Astros Get Swept vs Guardians… Jake Meyers Goes Down, Are the Astros Just The Most Snake Bit Team In The MLB?

Astros Get Swept vs Guardians… Jake Meyers Goes Down, Are The Astros Just The Most Snake Bit Team In The MLB?

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Speaker 4 (01:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good morning, and welcome to a third He's the condition
of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. We're actually in Sugarland.
It Tyl're brewing and this is Sports Talk save at ninety.

Speaker 9 (02:14):
Before we get started, there is some concern with Jake
Myers and center field. This sistant athletic trainer, Eric Velaska
is out talking with Myers, who's down on one knee.
Jake he missed the last two games with tightness in
his calf. Taylor Tremmelle also over there as well, coming
over from left field. So this is not good news

(02:37):
for Jake Myers, and you wonder if this is a
recurrence of that that calf tightness that kept him out
the last couple of days and forced him out of
the game on Sunday against the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well, he's having a long conversation with Joe Hasponta.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
He's on one knee.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
He's not putting any.

Speaker 9 (02:55):
Pressure on that left calf, but it looks like, yeah,
he's frant Fleck saying his right leg there.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Everybody cries. Everybody heard sound.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Let's talking to that.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's that's all I got. Well, no, oh.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Man, Jonathan's playing that soundbody. That just makes me even
sadd than it was.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Man.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
The jags Byers presence is he's looking at this five
tall boys already here massacred my boy. Oh god, oh dear.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm trying to get our friend Frank, who's listening to
the show, who's here. Before we even started the show,
I said, have a nine o'clocker and he was like, no,
I'll wait till two third after my big meetings.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yet places to go? He does? You keep dialing up
some flights? You can't.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, you can't go to a big meeting making multimillion
dollar deals with a couple of pints under.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Are you gonna tell me it hadn't been done before?
That's true? Oh now, all right?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Uh, we are here at tire browing, and if you
want to cry, your tears away or crying your beer. Right,
you can cry in your beer, right, tiering my beer.
That's a tier in the beer. I'm ready for the
beers when they start flowing. Yeah, this place is absolutely amazing.
It's three and a half acres.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Come by.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
We're gonna be here until two o'clock. Ross and I
are in these comfy chairs. I'm gonna fall asleep. There's
a significant chance we might nap during the show, so
we may need you to like cover a couple of segments.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yes, that that would be helpful.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Uh, And if you do want to have a drink
with me, I will two o'clock because I did uber here.
Shout out to my guy Tabari, and I will have
a sip with you because I did not uber here. Okay, So,
by the way, it was not a bad drive. I'm
fifty two miles from my house. But the great thing
about Tier Brewing is there's a lot of people in
Houston that just are such craft connoisseewers.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
They will go all different parts of town.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now, if you're working or whatnot and can't get over
to that, I get it, But you got to come
by here. This place is great pit barbecue they've got
a pizza oven downstairs. We're in the second building on
the left hand side, right behind the barbecue pits. If
you want to come to the second floor upstairs. Upstairs,
lots of TVs here. We've got to some giveaways coming up.
Gordy brought to the I mean, the most amazing wind

(05:38):
wind box registered to the bus. We call it an
RTW registered to win.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
We do. I've been in the business thirty years. I've never
heard of that before. Are you serious?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Rtwh that's because you're mister fancy Matt. You just show
up and then everybody sets everything up for you and
you leave us who who rolled up our sleeves and
came up through the promo crew.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
You know that it's RTW.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
That feels very rude, but it's fair and I'll move
on from that. Yeah, yeah, none of all of us.
We're broadcasting prodigies like you met. So at two o'clock
today we're gonna draw for some Astros tickets. We're gonna
draw for some Space Cowboy tickets. We're gonna be drawn
for I believe, some golf and look, we know you guys,
day drink. We just do.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
We've heard you. We know you, We've met you.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
So if you're coming to have some beers today and
bring the dog, bring the kids, there's pick a ball
out here. There's a big plague Land area, and if
you're gonna drink, have some just uber. But if you
live in the Sugarland area and you can have one
and be responsible and eat and sit out a couple
of hours. I mean again, we we only endorse responsible consumption.
But this is definitely a very very nice place and

(06:43):
we're very happy to be here. I frankly don't particularly
care about the game last night. Look at losing three
straight to the Guardians is not fun. Now the positive
is the Yankees beat the Mariners again last night, and
so you have only lost a half game in this day.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's six and a half over Seattle.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Seattle plays today, so if the Astros, if the Yankees win,
that makes back to seven, and it does kill some
of the buzz you had after knocking off the Dodgers
three times in Los Angeles. But I'm gonna paint a
picture for you. So my pregame show ends at six
point forty yesterday Sports RB. And then I go have
some dinner, yes and then I go sit in my

(07:22):
chair in the press area and someone, the guy next
to me, says, is that Jake Myers.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Out there being helped off the field? I might helped
on the field.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Doing what oh man.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Yeah, it was at the beginning of the broadcast when I.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Saw it, and he was being helped off, like you said,
like not to the clubhouse, walking on his own to
the tunnels.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, the right field tunnel. He couldn't even go to
the dugout. It didn't look good.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So the calf muscle is something that hurts NBA players
That calfs usually turned into something that about Tyrese Halliburton
had and Kevin Durant and Kevin Durant among others.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Damian Lillard, right or is he something else? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
He did come back from an injury. I don't remember
if it was calf. It might have been. It might
have been me. Who knows. But there have been a
variety of NBA athletes that have gone to the.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Calf to Achilles pipeline. It's like a it's like an
indirect shot. It's it's a connecting flight. It's one you
don't want to take.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, you're on dark Breast airlines and you're changing planes.
You went from Houston to uh Seattle and you're changing
plane to Denver, because you know, it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
It's a logical staff.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's linear as compared to like when Ross and we
sent Ross in the Super Bowl Houston to Indianapolis through Orlando.
That is correct, And I'm sorry about that. That's all right,
I mean I wasn't. That's why when you you have
to use Thomas Travels compared to Gordy Travel, Guardy travel
just makes you go all sort of strange places.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
That's that's true. Actually it was far enterprise? Was it
far enterprise?

Speaker 10 (08:59):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
That's even worse. Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
After the game, jo Aspotta said, I wouldn't have put
him out there if I wasn't told by the player,
the training staff, my own eyes.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
That he was ready to go. And I can buy that.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, Joe Aspotta is not going to put a player
out there unless he feels like it's completely confident that
he's able to go. Now, if you go exclusively off
what the player says, the player is gonna want to
play no matter what. Hey, Jake Myers is having a
good season. Jake Myers is wanting to play. Jake Myers
knows the Astros offense has been less and superior, even

(09:40):
though Taylor Trammell's had a little bit of success. Friend
of the show, Cooper Hummel, not so much this series.
And that's really I call the Jonathan Allen curse. Yeah,
that's true. Sorry about the jay uh, but he's anxious.
He doesn't want to miss time. Correct, that's what the

(10:00):
players are gonna tell you. And we can buy. If
this was in a vacuum and this was little one off,
it would be easy to say, you know what, setbacks happen, especially.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
With soft tissue injuries. How many times have we seen.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
This in every single sport where guys come back from this.
But we are seeing a pattern that we cannot ignore. Now,
I trust that the Astros have hired very good medical staff.
They're not using guys out of vans. These are guys
that have been well experienced, that have been around a
very long time. They know what they're doing and all

(10:33):
that type of stuff. I don't think that they're being
cheap and getting a bunch of interns.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
But we can't ignore the pattern.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
We can't ignore that this somehow continues to happen with
return to play where James Klick was talking about it
around twenty one to twenty two, involving with Jake Myers
coming back from his shoulder injury and possibly getting rushed.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Back to JP France. Same situation, I think too, and that.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
JP France correct and this that's the problem is we're starting,
we're building a laundry list. And that's the issue here.
You're on Alvarez, Jake Myers twice, JP France, Lance McCullers junior,
Luis Garcia is two years removed from from Tommy John surgery,
and and that is just rare for guys to be
out that long. And that has to make you question
what is going on here? Are they just the unluckiest

(11:20):
team in baseball? Or is there are there things that
are being mishandled that need to be corrected well, And
you can't answer it. And I can't even No, I
can't because it's it's it's only happening with the inside
intelligence of the organization.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
We're not looking at imaging, you're not looking at X rays.
I'm not looking at it.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I have not been invited to any Dana Brown Jim
Crane based UH medical conversations we've never been invited, and
I have a very good feeling when ever will And
I'm trying my best to say there are too many

(11:59):
adult in the room that would allow a player to
get back out there just because he says I'm good.
I cannot imagine. And Joe A Spot has said this.
They've had testing them. There was ultrasunds, there was all
that kind of thing that again, they're just not going
on how you feeling today, bro, That it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Work that way.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
So so let me give you that side of the fence, right,
They're not doing that.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Ross, They're not going Jake, how you feeling today?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Good? All right, you're in. They're not doing that, So
let's flip to the other side of the fence. The
other side of the fence is saying that maybe there was.
The people that are looking at these results are there's mix,
mixed diagnosis. I'd like to say that every doctor that
you've ever been with in your life has always been
able to pencil your issues.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, doctors, just like everybody in life, make mistakes. And
maybe there's a bad batch of physicians that are watching
over the astros right now because not that again. See,
here's the thing is that we're dealing with too many unknowns.
And that's what I think holds us back here m hm.

(13:14):
Because I could say, somebody could text me and say, well, hey,
I was in a room, I know what's going on. Okay,
that's nice, and then tell us. But if I can't
use that information and I and you aren't public with it.
Now they had been more forthcoming with the announcement of
the injuries and what's worth. The guys are doing rehab
and all that, but Jordan Alvarez is nowhere close to

(13:34):
picking up about at this point.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Uh, he's doing what they call all the dry batting,
dry swinging drawing, which I did a lot of dry
swinging when I was younger.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
And I didn't like it. It wasn't fun.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay, Paania, nothing close yet. And again, these are all
separate things. There's no like, no one's drinking an elixir
in the Astros clubhouse that provides injuries, right, I mean no,
there's no nobody's drinking a kool aid. That's the thing
that makes this so difficult, is what you're saying. We're
talking about Jake Meyer's a muscle injury. We're talking about

(14:08):
Jordan On Alvarez a hand fracture, We're talking about Jeremy
Pinya a rib issue, and then these guys with their
arm issues as well. It's all different things. But when
you have James Click saying we need to review our
return to play process and then he gets fired three
months and we have no idea if there was any sort.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
Of investigation or if they looked at it at all, And.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Then you have Dana Brown saying that maybe they did
make a mistake in letting yord On play through the
hand pain, then yeah, I think it's fair play to
to say maybe something needs to be examined here. So
the reality is says we can't do that. The only
person that would ask for a full examination of the
medical procedures of this baseball organization is the owner and

(14:50):
Jen that's that's Jim's responsibility. Yeah, and how about the players?
How are the players feeling about this? How are the
players union feeling about this? If you're if you're Matt
if I put you in this clubhouse right now and
you're you're the sixth outfielder and you see this guy,
this guy, this guy, this guy get hurt and come
back and get rushed wouldn't you be questioning, Man, is
something wrong here?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Or is this a bunch of bad luck?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Wouldn't you be saying if you went to a doctor
and you knew five guys who went to that doctor
and they kept they were all getting rushed back, wouldn't
you be concerned that if you had an injury, you
would be getting rushed back.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
It'd be natural to do that.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, yep, all right, if you want to chime in
on this again, A lot of this for us is unknown, Yes,
and so we're doing as much guessing as you are.
And the difference is we have microphones and we are
here to discuss. But I cannot speak as an authority
on the medical procedures. I cannot express to you that

(15:43):
I have any inside information, and no one does. There's
not even whispers, there's not even peep. There's not even
a player that's anonymously going to someone and saying, hey,
we're concerned. Mmm. Maybe that's a benefit of the astros
that no one has, at least said an astro from
an office member.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
An ASTRO player who shall.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Rename remain nameless, says, I'm concerned about my organization. That's
not happening, right. If that does happen, then the fireworks
go off. But until that does happen, if it ever does,
and hopefully it doesn't, maybe they are just the most
snake bit team in Major League Baseball. It's post that
is a possibility. Seven one three two one two five,

(16:23):
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They've got a pizza oven downstairs. They've got a lot
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and Ross as he wants to try all of them starting.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
At two o'clock and see how many flights would that be?
Four four before we'll get to four four.

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And a half somewhere with that range. Seven one three
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Matt and Ross. We're at Talire Brewing. Our sales rep.
Rob Logan is here. Yes, Rob's and ice. Rob's an
ice guy. Wore a white belt today. I don't know
how he's pulling it off. Okay, it ties together. He's

(17:12):
got white shoes and a white belt and a white shirt.
I think he's matching. So he's basically going to play.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
What we got over here.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
I got Yeah, you're in your car, you're in your caprice.
So I don't even know why you're talking to I haven't.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Owned a white belt since I was in the sixth grade,
So that's on.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Robbie looks sharp. I'm saying. I'm saying Rob's pulling it off. Okay,
go meet Come meet Rob and see if he's pulling off.
Because the last guy I always saw a war a
white belt was justin Verlander, and he's pulling it off.
It ties together very well with the white shoes. God, Okay,
that's my opinion. I mean, I'm no fashion expert either.

(17:49):
You look fine today. I mean I mean I'm in
a jeans at a polo, which is my go to, that's
my formal. Actually, I got you sweatpants and a T
shirt is my normal. Yeah, if I'm going formal.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Hello, Yeah, all.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Right, uh seven one two, five, seven nine. If you
want to get in. Brian mctagert's going to join us
at eleven o'clock today. I just don't get it coming
up at eleven thirty that it was at noon, And.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Just thoughts of prais about Jake Myers.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
It was concerning when it happened and people were using
the A word, which I didn't want to hear.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
They are saying it's a CAF strain again.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
But it also was concerning when at the end of
the night he would not answer those questions and he
basically walked off on the question. Was the one that
was just spat in context? Was the question? Was it
was kind of fake? As there was a shower in
the background. Yeah, was does this hurt more or less?
Yeah than your original injury? And he paused and Jake
is He pauses, looks at the PR people, yeah, and says,

(18:51):
do I have to answer that now? Jake is not
Oh god, Jake is not a huge talker to begin with.
Nice guy. We like him a lot because you're the
president of the FANK. Yes, love Jake, but I would
not say he's got a career is an analyst in baseball.
When it's all said and done, he just just you
know what, excuse you?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
No, I think he'd be the first one to tell
you that. And well, all right, fine, so he's not.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
You know, he'll have probably more to say on Friday,
as hopefully with the team.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Maybe he can write a statement, he can articulate it better.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right. At that point, he clearly didn't want to
answer those questions, and let's I mean, let's just be
practical about this. If he didn't hurt it worse, he
would have said, no, I'm good, this is not as bad.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
It's exactly. He would have answered the question immediately.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
He could have lied to well, what I say you guys,
the average person lies four times a day.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Gonna lie? What's the average for the Astros training staff.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
They're gonna get you.

Speaker 11 (19:56):
That was a joke.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
They're gonna hunt you down like hello, PR team. That
was a My name is Rosson. Actually my name is Matt.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I'm the one that says, look at him, Jonathan trying
to throw me out of the bus. It was a joke.
It's it's very very unfortunate. Uh, guys are dropping like fly.
It's ridiculous. And and in the reality is this when
we love what Turmel and him all and but.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
You can't win with that.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Kennedy Corona with one end, Shae Whitcomb, Whitcomb and the boys,
we love all he is. And look, thank god, do
Bond is actually hitting the ball pretty well.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Has been hitting too. Yeah, before yesterday he had some hits.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
He had a three run bomb in this In this series,
they've been They tried to come back in all three
of these games, right, I mean, you got to give
it to the water. And how about the fact that
Jose al toob is the only one hitting with runners
in scoring position.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Everybody else can't do it. Yeah, yeah, he was. You're right,
He's got their three hits with runs in scoring p
the hit. That's it. Other than that they are for
thirty five or something like that.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, they were two for twenty one mins two nineteen
plus seven Okay.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Over twenty six in the last two games. Everyone else
not named Josel Tub over twenty six.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
That's why Josel Tube is the greatest astro of them all.
Not greatest base runner of all time, maybe the worst,
but certainly the best of all astro player. Of all time.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Uh why because he got a couple hits in these
losses against Cleveland in the middle.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Uh did you see what he did in Los Angeles
this past week? My god, he's a mad he is.
I was talking about this, I think on Uh, I
don't remember which post game I recently worked, but dude
is so clutch. Like, okay, you think of like the
clutchest players you've ever seen in your life. I'm thinking
Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, right, I mean those types of guys.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
He's just he just has a feel for the moment.
It's insane.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Now you were if you were to build a mount
Rushmore of clutch Houston athletes. Oh, he's in a far left. Yeah,
James Harden not on the rushmore. We appreciate you, James,
and he did have some game winners, and unfortunately, as
much as I love Bags and Bitch, they're not on
that list, not at all. And that's why many people
like yourself have have Jose al T greatest of all time.

(22:13):
Regular season the nods go to definitely goes to bagwell
over al two B. But I do count the postseason
as a huge part of it. And that's the reason
why I've done. He's the greatest of all time. So
who else is that Mount Rushmore of clutch Houston athletes?

Speaker 4 (22:28):
We must be in mid July. Oh, we are in
mid July.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'm gonna try to think Lance Berkman, actually, I think
deserves consideration on that list. Of course, that's easy. So
let's move over next to Altuve. So those two are
knocked in, locked in. Huh war Moon, no match job no, no, no,

(22:57):
Earl Campbell.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
No, I'm probink of the greatest athlete. I'll tell you now.
He hasn't really done it in the playoffs much yet,
But that rookie season c J. Stroud looked like he
was well on his way with those clutch games against.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Jeremy Panel had fa I mean, George Springer had a
great But if you're putting those two guys up on
that Mount Rushmore thing, that means it's not an overly
deep list, right right, all right, we'll talk to Dwayne.
We come back if you want to follow up, Dwayne,
you are welcome to join us at seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero seven one three
two one two five seven eight. It is July, meaning

(23:30):
not a lot of piping hot sports issues beyond what
is happening here, but just the look of Jake Myers
being helped.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Off the field. Sports RV not good, not good at all,
not good for anybody.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Nope. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety
that's seven one three two one two five seven ninety one.
Time is ten thirty four Matten Ross and Santa Claus
with us here today from tier Bruin.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, there is.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Nothing more enjoyable than watching adult men drink beer at
ten thirty four in the morning. Santa Claus vacationing in Sugarland, Texas. Yes,
Santa Santa is here, So if you want to come
by and say it's Santa and get it early. Yeah,
he didn't bring any He didn't bring missus Claws with him,
which is sad, but well, you know, Santa gets around. Yeah,
Santa's literally Santa's always like an eternal free agent.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Do you think Santa sleeps around on missus Claus. He
goes to literally every house, you know. I don't think
Santa wants his personal business out there.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I'm just asking if you think he does. I'm not
asking you to confirm.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I'm saying that Santa he can slow down time, doesn't
always ask for cookies.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's time to do it right. He's not asking for
cookies every single time he gets to the house. Just
think about that for a minute.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Maybe he is sugar, cookie and milk all right?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Ten thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety man drinking
beers at ten thirty four.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Why can we have we can't have one to.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Take the edge off it during the air. I'm not
gonna tell anybody. If you don't all right, we'll say
a word. Seven one, three, two, two five seven were
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Speaker 4 (25:16):
Come on by.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
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Speaker 4 (25:22):
If you want to rigs for a chance to win
those things Astros tickets, Space Cowboy tickets and golf passes
and pitt barbecue. You're gonna get a plate.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Duh.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Okay, I've read, I've had two. I've had lots of
barbecue the last two weeks.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
You get in it next week, next week, next week,
next week, we're going to the booth booth barbecue, barbecue,
and we're gonna start sizing it up top to bottom. So, okay,
you're gonna start keeping a journal, right, Yes, a barbecue journal.
We've been to one place so far. Yes, that's we
were into Rinkertons. Yes, we went to Rinkertons and it
was delicious. You liked it?

Speaker 4 (25:55):
One to ten? We give it a solid eight.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'll give it an eight.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
And a half. Nine. There's a big bee frib we
had there? Did we get it? We didn't get a
beef We shared a bee frib? No, we didn't. All right,
that was somebody else I thought we did.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Which you know, do you how big a beef rib is?
Grown men can share beef ribs? Yeah, were talking about
like two and a half pounds. Yeah, you question one
by yourself, Jonathan.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh, he's young.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
This girl wants ranch dressing all over it too.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
That's pretty funny. Seven.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's your line of the week so far. Bout seven one, three, two, five,
seven ninety. Let's talk to Dwayne and l Passo. Dwaine,
good morning, you're on seven ninety. What's going on?

Speaker 10 (26:32):
Good morning, gentlemen. I'm looking at the the Dodgers at
it from a different look, as well as the Astros.
The Astros have come from a third place position all
the way to first place, and now they're pretty much

(26:53):
holding first until you know, somebody comes along and takes
it away from them. But I really don't think that
they're going to get it had taken away from them
because they're playing When they were in La, the reason
that they beat the Dodgers was because they were playing
baseball like they have been playing it each and every
day going through that this season until you know, when

(27:16):
they got up to first place. And the Dodgers, there's
no excuse except that they're not playing ball the same
way they were playing ball before the Astros came into town.
They're not, you know. And and the thing is is
that the Astros got a lot of players. Yeah they're
going to say, well, yeah, we're injured or this and that.
But with the players that the Astros have right now,

(27:39):
all nine of them or all eight of them that
are starting, they they beat the best team in baseball.
And it's not going to change because one series they
lost three or you know, they lost two. It's going
to stay the same. And the and the Astros are
going to take care of their business there in Houston

(28:00):
and whenever they get into the playoffs, And there's a
lot of teams right now that are dealing for this
position as far as getting into the playoffs, and the
Astros are there now, the Dodgers are there now, and
I look, I take it the Dodgers were fifteen of
twenty eight before the Astros came into town, and that's

(28:23):
when everything started falling downhill. But I'm you know, I'm
going to continue.

Speaker 12 (28:28):
To support him because of that. But I got a
question for y'all.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
The third baseman who plays for the Astros. Can he
get voted into the Home Run Derby in the All
Star Game?

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, he's going to the All Star Game, And Dwayne,
thank you for the phone call.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
He was announced yesterday. That's quite a bit there, thank you, Dwayne.
So he is in be on him on the Senate floor.
That was a filibusterviure.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
I think.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Gerrard's like, man, I got work to do.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Man, Sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Each Prati is in the All Star Game. He could
play in the Home Run Derby. He could, I don't
want to. I don't want any Aster ever again. In
the Home run Derby definitely overblown. I don't think there's
a real Home Run Derby.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
Curse.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I do okay, who won last year's home run derby.
I don't care because I'm not gonna that's fine. Whoever
they were, You didn't hear about him getting hurted?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Whoever?

Speaker 2 (29:25):
It was bad in two O six two sts on
the list. There's no data to support what you're talking about. Well,
it's like there's no such thing as a Madden curse
and that still happens. Yeah, that's true. There is no
there is no Madden curse. There's no such thing as curses.
By the way, you're right maybe one. No, I can
speak from experience, No such thing as a curse. Oh,
I thought you're talking about Jonathan Allen cursed? Ooh that

(29:48):
is bad boy way Cooper hummel and can you for
shreakouts last night? At okay, I've been in his fan
club for like three years. He's having the best season
of his career four years. Jake Myers fan club was
when he first came up. What was that twenty one? Yeah,

(30:08):
so shut Joe Boma ass up John's it was only
on Wednesdays. You can't do it today, Sorry, you can't.
And you can't make fun of he's not he's not
with us today. You're right, You're right. I'm sorry, we're
out of the cage. Cut your microphone on. He could, so, yeah,
I don't care now it's funny from Barvaldez has not

(30:29):
been named just yet. Bobby wit Junior was in it
last year. How was his second half? I believe, I
believe you had in one eating That's not true. Alec Bohm,
how was he?

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Alec Bohe was in there.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Even the major leagues wal slim pickets here at the
end the old home run there. It's almost like when
the NBA has their all start their slam Dunk competition.
There are people that have largely never heard of before.
Now the home run contest has a little more popularity
with recognizable players, uh huh, but not not to the
level of like, who would you want to go see?

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I mean, for instance, Jose Ramirez, who another home run yesterday.
He's not even going the All Star Game. I'm gonna
have had enough. Jose Ramirez.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's ridiculous. He's so good. He kills the astros well
home runs in each of the three games.

Speaker 10 (31:13):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Bobby wit Junior last year, pre All Star Break, he
had a nine.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Here we go nine.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Twenty eight ops post All Star Break, he had at
one thy fifty four ops.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
He was in the home runner.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
He only played in fourteen games though, so uh no,
I'm just kidding on that with.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
A higher home run rate.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
All right, well then good, send all your astros to
the All Star Game, Send him to the send him
to the to the home run derbye. Okay, if your
guy's hurting himself getting in twenty hacks, he's out of shape, yeah,
don't put yeah, don't, don't put a sec paratus in there.
Let me tell you Ross, we because of course I'm
a astro buddy. We don't need anybody else hurt. You
know what, You're right, he had a hamstring issue recently,

(31:51):
right right?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
So or was it? I don't remember what it was?
So yeah, okay, you keep him out. You're right, keep
him out, keep him out of the game. Well, you
put it on your ledger. It's all good.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
If I'm the astros, I would, if I'm Joe Aspata,
I would lob a lob of a phone call and say,
you know what, Dave Roberts, we don't need we don't
don't use our guys.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Let's get a free trip to Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Out of it, nice city, get lost on one of
the forty eight peach tree streets they have there, He'll
be fine.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
He'll have a driver.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, I guess they would have drivers, all right. Ten
forty three on Sports Talk Sadny, Brian McTaggart's going to
join us in about seventeen minutes, maybe not exactly eleven o'clock,
but pretty close. We'll talk to him, We will talk
to you. We are here at Taler Brewing where the
barbecue is being prepared as we speak. We've got craft
beer like twelve or thirteen or fourteen different opportunities for

(32:43):
you and sample. That's it. I get one pint of each.
What do you think we have to scoop you up?
I mean plan for a safe at home? Can I
put the equipment in your car? I mean I guess
you could.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, I'm tired of being your equipment bitch? Why do
I got to carry it? Oh?

Speaker 13 (32:58):
Would?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
I wouldn't call oh you and my equimen bitch? But
I mean you kind of are.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
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A personal recommendation is the sausage and Pepper's pizza here.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
That is my personal selection, the sausage in Peppa's pizza.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, I mean to die for. And they put a
little drizzle of some sort of like olive oil or.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Whatever on top.

Speaker 8 (33:29):
Oh my god, oh lordie.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
All right, that sounds good. All right?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Uh, Tom and Downtown sending us a note. Santa Claus
is a catchphrase is ho ho ho.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
And he knows which ones are naughty?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Hmm do you think Santa Claus goes to the single
divorce a mom's house first? You always try to set
me up correct, you can sat off an answer, and
I'm taking strike one on that.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
I'm gonna let that one go down the pipe.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Wait, what what did you funny?

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Santa Claus thing the exact same thing. Yeah, seeah that
was I hit the reverse reverse card on you. I said,
you up.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm giving you a draw for By the way, Yes,
underrated game. Nobody's underrating you know. It's a spectacular. It's
the greatest you can play, you know, drinking game. I
do that when I go camping.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
You hit somebody.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
If you hit somebody with a draw, they got a
drink what's up? But skip and if you win, everybody
else has to drink?

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Really like that?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
And were you were you when it like were you'd
watch the person say uno, like like a hawk a hawk?

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah? Now what are your house rules?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Do you have to say uno when you get a
one card and when you win or just when you
get one one card? Just one card?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Okay? The game is not zero? Yeah, exactly, I'm with you.
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah. But some people try to say, you say you
gotta when you win too, says that it's made up rules.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's ridiculous, some people. The game is not zero, the game,
the game is not settle. You gotta say when you
get one card and you know the game is not
I got none. No, that's ridiculous. No, if you look
at the official rules, Jonathan, that's not. As long as
you know. This is the thing. If you establish it

(35:27):
as a house rule before the game, you gotta do
it house rules or house rules.

Speaker 11 (35:30):
Maddie.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
No, no, no, no, I'm not adding rules to blackjack or
to poker because it's house rules. You've never seen the
like same thing when you go to somebody's house and
they got a pool table, you got to play their
rules behind the second diamond.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
You've got to establish it and house rules or house rules.

Speaker 14 (35:49):
M h.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I'm saying I as the president of the National UNO Society.
You only say, you know when you have one card,
I'm with you, and that's in the official rules. But
if somebody establishes house rules beforehand.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
You gotta bide J ten fifty two on seven ninety Hello, j.

Speaker 7 (36:06):
Hey, listen to you guys earlier and I said the
organization has something to do with these injuries.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
What do you mean going, No, no, no, that that. Yeah,
they're hitting with baseball bats. No, yeah, they're pouring like
hot lava on their arms.

Speaker 12 (36:21):
Now, let me ask you.

Speaker 15 (36:23):
Don't they got a Dietitian strength coach and.

Speaker 12 (36:27):
All this good.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yes, yes, shape, yes.

Speaker 15 (36:31):
But but you know what, it's too bad that they're
gonna go into the All Star Break with the six
game losing streak.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Why do you say that? Whether or not?

Speaker 15 (36:42):
Because the Rangers are going.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
To sweepen just like the Indians did the guard.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
You see the probables lined up in this series.

Speaker 8 (36:51):
They're gonna get sweat.

Speaker 12 (36:52):
Believe me.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I'll call you All.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
Star break, Okay, call us back, call us back. Yeah,
let's call you back out to the All Star break.
The Hunter, Brown and Frober Valdez are throwing in this series.
Let me tell you something right now, I guarantee there
is swept.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
I put my name on that. No chance, there's a chance.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
But I looked over it, Matt there when he said
no chance, what I'm putting my.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Name on it? I stutter. I'm with your The astros
are not getting swept by the Range this weekend.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
No, mccollors, let's see. Yeah, yeah, they'd be fine. Mccullors.
They got the Grom against from Er though, oh and
Avody against Hunter.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Okay, no, no, no, no, it's overrated. Don't don't don't
look don't don't look too.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Deep into it.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Okay. And it's like Zach Short and Cooper Hummel and
the boys.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Okay, that's enough from you, John and Downtown on seven
ninety John, good morning to you.

Speaker 8 (37:46):
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Good?

Speaker 12 (37:50):
Tom Thomas. I'm gonna, I'm gonna you know, we we
are astral fans all the way.

Speaker 15 (37:56):
Okay, I didn't think you were. I've been I've been
an astrophase since there were the Cold forty five up
to the Southeastern Okay, and uh we we we as
a little group that we hang out together.

Speaker 12 (38:12):
We know, we were in the military and all that
kind of thing. You know, they were, you know, and
we've been.

Speaker 15 (38:16):
Watching them and you know, we get these flex plans
and uh, where where's where's the power hitter? And they're
talking about entering a person from the Astros to do
the home run derby. I'm sorry, guy, but we don't
see any power hitter at all.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Runs going well, I mean.

Speaker 15 (38:38):
Well, who's got but where he got nineteen home runs?

Speaker 12 (38:41):
Okay, but when you enter the home round derby.

Speaker 8 (38:44):
It's a whole different story.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
And I don't want him in the home run derby.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I don't know what you're gonna make it mad at me
for I don't want them pay.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
I agree with you.

Speaker 12 (38:53):
I agree with you the guys and you.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
Know runs he's hit thirty before in his career. If
you hit thirty home runs, oh yeah, yeah, yes?

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Is I think second and among third basement in baseball
in the American.

Speaker 12 (39:03):
League, it's it's it's it's gonna be interesting in the
second half. You know, it's gonna be a very interesting
second half. And well we're hoping that they go, you know,
they stay where they are. Well, that's all we can
do is hope. Yeah. So anyway, you have a good day.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
You too, you know what.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I hope you have a great day. John.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Wait, man, the rule is y'all drink when you're here,
not when you're at home on the phone. No, John
wasn't drinking. Yeah, let's see whatever.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I'm trying to be nicer these days.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
That No, you're not taking about four shots at me
so far, that's not true. I'm start to.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Count them, Okay, you should. Zach pretty is making a
back to back All Star apparents. By the way, nineteen
home runs in eighty nine games.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
You've got power. Yeah, I mean that's just ops is what?
What's ops?

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Eight eight, eight to twenty six? Slug in four sixty eight,
that's yeah. When you have an O.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
When you have an ops in twenty twenty five of
above many hunter, you're a power hitter. All right, So
there you go.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
But I don't want him hit in the home owner.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Of course, their biggest power hitter is out. Yeah, energy
has just showing a little power. I would say now,
not only to get into the semantics of this, but
if you're hitting over twenty home runs.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
I say you have some power, you got some pop
in the bat? What would you say, well, uh.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yeah, I would not classify somebody it's twenty as a
power hitter, but pop got yeah, pop? Yeah, I think
you're in the thirty thirty five forty range. Would make
you a power hitter. Twenty to twenty five some pop?
What about twenty five plus? You got some power? Thirty
plus power hitter? Correct? And he's like Predace is pacing
for significantly above thirty home runs.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Yeah, and especially because.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
He uses the ball park in which he plays his
home games into his advantage pull hitter. That's why the
trade made terrific sense. To bring a guy here who
loves to hit the to the Crawfer boxes. Christian Walker
loves it to the Crawford boxes.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
When does he come off the paternity list? Now? You know,
I mean, hey, stick with your baby and get all
the skin to skin contact you can and all that.
But when's he coming back? Skin to skin contact? Yeah,
you didn't see they do? They see this guy? Ryan
knows what I'm talking about.

Speaker 16 (41:17):
That.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Yeah, you're supposed to put the You're supposed to take
your shirt off and put the baby on you, and
you skinned to get contacts, good for the baby's development
or something like that. This is before you when you
had your babies at home in the wood in the
log cabin and say that was a shot. Oh no,
I'm gonna stop checking up. I'm stopping. I stopped in
the middle. I well, damn it.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Nope, we're at tire Brewing or I may bee day
drinking myself here in a matter of moments. Brian McTaggert
will join us in a matter of moments as well.
Bryan mctager live's a good beerer now and then, Oh, yes,
he coming by.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Doesn't he live in the area. No, he lives in
Lake City. Oh that's close enough.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Just saying if you live anywhere within fifty miles here,
you could come buy.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
I live within fifty miles. I came out here and
hang out with y'all. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, we're here at two o'clock this afternoon. Well, I'm
gonna we need to sausage pizza up here pronto. I'm
I will split one with you, all right?

Speaker 11 (42:07):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five. What's it called it?

Speaker 4 (42:14):
Skinner? Skin contact.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Okay, I think it's uh, that must be a very
twenty twenty four phrase. I mean you can have the
skinner skin contact when you're playing.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Baseball too, right with who with your baby?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
You're not like you're saying, I'll see you in to mom.
He's not taking the baby on first base in the
little sling, I don't think so give it a little
baby helmet that was.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
That'd be a little weird.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Trying to shield him off from the line drives. That's
not good at all incentive Alright, anyways, Yeah, get out
of here seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
If you missed the first hour of the Matt Thomas show.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Here with Ross, we are entire brewing. You need to
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learned the minutia of the UNO playing rules and skin
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(43:17):
being with us every Thursday at eleven o'clock on seventy tags.

Speaker 8 (43:20):
How are things I'm good?

Speaker 4 (43:23):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
All right, let's let's put things in perspective here. So
you're in the clubhouse after the game yesterday and you
ask or somebody asked among the scrum about does it
hurt less or more for Jake Myers?

Speaker 4 (43:38):
And he didn't want to answered. Were you just like
dumbfound that? Are like?

Speaker 17 (43:42):
Uh oh yeah, that was me who asked him. I
mean we were told that Myers wasn't gonna talk, but
me and and Chandler and Matt Kawahara waited about anyway.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
I mean, we need to hear that from him.

Speaker 17 (43:56):
And Myers is a great guy and was kind enough
to do, you know, a short interview, so props him.
But yeah, he uh, when he was asked that question,
he gave a long pause and then asked an MPR
staff if he has to answer that, and then he
didn't answer it. And that's fine, his parrogative. I'm just
glad he talked and gave us some kind of update.
But uh, you know, he he he was hurting. I

(44:17):
mean he was walking around really gingerly on uh you know,
limping pretty noticeably, so did not look very comfortable.

Speaker 8 (44:25):
So yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 17 (44:27):
You know, I if I don't have good vibes for
Jake Myers, you know, I hope he's okay, but it
didn't look good.

Speaker 11 (44:33):
You know.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
The reality is this, uh. And we've spent the first
hour primarily talking about this. We're not doctors. We don't
have the inside intelligence in the organization. We do know,
what Joe A. Spotta said, we don't. We do know
what an athlete wants to do, he wants to play.
We know that a manager is not going to put
a player out there just exclusively based off of the

(44:55):
players saying to you, I feel good.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
So as you're watch this unfold, and we.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Were at the ballparks yes yesterday seeing him being helped
off the field.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Could he have just made a bad move.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
I what I can't accept is anyone trying to rush
him back on the field. And I think there are
probably some that are thinking, why are you putting a
player out there that isn't one hundred percent. I just
can't fathom, even if there is malpractice, even if there
is a misdiagnosis, that anyone would say rough rough, you know,

(45:33):
fight through this, Nancy, get on the field. We need
you immediately. And that's my point is that I know
people want to find the answer and want to crucify everybody,
but come on, I just think that that's not in
the DNA of the manager and of the player.

Speaker 17 (45:49):
Yeah, for sure, Spot is not gonna put him out
there if he doesn't get total clearers from medical staff,
if Myers doesn't say, hey, I'm good to go, and
Myers before the game was was was hey.

Speaker 8 (45:58):
I'm good to go. I mean he did he did that.

Speaker 17 (46:00):
He told us, he did a twenty to twenty five
minute workout, he did sprinting, he did cuts, no issues,
he looked, he looked and felled one hundred percent. Uh,
and then something happened just when he was jogging back out,
you know, jogging back out there. So yes, I don't
think in this case you can't point a finger at
anyone and say, uh boy, they rushed them back because

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I guess the information everybody was getting, including the player,
was like I'm good to go, and so hey he's
good to go. Medical staff cleared him. Uh, he's doing
these workouts without any issues, he's not feeling it. Let's
put him in the lineup and it's not it's not
even like he was the weird thing is I mean,
he was not like he was running the first or
going first to third. I mean he was just jogging
the center field and started limping all of a sudden.

Speaker 8 (46:41):
So just really a strange deal.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
So I guess they'll give us some sort of update
on Fridays or in conjecture mode for the next forty
eight hours. Uh, this is just another name to the
seeminglarly endless list of injuries. And did we finally see
the app Strews Brian get caught up in the moment?

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Go you know what, we're running out of depth.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
The bottom third of the order just didn't provide much
if not for jose Al two, but they wouldn't be
a runner in.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Scoring position scoring. Where are we.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
With this squad of Hey, this has been good to
see some of these younger guys get an opportunity, But man,
we've got to start getting some healthy players back on
the field.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (47:22):
I think that's one hundred percent fair. I mean I
think their injuries offensively have caught up with them.

Speaker 8 (47:27):
I don't think there's any doubt.

Speaker 17 (47:28):
I Mean, you don't have Panya for that series, you
don't have Christian Walker, who you know, had a really
good road trip and was swinging the bat really well.

Speaker 8 (47:35):
Of course, Alvarez is out.

Speaker 17 (47:38):
And I mean that's three you're you know, like it
or not. Walker still a guy you want in your
middle of your lineup at this point. So three middle
of the lineup guys that you just don't have, and
you're replacing them with guys that they brought into spring
training as non roster players for depth, for their defense,
you know, as pieces, and now they're getting the bats
at the bottom of the order. It's just a big

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up off, you know, offensively, and yeah, I mean it's
it's definitely catching up to him a little bit. And uh,
you know, I'm Walker can be on the paternity to
the list three days, which is up now. Of course tomorrow,
I mean today they're off, so I would suspect he's.

Speaker 8 (48:14):
In the lineup tomorrow. And now now it looks like
Jake's going to be out a while sore.

Speaker 17 (48:19):
They're in a tough spot, and uh, they don't want
to rush these guys back from injuries because they don't
want to risk re injuring. They also have an you know,
still have a pretty good lead in the division, so
they can take a little bit of time, but certainly
they have to start getting some healthy bodies back in
this lineup sooner than later.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and with that, you're you're talking about bodies. I think
it's interesting now three weeks away from the trade deadline, Uh,
where do you think we are? Because it could be
guys coming back and then if you make a trade
and then that person you trade for doesn't need the
playing time if everybody's coming back healthy, and that could.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Be both on the pitching side and the position player side.

Speaker 17 (49:01):
Yeah, I think there's no doubt. We've said it before.
I think they're gonna look to get a bat, a
left handed bat. I mean, Dania Brown's even admitted that
after after Alvarez, uh, you know, had his setback, he
said that, you know, hasn't changed their thoughts on the
the trade deadline. There's still gonna be in the market
for a left handed bat. I still think they're gonna
go after a starting pitcher. I mean, I've been kind

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of back and forth on that and I'm back in
the camp of I think they want to add a
starting pitcher. From the aspect of you still don't know
when these guys are coming back. I mean, Arrogetty was
supposed to be out six weeks and he I don't
think he's faced uh he's faced hitters yet.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (49:36):
And that you know, he got injured in early April.

Speaker 17 (49:38):
So uh, these rehabs have been slow and there's been
you know, guys have had setbacks here and there. So
I think it behooves them to go out look at
the starting pitcher market as well, just to get another
arm in here. You could plug in the rotation so
you're not having to you know, rely on on.

Speaker 8 (49:55):
Uh, you know some guy who was uh, you know,
a non roster invited to camp.

Speaker 17 (49:58):
I mean, Brandon Walter did nice job last night other
than the two pitches there, Homers, and those were good pitches,
I mean.

Speaker 8 (50:04):
But still, if they can.

Speaker 17 (50:06):
Get better with their pitching staff and ad a veteran arm,
then they probably should try to do that.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Yeah, and interesting wondering how Lance mccullor's junior, you know,
factors into that he's been so up and down. But
of course this the start in LA was very good,
and I would say like the last couple of innings
of that Brian, he looked about as locked in as
I've seen him this year. Yeah, he did.

Speaker 17 (50:31):
And props Lance, I mean, he was not coming off
a good start. He's facing the Dodgers, you know, Dodgers
stated he was a place that he's He's pitched very,
very well in his career. Of course at a you know,
started Game seven of the World Series. But yeah, I
think if be the Astros, you would definitely like to
see Lance, you know, get get his feet under him
a little bit, you know, start to build some consistent
starts here and there chance to do that against the

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Rangers lineup.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
It's not very good.

Speaker 17 (50:53):
So his last start before the All Star breaks, so
I think he'll be he'll be fired up for that.

Speaker 8 (50:58):
But he's done.

Speaker 17 (51:01):
Lass has done better than I you know, I thought
he would at this point. I mean, he's had a
couple of stinkers, but for the most part, he's gone
out there and competed and and you know, I thought,
I thought done a pretty nice job, and Dodger Stadium
was one of his better starts.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
A couple more minutes here with Brian mctagger here on
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Uh, do you think
if you pulled jose Al Tuo Bay aside, he would
tell you tags, I love playing second base. I mean
I did left field because I'm a good teammate and whatnot.
But I'm really comfortable and enjoying what I'm doing right now,
and I think it's in it indirectly helping me feel
more comfortable with the plate, or do you say, you

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know what, he's just hitting them at what position he plays?

Speaker 8 (51:39):
I think probably a little of both.

Speaker 17 (51:41):
I think deep down he wants to play second, but
he also put in a lot of time and effort
into trying to learn left field in the offseason.

Speaker 8 (51:49):
You know, with the injuries that they have, it's you know,
you need to bond to play other places.

Speaker 17 (51:53):
So I see why they're playing in a second right now,
and then there's probably an element to where he does
feel really comfortable there. Does that carry over at the plate?
You know, I'm not sure I think Josel two Bay
is going to hit or he's not. I don't think
he's gonna take his defensive position with him, But I
mean I meant to look up the numbers yesterday. I
think he's probably approaching as many games at second now
than he is in left field. It'll be interesting to

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see if they get start getting guys back healthy when
Penya comes back, if if he plays in left field
a little more, if they continue, you know, to play
him at second base. But all in all, I think
the move to left field work in that your defense
on the infield got a lot better with him.

Speaker 8 (52:30):
In left field.

Speaker 17 (52:31):
I mean, he's not a great left fielder, but certainly
he's not a great second basement either, And the infield
defense is so important to this team and it has
gotten a lot better with Al two vay and left field.
I mean, they were the I think they were the
best defensive team in baseball. So the all in all,
it was a it was a transition that made sense
and it was working. So when they get Penya back,

(52:53):
definitely have to keep an eye on on how they
handle Al two bay in his playing time.

Speaker 8 (52:56):
Positionally.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Lastly, there are two space cowboys.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
One is John Singleton, who continues to always crush at
the Triple A level the major league numbers have been mixed,
and Bryce Matthews. We have seen a pluthoraw of new
players come to the Astros this year and have all
had some levels of success, but regression back to the
norm in the last two week or so. Any chance
one or both see major league playing opportunities for the

(53:24):
Astros before the end of.

Speaker 17 (53:25):
The year, Yeah, I think there's a chance. I'll probably
say Singleton more. I can see him as a bat
they bring up, but at some point, maybe in September,
when they add a couple of guys, get that left
handed bat. Matthews, from what I'm hearing, just defensively is
not there at second base yet. I mean, he came
up as a shortstop in college and the defense is

(53:46):
just not there. And that goes back to what I
was talking about before, is you know, thedeed, this team
really stresses defense. It's really important of what they do,
and uh, he's gonna have to button that up a
little bit. Also a lot of swing and miss there too,
so he's got things to work on. I do think
at some point next year he's probably your starting second baseman,
But I don't know if he's gonna get to the
big leagues this year. If he does, I don't think

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he's gonna come in here and play a big role.
It could be a end of the year type thing,
but I would say probably won't see Matthews until next
year unless there's just you know, more injuries and there's
no way around it. But he's still got work to
do down in Triple A. Of course he is playing
in the Futures game this week, so you know, props
to him for that.

Speaker 8 (54:24):
But uh, he's still he's still got some stuff he's
got to do.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Tax great stuff is always.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Thank you for the visit, and we'll talk again next
Thursday before the start of the second half of the season.

Speaker 8 (54:35):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Thanks guys. You got Brian McTaggart MLB dot com and
on the Astros beat here on Sports Talk seven. Honey, Ross,
there is a college football coach that would like to
see a salary cap in place.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Hmm, don't you already looked? Are you show prepping with
this show this TV?

Speaker 15 (54:55):
Hear?

Speaker 4 (54:55):
No, it's on my list of things. Oh I didn't
send you one. I'm to getting bad at that since
this morning shift. That's my bad. So we call Ross
the advanced planner of the Matt Tamas Show with Ross.
I came up and set all this up. I don't
want to hear it.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
I helped you though. Seven one three, two, one two
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Speaker 4 (55:19):
And say hello, where's my pizza? It's coming.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
We've got some golf giveaways, some ticket Astro ticket giveaways,
space Cowboys giveaways as well, So come on buy and
say hello, Grab a pint and meet Santa Claus wire
here and uh meet.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Some I off time on his off time.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
He's a he's enjoying some downtime before the busy fall
schedule coming up. Seven one three two one two five seven,
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Speaker 4 (55:49):
This sausage pizza.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Oh my god, I know I'm not be eating on air.
That's fine. I'm gonna have to wait. We're at Talier Brewing.
We have a pair of astro tickets give away. As
a matter of fact, what are the I think they're
let me see what they are. Hold on, Oh, let
me take a look. We have a four packet, oh,
a four packet ticket and parking. August seventeenth. Do you

(56:12):
want to go Ross? Yes, all right, we will. You
have until two o'clock today, all right, to you a register?
Somebody wins they want to take me. I'm ready to go.
You don't need to go. You go to plenty games.
By way, Clint went to the game yesterday. Clint, who
never can do a tenth inning show or non deck show,
was the game last night.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
He's a busy man. He's a big star. God almighty,
it's not easy being mister Rockface or mister Clinton. Correct.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
All right, so if you want to come by, we
got four tickets and duga and parking for the Astros Orioles.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Game on August seventeen. Awesome, and come on by.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
We'll be here until two o'clock today and you can
we'll draw it two o'clock. So if you can't make
it until like one fifteen, come by and have some
lunch it boot and balls which are really good here too, Okay,
pizza this petty Boodham Mom.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
Man, I know Gordy's already had four orders on it.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
He's actually back there rolling him for He's like, man,
let me show you how to do it is now?

Speaker 10 (57:08):
Man?

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Yeah, man, we had his good actis and we all
know what what did you say?

Speaker 4 (57:13):
Go down to here?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Your word? You said, all right, I just don't get it.
As coming up at eleven thirty, we don't stereotype on
this show.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
We do not.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
That's one thing we don't like to do. Uh, we
don't like two things, stereotyping and cowboy fans. All right,
seven one three two one two five is seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nineties. So
Big twelve Media Days wrapped up yesterday, and uh he
Dion Sanders was the was the was the headliner. I

(57:43):
mean even Joe stort is like, yeah, man, I can
only be on your show for a few more minutes
because uh he's got he's coming up and you know
what he's gonna say. He did not answer questions from
all the media because he was anti athletic, So anybody
from the athletic to ask the question.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
He's stonewalling the athletic.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Now, yeah, apparently he's mad at CBS. Yes, he's mad
at the athletic. He'll be mad, but he got mad
at like the CBS Bowlder guy. Yeah, it was like
CBS different.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
We talk about you all the time.

Speaker 8 (58:12):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
It was some national CBS article that he was mad at. Yeah,
that's so hilarious. So he is calling for a salary
cap in college football.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Quote I wish there.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Was a cap, like the top of the line player
makes this, and if you're not that type of guy,
you know you're not gonna make that.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
That's what the NFL does.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
So the problem is you got a guy that's not
that darn good, but he can go to another school
and they give him a half a million dollars.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
You can't compete with that, and it don't make sense. Now,
these are the things that we're gonna come up.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
A salary cap would make sense if it's going to
be a professional sport and if you're gonna have the
salary cap. For example, major League Baseball, the thirty owners
get together and then they get together where they players
union and they go from there. Well, they don't have
one in baseball, of course, but you know what I'm saying,
Like in the NBA, in the NFL, it's collectively bargained
between a player's union and the owners. There's really no

(59:11):
way to do that in college football to make the
salary cap is the same at Colorado or what it
is at Alabama or Texas or Iowa State or whatever,
because there's nothing collectively bargained. There is no I mean,
the NCAA is the governing body. But these conferences act
on their own. And these conferences, a lot of them
make enemies like Big ten and SEC are together, but

(59:32):
they don't want to deal with the Big twelve or
the Pac twelve. Well you think the Big ten and
the SEC have any interest in making sure life is
fair for the ACC school Exactly. They're trying to box
them out of the playoff, right right, So it it
behooves all the thirty in a thirty two NFL owners,
a thirty NBA owners to try to kind of, you know.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Work together. That's not the case with these conferences.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
And by the way, does Colorado want Ball State to
all of a sudden have a chance? No? No, So
why do you think he's saying that just to be
politically correct, Because I think there's so much political correctness
right now with these coaches in college football. They're always
asked about any l They're saying, you know, we need regulation,

(01:00:17):
we need this, we need this. And while I don't
disagree with them, I don't think they're telling us what
they want. They're telling us what we want to hear.
Why would Alabama in Michigan and Ohio State and Miami
and any of these top shelf schools. Why would they
want regulation, They wouldn't do them any good. They don't
want to give Missouri a chance, and not at all.

(01:00:40):
This to me comes across as a direct relation to
we were talking about with a big Texas Tech booster
giving up those all the millions of dollars, and I
think I think he's jealous that Colorado doesn't have a
guy like what Texas Tech has. Yeah, he even mentioned
him in the same press conference talking about Joey McGuire,
the Rights Tech coach, saying, Joey's got some money, Joey,
or yet baby, it'spending that money.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Once upon a time, you guys are talking about junk
about me going into the portal. Now everybody's going to
the portal, and it's okay. He doesn't want to lose
kids to Lubbock. Yeah, there was some other call.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
I don't see you in this article, but he was like, hey,
give me some of that money, Joey, want.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
You to send some of that my way.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
So while every one of these coaches are saying, I
don't know what the problem, you know, because there is
there is no firm set of rules. Yeah, no, they're trying,
but people are confused by them. I'm confused by them.
I don't even bring them up because I don't even
know what is like the direct payments, how that's working
out and what this is. Yeah, this is why I
always said the current system needs to either a stay

(01:01:38):
the way it was or be be completely blown up.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
And they didn't. They didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
They did the in between, which is the worst possible
for coaches, for the players, for the athletic directors, for everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
They did the you give them some money and we're
gonna keep our hands out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
You guys figure it out. That was the worst possible
thing the NCAA could have done, and they did it.
What they should have done is said, all right, we're
gonna start opening it up to compensation. We're gonna believe
this name, image and like this thing is legit, and
here's how it's gonna work.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
They have this clearing house that Gordy told us about
a couple of weeks ago. When the when is the clearinghouse.
If the clearinghouse says no, you can't do this, they're
they're just gonna go. They're gonna go back the old
fashioned way. Underneath the table in an envelope exactly. Either
a gonna go under the table or be Who are
they to say that a player's market is not what
somebody is willing to pay them. Hey, if if the

(01:02:26):
offensive tackles got guys getting five million dollars to go
go to Texas Tech, that's what he's worth. That's his market. Somebody, Wait,
somebody paid, he's willing to pay it. That's your market.
That's that. We don't need some clearing house overseeing it
and saying no, he's overpaid, he can't go there. What
that's his choice. And I'm going back to the initial
point of if the clearinghouse tells me, no, I got friends,

(01:02:50):
all right, the bagman or back baby, Yeah, let's go
to uh Man. We are all we've been in an
l passo today. We're going to San Diego. Now we
get somebody in Houston, can where we are a.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Huge in sports show last time I checked.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
But Johnny in San Diego on seven ninety Hi Johnny,
good morning.

Speaker 16 (01:03:05):
Hey, what's up, Matt Ross. I'm no longer in San Diego,
used to be in San Diego, just retired.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
So here I am.

Speaker 11 (01:03:14):
I want to talk to you.

Speaker 16 (01:03:14):
Guys about this. Uh I want to lay out a
little bit of a story, but I wanted to talk
to you guys about this.

Speaker 11 (01:03:22):
These tickets you're giving away.

Speaker 16 (01:03:23):
Now, imagine if you will, a twenty two year old
young man on his birthday August seventeenth, two thousand and five.
He's at an Astros Cubs game and the Astros let
him down.

Speaker 11 (01:03:37):
Cubbies beat him right.

Speaker 16 (01:03:39):
Four days later, he ships off to boot camp, does
a couple of months of there. It comes out Friday
graduates from boot camp to day the World Series against
the Chicago White Sox is starting, and he doesn't get
to go to any of that either. Twenty years later,
he's a husband, a father, a veteran. His birthday is

(01:03:59):
come up August seventeen, twenty five. I'm just saying it
all fits perfectly. He's got a family of four, birthday,
huge Asstros fan. The only problem is I'm in Dallas.
I can't make it down there by your two o'clock deadline.
Let's work something out, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
We have people sitting in front of him saying, you're
tal you're brewing that are like, shut your bull mass up.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
You're getting a lot of Headshae, Yeah you are, Tonnie.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
You've been told you're number one by four different people here,
these people who have already and a dog, lady.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
The dog is giving you the middle finger. Two by
the way, Oh that's not nice.

Speaker 16 (01:04:40):
All right, thanks guys, you all have a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
Where is your son? By the way, where is he
he's talking about? He's he's the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Oh him, I thought it was his son he was
talking about. He just retired. How many I were I
retired from the military. Yeah, oh, that's the guy. I
thought he was retired and retired here. He's probably I
don't know, Navy and Marines. If he was in San Diego. Well,
well that did that didn't well for him, did it?

(01:05:08):
Well that's why he can get a proxy, like when
we have somebody for the uh, well, the Vegas Survivor
contest for one week. Yeah, so if he can send
a proxy over here, we can sign them up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
You know what. I just I just don't get that
last focal, which is a perfect segue. And he was
asking for tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
You missed one hundred percent of the shots you don't take,
but that one was blocked.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
He's getting the Kimba Matumbo finger wagon from people over here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
I got news for you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Lady's got a better chance of winning the tickets than
my man in Dallas. I appreciate, but we appreciate him
next time, all right? Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven eight.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
There's something in your life you just don't get.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Okay, Jonathan, you're first up. You've been quite the last
half hour. Bet something you must not be getting.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
I got something, all.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Right, we'll judge it next here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
Do you have something in your life.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
That you just don't get?

Speaker 18 (01:06:04):
No need to worry, no need to We will discuss
for something. Just see if we comprehend the things that
make n use our friends. It's time to say I
just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
I'm gonna show what Ross continues here from tal Youer
Brewing where we don't are people that are here. We've
a nice group have assembled and they're not drinking enough.
Ross will be paying for your ubers home. So if
you need to partake in that not true?

Speaker 11 (01:06:35):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Well come on, you get a gift card or something, right, Yeah,
can't we use the promo code?

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Ross now didn't charge you extra here?

Speaker 8 (01:06:41):
Oh, that's not.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Good, all right? Seven two one two five seven out
even something in your life.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
You just don't get seven what I know you do?

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
We'll get some gift cards to give away as well. Yes,
and if you have to, and we've got the tickets
to see the astros that can't. It's the Brewers August
seventeenth for pack of tickets. Those are good seats, those
are our seats. These are good seats.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Probably Klint was out in these seats last night? Yeah,
he probably did real real grand there. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Jonathan's back at our studios,
our producer, Jonathan, I ask you one question. What don't
you get?

Speaker 14 (01:07:20):
I really am not understanding, and I'm going back to
nil topic. I don't get the whole point of since
like the eighties with Reggie Bush and all that stuff,
we want to pay the athletes.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
Oh, hold on, Reggie Bush was two thousand.

Speaker 14 (01:07:32):
And Okay, Okay, come on, brok, okay, you get the gist.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Did you say Reggie Bush in the eighties?

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
Are you drunk and you are letting? Drinking doesn't matter?
Let me put across and then.

Speaker 14 (01:07:49):
The whole point was to get the shady stuff over with, right, Yes,
so when we go and get in IL, I'm saying
we as in college athlete athletes. That was okay, it
was good, and now it's a problem and we're going
to go and make a collective and restrict athletes are

(01:08:12):
going to certain schools because of the money they gets
too much, and it's a problem. It just seems like
it's going in a full circle back to where it's
gonna be the same way as into DOUBLEA, banning, name invention,
likeness and not paying athletes. But now it's going to
be the same way because no one knows how corrupt
or how strict these people are going to be with

(01:08:32):
the money. And it could be like, oh, you're on
you're going to this team. I want that commit to
go to this way. Oh I can just block your
funding and like Matt said, yeah, I can go under
underneath the table and do the envelope stuff again.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
But I don't understand.

Speaker 14 (01:08:42):
I thought the whole point of NIL was to get
away from that and give really the athletes democracy. So
I really do understand what's this topic? Keep going about
about this collective and everything. I don't understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
He didn't get it. Ross, he doesn't get it. Man,
your thoughts. I'm a little overclemped. I need to have
a slice of pizza first. Okay, Well you have your
slice of pizza. I mean he's just saying, yeah, I
mean the the Reggie Bush thing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
In the eighties with his leather helmet, and how it
was in the eighties. It was not. It was two
thousand and four and five. I got him.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
With his leather He didn't have a leather helmet on. No,
he did not.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Okay, just asking that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Yeah, like you said, like we were kind of mentioning
earlier that it's gonna make things go back under the table.
And this was all just mishandled basically at every step
of the way. Ever since, Really, when did the TV
contracts get into the mix? Here?

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
Seventies, eighties somewhere around there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Let me ask you this to piggyback off of Jonathan's point.
Let's say that X y Z school has every school
has a salary cap. Yeah, are they all gonna be
the same. That shouldn't be right. Number two, what if
you go over your salary cap? What's the punishment? Yeah,
is it a hard cap? What's the hardcap punishment? What's

(01:09:54):
the mid level exception for these peoples?

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
Exactly? We got to where's the apron? We don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
And oh, by the way, it the NCAA or whomever
is supposed to be the governing body, are they gonna
go audit to make sure that they are no under
the I mean if you if you're an NFL team
and you pay players beyond the salary cap, you would
lose draft picks. Yes, you would be severely punished if
Alabama was to give somebody a player five hundred thousand

(01:10:22):
dollars more than the cap, or do they how do
you suspend Alabama? Do you take away scholarships? I don't
know who cares about that. Just take away the amateurism
thing and make it, make it semi pro or whatever
you want to call it, like the G League or whatever.
Make it the minor league.

Speaker 14 (01:10:37):
But then if you make it the minor league, my
point is, if you make all college sports, okay, it's
a minor league, of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
You're just gonna have to make football and maybe basketball
different entity.

Speaker 14 (01:10:47):
Okay, So then the people that are gonna kind of
argument is, well, they're getting school for free. And this
is why it's still happening, and I don't understand why.
Oh yeah, I get your point. We're gonna make it
to amateur athletics, but they only strengthen those other points
like why are they being why are they getting payd
amaterath lates and then going to school like you know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
It doesn't That's why it's like that right now, it's
amateur athletics because the NCAA wants tax exempt status. If
it's an amateur athletics, they don't get taxed on all
their billions of revenues that they know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
Okay, okay, okay, it's about it always comes back to
the money. That money.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
I I just I think what this is gonna ultimately
do unless you get a governing board that is absolutely
I mean really really watching over things.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
You're gonna you're going we're gonna eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Go back to under the table stuff. Well you're not gonna,
you're let me tell you something. Utah State is excited
about a salary cap because they're gonna say, well, once
Alabama runs out of money and LSU runs out of
money and Ohio State runs out, you'll go to the
second tier schools and we're gonna chance to get some athletes.
Alabama is like, I'm not gonna let you go to
Utah State. We want you. We're gonna figure out a

(01:11:59):
way to keep you. And if we gotta pay you
on the side, so be it. And then it'll be
up to the instabla or the conferences to police themselves.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
It's a lot of corruption gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
I just I think the word salary cap in amateur
athletics cannot be used in the same sentence. No, no,
but it hasn't been amateur athletics for decades. Even though
that's what it's called and that's what it's labeled, that's
not what it is, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
Do you have something a little more lighthearted sports? However
you don't get uh? Maybe not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Actually I was gonna bring up, but Matt, did you
see Are you familiar with wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson?

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
I am not the San Francisco forty nine er. What
does he do? Well, he's a wide receiver for the
forty nine ers. Oh, thank you for that clarific. K Okay,
you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
He was recently pulled over and arrested and has now
pled no contest.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
To a dui charge. DeMarcus Robinson last year made three
million dollars for his career, which I'm having trouble finding
he's made fit. Oh, now I found it. Fifteen million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Why are these million dollar athletes not just having drivers
take them everywhere?

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
How often do we see and it keeps happening year
after year after year? Exactly? You get the black who
were black? It's quite nice.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Do you understand I would never want to drive again
under any circumstance.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
I know, Matt, if you had fifteen million dollars in
career innings, you wouldn't be driving.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
I would want I want to buck some blonde drive
me everywhere humanly possible, fifty two miles. I drove here
today to hang out with great people, attire, brewing. I
just don't get it. I don't get it out. Does
a professional athlete, millionaire get a dui? And how does
this continue to always happen?

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
Yeah? Or maybe you can?

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
You can you can handle your beer, so to speak. Well,
how about don't risk it again? Hire me dot com Russ.
We're always looking for extra income here on the show. Okay,
let's go, let's go, executive drive athletes around dot net. Yeah,
I mean, uh, look by other company remote for you

(01:14:13):
dot business doing very well.

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
I know I heard chapter it is not. It is not.
It's doing quiet chapter seven? Which was which chapter you
on the bankruptcy.

Speaker 14 (01:14:23):
You don't even shot that shot too, Matt, What he
took a shot at you?

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
I thought you're kind of those.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah it was a real shot.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
A shot.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
No, you can't take a shot at a fictional company
doesn't exist.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
That doesn't count. That's no sort company. Okay, yeah, show
me the paper, show me the LLC. Go on the website.
Remote for you dot biz. Okay, I'm gonna go there.
Air four oh four.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
No, no, no, it doesn't exist. It doesn't count as me.
People are constantly not real people. People go to Rappa
Bees all the time. Exist there at Billy's going, I
can't get my game on. That's what they call remote
for you dot biz. I'm getting Air Dot four four
oh four right here. You know that's my second company.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
I've Air four oh four. You're everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
You remember my first company, No. One hundred, go after yourself. Okay,
that one's doing quite well. Actually you've heard of that.
I mean you know my other company, right, sure, remote
for you? Dot biz cannot be remy tapped into my website.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
Yeah you been hacked. Oh that's wrong. It's a dude,
dossal tig all right, fine, No, it doesn't count as
a shot. It's not real. He just doesn't like my creativity.
I can see. I can tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
I can tell I'm always trying to reinvent myself. He's
giving you Okay. I've been doing radio for thirty four years.
I'm always trying to reinvent myself.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
I was a share of radio.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
What speak of that? I just don't get it, my man.
Paul McCartney just announced twenty more cities.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
Is he in debt? No, he can't be.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
He have gambling debts. I don't know, but you know
how much I love Paul McCartney. Is he living a
castle in the upkeep is expensive? But my god, I mean,
at what point do you go my voice is giving out?

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
I saw him, yeah, two.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Years ago at the Ricky's Arena in Fort Wurth, and
it was terrible. I've paid five hundred dollars for those
tass never belting anything out anyways, He's more of a
soft singer.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
That's good. You don't know a living Let die? Then?

Speaker 15 (01:16:16):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
Is he screaming in that one? Yes, I'll take your
word for it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Yeah, I got, I got, I got my Paul McCartney
fan club over here.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Okay, cool, all right, one more segment. I just don't get.
What don't you get? Ross?

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Uh? Oh, I don't say your partner. I don't want to,
I said DeMarcus Ross. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. If there's something in your life you
just don't get, whether it's sports wise or your life.
Seven one three two one two five seven NINTI seven
one three two one two five at seven NINTI, it
is Matt and Ross.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Well you're here at Talia.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
I don't get while you're not here enjoying some greape
brew and pizza. I mightst to have a second slice
here during the break, so you may have to cover
the next segment. Seven one three two one two five
seven Nini. That's seven one three two one two five
seven ninty eleven five on Sports Talk seven ninty. All right,
keep the music up. I got one quick one for

(01:17:10):
you here. Go ahead, Matthew I follow Montgomery County Police.

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
Reporter you do Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Okay, that's really good, Okay, because you want to know
what's going on around your area. And I live in
Harris County, but Montgomery's Upronk County, all right. So you
look through and you scroll and you're like, okay, oh
my god, it's terrible. That's terrible, and that's terrible. And
there's this woman that will be arrested for something. Usually
usually it's DUI or some sort and that's obviously terrible.
I go look at the and this woman's got like

(01:17:38):
nineteen comments, okay, and I hit the comments.

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
You know what. It's most of the time they say
would or I can fix her?

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Yeah, or come stay with me. I mean, what is
wrong with people? I just don't get it. You don't
get it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
I don't get why you're going to Montgomery.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
County Police Facebook page with a woman who got arrested
for a variety of.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Things and saying what hit it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
People are horny online? This is surprising you, I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
What do you mean.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
There's a whole there's a whole Twitter account. Now I
don't follow this, yeah, and I'm not gonna out who does.
If there's a whole Twitter account, it's called mug Showties,
and it's their mugshots. This guy knows what I'm talking about.
You know somebody that follows it. Yeah, that's not me.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
I told you see look this guy's all on the
mug Showties.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Ryan knows.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Ryan's looking at it is Ryan's wife.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
No that you look at the those photos like that.
She better not. She knows now if you don't know,
now she knows she to show, is she? I hope not?

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Yeah, Ryan will keep you You're gonna get him in trouble.
We'll keep your identity a secret.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
It's Ryan Jones.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Yeah, all right, Brian Bones, all right, let's sick, go
back on the phones. Let's talk you uh Willa in Perland. Willa,
you're on seven on you will what don't you get
my friend?

Speaker 11 (01:19:05):
Okay? But first of all, good almost afternoon, fellas. What
I think is.

Speaker 13 (01:19:10):
So so I told my son we were very excited.
I won some tickets off the off the uh off
the radio station to go see weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:19:19):
To see the Weekend. I tell my son, we're going to.

Speaker 13 (01:19:21):
See the Weekend, and more importantly, we're going to see
Playboy CARDI right, So we're very excited. It takes a
couple of months for them to get in. They get
in and I'm in section six to oh something in
the NRG Stadium.

Speaker 11 (01:19:35):
That's pretty high, man, I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Where'd you win them from from?

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
You guys?

Speaker 8 (01:19:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
In this kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Man, I'm all the way at the top of the nose.

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
Please, I I man bring you by not collrs. We
got you in for free. I'll steal some seeds.

Speaker 11 (01:19:57):
You be all right?

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Why don't you do the walkdown two forty and call
to day.

Speaker 11 (01:20:01):
That's a mile down. I still gotta walk a mile.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
Down, you know what, you and your Sunday exercise. Yeah,
we got you in the building. Look sorry for your
free tickets, and you want to say you want to
sell the pony. Willa just about his free tickets.

Speaker 13 (01:20:18):
I was very excited last time I WoT some tickets
from Moss for a boxing match. I was like, right
in the middle, great seats. I'm telling my son, oh, yeah,
we're going to see Playboy. Cardon's about to go down.
I get to see something like six too.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
Hey, I just with other people. Damn, it doesn't sound
like you appreciate it. Willa, Yeah, Willows in the do
not win list.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
Yeah, weekends got Weekend's gotta get his cash. We were
talking about the weekend yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Weekend and UMG, how many songs that I downloaded of
the Weekend after the show.

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
But that's okay, that's right. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Brian in Parland at eleven fifty four on seven on
ey Brian.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
What don't you get?

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:20:58):
Two things? What I still never gotten?

Speaker 19 (01:21:00):
I get it, he's a he's a good talent. But
I've never understood why MLB goes out of their way
to create a special rule for sho Hao Tani from
when he pinches and he comes out as a pitcher,
he can still stay in the game without effect in
the DH rule.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
They never wanted done anything else like that.

Speaker 19 (01:21:17):
No other sports league would have done that from a
marquee player to where they get extra farlows or anything
like that to keep them on the floor.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
So I just don't get that. And the second thing
I don't.

Speaker 19 (01:21:28):
Get how the word my man Jonathan Allan getting a
short stick and not get to go on location as
the producer's rocking the radio on YouTube, are getting to
have some fun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Outside the office. Don't forget the pizza were eating and
the beer we're about to drink.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
Yeah, I don't get that either. People were hanging out
with a slice.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
The good news is, Brian, I got explanations for you
on both of those. Number One, Jonathan's the producer. He's
got to run the soundboard. He's got to answer phone calls,
he's got to turn us off and on. That is
the job.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
I did it for ten years. I wasn't able to
go out and all that type of stuff. I had
to stay home for Super Bowl trips and remotes and
all that type of stuff. You gotta put in your time.
He ain't even been here a year, and that's the
way it goes.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
And I did not.

Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
Yeah, we know your fans. I appreciate. Don't listen to him.
He's always trying to start stuff up. Matt is God's
gift to radio. I was not God's gift to radio.
So I put in my dues and I'm out here now.
You gotta put in your time. That's just the way
it works. Otherwise, we got to get somebody to replaced Jonathan.
And if he came down here, there's nothing for him
to do unless he just wants to get drunk, which

(01:22:39):
is fine. That is Number one, number two shoe Halo.
Tony's the biggest star in baseball. They want. That's why
they they're made. They change the rule to a loud Yeah.
I don zero problem with it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
A star generational literally, a generational talent. Doesn't hurt anything
to keep him in there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:56):
For DH.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
You don't have to replace the DH spot or whatever
when he stops whatever. It really hasn't affected the games.
It's only affected him. He's the hugest star in the sport.
Major League Baseball recognizes that, and that's why they change.
And maybe we'll get in a few more players in
the next twenty years and do both. I mean there
are a lot of kids that are stars in high
school to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
Do both. It's been like that for decades. Yeah, the
best hitter is the best pitcher in the little league.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
On your little league team. And here's the thing I
got news for you. Show you how Tony's not gonna
do it in five years. They're gonna eventually make him
just do one. And I would think, name on it. What, Yeah,
I'll put my name on it. Okay, I just got right.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
I think I think his pitching career will be done
in time. You've said that I have said it. Well, yeah,
I think for seventy million bugs you get on that mountain,
pal because guess what if he gets Tommy Johnny can
still hit. That's true. That's what's the worst that gonna happen. Oh,
he's just a hitter. You might as well throw him
out there till his arm falls off, all.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Right, Last one, Jerry and golf Gate. Jerry, what don't
you get, Jerra?

Speaker 7 (01:23:53):
Yeah, I just don't get how the United States keeps
coming up, you know, limp.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
In world soccer.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
You know, you all the talent.

Speaker 7 (01:24:07):
I mean, I mean I've gone from from outside the
way to inside. I mean I've gone all of the
place and and watch soccer, you know, youth soccer, and
and I don't get why they don't teach you know,
the ability to take to defend that one on one,
you know.

Speaker 11 (01:24:26):
I just I don't get that they and they don't
teach the up from.

Speaker 8 (01:24:30):
The waist up you know, upper body, uh you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Know, uh, the techniques, you know what's up.

Speaker 11 (01:24:37):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
They look they look terrible out there against good question.
Thank you, Jared. Let me ask you Ross White soccer, Limp.
That was a weird way for him to put it.
But yeah, it's just not popular here. It's cultural.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
There are certain places you go and you know, crickets.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
The most popular sport in the world is is football
and number two is cricket. None of those are big
here in the United States.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
It is what it is. What's number one in the
United States as far as youth playing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Youth playing baseball, probably basketball, sheer numbers or how popular
it is.

Speaker 4 (01:25:13):
I don't know. Football is the most popular anyways. And
then you would go, I would say, is hockey even
more popular here in America than soccer? No?

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
No, youth soccer is played by a lot of It's
played by a lot, but a lot of people realize
it's boring. And I'm tired of creaking my god, caprice
sons and orange wedges. I want to grown. I can't
get girls that way. I gotta go to a real man.

Speaker 4 (01:25:33):
Soccer players aren't getting girls. Have you seen their wives?

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
And so I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
I don't pay attention to the sport when yeah, because
you know what the hell you're talking about. So you're
saying out of ignorance, as per usual. And by the way,
Jim Rome from nineteen ninety three once it takes back. No, no,
he's saying about horne slices. I mean, come on, seriously,
So why do so many answer my question is why do.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
It popular here?

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
I don't know, it's just cultural. So many take hundreds
of thousands of kids play soccer.

Speaker 8 (01:25:59):
And they're like done.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
I mean, there are there are kids who stick with it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
I think it's also probably it's problematic with title nine
with uh with guy men who pursue soccer into middle
school and high school. They don't have a whole lot
of college options, so where they can where can they go?
It's a lot of people have gotten rid of their
men programs, so a lot of the men they don't
have a reason to to stay because there's not the
possibility of scholarships, or at least not high level scholarships

(01:26:25):
and and from there.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
And maybe it's the development, Maybe the coaching isn't good enough.

Speaker 11 (01:26:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
It's it's probably a more nuanced conversation that we can
have in this segment. But I think that's part of it,
that it's it's not the most popular sport here anyways,
it's fifth place. If that, I imagine the NHL revenues
are bigger than the MLS, right, so that would put
a minimum at fifth place as far as professional leagues here,
and then yeah, you can't get scholarships and who else who?

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
Who knows what else? I want to argue with you,
but you've made all but less sense. Okay, So rare
all right when we return.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
That's that's all. That's how the show sometimes works here
on seven. And that's all I got, man, jakey poo.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
Seriously, Jake, where's the water tower for? Save Jake? Can
I buy? Can I buy your your photoshop? Yes? Count?
You know how much that costs? I mean, well, I
mean you're worth it, you know what. I appreciate that, man. Yeah,
I mean to get the material out there. Save Jake.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Yes, we could save your don save Spencer, save GP.

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
I think it's only eight a month.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
That's nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
Okay, let's do it. Oh God, what.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
These poor astro fans?

Speaker 13 (01:27:46):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
You're in six and a half game lead. That's good,
that's right, that's right, a six and a half game lead. Thankfully,
the Mariners suck the Mariners. Just like by the way,
we are team Yankees. Everybody has the count of three, one, two, three.

Speaker 4 (01:27:59):
Go Yankee.

Speaker 17 (01:28:01):
I hook.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
We can't do it, can't we? People are like, what
are you talking about? Yankees? I can you know what?
I can say it? Go Yankees? Yeah yeah, I can
say it. Getting a half game on him, Go Yankees.
We're getting nice crowd up here, Maddie. They're all eating there.
They're not drunk yet, they're not throwing things at us.
It's nice. Yeah, no fistfights yet, plenty of time though.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Santa Claus made it here. We're good to go.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
We're locked unloaded, baby, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
All right? All right, we present to you at twelve
o eight the News shortly afternoon, and with that we it's.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Twelve o eight.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
Who's running this show?

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
All of us are well. Jhonathan is technically producing it,
but our man Brian apparently wants him here hanging out
with us.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
Okay, what do you go for the headlines? Uh? Matt,
how about Amanda? I need Somemva upsetting number one world
ranks Erna Sabalinka in the Wimbledon semifinals.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
You're a breakdown here on the news at noon. I
have a dB artist. I will be watching it when
I get home. So here, no I'm not gonna look
at it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:06):
How you're brewing. We're a twied brewing, by the way,
where you're gonna have a burgers.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
You got some chicken sandwhich You got the pizza we
just knocked out the saucer pizza.

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
You want some pizza with your parmesan. My god, look
at that. He's the guy at the Italian restaurant when
the guy comes over to get the cheese. He's got
a mountain.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
He never says when it's like when he's like saying
when like when your handbreaks off, when you're when you're
when your wrist breaking. Yeah, got art the ritis over there.

Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
Geez, my goodness, knock it back a please crowd here.
How you're brewing? Okay? Fine, topic A is, of course,
what we just played there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Matt Jake Myers before the game even started.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
Exiting the game, he was in the lineup, he was
taking the field. Unfortunately, got hurt, was helped off of
the field. You heard some of the soundbites there, didn't
sound like he was in good spirits at of the game.
We're worried about Jake. And also it is calling into
question the Astros return to play process because this is

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not the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
In a vacuum, you could ignore it, but you're talking
about this Jordan Alvarez, JP Franz, Last, mcculler's junior, whoever
else on the list. It seems to have been an
issue in the last couple of years. Again, I want
to go back to a very simple question. This is
for a bed driving around town going, oh, there's another.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
Astro herd player.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
In your heart. With Joe Aspata, knowing what he has
been told from the medical staff and from the player,
would he intentionally put somebody out there that wasn't ready
to go play one hundred percent? In Jillly, I mean
this is Game six the ALCS. Maybe you put a

(01:30:49):
guy out there that's seventy five percent.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
I'm trying to go glass half a long.

Speaker 4 (01:30:53):
I understand we're trying to see both sides of this.
And my answer to your question is I don't think
he would. But I didn't think he would do that
to Jordon.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
But do you think, okay, all these other is it
getting bad information that that's a possibility.

Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
It's either it's one of two things.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Either this is the pile of coincidence right, or somebody
there is some sort of malpractice happening within the training
staff and the medicals.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
That being there is misdiagnosis being done within the ORGA,
or letting players or maybe trusting the players too much.
When Jordon says my hand is okay and they let
him play, maybe they need to not trust him on that.
Dana Brown said as much.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
And when Jake Myer says, yeah, I'm good to go,
the players always gonna say I'm good to go. This
is what happened with Alex Pregman when he had hamstring
issues and all that type of stuff, and he's wanted
to go back and on. Jeremy Pania wanted to be
back in the lineup on on that Sunday. Then he
didn't feel one hundred percent. They did the imaging and
it turned out he had a rib fraction. But Joe
Spotta did say after the game last night that they
had proper testing there. I believe it was an ultra

(01:31:52):
se I said, an ultrasound, no other imaging. But I
don't know what else you take on us a medical
doctor anymore. I'm tired of pretending I'm a medical doctor.
I know I got my license revoked, so I know
I know with an improper relationship. All right, So my
point is is that you just we're never gonna know
the true story. Yeah, and again I don't want to.
I don't know if I want to be glass half

(01:32:13):
full or I'm naive or I'm just the Only thing
I can think of is do they do they have
a bad batch of physicians?

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
Is there one guy going rogue? He's like a Yankees fan?
Is he always missing? I mean, look, we've I've changed
doctors before on things. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
I think some people in life have have had the
change because the one specialist says one thing and you go,
I want to go get a second opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
Right, they're of all the years.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
You don't want to send him out there knowing that
the laundry list of injuries is immense.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
Yeah. I don't know, man, I don't know. That's all
I can say.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:53):
But we're very very concerned. Something is just.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
Something doesn't seem right. I will just say now, I'll
put it this way. If it's a week from now
he's back, then he's water.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
No, he said no. That again, we don't want to
embellish this. He was asked if it was worse and
he didn't answer, Well, I mean you could have lied again.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Remember lying is your friend.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
Oh well, if you hit about no, it's a minor
step back. I should be fine in a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
But then, but then if he's gone two weeks before,
I was like, wait, wait, you said it was he
was fine. You got to say that.

Speaker 6 (01:33:25):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
I'm just saying so basically, a non answer is as
bad as the betting. I'm just saying that no news
is bad news on that right, especially when he turned
to his right and you're like.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
Hey, guys from the PR team, you have to answer
this question.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
No, okay, fine, let's move on. Then he walked off
to That was a strength lift off anything else of
the news at noon that I mean, it's time for
a break, all right, seven to one three were breaking.
I didn't prep anything. I've been eating pizza.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
What do you call you, mister prep? On the show?
That's true? Seven two five, seven n eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
We'll give a way four really.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
Really good tickets to the Astros Orioles game in August,
which includes parking. We got a nice crown here at
tal you're brewing three and a half acres tal you're brewing.
Uh huh, all right, barbecue on the weekends, pizza kitchen
right now, Burger's and chicken right now. We got a
place for the dogs to go out walk play place.
We can go play after the show. Play place. Yeah,

(01:34:28):
gotta water slide this bad more. No, they got pick
a ball though. By the way, I'm gonna say this again.
And I don't mean to be disrespectful. Oh, but you're
going to be.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
I just don't get it. You know you're with me.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
If you got hip arthritis, I get it. If you
don't get on the tennis court. It doubles tennis is
not that strenuous. I mean I have a Oh God,
go ahead hate him. No, no, because I have a

(01:35:03):
lot of friends who play it. Akaka's gonna break you
good half. He is going to crush me like a grape.
He and rafel And I'm not talking on a turn here.
We will go on the road with the rockets and
they will get ballrooms and they will tape up a pickleball.
Cor huh.

Speaker 4 (01:35:20):
That's how that's how intense they are about it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Yeah, and then there's yelling and screaming at me or
another pick I would like to see you on a
team with Ida at pickleball.

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
No, No, he chew you out.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
He would dog cuss me like you wouldn't believe. He
has got the NBA player mentality still even though he's
bath coach.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
Yeah, absolutely, that's I think that's why the big part
of why the players love him.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
So he's as Jamari Smith Junior said, he's got a
screw loose.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
So when we have media day coverage here on the show,
first question I'm going to say is how's your pickleball game?

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
And he'll give some really low key answer. He'll acts
like he's not the best and doesn't crush everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Yeah, he had been. They never asked me to play,
and I well, if they asked me to, I will play,
but I will be embarrassed by my future performance.

Speaker 4 (01:36:03):
Yeah, I've never played.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
I mean, it looks pretty difficult with that little paddle.
Well it's a very small court, right, It's it's not
even half the side, right. Yeah, it's a good way
to get active.

Speaker 10 (01:36:13):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:36:13):
I've got a good friend.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
I've got a good friend of mine who runs a
pick a ball professional league in Saint Louis.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
I've seen pickleball on TV. Get it off TV and
I like sports, and we were talking about you just
told you love all sports.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
I know I do if it's highest level of like
the most the best, craziest, good athletes on the planet
are not playing pick a ball.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
I'm just saying, so you're is pick a ball sport? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Or no?

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
It's a sport? Is bowling a sport? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
Darts?

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Hm hmm, corn hoole, tell me when you're when when
I sport? I'm asking you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
You have an opinion on these things, doesn't matter what
you're What is this?

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
Two to six? Is this semantics arguments? No, I'm not
arguing with you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Just argue with you.

Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
That's two to six. Yeah. I leave the semantic argments
for Adam and Adam. Uh, I'm not gonna argue. Let's
see what else.

Speaker 6 (01:37:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
Poker playing No, not definitely not a sport. Auto race
you can sit down the whole time. I you can
do it in a wheelchair.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
It's not a sport.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Well, hold on, Uh, that's the wheelchair sport.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
There we go. You're done. You're done. I'm canceled. It's
the Matt Thomas Show. It's just Matt and starting tomorrow,
and you don't have to move. Poker is not a sport.
It's a Matt Thomas show with Gordy ten to two,
starting your documentary murder Ball. Those guys that play wheelchair rugby,

(01:37:35):
that's a sport. Okay. Auto racing a sport?

Speaker 4 (01:37:37):
Yes or no? Oh, you're getting cattle called here. Now
you can't be fat because you're weighing down the car.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
I'm trying to think of. Uh no, you're sitting down
the whole time. But you're sweating in there. I mean
the vehicle right gets.

Speaker 4 (01:37:53):
A little a little sweaty. Okay, the air compressor is
a little too much weight.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
Drag racing, yes or no?

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
I mean, why are you doing this to me?

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
You answer these because I think you're getting annihilated, like
people are upset. Yeah, they're started with the wheelchair comment. Obviously,
now it's not that much, it's not that physical.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
But your life is at risk. Does that shore up
for it? That's the question. All right, these are great things.
We'll just say, Okay, is go kart racing a sport?
Oh Jesus, oh no, no. A lot of opinions we.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
Need to get on, like a show of hands on
all these more comfortable whatever, the most popular answer is,
that's what I land. No, I just don't want to
get any flack. Yeah, it's too late, your major trouble,
all right. Twelve twenty five on Sports Talk seven on
if you want to jump into the phones and come
to Ross's defense, which is frankly indefensible seven one three,
two one five seven out seven rounding out here, let's get.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
A call's oh call.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
Yeah, somebody come to Ross's rescue because he's blushing like,
uh yeah, I managed to piss off every single person
here somehow with my answers. Yeah, it's typical the case.
It's a talent I have.

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
It's better you than me, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five At seven ninety
Astros did lose a three?

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
How big of a buzz kill would you say it was?

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
When you're sitting there not watching the Astros beat the
Dodgers three consecutive timp and I mean beat the crap
out of them.

Speaker 4 (01:39:20):
And then I'm not mad.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
They showed some fight. They fought back in all three games.
The back end of the lineup is from directly from
a year in sugar Land. Yeah, all those guys are
bad at six seven, eight nine.

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
Knew where we were, know where we are today right now? Nobody? Uh,
Bread and Walter did great. I mean, give him the
two home runs early and then really settled down after that.
Didn't he retire like seventeen in a row and you
know he hasn't walked anybody at home? Is that true?

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
I mean I think he's only surrendered two walks as
an astro starter at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
I mean, Hunter Brown had a bad start whatever, I'm
not super concerned about that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:01):
But though, oh, because he thinks you hate Ryan Gusto.

Speaker 14 (01:40:06):
No, because Ross is gonna give criticism the same way
he's gonna give Ryan Gusta having an okay star.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
It's crazy that I'm giving Ryan Gusto not as much
grace as Hunter Brown.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Come on, let's think logically, Jonathan. Okay, one guy is
an All Star and then one guy has got an
ERA almost five, So.

Speaker 14 (01:40:25):
That means that he should even get harsher criticism if
he's All Star.

Speaker 8 (01:40:28):
Right, what?

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
No, he's I think Jonathan is saying, you're not being
as hard on Hunter Brown as if you have one
bed starting set of six, it's more easily forgivable.

Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
Speaking of that, with Hunter Brown pitching on Sunday, I
don't think he's toast for the All Star Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
He's not pitching. You're gonna be wrong. That's a gut feeling.
L Yeah. I don't think Josh Hater's pitching either. Matter
of fact, I won't even go something. Stay home, yea
work on his hair.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
I mean serious, I don't care what he works on.
But this, they got so many guys that are hurt.
I literally, and I mean this in all seriousness. I
want them bubble wrapped nobody else. I mean, imagine where
this team would be offensively in the series against the
Guardians if Joseel Tube didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
Come through with all those key at bats, they would
have lost all three games like they did. But I mean,
you know what I mean, Yeah, I just I just
don't get where was that ferocious offense.

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
Well, Christian Walker was a big part of it in
Dodger Stadium where he rakes and he went on the
paternity list.

Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
Jake Myers, well he when did Jake Myers.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Get He hadn't played in three days, although technically you
know he gets he gets a start for yesterday. He
gets service time for yesterday's game. Did you know that?

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
That's ridiculous?

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Yeah, that once once the lineup cards are exchanged. It's
one of those minutial rules of baseball. Well, that's stupid.
It should be when the first pitch is thrown. I'm
just telling you what they're telling me. So I'm gonna
contact my congressman. You're gonna go to Congress over this. Yes, okay,
that seems like a little bit of a waste of time.
But he can get ted Cruise involved.

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
No, what did you say it? With him in a
game and see how it goes?

Speaker 11 (01:42:01):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
See you're you're I'm not doing it. I'm not taking
this bait too bad.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
You need to seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninty.
The Astros, every team has been discussed on ESPN of
a trade they should make. Okay, what do you think
the Astros, according to ESPN, should do for a trade? Uh,
we'll think about it and talk about it now. I
didn't know. Seven one three two one two five seven

(01:42:27):
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninty.
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Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
They know car Back, they know Carbach, they know Carback.
They're not hat, they're not answering anti. Let me tell
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Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
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It's not like you know Broski's. Yeah, okay, but we're
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Speaker 4 (01:43:01):
Look at y'all trying to catch me. What do y'all
talk about? Try and catch you? Yeah, y'all shut your brobasses,
that's what you can do.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
I was just hearing the Crawford Box guest.

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
I was like, oh, that's the show that you do. Yes,
but I am a tired man. Okay. By the way,
somebody on Twitter asking if you think pillow fighting is
a sport? Huh yes? Do you want to be careful
of the answer. You know what I've come with some
definitive answers darts is a sport.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
Okay, Pillow fighting is a sport. It's all sports, everything
is it? All is a sport, every one of the
cornhole horse racing. Horse racing, Sure, yeah for the horse.

Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
That's good, all right. So ESPN has a list of
a deals that teams should be making.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
Okay, who did this? Jeff Passing? Uh No, he's a douche.
Let's see what we go with here. I don't even
know who it was. It doesn't matter, Jesse. Wah, it
was Jeff that did this. So now you gotta read
it in Jeff Passing voice. No, I don't do Jeff.
I don't know a Jeff Passing voice. Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:44:09):
So uh.

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
He suggests the two weaknesses the Astros have, which are
no surprise, starting pitching in left handed hitting. Yes, he
says the best match would be a pitcher for the
Kandissey Royals by the name of Seth Lugo. Seth Lugo's
good six and five ERA of two point six seven.
His whip is just over one. What's his contract situation?

(01:44:31):
What does mister Passon tell us doesn't say that? Come on, Jeff,
what if the Royals are forty six and forty eight.
That puts some unless they're on some sort of that
could be a fringe third wildcard, fringe third wild card.
Even the Guardians who lost yesterday or beat the Astros
are a fringe world card team. They are, They are

(01:44:52):
the fifteen, they're three games back. Mariners and Red Sox
are tied for the third wild card. They're three games
back of them.

Speaker 4 (01:44:59):
That doesn't seem like it's a whole lot to overcome.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
It's not. Would would the Royals be willing to make
a move like that? I guess the question is going
to be how many teams are going to be sellers
of the deadline.

Speaker 4 (01:45:11):
Lugo's making fifteen million this year, and he would be.
He has a fifteen million dollar player option for next year,
which I would imagine he would opt out of thirty six.
But he's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
Uh yeah, treat it like a rental, oh man, because
here's the thing, and we'll look. I'm sure all the
Astro fans have listened to us right now. Brandon Walter
would be thank you very much for all your work.
And who else is that rotation? I'm losing the name Gusta,
Ryan Gusta, your favorite Colton Gordon, Yeah, Lance McCullers, Junior,

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Hunter Brown, from er Valdez.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
Provided they stay in bubble wrap the whole time. Yeah,
that's six. Yeah, And then I mean, whin's there. You
have to weigh win's are get Get coming back?

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
How good is he going to be? When's Xavier coming back?
How good is he going to My philosophy is if
any of them come back, it's a bonus.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
But but but when you have a limited amount of
resources to trade away like the Astros, do, you do
have to weigh those things. Yeah, and try to maybe
bank on Okay, if at least one of these guys
we can possibly plug into a playoff rotation, then you're
you're in a good spot. You're already in a great
spot with Hunter Brown and from Valdez. Is you're one
two punch. That's the best one two punch in baseball? Yeah,

(01:46:25):
it really is. I mean, you got legitimate ciung for
both of those guys. Will they win it to night
or don't know, but they're gonna be in the mix.

Speaker 8 (01:46:31):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
So here's the question. Are you doing this just to
win the division or do you think that once you
get into the playoffs, you've got a deep enough group
to do it with any of those players I just
mentioned coming back off of injury.

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
Maybe I'm maybe I'm crazy, but I would prioritize the
lineup over now. Of course both would be great. Yeah,
but as we talk about, they have a limited amount
of resources to trade away.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
And let me tell you a gang y' all know this.
I think it's been very painful for Hunter, for Danna
Brown to move all these players like he has the
last couple of years. I know it's like his babies. Well,
but he's number one. Thing he was brought here to
do was the replunish the draft or the minor league system.
And he's trying to and he's got two one top
two hundred guys in there with Bryce Matthews and what

(01:47:20):
is it Yanica Wilter gannack to catch her from the
first round of last year. But he's he wants to
keep it that way.

Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
Yes, I mean he was hired here and Jim Crane said,
all right, we've got no farm system. You got to
build that up. We've got a major league team that
you need to keep competitive, right and know, by the way,
we want to stay under the tacks for at least
you know, not be into multiple years of the tacks.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
It's difficult, It's very difficult, and yet they're still winning.
I mean, seriously, we've talked about this with y'all so
many times. How many of you in March for a
team that was talked about winning anywhere between say, eighty
five and eighty eight games, would have a six and
a half game lead past the halfway point of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:48:00):
There's nobody, not even the most diehard.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
Of Astro family, have thought it would have been as
good as this has turned out to be.

Speaker 4 (01:48:06):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Meanwhile, we are still wigging out about injuries. When you
when you are running through the list and trying to
figure out what's going on and who's doing things and
who's talking and who's not talking. You're supposed to be
ten games out of first place. You're supposed to be
thinking about do you trade far bar Valdez the deadline
to get something back in return? Do you trade this?

(01:48:29):
Do you trade that? What are you going to do
with this particular position? Should you bring some young guys up?
You be talking about what playoff rotation is going to become?

Speaker 4 (01:48:37):
Play playoff rotation. We're talking two seed, we're talking trade dead,
we're talking about where you and Gordy are gonna party
on the road during the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Uh, well, those are work trips, Matt. Those are like
sixteen hour days.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
I know you don't go. You don't do those because
you're fancy, Matt, and I get that. That's fine. You're
in your your five diamond hotels and you're in your
private jets.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
We don't do any of that. Yeah, you fly commercial,
flying commercial, and and we're at the Yeah, the home
suites are you? Yeah, with one bed, one twin bed,
and we're mixing up ramen to eat. Oh, poor kids,
boiling up some water.

Speaker 11 (01:49:08):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
That's what I'm saying. We in most respects here. We
should be blessed where this Astros team is.

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
Oh you think we're here at Sports Talk seven Ie,
you don't appreciate it. I mean, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
I mean we could be Look what is Cincinnni doing
right now? We've been here, Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:49:22):
We did obligatory Astros. I I thought that was ten
years ago. I forgot what that's all about. I did
it was bad. I add to those post game shows,
A lot of them I've produced some of them hour
and a half, hour and a half on a on
a nine to one loss to the Dodgers or whatever.
At one o'clock in the morning, you gotta go to
one thirty. No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
I'm letting the show now. No, the boss says state
at one thirty, I'm like, why am I taking these calls?
I got coast to coast people calling me want to
planet you calls about planet Nabouru naboou. That's exactly right,
I forgot so yeah, planet naboo rou cok talk has
gone away. It's now what are we doing with the
astros and the injuries?

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
And we do have to figure this out? I mean,
is who no, you know what? We don't. We don't
have to do it. It's it's it's it's Jim Crane.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
I want to hear some more on this because it's like, well,
the coincidences are piling up. At some point, enough coincidence
pile up, so you have to say this, this is
this not a coincidence. Is there any part of you
and I and I don't know what you don't necessarily
break yourself into different pieces, or is there any party
that goes this is a horrifically bad season with a
bunch of coincidences all in a round.

Speaker 4 (01:50:27):
I would say yes. I mean it's possible, especially in
Baseball of all sports, where coincidence is king.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
It's not like the team doesn't have a medical staff.
It doesn't like the team doesn't have a strength coach.
It doesn't you know what I'm saying. You could say,
if you don't have a nutrition and the astros don't
spend money, have a nutritionist.

Speaker 4 (01:50:42):
This guy's like, Eh, what you wants cheeseburger? You want
to work out?

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
NAT's all right, work next week.

Speaker 4 (01:50:49):
You're right, But it keeps piling up, and a lot
of times the common denominator is guys coming back to
So let me say, so, let's say this, if we
were to do the deep dive.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
Okay, if you're Jim and he Jim says, hey, Matt
rossill listen to your show.

Speaker 4 (01:51:02):
Makes a lot of sense. What should I do? What
would you do?

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Do you go get an independent physician? Do you get
a different group of doctors and say, let's take a
look at the report.

Speaker 4 (01:51:12):
First thing I'm doing is pulling the players and saying,
do you trust these guys? We Are they gonna be
honest with you? I would hope so? Or yeah, I
have a whoever, I don't know who the team rep is?
It used to be.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
So if I'm hurt and I don't think it's my fault,
but maybe it is my fault. Am I gonna be
completely honest?

Speaker 13 (01:51:34):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
I would hope so. Are you gonna count of me
and say, Matt, how did you hurt your knee? Well?
I didn't take good job. I didn't do a good
job in rehab.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
You might lie to me. But if I'm someone who says,
do you do you think you got the one hundred
percent proper medical care? I would imagine that you would
be honest if you thought you were getting the best
from your from your doctor.

Speaker 4 (01:51:51):
But if that person wants you to defend the organization, yeah, okay,
you could possibly Yeah, get some get some biased answers
with that. Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:01):
I don't know what the right answer is. I don't
know how forthcoming the athletes would be the one thing
I had mentioned this before ordering the show.

Speaker 4 (01:52:08):
You can do like an anonymous you know, like I said, whoever,
the I don't know who the PA rep is?

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
There are enough guy go around. There are enough news
sources mainstream, the ESPN's the Athletics, the CNN that if
there was something really wrong with how the Astros treated
their players, when you think we had heard of by now,
I would think so. But that doesn't mean it can't
happen in the future. That can't mean that doesn't mean
that sometimes things don't come to the light, and there
could be a player telling that to a reporter but saying, hey,

(01:52:35):
don't go public with this, to where they haven't reached
that limit. What I don't want is I don't want
to hear I don't want to see a book from
an ex Astro player ten years from now going man,
you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 4 (01:52:45):
What crappy care idea that could happen. And it also
could be one guy.

Speaker 2 (01:52:48):
One guy isn't always Maybe it's that one guy who
feels slighted or has a vendetta or you like Mike Fires.

Speaker 4 (01:52:54):
Mike Fires, Sure, all he did was tell the truth.
What happened to Honesty is the best policy. Honesty sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
I've knowder a lot of people much easier.

Speaker 11 (01:53:07):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:53:07):
Mike Fires disagrees, especially when he's getting shelld and he
thinks they're still cheating. That's why he did it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
Well yeah, and plus, if you noticed in the last
it feels like every two months some other ex players
are saying, oh yeah, everybody was.

Speaker 4 (01:53:18):
Doing the same thing the askers were doing. Where is
Mike Fires right now at this moment? Are he still
in Mexico?

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You haven't had fifteen beers yet, sir, and called Dr Uber.
He's close. I think he's had enough that he can't
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They locked himself in. What is nice?

Speaker 4 (01:54:02):
Being here today. We've had a really nice, nice people here.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
Now they're laughing at your jokes and making you feel
better about yourself. I know they got passed them eating
into it. I'm like making a joke every six seconds
because i just want to. I want the validation.

Speaker 4 (01:54:14):
They got past your wheelchair and comment that gott of booze.
Why didna bring that back up? I thought we were
past that. We're deleting that from the podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
We're gonna play that on the Friday open by the way.

Speaker 4 (01:54:22):
Well no okay, okay, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
No, no, then don't do that. Jonathan all right, you
know it's been nice.

Speaker 4 (01:54:31):
No precedent's getting said. That's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
Hey, he Cooper Hummelos and had a hit since Jonathan
was gree You know what, at.

Speaker 4 (01:54:40):
Least me and hum are cool as all that matters. Yeah,
that's true. He likes you because you thought he was
gonna get three hits and then you got in his
head and now he's cursed.

Speaker 10 (01:54:47):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
A lot of strikeouts, a lot of strikeouts yesterday. You
know what has been cool. I was at the Astros
game last night. Listeners came and said hello, and you
know the number one question was. It wasn't about the Astros.
What was it about Matt You said about Rocket season? Ooh,
it has to be.

Speaker 4 (01:55:02):
Do you know how many times and our buddy's over
here just asked about this. Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
Uh, I've had more of that in May and June
that I probably had in the previous five Mallyia June's combined.

Speaker 4 (01:55:15):
Yeah, that's probably accurate.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
And you you keep calling it the most anticipated Rocket
season since Chris Paul in my mind, yeah, I'm wondering
if even if it's even more than that now before
they get Chris Paul, was what the they got him
for the seventeen eighteen season, That's right, they went then
they win sixty five that year and the game seventh
the Western Finals?

Speaker 11 (01:55:38):
No in uh?

Speaker 4 (01:55:39):
Yeah that year?

Speaker 8 (01:55:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:55:40):
The year before was that?

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
When was that the San Antonio debacle when James went
like one for eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:55:45):
And Mono Genobili blocked James Harden shot right in front
of him.

Speaker 8 (01:55:49):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
So they were getting to the point. I missed the
Ultimate's first fan. It's just texting me during it. I
wanted to throw a fen The talk was down at zero.
Of course he was gonna shoot. He had to go
for a block, shut up, managed Genobili. But yes, so
I'm trying to think of where they were to where
they could be in that scenario related to where they
are now.

Speaker 4 (01:56:05):
So, yeah, they were a two seed. Now they add
Kevin Durant, I wouldn't. Yeah. Can can you argue this
is even more anticipated? Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:56:12):
When Chris Paul was here, was he in his prime?
Still he was to the tail end of his prime,
but not the score that Katie is for sure. Also,
there was a lot nobody is saying. I'm not so
sure how this fits with Kevin Durant.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
Remember people were saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
Oh, James and Crispy on the four at the same time,
and then they were idiots, not idiots, but I mean
it was just the people idiots now in trouble again.

Speaker 4 (01:56:38):
Yep, you are god. They were not thinking things through
because of course they could gel together and they did.

Speaker 8 (01:56:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Uh, and they were wildly successful, sixty five wins, like
you said, a game seven of the against arguably to
twenty eighteen Warriors, literally arguably the greatest team of all time.
So I would say maybe even this is more of
a more anticipated because fewer people are doubting that this
can work.

Speaker 4 (01:57:05):
The only question mark being how healthy Kevin Durant is
gonna be. I would say for sure, there is lesser
doubt that this can work.

Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
People were legitimately worried about whether Chris and James could
be on the four at the same time, and they
were on the floor.

Speaker 4 (01:57:17):
They were just fine.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
And then Mike D'Antoni did a good job of when
one staggered him, You staggered him, for sure. But it's nice.
I mean, I drove here from downtown this morning, and
Kevin Durant's the billboard's up. I mean, yeah, the Rockets
are smart. They're printing the number seven jerseys out there, yes, sir,
and telling Fatida is a good businessman. You could pre
order this number seven jersey now. Now, he was thirty five,

(01:57:38):
right for most of his career.

Speaker 4 (01:57:39):
Yeah, I think he was seven in Brooklyn, right, Yeah,
he's those are the two numbers he has worn. Okay,
but it's exciting to me.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
And I'm telling y'all, gang, don't sleep on Dorian Fenny Smith.
He is a very nice three and D basketball player.
And Clint Capella's gonna come back and help this squad.
Squad too love Clint, and you still have the young guys.
You have Arry Smith whose contract official was signed today.
You have Fred van Vlie who's officially back. You've got
and An and look there are there been some fread

(01:58:07):
the trackers out there, but he loves Fred. Head coaches
love veteran point guard. They don't have to worry about.
That's why Chris has been able to Chris Paul's been
to be in the NBA as long as you.

Speaker 4 (01:58:18):
Didn't even mention a men Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
Do you remember the phrase we we're using for Jalen
Green third year leap because Thompson third year leap, what
would be the leap to you?

Speaker 4 (01:58:30):
Hmmm?

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Of course he's already first Team All Defense, so obviously
that's staying Defensive Player of the Year. I mean, that's
just so difficult, and a lot of times they defer
to big men with that ye because of the blood.

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
People getting fall in love with block shots numbers. If
Victor women Yama is healthy, he's.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Going to be the favorite, right I would say it's
a lot bit more difficult for wing players to win
the Defensive Player of the Year than than big men.
But first team All Defense, you start there, and then
what are we talking about from there?

Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
Eighteen per game? Talking about what was he last year? Twelve?

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
The shot is a little more of a further distance,
more than just basically a dunker spot gust corner threes.

Speaker 4 (01:59:10):
He wasn't bad, better at corner threes, better in the
mid range.

Speaker 2 (01:59:15):
Yeah, he's he was.

Speaker 4 (01:59:17):
There was part like you even saw growth in that series,
that first round series where people forget this, They're talking
about how great a men Thompson is and how he's
untradable two games into that series, or we were talking
about should he be bench for Jabari Smith Junior?

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
But by the end, wha, Yes, it did come up.
Don't one rocket Twitter fan probably said that. No, there
was people that were calling in and talking about that
because he had that bad because they were packing the
paint every time he was in there. He had a
couple of bad shooting games, and people were saying, hey,
he could still get his minutes, but maybe Jabaris Smith
Hutter should start because he could stretch the floor with
the three point shot that was happening. Okay, well I

(01:59:50):
am team of man, I'm me too, and I think
he's only gonna get better. And that's why. I thought
from the from the jump he was untradable and the
rocket said his money. It wasn't twelve points per game
last year is fourteen?

Speaker 4 (02:00:01):
Can you give me? Can you give you eighteen?

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
How many is Jabars gonna give you this year? Oh,
that's another good question.

Speaker 4 (02:00:06):
Everybody can't go up, especially with Kevin Durant coming well,
you are also, uh you you have to find somebody
to replace the minutes that Jalen gave me when he
was playing for all eighty two game it was twenty
one a game. Yeah, you're hoping Durant's minimum twenty five, okay.
Dylan Brooks, Dylan Brooks.

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
Dylan Brooks is like fifteen a game almost, so you're
gonna be missing that out. Tony Finnis Smith is around
eight to ten. I would prop up guess and Clint
Capela's a pick and roll guy, but very good on that.
So okay, there's some options, but at least it's nice
as compared to the bud who is Christian?

Speaker 4 (02:00:38):
Would you can you can feel the buzz?

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
Yeah? And the Texans will obviously have a serious buzz
coming in training camps coming.

Speaker 4 (02:00:46):
Up in a couple of weeks. Yes, Could this be
the next the best twelve calendar months in Houston sports histor?

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
Could this be?

Speaker 11 (02:00:51):
You?

Speaker 4 (02:00:51):
Well, ooh, what would it take for that? What would
it take Astros to get back to the World Series?
Eighteen was closed? How about this?

Speaker 2 (02:01:01):
At least the Alcs?

Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
So eighteen you had the Rockets in the Western Finals,
you had the Astros in the Alcs were lost of Boston.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Y know?

Speaker 4 (02:01:10):
Were the eighteen Texans any good? When did they make
that big league turnaround? I can't remember? Well that was
who did when JJ Watt intercepted Cincinnati?

Speaker 2 (02:01:19):
Was that?

Speaker 4 (02:01:19):
What year was that?

Speaker 6 (02:01:20):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:01:21):
That was right? That was like twenty ten? I think
eleven and five eighteen and they lost in the wild
card to the Colts.

Speaker 2 (02:01:29):
And then of course, my Houston Cougar's going to win
the the Big twelve Championship game. The Big Twelve media
predictions are out not by the league, but by only
like their media brethren. Okay, they have them picked thirteenth
out of sixteen, So you're saying, there's a chance.

Speaker 4 (02:01:47):
Is that bad?

Speaker 2 (02:01:48):
It's not great? We were like fifteenth last year. Luckily
we're gonna shock the world this year.

Speaker 4 (02:01:54):
You're football not usually on anyone's radar.

Speaker 2 (02:01:56):
So it's fine, that's right. We got a first game
with an enormous tilt with s F a huge, and
then we'll have another one with the crosstown rival Rice.

Speaker 4 (02:02:06):
Oh man, that buy you bucket.

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
Then we have I think I got a game at
Oregon State.

Speaker 4 (02:02:11):
I thought I thought they were going to owe you.
That was a couple of years last year.

Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, Oh you just want what's the
big Oh there's a shut up. Oh you justn't want
to play it. We go, Texas doesn't want to play.
They want to actually sell tickets. No, we can sell tickets.

Speaker 4 (02:02:26):
But we got u h L s U at uh
urgin a couple of years. I think. Oh yeah, the
non con is s f A Colorado and Oregon State.
Colorado's in conference. Okay, I mean I'm sorry SFA Rice
in the organ State. Yeah, that's a murders are right there.
That's should be should be all three consecutive game days, uh,

(02:02:47):
ESPN plus game days stop. They don't even have it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:49):
OHO game days after ohiose ate what you got? I
believe it's what sectional Louisiana.

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hear it. All right, let's talk to.

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Speaker 4 (02:04:06):
Dave is with us on seventy Dave, thanks for holding
a good afternoon.

Speaker 12 (02:04:10):
Hey, how you doing? Hi? Yeah, the.

Speaker 15 (02:04:16):
Astros just need to realize that they're back home playing
the American League teams and not still on that cream
puff National League part of their schedule.

Speaker 4 (02:04:28):
Thanks, Dave. You give a little chuckle and hung up. Yeah,
this creep puff National leaguers, That's what Dave said. I
can't have no response for that. Whatsoever I got? Well,
I mean they did beat up on the National League
first place team. They were all first place teams.

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Yeah, and the Dodgers and the Phillies and the Cubs
are all legitimate World Series contenders and the Astros beat
them all, swept two of them.

Speaker 4 (02:04:57):
Yeah. But the lowly Guardians are lost ten consecutive games.
They're just too good.

Speaker 8 (02:05:02):
Yeah, what did I tell you?

Speaker 4 (02:05:04):
I want no more? I want no more Hosely ramires
in my life? Are we going? That's baseball and injuries, right,
that's what we're going with for this. We're gonna go
because I don't think it's a letdown. No, they were.

Speaker 2 (02:05:14):
I don't think Josel Twobay woke up Monday morning and said,
you know what, these are Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (02:05:17):
I'm just gonna mail these ones. It's not like they
lost every game eleven to one. They didn't fight bad.

Speaker 2 (02:05:21):
They three.

Speaker 4 (02:05:23):
Yeah, they fought back, right and all of them. And
Josh Hader gives up a grand slam. It's only out
in one ballpark, okay, but doesn't matter where it is, right,
I did well that. Yeah, that's fine, that's true. All right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
Uh So the Astros of a day off today. We'll
be back in action tomorrow against the Texas Rangers. And
it's funny because I would ask Brian Bogasva, can you
bury the Rangers in July?

Speaker 4 (02:05:48):
And he said, no, you can't, but they are double
digits down, a lot of dirt on them. You certainly can.

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
Yeah, they're ten back do people.

Speaker 4 (02:06:00):
I don't didn't even care at this point. Now they're
worried about Cowboys training camp coming up.

Speaker 2 (02:06:03):
Yeah that's a loud that's a loud noise.

Speaker 4 (02:06:08):
That's okay. I like a little crowd noise. Yeah, a
little lobby in here. Yeah it is good all staring
at us like, what are these guys doing now?

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninty seven
one three, two one two five seven nine zero. We
were talking about the great twelve months coming up? Yes,
So with your crystal ball in front of you right now. Okay,
we've kind of said I think NBA Finals or it
doesn't it's not a great deal. Is that we're gonna

(02:06:36):
go with on that? On the rockets, NBA Finals are bussed.
I would say Western Finals are bust. You're I still
don't think they're better than the Oklahoma City Thunder. Okay,
so Western Finals are bus would be fair to say?
What is it fair to say about the Texans? Do
you have to get to a finally get to an
AFC Championship game?

Speaker 4 (02:06:51):
Divisional? Okay, let's let's just say it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:54):
Let's say they go ten and seven again and you're
out in the division round again. H with that, you're
not gonna lose fans. It's but you're gonna get But
those fans are gonna become dormant. They're gonna say, wake
me up when you get somewhere that you haven't gone before.

Speaker 4 (02:07:11):
It's the bar. They will not have surpassed the bar.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
But that's the bar that they've set, and if you
go to the bar, it's it's it's neither a disappointment
and it's not something to really get excited about. Let
me ask you about this, and this is convoluted because
it's about NFL and salary caps and whatnot. If you
have only achieved the semifinal or the conference semifinals and
you haven't gone past it, and you're not going to

(02:07:34):
pay C. J. Strode this on the godly amount of
money that quarterbacks get, do you feel like it's a
missed opportunity that you could not go further because even
when you had a quarterback that wasn't making crazy money, yeah,
it would be a missed opportunity. And Nikossarios recognized that.
I mean they signed a lot of free agents and
brought guys in like Daniel Hunter and.

Speaker 4 (02:07:52):
Those The cowboy fans feel that way.

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
When Dak Prescott was drafted all those years ago, his
first they went, what fifteen and one is first year?

Speaker 4 (02:07:58):
Somebody like that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:59):
They're like, this guy's on a rookie contract where the
future is bright, and then all of a sudden you
pay this ungodly amount of money and they're they're having
to wiggle around now getting players. They had the young
Dak Prescott and the best offensive line in football, and
they didn't go to an NFC championship game.

Speaker 4 (02:08:16):
That's a huge So that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:08:18):
It's almost like, if you're a fan of a team
and you've got that quarterback, which obviously the Texans have,
you have to almost exceed expectations with a young quarter
quarterback before that guy starts making great money. Either that
or you're paying him a lot of money and you're
hoping to get value in other positions. The windows can
get small, especially with rookies who are over performing their

(02:08:40):
their rookie deal, which is why I mean, that's fine,
that's I like that. It's that way because of the
hard cap of the NFL. That's why you get as
much parody as we have, right, Okay, uh So if
you maintain status quo, could could a group of fans
go I'm done? This is this is this is who
they are and I'm I'm not going to you know,

(02:09:00):
I'll wait for that Saturday walk game. But you're missing
out an opportunity to take over the city. I mean,
how much more value are the Astros have. And we
know this Matt ten years ago. It's a baseball town now,
but it wasn't like that ten to twelve years ago.
And one super Bowl run for the Texans would change it,
would change it in a milliseconds. I'm talking about this
sleeping giant, but it just ain't waking up because I mean,
the team just has not it has not warranted it.

(02:09:24):
So the defense is getting better and all the guys
are locked and loaded contract wise, yes, And the quarterback
is still not making crazy money.

Speaker 4 (02:09:34):
And you went and got wide receiver help in the
offseason with the draft. Yes, And you got Christian Kirk
two and you feel like that Joe Mexican had the
same kind of year that.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
He had to get the year before. The only thing
that's holding them back is the position that was their
greatest detriment the season before.

Speaker 4 (02:09:51):
Yes, And we brought it up earlier in the week.
Pro Football Focus has them thirty second offensive line Fantasy
Points CBS, and I think, uh, I don't know, some
website called like Sharp Football Analysis, like everywhere I look,
they are the thirty second offensive line.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
So if you have these metric websites, now again, they're
just a bunch of dorks. Okay, but if all of
them have that consistency about where they where the team is,
it's hard to say that it's average, That's right. Uh
But I mean, okay, dude, do championship teams neglect one
position two straight years and expect to be better the

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following year.

Speaker 4 (02:10:29):
You're just gonna have a couple things are gonna have
to happen.

Speaker 11 (02:10:32):
C J.

Speaker 2 (02:10:32):
Stroud is gonna have to rise above it, especially with
the pass catching options that he has. You're gonna hope
that the new offensive coordinator, Nick Kayley can can better
scheme around these types of things. By the way, Radley
is getting a love a lot of pressure on him,
Yes he does, because Bobby Slowk has been raked over
the coals here.

Speaker 4 (02:10:51):
Yeah funny how quick that was?

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
Yeah? Absolutely, And you're just gonna need You're gonna eat
Cam Robinson to not a lot of the pressures like
he did last year. He still wasn't like a bad
overall tackle, right, Arianti Ursery is gonna have to grow fast,
and then Blake Fisher.

Speaker 4 (02:11:04):
Is gonna have to get better. And what's gonna happen
at the center spot, Whether it's Jake Andrews whore you drafted,
or Jared Patterson or whoever. Ju scrugs.

Speaker 2 (02:11:13):
Yeah, So just be you know what, be average with
everything else being xemporary, and maybe you can reach that
spot that you have never reached before. Right seven one
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Speaker 2 (02:12:00):
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Speaker 11 (02:12:02):
I know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
We didn't get heckled once yet, oh we did. Behind
the scenes. There are a lot of shots us a
little bit Yeah, that's some of your comments. Oh deserved. Yeah,
we try to get out as much as we can.
Everybody's saying, yeah, you guys need to get out more,
and I agree.

Speaker 2 (02:12:19):
Yeah, we didn't like like a mascot or something to
come with us, because I mean, we're handsome enough guys,
but you don't want to.

Speaker 4 (02:12:25):
Stare at us for four hours. Yes, Brian mctackerbubb.

Speaker 2 (02:12:28):
If you missed our visit with him, we're going to
replay that for you coming up at the bottom of
the hour here on Sports Talk Croonty, so he'll give
us the thoughts on that.

Speaker 4 (02:12:36):
What else going on? Okay, we talked a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:12:38):
About the these media days. The Big two just finished theirs.

Speaker 4 (02:12:45):
What's that guy's name Campbell something other? Campbell? Cody Campbell,
Cody Campbell. Cody Campbell is a he doesn't like publicity.
Doesn't like publicity. So what do you do? You runner
the Big twelve many days and offer yourself up for
radio shows. According to our caller yesterday, I mean, honestly,
let me ask you this, fine, as a.

Speaker 2 (02:13:03):
Take your talk show head off for a second here,
would that interest you as a as a as a listener?

Speaker 12 (02:13:11):
Hmm?

Speaker 4 (02:13:12):
If I was a big tech fan, I would want
to hear from now if I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:13:15):
Doing KLEB, Yeah, k l E LBB or whatever. Yeah,
I would want to hear about the guy who's gonna
I don't know how forthcoming he would be without about
details about all this type of stuff, but yeah, I
would say if it is specific to my interest, yes,
more than my college team.

Speaker 4 (02:13:31):
Otherwise no.

Speaker 2 (02:13:33):
So we have generic guy coming on the show and
he is just donated an X amount of money. I mean,
what do you say, where'd you get your money from?

Speaker 11 (02:13:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:13:40):
Wat choose? Why did you choose Group A over Group B?

Speaker 2 (02:13:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:13:44):
How much or how much are you willing to spend?
What's the budget looking like long term?

Speaker 2 (02:13:49):
I guess you know what, maybe there's good questions that
it could be interesting if if he's willing to be
forthcoming about a return on investment, how much does he
is he Let's just say he's spend spending five million
dollars on.

Speaker 4 (02:14:00):
This offensive tackle, right right? I mean is he expecting
to recoup zero percent of that? Correct? I mean is
that guy again? There's no way that a Texas tech
I can say this with almost certainty.

Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
There's no way that a Texas tech athlete can reach
enough people that would justify five point one million dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:14:19):
Yeah, exactly what is he speaking for? What appearance is
he doing? What autographs is he signing? I mean what?
Because because Cody Campbell, I thought, divested from his businesses,
I don't know what he does now?

Speaker 2 (02:14:28):
Or you know what, what is this travel in the country,
apparently in Wimbledon in Dallas. What is this money going towards?
I guess is my question? Uh, yeah, I don't know,
but I will give Cody the respect that this is
a man that was obviously made a lot of money
sold his companies. And everybody has money they want to

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spend towards a variety of things, whether.

Speaker 4 (02:14:50):
It be for charitable purpose.

Speaker 2 (02:14:53):
Now there's there's another thing that's a you you could say, well,
wait a minute, you could give five million dollars to
a children's cancer fund. Yes, as compared to giving it
to one offensive lineman just play football for your school.

Speaker 4 (02:15:08):
And that is correct.

Speaker 2 (02:15:09):
So that opens up a new can of worms. But
that could be the case with anybody, whether you're doing
radio interviews or that.

Speaker 4 (02:15:15):
But it's all you can just say, you know, shoots
my mess up. It's my money, I'll be there.

Speaker 2 (02:15:19):
That's exactly right, and I but you have to know
that that that could be part of the territory. I
imagine he does do do philanthropic efforts. Usually if you're
giving five million dollars to a football player, that's not usually.
I haven't done it, not only for years, But I'm
going to presume that if I was to look at
the portfolio of Cody Campbell, my guess is there is
a lot of charitable dollars being placed as well.

Speaker 4 (02:15:41):
I would imagine, especially with tax rightoffs.

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Can you write off an you can write off a
donation to a school, but I don't know about. My
guess is there's the Campbell School of something at Tech.
There maybe is a Campbell Cancel Center, you know, something
like that. Who knows, Yeah, but that's that's one of
the things is funny, And I always I always.

Speaker 4 (02:16:02):
Dream of winning the lottery. Who doesn't, right, who doesn't?

Speaker 2 (02:16:05):
And it's almost like you want to tell the world
you're now insanely rich, But there's also a part of
you that doesn't want you because everybody's gonna and then
mother's gonna come after you for some Yeah, like the
people that show up and claim their lottery with a
mask on. That's what I would do. I don't need
to hear from all my third face because put it
this way, if I if I was to win the lottery,
it was to gain seventy five million dollars. I don't

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want to give away a lot of money to variety
of medical things, different charities and whatnot. But there'll be
somebody that I can't give it to or didn't think
about it that will be like, well, you.

Speaker 4 (02:16:37):
Know, it's almost like it's a terrible analogy, and you
know I'm here for that.

Speaker 2 (02:16:41):
Nolan Ryan has told me many times, as I try
to sign as many autographs as I can, Right, I
signed ninety nine of the hundred.

Speaker 4 (02:16:50):
The one hundredth person who doesn't get that autograph.

Speaker 2 (02:16:54):
It says, we'll go out and tell the whole world
that no one Ryan didn't sign for life, right Yeah,
and then they'll say, never meet your heroes.

Speaker 4 (02:16:59):
Right, I'm saying, yeah, I get it. You can't cover
all the bases, Matt. But Cody Campbell, he's covering the
Texas Tech base. He's what he is.

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
Doing is he's not doing it just because he wants
to take care of a young man who needs five
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:17:16):
He's doing it because he knows that young man wouldn't
even sniff.

Speaker 2 (02:17:19):
Texas Tech University if not for that five million dollars. Huh,
there is a reason why that young man is going
to play in Lubbock as compared to maybe being offered
to play at Penn State, Ohio State, Florida and whatever.
So he's And the thing about Cody is and I
don't know him. I've only heard a couple of sound bites.
You can't hide the fact you're trying to what is

(02:17:40):
it not pistol whip a cash whip people. I've got
all this money. I'm tired of Texas Tech going eight
and four of a year. What's the number one thing
I can do as a big Red Raider fan that
can help change this. I want to win games. I'm
going to go get the biggest amount of money I
can give to a player and make sure that the
number one in the country or whatever position to plays

(02:18:02):
is going to my school.

Speaker 4 (02:18:04):
I think that's cool because people talk about, you know,
all this money they get spent, and how the haves
and the have nots, and the haves will always be
the haves. Well with this new NIL system, now it's
kind of gonna get a little more regulator. We'll see
how it goes from here.

Speaker 2 (02:18:15):
But if you are Cody Campbell, Texas Tech alum, before
you had you could pay guys under the table, but
you couldn't probably spend the amount of funds that you're
doing here, and you can't do your best to make
your sports teams relevant. You know. The number one thing
I'm very curious about is not the number one thing,
but one of the things I'm most curious about is
will we find a school that is not on the

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radar right now that might be on the radar in
five years exclusively for NIL purposes. For instance, SMU has
got a lot of money coming their way, but SMU
had money before this NIL, and then we'll have money after.
Could we ever ever see, just for a pure example,

(02:19:00):
Northern Illinois some tech giant who went to Northern OI
that said, you know what, I want Northern Illinois to
be on the same football landscape as Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (02:19:12):
Here's ten million dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
Now you're gonna need much more millions than that, And
I think it with I think Texas Tech with the
proper amount of millionaire and millions of funding at least for.

Speaker 4 (02:19:24):
A short while. It might be short lived, but for
a couple of years they should be able to compete.

Speaker 2 (02:19:28):
And I mean we have I think the greatest example
we can bring is they haven't won a national championship.
They've been involved in multiple championship games, I believe the
Oregon Ducks and what Phil Knight has done there, right,
And but we're talking about multi multi billion dollar I mean,
one of the richest people on the planet who's invested
all this money, has the backing of Nike, and they

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still haven't won a Well, that's my question too, is
that is this example of the money that is now
going to Lubbock that never really got there if it
doesn't pay off, is he going to regret it?

Speaker 4 (02:20:03):
Well?

Speaker 11 (02:20:03):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
Is he going to say or is anybody gonna say, No,
matter what amount of money you throw in Lubbock to
Texas Tech, they're just not capable of ever being a
national title contender. Because you would think if you're giving
one player five million dollars, there's gonna be other money
coming for other players.

Speaker 4 (02:20:21):
The Texas Tech directive.

Speaker 2 (02:20:23):
Has so we've been talking about this for the last
couple of years.

Speaker 4 (02:20:25):
It has a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (02:20:27):
Not just Cody, but there's a lot of Texas Tech
has has been positively taking advantage of this system. They
paid the softball player a million dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:20:35):
Yeah, I thought maybe Cody was involved with that too.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
I don't know that. But point being is, you are
seeing you are seeing all this money going to the
school in Lubbock that never was talked about.

Speaker 4 (02:20:45):
With being a half ten years ago. Huh. And if
it does, if you don't win a national championship and.

Speaker 2 (02:20:50):
You're not routinely playing in a high end playoff game,
that what does it ultimately say about the future of
tax Attack athletics That even money can't buy you championships.
That's what I'm saying. It's a little bit of a
slippery slope. You applaud the money beings even out. Yeah,
you love your school, but this is really the last
Gas effort to be a national power. That's yeah. I mean,

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that's up for Cody Campbell to answer if he feels
like it's a it's been a proper use of his resources.
Obviously he feels like it right now, But if he's
not getting the results on the field that he's expecting
in the next couple of years.

Speaker 4 (02:21:20):
Could there be some regrets and would he even admit
that publicly? Probably not.

Speaker 2 (02:21:23):
One thirty is our time. We'll talk to Brian McTaggart next.
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Speaker 4 (02:21:44):
Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here
on Sports Talk seven ninety broadcasting alive from TYL You're
brewing in sugar Land every Thursday. We are joined by
Brian mctagger.

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
But it's early in the show, so some of you
may have missed a great conversation, so we wanted to
bring that to you folks again. Of course, a lot
going on with the astros right now, with the Jake
Myers injury last night as well. That's how the conversations.
Conversation started earlier in the show with Brian mctagger.

Speaker 8 (02:22:14):
Yeah, that was me who asked him.

Speaker 17 (02:22:17):
I mean we were told that Myers wasn't going to talk,
but me and and Chandler and Matt Kawahara waited him
out anyway.

Speaker 8 (02:22:24):
I mean, we need to hear that from him.

Speaker 17 (02:22:25):
And Myers is a great guy and was kind enough
to do, you know, a short interview, so props to him.
But yeah, he uh, when he was asked that question,
he gave a long pause and then asked an MPR
staff if he has to answer that, and then he
didn't answer it. And that's fine, that's his prerogative. I'm
just glad he talked and gave us some kind of update.
But uh, you know, he he he was hurting. I

(02:22:46):
mean he was walking around really gingerly on uh, you know,
limping pretty noticeably, so did not look very comfortable. So yeah,
it's uh, you know, if I don't have good vibes
for Jake Myers, I hope he's okay, but it didn't
look good.

Speaker 11 (02:23:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:23:03):
The reality is this, and we've spent the first hour
primarily talking about this. We're not doctors. We don't have
the inside intelligence in the organization. We do know, what
Joe spottas said. We do know what an athlete wants
to do, he wants to play, We know that a
manager is not going to put a player out there
just exclusively based off of the players saying to you,

(02:23:25):
I feel good.

Speaker 4 (02:23:27):
So as you're watching this unfold and we were at
the ballpark yes.

Speaker 2 (02:23:31):
Yesterday seeing him being helped off the field, could he
have just made a bad move. What I can't accept
is anyone trying to rush him back on the field.
And I think there are probably some that are thinking,
why are you putting a player out there that isn't
one hundred percent. I just can't fathom, even if there

(02:23:55):
is malpractice, even if there is a misdiagnosis, that anyone would.

Speaker 4 (02:24:00):
Say, rough, rough, you know, fight through this, Nancy, get
on the field. We need you immediately.

Speaker 2 (02:24:05):
And that's my point is that I know people want
to find the answer and want to crucify everybody, but
come on, I just think that that's not in the
DNA of the manager and of the player.

Speaker 17 (02:24:18):
Yeah, for sure, Spot is not going to put him
out there if he doesn't get total clears from the
medical staff, if Myers doesn't say, hey, I'm good to go,
and Myers before the game was was was hey I'm
good to go.

Speaker 8 (02:24:28):
I mean, he did it, he did it.

Speaker 17 (02:24:29):
He told us he did a twenty to twenty five
minute workout, he did sprinting, he did cuts, no issues,
he looked, he looked and felled one hundred percent. Uh,
and then something happened just when he was jogging back out,
you know, jogging back out there. So uh, yes, I
don't think in this case you can't point a finger
at anyone and say.

Speaker 8 (02:24:48):
Uh boy.

Speaker 17 (02:24:49):
They rushed them back because I guess the information everybody
was getting, including the player, was like I'm good to go,
and so hey, he's good to go. Medical staff cleared him. Uh,
he's doing these workouts without any issues.

Speaker 8 (02:24:59):
He's feeling it. Let's put him in the lineup.

Speaker 17 (02:25:02):
And it's not even like he was the weird thing
is I mean, he was not like he was running
the first or going first to third. I mean he
was just jogging the center field and started limping all
of a sudden. So just really a strange deal.

Speaker 2 (02:25:14):
So I guess they'll give us some sort of update
on Fridays or in conjecture mode for the next forty
eight hours. This is just another name to the seemingly
endless list of injuries and did we finally see the
astros Brian get caught up in the moment, go you
know what, we're running out of depth. The bottom third
of the order just didn't provide much if not for

(02:25:37):
jose Al too, but they wouldn't be a.

Speaker 4 (02:25:38):
Runner in scoring position scoring.

Speaker 2 (02:25:41):
Where where are we with this squad of Hey, this
has been good to see some of these younger guys
get an opportunity, but man, we've got to start getting
some healthy players back on the field. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (02:25:51):
I think that's one hundred percent fair. I mean, I
think their injuries offensively have caught up with them. I
don't think there's any doubt. I mean, you don't have
Paina for that series. He's you don't have Christian Walker,
who you know, had a really good road trip and
was swinging the bat really well. Of course Alvarez is out,
and I mean that's three three you're you know, like

(02:26:12):
it or not. Walker is still a guy you want
in the middle of your lineup at this point. So
three middle of the lineup guys that you just don't have,
and you're replacing them with guys that they brought into
spring training as non roster players for depth for their defense,
you know, as pieces, and now they're getting the bats
at the bottom of the order. It's just a big
drop off, you know, offensively, and yeah, I mean it's
it's definitely catching up to him.

Speaker 8 (02:26:33):
A little bit.

Speaker 17 (02:26:33):
And uh, you know, I'm Walker can be on the
paternity to list three days, which is up now. Of
course tomorrow, I mean today they're off, so I would
suspect he's in the lineup tomorrow. And now looks like
Jake's gonna be out a while, so they're they're in
a tough spot. And uh, they don't want to rush
these guys back from injuries because they don't want to

(02:26:53):
risk reinjuring.

Speaker 8 (02:26:55):
They also have at you know, still have a pretty
good lead.

Speaker 17 (02:26:57):
In the division, so they can take a little bit
of time, but certainly they have to start getting some
healthy bodies back in this lineup sooner than later.

Speaker 2 (02:27:05):
Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and with that, you're you're talking about bodies. I think
it's interesting now three weeks away from the trade deadline, Uh,
where do you think we are? Because it could be
guys coming back and then if you make a trade
and then that person you trade for doesn't need the
playing time.

Speaker 4 (02:27:24):
If everybody's coming back healthy, and that could be both
on the pitching side and the position player side.

Speaker 8 (02:27:31):
Yeah, I think there's no doubt. We've said it before.
I think they're gonna look to get a bad a
left handed bat.

Speaker 17 (02:27:35):
I mean, Daniel Brown's even admitted that after after Alvarez, uh,
you know, had his setback, he said that, you know,
hasn't changed their thoughts on the trade deadline. They're still
going to be in the market for a left handed bat.
I still think they're going to go after a starting pitcher.
I mean, I've been kind of back and forth on that,
and I'm back in the camp of I think they

(02:27:55):
want to add a starting pitcher from the aspect of
you still don't know when these guys are coming back.

Speaker 8 (02:28:00):
I mean Arraghetty was supposed to be.

Speaker 17 (02:28:01):
Out six weeks and I don't think he's faced uh
he's faced hitters yet and uh and that you know,
he got injured in early April. So, uh, these rehabs
have been slow and there's been you know, guys have
had setbacks here and there.

Speaker 8 (02:28:13):
So I think it behooves them to go.

Speaker 17 (02:28:15):
Out look at the starting pitcher market as well, just
to get another arm in here. You can plug in
the rotation so you're not having to you know, rely
on on you know, some guy who was uh, you know,
a non roster invited to camp. I mean, Brandon Walter
did a really nice job last night. Other than the
two pitches, the were homers, and those were good pitches,
I mean, but still, if they can get better with

(02:28:36):
their pitching staff and had a veteran armed, then they
probably should try to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:40):
Yeah, And and interesting wondering how Lance mccullors junior, you know,
factors into that to He's been so up and down.
But of course this the start in l A was
very good and I would say, like the last couple
of innings of that Brian he looked about as locked
in as I've seen him this year.

Speaker 17 (02:28:59):
Yeah, he did, and props plans. I mean, he was
not coming off a good start. He's facing the Dodgers, uh,
you know, Dodger Stadium was a place that he's he's
pitched very, very well in his career.

Speaker 8 (02:29:08):
Of course at A you know, started Game seven of
the World Series.

Speaker 17 (02:29:11):
But yeah, I think if you the Astros, you would
definitely like to see Lance, you know, get get his
feet under him a little bit, you know, start to
build some consistent starts here and there. Chance to do
that against the Rangers lineup, it's not very good. So
his last start before the All Star break, so I
think he'll be he'll be fired up for that.

Speaker 8 (02:29:27):
But he's done.

Speaker 17 (02:29:30):
Lance has done better than I you know, I thought
he would at this point. I mean, he's had had
a couple of stinkers, but for the most part, he's
gone out there and competed and and uh yeah, I
thought I thought done a pretty nice job. And Dodger
Stadium was one of his better starts.

Speaker 4 (02:29:44):
There you go, Brian McTaggart.

Speaker 2 (02:29:46):
Some of the conversation can catch it in full at
sports took seven ninety dot com. It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. We do have to take one
more break. We'll wrap things up from twer brewing in
his sugar Land after these short mess final segment here
from a tire brewing. And we have had such a
nice get together and lots of people come by for

(02:30:06):
lunch today, people bringing their computers and working, drinking pints,
doing it responsibly, bringing the dogs. Really nice to meet
you folks, and we wish we can get out more often.
We're gonna try to in the next few months. And
the one thing I've noticed was you are way more
handsome in person, and then you're on radio, and I
thought that's very nice.

Speaker 4 (02:30:23):
People to say, yeah, that is nice, and I think
they're totally one correct. So you think I'm more handsome
outside these you talk about me? No me, Oh you're
talking about me?

Speaker 2 (02:30:33):
No, like you are one handsome devil. Then when they
say you're a beautiful ball man, I'm like, yes, Oh,
here's a picture.

Speaker 4 (02:30:38):
Who says tired? Oh there, I'm tired.

Speaker 2 (02:30:40):
Uh, And I'm gonna have a flight after the show
today and then I'm gonna go to have something to
eat some more and then responsibly drive back home.

Speaker 4 (02:30:47):
So m okay, and you you might have several flights
and I did not drive here. Matthew, I know it's
a yabba dabadoo time at two o'clock. It's going to
the rest of in your own pants, you know what.

(02:31:08):
We all have our crosses to bear.

Speaker 2 (02:31:10):
Yeah, that's true. Every time they turn on that more
beer comes out. I can't believe it. I keep drinking it.
My buddy John from the University Houston Cougar production is
already knocking back one.

Speaker 4 (02:31:20):
I'm gonna talk to him. I've talked to you all
the time. I never get to talk to John.

Speaker 2 (02:31:25):
John's the great person that sets me up for these
great University Houston assignments.

Speaker 4 (02:31:29):
Okay, like versus our Lady of the Lake games and whatnot.
Is HCC on the schedule this year too? Well, that's great.

Speaker 2 (02:31:41):
It's funny that you ask.

Speaker 11 (02:31:43):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:31:44):
We don't know our schedule just yet, but I do
write it down. And we were talking about non conference scheduling.

Speaker 4 (02:31:50):
No, I think it's awesome. Man, you get on. Now
we are going.

Speaker 2 (02:31:53):
We are going to Las Vegas, not not me. By'm
talking about University used to Vegas because it's I'll be
with the Rockets. We have got or To State playing
at Toda Center. Wonderful.

Speaker 4 (02:32:02):
We're going to play in the Barkley Center. I think
against Kansas State maybe I don't know, somebody, somebody good Kansas.

Speaker 2 (02:32:11):
I can't say it would be a league game, but
there are gonna be a few less spectacular games. We
do have New Orleans coming in really yeah for ten
thousand bucks University. I used to University of New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (02:32:26):
What I did know this? It's on the tip of
your tongue. I know it. If you say it, you're
gonna say it. I'm gonna be mad. Just tell me Privateers. Yeah,
I see, I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (02:32:39):
I was gonna say Mountaineers or Chant of Clears, and
I knew those were both wrong, but I couldn't think
of it. All right, one more for you, A non
conference game December the twenty ninth. Okay, Middle Tennessee State.
I can't remember the Blue Raiders. The Blue Raiders, that's right.
But you know what, every number one team in the

(02:32:59):
cry plays.

Speaker 4 (02:33:00):
A bunch of course, but you know what, there, it
just gives us more opportunity to brag about how great
the team is. So I liked that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:07):
I pulled up the schedule for you guys, and they
have the NCAA Tournament Final four already on this schedule.

Speaker 4 (02:33:13):
Good they should, that's cool? Yeah? Nice?

Speaker 10 (02:33:16):
What you know what?

Speaker 2 (02:33:17):
You know what I did for my school?

Speaker 4 (02:33:18):
What did you do for your school? I got COVID
for my school. They've benefit. No, when you do something
for someone, they benefit from it. I sacrificed sleep. No,
they didn't help them at all, unless they're invested in visor. Probably. Yeah, well,
I don't know. I just took a lot of ibuprofen. Okay,

(02:33:38):
no packs lovid.

Speaker 2 (02:33:39):
I kept calling the team doctor for the rockets. He's like,
just keep amping up your advil.

Speaker 4 (02:33:44):
Yeah, you're fine, You're doing great. A little weight from it.

Speaker 2 (02:33:49):
I did lose the weight from fortunately, and then I
had to go to San Antonio watch.

Speaker 4 (02:33:53):
Him lose the game. Ah well, at least it wasn't
like it was a heartbreaking fashion or anything. That'd be tough.

Speaker 2 (02:34:04):
That'd be that game against jack and the State can't
come fast enough.

Speaker 4 (02:34:08):
Yeah, it can get revenge on Jackson's State. Well, always
gotta be somebody beat him by seventy You know.

Speaker 2 (02:34:15):
I think I did five or six games last year.
I don't think the closest game was forty points that
said something.

Speaker 4 (02:34:20):
No, man, it's nice you're on ESPN plus, you're getting
at my suit on Yeah, you got a new you
got new suits.

Speaker 2 (02:34:26):
So you look you did get new suit. I did
get new He used to wear the ones where he's
looking at your word, your dad suit look like your
suits And that's good, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (02:34:33):
Lost weight?

Speaker 2 (02:34:34):
You know, Yeah, all right, so tomorrow on the show,
we have what's tomorrow Friday Friday, and thing goes Friday
in the show complete intense breakdown or preview, I should
say the Astros versus the Rangers huge.

Speaker 4 (02:34:46):
We have non Florida stories tomorrow on the radio program,
of course.

Speaker 2 (02:34:49):
And we're gonna we're gonna be out of here at Taliard,
but not here at Talier now. Yeah, we're gonna be
back in our studios.

Speaker 4 (02:34:54):
Yes, back in the cage. Yeah, but we didn't come
back at tired School.

Speaker 2 (02:34:58):
It's nice.

Speaker 4 (02:34:58):
What your thoughts on the p that we had today?
I thought it was great.

Speaker 2 (02:35:03):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:35:04):
If it's free at you see how you are? It's good. Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:35:09):
They got the wood they got the wood fire down
there downstairs. Yeah, yeah, I could tell I love wood fire.
Of course, perfect, expect nothing less. There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:35:19):
All right, what are we watching for sports tonight? Do
we have anything to watch?

Speaker 2 (02:35:22):
Uh? There's got to be some baseball on Actually, you
know the White Sox and White play. Let's go MLB network,
Let's go Yankees. Say it, Matt, all right, we have
a little bit of breaking news.

Speaker 4 (02:35:36):
Oh do is it? I meant to mention this like
three times earlier. Is it the transaction?

Speaker 10 (02:35:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:35:40):
But go ahead okay, Oh, Christian Walker activated, share Wickham,
share Wickham. Sit down, Shay will be here to join
us to get your autographs here and here shortly.

Speaker 4 (02:35:49):
Uh. He knows the way, he knows the roads.

Speaker 2 (02:35:51):
I'm surprised Gordy isn't running into the to talk on
microphone here. Okay, the number one overall recruit high school football. Yes,
had a choice between Texas.

Speaker 4 (02:36:07):
Yeah, I saw this Miami A and M and L
s U and he is going to Louisiana State.

Speaker 2 (02:36:15):
Would they pony up six foot five, two hundred and
eighty five pounds from Erwinville, Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (02:36:23):
Louisiana, louis He did, He did the hat thing. Oh,
he with the hats and Sports Center broadcast Jago Tagers.

Speaker 2 (02:36:32):
Now, Baby, I'm looking for the nil money on this.
There's gotta be money here.

Speaker 4 (02:36:36):
Yeah, come on, Gordon, where's the Gordon?

Speaker 2 (02:36:39):
What we got in the l N? I l.

Speaker 4 (02:36:43):
Oh offer lesson A and M because they threw in
some Boudham.

Speaker 2 (02:36:48):
That's right. They are four point six million and all
the cracksmans.

Speaker 4 (02:36:52):
You can eat six rings of Boodham.

Speaker 2 (02:36:53):
Baby, he doesn't have to go to class either, which
most of West allis Houston's going anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:36:58):
Yeah, is he gonna be general study or administrative studies?

Speaker 2 (02:37:03):
He's gonna be uh degree is in swamp opery. Looking
at the very swamps of fanboat.

Speaker 6 (02:37:09):
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Speaker 4 (02:38:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and wholeheardly agree with you
on that one. It's andything goes Friday tomorrow. Up next,
it's cruising with Clam and I believe Chandler Rome.

Speaker 2 (02:38:31):
Chandler Rome is in.

Speaker 4 (02:38:32):
You're gonna want to listen to that by yesterday. That
might be spicy, No holds Bart, It's the CT

Speaker 2 (02:38:40):
Next Sports Talk, sevenths