Astros Lose Game 2 vs Guardians 10-6, Still Comfortably #1 in AL West & Trailing 4 Games From American League #1

Astros Lose Game 2 vs Guardians 10-6, Still Comfortably #1 in AL West & Trailing 4 Games From American League #1 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Tato two at
eight town. Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition
of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports
Talk seven ninety Hunter Brown Tonight. Quality start plus. I'm

(00:25):
telling you, are you making up this metric? Now? Yes,
I just made up quality start plus, quality start plus.
I'm talking six innings, one run ball right there now,
six innings, one run ball.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
For the break, two two s driven deep to right field.
It sents back Spith and he will just watch that
one go. Jose Ramirez homers for a second straight day,
his sixteenth of the season. It's a two run shot
in the Guardians have a two to nothing league.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
How does it feel next?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Two outs?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Nobody own. Here's the one. Oh, and that's crushed right field,
and that's gonna leave the ballpark.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's about ten rows.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Deep into the seats. And Rochio out of the nine
hole has a double and a.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Homer, and Martinez lifts it to left and pretty deep.
It sends back humble against the out of town scoreboard
and it is gone. A grand slam for on Hell

(01:44):
Martinez and of the first row of the Landry's proffered
boxes and Cleveland has a ten to six lead, and
Folk said, Dyke and Parker heading for the exits. Now
the two two swinging at a mess got him on
the breaking ball away, and that is the ball game.

(02:06):
The Cleveland Guardians had the Astros just their second series
loss at home this year as they use an on
Hill Martinez grand slam in the top of the tent
to beat the up.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
It was a lucky home run, and that metric has
been went out there quickly on the social media street.
It's only one ballpark that leaves, and it's the one
in Houston, Texas. It was the one that they were
playing in. That's all that matters. That is all that matters.
What was that at the very beginning of the show.
That is mister quality start plus Rossfield, Riale, I need

(02:42):
you to give me a quality start plus on the
show today. Now, see, I thought we kept the lax
on gut Felix, But now I know, all right, all right,
all right, I know how the game is played.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think it's frankly, really rud really rude that Jonathan
pulled that up. I mean, why would you do somethingthing, Jonathan? Okay,
that's terrible. No, no, no, no, now I know now, I
know how the game is played. There's no evidence I
called you or texted you. Now that I know the
rules for me wants shame on me. But I can't

(03:12):
get vote again. Oh my god, it'll take you less
than a week to find something. I said, you are
wise ammunition, don't get it loaded up. I see how
we're rolling now. I'm ready working alongside sensitive Sally here.
I'm mat very pleasant, even keeled, easy going. Oh I'm

(03:35):
not me intensitive. I'm just telling you what's good for
the goose is good for the gamdal. All right, why
are we in Louisville?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, you worked that last night? What the hell was that?
Hunter Brown did suck? First of all, it was a
really long game. Hunter Brown was having control issues and
he was and when he wasn't he was getting hit hard.
I even was kind of thinking to myself at the
any of the game, that's like it almost feels like
he's tipping or something. And then after the game he
said himself, they were all over everything I was throwing

(04:07):
and I don't know why, And then asked by Chandler
Rome if he thought something mechanically they were picking up on.
He said he wasn't sure, but he never felt like
that all year. So if he was tipping, I don't know.
He was also having location issues, whatever you want to
chalk it up to. It was not the Hunter Brown
that we have been used to all year long. Six innings,
pick six earned runs given up. But the Astros did

(04:28):
come back eventually mated a six six game. Jose Altuvee
gets a second base and then immediately he's like, oh,
I'm hurting. I'm like no, oh my god, I was
gonna start crying, and then I want to be just
a cramp. He finished in a matter of fact, he
went from second to third on a play, yes, which
I was like, okay, that's good. Then he battered the
next inning and played defensively and so shoot, not defensively, sure,

(04:53):
and the guy's on hard in the dugout, But weren't
you wigging out? I'm like, oh, yes, no, I was freaking.
I was like, I cannot BELI this. I was in disbelief.
I thought he was going to be out, and thankfully
he came back. Said he had a kind of like
a little cramp or something, and he was okay, and
he continued to play. And then they can't. When he
hit when he knocked in two runs to tie the

(05:14):
game in the eighth, I was like, they are going
to get a bad start from Hunter Brown and come
back and win this freaking game. This team, yeah, just
can't lose. That's a second straight time against the Guardians
in which they came back after being down big only
to lose the game, going to fall short both times.
And then Josh Hater goes in there after pitching eighteen
innings excuse me, eighteen pitches and the ninth he goes

(05:35):
out there for the tenth and in twenty nine ballparks,
we are headed to the bottom of the tenth with
a tie score at Dyke and Park, it's a Grand Slam.
You know, It's funny because every once in a while,
and it doesn't happen a lot, there'll be people that
will say, hey, should the Astros try to make left
field a little more pitcher friendly? The reality is Pesky's

(06:00):
poll has been there forever. Even when New Yankee Stadium
was built, they used the old it mentions at old
Yankee Stadium. Now Tampa Bay has the same dimensions. Yeah,
I think it obviously when you play in that building
eighty one times. It helps you a lot more. I mean,
let's face it. I mean jose Al Tuove has had
some big home runs in his life, but he's also
put a fair number in the boxes over the years. Yeah,

(06:21):
every everybody has. So it happens both ways, but it does, man,
It just it hurts definitely when it's a moment like
that where the game is out of reach. It was
a solo shot, Okay, well you know what it is,
what it is, but they just completely puts the game
out of the reach when it's a Grand Slam that
it's only out in one part. So the Guardians, who

(06:41):
had lost ten to row coming in beat the Astros
too straight. He didn't let me finish my sentence. On Monday,
the Astros who just finished off a six and what
was a five and one? Uh yeah, five and one, Roads,
Roads come in and drop a second one. Tayn't tramount
to a couple of hits for him yesterday. That was nice. Now,

(07:04):
the Astros collectively, I don't like to use the term
got awful very often, but they were got awful of
runners in the scoring position. Two for twenty one. I
have ever seen that two for twenty one. Duh, well,
the worst part was Duban. I don't know what anything
was leadoff, double strikeout, strikeout, picture change, strikeout. Oh oh,

(07:27):
by the way, got feelings yesterday? Mm hmm Cooper Hummel,
friend of the show, great conversation. Yeah, why didn't we
pull that one? That's that backs up my argument that
maybe I didn't tell him to do it. Funny how
this works. It's funny how this works. That was wrong job,

(07:48):
that's funny. Sin I'm getting targeted, all right, Cooper Hummel yesterday,
Oh for four with three strikeouts, don't you wear your
pretty little heads? You did can draw a walk though, Yeah,
maybe he accidentally meant three strikeouts, because that's what happened. Well,
he had a chance for a three run homer. Yes,
and I thought, well, you know that's that would have

(08:09):
been just as good if not for the far would
have counted that. Yeah, for you to give you like
a half on a gut feeling on that all right.
I have not looked at Astro's Twitter today. We'll organically
look at it at ten thirty. What are we gonna
call the segment, Matt? Does it does it have a name?
It does have a name to it, man. Really, it's

(08:30):
been a part of the show for many for though
the last two or three years we don't pull it
out a lot. Are we doing this eighteen games about
five hundred? Not you, Matt, I'm talking about those fans.
What do you think? I want to honestly ask you,
when we go look at it, what's it going to say? Okay,
don't look. Don't I don't want you to look because
I wanted to be organic for both of them. Okay,
I won't look. So we will go look and see

(08:51):
if there's any astros overreactions that'll be coming up at
the bottom. They are Brian Bogasvic with us at eleven
o'clock today. Look forward to talking with him. We got
Shachio Bamass up coming up at eleven thirty h We
have the news at noon, we'll have Joseph Torte from
the Big twelve media days in Dallas. Aren't a fris uh,

(09:16):
I think they're Friscoe Orland. I don't wish one they're at.
But it's from what we understand, it's not being heavily
intended because again it's it doesn't move the needle in
the big markets. I mean, did Phoenix send nine radio
stations to the Big twelve Media Days? Probably not? Did Waco?
Probably so did Manhattan, Kansas Sports Leader go sure, because

(09:36):
they need that kind of stuff. Big twelve just and
I like the Big twelve colaiedly because my Koog's are
in it. But it just doesn't care. Everybody, even the
ACC Media Days probably don't have the kind of carry
that cachet. It's Big twelve, it's big, it's SEC and
it's Big ten. It's the two magat conferences, and everybody
else is kind of fighting for third place. And we'll

(09:56):
get some thoughts about Joseph Torti for the Chronicle. He's
up there in the Metro applexib'll talk to him at
one o'clock and we have, believe it or not, at
one fifty. And we have a two game losing streak. Now.
Fortunately the Yankees did throttle the Mariners last night, so
the Astros don't lose any ground. They're still up six
and a half in the American League West, still sitting
pretty for people who want to over react, but they're overreacting.

(10:19):
I'm sure we'll look in nineteen minutes seven one three,
two two five, seven ninety. I have this one guy, Mike,
who sends me emails and I never responded to them
because it's a nice guy. But he just sends the
same ones about Astros saw gutter trash. I mean, just
just anytime when the Astros are beating the Dodgers three
straight times. My friend Mike, I've never met, doesn't send

(10:39):
me emails about Mack. This was impressive. It's only when
things are going poorly, Okay, So he sent me multiple
emails yesterday. You responded these, no, okay, man, Mike. Mike
knows I read them so and I'm getting he's listening
right now, so I'm appreciate. I'm sure he's listening. Thanks Mike.
But I'm not gonna you know, and ey teen games
of a five hundred BC like you were sending me.
I'll I'll pull up the emails yes from yesterday real quick.

(11:00):
By the way, give up the phone number and give
out my my ITG account there, Rossie. I'm not giving
that out, but mine is at sports RV on Instagram.
I'm following everybody back who follows me in the next
ten minutes at sports RV on Instagram. And by the way,
you know Christian Walker as well. Now for the Astros
because he's on the paternity to list. Here it is Mike.

(11:21):
Lineup is Mike send me the first one? Hater and
too long? Where the hell's a brave you terrible loss?
That was the first one? Okay, second one? Uh so
called All Star Pitchers was his story? Was his subject line?
It said give up combined ten runs? Yes they did.
Does that mean they shouldn't be on the All Star Team?
Apparently not? Ten thirteen of the Matt Thomas showed Ross.
If you'd like to join us seven one three two

(11:43):
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven ninety we'll get a full show till
two o'clock. Please be with us all the way through
it here on Sports Talk seven ninety ten eighteen U
Sports Talk seven ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. We will check in on Ao's coming up

(12:05):
at the bottom of the hour. I'm a little worried
about what it's gonna look you. I have not looked
at it, nor have you. I'm just afraid that we've
got some people that are gonna be quite cranky coming up.
And we'll have that for you about ten minutes. Not
a super big headline day in the world of sports,
although I did. And again, this is basketball. I know
we're not a huge basketball town in general, especially when

(12:25):
it doesn't involve the Rockets. But did you see that
Chet Holmgren of the Oklahoma City Thunder got himself a
brand new rookie extension. I did not. He is getting
a five year deal worth two hundred and fifty million
dollars aprons. Gonna come a knocking on Oklahoma City. I

(12:46):
told you it's not gonna be a dynasty. They werena
get it done now. That is a lot of money
for a guy who has missed a lot of time.
Three months this year is entire rookie season. You see
Matt injury prone and say it all we want. He's
still getting paid. It wouldn't be mean, just a made

(13:06):
up word. If he was that injury prone, they wouldn't
give him this deal.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Maybe maybe they're thinking, you know what, we're gonna pay
you fifty million a year to play really good sixty
five games of basketball, fifty regular season in fifteen postseason.
That's a lot of money for potential miss time for
a guy who's had multiple already bone injuries and he
does he's he looks like he's not even getting a
single pounds and leaving college and did he get his

(13:32):
whole year for first time in the league. He was, yes, Yes,
it was a leave Frank injury. Liz Frank. Apparently this
girl Liz franc Jonathan really beat the crap out of him.
Bitch all right. Uh So point being, when I think
about Shake Gildess, Alexander is gonna make seventy five million
dollars next year, he's making fifty. What's Jaylen Williams situation

(13:56):
can't be far behind. He's got to be thinking way man,
I'm I think I'm going to be better than SGA
and I'm way better than than chet Hogan. There was
a few games it was like, first four or five
games of that series, it was looking like he might
be finals MVP. And oh, by the way, they're paying
a boload of money to form a rocket great Isaiah
Hartenstein too. Don't think it's that. I think is Caruso
a free agent this year? I can't or where he

(14:17):
is either still I can't remember. So this is this
is another yet example. I feel like I do this
to you at least once a week on the show
about how insanely rich are professional athletes? What do I
say to you once a week? You always say, well,
how insanely rich the owner? And that's and that's exactly right.
You have these owners that are about to and and

(14:39):
the reason why part of that spent they're spending this
money is because this new television deal kicks in there.
Every team is going to be extremely cash flush with
this new Amazon, NBC, ESPN's or it's not a new deal,
it's a recurring deal. But for people that are missing
and crying, woe is me over the tn T leaving

(15:00):
mm hmm. The NBA ain't shedding a tear over this. No,
So with that, you are now able to because you
have to spend a certain percentage of the overall revenue
has to go to the players. That's always collectively bargain
between players, associations and owners, correct, And so the NBA
has to spend it on its players, and clearly the

(15:21):
Oklahoma City is doing fat. So I just wonder, yeah,
where when when does Shake Gilles Alexander's extension kick in?
Is it a few years? When does this extension kick in?
And then yeah, what's going on with Jalen Williams and
what Man, that's a lot of money for those guys.

(15:46):
And it's like next year, you know, Kevin Durant could
sign a new two year extension beyond this year which
he's being paid for. He could sign a deal, but
he may come in as a quote unquote bargained. We
haven't heard anything about that. Yeah, I think it's I
think let's let's get him into town. Blah blah blahlah blah.
Talk to those people, see what's gonna happen. Kind of,
you know, take a week off. As orf El said,

(16:07):
they're going to Las Vegas today. As a matter of fact,
Summer League later this week. It kind of feels like
a lot of the heavy lifting has been done. There'll
be some talks, but it's more about what's gonna happen
next year, is compared to what's happening right now. Okay,
crossing the t's and dotting the lower case Jase, Yeah,
you never hear that phrase, but I think you've created that.
Wayne's reference. It is such a I don't do movie

(16:27):
reference as Damn Matthews does, but it just shows you
they the professional athlete, the professional owner just lives in
a different stratosphere. Yep. Like we don't Marvel, like I
don't even. I mean, it wouldn't take us long to
figure out how much Scarlett Johansson made for the for
this Jurissic Part movie. I look it up. But we

(16:50):
don't ever, we don't like, no, we don't host entertainment tonight.
So maybe we would do that if we had a
daily show, like have you been thinking about that? Noh,
but don't you get damn blown away by the money
that is being spent. Celebrity net Worth reports that she
makes about ten to twenty million per film, and she's
probably in what two films a year? Probably, I would

(17:12):
say two films every No, I wouldn't say two films
a year because they do take time. Yeah, but she's
been in all those us She was in like a
bunch of those Marvel movies back to back to back. Yeah. Okay,
so let's say she did one movie a year. Okay,
even then, but that's pennies compared to what these athletes
are making. She's not making pennies. She's making it about Alex.

(17:33):
She's making Alex Caruso money. She's the Alex Caruso of salaries.
But that just put but think about it. Put that
in perspective for a second. There are significantly a large
number of players in the NBA that are not as
good at their job that she is at her job,
and she doesn't make even close to that kind of
money the money of those NBA players are making. Have

(17:54):
We had John wall here for in Houston, Ross didn't
play a game. What was he making forty million dollars
day to sit out?

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (18:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Let's see Scarlett Johansson in two movies, although it was
a smaller role in the Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson
two movies last year. Yeah, she's been doing about two movies. Okay,
so let's say she's making twenty million just from the movies,
and she's probably doing you know, she's doing cosmetic commercials
and stuff like that, so there's probably some payment there too.
That's crazy. Ched Holmeward's making fifty We'll start making fifty

(18:25):
million dollars a year to play fifty fifty regulars and
games and you know, depending on how long they go
in the postseason, he's gonna play. Well, they plan for
him to play more than day. Of course, they plan
to do a lot of things. We play for you
on and Alberto's play one hundred and forty games a year,
and he's putting his body through more than Scarlett Johansson is.
I never quite thought of it that way. Wait minute,

(18:46):
Wait a minute. She's first of all, she's using her
body in Jurassic Park.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I guess she's doing some kind of arising line. Yeah,
she could get eaten by t Rex. Yeah that's true.
Ten twenty five on Sports Talk seventy. By the way,
I was watching the Today Show today. Okay, Shark Week
is coming to Netflix. Oh really, they're going to try
to reinvent the Shark a Week bit because when it
first started back in the late nineties or the eighties,

(19:13):
they would draw like fifty million viewers. The viewers have
cut in half, and they're thinking maybe that they need
a fresher approach. So Netflix is going to be something
a little more of a uptempo Shark Week bit. Well,
isn't it a I mean it was a Discovery Channel thing, right, Yeah.
I don't know if Discovery is still doing it or not.
But if they have their own is there don't they
still have their own streaming service Discovery Plus could be,
but they're they're doing their own version of it. I

(19:34):
don't subscribe, and I think and they're thinking that it's
going to do very well because this year will be
the they're going to not reboop it. They're going to
re release the fifty year anniversary of Jaws, okay, which
I will not be going to see under any circumstance.
Why not, because that's a scary af movie. You've never
seen it?

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (19:54):
I have?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Okay? I saw Jaws three D and that took years.
I was in therapy between the ages of seven and thirteen,
all right, nineteen seventy five. There, it's the fifty year
anniversary of that one. It's the fifty year anniversary of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, fifty year anniversary of
the Stanley Kubrick epic. Barry Lyndon's a big year in film, Matt.

(20:16):
They're doing a lot of re releases, so you could
be busy this summer. No Jaws, okay, Well, Telly, one,
you said One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. You've seen that.
I have not. You've not, no, okay, but I I
always heard it's one I heard of it. Yeah, of course,
I think Jack Nicholson won Best Actor for that. Yeah,
all right, ten twenty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety
Jack Nicholson properly rated, over rated, underrated, ooh, properly rated,

(20:40):
properly one of the all time greats on of the
all time grade for sure, and a good Laker fan
for many years. I mean Laker fan number one. He
puts it in his movie contracts that he has to
go to games. I think, well, Diane Cannon will kind
of give a run for his money, and I think
Samuel L. Jackson will be up in that in that
list too, Dian Cannon a lot. Yes, yeah, I'm saying yes, well,

(21:05):
I'm shasting all right. Astros overreaction is coming up next.
You think, how did social media handle the second consecutive
loss for the local nine seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety all right, I've done some intelligence before
we get to it. The Astros Twitter account ten twenty

(21:28):
seven last night said Guardians ten Astro six okay, sixty
eight thousand views, one hundred and seventy four replies, wonderful
fifty six retweets, one hundred and ninety two likes, and
two bookmarks. Now, the retweets could also include quotes on

(21:49):
top of it. M okay, but we'll tend to probably
just focus on the replies. One hundred and seventy four
of them. Now, my guess is one hundred and seventy
four probably half of them are non Astro fans. Okay,
that are you know, slowing their way into the to
the site. Rangers fans are upset that their teams below five,
that we will not be reading theirs, because that's just

(22:10):
you know, we I don't Ranger fan at the Astros
one fourteen in a row. They'd figure out a way
to get mad about it for somehow, some way. So
all right, we are ready to go. We present to
you something we've done on a semi regular basis. Don't
do it a lot, but you know what feels like
when you win a huge series in Los Angeles then
drop the next two at home to Cleveland. It's time
for little Astros over reaction. No matter what happens and

(22:37):
how good this team is ross, these will never ever
go away, you know what I mean? What are these? Matt?
We wait for you to hit the post and here
it goes, hey out, let's go hey, oh, let's go

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aftros over reaction right here on seven ninety all right? Uh,
walker to Crawford Boxes says, where was a bray you,
my guess would be needed to day off? Right? Ross
on that yeah, hater said he felt good and literally
it was a people. It was a ninety six mile

(23:20):
an hour sinker up and he barely got to it.
It was a perfect pitch and it's an out in
twenty nine out of thirty parks. Sorry, go ahead. Uh.
Albert Calderon says a spot of walks about her intentionally
to put the double play in play with runners at
first and third. First base runner takes off and no throw.
Why then we walked about it to low the bases,

(23:42):
talking about putting pressure on the best closure in MLB
Grand Slam game over. Okay, he's he's supposed to be
under pressure. Yeah, he's the closer. Yeah yeah, yeah. Let's
see here, boy, the Ranger fans just jumping in all
over the place. This is ridiculous. Every bit Texas says,

(24:04):
what the heck? You smashed the number one rated Los
Angeles Dodgers and then lose to those clowns, very very sad.
Let's see here, how did oh, here's one, how did
Hunter Brown make the All Star team in all caps?
All right, that's tough. It's the era. It is still

(24:25):
two point twenty one. You got me yelling at these people.
Something called Trevor Hower says, send you on your Diaz
to Neptune. Well they really send him out really far away.
They don't want to go to Triple they just want
to go to Neptune. Gosh, let's see here. That heart breaking.
But please save the series tomorrow. I don't realize people's

(24:46):
hearts were breaking over this. You can keep playing the music.
We'll go on there. Let's see here. Um, well, a
lot of a lot more of the Ranger fans just
jumping in in here. This is really not as bad
that I thought I was gonna be. Frankly Ross, okay, uh,

(25:08):
we're so spoiled. L m f ao, all right. At
Krypton Mortis is why, just why? Jacob with a bunch
of numbers says, can we please get healthy? That's that's
a regular, that's a proper reaction. Can we please get healthy?
That actually fears pretty that's pretty good. On that one.
Let's see Uh four Locals says did for local, did

(25:33):
all that just to lose. I can't wait for the
days I never got to see guys like Humble and
Short on this baseball team. Ouch, hey, sure was picking
it man. Next one from Black Lance says we're gonna
be but back in the wild card race before the
break gets here. Wow. Uh doctor just says booh Whataburger
Gaming says, that's what I'm done with this team? All right?

(25:56):
Aby says get us out of the series. We're banged
up like an MF. That's that's very true. I Mortis says,
fire everyone, all right, that's too much. Uh. Veronica says,
hater really screwed up this game. S m H. Julie
says embarrassing a summer. Donkey says, gets our turn to

(26:16):
be bad. Let's see Blue says come back stronger, Josh, Hater,
that was a sign of positivity. I like that's that's good.
Uh let's see pathetically came back down to earth as
Rick and Sugarland. Uh Banana says what intarnation? Mag Guy

(26:39):
says lost to who King is? King says all star
break police with lots of ease and let's do one
more here. You sweep the best. This is from Matt Thomas,
empty tap six. That's not me. No, this guy's got
eleven followers, a twenty three files and he follows eleven people.

(27:01):
You sweep the best mL team in their own house
and can't be a team in your own era on
their house, and you can't be a team in your
own house coming in on a ten game losing streak.
I don't even understand. And then Ohio Japan says, fire
a spata and that, my friends, is a small sample size.
I thought, relatively tame of astros over reaction. Hey, oh,

(27:25):
let's go wait to close the segment properly, right here,
seven nineties. You're learning this, Jonathan. He's a freestyle king,
Matt Thomas. That was good. I impressed me like a lot.
Some say it's a little flip. I say it's Matt Thomas,
the freestyle king little flip. Huh. I'm the little flipping

(27:45):
sports little land soldier. Come on, man, okay whatever all
that means? All right, we're Jonathan's time too. He was
just a baby, he was a mere embryo. All right,
what else you thinking? I'm thinking we have to talk
about this Josh Hater thing because came up last night.
Somebody was arguing with me. It came up multiple times
in those aos. Yes, he had eighteen pitches, but coming

(28:07):
up was a lefty and two switch hitters, Nolan Jones
and Jose Ramirez and Carlos Santana. So and Josh Hater
said he felt fine. They went with the sacrifice fly.
First of all, they pinch hit with a righty with
Will Wilson, who came into why do you use a
pinch hitter to bunt? Is beyond me. I don't know.

(28:29):
But then they intentionally walked Hose Ramirez and then Carlos Santana. Unfortunately,
Josh Hater talked about it after the game. It was
a bad at ab and then there was the Grand Slam.
But Josh Hayter said he felt fine, He felt like
he was pitching well. He wanted to be out there.
You had the lefty plus the two DH guys that

(28:49):
you wanted to flip around. That's why Hater was in there.
He had been one of the best pitchers in baseball
all season long. Come on, folks, you gave up ten runs.
All of them were given up by Hunter. Brown, Josh Hater,
and somehow that's on Joe A Spotta. No, why is
Joe spot a kitchen heat on this what I'm saying,
we got to talk about it. Would you rather had
Brian King? I mean, if you want to say lefty, yeah,

(29:10):
I guess so. But if Josh Hater says I'm good
to go, you put Josh Hayter out there. You pay
him a lot of money exactly to pitch in games
when you fought your ass off to get back to
six to six. And it's a late tight game, as
high leverage as it gets, even though it's against the Guardians.
Tenth inning makes it with this runner at second base
makes it high leverage to begin with. It is what

(29:32):
it is. It is what it is. I yeah, I mean,
I don't want them to end the first half of
the season. You know, if they were to lose another
series of Rangers, that wouldn't be fun. But they have
been playing some exceptional baseball. They had to break the
first place. I don't even care if it's first place
by a half game. It's a huge Well that's not
that you know, couldn't happen, but I know, I know.

(29:54):
And by the way, again. Seattle got crushed by the
Yankees last night, so we're all good on that. Yeah,
they're gonna be good in the division because mostly me,
because nobody else is, and they're gonna get healthier. Yeah,
their lead is six and a half Overseattle in the
American League West. What are the rest of the teams
doing in the division. Let's take a look here, really
really quick standings tell me that the Astros are six
and a half in front. There. The Rangers did win

(30:18):
last night, but they're playing five hundred baseball. They're ten back,
the Angels are ten and a half out, and the
Athletics are seventeen and a half. It's a two team race. Now.
You do not want to give Texas any sort of momentum. Actually,
which you know what you could do, really rass is
you could really bury them this weekend if you wanted to.
If you take if you get them to eleven or

(30:38):
twelve back at the All Star break, they might be sellers,
which are then rellly in theory. Make it a two
team race between the between them and by the way,
the Mariners aren't going away. Mariners have the hottest hitting,
home run hitting guy in the sport. Right now. They've
always got good pitching and they don't have enough bats overall,
but they've got a good enough pitch and it's gonna

(30:59):
keep him games. And cal Raley's got it, he's got
a cool off. At some point catcher is not hitting
sixty home runs, I would think, not just first place.
I don't think he's gonna play enough to get the
sixty home runs he's got thirty five. It's crazy. By
the way, the Astros now are three and a half
behind Detroit. Is Detroit gonna have the number one record

(31:19):
in the American League. It feels like thirty six for
a cow, But no, who is m I honestly you can.
You can sign a figure way to your hardest content.
That would be it. They would be a heavy heavy
favorite defense for the best record American League. I would

(31:42):
imagine they've got a good lead right now. Right and again,
they're playing a lot of teams in the Central that
have underperformed still ahead of them. Yeah, their division blows.
It's worse than the UH it's worse than the American
League West. So the reality is, I think the Astros
their number one goal should be to finish. Is the
number two seed and take it for what it's worth.

(32:04):
After that, okay, when the division first, then focus on
holding on that number two seed. I ten forty three
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If you'd like
to be with others here, we would love to have
you at seven one three, two, one two five seven
nine zero seven one three two one two five seven
ninety and want to let you know that we'll have
Brian Bogus of It coming up at eleven o'clock today.

(32:26):
Please make sure that you are sticking around for that
and we'll get to some more ASTROSK conversation with you.
And of course again Bogie joins is eleven o'clock shuts
your boll mess up at eleven thirty. Baseball's a crazy sport,
would you say, Sports RV last night, I would say
of all the major sports, the luck factor is the

(32:48):
factors in the most in baseball. Yeah, I just you
always find in It's the oldest sport by far, but
it always seems to provide the craziest endings and sometimes
and we had that last night in the Bay Area
with the San Francisco Giants. Who are they playing? Let's
see here they were in those God awful uniforms. They

(33:09):
have good uniforms with the ones they were wearing yesterday sucked.
Let's see. Oh they were put in the Phillies. Mm hmm.
It was a three to two game, right, No, excuse me,
a three to one game. Phillies were up bottom of
the ninth. Run is at first and third and the catcher.
Would you like to describe a catcher in terms of

(33:31):
foot speed? Generally, uh, the slowest on the team? Oh,
by far? Right, Yeah, out of the fat first basement.
Depends usually the catcher. Yeah, so usually the catcher is
a guy that's not going to be uh four four forty.
Here's Patrick Bailey at the plate, Patrick Bayley. Patrick Bailey
is a wise fedal bottom of the ninth in San Francisco,

(33:54):
First and third, one out, Patrick hits a high drive
deep right center field. This one is off the top
of the wall and it recashees and it's rolling on
the lorning track.

Speaker 9 (34:08):
Two runs around Bailey, coming around third, Patrick Bailey.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Scores hits on the inside the park. Walk off home run.
Now we've seen everything, Okay, walk off Grand not Grand said.
Walk off home runs are cool. Walk off inside the
parks are really cool. And for those of you who

(34:35):
didn't understand the description, the ball hit went to right field,
hit the top of the wall, and then jetted left. Yes,
it was going from west to east on the morning track. Yeah,
went way past the left fielder. Yep. So not only
is it Patrick Bailey doing this, that was his second
home run of the year. Ross. Okay, his betting average

(34:59):
after last night is now one ninety four. Wow. He
was ringing it with an ops of five point fifty three,
but he got a walk off three run homer. Man,
it hit brick, So it just flew off that brick. Yeah. Wow.
And I'm going to tell you something, and I know
that this is I'm gonna try to relate it to

(35:20):
what the Astros went through. The one thing I find
really charming about baseball is that no bark is no ballpark.
Two ballparks are the same. You have different dimensions, You've
got different little nooks and crannies, You've got little nuances
to them. I think it makes baseball charming. Yes, and
that wall doesn't get hit a lot, but it's violent

(35:44):
when it does. Now, I've never seen a ball go
again east to west like it did. I mean it
went off there like a tennis ball. Yeah, it flew off.
And again it wasn't like you had who's the fastest
runner in baseball today, Ellie Delacruz. Yeah, it wasn't a
cruise hopping and skipping around the bases. It was a
slug o catcher. I go look at his percentile for

(36:06):
a sprint speed. I don't think it's think it's great,
but you don't get that in the NBA, every basketball
court is ninety four feet correct, and the arenas look
generally the same with the luxury boxes and whatnot. Football
stadiums sometimes have a little charm, but it's still one
hundred year in football field with lots of seats and
lots of luxury boxes. Twelve percentile sprint speed, Patrick Faile,

(36:27):
It'd be like you and I trying to scorn inside
the park. He's probably faster than us. I got a
hamstring thing too, right now? I feeling good? Why are
hamstrings hurting? What do you mean? Roller? Yeah? High rollers?
He has rolled up high up on me. I mean,
I was, I was, I was asking as a concerned friend,
why are hamstrings hurt? I mean just because general soreness.

(36:49):
I'm over forty now, Okay, do you need a reason
for to pop any muscle when you hit forty? If
I could only pop a muscle. Let's go to Mike
and Richmond on the Matt Thomas Shill. Mike, good morning,
do you Hey.

Speaker 10 (37:02):
I'm glad you liked my emails?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Oh, Mike, Mike, my god, question for you, why don't
you ever send me emails when things are going well?
I didn't hear from you on all this weekend.

Speaker 10 (37:14):
Because that's the way it's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
No, it's not, though, No, No, we don't have that world.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
As players play terrible and they're not supposed to work
so hard to tie a game and then just crater
like they did. They also did that in Colorado last week.
I should have sent you an email on that.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
They're supposed to go to Dodgers. They're supposed to go
to Dodger Stadium and win eighteen to one and the
biggest win in the history of that stadium. They're supposed
to do that.

Speaker 10 (37:43):
Wow, not to that extent, okay, but they should be winning, and.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
They should win every game. They should win.

Speaker 10 (37:52):
No, just some irritate me that one last night and
then the San Francisco game or in the season when
Hunter Brown had a five to lead and the relievers
just you know, they stayed that game away.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
What do you got going on back behind you? By
the way, A lot of a lot of noise behind you.
What's what's going on back?

Speaker 10 (38:10):
I was just in the Kroger's.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Oh that's nice. You're calling us wear grocery shopping. Any
any good deals over there?

Speaker 10 (38:20):
Oh yeah, the blueberries are good.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
And oh yeah, yeah blueberry. By the way, the Crogers
have an underrated sushi department. By the way, I don't
know if you're a sushi or not, but we get
some of our sushi from there. No, I don't, I
just I just I don't.

Speaker 10 (38:36):
Have Twitter, and so that's my only way I can really.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
What does that have to do with sushi?

Speaker 10 (38:41):
If I had, If I had Twitter, you would have really.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Really been scared this morning. Well, Mike, I never I
always look forward to your emails. Just know, in my
heart of hearts, I love you like an older brother,
but I'm never going to respond to them. But I
do read them every single time. You know that, right, Okay,
we'll see it later cheap on Wednesdays. Yeah, he should
pick them up. Is Wednesday's Blueberry Reduction Day. I don't know.
They were dollars seventy seventy pound at ray Tree read

(39:05):
this week.

Speaker 11 (39:07):
Hmmm, I'll take blueberries are gross.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
They're all right. I like blueberries, blackberries and my muffins,
but I don't like I won't pop blueberries like I
could pop grapes easily. No, they're good for you antioxidants.
Oh no, they're excellent. And it's it's really inconsistent for
me to say, I like blueberry muffins, but I don't
like just plain blueberries. Okay, I like, I don't like blueberries,
and my salad and my cereals. Just get a little
Greek yogurt and put them in that. I don't like yogurt,

(39:35):
by the way, today's edition, I believe or not, I
will handle Oh my god, I like this. You know
what the category is. I must be doing really bad.
You're doing a lot of these if I like this
food or not. Oh, actually, well, some of them that
I will put in there, they will have some inside
information on that. But some of them I won't. But
so I'll stay away, though. Yeah, you I will put

(39:55):
some that are in there that we've talked about okay,
and I will put some things in there that I
have never discussed before. Okay, so we'll do believe it
or not? Do I like this food? Why don't you
like Greek yogurt? I don't like yogurt at all. What
it's gross? It's protein packed. I don't care. What is
it attacked with? I don't like it? Okay. I about mayonnaise?

(40:18):
Love mayonnaise? Look, mayonnaise? Yes? What about sour cream? Yes? Okay.
Now I'm really confused. Now I get when when Clanton
wipes them all off the board in Craig Akerman. So mayonnaise, yes,
sour cream yes? Yogurt no, yes, that's correct. I like
frozen yogurt. Can so if it's fro. If the yo

(40:39):
is fro, you're in. I like, well, let's fro. Okay,
all right?

Speaker 7 (40:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Brian bogus Stomach will join us next. I know I'm confusing.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Brian Bogasvic
will talk all things Astros with us. As the Astros
fell ten to six yesterday to the hated? Are they
hated the Cleveland Guardians? I kind of feel like we
do hate them, right seven one three, two one two

(41:06):
five seven nine, And again if you want to follow
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It's time for us to spend ten quality minutes with
our friend buying Bogus Sevic working the last couple of
games for Space City home networking joints us here every

(41:26):
Wednesday on the radio program So Brian. When you hear
the stats about that ball would only have left one ballpark?
Does that go? Does that irritate to you? Does that
make you go, well, that's what dyke in park is.
Are you completely indifferent to hearing things like that?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (41:42):
You get pretty numb to it when it's your home park, right.
You know, when you go into different stadiums as a
visitor and the quirks of a stadium kind of play
themselves out, it'll drive you crazy a little bit. But
when you see it on a day and day out basis,
and you kind of get a feel that you know
every you know, sometimes you get burned on it and
sometimes it helps you out. You just kind of get

(42:04):
numb to it, and it is what it is. You know,
it stinks when a game gets decided on something like that,
but you know it could have just as easily been
a ball that went in the astros favor.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Brian, it was a rare off night for Hunter Brown.
I mean, everything was hit hard. It felt like the
guardians were seeing the ball very, very well. And that
always comes up with the well is he tipping pitches?
You have been out of the game for a while,
but you were obviously in the game for much of
your adult life and childhood life. When do you, as
an analyst see that there's something peculiar going on? And

(42:39):
was it different than if you were watching him playing
the game itself in terms of, oh, I see something
going on that helps me figure out what this guy
is throwing. Yeah, you know, all right, we'll try to
get it back here, did we having you back? All right? Well,

(43:02):
we'll try to call him. Brian is so upset, that's
that question. Hang it up and let's just try to
call him back. We've been having some phone issues. But
I don't know if that was his didn't sound the same,
so who knows. I know, all right, we'll see we'll
get him back. Hmmm momentarily, Matt. But yes, Hunter Brown
did say last night they were all over him and

(43:23):
he hadn't felt like that all year, which is interesting. Yeah,
I think it's And again I never played the game.
We'll get Brian's perspective on this. My thought is is
that you have to constantly work to make sure that
you are keeping a level of unpredictability in your game. Okay,
I think we got him. All right, let's see if
all right. I'm sorry, Brian, you were so upset with
that question I asked you, but now your chance answered.

Speaker 12 (43:46):
Yeah, hung you guys nou so here.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Here's here's what I look at like. It's always on
your radar, right, especially when you're throwing the ball as
well as Hunter has been, and then all of a sudden,
guys are on everything. But I think you know, the
first thing you have to look at is what what
are the pitches that they were hitting? You know, where
were those pitches located? That pitch that Jose Ramirez hit
that was a change that got yanked right down the middle,

(44:10):
The pitch that Rokio hit for the home run, the
ninth hole hitter, it was a cutter that landed right
in the middle of the zone. So I think, you know,
first and foremost, you got to look at quality of
pitch and that will tell you a lot. Now, if
you're just dotting up your pitches, and if you're throwing
nasty sinkers that guys are staying on, and if you
know you're you know, bats are beating you to the

(44:31):
top of the zone on well located, for seen fastballs
that guys don't usually hit, then you might look a
little bit deeper and say, oh, man, am I tipping something?
Do they have something on me? I think it's just
one of those nights where you know, there wasn't really
a consistent amount of well located pitches, especially with the
off speed stuff, and you know you chuck it up
more to that, then I'm doing something that's given it away.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Staying with pitching for a second, what did you think
of Kate Smith intentionally balking to get Dubon off a
second base last night? Uh?

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Interesting, I understand the logic of it. If you think
somebody is able to pull something out of your glove,
then you know you don't want to risk that being relayed.
At the same time, I mean, he threw a wild
pitch the following inning. I don't know that i'd be
too you know, quick to put guys on third base
when I'm you know, spraying ninety eight and bouncing sliders

(45:25):
in there. But you know what, I would have to
imagine that's something that they discussed before the series and
before the game. Certainly of there certain guys that we
think might be able to pick stuff up, or or
maybe he thinks that people have been picking it up
on them in the past. So it's it's it's a
different strategy, but you know, you know, whatever makes the
pitcher feel comfortable, I guess.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
You know. And on both of those things, the tipping
and the kind of picking trying to pick up grips,
what exactly are you looking for? What's some some examples
you can think of in your career that you saw.
I mean, we've seen people talking about the way the
glove is held or certain cadences, or if you could
just give us like specific examples and then also kind
of explain the looking for the grip thing as well.

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Right, So it used to be when you're at second base,
you used to be able to pick up signs and
see if you could decode the signs that doesn't exist
anymore with the pitchcomp So really what you're doing is
you're focusing on the glove and the set position of
the pitcher, and first thing you're looking for is do
they do something different on say fastball versus off speed.
Is the glove turned a little bit differently, Is it

(46:28):
a higher set or a lower set, something that you
could pick up that maybe the hitter can't see. The
Other thing that you can look for is if a
pitcher's glove is open to you right, they don't have
it closed tightly to their chest. You can sometimes pick
up the hand positioning on the ball and specifically a
change up where they'll throw three fingers on there, or

(46:48):
if a guy throws a split finger, or if they
have a distinct curveball grip where maybe they spike their
finger or something. You can pick those things up in
the glove as they set the grip, and if you
can get it early enough, you can then relay that
to the hitter. So you know, a lot of times
you'll see pitchers as they come set, they'll be turned
around looking at the runners, seeing if the runners peeking in.
They'll be trying to really close their glove off and

(47:10):
keep it.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Tight to the body.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
But there's a lot of guys who are really good
at peeking in there, and they might not be every
pitch that they get, but there might be one particular
pitch that every once in a while will give away,
and you know, sometimes that's all it takes.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Brian Bogusvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
three hits yesterday for Cam Smith. We've been kind of
talking about his progression throughout the season with you. So
what have you been seeing from him lately as he
just continues to get better and better.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
Well, a real understanding of what his strengths are, a
real understanding of what he needs to do to continue
to progress. We've talked about the adjustments that he's made,
but you know, one of the things that is the
most difficult thing to get better at is how quickly
you can adjust, how quickly on the fly you and

(48:00):
make adjustments to what either pitchers are trying to do
to you or what you did wrong the day before
and try to, you know, take an O for four
and not turn it into an OH for ten. And
you know what he did yesterday was making an adjustment
day to day, which sometimes it takes hitters, you know,
a week to make an adjustment. He got pounded in
with sinkers in the first game against Cleveland, and a

(48:22):
lot of times a young hitter, you start to feel
that fastball in on your hands. What are you gonna do.
You're gonna try to get quicker, You're gonna try to
get the head out. Okay, I need to pull that
ball and need to get around on it. But he
immediately went back to what do I do well, and
that's stay inside the baseball, hit it the other way.
His first at bat, he got that fastball in, but
he really kept his hands in tight, got the barrel

(48:42):
inside of it, shoots the line drive to right field.
Then he does the same thing with the breaking ball,
shoots it to right field, and you know, how quickly
you can get back to your baseline of what makes
me good, minimizes the downs of the ups and downs
of the season, And you know, that's that's the key
to hitting that, that is the key to being consistent
over you know, a six hundred plate apparent season is

(49:04):
how often can I be either good or great and
not be in a slump.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
From your eyes to what you've seen the last couple
of days, and that's obviously the Guardian's putting up a
lot of runs. The lineup card has been an interesting
one to see the very least specially back half of it.
A lot of it's because of praternity, a lot of
it's because of Jake's ailments and pain. You still, if
I was just surmised for have you summarized the last
two games? Was it? You know what, You're coming off

(49:32):
a huge series winning in Los Angeles, natural letdown. Is
it that maybe the back third of the lineup is
kind of acting as advertised or is it a case
where maybe you've got some guys that are just trying
to crawl to the All Star break to get some
time off. What do you think it is? Could be
a combination of things, or could all be none of
those things.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
Honestly, what I think it is is it's baseball. You know,
one day you can be a world beater and the
next day a team on a ten game loose streak
can come in and beat you. And you know every
team throughout the course of the season is going to
have to fight through some injuries. They're going to have
to you know, dip into the depth of the organization.
And you know, fortunately the Askers have gotten themselves to

(50:14):
a spot to where they don't have to force the issue,
they don't have to try to rush guys back. They
can be cautious with Jake Myers and you know, if
it's calf is feeling tight, give them a couple of days.
You know, the back half of the lineup, they've actually
got the production out of there. You know, Taylor Treml
has had a couple of big games. You know, not
everybody's killing the ball down there, but that is rarely

(50:34):
the case. I think it's just, you know, it's it's
just the natural course of the season that things can
turn very quickly. And you know, you look at the
game yesterday. The Guardians put up ten runs on Hunter
Brown and Josh Hader. You know, if those two guys
are going to get beat, you know the Aswers are
probably going to get beat. And that's just the way
it was yesterday. And you move on. I don't think that, uh,

(50:58):
you can you can really point to the line up
as being an issue for any of these last couple
of games. It's just the way it is. And you know,
sometimes you take your lumps and move on.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Well, Bolgy final game of the series and Texas comes in,
are could you be thinking? Should you be thinking? Look,
you know, Seattle's not going away, cal Rawly's having a
great season, Mariners have good pitching. Never we're going to
be killing it with the bats. So can you put
away a team in late July if you were to
take two out of three or do you not even
think about it as you get ready for the All

(51:29):
Star break?

Speaker 5 (51:30):
No, it's too early to say, you know, putting a
team away, But you can put a lot of pressure
on them. You can force them to kind of play
out the rest of the season in a way that
a team doesn't want to, which is, you know, pedal
to the medal for the last essentially two and a
half three months of the season. That is a long
time to be full go. And the Astros were in

(51:52):
that situation last year where they got behind it and
you know, from basically mid May on and it takes
a lot out of a team and it's not easy
to do so, so no, you can't put them away
and say, Okay, these guys are going to be out
of it, especially a team that has the quality of
pitching that they have where they can just rip off
a bunch of really good starts every day, but you
can really force them into a spot to where they're

(52:13):
having to go out there and execute and be good
day in and day out, which is difficult thing to do.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
And they all Star Break coming up, and it's just
four days off, Brian, what do you think about that?
Do you think that's enough as far as your complications
with getting pitchers in and out of rhythm and stuff
like that, or do you think it should be a
little bit longer. No, four days is enough.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
Honestly, four days feels like a lot when you're used
to playing every day and maybe having one day here
or there, four days off is a lot. And honestly,
by the time you get back and you have that,
you know, I think it's an optional workout day. Now
it's needed. You know, you need a day to get
back into it. So now four days, four days is plenty, Thank.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
You very much. And we're going to give you next
week off. What are you going to do?

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Oh gosh, I don't know nothing. That's my typical off
Star break plan is I do nothing.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Well, then we're calling you next Wednesday. Then you know
the new what we're gonna call you.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
We'll talk about talk about the home run derby.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Yes, and how many astro pitchers get to pitch in
the game. Next Tuesday night, we'll have a game, well
you know we'll do. We're gonna ask you to break
down the All Star Game like no one's ever broken
down an All Star game in the history. So we're
calling you next Wednesday. You're not off the hook, then.

Speaker 5 (53:21):
I'll have to do something that I don't often do.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Just watch the just watch the ratings and you can.
You can go to MLB dot com watch on speed.
Thank your friend who's always we'll see the ballpark tonight.
Thank you for the time you got. Brian bogas Evik.
We just put him on assignment. That's good. He's gonna
watch the entire All Star Game for us. Nice. He'll
be the one. Uh yeah, I'm three innings at most.
I'll check it out unless the Astros we know abound. Hey,
if hunt A Brown starts, I'll be more locked in.

(53:47):
This regular turn is on Sunday, mmmm, which means he
could give you an inning on Tuesday if you have
been going six man right. Walter Gordon Gusto, we'll find
out today. Okay, I'll go chase it. Yeah, look at you. Yeah,
I'm the I'm the insider, you're the what seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety all right? So I

(54:10):
put together the list for Believing or Not today, which
is foods that I like or don't like. You have
to get three in a row. How many are on
this list? Fifteen? We you know that's the original Believe
It or Not? I know, I know, you know I'm
saying too though. Yeah, so we're gonna do you have
to do? You have to get three in a row.
But these are quickie. So that's the reason why when
you believe that. Jonathan he made me write fifteen questions

(54:31):
every day, fifteen questions for Believe it or not? Yes,
and you had to get three in a row. Right.
And we had a programmer I won't mention his name,
wanted to do Believe it or Not every hour on
the show. Oh, we were like, no, it's once a
day is plenty. It's a lot of creative energy, right,
we don't have much that much energy. All right, shut
your bumb ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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nine zero seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
I've told you about this guy, Brett Yormark. He is
the commissioner of the Big Twelve. There's your guy. I've
never met him before, you never did. He's he's very
much a salesman. That's what you could the commissioner of
the Big twelve needs to be. I mean, I'd rather

(57:00):
him be aggressive than passive. Yes, he knows he's battling
an uphill climb. He knows that they aren't the big dog. Now. Granted,
basketball wise, we're every bit as good as the SEC
in the Big Ten. Matter of fact, I think we're
better than the Big Ten basketball wise. And SEC had
the national champion and SEC had a great year. Yeah, yeah,
SEC and Big Twelve faced off in the championship game

(57:20):
in the SEC one. That's because they were SEC officials
calling the game. That's fine, Okay, the SEC officials made
who was it that dropped the ball? And you just
kind of stared at it. I didn't bring his name up.
So we're moving on. So this cat is Brent you
Ormark and I. We're gonna talk to Joseph do'ertey Moore
about it, coming up at about one o'clock today. He's

(57:42):
always trying to reinvent the wheel. He wants to play
some Big twelve games in international areas, which I am
firmly against. I think it does no good. I don't
think playing and they were supposed to play a game
the Coup were supposed to play in Mexico City last
year and they scrapped it. I think playing a college
game in Mexico City does nothing. I don't think it
helps branding. I don't think it helps. It's college the
pro game. I get the college game. I just don't get.

(58:04):
So today they just announced that, and this is smart,
the Big Twelve Conference is going to have a sign
of deal with the WWE. They're going to put four
SmackDown shows in Big twelve cities the day before the
event to kind of say, hey, come to this city,

(58:29):
catch your SmackDown and catch your Big twelve game. Oh really,
and catch Arizona State, Iowa State. Well, I'm glad you
brought that up because you were you're probably saying yourself,
which games are they choosing? Friday, August twenty second, Okay,
SmackDown will be in Dublin, Ireland. Dublin, Ireland, the day before.
You can catch a SmackDown and watch some Big twelve football. Seamus,

(58:50):
of course, Oh, Seamus will be there in Milady, Kitton
the next day. Ioway say it plays Kansas State. It
is what it is. Come and catch Hiowa State and
Kansas State in Dublin, Ireland after an evening of WWE. Now,
I don't know if those WWE fans are going to
translate to college football. But again, you're trying to figure

(59:12):
out an interesting new wayte to market. Huh. The second
they travel internationally with their steroids, the WWE wrestlers, I'm
just asking. No, don't ask that question. They're all on
the up and up. You have to have under three
point four ounces of baby oil with you. So the
next time they're gonna do it, it's October. The third
SmackDown will be in Cincinnati. The next day Iowa State Place, Cincinnati,

(59:34):
so you are not far off. I oh wait, I'm sorry,
I can't. I had a stated Cinnati. They call almost
Ohio or wherever, Cincinnati, Cincinnati. It's the same thing, all right.
The next day, next time I do it is Friday,
October twenty fourth. It'll be in Phoenix, Tempe. SmackDown will

(59:54):
be at something called the Mullet Arena. Apparently you must
have long hair to the end of the Mullet arena.
All right. Then next day Houston plays at Arizona State. Now,
depending on my rocket schedule, I may go to that.
You should you doubled it that I could double if
I can get a little smack down on Friday, not
get in the rocket schedule, probably not gonna let me
do it, but point being is that. And then the

(01:00:14):
last one is Friday, October thirty. First SmackDown will be
at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Then Cincinnni
will play Utah the next day in Salt Lake City.
I just think it's weird. I don't think it's it's creative.
It doesn't make it's not terrible. It can't hurt. Is
you ground asleep at the Wimbledon, So you're basically my
guess is if you're in the crowd, you're gonna see

(01:00:37):
signs that are gonna say, hey, go check out Big
twelve football, and maybe that sells a few extra seats
for those stadiums for those games. Can't hurt. They're probably
like fifteen bucks from both these games for nosebleeds. So again,
this bet Yormart dude, he's always trying something different. That's
good and you kind of have to gotta get creative.
It's what they call they call grassroots marketing, is what

(01:00:59):
they call the box. Maybe yeah, outside of the box.
I wouldn't call partnering with a billion dollar corporation in
WWE grass roots. But I haven't seen another sports are
well you know now ww very creative. Did has a
long term relation with ESPN outside the box for sure,
and they're on Netflix now too, right, Uh, SmackDown is

(01:01:19):
on USA. Okay, Raw is on Netflix. And then all
the pay per views are on not pay per views.
All the what they call these big time events, that's
what they're called, are on Peacock. Okay, who's the Big
twelve deal with now? These days? Big twelve is has

(01:01:40):
deals with u TV, QVC, I believe, TNT oh okay, brand
new this year really yeah, Turner Football, Yeah, because a're
kind of they're looking to fill dates because the NBA
is gone, all right, so TNT and then there is
there are the Fox Big Fox package and uh semi ESPN.

(01:02:01):
You not necessarily plus not necessarily that either not necessarily
I mean maybe more at least you announce your deals,
not like the PAC twelve. We've got great television coming
up in twenty twenty six. When when we feel like
we're gonna we all get ready to tell you, we'll
tell you. That's that's very creative and good on Brett

(01:02:25):
or Mark for trying to build up interest in the
Iowa State Kansas State game in Dublin. Well, here's the thing,
here's what he really wants to do. He really wants
to and I'm not trying to put origin in his mouth,
but he really wants to brag about how great the
basketball is. And that's great, but basketball doesn't move the needle.
It's football stadiums. Nothing more profound was when Indiana's coach

(01:02:46):
was here in town for the Lombardi not Lombardi be
a Bear Brian Awards, and he's like, you know what,
We're known as a basketball school, but ninety percent of
the athletic budget comes from our football program. That's just
a reality. Yeah, if you don't have a successful football program,
you no matter how great your basketball program is, you
just I mean, that's why Kansas didn't get invited to
the SEC, right Kansas. I mean historic basketball program, football

(01:03:12):
three old time doesn't draw flies. No, that's why they
have on the outside looking in, because it is Kansas.
Ay TV markets long, it's a small market. Football is king. Yeah,
all right, you ready to shut your bow mass up? Hey?
What did I do? Well? I can probably tell you
that Hunter and Brown want you to shut yours up.
I got something to say about the opening of this

(01:03:33):
this show today. Oh it was. It was great entertainment.
If you want to tell somebody to shut their bow
mass up, you get the next half hour to do so.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety leetle get here,
Let me get leget here, Let me get here, let

(01:03:55):
me get dam Oh the show that way off air
is significantly better than what is.

Speaker 9 (01:04:02):
On the air.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Would you not agree with that? Sports Harvey, We can't
say any of that on the air. Yeah, what we
just said was impossible to discuss. Now if we want to,
if you want to meet us at Tire Brewing tomorrow,
we could tell what we were talking about. That's right.
I'm already looking up the flights. I'm looking up the
round trips. Tal you're brewing tomorrow. We're gonna be in
Sugarland on Imperia Boulevard. If you love craft beer, which

(01:04:25):
I do, pitt Barbecue, it would you do great Pizza Oven?
It would you do Tire Brewing ten o'clock till two o'clock.
Come over? A bunch of this have come up, some
beers and as Ross is gonna likely do tomorrow, one
tube your way over I probably wouldn't bring the dogs,
but I'm not gonna get drunk. Bring the dogs, bring

(01:04:47):
your kids. They have a huge Playlan three and a
half acres. It's really really big and fun. Why are
you making that face when I said I'm not gonna
get drunk, Jonathan, Yeah, Jonathan, why are you being judge
of me? Judge over there. I was just going off
with I'll be talking about hmm, hey, is your girl
working right now? Or she she's out of school right?

Speaker 7 (01:05:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:05:08):
No, she that school, but she's at a camp right now,
back home for volleyball, like getting money that way.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Okay. I was gonna say, you should bring we should
bring her over and have an interviewer on the air
to the station. No, tire your brilliing tomorrow. She's gonna go,
but not him. Correct. I don't care if you go
see you every day, for sure.

Speaker 12 (01:05:27):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
The fact that seems all right, well, we got to
eventually meet the girl. I don't care. Oh I do
I want to see her, you know, No, I mean
as long as he's happy. I'm sorry. It's not like
callous Ross. I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:05:45):
I get you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
I just don't get it for me. I guess like
we're friends and like, yeah, you're happy with your girl.
I don't need to meet her. I wish you you
the best. If you want to talk about her, you
need some advice, then I'm here for you. But I
don't know. I don't. That's because you're an anti social
person I a social. Anti social is a personality disorder.
Matt oh in your a social? Thank you? Okay? All right, Ross,

(01:06:08):
what's the matter with you? Which time you've got?

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
I'm just gonna go for the people last night all upset.
I mean, come on, folks, you read some of the
ASTROS organization, I mean overreactions. It got a couple of
calls yesterday, most everybody, And I'm sorry to do this
to kind of pick on the people who are being negative,
because most of everybody's being reasonable. But if you're talking
about fire, a spot of this is on him. Ten
runs given up by Hunter Brown and Josh Hater not

(01:06:34):
his fault. Come on, it's one hundred and sixty two
game season. How many times do we have to keep
telling you, folks? Shut, obamass up shot, obamass up man.
You just told Mike our caller who only who's who?
Just admitted he emails when things aren't going well. Exactly,
they won three games and in Dodger Stadium. He's like, well,

(01:06:57):
that's what they're supposed to do. They're so post sweep
one of the best teams in baseball on the road.
That's ridiculous. That's not what they're supposed to do, especially
with all these injuries. What they're doing is special. Come
on now, buddy of mine, Ed just texted me. He says, mad,
I'm an inter Countinental Airport. It's fifty five degrees in
the terminal. Ain't nobody got time for that? Nobody got

(01:07:18):
Why are we trying to freeze out America? It's Chili.

Speaker 10 (01:07:22):
We are.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
We are the most air conditioned city in the world, right, yeah,
we have, according to a study done by Reuters. Deacon, Well,
you would think so, right. You think they did that
study of years ago. You think they're like, oh, you
know what, let's advertise in Houston. Let me ask you
this and this. I want you to honest, don't be
afraid to hurt my feelings. I always afraid I bring
in uh sweatshirts and or hoodies and or have quarter

(01:07:47):
zips to most restaurants because I feel like I'm always
going to be cold. Is that Does that make me
an old?

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
F Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I mean you probably got a blood disorder? Are you
an emic? No, I've been checking that all the things.
I thought. One of the things, I'm not an emic. Okay,
let's good, that's fine. I always make sure I bring
a hoodie. Remember we were at the UH at the
Mulden Mugget and it was we were frazing. I brought
a hoodie and we were going and we were in
late May. So I always try to bring one to
the casino, and especially the poker room gets freezing in there.

(01:08:20):
I didn't do it. The the Rocket fan boys.

Speaker 13 (01:08:28):
We were so obsessed with the youth movement and oh
my god, I can't believe we got rid of Tye
Tye Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
And all these great this KPJ. Christopher, great young core
we were building. What are we doing? We're giving it
all away? Shut your bomass up shouts, obam mass up.

Speaker 14 (01:08:48):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
I love I love the Gordy drop Bys and cam
Whitmore stands. Where did they come from? We had? Who
was that caller?

Speaker 13 (01:08:54):
That lady that used to call all the time, that
was like she was the biggest Cam Whitmore fan ever know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
She maybe she was in the Whitmore family. She called
every why he wasn't getting more playing top like, are
you his mom? Well, he's gonna get playing time in
the Washington with the Wizards, Lots of playing time, plenty
of possessions for him to chalk. I'm just not saying
future star and clearly the Rockets agree with me. Well,
how about the fact that you trade him for two
second rounds? Yeah, and that he was not even a

(01:09:22):
high first round to begin with. Yes, he slid down boards.
He's a good volume scorer, but he's his usage rate
is like seventy five percent when he hits the floor.
That's not gonna be the case in wherever he goes
when he gets consistent playing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:36):
Just know this.

Speaker 13 (01:09:36):
If you're a twenty one year old on Twitter and
your take is I like Kevin Durant but not giving
up Jalen Green, shut a bomass.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, but you know what these kids got to learn.
Go ahead, I told you a gen Z did not
like the trade at all. I know now see, but
also got a promo gen Z.

Speaker 9 (01:09:56):
See.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
But I used to be like that too. I remember
I was on to see Matt Back in the day,
now it's Twitter. Back in the day, it was message boards.
I was all over message boards convincing myself that the Ash,
I mean that the Rockets were gonna win like three
championships with Tracy McGrady. I was like, oh my god,
they got Stroll, Miles Swift. This team is going straight
to the championship. So, you know what, we were all

(01:10:19):
younger and dumber at some point. Now we're a little
older and hopefully a little wiser. Speaking of that wasn't
matter with you, Johnannah And I'm gonna go I'm gonna
piggyback on Ross. But this is the point I wanted
to make the people that are getting onto Zach Short
and Cooper Hummel like, and I'm being serious, but dude,
those guys showed up when we had nobody and we

(01:10:40):
and they're a part of why ASH was so successful.
So ain't nobody got time for all this?

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
You know?

Speaker 11 (01:10:45):
A bitch in the moaning like it don't it makes
sense to me because I mean, if we're gonna say
that we love the ASH or we love how our
team is, then why are we criticizing and getting on
people that showed up when they got caught up out
of nowhere and still performed the best they can do.

Speaker 14 (01:11:00):
Ass up.

Speaker 10 (01:11:01):
Tell me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Is that short haters out there? Shut your bow masses up.
You know what, how's uh? Fire the hitting coaches guy
doing offense has been better? Now they went two for
twenty witherscoring positions for twenty one. Let's not shot them here.
Twenty one they were top they were fifth and runners
in scoring position ops coming in yesterday. Now they're ninth,
but still top ten with all these injuries. Fire the

(01:11:25):
hitting coaches guy. Shut your bum ass up, shit Jo
bum ass up? Man? Ryan on Seveninie Ryan, what's the
matter with you?

Speaker 7 (01:11:33):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:11:33):
My buddy, Nick, I love the guy to death, but
he is the epitome of toxic astros Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
This guy needs therapy. He needs to go talk to
somebody because he events all of his frustrations. Go find
some of his tweets.

Speaker 7 (01:11:46):
They're insane.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
And also, I wake up every morning till like morning bitch,
like he just so rude to me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
And I'm his best friend. And you know what, Nick,
shut your bum ass up. I know you were listening
on your iHeartRadio app getting.

Speaker 7 (01:12:00):
Out of the office because you want to hear.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
What I gotta say. Shut your butt ass up, Nick.

Speaker 7 (01:12:04):
And also we should go to tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Brewing tomorrow for lunch. What I'm talking about? Meet you're tired.
I'm looking at Nick's tweets. He said Gladiator to his
mid that's correct, he was actually bad. I thought, how
many Gladiator movies have I've seen? Zero? Correct, we know
what we're doing. Foods you haven't eaten. We should do
movies you haven't seen. Have we not done that before,

(01:12:29):
believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (01:12:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
I think you just brought up movies to me, and
I was like, Nope, nopeyeah, yeah, Saving Prior Ryan nope,
Good Fellas nope, Casino yes, okay, so this would be good. Um,
there will be blood nope. No Country for Old Men nope.
Oh my god, Two thousand and one of Space honesty nope. Uh,
Full Metal Jacket nope, it's gonna be all those, are

(01:12:54):
you okay? Jurassic Park nope? What mm hmmm? Haven't seen
any Jurassic Park? No, not a single one? Okay, but
but seventy six Lifetime movies.

Speaker 11 (01:13:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
I don't like those either.

Speaker 7 (01:13:07):
They just have to be on.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
I would not go away have you seen them? I'm
asking if you've seen them, of course, because they're laying
in bed. I'm just sitting something's on television and you
shut up. Back there, Jason and Roger, you're up next,
eleven forty three. If you want to you want to
tell somebody to shut their bull masses up, let's go.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninti seven
one three two one two five Sevenatti eleven fifty on

(01:13:37):
Sports Talk SEVENAINTI Ross. We have the we have a
half hour a week. We like to have our audience
go tell that certain special someone just shut their bumb
masses up. Mate, mm hmm, hey, nobody get it's fine.
And Nick and Ryan are just why arguing in our
Why are they fighting with each other? They said they're

(01:13:58):
best friends. Yeah, that's the bros. Bros go to Twitter
and fight with each other. I guess it's a very
Brian Lima thing to do. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Jason and Katie, Jason, what's the matter
with you?

Speaker 14 (01:14:15):
For the ass shows d Team to march in to
Chavez Ravine and play a team with a billion dollar
payroll if put it on their ass for three straight games.

Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
When you have a guy with the name Oral, you
can't get rid of the past. He talks about the astros.
No old pitches coming Oral, Hirsheister shut yo bove pass up.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
That's my boy, by the wait to missus, Hirsheusser, What
were you thinking? Oh Roll? Oral? Is that a is all?
It's funny, traditional German name, probably a biblical name maybe Oral.

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
Oral.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
It's Hebrew apparently it means God's like, Oh, so that
was right. I don't know. I just I think Robert
would have been a lot easier. Isn't it Isn't it
is an ideal pick for a honka baby? Is he Jewish?
I guess it's Hirscheiser? Is Is that a Jewish last name?
I don't know anybody German, but they're well Germany. Yeah,

(01:15:25):
your crossover is terrible.

Speaker 9 (01:15:27):
I'm just sounds like a German name. All I said,
is it sounds like a German thing. It doesn't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
One thousand and one, one thousand and two, one thousand
and three, Roger on seven ninety Roger, what's the matter
with you?

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
Samilitary?

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
But to all the do all the fans for bitches
and for talking, sending all their little video with a
wall two way, You'll kill you Jack and homegoing after.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
And I think it's Roger's phone in this particular case,
it's got to be Roger. We'd love you. You gotta
get you, get off that Ricket phone.

Speaker 11 (01:16:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
It sounds like the the blipping though. No, no, this
is with Roger. It was like it Roger last time. Yeah,
I remember Roger's back close because Roger's a good friend
of the show. But that's and also line five is
a line of doom. Seems like it all right. By
the way, Hershire descended from Hessian soldiers, which were German soldiers.

(01:16:34):
What's up, so shout? I tells up sho mess up
man seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Karen on seven ninety, Karen, what's the matter with you?
She got problems?

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
Jar?

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Yours Karen?

Speaker 3 (01:16:58):
Jared Rickslaer on the local comer.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
It's our phones.

Speaker 8 (01:17:02):
I told you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
I thought it was our phones to our phone system ship. No,
we do show. We're shutting people's probasses up. It's terrible.
Let them talk, yeah, talk as much as you want.
Karen one more time. It's blippings.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
Try it.

Speaker 14 (01:17:21):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Yeah, this is terrible. It's these two different lines. Radio
station that takes phone call up. Man. Man, I'm sending
this part to the IT people. Be nice. We appreciate
any help we could get on the matter. This is
a call in talk show and it's part of the
life blood of the show is interacting with our callers.

(01:17:43):
So we've been having issues lately, and thank you the
IT department. He continues to work on this for us.
We do thank them. Okay, that's the part you do click. Yeah,
the other part you don't. Well, sometimes they might pull
the air check, so still be nice. It's not their fault.

Speaker 11 (01:18:01):
Heiny't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Nobody got today. We're just a major market radio show
that I should like to talk to people. That's all.
It's all saying. She's saying something Rick Flair. Yeah. First
of all, Karen calls the show about Rick Flair. That
intrigues me. So what was she gonna say? I don't

(01:18:24):
know what did Rick Flair do? I don't know. Well,
Rick Flair is always getting into trouble. He's always defined death. Yeah,
wasn't He's supposed to be on his deathbed like two
to three times. What's the latest? All right, Karen, you're
gonna have to tell us what what's going now or
very if anybody knows what happened to Rick Flair? Is
he still alive?

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Oh you could work on that, believe it or not,
as soon as you want to on Ric Flair. Just
get it locked and loaded. Yeah. I think we've done
it before, I know, but we're gonna have to do
a new version of Okay, all right, Well there's a
grinding hall to today's edition of shut your bomb ass
up and anybody got time for that? Roger, We're sorry, Karen,
We're sorry, or shouting your own bumb asses up for this?

(01:19:05):
Anybody can exactly all right. We've got the News at
noon coming up, which will feature details of an unfortunate
game last night. Uh, if you like Rod Steart, you're
gonna hear little Rod Stewart open up the show and
uh you know, Uh, Jonathan, I'll let you decide whether
or not you want to play the SoundBite of Ross

(01:19:25):
saying what he said yesterday.

Speaker 10 (01:19:26):
You can do it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
It's fine, and I was, and my guess is, just
to be fair and balance, you should play the sound
bite of you saying what you're talking about Tooper Hummel yesterday. No,
I don't even worry about it, Jonathan. It's not about you.
We want to get a clip with somebody else very soon. No,
I don't think that's going to happen. I never say
things ever, GRT except daily ten to two all right
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

(01:19:48):
one three two one two five seven nine zero. If
you're on Twitter, wan to follow us there at sports MT,
at sports ever. If you want to follow me on Instagram,
Oh right, at sports MT you're the reduce, so ridiculous.
Look we're gonna have a party at three thousand whatever
at sports RV on Instagram. Please help me out, well, please?

(01:20:09):
What benefit would there be? I'm putting great content up there.
I'm gonna put up a new video today, Guys, before
we go and break, let's try Karen one more time.
Are you sure it's a different line. It is a
different line, Karen, What did you say about Ric Flair.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
It's not bad about Rick Clair. I want people on
local radio to stop imitating Rick Flair on their commercials.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
That's just Oh, I see what you're saying. Are you
are you a big Rick Flair fan in.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
General, I am not, but I recognize that you know
the value of the thing, and yeah, nobody.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Does it like him. Are you a wrestling fan?

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
That's more important?

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
Please do? Are you a wrestling fan?

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
Okay, I am not. I mean, I mean I know
a lot about it because I listened to sports radio
and I've watched sports forever and I'm sixty years old,
so I mean you can't not. But anyway, Astros fans
and anybody else who says to the Dodgers have stop
booming out today, shut your bum mouse up, because we
need to have that as his walk up song every
damn time, for every out of the station, out of

(01:21:10):
market station.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
Man Karen went up for Dodger nation. Karen, I want you,
just for your own safety, never to go to the
greater Los Angeles area again. You'll get beaten over a
baseball bat. Thank you, Garin, thank you, Karen, and Karen
called in a decent line that worked. Mm hm, so
maybe it is listening to us that was lying. So
two and five, Yeah that was the first one was
five and the second one was two. Look at you
right now in your daytime. Look at all these all

(01:21:35):
these notes of women's getting staticky and blippy. It's the
whole page. Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Hunter
Brown say night, quality start plus. I'm telling you, are

(01:21:58):
you making it this metric?

Speaker 7 (01:21:59):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
Yes, i just made up quality start plus, quality start plus.
I'm talking six innings, one run ball. Write that down,
six innings, one run ball, sc nothing, Cooper, guess the
show coming up in an hour and a half. He

(01:22:22):
did it deep dive a Cooper. He't even know his
first name. No, no, no, tonight tonight, three hits go
next dight your seton lot. There's not gonna be well.

(01:22:43):
But that's non fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Twos driven in to right field and sends fact Smith
and he will just watch that one go. Jose Ramirez
homers for a second straight day, is sixteenth of the season.
It's a two one shot in the Guardians have a
two to nothing leads.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
To out. Nobody owns here's the one.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Oh and that's crushed right field, and that's gonna leave
the ballpark.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
That's about ten rows deep into the seats and Rokyo
out of the nine hole has a double and a homer.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
One and Martinez listens left is pretty deep and since
fact humble against the out of town scoreboard and it
is gone. A grand slam for on Hell Martinez into
the first row of the Landrys Crawford boxes and Cleveland
has a ten to six lead out of two, swinging

(01:23:59):
a bess on the breaking ball away and that is
the ballgame. The Cleveland Guardians and the Astros just their
second series loss at halt this year as they use
an unheld Martinez grand slam in the top of the
tent to eat the Astros ten to six and extras.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
The Guardians have oh the look or that Hunter Brown
was didn't do a caudy start? Plus and Cooper Hambledon
get three hits yesterday. Shame on both of you. M
m TSK. I ain't even worried about it. You shouldn't worry.

(01:24:40):
I got a list, yeah, but you have no audio
of it, so shut up. Turn the music very easy
to find rod to me, very mid very overrated. But
this song is kind of catchy. It's fine. Have you
play Have we played a song lately? You just thought?
What the hell was that? I feel like you're a
very easy, impressionable person when it comes to music, which

(01:25:01):
is good. No, No, I just think you have a
good take. I thank you. That was one. I can't
think of the name of him, though, And he takes
off the melody from Uh He't Got No Home, the
old song. I hope that guy got credit. Rod Stewart's
ripping people off. Rod Stewart's still performing a concert. He's alive.

(01:25:22):
You know he was alive.

Speaker 5 (01:25:25):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
How scratchy is his voice now? He sounded horrible in
the eighties he did. You're right about that. I mean,
he's just screeching. I just it's not what am I
going to do? Real quick? Forget to the news that
new What am I gonna do? And all these people
that I did grow up listening to die and I
can't go see them in here. They're listening to new
music Exchange of Horizon, I mean, curiously, So I'm gonna
listen to a lot on the weekend? Is that what
I'm gonna listen to? Bady the weekends? Hold up? Now,

(01:25:46):
the weekend got some jams man held up that he
has that one good song one Yeah, I'm gonna guess
he's got five number one hits. I don't disagree. I
can't argue with that. I can't have evidence, but I'm
I don't either. There's one that's really good. Okay? Which
one was it? It's his most popular. I can hear

(01:26:08):
it in my head right now. Is he still beefing
with Drake? Like he was getting serious about it? Wasn't
there Drake's home got what's the weekend's most famous song?

Speaker 13 (01:26:17):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
You're probably talking about the blinded by the Lights one
or the recent one. No, it's not star Boy. Uh,
let's see. Star Boy was a number one hit. Can't
Feel My Face was the number one hit. That's what's
that one? I just sang, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
That's a good one. The light I don't know exactly

(01:26:40):
the words, all right, yeah, blinding Lights, Blinding Lights number one? Here,
let me let me give you all the number one hits.

Speaker 13 (01:26:45):
Do we have to do this?

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
Oh wait, that was number one in Canada. That doesn't count, right?
Can we do the news at noon Hills? Number one,
Can't Feel My Face number one, Starboy number one hit,
Die for You number one hit. Okay, so I need
to learn his music. Out my Name was a number
four heartless number one hit, Blinding Lights number one hit.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna download his entire Savior

(01:27:07):
Tears number one hit. If I'll be honest, man, I
give him like a six. I'm not a big There
we go. Wee can get some hits. I don't care
what you say, Jonathan, Jonathan game a six gen X
giving six is out there. Twelve ten. Time for the
news at just passing, And with that we go to

(01:27:28):
the sports desk, where we hear from the Chris McKendree
of Houston Sports Journalism. Real, who's that? She's on Sports
Center right now? Okay, all right, moving along here, Matt,
Yes the nose at noon. The Astros unfortunately fall to
the Guardians ten to six. Josh Hayter in his second inning,

(01:27:51):
after throwing eighteen pitches in the ninete, he went out
there said he felt good for the tenth, almost got
out of the inning. Would have in twenty nine parks.
Unfortunately they were in the one park where he wouldn't have.
That would be Dyke in a park. Astros lose ten
to six. The good news is you got three hits
from Cam Smith, three hits from Maritio Dubon. Bad news,
Matt two for twenty one with runners in scoring position.

(01:28:19):
That you I don't know if you can replicate that.
I mean you can. You can go two four in
runners in scoring position, but one is a lot of AB's.
The crazy thing is they still scored six runs. They
had a lot of traffic and could not bring and
they could have usually should have scored at least ten.
You needed ten to win the game. Yeah. Crazy. Oh
those two. By the way, we're both Jose al tuo Ve.

(01:28:41):
People not named Jose al Tuove went for nineteen with
runners in scoring position. And his demise, I'm gonna get
to you to say, is being a little little over drive,
over exaggerated. He's been great. He's back up to like
seventy eighty ops. Now, it's still a decline of where
he was last year in the year before. He's still
gonna got three thousand. I think you're right, as long

(01:29:04):
as he stays healthy and they continue to trot him
out there when he's a negative player, which they did
for They did it for Craig Biggio. I would imagine
that Jose l two they would get the same grace
Vijio was a well below average major league player to
get to three thousand. But I think, but how many
guys that hit the number three thousand or four in
the read cases four thousand, all of a sudden are
at their prime hit? Yeah, they're not at their prime right. Well,

(01:29:25):
I'm just saying, as long as he gets the opportunity,
which I think he will, I think he gets there.
I would definitely say that. By the way, Ryan Rathus
is Texan. The weekend concert is this christ is his
birthday present? Oh wonderful. I saw him at the Toyota
Center a couple of years ago. Very good show. By
the way, since Ran has listening to the show, Ryan Ratheus,
Chad Hartman on Twitter says, to your colleague rand Mouth

(01:29:48):
Hughs who said the bats were to blame last night.
They scored six runs? What should plenty? What should we
be doing with our pitching staff? Shut your ball mass up,
m Chad, look at it, Look at chag go right
after it. Both can be true. They did score six runs.
It should have been enough on Hunter Brown Day. But
they also did go two for twenty one with runs
in the scoring position people not named Josel two. They
went oh for nineteen? All right, continue on, all right, Matt. Well,

(01:30:14):
some other news is somewhat breaking news you want to
say it for the next segment. Well we can, Okay,
I think it's I think it's worthy of a segment conversation. Yeah,
we can turn it into one next one?

Speaker 12 (01:30:25):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Then? Should I lay it out here or should we wait?
No light out?

Speaker 7 (01:30:29):
L let me out?

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Forty said, where's he? He's napping. I didn't hear from him.
When do we come back? Some breaking news at noon?
Breaking news at noon doesn't involve a team and involves
the league. Twelve thirteen, Sports Talk seven eighty one. You
know we always always thinking sports twenty four to seven.
Here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, Jonathan and

(01:30:55):
Ross were debating the weekend for the last four minutes
off air, we were debating. We're just talking about it,
you know, you know, get the discussing going, you know, yeah,
because yeah, we agreed on a lot of the points.
He tries a little bit too hard to be like
Michael Jackson. He can definitely make some corny songs, but
he's got a good singing voice, and especially when he's
paired up with like a really good production team, like

(01:31:15):
when Daft Punk did some of the songs on Starboy,
it's really good stuff. All right, one last question that
we're gonna go back to the breaking news. Are you
ready for this? Yes? So I have gone to see
the Eagles, I've seen McCartney, I've seen Ringo Star, I've
seen Sticks. These are bands that are well past their
passer prime. Okay, so basically forty years past their prime?

(01:31:37):
Uh huh. When Carly Cameron and Peyton forty years from
now okay, go to see a concert in the years
okay five? Or Jonathan okay, okay, uh huh, who are
they going to see that's in that group? I Bruno
Mahers is a good one. I think brun Omers forty

(01:31:57):
years from now will be on the You think he won't,
I'm I was asking Cynthia Woods Mitchell Casino route he
would be. I think he would still possibly be doing stadiums, okay.
Lady Gaga for sure, Beyonce for sure. Beyonce would be
what in her late seventies by that point. Yeah, if
she wants to tour, she's about she's about a billionaire. Now,
I don't know. I tell you, Paul mccarney's in his

(01:32:18):
eighties and he's been touring. So yeah, if there's money,
how about what Miley Cyrus be out there doing so yeah, yeah, perhaps, hmmm,
who's else making Who's making all the hits right now?
Sabrina Carpenter? All these country Taylor Swift people would be
seeing Taylor. Yeah, Taylor's Phillip stadiums when she's seventy five.

(01:32:39):
Justin Bieber justin Timberlake. Maybe he's older though, Yeah, yeah,
he's not a crooner, but he'll croon in forty years
for you. He want have a choice. He's gonna wheel
him out there. Let's see. I'm teking like artists, they're
going to stand the test of time. I would put
a Dell on that list. How is a Dell? She's
gotta be in her late thirties. Okay, so there's a batch,

(01:33:01):
a decent batch. Actually, yeah, you should listen to some Adele.

Speaker 11 (01:33:03):
Matt, No, thanks, you should that last album, Oh mattch
she could sing, you will cry?

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
Yeah you go us. You want something to belt out
of the top of your lungs, tear streaming down your face,
and get some Adele going, Maddie. Let me think about
it all right, Let's get to some breaking news. Okay, Well,
I have no captain tango. May he rest in peace.
May she she's enjoying retirement. That's one sounder. Is it
worthy of a second one? I think one is rapped.
What do you think one's plenty? Go and tell the

(01:33:31):
good news. Yes, the good news is that for the
All Star Game, and don't use the word robo umps
for the All Star Game. The ABS Challenge system will
be in the game next week so the players can
use it. They did it in Triple A, they did
it in spring training, and now they're bringing it to
the All Star Game. They're doing a really good job

(01:33:52):
of soft launching. This sounds like it's gonna come next year. Yeah,
let's come and put on the board next year. If
you're bringing out at the All Star Game, chance to
showcase something that at the only game. Yeah, after doing
it at spring training? Yeah, you're you're this is not
a software all this is. We're putting this on a
stage where millions of baseball fans will get to see
it in action, and guess what. I don't know how
much of a bump it'll be, but I think ratings

(01:34:13):
will go up. I'm more, I'm more have to watch
the game, question about it. This is a great move,
Rob Manford, I honestly think Rod Mamford takes a lot
of heat. I think they do a lot to try
to grow baseball. I got news for you, all right.
Here's number one, Uh number one, the automatic base runner
at second base works. It just does. I'm sorry, it

(01:34:35):
just does. Yeah, those of you who complain about it
ship Joebo maas uh number two. I thought I heard
of the little very very famous. Remember I told you
that they're gonna have to come nice to ESPN. They're
re talking with ESPN. MLB is not stupid. You cannot
have a baseball contract a television contract that doesn't involve
a ESPN. Go don't go as the NHL it was

(01:34:57):
for the thirty years they didn't have him m Television
ratings are up, stadiums are full. Pitch clock is working,
although I there is some indirect problems with it. Go
glass people's arms. We need more data on I don't
know how much more data we need. I'm not a doctor,
and I'll play on the radio. But there are guys
who were like when lancewore Colors, Junior was out there

(01:35:19):
on Friday. He was thrown with like eight nine seconds
on the clock to try to get in a better rhythm. Yeah,
so maybe he's the last guy that we want rushing
if he thinks it's going to cause an armission. It
still feels like to me that we're getting more and
more because of it. But it was. But we also
look at from back in the day, guys were taking
on average way shorter. So I think it's complicated. I
will say you could be right. I'm not saying you're wrong. Okay,

(01:35:40):
So we don't know. Games are moving, brisk are on
a more brisker pace, absolutely a brisker pace and a
more brisker pace, and umpiring is a hot mess and
he's not turning a blind eye to it. We've had replay.
Now we're getting the ABS or the challenge is not
we're not getting ABS, we're getting challenge challenge system. They're
calling it the ABS challenge system instead of full ABS.

(01:36:03):
And I just don't like the term robo up. The
umpire is still back there calling the balls and strikes.
It's just an automatic whatever. I don't know why is
that this is a stupid pet peeve because it peeves
to me, man, I wouldn't worry about it, okay, I
would be happy with what it's what it's going to
do you know, okay, now do we know the does

(01:36:24):
everybody is? How many times does every team get It'll
be the same process as spring training. Each team will
be given two challenges with the ability to retain them
if successful. Only a pitcher, catcher, or hitter can ask
for a challenge, and it has to happen almost immediately
after the pitch. The player will tap his helmet, his
hat or hat or helmet, indicating the umpire that he

(01:36:46):
wants to challenge. Well, any help from the dugout or
the other players on the field is not allowed, and
so the pitcher does the same thing too. I'm assuming, Yeah,
pitcherre's gonna just tap his hat. Catcher does the same thing. Catcher,
same thing, player, same thing, and they can't talk to it. Coaches,
Is there anything about it? Well, here's they it's going
to be. It's gonna be subjective. Okay, Yeah, one umpire

(01:37:06):
is gonna allow what to happen. Those are the three
with the best view. I mean, we always, you know,
people in the stands and the dugouts they don't really know.
They're always shouting. And then the call was correct in theory,
it would take too long for the for the benches
to get a reaction and then go scream it. And
that's where your time because they have iPads and I
don't know, I don't know how real time the information

(01:37:27):
they have is. But yeah, so this totally makes sense
that that only those guys basically the people in the
line in the tunnel of the battery plus the batter
and the umpire can those are the ones that are
dealing with this. So that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
And then they also this is also in the story
from Jesse Rodgers of ESPN who broke this story.

Speaker 6 (01:37:45):
UH.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Major league officials say seventy two percent of fans pulled
during spring training said the game the experience was positive
with the challenge system, almost sixty nine percent said they'd
like it part of the game. Ten percent expressed negativity.
So you said, what was the set? What was the
thing about seventy two percent? Uh, seventy two percent of

(01:38:05):
fans pulled during spring training said that they they was
a positive impact on the game the ABS system. Okay,
so I'm guessing let's do this real quick's what what
do you think? The twenty eight percent said, well, it
says ten percent negative, So that means eighteen percent was indifferent,
probably meaning that there may be no opinion. There may
be a faction of fans and say I don't like
technology in my sport, the human element, or hey they

(01:38:28):
still got it wrong. I mean what could be that group? Traditionalists? Yeah,
that would that would be the anti technology. I like
the human element. Human element means bad calls. Here's what
human You know. Who is the number one contributor to
the angst towards umpiring is social media? I will obviously

(01:38:50):
because of the box on the TV. The box on
the TV. Plus if somebody if you're watching a game
between the Reds and the Pirates, huh you see a
catcher go outside the zone and bring it back in. Yes,
and the strike is calling. What you're doing is you're
then going to your TV, hitting your DVR, and you're
rewinding it and you're filming it and you're putting on
social media and then get passed on and passed on

(01:39:12):
and passed on. Maybe I think I figured it out.
That's why we have so much anks towards umpiring is
that if there was a bad call in the Royals
Rockies game in nineteen ninety six, we could have possibly
seen it but there was a greater chance we might
have not seen it. Yeah, back in the Yeah, that's true.
You see it all over the place. It gets it
gets spread. And then you have the box now too.

(01:39:35):
Remember back in the day, they would have the cam
from the top and you would just see if it
crossed the plate. That was the best technology we could
get to see how close it was to be in
a baller strike. That I mean, I don't I don't
mean to say that I just uncovered this, but I
just uncovered it. Yeah, because of the job man. Twenty
five years ago, not every game was televised. Well yeah, so,
and then you didn't you didn't have the satellite packages,
and you didn't have people going to film something and

(01:39:56):
then putting it on their socials r you have Facebook
to put it on. You had to put in your
read about it in the paper the next morning. Yeah. Now,
there were games of the week, There were obviously games
that are plenty lots of games that are televised. But
the box plus the immediacy of did you just see
what I just saw, as compared to seeing the next day,
Like if you were really upset about a call you
heard about, I gotta watch Sports Center. I gotta watch
my ten o'clock news. Don't do it anymore. You're gonna

(01:40:19):
be able to see exactly went went wrong, like, for instance,
if you went to if you fell asleep and you
missed Josh Haters giving up the salami yesterday. Yes, go
to your social media in one second, find the highlight,
Go to the Guardian's website, go to rather not anti
astrophan or anti Josh hand or for that matter of astrophan.
They put it on their their socials quick and you

(01:40:42):
got you and you really didn't miss the thing? Well,
I wish I would have missed it. Yeah, so does
Josh Hayter seven one three two one two five seven one.
Joseph Giorte from the Houston Ronics is going to join
us in one half hour. If you miss our Brian
Bogus even conversation with part of that for you at
one thirty, believe it or not, has already done. It's

(01:41:03):
what foods do I like and not like? I love
this one ross your day is done. All you to
who know is could tribute commentary in between those parts.
I'll see you later seven one three two one two
five seven. I Well, we're gonna have Joseph Torch. I
mentioned from the from the Big twelve Media Days, Gordy's

(01:41:26):
I love Gordy's. When Gordy's on Twitter and he's better,
it's just the best. So this guy named David Smoke
who is a uh he works for something called three
sixty five Sports. I don't know what that is. He
does some radio in the Austin in the Waco area.
Too big better guy. Yes, David Smoke. True story, when

(01:41:48):
we hired Dylan gwyn and we did a like the
Rock the Mic Open Competition or whatever, he was one
of the guys who sat in and did a show.
Oh really, I wasn't that's good Okay, I mean obviously
doing so he didn't hire him. But he's doing radio
row from Dallas and we've gone a couple of times.
But unfortunately, and it's just a real realization, I don't

(01:42:10):
think talking to Kansas State players or Arizona players moved
the needle. So we need to do things in Momennial
and the Astros move the needle for us. That's where
decision we may not to go. So David Smoke has
has a guest on right now. It's a big get
for him. It's Cody Campbell. Who is Cody Campbell, Matt
glad you asked. That's the guy that sold his energy company.

(01:42:32):
He's a huge Texas tech booster. He is a billionaire,
and he's the one that is putting all the money
towards all these Texas tech players, spending crazy amounts of money.
They got a lineman coming that their way that has
signed a three year deal worth five point one million dollars.
That's pretty good. Good for him. So Gordy, in his wisdom,

(01:42:57):
just retweeted David Smoke and said, I think all big
money and IL supporters should make the rounds on radio
row at media Day. Why yeah, I think he was joking.
Oh so basically he's saying, these guys that spend all
this money, all they're doing is just cash whipping schools.
And what is it like coming on and you know,

(01:43:19):
your school may be nice, and it may have good facilities,
and it may be a good place to get a
higher education, but these kids will never come to your school.
Un let's say you paid them your thoughts, I wouldn't
do it. I mean, I know, obviously coded this guy,
Cody's got a heal hilasious ego.

Speaker 3 (01:43:33):
He was.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
He's going to Dallas for a reason. He wants to
get on these radio He's trying to build the brand,
he's trying to let he's putting out the signals you
want to come to Texas Tech, We're gonna pay YEA. Now,
I don't know what Texas Tech's athletic budget is. Well,
probably not the same as others in HM Texas. I
mean they draw probably forty thousand a football game. They

(01:43:54):
sell at their conference game, they don't sell at their
non conference. Their basketball team does well, you're not getting
a lot of huge rights in terms of multimedia, but
you are dipping into the big twelve pool when you
get that money there. I mean, if not for this
Cody Cody Campbell, they they don't get to pay three

(01:44:17):
years and five point one million dollars. I guess the
same thing could be said for anything involved with a T.
Boom Pickens family at Oklahoma State, right, Tilan Fertita and
you have h Well, I mean Tillman didn't, hasn't. I
don't that I don't know. All I know is that
Tillman gave one hillatiously big check to get the Fertida
Center bill. But that's not uncommon. We've seen that happen
all the time. All these arenas are named after these

(01:44:40):
people's families and whatnot. And because they've made those large donations.
Whether Tillman's doing it or somebody else doing it that
I don't know. Yeah, Texas had Joe Jamail and everybody's
got who is the guy that was? He was owner,
he owned some teams. I can't remember. There was another.
My guess is Jerry Jones contributes quite a bit of
money to Arkansas. I mean you do when you are rich.

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The schools that you go to and claim a a
allegiance too, they come to you and you usually can
help him out. But this Cody Campbell is he's carrying
text attack on his back. I'm not saying that text
Tech doesn't have money, but this guy, Cody Campbell is
putting text attack in a new stratosphere here.

Speaker 5 (01:45:20):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
I've got no issue with it. Oh, I don't even
have an issue. I'm just saying that it's it's just
kind of a bizarre place for all of a sudden
this money to come through. Unless you have this one
guy like I don't know what the kid's name is.
It's getting this five point one million dollars. But like
Cody Camb'll looking at his twittercount, he's at he was
at Wimbledon, he is. I mean, all these little vacation spots.

(01:45:44):
He's going to the finals this week. He came back. Well,
he's not got a private jet. I mean, Djokovic, Sinner
and Alcarez are all still in it. He maybe he
maybe he's going back. Okay, dude, this guy, Cody Campbell's
on radio all the time, all those interviews are on
his Twitter count. A little bit of a gloryhound. That's fine,
or as I say in the England glory Hunters, no

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they said it that way. Thanks for that. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two. Now look, if I had five billion dollars,
maybe I or whatever he sold his company for, maybe
I would be kicking in a lot of cash. Yet
I probably would have I wouldn't you? Well, yeah, you
would only do it to get a building named after you.
That feels fair. Uh Rick in spring branch on seven

(01:46:31):
ninty Rick, Good afternoon to you. Good nuon guys.

Speaker 12 (01:46:35):
Sorry y'all do it good?

Speaker 1 (01:46:36):
Great?

Speaker 12 (01:46:38):
Well, I must say these astros have definitely surprised me
this year. They exceeded mexifications. I really thought this would
be a rebuild a year, to be honest, especially with
all these injuries in our masch units. That the tricks
pieced together is are incredible. Do you think we've gottenough
to win it all this year? Do we still need
a couple of trade trades?

Speaker 5 (01:46:59):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
And I'll thank you for the phone call, Rick. They're
not going to be the favorites going in. They may
not be favored to win a series. But what what
do you mean like a DS. Yeah, I made no guarantee,

(01:47:19):
no guarantee, but you start with Hunter Brown and from
ber vund Is. But let me put it this way,
and you get if you if you was Kansas City
favorite in every one of the games they were played in,
probably so, I think so. I don't know if the
Astras would have that kind of run. Baseball is different
than the other sports. Some teams the sometimes the better
team doesn't win, just like in football you get a
one off game, but in baseball it's you're done in

(01:47:43):
a week. You could run and you could run into
a team at slumps. You could. Yeah, they lost a
series earlier this year to the White Sox. Yeah, baseball's crazy.
You're also lining up your best pitchers in theory if
you're especially if you're not a while, they could be
on a wild card, I guess. But you're also having
to play the game differently because you're managing differently. You
are starting guys and letting them go shorter in games,

(01:48:06):
you're using starters as relievers, and games you're putting Josh
Haderen the seventh in name the game a Keyah, I mean,
I'm just so put it this way. You're not gonna
find the Astros on the top of the leader board.
Does a left handed batter all of a sudden change
that it depends on who it is. The only way
I think in my mind the Astros would be considered

(01:48:27):
a favorite is if they get Jordan Alvarez to come
back at some point before the end of the season
and he contributes and makes this lineup a little more
of a complete lineup. I love the Colton Gordon's been
able to do what he's been able to do. Who
also be in that rotation, a Ryan Gusto, a Brandon Walter. Yeah,

(01:48:49):
but none of those guys rotation. I don't think those
are the types of players that even Joe A. Spotty,
if you put him in a private room, said, this
guy's my four starter. I think I can go win
with this. In reality, if the Astros are going to
win a series, it needs to be good Hunter, good fromber,

(01:49:11):
decent enough Lance McCullers. And what are you getting from
Spencer Getty because he's been gone a long time? Yeah,
or Christian Javier and we'll see how he is. So
I think, Luis, I think they're in a great position.
I would. I mean, I don't know what the the
Vegas odds are right now, but the Tigers are good.
But after that, I'm going with the Astros. Blue Jays
are pretty good too, especially if you like what you said.

(01:49:33):
If jord Don Alvarez comes back, Jeremy Panya is going
to come back, jose L Twovey's swinging a hotter back,
Christian Walker was before going onto the paternity list, and
you have this starting pitching plus a bullpen. I'll tell
you this. I don't know if we were talking about,
you know, odds on favorites and all that. I ain't
scared of nobody. I'm not scared to Detroit because they
don't know what it's like to win. Aj Hinch does,

(01:49:55):
though aj de Hinch does the Yankees look like and
they beat you last year, by the way, Yeah, the
astras of are the Yankees' number for all those years,
and the Yankees have been very inconsistent this year despite
their very good record. Toronto, to me, they can swap
the ball, but enough pitching. Yeah, Tampa Bay, frankly, to me,

(01:50:16):
scares me more than anybody else in that group. I
mean the Tigers. I mean, so many of their hitters
are hitting above their head career wise. So let me
go this real quick. Let's go aheat glass helf glass effl.
They have just as much chance. There isn't to use

(01:50:37):
an NBA example, Oklahoma City was the favorite from the jump.
There isn't a clear American League favorite. I think the
Nation League favorite still belong to Los Angeles, despite the
fact they've dropped a bunch of games. I will say,
if they trade for a reliable bat slash second basement
or both, then I would put them as favorites. What's up,

(01:51:00):
I ain't scared. Okay, I'm not ready to do that yet. Okay,
I'm ready for your going to come back. And swing
and have a good month of September, and then I'll
be ready to do I need to see that too,
of course, I mean pending pending health of all of
their players that are supposed to be carrying all the
weight like your on overs. I have a sneaky, hostly

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(01:52:51):
here's my hot take. You ready for this? Hose Al
Twovey's research is the plate in the last two weeks
has come with some injuries of other players, and yesterday hedged,

(01:53:13):
but he's playing a lot of second base. Where have
we not seen him play much this year? In the
last month, or so left field. Yeah, okay, I think
I think there is a direct correlation to his proof
batting overplaying in a more comfort position than he is
in second base as he is left field.

Speaker 12 (01:53:32):
Fight me.

Speaker 1 (01:53:34):
I'm not gonna fight you. I mean, maybe you're right.
I mean the numbers are going to back you up.
But it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make it doesn't No,
But okay, you could you know, you could just simply
say it doesn't make sense. I get where you're going.
There is the correlation, but is there a causation that.

(01:53:54):
That's what we have to find. That's what we have
to dig and find here.

Speaker 10 (01:53:59):
Why.

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
It's not like he wasn't making a bunch of plays
in left field, wasn't overly active. No, but maybe activity
keeps him more vested in the game. I don't know.
I'm just throwing stuff against the wall up and some sticks.
I mean, I think I think the DH days of
health more than anything else, keeping his legs fresh, stuff

(01:54:20):
like that. But you could could there be a I
dread going to left field. I'm doing it for my team.
I understand what they're doing as compared to I'm going
back to second base. I got a little bit more
of a smile on my face. I know what I'm
doing out there. I haven't crushed the team in my
play at second base. I'm overall a little happier. I'm

(01:54:41):
always a happy, go lucky person, but I'm a little
happier now that I'm playing a position that I'm more familiar.
I don't think so. Everybody said he's a kid in
the Cannis story in left field, and he was loving
it and having a great time and learning it me
a bit, and it was revitalizing him to learn a
new position. Okay, if you're telling me no, then I'll
don't accept it. I'm saying you could be right. But

(01:55:02):
nobody knows but Josel Tuth and he's not gonna tell
I do have his defensive position hitting splits. Oh, now
you know what this show is gonna give you things
other shows just don't bother with. I feel a Wexer
give it to you. Uh as a DH, he is best. Now,
these are all small sampa sizes. Really, we're talking about
under one hundred and fifty eight b's with all these right,

(01:55:23):
ninety seven plate appearances, eight seventy eight ops. Is a
DH that really there's a direct correlation to that. I
believe as a second baseman he is second highest seven
eighty two ops as a left fielder, seven thirty nine ops.
Just food for thought, food for thought. But once Jordan

(01:55:47):
gets back, h once cheremy Paine gets back, and then
you can slide him on and whoever else to second base.
He'll be probably in when pain it. Youron's gonna take
a while anyways, so he can eight. This is good.
So I'm gonna give you one right now. Okay, we're
gonna play. Make this prediction. Oh, here we go when
the Astros play that five game division series because they're

(01:56:08):
gonna advance past the wild card. Okay, break down the
five defensive positions jose Al Twove plays in the series.
If it was to go a five game series.

Speaker 6 (01:56:19):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
I will say, who are they playing? Are they starting
in dyke In Park? Yes they are? Okay, first two
game season left Okay, I will put the number two.
I believe of a five game series he only plays
left field twice. Well, I will say three, okay, especially
if it goes five. Yeah, he'll play probably all three.
They they're definitely comfortable putting them at left in Dyke

(01:56:42):
It okay, not crazy, Kelly on seven ninety and twelve
fifty four. High Kelly, how are you today, sir? Well yourself?

Speaker 7 (01:56:52):
Good? Good good?

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:56:54):
I did have a comment relative to the Cody Campbell discussion. Sure, yeah, yeah,
I will preface it with I'm a Tech graduate, tech fan.
I know you guys are U of H in Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
And will be it well, hold on, Kelly before hold on,
hold on, hold up. My oldest son went to Texas Tech.
I love Lubbock and I'm very proud that he's a
Texas Tech graduate. Continue on.

Speaker 7 (01:57:15):
I do know that I know your son went to
the finals in Minneapolis.

Speaker 5 (01:57:19):
He did.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
Good for you, Thank you for that.

Speaker 7 (01:57:22):
And your daughter's gonna play, you know, volleyball.

Speaker 1 (01:57:24):
In Rhode Island. We're going there next week.

Speaker 7 (01:57:27):
Yes, okay, I'm not This is not my first time
to listen to you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
Oh you're the best, Kelly, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:57:34):
Reference to Cody Campbell a couple of things. He and
his partner both played football at Canyon High School, and
they formed a company called Double Eagle, which was the
mascot of their high school team. They were both on
Tech squad under Mike Leach. Cody Campbell was an All American,
won three Bowl games and went on to play at Indianapolis.

(01:57:57):
He is a big supporter of a lot of credibility.
After making a lot of money, he and his partners
still support Tech football and soccer and softball and soccer.
The picture of that Tech had this last year was
a product of the Mattador Club, which is a club
that they formed to raise money and take advantage of

(01:58:18):
the NIL and a portal, which I'm not a big
favor of either of those, but that's the environment we're
currently in. Cody is the currently the chairman of the
Board of Regents. He is also on the presidential committee
with our former Alabama coach to look at the NIL.
So he is a guy of great He's very credible,

(01:58:40):
and he's not a He's not just seeking publicity. Although
the field is now Cody Campbell Field, and he and
another current regent funded the South End zone expansion and
the athletic workout center for the football. So all that
being said, I'm just saying Cody is a guy, very credible,
not a can all the publicity, but has done a

(01:59:01):
lot for his alma mater.

Speaker 1 (01:59:03):
Not onlike you know, Kelly, you are you are ninety
percent accurate in the statement you made? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:59:09):
Nine.

Speaker 1 (01:59:10):
First of all, very successful, not seeking attention. He went
to Big twelve media days. That's not something but attention.
You know better than that.

Speaker 7 (01:59:18):
He's the chairman of the Border Regions.

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
Let me tell you. Border Regions do not go to
Big twelve football media days. I'm sorry, Kelly, they just don't. Okay, Okay,
So that's what I'm saying ninety percent. He made a
lot of money. He loves his school and he gives
a lot of money, just like every school in the
country has Auburn, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, everybody. And I'm
not blaming him. I'm in fact happy about it because

(01:59:41):
my son feels good about his athletic program. There's a
guy who's spending money. All I'm saying is it was
just very intriguing to me that the number one nil
guy said I'm gonna jump on my private plane. I'm
assuming he's got a private plane and he went to
Dallas to go talk to media people for a couple
of days. He is seeking attention, and that's okay. You're
allowed to do that. But I'm just telling you it
may have been go ahead.

Speaker 7 (02:00:03):
That may have been on his board membership on the
NIL which is a presidential committee looking at the NIL
trying to figure that out with coach Saban, they're on
that committee together. So maybe that's some of it and
not just you know, him seeking attention for Cody as
much as recognition for the tech and the program and
looking out for the NIL reevaluations.

Speaker 1 (02:00:24):
Let me tell let me tell you. I don't want
to put words in his mouth. He doesn't want any
regulation of NIL. I know he's he and Nick Saven
want to say they do, but they really don't. That
that that that is a smoke screen. Why why would
you want regulation for the reason Nick got out, Well,
I I I'm telling you you can pistol whip the

(02:00:45):
Big twelve. Excuse me, cash whip the Big twelve when
you're giving five million dollars to one player and there
is nobody else in the Big twelve that can do
that right now, at least I'm a football wise Would
you agree, I don't know exactly what.

Speaker 7 (02:01:00):
They're not.

Speaker 1 (02:01:01):
No, no, no, no, talk about then SCC. I'm talking
about the Big twelve, the Texas Tech Big twelve. Yeah,
you see what I'm saying, I mean that, why would
you want to then pick Kelly? Good phone call? And
I appreciate listening very much in all the nice words. Yeah,
I don't think this gentleman Cody wants any regulation. Why
would you? I know he and Nick Samon were talking
about it. But if there's regulation, he can't pay five

(02:01:25):
million dollars to one offensive lineman. Well, I think it's
I don't think it should be regulated. Who's determining these values?
What it is exactly? The market should determine the value. Yeah,
not some regulation committee. If he wants to burn a
million dollars on a softball pitcher, go ahead and do it. Now,
there's a certain segment of the population. It's gonna be like,

(02:01:46):
is this guy you know, watch this guy be a bust?
And that's the risk that Cody's going to take good.
That's what happened when the Aggies signed like eight five
the most five stars ever and transferred out. Yeah, they're
not over there. So yeah, look, I am well beyond
the point of us worrying about whether or not schools

(02:02:08):
should have people like that. Everybody, every school's got it.
Whether you're putting a name on it, you're putting your
name on a building or a stadium, or you're just
directly handing the cash. But when you run to the
Big twelve Media Days, you are you want somebody to
talk to you, And we'll talk to somebody that's at
the Big twelve Media Days next. Joseph Torte, Houston Chronicles,
Sports Talk seven ninety one five Sports Talk seven ninety

(02:02:30):
Let's spend ten quality minutes with our good friend Joseph Torte.
He is in Frisco, Texas at the Big twelve Media Days. Joseph,
we were just talking about the big money man from
Texas Tech making the radio rounds, talking about how he's
paying five million dollars for linemen. It must be a
good life. And then Lubbock, Texas these days.

Speaker 8 (02:02:49):
Oh what it is to be Cody Campbell these days. Yeah,
Tech is certainly you know, they went yesterday and they
were the talk was a lot of the revenue ship
and sort of what because they've done to kind of
I mean, they've been one of the stories of the offseason.
So yeah, that's it's one of the big things that
you know, I'm kind of monitoring because I'm on with

(02:03:09):
Drive Time Thomas Right now, we're about to go on
with prime time von here in about ten minutes, so
US that's the headliner, among other things. You have h
went first and Dion will catch this thing off the
end of the day.

Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
All right, have they made the announcements of who's going
to finish whom in the preseason pol?

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
Yet?

Speaker 1 (02:03:27):
Are they waiting for a couple of hours.

Speaker 8 (02:03:28):
They're not doing a preseason poll anymore. They basically ditched it.
They ditched it. They felt like it was as as
Commissioner Bredy or Mark put it, it was a disadvantage
to Arizona State last year they were finished sixteenth, dead
last and they ended up winning it. But he felt
like because of that sort of hurt them late in
the year with playoff seating and what the deprection was.

(02:03:50):
So they have completely ditch it. They'll do a basketball one,
they'll do other sports, but they are no longer doing
a preseason poll, and they'll do in the Big Ten.
Is the only conference is not to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:04:00):
All right, So where does Joseph d'Arte have on top
of the Big twelve pole this year? If you were
to do well?

Speaker 8 (02:04:04):
No, I like I like Kansas State Arizona State, and
then I think Tech and Baylor are going to be
my guys that are are my teams that are under
the radar, I think, uh, I think it's wide open.
But you know, Kansas Airs of the State return to
its quarterback and some really good skilled players. So you know,
I'm sort of the believer that if you're a defending champion,

(02:04:26):
you stay there until somebody knocks you off. So I
don't think there's a clear cut team that's just gonna
run away with us. But I think you could certainly
see some teams that are in the makes a bunch
of teams, and then if you're Houston, I think you
have a chance to bounce back from fourign aid and
Willie Fritz's first year and and be a Bowl team.
I getting to that six wins. I think that's a

(02:04:47):
realistic possibility for them this year.

Speaker 1 (02:04:49):
What's the buzz like for Colorado with their two All
Americans or two high prospects gone and b Yu losten
to quarterback because of the honor code violation, He's like,
I'm out of there.

Speaker 8 (02:05:00):
Yeah, first on b Yu that that's kind of an
ongoing situation. You know, they they didn't want to say
too much. Yes, so he's still on the roster. The
the I guess the the expectation is that he'll eventually transfer.
But you know there's a new rule in place. Uh
that right now is who's preventing him from doing that?
So it'll be interested if does he stay there and

(02:05:22):
do the lengthy suspension.

Speaker 7 (02:05:24):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (02:05:24):
But you know they they basically yesterday said that they're
moving forward having to get you know, some young guys
prepped and ready.

Speaker 1 (02:05:31):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (02:05:31):
And then basically the the other team you you mentioned
was was that Colorado with the with the without the
two stars. You know, they're they're the they're sort of
the unknown. You know, they come to Houston to begin
Bigwool play. It's a it's a Friday night h That
one could get interesting because you know, you knew what
you had last year with Colorado, you knew who the
the playmakers were with shadur at quarter quarterback and then

(02:05:53):
the two way player and Heisman winner Travis Hunter.

Speaker 1 (02:05:56):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (02:05:56):
That to get interesting uh in Houston, and I had
that being one of the games that that Houston wins
this year. So uh, there there's certainly going to be
some some things going on with the different teams and
a player here and there. If your by you could
mean the difference between another ten plus win season or
being sort of middle of the pack.

Speaker 1 (02:06:16):
How much conversation was for Willy about Connor Wegman taking
over the sending calling for the Cougars this year.

Speaker 8 (02:06:22):
A lot of it. You know, Connor's not with with
the group that came. Willy went with the veteran returners.
But you know, my conversation with Willy, we talked about,
you know, just the fact that it's this is a
chance for a fresh start, hit the reset bunner button
for for Wegman, and he really thinks that that's gonna
do a lot for him coming over from Texas A
and M. Now, a little interesting part of it was,

(02:06:44):
you know, Connor dealt with a shoulder injury while he
was at A and M. He still had some of
that when he got to Houston late in the in
the in the winter, and he you know, he went
through spring and they said he's he's good to going healthy,
So you know that that's a positive. But you know,
Will just sung his praise and said that, you know,
he called Jimbo Fisher and got kind of a little

(02:07:05):
report on you know, just the person that Waveman was.
He called an old fashioned throwback kind of quarterback, and
you know, if they can get anything out of him
in that position, you know, this is a team that
will be much, much improved on offense. And that was
the focal point they needed to start with the quarterback,
and they got it in the off seasons and everything

(02:07:26):
else sort of fell in place with the line. You know,
some receivers and a good running back.

Speaker 1 (02:07:31):
A couple more minutes here, Joseph Towarte from Frisco at
the Big twelve. Many days he's got to go talk
to Neon in a few minutes. Hey, Brett yor Mark
made a lot of statements yesterday, and he's obviously a
very out front, outgoing commissioner. He is big on this
five plus eleven format. How much of that is genuine
and how much of that is he's trying to poster

(02:07:53):
because he doesn't like the fact that his conference would
only get two guaranteed spots if the SEC and the
Big ten got four. Reach.

Speaker 8 (02:08:00):
Yeah, I think that's the ladder, and I think that
five plus eleven is the way that they eventually go.
And he mentioned that, you know, the ACC is also
on board, and I think at some point during the
SEC spring meetings a few weeks ago or months ago,
that that was kind of gaining a little bit of support.

(02:08:20):
So you know, yeah, I mean, everybody wants to make
sure that there's some type of equal footing on it.
And you know, some of the early ones that we
saw favored the SEC and the Big Ten, who are
considered the two top conferences. But yeah, he certainly thinks
that this is what will get past and that's certainly

(02:08:40):
as he put it, he was doubling down on that model.
And it looks like that is gonna be the way
they go. They need to decide by December first for
the twenty twenty six season. But yeah, he did a
lot of preemptive stuff yesterday to let it be known
and to reiterate where he stood and what he favored.

Speaker 1 (02:08:58):
Who ultimately decides and what if during the negotiation process
the Big twelve and the the SEC and the Big
Ten say, we don't care what you think. Acc we
don't care what you think. We think we deserve four
teams each. Why do the SEC and why do the
Big Ten want to play nice?

Speaker 8 (02:09:17):
Well, I mean, at the end of the yeah, those
two are the are the movers and say here as
the power brokers, But it comes down to the commissioners
and it comes down to the loaded names involved as well.
Now there's two sides of it. Now that the Playoff
Committee will will sort of get into the what new
metrics will they use? What will the criteria be when

(02:09:39):
they're evaluating who gets in. But from the standpoint of
the model itself, they've got to reach some type of
consensus or the agreement that's going to work for everyone.
And I think as we see this thing move forward,
and you know, does it states at sixteenth for long
or do they continue to try to put the uh

(02:10:01):
how much they expand you're gonna you're.

Speaker 1 (02:10:03):
Gonna have to have some some give or take.

Speaker 8 (02:10:05):
And while while those two conferences do drive a lot
of the discussion, UH, I wouldn't say that the Big
twelve and like the ACC won't have some type of
say when it comes down to the end, we'll let
you go.

Speaker 1 (02:10:17):
SA had a prime time forrest, tell me send our
best and look forward to seeing him in September at
TDECU Stadium. Thank you for the visit, friend, I'll do buddy,
Thank you, Joseph toward to Houston Chronicle joining us from
the Big twelve media days in Frisco, Texas. You know
we were talking about facilities. So the Cowboys play in Arlington, Yes,

(02:10:37):
and that's a majestic facility. Yes, their their practice facilities
are in Frisco. Mm hmm. That's far north to far
southwest metroplex. It's probably, I don't know, sixty miles away
from each other. Well, we'll see what the old Google says.

(02:11:01):
Forty two miles fifty two minutes. Oh, I thought it
was a lot further than that. That's not terrible. That's
that's us driving to work every day.

Speaker 12 (02:11:09):
Not me.

Speaker 1 (02:11:11):
You look at me like that, You suck. Nobody made
you move to Kingwood. Well, actually, way I stopped. You're
talking about so well, I'm sorry. Nobody outside your family
made you move to Kingwood. Yeah, come on, let's be
accurate here. Well, was they gonna throw somebody under the bus?

Speaker 5 (02:11:31):
Did you know?

Speaker 7 (02:11:31):
You did?

Speaker 12 (02:11:32):
All?

Speaker 3 (02:11:32):
Right?

Speaker 6 (02:11:33):
Not me?

Speaker 1 (02:11:34):
So if you want to chime in and that Joseph
had to say one fourteen. Their their facilities a Frisco
is He's got a fifteen thousand seat stadium on the
premises well, they were among their practice facilities. It's a
it's a taj mahall up there. I'm sure it's great.
And may they go seven to ten this year they
have high school games and stuff there. Nk oh, yeah yeah. Uh.
The NBA Group Cup has been announced, the NBA Cup groups, Yes,

(02:11:58):
Cup groups are Group Cup? You said Group Cut, Food
Cup Cup, Group Cup. The NBA Cup groups have been announced. Yes,
we'll tell you who is with the Rockets in their group.
And the biggest tournament of the year, the NBA Cup.
Let me tell you something to Vegas last year. Yeah,
you said you're gonna take me and you didn't. I'm

(02:12:20):
taking you to the Western or NBA finals of your choice.
They better make it. What if they're the four seed?
No case heson one. Can you take me to the Simmis?

Speaker 7 (02:12:29):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
What's the segment we do at eleven thirty on Wednesdays? Uh,
I just don't get it. Nope, that's Thursdays. Got Feelings, Nope,
that's Tuesdays. I go Non Florida Stories. Nope, that's Friday's
at one third. It's called shit shobumas.

Speaker 8 (02:12:41):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:12:45):
Congratulations to ageless Dallas Kichel signing a Monor League contract
with the Kansasy Royals, and he has moved around once
the ace of the Astros rotated. Shouldn't suc at twenty fifteen.
I mean, kudos for him for trying to hang on.
I guess he's bored.

Speaker 14 (02:13:06):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (02:13:08):
I mean, I wouldn't think he's like short on money, right,
I'm looking at his career earnings. Okay, Okay, he's bad.
He's thirty seven and hasn't been good. I mean a
couple of years. Oh well, I was gonna say more
than that. His career earnings. And by the way, Dallas,
good dude. By the way, great dude. Uh last played

(02:13:31):
for the Twins in twenty twenty three, and he made
seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Uh. Looks like he
threw four games from Milwaukee last year. I don't know
how much he made for that. But he has not
been good since he was thirty two years old. In
twenty twenty his oh let's play the okay, here we

(02:13:52):
go range game. I'm gonna give you it. Oh dang,
ninety six million dollars in earnings. Oh what what page
you on? I saw one hundred on reference spot track. Okay, tomato, potato,
I mean ninety six or one hundred million, he's doing Okay,
he should be doing. Okay, So let's let's put this

(02:14:12):
in perspective. Okay, if you have ninety six million dollars
in your well, you've obviously spent that, you've spent. Taxes,
don't forget. Taxes will knock out forty percent off the top.
So that's forty eight million. And then he's got to live,
and he's got to eat, and he's got to travel,
he's got to buy gas by lambos. Yeah. What do

(02:14:34):
you think if we were to go borrow his ATM
and pull out forty dollars? Okay, I don't think we
get over draft fees? It would say current balance left.
Oh okay, Well, I would hope that he's got a
majority of it tied up in investments and other adventures
in his checking account. Oh a couple hundred Gee's Like,

(02:14:58):
I know somebody that's got a checking account that does
what you just said, a lot of investments, a lot
of things that if we went to his ATM card,
it would say probably over two I think I would
say over two hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you should put
some more of that in some investments. I'd say, no,
this person has done that. Uh huh. He's just keeping that.
It's just funny money. Funny money. Mm hmm. I can't

(02:15:20):
think of a situation where I would randomly need two
hundred g's. But that's just me. You never know. You
want to buy a car in a sporadic moment, Yeah,
you want to go charter a trip to Florida for
a few days. That's what you do. At least put
it on the credit card, get some points. Can you
do that? You don't need points? And well, I guess
you could. Yeah, speaking of points less Alexander, former owner
of the Rockets, Yes, charged everything on a credit card

(02:15:40):
as he should and got points for everything.

Speaker 12 (02:15:42):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:15:43):
So when anybody from the Rockets needed to travel, instead
of calling a travel agency and saying, hey, I need
you to book this salesperson to go visit with some
clients in New York or the Rockets need a player
to come in, they would he would have they would
have unlimited miles, they would use miles for the trip.
Uh huh. Now, obviously you'd want to if you're bringing

(02:16:04):
in a player, you're gonna use a lot of points
to get the person into a first class seat. But
the regular employees were flying coach. So it's just I mean,
imagine having, you know, all of us carry points of
something most people, I should say, imagine having like thirty
nine million freaking flyer points. That'd be great. Go to
Europe whenever you want, literally literally you want anybody to

(02:16:28):
come in boom? Is that your dream meant? Unlimited points?
Unlimited points would be good. I got good points now
I know you do. And I don't even travel that
much commercially. I have a credit card. It's attached to
a credit to an airline, and that gave me a
lot of points. All right, So Dallas, kycle, good luck
to you. Ninety six million dollars career earnings. Hoping to

(02:16:48):
keep Hope alive by pitching for the Kandasy Royals. I
hope he doesn't need the cash. It's a minor league deal, right, yes,
thirty seven years old in the minor leagues. All those
those those twenty year olds who can't drink it, can't
wait for him to get down there. He's fine. Every
meal hit up to ninety two in the workout. He
was remember a fast toss from now he said, that's
what he was twenty four. You're throwing since he was

(02:17:11):
twenty five. That's crazy, all right. NBA real quick announcing
their group play teams for the Group Cup, Group Cup, right,
group cut, group group. It's the groups of the NBA Cup. Yeah,
they gotta change that. I'm butchering. I'm butchering. Okay, okay,

(02:17:35):
it's the it's called the NBA Cup. The championship is
the NBA Cup, and it starts with group play. All right,
So I don't know who's playing. Hoo. Do we know
who's playing? What games are homeward road?

Speaker 7 (02:17:47):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:17:47):
But I think you have to play each person once, right,
you play each of the you know, you play two
home games and two road games. Now there's this, see
if you can look at that upside. Oh my gosh,
that makes me sense. The teams that are in the
NBA Cup group for the Rockets, and it's just a
random draw. Yes from Potts, the Rockets will have that

(02:18:09):
is tiny writing the San Antonio Spurs. Oh, it's already
to have the Rockets already anounced it. Yeah, Houston will
visit San Antonio. Go ahead, we're going to San Antonio
and to Golden State home for Portland and home for
the Denver Nuggets. Four A, And for those of you
who don't, let's get our six groups. Each group has

(02:18:30):
a winner, and then you have a Western Conference three
group winners and then the best record. After that there's four.
You have an Eastern Conference three group of different pods
winner there, and then you have one wild card for
a total of four. Those eight teams play a knock
at round quarter finally a quarterfinal. Then the four teams
go to Vegas, which we did last year, the Simmis,
and then the finals. I didn't say for the finals,

(02:18:52):
m no. I believe Milwaukee went both times of the finals,
Lakers on the first one, right, and he won the
second one against Oklahoma City. Yeah, so you're saying there's
a chance. I think so. Is there any team you're
scared of in the NBA? With Kevin Durant and the boys?

Speaker 5 (02:19:11):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:19:12):
Can I make a small way too early prediction? I
think Golden State. It's kind of a very difficult here.
Kminga is gone. It sounds like, okay, Steph, they weren't
even playing him. Steph's old, Yeah, but he was old
last year and he's still taking es and uh Draymond's
getting older.

Speaker 2 (02:19:30):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (02:19:31):
Kevon Looney is gone. Okay? Who they who they getting framed?
Anybody worth their side? I don't know Jimmy Butler they
made They have Jimmy Butler, but they made some moves.
I don't want to give a hot take your ship.
I'm not ready to do it. Oh you're trying to
say no playoffs. I was trying to, but I can't
do it. All right, if you missed our convers I'm

(02:19:51):
not don't put me on that. I don't put me
out there. Write it down, all right. I would never
play some of your audio that you got wrong. But
if but if I'm going to say it and it's wrong,
then you have to call me out on it. And
that's fair. Uh. Brian Bogus seven a conversation with him
and straight Ahead one twenty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 7 (02:20:08):
With A.

Speaker 1 (02:20:10):
One thirty four Sports Talk seven ninety. I helpe Ross
that our audience listens every day, okay, all four hours
of ten o'clock until too. It's just simply not feasible. Matt. Well,
it's possible, you can. We can work a day shift,
and uh, make sure you're off by ten and you
can catch us on the podcast Spotify, Apple Podcasts and

(02:20:30):
of course for free on the iHeartRadio app. That's a
brilliant And then make us our preset when you're at
and about. Yes, first preset, first preset. Like I'll be
in Rhode Island next week with my daughter in her
volleyball camp doing the show with you. Okay, thank you,
But I'll be listening to the A Team and I'll
put it on the number one preset and then I'll
be asleep within fifteen minutes. Wow, it's sweet music to
listen to as you get into that late afternoon. An

(02:20:52):
I've got no comment on that. What I say, I
mean I could listen to music, but would listen eighteen
to fall asleep too. All right, so let's get to it.
The Brian Bogus have a conversations every Wednesday at eleven o'clock,
and we had a chance to ask him about something
that Hunter Brown alluded to. Was he tipping pitches? And
what's it like as a batter? Knowing that maybe somebody

(02:21:16):
was being a little more predictable on.

Speaker 5 (02:21:18):
The mound, Here's what I look at like it's always
on your radar, right, especially when you're throwing the ball
as well as Hunter has been. And then all of
a sudden, guys are on everything. But I think you know,
the first thing you have to look at is what
what are the pitches that they were hitting? You know,
where were those pitches located. That pitch that Jose Ramirez hit,
that was a change that that got yanked right down

(02:21:38):
the middle. The pitch that Rokio hit for the home run,
the nine hole hitter, it was a cutter that landed right.

Speaker 1 (02:21:44):
In the middle of the zone.

Speaker 5 (02:21:45):
So I think, you know, first and foremost, you got
to look at quality of pitch and that will tell
you a lot. Now, if you're just dotting up your
pitches and if you're throwing nasty sinkers that guys are
staying on, and if you know you're you know, bats
are beating to the top of the zone on well
located forcing fastballs that guys don't usually hit, then you
might look a little bit deeper and say, oh, man,

(02:22:06):
am I tipping something? Do they have something on me?
I think it's just one of those nights where you know,
there wasn't really a consistent amount of well located pitches,
especially with the off speed stuff, and you know, you
chuck it up more to that than I'm doing something
that's given it away.

Speaker 1 (02:22:22):
Staying with pitching for a second, what did you think
of Cain Smith intentionally balking to get Dubon off a
second base last night?

Speaker 6 (02:22:29):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:22:31):
Interesting, I understand the logic of it. If you think
somebody is able to pull something out of your glove,
then you know you don't want to risk that being relayed.
At the same time, I mean, he threw a wild
pitch the following inning. I don't know that I'd be
too you know, quick to put guys on third base
when I'm you know, spraying ninety eight and bouncing sliders

(02:22:53):
in there. But you know what, I would have to
imagine that's something that they discussed before or the series
and before the game, certainly of their certain guys that
we think might be able to pick stuff up, or
or maybe he thinks that people have been picking it
up on them in the past, so it's it's a
different strategy. But you know, you know, whatever makes the
pitcher feel comfortable, I guess, you know, And.

Speaker 1 (02:23:15):
On both of those things, the tipping and the kind
of picking trying to pick up grips. What exactly are
you looking for? What's some some examples you can think
of in your career that you saw. I mean, we've
seen people talking about the way the glove is held
or certain cadences, or if you could just give us
like specific examples and then also kind of explain the
looking for the grip thing as well.

Speaker 5 (02:23:35):
Right, So it used to be when you're at second base,
you used to be able to pick up signs and
see if you could decode the signs. That doesn't exist
anymore with the pitchcomp So really what you're doing is
is you're focusing on the glove and the set position
of the pitcher. And first first thing you're looking for
is do they do something different on say fastball versus
off speed. Is the glove turned a little bit differently?

(02:23:56):
Is it a higher set or a lower set, something
that you could pick up that maybe they hit can't see.
The other thing that you can look for is if
a pitcher's glove is open to you, right, they don't
have it closed tightly to their chest. You can sometimes
pick up the hand positioning on the ball and specifically
a change up where they'll throw three fingers on there,

(02:24:17):
or if a guy throws a split finger, or if
they have a distinct curveball grip where maybe they spike
their finger or something. You can pick those things up
in the glove as they set the grip, and if
you can get it early enough, you can then relay
that to the hitter. So, you know, a lot of
times you'll see pitchers as they come set, they'll be
turned around looking at the runner, seeing if the runners
peeking in. They'll be trying to really close their glove

(02:24:38):
off and keep it tight to the body. But there's
a lot of guys who are really good at peeking
in there, and they might not be every pitch that
they get, but there might be one particular pitch that
every once in a while will give away, and you know,
sometimes that's all it takes.

Speaker 1 (02:24:52):
Brian Bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
three hits yesterday for Cam Smith. We've been kind of
talking about his progression throughout the with you. So what
have you been seeing from him lately as he just
continues to get better and better.

Speaker 5 (02:25:06):
Well, A real understanding of what his strengths are, a
real understanding of what he needs to do to continue
to progress. We've talked about the adjustments that he's made,
but you know, one of the things that is the
most difficult thing to get better at is how quickly
you can adjust, how quickly on the fly you can

(02:25:29):
make adjustments to what either pitchers are trying to do
to you or what you did wrong the day before
and try to you know, take an O for four
and not turn.

Speaker 7 (02:25:36):
It into an OH for ten.

Speaker 5 (02:25:38):
And you know what he did yesterday was making an
adjustment day to day, which sometimes it takes hitters, you know,
a week to make an adjustment. He got pounded in
with sinkers in the first game against Cleveland, and a
lot of times a young hitter, you start to feel
that fastball in on your hands.

Speaker 1 (02:25:54):
What are you gonna do.

Speaker 5 (02:25:54):
You're gonna try to get quicker, You're gonna try.

Speaker 6 (02:25:56):
To get the head out.

Speaker 5 (02:25:56):
Okay, I need to pull that ball. You need to
get around on it. But he immediately went back to
what do I do well, and that's stay inside the baseball,
hit it the other way. His first at bat, he
got that fastball in, but he really kept his hands
in tight, got the barrel inside of it, shoots the
line drive to right field. Then he does the same
thing with the breaking ball, shoots it to right field,
and you know how quickly you can get back to

(02:26:19):
your baseline of what makes me good, minimizes the downs
of the ups and downs of the season, and you
know that's that's the key to hitting that that is
the key to being consistent over you know, a six
hundred plate appearance season is how often can I be
either good or great and not be in a slump?

Speaker 1 (02:26:39):
From your eyes to what you've seen the last couple
of days, And that's obviously the Guardian's putting up a
lot of runs. The lineup card has been an interesting
one to see the very least specially back half of it,
and a lot of it's because of fraternity, A lot
of it is because of Jake's ailments and pain. You still,
if I was to surmise for have you summarized the
last two games? Was it you know what, You're coming

(02:27:01):
off a huge series winning in Los Angeles natural letdown?
Is it that maybe the back third of the lineup
is kind of acting as advertised or is it a
case where maybe you've got some guys that are just
trying to crawl to the All Star break to get
some time off. What do you think it is? It
could be a combination things, or could all be none
of those things.

Speaker 5 (02:27:20):
Honestly, what I think it is is it it's baseball.
You know, one day you can be a world beater
and the next day a team on a ten game
losing streak can come in and beat you. And you know,
every team throughout the course of the season is going
to have to fight through some injuries. They're going to
have to, you know, dip into the depth of the organization.
And you know, fortunately the Astors have gotten themselves to

(02:27:43):
a spot to where they don't have to force the
issue and they don't have to try to rush guys back.
They can be cautious with Jake Myers, and you know,
if it's calf is feeling tight, give them a couple
of days. You know, the back half of the lineup,
they've actually got the production out of there. You know,
Taylor Tamael has had a couple of big games. You know,
not everybody's killing the ball down there, but that is
rarely the case. I think it's just, you know, it's

(02:28:06):
just the natural course of the season that things can
turn very quickly. And you know, you look at the
game yesterday, the Guardians put up ten runs on Hunter
Brown and Josh Hader. You know, if those two guys
are going to get beat, you know the Esters are
probably going to get beat. And that's just the way
it was yesterday, and you move on. I don't think
that you can really point to the lineup as being

(02:28:29):
an issue for any of these last couple of games.
It's just the way it is. And you know, sometimes
you take your lumps.

Speaker 7 (02:28:35):
And move on.

Speaker 1 (02:28:37):
Well, Bulgy, final game of the series and Texas comes in,
are could you be thinking? Should you be thinking? Look,
you know, Seattle's not going away. Cal Rawly is having
a great season, Mariners have good pitching. Never we're going
to be killing it with the bats. So can you
put away a team in late July if you were
to take two out of three or do you not
even think about it as you get ready for the
All Star break?

Speaker 5 (02:28:59):
No, it's too early to say, you know, putting a
team away, But you can put a lot of pressure
on them. You can force them to kind of play
out the rest of the season in a way that
a team doesn't want to, which is, you know, pedal
to the metal for the last essentially two and a
half three months of the season. That is a long
time to be full go. And the actuals were in

(02:29:21):
that situation last year where they got behind it and
you know, from basically mid May on and it takes
a lot out of a team and it's not easy
to do. So, so no, you can't put them away
and say, Okay, these guys are going to be out
of it, especially a team that has the quality of
pitching that they have where they can just rip off
a bunch of really good starts every day, but you
can really force them into a spot to where they're

(02:29:41):
having to go out there.

Speaker 1 (02:29:47):
Oh, go out there and you'll find out more. When
Brian Bogasvic talks today on Spaceity Network, how about that
well check it out of the podcast. We talked earlier
day about foods I like and what I don't like.
Believe it or not? Is what do I like? If
I like a food, you'll say believe it. If I
don't like it, you'll say not. Adam Klant would be
fifteen knots in a row. He doesn't like anything except

(02:30:09):
chicken fingers. Johannick Centner, congratulations picked up his eleventh win
at Wimbledon versus a top ten opponent and a major
nice his second Wimbledon. By the way, you're saying, Matt,
how'd you know that? Well, I'm reading off the screen.
He's onto the semifinals. Yeah, it needs a haircut. Why

(02:30:31):
look at the thing, it's all shaggy and stuff. I kept, well,
you do all right? Yeah, I'm sure he's fine. I
will be hosting the on Deck show tonight, you are, Yes,
I did yesterday and I'm doing Friday as well. My gosh,
I know, wow, incredible. John Silsbury nope, Dan yep, You yep, yep.

(02:30:54):
Wexert nope. Clanton nope. What's going on with this place?

Speaker 6 (02:31:00):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:31:01):
To each his own. I like doing post game shows,
and I also like putting in the time so that
I can do it in playoff, you know, so I
can be an option for us for play It's funny.
I don't go to the playoffs. I used to go. Well,
you're usually with the Rockets. Yeah, I can probably go
the first round. I mean me and you Rudy did one. No,
we didn't go to Roadie, but we did one together

(02:31:22):
I think last year, right, Nope. Are they here before? Nope, Yes,
for sure. We were on one of them last time.
I've been on the road for the Rock for the
Astros playofform. No, not on the road. I'm just talking
about doing a playoff post game. Oh that's that was fun. Yeah,
that's good. All right? Five minutes loth to go on
the show What Should We Do? Wait? Should play?

Speaker 8 (02:31:42):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:31:43):
Mary Kiss? Fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply
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Today's edition of Believe or Not is Do I like
this food?

Speaker 5 (02:31:56):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:31:56):
Some of these things we've talked about a lot. Some
of them we've never talked about at all. I will
read you a food. You'll tell me if I like it.
If I do, you'll say this, believe it? If I don't,
you'll say this. If you get three in a row, right,
you gotta get three? You want a prize? What are
you playing for today, Jonathan?

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Speaker 1 (02:32:26):
There you go. Ken on seven ninety, You're ready to
play Believe it or not? Believe it? Ken? Do I
like yogurt believe it or not not? That is correct?
Food number two?

Speaker 14 (02:32:38):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:32:38):
Ken? I like kim chi believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (02:32:44):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:32:45):
Yes, here we go. That was a tough one, Ken
for the win. I like shaking baked chicken, believe it
or not not. Oh, I love chicken baked chicken. I
made something and I'm like, I want to make more
of it. I love chicken bake.

Speaker 7 (02:33:05):
Chack it bake.

Speaker 1 (02:33:05):
They just called me back back in the day, my
younger days, shaking bake, Thomas, I said it was waking
Big Brandon on seven ninety Brandon, what was your favorite
part of today's tend the two radio show?

Speaker 5 (02:33:16):
Believe it or Not?

Speaker 1 (02:33:17):
Brandon? I like sour cream believe it or not not?
I do be sorry. Sour cream yes, mayonnaise yes. And
yogoga yoga yoga.

Speaker 12 (02:33:30):
No no no.

Speaker 1 (02:33:32):
Geo on seven ninety, You're ready to play Believe it
or not Believe it? Geo. I like guacamole. Believe it
or not not. Now you know that one. Number two.
I like sour krown, believe it or not.

Speaker 12 (02:33:47):
Ah, man, you're white.

Speaker 1 (02:33:48):
I believe that, believe it.

Speaker 12 (02:33:51):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (02:33:52):
I take a little offense of that.

Speaker 8 (02:33:56):
Food.

Speaker 1 (02:33:56):
Number three flow in. I like blue cheese, believe it
or I believe that you should. I love hucheese. Yeah, man,
I can't. You make no sense? That's fine. I don't
agree with clan's palate, but it makes sense that it's
all the gelatinous whatever he calls it. Gelatinous, that's what
he calls it. Sounds like a disease. You get it

(02:34:18):
or you got the gelatinos Edo restaurant. Let's go to
Roger on seven ninety. Roger, you're ready to play believe
it or not? Chuck you Roger. I like olives, believe
it or not. Hurry, you're right. I think it's disgusting. Uh, Roger.

(02:34:42):
I like cherries, believe it or not. That is also correct.
You don't what gross any like mass scherino or fresh
none of the of none of the bus food. Number
three for the wind. I like salmon, believe it or not.

Speaker 9 (02:35:04):
Believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:35:05):
No, I don't like salmon. I'm sorry you don't eat
cherry pie. No cherry soda, no nothing with cherry cherries
in a Manhattan No. No on cherries period. When you
get the cherry on a Sunday, I give it to
my kids because they like cheeries. I don't like them.
What about the like the fresh ones out of a bag? No, no, no,
no cherries at all. I put them in the freezer

(02:35:27):
and then just eat them like a frozen snack. George
on sevenati, you're ready to play, believe it or not.

Speaker 7 (02:35:32):
I'm ready, mister George.

Speaker 1 (02:35:34):
I like mushrooms, believe it or not.

Speaker 7 (02:35:37):
There's not much room in your plate for a mushroom.

Speaker 5 (02:35:41):
Not.

Speaker 1 (02:35:41):
I love mushrooms. I can eat mushrooms every day. You
are so weird. I want it tofin you mad. But
this is bad.

Speaker 7 (02:35:49):
That is bad.

Speaker 1 (02:35:50):
It's what I like. Al on sevenati, ol, you're ready
to play believe it or not? Yes, sir, I like oysters,
believe it or not. Not as correct food number two.
I like cucumbers, believe it or not. I do like cucumbers,

(02:36:11):
and they're fine. All right, we've got no time left.
Really quickly, Adam Clinton. I like enchilados, believe it or not.
Oh he doesn't you say not not that is correct.
We gotta kick you out of the state. I like cantalope, believe.

Speaker 12 (02:36:27):
It or not.

Speaker 1 (02:36:28):
You don't like any fresh cut fruit because you make
fun of it in the media. Dining before Rockets games.
You've disgusting human hashtag nobody likes these melons. Up next,
it's cutting and disgusting with Klayton here on Sports Talk
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