Astros Lose Game 1 vs Mariners, Can Imai Turn it Around?

Astros Lose Game 1 vs Mariners, Can Imai Turn it Around?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten one
at Ain't down. Good morning, and welcome to a Tuesday
edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is
Sports Talk seven ninety Oh Rossie. We were branging about

(00:30):
the local Nins offense and just said, hey, if the
pitching can come through, and this seemed congel is one
but not the case. Two runs in the last three days.
The baseball gods always have a sense of humor. Matthew,

(00:53):
I'm not laughing. I love this song. I thank you, you
appreciate this again. I'm having to go to a little
bit of a deeper cut because I don't want to
be repetitive with our songs. Oh, this is great. I
love me a little. Harold Melvin in the Blue Notes.
I'm surprised, man, I love this in a good song.
This is an eight version Harold Melvin in the Blue Notes.

(01:17):
Young Jonathan, what come on now? It's all no, this
is my mootherpark right now. Okay, we're at hog nuts Field.
I got you exactly. Do y'all score hognuts Field? Not one?
In an astros God, Am mighty, let's go Astros. I

(01:40):
had somebody I was tweeting about the Astros, and somebody
was like, let's move on football seasons around the corner. Man,
shut you shut your ball mass up baseball games. I'm
a sports fan. I'm gonna watch sports. There's no football
games happening right now cause he don't discuss them. Texan
needle fifty No, the fifty dollars you get it backwards?

(02:04):
Is seriously, this is this jar running. Oh wait, let's
get into the Texas. Play the Jaguars a week nine
or week fourteen. I don't care. Just wake me up
when the schedule is. The schedule is available. Yes, and
also before you go go, don't leave me hanging on
like a yo. Yo. Did you see the latest most
ridiculous scheduling release. No. So they had Joe buck on

(02:29):
on Good Morning America Today, which is the ABC Morning Show.
Is like Donna them you know a Monday night football? Yeah,
love it. Denver's playing I think Kansas City. Okay, they
play him twice. They're divisional opponents. That is correct. They

(02:53):
told us the game. They didn't tell us where it
was gonna be played or what week. Well they said
what week one? Okay, that's oh week one. Yeah. They
didn't say it was in Denver, Kansas City. Correct? Why not?
They want you to wait for the ski duties dork.
Let me tell you if you're a scheduled dork, come on,
let's let's well. I was gonna say we could talk

(03:13):
to you, but we can't right now. But that's fine.
We gotta we got we gotta, we got a diverse
fire sports world. We gotta do something. We cannot let
the schedule stands win this war. It's there's no war, man,
it's a war. ABC said, hey, let's put a game on.
Let's give you a game and not tell you what
it's being played. No, man, I need you to relax.

(03:34):
There's no war. You can pay attention or you can't.
Nobody's telling, nobody's saying uh, and nobody's trying to push you.
What it's on my TV? I mean, I guess I
can flip it. Yeah, you can flip it. Yeah, put
it on. Put it on the A team, our A team,
or just the A team on a sports space City
Home network, speaking of which, I'm coming after Direct TV tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Are you really what's going down?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I got being switched?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh, I'm sick all of y'all. All right, Exfinity tomorrow,
you do today, because here's the thing. Are we have
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apparently since about eight thirty last on, our phones have
not worked and we have sent multiple requests to our

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So this would be the last time bringing up Okay, good, Okay,

(04:42):
so prid of you, Matt. Okay, wow, I want to
start calling you mister Improvement.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
There's no you can't.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I've already cut and discussed twice already. That's true. Actually,
well wait, you know what. The The final step to change,
Matt is relapse. So it's gonna happen.

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Okay.

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To keep doing the show.

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(06:07):
it's and it's a little disheartening. That's all I'm gonna say.
And then I am at ten oh nine done talking
about it. Okay, good, I mean, we've been gone I mean,
we've been here for a couple of years now. This
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(06:29):
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we'll try to communicate through you that way. Now where
it does get in the way, is it twelve thirty
we're supposed to have Joe Aspata on via the phone. Yeah,
well we'll have to tell them our phones are down.
I mean it happens. We can also come to station
if he wants. I don't think that's gonna happen. I
think it'sa either. Maybe the astro Gremlins are like, you

(07:39):
know what, let's give let's give it Joe a day off. Yeah,
maybe we should give him a day off. Tatsu you
Mike can have a quality start light tonight and then
we can move on. By the way, yesterday Peter Lambert
had a quality start. You need to make some cockamami
thing up. He had a quality start. Three runs over
six is qualities? Yes, well seven it's a US. No.

(08:03):
They if there was such thing as a plus, they
would have added pluses a long time ago. Okay, okay,
so so well let's try it. Sure? Why not? We
have a guy online two that's going to try to
call the show. Would you try to pot it up?
Because I'm not even sure we can't think you did it.
All right, David, are you there? Let's try. There we go.
Yeah's a call in we can't get you on. Yeah,

(08:25):
you can call them all you want to, and guys
just put on an air. But oh really, you can't
screen the call either. Interesting, Okay, all right back to it.
Uh No, it is bottom line, a quality start. Anything
six or higher, Yeah, is a quality So in your mind,
the exact same a perfect game and giving us six

(08:46):
innings and giving up three runs the same thing, quality start,
same quality. That's how baseball has done it for I
don't one hundred years. I'm asking you a question. You
can answer it. I'm saying that if you, if you
went eight innings, give up one run, quality start right
up six if you give up two runs over six,
but quality starts, don't you six innings and three earned
runs or a perfect game both quality starts. Don't you

(09:08):
think there should be a little line you might get right?
I know, I listen, But they haven't changed it. I
haven't because baseball was invented one hundred and fifty years ago. Okay.
They gotta get with the times, Matt, you gotta progress. Okay.
This is from a man who says medium rare plus Yes, No,

(09:31):
I say rare plus, rare plus. It's only a medium
light yeah and rare mining. Okay, Matt Thomas has a
perfect game and six innings and three earned runs are
the same thing. I say. I'm gonna put a little
extra flair on there. Quality start plus.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You know what you think?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yes, you are. You've done it. You've been doing it
for thirteen minutes. I've done Oh, gamber Gym. Can't call
it a game talk today. That's a shame. Okay, a
shout out Steve Aaron. They're they're tweeting in Okay. Can
we discuss the Astros hitting, you know, just say hi
to us the hitting coaches, no, and just just in

(10:13):
hitting in general. It's been a bad few days for
the hitting coaches. I mean, I gotta be honest. Hitting coaches.
We're looking to fire them too again maybe ten thirteen.
It's a Matt Thomas showld Ross, do not call us,
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(10:36):
make a slow, steady climb towards that magical thirty three
fifty number, and maybe Joe a Spot will join us,
and maybe we'll take your gut feeling have through gut
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you know, y'all gonn to send emails too. I y'all,
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Send us an email. MT at Sports seven ninety dot com.
MT at Sports seven nine dot com. Ten to fourteen,
This is Matt and Ross. We're on thanking you for
being a part of our show today, you ten o'clockers
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Last night was kind of aggravating,
just kind of just sitting and trying to watch Peter

(11:17):
Lambert say competitive, which he did, yes, Mabe seven Yes,
and the astro bats just were nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
It just was oh so frustrating.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah. Yes, I mean yeah, three hits for l two v.
Three hits for Isach Pareis, Yes, Christian Walker, Oh for
Zach Cole. I mean God love him, I mean literally
God loves him like God love allus all, Yes, three
more strikeouts for him, h three more strikeouts for yord

(11:52):
and Alvarez, who has had a mate to forget the
Astros trying to get something going with a base on
balls Hole Smith, Matthew's shoemake. This is not a major
league lineup. It's just not.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Uh, it's a line up void of it's it's guys
filling in for lengthy periods of time that just are
not going to be able to lengthen your lineup and
be able to go top to bottom and constantly keep
people threatened.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
And Yeah, predictably you've been getting more Christian people. Where's
Christian Vasquez needs to catch every day guy? He is,
His numbers are going way down unfortunately. Yeah, Brandon Shoemake,
I mean, he's been hitting nice, but he's not a
long term major league Bryce Matthews will see. He's just learning,

(12:46):
got some pop, has has shown some power, but strikes
out a bunch. Ye. Cam Smith is really one that
kind of hurts. Two walks yesterday, Yes, he did, which
is very rare, especially off of George Kirk. I would
really like I'm not saying like he's the catalyst for

(13:07):
the Astros offense. Or anything, but something out of cam
Smith would be really awesome to see, not even just
just for the construction of the team and just for
long term, just because of the implications of what you
got back from because yeah, I mean that's his spot. Yes,
Like you know, people like, hey, send him down to
the miners. It's like for for who who do you

(13:29):
want out there? Glove caliber right field? So at the
very least, and he people are scared to run on him.
The book is out. People are scared to run on him.
So he saves you runs just from him being out there.
He saves you second to third and and third to home.
So he's gonna be out there. He's got to figure
it out at the plate. He's had a lot of

(13:51):
wear and tear from last year that he you know,
he'd only played like thirty college games. He got the
full offseason talked about he was healthy, and we were
hopeful for not a bounce back, I mean bounce back
relative to what he did early in the season, but
just a leap forward, and we saw it briefly. But
now he's coming back crashing down to earth to where
I mean his ops now is like six forty two. Yeah,

(14:13):
it's hard to watch a player forget about whether you
like the player or not. That is playing six days
a week with an OPS six forty two and he
I mean, he's got tools, and he's got it seems
like he's got a good head on his shoulders. Maybe
he's just too much in his head. I don't know.
But this is going back to the back half of
last year too. Yeah. Absolutely, and last year I felt

(14:34):
like we could be like, ah, you know, it's fatigue.
He's played one hundred and however many games. He's only
played thirty something in his career fresh out of Florida State, Man,
it would be nice. And he's still young, obviously, he's
twenty three years old, freshly twenty three. He turned twenty
three in February. So but it's there's still time. It's
twenty three though, Ross. But it's also a time to

(14:55):
say because let's face it, when the Astros do spend money,
they usually spend it on players in that age group
that will buy out arbitration years because you don't want
for this guy to be two or three years down
the road, this awesome player, and then you're worried about
whether or not the Astros can keep him. Yeah, Well,
it's funny because like first couple of weeks of the season,

(15:19):
when he was hitting like crazy, bye about bye about
out sign him up long term, and literally like four
weeks later, it's like, eh, let's keep an eye on
this situation. That's why the human element and why being
a good general manager and being a good evaluator of
a player is so important, because you can go all
in on a player and he lets you down and

(15:40):
you're stuck. Yes, I mean stuck contracts kill general managers.
For instance, Tatsui Emi goes out tonight and struggles again
for the next month or so.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
That's a stuck contract.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
We'll see Dorian and Phinneysmith for the Rockets stuck contract
at least for at least four more off season of health.
Thet is gonna be okay, that's good. I can't wait
for that. That happens with quarterbacks all the time. You
can pay quarterbacks forty forty five to fifty to fifty
five million dollars if they're just mid that's a stuck contract.
Stuck I mean tanabe wish is one thing, sage trades

(16:17):
or another, but stuck contracts kill you. Christian Javier a
stuck contract right now, not even paying him really good money,
not super crazy money, not really good money. But it's
but your lance mccullor is the epenomy of a stuck contract.
They lost on that deal bad. It was a gamble

(16:39):
and they crapped out on that that deal. You got
a good twenty one and then he got hurt in
those playoffs and then he hasn't been done anything since,
so except for rack up in Era over seven. So
the fingernails coming up, hey, is sometimes you get sneaky
lucky with a minor league player. Yeah, because really, when
you draft a player, you just hope. And then if

(17:01):
that player goes down the minor league system and learns
the business and comes up to the major league level
and the star, they mean, man, this is so good.
Now is good? It's like when c J. Strow and
I'm trying, I don't mean to cross sports on you here,
but when CJ. Strow was a rookie awesome quarterback, You're like,
oh my god, we have this amazing quarterback who not
only is good, but he's in the cheap which means
we don't have to spend crazy amounts of money to

(17:21):
put pieces around him to get even better. When you
get stuck contracts, enough of them, and you put yourself
on some sort of budget, it does hurt you. I mean,
the money that has been spent on Hoavier hurt. The
money that was spent on Brian or Bray you hurt.
The money that was spent on Lance mccullors has hurt em.

(17:43):
I I'm not ready to write that story just yet,
but boy, he needs a month. Yeah, it's tough because
you're throwing him right back into the hot grease because
you got a necessity like the the transition period and
all that type of stuff. I mean, it's May, and
we're like, we've had enough, We've had enough. It's May.

(18:03):
It can take you know, somebody a year or more
to acclimate and get ready to be to pitch at
the major league level. And but we need him, we
need you out tsuya. Yeah. And it really, honestly, Ross
and you think about this, you don't even really particularly
care how much he makes, because I don't. You just
need him to be on the mount of it. It's
Jim Crane's money. It's not mine, well, but it is.

(18:24):
It is sort of our money because that money is
put towards a budget to fill the twenty six man roster,
and if they made a mistake with a stuck contract,
that eighteen million dollars could have gone somewhere else. There's
no salary cap. Mmy Jimmy c can can pay well.
There is done want two. But he's not by himself.

(18:46):
Why Nick Allen's here, Yeah, Joey Luperfriito's here. See when
when Nick Allen gets hurt, you go okay. When Joel
bartos like, okay, it's not great that he's hurt because
it takes away from your debt, but you don't feel
the pinch of it. It's it's yeah, it's the cruel
or whatever you would call it in aggregate. Yeah, And when

(19:09):
you add it all up, first of all, you start
with your ace, your ace, Hunter Brown is out. And
then yeah, is Jake Myers an all start? No, But
he plays steady handed center field, and he was really
good at the plate last year, and you're hoping to
see if he can keep that going. You got no
idea on that. Joey lo Brafido hot hitting when he
first came back, does play very good defense in the
outfield as well, and he's gone, and then Jeremy Jeremy

(19:31):
Pene is an All Star. Jeremy Penie is one of
your best, if not your best player last year. I mean,
how many teams in baseball survive losing the left side
of their infield. One will be for the rest of
the season. One has been gone for a month. Sad. Yeah,
I was seeing you know, the for U tab I
think the Yeah, the Astros have like the most players
lost in terms of like expected war of any team

(19:55):
in baseball. By the way, Ken Rosenthal jumped in on
the Astros, we'll play that coming back. He was on
the game. You know, the Estros game was on FS
one nationally. Yes, Now, I didn't know who the guys were,
so I listened a little bit just get their perspective,
and it sounded like there were a couple of guys
that just dipped in and didn't have a real good
feel for the team. No, they were saying, you know,
when I'll tell you the second I changed it back

(20:17):
to Space City Home Network, they were like, uh, Isaac Parodis, No,
I did not really. Yeah, somebody said that on the broadcast.
I was like, all right, I'm changing this now only
does FS one dip their toes in, which is fair
because they're doing different games every week, but they also
don't usually travel their announcers. Oh, they really don't get
a field to get to talk to the manager or

(20:38):
the coaches or a player or two before the game. Well,
there you go, and that's why they're saying Isaac Paradis.
So Ken Rosenshal spoke about the Astros situation and what
could possibly happen, and he's just one opinion, but I
would say Ken Rosenthal has his boots on the ground right. Yes,
he does a pretty good fields. He's talking a lot
of stuff and Astro stuff along of course with Channeler

(20:59):
Roma the Athletic YEAP. So we'll hear what Ken had
to say about the Astro situation. Coming back, Matt and
Ross with you on Sports Talk seven Hoy. We thank
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(21:19):
on Instagram as well. At Sports MT and at Sports RV. Yes,
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dorcasaurus because he is excited about the schedule. So he's
a dorcasaurus.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
To each his own. But I just thought it was
very disingenuous for Joe Buck to go on. Today we're
playing Denver Cannes say, we're not telling you where ooh weird,
but a little bit of out there for us. Our
friend Javier says, say hello to his daughter Julietta. That's
the singer in Laredo. Oh, Juliet he's taking her to work.
Maybe we should do a duet with those two sometimes. Yeah,

(21:54):
the phone's working again. You guys can call it a duet. Yeah, yeah,
like a little father daughter Billy King, Cole net King
Cole unforgettable or something. Is there any father daughter combos
that have worked out well? Did Johnny Cash and Roseanne?
Uh not Roseanne June Cart No, it would be Roseanne
Cash Rose I don't know the daughter. June June was

(22:16):
the one. June was the wife. Roseanna I think was
the daughter. Did they do any combinations like that? I
know that Elvis did a when he was deceased. They
mixed him her and his daughter with him. Yeah, on
the bio, Yeah, which is a good song, Okay, in
the ghetto, not in the bio on the bio in

(22:36):
the ghetto. Kind of the same thing would be a
father daughter did Billy job Sinatra and Frank? Yeah, Alexa
Ray with Billy Joel Frank Junior was terrible. I mean, yeah,
what about Miley Cyrus Dad? I forgot the song? Didn't
the or? No, they hate each other, don't they isn't
they don't they have a contentious relationship or something past

(22:59):
father got to be Natalie in Nang right, yeah, but
he well they're both dead now. But did they ever
do a song together? Though he did Unforgettable, But I
believe that was a mix. Yeah, just like in the
Ghetto with with uh with Elvis and his daughter, right.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I think see, when you have the phones are down,
you think about things.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Tony Bennett's daughter is that she opened for him, and
I was like, she's terrible. So I'm sorry, all right,
Ken Rosenthal, I gotta go to the bathroom get a drink.
Here's Ken Rosenthal from FS one yesterday on their pregame
show talking about what the Astros could or could not
do before the trade.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Headline the Astros might be tied for the worst record
in the AL, but there's still only three and a
half games back in the wildcard race. So their owner,
Jim Crane, We've seen this before, even with all the injuries.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
He's not the type to concede. But you want names,
So here's some names.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
He's out Paradis he would be the most obvious if
they are out of contention.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Gosh Hater and Christian Walker. They would be two others
who would.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Draw interest, but both have really high salaries, so that
would limit the returns. And Hayter also has a full
note trade clause. And then this is the one to
keep in mind, maybe not so much for the deadline,
but the off season. Jeremy Panya. Jeremy Panya is an
eligible free agent after next season, after twenty twenty seven,
so come this offseason, he'll be in the same position

(24:25):
Kyle Tucker was a few years back.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
And remember what they did with Kyle Tucker. They traded him.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
What about your Don Alvarez Ken you left that rather
a large name out of that, just your thoughts there.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'd be shocked.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
And again, Jim Crane is not one to concede. He's
not going to concede the future as well as the present.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Me and Jim Crane on the same page. Sometimes it's
funny that would y'all think, and what we think and
what Ken rosehal things are sometimes very much, very similar aligned.
I think even bringing up your don is silly. Everybody
else not silly. Give him a ten year deal. He's

(25:10):
having a bad May. He wasn't gonna hit four hundred
all year long. I believe he was supposed to. He's
not coming for Teddy ballgame. Yeah, Jeremy is in play,
he absolutely is. It's the exact same situation as Kyle
Tucker Is Rosenthal brought up. I wish we weren't here.

(25:34):
I wish we weren't here talking about this. Hunter Brown
won't be too far behind on that either. You got
can they keep one? Are you asking?

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Are you telling you?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I'm asking? Their boat? What is Jeremy Penney twenty seven?
Twenty eight? Oh my gosh, you're gonna look at this
now twenty eight m And honestly, I think, just as
philosophically we've been talking about this this past week, like
I would rather pay thirty five million dollars a year

(26:07):
for a position player than a pitcher. As the pictures,
it's not a matter of if they break down, it's win.
Because here's the biggest problem, and this is no great
announcement from me. When you lose your ace, it was
like the walls came a crumbling down. What was you
went from? You went from oh, this team has such

(26:28):
a tremendous depths pitching staff, Oh yeah, to oh my god,
Colton Gordon's getting a spot start. Yeah, it's Tito and Jermaine.
We're missing Michael, or it's it's Kaiwai Tang. Gonna have
to try to go three names today. It's not good.
It literally is like going to see the Jackson's without Michael. Yeah.
We a announcement, folks, Michael Jackson has the flu. He's

(26:54):
gonna be out for the show tonight. Everybody would leave.
Everybody like all right, well, oh no, no no. But
Jermaine's like, I'm here, I'm here. Teter's like, what about
maid We're good, you know, we'll do We'll bring in LaToya. Yeah,
here comes LaToya and Jackie Jackson. No, we're good, We're good.
That's what's happening right now. Yeah. Now, Peter Lambert's been

(27:16):
good Mike Burrows could be something. I mean, Jermaine had
a couple of hits, but we're missing Michael. We're gonna
bring you no Natalie Merchant, but the other ninety nine
ninety nine maniacs, all of them. That's what's happening right now.
It's a it's a massive drop off. Look, I know
we hate Fromber and he's the worst thing ever. But
last year, if you lost Hunter Brown for a couple

(27:37):
of months, like okay frommer can kind of hold pull
things down hopefully. Yeah, there's nobody like that. And see,
here's the crazy part of it too, is that you're
not even spending crazy money on a Hunter Brown. Imagine
if you were spending crazy money on Hunter Brown, that
would probably mean your your depth and your certain rotation
would be less because you're not spending as much money
and you're starting pitching. It's like, that's why you need
Ryan Weiss to kind of at two point six million

(28:00):
to come in and.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Take the ball every fifth day.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I think we talked about this in the In the
beginning of the year, I made the spades analogy. You
had your Ace of Spades and then you got you know,
you can win a book with a two of spades,
you could, but maybe you don't. You can win a
book with a jack of hearts, but maybe you don't,
and that's what you got tattoo you. My He's like, oh,

(28:22):
what do you speaking of spades?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
I hate doing this year.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
So my daughter played we play spades occis of the
house and we decide our books. And she never heard
of two in impossible. Yeah, so if you said two
and impossible, you and I are part of I don't
say that. And I said to an impossible we'd probably
go five. Okay, like two and a half? Yeah, yeah,
possibly and a half. She was like, Dad, what are

(28:48):
you doing? You can't say it depends on house rules.
At that point.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
I don't disagree, hmm.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
But she was flabbergasted when I said, She goes, Dad,
what is it possible?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Stuff?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Either you got the book or you don't got the book.
So you don't have a whole lot of spades in
this rotation right now. Lamber Lambert is a book. He's good. Yeah,
he's like a king of hearts. Okay, well, how many
hearts do you do this? Your opponent have got two hearts?
You're a little nervous, all right, so listen, let's lose

(29:23):
in spades.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like this.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh no, pe know, Lambert is like you said, it's
a King of hearts. Sure, why not? Okay, Tsumi is
a six six o' clubs. Come on, no, it's not
that bad. He's making like a jack. No, we give
me a jack. No, we give me a jack. Okay.

(29:48):
Mike Burrows, uh, Queen of diamonds, He's kind of fair
on these. I'm not gonna Lancer colors junior ten ten
of your of your student train of clubs. Not good.

(30:10):
We got a crappy we got a crappy spades. Yeah,
we had four and a possible all right, possible with
Hunter brother and our ace spades out. So yeah, we
all we we want to send this hand back, all right,
spades talk seven Astros rotation Matt and I'm looking at

(30:31):
you and we're on the same team. Like, problem is
there's one there's thirteen books out there, are there not?
Somebody's gotta grab them? Well, and right now the are
grabbing those books. Yeah, the a's are grabbing the astros
aren't grabbing jam. There is not another radio show the marketplace.
They can compare the Asterisk pitching staff to a deck
of spades, A game of spades I find. I challenge

(30:54):
you to find another radio station of the marketplace. I
could do that seven one three, two one two five seven.
We have got feelings today at eleven thirty. You're gonna
probably need to send them to us through email, mt
and support seven eddy dot com. Yes, Oh I got
a sports take from somebody via Instagram. Oh you did you? Okay? Yeah,
you will say it whenever you want. Okay, you wanted
to get to something, yeah, nonsports you just real quick?

(31:16):
All right?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
As many of you know, I love watching roast, Yes,
Comedy Central roast where in my mind this is just
me speaking.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
There are no off limits. I'm with you, Okay.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
They roasted Kevin what's his face the other day heart Heart, Yes,
and it was charged to the very least. One of
the roasters up there was Pete Davison.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Who you spend Saturn out Live.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
He's done a few things actively, but he's really known
for the women he's hed in his life and being
just not overly. He's had his own issues. Well, one
of the issues in his life. Unfortunately, his father passed
during nine to eleven in one of the world trade centers. Yes,
he was part of that, and it has been made

(32:19):
a joke about, I mean, just anything you want to
talk about nine to eleven and crashing and burning. I mean,
Pete Davidson has had to wear it. And Pete is
just like, Okay, it's comedy. He makes jokes about it.
He makes jokes about it. Well, he made a joke
about Charlie Kirk a couple of days ago that has

(32:40):
gotten a lot of people unraveled. Now, obviously, I personally
forgetting about political stance on this. To have someone brutally
murdered in a public form like Charlie Kirk was when
he was just speaking at a college, it goes to
how truly sad our society is. So I'm not I'm

(33:02):
not trying to preface anything on this because it's obviously
it was a devastating situation. But in the ros format
it feels like, and this is the question I have
for y'all and I and and and it's to each
his own on this, Huh. Isn't anything goes in a roast?
Is there anything?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Boys?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
That is? Absolutely I would say, really, the only thing
that I could think of that would be totally totally
off the books in terms of I don't want to
hear that again, would be something involving children, sexual abuse,

(33:44):
smallstation that kind I was thinking. I was thinking children
to death, like a child, like if Kevin Hard had
a baby who like drowned in a pool or something
like that. That feels like to me.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Other than that, I was also thinking mothers too, like
that's kind of like.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Even moms, I feel like they're yo mama and yo
mama jokes Mama a little different. I'm just saying, like
you personally come up. Yeah, No, I feel like in
a roast because like like Matt said, Pete Davidson's dad
died in nine to eleven, they make jokes about it.
Every roast, every involved in their their jokes about Epstein
jokes in there. I feel like children off limits. Maybe

(34:19):
there are racial jokes in there, Lots and lots of
racial jokes in There's a lot of low hanging fruit
in the It was also George George Floyd joke was
in there, Yeah, George Floyd. I mean, yeah, I'd say
any of It's fine with me. I mean I thought
we were, you know, not being snowflakes. So I so
I'm going to probably go with the stance of and

(34:41):
I'm talking about no matter what the topic is, with
the exception of probably children death molestation, that that feels
like to be the only thing I could possibly think
of that would be like, Man, you just can't go there.
I'd say, even even Dan, it's just words. Yeah, I

(35:06):
mean they know what they're getting into. I mean exactly
when you sign up for a roast and you're.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Like, you're signed a contract and everything like this, this
is gonna be on TV, it said. And if you
talk about politics, I mean, if it's not comedy, if
it can be on both sides of.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Expect That's what I'm saying is that I don't want
to be that person because I have a really dark
sense of humor. We know, I don't want to be
that one to say, oh my god, that was the
funniest joke I've ever heard two weeks ago. And then
if something hit to me and said, oh, I believe
I don't want to be the hypocrite, I would say,
just open your eyes. And I'm going to say this

(35:43):
about any side of politics that you're on, if you
need to open your eyes to your hypocrisy. So if
you're okay with joking about one thing but not joking
about the other. You're okay with a politician doing one
thing and then not the other. But but do you
guys get the sense of this? This rose really struck people.

(36:06):
And because George Floyd was brought up, Charlie Kirk was
brought up. I mean, those were I mean two as
lightning broad conversation pieces out there. Well one was a
political commentator and never mind, but it doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter he jokes about either. I'm okay with I
I watched it. I'm not happy about either situation obviously,

(36:27):
and I didn't come away going my god, how dare
they do it? Go that?

Speaker 6 (36:30):
I mean, I feel like, you know, Dave Supell, like
he does all these you know, jokes that hit those
like hard topics, and it's still comedy. Like I feel
like we're losing the sense of when someone's on stage
and trying to make a laugh.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, talk about everything, right, you still have to be fun.
The joke still has to be funny. You also have
to land the joke. The joke's not going to be
as good if it's just when those are gonna go like, oh,
then how about that how about this as a judge,
how about this is as a barometer. You walk into
a theater and you hear something, you know it's comedy,

(37:03):
You don't you would hope that those people wouldn't have
those terrible, terrible thoughts in their heart that this is
this is a bit, this is these are lines. This
is not how a particular comedic thinks about things. Right,
I mean right, I mean you would. I don't think
any human being would want to go up to Pete
Davidson and crack a joke. We're in the front middle

(37:25):
of street saying hey, I hope your dad's doing okay.
On the bottom of no, that wouldn't be good. But
if you're in a roast, that's fine. But if you're
in the venue, in the in the in the aura,
in the building of it, in the situation of you
have to know that probably everything is off. It's stepping
into an octagon. If Matt, if I choke you out

(37:46):
right now, that's assault. If we're in an octagon and
where we know the rules and we've agreed to a fight,
that's different. That's a good That's a really good analogy
of step you step inside the ring you're in the octagon.
When you're out there, you go on the dais and
you're going on the roast. Basically, just know where you
know your venue. Yeah, Like you said, if I mat
a meet and green, like, hey, how about your dead
dad Pete, Yeah that's side of Mounds. Yeah, and you

(38:09):
would never say that. Yeah, but if you were But
if you were in a comedy club and had four
Gen and Tonics and he was up there roasting you
about writing of what you are, you could go back
at him. And I mean, I'll give Davison credit. I
don't know what his relationship was with his father, but
that's not an easy conversation to have. You wouldn't have
it normally outside of a comedy stage. But yeah, it was.

(38:30):
It was something again in highly racial. I mean, who,
I have not watched the whole thing, but I don't know.
If you guys get on your on your Twitter account
and you go through the little reels and stuff that'sk
in a couple of even Cheryl Underwood was like, I mean,
and they were making fun of Lizzo bad. I mean written,

(38:50):
nobody was there like half.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
I don't know, I feel like we're losing that, like
you said if you if you're in that stayed and
you're in that you know, comedy.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Club, your target back off on that.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
What I'm saying, because if you go into a small
comedy club, that dude might pick on you and say, like, oh,
you know whatever in case might be, are you know,
you know, doing crowd work.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
It's just comedy at the end of the day, it's
not supposed to be. I don't know. I agree with you, man,
I just you know, And I guess the number one
question wrap up the hour is do you is it?
Are you really funny? If you using people's personal tragedies
to make jokes of.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Them, and.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
If you're only doing that, like you have to make
it funny. The joke has to be fun Yeah. Is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. A lot of people
are sending me notes on email.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Thank you very much for that.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Uh MT. At Sports seven nine zero dot com, Don
Rickles pass away about three or four years ago, I
think maybe a little bit longer. He offended everybody too,
and people just said, that's just Don Rickles being Don Rickles.
So the I would say, sharpest, quickest comedic minds I
could think of ever seeing Don Rickles and then maybe
like Robin Williams. Yeah, because I got into Don Rickles

(40:09):
like YouTube. Yeah, I watch a lot of those old
roasts he even in his like his nineties or eight
like he's so destroyed you whip smart, Yeah so quick,
great stuff from from Yeah, Don Rickles. I got like
in a hole and I watch a bunch of those
old roasts and stuff like that. Don Rickles Legendary seventeen.

(40:32):
And I'll say this, it takes something to be able
to be the recipient of a roast, Like if they said, Matt,
here's a charity roast for you. That's why I've said no,
I've been praying for the day. You want to be
on there too? The crowd give me one now, remember

(40:53):
when you do the rose at the very end, you
get the last dance.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
But I I am obsessed with the ice. I can
watch Don Rickles. I could watch the Comedy Central roast.
That's why Nikki Glazer to me is so funny. The
roast master himself, Jeff Ross, It's all good stuff, all right.
I love it. Oh five.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
By the way, that was the Form again.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
The Form used to be the home of the Lakers
and the Kings and Sexy big concerts now just has
roast every two to three years. Oh yeah, because they're
out of there. The Clippers. Yeah, well so they didn't
refurbish it. They they made a whole new building. I
don't know what they've done. I've not been inside in years.
A dome or whatever they call it. No, that's a
different location. So that's across from Hollywood Park. I gotcha. Okay, okay,

(41:39):
all right, So last night I'm going to assume and
I hate to assume things, but unfortunately you sometimes I
have to.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Not a lot of you.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Stayed up for the Oklahoma City Los Angeles Laker game
and watch Oklahoma City won. I watched until halftime. Yeah,
I went to I fell asleep and then woke up.
I tipped it like nine.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah. So uh is when I had my phone in
my ear, I could hear Harlan Okay s geah like, oh,
something's going on. I turned around it it was I
think I had it a tide and then I think
the Clipper and that Clippers the thunderscore, like the last
five or six points something like that.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
So the easy low hanging for question.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
A day after that, Lebron at forty one years of age,
do you think he's done?

Speaker 2 (42:24):
There are three options.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
One he can run it back with the Lakers, Two,
he can run it back with somebody else, or three
he can call it quits. I don't know, Lebron. I've
watched Lebron as much as you have. I've called a
lot of his games, not a lot, but you know
what I'm saying, fair amount more than most if I
was two, and we have got feelings coming up in

(42:46):
twenty five, Okay, let me write this down. Actually, Lebron,
I will I will do a half tease like they
did on Monday Night football for the Denver Kansas City game.
I don't think he's retiring. Don't you be more explanation
in about twenty minutes. Okay, but that's that would be
my early gut feeling on that would be that he's
not retiring. Okay, I'm with you on that. I well,

(43:12):
I guess you should I save it, save it. I
just okay, no reiterated. Yeah, it's fine. I think he's
gonna He's gonna ring Chase for a long time, for
a year at least. I don't know where that means
he lands like he's not going to join the thunder.
But about this one, I mean, I'll throw one at you.
Do you see him in a uniform that he has

(43:33):
never worn before. I think it's very possible. I don't
know what. I don't know what everybody's cap situation is. Yeah,
but he he's gotta I mean he obviously he ain't
getting a six. Well, here's what I think about Lebron,
no matter what you want to say. First of all,
he's still a brilliant competitor. Still, he still has got

(43:53):
enough in the tank to be an NBA player. He's
not what he was twenty one or thirty one, no
one's saying that. But at forty one, there's still something
in him. He still has something that the the the
tank is not empty. But what is also not empty
is I don't think he wants to go bargain binge

(44:13):
and shopping. He's not going to the dollar store of
NBA t exactly to the Wizards. I would think ross
he would go somewhere where he would get paid and
have a lesser chance to win than win and get
lesser money. I think Lebron still is driven by finances.

(44:39):
I think he'd be more wanting to win. At this point,
nobody's gonna give a fifty million dollars be a balance.
He's not gonna go take the league minimum, No, but
but it's it's gonna be a balance. I he took
less money when when those guys came over to the Heat.
How about this, I'll say this, if when Lebron signs,
it will not be for seven eight nine million dollars, No,

(45:02):
it'll be it'll be the thirty million dollars. It will
be for fifty No, but still thirty million dollars for
I mean, how many forty one year olds make thirty
million dollars in the NBA one years old? You're forty
one year old or as effective as he is. Okay,
but I'm still saying again too, I still think he's
chasing cash because I think he's got bigger. He's got bigger.
I think he's got bigger things he wants to do

(45:23):
in his life. I think he wants to be Frankly,
and I don't know if he's brought this up ever publicly,
but I think he wants to be the most successful
business person that's ever played sports. Right now, that list
is very short. It's Shaquille, it's magical. Think Michael Jordan.
It's Michael Jordan. It's a small smoke. And I think
he wants he wants to jump past all three guys,

(45:44):
and I think the easiest way to do that is
not try to play sixty games at seven million dollars.
It's to play sixty games at nineteen twenty twenty one,
twenty two million dollars. And some team in the NBA
should offer him that, because when you put Lebron in
your gear, you're going to sell that gear and you're
gonna sell out your arena every single night. So I

(46:05):
will just say that it's not gonna be There will
be no bargain basement deals ever for Lebron James. He
would I think Lebron, if Lebron found out the most
he could make on the open market, Rossie would be
seven or eight million dollars. No think that's okay, not true.
He would retire before taking that. I think he thinks
he's got a certain value to him that says I'm
more than that. Well, why wouldn't he If he's wanted

(46:27):
the money, then why wouldn't he take it?

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Because I think that there's an ego and involved in that.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Okay, there's been a lot of guys in the NBA
they're like, oh, I'm owing, you're all gonna offer me
five million.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
I don't think that's gonna be a problem for him. No,
he's averaged twenty points seven rebounds. I'm sorry, seven assists.
By the way, if you're twenty seven and six for
like a regular person, for anybody. Yeah, and by the way,
Rocket fans do not go out Laker fans saying no, no, no, no, no, no,
don't do it. Well, it's not a good look for you.

(47:02):
It played four more games, I know they did. Yeah,
did a men Thompson even hit twenty seven and six.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Now nobody for the Rockets. Did Alpi maybe in the series?

Speaker 1 (47:16):
You know, I mean a twenty points, seven assists and
six rebounds for the season.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Oh Alpi did for sure?

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Yeah, yeah, Alpi was that way, I think the entire
the entire way. Meanwhile, Cleveland and Detroit are now tied
a to apiece. Now, I don't know if Eastern Conference
basketball is gonna warm the cockles of the Houston sports hard,
but it does give us more. But basketball San Antonio,
Minnesota is a good series of two. K it is,

(47:43):
we've got something. Wimby's back, his elbows are sharpened up,
He's I don't want to say he's lucky, but if
you continue to watch that replay of him throwing that
elbow at nas Red, there was one hundred percent intent
on that and it was Frankly should not even have
taken as long for them to decide to make it
a flaker one it was. That was a flagrant two
all the way. That was a rare back cock and

(48:06):
hit right to the kisser. So uh but yeah, Game
five of that series is tonight. Should be very exciting.
I hope we can talk about it tomorrow and be
people calling about it. Honestly, I'm happy that san Antonio
is still around because it's easy to hate san Antonio
right this way. Ross if it was Minnesota versus Denver,
we would be like, who cares? I mean, how much?

(48:28):
I guess it depends on the line between hate and jealousy.
It may make me jealous, yeah, but that's part of sports.
You're always jealous of the great teams cause they got
Wenby the Rockets, Dope and Stefan Castle and Devin Vessel.
We love you read Shepherd and well that was the
Reshosch share one, and was the Wemby one? Was that

(48:48):
the amen? We love you Thompson, we love we love Twin,
we love Himby's better. Oh, I got a great conversation
for you coming back here you do. And I was
listening to Lakers Radio and they brought this up yesterday. Okay,
Lakers Radio conversation. I'm gonna bring up I'm gonna bring
up the question. Let y'all think about it. And if
you want to send us a tweet at sports empt
or Instagram at sports rbat, sports Empty, or our email

(49:11):
MT at sports Sveny dot com. This is Lakers Radio talking.
Is there any player in the NBA that the Spurs
would trade when before? Straight up and part two of
this conversation, This is Someboddy John Ironland was doing the

(49:33):
call yesterday, was brought this up on his broadcast. He
even thinks it'd be hard press for you to find
a team in the NBA that would trade the Spurs
would trade when before two players.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
On the same team.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Ooh, okay, so think about that. Is there a single player? No,
I don't want to talk about this. Actually duo and
this is what we're scared of when shut you mess up,
Adam Clenton, He's a bum, says Adam Clinton weekday two
to six, as long as he's healthy. Seven one three
two one two five seven Nati seven one three two

(50:11):
one two five Sevenatti. All right, we are checking our
phone lines.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
We've done about every half hour, and we are unsuccessful
in those.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
I don't know why. Cole Thompson has kind of been
like our de facto call helper, trying to help. He's
like that, uh, was it Verizon? And then he went
to sprimt that can you hear me now? Guy? Yeah,
can you hear me now? Unfortunately, we cannot hear you now. No,
we cannot. So unless unless we get things fixed in

(50:45):
the next hour or so, we will not have Joe
spoted today, which is fine. Well, hopefully reschedule for Wednesday,
provide the phone lines work. But they have networked in
late yesterday. But that's fine, all right. Seven one three
two one two No king in the number of it's
a reflex, all right. So uh, I will be You'll

(51:08):
be the Spurs ross and I'll be the other team. Okay,
I'm going to give you Luka Doncic straight up for Wemby. Wow, No,
I am going to I don't like this. It's gonna
make me angry. I will give you NICOLEA for Wemby

(51:30):
straight up. Okay, that's that didn't take long. I would say,
like a radio contingent said, there wasn't a single player mono,
a mono that the Spurs would say yes to. I could, okay,
if you're now, are we doing this? This is almost
like if we're the Spurs wouldn't say yes. We're just

(51:53):
trying to dumb it down with lowis lowest condo say yes,
But the Spurs would not. I think, okay, that makes sense. No,
but you're so you look act as a Spurs. I
don't think the Spurs would. I would okay, I would
say yes, just because of injury concerns. The only reason. Okay,
if you tell me how about this we're in this scenario.
If you tell me he's going to be healthy, I'm

(52:14):
saying no. If you're telling me Wimby's gonna stay oh no,
I'm saying yes. Ah, it's hard, it's hard. I still
think I still take you. How old is Yokich thirty one? Ooh,
your buddy jannisant the Kompo for women. No, he's thirty one. No, No,

(52:37):
I wouldn't honestly because of age. I probably would say
no to Yokic as well, Jason if you're guaranteeing me healthy,
Jason Tatum for Victor Woman, Jalen Brunson, Fritz and know
as well. All right, so now we're gonna start adding
players to it, because the radio contention on the Laker
Network yesterday was contending that you could'd be hard to

(52:58):
find even two people that would say it.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Jamal Murray and Jokic Forbye.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
I like it. I like yes. Uh, dante En Reeves
for Wimby Girls. Guy, I can't believe defense. Mm no, no,
I don't know. This is insane. I'll say yes, I'll

(53:31):
say I'll give you one more Jalen Brown and Jason
Tatum for I would do that. So I think the
problem is this and you've had to wiggle and move
around a little bit here. Difficult That kid is what
is in his second year of the NBA third I

(53:52):
think he doesn't even have a great three point shot.
It's just a three point shot, but everything else.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Is now.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
He had to throw bosis last year he got the
deep van throwm bosis. Yes, and he got concussed earlier
this year, but he only missed one game because of that. Yeah,
he was knocked out cold. This year. He averaged twenty
five points, eleven and a half rebounds, three assists. His

(54:26):
turnovers went way down as the season went along, and
down to two point four, and he won Defensive Player
of the year. He went he won Defensive Player of
the Year and got twenty five and eleven and a half.
It's hard, that's what we're afraid of. That's why Tilman

(54:53):
Fertita was praying for victor games played in his first
three years seventy one, forty six sixty four. He's twenty
two years old. I think it's a matter of when
he breaks down, not if. Can he make it to
thirty before he really starts breaking down. I don't know,

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but you know there's sports science. They're cognizant of it.
They're watching his minutes, they're they're treating with kid gloves,
they're doing everything in their power. They're limiting his minutes.
He was only twenty nine minutes a game. I don't
even want to look at his per third per thirty
six thirty one points, fourteen rebounds, and defensive player of

(55:35):
the Year. And I mean, for example, I'm in and
Kevin Durant played their they're per thirty six game, doesn't
get in a foul trouble either, honestly for a shot blocker,
and they're blown. They're blowing out a lot of guys.
Like a lot of times they were trying not they
were trying to limit his minutes, but a lot of
times he just didn't have to play the fourth quarter. Yep,
they won sixty plus games. Do you think this conversation

(56:00):
makes the Rockets want to think about doing something crazy
like switching conferences? No?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Oh, I mean it'd be nice.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
It'd be real nice, because not only is Victor in
the West, but he's in your division. You're gonna play
him four times a year. You're gonna have and he's
three hours to the west of you. He's gonna be
on your highlights. He might be the face of the
NBA if he wants to be. When they brought that

(56:38):
up last night on the broadcast as I was trying
to fall asleep, that concerned the hell out of me
that even another team would have said, uh huh, we
are not whatever you offer me mono mono, we ain't
taking no because he's young as well. He's twenty two now.

(56:59):
As I said before, the only thing that he does
that makes you think that this is going to be
a guy that will not be able to give you
seventy games a year is that he does take a
lot of hard falls. He doesn't position himself. He does
yet he does throw his body around, which means he's
gonna hit the floor, he's gonna hit a knee, he's
going to bang an elbow, he's gonna hit the back
of his head. He's a little reckless on the court. Yeah,

(57:22):
and if that ever becomes a part of if he
eliminates that where he knows how to take a fall
and not take silly risk about trying to get hurt,
then he becomes a seventy game guy. I mean, we
said the same thing. That's why we didn't want Chet Holmgren.
He played sixty nine games and he's healthy in the
for the playoffs right now. Yeah, for back to back
you have And that's part of the growing up process

(57:43):
of a young guy that is as lean as those
two guys are. I would say Chet's even a little
leaner than Wimby. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (57:50):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Yeah, and I think Wenby still has to work on
a three point shot? What is this three point shot?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Thirty four point nine? Yeah, or just take fewer shots.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Amend's at like, hey wine, he said he's their first brothers.
Comparison is a thief of joy. Don't do that. Here
a T shirt that's a good one. It is not.
Everyone knows that one. Yeah I heard it before, but yeah,
it isn't there. You know what is stealing my joy?
Comparing them in and Wimby. I love him, man, who

(58:19):
doesn't Defensive Player of the Year and the per thirty
six of thirty one points and fourteen rebounds. That's not right.
How could he be seven to four and he's shooting
thirty five? Seriously, don't say he sucks because if you
say he sucks it, then I then I question your
basketball acumen. Who said he sucks? Well, I'm just saying
you just what you have to pray for you honestly,

(58:42):
to be Rudector's hurt. It's friend to get hurt. He's
gonna get hurt, he says. The bodies of players like
that don't stand up. We're gonna be sitting there and
praying for him to hurt get hurt, and well, I
don't know how many championship is gonna rack up because
thunder better. But but we'll see this year it's gonna
be a class of Titans. And he's only twenty two.
Like if if he can stay healthy, they're gonna have
to knock down dragouts and then eventually within four or

(59:04):
five years they could be the class of the West,
if I mean, they could prove it this year. We
have it's not crazy. Ultimately, have to hope, we have
to hope that he gets very unhappy in San Antonio.
He loves it there.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
No, the French teat apparently is very good in.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Sanatori, and they're gonna give him the Mega max every
step of the way.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Absolutely should.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
But let me say this, because I feel like Houston, say,
we got all this Titans. You know, you got Spurs, okay, see,
and then on the East you have the Knicks, and
would in the case be But the Knicks have been
in that spot trying to beat these Titans for how
many how many years and now they are finally.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
After the curve. Well, they haven't won the championship since
nineteen seventy two or something.

Speaker 6 (59:42):
I'm just saying though, because they very well could this year.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
I mean, you didn't get the ping pong balls. You
didn't get the ping pong balls for Wimby, you didn't
get the ping pong balls for Cap Cunningham. I mean,
I guess we did we really want the ping pong balls?
Or is that Clarisa che I don't know. No, I
think Atlanta wants to move.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
From exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
All right, time out for gut feelings. Now, my gut
feeling is I'm pissed. Gut feeling is that made me
and ingram My gut feeling is the Spurs are gonna
be better than the Rockets for the foreseeable future. Ha ha,
What do I want?

Speaker 4 (01:00:14):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
I sound like a Brady kid when when you say that, well,
I don't know, gonna be nice? Seven one three two
one two five seven seven one three two one two five?

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Why am I didn the numbers hit me next time?

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Oh? It's not your fault? So appealing? Wasn't that tummat?
You'll like, got a gut feeling? This is their gut
feeling on the Matt Thomas Show. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
time for us to see how we did last week
at our gut feelings. Rash you a well deserved last
Tuesday off So did you even put anything down? And

(01:00:50):
we even uh, we've got nothing him on the record
for anything of his gut feelings. Correct, he said Lambert
quality plus. Oh, he's going quality plus with Peter Lambert. Okay,
you know what, give give him credit for that. You're welcome,
even though it didn't didn't really help out.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
No, the Astros offense didn't help out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
I mean, I mean I couldn't. I can't do it
all for him, that's true. I mean, all right, Jonathan,
how do you and how did you and I do
last week? All right?

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Matt, you said your you took your son's gut feeling
that the Knicks will sweep the seventies.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Yes, give me credits.

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
You also said the Pelicans will hire Rajon Rondo for
the coaching.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
I still feel good about that. Okay, Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Left one correct one. Well, he's one of the finalists. Okay,
go ahead. I was gonna say, must have heard something
from somebody or something You've been talking to Zion. Uh No,
Zion's eating right prayers I have the ones from two
weeks ago as well. By the way, let's see, I said,
you said Kaiwei Tang pitches at least sixty pitches. I

(01:01:54):
don't think he does two no spots starts ago, correct. Uh.
You said the Rockets were coming home back home for
Game six. That's a hit, thank you. And then they
got there. They they struggled. Yeah, I'm gonna stop my
sentence the way I was gonna say it, I know.
And then you said Austin Reese would play, which I
believe he did. Yes, you said he would score less

(01:02:17):
than twelve points. He had had like eighteen or something. Yeah,
but you said Kevin duran wouldn't play Game five. He
did not. You had tas You're such a hit, my hater.
You had him under two innings in Corpus Christy. We're
gonna but we're gonna do our predictions today.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Don't worry about that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Uh. Let's see, I said Kevin Durant wouldn't play five.
I said the Astros will win the serials versus the Orioles.
That's an L ten one more time, the Orioles series
for the Astros. They lost that series, right they and
I said they would win the series against the Red Sox,
which they did win that one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Yes, two or three there was a three and three
road trip.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Oh, John of Thing had Game five going overtime with
the men, Thompson winning the with the game winning bucket.
That didn't happen, but I mean it was. It was
a nice thought. And there we go. What else we
got from you? What did you do?

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
How did you do last week?

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
But?

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
Oh, I said Wolves beat Spurs and six and that's
all I had.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Still possibility Wolves over Spurs and six. Wow, I'm feeling that, Okay,
And what was yours? Matt? Let me just write this
down for our archival purses purposes. Nicks will sweep Nick
will sweep the Sixers, and then coaching the Pelicans. Yeah,
Rondo coaches Pelicans. Okay. I always thought Roger and Ronald
was gonna be an NBA coach, even when he was playing.
So that's why I feel it may not be no

(01:03:39):
more normals, but he's gonna be a head coach in
the NBA. Point guard a lot of point guard's coach.
We also have Chris Gordy's he was there too. Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
Lance McCullers will hold the Dodgers team and get a
W fastros.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
What's the left for with I can't and he's out
of town, I can't, I can't tease him.

Speaker 6 (01:03:59):
And also he's winby will say a post NBA blocking
record thirteen or more postseason?

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
He had twelve?

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Did he not? And in that first game against Minnesota,
so he was close.

Speaker 6 (01:04:08):
And then Rockets will sign free agent Jose Albarado as unrestricted.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
I'm team Elvarado. He can shoot, but he can do.
Predictions to Gordy make Cheese contribute to the show. I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna blast him for that. As
far as there wasn't any rundown of SEC cross country results.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
The langkiff and talking, oh god, we had we had
to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Yeah, we needed to get into that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
I kind of saw what happened doing about twelve twenty
goodness gracious. All right, So you got any got feelings,
let us know my email MT at Sports seven nine
zero dot com or Twitter at sports empt at sports
Rvy or Instagram for that matter, at sports empty. N Okay,
all right, I will go first. Tatsui Emi non quality

(01:04:54):
star today, Oh okay, non quality start rare plus what
if that was the rare plus, I don't know. It
doesn't matter. That's making things. Quality start, he's plus. He's
trying to hate. I'm revolutionizing things. He's mad because he's

(01:05:16):
not really mister Texas. That's not catching on. And my
quality start plus is uh more people call me mister
Texas than they acknowledge your ridiculous because they're making fun
of you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
No, they're not the people.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
If people could call the show, they'd be saying, good morning,
mister Texas. Now they're just doing it as a joke
because you're obviously not mister Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
I don't believe it to be the case.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
It's like when you there's the six foot four, three
hundred pound guy and you call him small fry. All right,
you want you want it down to a t, I'll
give it to you to a t Okay under foreig innings? Okay, well,
so how many runs?

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Does it matter?

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
If you're going under four ings, it means shutouts. Not
that bad? What is that? A rare rare quality plus
minus plus extra. It's like a go ahead zero sugar.
I like that one zero zero sugar start. Now if
you only go four, that's not quality at all. It's
like an appetizer. It's like a good appetizer. Good okay,

(01:06:21):
uh four innings, three runs, all run, all earned. Does
it matter? Yes, okay, I'm going four and two thirds
two earned runs. So what is that discussed? Then?

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
What do you call on that?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
It's a bad start, I mean not great start. Okay,
so a not great start? Quality plus minus zero sugar.
You don't have to overcomplicate things. It's either light or
plus or regular or just right.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
I know it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Confuse you, yeah, I know, I know. All right, Jonathan,
how is he? How's he not going to do? You
know what? I want? Six innings? What from how many pictures? Yeah, Tatsu, my,
that would be awesome. Yeah, go go ahead, be optimistic,

(01:07:16):
say it with your chest. Do you know what? All right,
we're gonna do? All right? Six innings? How many runs
we're just gonna do? Quality is three? Three? At least three?
All right? Quality start, let's go. I feel it. I hope, so,
I hope you're right? All right, I'm next. Okay, I

(01:07:38):
got another one. Tatum does not get visited by the trainers, hopefully.
Wait a minute, you are gut filling, whether or not
he's going to be hurt during the game. He does
not get visited by the trainers at any point. Okay,
if we're gonna claim that one, I got one for you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
The roof and Dykin Park will be close tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Oh stop, all right, I'm going Also, they're going to
play a baseball game. I'm going to the NBA Spurs
beat the Wolves by at least eleven. Okay, so it's
a Spurs cover tonight against the Wolves in San Antonio. Again,
Spurs cover beat the Wolves by eleven eleven yeah and

(01:08:26):
a half. Right now, what's out nobody? No, it's the
San Antonio's at home and uh Anthony and we're just
running to the extrase bike every five seconds, Oh Vegas,
it's trying to rob y'all. Go ahead and bet the
other side man, Very easy, very easy. I'm just I'm
just if they don't know what they're doing, super simple.

(01:08:47):
There you go. Okay, I'm gonna go with the honest.
Will be moved in the offseason, but not to the Rockets.
Can I step one above that? Sure? He's going east. Okay,

(01:09:08):
I will say, just not to the Rockets. I can't
say anything after that. By the way, on the Dan
Patrick Show Today. Guests include Nick Wright and Reggie Miller.
That's a hard pass, Jesus. A wait, just regard hitting
the same crappy guests over and over again their phone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Lines works, that's definished.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Okay, I will go with a Lebron Jay. I got
my gut feeling at this moment as he's back with
the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Damn it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
I don't think he runs around the league chasing championships.
I think he's thinking that DONC just comes back, reeves
his back, the Lakers will do something else.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I think he's a Laker too.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
I'm sorry, don't have to be sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
I did say a long time ago that I think
he ultimately he ends up in Cleveland a.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
Coachs calosed out his career.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
But that also means he's gonna have to probably acquiesce
and take a lesser doubtar amount because they're going to
know that, and he's not going to do that either,
So I may have to back off on.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
That a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
But I mean Jared Allen Mobley and Mitchell and they
might be moving Mitchell Harden. I don't think Lebron must
to play with James Harden. I don't think I don't
want to play with each other. If I had to guess, ye,
all right, how many prime time games for the how
many standalone games for the Houston extent alone Texans games?
Will be the number five? I was literally typing that

(01:10:28):
in for myself. Liar, where's your camera? Literally typing it
in my column? Camera's worked today?

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Too?

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
All right, dang, all right, I agree, I think it's
gonna be five.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
What I think?

Speaker 6 (01:10:48):
For?

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
What? How many standalone games for the Texans went? The
schedule announced on Thursday? Uh? Two?

Speaker 7 (01:10:55):
Two?

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Are you sure you want to say to them? Just
let them? Just let it go? Y? People stay on
the meaning like yes, Monday fall, you're guaranteed at.

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
Least a Thursday. Okay, so okay, case of three. Okay,
you're still wrong on that, you think?

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
So? I don't think there's no they don't have a
lot of national cache. I give you that. Yeah, but
but there's a prime there's there's so many games. There's
Tuesday night football, Wednesday night football. All right, let me
get a good guess. But he's not bad. Let's do four.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
That allows a little better.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Maybe, Why if we're gonna bully him and it's gonna
be two. That's what I'm saying. You can stand on
your business. Let's get the ten toes down, Johnathan staying
with two. It really makes a lot of sense there
with two. You know what I'm hoping for. Honestly, everybody
in their mother is predicting the Texans are playing the

(01:11:52):
Jaguars in London. I hope they don't play there because
I will annihilate all you dorks that send those tweets out.
That's talk about how the Texans are playing international game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
That's not you like the audience, doork.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
So I'm talking about the national people because there's somebody
that's close to the team that believes that they're not
playing any international games. Now, the NFL can change his
mind on all of that stuff. So, okay, I got
one more, please? Well that's what Colors Junior hits the
IL with a thumbnail. I think it was. I thought

(01:12:27):
it was this pointer finger whatever. There's a nail gone, right, yeah,
I mean how long has he gone?

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
How do you pitch like that? I don't careful. He's
supposed to pitch tomorrow, right, Yeah? And they asked hers
have said nothing about it. I don't know. Well, we
were gonna have Joe a spot off, but our phones
don't work, so it's got a text. Joe's all set
for twelve thirty. We're not gonna be said for him, unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
Yeah, maybe you can call him on the cell phone,
put in the mic.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Yeah, put him on a zoom call. Maybe we can
try that, Hey, Joel, all right, so if you are ready,
uh to send us your tweets at sports Empty, at
Sports RV. I'm gonna check Instagram here. Let's take a
look here, uh, and let us know if you have
any possible gut feelings seven one three two one two

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on Sports Talk seven ninety more gut feelings are coming in.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Uh, you have to help me out with this one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Rossi, one of our Twitter followers, says that, Uh, Kyle
the Walt says, gut feeling. I'm opting in. I'm opting
in want Yeah, we got that's such a good song.
I can't throw at Dyke in Park, but I bomp
thing in. I'm gone thing man, I'm gonna make eighteen

(01:14:08):
mel I can throw only three innings till I can
go home and eat because I can't eat at the
park because it mounts too hard, because the pitch clock
gets me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
I hope I'm wrong about all this.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Six innings, six innings, three runs, quality start.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
That's sue, Emi, let's go alright.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
That down for your gut feeling when I'm end it. Nope,
I'm trying to work it into it. Four and two
thirds gets into a little trouble a couple of base runners,
and then he's got to get pulled, but only two
earned runs, Aaron says, Emi tells us all to shut
our bomb, blanks up as he goes seven innings, quality
plus start tonight whoas Aunt goes for forty and the

(01:14:53):
Wolves come home to close it out. Now, Aaron lives
in Minnesota, so this is a little bias here, quality
start plus. It's catching on. I got like five six
people tweeting about me, yes tweeting me about it yesterday, Matt.
That's because they feel sorry for you. Just like, let
me tell you something, mister Texas is a brain and
you were not. Mister tex It is a legacy, it

(01:15:14):
is a spirit of life. It's a joke, and not
a funny one. You don't even own a cowboy hat
boots because my head's too big. Wouldn't that mean you
need that's when you would get a hat protect that dome. No,

(01:15:34):
not everybody looks good to hats. I haven't ever seen
you wear a hat. That's because I got long hair.
Well I do, so I don't want to wear a
hat up here? Would I wear a hat? When do
I see? You know? Why would I go spend Johnathan? Wait,
we're a smart smart spend money here. Why would I
spend five hundred dollars on a hat that I might
wear once a year? Five hundred? Yeah, if you're if

(01:15:55):
you're going to the roady, you can't go on a
you can't go to a to a a cowboy hat
you buy at rokies.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
It's like one twenty to get it made for you.
Like maybe a little more than that, but it's not
too bad. Yeah, but we're trying to get a custom
made stetson and you keep it, you keep.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
It for life. Mister Texas has a lifestyle to live
in an ap parallel live for Yeah, Okay, you're not
miss You're not mister Texas. What lifestyle there's nothing missed
the text about the lifestyle you do. I eat checking
fried steak, I travel the streets throughout the state.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Oh I like brisket.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
You don't like Tomorrowy like briskets. Fraud. The people have
called you out for that so much. You're like, yeah,
I like it. Sure, I like brisket. I prefer ribs
and sausage. Sue me. Yeah, you're the sausage man. That's
what we're gonna call you, the sausage man. You're not
You're not mister Texas jalapeno. You're mister sausage. I'm opting in.

(01:16:51):
You know what, you know what you wish, wish you
could stop. You like sweet tea. We're gonna, we're gonna.
You're gonna get executed. I don't get sugar and tea.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Oh well, gross, my tea feet.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Isn't like sweet tea.

Speaker 6 (01:17:03):
I looking at Jonathan, he can't even the eighteen hundred
you'll get put on that stand in.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
The front of house hall. That's why it's drawn and quartered.
So you're saying that adding glucose to my tea makes
me more of a state. Uh yes, sweet tea in Texas.
Come on now, you cannot be mister Texas and not
like Sweet Tea or Doctor Pepper.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
But I like arsen Tola.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
You're right here, get out.

Speaker 6 (01:17:31):
It's unbelievable. Every time we talk about this, I'm surprised
every time I like I like lemonade on a hot
summer day.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Yeah, my girl, we'll send you to miss You'll be
mister Georgia. I watched Texas cooking shows. Stop your qualifications.
You're hurting yourself. No, I'm not. I'm just trying to
add to the resume. I watch a show on TV.
I'm mister Texas. Now, all right. I like Galveson, you don't.

(01:18:02):
I like Gavison, you don't. All right, it's like you know,
you get you know what it is, all right, it's
so much you need to go back. It's so much nice.
It's like the girl you don't tell you your bros about,
all right, you like her, you just know what it is. Though, Explain,
get gets the job done. You're calling Galveson the slump

(01:18:26):
busting of women of cities. It's convenient close, gets the
job done. Not the prettiest kind of sloppy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
You're telling me the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Oh my god, you're saying that you are going out
with women that are the likes of Galveston. You hear that, Galveston.
I love you because your beaches are nice. People aren't.
It's an easy drive. The hotel accombinations are good. The
shop is good, the restaurants are amazing. She's down the street.

(01:19:00):
Doors are open. Get the job done. So did you fix?
You need to get to the beach, get your fix?
So you would it's a good seafood. You would not
want to marry at Galveston, right, you want to marry
a what? Who gets married in Galveston? Lot weddings in Galveston? Oh? Really? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
Call it?

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
Call the Galvez. I'm sure they're full of people getting
married there. Okay, you wouldn't get married if I give
you an all expense paid whatever you're paying for it. Yeah,
but I'm not getting married anyways. I mean, you get married.
The pictures look like the beach. You're not gonna get
Who gets married on the beach at Galveston. You're in
the Galvez in the ballroom. Yeah, that's the only place
you go where there's a beach and people are like now,

(01:19:48):
people get married on the beach. In Cancun, people get
married on the beach in Panama City, people get married
on the beach, and I don't know Huntington. Nobody's getting
married on the beach in Galveston unless you want to
triple or seaweed and syringes see Mester. Texas would not
have for it. But I go to Galason, but I
recognize what it is. I go to Galison. I like Galveson.

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I'll go get some I'll go get some Guido's. I'll
go get some seafood. I'll get some shrimp and stuff,
and I'm gonna have a good time on the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
And go to the pleasure pier.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Yes, miss Texas been the pleasure peer. I'm not gonna
sell you, you know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna be like, hey, hey,
this girl's a ten man. Let me tell you my
gal Jalvison is a quality start. Plus, it's more of
a spot. There's more of a Kiwa tank spots start.

(01:20:44):
Am I wrong? Though? You say I'm wrong? But am
I wrong? Kenny says? And I got love. When you
love something, you can be honest about it. I love Texas.
We all we have warts. We have Baytown. Okay, everything
else is fine. Don't you shame Galveston. I'm not shaming them,
but your hate towards like nobody in Columbus, Ohio is like, man,

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I can't wait this summer to get down to Galveston. Nobody,
But he sells it that way. No, yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:21:11):
It's because it's close. That's okay, that's okay. Why can't
we be honest about things? Yeah, I'm not being dishonest.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
But if you lived in California, you would never go
to Galveston. Ever, there's not a single person in California.
It's like, I can't wait to get to Galveston, Texas.
Not a single Narrea one. There's nobody in Florida. Yeah,
it's special because it's oars. Yeah. She's my girl, she
gets a job done. Yeah, she's mine. She's my little secret.

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Kenny says, I don't think the Astros reach five hundred
this season. Season over, horrible gut feeling. Write it down.
You want to do there right now? Do you want
the Astros ever go can get to five hundred? Do

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you want to refrain? Don't ask me, I I'm abstaining.
You want to all right? Are you recusing myself from
that question right now.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
We gotta we gotta sing some blues.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
We'll have the low lights of an Astros game against
the Mariner's next part of the news at noon eleven
fifty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety alongside mister Galvezan Light, I
am mister Texas seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero W is the Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross del There's an No.

Speaker 5 (01:23:04):
One and that's him the other way and in the
left field for a base hit on his way around
third is a rose arena. Here comes a photo the
plate by coal that's cut off by piranhas a rose arena.
Scores an RBI single for dominic san canzone and it's
one nothing Seattle.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
Yeah. Quick bobble there at left field may have cost
Zack Cole an opportunity to get that throat of the
plate in time to beat Brandy. A rose arena there.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
But the ball he bump on him a little bit,
popped it up in the air and then had to
catch a sip.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Ever search went away. I've been doing another by.

Speaker 5 (01:23:43):
And it's a round ball. Pass the night without two
day and in the right field. Getting the wave around
third is rarely. Here's a phat of the plate by
Smith on a hop. The slide rarely beats in head
first slide for Luke Raley and the Mariners have a
two nothing lead.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
So I've just got that left hands in just ahead
of the tag to give this the bole field and
that one is way out of here. The hole run.
He didn't pull that one, foul pulled it out of
the ballpark. And it's three and up in Seattle, you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:18):
Know, off the top of the grant of the leader size.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
Suit.

Speaker 5 (01:24:31):
Slidersnack the other way fielded on a low hot by
Paratus and he throws the first in time and it's
a one two three in it for Stephen Okre all
thirteen pitches over through and then and it were slider shad.
We had to be bottom of the eight.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
You must.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
To swing in a betch, change the chinchup off the
play the way and that is the ball game.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
Le Barners meet the Astros.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
For an eighth secutive meeting tonight, thret to one.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
Astros have lost the rain at least had a successful
surgery yesterday for the attendant and you will rejoined the
teams off crutches. But I miss you. I missed the
Astros offense. Honestly, Ross, we missed the Astros offense the

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first month of year because so far in the month
of May it has.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Been non existent. Two runs in the last three games.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Obviously credit to the other guys they get paid to.
Chase Burns has been very good. George Kirby, we know,
has given the Astros fits. Basically, it wasn't even real
George Kirby since he was a rookie. Why wasn't it
real George Kirby because to go deep in the game,

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didn't go deep into counts. Pitched a bunch of pitches.
Seven hit it's seven strikeouts, but I don't think did
the Astros even have an extra base hit? No?

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
All single?

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
Seven all singles.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
And what what was it?

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
The eighth inning helped me out.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
I was gonna say, you can call him.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
If you can't, I want to say Smith let off
the inning with a walk, strikeout.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
No, it was three straight strikeouts. It had to have been.
I don't know what it was, but there was a.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Leadoff walk or a bass hit followed by strikeout. Strikeout, strikeout,
Christian Walker, let off the eighth with a walk, and
then strike Smith, Matthews all struck out. It's good stuff,
It's great, it's lovely baseball. Look zat cole friend of
the show super Guy, Yes, super super Guy, limited sample size,

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but is it really teen at bats? Mm hmmm?

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Nine strikeouts?

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
That's who he is? Could you mean he is a
He is a young man ROSSI who dreams of being
a major leaguer putting the uniform on playing his position, Bessie.
Could he fumbled the ball left field yesterday? Yeah? I
think the run of the scored anyways. Probably so because
to throw off line. Let's go with that. He bobbled

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him throw it off line, so he lets say he
could run on it. Fantastic. He eats his vitamins and
he says his loves his mom, and he loves mom
and dad. It loves apple pie. He loves the red,
white and blue mass and chasing breaking stuff. He loves
that dude. And all he could do to get to
the big leagues last year was just not chase.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
And he chased, and.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
He worked and scratched and clawed as everything he humanly
could to make the major league roster coming out of
spring training. But the problem was he chased and because
of all the injuries, Zach Cole finally getting an opportunity
to play every day in the god loving amazing position

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of playing a major league outfield, whether it's left field
or center field. Nineteen at bats and nine strikeouts, I
mean that doesn't advance a runner, that doesn't score a run,
that doesn't give a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
It just it cuts the game off at its core.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Doesn't hit into a double play. At least positive nine
strikeouts And it's not just him. Is the ops is
seven eighty nine. He's got a couple of home runs.
At least there's that two home runs, five ribbies, no walk,
nine strikeouts and no walk straw.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Let's get to the.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
News, dude, get out of this.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
The news at noon is that, well, the Astros did lose.
As we mentioned the news, I think the big news
is Tatsuoya Emi making his return to the Hill for
the Houston Astros. Last start was a disaster. He only
went a third of inning against these very same Seattle Mariners,
gave up three earned runs. Before that, he was pretty

(01:29:24):
good against the Athletics in Sacramento, even where the ball
flies out five and two thirds of shutout ball. So
hopefully he can give you a little something. We made
our gut feelings previously on this, Matthew, but is it.
It's obviously not a must wing game, but as big
as it, like May twelve games go, feels like a

(01:29:48):
lot of pressure on the shoulders of Tatsuya Imai. You
can't say any better than that, because here's the reality.
Lance mccullor's had a lot of those moments of come on,
come through forest and he didn't, and people checked out.
People are going to check out on Tatsui. And I'm

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telling you there is one person in the building that
needs this start to be as good as Emi, and
that is Dana Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
He needs this to be good.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
How much do we think that was Dana Brown and
or Jim Crane involved as well, with Dyikin and stuff
like that. I mean, that's been hint to that. I
just don't I'm saying I don't know. First of all,
Jim's got to say yes to the money. Obviously, you
can't be naive to think the Daikans relationship with the
team is not a factor in that. But number three,

(01:30:42):
even if it was all Jim Crane and no Dana Brown.
That the signing goes on Dana Brown's organizational chart. He
doesn't go on Jim Crane's chart. So I think if
I went and found five people in the organization, deep
in the weeds of the organization, they're give me five
different answers. Okay, just question this, thinking out loud. My

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guess is, can I give you, as a random guest
on this sure that? Uh, the deal with Daiking was
signed a couple of years ago and Jim said, Hey, Dana,
we're going to be able to get some players internationally
that we've never gotten before. Go find me somebody, and
I bet you, Dana said, through my scotting eyes, my

(01:31:24):
thirty six years of scouting guys, this Tatsui Emi guy
is a guy that not only has other teams are
interured in, but he wants to go somewhere that is
not a normal spot for Asian players to go play base. Yeah,
he wanted to be he wanted to face the Dodgers.
He didn't want to join the Death Star. And well
he's here and he needs to perform. We'll see how

(01:31:47):
he does tonight. All right. Lakers eliminated last night by
the Oklahoma City Thunder and a one to fifteen to
one to ten loss. Lebron James swept in his twenties,
swept in his thirties, swept down in his forties. That's
got to be some kind of record. Congratulations to him.
But of course, as a UKUD donches available for Game
five tomorrow, right, okay, if necessary, if necessary, it is
not necessary. Lebron James last night on his retirement or

(01:32:11):
if he will continue playing in LA or elsewhere, I've
answered questions. I don't think I've come out and been like, oh,
retirement is coming with my future, I don't know. Honestly,
it's obviously still fresh from losing the series. I don't know.
I don't know what the future holds for me. You
and I both got feelings he'll be back with the Lakers.
Number one reason why I do believe. I do believe

(01:32:33):
Lebron wants a farewell tour. I cannounce it. The greats
of the greats always did. Chris Paul wanted his farewell tour. Yeah,
he got one, all right. It was a very abrupt one,
yea farewell from the Clippers organization. Unfortunately, so Lebron James.
I don't think he's going to retire, but we'll see

(01:32:54):
interesting story here, Matt that we can actually well I
don't know how much time I want to spend on it,
but maybe it's good for the news. At noon, the
NFL players are taking notice something that's happening this summer
for the World Cup. Did you see that? And you
know what that is? Or can you guess? Players are
noticing turf installation in stag Yes, grass fields installed for

(01:33:15):
the FIFA World Cup, And the NFL players are like, oh,
hold on, no, you guys can install grass for all
these World Cup games? What about for us for player
safety something that they've been advocating for for years? And
the owner of the oh Constan two high, well, we
can't do it. Turf is safe. World Cup comes along
all of a sudden, there's grass everywhere. Funny how that works, man?

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FIFA is FIFA in the Olympic committees are the two
strongest committees out there. Right Basically, uh power they wheeled
if you don't do what we want you to do.
I mean they are taking stadium sponsorship names off of facilities.
When the World Cup comes to play at Reliant, it's
not Reliant, it's Houston Stadium. The same thing in Kansas City,

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not only ROSSI are they not naming the names of
those stadiums. They're taking the letters off of the sponsorship
names of it. So when they play in New Jersey
and they're not playing it MetLife, they're playing a New
Jersey stadium. Yes, it's that's how much power FIFA has
over this. Yeah, you play by our.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Rules or you don't get games.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
It's crazy in FLPA Executive director Jc Tretter saying, we
want grass fields, good solid fields, don't just pull out
the municipal golf course. Grass, high quality services. That's what
our players care about. Every player they pulled seventeen hundred players,
ninety two percent of the NFL players said they prefer

(01:34:42):
grass over turf. There was something that about feeling being
on grass and the body fields different. Even if you
ask the coaches, just standing on grass versus turf for
three hours feels different. There's something that impacts the body.
It's the NFLPA taking notice. They want grass fields everywhere.
I think in twenty twenty six you could put palettes

(01:35:03):
in in every stadium, even when they're in the true
enclosed dump stadiums, and I have an issue that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Includes here in this building too.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Although every time the Tectans would try to do it
when it was it like rough grass or something, or
then they bret the hitman Hartman and suit them, and
you had you had the palets that were not even
and in some parts of the stadium looked water on.
They weren't doing it well. Yeah, I don't know what
was going on. The barbarous over there, who who are arborous? Grasskeepers?

(01:35:31):
Didn't we turf builders, didn't we get the groundskeeper on
a mobile. I think one time back in the day
we might have. We did. Well, we can't get them
today because our phones don't work with those. Oh no,
believe it or not today unfortunately. Uh no, Joe Aspata, No,
Joe Aspata, it's fine, It's not fine, it's fine. Twelve eighteen,
Sports Talk seven. Andy, let's take a short time out,

(01:35:53):
we'll come back. Uh. We could play guests what Joe
A Spota would say? No, we can't do that. You
want to ask me.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
No, we like Joe too much, love Joe, feel bad
for Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
I would like that. I would like them to get
more hits for Joe. Joe Joe as spot A calling
that don't score runs play is not working. He needs
to change it up. Yeah. Uh, playing good. Uh, having
quality starts and no runs doesn't save Joe's job. Twelve
eighteen on Sports Talk seven on eighty with the one.

(01:36:30):
All right, we're gonna normally have Joe's spotting here in
about ten minutes. But that's not happening. So that's okay,
not Joe's fault. Ours Uh seven one, three two, hit myself.
Let me stay with baseball here for just a second
lip service or a little bit of optimism. I'll let

(01:36:50):
you decide sports Harve on this. But if you want
to send us a tweet, comment, thought, suggestion, yes, we've
kind of done enough of the ass thro lack of
hitting conversation. I'm behind on reading a couple of messages. Okay,
if you want to get to some, send those two
at sports Rgo gave us a gut feeling too.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
What do you saying.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
Lebron to the Warriors, Yanni is to the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
I can't have that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
Okay, Well, that's it is up to you. Jeff Passion
thirty four minutes ago. MLB and the Players Association are
currently holding the first official collective bargaining talks before the
expiration of their CBA in December. The first the opening
presentations are basic overviews of each side's position and set

(01:37:38):
up the long bargain bargaining road ahead formatics. To you
or hey, I kind of like that they're at least
sitting down already talking. I like that they yeah, if
I like that they are at least conversing and haven't
shut down anything. Because there's gonna be a go something.
We're gonna have baseball. Baseball not going away forever. At

(01:38:01):
some point somebody's gonna make a concession somewhere. So get
the ball rolling now. Maybe you get ahead at the
end of the day. I don't think it's gonna hurt.
I'll put it that way. Is you let the let
them clear the air, let them make their intentions known.
This is what we're gonna do. Go ahead and draw
your lines in the sand now, because with anything, Matt,

(01:38:21):
with your with your lady, or with whoever, you draw
your lines in the sand. And then eventually time somebody's
gonna have to buckle and concede because baseball is not
going away. Baseball's not going away, but I can I

(01:38:45):
give you a terrible example, Yes, mister analogy, terrible, terrible analogy. Yes,
this is the first test grade of the semester. Oh
if I fail it, okay, who cares. I'm only really
worried about my grade until it's really the last test

(01:39:06):
grade of the semester.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Mm.

Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
They can sit in front of them all they want
to and say here's what we want, and they're gonna
look at that screen and they're gonna go, you want
what's besides gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Say you want what?

Speaker 1 (01:39:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
They and we'll see you in December. That's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
At least that's better than just seeing them in December,
having a few months to mold into how you can
formulate your plan. How long are you willing to dig in?
How long are we willing to this go? Because it's
going to be a war of attrition. Players are ready.
They're gonna know too. I mean, the baseball Unions has
has got a lot of resounding victories over the owners
over the years. The only thing gives me a little

(01:39:47):
bit pause, and trust me, I'm willing to change my
opinion on this. The only thing that gives me pause
for optimism is I know that both teams. Both sides
are building up their war chest, but it's no ever
gonna be the same.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
As really making the real money. You know what I mean.
You can build a warchest all you want to.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
Oh, but you can't. You still can't drop. You can't
put the in the in the piggy bank forty thousand
in the stadium in April if you don't play baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
All right, I.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
Reckon our apologies. Forward to Joe Aspata and I just
text it back and hopefully we'll get him on the
show tomorrow at twelve thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Our phone lines are.

Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Working well, I'm able to get him today.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:40:34):
Glitches happened, just happens here more than other places. But
that's a different issue for a different time.

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
Rossy, how are you?

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
I'm great, Matt. Let's complain about it's more No then
nobody cares. Clearly our central operating op center system does
not care. But oh man, because I do. I do
want to get the perspective of what he's thinking. What
is he gonna tell Tatsuimi? What is he going to
say to him? You know, we've given you space, We're

(01:41:07):
going to continue to give it. I mean, it's not
in the Astro's best interest to give up on him.
I know Astro fans want to do so. Uh yeah,
he need they need the pitching help, They need him
to be good. They they need to see, as I said,
one of the one of the three starts was good,
first one was not. You want to chalk it up

(01:41:27):
to nerves. Great, How how did he have his best
start in Sacramento where the ball flies out like crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
I would say limited sample size?

Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
I mean, at least it's something he hasn't pitched since
what early April? Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
It's been a month.

Speaker 1 (01:41:44):
He pitched in Sugarlan, you wouldn't have to talk about
how it went. But oh man, please, it's as hopefully
we're just overthinking this and putting more pressure on it
than there is. And he's going to go out there
and you know, five innings and two run ball be
all right?

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
That would be a smallest step.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
Yeah, I think I think expectations are very minimal. I
just think he how about this? Can he leave the
mound feeling better than he walked onto it?

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Is?

Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Is that too much to ask for?

Speaker 1 (01:42:17):
That? It can happen. It can happen. It is in
the range of outcomes. By the way, this is you know,
we've talked about this before. This is important. We you know,
the Astros of now our own five against the Mariners
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Think about that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
It's the four game sweep in Seattle and then dropping
the opener yesterday. Oh, tiebreaker purposes. Well, I don't even
think you're even thinking about that, right I am. It's
not good. You know, you don't have to put necessarily
anything on it, but it could it could end up mattering.
We need to talk about every Rockets tiebreaker this year.

(01:42:53):
And and look, we're going to spend a lot of
time because we're not talking to y'all, you and I
are talking. Yes, we're going to spend some time overthinking
this Emi situation. Where was the loss? In translation? Did
somebody promise him something about the environment that he did
not get? Did he say, oh, I'm not worried about

(01:43:16):
the mound, I'm not worried about the pitch clock. I'm
not it would be I mean, he did sign an
eighteen million dollars, so let me finish.

Speaker 2 (01:43:24):
Let me finish it there.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
My thought is, you can say all the things you
want to a prospective boss. I you know, I'll give you.
I'll give you a very small example. I can travel
four days a week for three weeks a month. My
family won't mind it. I can work on occasional every
other saturday. I can do this because you want to

(01:43:46):
appeal to the boss, boss being any free agent team,
do you think maybe he knew about all these things
and just kind of said the right things just to
get to the dollar amount? And no, no, no, I don't.
I don't think so. I think he's being asked questions
because you're also with your boss and whatever you're doing
in your own life. You're not doing a press conference
after every time you work, like, hey, what went wrong today? Well,

(01:44:06):
you know, the mound's a little different, pitchclock. Everything he
said is true. Hey, these are things they're asking. He
was asked questions, what what are things you're having to
adjust to? And he's listing them. So, I mean, hey,
weather's different, mounds different, pitchclock is different, ball is different.
Those things are all true, and so I don't know,
you know, I don't know much about Japanese culture or

(01:44:28):
what's happening with lost in translation or whatever it is.
Our we are used to our athletes here born bread
raised in America to say to not make excuses to
not talk about things. So but if he's being asked
via translator, what's what's the difference or what's happening, those
are all valid things that he is having to adjust to. Now,

(01:44:49):
does that mean he's whining and pouting and saying I
can't do any of this or is it just asked
and answered and we're making too much of it because
we're used to everybody else having the stiff upper lip
saying it's okay, it's not an excuse. We don't let
him learn about injuries until after, like somebody's the season
is over, like Jose Al Tuove battling a foot injury,
we didn't hear really about how bad it was until

(01:45:11):
the end of the season. Or this guy I remember
was in twenty twenty two, Martin Maldonado had had a
ripped groin and he had a sports herney or whatever
it was in a broken hand. You don't hear it
till after because everybody just doesn't want to make an excuse,
and he's just actually honestly answering a question he's getting asked,
and then we're running with it. Maybe that's there's there's

(01:45:31):
an element of that. But ya Amoto is pitching in
the dot with the Dodgers. With the Dodgers, yeah, there
is you Darvers with Padres, chat In Mayin guy from
the Cubs. Uh huh, Kode Singo with the Mets. I'm
looking through the Rokasesaki has been bad with the Dodgers.
I think he was getting lit up a lot. I
mean recently. We have to understand it.

Speaker 6 (01:45:50):
And to piggyback off Ross's point, the American sports culture
is completely different, and I think the MLB has to
understand you can't expect everybody to be young, to be
a Otani like. That's a whole different type of change.
You even see it in college sports or even people
that go overseas from NBA overseas that it's a it's
a hard to just, you know, go back to that

(01:46:11):
life or to adjust to how you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
Used to be doing things. And it just might be
he's a late bloomer.

Speaker 6 (01:46:16):
It's it's America is a really different than all these
other countries and how they treat their athletes.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
It was, uh, what was it? Brian Bogosvik told us
when he went to Japan and they were asking about
his conditioning. Yeah, he's like, my condition is perfect, but
he was like completely lost in translation. He wasn't even
he wasn't even answering it correctly. And then yet Roki Sasaki,
I think last year was like then supposed to be
the number one pitcher, number one prospect in baseball and
he's not been good for the Dodgers at all. And

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then they've been trying to use him out of the pen,
and it's been a horrible adjustment for for rookie Susaki.
He was now here his second year over from Japan,
and he was supposed to be the all world, can't
miss everything Japanese picture. So the question is going to be, ultimately,
did the Astros get a picture the just is never
going to adapt to it, and hopefully the answer that
is no, because if this continues this year, my guess

(01:47:06):
is they're gonna be very leary. Whoever the ownership may be.
And I'm the person it's gonna be. Jim Creane for
the foresee of the future is gonna want no part
of this because this has been it's almost here comes
another bad analogy. Royce White with the Rockets. Royce White
didn't want to travel. He didn't want to fly on airplanes,

(01:47:28):
and they kept saying, okay, well, we'll bust you from
here at this place of this place. We will keep
your flights limited, we will give you proper medication, we'll
do everything we can to make sure that you do
not have it, until it just became one excuse after
the other, and the astra of the rockets eventually said,
this isn't worth it. See, yeah, I think that's us
running away with it. A couple of comments a little

(01:47:49):
too much. We're definitely not in It doesn't feel like
we're we're in a Royce White type of situation at all.
I will not. Yeah, it's he's made three starts and
then it wasn't feeling good, so he took some time
off and now he's back. But it wasn't tired, Arm though,
way Arm fatigued, it wasn't it was mind fatigue. Well,

(01:48:13):
we don't know that if Arm could have been tired. No, no,
no structure Structurally, he said, m yeah, I don't. They
said structurally there was nothing in there, but yeah, yeah,
I know he didn't have any structural problems, just sore.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
I think there's a lot of things that were sore.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
So, Matt, where do you stand?

Speaker 6 (01:48:30):
Are you at the spot right now where you're like,
he's getting paid all his money, he needs perform or it's.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
No, I am.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
It's not that black and white. My philosophy is.

Speaker 1 (01:48:43):
There. He is an investment. He is at least a
one year investment, probably going to be two or three.
That it's in the Astros' best interest to acquiet, to
do things to make him as comfortable as possible. But
you are in a very public job. You're in a
job that makes an in tremendous.

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
Amount of money. You were paid.

Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
Money that could have gone elsewhere, to other pictures, if
indeed you just never thought that being a major league
pitcher was going to be something that you thought you
could be comfortable with. So I am rooting for him.
I need him to be good. It doesn't make me
any a of a Its make me a good Astro
fan if I want him to go out and do

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this again, because to embarrass himself to say, oh, that's
more money misspent. But if it's a lost cause, then
that's going to really hurt this organization. It hurts when
you make bad signings, when you have sunken costs into
contracts a bray You never You sent him down to
Florida to get his swing back.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
He never got it back. You gave Lance.

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
Mccullors lots of time to realiabilitate, and he's never come
all the way back. He's shown him for glimpses. Good teams.
I talked about in the ten oclock hour of the show.
You have to avoid the sucky contracts. Yeah. No. Also,
nobody held a gun to the Astros head though they're
part of this as well, and we don't know how.
They've never bought or broad a player over from Japan

(01:50:11):
and he's having trouble acclimating. How can't we make them
culpable in this as well? Uh, not culpable. They didn't.
My feeling is didn't do it. They didn't do anything wrong.
They're they're giving him a lot of money. If I'm
the boss, If I'm the if I bring you in
from a different city and you and you miss your
family so much, I'm gonna pretty much say, Ross, you

(01:50:32):
signed my deal, I mean, come work. Yeah. But it's
if it's I think we could also put some of
this on the Astros. If if they're bringing him over
from Japan and they're supposed to have him ready for
the season and he's not ready. If if if it
is the talking about it, there was ages up up
Maybe he should have been hardening up the mound and
getting ready used to the baseball. He was getting integrated.

(01:50:53):
He was down in Florida for two months. It wasn't
like they said him there two weeks ahead of time. Yeah,
I don't know. I'm saying, how come we're we're assuming
we're putting it all on him. It's all his fault.
And I was what about the astros.

Speaker 6 (01:51:04):
And I'll say to just being around foreign athletes, I
think it's a lot deeper, like you said, Matt, But
I just think it's so much more complex than we
could ever even imagine. Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
If we want to blame the askers, where do you
think the astros could not not which did go wrong?
Could have gone wrong? Yeah, maybe they could have done
a better job of getting him acclimated to to whatever
it was with the mound and the ball and all
these other things that he's talking about. We're just finding
about about when he wants to eat and where does
he want to eat and can he eat whenever he
wants and having those conversations with him, and we don't
know if that again, we don't know if these are

(01:51:37):
things he's complaining about or things where he's just getting
asked a direct question and giving a direct answer. I
don't know. But if if a player the first time,
you bring a player over from Japan and he's having
trouble adjusting, then then I can say maybe it's the
Astros as well. But also Tatsiami as an individual, he
is not Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He is not Roki Sasaki, he

(01:51:59):
is not show Hill. He is Tatsuya Imi. And so
he is having his own issues right now, obviously, and
he's his own individual person. He's on his own journey,
he's having his own whether it be mental or physical
or whatever. Ye man, again, there's so many things we

(01:52:19):
don't know, So it's hard for us to say with
absolute certainty that somebody bumbled this up. But from just
a strict works again trying to put into real life situation.
You bring a guy in that lived in Kansas City
all his life and you brought him the Texas and
he misses Kansas City so much and he can't He

(01:52:40):
has made no friends and he doesn't know how to
do this, and doesn't know how to eat, doesn't how
to get around town. No one's no one forced Tatsui
Imai to sign with the Houston Astros.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
He made the decision.

Speaker 1 (01:52:51):
Now as to sign him. No, they were generous. They said,
here's eighteen million dollars we're taking. We're gonna give you
all this money. We don't even know if you can
do it or not. Yeah, and he and Scott Boris
said yes, And they might end up being wrong. Maybe
he he walks off the mountain tonight after the first
inning and he never throws a baseball again. We don't know.
I hope he's his own opt out at that point.

(01:53:12):
Royce White is his own human being, tattoo you minds
his own human being. He can make his own decisions.
And yeah, we'll see what happens. I want him to
go out there, and I want him to be successful.
All I can say is this, if the Astros made
a misstep, which they very well could have as of
right now, yes, I'm talking about getting him ridy like
you're talking about. They've had a month to fix this.

(01:53:33):
They have they probably know every bit of the inner
workings of who he is right now. I hope, so
sending him to Corpus gets everybody right. Seven one three two.
We gotta we gotta check out if the Asian food
it's good down there? Is that what we're talking about. No,
that's not what we're talking about. Get him and get
him whatever he needs. And you say no sex even

(01:53:56):
though he's married twenty seven years old. You want him
to cheat on his pregnant wife with a hooker, and
I'm saying I don't. But that's if you want to
say that. That's fine. You say no, I didn't say that.
You said you wanted to cheat. I backed off on it.
So that's what you want. That's Matt Thomas. By the way, Hi,
my name's Ross's not me. That's Matt Thomas. I'm saying no,
let's get him acclimated some other way. Seven one three

(01:54:17):
two one two five seven Ninty. I just wanted to
pitch well, I don't want to keep going to a
deep dive of how Tatsu eat mys feeling today, or
how the mound is or what time dinner is. Twelve
forty eight Sports Talk seven Natti, All right, Jonathan, you

(01:54:39):
wanted to bring this up and we can do it
here too. Weird, We'll go back to the astro of
struggles because I got a lot of angles on that.
We got time for that, unfortunately, and again our apologies.
We're gonna try to get Joe spotted with his tomorrow
twelve thirty if the phones work, wonderful h okay. Vanity
Fair had an article about Lane Kiffin, and he said

(01:55:03):
part of the reason why he wanted to leave Old
miss was because Old Missus struggles to distance itself from
symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname
Old miss itself. Quoting the Vanity Fair article. When he
was coaching there, Kiffin said top for croups would tell him, hey, coach,

(01:55:23):
we really like you, but my grandparents aren't letting me
move to Oxford, Mississippi. That doesn't come up when you
say baton rouge. Louisiana parents were sitting here this weekend
saying the campus diversity feels so great. It feels like
there's no segregation. Before y'all jump in, I have not
done a deep dive on this, but I think it's frankly,

(01:55:49):
very very hypocritical for Lane Kiffin to be starting to
talk about the segregation issues and Old Miss when he
was wearing the hat a year ago or two years
ago or three years ago, trying to get the rec
to come win a national championship at Old Miss. I
think it's an opportunity to take a little shot at
a team that you used to play for, used to
coach for, that told you to get out of town

(01:56:10):
when you were thinking about going somewhere else. I think
it's not revisionist history, because that's not fair. I just
think it's revisionist. It's opinion swapping based off of the
hat that you're wearing now. LSU probably has had Matt
Orges currently had its issues too, And that's not even
the big point of it. This is more of a

(01:56:30):
point of Hey, I got a chance to slam my
old school because they hated me. I'm going to take
my chance at it. Three years ago, Lane Kiffin loved
everything about Old Miss, talked about it, sold his kids,
sold African American kids to go there, sold every kid,
if every origin, origin and creed and color. This to
me is just him being spiteful. That's all I see

(01:56:52):
out of it. Again, not doing a deep dive on it,
but I just wanted to say that that's how I
see it from a very far distance.

Speaker 2 (01:56:59):
Any thoughts, So.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
You're talking about the the original Vanity Fair quotes. I'm
just trying to read up on this because honestly, I
hadn't I didn't know much about it. So originally he
spoke about it in Vanity Fair and then he has
since apologized in in an interview with ON three, I
guess is what I'm seeing. I'm seeing the I'm seeing
the Vanity Fair tweet from Okay eleventh, That's what I'm seeing. Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:57:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:57:21):
Apparently he's apologized as well in an interview with ON three,
which is the recruiting website, which is one of the
big It's basically the the the big on the recruiting website.
At this point he said, I really apologize if anybody
Ole Miss or in Mississippi was offended by that. In
a four hour hour interview, I was asked a lot
of questions on a lot of things, and Ole miss

(01:57:41):
has been wonderful to me and my family. That's a narrative.
The coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn't calculated by
bringing it up. This is a joke. If you ask
me why for for whom? Or yeah, in what way explain?

Speaker 6 (01:57:58):
Because the thing is, like Matt said, it just seems
it's more so to attack the organization if he really
was saying that that was a big deal and he
actually meant it, and why wouldn't why wasn't he addressing
that and talking about that while thank you? Like, why
is he not saying that while trying to recruits like
we need to do this, you know this these kids
are you know I want fotball players, yes, but it's

(01:58:20):
better safety for our kids, our diversity, our school. Why
is he not being that outreach and talking about it,
but he's doing it now since he left.

Speaker 1 (01:58:27):
It just makes it a weird Like, Yeah, first of all,
I don't think there's a genuine bone Lane Kiffin's body,
so he doesn't get to benefit of that with me,
with ever. And if he apologize, that's I mean, I'm
glad that apologize, but he said what he said and
he never would have said those things if you're still
wearing the ole Missic cap, because that would have that
would have absolutely affected his recruiting.

Speaker 6 (01:58:48):
But apologizing, I mean that that's that's the weird part
about it. That's why I said that's a joke, because
I mean you if that's how you would say, you
said other coaches are doing it, Why are you now
coming out and apologizing. That doesn't make any sense, Like
you said, it doesn't seem genuine. It just seems because
see somebody, because he get backlash, and that's what best.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
What we do is society if we if we say
something and it gets printed or reported or broadcasted, and
we get the backlash. You I don't. I'm okay with
apologizing if sometimes you say stupid things. We if you're
on the air for twenty hours a week, or you
are a high profile person, you wish you could bat
a thousand. I wish I could bat a thousand with

(01:59:26):
everything I say.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Sometimes you can't, So I'm okay. I'm okay with apologies.

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
If you can't accept people's apologies for sometimes saying stupid stuff,
then you're a hypocricaus nobody, nobody lives a life full
of saying everything that's just right, that just settles in properly.
All I'm saying is he doesn't get the benefit of
doubt for me. He is using this not to try
to I think stir up ratio stereotypes, because if you

(01:59:51):
look the Old Miss football roster and the Old Miss
basketball roster, there are loads and loads and hundreds and
hundreds of African American athletes stay there. It is in
a school that is known for being predominantly white. Now,
the school of the campus might be, but the athletic
department is not. Yeah, it seems like he's just telling
an anecdote of something that happened and recruiting that he
doesn't think would happen at LSU. And that's very well,

(02:00:15):
and that could not be. You don't tell me there
is not racism in Louisiana too. I'm sure there is,
of course, So I don't know. I mean, I just
think he used it as a small little window to
take a jab at some I mean, think about it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
His departure from Old Miss could not have been any worse.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
Remember, he was on the airplane and people were booing
him as a runway at the airport. And he had
some coaches that were trying to coach for Old Miss,
and you had some coaches that were trying to coach
for both. I'm I'm just gonna give you the essence
of my experiences and being in sports media for thirty
five years. These coaches don't care about anything except winning.

(02:00:58):
They don't care about being decent human beings. They try
to be father figures only to the They only want
to be father figures. The players hard, they can play hard.
They're only going to make sure they're going to take
care of the of the babies. Yeah, and I just
find hypocrisy. You can swim in it in college athletics,

(02:01:18):
especially at the football level, especially for a guy that
carries as much cloud as he does, you know.

Speaker 6 (02:01:23):
And it's the last thing I want to say about
it because we can go to break. But I, like
you said, there's a lot of African American athletes already
at ole Miss and it's been a ton since then.
So what is he implying about those athletes that did
go like they don't care about that.

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
And he's saying, and a son, there's a mom, and
there's a mom and a dad that probably went grandparents,
grandparents and said I'm not letting my boy compete in
athletics and will come there, so you know what I mean.
So it's just yeah, it's it's yeah. This story apparently
he's bringing up an anecdote about grandparents who told him,

(02:01:58):
I'm not sending my child or our grandchild to to Oxford,
Mississippi because of the the history. And so, I mean,
I don't think he would make that up. I don't
think he'd make it up. But he certainly wouldn't be
talking about it if he was a coach at Ole Miss.
Yea if his experience. Of course, so his experiences that
happened at Mississippi, and then his experience is that not

(02:02:18):
happening at Louisiana and he's in an interview, and I
don't know how it came up, or if he was
asked about it or what I think. I think the
overall topic was the ceiling he feels is higher at
LSU than Old Miss. And that was one of the
reasons he brought.

Speaker 2 (02:02:31):
Up, the ceiling at LSU is higher than it is
an Old Miss.

Speaker 1 (02:02:35):
Not because and that I don't think that's one of
five or six of them, right, Maybe it's not even
in the top ten reasons, but in his experience, it
is a reason. And he was able to, in this
anecdotal story, take a jab at somebody he's gonna be
competing against recruiting wise, and then that's what high school
and that's what college coaches do.

Speaker 2 (02:02:54):
Whatever you can subtly jab at your competitor, you're gonna
do it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:58):
Is the mac Commons Show with Ross. Thanks everybody for
being a part of our show today. We wish we
could have a little more interaction with you, but that's okay.
We'll get them fixed up and ready to go and
hopefully talk to a lot of you tomorrow for four
hours here on Sports Talk seven. Hoi Astros to fall

(02:03:21):
to the Seattle Mariners. Oh, ROSSI, ROSSI ROSSI one run
in two in three two runs in three games? Is
that bad? I don't think it's great. I'm gonna score
some runs tonight. Tatsui Emi. Yes, now y'all if y'all

(02:03:45):
going again, And I'd be nice to him. Why wouldn't
I be?

Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:03:49):
I mean because if we met Astros Twitter, they're a
grumpy bunch. Yeah, but that's not real life.

Speaker 2 (02:03:55):
I hope you're right.

Speaker 1 (02:03:58):
A bunch of miserable so obs on the that are
terminally online. Yeah, fire spot up, fire Brown.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
What do I sound like John McClain, I don't know.
I shouldn't tell like John McClain.

Speaker 1 (02:04:11):
Uh, I think I've ever done John McClain until now,
how do you think it went? Great? Texan's going play
six international games. It's six games in international They're they're
gonna be out of They're going they're gonna give up
four home games, gonna be Germany because because London, because
because Hannah wants to go on and do a lot

(02:04:31):
of extra shop in Mexico City, Iceland. You're gonna see
and this is the God's on the truth. You're gonna
see a lot of strange international places. We're seeing Australia
this year. They're doing a game in Australia for real.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
Yeah, first game of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:04:47):
Oh I knew that. What time are they playing it?
Two days in the future. Well, I think it's Wednesday there,
Thursday here, or vice versus something one of the two.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (02:04:59):
Okay, you should be careful out there in Australia. Man,
you got like giant scorpions and all kinds of stuff.
I've always that was one of the spots I always
wanted to go to until I realized how far along
the trip is. Yeah, I still want to go though.
Get the outback, be nice, see the stars. The weather

(02:05:19):
is opposite here. If it's hot here. It's cold Southern Hemisphere.

Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:05:24):
Oh, so you can go in the winter, take a
couple of weeks, go to Australia. You talking about me
checking out for a few weeks. Exactly. Check he knew
the shows from there. It's like, you know, the Rockets
are going to go to play in Uh. I think
they're playing in China this October. Yeah, it's four h
nine am in Melbourne right now. Yeah, you can do
the show. We're see the Rockets player do it from

(02:05:47):
one am to five am. They play a pair of
preseason games. Let me take a look here real quick.
Uh they play World o'clock. They play in Macau. You've
been to Macaw? I have not. I heard it's a
nice gambling tropolis. Thirteen hours in advance. Okay, so right
now it's two nine am. Oh that's not too far

(02:06:08):
from Melbourne. Apparently, that's funny. You can do the show
from So. I have a feeling I'm gonna be doing
the game. I think we're not going. I'm not, at
least I'm not going. I'll do the broadcast on the
I'll do the broadcast over the television. Watch it, okay,
and then I'll come in and do the show with you.
It'll be it'll be a double dip. Okay, I can't wait.

(02:06:29):
It'll be weird. Can I get on the color if
it's in our time slot? You absolutely are, yes, France
are aligned it with me one time. I'm saying I
would love to. But he was making a bunch of
Pablo Prigioni Italian references.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
He was, You're gonna have to get that cleared through
members of the Adams.

Speaker 1 (02:06:50):
One. It's not going to show up four hours early.
So I'm not worried about that guy. The other one, Mike,
we'll see.

Speaker 2 (02:06:58):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (02:06:59):
They can keep the game. I just want to do
the game. You don't have to pay you do you
end the ten ninety nine me, It's all good, keep
the money. I just want to do it, like analyze. Yeah. See,
I don't know, though I'm scared. I don't want to
mess it up. I don't want to step over your calls.
I don't be that guy. No, no, no, because you
and I can just stare at each other the whole time. Okay,
that's weird. I mean, like I can call the play,

(02:07:19):
look at you, and then if you don't say anything,
I go right back to the game. Okay, I like this.
All right, We're gonna get Ross to do a game.
It may be maybe at four o'clock in the morning,
but you're gonna definitely Baby, let's stay up to get
my coffee.

Speaker 2 (02:07:35):
That is gonna be weird.

Speaker 1 (02:07:36):
Seven forget that. Sorry, I keep doing the numbers. Every
time I do the numbers. All right, what's better than
you cussing and discussing? So we're good at well. Probably
if I was organizing our show for Friday, I will
have our scheduled prediction contest ready to go for Friday
in that contest. But I will tell you two different
times how the Texans will do off of their schedule
in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (02:07:57):
Really yeah, okay, uh, let's see what else?

Speaker 1 (02:08:04):
What else?

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
Headline? Why is going on here?

Speaker 1 (02:08:07):
Let's see prosecutors given access to Tigers drug records. That's
not gonna go well, Lebron, I don't know what the
future holds for me. That means I'm going away to
get a new contract. Make me an offer I can't refuse.
Rory amid l I v. Crisis Live Glad I was

(02:08:30):
wrong on deal boy? Is there that that tour ended?
In a thud, did it not? I remember it's gonna
grab all the rich players and pay them crazy money
and only make them pay play fifty four holes. Yeah,
it lives already done. It's it's on life support the Saudi's.
Do you know why it's on life support? For variety

(02:08:50):
of reasons. One, the money PI money is was just
too too much to ask for, too good to be true.
Number two, you're playing in not US friendly places generally speaking.
In number three, the most important thing ross You didn't
have a good television deal. And that's why you see
all these games that are broadcast on Thursday nights and

(02:09:10):
Sunday nights and Saturday afternoons and Prime and on Netflix
and on Hulu and on YouTube. Television executives wielding so
much power on how leagues survive.

Speaker 2 (02:09:28):
What would the NFL be?

Speaker 1 (02:09:30):
Now? The NFL is very profitable. But the NFL is
so profitable, so much more rossy than the other sports
because of what their television deals are.

Speaker 2 (02:09:38):
Sick.

Speaker 1 (02:09:39):
Because you can put a Rando game on between the
Cincinnti Bengals and the Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
Jaguars, and America will watch.

Speaker 1 (02:09:46):
Yes, will you put a Rando bet?

Speaker 4 (02:09:48):
On it.

Speaker 1 (02:09:48):
You bet our fantasy teams going with that's right. You
put a Rando baseball game out between the Royals and
the Tigers, and guess what. The Tigers and the Royals
fans might care, But we're not going to care. Two
major powerhouse teams full of stars. The NFL carries that
weight over the other sports. And that's why television knows it.

(02:10:09):
Television will give you whatever amount of money you want,
Roger Goodell, but television is also gonna tell you you're
gonna play on Christmas Day. You're gonna do it. You're
gonna play on Christmas Eve, You're gonna do it. You're
gonna play on a Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We're gonna make
you do it. When we were growing up, I threw
you in the mixes. It was seventeen Sundays, Yeah, seventeen

(02:10:30):
Sunday nights. It was seventeen Thursday Monday nights. And there
were a handful of Thursday nights games usually just for Christmas, Yeah, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving.
Now you're gonna when the NFL schedule comes out on Thursday,
you're gonna have you're up there. If you really are
a schedule freak, you're gonna be looking at every single
day going, my god, there's gonna be only four days

(02:10:51):
between games. Yeah, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Mondays, Thursdays, Friday day. What
day of the week is Christmas on this year? It
was Wednesday night football. The other was that last year.
And it probably makes on Christmas. It probably makes them
a little more difficult for them. Christmas on Friday this year. Oh,
that's a little easier, that's very easy.

Speaker 2 (02:11:08):
Easy. Put a double header on there. Put triple header on.

Speaker 1 (02:11:10):
Yeah, all right. One fourteen Sports Talk seven ninety seven
to one three uh, the Matt Thomas Show, Ross say,
at Sports Empty at sports r V, what can we
do to see the Astros beat the Mariners zero and

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five against them so far this year?

Speaker 2 (02:11:32):
Sports RV? It ain't pretty. It ain't pretty at all?

Speaker 1 (02:11:37):
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ninety Matt and Ross with you for other forty minutes.

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We will attempt to do all of our favorites tomorrow.
Shut your ball mass up and uh believe it or not?
And Joe Aspada and Brian Boga Svic can't wait if
not more four more hours would beay?

Speaker 2 (02:12:16):
Some shows?

Speaker 1 (02:12:17):
Do it like that?

Speaker 2 (02:12:18):
You're just touring.

Speaker 1 (02:12:21):
All right? What are your chances from Aaron, what are
your chances? In your opinion, Houston will be granted NHL franchise.
The Arrows do well with a tenant, So I think
Houston is a viable expansion relocation candidate.

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
I wouldn't hold my breath.

Speaker 1 (02:12:34):
I thought you put your name, you put your name
on it. If they are expanding, the Houston would be
involved that I really I don't remember that. Okay, I
can delete it. No, I mean if I did, I did.
I think there are two groups that would like to
see hockey in this town. One probably is a little
more has a little more zest for than the other. Uh.

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But how do you think, of course? I mean what
I know one of the groups you're talking about is
the Fertitas. Yeah, how do you think that changes? The
calculus if at all with trying to add the comments
well whatever they're going to be called. Yeah, zero impact,
zero impact, Okay, I you know, the reality is, I
don't even know if the if the Tota Center would
be ready in a short period of time to be

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a great place to watch. Is it this summer they're
updating the Toto Center or is it over the next
couple of years. Yeah, Okay, they're gonna They're gonna do
this while they're playing games. So yeah, I know they've
been changing out a lot of the chairs.

Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
Yeah, it's a small piece of it.

Speaker 1 (02:13:31):
I know they're going to do a bunch of whole
refurbishment updating. Gary Bettman's commission of the NHL Ross. I
think he's asking for crazy expansion fee money. Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
I think that's probably turning some people off. They were good.

Speaker 1 (02:13:45):
Don't worry about it. And as I've said five hundred
times and I'll say it for five hundred more times,
it's not about putting seventeen thousand people in the arena,
although that's certainly a part of it. It's about how
many millions of dollars can you draw up by selling
suitets and the corporate sponsorships. Is there enough corporate sponsorship

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that you're not taking away Peter to pay Peter to
pay Paul. Like if you were to get Budweiser to say, okay, Butdweiser, yeah,
I'll chip in five million dollars in advertising for the
for the Houston NHL team. Is that five million dollars
that the Rockets would lose because of that? Nobody knows
the answer to that. I yeah, I wonder, I guess

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we can look it up. Now, what's what's the smallest
market with all four? Uh? Smallest market with all four
probably would be Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Minneapolis Saint Paul, Maybe Denver.
Denver popped into my head as well. Now Miami Fort Lauderdale. Yeah,

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that still counts. I would probably you'd have to do.
It'd be really bizarre different to have four different ownership
groups fighting for four different corporate dollars. You could bundle,
but just bundling really payoff in the long term. All right,
there are twelve markets with all four. I mean, give

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them to you. Why not Boston, Chicago, DFW, Denver, Detroit, La, Miami, Minneapolis,
Saint Paul, New York, Philly, San Francisco, and DC, And the.

Speaker 2 (02:15:32):
Smallest would be what Minneapolis, I'm assuming.

Speaker 1 (02:15:34):
I would say, so, yeah, small well, actually yes, and
they're owned by four different owners there too, actually Miami, sorry,
Miami's eighteenth, Minneapolis Saint Paul fourteen, Detroit fifteen, Denver sixteen. Okay,
it's not all about the same in the same area.

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I'm just going to say all more passionate sports cities.
I would say maybe not Miami, no, but Minneapolis St.

Speaker 5 (02:16:05):
Paul.

Speaker 1 (02:16:05):
But I'll say this, you do have a team in
that Florida Panthers team that has nestled north of Fort Lauderdale.
It's like its own little community. Does that make sense
to y'all? It's like it's like Fort Lauderdale North's team.
We're between Fort Lardelle, Miamis about thirty miles. Okay, so
it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (02:16:25):
It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (02:16:26):
It doesn't really nestle into the Miami corporate dollar mode.

Speaker 2 (02:16:32):
I can't. I'm talking on my ass. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (02:16:38):
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 2 (02:16:39):
If it was a no brainer, it would have happened.

Speaker 1 (02:16:41):
By now. It's twenty twenty six. We're seeing expansion, we're
seeing relocation of franchises. If Gary Betman thought it was
a no brainer, and he could get the amount of
money he's asking for to be split up among the
other thirty NHL teams. He would throw it out there
for conjecture and he would he would get somebody.

Speaker 2 (02:17:03):
To buy buy, bite into it.

Speaker 4 (02:17:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:17:05):
The Frank freaking Group has been trying to buy sports
franchises here for a decade. Now. I know they're involved
in some soccer, but they've also they were trying to
buy the Red Sox or the Pirates. They were also
involved in trying to buy I think they put a
bit in on the Blazers. They're kind of striking out here.
I don't know them at all. I just know that
that that that family has been very interested in sports ownership.

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But even if that's the case, if you've got the
freaking Group, which is that's Gulf State's tota, that's that's
the largest distributor of tota is in our state, in
the Southeast for that matter, if they've got money hand
over fist, why wouldn't Gary Beman say yeah, let's get
you in. They they've got they uh, they're involved yeah,
with with some I think you mentioned soccer. I think

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like European like aren't they yeah, like everten or someone
like that. Okay, here we go as ROMA that's in
Italy and EVERFC that's in the premier league in England.
Not one of the big heritage brands. I don't know
exactly where. You and I have been doing this show
for two for sixteen plus years, and we continue to

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have people that NHL the Houston Twitter account running at us.
It's only a matter of time if not when.

Speaker 2 (02:18:22):
Well, no, it's not.

Speaker 1 (02:18:25):
We've been talking about this for sixteen years, even when
the Arrows left. Oh wow. They also frequent group also
does movies thirty West. They were involved on the Killers
of the Flower Moon, the Martin Scorsese flick, and they'll
sell a lot of totus the well for the s,

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a lot of toyotas. So I would say for those
of you that are hockey fans, and this is a
question that was asked for us through Twitter, thank you
very much at Sports Empty for that one that.

Speaker 2 (02:19:00):
I don't hear enough buzz about it.

Speaker 1 (02:19:01):
I just don't. And look, the w NBA has been
trying to expand, but that that's a separate animal. I mean,
bringing in a high a full fledged eighty two game,
full season full operation is compared to bringing in WNBA.

Speaker 2 (02:19:17):
That's those are just apples and oranges right now.

Speaker 1 (02:19:21):
Right so you know, I don't I don't will see
it feels like it has been talked about too long, nauseam.
And the last great opportunity probably was Phoenix when the
cowdies left there, and now they went they went to
Salt Lake.

Speaker 2 (02:19:38):
They the Salt Lake folks had their ducks in a row,
they had their arena.

Speaker 1 (02:19:42):
They were like, we're gonna rebuild the Delta Center, which
are still doing to this day. We've got local ownership.
We're gonna we're gonna miss mesh them with the Utah Jazz.
We have a sports audience that's craving it. We like
it here. Cole Thompson, I'll love you like a step brother.
But we were like, oh, it's this this hockey, this world,

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this Olympics. It was a two day thing. We liked
it for two days.

Speaker 2 (02:20:05):
We moved on.

Speaker 1 (02:20:06):
I don't even remember it all right, you know, did
they win? Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:20:12):
No questions at me like that.

Speaker 1 (02:20:15):
People are win. Cole is yelling at his radio right now.
Cole's like, you guys do not know the urse? Yeah? Yeah,
they went in overtime. I remember now, Oh, that's why
the gold medals they went to. The President's had him
coming to the State of the Union address. Wonderful, Now
I remember everything, all right? One at twenty nine on

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Sports Talk seven ninety is there anything else we've not
gotten today? When when you don't take calls and you
don't have interaction to value, you kind of think about, well,
there is some unfortunate news. Go ahead, place see Grizzlies
for Brandon Clark has died at the age of twenty nine.
No reason to given them right, not yet, so that
mean it's probably not good. Only played a champe of games.

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This sure has hurd ales. He's long m h announced
Tuesday by the Grizzlies and his agency, Priority Sports. Cause
of death not announced. Twenty nine years old, seven years
in the NBA. Good player, just hurt all the time? Terrible,
all right, can't piggyback off of that. Let's not can't
make a joke gross about that. No, we're not in

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the ring, but we love, we love Gordy. Gordy can't
call the show today because our phones aren't working. But
he's doing this is gonna shock everyone. He's he's wearing
us out on text he's defending Lane Kiffin. I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:21:33):
I'm stunned. Yeah, I think floored.

Speaker 1 (02:21:37):
Lane Kiffin is the greatest coach of all time, except
when he gets fired. He's gonna take over LSU and
never go anywhere else again, because why would you want
to leave it anywhere else but baton rouge. It got
LSU horrible scum bag? Well, I mean, sorry, why is
that old miss horrible scumbag? But why was he with Alabama?
Horrible scumbag? LSU? Dude? We do that with a lot
of sports, right, I think. So, I want you think

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about Allen Brooks. I want you to think of some
other people. Okay, we come back, give me a list
of the people that you were douche or scumbag. And
we're like this, swell fella. Now there's a very very
very easy big name. I believe he's wearing Houston Rocket
uniform right now?

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
Am I right about that? One thirty one on?

Speaker 1 (02:22:16):
It's called tees Man? Oh damn?

Speaker 2 (02:22:20):
Is it a Houston Rocket.

Speaker 1 (02:22:24):
We're watching the NBA Draft combine in our office here,
and the general manager of the Washington Wizards, who I
didn't even know what his name was until thirty seconds ago.

Speaker 2 (02:22:33):
Will Dawkins. He's smiling, feeling good, he's happy.

Speaker 1 (02:22:38):
You want the damn draft lottery?

Speaker 4 (02:22:39):
Ross?

Speaker 3 (02:22:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:22:42):
Great, number US number six to many. You're like, oh,
here we are, I'll bring the Wizards again. It couldn't
be happier for you went in the draft lottery? What's
that like?

Speaker 2 (02:22:51):
You know who represent the Wizards?

Speaker 1 (02:22:53):
Who represented them?

Speaker 2 (02:22:56):
It was Javaris Crittendon, that would being correct? Oh a rocket? Great?

Speaker 1 (02:23:01):
John Wall Really.

Speaker 2 (02:23:02):
He's like, do I really got to go up here
and do this?

Speaker 1 (02:23:07):
So when the rock his bucket hat?

Speaker 2 (02:23:10):
Uh No, he was wearing a regular shoes.

Speaker 1 (02:23:11):
He doing his iHeart podcast. It's funny promote though, right stop,
you know what. I'm sorry that was me. I did that.

Speaker 2 (02:23:22):
Provocal. You stopped.

Speaker 1 (02:23:24):
I'm an instigator. I'm sorry. Have you all listened to
our podcast early? I mean, ge miny Christmas? I'm sorry
that was That's on me, that is on you. That's funny. Yeah, Wow,
what's it like to win a lottery? As soon as
I get back to one hundred percent, which I'm going
to doctor on Friday, I'm gonna be different from being

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I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:23:45):
Gonna cus and disgust anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:23:46):
Good. I'm not gonna break down him tens. Dang it,
come on, now, you know what. I'm gonna get a sounder.
You just just stinging, don't you got the taser? By
money is worse than that. Yeah's you know what. I'm
not worried about you and the sound effets because every
time I bring up Joe Mixon, you don't have the

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gunfire ready to go on that. So I get so lost,
like when are you gonna bring it up?

Speaker 2 (02:24:11):
Okay, well I just did.

Speaker 1 (02:24:12):
You could have got done it there. It's harder in
this the system we have. Now, this is gonna shock you.

Speaker 5 (02:24:16):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (02:24:17):
He used to be better back.

Speaker 2 (02:24:18):
And imagine that.

Speaker 1 (02:24:20):
Tom Downtown says, here are some scumbags until they came here.

Speaker 2 (02:24:23):
Charles Barkley. We hated Charles Barklay.

Speaker 1 (02:24:24):
Did we hated it? I didn't really, I honestly for sure. Okay, yeah,
especially as a Phoenix sun Russell Westbrook, I don't think
we hated him. Well he hated him. Well, he stole
James Harden's MVP because he got a triple double, remember that,
So people did hate him in Houston for sure. It
wasn't just at him, Anams, everyone, Eddie Johnson when he

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was a Sonic, that's a that's a deep cut. I
was gonna go Patrick Beverley. We loved him here in Houston, yeah,
and then it was everywhere else. He was a spies
Ning Brooks until the wore a rocket gear, and we
loved him.

Speaker 2 (02:24:58):
We still love him.

Speaker 1 (02:24:58):
Actually, you know, he showed up to the Laker his
funeral last night. He was court sided for their last game,
and apparently he bought I gotta look up the story
in this heat. The tickets he bought were really, really expensive. Yeah,
court side at the Lakers is gonna cost you. That's
gonna cost you when the Wizards are in town. It's
gonna cost you the playoffs. Yeah. He In fact, he
didn't do it because he wanted a great bird's eye

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view of things. He wanted to do it to make
sure that he he saw Lebron. I don't like Chris Paul,
always whinding the officials, always flopping around like a salmon
out of water. I didn't like Chris Paul and he
was here. Oh hey, it's all good. I think James
Harden is one, although a lot of people didn't like
it when he was here. He got hee. He's like
the most hated superstar in Houston history. Like he's winning

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an MVP and people are talking about how much he
sucks because it's about the playoffs. Well and the defense. Yeah,
I think Dylan paid ten g's yesterday. Oh that seems
like like nothing. That seems light for court side? Can
I kill the current for a second? Back? Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:25:59):
So, well, I'm on these NBA streets.

Speaker 1 (02:26:02):
Oh what does that mean? Just you know it's traveling. No, okay,
you're on the team bus, team bus, plane, hotel. I
have to kind of budget what I spend about whether
it's the per diem or whether it's just my own
money that I want to forty dollars pancakes and can
rack up on you. Yeah, you get those are four

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or five days in a row.

Speaker 2 (02:26:24):
It does add up.

Speaker 1 (02:26:26):
They don't think about that stuff. They will the players,
like if they want to go have dinner. Let's say
they want to go have dinner, we're in uh, we're
in Dallas, Denver, Okay, and they want to go to
Castle Rock. There's a really high end sushi place they
want to go to. Okay, they get what are those?
They don't call them spinners. What are the black vehicles
call not the SUVs, but they sprinter sprinters. You know

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those are not cheap. No, several hundred dollars, that's nothing
to those guys. No, Or meanwhile, I'm trying to get
the Uber X and I'm waiting for the twenty minutes
for the way wait and say maybe wait and save
is your friend?

Speaker 2 (02:27:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:27:04):
Or like oh there you either like three dollars extra
for X and then if sometimes XL and if you
wait you'll still get the excels Or it's like, uh,
you're you're in downtown Philadelphia, but let's go get Jake's
Philly steak.

Speaker 2 (02:27:15):
That's about a twenty minute uper.

Speaker 1 (02:27:16):
Right, Yeah, split four ways. We'll get something downtown to
be just fine, We'll split it four ways. It's fine,
but it's well, yeah, because they make millions and millions.

Speaker 2 (02:27:26):
Millions and millions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:27:27):
That's why when I say dealing Brooks spends ten thousand
dollars on a he's not.

Speaker 2 (02:27:30):
Thinking, he's not thinking about it, thinking about how the
money he saved.

Speaker 1 (02:27:36):
Yeah, he's thinking, this is ten thousand dollars for me
to be on in front of everybody, me making fun
of Lebron James losing in four straight games. It's pretty funny.
Dylan villain and really lives the role. But it's not
a horrible human being. No, he was super nice, but

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he's he's almost like it's like he's a you know,
like he made Dokas a different character on the floor.
People are like that between the lines that are a
little different.

Speaker 2 (02:28:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:28:06):
Do we see that as much in other sports as
we see that last football guys, I mean, JJ Watt
super nice and then he got in between the lines
he's ready to tear off.

Speaker 2 (02:28:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:28:15):
Yeah, Baseball we don't see that very much or like
I mean, there are definitely some players like that, Jalen
Petric like so some seems like a felt swell fella
out the basketball. The floor is ready to crush somebody's head.
But the basketball, the difference is that not only do
we see your face, we can read your lips and
the amount of blank talking like every I mean, there
are some Jebbroni's in the NBA that will make three

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point shots and talk blank going back to the direction,
like bro, you're down twenty five points. I think especially
pictures are like that. Rag Getty were interview him. Super
nice guy. You get him on the hill, he's case
strutting your ass. Matt when you play is getting mad?
Who you're playing? Recreational? You're not talking, miss. Silence is everything.
So I didn't start it. I finished it. What's up?
I'll be talking miss man. That wasn't much of a

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trash talker. I wasn't that good. Well that's because you're fast,
johnthan But you know what they don't. I'd be talking
mass and finishing fifteen and field. He doesn't feel right.

Speaker 4 (02:29:08):
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (02:29:09):
They don't talk mess? They don't talking too much mess
on the golf course. Really I don't because because I'm
doing the woods, I can't talk to me. When I'm
by myself in the woods, there's nobody talk mess to.
Only thing I would say is come on, so no man,
let's go put that in score car, Let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:29:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:29:27):
When I'm unfolding my inflatable canoe to get my ball.
But I'm not really talking a lot of mess. But John,
I watch it, watch a golf event for like an
hour or two. It really is a gentleman's sport. There's
no blank talking. Now then Phoenix, they're blank talking come on,
Tiger Woods wasn't blank talking. But I mean, okay, so
Tiger and Til Michelson's not blank talking. Is Roy McElroy

(02:29:49):
a blank talker? Yeah? I think he is. I don't know.
I feel like I don't think. I see YouTube videos
on the tea, Yeah, I don't make that. My grandmother
singing a harder iron. Watch me get this ninety inch
six to ninety degree wedge up two feet from the cup.
Be on that.

Speaker 6 (02:30:07):
If you played slow, slow pitch softball right now, you're
telling me you get a bum. You not talking mess
on the basis no because it's slow.

Speaker 1 (02:30:16):
I believe that.

Speaker 2 (02:30:19):
Iceed to be soft ballmpire. By the way, that was
a great umpire.

Speaker 1 (02:30:23):
That's not what I heard. No, I was umpire there
inside the city of St. Paul x fell and said
you weren't that good. Well, that's that's when I got out, Johnathan.
I was doing Saint Paul City games until the sart guy.
One team had like five guys wearing ankle prices. I'm like,
this is not my thing. They're thirty one dollars a game,
not worth it. They're just trying to rehabilitate their lives
to the majesty of sport. What's wrong with you? Yeah? Yeah,

(02:30:44):
but I can probably find a better, a heartier, more
pleasant league to go to. The Saint Paul City League.
It's fine. Three dollars a game, trying three are out?
Did you say what? I'm in ball? Final segment of
the Tapa Show with Ross straight Ahead, we went, we
got through this, big boy. Four hours no phone calls.

(02:31:05):
I'm worried about it.

Speaker 2 (02:31:07):
We like talking to y'all.

Speaker 1 (02:31:08):
We entertained a guy. We're gonna be with you. Well,
we can't work. It's not a real job. It's fine,
it's not a real job. You're right, Bottle and some
a Tuesday edition of the show. We'll do a shut
your bum mass up tomorrow and I'm gonna hopefully now
that to tell our parent company to shut their bon
masses up. Great people, so you will not be telling

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them regardless of what's happening. They they know, well they
don't know, but they understand. If we were in the
same spot, they're in the same spot. Well, we like
to take calls in the phones. We as a station
love to take calls. And the phones have been down
for eighteen hours, eighteen hours with no signs of life.
They're working on it around the clock.

Speaker 6 (02:31:53):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:31:54):
I like your optimism.

Speaker 1 (02:31:56):
I mean it's out of my control, so I choose
to be optimistic. Same think about tatsu em I. I'm
not going to be making pitches. I'm not gonna be
throwing strikes or balls, or walking five guys or getting
six innings two run ball. I would suggest Ross that
we don't spend much time coming on Twitter tonight if
things don't go well, Okay, are you going to do

(02:32:21):
the Tatsumi starting night? How we feel right now? Let
me make sure we should do this in half an
hour ago, we see what kind of response we could have. Guys. Sorry,
Tatsui Emi, you're in the typing of how we feeling? Yes,

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I'm on them on the hill for the ashos tonight.
How we feeling now? I don't want you, em My
w y d. We don't need that. We might you're
that's you, that's your second most class. He's like throwing
a ball at a sitter field or something like Trevor Bauer.

Speaker 2 (02:32:57):
That's to me.

Speaker 1 (02:33:01):
Look, you need to win in the worst wacause you've
lost five straight of the Mariners, including the game last night.
And the four in Seattle. You also need to get
your bats going. Problem is you don't. It's it's not
like it's not like Joe's like, Hey, I'm saving my
our bats for the second game or the third or
the fourth game of the series. That's how baseball goes.
You actually got some decent pitching. You got good pitching

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on Friday in Cincinnati, you won tend to nothing. It's
hadn't been bad starts since then. And I know that
some people are gonna say, why is jor and so batting?

Speaker 2 (02:33:31):
Second? I don't think there's a necessary.

Speaker 1 (02:33:33):
Somebody saying that. Who's saying that? Tell me who they are?
Probably Renegade Astro plus one or shut your mom ass
ups betten. Second, he's doing great. Nobody can play in
in April Player of the Month, batting second American League
Player of the Month. And the bigger question I would
have is who would supply him as a third spot?

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And you, I mean, would you bump everybody up up
one if you really wanted to do that? What would be?
Who are you putting in ahead of him? Look, things
are gonna when Jeremy Painyon comes back, things will start
to regulate a little bit. You'll but Jeremy back in
the leadoff spot. You'll learn on batting second. No, I
like that.

Speaker 2 (02:34:12):
And then who's bat third?

Speaker 1 (02:34:14):
Uh? Walker? Yeah, it's been slumping two vague cleanup. Walker
has been dive bombing. But we we knew he wasn't
He wasn't gonna hit three hundred with one thousand o
ps all year. Is not gonna hit four hundred all year.
These are these are things we should see coming. You
just you want more than two runs in three games

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two twenty two ops down to six eighty nine in
the month of May for our friend Christian War. But
we do have to celebrate, uh, Peter Lambert quality. Yes,
start extra whatever you want to call it plus and
we'll see him in five. But now I feel like
if it's like a perfect game, that's a that's a
premium plus. You're by the way, you said you're putting
h mccallors on the angel list and what your It

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was a good feeling. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:35:00):
Were gonna find out about two hours from now.

Speaker 1 (02:35:01):
We haven't heard anything about them. Supposed to still schedule
starting is off his hand, Like what are we doing here?
Pitchers use their fingernails like to to grip and spin
the ball. Ye all right, you know you need fingernails
to to paint. Okay, I mean it's not necessity. Put
your nails like Jalen Green. No, I'm gonna have curter

(02:35:22):
pel paint my walls. Okay, C E R it'd be
cool tomorrow you paint your nails. My nieces painting my
nails once.

Speaker 2 (02:35:30):
I about your toenails.

Speaker 1 (02:35:32):
No, it's my fingernails.

Speaker 2 (02:35:33):
Okay, with a C.

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Speaker 2 (02:35:38):
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