Astros Lose The Series vs Orioles Still 1 Game Ahead Of Mariners In AL West, MLB Expansion/Realignment?

Astros Lose The Series vs Orioles Still 1 Game Ahead Of Mariners In AL West, MLB Expansion/Realignment?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh one
at Age Town.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good mooning and welcome to a Monday ed issue of
the bat top Is Show with Ross Sports Rvy. I'm
Matt's Jonathan Allen's our producer. You know, part of me
coming to the studio and driving in the hillacious traffic
at his Houston, Texas is being actual to see my producer,
Jonathan Ross's garletter this week, I'm working from home. I
don't even see you. I mean, seriously, if you do

(00:32):
what we're doing with this man, it's gonna saga with
these cameras. Don't even start. Oh no, he would start, Jonathan.
I'm in the king with studio Thursday Friday. IM just
getting little heads up on that. Okay, in the old days,
get Friday, No, because Eddie Noona is coming in Friday,
So I'm working from home Thursday. The wrestler Eddie Noona
is the athletic director of University of Houston. Oh okay,
even better, even better, I don't even You've been back

(00:55):
in studio for five seconds and he's already on Lauren Shottie.
We'll see now you don't even Okay. So for those
that don't know, we used to have like a seat
through window. Like if you think of Fraser and Roz, Yes,
you go to Fraser. How Roz would talk to Fraser
that they could see each other through the window of
the radio stations in his country.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, actually more heart runs, yeah, seventy.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
But now we're in separate rooms. So we have a
camera so we can see and it's actually more important
than you would think to see the expressions of Jonathan
to uh and to to tell him things and nonverbal communication.
It's actually important to see him. But our cameras have
been down for a few days. Okay, so I will
be here Thursday if they are working, if they're not

(01:37):
working and working from home on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Friday, I'll definitely be here because we'll got.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Any new news coming in. Okay, thank you, Matt. And
you're gonna be gone later this week. I will be gone, Yeah,
a few days out of town. Get on the get
on the road and experience like, yeah, I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be road tripping. By the way, let's open
the show with whatever I want to talk about. How
about a nice hat tip to see j Stroud? Oh, yes,
see where they're mad where's the Seattle Mariner cat? And

(02:02):
everyone's losing their mind over we are we gonna get
to that right over again. I think we said, because look,
do you want to break down the astros or else restaurant?

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Not really?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
You want to get in a deep dive on the
job mechi trade? Not really? Okay, So let me give
you let me give you my take on it, all right,
And I think it's level headed. I think honestly, I
know I'm usually just a sizzle. I know, I know
I'm the king of sizzle in this chest. I think
is level headed. So let me just take you through
how I saw it on Saturday when it happened. I'm like,

(02:34):
so I see him walking with a Seattle cap okay,
and I'm like, what are you doing? Mm hmm. It
wasn't like he hates Houston. He's pro Mariners. He's what.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I was just like, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (02:50):
That's but that?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
But I'm wid. You know what I did after I
saw that? Would you do?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I would cook breakfast?

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Good?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
You didn't fire off ten angry tweets about it? I
did that. So I put one tweet out of ice
in four hours of CJ stroud hat wearing talk on Monday.
Uh huh. Then there is a certain collection of Twitter
people who want to shame you and say it was
to honor Nipsey Hustle boom shacka Laka.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Know you know who he is. Mm hmm. And I'm like, okay,
angry person, enjoy your weekend. I'm gonna go watch Texans.
I'm gonna go watch my daughter play volleyball, Bata boom buttaming.
Then after the game, somebody asked CJ about it, and
he's like, I just like the hat and so the

(03:40):
Nipsy Hustle stuff was a non factor, which that person
was wrong. I didn't go after him because I'm not
I don't want to get into Twitter fights. I'm busy
watching below average volleyball. Okay, I mean, hey, come on,
there's a rough weekend for the old kid. Girls are trying,
They are trying, God love them. So to me, it
was this in a nutshell rossie.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I thought it was an improper read of the room
mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
But I got over it very quickly because I because
I don't think CJ would do it to just intentionally
piss off Houstonians. But for people to say, oh, you
shouldn't have taken nothing out of it therep We are
a city, Rossie, and you and I have you've lived
here in your entire life. I've lived here in ninety
percent of my life. I lived in Austoin for six years. Okay,
so you lived here in ninety four percent of your life.

(04:26):
We do are We're very proud of our city. And
that goes along with the sports teams. So when someone
who we think we love is representing the other side
of things, people tend to get a little upset about it.
And you know, but I'm okay with that. But upset
is a relative term. Do you have a picket fence?

(04:46):
And I mean, do you do you? Do you go out?
Do you go out the middle of the street and
with a pick a sign?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Do you say I hate you?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
CJ.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Stroud?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
No, you just go come on, CJ.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Hook.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Let's let's be pro Houston here a little bit.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
And don't pick if you if you had to pick
the I don't know Baltimore Oriole, no, that's a bad
example because they went down. If you had to have
picked the Sinnati Reds, no, I would have thought two.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Things about it.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
M if you had to picked that, I feel like
people steal it said something this is me, you pis
the team that has been on your ass for two months.
So I do believe there was a small section of
me that said, CJ, I love you, I've defended you.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
You need a better offensive line.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
But this was a mistake. But I moved on. Apparently
people did not move on, and it became this complete
social media blank circus that went along racial lines.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
It went about there's two different Americas.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I was like, good God, can we just say, CJ,
where any of it where a Milwaukee Brewers hat? For
the love of guy it we'd be okay with it. Yeah.
I just think in general, we all need to have
a little bit more critical thinking sometimes. And the people
who are very upset about I'm with you that like, Okay,
if your initial reaction was what the heck is he doing, Okay,

(05:59):
I move on with my day, Like that's fine. That's
literally what I never thought in a million years. It
was going to be a well, you don't know what
a nipsy hustle dude, this is what the kids in
the LA do. He never brought that up in the
post game all he did was bring up I like
the hat, but so I also could be that's just
because he didn't bring it up doesn't necessarily mean that
that wasn't what he was going for. But I don't

(06:20):
know and I don't care. Yeah, it my I didn't
hear about it, and I saw your tweet and I
was like, Oh, CJ. Stroud wore a Mariner's hat. That's weird.
And then I saw the video and my initial actual
reaction was, oh, that's an ugly one. I liked the
one with the teal brim like. My reaction was more
to the hat than to that he was wearing the hat.

(06:40):
I didn't really care. And then I saw people getting
so upset about it. So then, unfortunately, well not unfortunately,
I put out a tweet that you wrote, and I
knew that was coming. People got upset with me. It's dumb.
People think it's dumb, and I'm like, okay, whatever, I said, Yeah,
I think if you get all upset about it, you're dumb.

(07:02):
I didn't say you're dumb. I said it's dumb to
do that. Smart people can do dumb things. I do
dumb things all the time. Matt, you can speak for yourself.
But people can do dumb things, and it's dumb to
get all up in arms about a guy wearing a hat,
because if you take five seconds to think, you'd say, Okay,
ask yourself, why is he wearing that hat? Probably just

(07:23):
because he likes it, Probably just because he's hat guy.
We know hat guys in our lives. Trey Campbell, our
former producer's hat guy, Mo morge over at a different station,
he's hat guy. There's hat guys all over the place,
and they just wear a bunch of different hats because
they like hats. They like it. Again, I don't know
CJ at all. I don't think CJ was like, I

(07:45):
can't wait to wear this hat to piss off Houston.
Now I'll say this, jose L Tubay, come to the
ballpark next week wearing a Tennessee Titans cap. It's gonna
get the same reaction. Yeah, it just is what. He's wearing,
a Titan's cap. So that's mine.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
My reaction was, and this is hiss as I can be.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was CG, what are you doing? But it was like
I hate you? How dare you? It was don't do
it again. It was a non story overall to me,
and I think it's a good example if people need
to realize we're not all in the same bubble. I
will guarantee you, not guarantee you, but I will bet
you ninety nine point nine percent of the people who

(08:21):
were all up at arms about it are diehard Astros fans.
Because you're in your bubble and you're looking at this
Seattle Mariners race and you're looking at the American League West,
and it's a good it's a good teaching moment, Matt.
You know how you go to well, you talk to
like your wife's friends, husbands, and you start talking sports
and they don't know anything, and you're like, what what?
You don't know anything about the Texans and you don't know.

(08:43):
They're like, oh, who's on the Texans? Who do they
play this year? You're like and they say stupid stuff,
and you're like, how do you not know anything about sports?
There's people outside of our bubbles, correct, And c J.
Stroud is outside of following the AL West. If it
it said c J. Stroud, how many games back are
the Mariners of the Astros? He doesn't know? Could do
you think CJ.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Stroud knows who cal Raley is?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Probably not. Maybe because he's so famous, does he Does
he know dominant canzone? I don't think so. All right.
I think he's breaking down JP Crawford's short style defense.
All right, so let me we're gonna scoop passacs. We're
probably gonna come back to it again eventually. You don't
know more upset about. First of all, I so I
cleaned up my DVR on Sunday and I had old
match games on there from with horrible host Martin Short.

(09:27):
Oh he is bad and terrible. I don't know who
the healthy celebrities are, and I might even call them celebrities. Okay,
he's on the Mount Rushmore of cringe unfunny people. Evan
he is one of he is. He is the Bruce
Springsteen of comedy. I'm putting him up there, Pete Davidson,
and we'll figure out the rest of the listening.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
So there were two bonus there's two the super matches
the bonus game part okay, and there were two different testants,
each played for twenty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (09:53):
All right.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Contestant one in the first half of the game, the
bonus was.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Blank crew. See you are I see how long did
you think of an answer carnival boom boom, do you
get touch your answer? Boom boom, but don't boom but
don't bomb bomb. Okay, So what's your final leance? What
do you want to go? Tom Okay? The contestant said, gay.
The celebrity said tom Okay, that's pretty funny. Okay, that's

(10:26):
twenty five thousand dollars in a Holday, she'll never get
back and she's gonna think about them going what the
hell was I thinking?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, the second part of the game, the super match
here it is you ready.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yes, iced iced boom boom, bom bomb, but don't bow
bom bomb bump bum. You have an answer, see contestant
coffee coffee. I'm gonna be honest with you. The first
word that came to my head was coffee. But then
I was like, icedy is probably more popular. Celebrity said Tea. Hmm,

(10:55):
I think that's one too. Okay, cruise, that's great. I
was like, I know they're Jay cruises, but that the
first thing you thought of. Well, like I said, different
people were in different bubbles, Matt. So that's that's the
same way into what we were talking about, is that
sometimes we'd think really out of the box.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
CJ.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Stroud is not locked into the Al West Race, otherwise
he wouldn't have worn the hat, and we just got
to move on.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
So I just it was an interesting weekend of It
didn't hurt you, It didn't cause any harm. It wasn't
people like this is bad pr pr for what. He's
a football player wearing a hat. If someone wearing a
hat is ruining your Saturday, you need to re examine
your life. Yeah. I just my guess is that CJ
won't wear it again. Then he now he's like, hey, bro,

(11:40):
this is a guy, this is our main rival in town. Again.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
That was it. Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
The most important thing was the Texans got away not
hurting anybody. Their first team did, okay.

Speaker 9 (11:52):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (11:53):
And then c J.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Gardner Johnson couldn't jump on john Match's uniform number fast enough.
Which was that true? Oh yeah, you tweeted that bad
boy I met you traded the following tweets A j
Arnold Johnson eight ball? Oh good? Oh is there the
eight ball was? I thought he was picking up an
eight ball I don't know, flying over your head. Yeah, exactly.
The sheltered life. Yeah, that's not sheltered. Just I didn't

(12:16):
know what it meant. Shelter means, I mean, it's it's
a drug reference. Oh yoh, so you know what, I
don't know what. I don't know what an eight ball
is good and I'm glad I don't know the drug
references feel good? What a square? That's right? All right?

Speaker 10 (12:31):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
In tense fifty three man breakdown from Matt from all
of us.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh no, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Give us your thirty seven through forty six players.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Okay, Uh, astros were counting down generally speaking, sucked this weekend. Yes,
and we'll get to that. To tell the truth is
coming up today. Hitting coaches got to be better. Uh.
You know what, though, I have a feeling that it's
going to be changes. I just think that there's just
you think so yeah, most teams don't. We have had
very few right changes right now, in the middle of
the race, we had position changes. Now I'm saying, right now,

(13:01):
I'm times end the year that could happen. I mean,
what's the name Gary Pettis got the heave ho nineteen
won the division. So you know what I'm saying, Just okay,
that's the they're the wrong fall guys, but I'm just
just a little feel you're on an albarez maybe hmm,
massive realignment and expansion in Major League Baseball. Maybe what

(13:22):
the Big Ten Conference wants to have a ninety six
team in college football playoffs? Absurd? And uh, that's a lot.
And to tell the truth, plus believe it or not,
ten to fourteen Sports Talk seven, it's a full show.
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(13:47):
seven ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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went on Channel two last night. That shout out to
Randy McAvoy for the invite. Zooms my friend. By the way,
it's a long ass drive to saw Was Freeway. Yeah,
it's just too far. I didn't catch it, but congratulations,
that's cool.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
How was it?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
It was fine? I was asleep. I dvrsleep.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh to win it was on? Yeah, yeah, we taped
it ahead of time.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
So and you know, had you you didn't have any
boogies in your nose or anything. I don't think I did.
That's good.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
I mean mcavore certainly didn't say anything, but he probably
would be like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
It'd have been Rude's what's embarrassment on a major market gradulation? Sam,
He was inducted into some kind of hall of fame,
right Texas? Uh, like a high school hall of Fame thing. Yeah,
you for covering high school sports. That's cool. I'm not
I've been in the Main Creek Hall of Fame waiting
for your tegulations Texas Radio Hall of Fame, just waiting
for you. My gosh, I guess I got it enrolled
and I have not heard back from him in high

(14:41):
school yet. You should be up there, I mean, seriously
to you. Brittany Grinder, Aaron Glenn and who else Jason
Glenn Andreson Glen, Dante Hall. Oh you don't have to
wait a walle Yeah, it might be a minute.

Speaker 10 (14:52):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know, they don't do it like the Astra Zuelans
bringing like nine people in the first year. It'd be
like at the Terry Pool class. And when Junction Jack's
going in next year, that's gonna be a real tough
one to kind of. Billy Wagner made it finally got
his number retired. He gets ten more of Hall of
Fame votes, so now his number deserves to be retired. Look, Billy,
I told you before, Billy Wagoner's one of my favorite

(15:14):
all time Astros because he was first, was really good
at his job, secondary shooter. He was when something wasn't right,
he told you, and he didn't want to mince words. Yes,
he would not work well with the medical staff of
the Astros.

Speaker 11 (15:27):
Uh, but it.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
With him playing for so many different teams post Astros,
it kind of took some of the of the luster
off of him being in the Hall of Fame because
Phillies Mets, Red Sox and Braves. Yeah, he would and
he was all he was good to the very last moment. Yeah,
sixteen years, nine of them with the Astros. So remember
our guy that called it a day and wanted Billy
Wagner to come pitch, and then I played a SoundBite

(15:53):
of him of him calling sorry. I'm still recovering from that.
He sent me a very mean email. He says that
mean it wasn't play. You forwarded it to me. I
did forward it to you. He wasn't play. It's not
like he called you a jackass, but I thought my
response was really good. I forgot what it was. So
he basically said, how why would you make fun of
me for saying something like that. Yeah, He's like, I

(16:14):
used to respect you, Matt. You used to show respect
to your callers, and I can't believe that you would
treat me this way. Yeahs are you hearing yourself? So
then I respond, I said, it's funny, you know, I said,
to be fair, you also basically said that Joe A.
Spott was a major like, wasn't a major league manager?
I said, how how would Joe A. Spot I feel
if you heard you call the show basically saying he's
maybe a nice coach, but he treats games like spring

(16:36):
training games in the church. And then I said, if
you called a show and asked for a pitcher to
come back, you've been retired for fourteen years, literally just
got inducted into the Hall of Fame. Yeah, I said,
if I say something like that, you must call me
out on that.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Rose.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't even I don't even know what's the most
preposterous thing I've ever said to you in the history
of you and I working ago? Is there something coming
to with the list. I don't know. I don't think there.
I mean, we've all said goofy stuff to each other,
but is there something that you're like you are you
are smoking something? Terrible players shouldn't be played those back
in the day. Well, uh yeah, I mean yeah, I

(17:22):
was firmly and then then I realized what hypocrisy was
at the college level. But that wasn't the word. I mean,
there was a lot of people that shared my sentiment
on that. I still know the NAAL is a hot mess,
but that's it's it's way out of my out of
my scope of knowledge at this point. By the way,
Eddie Nuoney has I thought a director of the University
Houston is going to come in and spend an hour
with me on Friday, and you guys are getting to
talk an IL for an hour.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well we're gonna I'm gonna say, I need the dum
Was it the dummies Book?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Is that what they call it? The Basic Course for
Dummy and IL for dummies? And I for I need
an IOL for dummies because I'm confused by it. I
think everyone's confused about it. Does anyone get an IL?

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, I think this, I mean, and it's most basic,
How did any of them come up with fifty one
million dollars to pay athletes this year when that they
didn't pay that five years ago that was fifty one
million dollars. It just all of a sudden showed up.
I don't know. Well, yeah, four or five years ago
they had that big pop where they got eight five
star rescruits. Yeah, and they're all gone within like a year. Yeah, yeah,
it doesn't work. Then donations went down for a little bit. Okay,

(18:17):
So back to the Astros here and we would get
to some asters conversation. Okay, I felt terrible because I
am proud of the fact the Astros have a game
and a half lead. I am proud of the fact
that I think I did a pretty good jobing spot.
I said, with all the different injuries and the lineups
and guys not performing up to expectations, this team realistically,
and I feel like we're a broken record on this

(18:38):
should be about ten to fifteen games under five hundred
where they are and even with as good as Seattle
generally speaking has play now they've had a tough week.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
They didn't lose two or three to.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
The Mets, two or three to the Oriels, and two
or three of the Oriols, even as bad as the
Astros played, and they've been playing really at about a
a little bit under five hundred level for about a
month six weeks now, and give her take, they in
the game, the lead one point was seven games. I
get that. It's still a game and a half lead here. Now,
we do have about seven weeks left to go in

(19:12):
the season. They could be the two seed after they
win this series against the Tigers. There the two seedy.
I'm gonna say, it's not a question of dessuring it,
but it's it's almost hard to fathom. Now, it's not
hard for them, it's impossible to fathom. It's impossible to
fathom that this team that has had down years from

(19:32):
Christian Walker, that has seen a complex a steady diet
of Taylor Trommel and Jacob Melton and who else give
me some other randos Cooper Hummel, Cooper Hummel, Shay Whitcomb,
Zach Short. Yeah, seriously, the second basement that got hurt

(19:54):
and gotten hitting. What is this lineup? What is the
this team? We are gonna go back? We're this is
gonna be one of those scenarios where we're gonna go
back to this team in two or three years even
and be like, oh my god, you're gonna go through
the list of names, because you can do that with
like twenty nineteen Ashros and you're like Cameron maybe, oh yeah,

(20:15):
I forgot about him or what whoever? Else? Tank Hungers, Yeah, exactly,
like I barely remember. And there's sometimes you're like, I
don't even remember that guy. We're gonna have like five
I don't even remember that guys in two thousand and
what I mean twenty five in twenty twenty. Believe it
or not, this guy was a part of the twenty
twenty five exactly exactly in Yell Delo Santo's logan Van why,

(20:37):
like Jordan Weems, remember, I already forgot this Ruffael Montero
pitch games for the Astros at the major league level.
I already forgot, uh, the pitcher that got into Miami.
I've already forgot the five letter name, right, Yan Gusto. Yeah,

(20:57):
I've already forgot Ryan Gusto's name. Exactly. They are taping
it together and people are living in and some people
live it every single day. For whatever reason, they don't
treat baseball it should be week to week and month
to month, and they go day to day and they
don't see the forest for the trees. The forest right
now is they're in first place, and they win this

(21:19):
series against the Tigers, they're literally in the second seed
in the American League. It's a miracle. What's happening right
now in front of us is a miracle. And and honestly,
and this and Marinnie asked me this question yesterday. You know,
Seattle has a better team. Oh, I'm sorry, somebody says
I'm wrong. What about the They're a half game? Oh

(21:41):
I'm sorry, they're a half game behind the Blue Jays.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
I lied.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
They can't be the two seat. They have to sweep them.
They have to sweep them. Okay, so yeah, that's right.
The Mariners are a better team on paper, But on paper,
the astro Is still have a game and a half lead.
So I don't know how this is going to end.
I wouldn't be necessarily planning a parader out right now
for the World Series, but my god, it is absolutely

(22:07):
incredible to me what this team is still doing at
this stage, knowing that Jordan Avarez is probably at least
a week away. If I'm getting back on the team.
If he does, and what he does when he comes back,
who the hell knows. It's a it's a jumble mess
and starting rotation. I don't know whatever happened to Sean Dubin,
but my god, I don't want to ever see him

(22:28):
pitch again after loving him the first two months of
the season. You can't love a guy for two months
and then be done with him after a week. Yes,
you can't. Astro Twitter says I can do that, okay
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Hello, Come on and say hello. We want to make
sure y'all are still alive. I think we have listeners.
I thought we'd have people complaining about the Astros or
CJ Hackgate or any of that kind of stuff. I
can't believe he wore that hat over this weekend. He
loves the Mariners. Why does he sound like you're from Beaumont.
Oh you said it, not me.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
I think Beaumont person sounds like that.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yes, so seven nothing not a good weekend for the
run differential. When Chess McCormick is your most efficient pitcher,
that's also not great. So Friday night, you know when
you go to hotels were my family was an awesome
My daughter was playing in a tournament and they didn't
have Space City out in the hotel. So I got
a hold of a great illegal feed. Okay, I'm not

(23:48):
gonna tell you who gave it to me, but it's
somebody here at the station. All right, snitch, I thought,
I said, we have a lot of employees with us here.
Oh my god, No we don't. Oh you're probably right,
you're probably right. Fantastic feet. And I'm sitting in the
bed watching the computer, Kim's watching god knows what, and

(24:10):
real ho something on Netflix or how I Met you
or whatever? Uh, and this is they're getting not just
no hit by a for a scrap, scrappy guy who's
never had a scrub. I was gonna call him the scrub.
That's okay, I had to do that. Lumberton's far enough away.
I don't think our signal works in Lumberton. Oli, we're
by the way seven ninety comes in in Austin.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Good.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, I was very talking about parts of it, okay,
especially as you're wranking your way out of two ninety.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
It's really strong.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's good. The point being is that it took a
barely base hit. I mean it was a base hit.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
It was not.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
It was not a friendly ruling. It was a single
with an air that was scored properly. It was well,
it was I feel like it was like seventy thirty properly.
You could have almost given an error. But the errors
are for routine plays, and that was not a routine play.
If the ball would have gone right to the mound,
it was the right call. It was the right call.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Single on an air was the right call.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
But even so, that was the that was the only
GD hit. I don't I don't want to say GD.
But the guy was zero and six with an era
of like six something. Yeah, it was oh god. And
see and then Saturday, I've been defending from Valadez. I've
been defending the Astros hitting coaches. I've been defending that

(25:22):
they can beat bad teams. It's not a good weekend
for me. Man, No, then you're going with fights over
hat people. I should just stayffed. I you know what,
I had more of a free Saturday night than I
had in a long time. So I've spent yes because
I need to be more busy, because I was on
social media more than I had been on a Saturday

(25:43):
in a while. Okay, yeah, I had volleyball to worry about,
and so that was pretty but uh, and then Saturday's game,
we get back to the hotel and I'm watching the
game there and it was like nobody wanted to win
that game, nobody deserved to win that game, and they
and by the way, again I don't know the position players.
I apologize was but the play was the third go

(26:06):
home on the play get the out. He was trying
to get the third baseball was trying to be too
fancy trying to get that double play. Want um force
on a bad throwing and the Astros win the game
on the extra innings. So it was just ooh, an
ugly one on Saturday, which you'll take. And then I
was telling my wife yesterday. I was like, man, could
you imagine going to the game on Sunday made a

(26:29):
huge crowd again there yesterday, You're sitting down, you got
your Astra hat on, you got your you got your
jersey on, you got your Mariner's at your Astros hat,
and you're not wearing a Dallas Cowboy cap.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
You're wearing an Astros cap.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Well, somebody probably was, but and your team just got
their ass kicked twelve nothing. At least it was a
slow burn. And if not for Haesus Sanchez robbing not
one but two plays in right field that some bitch
might have been seventeen eighteen brand slam and a three
run home that's seven twelve. I didn't have been nineteen
nothing minimum. It's gonna kept going. Well the one run score,

(27:05):
so it'd have probably been sixteen or seventeen or whatever
it was. You're God, it sucked. And then the game
yesterday between the Mariners and the Mets. God bless the Mets,
Bless them, Thank you, Mets, love you. And the Mariners
dropped two or three of the Mets, and the Astros
now in Detroit to take on I don't know ridiculous.

(27:27):
A good Tiger team who had a bit about a
month of doldrums and now they're back to playing being
good again and again, it's gonna take a sweep from
Tark School is gonna pitch tomorrow, Get yes, get you
popcorn ready? Arrogated Flaherty is a nice little appetizer to
Hunter Brown, Trek Scoobel and then Frommer and Charlie Morton
should be good? When is Fromer gonna come back sweep City?

(27:50):
You ready? You ever noticed when since Fromer's gone to Twitter,
he's been a completely different person from personality to his
perman He He was a quality start on Friday, that's true.
Only three of the four runs were earned. Quality start
just goes to earned runs. Correct, That is correct. It's
six innings and three runs us. Now, he doesn't play

(28:11):
very good defense, No he doesn't, and he never has.
But however, however, the apologies coming in now, not being
an apologist. Actually, you cannot call out your defense and
then have bad defense. We've forgiven Fromber for bad defense
for years because he's a very good pitcher and he's
just not a good defender.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
It is what it is.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's if you're waiting. He's thirty two years old. If
you're waiting for him to win a Gold Glove, it
ain't happening. That's easy to forgive unless you're gonna be
calling out your defense in the post game, which you
can't do now. He took full accountability. He's an interpreter.
He said it was a one hundred percent on me, right.
I gotta be better, right, and I was wrong right.
But it's a two way street. Pal, Don't be calling

(28:51):
out your defense and then your play. You're doing that
and not cut literally Litteral League cover home plate? All right?
The Astro has been an offer to Garrett cale correct.
I don't know the Astro has been it offered Alex Brightman, Yes,
the ass been offered a college cover. Yes, spring spread.
I don't think they did. I don't think so either,

(29:13):
not anything competitive or real. I win Fromber's last pitch
for the Astros in the very last game of the year.
They might have his boxes already back packed up. I
think we could hear of a I think I did
a gut feeling months ago for whatever reason, that we
hear something leaks, a non competitive or offer leaks. Okay,

(29:34):
because we watched watch.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
There's gonna be no no offer at all.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I think we'll hear of some offer. Now, they offered
him four years.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Now what they can do is they can offer a
qualifying offer.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, that's that's the lowest hanging doesn't do. No, it
doesn't count. Yeah, we'll get a qualifying offer. Yeah, we'll
see here they offered him for something. Okay, let's go
to uh. I think Chuck in Baytown at ten forty
seveninety Hello, Chuck.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
I love y'all show. I can honestly say, when m
D and Uncle Greg shut it down, I thought there'd
be nobody that could mate them. But y'all have done it.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Man.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
I love y'all show a lot.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
No, yeah, and I mean that. But the other night
when we got one hit, I always listened to the
tent pending show sometimes I call you once in a while,
and we had some people from that come to be
Astros fans that were saying, well, you know now that
we're getting beat.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
I was sure.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
I was praying that he know hit, knew through a
perfect game. Let me tell you something, fifty seven. If
you're true blue like me and Houston in every sport.
You were praying that this guy gave up a blue
single which twouts in the night. You were praying, and
I was, what is up with these fans that take

(30:54):
your Astros gear off? If you're not an Astros fan,
I mean you're not. And these people that are getting
on c J sprout for a hat. What go get
in your safe space. Yeah, to get your mom, get
on your atari, have her bringing you a grill cheese,
and everything's going to be okay. I mean, for real,
Let's Astros are gonna be fine. It's substantly get bonn

(31:16):
out but twenty and ohn or one another and it's
a l We're gonna come back. Uh, just ash those
fans and do some fans. Do everybody a favorite man
to stay lot older your team, and that's just ridiculous.
I'm like I said, I'm older and that's not cool
at all.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Thank you for the phone called checking the nice words.
I appreciate.

Speaker 10 (31:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Uh a base the baseball group in this town, Astros
Twitter in particular, they're an emotional bunch. Yeah. So he's
talking about people we had on the post game that
were like, if you're you had to be rooting for
that perfect game, or you're not a real baseball fan.
Multiple people on the postgame show that you host an
FRANTI I did, right.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
What did you say to those people that said that?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I said, I said, you can call me not a
baseball fan. I was rooting for a hit under zero circumstance?
Do I want a team that I root for? And
I do root for the Astros? Do under zero?

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Do I want them to be no hit or perfect game?
I have no interest in watching him?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
No me either. I did a postgame show when the
Giants pitcher who was it? I have to you maybe
look it up. Uh, this is when we were in
the oh God suck days. I know what you're talking about.
I was it a West Coast tenth th inning game.
I know who it is, but I can't think Matt
something Macan, Matcain cee ai n was at Matt Kain.
So remember you Darvish got to it. Did you do

(32:35):
the U Darvish Marwin got one in the bottom knife? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
But I did the Matt Caine one. And that's when
I had this producer, Matt.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
You gotta go to twelve thirty. I said, I didn't
want to want to mention his name, I said, Matt Kain.
Yeah you should remember he's got your name, I said, bro, My,
the tenth Inning Show is about talking about what happened
in the game. I'm not doing giants recap of every
single one in my car says you gotta go to
twelve thirty. Yeah, we used to have rules. Now we

(33:06):
have no rules.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
But yeah, I didn't want them to get a perfect game.
But people were saying because he was from Lumberton, Texas.
He's from the area and his parents are in no
nice for him to get a perfect game. You know
what Lumberton's good for. Probably a delicious ary queen down
the spot, you think so. I think they got a
nice rexis Rigger. Probably I got a dip cone on
It's Austin on Saturday. Okay, good hit. You're in Austin,
Texas and you're getting dip cones. Yeah, a new little treat. Wait,

(33:32):
is that what you like about Texas? That's what I
like of my text. That's enough, Aggie, Doug is gonna
join us. Next, we'll get some more phone calls. In
eleven o'clock, Rob Manford, this might be a really terrible
hot take. I'm liking what I'm hearing from him, and
I may be a minority that's in fifteen minutes here
on seven one three two one two. I don't know.

(33:54):
People don't agree with us on that some of these
things he's doing seven to one three two one two
five seven out seven on three two one two five seven.
If you want to follow us on Twitter, we'd love
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Speaker 3 (34:15):
Corney hosted the tenth Ending Show yesterday.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
How was that?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
By the way, is this song? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (34:22):
The actually wasn't that bad. We got uh, you know,
I was expecting armageddon, but it was uh for the
most part. I mean I didn't get about three callers
who said Chas McCormick needs to be playing every day,
and I.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Retorted on the mountain, why he need pitching every day?

Speaker 12 (34:39):
He's bat in what two twenty? You want that every
day in the lineup. That's the problem, is there. There
is no answer to the outfield right now. Jacob Melton
is overmatched. He should be a triple A. By the way,
Bryce Matthews back down triple A doing his thing. I
think he's about then to the thirty steel clubs. So,
but yeah, it's just Melton's not ready. Taylor Trammell's Taylor
teas falling at Sanchez is in a funk, Tremmell, That's

(35:02):
who Tremmeel is. And you know, it's just kind of
is what it is. But but the question is, so
when Jordine gets back, we think he's gonna be dhent
every day, right, Like they're not just left field two.
He's playing more second base now than he had in
the first month of the season.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
And so and they've been ding him a lot.

Speaker 8 (35:20):
You're just kind of gonna I mean, it's it's amazing.

Speaker 12 (35:23):
We are counting down to day un till Jake Myers
gets back to lockdown center field.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Let's go Jake the savior of this team, Jake Myers.

Speaker 12 (35:30):
But the rest of the group, they just kind of
they are what they are. I mean, it's there's there's
no really good player out.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
There, Jordan Alvarez and Rehab stint mannyhow we feeling when
he shows up? I'll be happy that way. What's been
my philosophy about this? If I have I have I
gotten off this train. No, let's go that was a shock.

Speaker 12 (35:49):
Yesterday we're talking with Joe Spot a pregame and and
Brian mctagger, I think, goes, what's the latest on your
dye goes he's on his way to corpus or he's
on his way here. He's gonna go to Corpus. He's
gonna rehab. Uh And I think Dana Brown, I don't know.
In the pregame clarified he's gonna play Tuesday. They're gonna
give him Wednesday off of a day, right, and then
he's gonna play back to back Thursday Friday, and if
all goes well, I think he's a NASCAR's lineup next week,

(36:11):
next Monday, maybe.

Speaker 8 (36:13):
To push Saturday Sunday.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
But no, no, he's not. He's not gonna flap there
for one game he should they need it. What's the
schedule next day? Is it Colorado at home? It's uh yeah,
something like yeah three with Detroit four, Baltimore and then
I don't.

Speaker 12 (36:29):
Want to oh it's Baltimore. Okay, he send him to Baltimore.
Remember his rookie year, he had like three home runs
in a game out there home three.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Well, they're off Monday, actually, so that would makes sense
to give him those extra days. But Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
against Colorado and then a Friday, a Monday set against
the Angels.

Speaker 12 (36:45):
But here's what you'ron gives you. And because I had
a few people on the post game, so should I
say this too. It's not like he's gonna come back
and bat three hundred in be this incredible hitter. But
he gives you an occasional home run. If he can
give me one to two home runs a week, it
it makes this line up that much better because look
at where they are now, guys, I think they're seventeenth
in the league at home runs. The Astros for the

(37:07):
last decade have been consistently top ten, top five in
home runs hit. Well, they've had your on for a
lot of that was you lost, talker, your luckstar has
helped pick it up and then he's hurt then but
you're not can help get that power bet that's the
problem right now, there's no pop in this lineup.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Who's your power hitters? Christian Walker hasn't a home run
in a week. I mean he's uh al t he's
got twenty two home runs yep, and.

Speaker 12 (37:32):
And he topped last year. Uh he's got a surpassed
last year's home run toll. H he's got a little
bit more power.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yes, he's having a better season than he did last year,
better ops and all that.

Speaker 6 (37:45):
You know, what I.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Underestimated was, unfortunately Josh Hater situation saying, oh, brain, you
can just pick up the pieces. What I failed to
really take a deep dive in is you're not not
necessarily worried about Brian A. Braden moving into the Ninethenning role.
You're worried about those other guys playing, meaning you should
have listened to the shows on Thursday and Friday we
talked about that. Matt I was busy. Okay, I'll tell
you this. Okret's been pretty solid as of late. He's

(38:09):
doing in front of the show. Sean dub needs to
be in sugar Land like now, like that was good
for a couple of months.

Speaker 13 (38:16):
No, he was.

Speaker 12 (38:17):
He was awesome his first two months. Remember I remember
talking to him in the clubhouse his first nine outings.
He didn't give up a run and I was like, Sean,
what's going on?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Man?

Speaker 8 (38:24):
Like, what are you doing here?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
But what did you say? What's going on here? He
usually sucks as normally, what's going on.

Speaker 12 (38:31):
I think I interviewed earlier in the year and I
was kind of like, what's this magic elixir you guys
got going on here?

Speaker 8 (38:37):
Because the whole the whole bullpen had an array of like.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Sub two Yeah, well not anymore. Nope, going into the
weekend they had the fifth Bessie ra I'm scared to
look now.

Speaker 8 (38:46):
Who's my guy, Dello Samptos, He's.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Been exactly, it's gonna work for a little while and
we'll see they change up the repertoire and then their
team gets a book on it, and then we'll figure.

Speaker 12 (38:55):
Out what were you guys encouraged though by Dana's uh
talking about hey saying he needs three weeks to shut
down now the three.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Week No, it sounds like he needs surgery and they're
going to try. Yeah, why would they say this though,
Because they're gonna try. It's half full all the time.

Speaker 12 (39:12):
Put a timeline on it though, like it's yeah, they did,
it all goes well, He's back by the end of
the last week of the season.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's it all goes well. It sounded like a hope
and a prayer. Did you now if you read the comments,
it sounds good. If you listen to what he actually
if you listen to like the audio, it doesn't sound good,
which it will give me a minute. It's fine. No,
he's not pitching anymore this year, not even for the postseason.
He's definitely not gonna be ready for the regular season.

Speaker 12 (39:34):
And Dana did say, like in his in his speech
about it, said, look, this is the guy who's got
what three more years on his deal, Like he's important
to us.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Long term term. I wonderful ever see him get six
To ask a guy who will have not pitched in
five weeks to all of a sudden, in a meaningful
October game, go to the ninth inning and throw ninety
eight miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Sure that makes plenty of sense.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
That's closer in baseball.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Sure, yeah, he's hurt. Can't be the best closer in baseball.
When you're heard, how you feeling today? That's all I
ask him? How you feeling, Josh, He's gonna tell you
I feel good about this one. How about yesterday Christian
Hoveer leaves in the fourth inning. Oh here we go.
Ill now he's this, have you down?

Speaker 12 (40:11):
Like, I'll be transparent. I was in the clubhouse per
game yesterday he's walking around the clubhouse. He's got his
travel bag. He's going over to Victor Carrottini. They're going
over the game plan. I didn't see him coughing. I
didn't see him having the runs. I don't know what
do you asking?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Were going to see him in the runs. We're gonna
sets on. What's are you in the bathroom?

Speaker 8 (40:30):
I mean it was probably sick, but I'm just saying,
like it's just.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Weird, true, Jeremy Payne, You got everybody sick. Jeremy Payne
is like sniffing snot all over his batting batting glove
is gross.

Speaker 8 (40:40):
When's the last time that happened?

Speaker 14 (40:41):
Though?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
The picture just leaves the game after three innings because
of illness. I'm sure it's happen before. I don't keep trying.
He was at fifty pitches. He worked up a lot
of pitches, but yeah, the velocities were downe. I'm concerned.
I'm concerned that it's more than an ol. Sam. See,
I'm treating it just as an illness, but I understand
why you would say otherwise, Okay, well he's so sick
he can't throw hard. I don't know, is your boy,

(41:04):
is your boy, if you if you're sick, is your
voice as strong as it could be on a normal day.
Their wind pipe and you're getting a respiratory infection, and
your wind pipe is different than your actual art unless
he has arm muscle infection.

Speaker 8 (41:16):
Yeah, I want to hear Nolan Ryan's take on this.
Nolan you feel about pictures.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Brings up Nolan Ryan. I'm not just talking about you, Gordon.
It's like, yeah, he's one of one. Okay, Himmon's like
cy frigging young throwing six thousand innings and when do
you think of Guy's Not everybody be like Nolan Ryan,
because there was only one Nolan Ryan, Bob Bob Gibson
out there walking ammonia and threw eight innings of one
out him run ball.

Speaker 12 (41:38):
But five years ago, pictures were going into the seventh.
This year like nobody goes into the seventh.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
They're trying to preserve these arms. Look at all the injuries.
They're trying to preserve these arms. All right, So we're
gonna sit down tonight. We're gonna watch the master's baseball, right, Gordy.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
Grab watch some master's baseball. Grab an ice.

Speaker 12 (41:54):
School Crawford back from Carbock burrowing. I was out there
at the ballpark yesterday. Plenty of Crawford box and people's
hands and look, the game suck, but at least you're
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Speaker 2 (42:20):
Doug and Iaman Hank tame We get to You. We
also Rob Manford saying something I kind of like and
to tell the truth all the next forty minutes at
Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Here we go, hour number two of the Matt Thomas
sho would We have also got a lot of folks
that are waiting online. I want to get to you, guys,
want to get to you. On Rob Manford, We get
to Tell the Truth. Coming up, ROSSI, we also have
a deep dive breakdown on the Texans game against the Panthers.
I'll knock it out for you real quick. Saxon's offense
look good. CJ looked good, Nico Collins look good, Nick

(42:57):
Chubb look good. Bob, So you like Chubb? I like Chubb?
Marks did okay for himself. Defense was tenacious. Carl Oh
what's his name? Woodie? Okay? And Groucho and John I
think his brother's name is Groucho. John met you got
traded yesterday and ce J Garner Johnson said I want

(43:18):
that Jersey back number as quick as possible. When he
got it or I'm assuming you did, I don't know.
Wishing John met you the best A good spot for him.
I mean it was a numbers crunch. Yeah, there was
no where he's going to go. And have not heard
word or one about Joe makes it like, by the way,
I cannot wait to hit a nut gut feeling. I
am counting down the days until I hear it. It's
looking good for you, It looks great for me. By

(43:38):
the way, real quick, we have a bet and you
and I a little fun fodder on Twitter about it. Oh,
Kyle Tucker got Boo out of the stadium yesterday in
Chicago for not ready it ball out yet. We've seen
that in Houston. Here a bunch of times. Yeah, and
I'm not going anymore. I'm very confident in the Hibachi
plus drive through lunch. Okay, now, the op out the

(44:01):
what are these contracts that are called these one year
deals the term opt out deals. Yeah, that feels very good.
That's a very big for me. That's the only that's
the only way you win. Are you sure? Yes, he's
not signing a shorter term deal. He's not signing a
three or four year deal or something or five or six.
Seven is long. He wouldn't even do seven. Okay, well,
he would do an opt out deal. Oh god, So

(44:22):
opt out deals looking good for you? Now, it's looking
great for me.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
We got a lot of baseball and in a home
run in like three weeks, looking great for that. Well,
and then Cubs have employed by the Brewers have won
ninety percent of the games the last month and a half.
Things are looking better for you. Count you know what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go tear at your chicken. Okay,
whatever you want. No, No, I don't care. No, you're
paying what I win. Let's talk to Aggie Doug at

(44:48):
a love It O four eighty. What's a good WORDI boys,
how are all amazing?

Speaker 15 (44:56):
Hey, you were asking about the aggies with the ni
L earlier before I get of the astros. That's because
A and M made that deal with this sportsmanagement entertainment
company for like five hundred million dollars for ten years.
So that's how A and M gets fifty million dollars
a year for their nil.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Good for them.

Speaker 15 (45:13):
That's not even and that's not even. That's not even
donor money.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
That's not even the collective by the way, you know I,
you know I work for I work for one of
those companies in the Houston. It's it's a rival of now.
It's the two main companies are called Playfly in lear
Field and Layfield has been around forever, but Playfly is
now taking over and buying all these programs. I did
say when when Playfly signed their big multi media rights
deal with A and M, there will not be an
inch of kyle Field that will not be sold with sponsors.

(45:39):
So I don't know if there's any pristine area that
you've been going to eighty over the years and saying, oh,
this is Hallow Grounds. Yeah, like Reveley's Grave, like Reve's
Credit Yard is gonna have sponsor's gonna have it's gonna
have like beef jerky signs all over it.

Speaker 13 (45:53):
That is literally the.

Speaker 15 (45:54):
Only thing that came to bund whatever. Yo, We're like,
there's nothing takeer to know how to go. There is
one thing, if they really do naming rights for Revelly's graveyards,
then that would.

Speaker 13 (46:04):
Be h a new so saying low for the it's.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Gonna be it's gonna be uh burial spot brought to
you by Farmer's Dog or Metz Marks or or.

Speaker 15 (46:17):
Some sort of soil company or something like that. That
would yeah, so uh hell. I mean you could talk
to Michael Berry.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
He had soul.

Speaker 15 (46:25):
Sponsors backed up, you know, in a line for for
aid and to get sponsor rights on that. But no, guys,
I was I was talking about this yesterday on the
podcast about a the fact that the Astros pictures coming back. Dude,
we're gonna need some hung relievers because if if Christian

(46:46):
Javier and Arraghetti you're gonna go four three and four innings,
We've got to find some guys that are gonna eat
innings on the backside. But at least they even try
to get them to SUSA and and bring you at
this point because because we don't bring back a Garcia,
a JP France and these guys, I mean even Lance mccullors,

(47:06):
you have to say, look, dude, we've paid you for
two years for doing nothing. You need to do exactly
what we need you to do at this point. So
I think the Astros really need to consider this almost
like a piggyback situation for the last month and a half.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Well, I'll tell you what, Doug I think, honestly, and
thank you for the phone call. I think Jason Alexander
is going to have a semi pivotal role in that
whatever he's discussing. I don't think he's he's completely whack
on that assessment, just crazy because he usually has crazy takes.
But yeah, you're you've got hobber who hasn't gone deep yet.
Mccullors will not typically go deep garcias they're all gonna

(47:42):
be on pitch counts. You're going to need solid, solid,
mineral relief guys who can be that fifth, sixth, seventh
inning guy to get to your leverage, Guys who get there,
and I think Jason Alexander's not enough to probably fit
that mold. You're gonna end up. I think we glast
count depending on what's going on with Brandon Walter. He's

(48:05):
been throwing sides, but he's throwing so that's interesting, and
he's building back up. You're literally gonna have nine starters
and you got to figure out what to do with
those guys, and you are running out of time in
the season, and you're in the thick of a race,
so you don't have a whole lot of time for
everybody to kind of figure their bleep out, so they

(48:25):
might have to get creative with a piggyback type of situation.
The only problem is is piggy if you say, yeah,
we're gonna throw this guy for three innings and this
guy for three innings, well, what if the guy's getting
shelled out there? What if the pitch counts are racking up?
And then what if you want to get somebody uh
you know, Uh, I lost my train of thoughts. Sorry

(48:47):
if yeah, you have to figure things out with uh
everything not going according to plan. If you want to
be in a piggyback situation, and oh, by the way,
you're about tis ratch after this next off day of
what thirteen string games something like that? I mean you
you got a lot of games coming up a short
period of time. You don't have off days to give
them guys natural rest. This is and I think I

(49:11):
think I asked this to Joe two weeks ago. I said,
you having to manage this part of the game is
probably the most difficult part of your job. I mean,
lineups are lineups, right. You can move guys in and
out between seven and eight, or give a guy day
off here and there, but trying to you can't will
a pitcher to go ninety inning ninety pitches, especially if

(49:33):
he's struggling, especially if a pitch counts high in the game.
You can't even guarantee that Hunter Brown and from a
Valdez because those guys are not gonna be able to
give you ninety And you throw seven innings every single time.
You like for them too, but sometimes things just don't
work out that way. Yeah, you're short on arms.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
You were.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
It was a twelve oh game yesterday. Thankfully it was
goot enough of a blow out you could use Chas McCormick.
But and know the Los Santos gave you two innings
a day before. I'm sure he didn't want to go
to him.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
You have no off day this week. By the way,
you're playing seven straight games.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
I mean, Oker gave you six outs yesterday and yeah,
you're you're down that important arm with Josh Hater now
and then you got to go to guys. Okay, Inyo
Dello Sentos has been good, but how long is that
gonna last? What kind of track record does he have
long term? Well he was DFA like a month ago
from the Braves. Yeah, so I'm saying eat ain't will

(50:25):
be an easy ride. I thought it was going to
be ross I and Hater being out. Now you're not
asking your sixth inning guy to be your seventh inning guy,
your seventh inning guy to be your eighth inning guy.
And every time I want to jump on the Bennetts,
who's a train home run giving up? Yes, but he'll

(50:46):
be fine. No again, you you are allowed to give
up runs. Nobody's perfect. Nobody is perfect. Let's talk to
Ivan on seven ninety at eleven ten, Ivan, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Hey, Maddie, I just wanted to say I love y'all,
show you and ro thank you, thank you, You're right,
believe you should mister Texas. You are mister Texas.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
What No, he's not guess where I was this weekend.
I haven't. I went through Austin. I went to Brandham
this weekend. I drove through Hempstead. I went to BUCkies twice.
I am, mister tex how many barbecue joints you go to?

Speaker 14 (51:22):
Zero?

Speaker 2 (51:22):
I don't need to have barbecue for same time and
had no barbecue, mister Texas, you're fire. I went to
Scratch Kitchen ross and enjoying myself very much.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Yeah, I have.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
We're gonna be okay. I mean, I know right now
things are looking bleak.

Speaker 6 (51:40):
Things are not looking that great.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
No, they're not looking They're in first place.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Yes, that's what I was gonna say. We are still
in first place. We're not like we're not out of
the playoffs. We're in the playoffs right now currently correct.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yes, they're the division leaders.

Speaker 16 (51:55):
Yes, yes, so, I mean, I mean, yes, various cause
for concern because there's a lot of injuries. And I
told my brother, if Aspalla is able to make us
to the playoffs, do you all feel like he should
be manager of the year.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
You know what, he absolutely shouldn't, even thank you for
the phone call. He's got competition. I mean, aj hinch
Jo what he's done in Detroit all year long. Has
been obviously a very pleasant surprise, and abody else the
American League that's up for grabs. Joan Schneider believe manager first?
You mean the former Dukes of Hazard Star No, all right,

(52:31):
get our grocer hottie on and see if she can
give us an intake on what's going to relax? I mean,
when you finish with the number one seat in the
American League, you should probably be in the running for
American League manager the yea. What is being discussed around baseball.
I've watched Ken Rosenthal the other day on a video podcast.
People on are know what's going on in Houston. They
know they know that Jordan Alvarez has been around since May.
They know that all the rotation has been hurt. They

(52:52):
know that the guys have underperformed. They know the value
what's been going on. See, he will get plenty of votes.
It will not if he loses, it will not be
a shock. But he's not gonna be like, oh, how
could you even forget about him? And Joe Spotty will
be a top I'll be safe to say top two finishing.
I need him to win. I would love this because
he deserves it, because man, the mess has gone through.
It's been a lot to go through. Of course I'm

(53:13):
biased because he joins us every week. I think he
does a good job. Yeah, and I think he gets way, way,
way too much undoe hate. I want to rub it
in the face of the fire spot of folks, which
there are still plenty of them. Yeah, the ones that say,
maybe a good coach, but can't coach a major league
game on a Sunday afternoon, eleven thirteen, all right, we've
got Rob Man for a minute appearance on ESPN and

(53:35):
said a couple things interesting, very interesting about the future
of the sport eleven thirteen, Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety five. Well,
we were gonna play some audio of Rob Man for
if we can't do we our phones are also not working.
Computers aren't working audio, our phones aren't working. It's it's
all being worked on, Matt. Yeah, it's good, very happy.

(53:57):
So I'm gonna have to paraphrase. I like phrase. But
Ron Manford was on the Seattle Mets game with the
little leagame. But I love baseball. That does this again.
I know Manford gets a lot of crap, frankly because
of his horrific treatment of the Asters during the whole
cheating scandal stuff. Okay, they cheated, I get it, they did,
and they deserved a punishment. But the thing that other

(54:18):
teams were not doing it, and they were using the
Astra's a sacrificial lament or escapegoat or whatever you want
to call us. In my mind, true, and I'll never
be changed of that opinion. Buddy again, You and I
like the Manford rule, We like the pitch clock. The
games are moving faster, They're about to get a new
television deal. They are doing well, their attendance is really
really good.

Speaker 7 (54:38):
Now.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
The biggest problem is he continues to have markets that
don't do very well, and he's just turned a blind
eye to them, allowing Sacramento the ace planing. Sacramento is
just a complete travesty. It's a hot mess, and he
bears responsibility on that. I don't blame him for the
Tampa Bay situation this year, but Tampa Bay Baseball has
been largely noise for twenty years.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Year.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So yesterday he brought up that, you know,
they got a new they got new television deals coming
in next year, and much like the NBA, they're looking
to go with the streaming folks, whether it's Peacock, whether
that's Hulu, whether that is Amazon Prime, whether that's Netflix. Quibi,

(55:20):
what is it? What is quibi? Is that the thing
he made up? Or is that something too b I
don't think they're going to go to be They didn't
get rid of the Roku stuff because that's now I
have rok on one of my TVs, So it's not
a problem, but it's still Paine asks for people to
figure out what it is. As long as they cut
the check, they're gonna put him on there. So he's
talking about two things. Expansion mm hmmm and a massive

(55:45):
realignment in the sport in what way. He didn't get
into specific details, but he said he wants to put
the teams as close together regardless of and he said
the main thing that's hurting his sport is that he

(56:08):
would like to see Eastern teams play Eastern teams in
the postseason as long as possible. He wants to see
Western teams play Western teams in the playoffs as long
as possible, meaning he's cited an example yesterday Boston playing
the Angels doesn't help out the East Coast audience. When
you have to put the Angels in the Red Sox
on at ten o'clock at night in a postseason game,

(56:30):
it hurts ah. And I completely understand that they need
more eyeballs for more money for these TV deals. I
don't blame him for that. Yeah, I mean that that
makes perfect sense to me, because, yeah, one of Angels
or Boston Red Sox, you're gonna lose one of the audiences,
a portion of one of the audiences. You are, And

(56:50):
my guess is that if your Boston's got a larger
national brand, that having the Red Sox play at nine
o'clock or ten o'clock Eastern time is not advantageous to
a large section of the East Coast. First of all,
not that the Angels would be in the playoffs. You
get the drift is that he's saying that if I
could get the Mariners to play the Dodgers in the playoffs,
I have the whole West Coast. It's going to be

(57:11):
completely invested in that, and I can put that at
a West Coast time and have everybody in the West
Coast eating that crap up. So he would just blow
up the traditional American name. He didn't say it per se,
but I think he certainly if you read between the lines,
he's saying, first of all, my guess is they probably
would expand two teams to go to thirty two. And

(57:31):
then the question would be what do you do at
that point? Do you go to an NFL model where
you have eight divisions of four or do you go
with two leagues of sixteen? Do you not have any
leagues at all?

Speaker 5 (57:43):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (57:44):
I mean, my guess is they will do some sort
of West versus Midwest, and then in an East and
a South. But he's saying that the travel is killing
the players and that the playoffs are hurting because a
potential cross country matchups where if you're a fan and
you're playing the Pittsburgh Pirates by example, again the Dodgers,

(58:04):
you're playing the Mets, and you're in you're playing at
one o'clock, You're you're playing the games at ten o'clock
in the morning in the Pacific time zone. That's not
good for them either. Yeah, and that way you would
only have cross time zones in the World Series. No,
my guess is you probably would have it in the
American League championship series. You could probably figure out a

(58:26):
way to do a playoff to say, do all West
in all West and an all Eastern conference. They could
I think if that's what he's going for, then it
doesn't make sense to cross the the the time zones
at all. Right, Well, he I mean, I could see
a West I could see nationally americanly going by by
and going west and East. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah,
and then maybe Eastern League in the Eastern League, and

(58:48):
then having probably even a series within your division that
keeps you on the coast for at least the first round.

Speaker 6 (58:56):
And.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
Most tradition rivalries would stay together. For instance, you if
they do this massive realignment, the Mets and the Yankees
will be in the same division the conference, yeah, or
division conference. The Dodgers and angel will be in the
same division. The White Sox and the Couple will be
in the same division. You're going to see Dodgers, Angels, Mariners,

(59:19):
rock You could see Dodgers, Angels, Padres as because you're
gonna create a division up there with Seattle. Well, I'm
thinking of conferences, yeah, I mean, I mean, and then Rockies, Diamondbacks,
Padres got to be in there somewhere. I would think,
why wouldn't you just do East and West and no divisions?

Speaker 15 (59:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Yeah you could. I mean there's East and West, no divisions,
top six teams. But if you have divisions, though ross
you can then say you're gonna play your own division
more often, which means the Angels play in Los Angeles more.
They're gonna bust to San Diego. But you can just
schedule that as it is. You can do like the
SEC has a they play the rival every year. Right,
you could name a couple of right levels or whatever

(01:00:00):
that you play. You play Texas more than everyone else.
But then after that, who cares? They want the players
off planes. How about you get one rival named. Now,
the Dodgers probably get the Giants. I guess the Padres
would be left, so the Dodge would be the Angels.
I mean, I'm serious. They want they want travel reduced. No, No,
I'm talking about like if you did like an SEC
style where that you have the same rival you play

(01:00:20):
every year, so basically where they were doing that. Now
this is this is conjecture, but the general and I was,
this is why I wish we had the audio we
could play They're basically saying, we want to get these
guys off along trips. We want to play playoff series
with teams in their own time zone, so it gives
those audiences a chance to thrive in those spots. It's

(01:00:43):
compared to setting a team from one another the country
to the other, where you could potentially hurt try it's
split's pretty well, it's it's pretty well fifteen to fifteen
at the Mississip. Well, they're gonna probably two teams that
may be sixteen sixteen. Now the question is going to
be who gets the expansion teams. The teams that are
being talked about the seties one of the last one
of the East. But maybe you but maybe you shift
to you shift. I mean, I'm saying Ross, you don't

(01:01:05):
understand they're they're thinking about shifting more things over there.
You could put the Astros in the eastern half of
the country if the things shake. I don't think they would.
I'm just looking at a map. But what I mean,
I'm just look, this is conjecture. I'm trying to explain
to you conjecture. I'm sorry, Well, no, I'm just saying
that every it depends on does Portland get a team

(01:01:26):
Does Nashville get a team? Does Salt Lake City maybe
get a team who's a fourth was a force? But
they're doing it geographically right, there's you. There's not enough.
I'm just saying there'd be fifteen teams West and fifteen
teams East or sixteen I'm sorry, in the dream world,
the Astros. I think Rob manfer like the fourteen division.
He'd like to put the Astros together with the Rangers

(01:01:48):
and then maybe with Kansas City, Saint Louis something like
that would be your four teams in that division if
you did it that way. But you can't have the
Cardinals and the Cubs. That's not in the same division.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
That's exactly right, that's exactly right.

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
But you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
But if Milwaukee's ninety minutes away from Chicago, you can't.
How can you not have a division that involves the Cubs,
the Brewers, the White Sox. You might split the Cubs
in the Socks. You're gonna have to do some splitting
just to mend the map I'm looking at. Yeah, can
you go six? Can you go six divisions of I
don't know. I think you go East and West and

(01:02:20):
colin a day, I guess it. Depends on what if
the two games the two teams. The closer a team
is to you, the more you stack the games. But
does that make it fair just because a bad team
is close to you? It doesn't matter. I mean, there's bad,
there's good divisions and bad divisions in baseball right now, thankfully,
the aos has been pretty bad the last several years.

(01:02:42):
I'll say this. The reason why I like this, honestly
is because I think the days of the Astros playing
the Marrinders fourteen fifteen times a year done. If Manford
does get it through, and that the Astros can play
the Rangers a bunch they can play. If it's Kansas City, Seattle,
I mean it could also be Arizona, Colorado. Who the

(01:03:03):
hell knows, because you got you got a huge quadrant
of Pacific Coast teams in that little spot there. Two.
It's all depending. I think it's gonna largely depend on
what if Portland gets Portland wants a team bad, Saltlake
City wants a team bad. Charlotte and Nashville probably gonna
get one. I think Nashville is probably got there act
to get more than anybody else. Mm hmm. So who

(01:03:23):
gets those teams and how and how radical will there
be enough baseball support to say, blow up the American League,
blow up the National League because there's so much there's
so much passion behind the history of baseball. But you
also got the DH. It's a universal DH right now.
What separates the National League from the American League now zero?
Just history that most of the history would be preserved

(01:03:45):
if you're going if you split it up to East
and West. I'm all for it. That's all I'm saying. Okay,
is that I'm I'm all the days of well, the
back then in the nineteen forties. No, it's semi realistic.
Get regional rivalries in, get these teams away from travel,
which I get. The question will be, do you then

(01:04:06):
have to play everybody every year? Many years you didn't
do that. Now you do that every year? Yeah, you
can still keep that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Because again you're trying to get people off plane. They're
trying to eliminate the long travel. Well they need to
quit quit boohooing. I'm sorry you're on your private plane
going three three and a half hours on a private plane.
As someone as someone who flies private planes, I understand
this issue. Oh you poor babies.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
I'd love to play the Mavericks in the Spurs eleven
times a year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Do you see the NBA schedule ten o'clock games, rodding,
Oh my god, NBC contracts like we we give two
blanks about East Coast. You'll be fine. I'm playing at
ten o'clock Eastern time, or it's ten o'clock Central time.
Starts for a couple of games late night with the Rockets.
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
To tell the truth is up next?

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Eleven twenty eight Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two,
one two five seven nine zero. I well, I'm at

(01:05:18):
thirty four on Sports Talk seven ninety now, our man, Jonathan,
we'd like to tease about a variety of things. Has
been very busy with the IT folks. So you know what,
you're catching a break today, my friends?

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I appreciate that. What does that mean?

Speaker 17 (01:05:33):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
I have four takes. I did this yesterday. As a
matter of fact, gentlemen, three of these I believe one
I do not, Jonathan, how many am I not telling
the truth?

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
On one?

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
It's all a lie? One okay, only one lie? Only
one lie, which means, how do I believe you believe? Three?

Speaker 5 (01:05:53):
Of these.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
That's correct.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
God, here we go, boys, there we go. So what
is our favorite time of year in March in sports?

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Big twelve basketball tournament. Go a little further, Oh, NCAA tournament. Yep,
what do I love about it? We love watching the
Cougars lose every year. Okay, we don't love that at all.
The bracket all right, I'm sorry, I'm just kidding. Bracketology,
the one and done nature of the tournament. Everything is
on the line every single game. We're gonna huff and

(01:06:25):
puff for a while, but when this college football playoff
goes to twenty four to twenty eight teams, we're gonna
embrace it. We're gonna love the bracket. So anybody getting
all huffy and puffy about how stupid the twenty four
to twenty eighteen bracket is, Yeah, we're gonna watch. We
don't have to like it. Stay with me on this.
I'm sorry, go ahead, We're gonna love the bracket. The

(01:06:46):
college football playoffs. Okay, how many of these do you believe? Three? Okay,
you're gonna see you're saying, we will love this level.
We're gonna we'renna wanna love the twenty four Okay, number two,
she could be an NBA analyst. But did you hear
what Monica McNutt did on Friday's First Take show. She

(01:07:10):
got her Sanders as confused. Yeah, she had a comedian
on and he was wearing a Sanders Detroit Lions jersey
on with the number twenty on it, and she thought
the guy was representing Shador Sanders and he goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm Barry Sanders. America knew that even the most novice

(01:07:31):
sports fan knew who he was talking about, and he
knew the jersey, and he knew who Sanders was, and
he knew that Shador Sanders wasn't wearing twenty, and he
knew that sherd Door Sanders wasn't a Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
Wasn't a de Chart Lion.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
My philosophy is, this is a kind of mistake that
cost you a chance to host a show. You can
do NBA analysis, but if you're ESPN, you cannot bring
Monica McNutt back to do a general talk show because
that is a unforgivable faux pa. Okay, okay, number three,
I have zero problems gang with Little League teams trying

(01:08:06):
to steal signs? H Okay, what happened? There was a
controversy a couple weeks back? There was I missed it. Yeah,
I've been locked into the Little League World Series. Sorry,
well there was.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
It was happy I it was happening this week.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
But they had it two weeks ago where it stop
the game because they were for the second basement? Was
who's the second guy standing at second base? Was stealing
the science? Oh my god? So it was a sign
stealing scandal?

Speaker 6 (01:08:29):
Was there was?

Speaker 18 (01:08:30):
There was?

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
So my philosophy is me and sign stealing? So what's
in part of the game?

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Go on?

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
And number four? I looked at the Texans September schedule.
They're going three and one, which one of the four?
Am I not telling the truth?

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
One?

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
What are the games with North Stafford, Buccaneers, Titans, and Jaguars? Okay, okay,
they can go four to Oh okay, especially Stafford's out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Number one, we love March madness, we.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Will eventually love a twenty four to twenty eighteen college
football playoff. Okay. Number two, she can be an NBA analyst,
but with Monica Minnutte not knowing who Barry Sanders is
and was, she cannot lead a non sports, non basketball show.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Ever, again, this is an unforgivable mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Okay, number three, I have no problem with science Little
League team sign stealing. And number four the Texans will
go three and one in September, which one of the four, gentlemen,
do I not believe? All Right?

Speaker 13 (01:09:32):
He seems very really convinced about the Monica McNutt, So
I'm just gonna pass that one. That's definitely he believes
that one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Do you think he believes that one?

Speaker 13 (01:09:39):
Yeah, because Barry Barry Sanders is a hall of not
even hall of it, that's a stateful in football.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
I you know football, He's the greatest running back to
ever walk the planet. I would agree with that, along
with Jim Brown. Never saw him play, but I believe
that as well. Uh, Texans schedules easy enough to start
three and one, right, I don't know. I honestly don't

(01:10:04):
know Matt's thoughts on the Little League, so I really
can't judge his opinion there, you know, so out of
left field. He also said he was gonna have an
off topic one every week, and he didn't do that
to day this week. That was a lot I think
I'm gonna take.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
I'm gonna take the Little League.

Speaker 13 (01:10:19):
There's no way Matt believes it's okay to sign still
with ten to twelve year olds and all those like
drunk parents and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Yeah, I just don't have a feel for what Matt's
opinion would be there. I'm not gonna call you crazy
for picking that one. I mean, eventually we'll go to
twenty twenty. We will love the twenty fourteen format. I'll
go with that one.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Number one, the Texans are gonna go at least three
and one, maybe, as you said, even go four and
oh in September. So I believe that. Okay. Number two,
Monica McNutt, you made a ridiculous mistake, unforgivable. Will never
be let.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
Down on that mistake ever again.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
You cannot host a show if I'm a ESPN one
on God's Green Earth?

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Would I trust you to.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
Host anything if you don't know who Barry freaking Sanders is.
So I agree with that one. She can be an
NBA analyst, but she cannot host a show that is
an unforgivable mistake. And number three Ross and uh Jonathan,
I got zero problems with Little leaguers trying to steal signs.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Problems whatsoever. It's a part of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:11:37):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
You gotta teach you all the young which, by the way,
Stephen A. Smith continues to host and he gets stuff
actually incorrect all the time. So I mean, Monica, be
not to me. Fine, but I believe you believe that.
I do believe that you can Rossie and you can
mix up players, but you can't mix up one of
the two greatest running backs in the history of a
sport with the Detroit Lions jersey on twenty and Sanders.

(01:12:03):
I'm sorry to say this, Matt, go ahead. When was
Manna m McNett Burne. It doesn't matter. She's got to
be in her late thirties. She had me a twelve
or thirteen years old. When did Barry Sanders retire? Honestly,
I don't know, uh, late nineties, late nineties, but even
I know Barry Sanders like, okay, yeah, that's you and
you're young, and you know what I mean, like everybody knows.

(01:12:24):
And by the way, she was he wasn't wearing a
Cleveland Browns jersey. He retired in nineteen ninety nine. Did
it say lines on it? I didn't. It's sent to
say lines, but it was the Detroit Lions jersey with
the number twenty with the word Sanders across the front.
That is an unforgivable mistake. Okay, she's thirty five, she
was born in eighty nine. Sanders retired in ninety nine.

(01:12:44):
But if you know somebody's coming up on stage weren't
as Sanders and you're not sure it was a fast papa,
it is a faux pa. But it's not unforgivable and
she should never ever host any other show ever. Again.
I did not suck her like I can make. You
can make that, mister. I figured you'd believe it. Any ways,
I win, you do win. Let me let me tell

(01:13:06):
you something right now. I picked one. Yeah he won. No, No, no,
I'm just I'm still surprised. Let me tell you if
the NCAA, if the if the college football Playoff goes
to a twenty four to twenty eight, I've checked out.
I'm done, Gonzo, I'll watch my No, I swear to
God mark mark me down. When your cougars get in

(01:13:26):
this twenty four seed, you ain't watching. You got it,
You got ron, you got it. It's a frond, got it,
the biggest front of the planet. No, he why is
it Big ten acting like complete a holes? Seriously, why
do they want every big they want seven Big ten teams?
They want at least seven SEC schools. I mean, this

(01:13:48):
is ridiculous. It's gonna be pretty soon. The college football
playoffs canna be longer than the season. It's absolutely absurd.
You heard me, absurd. M So I'm telling you the
truth when I say I'm checking out on college football.
If they go to twenty four to twenty eight ridiculous.

(01:14:11):
Sixteen almost feels like too many. But I can at
least do it. That's a full week event. It's too much,
twenty four to twenty. Honestly, I got a hot take
that's probably unpopular. Four was good. I'm okay with four.
I could live with four. I cannot live with twenty four,
Sir Johnathan, we cannot live at twenty eight. No, okay,
we can't know. But I'm saying no to that that
it's unpopular. That four was crazy. I told you was

(01:14:32):
a hot take, but I'm sorry I heard I've heard
how things from you. Excuse me, Oh, Monica McNutt, good
luck being an NBA analyst, because you ain't hosting a
regular show again. Barry Sanders, Shadoor Sanders. I mean, I
get everybody's drawn the who were I think the chairman's
name of ESPN's John Skipper, Who the hell allowed this?
Can't make that mistake? All right, man? Yeah, she should

(01:14:54):
be fired. She drawn and court me. She's a terrible
analyst as it is. But I'm best beside the point
she I don't know even though. All right, anyways, that
is my mess. Skin Crawl eleven forty four on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Let me tell you about quality home
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(01:15:15):
know you have fifteen minutes. I give you a little
heads up now, I believe.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
It or not.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
It's two hours away, ross two short hours away.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
That's it. We were talking about expansion. Our friend Aaron
on Twitter sent this Jim Bowden to guess the show
front of the show, right, Jim, good friends. You guys
are buds.

Speaker 9 (01:15:30):
Never a friend.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
The voden er Bowden. I think it's Boden or Bowden.
It's about like Bobby Bouten.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
It's some Jim bean. That's what the kids called Jimmy
Ban Jimmy Bucket his propose alignment Midwest Division, Western Conference, Cubs,
White Sox, Browers, Twins, makes sense, Southwest Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Rangers,
and also says Western and Eastern Conference yeap, no American
and National League Pacific Coast Rockies, As, Mariners, Giants, West Diamondbacks, Angels, Dodgers,

(01:15:59):
and Hares. But you you would just call it Western
League and Eastern League to keep it kind of league
with tastball, right, yeah, you semantics of that. So the
question then would be is how do you so I
guess you would have the Pacific Coast champion tick on
the West champion, maybe the Southwest versus the Midwest Champions,
something like that. What do you think to keep it?
Because you want to stay in the time zone as

(01:16:19):
long as you can. You got four division champs and
then two wild cards. They're not getting rid of playoffs. Ye,
that's true. That's true. I got rid of they're not
getting rid of playoff games all right? With the top
two seeds Eastern Conference or Eastern League whatever Eastern would
be Red Sox, Mets, Yankees, Phillies, that every one of
those games will be on National television. Yeah, that would

(01:16:40):
be the television package. Would love that. Games that would
be seen by no One would be Reds, Guardians, Tigers,
and Blue Jays.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
That's the North Division.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
The mid Atlantic would be the Orioles, Charlotte, the Pirates
of the Nationals. The Southeast Division would be the Braves,
the Marlins, the Nashville team and the Rays. Now what
would throw that off off kilter would be is if
Nashville and Charlotte did not both get franchises, Because I
guarantee you Salt Lake and Portland one teams just as
bad as those two cities do. Yeah, I think you

(01:17:10):
could flex East or West. I mean I think the
Astros are in that mix and then just basically teams
along the Mississippi Ish Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
See, his makes a lot of sense because he put
the two teams in the East when in areas where
you can put him in if it went one and
one does that? How much does it throw this whole
thing off? What do you mean win two teams? Like
if you put if you made it Portland and Charlotte
as compared to the Nashville and Charlotte, how wonkey would

(01:17:45):
things be at that, But what would he be realignment
at that point?

Speaker 8 (01:17:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
I'm telling you nothing. Do you understand this ross? There
is nothing sacred anymore. It's all about money when you know,
I'm talking about the sport teen sixty three did did
anybody even think of the word DH? Will ever be
in play? No chance, nope, No. But they wanted to
get offense up. They wanted to get you know why
they did it? Money, get offense and interest up. Yeah.

(01:18:12):
And also yeah, and get and keep players that were
probably not good enough to be on a roster a
nextra spot. It's also good. Yeah, I like the universal
d H. Yeah, you know what it is. It is
Everything is about money.

Speaker 10 (01:18:25):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
I'm about money too.

Speaker 8 (01:18:27):
I mean we are well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
I mean I have not met a single person. I've
met people, but I don't believe them. We're all about money.
Mm hmm. And if Major League Baseball is doing this
and it makes sense, then do it. Uniforms are adding
uniforms not because they want to make them charming for you.
They want to they want you to sell. They want
to sell those jerseys. And if the TV packages say, hey,

(01:18:48):
we want to have more games involving We want to
keep the Yankees in the in the Cubs, in the
middle of the countries compared to going out west.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
So be it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
If that gives us less, If that gives us less
games on the West Coast, I'm all for it for sure.
I'm definitely for that. I like these East Coast games.
Five tonight whom big fan. I'll be on the post
game tonight as well. I think I've got it on Thursday,
and I think I'm working a full pre and post
on Saturday. Wow. Yeah, that's fine. I didn't work last week,

(01:19:21):
so I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. I gotta step
up and do my part. So you week off Thomas,
which I'll be gone for a week starting Wednesday. Oh
are you off Wednesday too? Oh I'm sorry, Well, yeah,
you take if you know it's an early day. I
know I'll be there for that. Yeah, I mean it's serious.
If you take Wednesday with's it like a one hour show.
It's a one hour show and a half hour pregame. No,
I can hang out for that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
You want to work to day? Isn't not much work?

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
I see? I see?

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Come on, now, you you went to the Matt Thomas
School of Vacation Planning.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Actually, I went to the Charlie Charlie did it because
when I get back, folks, there's a Thursday day game
and then I just work Friday, and then it's Labor
Day weekend. Dang, you did? He is there?

Speaker 19 (01:20:02):
He did?

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Sean okadding, by the way, he talked about that, you
take us some more time, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Oh, I know we had our fantasy draft that week, right,
yet a Labor Day Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
You're getting ready? How the toyro is looking? Rono, by
the way, makes his season debut this Thursday. Can you
tune out to anything? He says? No, you want to
draft a lot better when you listen to him. He's
done me very well. Yeah, I'm very proud of him.
He does, do you well? All right? So any other
takeaway from the NFL this weekend. I'm gonna be honest.

(01:20:35):
I didn't pay a whole lot of attention. I mean,
I'm sorry, I gotta really be honest. I've watched Oh,
Matt Stafford's practicing today. That's significant because they're ready for
a week one again. They have been very secret the
last handful of days. Well, hopefully will Anderson doesn't crack
his back in half. That'd be horrible. You're wishing injury

(01:21:00):
upon an opponent. I just said, I hope he didn't. Okay,
so you weren't. You weren't upset When people were saying
I hope CJ breaks his leg after wearing a Mariner's cap.
People were saying that Astros fans weren't going that extreme?
Were they close? A disgrace? He hates the Astros. He's
involved with gang activity.

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
The Mariners are gang The Mariners are gang involved. When
they were talking about the Nipsey hustle and the Rolling
sixties crips and stuff like that, like, oh my god,
look at this hat, CJ war my waken as a ruin.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
They're could over yourself. How many people crying out there?

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
ROSSI they were. There's a lot where a Sean Prad
is huge. You quit your whining. What's the last hat
you wore that did not represent anything in Houston? Probably
honestly a Mariner's hat in literal league. No wonder people don't.
I used to wear my yeah, when I was like
on the on the Little League Giants or Mariners whatever.
I used to wear the hats. I don't wear hats anymore.

(01:22:05):
The last jersey I wore nothing revolving around Houston or
a team I was calling games for sixth grade. I
got a powder blue Cardinals jersey. Okay, because I love
the jersey. That was me in nineteen youth XXL sadly,
and I wore slacks with it. Two, why did my

(01:22:26):
mother allow that to happen? I wore dress, slacks and
a Cardinal's jersey. I'm humiliated by that. No, yeah, yea,
it's what's the anti ya yay? No, whoa no, whoa,
we got we got a thing on that. How did
my mother, who I love dearly, allow me to go

(01:22:49):
to school in dress slacks and baseball Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
I'm sure white tennis ones.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Hold on, you had slacks, tennis shoes and a baseball jersey. Yes,
this is gout hallo. Was I in six Halloween your
sixth grade twelfth nineteen eighty four sheet? Let me go
to school wearing that? H mm hm hmm how ross howe?

(01:23:16):
I don't I had a Cardinals blue and had a
Cardinal's white. That's great, man with dress slacks in white
tennis shoes. No one, I was made fun of that
my portly figure. I'm sorry, Matt, No, you're not. How
that make you feel? Well, that's what that's it developed
me into who I am today. Explains a lot, for sure,
I'm sure it does. Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross?

(01:23:41):
All right, here we go twelve oh four Sports Talk
seven ninety Matt and Ross with you on this Monday
seven one three two one two five SEVENANTI ROSSI, Sierra Santos, Yes, Matt,
what about her? What's the other one's name? Lauren Shaati?
There's one life raft left on the boat. Okay, who's

(01:24:06):
getting it?

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Yeah, I'm giving them. I'm giving them both. I'm giving
one to Lauren Shotti. I'm giving Sierra Santos the other,
and I'm I'm jumping in the water man. You're like,
my life's not worth living. You two need to live.
They can spread more joy to the world than I can.
I'm probably gonna Lauren Shahati just because I think maybe

(01:24:29):
he can. She looks like she could float, at least
for a while. At the same thought, that makes me sad.
All right, anyway, time down for the news, dude, shoo, yeah,
I want you to we have not recapped yesterday's man,
I want to hear.

Speaker 9 (01:24:45):
You do this?

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Go ahead, all right, man.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Well, over the weekend, the Astros nearly got a perfect
game thrown against someone with a picture that was oh
and six and an e r A over six. Then
on Saturday it was a weird, wild game in twelve
innings that they nearly lost. Then yesterday they got slammed

(01:25:11):
twelve to nothing and Christian Javier's velocities were down across
the board and he left with an illness. Great weekend
for your Houston Astros with the bad Baltimore Orioles in town.
They lose two out of three. Good news is they
take on the Detroit Tigers today, you who do have them?

(01:25:32):
The Tigers, I mean is minus one fifty five favorites.
It's Flairty versus Arrogetti. Then tomorrow, of course, is a
cracker of a match Hunter Brown versus Terrek Scooball that
game might last an hour of forty six. I'm feeling
good about that over runners one and a half runs. Yes,
who's on that postgame? And guess who's not giving that
one up? Big fan? Tuesday Night Baseball here on Sports

(01:25:57):
Talk seven ninety That game will also be on TBS,
by the way, not seen locally here though. Oh is
that true? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
They black them out.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Oh you know where? You can catch every game locally, Matt,
right here in the O seven nine zero or seven forty,
depending on when the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
As long as you don't interfere with you know who.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
So one and a half games ahead of the Seattle
Mariners would have been nice to gain some ground, by
the way I had, I had on a gut feeling
already for tomorrow, which I'll be breaking on you did.
I said the Astros would not relinquish first place in
the this entire last week, and they didn't. Good job,
thank you. You've also had them guaranteed AOST champs. How
we feeling not nearly as confident? Okay, Well, the Astros

(01:26:32):
are going to be taking on the Tigers, as I said,
if they sweep the series, they could be the number
two seed in the American League. Thoughts on that, I
don't think they're gonna sweep. I don't think so either.
That could happen. Let's say we'll save our gut feeling
for the tripic ever Detroit Foig.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
In Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
By I don't know, if you're going with the heavy
hitters and Giant series, imagine who the pictures are on
the Baltimore series. I'm done predicting. I mean too. I
mean you get to know there is no day and
there's no day off. How's how of you're feeling after
his illness? We need some more information on that, all.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
Right, Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Also the Houston Texans in action over the weekend against
the Carolina Panthers. They won the game twenty to three.

Speaker 19 (01:27:19):
C J.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Stroud six of eight for forty four yards and a touchdown,
Woody Mark seven carries for forty yards, leading them in rushing,
and of course, as you know, Irv Smith leading the
team in receptions with five in reception yards with forty six.
Davis Mills also eight of fourteen on the day, Matt,
your thoughts about the Houston Texans preseason game number two?

(01:27:42):
Why are people so excited about how great of a
preseason Davis Mills is having?

Speaker 8 (01:27:47):
Win?

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
Is anyone? Is there anybody that has an IQB at
least fifty that are like, if Davis Mills plays, We're
not going into the playoffs. We're not going to have
our normal Saturday three thirty spot We're going to be
barely winning the division. If we win it, it all
because we're gonna be outscoring opponents three to nothing because
our defense is so good. Why would anybody is that?

(01:28:07):
The most lowest hanging of all fruits in pre season
analysis is how great our backyard quarterback is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
M I'm with it, Matt, I don't understand. People were
buying into Davis Millsye a couple of years ago, as
your son was, and he bought a jersey. Yeah, I've
been thought of him ever since my son's jerseys. Speaking
of he, I was surprised his thought on CG. You know,
I want to get to the young'in's perspective. He's like,

(01:28:37):
I am the king of wearing other teams uniform Yeah.
I said, well okay with that, he goes, you can't
wear the rivals you had in your city. You just can't.
So even some of the young'ins are like, well, I understand, CJ,
what are you doing? I mean, it was a question mark.
It was an eyebrow raiser, but it's nothing to get
mad about. In my opinion, that'll make a small gup feeling.

(01:28:58):
He will never wear Seattle, Caprica. I would imagine he
won't just for pr purposes, all right, Matt Well. The
Ohio State Buckeyes have named their starting quarterback, Julian Saying
is going to start for Ryan Days Ohio State buck
Guys announcing his decision, saying he won a close competition

(01:29:18):
against junior Lincoln Kinholtz, but he separated himself. He was
the nation's number nine recruit and top prospect from California
in twenty twenty four. He of course signed with Alabama,
but then transferred to Ohio State following coach Nick sabans retirement.
We are now two weeks away from the opener Ohio State,

(01:29:40):
well at least the op the big time opener, Ohio
State taking on Texas at the Shoe. That'll be eleven
am on August thirtieth, right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Why are you burying the lead with local foot without
without mentioning the local football story.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
What happened Chase Jenkins starting quarterback for Rice?

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
That's the story. They still have football. I know, good
for them. I'm look Rice way back in the day
was very nice to me. But that stadium is a
complete dump. It's like a it's like a museum. No,
it's like a time It's like a time warp. When
you go in there, it's like it should be imploded.

(01:30:21):
I like old stadiums. I like going to the old
Cotton Bowl rooting on Texas and Oklahoma. Do you feel
safe in the Cotton Bowl?

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:30:27):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
I don't feel Yeah? And don't they do inspections people.
There's two small bathrooms in a press box level that
people unfortunately eat too much and have to go do
the bathroom and clogs the toilet up. It's a bad situation.
That sounds like you're speaking from experience. Yeah, because I
had to go to the bathroom one time, like this
thing on them flushed and somebody had too much, too

(01:30:49):
many spare ribs. Yeah. Going on a lot of long
runs at the Rice Stadium, Huh, it's just a dump. Okay, man. Well,
this weekend things starting doublin Ireland with two ranked teams
taking on Iowa State taking on Kansas State. Big tall football. Baby.

(01:31:10):
When I think of Dublin, Ireland, I think of the
Iowa State Cyclones and the Kansas State Wildcats. How long
a flight is that from that part of the country. Hell,
hell if I know, Matt, that's a long haul. You
have to fight the equipment up there and everything. Yeah,
because usually you have you truck the equipment that can't
do this. I think they're gonna do that. No, you
can take the boat over it to put a ship,

(01:31:32):
put it on the Santa Anita. I would take the
get I don't know, Santa Mario. You'd have to drive
it to the west coast or to the east coast
and then put it on a boat. Well, I feel
like a lot of work. Yeah, I don't think it's
gonna work. But they have to ship it out about
six weeks ago. That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:31:46):
They shipped out like a June first FedEx one division.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Not good. All right, anyways, there's your news in noon.
Thank you very much. Appreciate that You're welcome. All right,
Astros Tigers five to ten. First pitch. I should have
gotten in Stafford. Matt Stafford is practicing four of the rams,
sounding like he's gonna be ready for a week one
against Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
Well, they're just gonna shoot him up, right, went in doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
It's the NFL. Yeah, what has he got left? Two
or three years alive? And yeah, still a high, very
highly ranked quarterback. A lot of controversy about why he's
being labeled a quote unquote tier one. I think at
his best he's deserving Jalen Hurts or Matthew Stafford all
timer right now, right this second, right this second, Jalen Hurts,

(01:32:31):
But i'd say all time Matthew Stafford. Oh, I think obviously, Yeah,
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Fuck to Matt Thomas and via Real Fine Sports Talk
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Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
Time is twelve nineteen. We'll get back to more of
the astros chatter in a minute, but just there are
a few things that I'm always curious about, especially when
we're about to go through something like this and not
too distant future. San Antonio wants to take the Spurs
out of East San Antonio and move them back into
downtown San Antonio, and there's a new arena and on

(01:39:28):
the plan and plan for it, but they're hassling over
some money. The latest offer sheet between the City of
San Antonio, the county, and the Spurs goes as follows. Now,
I don't know if this is fair or not, because
nobody ever can think it's going to be fair. The
we're talking about the new arena everything around which I

(01:39:49):
don't even know what arenas costs anymore. It says the
city cost is the lesser of thirty eight percent of
the cost of the arena or four hundred and eighty
nine million dollars the counties cost, which Barrett County twenty
five percent, but not to exceed three hundred and eleven
million dollars the Spurs pay for everything else. How much

(01:40:10):
your how much your arenas and plazas cost these days?
The most recent opened one was into It Dome and
that was two billion, okay, so and that was a refurbishment,
right or did they strip down the old form or no, No,
a whole new forms and no forms still around. Okay,
so it's a whole new building. Okay, so that's la.

(01:40:32):
So we can probably cut that in half because of
real estate costs. Well, so we're talking about a billion
dollars buildings arenas. Wow, that's crazy. The Chase Center was
the next. Now we're talking about high costs as well.
That was one point four billion, opened in two thousand
and nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
Which means is now about one seven billion.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
You were actually look at you, am, I right, there's
literally a yeah they did a they did an inflation
cost in fleshing keeps happening. But anyways, one point seven
two billion dollars. And then the one to open after
that is the five Serve Forum in Millionwalk. That costs

(01:41:10):
that was one point two billion then so one point
five now so yeah, it's a billion and a half. Okay,
So we take the city and County of San Antonio,
Bear County, they're gonna check, They're gonna put in there
eight hundred million dollars. The spurs on the on the
hook for the rest of it. Why don't we own
a sports team, Ross, I don't know, Matt, why weren't

(01:41:34):
you a billionaire? I wasn't even born to one. Yeah, exactly,
it's my parents' fault. Yeah, neptit. Well, there's more. Feels
like there's more. Most nepotism is in the NFL. I
don't know about the NBA. Maybe I don't know. I'm
speaking on my asse. Sure, eight hundred million dollars, and again,

(01:41:57):
the Spurs arena costs one point five billion figuring. That's
about seven undred million of their own so roughly a
little less than fifty percent. And San Antonio is cheap.
I don't know if this or not, but it's big
money threatened. I mean, would they threaten to leave? That'd
be I feel like you could hold san Antonio hostage.
You absolutely could hold san Antonio hostage. You could because

(01:42:20):
Austin's ready. Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
Now, I feel like the Moody Center is too small.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
It holds ten for basketball, but when concerts come, I
think it holds up to sixteen or seventeen or more.
There's there's a whole deck that they don't open. They
only open it for concerts.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Yeah. Now the Spurs are gonna play two games there
again this year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
I don't I wonder if San Antonio is like, if
we're gonna build you this, you can back go f
up Austin.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
You're we're putting all forty one games in our city.

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
Austin is still isn't it the biggest city without a
major anything?

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
Two they have a soccer team as I count. No, okay,
uh yeah, two point three billion metric million metropolitan population. Now,
we were in round Rock the whole time. Oh you're
in Rondrock the whole time. Uh, round Rocks, crazy, round
Rock donuts. No, we had, we had, we had breakfast
the hot No, you're not mister Texas. That's okay, No
mister Texas. Yeah, you just ate in the hotel the

(01:43:14):
whole time. It's fine. Well, they offered breakfast for us,
when I will say, no, we don't want your free breakfast.

Speaker 13 (01:43:19):
I just wanted to tell tell you, Matt. I just
told Tom that you don't like sweet tea and that
you want to be called mister Texas. And he just
lit at me and shook his head.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
Okay, first of all, you don't like sweet tea, sweet tea,
So you're telling me that I don't like sugar, which
is not good for you. Makes me not, mister Texas. Okay, whatever,
you don't like doctor Pepper, Nope, but I love root beer.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
What do you get at water Burger?

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Water River? Good for you? Learning by the way, the
runner Rogers got that new Mesquite double that looks really good.
I don't know what that is, but the barbecue's great. Yeah,
comar it looks good. But probably eighteen hundred calories. Mister
Texas gets that. Okay, mister Texas, this never mind. Mister

(01:44:04):
I went to risk, I went to Rockies twice. I
went drove through many a town in central Texas, enjoyed
two ninety, stopped in speed trap cities, and slewed my
speed down. What's mission, mister Texas?

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
Does he follows the rules?

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
And then you gotta spend about twenty seven dollars in tolls? Probably?

Speaker 3 (01:44:21):
No kidding?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Was it one eighty three? Is that the highway? It
turns into huh oh my god? Pay by mail? Almost
screwed taking my day. Used to be able to get
off the two ninety for free. Nope, not anymore. Not
in your day anymore, Not your day anymore. Toles these
tolls me to shut their bumbasses up. Yeah it's not
And I just don't get it. I get it. They
want cash. Yeah, like they said that today the Grand Park.

(01:44:45):
I think it costs me about eleven dollars ago they
got three got tolls. Now two nineties got tolls and
they have one. Three seventy one has tolls. All all
all for shame, Austin, for shame. They gotta do something.
It's been a mess there for forty years. Yeah, terrible,
all right, but yeah, I do like Austin, and the
Spurs would love Austin if they don't get a deal.

(01:45:06):
You spend some time on Sixth Street. No, I didn't
even I was I was being a dad. Well, so
you didn't go to the capital of the state. You're
not mister Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:45:14):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
I spent time as a constituent state. Have you ever
met of the state capitol? No, you're not mister Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
I've been in many capitals.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
We're talking about Texas. So you're the worst kiddidate ever.
They're gonna tear you down from like day one. I
like Lubbock, I like Galveston, I like Austin, I like McAllen,
I like Houston, I like Dallas, I like sant You've
been to McCallen. Yeah, many times. Really, Yeah, that's cool.
But you don't like enchiladas. Nope, Jonathan said it, not me.

(01:45:44):
I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be nicer
in my old age. You both have been equally rude
to me today. That's fine. You know what's even better
than brisket enchiladas. That's very Texas and you wouldn't touch
them with a ten foot pole. Oh he likes Bristain,
that right. I like premium Britain. I like I like
fried Okrah, Okay, I mean all right, thank you, thank you.

(01:46:07):
I saw Armadilla on the street the other day. I
thought of you. You should.

Speaker 3 (01:46:11):
I want you to go there and pednit next time
it gets you some leprosy, be sick for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
All right. Uh so we basically dodged for two and
a half hours. How the hell the Astros are still
in first place? What do you mean? Well? The Mariner
is lost, thank God for the Mets, and they're going
to be fine. Astro is gonna be fine. Jordan's rehabbing
is gonna be back soon. I still have the over

(01:46:39):
under at zero. I know, I'm I'm I'm really really
wanting you to be wrong. There are two things that
are going to happen the next two weeks. One is
I'm going to be really right about something and want
to be really wrong about something. Go ahead and I'll
take you what those two things are. Oh wow, when
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Speaker 19 (01:47:14):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
You can follow my Instagram at sports RV. We just
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Appreciate your support, folks. Look, he's doing it because he's
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(01:47:36):
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What are the values? Valumes of sports MT on Instagram
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I'll do a video once in a while. I may
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(01:47:58):
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It is a great cell. And we're gonna have a
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Speaker 11 (01:48:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
We'll see, Okay, we'll see, all right. Two things that
I'm one I'm gonna be right about, want to be
wrong about? Go ahead, you go about five hundred. You know,
I'm like the Bob Nightingale sports pretty good? Is that
who you want to be? Well, I'm just saying five
hundreds more of like a John Hayman or a GP BARROSI.
That's right. I really hope I'm wrong about Jordan. Okay,

(01:48:40):
but but until he does it the home run, I
will not stay off this thought. He's not going to
be impactful player when he gets back. When is his
rehab start tomorrow? Tomorrow? Okay? He plays Tuesday, off Wednesday,
then place Thursday Friday. My guess is he'll stay here
in Houston, h whatever incuperation that is eight A b's

(01:49:01):
in the Florida Complex League. Yeah, Mike, one day a
week from today he will be actually a week from
tomorrow he will be in uniform for the Astros because
they have a day of an off day on Monday,
right for those who don't know. And then how much
does he play over the next six weeks after that?
Who's to say, you're he could have a setback today.

(01:49:24):
I don't know. That's why I'm I'm tempering my enthusiasts.
You should, and I'm not doing it just to be
complacency guy, or just you know, we didn't make a beday.
We didn't make a bet. No, we didn't make a
bet on that one. Unfortunately, I am going to be
wrong about that when he does, I'll be very happy
to say that I'm wrong about it, and I will celebrate.

Speaker 3 (01:49:42):
I will do handstands in my celebration.

Speaker 8 (01:49:44):
You won't.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
You're right, rip your shoulder. There's no chance of be
doing that. I'm not gonna be wrong about Joe Mixon
not being ready for a start of the season. I
think you're going to be right about that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
So again I'm five hundred and I didn't say that
was crazy when you said it, thank you, thank you,
but I thought that is he still in the Eno.
Yeah okay, and boy did what's his face?

Speaker 6 (01:50:03):
Kid?

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Damiico got so kind of uppity about that. He's very
upset when people ask about injuries. Yeah, he only wants
players around him to protect that like his players that
care about him. That's why team control media is becoming
more popular than ever. Hmmm, yes, I guess. Oh yeah,
all right.

Speaker 24 (01:50:22):
Uh so.

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
If something close to Jordan comes back, let's say he
plays half the games. I don't think they would do that. Well,
I do, why one you have every other day? I
think they're gonna treat you. They're gonna treat him with
complete kid gloves.

Speaker 18 (01:50:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
I think he'll get off days, but I think he'll
see you got some off days coming up. And then
as soon as the season's over with ROSSI I mean
after the parade. Mm hmm, he needs to go see
a hand specialist. Peel that hand off, peel the hand off. Yeah,
peel it off. Put the bonic parts in and let's
get him fixed. Because this is this can't happen again.

(01:51:01):
His hands are too much a part of the future
of this franchise. Wow, Okay, he's like he needs to
find the same surgeon like the pianists. Get well, I mean,
let's look without you and I being doctors, let's logically
think this guy's been gone since may Oru mart No
may maybe May third was when he hit the ielf.

(01:51:21):
Does somebody have an ailment that costs informants of the
year and it recurring. We's had multiple setbacks, yeah, and
they didn't initially know it was a fracture, then they
found it as a fraction, then they let a heal,
and then he had another setback, but then they said
that he the pain is not where the fracture was,
so it's some other things. So I don't know. It's
very confusing. Yeah, but it seems like my gut feeling

(01:51:42):
all along has been that he needs an off season
procedure and he's going to try to manage the pain
and then go from there. And what I'm seriously worried about,
and maybe I'm the only one, is that he's coming
back at seventy percent, and usually guys that come back
at less than a hundred percent are a little further
risking their chance of staying healthy for the long term, like,
for instance, Josh Hater. I mean, I would love him

(01:52:04):
to come back, but there's no way in the world
I'm possibly anticipating him throwing another pitch of the Astros
this year. I just don't know how you go from
six weeks rossy of non throwing. Excuse me, three weeks
of non throwing, then three weeks of building trying to build,
and all of a sudden, I gotta get important. Now
it's the ninth inning of a playoff game. That doesn't

(01:52:25):
seem like it's hands on it. It's a logical thinking process. Understand.
I don't think it's gonna happen either. I think he's
gonna be and I think they're gonna reevaluate. They they
said they're gonna reevaluate in three weeks, and I think
the reevaluation was he tried to rehabit and he needs surgery.
That's what I think, my gut feeling. And we're not again,
we're not doctors. And it's funny because I was not

(01:52:45):
there when Josh spoke over the weekend, I was very
curious to see what's that. Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, true.
I was very curious to see if there was any
sort of comments about, well, Joe made me throw a
second inning, and I do believe the second inning thing
might be gone. Is sorry, I think it's definitely gonna
be gone. Like you're finishing my sentence, I've had a

(01:53:08):
bad habit of that last couple weeks. I'm trying to stop. Yeah,
I think it's gone. I think he wanted to do
it under the right circumstance. It was desperately needed by
the organization for that to happen. But that's not gonna
be possible anymore. They're gonna if they're protecting. As Dana
said that over the weekend, we're worried about the long term.
The long term is he is a one inning guy. Now,

(01:53:30):
does that mean that it's no chance, no way could
ever happen again. No, but that first inning met to
be a low pitch count most of the time it happened,
and it's I think the nature of it has been
just this the Astros. Of course, because of all the
injuries and stuff. The offense just hasn't been good a lot.
I want to go, look how many of these two
inning appearances were him going into extra innings? Like how

(01:53:54):
many of those were extrating? How many those two inning
games ross? Or did he throw nine or ten pitches?
I mean, I don't, I can't him going twenty five
and then going for another set of fifty. Yeah, the
last time out, he threw eight pitches in the first
inning and then it unfortunately it ballooned up to thirty
six because he didn't have a good inning the timeout.
So I'm gonna look, I think they're all extra. Yeah,

(01:54:19):
every he went he went two innings four times this year,
all of them are extra innings. Like, I don't think
it was ever the plan for him to get six outs.
It's just kind of like, well, we gotta throw him
out there again. He's paying all this money. And he
said that himself. He didn't do it in San Diego
because he didn't have a long term deal, and he
said last year, the Astros have committed to me, I

(01:54:40):
will commit to them and do these things in risk injury.
And well, here we are. And frankly, to defend Joe
a little bit here, it's not like he's asked to
do it a whole lot. He's been asked to do
it a handful of times. It's happened four times that
he's gotten six outs this year, and how many appearances
in forty eight? Okay, so you're talking about ten percent
of the time. M hm, which makes me part of

(01:55:03):
me Ross thinks, is it really the second inning or
is it just the fact that he's pitched as much
as he has this year? Maybe the arm says, we're
only gonna be able to give you a certain number
of appearances, Like, what's his career appearances?

Speaker 3 (01:55:15):
Did you have a list in front of you? How
many appearance is yet.

Speaker 2 (01:55:17):
In his entire life? Per season? Oh, per season? Last
year I think it was his most ever. I'll go
look it up. Last year was seventy one, and yeah,
that was his most ever before that, sixty one, fifty six,
thirty seven, sixty, twenty one, and twenty twenty. That was
obviously pandemic stuff, right, sixty one. Yeah, last year is

(01:55:39):
sixty one, the year before with San Diego, and then
seventy one with the eyes. So if he had forty
eight you said going into this week, yeah, then he's
kind of on pace to being sixty appearance. Guy's so
he's done that before. That's not out of the ordinary,
but it is the responsible thing. He tried to give
it a go. It didn't work out, and I think
the Astros will do everything in their power to make sure.

(01:55:59):
Now will he ever get a four out save again? Sure,
I would say so. If you go on the eighth
inning and you need him to get that out and
he thrown on one or two pitches, oh, I guarantee
you Josh Hayder can't go to the ninth inning. He
only threw three pitches. I mean, I have to understand that,
and it also will probably if you really can't do

(01:56:19):
and he literally gets only a one any pitcher, maybe
they just have to at that point say we gotta
trust whoever's out there in the anthing and get that
final out. We can't take that chance, or go to
somebody else. Yeah, go to somebody else. It's gonna probably
there he'll get four or five outsays I would. I
do feel like that's insane exact I would say, at
least if it were like a playoff situation. Next year,

(01:56:42):
he'll get sick, he'll they'll use him for six outs.
But no, no, no, I will ever again down here
we go put my name on they will never get
six outs for the Astros ever.

Speaker 3 (01:56:55):
Again, that is correct.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
That's wrong. You think even in a playoff you're saying
to me a playoff game, he pitches the ninth, they're
going to the tenth. They're like, now we're good, they'll
use Josh Hater.

Speaker 5 (01:57:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:57:08):
No, that scenario may never come up. Yes, that's correct. Okay,
I'm saying, what time, hold write it down. I'm writing
it down, put in you know what putting caps in?
What does that mean? Underlining? Okay, tallasize it, whatever you
want to take, whatever you gotta do. Josh Hater will

(01:57:28):
never record six outs again.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
For the Astros.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Okay, right twelve, time down, two, right down? Yeah, twelve
forty two on a glorious hot August day, twenty twenty five. Now,
is you have two years after this year or three?
I think it's three? Mm hmm. Book it. I've been
never' you know. That's the difference between me, I'm wanting

(01:57:55):
to go on on a limb and you're really to
go on the limbs, say ridiculous stuff. That's true, but
I'm right, and he will never again.

Speaker 6 (01:58:04):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
Okay, now four out, say sure, five, maybe six and
it's and it's this is purely semantics, by the way,
I understanding that right, Why because it could be a
double play and variety of crazy things could happen. Yeah,
he could. He could go out there and have a
five pitch inning and then go out for the thing,
get three more, that's right, and then and thus you
would win, and then your I'm not winning, and my

(01:58:26):
credibility would be shot. That's fine. I don't think you
could take any more hits in it. No, because people
are gonna say I remember back at the day when
I was young, and Matt said on twenty twenty five,
I'll forget.

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
You're not gonna let them forget O.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
I tried not to let them forget. You know what,
maybe that's a flawed by part. It is a flaw,
But for the reason we love you. Twelve forty four,
you keep me in check. Somebody's got to two one, two,
five seven, All right, we have got to get into
this absolutely ridiculous college football scenario going on with the
Big Ten conference. Why is the Big Ten on crack
cocaine this week? Well, discuss that next seven one three,

(01:59:02):
two one two five seven nine zero slide. You know
I'm troubled by a lot of things Ross does for me.

Speaker 5 (01:59:15):
Or to me.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Or suggests for me. Oh, he had me go look
up Jimmie Lee Curtis's Twitter account. No, I didn't have
you do that, I said, did you see Jamie Lee
Curtis was going viral this weekend? Yes, Jamie Lee Curtis
in nineteen seventy nine, eighty eighty one, eighty two was

(01:59:37):
a smoke show, trading places.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Halloween.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
True Lives was in the nineties, feeling great there. Yeah,
but then she did the commercials about the yoga to
make you poop. It's important stuff, Matt, Well, yeah, but
I gotta say regular. And now she's putting.

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Movie. John series a latent sequel, Yes, of the original
Freaky Friday, not the original. Right is a reboot? Oh yeah,
reboot of a reboots The original was back in the
late seventies. Okay, with her and Lindsay Lohan back in Lohan.
All right, delight for young lady over now still got her,

(02:00:33):
still got her? Fastball Sports RV. Okay, the video you
showed me is Jamie Lee Curtis promoting the movie, and yeah,
she's got her cleavage hanging out, and Jamie Lee's got
to be what late sixties? She is sixty six years old.
Not the greatest look. I thought you'd enjoy it, Matt,

(02:00:59):
I didn't enjoy mm hmm. Do you ever see you
ever see Trading Places? Jonathan? Trading Places? Yep? Eddie Murphy
dan Aykroyd Well, I thought you're gonna start talking about
you and your friend. You were down on your LuFe
and you're your stockbroker friend. I wouldn't do that to him,
switch places. I would do that to him.

Speaker 13 (02:01:21):
No, I said, I haven't seen a lot of Eddie
mur Murphy movies. Really, wasn't he He wasn't in Life,
was it?

Speaker 9 (02:01:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
No, no Life?

Speaker 10 (02:01:29):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:01:30):
Yes, yeah, yeah by something else Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy.
Life is a classic. So buddy mine, Jonathan, we went
we went to go see forty eight Hours and we
really liked it. And then he's like, I gotta go
to l A. I said what for? And he goes, well,
I'm getting I'm a cop in Detroit and I'm really
really burned out, and I'm going to LA to get

(02:01:52):
some downtime. I said, man, just let's go to the
movies instead, and he winds up getting involved in a
huge ur drug bust with a bunch of criminals in
California too. He meets two of the cops and they're
these bumbling cops that work in Beverly Hills. This is
long story, long long story. Twelve fifty three of the
Matt Tavias Shold Ross, why are you shaking your head

(02:02:13):
outher RV? I'm taking my head.

Speaker 8 (02:02:15):
Back here too.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
All right, this is the plot of Beverly Hills Cop.
It's not it's my friend. His name is Raxel Bef.
Great song, great song. He is on great song, great soundtrack. Yeah,
Beverly Hills Cop. All right, College football playoffs focus now,
we gotta focus on for one sports. So why is

(02:02:42):
the Big ten on crack? Explain? Well, there there are
there's people trying to get this this college football playoff
expander of sixteen teams. Okay, that's fine. I mean it's
not preferred, but I get it. Then they start floating
out this idea that says between twenty four and twenty eighteen.

Speaker 25 (02:03:00):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Are they doing it because they they're even afraid that
the SEC is going to dominate the twelve or sixteen
team format, and they would get rid of conference title games.

Speaker 3 (02:03:11):
Yes, to shorten the season up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
They're saying seven automatics from the SEC, seven automatics from
the Big Ten. I believe five automatics from the Big twelve,
and I think four from the AC something like that.
It's some there are automatics given in this these conferences.
It would be seven and seven for the Big ten
in SEC and ACC and Big twelve would each receive five.

Speaker 3 (02:03:38):
So that's fourteen and ten is twenty four and then
have four at large?

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
Yes, oh my god, So you're saying the four the
power fours get twenty four of the twenty eight spots,
two at and sorry two at large and then two
non power four at large. I guess non power four
whatever you'd call it. Okay, help me walk me through
this real quick. Yes, twenty eight teams. You only ranked
twenty five. They had to expand the rank tams, so.

Speaker 3 (02:04:04):
One place twenty eight in week one.

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
Then you play, oh, there'd be some buys because okay,
answer this question from you. How many weeks would that take?
Sixteen you get double buys? How many? How many weeks?
Did it take to play triple buys twelve to buys
had a sixteen twelve team's gonna buy and then the
other sixteen playing four over four weeks. I don't oh,

(02:04:28):
I mean, my god? Are you talking about a seventy
posties and double buys twenty eight team you had? You
had four three years ago, two years ago? M hm,
you're gonna go from four to twenty eight. We kind
of knew this was gonna be. That's what I'm saying.

(02:04:51):
I'm rossie.

Speaker 3 (02:04:51):
I swear to god, I'm not. I'm definitely telling the truth.
I'm checking out.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
You're a liar. The University of Houston Cougar's were the
twenty fifth seed and they're playing in a playoff game. Yeah,
I look at you, Look at me. I'm not on
TV right now. You can't see me.

Speaker 11 (02:05:06):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:05:07):
But he's sticking his tongue out EXAs spreadidly. You know
what you're You're about to lose me as it is
sixteen seems even patent Libsir, twenty eight the season, the
playoffs would be just as long as the season would be.
It's too much, it's too much.

Speaker 8 (02:05:28):
So scared.

Speaker 2 (02:05:29):
Is there anybody with it. Just a little bit of
common sense in the college football world to say, what
are you telling big This is a Big Ten driven.
This is not SEC driven, This is not kirk Herbstreet driven,
This is not Paul Fine bomb driven. This is the
Big Ten? Why are they doing it? And I know
the easiest. They want all the money money, and then

(02:05:55):
under the precursor everybody wants money. There's a certain length
that just as I'm just I'm not going to pay
for an opening round game, and they want to make
sure they get they don't get squeezed out by the SEC,
so they would want this new system with as many
guarantees as the SEC.

Speaker 3 (02:06:11):
It's just gross.

Speaker 2 (02:06:12):
How do you say the Big Ten Conference commissioner Tony Patiti,
Uh a titty but he's you know he's got But
what did you just say? T titty Pattino, Patiti, tity
pities pat stop he's got a huge TV background. You

(02:06:34):
said he's got a huge and I was like, oh God,
let's move on this time for break. What's believing on today?
If you got fifty Jamie Lee Curtis, Jamie Boom, there
it is Jamie Lee Curtis, Believe it or not. She's
in Freaker Friday.

Speaker 15 (02:06:55):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (02:06:55):
It's a freak your Friday. All right?

Speaker 3 (02:06:58):
Have you go look at her nineteen eighty two.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
I know what she used to look like. I've seen Halloween.
I've seen trading places, training places. Uh, funniest? Is it
funner than forty eight hours? I say yes, I don't
remember forty eight hours. Nick Nolton, very good movie. I
don't know. I didn't see another forty eight hours. I
love Beverly Hills cop On, Beverly Hills cop or Training

(02:07:20):
tri him my best Eddie Murphy movie. Funniest Eddie Murphy movie.
I want to stoke. Ooh boy, you Naddy Professor, not
Eve Professor. All it's different characters too.

Speaker 15 (02:07:29):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:07:29):
Coming to America Madagascar? Oh coming, Yeah, i'd chipball mass up. Yeah,
Coming to America's gotta be one pole question. Okay, I'm
gonna put that. We're gonna figure out is the funniest? Okay,
all right, I went to America. Final answer for me
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero is

(02:07:53):
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross? All right, we'll question
is up Bunny as Eddie Murphy Movie. Not a Professor,
Trading Places, coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop coming up
to America. Strong early start at forty three percent, Beverly

(02:08:13):
Hills Cop twenty seven percent, Trading places seventeen percent, Not
a Professor thirteen percent. Vote get a whole twenty three
hours and fifty minutes on the Twitter account. Notice at
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(02:08:35):
at least a game in the Astro Series against Attackers.

Speaker 8 (02:08:39):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:08:41):
No false promises at sports however, you just good content?
Oh no, is that a false promise? So that's definitely
a false promise. All right, Beverly Hills Cop coming up
a little bit here, read America, drop, come on America.

Speaker 3 (02:08:52):
Forty percent.

Speaker 2 (02:08:53):
It's easy. It's the easy number one to me. Got
mcdowalls too quotable. He plays multiple characters. This is classic.
It's an old timer. All four are hysterical.

Speaker 19 (02:09:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:09:06):
He got into the kids movies lightnering in his career.
You mean like daddy daycare. Yeah, uh, what was the
doctor Doolittle? Mm hmmm. He's still working, He's still in movies.

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
He did a great uh.

Speaker 2 (02:09:21):
On SNL's fiftieth year anniversary, a great Tracy Morgan, I
mean nailed it. And he had Tracy Morgan right next
to him. It was pretty funny. And you talk about
pure talent, is he's on the short list, Eddie Murphy,
I think for sure?

Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
Absolutely for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:09:36):
Wait do we say Norbit that's he plays a right, Yes,
Noorbit is of im. Just make sure I'm just mixture
if you write that in near your trouble I actually
did on Twitter, but obviously joking. God, all right, I'm
working with children over here. It is a final hour

(02:09:56):
of the show. Seven one three two one two five
seven out seven one three two one two five seven
And the Astros start a three game series with the Tigers.
AJ Hinch's squad playing a lot better, but as you said,
though ross the Astros that they wanted. You know what,
The Astros really do well against the first place teams.
And the Tigers have a eight and a half game

(02:10:18):
lead over the Guardians in America League Central. As far
as the league is concerned, the Astros are three back
of Detroit. Yes, sorry, go ahead, you're laughing about now
nothing then the shot at me? No, okay, thank god.
Not everything's met you, Matt. No, a lot of shots
are about me though, sometimes so. Toronto's got a half

(02:10:39):
game leand on Detroit. The Astros are three and a
half behind Toronto. Wild cards right now are Boston, Seattle,
and the Yankees. Cleveland's three and a half out. Nobody's
catching those three teams. Uh No, yeah, I think those
three teams have a pretty good field. So here's the thing.
Even if things continue to slightly head southward, he would

(02:11:01):
take an epic.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
Collapse to the Astros not to make the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (02:11:04):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
Correct their playoff odds according to ESPN. I don't know
where ESPN gets there is from ninety That feels good though, right,
that's good. I'd like it to be a little higher.
I think a couple of weeks ago it was like
ninety nine percent. Now, the Astros would be nice if
they can win some games Introit, because the Mariners are
playing in Philadelphia this week and the Phillies are in
the middle of a National League East race. M They're

(02:11:29):
in five games ahead of the Mets and the Astros.
Thank you Mets for winning two or three. That Baltimore
series was awful. Even the win Saturday was ugly. Yeah,
it's not good. It's not super encouraging. But you've got

(02:11:49):
Arragedtty can be good today. Now, you made a boastful
prediction about Aragedtty last time around. I said he was
going to have a quality start, and he went five
innings and gave up two runs, so he was close.
And you're forgetting one thing. What you walked five people?
Dah guys squeezed on the string zone?

Speaker 4 (02:12:06):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (02:12:07):
Yeah, okay, it's very very Matt Thomas explanation for that one.
I'm learning from the best. You should be the best
excuse maker of the bis. I've made a few of
my day, that's for sure. All Right, we'd like for
you to join us. Our phone's working, okay, now I
don't know. Is everything all right? Can we screen phone calls?

Speaker 5 (02:12:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:12:22):
The phone's working out here, all right, So ladies and gentlemen,
the phones are working. You want to test him? Yeah,
let's test one seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 3 (02:12:31):
Honey.

Speaker 2 (02:12:31):
By the way, eric In based City is now barred
from the show. Uh yeah, he was apparently cursing at
our producer, Josh Cee.

Speaker 3 (02:12:38):
Cursing at Josh.

Speaker 2 (02:12:39):
What happened? I don't let it. We were trying to
explain it. He cursed at Josh, our network producer, and
he said bad things about me. I don't know if
he said bad things about you, but he said bad
things about me.

Speaker 19 (02:12:48):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (02:12:48):
Oh no, I let him on. I don't mind that.
But cursing at the producer, that's not right.

Speaker 11 (02:12:52):
What do you say?

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
That's what I don't know. We can't say cursing words
on the air.

Speaker 4 (02:12:57):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:12:57):
Yeah, we're a family friendly show. So literally, anybody but
Erican base that you can call the radio show. Yes,
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five seven nine eightys
So Astros get ready for the series against Tigers. We've
not brought this up at all since I've been gone
last couple of days. Any thoughts about the rocket schedule
coming out on Thursday? Was it much of a conversation piece?

Speaker 9 (02:13:19):
I was.

Speaker 2 (02:13:20):
You know what's funny is uh, sometimes in you're out,
I gotta I look back and I'm like, oh, we
didn't spend much time on that I didn't really talk
hardly about it, but we'd probably spend a fair amount
of time on it if you were in the building. Well, uh,
I'll say this twenty is it twenty eight? But everybody's
got more. You know, there's one hundred games and NBC
alone this year in Peacock. That's a lot. And then

(02:13:43):
I'm sure Amazon Prime's got to be in the sixty
sixty range. ESPN's got to be in the sixty. I mean,
if you are a fan of the NBA, you're gonna
have plenty of opportunities on granted they're on mostly on
cable or streaming services. Yeah, twenty eight national TV games,
and fifteen of them will not be sewn locally by
Space City, which means if you're a frien of Craig

(02:14:05):
and Ryan and Vanessa you can be sol I'm a
friend of them, but hey, I like listening to the
national broadcast and the game feels bigger with Mike Brain
on it or Kevin Harlan. He just does. And that's no, sly,
that's no. I think Craig does a fantastic job, for sure,
he's great. I feel bad for them because they like
to broadcast games and honestly, when the local teams are

(02:14:27):
not on, because we love our local broadcasters, those other
networks hear it.

Speaker 3 (02:14:32):
You know, oh that was a trash crew.

Speaker 2 (02:14:33):
Now when you're on Roku and you're using other teams broadcasters,
I can kind of sense it. But look, Kevin Harlan
is a gym Iron Eagles awesome. Mike Tarico is going
to call the very first game on NBC coming up.
So I mean you're getting the heavy hitters. I'm okay.
Sixty seven games of Craig Ryan and Vanessa. I think
they do a great job. And I'm okay with fifteen
games of national broadcasts a good mix. There is a

(02:14:56):
weird facet to this is that there are gonna be
some games. They are gonna start at ten o'clock local time.
I've never broadcasted a game that late. There have been
nine thirty started, aren't they Aren't they factoring in the
as they call it, the slide. I don't think there

(02:15:17):
are no a slide would be ten to ten. No,
I think they're factoring in the slide. That's what somebody said,
Oh maybe it's wax or somebody. Okay that that that
start time. You've probably done games that started at ten.
They were supposed to be at nine thirty. The latest
I ever remember doing a game or like nine to
fifty something is local time eight fifty two. So that's

(02:15:37):
gonna that's gonna go beyond that. But like, let me
look at the Rockets have got how many I mean
literally ten o'clock Gamelet's see here, uh won a game
against the Clippers on oh, the Christmas week and then
they have maybe just one let me see, Oh, they've
got one in Phoenix late in April this season. There's

(02:15:57):
two games this year that will start at ten o clock. Yeah,
but man, if the NBA want an exposure, they're gonna
get it. It was my understanding, or the way I
either saw or as explained to me, is that it's
just it's gonna be ten no matter what. Yeah. Yeah,
see because the first Peacock game starts at seven. Yeah, okay,

(02:16:22):
so they do seven and then ten, so you're like,
it's going to start at ten. There's no likely, not
likely to be, and we will ump up the season
as expected. October twenty first, at Oklahoma City on Ring Night,
Kevin Durant Night put up thirty five against his old
team on ring night, and why not they have a
great defense. It's probably not. It's not a death nail
to plan on ring night because a lot of road
teams over the years have gone there in one games. Yeah,

(02:16:44):
I think they already got a line out they do. Really? Yeah,
you want to guess Oklahoma City is favored? Okay, I'll
say by four six and a half. Really that's large? Well,
I guess you can't get your bet down. I cannot
get my bet. Yeah, that's what I'm not allowed to do.
All right, John, we'll start calling you John tay Porter everybody.

(02:17:05):
I mean, there's sport more than happy to pro basketball.
I cannot one fourteen sports Talk seven with you. Rockets
plus six and a half, let's go. I'm actually taking
them on the money line. I'm not doing that actually,
But if you think the Rockets are gonna why would
you want to do the six and a half? Get
you some more value? Right, A little cushion? What you mean? Okay?
Just all right, you go go, you go be What

(02:17:27):
are you gonna wear a Titans hat in the arena
when I might? Okayody's gonna get all mad a hat
he wore ahead. I didn't like mommy. Nobody called their mothers. Yeah,
they probably did. We'll call their mothers.

Speaker 5 (02:17:41):
Did you see that?

Speaker 2 (02:17:42):
Ahead, No, stop now you're just embellishing. You are embellishing
and won in my weekend. He adn't ruined by his weekend.
Just said, man, just read the room. The room has
been red. That's okay, Matt. You have a reasonable take.
Some people were unreasonable. Yeah, I didn't think about once
the game start. This is a disgrace. And by the way,
if he wants to keep wearing the Mariners want to

(02:18:03):
keep losing, I'm all for that. One fourteen, on Sports
Talk seven to eighty, Larry and Galveson is going to
talk about pitching for the Astros. Rossie, I'll throw a
question out to you and the rest of the audience
over the next one. How many games are left by
the way in this season, like thirty nine or some
I'm that's kind of a guest. If we're down to
thirty nine ish, if the Astros win the division or

(02:18:23):
lose it, is it more because the pitching doesn't come
through or the hitting. Think about that, they've played one
hundred and twenty four games, thirty eight left. How do
the Astros hold out of the West, pitching or hitting,
knowing that both are key, But what is the most
important part both? Nope, can't answer that question. I wanted

(02:18:44):
to fit an answer next. On seven ninety, I just
went to Facebook to see the freak your Friday page
and Jamie Lee Curtis's videos. Why did you do that, Matt?
Because people were calling her breast, strange names, what cannons, bazooms? Okay,

(02:19:12):
she would have to deal with every day folks. Oh,
you were looking at him to stop. You're the one
that brought up to my attention because I couldn't believe
you hadn't heard about it. I don't need look if
I figured you spent all weekend looking at Jamie Lee Curtis,
That's why I brought it up to you. No, no, no,
I'm for the daughter. She's she's uh, she's our topic

(02:19:35):
I believe it or not. I guess she's our topic
of believer or not today. Yeah, first Freaky Friday? I
think involved?

Speaker 12 (02:19:47):
Was it?

Speaker 6 (02:19:48):
Uh?

Speaker 19 (02:19:50):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (02:19:50):
Tatum O'Neill wasn't the original Freaky Friday? I want to say,
I don't know Lindsay Lohan, though good, gracious, proud of her.
Why are you so proud of you rebounded. She's had
a tough mine. Oh, Jody Foster, that's right, U, Jody Farser,
Barbara Harris, John Aston, Patsy Kelly, and Dick Van Patten. Humm,

(02:20:12):
what did I say? Was the original one? I don't
tatum O'Neill. O'Neal in a cinematographer was a Charles Wheeler.
I think I saw Freaky Friday at the movie at
the drive in? Really?

Speaker 3 (02:20:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:20:24):
Why do we lose drivings by the way sex and drugs? No,
I don't know exactly. I guess somebody's got an answer
for that. Because we drove people could steal the radio
signal and just get in there for free and watch
the movie for free. I guess let's go to h
you're still driving some places I've been one forty years,

(02:20:49):
fifty five years. Let's go me and you and a
driv You want to go see a movie?

Speaker 10 (02:20:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:20:55):
I don't want to sit next to you at a
drive in?

Speaker 5 (02:20:57):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:20:57):
That was so cool though? All right, Larry, how are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (02:21:02):
Oh man?

Speaker 4 (02:21:03):
I'm doing good. I hadn't been at a drive in
since probably about thirty five or forty years ago. Up
in Arkansas. But whatever effect, what's the most important to
answer your.

Speaker 2 (02:21:17):
Questions, Yes, answer it's.

Speaker 4 (02:21:18):
Important pitching or hitting. I think pitching is. And right now,
if Sean Divin has not been DFA by the Astros,
I don't know why not. You know, we can't put
up with anymore of that kind of performance. Two out

(02:21:40):
of three games he has just basically gone up there
and really dirty's his underwear.

Speaker 2 (02:21:48):
Yeah, it hasn't been a good run. Unfortunately. It's crazy
because he was so good before he got hurt. But man,
he has not been very successful since then.

Speaker 4 (02:21:57):
Yeah. And now I mean, and if we're gonna if
we're gonna have the short string on Hector Nerris, Sean
Duban was was never any Hector Nears. Granted Ners was
in the past a couple or three years ago, but
there you go. But do we have any idea.

Speaker 6 (02:22:21):
What is going on with Lanceman Colors?

Speaker 2 (02:22:24):
And is he he had a rehab start over the
weekend and he was good. Yeah, And Hector Nerris is
off the team? Yeah, hec Naris is gone. Lance pitch
over the weekend for sugar Land and my guess is
he would probably be available six with but he was
like five innings of one run ball or something like that.
Maybe he pitches this weekend in Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (02:22:42):
You never know.

Speaker 2 (02:22:43):
By the way Sean Dubin numbers first eighteen appearances before
he got hurt ross uh huh, three earned runs nice
since his return, eleven runs in three outings. It's not great.

Speaker 1 (02:22:57):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:23:00):
A Google search. He was out for two months with
his injury. Yeah, so let him. Let him get worked
back in into things, Matt. Yeah, Sean probably doesn't need
to look himself up on Twitter. That would be ill advised.
That's ill advice for basically any reliever. For the most part,
Chas McCormack greater than Sean Dubin. Well, the recent numbers

(02:23:25):
bear that out. Yeah, Chas McCormack got like three popouts
in like eleven pitches.

Speaker 3 (02:23:30):
What was the fastest he threw.

Speaker 2 (02:23:32):
He got it up to. I think the first time
he got it up to like eighty two. This last time,
I think he was hit in the high seventies. I
can go look if you really want me to, don't
let ever this dude take a shower. Put Sean Duban
in a car headed twenty two miles southwest and fifty nine.
Get him a full police escort. Are we doing? Are
we doing? Duban overreactions d o's Joe spot as a

(02:23:53):
blanking idiot. I don't even blame Sean Duban. He knows
he's sorry. Af that's from mister seven one to three
block whoever that is?

Speaker 5 (02:24:04):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
I hear some background noise there that yell. That's weird.
We're hearing interference. Sean Dubin's era is on the moon.
That's Sean Duban is a blanking, blinking addict. Multiple sources,
get him off the roster. Seventy eight and a half
Watching as mccormer kit, watching Sean duban pitch makes me

(02:24:27):
want to kill myself. All right, that seems extreme? Why
what is wrong with you people? That's that seems very extreme.
Sean Duban should not be on the plane to Detroit,
all right. Stop trying to make Sean Duban happen. It's

(02:24:47):
not going to happen. Sean Dubin sucks. Can Sean Duban
please go back on the injured list? Sean Duban effing sucks. Geez,
can we give a bunch Sean Dubin man. Yeah, people
are rude. Sometimes it's just better not to look. It's
a lot safer a spot to be in, all right.

(02:25:08):
One twenty seven on Sports Talk seven pointy seven one three, two,
one two, five seventy. We're gonna have a Sean Dubin
free segment coming up, are we?

Speaker 3 (02:25:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:25:15):
All right, we're gonna play that. Can we play the
Ron Manford audio? Yes, we've we Finally I think we've
got it for real this time figured out Sean Dubin
doesn't even get discussed. Rob Manford does. One twenty seven
on Sports Talk seven euty all right, So the question
I've posed to me asking the Astros offense to all

(02:25:36):
of a sudden have a massive uptick. We've been asking
for that all season long. It's it's just been too
much of a roller coaster ride. If the Astros are
gonna hold on here, they've got a fit. And I
was I was talking about this last night on Channel two.
You've got all these starters. You've got two that you've
been able to rely on for the most part this

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entire season. One of them has been leaky as of late.
With Fromber, you're basically asking Hunter and Fromber to be
really awesome. So the other guys, whoever that may be,
can get you five innings. That's going to put additional
stress in a bullpen. You're now taking your ninth inning
guy and putting him and saying see you next year,
you get your eighth inning guy's your nineh th inning guy.

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This team ross to win the division is going to
have to rely on the arms way more than the bats.
Bats are you have to obviously have offense, but I've
watched his team win games when this team has not
had much offense. So to me, I'm way more concerned
about where this Astro team is for thirty eight games
pitching wise than they are hitting wise. Of course, we're

(02:26:40):
worried about both. Your done coming back will help depending
on what you know, depending on setbacks, and depending on
how effective he can be when he's actually in the lineup,
because we have to remember that he played twenty nine
games this year and he was horrible. I think those
days exactly. It's it's like he's got a forgettable yeah. Yeah,
and actually the Stars records better with him not playing, Yes,

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very much a small sample. You'd rather have him in
the lineup, for sure. I don't necessarily worry about that
particularly because all right, so let's I mean, what is
jord On bring. I mean, he's going to scare some people,
he scares he he lengthens the lineup, You get to
move Correa out of the three spot. You have Christian

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Walker down to a five or six. You know what
I'm saying. I mean, there's it's gonna look a little
more formidable, and you're probably not gonna see a lot
of Taylor Tremall or Jacob Melton playing corner outfield spots.

Speaker 3 (02:27:37):
Hey Sus Sanchez O Rossi is ice cold right now.

Speaker 2 (02:27:41):
He's ice cold, and you're gonna have You've had the
luxury of putting Altuve in the DH spot a lot
with jord On out and you're not gonna You're gonna
lose that luxury. So what is gonna be difficult? But
they'll figure it out. They'll play matchups. Joe spot is
gonna have to get creative. It'll be interesting to see

(02:28:02):
if it is just going to be Cam Smith against
lefties and Hasu Sanchez against righty's, because they are trying
to limit a limit the workload of Cam Smith. But
as you mentioned, Hazes Sanchez is in a deep funk
and it's it's what is he now? He's on a
big op for isn't he? What was going into the
game yesterday and yesterday I honestly before when it got

(02:28:23):
to was it seven to nothing? I took a nap.
I literally, I said, I'm going to take another reason
to to not to not. Yeah, yeah he was. He's
on a er for twenty one. So what's the premium outfield?
The rest of the way, your best outfield is one
of camers Haesu Sanchez and right one of Trammel or

(02:28:47):
Melton or hopefully Jake Myerson center, then Joseel Tuvan left
with ord we're talking about with the ord On back
in the fold. But man, we haven't seen jose put
but a handful of innings in left field in the
last couple of months. Because everybody's been hurt. People are
coming back, So he's got to play somewhere. He's not
gonna You're not gonna do unless you're putting your done
out and left a bunch, which I don't know you're
gonna do that, certainly, not immediately. Maybe in situations where

(02:29:10):
you have Fromber out there and watching Mauricio Dubam play
first base. Shape was weird. You know, when you think
of first base, when you think a big, hulking guy's
kind of a big target.

Speaker 3 (02:29:21):
Big target.

Speaker 2 (02:29:22):
He was a classic. I mean, I appreciate his versatility,
but it was just it just showed you there's just
not a lot of I mean, John Singleton's hitting home
runs with the Space Cowboys are just cool and everything,
but we know what he's gonna do when against the
dead league team that did all right, didn't affect the
twelve to nothing result.

Speaker 3 (02:29:39):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (02:29:42):
Police pictures come through. Can please lands mccaller stay healthy
and be somewhat productive or maybe they won't. And honestly,
if they look, it's gravy to be where they are
right now. And I'm gonna need people to keep this
perspective because everybody's gonna be ripping their hair out. Hold on,
and when the division it's always gonna be it's gonna
be Jo spot his fault in the hitting coach's fault. Yes,
and that's low hanging fruit. But whatever, I mean, it's

(02:30:06):
a miracle they are where they are right now. I'm
gonna say it again. I'm gonna back your point out.
It is a miracle that they're in first place. Yeah,
Correy has cooled off some you like, for instance, if
you ross Joe Spot and eye the forest went to
go have a drink? Uh huh was it? Joe? What

(02:30:28):
was it like? He was like, I can't believe we
did this. Maybe a game and a half lean late August.
Have you seen what I put out there? I had
Zach Short playing meaningful games a shortstop literally short hummel
Wickham who else? Aj blue Ball? Not that he can't

(02:30:49):
be a fine picture for this back in the bullpen.
Maybe he's a bullpen help and I've used something called
Jason Alexander. He's given me six innings every time I
ask him. Alise Sander crazy. Let's talk to Rick on
seven eight one thirty nine, Rick, thank you for holding
in good afternoon.

Speaker 17 (02:31:06):
Liston, guys, you really can't blame the Spot for you
know what's going on now. I mean, the guy's been
doing a great job job like which he said, being creative.
But what he's dealt with, I mean, so many injuries.
He's been bringing up no names to pitch the film
Major Void. So he's done a great job. He thought
he can't play the game. He can't go I turn
and throw the pitches for these guys, you know, I mean,

(02:31:29):
you know, we really do need like another Kyla Tucker
type guy.

Speaker 14 (02:31:33):
Guy.

Speaker 17 (02:31:33):
Somebody really missed Kyler Tucker. Now, I mean that's pretty
obvious that we don't have that bat. And you know,
like you said earlier, you're done. Who knows what we'll
get now if he does come back, who knows? Anyway,
don't don't take this out on the Spottom man. He's
doing what he can to the best of his ability.
And you know, to be in first place where we're at,
it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:31:55):
Yeah. I think again, if you took anybody with a
decent baseball IQ and thank you Rick for the call,
and said evaluate Joe Aspotus, Now, Joe Spotted is not
bad a thousand, No manager, no, not Tony L. Russa,
not Leoda Rocher, not aj Hinch, just Baker, Dusty Baker,
Dave Martinez, anybody.

Speaker 8 (02:32:17):
Yeah, uh uh.

Speaker 2 (02:32:21):
Joe tory noybe about a thousand, even in a particular season,
But for what has been given to him and how
level headed he's been about this, he's a saint. I mean,
come on, gang, That's why we need your IQ to
say he's been getting a little bit of touch and

(02:32:43):
go with some of the post game. He's cranky and
I get it. I just get it because what you
know what he does. Here's the thing is when you
overly defend a player, and that's if there was anything
that Joe does. He really protects his players. Yes, and
when those players let him down, he's got to go

(02:33:04):
up in front of a microphone. It's got to kind
of not long, but certainly stretch the truth. Like he
wasn't overly pleased to answer questions about farmber Bell does
not backing up home playing on the player because he's
been trying to protect fromber Yes, so when I asked
about it's like, oh, christ, I gotta I gotta give
a response to this question had to be asked. And
that's the even more fair game when Frommer is the

(02:33:25):
one calling out defense a couple weeks ago, a week
whatever it was, Biscuit on Seminary High, Biscuit, what you
got I'm doing?

Speaker 6 (02:33:32):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:33:33):
How about you?

Speaker 6 (02:33:34):
I'm just flying man. First of all, Man does Raw
qualify as the movie?

Speaker 25 (02:33:38):
I mean, I ain't mention that Man.

Speaker 2 (02:33:43):
Concert film. I would say no, it doesn't count.

Speaker 25 (02:33:46):
Okay, okay, well, I'm just saying that was the funniest
part thing I've seen on Eddie. But and and now
I'm with you Ross on the on the manager.

Speaker 11 (02:33:54):
But let me say it is that they had and
lost Saturday night after that, but with the ban on
third with no outs, man, I would hate to see
how they would kill the coach on that one.

Speaker 25 (02:34:04):
But but my last thing is, Matt, the college football thing.
Why did we you got five teams from the Big
twelve and five teams from the ACC.

Speaker 5 (02:34:18):
Why do you need it at large?

Speaker 25 (02:34:20):
That a large is gonna be what the eight team
from the SEC and the eighteen?

Speaker 2 (02:34:24):
Well, yeah, they want to squeeze as many spots on it. Now,
the at large could be two MAC teams and I
don't think it's going to be. It could be two
Mountain West teams. It could be two New Packed, It
could be two New PAC twelve teams. I mean, Washingtontate
could get in there or something like that. I mean,
I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:34:39):
Yeah, look, keep it at twelve. Keep it at twelve,
and I'm very.

Speaker 2 (02:34:44):
Happy with that.

Speaker 6 (02:34:46):
I think sixteen man and no buys.

Speaker 25 (02:34:48):
Sixteen no buys.

Speaker 2 (02:34:49):
Let's let's go with him mmm, I mean I think
it's going to get the sixteen, thanks Biscuit. I mean, yeah,
that's an und layer. And guess what, Ross has another
TV partner that's going Look here's the thing. You keep
expanding these things. The TV networks are just saying, yeah,
we'll buy it, We'll buy the game, because they are
not gonna They're gonna get ratings and then get the
They're not buying these games if they can't get the ratings,

(02:35:11):
and that means the advertisers they'll just keep buying them.
But sleep twenty eight teams when your season is as
long as the playoffs are, that's that's false. Honestly, I
think the NBA playoffs are too long. I've told you
that many many times. I like baseball playoffs. They're done
in three weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:35:32):
That includes a wild card round.

Speaker 2 (02:35:34):
NBA you start in mid April and your week would
be crowd of champion in late and mid to late June.

Speaker 3 (02:35:40):
It's crazy. It becomes white noise, honestly to me.

Speaker 2 (02:35:47):
All Right, believe it or not, all things about Jamie
Lee Curtis, will a brass size be brought up in question?

Speaker 3 (02:35:52):
We'll find out next excuse me?

Speaker 2 (02:35:54):
Well, I mean you can.

Speaker 3 (02:35:55):
I mean you can guess. Go look at the video Ross,
what video?

Speaker 4 (02:36:01):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:36:01):
The video you sent me to Shame on you. Let's
remind the folks how to have some better energy. You
get ready for Believer out of the category of better
late than other never Here is uh Rob Manford talking
about things that he'd liked to potentially see in the
future for Major League Baseball expansion and potentially realignment.

Speaker 8 (02:36:24):
How about a window.

Speaker 2 (02:36:26):
Expansion realignment? I think if I mean, yeah, can you
see that down the road?

Speaker 10 (02:36:32):
I can, you know, I think that it's I think
the first two topics are related in my mind. I
think if you expand, it provides us with an opportunity
to geographically realign. I think we could save a lot
of wear and tear on our players in terms of travel.
And I think our post season format would be even

(02:36:53):
more a feeling for you know, entities like ESPN, because
you'd be playing up out of the east, out of
the West, and that ten o'clock time slot where we
you know, sometimes get Boston Anaheim would be two West
Coast teams and that ten o'clock slot that's a problem
for us sometimes becomes a real opportunity for our West
Coast audience. So I think, you know, I think the

(02:37:14):
owners realize that there's demand for Major League Baseball in
a lot of great cities, and then we have an
opportunity to do something good around that expansion process.

Speaker 3 (02:37:26):
All right, there it is.

Speaker 2 (02:37:28):
I think we're going to see if this is a
super early gut eight four team divisions. Okay, and it
makes sense, and you play the division winner of your
next closest geographic like your Pacific time zone winner could
play maybe the seating though right mmm, you'd have to
see it. You couldn't just have like two the two

(02:37:49):
best teams playing each other because they just happen to
be closed like two hundred win teams. No, I I
firmly do believe that they the first round of the playoffs,
you will play a team in your time zone. Yeah,
you could do, yeah, I mean or close at least
for instance. I don't there's two hundred win teams and
then all the four other team Now, of course they'll

(02:38:10):
be they're they're they're if they're doing six, it would
be probably the first two would still get buys. Yeah,
I put it. I think the days of New York
playing LA would be probably just for the World Series.
Well yeah, they wouldn't. New York and LA would be
a different com Eastern and Western conferences. Mm hmmm. Yeah.
But that the days of that being a division series

(02:38:30):
are done is what he's probably trying to say. I
want to keep it as close as I can. My
West Coast teams can play my West Coast teams because
I don't. My guess is the owners of the Eastern
teams are like, I don't want my teams playing at
ten o'clock at night. I lose ratings. That's what the
Yankees always play in primetime, the number one team in sports,
or at least in baseball. While they play them on

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