August 20, 2025 • 38 mins
Astros Lose Game 2 vs Tigers Still Managing To Stay #1 In AL West.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with ross A three minutes ago.
Astros offense ready to explode like you said it twice
his mouth, the baseball guy's ears, or maybe more important
of the Astro bats. Sports. Are the Astros even a
(00:25):
little luck? They need a little luck. They're getting some
because the Mariners sucked too right now? Thank god? Yeah,
they're getting a lot of luck. Mariner has lost four
to row. Yes, they got lucky to win that game
on Saturday. You know, I can't get enough Paul McCartney
Wings on this show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I can.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I've hit my film just now. Well, you're lucky. This
show's only now today only hear it to hear it once. Yeah,
I mean it's fine, Wing, Paul McCartney Wings not bad.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, we will we will save this for another day.
We have more pressing issues to get too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I just said they're not bad.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Could hear the cynicism in your voice and they're not
Tier one. Okay, Good morning, everybody, morning sports Rvey, Hey man,
how are you? How was the tenth inning show last night?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Want me to read you a tweet I got was
funny because people thought it was me doing it and
They're like, man, they're being mean to Ross, like people
are being mean to you, Sports Rvey. I didn't think
anybody was well, I mean, uh, I'm my intelligence was
questions several times. But that's every postgame, right, not every postgame,
but right. Yeah, tweet last night was the most feisty
I've heard sports RV on a tenth inning show. He
(01:38):
also said was the funniest postgame show ever. I felt
like I was going crazy. I took like ten people
in a row wanting Christian Walker to bunt.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I thought that was going to be coming. I
have a great friend of mine Mike today, and Mike,
if you're listening.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I love you. Dan we're out here naming names. Try Trice.
This is not a dry so. This is a full
on stitch and I love Mike.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We have been friends for about twenty five years, so
I can comfortably say this. He also did a lot
of college baseball with me and has also broadcast a
lot of games. And so Mike is also as a
coach of some amateur teams back in the day, and
he's he's a pretty big bunt guy, and so he
and I were having this very polite yet animated text
(02:27):
return about why Christian Walker didn't bunt, because then Yarnierdeas
would be would bring him home on a fly ball,
which unfortunately that didn't happen here because he grinded right
the shortstop in the tenth uh. And I said, you know,
Christian Walker Yarnierdeas probably have what ROSSI had combined three
sack bunts in their entire career with each.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Other, I would imagine somewhere around there, very very low range.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And he goes, well, if these guys can't bunt, they
shouldn't be in the major leagues. And so I was like,
you know, this is this is what unfortunately Mike is
going with. And that's fine, but that wasn't the reason
why they lost. Christian Walker is not a bunter, my
guess is a power hitting first baseman for his major
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win career has never been a bunter. I don't know
how many he's got, but I'm gonna guessay it's less
than ten, maybe even less than five. But that wasn't
the reason why the Astros got snake bit. A couple
of times one of Christian Walker's monumental blast would have
been out of twenty five or thirty ballparks, but not
the one that they were in last night, and yan
air Diez got called out when he should have been safe.
(03:31):
It looked I try to look at like ten different times,
sports Harvey. I kept looking at safe, safe, safe, every time.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They have to have some angle that we don't have
to have it confirmed.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, yep, so that angered me a little bit, but
the missed opportunities.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And look, Tark Schoople is just awesome. He and he's
a beast.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Paul Skeens are going to be the two best pitchers
in baseball probably for the next decade. They won't be
it with their respective teams, but whatever they happen to
go down the road, they'll.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Be their very best.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He was really good, Hunter Brown was really really good yesterday.
And why is Caleb Art throwing an off speed pitch
in a three two count with a base loaded Throw
the damn ball over the heart of the plate if
it gets hit, Okay, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But don't get cute. So cat and mouse game, Maddie.
They're expecting the fastball, no, and he's expecting to walk them.
Let's see. Yeah, I took calls, didn't want Caleb Ord
out there, even though his three straight right, he's coming up.
As you mentioned, the bunting thing, and everybody's like, hey man.
When I was in high school, my coach told me
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to send the ball the other way, yes, because you
probably weren't going to send it over the fence. Especially
when you're on the road. You need to try and
score as many runs as possible, and you're not gonna
give away outs necessarily with a guy like Christian Walker.
If you said Mauricio Dubon was up there, or Taylor
Tremmel or somebody, I'd be more on board. Yeah, but
Christian Walker doesn't bunt. And if it was that easy,
(04:59):
why does any poke single and to write, well, I
don't know. If he could do that on demand, he'd
be hitting eight hundred. Yeah. I'm not adverse to the bunt,
especially the extra innings. Yes, especially extra innings. Yeah. Not,
that's about the point this is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And look, I'm not a huge bunt fan, but I'm
certainly not a big bunt fan of the I'm not
I'm not an anti button in the tenth inning. It's
just wrong place, wrong time in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, that probably is the most I've ever yelled in
a single post game, except for maybe, I mean certain
playoff games when people were blaming everything on Dusty Baker.
But I mean, look, we're all animated right now. I mean,
there's just no other way around it. Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
The Astros have been shut up three straight times. Yeah,
this is their longest futility in forty years ever. Take Yeah,
I think it was eighty five ish. Yeah, I mean
that was I think Bob Lillis was the manager of
the five team if I know that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was like it was like the dead ball era
around there, and they were in the astro I don't
know how many of those games were in the Astrodome,
but probably a few of them where the balls where
baseballs went to die. Yeah. Yeah, and the ballpark was
was before they altered the dimensions too.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Look, everybody's I get it. That's not great. But again,
thank you Seattle. I should we send Softie something I don't.
I don't know. I feel we should be thinking Philly
and well, clearly Baltimore not as easy of a task
as as we thought. And thank you C. J. Stroud. Yeah,
(06:31):
you're right, and they have not one since he wore
their cap. I know, I am all for it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So if that is the case, we need, can someone
deliver a Baltimore Orioles cap to.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
See j Stroud because that's needed the next four days.
So look, I know everybody's frustrated. And I listened to Sean,
I listened to Dana's interview, and you know, again I
get it. We're all it's a tense time.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We've got an Astro fan base at seeing the team.
But remember the Tigers are a really good baseball team.
You're taking on a guy who's probably going to have
Rossie with the end of the day, a handful of
Cy Young's. I mean, the sky's a limit as long
as his arms stays healthy.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I mean, he's phenomenal, He's amazing, and he was last night.
And thank god the Astros as the exact same thing
match in Mono armano.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But you know, one of the things we talked about
was the Josh Hayter situation where I had complete confidence
and I still have will always have confidence in Brian
or bre You being a closer. Stuff being indirect negative
benefited Ben Detriman is that you're now pushing guys into
more higher leverage rolls. That frankly probably shouldn't be in
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high levege rolls. But you're also talking about a bullpen
that has been.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Used a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I mean, you've got starters with the exception of Jason
Alexander and now Hunter Brown last night. Not going deep
in game yen extra any game yesterday. You're gonna see Cayleboard,
You're gonna see Bennett Sussa. You're going to see who
else am I forgetting about? Oh, Brian, You're not gonna
you know, Sean Duban probably not much more. No, you
certainly aren't gonna see Taylor Scott anymore. But I mean
(08:08):
that's that's what's left. Stephen Okert, Stephen Okert, if you
will and I will.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh, by the way, Chris Gordy passing along an email, Yes, sir,
it was disappointing how rude Ross was on the show tonight.
He needs to chill out before I listened to him again. Okay,
so let's do some self evaluation. I didn't think I
was very rude at all. You were not rude, Okay.
I definitely, I mean, I definitely raised my vote. Okay,
(08:35):
I definitely pushed one guy. This one guy was like
these teams and these analytics, they need to stop. So
I went through the whole thing. I said, okay, there's
thirty teams. Let's assume at minimum twenty analytics guys. At minimum,
they're making one hundred thousand dollars, right, that's U. And
I added it all up and it was like six
million a year. I was like, so they're spending six
(08:56):
million dollars a year and you know more than them
and he said, yes, that might have been rude. I
guess he's the one that said he knows more than
every analytics department. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I thought, well, it's funny because yesterday I teased you
on on Twitter. I rang to delay an extra. It's
a perfect daily double for Sports RV. You or host
of the tenth name.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know what. I didn't see that for some reason. Well,
maybe because I'm muted or something. You're not muted, and
I follow you, so even when you the beauty of
muting people that you follow is that if they mention you, you
still see it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, so I did that. And then there's some guy
named pastor of Muppets. Uh said from the guy always
on vacation racking. The guy who works his ass off
all the time covering for his co host, such a
tool Matt.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, Howard Stern. Oh well, it's not mean that Howard
Stern's making like a hundred million a year. That wouldn't
be the worst thing. I mean, I was gonna take
the money. But Howard's having a ruffle run of things,
I think. But that's that's I just said. Thanks for
following and thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And by the way, in the world of life, just
to pass along, most people that do work full time
in jobs do get vacation time.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I get a certain number of days. Ross gets a
certain number of days.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And guess well, ladies and gentlemen, if you like mister
Muppets over there, Ross will be off Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday next week. So yes, what, folks, you're gonna get
some downtime for a quarter four You're not going to
be seeing a whole lot of Ross.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You hear that, folks?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Do I do I begrudge him?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Do?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Do I want to have? Do?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I wanted to have flight cancelations and maybe a lot
tiring his way to New Mexico?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
No, yeah, this is my first real vacation I've taken
two days off all year. One was for a funeral
and one was to move. Those don't count. We're a
vacation time baby, yeah, and mine are for my daughter
in my rocket schedule largely.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah. But when you do a volleyball, you're doing a
lot of time in the spa. Which spa orchids of Asia?
M that's in Jupiter? Right? How do you know that,
Matt research?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
All right, so let's let's let's get after it here
on the phones. We've only got forty five minutes. We
need you all get in right now. Seven one three
two two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninty Christian Walker can't bunt. I'm just
I'm just gonna leave that alone. And they're gonna get
mad because the baseball periods are gonna say, well, cuta boker,
(11:29):
camp bunny shouldn't be the make leagus.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Christian Walkers built to hit home runs and get base hits. Yeah,
you gotta do his job. Yeah, And they're like, you
gotta swing inside out and send the ball the other way.
It was a ninety six mile an hour, four seam fastball,
low and inside. I don't know how he's plopping that
these the kids would say, enter third, Oh man, you
(11:52):
gotta take more pitches. Yeah, he took the first two pitches.
They're both strikes. I mean it's hard. Baseball is hard, Matt.
That's what oil down to. And the Astros aren't very
good at right now now. And I want to be
clear too, I am covered. I'm kind of like in
defensive mode because I know people are going to attack
the Astros. That doesn't mean I'm on board with these
plate appearances. That doesn't mean I'm on board with them
(12:13):
scoring zero runs. That doesn't mean that I think they're
doing great right now. Like no, that they exactly mean exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Look, we're not we're not a communist team radio. I'm sorry,
we're not.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, somebody accused me of being in an Astros employee
last night, too.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, that's not true. I know what you're making. You
know my Astros money. I can tell you that for
that's sure, that's for damn sure. So the reality is this, Yes,
they suck right now. They suck like we are.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Look, I've been a fan in nineteen seventy nine. That's
never going to change.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I just have a more different I have a different
perspective of this because I have been talking about baseball
on the radio for thirty years. I've seen just about everything.
I know what dog days are, I know what utility is.
I know when guys quit. I know, oh when guys aren't.
They're not, They're you know this whole Joe's gotta go
in there and throw water coolers around.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
They aren't working in twenty twenty five, and Franklin probably
didn't work in nineteen seventy five either.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This what you did when you were in high school
because your coach through bats in the in the middle
of the of the locker room. Ain't gonna fly. These
guys know what's going on. They're wearing it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Do you really think they're oblivious to the fact they
know that they're in lineup right now? You don't think
that Joe Spotta would wouldn't love to come on this
radio show and talk about the fact he's got four
to five triple A players on his roster right now,
playing major time on his team, whether it's in a bullpenner,
in his starting lineup, just think about it. He's got
(13:44):
to defend his guys. Look, there are people here at
seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That suck. We have to defend them. No, man, everyone's
great seven one three two one two five seven doointies?
Oh no, I got another angry DM when we come back.
Oh all right, where are you gonna come back at? Three?
Two one two five seven? Untie, you are not the
animies here on seven ninty. We are your friends. We'd
(14:08):
love you. We just sometimes don't always agree with you.
That's all I'm saying. I don't know. I don't think
I got personal with anybody. Well, you know, I have
to I have to do a little lair check it out. Okay,
personal with me all the time. So if there's anybody
that would be a culprit in this being true, not
that personal. Most that's off air, that's true. All right.
(14:32):
So what did you get poor on the phone? Uh uh?
This is from our friend Chris where he's the one
I believe we banned because he said he said C J.
Stroud and Stefan Diggs we didn't have to worry about
their chemistry because they're both black. No way, he did.
Not you remember that we been Oh I don't. Yeah,
that was like last year. Hi Ross. Listeners like myself
(14:53):
are tired of hearing you tell us how stupid the fans, callers,
and et cetera are constantly belittling your audi is not
good for ratings. We got it. You and mad are
the smartest guys in sports. It's not good radio. I've
been a listener from the beginning. It's just hard to
listen to now when you're constantly bragging you're the smartest
guy in the room. Let me tell you about what
(15:18):
the two things I bragged about. One, I'm mister Texas Okay,
see that's all you're making me angry. I know you're
intentionally triggering me every time you say that, and it works,
and it works.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And number two, when Joe Mixon is not available for
the start of the season, I'll be mixed, mister Texans insiders.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Okay, short of that, I don't know every nobody predicted
he would be ready for week one. I don't think.
But anymore. No, No, there's plenty there. They're plenty of
fake media out there that we're doing that. Don't worry
about Joe Mixon. I know my sources. You know, ain't
got sources. Shut up? All right, all right, man, I
need you to be honest. Man, Uh, I am I
constantly bragging I'm the smartest guy in the room. Yes,
(15:57):
Oh god, very irritating. See I I'm tired of working
with it. Honestly, go on vacation by this is ridiculous.
Come back with a better, Come back with a lesson
flattered ego. Oh my lord, here here are the realities.
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We're going on to the phones in just second.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The offense is atrocious bad. I mean, there's just that.
There's just no other way to say it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
The bullpen is leaky because it's being overused except for
Chas McCormick. You miss You've missed Frankly yard on all
season long. But it's really staring at you right now. Uh.
He had he wrote a single yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, and he also was running the bases, which I
don't want him doing. You can walk to first base.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And did uh in double a walking? Yeah? Put a
governor on him like I mean, I mean, no more
than a stride. Uh got roughed up, Yeah he did.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You've got too many injuries, You get too many players
getting valuable. I mean, Jacob Meltin shouldn't be on this team.
Taylor Tremalo's who he is. Helped me out with some
other people. Cam Smith has struggled mightily, Logan van Way
and Yell Delo Santos, cam Smith. Cam Smith has been going.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Through it hard.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Hangs to Sanchez terrible, terrible streak and you know, Payna
Altuve Korea human human human Walker disappointing all season long,
generally speaking, Walker's been bad. Yeah, I mean, and you
know what, Gang, here's the best part. Here's the cathartic part.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Of the show.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Game in half leave baby exactly, and Charlie Morton's going
today who gives up a bunch.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Of home runs hopefully in that ballpark? We'll see.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's quite a poke. Ask Christia Walker about that. All right,
let's go to the phones and talk to the great
people of Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We love. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be around.
So why would we? Why would we?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That's this ridiculous, but I do. But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Ten percent of the people that listen to our show
call the ninety percent.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That will get mad.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
At us if we don't challenge the percentage of that
ten that call with bad takes.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's all we're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And again, just because you played a high school ball
doesn't make you an analytical genius.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Discussing the major league level doesn't make me analytical genius.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm just telling you I've I've watched this team intimately
for forty years.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Forty men. It makes me old.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I'm sorry, but i just know I've done a lot
of this. I've watched the intricacies. I've talked to players.
I'm a legit member of the media. I know these things.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So just trust me. When they suck like they suck
right now, We're going to tell you they suck right now.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But it is a marathon, and there's still a lot
of time left. And again, the best part of this
all and the part that you should be when you
before you, before you go to bed at night, when
you're thinking life, for family, your health. Tiffany Amber, feast,
and you should be thanking the Seattle Mariners for their futility.
Bless the Mariners. God blessed Tiffany Amber. All Right to
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the phones, Uh, Stunna on seven ninety high, Stunner, what's.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Up, Matthew Thomas and Ross? Hello, Well number one seattleum
thinking us because love they right behind them. They gonna
pull the days of thunder follow us follow us and
be at the final end, they're gonna jump around us,
(19:42):
so we don't need that. So Ross, while you out
there on the West coast.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Or wherever you're going West Texas.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
I thought you was going to Way.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I thought you was going.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Somewhere over in Seattle. My bad, But Amy, I wish
you could help us out and U enough thing for
I let Y'll go. Hey, Man, them that's been making
some regious calls. Man, them strikes been waited outside. You know, hey,
we already struggling and we get a strike three on them,
(20:16):
A kissed as waiting outside of the zone. Man, they've
been they've been killing us on that part.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
But that just adds our misery.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
But anyhow, I think you're taking a call all to day, Stunna.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Don't be a stranger. Thanks for the phone call. Appreciate you. Listen, Ross,
I think you should go to Seattle. You known take
two weeks off. I've been to Seattle. I love Seattle.
I want to go. I need you need to go back.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I have been to Seattle in years, m I mean
it's been too long. I've been to Porting more times
I can think, but not in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I went on a whale watching tour up there where
they guaranteed you to see Orca. If not, you get
a free voucher. So I need to go cash that
in because I didn't see Orka.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Let me tell you something. I saw Wales one time
with my wife was on our home in nineteen ninety seven.
Kim and I were in Hawaii and they said, oh,
here comes away and I'm like, I'm going to die.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
It is cool. I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
It's once I was done with it and not insalling
my pants.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I really enjoyed the experience. Yeah, we saw humpback Wales,
but no Orca. So no, I have to go back.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
All right, Roger and James hang and tight, We'll get
to you. The rest of you come on and say hello, no,
believe it or not. No, shut your bumb mass up.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well we could do that. People want to I guess
you want to tape your shut your bum mass up.
We'll let you do that if you'd like. Seven one
three two one two five seven eighty seven one three
two one two five seven. Auntie, it's ten thirty here
on Sports Talk seven ninety ten thirty five Sports Talk
seven ninety That d Ross with you to the top
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of the hour. Come on now, let's go at twenty
five minutes a visit with us, and we have Astros
on deck at eleven. Brian mctaggertall joined us at eleven fifteen.
Roger's with us on seven. Ainty Roger, good morning and
how are you?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, good morning missus and UK. Absolutely yeah. At some
point we're gonna have to go with a lot of chicken.
I mean, I'm saying, this is getting out of hand.
And you do follow the ASTROS map for forty years
and this has not happened in what thirty years?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Year?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
It's crazy, this is getting At some point this we
gotta go find that. You gotta get intacted, go find
that witch doctor that's got the backs with their hair
follicles and the and the blood shamples of these guys
and whatever they're doing. We gotta find out the mystery.
Because also you had a kailer from Alton Milton. Do
you not have anybody else that can? I mean, I'm
(22:42):
just saying, a professional swing, a professional approach, and uh,
what's what's the I can't believe I'm seeing this. What's
Meyer's status, what's chick Myers status? You need that guy
a sap as much as we need good on.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The last that it was announced on him thank you
for the phone call, was that he is going through
running swinging PROGRESSI mean progression, which means running and hitting.
And yeah, that's just.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
A very open ended statement kind of thing. I have
not heard of him going to double A or triple
A to play games. I mean that was a pretty
serious injury. I mean when he left the field, you
were I don't think anybody was like, oh this he'll
be back in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, when Dana Brown's had minimum three weeks, you had
to at least double it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I have a friend of mine, Ross, and I won't
mention his name. Okay, everything he tells me, I either
double what he tells me or I cut it in half. Huh, Like, uh,
I'll be there in fifteen minutes, he'll be there in
thirty thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Hey remember that time we went to go see uh
XYZ game. There was seventy five thousand people? Know there
were only thirty seven five hundred? Mmkay you I think
in their life has a double or cut the half
insides of.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I think so, yeah, we we know exaggerators you're an exaggerator. No,
I'm not. I all I do is print is discuss accuracies.
You know what what.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I'm putting my name on it. Astros win today. Thank
god I didn't stutter. I don't care. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm not even right now. I'm not even read something.
I want you to be right. I don't even I'm
not even when you put your name on something. I
want you to be wrong normally so I can call
you out on it. I don't care. Please win. I
also personally guarantee at the Astros score a run today. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
By the way, we both missed on our on our
gut feelings yesterday. I think I had the Astros getting
scoring three runs against Tarak scoopl by himself.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
M I said three one Astros. The Tigers got one,
so I had a half right. I also said seven
innings a one run ball for a hunter around. I
think six shutout is pretty close. Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You know what, I'll give give yourself a credit credit
credit on that. Yeah, those half credits you add up.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And absolutely like going to the community college in high school.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, eventually get that associate's degree. Let's go to Victor
at ten thirty nine on seven ninety High Victor.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Danni Brown, I hope you guys well me, I I
don't believe what he's telling us about Jordan's alor if
you know, this is the same guy they told us
last year that Kyle Tucker was going to come back
and be ready for the playoffs, and Tucker didn't show up.
So now he's telling us that Jordan will be back
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in a week or eight days or so. And you
have to remember that that that we're all expecting, expecting
him to come in and be a hero. And and
and I don't know if he can handle pressure. He's
he can't stay healthy, healthy, And what what makes us
think or what makes him think that he can handle
the pressure. He's he's averaging about sixty games a year.
(26:08):
That that he's off. Uh, And that's that's.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Not you're making up stats, sir. You're making up stats.
He doesn't average sixty games all the year lost.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That's not true, dude, Dude, do the numbers, guys, to
do the numbers. He's averaging about sixty days, I'm sorry,
six sixty games a.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Year, he said about your on And yeah, yes, he
played one and forty seven last year.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah, and uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No no no no no, no no no, you're not
an end uh no, what did rosses tell youss? Just say,
how many games did you play last year? Ross? One
forty seven, then one fourteen, then one thirty five, then
one forty four, So that would not be sixty games
per year? Lost?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Okay, Well, he's got a seven year career, he's played
eleven thirty four games.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, well, he started as a rookie, he played eighty
seven games, and twenty twenty he only played two games,
but that was also his sixty game season, so he
didn't miss one hundred and sixty games.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
And he's a you know, seven year career. He's played
eleven thirty four and he's he's only played six hundred
and fifty eight games.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Again, you're you're not factoring in the you're not in
factoring that he wasn't called up immediately as a rookie
and that there was only a sixty game season in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Well, we can agree on something that he's actually in prone.
I mean, what makes us think that he's going to
carry the ball up?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah, Matt, Matt's decided, Well, I do believe he is
injury prone. I won't argue that point with you, but
I will say that. And by the way, no one
should expect him to come in here and slug, you know,
have an oldps to twelve hundred, because he's been gone
for a long period of time.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It'd be nice. I'm just well, I'm just My point is,
I just need we need something we need. I'm gonna
take my chances with Jordan more so than Jacob Melton.
Kay right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
But just to be clear, he's not averaging sixty games
per season missed.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, I guess he went one sixty two for all
the years. And like I said, he was, yeah, it's fine.
It's not fine. No, it's not. But I want to
be pulling. We got to use some logic. He he
wasn't called up until the middle of the season in
twenty nineteen. Let's see, it looks like June and then yeah,
(28:35):
twenty twenty was a COVID season and he I mean
he was missing time with knee injuries for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yes, he remember here you said the creaky knees. Yes,
not creaky anymore. Dusty called him the creaky knees, and well,
the creaky. Yeah, the knees are good.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hands not so much now the hands super creaky. But Matt,
you can Victor on the same page you said he's
never gonna play No, no, no, non Victor like minded? Okay, yeah,
Victor might call you Vick. You and I are like minded,
vic Should you call him?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety We
have one more segment left to go.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Can you match Victor's intensity? I dare you, Houston, Texas.
You don't know, you don't. This is a piece of cakes.
This is a piece of cake show act. We need
to talk about sports for a living. This this is
a vacation No, I know, but you got people out
there hustling delivery drivers, we got people working on boats,
(29:31):
we got people on construction sites. And you're gonna do
great and forty eight weeks and weeks a year. I'm
here for them.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Me forty seven, well forty I'm not gonna take all
my vacation time this year. Seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Aftros On Deck is coming up in ten minutes. Brian
mctagger toll be with us in about to twenty five
from Detroit, seventy degrees at first pitch Ross Holy smokes. Hmm,
that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Detroit, no rain, no rain delayed yesterday. It was you
got lucky that I was looking for you.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Lucky.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's a rain to lay extrainings. Yeah, but I was
looking for like at least an hour. My god, shut jobo.
Man's up. Let's tomorrow you will be around. You should
tape something. I screamed the collars for an hour. I
know you did. And now I'm getting called arrogant, holier
than now. Well, they finally figured you out. They finally
figured you out.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Hmmm mmm terrible. Uh, okay, so we got myctago. I
was gonna take that's it. Okay, good, Yeah, I'm putting. Okay,
this is for you. Tab. There needs to be a moratorium.
I saw a tweet from Brian McTaggart and it said
dark skies and I got worried. But it's from sixteen
hours ago. Yeah, they don't timestamp those. Well, if it's
(30:58):
over like eight hours, it should not show up. I
agree with you. All right, Uh seven five seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We've got the Index show coming up in just a
few minutes. Let's right now talk to uh Maggie doug
on seven eighty What do you got today?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Hoty boys?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Man Ross, I normally don't agree with you, but I
won one hundred percent agree with you on your take yesterday.
We have got to settle down and just take this
week by week. And it's just been a bad week,
and the Mariners have not really had a good week either.
And I mean the fact that people just keep calling
in to to micromanage and talk about bunting and hitting
(31:38):
the other way and and sacrifice flies and all this crap.
It's like, man, get back to me and let me
know what the record is after after the end of
this week and after the end of next week, especially
with Jardan coming back, you got Jake Myers possibly coming
back soon. I just think that the ash those fans
are just way out of hand. I mean, think about
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the last couple of seasons that we've been through, Like
we weren't even in this position by mid August, you know,
in the last two seasons. So so the fact that
we're a game and a half ahead, think about it.
Even if we play Seattle next week and we're a
game and a half ahead, they have to sweep us
in order to get into the league. I mean the
(32:21):
way that that the lead works in Major League Baseball.
We have got to just basically keep stacking the series.
And that's exactly I know, that's what Dana Brown says,
and I hate to be a broker record, but that's
exactly what the Astros have done all season. Hell, we
were thinking that Dana Brown and Joe Spotter were going
to be executive and manager of the year, you know, respectively,
(32:44):
last week or two weeks ago. I mean, this team
had a huge shalot and they normally don't. We always
swoon in either August or September. And that's just the
way that this team has always been since fifteen. And
so Ross, I think you're right, man, and I think
the Astros fans just need to step back a little
bit from the edge and be like, look, guys, we're
in first place still. I know they're coming fast, but
(33:07):
we're still in first place.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Thank you, Aggie, Doug. I appreciate the apocalypse and Ross
agreeing on anything he said, I normally disagree with you. Thanks. Well,
that's look Sage. The funny thing is that I mean
calling getting called arrogant for defending the team. I think
it's arrogant to think you are so much smarter than
not you, Matt. You know what I'm saying, most so
(33:29):
much smarter than everybody else in baseball, and the coaches
and the manager Joe Spoda and the general manager Dana Brown.
That's the arrogant thing. That's the irony. We're all gonna
get along.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
When the Astros win three or four in Bolton, please
got and then you remember you got the Rockies and
the Angels coming in next week.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Hell no, guaranteed wins there, the kids will say time
to get fat and happy. Let's do it, James and
Klau before we get to astrosigda Hello James.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Yeah, in your opinion last night's game, when he substituted
pinch tip for all the outdore and changed the entire outdoit.
I know he's going on lefty, lefty, That's what his
decision was there, But it seemed like every guy he's
bringing in had at least a lesser chance of hitting
than the guy who's taken out.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
That was my opinion. What was your opinion on that?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think he was trying to find lightning in a bottle. Honestly,
to me, Ross, there there wasn't anybody that deserved any
more playing time than they did. I mean, look at
the few number of hits the Astros had. I mean
that part of the lineup had produced nothing. No, you don't, Oh, dang,
I wanted to talk to James?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Oh? Why be hang up? Yeah? It's fine, okay, yeah,
I I just what do you want?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You have a chance to talk to James? He listens
every day in front of the show. Go ahead. Do
we understand that they have matchup data against every single
pitcher and every repertoire uh in every situation that could
come out in the game. They have matchup debt on that.
Do we understand that? Yes? Okay? And do we understand
(35:10):
that Joe Aspata is likely using that data when he
makes these pinch hit decisions. Why is Michael Berry trying
to discuss the astros? Don't know? Man? And Joe Also,
by the way, he's trying to find a hot hand.
He's trying to find so fantastic when he goes to
to pinch hitters. Over the last couple of years, I
(35:31):
think people were just.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Wigging out of the possibility of the picture hitting. I
think people that just lost their mind over, Well, what
didn't happen. One of the reasons you do that is
because it's not likely to happen, and it didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Mike to wrap it up on the tent ending show,
are the excuse me the Matt Thomas show raw, So Mike,
I get my shows mixed up.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Hey, how you doing, guys? Just real quick? I know
you're I know you're running a close some time. I
just wanted to kind of comment on, Uh, the I mean,
the whole we're still in first place thing that everybody's
slinging to is is I guess it's obviously it's true,
but I mean that long term, that's not gonna that's
(36:10):
not gonna, you know, hold water. Uh, they keep playing
like this, they're not going to be in first place,
and anyway to say, hey, we're to hold on for
thirty five more games, They're not gonna do anything beyond that.
But obviously we're all hoping this changes.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
The Joe the fire Joe's spot of stuff is ridiculous.
Joe's spot is doing the best he can with what
he has.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Uh, that's just lazy and easy.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
That's fanatic talking. The thing that gets me is the
I mean, it's just everything's come to a hit at
one time.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
The pitching has failed.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
We can't get hits, we can't score runs.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It's just got a change.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
And the baseball gods are saying that it will obviously,
But I just something that else is going on with
this team. I understand we've got one hundred and forty
two injuries and that's that's definitely the main reason where
we're at where we're at. But I just don't know.
I don't know what the answer is. But the stuff
at the Joe has spot of stuff. It's ridiculous. One
(37:07):
thing I want to comment specifically on the game yesterday
was the way it turned out when or came in
and walked three people. I understand that one of them
was an intentional walk, but that last one, why why
are you nibbling? Okay, if you're gonna lose the game,
throw a strike that that just sent me over there.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Row and strike, yes, yeah, I mean, if you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Lose, lose, I mean, let your defense help you. But
that's all I got, guys.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, and again, look at we can also second guess
and say, well, why are you throwing all the heart
of the plate.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah, you're damned if you do, Dave. It's a three
two count. You shouldn't get to that position anyway with
the bases loaded. But yeah, kalib board is not a
front refined enough picture.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Heck you, that's where we start. It's kalb ward Sali board.
Not to be out there. Yeah, but he had been
good recently, so I mean, you gotta throw a strike.
He gotta throw. You gotta throw a strike at least
either he's got the benefit of a call a swing
and a miss a call, or put the ball in
playing defenders get him. You just can't do anything when
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you're throwing an off speed pitch in the dirt that
wasn't even close to the plate. Astros on deck is
next after Ross is here to take about center. Jen
Is the Matt Thomas Show with ross A three minutes ago.
Astros offense ready to explode like you said it twice
his mouth, the baseball guy's ears, or maybe more important
of the Astro bats. Sports. Are the Astros even a
(00:25):
little luck? They need a little luck. They're getting some
because the Mariners sucked too right now? Thank god? Yeah,
they're getting a lot of luck. Mariner has lost four
to row. Yes, they got lucky to win that game
on Saturday. You know, I can't get enough Paul McCartney
Wings on this show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I can.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I've hit my film just now. Well, you're lucky. This
show's only now today only hear it to hear it once. Yeah,
I mean it's fine, Wing, Paul McCartney Wings not bad.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, we will we will save this for another day.
We have more pressing issues to get too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I just said they're not bad.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Could hear the cynicism in your voice and they're not
Tier one. Okay, Good morning, everybody, morning sports Rvey, Hey man,
how are you? How was the tenth inning show last night?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Want me to read you a tweet I got was
funny because people thought it was me doing it and
They're like, man, they're being mean to Ross, like people
are being mean to you, Sports Rvey. I didn't think
anybody was well, I mean, uh, I'm my intelligence was
questions several times. But that's every postgame, right, not every postgame,
but right. Yeah, tweet last night was the most feisty
I've heard sports RV on a tenth inning show. He
(01:38):
also said was the funniest postgame show ever. I felt
like I was going crazy. I took like ten people
in a row wanting Christian Walker to bunt.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I thought that was going to be coming. I
have a great friend of mine Mike today, and Mike,
if you're listening.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I love you. Dan we're out here naming names. Try Trice.
This is not a dry so. This is a full
on stitch and I love Mike.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We have been friends for about twenty five years, so
I can comfortably say this. He also did a lot
of college baseball with me and has also broadcast a
lot of games. And so Mike is also as a
coach of some amateur teams back in the day, and
he's he's a pretty big bunt guy, and so he
and I were having this very polite yet animated text
(02:27):
return about why Christian Walker didn't bunt, because then Yarnierdeas
would be would bring him home on a fly ball,
which unfortunately that didn't happen here because he grinded right
the shortstop in the tenth uh. And I said, you know,
Christian Walker Yarnierdeas probably have what ROSSI had combined three
sack bunts in their entire career with each.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Other, I would imagine somewhere around there, very very low range.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And he goes, well, if these guys can't bunt, they
shouldn't be in the major leagues. And so I was like,
you know, this is this is what unfortunately Mike is
going with. And that's fine, but that wasn't the reason
why they lost. Christian Walker is not a bunter, my
guess is a power hitting first baseman for his major
(03:09):
win career has never been a bunter. I don't know
how many he's got, but I'm gonna guessay it's less
than ten, maybe even less than five. But that wasn't
the reason why the Astros got snake bit. A couple
of times one of Christian Walker's monumental blast would have
been out of twenty five or thirty ballparks, but not
the one that they were in last night, and yan
air Diez got called out when he should have been safe.
(03:31):
It looked I try to look at like ten different times,
sports Harvey. I kept looking at safe, safe, safe, every time.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They have to have some angle that we don't have
to have it confirmed.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, yep, so that angered me a little bit, but
the missed opportunities.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And look, Tark Schoople is just awesome. He and he's
a beast.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Paul Skeens are going to be the two best pitchers
in baseball probably for the next decade. They won't be
it with their respective teams, but whatever they happen to
go down the road, they'll.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Be their very best.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He was really good, Hunter Brown was really really good yesterday.
And why is Caleb Art throwing an off speed pitch
in a three two count with a base loaded Throw
the damn ball over the heart of the plate if
it gets hit, Okay, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But don't get cute. So cat and mouse game, Maddie.
They're expecting the fastball, no, and he's expecting to walk them.
Let's see. Yeah, I took calls, didn't want Caleb Ord
out there, even though his three straight right, he's coming up.
As you mentioned, the bunting thing, and everybody's like, hey man.
When I was in high school, my coach told me
(04:37):
to send the ball the other way, yes, because you
probably weren't going to send it over the fence. Especially
when you're on the road. You need to try and
score as many runs as possible, and you're not gonna
give away outs necessarily with a guy like Christian Walker.
If you said Mauricio Dubon was up there, or Taylor
Tremmel or somebody, I'd be more on board. Yeah, but
Christian Walker doesn't bunt. And if it was that easy,
(04:59):
why does any poke single and to write, well, I
don't know. If he could do that on demand, he'd
be hitting eight hundred. Yeah. I'm not adverse to the bunt,
especially the extra innings. Yes, especially extra innings. Yeah. Not,
that's about the point this is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And look, I'm not a huge bunt fan, but I'm
certainly not a big bunt fan of the I'm not
I'm not an anti button in the tenth inning. It's
just wrong place, wrong time in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, that probably is the most I've ever yelled in
a single post game, except for maybe, I mean certain
playoff games when people were blaming everything on Dusty Baker.
But I mean, look, we're all animated right now. I mean,
there's just no other way around it. Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
The Astros have been shut up three straight times. Yeah,
this is their longest futility in forty years ever. Take Yeah,
I think it was eighty five ish. Yeah, I mean
that was I think Bob Lillis was the manager of
the five team if I know that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was like it was like the dead ball era
around there, and they were in the astro I don't
know how many of those games were in the Astrodome,
but probably a few of them where the balls where
baseballs went to die. Yeah. Yeah, and the ballpark was
was before they altered the dimensions too.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Look, everybody's I get it. That's not great. But again,
thank you Seattle. I should we send Softie something I don't.
I don't know. I feel we should be thinking Philly
and well, clearly Baltimore not as easy of a task
as as we thought. And thank you C. J. Stroud. Yeah,
(06:31):
you're right, and they have not one since he wore
their cap. I know, I am all for it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So if that is the case, we need, can someone
deliver a Baltimore Orioles cap to.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
See j Stroud because that's needed the next four days.
So look, I know everybody's frustrated. And I listened to Sean,
I listened to Dana's interview, and you know, again I
get it. We're all it's a tense time.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We've got an Astro fan base at seeing the team.
But remember the Tigers are a really good baseball team.
You're taking on a guy who's probably going to have
Rossie with the end of the day, a handful of
Cy Young's. I mean, the sky's a limit as long
as his arms stays healthy.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I mean, he's phenomenal, He's amazing, and he was last night.
And thank god the Astros as the exact same thing
match in Mono armano.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But you know, one of the things we talked about
was the Josh Hayter situation where I had complete confidence
and I still have will always have confidence in Brian
or bre You being a closer. Stuff being indirect negative
benefited Ben Detriman is that you're now pushing guys into
more higher leverage rolls. That frankly probably shouldn't be in
(07:43):
high levege rolls. But you're also talking about a bullpen
that has been.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Used a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I mean, you've got starters with the exception of Jason
Alexander and now Hunter Brown last night. Not going deep
in game yen extra any game yesterday. You're gonna see Cayleboard,
You're gonna see Bennett Sussa. You're going to see who
else am I forgetting about? Oh, Brian, You're not gonna
you know, Sean Duban probably not much more. No, you
certainly aren't gonna see Taylor Scott anymore. But I mean
(08:08):
that's that's what's left. Stephen Okert, Stephen Okert, if you
will and I will.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh, by the way, Chris Gordy passing along an email, Yes, sir,
it was disappointing how rude Ross was on the show tonight.
He needs to chill out before I listened to him again. Okay,
so let's do some self evaluation. I didn't think I
was very rude at all. You were not rude, Okay.
I definitely, I mean, I definitely raised my vote. Okay,
(08:35):
I definitely pushed one guy. This one guy was like
these teams and these analytics, they need to stop. So
I went through the whole thing. I said, okay, there's
thirty teams. Let's assume at minimum twenty analytics guys. At minimum,
they're making one hundred thousand dollars, right, that's U. And
I added it all up and it was like six
million a year. I was like, so they're spending six
(08:56):
million dollars a year and you know more than them
and he said, yes, that might have been rude. I
guess he's the one that said he knows more than
every analytics department. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I thought, well, it's funny because yesterday I teased you
on on Twitter. I rang to delay an extra. It's
a perfect daily double for Sports RV. You or host
of the tenth name.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know what. I didn't see that for some reason. Well,
maybe because I'm muted or something. You're not muted, and
I follow you, so even when you the beauty of
muting people that you follow is that if they mention you, you
still see it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, so I did that. And then there's some guy
named pastor of Muppets. Uh said from the guy always
on vacation racking. The guy who works his ass off
all the time covering for his co host, such a
tool Matt.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, Howard Stern. Oh well, it's not mean that Howard
Stern's making like a hundred million a year. That wouldn't
be the worst thing. I mean, I was gonna take
the money. But Howard's having a ruffle run of things,
I think. But that's that's I just said. Thanks for
following and thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And by the way, in the world of life, just
to pass along, most people that do work full time
in jobs do get vacation time.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I get a certain number of days. Ross gets a
certain number of days.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And guess well, ladies and gentlemen, if you like mister
Muppets over there, Ross will be off Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday next week. So yes, what, folks, you're gonna get
some downtime for a quarter four You're not going to
be seeing a whole lot of Ross.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You hear that, folks?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Do I do I begrudge him?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Do?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Do I want to have? Do?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I wanted to have flight cancelations and maybe a lot
tiring his way to New Mexico?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
No, yeah, this is my first real vacation I've taken
two days off all year. One was for a funeral
and one was to move. Those don't count. We're a
vacation time baby, yeah, and mine are for my daughter
in my rocket schedule largely.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah. But when you do a volleyball, you're doing a
lot of time in the spa. Which spa orchids of Asia?
M that's in Jupiter? Right? How do you know that,
Matt research?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
All right, so let's let's let's get after it here
on the phones. We've only got forty five minutes. We
need you all get in right now. Seven one three
two two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninty Christian Walker can't bunt. I'm just
I'm just gonna leave that alone. And they're gonna get
mad because the baseball periods are gonna say, well, cuta boker,
(11:29):
camp bunny shouldn't be the make leagus.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Christian Walkers built to hit home runs and get base hits. Yeah,
you gotta do his job. Yeah, And they're like, you
gotta swing inside out and send the ball the other way.
It was a ninety six mile an hour, four seam fastball,
low and inside. I don't know how he's plopping that
these the kids would say, enter third, Oh man, you
(11:52):
gotta take more pitches. Yeah, he took the first two pitches.
They're both strikes. I mean it's hard. Baseball is hard, Matt.
That's what oil down to. And the Astros aren't very
good at right now now. And I want to be
clear too, I am covered. I'm kind of like in
defensive mode because I know people are going to attack
the Astros. That doesn't mean I'm on board with these
plate appearances. That doesn't mean I'm on board with them
(12:13):
scoring zero runs. That doesn't mean that I think they're
doing great right now. Like no, that they exactly mean exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Look, we're not we're not a communist team radio. I'm sorry,
we're not.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, somebody accused me of being in an Astros employee
last night, too.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, that's not true. I know what you're making. You
know my Astros money. I can tell you that for
that's sure, that's for damn sure. So the reality is this, Yes,
they suck right now. They suck like we are.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Look, I've been a fan in nineteen seventy nine. That's
never going to change.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I just have a more different I have a different
perspective of this because I have been talking about baseball
on the radio for thirty years. I've seen just about everything.
I know what dog days are, I know what utility is.
I know when guys quit. I know, oh when guys aren't.
They're not, They're you know this whole Joe's gotta go
in there and throw water coolers around.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
They aren't working in twenty twenty five, and Franklin probably
didn't work in nineteen seventy five either.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This what you did when you were in high school
because your coach through bats in the in the middle
of the of the locker room. Ain't gonna fly. These
guys know what's going on. They're wearing it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Do you really think they're oblivious to the fact they
know that they're in lineup right now? You don't think
that Joe Spotta would wouldn't love to come on this
radio show and talk about the fact he's got four
to five triple A players on his roster right now,
playing major time on his team, whether it's in a bullpenner,
in his starting lineup, just think about it. He's got
(13:44):
to defend his guys. Look, there are people here at
seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That suck. We have to defend them. No, man, everyone's
great seven one three two one two five seven doointies?
Oh no, I got another angry DM when we come back.
Oh all right, where are you gonna come back at? Three?
Two one two five seven? Untie, you are not the
animies here on seven ninty. We are your friends. We'd
(14:08):
love you. We just sometimes don't always agree with you.
That's all I'm saying. I don't know. I don't think
I got personal with anybody. Well, you know, I have
to I have to do a little lair check it out. Okay,
personal with me all the time. So if there's anybody
that would be a culprit in this being true, not
that personal. Most that's off air, that's true. All right.
(14:32):
So what did you get poor on the phone? Uh uh?
This is from our friend Chris where he's the one
I believe we banned because he said he said C J.
Stroud and Stefan Diggs we didn't have to worry about
their chemistry because they're both black. No way, he did.
Not you remember that we been Oh I don't. Yeah,
that was like last year. Hi Ross. Listeners like myself
(14:53):
are tired of hearing you tell us how stupid the fans, callers,
and et cetera are constantly belittling your audi is not
good for ratings. We got it. You and mad are
the smartest guys in sports. It's not good radio. I've
been a listener from the beginning. It's just hard to
listen to now when you're constantly bragging you're the smartest
guy in the room. Let me tell you about what
(15:18):
the two things I bragged about. One, I'm mister Texas Okay,
see that's all you're making me angry. I know you're
intentionally triggering me every time you say that, and it works,
and it works.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And number two, when Joe Mixon is not available for
the start of the season, I'll be mixed, mister Texans insiders.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Okay, short of that, I don't know every nobody predicted
he would be ready for week one. I don't think.
But anymore. No, No, there's plenty there. They're plenty of
fake media out there that we're doing that. Don't worry
about Joe Mixon. I know my sources. You know, ain't
got sources. Shut up? All right, all right, man, I
need you to be honest. Man, Uh, I am I
constantly bragging I'm the smartest guy in the room. Yes,
(15:57):
Oh god, very irritating. See I I'm tired of working
with it. Honestly, go on vacation by this is ridiculous.
Come back with a better, Come back with a lesson
flattered ego. Oh my lord, here here are the realities.
(16:18):
We're going on to the phones in just second.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The offense is atrocious bad. I mean, there's just that.
There's just no other way to say it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
The bullpen is leaky because it's being overused except for
Chas McCormick. You miss You've missed Frankly yard on all
season long. But it's really staring at you right now. Uh.
He had he wrote a single yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, and he also was running the bases, which I
don't want him doing. You can walk to first base.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And did uh in double a walking? Yeah? Put a
governor on him like I mean, I mean, no more
than a stride. Uh got roughed up, Yeah he did.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You've got too many injuries, You get too many players
getting valuable. I mean, Jacob Meltin shouldn't be on this team.
Taylor Tremalo's who he is. Helped me out with some
other people. Cam Smith has struggled mightily, Logan van Way
and Yell Delo Santos, cam Smith. Cam Smith has been going.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Through it hard.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Hangs to Sanchez terrible, terrible streak and you know, Payna
Altuve Korea human human human Walker disappointing all season long,
generally speaking, Walker's been bad. Yeah, I mean, and you
know what, Gang, here's the best part. Here's the cathartic part.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Of the show.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Game in half leave baby exactly, and Charlie Morton's going
today who gives up a bunch.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Of home runs hopefully in that ballpark? We'll see.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's quite a poke. Ask Christia Walker about that. All right,
let's go to the phones and talk to the great
people of Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We love. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be around.
So why would we? Why would we?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That's this ridiculous, but I do. But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Ten percent of the people that listen to our show
call the ninety percent.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That will get mad.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
At us if we don't challenge the percentage of that
ten that call with bad takes.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's all we're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And again, just because you played a high school ball
doesn't make you an analytical genius.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Discussing the major league level doesn't make me analytical genius.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm just telling you I've I've watched this team intimately
for forty years.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Forty men. It makes me old.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I'm sorry, but i just know I've done a lot
of this. I've watched the intricacies. I've talked to players.
I'm a legit member of the media. I know these things.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So just trust me. When they suck like they suck
right now, We're going to tell you they suck right now.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But it is a marathon, and there's still a lot
of time left. And again, the best part of this
all and the part that you should be when you
before you, before you go to bed at night, when
you're thinking life, for family, your health. Tiffany Amber, feast,
and you should be thanking the Seattle Mariners for their futility.
Bless the Mariners. God blessed Tiffany Amber. All Right to
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the phones, Uh, Stunna on seven ninety high, Stunner, what's.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Up, Matthew Thomas and Ross? Hello, Well number one seattleum
thinking us because love they right behind them. They gonna
pull the days of thunder follow us follow us and
be at the final end, they're gonna jump around us,
(19:42):
so we don't need that. So Ross, while you out
there on the West coast.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Or wherever you're going West Texas.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
I thought you was going to Way.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I thought you was going.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Somewhere over in Seattle. My bad, But Amy, I wish
you could help us out and U enough thing for
I let Y'll go. Hey, Man, them that's been making
some regious calls. Man, them strikes been waited outside. You know, hey,
we already struggling and we get a strike three on them,
(20:16):
A kissed as waiting outside of the zone. Man, they've
been they've been killing us on that part.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
But that just adds our misery.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
But anyhow, I think you're taking a call all to day, Stunna.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Don't be a stranger. Thanks for the phone call. Appreciate you. Listen, Ross,
I think you should go to Seattle. You known take
two weeks off. I've been to Seattle. I love Seattle.
I want to go. I need you need to go back.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I have been to Seattle in years, m I mean
it's been too long. I've been to Porting more times
I can think, but not in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I went on a whale watching tour up there where
they guaranteed you to see Orca. If not, you get
a free voucher. So I need to go cash that
in because I didn't see Orka.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Let me tell you something. I saw Wales one time
with my wife was on our home in nineteen ninety seven.
Kim and I were in Hawaii and they said, oh,
here comes away and I'm like, I'm going to die.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
It is cool. I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
It's once I was done with it and not insalling
my pants.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I really enjoyed the experience. Yeah, we saw humpback Wales,
but no Orca. So no, I have to go back.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
All right, Roger and James hang and tight, We'll get
to you. The rest of you come on and say hello, no,
believe it or not. No, shut your bumb mass up.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well we could do that. People want to I guess
you want to tape your shut your bum mass up.
We'll let you do that if you'd like. Seven one
three two one two five seven eighty seven one three
two one two five seven. Auntie, it's ten thirty here
on Sports Talk seven ninety ten thirty five Sports Talk
seven ninety That d Ross with you to the top
(21:44):
of the hour. Come on now, let's go at twenty
five minutes a visit with us, and we have Astros
on deck at eleven. Brian mctaggertall joined us at eleven fifteen.
Roger's with us on seven. Ainty Roger, good morning and
how are you?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, good morning missus and UK. Absolutely yeah. At some
point we're gonna have to go with a lot of chicken.
I mean, I'm saying, this is getting out of hand.
And you do follow the ASTROS map for forty years
and this has not happened in what thirty years?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Year?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
It's crazy, this is getting At some point this we
gotta go find that. You gotta get intacted, go find
that witch doctor that's got the backs with their hair
follicles and the and the blood shamples of these guys
and whatever they're doing. We gotta find out the mystery.
Because also you had a kailer from Alton Milton. Do
you not have anybody else that can? I mean, I'm
(22:42):
just saying, a professional swing, a professional approach, and uh,
what's what's the I can't believe I'm seeing this. What's
Meyer's status, what's chick Myers status? You need that guy
a sap as much as we need good on.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The last that it was announced on him thank you
for the phone call, was that he is going through
running swinging PROGRESSI mean progression, which means running and hitting.
And yeah, that's just.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
A very open ended statement kind of thing. I have
not heard of him going to double A or triple
A to play games. I mean that was a pretty
serious injury. I mean when he left the field, you
were I don't think anybody was like, oh this he'll
be back in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, when Dana Brown's had minimum three weeks, you had
to at least double it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I have a friend of mine, Ross, and I won't
mention his name. Okay, everything he tells me, I either
double what he tells me or I cut it in half. Huh, Like, uh,
I'll be there in fifteen minutes, he'll be there in
thirty thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Hey remember that time we went to go see uh
XYZ game. There was seventy five thousand people? Know there
were only thirty seven five hundred? Mmkay you I think
in their life has a double or cut the half
insides of.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I think so, yeah, we we know exaggerators you're an exaggerator. No,
I'm not. I all I do is print is discuss accuracies.
You know what what.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I'm putting my name on it. Astros win today. Thank
god I didn't stutter. I don't care. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm not even right now. I'm not even read something.
I want you to be right. I don't even I'm
not even when you put your name on something. I
want you to be wrong normally so I can call
you out on it. I don't care. Please win. I
also personally guarantee at the Astros score a run today. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
By the way, we both missed on our on our
gut feelings yesterday. I think I had the Astros getting
scoring three runs against Tarak scoopl by himself.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
M I said three one Astros. The Tigers got one,
so I had a half right. I also said seven
innings a one run ball for a hunter around. I
think six shutout is pretty close. Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You know what, I'll give give yourself a credit credit
credit on that. Yeah, those half credits you add up.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And absolutely like going to the community college in high school.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, eventually get that associate's degree. Let's go to Victor
at ten thirty nine on seven ninety High Victor.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Danni Brown, I hope you guys well me, I I
don't believe what he's telling us about Jordan's alor if
you know, this is the same guy they told us
last year that Kyle Tucker was going to come back
and be ready for the playoffs, and Tucker didn't show up.
So now he's telling us that Jordan will be back
(25:44):
in a week or eight days or so. And you
have to remember that that that we're all expecting, expecting
him to come in and be a hero. And and
and I don't know if he can handle pressure. He's
he can't stay healthy, healthy, And what what makes us
think or what makes him think that he can handle
the pressure. He's he's averaging about sixty games a year.
(26:08):
That that he's off. Uh, And that's that's.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Not you're making up stats, sir. You're making up stats.
He doesn't average sixty games all the year lost.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That's not true, dude, Dude, do the numbers, guys, to
do the numbers. He's averaging about sixty days, I'm sorry,
six sixty games a.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Year, he said about your on And yeah, yes, he
played one and forty seven last year.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah, and uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No no no no no, no no no, you're not
an end uh no, what did rosses tell youss? Just say,
how many games did you play last year? Ross? One
forty seven, then one fourteen, then one thirty five, then
one forty four, So that would not be sixty games
per year? Lost?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Okay, Well, he's got a seven year career, he's played
eleven thirty four games.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, well, he started as a rookie, he played eighty
seven games, and twenty twenty he only played two games,
but that was also his sixty game season, so he
didn't miss one hundred and sixty games.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
And he's a you know, seven year career. He's played
eleven thirty four and he's he's only played six hundred
and fifty eight games.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Again, you're you're not factoring in the you're not in
factoring that he wasn't called up immediately as a rookie
and that there was only a sixty game season in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Well, we can agree on something that he's actually in prone.
I mean, what makes us think that he's going to
carry the ball up?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah, Matt, Matt's decided, Well, I do believe he is
injury prone. I won't argue that point with you, but
I will say that. And by the way, no one
should expect him to come in here and slug, you know,
have an oldps to twelve hundred, because he's been gone
for a long period of time.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It'd be nice. I'm just well, I'm just My point is,
I just need we need something we need. I'm gonna
take my chances with Jordan more so than Jacob Melton.
Kay right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
But just to be clear, he's not averaging sixty games
per season missed.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, I guess he went one sixty two for all
the years. And like I said, he was, yeah, it's fine.
It's not fine. No, it's not. But I want to
be pulling. We got to use some logic. He he
wasn't called up until the middle of the season in
twenty nineteen. Let's see, it looks like June and then yeah,
(28:35):
twenty twenty was a COVID season and he I mean
he was missing time with knee injuries for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yes, he remember here you said the creaky knees. Yes,
not creaky anymore. Dusty called him the creaky knees, and well,
the creaky. Yeah, the knees are good.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hands not so much now the hands super creaky. But Matt,
you can Victor on the same page you said he's
never gonna play No, no, no, non Victor like minded? Okay, yeah,
Victor might call you Vick. You and I are like minded,
vic Should you call him?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety We
have one more segment left to go.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Can you match Victor's intensity? I dare you, Houston, Texas.
You don't know, you don't. This is a piece of cakes.
This is a piece of cake show act. We need
to talk about sports for a living. This this is
a vacation No, I know, but you got people out
there hustling delivery drivers, we got people working on boats,
(29:31):
we got people on construction sites. And you're gonna do
great and forty eight weeks and weeks a year. I'm
here for them.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Me forty seven, well forty I'm not gonna take all
my vacation time this year. Seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Aftros On Deck is coming up in ten minutes. Brian
mctagger toll be with us in about to twenty five
from Detroit, seventy degrees at first pitch Ross Holy smokes. Hmm,
that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Detroit, no rain, no rain delayed yesterday. It was you
got lucky that I was looking for you.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Lucky.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's a rain to lay extrainings. Yeah, but I was
looking for like at least an hour. My god, shut jobo.
Man's up. Let's tomorrow you will be around. You should
tape something. I screamed the collars for an hour. I
know you did. And now I'm getting called arrogant, holier
than now. Well, they finally figured you out. They finally
figured you out.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Hmmm mmm terrible. Uh, okay, so we got myctago. I
was gonna take that's it. Okay, good, Yeah, I'm putting. Okay,
this is for you. Tab. There needs to be a moratorium.
I saw a tweet from Brian McTaggart and it said
dark skies and I got worried. But it's from sixteen
hours ago. Yeah, they don't timestamp those. Well, if it's
(30:58):
over like eight hours, it should not show up. I
agree with you. All right, Uh seven five seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We've got the Index show coming up in just a
few minutes. Let's right now talk to uh Maggie doug
on seven eighty What do you got today?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Hoty boys?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Man Ross, I normally don't agree with you, but I
won one hundred percent agree with you on your take yesterday.
We have got to settle down and just take this
week by week. And it's just been a bad week,
and the Mariners have not really had a good week either.
And I mean the fact that people just keep calling
in to to micromanage and talk about bunting and hitting
(31:38):
the other way and and sacrifice flies and all this crap.
It's like, man, get back to me and let me
know what the record is after after the end of
this week and after the end of next week, especially
with Jardan coming back, you got Jake Myers possibly coming
back soon. I just think that the ash those fans
are just way out of hand. I mean, think about
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the last couple of seasons that we've been through, Like
we weren't even in this position by mid August, you know,
in the last two seasons. So so the fact that
we're a game and a half ahead, think about it.
Even if we play Seattle next week and we're a
game and a half ahead, they have to sweep us
in order to get into the league. I mean the
(32:21):
way that that the lead works in Major League Baseball.
We have got to just basically keep stacking the series.
And that's exactly I know, that's what Dana Brown says,
and I hate to be a broker record, but that's
exactly what the Astros have done all season. Hell, we
were thinking that Dana Brown and Joe Spotter were going
to be executive and manager of the year, you know, respectively,
(32:44):
last week or two weeks ago. I mean, this team
had a huge shalot and they normally don't. We always
swoon in either August or September. And that's just the
way that this team has always been since fifteen. And
so Ross, I think you're right, man, and I think
the Astros fans just need to step back a little
bit from the edge and be like, look, guys, we're
in first place still. I know they're coming fast, but
(33:07):
we're still in first place.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Thank you, Aggie, Doug. I appreciate the apocalypse and Ross
agreeing on anything he said, I normally disagree with you. Thanks. Well,
that's look Sage. The funny thing is that I mean
calling getting called arrogant for defending the team. I think
it's arrogant to think you are so much smarter than
not you, Matt. You know what I'm saying, most so
(33:29):
much smarter than everybody else in baseball, and the coaches
and the manager Joe Spoda and the general manager Dana Brown.
That's the arrogant thing. That's the irony. We're all gonna
get along.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
When the Astros win three or four in Bolton, please
got and then you remember you got the Rockies and
the Angels coming in next week.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Hell no, guaranteed wins there, the kids will say time
to get fat and happy. Let's do it, James and
Klau before we get to astrosigda Hello James.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Yeah, in your opinion last night's game, when he substituted
pinch tip for all the outdore and changed the entire outdoit.
I know he's going on lefty, lefty, That's what his
decision was there, But it seemed like every guy he's
bringing in had at least a lesser chance of hitting
than the guy who's taken out.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
That was my opinion. What was your opinion on that?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think he was trying to find lightning in a bottle. Honestly,
to me, Ross, there there wasn't anybody that deserved any
more playing time than they did. I mean, look at
the few number of hits the Astros had. I mean
that part of the lineup had produced nothing. No, you don't, Oh, dang,
I wanted to talk to James?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Oh? Why be hang up? Yeah? It's fine, okay, yeah,
I I just what do you want?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You have a chance to talk to James? He listens
every day in front of the show. Go ahead. Do
we understand that they have matchup data against every single
pitcher and every repertoire uh in every situation that could
come out in the game. They have matchup debt on that.
Do we understand that? Yes? Okay? And do we understand
(35:10):
that Joe Aspata is likely using that data when he
makes these pinch hit decisions. Why is Michael Berry trying
to discuss the astros? Don't know? Man? And Joe Also,
by the way, he's trying to find a hot hand.
He's trying to find so fantastic when he goes to
to pinch hitters. Over the last couple of years, I
(35:31):
think people were just.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Wigging out of the possibility of the picture hitting. I
think people that just lost their mind over, Well, what
didn't happen. One of the reasons you do that is
because it's not likely to happen, and it didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Mike to wrap it up on the tent ending show,
are the excuse me the Matt Thomas show raw, So Mike,
I get my shows mixed up.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Hey, how you doing, guys? Just real quick? I know
you're I know you're running a close some time. I
just wanted to kind of comment on, Uh, the I mean,
the whole we're still in first place thing that everybody's
slinging to is is I guess it's obviously it's true,
but I mean that long term, that's not gonna that's
(36:10):
not gonna, you know, hold water. Uh, they keep playing
like this, they're not going to be in first place,
and anyway to say, hey, we're to hold on for
thirty five more games, They're not gonna do anything beyond that.
But obviously we're all hoping this changes.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
The Joe the fire Joe's spot of stuff is ridiculous.
Joe's spot is doing the best he can with what
he has.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Uh, that's just lazy and easy.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
That's fanatic talking. The thing that gets me is the
I mean, it's just everything's come to a hit at
one time.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
The pitching has failed.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
We can't get hits, we can't score runs.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It's just got a change.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
And the baseball gods are saying that it will obviously,
But I just something that else is going on with
this team. I understand we've got one hundred and forty
two injuries and that's that's definitely the main reason where
we're at where we're at. But I just don't know.
I don't know what the answer is. But the stuff
at the Joe has spot of stuff. It's ridiculous. One
(37:07):
thing I want to comment specifically on the game yesterday
was the way it turned out when or came in
and walked three people. I understand that one of them
was an intentional walk, but that last one, why why
are you nibbling? Okay, if you're gonna lose the game,
throw a strike that that just sent me over there.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Row and strike, yes, yeah, I mean, if you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Lose, lose, I mean, let your defense help you. But
that's all I got, guys.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, and again, look at we can also second guess
and say, well, why are you throwing all the heart
of the plate.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah, you're damned if you do, Dave. It's a three
two count. You shouldn't get to that position anyway with
the bases loaded. But yeah, kalib board is not a
front refined enough picture.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Heck you, that's where we start. It's kalb ward Sali board.
Not to be out there. Yeah, but he had been
good recently, so I mean, you gotta throw a strike.
He gotta throw. You gotta throw a strike at least
either he's got the benefit of a call a swing
and a miss a call, or put the ball in
playing defenders get him. You just can't do anything when
(38:08):
you're throwing an off speed pitch in the dirt that
wasn't even close to the plate. Astros on deck is
next after Ross is here to take about center. Jen
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