Astros Look To Extend AL West Lead At Red Sox, Texans Preseason Vs. Steelers, Live Reactions Of Olympics

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve oh.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Two in Age Town.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Dude, mordster reference.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
And welcome to all Friday edition of About Tommy Show.
This says Sports Talk seven ninety eight. It's been sucking
for two weeks. Don't clip that? Please clip that? Oh now,
if you're not the presidential candel like you for the
vice presn't talk that much. Can't you just get in
on like a tight twenty Yeah? You know you put
frozen peas on your jewels. I have never put frozen

(00:50):
peas on my jewels. Well you will when you get
a phasectomy, Gordy. They should be seven on some refreshing
can be small, it can be big. Okay, mine's small.
Mine probably is better for my overall health. What I'm
talking about putting like strange things on top of your meat,
uh huh? I mean seven seven foot with that touch,
despite the slack I'm talking about with the basketball of

(01:12):
course lengthy with that kind of touch. Oh, are you
ready for the weekend Sports RV? What it did to
be a sports fan? We've got free season football. Whoa, whoa,
let's go, Mabby Strout. Season two was upon us Castros

(01:38):
and the bean Towners early games. Not much work for
the A team, well as usual for THEMIHA hashtag non grinders. Yeah,
we call you the grinder, Thomas. Yes, grinder Thomas is
what we call you. I'll be on the tenth Inning
Show tonight after an Astro victory. You're on the tenth

(02:00):
Inning Show. Yeah, I took it from you. Oh that's right.
Thank you can't forget that. That's generosity. I'm going to
be kicking up my feet on my couch eating sour
patch kids, watching football and baseball, and it's all thanks
to you. You're always grinding. That's what we call you,
the grinder of seven ninety. Nobody calls me that. Nobody,
Nobody in a world those Yeah, everybody does. All right.

(02:20):
Tweet at sports MTE grinder Thomas. You can call me
a grifter not a grinder. Well, well you're both probably so,
all right. Congratulations Team USA women they beat Australia eighty
five sixty four. Thanks for showing up Australia in the semifinals.
I really do want to go to Australia. The problem

(02:41):
is it's going to cost me a boatload of money. Second,
lab Be probably gone for two persons and you can't
handle that. If they have like seven of the most
ten venomous steaks snakes in the world, I can handle it.
I just wouldn't want to. I might be gone for
two weeks in November, so you can. But you, but
you at least have told me ahead of time. Yes,
I mean I know that you're probably gonna do that,
so we'll see what happens. But I would Yeah, I

(03:02):
would like to get away from you for a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think you're want to missing me the grind Matt.
You know how it is. Yeah, you're always traveling around,
but you have to watch every Astros game, every Rockets game,
every football game, every preseason game, keep up with all
this stuff. It kind of you can get a little
lost in the shuffle and you have a little time
to reseund. That's what Fridays are about, Gau.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Anything goes Friday, uh, and please get your phones out
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one three two one two five seven I.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Explain the essence rosso and anything goes Friday. Yes, anything
goes It's seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Well except for a bizarre racially charged comments like we
got yesterday that could get you a thirty day ban.
Shout out to our friend Chris but and Brad. I mean, look,
we obviously you've heard the day drunks on the Matt

(03:55):
Thomas Show. We've got a long leash. It gets even longer.
Anything you want to talk about at seven one three,
two one two five, seven ninety the Astros weekend set
against Boston, we can talk about that. The Texans against
the Steelers. What are you looking for there? And how
do you think?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Logistics and Ray Gun performed in Olympic Breakdancing earlier today.
We've got the final coming up. I believe at one
pm here local time, I will be locked in to
Olympic Breakdancing finals. Kevin DuRane is crushing people on Twitter.
We can talk about that. Yeah, anything you want to
get to at seven one three, two one two five

(04:33):
seven nights all right? Uh, I'm going to bitsteal off
of a former colleague of ours. Okay? Is that okay
to do that? At least I'm admitting it. Yeah, I
mean you you steal bits constantly. Not a bit steal,
It's a it's a it's a take steal, okay, front
of the show mans Marline used to work with us. Yes.
By the way, congratulations to him and John Grenado are

(04:54):
going into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, well deserved.
I would hope at some point that I will join them.
But you know, I'm not kidding. I got my vote.
I can I like introduce you like they do Gary Kubiak.
I mean, I think I think you have to be
a member of I think it's forty hours for the year.
So ohs, can you cover me? I mean I can
bend momoentia Okay, but that's not here nor there. So
Rance Roryan was on Twitter yesterday as I was actually,

(05:16):
let me tell you what I really did. Normally, I
listened to the eight Team religiously three to six as
I got on my way home from Kingwall, which is
becoming a longer and longer trip. But that's a different
issue for a different time. And we've been talking about
the the NBC Olympics feed on the iHeartRadio app, okay,
and when we left, I think USA was down fifteen
to Serbia. They got down as much as seventeen. Yeah,

(05:38):
So what I did is. I got away from the
A team for a few minutes and I put on
the iHeartRadio app and I listened to the fourth third
of the last of the third and all the fourth
quarter of the US in because I was interested USA.
And they came back and won. Durant play out of
his mind. Steph Curry did great, Lebron James did it.
I mean all these good things. So congratulations to us.

(06:01):
And they'll be playing for the goal. And rant Or
Line said, and I'll give him a little take on
credit for this, He said, could you imagine if we
could get that for the NBA All Star Game? Because
we were completely in I can say we collectively there
were a lot of nervous nellies in this world thinking
that USA was about the greatest choke job maybe in

(06:22):
all of basketball history. If they didn't win this game yesterday,
they were sixteen point favorites US a US. Ay, who
is that a production value of the show like that
we did? Can I can I trump your U? Can
I trump your production value? Uh? Okay, can you talk
for a second. I'll tell him whats song to play?

(06:44):
Uh okay? Is it gonna be? What's his name? Morlon Greenwood?
With a proud to be American. Okay, maybe it's not
Morlon Greenwood, but probably close enough. Okay, I just gave
him this. Okay, so I'm gonna try to trump you there. Okay, Okay,
So point ping is it? Do you think what we
kind of got involved with it? Which I did because
I got put the I put the app on. Yes,

(07:05):
could we get that for the NBA All Star Game?
Do we do? We even need it? We want it?
I don't know. Well, they felt like that was the
first time a collection of the greatest or the greatest
got together and we actually gave a dam Have they
gone against the US versus the world? It's different. The
Olympics are a bigger deal than the All Star Game.
That's right. I'm saying, can we get anything on the
most eighty two game season?

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay, do you if you're telling me, no, we can't
do can't all right?

Speaker 3 (07:27):
That's fine?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well I don't think so. Have they done us versus
the world? And they have? Yeah, they tried everything. They're
trying whatever they can do. Yeah, it's just not working.
And then who would Joel and be represent in USA? Well,
he doesn't know who he wants to represent these days.
Oh god, there you go. I just trumped your USA USA.
Oh okay, by whole Cogan dropping in bombs left and right. No,

(07:53):
this is not Hull Cogan. Isn't this his song? This
is it's still his song. This song is all right,
brother jam Man's fine comes crashing down?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
It?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Why you just want to go raise a flag? I
know this makes you not Ponto's, but I mean, it's
just not for me. You don't love this song. You
don't want to go run through a wall for somebody.
I didn't really watch wrestling growing up, so it doesn't
stick with me, by the way, Rest in peace. Kevin
Sullivan passed away today at the age of seventy four.
Oh wow, dude, he hit the over for a wrestler. Still, God,

(08:30):
good for a him. That's just terrible. That's a good run.
Oh my god, how strong are those veins? Ingesting mountains
of a cocaine? And so you don't know that he
did that? You think he didn't. I don't even know
who he is. Okay, Well, he was a wrestler in
the eighties. He was a long time. They called him
a task master for a while, okay, in the Stepmaster. Yeah,

(08:51):
in the seventies and eighties, he took on a Charles
Manson type persona, Oh that's fun. And when I was
a kid watching him in Florida, want to go there
for the summertime? He scared the crap on him? Did
he get a Swaska tattooed on him? He basically had
a bunch of signs on his Absolutely, I'm not You're not,
I'm not kidding you. I thought, no, you weren't. You are?
You hit it right on the head and Kevin Sullivan

(09:14):
would beat people up and they would have to in
the wrestling. The TV production would blur things out to
give the impression they were really damaging somebody. Yeah it was.
It scared the crap on me. So shout out to
you early ladies wrestling for scaring crap out a twelve
year old. You've never heard of the guy, but I
may he rest. I'm wishing his family peace back to
this gym. Is this song on my iPhone? Yes or no?

Speaker 6 (09:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
It is? Oh my lord, you're cruising down fifty nine
North or I'm on the rockets playing going to sleep
and hear this song all the time. I'm gonna rump
it down the Ai, Yeah, I can put you to sleep.
I guess. I mean it's eighties cheese. I get it. It
has its place. Eighties is the cheese. Yeah. No, I'm
saying I'm not hating on you. All right, there's stuff
you like that is terrible. Calling this absolutely, I feel

(10:03):
I feel you, all right, that's the time and place
for this, and I missed it. That's all you did.
He I think he's a one hit wonder. By the way,
the wait, this was an actual hit.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
It was just like an entrance song. No, um, oh,
you made me want to look this up. This is
going to be Rick Darringer. That's it. Rick Deringer had
other hits, right, sounds familiar. I think, okay, we'll give
the man this PROCs then Ricky. I don't think he
called him Ricky d Oh. He was with the McCoy's
hang on sloopy.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
That he a quatic career, that he's doing. Good for him. Oh,
rock and roll hoochie coo, that's kind of a yeah,
it's kind of a jam. Yeah, rock and roll hoochi.
Don't don't sing that. Wait a minute, rock and roll,
rock and roll waters I'm a hoochy Kokuchie man. By

(10:55):
the way, we got a brand new update. We're gonna
debut on the show to dow I Do and it's
in honor of signed Stan Norfleet. Really yeah, good Stan Norfleet,
who I believe tweeted that Joey Luperfito was untouchable. Yes, well,
we will honor Stan's favorite player in a moment seven
one three. I didn't know he was a lower stand
was a low Perfito stany, He's a low Perfido stand,

(11:16):
that's for sure. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety's and anything goes friddy. Uh, Zach Decenzo is going
to join us a two o'clock this afternoon. Give him
take these, Zach Dezenza. I know what do you win
for hitting on that one? That gut feeling, Well, that
was a minus episode. That was like a minus two fifty.
Were to put your name on it, Yeah, that was

(11:37):
a two to five odds on that one. Escially, that's good.
We're looking forward to talking to mister Dezenzo, mister twelve
hundred oh ps and triple A. Let's go a couple
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six and a very big sample size. I like it
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Speaker 7 (12:33):
What more.

Speaker 8 (12:34):
Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
And As Anything Goes Friday Up The Mount Thomas Show
twelve twenty one on Sports Talk seven. Hony Ladies and Gemen.
We present to you a brand new update to the
radio program Joey Updates. Why that's brought to you by

(13:11):
stand Or Flake ten the noon Sports Talk seven on
eight the what did Stan call him an untouchable? Is
that what you said? I can find the exact words,
but oh no, I I have to go to like
a Twitter SIRVI, I got you, I got you? Uh, Joey,
that involves yeah, I was gonna say, pay attention to
this show more than you pay other attention to other shows.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
What you said?

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Joey lo Berfdo has six games as a member of
the Toronto Blue Jays. Rossie, how's that sample size for you?
Relatively small, extremely small. So how's he doing twenty six
at bats? Okay? He has scored three runs, so his
induction is probably not getting on base a whole lot.

(13:53):
He has six total bases, Okay, that doesn't sound great,
one of which is a triple. We got three on
one of those. Okay. He is uh four for twenty
six as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. Four
for twenty six, quick math, that's not good. One fifty four.

(14:15):
The batting average on base of one eighty five slugging
two thirty one. So if the kids would say he's
got an ops of four sixteen, where in two thousand
and twenty four we believe seven to twenty five is
about the average. Well ops plus is our friend one
hundred being league average. This is just a Toronto Blue Jay, right,

(14:37):
he's at eighteen. Here's my point. We liked him. Yes,
he made some great defensive plays. Yes, but for the
nine millionth time Astro Twitter, you lost your damn mine
over somebody you didn't know. Also, he could turn it
around and be better. He could. Also, he's twenty five

(15:01):
years old.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
He is.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Just relax when any deal is made and let it
be judged for a longer sample size. And I would
say the same thing about Joey le Parpido. He could
go the next fifteen games the Blue Jays and slug
you know, four to twenty. Right now, the Astros are
not regretting the trade one bit. You you say Kakuci

(15:27):
has pitched two games, You've won both of those games,
and you were in a virtual tie with the Mariners
atop the AL West. Every game counts down the stretch.
You needed a starting pitcher, and that's what you got.
If Jake Bloss started both of those games, you could
easily argue they lose both of those games, and then
you're behind the Mariners in the American League West standings,

(15:48):
and the reality is he's gone. Kakuchi has longer in
both of his astro appearances than Jake Bloss ever did
and his major league career. Right, and I and I've
gone the record on this, I think of the three
guys that left, yes, the one I think is going
to hurt the most if they if any of them hurt,
and they could all three hurt, but I would think
my guess is Jake Bloss was the most highly regarded

(16:10):
of the thing. It hurts me a little bit, but
I agree with you. You know what knowledge is, king,
and that's why you come to this radio show. Yeah,
that's what I'm calling here for sure. But I'm seriously
I almost I almost started keeping receipts on everybody that
sent me emails and tweets saying this is absolutely ridiculous.

(16:35):
Danid Brown should be fired, Joe A. Spotty should be fired,
just on principle. Uh, this is the Jim Crane is
the worst human being ever. I mean, it shows your
ignorance is what it really does. And I want to say,
and I keep trying to sell people that don't live
here that we are a great baseball town. One reality,
We're just not a great baseball town. I mean, Matt,

(16:56):
we're doing the wave every day at home. This is
thing as well. There are there were some people who
are very measured and and also the initial reactions. You're
always gonna get the visceral moments, prisoner of the moment
on Twitter, that's right. And initially I was like, oh
my god, because the first thing that we heard was
bloss and then you heard Okay, that hurts. Then will

(17:16):
Wagner and loperfdo and again it was it was an
overpaid no one's possibly arguing that, and Kakuchi could suck
for the rest of the season too, right, And that's
why we're going to just like now not judge this
trade probably for quite a while, at least on the
astorisk perspective the end of the season, because we'll see

(17:37):
if Kakuchi was able to stay and be successful and
maybe return as a starting pitcher next year, because learn knows.
At this point, I encountered on mc colors and I
encounted on Luis Carci. If you know what I'm saying, Okay,
and you know that we got uh who else Javier
and Arkidia or Javier Arktier. I mean, that's four guys
that if anybody's penciling that rotation in twenty five at

(17:59):
this point early on, would be foolish. Question two of
the four. There's no way Hobbyer is ready for the
start of season. There's some way or save ray Keaty
not ready for the start of the season. Lancecer Colors
Junior and by the way, you're gonna lose justin Verliner're
gonna tell him to kick him to the curve. Cocuchi
Gonzo Maybe, well, what I'm saying, I mean, if he's
good enough, maybe he says, you know what, I'm enjoying

(18:19):
my most success ever here. Yes, maybe I should stay here. Yeah,
we'll see how it goes. But I feel like if
you can get you, say, Kakuchi, on an affordable deal,
you should keep him. Yeah, all right? Seven one three
two one two five seven. Nintie seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI is in Anything Goes Friday
here on The Matt Thomas Show, Rogers first with us
at twelve twenty six.

Speaker 10 (18:40):
Hello Roger Good gentlemen helping weekend as well in the
back for what I'm gonna say anyway, So, uh, as
it goes Friday, I wanted to get into yesterday on
the church or bowmask ain goodbody got tied to that. Actually,
Uh so we're we're enjoying a movie or want to
enjoy a movie.

Speaker 11 (18:59):
So we're th this he did for and we usually
help me and he and the old lady do it.
We go to the go to the movie around ten
am to avoid all the craziness that might happened at
the movie house, so we just go over there ten
thirty Elendon.

Speaker 12 (19:12):
Around that time.

Speaker 10 (19:13):
So we get there and uh, it's it's moderately full,
not not, it's sparsely populated.

Speaker 12 (19:19):
So it's nice.

Speaker 10 (19:19):
We get a we have our seats that we pay for,
and we got spaces in between. And then lo and behold,
fifteen minutes into the movie, here comes some jackass who decides,
you know, he doesn't he doesn't read the room at all.
He just sits by the sign steet properly takes off
his shoes and start's wiggling, just freaking ape like feet like,

(19:41):
he's like in this living room and I can get
my thrush. I'm like, man, Brok, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's like, oh, does this bother you?

Speaker 10 (19:50):
I mean, what are you think it does?

Speaker 3 (19:51):
If you're gonna do.

Speaker 10 (19:52):
That, you can slide you ask two streets down but
nobody's there, and do all that stuff and go about
your bits rather than you know, you know in fifteen
fifteen minutes of the movie and they just start doing
all that crack. It's just didn't want to get tired
of that. Also, uh, the Zach Descenzo trade, I'm not

(20:12):
trade the actually bringing him up. It's totally It totally
takes the burden off the Joey Lo Braffito trade because
the only read one of the reasons why I was
down on that trade because I couldn't say Joey Lo
Paffino anymore. But now we can all say Zach Decenzo
and he's waking and don't want to pictures rock up
to figure him out. So maybe next year. So it's

(20:32):
a plus side for the for the good guys. And
that's all I have for you, guys, have a good weekin.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Thank you, uh Roger, we love you like a second cousin.
But the reality is your phone sucks, and you know
that you got terrible ambiance noise behind you. I don't
thar in that shower. I think he was calling us
from Niagara Falls. Yeah. I think he's in front of
the tower with the with the with the waterfall. Okay, yeah,
that's oh god, the wall, the water wall. Isn't I

(20:58):
have like a corporate name on her, know it might.
I don't call it that, but Roger remembered the water
Wall from the movie Sidekick, We Can't let you back
on the show again. With that phone with Jonathan Brandison,
Chuck Norris never saw it was a good It was okay,
But it was filmed in Houston, so I really got
into it when I was like a teenage you're just nicer.
You your teammate Jonathan Brandis he hung himself. So hm.
We turned the segment around quickly. I guess we can

(21:21):
go to break on that note. Yeah, yeah, I think
he was complaining about something on the movies. I don't know.
Movie Etticutt's doing okay for the for the most part,
except for people have their phones distracted. Yeah, me too,
all right? Seven one three, two, one two five, seven
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(21:47):
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Speaker 5 (22:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Granted, TELLING got the slider before I got that last
pitch solid line drive into right. Let that soak in
for a minute. I'd rather not, I'd rather jump out
of that. What's a guy's named Ryan Vallade? Is that
how they pronounce it? Sure? One V I L A

(23:27):
d E huge, huge error? Let everybody score. Yesterday the
Astros were tasting that victory, having a full to enjoy
a full What is a full game?

Speaker 12 (23:42):
Lead?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Bad?

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Was it? Score? Doesn't error? You never know what the
scoring these days, it doesn't really matter. It just kept
running and Seattle announces just losing his day, and well
the man one, thanks thanks Detroit, thanks AJ. Hey, I
actually watch the press conference. AJ is like we had
that one. We work so hard and let it slip

(24:05):
away on one play. So what, you win your games, Astros.
You don't need to be scoreboard watching in August. You
need to win your games. You got fifty nine wins.
You should be thankful that you're in the crappy American
League West. Watch as much as you want. Beat the
Red Sox, beat the Tampa Bay Rays, beat the White Sox.
After that, win your games and you'll be fine because

(24:26):
you're lucky to be in this position anyways, as it is,
and Scorebard watch because it's okay. It's healthy. You can
if you want. I am don't worry. Astros in Red
Sox on Deck starts at five o'clock with Adam and
Adam and then I'll have the tenth ning show. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
As far as the Mariners are concerned, they are or
are they doing tonight? They are? I don't know what
they're doing. I'm looking for their game. Are they in
the d This is great radio Mariner Okay, No, I'm not.
I'm trying to find one that. Are they off today?
They can't be all the Mariners. I think they are. No, No,
they're not off today. Uh, they were off on Monday. Oh,

(25:03):
they're home for the Mets. Okay, go Mets. Go Pete Alonzo,
Let's go Mets. There ten start. You're gonna get up
for that one many? Yeah, because I'll be doing the
post game show, the towel Stamp late Okay, it'll be
on it. It's especially on MLB Network, So yeah. I
love MLB Network. They got baseball on almost every night.
They get great shows like Quick Pitch, and their anchors
are ridiculously hot. MLB Tonight is a great nightly show.

(25:27):
I don't know why they don't just put that out there.
If you're not at Lisa eight and a half, you're
not a hosting quick Pitch. I think it's that's called
discrimination if they put that out there. Okay, whatever, figure
it out on your own. Yeah, we have two eyes
and a heartbeat. Yes, yeah, I mean the ladies do
a good job on quick pitch. They do? What a
great job? I don't know? I have usually with a

(25:48):
sound out? How do you catch the highlights with the
sound Oh? I see plenty highlights?

Speaker 9 (25:53):
Don't?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Or oh boy, that's disturbing telling the truth? Okay, So
on Deck five and the tendenning after the game tonight,
Astros three game series with the Red Sox at Tampa
next week and then three gimmes against Chicago White Sox.
You cannot lose the game in that series. I'm a
waiting for Tuesday. I'm waiting for I'm waiting for Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
I didn't sut her, all right, if you say so?
Didn't the White Sox beat them ones earlier? They did?
That was that was the low water mark of the
Astros season. They had lost. I think they were doing
ten back. I think they should have lost a second
game in that series. But there was a bunch of
errors made by the White Sox. Yeah, but that's what
you do. You play the White Sox. You let them
make their own mistakes and move forward. Win the games

(26:37):
in front of you. Astros yep uh. Texans against the
Steelers tonight. What's the spread on this one? You gonna
make a bet? What I would? I would lean Houston
minus two and a half. You know, our friend Dave
in Vegas was a regular show. I'm all over the
Texans on this. Davis Mills is going to tear it

(27:00):
up in the second half of this one. He bets.
He loves betting, preaches in football just for a little
strange things like that. Yeah, I'm all in. It's Ross's
lock of a week. We cannot lose tonight. Take the
Texans minus the two and a half on a recorded line.
Although they do have Russell Wilson and then Josh Field

(27:21):
or Justin Fields je Jo Fields. I mean, Josh Fields
could play if you wanted to, might, but Justin Field
is gonna start. I think Russell Wilson is not playing tonight. Oh, okay,
CJ is gonna get a little work. Yeah you got CJ.
And then Davis Mills and Damien and Damian Pierce going
to play a little bit mean unless Tim Boyle's getting
hot action is he did I make a gut feeling?
Help me out? Did I say that one of those

(27:42):
backups would not be here?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
I help me?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Help me out with it. I will go to one. Yeah.
I mean, if you I love that you're wanting to
call yourself out for being wrong. This is a first. No,
they can still be traded. That's true. They're one injury.
An NFL team is one injury away on a backup
quarterback from pick up the phone and call Early Mills stuff.
I gotta find late Mills stuff. And by the way,

(28:06):
if Davis Mills does get traded by the Texans, my
son has a double X jersey you like to sell
to you. Very reasonable. Davis Mills not on opening day
roster for Texans. Oh that was from twenty twenty three.
That was wrong. I mean he was I guess he
was on the roster, but we didn't see my jaction.
H saw what one game? Yeah, I'm trying to find

(28:27):
Oh boy, I can't find it. That's fine. Let me
put keenum case keenum. No, that was a Trey Campbell
by the way. Our friend Trey, Yes, has been killing
it on kill Tony. You don't need to check it out. Yes,
he's been out there two or three times. Buddy Gordy
sent us a clip of him most recently on there.

(28:48):
And if you've been on there three times, and if
you don't know what kill Tony is, it's basically an
improv show where kill Tony, very famous comedian, works out
of Austin exclusively. Well, I think his name is kill Tony.
To know what his real name is, I just know
miss kill Tony. Well, he was on the uh on
the Tom Brady Roast. Yeah, he did a good job.
Oh you viscerated. Yeah. So kill Tony brings up these

(29:08):
people that are a very much amateur stand up comedian
Tony Hinchcliff and uh, you get to tell jokes for
a minute and then you get to basically roast the
people on the dais against you, and it's it's kind
of my way for young comics to get an opportunity
get their head started. And so most of them are
terrible and it's just not yeah, but Trey's he's holding
up his own he's doing fine. I'm proud of him.
Trey's very funny and very witty. Yeah. I don't know

(29:31):
if he's got a long term career it, but for
the for the short term, for he's on kil Tony's
huge stones for him getting up there. People are in
in comedy for ten plus years before they make Yeah,
it's a hard business. I would never want to do it. No,
I mean, I'm actually hysterical, but I just don't know
if I would want to be I'm not a great
joke tell maybe do it at some point, but it
just seems very difficult, and I have a very crippling

(29:52):
fear of failure, So I don't know if i'd do it.
You what, what have you not looked at the last
fifteen years of your life? Hasn't been failure, It's been mediocrity. Yeah, okay,
that's true. I mean I'm sure that I haven't been
a successful failure. I'm doing pretty good. I think, alright,
seven one three, two, one two five seven, And I
will tell you about who is going to be playing
in the Texans game, or who we don't believe is
gonna be playing. It'll be just good because look, the

(30:15):
Hall of Fame game was it? It had every bit
of the first preseason game feel to it because C
CJ out there a little bit, and I think it
gets people somewhat excited for the season. Now, obviously, you
got two more preseason games left. You're probably not gonna
see very many starters in either one of the next
two games. Will Laramie Towns even take a snap in
the preseason? Well, Joe Mixon put a put a practice

(30:36):
pat on one before before too long. I don't know.
Crippling injuries are carting a kid in there. Crippling could
be season unders on a variety of players. M good,
It's just Joe Mixon just not making the most impactful
start as of Houston, Texas. OKAYSA be ready, he's a vet,
you know, you know what, He'll have fresh legs for
September against He's like thirty years old. You don't need

(30:58):
more miles on those legs. Yeah, that's true, all right?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety I want
to bring up a game what I also brought up
a little bit in the very beginning of the show.
Can we do anything to spice up the All Star Game?
Because I thought yesterday at least anybody that was watching
the game, and it was at three o'clock, so it's
people are still working. It felt like there was an

(31:20):
interesting buzz to what was the USA almost choking away
in Serbia? Can you incorporate any of that in the
NBA to accelerate that? Maybe the answer is no, who knows?
Starting to think think things out loud. It is The
Matt Thomas Show seven one three, two, one two five, seven.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Ninety Matt Thomas Return Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 13 (31:42):
Ninety Baseball, football, basketball.

Speaker 14 (31:44):
Interest home for your home teams.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
We have a passing in the world of sports since
they have I mentioned here Chi Chi Rodriguez passing away unfortunately, Uh,
after a battle with illness for a while, a little
before my time when I follow watching and started watching golf,
eighty eight years of age, Hall of Fame golfer. So

(32:18):
lived a very good life. It's a good run and
for as good as he was, probably was known for
something that he had not that to do with ross.
What is that?

Speaker 8 (32:29):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
This is a clip from a seventies television iconic kit.

Speaker 15 (32:35):
Turning to sports. Winner of this week's Golf Coast Golf
Classic was Chai Chai Rodriguez Chai Chai finished with a
nine under par score.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Chi Chi Rodriguez.

Speaker 15 (32:55):
Hopefully mister Rodroguiz will play.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Out the old Chi Chi except from SNL or something
from w K E. Appean Sincinnati. Oh that was less
ness hilarious. Oh man, what a real knee slapper that
one was. You just think you're the biggest critic.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Did you hear people laughing in the background? That was
not can laugh? That was not can laugh? That was
That was better laughing from the audience. The man dies,
you play a clip off? Somebody U mis pronouncing his name?
I mean, eighty eight years a good run. He was
thirty six. I probably wouldn't have done it. I just
think it's interesting that his nickname was Chi Chi m

(33:45):
would you please explain? Yeah, I'm gonna sit back on this.
Ask a Spanish speaker what chee cheese are? And then well.
I Rodriguez, who's antics on the green inspiring life story
made him among the sports most pipe players during a
long professional career, died at the age of eighty eight.
Did not provide a cause of death. He was okay,

(34:07):
so I'm gonna look it up. Okay, what am I
looking up against Spanish for chi chee. And we talked
about this because of the restaurant, you know, and how
you love che cheese. I did. Hey, they had great
Jimmy chalk Is back in the day. Let's take a look.
Oh that's nothing. Wou'd you got an urban dictionary doll?
I went to uh to Google. Okay, it says literally

(34:31):
breast in Mexico, but in the sense boobies is in English.
But for boobies it would be chea cheese. It's amazing
that a certain Mexican food chain in the US was
named che cheese. It's some point. My father was a
manager of a chee cheese on Richmond. Your father managed
chee cheese. Yes, probably. That's probably part of the reason

(34:51):
why they got in trouble with my wife, with my mom.
You're spending too much time at chee cheese, Dad, your weekend,
this spend with me. What we're gonna do? I gotta go.
I gonna work a Sunday shift. Where we're going che cheese.
Here's some here's ten hours of video games. Knock yourself out.
Thanks dad. There was young Matt Thomas life not watching

(35:12):
Kevin Sullivan, Florida wrestling. I guess they have restaurants called
the Hooters. I was gonna say, yeah, hmm, all right, well,
may chi chi ruder, may chi chi rest in peace? Yes,
praying for peace and love for the for the Rodriguez family,
Puerto Rico. So eighty eight years old, that's a good run.

(35:32):
Let me take Give me eighty eight, Rossie, I'll take it. Yeah,
give me a very attractive night nurse being able to
eat solid food, and I'll be just fine. You think
you think some young night nurse wants to deal with
your eighty eight year old creepy ass. I may not
speak at that point. It'll be mood. Is he ogling?

(35:54):
Or is he having a stroke? He just keeps going on.
That feels rude, terrible, all right? Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety is anything goes Friday? Seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero all right?
So you watch some of this break dancing? Yes, I

(36:14):
caught you in a kind of a rabbit hole. Yeah,
explain how you score this? I have no idea how
you score it. Twimmy, you're not You've been doing all
this watching you don't know the interesting this more one
minute clip. It was that's more than I've watched. It
was logistics with an X, Logistics from the USA taking
on ray Gun from Australia. First of all, why are
they going under assumed names everybody else? It's Noahlliles for

(36:39):
the one hundred meter, here comes no Allisle, here comes
Shakhari Richardson. And now in breakdancing, it's logistics with an
X versus ray Gun from Australia. Why are they going
again with nicknames and break dancing? Okay? So then can
we basically at this point say that's the most ridiculous
sport that's there. The ridiculous thing was two is. I

(37:00):
was watching it and I really, okay. I I always
try to have an open mind it it comes to spot.
I know you're very closed minded, and I get that.
You know what, that's consistent part of your trime. You Yeah,
you're stuck in your ways and your closed minded, and
that's fine. So I tried to go into it with
an open mind. And then the commentators were like, oh
my god, this is so clean, this is so good,

(37:21):
and I'm like, she's spinning around on the ground. I
don't it's not computing with me, and it's judge. I'm assuming, right, Yeah,
I guess they go with judges like it's like a
floor routine and gymnasts, and you have difficulty on moves
you try to make. I think so I think head
spinning seems to be difficult. That got the most oos
and as. Yeah, because I thought the leader in the

(37:41):
clubhouse was skateboarding until I saw that this. I think
they're they're rated on technicality, difficulty, technical difficulty and also swag.
I believe it's the third category. Yeah, music they play,
I play the barge. It's gonna be gonna get points
to DUG. Music selection is number four. Well, I thought
CE and C Music Factory was an excellent choice for

(38:02):
this routine. So how is all of that in play?
And baseball doesn't not in the Olympics. I don't know
when when did somebody go, you know what, we don't
think baseball makes a difference for the Olympics, But why
don't we put in break dancing and skateboarding. I don't
know what the is the IOC. Yeah, the IOC tries

(38:24):
to figure out what's legit and what's not. I guess
it's not enough of a worldwide sport.

Speaker 12 (38:29):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
What they determined. How could you say that the World
Baseball Classic is insanely popular too much to my chagar in,
I don't know. You could. You could easily create a
twelve second tournamentries that don't really have baseball. I guess
what about like Eastern Europe? Do they play baseball? In Russia?
That I don't know, but I mean not everybody's representing
every sport. Do they play baseball? You could just do that.

(38:51):
You could do the Latin American countries and create amazing group.
The question for this is above my head. I don't know.
I just the break dancing bit was ridiculous, and they
don't even use their real names. Does France have a
penalty in the ninetieth minute? But it's plus five whatever
that means? Yeah, plus five minutes? Okay, down three to two? Oh,
so this is to tie the gold play? Do it?

(39:12):
You do it?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (39:12):
You do it? I don't do the play by play.
So this guy from France setting it's not Pele Pelee
was Brazilian. This guy's French. Let's just call him Rischald.
It shoots steps up to the penalty. Oh a piece
of cake, What a mess. France has tied the gold

(39:36):
medal match. How easy was that even a fourth could
do that? The third minute? What drama here at the
even pick key or whatever they call it. I don't
know what is he doing now with his hands? That's
Tierry owen Ree. He's fist pumping. I don't believe that's
fist pumping. That's that's more of a shake weight. He's
fist pumping. You gotta pump it. Okay, I'll see you

(40:00):
next week on that one. Yep, that'll be a Friday
twelve two. Well, depending on how late stand gets out,
we're getting one. That's true. We're getting one step ahead
of the case. That's true. Let's see what else? Anything
else for the first break we can. But I'm just
thinking that we I think we've spanned the world of
sports in the first hour of the show. Yeah, that's
what week. It's Yeah, it's the Mount Thomas Show. It's

(40:21):
anything goes Friday, and I mean anything at this point,
anything Zach descends are going to be around two fifteen,
We're being told, so we'll have that. Oh yes, and
now Florida story wonderful and a very very googleable. Helly
are not today at ten fifty unless they come up
with something better.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I think this is pretty good. What you got. We'll
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Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Here we go with the second hour, the Matt Thomas Showing.
Anything Goes Friday, not a real busy sports that can
kind of feel in the world of the Twitter world
and on the phones. That's why we make it Anything
Goes Friday, just if there's something else you want to
get to. Olympics are wrapping up gold medal game for
USA and tomorrow against France. Yeah, women playing for the

(42:08):
gold medal as well. What time is the They usually
put the basketball a little bit later, six in the morning.
I want to say our time. Don't hold me to that.
They've been playing a little bit later they have. It's
actually been nice. It's been abound two thirty three o'clock.
I guess I mentioned yes to listen to that. I'm
not getting up at six am. No, nobody, nobody's gonna Plus,
you know it's two thirty pm, you liar, Well man,
that's so, could could be two thirty Paris time, you

(42:30):
never know. I think it's two thirty our time. Okay,
I would believe you over me tomorrow it's Google dot Com. No,
I believe I still believe you. I believe you over
me as well. Uh, Astros and Red Sox start a
three game series in Beantown and we'll have it for
you or now, Blanco, Uh, let me give you and
I hate to do this, but we're gonna go with
the sound effects game again on this. Okay, I'm gonna

(42:52):
run through a couple of people, all right, can we
Are you gonna go to the hitters? Yeah, it's gonna
be about everybody. We'll start with a pitch yours first.
That's better. Get get your get your voice warmed up
a little bit. Let me get some of this hot
tea seven one three two one two five seven one.
If you want to join us today seved one three
two one two five seven and he Zach Deessential is

(43:13):
going to join us about two fifteen now Floor Stories
two thirty and hell yeah not at this point, googleble
two fifteen. I'm all jacked up on Mountain dewf. Here
we go, clock hour renew Blanco. Yeah, m hm, Taylor Scott.

(43:36):
It feels about the same as not going as good
as I thought it, all right, h Ryan Presley, Josh Hater, Okay,
twenty fourth you know what those four sound effects? That
sounded like what a team barely over five hundred? Yeah? Hey,

(43:57):
since may first their second in baseball? And alright, how's
that Bullpenny Ara by the way, Oh God, am I
gonna win that? Can I win that?

Speaker 9 (44:06):
I tell?

Speaker 2 (44:07):
I said top five?

Speaker 14 (44:08):
Did I not?

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Let me go?

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Look, but I think the first month was so bad
it's gonna be tough. I think it's gonna be too
much overcome. I do believe if I'm saying I think
there's a puncher's chance, I might have a chance to
what was your what was it a you know you
put your name on it. Actually, let me go, look,
let me go look at what let me bring up
the numb stra wrongest file me go. I just like
saying that. Overall e r A on the season, relievers

(44:31):
only astros are tenth. I got a chance get in
the top five. Cleveland's two point six eight Cleveland may
be the best thing we don't even talk about. Twenty
twenty four. Yeah, relief pitchers. Wow, Astros are tenth overall
in relief pitching, starting pitching. They are fifteenth, but there

(44:55):
was a disastrous first month. Since then they've been second. Okay,
all right, but what was your gut feeling that they
would have a top top five bullpenning r. It's not happening.
A lot of meat on the bone. I can live
with this, as they say, I can live with if
the Caleb Ferguson's not helping you out, I can live
with it, all right. Next up to the lineup, in

(45:17):
no particular order. Okay, Chas McCormick, Jeremy Payne. Eh is it?
How troubling is it you? It's not like Jeremy is
having a horrendous season, But no, I think what we

(45:40):
thought we saw in the postseason of twenty two was
going to take the next step up offensively, and it
just it just hasn't done enough. It's looking like the
twenty twenty two home the twenty two home runs in
twenty twenty two are just just an outlier. How I
don't know, how do you go from twenty two that
year to ten the next year? Nine? This year at

(46:03):
least he's pacing ahead. But yeah, it's a slight bounce
back ops plus last year ninety five this year ninety seven,
but not great. He still can't he needs he can't
decide on a regular basis. He just here's the thing,
he just can't see it. At the start of the season,

(46:24):
he was he was, Uh, there's a Twitter account I fault.
I think it's called Astro's stats. Was putting like he
was line drive many more line drives the start of
the season. Maybe whatever he worked on in the offseason
is kind of wearing off, and and that's very natural,
and get back to it, right right, all right, let's
get back to our list. Uh, this is a little
bias because you are the president of the fan club,

(46:44):
Jake Myers. No, I mean, we gotta be real. John.
That May excellent. May he's been terrible. John Singleton, Eh,
I forgot one picture. You say, Kakuchi mmm needs to
get longer in the games. You don't want to do

(47:08):
it so hard, not the do Kokuchi puns. It's too late.
You're gonna have to. But the problem is you cannot
continue to It's like walking through a minefield. Tough asking
your bullpen to get I would imagine he doesn't want
to rack up the pitch.

Speaker 9 (47:24):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
He walked three guys last time, and he that the
pitch count spiraled a little bit. He got a little
in his first start. He was extremely sharp right after
the first home run, and then he got a little
bit wild. You could tell he was getting a little
a little bit gassed. Yep, all right, one more Zach Decenzo,
uh dis huhm? Who's that is the other team? Honestly,

(47:51):
they need to bring up some Shae Wickham's gonna pay
off for more. I've been meaning to look this up.
Is a Diaz close to some sort of service time
threshold in the ash? Maybe a farewell gift? Yeah, that's
what I'm saying. Are they trying to do him a solid? Yeah,
that's right, Oh, Peter Leon, Yeah, So what's the When

(48:16):
we were doing this in twenty twenty two, we were
going huh oh yeah, yeah, we don't even have an
do you even know?

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
This year, I mean Jordon, but he's not as good
as he was last year. He's really good on the
road and bear a pedestrian at home. He's heating up.
Yeah yeah, but it felt like bregnant. We could do
an Oh yeah, a Jordon? Oh yeah, Altuve is cooled
off a little bit. Yeah, Altuove has been the The
batting average is kind of fooling people, I think, because

(48:44):
he's still hitting around three hundred all singles. Yeah, it's
all singles from him. Let's go to uh Steve and
Cilly at one ten on the Matt Thomas Show. Steve,
thank you for holding good Afternoon.

Speaker 12 (48:55):
Afternoon, Matt. Yeah, just my uh. So on on Zach
so far, Uh, you know, he's six five two twenty
from what I read, and his size is good. I
was excited about that, kind of almost like a Seeger size.
Not that I like the I like the player, not

(49:17):
the team he's on. But uh in pedro leone, I'm
hoping he can turn into a Bob Watson time.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
So whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Bob Watson was
one of the greats. I can I get pedally on
about two sixty. I'd be happy with that Bob Watson.
That's kind of random pick.

Speaker 12 (49:36):
Yeah. I know he hadn't had enough time yet, but
I mean, you know, he had the body size, so
I was just going by the the physical stature of
the too. Maybe Watson's a real shorter I don't know, Okay,
but overall I was excited about the physique of the
two players, and I thought, wow, if I can play
like that, look we got something here.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
So I was excited. Yeah, the thing of it is
and thank you for the phone call when pedro Leon
was brought up. Wait an Alembics dances signed Ross. Honestly,
we were talking about roster spots twenty four, twenty five,
twenty six. These were not going to be difference makers
on this team. I was surprised they they signed as
in the first place, and then got him up here

(50:18):
and then he played I think maybe his first day
up and then he hasn't been seen since he's gotten
He's gotten the U. Kppinger treatment or Kessinger whatever his
name was, uh Grey Kessinger, Kessinger Kessinger, you always call
him Keppinger. A couple of Astros notes Astros Orioles on
August twenty fifth has been picked up by ESPN for
Sunday Night Baseball. Oh is that right? Yes? That means

(50:39):
a late night flight home. Yes, because Sunday usually put
those games in the afternoon. And also Astros officially announced
Verlander rehab start Triple A sugar Land tomorrow night. Hmmm,
you want to go tomorrow night. Very busy. No, I wouldn't.
I mean the space cowboys are nice people, but it's

(51:02):
outside ninety five degrees. No, thank you, no, thank you.
Put a roof over that, bad boy.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
They're on the full on the challenge system, right, yeah,
awesin is sweet? Oh my god, here we go. Fancy Matt.
Why do you want to Why do you want to
sit outside for three hours? Going? Matt? No for you? No,
when's the last time you actually got in? Okay, two
days not in the bedroom? Stop, not in the bedroom.

(51:31):
When is the last time you've got in a full sweat?
Two days ago? Not in the bedroom? Okay, I'm Memphis
on Monday. Did a lot of walking on Monday. That's true,
you were walking in I was a document with my
feet ten feet off of Bill. That's great, Yeah all right.
Seven one three two one two five seventy. When did

(51:52):
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that's a really really really old reference. Seven one three
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Speaker 1 (53:04):
Matt Thomas returns.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
On Sports Talk seven ninety one nineteen.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Anything goes Froddy Ross. It is the Matt Thomas Show.
Friend of the show will not name. This person texted
me said, comparing one of the top dozen astros all
time to a guy who busted down the Big League
door a twenty six years old is rich. Hmmm, I thought,
he said. He just physically reminded him of Bob.

Speaker 10 (53:34):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Okay, it wasn't playing. It could be the next Bob Watson.
Bob Watson listed at six foot, paeder Leone listed at
five nine. Yeah, Pedroleon's got a good right arm. I
just don't know if the right handed bat works. I'm
gonna be honest. I didn't watch Bob Watson play. I
think he retired when I was an infant, and he
retired as an Atlanta Brave, and I remember seeing him
play none. Basically, I do remember his role in The

(53:59):
Bad News Bears was he and he had been play
Let them play. He and Choe Cruise were in that mix. Okay,
so good for them. That's fantastic. Uh So there you
have it on that. What else was I going to
show you on I don't know Twitter, there was something
time all star Bob Watson. Oh, our Facebook page is no, uh,

(54:22):
former general manager of the Astros, Jeff Luno, No, Jerry
Hunt sicker. Bob Watson, Oh, Bob Watson. Yeah, Bob Watson
made a trade when I was very young in this industry. Okay,
I want to say he made a trade with the
San Diego Padres and involved six players each way going
it was one of those twelve players. It was a huge, huge,

(54:43):
multi layer trade that involved I want to say Brad
Oustmus was part of the trade. Don't hold me to that, right,
but it was like it had as as a Shrek
would say, layers to it. Okay. So, and then our
friends at Facebook on the mat on the seven ninety
show page as a question for all of you, should
the Astros go pick up Kevin Bigio who put that

(55:05):
on there a non sports person? We have non sports
people running our seven ninety Facebook account. Kevin Bigio has
been let go from two teams, Toronto and now Los Angeles,
like in the last couple of months. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
I mean I'm wishing the young man the best. Do
you think it's hard to be the son of a
Hall of Famer and then you're you're getting uh, what's

(55:28):
going on the anyways, you're the son of a Hall
of famer and you're getting DFAD twice in a couple
of months. No, because it happens all the time. No,
I'm saying, do you being the son of a Hall
of Famer and getting DFA twice dad in particular? No, okay,
but that happening to players that are sons of great players,

(55:49):
greats and don't live up to it, like Michael Jordan's kids,
et cetera. You see my one of Michael Jordan's kids
got snort and cocaine. I mean, I don't that's a
big difference. Wednesday. Yeah, what happened was he I just
saw the headline. I didn't I didn't even I don't
even particularly care. So it was like one of those situations.
I was like, oh, okay, so there he is. But yeah,

(56:10):
a lot of these athletes that have great dads, we're
not We're not as good as son. The sons weren't
as good. Now, there are a couple of exceptions. Obviously,
Barry Bombs was better than his son. His dad, Bobby
Ken Griffy's junior was better than but you have. Dale
Barrow was never as good as Yogi. I never didn't

(56:32):
even know who Dale Barrow was. Trying to think? Was
Brett Boone? And Aaron Boone as good as Dad Boone?
What was Dad Boone's name? I'm trying to remember what
his name was. I think it was Lancaster. No, it
was not Lancaster Boone. What was Aaron Boone's Bob? Bob Boone?
That's it. Bob was really good. I just guess it
kind of sounded right. Bob was right. Who else has been?

(56:54):
Who else has been? The kid hasn't been as good
I'm trying to think of at least by the way,
Zac Dezenza will be next segment. Oh, we're gonna get
him ahead of times. Nice, Okay, So about eight minutes
he got in the cage, Maddie, Well, you know what,
if we're gonna work on his clock, let's go all right,
So let's do this. Who are some other baseball you
can keep it just a baseball, okay, Who are some

(57:16):
other amazing baseball players? Black Guerrero juniors and great Black Guerrero.
His dad is a Hall of Fame that's close. No,
I would say, right now, he's ahead. He's in the
freaking Hall of Fame. But Guerrero Junior has some work
to do. But that's kind of crazy that they're both
so great. Jose Cruz Junior is not as good as Dad.

(57:38):
He had a little bit of a rockey, but Jose
Senior was better. Ummm, who are some people that are Oh,
Bobby wit junior is gonna be better Bobby wait, I
can tell that for sure. Oh, Bobby Whitt played. It's
a pitcher. Okay. So different positions about Lance pmcallor's junior
and Lance mccolors TVD well. Lance mccullor's junior had more success,

(58:04):
more way, more money. Lance mccullor senior had a pretty
decent career. I'm gonna probably go with Lance mccullors senior
with a better career, but impactful games. Lance mccullor junior
by a landslide, more straight curve balls. Let's go. We'll
always have We'll always have that moment, all right? Seven one, three, two,

(58:25):
one two, five, seven, nine. Let's go to uh Kyle
and sorry, go ahead, Kyle im pairland on seven on
a Hello.

Speaker 9 (58:33):
Kyle Hey, Matt, How are you doing, my friend?

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Good?

Speaker 9 (58:37):
Hey, got a question for you. You're the smartest guy
I know. Uh, do you know what record Bob Watson
has that will never be broken?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
That feels loaded?

Speaker 9 (58:50):
No, No, it's a it's a good it's a it's
a straight it's a straight question. I wouldn't know you
that way.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
All right, he has a it's an a Major League
record or an Astros record.

Speaker 9 (58:59):
No, it's a LB record.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Oh didn't he not score the one million's run?

Speaker 9 (59:03):
See that's why I go to you. You're the smartest guy.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
That's what I'm talking about. Nobody else that can do that.
It's not a record, it's a comment. Yet, where are
we on?

Speaker 9 (59:13):
Why isn't it a record? If it can't be broken,
what is it?

Speaker 2 (59:15):
No, it's just a it's a feat. He's very accomplished. Yeah,
it's not a record a record because records are meant
to be broken. Nobody can break that. Literally, Yeah, okay,
where are we are? We had two million runs? Close
to it matter? Does it ured? Does? Oh? My god?
How many run? Look it up? Google? It's Google's our friend.
How many runs have been scored in major like baseball?
What year did that happen Colin. It was in the
mid seventies, right.

Speaker 9 (59:36):
That was in the mid seventies or late seventies. So
I'm assuming they probably haven't got the two million yet
because look how long the baseball was around before this.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Says has A twenty twenty one. We were at one million,
nine hundred ninety one thousand, eight hundred fours. We got
to be getting closer.

Speaker 9 (59:50):
Yeah, we were damn closely what we probably already passed.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Yeah, Oh, there we go. Yeah it happened in uh Donaldson,
Josh Doon, It just says Donaldson. Okay, there you go.
It wasn't gravy Donalds.

Speaker 9 (01:00:04):
All right, I thought it was something bortant.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
No, No, you got to thank you for the phone
call and thanks for quizzing me. There we go. I
was kind of I'm kind of happening with myself that way.
Matt Man, you're the smartest guy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
You're terrible. Well, I'm sorry, I got a little throat.
You get a lot of things caught in your throat.
Brian Laredo on seven on the Hello, Brian.

Speaker 9 (01:00:26):
Hey, what's up man?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Hi?

Speaker 12 (01:00:29):
I was just thinking about the father son thing. Uh
did you mention Prince Hilda in Cecil.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Yeah, Prince and Cecil uh yeah uh. And then Fernando
Tatis Beyonca sense uh Senior and Jr. On that one, Yeah,
uh is junior, but well junior has more peed suspensions. Yeah,
I would say Tatis senior, Tatis big money. I mean
he hit two Grand Slams in one inning, that's true,

(01:00:56):
But I think Tatis Junior has probably more accomplishments and
a bigger all right, And who's better, Prince or or Cecil.

Speaker 16 (01:01:04):
I think Prince Prince probably would have done it if
he had.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
He had a neck injury right and retired. Yeah, and
he was never in shape, nor was his dad for that.

Speaker 13 (01:01:12):
It was really good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
They hated each other.

Speaker 10 (01:01:16):
Yeah, was pretty good too though back in the day.

Speaker 13 (01:01:19):
Yeah, Tiger.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Let's look Prince field six time All Star, three hundred
and nineteen home runs, Prince fielder, Cecil fielder three time
All Star. But is this true? Three nineteen No way,

(01:01:41):
ye ended on the same home run number?

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
What was there playing weights? That's I mean, listen, that's
a tire breaker, right listed Wait, two seventy five for
Prince no chance and two thirty for Cecil no chance.
Great greater Lie goes to to Cecil career ops eight
twenty seven. And I believe they don't stay to each other,
correct eight eighty seven. Seven For Prints, No, I don't.

(01:02:05):
I don't think they like each other. It's good. So
three more All Star games, same amount of home runs
and more ops. I'm going with Prints. Okay, that sounds good,
all right. Zach Descendral is gonna join us in a
few minutes here on the Matt Thomas Show. Let's go
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maybe in Houston radio is brand new. Astro guy was
tearing the cover off the ball in sugar Land and
now enjoying life as a major leaguer. Zach decenzels with

(01:03:32):
us on the Matt Thomashow. Zach gets Matt and Ross.
First of all, thank you for joining us. Second of all,
congratulations on the call up. In third imagine you're in
probably very pleasant Boston's compared to being in Houston, Texas
playing a one hundred degree weather. How good is your
life right now?

Speaker 13 (01:03:47):
Yeah? Absolutely? First off, I appreciate you guys having me on.
Thank you so much. This is an absolute pleasure in
mind to be on the show. But yeah, man, we
just got to Boston last night and I got to
or sorry two nights ago, got to explore the city
a little bit yesterday. Whether it's a lot nicer than
being down in South tex Let's I can tell you that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Hey, no argument on that. Tell me as a current player,
bought you as first meal yet or it's at the
wait a while for that kind of thing.

Speaker 13 (01:04:16):
Now, Yeah, I think it's something I'll probably have to
wait for and earn. But nothing like that has happened yet.
It's still fairly new. I think this was like my
third or fourth day here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
So well, all a text Bregman, he owes you at
least one or two meals? Hey, how are you enjoying
it so far? First of all, I always like to
get the backstory about the call up, Who told you
and how hectic was your life, not only getting a
backpacked and joining the team, but trying to get mom
and dad and the family to to see you play
in person.

Speaker 13 (01:04:43):
Yeah, I got the call. It was Monday night. We
were in sugar Land, just got back from a road
trip and round rock. So got the call from my
manager Mickey's story. I think it was a little bit
past midnight, so really late. He called me, shared the news.
Obviously very overwhelmed, lots of emotions. Flight out of Houston

(01:05:07):
Tuesday morning. I think it was kind of the morning,
and yeah, it just was kind of scrambling trying to
get family and friends and everybody kind of situated to
come down and see me debut. So but it was
obviously a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
So how are you feeling now? Is your head still spinning?
Are you still kind of trying to pinch yourself and
saying is this real?

Speaker 9 (01:05:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
On the road with the team in Boston.

Speaker 13 (01:05:31):
Yeah, I feel a little bit more settled in now.
I think in the first game out of the way
kind of helped me calm my nerves. Played a little
better baseball that second game. But yeah, man, being the
being able to travel with the team and come to
Boston play a start Fenway Park is obviously super cool
for me too. So I'm still trying to kind of
take it all in here, and I'm really just, you know,

(01:05:52):
enjoying this, enjoying this journey that I'm on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
So, first game they had you at d H then
at first base. Number one on how comfortable are you
at first base? And number two, what have conversations been like,
either with Joe or management about how you'll be used?

Speaker 8 (01:06:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:06:09):
I think you know, I've gotten a lot of reps
at first base since I started my professional career. Obviously
came out of college as a short stop, kind of
transfer more to playing third, and recently been playing a
lot more first. So I feel very comfortable there. I
think I can I can get the job done at
you know, either first or third base wherever they need me.
Haven't had any super in depth conversations about, you know,

(01:06:32):
their plan for me, but I kind of get to
feel that they want to provide some some depth at
first base for now with me, So I think that's
their main intention.

Speaker 9 (01:06:42):
Zach.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
It's low hanging fruit for us baseball novices and for
fans to call and say, well, you know, a guy
doesn't move very well, or it's not a great defensive player,
go play first base. I think it's just not very
wise of anybody to say, because first and foremost, you know,
Jeff Bagwell when you were a kid, was one of
the best defensive first base when the Astros everhead and
still remains as part of this organization. But for our audience,

(01:07:06):
take us through the intricacies of what difficulties first base
is that the average fan just wouldn't be able to
see besides just watching a ground ball come your way.

Speaker 13 (01:07:16):
Yeah, I always tell people first base. There definitely is
an art to it. You know, it's definitely unique compared
to the other free and field spots in my opinion,
So there it is an art and there are some
some intestacies that you need to learn. I think for me,
the biggest one is obviously just the full work around
the bag, you know, getting comfortable working my foot work

(01:07:37):
around first base so I can put myself in the
best possible position to catch the ball clean and just
make sure that I securely out for my team. Obviously
you have your you know, your bund situations as well,
similar to third base, where you have to kind of
be a little bit more in on the cut and

(01:07:57):
also the double play footwork is it is definitely different
compared to any of the other spots. So just kind of
worked on those things obviously has made me a little
bit more comfortable at the position. But yeah, it's definitely
unique and there's certainly an art to it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Zach descendso with us here on the Matt Thomas Show
for a few minute more minutes. Look, any kid, and
I want to call you a kid because it's fun
to be called a kid. Has a lot of pressure
making that big jump from triple eight to the major
leagues and look your air absorbing at all and you
love it, but you're in the middle of a pennant race.
I mean this is this is a double doozy for
you in terms of trying to not only make your
way into a major league roster, but try to help

(01:08:31):
out a team to try to win a division.

Speaker 17 (01:08:34):
Right.

Speaker 13 (01:08:34):
Yeah, absolutely, I understand the importance of my role here
on this team. I understand where we're at and the race.
So yeah, I mean, obviously, my my goal is not
just to play good baseball for myself, but for for
Houston and to you know, help you know, this team
and you know, just kind of be a tool that

(01:08:56):
they can use wherever they need me. So that's my
that's my main goal.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Are you I know you're a former Oal House state kid, correct,
there Are you going to be getting into a lot
of fights with people over football teams coming up with
the season starting in a month away or is that
kind of just that you don't even know if that's
taboo conversations at this point.

Speaker 13 (01:09:14):
Yeah, I obviously root for for the buck guys, not
super I'm not like a diehard football guy, so there
won't be any there won't be any altercations with me.
But yeah, obviously I really enjoy watching and supporting the
High State college athletics and looking forward to the football
season starting again. It's gonna be it's gonna be exciting year,
I think for High States.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Did you ever cross pass with CJ. Straw at all?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:09:39):
Yeah, I think on a couple occasions we did. I
don't know CJ personally, but we were involved, I think
together and an athlete Bible study on campus. I think
we went to a couple of those once or twice together.
So I CJ is a guy's very strong in the States,
and I think I think you know as well. So

(01:10:00):
I think we both kind of cross paths at that.
But that's about it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
So Zach doz Enzo with us here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. How are you feeling about your first couple
of games at the plate And is there anything that
they told you when you got here about tinkering or
approach or are they just kind of let you do
your thing and then go from there.

Speaker 16 (01:10:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:10:23):
I think the first games are first couple of games
were great. Obviously a lot of nerves going into that
first one might have been pressing a little bit just
kind of make things happen. But the second game, I
was a lot more settled in and comfortable, and I
think it showed so. But yeah, I think, you know,
the coaches here are great.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
There.

Speaker 13 (01:10:42):
They kind of sat me down and talked to me
before I debuted, and we're like, you know, hey, we're
just gonna let you go play. We know what you're
capable of. We want to see what you can do,
and we're not gonna, you know, try to mess with
you or do anything you know, too in depth, too
complicated or after bat. So I'm yes, it's been good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Have you had a chance to look at the wall
yet and Fenway just to kind of just see it,
because it's one thing being in playing in front of it,
it's compared to watching it on television. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:11:06):
Actually, just about twenty minutes ago, stepped outside in the
dug out and kind of looked around and took in
Fenway and obviously very very cool with just superhistoric park.
And you know, you see a lot of stuff on
and growing up as a kid and you watch a
lot of games and just reallyreal, surreal and it's a
blessing to be here. I think I'm gonna go actually,

(01:11:26):
right after I get off the phone with you and
go check out behind the Wall. Maybe get a signature
up on it too, so that'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Hey, we'll let you do that. Congratulations. A lot of
folks are very happy to see you as an astro
and now as compared to crushing like you worry for
the short time that you were with sugar Land, and
we wish you nothing but the very best. It's a
pleasure having you on my show today. And have a
great weekend in Boston and we'll talk again soon. Thanks
again for the visit.

Speaker 13 (01:11:48):
Absolutely, thank you guys so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
We got it. Zach de Cenzo with us here on
the Matt Thomas Show. Maybe one of the top five
most polite astros are a head on the show period.
In the story, very nice and I wish him nothing
but the very best. I'm wishing him of a lot
of good things. Yeah, we got we got some good ones.
Arrag Getty was good with us, Zach was fantastic. We
just hurt him there. We got some We got some
young kids. They're gonna be very nice contributor to the

(01:12:10):
Matt Thomas He's twenty four polite to call him a kid?
He's a kid, No, he's not. How about a young man?
Young adult? Yes? I almost wanted to say, you get
your first home run this, I mean it's an easy
ballparky at home run?

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Yeah, be fine. Would you rather if you were to
hit your first home run at Fenway? Would you rather
do it against Pesky's poll or go up to the
top of the wall at the wall? I would say
in all of baseball, you would. It's more macho in
the left wall.

Speaker 13 (01:12:39):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
I'm a I'm a lefty mat. I don't know if
I'm going opo. I don't know if I'm getting it
out of the infield the first place. But if there's
anywhere in my life that I would like to sit
way up high as you know, I'm a I'm a
fellow god. Here we go, fancy Matt. I want to
set above the green Monster. Okay, go do it. We didn't.
Wasn't it sacrile when they put seats up there? People

(01:13:01):
are upset? Yeah, but people get upset about having the
big jumbo scoreboard at Frigley Field too. But they got
bad about the pitch clock. You get over it and
think it's mad about anything. The greatest I got mad
about moment I think in these parts in the last
ten years was the Astros are going to the American League.
I'll never watch them again. Never watch you liar. Y'all
are liars. You're on the parade route twice you were there.

(01:13:25):
You don't care, and we won't care much. When the
Astros and A's play each other in five years in
Vegas on a regular basis, I'll be a little hot.
I'm gonna tell you right now, I will pay for
the trip. Okay, let's go. I'm right write this one down.
Cut it as long as the Astros put it, as
long as the Rockets are I'm playing an NBA finals game.
Here we go. Well, five years, are you kidding me?

(01:13:47):
We'll be at least two finals by then. Okay, let's
bet on that you can clip this as well, clipping
things clip free. That if the the Astros and as
for their first ever series, okay, if you're still employed here,
then I will pay for the first See it's a
done deal. Well no, it's not. Oh that I'll be here. No, no,

(01:14:08):
this can be done. Deal with the asker for play
in the eighties, you I don't know, think we'll see.
There's no guarantee on that. No guarantee seven one three
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Speaker 7 (01:15:13):
Thomas Fun Sports Talk seven ninety, Your Rockets, your astros,
your voice.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Welcome back to the Bat Thomas Show. Sports Talk seven
ninety Rosby Real with you. Thanks to Zach Desonzo for
joining us. Good conversation with.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
The young lad.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
That's actually something I try to not do is call
young players kids, because I mean, you're old enough to
vote twenty four, you're certainly old enough to I don't know,
have a family and support a family or do whatever.
So anyways, but Matt wants to call him a kid,
and that's okay, that's as prerogative as well. I'm not
hating or judging or anything like that. But Zach Dezenzo,
good conversation there. We got non Florida stories coming up

(01:16:07):
at two thirty, believe it or not. After that, highly googleable,
and I I'm gonna try my best to make it entertaining.
I think it could be. Here's the problem. You have
been mentioning this topic and it's now on my phone.
I'm telling you our phones, the algorithms know exactly what
we're saying at all times, perhaps because I haven't googled

(01:16:30):
what you brought up. I haven't typed it into my phone.
I mean, Olympics has probably come up on your tab, right, yeah, so,
and it is one of the most popular Olympic things
going on today. Oh bit, Now there's wrestling going on, now, okay,

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that's good. Wrestling's fun. I don't exactly know how they
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that's one and done. Yeah, that's interesting. Then none of
them uses illegal substances like Bulgaria or Iran. This is
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(01:17:11):
Iraq number one? Bulgariata all right? He was you know,
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Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
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are banning if they're in the Fantasy League and you
draft to a tongue of Ala. They're banning people from
saying making naming their team hawk tua. Who's banning them?
Just people? Are you banning? It is your commission of
our League. I don't know if I'm going to ban it,
but it's a little on the nose. Let me tell
you what that you're gonna do it, aren't you? We

(01:17:41):
gonna make it out this young woman is going to
be a millionaire before you know. Maybe she already is
right already for for saying some flip or mark on
an interview on Twitter, Yes or Instagram or wherever whatever
it originated, it absolutely worked. And now she's like awkwardly
being brought on stage at concerts. Yes, it's like, what
do you hear for? I think we know what she's

(01:18:02):
there for. She's not doing that there. Well, I mean
you never know where those pre concert get togethers a
route I would be let it be illegal in public.
She probably would have been arrested. Okay, hmm, all right,
this says ask madd a trivia question. Oh well, we

(01:18:24):
used to do Google mt where you would google things
for people. Yeah, but I'm not great on trivia in general,
but you know what I mean, I'm curious. Q is
with us at one fifty two on the Matt Thomas
Shall Q. What do you got today?

Speaker 6 (01:18:36):
Man?

Speaker 12 (01:18:36):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
You absolute greatest. I haven't heard you. Yeah, man, I
got here we go. Oh, I'm scared of since the
very beginning. All right, what you got?

Speaker 14 (01:18:51):
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:18:52):
Who is the only player to have hit for the
cycle for two different teams?

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
And one of them is the Astros. If you want
a clue, I give it to you.

Speaker 12 (01:19:03):
Years.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Is this one player has done that? Only only one?
Is this a current player? I have no idea. This
is not this is not current? No, okay, Pete Rose, No,
he said one. He said it was an ask. I'm sorry, Uh,
Jimmy Wynn, No, sir, who is it? Tell us, Bob Watson.

(01:19:32):
I should have known. Thanks c Yeah, you're very you're
very nice. But you know what, I'm not a I'm
not a trivia I'm not a trivia guy. Thank you,
Bob for the phone call. This says the Adrian Beltray
has done it. Babe Herman has done it. Oh oh,

(01:19:53):
que you hear that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
You're wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
There's been a lot of guys have done it. I
didn't say he was the only one. I just shouldn't
make Did you said he's the only player ever to
do it? You just said that exclusively. Yes, we heard you.
We can try to pull the audio, but nabemn for
the Brooklyn Robins and the Chicago Cubs in nineteenth Teddy Faye,

(01:20:18):
let me ask you, why did they talk like that
back in the day? Did we talk like this on
the radio?

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
It sounds like you now you'res a little different. You
got an old man and Jerry Seinfeld mixed together. What's
the deal with Adrian Beldrey? He did it with the
Mariners and did it twice as a ranger. Yeah, I don't. Yeah,
No more trivia. I mean, we love we love trivia
trivia where yeah, which was fun for a while, and
there was a certain host that worked up here that

(01:20:45):
used to google the answers in the middle of the segment.
No way, I will not name names. Does it rhyme
or something? I'm not rhyming it. I'm just gonna leave
it at that. Do I know this person? Yes? You do,
very well. That's done. I'm not answering anymore to break
I will tell you, Okay, that seems good. Yeah, I don't.

(01:21:06):
It's trivia generally speaking on radio, does not work great
that it's not reverse trivia. It's kind of fun, but
when you get like five questions in a row that
are are not trivia. It's like weird minutia. Yeah, because
again you have to have like a really good judge
to say, oh, those guys should know the answer to that,
like who was the leading vote getter for the All

(01:21:26):
Star Game in nineteen eighty three. Yeah, oh my god, trivia.
That's not trivia. That's just as Wasting Times would say,
not trivia. That is trivial. Now that voice sounds familiar.
I can't pinpoint it, but it just sounds familiar. Okay. Uh,
final hour of the show coming up in a matter
of moments. Yes, uh, it's jam packed. Well those it

(01:21:50):
isn't Dezenzo anymore, noice enzo. Uh that was really good,
by the way, I was really happy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Yeah. Uh after the playing first base, let's go keep
them out there. But you know what, and I thought
it was I wanted to know. I think people guessing
that first base is a piece of cake to play
is just fooling themselves. No, it's different. It's a different animal.
As he said, it's an art. It's I mean, cerebrally,
it's different from center field. Go catch the ball, track

(01:22:17):
it down and then throw it in. Now, in fairness,
it is the easiest of the infield positions. But I
don't think rossy any position. I don't think defense in
baseball is easy easiest. Yeah, it's it takes the least
athletic ability, but it might take the most brain power.
And I'll tell you what. In twenty twenty four, you're
covering more territory. You see how far back John Singleton

(01:22:40):
plays when you're not holding the runner or any first
basement that matter. I don't think if you would to
look at first basement back in say nineteen eighty five,
I don't think they're covering as much ground as they
are in twenty twenty four. Probably not. I think I
think the average first basement is a significantly better athlete
than it is than it was thirty years ago, because
I mean, if you were an old school baseball, which
we do have for quite a few of them, you

(01:23:02):
did put your sucky, fat, slobby first baseman, a player
at first base or behind the dish. Yeah, you can't
do that anymore either, because you're pitch framing and you
are trying to throw out runners and you're trying to
end the softball beer league. You can throw him back there. Yeah,
by the way, you're not framing up anything. I meant
to tell you something you did, and I'm gonna take

(01:23:22):
you coming out to start at the final hour of
the show about what I'm furthering, a changing of the
stance about something we've argued about in baseball. Are you
coming on on my side? I am now one hundred
percent on your side on something. Let's go. You don't
even know what it is, dude, I don't know. I
don't know. I told you, But whatever it is, you're

(01:23:43):
going to win when we come back one fifty six.
It is the Matt Thomas Show seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety Ross is mostly bad takes he has.
I'm now fully on his side on one ticular notion
in baseball. Have that plus non Florida stories. It's Sports

(01:24:04):
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
You all one on Sports Talk seven ninety. Is there
a song you like to play because you're so right
so few odd times? Is there a song like I
told you so, or you I was right, you were wrong.
I'm sorry, Brenda Lee, No, I'm not. I'm sorry. It's

(01:24:32):
we have a drop. You are not young, play because
my computer doesn't worry you weren't wrong about this. I'm
just telling you this is a philosophy you have that
I am fully coming to your side on Okay, songs
about a green or we can work it out, not
really doesn't work. Yeah, that's all right. You want to
go see Wonder and we can work it out. Or Beatles.
Beatles was the og? Right, Yeah, let's go. Let's go
to Beatles for a little. We could work it out. Okay,

(01:24:53):
because it's a great song. Let's go with somebody with
some soul. You've you've wrote, got your mona here. Just
don't don't ruin it, you get a little weak. Whatever.
M greatest rock band of all time, greatest pops band
of all time, whatever, turn it up. Paul McCartney goes

(01:25:22):
a way better singer than John. Right, I'm a Paul McCartney.
If you're a Beatles fan, you love them all, but
you still have to decide Paul or John. And the
worst is, of course Ringo. That's true, unroude a song
about being in an octopus's gun And okay, fine, Ringo,
here you go. You also did sing a little help
of my friends. Great song, that's decent, and what Yellow Submarine?

(01:25:44):
Didn't he just write a monch? Ringo sucks and Ringo
had a creepy song you're sixteen, you're beautiful in your mind.
That's a little weird, that's a little past. But it
was great and he was a great in concert. Me
and Peyton saw him a few months ago. Was he
It was great. It was the auto tuned, No, it
was not two played some mediocre drums and did the
mediocre singing. Great job, Ringo and brought the house down
several thousand people an he won doing great. I don't know,

(01:26:06):
I want to be having any audience. Where was it? No,
it was that Uh it was at the station. It
was next to Mirage Treasure, no other direction. Oh, Bolagio, Bellagio,
that's it. It was at the Bolagio. Yeah, for real,
beautiful ballroom too.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Congratulations to ring Thank you performing in his eighties because
he can get it, he can get the money. I
paid like one hundred and fifty bucks a ticket for
that thing. Too, good seats because you're not a Beatles
love was spectacular. It was spectacular. All right, you're writing
no Ross and I have not disagreed, but you have.

(01:26:44):
You are way more into letting technology affect everything. I
tend to pick and choose where I want my technology.
I like instant replaying. I wish we had more of
it in all sports. Yes, but I'm gonna tell you
something right now. Every single night, I am watching Major
League managers getting tossed because of bad umpiring behind home plate,

(01:27:08):
getting called out and instead of just taking the all
and saying I screwed up, they're not only making the
calls wrong behind the dish because of pitch framing, but
then they're tossing to managers when the managers call them
out of their crap and I'm done with it. I
am done with it. Let's go to automatic strike zone
with the robots, with the computer screen, whatever we have
to do. Homeplate umpiring in twenty twenty four, and I've

(01:27:32):
been watching baseball since I was seven years old, is
that it's all time worst. It's it's ridiculous because then
they get pompous about it because exactly what's happened defensive
because they're the ones that are mad. And I understand
it's a hard job and a lot of times they
miss it on the edge and it is extremely difficult.
And that's why I think the umpire's union should be

(01:27:53):
in favor of this. We are saving you a headache.
They're getting crushed every day by every base. You just
won't call balls and strikes. You can still hang out
back there, you can still be the crew chief, you
can still go with you know, calling out and safe
at home. Somebody needs to appeal to the third and
first on check swings. There are a million jobs, a

(01:28:16):
million jobs that the homeplate umpire has to do. You're
taking away one of them. And it's the one that
gets you criticized the most and gives you the most
headaches and then get you mixing it up with managers.
You wouldn't have to worry about it. So here's how
it's working out these days. In twenty twenty four, umpires
are missing calls behind the dish, manager barks or pitching
coach barks from the dugout, and instead of just hearing

(01:28:39):
it and saying, look, I goofed up, I'll get the
next one. Yeah, they get mad, they toss them and
it makes them look worse and you're getting Aaron Boone
gets tossed out because a fan is screaming and at somebody. Yeah,
you can get the one hundred percent of the calls
right or as close I think they said, within a
millimeter or two. That's close enough. Clough asking a stupid question,

(01:29:01):
and this is this may sound completely stupid. What about
putting the the humplate umpire behind the pitcher's mount or yeah,
because here's what's happening. These picture these pitch frames are
coming in and they're gliding the ball in right and
to the television. To us watching it, we see what
the catcher is doing. Maybe the umpire can't see where

(01:29:24):
that glove is going and being moved around. So yeah,
it's a mess, and I'm tired of watching it. And
I don't even have a dog in the fight. But
there was a ejection in the Oh. It was Atlanta
Saint Louis game. Who's the co avanager of the Braves.
It's the hitting knicker Brent Snicker, Brian Snicker, Brian Snicker.

(01:29:46):
He had never been tossed this year until I had
been tossing thing ever. But he's like, enough's enough, because
these guys have the video in their dugouts. They're watching
these calls being blown. Yes, and I'm with I am.
I was, I was like, if Brian's netcker gets tossed,

(01:30:07):
then I know something's really goofy and wrong. Yeah, and
you can't even see the bottom of the zone. The
umpires they go to like cam you can't even see
down there. You're guessing, literally a guy with a mask
with his view blocked by a catcher and sometimes the hitter,
you know, is swinging a bat and all that stuff.
You've got to block view your guessing balls and strikes,

(01:30:29):
and everyone at home can see it. Everyone on the
in the dugout can see it and know, Like when
not at the game, I pull up the d MLB
app and I see how the umpire's doing. I don't
want to have to do that. And frankly, you know
whose fault this is. It's Baseball's because they put the
damn box in there. Yeah, that's true. It doesn't help.
I think when you take away the box it is
it is way harder to judge. So as much as

(01:30:50):
this pains me, thank you, Matt, Welcome to the dark.
Let's let's go with an automatic strike zone because if
it delays things a little bit or there's there's a
you have to refine the zone or calibrate to get
the calls right because it's it's embarrassingly bad. How I

(01:31:11):
think these gentlemen of a very difficult job are made
to look bad because the box doesn't lie. That's the
thing that I mean. I guess we don't have an
official statement from the Umpire's union, but my guess and
my feeling is that they are against it other or
resistant to it. I guess do they really love calling
balls and strikes or do they think they have such

(01:31:33):
a honed skill that I mean, that's the hardest thing
that they probably do, right, that any any old body
can can can be an umpire as long as you
if you don't have to call balls and strikes. That's
the kind of the hardest part of the job. It's
about rules interpretations and you know. And again if you
if you miss a bunch of calls, are gonna kick
you out, but larger they don't because you have backup,
so we put it back. Yeah, last DA is still

(01:31:54):
going out there.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
JB.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
Buckner and the Angel before he retired to be butler.
Let's sorry, what did I say, JB? Yeah, same thing
you were thinking about, JB. Tip trying to get a
new Home. Uh yeah, C B. Bucknore excuse me Buckner
or buck Nor. He's terrible. Las Da is terrible. See
you later, Angel Herd and Joe West was terrible and

(01:32:17):
out of shade and pompous. Yeah. And that's the thing
about these umpires there. If you grow up to be
an umpire or a referee, you've got an automatic like
some automatic snark and uh, pompousness and righteousness in your DNA.

(01:32:39):
I think it. Yeah, maybe comes with the territory of
somebody who wants a job to wear. They're going to
be in charge. Thank got it and do that. No,
I knew my limits. That's that's good, Matt. Although you
said you wish you would cook you could go back. Yeah,
I wish I could. I mean I should have. I
should have at least tried. I want to say if
I could do it, Yeah, because I love sports so much.
It was because I wanted to arrange. In fact, when

(01:33:00):
I used to umpire somtball, I did it for about
five or six years. If you didn't know who I
was and you didn't argue with me, I took great
to lae. I didn't want to get in arguments with people. Now,
if they were arguing with me about rules, I lived
for that because I knew the rules and they didn't.

(01:33:21):
But judgments are tough because who's to say that their
their dec isn't their judgment isn't better than mine. But
safe enout. You got to get right. The hardest thing
for me was getting tags, because again, you got to
sell the tag. If you make the tag, If you
don't sell the tag, you you know, and then you
know interpretations of rules. And if you don't know the rules,

(01:33:41):
that's one thing. But we're watching strikes, we're watching pitch
framing becoming an easy way to get a bunch of people.
And it's hard enough it is to get a major
league hit. It just is. Yeah, it's also hard to
throw a strike too. I mean it's not easy. Period.
You're completely changing the complexion of at bats every night,
going from two to one to one two is huge.
Any hit or a picture will tell you that, Yeah,

(01:34:03):
it changes the rest of the at bat. It does
what you're gonna throw next, where you're gonna if you're
gonna shorten up your bat. When from when Frober is
trying to throw no hitter and he's he's walking a
guy on a strike. Yeah, let's go to Itto and
talk to Rob on the Matt Thomas Show. Rob, how
are you.

Speaker 18 (01:34:20):
Fantastic better than I deserve?

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Go ahead.

Speaker 18 (01:34:27):
I've got a question about the uh automated startomatic strike
zone that's going to be coming. How would that box
work with say Jose Altuve versus say Aaron Judge. Not
the size of the strike zone, you just.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
You just recalibrate it. That's why I say you the
screen would calibrate the strike zone. It would take about
probably two or three seconds as a batter comes to
the plate.

Speaker 18 (01:34:54):
That when you watch a game on TV, it seems
like the box is just about the same for everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
Uh, I disagree. It looks especially when all tube gets
up there, it looks really small.

Speaker 17 (01:35:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Maybe, and they were calibrating. I mean this is something
they've been tinkering, uh and doing for for several years.

Speaker 18 (01:35:18):
Well, I think it would make a big difference, especially
with the amount of calls that have been missed. It's
just been turned into a big joke.

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
It's, you know, an ansident is thank you Rod for
the phone call. It's just a big joke. And I
don't want maseball the great sport that I love to
be a joke. But we're watching managers being kicked out
every single night over calls their right about now in
the umpire's defense, quickly on this. If Ross, if I'm

(01:35:47):
on part I blow the call, I'm gonna let you
say what you need to say. But there's gonna be
a certain level of enough is enough. And that's where
I think the managers. Sometimes managers start bitching and moaning
to get tossed because fires up their team. And also
you also think that if you say all these things,
you just let loose and it lets you get a

(01:36:09):
lot of frustration out for the cost of one ejection.
So there's a fine line of that. I know when
I used to Again, I'm not trying to put myself
in the same category insert but when I used to
mPire little league, when I was in high school and
college and doing softball and I was a young adult,
if I blew a call and we all did, I
had to hear it for a while. Yes, within rare
one with within within reason, until they start talking about

(01:36:31):
your mama, yeah, or how fat I was and that
and I didn't like that. Why did that happen?

Speaker 14 (01:36:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
Okay, that's why I started losing weight. But that's right.
You know you would appreciate I was a softball on fire.
I was working by myself on these games. Yes, and
when there was a call second base, I wanted to
make sure I was close as I could be. And
nobody took a crowbar to your knee. Well, especially the
guy that had the prison monitor on his ankle. You
were only threatened once, right, Well. Notes to everybody out there,

(01:36:57):
if you're in the Saint Paul Civic League, want to
go out to the suburbs umpire games. I'm just saying
seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety non
flora story. Mine's coming from England today. Oh, jolly old England,
jolly o England. Okay, and that'll be coming up to
the bottom of the ear. We have a helly garon
out of two fifty and in handball or is this
field hockey? Oh, field hockey? This is bad for their backs.

(01:37:19):
They've been down the whole match. This has got to
be backbreaking player for number four. Her name is Mose
For the Netherlands. Is the Netherlands versus China who has
a one nothing lead in the fourth. Oh, it's been
a tight Look how big that crowd is too in
a defensive battle? Wait, you people there in that France
will go to anything they get seed fillers, right, but
look how many people? There's thousands of people there for that?

(01:37:41):
Yeah you ever been no handball match? It's not handball
field hockey? Excuse me, No, have not, And honestly it
doesn't look that entertaining. Let me ask you this, what's
the difference between this and in lacrosse? Lacrosse is the
ball is in the air, the webs in the webbing
of their nets. Yeah, this is this looks like back pain.
This is like ice hockey, except it's just not on
ice the puck or the ball or whatever state case.

(01:38:02):
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Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
This is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
All right, we may have lost ross for the segment.
It wasn't supposed to be because beach volleyball is on,
which I'm really asking for him to put on the television.
But now break Dancing is back on. They have DJ
spinning records on this thing. Oh it's getting high. Hey,
can we go lie to this or is that? Is
that not legal? Aren't we Olympic spots?

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
I think so. Can we just pull it up? Oh
it's India from the Netherlands versus sick.

Speaker 19 (01:39:31):
This is absolutely ridiculous. This is absolutely Now there's a
referee in there doing a hand sign. What o yeslous,
do not listen to Ross. I will never change button
the pilot with the venues hola snap. Oh oh, it's
to the bronze battle.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
I look how they're calling it a battle and they
have pseudonyms and DJs and this is the Olympic. This
is embarrassing. I think it's freaking why the Olympics should
be stopping. This is awesome. No, it's not awesome. Don't
listen to him, all right. By the way, before you
let me further, it's time for you to fess up.
There has to be something that I have given you
have changed your opinion on based off of my take

(01:40:14):
from you. Yeah, there has to be. I mean I've
given you so much wisdom over the years. I mean
it's more of the example of what not to do
from you. Uh. I'll let you think about it, because
I mean, tell me a lot to figure it out too.
I enjoyed the Beatles more than I used to. All right,

(01:40:34):
I'll take that as a small win. How about that.
By the way, somebody says George is the worst singer
of the Ford. I disagree. Ringo and I love Ringo.
I went saw Ringo two months ago. Ringo's the worst
of the four singers. Yes, I would agree with that. George,
I don't know who sings every shot. Something is One
is one of the Beatles all time great songs sung

(01:40:56):
by George. Okay, so yeah, back off. George is not
the worst. Okay, now, oh, here we go. I'll try
to bring up the Oh now we can focus this thing. Wait,
we got the bronze mental batch. Austria versus Sweden. Disc
is not going to end badly for either one of
us Switzerland Switzerland, as you why that's right? Swee Switzerland. Yeah,
like in she let us sweets US from the Swiss. Okay,

(01:41:19):
without looking at the two teams because they're in the
commercial break. Okay, who do you think we should be
rooting for? I'm rooting for Australia the Aussias. Why not?
Oh you mean what do you mean should be rooting for?
What do you mean by that? Who do you think
will wind up rooting for?

Speaker 14 (01:41:35):
Why?

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
Why? I mean? I would be a neutral observer. I
can root for both teams. I'm rooting for everyone. I'm
rooting for a good game. I'm rooting for what I
look at when I come back from I'm rooting. I'm
rooting for it to come down to a third set
no matter what. Okay, I'll let you know who I'm
rooting for as soon as I get back to the
live action. Let's talk to uh in Central Florida, the
entire central part of the state, Central Florida. Our buddy

(01:41:58):
sounds with us here on the Matt Thomas Show, Good Afternoon,
Only punch up here. I sal, I heard him for
a second. I sal, hey, Matt, how are you good friend?

Speaker 17 (01:42:09):
You know tonight when the Astros play in Boston they
are going to boo Altuve unmercifully. And we were up
in Toronto when the Astros played last month, and of
course they booed Altuve, they booed Bregman, and when Springer
came up, they cheered like crazy. So I interacted with
some of the fans. I said, why are you not
booing Springer? Don't you realize he was the MVP of

(01:42:32):
the World Series. They all had dumbfounded looks about them.
They had no idea why they were. They didn't say anything.
They just the word well, they've just laughed or looked away.
They had no comment. So my comment about this is
in Boston, Cora was the mastermind.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Of the whole situation.

Speaker 17 (01:42:52):
Yes, you know, so if they if they boo Altuve
and Bregman, they should be booing their own manager also.
But of course that's crazy. But anyway, I just wanted
to get my two cents in about that. But you know,
you know, I listen all the time, and I hear
all these people wanting to run a spot out of town,
and I cannot believe with what he's had to run

(01:43:14):
out there every day, with all the injuries and all
the things. Honestly, if they win the division, I believe
he will.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Get some votes.

Speaker 17 (01:43:24):
And I mean he's not going to win it. The
guy in Cleveland is going to get that's correct, but
he will he will get some votes if he wins
the division, considering all the injuries and what he's.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Had to deal with this year.

Speaker 17 (01:43:35):
So anyway, I just I don't want to hear any
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 17 (01:43:39):
He's he's done a fabulous job at what he's had
to work with. If he has any any faults at all,
it's that he's incredibly loyal to the players.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
That he's been with the last six seven years. And
I mean that's not a bad thing, No, he has
been loyal, he's paid his dues, and look, has he
been perfect. No, would he be the first one to
say that he'll be a different manager this year than
he will be or next to that he will be
this year. Of course, anybody's gonna be different in their
first year of running the ship. But for the numerous
injuries and the numerous failures of this team, i e.

(01:44:09):
Free teams that have players have acquired, it's been a
pretty damn good job. I mean, I don't I don't
think anybody else would have come in here and said,
this is a team that's going to play fifteen games
about five hundred based off what they've what this roster
has been put together this year.

Speaker 17 (01:44:22):
Absolutely absolutely, Okay, one last combat, you were absolutely on target.
Orlando has the most tolls.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
In the country.

Speaker 17 (01:44:30):
See, you're absolutely on target about that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
I'm telling you. I feel so bad for you, sal
because you can't go on a street without paying two
seventy five ridiculous.

Speaker 17 (01:44:39):
That's why we have something called the Sun Pass, and
it's kind of like what you have in Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
For the tolls there.

Speaker 17 (01:44:45):
Yeah, so you just got to deal with it and
don't worry about it and fly through the tolls and
get your bill and pay it when you get your bill.

Speaker 13 (01:44:52):
And that's about it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
Have a great week any weekend. Thank you. So good
to hear from you. I always love to hear from sal.
Thank you Sal. By the way, in the all Astraia
versus Switzerland, who you're rooting for? Flight lean to Australia,
and I mean fifty one to forty nine, and there's
really no losers in this group. I just have one
quick comment, how quick long legs? My god? How tall

(01:45:15):
are these women? Well, I would say the four women
up there are all at least six feet tall. Yeah,
and there's got to be one on the Switzerland side.
It's got to be about six to four. It's the
Bronze Metal match into the second set. And by the way, yeah,
I'll be interested. We'll see how bad al two ve
gets booed. But Alex Cora literally was suspended a year

(01:45:36):
from baseball that the Red Sox had the two and
seventeen Apple Watch scandal twenty eighteen, they got punished and
their manager got suspended with two different and was in
trouble with two different teams. They hired him back and
they get one one one hundredth of the hate that
the Astros and al two vegat. It's insane. And by

(01:45:57):
the way, Cora as an ahole. Go ask Jeff Blum.
I don't know if JEFFI bring that story up again,
but it's been well documented. Yeah. I don't believe Jeff
Blum reported on it, but it has been reported on now. Yeah,
and I'm team Blummer on that one. By the way,
Team Blummer all the way. All right. Non Florida stories
are up next. Every radio show in this country gives
you a wacky story of what's happening in Gainesville or

(01:46:18):
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Speaker 6 (01:47:22):
rEFInd interesting stories that cure outside the state of Florida
and share them with the people of Huste.

Speaker 20 (01:47:35):
It's time for non Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
I's time for no.

Speaker 20 (01:47:45):
Florida storm on the coast to coast o great, strange
and wild, no alligator tails, but something that will make

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you smile. It's time for laughs from corn.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
In this crazy world, there's no oh, non Flora stories
of Friday staple to mat topic show. This is Sports
Talk seven hounty very googleable edition of Hellier not coming
up with two fifty and revolves around the most absurd

(01:48:36):
Olympic event in the history of Olympics. That's all I'm
gonna tell you. I think it's incredible. All right, Australian
getting there, getting there? What ass is handed?

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
Tom?

Speaker 8 (01:48:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
I was trying to be nice, but you said it
twelve to seven and down a set. You can now
make it twelve to eight as though. I mean, come on,
look at there. Those she looks like slender Man. Her
legs are extremely little body feather. They're all skin and bones.
All right, it's volleyball ooh and then some maybe some mats.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
Okay, I forget it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
I want to introduce you folks to Mary Jacobs. She's
from Newmarket, England. I thought you were gonna say Mary
j Blige. She's seventy seven years old. She went to
an auction this past July in Suffolk, Newmarket, England, where
she was trying to get rid of a collection of things. Okay,
she sold none of the following things. Okay, you want

(01:49:35):
to take and guess what she tried to sell. What
did she try to sell? That wasn't a guest, but
that's fine. CatBones, CatBones and not be correct. She started
collecting something back in nineteen eighty four and wanted to
get rid of them transformers, toys, bedpans, bedpans. Quote I
just wanted to collect something different. She said, it's snowball.

(01:49:56):
From there, she now has in her possess one hundred
and sixty different shapes and sizes of bedpants. Disgusting. You're
gonna make me throw up. She said. She's running a
room to store them. The rarest ones are those with
odd shapes. You're sick. She's hoping to find a new
home for them. Quote. They're clean, washed, and in fantastic condition.

(01:50:23):
So the question I ask you and Connor is how
much would you pay for use bedpan? The zero dollars
and zero cents even if its the collector's item. But
imagine taking one hundred and sixty bedpans on auction, not
meaning a single person to buy one of them. Maybe
that should be a wake up call. Sometimes in life

(01:50:44):
you get wake up calls. You're like, you know what,
maybe I shouldn't be doing this. What would make her
think that bedpan collecting would be profitable under any circumstance
or that for that matter. Interesting name someone that's had
to use a bedpan and went, God, I want you
to save this for posterity. Nobody? Is it sad that

(01:51:06):
I had to google what a bedpan was? Oh no, oh, no, Connor, Connor,
I would not admit it that on a major market
radio show. I'm trying to get how old are you.
I'm trying to give him the benefit of it out
here twenty three. I don't know kids. I mean, teenagers
in the hospital can use bedpants. It is what it is.
I mean, I guess I learned what it was my

(01:51:26):
great grandma was in this hospital. But yeah, I mean
that's if he hadn't had to deal with that or
not an age discriminatory. I don't know. I think if
it doesn't normally come up in daily conversation, it doesn't.
Don't you feel like our education system, though, in general,
is failing us? Connor, you went to Saint thomasin didn't
learn about bedpans? I didn't.

Speaker 21 (01:51:43):
Yeah, my my high school football coach taught my health class.
So oh he mailed, get on your phones, guys. Yeah,
coolier answers.

Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
I don't care. And that gentleman is min non Flora.
Sorry for the week, Thank you, Matt. Who's next? I'll
go let me tell you about two American astronauts who
blasted off on a test mission to the International Space
Station on the fish of the June, Barry Wilmore and
Sunita Williams were supposed to be on an eight day

(01:52:17):
mission in space. Unfortunately, now as they flew a Boeing
star Liner spacecraft, because of some difficulties with the craft,
there are disagreements between NASA and Boeing on whether or
not is safe for them to come back. What was
supposed to be an eight day mission may have them

(01:52:39):
stuck in space until February of twenty twenty five. Yeah,
I saw that earlier this week. This sounds terrifying. That's
why I never you, honestly, ROSSI within reason, you couldn't
pay me to go to space. A final decision should
be made within a week. Boeing is saying it's safe.

(01:53:02):
But also I don't know if I would take the
word of Boeing on this one. They're saying they could
be back out there until February. Now, how much food
can you possibly I know? Is it freeze dry? I'm
assuming I think can they get food from the space
station or something? I don't know. You can't store that
much food is sixty one years old, and ue Sunita

(01:53:23):
Williams is fifty eight years old. Do they get along?
I'm gonna hope. So could you imagine you have to
Could you imagine being in a space capsule with one
person for that long length of time, for that many
of Oh my god, if I was hold up with
you in a space station for six months. No thanks, Okay,
So I want to get to a couple of things.

(01:53:44):
Go ahead. I'm already to know where your brain goes immediately.
I'm worried about their bathroom. Okay, you're worried about their bedpants.
The bedpants and everybody needs love once in a while,
do they not. You're talking about these two people having
sex and space. I didn't say that. I said maybe
kissing and hunky. You said they're gonna Can you cuddle

(01:54:05):
in zero gravity? I don't know, maybe soft petty, I
don't know. I don't know. You gotta strap yourself to
each other. Excuse me, because you'd float away otherwise. Hum
First of all, don't look at me like that. You
brought this up. You're taking it to the next level.
I did not take anything to any level. You said cuddling,

(01:54:25):
and I'm asking if that's possible in zero gravity. These
are the hard hitting questions that the people demand be asked.
No Internet can't check your face mat They have Internet,
you check Facebook. Apparently this thing that they're in is
sixteen and a half feet by fifteen feet, the Boeing

(01:54:46):
Starliner fifth. Basically that's like a gel sale. Isn't that small?
Smaller than a jail cell. I I don't think I
would want my kids involved in space. I don't want
to be involved in space. I don't want to go.
I don't want to he's a problem with helium leakage
or something. This is not going to end. Well, let's
change the topic. What a terrible non Florida story. I

(01:55:08):
found it intriguing. They have to be in space, I
find months. I find it troubling. Yeah, all right, Connor?
What he got?

Speaker 5 (01:55:16):
A couple of weeks weeks ago, Ross told us about
the Australian field hockey player that opted to have part
of his finger amputated to compete at the Olympics. Yes, well,
one of his teammates had to make a public apology
after he was arrested for trying to buy cocaine while
out on a night on a night out after his.

Speaker 2 (01:55:32):
Team was eliminated from the Olympics.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
So not only did his teammate amputate his finger to
lose at the Olympics. His teammate Tom Craig was arrested
after trying to buy cocaine. He was given a criminal
warning and released after spending a night in custody.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
So he's very lucky.

Speaker 5 (01:55:47):
Yes, not a very successful Olympic trip for the Australian
field hockey team.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Why don't you stay in the Olympic village? Do you
have plenty of success by default? Right? Probably? I don't
know what activities they have there? Oh I do you do? Yeah,
we've talked about it for about eight years now. Well,
I mean like actual I'm not talking about those activities.
I'm talking about like meat and greet opportunities. Do they

(01:56:13):
have a happy hour every night at the Olympic villa.
I'm sure the food is terrific. I heard the food
where they were. They were serving under cook meats and
there was the Olympic village they got into temp. Now
that's good. So let me ask you about four scenarios.

Speaker 9 (01:56:30):
Four?

Speaker 2 (01:56:30):
Yeah, go ahead. What which of these categories provides the
most form of late entertainment? Being an Olympic village? Okay,
being a young lateeen, early twenties camp counselor huh before
Jason shows up and murders everyone working on a cruise

(01:56:51):
ship m okay, or working on you know those shows
where they have like uh oh, working up in space.
I heard lifeguard at the pools in Jamaican resorts is
quite fruitful. Or being a dance I got one for
it was I was. I have a friend of mine

(01:57:12):
used to be a dancer, and he would like a
male dancer. He was a male dancer, I mean and
give it. No, no, no, not not an ironic dancer. Oh.
He would go to this camp and he would teach
older women how to dance. Very famously danced. And then
he found somebody and they started doing a lot of dirt,
you know, dirty dirty dancing. Yeah. They were humping on

(01:57:33):
the floor basically, and the parents didn't like it. Yeah,
and then they turned the corner once they saw how
happy their daughter was. Wait was it? Wait? Was this
a movie? Is this footloose? I think it's dirty dancing? Oh,
dirty dancing whatever? I never saw. I never saw either.
You didn't see dirty dancing. No, you just got me
the gist of it. I got it now. You know

(01:57:55):
who you don't put in the corner the baby, Thank you, Lee,
she had one thing right. One of the one of
the greatest soundtrack songs of all time coming from Dirty Dancing.
Mm hmm, you know what it is?

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:58:10):
Yeah, I do when you say it. It's not cover
one of those cheesy eighties the time in my life. Yeah,
at the time of my life. Great song, it's okay,
great soundtrack generally speaking, I'll take your word for it.
You want to hear a song coming back from really
don't all right? I'm proud of you, Connor. You knew
Dirty Dancing Ross didn't good for you. Have you seen
Dirty Dancing? I have? Yeah? Okay, Patrick Swayze classic Jennifer

(01:58:31):
Gray before the nose job. Big fan of Jennifer Gray.
Pre nose or postnose, but pre I think she's great
either way. Okay, I think Jennifer Gray Bender and Fairs
Bueller's Day Off correct fantastic? Is the sister? Yeah you
know who always he's love Back in the day, Elizabeth
Shoe what was that Baby Adventures and babysitting. Yeah, I

(01:58:53):
had a big crush on her Shoes. Okay too, don't
don't kid yourself. Okay, when I was young, now you're older,
you don't care. No, I mean she's I don't know
she alive? Of course she is. Okay, Elizabeth Shoe. Wasn't
she not in Leaving Las Vegas? Sure, I'll take that.
That was a dark movie. Okay, all right, there you go.
There's your eighties update on movie sixty years old, Elizabeth Shoe.

(01:59:17):
She is alive, I would hope. So he's not a
Z sixties very young. You know her brother is, don't you.
Oh yeah, Dalton Shoe. No, Andrew Shoe was on Melrose
Place back in the day. All right, all right, there
you go to forty five on the Matt Thommas Show.
Let's play Helly Aaron not. How would you describe the topic? Rossie?
It's really making me laugh, it's really making him laugh.

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Speaker 8 (02:00:44):
Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
Quick shout out to Andy Estrada, he and his daughter
killer Bee. Big fans of the show. Andy Sturning sixty
three years young today, Happy birthday. Shout out Dandy and
the entire Killer Bee family. All right, let's quickly, I
got thirty seconds from Michael and Spring before we play
hell he a or not? Michael, what you got?

Speaker 7 (02:01:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
I got a.

Speaker 16 (02:01:07):
I was gonna pose you guys a movie option here.
So it's called the Olympic Village Thriller. It could be
the Olympic Village Thriller or the Olympic Village Killer, because
the thing is the premises and all this got washed
under the rug in eighty eight and sold because you know,
things just happened. And so the premise is, okay, it's

(02:01:28):
based on a true quasi true story. So the guy
and or his team heavily armed, locked down the Olympic
Village and they're going on a killing rampage. But they
have to take on the best athletes in the world
and everything. I mean we're talking you know, shot putters
to gymnasts. So the whole premise is the guy has
to tackle all these various you know who disarm him

(02:01:51):
and et cetera, et cetera. And again it set in
the eighties for Matt's sake, so we could have like
an eighties soundtrack, and you know, we could throw and
got rock in there, and I think it'll be a
pretty cool premise.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
Good I will I will do that as soon as
I finished writing Ferris Butler Junior's Son's Day Off. Not
a bad idea. I'm just not a movie producer. But
we'll get it right on Ross. You get none to
do this. We can write the crypt script for that
bad script. Ye, I'll knock it out in the weekend
five minutes something go on the show?

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
What should we do?

Speaker 12 (02:02:20):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (02:02:21):
Should play? Americus Fats and Drink sports radio game show.
We sip the colip Monday through Thursday. B leave it
up on our Fridays. We call it a helliary out.
Here's how works you call seOne three two one three
seven ninety. Today's edition of Helly right Now is brought
to you by two Kriscross Resort dot Com. The cateergart
today is is this person a what are we calling
this a? What do they called? I don't even know what?

(02:02:42):
The ky boy or a B girl? B boy or
B girl? Are they a breakdancer? Are they a break dancer?
Are the Olympic brank dancer? At Ross making up the name?
If they answer though, if they are, you'll say this.
If they're not, you'll say this. Two in a row
gets your prize. We've been playing for today. Connor par
of tickets to see Stone Temple Pilots with Live in
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(02:03:03):
Showcase happening this weekend at Energy Center, and a seven
ninety t show Roger on seven, are you ready to play?
Hell gayare not?

Speaker 5 (02:03:09):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:03:10):
Belgium has a b girl named mad Max Hell yeah
or not not nope. It is of course very star,
very very star. Late to you. Tom on seven? Are
you ready to play?

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:03:24):
Hell yeah? Australia has a bee boy name Mighty Duck.
Hell yeah or not? This is break dancing Hell yeah
or not?

Speaker 9 (02:03:31):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
That's right. Statement number two for the win in Italy
has a bee girl named Spider Girl. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:03:39):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:03:39):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:03:40):
Congratulations one winner in the books. Mike on seven, Ain't
you ready to play? Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 12 (02:03:47):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
South Korea has a big girl named Fresh Bella Hell
yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:03:54):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:03:55):
There you go. Austria has a bee boy named lil Zoo.
Hell yeah or not? No look at all these believe
its so far in these hell yeahs? Randy in the
Woodlands on seven Randy on Sevenati, you ready to play helly?

Speaker 9 (02:04:10):
Are or not?

Speaker 8 (02:04:12):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:04:12):
Belgium as a bee boy named Wolverine hell yeah or
not hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:04:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:04:19):
Come on, Wolverine's made up? Du Freddy on seminati You
ready to play helly?

Speaker 3 (02:04:24):
Air not.

Speaker 6 (02:04:26):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
South Korea has got a bee boy named Kill hell
yeah or not?

Speaker 10 (02:04:32):
Not?

Speaker 3 (02:04:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:04:33):
They do how you will kill? Top twenty competitor in
the breakdancing category. Jared on seven Natti you ready to
play helly? Are not hell y? Netherlands has a be
girl named Raven hell yeah or not hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:04:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Come on, guys, be better than that. Tom's already wonder
We'll get one more in here? Line one? Who is this?
Line one? Who's this?

Speaker 9 (02:05:00):
Bandido?

Speaker 2 (02:05:01):
Bendido France is a b boy named Vapor hell yeah
or not hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:05:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:05:07):
Ross made it up and that's it? Such a fast
starbit alousy finish. You guys don't know your your breakdancers
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