Astros Lose The Series vs Rangers, What Is Going On? Is It Just The Injuries? Rockets Summer League, Wimbledon Finals, SEC Media Days

Astros Lose The Series vs Rangers, What Is Going On? Is It Just The Injuries? Rockets Summer League, Wimbledon Finals, SEC Media Days

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ross vi Real is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
ten o one in h Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Monday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
This your Sports Talk seven ninety. There is not another

(00:26):
radio show in the marketplace that will give you some
yacht rock on a Monday. Chriss Cross one of the
all time goats. Right, sports Harvey, this sucks. It does
not suck. How are you, friend? I'm doing great, Matt.
Are two words out of my mouth this week? This sucks.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I just thought I was just being funny. It's just
it's not my jam. It doesn't suck. I mean, there
are people that have said that criss Cross sucks. I mean,
I'm gonna be honest with you. I happen to think
he's fantastic. I've seen him in concert before.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
That's not my jam, but that's fine. Yeah, I mean
he had a run from what eighty eighty three, no idea,
he had four or five hits. He definitely meant enough
to go hit the Casino Route and the HBU concert
Hall market. That's that's what we saw him. Yeah, he's
doing great. I'm sure. Well, you know he had COVID
and he well, that's right. For a while so he

(01:22):
wasn't doing great for what But now he's rebounded nicely.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm glad every day he's breathing. He's doing just like
the Yeah, just like the Astros are going to Rebound
Sports Survey.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
They're breathing too.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I guess much much needed All Star break, even though
it's only four days.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
You know, we had Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Bogus sec On and I asked him that because I
was like, man, you don't get four days off. He's like, ah,
that's plenty. So I guess probably the players and the
managers and everybody else agrees. But I guess just for
me because the half, the half, the forty man is
on the IL, I want a little bit more time.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's almost like the Astros should not play until August first,
anything ended break. I like that a lot. Actually, yeah,
it's it's crazy. Let me ask you this, Uh do
you think Hunter Brown is suffering from a tired arm?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I speculated on that man on KPRC Local two Sports
Sunday last night.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
No, I didn't see it because actually joining you today
from Kingston, Rhode Island. Uh, the most I knew you
were gonna do that.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I got I'm like a puppet. You
pull this string. I can't help it.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
What if I have said Newpault, Newpault RoadHead and hm, phoney,
I said, kick you out of there. This place is uh,
it's a little bit of heaven on earth. I don't
know if not a lot of people run between Houston
and Rhode Island. We were doing a lot of.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
That in the next five years.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, just yeah, yeah, but it's it's I don't get
enamored with a lot of places. It's gotta travel so much.
This place is just unbelievable. So point being is this.
I watched the game on my phone and then I
put on the iHeartRadio app as all I do when
I travel, like, yes you should, and I listened to
the tenth Inning Show, where you will be hearing two

(03:09):
great moments of the tenth Thinning Show coming up today
at ten thirty wonderful. And then I saw your tweet.
You were on Channel two last night. I didn't get
to see it. Did you look okay? Did you did
you comb your hair? Did you put a nice suit
on or some coord a sports code or something.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
I it was late.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Notice.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm gonna imagine somebody canceled on Randy and he texted
me late, and I didn't really have time to fully
like get my beard trimmed.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I kind of wet my hair.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
The shirt I'm wearing is like my third choice shirt
because I didn't want to wear the same shirt I
wore the first time and then the other one.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I just didn't think it looked right.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
So you know, I slapped myself together as best I
could and with like an hour notice.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, So more importantly, your content was amazing because you
brought that tired arm.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
So what was your take on the tired arm?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
The location has been a bit of an issue, and
now you know, I'm not a pitching coach, so that
would be something somebody else can answer. Does that mean
that's a little bit of fatigue. The velocity has been
pretty decent. I think his last fastball he threw like
eight miles an hour. But also he was kind of
unloading the tank. So I am a slightly concerned, but
I would say my concern level isn't super high. In

(04:23):
a little bit of time off, I don't know if
they're going to keep him on regular rest or whatever.
When they're going to put him back in the rotation
or give him an extra couple of days, we'll see.
I hope it's closer to the latter, just because the
last two starts have been a bit of a concern.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, this is a very subtle gut feeling. It wouldn't
be worthy of talking about tomorrow, but I would guess
that even though it would be on regular rest, that
he will not start the second half on a Friday.
He will start his second half maybe the Saturday or Sunday.
Give just get him an extra day, because let's face it,
the Astros, if they're going to win this division, and

(04:56):
I believe they start going to do it, they're going
to have to rely on on Hass one and Hass
two because three, four and five are either hurt or
a very much a mixed bag. Watching Lance mccullor's throw
on Froddy hurt me. It wasn't great, especially for those

(05:17):
of us mcculler's island.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yet Home is horrible. Home is like you never want
him to pitch at Home?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Road is okay? Get them out there every fifth day? Yes,
it worked that way. No, it doesn't, so we got
issues we of course, because we're stockholders.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
In the Astros LLC.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
We are here. It's more stock seven out of year
home for the Astros. Well, I mean, even if we
weren't carrying the games. I mean, you know, as a
former Astro buddy, I invested in the team and it
was only a matter of time. And that's why I
played the criss Crosses all right, because it was only
a matter of time before where this makeshift lineup that

(06:02):
the Astros were putting out there was gonna regress a
little bit. They weren't going to play as well as
they did in Los Angeles. And you always hate to
do this, but I'm gonna do it like everybody else does.
Certainly no disrespect to Taylor Tremout and Cooper Hummel, Yes,
and Zach Shorten. Zach was obviously a hero of Saturday's game.

(06:22):
But if those three guys are playing on the rate,
and Bryce Matthews will throw in the mix too.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
If you're throwing.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Those guys out and you're in the same lineup or
seventy five percent of that lineup is, and they're playing
multiple games in a row, you're gonna hurt. They're just
either they're not good enough to be major league hitters
on an everyday basis, or they're not ready. My feeling
is when we talked about Bryce Matthews and the Show Friday,
is they're calling him up.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
He has an assessin that because they think he's ready
to go.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
In fact, even Joe a Spot at Rossi on the
week but before the first game, said he's still a
work in progress. You don't typically bring up your highest
your prospect when he's still a working progress. And we
knew about his strikeout numbers being astronomically high at sugar Land,
and I believe four or five of his first at
bats resulted of strikeouts so far.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, it's I kind of just feel bad for him.
It's not only that he got called up to the majors.
Like you mentioned, he's got five strikeouts and seven plate appearances.
Five strikeouts and seven plate appearances. He looks overmatched. But
it's also, I mean, your first day you get called up,
you have to see Jack Lyder who's just piping one

(07:34):
hundred mile an hour fastballs against you, and then you
go up against Jake de Grom, one of the I mean,
I don't know if he's gonna be in the Hall
of Fame because of health, but at the end of
the day, win healthy. One of the all time great pitchers.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
And frankly, watching the Rangers this weekend, they're massively underperforming
and I don't know if it's because of injuries, which
I'm sure probably it's just like everybody else, but they
should be a lot better than where they are. They
have one hundred percent under achieved so far, as you
because that that three man pitching rotation that the Astro
saw this weekend was dominating, and the Astros are lucky.

(08:08):
Frankly Ross, They're lucky to win the game on Saturday.
And by the way, we gotta get the Saturday's.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Take on the pulling out Tuvan that I, oh my god,
you know what I'm gonna scream about this? I think
I well, I would scream a hotel and I remember,
for the both of us, do.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
It, please, I never said I was gonna scream for
another man. This is weird.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Okay, there you go clip that at ten eleven.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Please, thank you. I'm gonna scream for you, Matt. Wait
what yeah, exactly, excuse me. We'll say you know what
we'll save it. Because if you're gonna really bellow from
your from your lung with your lungs, you gotta really
do Okay, because it was sound, I'll just spud, I'll
put it very politely, and then you'll scream it was
sound baseball decision period, end of story, and what caused them? Well, no,

(08:58):
because astros twitter is you can't do it yet, you
can't do it? Okay, all right, ten thirty this morning,
coming up in twenty minutes from now. We have two
great moments on the tenth Inning Show. One is just
a stupid caller and he knows who he is. The
other one I think might be a bit. I need
you to judge whether it's a bit or not. But

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I was listening to the tenth Inning Show here in
Rhode Island. It was great. I was in my room.
My wife and my daughter wererot shopping, so while they
were spending money, I was listening, learning and feeling. I
was appreciated because I was able just to focus on
the baseball side of things. But I think the second
caller was an absolute bit, And I want to get
your judge on thought on that. We've got other things

(09:44):
to get to on the radio show today, which will
include SEC Media Days. I don't know if Gordy's calling in.
Usually he'll be too busy for us when it's important
and he's hanging out with his SEC bros. The All
Star Game is coming up tomorrow in Atlanta is the
the epicenter of sports. Between the SEC Media Days and
the All Star Game, we have the Summer League. Ross,

(10:06):
did you catch any re Shepherd yesterday?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
A little bit?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's probably all you needed to see what you said
about him. I didn't say hold on now. I asked
you were thinking. I asked you were thinking you were okay?

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Try to get me in trouble.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, I wouldn't be I would do that to you.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Eleven thirty. We have to tell the truth.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
We have the news at noon and Ross, uh, do
we want to go with Love Island Believe it or not?
Today at one fifty because everybody and their mother is
watching the show except you and me.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, seriously, it's all over. I don't even watch the show.
I don't click on those tweets, and it's all over
my four you tablets. Try to tell you, try to
tell you how to get on it. Excuse me, but
get on the way of going away ten thirteen.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Write it down.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
After a strong star already for Friday. So yes, sir,
we probably got left over from last week too.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, ten thirteen. It is the Tamas Show on Sports
at SOX seven Aunty with Ross seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven Aunty, I ask you Astro fans, are
you all right? Do you think we're gonna make it?
It is Sports Talk seven ninety Ross with you here

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on Sports Talk seven Hunting. Our time is ten eighteen.
The Astros did win one game over the weekend and
losing the series to the Texas Rangers. Meanwhile, the Seattle
Mariners swept the Detrent Tigers, so the Astros lost two
games in the standings. So Rossie, let's go back to
Saturday Night. You were a host of the tenth Inning Show.
Is that correct? That was not me?

Speaker 4 (11:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh well, okay, who did it?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Then?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Saturday Night would.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Have been the Uh wait did I do Saturday Night? No?
I didn't do Saturday Night? It was a Dan Matthews. Okay, no,
because I mean because Dan did it yesterday. I did
it Friday. Did you not do it Saturday? Okay, well,
that's fine. Whatever you didn't do it, you didn't do it,
So let's go to the ninth inning. May give me

(12:05):
a second guess? No, I was no, I was home
watching boxing and UFC and Astros. Nice. It's a nice saturday,
all right. So you have josel two Bay strike out
to end the eighth inning. Correct, Correct, that's correct. Yes,
that's correct. Ninth inning, you're up one run on the
Boston on the Texas Rangers. Yes, it's three to two.

(12:31):
And then you bring in your closer. Who was last
time I checked in that petition position? Twenty five for
twenty five on saves? Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
And that is correct?

Speaker 1 (12:42):
And what you would like to do is if you
know that Jose al tuove is not going to bat
in the next inning or maybe even the inning after that,
you'd like to have your best defense out there. And
we love Jose al Tuovey and he certainly works very
hard to be a decent left fielder, but he's not
a great left fielder. So you'd like to ultimately work
on having a better uh you know, defense as possible. Yes,

(13:05):
you want the best defensive outfield possible out there, especially
with the guy who is prone to giving up fly
balls like Josh Hater and Kennedy Corona was brought out
there to work in left field.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
M h, well, Josh had to be a place in center,
but yeah I can. But yeah, there are people moving around,
that's right.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
So the home run was given up and that meant
you had to go to extra innings and you did lose.
Uh Jose al Tuve as a hitter, yes, but you
were able to still win the game because sack Smith
was your hero short, Yes, Dak short sax Smith's short,
same difference. And all the four U Astro Twitter fans

(13:46):
were like, is Joe a spot has got to lose
his job? How in the world do you possibly replace
Jose Altuve in left field? What a mind blowing, dumb
decision it was made.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Now, this is the thing that always highlights a separation
between watching a sport and paying attention to a sport. Now,
everybody who is on Astros Twitter, I imagine a look
a lot of you, I know, major accounts in twenty seventeen,
but even at a minimum, if you did that, let's
say you even did it in twenty twenty two when
they won their second World Series championship, and you're like,

(14:20):
all right, I'm gonna start watching Astros baseball.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
This three years of watching baseball.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Hit you have seen dozens of time, Matthew, where there's
been a late defensive replacement where one of the power hitters.
Sometimes it's been your On Alvarez, it's been Jose al Tuve,
it's been whoever. It happens all the time. This is
not the most common thing in baseball, but is it
extremely common?

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Are you watching the games or are you paying attention
to the games? This is what I just don't get.
And oh, by the way, it didn't affect him at all.
Kennedy Corona came up in his place, he tried to
bunt and then.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
He got a walk.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
He on base. It didn't affect the outcome of the game.
It took.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
It took Josh had had to blow the save number one.
Then they didn't walk it off in the ninth, Then
they didn't walk it off in the tenth. It took
till the eleventh inning where there was any impact on
the outcome of the game, and Kennedy Karna got on
base and then they won the game.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Anyways, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
So we're gonna have to have a very hard conversation here, Okay,
are we just never going to have a great baseball
acumen in this town? Or is it just a very
few amount of people that are speaking for what we
think is a larger segment of the audience, Because it

(15:43):
feels like we've had so much winning baseball here and
so many more people that you would think with watching
all the number of games this team. I mean, when
you have been when you became an Astro fan, when
things started to turn around in twenty fifteen, you weren't
watching ten fifty games a year, ass you were watching
one hundred games a year. And then when the Astros

(16:03):
won the World Series in twenty seventeen, you started watching
one hundred and twenty five games a year, and you
started going to twenty five games here, or you got
a mini season package, or you got a full season
and you had watch parties and you went to your
friend's house. I'm very concerned that our baseball IQ is
not growing or can we just say that, Hey, maybe

(16:27):
we're speaking for a few but I don't know who
did the show on Saturday, but I'm going to presume
that many people were just losing their mind over pulling
jose L Tuve when you put your closer in who
was twenty five for twenty five, and you got him
a better defense because the new outfield was better than

(16:51):
the old outfield, at least for one inming Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Now two and coming to the eleventh, you needed you,
as I said, you need a blown save. You needed
to not walk out on the ninth, not walking on
the tenth with an extra runner. And then it took
to the eleventh. I mean, what are the odds of that?
They're pretty low. And so Joe spought away the odds
and said, I need it's more likely that that there's
gonna be a either you know, a liner to the

(17:16):
gap or whatever or fly ball that I need a
great defense to track down and that Josh hater who's
twenty five for twenty five can get this going and
get to save if maybe I don't even know it
them all and then it's a zero sum game if
you replace them and no ball goes to Jose al
Tuovay at left field, which is probably the most likely outcome,
it doesn't even matter. It didn't cost you anything, and

(17:36):
the game's over. I mean, can help me come up
with the names Matt. I mean we've seen throughout the years.
Throughout the years late defensive replacements. We've had Jake Morisnik.
I mean it was Cameron Mayben for replaced defense. So yeah,
I'm talking, yeah, exactly, guys who've been replacing guys who
come in for them. The Jake morrizik Chas McCormick's done it,

(17:57):
Jake Myers has done it. I mean, there's been late
in any defensive replacement. That's a baseball term, pay attention
to the games and is a you know what is
the guy who's just doing the wave and not even
paying attention. That's the guy complaining that Joe's spot Hold, no.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
They got you gotta fire Joe's botta. You're a hundred
percent right. And I'm worried because I love talking Astros baseball.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I love that watching the team. I like talking about the.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Team and in good times and sometimes and in bad times.
But it bothers me so that we have the wave
as often as we do, and we have people that
just can't put a pretty logical thinking decision in front
of the manager. He makes the logically thinking decision and
it didn't turn out according to plan. But it was

(18:50):
the right decision and ultimately it did not cost the
team because I can tell you this ross. If there
was a play in left field where it was it
made properly because Jose did not make the right rud
all run was trying to score from second base and
one of the test josel two's arm, you would then

(19:11):
be having people call and saying, well, why don't we
put a better arm in second in left field to
try to run throw that run around from second.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Base exactly and that Yeah, that's another thing. It's not
even about tracking the five balls. That's a great point
by you, Matthew. You've been watching baseball. Yeah, the arm.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Look, we love helsale twove. It's the fact. The fact
is he's got a very very well below average arm
in outfield. He just does.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
There.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
It is. So I'm just hoping that it's the for you, Tab,
I'm hoping it's Astro's Twitter, but I'm a little afraid
it's not. It might have been tenth inning calls after
yesterday's game, and we'll hear a couple of those next
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety one aren't

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we getting.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I don't want to say better.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Set thirty four. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross.
We've got great owens to the tenth Inning show coming
up here in a matter of moments. Let's talk to
the right people of Houston. First.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Jason and Katie is with us on seven.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I think Jason, good morning guys to Piggyback.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Good morning to Piggyback.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Off of y'all.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
His last conversation for starters anything I ask of Twitter
is and I say, I'm gonna take it with Keen
Green's assault.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
I don't listen to those guys.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
I don't pay attention to those guys. The only thing
that I would maybe let me start off by saying
too about Joe a slatta.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Hell of a job.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
You know, second best record in the AL.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
If you would have told me we had a five
game lee on the on then whoever going to the
break with all the injuries we had on top of that,
you would take it ten days out of ten, you know,
there's no denying that. The only thing maybe I would
have done differently that game is slide Jose from leftfield
to second base and come up, come up with them.
Maybe a Cooper Hummel or somebody else of leftfield only
because of the lack of major league bats we have

(20:58):
in our lineup right now.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
But other than that, like you said, we won the game,
it's a buttz of nothing. You know, Joe's at top
what two or three candidate for manager of the year
right now. So let's take a break.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Let's resey. Guys, it's recess, and let's go have the.

Speaker 6 (21:14):
Hell of the second half. Guys, joy the show, keep
it up, Thank.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
You, Thank you Jason for the phone call. I mean,
you're gonna realize, and look, no manager is perfect. There
are gonna be some decisions that are made that you're
gonna be head scratching. Let's be brutally honest with this team.
He's got about forty percent of the Space Cowboys on
his roster right now.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Ross he just does Space Cowboys North. That's what's happening
right now and today. I mean, to Jason's point, I
understand where he's coming from, but we also have to
be brutally honest. Jose l two vas not a good
second basement anymore.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
So, Yeah, the decision was made not to and again,
if you want to keep him in the bat. You
you were thinking, literally just went to bat.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
He just went to bat.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
You were thinking, even if the game goes to the
tenth with a runner at second, you're talking about eight
people hitting in front of him. You and theory wouldn't
need that unless you're down three or fourth runs in
the tenth inning. You know what I'm saying. I mean, yes,
put the puzzle pieces together a little bit here.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Speaking of that, Rossie, we do this every once in
a while here on the radio program, whether you're hosting it,
I'm hosting it, or others are hosting it. And yesterday
I happened to listen to Sunday Dan hosting the tenth
Inning Show. We present some great moments and we simply
call them that now, great moments from the tenthon in show.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
First one is a friend of the show, Eric in basity,
we love him a lot. That's a relative time his
act is wearing thon on me.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
But yeah, I mean he seems like an affable guy
and we I'm sure if we have a man like
him and whatnot, he always he ends up being a
regular listener. For that, Eric, we thank you very much.
But he did not have a great tenth moment, a
great moment in the tenth inning call. And here it's
the call he had yesterday with Dann Matthews. So then

(23:16):
go with Eric in Bay City. Eric, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (23:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (23:20):
You know, Dan, you just said we could have very
well lost all six of those games, and if our
manager had had his way, we would have lost him
last time.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
He needed that stupid defensive sup for jose Al two
by out in the left field. I told Ross and
a half months ago, get jose Al two May out
of the lead off spot, and we're going to wait
the games.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
And guess what we've done since now we won games.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now, if we just get Joe's spot out of this town,
we would win a lot more games.

Speaker 10 (23:46):
I'll hang out for most.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
All right, Well, he told you two and a half
months ago, Ross about jose Al Tuoba getting out of
second base.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
You know what's funny, Matt I was listening to this
tenth inning show and I was driving home home, I
believe from my mop Mouse of Man makes and I
heard Dan go to Eric in Bay City, and I
turned the radio off. I swear to you, I am

(24:14):
My brother was in the car with me. He can
verify this. I turned the radio off because I didn't
want to get mad and I can't escape it.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Matt, did you bring it up on air? I turned
the radio off. I got if you enjoyed that, If
you enjoyed that, Ross and the rest of you listening
to us, you're gonna enjoy our next great moment. It
comes from Caleb in San Antonio's.

Speaker 11 (24:42):
Head out to uh the two one oher san Antonio.
Caleb wants to weigh in, Caleb, what's going on?

Speaker 10 (24:47):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (24:48):
I just want to let you know I actually went
to a Houston Dash game and weren't a lot of
people there.

Speaker 13 (24:56):
It was.

Speaker 12 (24:56):
It was really kind of a horrible setting as far
as fan base, and I just kept thinking, this is
how it's gonna be watching the Astros.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Joe Aspotta continues to be the coach.

Speaker 14 (25:08):
I mean, it's it's getting bad, and you know, sixteen
games about five hundred?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Is that the bar? Now? Is that where we're at?
This is Houston Astros Now. As soon as I heard that,
I said, I told our network producer Josh c record
that for me too and send it to me.

Speaker 13 (25:29):
Now.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Does that actually sounded like Michael Connor for a little bit?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Then I think there wasn't enough twang to make it
Michael unless he and all of a sudden he just
got some sort of deeper voice outside. I don't think
it was him.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Okay, I don't think so either.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
But was that a bit when you drop Houston dash
references into your astros tenth ning call?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think it was a hybrid. I think it was
a dumb call and doing a bit. I think that
guy's called multiple times a producer Josh See. I think
has kind of gate kept that guy. He calls in
all the time with these the ridiculous and stupid bits.
I would have cut the call off probably once I
heard Houston Dash. But letting it run it's fine. I mean,
it's funny, and it's it's making. It's making a segment
on the Matt Thomas Show. But I mean with Ross,

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with Ross, that's right, he is a manager, not a coach.
Number one dumbass and then number two sixteen games a
bus above five hundred. Considering everything that has happened is
quite remarkable. I mean, can we pay attention, folks? Can

(26:34):
we not just read the standings? Can that is the
thing again? I will come back to, don't just watch
the games.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Let's try to pay attention a little bit if we're
gonna if we're gonna call in with strong opinions on something,
so let's do this. We have to tell people there
are open mic nights at a variety a comedy calls
dozens and they are horrible. I've been and we know
our form producers. Now, I would not consider him a
full time with us, but part part time. Yes.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ray has been able to take advantage of.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Using his one or two jokes and using him at
fifteen a variety of clubs, mostly U Evada, INDs and
Rumfort Reads and occasionally a bed moove in. So I
mean there's all sorts of places he's taken his comedy act.
I don't want to use seven ninety as a comedy platform.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
First of all, Trey was definitely one of the funnier
ones I've ever seen on the open mics. And there
was one time I saw him at a hotel, can't
remember what hotel that was was the Prickly Pair Lounge,
I believe, and he was literally the manager wanted to
host a comedy night because he when the manager went
up in there and did like fifteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh really, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
So it was funny. Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
If it was it was a bit, it was, it's it.
You would have been zonked or gonged on the Gold
Gong Show. You know, if you were on showed him
with the apodal, the stick with the king would have
come out and pulled you off. But there's a part
of me that maybe thought this guy was somewhat serious.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I think his take was serious at the end, but
he opened with a dash joke to try to be funny.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
And remember, leave the comedy to us.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
We can do it. You cannot. Ten On Sports Talk
seven ninety Charles, good morning to you.

Speaker 10 (28:22):
Hey, hey, hey, I'm gonna talk about Mastros. We're gonna
be all right. We'll be all right. We will win
the division and we will take the next one. And then,
like they said in my neighborhood, when you get to
the World Series, this is when you go to work.

(28:47):
This is when you go to work. You take the division.
I'm de to coutn't much gone anyway. Seettle ain't doing nothing.
The Rangers ain't doing nothing. Okay, they got us when
that it was when October at here, they won't be
there when October get here, the atle won't be there,
the Rangers won't be there, none else astros will be there.

(29:12):
After that, then we go to work. Playoffs, cool playoffs
cool well series O.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Going to work. I've got chills. That was international. So
they say in your neighborhood, Maddie, go to work. This
is where we work. What did you say? We will
be fine, this is where we go to work. We
will be good. Then we're gonna go at work to
go work. Yeah, we're gonna do this that We're gonna
be fee right.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Don't hurt yourself, Matt, I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Ten forty three. Wow, that was a great moment of
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross right there, go to work.
That's that's a new phrase of the show days ten
to two. You gotta go to work. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety to tell the truth at

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eleven thirty, your phone calls as we go to work
here on Sports Talk seven ninety Matt Ross with you
on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety If you want to chime in
on our conversation seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety. We'll have to tell the truth coming up
at eleven thirty. Now, Ross, do you want to do
Love Island or do you want to honor seven to

(30:39):
one three day which was yesterday?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Seven one to four.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Now, Matt, we could do area codes that'd be highly googlable.
We have done that before. Actually we could do it again.
Seven one four. I'm usually pretty good with area codes.
Can I Can I take a wild guess when we
go back to the phone. Sure, I'm gonna say Orange County.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Oh look at this guy?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Am I right? Yeah? You googled it? No I did.
I swear to God. I swear to God.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Seven and six five seven are in in Orange County?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yes, okay, I'm your I am your area code and
airport code.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
God, you are the airport code for whatever reason, I
don't even know why. Yeah, there's like this puzzle that
shows up on Facebook, like, hey, puzzle of airport goes.
I can finish that in like thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
There you go to seventh record. But I'm a dork
that way, So it.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Is what it is, all right? Seven one three two
one two five seven. And by the way, my flight
to Boston on Saturday ross Boston, Boston. I would say
they were probably at least six people taking their shoes
off on the flight. This is this is an epidemic.

(31:59):
It's because my buddy Tip Party, who I work with
on the You broadcast, always shoots of pictures of people
doing it, puts on social media's and I thought, maybe
he's just a one off.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
It's becoming a problem. Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh man, I'm curious. What was the demographic?

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Was it everyone? Was it scattered? Was it old people?

Speaker 8 (32:20):
Yet?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Well? The guy next to okay, first for the guy
next to me had crocs on, and he took his
crocs off and he wore socks, and he had the
most he had the most hllacious bo I've ever smelled
in my life. Oh man, can you call the can
you call the flight attendant? Can you hit the button?

(32:41):
A Hi?

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Somebody's got stinky crocks.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
So here's what this guy had to do. And I'll
go to the phone. So my wife and my daughter
were one row in front of me. My daughter was
on the window, my wife was on the aisle. I
was on the aisle on the road right behind them.
M hm, smelly guy was next to me in the
middle seat.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
With his crock in his socks.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
His weirdo girlfriend who had multiple colors of hair, was
in the middle between him and Carly and the row
in front, and he happened to notice that I was
talking to my wife and my daughter. He was talking
to his girlfriend, and he drops the Hey, do you
want to switch seats so you can sit next to
your wife. I'm like, I want to sit in the
middle for four hours. Ah, hell no, I sleep with

(33:26):
this woman, I see my children. Yeah, I need I
need four hours of at least somewhat relaxation of a
plight fancy man, and I shot him down in zero
point one off the clock. You can never if you're
gonna ask someone to move a seat, you have to
give them the upgraded seat. You cannot ask for a
downgraded seat.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, but well, I will say this, I probably would
have moved because the middle is less. The whole problem
with the middle is you don't want to like touch anybody,
and you feel like you're or you're just like in
a in a cave by yourself. But when it's people,
you know you can on over your wife or you
could ask her to move in the middle.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
No, I'm good. All right, So you about to take
he did sneak stinky guy over.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Let me give you his smell a combination.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
He smelled like head and showered, head and shoulders odor
and chicken shwarma.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Chicken shwarma is delicious.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
What do the smell like that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:20):
But the scent on someone's body is not great.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Hmmm.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
I'm gonna disagree on the chicken sharma.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Would you wear chicken shorma cologne?

Speaker 10 (34:31):
I have some?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's a lie, Yes it is j L at ten
fifty four on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross JL.
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 15 (34:42):
I know this is a little early, but Eric and
Bay City shut your bumb ass up. Okay, Stros are
sixteen games over five hundred. Stros are five games ahead
of the Seattle Mariners, and you need to chill the
heck out, man.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
We're doing fine.

Speaker 15 (35:04):
We got what for triple A guys on the team
sugar Land, give me a break, shutch.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
O bone mass up and relax. Let's go strokes you.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Jail, I did I just threw forty percent out?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Ross? Would we want to really break the twenty six
man roster down right now and say what they really
are I'd rather not. Actually, I don't think I want
any want to do it. I think feels forty fils
just about right.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
M If you're asking me, Matt a quick question though, Matt,
if your team has the best record and best winning
percentage in baseball in one run games, would would you
maybe think that maybe your manager isn't horrible? Well, a
certain segment of Astros Twitter would say the Astros are

(35:53):
winning games to spite the manager. Okay, so they're nineteen
and eight in one run games, which is again the
best win percentage in baseball. Right, so without him they
be much better than the best win percentage in baseball.
They're also six and two in extra inning games. Now
there's some luck involved in that. I do believe those
numbers will come down, But I'm just trying to come

(36:14):
from the argument of people who are saying he's costing
them games.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
No, I just think, as I've learned from doing twenty
five years of Astros and postgame shows, Ross, Yeah, you're right.
The lowest common denominator is when a team loses, it's
the manager's fault. Jackie will start the eleven o'clock hour
with us, Is that Jackie guy? Or Jackie Girl or

(36:43):
Gleason Jackie Guy. Guy's name, Jackie.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
You know what's wrong with that?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I like you said as a formatt Jackie Robinson, Hello,
Okay Robinson, Gleason and give me a third Jackie Bradley, ooh,
you did get me a third, Jackie Chan. Go ahead,
tell Jackie Chan to his face and he can't go
by Jackie all right?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
And another thing I want to get to on the
Astros would come back and Astro is a legend. Mate.
Not want to look on social media after what he
did this weekend? Oh no, do you know where I'm
going with this?

Speaker 3 (37:21):
I think you.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Should seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seventy. By the way,
Gordy did not call in, so that's a win for
me on that one. All right. I forgot one more, Jackie.
Jackie Burke, the longtime pro over a Champions Golf Club.
Thank you Brian for dropping that in on us there.

(37:44):
Jackie Slater, longtime offensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams Ross.
I think I've taken the lum the mail. Jackie.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
We've done this before too, I know we am sure
we have, but it's been five years.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
That's fine, it's new. Try any other Jackies.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I'm sure there's there's dozens. Okay, So Jackie tree Horn,
who's that? Now you're just throwing things against Jackie tree Horn,
the environmental this that you know got nobilized, Alright, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
If you don't know nobilized. He was got he won
the Nobel Prize, he got nominated. Oh you know, I
thought one, here's one Jonathan Jackie Cousto.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Jackie Jackie Jackie Jackie Nicholas. Yeah, no, Jackie Treehorn. Uh
you've seen The Big Lebowski now right, Yeah, many years ago,
and you didn't.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
They didn't like it. It was okay, it.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Wasn't It wasn't as good as my uncle thought. It
was me and my uncle watches it like ten times
a week. Yeah you have an uncle that go ahead.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Do you have an uncle that watches movies more than
like five times a week and every time he can
call you a textasment. I saw it again and I
just found another part of the movie I loved even
more before I saw it.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
No, that seems wildly specific. God, it's just oh, it's
big Osky pick every other day.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
I mean it is a great movie, but it's not
one I would recommend to Matt Thomas.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's okay, I mean I went like it was like
it was horrific.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
So all right, let's speaking of the aforementioned Jackie Jackie
the guy is whether it's on a line number one
on seven or eight, Hi Jackie, what's going on?

Speaker 16 (39:19):
Hey, good morning guys. And just to let you know,
I will keep my shoes on the entirety of the call.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Thank you very much. We appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Don't forget Jackie Cooper the actor.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Oh that's right, the former it was it was a
little rascal for correct for rascals.

Speaker 16 (39:36):
Yeah, yeah, yep, good so yep. So the reason I
called is, I don't think I have ever seen a year.
And we've been a season ticket holder since twenty sixteen,
I don't think I've ever seen a year. Well, we've
had so little to work with and we've gotten such
incredible results. Now, whether it's a spota or just the

(40:00):
luck of the draw of the people that were calling up,
it's been amazing how we keep plugging in these rookies,
minor leaguers and somehow we keep winning, at least on
a percentage of you know, being in first place. So
I got to say that I don't see how people

(40:21):
can look at it in the aspect of, you know,
we have these little losing streaks. That's just baseball. So
I don't see why people want to jump off of
a cliff for what we've done this year with the astrips.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, you're absolutely right, and that's the thing you have
to think macron this and thank you Johnckie for the
phone call.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
It is a five game lead. They are sixteen games
above five hundred.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
They are playing, and we're gonna do it ross because
I think it's our responsibility. We're going to actually go
through the twenty six man roster and figure out how
many our space cowboys. Okay, I don't know want to
do this. We're gonna have one within the last year. Well,
we're gonna say, under normal circumstances with this be a
space cowboy.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yeah, And if you say Christian Walker, that's just rude.
It is RD it's not appropriate. Although he's God. Yeah,
every time we think he's turning the corner, he dips
back down.

Speaker 11 (41:19):
What do you have?

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Oh four yesterday with two more strikers.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
He was getting in a rhythm.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Then he had a baby.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah, it's her fault. Well he had had some had
some work to do with it as well. It's true.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
All right, So here we go very quickly. Okay, if there's.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Twenty six, man, you're going through the hole. You're really
doing this? All right's taking this. We're gonna do this
like a minute a half. Here we go. I bray
you Brown, Gordon, there's one, right, okay, Gusto yes, two yes,
Hater King, I'll say no. The colors no nervous Okret no,

(41:55):
ort no, no, no, Susa, no, no, Valdez no Walter. Yes,
that's three guys, yes okay. Catchers Caratini no, Diaz no Salazar. Yes,
m h so that's four right, yes. Infielders Dubon no,

(42:21):
Rice Matthews, Yes, it's five.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yes, is Sach Pratt is no, Zach Short Yes, it
makes six Jesus Christian Walker, No, No, that's six. Outfielders
Trammel yes, seven, Al two, Corona yes, eight, Geumble Humble
nine Geez.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Cam Steph. I will say no. Under normal circumstances. What
does that mean?

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Fully healthy? They were fully healthy basically from the position
player standpoint. Start of the year.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
So yeah, yeah, okay, so nine of the twenty six
players currently on the team. You want the percentage on that, Matt,
So that's thirty four percent.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Wow, you're close. Look at this guy. Yeah that's you
tell you this Stephen Hawking of this show thirty four
who that is?

Speaker 1 (43:15):
But thank you?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Thirty four point six percent. Okay, we're on a thirty
five percent.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
So there you go, thirty put go tell us to
your friends today and say where do you get that percentage?

Speaker 3 (43:24):
You said that, Matt Thomash Old Ross tend.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
To two sports talks.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Thirty five percent of the current team is the Space Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
That's pretty insane. And here's the thought.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Unfortunately, as much as we love on what the Astros
are doing in the first place, I don't think Ross
they can win the division with thirty five percent Space. No.
I think this week was a great example of that
you can get like, for instance, Zach Short. Okay, Zach
Short plays on the twenty twelve Houston Astros, right, yes,

(44:07):
and he gets a hit and he wins a game. Well,
Matt Domingus got some hits and won some games. Hey,
come on, man, Zach Schwartz been been playing well for
the Astros.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
You know what you know.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
I mean, even the fringe major leaguer is going to
come through and give you a hit. M hm. And
I'm not anti Zax, sure, I'm just saying that. That's no,
you're more anty Ryan Gussel than I'm more anti Zax.
I'm sorry you just said he should be on the
Space Cowboys, but I appreciate what he's doing now for
the Houston As too. Five. It was an innings theater

(44:39):
the other day when mccullor's got lit. He was giving
up some runs too, didn't he Yeah, he didn't have
a couple. It's boy, being thirty five percent of your
first place Astros should be living in an apartment in Sugarland.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
H Just think about that, Zach Short hitting two eighty
six with an eight seventy two ops.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
He's a keeper.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Then career ops plus fifty nine.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Don't wow. By the way, we forgot one more, Jackie,
Thank you to Jay. The greatest attorney of all time
role Ross is Jackie Chiles. Jackie Chiles. That's exactly right.
Let's talk to Jeff and Claire Lake at eleven or
nine on seven out of Hello, Jeff Hey, good morning, guys,
A great show.

Speaker 17 (45:35):
Hey, you got a couple of days on run by
real quick. I know you're all talking about these yeah
sugar ling guys, what and I agree, But if you
can remember it back when a certain player came up
who was a superstar for the Extros by the name
of Kyle Tucker, he got back down and if I correctly,
he wasn't brought up in an emergency situation.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
He was likely fun.

Speaker 17 (45:56):
He was ready, and he played like that and he
went back and look what he turned out to be.
So that's just that's one opinion. And my second question
I had for you guys is what do you guys
feel about giving up a home run every five in pitched?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
That's what Josh Hater does. I'm just curious, what's that
terrible taste out of your mouth?

Speaker 3 (46:21):
It's not that bad, especially when the literally the last
two were out of one park.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I mean, I know it's that park and all that
type of stuff, but I'm giving him some some.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Grace and yet another Jackie, we've forgotten this one. I
need to be slapped for. Okay, who's one of the
greatest coaches in Texas and in football history.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
I don't know, uh Dana Bible.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Jackie Cheryl. Yes, of course.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I have besperred the one who how many sanctions did
Jackie Cheryl get? That's that's that's that's beside the point.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
I believe his middle name was Probation.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Just mentally. It was not Jackie Probation Cheryl. It wasn't.

Speaker 13 (47:07):
No.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I think what show had him on radio recently it
was It might have been I don't know if it
was Greg and Andy had him on or somebody had
Jackie on and he talked for like twenty minutes and
they just couldn't interrupt him. I mean you and you, frankly,
you don't interrupt Jackie Cheryl, but he was. He made

(47:33):
Jeraden look like he couldn't put together a sentence.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Well, you get some old ball coach in his eighties. Yeah,
you should be prepared, and you've we've gone through this
on radio Row and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
You need about two questions prepped and you're good.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, like when we said the late Bill Walton on
that one time until they got every other market except ours.
I asked him one question about a kim Elanjah wanted
and that was a twenty minute group of chat about
the history of the NBA. All right, may he rest,
May he rest any of you that I have besmirched
the good name Jackie I apologize you should Jackie Cheryl,

(48:11):
I should have known better. That's terrible on my part.
Jackie Charles, I shouldn't remember.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Jackie Chiles's a fictional character, as is Jackie tree Horn.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
What is Jackie tree Horning?

Speaker 3 (48:21):
I don't even know who Jackie tree Horn was?

Speaker 10 (48:25):
Was the.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Pornography mogul in The Big Lebowski? Hmm? All right? Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety William, we'll get
to you by he went up with Kevin Durant. I'm
ready to talk about that. If you saw in the
Rookie League this weekend, uh Recepherd had a pretty good
first game. And this game is not so great. It's
what it is.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
And a former, I should say, a current Astro legend.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Just is having a tough time connecting with his fan
base long after his playing career. We'll discuss who that
is and the examples of it over the weekend. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety one. The
Astros did make a couple of selections in the position

(49:15):
player Draft Day one yesterday, Xavier Naans or Nions Naans
from Mount Vernon High School first round selection pick number
twenty one, Ethan Fry from LSU with a ninety fifth
overall pick in the third round.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
I'm not really surprised. I'm really surprised. We haven't heard
from Gordy yet.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say, are you sure he didn't
have movement after that pick was made by the Astros.
Nine's a left hander hitting shortstop four fifty six eight
home runs twenty seven RBIs as part of the Mount
Vernon Class three A state championship game this season. Mount Vernon,
about an hour north of Seattle, says he went to
a bunch of Seattle Astro games and remember the Astros

(49:55):
beating their ass a bunch of times? He is correct.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
And also, did you you see his tweets that's been
circulating from twenty twenty two?

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Uh? Oh, what I have not? So this is I
cannot wait for you to read them for me.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Uh well, it's actually good. He was responding to a
Major League Baseball tweet first to sixty wins at Yankees
that was from the the MLB main account. Sorry, that's
actually from MLB on Fox. Xavier Nian's response just to

(50:32):
lose the alcs, and that was from July seventh, twenty
twenty two.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Well don't you think you should scrub every one of
your tweets before you get drafted?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
He hasn't put this yet. It's pretty funny, it's great,
it's perfect. Everyone every A bunch of Astros fans found
this and have been retweeting and saying ball no or
this man knows ball, my king, we love you, goat.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
And it'll work perfectly when Jeremy Panyon goes to play
somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
That that's premature. Scott Boris is no, it's not. Yeah,
he's gone, but that's fine. Just retweeted it at sports R.
If you want to find the.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Tweet, uh, you don't have to. I mean he just
told you so, don't need to look at his Twitter account.
By the way, I did look at your I G account,
but he did did see and did see what you
looked like yesterday on TV. Okay, I mean i'd put
you third out a third, but one embarrassing that's fine.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
I mean, Uh, Randy McAvoy's a handsome TV guy. I mean, wow,
I can't compete with that.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
No, there's no chance of that zero, Nope, nope, nope.
By the way, here, you know, we're in the heart
of Red Sox country ross here in Rhode Island. Uh
where maybe that Bregman's gonna be looking for two hundred
million dollars in his next contract.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
M dang, So I'm gonna win the better. You're too late,
this is BS.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
I still got hope on the Kyle. I'm still feeling
pretty good about the Kyle Tucker. All right, over and
a half seven and a half. Now, remember that's got
to be the first contract he gets, not the second one. Yeah.
I don't need anybody swooping in with no fifty million.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
A year aa VSE without that three year options with
opt outs after your That's what I'm up.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
It's your only shot. That's all right.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Let's talk to William on seven ninety eleven, twenty two. William,
good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah, barely.

Speaker 10 (52:47):
Better than no, Okay, I want to say, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
All right, that's better, much better, Okay.

Speaker 13 (52:56):
So.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
You're uh.

Speaker 10 (53:00):
I noticed a lot of Houston Rockets fans have been
kind of like this, have been like he's a team
destroyer and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
And I want to.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
People who aren't Rockets fans. I feel like you think
Rockets fans are saying that, William.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
Yeah, I've seen a lot of them on Twitter saying
that he's a team destroyer.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Oh man, he can't listen to Twitter, William. Uh, Matt,
do you think Kevin Durant is a team destroyer?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Yes, he's going to cripple this basketball team and I
don't want him coming here. I'm hoping the NBA will
reject the trade.

Speaker 10 (53:33):
Like they're saying when he went to the Suns, the
Suns got worse when he went to you know, like
the Nets and Nets lost everything.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
They didn't really win anything. So that's what they're saying.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah, I understand, William, appreciate you calling in. I mean Brooklyn,
if his foot weren't on the line, what year was that, Matt,
where they would have they would have gone to the
to the Eastern Finals or something like that.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
His first year there? Was that? His first year there? Son?
I think?

Speaker 13 (54:01):
So?

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:04):
So I mean that those Brooklyn teams are decent. Number one,
number two. I mean, he obviously uplifted the Golden State
Warriors He was the finals MVP both years there. And
Kevin Durant is not gonna There's no way he can
destroy this team.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Ima Dooka is not gonna let him destroy the team. No,
he's gonna work with Ema Doka.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
He likes Ema a Doka and and you have so
much young talent on this team, they're gonna be fine.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Speaking of that, did you see what Kevin Durant and
you just sent him to me? I'm glad you, Dica said,
you and I are on the same page on this.
Some dude named DeAndre Williams, who's a future MBA general manager,
congratulates DeAndre for setting up your career ahead of you.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Says watching Emy versus Katie film r N.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
What does that rewind? I guess right now, right now, oh,
right now, excuse me. Ema was kind of locking you
up at Katie three five.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
We went right at him. Yes, that's what you do.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
If you want to get a response from Kevin Durant,
say something negative and tag him and he will probably
be yes.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
So Kevin did. He said, good film study, ain't gonna lie.
It was a wrestling match. I looked over to the
ref one time and he was like stop all that
f and crying. He was an og so he sounded
like my uncle when he said I had to lock
in real quick.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
So so so Kevin Durant was I mean, Ema Doka
was physically defending Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant looks the referee
and it's like, yay, hey, he's being pretty physical. And
Emodoka says that stop all that crying. That sounds like
imadok it to a t.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Ima A. Dooka was asked about it yesterday and he's like,
I'm six five, How can I block him down? There's
no chance. But I'm going to tell you something about
your rockets, coach, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm not talking.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
On a turn because it was quoted in multiple reports.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
He may give zero f's right ross be a fair
assessment there, Yes, when you call Lebron a soft ass
b yes, you give zero f's correct. I don't know
if you did you ever grow up with anybody that

(56:29):
you played with that was just the one s talker
among your buddies.

Speaker 9 (56:38):
Hm.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
That was like your your friend in school and y'all
went to church together, or you were together in the
boy Scouts, or you hung out in the neighborhood because
you guys were bros and you and you went to
dances together and you hung out with the movies and stuff.
But when you got on an athletic field, whether it
was a baseball field, a basketball field, or a football
field basketball court, he wore your That's who im a

(57:01):
dook is. He is so soft spoken, at least in
my dealings with him, But you get him on.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
A court and he just has this material that is
that he does not care if he hurt your feelings.
He's a menace on the pick a ball court, is
what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
I wouldn't go play putt putt golf with him.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
You're gonna let that. You're gonna You're gonna let that
windmill hit hit your ball, you dumb ass, you know.
I mean he would blank talk you there. Mm hmm.
He'd blank talking if you guys were going to play bingo.
I like that.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
I respect that. Yeah, he's a trash talker. He's trash
talking a young Kevin Durant back in the day.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
All I can tell you is there are sometimes that
you and I will be talking to I may on
a weekly visit with us, and then he will have
come fresh off the court, and I'll find one of
the assistant coaches before the games and their head will
be down. I'm like, everything, okay, you heard, and he goes, yeah,
email was just very competitive today, meaning not throwing elbows, but.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Just like insulting your heritage basically.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
And everything you stand for. That's why I'm never playing.
I'm never playing pick a ball with him. I don't look. Look,
you got a lot with me. You got a lot
to make fun of my ivy white skin, my lack
of hair. Yeah, he'd probably just get angry with you.
You definitely could be on his team. My lack of bulk,
my stamina would be an issue I want no part of.

(58:28):
If if well, here's the thing, that's if I'm an
emails team, he's gonna be just as mean to me
as he was was on the other side of it.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Yeah, hey, get your pick a ball game up, Matt,
before you step on the court.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
You know what I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna go
with I got a bad back, coach, I can't play.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
It's a good idea, all.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Right, to tell the truth is up next, gentlemen, I
have four takes. Three of them I believe one. I
do not, so Ross, how many lie? There you go?
You figured it out? Seven one three, two one two
five seven Naughtie seven one three two one two five

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seven NINTI.

Speaker 13 (59:19):
I never know why.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Did you tell me?

Speaker 1 (59:31):
But actually in Houston, Texas, I do know how to
tell the truth, and we're gonna do it right here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross seven one three, two one two five SEVENINTI.
Every Monday we play to tell the Truth, and it's
very simple. We ask our friends uh Ross and Jonathan
to figure out which of the four takes.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
I don't believe three of them. I believe one I
do not. Jonathan, how many lies am I telling you?

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Then one? There you go? Got it, gentlemen, take number one.
The Astros. I have made my final decision about the
July thirty first deadline, which is coming up in about
two and a half weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
The Astros are going to have.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
To go get a picture of the deadline. I don't
know when Arragetty's coming back. I don't know if and
when Luis Garcia and Christian Hobby are coming back, and
I do not trust Lance mccullors all the way through.
You're gonna have to go get a picture it. You
just cannot exclusively rely on Hunter Brown and you and

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Farmer Bell does get you the rest of the way.
They're gonna have to get the picture.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
They must get pitted, they must get a picture.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
They must get a picture in my opinion. It's strictly opinion, just.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Like they must not another one, but it must win
on Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Well, that's part of the reason why I think I
had my take number two.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
There's gonna be so much arguing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Over the next year, and you're already seeing at the
SEC media days today about this future sixteen team college
football playoff and determining how many teams from each conference
get in. If it's five plus eleven, if the Big
Ten gets four, the SEC gets four, the Big twelve
gets two. There's gonna be so much wrangling about it.

(01:01:19):
It's going to delay this process. We're not going to
see the sixteen team tournament to at least two thousand
and thirty. This is going to cause this much of
an uppart because you're not gonna be able to get
the habs and the have nots to agree, all right,
that's number two. Take number three. The challenge system is

(01:01:41):
going to work so well at this All Star Game
tomorrow in Atlanta that I believe we're going to have
it ready in time for the twenty twenty six Major
League Baseball season.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Challenge system will work beautifully tomorrow. People will like it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
It's on a grandiose stage. Owners will say, let's make
it happen. And number four Cooper Flagg, the number one
overall pick of the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA. He
got shut down after two games of the Summer League.
I have no problem with that at all. They play

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four to five, depending on their scheduling and how far
they go and how if they win games there. Mavericks
over the weekend said two was plenty for us. He done.
I'm okay with it. So the four takes again are
the Astros are going to have to go get a
pitcher at the deadline. There's going to be so much
to take number two, as there's so much arguing about

(01:02:40):
the sixteen team college football playoff that it won't see
it until at least two thousand and thirty. The challenge
system is going to work so well at the All
Star Game that we're going to see it for the
twenty twenty sixth season at number four.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
I have zero problem with Cooper Flagg and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Shutting it down after two games the Summer League, which
one of those am I not call the truth? How
were feeling, Jonathan?

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
I was feeling good and then he repeated them, and
I'm not to Oh really, h second guessing, Listen to
your heart. I think it's a flag of the easy one.
We already know he believes that, you think, so I
agree with you on that one. This is I mean,
I feel like but you know you ever knows. This

(01:03:25):
is the thing, though, you have to get inside the
mind of a madman, Jonathan. It's about what Matt. Wait
a minute, I'm right here, Guys. You can't say that
about me. I know I'm away from you. But it's
not about what's true or not. It's about what he believed.
That's about the athlete's health. He wouldn't you know what
a fool believed. Okay, that's that was too harsh. I'm
just quoting the song, Matt. I know, uh, I'm with

(01:03:46):
you on that one. I think he's he loves the
challenge system. We talked about it being here in twenty
twenty six, right, or are you gonna you're thinking about
that one, Jonathan, Oh, you're pausing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
I was thinking about so.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I think his lie, if I'm a sad I think
his lie is the challenge system. But the other one
that I'm stuck on is the picture that they ask
is a picture, because we will talking about a bat
and left handed bat, and I guess you can get
how to get a picture with that. They need a
picture too, depending on who's coming back. I mean, I
guess he could be lying on that one because he
thinks but there's no guarantees with Javier Garcia, arraghetti, setbacks

(01:04:19):
and all that type stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
And matth be very adamant with the umpires and umpire union.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I'm gonna go with number two because no, they see
in the big ten or if they can argue all
they want, they're gonna strong arm these people and they're
gonna get more money. I think if he can believe
number two, but that's way wrong, So I'm gonna go two.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
I'm gonna go with three.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
I don't think he's gonna believe the Challeism is going
to go that way where it's implemented.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
All right, So Ross, you say two, Jonathan you say three.
I'll knock out two right away. The Astros absolutely, Sugar
get a picture at the deadlines. You guys are right
about that, because I don't trust anybody from what I'm
hearing about anything about these pictures being closer, being ready.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Just don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Mm hmm. Number two, I have no problem with Cooper
flag shutting it down. Have you watched some of the games, boys,
they're glorified pickup games. Yeah, yeah, And the last thing
you need is somebody getting hurt, especially when you're one
dash one and you are the only thing of the
saving grace to keep Maverick fans without jumping off bridges.

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You pick the two ones that are the most interesting
to me. And I hate to say this, but.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Ross is right. I did not tell the truth on
number two.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
They are, in fact, they are having a difficult time
trying to organize it. But Ross, that we've talked about
there's too much money on the table to add a
layer of games. They'll get it sorted out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Money, money, money, money, money, give us more money, college
football more money.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
They will sort it out. There is a standoff right now.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Between the Big ten and the SEC.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
But it will not take five years to figure it
out because you're not leaving four, three or four more
years of additional money on the table.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
So, unfortunately number.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Two is not the truth. I had to say, shame on, Jonathan.
Three was an easy one then, like you guys really
think that the talent is going to be That's what
they did. They did it in they did it in
preseason as well. They did in this setting. I've been
working at you guys are talking about how it's the
human element.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
They've been testing it in Triple A. They we've been
saying the players don't like it. I'm just telling you
the players haven't been players like I think the players
like the challenge system.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
They do not like the full automatic ball strike zone.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Yeah that's not coming, Jonathan.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
You're winning percentages at about eighty five. Yeah, it's like
a plant. It's okay, it's okay. I tried to stare him.
You know, these young kids, you try to steer them
in the right direction. But the Brice Matthews of art
to tell the truth, never tell I feel bad. I
feel bad. I actually feel bad for him too, I do.

(01:06:54):
I think he's up too early. But but it's because
of a necessity. I mean, Jake Myers is out, he's
put a bulleted blaye. Yeah, I mean it's there's been
five strikeouts and seven plate appearances. Thankfully got the Sunday off.
Kind of see the field if you will, Yes, slow down,

(01:07:15):
clear his mind. Yes, he's ready for he'll be ready
for Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Maybe, Tim and Katie on seven out of Hello, Tim, Yes,
great to hear from me, Tim.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
How are things mm hmmm mm hmm.

Speaker 16 (01:07:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
The show is great, isn't it. It's the best show ever.
Thank you very much, Tim for that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Damn, Tim's gone. All right, I've only teased this twice, Ross,
so the last time is the charm. There is an
astro great, one of the all time greats.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
And you know how we talked about astros Twitter being
a little dangerous occasionally.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
ROSSI the salty bunch.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
They're a salty bunch when it comes to an all
time as great. We'll tell you about that next eleven
forty two on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety one. All right, I want
to make sure I'm very clear when I tell you this.
My five favorite astros of all time, and they happen

(01:08:19):
to all be very good too, in no particular order.
I've said that, told you that Jose al Tuve is
the greatest aster of all time, and I will not
step away from that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
My favorite aster of all time is No.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
On Ryan. But on my list, it's no On Ryan.
It is Jose al Tuove. It's Alan Ashby because I
was in his astrobudding in nineteen eighty. Okay, I'm gonna
go with Jose Cruz. I just loved saying Cruz and
I was a kid. And probably my fifth favorite astro,
it was Jeff Bagwell because he was spectacular, home runs,

(01:08:53):
Rookie of the Year, should have been an MVP, played
a brilliant first base, ran well, smart, just knew the game. Now,
Jeff did not end his career the way he did.
It wanted to his arm obviously gave out on him
and it was just disappointing. But you still, in many

(01:09:14):
respects some said the greatest aster of all time. I
have him at number two, and obviously he has taken
a little bit of a hit, not a little bit
excuse me, a big hit by his general manager skills,
I e. The Jose Abreu signing. Was he really involved
in the Montero stuff? Was it more a Brady I

(01:09:34):
want to think it was more a bra You right,
Definitely the bray You signing. He I mean he flew
to Florida to convince him to sign, apparently, and decided
to tell Jim Crane to give him the extra year.
Remember that. I know that for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
I don't know what the role was at the Rafael
Montero signing, but of course at that time there was
no general manager and Jim Crane was leaning on the
advice of a brain trust that included Jeff Bagwell.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Yeah, so he's taken a hit on that for sure.
I like him in the booth.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I think he gives you a ridiculously good player experience,
anecdotal thing that a lot of guys can't give you. No,
Jeff certainly gives that to you too. It's just a
different It's a change of pace. What I want to
have Jeff Bagwell doing one hundred and sixty two Astros games. No,
but I but I think when he fills in for Bloomber,
it's fine. I don't have any issues with Jeff Bagwell

(01:10:31):
doing color analysis on those games. Rossi Astros Twitter talked
about earlier today can be a dangerous bunch, and they
don't agree with me. He certainly lacks polished, but he's
not a broadcaster, so I mean that's forgivable to me.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
I will say, like he he's kind of a little
to you know how.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
You know, I like analytics and you know, all that
type of stuff, and he always rails against it. So
he's a little old school for me. But I don't
find it offensive or terrible or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
And as you said, look, even if I disagree with
Jeff Bagwell says he he's got a career OPS in
ninety eight and I don't, so, I mean, you just
want to run through a few tweets that I've seen
over the weekend. Are these Bagwell overreactions bios? I had
be on my flight on Saturday. It wasn't for me,
it was a guy next to me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
We lose every game. Jeff Bagwell fills into broadcast Astros
games alright, but he's awful at it. I wish you
would follow Bigio's lead and remain in the stand, never
be heard from again. Next guy, Jeff Bagwell is so boring.
His voice is like a really quiet vacuum. H Yeah,
Like I said, lacking, he doesn't. He's not like boisterous

(01:11:49):
er loud. He's lacking some broadcasting police, but he's not
a broadcaster. I mean we we have to remember that
Jeff Bagwell might be the worst color commentator of all time. Okay,
that's that's too much. Absolutely impossible to listen to Jeff
Bagwell commentating on the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
Please no, Moss.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Jeff Bagwell in the booth is the only thing that
would make me watch something other than.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
The Astros today. Please make it stop.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Oh my god. And he was only on He wasn't
on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
It was a Fresh Games. He was a Fox broadcast
on Saturday. Oh, this is a mean one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
Did Jeff Bagwell plays first base at y Applebee's? Ooh
that's kind of funny. So it makes me think, is
there anybody that is in our life that we loved
as a player? And I'm not talking about you and
me because I I look, if Jeff Bagwell was to

(01:12:47):
walk into this my room right now, I'd sit down
and have a glass of juice with him. Or whatever
and talk shop with him. I like Jeff and again,
in my mind, Jeff Bagwell is the second greatest aster
of all time. Regular seas and numbers are better than
now two bays, but the postseason from me accounts, But
that's that's a different argument. I like Jeff Bagwell. I don't.

(01:13:08):
I don't. I just think the slander's tough. And you know,
he did have a rocky post baseball career self admitted,
and has turned the corner on that, which I'm very
happy for.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
But who have we ever dealt with in our Houston
sports fandom.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Rossie of a guy that we loved as a player,
but we don't like him now that he's long from
the field of competition. This is this is tough.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Yeah, I mean not just a good astro.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
It's a it's one of the quote unquote Mount Rushmore astros.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
I think it's also, Yeah, a lot of younger people
who didn't watch him play, so they don't even.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
Really have thirty thirty seasons great, great base runner, good,
great defensive first baseman.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Two Yeah, you want at least Yeah, remember when somebody
who's gonna like lay down a bunch and he would
be basically like ten feet down the line to try
and get that bad boy now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
Now to be to be fair, I want him nowhere
near the front office. Yeah, that's that's fair, and I
think everybody would probably agree with that. Even Jeff would
agree with that. He's like, I do that anymore. And
Jeff did have a cup of coffee as the Astros
hitting coach. I want to say, twenty twelve, thirteen, somewhere
in that range, and he's like, yeah, I like being

(01:14:28):
around the guys, but I don't want to put the
time in. I mean, at least he acknowledged that he's
not a he doesn't want to be a nine to
five baseball guy, and in many respects more than that,
because baseball coaches in fact work harder because they're looking
at a film and they're studying pictures. And he's like,
that's not me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
I can help out when necessary.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
I go to spring training once a year, put the
uniform on and talk to some guys, hang around the cage,
but that's not me. And I respect that he knows.
Is that what his own limitations are. I don't think
the Astros put Jeff Bagwell on a broadcast boof for
end the Battering Ram for seventy two hours, and that's
exactly what he's being done. And I've kind of feel
I'm not kind of I do feel bad for him.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
He's the second greatest astro of all time, period, greatest
astro of all time and a second he's the greatest,
and so is Yeah, I understand people, Like I said,
I think it's the young people who don't have the
context for what he was in his career, don't have
the reverence for him that maybe you or I have,
and the only way they know him is well making

(01:15:28):
some bad signings and then, like I said, not the
most polished broadcaster ever. So it's not and I just
don't get it for me, I mean I get it,
I just disagree.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
That'd be like, who's the second greatest Rocket of all time?

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
James Harden?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Well, that'd be a lot of signer too.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Are you going, Moses Malone? Did he play long enough
to you?

Speaker 16 (01:15:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
But he played for so many different teams.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
I don't even think even the biggest Mo Malone fans
recognize him much. As for his Rocket career, I mean,
he really took off from stardom spot six years with
the Rockets are somewhere around there. Yeah, But I mean
at that point the mbages wasn't on the radar. When
when he was playing against Showtime and the and the
and the and the beat the Lakers in at eighty
four or eighty three, I mean that really put him

(01:16:12):
on the map. They went to San Antonio, at Milwaukee, Atlanta,
he bounced around all over the place. Yeah, it's James Harden,
but there's it's James Harden. James Harden is it gets
the same tribument. So let me ask you this as
we wrap up this up part of the show. Does
Jeff Bagwell deserve the same treatment that James hard is
getting about being put rotten pot?

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Now they're different.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
That's also different because people, well actually people didn't like
James Harden and his playoff performances. But it's not like
Jeff Bagwell got like five hundred played appearances in the playoffs.
They were out in three games because they were going
against like the greatest. I give a little bit of
a leeway with what the playoffs because they're playing I mean,
how many times did they go against the Braves with

(01:16:53):
like Maddox Glavin Smoltz And yeah, they got carved up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
I just didn't. I didn't like it. I just again,
change your pace to me. Jeff Blum is more polished.
Jeff Blum has become a very talented broadcaster, does a
nice job of mixing in the metrics of the sport
with the anecdotal things. Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
But good storyteller. Yeah, I mean, who I mean, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
I thought that was kind of unnerving to see the
one of the greatest astros of all time, arguably one
or two getting the slander. Now again, if you want to,
if he was all of a sudden, like if you
saw a photo of him or video of him breaking
things down with Dana Brown in his claw and it's

(01:17:39):
like sweet, then I can see all right. Then you
go to Twitter and you go run and sink. No,
get out of there, you know what I mean. That's
one thing. He's just doing the game. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
People are upset and yeah, Varo tweeted and Drexler was
horrible on TV. True has his number retired for the Rockets?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Yeah, that was more for less though. I think anything
else all right, Uh, Ross thinks are gonna be all
right for the astros as long as I go get
a picture there's such a jam sports RV.

Speaker 12 (01:18:17):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
We'll drive today throughout the beautiful New England area. Chris
Cross going. You know what, I don't trust your music.
I trust the opinion of one Jonathan jk Allen. You
know what, Matt, you know what.

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
This is?

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
This is it's a it's a it's a certain vibe
to it. It's not something you can tell every day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
You gotta be in a you know so I can. Yeah,
and you're over on a Rode Island. You know about
the driving around. I get that. I get it. I
get that. Thank you very much. We gotta wake up Ross.
Let me tell you what Ross. Let me tell you
what Jonathan uh and uh. Criss Cross was.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
The They'll make you jump. Yeah, Criss Cross is great.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Chriss Cross is to yacht rock is to what.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Kendrick Glovar is to hip hop.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Well, hip hop's an actual genre with like awards. Nobody's
ever won the Best yacht Rock Album of the Year award.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
It's not real. It's not a real genre.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Is still a genre to today or that just like
back in the rock radio on my satellite radio, it's
just made up, John. They had a documentary made about
yacht Rock, doesn't make it real.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
They had a documentary made about big Foot and make
him real. The yacht Rock Review comes back to Houston
at the at the rouse of lose.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
We're gonna go and you're gonna love it. It will
be the only one under seventy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
We're gonna dance, We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna have
a couple of pops. We're gonna be we'll catching the vibe.
We're gonna have our we're gonna have shirts on with
three buttons down. We're gonna have our sailors hat on.
We'll be good to go, life of the party. I
wish you could see Ross's face right now. That I've

(01:20:07):
worked with him for a long time, I know what
he's thinking. You know what, whatever you like? You like man,
Thank you, Ross. It's not that bad vibe. Thank you,
thank you. Honestly, honestly, it's not good. I mean it's fine,
you know what, Jonathan. I I could take you about anywhere,
like at your restaurant and try some stuff and you're like,
this isn't horrible. I mean, you're you have a great

(01:20:28):
music pal. You're accepting of other people food and that
so much, but music I definitely have. Oh, by the way,
did you have any sauer Krawts this weekend?

Speaker 13 (01:20:37):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
I did.

Speaker 13 (01:20:38):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
I don't know where to get sourkrout acquire souer crowd.
He's saying, Uh, you can go to Ranny and Riggy's
and uh get a Ruben, or you can just go
to the grocer stoor, just get sour crow. Right, it's
next next to the to the to the pickles when
you think, right, yeah, it's pickled cucumber. Right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
When I try, I'm gonna be on air. I'm gonna
go to a full rating. And I listened to all
kinds of different music.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
You just you don't listen to anything past nineteen eighty five.
You're the one pigeon holing yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
You don't listen to anything new.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
You listen to the same one hundred and five songs
from nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
So I don't want to hear it. Man, you gotta
you gotta listen to the modern stuff. Man, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:21:22):
You gotta do both exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
All right, send me a playlist. Astros are off today
until Friday. And boy, you're going from the uh what
to the frying pan? What do they call? It's the
cliched term where I'll say on that, from the what
to the frying pan? Excuse me? Whatever? The oil. Yeah,
you're gonna play the Mariners in Seattle who just swept
the Detroit Tigers.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
You're five in front of them, you get swept by them.
You're you Oh, you're going saying, huh from the fish
to the frying pan. Now, from the aquarium to the
frying pan.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
No, it's something of the frying pan. Now, I gotta
look it up. I need these things. I'm a frying pan.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
I knew it was something like that YE had backwards.
I let's talk to the great people. Isn't the frying
pan bad too?

Speaker 4 (01:22:18):
Though?

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
I think either one's good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
No, it's from bad to worst. Yeah, it's that bad.
Five games up is fine.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Gotta win the series in Seattle, got a call wins
series in July. Let's go. I didn't say that. Here
we go. I didn't say it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Well, somehow the season's still going after losing the must
win game on Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Oh why did I do that? So I never The
reason why I brought this up is they didn't get
into their hotels, so six o'clock in the morning, it's overrated.
I don't want to hear about players speak so cute
they they they crushed lands the Colors. Yeah, they skip
me peakd M Colors throwing you hear that Astros that's

(01:23:04):
Rossville or else saying that there's a joke.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Where's my rimshot?

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
We mjay if you're listening, that was but it was
Ross not me. Oh whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
I've been on mccullor's island all season long and I
ain't getting off.

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
He's bouncing back.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
All right. What's he gonna do against the Mariners this weekend?

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
No hitter. It's the road game, so.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
It's gonna be good, exactly. Just throw that out there,
all right. Seven one three two one two five seven, Ninty,
we'll start talking to you, Will and Evince and the
rest of you. Seven one three two one two five
seven Auntie Ross, what is today's edition? And believe it
or not? At one fifty I health. I know Love
Island and I'm not doing Love Island.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
I have no idea. What's going on in Love Island?
The show sucks?

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
How do you say it sucks? You've never seen it,
But you're right, I just know I've never seen it before,
and I believe it does suck. Although the females in
my traveling party were both watching it on their phone yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Wow, the ratings for that thing must be huge. It's
like the biggest.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
It is unbelievably.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
It's like, remember the phenomenon in America.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
I know first got going and this is and help
me out, Jonathan, this this Love Alan's been around.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
For a few years.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Correct, I know this is the It blew up like
a lot last season. But now since that that season
kind of blew up, everybody came to the next season.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Yeah, why is it going so viral?

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
Why this year? Why is this year so much crazier
than previous year?

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Because the people, the contestants on it are like they're
for the money, they're not full, they're not for the purpose.
So they're like they're kind of like it's like I
can't even describe it. It's a controversy, is what's happening.
There was two like racist people on this show, like
they get kicked off the show because they had social
media got pulled up and they were saying slurs and
stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Oh you know what, I'm gonna pass on that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
It's like, it's just that, it's like a bunch of
controversy on top of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
I'm okay watching the Wimbledon final instead of Love Island.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Speaking of Wimbledon final, really quick, what the hell happened
on Saturday? My god, six love six love not great?
Fifty seven minutes. Yikes.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
Yeah, that was an American drumming.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
And by the way, I kept saying on the Twitter,
you whatever. That woman's name is, you go girl, and
you go girl. She's like, get, I don't want to
go anywhere, but get out of this stadium. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
Amanda an A Samova.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Said three times fast. No, what's the equivalent of losing
sixty six like that? Six O six O six O
six O would be being shut out in an NFL
playoff game thirty five nothing something like that. Yeah, I
mean this is a win.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
That was the final finals of the women, the last
one of the two going to the super Bowl and
losing thirty five to nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Yep, who mm hmm. Breakfast at Wimbledon. You couldn't even
get a piece of toast in at Wimbledon after that.
That's pretty good man, Thank you. It's your line of
the week so far. On Monday, Oh we got it.
We got to tweet in about what jo Aspata did.
Oh geez mm hmm, I didn't see it. Probably got

(01:26:04):
the person muted Jones says, Tell Jonathan to go to
the refrigerated section. Either dairy or deli areas much better
than the candle.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
So get your fresh sour crowd can would just google
with sour Kraft recipes, make your own.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
Don't listen to that, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
Phones are next seven one three two one two five
seven nights. What a jam to get you o the
This is the first song for a yacht rock play
listening to its started, this is yacht rock.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
Absolutely really have a group.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
It was a player.

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
H who starts into sports real quick? Keep the song up?
What one player?

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
It's not wearing an Astro rocket texting uniform. You want
right back at right now?

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
Uh prime olaja one?

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Oh okay, I thought you're gonna got the past. Okay,
what about current?

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
Oh you mean current?

Speaker 5 (01:27:12):
Mm?

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
George Springer is having a good season. He is having
a good season.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
George Mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
I think of this as more like soft I don't know.
Yad rock to me has more of a daytime No,
I'm not the armory of the made up genre anyways.
I mean, there's no rules to this stupid made up genre.
But like sailing, it has you know it has uh,
it has yacht and boat connotations.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
Shut up, turn it up you Yeah, I see it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
Hey, johat play is for your girl tonight and see
what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
I'm gon get you listen.

Speaker 13 (01:27:53):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
I'll thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:27:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I guess this has more of a nighttime feel to me.
Like breezing. Okay, that's a like again, and it's not
a yacht rock song. Is not real, but I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
It's breezy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
You would listen to it on a boat.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Ye, that's what I'm saying. You have you have to
open it up. It's not it's yacht rock, but it
doesn't necessarily mean you're kind of boat listening.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
Well, now, what does it mean if it's yacht rock?

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
You're not on a yacht?

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
If you're not a yacht, where are you listening to
yeah rock, This is so stupid, this made up genre.
He's goin to get so emotional about it. Let's see, well,
how does it describe the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Yeah yeah a little bit? Who made up the rules?

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
I think it's really My guess is, if you really
want to describe what yacht rock is, it's a light
rock song produced between say nineteen seventy six and nineteen
eighty three.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
So if it's eighty four is the cutoff, I would say.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Yeah, eighty four probably be, you know, maybe eighty five,
but no more than that once you're in, once you
get to eighty five, eighty six or two passes.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
The definition is the link between city pop and yacht rock,
and it was like a city So it's like, this
is just what Wikipedia say, this is what we use
over here. I'm just like, like, you know, it's just
what West Coast sound redirects is a West Coast pop
and rock aesthetic, seeing for a California sound, you know,

(01:29:18):
like it's it's it's just a mixture between the city
and you're going to the beach, the bay, that type
of vibe.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
You have more of that urban feel to it. Wikipedia
also says it's the genre is soft rock, which I
would one hundred percent agree with. And Blue Eyed Soult's
see that this is just made up. It's just so ridiculous.
I love it. Let's call the phones. People love yacht rock.
We're gonna play out rock the rest of the day.
People love it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Well, this is Michael Jackson's thriller is yacht rock? This
is Oh my god, this.

Speaker 1 (01:29:52):
Is a Wikipedia. This is your definition. It's Wikipedia.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
This is made up. Sorry, go ahead, Hi.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
Will, what's going on?

Speaker 17 (01:30:00):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Can you hear me today? Yes, sir uh.

Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
I just wanted to get in on that Jeff Bagwell
conversation when I heard you. When I heard you say
that you was going going on Twitter for what people
were saying about Jeff Bagwell, already knew what they was
gonna say. They were gonna say the same thing that
I've been thinking for all the years that he substitutes
and comes on on ASTROS broadcast. Every time I realized

(01:30:31):
he's gonna be on the broadcast, I cringe. He's the
most boring speaker I ever heard in my life. Everything
he's say can be true, but I still don't want
to hear from him. I'd rather watch paint right he's
that boy. He's the most boring speaker ever heard in
my life. And I just and when you see if

(01:30:52):
you have some guys have some stationments from Twitter, I
already knew what they were gonna say, because I've been
thinking it for years, and I just had a confirm
by the other people. It's lots of people out there
that feel the exact same way. Love him as a player,
love him with a bat in his hand, horrible when
he's behind the micropobble. And that's that's all I had

(01:31:15):
to say about him.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Okay, well, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
I would just I would just respectfully disagree.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
I again, I don't know if I want Jeff back
Will doing one hundred games, but if he wants to
do five or six a year, I got no problem
with it. I think he gives you an you know, again,
he's not a policy broadcaster. He never said he was
going to be one. The astros probably asked him to
do it as a favor. And he does give a

(01:31:42):
little bit of I do like Rossi's player inside of here,
like he kind of he's got a little Tony Romo
in him, Like I'd expect this pitch. I'd expect this placement.
I'd expect this defender to play that. I mean, he's
got a little bit out of him. But again, just
I don't know. I think a lot of it, frankly
to me is the resentment towards what he did with

(01:32:02):
the jose Bery contract when he was like the assistant
of the assistant of the assistant general manager when the
team didn't have a general manager. Is the reason why
people get so mad at him.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
I think you add it all up, I mean, give
you give people a reason to have a negative view
of a person anyways, and then as we said, he's
not the most energetic, talkative a guy in the first place.
He's just not you know, dude didn't go to broadcasting school.
Not that you have to go to broadcasting school, but
you know what I'm saying, Like, and he just kind

(01:32:31):
of does his things in his own, very casual way.
Some are calling it boring. I don't find it boring.
I think he does have a lot of good insight.
Like you said, Matt, he's also trying to guess, like
septing of this pitch. He does a good job I
think of illuminating the game within the game and guys
backing guys off with fastballs and then here and here's
I'd like to see another fastball here, and stuff like that,
and pitch sequencing. Yeah, I just don't think it's as

(01:32:55):
bad as everyone says. But as I said, I understand
where people are coming from.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
It is funny. I don't think has Big You ever
done a game before? I don't think so. I don't
think he has now He's come on in the middle
of games for like an inning. But I think Craig
is very comfortable being just good old. I'm gonna live
in my retirement. I made good money. I'm a special
assistant the GM. If they know they want my opinion
on something, they'll call me. But I'm he's really not
done a lot of being out there. It's certain, especially

(01:33:24):
on the baseball management side of things and each zone.
I mean, if I had fifty million dollars sitting in
the pick, you probably wouldn't see me much either. Right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Well, I'd hope we could meet every now and then
Matt for some barbecue.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Ooh, we got barbecue this Thursday too. Looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
I'm looking for canceling somehow.

Speaker 1 (01:33:45):
Mt Ross Barbecue Tour begins this stop number two this Thursday,
looking forward to it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
We're gonna share a beef rib. No, it's only on Saturdays.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
There, can we stop saying sharing a beef rib? What's wrong?
Beef ribs are delicious? Why can't you grow mens bee
for it?

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Yeah, it's two and a half pounds. You gonna eat
it by yourself, Jonathan, you know what you need with
that bee for ri?

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
You know you're right, You're right. Why can't grown people
to share a.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
Beef for ri?

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Yeah, it's as big as your head. We've shared the
share it. We've shared all sorts of things.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Moving on twelve thirty on Sports Talk seven out Events,
David Bill hang ted.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
We'll get to you next twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Thirty four Sports Talk Sevenati, Matt and Ross with you
on this Monday, real fast for we go back to
the phones. We got a lot of folks that want
to talk and want to get to you guys. Ross. Uh,
some of us unfortunately had our Twitter accounts hacked. I've
had mine happened one time. It's not fun. You got
hacked twice, paralyzing was it twice?

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
Once it was a Turkish guy and then once you
had to make your other you may draw the account
sports and t blessing.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
Did you see who got his account hacked this weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Yeah, you gotta stop making Matt the best your password,
it's too easy to guess.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
That's true. My act My new password is follow sports
r V and I g all right Instagram at sports
r I'm still following back. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
Did you see who got hacked this weekend?

Speaker 1 (01:35:15):
Was that b Elmo?

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
That would be Almo? Oh my gosh, I did see that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Yikes. I'm just leaving at that. I don't know why
you're bringing this s up. Well, I'm just saying we're
not going to tell you what it said. Look, you
can chuckle, but it's just you could clearly tell he
was hacked. Uh yeah, unless say I'm only anti Semitic

(01:35:44):
on us. But I was thinking it was maybe AI General,
But I don't think it was. I think it was
honestly somebody tried to hack him. So what do you
mean AI generated? I mean you could you can photosh jip,
you can photo shop a tweet? Oh yeah yeah, uh
back at it. Vincent Katie on The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross at twelve thirty five, hit e Vince.

Speaker 6 (01:36:06):
Hey, guys, how you doing good?

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
Vince, what's up with you?

Speaker 8 (01:36:11):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:36:11):
Man, hey, interesting bit of information. The keyboard player for
Player was my next door neighbor when I lived in
Santa Monica.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
So shut the front door.

Speaker 13 (01:36:24):
No, that's the god's honest truth, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Well, let's get him on the show. We can do
a whole hour of Player cover songs. That would be great.

Speaker 13 (01:36:34):
Man, you guys are cracking me up today. So I
wanted to talk about Bagwell. And I don't know if
you guys have ever noticed this, but you know, everything
on the broadcast is sponsored. Whether it's a power company
or a hospital system chain, or an HVAC company or whatever.
Everything is sponsored. And Kallous and Blum are really great

(01:36:57):
at always calling out the broadcaster. Every single thing they do.
They make sure that they call out the broadcaster, and
I have heard them correct Bagwell because he won't do it.
He never ever calls out the sponsor. And I have
heard Bagwell say I don't care about that, that doesn't

(01:37:17):
matter to me, and he just wants to talk about baseball,
and I actually find it kind of refreshing. I enjoy
it when Bagwell's on every now and then, and the
whole broadcast doesn't seem like, you know, a nine inning commercial.

Speaker 1 (01:37:34):
Well, we here at Sports Talk SEVI and I you
appreciate our sponsors, Vince, thank you for the phone call.
Sponsorships makes it world go round. So maybe Jeff just
just says, basically, you know what, I got a partner
he can do all.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
The red liner reads basically, right, Yeah, the drive of
the game, the diamond, the play of the game. Yeah,
you can go all that stuff, the call it of
the bullpen, brought to you by certain wireless carrier.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Yeah. I mean, I'll be honest, and I've said this before,
you know, I think Jeff Blum is an amazing storyteller.
I think Jeff Bagwell is a good storyteller. I again,
to each his own. Everybody has their own preferences. I
do believe the Space City TV broadcast is a little
too metrically for me, honestly. Hmmm, not like it's it's

(01:38:26):
it's something that I can't listen to because I think
I think Todd and Jeff do a great job, but
they do get into the weeds a little bit more
than I would. But that's my own personal preference. And
I think when Jeff does does come on the broadcast.
He doesn't like all that stuff, so he's not going
to bring that to the table. Yeah, so I would

(01:38:47):
just say.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
To each his own right, Yeah, you know, well he
come he's come around an exit Velocity Matt Jeff Bagwell,
has have you yet?

Speaker 13 (01:38:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Okay, no, here's what's talking about that on the Brexit
the broadcast, He's like, yeah, you need exit velocity and
get some hits.

Speaker 1 (01:39:03):
I've come around on OPS plus, could come around on
what else I come around on.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Whip Whip is not Yeah, I wouldn't call that a No,
it's not new sabermetric.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
Launch angle does nothing for me. Exit Velo does minimal
for me. Whether or not it catches a four or
a five star, I could give two craps. Oh, the
XBA is the biggest fraud stat of it all. I'm
not saying that the ASTROS broadcast does it, but that's
the one. I just go either it's a hitter itch
or not. Period. Okay, She's just say, old Ross, does

(01:39:40):
you know you can fight me back on this? And
it does make some sense for chance of rain.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
Sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
Well yeah, that's also because isn't that forty of the
area though.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
I used to think that. But if you said the
greater Houston area is a forty chance of rain, that
then indeed say that forty percent of Houston's guaranteed reign
and that's not necessarily the case all the time. That's
what they mean. Well, they're lying to us. Then let's
go to uh David on seven ninety or twelve thirty nine.
Hi David, how's it going good?

Speaker 18 (01:40:18):
So my whole thing about the whole Bagwell is Bagwell
is a baseball guy, and the people that don't appreciate
it have only been Astros fan since twenty seventeen and
probably think Lebron is better than Kobe and Michael Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Well, here's definitely been a Kobe.

Speaker 18 (01:40:36):
Cool baseball guy. Baseball is an old school or Bage
was an old school baseball guy that people that are
not baseball people just don't appreciate. That's all amout.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Yeah, That's what part of it we did talk about
earlier is that maybe the older the younger generation doesn't
know the value of Jeff Bagwell, like, for instance, thank
you for the phone called Ross who is running to
Twitter in twenty twenty five and complaining about Jeff Bagwell
on a TV broadcast. I would think a twenty six
year old would there's all things that are gonna complain about,

(01:41:10):
but to complain about Jeff Bagwell would not be on
their topics of a list of topics running.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Do I think the kids are complaining? Yeah, if you're
twenty six, well he retired in what five? Yeah, if
you were born in ninety nine, you never saw Jeff
Bagwell play.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
But I mean, aren't you, if you're twenty six running
the Twitter looking for the for you tab to see
if if that girl's mom is hotter than her?

Speaker 3 (01:41:29):
You know that kind of stuff? Or would you hit
that kind of thing?

Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
Aren't you running for that?

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
You're not twenty six and you're doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
What I do in my life is my own business.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
Okay. So what I'm asking for is, does a twenty
six year old watching an Astros game going, God, I
hate Bagwell? Does he run in the Twitter and saying
these things?

Speaker 9 (01:41:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
I don't know? Definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
I had people in high school back when Chris Paul
was a rocket going and giving him death threats after.

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Oh like it's yeah, that seems like a little much
threats that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
The type of people that do this is you know,
they don't have a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Alright, I'm gonna go look it. By the way, Lebron
is better than Kobe all time. I mean, come on,
let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
I'm trying to find I want to look to see.
I'm gonna look for a Jeff Bagwell slight and promise
that I can't tell like, well, no, generally it's gonna
be some loser who's being anonymous. Yeah, yeah, this, yeah,
I can't. I can't belt to all these people. Oh this,
Oh Sunny Days hates bagell and he's a Tottenham Hotspur fan,

(01:42:39):
loves the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Astros, m m A food,
baseball cars, baseball cards, and PC Christian Javier, PC Christian
Heavier and then all bout twenty two hours ago he said, Wow, Camsmith,
you lazy pos. It's funny you would never Sunny Days.
You would never go to cam Smith and call me
lazy p. She just wouldn't do it, Cam Smith, lazy pos.

(01:43:05):
Astros are so freaking wasteful. Next, Uh, what the hell
happened to Mark Coleman's face? Hashtag UFC Do you saw
that on over the weekend? No Hunter Brown, That's that
was all on you. You gave Ramirez a giant beach
ball to hit. Damn, this guy's tough on the Local.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Nine, followed by the Sean Sealberry Show. Really yeah, thanks
for pointing this person out.

Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
It's mute.

Speaker 3 (01:43:38):
Welcome to Mutesville, mute town. I didn't realize.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
I didn't mean to do it. I'm sure, I'm sure
you can cook.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
I'm sure he's wonderful. I like when Chandler gets in
Twitter fights with people and I'm like, oh, let me
go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
And mute that guy. Oh the best tour fights. Like
like he'll get in a fight with somebody and he'll
ask me if I know these people are Like, I
don't know these are.

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
I'm a Twitter lover, not a Twitter fighter.

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
Twelve three. I mean, I've got a few scrapes over
the years.

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
Ross let's believe it or not coming up in an
hour for I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:44:14):
You tell me what is it? I've given you two,
you've given me zeros? What do you What have you said?
Seven one three days? Ridiculous? What are the questions about?
Seven one three day? We could do an.

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
Eric co It is terrible. We've done that before.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
I actually I was bringing up has this song played
on a serious sex and yacht rot today?

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
Is this song considered you hot?

Speaker 1 (01:44:38):
Rocky?

Speaker 4 (01:44:39):
You see?

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
But I don't know because it's all made up. There's
arbitray rules, players baby comebacks on there, and I don't
think it should be a place in hell for you
for not liking Michael when Michael Jackson's thriller, according to Wikipedia,
is yacht rock. This guy off a Wikipedia first look, No,
I'm just no. You went to Wikipedia.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
Now you're trying to get off Wikipedia.

Speaker 19 (01:44:57):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
You can't change Johnnah. Then you can't change the gold post.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
When you're like, no, it's Wikipedia, guys. This is to me,
this is the authority. And then all of a sudden
you disagree.

Speaker 1 (01:45:07):
You're off of it. Jonathan, we come back. We're gonna
play my favorite yacht rock song, Oh my God, and
it's gonna irritate my partner and I'm here for it.
On Sports Talk seven ninety so soulful.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Can't you see what's going.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
I see you grooving back there on the special close
circuit camera Ross. You see me sing my h.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Excuse me, shaking your head.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
Look at this guy that's what we call you the
puzzle master.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Oh well, that of course though. Imagine you and Adam's
falling and Randy mckleboy dancing this song on set on
TV last night, Ora Channel two. Yeah, we're talking Sports'
Matt breaking it down with Michael McDonald's the background. You'd
love that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
Which, by the way, this Wikipedia says that Fleetwood Mac's
album Rumors would not be considered yacht rock, yet it
was played on yacht Rock on Sirius XM today, which
is that's gonna be our believe it or not. I
got the whole I got every song that has been
played in the last twenty four hours on yacht rock.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
They Oh, that's right, you can go. You can go
to the app and they can give you a listening correct. Yeah,
that's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
But I'm gonna start from midnight because otherwise it's like
five hundred thousand songs. Although no, there's a lot of
repeats already.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
All right, sweet Freedom. Would you think Jonathan you just
heard it there? I didn't. I was loving it at
the start. Then I heard his voice. I was like eh.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
Then we got into the chorus. I was like, okay, okay, okay, okay,
that's a McDonald guy. But I like the vibe shot
Day one. Smooth Operator is yacht rock.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
No, it's played three times on Serious Exam in the
last twenty four hours. Nobody can be perfect, Ross, nobody
can be perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
Yeah, it's stupid made up rules.

Speaker 1 (01:47:08):
All right? Do you for one million dollars one million
empty bucks? Can you name the movie that that song
Sweet Freedom was the slead soundtrack song of what movie?

Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
Pat's the Glory?

Speaker 13 (01:47:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:47:21):
It was called Running Scared. I was close mid eighties movie.
It was about a couple of cops that lived in
I think you did, Detroit and New York and they
were sent by their leader to go down to Miami
for some rest and relaxation. They wind up getting involved
in a big case down and it was kind of
like Beverly Hills Cops if you think about it. Okay,

(01:47:45):
the two cops, Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines rip. Billy
Crystal has a cop yep. Okay, a very entertaining mid
eighties movie. If you happen to be searching on Netflix
for something to watch, I'll take your words for it.

(01:48:08):
Running Scared it's on Netflix. I don't know if it's
on Netflix. But I'm sure you can find it somewhere,
all right. If I had to pay three dollars, Matt,
it better be good. I wouldn't do that. Find a
bootleg copy of it. Let's go to Easy at twelve
fifty four on seven ninety easy. Good afternoon, Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Speaker 19 (01:48:28):
I wanted to take the heat off a little bit
off a baggie, and I was gonna ask you guys
a couple of questions. The top two most hated players
by the Astros fans Bauer A roll As, Garcia, Joe
Kelly or Houston's finest Mike Fires.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
And I'll hang up and listen, gentlemen, Mike Fires number one.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:48:58):
I would agree with that. H Roles is up there,
And who's the only one?

Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
He said?

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
Why do you we hate him because he hits home
runs against the Astros? I like, like, you still hate
him about Pools? I hated him for for years?

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I hated Kevin Brown. I hate
to remember that ninety eight Potter Ray team. I can
tell you that for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
Sterling Hitchcock in the Boys, Oh you hated it, Hitchcock?

Speaker 1 (01:49:35):
Yeah? Uh, I thought they were gonna win it all
that year, Bower three Garcia, four of those four guys
in that list, that's my one go. Mike Fires goes
down as the hatest of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
Now again, granted.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
About go go for a sneaky pick Carlos Gomez.

Speaker 1 (01:49:58):
Is it because he was so bad when he was here?
Is that the reason why? Or just yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
And then he get traded away and people still hated him.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
I'm trying to think who the most hated? Do they
have to play for the Astro? I guess no. I
mean you're creating your own parameters here. It's a good
list radio this remember this is you asked all the lists. Yeah,
we're gonna go heavy list tomorrow, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
We're going a list of yacht rock songs today.

Speaker 1 (01:50:25):
Ooh, seriously, let me tell you Ross, let's go and
yacht Rock Review is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
Not coming to Houston this year for some reason.

Speaker 1 (01:50:34):
But the next time it comes, you and I will
get some tickets and we'll go and I will will
change your life with.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
The It's not gonna change my life. I mean the
music's not. It's fine. It's just a ridiculous made up
genre with no rules.

Speaker 1 (01:50:47):
Yeah, well, who needs rules in life.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
I mean, they have to be characterized.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
If you can argue a lot of music genres have
the blurring of the lines. We talked about R and
B and UH and funk and and the billboards Top
one hundred, R and B are it is and pop.
How Whitney Houston and Muri Caerry were on there. But
I think of them more as podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:51:05):
Is smooth jazz created by something? Or is that a
real genre? I don't take your word whatever you say. No,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
I don't know everything.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
Matt kind of sound like you do. No, I know,
I don't know anything. Actually, Okay, Uh, smooth jazz, I
guess is the real genre?

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
I mean it's definitely has I think I will say this.
I think you recognize smooth jazz more easily than you
would yacht rock.

Speaker 1 (01:51:29):
Okay, what is jelly Roll? What would you describe him as?
Jelly Roll?

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
I thought he made like country rock stuff, right, I
don't really listen to him?

Speaker 1 (01:51:36):
So is country? It's just somebody say when they're a kid,
I want to grow would be a country rock singer?

Speaker 11 (01:51:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:51:42):
I think what music does is you might find songs
that kind of and you want to create a genre
of me. That's what yacht rock.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
I don't listen to jelly roll.

Speaker 1 (01:51:49):
So no, nobody grows up and saying I'm gonna I
want to win the Grammy for the Best yacht Rock Album.
It doesn't exist. Nobody grows up and says I want
to be a yacht rock No, it's made up. Yacht
rock is not a john It's a way of life.
Oh my god, I walk the same as like punk rock,
and like the different versions of that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:04):
No, no, no, no, it could not be any further
For the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
You think we just played Michael McDonald and that you
would consider that punk rock.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
He's saying no, he's not saying it is punk rock, man,
He's saying like it's a like a sub genre.

Speaker 1 (01:52:19):
Punk rock is the way. There are people who grow
up and say I want to do punk rock. That's true.
Nobody grows up and says I want to do yacht rock.
You know what these songs give me is the Kevin
Bacon footloose. That's what That's what.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
Oh my god, you're looking you're just looking more at
the Wikipedia page. I saw that on there too.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
That's what. That's what. Los is not yacht rock. That's
it's an easy one. I guess the question would be,
would you play this?

Speaker 4 (01:52:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
It can't be okay, I'm asco chance. No, here's what.

Speaker 1 (01:52:51):
Can you play a yacht rock song on a boat
or on the beach as you're laying there relaxing. It
can be soft, it could be a little bit of
his you know, a banger to it, like obviously Sweet
Freedom was.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
Yeah, are you on a boat? Are you on a ship?
Are you at the beach?

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
Well, you said he didn't have you hold on last segment.
You said he didn't have anything to do with the boat.
I'm just saying, can't. I'm just starting to trying to
help you describe it, help you define it, Like you're
not playing Mega Death at the beach? I could? You're
not playing Tesla on on your pond toon boat?

Speaker 3 (01:53:30):
You could?

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
Who's that's a nineties hair band? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
Why can't you play Tesla on the boat? I mean,
if you can't, somebody's feeding your lines. Who are you
talking to about all this? No, I'm just I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
Talking organically here. You're not playing Aerosmith on your boat?
Are you? Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Well, sweet Emotion on the boat?

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
Why not? I guess you could play sweet Emotion. All right,
let's move on. Final hour of the show is coming up.
If you miss rock folks, no it's not. Don't listen
to him. He didn't know what he's talking about. Final
hour of the show. We're gonna play that great moments
of the tenth Inning Show from yesterday if you miss that.
Plus Reed Shepherd's mixed reviews at the Summer League, and

(01:54:16):
what else we got SEC Media Days. Why isn't Gordy
call with some breaking news on what's going on there
at the SEC Media Days. You would think you'd hand
us over some lineman from South Carolina we've never heard
of before. There is a little bit of news out
of the SEC media is We'll get to that as well.
Plus believe it or not, is this song? Has this

(01:54:38):
song I've been playing on the yacht Rock channel on
Sirius XM in the last twenty four hours.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
It is twelve to fifty nine here on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Final hour of
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross one O four here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. We look forward to having
you with us today for the next fifty five minutes,
seven one, three, five, seven ninety. The Astros limp into
the All Star break having lost five of their last six,

(01:55:07):
including back to back series, including all those being played
at Dyke and Park. Astros still sixteen games above five hundred.
You know, it's funny, Ross. We get a bunch of
soundbites sent to us from Josh, who's our network producer
of the Astros, and it's of the Dana Brown conversation.
And I am, I mean, I am thrilled by and

(01:55:31):
large on how this team has performed despite the insane
amount of injuries, from position players to starting rotation, to
bullpen guys to using guys. We just we figured out
earlier in the show it's thirty five percent of the
twenty six man roster right now for the Astros probably
should be a space cowboy. I mean, that's a pretty

(01:55:54):
seismic number, significant for sure. And so Josh are Or
sends us these cuts of Dana Brown talking about Jeremy Painier.
You're on Alvarez, Chance, McCormick, Spencer, Arraghetti, and he's doing
his job, because that's what you do. You send the
sound bites. But maybe I'm not doing my job properly

(01:56:17):
as part of the show by not playing the sound
bites because I'm kind of fatigued about updates. Does that
make sense to you?

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
Just let me know when they're in lineup, is what
you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
And I felt like that. I felt like that for
actually quite some time. I don't need any more updates.
I don't need anymore he's throwing on flat ground or
he's at the West Palm Beach facility. And again I
applaud the astros for giving the information out, but it
took so long for them to get that information out

(01:56:52):
because of I think of a lot of media pressure
to be more forthcoming.

Speaker 3 (01:56:58):
And on top of that, there's so many of them, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:57:03):
Jordan's hand was sore, then fractured, then recovered and then
more inflammation. Arraghetti gets hit by a baseball and that
was what two months ago.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
I mean, they did the.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
Ball crush his hand into fifteen pieces. I don't know.
On that seems like it. We haven't heard word one
about Chas mccormickan forever. Jeremy Payne is not doing a
whole lot. I'm honestly telling you, friends, If if we
were really bored and we couldn't conduct a radio show.

Speaker 3 (01:57:37):
We maybe would probably.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
Play this out of the sound bites, but I think, frankly,
all it would do is just get you mad, and
I don't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
And it's not necessarily completely all the astro's.

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
Fault, But my mentality is if these guys are not
on the cusp of being ready after the all start,
Like I'll give you a case in point, Jeremy Pania,
the question was asked you yesterday if Dana Brown, could
Jeremy Payne you be back in time for the Seattle
series coming up Friday in Seattle, and Dana said, well,

(01:58:07):
I don't know if that's gonna I'm paraphrasing here. I
don't know if he'll be ready for that, but it
could be soon after Ross is soon after three games,
two series, two weeks. Like when I say Ross, I'll
see you soon, Star, I'm playing, I gonna see you
for a week, right, see you soon, let's say three

(01:58:27):
to four days. When I said, when you said let's
get together soon, two months, I mean that you hear
from you ever again? You know what I'm saying. So
it to me, and it's because I've been beating over
the head with the sooner rather than the later card.
I don't want to talk about these players until I

(01:58:47):
hear X y Z players coming off.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
They use your list, so sure of that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
I'm just not overly interested unless Dana Brown says yes,
Pagna is going to play again. He doesn't know he's
guessing as much as anybody else, but he's He's also
responding to a question that's being asked, so it's not
his fault, but I just I've got fatigue over when
guys are coming back questions.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Well, Danny needs to be on top of it. Because
it's about two and a half weeks away from the
trade deadline.

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
There are too many people ross in my opinion, that
are not close enough to being ready that even if
Spencer Arraghetti was to rev up and get going, which
sounds like he is, he hasn't thrown on a majen
liingk mound in months. The novice baseball expert in my

(01:59:46):
body says he's gonna have to go through a completely
new spring training right.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
I think he's ramping up towards rehab.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
I'd have to look at the latest updates Matt to
get more and give you more on that. But I
think he is getting close to a rehab assignment. And
in rehab, you would hope would just be I don't know,
a week or two.

Speaker 1 (02:00:05):
Well, I mean you tell me four or five starts,
four or five days off in between, he's gonna go
back to starting. So that's got to be at least
twenty more days there, right.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
Well, you can't rehab more than a month, So if
they start him at least the clock is ticking to that,
it's gonna be within a month. Yeah, and maybe I'm
not doing my job, and again I apologize, but it's
just it's like I am at the point now that
if these guys are not right around the corner, meaning
in the next week or so, to revamp for the
final two months. That's why I said during to tell
the truth earlier today, they need to go get a

(02:00:35):
live arm who's ready to go.

Speaker 1 (02:00:37):
They need to do that. But oh, here comes the boat.

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
If you also need a leettendant bat you also don't
have a whole lot of resources to trade away. I
think that's that's a line that Dana Brown's gonna have
to toe, is trying to figure out what you can
give away, what can you you can still keep and
try to to I understand that it's a bad strategy
to hope, but when you don't have much else, if
hope's all we got, yeah, then I I would understand

(02:01:04):
him if he doesn't go crazy at the trade deadline
making move for a starting pitcher, bullpen arm and a
and a and and a bat and everyone's like, what's
Dana Brown doing? Is sitting on his hand, It's like, hey,
we know what it cost last year to get Usa Kakuchi.
Even though those guys diden end up panting out at
the time, it was you know, it wasn't nothing giving.

Speaker 1 (02:01:24):
Up and you've got even less.

Speaker 2 (02:01:27):
Your number one prospect is up, your other your number
two prospect is hurt.

Speaker 1 (02:01:32):
And it's not like those guys are thought of. Bryce
Matthews is your number one prospect. He's not all world
right now. So well, the sample size incredibly small, and look, yes,
but I'm saying that to say this that it's not
like you're fully stocked with a bunch of dudes who
are banging down the door and then a bunch of
other teams are going to be ringing the phone off
the hook to try to get right. Is Bryce Matthews

(02:01:56):
a medium rare steak. Uh, delicious and great. Well, if
you like medium, it's probably not cooked all the way
for your satisfaction. Oh okay, well, no, medium rare is
the way to get it. Man, Medium is the maximum.
I let you have.

Speaker 3 (02:02:14):
I thought you had to buy my rare before you
said you liked it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:17):
Oh, I do like medium r I'm a new I'm
a medium rung guy. Now here. I'll give you one.
How about I like my chocolate cookies a little well done?
Who extra Christmas? No salt?

Speaker 13 (02:02:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:02:30):
So you like it hard? I like a hard cookie, yes,
harder than a normal cookie. I'll leave the cookie if
it's out of the pan, if it was in the
oven for thirteen minutes. But I'd rather have the cookie
if it was in there for sixteen.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
Uh, you gotta have a little cookie dough taste a
little a smidge, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:02:49):
I just I don't think the Astros wanted Bryce up
here this early.

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
No, this is out of necessity.

Speaker 1 (02:02:57):
Out of necessity, great moment in the tenth inning show
are up next? And then after that, how did Bryce
Matthews do yesterday? I'll read the stat line and I
want no commentary from Ross on need other people instead
seven one three, two one two five seven Hony great
moments in the tenth Inning Show or next week. So

(02:03:17):
I was busy watching the Astros loose to the Rangers yesterday.
Then flipped the iHeartRadio app on here in Rhode Island, Ross,
where I got to hear the tenth Inning Show with
Dan Matthews, and that gave us this. So then go

(02:03:38):
with Eric in Bay City. Eric, what's going on? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (02:03:42):
You know, Dan, you just said we could have very
well lost all six of those games, and if our
manager had had his way, we would have lost him
last time. He needed that stupid defensive sum for Josel too.

Speaker 5 (02:03:53):
They out in left field. I told, I told Ross
and a half months ago, get Josel to the lead
off spot. We're gonna wait the games and guess what
we've done since we've won games. Now, if we just
get Joe Spot out of this town, we would win
a lot more games.

Speaker 10 (02:04:09):
I'll hang up for most.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
Mmm, you're really here trying to get me to yell again.

Speaker 1 (02:04:21):
Yeah, I'm going to. So if that doesn't force you
to yell, this guy from San Antonio.

Speaker 11 (02:04:28):
Will two one oh San Antonio. Caleb wants to weigh in, Caleb,
what's going on?

Speaker 12 (02:04:35):
Hey, I just want to let you know I actually
went to a Houston Dash game and uh, weren't a
lot of people there.

Speaker 10 (02:04:43):
It was.

Speaker 12 (02:04:43):
It was really kind of a horrible setting as far
as fan base, and I just kept thinking, this is
how it's gonna be watching the Astros and Joe A.

Speaker 14 (02:04:53):
Spotta continues to be the coach. I mean, it's it's
getting bad. And you know, sixteen games about five hundred.

Speaker 1 (02:05:00):
Is that the bar?

Speaker 19 (02:05:01):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:05:01):
Is that where we're at? This is Houston Astros that
Michael Connor. No, I don't think so. I don't think
it is either.

Speaker 2 (02:05:09):
Sounds like it though they're similar, similar, a little bit
of cadence, but as you said, there's a little bit
more twang and a couple of things he said aren't
aren't Connor like in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (02:05:17):
But I don't think it's. Well, maybe that is. He's
what he was trying to He was really trying to
get us off the scent. I don't. I don't think so,
go ahead, do it, get off. He's a loss. I
ask you to yell, to sweep.

Speaker 3 (02:05:30):
I gotta believe you, folks.

Speaker 1 (02:05:35):
JOSEL. Tuvey was the last person to bat, meaning he
will be ninth next up, and you also get free
runners in the tenth, and it would really take a
lot for him to come up. For it to matter,
Josh Hader would have to blow his first save of
the year, which he did unfortunately. Then you won't don't
walk it off of the ninth, Then you don't walk

(02:05:55):
it off in the tenth. And oh, by the way,
that didn't even matter because Kennedy Corona got on bays.
He got on bays. Jose L.

Speaker 2 (02:06:04):
Tuve doesn't have a thousand on base percentage, so what happened.
Corona got on base. That's good. The pitcher, I can't
even remember his name, Garcia or whatever, couldn't throw a strike.

Speaker 3 (02:06:13):
He walked Corona, and then it was walked off.

Speaker 1 (02:06:15):
They won the game. You're crushing somebody for some crazy thing,
these circumstances, the series of events that had to happen,
and even then they still won the game. And you're
getting that at the manager who has this team sixteen
games above five hundred, with basically as as we laid out,
forty percent of the roster being from Triple A Sugar
Lane thirty five.

Speaker 3 (02:06:37):
I'm rounding up ridiculous, ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (02:06:45):
You know why if you want to blame somebody, Josh Hater,
give up the save that was that was, that was
his hitting to finish.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
I'm a bum blame who didn't make it three sixteen
and left instead of three fifteen.

Speaker 1 (02:06:56):
Boy, I felt the Crawford box. They want to hate
this shit coming to play a lot of the last
couple of weeks. I mean, I'm trying to think you
probably could push it back. It costs probably a cup
of Millie.

Speaker 2 (02:07:08):
Right, You're gonna have to spend the money doing it,
and you're gonna lose row seats. Jim Creane ain't doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
You think you know what you got, pesky pole? You
got yeah, a lot of chips. Fine, I don't mind.
I don't mind it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:19):
It's it just feels like it's been a story more
lately than it normally is because generally, to get it
that high, I mean you you got to hit the
laziest of pop flies for it to sneak in the
first row. But it feels like it's happened four or
five times the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (02:07:32):
Well, the two home runs that Josh Hader gave up
this week would be only given up at dyk In Park.

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
That's the reason why it storylined.

Speaker 1 (02:07:39):
Yeah, that's fine. And Josh doesn't give it. Yeah, it
doesn't give up the fly ball and three app three up,
three down. It's a mood conversation. Nobody's you know what Joe,
You know what Joe Spotted did. He gave his reliever
the best possible defense he could. And this is what
I also have to say. Yeah, it's like, people, is
this your first time watching baseball? How many times have

(02:08:00):
we seen defensive replacements over the years, over and over
and over and over again. Pay attention to the games. Well,
we're gonna try we're gonna try to get we're gonna
try to get this fan base smarter tomorrow than it
was today. Steve on seven ninety and one twenty four
high Steve, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:08:23):
Matt, yes, sir, Yeah. The the only time you fire
managers is when they don't win games. And a Spata
is winning games with you know, a house full of
minor leaguers. And you know, he was a bitch coach

(02:08:44):
for a long time. He learned a lot from doing that.
He's doing a great job. You look around the league
when you lose games, you get fired. When you win games,
everybody likes you. The one good thing about this show
is if we have I don't quite get it and

(02:09:04):
shut your bone mass up. Both of those apply to
the callers from San Antonio. That's all I got.

Speaker 3 (02:09:10):
Thank you very much, Steve.

Speaker 1 (02:09:11):
Be careful out there, go find that person I'm gonna
shut his bow mass up.

Speaker 2 (02:09:16):
There can be some crossover between shutting your boss up
and I just don't get you callers.

Speaker 1 (02:09:22):
It's okay, And again, well we have to continue to do.
We tell you this a lot. Twitter is a small faction.
Callers are a small thing. I will tell you this.
In the history of me doing sports radio, I've only
met what I mean, what is it, what percentage of
people that have ever listened to the show ever called
the show? Less than ten percent?

Speaker 2 (02:09:40):
Yeah, I would say, And we had a lot of
people came out to tell your brewings saying, hey, man,
I listen to you guys all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:09:44):
Just never call, but I love listening.

Speaker 1 (02:09:46):
Sure, Look, we we want you to call because we
do like the interaction, and we do like smart callers.

Speaker 2 (02:09:51):
They call in show. Yeah, especially in a postgame format, and.

Speaker 1 (02:09:55):
Especially if our phone systems are working, which sounds like
it is today.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
The apartment.

Speaker 1 (02:10:00):
We just send him an air check of that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
Huh, we love you it right, you're the very best.

Speaker 1 (02:10:06):
You're the krem De like krem You're the You're the
yacht rock of it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:10):
You don't want to know, you know, and downgrade them
like that they're better than yacht rock.

Speaker 1 (02:10:16):
I love shot rock. I listened, I sent you, sent
me this list of songs. I mean, one jam after
the other, sought I gotta get you to convert you.
But before the end of the year, I like a
lot of those songs.

Speaker 3 (02:10:31):
I'm just saying, yacht rock is made up.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
Okay, so it is made up?

Speaker 4 (02:10:35):
So what.

Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
Yeah, it's fine. Be happy. I am happy.

Speaker 3 (02:10:39):
I'm great. I'm having a great right.

Speaker 1 (02:10:43):
A couple of things we've not really gone over today,
need to just mention briefly, read Shepherd. Last night, Rossie
had eighteen points in the Rockets ninety eight eighty three
loss of the Pistons in the Summer League baller. I'm
not a huge Summer League watcher. I'd like to go,
but I don't know if I want to watch, Okay,
I mean I could just go to Vegas and just

(02:11:04):
you know, make an appearance.

Speaker 3 (02:11:07):
Yeah, if they had a craft table, the arenity might go.

Speaker 1 (02:11:10):
Imagine calling play that play while playing black check at
the same time. You should do no because you're gonna
start yelling at poor old ladies. I mean blue hairs.
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (02:11:21):
Who wouldn't harm the soul?

Speaker 1 (02:11:23):
She did a harms soul. She harmed me. That's nice.
She hurt my soul hitting on a fourteen against a.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
Four Dumby mad She was very sweet, Darlene, do she's
oblivious to my anger? You're trying to snatch her brown
wig off.

Speaker 1 (02:11:40):
I should have I should have said to hope you
have a heart attacking the way back to your room,
Reed Shepherd six of nineteen from the floor, one of
seven from three.

Speaker 3 (02:11:48):
Six of nineteen. Wait, howd he's score eighteen? Well it's
sick free throws?

Speaker 1 (02:11:54):
Okay, yeah night.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
Uh you must have made a lot of free throws. Yeah,
if he only made one three pointer.

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
Yeah. The Summer League's a tough watch. Rockets made forty
percent from the Florida na we three of twenty one
from three. Don't you feel like if you end up
watching like a few minutes of g League or summer league.
It really makes you, especially college basketball, You're like, man,
the NBA, we take it for granted. How good those
guys are?

Speaker 6 (02:12:19):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:12:19):
Put it this way, what's the bigger jump G League
to the NBA or Triple A to the major leagues?
I would say for hitters, triple A to major leagues?
For pitchers not? Does that make sense? You think, yeah,
it's fine, But I could you could close your eyes,
I could drop you off a Constellation field and you

(02:12:40):
could watch the two teams play and think it's a
great quality of ball. Or if you go to a
G league, you're not seeing any defense. You're just seeing
guys run up and down the floor in any four.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
Fix, it's kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (02:12:50):
Every game's one hundred and forty five to one hundred
and thirty nine. Will you would respect certain teams if
they played defense or actually ran to play. But I
look at the scores in the and they're astronomically high.
I mean, I don't I think guys go down there
just to go run up and down the floor. Rechep
and went down there for like a week and score
like forty six points? Crazy? Didn't did reed have a
fifty point game in the n G League. Was that

(02:13:12):
what it was, I don't know, but can't win. Moore
went down there last year and he was bawling. I mean,
it's like, if you need an ego boost, go to
the G League. Oh yeah, it was forty nine he
had mm hmm. Yeah. The Summer League to me is
glorified pick up. And that's why when Cooper Flag was

(02:13:32):
shut down by the Mavericks after two games, I was like,
I understand, makes sense.

Speaker 3 (02:13:37):
Yeah, they normally do that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:38):
I think, uh, the the Rockets have been doing that
with their players, although I think what a men hurt
his ankle and then somebody else have an ankle injury.

Speaker 3 (02:13:45):
I can't remember, but Jalen Green or somebody didn't play
much all.

Speaker 1 (02:13:48):
Right. Now, before you get to believe it or not,
which will be coming up at about fifteen minutes from now,
we have a disagreement between the two Power two conferences.

Speaker 3 (02:13:56):
Rossy Oh, Greg.

Speaker 1 (02:13:59):
Sanki, the SEC Commissioner Tony Petiti is the commissioner of
the ten conference. Of the Big Ten, they're beefing, Sankee
said today and the State of the Union, State of
the SEC press conference, which was in Atlanta, where the
SEC media days Are says that hem Patiti spoke four

(02:14:20):
days out of five last week.

Speaker 3 (02:14:25):
And acknowledged the SEC has a different view.

Speaker 1 (02:14:30):
Of what they should do for.

Speaker 2 (02:14:33):
Possible sixteen team tournament then the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 (02:14:38):
The Big Ten has favored a model that rewards conferences
with guaranteed spots in playing games to determine them. The
SEC coaches most recently said they would allow perform a
sixteen team format that includes the five high ranked college
champions and conference champions and the eleven at large.

Speaker 3 (02:14:59):
So the Big Ten once.

Speaker 1 (02:15:01):
The guaranteed four spots, SEC is like, we'll take five
plus eleven. Because I've thought about this a little bit.
Maybe the SEC's ego thinks that maybe we can get
eight or nine teams in, and why limit us if
I can get half my league into the college football tournament? Well,

(02:15:24):
which doesn't neither format really limited. There's no cap on
either format, right, Okay, So let's so the format A
is four to the Big Ten, four to.

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
The yeah guarantee. So it doesn't mean it's not a limit, though,
is it?

Speaker 13 (02:15:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:15:40):
No, no, no, because you have at large spots you
would have under format, you'd have four at large, so
you get eight in there. Maybe he's thinking you can
get nine.

Speaker 2 (02:15:53):
Maybe they they're thinking they could pack. They would, they
would pack the top sixteen more than the Big ten
on average. So you don't want to guarantee the Big
in four.

Speaker 1 (02:16:01):
Right that maybe there's a year or four Big ten
teams don't deserve being in and the Big ten's like, wait,
we got to take care of Wisconsin once in a while,
in Iowa once in a while.

Speaker 3 (02:16:13):
Big ten and four of the top eight last year.

Speaker 1 (02:16:17):
Does that happen a lot? Again, I'm not a great
college football historian.

Speaker 3 (02:16:21):
Yeah, probably not.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
It's Ohio State, it's Michigan and everybody else kind of
just peters out in early December, and Penn State has
been involved. Indiana was last year. Oregon is Big ten.
Now see, that's what I'm thinking about. Why would Big ten,
Big ten's gout UCLA and USC and Oregon, Washington. You
would think it's some one of those four out of
that quadrant would get in, right. It seems like to

(02:16:48):
me they're just arguing over semantics that neither's conference has
got the really really sweat getting in at least six
teams the year, because why would the SEC want to
be this polite. Well, we gotta get everybody involved. They
don't care. They would like to have the sixteen team

(02:17:11):
tournament involve the sixteen SEC teams. Yes, yes, Hey, Vanderbilt
is the best three to nine team in the country.
We should get them in the tournament. Mm hmm. That's
just funny. And that's why I kind of they'll figure
it out. Somebody will. Somebody will will lackly asked to say, Okay,
you're your idea is better. But I believe, under zero

(02:17:35):
circumstance ross that anybody from the Big ten or the
SEC is thinking about the good of the game.

Speaker 3 (02:17:41):
No, Well, go to their they're good the thing to
go to their conference.

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
They're looking out for number one, and they also happen
to be Yeah, the biggest the conference is going to
net the biggest money.

Speaker 3 (02:17:52):
I mean, you tell me.

Speaker 1 (02:17:53):
Will Texas Ohio State be one of the most watched
September games maybe in college football history or at least
Week one?

Speaker 2 (02:18:01):
I mean that is probably or not of a game
Texas Michigan already was.

Speaker 1 (02:18:07):
Yeah, and now you got to defending national champion against
a team that could win the national championship.

Speaker 3 (02:18:12):
This year, and you de Manning effect.

Speaker 2 (02:18:15):
I mean, honestly, people who are not really that interested
in college football are going to watch games that are
involving Arch Manning.

Speaker 3 (02:18:23):
That's just a fact.

Speaker 1 (02:18:26):
Because they think he's gonna be number one pick in
the draft. I speak. I think.

Speaker 2 (02:18:29):
I think the de Manning family just has a huge
following nationwide with people love Eli and Peyton and uh.

Speaker 1 (02:18:35):
Not as much Cooper. But you know what I'm saying,
people of Cooper's very funny Archie. Yeah, he's got to
be the funny one because he didn't have, you know,
as much of a career, you know, but they're all fun.
The story is that he was the most talented of
the group, but he had an injury.

Speaker 2 (02:18:48):
I don't know if I buy that he's more talented
than Peyton Manning the top five quarterback.

Speaker 1 (02:18:53):
Of all time? No, because apparently he had a neck
or I mean, come on, he's Jerry Rice reincarnate. I mean,
come on, who's the third grade? Where do you put
Peyton Manning all the time? I don't know if I
got a probably a fifth, fourth, fifth somewhere in that neighborhood.
And who's the fifth best wide receiver of all time?
Cooper now I'm not buying that most talented thing they

(02:19:13):
are saying. Okay, I'm just throwing it out there because
you know, we have a lot of manning conversation in
the Thomas household.

Speaker 2 (02:19:19):
Yeah, I know, but one of my wife is she
gonna be involved? Is she going to be more apt
to watch a Texas game because Arch is playing?

Speaker 1 (02:19:27):
Uh No, If Texas played Ohio State and there was
a quarterback we didn't know, it wouldn't matter. I don't.
I don't think there's people turning just to tune in
for ARCH. I think it's Texas versus High. I think
people are tuning in for Arch. Absolutely, people who are
not really big sports fans. I would really disagree with that.
I think it's Texas. I think it's I think it's

(02:19:48):
the it's the name brand of both of those schools.

Speaker 2 (02:19:50):
Yeah, I think that, and our people are Yes, I
think so people who are not super invested. I know
several people in my personal life who are not that
invested in sports but love demanding family and want to
watch Arch succeed.

Speaker 1 (02:20:04):
Okay, I will respectfully disagree. I don't think anybody disagree.
I know them. No, I'm talking about I'm talking about
in general. I mean, I don't think Missoula, Montana's going Oh,
Archie Manning is playing, I gotta watch. I think there
are some in Missoula, yeah, Casper, Wyoming, perhaps, Fayville, Arkansas. Yes, well,

(02:20:27):
Faithfvielle is gonna watch anyway. I I think it's in
this particular case, not that we're again it's semantics here.
I think that you have such huge national brands and
you and again I applaud both schools for playing somebody.
I don't know if they did it because it was
going to be a financial winfall for both of them,
or the conference put pressure on them. But to have

(02:20:47):
this game in week one of the season. And here's
the great part, Ross is this is where this tournament
does help them. Yesteryear, you lost this game. You were
chasing after a chancechampionship. You lose this game, it's just
one little negative thing. You're you're gonna be one of
the best twelve teams in the country, and it's all

(02:21:07):
said and done unless you lose four games.

Speaker 2 (02:21:11):
I would say, I Bama may had three losses and
didn't make it last year, so that's kinda yeah. You
get you get a couple of what do you call
it mulligans?

Speaker 1 (02:21:21):
I bet you a two, not saying that Texas into
all Well, so one is gonna have one loss, but
either one of these teams lose two games, they're going
to the tournament.

Speaker 3 (02:21:29):
I would agree that three would be would it gets
a little dicey.

Speaker 1 (02:21:33):
Unless there were some of their biggest wins were against
the top shelf, like when Texas plays Georgia this year, right, yes,
at Georgia. So if you if you're Texas and you
win at Georgia, you can lose a third game. You
wouldn't want to, but I think you could. All right,
believe it or not, is Upneck on Sports Talk seven
ninety tomorrow the show We'll have our gut feelings. We're

(02:21:56):
gonna give Joe a spot of the week off spend
some time with his family. I know he's worried for
his job. His squad is only up five in the
American League West, and he's sixteen games about five hundred,
but people are calling for him to be fired.

Speaker 2 (02:22:07):
So yeah, he's just the absolute worst, costing them games
that he didn't even cost them.

Speaker 1 (02:22:17):
My favorite is imagine where they would be without him?

Speaker 2 (02:22:21):
Frigid idiots? What what did you say, oh man, good times?

Speaker 1 (02:22:29):
Any update on Gordy? Is he just living a world
of paradise there in Atlanta? Y does? Is anybody living
in a world of paradise in Atlanta? I think Dann
Matthews is.

Speaker 2 (02:22:40):
That's true. I mean that's his hometown. They give you
some restaurant recommendations for Atlanta if you like Matt.

Speaker 1 (02:22:44):
No, he lives in Houston. He just worked in Atlanta.
Oh man, he lived there for years. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:22:50):
Georgia guy and LSU.

Speaker 1 (02:22:53):
Every time the rockets, so we'd come to Atlanta. Hey, buddy,
got time for breakfast. I'm like, oh, I gotta pay
for his breakfast now, Okay, I'll do it. Good guy.
Nice you picked up Dan Matthews's breakfast.

Speaker 3 (02:23:03):
That's very nice one.

Speaker 1 (02:23:04):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:23:05):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, you are a nice guy, Matt.
I don't care what Adam Clanton says.

Speaker 1 (02:23:12):
Adam Clanton and burning the Midnight all doing some on
deck and ten things over the weekend. Maybe he did Saturday,
So we don't who did Saturday's ten. It was Dan,
wasn't it. He was on the schedule.

Speaker 3 (02:23:22):
You heard Dan on the.

Speaker 1 (02:23:23):
Interview the Cliff That was from yesterday he did yesterday.
Oh yeah, see think I musa. Yeah, it wasn't. It
wasn't Wax or Clan. We know that for sure. It
wasn't Shawn, So miss one of those three. Very busy,
very very busy. Five minutes left to go on the show.
What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing

(02:23:48):
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(02:24:11):
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Eighties Tour Friday, July eighteenth at the Willis Pavilion. Tickets
are on set now at ticketmatha dot com and of
course we've got the Sports Talk seven ninety t shirt.

Speaker 1 (02:24:38):
Clam'l gon go to that. That sounds like fun. I
want my eighties bands? Are you kidding me? Everybody?

Speaker 3 (02:24:44):
Wang chung tonight?

Speaker 1 (02:24:46):
Let's play? Is that?

Speaker 4 (02:24:48):
Yah? Paul?

Speaker 10 (02:24:49):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:24:50):
Shush, Paul?

Speaker 1 (02:24:50):
You won seven anet? You ready to play Believe it
or not? Paul?

Speaker 3 (02:24:55):
Isn't boy, They're dropping like flies.

Speaker 1 (02:24:57):
Everyone wants to play it for the eighties tickets. You
don't want your eighties.

Speaker 2 (02:25:02):
By the way, apologies to whoever Alexandria Garcia is I
sent her the email instead of Jonathan Allen.

Speaker 1 (02:25:09):
Okay Brandon on seven.

Speaker 3 (02:25:11):
Ninety Ready to play Believe It or Not?

Speaker 1 (02:25:15):
Yat Rock Superstar by the Carpenters on Serious yacht Rock,
Believe it or Not?

Speaker 10 (02:25:23):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:25:24):
No, it's like nineteen seventy three. We're been talking about
seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Roger
on seven ninety Ready to play Believe It or Not?
How Deep is Your Love? By the Begs yacht Rock
Believe it or not? Believe it No? Come on, people,

(02:25:46):
is easy.

Speaker 3 (02:25:48):
These are layups now, there's no rules.

Speaker 1 (02:25:50):
This isn't that easy. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety lines are open for I want eighties tickets.
Let's go people. Matt on seven ninety Matt, what was
your favorite part of today's radio show? I love it
smooth operator of our CHARDA Believe it or not Believe it?

(02:26:14):
There you go, believe It. Song number two for the
Wind Deacon Blues by Steely Dahan Believe It or Not?
Believe It No not considered yt Rock.

Speaker 2 (02:26:26):
Seems like it's kind of yat Rocky. I don't know,
it does feel like a yat Rocky song. Huh Ross
nineteen seventy seven. Family's doing great. Thank you for asking, Matt.
I think we're getting a couple of people calling in now. Oh,
there they are, so you can talk to Adam Clynn.

Speaker 10 (02:26:43):
Do I have to No?

Speaker 1 (02:26:45):
All right? Uh, let's see here.

Speaker 4 (02:26:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:26:52):
Brian on seven ninety Brian, you're ready to play Believe
It or not? Believe It? Hold the line by Toto
Believe It or not Toto, believe it, Believe It. Song
number two for the Wind Never Too Much by Luther Vandross.

(02:27:13):
Believe it or not Believe it. It's an easy one
that is not yacht rock. I agree with you on that.
Corey on seven ninety Cory, you're ready to play Believe
it or not? Baby Come Back by a player, Believe
it or not. Ad We just.

Speaker 3 (02:27:35):
Spent an hour on Baby Coming.

Speaker 1 (02:27:36):
We literally was the whole.

Speaker 3 (02:27:39):
Yeah, you guys disgust me.

Speaker 1 (02:27:42):
Justin on sevenin you ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:27:45):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:27:46):
Coocomo by the Beach Boys, Believe it or not?

Speaker 18 (02:27:51):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:27:52):
Okay, We're done with this.

Speaker 2 (02:27:53):
This is a this is embarrassing, This is unbelievably bad. Wait,
can I have a serious question? Why isn't Cookemo by
the Beach Boys. Yeah, I'm about to ask.

Speaker 1 (02:28:02):
Because it was like nineteen eighty four, eighty five, way
too late in the genre. It was eighty eight. It
was on the Cocktail soundtrack. Up next, it's serious eighty
four smooth Operator, super smooth Operator's not you at rock.
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:28:16):
What's on the station?

Speaker 1 (02:28:18):
That's their fault? Up next, Loggins and Messina, it's the team.
Talk to you guys tomorrow at twelve noon. No one.

Speaker 3 (02:28:28):
Now we're talking to you at ten o'clock. We're gonna
get up so early for you.

Speaker 1 (02:28:30):
Hell, Carl Ross at nine o'clock. He'll talk to you
for an hour before the show starts. A team is
next on seven a