Astros Hold On To First Place! Astros Take The Series vs Yankees 2-1, Texans’ Reserves Got Work vs Vikings

Astros Hold On To First Place! Astros Take The Series vs Yankees 2-1, Texans’ Reserves Got Work vs Vikings

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ten o one at each town. Good morning, and.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thommy's Showing.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
Ross.

Speaker 5 (00:13):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Start spreading the new pitch on the way and AL
two crushes one detail left field and you can't test
that one. Goodbye. Our first pitch to run homer for
Jose Altuve and the Astros have a two nothing lead.
AL two a twentieth of the year.

Speaker 7 (01:02):
Boy the booze haven't even died down by the time
he swung at that first pitch. In his eyes, eight
rows deep inside the foul pole in left field.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
I want to wake.

Speaker 6 (01:17):
Up in US slams oh one and that's it, high
in the air and deep to right. Rosario was back
at the wall looking up. See letter Taylor Trempelle with
the insurance, a two run blast and it's five to
two Astros.

Speaker 8 (01:35):
Tremille goes deep for the third time this year.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
The grand new start of it in a.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
First pitch, and that's drill deep to left field and
you can kiss that one.

Speaker 8 (01:54):
Goodbye.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
Jose l two Ve hits his second home run of
the series and his nineteenth career home run against the Yankees.
It's one nothing Astros. How two Ves twenty first of
the year. How two Ve's an igniter.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
That's his sixth home run in the first inning this year.

Speaker 8 (02:14):
And the Astros draw blood first.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
You are too, yon, I want oh two playing and
a mask. Good morning, good afternoon, and good night, Anthony Volpi.
And that is the ballgame. Brian King strikes out the
side of the ninth as the Astros defeat the Yankees
seven to one to take two out of three in
the Bronx.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
These little town blues and they got little tam Blue
Sports Army.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
You just sucking New York.

Speaker 9 (02:58):
Sucking to trom sucking yeats.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Cage, sucking, Susan Waming.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, that's not awkward.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Wow, that's sucking, Michael Kaine.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
It means in the metaphorical city. I metaphorical, not literal sense.
You know what I man, You know what I man?
Singing Old Blue Eyes, sing it. Turn it up, I said,
turn it up.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I'm going on making.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Everybody you yuck. The greatest song about a city pearing

(03:50):
into story, greatest song. And we've already we've already discussed this, right, Yeah,
don't goat Okay, I'm not gonna argue with you, damn
Frank old blue Eyes and his mafia ties allegedly allegedly.
And thank you Mariners, Oh no, excuse me, thank you
raise for blanking to bed three days in seatt Absolutely nothing.

(04:13):
Absolutely the marriage of one. Seven consecutive games. They're not
going away, Matthew, half game lead? How we as you
would say, how we feel?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Are we feeling?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I'm nervous as a alley cat? Nope? Nope? How am
I as nervous as a what a horror in church?

Speaker 10 (04:29):
What?

Speaker 11 (04:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
You've heard that one, right, I mean yeah I have,
But you always say nervous as an alley cat, which
you made up? Yes, And so I'm not going to
say anymore. Okay, what is it?

Speaker 8 (04:41):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
If you can't say horror church? What are he nervous?
Has an nelly? I was so prepared for that, Good morning.
It is the bat topmage. I must spit up my
coffee on that one. I would have been so happy
to I know you would have. But this is a
really expensive equipment have to protect him here? We don't
use it. But it's that's no. That always works one
hundred percent of the time too, And Thank God for Gordy.

(05:03):
He's in here trying to fix stuff for us. He's
our best since we laid off both of our it guys,
he's the best it guy we got. Seriously, let me
tell you some thing. On a list of people I
want to see leave the station, Gordy is the last
one I want him to leave. Well, like when he
he when the lights of seven Hoy get turned off,
He's the one to get. Now I'm the OG and okay,
now who's first? Oh that's easy, all right, fine, I'll

(05:25):
walk out. No, No, you get to stay two you right,
believe it or not.

Speaker 8 (05:30):
Yeah, some value?

Speaker 3 (05:31):
You provide some value?

Speaker 8 (05:32):
All right?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, good series win for the Astros this weekend, Manning,
Yeah it was Uh, I mean didn't go perfect. You're
supposed to win win two out of three in New York.
That's great. Two out of three is great. He won
two out of three in Miami, and that's great. You
obviously blanked the bet in Boston.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
And you can do everything you can in terms of
lineups and pitching and whatnot. But if the team behind
you is playing better than you are, nothing you can do.
And that's just the reality. The Mariners have won nine
of ten, seven consecutive game and there's the reason why
they made it up four games in a week, because
they're playing better than the Astros are. So as much
as you want to say, well, the Astros aren't doing this,
the askers aren't doing this, guess what the Mariners are doing.

(06:10):
More so, it makes me think about something, okay, Ross,
that I want to give to the audience here at
ten oh seven on this Monday morning of the audience. Okay,
this is you normally a Wednesday at eleven thirty. Nope,
this is a this is a passage I'm about to
read to you. Oh what really? And it was written
by somebody you know. Oh okay. Life becomes beautiful when

(06:32):
you decide to see it that way. Put love into
what you do, make it your priority. Believe blindly in
your potential, Appreciate everything what even what you don't understand yet.
Life changes you for the better when you do. Is
that Jim Valvano froberveld Is fifty nine on Twitter. Oh okay,

(06:57):
that's great, thank you. That's a great outlook from Fromerveldez.
It sounds like the Jim Balvanos peak. If I would
have read you that. Instead a current athlete or a
former athlete would have said a how long would have
taken you to get to Froberveldez? That would have been
a while. I don't know if he had a translator
for that or what, but I mean, that's that's a
great inspirational message and it rings true, especially for a

(07:20):
guy who had a bad start on Saturday. So what
I'd like to say to Romper is, of course thanks.
I appreciate that you should actually respond with the thanks.
Uh at gang Cox dub says, use me. That's what
his Twitter is. Love you Frombert, but we need you
to lock in again when he quality starts. It's like
this phrasing's all cool and everyone, well, okay, it wasn't.

(07:43):
The dude couldn't find his curveball the entire game. His
strike checkout was super low too, right well as his
strikeout pitch is his curveball, and he couldn't throw it
for a strike. So if you're losing your best pitch
and you're battling out there, and he went what five
and a third five and two thirds, gave up four
and runs as honestly a miracle. He gave you what
he did when he clearly did not have his best stuff.

(08:07):
So I'm going to be forgiving for farmer Valdez, who
still has an ERA of two ninety seven on me,
he's still having a really good season. Aggie Doug continues
to that, you know our buddy Aggie Doug.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know who Aggie Doug is. Apparently he has a podcast.
I don't know how many listeners he has. He probably
has as many as the YouTube media does. But he
wanted He's like, I can't believe that Matt would just
would think my take of trying to trade Robert Valdez
for two other prospects was one of the dumbest takes
I've ever heard in my life. It was for two pictures. Yeah,
he is a trade for two starting pictures. And I

(08:43):
try to defend Aggie Ville as much as I can
because my son is in my middle son. My middle
son isn't. Yeah, but they're a weird cult and you
know it. I well, they're they're a cult like, but
there's still an excellent institution. My son had a wonderful
time and he is he loves Zagi, so I tried
to be I understand, I think they should win in
a national championship every year despite never doing it since
Hitler invaded Poland. Okay, that's fair as well, but it

(09:06):
was just a horrific take that just keeps getting worse
because sometimes she look, I've had terrible takes before. You
listen to the Daily on New Show and you have
to sometimes fall on your sword on one of them. Like,
for instance, if Ashton Genty gets for a thousand yards,
I'm born to get it. Yeah, wait, I want you
to draft him on the Toros is what I want.
I'm gonna get it worn out by you by saying
this over and over again. People. From Er Valdez has

(09:31):
an era of under three. He's had a really good season. Yes,
it's been back to back bad starts in different ways.
To me, he did have a bad like he can't
feel to save his life. They even try to. But
at least he felt well. Christian Walker bailed him out
on the bunt that the Yankees did. It was a
bad throw from Fromer. We know that he can't field,
and that's been his deal ever since he's been up.

(09:53):
But the Boston start, there was a lot of bad
luck and then he was a bad fielding by him
on a bunt, and then this past curveball just wasn't working. Like, look,
you go out and there twenty five thirty times, sometimes
your best pitch isn't gonna be working, and it wasn't
working for Fromber. So I understand everybody wants to harken
back to the good old days of him blowing up
and being horrible, but if you watch that game, it wasn't.

(10:14):
He's just having a blow up game and he's completely
lost his mind. Just he was struggling to go out
there and pitch, and still in the season. He's got
an ERA of under three. So I understand we can
heighten our concern for sure, but I think I also
was that you're going to lose him because you have
no signs of signing him, that you might as well.
He's one of the hottest pitchers. You can go get
two pitches in return, which would be ridiculous if you're starting,

(10:34):
If you're going to go get farmber Valdez, you're giving
up on the season. That's strike one, and there was
no your first place. So I don't want to get
into anymore. It was just stupid and just our man,
Doug just wanted a podcast about it. I didn't listen
do it? Okay, but you know, not going to but
I just would he tag you in it or something? Well,
he's like yeah, And we responded to my thinking that

(10:57):
Matt's take on my take was the worst thing ever.
They continue to be horrible. So all right, two out
of three? Four the Astros Mariners, Uh ROSSI real quick
before we get to a break. I did do a
survey question which I think you I want to see
if you do the same, if you mind doing the
same thing. You see Twitter audience is significantly different than mine.
I don't think. I mean, we've got a lot of

(11:18):
shared accounts. I would say it's very similar to years. Unfortunately,
what do you mean unfortunately? Yeah, I mean I got
I get rid of the bots. You got a bunch
of weirdos. I don't know. I love my Twitter audience.
You do How much of the Texans games did you
catch on Saturday? Okay? The four choices were all of it,
some of none of it, back and forth of the
Astros because there was a two hour difference between the

(11:41):
game I think it was on at three and the
Astross a one. Yeah, and then I put recorded it
after Astro You know you didn't want to. You want
to watch the Astros live. They can catch Textans little
bit later. And two hundred and twelve votes is not terrible.
It could be a bigger sample, says if you want
to vote, go to my Twitter account at sports mt Okay.
Seventy three percent said none of you watched it at all,
which is weird because we're such a football community. Yeah,

(12:03):
but it's Davis Mills was starting. I mean, yeah, So
I don't know if we're gonna get into a deep
dive on the Texans game of the Vikings. I did
watch the first quarter and then I turned it off
because I was at a pool party. And you know
thinks that happened. Well, fifty percent of people don't watch
the Super Bowl, Matt Its is crazy. I want to
meet those people. I don't know what the hell they're doing. Yeah,
but the fifty percent of those people are. I would
say eighty percent of my audience watch super Bowl and

(12:24):
yours just baby, maybe you're in a little higher you
know what. We we actually need to do this to calibrate.
We do next year, We'll say, Helman, So the Super
Bowl did you watch exactly? Right, all right, the Athletic
has a survey out of quarterbacks. I want to get
to on that. Oh, we had the Astros, we have
Bregman coming back, and how long do we cheer before
we start booing Bregman. That's always a little crazy. I

(12:48):
would never boo him for one second, nor would I
you know how I feel about Alex Bregman as a
friend of mine, But there's only a certain length of
time before I guess ambivalence's before booing. Right, Uh, I
get they don't boot losers, or they don't boot nobody's.
What's the Reggie Jackson quote? I don't they don't boot nobody's.
I think I don't know. Seven one three two one

(13:08):
two five seven. It was nice try seven one three
two one two five seven. Unty, if you want to
join this radio program, if you want to follow us
on Twitter, you may do that as well, and vote
on my poll question, how much of the game did
you watch on Saturday? I'm good, I mean, you don't
have to. And also today I'm going to once again
reiterate something that none of us need to ever say again.

(13:30):
It is going to be a taboo phrase that I
never want to hear you say again, and I'm going
to ask our front office people, our coaches, our owners
never to say again injury pro no, no, must win
game no no, just okay, you'll know seven one three
two one two five seven Natty plus wig game. I

(13:53):
love us with game. I'm not anti must win game.
Seven one three two one two five seven Dottie seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. If
you're on Twitter, you want to follow us there. It's
at Sports empty and at Sports RV. So I can't
say nervous as an alley, yeah, because I created that

(14:13):
and there's no steam to that. So people are like,
how about this nervous as a long tailed cat in
a room full of rocking chairs. That's an actual thing.
That's good, Stephen, thank you very much. I have heard that.
And Jones says, you know, it's about Horrn Church. He
goes nervous. They never say a John and Church like
the pimp. The pimp should be nervous too. He's the

(14:35):
one who cut the money in his hands. So these
are relevant things that people bring up on a Monday.
All right, that's because the John's at the pulpit. All right, Wait,
what are you what are y'all sharing over text over there?
What's going on?

Speaker 11 (14:52):
Than?

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay, are you coming on in ten fifty today? And
what is he coming on in ton? You go ten fifty?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Ri I T guys in here helping us out a
cordy on it? And is Matt and Ross we have
to tell the truth today at eleven thirty he just
showed me a nervous as that I'm not gonna say, Oh,
is there a Facebook? Where is that? That'spaly on some
l s U chat room? Tiger droppings, nervous as a tiger,
nervous an LSU grad at a what now spelling me nervous.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
As an LSU fan? Week one with Brian Kelly coaching.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Oh, nervous is running back?

Speaker 10 (15:31):
J T.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Lindsay arrested after allegedly hiding murdering suspects and off campus
apartment on campus apartment.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Now, come on, you wouldn't help harbor a friend.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
That's terrible, all my god?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
And as you mad as you mad.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
As what you guys know you committed murder, You needed
a place to hide out? He could come stay at
my place.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
His homerism is going to defending guys who are hiding
murder suspects. He hates Alabama but loves lsun Metter. What
they do? What if an Alabama running back did this?
Oh my god, speat of a special live broadcast.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh did you guys see the Big?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
The Big I say this for ten.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
To fifty right now, is going to come back to college?
How about that?

Speaker 3 (16:11):
We don't need this right now? Get out, you're working.
I take in my microphone. You know what about it?

Speaker 12 (16:15):
Here?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
No, you stay right here. I don't have you than him.
We got enough, Gordy coming up eleve than fifty. We
got we got our topic at ten fifty. Yes, we do.
Let's talk to Joe on The Matt Thomas Show with
Rosster ten twenty three. Joe, good morning to you.

Speaker 13 (16:31):
Them.

Speaker 14 (16:31):
Texans has got me more nervous than a lesbian eating
a hot dog.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
All right, if.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
We are done, and I'm going to hang up the legend. Okay,
all right, Uh it was a back. It was a
preseason game. It's just the preseason. We have any still
in the bank, probably somewhere. All right, we're having some
issues though, hold off. Yeah, none of our equipments are working.
We're surprised. Actually, these microphones are working somehow, we're still

(17:00):
on air though. It's nice. It's nice, No I ROSSI
and I'll honestly I take nothing away from the game.
I mean, if Davis Mills plays for the Texans this year,
he is a good good numbers. I mean the score,
he had one touchdown on the game. Nothing means nothing. Yeah,
let me tell you the much to manage.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's just the preseason.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, couldn't said it, boy myself. Match we need a
Hulk Hogan one for the special Heavenly Wing as much
as yeah, you're with the dead Wrestler's ring of that
just the preseason we could. We could have caught a
list there.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
You need to calm down, and it is just the preseason.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
We used to have dozens of these, but most of
them have not survived our multiple server moves. That's fine,
but yeah, I mean, if Davis Mills plays any length
of time this year for the Texans, you're season's over.
I mean, I would say, no disrespect to Davis Mills,
but it's frankly, the disrespect. Some disrespect. That's actually a
lot fill in for a couple of games, and do alright.

(18:02):
Outside of that, you're in some depail he's a placeholder. Yeah,
but you need to keep him apart. And again, Ursery
played on Saturday before. It fits the offensive line. I
didn't know who they were. They were backup guys like
Fisher sucked. I mean, it is what it is. I
took very little. I was more mad about the Astros
is very good. Yeah, he's he's gonna be fine. I mean,
obviously he's so good that he could place take over

(18:26):
anybody in that offensive line spot. Because the offensive line
of last year was not very good. I think we
made a gentleman's bet nothing on the line that the
Texans would have a top twenty I have them in
the top twenty five offensive line. So so basically, as
long as they get a participation room in their five,
they're at thirty second seven jumping seven spots is pretty good. Yeah,

(18:48):
top boy, that's that's like faint praise, right, top twenty five, Yeah,
top twenty five offensive lines? Nice, Okay, that's fine. Feel
good on the rise. And by the way, cig Garner
Johnson sounds like it could be back really quickly, which

(19:08):
is really a good which is a startling sign. We
have to take away two of those breaking news sounders, right,
We're going to be a little bit more careful about well. No,
the breaking new sounders were played as he got hurt. Yes,
the Severity wasn't a breaking news center because we weren't
on the air. We have the issue of retraction what
the newspaper does. We didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, I'm

(19:29):
just kidding. Okay, all right, We're gonna play a sound
bite from Dana Brown over the weekend about a certain player.
And I think I heard it correctly. If I did,
even though I didn't hear it correctly, Rossie, We're going
to never ever use this phrase. I know again on
this show. I'm going to use it all the time. No,
you're not. I won't. I will not allow you to
say it. You will be barred playing this. I will

(19:53):
play the SoundBite next, okay, and then I'm going to
I'm going to give you the phrase that we can
never say everything. I think I'm guessing it bat Ross
at ten thirty three. It is a kind of an
open form Monday. If you want to discuss the Texans game.
If you and I'm I don't know if I'm disappointed, startled,
or not surprised by the few of you that actually

(20:14):
watched the game seventy one of my two hundred and
twenty two votes not gain. It's against a very small
sample size, but didn't even watch it at all. I
dvard it and like I said, watched the first quarter
and it was fine. Astros two out of three. And
these damn Mariners who have won seven row, and you
know what, you know the worst part of is ross

(20:34):
you Hineo are heel and in a just batting one hundred.
I think even less than that. He's got a negative
awards since joining the Mariners. So you're saying he's gonna
wake up and the team's gonna be even better. I'm
saying that pisses me off that he's batting so poorly

(20:55):
and they're still winning games. Now, granted they did beat
they were all at home, and the Astros need come
up here and they need to go five to one
this week period. Right, they don't go five and one,
they're not gonna be in first place in the week.
I hate to say that. And then there's I mean,
the Mariners was six in a row. Doesn'tally matter, but
you get my drift on this, right, just win the
games of funny you met take it one game at

(21:16):
a time and go from there, take it one pitch
at a time. Okay that I will go with that,
all right. Dana Brown had a chance to speak about
your on Alvarez and the Astros pregame show yesterday.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Not yet.

Speaker 12 (21:28):
He U took a batting practice on the field though,
and uh felt pretty good. And so we got them
these guys a day off today, and you know, we'll
see what what he feels like tomorrow, so he'll get
back at it.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
But we've got good.

Speaker 12 (21:42):
Signs, you know, coming off the field BP. Uh felt
pretty good today. Uh, and then felt pretty good after
the BP. So uh, those are all good signs. Hopefully,
you know, we can get them back here sooner rather
than later because we're gonna need them.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Go ahead. I don't ask you to do very many things, Houston, Texas.
I ask you not to do the wave. Yeah, you
asked us to do a lot. Give me some more things.
I don't know how you ask for intelligent takes. I
do ask for that. Uh. You asked for you said

(22:22):
not to do the wave, and I asked for you
to let me have my weird things that I enjoyed,
like soap operas and game shows. You ask us not
to make fun of your bad food takes. You ask
us a lot. Okay, we're gonna ask well, if that's
the case, I'm gonna ask for one more thing. Okay,
I'm gonna put this out on Twitter shortly here. Okay.
I want you never, ever, ever to use the phrase

(22:46):
sooner rather than later, because guess what? Ross what? Later
always wins? Well, yeah, it's always later, but you'd rather sooner?
What what? That was the worst thing you've said in
the last I'm going yogi bear on you. You clearly
did it. Never wins, Sooner never wins. That's not true. No, absolutely,

(23:17):
it's the truth. No, because he should be here by
the end of the season. Some people don't think he's
gonna play. He didn't think he was gonna play at all.
I'll be sooner that you could take that quote of
his and go back to June third and play it.
It's been quite the saga with your I don't understand
why this phrase bothers you so much, because it never

(23:38):
is right. It's like, I mean, like the SFA going
to the locker room, going we can take down these cougars.
It's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
The University of Houston could play SFA one hundred times
and the Houston Cougars are gonna win one hundred That's
not accurate. I believe it to be. They lost to

(23:58):
Texas State. Okay, thank you Ross. What if Texas played
a SFA A one hundred times so many times that
SFA be zero? Okay, Well, that's my point. Texas is
better than Houston. You do every time you got to
you got very generous call in our game in Houston. Okay,
there was an automatic win for you. Guys know that
we deserve the win. But my point is this, I

(24:20):
don't want to hear about sooner rather than later anymore.
I'm done because sooner never wins. So when you somebody
says I I would like to know an answer, like
if you're a think about this, if you've gone for
a job in your life, you ought I want to
hear if I got the job sooner rather than later.
It's always two weeks after you say sooner later, and
that's never sooner. No sooner around later sucks. They want it.

(24:43):
Jeremy pennyback sooner rather than later. He's in the lineup
and hitting well. But it wasn't soon. You miss a
lot of time. It wasn't later. It was Jake Myers. Oh,
we'll get it back sooner around the later. No, not,
he's gonna be later, real later. I think he's running
now full speed. They said, we're gonna get you know,
East Soox parades, We're gonna get out. Okay, that's not happening.
You're so weird in your life. For instance, sooner rather

(25:09):
than later, it's time for you know, it's time for
you to clean your room before it really gets discussing
and gross. Sooner rather than later. Do kids will clean
their room when you tell them, go up stairs, clean
your room. I'm not cracking away. They're not horses. What
not cracking over? That's because you're not. Thank god, you're

(25:30):
not a parent that you know of all right? Uh
my point, you wouldn't, yes, I would, no, all right,
So just do me a favorite. If you go around
town and you're at the bar with your buddies, or
you're at home or your kids or your wife, we
gotta get you know, we gotta start thinking about our future,
our retirement sooner rather than later. Guess what Ninety percent

(25:51):
of people don't think about it sooner. Ten percent of
us think about our retirement thinking about our wills sooner
rather than later. Let me tell you, I'm eighty three.
I don't have a willie.

Speaker 11 (26:01):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Come on, I'll need you something. You need to get
that done sooner. See, I know you're thinking about that.
I may. And maybe it's because maybe I've heard it
too much on the Astra of the last two years.
I heard it with Kyle Tucker a lot, and I'm
hearing a lot with Jordon Avarez. I'm done. Well, all right, okay,
I mean, I understand your frustration, but thank you and
is justified. It's not that big of a deal. And

(26:22):
almost I and now I almost. I definitely feel bad
for Dana because I mean, what else is he supposed
to say? No surgery. They're not amputating his hand to
replace it with a by on a hand. And they
bungled this multiple times. Well, they didn't buggle. It was
somebody's They admitted that they shouldn't let him pay play
through the pain initially. So guess what, I don't need

(26:45):
less than one hundred percent order on because you send
a yord On Alvarez out to the field at less
than one hundred percent. When you're eighty percent of something,
that gives you probably a better chance of reinjuring something.
Doesn't matter what the situations. You don't bring a player
back on eighty percent of a cracked rib, you don't
bring play you're back at eighty percent off of a
pulled hamstring, eighty percent recovery. But Tommy John is asking

(27:05):
for Tommy John again. Yeah, well, we talked about this.
I think he does need I think gut feeling, he
needs a hand procedure and he's gonna play. He can
play through it and then once the season's over, he'll
play it whatever percent he can, and then he will
get the procedure. Remember, was it twenty twenty two Martin
Maldonado had a sports HERNERI hernia and a broken hand,

(27:27):
and he was playing with that probably helped him a
little bit. Did you see his batting were just yeah,
I mean, so you're telling me that non hernia Martin
was better than hernia Martin. Yes, absolutely, I'm gonna say
he played better without a sports heardio. So yeah, I

(27:47):
think they're healing there. I think he's gonna get to
whatever percent he can and then they're gonna give it
a full go and he's either a gonna reinjure himself
or be play through the pain at whatever close to
his one hundred percent is he can get, whether that's
seventy eighty sixty or whatever. My guess is probably the
right answer should have been not the You and I
are doctors. Immediate. Probably should have put it the under

(28:09):
he should have had surgery right away and been done
for the season. Yeah, well, because now I get just me,
and again I'm not a doctor, So it is what
it is. I don't know if I want any player
coming back who hasn't played in four months who's yet
to get one hundred percent to go out. It's seventy
five percent and a chance of reinjury. His name is
Jordan Alvarez, and he's one of the most feared hitters

(28:30):
on the planet. That that guy I want. Bet he's
no longer feared at this point now he's just am I.
It's okay, you want him, or I don't know. Taylor
Tremmell and you're right, Actually, who has this year? Trammel
or or trams close? Does Jordan have three home runs?

(28:51):
Probably around there. I don't even want to look because
you're don't even me upset. No, I know, because you
know I'm right.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
You hate it.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Oh, I'm absolutely right. I didn't say you are wrong. Okay, yeah,
you're right, Taylor, Tremmell's better than your on Alvarez three. Look,
they're tied. Jordan's got three. I think Trammell's got three, right, Oh,
Tremala definitely has three. Okay, well your DU's got three,
they're tied. I can't Yanaire can't get it the lead

(29:19):
if he's not playing. But you know, Frankly Karattini doing
more on being the more of the complete player right
now than you're in areas. Oh are you talking about
the home run thing? Yeah, that was out of left field?
I know seven one three, two one two five seven
out seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

(29:40):
If you want to chime in on the astros, you're
more than welcome to do so. So if you were
in charge of game presentation, how does tonight go? Because
you've got Correa coming back tonight, You've got Christian uh
Hobby are coming back tonight, and you've got Alex Briman
coming back tonight. Want to work for the Old Game

(30:00):
presentation crew at the est nine innings. Yeah, but don't
you try to get a date done by eighteen half
inn and yet knocked that out by the third. Guy's
gonna say chilling. But who getting what order? Now there's
a lot of editing, but we'll discuss it next after
Ross you discuss how to feel better about ten forty
nine Sports Talk seven ninety Gordy's in for his money
drop in ten forty nine an hour're in? Okay, Gordy's

(30:24):
uh in for his drop in here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Yes, he went and saw a naked gun oh,
and gave it a little higher ranking than I did.
How much out of ten? I gave it a four?
You say, I said five.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
I went in with low expectations, though it's all about
that for a movie, we can't sing the praises if
it's just a five. I was pleasantly sprouted. I found
myself laughing out loud. It's part that's good now now
the other Now, there were scenes where I was laughing
out loud and all the other people in the theater
work silent. So I think that says something about what
your personality is.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
You're one. Lol, I not lol. Yeah that's what the
kids say, ross loo l One of the kids don't
really say it. That's actually more like millennials.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Okay, l A, man, you didn't laugh at the Jefferson
Starship sequence.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
You have to remember whatever that was.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
So you know the song from Mannequin two, it's the Starship.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Oh it was? Okay, that wasn't what I thought? All right,
So let's get to sports. A previous caller to Sean
Salisbury shows that says that one show in the station
talked too much about life and music. So we don't
want to do that.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
We don't.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
We don't want to rupt sports, sports and more sports.
We can mix it up.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
I'll tell you what it okay, there there was nothing
better than seeing jose Al Tuvan and Carls Korea do
what they do against the Yankees. That was awesome to watch.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
When on the Yankees now again we tease about how
Nick Deturo crying on those videos d it? When will
Yankee fans?

Speaker 15 (31:55):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Because Yankee fans are as dumb as some astro fans
about they just boo? I mean, wouldn't you just ambivalent
to him and just not? I don't think Al two
Bay's fueled by it, No, but it just makes the
Yankee fan looks war So.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I dissected this because I had this conversation with a
Red Sox fan at Fenway, and he brought up He goes, look,
I think there's some people booing him, Yes, because of
the cheating stuff, but he goes, they're booing him because
he's their best player. You boo the opposing team's best
player when he comes to bat. When Albert Pools used
to come here for the with the Angels and the Cardinals,

(32:27):
everybody booed him. It wasn't because he was a cheater
or whatever. It was just because he was the best player.
So I think there's part of that that Al two
vay has been with the Astros so long he's known
as one of the best players in the league. Seventeen season.
Be damned, they are booing him mostly because he's their
best player. Now, yes, they are still the dummies who
are like, you cheater. And I had a Red Sox
fan of Fenway arguing with me, going, yeah, dude, he

(32:49):
wore the buzzer like literally convinced it was fact he
wore buzzers, And I had to break it down and
I'm like, explain to me what a buzzer is. How
does it work? He goes, yeah, man, like buzzes when
you I said, is it bat on a battery? How
does it work? I don't know.

Speaker 16 (33:02):
Yeah, because you're freaking moron. Think about it. It doesn't exist.
Because but he wouldn't take this jersey off. I'm like,
I don't know why he wouldn't take the jersey off.
I was you wanted taking a damn jersey off? Because
it's created a stupid conspiracy crap all over Twitter from John.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Boy, by the way, partner of MLBA Baseball.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Great good for him.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, jam Boy made that whole thing up. When we
are seeing some odd relationships, we have ESPN selling off
ten percent to the NFL. We have John Boy being
getting bought by MLB to a certain extent as a
minority partner. String get some strange bedfellows here in the
world of sports.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
This this evolution of media and where it's going, I'll
be curious where it is in five years. I have
a friend Caroline, who was doing sports radio in Nashville,
left it to go work for Yahoo. She worked for
Yahoo last year. I had no idea how to find
her stuff. And she puts out a thing the other
morning and says, big announcement, I'm going to be doing
a daily morning show for Yahoo. And I'm like, great,
where do I find it? I think it's gonna be

(34:03):
on like YouTube or something. But I'm like, it's just
this weird, like.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
This weird world of a bunch of like AI articles
and misinformation. Same thing with Sports Illustrated hard.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
But here's the other thing of bedfellows. Ross Dellinger, who
I know very well, whose national sports writer covers college football.
He works for Yahoo. He just re upped his contract
with Yahoo, but in turn they are now partnering with
on three, so he will be featured on on three
because on three bought Rivals, which is owned by Yahoo.

(34:33):
So it's this very weird I think we're five years
away from You're gonna have on three owns all this
and ESPN owns all this, and that's gonna be it.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Didn't the guy who started Rivals started and then started out. Yeah,
that guy's a genius. Yeah, Shannon Terry.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
He sell he creates these things and then sells them off,
becomes a bigger millionaire, and then creates a new thing.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
That's pretty smart. Why don't we do that? I'm a
lack of ambition. There you go. That's pretty much it.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
What's your remote dot biz hi working very well?

Speaker 15 (35:04):
Really?

Speaker 4 (35:05):
I still encounter every week we'll go somewhere and then
you'll have a damn game and then it sends where
we were at a restaurant the other night and there
I could see the people that were trying to put
on a game and it was like the Astros game.
But they went to the wrong entry and it said
blacked out. But I'm like, you're going to the wrong listing.
You're going to the satellite listing. Remote fear dot biz
Ross would fix all that publicly. Hell, by the way,

(35:27):
on the New York Shack Exchange and nasdek, I'm going
to ring the bell next week. No you're not. So,
what's so? What's storyline a for you tonight? Is it
Hoavier back in the mound? Is a Korea back? Is
it Bregman visiting back? Seriously? For me, it's Christian Hovier. Yes,
not even shouldn't we temper expectations? Shouldn't we just.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Like we should be there a getting we should have.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
He goes four innings to run ball. Isn't that a window?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Feel like that?

Speaker 4 (35:53):
That's a win.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
I mean, if you were to put you to run
to Vegas and put how he's going to do? Quality
starts probably your biggest odds? Correct?

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yes, yeah, he hadgold six six innings of one.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Probably not, but he could. So let me ask you
this and we're gonna talk about this obviously next hour.
How jumbled of a mess is the Astros rotation right now?
And I'm not saying mess, but it's it's convoluted brown
and uh uh fromber are all set up? Okay, mcculors,
haven't heard Ward one from lately? How's he doing? How's

(36:27):
the blister? Aarrag getty, he's battling. Uh Has Jason Alexander
done enough to stay in the rotation for the right
So that's three more? No hitting to the sixth inning?
Got Javier?

Speaker 4 (36:40):
That's four?

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yes, you have to mix that up with You've got
very few days opp betuneen now and the end of
the season, so you're probably gonna go to a six
man rotation for good.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Brandon, Walter, Brandon and Walter.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Yeah. Uh is aj blueball due for another spot start
in the next few weeks? Which means another roster move
to come up on that. Do you do that? And
you're all that your move when all these interchangeable parts,
you're starting rotation. Well, guess what when you go to
six man and you've got guys that aren't going deep?
What gets affected by that the bullpen. I think the
toughest thing for the team the rest of the year

(37:11):
will be managing it's bullpen, especially if you don't have
starters that are going deep in game. And that's why
the pressure on Hunter Brown and Fromber, especially those two
is incredible. Right now, here's the.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Tough part is you've got to get Ragatdy and Hoavier.
You've got to get those guys innings, and they got
to be able to work themselves back up at the
big league level because they just you can't keep them
in sugar l and they got to get here and
work then some and you put you in a tight
division race. Yep, But you got to do this now
because you can't bring them back in September and have

(37:41):
them kind of going through it and trying to work
up their innings. So it's kind of you have to
grin and Barrett. If you're Joe, you got to know
when to go get them. And you know the other
night with ERRAGEDTTY, I don't think they stuck with it
too long, but it was base base it, base it.
You just kind of have to grin and Barrett let
them work through it.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, they have to get it done at the major
league level, and they had this. They're using them to
build them up, and as you said, it's a roster
crunch and we'll see what happens. That's why I think
there's gonna be people that will be calling our shows,
whether it's a tenth inning or are on these airwaves
that are going to be going to the Joe Spotted
doesn't know his head from his ass, because he's going
to keep pictures in there longer with a longer intended

(38:18):
benefit of I've got to stretch these guys out as
long is it is. The medical staff says it's okay
to stretch somebody out, they also have to get out.
And I don't think I mean, how many runs was
given up by arrogated was a five mm hmm. It
wasn't like he was getting hit eleven hits, four infield hits,
a few walks and a couple of walks.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
We had to five strikeouts to strikeouts.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Sixteen whiffs, which is pretty good for how long he
felt like they were gonna they were gonna keep him
out there for a certain number of pitches and results
not necessarily be damned unless he's getting like a he's
one and a third and there you have ten runs. Yeah,
which they were still could have won that game.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
So what do you do with Javier tonight? If he
walks too in the first and the second inning he
walks to and it's two hits and you're down to.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
It depends on what the runs are. You're probably not. Look,
you're not winning this game, probably because Garrett Crochet's kind
of like ball. Yeah, so it is what it is.
You just gotta let these guys figure it out because
you want to win. Uh, you want to win in
October rather than August. Okay, So my tribute tonight, real
quick before we get too at the top of the hour,

(39:27):
it's one hobvy ear two Bregman needs his flowers, the
greatest third baseman ever played for the Astros period tribute video.
Tribute video. And then because you've got Korea, who's back?
Yeah yeah, yeah, but he ain't going anywhere Yeah, but
Karrea first, because he's home, he's your guy.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Can I tell you, guys, did y'all notice that moment
yesterday in the game where the bases were loaded, Cam
Smith's up there and camp Smith's been going through it
a something.

Speaker 10 (39:51):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Karrea is literally yelling stuff to him from third base
like he's coaching him up and they This is a
whole other aspect. We didn't really consider how much he helps,
say the leader leading by example, he's hitting, he's doing
all that, but then also being that shoulder to lean
on for the young guys and all that. So it's
a home run. It's a home run move so far.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
We had Joe spot on last week and he talked
about corre As like helping them game plan, like going
through their like hitting hitting game plan every every day.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Yeah, it just shows you how toxic Minnesota is.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
I mean, because you know what a good player, but
you couldn't see it, but it was outside of mine
and it was, Oh, he's on his downturn. He looks
really fresh and rejuvenated here. And speaking of fresh and
rejuveining park tonight, Ross and Gordy, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 10 (40:36):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (40:36):
We'll be enjoying a Crawford bock for our friends at
Carbock Brewing. Finally, the Astro's back at home. Feels like
they were on the road for like two weeks. Finally
back home at Dyke and Park and you'll be in
the house. It's a big, big game tonight with all
the big things happening, make it even bigger. Grab yourself
a Crawford box from our friends at Carbock Brewing. And look,
I'm just saying, when you have a Crawford bach a
lot of times feels like the Astros win if you're

(40:58):
watching a game and enjoy a Cruffer box. So do
that tonight to dike In and by the way, great
watch party over the weekend on Saturday. Out there car
back yet Orbit, Yeah, the Shooting Stars, the World Series trophies.
Awesome of that is always out there, carbon Berry.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
That's Gordy. We're back to start the second hour with
a musical tribute to some people that will be back
in the ballpark tonight, at least two of them. It's
eleven o'clock on seven.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Ninety's the Matt Thommas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
This song has such simple lyrics, but it just a
wonderful piece of music. Kendrick Lamar would die to have
this kind of talent. We say hello and goodbye at
the same time to a bunch of friends, Christian Hobber
Back and Alex Bregman. Back this deep stuff. Oh I'll

(41:56):
hear this. You say yes, I say no.

Speaker 8 (42:00):
So good.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Who could have come up with that one so good?
It was only just one of the most amazing pieces
of literature ever in music history. I'll give them some
leeway because that was the sixties and they were just
learning to write lyrics to music back then, and they
were probably as high as a kite on all sorts
of things. Well, you know, I'm sorry, as were most
performers in the sixties and seventies and eighties and nineties

(42:20):
and two thousands. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, the great mus like,
how many great musical artists were just sober the entire time.
We completely one percent. You don't think Elton John was
not high as a guy. We're a rocketman, yeah, I know.
Lucy the Sky with diamonds on LSD all this stuff.

(42:43):
Welcome back, Alex Bregman, and welcome back home, Carlos Correa.
It is it is certainly very interesting weekend. Because you
are weak, I should say. You've got so many things.
I mean, the introductions in the videos are all cool,
but damn it ross. The Astros lead is a half
freaking game. They've won four of six and they they

(43:04):
are Their lead is one half freaking game. Can I
I don't know if this is probably an unpopular opinion.
I like this. It's fun. I think it's cool. I
don't mind one and a half two and a half,
but half is two codes.

Speaker 10 (43:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Look we're scoreboard watching, baby, let's go, so you're supposed to.
I can do this, So I can do this now,
Yeah I'm allowed. Yeah, I mean it's August. It's still
a little early, but it's a half game. It's the
tightest race in all of baseball. Yeah, night in, night out.
It's gonna make the games matter more. We're gonna be
more invested because last several, not necessarily several in a

(43:44):
couple of years here and there, September games don't even matter.
It's been spring training part two. Selfishly, I don't mind that. Yeah,
I know, I know.

Speaker 8 (43:52):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Yeah, but hey, it's not always supposed to be so easy.
We've been very blessed and spoiled with these Astros and
how good they've been in the four World Series runs
and two World Series wins. H old dog fight with
the Mariners. All right, so let go if the Astros
win tomorrow. It's so easy by Linda Ronstack. What Yeah,
you just said it's so easy, okay? Or let's get

(44:16):
something within the last forty five years that is true.
I get it all right. Eleven oh seven is a
bad Tama show with Ross seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. Astros have three with Boston off

(44:36):
day Thursday, three with Baltimore. Mariners off today three at Baltimore,
three at the Mets. So Baltimore has a huge role
in this week's play on both sides of things. And
they stink. Have they played any better lately since the
since the trade deadline all that kind of stuff, since

(44:58):
they sold off their whole team? Yeah not really. Let's
see they have lost. Uh it looks like seven of
the last ten. So the answer is no. Okay to
tell the truth. Coming up at the bottom of the hour,
we've got how many believe I don't know. I'm gonna
have one. I've decided from here on out one non

(45:19):
sports take per four. Okay, it's using me food related okay,
but like how much you love takis? Takis are gross?
Oh my god, they're too two spies like I say,
they're beyond spicy cheeto. Yeah, okay, you know what, Matt,
I do agree with you on this the other way,

(45:40):
Thank you very much. You ever notice how much he
more agrees with me than agrees with you. That's because
you always bite his head off when you don't do
I bite your head off when I don't agree with you.
You don't agree with me.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
No, you nibble a little bit, but that's it.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
I don't know. I ain't no nibbler. Oh okay, all right,
well then, well it depends the situation. Sometimes you can
think they're great aggressive you full bite eleven. There'll be
three things I will not believe. Only one. I will
believe only one you believe, okay, only one. I believe

(46:13):
looking forward to it seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. So my in terms of honoring, like,
I think Correa gets the pop before the game starts, Okay,
I think Javier gets the pop before the game starts,
and I think the tribute for Bregman. And again I
don't even know what the timing is. I would do
it in between innings, Yeah, maybe middle of first, get

(46:39):
all that stuff knocked out. That's just me though. You
could do it well, maybe as he's coming on into
the field. You want to do it as he's coming
on in the field, or as he's coming off the field.
Probably as he's coming on, I think, yeah, he's gonna
be the middle of the inning rather than the most
he's going to Probably he'll bat in the top of
the first. Yeah, and then and then you play play
a middle when he's coming out, comes out there, and

(47:00):
then what he does, he's a third bay by the way,
he makes sense. He's playing really well too, I mean
he is. His defense is every other day I'm looking
at some major, amazing highlight, and he's putting the Astros
hitting coaches to shame. So it was their fault, huh,
that's what they're saying. Okay, that seems sir. People were
coming after me with that this oh this past week again.

(47:21):
Brian on seven eleven ten, Brian, good morning.

Speaker 17 (47:26):
Call you sooner rather than later.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Appreciate warning, warning, warning, Thank you for calling us sooner,
Brian bad calling take coming in in three two one
go ahead.

Speaker 8 (47:38):
Brian No.

Speaker 10 (47:40):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (47:41):
I think it'll be Uh, it'll be an awesome to
be home tonight. Ever since the trade for Correy, I
was like, man, how is this gonna play? When he
gets back home and Bregman being there and now throwing
Hoavyer into the mix. U, It's gonna be awesome. I
can't wait to be there tonight. It should be a
should be a good time. I think though, I they
do Bregman's tribute before the game like they normally do,

(48:02):
and I.

Speaker 14 (48:03):
But I do think Bob fordaby fired up when Korea
gets that first step bat Uh, you know it'll be
it'll be loud in there for for and I anticipated
them playing Bregman's walk up song for the first time
like they like they did with Tucker.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (48:18):
Should be good. But I think, you know, I wasn't
anticipating them getting the Max freed and they were able
to get to him and rough him up. So you know,
Garrett Crochet is due for a bad start. Hopefully it's tonight,
but we have a game in hand on Seattle. So
if you can pull tonight out, you go a full
game up with the same number of games played, but uh,

(48:40):
you know I would prefer to be six and a
half up for the old Heart because of years of
Houston sports can't take too much more of this. But uh,
I agree with you guys. It is it is nice
to to at least be in the UH, in the
running for the UH for the division. Every game is
magnified even more. But UH to port Fromber, thanks, yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Thank you very much. Somebody on Twitter like, oh, that Robert,
you are being so poetic yours. There's no chance he's
doing that account, zero chance. Why not Matt, because I
give you greats? And if you all saw the Saturday
post game, so the interpreter is there and Fromber is there.

(49:22):
Frober looks like he's pissed off, I mean, super mad
he's having to answer these questions. You can't go from
being irritated that people are asking you questions to go
run into your Twitter account giving us things you'd read
Michelle Silverstein book, Why not Matt because sweet and sour? No, yeah,

(49:42):
sweeten fake, Hey I did that? You know he's meditating?
Hey I didn't do that. No, well, Frober's best he
did that r his PR firm. I mean he just
might have went to Michaels and read a sign that
you could hang up in your house live, laugh, love.
I just think that he like, for instance, Ross, you
know me, while you could write, you could write my tweets.

(50:04):
Oh yeah, they're horrible, Okay. I didn't ask for an
opinion about them. I just said, you know me, in
the way I do things, you could You could take
over my Twitter account for twenty four hours and you
would be able to do a pretty decent job. There
would be nothing that would go I can't believe Matt
just said that I could probably do that. You'd want
to to get me in trouble. Yeah, anything happens. I'm

(50:25):
coming for you, Elizabeth. This is the big lie, like
I always know. I mean, how you feel, yes, or
what is yours? Tough night for tough night for or
I've always said these things.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yes, I mean I know.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Your Taylor Tremelican mask. Yeah, I know you're a cant.
I got some gots. There's no way that Frobert, who's
fresh on the Twitter, is sitting there trying to write
soliloquies out there. Life is beautiful when you decide to
see it that way, Matt, I don't see it that
way with him. I see his face in his demeanor
after postgame interviews. He's cranky and like I'd rather be

(50:59):
anywhere else. Well, he's only called the defense at once
that I can recall. Mm hmmm mmm, that's exactly right.
Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five seven ninety to
tell the truth bottom of the hour the News at noon,
which will feature the associated press pole whoo and you

(51:22):
know you know it was on top. We might have
to play you singing the fight song again. We did
that when you were out and they were number one
of the coaches poll one, and we'll suit again. Oh,
I would for sure. Are you kidding me? I'd be
bragging about it too. It makes me nervous. I don't
like it. By the way, there is a paw out
that has the University Houston at number thirty one, which,
let me tell you, after going last year, the thirty
one in the Big twelve. No, there's only fourteen sixteen

(51:44):
in the Big twelve. If they were thirteenth in the
Big twelve, how are you in a conference called the
Big twelve and you're thirteenth seven one three because it's
a powerful conference seven one three to two to five seven. Yeah, Sarah,

(52:04):
that sounds like a great podcast I listen to. We're
currently in a group chat with Adam Clinton. It is
a group chat Monday. Ah, we haven't been talking about
group chat Monday last couple. Mondays, well, we got one here, okay.
Uh So Clinton text, I'm like, we're gonna put this out.
It's okay. Oh boy, he says, neither of you could

(52:27):
ever write my tweets. And you reply with something which
we cannot mention. Thank you. I thought you were gonna
put me up full blast. And then Clinton says we
are now in a fight. And then I respond I
just responded with I hate the blank, I hate the blank,
I hate the bank. So that's basically that's an Adam
Clanton tweet. I hate everything. Am I wrong? Not really?

(52:48):
I don't know. Let's see, I've been seeing his tweets lately.
I don't think I haven't muted anymore. I had to
mute somebody from our staff yet oday. Oh my god, Jesus, what, No,
it's not you that time. Clinton. No, Clinton's not muted. No,
I can't no, you kidding me, he's yeah, yeah, I

(53:08):
can't know. I've just stunned. But he's actually in the office.
It's usually at home putting these videos together. Those are
not bad. Yeah, they're very good. He never never, he
always puts us in these stadiums we've never gone to.
First of all, he's there's no way he'd want to,
he'd want to be in New York. Yeah, that's and
I just don't get. I just need that explained to me.
How did that start? It's a bit yeah, but how

(53:31):
did it start? I don't know. Ask him. He started
tagging you. You started, he started tagging you in places
on Facebook that you were not there. Yeah, we never go. Yeah,
it's and so I have resplied we're not there, and
I always give reasons why we're not there. Oh okay,
and they're really, frankly funnier than anything he could put out. Okay,
I don't spend that's on Facebook. That's a Facebook.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
I'm on Twitter. I'm not normally on Facebook. So that's
why I was asking. It's probably a better place. Although
the Facebook reels are man they're similar to the Instagram reels,
which you can follow. My Instagram at sports RV. Hey,
ladies and gentlemen, I have some fantastic news. I am
three away from twenty eight hundred. Nobody cares. Yeah, I
just said a lot of people care. I just lost

(54:15):
two followers on Instagram. I need three of you, probably bots.
Yeah it's fine. Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot
of chesty Russian women follow me. Tell me they love
my posts. You know, it's funny when I get the
bots on Instagram and they al would go, hey, you're
you're on my A lot of my friend mutual friends
do we know each other? And I'm like, no, we don't,

(54:36):
and you're a whore. Okay, then they say they say,
that's not very polite. Goodbye. That isn't very polite, Matt. Oh,
you know what I'm doing all the way home today,
besides listening to the A team, I'm turning off my
do not disturb on my phone. So will those bot
calls come in? I can harass these people. I had
a good one in today. I can't mention it on air.

(54:57):
This is how you spend your afternoons. Guy says, what's
your first time? I said, Seymour, Oh no, Then would
you say he said, what's your what your what's your
last name? But I can't mention what I said. Well
last day once and he told me, f you you hey,
hold up find me. That's pretty good, you should say
recording these. I just don't know why I'm such a sophomore.

(55:21):
I gotta, I gotta show you videos of that guy
that that does those. He he messes with the scammers
for hours hours. I do it every twitch for my
home from here to home, okay, and then when I
get home, I put it back on. Do not disturbed.
Let's go to uh Gary in spring at eleven twenty
four on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Gary.

Speaker 10 (55:42):
Good morning, Hey, good morning guys, good show. Yeah, on
the game tonight. I've got mixed feelings on this. Uh
I'm thinking that of course Korea will get the biggest applause,
I think, and then unfortunately Bregman. I gotta. I got
a sour taste on Bregman because he dished us for money,

(56:03):
so I'm not going to pull for him. So I will,
I will.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Created the exact same thing.

Speaker 10 (56:11):
Well he's back now though, oh well, and he solidified
us and he now he's the captain of the defense
right now. But then uh Korea, I mean uh Bregman.
I would applaud for him when he comes up for
his first bat, but after that, I would hope that
he would make about six errors and strike out about
three or four times. I don't I don't have any

(56:33):
good will towards him at all, because he just he
just dished us for the money. So and uh, but
now we know what the other teams have felt like
in the last few years with Astros after the All
Star break coming on strong like that. Now we know
what the Astros are now feeling, what these other teams
felt like. But anyway, I cheered for the first two
but I wouldn't cheer for uh Bregman only when he

(56:55):
comes up for his first bat. Then I hopefully falls apart.
After that, I maybe DoD Man out. But that's kind
of the way I feel.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
All right, there you go. I don't think Look, I
don't think it's going to be openly cheering for the
entire series. He's going to get a really warm round
of applauses first at bat and probably be indifferent the
rest of the way. But Alex Pregnant is a significant
reason why we are having the greatest decade of Astros
baseball in its entire existence since nineteen sixty two or

(57:24):
whatever it was Astro's Hall of Famer Alex Pregnant. Yeah,
you can go aha and give him his orange jacket
now when he hits the field. You've been put it
on during the game. Yeah, it wouldn't match with the
gray and red. Yeah, but it probably limited his arm,
that's true. I never thought of it that way. Gamesmanship, Mattie.
Come on, you know what he could actually give him
as a gold glove he earned and use that gold glove.

(57:46):
Probably probably really hard to grab the ball off of
that gold ball, clicking off the gold glove. Yeah, this
is we have genius ideas right now, dings off the glove.
Whatever it takes. Here's the reality you've got. As I said,
I think if you don't go five and one this
week and again, I thinks that obviously change in the
Mariage cors. But tell me if I don't know, four

(58:07):
and two keeps you in first place. The Mariners are
crushing it again. They're doing this with swre is not
doing jack squat. That's fine. Calkyl Rally's not gonna hit
six hundred home runs now.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
So guess what I did?

Speaker 3 (58:20):
I put on So the Astros played what uh oh?
Saturday night? I was home and they was on the
MLB network. They put they hit back. You know who's
hitting home runs is uh Julio what's his face?

Speaker 10 (58:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (58:34):
The center fielder yea? And Reguez is heating up. Raleigh
hit a I mean a bomb the left center field.
That place is filled up. They are really really good
and if Surez ever heats up, we're really screwed week
because of course I'm the backup first basement. It's o

(58:54):
Ma Houston. Houston threw it through.

Speaker 10 (58:56):
Well.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
I mean I was an Astral buddy. That makes me
a we right, Yeah, I get so. I kind of
think so was I. You're a weakan to two? Okay,
thank you. I mean I felt like I should have
gotten a ring for the World Series stuff, but that's
finance out of here North there. There's no reason for
you'd have gotten a ring at all. I think doing
five hundred thousand post game shows over twenty five years, yeah,
I think I should have gotten something a firm handshack

(59:17):
and an edible or something. I don't know. I'll go
into David delay. He did a lot of those games,
a lot gets what Okay, to tell the truth is
up next? And more your phone calls a random what?
A random inside radio? Sorry, folks inside, I don't always
appeal to the mass audience. Shut up, God is a

(59:37):
good line. Go ahead, No, I'm not doing it. No, No,
I'm not as rude as you are. No chance, not
as not as a seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety one. I never know why, but thankfully your

(01:00:15):
favorite midday radio host does know how to tell the truth. I, gentlemen,
and I'll go start with this. Jonathan, Jonathan, I have
four takes. Three of them I do not believe. Thus,
how many do I believe?

Speaker 11 (01:00:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
No, thank you, Ross? How many? Four do I believe?
Three lies and one truth? Yes, that's exactly right. We
can see Jonathan kind of he's in a freeze frame. Okay,
here's how it works. I've got four sports takes. It's
up to Jonathan and Ross to figure out which we believe.

(01:00:50):
Four I believe, three I do not believe, and two
of them are non sports on truth truth okay one
truth number one is a not is a non sports Uh,
my son, we are bigger rugger Ring fans than other
people in our Thomas house. So this is my middle son, Peyton.
So Peyton and I went to go grab a hamburger
at rugger Ring the other day and he's like, Dad,

(01:01:12):
you had to try this brisket whopper. I said, you know,
I'm not the biggest brisket fan. So he said, please
get it. I'll split it with you. We split that
in the original chicken sandwich. That's my favorite thing they
have there. It wasn't bad. Brisket whopper wasn't bad. I mean,
that's your opinion that it was. The sandwich was mad. No, no,

(01:01:34):
I'm saying I was, okay, pleasantly surprised. Brisket whopper was
pleasantly surprised. Pleasantly surprised. Okay. Number two, I mean I
watched a lot of I'm a supposed to engage this
whether that's true. This is an opinion, these are These
are all opinions. It is not facts, I know, but
just stay with me. I'll do my best. I watched

(01:01:54):
a lot of the NFL network yesterday after the Astros game.
That's a lie. We have so many significant injuries in sport.
In football, it's such a physical, tough sport that I
had an opinion change about the kickoff rules. I wish
it wasn't the way that it was or that it
is now, but I kind of get it now, and

(01:02:16):
if it saves guys getting potentially hurt on kickoffs, I've
kind of gone with a one eighty new kickoff rules.
I'm okay with Okay, Okay, don't look at me that way.
You know you're trying to make me laugh. I try
to do anything, we'll look at you. So I watched it,
and I'm like, Okay, I get it. Let's let's make

(01:02:36):
sure nobody gets hurt on something simplistic like a kickoff.
So all right, not my preference, but I now further
understand it more than I did a year ago. Number
three Nonsports. Since we're doing these reboots, we talked about
Happy Gilmore too. We talked about Naked Gun. It's time
for the funniest movie ever made in the history of movies. Okay,

(01:03:00):
to have another reboot or Airplane three or whatever it is.
It's time for Airplane. You do an Airplane in twenty
twenty five, like I could see, like Dave Chappelle like
writing it, you know how politically incorrect he is. Yeah,
doing an airplane guy, Shane Gillis on it, Shane Gillis,
I think it would be a smashing success. Okay, okay.

(01:03:22):
And number four, a lot of you are having fantasy
football drafts coming up. Rono's gonna join us late next week. Really, yep,
dang it. I wouldn't draft Joe Mixon gang he ain't
getting the five hundred yards. I think the Texans are
hiding how severe his injury is. So do not draft
Joe Mixon. You will wind up regretting it, especially with
not draft, especially with Nick Chubb behind him. So there

(01:03:46):
are my four here. It is Number one, I tried
the brisket wopper. I didn't eat a whole sandwich, but
tried it, and I was pleasantly surprised. Number two, I
now totally get the new kickoff rules in the NFL,
because again we're talking, I'm about trying to keep these
guys on the field and not hurt. Huh. Number three,
a reboot of Airplane would be unbelievably successful. And number four,

(01:04:09):
don't draft Joe Mixon. He ain't getting to five hundred yards.

Speaker 10 (01:04:12):
This year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
My opinions are all peanuts five hundred yards because I
think he's gonna be hurt a lot of the year,
and with Nick Chubb, I think you canna be very
careful with him. Those are my four. Which one of
the four do I believe? Gentlemen, you may now discuss
I'm not gonna lie rousso stuck. Okay, airplane, you can
totally turn that off. Matt hates late reboots. He doesn't
want it the legacy of one of the great his

(01:04:34):
favorite comedy ever rebooted. That one's the easiest one to
throw away, in my opinion, And he's not liking the
Brisket Whopper, right, is no way I could see him
not liking that. But this is the problem. It's not
like Matt to care about players well being, so so
number two would be quite the one eighty. But at
least he admitted as much. Could he be telling people

(01:04:55):
not to draft Joe Mixon because he wants Joe Mixing? No,
I don't think so. He hates Joe Mixon and he
hates the Texans. You always have to remember, I don't
hate that text one very true. I hate the YouTube
channels that follow the Texans this one's difficult, so it
could be the brisket whopper one.

Speaker 8 (01:05:09):
I don't know this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Actually Matt did it normally. He does a horrible job
with these opinions. Again once if best feels rude, These
are these are pretty good. I'm complimenting you, Matt. Thank
you the word. It's funny you always go when you
want to cap my me on these. You ago usually
your suck Just say how about hey, Matt? These are tough.
Thank you for gett making this difficult on us. We're
taking the circuitous route, but we're getting there.

Speaker 10 (01:05:30):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
I'm gonna take the wopper because he actually might have
pleasantly was surprised.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
He didn't say it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Can't kick I'm sorry, Can you rehash the whopper opinion again?
I tried it didn't get you a whole sandwich, but
he tried. This was I was pleasantly surprised, how good
it was. Pleasantly surprised. Okay, I'm taking one. I don't know.
I'll just go off board so I don't agree with you,

(01:05:57):
and I'll go with two. No, No, there's no way, Yeah, sure,
why not. I'll go down with the ship. Let's go one. Okay,
you both go Number one, sure, why not if they
did a reboot of Airplane on it probably be massively disappointed.
You're right in the streets. You can't touch a classic
like that. And I think you couldn't get away with
ninety percent of what made Airplane the greatest comedy of

(01:06:19):
US all time. Ninety five percent you couldn't get away with.
You'd have every wol group in America getting mad at
you for some reason. So no, you got to keep
the classic right where it is, because these reboots aren't
disappointing us. They just but people would say that about
what Shane Gillis is monologue. Nobody's come after him, right,
he offended a lot of people. There's no the woke

(01:06:40):
mob come after me, you know. But the thing about
Shane I was appreciate is he offended everybody. He at
the Yeah SBZ he hosted. Yeah, he offended the left,
he offended the right. I was appreciative of that, Yeah
and everybody. I just think it's overblown that people say, oh,
you couldn't get away with that. Well, people get away
with stuff all the time, nobody, and Shane Gillis is
getting bood for stuff. He's got a Netflix show in
Houston too, and literally go look at the comments that

(01:07:02):
he got. He did get canceled off of SNL. That's true,
all right. So yeah, I don't want to see another
rare plane.

Speaker 8 (01:07:10):
I do want to.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
I just don't think that was the easiest one to
throw out. Number two. I really tried ross to watch
these preseason games and appreciate the kickoff rule. It still
looks stupid. It looks or it looks not unorganized, but
it looks like it's a it's a component of the game.
It doesn't even really count as a real football. It
just looks terrible. So no, I want my road kickoffs back.

(01:07:33):
Football is physically you just Yeah, a man doesn't care
about the players will be No, I do care about
the players, will be like, I just don't care about
that stupid little kickoff rule. It's just it's it's either
you play the game or you just get rid of
the kickoffs. I think it's a good compromise to not
have to completely get rid of them, because that's the
only way to truly eliminate those, and you got a
lot of touchdowns from it last year, so I understand.

(01:07:54):
It's kind of hokey for sure, that's the word I
would use. Hokey's a good one. But look, I mean
hokey hokum is in well, not every sport, but we've
seen it in baseball with the man on second base
and stuff. You try to make these compromises to improve
the game, all right. I don't think the Texans are
being honest about Joe Mixon at all. I think there've

(01:08:14):
sent foot but there was an ankle brace on during practice.
I think this is I think him and Chubb could
split time, especially if Mixing is not ready for the year.
I would not draft Joe Mixon as is my fantasy football.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Good thing I pivoted last second. Uh I look, you
know I like a good brisket. You've taken me to
a good brisket. Yes. I can't imagine in a million
years the brisket at the at Burger King would be
something I would enjoy. And having meat on meat is
an issue. Bacon on a burger I can live with,
maybe up astronomi once in a while, but I ain't

(01:08:50):
putting that kind of meat on that meat. I'm putting
brisket in a burger together. It's not not especially burger
king brisket, love your burger king, love you on your
love your chicken.

Speaker 13 (01:09:00):
Sam.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Oh wait, so you didn't like it. I never tried it.
I didn't try it. Which one's true. Don't draft Joe Mixon.
That's the truth. Oh, Joe Mixon's off.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
Wait.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Yeah, I not reaching five hundred yards this year. In
my opinion, it's ridiculous. Oh, here we go. Okay, all right,
let's get the over a hunder five hundred yards. I'll
go over. I will take the under. Okay, we'll not
been any on it. You know, we're gonna better. We're
gonna better. Brisket whopper on it for ninety nine and
a half. I thought it was a now see, I
was confused. I thought it was a the patty was

(01:09:33):
made out of ground brisket. Oh, I don't know. I
just I saw a brisket wapper on my end trying it.
Does it have slices of brisket on the wapper? I
I never been I don't know. I'm in it up.
Oh okay, Well, I thought it was a brisket patty,
I said he did in fact checked it, and well,
let's see what the description of it is. You talk

(01:09:54):
for a few seconds.

Speaker 8 (01:09:56):
What is a.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Brisket whopper at Burger king go ahea, Right, we'll figure
this out during the break. Follow me at sports RV
on Instagram. I just put a nice recap video. It's
getting a lot of likes. I would appreciate it, and
I'm feeling good about it. At sports RV on Instagram,
I'm trying to get my followers up and post more content. Oh,
it's sold coke barbecue brisket. It looks like the it's

(01:10:20):
on the burger Okay, Joe Mixing completely off. So if
Joe Mixing is available for you in the twelfth round
of your fantasy draft, you're not gonna take you heard me,
It's gonna let you down. I'm glad you're back in
the league. It's good to have you back.

Speaker 10 (01:10:37):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
This kind of hazing is gonna get me out of
the league. I don't need I don't need this. I
don't need this hazing at home. Why don't need this
in my office?

Speaker 11 (01:10:45):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Sorry, Matt, you're a great drafter. Actually you're Ever since
doctor Roto has whipped you into shape, your drafts have
been pretty good. So I've been hurt by injuries. Leah,
you admit that it happens for sure. I'm not misplaying
my line. Look, I have won back to back to
back championships, but I've had a lot of good luck.
There's a lot of luck involved in fantasy football. I
just get lucky. The football God's into straightened this out.

(01:11:06):
You don't deserve anything more than what you've been getting.
And I'm just discussingly. Couldn't get four in a row.
That'd be CRAZYUD be a sad sad day. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two eleven forty five. It is the Matt
Thomas Shold Ross. We're fifteen minutes away from the news
at noon and tribute involving the greatest song involving a

(01:11:27):
city ever. Sports Talk seven ninety yesterday's game between the
Braves and the Marlins, and the first female umpire ever
work a behind home plate in the game, Jen Palace.
Her name umpires scorecards, which I think does a pretty
good job right generally speaking, on accuracy, I don't think
there's a huge bias one way or the other. It's
all hard data that's there's no bias or anything. It's

(01:11:48):
called data, overall accuracy ninety three percent, overall consistency ninety
three percent good. Uh ninety five percent of her balls
that were mad to stop? Seriously, you said it of
the balls that she called were balls, Okay, eighty seven
of the strike she called wore strikes. But did it

(01:12:11):
have to be the very first pitch? That was what
I was going to bring up the very now. I
think honestly that it was more of a strike than
the box showed it as. Okay, I didn't think it
was that and bad of a miss, but it didn't
help out of the very first ball she called was
a strike, Yeah, and you know that bad. I was like,

(01:12:31):
oh g D, I can't complain about this. And they
took the ball and had they threw it out, So
she's got a authentication sticker on whatnot. Now, this is
maybe a good sign. Those numbers I just gave you
are probably good right about average?

Speaker 8 (01:12:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
You you said, uh yeah, average called ball was ninety
five percent averages ninety seven. She's around average. So but
she wouldn't. I'm going to guarantee you she wouldn't be
up where she is right now if she wasn't already
one of the best. No, she has paid her dues.
This is not a fast track. This is a slow track.
The baseball in the Umpire's Union would not have risked this.

(01:13:10):
If she was down a triple A making like eighty
percent of the calls, she wouldn't be here. Well, I'm
gonna give you the encouraging part. So it sounds like
to me, this was a pretty good called game.

Speaker 8 (01:13:19):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Nothing's perfect as we know, it's human element. Yes, she
was ranked thirteenth out of the fifteen umpires that worked
the game. Yesterdar worked home planning games yesterday, okay, which
would then mean to me if she was in the
bottom three, then there was it was a pretty good
day for folks behind the plate probably, yeah, ninety three

(01:13:41):
percent or would you say ninety ninety three percent accuracy?
Her expected accuracy was ninety four percent. I know you
love expected numbers. I mean, like, for example, if everything
is middle middle, your expected accuracy is one hundred and
if there's a lot of stuff on the edge, her
expected accuracy was ninety four and she got ninety three.
Let me tell you and those of you that are
obviously listened to show a baseball fans, I can tell

(01:14:03):
you with with complete certainty, I'd rather have Jen Powell
calling the game than Las Diez and c b Butner.
Those two are horrific at their jobs and they've been
that way for the longest time. By the way, can
you Jonathan, can you hear me? We can't see John
because our video is down. I'm here, all right, go
to go to my Twitter cant we have to play

(01:14:24):
a little bit of AI. Can we do some AI
on the show? It's okay, right? Uh No, I think
that needs to be cleaned up. No, there's no swearing
on it. I listened to it. You sure, Okay, there's
like I think ass has said, but that's we can
let that go. I like how you said it quite
I think. Okay, So go to my Twitter account. There
is an AI of Aaron Boone.

Speaker 13 (01:14:44):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
You know Aaron Boone got tossed yesterday, and frankly, I
know I'm on his side. Jason Alexander, who was really
good for the Astros yesterday, Uh huh, got a bowload
of coles. You got a couple of calls early, but
the one he got toss for was was a strike. Yes,
but I mean it was very, very friendly to Jason Alexander.

(01:15:06):
We go all right, here it is. Here is the AI.
Now this is AI, folks, This is not Aaron Boone.
This fucking warning, warning, warning, this is AI of again.
As I said, I'm on Twitter, AI concerns me, but
that's concern me after today. Here is Aaron Boone AI
on the podium.

Speaker 15 (01:15:27):
Look.

Speaker 11 (01:15:27):
I got thrown out because I couldn't watch this trash
team any longer. So even though the umpire was blind
as a bat, I had to pull off my signature
move and get ejected and exit the premises. We almost
got no hit by a bum off the streets with
an era bigger than the size of that umpire's ego.
I was about to have a seizure watching Aaron Fudge

(01:15:51):
go up to the plate and look like he never
swung a bat in his life. I might have to
bench this overrated choke er going forward. And they told
me Max was our ace, but he was out there
getting fried.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Like his last name.

Speaker 11 (01:16:03):
I'm gonna call him Max french Fried from now on.
Another overpaid loser on this roster thanks to Brian trash Man.

Speaker 15 (01:16:10):
Hey, Aaron Buffoon, you are the worst manager in this league.
I hope you know that, and I placed a trade
on call she for you to win today, knowing you
had your ace on the mound, but I ended up
losing twenty racks. Do you have any damn shame getting
your cheeks blasted day in day out. We're throwing hands
after this press conference? Thank you, boner.

Speaker 11 (01:16:28):
Do you realize who you're talking to? You better shut
your ass up before I come over there. I have
zero championships as a manager, even though our payroll is
always top three in the league. So you better learn
to put some respect on my name or else I
will show you this old man's strength.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Ai Aaron Boon Ai, Hey, I was a folks yea, AI,
thanks you do that?

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
Dis gracious? Are you finding these ass I have? I'm
bored for you? Tab four four U's been my I'm
gonna call you met Ai Thomas, dude, hear my own
voice and A I was first of all intriguing and
be it scared the hell out of me. We're looking
to get you full time replaced.

Speaker 8 (01:17:06):
Why me?

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
It's your exorbitant salary. That's probably accurate. Could you do
a show with me? Ai? That's neither here nor there.
That's nothing you the Rockets trying to replace me Durant
three pointer got it nothing but not on AI calling
a basketball game would sound like that Bobon commercial. He

(01:17:29):
bounces it, he bounces it, he bounces it. That's a Bobon. Yeah.
I just said Beaumont. I was like beat. I think
he saw like Bolbon. Yeah, Beaumont, Beaumont Livingston. By the way,
Bowlby is in the Happy Gilmore number two spoilers. I'm
not gonna tell what he did, Okay, So same is
in it?

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Uh so, yeah I thought she did. I didn't see
in the game. It wasn't on any platform. But what
I came away with this is that she was thirteenth
out of fifteen. Was me the guys behind her behind
the play. Sure he had a good day, which is
a good sign. Wishing them all the best, and I
wishing that all would get replaced by a BS. And
it's goods. Could you imagine if a BS was in

(01:18:10):
play that having the very first pitch of your career
is behind the plate, get a head tap for very
first you know what, I guarantee you. No matter what happened,
the the Marlins manager had to have said, do not
head tap. I don't care what you're doing. That's all
you need. Nah, get the call right, woman or man. Yeah, steevie.

(01:18:33):
Butler can't get it right, laz Ds can't where he
got in the day, back in the day. His career
rest in peace, all right? Uh starts play the news
Ross the Astros one two out of three in New York.
We'll have that start the third hour the Matt Thomas
Show at Ross with the news at noon. Next on
seven is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
Start spreading the new.

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
Pitch on the way and Al two crushes one detail
left field and you can't kiss that one goodbye.

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
A first pitch to run homer for Jose Altuve and
the Astros have a two nothing lead.

Speaker 8 (01:19:32):
Al twoves twentieth of the year.

Speaker 7 (01:19:36):
Why the booze haven't even died down by the time
he swung at that first pitch.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Right through the very heart of it to you are you?

Speaker 10 (01:19:47):
We are.

Speaker 8 (01:19:50):
Allis one? And that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
High in the air in deep tail right, Rosario was
back at the wall looking up see letter Taylor tall
with the insurance. A two run blast and it's five
to two Astros. Tremell goes deep for the third time
this year.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
I'm melting away.

Speaker 6 (01:20:16):
I'll make grand new start a minute, and that's trill
Sita left field, and you can't kiss that one.

Speaker 8 (01:20:25):
Goodbye.

Speaker 6 (01:20:27):
Jose L Tuve hits his second home run of the
series and his nineteenth career home run against the Yankees.

Speaker 8 (01:20:34):
It's one nothing, Astros.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
You your your.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
The one year deal this year.

Speaker 6 (01:20:44):
Correa hits it well and de Ta left field down
the line and that ball is God. Carlos Correa goes
yard and the Astros go up five to one.

Speaker 8 (01:20:55):
Correa's ninth home run of the season. One to wake
in a city that never sleeps oh two, tway, get
a mask.

Speaker 6 (01:21:06):
Good morning, good afternoon, and good night, Anthony Volpi and
that is the ballgame. Brian King strikes out the side
of the night as the Astros defeat the Yankees seven
to one to take two out of three in the Bronx.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
These little Town Blue.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
I want to go to New York just to hear
this song on a Jim God, it's so good. I'm
going on making Frankie no star. Who's the closest thing
to frank Sinantra right now? Oh God, Michael blue Blay,
that's what I was thinking. But John, well you heard

(01:21:54):
this song before, Jonathan, have you not? Of course? All right,
I want to make sure we even think about old
Frankie Blue. He can really belt it out here we go,
don't sing, just letting him and send him to enjoy it.
I can't sing not doing it. People around Houston are like, hey,
Austin Astros win being it in New York and see

(01:22:17):
Yankee fans, shut your ball asses up? Where's Yankees Keith?
If we told him to call us on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Number oh right by the way, yeah, where the hell
are you Yankees Keith?

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
We'll rip on you. But first time believe jeez and got.

Speaker 9 (01:22:31):
No judge could have Judge and respecting the serves sixty
six WI failure James and god dogs, where are you
you starting out him?

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Aaron Judge was getting slapped by Jason Alexander suck. What
are you getting the sue in Brooklyn off for thirty four?
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
The news at noon news.

Speaker 8 (01:22:50):
Ross all right, Matt, Yes, we do have the news
at nude.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
We're gonna lead off with your Houston Astros taking two
out of three of the Bronx Jose al twove two
count them two first inning home runs. Jeremy Penney had
a home run in there, Carlos Correa had a home
run as well. As they were able to take two

(01:23:13):
out of three, but unfortunately them Seattle Mariners, they're pesky matting.
They're not going anywhere. They have won sex disgust me.
Actually they have won seven games in a row. Sixty
six and fifty two are the Astros. Sixty six and
fifty three are the Mariners. No, no, you're gonna get
mad at me. Oh oh, schedule strength remaining, Oh jeez,

(01:23:38):
Seattle twenty fourth, Houston twenty fifth, So they do have
both bottom seven schedule strengths remaining three head to head
Astros have seven left with the Orioles, seven left with
the Angels. Need to capitalize. Also three left with the
horrible Colorado Rockies half game lead. How we feeling nervous?

(01:24:02):
Is an nelly? Yeah, it's fine and I play since
the trade? Ju heineo are you henniel i hu heinelil
four again this they've won seven to row and nine
of ten and huhneil he channel or gene Gino Gino Suarez.

Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Four for thirty eight, batting one oh five with an
ops of three fifty seven and they're still winning games.
Be afraid, Houston, be very very afraid.

Speaker 8 (01:24:41):
All right, Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Elsewhere in the news, the Texans lost in the Minnesota
Vikings twenty to ten in the preseason. What makes you
think about the Twitter pool?

Speaker 16 (01:24:50):
Go on?

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
But there was some good news. I'm gonna be honest.
I'm just reading Jonathan m Alexander's stock Up and stock Down,
a great writer for the Houstononic Chronicle coverings, talk about EJ.

Speaker 8 (01:25:04):
Speed.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
As I know you noticed, Matt. He was all over
the place playing well for the Texans on defense early on.
Jaylen Noel also had a very good game, and ariante
URSII looking like the real deal at left tackle. Of course,
it's just one preseason game, but he's been getting all
the first team reps in practice and looked pretty good.

(01:25:26):
You know, Nick and Sero is praying that he's just
as a starter and be as good at it well, hopefully,
because his other second round tackle, Blake Fisher, just has
not start been looking good at it. Even at times
in practice where they have needed somebody at right tackle,
he has not been put in. He has been the

(01:25:47):
second team right tackle and then yeah, he didn't play
much and then wasn't good when he was playing for
the Texans. Overall, though, how we feeling Houston Texans RB one, No,
we're not believing that, although as I said, don't, I
wouldn't draft Joe Mixon. You heard it fear first. You know,
they called me, they called me mister waller. I would

(01:26:07):
bump him down on boards. But he's gonna whenever he
does come back healthy, he's gonna get a lot of volume.
And I really don't feel like Nick Chubb is that
much of a threat. So I completely disagree with your
take to completely keep him off the boards. Okay, See
seventy one percent of the people that followed me on
Twitter that voted in my poll did not watch any
of the Texans game. Yeah that's fine. You know what,

(01:26:27):
September whatever, the ninth, things will change and ma had
three twenty five will be in front of Texans rams
with the great Kevin Harlan call in the game. HM
should be next. So in Melanick Collins on the sidelines.
All right, does orang shot do you do any sidelines
baseball playoffs? Okay, I just wondered for you. You know,
we had to do for your show. Okay, yeah, you

(01:26:50):
know what, We're gonna cut up all the audio of
you going remember that time you wore that short skirt on?
Or right?

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Stop moving on on the news at noon?

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Have you seen the preseason AP college football? Paul, I
knew this was coming. You did Fire Fire up the
theme song, you guys. I actually didn't pull it up
because I wasn't gonna embarrass you like that.

Speaker 8 (01:27:10):
But you don't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
Just do its brand, ladies German. The views expressed by
the next two is the number one team in the land,
Matt Thomas taking away because it's only a baseball town.
No referee? What the hell is going on? RCS news?
You're literally one piece of audio was brought up there.

(01:27:34):
I hate this system. Uh, let's try this again, all right?
Nice Texas five Texas Fun, and it's goodbye to A
and m Texas five Texas.

Speaker 8 (01:27:50):
Five and we'll put over one more.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
Went tell Matt Texas Fun Texas Fin Floras Texas that
we love best, right and then what are we gonna do?

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Hal?

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
Hell, the gang's all here and it's goodbye to all
the rest. What are the colors? Mattie Hey, Orange Oh yay.

Speaker 18 (01:28:10):
White, yeah long Orange fight fight fight, Texas Fight Texas,
Texas fight, Come on, Texas fight, Texas fight Yeah Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Right, the eyes of Texas are upon you all the livelong.
The eyes of Texas are upon you. You cannot guess.
Go away Texas Fine, Texas five Florida, Texas We less hell, Hell,

(01:28:41):
the gang's all here and it's goodbye to all the rest. Wow,
I said, donkey, let me tell you, beautiful. I have
been in this business for thirty four years. That is
one of the lowest points of my career. I would
say getting the helmet painted on your head has to
be the low point. What was the bet on that
one Roger get a pitch for the the Astros when

(01:29:03):
he was with the Skeeters.

Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Do you remember why you lost that one? You did
it at a bar, right, you know why you lost
this bet?

Speaker 10 (01:29:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
There was an attractive lady painting your head. Oh, she
was continue why I lose this one? That was when
the Texas Longhorns roundly defeated the University of Houston Cougars
in the Super Regional. Oh the baseball okay, guess because
you bought off the into the LA says you, thirty
four years a low watermark, just saying that was great.

(01:29:31):
All right, we done ten out of ten? No notes,
Why don't you talk about the the preseason eight peopole
go ahead? Whos number was this?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Number?

Speaker 11 (01:29:38):
One?

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Penn State? They had twenty five first place votes, twenty
three for Penn State, eleven for Ohio State. That's your
top three. Clemson, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama, LSU, Miami
rounding out the top ten, and Houston receiving votes. Yes,
I don't see that. Well, AP, you can suck it.
I think fifty one and the coaches poll received votes

(01:30:01):
and the Cougars weren't one of them. The Houston Cougars.
I don't know about the AP. How many SEC teams
in that top twenty five? Uh, you're gonna really make
me count really quick. Follow me on Instagram at sports
ntt oh I got over twenty eight hundred. Thank you,
ten of the twenty five or in one conference ten
teams in the preseason top twenty five, the most ever

(01:30:22):
by a conference and one more than a year ago.
If you're the SEC, just go ahead and leave fourteen
the top ten. Create your own league.

Speaker 10 (01:30:28):
Just do it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
Then they're all gonna play cupcakes and one tough conference
getting non conference game, and then they're gonna cannibalize each
other and we talk about how tough they are. See
right there, that's their logo, that's the that's their their phrase.
And then when they lose, when they lose a bunch
of bowl games, and'll be like, oh, they didn't care.
Twelve fourteen, all right, nfls The Athletic has a ranking

(01:30:53):
of the top quarterbacks from one all the way to
thirty four, thirty four. A couple of backups in the mix.
We'll tell you where the local Houston quarterback finds himself.
Like you say, the local, the local. Hey, like, we're
on sixty six. Yeah, we didn't get we didn't get
the Yankees get the call to show. Yeah, no Yankees

(01:31:14):
fans calling. We got like three Yankees fans on Friday.
None today. It's really strange how that works. You know what,
they've got no energy, No you know what they need
to go to fix? Mylow t dot com Matt Ross
with you here. We have focused a lot on the
baseball and the return of Alex Pregnant, the return of
Christian Javier and the home debut of the Carlos Krey

(01:31:35):
will do more of that coming up in a few minutes,
but right now I want to give you the Athletic,
which ironically doesn't have a Houston reporter. It's really weird.
They they they must have some metrics on what hits
when it comes to reports that with the Athletic has
Chandler Rome covering the astros. Kelly I Echo does the
whole Southwest division. He used to do just rockets. Now

(01:31:57):
he does a little bit of everybody. But there's no
tech reporter teach his own. Six general managers on this
National Athletic poll was put together six assistant general managers,
six former general managers, five other execs, eight head coaches
and nineteen other coaches created. Wow, a fifty person panel. Okay,

(01:32:20):
so you're getting a wide variety of opinions on this.
That's a really good sample. So that's good on the
Athletic for putting something like that together. And the goal
was simple to tier every veteran quarterback in the NFL,
meaning somebody that's had some experience. There are thirty four
quarterbacks they deemed eligible for said competition and discussion, and

(01:32:41):
they tiered in one to five, five being the worst,
Tier one being the best. Okay, can he Pickett's family
probably doesn't need to look at this survey. Oh no,
he's the only quarterback in Tier five. He's all by himself,
by himself. Oh like Eric Carmon. In the Tier four category.

(01:33:06):
There are two quarterbacks on the same team. Uh ooh huh.
I was going to go straight to the Colts, but
it could be the Browns. Well, Kenny Picketts a Tier five.
Okay Colts, it is Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones are

(01:33:29):
considered Tier four quarterbacks. Remember that, literally one year ago
from today, Anthony Richardson had all this hype. Yeah, and
he all he does is get hurt and he sucks.
And Daniel Jones sucks. After getting that holatiously large contract
with the Giants, He's got somebody though, So that's going
to make you. That's going to make you feel very

(01:33:50):
very happy. The one bad quarterback, but two of them,
two tier four guys. Now, I don't know if if
you're a Russell Wilson fan or not, no, but you're
also in this group at twenty six, by the way,
twenty six to thirty three of the Tier force. M h,

(01:34:11):
I mean Russell Wilson's got skins in the game here,
you know what I mean? Super Bowl champions Yeah, I
never won an MVP. I don't think no. But I
mean has had a really now good look. The Denver
part of his career was a hot mess. It was
a little bit better the last time he was there.
Was he in Pittsburgh last year?

Speaker 11 (01:34:27):
Right?

Speaker 10 (01:34:27):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
How would you describe him in Pittsburgh? Though he was
hurt and Justin Fields was playing well, and then they
went to him and then they were okay, okay, but
clearly the days since Seattle have not treated him well.
The next group is the Tier three, that's the Mids.
That's where you find Trevor Lawrence at number eighteen. Mmm. Interesting,

(01:34:51):
So your highest ranked quarterback not involving a team, not
involving your own team in the AFC South is Trevor Lawrence.
This is a good thing. This is why the Texans
are gonna win the AFC South again. It's almost wait,
where's cam Ward? Well, they don't have rookies in here
at all? Okay, because there's these are considering a veteran quarternamics. Okay,

(01:35:14):
even and It's funny because J. J. McCarthy technically isn't
a rookie, but he hasn't taken a snap in an
NFL game yet. Oh but he is in the list. Okay,
he is at number twenty nine. It's interesting. Yeah, Michael
Pennix of the Falcons at twenty eight. Again didn't didn't
get a whole lot of work. So you're in a
really good spot. And I don't mean to do this

(01:35:35):
too much ahead the game, but even if the Texans
disappoint you as a league perspective, they're gonna win the
This is the worst division in football. It ain't even close.
The Texans couldn't could have one touchdown per game offensively
and still win this division. This defense is gonna be
so good. Plus the guys are going against us. I mean,
you might as well put the banner up, right, That's
what I'm saying. Probably, Okay, I think NFC South has

(01:35:58):
something to say about being the worst division in the NFL, too,
But I mean, think about the quarterbacks in the division
that I have experienced. Lawrence is eighteen, Richardson's thirty two,
Daniel Jones is thirty. I mean, wolf, So let's get
to the next list, which would be Tier two quarterbacks,

(01:36:19):
Tier two, Tier Goo Tier two here, guy's gotta be
party Love Prescott, keep going, Mayfield, who hurts golf, Herbert Daniels,
and I forgot I admitted one for intentional purposes, Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:36:41):
C J.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
Stroud is tied for ninth with Jalen Hurts. Boy, Jalen
Hurts not getting a whole lot of national respect. I mean,
your ninth best quarterback's not bad. I think you should be.

Speaker 6 (01:36:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
I might put him ahead of Jared Jared Golfer. Jalen Hurts.
You're starting a franchise, well starting or a may starting
a franchise. Well, if I'm starting in FRENCHI I'm gonna
be bad. So I'm gonna probably go Jalen Hurts because
I got room to grow. But if I got a
veteran team, I may go golf. I mean, look what
he did with. Both of them are Troy last year
they scored forty points at the Rice Club. Both of

(01:37:13):
them are great in great situations, all right, so great
offensive lines, great running game. For ninth, about right where
he should be. I am surprised to see him ahead
of Baker Mayfield. I would also say Jordan Love had
a better season than he did last year. But I

(01:37:33):
think this it feels about right to me. I would say,
can we talk about Justin Herbert beloved? Why does everybody
love Justin Herbert so much? Because I think part of
it is they think a second year under Harwall is
gonna give him the best year individually. First half of

(01:37:53):
the season, they're running the ball five hundred times a game.
Was hurt, his arm was, He's admitted as harm was
one season. But he just threw four picks in a
in a playoff game. I think I'm going to touchover
hypeer Justin Herbert. Okay, you have five guys in the
tier one Matthew Stafford, who, by the way, I ain't

(01:38:14):
throwing these days. Stafford to me is interesting as very
interesting to have him five, four, Laura Jackson, three, Josh
Allen what and a tie for one between Joe Burrow
and Pat Mahomes. All Right, I say what you want

(01:38:35):
to say, Well, I don't want a certain somebody to
come barging in here. You mean Gordy if we're discounting
Jared Goff and Jalen Hurts for being in great situations.
What about Joe Burrow. They have a horrible offense of
horrible defense, and you got Jamar Chase and t Higgins

(01:38:59):
and and they had a third receiver for a while
but not recently. I don't know, Mike Aaseki whatever. Chase
Brown's a good running back, So yeah, he's getting he's
getting these these pinball machine numbers to make a dated reference.
But he's in a great situation with guys who a
lot of Jamar Chase's yards were after the catch. He's

(01:39:22):
he's now the new Henre Hopkins when it comes to
fifty to fifty ball winning years of them. You're starting
a franchise. Joe Burrow Josh Allen. Now, of course we're
splitting hairs. For first of all, let me say we're
splitting hairs like I don't think those two think Joe
Burrows like should be fifteenth or something. I would probably
take Josh Allen because of his running a bill. I
would agree, Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow. Lamar Jackson for me,

(01:39:45):
not even close. Not okay, I'm not I shouldn't say
it's not even close. It's clear to me. I don't
know Joe got them to the Super Bowl. I think
there's that's part of the equation. It should be the
entire equation. Okay, I have super tight Oh god, Okay,
we're him in a home. That's fine, I really and

(01:40:06):
then that's really the only art I would put him fourth,
But this has him tied for first with Patrick Mahomes.
Funny thing is Mahomes is the clear number one to everybody,
and he's had two bad seasons in a row or
two underwhelming seasons in a row. I should say, although
I think he's gonna have a bounce back. Here just
saying I'm Mahomes. Can I think I want to give
you an answer on Lamar Jackson, Joe Barrown come back.

(01:40:27):
Let me think about it, break because I don't want
to be and I want to be a Yeah, there'll
be a fit sitter, Matt. He's not doing it. I'm
not gonna do it. I'll give you the answer coming back, okay.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. I
don't know if people. I think surveys frankly get just
people unnecessarily rattled for no real like the top hundred

(01:40:49):
is on the NFL players. I don't care that a
certain player is at thirty seven or not. Shroud is
thirty ninth, I think, yeah, that doesn't do anything for me.
Why not, because I don't think it's a level of
all we've been disrespected.

Speaker 4 (01:41:01):
Again, come on, it's a list.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
Now, that's a good list for what I like that
list because it's voted on by the players, even though
we know that the players are unreliable and they vote
for their vote for their guy. Yeah. Seven one three
two one two five seven. An Astros starting a series
of the Red Sox? Is this the most important week
of the season for the Stros? Matt Ross with you
like twelve thirty five on The Matt Thomas Show with

(01:41:24):
Ross seven one three two one two five seven nine
zero if you want to jump in on the conversation.
Seven one three two one two five. We talked a
lot about the Astros so far. We brought up the
Texans quarterback tier list, and again, lists are just for
summer fodder. Honestly, I'm enjoying it. I don't know if
any of the players are like, oh, I got so

(01:41:46):
I mean, is uh Drake May going? We got some
disrespected Drake May might be feeling disrespected. I don't know,
you know there are, and I don't know much about
their teams. I can't give you much of an answer,
but there are a lot of people. I think the
over under on the Patriots victory count this year is significant.
I saw somebody say they're gonna be favored in eleven

(01:42:10):
games or something ridiculous like that. Okay, they're win totals
eight and a half. Is it because they're playing a
last place schedule? I'm assuming yeah, And I mean Varabel
is a good coach, and I guess you're buying in
that Drake may is gonna be good.

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
And make a leap.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
That might be a sneaky pick for a little Okay,
but do you go over or under half? I'd have
to pull up their schedule, of course. Well, I mean
I think that you'd assume the Dolphins are gonna take
another step back and they're gonna disappoint. I mean, if
two is healthy and then but that's of course, that's
always the big f Who are the Jets gonna be
this year? Well, there's a lot of players. Quarterback is

(01:42:51):
just in fields can't but you can't throw. He's gonna
be good fantasy quarterback because he can be run for
a lot of touchdowns and yards, But is he gonna
be a good actual NFL quarterback? I'm not convinced. Like usually,
at this point of their schedule was pretty pretty cake.
Who are you talking about? The Patriots, Yeah, the Patriot

(01:43:15):
but football Raiders, Dolphins, Steelers, Panthers to start, Raiders, Dolphins, Panthers, Steelers, Okay,
that's all winnable. Then they go at Buffalo, but then
New Orleans, Tennessee, Cleveland, Okay, okay, we're gonna go take
that over. They got the Jets twice of course. Oh
they play the NFC South. Okay, I can see where

(01:43:39):
eight and a half that's coming into play. Do you
think normal this time of year, we should we should
know who the favorite, like, who he think is gonna
win the each of the conference. I think so we'll
make our the official prediction show be Jonathan's first official
prediction show. Like it feels like to me, I don't know.

(01:44:00):
The AFC feels like it's the same thing we said
a year ago. Kansas City, Baltimore, Cincinnati, maybe Houston if
they if things turn out right, I think a lot
of people are very bullish on Denver this year. I
think a lot of people are clearly bullish on the
Chargers with Harbaugh on his second year there, I mean,

(01:44:21):
somebody's gonna win ten games this year. That what didn't
win ten games last year. The AFC is is stacked
by far. The NSC is tough, but the AFC is tougher.
To me, yeah, way more teams can win the AFC
than I would. I would have to agree with you
on that than the NFC. All Right, so C J.
Stride is tied for the ninth best quarterback. So let

(01:44:41):
me put it this way. Let me ask you this,
because let's circle back to the Texans. If they're in
that same group of Okay, they're gonna win ten games again,
because that's the over unders. What nine and a half?
I think it's what the number is somewhere in that range.
Vegas says, yes, but you and I have seven and
a half. We made a bet. You locked it in.
We did, Yep, we'll be beat. Wrote it down. I
think it was rigger ring or something like a biscuit,

(01:45:02):
I mean a brisket sandwich. From there, I have to
go look at my file seven. Did I say seven
and a half. Yeah, I go, did you the vision sucks?

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
I would?

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
It would have to take CJ Straw getting hurt. Okay,
I might not hold it to you. I really go.
Did you hard into it? You must have?

Speaker 15 (01:45:18):
I did?

Speaker 10 (01:45:19):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
Was I drunk?

Speaker 10 (01:45:20):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
It was did I take a gummy or something?

Speaker 4 (01:45:25):
Being? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Point being is this? Oh yeah, off air lunch? Bet
I wrote it down. So what what gets them to
What gets them to twelve in a first round by
the Texans? You forget it? What gets them to eleven?
And they're legitimately thinking they can win the whole thing.
So let's let's put it in a nutshell. CJ is

(01:45:48):
even better than he was his rookie year. That's check
point number one. Yeah, I mean you know, no, you
know what checkpoint check number one is. It's what we've
been talking about off season. But I think I think
it goes along with Yeah, is having an offensive line
that gives him great protection? Yes, you're going to need that.

(01:46:08):
One will lend itself to the other, for sure. Okay,
but arianta Ursie has to be the real deal. If
he's not the real deal, and I'm not saying he's
got to be all pro or even Pro Bowl. But
he's got to be a good tackle, either on the
left or right side, depending on injury and all that
type of stuff. It has to happen. You have to

(01:46:30):
be at least average on the offensive line at least.
Can the Texans throw this out there? Can the Texans
still be good enough offensively if their running game is
in the bottom third of the NFL this year? No,
So you need Joe Mixon healthy after if Joe Mixon
goes down. But I also said this last year. We
said basically the three Texans that can't go down, and

(01:46:51):
they all went down, while they went down at different places.
Nico Collins, Joe Mixon, and c J. Stroud need to
stay healthy least or at least be healthy by playoff time. Yeah, yep,
because I just I just have zero faith in Nick Chubb.
Each question, every thing that leads to a team being

(01:47:12):
better than ten and seven, and probably your first or
second round exit would be on the offensive side. That is,
CJ has a better year than he had his first year.
CJ has offensive line protection, the Texans are not in
the bottom third, and rushing because the receiving room looks good.
I don't know if the Titans have to be significantly better.
Dalton Schultz would be better in the team, better better,

(01:47:34):
but that's not a game changing moment for them. No
if Kirk and Jayden Higgins and Jalen Noel are good
something some combinations. Yeah, you need a good pass catching group. Yeah,
Dalton Schultz doesn't have to be a big part of that,
or Brevin Jordan, Kate still Ver whoever.

Speaker 11 (01:47:46):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
Health is first of all important for everybody. Yeah, so
you do not you need for Jalen Peatrie and uh
you know Derek Stingley. Uh, you need that secondary Lamorrow
last year, Gardner Johnson who might be ready week one
might Yeah, which you really need because what's the latest

(01:48:07):
on Jimmy Ward. I think Jimmy is probably in his
home drinking and you can't go out publicly to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
His nickname is Plea Bargain. They call him Plea Bargain Ward. Yeah,
not good to his face, probably not. I will sorry Jimmy,
that was mad, that said that. That was ross. You
want his name on the show, He's now got it.
That's his name. I yeah, I feel ultimately confident in
the defense. So then you just need running game and

(01:48:37):
good enough.

Speaker 10 (01:48:38):
C J.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Stroud. That's to get you to the season, that's to
get you to the playoffs. But it to get to
advance in the playoffs obviously, is going to take something else.

Speaker 8 (01:48:49):
That's where c J.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
Stroud's gonna have to be special. And then you're really
gonna have to I mean, you're going up against basically
the entire go back to that, that tier of quarterback list,
and how many of those are in the AFC. I mean,
it's ridiculous. Mahome, the Mahomes, Burrow, Allan, Lamar Jackson, the
top four all in the AFC. Right, all right, one

(01:49:11):
more little segment on the Texans exact because I want
to ask Texan fan this, that's you, because if things
really haven't changed from year to year, what's it going
to take for the Texans to have things changed? Think
about that? Because I want to put this in perspective,
because because I'll give you the example on the Rockets side,

(01:49:34):
the Rockets could have stood pat this offseason and said, Okay,
we can take Jalen Green Opera and Shanngoon Tarr, Easton
Aman Thompson and we can win our fifty games and
compete with Golden State Minnesota, Denver.

Speaker 8 (01:49:49):
Tech.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
The Rockets did something to vault them into the elite category,
at least on paper. Discuss more of that and frame
it back to the Texans when we returned seven to
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. Okay, so
let me let me even my parallel, and you tell
me if I'm nuts or not. The Rockets could have

(01:50:12):
stood pat probably would have been on pace to win
fifty games again like they did last year. Uh and
all the sudden, you know, and add a little side,
you know, tier two like Dorian Finney Smith, that kind
of stuff like that. You know, maybe get a Clint
Capella that kind you know, little stuff like that. That's
what I feel like the Texans did there. And maybe

(01:50:34):
the NFL doesn't allow those kind of big for agent
moves like the NBA does not. Typically generally, huge free
agents will sign extensions with their own teams in the NFL.
Such as the nature of this, so maybe there isn't
There isn't a complete parallel to each of There is not.
But the Rockets felt like they needed to do something

(01:50:55):
to rock the boat a little bit, and they went
from a team that would be maybe considered the fifth
or sixth best team in the West too. Legitimately, I
would say, would you say they're on par if you
looked at most experts, they're probably predicted to finish second
in the West behind Oclomba City as the second favorite,
and maybe the third or fourth favorite overall them in

(01:51:16):
the whole damn thing.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
So let me ask you this, because you are a
battle red yes I am. Do you think that you
feel like the Texans did enough in the off season
to separate to get into that tier where you are
bringing up the Texans in the same conversation as you
are with Kansas City, Baltimore and I Buffalow and if
Cincinnati got any kind of defense the Bengals. Now, the

(01:51:41):
Bengals maybe didn't do anything either. I mean, they're just
relying on what they resigning their own free agent receivers
and making sure Joe Burrow's happen and Trey Hendriskon's still
as he's holding out or he's holding in. They got
to hold in. Now, Yeah, you show up, but you're mad, Yeah,
and you're angry and you're pissed off and you're road
into the who world, how sucky your organization is. Yeah,
it's it's just different because you do. You have a

(01:52:02):
hard cap in the NFL, and the Texans are basically
up against this cap. So they got Christian Kirk, which
I like. They drafted the couple of wide receivers which
I like. Yeah, I get why they got rid of
Laramie Tunsel. But the fact of the matter is, no
matter how much you want to talk about culture and
all that type of stuff, he did a great job

(01:52:23):
of shutting down some of the best edge rushers in football.

Speaker 4 (01:52:26):
And we don't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
We know that Cam Robinson isn't that type of guy,
but maybe your culture is better. And then they got
better defensively. I think just by Jalen Petrie back from injury, CJ.
Gardner Johnson is going to be good and sounds like
he's gonna be ready another year of growth for both
Derek Stingley and Kamari Lassiter. So, no, they didn't do
anything earth shattering, But I wouldn't call it a bad offseason. No,

(01:52:50):
I would be I just for General Will managing malpractice.
There's no where where, what there's no fences to swing
for Well, I guess the reality of what you could
have done is you could have positioned yourself to go
super heavy offensive line, put yourself in the top ten
and get the best tackle you probably could get to
replace Larry Tunsel a franchise esque type left tackle because

(01:53:13):
you knew you wanted to move Tuensil away from here. Yeah,
well could have done That's that's the only thing I could. Well,
they signed one and drafted one in the second round,
But yeah, I don't know. I I it's hard because
I don't have a core information on this. But do
second round offensive tackles Are they guys that are you

(01:53:34):
can pencil in the next seven eight years or is
there a reason why they're the second round. You're hoping
that you can find one guy, and so far they're
hoping that for Ariante Air, Thrie Blake Fisher not so much.
It was a second round tackle as well. Yeah, now
that I think about this out loud, maybe it's to me,
it's just more it's more difficult in the NFL world

(01:53:55):
to really make that game changing type position change or
frager and echoes because in the NBA, the part of
the second is is if somebody's available, can you go
get him? Can you go trade for him? Can you
can you turn your team around or at least take
the next step, and teams be very careful about doing it.
The Rockets have kind of been uh, they don't lean

(01:54:17):
towards doing that, with exception of this year moving bringing
Kevin Durant here. And by the way, it's no automatic.
This is nobody should have known. You should say that
the Rockets are guaranteed to win fifty seven games this year.
Kevin Durant gets hurt. Uh, father time hits him. Reality
kicks in it, and it does hurt. Hopefully it doesn't
happen that way. But there there's that is that is

(01:54:38):
a possibility. Yeah, you can swing for the fences and
miss a lot of teams they talk with. Teams who
win free agency aren't normally winning teams in the NFL.
They just aren't. So what has to happen in my
mind for the Texans to get in that elite. I
can see them play on AFC Championship Sunday, which is
they've never done before. Frankly Ross. Part of it to

(01:54:59):
me is one of the three quarterbacks that's ahead of
them them. I'm talking Casey Baltimore, Buffalo somebody's got to
be hurt for the year. I mean, I hate to
I'm saying I hate the injuries be effactory, but that's
not a lie. One of the Bengals defense is horrible.
I feel like they they could beat the Bengals. They

(01:55:20):
did beat the Bills last year. Ravens are just another tier.
I mean, if you think they pressure Chiefs twice were
now they lost convincingly to the Chiefs, but it's not
like they got blown out in either of those games.
I yeah, I just but if you're going in the
last two of the AFC, that means three of those

(01:55:42):
four are out that we're talking about, Mahomes, Burrow, Allan Jackson.
That's the list we just read from the Athletic. Those
are the top four quarterbacks in football, and they're all
four in the AFC. That means, if you're in theory,
only one of them can even be your opponent. If
you're making it, that means you probably went past one
or two of the others. So it's gonna be difficult.

(01:56:04):
I just would be afraid if I was a Texans fan.
Are we are we repeating ourselves again?

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
It feels like ten and seven in the Division. I
got news for you. Baltimore has been repeating itself and
Buffalo's and repeating themselves. Ten and seven in divisional round
feels about right. If I was making a prediction for
their season right now, I don't know what's to tell you.
Lust Joe Mixon is drinking from the fountain of youth,
Arianta Urseri grows up in a hurry, and the at
least one of the two receivers Jayden Higgins or Jalen

(01:56:34):
Noel or the real deal, and Nico Collins stays healthy.
A lot has to go right. And how about this,
how about you give us the two thousand Baltimore Ravens defense. Well,
that'd be nice, but they are I think they're gonna
have a top five defense. Yeah, so they got a
shot ten and seven division round. That's what it feels.

(01:56:55):
It would help you if one of the three quarterbacks
I just mentioned, Okay, well, anybody can get hurt. So
what happens? So Ross is asking you all to call
in at seven, one, three, which Texans? Which quarterback in
front of the Texans would you like to get hurt? Well, unfortunately,
who deserves a season ending injury? Nobody? I would say

(01:57:18):
the one you most want hurt would probably be Lamar
because of the Baltimore Ravens of the I just think
they're their whole roster is very good. Same thing for
the Chiefs though. You know, but as we said before,
if you think history repeats itself in this town Buffalo
and Baltimore, they're super cranky.

Speaker 4 (01:57:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:57:35):
They have these elite quarterbacks playing at the very best
of their current and they can't even touch the dance
super Bowl. Mean while Pat Mahomes gets every call in
an AMC playoff game allegedly Pat Mahomes is that guy's
kind of good. All right, Hey, we gotta welcome some
people back in town. Rossie, we do you say goodbye?
What will you say?

Speaker 8 (01:57:52):
I say?

Speaker 3 (01:57:53):
I will say go to Big City Wings and say
hello to them. Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Hello,

(01:58:15):
Alex Preignant?

Speaker 8 (01:58:17):
How weird?

Speaker 3 (01:58:18):
Is a friend of be in a hotel right now
in Houston? At least these sell his house? Is it gone?
Is it off the market?

Speaker 11 (01:58:27):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (01:58:27):
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
Should I text him?

Speaker 10 (01:58:29):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:58:30):
I don't want to ask him to get him on.
Yeah he's busy, No he's not. No, he's at ten am.
It's at one o'clock. I'm not saying now, I'm saying, yeah,
I try to get on tomorrow. I mean I could
ask him, yeah, let's go. I need I need to
be a go getter.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Mattie.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
Oh I know why Wait a minute, you don't do that.
You don't do anything until Wednesday, right on the astros. Yeah,
I'm working the game wednesday.

Speaker 10 (01:58:53):
OK.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
Gonna say damn, because I'm thinking about what we're doing
to kill your segment on the show. And what are
you talking about? Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about.
You're trying to fild material the on decking.

Speaker 6 (01:59:00):
I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
I wasn't thinking about that at all. I was thinking
about content for this show. All right, Well, i'll text you.
Don't have to. I don't want to press you. I man,
I feel douchey. Really Okay, Hey, you guys are boys.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
We are.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
But I mean, you know what, it's fine, it's fine.
Well text you don't have to. Don't worry about it.
You seem uncomfortable. No, I could do it. I'll do
you guys on bad terms. There aren't great terms. Is
he gonna tell you to shut your bumb mess up?

Speaker 10 (01:59:30):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
Okay, that's good. We can talk about horse racing. He's
big into horse racing now, yeah, he is huge. And
the sauce is going national. I think that's selling off
to somebody. It's not even called Breaking Bombs. Wild Soul. Yeah,
I remember, I remember had the wild Soul part. Don'y.
That's the reason why it's not coming on. You're gonna
take a shot at it.

Speaker 8 (01:59:52):
We know what.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
No, I told you.

Speaker 3 (01:59:54):
I've been fighting a cold off. You know you think
about me and my food. This one is the I
guess snobbed all time. What are you talking about? You
didn't have to. I didn't do anything, all right. I
have you had some wald Soul before? Have not had it? Okay,
you don't know if it's any good or not. No.
I had Reggie Bombs also though, and your thoughts. I

(02:00:16):
didn't think it was very good. They want the interview opportunity.
I'm sure it's an improved formula. Now we can ask him.
I'll text him. Okay, you asked my opinion and I
gave it. Yeah, that's why you're not beloved by many.
All right, it's better to lie, it really is. You

(02:00:36):
get away a lot more stuff whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:00:38):
All right.

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
So the Astro's Elite is one half game, you know,
and I was I spent all weekend. First of all,
I worked Friday's Astros post game, which was fun. Saturday
watched the game, then Sunday watched the game.

Speaker 8 (02:00:51):
And what did I do?

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
Immediately after? I was staring at my phone looking at
Seattle Mariner scoring reports, and every one of them, with
the exception of a small part of Saturday's game. The
Seattle Mariners were up. They had little difficulty knocking off
the Raise three straight games. They've won seven consecutive games
in a row. Thanks for nothing, Raise five and one

(02:01:15):
this week. ROSSI okay, it's gonna it needs to. I
want to know what it's gonna be like to sit
in second place. We have the Astra has been in second,
have been second place in a long long time. Early
this season they were behind the Marriage, But I mean
it's been a while. Okay, been a hot minute. I'm ready.

Speaker 8 (02:01:35):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:01:37):
Howie faced versus the best size of the pitching matchups.
So did you size them up yet? Let's see it's
versus carried Crocher. Crochet's got an array of under three
hasn't lost since I believe the Red Sox Uh creative
Fenway Park.

Speaker 11 (02:01:57):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:01:57):
And then it will be Spencer Arraghatty versus Dustin May.
Dustin May now he had Tommy John's. He came back
from Tommy John this year. He was with the Dodges.
He's only made one start with the before Tommy John.
He was a great young prospect. But anyways, Dustin May

(02:02:20):
and Spencer Arraghetty, and then tomorrow would be Walker Bueller
versus Hunter I'm sorry, Wednesday will be Walker Buler versus
Hunter Brown. By the way, I have an inside source
that says that Bregman was renting a house in Tanglewood.
I know his landlord customer moved back in July. Okay,
so he's he's been looking for you. I mean it's
done a lot of hotel life here. Okay, Well he'll

(02:02:41):
be fine and whatever five diamond hotel he's going to
be in. Yeah, I'm sure he's fine. There's only one
five diamond hotel in Houston. Uh? Is it Post Oak? Correct? Wow?
You know it's good when the employee right, which I
can get is ridiculously high.

Speaker 10 (02:02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
How much to sleep in one of those Bentley's for
a night? On the floor plenty. You'd have to break
in the car and the and the dealership. Yeah yeah,
probably have the swat team on you pretty quick. Oh yeah,
you would be. You'd be buried in some cement. There's
you know, you know, you don't get a other night

(02:03:21):
in jail. No, you're you're found dead in cement. That's fine,
all right, that's fine. So okay, so let's predict how
Christian Haavier is going to do tonight. Okay, uh oh,
I'll throw a few over unders at you all right,
over under four point one innings under? I think four exactly, Okay,

(02:03:45):
I think that's all we can really do. How many
strikeouts over under is three and a half over, three
and a half over really five strikeouts four innings? Feeling good? Okay?
Number of hits over under is five and a half under?
Really sure? Why not? So you're gonna be so this

(02:04:05):
sounds like to me this is gonna be a well yeah, yeah,
feel like good. Boston is heavily favored at a minus
one seventy five. Oh that's a lot of juice. You
have to give up y y plus one forty five
for your astros. And by the way, the astros don't.

(02:04:25):
This is second straight year they don't play well on Mondays,
by the way, kind of a low total seven and
a half. Well, it's because the crochet Yeah, I know,
but five. You could see a five to two final,
that makes sense. See a two to one Astros victory.
I could too. They gotta answer one of these Monday
games in these new these uniforms they wear. I like
them at first, when they first came out, I was like, Eh,

(02:04:47):
you know, they're fine. The more I see them more like.
The uniforms this year on Monday are five hundred times
better than the Space Cities. Disagree, not five hundred They're
better though. I do like the Space City hats better
than like these hats.

Speaker 14 (02:05:02):
Mmmm.

Speaker 3 (02:05:03):
Okay. The Stros with the star, Yeah, this the a
they wear here, it looks like it's like a cross
between a softball team and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Speaker 13 (02:05:14):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
But the Stros uniform itself is spectacular. Agree. Okay? All right,
So we put together the list, how we if we
were running game operations for the Astros. We give a
rousing round of applause at Carlo's Korea, But no video tribute, no,
no tribute, no, no, He's back kind of like an

(02:05:39):
intro video. Yeah, some tribute, but like an intro video.
I don't know how to explain it. Same thing for
Hobby are working his ass off getting back out there
very short. Okay, the Bragman tribute middle of the first
sounds good. He gets his ab in the first, gets
his nice warm of round of applause. Uh huh. What
if he hits a home run, Well, I'm sir, he's
gonna get a few. There's Spragman fans in this town,

(02:06:00):
even with the Red Sockey. I mean, you've the crowd
reaction if he hits a home run, and do you
throw them the first inning? Now you keep that bad boy.
That idiot who threw away a two. Vey's two hundred
and fiftieth home run probably could have got something for it,
probably an autographed jersey or something. He at least, I
don't know how much you're gonna get slapping it up
on eBay if you he's not a huge milestone. If

(02:06:22):
you and I were doing twenty eleven the Matt Thomas
Show at that time, just Matt Thomas, Yeah, and we
said Jose out to a hit tw hundred fifty home run,
you'd be like, what, come on? Yeah, he was scuffling
for a bit there. I mean, he was good, but
he wasn't this he's he's approaching what twenty four hundred
hits pretty soon? I want to say, No, he's over
twenty four didn't he? Or was it twenty three seventeen? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:06:44):
Did he?

Speaker 3 (02:06:45):
He passed Bagwell, we gotta get him to three thousand.
Then there'll be no ifs, no doubts. No, there's no
doubts already he's in Why okay? You sure in the
Hall of Fame? Yeah? First, first, bout by the way,
even from the cranky New York reporters, well, at least
a lot of them will have died off by then.
Who can we wish for some more? Seven three two

(02:07:06):
one two five seven ninty seven one three two one
two five seven nauty. This is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross believe.

Speaker 1 (02:07:12):
It or not?

Speaker 3 (02:07:13):
Today I believe it's hoghly googable.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
I gave you a topic? Oh no, no, no, I
came up with one.

Speaker 15 (02:07:20):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
UFC history? We should explain really quickly with it. They
made a big seven point seven billion dollar deal with
Paramount and that means no more pay per views for
UFC s smart go to these street, just go to
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streaming services and stop the pay per view mess Thanks
a great idea. One fourteen Sports Talk seven ninety seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven. Unty, I just checked Facebook,
and so I put stupid responses to Adam's videos Clinton's videos,
and this woman on Twitter is just really like, what

(02:08:06):
is wrong with you? What are you doing over there?

Speaker 8 (02:08:09):
Matt Well?

Speaker 3 (02:08:10):
I was what are you messing with with Adam Clinton?
On Facebook? Because he messing with me? So I put
it there and then she used responds back to me,
Matt Thomas, What a weird thing to be triggered by.
I'm gonna get her back. Don't worry. I live to

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just I live for people on Facebook that don't get
the messages. Nobody cares how you enjoy your fried mushrooms?
And she sticks what is this reference?

Speaker 8 (02:08:40):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
It's inside inside.

Speaker 10 (02:08:46):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:08:46):
Alisha's coming after you. She's not happy with me. So
I'm gonna I'm gonna respectfully get her back in just
a minute. All right seven one three two, one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. Don't shake your head at me every day.
It's her fault, not mine.

Speaker 8 (02:09:06):
Like her fult.

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
Yeah, she'd have to put a comment in there, Okay, Matt, anyways,
all right, okay, we're gonna say go ahead ahead. Well,
I mean, I'm just I guess anticipation would be the
song would be the choice awards I would use for tonight.
I'm really curious about howvier. I'm really curious about how

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this pitching staff is going to be measured in the
next few weeks. I'm gonna take a look here real quick.
The Astros have an off day on Thursday. Then they
play three six ten straight. I don't know if you
can you go with a five man through those ten.
You probably could. You do have an off day in

(02:09:49):
the twenty fifth, and then you have a stretch of
you're gonna need a six man between August twenty sixth
and September the seventh, because you have no off day
in between. So the mccolor stuff has been quiet. Luis
Garcia haven't heard a whole lot about him. Arrogetti, you

(02:10:12):
would anticipate having a better second start. Jason Alexander has
done everything in his power to deserve an opportunity to
be that dishortation for the foreseeable future. What's the latest
on Brendan walta JP France. I think I had a
good didn't he have a good rehab start? You know,
the Astros will put out their notes here in about
an hour or so. I bet you they'll be a

(02:10:32):
much more comprehensive. Let's get that going. In h three
and two thirds gave up two runs, three walks, three strikeouts,
up to ninety five miles an hour in the gun.
You know the one thing, And again I would not
read anything into it, but you're what you're not seeing
is length in these minor league games. Yeah, but it
doesn't say this doesn't say how many pitches. This is

(02:10:54):
a post from Astro's future, who does a good job
of covering the miners, But I don't see how many
pitch From JP France, I got news for you. This
Astro schedule is not particularly entertaining for me. That's good, Matt.
You mean it's bad teams. Well, it's a mix, there is.
You've got some winnable games coming up, You've got Louis

(02:11:14):
Garcia dealing. You got seven with the Orioles coming up.
But over the next to ten days, then you got Colorado. Boy,
you got three at home with Colorado. You gotta get,
you gotta beat. You cannot lose a game in that series,
Luis Garcia, four innings and three hits, no walks, striking
out seven.

Speaker 8 (02:11:32):
Look at you know what.

Speaker 3 (02:11:33):
Can I give you a little pause for a little concern. Yes,
let me give you September schedule three with the Yankees,
win at home, three at Arlington, win three in Toronto series,
win three in Atlanta series.

Speaker 1 (02:11:48):
Win.

Speaker 3 (02:11:48):
Then you got three more with Texas at home Dubs,
three with Seattle sweep, and then you close out the
year with six on a row at Sacramento and at Anaheim.
Opponents win percentage. They have twenty fifth out of thirty
in baseball in terms of schedule strength, and a lot
of that is because you've got seven with Baltimore, three
with Colorado coming up, and seven with the Angels. Okay,

(02:12:10):
now now you've given Melas half full on that. Thank
you very much, thank you. They do have tough series
against winning teams. I think it's seven series left against
winning teams or good teams. All about this. Between September
second and September eleventh, that's nine games against potentially not
three playoff opponents. Although the Yankees are playing so poor

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these days, the Guardians might come up and snag that
last playoff spot. That'd be a shame. And then Aaron
Boone definition you think Aaron Moon's done done? Period? They
did win the America last year. He gets what I'm saying.
It can't be that bad. And as you and I say, man,
it comes down to the players the majority of the time. Yeah,

(02:12:54):
who is the picture for the Yankees? Devin Williams and
they hate him? There Aaron Moon does it? Oh no,
he uses him quite a bit. In fact, I want
to say that maybe he was even Jeff Blump said
the don't they hate him so much? They don't announce
his name when he comes to the pill which I
don't really now pitching well now in the seventh thing,
I enjoyed this free popcorn. Well, he pitched the six yesterday.

(02:13:18):
He might be full demoted. Do you think the PA
announcer tries to divert people? Hey, go get yourself a
steak sandwich for hat price, says it really because their
steak sandwiches a Yankee CITYIM are amazing steak sandwich. Oh
my god, is it good? What do they put a
ribbio on? I don't know what it is, but it's
it's like it's it's a filat of Is it a
chop steak?

Speaker 11 (02:13:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:13:36):
No, No, it's like a real steak, a slab of steak. Yeah,
it's gotta be a tenor stirdloin of some sort, huh
with onions. See, I'm not a fan of that. Why not,
it's a good steak. I just want to eat the steak.
I don't need mayonnaise and bread slater all over it.
When are you gonna cut up a steak in your
seat in a fourth inning of a baseball game? Really
you're gonna do that? Why not? You're not stuck and fork?

(02:14:00):
You're no, you're nuts. I like this medium rare.

Speaker 4 (02:14:03):
No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (02:14:04):
You want to bake potato loaded to you don't? What
do you want to toss? Ouid?

Speaker 2 (02:14:07):
First?

Speaker 3 (02:14:07):
I take a wedge? Oh my god, I just wrong
with you? Sound like me? One twenty eight We'll talk
to Lewis and once got a rockets question in I
like rockets questions. It uh NBA schedule by the way,
we'll be announced on Thursday tomorrow. ABC and NBC are
gonna give out a few more games. There are marquee matchups. M.
John Tesh is getting warmed up. John Tesh is getting

(02:14:30):
warmed up, feeling good. I got news for You're gonna
love NBC's coverage. I think I am. They're gonna have
doubleheaders on NBC on Tuesdays. Peacock is gonna have some games,
and then once Sunday Night Football is over with on
NBC Sunday Night Basketball.

Speaker 10 (02:14:45):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (02:14:46):
I'll be watching. And you got Iron Eagle and Kevin
Harlan on Amazon Prime Games. M Now, if you just
can fix a ESPN's Travis d broadcast is ponying up.
Huh oh, they all are. They all are one eight
on Sports Talk seven ninety one, thirty four Sports Talk
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and believe it or not, today is the category of
the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Okay, UFC. How many UFC has
you been to in your life?

Speaker 8 (02:15:27):
Been to?

Speaker 3 (02:15:27):
Yeah? None, I've been to other MMA events, but not UFC.

Speaker 8 (02:15:33):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (02:15:34):
I'm at zero myself. You and I have a good friend,
uh that we can get us great seats for okay,
but I want to go for sure. As ring announcer,
he's he said, we don't need you. Bruce Buffer is terrible.
That guy's he's got it knocked, he's got it. He's
locked on Lofer.

Speaker 1 (02:15:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
I know people love him and they all do it.
It's time and he's it's not for me.

Speaker 4 (02:15:58):
He was right.

Speaker 3 (02:15:59):
He was a naked again by As somebody would say
about me as a host, he tries too hard. I
don't know whatever say such a thing like that. It's
not true at all. Lewis and sure Land at one
five years with Mary Enough, you're with a Matt in
the Troy hard Hilo Lewis, what's going on.

Speaker 2 (02:16:13):
Matt and RV? The pulse of the NBA, how you
guys doing amazing?

Speaker 3 (02:16:17):
Thank you for asking.

Speaker 19 (02:16:19):
Well, you know, I'm not going to talk about the
game tonight. Bragman, Javier and Correa Enough said sellout Proud
should be a great game. I want to ask you
a quick NBA well two questions. First, you know the
schedule makers. You know, we're on opening Night at Oklahoma
City where they're going to get their rings.

Speaker 13 (02:16:40):
We're finally back on Thanks Christmas, but we're at the Lakers.
We just you know, no respect man, no respect, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:16:48):
But my question is this all out that?

Speaker 3 (02:16:51):
Let me let me give you the first part of it.
First of all, there's there's a lot of respect. I mean,
uh you there are four teams that are playing in
open and you're one of the four. That's a tremendous
amount of respect. Secondly, if the game was the first
game of the season or game fifty seven, you still
have to go to Oklahma City and play. You still
have to go to like Los Angeles Lakers and play.
And I got news for you. And I remember quite

(02:17:14):
a few teams have gone into the team's championship night
and won the first game. So I know you think
it's an automatic gimme for Oklahoma City, and it might
be because they're just a really awesome team. But I've
seen teams on opening night lose their first game, So
don't don't don't consider that a foregone conclusion that the
Rockets are being disrespected by that. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 13 (02:17:35):
All right, that's a good point. Maybe I just mean,
you know, putting them in certain situations on a national scale.
But okay, my question is are you hearing anything. I'm
reading a couple of things that they're looking at Gary
Payton Junior. Are you hearing anything about that? And I
know y'all are busy, so I'm gonna stay on and listen.

Speaker 3 (02:17:56):
Thanks much, Thank you, Lewis. I have not heard Gary Paye.
It's Gary Peyton. Peyton is it the second? I thought
he was the second. John Lucas is the third? Oh
this a second?

Speaker 13 (02:18:09):
No, I have not.

Speaker 3 (02:18:12):
I have not heard him tied to the Houston Rockets
at all. The only player that I have heard not
tying in the Rockets that's that's looking for a place
to play is John the Kaminga. He still doesn't signed anywhere,
has he really?

Speaker 1 (02:18:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:18:25):
What's he waiting on? I don't know, but it's getting
late in the game. He's waiting for kaminga time. There
are nights I watch him and I'm like, man, he
could score twenty five points every single night. And there
are the nights that I'm like, man, why are you
even on the court. He's really bad defensively correct. I
think he's miss assignments and I think I think he
checks out mentally, not because he doesn't give a damn.

(02:18:47):
I just don't think. I think the speed of the
game or so, it's something's just not right.

Speaker 4 (02:18:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:18:51):
I think he's got defensive issues, as we all do.
I have you seen Gary Payton rockets anymo? Google anything? No,
I have not seen that, but maybe Lewis heard it somewhere.
There is a lot. I'm not saying he's bringing us misinformation,
but a lot of times there's some random stuff will

(02:19:12):
be put in a blog and then somebody will run
with it and make a whole article. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, look,
I think the rockets are I mean, I think they're set. Yeah,
I don't see anything. And it's read Shepherd, it's read Shepherd.
I mean, the the grand plan would be probably to

(02:19:34):
go with Fred and then read to back up if
he can take that those backup minutes. But you, if
we can't, you just shift them in Thompson the point
guard and you and you and you broke her their minutes.
You splut them up. So maybe the time that Fred
and the Men are on the floor at the same
time is minimal. It's kind of like what they did
with Chris and James staggering. Yeah, stag on a minute, Joe. Honestly,

(02:19:59):
to me, I want read to be accessful because that
means a draft pick hits. Even though it was number
three pick, even though the draft last year was not
considered good draft, you still need you you still need
your high end draft picks to hit. M hmm, don't you.
I mean you know it would be nice. Yeah, that's
the whole Amazon losing worth it right, that's why you tank.

Speaker 1 (02:20:17):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
Unfortunately, they did not end up with any number one
overall picks during this tanking period. What Jalen Green was
a two, Jibari was a three? Who else? The Men
was a three? Reid was a three? Or was it
Men a four?

Speaker 15 (02:20:32):
Men?

Speaker 3 (02:20:36):
There's no number ones? Yeah, Men was a four, okay,
and any twos? So you had a two, three, four
to three. Yeah, you ended up with a You you
lost in theory, you've lost. You lost three hundred games
in order to finish with two top four, top five
selections but no top one. Well, which is unfortunate, and
then Dallas got it who didn't deserve it. I'll stand

(02:20:58):
by that. It doesn't make any make any sense, it's
but I'm standing by it. Lebron is a maverick, yes
or no? At any points? What did the Lakers get
off to a five hundred start? Were they gonna get back?

Speaker 10 (02:21:15):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:21:16):
I don't know. I don't think Lebron has a much value.
I mean it's not it's crazy to say for a
guy that going twenty five, seven and seven. If I'm Lebron,
I stick it out. I got Luca leaner Luca, more
physical Luca. That's his best shot. Fresh contract Luca. I would,
I would, I would if I'm in again, do you
want your your lasting legacy? Bouncing from team to team?

(02:21:38):
The team sometimes it's okay, doesn't care. I mean he's
been there since twenty twenty. Yeah, so if you gets
five years stint. Okay, he spent four years with the
Heat the first time, right went back to Cleveland, h
and then now is in Los Angeles something that's probably
like four four, five and five or somewhere. Okay, But

(02:21:58):
I don't want to worry about him. No, I do
need them to be out of the way though the Lakers.
I mean, in my mind, I'm worried about Oklahoma City one,
Denver two, probably Minnesota three. I'm not overly concerned about
the Golden State, even though God we that said they

(02:22:21):
gave me just knocked you out of the place and
that made sound sound ridiculous. And the Clippers to me
look incredibly old. Go I mean, the oldest team in
the NBA and even close, Yes, twenty twelve would have
loved this team. They would have been dominant twenty twenty five.
Ain't that big of a deal. No, And there is

(02:22:41):
nobody in the East that gives me any pause. The
East is wide open. Cleveland, Detroit, probably New York. Those
would be your time. Yeah, because Tatum's out and Halliburton
are out Achilles tears. Did I see this ride on
Christmas Day? Eight of the ten teams at play on

(02:23:02):
Christmas Day or Western Conference teams? That makes sense. That
just shows you the power in this league is in
this Yeah, it's yeah. Texans are hard pressed to get
out of the AFC. It's so difficult. And then the
Rockets have been how long has the West been like this? Since?
Like nineteen ninety five? There's actually quite for the parallels
to it. There are a bunch of I mean, you

(02:23:24):
could put Minnesota, Well, Denver won a championships, I can't
really count them Minnesota. Uh the Clippers. Clippers have had
some good teams and never made it even into the
QUESTIONN final Minnesota Clippers. Maybe Dallas pre Luca. It was
the Warriors before, I mean the Thunday before this last.
You could flip flop them for Baltimore, Cincinnati and Buffalo

(02:23:50):
as teams that are really damn close. But man, they're
in the wrong conference. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's
one of the Rockets. I think head of Cotta, they
didn't want to be in that stagnant spot. They wanted
to try something to leap frog the teams they could
be competitive. That's why before the move was said I've
made I said I was for it because of not
looking at yourself but looking at the West. So the Rockets,

(02:24:13):
just by happenstance being were in the East, you wouldn't
have made the trade. No, Well, when it only costs you,
Jayalen Green and Dylan Brooks probably still do it. Yeah,
I think I think if if you are if you
believe that Kevin Durank can still wake up scoring twenty five,
grabbing twelve rebounds, and a dished out four assists. Yeah,

(02:24:35):
and being competitive defensively. I don't think what regardless of
conference and regardless of where you are in the standings,
I think you make the move and I think there's
more urgency having been in the West. Yeah, all right,
let's play Believe It or Not. It's all things about
the UFC with a brand new deal today with Paramount,
which means the pay per view days of the UFC
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(02:24:55):
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(02:25:17):
to Friday. Uh. We are playing for tickets to see
Live and Collective Soul or Nellie, Josh Rule and Eve. Hey,
we got some nice contract tickets give away. Let's do
it seven one three two one two five seven Hontie.
Thank you very much to U nikos Her for the
kind of words. Congratulations at University of Texas. They are

(02:25:38):
the preseason Associated Press number one team. Also the coaches
on the exact same thing, first time in history for
both polls. Preseason number one. I got one for you.
When's the last time a preseason number one team lost
its first game of the season. We're finding out. I'm
sure it's happened before. You're all gonna win there. I mean,

(02:26:00):
I don't even like your school, but I gotta be
out two and a half point dogs. It's nothing you
get two and a half on your home.

Speaker 2 (02:26:06):
I got the long ones on the money line.

Speaker 3 (02:26:09):
They're gonna take down the buck guys on a recorded line.
Right week Number one, you had some inside information and
inside information I heard from March Manning's girlfriend. Arch Manning
will be at the University Texas for two years. I
believe it. Even though he may be the number one

(02:26:30):
picking the draft. If he is, it's gonna stay is
he just values the aniom. But we got an I
nil fight at the house y today. You and I
will be guessing you and your son, Yeah, I said,
I said, uh, Cameron, my son is a text Tech.
I said, Cameron, you guys are Dan. If you do Dan,
if you don't, you spend all this money and you win.

Speaker 10 (02:26:51):
What's first?

Speaker 3 (02:26:52):
Few people are gonna say you bought a championship.

Speaker 8 (02:26:54):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (02:26:54):
You spend all the money and you finish eight and
four like you always do. Be like, man, look all
the money you spent for the same results. I get
a little mo for you. Please. He always makes fun
of me for being a Manchester City fan because they
buy all their players, and he's like, oh, they're just
buying their championships a big oil club. I'm like, hey, play,
he gotta feel the team. He said, Ohio State buys play.
I said, yeah, but Ohio State has a long tradition

(02:27:15):
of beginning a national championship team. This is nothing new
for them. They're just playing by the new rules. Tell him,
I said, to stop talking trash about Manchester City if
he's going to support Texas Tech or maybe I should
tell him, no, that's okay, let's let the kid be.
I'm coming after him. He's been talking trash about city,
is he really? Of course you are soccer smack talking

(02:27:38):
on the group chat. What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (02:27:39):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (02:27:39):
We never do a group chat, it says us two. Okay,
I don't don't. Don't have me a part of that.
I don't want to be a part of that. I'll
aid you in there. That's fine. Five minutes left to
go in the show.

Speaker 8 (02:27:47):
What should we do?

Speaker 3 (02:27:51):
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Speaker 1 (02:28:52):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:28:52):
Brian, good luck to you. The first UFC was an
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Not that doesn't believe it? I'm sorry, Thank you for playing.
Oh look you here, hi, Bradward. What was your favorite
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(02:29:12):
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time leader in both UFC fights and wins is Cowboy
Donald Saronne. Believe it or not?

Speaker 13 (02:29:25):
I believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:29:26):
No, it's Jim Miller Cowboy Seroni. By the way, whatever
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Speaker 10 (02:29:37):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:29:37):
Michael. The first UFC pay per view event costs nineteen
dollars in ninety five cents, and they were about eighty
six thousand buys. Believe It or not not? Oh yeah
I was. I've said it one set a thousand times.
Get out the buyer rate in front of you when
you play this gammy. I thought, yeah, let's go to
Justin and Magnoy on seven NINTI. Justin, you're ready to

(02:29:59):
play Believe it or uh?

Speaker 10 (02:30:01):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:30:02):
Anderson Silva still holds the record for most consecutive UFC
fights one he had sixteen in or roh Believe it
or not?

Speaker 2 (02:30:10):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:30:11):
That is correct? Stamen number two for the way in.
The first UFC video game was released in two thousand
on PlayStation two and Sega Dreamcast. Believe It or Not?
I believe it? That is a believe it. Congratulations friend.
Let's go to Victor on Sevenintie. Victor, what was your

(02:30:31):
favorite part of today's ten to two radio show Astros Talk.
The UFC has faced several anti trust lawsuits, even settling
one of them for hundreds of millions of dollars. Believe
it or not? That is a believe that. I'm sorry,
but thank you for listening Roger on seven Anti Roger,

(02:30:52):
You're ready to play.

Speaker 2 (02:30:52):
Believe it or not believe it.

Speaker 3 (02:30:55):
Several celebrities have invested in the UFC over the years,
including Ben Affleck, Tom Brady, and Conan O'Brien. Believe it
or not believe it, that's right, statement number two for
the win. On two separate occasions, the UFC Bord of
Directors came to a vote to remove CEO Dana White,
and both times White was victorious. Believe it or not,

(02:31:20):
let's believe it. No, they love them. They're sorry. Roger,
I made it up, but I didn't fully fact check it.
But I think it's made up. You put something out
there that may or may not be true, and believe
it or not. I mean, I think I made it up.
That was wrong with you. It's fine, it's not fine.
It could be wrong. Poor Rogers. Rogers a prize horse

(02:31:42):
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