sixty two. You know what guaranteed
Astros win series. If they lose this series, you think
the panic button who has been hit. It's gonna be

(01:34:58):
like smashing of pieces. Uh minus two fifty five the
Astros today, Come on, baby, you gotta get the dub.

Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
It's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
Okay, all right, Matt elsewhere a bombshell from Jeff Passen
as the Cleveland Guardians closer Emanuel Clause has been placed
on non disciplinary paid leave as part of Major League
Baseball's sports betting investigation. Sources tell ESPN Clause second Guardians

(01:35:34):
pitcher on leave tied to the investigation. Of course, right
handed Luis or Ortiz was put on leave a little
while ago, and they had a couple of pitches that
were super non competitive. They isolated from him. We'll see
what happens with Emmanuel Clause nondisciplinary leave at least to
August thirty first, according to a statement from Major League Baseball,

(01:35:57):
and then there'll be some serious disciplinarian action after this
August thirty first, I'd be banishment for life. Yeah, if
they feel like he's actually compromised the integrity of the game.
I've said this hot a thousand times, Ross, and I
think you've echoed it as well. I'm surprised there isn't
more sports gambling and throwing out games. I just, oh, no,
I put it the other way. I'm surprised it's happening

(01:36:17):
this much because these guys, I mean, how much does
Clause make. He's got to be making at least around
fifteen million a year or something. Why is he doing this?
Because why is he throwing games? He's helping friends out,
I guess. Yeah. But as we've talked about, it's in
every kid's posted in every clubhouse. It's talked about, you
do not mess with the integrity of the game. They have.

(01:36:40):
This is not like the nineteen seventies when you just
go tell you bookie and then that's it. They have
software in place that monitors if there's unusual activity on
any sort of bet. There's red flags all over the place.
These books are shutting down. They'll take it off the
board and then they investigate. I'm still gonna stand by

(01:37:04):
my statement. I maybe here's what I'll say. I think
it's happening a lot more than you want to think.
It's just probably being done to a much smaller level.
Whatever's Clase is doing or has been accused of. The
warning signs were going off all over the place. It's stupid. Yeah. No,
I'm gonna say, I don't get it, because you are

(01:37:25):
compromising your entire So. Yeah, Clause is still on his
first contract, so he's not making big money into for
until twenty twenty seven. Have we maken ten millionaire? He's
making five million this year. I mean, unless you're in
deep with the mob, I don't get it. You are
risking your entire career and reputation. And it would be

(01:37:49):
too difficult to throw a game in which you don't
play in because but you tell literally one person and
he makes like ten thousand bucks. But even then, it's
gonna be a red flag from the if you're if
you're making all that kind of money off of one
if you're normally betting twenty dollars prop bets, and all
of a sudden, you load up ten g's in your
account and then you bet.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
Wouldn't you're gonna be investigating.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Wouldn't you think would be the dumbest thing you could
do is putting any kind of crazy money on a
prop bet. That's what Yeah, the Terroros Year of the
Hornets was going through. This is some crazy prop bets
that are getting to people. You need to find. Literally,
it doesn't make any sense. You need to find one
hundred people to put down one hundred dollars or something
in different parts of the world. Yes, with different IP addresses. Yeah,

(01:38:33):
I mean and and and non uh accounts that have
nothing to do with each other, with one hundred different emails.
I mean, maybe somebody's doing that. But even then that's
gonna that's gonna raise a lot of work too. They are,
oh you know something, I'm just saying. I'm just saying
they let me just trust me. Oh, seeing a lot

(01:38:53):
of Western Kentucky activity, a lot of discord uh servers
and twitter uh, a lot of toppers minus six and
a half against who would y'all play Middle Tennessee, I
don't know, in Michigan or something, you know, like Oh yeah,
experience one of those regional schools. It was very experienced.
Would you win on that those prop bets on SFA games?

Speaker 9 (01:39:15):
For sure?

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
Talking about those messholes over there. We'son Kentucky. I didn't
I should have. Yeah, seriously, I could have made fiddy Bucks?
All right? Anything else?

Speaker 13 (01:39:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
What else do you want?

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
Matt?

Speaker 13 (01:39:26):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
How about Luca doncic He looks really in the best
shape of his life. Who told you this was gonna happen?
Thank you, Ross, I appreciate I told you that Lebron
was gonna put him into good shape. Wait a minute,
I said this. I think I said it too. Matter
I saw I also said no. This is the more
interesting point to me. Does this happen if he's never traded?
No chance? So that's what I'm saying, Like, isn't it

(01:39:48):
funny how the universe works? If you had to stay
in Dallas, he'd probably still be Tubby. Now he gets traded,
he gets motivated. He's not Tubby, He's just Dowey. Okay,
well hold on, that's the man tis here. No, No,
Tubby and Dowey are two semantics. Is two to six?

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
Tubby and Dowey are two different things.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Yeah, the difference. I want to know. Tubby is two
fifty Doweye is two twenty. I know that's a ballet.
I can, I can, I can.

Speaker 4 (01:40:17):
It's not I I can see. That's just he's just
making things up.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
Okay, find me a definition of Tubby and Dowie bigger
person too. All right, let's go with okay, who is
uh Luka? Doncic? Was Dowey?

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
Who's a Tubby? Celtics shack?

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
Oh? Who's that guy that was? Uh played the summer
league team for? Uh No, he's played for the ed
Lover No, no, no, no love? Something?

Speaker 13 (01:40:50):
Is is it?

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
Something? Something? June? He crushed the using something like watching
Kenny lofton Jr. That's that's a Tubby. He crushed the
the Rockets, didn't he. Yeah, well he's also playing the
G League team for some team that he's tubby. M hmm,
looka was doing Luis Caluka can still move? When you're
a Tubby, you can't move. That's all I'm saying. And
that's the news. In noon, semantics, in dude semantics, in

(01:41:13):
dude all right, sports talk Usually we leave the semantics
for two o'clock We've been very semantical the last a
few days. Maybe we're taking a lead off them. Is
that a word semantical? Sure? Why not? More semantics on semantical?

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
Jesus all right, I got two more juicy baseball stories
for you.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
You like to hear them? No, oh, too bad. You're
gonna be hearing him in about a handful of minutes.
Second one three two, one two five seven. Nati, Oh, Lauren,
she hoty, We're not will you stop? God Lord on Monday, Matt,
Look at that dress he's wearing.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
My God, now you turned it off. We're watching garage Squad.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
Seven one three two one two five seven Donati seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. If
you want to follow us on Twitter, you made that
as well. It's at Sports MT and at sports rvy ross.
The energy is down. What are you going at? Tubby?
Did you hear the podcast and we want you to
listen to. Yes, listen to the Birth of the San

(01:42:17):
Diego MLS podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Oh, don't waste
your time with that. Listen to the Crawford Box cast
for free on the iHeartRadio app. You know what I'm
gonna bring back? Plinkos and power bombs. You should just
so we can get a decent podcast promo on this station. Jesus,
the birth of this San Diego FC podcast. I mean,

(01:42:40):
my gosh, Sarah Spain, I mean I listen to that
over No, I don't listen to that either. I mean,
I'm pretty good, big soccer fan. I'll never listen to
that a thousand years, thousand years, thousand years.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
But what do we do?

Speaker 4 (01:42:55):
Okay, forget it, and.

Speaker 1 (01:42:57):
Thank you everybody, thank you for hustonings, for listening to
our and thank you to iHeartMedia for keeping this employee. Yeh,
thank you. I we appreciate it. I mean, I'm money
will spent. I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (01:43:06):
I'm sure the podcast can't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:08):
Get Jonathan a raise, but we can promote these San
Diego FC podcast. Don't put me in this good graces.
You are in the good graces me too. You know what,
we love the San Diego MLS podcast. We cannot wait
to hear it. It is amazing. I cannot wait to listen.
As soon as I'm home, I will not pay attention

(01:43:29):
to Matt Thomas because I'll be listening to the San
Diego f C podcast. I'm listening to it right now?
What are you just saying? All right? Two juicy stories?
Even does it get juicier than gambling on baseball? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
They're not as juicy, but one's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
So Rob Manford is a commissioner baseball and he gets
to go to these thirty different teams to.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
Check in on things. Okay, well apparently.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
Last week he went to.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
Fill for you to go talk to the Phillies.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
Mm hmm. Most famous Philly would be uh, what's his name? Schmidt? No,
Mike Smant. We're talking about with Kurlin.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:44:11):
Oh, Bryce Harper.

Speaker 1 (01:44:12):
Okay, Apparently Bryce Harper and Rob Manford went nose to
nose in a meeting during the commissioner's visit, with Bryce
Harper telling the commissioner to get the blank out of
our clubhouse?

Speaker 4 (01:44:30):
What yes dus juice?

Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Now? Bryce Harper has always been kind of a head,
a screw loose. Remember the clown question bro stuff from
back of the day. Yes, now, and remember he was
running down an umpire or something like that.

Speaker 9 (01:44:44):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
What was the running he had with an umpire? Bryce Harper?
I was talking about? I know, I know, I want
the vivid details. We'll get in a minute. But what
do you think they were talking about? What would get
Bryce Harper so upset that he would tell Rob Manford,
the comm missioner of the sport, to get the f
out of their clubhouse. Uh, he didn't pay his fantasy

(01:45:08):
league dues. Nope, it's not a bad first guess. I
mean I'd have gone a little higher brow. But uh,
the impending lockout. They thought of a salary cap.

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
Oh you know, Bryce, iiber did one. No salary cap,
they'll shut jo bum ass up.

Speaker 1 (01:45:23):
Though Manford never explicitly said the words salary cap, sources
said the discussion about the game's economics raised the ire
of Harper, thus them getting mono and mono to each
other m with an ending by saying, get the f
out of my out of our clubhouse. Wow, So salary

(01:45:44):
cap is just the it's like the words that shall
not be mentioned anything will absolutely cause the lockout. It's
not I just don't understand though it's not feasible. Tampa
Bay is not getting work closer Pittsburgh or whatever. If
you need a salary cap, you need a big salary,
big salary floor. And that's what they're gonna say. If

(01:46:06):
you're gonna put a cap on people, then you better
well for the entire players Association, you better make the
funds available to Pittsburgh players since any players and also
ross I talked about this before. They one hundred percent
are gonna want free agency faster than six years. You're
gonna have to give it to them. I mean, they're
gonna want it in like three years, number one. But

(01:46:27):
it's also more complicated because guys get put up and down.
I mean, you know, even top prospects get sent back
down and stuff like that. When does I mean, I
guess you gotta go with the service time thing. I
don't know. It just seems much more complicated than the
simple You know, you're a first round draft pick in
the NBA, you're basically on the team. Yeah, and you're
guaranteed for four years. Same thing for football. There's nowhere

(01:46:49):
for you to get sit down.

Speaker 12 (01:46:50):
M hm.

Speaker 14 (01:46:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:46:53):
And then you guys gonna be held in the mode
late level longer, so service time doesn't start kicking in. See,
I don't know. These are the things you're gonna to
figure out going to start, Are there gonna still be there?
Gonna be higher slot bonuses based on the draft picks.
The Yankees would never agree to a salary cap. Why
would they or the Dodgers or the Mets. So then
would it be more like an NBA soft cap with

(01:47:14):
aprons and luxury taxes rather than the NFL hard cap.
I'm just saying, look, this is the way above our
pay grade on that. But we're going to get some
sort of aprons, deeper luxury taxes right now than what
Major League Baseball is in right now. And I think
they're the world is traveling, they're going to want some
sort of cap. The problem is, how do you let

(01:47:36):
the five most influential baseball teams? How are they gonna
let this happen when they're like, wait a minute, we
have the money, we want to go spend money. Why
you hold us back? So it'll be great for the
parody of the league long term, I think parody leagues
are better when they're salary caps. There's no argument to it.
Doesn't want to hear that, though a player doesn't want

(01:47:57):
to hear that the NFL has been able to thrive
off of the fact that Green Bay can't, that the
LA Rams can't spend more money than the green Bay
Packers that Kansas City will not be outspent by the
New York Jets. There are no aprons, there's no luxury

(01:48:17):
tax threshold penalties. If you're over the cap, you have
to release players to get under the cap. And for
us as sports fans, is easy kind of us to
figure out. Yeah, now there's now there's signing bonuses and
roster bonuses and that kind of thing that the kind
of get their minutia esque. But generally speaking, there's a

(01:48:38):
dollar amount period based off of player revenues and league
revenues that is given to the teams every year. And
you can't go it all over right, or you are
in gonna lose draft picks.

Speaker 4 (01:48:47):
It's not happening in baseball. I don't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:52):
I'd like to see video of Bryce Harper stepping a
poor old for the little ro Manfred. What do you think?

Speaker 11 (01:48:57):
I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:48:57):
It isn't Bryce Harper like six four to thirty or
something like what?

Speaker 1 (01:49:01):
What in the world is what? How does Rob say? Okay, thanks, guys?
I mean he probably felt like he was three inches
tall after me when Bryce Harper gets in your grill, Okay,
you got all right? Second, ju that's not nearly as
interesting Bob Nightingale reporting over the weekends. At Oh, now,

(01:49:22):
are you taking no? You just started the sentence with that, right,
you start the sentence with Bob Nightingale reporting over the weekend.
I'm skeptical. Go ahead. There is some talk of the
World Baseball Classic going during All Star week.

Speaker 13 (01:49:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:49:36):
I hate the World Baseball Classic. Yes, I'm in the
minority on this, and I understand that no Astros were
going to be in it. What was the crazy thing
you said? I never want to I never want to
Astro in it again. I can tell you that for damn.
What's the problem with it? I don't want to get
two broke his thumb when he was in it. He
got hit by a pitch.

Speaker 4 (01:49:51):
He was out for months now. That could have happened
in the spring training game.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
I'm just saying, I don't need my guys getting ready
for the season playing games like it's Game seven the
World Series. And you saw that in March when they
weren't ready. I said, zero Astros in the WBC next year. Yeah, okay,
so you know I will follow my stort of that.
I'm gonna lose that one. There's me at least one.
I mean there's too many international players in the astros.

Speaker 4 (01:50:14):
I just don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
I don't like it. I don't I just think it's
a meaningless exhibition. But obviously it's not meaningless to means players.
That's the only thing, and that's the most important thing.

Speaker 13 (01:50:23):
To me.

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
It doesn't mean anything, but to them it means a lot.
But putting it during the All Star break, oh, when
you need downtime, ross you're gonna play an international event,
I'll put that at zero percent chance is happening. I
don't think that there's never a good time for it,
but the All Star break would be the worst time
for it. Unless you're using mind only players, that's what
you can do. It's not gonna happen. I don't know

(01:50:48):
about it moving. Yeah, how long doesn't it take longer
than a week? Or how long does a WBC take.
I'm just saying that I just saw the tour play.
Oh man, I put WBC and Google it came up
white blood cells. That's not what I'm looking for. Maybe
WBC finals. Maybe you could see that, oh the finals,
group play, preseason in the final or like the final
bracket or whatever the kind of you know, because you

(01:51:09):
know baseball does there is some open time nothing going
on in sports. When you think, I mean you could
you could slight put it in there, average attendants or
the twenty three WBC twenty five twenty four eight. Oh,
I think it's gonna be a hit here very First
of all, baseball's a hit in this town. Yeah. Whatever
games are gonna be here are gonna be very good,

(01:51:30):
all right. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven.
A lot of interesting little baseball tidbits. And Demiko was grumpy.
Demko hates people. No, he doesn't hate it. They don't.
He loves his people really care about us and our
feelings and our hamstrings. You only care about reporting and clicks.

(01:51:54):
I don't think it's clicks. I think it's just I
got I got the sorry first. Well that's clicks. Hey,
the story first, you get the most clicks. That's true.

Speaker 4 (01:52:03):
One leads to the other, like Dowey leads to Tubby.

Speaker 1 (01:52:07):
By the way, shout out to our friend on Twitter
for giving us the complete definition of Doe versus Tubby.
I'd rather be I'd rather be called Doweie than Tubby.
Doi means I could probably stand to lose twenty pounds.
Tubby means you get a diet right now? Okay? Seven
one three two seven one three two one two five

(01:52:33):
six time with his lady back there? What are you
doing back there? You and these crazy sound effects you
got going back there for some reason? Oh never mind?
Oh seven one three two one two five seven on
either you call in or Jonathan's giving you more sound effects.
It's the Matt Thomas show at all. So on Sports

(01:52:53):
Talk seven NUNTI. So we just brought up uh, Luca
on the Men's Health where you look shredded us and
we're gonna use that term non dowey fit. Yes, the
best shape of his life. And there is a scam

(01:53:15):
associay with this apparently not a scam. Would you say
scandal or scam? Yes? Well, somebody from the Locked On
podcast network shout out Chris Cordy, the dude who does.

Speaker 4 (01:53:30):
Locked on MAVs Now. I kind of saw this and
I was like, huh okay.

Speaker 1 (01:53:34):
They they mentioned in the article that Luka Doncic has
a forty two inch vertical leap from the scouting combine
and couple things.

Speaker 4 (01:53:44):
I was like, he was in real Madrid.

Speaker 1 (01:53:46):
Was he at the Scouting Combine and then I was
also like forty two inch vertical leap for Luka Doncic.
That would be insane. So in the article it talks
about how he had a forty two inch vertical leap
and it's much better. Then the problem is he was
never at the twenty eighteen Scott and Combine. And also
apparently this author for Men's Health basically put into Google

(01:54:12):
Luka Doncic vertical and the Google AI says he has
a forty two inch vertical but that's actually Dante DiVincenzo.
So it's printing in this Men's Health article misinformation that
somebody got from Google AI. Check your sources, everybody, Yeah,
check your sources. We used to have standards and practices.

(01:54:35):
I already learned that I can't trust Google AI. I
have told you all this. When I do believe it
or not, I have to fact check everything I get.
I Google something and then I look for an actual article.

Speaker 13 (01:54:45):
I U.

Speaker 1 (01:54:46):
Sometimes I fact check Wikipedia. I'm like, this doesn't sound
I feel about rock Groc. Yeah, all of them, fact
check all of them. Groc is terrible. So I got
caught up this weekend on Groc. Somebody's been they've been
doing this hate Groc. Who is your most famous?

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
I know you would do that, You know I would
do it, Matt Thomas. You I was learning off of others.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
The most most famous person apparently to follow to look
at my Twitter account was Brian mctagg and that's stupid
and not even true. Tay Diggs follows you, doesn't he. Yeah,
he's got way more. Daryl Moury, Yeah, following Matt Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
Yeah, he's more famous than Brian McTaggart.

Speaker 1 (01:55:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:55:22):
And you had somebody that was you were the most famous.

Speaker 6 (01:55:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
They were followed by Adam Clinton. He's miles more famous
than I am. Yeah, so Groc shut your boy mass up.
That's what I'm saying. I got Groc muted. I was
curious about it because in every I know you were,
I wanted Groc to give me the list of everybody
that's blocked me. That's a long ass list. Yeah, there's
not enough characters on Twitter for that. There's like people

(01:55:46):
that are blocked me that I don't even know who
they are. You can do that, yeah, oh you asked
rock that, Yeah, the list. No, they didn't give me
an answer. They said they couldn't figure it out. But
I like, I'll look at very sweets and stuff, and
I'll look at and see there's any replies that says
this person's blocked. There's some GRABRONI down in Victoria that's
a sports writer. It blocked me, nice, Like, what did
I do? You're probably being an ass to a Victoria's

(01:56:08):
sports writer. You're probably talking trash about Victoria, Texas and
an indictment against that kid. Just he's just working hard.
He's gonna probably not sticking there in Victoria. But I
hope he does now. Hope a matter of fact, he will.
Hope he loses his job blocking obumass. There are some
people that have blocked me for the right reasons because
they're frauds. But that's a different issue for a different time.
Jordan Schultz at that Pro football Yeah, lego, he's independent. Now,

(01:56:30):
he didn't even have a job. I mean, I know
his coffee is damn good, but damn you blocked me.
It's not damn good. Oh I think it's good. It's fine,
it's mid anyways, anyway, what's he doing now? It's just
an NFL insider. Yeah, but I got I got about
it does he not have me blocked him? Or no,
it's he's blocked. It's so stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:56:51):
You can read somebody who's blocking, you can read their stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
I know who blocks me now? Did that because everyone
was blocking him? But anyways, anyway we're going with this.
He's giving out that information. The Men's Health writer did
not fact check and printed that that Luka Doncige had
a forty two inch vertical. He's got about a four
inch vertical. If Luka Doncic had a forty two inch vertical,

(01:57:16):
he'd be scoring forty points a game. So that was
pretty funny. Now the end story to this is if
you go get the Men's Health here, we are the
benz Raalth magazine. Man, you don't have to rhyme a magazine. Yeah, y,
they don't. They don't spend money with us. Why should

(01:57:37):
a magazine spend money with us? Want potential Advertising's a
potential advertiser. A print magazine in twenty twenty five has
got a marketing budget. That's true. Point is this, Uh,
he does look better, He looks great, and he needed
he needed to do it, ah, because it was wearing
him down in the playoffs. Secondly, he wants to kind
of show Dallas what they're missing out on. But yeah,

(01:58:00):
to answer your question a few minutes ago, if he's
still a Dallas Maverick, he ain't doing that. He's drinking
beer and eat and cheeseburgers. Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:58:08):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (01:58:09):
Let me say it's like a scorned lover boyfriend. Your
girlfriend drops you because you're you're you're not performing. You
want to you want to look better. So when you
go back out on the streets, is a free agent
you look better? Yeah, you guess if you've got a
lot more free time. Well, it's not not hanging out
eating riz with her, don't you. Don't you use it
as motivation? Absolutely? Yeah, gotta get your your best show,

(01:58:31):
best self. So yeah, the Dallas Mavericks or the scorn
next girlfriend. And he's gonna make him, you know, absolutely,
And he's gonna make sure that he scores forty points
a game against the Mavericks every single time. There's no
doubt in my own mind he's gonna be in his
best shape of his life this year. But I wonder
if it's going to continue. That's what I'm wondering. It's
hard to stay in shape for a long period of time.
Let me tell you, Matt, to tell you what I'm

(01:58:52):
agreeing with you. Yeah, I was gonna say you. I
mean you're going to take you Matt, you're someone in shape.
U we tubby, maybe touchy at tough. You are not tubby?
Are you sure you're You're a little doe, but you're
not a Tubby. Thanks Matt. I'm working on it. Seven
one three two one two are string? No, I'll go tomorrow. Hamstrings.

(01:59:17):
Actually we were up to ninety percent, but then back
this I messed up this weekend. I'm down to back
to seventy percent. Wait a minute, are you getting your
hamstrings measured? No, I'm just saying how I'm feeling close
to one hundred percent. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay, okay,
by whom I don't know. By the way, we have
an update from yesterday on one person's hamstring. Oh well,

(01:59:39):
it's an up. It's a non update update, but it's
a read between the lines. This ain't looking good update. Yeah,
but I think we're gonna we're gonna play it and
we're gonna go on the doom meter one to ten.
How bad is it?

Speaker 4 (01:59:49):
Seventy seven?

Speaker 12 (01:59:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:59:50):
It's not good seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. If you're on Twitter, I want to follow
us there. It's at shorts MT, at Sports RV and
at Sports Talk seven to ninety. Um, okay, we got
a one quick thing.

Speaker 4 (02:00:07):
Yeah, we're talking about clause.

Speaker 1 (02:00:10):
The thing that people were looking at with Luis Artiz,
who also got suspended, was the first pitch prop bets.
They have clause wasting first pitches. They have a lot
of video of him basically skipping pitches on the first pitch.
Is uh, there is a guy who uncovered you know,
I'm gonna give them their their proper due because they
looked it up.

Speaker 4 (02:00:29):
I think it's called foolish baseball.

Speaker 1 (02:00:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like a YouTube, Twitter or whatever. H
waist first pitch waste percentage. I don't even know how
they calculate this. Seventeen and a half percent, every other
pitch five percent, so he's doing it three times more often. Yeah,
and there's there's clips of him on the first pitch,
like basically skipping pitches. It's it's and he's the first

(02:00:55):
pitcher that the guardians they found him the second pitch
like he's bouncing these bad boys. I don't know, man,
very interesting it is. At the end of the day,
it's just better not to get involved with gambling at all.
You know, you and I enjoy it, but it's probably
we probably should find a better hobby. No, like it's
too much fun, or just take the black check. Stay

(02:01:18):
away from the sports books. Blackjacks fund too. But if
you're involved in any sort of athletic competition where you
get paid like professional athletes, to even associate yourself near
a sports book probably would be professional suicide because look
at that look at that website just did it is
putting so much evidence out there, and it could be

(02:01:41):
just coincidental, but man, you put this out there according
and then and then Majors League Baseball says, hey, we're
spending you because we think you're doing something I mean
judge jury and what do they call it? Judge jury
and the executioner that's damning evidence right there doesn't look good.

(02:02:02):
And yeah, I don't understand how this is not I
mean every not even like every month, and you'd be like, hey, guys,
they have data on all this. If you're trying to
do and gain the system with you and your broskis.
You can't. No, it's it would be too much to
get your broskis to do with one hundred dollars. Best
you need literally one person to do like fifty bucks.
You want to throw your friend fifty bucks and throw
a ball in the first pitch. It like a wedding gift.

(02:02:24):
Here's a free one. Fore, I'm gonna throw this first
pitch in the dirt. There's your wedding gift. Congratulations, and
your account's probably still gonna get flagged, all right? Seven
one three, two, one two five, seven ninety. The news
about Esach pretty is we didn't want to hear. We
kind of heard it yesterday twelve forty three on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Can I give you a hot take? No,

(02:02:48):
I don't know what an he takes, certainly not from you.
Simon and Garfunkle Top five duo in American music history,
Christ all right there definitely behind Outcasts and Ugk. Let's
start there, Hall and Oates there behind Haller notes A

(02:03:13):
on my list, Simon and Garfunkl on my list? Who else?
Steely Dan?

Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
I just put top duos in music history?

Speaker 1 (02:03:24):
Hold on Loons and Messina, No, because logins are more popular.
When he dumped Messina, it looks like it looks like
Rolling Stone might be with you here. Let's look.

Speaker 4 (02:03:33):
They got Simon and Garfunckel three, I can team a
Turner two.

Speaker 1 (02:03:37):
Who's number one? The Everly Brothers. What Yeah, they gotta
have U GK and out Cast up here? What what
the heck?

Speaker 9 (02:03:45):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:03:46):
Eric being rock him? Yeah, they're behind them.

Speaker 4 (02:03:49):
Who oh the White Stripes.

Speaker 1 (02:03:51):
Yeah, I got Simon and Garfunckel behind the White Stripes
Richard and Linda Thompson. Who are they? No idea? Huh
the carpenters are Oh yeah, but Richard never sang. He
just played the music. Oh they're well behind Daft Punk.
Oh yeah, that punk got the hits you, Sam and

(02:04:14):
Davis fourteenth Steely Dan. I'd rather listen to Steely Dan
over Simon and garfunkl. They ain't close. I that's Sonny
and cher Ooh, Ashford and Simpson, Peaches and Herb. They
got the Black Keys twentieth early Black Keys. Yes, late
black Keys. They're just mailing it in for like ten years.
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Junior, oh Ell Fitzgerald and

(02:04:38):
Louis Armstrong. I got them, had to sell Simon and Garfunkel.
Mad you say me they were number five, they didn't
have the number three. Oh really okay, Oh you're saying
that you were you were judgment my personal See what
do they have captain to Neil but tan Neil was
the only one that sang. Does that count as a duo?
I guess it does.

Speaker 4 (02:04:56):
I mean Eric being rock him rock him was the
only one rapid d uh?

Speaker 1 (02:05:01):
All right, back at it. Yeah, I'm going out cast one,
UGK two, I'm just Marvin Gay and Tammy Tarrell. Three.
I'm just saying I'm happy that I'm able to stand
firm by my top five duels of all time, Simon A. Garfunkle.
There you go, Million Vanilla now on there, Millie and

(02:05:22):
or Vanilli. Hall of No, it's not even on this
top twenty list. That's surprising, all right. The reason we're
applying this because we have the sounds of silence. We
don't have the sound silence because we do a twenty
hours a week of radio, so we can't have silence.
The Righteous Brothers? Really, how do you feel about them?
Air supply? Was that only two people two Air and supply. Yeah, Oh,

(02:05:46):
which one was your favorite? About the Bellamy Brothers, I'm
not familiar.

Speaker 4 (02:05:50):
Oh Tears for Fears of the duo.

Speaker 1 (02:05:52):
They had some hits. Now, okay, can we get to
the sound of East six Pretties?

Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:05:56):
Wham? Sorry, go ahead? Yeah, why did we play this song?
This is your fault. It is number one. It's the
jam though number two? Well, you can keep this sad
song up. What the heck's going on with ease our
paratus data.

Speaker 19 (02:06:14):
It's a little bit more severe than we projected. And look, ultimately,
I think he's gonna get this second opinion. We get
him to get a second opinion, and we'll know more,
you know, probably in the next week, less than a week,
I would, I would say. But the fact that it
was a little bit more severe is it's more painful

(02:06:34):
to us, you know, And it's tough to be optimistic,
you know when when you know that it's a little
bit more severe. So, but you know, hopefully the second
opinion clarifies a few things for us and then we
could move forward.

Speaker 1 (02:06:48):
Yeah, my guest clarification is we'll see you in twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 4 (02:06:52):
I told y'all when they put that strain on the il.
I thought it was over.

Speaker 1 (02:06:56):
That was a That wasn't a strain, you know what
that was? Boys, that was a sure yeah, like like
he almost honestly. Yeah, it's probably it's as bad as
you can. I mean, what can you do to a hamstring?
You can tear it off the bone. Yeah, that's could
have been the communic case for sure. Good god, you
lost your leadoff guy. You lost your number one homer hitter.

(02:07:17):
Pipe way, he's got a shot. He's still four behind
L two Bay just saying, thrown it out there and
he's Diaz. Heighter swinging miss Diaz.

Speaker 4 (02:07:30):
All right, Well more from Dana. How does this affect
a deadline?

Speaker 19 (02:07:34):
Dana, I mean, we were already looking for a left
hand bat, and you know, potentially, uh, you know, maybe
an infielder. But you know, look, we're we're still we're
still looking for a left hand bat. So that didn't change.
If it's an infielder, great, If it's an outfielder, we'll
take that as well. Uh, but it really didn't change much.

(02:07:57):
But it's just more of a preference to be an infielder.

Speaker 1 (02:08:00):
Now turn it up. The lost our guy. Thompson Twins yes, sir, no,
what are their three best songs? I don't know. I

(02:08:20):
don't know. All right, let me let me see what
I'm gonna have to dig more into this. Simon and Garfuncle,
it's folk Music's just not let me get okay. First
of all, folk music's not your jam. You're not going
to appreciate it. You're just like I don't like hip hop. Okay,
but let me give you. Let me give you top
twenty bona fide. Simon and Garfuncle, hits top twenty sounds.
Do we have Sounds of Silence? And me and Julio

(02:08:40):
down by the school yard was a jam Cecilia and
missus Missus Robinson. That's a good one. Scarborough Fair not familiar.
Uh reag over truum Oh, that is such a jam too.
The box the boxers. The boxers say, this is a
Scarborough fare. Hold on, let this breathe. This is depressing.
This is the astros Okay, Matts, this is I told you,

(02:09:07):
this is depressing. It's it's folk, Okay. Give us a
give us a good like up beat folk with Missus Robinson.
Go get missus Robinson. Tell you that's got a long intro.
Though that's a jam though. That is a jam, though.

Speaker 4 (02:09:18):
Also one of the greatest movies of all time.

Speaker 1 (02:09:20):
To Graduate, This is a jam, This is okay, this
is nineteen sixty eight jam right here and bankropt back
on better.

Speaker 4 (02:09:29):
Sure she was a Betty name. What's now cast most
famous song?

Speaker 1 (02:09:32):
Well, probably the most famous would be heya, but I
mean we're talking about hey yeah. Southern Playlistic Cadillac Music
was an all great album. At Alliens was even better.
And then a clem Andi.

Speaker 4 (02:09:41):
You're talking about going into Stankonia.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
Whoa whoa little spody ody dope delicious angel. Come on now,
I don't know what any of that meant, but it
sounded good.

Speaker 15 (02:09:55):
You gonna go.

Speaker 1 (02:09:55):
You gotta see the movie. To Graduate, Jonathan, I had
a friend of mine. I don't know if you know this.
He is this young guy and he wound up hooking
up with this woman way older, I mean way older.

Speaker 4 (02:10:09):
It was his girlfriend's mom.

Speaker 1 (02:10:11):
It's very delete. It's a girlfriend's mom, okay, and this
girlfriend's mom. Jonathan would not leave this young guy alone.
My buddy's like she seduced him. She's like seducing him
all the time. So he finally hooks up with her,
but he winds up falling in love with her daughter,
and the daughter is marrying some douchebag and they get
They go to the wedding and he's like, I gotta

(02:10:32):
stop this wedding. So he goes in the middle of
the church and grabs her, puts her over her shoulder,
and leaves the wedding.

Speaker 4 (02:10:38):
We banged on the window first. Isn't that crazy? Yeah,
said My friends are like Jonathan, I feel like I
know this plot. I told you about Funny of Mine.
It's Dustin Hoffman and the Graduate.

Speaker 1 (02:10:54):
See. I was part of that movie. Actually. See I
don't think Simon and Garfunkle got anything better than Ride
and Dirty. There's just no way. What two three see
this is This is their most famous song. We as
white people can dance to this song, That's what I'm saying.
This was from the album The Love Below, where Andre
two thousand was doing his best Prince impression and he

(02:11:15):
made a bunch of crazy songs and tried to go
off the wall.

Speaker 5 (02:11:20):
We did have a call today saying you guys are
too depressing. First it was Ozzy Osborne the Okay, and.

Speaker 1 (02:11:25):
Then well things happen in three Simon and Garfunkle don't
have anything Cogan, Simon and Osbourne and East like preidis hamstring. Okay,
all right, they don't have anything that can touch international
players anthem and that's just a fact. But yeah, this
is this is jam. Turned this up good? Yeah, this

(02:11:47):
is Yeah. Now I'm in a better mood. By the way,
you got a funny quote from somebody says that Major
League Baseball is considering this very serious allegations against the
Cleveland Guardians. And by the way, you can use clause
and get fifteen percent off your first better at MGM
dot com. But I didn't think of it. I didn't
think of it. I saw on the four you tab.

(02:12:08):
So you're saying this song is better than anything that
Simon and garfun can put out. No, I I literally
just said I don't like the song.

Speaker 4 (02:12:15):
All right, this I mean it's a jam.

Speaker 1 (02:12:17):
But yes, absolutely, one hundred percent, no doubt in my mind,
outcasts greater than Simon and Garfunkel. What's up?

Speaker 4 (02:12:25):
It was more influential influential?

Speaker 1 (02:12:28):
Who did Simon and Garfunkel influenced a bunch of guys
with acoustic guitars? Pedro hates the segment he wants he's
tying a noose around his neck and wants to hang out.

Speaker 4 (02:12:35):
Well, let's turn it to the own. Let's get out
of here. We're way over anyways.

Speaker 1 (02:12:39):
All right, our left to go. We're gonna go and
do you know what we're gonna sit. We're gonna play
how cranky Wash the head football coach the Texans coming
up next? How about that? One to town on Crankiness
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero twelve
fifty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety four. On Sports

(02:13:01):
Talk seven ninety it is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Astro start a series tonight with the Washington Nationals.
Ross I will be on the on Deck Show beginning
at six o'clock tonight. Who I will be on the
tenth Inning show after that. Man, I'm proud of you, Matt.

Speaker 13 (02:13:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:13:18):
I appreciate that very much. I mean, especially because this
whole weekend I thought I was doing it. I forgot
we swapped. Yeah, I'm really feeling relieved now. Yeah, I've
got Astros on deck on Monday, Wow, at the tenth
inning on Friday, and I'm working again this Saturday. So
let me just say something. God, you want team player
at the old seven ninety. You're listening to guy around

(02:13:39):
on this show. You're the ultimate clubhouse guy. Yeah, not
the clubhouse lawyer, just clubhouse count. You're like the late
stage Michael Branley of this of this operation. Yeah, we
appreciate you. Don't expect me in September. Yeah, much get
a lot of injuries, not moving on as well as
you used to. But you're you're really holding. I'm doing fine.
I'm leaner. Yes, I'm no longer Dowey. I was sucking.

(02:14:01):
You look like you're falling apart. This tapeworm is doing
a number on you. It's been about a five year tapeworm. Yeah,
I know.

Speaker 4 (02:14:08):
You think the the antibiotics would have killed it by now,
I know, no.

Speaker 1 (02:14:11):
Kidding, all right? Seven one three, two two five seven
Unty Texans at their full full practice today sports RV. Yes,
offense did great, defense sucked no Christian Harris and we
want to hear what the Demico Ryans was asked about.
Which was the number one thing coming into the practice
as far as I'm concerned, was the report over the

(02:14:32):
weekend that Joe Mixon is going to most likely miss
the entire preseason with whatever ails him, and when asked
about that, Demiko Ryans said this, Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:14:43):
Nothing's changed with Joe. Joe is still working, you know
in the background. I know we get reports about Joe.
Nothing said, He's still working. Whenever it's time for Joe
to be back, he'll be back, right. I know a
lot of people want to report a lot of things
about guys and injuries. My thing is this is are
you really concerned about our guys?

Speaker 1 (02:15:01):
Are you really.

Speaker 14 (02:15:03):
Just trying to get something out there?

Speaker 9 (02:15:05):
Right?

Speaker 15 (02:15:06):
And for me, I always put my players health and
safety first and foremost, so I care about the guys.
So you guys don't hear me talking a lot about
injuries because that's their personal information. Guys are working through
that and it's nothing to report or get in an
uproar about like.

Speaker 14 (02:15:23):
Our guys are working.

Speaker 15 (02:15:24):
And that's it's always sensitive to me because I've been there,
I've went through this, so it's not just to report
something to report something like on people here who truly
care about our guys. I care about our guys and
what they're doing throughout their process, and it'll continue to
be that way.

Speaker 1 (02:15:43):
Well, then you need a lot of a phone call
to the NFL NASH reporters to get these stories. Nine
to nine times at one hundred. I got a crazy idea, man,
Please tell me, Oh, it's foot injuries we're talking about here.
It's a very easy way to blunt reporters wanting to
get in front of everything and wanting to be first
and digging around his organization.

Speaker 4 (02:16:01):
Shot, I write this down. Yes, okay, this is an
insane idea.

Speaker 1 (02:16:04):
What if he went in front of the media and said, yeah,
Joe Mixon's dealing with an ankle injury. We'll re evaluate
him in a couple of weeks. I got one better
for you. Joe Maxon's got a foot injury. Yes, there's
nothing new to report, Yes, and I will give you
an update one week from today. I'm the latest on that.
We're working through it now. I don't have any new

(02:16:25):
information for you. He's he's trying to get better every
single day. Yeah, Instead, he got cranky at the some
legit reporters that are there, most of them not, but
some that weregit and he got cranky about it. Yeah,
and then they getting get in front of a microphone
and he's going on to make a Godfather reference Frank pantangely,
what I don't know?

Speaker 4 (02:16:46):
Joe doesn't have a foot, he's.

Speaker 1 (02:16:48):
What I know, I don't know. Just play dumb and
then that that makes people want to dig more into it,
that makes it a bigger story than it would be otherwise.

Speaker 4 (02:16:56):
And we've gone through this with the astro.

Speaker 1 (02:16:57):
YEP, it's almost like like we need us as sports
media and we're again, I don't think you and I
are ever bombastic. Do we have some fun? Rarely? Do
we embellish on some things just to kind of for goofiness. Yeo,
But we're not going to embellish on serious matters like
speing stupid? Is is Joe Mixon? Should he retire? That's

(02:17:20):
the kind of stupid stuff. I mean, we don't. We
don't do that. Is the injury prone, Well we've done
that with some players, but we were actually those that
had foundation too. Point being is this, Uh, the more
you're if you go to these teams and say hey,
we we know you want to protect certain things. I respect,

(02:17:41):
I don't. I don't give out our company secrets here
at seven I need everybody. We don't have very many,
but we don't tell everything we do. I'm not expecting that.
But if you're just giving off the impression of I
can be as transparent as I think I can be,
then we're gonna love, We're gonna we're gonna go okay,
non story. But for Demiko to go, why are y'

(02:18:04):
all asking about this just because the reporter wanted his clicks?

Speaker 4 (02:18:07):
Now, the reporter had reporter news.

Speaker 1 (02:18:09):
The reporter news was Joe Mixon is not going to
participate in the preseason. You could have told us that
the very first day when you had a microphone in
front of you, but you chose not to. And just
because you don't think it's new news doesn't mean it
wasn't new news because guess what happened. Ian Rapperport reported
it and it became a conversation piece. Joe Mixon is

(02:18:32):
a starting running back in the National Football League who
had a very successful season, who wasn't seen at OTAs,
who wasn't seen at mini camp, and wasn't ready to
start a preseason camp. I'm sorry, Dimko. I respect the
hell out of you, but that's a story.

Speaker 3 (02:18:46):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (02:18:48):
Now, how severe is it? You can tell us that,
But the more you don't say, the more you're trying
to hide. And that's the thing. Yeah, this has been
a thing for football in sports for I don't know,
one hundred plus years at this point. And if you
are more transparent and get in front of it, that's it.

(02:19:08):
The more you shroud things, the more that other people
are gonna want to dig, and the more that people
are gonna want to know what's going on.

Speaker 4 (02:19:14):
And again, what I want to know, and what I
want to know is we'll never know is who told Rappaport.

Speaker 1 (02:19:21):
Maybe it was Joe Mixon himself. It could have been Joe.
I don't know because because heah, I got something for
you here. Let's let's say that Raperport has been in
like he's been on top of text and stuff for years,
so somebody's in there giving himself. Let's say I took
a two week I was on the show for two weeks. Ooh,
when we didn't talk about it? Ian talk about it,

(02:19:41):
Uh huh rehab. Now that's up to me to say it.
That's true. So maybe I wanted to go tell Ian
Rappaport or my agent. Again, I don't think that's the case,
because the foot injury wasn't a complete silencer I mean
he had the foot injury in the off seat. It's
different because there's not an injury report on Matt Thomas

(02:20:02):
every week. There's an injury report on every football player
every week. And that's just the way that it has
been now. I don't know if the if the players
or coaches are feeling that that dehumanizes them.

Speaker 4 (02:20:11):
I mean, I can understand that, but.

Speaker 1 (02:20:13):
Somebody felt it was good enough to go tell Ian Rappaport,
who's got a huge following and is known for breaking
news of all sorts in the NFL. So you didn't
go to some You went to whoever you wanted to tell.
You wanted to make sure a lot of people knew,
whether that's somebody in the Texans organization, whether that's Demko

(02:20:37):
himself saying you didn't hear this from me, and.

Speaker 4 (02:20:39):
There's no way to Mika. That would be pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (02:20:42):
Oh my god. I coaches and general managers lie all
the time, and then went and scolded the media about it.
That's actually the best way to try and cover up
that it was you, yeah, is to be overly defined
about it.

Speaker 4 (02:20:56):
That's true, I'm or you're talking.

Speaker 1 (02:20:58):
About like when the Lance Armstrong didn't he sue the
guys that were trying to out him for for using drugs?
Or how about when Rothfield Primaro in front of Congress
is I did not take steroids his finger. He got
caught out on the table like a week later and
he's pop for staroids. Yeah, Geo on seven on GEO,
Good afternoon.

Speaker 14 (02:21:19):
Good afternoon.

Speaker 20 (02:21:20):
So as far as the topic at hand, when you
guys are talking about the text and then Joe Mixon injury, uh,
I think Demko is just being.

Speaker 1 (02:21:29):
Grouchy, like you said, Matt, I don't. I don't know why.

Speaker 20 (02:21:32):
I mean, it's just it's news where they're asking about it.
Either answer it or move on, you know what I mean. So,
but I also wanted to circle back about the best
duo in music?

Speaker 1 (02:21:42):
Who did you say yours was? Man, I don't have
a particular go I just see he puts Samon Simon
and Garfund put Simon on top five, and that's It's
it's really an indisputable thank you. It's actually I got
a reason to dispute it, but I'll look at you'll
go first.

Speaker 20 (02:21:56):
No, So I got, I got my answer, and I
think I think it's gonna go over your head, Matt,
But I think Ross and even Jonathan might get it,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna answer it with the question Ross,
do spaceships come.

Speaker 1 (02:22:08):
Quick with no, they do not. There we go have
a go one, guys, they just dip. The atmosphere is
now ripped. I'm so like a pip I'm glad it's night.
As you guys were discussing that, I was looking at
Sophie Cunningham. Okay, I imagine she's attractive. Yes, she likes

(02:22:30):
Roby's Hill. I mean, what's right? What did Robbies ever
do to you? Roby's Robby's Oh she she wore she
plays the Chicago Sky, the w n B A. I
got a reason to dispute. Oh, my top five? Your
top the top five? Continue on, go ahead quick. There

(02:22:52):
would be a big Boy or an andre three thousands
without each other? Would there be a Garfunkle without assignment
to be one of the greatest duos of all time?

Speaker 4 (02:23:00):
You both got to be great? Well, then hollow Oaates
wouldn't be great beause.

Speaker 1 (02:23:04):
Put him down the list. Pipsy and Bunbee both amazing. Okay,
I mean a big Boy and andreze thousand both amazing.
Tammy Terryll and Marvin Gaye both amazing, But Tammy Tarl
didn't have near the success at Marvin Gate. Well, yeah,
because she had a brain tumor and died. Matt Garfunkle
had a couple of hits, did he? Yeah? Okay, I

(02:23:27):
don't know about the Everly Brothers breaking them ye splut
an Everly brother up sput a dath punk amazing together.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:23:34):
They do projects on their own, all right. All I
want you to do is this, don't do it right now.

Speaker 1 (02:23:39):
Duel when you're like bored, when you're on your phone,
because you're on your phone late at night. Sometimes, I
want you to google top music duos of all time. Yeah,
I did, and Simon garfunk was third. Go to four
or five different lists. Get get a wider list and see,
if I bet you, Garfunkle makes the top five on
all of them. Okay, Well, I'm just saying those lists
are wrong, Okay, because Garfunkle sucks.

Speaker 4 (02:24:00):
Garfuger made a man you mistake.

Speaker 1 (02:24:01):
Should have got along with Paul would have been and
Simpson who broke up and both did well. I'm talking
about mainstream top forty hits. M who would have done
both well, Hollin Olts. No, I mean John Lennon and

(02:24:23):
Paul McCartney. But they were in there, the Beatles. Yeah,
that's on going all right, one fifteen. These are things
we pontificate over it because yeah, Stros lost four of
the a's. You would have break that down. We could
do it.

Speaker 4 (02:24:36):
What was the little point of the weekend? Probably Nick?

Speaker 1 (02:24:42):
I mean that was honestly, I just thought it was awesome.
I mean that was baseball history. I know a lot
of people were mad and like he's the worst, and
I hate Nick Kurts.

Speaker 13 (02:24:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:24:54):
No, I didn't enjoy it. I'll be honest with you.
I thought it was horrific. I thought it was awesome. Yeah, dude,
it was incredible because your settlement. That's because your Sacrament Radio.
I'm sorry, I apre I watched sports to watch all
time greatness, and that was all time. I watched the
Astros because I want them to win every single game. Yeah,
and you don't.

Speaker 4 (02:25:10):
You're fanboy homerrific and I'm there, you go, objective.

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chill at her skirt. I'm gonna move that along. Can
you put something on like that dude that that does
those paint by numbers things, that's got the funny hair.
Does that do his name?

Speaker 3 (02:26:35):
Bob Ross?

Speaker 1 (02:26:36):
Yeah, put Bob Ross some one. He's long dead number two.
He doesn't do paint by numbers whatever, connect the dots,
whatever he's doing. I was Bob Ross back when I
could grow an afro. I was Bob Ross for Halloween once.
How did he ever get his popular as he did?
It was just because he was of his weird Larry
Soothings soft voice. And it's very therapeutic for people to

(02:26:56):
watch him paint and make tree and wonderful things for
you to look at. Okay, I watched the whole Bob
Ross episode the other week. Did you really?

Speaker 3 (02:27:06):
I was curious.

Speaker 1 (02:27:07):
I don't remember why it popped up on YouTube or something,
and I thought I was gonna watch it for like
five minutes. I watched like thirty minutes, and I'm just painting,
painting the log cabin in some trees.

Speaker 13 (02:27:18):
It was.

Speaker 1 (02:27:18):
It was quite therapeutic. Man, it's very nice watched Bob
war Ross work. Okay, it wasn't that great of a painter,
but no, I mean again, it looked like paint by numbers. See,
that's that's just rude. That's disrespecting the legacy of Bob Ross. Well,
where is his most famous painting work? And I go

(02:27:38):
watch you can look at it. His painting's auction for
like thousands and thousands of dollars.

Speaker 11 (02:27:43):
What.

Speaker 1 (02:27:43):
Yes, Now it's mostly people being nostalgic. Yeah, so hey,
he's not like, it's not e Van Go and the
Leonardo da Vinci. They're not hanging in Mintown, Manhattan. Some
famous one or two of them is okay, but just
not yeah, okay. Uh we mentioned very briefly danced and
bladder cancer. Uh got treated for it. So they said tumor.

(02:28:06):
Was it a cancerous tumor? I would assume so bladder
cancer would be the case.

Speaker 4 (02:28:10):
And okay, so it was bladder cancer.

Speaker 1 (02:28:12):
He says he's already beaten it. Good for him, that's great. Uh,
it'll be curious. I'll be you know, ve X plus
Colorado this year in Houston. It's a Friday night Fox
game I think or ESPN one of them too.

Speaker 13 (02:28:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:28:27):
Well, I wonder of Colorado's traveling because part of the
charm of being back in the Big twelve was having
actually fans and the other teams coming in. Yeah, I
certainly can't tell your own tickets. You gotta hope that
other people will buy it. Whatever. Yes, let me tell
you what he is gonna bring kiss First of all,

(02:28:49):
you don't have They're gonna take over the stage. You know,
you can't even afford gas to get from the Necadoches
to Houston, so I know we don't expecting your asses
to be there. That was a good way, okay, uh,
but no part of it is. And I do believe
this to be the case. I would love for it

(02:29:10):
to be forty thousand University Houston fans, but that just
hasn't been in the case. Released it's Tom Herman. But
it is fun to have four or five or six
or seven thousand of the other teams fans. When we
play East Carolina in Tulane and Memphis we had seventy,
isn't it? Part of the fund is when Texas gets

(02:29:33):
screwed by where they sit in the games and they
get all pissed off because it bands like out worse. Oh,
when they make temporary stands and they don't don't don't
stay off you of h we don't need you. I'm
asking that was a long time ago, a long previous administration. Okay,
but like, you know, there'll be a story when Texas
band gets crappy seats at Ohio Stadium, Like yeah, like

(02:29:55):
we only got this and we didn't. We had to
put our band here and those dorks were in those
crazy heads couldn't sit and watch a game in a
good spot. Hey, those uniforms are pretty up to date today.
They were out to day in nineteen seventy seven. They
get the fringe and the cats. It's it's not great.
The band sounds good. I mean it's fine. Oh, I know,

(02:30:18):
I was sitting next to them at the Sugar Bowl.
I mean, we got some strange years. They're still ringing.
We got the We got the mob over at Rice.
We got yall. The mob is fun. At least they're doing.
You know, they make statements and whatnot. Yeah, but they
they don't. You have to take twenty minutes to explain
what their statements are. Yeah, and if nobody's there to
watch them, do they really make a statement. I was

(02:30:39):
just looking at the TDECU stadium attendants last year. Don't
skip pass fast forward. By the way, the new Football
Operation Center is opening up this week twenty five thousand
for Iowa State. Yeah, because nobody, no ilways did didn't travel.
Let's go I was day is number eighteen in the country.
Go Cyclones. Well, the game was on TV. Were a comporable.
It was also a terrible rainstorm. I'm assuming Wait when

(02:31:00):
was it was? Oh, the Texas game was twenty three.
That's right. Well you brought the you brought the officials
in and the help to game, trying to find a
sellout for you guys. It was only when Texas came
in it down. Of course, we're going to shock the
world this year and finish tenth instead of thirteenth, six
and six this year, twelve and one in twenty twenty six. Boom,

(02:31:24):
You heard me right. I don't write that down, Matt.
You should write a lot of stuff down. Yeah, you've
been calling for a national championship every year of this show.
I mean it's one man can dream. I mean, this
basketball is gonna shot in nationals. You've got no shot
now that there's a twelve team playoff. Maybe certainly two
team and four team maybe you can get lucky. No,

(02:31:47):
I'll the other way around. You're saying I'm gonna have
a better shot on a twelve team. No, because you
got to win three or four games. Yeah, but I
have a better chance of getting in with the twelve,
better chance of getting in than getting the ass swamp.

Speaker 4 (02:31:58):
And they deserve Do I deserve it? Connor Wegman's going
to rock the world.

Speaker 1 (02:32:06):
Connor Woman's like I went to college station, wasting my time,
My efforts want to come. It's like, you know what
I'm telling you, arch Manning would have been a Houston
Cougar if not for the fact that Quinn Yours left.
What you heard me, Archie told me directly? Yeah, yeah,
this is a dream you were having. You guys were
in the huddle with the New Orleans Saints, all right,

(02:32:26):
speaking of the Saints, are they gonna suck for arch No?
Why why wouldn't you Here's no guarantee. I'm telling you,
there's no guarantees coming out. You already told me that.
You already told me he was going to transfer, and
that didn't happen. That that would have happened. You know,
there's no way Quinn Yours is back this year. That
arch would have stayed.

Speaker 4 (02:32:47):
Zero percent.

Speaker 1 (02:32:48):
He's not wasn't gonna stay. Well, you didn't know that, Yes,
I do, he didn't quin yours. You staying for one,
he would never come back to He was never coming
back to Texas. Now, maybe he would have taken some
big n IL money to go somewhere else. All right,
back to my point, why why not the Saints sucking
for him because you're not sold he's gonna be number

(02:33:09):
one pick.

Speaker 4 (02:33:10):
There's no guarantee that he's gonna come out.

Speaker 1 (02:33:17):
You know what five years ago to said that's nuts,
But no, I can't then IIL money is so good
now that he's going to be he'd be just doing
just fine and going back to yours for a second.
Quinn would have stayed. You don't got more money, you mean,
archer Quinn. Oh no, Quinn would have made more money
somewhere else. He did left and gone somewhere and got
some out. He's going and starting his NFL career. Good

(02:33:39):
for him, wishing him the best, and the videos of
him are coming out. Actually, the stuff from Shuder Sanders
looks good too. I mean, these guys might be a
little surprising after I mean, again, I don't have a
dog in the fight, but it's you're the last person
I think would be putting stock in a camp. Oh
you are, You're right, I'm the last. I'm just saying
that it's out there. The people that are fans of

(02:33:59):
the those two guys are certainly pushing the gen along
very well. I am not seeing a.

Speaker 4 (02:34:04):
Future superstar all over Quinn you er? Is this Who's
who has a.

Speaker 1 (02:34:08):
Better NFL career? Quinn yours or should Sanders? Because of
I just don't think Quinn's that good. I mean probably neither.
I mean a fifth and seventh round picks, yeah, I
mean Shoulder is probably going to have a little bit
more of an opportunity, a little quicker opportunity than maybe Quinn.
Mm hmm, all right, one thirty on Sports Talk seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(02:34:29):
seven one three two one two five seven nine. If
you want to join us with today's edition, I believe
or not? Today? Is it the Hall of Famers from
this past weekend? Have you even started? M folks, He's
not started, but you just start getting feeling better about yourself.
How are you going to fix that? Rossie? Well, I'm
gonna tell you what. You've been sluggish. You've maybe not

(02:34:52):
had the motivation you've been looking for. Maybe you're a
little tubby or a little Dowey that brought up one
of my takes, which I believe, is that I think
the astro are going to have to move a current
twenty six man roster spot in order to get something. Now,
I think you and I basically have been on the
same page that these are going to be some minor moves.
Yuennio Suarez sounds like to me, you're gonna have to

(02:35:14):
mortgage the farm because several teams want him. Ain'iting, ain't hamiting.
So if you were to believe me, let's talk about
players that would bring back something. Now, I'm not saying
a lot in value, but there's a difference in bringing
something back.

Speaker 4 (02:35:32):
As compared to are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (02:35:33):
Stop? Okay? Active players on the roster. For instance, I'll
give you an example. Lance mccutters would bring you nothing back.
High salary, fresh off of two and a half years
of beeing results, low results. That's a player that doesn't
bring you anything back. He's untradable. You're on Alvarez, not

(02:35:56):
that they're showing any interest in it, but he'd be
untradable at this point because again he's missed three months
and he's had his fair share of injuries over the
past doesn't mean he's not gonna be valuable for this team.
Doesn't mean the Astros shouldn't still count on him for
being a great power hitter. But the reality is you'd
get really nothing. You couldn't throw, You couldn't throw yourd

(02:36:17):
On in there.

Speaker 4 (02:36:18):
As a trade. Let me get some other guys. You're
never trading ord On, never trading you On.

Speaker 1 (02:36:23):
I think before the injury, Jake Myers could have been
a trade target, a piece you could have used. Maybe
you need him on the field. You need him on
the field, so that that puts him out of the possibility.
Christian Walker you probably could trade, but that's a still

(02:36:44):
a pretty heavy hit for two plus years at twenty
million dollars. Not nobody's trading for him, but nobody in theories.
He looks like he's in decline. He's making twenty million
a year. Yeah, you're not trading l two. Bang, you're
not training Painya, you're not training paraitisk especially he's done
for the year. That will do you no good. Is
in this year's series, Uh, Yannier, you could get something

(02:37:08):
back for no then there you're not trading him. But
they're not trade you mean like one of the starters.
When you said twenty six, man, I thought you meant
I'm starting to start. He has mccormicker. Yeah, in Dias
isn't being moved. Keratini's a fragent in of the year.
You could move Keratini. But man, you are you need

(02:37:28):
him really bad for stretches. I know that's sad because
that's that's not what he was brought here for. Cooper Hummel,
he's already and available. Nothing for him, Chas McCormick. You
could get something for him, not much. I'm just saying
you being really open and honest. You could get something
for him. Somebody could catch lightning in a bottle for him.

(02:37:48):
Worst case, he's a fourth outfielder. Best case he could
start for you two different positions, honestly, probably the only
position he can't play his right fields of the arm
or you could trade, so you could trade. Trying to
think of the left hand, the relievers. Brian King, you're
not you could trade. Brian King. You're not moving, hater,

(02:38:09):
You're not moving a bray you So, I mean, I
would say they're in a lot. Stephen Steve looking great.
This is not a buffet of options for opposing teams.
We like Steven Okert and Caleb ort I don't think
he's on the radar. There was. Those guys are on
the radar. But that brought this up there today. And
you think you thought it was nuts. I'm going to
give you a left handed reliever and you can't give

(02:38:30):
me a dec I didn't thoughts.

Speaker 3 (02:38:32):
Are you sure?

Speaker 13 (02:38:32):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:38:33):
All right, We'll make sure people crave left handed relieving, okay.
And the Astros have a pluffor of it. They had
a buffet, yeah, but they don't have anybody that's that's
really I mean, I mean you you could swap I
guess alrighty for a left that when I just would
be rare, that is what I'm saying. It would be rare.
But you also are asking the Astros to remain competitive.

(02:38:55):
They have to get creative and for a team that
doesn't have the minor league prospects that other teams do. Yes,
but you also have I mean what exactly as outside
of the Astros organization, the track record of all these guys.
And oh, by the way, I got to know, I
got news for you.

Speaker 3 (02:39:08):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (02:39:08):
If you're gonna make a trade, why does it have
to be to a team that sucks. It doesn't have
to be if it's a reliever, yeah, I need a lefty,
I need a righty. You could mean there's there's gotta
be somebody that's like, we can call the astros. They
got plenty of them. I'm not gonna completely rule it
out or call you crazy, Okay, I'm just gonna say
that seems unlikely. Normally it is, but there's just something

(02:39:34):
in my belly that tells me that this is a
gut feeling. It's realistically, it's a gut feling, and I
will double down on that on Tuesday, Okay, tomorrow. My
gut feeling is they do not do a reliever swap. Well,
but I didn't narrow it to that. I'm narrowing it too.
There's gonna be an active member of the team. From

(02:39:57):
a position player perspective, it's minimal. You can see that
you want them, they're untradeable or they're hurt and you
can't trade them. Man, let me ask you this. Not
that you're a doctor, I'm not, but if you're a
full pull hamming, that's an off that's an that's the
rest of this year in the off season, right, I
mean off you would he'd have to be ready to go.

(02:40:18):
March twenty twenty six. Off the bone could be up
to six month. You're talking about surgery at that point.
M Well, Dana Brown said earlier, you got you gotta
go to We're gonna go to a second opinion and
second opinion, guys, is trust the first one?

Speaker 4 (02:40:35):
Yeah, I mean second opinion with a hamstring.

Speaker 5 (02:40:44):
It sounds like they want it to be a great
a strain and even that that's four to six weeks,
he's still have to you know, I've had a great
so I guess it's But however, if it was off
the bone, then you would need a second opinion, right,
So maybe it's not off the bone. Maybe that may
be they're trying to decide, Jonathan, what how deep, how
severe the strains hanging on the hair like, they're trying

(02:41:06):
to see if with a small tear, like so many
things that can go wrong with the hamstring that can
put you out.

Speaker 1 (02:41:12):
It's it's a cruel, it's a it's it's not a ligament,
is it? What is it a bone?

Speaker 4 (02:41:17):
I mean there's ligaments to the bone that attach the
muscle to the bone.

Speaker 13 (02:41:19):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (02:41:20):
What is a What is a hamstring? It's a muscle. Muscle, okay,
it's it's a cruel muscle, cool cruel, Okay, because you
have to stop. You're doing any track. You can't run. No,
you got a probably a hard time walking.

Speaker 3 (02:41:31):
Hop.

Speaker 1 (02:41:32):
Now he did get on his Instagram and was getting
his hair done. That's good. Could you see a wheelchair
in the background or crutches? No, I couldn't ross putting
it out there. Just Aby's under his own power on that.
You didn't hear he's not zooming around. Yeah, he doesn't
have one of those things that you know it gets

(02:41:52):
on the first way I get.

Speaker 4 (02:41:53):
I gotta say this for Thursday.

Speaker 1 (02:41:54):
I just don't get it. You you, you kids and
your scooters. You gotta stop. It's out of control. What
happened to walk into school?

Speaker 13 (02:42:04):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:42:04):
I mean even around like you're going around downtown or Midtown.

Speaker 1 (02:42:07):
Or eastas Eto or bikes. They're zooming around these scooters.
People are getting injured. Do you know who the worst
ones are?

Speaker 13 (02:42:13):
For me?

Speaker 1 (02:42:15):
After rocket schemes? At night? What's the street I go
down to to get out into the fifty nine. It's
next to the tender garage. I turn left, I go
down the street, I go all the way across to
get on the other side of fifty nine. I turn
left on the Feederal whatever that street is, okay, and
they're they're coming the other direction at me. That's what

(02:42:37):
I'm saying. They're going to lights on going really fast.
First of all, you should be you should be driving
scooters at night. Secondly, slow your speed down. I'm going
to win that battle every single time. Hold on. Hold
on sounded very rightening. I don't want to win the battle.
In fact, I'll be scarred for life if I have
to win that battle. But cars are always going to

(02:42:59):
beat scooters. Oh my gosh, Believe It or Not is
up next. Ross has had three hours, actually had since
Friday when the show ended.

Speaker 4 (02:43:08):
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Speaker 4 (02:44:48):
We have some breaking news from the astros.

Speaker 1 (02:44:55):
It's just one. John Singleton is just in DFA by
the astros. Wait, what are y'all laughing for? I mean,
it is what it is. It just now the crazy
part of it is. I'll tell you why I'm laughing.
You know who broke the story? Uh, John Singleton. Oh,

(02:45:19):
Lindsay Singleton's Lindsay Singleton broke it.

Speaker 13 (02:45:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:45:21):
Yes, I'm not laughing at John or his family or anything.
I'm laughing at these idiots who go on Twitter and say,
Joe a Spot is dumb because he won't play John Singleton.

(02:45:42):
Where's John Singleton? Why wasn't he in the lineup? What's
the point of having him here?

Speaker 4 (02:45:46):
He's a quadrupulee player, dude.

Speaker 1 (02:45:48):
He's not very good.

Speaker 4 (02:45:49):
He's been Yeah. I mean, come on, man, that's what
I'm laughing at.

Speaker 1 (02:45:54):
Yeah. So respect to the Singleton family, wishing them the best.
I mean, he's he's not very good. He's tried. It's
just you're left handed. You don't play any other position.
The limited amount of bats you were given, you just
didn't make any differences. I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:46:14):
You know we don't have time a five minutes left
to go in the show.

Speaker 1 (02:46:16):
What should we do? I was gonna say, we'll give
you the John Singleton numbers, but it is what it is.
They're probably good one for nine. Yeah, it's one to
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Not?

Speaker 1 (02:48:33):
No, that's a believe it. I think we had that
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what was your favorite part of today's ten to two
radio show? I got in the car? Yeah, there you go.
CC Sabathia was a prolific tight end in high school
and even received a football scholarship offer from UCLA. Believe

(02:48:53):
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Speaker 4 (02:49:06):
In twenty twenty two, C. C.

Speaker 1 (02:49:08):
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Hey Javier on seven, Honty Javier, what was your favorite
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Speaker 5 (02:49:24):
Him start.

Speaker 1 (02:49:26):
Billy Wagner is naturally right handed, but became a lefty
after breaking his right arm as a kid. Believe it
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(02:49:48):
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